Masters Preview With Shane Bacon, Max Homa, Michigan Wins The Natty, Bulls Fire Everyone + Hot Seat/Cool Throne And FAQ's

14:11PFT Commenter:I don't care how it comes. They did celebrate, like, the Thunder. A little bit. Well, it was like a zero celebration. Yaxle had to shock the world. It's like you guys were very big. Very big favorites. Yeah.

14:26Big Cat:It was kind of weird having Jawan Howard around, too. Like, he just got fired.

14:30PFT Commenter:Yeah, I guess Dusty May, like, one of the first calls he made was to Jawan Howard. I mean, credit to Jawan Howard for being, like, the bigger man and being like, yeah, I got fired, but I still love my school.

14:41Big Cat:I feel like Dusty May, if they make a movie out of this season, he's definitely getting played by the guy from Billions, right? Bobby Axelrod? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Bobby Axelrod.

14:51PFT Commenter:Yeah. Dusty May also, like, bad night to be a Michigan State Spartan. Dusty May also might be next up with the horse voice. Oh, he's had a horse voice. Yeah. Yeah, for the last month. He's kind of cucked Tom Izzo. Going into the tournament.

15:02Big Cat:He's got the horse's voice in Michigan. Going into the tournament. When they did the behind the scenes and he's, like, talking to the guys in the huddle. You can't understand a goddamn word he's saying. But you know what he's saying.

15:11PFT Commenter:Yeah. You can feel it. Just saying. That's something to just put on your radar, that Michigan State, it's got to be tough for Michigan State fans. Who's having the worst right now?

15:21Big Cat:Well, it's January, February, Izzo, May.

15:25PFT Commenter:May. I didn't like what Dave did to you on Wake Up Bar, so that was mean. Well, no, you're bringing this up. You're doing it right now. We're talking about who had. But you're doing it right now.

15:35Big Cat:Hank's being a good friend. He's saying he didn't like it. Yeah, right, right. But you're doing it right now.

15:40PFT Commenter:Well, you're doing what Dave did. I'm not. No, no, you are. I'm not going to say. That's fine. Dave said we were in the building, which I was there for as well, in Indianapolis, Big Ten School, Wisconsin, lost to Duke. And then Dave said he vowed to avenge your loss. Which I had not heard until this morning. Michigan last night in Indianapolis got a win for the conference. So he avenged you. And I did not like that. And you're doing it right now. I did not like that. I also, my simple point back to Dave was that on Sunday, I texted Dave and I said, I have a future that I win$250 ,000 if UConn wins.

16:19PFT Commenter:You have a future that wins$500 ,000 if Michigan wins. Why don't we come together and just say, let's go Havsies no matter what, who wins? Wouldn't someone who's trying to avenge my death do that? Yeah, he should have. He should have. So I don't know where that disappeared. It's not right, yeah. It's not right. It's not right. He was really trying to avenge my dad. He would have split it with me. Dave's going through it right now. And you guys agree. If UConn had won, I would have 100 % split it with Dave.

16:45Big Cat:Yeah, you definitely would. I would have actually doubled. People act like Dave has a horseshoe wedged up his ass just because he's won multiple NBA championships, a college basketball championship, a college football championship, like 12 Super Bowls. Water pole this Friday. he's a u.s open champion at shinnecock and he won the dozen and everyone acts like all he does his red socks are down bad so i don't think that he's betting them every i don't think he can afford

17:13PFT Commenter:to split that with you he actually i know what he's betting every game on the red socks and i i actually don't think he can afford it at this point no two and eight as somebody that has bet

17:22Big Cat:every pirates game and then every white socks game and then every athletics game over the course of year you run into a moment where you're going through a cold streak and then you start to double the unit size no matter what you say at the start of the year you start to double and then you get in trouble and i think he probably had every intention of splitting that future with you and then the red socks just broke his heart double trouble okay uh is contraris okay hank yeah what happened he's a he's an emotional guy yeah let's call them out fiery dude yeah yeah I don't know. They're dumpster fire.

17:56PFT Commenter:Yeah. Dumpster fire. That early in the season. Dumpster fire. I thought they were going to be a dumpster fire going into the season. Oh. Dumpster fire. Remember Shane tried to dunk on me? Yeah. Mm-hmm. I mean, the Cubs are not much different in the fact that everyone's just hurt. Kate Orton. Nothing worse than the forearm tightness. It's got to be the worst. The worst. Because it's like that's not a real injury, but it's coming. The real injury is coming. Too much jerking. Anytime the forearm tightness is reported. Okay, before we get to some more stuff, including Michael Malone, UNC head coach, DraftKings.

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19:38Big Cat:that's terrible news I love

19:40PFT Commenter:Kate Horton this is basically exactly what happened to Justin Steele last year beginning of the year

19:45Big Cat:maybe the imaging's not like sometimes the imaging can be blurry and you're not sure what you're looking at and maybe the imaging like once you get a clearer picture it's gonna be fine

19:54PFT Commenter:fucking sucks the the the the cubs did win tonight so when we're taping a little out of order because this is not the real breaking moves which we'll get to but uh shout out that fan who was going for the foul ball and their entire ass fell out that was a tough scene that was an all-time clip hang did you see that clip i did not i always say i've been locked in on golf i've been off the internet yeah mini golf i you got to pull up that clip i always say you got to wear underwear to the ballpark yeah that was it the cubs won tonight so it wasn't that would have been a perfect this is the cubs season how it's going i thought it was mad kate horton being out really fucking sucks yeah it looked like max out there yeah hank you watch the clip give us a live reaction to the clip his ass his pants were down before like he moved i'm like half nervous it's gonna be like We're just down.

20:40PFT Commenter:Yeah. All time. All time. Camera clip. I mean, how does that? That's insane.

20:47Big Cat:It's about as bad as it gets. Yeah. In terms of visuals. Yeah.

20:50PFT Commenter:Okay. All right. The real breaking moves. Obviously, there was a report from New York Post about two friends of the program, Diana Rossini and Mike Vrabel. The report essentially had them. I look like a camera, like a person in the bushes or something. I don't know who had gotten paparazzi at a hotel in Sedona together. Yeah, probably not the best look. And I know that every single AWL, which I understand, is like, these guys have to talk about it. And I agree. We do have to talk about it.

21:25Big Cat:Yeah. So when I saw this, I immediately I walked out of the studio and memes was cackling at the desk and I did the rigs. I was like, hey, I'm rigs now. I'm rigs. I mean, not from the main account. And then memes. He was he was free to fire off from from the personal channels later on. But I did. I did tell memes not to put anything out for me. I told memes.

21:45PFT Commenter:I was like, fire whatever you want. It's one of those situations. Whenever something like this happens, like you can tweet whatever you want. If it's wrong later, it's going to suck for you. But you could tweet. I told you memes. I was like, go for it.

21:55Big Cat:I also, and if I meant from the main part of my team, because that feels like, like they are friends of ours. I didn't, I didn't want to just like take a shit on them as this was all breaking and we weren't exactly sure what was going on. It's, I'm in an awkward position because Diana is a very good friend. I'm friends with her family. Her family is friends with my family. So I feel, I feel bad that this is happening right now. And I have, I don't want to, I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but I have been around her before when she has been accused of doing bad stuff. that I have known to not be true.

22:29Big Cat:So she's been accused without reason before. I'm not saying that's what's happening this time. I'm just saying I'm going to have her back. She's my friend. I'm not going to talk shit about her because I feel like that would be just a really a shitty thing for me to do as she's probably having the worst day of her life. Yeah, definitely. I'm not going to come close to doing that. And Mike Vrabel is a friend of ours.

22:50PFT Commenter:Yes. My first reaction was like, Like, so what's the big deal? Jay Glazer had 25 dudes at his pool party. Like, he's probably hooking up with all of them.

23:00Big Cat:Johnny Fanta inserted himself into a coach's wedding before? Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

23:06PFT Commenter:So I do consider Diana and Coach Rabel friends. And look, this is one of those situations. I'm going to take their word for it. Like, they're going through it right now. And to pile on would make me a bad friend. I'm not gonna if it's if it comes out that it was bad stuff and you know marriages are getting broken up I'm not gonna defend that but like I at this point I there's I'm gonna go off of what I'm reading um and I get it people have to make their jokes like I'm not gonna I told memes when I came in I was just like dude you can say whatever the fuck you want I told Jerry O 'Connell say whatever you want like you guys it would be crazy for me yeah to be like you can't make a joke guys that make jokes about everything so everyone else is going to make jokes and i have no problem with it people want to blog it joke about it i don't give a fuck i personally am not going to like drag them and make it worse for them because i do have a relationship with both them but i'll say it doesn't look great like no just the pictures don't look great but again i'm not going to accuse them of something if i'm gonna take them for their work yeah yeah so i told memes uh

24:15Big Cat:And don't fire from the main account, your personal channel, go for it. And then Dave put out the video where he did the Riggs thing too. And I think because Dave put that video out, I think everybody was afraid to blog it. Yeah. Because nobody blogged it. But we didn't tell anybody not to blog it. No. Best case scenario, it's not what it looks like. Yeah.

24:37PFT Commenter:Listen, we've been through this many times. I remember it happened, I think it was like maybe probably nine or ten years ago. It might have been, I can't remember if it was maybe Blake Griffin. Like someone trashed him on the blog and he was like, what is this? I was like, dude, I'm sorry. He was like, yeah, I don't really care, but I was just wondering. And I was like, yeah, it's like we're a big company. Like people are going to write shit, but we can control what we can say. And memes, would you like to say anything? Because everyone, I think when this story came out, it obviously was a huge story.

25:10PFT Commenter:people make jokes but i think maybe the number one person who got tagged in everything was memes every single person was tagging you and like i saw the new york post article i was doing dinner with my kids so i missed it when it first came out and i saw it maybe like 45 minutes after and i looked at the tweet and memes must have been tagged a million times underneath i was tagged in

25:30Big Cat:it right away and i saw it right away so there was there was one moment where memes was reading the comments underneath uh one of the posts and he was reading them out loud to me he's like and then they're saying like how come memes hasn't responded and then the other guy just said memes is probably reading this right now yeah yeah so i just like her articles i just read the the headline so i tried quote tweeting it real quick which is like oh she's best friends with mike rabel like of course she hates the jets right i don't know i also kind of think she leaked this article oh go on i got my windy fingers fingers go on go ahead like who who who gives a fuck about rossini and variable like going out in the middle of the desert who leaks

26:16PFT Commenter:that for you galaxy this is a meme this is a meme a meme special right and then what better way to

26:23Big Cat:announce your hate for the jets than being like i'm hanging out with mike variable it's on a rooftop I love it I do think the best thing Ever would be if the Eagles traded AJ Brown tomorrow She's back She leaks a new article AJ Brown was at the hotel too Yeah Now you're doing the fanfic Just let it go, let it fly Big Cat's right, if this was about Anybody else, we would be making All the jokes I would be making every joke about the situation so have at it do your jokes if you want like i'm not i'm not gonna whine or complain about just no i'm just saying like from my perspective she's a very good friend very close friend and i don't want to i don't want to uh look like i'm piling on or adding to a bad situation because number one i don't actually know what happened and two like i'd like to think that i'm a good friend and somebody that yeah would absolutely try to help somebody if they go through a tough time so if that's what she's going through then i'm just going to try to be a good friend right it's like

27:25PFT Commenter:But you don't want to make it worse for your friends. And again, anyone who wants to tweet it and be like, or someone saw it on the street being like, hey, what did you think? Be like, doesn't look great. What do you want me to say? But they released their statements, and I'll believe my friends. And if it turns out to be not true, then I'll look like an idiot. But at least I'll say that, hey, I have my friends back. So, yeah, that's kind of how it is. And yeah, people accusing us of being hypocrites for the Riggs-Tiger situation. We're talking about it right now. It happened like two hours ago.

28:02PFT Commenter:We're on the podcast. We're doing an emergency breaking moves talking about it. So we're not going to just like pretend it didn't happen.

28:10Big Cat:I think there's also a bit of a difference between like somebody's fourth DUI.

28:14PFT Commenter:Yeah.

28:14Big Cat:Where they go over and far.

28:15PFT Commenter:You're like, I mean, I'm friends with Dan, but you've been friends with her for a decade. Yeah. You know, so. But yeah, it's. And again, have it. You can make the jokes. I think they probably both know those are coming, and the Internet moves fast, and the Masters will be here, and life will go on.

28:35Big Cat:Also, anyone that was panicking about Trump starting a nuclear war before the Masters just does no ball. Yeah. Like, that man is not ruining his weekend.

28:44PFT Commenter:Yeah. Memes, will you be cooking up any memes going forward?

28:49Big Cat:I had some, but those are for the personal files. I will say there is a valuable lesson here. Yep. Like when I call out Diana, we sometimes just got to let the entire story come out and not just look at these click articles, right? And take their word for it.

29:06PFT Commenter:I agree. Because like the, the, the worst case scenario is this is a, this is the, if it's the worst case scenario, there are marriages and kids involved and that fucking sucks. And it's, so it's like that part is like shitty. And then if, If it's the best case scenario, it's nothing. Then that's also shitty if you trashed him. So waiting it for the whole story to go through. I like that memes. What a lesson. Good lesson. That's beautiful memes.

29:33Big Cat:She's got it. So no more jet slander going forward. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay.

29:38PFT Commenter:I'm sure she would agree to that. I'm sure she's listening to this right now. And this is the most important thing that she's hearing is that, hey, if you could take one thing away from this entire experience is that please stop being mean to the jets for memes. Right. And the Eagles. And Eagles. Yeah, Max, what's your thoughts on this?

29:53Big Cat:Max wasn't going to say anything anyways. He's not sitting in the chair. He's doing the mini golf. I will tell you exactly what Max's reaction would be.

30:02Big Cat:He'll just cover his ears and wish himself out of the room. Zach? With just not enough information, I wish everybody the best.

30:11PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yep, there you go. Oh, I actually did have a... I asked, so I talked to Jerry and I said, please give us because he was like i don't think anything's going on i was like well just give me a statement so here's his statement um wait is this his actual statement guys as the only real celebrity affiliated with part of my take i can say i don't think these two are hooking up i analyze the pics it's a light hug followed by being lounge chair mates after a brutal winter all you want to do late march early april is catch some vitamin d what is coach supposed to do who stripped down and sit on the other side of the pool.

30:49PFT Commenter:They ran into each other, laid out, ordered a burger, and talked AJ. I do not think they're banging. That's Jerry O 'Connell's official statement. Okay. Yeah. Because I called Jerry, and he's like, do I need to, am I gone too far? I was like, no, dude. Jerry always is like, guys, he texts me GFT.

31:08Big Cat:Jerry's the king of going too far and then being like, hey, did I go too far? And me and Big Getter was like, nah. No, we don't care.

31:13PFT Commenter:Jerry's also the king, which I love him to death, but he'll text me and PFT being like, is this okay to post? And for one, the answer has always been yes. We've never said no. And two, we don't ever respond before it actually gets posted. Like he texts us and after he texts us, he posts it. And then we say yes, but it's already been posted for five minutes. So he's not actually asking us.

31:39Big Cat:But I think he does the appropriate thing, which is he in theory checks with us.

31:43PFT Commenter:Yeah, which, again, it's always yes. But it's always yes.

31:45Big Cat:We don't control Jerry. It's always yes.

31:47PFT Commenter:He's our fantasy expert. Fantasy expert. Okay, let's kick it back to ourselves. Earlier in the day, we're talking Michael Malone. We got Bulls front office, Hot Seat, Cool Throne, Shane Bacon, Max Homa. Guys, FAQs, incredible show. Emergency, breaking moves, end it. Okay, Michael Malone. Congrats. Michael Malone is the new head coach for North Carolina Tar Heels. Very good basketball coach. I believe that this was a direct response to the pressure we were putting on UNC with John Fanta. The timing is not a coincidence.

32:24Big Cat:But also, I've seen multiple sources say that Michael Malone is considering bringing Fanta on as an assistant coach. Tom Crean said he would make a great guy. There was somebody in John Fanta's pregame spaces said the exact same thing. Love that. And I think it's a great idea. Michael Malone, really good head coach. really good basketball coach it does feel like oh shit Dusty May said no Tommy Lloyd said no

32:49PFT Commenter:Billy Donovan's waiting till the end of the season and the transfer portal's opening

32:52Big Cat:and Brad Stevens has said no five times we think it's actually a no so

32:59PFT Commenter:I don't know how this way I feel like it's either gonna go I don't think it's gonna go middle of the road does that make sense?

33:06Big Cat:no he's a really really good basketball coach but like college basketball is

33:10PFT Commenter:I think it's gonna be a disaster or they're going to win a national title. I don't think they're going to make the tournament, make a Sweet 16, and he'll coach for multiple years, and it will be kind of middle of the road. I just don't. Of all the connections that we, the stupid connections we like to do, my favorite was back in the day when Mark Treston was hired by the Bears, and people were like, do you know that Jay Cutler went to a QB camp that Mark Treston was one of the coaches at when he was 17 years old? I was like, well, they probably know each other. it doesn't matter at all hiring a guy because his daughter is this is on the volleyball team is quite something it's like he likes the university apparently he you know that he's he'll be committed for at least the next two years and maybe it's like unc like hey he's paying us

33:58Big Cat:yeah i think it's technically you're getting like a twenty thousand dollar a year discount yeah on michael malone on what uh michael malone on the street would go for it's crazy though it's

34:07PFT Commenter:absolutely crazy uh i don't i don't know if i don't think it's gonna work out i don't know this this also if you're if you're unc fan you got to stay optimistic obviously but there's probably also a part of you that's like what is the what is the uh the final dying days of a blue blood it's hiring an nba coach mike woodson going to indiana so that was like the that was like the death rattle of a blue blood uh yeah but coach cal going back when he went back to memphis Well, yeah, but he's like, he was always a college coach. I'm saying like an NBA guy going to, you know, Cal was always college.

34:44PFT Commenter:That was, he was more, it was more weird that he went to the NBA than, you know what I mean? Right.

34:48Big Cat:This is a big time Larry Brown move.

34:50PFT Commenter:Yeah. Michael Malone is a NBA coach. Mike Woodson was an NBA coach. I know that there's college in there, but that's what they were known for.

34:57Big Cat:And then, so I looked at his resume yesterday when they made the announcement. So I was like, maybe he's got a college pass that I was not, I was not aware of. Last time he coached in college was 2001. He was an assistant at Manhattan. He was also an assistant at Providence from 95 to 98. And then he was the director of men's basketball administration at the University of Virginia in the ACC in 1998, 1999. I have no idea what that job description was in 1999.

35:25PFT Commenter:I'll tell you what it was. Michael Malone, if you want to, and again, we like him. He's a nice guy. I'm hoping it works out because I want UNC to be good because I want them to beat Duke. I'm going to root for UNC. I just have a little skepticism, healthy skepticism. But Michael Malone's college basketball coaching resume can be summed up in, that's a phone number that Rico Bosco would love to have back in the day. He would have definitely been chasing Michael Malone all around Final Four. The Dobo. You're the director of ops for what was the college's? Virginia.

35:58Big Cat:And then what else? Well, he was an assistant at Providence, assistant at Manhattan, and he was Dobo, director of basketball operations. At UVA.

36:06PFT Commenter:Yeah.

36:06Big Cat:So that would have been a prime Bosco. Yeah, he cuts up the film. Yeah. So he gets the blob sets before the coaches even get the blob sets. The one thing that I did see on his resume, I forgot this. He was the Serbian national coach. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's not actually. Right? Maybe he's going to spend some time. They might be Crutin'.

36:27PFT Commenter:Good catch, PFT. I actually think that this might have just changed into it might work.

36:33Big Cat:I think UNC might be Cruton over in Eastern Europe.

36:36PFT Commenter:Fuck, I'm going to have to think about that.

36:39Big Cat:I would love. Yeah, I want UNC to be good again. Colors are cool. Colors are cool. I like that little ramp. Oh, I got a question. Yeah. Watching the Wolverine everywhere this week, all the old timey drawings of the Wolverine mascot, same type deal with the old UNC mascot. What is that little hat that all the old mascots wear in the illustrations? it's almost like a navy hat yeah i know what you're saying like did people ever actually wear that hat or was it only reserved for college mascots i feel like it's one of those things that

37:11PFT Commenter:like uh it was like the fcc back in the day it's like you have to put this little hat so people

37:15Big Cat:know that the mascot is a mascot so that they know it's not real yeah they know it's not a human yeah so it doesn't get shot if it's out in public yeah because if you're if you're if it's like

37:23PFT Commenter:1930 and you open the newspaper and you see that you're like oh my god are they it's an invasion Yeah. What are these Wolverine looking humans running around? Nope. Look, the mascot hat.

37:33Big Cat:Yeah. They're like, oh, is that the Irish? Are they here? No. No. Don't worry. It's got a hat, darling.

37:39PFT Commenter:Yeah.

37:40Big Cat:Okay.

37:41PFT Commenter:Other news. The Bulls cleaned their entire front office out, firing AK, firing Mark Eversley, the Bulls. So here's where we're at. The Bulls deserve credit. Michael Reinsdorf, Jerry Reinsdorf, the Bulls ownership. They deserve credit for doing the most obvious thing possible because they're such bad owners that there was actually some doubt that they might not fire these guys.

38:10Big Cat:Okay. So before you go any further, I got a question for you because it seems like in the past when they've been good enough to make the playing game, that's when you wanted everybody fired. Now they're bad enough where they are going to get a lottery pick and now they're firing everybody because they tanked.

38:27PFT Commenter:Well, no, these guys deserve to be fired. Just for the record, AK was one of, if not, no, he was definitely the worst GM right now in the NBA. I think that's actually, you can't dispute that fact. The moves that were made, and he had three months where he put together a roster that was number one in the East, and then for the next five years talked about that roster with DeMar DeRozan, Zach Levine. He traded a first-round pick in Wendell Carter for Vooch. he drafted Patrick Williams and then signed him to$90 million he basically has all these guys that were on the team he traded them too late and got nothing for them like they traded DeMar DeRozan Vooch, Zach Levine, Alex Caruso and the only number one pick they got back was their own they got their own pick back from the king just absolute disaster of a front office terrible scouting terrible at trades terrible at timing everything you could ask for they just didn't deliver any of it uh but my point is that they're so bad that it should have been it should have happened like a year ago or two years ago and the fact that we got to this point and they finally did it there's a lot of people congratulating the bulls and like being like hey you did it i don't know if i can do that because the the bulls are still owned by the reindsdwarfs and they're cheap and they're not

39:51Big Cat:going to do the right thing not even on like the second derrick rose night you're not gonna go

39:55PFT Commenter:it's like seventh right now yeah that's that's the one thing they've done well here my here are my uh wishes for because this is the thing that always drives me nuts when and i think most people would agree with this when you have an ownership like i understand with a salary cap in a league and there's you know taxes and all that shit i get that right like nfl there's a salary cap major league baseball there's not so owners should spend money the one thing that you're never capped on is how much money you spend on your front office and your scouting department like you should be spending all your money on that and being like let's get the smartest guys to do the smartest thing and so the bulls should go out and try to say sam presti here's any amount of money you name the number brad stevens gotta make brad stevens say no they have to the bulls have to make brad stevens say no i think you guys all agree yeah always first first thing they gotta do for any job is make brad stevens say no yeah what they're probably gonna do is they're probably gonna make billy donovan gm and then find the new cheaper coach and they're gonna do it that way

41:01Big Cat:they're gonna go this happened again they're gonna go the brad stevens route yeah that worked though yeah what brad stevens yeah yeah they're just turning billy d into the new brad s i like

41:11PFT Commenter:billy d but the idea that like we have to save billy d like we got to do everything to keep billy

41:16Big Cat:happy yeah what are we doing so that that is what was so confusing for me is like unc did they reach

41:24PFT Commenter:out to billy donovan and he yeah i think so he the story is that billy donovan was not going to do it till after the season and unc felt pressure after dusty may said no and tommy lloyd said no and the

41:36Big Cat:transfer portal was opening they're like we got to do something but if this happened earlier like I don't know. I feel like Billy Donovan probably doesn't want to stick around this organization right now. Well, unless they give him a promotion, which they might.

41:52PFT Commenter:It's just I'm happy that these guys got fired. They were the worst GMs possible. They were so bad. Their plan changed constantly. We'll have old guys and try to compete right now. Oh, no, we'll get young guys and basically just try to trade for anyone who was a lottery pick four years ago. I mean, the Jaden Ivey thing is one of the most embarrassing things you can do. And maybe that's the reason. Like, thank you, Jaden Ivey. You actually got them fired. But again... Are these guys worse than Gar Pax?

42:25Big Cat:Yeah, which is crazy. Because, yeah, I didn't think things could get worse than Gar Pax. Oh, significant.

42:30PFT Commenter:You would take Gar Pax back in a second. I wouldn't take him back. But those guys at least could scout. They put together some good players. They drafted some good players. Like Patrick Williams was drafted and then given five years, 90 million. That is the, that might be the worst contract in like all sports history. The guy is not good. And it's like, you drafted him and then you're like, you knew he wasn't good. And then you're like, yeah, let's make sure we give him more money. So, but at the end of the day, it's still the Ryan's doors. And I don't understand if you're, if you, this is what I will never understand.

43:02PFT Commenter:Jerry Ryan's roof is 90 years old, 90 years old. You can't take it with you, Jerry. why wouldn't you just spend all the money right now and get rich by spending money in the next five years and try to make one good last run at it like offer Sam Presti a godfather offer offer him ownership you just got money you just got a big chunk of money from selling the White Sox you cannot take this with you and Michael Reinsdorf is like he's now in like very firm fail son category where he's got to start making moves hopefully that's what it is Hopefully Michael Reinsdorf feels the need to be like, I'm going to have a better legacy than my father.

43:41PFT Commenter:I've got to prove everyone wrong, and that will propel him to greatness.

43:44Big Cat:Does he have any irons in the fire? Is he up to anything, or is he just kind of waiting on his old man?

43:49PFT Commenter:Yeah, no, he's running the Bulls. He is running the Bulls. Okay. Yeah, he is in charge, and the Bulls are like the third – I think they're the third or fourth most valuable NBA franchise. Just based on Michael Jordan. And being in the third biggest city. You have so much fucking money, dude. Just spend it and make a team good. I just cannot understand. If I owned a team, I would spend all my money in hiring the smartest guys to do everything.

44:21Big Cat:I feel like this is setting up for the Bulls to get a great lottery pick. Yeah, it might be. This is setting up for a reset. Would you guys not do the same? Would you not be like, hey, I'm going to hire the smartest guy? Yeah. Well, no, initially I would fuck everything up real bad. Yeah. Like I would be terrible at owning a team for probably about 10 years. And then after 10 years of fucking everything up, I'd probably just say, hey, I'm going to delegate basically my entire job and I'm just going to show up and go to games. Right. But it would take me 10 years of fucking up. Jerry Ronsworth has had way longer than 10 years.

44:55Big Cat:Yeah.

44:55PFT Commenter:The one problem with everything I said is that a lot of the owners, majority of the owners have huge egos. and you see it all the time where guys don't want to have someone else. The owner doesn't want to be the guy who's like, oh, yeah, he's a great owner, but really it's just the GM that he hired and he's the genius.

45:14Big Cat:But I wouldn't care. I wouldn't either. I would not care at all. I wouldn't either.

45:17PFT Commenter:But it always happens. It always can't. When Theo came to the Cubs, that's what happened at the end of that.

45:22Big Cat:Who gets credit? Would not care at all. That's kind of the goal of the entire thing. Right. If you're an owner, you're not a GM. That's not you can you can take credit for like running a good organization like Robert Kraft. I'm sure one day he'll he'll get into the Hall of Fame. But that also like how that ended. Right. That was like, yeah, who's who's going to get credit? But I feel like, yeah, the owner usually does. If the team's good, the owner will get the credit. Be like he runs a good organization. Good for them. But nobody will ever be like, yeah, the owner did a great job of assembling this roster.

45:55PFT Commenter:Yeah. I just wish the Bulls had done this before the season and actually tanked correctly. Well, I mean, because they essentially did. They started five and oh, and everyone's like, oh, shit. How far off are you? We might have to do another sim. We're, I think, going to. We're the ninth. But it's just like so stupid. You have this incredible draft. You're going to have to strip it down to the studs. You let these guys fuck around and put together a good enough team that wasn't fully tanking. Do another sim. Do one more sim.

46:22Big Cat:Bulls got ninth. That was a bad sim. That was a terrible sim. Really bad sim. Wizards got fifth. Five for the. Five for the. It's bad. Shut up, man. Oh, Mavericks. Good. Mavericks got the first pick. Yeah, good for them. Good. No, leave it there. That's going to happen. That would be such bullshit. That's going to happen. January 6th, if that happens. One more. I swear to God. One more. Okay.

46:44PFT Commenter:You take that, BFT.

46:45Big Cat:Yeah, take second. Yeah, one more.

46:47PFT Commenter:Boozer? Yeah, yeah. Just do it until the Bulls get, like, top four.

46:54Big Cat:Nope. How many times is it going to take? Nope. No. There you go. Yeah, all right. third i take third who'd you pick third a cuff yeah i want to watch fun basketball i call it hey memes i call him uh darius a cup because he's still developing yeah but yeah you guys you guys

47:12PFT Commenter:understand what i'm saying when it when it like when your bad owner does something good you want you want to give them credit for doing something good someone like and do last night they're like it's it's it's essentially like your four-year-old peeing in the toilet and not peeing it all peeing all over the toilet seat and on the floor. You're like, great job. But really, that's what you're supposed to do.

47:33Big Cat:Okay, here's the real job of an owner. This is really all you have to do. Yeah. Have an exhaustive process where you hire former general managers that have had a lot of success and you hire them to hire your general manager. Yeah. After you get that recommendation, you hire a general manager and then you let your wife start a charity that you then support and that's all you do and then you go to games yeah that's it yeah that is the job and then you let the general manager take care of everything you make up you invent jobs for your children and then your wife runs the charitable foundation and you just go to dinners and you go to every game and you make you look at your bank account once a year you go on a cruise every fucking winter for a month and you're like yeah oh my best honey my basketball team just appreciated by 75 million yeah this year that's nice man okay let's get to hot seat cool throne

48:28PFT Commenter:thank you for letting me vent guys but i you know it's like hey we took one good small baby step forward now you got to keep going just keep doing it keep doing it all right hot seat cool throne okay before we get to hot seat cool throne twisted tea twisted tea is a refreshing hard iced tea made with real brewed tea and five percent alcohol twisted tea is the perfect drink to keep the good times going all day and all season long. Whether you're hanging out at a friend's house, catching a game at the stadium or at the bar, or day drinking with friends, Twisted Tea is there to turn your day up a notch and make a good time a great time.

49:02PFT Commenter:Grab a refreshing Twisted Tea today. We love Twisted Tea. It's delicious. The half and half, the original. I love that half and half. Twisted Tea, man, it hits the spot. Go get a Twisted Tea today. Summer's right around the corner. The weather's starting to break. sunny days goes perfect with the twisted tea so go grab a refreshing twisted tea today hank hot seat cool throne my hot seat is roman anthony uh-oh we talked about the red sox struggles a little bit earlier in the show they're two and eight as of this recording uh our guy shane tried to tried to dunk on me during the season preview about me being down on the red sox going into the year i would turn out i was right uh there's you know sell the team chance going on john henry there's a video of him like reacting where he was trying to figure out what the fans were saying and he goes oh sell the team which that was just oh he like he mouthed it yeah yeah he was like you could see him like kind of listening and he goes oh sell the team he was not ready to he did not think that's what they were saying that's very funny uh and then roman anthony world baseball classic hero but he has been he's he's become a meme basically if he can't he just can't throw anyone out from left field oh no everyone's just running on roman uh change i tell me he was he was great last year but he was playing right field now he's playing left field he's probably gonna be getting a lot more dh reps so that it's just not good when you're this early in the season early april and like the one of the main things maybe it's just because my algorithm but all i see is just don't run on Roman as a joke because anyone can run on Roman.

50:40You are also anti - Max said it. There's a throw he had last night where he threw it like Billy football at Stu Finders house.

50:46Big Cat:And you also are anti-Italian. So you were predisposed to hate a guy named Roman. No, I'm pro-Row, but - Are you? Yeah. Doesn't seem like you are. I am. I'm saying he's on the hot seat. I'm just saying like -

50:59PFT Commenter:Let me see this again. Go back. Oh my God. Yeah, it's pretty bad. That's a terrible throw.

51:03Big Cat:Would you rather have Manny playing defense?

51:05PFT Commenter:Yes.

51:06Big Cat:Like even, I'm not talking about with the bat. I just mean like defensive Manny. Yeah, it's fun. That's it. It is funny. Like I used to love it when Manny Ramirez would just. And he could play the monster. He was good at playing the monster. He would like be a cutoff man like 10 feet away from a guy in the outfield. Just a legend. So bad vibes all around. Bad vibes all around. Do you think that they're going to sell the team? I don't because it makes money. Yeah. Yeah. Why would you? If you're them. Yeah. Why would you sell the team? That is the only way. I talked to Dave, but he was trying to pick my brain the other day about my battles back and forth to Dan Snyder and how it eventually happened.

51:44Big Cat:I was like, listen, the bottom line is you just have to hope that they start to lose money somehow. And with Boston, I don't see fans stopping going to Fidway Park. No. I mean, it was like a 10, 15-year process, maybe even longer than that until it started to hit Snyder's pocketbook in D.C. But eventually he got there. I don't see money wasn't really the issue, right? It was, it was double. It was like, he was a sex pest scandal. Yeah. Sex pest, serial scandal. And, uh, but also the money, like the money does make a difference to these guys. But if the sex pest, serial scandal didn't happen, he probably still owns the team.

52:24Big Cat:Possibly. If the, yeah, yeah. It's a, it's a good possibility, but it did get to the point where like he had, he had sponsors pulling out that had to do i don't think the sponsors would have pulled out if it was just the sex stuff and the team was making money like they had good ticket sales yeah it's like a combination but yeah it does it sucks because it it feels like the red socks just don't want to they don't care about winning and as corny as it sounds i do think that baseball is better when the red socks are competitive for sure okay uh my cool throwing the space shit yeah i was it was on my hot seat but yeah shout out go ahead over here everyone's talking about the the the artemis 2 yeah yeah uh they're they they traveled farther than any mortal being has ever traveled away from earth uh so that was cool the the pictures are cool was it yeah are you a hater are you a space hater i kind of just don't care until we go to mars i mean mars is cool this i want to go to

53:29PFT Commenter:Mars. I don't know. I just call me when we're at Mars.

53:33Big Cat:I cared a little bit because that's progress. Yeah, I guess. We got to go farther and farther and farther.

53:39PFT Commenter:I want to go to Mars. I want to go to Mars. I want to see what's going on Mars. This picture is cool, but I would like to see Mars. I don't know. I just want to see Mars. This picture might also be AI. No, it's not. It's from the NASA account? I think that's from Puberty. Yeah, I think that might be AI. Oh no, Max. I don't know. Maybe this is not a video of the moon. It's close up camera movement on a flipped image of the moon.

54:08Big Cat:So I maybe I think it's kind of cool because we are as far away as we've ever been. I think it's cool because we have gotten to see like a new generation of flat earthers trying to figure out how to explain their way out of this one. Those pictures are cool. That's pretty funny.

54:22PFT Commenter:I'm down for that. I'm just saying like maybe I just maybe I just expect more out of us. I'd like to go to Mars. Yeah. It would be fucking badass if we got to Mars. This one's from the White House. Okay. That's a cool picture. Photo NASA. That's a cool picture. Alright, fine. You know what? Cool. Cool pictures. I just... Also... Alright, here's my problem. Go to Mars or go back on the moon? I thought they were going on the moon. I think we're going to go back to the moon. All right, so if we go back to the moon, I'm in. We're going to do a base on the moon. I want to see us on the moon again. We've never been back on the moon.

55:00PFT Commenter:How is that possible that we went on the moon in the 60s and we just never went back on it? Maybe we never went in the first place. Thank you, Hank. That's what I'm saying. I want to see us on the moon.

55:09Big Cat:We won the space race. Right. It was like, suck it, Russia. In your face, Khrushchev. They just did a flyby.

55:17PFT Commenter:I want to see us on the moon. I don't think there's a lot happening on the moon is a thing.

55:20Big Cat:But it's still, but don't, like, isn't it crazy we just went on it It never went back on it. We should build a fucking golf course on the moon.

55:28PFT Commenter:That'd be sick, too.

55:29Big Cat:Yeah. I mean, honestly, I'm going to take NASA's man card for sending this expedition up during March Madness. Like, wait until the end of the tournament. I guess I'm just a dreamer. Sounds like you're not. I'm not the only one. Sounds like you're not.

55:43PFT Commenter:No, I am. I want to go deep. I want to go far. This mission was to test the ship and find the landing area. Okay. So then that will be sick when we go on the moon. I'm fucking in for that.

55:56Big Cat:I don't really understand any of what they're doing or how we're getting there, but it is kind of cool that it's the furthest that it's ever been. Yeah. That humans have ever been. You know, be further Mars. Mars. I would like to see Mars, too. Hank probably wants a football game on Mars. Yeah, he does. He wants Super Bowl on Mars. Yeah, for sure.

56:13PFT Commenter:But that's I mean, Roger Goodell would definitely be like Jaguars. You're going to Mars.

56:18Big Cat:Oh, yeah.

56:18PFT Commenter:And then you have and then you got to play the Chiefs on my football next week.

56:21Big Cat:Dude, can you imagine? Yeah. No, the Chiefs playing a home game on Mars. Yeah. Good luck. Okay, good hot seat, cool thrown, Hank.

56:30PFT Commenter:Thanks.

56:31Big Cat:Great job, Hank. Great job. Yeah, my hot seat was going to be Flat Earthers, but instead, I'll pivot. My hot seat is going to be the real Olympics because we have an update on the enhanced games. Yes. Oh. One of my favorite topics of the last year. Oh, yeah. It's real. It's real, real, Hank. Did you see that the vaping protein was fake? That was a fake story? Yeah. I got got? That's okay. Well, it's a good idea. I got got. It's not real, but I would like for it to be real. What, Max? How come it's okay if PFT gets got, but we laugh at Max when he gets got. We're old. Yeah.

57:03PFT Commenter:I'm dumb. Okay, that's fair. Fair point. Fair point. All around.

57:06Big Cat:Old and dumb. Yeah, all around. Yeah. So I'm going to stand down.

57:10PFT Commenter:I wanted to say, like, as a podcast, because I got got a couple weeks ago, the Rick Pitino quote was fake. Which one? The one about digging the graves. Oh, yeah. He was going to go in it. I just want to say as a podcast, like maybe this is a disclaimer at the start. We get got. It's okay. That's just what we do. I get got like hourly. Yeah, we should just be like be okay. Like I'm okay with just being a guy who like if I read something, if someone tells me something, I'm just going to take it as face value. She's like, yeah, okay, that's real. And then I'll just tell it to everyone else. Let's just get got.

57:45You don't like that? No, I'm kind of with Max. So I posted what I thought was a really heartwarming video.

57:52PFT Commenter:Oh, well, that was really stupid. The whales getting cleaned. Yeah, that was really dumb. That was you just being really dumb. Yeah, a guy was driving. That's totally different.

57:59Big Cat:He was driving like a front end loader on the face of an orca.

58:02PFT Commenter:Yeah, that's totally. I mean, Rick Pitino quote was like, he could say that. You had a fucking John Deere on top of a whale.

58:09Big Cat:It looked like it really needed it.

58:10PFT Commenter:Yeah.

58:10Big Cat:Yeah, Rick Pitino has done weirder stuff than that.

58:12PFT Commenter:Yeah. Come on, Hank.

58:14Big Cat:So I guess I got got by the vaping thing. I still think that somebody should make it. I think that's a great idea. Like joke might be on them for inventing it as April fool's gag. And then somebody else steals their billion dollar idea. Actually, let's have our product team. Just take a look at that. I feel like Barstool Sports could. We got a good demographic for that here. But the enhanced games just got valued at$1.2 billion. And the enhanced games, you might recall, are the steroid users alternative to the Olympics. The all steroid Olympics. where anything that you can do to your body is fair game for bodybuilders, weightlifters, swimmers, sprinters, et cetera.

58:53Big Cat:It's being run by Peter Thiel, so it's definitely not a scam, and it's absolutely good for the world. And our guy that we did the podcast with, Hank, remember that, Boz? Yep. Boz was telling us about enhancing the bodies and how it's like a gateway towards future scientific innovation. So first you get like little implants in your eyeballs so you can read greens better. And next thing you know, we're half man, half cyborgs, and we're breaking 50 on the golf course. I love it. So, yeah, it's$1.2 billion valuation, which it sounds like it's a fake valuation because it just sounds good to say$1.2 billion.

59:31Big Cat:But they're trying to find a home for broadcasting it this year. I'm excited to see these freaks and how fast they can run, how high they can jump. I'm going to pay at least a little bit of attention to it. yeah absolutely i want this i this this would be like must watch yeah absolutely now the the uh funniest part is when you look on the website for the enhanced games they changed the website a little bit in the last couple months because there was one page that was uh like a guide to coming out as enhanced to your parents because they're saying that people that have been doing steroids have been living in shame for too long yeah so it was like a guide of how to explain to your folks like like almost like you're coming out of the closet but you're coming out the closet being like hey yeah i take steroids mom and dad yeah i hope you still love me yeah uh but it's a very funny website very funny concept uh i will be watching some of it yes absolutely and my cool throne i'm gonna go with mock drafts mock drafts is mock draft season officially yeah it is as as the uh the seasons change and we close the page on college basketball a new page opens up and that That is 2026 NFL mock drafts with trades, which is a great time of year.

1:00:47Big Cat:My favorite. Getting mad at mock drafts this early is so fun to do. And, yeah, so let's see. On ESPN, we got Sonny Stiles. This is Schrager's. Schrager. Oh, well, I mean, Schrager. He hangs out with every coach. Yeah. Sonny Stiles to the commanders. I would like that very much. Who do we have going to? Out on this. Caleb Downs to the Cowboys.

1:01:10PFT Commenter:Mm-hmm.

1:01:11Big Cat:Do we have Ty Simpson creeping his way back up into the first round?

1:01:18Chats take Omar Cooper Jr. at 16.

1:01:21PFT Commenter:You like that, memes?

1:01:22Big Cat:How do you grade that, memes? I'll take it. I give Sonny Stiles an A also. Who got the Bears taken? Eagles get Denzel Boston at 23.

1:01:31PFT Commenter:A. A. A.

1:01:31Big Cat:No, that doesn't mean that. Yeah, it does. Wide receiver factory.

1:01:36PFT Commenter:Okay. Keep rolling.

1:01:38Big Cat:Denzel Boston sounds like an awesome nickname for AJ when he's on the Patriots.

1:01:42PFT Commenter:Okay. Massive humanity. I like that.

1:01:46Big Cat:yeah so there's been how tall is proctor like six seven he's a massive humanity i loved it when when he would just get the ball they'd throw like a little wide receiver screen to him but anyways i'm excited to look at all the mock drafts because it means that football is coming back and it means that the draft's getting closer shout out pittsburgh not making the kids go to school you get to stay home when the draft's in town baby yeah but yeah we i've seen a number of mock drafts steven shea put out his mock draft as well today it sucks don't read it um but all the mock drafts are coming out yeah and i'm reading all of them and it was funny because last year i was not at all into reading mock drafts i think at one point big cat i said to you like is it just me or like this draft doesn't have the same juice as it normally does and then you realize that it's because maybe your your favorite team was good for one season yeah and you forget about the top 10 yeah and now i'm all the way back yeah now now i'm like this is the most exciting draft maybe ever

1:02:40PFT Commenter:maybe in the history of the nfl um all right my hot seat funny that we were talking about it Because as we were talking about getting got, I was about to do a hot seat where I got got. Okay. What was it? It was the Masters hats. The ones that are going that, like, it looks like the Masters. It's like Masters merch hats. And it just had, like, one that just had pimento on it. One that said now driving. And I was going to say, like, it's crazy that the Masters are selling these type of hats. But I don't think it's real. It is? Wait, was it like the giant block letters? Yeah, this. Look, I don't know.

1:03:21PFT Commenter:I think that's real. They're real? I don't like that. I think those are real. Hank, help me out. The Masters shouldn't have hats that you could like, that says like peach on it. Right? Pimento? Yeah. I don't know.

1:03:35Big Cat:Azalea? Maybe they are real. Okay. I think those are real. It'd be funny if they would. Now driving one's funny. Yeah.

1:03:42PFT Commenter:Yeah, but that's like not a Master. Not if Tiger's wearing it. Somewhere else. No, definitely not.

1:03:47Big Cat:You don't want him wearing that thing. You like those hats? I don't personally, but.

1:03:51PFT Commenter:And I just feel like the Masters is above that. Is that not a fair take? Yeah, but they just want people. They know people are going to be shopping. True. Women be shopping. Women be shopping. Masters guys be shopping. That's true. I only saw one fake one. Okay. It was like I got my ass eaten at aiming corner. That one's real. That one is real. Yeah. 100 % real. Either way, I guess. I mean, I shouldn't hate because I've never been to the Masters. I don't know. I just don't know.

1:04:15Big Cat:I'd want to go see for myself to really make a judgment. Boots on the ground. Yeah.

1:04:20PFT Commenter:I don't know. The Masters has such a cool logo, and they're so strict with it that that's all they need.

1:04:25Big Cat:So they don't have any of the giant block letters that you see for most of the golf courses now. These are kind of tasteful and scripted. But still, I kind of agree with you. It's like this seems like they're doing a little bit too much.

1:04:38PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah, like, I guess we're, it feels like we're one Masters away from them doing the upside down letters, and then I'm fully out.

1:04:46Big Cat:Who is the guy that wore Sun Devils upside down at the Masters last year? Oh, yeah. People were so pissed. He took a piss in Rays Creek, right? Yeah.

1:04:55PFT Commenter:I'm actually like, the Masters might be the one tournament. Is he an ace? No. He's a fireball. The Masters might be the one tournament where I kind of love everyone's really hard ass. Ballistar. You know? Yeah. Like for the most part, like a guy taking a piss on a golf course, like who cares? But I just kind of love the masters. Like you cannot do this.

1:05:16Big Cat:I love it. I was reading about the masters every year. I do this. I remind myself of like the different traditions they have there and how they do things just like completely, completely differently from every other golf course. They've got a team of like their staff wanders around the grounds just looking for people that are about to throw away trash. Yeah. Like as you crumple up a hot dog wrapper or whatever, a sandwich wrapper. They intercept. They come up to you and they're like, hand that to me, please. I love that. They have a zero trash policy. I love that.

1:05:43PFT Commenter:And then my cool throne is also the Masters because I saw this tweet and it was very funny to me. It's a little Wednesday reading for you. This just tells you how special the Masters are. This comes from JC Hoops, Jackson Collier on Twitter. He said, my dad got tickets to the Masters one year and took a friend of his. Apparently, they were walking around the grounds marveling at Augusta's beauty and what have you. normal stuff for a really cool experience at some point they got hungry so of course went to get some food everything was inexpensive great part of the charm my dad told his friend he had to get the pimento cheese because that's the thing to do with the masters his friends uh just said okay got a pimento cheese wolfed it down and that was the end of it that night back at their hotel the friend got ill like deathly ill getting sick fever hives the whole thing they went to a hospital and the friend recovered enough for them to drive home to this point my dad still had no clue what in the world had happened by the time my dad drops his friend off at his house back in arkansas he said to my dad those pimentos will get you this man was allergic to pimentos ate the pimento cheese sandwich anyway and when my dad asked why in the world he ate the sandwich anyway the friend responded with i wanted the full master's experience yep that's beautiful that's awesome Just be like, I know I'm going to maybe go to the hospital, but we're at the Masters and I have to eat it.

1:07:00Big Cat:Yeah, respect. I had a buddy that did that with shrimp. He was allergic to shrimp, but once a year, he loved it too much. And he would just eat a shrimp and then just stab himself with the EpiPen and be like, I got to take one for the team.

1:07:10PFT Commenter:You got to do it. You got to do it. So yeah, Masters. I mean, Masters week is the best. We have Shane Bacon and Max Homo coming up. It is the absolute best.

1:07:18Big Cat:Hank, I heard a stat that the last like three or maybe four years, The person who won the Masters was the person that was in the lead in the FedEx Cup points at that time.

1:07:30PFT Commenter:Oh, yeah. This has happened with the Masters now. It's like the NCAA application of the Masters where I've seen a lot of people just be like, your Masters winners are going to come from these nine golfers and no one else. It's like, but you still got to pick one of the nine. Right. That's pretty tough.

1:07:50Big Cat:So yeah, this one is kind of a weird stat because it's based on the FedEx Cup points, which isn't strokes gained or anything like that. Jacob Bridgman. He has a really good putter. That's all I know about the guy. And then I think it's been years and years since the person who won the last tournament before the Masters ended up winning the Masters. It's been a very long time. I feel like that one's tough, though, with Bryson, Jon Rahm, and Patrick Reed not factoring into that. Yeah. Mm-hmm. And Cam Smith.

1:08:21PFT Commenter:Oh, also Hot Seat, since we're talking about Masters. And Brooks hasn't been able to play in all the events. Irish cuisine, because Rory was asked why he didn't go more Irish on his menu, and he said, I want to enjoy the dinner as well.

1:08:35Big Cat:Yeah. Yeah, it makes sense.

1:08:36PFT Commenter:That's pretty good. Like, there's not enough cabbage.

1:08:39Big Cat:Yeah. Beans. Franken beans. Beans, toast. Whole tomatoes. Yeah, just beer. You should have just done beer. A beer flight? Beer and potatoes. Yeah. Okay, Zach. My hot seat this week is going to be Sabrina Carpenter. Have you guys seen any of the new Sabrina Carpenter music videos out? No. She may, in the most respectful way possible, Sabrina Carpenter may have dropped the hottest music video of 2026. Okay. So why is she on your hot seat? Because I think it's appropriate to put her in the hottest seat possible. Okay. Before we go any further, how old is she? Old. Full adult. Full adult. Yeah.

1:09:16PFT Commenter:All right.

1:09:16Big Cat:Full adult.

1:09:17PFT Commenter:like been an adult for at least three years. Okay. Right?

1:09:21Big Cat:That is correct, yes, sir.

1:09:23PFT Commenter:She's been an adult for like five, seven years, eight years.

1:09:27Big Cat:Almost happy birthday. That's a lot of adult. Almost happy birthday. Tons of adult. Yeah. Oh, you missed little Sass's birthday, by the way. He didn't fill out the fucking Excel spreadsheet. So tough. Tough Sass.

1:09:40PFT Commenter:Zach, how many times have you watched this video?

1:09:43Big Cat:Probably three.

1:09:44PFT Commenter:Okay. That's a good number. That's a healthy number. No skips.

1:09:47Big Cat:What's the best part? Top to bottom. Full video. As far as the video goes. You got to get the whole thing. You're talking about the video? I was talking video range. We're talking first second to like three minutes, 20 seconds. Is the top of the video better or is the bottom? You bottom guy? I think I was more so center. I was center focus frame. Okay. That would probably be mid-screen.

1:10:08PFT Commenter:You're like middle school basketball, like guard the belly button. Yeah. Can't go anywhere without his belly button. You ever have a coach tell you that? We're talking abdomen.

1:10:17Big Cat:Follow the abdomen. Lock in. Guard the belly button. Can't go anywhere without it. This is a good looking video. I got to agree with you on that one, Zach. Yeah, that's good.

1:10:28PFT Commenter:She got good looking friends, too. Shout out to women. It looks like she's having fun. Shout out women. They're also famous. We love women.

1:10:34Big Cat:Who are our famous friends?

1:10:35PFT Commenter:Madeline Klein and Margaret Qualley. I knew that, dude. You didn't let me fucking finish. Madeline Klein and Margaret Qualley.

1:10:43Big Cat:Can I tell you something? They both look a little jealous of Sabrina.

1:10:46PFT Commenter:Mm-hmm.

1:10:46Big Cat:It's like they know that Sabrina's the star of the show. That's toxic energy. Yeah. Yeah. They kind of, like, wish that she wasn't so hot.

1:10:52PFT Commenter:Yeah. If I saw those three, I would go up and I'd only talk to Sabrina. Yeah. And the other two would be like, what's this guy's deal? It is a house-thorning. It's a pretty sick house. Just kidding. I wouldn't even go close to any of these women because, yeah. I'd be very afraid. Very, very afraid. Good hot seat. Cool throne? My cool throne this week is going to be Kansas City Royals player Cara Jensen.

1:11:12Big Cat:Yeah. Because earlier in the week or in previous days, he did oversleep, but since then has hit two home runs, and he's five for eight. Nice. So he used it as fuel and kind of figured out how to contribute to the team moving forward.

1:11:25PFT Commenter:Love that.

1:11:25Big Cat:So sleeping in, not the end of the world. A lot of guys have been there, and he was able to bounce back, and I wish nothing but prosperity for him in the future. So, Zach, how many times did he sleep in? On record, they've got one in this press conference.

1:11:38PFT Commenter:One time in this press conference he slept in.

1:11:41Big Cat:That is correct. All right. Now, was it an alarm issue? Do we unpack that at all? Was he all night gaming? He did say that it was just an oversight with the alarm. He didn't wake up. And then he's going to, you know, he recognized his mistake in this press conference that he's going to move forward. He's going to make sure it doesn't happen again is what he said.

1:11:56PFT Commenter:You did a very good video, Zach, explaining how this could happen. I sent it to Vinny. There's a chance Carter Jensen saw your video. And we're going to try to get him in the office when the Royals come to town.

1:12:07Big Cat:If he does see it, I hope that he was able to watch it and realize, oh, I'm not alone in this. and that it's going to be okay, and that you can move forward from this, and you can grow.

1:12:15PFT Commenter:Representation matters. I agree. There's guys out there of all shapes and sizes. Guys who've done it. Yeah. Guys who can hit, guys who can't hit. You haven't done it in a while. No. We're due for one. It's Q2. Spring's creeping up, but we're just trying to be the best of our ability. When was the last one? It was like sometime in February, maybe. Yeah, we're due.

1:12:37Big Cat:We're due. We're due. Season's changing. Yeah. Can't we talk in doom? Weather's changing. No, we're due. We're due.

1:12:41PFT Commenter:It's April, yeah Q2 started April 1 Yeah And I think you did have one in Q1 Yeah, so we're due And you said You yourself said once a quarter Yeah Worst case, yes But not show days

1:12:52Big Cat:He's figured out show days Love that

1:12:54PFT Commenter:Zach, do you have any other Did you have any that you had on the list?

1:12:58Big Cat:The rest of the list was Roman Anthony and Space So we got

1:13:01PFT Commenter:Oh, look at that Same wavelength, boys Also, shout out Jacob

1:13:06Big Cat:He hit up the group chat with a little bit more explanation of what's going on with this moon mission. Okay. So we're going back to the moon in 2028. This mission is to test the ship, find the landing area. Okay. So we're scouting. All right.

1:13:21PFT Commenter:So you know what? I'm back in. I'm back in. Yeah, we're going back. Because I thought we were just going for a drive-by. I wasn't interested in a drive-by. I want to go on there. And then I want to go to Mars. Is that fair? Completely, yeah. Okay. What are you watching, Hank? oh i thought you were watching something i thought maybe it was like i'm very nervous about frankie fleetwood so i thought it was maybe part three part three is wednesday wednesday

1:13:46Big Cat:yeah now one thing we got to talk to max about later uh you're able to see everybody's practice range session like i can go up i can look up max homa's like every swing that he took on the practice range today okay that feels a little personal to me yeah that feels like an invasion of privacy yeah we'll have a word here no but it tells you like the ball speed how far it went where it went he was leaking his drives a little bit to the right oh no maybe intentionally maybe intentionally yeah i don't know what he's aiming at yeah it's like when i was doing mini golf i

1:14:20PFT Commenter:was trying my hardest try my hardest try my hardest uh okay let's get to our interviews we

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1:16:09PFT Commenter:okay we now welcome on a very very very very special guest recurring guest one of our favorites this time of year because golf is back the majors are back masters week We have Shane Bacon on the show, and he is going to be part of the feature groups on Masters.com this week, so definitely tune in. Shane, before we talk about golf, apologies to you. You're an Arizona Wildcat. That was disgusting. Not great. Never great whenever they play their worst game of the year on that level of stage. I will say the Bacon curse, if you will, is over. I went to Arizona in 02, and I went there between there and Syracuse because of the basketball team.

1:16:54If you remember, that was the year Syracuse won the national championship. Arizona had still never made a Final Four until this year. So it was finally nice to see them get to the Final Four.

1:17:04Big Cat:Yeah, they got back, and now the coach doesn't have a boss anymore, so that's good. Yeah, you're good. Tommy Lloyd. Yeah, he can just do whatever he wants. I heard some rumblings in the background about that, that it wasn't great. So I am very happy Tommy's staying around. And the hopes that maybe next year we can keep the run going. But, man, I love this team so much. It was such a bummer they got smoked like that.

1:17:24PFT Commenter:It is the worst when a special season ends like that. All right, so Masters Week. And now I have another question that's not about Masters Week, but it's obviously the biggest story right now in golf is Tiger Woods. Obviously, we saw that he's going to get hopefully some help. He gets arrested for the DUI. He's also become the most popular meme in the world. That meme has him, him, I was just talking to the president, all of it. It's got shelf life. It's going to be around for a long time. But my real question is, I heard all this stuff like Tiger was about to be the Ryder Cup captain. Tiger had, you know, he's going to play at the Masters this year.

1:18:03PFT Commenter:Is all that just on pause or is it maybe more significant that it's like, hey, he's no longer going to be the Ryder Cup captain. He's no longer going to be doing all these things. well I mean the rumors about Tiger being the Ryder Cup captain he's got a really good relationship with the guy that owns a dare manor where they're playing next year in Ireland I mean they've been friends for a long time so I think there was a little bit of kind of a handshake in the background of maybe Tiger being a big part of that because obviously that brings more eyeballs to an event that already has a ton of eyeballs but I'd heard Tiger didn't really want to do it I mean there's a lot of commitments you see how involved Luke Donald is on the European side it's basically become his life right right I don't think Tiger wanted to do a lot of the background media stuff things like that so I don't necessarily think he was going to do that anyway I think he was definitely in the conversation potentially to kind of be the face of it maybe have some people in the background kind of doing the workings that Luke Donald does on a day-to-day and week-to-week basis but I think to your point I think the pause is happening right now with the golf I mean obviously he's not going to play this week and he's taking time away and getting out of the country to work on himself and everything that's going on.

1:19:09That's not to say he won't play golf later this year. I mean, there's been a lot of talk around him potentially playing in the U.S. Senior Open with an opportunity. Nobody's ever won the U.S. Junior Amateur, U.S. Amateur, U.S. Open, and a U.S. Senior. And Tiger is a big history buff in terms of the golf stuff. So I think there's a focus on potentially playing in that at some point this summer. But right now, just the focus on working on himself, getting better, and obviously dealing with everything he's been dealing with.

1:19:35Big Cat:And I do feel like for the last couple years, if there's been any problems in golf, the solution has been like, we'll just get Tiger to do it. Right. Like whether it's, you know, like bringing the live golfers back, figuring out where the PGA's next direction is, TGL, or even the Ryder Cup. It's just like Tiger's going to help out next time and everything will be perfect after that happens. Yeah, he's still such a force.

1:19:55PFT Commenter:So it's like as much as we want him to get better, it does leave a void in the golf world when he's taking some time. Yeah, I mean, I think there's a level of pressure on his shoulders right now to make sure you're continuing to do this stuff. I mean, he went from the guy that hit the golf shots to now being the guy that's kind of making the decisions in the background. And all of that attention and kind of background movement with the PGA Tour and everything that's going on in terms of new scheduling and money moving around and signature events. I mean, you think about professional golf. I mean, this week is actually an outlier in terms of the focus simply being on golf and who's going to win and the excitement of watching a great golf tournament.

1:20:37But for the most part, over the last three, four years, most of the attention, it almost feels like the offseason with the NBA, where right now we care more about where players are going to get traded than the actual product on the court. And I feel like right now with golf, there's been a lot of pressure with living the PGA Tour. Now, obviously, that pressure has moved into what's the PGA Tour going to look like in the future and how's the schedule going to lay out? And I think so many of these eyeballs and players kind of focus on Tiger to lead the charge. And we joke a lot about this in the background.

1:21:06I mean, you guys know this. You can be an excellent golfer or basketball player. Doesn't mean you're going to be a great coach. Doesn't mean you're going to be a great GM. And we've seen plenty of superstars fail in that department. And so you are leaning on a guy to be this business savvy dude to do all of these things when maybe it's not what he's great at.

1:21:24Big Cat:So let me ask you, when it comes to the Ryder Cup, to use a football analogy, if you wanted to revolutionize offense, you wanted to find the next wrinkle in the game, you don't necessarily hire a guy that was a former quarterback or a great player. You're like Sean McVay. He was that young guy that had a different brain. Now a lot of the disciples from his coaching tree into that analytics mode. Who's the golf nerd that has the forward-thinking analytics brain that could do for the United States what Luke Donald's done? Yeah, I mean, the Europeans have Eduardo Molinari, who's probably a name you occasionally hear of, but I mean, a former professional golfer that has kind of become the stats guru for the European side.

1:22:04I'm not sure right now who that is on the American side. I think Paul Azinger was that to the previous generation. And I think the fact that they didn't keep bringing Paul back was a bit of a miss in terms of what the PGA of America could have done on the American side. You know, Zinger leaned heavily into people away from the game to kind of guide him in terms of coaching. But I'm not sure who that player is right now on the American side. I think we've kind of stuck players in their position, obviously going with Keegan last time. I mean, there's a lot of talk around guys like Brant Snedeker and Stewart Cink, potentially in terms of a dare manner.

1:22:36I wouldn't hate if they brought Zinger back and put him in that position to see what he can do now. But the one problem is the older you get, the more kind of distance you get from this generation. I think Zinger had a great relationship with those guys like Boo Weakley and Anthony Kim and those types of players. And I'm not sure he has that same relationship with these young 20-somethings that would, in theory, be on the team next year.

1:22:58PFT Commenter:Right. Okay. So, this week, let's start with big picture. The weather looks incredible. I feel like this is the first time in a long time that it looks just immaculate. But the story I've already heard, it's going to be very dry. So, break that down. Who is that going to help, and what does that mean when Augusta dries out? What type of players are going to have the advantage? I think more accuracy off the tee is going to be very, very big. I mean, that's not always the case at Augusta. You can spray it and get away with it. You know, Tiger, not the straightest hitter off the tee in terms of driving the golf ball, even in his prime, obviously had a lot of success here.

1:23:37Phil Mickelson, much of the same, even Jordan Spieth, who got off to such a great start early in his career here. Not a really straight driver of the golf ball. So I look at players that can hit it straight and find a lot of fairways because you're going to get that 15, 20, 30 yard run out when you do find the short stuff. And then I think it just goes back to iron play. This is always a second shot golf course. This is always the guys that are the most styled and most confident with their iron play. Guys like Scotty, guys like Rory, guys like Colin Morikawa, obviously, if he's 100 percent healthy.

1:24:05I look at that level of player that will have success because it's not necessarily going to be a birdie fest this week. I think this will be a lot more somebody shooting two, three under par is going to be a great score. And so I look more towards the great iron players and the guys that can find fairways over the type of players that can overpower the golf course.

1:24:22Big Cat:So you mentioned Scotty Scheffler being a great iron player. He is, but he's been bad this year. His irons have, well, bad for Scotty. Very bad. Right? He's been like pedestrian. PFT, I'd say bad for a pro golfer. Bad, bad. He's 82nd right now. Yeah, I mean, like, he's average on the PGA Tour this season with his irons. I mean, barely picking up shots against the field in terms of the strokes gain metric with the irons. This is a stat that he's led each of the last three seasons on the PGA Tour. I keep equating it to if Steph Curry started to miss free throws. And you'd kind of be looking around going, what's going on here?

1:24:56But the fact that he has been this inconsistent with the irons has been an issue. And it's the reason that the inconsistency has kind of followed him since that first win this season. So for Scottie to play great this week, the Irons have to at least get a little closer to what we've seen in previous iterations. He doesn't have to be the best in the field, but he's got to be top 10 to have a chance to win this. But he does get the new kid.

1:25:17PFT Commenter:The kid bumped Remy.

1:25:18Big Cat:Nine days ago. Remy might be a winner. So much.

1:25:22PFT Commenter:Remy's two weeks old and already gone to the Masters. Remy's at Augusta. What's perspective, like, what's the second layer of perspective, Big Cat? Like, you have three kids. What was your perspective after two? Mine changed after two. Yeah, I think two is definitely, like, less stress, like, because you just know the routine a little bit more. So I think it's maybe not as much of a pop for him, like, life-changing, you know? You already have a kid. You have your second. It's awesome, but it's also like, all right, we've done this. We know the playbook. so it might not help him that much. I would agree with you on that.

1:26:00Big Cat:Yeah. Remy's probably the youngest. A minimal bump. Yeah, minimal bump. You think Remy's the youngest patron in the history of Augusta? Has to be. Man, that's a great question. Two weeks? Is that what we're saying? Yeah. Two weeks? Nine days. Ten days. I'll dive into the history books. Yeah, maybe. There's probably been a baby that's been born at Augusta. I would imagine that's happened one time. Yeah. Yeah. That's definitely happened. And you've got to name that baby T. Olive. So out of the field this week, tell me if I'm crazy, but I have to bet on my friends. I always bet on Max Homa, always bet on Brooks Koepka.

1:26:34Big Cat:I've developed a fascination with watching Jake Knapp swing a golf club. So I have to continue to bet on him. Does he have any chance at all? Because his swing, it's like you're meditating when you watch it. It's like Freddie Couples. It's beautiful to see. Does my guy Jake Knapp have any shot this week? you know i think he has a an opportunity do i think he's a five top five favorite of mine no but i think he's definitely got a potential to do something i do feel like we are trending towards a quote-unquote random winner here at the masters you think about the recent trend in terms of all these superstars winning around here i mean you have two scotty wins you got john rom in there obviously rory last season there's kind of been this incredible run over the last few years of kind of big names winning here, much like what we see at the players.

1:27:21And we have seen at times random players pop up and win. I like Jake Knapp a little bit. I like Akshay in terms of players off the board. I like Patrick Reed a lot, again, to potentially pick up a second green jacket. I actually have for you guys, I wrote down my five best case master scenarios, if you want me to go through. Yes, I love that. I love this. Okay. I thought about you guys as I did this. So at number five, I have Patrick Reed winning. I mean, listen, it would be interesting. It would be fun. But I don't know if we've talked enough in terms of golf, especially with you guys, about some of the players leaving Liv.

1:28:00I was doing the math. Liv at one point had 13 major champions on their tour. I mean, obviously, they've now lost two with Brooks leaving and with Reed leaving. And this guy leaves Liv, and then he's just absolutely dominating the European tour. He's won twice, lost in a playoff. He's leading the race to Dubai right now, which is basically their version of the FedEx Cup. So he's been the best player in Europe, and he also has the best resume at Augusta basically over the last five years when you look at where he's finished, came close last season. So Reed at number five. Again, it would just be funny.

1:28:34Rory giving Patrick Reed the green jacket. I think that would be something people at home would be interested in. Agreed.

1:28:39Big Cat:Yeah, check your pockets, Rory, after you put the jacket on him. Yes. All right, number four, I thought of you guys. This is my all PMT final round, Brooks versus Max in the final pairing. PFT's got his kind of Donna Kelsey jersey going as he's watching the final round. I think that would be fun. Brooks trying to win a third different major. Max trying to exercise the demons from 2024. Is that best case scenario for you guys? No. I don't think I could watch. You talk about Donna Kelsey. I would be too nervous to see.

1:29:12PFT Commenter:Yeah, best case scenario for us is just one of those two wins. Like, I don't – Do you want them to win by a lot or do you want it to be stressful? Win by a decent amount because then – I would say actually win by a lot because then we can make T-shirts. Yeah, good point. Yeah, no, I mean Hank would have the T-shirts ready to go before the turn. Shane, are you familiar with that? What year was this, 2020? Whatever day – whatever year it was the big rainstorm. John Rahm's year.

1:29:38Big Cat:Yeah, the year John Rahm won. Yeah, the rain fucked us, and I think Brooks was in the lead during the rain delay, and then Hank made up congrats Brooks t-shirts. And from that point on, just absolutely nothing good happened. Yeah, he did. He jinxed it. Do you have those shirts anywhere? Like, is there anyone laying around? I can find them. I don't know. The way Barstool works is pretty much any team that wins a championship or is close, like, you kind of have to be prepared. So I was just, you know.

1:30:03PFT Commenter:Yeah, it was round three, but yeah. It was Sunday. No, it wasn't. It was Saturday. It was Saturday. He was in the final group on Sunday. It was Saturday. I know it was Saturday. And we all had futures on it. Either way. I like that you guys are. Yeah, go ahead. I was just going to say, I like the way that you guys are on Hank for doing his job. I mean, Hank's doing his job. Thank you, Shane. Can't exist. Do my job in trouble. Don't do my job in trouble. How much golf have you guys played today? Yeah, this is, I feel like something's up here. Either way, I think that's the answer. By the way, I got something for Hank in a little bit.

1:30:38I got something for Hank a little bit that he's going to like. But, yeah, just get the shirts made now. Why don't you just get the shirts now? Brooks, 2026 Masters champion. And you don't have to sleep on it on Saturday night. Yeah, easy enough.

1:30:50PFT Commenter:Okay, so that eliminates Brooks from all contentions. All right, number three, I got Gary Woodland winning. Obviously, I think this is the one that would be the most emotional. I'm sure you guys followed the whole journey at Houston with the brain surgery and PTSD. He obviously opened up about that. This guy is second on the PGA Tour in driving distance this year at the age of 41. He's averaging 324 yards off the tee. Obviously played great last time out. Said it's the best he's played in his career. And a fun little sidebar for Gary Woodland. If he won a major, if he won at Augusta, he'd have a major at Pebble in Augusta.

1:31:24Only Jack Tiger and Tom Watson have done that. So Gary Woodland, kind of the feel-good story in my list. Number two is Spieth being tied for the lead with nine holes to play on Sunday. now you're focusing on you with this this is just i just want it i want it in my bloodstream big cat do you ever do stuff with your kids and you think back to when you were young and you think like how the hell did i just do this stuff i think about the trampoline a lot yeah in this world like how was i so like easy going on the trampoline and now it makes me so nervous yes definitely

1:31:58PFT Commenter:big time big time yeah trampoline is a big one yeah yeah it's in like I do it a lot and it makes me I feel uncomfortable I used to do flips now obviously I don't I'm 42 years old I feel this way about Jordan Spieth being in contention at a major championship like that's kind of like jumping on a trampoline as a kid like how did I go through this emotionally how was I able to handle it how did I go through the swings and I just feel like this new era of golf fan needs to feel that at a major championship. So Jordan Spieth with nine holes to play, understanding what all that feels like, because it's not easy.

1:32:34It's not like he shoots even on the back and wins. He'll make two birdies and an eagle and a triple, and it'll be completely crazy.

1:32:40Big Cat:I thought you were going to go with the angle for Jordan Spieth. When he was younger, he was not thinking about how nervous he should be, and now when he plays, that's where his brain goes. He's become a dad to himself on the course. Probably in some regard. He probably thinks a little bit about it. He's actually played pretty good golf this season, by the way. I think Jordan Spieth is – I mean, if there's such a thing as a champion, as a sleeper, I think Jordan Spieth is a relative sleeper considering it's been more consistent. It hadn't been great, but there's been more consistency. And then my number one scenario is Rory versus Bryson Sunday.

1:33:12Bryson wins. I just think that's a lot of fun. Rory, Bryson again.

1:33:16PFT Commenter:I had a question about that because I actually think now that our beef is over with Bryson, it's been a couple years now. I actually kind of like Bryson in this tournament. He was close. He kind of blew it last year. He didn't finish second, but he blew it last year where he had a little stretch. It was like, hey, Bryson is going to maybe be contending here. And it was the Rory story took away from everyone else who finished below him. I feel like this is a revenge spot for Bryson. And maybe the dryness helps his shot game, his profile? I mean, if he's in it straight off the tee, it can very much help him because he'll have short irons into the par fives, which will be extremely beneficial.

1:33:58Typically, you've got to dominate the par fives around Augusta National to contend and win. But I'm with you. I think Bryson's my pick, Big Cat, this week. I mean, the way he's played this season, a couple of top six finishes in his last two starts, obviously came close last year, but felt what Sunday at Augusta feels like when you have a chance to win. But I mean, he's won twice on live, and one of them was the playoff over Jon Rahm where he hit a three-wood from 290 to 12 feet in the mud to win. And, I mean, Bryson's playing great, and I'm with you. I think Bryson has a real opportunity to come back out and get it going once again.

1:34:29Big Cat:Do you think that the fact that Rory won last year makes it more likely that he'll be in contention again this year because he's kind of like playing free? He doesn't have to think about it all the time. Or do you think it's going to be more like a victory lap for Rory? I think it all comes down to Thursday, PFT. I think with Rory, it's how he plays in the opening round. I mean, he's been dreadful, if we're being honest, on Thursdays in his career at the Masters. Hasn't shot in the 60s on a Thursday since 2018. His scoring average in the opening round in his last seven Masters, 73.14. I think Thursday tells us a lot about how engaged Rory is.

1:35:04Obviously, he wants to win. I mean, not many people have won back-to-back green jackets at Augusta. The last to do it was Tiger in 0-1-0-2. I mean, I think he understands the history of it, but I think we'll see, obviously, the back injury. Who knows how he feels in terms of health-wise. He'll tell us he feels great, but obviously, when you get under the gun, and we'll see how he's feeling in terms of the physical nature of it. I kind of like Rory a little bit. I kind of lean a little bit on could he freewheel it a little bit more? Obviously, understanding if he plays terrible, who cares? I mean, it's not like we're going to be grinding Rory on Sunday night if he doesn't get himself in contention.

1:35:36But I think going out there and just being able to hit driver all over the place and maybe try to make a lot of birdies and an Eagles on a tough golf course could play into his hands a little bit more.

1:35:45Big Cat:Have they checked his driver? Is he going to be allowed to use an illegal one like he did last year? i i i'm hearing i'm hearing it's it's legal at this point but i mean this is you know we're recording this on a monday so who knows how bouncy it'll be on a wednesday i have something else for you guys if you want to hear it let me know if you're ready for no i love it let's go so so i wrote this today these are holes at augusta national that fit the personality of y 'all's show oh okay so i like this shane i i thought i thought you guys might might be into this so we're going to start at the 13th.

1:36:17Obviously, everybody knows the 13th. Fame par five, one of the most famous holes in the world. This hole is Big Cat, kind of the heartbeat of the program. Keeps it on the tracks for the most part. Makes some incredible points at times. Can make some horrible points at times. But I'd say for the most part, people look forward to 13. They love having Big Cat around. And he's just continued to rise in terms of popularity over the years. I think the 12th is Max. Simple yet complicated. can blow up on anyone at any point on any given day. You know, I think you look at it and you see kind of this sweet little boy, just like you look at 12 and you think it's a wedge or a non-iron, yet all of a sudden you're making a seven when you walk away.

1:37:00So 13 Big Cat, 12 is max. I like that. PFT, I got you at 15. I got you as the 15th of par five if you're okay with that.

1:37:08Big Cat:Yeah, I mean, yeah, sure. I thought you were going to pick a short one, but that's fine. Well, no, no, I think that's low-hanging fruit. I wasn't going to do that to you. The 15th is a brilliant golf hole. And I find you a brilliant human being. Half the fairway is basically a no-go if you miss it on the left side. We saw Rory battle that last season. The green is really enticing. If you get cute, you can make a bogey. And there's a ton of history at 15. You think about the bridge, PFT, I know you're a big history buff. So I feel like 15 is you. A couple of par fives are the big boys on the show.

1:37:42And then, Hank, I look at you as the 14th hole. kind of stuck between two superstars yet you have your moments all the time um i think the green is extremely underrated much like i find you extremely underrated on this program uh and i think there's some great stuff that happens at the 14th each and every year especially with some of the whole locations over the weekend um so hank is 14 i got zach is seven oh kind of easy to forget about seven yeah i feel like zach i mean i know a lot of people don't sleep on this guy anymore but early into his career, kind of easy to sleep on him. It's a sneaky hole.

1:38:16It's got better over time, much like Zach has. It's actually gotten longer and kind of more creative over time. I feel like Zach early on was every now and again, maybe once a week he'd pop in. Now obviously he's on YouTube all the time. I mean, I'm assuming he's probably got his own brand at this point. Probably got an agent. Zach, you got an agent or no?

1:38:37PFT Commenter:Agentless. Yeah. Happy to be on the team. Yeah. Well, for now. Wait till we get through this week. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, people are going to be blowing up the phone. So I got Zach as the seventh hole. I find Zach one of my – I find the seventh one of my favorite holes at the golf course, and I find Zach one of my favorite characters in sports podcasting. And then the 18th is memes because we've had a lot of memes come out of the 18th. Yes. Think about Scottie sitting down at 18 last year, all the winning moments, both the good ones and the awkward ones. The 18th is memes. So those are my breakdowns of the holes at Augusta National as you guys on the show.

1:39:12I love it.

1:39:12PFT Commenter:And also, I want to say thank you, Shane, because you should have seen Memes' smile there. Because he was, you know, in the back of his head, he's like, am he going to forget me? Is he going to make me, you know, the Hooters parking lot at Augusta? No, you get 18, Memes. There you go. So that was great. I love that. Final hole where all the action happens. Hardest T-Shot in golf. You basically just did like a children's book for how to learn about Augusta for us. You talked to us like we're four years old and we loved it. You dumbed it down as much as possible. Like you truly know this show. The two ways to explain something to us is dumb it down and compliment us.

1:39:52PFT Commenter:And we'll be like, oh shit, we know that.

1:39:55Big Cat:Also like maybe show a picture of boobs while you're saying it.

1:39:57PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah. That was great, Toshin. Tough to do this week. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So let's break down real quick. Can you maybe give us your pick amongst the favorites and then a couple long shots and maybe state a case on why they could potentially win it? Yeah, so I mentioned Bryson. He's going to be my pick this week. I was kind of leaning heavily on Patrick Reed for a long time with the way he got out of the gate, but I'm just going to go Bryson. I think this is his year. He's one of those guys that seems to get better, as he understands golf courses. He played great. I mean, you forget how good he played as an amateur, you know, when he won the U.S.

1:40:36Amateur and then played here alongside Jordan Spieth. I think that was 2016. I mean, he had a chance to be near the top of the leaderboard through 36 holes. I think he made triple on 18 on Friday afternoon to kind of lose steam and then he finished low amateur that week. But Bryson is a history buff and loves this place and understands the importance of it. I think there's added incentive to go out there and do it considering what happened last season, you know, to exercise the demons, if you will. I mentioned Patrick Reed, though. You know, listen, we love watching dudes bombing off the tee. Brooks, Bryson, Rory, guys like that.

1:41:09Patrick Reed's a bit of a throwback in terms of the way he does it. Doesn't hit it really straight off the tee. As I mentioned earlier, kind of important to find fairways this week. But I go back to the Zach Johnson Masters when he won. This golf course played really, really tough. You've got to pitch the ball well if you're going to get around Augusta when it plays firm. And I think Patrick Reed has some of the best hands in the world. and I think the way he's played this season, he's got a ton of confidence. I don't love the new sponsorship. I don't love rolling into a new week with a new sponsor hat, but I don't think that stuff affects Patrick Reed.

1:41:39I like Patrick Reed with the potential to win and as I mentioned, Akshay, he hits a lot of fairways. Akshay's not super long, but he drives it incredibly straight. He's a left-handed golfer. A lot of lefties have had success around Augusta National and the putter this season has been incredible. Even outside of the victory, he's playing some of the most consistent golf of anybody in the world. So I'd say Oxchey's kind of my pick down the board, if you will, and Reid and Bryson are near the top, who I like this week.

1:42:06Big Cat:Okay, I like it a lot. I have a question for you about a controversy at Augusta this year. The gnomes. This is the last year that they're selling the gnomes at Augusta? Oh, no. What happened? Why are we taking the gnomes off the market? I thought they were wildly popular. You know what? You present them to people. You see them get popular. People love them. They get obsessed with them. And then you move on to something else. That's what the Masters does great. They don't stick with one thing. They're always introducing new food. They got a candy bar this year. I haven't tried it yet, but I'll try it out.

1:42:36What? Wait, whoa, whoa. I'll report back and let you guys know how it is. They're making their own candy bar?

1:42:40PFT Commenter:Back up. You can't just go. How did you not leave the show with that? New food item. Candy bar? They made a candy bar? New food item called candy bar. It's called candy bar or it's a candy bar? No, no, no. It's called candy bar. That's the name of it. Candy bar. But is it a candy bar? Candy bar. Yeah, yeah, Candy Bar named Candy Bar. That's awesome. So here's what I'll do. How come nobody thought of that before now? I got to see if they can ship. I mean, you know, I think the peach ice cream sandwich is such a winner every year that they don't lean heavily into the sweets. But I'll see if these things can ship.

1:43:15And if so, I'll grab a few and ship them to the fellas. And you guys can let me know how the candy bar tastes. That would be amazing.

1:43:20PFT Commenter:I think it's dark chocolate. I don't like dark chocolate. Oh, dark milk chocolate blended with caramel rice crisps and hazelnut crunch. You don't like milk chocolate? You talk about sweets every show. I said dark chocolate. Dark chocolate, I don't like. I like milk chocolate. Okay.

1:43:34Big Cat:Yeah.

1:43:36PFT Commenter:Okay.

1:43:37Big Cat:I like dark chocolate and milk chocolate.

1:43:38PFT Commenter:Do you eat dark chocolate, though? Oh, yeah. Eat it. I'm not saying I'm not going to eat it, but I just don't. It's basically medicine.

1:43:45Big Cat:Dark chocolate will cure you of a heart attack.

1:43:47PFT Commenter:Yeah.

1:43:47Big Cat:It's super healthy.

1:43:48PFT Commenter:Yeah. It's very healthy.

1:43:50Big Cat:Yeah. So we had a candy bar, no gnome. I saw that the gnome was being sold for like$10 ,000 on eBay. so my thought was that the popularity of these things is wild my theory was that uh the the fine people at augustan national saw people freaking out over this gnome so much and they said let's this is a bit much for augustan national people are acting like wild animals for these things it's too popular so we're going to take it away i think i think it blew up i will say that the did you guys see the umbrella like comes off and you can adjust it for the the 2026 iteration of the gnome yeah that's uh attention to detail but yeah i mean yeah i think you can only get one this year as well i think that's that's a new rule so um they're obviously kind of uh they understand the popularity listen they've got the finger on the pulse with with what's going on in the merch area right uh hank i'm sure you've got some questions yeah i was just gonna ask about out the lefties and you talked about actually a little bit but but between him bobby mack harman matt mccarty i don't know bubba bubba and mike weir i think are the other ones what other bob bobby mack is my is a dark horse that i'm looking at does he have a path yeah i think i think he definitely does i mean i think he's one of those guys coming off his best major season of his career a couple top tens came close obviously at oakmont when you look at players that play well at oakmont typically similar players that play well at augusta and bobby mack has been a guy that i think in tougher conditions he seems to shine so i think bobby mack is a really great sleeper pick.

1:45:19Hank, I've said a lot of compliments to you today. I probably need to insult you as I get off the show. I like Matt McCarty as well. You know, Matt played great last season. First Masters for him. I think it's a golf course he likes a lot. I've talked to him a bit about Augusta and how much he kind of fell in love with the place. I mean, it's easy to love the golf course, but as a player, I think sometimes it takes a little bit of time to understand it. And he was, you know, near the top of the leaderboard on Saturday, had a chance to really get himself in contention. He missed out on the auto invite last year by one shot and then plays his way into it this year.

1:45:49So I like McCarty as well. I'd say if you went Akshay, Bobby Mack, Matt McCarty, like a three-play in terms of one of those guys winning, I think you'd probably get good value on that, and I like all three of those guys.

1:46:02PFT Commenter:Nice. Good question, Hank. Any other questions? Do you have something else for Hank? I mean, I like Hank a lot. Lefty Lockwood. Here's a question. Wait, so are we lefty 100 % now, Hank, or no? Good question. Good question. Great question. Yeah, I mean, mentally, yes. So you'll be putting lefty in our mini golf tournament. I will never. I am swinging left-handed clubs and a right-handed putter. So I'm not 100 % lefty. Okay, my dad did that for a while. The other way, my dad went righty golf or lefty putter for a while. Didn't work out great for him. Why the putting lefty? The putting righty. uh it just doesn't like when i switch when i when i switch to swinging lefty that felt natural kind of from the beginning putting never felt natural it doesn't feel natural at all and i i just like i don't see the vision long term of switching to lefty like it just feels very weird in the opposite of the way that like swinging lefty feels pretty natural and and putting ready it's not power as a lefty golfer sounds like the power that's the hardest thing when you switch it's way stronger I hit it farther.

1:47:12Really? Yeah, since the beginning.

1:47:14Big Cat:Wow, interesting.

1:47:15PFT Commenter:Well, he didn't hit that far as a right hand.

1:47:17Big Cat:He didn't know how to move his hips when he was hitting right-handed. He's unlocked the hips. It looks smooth. Hank, have you talked to Tron Carter at No Laying Up about this? No, I've seen. I've watched his videos. I watched his videos in some of the podcasts. Did he do this? Yeah, he did it for like a year. He's really the only one. I've done a lot of research, and he's pretty much the only person who's like done something similar. How'd it go for him? Well, there was a guy named Mack O 'Grady. There was a guy named Mack O 'Grady back in the day that tried to apply to qualify for the U.S. Open as a righty and a lefty.

1:47:51I think he tried to apply as a lefty as like Mack O 'Grady too, and the USGA wouldn't allow him. But the rumor was he was an incredible lefty golfer. Obviously, he was a very, very good righty golfer. And then Vijay apparently is a scratch golfer as a lefty. So there have been people that can dip there. I mean, obviously pro golfers can dip their toe in it, but in terms of the everyday man, yeah, I mean, there's not a lot of guys that will fully commit to the opposite side.

1:48:16Big Cat:You got this, Hank. You got to fully commit as a man, though, to the opposite side.

1:48:19PFT Commenter:Yeah, including starting this week with our mini golf tournament. I'm not putting lefty. I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, so you're not fully committed. So, yeah, the answer's no shame. You'll never fully commit. As a man, you're a boy. That's fine. Lots of people. There's so many people that putt the opposite way. Yeah, there's a lot of boys out there. It's okay, boys.

1:48:36Big Cat:A lot of little boys. Boys are fine. Yeah. Now, Hank, has there been any thought to the note of a gay thing where you have the bullseye putter and you put lefty and righty, depending on how the putt breaks? Not that many. Not that. No. No, there hasn't. Sorry. I'm stuck on PFT.

1:48:55PFT Commenter:Yeah, PFT just said he's attracted to little boys. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

1:48:58Big Cat:I did not say that. I said it's fine. Little boys are fine. I was saying it's fine to be a boy like Hank and not a man like us. And then he said boys are great.

1:49:05PFT Commenter:No, you said little boys are fine.

1:49:06Big Cat:No, I didn't say little. I never said little, I don't think. Yeah. I think I just said boys are fine. It didn't sound good. I'm not here to argue in favor of saying boys are fine. You should not say that. But I didn't say little boys are great.

1:49:18PFT Commenter:Oh, so you're just saying little is the difference?

1:49:20Big Cat:I'm saying that Hank is being a little boy, and that's okay. It's fine. It's okay. Have you guys ever been to the Masters? Little boys are fine.

1:49:28PFT Commenter:Have any of you guys been to the Masters before?

1:49:29Big Cat:No, we gotta go. I don't think they would appreciate this type of conversation.

1:49:33PFT Commenter:no the problem is we do our mini golf tournament the week of the master we i do want to go we we have to one year just say fuck it we're going and do it yeah i i would like to go but also it's

1:49:44Big Cat:i don't know that they let us i don't know what that means we've said a lot of things no yeah yeah they let us i mean but you guys are also like you love you love the golf tournament you guys are golf fans yeah i mean hank's like the biggest golfer i know yeah by far oh i have a question for you shane what would happen literally cover golf shane yeah if uh if hypothetically fair enough a guy that's like favored to win the tournament what if he slept in and missed his tea time on thursday i mean i mean dunzo that's just immediately thank you if you're one minute late one minute late disqualified for the entire day entire weekend yeah for the entire for the entire tournament yeah you miss your tea time i mean that was the whole rider cup thing with rory where he got the police escort and was rushing to his tee time.

1:50:29I mean, if you miss a tee time, you're done. You're done for that tournament.

1:50:33PFT Commenter:Wow. That's crazy. All right, Shane, I got one last question for you. Roback question. R-H-O-B-A-C-K.com. Promo code TAKE. 20 % off your first purchase. Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com. Promo code TAKE. I think they actually have the Azalea collection right now on Roback. So go Roback.com. Set it. Go right now. Last question for you. Have you ever won the media raffle to play? No, I have not. Have you entered every year? I haven't in the last few years, but early in my writing blogging days, back in the blogging era, I would enter. But no, never got the tap. Not at this point.

1:51:14PFT Commenter:Did you enter this year? No, I have not. Oh, come on. Get yourself in there. I didn't even bring my sticks down. I know that's sad to say, but this is a busy time of year for me. I've got two little kids. You know, like, I mean, my wife called me today. Kid's got pink eye already. Like, an extra day, even with this on the horizon, it's like I need to get back and be a human in the household. Oh, that's fair. As much as I'd love to get involved, I feel like that's – I've learned, Big Cat, even if you're in the golf space, telling your partner that you're staying somewhere to play golf doesn't play well.

1:51:56Facts. Facts. Yeah. I've learned that that doesn't go over.

1:52:00PFT Commenter:I just love the media lottery just when someone wins who's never golfed and everyone gets so upset. It's like, well, that was the point of the lottery. It's the best. You go in the lottery, and if you win it, you get the lottery. You can't be mad at someone for winning it. Yeah. It's awesome. And there's a second lottery this year, I believe. the new course that they just opened, the municipal course here, I believe it's called the patch, there's a second lottery for media to get an opportunity to play that. And I think those have already, the names have already been announced. And they're saying there's going to be no kind of overlap, if you will, but it'll be interesting to see if somebody gets both, you know, gets the double dip.

1:52:37Big Cat:Yeah. And another big story, maybe bigger than the Masters tournament itself, is Wednesday, will Tommy Fleetwood's son be able to clear the water this year? That's a Great question. You've got to get the quote, right? You've got to get the mic in front of him. Just have him be part of the broadcast. Yeah. I mean, he is a quote machine.

1:52:55PFT Commenter:He's got to get over. I think he might be a couple years away. No, he's got it.

1:53:00Big Cat:You think so? Yeah, yeah.

1:53:01PFT Commenter:Absolutely.

1:53:02Big Cat:When is Charlie Woods going to play? So what is he going to college now? I mean, you know, when a U.S. amateur, make a championship, a U.S. amateur, could get him in. So let's say over under four and a half years maybe. is probably a fair assessment.

1:53:18PFT Commenter:Easy. Is he on track to be a pro? Like, people talking about it, or no? I mean, it's hard to say on track to be a pro. He's a really, really, really good junior golfer. Obviously, getting an opportunity to go play at a very good school. And he's the one AJGA tournaments. You know, I mean, the AJGA is the PGA Tour junior golf, and that's where the elite of the elite compete and play. And winning AJGA tournaments is a great sign. I mean, dominating them, obviously, is a better sign. I mean, guys, you know, I do the Corn Fairy Tour, you know, all year long. And you go through, like, every KFT player's bio.

1:53:54And they're like, AJGA Player of the Year won five times in college, right? I mean, all these guys are absolute studs in their respective areas of the world. But, I mean, I think he's on a great trajectory to be a very good golfer. I mean, to be a pro is another sign. And who knows what a pro means. You could play Corn Fairy Tour golf, mini tour. You could pop up and down to the PGA Tour. But I definitely am very impressed with his ability to play, considering the weight on the shoulders of his name. And I think he's got a great kind of mindset about it. Like he even, you know, he finished last at the Invitational, which is the biggest junior tournament in golf at Sage Valley.

1:54:30And I love the post he wrote where he was congratulating his teammate on winning it, saying how pumped he was to get the invite. And obviously didn't play great. So I don't know. I mean, I'd love to see him play it. I mean, obviously the weight of it is going to be heavy, but I love that he's kind of committed to this. and he's going to go play college golf.

1:54:46Big Cat:And what's the deal with the amateurs that can regain their amateur status? How does that work? Because I read about a couple guys this year where, like, you can be a pro and then you can say, psych, I'm not good enough to be a pro, so I'd rather just play as an amateur. That guy's from Chicago. All right, so let me say this. I need to preface this by saying this. I played pro golf, now, poorly, but I played mini tour golf for two or three years back in my 20s in Arizona. So I actually had to go through the process of getting my amateur status back. And it took me a number of years to do it. I mean, I didn't make any money as a pro.

1:55:22So it wasn't like I was some PGA Tour winner. But the USGA has made it easier to get your status back. It's basically like a six-month to a year process of asking for reinstatement and committing to play an amateur golf. But if you look at, for instance, the USGA Mid-Am, which if you win that event, you get an invite into the Masters. that is a ton of players that were pro golfers that are now back to playing amateur golf so it's a little iffy if you will i wish the process was a little bit longer i wish it was a couple years still to get your amateur status back but it is definitely making amateur golf a lot more competitive especially like the mid-am golf life where you're playing wingfoot and pine valley and seminal and all these places that have these elite elite mid-am golf tournaments what do you have to

1:56:09Big Cat:do to prove that you're you're an amateur now you have to be like hey i'm not as good as i thought that i was like you have to post scores that aren't that great i i think it's more money earning i think it's more like i'm not earning money now and i'm committing to not earning money going forward i think that's a little bit more of of that space and taking a time break between playing pro golf and then playing amateur golf but like i said that window's a lot shorter now than it used to be no there's a guy in the masters this year that won the mid-am that's like from illinois that's a real estate agent he's like 40 years old that's sick and oh i saw this yeah he was he kind of did a simple so good and yeah he doesn't yeah great story the guy does not look like a golfer no i saw a picture of nothing about him he's like what looks like a guy that's playing in the masters it's like yeah i'm a real estate agent you play basketball yeah i put my clubs away for four months a year and like but i think it was a similar thing where he was a pro very a long time ago didn't make any money and now he's just like a real estate agent that's sick at golf that's awesome what a brandon holtz is his name i believe yeah he won one one at true true north or true country club um this past season in the in the mid-am uh yeah played college basketball i believe and then got into golf and obviously that was kind of the outlet for competitiveness which i still find amazing that people can like steph curry that's like a scratch golfer and a shot you know under par in a professional event i find the crossover stuff is something maybe we don't celebrate enough when guys are able to be relatively elite at something else outside of what they grew up playing.

1:57:41PFT Commenter:Yeah. Okay, Shane, you're the best. We love having you on. Thank you. Also, incredible job giving us those holes. Yeah. We really appreciate it. And have a great Masters week, and we look forward to talking to you for the rest of the major tournaments. So we'll talk to you in a month. Anytime. Love you, boys.

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1:59:38PFT Commenter:Okay, we now welcome on a very very very very special guest on a very very special week And he's our very good friend. It is max homo master's week max we're pumped up i'm sure you're pumped up how are you feeling mentally ready to go are you go are we gonna are we gonna win this thing we might win this thing i i say we shock the world and win the thing um i've been thinking a lot about it uh i feel like i feel like not winning is less fun than winning yeah so i'm kind of just gonna go for it yeah yeah you know what you should do you should be like uh michigan basketball shock the world i don't know if you saw they were shocked they shocked everybody yeah let's shock the world let's let's do that with a massive nil who was the best team all year won and i was utterly shocked nobody believed in

2:00:27Big Cat:yeah it's just it's amazing the nine starters in that room they're all we got i wonder if they'll still be talking about this in a decade when they're all first team all nba saying man remember when we shocked the world yeah max i don't want to sound like a stalker or anything um but But the Masters now has a new feature on the app where you can watch somebody's range time. Does that feel like an invasion of privacy? Because I went and I found the balls that you hit. And I could see every shot that you hit today. And I felt dirty doing that. Like I shouldn't know. There's some things that guys just shouldn't know about other guys.

2:01:04Big Cat:And to me, like the range session seems sacrosanct. I don't know if you've given any thought to that. It does a little. now that i know like now that we know that it happens because they do it somewhere else as well i think maybe the players but you start to worry a bit about your spreads like if you just hit like one stinker you're like ah that's gonna look like an outlier like the end of my practice today my coach was having me like pick different targets so like one was like very far left one was very far right and i was in the back of my mind i was thinking i was like some people are gonna think i'm sucking pretty bad yeah we don't have access like it's the guys that try to uh like break down quarterback film on Twitter, but they don't know what the playbook is.

2:01:40Big Cat:There was, there were a couple of shots when you were hitting your driver. There's like those two channels that you can hit into. Yes. You were going down the middle sometimes. I don't know if that was leaking right or if that was the target. It was absolutely, that was the target. Maybe not all the time. That's a lie. Maybe not all the time, but we had like three. Yeah. We went like right fairway, middle fairway, left fairway a lot, and then tried to hit in the left two bunkers a few times. So that's what I'm saying, dude. I can't promise you that the one you saw wasn't a bad one. But, yes, we were hitting it all over the yard, and now I am even more self-conscious to know someone was seeing all that.

2:02:16Big Cat:It's just PFT. It's just me. It's probably literally just me. There's a lot of sickos out there that I'm sure – I was doing it just for the novelty of it, and I felt kind of dirty. I closed my phone real fast, and I put it across the room. It's icky. Yeah, I don't want to do that again. But it does feel like it's too much information at times.

2:02:33PFT Commenter:We should spin it. It's like comforting. Like when, when you think you're alone, your friends are there. My boys are there. You see me hit a bad shot. You pour one out for me. Yeah. You're thinking of me. That sounds actually kind of nice. I will say there's a, some app my friends have, and I guess you can like, every time you upload a golf score, they like share. And I didn't know anything about this. And my buddy, Steven was like, tell me all about it. And you know, they share their scores and he's like, it's pretty creepy. Cause you know, every time someone golfs, like Hank would have four a day.

2:02:58Big Cat:Yeah. And, uh, but it was great because he showed me our buddy, I think it was Warner. played uh like whatever post his score and shot in the 90s or whatever so he didn't know i was with steve and i just text him hey dude you suck at golf today it was perfect he's like oh fucking steven showed you my scores like that felt icky to me i i shouldn't have been privy to that information yeah just helping out your friends it's like big brothers everywhere the surveillance state has infiltrated the masters now uh but but it was honestly it was kind of interesting just to see the different shots that guys were hitting to warm up.

2:03:32Big Cat:I think it's cool, yeah. Yeah. How does the course look? I know the weather's going to be beautiful this week. Does the course look any different to you? It is like – no, it doesn't look different. It's pretty dry. It's one of those things that Gus likes to trick the players even into this false sense of hope. And with the weather, I have a feeling that tomorrow will be a little bounce here, and then I think Thursday's going to be aggressively firm by the end of the day uh they have a way of doing that and they've gotten like very good weather for it so i have a feeling they're kind of like waiting waiting waiting and then you know we they close the course tomorrow afternoon wednesday afternoon around like two or three so nobody can see it really late and i think that's when they start like

2:04:15PFT Commenter:sucking the water out of the ground yeah and it's going to be dry i saw that like it's perfect weather for the next four days what does that what does that do like in terms of your approach because I'm an idiot. I don't really understand golf. Is it higher shots? Is it knowing that you hit the green and it might roll off? How do you approach that stuff? I think angles start to matter way more when it's firm like that. You look at holes like, we're going to get real nerdy, but you look at holes like two. If you have a left pin on two, even if you can't get to the green, you've got to go way right.

2:04:54So then when you pitch it across the green you have a chance to stop the ball uh obviously high is gonna help i mean the reason like rory and scotty and rom have played so well there is because they are you know really obviously great golfers but they hit the ball really hard and high so that helps it stop but i also just think in general with the lack of wind because the last year has been super windy the lack of wind i think will make it um you'll see like a good like a spread of like who's playing really well and who's playing not well because you can't you can almost fake it easier at this golf course when it's really hard because like nobody can play it well so it's just really difficult yeah but when it's playing with like kind of the wind down really good shots get rewarded way more but with how firm it is they better be really fucking good shots so i think you'd see like a lot of great iron players uh play well um this week just given how it's going to be a bit like uh target practice in a way but like how it's got to be really really sharp target practice right

2:05:50PFT Commenter:so we we've had having you on before the masters for i think since 2021 when i uh when i asked the kind of mean question where i was like can you win it um i wait for it every year yeah no no no but this is let me land the plane here that year you you didn't make the cut then you finished 48th then you finished 43rd i feel like people don't give you enough credit you finished third at the masters yeah almost and last year you finished 12th like does it feel like you have at least figured out the course a little bit because this feels like everything i've read about the masters it's like you have to play it a few times before you can actually get good at it and if you look at your career at the masters it feels like you have gotten to a point where you feel comfortable on this course and you're putting up really good scores and competing for first yeah i will say that uh my third was awesome but last year i was playing like dog nuts coming into it and i played awful here but i like definitely to answer your question think i like learned where to leave it and learned certain golf shots that you could take on and certain that i wasn't going to if i wasn't playing well so last year's 12th was like significantly more shocking than the year fourth third so i do think that you figured out a little bit it's it's a it is the one of the most amazing golf course you'll ever play but it is goofy like it's it's got like some crazy golf shots that you'd never hit in your life so i do think that like getting some familiarity with it is uh good but at the end of the day like i said when you're hitting those second shots in the greens like you just got to hit them good so you can make all the stink you want about how you got to know it and be comfortable in this and that but there's just certain golf shots that you just got to execute on it's hard as shit um but i do think that getting more comfy being here is helpful because it's a it's an intimidating place yeah why don't you be walking around in green jackets that you know have billions of dollars yeah yeah you know it's just why it's a wild spot yeah and do you do you have more confidence i would assume this is the answer but do you have more confidence going into this year knowing like last year like you said like you you were coming in a mess and you were able to fight your way through it and you fought your way through the whole year and like i think everyone admires the hell out of it because you were very open about it like i don't know where my golf game is right now and it feels like you're on the other end of that where it's does it feel like you have more confidence because you went through all that yeah i think if you can blend like a bit of the strategy of when you're playing shitty that you can make something still work plus playing a lot better if you can marry those two because i think sometimes i've talked to certain athletes about this like when they have a warm-up that's just like otherworldly they're like some a lot of those games they say they play like shit because they're like almost like overly confident so they take on everything and they say that a lot of the the times they're bad warmups, you know, like in basketball, they'll get to their spot and like be way more specific about what shots they're going to shoot and like ease their way into it.

2:08:39So I think when you blend those two, it works really well. So I do think that no one last year, I played awful, but could still make a score could help this year when I won't play nearly as awful. But if I can keep those two minds, like in the same brain, uh, it could be good. Yeah. But I definitely, I mean, I think this golf course also just like very much suits what I do well and is honestly pretty nice to me on the stuff I'm not so good at. So that part definitely gives me some confidence. I mean, you still got to go out there and fucking do it. You know, you're playing a lot of really good players, but I definitely think for four days I could get, I could get warm and give myself a chance.

2:09:13Big Cat:I love it. Have you ever been in the zone at Augusta? In the zone. Yeah. I think the year I got third, there was a bit there on Friday where it just felt like if I pulled the club back, I was going to hit it pretty close. And if I pulled my putter back, it was going to go in for a little bit there. So that was quite fun. Golf has a funny way of just smacking you right in the face about that because I came out Saturday. It was a pretty good round, to be honest, but I made no birdies, 17 pars and a bogey. So right when I thought I figured out the game, it kind of caught up to me a little bit. But yeah, you do not take for granted those moments are in the zone.

2:09:49it's the greatest feeling in the world especially in golf when you typically just make bad swing after bad swing or lip out a putt or whatever so it feels nice when the hole feels like a bucket.

2:10:00Big Cat:I honestly think I would cry if you won the Masters. I think that's how emotional I would be. I'll come on here and we'll just cry together. We'll have a big cry together. It'll be like Danny Hurley just mushing heads together.

2:10:13PFT Commenter:Maybe you have to fly down there and streak on the course.

2:10:17Big Cat:If you win the Masters I might I might get a private jet down to Augusta. Oh, I thought you were going to say. Come on down, dude. You guys could stay at the house. Just to meet you down there. A massive party.

2:10:26PFT Commenter:I thought you were going to get a Max Homa Masters Champ tattoo, because I might do that. I probably would do that, yeah.

2:10:32Big Cat:I might get a green jacket just tattooed on my body. Same, dude. Yeah. Yeah. There will be no limit of the dumb shit I would do. I was looking at the holes, because that's what you do once you hit the age of 40. What's your favorite hole, PFT? Probably the vagina. Yeah. I really needed Zach here because I've been planning that question for him. Oh, man.

2:10:53PFT Commenter:Zach's not in the booth, is he? No, no. He's doing the mini golf. We got guys qualifying for our Augusta, the mini golf. It is actually Hank's Augusta, the mini golf tournament this week at Barstool HQ.

2:11:05Big Cat:That's a little tease. We'll get Zach once he gets in the booth. You can try to get him on that. If he just somehow says mouth, I'd be so happy. Yeah. So I was looking at the 12th because that's what you do. When you turn 40, you get really into the mowing report, and then you get into, obviously, the hole placement from above, and then you just do the flybys of all the holes, and you visualize them. And I was looking at the 12th hole, and that seems like it's the ultimate. People think this hole over way too much. They think too hard. I 100 % agree. And have you changed how you approach that hole at all?

2:11:42Big Cat:Or is it like, you know, going into the weekend, here's the shot I'm going to hit. You know where the pin's going to be. Here's what I'm going to do Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I've changed how I think about that back right pin, which is the Sunday pin, because the year I had a chance, I made a really good par on 11, and Scotty missed the green. And I think he had a so-so chip, and I knew he was probably going to make bogey, so I think I was going to be one back after I teed off on 12. And I did the thing that you hear about, you aim over the middle of the left center of that front bump, girl when you're being safe and you just hit it in the middle of the green or whatever and i hit this nine iron and i'll never forget it right as i hit it it was just like one of those where i said oh man i did it like i was nervous it was the shot you've seen a million times on tv not go well i was like oh i fucking did it and you just hear this groan from the crowd and it flew a little too far hit the hill jumped up into the ivy and i made double bogey yeah last year i got to the same pin i like to cut the ball so back right pins good for me i got to that hole i was i needed to get top 12 to get back in this week and i just remember i was like what am i so afraid of like if anything fits me it's this so i was like just aim a couple steps left of it and hit the fucking nine iron and i did it and i hit it to you know 12 or so feet and i was like that's how i'm playing this back right from now unless i got a five shot lead i'm playing it like that because it was not it didn't it it's like you're sometimes too passive and i understand why people do it but at that point in time it was just like let's play the game yeah do you know do we have the pairings yet do you know who you're pairing yeah i'm playing with uh someone i don't know from hey i did okay i'll move i'll move your car all right they're here all right tell pete i'm talking to big cat and pft he my friend pete is coming in right now and he's the one who got me hooked on your guys podcast how's it going hell yeah oh you're playing with i also block my wife with my car i did get the babies to go to bed though so yeah that was a year you're playing with It's Nayuki Kataoka and Carlos Ortiz.

2:13:45Yeah, Carlos. Carlos plays on Live. I miss him so much. Carlos, little Carlito. He is my guy. I miss him. We had Q School together our first year. Man, so it'll be fun. He is the best, dude. He's just like a bubbly person, so it's kind of nice to hang out with him for a while.

2:14:04PFT Commenter:Do you like playing morning, Thursday, afternoon, Friday? I feel like that would be better because then Friday, you kind of know where you stand. You're like, Hey, here's, here's where the cuts going to be. I can go attack it. I've danced back and forth. Hey, we're not thinking about the cutters here, but we're no, I know. Yes. We're right. We're right in jacket or bus. We're Sunday party. I was going baby steps. I was like, you know, moving day Sunday. Yeah. But you know, I, I, I've danced back and forth. I think this week will be good to be early late. Plus the fact that my late's really not very late.

2:14:36They gave me two very middle tee times. So I think it'll be good. Typically late the second day is harder in a major because they make the course like slowly firm up. So morning the second day is usually better. But both tee times are actually pretty solid. So I do. I like getting off early and like playing well in the morning typically. And then you get to just like enjoy yourself for, you know, 15 hours instead of sometimes you play. uh well sometimes you play like shit in the afternoon and then it's just like straight to bed and straight up and you're just like i'm not even i'm still not in a very good mood sometimes it's like it's the same round can be good yeah yeah yeah so after you play if you play

2:15:17Big Cat:early in the morning on thursday what do you do for the rest of the day oh well this week helps i have all my friends here so i'll go work out after and then probably practice a little bit and then uh we come back and we just play uh married people games oh that's perfect yeah it's

2:15:33PFT Commenter:good oh yeah you're you're you're you're at 10 o 'clock on friday you're good yeah oh yeah it's not bad 11 o 'clock oh yeah 11 o 'clock 10 o 'clock your time yeah i'm in central time right now all

2:15:42Big Cat:right what about uh what about like on course meals what are you having for breakfast on on thursday morning i'm an omelet guy omelet potatoes bacon and then on the course uh i don't do a good job eating on the course but uh sounds amazing i do love an uncrustable yeah they're hard to beat hey pete hey leah sorry pete what's up dude big cat says what's up do you by any chance big cat if there's anybody in the world that would know this name long beach state 2013 makes march madness casper wears on the team who else on the team james ennis and there's a white dude my height named Peter Papa George.

2:16:24Do you by any chance know that name? Because Stucky does, and he hates him.

2:16:28PFT Commenter:Oh, no. I was with Stucky on Saturday. That's hilarious. He was with Stucky on Saturday. Yeah, at the final four. Stucky once tweeted. He goes, you ever see just a punchable face? That's Peter Papa George for me. Dude, I love those teams because they would have the jerseys that just said the beach on them. The beach, yeah. Yeah. It's the greatest. Yeah. It's the best, yeah. Okay, so he hoops. All right, wait. So when you're playing these married people's games, Are people taking it easy on you? No, God, no. We actually have had to start swap. Thank you. That's a good friend. Yeah, no, I would.

2:17:01PFT Commenter:We got to let Max win this. Like, he's got a reason why everybody's there. Confidence. We start swapping, like, partners because everyone gets a little too mad at each other. Yeah. I didn't really. I almost said just wives, but then I realized that sounded bad. And even when I said partners. Partners, yeah, no. Yeah, you get the upside down pineapple and you start swapping pineapple. You cracked the garage door a little bit. Just kidding. Don't do that, Max. Just kidding. Do what? We already addressed that. We already addressed that. What was I talking about? We already addressed that in the run of the show.

2:17:36PFT Commenter:Oh, this is good.

2:17:37Big Cat:I'm having fun. Oh, man. I'm just excited to watch you. Have you hung out with any of the fellas there? Who are the guys that you look to hang out with when you get to Augusta every year? Justin and Jordan. I play practice round with Monday. We're playing part three tomorrow together. Don't win that. And then, no, I know you're not supposed to win that. My son putts for me, so I'm immediately disqualified. So that's nice. What, you don't think that your son can do it? No, they just disqualify because it's not me. But, yeah, no, also he can't. He is liable for about a 42 putt. He's also obsessed with people hitting in the water.

2:18:15He asks me every single hole if I'm going to hit it in the water or the other person is going to hit it in the water. Um, so no, I won't win that at all. And then, uh, yeah. So, so the curse will, uh, will not be on me. I think now we officially have a chance.

2:18:29Big Cat:Yeah. All right. Yeah. I love it. Also. Um, I was reading about Augusta today. Are you familiar with the, uh, the 19th hole? Are you dead serious? It doesn't actually exist. There's no way they really have a 19th hole there. They were going to build one when they built the golf course. And it was going to be like a 90-yard par three that was in between, I want to say, the ninth hole and the 18th hole. Yeah, that makes sense. And it was during the Great Depression, so they ran out of money. And they didn't build it. And they kept saying, we're going to build it once we get our paper right. And then it became like so much of an institution that when they got their money and the economy was doing fine, they were like, yeah, you know what?

2:19:11Big Cat:I don't think that Augusta needs a 19th hole. The paper was too right. it was too good yeah and i'm always were like you know i'm just gonna pocket this it would have absolutely killed the vibe of augusta that honestly really would not have been a good idea yeah yeah but just look at it next time you walk by be like oh yeah that's where the that's the don't tell zach that because i feel like if you say ask my question he's just gonna cop out and

2:19:31PFT Commenter:say the 19th oh yeah yeah definitely um do you do you ever eat the food at augusta like the you know that's the thing that master's like the pimento cheese and all that yeah do you ever I've had the chicken sandwich. I'm not a big cheese guy, so I skipped that. My friend Josh last year, who you guys made famous because he's the one who wanted to bring his Xbox to the house.

2:19:51Big Cat:Yeah. He said 100 people came up to him. We're like, are you Max's friend, the one that wanted to bring the video games? He'd be like, yeah. They're like, you're an idiot. I think he went through like 50 ham and cheeses last year and wondered why his stomach hurt for like a month. I love that. This guy rocks. I'm sorry that the tournament's overstocked ham and cheese because he's not here this year.

2:20:12PFT Commenter:Oh, no. Yeah, they did all their calculations, and now they're going to have all these extras. Yeah, we need 100 extras. What happened? They're not even going to sniff it.

2:20:20Big Cat:Have you tried the candy bar yet? No. How do you know? I don't even know what that is. Oh, Shane Bacon was on the show. Shane Bacon told us about that. Yeah, he would know. Yeah, he's gotten to go around the grounds and see a bit more than I do. A new menu item this year. Okay, I got to go try it. The candy bar. yeah yeah candy bar dark chocolate crispy rice just magic apparently it's just a candy bar they just named it a candy bar it's pretty sick what yeah i'll give it a shot it looks awesome i know that people love the pimento cheese i kind of wish i'd like like cheese to give it like a

2:20:54PFT Commenter:taste test but wait you don't like cheese oh i know what i was gonna ask you are you are you too tan i think i am yeah i need to cool it i think you are too in my head we were watching you the other day on the white on on the uh whatever tournament what was it last week were you in last year yeah yeah and you came across the screen i was like i i think max is 210 it's just italian i got today and he goes uh he goes i could hear him talking to whoever he's with he goes man he's got a nice base i might need to stay inside for a little while i need to play better so i can get three months off at the end of the year and i just won't go outside for a month yeah save the skin dude Arizona you guys were just there dude it's just the sun is closer to me it's crazy yeah it gets nuts

2:21:39Big Cat:do you have the sock tan probably not because you wear pants a lot no I have a nasty sock tan it's off I got it it's all bad dude it's terrible and it doesn't help I got the darkest and hairiest arms so it makes it look even darker it's bad it's terrible yeah yeah alright so what is the goal do you have a number in mind for Thursday man I think something in the 60s would be great so So I'm taking, I think, I mean, Dream World, you're looking like mid to low 60s, but I think ideally I would love to start with something with a six.

2:22:14PFT Commenter:Okay, that's what we're going for. We can do that. Yeah, we can absolutely get that done. Keep the theme of this podcast going. 69 would be a great story. Yeah, we could definitely do that. Yeah. You know what? I'm going to do a lottery ball right now, and that's what you're going to score. Do you agree to this? I would love that, yeah. Okay. This is a rush. Amin's shaking his head.

2:22:33Big Cat:I don't think anybody's ever shot their lottery ball. It's never happened. Imagine if we get like a nice 64. Hug had to have shot a 99 at some point. Oh, yeah, that's true. Imagine if we got like 64 right now. God, I'm now nervous. If it's a 59, I'm winning. Max, since you have the early tee time on Thursday, what's your protocol for how many alarms you set? I usually set two. I've never really needed the second one, but I get real anal. Actually, for the master, I might set three. Yeah. I would be nervous about that. Oh, yeah. It's the one thing I just can't have happen. I've had nightmares about that.

2:23:08PFT Commenter:We could have Zach call you if you needed to. Okay. Yeah. That actually would be why you miss. You miss the Masters. Zach was supposed to call you. Maybe I'll go with the bomb alarm. All right.

2:23:18Big Cat:We're going to do another number. Yeah, that one was a practice one.

2:23:21PFT Commenter:That was a practice one. What was it? What was it? That was a practice one. That was a practice one. That was a practice one, dude. That was a practice one.

2:23:26Big Cat:Max, we'll say it after you hang up.

2:23:29PFT Commenter:Yeah, yeah.

2:23:29Big Cat:It was a practice one. So don't go back and listen. Tell me after.

2:23:33PFT Commenter:That was the practice. That was the practice. You always got to do one practice. Everyone knows. Yeah, you get practice runs. Let's hit a one. Are we over two? We're not doing the lottery ball. Oh, it broke. The machine broke. Yep. We're not doing the lottery ball. What number did it start with? The first one was a seven. The second one was an eight. All right. I'll take it. I was scared it was a nine. No. Yeah. All right. There we go. It's playing super hard. It was actually, I think I read it wrong. It was a 57. That's what it was. It was 57. We can climb back from a 75. Yeah, yeah. We have 57.

2:24:06PFT Commenter:I don't think a 75 kills you. Yeah. It doesn't kill me. I'm still in the fight. Yeah. It's a 57. That's fine. That's what we... Imagine if you put up a 57 now. Could you imagine? You might just have to fly down Thursday.

2:24:18Big Cat:57 would be... Oh, my God. Yeah, if you broke 60... I honestly think I might be too... It might be too much. Yeah. Is that a thing? Like, if you shoot, like, the round of your life in a tournament, is it super rare to follow it up with another good round? Yeah. Okay, so that gets talked about a lot. in like the golf thing it's like they always say you know these like stuffy you know golf commentators you know it's so hard to back up a really good round with a really good round and i always think i mean like yeah sure like statistically but also it's just you had a really good round of course it's hard to do that again like right that's why it's considered really good it's like if somebody scores you know 50 points in a in a football game the next week they don't it's like god they just can't seem to keep it together it's like no that was why we're so enamored by the 50 points the game before because it's really fucking good yeah um so yeah that's why uh i will say that the the hardest thing i've done winning a golf tournament is in college but i shot a really low round the first day and we had three more and everyone's like congratulating you after the round like you won and you're like this would just be way worse if i lose now so can i just like can you leave me alone and wait till you know sunday so that it gets kind of hard but it's so uncommon for somebody to win wire to wire in golf.

2:25:30So not to say I wouldn't take a 57. I don't want to put that out there. I'll absolutely try to win wire to wire at 57.

2:25:36Big Cat:Yeah. Let's do a 57. It's like an announcer getting mad at, at Bam Adebayo for not scoring 84 points the next time. Yeah. It's like, you couldn't back it up. What's going on? Are you out celebrating? Yeah. One hit wonder,

2:25:47PFT Commenter:Bam. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, Max, I got one last question for you. Rowback question. RHOBACK.com. Promo code take. 20 % off your first purchase Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts Roback.com, promo code TAKE First of all, thank you for coming on It really does mean a lot to us This is my favorite tradition Yeah, but it's like, you're in the Masters week And you still fuck around with us And it's very, very cool of you I have one request And I don't know if you can do it But can you do one of those Skip the ball off the water shots tomorrow? Yeah, I'll do it tomorrow I'll play the back nine super early, so I'll do it Okay, because the par three like i those are the coolest shots ever yeah they're so sick they're so fun i've only hit the green once rom made a hole in one once with it which is that's got to be like top five ever yeah shot yeah he doesn't get enough run but yeah i'll do it tomorrow i got to figure out bones told me that you got to take a six iron it needs to slam into the water right in front of you and then take a mega big bounce so it only needs like two more to climb the hill so i'm going for that tomorrow okay what will you do you see the caddy missed the whole water and hit a fan today or no no crowd today it's pretty great a patron a patron sorry good job yeah we'll bleep that out we'll

2:27:00Big Cat:edit that for you dude don't get me in trouble if you uh if you get a hole in one tomorrow you gotta jump in the lake when you skip it across oh if i skip yeah yeah but we have the part three contest which is very lucrative for me with the group i'm in if i can make a one so as much as tomorrow's practice round skip matters a lot the nine holes with justin and jordan means a whole lot more yeah yeah yeah that'll be a good one yes i'm terrified every time somebody hits um all

2:27:25PFT Commenter:right well max you're the best best of luck we're rooting for you um everyone's rooting for you let's go let's go do it let's go just go do it let's fucking do it i'll see you guys sunday night yeah

2:27:35Big Cat:yeah yeah yeah you will yeah you will i'll bring the beers yeah you will we'll get him yeah also I think Zach is still playing mini golf right now but he says that he loves you and misses you I love Zach too by the way before I go for Zach we had a guys in the locker room they had a more wheels or more doors debate and I almost brought up the Trumpers you should have and they all would have been like get out of here dude they said tomorrow they're doing MJ or LeBron to get everybody pissed off I love that you gotta be Kobe guy maybe I'll throw that in the mix yeah okay Okay. Also, I see fellas.

2:28:13Big Cat:Maybe steer clear of Vijay Singh's goatee because he looks like he might be a supervillain. Yeah. I don't know if you've seen that thing.

2:28:19PFT Commenter:It's terrifying. It's pretty sick. It's strong. It's pretty sick. All right. See you, Max. Bye, Max. Love you guys. FAQs brought to you by Whatnot. It's our second shot at Rookie Pursuit with Whatnot, the number one live shopping app in the U.S. We're stepping up with the flawless briefcase from Whatnot seller Joe Hollywood. Okay. See the flawless briefcase? We're looking for our rookie QBs. PFT's looking for a Jaden.

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2:29:08PFT Commenter:A flawless pack. Is that right, Max? I'm taking out the flawless pack. Yep, the pack first. Open the pack first. Okay. And I'm going to go through this real quick. Let's see what we have. Ooh, we have a Jim Kelly with a jersey. That's pretty cool. Love that. Zach, you go sleeve. Sleeve it. Ooh, we got a dual diamond. Don't stand in front, though. Here. Zach, you're right in the middle of the camera. Here you go. He's got it. Okay. A dual diamond. And now this one will be interesting because I think there's someone on our team that would want this one. It is a Justin Herbert, Quentin Johnston.

2:29:46Big Cat:Oh, memes. Memes. I love that. You do love Justin Herbert.

2:29:51PFT Commenter:Okay, so we'll get that to you. That's got their jerseys on it. Andre Tippett. We got Isaac Bruce. These are cool cards. Billy Tippett? Isaac Tippett. Andre Tippett. Andre Tippett. Isaac Bruce. These are cool cards. They have some heft to them. DeMarcus Ware, both jerseys, Broncos and Cowboys. We've got Xavier Leggett. And ooh, this one's rare because he's no longer on the team. Jalen Waddle. This is a sick card. They all have their jerseys in there. Waddle, waddle, waddle. All right. And then do I pull out the other ones? Yep. Okay. There is a... Wow, this one's sick. It's intense. Derrick Henry.

2:30:35PFT Commenter:Tractor Cito. tractor seat up devin singletary devin singletary and then finally memes another huge get for memes memes we've got puna a flawless six out of ten justin herbert for memes wow i love justin herbert Wow. You're in luck. Incredible cards. Okay. Thank you to Whatnot.

2:31:04Big Cat:Thank you to Whatnot.

2:31:05PFT Commenter:Love Whatnot.

2:31:05Big Cat:Bolt up, memes.

2:31:06PFT Commenter:Bolt up. All right. Zach, you want to take the case? Sleeve the cards. Take the case. Great work, Zach. Okay. He's taking them. Here's this box. And then let's finish off with FAQs. Oh, by the way, before we get to FAQs, tune into the Barstool Mini Golf, which will be Wednesday. So today that you're listening to this, right after the Yak, we're starting around 2, 2.30. We're doing two rounds, Ryder Cup style, the old heads in the offices versus the young guys in the office. And girls. And girls. Yeah, young team looks stacked right now.

2:31:46Big Cat:Young team looks like... Young team that doesn't even have a team right now. Well, they got almost an embarrassment of riches to choose from.

2:31:53PFT Commenter:Yeah. So we'll be doing that And then tune in Thursday night will be the singles for the match at 7 p.m. Central. And it's going to be a cash prize. It's going to be awesome. We also are doing a special Stella Blue Hole where every$5 ,000 we sell in Stella Blue Coffee. You can buy it on StellaBlueCoffee.com or on Amazon. Try the new ready-to-drink cans. Every$5 ,000 we sell, I'm going to give away$300 to the chat. And then there also will be the Stella Blue Hole will light up. But if you get a hole in one, you get$200 cash. That's for people in the office. That rocks. So pretty cool. So go to Stella Blue Coffee and buy it or on Amazon.

2:32:31PFT Commenter:And let's get some money going in the chat. Stop ignoring the obvious question. Is nudity on the table now that you're off of YouTube and on Netflix?

2:32:39Big Cat:Oh, that's actually a good question. I didn't think about that. We have a meeting. We can ask. We can find out. I'm going to get to the bottom of that for you. I'm going to. Wow, man. Zach nude. Nude Zach? Nude Zach? Nude Zach in the booth? We could do like a sub-a-thon.

2:32:58PFT Commenter:Nude Zach in the booth? Hey, for the live show.

2:33:00Big Cat:Yeah. Zach? No phones. We just sit naked. Nude Zach in the booth? Full nude? Guys being nudes. Chris in the booth? Yeah.

2:33:12Big Cat:Full nude? Yeah.

2:33:15PFT Commenter:You guys don't want that.

2:33:16Big Cat:You guys don't want that. No, I mean -

2:33:17PFT Commenter:Well, no, we can't see it because the angle we're at, we're not going to see anything.

2:33:21Big Cat:The people at home will see everything Sabrina would see everything Oh my god We're going to put a disclaimer at the top of this Okay Hey PMT what was the biggest Disagreement off air you guys ever got into And how was it resolved P.S. Let Hank exist

2:33:38PFT Commenter:By the book but it was the dip spit Probably the dip spit

2:33:45Big Cat:The mystery dip spit The dip spit Who could have known who had that dip spit It's one of those unknowable riddles with yeah we're on the air so much that like not that there's not that many disagreements that

2:33:54PFT Commenter:happen off air right you know what i actually think kind of just has they happen on air as like if you've heard it happen on air they bleed off air and then yeah i think what would resolve

2:34:04Big Cat:on typically what happened would be like if we start to get into it there's somebody that shows up with a camera yeah if they hear an argument and then it becomes something that exists in content Correct. And it honestly kind of helps that way.

2:34:18PFT Commenter:Yeah. And it's always like, I think the one thing that saves us is that everything's always like with a veil of we're just fucking around. So it's like, oh, is this serious? No, we're just fucking around. It's kind of mental torture for all of us. Yeah, it's just a lot of. Like the worst it gets is just like serious passive aggression. Yeah. It's just mental torture constantly.

2:34:42Big Cat:Yeah. That was on air.

2:34:43PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah, it was. how much time like legitimate planning goes into what you guys talk about with each show and all are all of you collaborating on this at once. I love how seemingly off topic you guys can get with breaking moves or promoting Johnny Fanta as the next era for UNC long time. Listen to the show. Thank you for all giving me some joy and laughter, even on the slowest of days, bing bong, hanky and go birds. Max love that.

2:35:07Big Cat:Yeah, we've got, we've got a Google doc that we use and we start prepping at about six 30 every morning. and Zach does like the topics that we want to get into. So if we want to get on like a 10-minute discussion about if you can dunk a free throw, he'll write that in there. We'll bounce back and forth, do a little bit of improv.

2:35:23PFT Commenter:Don't forget, there's the rehearsal. Yeah, we do table read. We do a two-hour rehearsal before every show.

2:35:30Big Cat:And then we have our stand-ins that come in. They get the lighting. So we do like one run-through of the show with our stand-ins so we can get everything just right on camera. and yeah, then we kind of come out at about 11 a.m. And it usually takes about three takes through the show and we stitch together the final product using only the best things.

2:35:49PFT Commenter:It's like SNL. The minute we finish a show, we have to start prepping for the next one. No, we sit down for a microphone. We literally don't do that. Idiot jazz doesn't come from scripts.

2:36:01Big Cat:I think all of us, we know what we're going to talk about because we know what's happening in the sports calendar. We all kind of know the same sports topics that are going to be interesting for all of it. And then just sit down and do whatever your hot seat, cool throne is going to be. Yeah. PFT gave me homework last week. What was the homework? That I had to read the full Jalen Hurts article. Oh, did you make it? No, he didn't do it. No.

2:36:25PFT Commenter:Hey, did you get blocked by Jeremy Fowler? No. Really? I don't think so. Send him another one. No, I already did that. Give him another fuck you. Just so you know, fuck you again, buddy. I already did it.

2:36:38Big Cat:Zach, did you do your homework from a couple weeks ago? Were you talking about taking notes on the same article? No, that was one assignment. Were you talking laser tag? No, when Trump put out the executive order for how to solve college sports. Because we didn't pay any attention to what that was going to be. When Trump put out the executive order? He did an executive order for fixing college sports. We can push that off. I don't think he fixed it. Push it off. That'll be post-masters. Don't stress out. Don't stress out. You got to focus on golf this week? Don't stress, Zach. I don't think he fixed it, though, because isn't everybody staying so that the transporter broke basketball today?

2:37:16Big Cat:No, I think he fixed everything. I think it's all good. He may have. I think it's all good.

2:37:20PFT Commenter:Damn, 21 retweets on the get fucked. That was basically a private message. Also, the four bookmarks. Who's coming back to that one?

2:37:30Big Cat:People could use that. Yeah, yeah. That is a bonk. He probably, yeah. Yeah, Jeremy Fowler might have bookmarked it. I'll remember this. All right, last one. I got a question for PFT and Big Cat. Which of these do you guys enjoy more? A prime Hank show of passive aggressiveness and snarky comments or an all-time max crash out?

2:37:51PFT Commenter:Oh, man. Don't make me choose. Yeah, choosing your favorite children. I mean, it's the best when it happens at the same time. Yeah, true. Well, it's the best when you get that. Once a year, we get that. Well, no, it's the best when we can just kind of sit back and you get passive-aggressive, snarky Hank about Philadelphia and then mad Max at Hank. Yeah. That's my personal favorite. When they just take the wheel and they're going back and forth at each other and Max is just like, shut the fuck up. All you do is sit on the fucking couch.

2:38:20Big Cat:And Hank's wearing the big hater jacket. Yeah. And you got that shit-eating grin on your face. Nobody's had more of a shit-eating grin than Hank does when he gets to relish in Max's misery.

2:38:33PFT Commenter:I'm not sure.

2:38:36Big Cat:They were at the six. Now they're back.

2:38:38PFT Commenter:We need six or seven.

2:38:40Big Cat:We need the Raptors to win. Yeah, there's a lot of basketball. It's a tentative seven. It's a tentative seven because they have more games played than the Raptors. Raptors got to win tonight. Okay. Raptors have to win three out of four. I don't think the Sixers are going to beat the Rockets, which would put them at the seven. That would put the Sixers at seven. I'm going to beat the Rockets. Yeah, we can't just say we don't think that they're going to beat the Rockets.

2:38:59PFT Commenter:And then we play two tankers. Yeah, but then we also need. So go Rockets, go Raptors.

2:39:05Big Cat:Why? Because Rockets beat Sixers. Then the Raptors have to win three out of four to go to six. And that gives us what? That gives us Sixers. James is terrified of the Sixers. But then the Sixers.

2:39:19PFT Commenter:The Knicks are 15-0 against the Raptors after trading OG and Anobi. I would rather play the Raptors. And then the Sixers, though, need to win the play-in. If they're in the seven, they have to win the play-in, correct. The only problem is I was looking at the schedule. then the Sixers and the Celtics would have to go seven games for it to happen on your bachelor party. That'd be awesome. There's just no change. You would sign up for that? No.

2:39:44Big Cat:You would sign up for that? You said that would be awesome. Yeah, you did. You said that would be awesome. Hank, when you're right, you're right. That'd be awesome.

2:39:52PFT Commenter:Yeah, no, I would sign up for... No, I don't even know if I would sign up for that. Oh my God. No, I would sign up for that for a chance to win. Yeah. for a chance to win game seven? Yeah. We all know. And think about it. You'd have strength in numbers. Your brothers would be there. Yeah. Oh, you could triple T by the Delentes? Oh, a lot of partners. And Jerry. And Jerry. Yeah. And Big Dom. And maybe Big Dom.

2:40:17Big Cat:Yeah. Max, you have nothing to lose. Like, nobody expects the Sixers to do anything. Game seven would be sick. Did you see that step back three that Joel Embiid took? Yeah. You see it? The one where he took like six steps? That's just the NBA you don't know ball. That's a perfectly legal play. Have you seen this? Yeah, the one where he whopped a three in Wemby's eye.

2:40:42PFT Commenter:Yeah, I saw it.

2:40:42Big Cat:You see this? It's very funny. I love the NBA. This is a bad take.

2:40:48PFT Commenter:This is a non-ball-knower take right here. Wait, so memes. That just backfired so hard in your face. That was an awesome play from Joel. It's a great shot. Yeah, right in Wemby's eye. So we could have Sixers-Knicks as the other alternative. Very possible.

2:41:08Big Cat:Be great. Be great. That might not be great. Why? Because memes would just go to a dark place. Yeah.

2:41:20PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah. That would be great. Very beat them. Three games left?

2:41:27Big Cat:I'm just excited for the bachelor party. season and Sunday

2:41:31PFT Commenter:season and Sunday

2:41:33Big Cat:damn

2:41:33PFT Commenter:oh the play in game is yeah then that week damn they really got this sports schedule down great we just go masters into playoffs they fucking nailed it they really did alright numbers 2 3

2:41:57Big Cat:78 56 8 24 72 39 10 10 Thank you.

2:42:37PFT Commenter:One more? Somebody got 72. One more. One more. One more. One more. Everyone stick with their numbers. Ten. We got it.

2:42:57PFT Commenter:31. 31. Anyone? Fuck. We suck.

2:43:02Big Cat:I can't believe only one person's got it. You didn't accept it. You didn't take it. Happy birthday to Matty Healy. Great, great entertainer. Big fan of everything you've done, Matty. C.D. Lamb. Everything? I don't know everything he's done. Everything? I don't know. Actually, I don't know anything that he's done. Is that the guy who dated Taylor Swift? Yeah. Happy birthday, Big Justice. I think he's got some bad things.

2:43:25PFT Commenter:Is he problematic? I think there's maybe some bad things. I know the Swifties didn't like him, but that also means... They don't like anybody. That actually means he's probably cool.

2:43:31Big Cat:Okay. To be determined. But happy birthday. Everybody deserves a happy birthday. Let's see Matty. Mattie Healy.

2:43:36PFT Commenter:Everyone deserves it.

2:43:38Big Cat:I really don't want to get to 420. Everyone has a special day. Hitler killed Hitler. So happy birthday, CeeDee Lamb. Happy birthday to Joe Adele, the home run thief. Nice. Love you guys. Is Mattie Healy, is he just a dick or is there something bad that he did? If he's just a dick. Yeah, he might just be a dick. Even dicks have birthdays. They deserve to feel special.

2:44:05PFT Commenter:Yeah.

2:44:06Big Cat:They had a brief, intense, romantic fling in May 20. I'm going to. I don't know.

2:44:12PFT Commenter:I just saw the Swifties didn't like it, but I actually think that probably means that I like them.

2:44:17Big Cat:Stand by real quick. I'm just going to call Mad Dog and see if I should retract. And if she says yes, I will issue a formal attraction on the air. Okay. But she's a Swifty, right? Yeah. So she'll tell me if he did anything really bad.

2:44:36Big Cat:hey mad dog you're live to tape on part of my take uh oh hi maddie healy it's his birthday today i wished him a happy birthday should i not do that maddie healy as in the 1975 yeah is he not a good guy um he is not um taken well in the swifty community oh then we love him yeah happy birthday maddie healy just a good songwriter yeah fuck yeah he he is a good song writer i like his songs i like the 1975 i don't think i like what he and he all right yeah good good

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