The Knicks Win The NBA Title, The Hurricanes Lift The Cup, Zac And Memes Recap Their Game 5 From San Antonio, Mr Bing Bong Jerry O'Connell Surprises Hank In Studio + World Cup

14:56Big Cat:Well, I guess we'll never know if he has the clutch gene because he never had his back against the wall.

15:00PFT Commenter:Yeah. What are you thinking about, Memes? No, that's a good point. We'll never know if he has a clutch gene. Jury's still out. Next year when they're in a game seven, we'll find out. It was the layup when they cut the lead to six. All the Knicks fans just turned around and looked at each other. They said, he's about to do it. When he broke Wemby down? No, it was right before it. Johnson had to use the timeout. Everyone just looked at each other and said, it's about to happen.

15:25Big Cat:So I want to hear about what you guys saw at the game. Walk me through it. when you get to San Antonio, what was the vibe like on the way to the game?

15:36PFT Commenter:Well, can I just interject real quick? Because I got some – Stephen Shea was the third in this group, which is maybe my favorite trio. And I want you guys to tell us everything, but I just want to set the stage that Stephen Shea did. I asked for a little bit of details from his perspective, and he said that as a group, maybe a little bit go towards the introvert, no alphas in the group, and that it was very difficult to make decisions at the beginning of the day because no one wanted to step on each other's toes. But he said that finally by Saturday night, they kind of figured it out and had a good groove communication-wise.

16:18I'll cut in there. We still never figured that part out.

16:21PFT Commenter:I just love you guys You guys all not wanting to make any decisions Everything we tried to do Stephen Jay would suggest something I'd be like I'll do whatever you guys want to do And then we'd look at Zach and be like yeah I'm in You guys are just kind of floating There's a lot of conceding Everything took 15 minutes to figure out

16:40Big Cat:It's like whichever way most people are walking We're just going to go there Okay start at the beginning though So Zach the outfit The travel outfit that you packed The shorts Yeah, I didn't realize that was going to be such a point of contention on the shorts. I thought those were a good move for a plane. You get the sweat pant material so you're comfortable, and then they're not pants so they're still breathable, and we're going to a warm climate. I thought it was a good move for the travel day. They just looked like big shorts. They looked like JNCO shorts. They're definitely big shorts.

17:08PFT Commenter:Zach, because you guys had a 7 a.m. flight, and there was nervousness that you were going to maybe miss it because you responded to a text at 11.30 at night on Friday night. So everyone was like, uh-oh, he's up too late. What did you eat at 6 a.m.? Breakfast. I got an uncrusted one of Lunchable. That's a good 6 a.m. meal. The dunking line was pretty long. I was like, let me see what's going on over here. Yeah, just double up on lunch early. I like it. No, I know. I'm saying that's a great. Solid start to the day. I would enjoy it. That's a championship start to the day. I'll say it was the ham.

17:42I do prefer the turkey over the ham, but the ham is still good.

17:44Big Cat:The fact that Che was so confident going into this game. I know you guys were probably a little bit more nervous than Che, at least originally. Being around him, did you guys get more confident before the game? I was already pretty confident we were going to win. But he doesn't really talk like that normally. He'll do it on the yak, but he's not that confident when just talking to him regularly.

18:10PFT Commenter:No, but he said he was like Nixon 5. He said that two weeks ago. And so he felt it. You bet it. He felt it. What happened on the plane? There was an alarm that went off that maybe scared some people? Yeah, that was a mistake. I said a bunch to wake up. In a big day, waking up early, I've been trying to work on that. I've been doing okay with that. And I just had one down the list. You know when you scroll and you set them all? One way down the list caught a hanger. You went too far down that list? Yeah, caught a hanger at the end. I was able to address it pretty quickly. A few hours too late. So it was so loud that one guy just screamed, we're going down.

18:47That guy was being, I see where he's coming from. He didn't think we were really going down. He's joking. Yeah. It's my fault to put that kind of noise in his ears, but he just kept saying it afterwards. And I was like, well, now we're doing Boy Who Cried Wolf on the plane. Now he's the jerk.

19:01Big Cat:Yeah. He double jerked me, yeah. But Zach did turn it off pretty quickly. It was just like, he was like, I would just like to apologize to everybody. So that was good. Did they clap for you? No, planes are not somewhere to play around with. I don't take that lightly at all. I completely understand that.

19:13PFT Commenter:So you guys land and you have a few hours before game time. You have San Antonio is known for its Mexican food. Great Mexican food. You land in San Antonio. You get a bunch of recommendations from the AWLs, I assume. Where'd you end up? What Mexican joint did you guys end up eating at? So we're deciding between Mexican and barbecue. We decided to go to Mexican. We took two steps outside of our hotel and we went to Margaritaville. Hell yeah.

19:42Big Cat:Hell yeah. Respect. The Mecca. Yeah, Margaritaville is... Listen, people laugh at it. Margaritaville is delicious. Jimmy Buffett never told a lie in his life, never did anything bad. As far as I'm concerned, the man was a saint, and the Margaritaville restaurants are no exception to that. What'd you guys get for... You guys chose right.

19:56PFT Commenter:What'd you guys get for entrees? Stephen Jay said they have the best nachos. They are pretty good, so you got those. I got the cheeseburger in paradise. Smart, yep. And then I ran an appetizer trio. Nice.

20:08Big Cat:Nice. What'd you get on the cheeseburger in paradise? Just bacon. Okay. Lettuce?

20:13PFT Commenter:lettuce tomato okay all right so then you go you're going to the game you guys assume you get in the game early like vibes or what was it what was the percentage of knicks fans it did look like 50 50 well we ate so much we had to nap first oh okay that listen that's nba players do that they nap before the game we had to then then we did show up at like six o 'clock uh we were sitting right next to the inside nba that was pretty cool steven jay kept trying to get selfies with shaq That was very fun. And Larry O 'Brien. That was a lot of fun. But it was just a lot of sitting around. Sixth class somewhere.

20:46PFT Commenter:That's what they say. So a lot of sitting around. And then what were you going to say, Zach? As soon as we got into the arena, there was a Knicks chance going on. Yeah. The ratio was very – 10 % away from a home game. 10 % away.

21:00Big Cat:10 % away from a home game. It was unreal. Did you see any of the celebs there? Did you see Chalamet? I saw Billy Baldwin after the game Oh, that's Yeah, that's an A-lister I thought I saw Everybody knows Billy Baldwin Yeah, you say hi? Yeah, I was just standing next to him He wasn't courtside? He was, but that's when I snuck down Oh Alright, so the game starts I just told you that when they were down 15 I thought the Knicks, like this is the perfect spot for them Were you guys nervous when they went down? When they were down 16, I was nervous I was like, alright, this is just going to be a loss i i genuinely thought that just because the bench had zero points everybody was playing so bad the offense looked so broken it just it just didn't look didn't look right and then they cut it to five and then that's when everyone was just like all right we've been in the spot a million times right and at five you were like we got this we got this uh the guy next to us also just he was hammered and just kept saying we got this we've been in this position we're down five yeah

22:00PFT Commenter:we heard it we heard it 1 000 times so so you win what what what's going on after i mean you guys stayed in the arena i assume for a while for the trophy presentation it's got to be one of the coolest things you'll see your team at a game lifting the trophy you're a winner and you got to be there for it so i stayed up top and they went down i just want to take it in uh i was a little surprise there was no confetti i thought there was gonna be confetti no confetti uh but it was just really cool every everyone stormed down and it was just it was just really cool yeah and so um were there tears i cried zach did you cry uh i'd not cry no yeah they were they were just smiling i i'm i'm a crier i that's probably like the overload of estrogen from the nipples but Yeah, I cried What are you going to do?

22:54No, fuck it, dude Absolutely no shame in crying

22:55PFT Commenter:I saw the pictures of Zach and Che The smiles were as wide as you could possibly get It was an unreal feeling Absolutely unreal You know, once in a lifetime opportunity In a building like that, it was crazy And they go, they do the trophy presentation They go to go with the MVP Jalen's on the stage They're bringing over the families and everything So you just see the full scope of what this moment really means to them And just seeing it real time is super special, man

23:18Big Cat:I also just want to call out that you guys are dealing with all this. It might be the most magical sports night of your entire life, and Memes still had the presence of mind, being the good friend that he is, to text, Happy Birthday, Hank. Yeah, that was nice. Right in the middle of the celebration, which I thought was awesome.

23:34PFT Commenter:Yeah, you became a winner on Hank's birthday. Well, I forgot to text him the morning of. Right. So I just had to make sure before the day ended. Yep, and that was the best time,

23:44Big Cat:because it was like Memes has so many other things that he could be doing right now. He just won a championship. And for you to think in that moment to text Hank and be thinking of somebody else. Hey, shout out Hank. I thought that was really nice. Yeah. Hank's nice enough. He says happy birthday to me on my birthday. So I have to reciprocate that feeling.

23:59PFT Commenter:Yeah. All right. So you guys leave the arena and you almost got mugged by a group of people with baseball bats. No. So it took us like an hour. Savannah Bananas playing. Because Steven said that there was guys walking around with baseball. The Warriors. There was a few guys who got beat up with bats. and then the cops were kind of like, hey, if you guys go back up top, because there's like a river walk and there's like the street level, you could hear that the street level wasn't the safest spot. There's a lot going on. And at a certain point, these two guys walked past us and like, yeah, the police are just saying, if we go up there, there's nothing they can do to help you.

24:35So don't go up there, pretty much. Zach is right. Spurs fans were just trying to get their get back from all the videos that were going viral. Yeah. But there was really like, if you're wearing a Knicks jersey, don't go street level.

24:49PFT Commenter:Steven told me that there was a moment where there was a bunch of guys with baseball bats standing on a bridge. And you guys, they were looking one way and you guys were able to run behind them the other way. Yeah, it was essentially like a video game. We walked. There was like hundreds, if not thousands of Spurs fans facing the one direction. Yeah. so we all looked at each other and said if anybody makes eye contact with us we're just gonna run so we like snuck past like a video game like in goldeneye when the guards are like don't wake daddy yeah there's one drunk guy under the bridge and just goes are you guys nicks fans and we're just like nope and we just kept walking all it all it would have taken was one person be like hey there's nicks fans and we would have just been sprinting down the river i

25:34Big Cat:love that i love i love the video game like the the analogy there that they're all locked in on So as long as you don't make a noise. And then if they all come at you, there's a barrel. So just shoot that barrel. Yeah. It'll explode. It sounds silly, but I almost feel like we had to tiptoe. It was like, wait, they can't look this way. Like this can't really be what's going on right now. But we got to just get past swiftly, quickly, and I guess stealthily. What's this? I heard about memes. They threw a bottle and you got cut. Yeah. We walked by a bar and it's a two-story bar. They saw we were wearing blue.

26:09said that we said we're next fans see something splash in the water and we're like what the fuck was that then second bottle comes in smashes on the ground goes into my leg i'm fine it was a scratch but scar yeah they threw like three or four bottles damn man and honestly it was a good throw yeah it was from distance like it was a pretty good shot yeah our feet that's great no eggs they they were egging people there was eggs like it spurs fans just had flags outside their car just honking and like throwing eggs at people yeah but nobody tried to float throw eggs at you and be like henry lockwood sends his regards no no a couple guys did say it but then they weren't weaponized they said it like oh you know watch out for the eggs and then no eggs though they say mention hank by name one one guy in the arena did but he did it like he didn't do it as like foot soldier order like he wasn't on a mid he there was no world he had it in pocket he was

27:05PFT Commenter:kind of saying it like lightheartedly like hey right you know yeah it would be a shame if you guys got egg that's yes that was a quote uh all right so i mean sounds like an incredible night the only other story i got uh from che that i wanted to bring up was well zach you you met a lady who wanted to go on a date with you this morning and you you did you you ghosted her well uh i talked to her kind of like in passing like we talked about probably three four minutes It wasn't too long. We're maybe going to do brunch. I just stayed up way too late watching highlights. So then we didn't go to brunch.

27:36PFT Commenter:Okay. And then the other one was Zach. There was an attractive lady in the lobby and memes and Che were going up. And apparently Zach went up to talk to the attractive lady. And then from across the lobby, a guy yelled out, hey, that's my girl. And Zach just sprinted away. I didn't sprint. But like. Oh, sorry. Scurried. Scurried away. I probably did scurry. Look, there was a lot of... The tensions were high yesterday, okay? Hey, that's my girl. It felt like a basketball game world. I wasn't sure what was going on. Yeah, I was saying hello to this woman. She was like, hey, is there another bar around?

28:11We're trying to see if we can go get some drinks because everything closed at two, which we weren't super aware of. And she's like, yeah, we could do this. She's like, we're trying to figure out the same thing. I was like, okay. And then this guy that was already sitting with two women across what essentially, I guess, is a breakfast... Anyways, hotel always had a lot of seating, like a breakfast little spot. he like shouts out like hey that's my girl and he was always sitting with women so i didn't think he's being serious i thought maybe they were friends and then he said it again and i just pivoted walked to the elevators and he's like i know you can hear me and then i just instantly just started scanning the key yeah and i went i went to the i went to the hotel room oh man i didn't confront him whatsoever yeah i swiftly elevated and uh yeah i mean the whole the whole

28:51PFT Commenter:night it was the next listen i know there's some people who don't like new york city i don't know how you could hate this actual team. If you want to say something about the fans, that's fine. The team, like even Mike Brown doing the corny who let the dogs out was funny. Like, it made me laugh. It was ridiculous. What are you going to say? I got to tell the Stephen Che, Scott Foster story. Oh, okay. So we're leaving for the game. We see Scott Foster staying in our hotel. Stephen Che walks up to him to try to get a picture. Instead, just slaps him on the back and just says, go make New York proud.

29:28PFT Commenter:Oh, Stephen is the freak who would recognize Scott Foster just walking in street clothes. For sure. What a night. What a great night. Yeah. Congrats. I'm so glad that you guys got that. It really is. It's special that you guys were there. Yeah, absolutely. Unbelievable. I can't say thank you to everybody involved enough. Unreal day. Shout out Tick Pick. Big shout to Tick Pick. Huge shout to Tick Pick. I'm indebted to Tick Pick and you guys for the rest of my life. Shout out to Sex Ritual. Yeah. Yeah. Especially for it to happen on 6-13. I know. What's 6-13? Hank's birthday. That's right. No, the day the Knicks won.

30:04PFT Commenter:Oh, yeah, yeah. The day Memes became a winner. Memes is the only one who's officially checked off his New Year's resolution. Yeah, first one. Yeah.

30:14Big Cat:I think I kind of have a little bit on mine. You've attempted. I've attempted. You've started the attempt. Poorly, poorly. Yeah, yeah. Hank, you haven't really said much. Yeah, Hank. I know you talk a lot in these episodes, and you're a big basketball guy. and I know you've got a lot of thoughts about the New York Knicks and New York sports in general and your friends Zach and Memes. So what's going on that head? I'd like to start by saying they're trying to hold it over my head that they won on my birthday. As a 30, now 33-year-old male, I don't care about my birthday. My birthday does not mean anything.

30:49What about when it's your 40th birthday? They won on my birthday. That hurts because it was like, I don't care. It was just another day.

30:56PFT Commenter:it's not even your birthday anymore it's not exactly it's who cares congrats to the knicks they were the better team or they won they won the most games oh are you going kenny atkinson when be like it was like it it was you know and like you said second language like it it was the quote reading the quote is like that's such a loser thing to say but it was so true it was a five game series the spurs could have won all five games easily and they lost four to one So in terms of expected championships. It's frustrating. It was frustrating to watch. But at least in Game 5, I knew. I didn't even get excited because even though they were up in that fourth quarter, there was zero doubt in my mind that the Knicks were going to win that game.

31:41When we missed free throws, Darren Fox was still just – he thought he was the guy again taking terrible – like not even terrible shots. They were just missing. They missed open shots, missing layups, zero clutch gene. And yeah, congrats to memes and Zach in New York.

32:01Big Cat:Wow. And I can tell that you don't care that was on your birthday because the first thing that you brought up was how you don't care. Well, no, I just know that's a thing that you guys are trying to do. No, we're not trying. You're going to keep trying to bring up.

32:12PFT Commenter:6.13 is memes day, also your birthday. Sure.

32:15Big Cat:Well, it was your birthday. You don't even know when my birthday was, and it doesn't matter. You don't have a birthday anymore. Right. So I'm never going to forget your birthday because it's actually just memes day. That's fine.

32:24PFT Commenter:Are you nervous that memes is now a winner and you're a loser? No. But if we're doing a what have you done for me lately scenario just this year, if we're just talking 2026, you're a loser and memes is a winner. Is that a statement of fact? You guys are losers too. I agree. No, no. Listen. Fact. Fact. but you and memes have a special rivalry hatred for each other yeah i mean now jason tatum tore his achilles he came back they still they still made the playoffs they you know it's it's gonna be a fun end of the end of the decade oh okay so yeah yeah it sure will it's it's one one it's one

33:08Big Cat:one yeah i mean i did think that memes brought up a good point when he said that the celtics kind of taught the Knicks how to become champions. Yeah, I don't really understand what this has to do with me, what this has to do with the Celtics. The Knicks beat the Sixers, and yet somehow it's like Mr. Bing Bong, Jerry, talks about me. Memes, talks about me. It's like, there's other rivals in this series. Teams have to, you know, it takes experience in the NBA, more so than other leagues, I think. And what they did against the Celtics last year, I do think had a direct impact on what they were able to do in the playoffs this year.

33:45Yeah, good for them. They won the NBA championship.

33:48Big Cat:But you also said they kind of didn't. I didn't. Well, you're like, yeah, yeah, they could have easily lost all five of those games. That's not fact or fiction. They weren't the best team.

34:01PFT Commenter:Maybe it's also because you just kept on saying how much you hated at, like, all this going down. And we're very, you're like, this is going to suck. I'm out on Wemby I hate the Spurs I can't believe they did this to me I did not say I can't believe they did this to me Alright, sorry You didn't say exactly that That may have been worse than the Rayhound Corner 3 I'm sick You're sick Yeah, it was a brutal series, but it's over So, let's golf You have to at least love Josh Hart I did love that That was just you That was a hat tip, yeah. I had nothing but respect for that quote. Josh Hart just said, this morning he tweeted, he was like, now the only thing left to do is golf.

34:51PFT Commenter:Hold on, I'm going to get the exact one because it's just so perfect. Now we play golf, just got to figure out where to get a golf membership in New York. Eyeballs emoji. Tough city to get a golf membership too.

35:03Big Cat:I wonder if he's going to get comped in any courses. I think he's going to be like, here in Chicago, Obama has a locker. at every single course just so they can say, like, yeah, if Obama shows up, he's a member here technically. In New York, he's going to have a membership at every single course. Yeah. Yeah, all the Knicks. You have a free membership for life. I think that they're about to have, like, one of the best celebrations of all time. Being, like, college boys. You went to school together. You probably partied a lot, played a lot of beer pong back in the day. The celebration after winning an NBA championship together with your college buddies has got to be the drunkest week ever.

35:38Big Cat:Yeah. They're going to have an absolute blast getting after it.

35:40PFT Commenter:Yeah. And like, I know people will talk about, there were some bad videos in the past two weeks with the next fans. It's actually really funny to look back and be like, the Knicks lost one game of consequence and they all lost. Like they could not handle the losing game three. But in terms of overall, like I saw so many videos that were heartwarming, awesome streets, just alive in New York, people singing, chanting. Like that's what happens. 53 years. I saw a crazy stat. The time between this championship, June 13th, and the last championship, the Knicks winning in 1973, was a longer amount of time than the Knicks winning their first championship in 1970 and Babe Ruth's first game as a Yankee.

36:30Big Cat:That's wild to think about.

36:32PFT Commenter:It's a long time. 53 years. That's a full two generations. I don't even know how generations work.

36:37Big Cat:But yeah, it's a long-ass time. And much like Hart had one request, Jalen Brunson's request was he wants to be on an episode of SVU.

36:44PFT Commenter:Yeah. Which is, that's an awesome request to have. Shout out you. Also, kind of weird energy by his dad to say that Patrick Ewing is still the best Nick. That was kind of weird. I think he was just trying to get Jalen Brunson focused on next season.

36:54Big Cat:Yeah, just bust his balls a little bit. Yeah, just get him locked back in. Yeah, it's not true. It's just objectively not true right now because Jalen Brunson won a title.

37:02PFT Commenter:Yeah.

37:02Big Cat:And he did it.

37:05PFT Commenter:Yeah, that free agent signing changed the course of the Knicks franchise. It really did. I know they had to do other pieces. And again, Leon Rose deserves so much credit because every piece that they did, every move they made along the way, they got chastised. Like the Carl Anthony Towns, they got chastised for that. The Mikael Bridges, everyone's like, that's too many picks to keep up. but they built a perfect team around Jalen Brunson and his strengths with elite guards, a stretch center in Cat, and an absolute dog in Josh Hart, and that's what you get, an unbelievable championship.

37:42Big Cat:So much like we're having a debate on whether or not Jalen Brunson, greatest Nick of all time, which I look forward to hearing that for the next six months. Oh, yeah. Does this also mean Nico Harrison, worst general manager of all time? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Cements him? Oh, yeah. I think for his legacy, you've got to be 1-1 now.

38:00PFT Commenter:Was he the GM when Brunson walked? I don't know if he was. He was, but there's – Nico Harrison fights back about this and says it was Mark Cuban. Got it. That's right. That's what I would say, too, if I was Nico Harrison. I knew there was a little something. But, yeah, they had both those guys. Pretty insane to think about. And Jalen Brunson's just a winner. That's all he's done. I mean, is the – Max, is the Villanova team, the 2016-2018, is that three-year stretch, the best college team of all time? Now they have an NBA title, too. I mean, it's the only college basketball team to have two national championships and an NBA finals.

38:34Right.

38:34PFT Commenter:And there was only one college basketball team to beat them in the tournament. That's pretty crazy. That's true. That's probably the best team of all time. What team was that? That was the 2017 Wisconsin Badgers. We don't count that year. We don't count. That's crazy. Actually, I think it's true. I'll take my wins wherever I can get them, Max. With Jay Wright. We're the only ones who stopped them. How come they didn't win three?

38:53Big Cat:They just dominated the NBA. Yeah. They had the biggest margin of victory, I believe, in the history of the NBA playoffs. How come Jay Wright couldn't win three championships?

39:02PFT Commenter:Badgers got in the way. Yeah, Badgers. Badgers got in the way. And we signed Luigi this weekend. Yeah. Mangione? Everything's coming up. Everything's coming up, Cats. Everything's coming up. Bees up, baby. Everything's coming up. Hank, so are you... I know this wasn't your favorite sporting event to watch. How long is it going to take you to get over this? or you're already over it. You already moved on. Because memes will be reminding you that he's a winner. Yeah, I mean, it is what it is. It's probably till the season starts next year because then they can be like, the past is the past. Is there a part of you?

39:43There's nothing you can say all summer.

39:44PFT Commenter:Deep down in places you don't want to talk about, is there a part of you that's like, what if everything's just flipped?

39:48Big Cat:No.

39:49PFT Commenter:Okay.

39:51Big Cat:how concerned would you be if week one of football season you guys don't win shit so you'll never understand I'm asking the question I'm asking the question I'm asking the question I got to ride on a duck boat hypothetical I know head coach of the Celtics Hank you're living the past for a championship what if it's all flipped you can't take it away you can't take it away yeah maybe who knows

40:15PFT Commenter:what if the Jets win the AFC East this year what if it just flipped I will be able to remember the six Super Bowls and the three Super Bowl after parties I got to go to, no matter what, even if we never win anything, I will have memories that you can't take away from you. So yeah, there's a chance. But you can't be scared. I'm not scared. If it happens, it happens. But I'm not worried. I'm not going to be like, oh, I'm scared that everything's flipped. I was saying, well, no. There's only one way to find out. Deep down in places you don't want to talk about. No. Like deep, deep down. Late night.

40:46PFT Commenter:You wake up at two in the morning to take a piss. and in the back of your head you're like, fuck, what if it flipped? No. Memes, have you thought about that? He reached for the Jets. I have thought about that. Yeah, what if it flipped? Dude, living Hank's life would be sick. What if it flipped? What if the whole thing flipped? Well, I am a winner.

41:03Big Cat:You are officially a winner. Very much. Bonafide winner. Hank, what would you think if week one of the NFL season you woke up and the Jets win by 50 and then you lose to the Seahawks by 50? At that point, will you be scared? I think dual 50 burgers? Dual 50 burgers. Yeah, if the dual 50 burgers, yeah. Then I would be like, maybe there's a glitch in the matrix. Okay, one more small point of order. Because that would require the Jets to do a 50 burger. One more small point of order. You did say that you do Soggy Sorrows. Did I? If the Knicks won. When did I say that? You said that you'd do Soggy Sorrows.

41:40Do tell me when.

41:42Big Cat:I don't remember. A few weeks ago.

41:44PFT Commenter:Did he say he would? I recall him saying that. Anyone else? I want to say yes, but I can't. Why would I say that? Because you didn't think the Knicks were going to win. Duh. I just don't remember saying that. Does anyone in the booth remember him saying it? It doesn't make any sense for me. I can see you saying you'll do Soggy Stars. I mean, that doesn't make any sense. What? Memes, you just said somebody's got to say something. I don't recall. I don't recall that being said. What was somebody's got to say something? Somebody's got to back up PFT because I don't remember. I don't remember. I want to, but I really want to.

42:23PFT Commenter:I don't remember if he did or not. I don't remember that either. I'm going to say he did. Okay. You know what? I'm going to say he did. I'm going to back up PFT. You know what?

42:31Big Cat:Hank doesn't have to do it. Yeah. You know what? He did.

42:35PFT Commenter:No. You know what? It happened on his birthday. We should give him a break. Was it like, hey, if the Knicks win at all, I'll do Soggy Sorrows? Was it something like that? Oh, wait a minute. Yeah. I do remember that. That actually sounds like the quote. Now that you say it, you should have said the quote. Yeah. I think we were doing the podcast. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, oh, he did a face. Yeah. I'll do Soggy Sorrows. Yes. Good call. He did a face. You want me to go do Soggy Sorrows? I want to know if you said it. If not. I don't think he said it.

43:09Big Cat:I don't think he said it either. I was trying to gaslight you into thinking maybe you did say it. I'll do it

43:20Big Cat:Max I didn't say that You're making that part up What? Alright let me do an ad real quick Wait wait wait I do have a question for Hank though In all seriousness Is New York the team That's the one that them winning a championship Affects you deeply On a level that no other city If they had won would affect you on Cleveland was tough Sixers would have been bad Sixers would have been worse I don't think that this is as low as it can get You're acting like this is rock bottom I feel like You guys were here The city of Cleveland wanted to kill me In 2016 They did I don't want to see Any team from the east Those specifically, the Knicks Sixers, now the Wizards yeah that's right why did the city of cleveland want to kill you i just talked a lot of shit on that entire run and just said it was a trash city and their fans are losers so when they won it was it was i gotta like death a lot of a lot of mean things were said to me uh that was the beginning of this podcast and i realized kind of the the reach that we had because of the the death threats and things that were being said to me off of what i thought were like offhanded comments about just the city of Cleveland being a joke.

44:44Yeah, a shithole. Do you still believe this? Yeah, I mean, it was more LeBron. Again, that's where I was talking about LeBron. And also the city. Yeah, and then they... But you still think the city's a joke.

44:59Big Cat:What you're not realizing is... Hank would never have realized that he hates the city of Cleveland if it wasn't for LeBron. The city of Cleveland is the city. It's fine. I wouldn't live there so I think it'd probably be Philly number one like if Philly yeah if the Sixers specifically won an NBA championship you'd be down way worse than the Knicks right probably equivalent like I would be rooting hard for them against them every single game and it would suck to watch them win yeah

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48:50PFT Commenter:I haven't even looked at this. So this is his winners and losers of, I assume, the NBA finals. Hold on. Retrieving. Open. I don't have it. All right, here we go. Winners. Dads who coach their kids. Rick Brunson.

49:07Big Cat:Okay, yeah. I was just going to say the entire, like the fundamentally sound New York Knicks hustling. Dads across America are probably like, hey, youngster. Yeah. This is how you play basketball.

49:20PFT Commenter:Yeah. short chubby guys you can do it Mark Cuban said Brunson was chubby draft war room okay cat nobody will remember his 2.1 for 7 game that's

49:31Big Cat:true I forgot it until just now

49:33PFT Commenter:yep Mikael Bridges fuck them picks Wind Horse has a quote winning a championship means you never have to apologize that's that's true and then Scotty Barnes Max future Festus Lake Scotty Barnes Wemby not for sure the future Festus Lake So it could be Scotty Barnes. Yeah. Losers. Monks. Yeah, about time. Tough behavior from a monk.

49:57Big Cat:About time we knocked those losers down a peg.

49:59PFT Commenter:I think this one I actually put in his head. But Rutgers, because the fact they didn't make the tournament with Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey, is still insane. It is crazy. Hospitality, people getting jumped, no handshake line, which we'll talk about in a second. And then this one I completely agree with. The New York Nets. they they honestly should just move that should be the Sonics how do you there is not a single kid in in New York greater New York area the tri-state area that is going to want to root for the Nets no absolutely not how are they going like how are they going to sell season tickets who is buying those tickets they built a super team and got stopped by COVID twice they tried to be they did it twice Remember?

50:48PFT Commenter:With Prokhorov? They got KG and Paul Pierce. Yeah. But they were so old. I know, but they've done it. Like, they've done the all-in, here are our guys twice.

50:58Big Cat:Two times. If it wasn't for that, for Kevin Durant's foot. Yeah. For just his little toe. Who knows what happens with that team.

51:05PFT Commenter:I feel, yeah, I feel awful for it. Imagine being a Nets fan, like, living in Brooklyn last night.

51:10Big Cat:I saw, yeah, there was that. I guarantee, if you're a Nets fan living in Brooklyn, you probably just got swept up. Yeah. You probably were just like, you know what? I'm never going to win one.

51:17PFT Commenter:Yeah, there was a video from Fort Green, which is like a half mile from where the Nets play. From Barclays, yeah. Yeah, that's just going nuts.

51:26Big Cat:Yeah, you just have – I mean, Frank. Congratulations, Frank Fleming.

51:30PFT Commenter:Oh, man. World champion. I don't know what you do. You just – you have to – I honestly think the league should look at making the Nets either the Vegas team or the Sonics.

51:43Big Cat:Yeah, they tried. They tried to come into New York and they tried to take over. Or go back to New Jersey. Last night, it should be the last straw for that franchise.

51:53PFT Commenter:I called them the New York Nets a second ago, the Brooklyn Nets. Yeah, because nobody cares. Yeah, it's insane. They even know their own role. They're like, we're just asking for one bird. Also, what a terrible name for a team, too. The Nets. They just got to go back to Jersey. They got to go back to Jersey. At Jersey, they at least. They have. That was a thing. It's like the Devils fans. Right. Like there's, there's, you know, they can at least get fans away from the Rangers and Islanders. It's like, Hey, we live in Jersey, Jersey pride. You got to do it. Got to get back. The Spurs. Let's talk about them.

52:28PFT Commenter:Wemby. Tough, tough finals.

52:32Big Cat:Oh, do you mean, do you mean victim Wimbanyama? Oh yeah. That was going to be my who's back. Skip Bayless. Fucking still got it. Great job. Skip. We knew you had it. Victim Wimbanyama. just when you think the guy might you know the game might have passed him by he comes out there and just drops a bomb like that it's perfect on on wimby the way that he uh he carried himself in the press conferences after the games the exact quote was victim

52:55PFT Commenter:when bonyama the alien has a lot of earthling tendencies yeah not a great can i say not a great series for Wemby in terms of clutch moments, in terms of maybe pushing, shoving, flopping, whatever you want to say. There's one thing that I will push back on. I don't give a fuck about the handshake line when the other team is celebrating their title. I understand there's a difference. Like, he didn't actively, like, it wasn't a piston situation where he walked off while there was still time on the clock. if I just won the NBA title I'm not going to look to shake the hands of the loser like that one I had no problem with they're celebrating like yes he should you know what he should have done he should have given credit to the Knicks in the post game I don't think he did that but in terms of like stopping to try to find the guys as they're dogpiling on each other and having this moment that's a little awkward I don't really think that that's that one doesn't bother me that much

53:55Big Cat:yeah like interrupting the dogpile like you're referee in football right pulling guys off the pile right let me i want to shake your hand um yeah i mean obviously in hockey it's the greatest tradition in all sports that's facts the post stanley cup handshake line doesn't get any sweeter than that uh i think that wimby is just a bad loser which is fine and i don't mean it like necessarily as a knock against him because there's a lot of guys who are great competitors that are bad losers and i think wimby just might be one of those guys he did say i i mean we we talked about one of the quotes where he was making it seem like maybe they They were the better team.

54:29Big Cat:But he did say, I was not ready to win a ring. That's obvious. In terms of desire to do well, intensity and effort, we were at the good level. I was at a good level. But experience, it's mistakes. We don't lack talent. We don't lack ability. We just make too many mistakes, and I make too many mistakes. He's right. He's 100 % right. I think that it's going to get overblown because he did kind of sound like a jerk after a few of these games, and he didn't have any humility after losses, in which he played a pretty big part of the reasons why they lost. He's definitely the reason why they were there, but he's also the reason why they lost, and he did not really seem to take a whole lot of accountability after some losses.

55:07Big Cat:And so people are listening to him, and they're turning on him, which I get. I just think he's a bad loser. I think he hates losing, and I think he's still going to be great, and he's going to come back stronger, and he's just going to be a force in the league for a long time. But this series, it did him no favors.

55:23PFT Commenter:It would have been better for him to lose to the Thunder. Yeah. Because then it would have been a clear – because we also found out for all the complaints about the Thunder, the Spurs play a very aggressive, handsy style of basketball as well. Very French, yeah. That I think people were kind of sick of. Darren Fox was so, so abysmal. I don't even – like, he might have to just come out and say that he needs, like, some crazy surgery after this because, and the fact that he was just still in the games and shooting, and I know they started playing Harper more. Steph Castle kind of faded at the end.

55:59PFT Commenter:I still feel highly on him. But, like, overall, this is why you don't see teams in the NBA winning when they're just so young. Like, you have to lose before you win. That's just the history of the NBA. I know I've talked about it a million times, but the reason why I have is because it's the truth. You can't, there are few and far between. There's maybe a couple spots in NBA history where you can point to and be like, yeah, that team was just all young. Like even Magic, people are like, oh, Magic won his first year. He had Kareem. Like having a team that has not been through the wars, trying to figure out how to win these.

56:36PFT Commenter:Like Wemby said it after the Western Conference final. He celebrated a little too much. Closing out games, having gas in the tank, learning how to like keep that energy at a good level. You saw Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson did not change his facial expression for two months. He was the same guy for two months straight. And that's what it takes to win a title. And the Knicks went through it and lost the last few years to get to this point where they knew what it took to get over on top of the mountain. So, yeah, I don't I think the Spurs, I think we all freak out. Like someone pointed out and it was good.

57:14PFT Commenter:I can't remember. I'm sorry. Someone tweeted it, but like the whole Mitch Johnson thing as well. Do you remember in 2011 it was, I believe? 2011, yeah. Eric Spolstra was said to be like the worst coach ever when the Heat lost to the Mavs in the finals. And then what did he do? He got better, and he ended up being one of the best coaches in the NBA. I think Mitch Johnson had a bad series. I don't think Mitch Johnson's going to have another bad series. You know what I mean? Like he's going to learn and get better just like Wemby, just like Harper, just like Castle, all these guys. Just maybe get someone who can be a backup center and give you meaningful minutes because Luke Cornett, that was rough to watch.

57:56PFT Commenter:I don't think he's ever held onto a ball before. But yeah, the Spurs are going to be fine overall. They were too young.

58:05Big Cat:It is interesting that after the game, you've got guys talking about Dylan Harper being upset with playing time. and you've got guys that are that are talking about like it certainly seems like there were some efforts to possibly play dylan harper more but then there was the understanding that that's really going to piss off fox yeah and then you're pretty much having to give up on fox yeah if you start to bench him which oh no which you should you might you might want to do that yeah it might not be a bad thing to do it you're trying to win an nba title i think i think i think like harper and castle together are awesome yeah they're a really really strong duo and add in wimby getting stronger hopefully a little bit fatter um for another off season and the spurs will be great they'll be back hank you are officially out on wimby choker can't win the big one done

58:59I mean, I think they're going to have to get a whole new look team. Like, they got to get rid of Fox, which is tough because of his contract.

59:08PFT Commenter:Yeah, there's three guys in the NBA making more money than him next year. Jason Tatum, SGA, and Devin Booker. That's it. Yeesh. And I just don't. Like, he played so bad. I'm sorry. That's for 29-30. They have demons. Like, the players on that team, young, yeah, they made it to the finals, yeah. that game they're going to be seeing ghosts like that's going to haunt them i i that's going to haunt them in the playoffs for years to come i don't think everyone just assumes you know we talked on the show last year oh it's not how many titles the thunder are going to win it's you know are they going to be the greatest team of all time they're not back everyone just assumes when he's going to be back i think that performance in the finals is going to haunt him and them for more than people give it credit for well i the thunder is i mean the thunder i think the injuries I think the Thunder, if they were fully healthy, probably would have beaten the Spurs.

59:57PFT Commenter:And that might have stopped us from having this conversation about the Spurs embarrassing themselves in the NBA Finals. Because they would have probably been taken down by a more veteran team, which that's what happened when they played the Knicks. I think they'll be fine, though. I don't think that... I mean, it's a true test of if Wemby's going to be one of the all-time greats. Will this haunt him, or will he just get better?

1:00:21Big Cat:I think he's going to get better. And I think that the team's going to be, yeah, they're obviously going to make some changes. No team stays the same.

1:00:28PFT Commenter:I mean, LeBron, remember? LeBron got swept by the Spurs in his first finals. And he was like, I have to be, I realized the levels of this and how much better. He got a new team, new coach. True. True. Mitch Johnson stinks.

1:00:48But do you remember Eric Spolstra? did he blow three of the biggest leads in NBA Finals history? Three of five. I am not defending him in this series.

1:00:58PFT Commenter:He was horrific in this series. I'm just saying it would be smart for the Spurs to be like, hey, let's see if he can grow from this and not just be like, hey, the young team with the young coach, we got to change everything. I would run it back if I were the Spurs. Maybe not with De 'Aaron Fox, but again, you don't know how to do that.

1:01:17Big Cat:Yeah. I guess there's a lot that we don't know about what goes on behind the scenes but i would i think that they they choked away utterly choked away at least three games yeah like completely blew it in terms of in-game management and also in terms of just brain farts in big moments just like really really stupid shit that you don't see

1:01:38PFT Commenter:out of smart teams that win but again i i go back to just the knicks the knicks being in that position where they're they capitalize on it i i give just as much credit to the knicks as i like i'm not going to say that the Spurs choked this series and the part of winning is being good at the end of the games.

1:01:54Big Cat:Yeah. I think that yeah, there's three games that only the Spurs could have lost that also only the Knicks could have taken advantage of. Right.

1:02:02PFT Commenter:Right. It's like it was a big shot. It was a perfect storm. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Any other last thoughts on the NBA finals? Great season. Memes. Zach. You guys are winners. Champions. Winner. Win. Winners.

1:02:20Big Cat:Now, you're going to go back to back? Sure. I feel like you say anything once you get one. Yep. Right? There's only one team that can go back to back now. Zach, what does this mean for Mello's legacy? I'm still processing everything. Okay.

1:02:37PFT Commenter:Well, I'd like an answer on what it means for Mello's legacy. I will say the gentleman brought the superhero. Just confirm superhero. Did you see Mello said, I think there was a quote that he was yelling out orders during the comeback game. What do you mean? Like he was on the baseline. I did see that. Oh, I like that. Coaching him up. It was almost like verbal facilitating. There's recommendations.

1:03:01Big Cat:Does winning a championship like this and actually experiencing top-of-the-line joy with an awesome, fun, entertaining team that was just fucking dominant, does that make you look back at all at Lynn Sanon and be like, what the fuck? Why did we go so crazy back then? Oh, yeah. I think this is like 1-1, how to win a championship.

1:03:21PFT Commenter:Like, were we all basically the dumbest people in the world when Kevin Knox had one good summer league game? He was good in that summer league. He was, actually. It was more than one game. But, yeah, it is funny to think back. And I'm not saying that's every fan base. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everywhere. But it is funny to look back and be like, oh, shit, this is what good basketball looks like. all that other stuff that we thought just really bad yeah but and that's what you do as a sports

1:03:51Big Cat:fan you delude yourself into thinking that no matter you know like one one small stretch of something out of the ordinary is like that's what the rest of your life is going to be like and maybe we figure something out and then when you actually do have that success later you realize oh yeah this this looks absolutely nothing like that two-week stretch that i thought that sam howe was going to

1:04:12PFT Commenter:be a super bowl winning quarterback oh this is good stew finder said uh about wemby's quote we absolutely dominated for most of the series he said he's absolutely right now get down on your knees with your shine box and make sure our trophy is spotless for our parade thursday douchebag

1:04:30Big Cat:wemby on his knees is taller than stew way way taller way taller still could not polish stew's shoes he'd have to be laying down on his belly it is so funny how fast like wimby became such a

1:04:42PFT Commenter:villain it was instant and i like it yeah it's listen this is a great series for the nba yeah we got great storyline dude where the trophy was on the court we love that it did feel special

1:04:55Big Cat:felt really special is wimby confirmed playing next year oh oh because he said see you never see you never never feels like maybe forever for a long time yeah could just be in the temple permanently yeah like uh east ventura yeah maybe maybe comes back with like a among some prodigy

1:05:13PFT Commenter:hmm i didn't even think about that but you might be right yeah okay that would actually

1:05:18Big Cat:kick ass if the spurs got rid of fox and then they just had a dude in like a robe on the bench next to wimby at all times or if they got rid of fox because they're like we need someone better and then wimby's like i retire yeah it's my spiritual advisor okay the other

1:05:34PFT Commenter:trophy carolina hurricanes win the stanley cup and brandon bussey the the knights got busied big time busied they got officially busied the the the entire series basically flipped when anderson got his uh bell rung on that was a game three and they're like oh yeah this goalie that we're about to put in is better than everyone else and it just i i it was incredible stanley Cup final we had like four or five games that were just peak to hockey just craziness intensity comebacks goals over time I I don't remember a Stanley Cup final where I like I was so convinced that the Knights were the vastly superior team well for the first three games no then what happened

1:06:22Big Cat:was the third period of game three happened yeah and we said like if the if the Hurricanes if they win this it's over it turns out it was over because the knights just gave up that massive lead yeah at that moment i feel like the hurricanes were like okay we can do this and the knights the butthole tightened a little bit yep and then it was just all canes from that point on but dominant

1:06:41PFT Commenter:dominus similar to the to the next dominant dominant run from the hurricanes they lost three games as well right yeah did they i think they went sweep sweep five games six games good for

1:06:54Big Cat:Good for Jordan Stahl, too.

1:06:55PFT Commenter:Yeah. I mean, they were also good for Hurricanes fans. They were kind of the joke of the league, not in a terrible team way, but like a joke of the league in that every year I'd get to the conference final, then get absolutely smashed, and no one took him seriously. And then they just got on this dominant, dominant run. And Bussie, you have to wonder, like, what does the series look like if Bussie never comes into it? Also, what does the series look like if Carter Hart maybe gets benched at some point?

1:07:24Big Cat:Also, yeah, what do our lives look like with no Bussie? I can't even remember what it was like before Bussie.

1:07:29PFT Commenter:No. I'm sad that all the playoffs are over, though. It is a little, Hank, it's a little sad. It is sad. I was hoping for a game seven. I was, too. It would have been nice to have a game seven, but the Knights are just not. It felt like the Hurricanes dominated that series, like I said, from that third period on, even though they lost that third game. They were just a better team overall. So, yeah, congrats to the Hurricanes.

1:07:55Big Cat:And Jordan Stahl is, I believe, the oldest Conn Smythe Trophy winner in the history of the AHL. He deserves it. So good for him. And then Rob Brendamore to do it as a player, as a coach. Pretty cool. Yeah. Pretty cool moment for Hurricanes fans. I know that they are Duke basketball fans for the most part. No, there's some UNC. I'm willing to overlook that and say congratulations to the Hurricanes fans.

1:08:17PFT Commenter:UNC, NC State. I bet you there's a lot of NC State. Yeah, probably, yeah, because Raleigh, yeah. I can deal with that. It's actually probably not a lot of Duke because Duke's a lot of out of state.

1:08:26Big Cat:Okay, well, for the Duke fans, I'm willing to - Yeah, fuck you guys. Yeah, I'm willing to be the bigger man, but if you are a Duke fan, just know I'm a little bit less happy for you.

1:08:34PFT Commenter:Also, I feel like Duke, like true, true Duke douchebag fans, their only sport is Duke basketball. There is no other sport. The brotherhood. Do you know what I mean? it's not a sport it's life yeah yeah or it's yankees lakers duke right i think duke basketball

1:08:54Big Cat:fans also tend to enjoy the fact that all the players on the team like have to go to class and they have to take take tests and shit it's like i like i like to only cheer for good students yeah not much for pro sports man myself that's pretty pretty sick the cup is always so fucking

1:09:11PFT Commenter:Yeah, Rod Brennan, the 2006. That was 20 years ago. Yeah, captaining the Hurricanes 2006, then coaching the Hurricanes in 2026. Pretty damn awesome. And I love that he's always got the little Pepe Le Pew in his hair. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, a little skunk. Some salt and pepper. Okay, what should we talk about next? Should we talk about World Cup? We can talk some Cup. We can talk some Cup. We're the best team ever.

1:09:38Big Cat:I believe that we might be good.

1:09:43PFT Commenter:I believe we might be good. Listen, I don't care if Paraguay stinks. They don't. Yeah, but I'm saying I don't even care. If someone say, hey, Paraguay actually stinks, I don't give a fuck. We would have beaten every single team in the world on Friday night.

1:09:59Big Cat:That was the best I've ever seen U.S. soccer play in any game ever. It was awesome. It was incredible. It was a fun brand of soccer. they're calling it the Pochettino Pentagon that he has at midfield.

1:10:10PFT Commenter:Listen, I've been skeptical of Pochettino because I've been led astray many times by whoever's the coach of the U.S. The Pentagon was sick. The Pentagon was great. It was really sick. The Pentagon is Pulisic, Balogun, McKinney, Tillman,

1:10:26Big Cat:and Tyler Adams. Dude, Balogun. Just dominating the middle of the field. And then with Dest making the runs down the outside, we were fucking awesome. There's no two ways about it. I rewatched the entire game on Saturday morning and I came away even more impressed when I rewatched it. I'm not saying we're going to win the world cup because there's a lot of good teams. There's a lot of teams out there that are better than us. We could, but the way that we played on Friday, we could beat any team in the world. If we played like that, that's not saying we can do it eight games in a row, but we can beat any team in the world.

1:10:59If we played that style,

1:11:02Big Cat:that much pressure. I liked, I loved at the very beginning on the kickoff, we just sent it down the field out of bounds because we said, fuck you, we're going to press on you guys in your own end. And that was the most impressive thing. I felt like if we lost the ball in the attacking third, we would just swarm and counter press back and more times than not, win the ball back. The pressure was just, it was suffocating. It was an awesome brand of football. Balogun is a striker that we've never had before, a guy that can absolutely finish. and he is just he's dynamic up front i'm so glad that he chose to come back home to the united states because he was like oh maybe i'll go to nigeria maybe i'll be england whatever so glad

1:11:40PFT Commenter:we got that guy back i mean the fact that the the reason why we have him in the first place is that his mom was too pregnant to fly yeah she was too fat to fly yep i think she showed up to the airport and they were like no you can't you're too pregnant to fly she didn't live in america then she had to stay give birth that's awesome yeah i remember we need to do that more often i remember when we

1:12:02Big Cat:we had him when we uh like the u.s national team made the announcement that we got baligan because i think it was on the same day that there was a little oopsie from one nba player in memphis and we said that's baligan those are two of john moran's favorite things um and that was an amazing day for u.s soccer to get him and pulisic is just i think he's healthy we pulled him at halftime I think it was just like a precautionary thing The way that we have him Creating in space Connecting with Balogun is going to be tough For any team to defend Where what you saw It's not a fluke because Paraguay I believe they gave up the fewest goals in South American Qualifying last year So even though they didn't finish at the top of South America It was like Argentina And then everybody else grouped up together They had the best defense in South America And listen, will some of this look bad?

1:12:55PFT Commenter:Yes Yeah, but this is what I just want to root for an exciting team. And I saw the stat in six of the U.S. has been in 11 World Cups. In six of the 11 that we've been in, we've scored less than four goals in the entire tournament that we've been in. Yep. We scored four goals on Friday night. I just want goals. And we could have had more.

1:13:19Big Cat:Yeah. And we could have had a lot more. We were being nice to them. I made a list of the top five U.S. soccer performances that I've ever seen in my entire life. How many are ties? None of them are ties.

1:13:29PFT Commenter:Whoa. Not even the one against Portugal? None of them are ties. That was a sick tie. How many are losses? We'll get to that.

1:13:36Big Cat:One of them's a loss. We'll get to that. I know which one's a loss. Top five U.S. soccer performances of all time in my lifetime. Men's team. Number five, Dos Acero in the 2002 World Cup when we beat Mexico. It was Dos Acero Uno. That was the first one. And that was in the knockout stage. That was awesome. number four the one nothing lost to brazil in 1994 at the knockout stage on the fourth of july uh number three and brazil would go on to become world cup champions that year number three the one nothing lost to germany in 2002 which we actually should have tied but there was a handball that they didn't call in the box it's a bunch of bullshit um number two the two nothing win over spain in 2009 in the confederations cup semi-final they were the number one team in the world we beat them we go to the final we were up to nothing against brazil at halftime then billy mays died and then everything fell apart and brazil scored three goals on us in the second half that makes sense and then number one was the game against paraguay in the world cup i've never seen the u.s look that good at soccer and it was it was awesome to see i loved every second of it the defense looked amazing chris richards was uh probably the best defender on the field and then And also, Tim Ream had a great game, even though he's old and he's slow.

1:14:52Big Cat:He still played really, really good. So now we get Australia and the Socceroos. No problem.

1:14:58PFT Commenter:We're so good. We're so fucking good at soccer. They're fast. Australia's fast. Our defense is not.

1:15:05Big Cat:Also, Gio Reyna had a sick-ass goal at the very end. That was cool to see.

1:15:10PFT Commenter:I'm just going to enjoy being cocky for a week. I believe in this team. We have a week now that we have a 4-1 in our back pocket. Yeah. I'm going to be cocky about it.

1:15:21Big Cat:It was an awesome game. We don't like to play the ratings game, but I think it did draw more eyeballs in the United States than any game in the NBA Finals, which is pretty crazy. Whoa. Hank, did you watch the game? No. I was on a concert.

1:15:36PFT Commenter:I was a concert. It was great. Are you getting a little soccer fever hearing us talk about it? I'll tune into some soccer this week. Okay. Did you watch any of the highlights of the game? Nope. you should watch highlights are fun can I pitch you on something we were really good can I pitch you on something soccer when we play a real team I'll tune in okay soccer has decided that they're going to do quarters now except they're just pretending that it's not quarters they call them hydration breaks even though I think it was like 75 degrees in LA and indoor stadium yeah they're doing quarters now so kind of nice you can go take a piss break they just found a way to get more ads in our face it sucks yeah they just so fucking stupid told us there's gonna be hydration and they keep running

1:16:26Big Cat:the clock which i yeah whatever they do hydration and then it cuts to three commercials every time

1:16:31PFT Commenter:yeah it's crazy also who's back of the week lyndon donovan's hair looks incredible it does yeah it's all natural they run the clock yes it's three minutes it's the stupidest part of soccer dumbest

1:16:43Big Cat:shit ever, Max. The referee keeps track on his own little personal watch down on the field. So there's no official clock. Max, it's so dumb. So they just add an extra, like it's always an extra three to extra time?

1:16:56PFT Commenter:Yeah. How stupid is that? Just fucking call a timeout, give the kid some orange slices and Oreos and let him get back out there.

1:17:05Big Cat:Hank, will you do me a favor? Will you commit to watching 10 minutes of highlights from this game? 10 minutes. Why don't you come to the soccer bar Friday? It's 3 o 'clock. It looks sick. Let me show you a video.

1:17:21PFT Commenter:He's got to see. I have no kids this weekend, but I will not be in Chicago.

1:17:25Big Cat:Hank, I'm telling you, I agree with you for the most part that soccer can be a very boring sport and very frustrating to watch. This team is not boring. This team is fucking awesome.

1:17:35PFT Commenter:The Japan-Netherlands game was awesome. Yeah, it was. There were some really cool games this week. There were. There were some fun games. The World Cup is the best. Listen, I'm not the biggest soccer fan. If you can't get in on the World Cup, you're just not a sports fan.

1:17:51Big Cat:I love the rivalry. We got Scotland fans versus the Sun. They were not ready for the United States Sun. Alexi Lalas versus Zlatan and Thierry Henry. The funny thing about Alexi Lalas is the world. Yeah, Alexi Lalas, his ego is what people think Zlatan's ego is. And then Zlatan's like, why are you saying this? You're not Zlatan. You're not allowed to think like this. Only me. And then, oh, I love Japan. The Japanese fans, they were in Dallas. They were in Jerry's world today. They were playing against Netherlands. They bring their own trash bags into the game so that they can clean up the stadium after the game's over.

1:18:26PFT Commenter:I also saw the one Japanese fan that... So we talked about the Germany fans who, listen, whatever. Whatever you think about the viral tweets of them being like, hey, here's a gas station. This is incredible. Instant 5 ,000 retweets. By the way, I have no ill will towards those kids. They basically realized within the first two days of being in the U.S. that through Elon Musk paying people on Twitter, they can basically pay for their entire summer. Oh, yeah. By just going to Waffle House and hitting send tweet. Yeah. I did like, though, the Japanese guy. Did you guys see the Japanese guy who filled up on chips?

1:19:04PFT Commenter:Yeah. Chips and chipped himself to death. That's funny. I mean, listen, I chip myself to death all the time. So this is what he said. He said, there was a tweet from this Japanese guy. He said, USA, a Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything and the food was already arriving. Chips, salsa, unrequested, free. I stopped the waiter. We have not earned these. They just come with the table, man. They come with the table. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation. Wade carefully returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for your dinner.

1:19:36PFT Commenter:This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration. We trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity. the moment deserved and then i must report this calmly the basket emptied and a new one appeared did we refill the waiter said it's bottomless bottomless they have wells of salsa the supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined i think this is obviously a little fake but i don't give a fuck because this is we all chip ourselves to death and then my friend warned me don't fill up on chips dude too late i accepted three baskets honor demanded each one be finished an unfinished gift is an insult by the time my actual food arrived i was a ruined man yeah listen we understand chip bottomless chips and salsa and i still chip myself to death all the time i do love all these people coming and seeing how awesome i like the

1:20:23Big Cat:swedish chick that was like what is ranch this is amazing stuff i want to put this on everything yeah but yeah now you're gonna see you're gonna see some copycats out there now oh yeah big time

1:20:32PFT Commenter:and then finally before we do who's back the week and they get to mr big bong jerry o 'connell UFC 250, which is still ongoing. Those pictures of, I don't know who it was who stood up on top of the octagon in front of the White House. That was one of the coolest pictures ever. I didn't see that. Oh, my God. I got to find it for you. It was, can you pull it up? Max just left. Who was it, Zach? Hank, do you have anything to report UFC 250? Great spectacle. Derek Lewis got his ass kicked hard. Real bad. Knocked out real bad. Incredible flyover. let me see the picture there was the there was also flyover Travis Pastrana was doing Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds he was doing Dirt Bike right on Saturday and someone said this is like watching a movie where the plot is a 12 year old becomes president listen that was it was awesome to watch Travis Pastrana is the man we know that for a fact it was a picture whatever it was cool as fuck it was basically he was just standing on top of the octagon and the White House was right in front of him and it was Diego Lopez look photos look for me there it is look at that PFT that's cool to win a fight and then stand like that that's badass so yeah USC 250 okay should we do who's back of the week who's back of the week is brought to you by our friends at Twisted Tea Twisted Tea summers here and twisted tea is coming in clutch to turn our day drinking up a notch their new summer party pack is a brand new twisted lemonade made with real lemons and 5 % alcohol it's got that refreshing taste with a little kick no carbonation it goes down smooth we love twisted lemonade it's great to bring along if you're on the grill in the backyard with your friends whether it's hitting the course for a round pre-gaming a ball game or inviting the guys over some backyard grilling the new twisted tea summer party pack is perfect to Keep the good times rolling.

1:22:32PFT Commenter:Grab a refreshing Twisted Tea today. Twisted Tea. The new party pack is incredible. Perfect for the summer. It's the drink of the summer. Twisted Tea. Last thing about UFC 250. I always forget how stupid I am about. I like watching the UFC. I'm definitely a casual. I watch probably, I don't know, seven pay-per-views a year. But just anytime I tweet anything about it, I feel like such an idiot. because i was like derrick lewis how did he how did he how did he uh survive that arm bar and a bunch of people were like dude that wasn't he didn't the guy didn't know how to do an arm bar

1:23:08Big Cat:at all he was just literally just just holding his arm he was basically tickling his arm that's funny because we were watching it we were in the gambling cave we were all watching it and we covered our eyes we're like oh shit oh shit yeah he didn't set it at all meanwhile i'm sure if we

1:23:20PFT Commenter:had sound on joe rogan be like that's not in yeah joe rogan's tie by the way i yeah has he ever had

1:23:25Big Cat:one that was a merrill hodge tie preposterous it was it was the merrill hodge tie which is you have you have to tie it up so high to get the big knot that you want yeah that you have no choice but to have the shortest tie it didn't even clear his belly button and joe rogan is not how do i put that he's um he's about my height yeah so that tie was very short very short very short tie hank you're who's back of the week who's back the week is jackass yes they have a new movie coming out in theaters. I feel like I've always, I feel like they've come out with their last movie like four times. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but I don't care.

1:24:02Down for more Jackass. I'm gonna keep watching that.

1:24:04PFT Commenter:So excited. Billy Strings soundtrack, Jackass. That's, you know, the Venn diagram like that's, I'm all in. Billy Strings doing the soundtrack? Yeah. Oh, fuck the entire soundtrack? Or no, he did like a trailer like they put on, like he made an original song that's like, you know, a take on the regular Jackass. When is it out? 26th, I wanna say? Should the boys go? Should the boys try to go see it on the 25th? Because usually they come out. We should try to buy tickets. I'm down. Maybe do a little review on the pod. Jackass. Which the review will just be. Doubt. Remember that time when we got hit the nuts?

1:24:38PFT Commenter:That was awesome. I think we did this in LA. Yeah, we did. You're right. Run it back. Okay.

1:24:46Big Cat:They could make 20 more jackasses. And I would watch everything. It's my favorite thing ever.

1:24:52PFT Commenter:I love it so, so much. It's actually, I'm sad that this is it. All right, good. Who's back? Thank you. Pifty? My who's back of the week is James Harden. Remember when he put on the funnel and he had the space mask and they shit into it and Preston started puking in the space mask? Yeah, that was awesome. That was the fucking best.

1:25:12Big Cat:Remember when they put their dicks inside like little puppets so it looked like mice and then they put the mice into a snake pit until the snake bit their penis. That was the best. Remember the giant hand?

1:25:25PFT Commenter:The giant hand was so good. Yeah, it was good.

1:25:29Big Cat:Okay, sorry. My Who's Back of the Week is James Harden. James Harden is back. Got arrested on Saturday on a charge of unlawful carrying of a weapon in a motor vehicle, according to the Harris County District Clerk's Office in the great state of Texas. I did a little bit of research into this. because I was like, what does this mean? Unlawful carrying of a weapon in a motor vehicle. I looked into it. He had a gun that he's allowed to have. Basically, there's really no gun that you can't have in Texas. He just didn't have it in a holster in the car. Oh. And so they arrested him for that. And apparently the cops do that if they're just like, if you're being a dick or if there's a reason why they want to take you in, maybe they suspect you of something else.

1:26:12Big Cat:Okay. And they see that you don't have it in a holster. They'll arrest you for that. very hard to make that charge stick. Yeah. So I think James Harden, I'm going to say free James Harden. Okay. I don't think that of all things that you could be mad at James Harden for, this is like probably 50th on the list. Yeah. I would put every playoff game that he's had is worse than him carrying a gun without a holster in his car.

1:26:39PFT Commenter:Listen, I'm going to go basically fully off of what you just told me and none of my own research. I agree. Free James Harden and Hank agreed to do Sagisaris. Free James Harden. Yeah. Both those things happen. What do you think about James Harden, Hank? Free James Harden, I guess. If he goes to jail, will you do Sagisaris? Yeah. Okay.

1:27:01Big Cat:Yes. Wait, he was held on a$100 bond? So they were trying to humiliate him. Yeah. They were trying to embarrass the man. Yeah. It was just sitting out? He just had a gun out. It was a naked gun. He had a naked gun in his car. basically a stripper of guns was in his car and had no clothes and they arrested him for it because they're haters. That's what I'm going to say. The Harris County police are haters.

1:27:26PFT Commenter:Okay. My who's back the week. I have two. First is Kentucky sports radio. We are hosting Kentucky sports radio on Tuesday tomorrow. Please listen. We do this. I think we've done it eight out of the last nine years. Our good friend, Matt Jones, Kentucky sports radio. He goes on vacation in the summer. He lets us host for a day. It's very fun. We also, please, we want to talk to real Kentucky Sports Radio callers. So let those people call in. We will run the best Kentucky Sports Radio calls on Wednesday's show. So if you can't tune in live, we'll have some of the highlights. But, yeah, one of our favorite days to host a radio show.

1:28:08PFT Commenter:And we're going to be doing it again.

1:28:10Big Cat:We'll be screening out phone calls that don't have Kentucky area codes.

1:28:13PFT Commenter:Yeah, and then who's back of the week. It's not really a who's back, but it just needs to be mentioned. Jacob Mizrowski is a problem. That was insane what he did on Friday night. He struck Kyle Schwarber out with a 105 mile an hour pitch on the black. How are you supposed to hit that? He threw a 15 strikeout Maddox, and a Maddox is under 100 pitches, complete game. He never got to a three ball count. He gave up one hit to Kyle Schwerber One hit all game He had 15 K's He had 26 Swing and misses He is in the last 8 starts He's 7-0 .17 ERA

1:29:00Big Cat:Of the top 10 fastest pitches this year How many do you think he's thrown? All of them

1:29:06PFT Commenter:He threw 105 miles an hour I think of like the 50 fastest recorded pitches ever by a starting pitcher. I think he has like 45 of them. Listen, and I hate the Brewers, but one thing that I can't stand is and people doing this is like, wow, he's going to get hurt. Fuck off, dude. This is insane what we're watching. Just enjoy it. You don't have to wish injury on a guy. It's insane.

1:29:37Big Cat:He's awesome. Remember when he made the All-Star game and everybody was like, why are we putting this guy in the all it's a little too early yeah uh do you remember who

1:29:43PFT Commenter:complained it was the philadelphia phillies yeah well that's just got fucking that's stand shoved you got shoved he he pitched in four games yeah but he's this good yeah listen very good yes but that is not that is not what an all-star is what is an all-star someone who is like displayed something throughout the entire season not someone who just got called up that happens to be very good but if he's that good but it's about like what you have done in the first half of the season

1:30:12Big Cat:not what you have done in the last month butts in seats i have yeah see that's what yeah butts and seats i get it it he did not deserve to be an all-star last year yeah i stand by that

1:30:23PFT Commenter:this pitch is insane i have an uncomfortable uh conversation starter i'd like to ask real quick the yeah i mean it's it's look at that it's nuts point point seven one point one seven era that's just put your hands up and be like we're witnessing something that's just insane insane 80 strikeouts in his last eight starts um is this and he's he's a guest and and uh a front of the show, but Paul Skeens, like, what do you do if you're Paul Skeens right now? I mean, that was the quickest. Jacob Mizrowski is the most electric arm in baseball. It's not close right now. I just, I, yeah. Paul Skeens is an absolute stud.

1:31:11I was making the Chris Sanchez argument two weeks ago and it's like, right. It's Mizrowski. It's Mizrowski.

1:31:18Big Cat:This is unheard of what he's doing right now. Who do you think should have won National League Player of the Month in May, Max? Christopher Sanchez did win. He didn't give up a run. Would you trade that for the All-Star game last year? What? Would you trade that NL Player of the Month for the All-Star game last year? I don't care. Give this one to Miz. I don't care. Yeah, would you? You cared a lot. I currently do not care. Sure. No. I don't care. Wait, Max.

1:31:49PFT Commenter:that game on Friday night when Jacob Izrowski threw a complete game. Did you guys get a hit? Alright, great. Not a no-hitter. Shout out to Orber. There you go. See how easy that is? You asked me a question, I answered the question. Right, I know.

1:32:06Big Cat:And I'm telling you, that's not

1:32:07PFT Commenter:a no-hitter.

1:32:08Big Cat:For the record, Max doesn't care.

1:32:09PFT Commenter:You guys did not get no-hit on Friday night. Nope, didn't.

1:32:14Big Cat:How you feeling about your Phils? He's a fucking problem, dude. He's a problem. How you feeling about the fightings? We got to pick up a right-handed bat. Our only right-handed bat just went down today. Trey Turner's got to pick it up. That's what I think about the Phils right now.

1:32:27PFT Commenter:Have you thought about clapping for him? There's going to need to be some clapping soon because he has, like, the worst OPS in baseball right now. Oh, no. Cubs got some guys. Yeah, he has the 10th worst OPS. We might have a few on that list. Guys want Suzuki. Say, yeah. Yeah. All Phillies Twitter is asking for him. He tweaked his knee today, I think, which was bound to happen, having to play right field every day. Zach, go ahead. But, yeah, Jacob Mizrowski, if you're a casual baseball fan, if you're not someone who's tuned in, it's insane what he's doing right now. And, again, I fucking hate the Brewers, but even I have to be like, tip my hat.

1:33:11PFT Commenter:I don't even know what to say. It's so ridiculous watching some of these pitches and the speed and his numbers in the last eight starts are just out of this world. He's given up one run in eight starts. He's given up one run since May 1st. It's stupid. That's stupid. Okay, Zach, finish off. My who's back of the week this week is people with Puerto Rican descent in their heritage because I did what a lot of fans did last night. I was following a lot of the guys after they won. I saw Jose Alvarado end up at the Puerto Rican Day Parade, and it just looked like an absolute blast. Oh, yeah. I think we got to have more parades, more reasons to celebrate because it just looks so much fun.

1:33:51Big Cat:Yeah. Food, festivities, floats. I mean, look like a great day. Any other parades you'd want to attend this month? Well, I mean, they're going to have the, I think they're going to have a parade as well. That would be sick. Guys are going to have a lot of fun with that. Any other parades? What other parades do you think of in June? Pride parade. Oh. Yeah, they got pride parade, probably sick, never been to one. Shout out to those parades. All parades. Yeah, those are like to those the the mexican independence parade in chicago that you would like that zach it's it's crazy lit are you allowed to go as a uh yeah you could just to help celebrate right there's no like i'd have to check that out hank awesome they don't have like yeah there's no color wheel

1:34:31PFT Commenter:they look at and they're like hey fair zach also who's back of the week and then you're i do have go ahead you go and then i have one for you my that would check out you out there no no you go Oh, so the other one is just the Japanese fans, because I thought it was sick. They were helping him clean up the arena. Yeah, and Jameis. Jameis as well. Jameis got in there with the bag, and they used him to celebrate, and they used him to clean up. I think it's a beautiful thing.

1:34:52Big Cat:I love that, bringing the bags. Yeah. Philly fans should do that just for their own puke. That's a good call. Yeah, I guess if you had to puke, it would be nice.

1:35:03PFT Commenter:Doing a bag. Zach, who's back of the week? The Great Lakes? You guys were all the way right about the Great Lakes We're talking about it. So for people who don't know, Zach has lived in Chicago for 13 months now. And I didn't realize this because we went and did a fishing competition a week and a half ago. But I didn't realize two days before that, we went to the Madden Premier event at Navy Pier. That was the first time you had seen Lake Michigan? Lake Michigan? 13 months. That was the first time you'd seen Lake Michigan. I think I saw a piece of the lake when we went to that golf course. No, that was after it.

1:35:42We did.

1:35:42PFT Commenter:When we went to Shore Acres, you saw we walked out and saw it. No, no, no. We did a golf video like a year ago. I think it was like a head-to-head matchup in the courses by a part of the lake. It was the infamous... Jackson Park. Yeah. But that was from a distance. He saw it.

1:36:02Big Cat:You could hear the lake, but you couldn't really see it.

1:36:04PFT Commenter:By the way, I know there'll be people memes. Remember when memes tried to basically take down Zach's entire life? That was crazy. Yeah. Two weeks ago. That was nuts. Sometimes you guys won the time. Memes, could you at least admit you overreacted? Yeah. Okay. But anyway. Great win, Memes. For the memes when he's angry people of the world, it'd be like, Zach's putting on a bit right now. It is not because, Memes, you could attest to this. When we went to, I took you and Zach to Cubs Mets in, I believe it was like late April, and Zach had never been to Wrigleyville. Zach doesn't... Zach's an inside guy.

1:36:45I'm pretty open about being in the house a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think there's a lot of other guys who are also kind of inside most of the day. But never seen in the lake.

1:36:52PFT Commenter:You live like four miles from the lake. Way less than that. Way less than that.

1:36:56Big Cat:Zach, what direction does your window face? Like compass-wise? I'm not sure. Away from the lake. Because the sun, I get early sunlight, so I have to be facing east, right? Does your window face the lake?

1:37:16PFT Commenter:You live three miles from the lake. Yeah, everything's super relative and really close. I am an on-foot guy a lot, so I'm not usually busting out a quick three. Yeah. I did see the river, too. The river's sick. I've been there a couple times now. But, yeah, the scale of the lake. and even here once you see the green all the way around you don't really acknowledge how big it is it's great up the map there you could have just said this is an ocean yeah you could take some of their blindfold them there walk them there it's an ocean you guys were always right about the scale of the lake and how sick it is calm great for a reason and it's on me i was i was being a hater i was an early hater when i found out about the lake why would you hate on the lake because people were saying there was beaches too and then i googled the beaches and it's their

1:37:55Big Cat:parking lots not all of them not all some have sand i know now for sure we did the volleyball a couple years ago. Or maybe that was last year, right? Yeah. And that was awesome. Yeah, shelter like. I'm going to recommend you, you try looking east at some point from your apartment. Maybe see some of that water. It does. This time of year, it looks like almost tropical. Depends on the time of day. I got no water from viewpoint. I would have seen, I think I would have seen, I looked out the window. My desk faces the window. I look out the window a lot. I got no water from viewpoint. So maybe they're just like some obstruction.

1:38:29PFT Commenter:Zach, You're like my three-year-old. He calls the lake the big pool. He just goes, that's the big pool. Good nickname for the lake. It's a great nickname for the big pool. Okay. Good who's back, boys. Now we have Jerry O 'Connell, which we should give a little background. Jerry was in town for a live show, and we told Hank that Brian Windhorse was going to be the guest today and then surprised Hank with Mr. Bing. And Hank was a delight. Hank, I can't believe I got it. You're usually sharper than that. Yeah, I just wasn't. I mean, again, I didn't think this series had anything to do with me, so I was not expecting it.

1:39:14Big Cat:Okay, let's get to Jerry O 'Connell. Before we get to Jerry O 'Connell, he's brought to you by our great friends over at Reese's. I've got the Reese's right here, my favorite Reese's. I really like the new marshmallow. It's delicious. Also, just get the king size, four peanut butter cups, the best snack in the world. There's something for everyone when it comes to Reese's. Reese's is the superior candy. It is my candy of choice. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are the best candy that I've ever had. The best on Halloween, too. You know the houses that sell. They hand out the full-size, the king-size, four-cup Reese's.

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1:40:46All right.

1:40:47PFT Commenter:We now welcome on a very special guest. Come on in. It's Mr. Bing Bong.

1:40:57We told Hank it was going to be Brian Wynne. Look who it is. You watching the soccer? You watching the football? What do you got here? What is this? CIV? I don't even know what country that is. Hey, how'd you fall for that? Don't you have a show? I actually should have. I actually should have.

1:41:14PFT Commenter:Yeah. When I said sit on the couch, I thought I was like, he's going to know that something's up when I told him to sit on the couch for a Zoom interview with Wendy. But here he is, Jerry O 'Connell. No. Rest up. I'm sorry, Mr. Bing Bong, fresh off his Knicks winning a title. Congratulations, Mr. Bing Bong. Look at Hank's face. Is there something you want to say right off the bat? Yeah, you know, there is something I want to say. Mr. Bing Bong has really been waiting for this moment. No, sit down, Hank. You got to enjoy this. Mr. Bing Bong has really been waiting for this moment. Actually, can I move this mic over?

1:41:49I want to sit right next to him. I'm going to pull the cord here. Okay, yeah. Really?

1:41:54Big Cat:I'll help you.

1:41:54PFT Commenter:I'll help you. I'll help you.

1:41:55Big Cat:Yeah, that's what the couch is for. Get close.

1:41:58PFT Commenter:Make a friend. I don't know if I can do this. It's not going to happen. I don't think it's going to happen. Is this as close as it's going to be? Actually, Hanky, why don't you come over here? Come on. Yeah. Come on and sit next to me. Mike, yeah. Can't do that. Come on. Just come over. No? Oh, man. All right. All right. All right. Don't you have a job tonight? I can't. Aren't you working? Hank, how did you not know something was up? Honestly, I'm an idiot. The couch thing was such a giveaway. I wasn't even thinking at that point. Someone, I was playing golf earlier, and they're like, oh, who do you have on tonight?

1:42:30I was like, when are you? Didn't you just have him on? I was like, yeah, we're having him on again. Like that. We love Whitney.

1:42:35Big Cat:Did it occur to you that Jerry was in town? Yes. Dante was asking me, he's like, are you going tonight? I was like, no, we're doing the podcast. I thought your thing was tonight. It is tonight. I'm going over right after this. I've got big stars. Corey Feldman, Will Wheaton, all the people from Stand By Me are waiting just for Mr. Bing Bong to come and say hi to Hank. Mr. Bing Bong is so excited. Don't be weird. Don't get weird with me now. Stop. You're getting weird. You're getting weird. Just take it. Hanky, take it. Hanky, take it. Relax. Okay? Just a tip. Hold on a second. You ready? Hanky, hey, Mr.

1:43:12Bing Bong here to talk to you about the team of the decade. Oh, Bing Bong, the team of the decade. Nobody remembers 28 and 3 now. It's over. Bing Bong. Happy birthday Hey Jalen Brown Remember Jalen Brown He was fined$70 ,000 For saying the officials had an agenda Against him That's crazy An agenda against him That would be like saying Mr. Bing Bong Has an agenda against you Because your head coach was fucking a reporter To help AJ Brown go to a team Oh Bing Bong That'd be wild Happy birthday Hey, Hanky, Mr. Bing Bong was interested in the fact that your coach, Coach Mazzullo, said he felt an emptiness after he lost to the Sixers.

1:44:04The same emptiness he felt after he won the championship. Oh, a lot of emptiness, you know? A lot of emptiness. Like the emptiness in your bedroom after you blew it with Timothy Gormas. Bing Bong. Gotta jerk off the pictures of Mark Wahlberg in his underwear. Bing Bong. Your life is empty. Like Coach Missoula after a championship. Happy birthday. Hey, Hanky. Maybe Brad Stevens needs to take some notes on how to build a championship team. You think so? You know? No. What were you going to say, Hanky? He built one. Oh, he built one. Oh, okay. Well, maybe the Knicks could offer him an intern position because you got to make Brad Stevens say no.

1:44:51Hey, Bing Bong, over at the job so he can say no. Happy birthday. Hey, Hanky, Mr. Bing Bong came all the way to Chicago to see you for your birthday. This is so exciting. Hey, a couple years ago, remember the Celtics won? Remember that? And you got to ride on the duck boat. We all saw that with your shaved head. You were on the duck boat. Hey, maybe the Knicks will invite you to the parade and you can ride on the cook boat. Oh, because you like to watch Tiffany Gomez get fucked. Bing Bong. Happy birthday. Maybe we'll still be living off that championship like you are. Stand by me 50 years later.

1:45:27That's why you're here. That's why you're here. Hank, let. For a movie from 1964. Hank, let me do the comedy, okay? You just sit back and just take this. Hey, Hanky. Hanky, maybe, speaking of the parade, maybe they'll invite you to the parade, you know? Maybe you can ride on the float with Mayor Mondani. You can ride on the floor with him because both of you are lefties. Bing bong. Yeah. Hanky Sakami. You love windmills. Bing bong. Happy birthday. Hey, windmills. Hey, Hanky, how about you got to admit that game four, that was something special, right? That game four. OG Ananobi. OG Ananobi, just like you.

1:46:12You know, you and Tiffany Gomez. OG Ananobi. Just a tip. Tipping it in. Let me get the tip in. Tiffany, please. I just want to see how it feels. Bing bong, you blew it. Happy birthday. Hey, you know, the Knicks won the championship. You thought the Knicks were just going to roll into Texas and blow it. Just like you did with Tiffany Gomez. Yeah. Bing bong, speaking of Tiffany Gomez, she wished President Trump a happy birthday today, but not you. You got the same birthday. Birthday, twinsies. You and Trump. Gemini's. Bing bong. Really a joke there?

1:46:48Big Cat:Yeah. We'll have to check our birthday guy. Maybe the 24-hour span. What time of day were you born, Hank?

1:46:54PFT Commenter:Birthday guy. June 14th is President Trump. What time of day were you born? Do you know? No. Okay. Okay. Tiffany might be into that.

1:47:03Big Cat:Bing bong. Hey, you thought the Spurs had this all locked up, didn't you? I was reading all your tweets and everything. Just like your coach's fingies and Rossini's on that Arizona rooftop after they fucked for seven years. Bing bong. Locked up. Locking fingies. Happy birthday.

1:47:23Hey, Hanky, Mr. Bing Bong here. You must have woken up this morning and been like, oh, my gosh, the Knicks are champions. This is not real. This is not real. Like the Foxborough Lighthouse and that motherfucker in the back of the plane. You blew it. Bing Bong, happy birthday. Hey, Hanky, Jose Alvarado, you know that player on the Knicks? You know that player on the Knicks? Yeah. Okay. Making fun of somebody's speech impediment. That's nice. Making fun of an impediment. Hey, that's kind of ableist. But, Hanky, having Jose Alvarado win a championship, it must really piss you off since you hate Bad Bunny halftime shows and you hate Puerto Ricans.

1:48:02Bing bong! Hank hates Puerto Ricans! Except D.K. Hernandez. He was a Red Sox. Bing bong, happy birthday. Hey, Robert Kraft, your owner, Robert Kraft. Yeah, he was sitting there right at courtside. at MSG. That must have been weird to see that. That must have been weird. But that was good that he went to MSG because it's right next to Koreatown where they got the Junko Spice. Big bang! Your owner's a pervert! Happy birthday! Happy birthday! Hey, you know what? James Dolan's a good guy though, right? Hey, Hanky. Good counterpoint. No footage of James Dolan, whatever. They destroyed it. They destroyed it.

1:48:45Hey, Hanky, Hanky, Hanky, you should have to do Soggy Sorrows and get in that shower after this Knicks championship, just like you could have been showering with Tiffany Gomez watching the water drip down her naked body into her beautiful tootsies when you blew it, and now you've got to shower with Max and watch the water drip down to his infected toe. Bing, bong, you blew it. Happy birthday. Max has infected toes. That was a while ago. Hey, you know what? But finally, finally, Mr. Bing Bong wants to say to Hank, Hank, you listening? Hank, you there? Hank. Okay. Finally, Mr. Bing Bong just wants to say, let's start with the AFC East.

1:49:35Because we're not drafting any Patriots. Because you actually have a tough schedule this year. That affair is going to be a distraction. and A.J. Brown is going to single-handedly ruin your team. Bing Bong! Happy birthday!

1:49:52PFT Commenter:That was Mr. Bing Bong. Hank. Oh, man. I feel like you're not happy to see Jerry. No. Well, maybe not happy to see Mr. Bing Bong, but Jerry's here. Jerry, congratulations. What a night. What a series. How are you feeling? I feel, you know, I got to tell you, first of all, to hear like hank and mr port noise appreciate everything that he does their hatred for this like watching all of mr port noise posts on x about like the city burning down and like celebro and all that older than him um who well no but he owns like i appreciate all he does wow you're really salty today it's unreal genuinely curious i've never seen you so angry like the inside i like it i like angry hank he's back finally we finally got something out of him oh this is proof of life this is so exciting finally um to see all their like hatred of all of this it's really i'm not gonna say it's the best part because that would be too hatery and act like they live rent free in my head it is so fun to watch them just melt down to just feel the negative energy just just vibrating off of Hank right now.

1:51:05It is so exciting to be here. I could not. I could not miss up this chance. It is so exciting. And it never happens. Yeah, it never happens. It now does.

1:51:16PFT Commenter:June 13th will live forever. It is a lot of teams have won championships. June 13th is a lot. A lot of bullshit. There is. There is. It is a very common end of the NBA regular season. Like very, very crowned champion. Yeah. Except for 2020. Yeah. You know, just to let you know, I'm not that much of a hater. I wasn't even I know I did a video for Hank's birthday. Thanks for quote. Yeah. Co-tweeting it. Oh, let me move closer. There was like away from him. Wow. Twitter like that video. If you watch that video and just scroll to like the craziest porn bots I've ever seen. Like something about that video.

1:51:57God. He's in the algorithm. Yeah. In the algorithm. It is so exciting. what a run it's a historical run yeah it really is and um it's it's a run it's a historical run you've got to admit that postseason was insane if you bet the knicks money line and they were underdogs for i mean for every spurs game they were an underdog were they not no they were

1:52:21PFT Commenter:favorites a couple times but yes they were but during the games yeah yeah they were down double digits every game i i gotta tell you i know this is a gambling podcast and if anyone has a problem they should call 1-800-GAMBLER. But can you imagine if you just hammered that money line every time they were down by over 20 points, over 15 points? Someone did the math I saw. If you bet$100 the first time they were down, and he did that every single time they were down at their lowest point, you would have won$24 million. This is what's so insane. This is what's so insane. Watching that game four, I go to a bar in Los Angeles.

1:52:58It's called 33 Taps. There's a group of people called Left Coast Knicks. It's so much fun. It's thousands of Knicks fans. There was not a doubt in anyone's minds that they could come back in this game. I know that's insane to say, but we all thought it when we were watching it. And I have to say like a personal story about something that happened with it. I'm so pleased to say this Knicks postseason run has made my daughters, my vapid southern california daughters who are surrounded by lakers fans surrounded by lakers fans this run has made them they're 17 knicks fans for life they would go to parties and they'd be the only people rooting for the knicks because their dad is from new york and they know their dad is in san antonio watching the game and all that stuff and my daughter called me up this morning and was like hey we went out we watched the game that was so crazy they were down by 15 and my daughter plays volleyball pretty competitively.

1:54:01And she said, Dad, how do they keep winning from behind so much? And I said, I'm not kidding, guys, because it all comes back to part of my take. I said, Charlie, that's her name. I said, they have grit. They have grit. It's like in that game four when Brunson went into the huddle. he said hey guys smart basketball this is we can do this and there's just it's when they when they're down by more than double digits is when they start to really play we haven't seen and i'm actually gonna uh praise hank a little bit i mean red socks being down 3-0 to the yankees and whatever year that was 0-3 0-2 whatever 0-4 um you know 28-3 i mean this is they have grit yeah it's and it's and and my daughter because my daughter's on volleyball teams that just they lose they lose they lose they lose and i was like hey honey when you're down by six points and all your girlfriends like look at each other and you're like well we're just like we're not gonna win this and that's it let's just let's just play this out um they don't do that that's when they say all right we can win this thing and she said how do they do it and i went if i had the answer to that i i would be phil jackson or i i would be bill belichick you're welcome hank i'm trying to make you feel better it um it just is it's this team has that magic that we live lifetimes for in sports this team has that magic it's jalen brunson jalen brunson is just it's not just jay

1:55:37PFT Commenter:no no i know i'm saying but jalen brunson is what starts it it's everyone believes because jalen brunson believes and i think everyone like follows something like that let me just say something else about this team everyone stepped up yeah it had moments yeah no i'm not saying i'm not saying obviously had moments Jose Alvarado had moments I'm not saying that Jalen Brunson is the only player I'm saying Mitchell Robinson's rebound yesterday incredible Jalen Brunson has like a singular belief that I think is infectious to everyone else where it becomes a culture of oh yeah we can do this because that's just what we expect unreal just what an unreal run I'm really

1:56:13Big Cat:enjoying it um I got a question for you Jared if we when we look back on this 30 years from now and we look back on some of the old championships and we remember certain teams because of how they won the things that they did to win. I feel like this New York Knicks team will be one of the teams that we look back on and we think of first when we think of this era of basketball just because of the crazy comebacks that they had because the storyline surrounding it in New York with a fan base that hasn't won in forever. Killing people and murdering them. I feel like this would be the one, like one of the first teams.

1:56:43Big Cat:Am I right? Bing bong! Right? Like we look back on 2020's basketball yeah and we might think about the new york knicks first oh yeah let me tell you what's really different about this team because i don't know totally not a prisoner in the moment like no that's not just because it just happened i was talking jerry i said jerry i got a question yeah he wasn't talking to you i'll get to you like no pink come on i mean let us have a day you know um oh let me tell you the most interesting thing because i don't know much about the business side of like basketball but i know that the the gm or the president is a former agent the rose yeah And I know that that Golden State run was run by a former agent too, right?

1:57:23So I think this is going to be the beginning of we're going to start to see sports agents start to run teams a little bit. I think they know things about money and about all that stuff. Also, a lot of people were shocked Leon Rose was white. I saw a lot of people saying that.

1:57:37PFT Commenter:Hank, I got to give you some props. Tom Brady took a pay cut to make sure he was surrounded by talent obviously Jalen Brunson did the same thing I don't personally know of anyone else in the NBA who's doing what Jalen Brunson is doing I hope this becomes I hope for everyone's fan base's sake this becomes a habit because man it feels good well he bet on himself too because I think I would imagine the amount of money he's going to make the rest of his career after being the guy who delivered a championship to the Knicks after 53 years will probably surpass what he left on the table in terms of the NBA paying the Knicks pay him agreed and incredible I know he's listed as 6 '2 and I don't mean this as a hater the guy's six foot it doesn't matter he is a he is a I'm just so happy I can say he's on he's he's with me that's my guy he's on my team um that's a great polo by the way oh yeah you look awesome yeah no I wore this to game one in San Antonio um I wanted to wear something that said Knicks but I didn't want to die uh I do have to admit like I do want to apologize to all San Antonio fans what happened in New York was terrible you were correct Hank um uh and the people of San Antonio treated me with such kindness what a what a town it's so funny I read that one post that I don't know if it was uh zach or someone said that they wouldn't let uh zach and steve and um memes into a bar with their nicks gear on and someone threw a bottle at them but the bottles didn't hit them only a piece of glass cut one of them but everybody's okay i mean it uh i i wore this i got this for san atonio and um i the nicks just kept winning with me wearing it so i haven't uh

1:59:24Big Cat:i did wash it once i just haven't uh and the nips don't poke through at all of this yeah We've had some bad visuals recently on this program In terms of just Not you, but just other people on the show I just didn't know if you had any tips Do you work out? Do you do push-ups? Me? It's natural, bro It's just natural You're not on the gear? You're not on the gear? No, no, no, not on any of that stuff You guys on the jab? No, no, no I'm all good What a time uh what an exciting time it just what a run it's just hey but by the way now finally i know what it feels like you know i gotta tell you when the giants beat the patriots it feels like a fluke it it just does it feels like i can't believe that they won this game um hey why are you shaking your head this is like this is like different you're a fucking jets fan I know, but I mean...

2:00:26What does that have to do with anything? Well, as a Jets fan, you root against any Boston teams. You just do. So you root for the Giants? If they're playing the Patriots, yeah. And by the way, I want to say, as your... Sounds like you're rooting for the Giants. By the way, thank you so much for ruining my let's start with the AFC East joke. That was really helpful in comedy there, Hank. I'll let it go this time. I realize this is a stressful birthday for you. Is this the worst birthday you've ever had in your life? Passive. Great question. No, really? Great question. No, when you order fucking whatever.

2:00:58Big Cat:Papadias? Papadias.

2:00:59PFT Commenter:We got you a shitload of Papadias.

2:01:01Big Cat:I'm looking back. Some other games you might remember in NBA history that took place on June 13th. Couple of Bulls. Boston Celtics, Golden State Warriors. Ooh. Warriors 104, Celtics 94. Game 5. That was a bad one. There's been like, there's been. Yeah. Every year. That's right when they start giving out the trophies. let me say something else about the Knicks winning this because the game I did go to was game one at the Frost Center Arena again gorgeous town San Antonio highly suggest moving there it looks seem beautiful by the way I'm married you're gonna move there well listen I'm married to a supermodel everyone knows that look it up but beautiful women down there when I went out like gorgeous very friendly smiley I'm into that whole like short shorts cowboy boots look it's like a look it's like a vibe um that said you walk into the frost center arena center um they have all those spurs trophies in there and you forget how many championships that franchise has won yeah and there is something to be said about the spurs way um and it's i gotta tell you it's intimidating it is it is intimidating when you walk into that house and you see all those championships um i do want to say uh in terms of wendy i'm not mad at how he acted i get it he's a young guy he plays with passion passion any of us any of us would give a testicle to have that guy play with our franchise he is uh he's incredible i do feel like we're getting jordan like for those two years that the pistons just beat up on him um once he unlocks it man that whole team was good I am shocked they did not win more games.

2:02:45I, again, if I could explain to you how the Knicks won those games, I would work in professional sports. I don't know how they won. It's the magic. It's the magic that keeps the lights on in this place. It's the magic. Hank, I want to hear you say there is magic surrounding this Knicks team. No, I mean, they won the championship. You guys were the best team this year. Hank, I want you to say... You guys played a super young team that could not close a game. But do you think... Like, that's not magic. You played a team that was, like, average age 21 years old. But you're telling me... That had no experience and completely choked every game in the finals.

2:03:23Okay. That's not magic. Coming back... You guys won. Coming back, game one, game two, game three, fine. That game four comeback. And then it happens again last night in game five. just to get back on on you making that joke about the jets and the giants thing hank um being that you're just vibrating hate right now um the reason why the knicks are so special is i'm sorry to say i don't even care if i'm offending nobody's really a nets fan you know like that that franchise just hasn't caught on yet you're either a jets or giants and you're either a mets or yankee sand but everybody's a nixon everybody and that's why it is there's there's one team i drove in here in new york is a basketball city yeah that that's the sport of the city and jose alvarado's from brooklyn and just like i i don't know guys there's just a magic

2:04:11PFT Commenter:there there's just a magic there it's just i'd agree and listen i'll be the first everyone to go around the room i'll start i think there's a magic surrounding this next team pft i mean you

2:04:22Big Cat:can't you can't argue against that yeah the the leads that they came back it was it was absolutely It's like they didn't wake up until they were down 15. Yeah. And when they were down 15, you're like, they actually have them right where they want. That's the magic. Max? I'll say Destiny vibes. Yeah. Team of Destiny. So, yeah.

2:04:38PFT Commenter:Hank? Yeah, I said no. No magic. No magic. No magic. What a fucking Grinch. You're the Grinch who stole the championship, man. You really have that. I don't know. This has nothing to do with me. No, just admit it was magic. You just came on here and just talked about me. This is nothing. No, no, no. Wait, Jerry didn't. Mr. Bing Bong. Mr. Bing Bong started because of the fucking Sixers. No, Mr. Bing Bong started like two seasons ago with the Celtics. Oh, no, it was the Sixers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mr. Bing Bong came on. That's right. Mr. Bing Bong came on.

2:05:11Big Cat:Yeah, yeah. But then Mr. Bing Bong really came. And you guys beat the Sixers. Well, no, then Mr. Bing Bong went to college, became Dr. Bing Bong. You didn't even play the Celtics this year. Also, this is where Mr.

2:05:21PFT Commenter:Bing Bong was born. Mr. Bing Bong also is very obsessed with Tiffany Gomas. Mr. Bing Bong was born at the Bet Gala when the Knicks beat the Celtics in that game one. And no one thought the Knicks were going to win. And I actually took the Knicks with the points because I was like, they're never going to win. And then the Knicks came from behind and beat the Celtics in that game one. That's how they learned how to win these types of series. We have shirts that say Bing Bong Hanky. That is true. Hank's not listening.

2:05:45Big Cat:My favorite part is how Mr. Bing Bong is obsessed with Tiffany Gomez, but Jerry's not. It's just the character. Right. No, Jerry's obsessed with Tiffany Gomez. she is a gorgeous girl i mean tiffany if you're listening hanky you blew it you blew it i met her in person i introduced her to two of my friends in dallas we went out and my friends were like holy shit who is this and i didn't tell them like who what tiffany was famous for and all that stuff but it was pretty funny when we went out um we all had a couple drinks and tiffany alluded to something with how tiffany found her fame and then one of my buddies who's from dallas is a really funny guy swu grad was like hold on a second are you the crazy plane lady it was just so funny that we were there and she was like yeah and um yeah i mean it didn't deter them she was uh what a beautiful girl i i i thought it was interesting that um i like that story that my friends didn't know i didn't like tell them that this was the lady who was made famous for making a scene on a plane and they didn't know it and tiffany sort of wanted to talk about it i thought That was an interesting story.

2:06:50God, you are so angry on your birthday. Come on, birthday boy. Cheer up. Who cares about your birthday after you're fucking 18 years old? I mean, birthdays are important. Don't you go to Baskin-Robbins? You get a free scoop of ice cream or something? You can do whatever you want. You can show your license. You get a free scoop of ice cream. Add 30-month flavors. It's your birthday. You're the birthday boy. Bing bong. You blew it.

2:07:13PFT Commenter:Jerry, what did you think about Hank's shot at Mr. Bing bong there about your standby by me tour which you're that is why you're here you have a show in like 45 minutes and it's a live show we're touring we're selling out we're selling like thousands of tickets each city it's so awesome go to stand by me live.com by the way i have never come on your show and plugged anything true um i tell people to like follow me on yelp um go to stand by me live.com we go from city to city dante's coming tonight uh i think i think uh um tate is coming tonight um wow it's it's so funny oh hey we show stand by me which for a lot of your young listeners was a really classic movie that i was a part of when i was a kid and it's really quite touching let's hear hank make a negative snide mark it's good black and white film it's classic it's a classic a lot our co-stars passed away and our director has passed away from a grizzly murder any jokes you want to make about that hank so we're going on to that's what i thought shut the fuck up hank god hank you know I came in here.

2:08:15I thought this was going to be fun. And you just fucking riled me up immediately. Anyway, we're going on tour. We showed the movie. We have a talk back with the, the cast. It's really emotional and sweet and fun. And we have a really fun time and, uh, go to standby me live.com. We got five more dates coming up in the fall. Love it. And it's great. And we're in Chicago for the night. And, if you guys are done, um, well, no, you, you already missed the show. I, I actually got to run over.

2:08:40PFT Commenter:Uh, all right. Rowback question. R H O B C C K. Rowback.com. promo code take uh how much off uh 20 20 off uh accusers polos hoodies shorts joggers joggers yeah robeck.com promo code take robot got robeck.com promo code take uh hank why don't you get the last question because you thought i said to hank before when when we stepped in the studio i said hey you're gonna sit on the couch and zach's not here yet they're coming back from san antonio i said hank you'll do the robeck question with windy uh and he's like okay i got it because wind horse was definitely going to come on tonight oh let me just say what speaking of horse i want to say what one last thing yeah this is before our time before any of us was were born i love horse racing there was a racehorse named secretariat we're all familiar with it steroids okay we don't know that because there was no testing back then but secretariat was known and such a fun horse because it came it just came came from behind another horse far lap they came from behind they like to let the pack go out and then in the final stretch boom they would win that thing that's what the knicks are they're like a t they're like a horse that loves to watch the pack go out and go okay and now i'm gonna win and i feed off of the crowd and i i i feed off of all of it i want to say something else about msg and this is going to really upset hank um a friend of mine who was there a good buddy of mine justin christian i'll give him a shout out childhood friend of mine it's also fun too because when your hometown team wins these are my friends from third grade that are calling me up we're talking for an hour and a half last night about this i haven't seen this guy in 40 years we're talking on the phone twirling the phone cord around our fingers uh talking about how special this was he was at a phone cord he was at game four yeah i got i got a hard line shut the fuck up hank i got that's crazy i got a landline shut the fuck up hank um justin my buddy justin was in msg for for game four a landline connected to an actual up an actual like wall yeah say it again jerry shut the fuck up hank um and justin said to me i was in that i was in msg for game four he said msg won that game for them they when wendy went to the line and he shot those two shots he said i'm telling you msg got in his young mind yeah msg got in his head he missed those shots this is everyone contributed everyone even the og tip just like do it differently just a tip let me i want to see what it feels like oh don't look at me tiffany don't look at me I'm going to make a hole in you This one's crazy This one's gone far Sorry, Robat question Robat.com, bro, we'll go take Alright, Hank, your Robat question I'll just ask the question Shut the fuck up, Hank Bing bong Go ahead, Hank Sorry There's been eight different NBA champions The last eight years who do you think has got the best chance to win the next one?

2:11:54I've got to tell you. Great question. Great question.

2:11:58PFT Commenter:Great question, Hank. I would have said the Spurs at the beginning of this series. It's not that relevant to the question. I would have said the Spurs at the beginning of this. It's not. At the beginning of this series. No, at the beginning of this championship series. No, but he thought the Spurs could win this one and then win another. But after watching the Knicks, they have that thing that I can't explain to my daughter what it is. Think of a team where you can't explain. Think of the Patriots when they came back 28-3. Can you explain how that happened? Can you explain how the Patriots beat the Seahawks?

2:12:40Can you explain it, Hank?

2:12:42Big Cat:Yeah, by cheating. No, guys. By taping their defense ahead of time. Come on. Seriously. how how did how did the patriots win those games can you explain it belief they believed don't you think there's a magic to that team hank a special something that is just indescribable it's like looking at jay yeah but those teams they had they won multiple it's like if they can do it again like if this happens again in a couple years like then maybe there's something with this team right now you know what you got to do hank eight teams have won championships the last eight years they're they're no different you know what you got to do hank you got to believe

2:13:20PFT Commenter:he's right gotta believe you gotta believe do you believe do you believe in good

2:13:26Big Cat:sure yeah fuck yeah that's a beautiful beautiful message give me a hug hanky come on oh it's great to see you i'm so happy that this worked out by the way hank's wearing blue he's wearing nick's blue you look so tan jerry yeah i was um i was walking around uh you get spray tans no i don't i swear to god never no i don't i swear to you i don't um i've been swimming a lot swimming in la like outside i swear and my face is red just because i'm like mr bing bong it's so excited and just man it's i'm just i'm just living in this moment because i know for the next 50 years i'm not going to come in here i'm certainly not going to come in with a jets victory um it's just we also don't know how to read it's so funny watching jaylen in that interview that he had with was it Lisa Salters when he came off the court like right there and he was like I have no words I have no words I have no words like you can't put it into words could you imagine doing it and your father's like a coach there as well like could you imagine this you gotta admit that was pretty emo when he hugged his dad and stuff did you feel anything in your cold dark heart it's cool it was really cool it was a cool moment

2:14:43PFT Commenter:all right guys i gotta go do a live show um all right jerry we'll see you next we'll see you is barstool right oh camp barstool yeah yeah and uh also we should say right now thank you very much jerry is working on uh parts of our audiobook oh yeah get excited can i go buy the go buy part of my book it's out you can buy pre-order it right now i can talk about this because you can cut out whatever i want okay yep let me just say this about part of my book okay it is incredible the interviews that you got for this book are incredible and make me laugh so fucking hard you can cut this out it's your podcast that mike florio interview is crazy that adam shefter interview is crazy that um chris berman interview is crazy that tj watt interview is crazy they're crazy and and i want to say hank be nice and i want to say i'm really honored and privileged that you guys are letting me be a part of this book you i don't even think you guys know what

2:15:49Big Cat:i'm doing in the booth no i don't we don't know all i know is that occasionally we'll get a text from jared it'll be a picture of him and i think you're wearing like a different uniform yeah depending on who on what chapter you're doing they can't see it's an audiobook wearing wearing a jayden i know but i'm wearing it for you guys are you doing method i'm just doing it to be honestly i'm thinking about what you guys built here i'm thinking about the awls i want to be in spirit it's not just a job you know um i gotta say this this podcast and hank i'm gonna put my arm around you when when i say this this um this podcast when i go to san antonio and i'm in uh you know, a lightweight collared Nick's shirt.

2:16:33People in Spurs gear say, you know, Bing Bong Hanky, Hanky Blewett, Tiffany's Cootsie. Oh, he's taking the arm off. Hanky Blewett, but I was leaving the Frost Center Arena, couldn't get an Uber. No offense to San Antonio, it's a great city, but leaving that arena is not easy. Couldn't get an Uber, couldn't get out of there, just started walking with the crowds, okay? Wow. A large pickup truck pulled up alongside of me. Window rolled down. Guy in full Spurs gear said, Bing Bong Hanky, hop in the car. Let's talk AFC East. And I hopped in and he drove me to my fucking hotel. And it's just AOLs. It's just different, guys.

2:17:19I mean, AWLs, AOLs. AWLs, it's just different. So when I'm doing this audio book, I'm really, I'm in spirit. and I'm doing something really special. And I can't wait for the AWLs to hear it. I can't wait for you all to hear it. I'm doing something. I'm doing a little something something. It's really special. I love it.

2:17:38PFT Commenter:All right, Jerry, you got to get going. We love you. Thank you, Mr. Bing Bong. Hugs, Hank. Come on. Come on. Happy birthday, Hank. I can't believe you fell for it. I'm going to be on Long Island this summer if you want to come out and play Montauk Downs. It's a good course. I'll come. It's a public course, so give me a couple days so I can go wait in line and sign us up. But no, but I'm serious. I'll get us a good tea time and everything, but I'd love to play with you. I really enjoyed playing golf with Hank. He was a lot of fun, and you're a good sport for taking this, Hank. You've had a lot more championships than the Knicks.

2:18:05Like, let us have our day. We get one day.

2:18:07Big Cat:Yeah, but also happy birthday. Happy birthday. Oh, happy birthday. Jerry O 'Connell is brought to you by SimpliSafe. In the U.S., there's a break-in every 26 seconds. That means somewhere right now an intruder is getting closer. The problem is most security systems only alert you after a break-in has already started. And that's too late. That's why you should choose SimpliSafe to secure your home. Using the Outdoor Camera Series 2 and Advanced AI Alerts, SimpliSafe's U.S.-based live agents identify threats on your property and help deter them stopping crime before it starts. That's real peace of mind.

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2:20:01PFT Commenter:Yeah. It's a great crank. You want my crank a little bit harder than that? They also sent me a very funny note that said, hopefully this makes you care about us a little bit. Yep. That's all they need. No, it does. I now do care a little bit about the union. I'll say this. That's like 10 % crank, by the way. I'm 10 % in crank.

2:20:20Big Cat:The union jerseys are pretty fucking cool. Really cool. They're like the constitution. They sent me a, they also sent me a 99 meatballs jersey. So I'm just, I'm just collecting. I'm collecting meatball jerseys. All right. Numbers 27. What's that next year? 27 rings.

2:20:42PFT Commenter:13. Actually 19. 50. 6 plus 13 I'll go to a 6 98 We go

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2:21:04Big Cat:Happy Mount Rushmore season guys

2:21:06PFT Commenter:Oh yeah Mount Rushmore He's going to officially

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2:21:37PFT Commenter:60. 60. 60. All right, so Mount Rushmore season, We're going to It's going to officially kick off On Monday so a week from today In the next two episodes We're going to pick teams And pick punishments So but the official official start About Rushmore season Is going to be one week from today Because we got I mean we have US Open this week We got World Cup so we're going to Give it a little bit we always do that We always give it a few days few shows before after the NBA finals and NHL Stanley Cup finals. So Monday, official Mount Rushmore season. We'll pick teams maybe Wednesday.

2:22:25Big Cat:I'm very excited for this Mount Rushmore season. I feel like I've been training all offseason. I know Hank and I have had some battles the last couple years to see who brings up the rear. The Milkshake boys had a bad show. We're going straight to the top. Who's we? Whoever's teamed up with me. We. My we.

2:22:44PFT Commenter:What do you mean disagree? You had the least amount of votes I don't worry about what the people say Okay, well that's Mount Rushmore season But yeah But you do worry about what people say Because you get mad every year when people don't Agree with you Nah, that's not why I get mad Oh, Jerome Bettis That was a good pick That was a Max's pick That was my pick I don't listen you guys are old

2:23:16Big Cat:you guys should run it back you guys made a great team we're gonna it's gonna be by chance you did have a great team I agree it's gonna be by chance you don't sound like you agree no I didn't but we'll see I'll see what you pull off this time what do you mean I'm just excited to see what you do the bottom line is Memes is gonna win cause he's a winner yeah I look forward to working with you Hank

2:23:44I'm interested to see how you pull this one off

2:23:48PFT Commenter:I did throw out the idea of memes and Hank Yeah, where it's not going to be chance You're going to pick the teams No, we're going to do it by the lottery ball machine Although it would have been funny if we did Booth Yeah, that idea would have been You did not like that idea I said I was down for it We got to go by chance Hank versus the world would have been awesome. I literally said I was down. Yeah. Your body language said differently.

2:24:21You can't exist. This is a case. I can speak words, but it doesn't matter. You guys decide how I feel, what I say, what I don't say.

2:24:32PFT Commenter:I agree. That's true. That's on me. Hand up. Hank can't exist.

2:24:37Big Cat:Hank hung up the headphones. That's how you're doing serious. I don't think I've seen Hank's never pulled that move before.

2:24:42PFT Commenter:No, PFT, that's body language. Stop. Yeah. Stop it. You got to do birthdays.

2:24:48Big Cat:Happy birthday to Cooper Cup. Happy birthday to Wade Boggs. Happy birthday, Northwest. Happy birthday to Dusty Baker and Xi Jinping. Also on Tuesday, it's Wonton Don's birthday. So happy birthday, Donnie, on Tuesday. Also, happy birthday to Phil Mickelson. Hope everything's okay, buddy.

2:25:07PFT Commenter:Oh, how about Phil Tracker?

2:25:10Big Cat:Yeah, Phil Tracker. You see Phil Tracker? Tough day for the trackers.

2:25:13PFT Commenter:I'll defend him no matter what.

2:25:14Big Cat:You know what? Yeesh. Listen, if you're going to be a tracker, that's the mentality I want you to have as a tracker. I don't want my trackers diving into that slippery slope argument where you look at morality. If you're a tracker, just the facts.

2:25:30PFT Commenter:I'm just saying the job description for a Sam Burns tracker versus a Phil Mickelson tracker, they're not the same. No. Those are not the same. Those guys are not doing the same. When they clock in, they're doing completely different jobs.

2:25:43Big Cat:Yeah. Also, Siwoo Kim Tracker. You're never going to have that problem if you're a Siwoo Kim Tracker.

2:25:47PFT Commenter:You're allowed to complain about homework, too. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes.

2:25:51Big Cat:So happy birthday to Phil on Tuesday. Also, happy belated birthday to Hank Lockwood, whose birthday was on Saturday. What about Donald Trump? The day that the New York Knicks won the national championship in basketball, NBA title.

2:26:04PFT Commenter:Also, happy memes day. Happy memes day. Happy memes day. 613 Finally winner guys You did it memes Did it Hank can't hear any of this No longer angry It's beautiful You can't be angry with us for a long time Ever Yeah I'm chilling I don't believe that Can't There's nothing that could hurt me Yeah Okay I'm just better than all of you

2:26:29You say love you guys

2:26:29Big Cat:Hank you should watch the highlights of the song Did you say love you guys It's a fun team Love you guys Did you say love you guys Love you guys

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