Transcript of Live From Max's Bachelor Party, Sixers Take Down Celtics, Jerry O'Connell And Dante The Don Join The Show, NBA/NHL Playoffs Plus Max's Brothers New

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Hell of a game.

We got the D'Alente brothers on at the end of the show. We got some awesome stories. It's gonna be a little bit chaotic. Max might be drunk right now, that's fine. Just a disclaimer, I'm battling. He's battling.

I was drunk when we first started recording and now I'm hungover. Now I'm trying to get drunk again.

It's gonna be a hell of a show. It's gonna be a hell of a show.

I've never seen one man fight so hard.

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Today is Monday, May 4th, and boys, it was a hell of a basketball game.

It was a hell of a basketball game. Joel Embiid legacy game. Sixers win in 7. Yeah, we're here in Vegas for Max's bachelor party. Hank, why don't we start— you know what, no, no, let's start with The Bachelor. Yeah, it was a hell of a weekend for The Bachelor.

I would like to start with Hank.

All right, well, if The Bachelor wants to start with Hank, we got to start with Hank. It's your way, it's your weekend still, Max.

I would like to start with Hank.

Okay, you got the floor.

Let's start with Hank.

All right, so first hole, I kind of dumped the first shot. Second one, breakfast ball, hit a good one in the fairway. It was, it was a grind out there, but the bachelor party was just unbelievable. Like, my, my My experience was fantastic.

Talking to the mic.

Max just hit you with a silent talk in the mic.

What?

You could— you have a mic too. You could talk into—

but I want to let him know to talk into the mic.

That also works.

Yeah, I wasn't talking to the mic. Talking to the mic now. Uh, yeah, anything, whatever. Celtics.

What do you mean, whatever? Hank, we gotta talk about the game. Hank, let me just ask you one thing before we go any further.

What you meant when you wanted me—

before we go any further, this man needs to be wet. Oh, he does. This man needs to go get wet.

Go get wet.

It's soggy, soggy.

Go get wet.

We'll wait.

He needs to be wet.

This man needs to be wet.

He needs to be dry.

Way too dry.

Get out of here.

Uh, all right, let's talk about— let's talk about the Sixers.

I would love to talk about the Sixers.

So Max, uh, the 76ers win a Game 7 in Boston. Joel Embiid, incredible. Tyrese Maxey, insane. Tyrese Maxey, those last two, that, that was the difference is like the Sixers have been in this spot before in the playoffs and it's been on Joel Embiid's shoulders. This time Joel Embiid was fantastic, but when you have two possessions at the end of the game that are like gotta-have-it possessions, it's Tyrese Maxey's team. And he went to the hoop and he just— you— no one can stay in front of him. He was awesome all series. The Sixers are good, Max.

Tyrese Maxey is a top 10 player in the NBA. Okay, they're— it's I think it's pretty hard to debate right now otherwise because he has done it all year. He— like, the Sixers have been in such a horrendous spot from the start of this season of like everyone— they haven't— they— the, the top 4, Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey, Paul George, VJ Edgecombe, played 16 games together before, before these playoffs started. So it, it was tough to like really judge what this Sixers team was going to be once the playoffs started because we haven't seen them. And Tyrese Maxey has been the constant of this team all year, of like keeping them afloat, keeping them afloat. When Joel went down, when Paul George got suspended, it was Tyrese Maxey, was Tyrese Maxey. And in the regular season, it's hard to judge whether someone is a top-tier player or if it's just the team sucks, somebody's got to score, you know?

Yeah.

Like, it's—

Oh, he's squeaking.

He's squeaking.

His sandals are squeaking on the way back in.

He's a wet boy.

He looks soggy. Soggy, soggy.

I think, Hank, I think you might be the wettest guy we've ever had on the show.

That's real soggy.

Yeah, I'm going to be freezing now.

Yeah.

You got the wet t-shirt going on.

But what I was saying is, like, you see Tyrese Maxey putting up these numbers in the regular season and you're like, oh, this guy's great. But you can't really judge a player, I think, until playoff time. And this series, he proved himself to be a top 10 player in the NBA.

46 to 9 assist turnover ratio in this series.

Insane. And it was—

yeah, at the, at the end of the game, what he was doing was something that you haven't seen from the Sixers in years past, where he was, like Big Cat said, going, attacking the basket. It's such a better option if you have a guy that can get past that initial defender and then make somebody either commit to him foul him or give up, like, leave their guy and then Maxie will hit that guy. It's, it's such a better way to attack the rim that way at the end of the game than what the Sixers have done in years past. It was a cool— it was an awesome game.

First of all, great, great basketball game.

Great basketball.

You said, you said we want Boston. Yeah, you got Boston.

I didn't, to be fair.

Yeah.

I'm not going to say that I was in that position being like, we want Boston. I actually hated that.

Yeah.

When in the playing game we were saying we want Boston.

Oh, I love it now. I set the line.

I love it now.

I set the line at 2.5 on Twitter before we started.

2.5 what?

Hiccups.

Oh, we're hammering the over.

Hammer the over.

But I, I love that we've been talking about Tyrese Maxey. Tyrese Maxey deserves his flowers.

But I have another Tyrese Maxey. So Tyrese Maxey and Joel Embiid are the third duo in NBA history to each go 25, 10, and 5 in a Game 7. They were both incredible. Also want to hear a crazy stat? From 1983 through Game 1 of this series, the Sixers had won 3 playoff games total in Boston. In the last 12 days, they won 3 playoff games in Boston.

Wow.

Incredible game.

That's a crazy stat.

Incredible game. Can I talk— can we talk about Joel Embiid now?

Yeah, sure. Legacy. You said he changed his legacy as a player to win that first-round series.

See, this is— whoa, what? Don't get No, but the way that he emphasized first round series—

wait, wait, wait.

Fact or fiction? It was a first round series.

I was saying he won the first round series.

Fact.

Correct.

Right.

The Celtics were -900 to win this, this series.

That's facts.

This is the first time. This is the first time. What was that face?

It is still the first round.

Yes.

And we're still going like this. Like the fact that the Celtics fans are being like, oh, it's only the first round. It's only the first round. Yes. You lost in the first round. You were favorites to win the Eastern Conference. You were -900 to win this series.

Good thing I cashed out bet my future on the Celtics.

Yeah, this was an excellent, okay, excellent series for the Philadelphia 76ers.

Everything you're saying, I—

here's my only question. Not like, yes, Joel Embiid has won first-round series plenty of times, but it says the 1 seed going against the 8. He was a 7 going against the, the favorite to win the East. They were -900 to win this series.

I'm not—

Celtics were -900.

I'm not taking anything away from Joel. It was an incredible series, him coming back after the appendectomy and being like the most dominant guy, which also, Hank, we got to talk about. I don't really understand like, hey, let's put Jaylen Brown and like Luka Garza on, or what was the other guy's name?

Hugo Gonzalez.

Hugo Gonzalez on, on, on Joel Embiid.

They had no answer and they kind of just said, fuck it, like, let's just, let's just throw him off.

He was like, he, he was just a man amongst boys. Yeah, I'm just asking, Max, is the only question. And again, I think that we all, all do because like If you look across the NBA, these have been wild playoffs. People are just trashing Jokic, which we got to talk a little. We got to give the Timberwolves some flowers because we recorded before that on Thursday night. They're trashing Jokic, they're trashing, you know, like whatever. It's just like they're trashing Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Do you think though, maybe if the Sixers don't beat the Knicks, this first round series didn't change his legacy?

Good question.

See, people keep asking that.

Job's not finished. If he goes deep in the playoffs, I agree. Like, like, if he goes to the NBA Finals here, I 100% on board. Like, that was incredible. Like, taking this team, it's been a long time, he finally came through. And again, he did come through unbelievably well in this series. He was a complete difference maker. Makes guys like Hank, who are like, I'm actually happy that he's back, like, he's— the Sixers are worse with him. Hank, you did say that. You and Peyton Pritchard.

Yeah, listen, but, but to your point, legacy is about 10 years down the line when people are talking about, oh, remember the Sixers? Like, in 10 years, people are gonna be like, yeah, Sixers never got it done, but they beat the fucking Celtics when they were big underdogs. Like, that, that's like, that, that, that it matters. But when you talk about legacy, it's not—

I see, it's not gonna change.

I'm with Max.

I disagree. You lose because no one gives a fuck.

Statement of Joel Embiid is that he's never been able to do it in big games.

It's—

no, it's, it's the—

no, that's it.

The meme is second round of the playoffs. That's the meme. That's the— that's what people say. I'm not saying the second round—

I'm not saying last night didn't help him. It obviously was, and what he did was incredible. I'm saying it's like to be determined. It's not— you can't, you can't be like this is definitive, this has changed everything. It's to be determined.

This is what I want to say about it. This is what I want to say.

And the Sixers are playing great basketball.

I don't think that it has changed his legacy of like, oh, Joel Embiid is now a clutch player. I don't think that it is now Joel Embiid is now a playoff player, but it has definitely changed his legacy as far as he is not a negative.

I got—

because that has been— that has been the Joel Embiid, is that, yeah, once the playoffs come around, he is a negative. That— it, it is now moved into the, into the factor of, okay, he just did—

I got you—

against the the favorites to win the East.

I think what we're looking for— and I'm happy we hashed this out because again, we're all very hungover or drunk— uh, I think Joel Embiid narrative shifting.

Shifting but not shifting.

Yes, shifting. I-N-G is different than E-D.

Yes. And that's all I'm saying. Yeah, no, narrative shifting for sure, because the narrative on Joel Embiid has always been he's a bad playoff player.

Narrative shift.

Now it is moving towards a—

correct.

Because of that. Like, it's not that he's a clutch playoff player now, it is that he has now shown that he's not like just a regular season choker.

I like that. I feel like we're good.

I think we're in a good spot.

7 was something that we haven't seen from before. Yeah, in terms of like kind of being a dog, like, like yelling at, at Jaylen Brown, like getting really into it, hitting the floor. There was actually a time I thought he was dead.

On the sidelines.

He was getting like his arm stretched out and his leg stretched out. And then I was like, okay, well, Joel Embiid's dead. Let's see who can step up. And then boom, resurrection. Came back in that mid-range.

Yeah, that mid-range that he has right now is a layup. It's a fucking layup. It is, you know it.

And then it is, it is.

You guys just kept giving it to him and he just kept hitting it like it was a fucking layup.

Playoff E. So Hank, you're back. Soggy sorrows. Can we talk about the Celtics?

Yeah.

Celtics are fucked.

Going forward, you're fucked. Please, Hank, assess that statement.

I don't think the Celtics are fucked. I think they had their chances to win that game. They had open shots that they missed. Payton Pritchard missed that corner 3 wide open.

Question.

Sam Hauser had a look underneath the basket. He was wide open and it was a bad pass. He dropped it out of bounds.

Question.

Those are the breaks, you know, the 50-50 balls that you got to hit to win a game and they just— Question. They missed them all. And they went down way too low.

I have a question.

After Big Cat asks his question.

I have a question.

I have a question. I cede my time to Big Cat.

Was Game 6 in this series the last time we will see Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown play together?

Great question. Great question, Big Cat.

I think not. I think they'll be—

Are you excited? All-Star Games don't count.

No, I think, I think they're, I think they're going to play.

Are you excited about—

I think they're going to play together next year. I think that's, I think that's just they lost the game and let's just be as dramatic as humanly possible and start these things. I don't think that's going to happen.

But where is the future of the Boston Celtics right now?

Championships.

How, how do you get there?

Making shots.

Please raise your hand, Max. We have a lot of people with their hands raised.

We need size. We need some, some more dynamic offense.

Zach, Hugo's big.

So if you, if you, you do see them playing together long term, if you were to, if you were to move away from one of them, who would you rather stay on the team?

Great question.

Zach?

Uh, I, I mean, that's, that's an impossible question. That's like, I think when you have something that's as successful— no, it's like Big Cat or PFT. It's like they're both, they're both essential to, to the team being successful. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna make a choice.

We play winning basketball together.

So do, so does Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum. I think they're probably the most successful combination, like, duo in the last 10 years.

But you no longer have Jrue Holiday, you no longer have Kristaps Porzingis, you no longer have Al Horford. The rest of the Celtics team is bad.

Yeah, you got Keita. You went from out to Keita and Bailey Sharman.

Bad.

The rest of Celtics, bad rookie. I mean, he's a rookie.

What do you expect?

I think he's a rookie. Yeah.

Question.

Yeah.

Can you assess the postgame comments from Jaylen Brown as they pertain to Joel Embiid? When they asked him about the game, he said Joel Embiid was also flopping around. They rewarded him for that. But that's the league that we're in.

I mean, sour grapes. I will say, like, I got to put my hand up on that one. That is, that is sour grapes.

That is loser talk.

You just lost game game 7 and to go and then not complain, but kind of bitch him on that. That is a little bit of loser talk, but that you, no one's, no one's a good, no one's a good loser. People are sore losers. That's just, if you're a good competitor, you're going to be a sore loser. I would have said like, don't go on Twitch, but like, just gave Hank the finger. What?

Memes just flipped Hank off. I just wanted to put that out there for the listeners.

It's kind of a tattletale move on Max's part.

No, I liked it. I think Memes wanted the people to know that he's shaking He said yes, that he wanted the people to know that.

What I love about this scenario that we're in right now is because Hank is wet and the way that he's sitting and hunched over, you do look like you're a player giving a postgame press conference. Yeah, it's good right now. And we're all being the big J's.

Yeah, listen, we got some good shots out there and they just didn't fall. And then I liked our game plan and, you know, they played a better game. But yeah, it is when you lose game 7, you start bitching about the refs, you start bitching about flopping. Like that is, again, I'll say it for any player that's ever played, like that's loser talk. You, if you win the game, it's not a problem.

Ever—

that shit happens in every NBA game that's ever been played. So I don't condone that.

Zach, are you worried that he may be spending too much time on Twitch as opposed to on the basketball court?

Yeah, no. Coming from you, no.

Okay, good question. Um, Hank, can you—

I just didn't back up.

Can you—

Zach, hold on.

Zach, uh, curious, uh, we've seen Tatum's play post-injury clearly not the same as he used to be.

Sorry, continue.

Do you think he'll ever get back to where he was pre-injury?

Yes, Zach.

He got—

he tore his Achilles a year ago. He was, he was putting up fantastic numbers in the playoffs.

Do you think he played? Yes.

To answer your question, yes.

Do you think he played too many minutes?

No, I, I'm happy that he's like— I, I obviously wish he was playing. I wish he was healthy. But the way that he got injured in Game 6, when it's like, yeah, your Achilles and then you hurt your calf, I think that's a better safe than sorry to sit. I'm like, when they, when the initial injury report came out that he was like, there's no injuries on the injury report. I was like, that seems crazy because he definitely was hurt. So it sucked that he wasn't able to play, but I'm happy he did.

Zach.

Just curious, Hank, now you had some time to think about this, this series. What does it mean for you moving forward as a Boston Celtics fan?

What is what?

Good question.

Good question, Zach. Good question, Zach.

Good question, Zach. Really good.

It hurts.

It hurts.

But we'll be back.

We'll be back stronger, better than ever. No, no doubt in this team. Pistons in 7. Uh, Max.

Oh, okay, Max.

Um, yep, that's you.

Max just called on himself.

He just had to reconfirm that is in fact him.

I am in fact Max. Um, by the way, alcohol is working again. I was—

there we go.

I was hungover to start. Now, now I'm back in. Um, are you upset that— I know that you haven't said it yet, and I actually have been waiting for you, and I respect that you haven't— that because Jason Tatum sat Game 7, that you can't use that as an excuse because Joel Embiid sat the first 4 games?

Good question.

Really good question.

No.

Would you be using that as an excuse if Joel Embiid didn't sit the first 4 games?

Yes.

No, because he didn't, he didn't, he didn't play a lot of this year. It's like he, he, he, he obviously tore his Achilles. So it's like this team made it as far as they did kind of without Jason Tatum. Obviously played the last like 25 games or so. But if it was like all season long and then he didn't play Game 7, yes. But this year it's a little bit different. Eric, PFT.

Yeah, Hank, PFT commenter, part of my take. Do you regret drinking champagne the night before Game 7 on the airplane.

Good question.

The very same thing we maligned Max for the night before the Super Bowl in Arizona, sipping champagne. Eagles go on to lose heartbreaking fashion. Hank Lockwood drinking champagne proudly on an airplane, and then the Celtics going on to lose Game 7, blow a 3-1 lead.

Yeah, listen, I'll put my hand up. I, uh, I was not thinking about that. We got on the plane, me and PFT were sitting next to each other, hiccups, and I was, I was excited to get to Vegas. I was excited for Max. I was excited for the bachelor party. I was distracted. I was not thinking. And, and we were in first class and they come around and offer you, it was sparkling wine, so a little bit different, uh, but they offered that to you and I just wasn't thinking about it. I said, yes, we're going to Vegas. It's Friday night. We're not working tonight. Like, yeah, I'll, I'll pop off. I'll get a little, get it going. And even though they don't celebrate winning the first round of the, of an NBA playoff series with champagne, so it's not directly related. I do regret it. Yes.

Okay, that's your question?

Yes, I do regret it.

Credit to Hank stepping up. Accountability is spelled H-A-N-K.

Uh, PFT, come on, dude.

Uh, yeah, I'd like to cede my, I'd like to cede my question time to Big Cat.

Hey, uh, I Could you just talk about a stat? Celtics -66 with Jaylen Brown on the floor over the last 3 games, +26 without. Please talk about it.

Oh, that's an insane stat.

Yeah, I did not—

that's that.

I mean, it was, it was obviously ugly.

That's bad, dude.

I didn't want to bring that up, but I had really bad—

since you're in the postgame, we have to talk about the stats.

-66.

26 and plus 26 without.

Wait, how many games?

The last 3 games.

Those are probably Hugo's minutes. That's when he gets in.

Yeah, it was ugly basketball. The last 3 games were, were atrocious. They had a 10-point lead in the, in the fourth quarter, end of the third quarter.

And oh, there's a great screenshot out there of like the Celtics up 3-1 in the third, in the third quarter, up 13, and they lost this series.

It's, uh, the, the game 6 and 7, it felt like we were like like we, we were the underdog in those two games. Like, it just never felt like we had a chance. And yeah, it was bad.

It was really minus 900, minus 900 to start the series, minus 2,200 after.

Can I read another stat?

Minus 2,200.

I'd like to cede my question time to Big Cat.

Uh, this actually isn't a stat. I just want to read a list of 5 names I'd like you to comment. Sure. Uh, Jalen Brown, Derek White, Bailey Shireman, Ron Harper Jr., and Luka Garza. Celtics starting 5 for Game 7. Yeah, that's the curveball.

That's a curveball.

That's a curveball. What was going through your head when, when you saw that?

It's Game 7, anything could happen. I would, I would like, I would die for Joe Mazzulla. I clearly thought he was gonna throw.

We do love Joe Mazzulla.

So I actually don't think, I don't blame Joe Mazzulla.

We will not be a Joe Mazzulla slander podcast. Yeah, he had no I told you when you, when you guys traded for Vooch, he sucks and he didn't play.

Yeah, no, he was bad.

The fact that Mazzulla got the Celtics to where they were in the regular season is a testament.

That actually is a very good—

because they were a very bad team.

They were— I've got it.

They were a team—

important question, but can I say Joe Mazzulla real quick? Joe Mazzulla, very good guy. People are shitting on him. The Celtics were not that good this year. They had a really good bench, which is not a really good bench, does not translate to the playoffs. The fact they Got to 50 wins, second seed, is a testament to Joe Mazzulla, right? Your flaws come out when you're in the playoffs.

Yeah, yeah. So Hank—

Zach, hold on, Zach's got a question.

Will you be in the upcoming series— will you be rooting for the Sixers to use the best team beat us cope, or will you like to see them lose?

Oh, good question.

No, I just want maximum pain. I've given up just pain. Like, I don't really— don't care. Like, I want like a, a bloody just back and forth brawl.

Yes, whoever wins the game, I just want Olympic—

no, I'm talking about Max and Memes. I'm not talking about the game.

This is—

I know, but are you rooting for me?

To be clear, he is rooting for Max.

Like Connor and Christopher.

Yes, Connor. Connor, Connor, two Cs.

I want whoever walks away from this series to be like limping on like one leg with like both their eyes, you know, black eyes and bleeding and bruised. I don't care who wins. Yeah, I just wanted to, to go 7 games and just be maximum amounts of, of pain for whoever loses.

I have a question for outside of this room.

Cool.

How can I answer that?

Somebody out of there, get me another beverage.

Oh, okay. That's good. That's also inside this room.

Outside of this room.

We're in a room together.

I would just like— I'm—

Max, Max.

Now I'm starting to feel good again.

And Max's question was, I would like another beer.

15.

It's a good question.

Good question. Uh, yeah, Hank, serious question. Why are you letting this get you down, dude? Like, this was a gap year.

Good question.

The Celtics weren't supposed to do anything this year.

It was like going— it was like going to Europe instead of going to college.

This is a free roll. It's a gap year.

It doesn't matter.

No, some things are bigger than sports.

Some things are very bigger than years and personnel, individual.

You play the Sixers in the playoffs, you gotta win, and if you don't, it sucks, especially when you're favorites. I like that. This whole We've been in Vegas, we've been having a good time. It's been a welcome distraction. But going back and watching, like, when every night of this series, I'm— it's just gonna be like a lot of deep sighs and shaking my head.

I—

one thing I haven't seen, I'm sure that Memes is hard, hard at work on this, is Hank said a lot of stuff. Hank said a lot of stuff about the Philadelphia 76ers. Yeah, going into this series. Yeah, even after the first game. You said a lot of things.

I said the same things.

Have you revisited any of those things?

No.

I do have a question.

Good answer.

Okay, have you thought about everything you got wrong?

No, it bothered me.

I would—

I wouldn't be on this Earth anymore if the things that I got wrong on this show—

good point—

got up like—

I like got upset by that.

Good point.

I'd be in a horrible spot.

That's a healthy way to go, Chrissy, if you don't mind. Yeah, Chrissy.

Have you thought about the anti-year of Hank?

So this was brought up after we were recording on Thursday night on Zoom. Unfortunately, we were doing it after— like, Shane was the one who put me on to this, and, uh, he was like, I— he was like, I'm starting to look like everything is going wrong for Hank.

I think Hank is the new Max.

And I started listing all the things, like losing the Super Bowl, uh, the Celtics losing the Live shutting down, the Red Sox stink, Duke. And then I said, and you're also suck as a lefty golfer. And then he immediately left the Zoom. That was too far. He was so pissed about that.

Lefty golfer thing was—

he was so mad about that last one.

Listen, this comes with the territory. Like, you're going to— you're going to have your ups, you're going to have your downs. And it's not about how you act when you're winning. It's about how you act when you're at your lowest. And I'm in a low point. It's bad. Like, things are bad. And that's when you got to dig deep and you got to fight through. Like, you're going to have—

also, the Bruins lost.

We forgot about it. Yeah, who knows? Who knows? Yeah, fuck ESPN. Fuck their little gone fishing graphic. I hope they get sued into oblivion.

Uh, well, who's on it?

Sucks. Pieces of shit. And yeah, it's just a big Bill Simmons fan. Uh, but yeah, this sucks.

And Bill Simmons.

Yeah, get his ass, Max. Max listens. Max is like, he listened. Shout out to Locked On Celtics, guys. Giving me all the recaps.

I just, I've been listening to all the Celtics fans' podcasts throughout the past couple games, and after Game 6, Bill Simmons started talking about the game, and he was, he, he just within 30 seconds started going about how disappointing it is about Jason Tatum being hurt. And then his co-host was like, are you just not going to talk about how they just got their shit kicked in by the Sixers in Game 6? And he was— and he was like, all right, fine, we can get to that.

Max is going revenge podcasting, which I highly encourage. I mean, that's a lot of people use this show like people are listening right now and they're doing the Leo meme like me because they're listening as revenge to Hank.

Locked on Celtics. Excellent pod.

Excellent pod.

I haven't listened to the Game 7 recap yet because I've been fucked up ever since that game ended.

But it's not really a podcast.

The Locked On Celtics guy has been awesome. My favorite part about Locked On Celtics guy is that after Game 6, I was looking for to be mad at him and then I just agreed with everything that he was saying. He was so mad at the Celtics and he kept being like, I'm so sick of Jaylen Brown pushing off on every play. And I was like, fuck yeah, dude. Fuck yeah. Because every Celtics fan is like, oh, this is bullshit. They keep calling it. And Locked on Celtics guy, Locked on Celtics guy was like, Jalen Brown, they're going to call it. Stop fucking pushing off on every possession.

Yeah.

And I appreciate Locked on Celtics guy for that. I don't know your name. Shout out Locked on Celtics guy.

Shout out.

Yeah. For me? No, actually not a question, Frank, but would you like to call me the longest podcast? Yeah.

Yeah.

People want to have a question for Zach.

Zach, as a Knicks fan, What are your honest thoughts about facing off against the 76ers? Because let me just say that, like, I've heard Memes say on the show more than a few times that the, the New York Knicks were built to beat the Celtics. They're not going to play the Celtics, they're going to play the 76ers. Are you beat to— are you built to beat the 76ers?

So, so it was a lot.

Sit down on that couch right there for this conversation.

It was a lot of fun to watch everybody get together, the competitiveness in the room on Game 7 Celtics Sixers. That was great, great energy in the, in the building. Uh, it was a first-round series, and the way the Knicks are playing, either of those teams, I think we just, we may walk through them.

Wow, walk through it.

Zach, I have a question for you.

Yeah, go. Sounds like you had a good question.

You just played the Hawks.

That is true, we did just defeat the Hawks in the round, in round one.

Who is the Hawks' best player?

We just defeated the Hawks.

My question is for both Knicks fans in this room. Who is the Hawks' best player?

I don't think it's fair for you to say— to try to diminish our win.

It's a simple question.

I enjoyed your win in 7. Our win in 6 was in shorter amount of games. I'm looking forward to our series, Max. And the best player on the Hawks, they're all on vacation right now.

Yeah, so it doesn't matter.

CJ McConnell is the best player on the Hawks.

Yes! And we didn't just beat Hawks— We handled Hawkz? Yeah... Would you say it changed Jalen Brunson's legacy?!

No, past 3 years have change his life since he has been healthy fully healthyy that was jst layup to talk about so u could stay they win against Celtics when were completely healthy okay congrats but ur saying like took care of Hawx nope your saind hawks said nno nononono nono we handled the Hawks.

You were, you were in all those games. That's a lie. No, they did.

No, when were the Celtics in any of those games?

Last night. Last night was, I mean, it was a one-point game.

It was a great game.

It was a great game. What about the other two games when we won by— the Celtics didn't even play their starters in the fourth quarter. What do you mean?

Nick won by 70. You didn't really handle them in the last game.

Okay, one game. You lost two games.

See, he lost 3.

Those 5 games, fully healthy, fully healthy. The Sixers are fully healthy. This is a better— the Sixers starting lineup is the best, is the best starting lineup in the East. It is, it is. All right, bet, bet, bet. We're going to kick the shit out of you guys.

We'll see.

It's gonna be a 5-game series. You guys have to play Tibbs ball to even beat us. It's The fact that we're even doing this right now when it should be on Hank is bullshit.

Yeah, Hank's loving this. It's the biggest lifeboat ever.

It will be fun. It's over. I'm excited for it to play out.

I like this. Connor, go out.

Who's guarding Tyrese Maxey?

Focusing on the past.

Jalen Brunson's not guarding Tyrese Maxey.

We have Josh Hart, Mikal Bridges, OG, take your pick.

You got a lot of guys.

Yeah, those are wing defenders, but yes.

You put OG on Paul George and then Derek White tried to guard—

he's the best guard defender in the NBA. Couldn't even come close.

Not even close.

Not even close, dude. All right, well, I can't wait.

Look forward to it.

Monday night.

Monday night.

You'll win Monday night. You will win Monday night. But I do think that we would— I— this is a— Sixers is a bad matchup for the Knicks.

How do we—

does this change, uh, Sam Hinkie's legacy?

Oh, let's save that for the Delonte brothers because they were, they were big time.

Okay, that's my first. Can I reserve a first question?

Yeah, yeah, they were getting in there.

All right, let's talk about it.

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They missed 23 shots in a row. They— I'll say it again, they missed 23 shots in a row spanning from 4:14 in the third quarter until 2:24 left in the fourth. Yes, they didn't make a single shot. I believe according to Stat Hold, the, the previous record actually still stands. It's held by the Oklahoma City Thunder, 24 consecutive misses against the Wizards in 2017. But 23 in a row, that is the most, um, I believe in playoff history. And it was just It was the ugliest display of basketball that I've ever seen, ever. Yeah.

And, uh, so then they lose in Game 7, and it really isn't about the Magic because I think the Magic, when they were healthy this year, when Franz was playing, like, they were— they, they showed it for a few games against the Pistons. We're like, this team actually could be good. The Pistons deserve all the credit in the world. They were down 3-1, they come all the way back. And if we're talking about legacies in the first round, Cade Cunningham, that's a, uh, like big leap, I feel like, for him because the way he played in those last 3 games was absolutely out of his mind. In the last 3 games, he went— so these are all elimination, they're about to be eliminated, they're down 3-1. He went 45-4-5, then he went 32-10 with 4 steals, then he went 32-12 assists, 2 blocks. He was insane. He had— he averaged 32 points, 7 assists, 5.5 rebounds. From like insane shooting numbers. He was the— he, he basically put the piss— he was like, we have to do— I have to be the guy and I am the guy. We're the 1 seed. And he deserves all the credit in the world.

Also Tobias Harris legacy game, Game 7, 30 points.

Yeah, that sucked.

Yeah, that was— but like I was— it was as much the, the, the Magic sucking at basketball. Also the Pistons defense is really, really good. But Kate Cunningham, that was my big takeaway. It's like, that's a guy franchise player, you're down 3-1, you're the 1 seed, can you fucking like nut up and be like, hey, this is my team, we're not losing in the first round?

Yeah, it's that we always say that you got to like learn how to, how to win the playoffs. Like young guys, young teams can't do it. Like right when they get—

it's a fact.

Yeah, if you're like a 1 or 2 or 3 seed, you get to the playoffs and your star is like 24 years old, 23 years old, you expect them to lose right away and then they'll figure out how to win if they lose enough in the playoffs. And then Cunningham, if you were we would have started to see the narrative be built around him at this point, even though the Pistons are like a deeply flawed team. I think, uh, congrats to them for winning, but I don't think that they're like a team that— what we saw from them in the first round, it's like, are you limited? If you can have Tobias Harris step up and have a crazy, crazy game, um, then yeah, you can compete with most teams in the East. But like, then again, you're, you're counting on Tobias Harris to do that repeatedly every single game. Um, but we can see that the Pistons aren't they don't appear to be as ready to win a championship as like we would think the Knicks might be right at this point. Um, but it means a lot for him to not get that hung around his neck of being like, right, possibly, uh, like, we're on narrative watch, right?

If he lost this game, if he had— if he had lost the series. And for a little bit it looked like they were going to, but they did the double guarantee. Yeah, Pistons, never doubt. Yeah, never doubt. But yeah, I feel like if the, if the Magic had won Game 7 That would have been crazy considering what we had seen from them in Game 6. I guess credit to the Magic for, for showing up Game 7, like, giving the Pistons all they could handle.

It sucks that— it sucks that Franz Wagner didn't play.

Yeah. Yeah, they're different.

I think they would have won Game 6 if Wagner played.

They're a different team.

That was— yeah, it was so bad. We did get an all-time Magic fan rant. Did you guys see this? The guy going down the escalator after the game? I'm gonna play it real quick. I love this guy. I just love it because it doesn't— that's not a— like, if I played you that clip, you'd be like as a Cleveland Browns fan.

Yeah.

Or like, I respect Magic fan, like a guy just ranting and screaming amongst a bunch of little kids going down an escalator after a game. Respect.

That's how you can truly measure how successful a franchise is. Like when the WNBA had all those off-the-court issues and like people getting pissed off about the stupidest stuff, I was like, that's actually a great sign for the league that people are arguing about, uh, about Angel Reese and care this deeply about about what a piece of shit some of her teammates are. Uh, when it, when it comes to the Orlando Magic, having a guy that is actually borderline insane screaming about the moves that the front office made, that's a very promising sign. Yes, that means like, yeah, they're on the up. Yeah, but yeah, I agree with Max. I think if, if Franz Wagner plays— his brother played, right? His brother played a little bit tonight.

Uh, he doesn't even—

yeah, yeah, but if, if Franz played, I, I do think it's probably a a slightly different story.

Well, it's just because they can't shoot. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Game 6, they had that game won. They like, if they just have one more guy, they win that game.

It was crazy. We also had the Lakers stave off the Rockets on Friday night. Credit to LeBron.

Maybe they were trying to hold off.

Yeah. Your conspiracy theory. I also will say that, like, the Lakers, they deserve a ton of credit for being a huge underdog, winning that series without Luka. I think they're probably going to get smashed by OKC, but it doesn't mean that that wasn't like an insane, insanely impressive series, especially from 41. That was the fourth, fourth, fourth, especially from a 41-year-old LeBron James.

What do you think is more impressive, LeBron James beating the KD-less Rockets in the first round of the playoffs, or me and Big Cat drinking two nights in a row on a bachelor party? As a 41-year-old, that's a good question. That's harder.

LeBron. What?

LeBron, you love it. Why are you giving LeBron's more impressive?

Yeah, I drank from 10 AM till 2 AM last night— yesterday.

Yeah, you guys haven't drank at all today.

Well, no, we're doing this podcast.

We knew you guys were going to be drunk.

Me and Big Cat were like, I think Hank and Max will— they'll be taking the, the events of the weekend a little bit harder than we will.

You, you— we were on like the 9th hole and we were kind of like, ah, should we have, should we have a couple drinks? And you texted the whole group, fair warning, I also will be drunk potting tonight. And we're like, well, we got to have some sobriety on the pod.

Yeah, no, I'm taking care of the drunk.

But yeah, that was— I mean, the Lakers, that like, that was LeBron at 41. It's insane. It just defies everything that we know about sports and, and the game of basketball. In fact, he's been doing it for this long, and to beat that Rockets team Uh, and they, they killed them on Friday night. That wasn't— that was a no-doubter. So we were edging closer and closer to some uncomfortable, uncomfortable conversations. We didn't even get to a Game 7, so we didn't even have to get to the precipice of it.

I, I've got a conspiracy theory. Yeah, tinfoil hat time. Do we think that KD was actually injured?

KD's a legacy talk that we need to have at some point because it's—

do we think that maybe it's tough? Things went really, really south with the Rockets because there was that article that came on The Athletic Athletic, and they're going to do like a post-mortem, I'm sure, in deeper depth on the season. But the reporting was that the alleged burner accounts that KD had—

yep—

were a significant distraction for the Rockets that was never resolved internally, as KD never clarified if the accounts were his. So the quote is, several league sources with close ties to the Rockets players indicated the social media situation was a significant distraction, one that was never resolved internally. Durant never discussed the matter in any detail. Saying only that he was not here to get into Twitter nonsense. Privately, league sources said his teammates agreed to keep the matter in-house. It's unclear whether he ever clarified to his teammates if the account belonged to him.

I mean, it—

I know that people like had fun with the story. I said at the time, this is an actual real problem if he's talking this much shit about his teammates.

He's just unhappy. I think he's just an unhappy guy right now.

Yeah, it's like Dante on night one of The Bachelor. Party, talking shit to Nicki Minaj, right?

But we clarified that, we moved forward. So yeah, KD should have taken his boys out to, uh, the cabaret.

Yeah, right. So yeah, no, I, I think it was—

what cabaret? Don't say cabaret in front of memes.

Okay. Yeah, well, we're gonna get to all that with Jerry and Dante. We're not only— we're doing actually like the impossible. We're hungover drunk podcasting, also out of order because we did Dante and Jerry O'Connell before this because Jerry had a flight. Um, and then the Timberwolves. We got to talk about the Timberwolves. Thursday night we didn't— we, we recorded. I actually, I believed in them. I was like, I think they're going to win this game. Uh, incredible. I know that they're probably not going to beat the Spurs because, you know, Ant is trying to come back. He might be back. And they've struggled sometimes playing against these teams with elite rim protectors, and Wemby is an elite rim protector. That, uh, like, winning that series Huge. Incredible. With given everything that happened during the course of that series, winning in 6, people had the Nuggets going to the Finals.

Yeah.

The Timberwolves, Terrence Shannon Jr. Like, Io's out for, for Game 6 after having that incredible Game 4, I believe. Just insane. Like, that, that was, that was a really, really gutsy— like, this team, I know that we're talking about foundation every year. They, they, they get close but not all the way there. I still would be like very enthused about the— and J. McDaniels was unbelievable. Incredible, incredible performance from him.

I mean, I, I think that the Timberwolves are— they might not have the, the best lineup right now given the injury state that they're in. They're one of the best teams. Yeah.

Like, it was— what are you doing? What are you playing? What are you playing? Did you just pull up Instagram Reels while we're podcasting?

Donnie sent me a video of Jack looking super I'm super drunk.

Oh, okay.

All right, okay.

So that's—

I didn't mean— I, I wanted to see the video.

I'm sorry.

All right, but yeah, an incredible night for—

no, but as I would say, like, the, the Timberwolves I think are like one of the best teams. I, I would not be surprised. And I've been, I've been like a, a Wimby and Spurs believer for most of this entire season. I would not be— I would not be shocked if the Timberwolves did beat the Spurs.

I would be shocked.

I think, I think they might—

you gotta tell me how many games Ant's playing and how healthy.

Yes, but they're also like an incredibly—

not playing the rest of the playoffs.

No, they didn't say that.

That's not true.

No, today he's trying to come back.

That he's— they, they made it, they moved him to questionable. Yeah, he's gonna try shoot around today.

And they beat, they beat the Nuggets without him.

The Nuggets are a problem.

Nuggets are bad. Yeah, they fell apart.

But Jokic—

I, I don't know, Timberwolves are an insanely well-coached team. Yeah, and I was an idiot for, for counting them out. I thought No problem. The Nuggets would, like, take care of them in 5 games in this series. I was— hand up— I was really, really wrong about the Timberwolves.

The crazy thing about these NBA playoffs is— and OKC can obviously continue this because if they win it all, then it's basically back to a normal status. But the NBA as a league has always been about dynasties. When you go through the NBA, it's like there's dominant teams. They rattle off multiple championships. The last like 5 years have been very weird when you look back where Giannis and the Bucks win one and you're like, oh, they're going to win a couple more.

Mm-hmm.

Jokic and the Nuggets win one. Oh, they're going to win a couple more. Celtics win one. Oh, they're going to win a couple more.

Yeah.

It's like maybe that's not happening. And it's a bunch of— it's these, these teams that had this really like bright flash of ascension and they now are in a like, where, where do the Nuggets go from here? Where do the Celtics go from here? Giannis is— who knows, we're gonna get another summer of him being traded. It's crazy to look at because all three of those teams, you would have thought when they were winning, they, they were set up for many wins coming forward. Yeah. And it just didn't happen. And Jokic, like, he's been one of the best players. I, I do think SGA has been the best player the last year and a half, but he's been one of the best players in the league for the last 5 years. He's got one ring to show for it.

Yeah.

No, imagine if Embiid did that in the first round. What? What blew— blew a lead or like lost a series when their two best players weren't playing and they were favorites? Everyone talks about—

yeah, that would be bad.

Yeah, I don't know what you're asking.

I'm just saying, like, imagine if Embiid wasn't—

the problem is, Hank, I'm not trying to get a guy riled up who literally just showed me a video of our drunk friend and it was the most boring video ever and he stopped the podcast.

I didn't know that I didn't know.

No, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right. That's what—

that's—

that's right. What you're trying to do right now, Hank, he doesn't have the brain capacity, right? You can register it.

Like the fact that you were being sarcastic.

It's good though. No, no, because of what Hank's saying— no, I actually have something to say. Okay, because of what Hank is saying—

what kind of grip does that— that you have on the mic, dude?

Two hands?

Yeah, I'm deep— I'm deep throating this mic. Um, Oh no, the conversation between Joel Embiid and Nikola Jokic is coming back up. It was dead for a while. Yes, it is.

This is good.

Why not?

This is good. We're having a conversation.

I guess we are having the conversation.

We—

Jokic has a ring and multiple MVPs. What would you— we're a podcast, you have to say something.

We'll see.

We'll see.

Jokic sucked.

Yeah, he, he didn't play his best series for sure.

He lost to the T-Wolves without—

and they beat—

T-Wolves had no one. They had no one.

It's also, this is the hard part, is like Embiid rocked. Embiid rocked.

Embiid fucking rocks. I love, I love Embiid.

Hey Max, what do you think about Embiid being like, I want— I don't want, um, this to be a repeat of the last time we played the Knicks in the playoffs If you need money, I'll give you money for your tickets. Don't sell your tickets.

Get some money.

That, that's a problem. I actually am worried about that.

Yeah.

There's so many Knicks fans. There's so many Knicks fans and it's so close to Philly and Knicks fans are rich.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Philly fans are poor.

That's basically what it is.

Put that on a quote card.

That's basically what it is.

The tickets to Sixers games in Philly, way cheaper. Yeah, Knicks fans rich.

Philly fans, get your fucking money up.

Yeah, yeah, okay, boys. Facts.

I, I mean, I wish it weren't the case. That is that, um, people in Manhattan make more money than people in Philly. That's, that's just the way it is.

He's spitting facts. But it is, it is crazy, this entire playoffs. Like, we've had had with the Celtics, the Nuggets, um, the Lakers beating the Rockets, some pretty crazy upsets and, yeah, and weird things happening. A lot of legacy talk after every— like, I get it, we're, we're a hot take, you know, society. And I mean, this show is, is built on satirizing it and having fun with it. We also have our own stupid hot takes. It was like pretty crazy how quickly everyone went to trash Jokic to an extreme level. Yeah, but But that's part of it. He— you can't lose that series. You can't.

Yeah, but let's not forget what we've seen the last like 5 years from Jokic, where he's just been the best player.

That series, you can't lose that series if you're the Nuggets. You cannot. If I told you, right, don't worry, series, Anthony Edwards is going to miss the end of the series, right? Devin Chet is going to get hurt, Io's going to be hurt, you cannot lose that series.

No, but I'm responding to what you just said, which was we've got people that are looking at what just happened with Jokic.

Yeah.

And, and saying some reckless things about him.

Correct.

Like, like using that to be like, maybe he's actually not that good. Yeah.

He's been asked for the last 5 years. That's not true. But you cannot lose that series.

No, you can't.

It was a— yeah, big, big disappointment for the Nuggets. And you're right. When the, when the Nuggets won that championship, I thought we're looking at like 3 out of the next 5.

Yeah.

For the Nuggets. But then, like I told you, I think Michael Porter Jr. was such a big part of their formula they had when they won. Like, he's a, he's a— he was a more important part of that team than Aaron Gordon was, even though you could say that Aaron Gordon was like an upgrade focusing on him. I actually disagree. I think that the offense as a whole—

well, they weren't mutually exclusive. They played together.

Yeah, they played together. But when, when he left and everybody was like, Aaron Gordon is stepping into like taking over the Michael Porter Jr. role that he had, it's like the clear third option. Um, they miss him. They miss Porter.

Yeah, I mean, it's, it's, it's inexcusable loss for Nuggets. And then the Cavs Cavs get justice after Friday night when RJ Barrett hit the— something about the rims in Toronto, so high, crazy tight rims, crazy bounce.

They got really tight hoops up there. That's like Biz likes them.

That was fucking insane.

It was insane. Cavs win, uh, Game 7. Jared Allen was awesome, 22 and 19, which he gets shit on a lot. So, uh, we'll have to wait a little bit. I, I feel like the Raptors shouldn't be sad. Like, they're not in but this was not a season where they had big aspirations. They have, they have young talent. They took the Cavs to 7. They've, they've— everything's in the future. Like, it doesn't feel like a loss, like a Nuggets loss, a Celtics loss, like a Pistons loss would have been, right? It feels different. Future faces.

Yeah, they got Scottie Barnes, RJ Barrett.

Future face.

Yeah, I didn't, I didn't realize that he grew up like in that same province. Like, he was a Raptors fan when he was growing up.

That's Barnes.

Yeah, that's pretty cool. No, uh, uh, RJ Barrett.

No, I just keep saying Scottie Barnes because he's— fun fact, I realize that's just something that the Delante brothers say all the time. All of them. Because Max's, uh, uh, older brother came up to me and he was maybe a little drunk on the golf course and he's just like, what time does Future Face of This League start? And I was like, what is the Future Face of This League? What? And I had like 3 times until finally I was like, oh shit, you guys, this is like a Delante Christmas joke that you guys sit around saying Future Face of This League.

Future Face of This League.

Um, hockey Hank.

Yeah, tough one. Lose Game 6 at home.

Your max.

It's been a bad week.

I had a bad week.

Worst week of the year. This week sucks.

It's your favorite week of the year.

Bad week.

I take it all back.

It's bachelor party weekend. We've had such a good weekend. You've had— you had so, so much fun.

No, the weekend has been fun. But that was— that was a tough way to start it. Yesterday was a tough way to do Saturday. Just a tough back-to-back day, I guess. Buffalo. Well, good for you. Congrats. Whatever.

Very gracious.

Uh, it's really cool.

Flyers lost game 1.

Yeah, they did. They got outshot big time.

You're not fired up anymore?

I will—

well, you got a lot of sports this week.

I'm not fired up in the— if it's Sixers game 7, I wasn't— I wasn't fired up.

Yeah, you didn't get fired up.

Yeah, but if the Flyers play on a game that The Sixers aren't playing, then I will be fired up.

Okay.

Is that okay?

Yeah, that's right. That's right.

Is that cool?

Yeah.

And then we had the Game 7, the, the Canadiens, uh, Lightning was unreal. The— did you guys see the, the game-winning goal? I did not. You were both— can we text it?

It was breaking news to me right now.

So this game was like the, the Canadiens, I think they had— what'd they have, like 9 total shots? They went an entire period without getting a shot. The second period, they did not get a shot on goal. They won 2-1 in Tampa. Text to the group. You guys got to see this goal. This is the most— Alex Newhook, the most playoff game-winning goal you could possibly have. Text the group so everyone can watch it. Memes.

I think I did a pretty good job of predicting first round series.

Yeah.

Remember when I was— when I was—

oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Hockey Max memes.

I think I did pretty good. No.

Yeah, he doesn't know.

He doesn't know.

And then that's going to be awesome, by the way, having Montreal in the second round of the playoffs.

Yeah.

Against Buffalo.

First Buffalo.

Like, I want to go. I want to go to the Bell Center. I want to go back. That's going to be such an intense scene.

Watch this goal and react to it. I was sitting— I was sitting in my room watching it and I was just like, this is the most playoff— a team that gets 9 shots An incredible series. Oh my God, for people who didn't see it, it was a can fucking— it was a ricochet off the backboards and he hit it out of the air against the back of the goalie into the net. That's how you win a playoff series. Oh, that's bullshit. It was— no, it was insane. It was incredible, incredible stick work, Max.

Let's play hockey.

All right, let's get to, uh, credit to the Sabers for overcoming Ryd Whitney.

Whitney.

Yeah, like Sabers 1, Whitney—

maybe that was the—

Sabers 2, Whitney 0.

Because after that game, they've won, they've won everything, right?

Yeah, yeah.

So maybe it's a reverse jinx.

Yeah, yeah, good point. And the Oilers lost.

True.

Yeah, well, there's—

out.

I don't know.

All right, let's do who's back.

That was true.

Yeah, yeah, no, the Oilers lost. Yeah, we'll do who's back of the week, then we'll get to Jerry O'Connell and, uh, Dante. Uh, we'll, we'll, we'll— I'll promise this on Wednesday's show. So we have our live show Tuesday night, so we're gonna have to do some choose your own adventure, but we will be a little bit more, uh, locked in on maybe some details that we've missed when we're— it's been a long weekend. It's been a fun weekend.

I'm dialed.

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Henry, uh, who's back of the week is LA live show Tuesday.

Mhm.

The fact that we're driving to LA tomorrow morning is, is daunting but exciting. And I'm excited for the live show.

It is daunting. I've always kind of wanted to make this drive though.

Yeah, I have too.

Through the desert. Maybe it's just I've, I've seen and read, uh, Fear and Loathing.

Yeah.

And it seems like, I don't know, maybe we should bring a lawyer with us.

It's going to be fun.

Maybe we're going to hallucinate some shit in the desert.

Yeah.

By the way, uh, breaking news, breaking news. Not to, uh, go back to the conversation we had with Hank about Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum potentially not playing together anymore, but on Twitch, this is a more recent quote. Jaylen Brown said, it was my favorite year of my basketball career. Yeah, the one he didn't play with Jason Tatum.

They put—

they put together, right?

But the majority—

I—

you got to get them off Twitch. Yeah, you got to get them off here.

You got to get them first round.

You got to get them off Twitch.

Won an NBA final. What a champion.

He should not have gone on Twitch the day after the game.

It does seem—

I don't know, he's a very outspoken individual and I respect his opinions. I kind of see where he's coming from. But yeah, no, no, you want to have the narrative spinners and you guys that are just kind of—

I just—

words—

you— no, no, this isn't a you guys machine.

I mean, it's not great, it's not great optics, but I, I can see favorite year.

Favorite year seems like some pretty pointed language.

He lost in the first round.

Yeah, but he grew and the team grew. He developed.

That's the thing is like he, he actually— the Celtics were better this year.

You got to watch it.

When we get Biz, Yanser, Witt on again, please, Zach, remind me. Maybe you can ask ask him, ask him what, what you do if you lost a Game 7 and your teammate went on. That's a really good hockey-NBA debate.

Zach, you got this?

I can do that. Yeah.

Okay.

All right, great, great. All right, so your who's back is just that we have to drive tomorrow.

LA, the city of Los Angeles.

Yeah, buy tickets, buy tickets.

We're gonna be inside of you. We're gonna be buying tuxes. We're gonna be doing live shows. We're gonna be doing it all.

We're gonna be buying tuxes.

Yeah.

I will not be wearing tux.

No, what? You don't remember his story from Thursday? It's your bachelor party.

Hank lost his tux.

I'm fucked up.

Hank lost his tux.

By the way, we're gonna tell a few stories from the bachelor party with, uh, Jerry and Dante coming up and, and the DeLente brothers, but we have some stories we're not going to tell on the pod at the live show. So please come to the pod, go to the live show. Yeah, good job, Hank.

Thanks.

All right, PFT, uh, I'll get to the, the, the punchline of the who's back, but I'm gonna tell a story that will eventually get to my who's back of the week. So we're on the plane ride over here And, uh, you know, Hank and I were, you know, chumming it up.

Champagne, right?

Hank was drinking the champagne. I also had some sympathy champagne. Yeah, yeah, for you. I didn't want to let you drink alone. That's— that'd be sad behavior.

Some guy sneezed on Max 75 times.

Yeah, Max was getting sneezed on, getting iced out. Uh, still ripping. So we're hanging out on the plane. Hank and I are just, you know, chopping it up, having a good time, because Hank and I are really good friends. And, um, well, you know, he's looking at my phone as I'm scrolling through some stuff, and I was I was like, oh, this is interesting. Because we're waiting, I think we're on the tarmac for what, like about an hour to take off. So there's a story saying that the war in Iran is over, that we declared that the war in Iran was over on Friday. I was like, oh, that's good news. And so I showed it to Hank and Hank's, the first thing that he said was, does that mean Liv's back?

So I was wearing a Liv hat.

So Liv is my Who's Back of the Week. I think Liv goes. Golf might be back because the war's over. But I was pumped because, like, I don't like war. But Hank was really excited because he's like, I might get to watch Phil Mickelson play golf for like 30 seconds on a Friday night at some point in the next couple months.

I just put it in my head and I was like, I don't know why you were— you kind of like showed it to me like, oh, look at the news, it's good news to share, isn't it? You were trying to spread a message.

I'm like, oh, you hate talking to the mic.

Where I'm live, this is good.

But yeah, so Live Golf might be back.

Yeah, love it.

Because so I— and I do actually believe the theory that like they had to adjust all their funding because they were having to spend way more money that they had planned on, uh, to repair shit that was getting blown up.

Yeah.

So, but hey, good luck. Yeah, you might be back.

You might be back.

Also, who's back of the week is Poop My Pants, because maybe I pooped my pants a little bit today.

Yeah, no, PFT was struggling.

No, I know, confirmed, I did poop my pants.

He turned to me, he's like, I'm gonna shit my pants. Yeah. And then And then at the halfway house, he was like, I'm going to the bathroom.

Here's what happened, because—

yeah, it might have been a gelente.

Here's what happened. Max, did you use the bathroom at the halfway house?

This is an insane accusation. No, Diana Rossini accusation.

Well, that seems— that also, the way you just reacted—

yeah, you didn't say very guilty. Yeah, you didn't say that at all.

Did— who else said, uh, these pictures are laughable?

Pictures? Yeah, pictures.

It's media commentators that are maligning you right now, Max. You haven't said no.

I pissed.

Okay, okay.

No, I, I pissed out of my, my penis.

Somebody clogged the bathroom at the halfway.

I'm getting drunker as the show is going.

That's a fact.

You're not sober enough.

It's like Really?

I could use one more, by the way, for the, for the buying.

So, so somebody had clogged the toilet at the halfway house and I needed to go really bad, and it was the only stall that they had, and I just couldn't go because it was like, this is just, it's going to overflow, there's gonna be bad news. So I just let him know, hey, somebody clogged your toilet. I thought maybe it might have been Max.

Yeah, it had like, you, Max, it had the fat shaming.

No, it had the—

I haven't eaten at all this week.

It smelled like a delectable—

what was that?

Um, so yeah, the bottom line is I had to hold it in for a few holes, and then as I was holding it in, so it leaked. There was a little leak, and then that's when, uh, I ended up losing my match against Hank.

Was the—

I look it back at my scorecard, and that 4-hole span, I think I went double, triple, triple, double.

Yeah.

And then I got to use the bathroom, and then I went par, bogey, Bogey, bogey. So, uh, pooping your pants is back.

Yeah. Okay, uh, my Who's Back of the Week is, uh, chicks. Yeah, because Golden Tempo wins the Kentucky Derby. Incredible race, and the first ever, uh, woman trainer to win the Kentucky Derby, uh, Sherry DeVoe. So congrats to her. Awesome race.

I love that.

Lost every single race all day Saturday. Shout out our guy Jack McCarthy, scumbag.

Bag.

No, not only didn't win a single one, but he goes, I got a guy, let's all bet together because this will be fun. And then he just disappeared. And I bet all his, his, his picks and they all sucked. Scumbag.

Agreed. I did the same thing.

Yeah, yeah, it was awesome. Kentucky Derby, it was a great shot. Fanta, what a fucking—

Fanta was great.

Fanta looks skinny.

Yeah, he does. He looks good.

And Dave's horse Lovely Gray, I know didn't win on the Oaks, but it was awesome. That was incredible. Surreal that Mike Tirico was like, and here's Lovely Gray owned by Dave Portnoy.

I think that Fanta's hat was awesome. Yeah, Fanta's hat game was very, very strong.

He put that shit on.

He had that shit on.

He put that shit on.

And then also maybe the most important story coming out of the Derby was the commentary from a man named Charles Nicky Smokes on Twitter. Bro, if that horse can come back from dead last and win the Derby, I can put meat on anything.

Beautiful.

It's a beautiful, beautiful statement by Nicki Smokes. It does.

Does he want— does he want to fuck the horse?

He want— I think he wants to fuck it.

You watch a horse?

No, he wants—

he wants to put meat on anything though.

Really?

Anything would be anything.

You could say that a jockey, their job is putting meat on a horse.

Yeah, that's true. He wants to go meat on meat.

No, that's Nicki Smokes' thing. He says meat on meat.

Yeah, meat on meat. Yeah.

Um, so watching that horse, see who's just Fuck, that makes me so horny.

Um, also shout out, we have picked the 5 AWLs who submitted, uh, their chapters that will be in the book. Pre-order now, Amazon, Barnes Noble. Uh, shout out Randy— should I say their full names? Yeah, I'll say it because they're gonna be published authors. Randy Short, Charlie Barchett, Zane Chapman, Marina Doggett, Brett Goodrich. Shout out to those people.

Congrats, guys.

I think Brett might be the one who— I believe— I think we— I think I found the first, the literally first ever AWL. So that was pretty cool. It might not be Brett, but we found that person. Uh, Zach, you're who's back. Finish us off before we get to Jerry and Dante the Don.

My, uh, who's back this week is going to be people who road trip because it was an insanely bad week for people who fly. Anybody see, uh, we got major airlines just shutting down, hundreds of thousands of people just stuck.

Yeah, it's dead.

No, I think absolutely they just, they just pulled the plug and left everybody hanging.

Yeah, yeah, Jerry flies It's crazy.

He did tell a story about one time he, uh, surprised Rebecca Romijn Stamos with, uh, a plane ticket. Oh, sorry, Rebecca Romijn O'Connell with a plane ticket.

And it was fucked up.

That was fucked up. PFT, she's gonna be on a live show.

Yeah, well, the ticket, the ticket was on Spirit Airlines and she was like, Jerry, I'm a supermodel.

I did say—

yeah, I should have said that. I should have said that. Good friend. I should have said that. I'm sorry, Jerry's not gonna listen.

He listens.

Can you bleep out the word Stamos? Can we do that?

You said Stamos like a fucking asshole over there.

Yeah, Max might fight you.

Yeah, I'm sorry, I, I regret saying it.

I should have said it.

I'm ready for the DeLente brothers duo to come.

All right, finish off your who's back so we can get to it.

Well, uh, we had roughly 17,000 people woke up, got got a vacation, and then they just never got the bailout. Bailouts could be dead. Okay, so we gotta, we gotta find other ways to travel. Maybe road trips. It was always road trips.

Yeah, we're road tripping tomorrow.

Yep, can't wait.

Doing the drive.

Desert drive's gonna be so sick.

It's gonna be so sick. My car's gonna listen to Queens of the Stone Age if anyone wants to drive with me. Hell yeah, just gonna be doing that. I need a sign.

I don't know what that is.

You're gonna be sleeping the entire drive. You're gonna be— yeah, Security Mike is gonna be transporting a dead body. Body with you in the car. You're gonna literally lay down and then you're gonna be like, oh, we're in LA.

Bachelor party.

Yeah, I know, but he might— maybe we should roll you up in a rug before we get you in the car. Bachelor party. All right, good job, Zach. Uh, let's get to Jerry O'Connell and Dante the Don, and then we'll finish up the show with the Valente Brothers. Wild show.

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Okay, we now welcome on two very, very, very, very, very, very, very special guests. One recurring guest, our best friend Jerry O'Connell, and one first-timer, Dante the Don. Yeah, yeah, a little recap.

We call this, this segment Hammer Don.

Hammer Don. Uh, we, we have both of them because they're best friends now, man. And I don't know, I, I actually expected this to happen, but it's beautiful. Yeah, you both are just two eccentric souls that would find each other. And I gotta say too, Dante, being on this trip, I've never been around someone who just every experience he has is the most unreal experience in his life. And it's so like infectious. Like the Sphere on Friday night, he was like, this is unreal. Dinner on Saturday, like the little piece of like cannoli, caviar cannoli, he's like, this is the best thing I've ever had. It's just, it's, it's awesome. It's awesome being around you, Dante.

Dante, I want to couple things about you, because I'm, you know, I'm an actor. I've been around, I've been around some real famous people. I mean, like, as famous as it gets. Tom Cruise. I've been around the most famous, uh, like, name it, I've been around them. Sharon— I met Sharon Stone. I've met famous people.

John Stamos.

John Stamos. I've been around real magnetic, magnetic people.

Harvey Weinstein.

You know, I've met him and he has a presence.

Positive presence.

He did. He—

but it was the presence.

Yeah, I have met P.

Diddy, and yeah, there was something about him.

I mean, bad things, it turns out.

Oh no, but things.

Yeah, but Dante, I have never been around someone as magnetic think as you. I want to tell you, last night, Dante, we went to— tell me if I can't say these things. No, you can. We went to an exotic dancer establishment, a cabaret of sorts. Yes.

And not just you and me.

Well, no, but Dante, I did sit next to you because I wanted to feed off the light that you—

true, true, true.

First of all, Dante And it doesn't matter. I— yeah, I've been in like exotic dancer places. I've been in strip clubs. I'm cool. But I never really know how to act. Like, you never really know what to do. I'm sorry.

I know you guys are cool and like you can walk. No, I agree with everything you're saying.

Yeah, but it's always like, oh man, they're— I see boobies, they're naked, and they're coming up and talking to me and coming to talk to me. And I gotta say, Dante, You know how to act in these establishments, and you sat down and you got a wad of bills.

And I did the same thing.

I went to the cage and I got the wad of bills. But Dante, tell me if I shouldn't say this, but immediately two employees of the exotic dancer establishment came to you. They just saw you.

Boom.

One sat on this leg, the other sat on this leg of you, okay? And one of the young ladies said to you, um, if I do an accent, is that, is that—

no, no, go for it.

Let's ask.

We have a, we have a—

what type, what type of accent?

Well, we have, we have a PR person from—

you could do an accent. You—

well, you won't know what accent.

Let's pretend she was Iraqi.

So Cuban.

So one of the young, young exotic dancers came up and went, uh, to Dante, went, hello, hello, how are you?

That's a good nondescript— like, we don't know where that's from.

Dante went, hey, how you doing? And then the other young lady— and I was watching because I want to learn from you, Dante— and I was watching, and the other young lady goes, um, I like— and I think she said, I like your hair, or something, and she touched your hair. And you went, hey, I'm not talking to you. And she went, I'm sorry. And then you turned to the young lady that first you started talking to and you went, "Hey," and she went, "Hello, uh, what is your name?" And the other young lady said, "Yes, what is your name?" And you went, "Hey, hey, I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to this young lady." And Dante, immediately everyone respected you in that place.

Immediately.

I even respected you. I think I was— asked you twice, like, "Can I get you something to drink?" Oh no. You're just not Not only that, we went to a nightclub afterwards.

You guys went to Tiesto?

Yes. Yeah, but I gotta thank God you're switching gears.

I gotta shout out amazing nightclub here in the Wynn as well, XS, uh, spelled the letter X and then the letter S. XS. I think that's a play on words, you know. Um, we walked past it and I went, oh look, there's XS. And Dante was like, it's a play on words, success. Excess. Things are excessive.

Are you Are you slipping into Big Dom?

But, um, but we went to a nightclub and Dante, you immediately got us— and by the way, I'm famous, man. I was in The Secret Dare to Dream. Like, I'm in things. You got us basically in Tiesto's— which, by the way, I'm sorry, Mr. Tiesto, they just hit play. They make believe they're doing—

oh no, no, no, right now.

Piesto is not actually playing. It's not like he's up there with a saxophone doing like, he's just hitting a button and then going like this, and then someone else is hitting the smoke like, and everyone's like, it's incredible, look at him go. And Dante did say, you, you did lean over to me and like, God, Dante's so cool. First of all, I'm only wearing suits wherever I go because you weren't— you dress in suits everywhere.

You stole the absolute show everywhere we went.

I had a shiny suit. If you could see it, if you follow us on socials, but like, uh, shiny's not really cutting it.

It was a suit from the International Mail. It was a, uh, it was a mesh blue top, right? And then like sequined, uh, coat and matching slacks.

Yeah, yeah.

And Jerry also, like, sparkling after, after we watched Game 7, he was like, I gotta go change, I look ridiculous. I think he was just fishing for compliments because we all were like, nah, you're fine. And then he stayed in it the whole night, dude.

Dude, I thought you were just like peacocking, but maybe you were. But the strip club, every girl was commenting on it, feeling your—

yeah, it's also they're looking to—

yes, I know. But then we went— but then we—

but then we went to Omnia wearing anything.

I could have been wearing a Wawa shirt and they would have been like, no, yes, I love this.

No, but then we went to Omnia and like Trevor, the GM— shout out, nice guy ever—

to—

walked in, he was starstruck when he saw you, and he was like, dude, that's amazing suit. And then the girls in the section, everybody was commenting.

So I want to say something. We go to this section, Tiesto's going like this, hitting play on an iPad. Sorry. Um, he's like, puts a straw in his mouth and is standing there, and I'm in the section. Again, I'm famous. I'm standing next to Dante. Immediately Dante, you can back me up on this. Two— and I'm married, I'm in a relationship, everybody knows that about me.

Supermodel, look it up.

Um, two young women come up to us and I'm about to be like, hey listen, I'm just— I know I'm in a shiny suit, but like, store's closed. But they walk right up to Dante and I was like, oh, Dante must know these ladies from spring break, from Barstool Spring Break. They walk right up to him and they— I just see them go people like, hey, how are you? Who are you? And Dante has like a straw in his mouth and he goes, I'm watching Tiesto. I'm watching Tiesto.

How—

what's the secret?

How do you do it, man? That's a good question. Good question.

How do you do it?

There's—

I'm—

good question.

Good question.

I don't think I'm really there at all, 100%, so I think it's just like detach.

Yeah, detach yourself.

Always a little bit confused.

Yeah, yeah.

There was a moment yesterday when we were watching Game 7 and Max was like, I got to be honest, I'm fucking hammered right now. And Dante just goes, really?

We're all—

he gets to go close. You seemed completely normal. And you were like, I'm— how many beers did you say you had?

Beers? I, I counted. And by the way, Max, you have the most incredible stamina. You had about 20 Twisted Teas during that. You were fine. Honestly, I would have— and this is illegal, and I realize we have Wynn PR here, love the Wynn, that XS Club, it's— the whole place is great— but I would have let you drive me in a car. I would have been like, you drive, you seem the best here. Your ability to handle alcohol is like nothing I've ever seen.

Yeah, I was in the throes of it yesterday. I'm in the throes of it right now, so we're still battling. We're continuing to battle right now.

We also had, uh, a dinner on Saturday night. Shout out to Wynn for that. And Dante, the line of the dinner was— well, Zach gave a speech, and it was a good speech. Dante was like, that was the greatest speech I've ever heard. And that was like another one of those Dantes where it's like, I just love being around this guy.

It was unbelievable. He got up there and just right off the top of his head, it was like you rehearsed it.

Yeah, it was so good. And then Dante did a speech that didn't mention Max until PFT was like, hey dude, we're here for Max.

Yeah, I'm trying to put the guardrails up. Like, I, I, I let him— he had to get his personal vendettas out of the way.

He was sort of, as any good speech goes, he was mad at Nikki Smokes.

Yeah, attacking people. And then, uh, it was just gently like, Hey Dante, remember it's Max's bachelor party. Do you have anything, anything nice to say about Max? And then he delivered on it, and it was great. You wrapped— you landed the plane well, Dante.

Thank you, thank you.

To be fair, my brother also did a speech and only talked about the Sixers. Yeah, that's true.

But Dante's the— my favorite moment was when Dante just matter-of-factly said, listen, I know Scientology, they're kind of crazy, but they're also kind of right these days. We all were like, what?

Oh, I do want to apologize to you, Dante. Uh, like, we were becoming friends. We were really bonding. Um, I also really bonded with Chef Donnie, this, uh, this great guy. Um, but, uh, Dante, when we started getting closer, uh, and closer, I did say to you at some point, I was like, yeah, man, Dante, like, I'm sorry, but I kind of think Epstein Dean killed himself.

Like, yeah, Dante was mad.

Dante was like, oh, like, I think you said you, you, you thought I was intelligent.

No, I said you're way too smart to believe something that dumb.

This is why you guys are both together.

No, no, not a troll. Like, this is where maybe the, like, Diddy Illuminati stuff.

Yeah, yeah, he's an industry plant.

Yeah, that was my favorite. Favorite, like, joke of the night was when you were talking about being younger and coming up in Hollywood, and I genuinely asked— I— you were talking about messed up child stars, and I was like, how did you avoid all that shit and the predators and all that? And you were explaining, and then Dan chimed in and goes, well, you were fat too.

Yeah, it wasn't that funny.

I didn't think it was that funny. I said funnier things to you this weekend.

Maybe it was good. Um, you were fat though.

You were very cool.

Also, at Tiesto, at like 3:00 AM, I was like, hey Dante, I, I got to go. That's it. And like, I was— Dante was alone at this point, and usually a friend would go, don't fucking leave me, man. Come on, just hang out. And I was like, oh God, I, I'll get around Red Bull. But Dante took a straw, went, yeah, it's cool, man, I'm good, go.

Reinforcements were coming in. Donnie and, uh, Security Mike showed up. The girls we met the night before came out. We had a great time.

Dante, do you want to— do you want to speak on the— how the trip started off? Because you, you, you basically shit on all of us after Friday night. We went Sphere, John Summit. You were mad that we left. I told you I was going to John Summit for 15 minutes.

I know you did.

And I went for 15 minutes, and then I was like, I've never felt more out of place. I looked at PFT, I was like, you want to get out of here? He's like, yes. Oh yeah. So, and John Summit's incredible, like he's an unbelievable— we've had him on the show, he's a great dude, unbelievable music, just not, you know, you got to know when you're 41 years old and you're like, hey, I shouldn't be here. But you, you then shit on us to Nikki Smokes, you shit on us on Twitter, and then it comes out that you basically spilled like an entire ocean of cocktails on John Summit and all the girls behind It was two shots, not an ocean of cocktails.

Uh, yes, I regret terribly, uh, it's not that big of a deal, saying Nikki and tweeting those things out. I was on another planet.

What were you mad about?

I wasn't, I wasn't really that mad. I mean, I was kind of mad that he wanted us to go down to—

I don't know if he did. He did, because I looked at one of your text messages when you pulled up your phone and you were like, I'm texting with his manager, and the text was just, hey, yeah, we have a table for you, just come to the front of the club.

So you saw where— you saw where she walked me.

She—

he was gonna like give you a shout out and shout out Max's bachelor party, but he didn't want to do—

no, he didn't want us up there.

He did not.

He doesn't want fat old dudes.

Correct.

Up at the front. Fat, old dudes.

It's not nice, you know.

We're talking about ourselves. Yeah, but he didn't want us. We're, we're, we're like absolute— we get up there and he loses all his coolness factor almost immediately with us there.

It was like 30 girls and, and you, like, we have a video where it's like a sea of girls and then you just like party dancing right behind.

You weren't going to stay up there and stand up there. He was one like gonna like say what's up? No, he didn't.

He didn't want that.

No way he wanted that.

I came down and his manager was like, where is everybody? I was like, they want to stay up there. And she was like, this is a first.

Uh, but overall, Dante, we're so happy you came. It was a fun weekend.

Such a great weekend.

I, I just want to say also, I've been a part of a lot of bachelor parties. Typically everybody chips in. There's a kitty, somebody is managing all the money. Big Cat and PFT.

And Hank.

And Hank. You guys are so generous.

Thank you.

I've never witnessed generosity like the 3 of you in my male adult life at bachelor parties.

Amen.

It's crazy.

All cover charges, green seas. It's wild. You guys are really, really generous. I've never seen anything like it.

Well, it's for our boy Max. We love Max.

Max is the easy guy to love.

We wanted to have a good time and not have anyone think about— because it is that when you come to Vegas, if you have to think about like, oh man, that's expensive, that's expensive, it dampens the mood.

Um, Netflix Theater May 5th, or YouTube Theater May 5th.

Good, nice recovery.

Okay, good job. That was a great job.

Everyone, everyone buy tickets.

You know what else was great about this weekend? I made two new friends. When I go to Philly now, I can hang out with Max's brothers.

Yeah, yeah, that was cool.

That was another one. Yeah, Dante met Max's brothers for about about 20 seconds and then came up to me. He's like, those guys are the coolest guys ever. They're unreal. Great, great.

Italian, Italian is really all that.

There's a lot of Italian energy in this bachelor party this weekend.

And it was funny, typically Mr. Bing Bong has to like come out when— well, the Knicks weren't playing, but when the Celtics are playing, Mr. Bing Bong has to come out. But the DeLentes had it all covered. Yeah, yeah, they just sort of had to— you know, when you're doing improv, you let somebody go crazy if and the Delentes took center stage.

Are—

is Mr. Bing Bong gonna come out for Max?

You know what's funny about the Sixers winning? I was thinking about it, and congratulations, uh, brothers Delente. Um, but, uh, I'm gonna tell Hank, I woke up this morning and I'm a little— I'm sort of like Coach— Coach Mazzulla. I don't know if you saw, we were— we went out to that exotic dancer club right afterwards, but Coach Mazzulla in his press conference said something about about feeling empty when he won and feeling empty when he lost.

And it just—

the world is filled with emptiness. Um, something insane like that.

Um, he said that— he said like after they won the championship, he had the same empty feeling that he has right now, right?

That's weird.

Yeah, I'm not a psychiatrist, but winning feels better. Um, it's just my take. Um, I mean, I mean, I'm allowed to have that take, um, but, um, I was kind of depressed that the Celtics— like, I don't know what to do with my life now.

Uh, like, yeah, the Hank versus Jerry rivalry.

Yeah, that chased a car and you finally caught it.

And now you're playing in the playoffs to win the championship or to beat the Celtics? Like, what are you talking about?

I will say this, and, um, I don't mean this as a slight to all the brothers D'Alente that are here, but as a Knicks fan, Memes, you can help me out here. I'm actually, uh, I'm actually thinking OKC or San Antonio now. I'm not even thinking about the Sixers.

Oh yeah, the Knicks fans I've talked to are very confident.

I'm not thinking about the Sixers, I'm not thinking about the Raptors, whoever has won. The game is going on currently as we, as we tape this. But, um, I'm sorry, D'Alente Brothers, I'm thinking about OKC at this point.

That's great. That has—

oh, I was on OKC.

Dante, do you have any comment about the Celtics? We, we did— you were here, you were providing backup for Hank. You guys were just, you know, brothers in arms. Meant a lot to you. Disappointing Game 7. What's your comment on, on the state of the Celtics?

Two things. One, it was, it was awesome thinking back on how that game went yesterday. Just such a roller coaster. But like, being able to be a part of like the stream looking in, it was one of the funniest fucking things ever. Every time time your brother Nick would get excited and say something and Max would just lose it.

For my brothers, they—

for him celebrating too soon.

They haven't been part of like the streaming game and like the content game, so they started to say shit that would come back to bite us in the ass if I were to say those things. So there was a lot of times that—

well, imagine Jordan talk too. Yes, Magic Johnson.

Jalen Brown is a good player.

He's a good player. Every time he's a good player, every time he Every time he scored, the Delonte brothers would be like, listen, we know he's a good player, like, he's gonna score. He's a good player. He's a good player.

Very gracious during the game too, because he would repeatedly, just every commercial break, stand up and just remind everybody that this has been a really good game.

Yeah, in the room for the game.

Yeah, so what I mean, it was like a perfect Game 7.

It was—

it lived up to the hype. It was great. When it got down, when the Celts cut it to 1, you guys were very nervous.

I mean, I would call it perfect. I mean, yeah, they lost, but yeah, besides that, it was just a great game.

Besides that, at least you were awake for it.

We were worried that that wasn't gonna happen.

Yeah, I took a nap. I mean, I— there was never a doubt I was missing that game. I took, you know, we had a late night, took a little nap before the game, never done recharge, was ready to go.

But there's no way in the world the Celtics deserve to win that game the way played.

They had open looks, like they easily could have won that game. I, they, they, they, they could have won that game. Like they, they, the Sixers, Pritchard missing that open three. Yeah.

Okay. Corner.

Yeah.

There was, there was a, there, like they, they fought, they had it close in the fourth quarter.

Yeah.

Maxie just completely took over.

Yeah. But like, it's not like the Celtics lost that game. Have you guys, I don't know if they won.

Has it crossed anybody else's mind that maybe Maybe Max is the new Hank.

Whoa, Hank just loses everything.

Maybe they just—

I'm sure we've already talked about it to start this show, but we—

and we don't need to talk about it now, but we haven't talked about it yet.

No, but we're gonna— we did talk about it preemptively.

Yeah, talking about retroactively talking.

We're doing the show out of order because Jerry's got a flight. And Jerry, thank you very much for one, attending. Two, you, you, you pushed back your flights.

Yeah.

It's awesome that you're here.

Dude, you're legit great time.

Do you have—

not just saying that because you're here.

Do you have any, uh, thoughts about, uh, any teams post-draft?

Um, any teams post-draft?

Fantasy. Fantasy.

Fantasy. AFC East.

Yeah, why don't we get into that?

Uh, AFC East. Push your flight back.

Start with the Jag.

Um, actually, I have a list here. Um, No, uh, I'm sorry, I, I don't have a poem or anything, if that's like a rollback.

No, the poem will be at the live show. Buy tickets.

I have, uh, YouTube Theater. I have a poem for the live show, uh, in at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California, that's, um, pretty much the raunchiest, uh, nastiest poem I've ever heard. Whoa, it's about as bad as it gets. Whoa, it's about as nasty as it gets. It's, uh, I'm just, uh, nasty boy. I want to warn Wynn publicity team that's here, you may not want to witness this YouTube Theater, uh, a part of my take thing, because it's, uh, there's going to be a poem that's nasty.

Yeah.

What's the good one? What's the future for Jerry and Dante? Have you guys exchanged numbers?

Yeah, numbers.

How annoying is it that he's still—

he's gonna text her all the time.

Yeah, he, he prefaced giving me his number with, sorry, I'm an Android If that offends you, you don't have to take my number.

I don't want to offend Dante.

All right.

Um, yeah, I don't know. I think, uh, first of all, I'm not kidding. Um, I almost feel like Steve Carell in, uh, what was that movie? Crazy Stupid Love. I'm definitely changing my wardrobe after hanging out with you, Dante. I'm buying suits and I'm chewing plastic straws in every establishment.

I love that.

Just stare. I noticed you, you also stare at some something in the distance, like something's happening.

You like lower your head.

I mean, you're just Dante, man.

Very observant. I didn't realize. I thought we were just having fun hanging out. You're like studying me. Yeah, it's not weird.

That's what he does.

Yeah. Dante, what did you think about Phish at the Sphere? It's pretty awesome. Unreal.

Best show I've— that's the fourth show I've seen there. That's the best one.

It was a lot of fun.

It was so fun. And sitting next to Rosella was great because I had no clue what an expert he was on them. Yeah, he was like explaining to me the— what was the book? Uh, Happiness. Yeah, yeah, he was explaining that whole game.

Hinged. Yeah, the whole—

yeah, dude, I was like mind blown. And they were a great band, honestly. Music was great.

Do they play instruments or do they just push a button and go—

well, they did. So John Fishman, the, the, uh The drummer who's very, very talented— they're all extremely talented— but he, like, back in the '90s, he used to play the vacuum fairly often. Now he does it like once a year. He brought out the vacuum. That blew Dante's mind. It was free. He was like, what the hell is going on, bro?

I thought it was a vocoder at first, and then I was like, that's the weirdest thing I've ever seen. But he played it like an instrument.

It was nuts.

That was crazy. The guitarist Anastasio is unbelievable, obviously, but I was so impressed with the pianist. He was— yeah, dude.

Yeah, they're all incredible.

He was so good. Yeah, yeah, I was— I loved it.

I was happy you guys had a good time because there was— I think for most of the people in the suite, it was first Fish show. Yeah, so it feels like everyone had a great time.

Dante, as a, uh, as a Vegas veteran, I think we can call you that now, right?

Oh, you're basically— you are the residency. You're Elvis right now.

You're Mr. Vegas.

Yeah, I know, I need to get out of here.

Give me like, uh, if anybody out there is like a new visitor to Vegas, they've never been there, Vegas virgin, and they want your tips, like what are the 4 big tips that you would have anybody to have a great time in Las Vegas?

It's a very, very good question.

Very, very, very good question.

Thank you.

Um, you gotta book some really good dinners ahead of time because this is such a great great, uh, cuisine city. Yeah, you can get unreal, unreal best of anything here, but you gotta make sure you don't just show up and try to walk in. So book good reservations. Um, say see a show. Like, we saw Absinthe last week with the Spring Break crew, and they had no idea. Like, Nikki Smokes thought we were bringing him to a drag show. And they left and they were like, that was the best thing. Like Kelly—

To be fair, if like women are wearing clothes, nigga smokes would be like, what is this, a fucking drag show? Where the tits?

Well, like Kelly Keegs sees Broadway shows once a week and she was like, that's like one of the best theater shows I've ever seen. So, and that's like dime a dozen. They have a million different shows here. So the entertainment is amazing. If you can go to the Sphere, I would say.

Yep.

Do whatever it takes, even if you aren't a fan of the music or the band. Or I saw Wizard of Oz there and it was one of the coolest experiences. Um, it's— there's just nothing else like it. Nothing in the world. I think it's one of the coolest things you can do being alive in 2026 is experience—

I forgot too, very funny, Dante was on one on Friday night. And the, the best part about staying at the Wynn is you can just walk. You don't have to leave the Wynn basically to get to the Sphere. You just walk down this long hallway way, little footbridge that they open. You're right in the Sphere. Walking out of the Sphere, we were, we were walking down the hallway. There was a maybe 7-year-old with a Seahawks hat on, and Dante walked up into his face. He just goes, boo, thumbs down, boo, 12th Man, boo. And then we're like, Dante, what the fuck, dude? He's like, shouldn't be out this late, shouldn't be out this late. I was on I'm sorry, he's booing a 7-year-old. I'm sorry, out of nowhere his mom was just like, what is going on right now?

He kind of smiled though. He kind of like— he did, he did.

He like—

he got trashed off.

He was a football guy.

He was a football guy.

Yeah, exactly.

PFT and I, uh, gambled together at a blackjack table. We did really well.

Yeah.

Um, I pulled out— you didn't know this, but at tables you can pull out the cheat card that says where you should hit and split and all that stuff.

Jerry's got the book. Jerry is the book. He's got— he's got the card in front of him at all times.

You're allowed to put it it next to you.

Oh, you do that?

Yeah, I didn't know that.

He's got the card right there. Well, also, and he points at it every time. He's like, okay, 6 versus 4, I'm going to stay. We're all staying.

Well, I, I also put it out there so that people at the table understand we're gonna— I'm playing pure blackjack, like, you know.

Yeah, you're purist.

If you have a, if you have a 16 and dealer's showing a 7, you're, you're, you're gonna go.

Yeah, you gotta go, gotta go, you gotta go.

A lot of people go, oh, I'm not sure, you know, they go on gut.

Oh well, the card says 17. The card right here says you're supposed to hit.

Yeah, I like that.

I do too.

That's a smart move.

So, uh, that's, that's really why I do it.

That's a good tip. Good Vegas tip.

But, but we did well.

We did really well.

Casino here at the Wynn.

Really, really well.

What's the club called? The, the club?

XTS. Um, all right, and the play is Awaken Awakening.

Awakening.

Awakening. Yeah, we didn't go see that show, but we should book shows, uh, in advance. But if we were gonna see a show, they looked happy coming out of that theater. They were like, what a show.

One other cool guy move that Dante does, uh, at the exotic dancer store, uh, that we went to last night at the Cabaret, the Gentleman's Lounge. Um, Jerry and I were sitting next to Dante, which—

wait, PFD, I gotta just say, Memes was— he saw that it was a cabaret and he was pissed. He was like, what the fuck is that mean? Yeah, I was like, I think we're gonna be okay.

Was this French?

He's like, he's like, they don't— are they not gonna have their tits out? Yeah, it's cabaret. I was like, it's all right, dude.

So Jerry and I were sitting next to Dante, and, um, the cool guy move that Dante does at— when he's, uh, stage side is he takes his ones out and he makes like Lincoln Log origami out of his ones, and he stacks them up into a structure in front of him on the table.

It looks like a— it looks like a Jenga.

Yeah, he makes Jenga building Legos.

Yes, he has Legos of $1 bills. At one point you had like 14 of them that were stacked on top of each other. Oh, and then it was like moths to a flame. They just see Dante, they're like, oh, that's interesting.

He's an engineer.

Yeah, well, not only is it interesting, it's like a structure that like draws, uh, the exotic dancer's attention. Yeah, I have my stack and I'm like 1, 2, 3, 4. But Dante, you're like doing like origami, like making something, and like their eyes just like boom, come to it, and then they're there doing like— that's the most amazing thing. They take those heels like right when you're not— like sometimes I was like staring at Dante and then like one of them would just be like, oh, sorry, sorry, please look at me. Why don't you make me a tower? Money. Dollars, please.

That's a pro move, Dante.

Where'd you start doing that?

I don't know, dude.

Where'd you learn that?

This is— did you invent that?

I don't think so.

Dante's Tower of Money. We should, we should probably get a license on that.

Yeah, it's so funny, no one taught me how to properly— Dante, you actually taught me how to properly go into an exotic dancer establishment cabaret. I'll be chill. By the way, next bachelor party I go to, there'll be some people there. If we go to an exotic dancer establishment, I'm, I'm gonna be like, hey everybody, come follow me. Boom, making a, making a Jenga thing. Everyone's gonna be like, who is this Jerry guy? Who is this guy just chewing a straw, staring at the distance, staring at something? I'm not talking— I'm talking to her. I'm not talking to you. I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to her.

Oh, I mean, it definitely got everybody— like, the girls, when Dante was like, 'I'm not talking to you,' they want to talk to him even more.

Oh yeah.

And there was a turf war last night too.

Oh yeah, there was a turf war around PFT. I've never seen— yeah, it's so funny. We've seen television shows and movies where exotic dancers argue with each other, and sometimes they're action scenes, you know. Um, uh, you know, we, we want to empower everyone here, but, uh, We've, we've, we've seen those scenes, but with PFT, we actually almost witnessed an altercation with two exotic dancers.

Do you want to say what happened? Well, I was, I was sitting next to Dante, and, and obviously, you know, he's drawing a lot of attention with it, the, the log cabin of dollar bills. And, uh, there's, there's a girl that's near us on stage. This lady was dancing, performing some nice moves, and, uh, this other lady walks by to my side. She comes sits down on the armrest of the chair, puts her arm on me, and starts talking to me. The dancer that was on stage looks at her and she goes, hey, I'm dancing here. And the lady that was next to me was like, what are you talking about? And the dancer was like, I'm dancing, I'm dancing in front of these guys right now, they've got their money, get the fuck away. And, and the lady was like, I don't know what you're talking about, I'm allowed to sit up with this, with this man, he's got money, you've got money, everybody has money. And the dancer was like, get the Fuck off! Get— go the fuck away! And like, they were about to start throwing punches, and I was like, ladies, there's enough of me to go around, we'll be okay.

Uh, but the, the dancer on stage stood her ground. She was like, you get the fuck off this corner.

That's— I think right now, power of the origami tower.

Yeah, eventually the, the European lady that was, that was next to me, she, she— Eastern, Eastern European— she moved, moved along, and then she just was completely afraid of going anywhere near that other dancer.

You did say right afterwards to, uh, this young exotic dancer, um, way to stand your ground, way to stand your ground.

I was like, that was really inspiring. Like, you could have very easily folded there. Oh, and she liked Dante's money. She didn't.

All right, Jerry, I got one last question. Do you have a question?

I, I just need to— this somehow became story of me at a strip club. I at least came home at a reasonable hour, unlike some people on the trip who just returned. That's all I'm gonna say.

Yep, that's true. Not me. I just want to say no, we left early.

My wife, I was in the cab.

Yes, that's on this broadcast.

Yeah, yeah, no one on this broadcast. Yeah, yeah, not, not Max either. No one on PMT.

Max, why did you get up and just leave?

Why did you leave?

Did you guys already talk to Zach about— uh, yeah, we're going to talk about it.

Yeah, you already talked. I got one last question for you. Sure, uh, rollback question.

Yeah, yeah, promo code take, uh, Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers. Look at this right here, uh, rollback.com.

You missed the shorts.

You missed the shorts. Shorts.

Promo code take. Shorts. Q-Zips. I was wearing joggers, shorts. Rollback.com promo code take.

We golfed today. I was wearing the shorts and the polo. Incredible golf stuff. Thank you.

Oh, well, you know what, we should actually, uh, I golfed, uh, my cart buddy was Hank, um, I really enjoyed golfing with you today.

Yeah, we had a whole by-hole breakdown.

Um, Hank's a great golfer. It's, it's really fun to watch him. Uh, I mean, it was really funny when they came to all of us and they said, is anyone left-handed? And Hank went, um, I am. And I started laughing.

I thought that was funny.

I'm going through an identity crisis.

It was—

we, we had a blast today though. We had a great foursome. Great car.

Yeah, it was fun. Oh yeah, um, uh, we, we weren't cart mates, but, um It was fun. Chef Donnie's a good golfer. It was, uh, it was really good. We really, uh, we really had a good time. I'm sorry there's nothing more, uh, exciting to talk about there. We had a caddy.

We can't all be Dante.

Uh, when Jerry's not around Dante, he's just thinking about Dante.

We all tipped our caddy, right?

You did say that right before we left, right before we were sitting there waiting to go off on the first tee, and Jerry turns to me, he's like, oh shit, Dante's texting me, he's gonna be so pissed that I'm not, not there.

No, I wasn't.

I know, but he was like, he was like, oh no, he doesn't know that I'm golfing. He's gonna be so mad.

Actually, I was bummed that I wasn't— like, there were times when I was sitting there and like, I don't know, they were on their 7th transfusion and I was like, I should be with Dante right now.

Dude, these Philly guys have an extra year. They haven't stopped drinking since they got here.

It's honestly not a steam right now.

I'm so impressed.

That's why I left.

I went to go try and make a coffee. I couldn't figure out the coffee machine.

I'm so impressed.

It was so funny hanging with Philly people though after a victory too, because you really get a sense of like Philly fandom. And Max sort of touched on it when he said his brother was just talking about the Philly win.

That's all it was.

Dinner. But it's just so funny. You just like go to a— like you'd be at a urinal with them. Like we're talking 5, 6 hours after the game.

Yep.

And one of your brothers just turned to go, man, what a game.

We never beat those South—

those games We never win those games. We got it this time. Just what a game. You were a part of history. This is a groundbreaking game for Joel. This is it. It was, it was career-making game for him.

Legacy.

I got the rollback question.

Oh yeah.

All right, so YouTube Theater, May 5th. Yeah, uh, everyone please buy tickets. We still have some tickets available. It's gonna be a great show celebrating 10 years of Pardon My Take. Uh, we have Jerry O'Connell, we have Blake Griffin, we have Ryan Rosillo. Below. It's gonna be great, uh, a couple hours spending it with the AWLs. We also have your wife. What should we expect? Does she like us? Because I don't think you've told her anything. I think that she's gonna show up—

that's confirmed.

Yeah, I think she's gonna show up and be like, what the fuck am I doing here?

Um, my wife has no idea. Of it. This is all my wife knows, okay? My wife will be at— I was— I mean, I could say Trader Joe's, right? Like, you don't have any, like, supermarket, uh, sponsors. My wife will be at Trader Joe's, and my, my— like, a gentleman will come up to her and whisper, I can fix your driveway, and it's They make it like sexual.

It's really—

I love AWLs. It is fun coming with, like, walking with you guys in a group. It's so funny, all the AWLs, and you're so nice and you wave. Except for that one guy yesterday who was like, where you guys going? And everyone was like— Dante was like, go, go, go, move, move, move. I don't want them. Just go, go, go. Trust me, I've been through this with spring break. Just go, go, go. They're gonna try and follow us. But, um, yeah, guys come up to her and whisper like, I'll fix your driveway. Um, you know, a lot of bing bongs.

Um, so what, like, so what does she say?

She has no idea what is happening.

Is she gonna be mad at us?

I think she'd be good. I think my wife is going to have no idea who any of you are.

Okay, okay, all right.

But, um, we appreciate you bringing her. She knows who Zach is.

I did throw at her, um, you know, uh Um, because my wife is a former— no, always a supermodel. Once a supermodel, always a supermodel. Cover Sports Illustrated. But my wife is an actress and playing the Blue Lady in the Avengers movies.

What's her name?

X-Men Mystique in X-Men.

Okay, you should know that.

No, I, I know, but I'm just saying for people who maybe don't know about the X-Men, she's the blue one. Um, listen, we were at dinner last night and you said you're the fat one. Um, she's the blue one by me. Yeah, um, I asked her if she would like wear like a bikini or something just for the guys or something.

And, uh, I know it was something for the fellas. We need that on the record that we didn't ask for that.

I did hear her like talking to her representation saying, I think I want to cancel this live show. And then I said, that was just my idea because they just like know you for that. I was like, maybe just a top or something. Um, God, then it was fun to bring Dante out and you build like a tower of like dollar, like money in front. Um, that joke was funnier in my head. Just cut that part out.

Um, you haven't answered anything yet.

She has no idea who any of you are. It's sort of an experiment. I don't think it's going to go over very well. Uh, my wife will probably never talk to me again.

But, uh, we should play the, the newlywed game with you too.

Oh yeah, we can write some questions.

Yeah, we'll write some questions and we'll see. Yes, that's a good idea.

So buy tickets.

Newlywed game.

Where did tell her you were coming this weekend?

Um, my wife was aware, uh, that I was coming to a bachelor party this weekend, although my wife did say, as I was mentioning, because I came a day later, um, I was like, hey, I'm going, and my wife was like, where are you going? And I was like, the bachelor party I've been talking to you about for— oh, you know, it was, uh, a month. And like, my wife had to make— my wife made believe that that my wife didn't know what I was talking about. You know what didn't go over well? I was a little embarrassed were the Max bathing suit things at the— yeah, first of all, I think I ordered women— I think they were women's bottoms.

Yeah, because it was, yeah, it was slightly obscene.

Yeah, yeah, I do want to—

we were at the European section of the pool.

I do, I realize Wynn PR is here and I, I apologize to Sarah, but, um, they were awesome, dude.

My, like, don't apologize.

There are some of my stuff— I don't have a large penis and like, it was— some of it was even leaking out. Yeah, I think I was like, I did see—

I, I actually meant to mention, I think this is a woman's bottom. I thought it looked pretty good, but I did— I wanted to say that I should have done it privately. I did see a testicle. Yeah, I did. At one point you bent over and I saw just a full testicle.

So Jerry brought some, they were, they're medium, so I was like, I'll, I'll give it a shot, I'll put it on. So I went into the other cabana, put it on, and I looked down and I, I don't have a pouch, but I had a pouch. Yeah, I had an oldie. Gave— it gave me a pouch. Yeah. And I was— I was just like, I gotta— I— no one could ever see this. I can't put this out there.

Well, I have to tell you also, I wore it under my suit last night in case there was like— in case there was like hanky stuff. And like, I didn't know what I was gonna do. I like to be open to the universe, especially when we're like— we, we weren't streaming. Can't believe you guys didn't stream last night. That was real. I know.

Shut up, shut up.

I love that whenever Jerry comes on show, he reads like the Reddit.

Yeah, he's just like, what does the Reddit want me to say right now?

I'm gonna say what they want. Yes, the most say, and I'll repeat that.

I thought you guys could have streamed. I'm just saying, like, I was, I was willing. I just want to say I was willing to stream, but I worked, and when I came home after hanging out with Dante and all that stuff, um, uh, it was really cut off my circulation in my, uh, um, yeah. It was, uh, very tight and left indentations, and, um, it was just very tight. So that didn't go over well. That was, uh, that was a mistake. I think we were going to try and get those in the Barstool Sports store, the, the Speedos with Max's face on them, but it, it didn't really work out.

Yeah. Um, all right, Jerry, you're the best. Dante, you're the best. By the way, Dante, if you, if you thought he was like the craziest guy ever because he went to spring break here for an entire week— he was here for like 10 10 days, then came back the next weekend. Dante's flying back to Chicago and you're competing in this competition, right?

Yeah.

The, the Barstool After Dark, everyone tune in. Tate and Lucas have it set up. There's, uh, I think 25 people in the Barstool office, Chicago HQ, uh, putting their hand on a car, golf cart, golf cart. And whoever keeps their hand on the golf cart longest gets $30,000. That stream's gonna be going live at like 2 PM. 10 AM Central Time, uh, today as you're listening to this. Dante's competing in that.

You're gonna be the first guy.

How are you doing that? You're gonna be the first guy out right away, probably. But imagine if you just win it though. Nah, you might literally—

no, you're going into that.

No, you know what you should do? Because you're gonna get bored, bring some dollar bills, start building the Lincoln Log, dude.

So I was telling them earlier, everyone's asking Tate and Lucas what they can bring, and of course they're saying no.

They're like, but you can bring dollar bills, make yourself a little Lincoln Log for the AWLs.

Have you thought about just like, uh, doing something either super revolting or something super annoying and just like driving people away? Like, what if you just started farting?

Well, bro, I thought about that, and then I thought about the porta-potty they're setting up like next to the thing. Like, how fucking gross is that gonna be?

Yeah.

Yeah, pretty gnarly.

Um, all right, you guys are the best though. Thank you so much.

By the way, had a lot of fun with Chef Donnie too. You know, he and I both do jiu-jitsu. If you ever want to do, uh, us, us versus Coach, Coach Mazzulla.

Yeah, yeah, he's got some time, he's got plenty of time on his hands now.

Thanks guys.

All right, love you guys. Thank you so much for being here.

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Okay, let's wrap up the show. Uh, we got the D'Alente Brothers fresh They're, they're about to board red-eye flights back to Philly. What's up, boys? How, how was the weekend?

I mean, the weekend was unbelievable.

I have to start off by saying thank you both.

PFT, Big Cat, Hank, Hank.

I mean, shout out, by the way, too, can I just say, because I should have done this earlier, Dom, my assistant. Yeah, yeah, he, he, he put everything together.

Are we good?

Dom is awesome.

Awesome.

I love Dom.

Wait, what's wrong? What's wrong?

Oh, the mic's broken. Oh, okay. Sorry, sorry.

All right, I'll do— I'll do the Dom shout out. By the way, I should have done it earlier. Dom, who, uh, coordinated everything, uh, the whole weekend. It was not easy. 15 dudes in Vegas doing like 7 different activities. Incredible job by Dom. Thank you so much. And also, uh, Max's brother thought when, when I think Max texted him was like, Dom will meet you in the lobby. He thought it was going to be Big Dom.

Absolutely.

I don't want to say I was disappointed that it wasn't Big Dom, but I thought it was Big Dom because he was, he was on the fringe list. Yeah, he was, he was.

But no, that was— it was misleading when I said that.

But once you get to know Dom, I mean, he's, he's a, he's a gem.

Yeah, 100%. Yesterday I asked Big Cat, because I, I didn't know, um, too much like about what Dom, what his job was before he started working here. But I was like, was he— does he have like a ton of experience, like high-level executive assistant, like Fortune 500 companies? And he's like, no, no, he doesn't. I was like, he's really fucking good.

Yeah.

And so, Dom, great job.

You also— the one of my favorite— there's so many funny moments, but the Dolentes love love Italians to a level that is borderline unhealthy.

You guys think I love Italians?

Yes, you're right.

They—

your brothers asked Dom his last name because Dom is very Italian. Dom said his last name and both of them are like, oh, that's nice. Oh, that's a nice— that's a nice—

I believe my quote was— I believe my quote was, so your grandparents were off the boat?

Yeah, yeah. You're like, that's a great vowel at the end of the name.

I'd be lying if I didn't say I, I I leaned into it a little bit this weekend. Yeah, absolutely.

But now, Nick, but wait, you only have Italian friends. Your kids' names are Italian names.

Shout out Phil.

Shout out Joey.

Joey D. His friends' names are Congildi, D'Angelo, D'Piano. His only friends are Italian.

So you're racist against everyone Nick hates everyone who is in the town. That's not true at all.

Shout out my wife Nicole.

Shout out, shout out Uncle Sal. We had, we had like a 75-year-old dude just rocking with us all day yesterday. I don't know, he's probably, probably 68.

There was a moment with Uncle Sal where Hank Hank stepped over the line a little bit. It's Uncle Bud. Hank attacked him.

I called him Uncle Sal because I feel like that—

I don't know why you kept saying Uncle Sal. He ain't somebody you want to fuck.

Yeah, I know. No, definitely not.

He also like runs every casino.

He runs the city. Yeah, he runs the city.

Yeah. Um, if you're looking at the DeLinte brothers, you might be thinking like, is this an elaborate memes prank where he just put face smashes of Max onto two random guys? And no, that's what it's like. They, they all have that exact same same look. It's very— they're nice guys, but I think the Max face that we all know and love, it's a very friendly face. So the second they came in, everybody was like, oh yeah, we feel like we're best friends with these guys already. Yeah, it's like I'm talking to Max's.

So yesterday was very fun. Game 7, that's why you're here right now. There was a moment with about 6 minutes left in the game where you guys were like, this is for the process, this is for Sam Henke. It still was the first round, guys. We were getting heavy into process.

You guys are getting my speech like it was the NBA title.

Yeah, what does this mean for Sam Hinkie's legacy?

I, I kind of blacked out a little bit because this moment we've never experienced before as a Sixers fan. Oh no, Hank.

He's right, he's right.

And winning in the first—

we've been We've, we've been ride or die for Joel Embiid our entire, our entire, entire life. He was the guy.

He was the guy.

Yeah. And when you beat the Celtics, I don't care if it's the first round, the second round, it doesn't matter.

Never minus 900.

It does not matter. We took them down in Game 7 on their home court.

The way—

so that needs to be celebrated.

I mean, you realize, you realize there's only 15th— this is the 15th time in NBA history that a team has been down 3-1 and come back and won. And the Sixers did it against the Celtics. Like, I've been a season ticket holder for this guy.

He's got his hood up now because he don't want to hear this.

I've seen horrible playoff losses.

I was at the game that Simmons passed up the dunk.

And to see that win and to see the way Joel played, I mean, it's just It was, it was an unbelievable night. Special game. It was a special game.

A great basketball game. Yeah, great basketball.

You were all about the great—

Jalen Brown's a good basketball— he's a good player. He's gonna get his. There was a moment where P.S.T. and I were doing the— we just kept on repeating whatever Jalen Brown was saying, was we kept on saying, Jalen Brown, good basketball player, great basketball game. And then one of you, I can't remember, it was Dan or Nick, you like looked up and He's like, are you guys trolling, trolling us? And we're like, I was like, me and PFT trolling a Dillente? No way. I've been watching all these games at my house and every time Jalen, by the way, he, the forearm shiver every single time. Yeah, yeah, every time. But he's a great basketball player.

Listen, you can't take that away from him. It's like he, at the end of the day, you beat a, a really good team led by a very, very good basketball player.

Yeah, he's a good player.

I gotta give it to him, you know.

This is one thing I have to say. We do— like, I've been working at this job for a really long time. We do a lot of these streams. Yesterday was a very special thing because it was, you know, still content, but we did it together with your family. That's why you watch sports.

We fucking did it.

That's why you watch sports, is to like be with your family and like celebrate together. And it was like a really, really awesome moment for me.

Hey, don't shake it.

That the two of you were here and that like I'm still doing my job, but the fact that I could have shared it with the two of you was awesome. Well, and, and that's, and that's the thing about it.

You're absolutely right.

Yeah, if you go back through our lives, we've watched a ton of big games together. And quite frankly, we watched the Kawhi shot. That was the Kawhi shot. It was Father's Day weekend, and I remember I had to go in and I worked all night long on the Kawhi shot a little less.

Yeah, yeah, there was, there was one time in the game where I, I felt a little bit guilty.

I, I bing-bonged Hank in the third quarter.

Yeah, I know, I like that. They had to retract it in the moment.

But now, great guys, but, but you, you bing-bonged me and I like was—

you see, almost, I almost shot myself when I said it.

Oh yeah, he came up to me during a break in, in before the fourth quarter and he's obviously not in the content game and doesn't necessarily realize how this goes. And he was like, dude, I kind of like, I kind of feel bad for you.

Yeah, I get it.

And when the Sixers were coming back, I was like, this is what I needed to hear. Like, I could not wait for the Celtics to win so I could be like, oh, you still feel bad? You still feel bad? Obviously that didn't happen. But like that, that did give me energy.

Like, stop, stop, stop.

Dude, I kind of feel bad for you. 3 right now. And I was like, oh my—

there were multiple times that I had to like try and tell them about the content game of like, do not give him any answers.

I was guilty of that from Sims halftime.

Nick, when was the first time that you said it's game over? I feel like it was 10 minutes left, but I was standing on business. I was staying on business the whole time. Yeah, come on.

No, I mean, it They were—

you were in a fucking DeLente brothers tornado. He's a great guy.

He was—

and again, I want to echo Nikki's statement. Thank you so much for this weekend.

And I'm looking at him, I'm like, wow, we are really all over this guy.

All over him.

Yeah, yeah. How many brothers you got, Hank?

I have one brother.

Shut up, Will. All right, well, we might have to do this again with your brother.

Yeah.

The, uh, yeah, but it was great having you guys here. It was a lot of fun. We, we played— PFT and I and the Delente brothers played, uh, we were foursome today. Probably the worst round of golf of all time. I actually apologized to our caddy. I was like, dude, I'm sorry. He's a good dude. We, we— I, I'm not joking. I think there was 6 or 7 holes where not one single one of our balls went in the fairway. Like, we were saying that if we were playing a scramble, it still would have been garbage.

It was ugly.

Like, we tried to switch to a scramble, like, what does it even matter? And we were hitting— like, we, we all would hit him in opposite directions, so then he'd have to run back and forth. Shout out Charles, awesome caddy, great, awesome dude. But yeah, thank you guys, we appreciate you being here. It was so much fun. Thank you guys, seriously, 100% class all the way.

Everyone here, Hank, PFT, uh, Big Cat, thank you so much for everything.

We had such a good time.

You got a message memes and Zach for next round.

Oh yeah. And, and shout out Dante, he's just the man.

Let me just go to the paisan.

Security mic.

I got a message for all— another— Nick's just like, let me just point out all the Italians in the room.

Shane's a paisan. Oh, Shane, man, good man.

Here's my, here's my message for all Knicks fans. I have no idea why you are so comfortable with the Sixers. Oh yes, I have no idea. Yes, we ain't selling any tickets. It's not going to be Madison, it is going to be the Xfinity Center. Game 3, Game 4, Game 6, baby, let's go!

And I gave Jerry my number. I said, we're gonna be texting all the entire series, Mr.

Bingman.

Oh, he will text. Jerry texts.

Jerry has your number and he will text you.

Yeah, forever.

You're gonna get some deep web shit. Yeah, you're gonna get some dark, uh, friend turned to foe very Very quickly.

Yeah, very quickly. Um, all right, boys, thank you.

Just one more thing real quick, because this will be huge for me. Jessica, thank you so much for holding down the fort.

Oh, there we go. I already shouted. Yeah, Nicole, thank you so much.

And also Shannon, thank you for everything.

All right, thank you, boys. Uh, Zach, come back, we'll finish the show with you real quick.

All right, let's do it.

All right, thanks, fellas.

Hey guys, okay, let's finish the show. Uh, Zach, when we were doing question time, I had a question that popped in my head that I, I wanted to save till the end. Um, are you okay with me asking this question?

I'm comfortable with it.

Where are your glasses?

Great question, great question.

My glasses are currently not on body. They, uh, they're— they got to be close geographically proximity in this city. They got to be those. Not currently in my possession though.

Where are you hiding?

Yes.

Yeah. Are they, are they, um, are they currently on me?

I don't know if anybody's wearing them.

Okay.

I'm not sure, you know what I mean? I don't have like an AirTag or anything on them. Last 24 hours, last several hours, been a little bit difficult.

When I lose something, I like to go back and think, where was the last place I saw them?

Yeah.

So we did go, we did go to like a gentleman's club, gentleman's cabaret. Yeah, cabaret.

The Lounge.

Yeah, Cabaret Lounge. Exotic gentleman's space, you know. It was a lot of fun. Boys were having a good time, a couple drinks, everybody's hanging out. I did have my glasses on when we entered that area. I did not have them on when we left. Yeah, I think they may have been taken by one of the dancers.

Okay, so one of the dancers has your glasses?

I guess a little bit behind, like, I guess this would be like inside info for other guys who don't have 20/20. 20. If it's— respectfully, if it's tits and face, you can't go glasses on. You gotta go glasses off, right? Which all guys who have astigmatism understand, right?

Yeah.

Do you—

we're actually— yeah, it's kind of like we're disability shaming, right?

Do you think no one took the glasses off of your face?

You took them off yourself?

I took them off my— I took them off, set them aside to get your face into some tits. Uh, our friends at the gentleman's club, they might have threw them on for a little bit. That was kind of fun. Uh, and then I didn't leave with them.

Do you, do you think maybe there's a future in rec specs for titty clubs?

I thought they'd fog up.

Yeah, probably.

Good point.

I have a question. Yeah, Big Cat? Yeah, you— did you— I have to figure out how I'm gonna ask this question. Did you experience anything with Zach at the gentleman's club.

I thought— oh, I thought we were talking glasses.

Yeah, we're talking glasses.

Yeah, we might have to— we might have to address that at the live show.

All right, we'll address that at the live show. Never mind.

All I'll say is that I—

I—

Zach and I both got lap dances at the same time, and I just kept on checking in on him, and he just kept on saying, having a great time, sir.

Everybody's having a good time.

Zach, you good? Zach, you good? He's like, having a great time, sir.

Exotic Men's Club, as he's slapping ass off the strip of the stripper 50 feet from him.

Men's Club Cabaret was fun.

Yeah, we had a good time.

Zach, I heard that, uh, as you were leaving the establishment, um, you went up to the, uh, the, the front desk area and you asked if, uh, if they'd seen your glasses. And the guy behind the counter was like, you have to stop asking us if we found your glasses yet. How many times did you ask?

Look, I put on a search party, you know. Yeah, the glasses got to come home.

Yeah, they do.

Who knows?

But you, you— yeah, I think he I think it might be the first ever guy who's gone up to ask if the strip club cabaret, uh, has a lost and found multiple times.

Funny enough, there was a guy in front of me in line at the lost and found this morning.

Other guys, you went back this morning?

Well, I call— I got a card last night, me and the nice woman. She helped me look. We had double flashlights out, we're searching.

Professional.

Yeah, high beams on.

And then I call in, they're like, hey man, we don't have— maybe call back in the morning, you know, we're real busy, a lot of stuff going on, maybe they're here. So I called them up and I, I described my glasses to her, the woman on the other end of the phone. She's like, well yeah, we have them right here, they just come get them. And I was like, oh, we're in, we're back 2020. Get there, other dude, some other guy's glasses.

Oh, you should have taken them.

No, they were way different. Not in Taiwan.

So you, you, you were— there was a moment last night in the strip nightclub where you guys both, flashlights on phones, on your hands and knees looking for your glasses. You couldn't even see. You couldn't really see.

No, with the stripper. Yeah, good dancer, distracted, respectfully. Yeah, tough.

Um, Zach, how bad is your eyesight without the glasses?

Not, not the worst. It's not enjoyable, like, going through daily tasks, you know.

Hold up some figures.

I got, I got contacts.

I'm contacts up right now.

Oh, you have contacts?

I do, but I didn't label He's all left. This week is week 1 of contact, so it's like, it's 45 minutes put them in, 45 taking them out. Like, and I thought one fell out earlier, so I put a sec— I put one in my left eye, but I haven't been able to stop blinking. I think I might have double loaded the left, which just can't be good. So I'm legitimately worried about it.

Oh, that's the best guy we got.

You're the fucking best.

But I think I'm gonna get my glasses back. There's still a world, boys.

I believe.

Yep, I believe as well.

As well, I believe.

Let's do numbers.

Yeah, let's do numbers. Great show, boys. We'll have, uh, what are you showing me? Oh, you have the lottery ball. Yeah, yeah. All right, go ahead.

Okay, I will go, uh, 15.

77.

56.

These all don't really go—

76.

Yeah, I actually don't want to get this.

I'll go 64.

Okay. 16.

Oh, one off.

Want it.

Anyone?

All right, great show.

All right, great show.

Thank—

great, great bachelor party, Max.

I'm gonna go get more drunk.

All right, love you guys. Also, happy birthday, um, to Nathan Peterman, Rory, Meatball Molly. It's a birthday. Happy birthday, Meatball Molly. Also, happy birthday, uh, to James Connor, Ike Taylor, and Tapang Manga from Saved by the Bell.

Okay, nice, nice.

Love you guys.

Yeah, he said that.

Yeah.

Oh, I love you guys.