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On today's part of my take, presented by DraftKings, we have our good friend Johnny Fanta on the show. Talking some college basketball, turning the page. March is right there. We're all getting excited. He's going to give us who he thinks can win it all. Some of the Cindyrellas and some of the Cindyrellas, and some fun, just Johnny Fanta. He's best. We also have our Olympic preview. We all said that we were going to pick a sport and preview something that's happening on Wednesday, the day you're listening to this, to get you excited for the Olympics, for getting in the Olympic spirit. There's not a lot else going on, but we're going to make a great show. We have Hot Seat Cool Throne. What's the end of the show? Guys on Olympics?

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Hey, football guy, but D-E-E-M-A-W-M. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Welcome to Part of My Take, presented by DraftKings.

The Crown is yours. Today is Wednesday, February 18th, and we've got Olympic fever because we got nothing else to talk about.

Well, I mean, you teased a massive apology.

Oh, yeah.

I don't know where we're going with this.

Max, specifically, possibly you. I don't think you... Would you guys like to say anything about Michael Jordan and the slander you put on his name? Because I'm ready to sue.

I think my entire point was it's weird.

That he was getting ice out of a little kid's back?

Yeah, that's weird.

No, that's not weird. That was being a good friend.

This is like when Hank would I don't get that Tom braided was being weird, announcing games, even though he's an owner of the Raiders.

I don't think getting- I don't think getting- I meant that it was weird. No, getting ice, you made it weird. Actually, I think you are being more of a pedophile than Michael Jordan could be.

I just said it was weird.

Yeah, it's pulling throwing ice out of his back. Max, would you like... We're going to sue, so you could apologize. You could drop the lawsuit.

You can sue me for saying that it's weird.

Well, Michael Jordan is going to sue you.

It was weird.

You have no contact with Michael Jordan.

I could contact someone who could contact. Yeah, Keith Yandel is a member of his golf club. There you go. Fast on my feet right there. Janz is for sure. He's for sure going to follow up. Janz, every month, Janz is like, Hey, how do I get paid? He's been working in parcel for a year and a half.

Has he got paid yet?

He doesn't check his email. He also is probably fucking with me, but he might not be getting paid. Would you like to apologize, Max? Sure. Thank you. See, that wasn't so hard. There we go. That was easy. That It was so easy. All right, so what else we got besides Olympics? We got Olympics. That's what's going on.

There's a lot of Olympics going. There's a ton of Olympics. We did miss one thing on Monday's show. Hank was too focused on the live golf because he's a live head. Colin Morikawa. Oh, yeah. Colin Morikawa won a Pebble Beach tournament, and then he used the excuse of the post-match interview, post-round interview to be like, and also having a baby, which that's if you want to win a golf tournament, you have to get your wife pregnant. And then, sure enough, either right after you give birth or right after you conceive, you will get an interview right after you win something and you'll announce it.

I think he gained 10 pounds of muscle in the offseason, so he's just-No, no, no. Oh, no, he fat.

Wrong. Yeah, he said his offseason, he added 10 pounds of fat, and I watched swing videos on YouTube. Love that. One of us. Related to us.

Related to us. So, yeah, that was golf. Colin Morikawa back. Officially back? Super back. Super back. Very back. Super, super, super back.

Excellent striker of the ball. That was crazy on that last hole where he had to wait for like 45 minutes for this guy to get his bogey. I missed it. You see that?

No, I missed it.

He hit a shot down onto the beach, like underneath a row boat with ropes and shit. He climbed down onto the beach, not Morkale, but the other guy. What was his name, Hank?

I don't know.

Bridgerton, something like that? Chris Bridgerton. He goes down there, spends about 20 minutes getting ready for his next shot, hits off the sea wall, bounces into the ocean, and then he's like, Actually, psych, I'm going to go take my drop from where I should have taken it originally. I got to go all the way back up, like 200 yards out, hit a great shot, and then he had to wait on the green for another 10 minutes because the wind picked up and his ball wouldn't stop moving. So Mora Cal had to just sit there waiting to hit his approach shot. It felt like 45 minutes. Jesus, what the hell is going on? Jacob Jacob Bridgeman. Jacob Bridgeman. Bridgeman.

Did you guys know since we're talking about other... Golf, to me, starts at the Masters. If there's something close on a Sunday at this time of year, I'll tune in. But In terms of my sports watching, I'm more focused on college basketball on a Saturday than the golf. But Morikawa, I like him. Good guest. Did you guys also know we have a World Baseball Classic this year? That's pretty cool. Yeah. Oh, Max, you're pumped about it?

Yeah, I like World Base Classic.

There's some roster drama, too. It was great last time. I just always think of the Francesa clip when he's like, If it was in my backyard, I'd close the blinds. They're playing the World Baseball Classic in my backyard.

Yeah. Wasn't there some roster drama that was going down?

Team USA roster is stacked.

You got to win it all.

Stacked. Let's just read the roster. We got to win it all. I got the roster right here. Okay. We got Bregman, Goldschmitt, Bryce Harper, Bobby Witt.

Oh, yeah. You want to get a take off on Bryce Harper because he's in news not being elite. Bobby Witt.

Pca, Aaron Judge, Schwarber.

Nice.

Cal Raleigh.

Anything you want to say about Bryce Harper?

No, I mean, Bryce Harper, is he elite? I think most real seam heads would say 2,000 hits. If you get to 2,000 hits, you're probably elite. What's he at right now?

You say this like he's not going to get to 2,000 hits.

What's he at now?

Am I supposed to just know this off the top of my head, his exact number of hits?

For me, it's a couple of things. One, if you get to 2,000, that's the big number in baseball everyone talks about. You got to get to 2,000 hits.

Or if you- It looks like he had 1,800 hits.

If you win a World Series, So he's going to get to 2,000 hits, most likely. He will get to 2,000 hits. And will likely win a World Series at some point, too.

He might not.

Maybe.

So, yeah.

Baseball is a tough sport to put it on individuals. If If you're a quarterback, if you're an NBA player, if you're supposed to be an all-time, great. I get it. Baseball is just tough. Barry Bond has never won a World Series.

His postseason numbers are also great. Yeah.

It's just hard. There's so many guys. It's such a one-on-one sport.

But I like to hold it over Aaron Judge.

Yeah. Well, he hasn't earned his pinstripes. That's different. He could earn his pinstripes and not win a World Series, and he hasn't done that.

No, I think it's one and the same.

No, he could still get his pinstripes, saving a a boy off the train who's about to get hit by the train, then go hit three home runs. For the boy. The Bronx is burning. Yeah. For the boy. That's pinstripes. That's instant pinstripes. Wait, so you don't think he's elite?

Again, I'm a man of the numbers. I think baseball is one of the sports that it's very easy to quantify. You can compare them across areas pretty cleanly. The 2000 Hit Club, that's a big one for being elite.

How did this... This was Dabrowski, right? Was he the one who started this?

After the postseason ended last year, Dave Dabrowski did a stupid, stupid press conference where part of his excuse was that of why the team didn't win was because Bryce Harper is not elite anymore. Bryce Harper took offense to that as he should have. Bryce Harper has been nothing but good to the city of Philadelphia. He was the first one, really the first one to choose to sign there when it was really a mediocre part of the team's history. He sparked a good run of competitive teams in Philadelphia. He hasn't won a World Series yet, and fans are upset that he hasn't won a World Series yet, as am I. But Bryce Harper has been nothing but good, and Dave N'Mbrowski disrespecting him like that. Bryce has every right to be upset about that.

Yeah, I mean, Bryce is... He's always been a big-time umbrage taker. If anything remotely negative is said about him, he will take umbrage. He'll find that umbrage.

Yeah, he's a real athlete, and he says what he feels, and that's what we like. Yeah, it's good. And he has the right to be upset when his GM is blaming the postseason last year on him. Right. He had a bad series against the If he had a bad series, he had a bad year.

But he's hurt, too. Yeah.

I think he's going to be a beast. He's going to be a beast this year.

He's going to use it. He's going to return to being a beast. Yes. Get to crack the 2K barrier.

You are just obsessed with finding something with other people's favorite players.

No, listen, I used to love Bryce Harper. I did. He was one of my favorite players when he was in the Nationals. There were things that you know, Max, when you watch Bryce Harper.

Oh, I hated him on the Nationals.

Yeah, but you get annoyed with him even when He's your favorite player sometimes. He's got a lot of passion, which is awesome. But he does bone-headed things sometimes because he's so passionate.

Bryce Harper is a much more mature baseball player than when he was on the Nationals. He's not the same guy. He basically does everything right now. When he was on the national team, he was 19 years old. He acted like a teenager. He was young. Now he's a real adult, and he plays like a real adult.

Good for him.

Yeah. Speaking of real adults, did you see the-I have nothing but good things to say about that.

I like that. Now he plays like a real adult. He had a few good adult years when he was in Washington, too.

Speaking of adults, did you see the Philly signed an 11-year-old?

Whoa.

You're going to answer for that?

I didn't know What? That we signed some guy with the last name Renteria who is not Edgar Renteria's.

Let me just make sure. I'm pretty sure you signed an 11-year-old Venezuelan kid. Philly He's an 11-year-old- He's probably stud. Is this- Philly's an 11-year-old shortstop, reportedly agreed on a historic $1. 8 million deal.

How is this not human trafficking?

It's crazy. Every year, the Philadelphia Philly's have reached a pre-agreement with Venezuelan shortstop David Basabi, a member of the 2031 international class, for a $1. 8 million bonus. At just 11 years old, Baisabe becomes the youngest player in history to secure pre-agreement with a Major League organization. This kid is fucking... He's playing in a little league.

There's just no chance that that's enforceable, right?

Does he have a good swing? Does he have a sick swing?

Is this the kid that they had squaring up at 95 miles per hour fastballs?

Oh, he does have a good swing. He's a lefty.

Because I saw that and it was pretty impressive.

Max, speak for yourself. Next up. I don't know what you want me to say. Next up.

Yeah, he might be too immature, though. You might need to wait for him to become a grown man.

Yeah, well, we got some time.

It's also making a little sense now. You were voicing your opinion and so boisterous on the MJ clip. Meanwhile, in the shadows, you're signing 11-year-old boys.

They're baseball players. I don't understand how those relate at all.

Well, it made me think the Lady Doth protest too much.

All I said, it was weird.

By signing baseball players?

I stand by the weird.

All right, so that was also... And then the dolphins, the other story. Then we'll get to our Olympics. The dolphins are cleaning house, which they should have done a while ago. They're gone with Tyreek Hill, gone with Bradley Chubb, trying to trade to a witch. Who's going to trade for him?

Good luck.

Yeah, good luck.

What do you think Tyreek Hill does now?

He can still run. Yeah, he can. Confirmed. Not right this second, probably.

But he will be confirmed fast.

Yeah, eventually, he will be able to run again. I don't know.

Chiefs? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Back to the Chiefs? Probably just the Chiefs.

Yeah.

Raiders.

Raiders. The Antonio Brown arc. Raiders for a month.

That'd be classic. There's a Ouija board in the front office right now, and Tom's talking to Al Davis, and it's saying, Tye-Rick.

I don't know.

I take him on the Patriots.

You would? Hey, man, Stefan, that's a lot of... There's only one ball. There's only one ball. That would be it. That would be a lot of personality.

Free will can handle it.

He is on the wrong side. He's like 32, but he still is fast. He's still fast. I don't know where he'll end up, but someone will. It does feel like one of those... A team that's going to trade for him has to have a pretty good locker room to be like, Hey, Tariq, we're happy to have you on the team, knowing everything, the distractions that may come with you in 32 now.

That's why I feel like the Chiefs. Yeah, the Chiefs. They've done it before.

They know the plan.

There might be a team that thinks that they can handle it, that absolutely cannot handle it. You know what? I would like to see him in Buffalo.

I don't know about that.

He's fast. I don't think he would like Buffalo.

I'm not going to see him like that. I would like to see him in Buffalo. I don't think he would like to see himself in Buffalo.

Yeah, he is very fast. Then there was a report that the Seahawks aren't going to franchise tag Kenneth Walker. No, duh.

He's going to get paid.

Yeah, he is. Well, relatively speaking, but yes, he is. They got to do another Zoom conference, all the runningbacks.

I feel like this is a good opportunity for runningbacks, though. Coming off a Super Bowl MVP, this should be a contract that every runningback should be proud to be a part of. Yes.

It should actually say, instead of Kenneth Walker, it should say all runningbacks.

All runningbacks. Yeah, Lifetime Achievement Award for Runningbacks. Yeah.

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See dkng. Co/audio. Limited time offer. Okay, boys, Olympics time. Who do we want to start with?

I mean, there's just so much to go around.

There's so much.

The pageantry.

Who do we want to start with?

The snow, the ice.

I fell in love with my sport. I fell in love with my sport. I'm all in on my sport.

I'm in on my sport.

Okay, so why don't you start, Max?

All right, I went with the Winter Biathlon. Okay. The Winter Biathlon is a race that combines cross country skiing and rifle shooting.

Hell, yeah. We should dominate at that sport.

We do not. We have never meddled in this sport.

It is absolutely disgusting that the United States- Are you familiar with this sport?

I think you forgot about the cross country skiing part.

Yeah, but we can... Listen, we should make up.

The rifle shooting we got.

We should make up.

We should. People were... Yeah. Across my research, I saw that people were upset that the US hasn't won anything that involves a rifle.

It's disgusting. I feel you could take any extra from any of the Yellowstone series, and they would dominate at this sport.

Agreed. It comes from Nordic military training because in the 18th century, a lot of the military, they needed to be on skis and to travel on skis. When you're traveling on skis, you have to be at a moment's notice, be able to have your gun ready and take out the target. They started doing this with their training, and it became pretty competitive within the training. And then they started to time it. It first début in the 1924 Winter Olympics under the name military Patrol.

Oh, yeah.

Okay. I got all this information from a guy on TikTok. I want to shout him out. His name is Great guy. Name is Untold stories of history. I wanted to make sure I shot it out that guy. He did a good job on me.

That's crazy that that's his name. He got into telling history stories.

There's multiple different race types. My favorite one, which will be happening, I think the 20th and the 21st of February is mass start.

Yeah.

The top 30 competitors all start at the exact same time. There's other ones where it's like, Okay, you have a time, and if you miss your target, you get penalties. Everyone starts at the exact same time, and the first person to finish wins the race. You They're all in loops, so it depends which race. Some of them are five-kilometer loops, some of them are seven-kilometer loops. But you do a loop, and then you shoot five targets, and you have eight bullets to shoot five targets. If you don't finish, if you don't hit all five targets within those eight bullets, you got a penalty loop. Let's say you run out of bullets, you have to do another loop around, and then you have to go back to that target.

You just got to hit the target once?

No.

There's five targets, and you have bullets. Got it.

If you run out of bullets to hit all five targets, you have to do a penalty loop.

That's a lonely loop.

Penalty loop would suck.

Penalty loop would suck. I was actually watching it this morning. It's pretty electric. It's like darts in the fact of once they get to the shooting, skiing aspect of it, the crowd is fired up every time you hit a target. If you miss a target, it's like a big... You could hear the crowd really react to missing the target because it's night and day. Watching the cross country skiing is boring because it's incredibly impressive how fast they are able to go uphill with these skis. But then once they get to the gun portion of it, it's make or break. If you're quick with the gun, you can make up so much time. If you fuck up the gun, you're done. You can go from first to last in a second.

I can tell how into the sport you are.

Dude, it was cool. Yeah, it was cool. I had the same thing happen to me. It was fun. I was like, I think I'm in.

What you're saying is They have the five targets, and it was initially done like you would be hunting. Was it a hunting thing?

No, it was a military thing.

Because I was thinking that if you actually just made it, if you combined hunting with the skiing, so you had to bring back the most amount of meat while also doing the skiing. That would be cool as well. That would rock. That would be cool as well. Almost like competitive fishing.

They're doing all of this skiing with just a huge rifle on their back.

When is it?

The Mass. The mass start, I believe, is February 20th and 21st.

So that's tomorrow? No. No. Friday.

Yeah, Friday, Saturday.

Okay, cool. We're excited. Very excited.

Us has never meddled.

We got to hit it. We got to do it.

But this was also... Going into this year, this was our best chance to meddle in forever, and we still haven't meddled.

Why? We got one dude who's nasty with it?

I don't know. I just saw one thing. The guy said that.

Okay. All right.

The women's relay will be 7: 45 AM central time. If you're listening to this early in the morning, you can still catch the women's relay. Then the mass starting, the mass thing, mass start, I believe is... Keep going. I'll make sure I got a final on that.

All right, I'll do mine. I have a short track speed skating, which is absolutely Absolutely electric because I watched a bunch of it last night, like old clips. Essentially, people probably remember Apollo, Anton Ohno, who was awesome, one of our only gold in the 500 meter for men's. I think he won gold in 1,500 as well.

All time Soul Patch guy. Yeah.

This sport is just a car crash every single time. It's just say, When is the crash going to happen? And can you avoid the crash? It's so fast. And so Wednesday, around one o'clock, they have the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals for the men's 500 meter. I also learned, obviously, I think I knew this, but I didn't really... The long track speed skating, that's just dominated by the Dutch. Also very attractive women and men. We actually have a guy from Wisconsin who won the 500 meter. He won the gold.

The one that's the long track, that's the long strides. Yeah. It's It's almost like you glide. The short track is like, you're always turning.

You're just fucking going as fast as you can. Every turn, you wipe people out. Jordan Stoltz is the kid from Wisconsin who won the gold in the 500 meter long track, which was a big deal because the Dutch just dominated.

I remember the dude that won. I think it was one of the years that Ohno crashed out on that last turn. The guy that ended up winning, he, like a year before, had this gash in his leg from a crash where I think he needed 120 stitches in his leg to close it. You can almost die from these crashes.

Crazy.

Have you seen the clip? It goes viral a lot. The woman that she sprinted ahead in the beginning. There was a guy, I think. I think it was... It could have been a guy, but he sprints ahead in the very beginning. So he's in the back. Then the people just forgot that he had got a lead, and he just cruised.

Yeah, he cruised to a victory. So that was, I think, a 1,500-metre race, which is a little longer. The one we're going to watch when you're listening to this today, the one we're going to watch this afternoon is 500 meters. It's four and a half laps. It is so fast. It is bang, bang. It's also interesting because the way the quarterfinals and semifinals work is it's not time. It's not the fastest time goes to the semifinals. It's just the top two. Okay. So you could have a bad... There could be a crash and you finish top two in your heat, you're in the semis. You're good. Now, here's where we're going to maybe get a little spicy. We got one American left in the competition. Eagles fan. Bucks County? Bucks County. Andrew Hieu, his dad owns an auto body shop in North Philadelphia. We're going to be rooting for Andrew Hieu. He's 18 to one. So he did win the gold medal in the World Tournament two months ago. So he could do it. He could do it. We might need a crash or two or three, but we're If you're going to root for him 18 to one.

Why not? If you can just survive the crashes, that's the key to winning.

Top two, survive the crashes. But yeah, this sport is awesome because they just wipe out so hard, so, so hard. I'm in on short track speed skating. The long track is cool, too. I also learned I listened to a podcast about speed skating today, which I don't know, weird.

We just came in second in the team speed skating.

Okay.

I I know somebody's brother that was competing. They came in second.

Nice.

There's a podcast about speed skating?

I just searched speed skating, and then I listened to two British guys interview a Dutch lady talking about speed skating. It wasn't that interesting other than the fact that there is a race in the Netherlands called the Tour of the Eleven Cities, the Tour of the Eleven Cities. It's a 200 km, 125-mile race, ice-skating race. The race only happens when all these 11 cities, it's cold enough that they're all connected via ice. It hasn't happened since 1997. It's a big fucking deal. I'm excited for the next time that race happens. That's pretty cool. That is cool. I like that. Yeah, it's been almost 30 years they've had this race because they just haven't been able to do it. So next time they do it, it's going to be so sick.

What if you were to take an NHL player and put them on speed skates? Like, Connor McDavid?

I don't know. The skates are definitely different. They're not as bulky. I don't know. These guys train so...

Do you think Connor McDavid would be more competitive at speed skating or the best speed skater in the world competitive at hockey?

Connor McDavid at speed skating, for sure. But I think it's one of those situations where it's like, why... Yeah, it would be like putting a sprinter to return a punt. I don't think the speed skaters could do much more than just be faster than everyone. But yeah, this sport is awesome. So 1: 00, I believe Eastern time on Wednesdays, we're going to start the quarterfinals. If you want to bet Andrew Hieu with me, 18 to 1. Again, long shot, get it, but he did win the gold in the world in the world competition a few months ago, and you could just get crashes. We just need crashes, the big one.

Just hang back. Let other people wipe out. Yeah.

Okay, Hank, what do you got?

I did bobsled. Nice. Some people say, We can't believe. Jamaica, we got a bobsled team. Yeah.

Remind me of the tan you had.

We got a one. There's two-man, four-man. Turns out the four-man is a driver, two pushers, and a break-man. Obviously, the two-man is just a driver and the break-man. The break-man, they don't use the break for most of the ride, they only break after they finish. So he's just there? It's basically just all about the guy in the front.

Like your job could be a parachute.

Yeah. It's that, and then it's just making sure you turn so that you get the aerodynamics. Germany, all-time leader, Switzerland in second place. A lot of history, though, with bobsled.

I got a question, Hank, real quick about the four-man bobsled. You said the guy up front steers.

Two pushers. Two pushers.

In the middle.

Those are the guys that are going to be fast.

Right. You push, you do your little run at the start, pushing it, and then everybody jumps into the bobsled. Then those two guys in the middle, they just put their heads down and they just don't do shit the entire time.

No, you got to turn. Remember the scene in Cool Runnings When they're practicing the bathtub. Yeah.

So they were practicing the bathtub? Yeah. They all turned together.

When we practice the bathtub?

Yeah. So they just got to make sure that they're turning at the right time.

You got to turn together.

Yeah. Aerodynamics. Cool. 2002 was the first year they did female bobsledding. Usa, two-man team, two-woman team. Chibok and Veneta flowers, one, which was the first black athlete to win gold at the Olympic Games. A little bit of history. Also, it was the first US Winter Olympic team gold in 1932 in Lake Placid.

Nice.

Also, one of the only people in all Olympic history to have a feature of a guy that has won a gold medal in Winter and Summer Olympics. Eddie Egan won a boxing gold medal. Twelve years later, he won a gold medal in his first and only bobsled race. That's right.

That's awesome.

So it doesn't really help anyone could probably do this, considering he ran one bobsled race in his life and won gold.

I think Lolo Jones was trying to do that a couple of years ago, right?

She didn't win shit. No, in either summer or winter.

But I was looking, so then that got me thinking of, or I was looking, researching how many other people have won gold medals in different sports in Olympics because obviously, some people have done variations of skiing or variations of speed skating or whatever. Tug of War was an Olympic sport. Love that. From 1900 to 1920. Love that. Us. And you could have multiple... In 1904, the US just won all three medals.

Do you know what was an Olympic sport in the Winter Olympics? It was the dog racing. Should have had that. I did a ride. That should still be there.

I agree.

Those are cool. But yeah, Tuck Awards, that's a cool fucking-And the dog should get the medals. Yeah, absolutely.

And everyone talks about, obviously, Cool Running's 1988 Olympic Jamaican team. But the 1994, same crew, they finished 14th overall. They finished ahead of United States and France. That Jamaican bobsled team was a whack.

By the way, I had a AWL reach out to me. Knucklepucker said that looge athletes, and I assume bobsled athletes as well, are found in crazy ways. He knew someone who was just approached at the mall. They had a kiosk at the mall, and they were like, You have the size to be a looge here, and signed up the two siblings that he knew.

You've got great balance.

They have baseline metrics.

What is the ideal prototype? If you're looking for a quarterback, you're looking at a guy that's 6'3, I think it's like strength, speed, and then you also have to be willing to move to Lake Placid and have a tutor. Living in upstate New York is probably a pretty big benefit.

That's a huge one, yeah.

Okay. Didn't Herson Walker try to be a bobsled guy?

Oh, yeah.

I don't think not Olympically. I think he tried. I think he tried to. I think he competed in the Olympics.

That's what I was trying to tell him the other day is the University of Georgia has some guys that would be great at just being fast and then just going going really fast behind the wheel or something.

Do we have bobsled today?

I don't know when the bobsled actually is.

Okay, find out because we want to tune in. What do you got, PMT?

I didn't-It was.

It already happened. Yeah.

Got it. Who won?

It's happening today at 2: 00.

Did we win?

Did we win?

I'm going to guess no, we didn't. Did we win? I think the Germans won.

There's a lot of German teams in here. We got one. We got two guys.

Okay, we went to one.

We won. Then the biathlon is February 20th and 21st, actually. So I was wrong about 19th, 20th, 21st.

My short track is today. That's why I picked it because I wanted everyone to tune in. Andrew Heel, 18 to 1. All right, PFT, what do you have?

All right, so I have the only new sport for this Olympics. Every year, they add a new one.

This year, it's called-We won gold in women's yesterday.

Oh, hell yes.

Oh, in bobsled?

Breaking Moose. Women's Monobob.

Monobob. That's when you just have one person, right?

It's when a guy named Bob talks like this.

Monobob. Okay.

What do you have?

I have ski mountaineering.

Is this one of those sports that the Italians added it?

Yeah, exactly. Basically, when you look at the Olympics, most of the sports are like DEI for Scandinavia. They're like, Oh, we need to have more representation in our sports. We're going to combine sports that already exist. But the cool thing about ski mountaineering is that for centuries, people have only gone downhill on skis. Then they've taken the lazy way up via ski lift or some mechanized means of getting them to the top of the mountain. In ski mountaineering, you have to climb up the mountain before you earn the right to go down the mountain.

This one I respect just because it sucks so much.

It sucks. It is the suckiest sport to do.

That you get my respect if it's like, holy shit, who would ever want to do this? Yeah.

It combines hiking and downhill skiing. When people watch the skiers go downhill after they climb up to the top, a lot of people be watching this and be like, wow, these guys really suck at skiing. They're not that fast. It's because they're exhausted because they just sprinted to the top.

All their skill is used going up.

All their skills is used going up, and then they just let gravity take them down because they're so tired. But if When you watch some of the clips of these guys sprinting up the hill, they look like the Boston Dynamic Robot Dogs, like running up these giant, giant ice and snow-covered mountains.

Wait, are they using what ski? Do they switch skis?

Yeah, what you do is you have skis, But then your skis are inside of a sheath that gives you more traction when you're going up the mountain.

It's like cross country skis versus downhill.

You go up the mountain, and then you have to very quickly rip those off, like rip the covers off your skis. Then you go down the hill. There's a couple of different ways that you can do this. There's the type that's just mixed relay, which is going to be on February 21st. There's going to be guy, girl, guy, girl, I think, competing.

They just keep going up, down, up, down, up, down.

My idea to actually make this a better sport, just like last person going. There's no finish line. There's no time. It's just the last person who's still moving.

Oh, okay. It's like an actual death sport.

It's like a death sport. You can stop. You can stop without dying. If you're just like, This sucks. I'm tired. I'd like to go home now. You can do that. But then it's just the epitome of endurance. It's just have the last person moving wins the gold medal. I think that's a good idea. Also, I learned a fun fact. Did you know that skis predate the wheel?

I did not.

How crazy is that? That is crazy. That seems pretty stupid, actually.

Skis predate the wheel?

Yeah. How much? People invented skis before they invented the wheel. This could also just be like ski or propaganda that they've put out there.

That could also, yeah, or just be a random guy slipped on a couple of logs on the ice.

Right.

Like, Oh, I got skis.

Like my drunk uncle, Ole, he was preparing for the harvest, and he fell down, tumbled down the mountain. We also have some Americans that are competing in the finals. There's this one dude who's like a beast. I think he's from Illinois as well. So he might-We got to root for him? We got to root for this Illinois guy. Give me one second. I'll tell you what his name is.

Where does he train? Around here.

Yeah, Not a lot. Not a lot.

He may not currently live in Illinois.

Yeah, where's this guy at?

There's a trash sheep. Wilmot.

It does look fun.

It looks so hard watching these guys run up this hill.

Yeah, it looks like the most annoying sport to participate in.

That was just porn?

Just watching porn?

Yeah, that was just porn.

I looked up Skimo. Now, I guess Some things aren't.

Use your imagination of what Max just found.

Cameron Smith. Cameron Smith? Cameron Smith.

It's 99% skiing.

Cameron Smith.

Cameron Smith, that's who we're rooting for.

All right, we need to win this. I still need 15 more. I need a shitload more gold medals for my bet for the Super Bowl. Okay, that's a good sport. I'm in.

I respect this sport because it does… I think if I tried to do this, I would probably quit within maybe 10 seconds.

This guy currently lives in Colorado.

Yeah, he's from Rockford, and he moved to Colorado to go up and down mountains. Okay, Zack, what sport do you have for us?

I had Figure Skating Pairs, the free skate. Are you guys familiar with the Pairs Figure Skating?

Yeah, I think so.

The way they break it down is there's 16 teams who qualify through the short program the day before. It's like a two-minute program. Then they qualify to go into the long form free skate, which is about four minutes. There's eight or nine elements that have to be incorporated in the program or in their sequence, which are you got to have three lifts, one twist, two throws, one side-by-side solo jump, a side-by-side jump combination, one pair spin, a choreograph sequence, and of course, the death spin. All go into one routine.

Of course, the death spin.

It's a mandatory element in the pairs.

You have to do the death spin.

You got to do the death spin.

Everybody's got a death spin.

Okay.

The way they do the points is there's a base point system, and then your score is based higher, lower on those base points via the execution of each element.

Then the Russian judge is always like, The US sucks. France wins.

Yeah, Russia exiled right now. They're banned. That's right.

Yeah.

They got some stuff going on.

Are we going to win this or no?

We did not win pairs yesterday, but we have some promising skaters coming up. They're doing the single women's short program today to qualify for free skate tomorrow. Okay. But there was a little bit of drama in the pairs free skate yesterday.

And?

The German team was supposed to be a lock, and they got caught playing defense instead of They went out there to skate to defend still being at first up by seven points. They got caught sleeping.

They did prevent defense.

Yeah, they went prevent. They should have went all out to secure the win.

Yeah, got it.

They let the Japanese team sneak in and set a world record.

Wow.

You can't let the Japanese hang around.

They hung around so quick.

Wow. So they won?

They did. The Japanese won.

I feel like maybe some alliance between the Germans and the Japanese to just let them go ahead and do that.

Raikou and Ryuchi had no business, and they had all the business with a world record.

Are all the pairs they're dating, right?

There's some chemistry out on the ice.

Yeah, because I feel like it's a very sensual sport to be You have the other person, their lives are in your hands, you're twirling them, you're spinning them, you're dipping them.

I think even if you don't align sexually with the interest of your part, you have to try it at least once, right?

Yeah. There was I think a lot of chemistry between the Japanese team and the team from Hungary. The German team skates more clinical. They're very precise, but there's no emotion evoking from the German's skating. It's just like, cut and dry with solid execution.

Got it. Isn't there a lot of corrupt judges in the sport? Yeah, good question. The voice is gone.

Good question, Hank.

By the way, we stopped recording earlier today. That's why PFT has a costume change, and Hank just lost his voice.

It's not a costume. It's a different shirt.

I know, but you call it a costume change.

I guess it's a costume change. Yeah.

What? I just wish we had a full body pick of PFT right now.

All right, fine. Get your jokes in now.

No, he's doing his Olympics. Those are Olympic pants.

Get your jokes in now.

They're called flags.

Your computer is blocking it anyway. Those are Olympic pants. Yeah, I know. It looks good. That's what I was saying the people should be able to see the full-That's a costume change. It looks good. That's a great costume change.

What does that look good for? Costume change.

For PFT. Yeah.

It looks great. All right, so I worked out a little bit on the lunch break. I thought that I had a normal pair of pants to put on. I went into my gym bag. Turns out I did not have a normal pair of pants to change it to. All I had was my Flags of the World pajama pants. Which is great. Perfect for this episode.

I don't know why you're defending yourself.

It's the Olympic preview.

Because I can see I'm looking at Hank's dead eyes right now being like, Well, what do you say? It looks great. It's not like RFK Jr. I did cocaine off a toilet seat when I was younger. But listen, I caught a a glimpse of myself and I thought, It's a little bit much even for me. This is an accidental four-year-old day that I pulled off. Four-year-old who got dressed in the dark. It's fine. It happens.

A day that ends in Y.

Yes.

I like the pants are sick for the Olympic preview.

Yeah, that's why I wore them.

They're perfect. All right, so do we have any more pairs?

Another fun fact, though, yesterday, the team that came in second, Georgia, they had never meddled in any Winter Olympics sport until yesterday with that Silver. Oh, good for them. They were hitting speed. They're a fast team.

And they're married.

They are together.

That guy's name is Glebsmoken? Mm-hmm.

They're hitting speeds of- Deanna Davis. 16 miles an hour on the ice yesterday.

They're a good-looking couple.

Yeah.

All right, Memes, you got the last sport. What did you do? I'll keep mine tight. I did Nordic Combined Ski Jumping. Nordic Combined is a Winter Olympics sport that merges ski jumping and cross country skiing.

And shooting?

No, no shooting. That's a biathlet. It's like steeple chase? No. It's a ski jump. So they do the jump, and then whoever has the longest jump gets put in first for the cross country skiing. Okay. And then they go out one at a time, and you're essentially just chasing the guy in front of you. So it's steeple chase if they did long jump first? Yes.

Got it. Then there's guns.

There's no guns. Shit. I'd have to imagine we suck at this? Norway just dominates? Yeah, we do suck at this. The only time the US has meddled in this was 2010, where they won four medals. They won one gold, four silvers. That was just one time. The sport's been around for 100 years.

This is definitely slanted against the United States. This is how they get around there. This is how they commute to work.

The Dutch, the speed-skating sport I talked about, that Dutch, that's just what they did.

Yeah.

Yeah, but similar to Max's, this was developed in Norway to train soldiers in both endurance and explosive technical power. It was developed to forge super soldiers.

Oh, that's badass.

Capable of navigating steep terrain and traversing snowy landscapes. It remains a premier high-intensity test of athleticism.

This is why we always tell people, Don't make your kids specialize in one thing. Have them be athletes all around, which is why we keep getting blown out at the combine, at the Nordic combine or at the biathlon. We got kids growing up specializing in guns. They need to be more well-rounded with skis, too.

This is also the only winter Olympic sport that doesn't have women in it. Oh, guys home. Guys home. Hell, yeah. Sport for guys.

Why not?

They just jump and then they... It's like a split event. It's like the biathlon or whatever. Yeah, they They'll do the jump at 3: 00 AM. This is on the 19th. They'll do the jump at 3: 00 AM, and then they do the cross country at 7: 00 AM that day. But if you're good at the long jump- You can get a nice Head Start. You get a nice head start, but most of the time, if you're good at the long jump, you're not good at the cross country skiing.

It sounds like the dudes just wanted to make up an event just to get away and just have dudes only time. Yeah.

It also seems like a made up event for the good cross country skiers just want to win different event, right? Because it seems like it's slanted towards the cross country skiing portion. How long do they ski for? Ten minutes. I put this as a- I think that's an official Olympic distance. Ten minutes. Yeah. I wouldn't recommend watching. Go on for 10 minutes. We'll see where you end up. Looks like 10K. You wouldn't recommend watching. Wouldn't recommend watching. Just catch the highlights. Okay. There's no point. Ski jump is pretty cool. It's awesome. I'm in on that. I'm definitely in on ski jump.

It's terrifying, but it looks awesome. Yeah, those guys fly. Who is that guy that was... I think his name was Eddie the Eagle, right? He was from the United States, and he sucked at ski jumping, but he represented us in the Olympics.

I'm not familiar with this story.

That dude rocked. If I remember, he was just not very good, but for whatever reason, he got an automatic bid. He just did it. Maybe when it was in Lake Placid. Yeah. They were like, Go, Eddie the Eagle, and we all cheered for him. He jumped like 10 feet, and he was a hero.

Dude, the endurance that it takes for these cross country skiers got to be insane.

When you go skiing for a little bit and you run out of speed and you just have to go from one side of the lodge to the other side of the lodge, it takes up everything I have.

They do have There are skis for it, but still. But it doesn't matter. Yeah, they have skinny skis. But yeah, it's insane how these guys are just insane athletes.

Never been skiing. That's right. Never been snowboarding.

You should just cross country ski.

When people ask if you're going skiing today.

Yeah, but you should ask. You should do some cross country skiing. When people are like, Do you ski? You'll be like, Yeah. Cross country.

Cross country. I'm at Skimo. Yeah. Mountaineer ski.

Okay, good job, boys. Good Olympic preview.

I forget if you said this when you were talking about crawling the other day. Did you cover the fact that all the stones come from the same island? I did not. If you have a crawling stone, they're all taken from granite from this one tiny island. I like that. Because that's where the granite grows the specific way to be the right density.

It's like the one family that makes all the footballs?

Yeah, exactly. Or the family that gets the mud to rub down a baseball. The baseballs, yeah. I want to say $5,000 for a set of curling stones because you have to get them from this one place.

Damn, that seems ridiculous. Barrier to entry. I think there was more cheating for Canada, by the way.

I saw finger on stone again. Finger on stone.

They just can't stop cheating. Absolutely bullshit. Okay, good Olympics preview. Andrew Hill. Let's roof for him, 18 to 1. Bucks County, Philadelphia.

Bucks County.

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My Hut Seat is Wendy's.

Oh, yeah.

They put out an announcement today. It read a team, a sports team announcement. Said, Wendy's is to close hundreds of restaurants in 2026 in what interim CEO Ken Cooke calls a rebuilding year.

Oh. I love that. They're tanking for draft picks.

Yeah, trust the process.

I do like that.

Yeah, it's tough to hear for Wendy's, but I guess they're going to be back better than ever, maybe.

They've got a plan. Right now, they're in cap health.

Also, intern, just the fact that it's an intern CEO. Yeah. Sounds like an intern coach.

Yeah, that's not great.

We're McDonald's guys anyway.

We are. Yeah. Can I take Wendy's maybe off the hot seat real quick? Sure. In an effort to maybe try to rescue Wendy. Because I think iron sharpens iron in the fast food game, right? Yeah. Here's the thing. I read an article the other day about this dude that made a bet, and because he lost his bet, he had to eat Wendy's Chili for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day for 30 days.

Okay.

He did it. He got through 17 days. At the time this article was written, he lost 17 pounds. So it might just be a great diet. Maybe it's just Wendy's for health.

Or he's just shitting every time he eats.

That is probably a more likely explanation, but we're trying to look on the bright side here.

What could be the downside of having someone become a celebrity endorser for a fast food restaurant saying they lost a ton of weight?

I don't see a problem with that.

No problem here. That's never gone wrong.

It worked for you when you did Gumbel every day, too. Yeah.

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My cool thrones, Game of Thrones.

Isn't Jared getting out of prison I think so.

I think, well, no, we looked it up. It was maybe five years from now.

I thought the supersize guy was also super problematic.

Well, the supersize guy, me, Morgan Spurlock. Yeah. He also...

Wasn't he... Canceled himself.

No, but wasn't he an alcoholic? A severe alcohol. He went and did the supersize me, and the doctor was like, You have liver failure because you've been eating McDonald's. He was like, No, dude, it's because you stopped drinking.

No, he's like- He's like, I have the shakes.

Like, Yeah, dude, you stop drinking vodka every day.

He's like, It's probably that Arch Deluxe that I had. Yeah.

Yeah, that was full-servitizing.

That gave me hepatitis.

When is he getting out?

I think, Jared. A little too soon.

He's got to do the gauntlet when he gets out. He does.

2029. 2029. All right.

Okay. Five years. He's got to do it. Three years. Holy shit.

Should. Okay.

It's 2026. There's no such press as bad press. No, Jared's got bad press. Okay.

All right. Then I won't say it. Bad guy. I just had a marketing idea. I don't want to get in business with Jared. Part of my cheese steak.

Nope, but what if he gets fat?

What if the whole thing is like, now I got so disgustingly fat and then he dies?

Okay, yeah. If it kills him.

Yeah, if he eats himself to death. Yeah, that could work. That's good Yes.

Yeah, we could poison them.

Yeah, we could be heroes. Yeah, we would be heroes. All right. That was your Cool Throne?

My Cool Throne is Game of Thrones.

Game of Thrones, yeah. Back. All the way back. How many episodes are we into this? Because I was not familiar. It was back.

I believe the fifth or sixth episode, they're short episodes.

All right, so I can get into it.

It's like 20, 25, 40 minutes.

Okay, I'm in.

It's slower at first, but I liked it from the beginning, and the season has... I don't know if it's over now, but it's gotten very, very, very good.

How does this fit into the Game of Thrones universe?

It happens after House of Dragon, before Game of Thrones.

But House of Dragon is still going on.

House of Dragon season 3 is coming out. Maybe never. It's gotten delayed. It seems like it's going to be bad.

Did I watch season 2 of that?

I don't think so. I think we stopped it for season 1.

The crab feosters? I did the same. Yeah, the crab feosters.

I have a question, Hank. Can I ask a question? Please. Do I need to know anything about Game of Thrones to watch this?

Do I need-No, it's similar houses. There's Targarians, Baratheans.

Stark?

Not Stark's in the show, but-Is there a billion different characters that are going to make it hard for me to know? No, it's a big, tall guy and a little kid. This sounds like Microsoft Game of Thrones.

It's great.

Night King?

The kid, remember-Wait, Big, Tall guy and Little Kid?

Yeah.

On Tomorrow's Part of My Tate.

I hope he doesn't get any ice in his- The whole show is on Tomorrow's Part of My Day. No ice in the back of his shirt, right?

Remember Master Amen when he's croaking? No. He's like, egg.

Yeah. You could say any name, any scene.

I remember he was croaking. No.

That's why I stopped watch. The No, but this is Game of Thrones. The egg that he's talking about was his brother. So it's like, remember how old Master Amen was? No.

Yeah.

He was like 100 years old. Super old. So whatever. It's good. It's really good. All right, I'm in.

And they croaked.

It sounds like you're not.

Are you fully- You said You said it's short episodes. I'm in.

You're fully caught up.

How are the Dragons?

No Dragons. I'm out.

I'm out. See you.

Are you fully caught up, Hank? Yeah. I'm out. They said the most recent episode was the second best episode of television ever.

It was. I was.

And you're telling me these are 25 minutes episodes? There's no way.

The last one was a little longer, but it set up like it was... The whole episode before was a set up. I'm not going to spoil it, but it set up for a big battle, if you will. Then the whole episode was just that battle.

What's the name of the show again? Nights of the Seven Kingdoms.

A Night of...

One Night in Paris? Hank has just accidentally been watching Paris Hilton's sex tape.

A Night of the Seven Kingdoms.

Yeah, short.

No Dragons. It's fine.

Yeah. It's just the same episode over.

Is there a possibility- Night of the Seven Kingdoms. That the Dragons are off somewhere off screen together, and they're going to make an appearance later on the season?

No spoilers because the show hasn't Season 3 hasn't come out, but the Dragons all die at the end of House of Dragon.

Wait, what? Wait, what?

Season 3? Yeah.

The Dragons all die? But it hasn't happened yet.

Daenerius brings them back.

Oh, yeah, we knew that. Also, George R. Martin is just like, Yeah, I don't really feel like finishing this. Yeah, that's just- I saw that. He's like, I'm just like, It takes too long. I mean- Dude, how could you do that?

I think everybody knew this is what he was doing eight years ago. But just do it. He finally said, Yeah, I don't really feel like writing. Yeah.

Just half-ass it.

Chatgpt. Let AI take care of it.

Memes goes, Yeah, he's a Jets fan. He's probably down in the dumps.

So we got to get the Jets.

Actually, reach out to George R. R. Martin, just to talk about the Jets.

Cool. Yeah, reach out to him, Memes.

Yeah. Done.

Okay, your hot seat, Cool Throne?

My hot seat is all girls. All of our girls? Just girls. If you got a girl, hot seat. Okay. Because I've fallen deep into the well of the clavicular Cinematic universe and the mogging that's been going on, the ASU frat leader getting out, absolutely alpha-mogged.

I've opted out in this.

Everything goes along with it. It's become like a WWE storyline, where now you've got a twin, tall brother, 6'5, Giga Chad from Australia who came over to the United States to avenge the mogging of his brother, Clavicular by the ASU frat king, who might not even be a frat king. He might be a fake frat king involved in all this. I can't get enough of the recaps of it. Every time I see one, it makes me laugh so hard.

What are the The recap's?

The recap's are just talking about how this guy got magged by a frat king, and then somebody else stole his phone, and then this kid is now jester-maxing. But then there's a Goblin Chad that got into a fight with Clavicular, and then the Goblin Chad stole the phone and then magged the phone, too. Everybody's getting fucked up.

I don't understand any of those words.

Yeah, I don't understand them either.

Yeah, you obviously do.

No, I don't. You just did them. No, I bet.

It's okay.

What is jester maxing?

Jester maxing. Jester Maxing. Jester Maxing is when you do something unproductive.

So you do understand the words?

I know that. I know that one. What do you do?

Something unproductive? What's mogging?

I don't know what mogging is. You know what mogging is. I think magging is alpha being alpha.

No, I think I know magging. No, no. Magging is like... If I was standing next to Arnold Schwarzenegger, he would be body magging me. Got it. I think that's right. Because Next to his body looks better than my body, some may say. So he would be magging me.

So Zack is I magging you right?

Correct. Zack would be I, I think. I have very little knowledge on this.

But you're Also, you're max-maxing right now.

That I don't get.

Because Zack is I-maxing.

I would be max-maxing.

You're max-maxing.

Just because my name is max.

Wait, like the movie theater?

Yeah. Maxing is you could do anything. If you're just doing anything. Hank is nap maxing right now.

No, he's... No naps.

No naps. No naps. But you can max anything. It's just whatever you happen to be doing at that given time.

You guys are voice-mogging Hank right now?

Oh, big time. Hank just got voice-mogged. Yeah. See? Yeah.

Hank got magged by Sam Darnold?

No.

Oh.

Sam Darnold, braided, maxed. No.

But Sam Darnold magged Drake May.

And Hank was Jester maxing at the Super Bowl. Yeah.

What's the Goblin? Well, no.

So Drake May...

No, Goblin is part of the show that Hank was talking about.

No Goblins. At the Super Bowl, Drake may nine maxed. Nine? He nine maxed at the Super Bowl.

Nine? Like JJ McCarthy? Yeah.

Got it. Got it. The whole playoff, so you could say, Penix maxed. Got it. Penix maxed. Yeah.

Penix.

But yeah, you can just You just say whatever you want. But it is like a WWE storyline that these guys have somehow concocted for each other. I don't think they're doing any of it on purpose, but it's a very funny, weird part of the internet that I don't fully understand, but it makes me laugh whenever I look at it.

Let's get into the maxing.

Oh, yeah. I think we are maxing right now.

Yeah, max-maxing.

Well, they look max. They look max, too, which is when you smash your bones to give yourself a better structure. Yeah. You can pound your cheekbones with a little hammer, and it's supposed to overcalcify. Now, these guys end up just looking like vampires. None of it's healthy. But yeah, I'm surprised you haven't paid attention to it.

I've seen it. I've not opted in. Well, a lot of it was on vacation. I was trying not to be online too much. It's one of those ones I was just like, I'll let it pass. Yeah.

No, you can't let this pass because this kid's going to be present one day.

So I have to pay attention.

Yeah, he will be President of the United States at some point. Okay. I think all our future- All the New York Times wrote about?

Yeah, all our future- All right, I'll read the New York Times.

I'll do it the old- Looks aren't everything. Clavicular begs us to get this kid like that's the title.

Freebase Ketamine. I'm going to read this article and do it like the real boomer way of being like, I saw this clavicular guy on New York Times.

Yeah, I have a take about clivicular. I don't think he's that hot.

Yeah, he looks like a regular dude.

He's a normal-looking guy. Yeah.

No, he's not stopping the street.

If this guy spends 100% of his time trying to look his absolute best, that's very sad for him.

This guy or the Bear's tailgate guy?

Bear's tailgate guy. He's naturally beautiful. People don't know, I saw a really hot guy at the Bear's packers playoff game and then invited him and his friends to the office the next week to judge how hot he was, and he was hot.

I think we got nine guys walking around the office that look better than clivicular.

Yeah, Blake, for sure.

Yeah, Blake. Yeah. Mincey, once the hair grows back. Yeah.

Do you think Blake gets bothered by the fact that every time a hot guy comes up, I'm like, Well, we got Blake.

That's a compliment.

Yeah, he's a good-looking tooth. Yeah. But it feels a little like Michael Scott, Ryan Howard-ish.

Yeah, but that's a funny show.

Man, you're hot.

But that's a funny storyline. Can you bring up the Goblin Chad dance? You got to see the Goblin Chad. The Goblin Chad is mesmerizing.

I don't know if I want to see the Goblin Chad dance.

No, this one. Clavicular gets absolutely magged at some party.

Hank, what's going through your head?

This is tough. It's a tough listen. Tough listen, Max.

We're basically doing Fancy Fuck Boys right now?

I can't find anything about the Goblin' Chad.

It's worse than Fancy Fuck Boys.

No, we're currently pod-maxing.

We're pod-maxing. Jack gets it.

I'm having fun.

What platform should I be searching Goblin' Chad?

I actually don't know if it's Goblin' Chad.

I did Twitter, it was nothing. I did Google, nothing.

Was that your Hot Seat or Cool Throne?

I don't know. I think both. Okay. I think it was everything. Yeah, that's everything. Because really, that's what I've been paying attention to. That's all you got. Is Goblin' Chad. I found the Goblin' Chad video. Bald Max and Goblin' Chad. It's crazy. That's what they're saying. This is how I talk now. All right, look at this guy. Big cat. Look at this guy. There he is. He gets jacked up, and then somebody takes his phone and then look at this. It just looks like a scuffle. Look at this mesmerizing guy, though. Right, coming on his screen. He turns the phone around. This guy.

Yeah, he's an ugly-looking dude.

Creepy as Rock, right? Yeah. I love that guy. Okay. All right. So that's my brain melting out of my ear.

Yeah, that's true brain rot. Okay, we're in it. Now that I've gotten a little familiar, I'll have to pay attention. I do that whenever I see something where it's It's like a foreign language. If you never learn what they're talking about, then you won't see it everywhere. Once you learn what they're talking about, you're hooked. You're done.

I opt out of a lot of those things. For whatever reason, this caught me at the right time. I had time.

This one got you. Okay, my hot seat is... I have two. One is us because Bleacher Report did a top 99 QBs of all time ranking, and Dak Prescott is on there. So he's at 59.

59.

59. I went through it. I wasn't really going to get that mad about a list. The only issue I had was they had Moreno at 10. I feel like he should be higher. Moreno was behind Steve Young and Drew Brees. I feel like Moreno deserves more respect.

I don't understand how you can put Dak at 59.

He's at 59. If you want to get mad about a QB rankings, he's at 59.

I'm a little mad. Ryan Tana Hill, 99?

Ryan Tannehill is 99. Matthew Stafford is 20. Patrick Holmes is 4. Russell Wilson was ahead of Lamar Jackson.

Okay. I guess that makes sense.

I mean, if you're just going off Super Bowl, but yeah. But you'd rather... I mean, Lamar Jackson has been the better quarterback. He's one of two MVPs.

Yeah, but I would say if you're doing a list of the great... Is this the greatest quarterbacks?

I think that's what it is. Top 99 quarterbacks, NFL history.

I think total career, I think I would Russell Wilson above Lamar.

Lamar has been the best quarterback in the league twice. That's true. 77, Derek Carr. Okay. Future Jet. Future Jet. Alex Smith. Oh, Jalen Hertz is on there. Let's go. There you go, Max.

Alex Smith is on there.

Yeah. Well, they had to get 99. It's a lot of quarterbacks.

Kirk Cousins is 71.

Yeah. Get mad about it.

Kirk Cousins, I would put above Dak Prescott.

Yeah. My other hot seat is The MLBPA executive director, Tony Clark, who resigned today. Then it came out his resignation was after an internal investigation revealed he had an inappropriate relationship with his sister-in-law who had been hired by the union in 2023.

Dog. Sister-in-law.

Dog. Sister-in-law. He hired his sister-in-law and then dogged.

Dogged. This might be the guy you want running your union.

That's a dog move.

This is a guy that keep your friends close and your relatives closer.

Yeah.

I feel like... I'm going to wait for all the facts to come out. I'll put it that way. Let's wait for all the facts. I'm going to wait for all the facts. This could be Way worse. It sounds bad, but it also could be way worse.

My cool drone is Tiger Woods in the Masters because he has said that he has not rolled out playing in the Masters this year.

This year.

Wow. This year. It's going to be awesome if Tiger He just can play in the Masters whenever he wants. Yeah, he should. Why not? It'd be fun. It'd be fun to have Tiger in the Masters.

The way that he said it makes me think it's on. He's ready. He's on. He's loading.

We also had LeBron James. Remember there was a story that he stopped drinking wine because he missed the beginning of the season. He also stopped eating chocolate chip cookies. Just so we're updating on LeBron's diet. We're getting little pieces that just come out every now and then. Did somebody take away- He cares so much that he stopped eating cookies.

Did someone take away his cookies?

I don't know if someone took away his cookies. I think he took away his cookies himself.

He took his own cookies away.

And then my other cool thrown is the Chicago Cubs, because I don't know if you guys are ready for this, but they have the team's slogan hashtag, Cubs are going to win the World Series this year. Do you guys want to guess what their team slogan is?

Cub Up.

Nope. W Up. Nope. It'scub the W.

Fly the Cub. This. Cubby Hole.

I said it.

This.

Is this? I don't fucking know, dude. It's the weirdest thing ever. This. This. What is that?

No, it's this.

Yeah. This.

It's a who's on first sketch.

I guess it gets people talking this. This. Cubs. This.

This.

I mean-Oh, that was mean. The person said, This team is missing the playoffs. This. How do you run out of slogans that bad that it's just this? What is that? This.

It's like an acronym?

No, I don't think so. I think it's just this. What are you so excited about?

This. Why is the avatar for the cubs a different color?

It's yellow and red right now. No, it's probably for spring training. That's probably their spring training hats. This. They're doing spring training right now. This. Because they're in the desert. This. Yeah, I don't know. This. All right, Zack, we're very excited for this.

Oh, no. My Hudson this week, I'm going to have to probably put myself in the Hudson. I've accidentally alarm clock too close to the sun recently. We all went on vacation this last week. That was a great time. It was nice. I got home, got to see the parents. I left on Tuesday. We recorded that Tuesday. I thought I was going to miss my flight. So I was frantically trying to hustle out the house, get packed, and just get out of there. I didn't do the checklist of things you would do to leave for a couple of days. That's all me. I had left my alarm clock plugged in, unbeknownst to me. Oh, no. Oh, no.

You left the bomb in.

You left the bomb in for five days?

You left the bomb unattended.

Nope.

So what happened is I was at home. I was out walking the lake, trying to get some steps in. We're on the diet challenge, trying to stay active. I got a phone call. I was like, Okay, who's calling me from my apartment complex? I pick it up, and it's a gentleman's voice I never heard before. I was like, What's going on? How are we, man? He's like, Have you seen any of our emails? I was like, No, I haven't seen the emails, but what can I do?

That guy hit you with a per my email in real life.

Oh, no, Zack.

He was basically like, Hey, I need you to respond to this email that we sent out about alarm clocks because you began noise complaints. I was like, Well, I'm not home. How am I going to get a noise complaint? Because the last noise complaint I got was for playing Xbox too loud. I was like, Well, I haven't been on the game.

Wait, you got a noise complaint for playing?

That was tough.

Aren't you plugged in?

Yeah, but I'm on the mic, so I guess I was like, I could have been getting a little too excited. Got it. So I was confused at first. I was like, No, your alarm clock is going off today and yesterday. We're going to have to take a meeting here. But before then, I need you to respond to this email. I was like, Okay, I can do that. I'll respond right now. I was freaking out. So then I accidentally replied all to all my neighbors. Oh, no. Yeah, sure. You can go into my apartment and unplug the alarm clock. So now they all know it was me. Wednesday, one o'clock, we're going to get together. Hopefully, just have a talk. It's two guys, one dude messed up, one guy, hopefully, is understanding.

There's a chance that this alarm clock was going off for two days.

There's a world where it was going. I don't think it was, but there is a world where I'm the worst neighbor of all time, and I just left my irrationally loud alarm clock going.

Have you been given any inkling to what this meeting? What did he say about the meeting?

It's all about the alarm clock.

But he was like, We're going to have to have a sit down meeting.

We're going to formally talk about this in person, was the quote. Yeah.

Bring your playbook.

I don't know what I'm going to...

There's a chance the E-word gets thrown. We're not going to say the E-word.

I think Hank should go with you.

You're good in meetings?

I wear a suit.

Yeah. You probably look good in a power suit. Hank should go with you.

You should ask if you can bring a video. Yeah, let's see if we can bring a video. Let's do PMTV.

This is my narcoleptic cousin, and he needs a medical grade alarm clock to wake up every day.

Let's get some behind the scenes.

We can't get... He's actually going to get E-worded if we go in that way.

But let's just ask. What's the worst they can say? No, and you're evicted?

That's the word.

That is what we're not trying to do. That is the worst.

Pretty bad. Max was preemptively evicting me early.

I was just searching apartments. I was looking for alternative apartments for him. I was trying to help him in case something happened.

Zack, you can stay in my house if you get evicted for three nights.

I would hate to be a burden for three days. Hopefully, we don't get evicted, but it's very you, Big Cat.

Yes, I got you. Maybe we all just chip in three days.

Yeah, I'll give you five.

All right, so you got over two weeks. I can give you three days. Yeah, you got over two weeks here if you get evicted.

But you got to...

Yeah. No alarm clocks in my house.

No alarm clocks.

I'll wake you up.

It won't happen.

That's poor. Dude. You know what's that? Can Hank go, though? You don't have to video it, but I want Hank or Max are memes so that that way we have... Just say it's your lawyer.

I'm down for some representation.

Okay, because then we can have a dual... When we follow up on this on Firefest, we can have a secondary source of information.

Yeah, it was bad. Moving forward, I'm going to make a checklist on things to do before you leave the home. I was in a rush. I was trying to get out of there pretty quick, and it just now I'm in a bad spot.

It all depends on what alarm clock we're talking about here. The alarm clock, most of them They don't just keep going on and on. They'll stop eventually, right?

There's no way for me to know. I think it stopped at some point in each morning. But there's also a world where it didn't. If it didn't, I'm just like, I feel I'm a bad guy. Why if it just kept going?

Yeah.

You were fine making the flight, right?

I did make the flight. I had more time than I thought I had.

Yeah. Anyone help you out?

Hank all time helped me out.

We should tell this part of the story because it is very funny. The Sonic Bomb alarm clock will stop but not immediately. Features an adjustable. Okay. Last between 1: 59. Oh, man. I would be so pissed off if I were your neighbor.

Oh, yeah.

It's not a good accident. It's on me.

Okay, so yeah, Hank, tell us what happened.

So we did the show Tuesday.

Hold on. You got this, Hank. Your voice was doing better.

This happened every day. It's fine when I wake up, and then it just… You lose it. With Hear's away. All right, so we record the show Tuesday. We all had flights. Zack, I asked him, Do you want to go to the airport together? He's like, No, I got to go home and pack. Because he said his flight was at a similar time. I leave from the office. I get to the airport. I see Zack finishing checking his bag in at the bag check, and I walk up to him and I'll do this when we randomly... It doesn't happen that much, but if I see you guys out and we're not together, they go, Big guy, how much money do you make? And then just see you turn around. They're like, What's up, babe? And then PFT turns around. It's like, Oh, that's a dude.

Hank's on one right now. This is good.

I'm like, Zack, Bush. Back to Bush. Zack. I was basically as close as we are right now, like 5 feet. I did it twice, didn't respond at all. I was like, Zack Bush turns around in a panic. The videos we have of Zack coming in when he was late, when he was shaking, he was like, What's up, Hank? Then I was like, Oh, my God, you're late. You got to go. He sprints past me, and he goes through clear. To go through clear, there's a checkpoint one, and then you walk 20 more feet, and then there's a checkpoint two. In between that is where the regular people for security go through. Zack Sprints through clear, checkpoint one, then takes a right back into the regular security line, sprinting. I'm just laughing. He was already 20 feet ahead of me. I'm laughing very hard because I'm like, he did not go in the right lane, but he was so far ahead of me, I couldn't even yell at him. I go to the clear lane. Zack comes sprinting back a couple of minutes later because he realized his mistake. I let him go in front of me because I'm like, he's clearly rushed.

I've been in his shoes many times where you get to the airport, the plane's boarding, you're I'm already going to miss this plane, but I have to just sprint and give it everything I have to hopefully make this flight. Sprints ahead of me again, sprints through security. By the time I even got to putting my stuff in the bin, he was gone. I was 30 minutes before my flight even started boarding. I go to the bar. I think I had two beers and a pizza. Go to the bathroom, wash my hands, scroll up to the gate as the plane is about to board, and Zack is just standing there.

You're on the same flight.

I was like, Zack, you showed up 40 minutes before the plane boarded, and he was in group five. He was like, You never know. I thought the plane, what if it came early?

I'm relatively new to travel. They say, get there several hours beforehand. Also, as far as a clear line goes, Hank did save me. He let me skip him. That was huge. But there's way too many ropes.

Why are there so many ropes? It gets confusing. You got the clear, you got TSA precheck, you've got TSA precheck plus clear. Then if you go into the wrong, sometimes they judge you and they're like, Oh, why don't you want to go into the precheck one? Well, I think the clear one is fine. It gets confusing. Also, if you're going to be taking advice on how early to get to flights, Hank is not the best person to take that advice. For sure not. Yeah.

So you're good, Zack. I do forget, Zack, that up until nine months ago, you had never been on a plane past the age of three.

99% of my travel has been with you guys. Yeah. But I will also say the clear thing is a new experience. It changes the airport. It's completely different. It's so easy. I'm factoring that in. I factored that in on the way home. You just need 30 minutes. Just get in, you're good. But I thought for sure I was getting to the gate. I'd already texted my mom like, Hey, don't drive to the airport yet because there's no way I'm getting on the plane.

He had two beers and a pizza.

He boarded way before me.

But I texted after I saw him run away, again, because I didn't know we were on the same flight. I was like, Once you get settled, I need to know if you made your flight or not. Yeah. He responded like, Didn't think I was going to make it, but we're good. Again, this was 30 minutes before the flight even started to pre-board.

Hank was texting us updates as this was going on.

Be like, Zack might miss his flight.

Zack might miss his flight.

I was texting Max. Max was talking about... I was like, I just saw Zack sprinting through the area.

Well, my flight was much earlier than your guy's flight. We left at the same time. I actually got there three. I got to mind three minutes before boarding. I was pressing a little bit.

And your flight was 45 minutes before.

My flight was 45 minutes before. Hank was texting me updates. He's like, I think Zack's freaking out. He's freaking out. Then when I saw the picture of Zack on Hank's flight, it was just the complete opposite of how two people go about going on a flight.

That's amazing. Are you your cool thrown, Zack?

My cool thrown, real quick, was just a professional power What's his name? Larry Wiels. Do you guys know Larry Wiels? No. Big strong guy. He's a professional power lifter? Yeah. Super strong, strong guy. He had an all-time move, defending his wife yesterday. Influencer, boxer, slash Twitch streamer. They were out having a good time with Rampage Jackson. You guys know Rampage? Yeah. They were all hanging out. This guy, Dean, starts chatting to Larry Wiels' wife. In the most effortlessly way possible, someone could defend their wife. He gives a 3% smack to this guy, and he smacked the absolute fire out of him.

Oh, I love that.

He could make a thousand more mistakes in his marriage. And with the power of this smack, I think they'll stay together forever. Because he defended her to no ends with one quick, swift wrist move.

Larry Wiels slaps Dean the Great during kick live stream.

They weren't live because Rampage just like to go live. He'll kick a lot. I think what happened was he was intoxicated.

Wait, wait a second. I searched Larry Wiels on on news. The second one is, Larry Wiels claims his wife uses N-word daily at home. Larry Wiels claims his wife, model Sheila Williams, has permission to throw racial slur at him in private.

Daily? It's showering for her? I don't fucking know. All right, brush your teeth, drop the N-baum. All right, come to bed.

Oh, my gosh. All right, Larry Wiels was not familiar with Larry Wiels.

I was not familiar with their home life, but the smack was good.

Larry Wiels just smacked the shit out Dean the Great.

I think getting really solidly slapped is worse than getting knocked out.

Oh, definitely. Slapped to the point where you're like, I don't want this anymore, that's as embarrassing as it gets. Yeah. Okay, we've got all the brain rock covered.

It's absolutely face maxed right there. Yeah.

He magged him with his hand.

Cte maxing.

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Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very, very special guest. It is our guy, Johnny Fanta. You can hear him on the call for Michigan State, UCLA, tonight as you're listening to this. Some people have been calling him MBA Johnny. That's what Rico says. But he is college basketball, Johnny. In my eyes, he's been dominating college basketball this year. You've been so good on the calls. It's been an incredible season. We wanted to have you on because football is over. We're gearing up for March. We're going to have brackets in what? Four weeks? Is it four weeks from now?

Not even. Three and a half.

It's Great. It's a great time. So let's start with this, Johnny. Let's start with national title, because I think, I made the argument the other night. I think there's 10 teams that could win the title. And I don't remember a year where it feels like it is so loaded at the top. Right now, if you had to say, what's the actual number? Where's the cutoff for teams that you think can win the national title?

Yeah, I really think 10 to 12. And by the way, it's great to be with you guys. And buckle up, because this could be an all-time march. It really could be. We've got unbelievable freshman class. We've got coaches who have lost their minds in the wildest of ways, which means you've got some tempers, you've got high emotions, you've got crazy finishes to come. And I do think Cittarella's slipper will return. But the top of the country, Big Cat, you're right. I don't think it's ever been better, and I don't think it's ever been deeper. Because when I look at it, I just open up the analytics, okay? Whether you follow the numbers or not, Michigan can win it all. Duke can win it all. Arizona can certainly win it all. Houston, just because they lost to Iowa State doesn't mean they can't win it all. They were up by 10 with seven minutes to go in Ames. That was Hilton magic. Florida against them. Have you guys seen Illinois? And they're on their best day? I'm not going to count Brad Smith and Purdue out. You're going to count Dan Hurley out? No. Okay. Texas Tech, I haven't even brought up.

They've beaten Arizona. They've beaten Duke. That's nine right there. If Darryl Peterson were to play, and who knows? Could Mark Few? Could he put something up? And we haven't even brought up a dark horse random team that goes on a run. Oh, we didn't even bring up Tom Iso and Rick Patino, who are two Hall of Fan coaches. Could they find a pathway to Indianapolis? I'm not going to say no. The point is, your bracket is going to be hard fill out. So bring that pencil sharpen and get ready, because this is going to be fun. The top of the country is absolutely ridiculous.

Yeah. Get ready for an all-time march. And you said it like some coaches are losing their minds. Which coaches are the most insane right now?

Well, I have Michigan State and UCLA, and some people might look at a Mick Cronin and just think every week there's a new video. But I would also say this, he knows exactly what he's doing. In the world of any news is good news, Mick is getting noticed. Ucla is getting noticed. You might now be watching them. They're right on the bubble. They're right on that bubble. You might not be watching them a little bit more than you otherwise would have. That would be one. Guys, as I come on with you, in terms of the personality of the game, we are one week away, one week away from the rematch between Dan Hurley and Rick Pitino. You can sense... You know old-school sports, when you could sense the vitriol and the hatred, when the first foot steps on the floor or field? That is what this is. That is what this is. Those two are going to only make more headlines with what they say and how they say it. I think that you're only going to see things increase in terms of the intensity of that. It's going to go up 10 times next week.

If you look at the Wednesday slate next Wednesday, that game is really the biggest game, and there's not much else there. That's only going to increase the attention. Those two don't like each other, and the emotion is going to be high.

Yeah. If you're someone who just getting into the college basketball season, just catching up to it, this upcoming weekend is essentially a final four. We have Michigan and Duke playing against each other, and then we have Arizona and That is the top four teams in the country, as of right now, playing against each other on Saturday. It's going to be phenomenal. And that just feels like every single week. Even last Saturday, when it was Texas Tech beats Arizona, that was a great game. But we had that game. We didn't have much else. It was like, What just happened? I'm used to having four or five incredible games every single Saturday. That's how this season has gone.

That's how this season has gone. And credit to the coaches for hearing what we've all been clamoring for, make marquee games happen. Now, they don't control their conference schedules, but Big Cat, as much as it might be difficult to give some credit to Duke- I got a question about that, but go ahead.

I got a follow-up question. Go ahead.

Michigan and Duke playing this game is really good for the sport because you're talking about a Blue Devils team that comes in 24 and 2, a Michigan team that will see as we're recording what will happen at Maki Arena. Regardless, everybody thinks, or the majority of people think, yeah, they look like on their best day, Michigan is the best team in the country. And this is the year for the Big Ten. I know the Big 12 is stacked, But if the Big Ten is going to snap this drought of 26 long years without a national championship, if Michigan plays their A game, guys, they're going to be no worse. They're going to be no worse than in Indianapolis. So the sport is in great hands. Yes, there's There's chaos. Yes, there's the Charles Beddiaco thing, and there's the James Nagy thing, and there's these players that are trying to make it... Guys that left college and now trying to go back, and we could talk all day about that. But I prefer us talking about the product on the court, which is fun, and the viewership is strong, and college basketball needed this. I think it had gone through a bit of a lull.

I think it needed this, and I think I would keep the February non-conference flavor. Because remember, you guys have I said it, football's done. Give us some big-time matchups in the month of February, even if it's five or six, that put the very best against the very best.

Yeah, I agree. All right, so my follow-up is, do we have an update on... Do we have an arrest on who punched the Duke staffer that John Shier has told us about? Because I saw a clip from... They wasted away Syracuse on Monday night. Poor Syracuse. I don't know what's happened to that program. It sucks. Because Syracuse being Good is a good thing for the sport. But either way, John Shier said he would like to just talk about Syracuse, and he knows what he saw, and he knows what his staffers felt. But yeah, there has not been any update on a suspect for who punched a Duke staffer after the UNC game. So what's going on with that, Johnny?

Well, I'm not really in the investigative space. I haven't dove into the Dateland team quite yet to look into what exactly went down there in Chapel Hill. But John Shier is a man of honor and faith, and I believe that something happened to one of his staff members. I don't know what it was. I'm going to say that whatever he said, something did happen, but the search continues for whatever happened. But it's also Duke, Carolina. What did we all expect?

Right. But I expected chaos. But when a team is accused of punching the opponent in a court rushing.

Like a mob land style beat down. Yeah.

We got to find the guy. I think we should suspend the college basketball season until we find the guy. We got to find this guy.

We're going to do a search down in the Chapel Hill area and surrounding it to find who did this is what you're saying.

Yeah. I mean, imagine if you're playing UNC and you're like, this rogue puncher is out the loose and I could be sucker-punched at any point. I agree with you. John Shier, we have to believe him, so we have to do everything we can, an international manhunt, to find the person who punched the Duke staffer that totally, for real happened and wasn't just an embellishment after a bad Duke loss, trying to basically get everyone to stop talking about the loss and talk about something else. It wasn't that at all.

Would you believe Coach K if he had said this?

Oh, 100%, yes. Coach K is a man of honor. He's a man of faith. I see no reason why he would lie about either of those things.

Yeah, I mean, listen, this is the brilliance of Duke. It's a very smart university. Is Duke University? No, it's a university. Yeah, it's a university. It's a very smart university.

Trinity College at Duke University.

It's a very smart university. They understand what's at stake. They understand that when you win games, it's because you're great. When you lose games, let's talk about anything else besides the loss.

I mean, hey, that worked. Something happened. Someone got punched.

No one got punched, Johnny. No one got punched.

But wait a minute. I was thinking about this here. Do you remember We've all been in seventh, eighth, ninth grade when we would just go to our buddy's house, and then all of a sudden, just a brawl breaks out or something, but all in good fun. But if you're in If you're in the middle of something, and all of a sudden, you get this. I don't know who threw it. I was turned around the other way. There were thousands of people there. We've all been on the receiving end of an unmarked punch.

Wait, so you're saying, but with all the cameras and everything that we have, all the technology, that unmarked punch just never made it on video?

Not sure. I don't know. It's now one of the mysteries of the world of who landed that.

Yeah, it is. I think that... I mean, you have a great name for a private investigator, let's be honest. Like Johnny Fanta PI. I could see you getting to the bottom of this case.

Coming up tonight at 11: 00. Yeah. We're down to Chapel Hill.

If you're Clemson, if you're... Who else does UNC... If you're Louisville, if you're Virginia Tech, if you're Clemson, I would not feel safe traveling to Chapel Hill until this madman is arrested.

Right.

I'd like to see you get on the case, Johnny.

Yeah, figure it out, Johnny.

Get on the case. I got aWhat's the question for you.

The rematch is at Cameron Indor. What if he found his way in there?

Oh my God.

Oh my God. Can you imagine? Oh, God. Yeah. That's actually probably the most likely spot for him. It'll probably be dressed up as a Duke fan to make it look like it was a Duke fan that did it, not a You can see the plot thickets. Johnny, I got a question for you because like so many others, watched a little basketball last night, watched the Cougars. I came away impressed with Houston. But my question for you is, When should I get in bed with the Cougars? Because I feel like after a loss, not the worst time to maybe take a look at that future line. What are they, 8: 00 to 1: 00, something like that? Somewhere around there, yeah. They do play Arizona on Saturday, which is that's going to be a tough game. Then after that on Monday, they have to go to Kansas. It's like this is a crazy stretch for the Cougars. Should I now get in bed with the Cougars thinking that they're about to beat Arizona, or should I wait until after this stretch is over and then bet on them?

I'm already in bed.

Nice.

I'm all over them. I believe that Houston can win it all. I believe that one of these three teams will win it all here.

Houston. Ready? Okay.

Michigan.

Yeah. Florida. Florida. Listen, I I took Florida 19 to one because I honestly think Florida is in that spot where if they can find a way to hit a little bit more consistently, more consistent from three in the tournament, they are the scariest team.

In the tournament? Yes. But Houston is right there in terms of scariness. I thought Hilton Magic really did play a role, and Iowa State hit some incredible shot. The corner three by Nate Hyzee was just phenomenal. Bateman hit a huge shot for them. I mean, Lipsy missed free throws. Iowa State was dreadful from the free throw line and still found a way to win that game. That building is good for... You're up 10-nothing as the home team in that building. The Elton Column is real. I am still very much in on Houston. So BFT, I would say you should be in the bed with the Cougars and you shouldn't look back because this team is tough as hell. Kingston Cummings is a top 10, if not top five. He might be a top five pick in the draft, five or six.

Yeah, he's fun.

Yeah. Sharp and Usan are supplemental shot makers. Jojo Tuggler, if there's a tougher guy in college basketball, it might be the guy in Chapel Hill, and that's about it. It's Joe Joe Tuggler is mean. He's a mean machine. He gets after you defensively every possession. And Chris Sanak is now finding his way and only getting better. Kelvin is so due. The only thing is that I have one concern. When there's five or six minutes left to go in a close tournament game, I don't want what happened last night to happen in that game, where what were they doing in the half-court? What were they doing You got to get better looks.

That is the one... Because I think Houston's phenomenal, but they're not a traditional best defense by far in the country, Houston. Their defense is obviously very elite, but it's not at that Houston level that we've come to expect where they just suffocate you. Their offense can be inefficient where they're not a great three-point shooting team, and then they're not getting a ton of rim looks. But you're right. I think Houston is definitely in that category of battle-tested teams that could win it all. Everyone's got at least one wart. I just mentioned with Florida, Florida can't shoot the three. I hope they can because I bet on them, but they can't shoot the three. Every team has something. Maybe the only team that doesn't is Michigan. They've just been that good all year.

Well, they're wart. Michigan doesn't really have a wart, but the way that you compete with them and hang in with them is if you have mobile bigs who can shoot it. Because Moraes Johnson and Adai Mahrer are down there, and they're just going to funnel everything to them, and they have the best two-point defense in America. So whoever plays Michigan has got to have a stretch four or a stretch five. And if you do, that's the unique thing, guys. Arizona doesn't really possess that. Houston, Florida plays huge themselves. You're right, I'm three-point shooting. That's where Dan Hurley comes into this equation, because Caravan 10, Braille and Mullen's solo ball can bury threes. That would be your argument there with the Huskies. But here's the thing. You could say that somebody doesn't have warts or somebody does this time of year. But in three and a half weeks, it's not going to matter. The ball is going to be tipped. And we also could see a world where as good as the 10 to 12 are, guys, with national Championship chances, I do think, I alluded to it earlier, I do think we're going to see the return of Cinderella's carriage.

I think the four, five, and six seeds all have more warts than last year. 4, 5, and 16. I think you're going to see Cindarella's carriage's step up, and we're going to get at least 2, 12, 13, 14 to win a game.

Because I was just saying that that is the one downside I thought of going into this tournament is that there are so many good teams at the top, and it's so deep at the top that it could be another situation like last year where we don't see a lot of upsets. But you're saying it's actually going to be reversed where that middle pack is very susceptible because that would be the perfect tournament. I think we all agree. A couple good Cinderella stories, a few upsets in the first round, and then really quality, great teams in the sweet 16 and on.

Yeah, I really do. I'll put that slipper on because I think a lot of people are wondering who could it be? I like the Liberty Flames as a potential 12 seed that could do something. I like Stephen F Austin. I think that they're an interesting team that could pull something off in the NCAA tournament. Don't sleep on the Ivy League champion. Never go to sleep. If you're going to go into bed with Houston Cougars BFT, make sure that you don't fall asleep when the Ivy League champion gets a 13 seed. And that could be Yale. Again, remember Yale a couple of years ago beating Auburn in the truck and shocking everybody? Unc Wilmington is another really feel-good story. And Big Cat, PFT, I know you're going to get behind this. You know who's got a good ball club? Let's go P. Austin P could put 13 or 14. Pull something off in the big dance.

I like it. Which of these teams would you put on upset alerts? It's obviously way too early to talk about what the bracket looks like. But if you were to say a team that's somewhere in the 12 to 20 ranked area, which team would you circle right now and say, I don't really trust what they've been selling?

Well, I'm going to get some heat for this, but I really want to see them win because they've never won a tournament game. Oh, I think of Brett Hoiberg in Nebraska, the pressure riding on that singular game. Now, I love their team. I think they're incredibly balanced. I've thought the world of Rinkmast and Sanford and Jamarcus Lawrence, who provides... He's going to have to be poured in that game because he just makes things happen for them offensively. But it's the sweat of that game. When you've never won a tournament game as a program, everything's riding on that. The fan base is going to travel big time. So if they go up against one of these frisky teams I've just mentioned, a Yale, a UNCW, you never know what can happen in a 40-minute game if there's a surprise. So that would be one team that I look at and say, okay, I get a little bit concerned there. Look, Carolina could be a five or a six. Carolina's best looks damn good. But there's times when they get a little out of control, they fall into some turnovers, and you don't know what could happen if you're on the other end and you're facing a Santa Clara.

A team that's balanced If it's just efficient, it doesn't turn the ball over. I trust, for the most part, Vanderbilt, but their best came early. So you wonder, are they going to start peaking again or how's that going to go down? I'm very curious to see what happens there. Those would be three teams that I look at. Tom Miso is probably going to get a four seed. He's not losing a first-round game, and he's probably not losing a second-round game. But those would be three teams I look at and I say, All right, you got to be careful here with how you go about things or else you Who would get picked off in the dance?

What about a team like Alabama and Nate Oates? Great question.

Thanks. They were a team that I looked at when you asked this question, but I just trust LeBaron Phylon too much. I know their defense is susceptible, but they just have so much offensive pop that it gets very hard for a mid-major to be able to score. But here's where your point gets amplified. They are not a very good defensive team. And so you've got to slow the game down against them, and that's really hard to do. They're number one in the country in adjusted tempo. So you guys got to think about it. When you are a mid-major and you don't have the speed or the athletes, that's the only thing I would say about facing Alabama is, would a team be able to get Alabama into the quicksand? Can I say one thing to you both, though? Sure. And you always say yes, so I appreciate that. Miami, Ohio. Yeah. Better get into the NCAA tournament even if they have one loss.

I agree. We said this on Monday. I was like, there's a scenario that's brewing that if they lose a game, then they don't win the tournament, it's going to be bullshit, but that could potentially happen.

Love What's going on, or Johnny?

Committee, they're meeting this week at Indianapolis. Let me give you a message, Selection Committee. The optics of keeping a team that has started the season with this mark and that plays the right way with leadership, efficiency, and everything in between. They are a tournament team that can win a game, if not two. If they have one bad day, even in the regular season, even in the regular season, if they have one bad day committee, why would you keep a team like this out? You've got to put them in to the dance. Put the Red Hawks in. Let them fly. Yeah.

Love that, Johnny. Let the Hawks fly. We took our guns out and put it to their head. Don't worry about it. We got you. We They're standing behind you. It's finger guns. Don't worry. I got the safety on, too. It's cool. We practice finger gun safety here.

They absolutely should be in. They should be in, Johnny. I'm a little bit worried the more I hear people talk about it saying, Don't you dare do it. They're going to do it. It's almost like the more we tell them, You better fucking not do this, it just might happen.

Just win the Mac tournament.

Just win the Mac, yeah.

Just win the Mac. Johnny, can we talk about my Badgers?

I saw you two doing that. I thought Rico had walked in.

Oh, no. We We were just backing you up. We're standing behind you looking tough.

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Johnny, can we talk about my Badgers real quick? They're in the tournament, right? I don't have to worry about that because they do have two of the best wins in the country. I think that's fair to say, even though I'm very biased.

They do. They have two wins away from home that if you stack them with any other team that has two wins away from home, it would be their wins are better than that.

So they're in.

And not only are they in, but now they're comfortably into a point that I'd give them a single-digit seed. You can't collect. Not to mention, what do you do on Friday night? You take Michigan State out back and beat the hell out of them?

Yeah.

Wisconsin, they are a team that if you Can we get stuck in a 7-10 or 8-9 game with them? Oh, boy. And I don't want to be the one. But think about it. Michigan will tell you, and it wouldn't be Michigan, Wisconsin in the second round, but Michigan would tell the other one seat, Hey, man, we lost to them. We lost to them. Nice gift in the second round. Wouldn't be the first time the Badgers have pulled something off, an upset in the first weekend, right? Over the years when we've seen their teams pull something off. What was it?

Villanova the one year? Villanova, yeah.

I mean, Xavier the one year, right? Yeah. But they've been able to do it in different ways. So Wisconsin is frisky. When you have players the caliber of John Blackwell and nick Boyd, The guard play. This is a duo that... They're one of only three high major duos scoring at least 18 points per game. The other two were Richie Saunders and De Bonse at BIO, so now Saunders is done. And the other one is JT Toppen and Christian Anderson over at Texas Tech. But Boyd and Blackwell, Wisconsin hasn't had a score at the rate that Boyd is scoring at since Michael Finley, statistically. That was over 30 years ago. So the Badgers offense is really tough. When Rapp knocks down some shots for them. He's a next factor for them. And I think Nolen Winter, like Greg Gard said last week, Nolen Winter doesn't even know how good he could be. Nolen, if you keep rising, this Wisconsin team is going to be in the second weekend of the NCAA tournament. They're not just going to make it. They're They're going to make a run in the NCAA tournament. They're dangerous, man.

I'm officially in that I'm ready to get hurt mode because I was going into the week with Indiana, Illinois, Michigan State coming up. I was like, If we can win one game, I'll be happy. We end up winning two and probably should have won the third if we didn't get screwed. But now I'm in like, Hey, I think they can make a run, which we know always ends up in disaster for me. What about the other team that we're worried about getting in, Vilanova? Are they a lock-in?

They're a lock-in. All right, good. Yeah, Max, you can breathe easily. You might have been a little off on Alex Caravan a few years back, but you were so on here. Kevin Willer was the right hire. The cats are back. I mean, they are They've got Yukon this weekend. If you want to fully show your back, you come out and win that game. But their top 35 in offense and defense, they play balanced basketball. Tyler Perkins is out. He is a stud of a player who has stepped up. A Caden Lewis averages over five assists per game. Villanova is a tough out, guys, because they can bury threes. They've got a stretch guy in Matt Hodge, and Duke Brennan is the double-double machine. The Wildcats have a whiteout Saturday. Time to announce your fully back. If you're going to do that, you got to seize the opportunity against Yukon.

They almost beat Yukon the first time. They got screwed. I thought there was a foul at the end of that regulation. But we should just say Kevin Willard, right higher, also attended your wedding.

Yes, he did attend. Okay, all right.

Listen, we're journaling.

It's still the right higher. Don't try to take away from that.

But you have to put that in there just so that we know. No, you don't. Yeah, you do. Why do you even put it in there? Did you attend his wedding as well?

No, we got married years ago.

Okay, all right. I mean, if we did this every time Schrager was on, that's all we'd be. It would just be an episode of disclaimers.

So you would just be shuffling a deck of wedding invites. Yeah. Like a blackjack dealer.

So Fanta, you are invited on Max's bachelor party, so you need to have a disclaimer for that, too. Yes.

You're invited on the Bachelor Party.

Where's it at?

Vegas. So right now, Friday night, we have a suite for fish at the Sphere. You have to eat mushrooms with us. Saturday, Cabana, Kentucky Derby Day, Sunday golf. Everything's paid for. All you need to do is buy a flight, and you're more than welcome.

Yeah. So is the fish thing with the mushrooms- mushrooms? Yeah. Is that a mandatory thing?

If you don't want to finish your mushrooms, I can take care of that for you.

Also, if you don't want to willingly take the mushrooms, we could do a wink, wink, and we'll just slip them into some of the food for you.

I just... Like, Max, every time... Max, you can hear me, right? I can hear you.

I can hear you.

Dude, Fanta on Shrooms at the sphere would be electric.

Yeah, not going to put that...

I I actually think you could do your own show at the Sphere on Shrooms, just Fanto ranting.

I'll tell you something. I took the Dare program in grade school.

I was locked in.

We had that duck mascot, and I was not I was not going down that path. But man, it would probably be an interesting visual. But, Max, why does there have to be an asterisk next to Kevin Willard every time we talk about him?

I mean, that's Big Cat. He's a bad guy. Every time we say something good about Kevin Willard, he just like, It's fair to ask about Kevin Willard and the way that he treated the University of Maryland.

We had a lot of turp fans out there, and they're not happy.

He brought the program back year one.

Yeah, but he also... The way he left Maryland was disgusting, and Johnny Fanta would be like, I would never say anything because he gave me a nice card in my wedding. And you know.

Incorrect.

I said I would have probably handled that differently, but he was dancing to McFadden and Whitehead. Ain't no stopping us now.

Yeah, you said you probably have handled it differently. You would have been even more ruthless to Maryland, I think was your exact quote. No, I'm people of College Park.

They're great fans, passionate fans. They're into it. No, I have no enemies in That's the college part.

This guy goes to so many weddings. He should probably read more Corinthians and figure out how to handle things like this. You're a man of faith, Johnny. You understand?

Yes, you are. Johnny, listen, I want to go back to the bachelor party. You do not have to do the mushrooms. You are invited, though. Officially invited. Bosco will be in attendance. I don't know how that relationship is right now.

It always heats up this time of year. It always heats up this time of year. But is he on the lawyer team over with Coach Tang and everything? By the way, Kansas State, paying him his money. You fired him because he lost games. Get out of here with that rationale that he made a comment about his team. What? He's not allowed to talk about his players and his teams. Are you watching coaches press conferences weekly? You're going to spend more money, Kansas State, by going through this process than you would by just paying him his money and give Bosco some cash as well. The Bosco search firm is fired up right now. I haven't heard from Riko in a while, but this time of year now, it all starts to get the flames start going.

You're gassing up Fileon enough. I think he's going to be happy about that. So we're now Now on good terms. Yeah, now we're on good terms with that. But I don't know. Tang, he got fired for cause because he said bad things about his team, right? Can you name a time that one of the greats, Rick Pitino, Has he ever said anything bad about his team to the press, to the media, to fire them up? It does seem ridiculous. If this is the reason why they're trying to claw back the money that they owe them, I feel like that's going to lose on its face.

It's going to lose on its face, and they're going to owe 25 million combined in legal fees and all that. Get out of here, man. I think Kansas State is actually a solid job, could be a top half of the Big 12 job with the NIL that they have and the fans that they have. But you draw more negative attention to yourself when you now go through this process. What they don't realize is they're hurting themselves for their next search.

Yeah, 100%. I have a question for you about Arizona. Is Arizona, are they going start shooting threes ever? They don't really have to, right? They're dominant.

They took 16 against Texas Tech, but they only made four of them. So it's a problem. Like, BFT, your question there is exactly why they could get tripped up in the dance, and why ultimately, why I didn't put them in that group of three that I think. I love their players, like Braden Buries and Coa Pete guys, watching them at Pete's Jam and at high school, at the lower levels, they would own games. Those winning instincts have carried over. It's genuinely why I'm afraid to go against Duke when I'm picking my three teams because all Kamboos has ever done in any tournament is win. The guy's never... He's never lost a postseason event in his life. Arizona, Pete and Burry are winners. Karchin Khaf does a lot of good things for them. And Jaden Bradley. Bradley is as good of a point guard as you're going to find. He sets people up. He makes the right plays. But I get concerned. You're exactly right. They don't have If they're down three, who is taking and making the shot consistently? It is one big question mark. And when in this day and age of college basketball, if you're on the receiving end of a team hot shooting day, like Iowa State got hot in the last seven minutes, and they found a way to beat Houston as a result.

At some point, you can only defend, rebound, and attack the rim so well. You've got to be able to knock down the perimeter shot, or you're going to get bounced early. Ask last year's St. John's team about that. They couldn't shoot, and it doomed them.

Maybe this is just me having watched, really paid attention to the sport for the last two and a half weeks, but I've watched a lot of Arizona. I dove a little bit into numbers. So maybe you tell me if I'm wrong about this, because it doesn't seem like they're a terrible three-point shooting team. They just don't take them.

It's not a part of their DNA. They're one of the lower volume teams in the country, if you look at the numbers in terms of three-point attempts. So it is a big problem for them. Now, we look at it, and we also have to look at the percentage. Bradley shoots it 40 % from deep, okay? But he's also being relied upon to initiate the offense. And he's also a guy that when you look at him, he's barely averaging a made three a game, right? So he shooting it at a high percentage, but it's not in volume. Buries. There's. Yeah, he could shoot it. He's made 41 on the year.

I feel like I'm a hockey fan at the game, just being like, shoot the three. Just take more threes.

But when it's not part of who you are, it's not in your DNA, you could take more. But based on what their personnel looks like, I don't think that they're making them necessarily. So Buries has to continue to get better in that column. And then they've got to figure it out here because you're exactly right. It doomed them ultimately against Texas Tech. Now, they only lost the game by three, but it opens you up to losing regardless of where it is. It is very It's difficult to do what they did against Texas Tech. They got outscored by 21 from beyond the arc. Against a team that good, you're going to lose the game. So you're right. It is Arizona's concern is not being able to knock down that shot. I'm not concerned as much as they're… Okay, so they don't take as many. But when you don't have the shooters, I don't blame you for not taking as many. Right.

Yeah. They also have an absolutely dominant interior offense. So why that That is the DNA of their team, and they dominate teams.

Yeah, they're a really good team. It's just that one thing.

They are, but the three-point shot changes everything. As long as basketball has been around, it is the great equalizer, and it's no different here.

That's why I'm higher on Florida, just because I do think Florida can start making threes. I think it's going to start happening.

Yeah, they can. And Boogie Flann, he still has even better... He's a great player, and I think he could be the guy that authors a terrific March run. Like the Xavian Lee thing- Yeah, it's been bad. It hasn't worked out, but you could twist it and say, Look how good they've been in spite of that.

Correct.

And there's just so... Thomas Hauke is just a winner, guys. He plays so hard. He gets after it on both ends. He rebounds the hell out of the ball. So you have him, you have Chinyalu, and you have Condon, and they're just going to say, Get in the boxing ring, and we're just going to chomp. We're going to chomp, chomp, and chomp. And that's what Florida does. Dusty May told me a story about a month ago. Oh, I like this. And he said that when he was working with Mike White, that they determined going big was going to win in college basketball. The NBA is about three-point shooting, and we're seeing more traditional bigs now because it's ebbs and flows of a sport. But in the college game, which has inconsistencies in the shot-making department, it's gotten a lot better. The offense has never been better in college basketball than it is now. It's great to watch. But the bigger teams are the ones who can win it all. Michigan, Florida. You ask a Yukon right now what their concern is, it's that they don't have a Donovan, Klingon, Adama Sunogo type duo. The big teams get it done.

Yeah. I mean, we saw Klingon versus Ed. That was That was a real thing. Yeah. All right, Johnny, I got one last question for you. It's a rowback question. Robackkwestion, rhobackk. Com, promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q-zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, rowbackk. Com, promo code take. One of my favorite things you do is the Big East spaces. I have a question off of that. What's going on with Providence right now? Because I think you and I both agree, we love Providence Twitter. They're a very passionate fan base. It's been a little embarrassing, not the fans, but the play. Kim English, it seems like it's ending here. But the fact that they've had these moments where it's been all about revenge and it's not been about winning basketball games, it's been tough for them. I want Providence to be good. I want that fan base to have a good product on the court. That scene on Saturday was a joke.

That scene on Saturday was embarrassing, and it was a moment there where Duncan Powell does something that's egregious. For as mad as people can be about Bryce Hopkins, and I'm not saying that you can't be angry, what you never want your emotion to do is keep you from fighting to win a game. I think what was hardest about that was, Providence was winning at the time. It's almost like that became more important than winning. That's not the Friar town that I know, because the Friar town I know is passionate of fan base. They have terrific resources, awesome facility. What they need right now is they need some leadership and accountability for what they're putting on the court. The Hopkins thing aside, they're not winning. That is at its core, you are asked to win basketball games. And for what they spent on their roster, which is at least $9 million, the product has not been good enough. And defensively, they haven't been there. Saturday, though, was the culmination of where they're at right now, emotionally. And here's my thing, guys. Duncan Powell never played a game with Bryce Hopkins. He never played a game with him.

I don't even know if he knows the guy. But where does the vitriol and the hatred, how does that start? And how does that come into what happened on Saturday? Well, that starts with leadership. So clearly, He's being told about how much he's supposed to dislike this guy, and then he does something that ruined their chances of winning the game. If you don't like what a player did, good. Glad you don't like it. Sports is better when there's dislike. Not saying you should like it. But you know how you answer him? You win the freaking game.

Yeah, I agree. They were up. It's crazy. Having a good team on the court should matter more than anything else.

You know what, Big Cat? It's not You guys, we all get into this doomsday, death. Everything's done. Everything's over. Guys, in this day and age of college basketball, even for a Kansas State, you make a change, you got the right amount of money, you're going to be fine. You get off the mat if you hire the right person. For Providence, they have some very difficult decisions to make here in the coming weeks. But those difficult decisions got made a lot easier. Here with a scene like Saturday.

Agreed. Fax. All right, Johnny, my last question for you. If I were to ask you, gun to your head, double barrel at your head,Fingers off the trigger. Makes sure the safety off. The safety is off, but my finger is not on the trigger. What conference is the national championship coming from this year?

It's tough. The Big Ten. Okay. Oh,okay. All right. Finally going to happen. Badgers, 150 to one.

You didn't ask me who.

Nebraska.

I love the Big Ten. I think I'm going to predict a Big Ten, Big 12 title game would be cinema because those two leads have the most candidates for it.

What if Nebraska went from never winning a game to just winning the Championship this year?

Then Signetti or Hoiberg?

Yeah. Right. Yeah, exactly. All right. Well, Johnny, you're the best. We love you. Have fun on the call. Everyone should tune in, UCLA versus Michigan State. We'll talk to you in a couple of weeks when we get brackets.

See you guys real soon and get ready because we're in for a hell of a ride.

Love it.

And you're coming to Max's bachelor party.

I will be at the Sphere rocking the fish.

Yeah. Kevin Willard was at your wedding.

And he's coming to the bachelor Yeah, he's invited.

Actually, that would be how you get us, too, because now we're complicit. Every time we compliment him, we have to say, Yeah, he went to Max's bachelor party.

Asterisk, we were with him at the same bachelor party.

Done. All right, let's do it. All right, thanks, Johnny.

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Okay, let's finish up the show. We got Guys on Olympics. Hank, get us through this with your voice. You got this. I'm going to find a short one.

What sport would become the most watched if they allowed trash talk during competition? Instant thought would be biathlon, maybe a physical aspect as well.

Figure skating would be sick if you let the other teams basically stand on the boards and talk shit during their routine.

Or they were on the ice at the same time. Yeah. Like dancing at the same time. Yeah. And then you could fight.

Doing Euros on them.

Tom Wilson was on one of the teams.

I do love the curling like shit talk because you could tell it's not supposed to happen. But I think it would be awesome if it's curling because you're right next to each other and they're not out of breath. So it's like the perfect spot for some true shit talk.

All right, so this would be awesome if you had Luj, but you win at the same time.

Yes. Like race cars. Like race cars.

Yeah. Or like bobsled. You go at the same time. Tokyo Drift, you do the pit maneuver, send somebody over the edge.

I'd also like to see the step off challenge in the golf tee boxes. Having that for the ski jump would be good. As he's standing there ready to just go down the hill, just a bunch of dudes just busting them up bad.

You know what would rock? If they did ski jumping, like the dunk contest where you had Shaq standing like 90 yards down the hill. You had to clear. And you had to just clear Shaq's head just barely over Shaq.

Yeah, or just a bunch of cars.

Yeah, cars. A hundred cars. Cars would be awesome.

Here's a short one. Hank couldn't meddle in a single woman's event.

I agree with that. What? What could you meddle in?

Slalom. Ski slalom.

No chance.

You went with ski slalom?

That's the last one. Not in men's, but women's. No way.

The only thing you'd have a chance in is you'd have to do a looge or a bobsled where your weight is an advantage. Slum, your knees would explode.

No, I think Hank could do it. Men Slum. Yeah, Men Slum. Oh, okay. Men Slum, you'd have no shot competing against men, but competing against women and their little knees. You got man knees.

I wonder if lose you would be competitive just purely weight.

Yeah, the skeleton I could do. Yeah.

No problem.

Although I'm not that fast.

You're not running. You're laying down. You are just start. You'd be laying down.

Isn't the whole thing the push? Do you not listen to him?

Yeah, I guess you do some push. Push is a lot of it.

Push is everything.

What about mobile?

Were you about to say, Did you not listen to yourself? You're the one who said, Bob Slough. How could you possibly think that you could... No, Slawm, he would talk to you.

Slawm, are you A good skier?

No, pretty good skier.

No, he's not. Max is not understanding.

It's women's sport. It's not men's Slalom.

Yeah, it's women's slaw. Hank would dominate.

There's just no possible way.

You don't get it, Max.

I would love to see this. That looks like men's slaw that you're showing. Yeah, you don't even have to go around the poles.

Show a woman.

This is men's slum.

Bring up a video of a woman, Max.

Hank concedes that men's slum, he would get dominant.

You just skied straight into the polls and you're good.

The Olympics sucks. They just don't give any highlights for anything. It's so stupid.

It's so hard.

Why do they do that? Why not make it something that people want to watch and go, Oh, I sell that event. Let me go check it out.

Oh, man. Here we go. Wait, the women's giant slalom, Hank?

I wonder if you could win women's ski jump. You could probably dominate that, too, because you go so fast.

Just the distance. I actually think Hank could be like the Jesse Owens of women's Olympic sports. Yeah. I feel like he would... There's probably like 12 or 13 of him. Women's slalom. Yeah. Women's slob. Yeah, women.

How did you go to this first?

This is women's.

Look how slow they're going.

Max, these are chicks, okay?

I don't think you get it, Max.

Hank would dominate these.

Dude, you just turned. It's a little left, a little right.

Oh, man.

You ever seen a woman try to drive, Max? Hank would dominate.

Hank would cut those corners so much better.

Again, I'm not being cocky.

Men's not at no- Men's, you get wasted. But women's, the turns are not that hard.

That's nice and easy.

You would eat so much shit. I want to see you slow.

Lindsay Vaugh. I want to see you slow.

Lindsay Vaugh did it with no ACL.

What about moguls? Because she got to dominate moguls.

No, she didn't.

She crashed.

Her leg bone broke through the side of her knee.

Could you do moguls?

Yeah. Yeah, easy. Hank is a mogul. Women's moguls. You kidding me?

You just show up. You don't even have to compete.

They're like, Oh, you're the one. Yeah, mogul. Mogul's here.

Okay.

The Winter Olympics suck because there are very few head-to-head sports. Everything is a time trial. I agree with you. If you had downhill skiing with eight people lined up, it would be one of the top events. Similarly, if you had sprinting or swimming in the summer as time trials instead of head-to-head, no one would watch. Yeah.

That's why lose it. You go head to head and lose. You go head to head and bobsled.

That's correct. That's a great take.

I've been thinking more about it. Basketball should be a Winter Olympics sport.

Yeah, I guess it's-100%. Technically, all the events have to have snow or ice. That's why it's not.

The woke NBA won't go for that. Got it.

My Olympic take. Everyone always brings up putting an average Joe in an event to see how good the athletes really are Instead, I propose putting athletes in a different sport in the same discipline. I want to see the Tuchuk brothers figure-skating pairs, throw McDavid on some short track speed-skating. Let's see if Elia Melinen can rip a slap shot, give Makela Schiff Frin, some cross country skis in a gun. I don't know what the curlers could do. Maybe Tchouk them in a bobsled.

I like this. I like that, too. I also think that they should take one... Every hockey team should have to have one figure skater on their squad, and they have to play six minutes.

Or Speed Skater.

I know. I think figures just to see guys get jacked up. Just the most brutal collisions you've ever seen.

Or they triple Lindy or triple Watts.

They do something crazy. Yeah.

I like that rule.

All right, last one. Part of my Olympic take, they should actually remove the condoms as a whole to encourage the athletes to continue to create world-class athletes. This way, ensuring another generation of incredible sports entertainment.

Yeah, a little lightweight eugenics. I like it.

Yeah, just get some really athletic babies. When I was looking up the speed skating, the Dutch women are attractive.

I'll just say That.

And there are great athletes. Great athletes first, attractive second. Shout out Jake Paul. Shout out Jake Paul. Shout out Jake Paul. Who's dating or married to one of them?

Also, something weird happened to his Twitter. He wanted to apologize for that.

Yeah, he has no idea what happened.

He stands with that.

He loves Bad Bunny. Loves him. Okay. Good show, boys.

Also, it looks like we're going to play Sweden. Sweden is up 3-1 right now.

Okay.

When's that game? Thursday?

Wednesday. Oh, bring it.

Wednesday.

It's Wednesday?

Wait, it's tomorrow? Wait.

Oh, nice. Right? Yeah, Wednesday.

Yeah, it's Wednesday, Friday, Sunday.

They got back to backs.

All right, so we're going to probably, hopefully, have a preview of the final four from Biz or Wit on Friday show.

The women's gold medal game is Thursday.

Women had to light up a goal. That one, I saw the graphic that UW Madison posted. There's 11 Badgers combined on both sides. I love that. So going to win no matter what. I love that. There's like six and five.

Hank would dominate women's hockey.

Oh, yeah. They don't check.

No. I'm not a great skater.

That's really humble. All right, numbers. Two. 23. Go quick.

69. Seventy-one. 17.

86.

72.

Eighty-six for Shane, 72 for Jack, 10 for Colton.

Twenty-six.

Twenty-six.

Close to 56. Close to 56.

Love you guys.

Not even close. Shane's looking like he got eating his shit.

Any birthdays? People give me so mad at the women's law.

Any birthdays?

Any birthdays they're asking?

Oh, any birthdays? No, nobody was born today.

Happy birthday, Michael Jordan today.

Nobody was born today.

Nobody was born today.

Today's his birthday.

Michael Jordan is born today. And Jerry O'Kunal, yeah. Jerry O'Kunal, it was also his birthday. But We already wish Jerry a happy birthday. Jerry, your birthday present is in the mail. I got the last one sent back to me. Love you guys.