Transcript of USA Hockey Wins The Gold, Keith Yandle Talking About The Gold Medal Game, Olympic Luger Zach DiGregorio, CBB And Who's Back Of The Week

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That was awesome. We did it. We did it. We won the gold.

This was a year in the making on this show. We knew it. We knew that last winter, that was just a warmup.

We said, we're like, All-star game. It doesn't matter. We want the gold. We went out and got the gold.

What a great game it was, too. What a fantastic way to wake up on a Sunday. Hank's right, watching sports early in the mornings kicks ass.

Good job, Hank.

It's like America. We've been in training camp for a while now. We're sick of hitting each other. We just want to go out there and hit somebody else. We all united today against Canada, and it was awesome. What a great game. Got off to an early start. It was a nail biter.

I mean, it was more than a nail biter. It was, I want to puke in my own mouth, biter. I don't even know if that's a thing.

I did puke in my own mouth.

The fact that we got that first goal, which Boldy, that was so sick. Was that a dangle?

His dangle. Yeah, his dangle.

The punt control that he had was incredible. Go up 1-0, and then spent basically the rest of the game in regulation being like, Connor Hellebuck, please save us. And save us, he did. He was out of his mind good, stood on his head, 42 shots faced, 41 saves. The entire second and most of the third period was essentially just playing on tilted ice where Canada had every single shot, including a five on three, where I was like, Oh, it's over. We're fucked. Because it did feel like the only way we could win that game, halfway through the second, it was like, The only way we can win this game is if we get to overtime, because they're just kicking our ass otherwise. And we got to overtime, and the three best players players in the world on the Canadian line choked. Nathan McKinnon, choked.

Big-time choked.

Choked on an empty net.

Wide-open net. You could see in real-time, I think he thought about it a quarter of a second too long. Pulled it to the left. It was the best way that we could win because, yeah, you're right. You'll see a lot of people from Canada. There's a lot of cope going around. I have some cope I'd like to read. There's a lot of cope that I would also like to get to. The US was actually the better team today. I just want to get ahead of that. People are saying that Canada was the best team today. That's actually not true because the United States won the game.

Yeah, we had two goals.

They had one. If you win the game, you are the better team that day. Correct. That's pretty much as definitive as it gets.

That's why they keep score.

Guess what? I think you can make the argument, We won the first period. I think you can make the argument, Canada won the second period. Then I think you could say that maybe Canada won the third. We went to overtime. Yeah. And guess what? Overtime is a tiebreaker. Yeah. So 2-2, plus we had the most important one, which is overtime. We were the better team by far today.

Jack Hughes, legend, was literally spitting chiclets in the game, scores the game winner. It was just awesome. It was 1980, Last time. I mean, it's crazy. The Miracle on ice was the last time we won a gold medal. You could feel the momentum building. The fact that Four Nations was, even though it was an all-star game, an exhibition game, which, credit to Canada, they did win the exhibition game. We were getting there, getting there, closer and closer. You got to think, too, Jack Hughes saying that he didn't want to end up on Barstool. That's what he was thinking about when he got that penalty late. He said, I picture myself on Barstool Sports being the guy that America hates because Canada scores on the power play. I was like, Oh, my God, here it is. I think we wanted to.

Yeah, he was afraid of Frank going, This motherfucker joke's a bad.

But it was It was awesome. The whole thing was fucking awesome. And yeah, the Canadian cope. Listen, I said it after. I choose to win with class. I'm winning with class. Yes. Does it hurt for Canada? I graciously said The hockey is our fourth, the fourth sport we're best at. It's not the fourth most popular sport in America.

Okay, the ones that we're best at. Is it not? No. Yeah, I think it would be football.

Well, no. If you break up NFL, college football, high school high school?

No, we're better at- Flag football, too.

We're football, baseball, basketball. College basketball. I wish we could say golf, but we did get our asses kicked in the Ryder Cup. And then hockey. And I love hockey. But It's our fourth most important sport, and it's Canada's everything. And we fucking beat you. And we have the gold.

And it's awesome. Not only did we beat you, we beat you twice. We beat you twice. We swept you, men's and women's. We took your sport. We got your sport. This is good for the rivalry. It's great for the rivalry. It's great for America, too.

And we're going to get into it with Jans. But the idea, yes, if you want to go from shots or how the game went, that Canada had the pressure on us the whole time. Yeah, it looked like we weren't going to pull it out. But part of the built of this team was to build a team defense first in a gritty, tough team, and that's what they were.

Whisky drinkers. Yeah. We're the American Whisky drinkers.

The K'Chuck brothers, Jack Eichel, all these guys. We need to- Austin Matthews is a winner. I love that, by the way. If you didn't see the clip, a reporter asked, What are you going to take from this going back to your teams? It was a loaded question to Austin Matthews because he's going back to the Maple Heaps. He's been getting dogged by the Toronto Media. The Hughes brothers came to his defense. Well, I think Jack Hughes, before he came to his defense, was like, Can I get another beer? Which was a great clip. Then he came to his defense I was like, Austin Matthews is a winner. There's nothing else to say. He carried us to a gold medal. He is a winner. The Toronto media should talk about how the fact that he is a winner.

Write that up. He's a winner. Put that in your column. Put that in your column, buddy. Eat that. I think the Hughes brothers seem like the coolest guys ever to hang out with right now. It seems like they're just going to be hammered for the next... The best. Until they touch down the United States. The best. They're going to be drunk as fuck. The interview with Mike Tariko was an all-timer.

By the way, the Hughes family had three gold medals because their mom is That's the part of the women's team, the coach stuff. By the way, did you know that the coaches don't get medals? That's bullshit.

Bizarre. They get the stuffed animal, though, which is more important. The second place stuffed animal was the best. Watching Marshawn get the stuffed... Or McKinnon was even better. Mckinnon was so pissed. They hand Micken in the stuffed animal, and he's just like, the fuck do I do with this? Sorry, buddy, this is for your tears.

Could you imagine being a Canadian and that is your sport, and that is everything. It's like when you think Canada, you think hockey, and you go, and America steals your sport. And then afterwards, they're like, Hey, here's a. It's beautiful. It was great. It was such a great day. I was watching everything. I was watching all the highlights, all the replays, everything.

It really is. You win the gold, you lose the gold, and then you win the bronze. Silver would suck. If you win the bronze, that's a pretty great place to be. You get the stuffed animal. You're happy to have the stuffed animal. I don't think there's anything worse that you can give somebody after losing Using a gold medal than a stuffed animal will be like, It's going to be okay. Yeah, here you go. That's the worst thing you can have.

Have a little plush. Yeah, Quinn Hughes is on another planet on his- The interview with Tariko, these guys, they're the drunkest dudes ever, and I absolutely love it.

They're just talking about how much they love the boys. And then one guy gets, I think it was Quinn Hughes. It was Larkin. No, but Quin just got behind and just goes, Oh, so shout out to troops.

Yeah, he shout out the troops. Larkin just showed up and was like, Hey, I'm in this.

I want to say, Hey, what's up to Mike Tariko?

Larkin was like, Hey, what's up, Mikey Tariko?

It's great, though. It's great. I can't get enough of it. I can't get enough of some of the cope coming from Canada.

Tariko, by the way- It's important to have cope. Tariko was awesome. The message about this is what the next generation dreams about. And these are the dreams you watch the Olympics, and these guys were watching in 2010 and 2014, now they're playing. That was in how sports bring us all together was awesome. Also, Eddie O is the absolute best. I love Eddie O forever. I mean, he's so good in the big moments. He also had the line of the day when Marshawn was basically trying to take on the entire American team, and he said that Marshawn could talk a stamp off an envelope.

Yeah, I like that one.

It's such a great line. It was a great product. The whole thing was just I was on cloud nine all day. Before noon. Yeah. I was just walking around with a smile on my face.

This was fucking awesome. I think we all knew that once overtime started, it wasn't going to go more than five minutes. You had to be around a TV. You had to be locked in because you know the format of three on three. Something's going to happen. Right away. With these guys. You have to watch every second of it. Someone's about to be heartbroken. Someone's about to win. And we gritted it out. This is US hockey. This is how we built the team. We built it to frustrate the, you could say more skilled Canadians. But guess what? We're the better team. There's a thing that they use in sports called the score. And the score today read US to Canada, sorry. Yeah.

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry, buddy. Yeah, not according to Nathan McKinnon. Nathan McKinnon wanted it to be a figure-skating competition because he said afterwards, You be the judge of who has the better team today. Okay, I will.

They should incorporate Jordan.

It was the US. We won 2-1.

There's one thing that America loves about sports like boxing and UFC. That's the judge's scorecards. Those are always fair.

Should we do our favorite cope from Canada? Yeah. All right. I think the number one leader, I don't even know who this guy is, JD Bunkis. Shout out to him.

Yeah, he had a great day. Great name.

So JD Bunkis said, Honestly, if you're an American celebrating that win, you're a casual who doesn't know Puck. Totally fine. Grow the game. Now, that in itself, he's on Sportsnet, JD Bunkis. That in itself is like, Dude, you're a fucking... That's pathetic that you're that upset that you're a casual if you're an American celebrating this. Okay. He also said in 2023, No greater American hockey tradition than losing to Canada, making excuses and being poor sports about it. Mm-mm. Whoops. Yeah. That's the thing.

Listen- He wasn't wrong about that one.

Yeah, but this is the thing. When we make the jokes about the All-Star Game, yes, we lean into it, but we're like, Yeah, we're pissed off that we lost. We're not going to pretend that we weren't... We were pissed, and we leaned into a joke about being an All-Star game. We wanted to win that game. The problem with some of the Canadian writers is that they pretend that they're better than us, and then they do exactly what we're joking about. They do the exact same cope of, Well, the better team lost today.

Well, I think it's also fair to say that last year during the Four Nations, it was a great tournament, and it got everybody excited about hockey, and there was a lot that we put into it, rooting for the USA. But it's not the Olympics. It's not. So yes, calling it an exhibition, we were fucking with people a little bit on that one, fucking with our Canadian friends. But it's not the Olympics. I did see one graphic that got put up being comparing the two countries and their history of hockey success. And they did count like one and no in the Four Nations for Canada as a real thing that they looked at. Listen, that was an exhibition. It was an important exhibition, but that guy's also right in the fact that there's no better tradition Americans have than pretending not to be upset when we lose to Canada.

Taking our ball and going home. We love doing that.

It's so fun. But guess what? We were the better team today. Here's one of my favorites.

Okay.

The Canadians got much louder cheers than the US, which is just getting some polite applause from the crowd in Italy. That's during the ceremony, during the medal ceremony. Canada did get more cheers as they were getting their silver medal than we got.

It also was great. Just this type of event The trolling you can do is just... It's ripe. There was a tweet at the beginning of the game being like, The Americans got booed going out. I just quote to you and be like, I would never boo in any sporting event. It's called the Olympic spirit, and a lot of people took that very seriously. Here's another one that I loved. I can accept the fact that USA won, but what I can't accept is these Fairweather American fans claiming they own the sport now because they won For the first time in almost 50 years, L-O-L. Well, unfortunately, we won both of the women and men. Listen, if I could go back, if I could make a rule that we don't own the sport, I would do that for you, Anissa. Unfortunately, we do own the sport because if you say who has the most recent two gold medals in women's and men's hockey, it's the United States of America. They're, in fact, we do own the sport.

You can come back. Maybe next time we play in the Olympics, you can try to beat us then. Right. That way, it would be fair and you would be able to own the sport.

It would be like when Rome fell and be like, Well, Rome is fine. They won so many wars. Well, guess what?

It's over. Yeah, and listen- This is the most recent thing, what have you done for me lately? Anissa? Anissa. Is there Anissa?

Anissa.

Fielding I'm going to have you guys to check it out. You also have Connor McDavid, who is the best player in the entire world. Yeah, because he got voted for. Connor McDavid is the MVP of the men's Olympic tournament, as voted by, I think, the writers and the players. He won the most important award besides the gold medal at these Olympic Games. So you could say- You basically want a gold. You could say America owns the sport, but that Connor McDavid is the best player in the sport that America owns. He's the best player in America's game.

Yeah, exactly. Here's another Another one. This is from Taj 1944. That was pure domination by Canada. Canada got goalied and US got lucky. Going to happen once in a while when a single game decides everything. Miss multiple empty net tappins. Canada wins that game nine times out of 10 with the same game script. Man, what happened that one time?

Nine times. We had a goalie that stood on our head. He stood on his head, okay? Sometimes you run into a hot goalie. It happens, and you just ran into a better team, and that's okay. We're just the hockey country. Maybe you guys can get good football or basketball. Drake needs to spend a lot of money on just building up some teams in IL. He could probably buy a final four, at least, if he wanted to. But for now, guess what? Hockey is our thing. It's not,.

It's our thing. It is our thing.

Also, shout out to Meg Keller. She got the game-winning goal that you heard us react to live with Biz and Whit. I had forgotten that me and Billy football coached her in the Pink Whitney Cup back in like, 2020, 2021. She owes all that gold medal. I don't want to say that I get any credit, but I think Billy football should get a gold medal.

Yeah, he should. For the training. You know the Onion article that everyone uses, like Worst person you know made a good point. I do have to say this, Worst person we know actually had a good tweet. Daren Ravel, he did say, For all Canadians saying they were the better team on George Washington's birthday, let me remind you the British were the better team, and yet the Americans still won their independence.

That's not really true that the British were the better team.

They had a bigger army.

They had a bigger army, but we also had- Just dumbied them. They were going up against us and France.

Ciao, France.

They were also stupid. They were also very stupid and inbred. We were way less inbred.

I just love all this.

I think Darren's feeling a little high and mighty because his son had a nice future on the USA to win.

On Kalsi. Yeah. So one team dominates, gets goalied, and loses in a gimmick. 35 million devastated in handering for the next four years. The other team celebrates it in 24 hours. Its fans will forget about it for the next four years and get back to the sports that actually matter to them. Hold on. It's going to be more like three days. Oh, no. Kansas does play Big Monday. Yeah, are they playing? Bill Self.

Is it Kansas-Houston?

Houston is going to maybe lose three in a row, or Bill Self loses first Big Monday ever. So yeah, I guess that's more than... No, because the game ended at 10: 00 AM. Yeah, 36 hours. Big Monday is 6: 00 PM. So you're wrong, dude. Thirty-six hours. But, yeah, sorry that we have awesome sports all the time. That's going to be- And March Madness is the fucking best.

Also, it's big Monday. Normally, if this game was played Saturday morning, I think we probably would have gotten through most of the day on Sunday.

This is just a cell phone by this guy because he's just like, Yeah, this is absolutely devastating and crippling for Canada for the next four years, whereas US gets to have March Madness, the Masters, NBA Playoffs, NHL play. We get it all.

World Cup.

Baseball season. They technically have World Cup, too.

Yeah, but that's like a charity. A couple of World Cup games we played in Canada. We all know, I don't think the Prime Minister of Canada got the FIFA World Peace Prize.

No. World Base Classic. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, we got a lot of sports. We love sports, and we fucking dominate a lot of sports.

I do feel for the Canadian that are like, what do they have now? Now that they no longer have- Curling. They got curling. And cheating in it. But at what cost? At what cost did you get curling?

I want to say, by the way, as an aside, I apologize to all curlers everywhere. I curled on Thursday night for six hours. That sport is fucking hard. In what way? Every way. The rocks move so fast. There's skill in there. There's actual physical ability because you're basically just doing lunges all on ice place with a kettlebell. Curling Rocks. I watched nonstop crawling after I curled once. I can't wait for four years. Someone to remind me that I like crawling, and I will be back in.

It's a lot easier if you cheat.

Yeah, it is. It's very effective.

Actually, It's very easy if you cheat. Now, if you're Canadian, you can celebrate the curdling Championship. But I feel like that's got to leave a real bad taste in your mouth. If that's the best thing that you have from these Olympics. From an American standpoint, so I'm a little bit biased on this, We won the three most important gold medals. We can all agree on that. The Winter Olympics, in order, the importance of gold medals is men's hockey, women's hockey, and women's figure skating.

I thought you could say women's slalom because Hank won that.

Hank would have won that. Hank would have won Women's Slalom. If he was entered. Unfortunately, he did not enter himself. But I think those are the three most important ones. Yeah, by far. Nobody cares about... But when you talk about women's figure skating, yeah, I will pretend to care about that for for at least 48 hours. Yeah.

Well, here's the thing that's beautiful about being us is that if we win, we care, and if we don't win, we just pretend it didn't exist. It's beautiful. We won Women's Slalom even without Hank. Oh, let's go. Oh, let's go. And freestyle skiing. And freestyle skiing. We actually had our best Olympics ever. Winter Olympics ever. We smashed our... I think the most goals we had won previously was nine. We won twelve.

If you look at Norway, man. Norway, they invented He vented every sport in these Olympics.

Okay, let me ask a question, though. If you remove cross country skiing.

Norway is like the friend that's like, Hey, do you want to come to my house and play all my video games and I'll beat you at all of them? Yeah. That's what Norway does. Here, I'll give you the joystick that doesn't work. Yeah, the Winter Olympics. You get the Mad Catz one. Is that cool?

Yeah. There's this one guy who was on my Instagram feed. He had seven gold medals. I didn't even know that he just won every cross country thing.

Yeah. I mean, if you look at these stats, if you take out Norway, which you should. We dominated We dominated these Olympics.

Absolutely dominated. Man. Listen, Silver Shines Bright. That was a real tweet from the Canadian women's.

Silver Shines Just as Bright? Just as Bright. Just as Bright.

Yeah, if you take our cross country skiing, we had more gold medals.

There's a couple of souvenirs that I would like to get my hands on from these Olympic Games. One would be the stuffed animal for the losers. The little booboo, yeah. I'm sure that there's some trash can in the Canadian locker room that got filled with those stuffed animals. If anybody knows how I can get my hand on one of the losing stuffed animals, I'd love that. Then I did say in a request to Jack Hughes, if he doesn't do anything with the teeth, I would like to have those teeth raised up in the rafters here at the bar store Chicago HQ.

Would love that. Right next to Danny Boykane.

Right next to all the banners. We'll put that in banner corner. I think that would make a nice addition to the collection.

Yeah, I like that a lot. We're going to get into more of the game with Jans, talk about the Johnny Goudreau moment which was awesome. Just everything. Everything about that game was incredible. We also... Here's something. Actually, I'll save it for my who's back. The whole thing. I loved it. What would we have talked about if we lost? How would the show start? Duke, Michigan?

Yeah, it's a fun... No, probably not Duke, Michigan. It's a good question. I probably just would have reentered a new future on the Celtics. No, I- We would open the show with that.

Probably Nova getting smoked. I will I was going to say, and we said this on Friday's show with Witt and Biz, I would have been very upset if we'd lost this. Whereas the Four Nations, when we lost it, we could easily be like, Ha ha, that's an exhibition. This would have sucked. This would have sucked because we would have gotten so close. Again, we had to eat some crow. I would have eaten some crow. The Canadians were being mean online, man. They were being mean. They don't handle losing well. They got to learn some class from us.

It's the only thing they got.

We win with class and we lose with class. That's what we do.

It's the only thing Canada's got is hockey. I'm sorry Canada. I hope Oldie's doing okay.

I might have told Canada to suck our dicks from the back. But that's class. I used hashtag class.

What would America's dick be? What would be the great American penis? Dan Daukich. I think Florida. I think the state of Florida, that's America's dick. Yeah, that definitely is. Suck it Canada.

Louisiana's the balls.

It's swampy there. Big Big time, Swamp Ass.

Yeah. Suck Florida.

That would actually make... Yeah, like Newport News, Virginia Beach would be the naval. Yeah.

Take in Florida. Which is perfect. Take all Florida in. Yeah. Right in your mouth. Man, what a game. Max, how was the bar? Bar was awesome. How drunk did you get? Because you get drunk. I didn't think you were making it. Did you go? No. I got pretty drunk, but-What time did you get there? I I didn't get there for Puck Drop. It was 7: 12. Okay. Was my EPA. Oh, that's going to piss off a Canadian listening to this right now. Whatever. I don't care. I was there, but there is something different about... When you have a beer that early, it hits much differently. Oh, you instantly get drunk. Yeah. I said that once I started my second beer, I was like, I haven't felt this way after the sip of a second beer ever.

It's a life hack.

It was also the The bar is called the Hockey Barn in Chicago. The reservations were packed. We were in the back corner of a golf simulator, but the vibes were just so incredible. It was so packed. Everyone was so fired up, and everyone just loved American hockey.

Now, Max, did you go out Saturday?

I did, but I was home by nine o'clock.

Okay, yeah, because that's another thing. It's like everyone knows if you wake up and you have a beer before noon the day after, you get rollover minutes from the night before. Even if you don't feel drunk, it kicks you back in. But yeah, it was cool to see all the lines at all the bars. It was awesome. People opening up early. I watched from bed, which was awesome to do, too. It's a nice way to start your day.

I head bang so hard to Free Bird. I think my neck is permanently damaged. My neck hurts so bad.

After we scored the game-winning goal, I just ran down to my basement just to play Free Bird for myself. Love that. That's awesome. I just grabbed Just for the love of the game. No cameras, nothing on. I just plugged that shit in, and I was just like, I'm just going to rip it. I'm just going to rip it. The acappella version of the guitar, no backup track. My neighbors were probably walking by, walking their dogs on the street outside the window. They were like, What the fuck is going on? That sounds terrible. But yeah, you just had to. Everybody... It was such a good release in that moment. It was so good.

It was one of those things where it was like the game ended and I was with a bunch of my friends. We were like, Fuck it. We're going to have an all-time Sunday. And I was like, Whatever. I'll figure out part of my take later. And then an hour went by and I was like, I'm good to go home and take it. I just took a four-hour nap.

Yeah, I didn't appreciate- You weren't going to stick around for Memphis South Florida, or U.

A. B. There was a moment where I was like, What am I doing here?

Now, if there was a stronger slate that came on right after that, then that could have been a great day.

No, because I bet USA big, and then I was like, Okay, nice. And then I was just forced into betting. I can't even remember the game. I think it was Memphis UAB. I was like, All right, Memphis UAB, let's go. But that's the beauty of being us. We got Memphis UAB right after. They got nothing.

You would still have to wait another four hours for the golf to come on. Yeah.

You don't think I was betting Rice, Tulane?

I was, and it was great. It was awesome. We did it, guys.

We fucking did it. We did it. We did it. We really did it. Oh, here's another cope. Ready for this? John Cooper Coach. You take four players off the ice. He's talking about three on three OT. You take four players off the ice. Now, hockey is not hockey anymore. There's a reason. Overtime and shootouts are in play. It's all TV-driven to end the end game, so it's not a long time. There's a reason why it's not in the Stanley Cup final or play-outs. It is in the Stanley Cup regular season. You did know that it was three on three before the tournament. You do have the three best players in the world on one line that were on the ice when you lost. That's just a shame. That's a shame that you got to go to excuse making. Also, Butcher Grass made a great point, and I think it's true. Three on three is beautiful because you know you're going to get an awesome goal. When you have five on five, and yes, playoff hockey is incredible. It's probably the best viewing experience. But when you get to overtime and play off hockey, it could be the bounce off of a stick or a deflected pass from 40 feet out.

Three on three hockey, you're going to get a sick, sick It's a big goal, and that's what we got.

Yeah, it's wide open. It's actually very fun hockey. I know it's not the same, but guess what? You had the rules, too.

And if you have the better team, win the game.

You can also just make a wide open shot in regulation. You can just do that. That's an easy way to handle it.

I will say, I know we dog him. Mcdavid, incredible tournament, won the MVP. That's what he does. He wins MVPs. My life flashed before my eyes when he did the thing in overtime where he got all his momentum and entered the zone. You're like, This is a problem. He did that, I think, once or twice. You're like, Oh, fuck.

Having him with a puck on his stick. It was a wide open ice. He was like, This is a problem. Listen, I don't want to say that Sydney Crosby is a basketball player playing hockey because he didn't play in the gold medal game. Other people are saying that. I don't think that's fair to a basketball players. No, that's not fair. Sga would have played. He would have flopped, but he would played. I don't think it's fair to City Crosby. He's got a big-time playoff run coming with Pittsburgh Penguins this year, and so he needs to rest up for that.

Oh, you got SGA?

Yeah, you do have SGA.

You have SGA.

That's awesome. Yeah. That's sick. He's hockey tough.

Dylan Brooks. He's Canadian, right? You got that? Yeah. That's awesome.

That's so sick. Two great guys.

Andrew Wiggens. Yeah.

His birthday today.

Andrew Wiggens' birthday.

Happy birthday, Andrew Wiggens.

Let's say some nice things about Canada. Anthony Bennett.

Anthony Bennett. Anthony Bennett. Yeah.

Yeah, number one overall.

Alanis Morsead. Yep.

Céline Dion. Céline Dion.

Is she okay?

John Candy. Love John Candy. Norm McDonald. Fucking love John Candy. Norm McDonald, RIP.

Jim Carrey. The Goat. Yeah.

Listen, I do love Canada. We are a little... Yes, we do own your sport, but I love biz. I love Oldie. Canada is awesome. I love going. Toronto is one of my favorite cities to visit.

Alex Trebek.

Alex Trebek. Maple Syrup. Canada rocks. Not at hockey, but everything else. Canada is great. Canada is a great, great country. They're just not the best at hockey anymore.

I think that Montreal is one of my favorite cities. I stand by what I said about the Belsinger. It's the most incredible place to watch a hockey game that I've ever seen, maybe even a sporting event. It was like SEC loud in there.

Chase Claypool.

There you go. One of our great American football players.

He He got traded for a second pick. Basically, a first-round pick. It was like the 33rd pick. Yeah. That's huge. Wayne Gretsky, he's the great one. He's the man.

Yeah, pretty much Chad Kelly now. I think he is Canadian. Yeah.

Ryan Reynolds. He's got a lawsuit or something.

Richard McAdams, Wedding Crashers. The people that found the Don't Fuck with cats guy. Yes. There are a bunch of Canadians that track that guy down. Good for them. Yes.

Drake. Trailer Park Boys. Trailer Park Boys. Pamela Anderson. Is she Canadian? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Remember, she was found because she was one of the cheerleaders. She got caught on camera at a CFL game, and they're like, She's hot. Yeah.

Rob Ford.

Rob Ford, RIP.

Rip, great guy. Eugene Levy.

The Harp Brothers, also half RIP.

Half RIP for the Harp Brothers. Yeah.

There's a lot. There's a lot of great Canadians, and we love them.

It's just not your sport anymore. That's okay. You'll find a new sport.

Yeah. You guys, you know what? This crawling thing's got legs.

Go with it. Yeah, this might be the start of a dynasty.

You just go with the crawling thing. Stick with crawling. Stick with crawling. Yeah, I think it's just crawling. I don't know.

What else? No, I think curling would be a good one for you to just lean into, get a dynasty going. Archery. I feel like Canadians could be good at archery.

Yup. Being dudes you want to have a beer with, that's a fact. Canadians are dudes you want to have a beer with.

You know what?

Not a dudes you want to have a beer with and watch hockey because they don't really know the game. It's our game now. But dudes you want to have a beer with without hockey on.

I think Canada is one of the strongest lunch countries. Why? I think they've got just great lunches. Okay. They take lunch pretty seriously. Poutine? Yeah, they got the poutine. They eat a very heavy lunch in general in Canada.

That's something to respect.

You got the poutine. Poutine's big. You got the moose. Yeah. A lot of moose.

A lot of moose.

Maybe just go Hose down the backyard and look at the moose for a couple of days. That always takes this thing off. I used to tell Darlen, I'd say, Darlin, I got to go hose down the backyard and look at my moose.

Oh, man. What else we got? Anything? I mean, that was awesome. Anything else about the Olympics?

Any other last takes? No, it just rocks winning all the good sports.

Yeah, it really does.

I love it.

Did you guys catch the Olympic gala?

We had some pretty decent redemption skates at the gala. What's the gala? It's more so just a little bit of a send off. It's not competition. Are you talking about the closing ceremonies? It's before the closing ceremony. There's something before the closing ceremony is called the gala? It's an Olympic gala. They've got quite a few athletes who do some skating. So some of those athletes who things didn't really pan out their way in the competition of the games, we're able to get some closure through the gala skates. Oh. So Elio, the quad god, he He fell a couple of times. Didn't meddle in the free skate, but on his gala skate, he hit the backflip. That was good.

He got some closure there.

Okay.

And then Amber Glenn, you guys saw she underrotated that triple loop for the short program.

Wait, they should have just had Nathan McKinnon just shooting on an empty net. That would have been perfect. That could have played, too. Just in that angle, just being like, All right, I can do this. Just a redemption.

If you tried to do that Nathan McKinnon shot in a video game, if you set it up and you try to miss, how many times out of 10 would you be able to miss without the computer making you make that shot?

Pft, I don't want to sound crazy. I don't think I missed that shot. If I'm put on the ice and Nathan McKinnon's spot, I think I hit that every time.

I think you probably would, too. Right? Even in a video game.

You hit that every time in real life.

I was thinking about that. I think I could hit that shot.

Every time. We're such dicks.

It's not that hard. No. It's wide open net.

You're fucking buck on that, dude.

A hell of a big didn't even know where the ball was.

I love that.

I love talking about hockey, like halftime. You got to shoot the ball. It's great. I think the best trolling sport. It really is. You guys are He's been very mean in the group chat, though, regarding Tom Wilson. Well, he's a bad guy. Tom Wilson, not a bad guy.

He was being a bad guy. He was being a bad guy.

Not a bad guy. Tom Wilson, great guy.

He was being a bad guy.

Great hero. He plays the game in a very American way. It's unfortunate that he's on Canada. No, he was being- What do you do that was so wrong today?

He's just being a bad guy. There was one late hit. That's what I was like, Yeah, and then he was complaining a little through the rest.

Sorry that he's built like a freight train. You're being Canadian right now, Max, complaining.

Complaining about a Canadian?

I'm just warning you. You sound like a Canadian right now.

You sound like a Canadian because you're the one defending the Canadian.

No, the Canadian plays the game a very American way, and you're upset.

Right now, you're defending the Canadian, and you're calling me the Canadian. Yeah, you're You're being upset and you sound Canadian because a physical man played a physical sport physically.

You're like, Oh, no, that's too sensible.

Just to be clear, you're the one defending the Canadian.

Yes, for playing the game American.

So I'm the Canadian?

Yes.

Even though you're the one defending the Canadian.

Correct. Got it. Yeah. This is not complicated, Max.

This all makes sense. It makes perfect sense. Oh, man. Wait. All right. I want to see. Oh, my God. I could have made it every time. I would have made it every time.

Let's see this.

He had a second, too. It wasn't like a true one-timer.

That's a lot of net.

Wait, play it in real speed. Don't ban us, IDOC, from talking about it. They actually probably would. We could tell that they had some video in the room with them. Yeah, I make it every time. I mean, we all do. Guys like us, you know why? Because it's our sport. It's our sport. We're America.

We have tremendous concentration.

Yeah, it's our sport. We don't miss those shots.

This guy doesn't.

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There's one other thing that I want to say about this team. Please. This comes to us from our good friend, Franky Borelli. He tweeted this out. This is crazy. We're going to have to do a wild check on this one. Brock Nelson, he played wearing number 29. His grandfather was on the 1960 gold medal team. His uncle was on the 1980 gold medal team. His grandfather, number 6. His uncle, number 23. 6 plus 23 equals 29 for Brock Nelson. Three gold medals for three US Olympic hockey teams in that family. Pretty awesome.

Pretty awesome. His name is Brock. We We're going to get into more of the game with Jens. He had a great breakdown, what it means for USA hockey, everything. Do you guys want to talk some college basketball? Huge Saturday slate. Awesome. I came away from Saturday thinking, Not different than really what I went into Saturday with, which was Duke's really fucking good. Cameron Booser's awesome, which I still can't get over the fact that I vividly remember watching him as a fat seven-year-old in Carlos Booser's driveway. It's tough getting old. I actually walked away being like, I don't think that was that bad of a loss for Michigan in the fact that they shot absolute dog shit. If they just shoot a little bit better, they'd probably win that game.

I thought it was a It was a great loss for Michigan. I thought that they played really... Duke played, I think, as good as they can. Yeah. And they're very good. Duke's capable of beating anybody. Michigan's capable of beating anybody. Yeah, it was a close game. It came down to the last 40 seconds. It came down to some foul shots, some missed wide open threes. But it's also very strange having these games neutral site this time of year. They should not be neutral site this time of year. I want to see- Well, no.

I disagree just on the fact that I hate that I'm saying something nice about Duke, but I like that they do.

There's an argument to be made that having big matchups between out-of-conference teams this time of year is good for the sport in general. I just don't like playing these games off campus. Yeah.

There was Wizards. There was a Wizards game there, and the tickets were like 20 bucks, and tickets for that game were 300. I think someone posted that there was... I think if you combined the get-in price for every Wizards game for the rest of the season, it was less than what the get-in price was for Duke, Michigan.

They usually pay you to go to Wizards game.

What I was to say is Duke, to their credit, have done this. Actually, I think their second or third year doing this. People forget it happened last year because they beat Illinois by 50, but they tried to schedule a big-time team in this zone, which is smart by Duke to get ready for it. They were playing with the tournament balls. So So it was Duke, Michigan. I also thought Arizona was so fucking impressive because I thought that was going to be a game that Houston, awful loss, was definitely going to win. And Arizona is just such a problem down low. They're just so efficient. And that was a big one.

And And then- I'm going to be Timing the Cougars, by the way. I'm expecting that they lose at Kansas.

Well, I don't know. Kansas, dude, that picture of Darren Peterson coming back to the huddle.

That's some fake news, though. Why? Did you see the play? Or if you just saw the picture, it looks bad. He was having a word with the referee, and then he came back to meet up with his teammates. I still think it's- It's one of those pictures that will confirm every bad thing that you thought about him. But if you see what happens in the moment without just looking at that one image.

Well, maybe he should have been in the huddle with his team.

He could have been in the huddle with his team.

He could have been in the huddle with his team. I also think he's a little injured because I was watching, not to get too deep into it, I was watching highlights of him in high school, and his leaping ability is is not the same right now. So I think something's up with him. He might actually be injured.

I think he's injured, but I think that when it comes to them saying he had the flu and all this stuff, there's other stuff that goes on around with it. And then Bill Soff was like, Yeah, there's things that he can do to change the narrative, which is play. He needs to play.

Max, you did not go to Philadelphia smart. Thank God. They look terrible. Are you nervous at all about Vilnova off of... We were joking about it, but we weren't joking about it. Yukon loses a crate, and they're going to win the next game. Yeah. I said that last week. I said, College basketball is different. Wish they didn't lose. And now we play St. John's on Saturday, and then St. John's has to play at Yukon on Wednesday, so there's a good chance I'm just doing it all over again. Doing it all over. Also, I don't think you mentioned it, AJ DeBança also in Insane. Yeah, played all 40 minutes. All 40 minutes. That's 29, 10, and 9. College game is crazy. What was his final stat line? 29 points, 10 rebounds, 9 assists. My guy, Boyd, Badgers today, big win against Iowa. He had 27, 9, and 10, which, yeah, it is. A triple-double, a near triple double in college is nuts. It's hard to do. Then, McCronin off the hot seat with the... Taia Sedney, Coast to Coast. That was the first thing I thought of.

That defense was just... That was awesome.

It looked like Taia Sedney, Coast to Coast.

Great defense. Nobody moved. They were just like, dribble around us. I love it for Mick Cronin, though. I love it. I love how mad he's made people.

And they looked dead. They were down like 20 in a blink. Yeah, instantly, they were down. Just college basketball, Rock said, I'll keep banging the drum. There's a thing going on in my head where, is the SEC overrated this year, or is the SEC bad this year is the question. I don't think they're bad. They're not as good as last year. But what Florida has been doing, quietly, they've just been wasting teams, absolutely wasting teams. And they feel like everyone's not paying attention because the SEC doesn't have the loaded teams like they did last year. Kentucky is... Did you hear Mark Pope after the game against Auburn? Yeah. He walked off. It was like, credit to me, I didn't talk any shit about how the stole that game from us, but it was still on a microphone. It was great. But credit to him.

I don't know if you can find the guy for that because he did not say it on the mic.

I think Florida, they have been just awesome. If you look at their losses, they were all to really good teams early in the season. They lost to Arizona by a couple of possessions. They lost to Yukon by a couple of possessions. I think they lost to Duke by one. Florida, I think they're still about 13 to one if you want to hop on. Just saying Florida. Twelve to one. Twelve to one.

I just get mad when I watch Florida because I'm like, You need to play this seven foot nine guy.

Yeah, they have the- Play Olivia. I mean, that's what you need if you're going to play against Duke, if you're going to play against Arizona, if you're going to play against Michigan, like Michigan's got so much height. You need those guys, and Florida has those guys.

Did you hear Wimby say that he's going to compete the dunk contest?

Oh, really?

Either that or I got fake quoted, but I think it was real. We got to find out. When I said it out loud, I was like, This sounds like might have gotten scintled.

That would actually be cool. I don't even think he has to jump. No. He just walking and be like, Holy shit, he's tall. Yeah.

He would just dunk it, and then everybody be like, I guess that counts as a dunk. Yeah, he said it. He said it? Okay. He said it? Good.

Steph He's doing the three-point contest next year, he said, which will be awesome. I love watching. I know it goes viral every six months. But Steph's warmup where he doesn't miss a shot, and he starts two feet away, and goes all the way to half-court, and then comes back in. It's just like, this is the coolest thing ever. He still is the coolest. Absolute coolest. Okay, any other sports stories before we do who's back and then get to our interviews, which we have two great interviews. We do have Combine week coming up. It's crazy. Nfl's back that fast. Combine week, back to Indy. Feels good. Any other? Oh, Kurt Signetti got a new contract, which- Good for him. 13 million a year. Deserved. Deserved. Big time deserved.

The push push is not in danger of being eliminated, I don't think. Really? It sounds like they're not proceeding with any votes to get it out, right, Max? Yeah, because the Eagles weren't good at it this year. Oh. Yeah. What do you think about that? Do you think it should be a band now? I don't give a fuck.

Whatever.

Why do you sound so upset? I'm not upset. I just said I don't care. Okay.

It sounds like I don't care. It does sound like you don't care. Hank, what happened in golf? Jacob Bridgeman won. He was up 6: 00 going into Sunday. Almost choked. Rory couldn't make a put. Came in second. What about Liv? No, live this week. They did get $250 million from live for additional spending.

Who did?

Live from the Saudis.

Oh, okay. They just went to dad and they were like, Hey, dad, I got some extra expenses this month.

Yeah, they waited for the best story in sports of the week, and we're like, Hey, can we get another 250 mil, please?

What are they going to do with 250 mil?

Live hockey.

There you go.

Live hockey It would be awesome. Yeah. They play in shorts.

You put the knives on the feet.

I just scrolled past this from Levy on Bell. He said, It took me 45 years to realize it's hard as hell. Not hard as hell.

Is Is that true? Levyon Bell is a serial tweet stealer. Is that true? Yeah, he just copies and pastes for engagement stuff.

Hard as what? A-i-l.

It's hard as hell.

It's hard as hell. Hard as Hell.

It's Hard as Hell. Hard as Hell.

He's saying it's Hard as- Hard as Hell. No.

I think he might have just heard somebody say it's Hard as Hell.

He's also just reminding people that it's his birthday because I think it was two days ago. Hard as Hell? Yeah, that can't be true. No way. It can't be true. Dude, you're 34 years old. He's 45? That happened fast.

No. No. Livian Bell is not 45. There's no way.

Okay, he's 34. Yeah, 34 years old. Why did he say he was 45? Because he stole the tweet. He stole the exact tweet?

Even I thought he would have changed his own age. But no, he just copies and paced tweets.

I like that he just did that. He was like, I'm not even going to change the age?

Yeah. What?

That's just his thing?

Oh, yeah.

I didn't know that.

Hard times for Levia.

Hard as hell. Stealing tweets. Huh?

250 million.

But wait. But on February 18th, because I remember this, too, he tweeted, This is also probably a stolen tweet, 45 years around the sun never felt so good. I appreciate all the birthday love. Does he think he's 45? How is that a stolen tweet?

I think he also... He smokes a lot of weed.

And it was his birthday on February 18th. Why is he saying he's 45?

He smokes a lot of weed.

Multiple times.

Have you seen that?

Can you pull out? I see that. But can you pull up the tweet? Scroll his tweet. Why is he saying he's 45 multiple times? Why is he saying he's 45 on his own birthday? Go down, I think, February 18th. He also tweeted 19 hours ago, The level of I don't give a fuck you get in your 30s is a beautiful thing. What the hell is going on? 45 years around the sun never felt so good. I appreciate all the birthday love. At my big age, I still cuss in front of my mom. What is going on?

Yeah, he I would say the level I don't give a fuck you get in your 30s is beautiful. I think he's in his 30s.

So all the '92 babies. He was born in 92.

It depends on what time of day you talk to Levia on Bell. If you talk to him past 3: 00 PM, he's probably smoked nine blunts, and he's probably just smoked himself into being older.

Because that makes you feel a little better. Because when I saw the 45 years around the sun, I was like, damn, how did I miss that he's 45?

But he also says, At my big age, I still don't cuss in front of my mom.

Right. The mystery of Levia on Bell.

Okay, February 17. So all the 92 babies were going to be considered mid-30s this year.

Okay. So he does know his age.

I think so.

We think. He has multiple tweets saying he's 45. Okay. The mystery of Le'Vion Bell's Twitter.

But he says, I'm old enough to remember when $5 was good gas money. Yeah. So he might be like 75. No, that was No. No. No. No. Five dollars has never been good gas money.

What you're about to say is- I guess when I was in high school, it's like, We have no money. Yeah, but that's not filling up your tank. You're saying- No, but that's like, if you're getting a ride from someone like five dollars covers the ride.

But gas wasn't a dollar a gallon.

No, but like- Gas wasn't a dollar a gallon. He's not saying it's a full tank. He's just like, If we're taking a trip and I give you five bucks, that should be five bucks is valid. I'm looking up gas prices right now because I'm actually curious. Gas prices were a dollar a gallon in 1998. Yeah, they haven't been.

If Levyon is 34 years old, he doesn't remember that.

Yeah, they've been over $2 a gallon since 2005. Stop eating crabs. How would you feel if somebody cracked you open and ate you up? Not good. That's a good point.

Wait, from the back?

Yeah, that wouldn't feel fun. Gas is so expensive now.

What the fuck, man? There are four girls in a room. Macy is playing chess. Lucy is watching TV. Kayla is sleeping. What is the fourth girl doing?

Normalize not knowing what the hell you're doing but still showing up. I'm retweeting that.

Does anybody have a gas? Wait, is that the fourth girl?

Is that what you're doing, Hank? Sometimes, yeah. A lot of the time. Normalize it.

Just no one has a guess about the fourth girl.

Wait, say it again one more time.

Four girls in a room. Macy is playing chess. Lucy is watching TV. Kayla is sleeping. What does the fourth girl do?

Videotaping them?

I don't think so.

What is she doing?

I think she's got to be playing chess, right?

Oh, yeah, that would make sense.

There's one of them who's playing chess.

You could play chess by yourself.

You could? Man, damn. Levia has make me think.

I say it is what it is like I don't overanalyze for six hours. That's a check tweet, Levia.

He does a lot of check tweets.

What was that? What the hell? This is a... We might just have to...

Levia Bell was a really good football player, and we don't talk about that enough. I like this one.

He was awesome. Yeah, he was. And he was wholly unique.

And then he was like, I'm going to put out a rap album, and I'm going to make NFL Beatwriters stay up past midnight. And then I'm going to hold out. To listen to every single line of my rap album to figure out where I'm going to go. How much do you...

I just realized, how much do you hate Levy on Bell memes? I don't hate them. They didn't use them.

How excited were you when the Jets got?

I hope the next Super Bowl halftime show is in Chinese. Nice. I might retweet that one. People be in the gym doing a 1,000 reps of conversation. He might rock.

There's a story when he was with the Jets, he had a threesome and then got robbed, and there's a phone call with the police. He's just describing how they robbed him. Can you find that phone call, please, Meeps?

A lot of these are just the most, like, how can I get paid off of Twitter? Oh, yeah. Possible. What's the first era of your body that you wash in shower, why is it your left arm?

Yeah, he's just like, damn, that's true. How about this one? Trader Joe's is nice for a fling, but that's not a grocery store you marry. That's not true. I disagree. That's very much true. I feel like you marry. It's your second wife. I think it's your second wife.

Yeah, I agree with that one. Yeah. Trader Joe's has some things that you can't get anywhere else. But if you're going baseline, I want to go get my cheerios.

It's like first marriage, you go with a Kroger or a Food Lion.

Mariano's, yeah.

Mariano's, and then you get divorced, but you know what you like, and Trader Joe's has all that stuff that you like. So then you know more your second time around. Yeah.

I mean, Trader Joe's, if you want to get a frozen enchilada, that actually is pretty good. Yeah. You realize- It's going to be pretty good.

Later on in life, some dudes just love those ginger snaps, and you're one of those guys.

Dude, the Trader Joe's big tub of mini chocolate chip cookies.

Oh, my God.

The best.

Just hammer those. You know what's really I had at Trader Joe's? The gummy bears that are covered in chocolate. Chocolate gummy bears. I never knew that was even a thing. They're so fucking good.

Peanut butter pretzels. Yeah. One, one. Oh, here's a good one. So weird how everyone sleeps differently. I sleep on my side, my ex sleeps with anybody, and you all sleep on me.

Okay, what about this one? This is actually a great one. Brazilian sounds like a really big number. What? Think about it.

It does.

Brazilian. This one, Brazilian.

I got my mind blown the other day by one of those stupid facts that in between every number is infinity numbers. In between one and two is infinity numbers.

Oh, yeah. It's like the arrow thing.

It's like, fuck. I never thought about that, and it messed me up. You get it, Hank? No. You could just go forever on decimals. 1. 1. So in between each number is infinity numbers. Yeah. Kind of fucks you up a little bit.

You remember when we talked about the arrow thing back in the day? If I shot an arrow at Hank, it would never actually hit him. Parallax. Because it has to go half the way there. That's why... Yeah.

Parallax angle. By the way, I know we do Firefest on Fridays, but I got to say, I just bought a new chapstick yesterday, and today it's in my dryer. I cannot keep living like this.

Dan is so relatable.

It's Olivia on Bell tweet.

Yeah, it's so relatable.

What is he doing? What is going on with him?

Can we play the police phone call?

Did you find it? What is the total estimated value of the item? Oh, like a million dollars. Since you said that you know the girls who did this, I need to get their description. Are they white, black, or Hispanic? The girls, they're one is mixed, and they're both mixed. They're both mixed. Okay. Their skin color, if an officer was to drive by, would they look more white, black, or Hispanic? One will look more black, and the other one will look more Hispanic. Okay. The one that looks more black, how old is she? 23. What was she wearing today? When I left, she was in the bed. She was in the bed not wearing clothes when she left. So I didn't see her. You know what I'm saying? Okay. And the other one, you said she looked more Hispanic. Is that correct? She looked more like if anything like we are White or his face. Yes. Okay. How old is she? She's 21. And what was she seeing last week wearing today? The same way. She was in the day, too..

Oh, I love that. Good for him. That rocks. Yeah. He might have also just staged that phone call just to get word out there that Levy on Bell is fucking two Chicks at once.

Last one, because this one actually is good. It's a banger. Even the Grinch has a dog. So if you don't like dogs, that says a lot about you. It's a good point. Great point.

Max.

I have a dog. I wasn't talking about you, bro.

You said Max.

That's the name of the Grinch's dog. It's not always about you. You were looking at me and said Max. I was. But his name is Max. I know. Max is testing today. Got you He's hung over.

Yeah, he is.

He's hung over from this morning. My neck hurts so bad. I can't stress you enough how bad my neck hurts. He's currently in the throes of a hangover. I don't know. I headbanked way too hard. Good news is you won't be hung over tomorrow. I don't know. You're a beast. Okay, let's do who's back in the week. Then we'll get to Yans, and we'll get to Zack D. Gregorius, who is our looge athlete, who might be a sponsored, pardon, might take athlete in the next Winter Olympics. Before we do that, Chevy. Football season might be over, but you know how it goes the minute the big game ends. We're already talking about what's next. Free agency, the draft, who's getting paid, who's grinding. Because for football guys, there is no offseason. That's exactly why they roll with the Chevy Silverado. Silverado is the truck that shows up every time, built to haul, tow, and take a beating, but smart where it counts with modern tech that makes life easier. Big screens, available camera views, and help with towing and parking in a cabin that feels right, whether you're road tripping, heading to practice, or loading up for the weekend.

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Viral, viral monkeys.

Oh, yeah.

Punch the Monkey. Oh, this is the monkey with the- It's honestly depressing. It's sad. I Wish it wasn't as viral as it was because it just makes me sad every time I see it. It's a monkey that's getting bullied. Oh, what the fuck?

I've heard that punch. Is punch a boy or a girl?

Whoa, whoa, whoa. They're putting hands on him. Yeah.

This is crazy. But here's where it gets really sad. It's got a fake mom that it runs to, a stuffed animal, and just hugs the fake mom.

Baby monkey is separated from his mother's shirt. Oh, this is... Dude, why did you bring this up? It's going viral. It's a big story. I saw the picture. I didn't see the video. I was fine with the picture. Not since Moudang has a... Moudang. Shut up, Moudang. Moudang got too old. Moudang was-No, but Hank isn't even saying the good part. It got a protector. It finally got an embrace from another monkey.

Oh, let's go. It got one hug?

Yes. You got to give us that part. Play the hug. That's a great hug. So Punch has someone watching his back now? Kind of. Oh, he's got a gun? Punch has a gun?

He's a real, yeah. Somebody did make a fanfic video about Punch where it just goes around drop-kicking every other monkey that's in the thing.

Oh, Punch. Man, this was a bummer. Yeah. All right, but he's got to protect her now. After days of rejection, Baby Punch finally felt the warmth of love. Today, an adult monkey on sing, raft little Punch in the tightest, most comforting hug. Was that a hug or was he trying to squeeze him to death? That's a good hug. Don't try and ruin this movement for punch. Okay. I mean, this has got to be like a-Don't trust that hug punch. It's just a natural... Isn't this a thing where an abandoned animal in the wild, other animals don't trust it?

Yeah, if you made every single species a reality show, you would realize that most animals are assholes. Yeah.

All right, good for punch. He's back. He's cute. Very cute. Yeah, very cute. Okay.

My Who's Back of the Week is Graffity. Graffity is back. It was discovered at the New Bill's Stadium. And apparently, there's a lot of graffiti that was discovered there to the point where they issued a $100,000 bounty on turning in the people that did the graffiti, and they won't say what the graffiti is. But apparently, it was really bad to the point where it's making national news.

Did they halt construction?

They stopped construction on the new stadium because of this graffiti.

Was it a swastika or something?

I don't know. They said borderline pornographic in nature. I have a theory. I have a theory of what it could be. Okay. We've seen a lot of new stadiums and a lot of the construction workers that are laying the cement and the concrete. They put stuff that cement and concrete. Yeah. Like as a little leave behind. You think they're putting dildos in there? And they got caught?

The dildozer? That would be pretty awesome.

The dildosers. I think they might be putting dildos into the foundation of the stadium, and they got caught.

But what is the graffiti?

They won't say. They just said pornographic in nature. I don't know if they'd consider that graffiti or if that's just like vandalism.

I could see it being dildo.

But they won't say what it is. So we should put a bounty. If you guys tell us- Someone tell us. Someone tell us. Do an email at PMT Bachelor Party. Pmt Bachelor Party.

Yeah, remember? Isn't that our new segment? We're going to do it monthly. Your rumors and tits and rumors. Yeah,tips and Tits. Tits and Rumors? Yeah. It was Tips and Tits. Tips and Tits. All right, so everyone sends Zack your tip on what it could have been and also some tits. We will talk about that on Wednesday.

I'm sure that there's multiple people that work building this new stadium. Get to the bottom of it, Zack. That listened to the show.

We'll do some investigative research. Okay. Okay, who's back in the week is the Huffingham Post. I didn't know it still existed. Yeah. No idea. Then they dropped this one right after we won all these gold medals. If waving the American flag or chanting USA turns you off right now, you're not alone. So thanks, Huffingham Post.

That is true. Like, Canadians, it probably turned them off.

Just a fucking fart in the best Olympics we've ever had. I didn't know Huffingan Post was still there.

Yeah, neither did I. It's okay to enjoy things. I think that a lot of people could take that advice and learn a lot from it. Some stuff is good.

Some stuff is just good to enjoy the moment and not think about how shitty the world is in general.

I'm willing to actually make that a definitive statement. Some stuff is good and you should enjoy it because it's fun.

It's actually basically the premise of this show is that, Hey, there's enough Like, hardships that people go through. Come hang out with us, and we're not going to talk about anything serious. Wait, I want to see that email. What was that email? Zack, Property Management Expert for Zack. I just I was in a Friday's episode and heard you fire... What is it? Can you make it a little bigger? You fire fest about the 10 days you got and everything going on. As someone who has worked in property management, it definitely sounds like your building manager tried to flex some language on you to get you scared. There's a lot more that it takes to kick you out from your place. So if you have any questions? Oh, you're good. Ps, please pick number 6 for the lottery ball machine. Okay. Pick 6 today. You're good, Zack. That sounds really reassuring. Yeah, they're just trying to scare you with language. They're muscling me with verbiage? Yeah. They see a guy like you, they're like, We'll just throw some language at him, and he won't know what to do. We're not going to stand for grammatical aggression.

No, we're not. No, we're not. No, absolutely not.

In fact, we're going to fight fire with fire. Syllables of silibles? But sometimes the best words are the ones you don't say. Left unsaid. Yeah. It's like jazz.

They also might just be like, Hey, we're going to throw some language at you. You're going to go back to your podcast and talk to your idiot coworkers, and they're going to come up with an even dumber idea that will get you kicked out even faster. But that's why we have Jake now in the email. Yeah. We have Jake in the email. He's got you. Okay, Zack, finish this off before we get to our interviews. My Who's Back in the Week some newly found health discoveries. As a show, we're trying to get right, elongate our lives, get our bodies right. This was your first day doing the Chinese workout today. Did you like it? Chinese workout way more extensive than I thought it would be. I sweat way more than I ever thought I would going into it. But I appreciate the invite. It was a lot of fun. Yeah, you're welcome to do it any day. I'm trying to get 50 days in a row doing it.

How many calories do you think you burn in one Chinese workout? Probably 70. Maybe 100? How long is it?

Half a bag of chips. 15 minutes. That's enough. It's a lot of air squats.

You probably burn like 100.

Yeah, maybe. 70 to 100. It's about moving your body. It's also about getting your body flow.

If you do that workout, it's like max with the beers. What you do right after you wake up, that sets the tone for the rest of your day. If you work out right after you wake up, you're burning calories all day. If you have two beers after you wake up, you're pretty much drunk all day. Correct. Correct.

But you got something else? This isn't No medical advice whatsoever, but through some limited, extensive research, I think part of my peptides might be the play. What do we know, boys, how we feel about the peptides? Oh, wow. This is now just history repeating itself. We have the guy on the sixth mic telling us to do peptides. I'm in favor. The 2026 peptides.

I'm in favor of peptides. We got advances. Are they still called research chemicals?

What do they do? He wasn't wrong. He was just early. He was way early. I think they're good if you tear your Achilles. Well, why would you say that?

Jason Tatum? Knock on wood. Jason Tatum has been doing peptides.

Oh, yeah. Jason Tateam was at practice? Did you see them in the Zula Club? Yeah.

What did he say? It's very funny.

He was like, How's Jason Tateam doing? He was like, He was at practice today. They said, Did he practice? He just gave him a death stare of all death stares.

He just didn't break.

I don't think it's official he's doing peptides. I'm not going to say that he's doing peptides, but I think- Should we do peptides? I think if you get seriously injured, it helps. What about preventative? Because he's recovering very Very quickly. Yes, Max. What are peptides? Are peptides steroids? That's what I'm saying.

I don't know. They're research chemicals. Oh, research.

Oh.

Yeah. Pft did that.

That's what I'm saying.

The story is like, when I first got fitted for golf It was like, How long ago was that, Hank? Three years ago?

In New York? Yeah. Four years ago?

Four years ago. The guy told me just like, Swing as hard as I can every swing. I did that, and then I swung one time and I felt a pop, and then my bottom three fingers on my right just went numb. Then I went to the doctor who was like, Yeah, you messed up your UCL and fucked with the nerve. I was like, Yeah, Billy, I don't know what I'm going to do. I might have to get Tommy John surgery. Billy goes, I tell you what, I'll hook you up with some research chemicals, and it's going to promote healing. Billy brought him into the office. The dumbest thing I've ever done in my entire life was let Billy football inject me with this chemical, like an experimental chemical, and God damn it, if it didn't work.

Peptide sounds a lot better than research chemicals.

It worked. Yeah, Billy football was right. Now, do I regret letting Billy inject me with a mystery serum? A little bit, yeah, but also, you can't steal second with your foot on first. You got to take a chance.

All right, so someone email us at PMT Bachelor Party? Yeah, PMT Bachelor. Tell us, one, can you get it for us? And two, should we do it? I've got a game plan of peptides we could take if you're into the game plan. How did you get involved in this? A short comprehensive research. But what started this? Because all the hot people are online are just like, these are what you need to do. Take these peptides. You will lose a bunch of weight. I have a question. Is this logging? No.

Yeah, am I going to be logging.

Question. What's up? Yes, sir. Does this have anything to do with the Barstool Combine on Thursday? Oh, 100%. Yeah, 100%. That's not going to go the best. I know that's not going to go the best. You need smelling salt for that, Zack. Do you think we're a little- I need a miracle drug for that. Do you think we're cramming a little late on the test? Oh, definitely. I'm habitually good at that. Yeah. But what are you most worried about for Thursday? Bench press. I'll answer for him. I second that. Yeah, I'll answer for him. We might have... Pft and I might have went to the bench press with him, and Zack has never bench pressed.

Yeah, but you know what? He wasn't that bad.

He wasn't. He was. He's stronger than you think. I thought that was a closed practice. Turns out that was not a closed practice. Oh, was it? Oh, you know, we were doing an ad. But I thought that was a close practice ad, and then it just went straight into the PMTV episode.

Oh, it skipped the ad.

Oh, we went past the ad right into the...

The ad was so good, it became content. I thought it was safe. That's why the people pay a premium for Zack's ads.

Okay. What's the goal for Thursday?

The goal is to get Zack to do one rep.

One. He's got to do one. At 1: 35. One full one. I feel good about that. It's a baseline. It's a starting point, and it's like, you got to get one. You got to get one. You can Otherwise, you're Tate. You don't want to be Tate. That looks like a tough year, man. He's had a very tough year. I've gone through some of those comments. That might be the most viewed clip of the year. Not only that, but I love Tate. But if you don't think him not be able to get up one rep in Ohio State not winning the national title this year aren't related. I'm telling you right now, they are. He gets one rep, they probably win the title. Those things go hand in hand.

I'm 100% sure that this time at the combine, he's going to put up 6: 00. He's probably been training all year. He has to. Just thinking about getting his rep up.

He has to. Things get dark in those comments on that video. You got to get one.

Yeah, got to get one. You have to get one.

It's like a life-altering thing. You don't get one.

Yeah.

You're going to get one.

You're going to get one. Life-altering chemicals.

All right, but we need to get the peptides. Can you... I guess we're just going to do this. You guide us. I do have a couple of- Truly history repeats itself. But now we're FDA-approved, a lot of them.

I would like for Zack not to inject us, though.

How do you feel about FDA-approved peptides?

Yeah, good.

Get us some peptides. What about like third-level chemical trial? Third level.

But you're not doing the injecting.

Oh, no. I don't really like needles, to be honest with you. I would never inject you, PFT. Not a big fan of needles as well. Can we get a pill? I think they have some oral JLPs, but they want to apply as well.

Okay. I came into the office on Saturday morning because I was fiending some of the Toradol. I I finally found it. I hit it so good that I hit it from myself. It was behind this license plate that I had up here. I needed it for my back today. I was like, God damn, I'm going to turn the studio inside out. Found the turtle, took it about two hours ago. Toradol is awesome. Mmm-hmm.

Did you have any left?

Yeah, I got three pills left. Oh, I want one. I just don't feel anything right now. Can that help you bench more? No, but it just my back feels good. I may need it for my neck. It will probably... This turtle is going to so fast.

Max needs it for his fucking day of hangover.

My understanding with the turtle is that if I take it, I'll feel so good that I will then injure myself worse for when the turtle wears off. Max, look at you go.

What is that What did your neck do? That was too much headbanging, Max. It was a mistake. Then you were doing the side, too? You were shaking that booty.

I was feeling it in the moment.

It was good. Right now, my neck's been hurting. Look at his side. Look at this side spot. Oh, he's popping it. Yeah. All right, Zack, I'm in for this. Just you tell us, you do all the research because I actually trust you in the fact that when the ice cream machine got here and I gave you the task, you've delivered on everything. The ice cream machine has been wonderful. We do have to get people to eat more ice cream. We're running... We got to I was actually thinking we were running what? We're not hitting our quota. By how much? I don't want to waste the ice cream. It's just a lot of people are on there. What does that mean? When they clean it out, they're just dumping. Sometimes. Look, it's February, almost March. New Year's resolution is over. We got to get back to-Yeah, we got to get back to eating ice cream. We got to get back to self-love.

It's cold.

What? It's not ice cream. It's not ice cream season. It's a downtime. It is cold. What about, Zack? I was thinking about this. Maybe we bring back strawberry for a limited run. We've got it on. We do strawberry chocolate. We got it on us. We can do that. Strawberry chocolate, yes. Okay, so vanilla out. You want to keep chocolate where it's at and put strawberry on it? Yeah. Okay, we can do that. Maybe to push some chocolate on people. Okay. You got to move some product. Make it half off, yeah. Two for one sale. All right, let's do a couple of ads, and then we'll get to our interviews. We got Yans. We got a loser, Zack D. Regorius from Milan. Awl. Awesome dude. Back to back.

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And now here's Keith Yandel. Okay, we now welcome on our very, very, very, very, very His Zoom name as USA. I don't know if you... You don't even know computers, so I don't even know if you knew what you were doing when you did that. We wanted to talk about the gold medal game because Jans, that was one of the coolest sporting events ever. I'm still on cloud nine. I want to hear all your thoughts on the game.

I just rewatched it. I'm going to rewatch that game. I've never rewatched a hockey game more than once. I've already watched this game twice. I will watch that game probably realistically 20 times. It is so amazing. The fact that the guys were down here, we were all watching it here at my house all together. And the fact that they came out with that game after getting up early, being on the ropes for basically two periods they got outplayed. But Connor Haleback just saying, Hey, boys, hop on my back. I got this for you. Just jump on in and ride me to this fucking gold medal is incredible. I'm so proud to be an American, so proud to have played hockey at any level, just to say that I did, to see these guys. We've been waiting a long time, 1980, long, long time. I think everybody and their mother was sick of the miracle and talking about it. It's a new generation's time. That was our generation of watching that movie. Now it's a different group of guys. And those 26 or however many guys went out there, went over to Milan on their PJs and absolutely lit it up and had a fucking blast and made us, Americans, so goddamn proud to be an American and so goddamn proud to watch that game and root them on.

I swear to God, it was one of the most... So I said it to my wife, I'm not really like... I played in the NHL, so when When you're watching a hockey game, you're not that invested. I felt every single emotion I could possibly feel. Wanting to puke, wanting to shit my diaper, wanted to cry, wanted to laugh. It was the most amazing dream rug I have ever taken watching those guys go out there and give it their all to come back on US soil, the best goddamn country in the motherfucking world with gold medals around their neck. I am so proud of them, and I can't wait to talk about game even more.

It's awesome watching guys that care as much about the game as you care about it, like when you're watching. I feel like a lot of times, especially midseason, if it's NBA, not necessarily so much NHL, but you watch some sports and you're like, I wish these guys cared as much as I do. They're living, breathing, bleeding, sweating, crying about the game like I am. With this US team, it felt like they cared even so much more than everybody in America that was rooting them on. It was a joy to watch. Was there one guy in particular that you thought stepped his game up? A guy that might not have been the superstar, the number one guy going into this? Obviously, they're all really good players, but one guy that elevated what he's doing compared to where he's been in this NHL season.

Well, I mean, Hela Buck would be the obvious answer, but he was the MVP of the League last year, I believe. But you just don't hear about him that much in the US because he plays in Winnipeg. Poor guy. But it's one of those things where it was such a group effort. You can't really pinpoint. But I will say there was two questions. I want to give a lot of credit to Billy Garen, the GM of this team, putting this team together, sticking with his guns, not listening to the outside noise, dumb people like Biz saying, You should take Cole Caulfield. You should take Robertson. You need more goal scoring, blah, blah, blah. He stuck to his guns. He stuck with his guys. And two guys that probably were on the bubble was Vincent Trochek and JT Miller. They're first-line guys on their NHL teams. And when you go to a tournament like this and it's all superstars You got to check your ego. You got to just be willing to play whatever role that the coach gives you. And they did that. They were their power play guys during the regular season for the New York Rangers, and they were strictly PK guys, and they didn't let up a goal.

Yeah, on the PK the entire tournament, which is unheard of. You're going against the best players in the world, and they did not give up a goal against. So that, for me, is one of those things that you're going to look back and be like, Those guys sacrificed Being heroes, trying to go out and score a goal, be the guy to put the team on their back. And they were like, Okay, I'm going to sit here, do my job as best as I can, and let the other guys do the job their best as they can. And Hela Bucks showed up, and everybody else showed up. Did some guys have a tough tournament? Maybe. But it's like, you win the gold, and everybody is a part of that team. And what said it best on our podcast today, it's Matthew Kutchuck had a quote was, You can tell this is a brotherhood because if you say one wrong thing, there's seven guys down your throat just chirping you, letting you know. So you could tell they came together, and it started last year at the Four Nations, but they came together at this group in Milan.

They didn't go stay at the Four Seasons like the Canadians did. They stayed in the village because we're village people. We go in there and we're amongst the people. We're blue collar. We just go in there and muck it up. You might not get the best food, you might not have the best bed, you might not get the best sleep, but you're going to have the best plane ride home, smashing beers over your head and kissing your gold medal.

There was a couple of quotes after the game that I loved. One was that the K'Chucks doors were always open in the village. They were like, We were just hanging the whole time, just the boys hanging out. The roster construction I wanted to talk about because I feel like, and we can get to the Canadians being just the soresst losers possible, but I feel like they're missing a little bit of the point of this construction where they... Bill Garen said, They're milk drinkers and whiskey drinkers. We got whiskey drinkers. They did the grit and grind. We didn't have all of our goal scores, our best goal scores. We wanted to go defense first and grit and grind guys. So when you watch a game like that and they're hanging on for their dear life and they look like they're getting outplayed, that was by design how they were going to try to beat them. Keep the game tight and try to score, whether it be a late third period goal or an OT goal. So that was what his vision worked.

100 %. You couldn't be more dead on. You build from the back end out, and we had the best goal in the world, and our defense is way better than Canada. But then if you look at the forward group, It's not even close. The Canadian team is incredible. They are absolutely stacked. You see it during the game, they dominate at times. They have world, world-class players, probably three of the best players in the world with Mekar, McKinnon, and McDavid. But it's one of those things. Like you said, they built the right team. I had talked to Bill Zito, who was an assistant GM, or I'm not sure what his role on the team was. He was like, We're building this to be one team and one team only, and that's Canada. So they went in there knowing they had to do that, and they did it. They went out there and did it. I remember, I think it was for World Championship or it was the World Cup. I think it was in 2020 or something like that, or 2016. I forget what tournament it was. Usa was like, We're going to bring a bunch of grinders and third-line guys that shut down teams.

But nowadays, our best grinders are our best players, the Jack Eichel, the Austin Matthews. Like, yeah, those guys are 40 goal guys or 60 goal guys, but they're also very responsible all over the ice. They don't cheat the game. They don't just look for offense. They're hard on back checks. They're hard on fore checks. I think we have the luxury now as a country where you're not just taking guys who are good at their jobs and it's being a checking forward. You're checking forward or also you're stud. So whatever USA Hockey is doing, and it starts with the NDTP, a lot of those guys played together growing up. For those of you who don't know, it's like a 16 to 18 years old. They take the best American players around the country, and they play together all year like a team. And And it's a three-year program, I believe. And they just work out, go to school, and play hockey, and they travel around. And a lot of those guys came from that as basically grassroots players. And you see what it's done for the league. And I can imagine Canada is going to copy them.

They're going to try to do something like that because it's work. Now you're seeing the work that's been put in for the last 20 years of this program, and now it's taken over. You win the women's, you win the men's. I think World Juniors, we didn't win this year, but we won the last two. It's just one of those things as a fan and a proud American to see what they're doing is just incredible.

You mentioned, by the way, the three guys. That was the other part that I love, the complaints about the three on three deciding gold. When you have McDavid, McKinnon, and Mekar as your three-on-three who are on the ice when you lost, you should never lose with those three guys. Those are the best three. They're built for three-on-three hockey. It's like a cheat code. To complain afterwards You should like your chances in three-on-three.

Yeah, it's one of those things I think either country, whether you win or lose, you would have said, If you win, you love the three-on-three. If you lose, you hate it. No, not us.

No, we would have lost with class.

We said going into this tournament, that doesn't matter. Three on three. Guess what, Jens, when you have enough time to prepare for this tournament, you have to account for three on three possibilities. That's part of creating the roster. That's part of hiring your coach and figuring out the strategy. The fact that we were more prepared than Canada was, that's a point for us. If you don't like it, then just get better at it.

Or maybe score when it's five on three because you had that.

Maybe just don't miss a wide open net if you're Nathan McKinnon. How about that?

There's a lot of that.

Or how about don't cheat in crawling and then put a curse on your hockey team? Good point. Facts. How does that sound?

And McKinnon, he's obviously going to get a lot of shit. He also fucked up in overtime, too, not playing the buck. Is that right?

Yeah, there was a couple of things. The back check wasn't great. I can't remember who it was, and obviously, you don't want to call guys out. But on the goal in overtime, it was Zack Rowensky, who's a defenseman, an offensive guy who's a great skater. But he's in his own end, and he ends up winning the race to the fuck and gets the fuck to Jack Hughes, who Jack Hughes beat two guys up the ice. But it's one of those things where if that's them and we aren't back checking, we're going to be pissed at our players. So I'm sure guys are going to be pissed about guys not backcheck and stuff. But at the end of the day, the three on three in PFT, you made a great point. You know it's going to be three on three. Whether you're going to change your roster or change how you play the game or who you bring, doesn't matter. You do know, and that's one of those things that Billy Garen, again, he deserves all the credit in the world, getting the right. Did you see the clip of Mike Sullivan saying before Jack Hughes went on the ice, he was like, he's going to score us this goal, and he knew it because he took that penalty late.

If that's an NHL season, a guy takes a penalty late, put your team down when you're up a man, you might not get another shift for the rest of the game. But he had faith in him. He had faith that Jack would show up, and man, did he ever. How good is that picture?

Did you see his quote?

He didn't want to end up on Barstool Sports.

Yeah, that's what he said after.

He was thinking about ending up on Barstool Sports when he was in the penalty box. My question for you is, who specifically do you think he was worried about talking about him on Barstool Sports?

Probably Probably Biz.

Yeah, probably Biz or Dave or you guys. I mean, basically, Mincey, anyone, any of the big hitters.

I thought it was probably Frank the Tank.

Yeah.

He's got a lot of experience dealing with Frank the Tank. Frank the Tank might be rent-free in his head.

That's true.

Wow. Good point. Holy shit. But I mean, that's a legitimate fear in any athlete's mind is when you do mess up and you're sitting in that penalty, but there's no lonelier feeling than sitting in that penalty box when your team is down and you got to kill a penalty. But how about that five on three kill?

Yeah, incredible. You said, I think it was 18 for 18 on penalty kills in the tournament. It was insane because you felt like that entire The entire second period, then parts of the third period, you're like, the ice is so tilted. Any moment, it feels like it could be a three-goal game, and they just toughed it out. It's Hallibuck was unbelievable. The saves he made were just He was just nails all game.

Yeah. Some people, probably Canadians, will say some of the saves were lucky, but at the end of the day, he made them. We made a good point when we were watching the game. Before the game started, he said, I just want to see USA score first to see how it goes, because usually we're chasing in those games. When you're chasing a team like that, it can get out of hand because then you're not playing your systems. You're not playing the way the coach tells you to. You're trying to score a goal. But this They got up a goal. I think what you said, Big Cat, is the way that their roster was constructed was to win a game when they were up one-nothing or going into overtime. They felt that way that they could win that way, and they did. Man, it's unbelievable.

Yeah, it's great because it really was. We were never going to beat Canada by four goals. But if you could just basically drag them into the deep waters and be like, Hey, let's get it so that it's one late goal wins this thing, you got a chance. The one thing I wanted to bring up, and this is all class on me and PFT's side, and I think you'd agree, did not say anything to Witt afterwards about his boy winning MVP of the entire Olympics in another losing effort. That's just what he does now. Did he? Yeah, they voted on it after the first period.

I just issued a congratulatory tweet, not directly at Witt. I didn't say anything at Joe. I just said, I think I said, Congrats, well deserved. Because Conoric David, he was the MVP of the men's Olympic tournament, which is a big deal. That is the biggest That's the most prestigious award that you can have outside of winning the gold. So I wanted to acknowledge it. How did Whit feel after the game? I know he's rooting hard for the US. I don't want to accuse him of having split allegiances. No, he's not. But he definitely feels for for McDavid.

I'd imagine it's something like he's going to wake up in tomorrow and reassess and be like, Oh, fuck. Everyone's going to be able to make fun of me for that. Even though this, obviously, he's 100% rooting for US. But it is funny that this is now twice McDavid has won MVP in a losing effort. That's his thing. That is officially his thing.

It also just goes to show you how good he was. Obviously, it was voted on in between the first period because Connor Hela box should have won that. I don't care if he gave up 50 goals before that game. The way he played that game, he should have MVP. But yeah, it's also like Connor McDavid, he's got to play a meaningful game not against Matthew K'Chuck because anytime it means something, if Matthew's out there as a fan of, if you're rooting for the team that Matthew's on, you got to think that you got a chance to win. And yeah, honestly, you got to feel bad from him a little bit, and I'm sure he's going to hear it a lot, but he's still young.

No, not for us. No, we're not going to say anything. We're classy guys.

Listen, he ate our lunch in that exhibition last year. They won the Four Nations All-Star Game, fair and square. We can't really say anything to us. If we try to bring something up to McDavid, he could just be like, Hey, point to the banner on the wall, Four Nations champion, also the Olympic MVP of the entire tournament. And that's going to shut us up. So I wouldn't dare say anything.

Anytime I play in a big game, I'm to be the best player. Not that I'm going to win it, but-The best player out there. Yeah, he's the best player out there. What's great about this is Austin Matthews, like Biz was right.

It's like the opposite. Biz was rooting for Canada, obviously, and he roots for the Maple Leaves. He cheers on Austin Matthews. Austin Matthews can win the big one, big time. I guess credit to Biz. He was right this whole time.

No, no, no. He just had to get away from Biz to win the big one.

Oh, yeah. That makes sense. That's a good point, too.

That makes sense.

It has nothing to do with... Yeah. But honestly, we were talking about it as well. It's like a lot of these guys, realistically, some guys know whether you're later in your career, if you're not on a team that's a cup contender, you might not have a chance to win a Stanley Cup. So this is it, right? This can cement your name and legacy. And a guy like Austin Matthew, although he's young and will have chances to win the Stanley Cup, if he looked back and they lost this game and whatever happens in his career, that would be bad. But he has this now that he went out there and captained the United States to a gold medal. So unbelievable for him. And now he has to go back to Canada. I don't know how that will all be. But how about during the Four Nations when USA beat Canada in the round Robin or whatever, and then all the Canadians are saying, Oh, this is just the exhibition game. And then they win, and they're like, Oh, this is a big deal. This We'll take credit for this. But none at all. It was an exhibition for this tournament that happened today.

Yeah.

Then after today, it was all three on three. Mckinnon even said it was probably the saddest quote of all time when he was just like, You guys can be the judge of who is the better team today. Well, I will. Usa. Usa won two to one. What are you talking about? He wants it to be a figure skating where there's judges after? That's what he's basically asking for.

He was waiting for the Russian judge to come in and be like, I had to actually... Yeah, I'll give that one to France. France for this whole thing.

It's like a boxing match. You get the Compu box. Oh, well, Canada had more shots, so we got to give them the win.

I thought an interesting stat. If you look at the rivalry between our two great countries, we're neighbors. Sometimes it's just You want to beat up on your neighbor more so than anyone else. Between the US and Canada this year, Canada lost the Stanley Cup to us. I'm counting that as a win for USA. I believe that was six games, right? We won the World Series, too. Our women's hockey team beat Canada.

In Canada, by the way.

That's true. We went on the road to Canada and won a World Series. Our women's hockey team beat Canada for the gold medal. I don't know who won the MVP, so they might be able to clap back pretty hard if it was Canada. Then obviously, our men's hockey team beat them. This is a bad year for Canada. What can Canada do to get back off the map? Because I want a healthy rivalry.

I think they have to win the SEC.

Right now, it's just like we've been stopping them out. I almost feel bad for it.

I think they got to win the SEC football Championship.

That's pretty much it. Have McGill College in Quebec, in Montreal, come down and play.

That's pretty much it.

Win March Madness, maybe.

That would be the only way to really, yeah, fuck with us. It's like, yeah, McGill College just whooped Georgia in Athens.

And that would never happen. And that was their whole thing. It's like, yeah, you guys have your stupid little football and stupid little basketball. You can have that. We got our hockey, but now, we got it now, baby.

What do you think that's like for the Canadian players? Because you were around back in 2010, right? When the two teams get back together, the locker room comes back together. How much shit-talking is going to go down once these guys get back in their professional team's locker room?

None, really, to be honest. Everyone's... I think hockey players are really good at leaving the past be in the past. I mean, these guys are flying on a plane back together after this game. I talked to Matthew Kachuk before the tournament, and he was like, Yeah, we have to fly back. If we're in the finals and Canada is in the finals, we're going to be on the same plane together coming back. I cannot be on a plane with Canada if we lose. So I am going to do everything in my possibility to win this game so I can have the best plane. It's going to be like a sole plane on there, just in the first. They I would have played for first-class tickets and roach-class tickets.

Yeah. I saw they're going to Miami because New York's got a bunch of snow. They have to go to... They're going to 11, right? Oh, yeah. You got to go, Jantz.

You think? Go meet up with them. Yeah, of course. If they come here, I already sent out the text to the guys, If they're here, I will be there, and Blutman will be flying back. Oh, wow.

That's a gracious move by you to text the guys being like, Hey, just so you know, if you're going to 11, I'll come.

Yeah, I'll pay. I think it was one of the interview. I think it was Matthew Kachuk talking about Connor Hela Buck saying he should never pay for another drink in the US. That's not just Hela Buck. All these guys, if you ever see them at the bar, grab them a beer. I'm sure they'll offer to pay for it, but just as a proud American, buy them one beer, one glass of wine. They deserve it to the utmost.

Can we play a quick what What if for Canada, for our Canadian listeners? What if Cydney Crosby plays in this game?

Healthy. That's a big thing, man. Just the experience, seeing him on the ice, him being able to calm down his teams as such a veteran and a guy that everyone looks to, I'm glad he wasn't. I feel bad that he wasn't out there. I feel horrible for him because I love the man, and he's such a good player, and what he's done for this league is amazing. But as an American, I'm glad he wasn't out there to play against us just because it could have been completely different. On that five on three, he could be a guy that gets a huge goal. In overtime, he could be a guy that gets a huge goal. He's known for scoring golden goals. So I think it could have been a different game. But guess what, Big Cat? It wasn't.

All right, another what if. What if Conor Bedard's on the team and not Celbrini?

Well, Celbrini Cellebrini was incredible. He was. The whole tournament.

Obviously, I have Blackhaw's Twitter, and people were pointing out that Celbrini has not won gold in any of the juniors and under-18, and Conor Bedard has.

Yeah, because Celbrini has been having to play against the US and the world juniors, and you can't beat them. I don't think anyone would take Cellebrini off that team even before the tournament started, just because of how good of a year he's having. Bedard Obviously, if he didn't get hurt, probably could have been on that team.

It's crazy how loaded they are. That was also a trick question to be like, Hey, remember they have a bunch of guys they could have put on the team that would have been on our team, and we still beat them.

That line that they had with Marshawn Bennett and Tom Wilson all playing together. That's crazy. That's some wild boy shit. When I saw that's the line that they were rolling out there, I was like, They're just going to beat the fuck out of everybody. That's a big feather in the cap for the US to be able to outgrit and outgrind that line who is just designed to get under your skin and beat you up.

Well, that started last year at Four Nations. And honestly, that's how Canada used to beat the US. And Canada used to... They obviously had the high-end talent, but they had guys like the Jerome Gilnaz of the world, the Vinnie Lecavier, the guys that would fight and play hard and you were scared to be on the ice against. And I remember a I think it was the last Italy Olympics, like Todd Bertuzzi, who were just tough guys to play against and pains in the asses. But then USA did that. They built their roster for that Four Nations. To to have a little bit more grit, to have the K'Chuck brothers, to have the JT Millers. And I honestly saw Canada almost copycatting USA by the way that they picked their roster by bringing guys like Tom Wilson and Sam Bennett and Hagle is a rat out there, and Marchand is a rat out there. For those of you who don't know, a rat is a compliment if you're a hockey player and play the way that those guys play. I honestly think Canada looked at the US where usually they just worried about themselves and picked their team.

But I think they looked over at the US team and said, Okay, they got some grit, they got some grind, and they had to match it a little bit, but our guys just did it a little bit better.

Yeah.

Back to... I wanted to ask you about this because the three-on-three, by the way, I like the three-on-three because my kids are little and they were like my oldest for the first period. He was watching with me. But kids, a six-year-old's attention span is going to go. But then when we got to overtime, I had the whole family come up and I was like, Hey, this is going to end soon. So let's all sit and watch. They all watched. I was like, It's going to be soon. So I was like, I could actually enjoy that moment with them.

Were you guys going nuts in the living room?

Nuts. Absolutely nuts. I was fucking losing my mind. I mean, it was such an awesome, awesome game. I was just buzzing the whole day. I don't know. I'm sure you obviously feel it more than us, but the whole day, I was just smiling and walking around being like, Yeah, we're the fucking best. We're the best. But after the game, the Johnny Goodro, and you have the Johnny Hockey shirt behind you, I got a little teary-eyed. I'll be honest. I was tearing up in my living room. It's an incredible story. For people who don't know, he would have been on the team. He and his brother, tragically, were killed by a drunk driver last summer. The weekend, their sister was getting married. To have his whole family out there, it was his son's second birthday. You knew him. You guys had him on checklets. It's got to be awesome to see that, all these guys that played with him and have this moment and share this moment with his family.

Yeah. I think no matter who you are, if you don't I think that there's something else out in this world where a guy like Johnny was looking over them and... Sorry, getting a little emotional. Yeah. He would have He would have been on that team, man. And he was looking over them, and they wanted for him. He meant something to that team. He played with those guys. And to see his family up there, and Meredith and kids. It was amazing. And it brings back memories of him and watching him and hanging out with him, but especially watching him on the ice and doing what he loves. And the fact that he wasn't able to play in that is brutal. But he was looking over the boys, man, and he found them a way to win that game. And credit to the guys, keeping him in their spirits and having him in that locker room. And credit to USA Hockey and whoever brought them, his family over, and Meredith and the kids, and Mr. And Mrs. Goudreau. Just first class, first class out of them by doing that. He's up there right now having a beer, smiling him and his brother Matt and Johnny are up there, man.

They're having a good time right now. I can tell you that for free.

Yeah, it's just one of those moments. It was a special moment, especially for You win the gold, the team wins the gold, and it was just almost instant that Johnny's jersey was out there, and you could tell right away how much he means to all these guys. It's just these sports mean a lot. Sports are important for all of us. I think it's one of those days where you can take a step back and be like, Yeah, we can say it's a silly game. We can say this or that or the other. Sports mean a lot to people, families, relationships, friendships, everything. It was really special. I mean, it was a special day all around.

Really was. One of the best commercials I saw was in the beginning of the Olympics. Say it's a Chicago Bears fan and a Washington Commander's fan sitting down and looking at each other wanting to fight, and then they take off their hats or their jerseys, and they put on a USA jersey. And for two weeks, we're all fans together, right? We're all on the same team. Everyone's counting the medals. And did you watch the curling? Did you watch the colon? Did you watch the figure Skating? Did you watch the bobsled? And then to finish it off with this hockey and getting that gold medal, it truly does mean it shows you how much sports means to... Obviously, for us, we're a bunch of idiots talking about the game, But even just for happiness and enjoyment, after the game, me and my buddies, a couple of buddies, picked me up in the golf cart and we drove down to the bar. The fire trucks are going around with the USA flags and people going nuts. And this is just a little small in Florida. It's not like you're in a Minnesota, Michigan, or Massachusetts. It meant a lot to the whole country.

Man, is it good to be bleeding red, white, and blue? It really is.

It's going to be very interesting to see how this impacts the future of hockey in America, too, because you get the ramifications. There's a bunch of kids out there that 8 to 12 years old watching this that might not have ever focused on hockey, that now want to play hockey, want to make that their sport. Then those are going to be the same kids that in 15, 20 years, we're going to see in the Olympics, and it can only get better from here. Seeing this as a possibility to win the gold medal, I feel like that's going to be massive for the future of US hockey.

100% because before 1980s, there wasn't a lot of Americans in the NHL, if any. You could probably fact-check that, but I don't think Americans started being, not accepted, but more were looked at to be playing in the NHL. So that 1980s Olympic gold medal meant so much for guys like me as an American hockey player to be able to live out your dream and play in the NHL. And this game right now, what it meant to the world. And it's one of those things, too, where you're going to get kids from different cultures, different backgrounds, different neighborhoods playing hockey that never did. And I thought it was cool. It was 12 states were represented. You got Alaska, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Colorado, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Missouri, and Montana. So some of those are not traditional hockey markets. The 1980 teams was probably strictly Michigan, Minnesota, and Massachusetts. So to have states like that that have guys representing is incredible. And you're seeing that effect from the 1980s. And I cannot wait to see where this takes us because there's going to be a lot of parents who either their kids are young right now that bring their kid down to the local rink and sign them up, or 15-year-old kids who never played hockey in five years, 10 years, get married.

They are like, I'm putting my kid in hockey because I watched that game. It's going to mean you look back and people say, Oh, it means more. It's more than just the game or whatever. But things like this, I truly believe, are more than a game for what it can mean for a sport.

If you're Jack Hughes, do you consider not fixing the teeth at all? I would consider just having that be my look for forever. That is the best badge of honor you can ever have. Yeah, I shattered my teeth, I slice them diagonally. But right before I scored the game-winning goal in the gold medal game for the Olympics?

I would call the Olympics and say, Can you send me the phone number of the guy that you guys used to make the gold medals? And I would just have a gold grill. You would never see. I would only have gold teeth in. Yeah, that's about it. Yeah, but I mean, obviously, the nerves hanging out are probably bothering him right now, and he wants to get them fixed quick. But that is an unbelievable photo that is going to live forever. It just truly talks about how hockey players, what it means. You think of hockey players, you think missing teeth, whatever. And that truly is it right there. You sacrifice everything. Those guys don't care. If he lost every single one of his teeth, believe me, he would not give a shit. The amount of time he's going to spend in the in the dentist chair doesn't compare to the joy that he had a couple of hours ago.

All right, Jans, everyone, tune in to spit and chiclets if you want to get more on this game, because I do. I know I certainly do, and I want to listen to Biz Cry, which would be great. I got one last question, Roback question, robackquestion, robackk. Com, promo code take 20% off your first purchase, Q-zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, roback. Com, promo code take. Do you feel at all bad about the torture chamber you put me in on Thursday night? No, not at all. Okay, so for people who don't know, no one knows actually in this room. No. We had Biz and Wit on, and I said, I I texted Grinnell, and he's like, Do you want to do Yans, too? And I was like, It's probably going to be a lot on Zoom. I mean, you heard with Biz and wit, it was probably hard to listen to just everyone talking at once. I was like, And we'd like to save him for Sunday. In the interview, I said, Yans is our favorite, and he's the one who's actually in AWL who listens the most. Yans texted me after we interviewed him. He's like, You just interviewed those two guys in my house, the disrespect.

Then spent the entire night basically being like, I'm so upset at you. I'm not listening anymore. Meanwhile, I'm crawling for seven hours, physically dying, and I'll throw 15 rocks in a row. They'll go back to my phone and Yance will just be like, The fact that you did this to me is so disgusting. I was just like, I don't know if he's mad or not. You're a dick. You were doing a fuck with me the whole time.

Oh, yeah. I had to go pick up my kids from school anyway, so it worked out perfect. I wouldn't have been able to do it anyway. I mean, you got to... It's just you, you out of all people. Of course.

I would have picked up. I think I would have picked up on it if I wasn't at this fucking curling rink because I was literally in and out of communication, and I tried to call you, and you kept on screening my call and not picking up. I was like, Oh, God damn it. I kept on saying sorry over and over.

Do you want the card? We can give you a card. Good for one free appearance on part of my take at a time of your choosing. You get to call that in.

All right, I'll take that. Is this the first ever?

I think we talked about giving it to somebody else, right? I think you're the first one to ever actually get it.

Yeah, we'll send it to you. I should say the mistake was not Witt, because Witt is an AWL. I know that for a fact. I think he also has the record for most appearances, so we owe a lot to Witt. Biz, we could have just thrown in the trash. That one, one of your texts was, Do you think Biz has ever listened to your stupid podcast? He's like, I've been listening every day for six years. The disrespect.

But I also get it. You want an American and a Canadian on it. Yeah, I had to give it to you. I mean, you torture people all day long. It was fair. He tortured my poor boy Hank after the Super Bowl. That's not true.

That's not true. He didn't torture him. Hank? How did we torture him?

Listen, he doesn't... You know, championships don't come around every year. He needed this.

He did need this.

Every other year.

He needed this.

He needed this. What we did to Hank was no different from what we've done to Max in the past when he loses, when any of us lose. You got to face the music. I thought we were very nice to Hank, actually.

We are nice to Hank.

Hank has got Is Max Canadian?

Good question.

What does that mean?

Oh, no, I meant Italian.

If it was Italy versus US, who would you be waiting for? Us, for sure. We got World Baseball Classic coming up. We got more American pride. You might make the Italy team. There was a point in time in my day where I was like, I think I could actually play on this. There was a kid that played for Italy that I played with in college. I He played for Italy. He was better than me. It was the same caliber guy.

Hey, I wish if they had open trials and you guys sent Max, that would be the best.

Yeah. Let me see the roster here. It would be. It would be incredible. Just a bunch of dudes with vowels their last name.

My buddy's name is coming out of retirement. My buddy's name that played for Italy was Vido Frisha.

Vido Frisha? Yeah.

Shut up, Vido.

Yeah, Max, we can get you on that team.

Wait, Jens, last question, because once I woke up on Friday, morning and realized you had been fucking with me after being crawling all night, did you, for any second, buy that I canceled Blutman coming to Florida?

No, because I was talking to him while he was going on to his plan. Yeah. I figured it out late.

Yeah.

That would have been funny.

I can get him back by saying, I'm canceling this.

Blutman is the absolute best. You got to let him into the celebration next time, though. The cell he has to be more inclusive. It felt like you guys were discriminating him against gingers. It was like, Yeah, keep your germs over there.

Listen, you guys know more than anyone, that guy can blend into a couch, and we might not have seen it. He looks like a pillow, basically. It's unbelievable how comfortable that guy can look on a couch. I was showing he came to grab some beers with me and my buddies after the game, and I was showing him his rap song, which, PFT, you did some of that, right?

I produced it for him. Yeah.

Yeah. Incredible song. So mad that I just found out about this. I made my kids listen to it all day the other day. It's incredible track. If you've never heard it, it's called I'm Watching Ball by Liam Blutman. It's on Spotify. It's amazing. But to my buddy's, the cover of the thing is just him sitting on a couch just so comfortable. They were like, So what do you do all day? He's like, I just watch Ball.

Yeah, that's That's what he does.

He sits in the gambling cave with the lights off. Wait, what did Blutman drink? Did he have a milk or something?

No. So fun fact about him, he's never had a sip of alcohol, never had any drugs. I asked him, I'm like, You want a soda? He told me he gave up soda because I guess he put out a tweet. He said, I'm not having a soda until the Toronto Maple leaves win the Stanley Cup. He was like, Looks like I'm never having a soda again. But no, he had a couple of glasses of water. That's it. The guy's just pure class. He is.

He is the best. I appreciate that he tried to get involved in the celly because I think that's a big step. Usually, he's not a big fan of being touched or touching people, but even him in a moment like that, he was like, I got to jump around with the boys for a second before he got back checked back into the couch.

Now, he's like, I'll never do that again.

I'm never going to celebrate again. But that was as animated as the man will ever get, and it was nice to watch.

Hey, speaking of animation, busy I think he wanted to bring Oldie into my house. After his antics the other day of wearing a banana hammock around my backyard, I called the front gate and I said, If anyone by the name of Oldie shows up, he's not allowed him. As much as I love Oldie and would do anything for him, I did not need his good vibes for Canada in my house. I'm pretty sure Biz had that up his sleeve of trying to bring Oldie in because Oldie is in Florida right now. I put a kibosh to that real quick because that could have been the turning point for Canada if he came in.

Also, yeah, you had Biz walking around with a boner, and then if you had Oldie with his side flaps, it's like you're going to get some questions from your wife and kids being like, Dad, what are you doing?

Probably he was just starting to fucking.

That's fair. That's completely fair.

Credit to Biz, when he did pull out the Mankini, and that turned Canada's game around the other day strictly because of that. But I told him, because that was on Friday, the kids were in school, and I said, Hey, listen, on Sunday, we can't do that. My family's going to be home. He's like, No, I would never. But little did he know my family wasn't home. They were away. I love it. I still haven't even told him that. I think he might have pulled it off after the second. If it was tied up or going into overtime, I think he would have done it. I had to keep that one to myself. We just didn't need any good Canada juju going around my house. No.

It's a really tough day for Biz because he's like, It's good and bad. Canada lost, but Bonnie Blue is pregnant, so he's going to be a father. It's a crazy day for him.

Congrats, Busy boy. Busy Blue.

Some guys know how to finish in the crease. Nathan McKinnon could learn a lot from Biz.

All right, Jens, you're the best, man. Congrats. Awesome, awesome, awesome day, and thank you for coming on, man.

Hey, God bless hockey and God bless America. Love you, boys. Love you.

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Okay, we now welcome on a very, very A very special guest. He's a US Olympian. He's in Italy right now. It is Zack Di Gregorio. He is Italian, a great Italian name. He's an Olympian for the Team USA in the Luj. Double Luj?

Double Luj, yeah. We got all the jokes for it, but yeah.

Okay. Can you explain to me how you got into Luj and how anyone gets into Luj? Because that's the part that we can't really understand is one day you wake up and you're like, Hey, I'm a loozer.

Yeah, it's pretty random. Not many people know what Luj is in the US. We have recruitment weekends in different cities around the country throughout the summer, where it's Same thing, looze lead, but it has roller blade wheels on the bottom of it. Then you just go down a little hill, they set up cones for a little course. That's how they find, I think it's 95% of the US national team for Loosh.

Wait, so they basically are like, Hey, here's a free ride for kids, and then you're like, That was fucking fun. How old were you when you first did it?

I was 10, and I did the trial with my brother, and he was 12. So we did it. It was next to an ice cream place and stuff. We just did it because it looked fun, and it took me a lot further than I thought it was going to- I love that.

That makes perfect sense now. Now I understand why someone would be, you're a 10-year-old kid getting ice cream with your brother, and they're like, Hey, want to go fast down this hill?

It's basically parents that are looking to get their kids off their hands for about 15 minutes. And they're like, Actually, you're really good at that. Yeah. So what do you look for in a loser? If you're designing a loser in a lab, what are the skill What are the strengths that this person has to have? What are the strengths they have to have?

Yeah, there's a size component to it. But when you're recruiting nine-year-olds, who knows what they're going to look like in 10 years, 15 years. But you want someone taller that is heavier. And for the base, it's just how coachable a kid is, because if you got a bunch of little shits on our development team, it's going to be pretty hard to deal with that. I don't know fully what goes into all of it, but we have normally about 100 kids a weekend, and they'll pick two or three from that to invite them back up to Lake Placid.

So you want somebody that's tall and heavy. That seems counterintuitive. Why is that?

It's because it's a gravity sport, so it's all just about weight, but also aerodynamics. Those are two of the bigger things. And then once you get to the higher levels, it matters more for the technical side of it.

What are your measurables?

I'm 6'1 and 210 pounds.

Okay, yeah. That's a good build. That's a strong man.

Do you have to train? Are you fast, too?

I don't have to sprint, but we lift. The whole summer, we're based in Lake Placet, and it's five days a week in the weight room and stuff like that. You have to work out and stuff. I mean, it's a lot of core because where you steer on your legs, you're holding them up the whole time. It's not that easy on the body as it looks. You're not just laying there as it seems for most.

All right. So then single lose, double lose, what is that process? You're like, Hey, it would be more fun if I was lying on another guy?

Pretty much, yes. We got bored during COVID, had to experiment, and started doubles. But no, most people started in singles, and then doubles felt like an extra challenge with COVID. And it was two years out from the Beijing Games, and we were like, Fuck it. Let's go for it. Change up the direction, and worked out.

Okay. Is there a difference in how you do doubles lose as opposed to singles, like difference in technique?

Yeah. I mean, it's the same track, but you have to basically do half the job without knowing what the other half is going to do. I'm on top. I need to know what the guy below me is going to do. And if things go wrong, I basically have to guess what he's going to do and vice versa for him, too. So it's this weird teammate aspect of it.

How did you figure out who was going to be on top and who's going to be on bottom?

Were you like, I'm just a top?

No, it's about height. So it's just for aerodynamics. Got it.

Big spoon, little spoon. Yeah.

All right, wait. So now I understand. This is fascinating. I understand how we find our looge athletes in America. In the rest of the world, is it a super popular sport that kids are just doing it all the time? And what countries are dominating?

Yeah, Germany, it's wild. They have clubs everywhere, and from kids five years old to people who are 60 still doing looge for their club team. So the US is pretty sparse on that. But then Italy does natural looge., which you got to look that up. If you haven't seen that, it's pretty wild. It's like real sledding, but they go on ice as well, and it's like through the woods. Oh, that's sick. Yeah. And that's how they recruit. And then Austria is pretty big for it, too. So all the places you would expect to be way too into sledding.

Okay. And then, wait, did you go to college or did you just be like, I'm committed to being a loser?

I do online college now. I had to commit in eighth grade or so. It was like, you're either going to go spend your winters in Europe or go to college. So I picked spending my winters in Europe.

That's a good choice. Did you get homeschooled and stuff because you were like, I'm committing to losing?

No, I did public school up until I graduated. But then my junior year of high school, I missed 110 out of the 180 days. They were pretty done with me and trying to get me to switch to online. And then COVID happened my senior year.

By the way, I'm watching. I just pulled up the natural looge. This is the coolest sport ever. This is just, you're just sled.

It's sleading. And we're happy that people haven't realized how cool natural looge is in that sense, because spectator standpoint, we know looge looks pretty similar to an untrained eye. So natural looge, there's a little bit bigger of crashes.

It's like F1 on a mountain. It's pretty cool. So when you're competing in natural looge like this... Actually, you know what? We were talking about why don't they do two losers at the same time or multiple people on the track at the same time? I feel like watching that, it would be more similar to a horse race. People get into that as opposed to just you're competing against the clock. Have they ever tried to do that?

They haven't done that. I think just safety-wise, you're going 90 miles per hour. So if you hit into someone going that fast, you get pretty ugly pretty quick. That is pretty fast. Team Relay, if If you guys haven't seen the team relay, that's our bread and butter for Loosh. That's what I'd recommend anyone who wants to watch, especially because it's US versus Canada versus Germany versus Austria. It's not like one person goes down four times. It's one go.

Who's the goat in terms of Loosh? Who's the one guy that we can look at and be like, Nobody will ever touch what that guy did.

Armin Zogler from Italy was pretty up there. Every Olympics, he 2, he won. Or he didn't win, but he won a medal. And yeah, I think it was four or five Olympics in a row. So that was pretty nuts. But yeah, and then just the Germans in general, any of their top teams, the Tobies for doubles, they're The Tobies? Yeah, both their first names are Tobie.

That's perfect.

Yeah. And before this Olympics, they went six for six on gold medals. And then this Olympics, they did bronze and Gold.

And what Tell me, because I was watching some of the Luj and some of the bobsled, and it feels like every single time is within milliseconds of each other. What is the difference between winning? Is it a move they made or is it an angle they took? What is it? How do you get better at Luj when you've been doing it for so long? What are the tweaks you're making?

Yeah, it comes into more than just how you slide down the track. You can lose a race really easy with making a big mistake or something like that. But when you're looking at that top five, everyone's so experienced and so well trained that they're not going to make any big mistake. But instead, it's going to be, how much can you push your set up? So We don't go on like, raise it. It's not like a hockey blade where it's like a sharp angle into the ice. It's almost like the side of a table, like that sharpness going into the ice. So the less grip you have, the faster you're going to go. So whoever risks it the most and then also makes it down clean is going to be the winner. Yeah.

Have there been any big cheating scandals in Luge?

Not any specific. It's just little things. It's like any racing series where someone will alter the rules, find the gray zone, and go from there. We're not like, keep jumping where they have a big one nowadays.

You're not injecting your penis with like, Silicon to make the suit a little bit bigger.

No.

But we're not doing the little double A little touch from the Canadian.

From the Canadian? Yeah. They're cheating. It's dirty. What's the worst crash you've been in?

I went in at the last Olympics. When we were in China, I had a pretty gnarly full blackout concussion. Holy shit. Thought I was back in Massachusetts and didn't know the date by three weeks. That one was pretty rough, but I haven't broken a bone yet, so that's good. Just broke the brain for a little bit.

Is it super dangerous When you're going down, you're like, Hey, this could be the one that could fuck me up really bad?

You don't think about it too much for that, but it's dangerous for untrained people to come in. Starting 10, you grow up with it. But when other nations will come in and look at it as I can make the Olympics in four years, that's when you see some pretty bad crashes. Yeah.

I also saw you're an OnlyFans athlete. What is that? Do Do they reload your wallet or something? What happens there?

Yeah. I mean, loosier isn't a big sport, so we're not going to get any Nike deals or anything like that. If Barstool wants to bring back, have an athlete, let me know.

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Thank you. I'm still too many.

So What happens? You're just like, Hey, I'm an OnlyFans athlete. Go jerk off, guys.

No, I mean, I post all the random shit that we do in the village or what it takes to get into the Olympics and all that stuff because it's a weird niche sport that trying to show off the other side of it. Onlyfans has helped me out on that side.

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Do you have a promo code? You should get a promo code.

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And will you do reviews? If somebody sends you them losing, will you rate their form?

Yeah, I'll rate their form. That's the only rating I'll do. I don't want to get too much going in there.

No, that's good. Actually, our theory is that when it comes to the Olympics, there's always a story that there's not enough condoms in the Olympic village. We think that they do that on purpose every a year, just so that people will talk about how there's not enough condoms. Is it just filled with hot people walking around all the time?

There's some good-looking people here for sure. But yeah, I don't know. The condom thing, so many people sent me that when it was like, Oh, in three days. But in Beijing, anywhere you walked, there's just a basket of condoms. You just walked by, you were like, Yep, grabbing some of those. And it's not even that everyone's having sex everywhere, but it's more just like, if you have a condom that says, Milan Cortina Olympics. That's pretty funny.

It's like getting a pin or something from a game. I have condoms from six different Olympic Games.

Collect all the rings.

Although that's like a cell phone being like, I have all these condoms that aren't used.

Unused, yeah.

In terms of the Olympic Village, is there a specific country that you found yourself hanging out with more that's the chillest country or anything?

My best friend's on the Italian team, and it's pretty good to have a best friend at the Olympics. We ran show for a couple of days there where it was just like, All right, what events we going to? It was a good party right after we finished up racing. That was the best, I think.

Are you in the Olympic dorm right now?

Yeah. You want to see?

Yeah. Can we see it? Okay. Everyone gets this.

It's nice because I'm packing right now, but here's what the room looks like.

Oh, so it's literally like a dorm room.

Yeah.

That's sick.

That's not bad at all.

Yeah, it's not bad. They all talk about the cardboard beds, dude. That's not a thing. I don't know. I think Paris maybe, but not here.

How do you determine if some guy is going to be a loser or doing the skeleton? Are some guys just that guy goes face down?

Yeah, the skeleton normally starts later, and you have to be able to sprint for a skeleton. I can't sprint well, so I do looge.

Is there a rivalry between looge and bobsled?

Just in the sense I feel like bobsled. I feel like everyone knows bobsled, especially because Jamaican bobsled team, right? Yeah. Not as many know looge, but then we're technically the fastest sport on ice is our claim to Fame. But now since Whistler Olympics, they lowered our start height there because there was the crash, the bad crash there.

Yeah.

So now they technically probably go faster overall because they still go from the top of that track.

How competitive is it to make the US Olympic team? You've made it two Olympics in a row. Are you in the prime? How long can you do this for?

I'm going to try to do it for eight more with Salt Lake coming up, but we'll see. This year was pretty tough because doubles, you think is probably the smallest and stuff like that. But for the qualification period, we have five races, and you needed to be pretty much... You had to have at least one result in the top five or actually better than a top two to make it into our team. Some years, there's off years where the team's not as stacked, but this year was a pretty good year for the US team, and it was pretty tough.

How many double losers do he send?

Two.

Oh, so it's just you and your partner? No, like two teams. Four. Okay, yeah. Are Are you best friends with your partner? How long have you been double losing with him?

I started doing doubles with him in 2020 with COVID, and then I've known him since probably 2013. We used to race against each other.

Okay, so you like, Oh, our powers combined. But that's got to be like, you have his life in your hands. He has your life. It's got to be a pretty close relationship.

Yeah, very. We've spent a lot of time together.

Do you have any messages for all the youth out there that are listening that think maybe one day I could be on the Olympic team as a loser? What should they start practicing right now?

I don't know if they should really start practicing. Just go find lose and try it. Come up to Lake Placid. We'll let anyone try it and share the sport.

How much does it suck to do a sport that if you say it fast enough, it sounds like we're calling you a loser?

The worst was probably once I just started, and every single middle school teacher thought that was the best joke in the world. Other than that, it's been pretty mellow since.

Yeah, because that's got to be at least... I assume every loser has had that experience of being like, Oh, all right, fuck you, dude. I get it. It's lose. Yeah, it sounds like lose. I got it. Cool. Every loser probably has had that exact same experience.

Yeah, we get probably the same four jokes just repeated to us the entire time. So you get used to them. But yeah, we want some creativity on it.

Dude, you're an Olympic athlete. You could just fucking flex on them and be like, We joke around. But I did crawling last night, and I have a new respect for crawling. I think in this room, other than Hank, probably dominating women's slalom, I don't think any of us could even come close to be an Olympic athlete.

No, definitely not.

You guys got to come up to Lake Plastic, though. You can try Luj, Skeleton, and Bob said, We'll get you guys on sleds.

That would be actually a great time.

That would be actually really fun. I would love to do that.

Can you do it in the summer?

Not as much, but we can pretend it. We have an indoor facility where we train and stuff, but you're only going to go 15 miles per hour. But in the winter, we can get you going 40, 50.

I want to try this now next winter. Yeah, I got to do it. Like a winter grit week.

I got to do it. Double looge. Double luj, Max and Hank.

Oh, yeah. It sucks that we started liking the Olympics right after they're done.

This is what happens every time. We need to remind ourselves that we can like it. Did you get that tattoo? Tattoo?

Yeah, I got the.

Oh, hell, yes. I love that. Dude, you have to get it. That's basically why you go to the Olympics, so you can get that tattoo.

What do you think about journalists? It's like an Ironman. If a journalist goes to cover the Olympics and they get the Olympic Rings tattooed, is that in bounds?

Yeah, you can't do that one. But the funniest was when I was getting the tattoo, the guy was like, Oh, are you a big fan of the Olympics?

Wait. All right, so along those same lines, what if Hypothetically speaking, one of the idiots that works at Barstool is on a box lacrosse team for Czechoslovakia or Czech Republic?

Yeah, the core of the war.

One of those three, Slovakia, one of those three, and I have funded their team with some money for jerseys and stuff. They're probably not going to make the Olympics, but they're going to try to qualify for the Olympics in LA. If they make the Olympics and I keep funding the team, can I get the tattoo?

I think you got to coach them for a quarter of the game, and then I'd say, yeah.

Also, if it's not America, I mean, yeah, if you want to be a trader, you can get them. I don't give a fuck, dude.

Listen, if you told me that I could walk out in the opening ceremonies, I don't care who it is for. That would be the coolest thing ever.

North Korea cat.

Yeah, fine. Done. That'll be the coolest experience ever. Is the walkout, is the opening ceremony just awesome?

Yeah, it's pretty nails. I mean, this one was cool because it was through Cortina for us. So it was small town vibe and high-fiving everyone. But Beijing was a massive stadium, and it's big American flag wave in underneath the Olympic rings. And I was always a big Sean White fan, so I was right behind him walking through it, and that was a cool one.

How much free time do you have on your hands during the actual Olympics? I'm sure it varies sport by sport, but you always see some of the people showing up to support the other teams.

A good bit for us because we compete in the first few days. So once I finish up on the 11th, I've just been bouncing around and going to different events. I just actually got back from that women's crawling game. I don't know if you guys saw that, but it was.

It was sick.

It was sick. I got the US lost, but a sick game.

The Swiss ladies, they're just assassins. They were just waiting the entire time. They're like, Okay, that's cute. We'll go and throw the perfect stone now.

It was full cold face. I don't know what her name is, but their older lady on the Swiss team there, she was She was a killer. She was not messing around.

Not to bring up a bad thought, but what is it like after the Olympics? Is there a little bit of a... Well, damn, I can't believe that's over because it's such a big buildup, and every four years, I wish they did the Olympics every two years. It would be awesome if it was just we always just had an Olympics going on. But what happens when you get back? What happens the next few months? Are you training right away or are you just like, All right, I can chill out for a little bit?

Yeah, there's I love that one week of where you're just like, What do I do for all of it? But then normally I go on vacation and drink enough to not worry about that. And then by the time I get back, I'm back into it. So I'll start training again somewhere in April or so, and yeah, get back into it.

Are there any sick video games that kids can get into to play Winter Olympic sports?

They used to have the one on Wii. It was like the Sonic and Mario or something Olympic Olympic Games. We need to make another one.

Yeah, we do. There used to be one on, I'm dating myself, but Super Nintendo, and I think Nintendo 64 back in the day, but we need to upgrade that to the new generation of consoles. I feel like if you had an awesome Olympic video game in VR, kids would love that shit.

Vr would be sick. They should get a VR thing because we even trained a little bit VR stuff getting ready because they built this venue just for the Olympics, so you never tried it before. And every other track, you tried for eight years in a row. And then this one, it's brand new.

How many times do you think you've gone down a lose track in your life?

I mean, it's normally 300 runs, probably on average every year. So 300 times 14. I'm not too good at math. Neither are we.

That's a lot. The answer is a lot. We'll get that answer to you, I don't know, in a week and a half. Maybe next Olympics. Hold on. I took out my calculator. 4,200. Damn, that's a lot of runs.

Have you ever been in the zone?

In the zone?

Yeah. Like everything's going perfect on the track for you.

Yeah, once. And we won that race. So I've been chasing that high. But it's like golf when you're having a good round in golf where it just feels so easy. It's very same vibe.

What was that run like when you were in the zone?

I thought pulled off, laid down, and then was almost like thinking not at all about luge, and that seemed to work. It was just letting the body do what it needed to.

I love that. It's almost like surfing, a spiritual experience a little bit. Yeah. Yeah.

There's some weird flow to luge where if it's going good, it feels very good. But once it goes bad, you find out quick.

It snaps you out of it. Yeah.

Have they ever tried triple loosh?

No, but once you guys come up, we can try it if you want. Okay. We can find a big enough slab.

Dude, what imagine if we...

What about quad?

Triple. Get the whole podcast on the loosh.

I feel like this is how they invented-Six minutes in looge? The evolution of Like shaving lasers. Let's do two blades. You know what? Let's do three. What if we did four?

That would be so sick.

It just might be a little top-heavy. That's our only problem. I think the start and how top-heavy it is, we might flip pretty quick.

Yeah.

So you just need somebody with giant legs, like fat ass legs to be the last guy on top.

Well, no, you need someone on the bottom, like massive. The biggest guy is the bottom for that way. So then it's like a little pyramid coming up.

Like the little Like, PFT pyramid would be so funny. Like cat in the hat.

Yeah.

I love that.

I think we go, yeah, like Meer Max, Memes, Zack, Hank, PFT on top. We're ready to go.

That sounds good. Then we get Zah.

Yeah, then we get Zah. We finish it off. It's ready to go. I have one last question, Roback question. Robackquestion, robackk. Com. Promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q-zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, roback. Com. Promo code take. We talked about the tattoo. I'd imagine when you're on vacation and tattoo's out, it's got to help, right?

Yeah. I mean, I was 20 when I got it, and now being only four years older, I'm like, Why did I get it so big? And so in an open place because, yeah, anytime I have a T-shirt on.

You know why? Because people can see. Yeah.

That's why I did it at first. But now I'm like, All right, I don't need to be in a bar and selfie and someone come up to me and be like, Oh, were you in the Olympics? And we'd be like, I don't want to talk about Loosh for another hour.

Yeah, but dude, listen, I got to say, if you put all the tattoos out there in the world, I think the Olympic Rings is the number one tattoo. If you went to the Olympics, you have to get it, and you have to have it prominently featured. Every single person would do exactly what you did.

That's fair. I appreciate it. Yeah.

Well, Zack, this has been awesome, man. We really appreciate you coming on. If you're ever in Chicago, come by the office, and we might take you up on that Lake Placer, that would be- It sounds incredible. We want you to be a part of my take athlete because it's a cool sport. Again, apologies for disrespecting the Winter Olympics in the last two weeks. We do this pretty much, yeah, I think, every single time the Olympics come around. By the end of the Olympics, we're like, Dude, that was awesome. I wish we still had the Olympics.

Yeah, I missed looking at all the flags. I missed just chanting USA over and over again.

We're going to set a reminder next time for the French Alps being like, Hey, respect the Olympics before they come around.

What we'll do is we'll start talking about the Olympics like two weeks before the Olympics, and we'll get all of our hate out. And then by the time the Olympics start, we'll be like, This is awesome, and we'll enjoy the entire run of it.

Yeah, exactly.

All right. Yeah. Well, thanks, Zack. We really appreciate it, man.

Thank you, guys. Nice talking to you.

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Okay, good show, boys. Combine week, like we said.

Football Football is back.

Football is so back. We'll be in Indy, and then we'll be back for the Barstool Combine on Thursday. Big twist. Huge twist. Biggest ever.

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It's so excited for this twist.

So excited for this twist. What's the twist again? It's huge. We can't say. Yeah. And, reminder, on Friday, 08: 00 AM, the punishment stream is going to begin. Zack and Max We'll be streaming on the PMT YouTube, and we'll be-8 AM, Friday. 08: 00 AM on Friday. I'm in for a solid four hours on Friday afternoon.

Yeah, I'll put a shift in for sure.

I also might do a stop by on Saturday, Zack.

Get the tats going.

Yeah, we're going to get new tattoos. Get the tats. Yeah, it's going to be right on the, like we said, the 10-year anniversary of part of my take. Yeah. Pft and I are going to get some PMT tattoos because we love In the show, Hank is not.

To be fair to Hank, he already got the first part of my take tattoo.

And then got it off.

You got it removed.

I still can't believe you got the dead layer.

Yeah, in Hank's defense, it was a tattoo of a picture of a dead fish.

Yeah, I don't know. I think we probably did talk about it on the show. That was in the comedy special. But yeah, all time, one of the biggest fuck-ups. I had to get it off my leg because I hated… It was a mistake that I just had to look at every day.

Get a corpse on your body. Yeah.

I was like, Oh, you got a picture of this fish? I was like, Let me go take one. He's a great fish. He's a great fish. Okay. Numbers. 6. 56. 4. I might get a light as I don't know.

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29. That hurts so bad.

Someone's got to get this soon. Got to get it going.

Might be a cold machine.

This thing makes so much noise. But then it stops making noise.

I can't wait for the twist of the combine.

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Music.

He wrote music, dude. Classical music.

Awesome music.

I think that's the Olympic theme. Yeah. He probably wrote that. But yeah, it's Hope Solo's birthday, so happy birthday.

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