CBB With John Fanta, Olympic Preview Halfway Through The Olympics, QB Lists And Zac’s Alarm Clock Has Him In Deep Water

24:53The guy that ended up winning, he, like a year before, had this gash in his leg from a crash where I think he needed, like, 120 stitches in his leg to close. Like, you can almost die from these crashes.

25:05PFT Commenter:Crazy. Have you seen the clip? It goes viral a lot. Yes. The woman that she sprinted ahead in the very beginning. I think it was. It could have been a guy, but he sprints ahead in the very beginning. So he's in the back. And then the people just forgot that he had got a lead and he just cruised. Yeah, he cruised to a victory. So that was, I think, a 1 ,500-meter race, which is a little longer. The one we're going to watch when you're listening to this today, the one we're going to watch this afternoon is 500 meters. It's four and a half laps. It is so fast. It is bang, bang. it's also interesting because the quarterfinal the way the quarterfinals and semifinals work is it's not time so it's not the fastest time like goes to the semifinals it's just the top two so you could have a bad like there could be a crash and you finish top two in your heat you're in the semis now here's where we're going to maybe get a little spicy we got one American left in the competition Eagles fan Bucks County Andrew Heo his dad owns an auto body shop in North Philadelphia we're going to be rooting for Andrew Heo he's 18 to 1 so he did win the gold medal in the world tournament like 2 months ago so he could do it we might need a crash or 2 or 3 but we're going to root for him 18 to 1 If you can just survive the crashes, that's the key to winning.

26:34PFT Commenter:Top two. Survive the crashes. But yeah, this sport is awesome because they just wipe out so hard. So, so hard. So I'm in on short track speed skating. And the long track is cool, too. I also learned, I listened to a podcast about speed skating today, which, I don't know, kind of weird. We just came in second in the team speed skating. Okay. I know. I know somebody's brother that was competing. They came in second. Nice. There's a podcast about speed skating. I just searched speed skating, and then I listened to two British guys interview a Dutch lady talking about speed skating. It wasn't that interesting other than the fact that there is a race in the Netherlands called the Tour of the 11 Cities, the Tour of the 11 Cities.

27:26PFT Commenter:and it's a 200 kilometer, 125 mile race, ice skating race. And the race only happens when all these 11 cities, it's cold enough that they're all connected via ice. So it hasn't happened since 1997. So it's like a big fucking deal. I'm excited for the next time that race happens. That's pretty cool. That is cool. I like that. So yeah, it's been almost 30 years. They've had this race because they just haven't been able to do it. So next time they do it, it's going to be so sick. What if you were to take an NHL player and put him on speed skates, like Conor McDavid? I don't know. The skates are definitely different.

28:07PFT Commenter:They're not as bulky. I don't know. These guys train so. Do you think Conor McDavid would be more competitive at speed skating or the best speed skater in the world competitive at hockey? Conor McDavid at speed skating for sure. Yeah. But I think it's one of those situations where it's like, why? Yeah, I mean, it would be like putting a sprinter to return a punt. I don't think the speed skaters could do much more than just be faster than everyone. But yeah, this sport is awesome. So 1 o 'clock, I believe, Eastern time on Wednesdays. We're going to start the quarterfinals. If you want to bet Andrew Heo with me, 18 to 1.

28:46PFT Commenter:Again, long shot, get it. but he did win the gold in the world competition a few months ago, and you could just get crashes. We just need crashes, the big ones. Just hang back. Let other people wipe out. Yeah. Okay, Hank, what do you got? I did bobsled. Nice. Some people say, you know, we can't believe Jamaica. We got a bobsled team. Yeah. Remind me of that tan you had. We got a one. Yeah. So there's two-man, four-man. Turns out, so the four-man is a driver, two pushers, and a brake man. Obviously, the two-man is just the driver and the brake man. The brake man, they don't use the brake for most of the ride.

29:30PFT Commenter:They only brake after they finish. So he's just there. So it's basically just all about the guy in the front. Like your job could be a parachute. Yeah. It's that, and then it's just kind of making sure you turn so that you get the aerodynamics. Germany, all-time leader. Switzerland in second place. A lot of history, though, with bobsled. I got a question, Hank, real quick, about the four-man bobsled. You said the guy up front steers. Two pushers. Two pushers. In the middle. Those are the guys that are going to be fast. Right. So you push. You do your little run at the start pushing it, and then everybody jumps into the bobsled.

30:05Yep. And then those two guys in the middle, they just put their heads down and they just don't do shit the entire time?

30:10PFT Commenter:Well, no, you've got to turn. Remember the scene in Cool Runnings when they were, like, practicing in the bathtub? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they all turned together. When we practiced in the bathtub? Yeah. Yeah. So they just got to make sure that they're turning at the right time. Okay. You got to turn together. Yeah. Air dynamics. Cool.

30:30PFT Commenter:2002 was the first year they did female bobsledding. USA, two-man team, two-woman team. Joe Backen and Vanetta Flowers won, which was the first black athlete to win gold at the Olympic Games. A little bit of history. Also, it was the first U.S. Winter Olympic team gold in 1932 in Lake Placid. Nice. Also, one of the only people in all Olympic history to feature a guy that has won a gold medal in Winter and Summer Olympics, eddie egan won a boxing gold medal 12 years later yeah he won a gold medal in his first and only bobsled race that right that's awesome so it doesn't really help the like you know anyone could probably do this considering he ran one bobsled race in his life and won gold i think lolo jones was trying to do that a couple years ago right yeah she didn't win shit yeah no in either summer or winter yeah but i was looking so then that got me thinking of or i was looking researching like how many other people have won gold medals in different sports Olympics because obviously some people have done, you know, variations of skiing or variations of speed skating or whatever.

31:42PFT Commenter:Tug of war was an Olympic sport. Love that. From 1900 to 1920. Love that. U.S. And you could have multiple like in 1904, the U.S. just won all three medals. Do you know what was an Olympic sport in the Winter Olympics? It was the dog racing. Should have had that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Diderod. That should still be there. I agree. Those are cool. But yeah, Tug of Wards, that's a cool fucking... And the dogs should get the medals. Yeah, absolutely. And everyone talks about, obviously, Cool Runnings 1988 Olympic Jamaican team. But the 1994, same crew, they finished 14th overall. They finished ahead of United States and France.

32:23PFT Commenter:So that Jamaican bobsled team was a wagon. By the way, I had an AWL reach out to me, Knucklepucker, said that luge athletes, and I assume bobsled athletes as well, are found in crazy ways. He knew someone who was just approached at the mall. They had a kiosk at the mall, and they were like, you have the size to be a luge-er, and signed up the two siblings that he knew. You've got great balance. They have baseline metrics. What is the ideal prototype? If you're looking for a quarterback, you're looking at a guy that's 6 '3". I think it's strength, speed, and then you also have to be willing to move to Lake Placid and have a tutor.

33:06Living in upstate New York is probably a pretty big benefit.

33:09PFT Commenter:That's a huge one, yeah. Okay. Didn't Herschel Walker try to be a bobsled guy? Oh, yeah. I don't think. Not olympically. I think he tried. I think he tried to. I don't think he competed in the Olympics. That's what I was trying to tell memes the other day. is the University of Georgia has some guys that would be great at just being fast and then just going really fast behind the wheel of something. Do we have bobsled today? I don't know when the bobsled actually is. Okay, find out because we want to tune in. All right, what do you got, PFT? I didn't. Oh, it already happened. Who won? It's happening today at 2 o 'clock.

33:49Did we win?

33:53Did we win?

33:54PFT Commenter:I'm finding out who didn't. I'm going to guess no, we didn't. Did we win? I think the Germans won. There's a lot of German teams in here. We got one. We got two guys. Okay. We won. We won. By the way, then the biathlon is February 20th and 21st, actually. So I was wrong about 19th, 20th, 21st. And my short track is today. That's why I picked that. I wanted everyone to tune in. Andrew Heo, 18 to 1. All right, PFT, what do you have? All right, so I have the only new sport for this Olympics. every year they like add a new one this year it's called golden women's yesterday oh hell yes on bobsled breaking moves women's mono bob mono bob so that's just that's like when you just have one person yeah right it's when a guy named bob talks like this mono bob okay what do you have uh i have ski mountaineering is this one of those sports that like the french or sorry the italians added it yeah exactly this is a d basically when you look at the olympics most of the sports are like dei for scandinavia they're like oh we need to have more more uh representation in our sports so we're going to combine sports that kind of already exist but the cool thing about ski mountaineering is that for uh for centuries people have only gone downhill on skis and then they've taken the lazy way up via ski lift or some sort of mechanized means of getting them to the top of mountain in ski mountaineering you actually you have to climb up the mountain before you earn the right to go down the mountain so this one i respect just because it sucks so much it sucks it is the it is the suckiest sport to do that you get my respect if it's like holy shit who would ever want to do this yeah so it combines hiking and downhill skiing and uh when people watch like the skiers go downhill after they climb up to the top a lot of people be watching this and be like wow these guys really suck at skiing they're not that fast it's because they're exhausted because they just sprinted to the top all their skill is used going up all their skills use going up and then they just kind of let gravity take them down because they're so tired but if you watch some of the clips of these guys sprinting up the hill they look like the boston dynamic robot dogs like running up these giant giant ice and snow covered mountains wait are they using what kind of ski do they switch skis so yeah what you do is you have skis but then your skis are inside of a sheath that gives you more traction when you're going up the cross country skis versus downhill so you go up the mountain and then you have to like very quickly rip those off like rip the covers off your skis then you go down the hill so there's a couple different ways that you can do this there's um there's the type that's just like mixed relay which is uh going to be on february 21st there's gonna be guy girl guy girl i think competing and then they just keep going up down up down up down so my idea to actually make this a better sport just like last person going like there's no there's no finish line there's no time it's just the last person who's still moving oh okay so it's just it's like a actual death sport it's like a death sport it's like you know you can stop you can stop without dying like if you're just like this sucks yeah i'm tired i'd like to i'd like to go home now you can do that but then it's just like the the epitome of endurance yeah Just have the last person moving wins the gold medal.

37:18I think that's a good idea. Okay. Also, I learned a fun fact. Did you know that skis predate the wheel? I did not. Yeah. How crazy is that?

37:27PFT Commenter:That is crazy. That seems pretty stupid, actually. Skis predate the wheel? Yeah. How much? People invented skis before they invented the wheel. This could also just be like skier propaganda that they've put out there. That could also, yeah, or just be a random guy slipped on a couple logs on the ice. Right. Like, oh, I got skis. Like my drunk uncle, Ol, he was preparing for the harvest, and he fell down, tumbled down the mountain. Yeah. Yeah. We also have some Americans that are competing in the finals. There's this one dude who's like a beast. I think he's from Illinois as well. So he might. We got to root for him?

38:05We got to root for this Illinois guy. Give me one second. I'll tell you what his name is.

38:10PFT Commenter:Where does he train around here? Yeah, not a lot. Not a lot. He may not currently live in Illinois. Yeah, where's this guy at? There's a trash heap. Wilmot. This does look fun. It looks so hard watching these guys run up this hill. It looks like the most annoying sport to participate in. That was just porn? Oh. Just watching porn? Yeah, that was just porn. I looked up Schemo. So, and now I guess some things aren't. Use your imagination of what Max just found. Cameron Smith. Cameron Smith? Cameron Smith. It's 99 % skiing. Cameron Smith. Cameron Smith, that's who we're rooting for. All right. We need to win this.

38:56PFT Commenter:I still need like 15 more. I need a shitload more gold medals for my bet for the Super Bowl. Okay, that's a good sport. I'm in. I respect this sport because it does. I think if I tried to do this, I would probably quit within. maybe 10 seconds? Yeah. This guy currently lives in Colorado. Yeah, he's from Rockford, and he moved to Colorado to go up and down mountains. Okay, Zach, what do you have? What sport do you have for us? So I had figure skating pairs to free skate. Are you guys familiar with the pairs figure skating? Yeah, I think so. The way they break it down is there's 16 teams who qualify through the short program the day before.

39:40So it's like a two-minute program. Then they qualify to go into like the long form free skate, which is about four minutes. And there's like eight or nine elements that have to be incorporated in the program or in their sequence, which are you got to have three lifts, one twist, two throws, one side by side solo jump, a side by side jump combination, one pair spin, a choreographed sequence, and of course the death spin. All go into one routine. Of course the death spin. Yes, it's a mandatory element in the pairs. You have to do the death spin. You've got to do the death spin. Everybody's got a death spin.

40:14Okay. And the way they do the points is like there's a base point system, and then your score is based higher or lower on those base points via like the execution of each element. And then the Russian judge is always like, the U.S. sucks. France wins. Yeah, Russia is exiled right now. They're banned. That's right. Yeah, yeah. They got some stuff going on. Are we going to win this or no? We did not win pairs yesterday, but we have some promising skaters coming up. They're doing the single women's short program today to qualify for free skate tomorrow.

40:47PFT Commenter:Okay. But there was a little bit of drama in the pair's free skate yesterday. And? So the German team was supposed to be a lock, and they got caught kind of playing defense instead of kind of like they went out there to skate to defend still being at first up by seven points. They kind of got caught sleeping. They did prevent defense. Yeah, they went prevent. They should have went all out to secure the win. Yeah. Got it. They let the Japanese team sneak in and set a world record. Wow. You can't let the Japanese hang around. They hung around so quick. Wow. So they won. They did. The Japanese won.

41:24I feel like maybe some sort of alliance between the Germans and the Japanese to just let them go ahead and do that. Raikou and Raichi had no business, and they had all the business with a world record.

41:34PFT Commenter:Are all the pairs they're dating, right? There's some chemistry out on the ice. Yeah, because I feel like it's a very sensual sport to be. You have the other person, their lives are in your hands. You're twirling them. You're spinning them. You're dipping them. I think even if you don't align sexually with the interest of your partner, you have to try it at least once, right? Yeah. There was a lot of chemistry between the Japanese team and the team from Hungary. The German team kind of skates more clinical. Like, they're very precise, but there's no emotion evoking from the German skating. It's just like cut and dry with solid execution.

42:16PFT Commenter:Got it. Isn't there a lot of corrupt judges in the sport? Yeah, good question. Voice is gone. Good question, Hank. By the way, we stopped recording earlier today. That's why PFT has a costume change, and Hank just lost his voice. It's not costume. It's a different shirt. Yeah, I know, but you call it a costume change. I guess it's a costume change. Yeah. What? I just wish we had a full body pick of PFT right now Get your jokes in now No, he's doing his Olympics Those are Olympic pants Your computer's blocking it anyway Those are Olympic pants It looks good That's what I was saying, the people should be able to see That's a costume change What does that look good for?

42:56PFT Commenter:Costume change For PFT That looks great I worked out a little bit on the lunch break I thought that I had a normal pair of pants to put on. I went into my gym bag. Turns out I did not have a normal pair of pants to change into. All I had was my Flags of the World pajama pants. Which is great. Perfect for this episode. I don't know why you're defending yourself. It's the Olympic preview. Because I can see. I'm looking at Hank's dead eyes right now. I'm being like, well, it looks great. It's not like RFK Jr. I did cocaine off a toilet seat when I was younger. But I kind of, listen, I caught a glimpse of myself, and I thought it's a little bit much even for me.

43:33Like this is an accidental four-year-old kind of day that I pulled off. Four-year-old who got dressed in the dark. It's fine. It happens. A day that ends in Y. Yes.

43:42PFT Commenter:I like the pants are sick for the Olympic preview. Yeah, that's why I wore them. They're perfect. All right, so do we have any more pairs? So another fun fact though, yesterday the team that came in second, Georgia, they had never medaled in any Winter Olympic sport until yesterday with that silver. Oh, good for them. And they were hitting speed. They're a fast team. And they're married. They are together. Yeah. And that guy's name is Gleb Smokin. Mm-hmm. Deanna Davis. They're hitting speeds of 16 miles an hour on the ice yesterday. Oh, they're a good-looking couple. Yeah. Okay. Good for them.

44:14PFT Commenter:All right, Memes, you got the last sport. What did you do? I'll keep mine tight. Okay. I did Nordic Combined Ski Jumping. Yeah. What? Nordic Combined is a Winter Olympic sport that merges ski jumping and cross-country skiing. And shooting. No, no shooting. That's a biathlon. Oh, this is like steeplechase? No. It's a ski jump. So they do the jump, and then whoever has the longest jump gets put in first for the cross-country skiing. Okay. And then they go out one at a time, and you're essentially just chasing the guy in front of you. So it's steeplechase if they did long jump first. Yes. And then there's guns.

44:53There's no guns.

44:54PFT Commenter:shit and and uh are we i'd have to imagine we suck at this norway just dominates yeah we do suck at this uh this was the only time the u.s is medaled in this was 2010 where they won four medals they won one gold one silver and no four silvers okay and that was just one time sports been around for 100 years this is definitely it's it's uh it's slanted against the united states yeah this is how they get around there no yeah norway this is how they commute to work that's So, I mean, the Dutch, the speed skating sport I talked about, that Dutch, that's just what they did. Yeah. Yeah, but similar to Max's, this was developed in Norway to train soldiers in both endurance and explosive technical power.

45:37And it was developed to forge super soldiers. Oh. Oh. That sounds badass. Interesting. Capable of navigating steep terrain and traversing snowy landscapes. It remains a premier high-intensity test of athleticism. See, this is why we always tell people, like, don't make your kids specialize. in one thing, have them be athletes all around, which is why we keep getting blown out at the combine, at the Nordic, or at the biathlon. Yeah. We got kids growing up specializing in guns. They need to be more well-rounded with skis, too. This is also the only winter Olympic sport that doesn't have women in it.

46:15Oh, guys only.

46:17PFT Commenter:Hell yeah, sport for guys. Yeah. Why not? they just jump and then they so it's like a split event yeah it's like the biathlon or whatever yeah they do the jump at 3 a.m so this is on the 19th they'll do the jump at 3 a.m and then they do the cross country at 7 a.m that day but if you're good at the long jump you can get a nice head start you get a nice head start but most of the time if you're good at the long jump you're not good at the cross country skiing this sounds like the dudes just want to make up an event just to kind to get away and just have like dudes only time yeah and it also seems like a made-up event for like the the good cross-country skiers just want to win a different event right because it seems like that's it's slanted towards the cross-country skiing portion how long do they uh ski for 10 minutes oh i i put this as a that i think that's an official Olympic distance.

47:15PFT Commenter:10 minutes. Yeah. I wouldn't recommend watching. Go off for 10 minutes. We'll see where you end up. Looks like 10K. 10K. You wouldn't recommend watching. Wouldn't recommend watching. Just catch the highlights. Okay. There's no point. Ski jump is pretty cool. I'm in on that. I'm definitely in on ski jump. It's terrifying but it looks awesome. Yeah, those guys fly. Who is that guy that was, I think his name was Eddie the Eagle, right? He was from the United States and he sucked at ski jumping but he represented us in the Olympics. I'm not familiar with this story. That dude kind of rocked. If I remember, he was just not very good, but for whatever reason, he got an automatic bid.

47:52Maybe when it was in Lake Placid. Yeah. And so, yeah, they're like, go Eddie the Eagle. And we all cheered for him. He jumped like 10 feet and he was a hero.

47:59PFT Commenter:Dude, the endurance that it takes for these cross-country skiers has got to be insane. Like when you go skiing for like a little bit and you run out of speed and you just have to go from like one side of the lodge to the other side of the lodge, It takes up everything I have. They do have better skis for it, but still. But it doesn't matter. Yeah, they have skinny skis. But yeah, it's insane how these guys are just insane athletes. Never been skiing. That's right. Never been snowboarding. You should just cross country ski. So when people ask if you're going skiing today. Yeah, you should ask. You should do some cross country skiing.

48:34PFT Commenter:So when people are like, do you ski? Be like, yeah. Cross country. Cross country. I'm at Schemo. Yeah. Mountaineer ski. Okay, good job, boys. Good Olympic preview. I forget if you said this when you were talking about curling the other day. Did you cover the fact that all the stones come from the same island? I did not. So if you have a curling stone, they're all taken from granite from this one tiny island. I like that. Because that's where the granite grows the specific way to be the right density. It's like the one family that makes all the footballs? Yeah, exactly. Or the family that gets the mud to rub down a baseball.

49:05The baseballs, yeah. Yeah, no, it's like, I want to say$5 ,000 for a set of curling stones because you have to get them from this one place.

49:11PFT Commenter:Damn, that seems ridiculous. Yeah. Barrier to entry. I think there was more cheating for Canada, by the way. I saw Finger on Stone again. Finger on Stone. They just can't stop cheating. Absolute bullshit. Okay, good Olympics preview. Andrew Hew, let's root for him, 18 to 1. Bucks County, Philadelphia. Bucks County. He's ready to go. Yeah. Okay, before we get to hot seat, cool throne. dedication isn't born in the light of day it's carved in the quiet hours before the world blinks awake at boarshead we rise with a mission to deliver craftsmanship worthy of your table a slice of something special folded into every moment worth savoring because dedication means delivering only the very best boarshead committed to craft since 1905 iconic summer moments deserve an iconic drink reach for mountain dew an american original from its beginnings in the foothills of tennessee to your biggest summer yet the refreshing citrus kick of mountain dew is the perfect companion to your american summer adventures enjoy the refreshing citrus kick of mountain dew tasting great since 48 look for mountain dew in stores near you at mountain dew.com that's mountain dew.com All right, Hut seat, cool throne.

50:37PFT Commenter:What's your Hut seat from Pizza Hut, Hank? My Hut seat is Wendy's. Oh. Yeah. They put out an announcement today. It read like a team, like a sports team announcement. It said, Wendy's is to close hundreds of restaurants in 2026 in what interim CEO Ken Cook calls a rebuilding year. Oh. I love that. They're tanking for draft picks. Yep. Yeah, trust the process. I do like that. Yeah, it's tough to hear for Wendy's. but I guess they're going to be back better than ever, maybe. They've got a plan. Right now they're in cap hell. Also interim, just the fact that it's an interim CEO. Yeah. Sounds like an interim coach.

51:15PFT Commenter:Yeah, that's not great. We're McDonald's guys anyway. We are. Yeah, can I take Wendy's maybe off the hot seat real quick? Sure. Like in an effort to maybe try to rescue Wendy's? Because I think iron sharpens iron in the fast food game, right? Yeah. Right? So here's the thing. I read an article the other day about this dude that made a bet, and because he lost his bet, he had to eat Wendy's chili for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day for 30 days. Okay. He did it. He got through 17 days at the time this article was written. He lost 17 pounds. So it might just be a great diet. Maybe it's just Wendy's for health.

51:53Or he's just shitting every time he eats. That is probably a more likely explanation, but we're trying to look on the bright side here.

51:59PFT Commenter:What could be the downside of having someone become a celebrity endorser for a fast food restaurant saying they lost a ton of weight? I don't see a problem with that. No problem here. That's never gone wrong. It worked for you when you did gumbo every day, too. Yeah. Yeah. Kidney stones. Yeah. Okay. Good hot seat. My cool throne is Game of Thrones. Isn't Jared getting out of prison soon? I think so. I think, well, no, we looked it up. It was like maybe five years from now. Oh, I thought the super size guy was also super problematic. Well, the super-sized guy, the Morgan Spurlock. Yeah. He also...

52:34PFT Commenter:Wasn't he... Canceled himself. No, but wasn't he an alcoholic? A severe alcoholic. And he went and did the super-sized me, and the doctor was like, you have liver failure because you've been eating McDonald's. He was like, no, dude, it's because you stopped drinking. No, he's like... He's like, I have the shakes. Like, yeah, dude, you stop drinking vodka every day. And he's like, it's probably that Arch Deluxe that I had. Yeah. Yeah, that was false advertising. That gave me hepatitis. When is he getting out? I think, Jared. A little too soon. He's got to do the gauntlet when he gets out. He does.

53:002029. 2029. All right. Okay. Five years. He's got to do it again. Three years.

53:06PFT Commenter:Holy shit. Should. Okay. It's 2026. There's no such press as bad press. No. Jared's got bad press. Okay. All right. Then I won't say it. Bad guy. I just had a marketing idea. Just had a marketing idea. I don't want to get in business with Jared. Part of my cheesesteak. Nope. Nope. Nope. But what if he gets fat? What if the whole thing is like, now I got so disgustingly fat, and then he dies? Okay, yeah. Yeah, if it kills him. Yeah, if he eats himself to death. Yeah, that could work. That's good press. Yeah. Yeah, we could poison him. Yeah, we could. We'd be heroes. Yeah, we would be heroes. All right, that was your cool turn?

53:43PFT Commenter:My cool turn's Game of Thrones. Oh, Game of Thrones, yeah. Back, all the way back. How many episodes are we into this? Because I was not familiar if it was back. I believe the fifth or sixth episode, they're short episodes. All right, so I can get into it. It's like 20, 25, 40 minutes. Okay, I'm in. It's slower at first, but I liked it from the beginning, and the season has, I don't know if it's over now, but it's gotten very, very, very good. How does this fit into the Game of Thrones universe? It happens after House of Dragon, before Game of Thrones. But House of Dragon is still going on. House of Dragon is, season three is coming out, maybe never.

54:22PFT Commenter:It's gotten delayed. It seems like it's going to be bad. Did I watch season two of that? I don't think so. I stopped ever since. The crab feasters? I did the same. Yeah, the crab feasters. I have a question, Hank. Can I ask a question? Please. Do I need to know anything about Game of Thrones to watch this? Like, do I need? No, it's similar houses. There's Targaryens, Baratheons. Stark? Not Starks in the show, but. Is there a billion different characters that are going to make it hard for me to. No, it's too many. It's a big, tall guy, little kid. Yeah, it's great. And Night King? The kid, remember?

54:57PFT Commenter:Wait, big tall guy and little kid? Yeah. On Tomorrow's Part of My Take. I hope he doesn't get any icing. The whole show is on Tomorrow's Part of My Take. No icing is the back of his shirt, right? Remember Master Eamon when he's croaking and he's like, egg. Yeah, yeah. You could say any name, any scene. I remember he was croaking. No. That's why I stopped watching. The egg that he's. No, but this is Game of Thrones. The egg that he's talking about was his brother. So it's like, remember how old Master Eamon was? No. Yeah. He was like 100 years old. Super old. So whatever. It's good. It's really good.

55:33PFT Commenter:All right, I'm in. And they croaked. It sounds like you're not. Are you fully? You said it's short episodes. I'm in. You're fully caught up? How are the dragons? No dragons. I'm out. I'm out. See ya. Are you fully caught up, Hank? Yeah. I'm out. They said the last episode, the most recent episode was like the second best episode of television ever. It was. I was. And you're telling me these are 25 minute episodes? there's no way. The last one was a little longer. But it's set up like it was the whole episode before was a setup. I'm not going to spoil it, but it's set up for a big battle, if you will.

56:02PFT Commenter:And then the whole episode was just that battle. What's the name of the show again? Knights of the Seven Kingdoms? A Night of... One Night in Paris?

56:14PFT Commenter:I think it's called A Night of the Seven Kingdoms. Yeah, it's short. No dragons. It's fine. Yeah. It's just the same episode over. Is there a possibility. Night of the Seven Kingdoms. That the dragons are off somewhere off screen together and they're going to make an appearance later on this season. No spoilers because the show hasn't season three hasn't come out, but the dragons all die. Wait. And the House of Dragon. Wait. Wait. Three. Yeah. The dragons all die. And then. But it hasn't happened yet. Daenerys brings them back. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We knew that. also George R.R. Martin's just like yeah I don't really feel like finishing this yeah that's just I saw that he's like I'm just kind of like it takes too long dude how could you do that I think everybody knew this is what he was doing like 8 years ago and he finally said yeah I don't really feel like writing just half ass it chat GBT let AI take care of it yeah he's a Jets fan he's probably down in the dumps so we gotta get the jets actually reach out to george r martin just just to talk about the jets cool yeah reach out to him memes yeah done okay your hot seat cool throwing uh my hot seat is all girls all of our girls just girls like if you got a girl hot seat okay because uh i've i've fallen deep into the well of the clavicular cinematic universe and the uh the mogging that's been going on the asu frat leader getting out absolutely alpha mogged everything goes along with it yeah it is it's become like a wwe storyline where now you've got like a twin tall brother six foot five giga chad from australia who came over to the united states to avenge the mogging of his brother clavicular by the asu fracking who might not even be a frat king he might be a fake frat king involved in all this and i i can't get enough of the recaps of it it's every time i see one it makes me laugh so hard what are the recaps the recaps the recaps are just like talking about how this guy got mugged by a frat king and then somebody else stole his phone and then this guy this kid is now uh jester maxing but then there's a goblin chad that got into a fight with clavicular, and then the goblin Chad stole the phone and then mogged the phone too.

58:43So everybody's getting fucked up. I don't understand any of those words. Yeah, I don't understand them either. Yeah, you obviously do. No, I don't. You just did them. No, I bet.

58:52PFT Commenter:It's okay. What is gesture maxing? Gesture maxing. Gesture maxing is when you do something unproductive. So you do understand the words. I know that. I know that one, yeah. So do you do something unproductive? What's mogging? I don't know what mogging is. You know what mogging is. I think, I think mogging is. No, I think I know. Being alpha. No, no. Mogging is like, like if I was standing next to Arnold Schwarzenegger, he would be body mogging me. Got it. I think that's right. Yeah. Because he like next to his body looks better than my body. Some may say. So he would be mogging me. Some. Got it.

59:30PFT Commenter:So Zach is eye mogging you, right? Correct. Zach would be eye. Yeah. I think. I have very little knowledge on this. But you're max maxing right now. That I don't get. Because Zach is iMaxing. I would be Max Maxing. You're Max Maxing. Just because my name is Max. Wait, like the movie theater? Yeah, yeah. Like, maxing is you could do anything. If you're just doing anything. Like, Hank is nap maxing right now. No, he's no naps. No naps. No naps. But you can max anything. It's just like whatever you happen to be doing at that given time. So you guys are like voice-mogging Hank right now. Oh, big time.

1:00:08Hank just got voice-mogged.

1:00:11PFT Commenter:See? Yeah. Hank got mogged by Sam Darnold?

1:00:18No. Oh. Sam Darnold, Brady Max. No, but Sam Darnold mogged Drake May. God, he was jester maxing at the Super Bowl. Yeah.

1:00:28PFT Commenter:What's the goblin? Well, no, so Drake May. No, Goblin's part of the show that Hank was talking about. No goblins. Drake May, at the Super Bowl, Drake May nine maxed. Nine? He nine maxed at the Super Bowl. Like nine, like J.J. McCarthy? Yeah, yeah. Got it. Got it, got it, got it. The whole playoffs, you could say, Penix Max. Got it. Penix Max. Yeah. Penix. Okay. But yeah, you can just say whatever you want. But it is like a WWE storyline that these guys have somehow concocted for each other. I don't think they're doing any of it on purpose. But it's just, it's a very funny, weird part of the internet that I don't fully understand.

1:01:06But it makes me laugh whenever I look at it. Let's get into the maxing. Well, yeah. I think we are maxing right now. Yeah.

1:01:13PFT Commenter:Max Maxing. Well, they looks maxed, too, which is when you smash your bones to give yourself a better structure. Yeah. So you can pound your cheekbones with a little hammer, and it's supposed to over-calcify. Now these guys end up just looking like vampires. None of it's healthy. But yeah. I'm surprised you haven't paid attention to it. I saw. I've seen it. I've not opted in. Well, a lot of it was on vacation. I was trying not to be online too much. And I just like, it's one of those ones. I was just like, I'll let it pass. Yeah. No, you can't let this pass this because this kid's going to be president one day.

1:01:49PFT Commenter:So I have to, I have to pay attention. He will be president of the United States at some point. Okay. And I think all our future. Oh, the New York Times wrote a book. Yeah. Yeah. All our future. I'll read the New York Times. I'll do it. Looks aren't everything. Clavicular begs. That's the title. Ketamine. I'm going to read this article and do it like the real boomer way of being like, I saw this clavicular guy on New York Times. Yeah. I have a take about clavicular. I don't think he's that hot. Yeah, I mean, he looks like a regular dude. He's a normal-looking guy. Yeah. No, he's not, like, stopping the street.

1:02:20If this guy spends 100 % of his time trying to look his absolute best, that's very sad for him. This guy or the Bears tailgate guy?

1:02:30PFT Commenter:Bears tailgate guy. He's naturally beautiful. People don't know. I saw a really hot guy at the Bears-Packers playoff game and then invited him and his friends to the office the next week to judge how hot he was, and he was hot. I think we got nine guys walking around the office that look better than clavicular. Yeah, Blake for sure. Yeah, Blake. Yeah. Mincy, once the hair grows back. Yeah. Do you think Blake gets bothered by the fact that every time a hot guy comes up, I'm like, well, we got Blake. That's a compliment. Yeah. He's a good looking toot. Yeah. But it feels a little like Michael Scott, Ryan Howard-ish.

1:03:07Yeah. But that's a funny show. Man, you're hot. But that's a funny storyline. Can you bring up the Goblin Chad dance? You gotta see the Goblin Chad. The Goblin Chad is mesmerizing. I don't know if I want to see the Goblin Chad dance. Clavicular gets absolutely mogged at some party.

1:03:28PFT Commenter:Hank, what's going through your head? This is tough. It's tough. It's a tough listen. Tough listen, Max. We're basically doing Fantasy Fuck Boys right now? I can't find anything about the Goblin Chad. It's worse. and Fancy Fuck Boys. No, we're currently pod maxing. We're pod maxing. Zach gets it. I'm having fun. What platform should I be searching Goblin Chad? I actually don't know if it's Goblin Chad. I did Twitter. It was nothing. I did Google nothing. Was that your hot seat or cool throat? I don't know. I think both. Okay. I think it was everything. Okay. Yeah, that's everything. Because really, that's what I've been paying attention to.

1:04:05That's all you got. Is Goblin Chad. I found the Goblin Chad video. Bald Max and Goblin Chad. It's crazy. That's what they're saying. This is how I talk now. All right, look at this guy. Big cat. Look at this guy. So there he is. He gets jacked up, and then somebody takes his phone, and then look at this mesmerizing guy, though. Right? Coming to the screen. He turns the phone around. This guy. Yeah, he's ugly looking dude. Creepy as fuck, right? Yeah. I love that guy. Okay. All right. So that's my brain melting out of my ear.

1:04:42PFT Commenter:Yeah, that's true. Brain rot. Yep. Okay. We're in it. Now that I've gotten a little familiar, I'll have to pay attention. I do that whenever I see something where it's like a foreign language. If you never learn what they're talking about, then you won't see it everywhere. Once you learn what they're talking about, you're hooked. You're done. I opt out of a lot of those things. Yeah. For whatever reason, this caught me at the right time. I had time. This one got you. Okay. Okay, my hot seat is I have two. One is us because Bleacher Report did a top 99 QBs of all time ranking, and Dak Prescott is on there.

1:05:23PFT Commenter:So he's at 59. 59. 59. I went through it. I wasn't really going to get that mad about a list. The only issue I had was they had Marino at 10. I feel like he should be higher. Marino was behind Steve Young And Drew Brees I feel like Marino deserves more respect I don't understand how you can put Dak at 59 He's at 59 So if you want to get mad about QB rankings He's at 59 I'm a little mad Ryan Tannehill 99 Ryan Tannehill is 99 Matthew Stafford is 20 Patrick Mahomes is 4 Russell Wilson was ahead of Lamar Jackson Okay I guess that makes sense I mean if you're just going off career yeah super bowls but yeah but you'd rather i mean lamar jackson's been the better quarterback he's won two mvps yeah but i would say if you're doing a list of the great is this the greatest quarterbacks i think that's what it is top 99 quarterbacks nfl history i think i would like total career i think i would put russell wilson above lamar i don't know lamar's been the best quarterback in the league twice that's 77 derrick carr okay future jet future jet alex smith 70 Oh, Jalen Hurts is on there.

1:06:34PFT Commenter:Let's go. There you go, Max. Doug Smith is on there. Yeah. Well, they had to get 99. That's a lot of quarterbacks. Kirk Cousins is 71. Yeah. Get mad about it. Kirk Cousins I would put above Dak Prescott. Yeah. My other hot seat is the MLBPA executive director, Tony Clark, who resigned today. and then it came out his resigning his resignation was after an internal investigation revealed he had an inappropriate relationship with his sister-in-law who had been hired by the union in 2023 dog sister-in-law dog sister he hired his sister-in-law and then and then dog dog this is this might be the kind of guy you want running your union it's that's dog move this is a guy that keep your friends close and your relatives closer.

1:07:28Yeah. I feel like I'm going to wait for all the facts to come out. I'll put it that way. I'm going to wait for all the facts. Yeah. This could be way worse. It sounds bad, but it also could be way worse.

1:07:39PFT Commenter:My cool throne is Tiger Woods, the Masters, because he has said that he has not ruled out playing in the Masters this year. This year. Wow. This year. It's got to be awesome with Tiger. He just can play in the Masters. Whenever he wants. Yeah, he should. Why not? It'd be fun. It'd be fun to have Tiger in the Masters. The way that he said it makes me think it's on. He's on. Yeah. We also had LeBron James. Remember there was a story that he stopped drinking wine because he missed the beginning of the season. He also stopped eating chocolate chip cookies. So just so we're updating on LeBron's diet.

1:08:15PFT Commenter:We're getting little pieces that just come out every now and then. He cares so much that he stopped eating cookies. Did someone take away his cookies? Someone didn't. I don't know if someone took away his cookies. I think he took away his cookies himself. He took his own cookies away. And then my other cool throne is the Chicago Cubs, because I don't know if you guys are ready for this, but they have the team slogan hashtag. The Cubs are going to win the World Series this year. Do you guys want to guess what their team slogan is? Cub up. Nope. W up. Nope. It's the W. Fly the Cub. This. Cubby hole.

1:08:51i said it this is this i don't fucking know dude it's the weirdest thing ever this

1:09:00PFT Commenter:this what is that no it's this yeah this it's a it's a who's on first sketch i i guess it gets people talking this the cubs this this i mean oh that was mean the person that this team is missing the playoffs. This. How do you run out of slogans that bad that it's just this? What is that? This. It's like an acronym? No, I don't think so. I think it's just this. What are you so excited about? This. Why is the avatar for the Cubs a different color? It's probably. It's like yellow and red. Oh, no, it's probably for spring training. That's probably their spring training hats. This. They're doing spring training right now.

1:09:51PFT Commenter:This. Because they're in the desert. This. Yeah. This group. I don't know. This. All right, Zach. We're very excited for this. Oh, no. This. My HUD seat this weekend, I had to probably put myself in the HUD seat. I've accidentally kind of alarm clocked too close to the sun recently. You know, we all went on vacation this last week. Yep. That was a great time. It was nice. You know, I got home, got to see the parents. I thought we left on Tuesday I left on Tuesday we recorded that Tuesday I thought I was going to miss my flight So I was like frantically trying to like hustle out the house Get packed and like just get out of there I didn't do like The checklist of things you would do To leave for a couple of days That's on me And I had left my alarm clock plugged in Unbeknownst to me Oh no You left the bomb in You left the bomb in for five days You left the bomb unattended nope so what happened is like i'm at home i i was at home i was out walking the lake trying to get some steps in you know we're on the diet challenge trying to stay active i got a phone call i was like okay who's calling me from my apartment complex so i pick it up and it's a gentleman's voice i never heard before i was like what's going on how are we man he's like you've got uh have you seen any of our emails and i was like no i haven't seen the emails but like what can i i'm happy what can i do that guy hit you with a per my email in real life oh no zach and he was basically like hey i need you to respond to this email that we sent out about alarm clocks because you begin noise complaints and i was like well i'm not home how am i getting noise complaint because the last noise complaint i got was for playing xbox too loud i was like well i haven't been on the noise complaint that was tough aren't you plugged in yeah but i'm on the mic so i guess i was like oh i could have been getting a little too excited got it so i was confused at first he was like no your alarm clock is going off like today and yesterday we're gonna have to take like a meeting here but before then i need you to respond to this email i was like okay i can do that and i'll respond right now and i was like kind of freaking out so then i accidentally replied all to all my neighbors oh no yeah sure you can go into my apartment and unplug the alarm clock so now they all know it was me uh wednesday one o 'clock we're gonna get together uh hopefully just like Like, have a talk.

1:12:06There's, like, two guys. One dude messed up. One guy hopefully is understanding. So there's a chance that this alarm clock was going off for two days. There was a world where it was going. I don't think it was, but there is a world where, like, I'm the worst neighbor of all time, and I just left my irrationally loud alarm clock going.

1:12:26PFT Commenter:So have you been given any inkling to, like, what this meeting, what did he say about the meeting? Oh, it's all about the alarm clock. But he was like, we're going to have to have a sit-down meeting. I didn't formally talk about this in person was the quote. Yeah. Bring your playbook. I don't know what I'm going to. There's a chance the E word gets thrown. We're not going to say the E word, but. I think Hank should go with you. You good at meetings? I'll wear a suit. Yeah. You probably look good in a power suit. Hank should go with you. And you should ask if you can bring a video. Yeah, let's see if we can bring a video.

1:13:01PFT Commenter:Let's do PMTV. This is your meeting. This is my narcoleptic cousin, and he needs a medical-grade alarm clock to wake up every day. Let's get some behind-the-scenes footage. We can't get... He's actually going to get E-worded if we go in there. But let's just ask. Let's ask. What's the worst they can say? No? And you're evicted? That's the worst. That's what we're not trying to do. That is the worst. Pretty bad. Max was preemptively evicting me earlier. He was searching apartments. I was looking for alternative apartments for him. I was trying to help him in case something happened. Zach, you can stay at my house if you get evicted for three nights.

1:13:37I would hate to be a burden for three days. Hopefully we don't get evicted, but that's very kind of you, Big Cat.

1:13:40PFT Commenter:Yes, I got you. Maybe we all just chip in three days. Yeah, you got – I'll give you five. All right, so you got over two weeks. I can give you three days. Yeah, well, you got over two weeks here if you get evicted. But you got to – yeah. No alarm clocks in my house. No alarm clocks. I'll wake you up. What happens? Poor – oh, dude. You know what's that? Can Hank go, though? You don't have to video it, but I want Hank or Max or Memes so that that way we have... Just say it's your lawyer. I'm down for some representation. Okay, because then we can have a duel. When we follow up on this on Fyre Fest, we can have a secondary source of information.

1:14:22Yeah, it was bad. Moving forward, I'm going to make a checklist on things to do before you leave the home. I was in a rush. I was trying to get out of there pretty quick, and just now I'm in a bit of a spot. It all depends on what kind of alarm clock we're talking about here. Like the alarm clock, most of them, they don't just keep going on and on. Like they'll stop eventually, right? I think it – there's no way for me to know. I think it stopped like at some point in each morning. But there's also a world where it didn't. And if it didn't, I'm just like – I feel – I'm a bad guy if it just kept going.

1:14:53PFT Commenter:Yeah. So you were fine making the flight, right? I did make the flight. I had more time than I thought I had. Yeah, anyone help you out? Hank Alltime helped me out. We should tell this part of the story because it is very funny. The sonic bomb alarm clock will stop but not immediately. Features adjustable. Okay. Last between 1 and 59 minutes. Oh, man. I would be so pissed off if I were your neighbor. Oh, yeah. It's not a good accident. It's on me. Okay, so yeah, Hank, tell us what happened. So we did the show Tuesday. Hold on. You got this, Hank. Your voice was doing better. This happened every day.

1:15:33PFT Commenter:It's fine when I wake up and then it just, you lose it withers away. All right. So we record the show Tuesday. We all had flights. I didn't, Zach, I asked him, like, do you want to go to the airport together? He's like, no, I got to go home and pack. Cause he said his flight was at a similar time. I leave from the office. I get to the airport. I see Zach finishing checking his bag in at the, at the bag check. And I walk up to him and like, I'll do this when we randomly, like, it doesn't happen that much. But if I see you guys out and we're not together, they go like, big guy, like how much money do you make?

1:16:04PFT Commenter:And then just to see like, see you around or like, what's up, babe? And then PFT turns around. It's like, oh, that's a dude. Hank's on one right now. This is good. Yeah. I'm like, Zach, like Bush, back to Bush, Zach. And I was basically as close as we are right now, like five feet. And I did it twice. Didn't respond at all. And I was like, Zach, Bush. turns around in a panic like the the videos we have of zach coming in when he was late when he's like shaking he's like oh what's up bank and then i was like oh my god like you're late like you gotta go so he sprints past me and he goes through clear and to go through clear there's a checkpoint one and then you walk like 20 more feet and there's a checkpoint two in between that is where the regular people for security go through zach sprints through clear checkpoint one then takes a right back into the regular security line sprinting and i'm just laughing i'm like he was already like 20 feet ahead of me i'm laughing very hard because i'm like he did not go in the right line lane but he was too he was so far ahead of me i couldn't even yell at him i go into the clear lane zach comes sprinting back like a couple minutes later because he realized his mistake i let him go in front of me because i'm like he's clearly rushed and i've been in his shoes many times where you're like get to the airport the plane's boarding you're like i'm already gonna miss this plane but I have to just sprint and give it everything I have to hopefully make this flight.

1:17:27PFT Commenter:Right. Sprints ahead of me again. Sprints through security. By the time I even got to putting my stuff in the bins, he was gone. And I was 30 minutes before my flight even started boarding. So I go to the bar. I think I had two beers and a pizza. Go to the bathroom, wash my hands, stroll up to the gate as the plane is about to board and Zach is just standing there. You're on the same flight. I was like, Zach, you showed up 40 minutes before the plane boarded, and he was in group five. He was like, you never know. I thought the plane, what if it came early? I'm relatively new to travel. They say get there several hours beforehand.

1:18:10And also, as far as the clear line goes, Hank did save me. He let me skip him. That was huge. But there's way too many ropes. Why are there so many ropes? It gets confusing. And there's you got the clear, you got TSA pre-check, you've got TSA pre-check plus clear. And then if you go into the wrong, sometimes they judge you and they're like, oh, why don't you want to go into the pre-check one? Well, I think the clear one's fast. It gets confusing. And also, if you're going to be taking advice on how early to get to flights, Hank is not the best person to take that advice. For sure not. Yeah. So you're good, Zach.

1:18:41PFT Commenter:It is. I do forget, Zach, that up until like nine months ago, you had never been on a plane past the age of three. 99 % of my travel has been with you guys. Yeah. But I will also say the clear thing is a new experience. It changes the airport. Yeah. It's completely different. It's so easy. So I'm factoring that in. I factored that in on the way home. You just need like 30 minutes. Just get in, you're good. Yeah. But I thought for sure I was getting to the gate. I'd already text my mom like, hey, don't drive to the airport yet because there's no way I'm getting on the plane. Yeah. Hank had two beers and a pizza.

1:19:14PFT Commenter:and he boarded way before he boarded way before me but I I texted like after I saw him run away again because I didn't know we were on the same flight I was like once you get settled I need to know if you made your flight or not and he responded like didn't think I was going to make it but we're good again this was 30 minutes before the flight even started to like pre-board Hank was like texting us updates as this was going on Zach missed his flight Oh, Zach might miss his flight. I was texting Max. I was like, I just saw Zach sprinting through the air. Yeah. Well, my flight was much earlier than your guy's flight, and we left at the same time.

1:19:53So I actually got there like three. I got to mine like three minutes before boarding. So I was like actually, I was pressing a little bit.

1:20:00PFT Commenter:And your flight was 45 minutes before. My flight was 45 minutes before. Oh, man. So Hank was like texting me updates. He's like, I think Zach's going to, he's freaking out. He's freaking out. And then when I saw the picture of Zach on Hank's flight, It was just the complete opposite of how two people go about going on a flight. That's amazing. Are you a cool throne, Zach? My cool throne, real quick, was just a professional powerlifter, Larry Wheels. Do you guys know Larry Wheels? No. Big strong guy. He's a professional powerlifter. Yeah. Super strong, strong guy. He had an all-time move defending his wife yesterday.

1:20:32And like influencer boxer slash Twitch streamer, they were out having a good time with Rampage Jackson. You guys know Rampage? Yeah. They were all hanging out. this guy Dean starts chatting to Larry Wheels' wife in the most effortlessly way possible someone could defend their wife. He gives like a 3 % smack to this guy and he smacked the absolute fire out of him.

1:20:54PFT Commenter:Oh, I love that. He could make a thousand more mistakes in his marriage and with the power of this smack I think they'll stay together forever. He defended her to no ends with one quick swift wrist move. Larry Wheels slaps Dean the Great during kick live stream. They were live because Rampage just like to go live. I'll kick a lot. I think what happened was he was intoxicated. Wait, wait a second. I searched Larry Wheels on news. The second one is Larry Wheels claims wife uses N-word daily at home. Larry Wheels claims his wife, model Sheila Williams, has permission to throw racial slur at him in private.

1:21:36PFT Commenter:Daily? Like it's showering for her? I don't fucking know. All right, brush your teeth. Drop the M-bomb. All right, come to bed. Oh, my gosh. All right, Larry Wheels. I was not familiar with Larry Wheels. I was not familiar with their home life, but the smack was good. Larry Wheels just smacked the shit out of Dean the Great. I think getting really solidly slapped is worse than getting knocked out. Oh, definitely. Slap to the point where you're like, I don't want this anymore. That's as embarrassing as it gets. Yeah. Okay, we've got all the brain rock covered. It's absolutely face-maxed right there.

1:22:07PFT Commenter:Yeah. He mogged him with his hand. CTE maxing. Okay, let's get to our interview. We've got Johnny Fanta talking some college basketball. Stell Blue Coffee's new can lattes are here. Crafted with 100 % Colombian coffee, each can is a good source of protein and comes in two smooth flavors, espresso cafe mocha and espresso sweet cream. And whether you're braving your morning commute or chasing your pup, Stell Blue Cans are for those always on the go and for those who care. Stella Blue is more than just great coffee. It's about giving back. I named the brand after my rescue dog, Stella, who inspired our mission to help more dogs find their forever homes.

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1:24:50PFT Commenter:Right now, if you had to say, what's the actual number? Where's the cutoff for teams that you think can win the national title? Yeah, I really think 10 to 12. And by the way, it's great to be with you guys. And buckle up because this could be an all-time march. It really could be. We've got unbelievable freshman class. we've got coaches who have lost their minds in the wildest of ways which means you've got some tempers you've got high emotions you've got crazy finishes to come and i do think cinderella's slipper will return but the top of the country big cat you're right i don't think it's ever been better and i don't think it's ever been deeper yeah because when i look at it i just open up the analytics okay whether you follow the numbers or not michigan can win it all.

1:25:42Duke can win it all. Arizona can certainly win it all. Houston, just because they lost to Iowa State doesn't mean they can't win it all. They were up by 10 with seven minutes to go in Ames. That was Hilton magic. Florida, you go against them? Have you guys seen Illinois? Yep. And they're telling on their best day? I'm not going to count Braden Smith and Purdue out. You're going to count Dan Hurley out?

1:26:03PFT Commenter:Nope. Okay. Texas Tech, I haven't even brought up. They've beaten Arizona. They've beaten Duke. That's nine right there. If Darren Peterson were to play, and who knows? Could Mark Few, could he put something up? And we haven't even brought up a dark horse random team that goes on a run. Oh, we didn't even bring up Tom Izzo and Rick Pitino, who are two Hall of Fame coaches, and could they find a pathway to Indianapolis? I'm not going to say no. The point is, your bracket is going to be hard to fill out, So bring that pencil sharpened and get ready because this is going to be fun. The top of the country is absolutely ridiculous.

1:26:45Yeah, get ready for an all-time march. And you said it like some coaches are losing their minds. Which coaches are the most insane right now? Well, you know, I have Michigan State and UCLA, and some people might look at a Mick Cronin and just think every week there's a new video. But I would also say this. He knows exactly what he's doing. All right. Like in the world of, you know, any news is good news. Mick's getting noticed. UCLA is getting noticed. You might now be watching them. They're right on the bubble. They're right on that bubble. You might not be watching them a little bit more than you otherwise would have.

1:27:24That would be one. Guys, as I come on with you in terms of the personality of the game. We are one week away, one week away from the rematch between Dan Hurley and Rick Pitino. And you can sense, you know, old school sports, when you could sense the vitriol and the hatred, when the first foot steps on the floor or field, that is what this is. That is what this is. And those two are going to only make more headlines with what they say and how they say it. And I think that you're only going to see things increase in terms of the intensity of that. It's going to go up 10 times next week. If you look at the Wednesday slate next Wednesday, that game is really the biggest game.

1:28:14And there's not much else there. That's only going to increase the attention. Those two don't like each other and the emotion is going to be high.

1:28:20PFT Commenter:Yeah. And if you're talking about the few, like if you're someone who just getting into the college basketball season, and just catching up to it, this upcoming weekend is essentially a Final Four. Like, we have Michigan and Duke playing against each other, and then we have Arizona and Houston. That is the top four teams in the country as of right now playing against each other on Saturday. It's going to be phenomenal, and that just feels like every single week. And, like, even last Saturday when it was, you know, Texas Tech beats Arizona, that was a great game. But, like, we had that game. We didn't have much else.

1:28:54PFT Commenter:It was like, what just happened? I'm used to having four or five incredible games every single Saturday. That's how this season has gone. That's how this season has gone. And credit to the coaches for hearing what we've all been clamoring for. Make marquee games happen. Now, they don't control their conference schedules, but Big Cat, as much as it might be difficult to give some credit to do. I got a question about that, but go ahead. I got a follow-up question. Go ahead. Michigan and Duke playing this game is really, really good for the sport because you're talking about a Blue Devils team that comes in 24 and two.

1:29:34A Michigan team that we'll see as we're recording what will happen at Mackey Arena. Regardless, everybody thinks or the majority of people think, yeah, they look like on their best day. Michigan's the best team in the country.

1:29:45PFT Commenter:Yeah. And this is the year for the Big Ten. I know the Big 12 stacked, but if the Big 10 is going to snap this drought of 26 long years without a national championship, if Michigan plays their A game, guys, they're going to be no worse. They're going to be no worse than in Indianapolis. So the sport is in great hands. Yes, there's chaos. Yes, there's the Charles Bediaco thing. And there's the James Nagy thing. And there's these players that are trying to make it, you know, guys that left college and now trying to go back. And we could talk all day about that. But I prefer us talking about the product on the court, which is fun, and the viewership is strong.

1:30:23And college basketball needed this. I think it had gone through a bit of a lull. I think it needed this, and I think I would keep the February non-conference flavor. Because remember, you guys just said it. Football's done. Give us some big-time matchups in the month of February, even if it's five or six, that put the very best against the very best.

1:30:43PFT Commenter:Yeah, I agree. All right, so my follow-up is, do we have an update on – do we have an arrest on who punched the Duke staffer that John Shire has told us about? Because I saw a clip from – they wasted away Syracuse on Monday night. Poor Syracuse. I don't know what's happened to that program. It sucks. Because Syracuse being good is a good thing for the sport. But either way, John Shire said he would like to just talk about Syracuse. And he knows what he saw and he knows what his staffers felt. But yeah, there has not been any update on a suspect for who punched a Duke staffer after the UNC game.

1:31:22PFT Commenter:So what's going on with that, Johnny? Well, I'm not really in the investigative space. I haven't dove into the Dateline team quite yet to look into what exactly went down there in Chapel Hill. but John Shire is a man of honor and faith. And I think, I believe that something happened to one of his staff members. I don't know what it was. I'm going to say that, that whatever he said, you know, something did happen, but the search continues for whatever happened. But it's also Duke Carolina. Like what, what did we all expect? Right. But I, well, I expected, I expected chaos, but when, when, when a team is accused of, of uh you know punching the the opponent in a court rushing like a mob a mob land style beat down yeah what we got to find the guy i think we should suspend the college basketball season until we find the guy like we got to find this guy we're gonna do a search down in the chapel hill area and surrounding it to find who did this is what you're saying yeah i mean imagine if you're playing unc and you're like this rogue puncher is out on the loose and i could be sucker punched at any point that's i i agree with you john shire we have to believe him so we have to to do everything we can an international manhunt to find the person who punched the duke staffer that totally for real happened and uh wasn't just an embellishment after a bad duke loss uh trying to basically get everyone to stop talking about the loss and talk about something else it wasn't that at all would you believe coach k if he had said this oh 100 yes yes of course coach k is a man of honor he's a man of faith i see no reason why he would lie about either of those things yeah i mean listen this is the this is the brilliance of duke there it's a very smart or you know university or college is duke university no it's a university yeah it's a university it's a very smart university college at duke university it's very smart smart university they understand what's at stake they understand that when you win games it's because you're great and when you lose games let's talk about anything else besides the loss i mean hey that that worked something happened someone got punched no one got punched johnny no one got punched well but wait a minute wait a minute let me let me i was thinking about this here so do you remember you know you we've all been in you know seventh eighth ninth grade when we would just you know go to our buddy's house and then all of of a sudden just a braw breaks out or something but all in good fun yeah but you know if you're in if if you're in the middle of something and all of a sudden you get this yeah you don't know I don't know who threw it I was turned around the other way so there were thousands of people there I we've all been on the receiving end of a of an unmarked punch wait so you're saying but with all the cameras and everything that we have all the technology we just that unmarked punch just never made it on video?

1:34:29Not sure. I don't know. It's now one of the mysteries of the world of who landed that. Yeah, it is. I mean, you have a great name for a private investigator, let's be honest, like Johnny Fanta PI. I could see you getting to the bottom of this case. Coming up tonight at 11. Yeah. Or down Chapel Hill. If you're Clemson, if you're – who else does UNC – if you're Louisville, if you're Virginia Tech, if you're Clemson, I would not feel safe traveling to Chapel Hill until this madman is arrested. Right. So I'd like to see you get on the case, Johnny. Yeah, figure it out, Johnny. Get on the case. I got a question for you, though.

1:35:06The rematch is at Cameron Indoor. What if he found his way in there? Oh, my God. Can you imagine? Oh, God. Yeah. That's actually probably the most likely spot for him. Yeah. And he'll probably be dressed up as a Duke fan to make it look like it was a Duke fan that did it, not a UNC. The plot thickens. Johnny, I got a question for you. because like so many others watched a little basketball last night, watched the Cougars. I came away impressed with Houston. But my question for you is when should I get in bed with the Cougars? Because I feel like after a loss, after a loss, not the worst time to maybe take a look at that future line.

1:35:45What are they, like 8-1, something like that? Somewhere around there, yeah. They do play Arizona on Saturday, which is, you know, that's going to be a tough game. And then after that, on Monday, they have to go to Kansas. So it's like this is a crazy stretch for the Cougars. Should I now get in bed with the Cougars thinking that they're about to beat Arizona? Or should I wait until after this stretch is over and then bet on them? I'm already in bed. Nice. I'm all over them. I believe that Houston can win it all. I believe that one of these three teams will win it all here. Ready?

1:36:26PFT Commenter:Okay. Michigan? Yeah.

1:36:31PFT Commenter:Florida. Florida. That's my – listen, I took Florida 19-1 because I honestly think Florida is in that spot where if they can just – if they can find a way to hit a little bit more consistently three-point – you know, get more consistent from three in the tournament, they are the scariest team in the tournament. Yes, but Houston is right there in terms of scariness because, and I thought Hilton Magic really did play a role, and Iowa State hit some incredible shot. The corner three by Nate Heise was just phenomenal. Bateman hit a huge shot for them. I mean, those are, Lipsy missed free throws. Iowa State was dreadful from the free throw line and still found a way to win that game.

1:37:16That building is good for, you're up 10-0 as the home team in that building. The open policy is real. I am still very much in on Houston. So, BFT, I would say you should be in the bed with the Cougars, and you shouldn't look back because this team is tough as hell. Kingston Flemings is a top 10, if not top 5. He might be a top 5 pick in the draft, 5 or 6. Yeah, he's fun. Yeah, Sharp and Usain are supplemental shot makers. JoJo Tugler, like, if there's a tougher guy in college basketball, I mean, it might be the guy in Chapel Hill, and that's about it. You know, it's JoJo Tugler is mean. He's a mean machine.

1:37:57He gets after you defensively every possession. And Chris Senak is now finding his way and only getting better. Kelvin is so due. The only thing is that I have one concern. When there's five or six minutes left to go in a close tournament game, I don't want what happened last night to happen in that game where, what were they doing in the half court? What are they doing offensively? Like, you got to run – you got to get better looks.

1:38:22PFT Commenter:That is the one – because I think Houston's phenomenal. But they're not a traditional best defense by far in the country, Houston. Like, their defense is obviously very elite, but it's not at that Houston level that we've come to expect where they just suffocate you. And their offense can be inefficient where they're not getting, you know, a ton of – they're not a great three-point shooting team and then they're not getting a ton of rim looks. But you're right. Like, I think Houston is definitely in that category of battle-tested teams that could win it all. Everyone's got at least one wart. Everyone's got – I just mentioned with Florida.

1:38:58PFT Commenter:Florida can't shoot the three. Like, I hope they can because I bet on them, but they can't shoot the three. Every team has something. Maybe the only team that doesn't is Michigan. And that – yeah, I mean, they've just been that good all year. Well, they're wart. Michigan doesn't really have a wart, but the way that you compete with them and hang in with them is if you have mobile bigs who can shoot it. Because Moraes Johnson and Adai Mara are down there, and they're just going to funnel everything to them, and they have the best two-point defense in America. So whoever plays Michigan has got to have a stretch four or a stretch five.

1:39:33And if you do, that's the unique thing, guys. Arizona doesn't really possess that. Houston, Florida plays huge themselves. You're right on the three-point shooting. That's kind of where Dan Hurley comes into this equation because Caravan and Braylon Mullen solo ball can bury threes like that. That's that would be your argument there with the Huskies. But like, yeah, it's it's here's the thing. You could say that somebody doesn't have warts or somebody does this time of year. But in three and a half weeks, it's not going to matter. The ball's going to be tipped. And we also could see a world where as good as the 10 to 12 are, guys, with national championship chances, I do think, I alluded to it earlier, I do think we're going to see the return of Cinderella's carriage.

1:40:27Oh. I think the 4, 5, and 6 seeds all have more warts than last year's 4, 5, and 6 team. I think you're going to see Cinderella's carriage step up, and we're going to get two, at least two 12, 13, 14s who win a game.

1:40:42PFT Commenter:Because I was just saying that that is the one downside I thought of going into this tournament is that there are so many good teams at the top and it's so deep at the top that it could be another situation like last year where we don't see a lot of upsets. But you're saying it's actually going to be reverse where that middle pack is very susceptible because that would be the perfect tournament. I think we all agree. A couple good Cinderella stories, a few upsets in the first round, and then really quality, great teams in the Sweet 16 and on. Yeah, I really do. And I'll put that slipper on because I think a lot of people are wondering, like, who could it be?

1:41:19I like the Liberty Flames as a potential 12th seed that could do something. I like Stephen F. Austin. I think that they're an interesting team that could pull something off in the NCAA tournament. Don't sleep on the Ivy League champion. Like, never go to sleep. If you're going to go into bed with the Houston Cougars BFT, make sure that you don't fall asleep when the Ivy League champion gets a 13th seed. And that could be Yale again. Remember Yale a couple years ago beating Auburn in the tournament and shocking everybody? UNC Wilmington's another really feel-good story. And Big Cat and PFT, I know you're going to get behind this.

1:41:52You know who's got a good ball club? Let's go pee. Austin Peay could do 13 or 14. Pull something off in the big dance. I like it. So which of these teams would you put on upset alerts? It's obviously way too early to talk about what the bracket looks like. But if you were to say, you know, a team that's somewhere in the 12 to 20 ranked area, which team would you circle right now and say, I don't really trust what they've been selling? Well, I'm going to get some heat for this. But, but I really want to see them win because they've never won a tournament game. Oh, yeah. Think of Fred Hoiberg in Nebraska, the pressure riding on that singular game.

1:42:39Now, I love their team. I think they're incredibly balanced. I've thought the world of Rink Mast and Sanford and Jamarcus Lawrence, who provides – like he's going to have to be important in that game because he just makes things happen for them offensively. But it's the sweat of that game. When you've never won a tournament game as a program, everything's riding on that. The fan base is going to travel big time. So if they go up against one of these frisky teams that I've just mentioned, a Yale, a UNCW, you never know what can happen in a 40-minute game if there's a surprise. So that would be one team that I look at and say, okay, I get a little bit concerned there.

1:43:18Look, Carolina could be a five or a six. Carolina's best looks damn good. But there's times when they get a little out of control. They fall into some turnovers. And you don't know what could happen if you're on the other end and you're facing a Santa Clara. You know, a team that's balanced, efficient, doesn't turn the ball over. I trust, for the most part, Vanderbilt. But their best came early. So you wonder, are they going to start peaking again? Or how's that going to go down? I'm very curious to see what happens there. So those would be three teams that I look at. Like, Tom Miso is probably going to get a four seed.

1:43:53He's not losing a first-round game. And he's probably not losing a second round game. But those would be three teams I look at and I say, all right, you've got to be careful here with how you go about things or else you could get picked off in the dance. What about a team like Alabama and Nate Oates? Great question. Great question. And they were a team that I looked at when you asked this question. But I just trust LeBaron Phylon too much. I know their defense is susceptible, but they just have so much offensive pop that it gets very hard for a mid-major to be able to score. But here's where your point gets amplified.

1:44:32They are not a very good defensive team. And so you've got to slow the game down against them, and that's really hard to do. Like, they're number one in the country in adjusted tempo. So you guys got to think about it. When you are a mid-major and you don't have the speed or the athletes, That's the only thing I would say about facing Alabama is, would a team be able to get Alabama into the quicksand? Can I say one thing to you both, though? Sure. And you always say yes, so I appreciate that. Miami, Ohio. Yeah. Better get into the NCAA tournament even if they have one loss. I agree.

1:45:08PFT Commenter:We said this on Monday. I was like, there's a scenario that's brewing that if they lose a game, then they don't win the tournament. It's going to be bullshit. but that could potentially happen. Love and honor, Johnny. Committee, they're meeting this week at Indianapolis. Let me give you a message, selection committee. Yep. The optics of keeping a team that has started the season with this mark and that plays the right way with leadership, efficiency, and everything in between. They are a tournament team that can win a game if not two. If they have one bad day, even in the regular season, even in the regular season, if they have one bad day committee, why would you keep a team like this out?

1:45:52You've got to put them in to the dance. Put the Red Hawks in. Let them fly.

1:45:59PFT Commenter:Yeah. Love that, Johnny. Let the Hawks fly. We took our guns out and put it to their head. Don't worry about it. We got you. We're standing behind you. It's finger guns. Don't worry. I got the safety on, too. It's cool. We practice finger gun safety here. They absolutely should be in. They should be in, Johnny. I'm a little bit worried the more I hear people talk about it, saying, like, don't you dare do it. They're going to do it. It's almost like the more we tell them, you better fucking not do this, it just might happen. Just win the MAAC tournament. Just win the MAAC, yeah. Just win the MAAC.

1:46:28PFT Commenter:Johnny, can we talk about my Badgers? I saw you two doing that. I thought Rico had walked into that. Oh, no. No, we were just backing you up. We're standing behind you looking tough. This episode of Part of My Take is brought to you by McDonald's and their hot honey sauce. The hot honey sauce is at McDonald's for a limited time. Your favorite orders just got better with this hot honey sauce. Try the hot honey snack wrap. It'll beat what you thought was your favorite. I like putting the hot honey on some of the breakfast stuff. You put a little hot honey, maybe on a McGriddle. Put a little hot honey on a sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit.

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1:47:17PFT Commenter:Johnny, can we talk about my Badgers real quick? They're in the tournament, right? I don't have to worry about that because they do have two of the best wins in the country. I think that's fair to say, even though I'm very biased. They do. And they have two wins away from home that if you stack them with any other team that has two wins away from home, it would be their wins are better than that yeah so they're in and not only are they in but now they're comfortably into a point that I'd give them a single digit seed you can't collect but not to mention what do you do on on Friday night you take Michigan State out back and beat the hell out of them yeah Wisconsin they are a team that if you get stuck in a 7-10 or 8-9 game with them oh boy because and I don't want to be the one like think about it Michigan will tell you and it wouldn't be Michigan Wisconsin in the second round but Michigan would tell the other one seed hey man we lost to them we lost to them nice gift in the second round wouldn't be the first time the Badgers have pulled something off you know an upset in the first weekend right over the years when we've seen their teams pull something off uh what you know what was it Villanova yeah yeah I mean Xavier year, right?

1:48:36Yeah. You know, but they, they've been able to, to do it in different ways. So Wisconsin is frisky. You can't, when you have players, the caliber of John Blackwell and Nick Boyd.

1:48:49PFT Commenter:Yeah. The guard play. This is a duo that they're one of only three high major duos scoring at least 18 points per game. The other two were Richie Saunders and DeBonsa at BYU. So now Saunders is done and the other one is JT Toppin and Christian Anderson over at Texas Tech but Boyd and Blackwell like Wisconsin hasn't had a score at the rate that Boyd is scoring at since Michael Finley statistically and that was over 30 years ago so the Badgers offense is really tough when Rapp knocks down some shots for them he's a next factor for them and I think Nolan Winter like Greg Gard said last week Nolan Winter doesn't even know how good he could be Nolan if you keep rising this Wisconsin team's going to be in the second weekend of the NCAA tournament.

1:49:33They're not just going to make it. They're going to make a run in the NCAA tournament. They're dangerous, man.

1:49:37PFT Commenter:I'm officially in that, like, I'm ready to get hurt mode because I was going into the week, you know, with Indiana, Illinois, Michigan State coming up. I was like, if we can win one game, I'll be happy. We end up winning two and probably should have won the third if we didn't get screwed. But now I'm in like, hey, I think they can make a run, which we know always ends up in disaster for me. What about the other team that we're worried about getting in? Villanova, are they a lock-in? They're a lock-in. All right, good. Yeah, Max, you can breathe easily. You know, you might have been a little off on Alex Caravan a few years back, but you are so on here.

1:50:15Kevin Willer was the right hire. The Cats are back. I mean, they've got UConn this weekend. And if you want to fully show your back, you come out and win that game. But they're top 35 in offense and defense. They play balanced basketball. Tyler Perkins is a stud of a player who has stepped up. A Caden Lewis averages over five assists per game. Villanova is a tough out, guys, because they can bury threes. They've got a stretch guy in Matt Hodge, and Duke Brennan's the double-double machine. The Wildcats have a whiteout Saturday. Time to announce you're fully back. If you're going to do that, you've got to seize the opportunity against UConn.

1:50:54PFT Commenter:They almost beat UConn the first time. They kind of got screwed. I thought there was a foul at the end of that regulation. but we should just say Kevin Willard, the right hire also attended your wedding. Yes, he did attend. Listen, we're jerks. It's still the right hire. Don't try to take away from that. You have to put that in there just so that we know. No, you don't. Yeah, you do. Did you attend his wedding as well? No. We got married years ago. If we did this every time Schrager was on, it would just be an episode of disclaimers. So you would just be shuffling a deck of wedding invites. Yeah.

1:51:33Like a blackjack dealer. Also, Fanta, you are invited on Max's bachelor party, so you need to have a disclaimer for that too. Yes.

1:51:40PFT Commenter:You're invited on the bachelor party. Where's it at? Vegas. So right now we have Friday night we have a suite for fish at the Sphere. You have to eat mushrooms with us. Saturday, Cabana, Kentucky Derby Day, Sunday golf. everything's paid for uh all you need to do is is buy a flight and you're you're more than welcome yeah so that is the is the fish thing with the the mushrooms yeah is that a mandatory thing if you don't want to finish your mushrooms i i can i can take care of that for you also if you don't want to willingly take the mushrooms we could do a wink wink and we'll just we'll just slip him into some food for you i just you know like max every time max you can hear me right the sphere would be electric yeah not gonna put that i actually think you could do your own show at the sphere on shrooms like just phantom ranting i'll tell you something i took the dare program in grade school.

1:52:43I was locked in. They had that duck mascot. And I was not. I was not going down that path. But man, it would probably be an interesting visual. But Max, why does there have to be an asterisk next to Kevin Willard every time we talk about him? I mean, that's Big Cat. He's a bad guy. Every time we say something good about Kevin Willard, he just likes Kevin Willard in the way that he treated the University of Maryland. We had a lot of We got a lot of Terp fans out there. Yeah, and they're not happy.

1:53:13PFT Commenter:Year one, year one. Yeah, but he also, like, the way he left Maryland was disgusting, and Johnny Phantom would be like, I would never say anything because he gave me a nice card at my wedding, and, you know. Incorrect. I said I would have probably handled that differently, but he was dancing to McFadden and Whitehead. Ain't no stopping us now. Yeah, you said you would probably have handled it differently. you would have been even more ruthless to Maryland, I think was your exact quote. No, I'm people at College Park. They have great fans, passionate fans. They're into it. No, I have no enemies in College Park.

1:53:50This guy goes to so many weddings, he should probably read more Corinthians and figure out how to handle things like this. You're a man of faith, Johnny. Yes, you are.

1:53:59PFT Commenter:Yes, you are. Johnny, listen, I want to go back to the bachelor party. You do not have to do the mushrooms. You are invited, though. Officially invited. Bosco will be in attendance. I don't know how that relationship is right now It always heats up this time of year It always heats up this time of year But is he on the lawyer team Over at With Coach Tang and everything By the way Kansas State pay him his money You fired him because he lost games Get out of here with that rationale That he made a comment About his team He's not allowed to talk about his players and his teams Are you watching coaches' press conferences weekly?

1:54:38Kansas State, you're going to spend more money, Kansas State, by going through this process than you would by just paying him his money and give Bosco some cash as well. Rico, the Bosco search firm is fired up right now. I haven't heard from Rico in a while, but this time of year now, it all starts to get the flames start going. You're gassing up Phylon enough. I think he's going to be happy about that. So we're now on good terms. Yeah, now we're on good terms with that. But I don't know. Tang, he got fired for cause because he said bad things about his team, right? Can you name a time that one of the greats, Rick Pitino, has he ever said anything bad about his team to the press, to the media, to fire them up?

1:55:25It does seem ridiculous. If this is the reason why they're trying to claw back the money that they owe him, I feel like that's going to lose on its face. it's going to lose on its face and they're going to owe 25 million combined in legal fees and all that get out of here man like it's just and i think kansas state is a is actually a solid job could be a top half of the big 12 job with the nil that they have and the fans that they have but you draw more negative attention to yourself when you now go through this process what they don't realize is they're hurting themselves for their next search yeah 100 um i have a question for you about uh about arizona so is arizona are they going to start shooting threes ever they don't really they don't really have to right they're dominant they took 16 they took 16 against texas tech but they only made four of them so it's a problem like pft your your question there is exactly why they could get tripped up in the dance but and why ultimately why i didn't put them in that group of three that I think could win.

1:56:28I love their players. Like Brayden Burry's and Co-A-Pete guys, watching them at Pete's Jam and at high school, at the lower levels, they would own games. So those winning instincts have carried over. It's kind of why I'm, like genuinely, why I'm afraid to go against Duke when I'm picking my three teams because all Cam Booster's ever done in any tournament is win like the guy's never he's never lost a postseason event in his life Arizona Pete and Buries are winners uh Karchinkov does a lot of good things for them and Jaden Bradley Bradley is as good of a point guard as you're gonna find he sets people up he makes the right plays but I get concerned you're exactly right they don't have if they're down three who is taking and making the shot consistently, it is one big question mark.

1:57:28And when in this day and age of college basketball, if you're on the receiving end of a team's hot shooting day, like Iowa State got hot in the last seven minutes and just they found a way to beat Houston as a result. At some point, you can only defend, rebound, and attack the rim so well. You've got to be able to knock down the perimeter shot or you're going to get bounced early. asked last year's St. John's team about that. They couldn't shoot and it doomed them. And maybe this is just me having watched, really paid attention to the sport for the last two and a half weeks, but I've watched a lot of Arizona.

1:58:04I dove a little bit into numbers. So maybe you tell me if I'm wrong about this, because it doesn't seem like they're a terrible three-point shooting team. They just don't take them. It's not a part of their DNA. They're one of the lower-volume teams in the country, if you look at the numbers in terms of three-point attempts. Right. So it is a big problem for them. Now, like, we look at it, and we also have to look at the percentages. Like, Bradley shoots it 40 % from deep. Okay? But he's also being relied upon to initiate the offense. And he's also a guy that when you look at him, he's barely averaging a made three a game.

1:58:47Right? So he's shooting it at a high percentage, but it's not in volume. Burries. You know, there's similarities. Yeah, he could shoot it. He's made 41 on the year. I feel like I'm a hockey fan at the game just being like, shoot the three. Just take more threes. Right. But when it's not part of who you are, it's not in your DNA, you could take more. But based on what their personnel looks like, I don't think that they're making them necessarily. So Burries has to continue to get better in that column. And then they've got to figure it out here because you're exactly right. Like it doomed them ultimately against Texas Tech.

1:59:28Now they only lost the game by three. But it opens you up to losing regardless of where it is. It is very difficult to do what they did against Texas Tech. They got outscored by 21 from beyond the arc. Against a team that good, you're going to lose the game. So you're right. It is Arizona's concern is not being able to knock down that shot. I'm not concerned as much as they're, you know, okay, so they don't take as many. But when you don't have the shooters, I don't blame you for not taking as many.

1:59:56PFT Commenter:Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and they also have an absolutely dominant interior offense. So, like, why, you know, that is the DNA of their team, and they dominate teams. Yeah, they're a really, really good team. It's just that one thing. They are, but the three-point shot changes everything. As long as basketball's been around, it is the great equalizer, and it's no different here. That's why I'm higher on Florida, just because I do think Florida can start making threes. Like, I think it's going to start happening. Yeah, they can. And Boogie Flan, he still has even better. Like, he's a great player, and I think he could be the guy that authors a terrific March run.

2:00:39Like, the Xavier and Lee thing hasn't worked out. It hasn't worked out. But you could twist it and say, look how good they've been in spite of that.

2:00:47PFT Commenter:Correct. Correct. And there's just so – Thomas Houck is just a winner, guys. He plays so hard. He gets after it on both ends. He rebounds the hell out of the ball. So you have him, you have Chinielu, and you have Condon, and they're just going to say, get in the boxing ring, and we're just going to chomp. We're going to chomp and chomp and chomp, and that's what Florida does. Dusty May told me a story about a month ago. Ooh, I like this. And he said that when he was working with Mike White that they determined going big was going to win in college basketball. You know, the NBA is about three-point shooting, and we're seeing more traditional bigs now because it's ebbs and flows of a sport.

2:01:31But in the college game, which has inconsistencies in the shot-making department, it's gotten a lot better. The offense has never been better in college basketball than it is now. It's great to watch. But the bigger teams are the ones who can win it all. Michigan, Florida. You know, you ask a UConn right now what their concern is, It's that they don't have a Donovan, Klingon, Adama, Sunogo type duo. The big teams get it done.

2:02:00PFT Commenter:Yeah. I mean, we saw Klingon versus Edie. You know, that was a real thing. Yeah. All right, Johnny, I got one last question for you. It's a rowback question. R-H-O-B-A-C-K.com, promo code TAKE. 20 % off your first purchase. Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, rowback.com, promo code TAKE. One of my favorite things you do is the Big East spaces, and I have a question off of that. What's going on with Providence right now? Because I think you and I both agree we love Providence Twitter. They're a very passionate fan base. It's been a little embarrassing, not the fans, but the play. Kim English, it seems like it's kind of ending here.

2:02:39PFT Commenter:But the fact that they've had these moments where it's been all about revenge and it's not been about winning basketball games, it's been tough for them. And I want Providence to be good. I want that fan base to have a good product on the court. And that scene on Saturday was kind of a joke. that scene on Saturday was embarrassing. And it was a moment there where Duncan Powell does something that's egregious. And, you know, for as mad as people can be about Bryce Hopkins, and I'm not saying that you can't be angry, what you never want your emotion to do is keep you from fighting to win a game.

2:03:19And I think what was hardest about that was Providence was winning at the time. It's almost like that became more important than winning. And that's not the Friartown that I know. Because the Friartown I know is as passionate a fan base. They have terrific resources, awesome facility. And what they need right now is they need some leadership and accountability for what they're putting on the court. Like the Hopkins thing aside, they're not winning. That is at its core. You are asked to win basketball games. And for what they spent on their roster, which is at least$9 million, that the product has not been good enough.

2:04:05And defensively, they haven't been there. Saturday, though, was sort of the culmination of where they're at right now emotionally. And here's my thing, guys. Duncan Powell never played a game with Bryce Hopkins.

2:04:17PFT Commenter:Right. He never played a game with him. I don't even know if he knows the guy. Yeah. But where does the vitriol and the hatred, how does that start? And how does that come into what happened on Saturday? Well, that starts with leadership. So clearly he's being told about how much he's supposed to dislike this guy. And then he does something that ruined their chances of winning the game. If you don't like what a player did, good. Glad you don't like it. Sports is better when there's dislike. Not saying you should like it. But you know how you answer them? You win the freaking game. Yeah, I agree.

2:04:56PFT Commenter:They were up. It's crazy. Having a good team on the court should matter more than anything else. And you know what, Big Cat? It's not like you guys, we all get into this doomsday, you know, death. You know, it's everything's done. Everything's over. Guys, in this day and age of college basketball, even for a Kansas State, you make a change, you got the right amount of money, you're going to be fine. Yeah. You can get off the mat if you hire the right person. You know, for Providence, they have some very difficult decisions to make here in the coming weeks. But those difficult decisions got made a lot easier with a scene like Saturday.

2:05:37Agreed. All right, Johnny, my last question for you. If I were to ask you, gun to your head, double barrel at your head, fingers off the trigger. The safety's off, but my finger is not on the trigger. Yep. What conference is the national championship coming from this year?

2:06:00PFT Commenter:It's tough. The Big Ten. Okay. Oh, okay. All right. Finally going to happen. Badgers, 150 to 1. You didn't ask me who? Nebraska ball. Awesome. I think I'm going to predict a Big Ten, Big 12 title game would be cinema because those two leagues have the most candidates for it. Yeah. What if Nebraska went from never winning a game to just winning the championship this year? And Signetti or Hoiberg? Yeah. Right. Yeah, exactly. All right. Well, Johnny, you're the best. We love you. Have fun on the call. Everyone should tune in. UCLA versus Michigan State. And we'll talk to you in a couple weeks when we get brackets.

2:06:46See you guys real soon. And get ready because we're in for a hell of a ride.

2:06:53PFT Commenter:Love it. And you're coming to Max's bachelor party. And I will be at the Sphere rocking the fish. Yeah. And Kevin Willard was at your wedding. And he's coming to the bachelor party. Yeah, he's invited. Actually, that would be how you get us too. Yeah. Because now we're complicit. Every time we compliment him, we have to say, yeah, he went to Max's bachelor party. Asterisk. We were with him at the same bachelor party. Done. All right. Let's do it. All right. Thanks, Johnny. Before we get back in today's chaos, we got to tell you about something that helps people focus on what's most important. That's Microsoft 365 Copilot.

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2:07:57PFT Commenter:Okay, let's finish up the show. We got guys on Olympics. Hank, get us through this with your voice. You got this. I've got a short one. they're so long what sport would become the most watched if they allowed trash talk during competition instant thought would be biathlon maybe a physical aspect as well

2:08:22PFT Commenter:figure skating would be sick if you let the other teams basically stand on the boards and talk shit during their routine or they were on the ice at the same time yeah like dancing at the same time and that you could fight. Doing Euros on them? And Tom Wilson was on one of the teams. I do love the curling shit talk because you could tell it's not supposed to happen, but I think it would be awesome if curling because you're right next to each other and they're not out of breath, so it's like the perfect spot for some true shit talk. All right, so this would be awesome if you had luge, but you win at the same time.

2:08:57PFT Commenter:Yes. Like race cars. Like race cars. Yeah. Yeah. Or like bobsled. You go out at the same time. Tokyo Drift. You do the pit maneuver. Send somebody over the edge. I'd also like to see the step-off challenge and the golf tee boxes. Having that for the ski jump would be good. Yeah. As he's standing there ready to just go down the hill. Yeah. Just a bunch of dudes just busting them up bad. You know what would rock? If they did ski jumping like the dunk contest where you had Shaq standing 90 yards down the hill. You had to clear it. And you had to just clear Shaq's head. Yeah. Just barely. Yeah. Over Shaq.

2:09:35PFT Commenter:Yeah, or just a bunch of cars. Yeah, cars. A hundred cars. Cars would be awesome. Yeah. Here's a short one. Hank couldn't meddle in a single woman's event. I agree with that. What? What could you meddle in? Slalom. Ski slalom. No chance. You went with ski slalom? Not in men's, but women's. No way. Like the only thing you'd have a chance in is you'd have to do like a luge or a bobsled where your weight is an advantage Slum your knees would explode No I think Hank could do it Men slum Yeah men slum Oh okay Men slum you'd have no shot competing against men but competing against women and their little knees Like you got man knees I wonder if luge you would be competitive just purely weight Yeah skeleton I could do Yeah No problem Although I'm not that fast You're not running You'd be laying down Isn't the whole thing the push Did you not listen to him Yeah I guess you do some push Push is like everything What about Did you not listen to yourself How could you possibly think Are you like a good skier No he's not Max you're not understanding It's women's sport It's not men's slalom Yeah it's women's slalom Hank would dominate There's just no possible way You don't get it Max I would love to see this That looks like men's slalom that you're showing You don't even have to go around the poles Show a woman This is men's slalom Bring up a video of a woman Max Hank concedes that men's slalom He was straight into the poles And you're good

2:11:23PFT Commenter:the olympics sucks they just don't give any highlights for anything it's so stupid so hard why do they do that why not make it something that people want to watch and go oh i saw that event like let me go check it out oh here we go the men's wait the women's giant slalom hank oh i wonder if you could win uh women's ski jump you probably dominate that too because you go so fast. I actually think Hank could be like the Jesse Owens of women's Olympic sports. Yeah. I feel like he would. There's probably like 12 or 13 events. Women's slalom. Yeah. Women's slalom. Yeah, women. How did you go to this first?

2:12:03PFT Commenter:This is women's. Dude, look how slow they're going. Max, these are chicks, okay? I don't think you get it, Max. Hank would dominate these. Dude, you just turn. It's a little left, a little right. Yeah.

2:12:17PFT Commenter:oh man you ever seen a woman try to drive max hank hank would dominate oh hank would cut those corners so much better again i'm not like being cocky men's no men saw him you get to wasted but women's long the turns are not that hard that's nice and easy yep

2:12:38PFT Commenter:you need so much shit i would i kind of want to see you slow oh lindsey vaughn i want to see you slow yeah lindsey vann did it with no acl what up moguls and she dominate no she didn't she crashed she her her leg bone broke through the side of her knee could you could you do moguls yeah yeah easy dude hank is a woman's mogul you kidding me you just show up you don't have to compete they're like oh yeah mogul moguls here okay the winter olympics suck because though they're very few head-to-head sports everything is a time trial i agree yeah if you had downhill Skiing with eight people lined up, it would be one of the top events.

2:13:15PFT Commenter:Similarly, if you had sprinting or swimming in the summer, as time trials instead of head-to-head, no one would watch. Yeah. That's why you go head-to-head and lose. You go head-to-head and bobsled. That's correct. That's a great take. I've been thinking more about it. Basketball should be a winter Olympic sport. Yeah, I guess it's technically all the events have to have snow or ice. That's why it's not. And the woke NBA won't go for that. Got it. Mm-hmm.

2:13:44PFT Commenter:my Olympic take everyone always brings up putting an average Joe in an event to see how good the athletes really are instead I propose putting athletes in a different sport and same discipline I want to see that to Chuck Brothers figure skating pairs throw McDavid on some short track speed skating let's see if Ilya Malinin can rip a slap shot give Michaela Schifrin some cross country skis and a gun yeah I don't know what the curlers could do maybe chuck them in a bobsled I like this I like that too I also think that They should take one Every team Every hockey team Should have to have One figure skater On their squad And they have to play Like six minutes Per game Or speed skater I know I think figures Just to see guys Get like jacked up Yeah Just like the most Brutal collisions You've ever seen Or they triple Lindy Or triple Lutz Or they do something crazy Yeah I like that rule Alright last one Part of my Olympic take, they should actually remove the condoms as a whole to encourage the athletes to continue to create world-class athletes.

2:14:46PFT Commenter:This way, ensuring another generation of incredible sports entertainment. Yeah, a little lightweight eugenics. I like it. Yeah, I mean, just get some really athletic babies. When I was looking up the speed skating, the Dutch women are attractive. I'll just say that. And they're great athletes. Great athletes first, attractive second. Shout out Jake Paul. Shout out Jake Paul Shout out Jake Paul Who's dating or married to one of them Also something weird happened to his Twitter He wanted to apologize for that Yeah He has no idea what happened He stands with him He loves Bad Bunny Loves him Yep Okay Good show boys Also looks like we're gonna play Sweden Sweden's up 3-1 right now Okay What's that game?

2:15:32PFT Commenter:Thursday? Wednesday Oh Bring it Wednesday It's Wednesday? Wait Tomorrow? Wait. Oh, nice. Right? Yeah, Wednesday. Yeah, it's Wednesday, Friday, Sunday. They got back-to-backs. All right, so we're going to probably have a – hopefully have a preview of the Final Four from Biz or Wit on Friday's show. Oh, the women's gold medal game is Thursday. Women haven't let up a goal. That one's – I saw the graphic that UW-Madison posted. It was, there's 11 Badgers on both sides, like combined on both sides. I love that. So, going to win no matter what. I love that. There's like six and five. Hank would dominate women's hockey.

2:16:13Oh, yeah.

2:16:14PFT Commenter:They don't check. No. I'm not a great skater. That's really humble. All right. Numbers. Two. 23. Go quick. Go quick. 69. Six. 71. 17. 86. 72. 86 for Shane. 72 for Jack. 10 for Colton. 26 26 Close to 56 Close to 56 Love you guys Not even close Shane's looking like he got He didn't get shit Any birthdays? Any birthdays? At the women's law Birthday? Any birthdays? Any birthdays they're asking? Birthday? Oh any birthdays No nobody was born today Happy birthday Michael Jordan today Nobody was born today Nobody was born today Today's his birthday Michael Jordan was born today And Jerry O 'Connell yeah And Jerry O 'Connell it was also his birthday today.

2:17:04Yeah. But we already wish Jerry a happy birthday. Jerry, your birthday present is in the mail. I got the last one sent back to me. Love you guys.

2:17:36We'll be right back.

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