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24:33 Hot Seat – Cool Throne
56:27 Blake Griffin
01:41:48 FAQs + Mr. Pear Reveal
The Lakers take down the Pelicans after Zion scores 40 but gets a mysterious injury and the Warriors are cooked. We talk Reggie Miller analytics and the Washington Capitals make the playoffs in a wild night in hockey. Hot Seat/Cool Throne including Hank’s taxes, LIV trying to do hijinx with Rory and Jerry Reinsdorf being the worst owner in sports. Blake Griffin joins the show after his retirement announcement to talk about his career, favorite teammates and teams, memories, Blake of the Year, and the dumbest rabbit hole of all time based on Blake’s teammates names. We finish the show with listener FAQ’s and the debut of the one and only Mister Pear our new gambling turtle who makes a pick on the Sixers/Heat game.
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that’s B of all the dramatic things George’s box Roger Clemens is in Georgia Bo have you ever seen anything in all my years all my years oh my God Jake on today’s part of my take we have our good good friend Blake Griffin he announced his retirement on Tuesday we get the first interview with him and it was beautiful it was perfect Griffin yeah I mean it it he’s been part of our show for a very long time uh stay till the end when we uh kidnap him and ask him the dumbest questions possible uh but really great to catch up with him talk about his career we’re going to talk about the NBA playin games we’re going to talk about pft’s capitals getting into the playoffs and the uh NHL playoffs coming up we’ve got hot seat cool throne and we also have the debut of our Turtle Mr pear Mr pear makes his first pick for Wednesday night’s playing game we have them pick the Sixers Heat game so uh make sure you’re watching for that great great show great Parton my take show it’s all brought to you by 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take to get $200 in bonus bets when you bet just $5 only on DraftKings the crown is yours with DraftKings okay let’s [Music] go hey football guyo a w might yeah and might yeah might might yeah might welcome to part of my take presented by DraftKings new customers download the DraftKings Sportsbook app and use code take that’s code take to get $200 in bonus bets when you bet just $5 only on draft Kings the crown is yours today is Wednesday April 17th and PFT I got a question for you Pop Quiz Hot Shot I got an answer for you okay is it better to be up three at the end of a game with three seconds left or be up four this is a tough analytics question that is hotly debated in the math Community Reggie Miller asked this question tonight and I said to myself thank God because I’ve been saying for years I’d almost rather be up three points than four points big cat the the best part about Reggie Miller asking you want to know why why tell me yeah I I don’t know because I’ve got a brain injury well so the best part about Reggie Miller asking this question it was the it was the Lakers uh Pelicans game which we’ll get to both games playing games but the best part about him asking this question the situation was the Lakers were up two with 2.7 seconds left they get fouled and he says out loud and you could hear his brain like turning on out loud he was like if you make the first one you’re up three do you try to purposely miss the second one because they don’t have any timeouts so they have to go coast to coast and then he finished it with saying or do you just make them both go up four and game over like at the end he was like wait [ __ ] four points yeah that would be game over he tied it together nicely at the end which was good but for a second I was with you I was like what and I’m don’t get me wrong I’m a big you don’t need a threee guy like that’s that’s my favorite thing to say at the end of a game if there’s 1 second left if there’s half a second left if you’re down four points I will be the guy that say don’t need a three here just to remind people that I know ball um but yeah in that instance I was just like what what could Reggie even be talking about but I think he just mixed up having a two versus three-point lead and having a three versus four-point lead yeah I don’t know what he mixed up but it was uh the Lakers survive they win another playin they’ve won three play-ins they’ve gotten into the playoffs three uh times via the playin uh we had an alltime alltime Zion Williamson uh performance 40 points he was so so good it was like everything that you wanted Zion to be he was it tonight and then he got hurt where we don’t really know what he got hurt with he threw his uh you know uh towel down went to the locker room we even had the weird moment where Kevin harand and Reggie Miller like we’re going to go to Ali leforce she has an update on Zion and she’s like guys I don’t know [ __ ] like I don’t know what you’re talking about no one knows and then afterwards he left uh without a limp and didn’t talk to reporters so we’re left just wondering what the hell happened because I think the Pelicans win that game if Zion stays in the game they had Brandon Ingram wasn’t good he was he he’s been coming back from injury he just looked bad and Zion was like I’m putting the whole team on my back and he almost beat the Lakers by himself yeah that entire game was was just a a microcosm of his entire career really he’s like oh he’s awesome he’s awesome he’s awesome [ __ ] he’s hurt that’s kind of how it goes and after the play was over I was trying to figure out what was wrong like I was trying to diagnose it via the video and it was really strange because he he does that little drive through the hole makes the shot and then he like pumps his fist and turns around and then he after like two steps then he realizes oh I need to start walking slower and it maybe the only thing I could think of and they said they’re doing like an MRI on his is he might have felt whatever pain he was in might be familiar to him like he knows exactly what it is and he knows exactly what it means because he’s had it before and he knows how long it’s going to take to recover from it because it wasn’t like it didn’t look to be catastrophic like oh [ __ ] my killes is torn or uh ACL or anything like that it was just like a realization of God damn it this sucks because I know exactly what it is that’s hurt and it sucks that it’s hurt but I can’t do anything about it it sucked it sucked because he was having an incredible incredible performance and we’re stuck just being like [ __ ] that was going to be awesome but the Lakers do Advance should we start the narrative is this Lakers team dangerous PFT they now play the Nuggets um I like you know this is going to be the story that’s everyone talking about like look at the Lakers I think they finished the season like 24 and 10 so they’ve they’ve played well a lot of guys who want a bubble Championship which we have count except for Caruso that’s a full championship for him um are we gonna are we going to do the watch out for the Lakers they could beat the Nuggets oh I think we have to I think we have to say that well Hank are you in that they’re going to beat the the Nuggets or are you in that we have to talk them up Hanks muted probably for the best yeah Hank is muted I think they could be theget I think they be they could beat the Nuggets I believe you think they be the nugets now yeah Championship experience you know i d greatest players Anthony Davis All Stars all NBA players why not yeah uh well I don’t think they’re nearly as good as the Nuggets is the thing Anthony Davis does look healthy we I think that’s how we started last year’s playoffs Anthony Davis looks really really healthy right now and he’s an absolute beast when he is healthy um let me ask you a question Hank uh this series how many games is this series it’s a seven game series it’s a seven game series okay so if it were a 15 game series The I would give you the Lakers I would say it because the Lakers have beaten the Nuggets four times over the last 15 times they’ve played so I would give you that if they played 15 games and all the Lakers had to do is get to four I would say yes that can happen best of 15 but it’s only four when it’s the Lakers 15 times in the last three years they played and the Lakers have won four times I just I think we’re g to all everyone’s going to talk themselves into it and I I mean the Lakers are not I don’t think the Nuggets wanted to see the Lakers I I would I would guess that because they obviously I mean anytime you have to play LeBron in the playoffs it’s scary but last year they did sweep them people said it was the the closest sweep that’s ever happened in a seven game series I think the nuggets are better yeah I mean we all remember game four one of the all-time best games in the history of the NBA that nobody will remember yeah Hank what are you doing to yourself right now because like PFT and I are putting ourselves in a very uh open situation where if the Lakers somehow win this series this will look terrible for us but it also would mean LeBron beat the Champs and they would be like okay now who else do they have they’re they you know they could get to the finals so what are you doing I just want someone to beat the Nuggets I like take him seven games drag out battle really just really just here’s into a war against us but here’s the thing I think I think we we might have to just go along with Hank because Hank he knows ball I think I think Hank’s right and the Lakers can do it and the Lakers can actually go all the way to the NBA finals and I think the the Lakers could beat the Celtics in the NBA finals and LeBron could get a title be down for that and that would be awesome the start of the championship DVD was Zion throwing the towel and going and and huffing and puffing into the locker room that was start of the Celtics Champion the Lakers Western Conference Finals DVD Champion DVD well uh the so the Pelicans I don’t know what is gonna happen with Zion if he’s gonna play on Friday I don’t I mean without o limp I I would say no because it looked like he was like he looked like he had a non- contact injury and he knew right away that he was [ __ ] yeah you know that looked that he had it was it was either he knew immediately it was really really bad or he knew immediately because he’s had that same injury before and he re-aggravated it right so they’re going to play the Pelicans are going to play the Kings light the beam the Kings take down the Warriors um is this the end is this the end for the Warriors because they uh went out pretty sad it felt like they never they got like what to Four Points at halftime it’s like okay here come the Warriors they were never like Steph was never able to get open shots Clay is washed I I so stupidly was like what if Klay just has a throwback game because I love I love clay but he’s he’s washed and uh now you have like a bunch of questions of are the Warriors is that it is that like is this finally it it was probably it last year but is this finally it I think we said last year that that should have been it at the end of their run they needed to do something like drastic to to retool themselves but uh they there’s no more frustrating team to watch when they stink than the Warriors when they’re good it looks like they broke basketball and when they stink it looks like basketball broke them they were they’re just so frustrated you just want to like yell at the TV like quit being [ __ ] you just want to scream at them make some shots they just couldn’t make any shots and they’re you know they’re they’re trusting on guys that are not playing in the right positions with Trace Jackson Davis and you know there was a moment where uh Moses Moody hit a couple threes and you’re like oh here come the Warriors and it’s just no that’s it’s it’s over I’m I I’m actually disappointed that uh Draymond didn’t get ejected that felt like an ejection game I was very upset about that I think he wanted to go um yeah what is this mean for Chris Paul’s Legacy oh another playoff loss we should probably get rillo on yeah we need to talk about this Chris Paul blew it I’m gonna text him right now we’ll just see if he can respond in in in quick enough time yeah just just a comment really is all all that we need actually Hank you text him because he doesn’t respond to your text so just ask ask is this another is this another Chris Paul playoff loss just ask just that yeah and then maybe ask if you can get the video for your brother’s B yeah actually you know what big cat this is you should FaceTime him because he facetimed you when the badges lost yeah this is his equivalent of the Badgers losing yeah yeah although I mean Chris Paul this doesn’t he he was not he was a non-factor um I have a question for you P so the Kings uh they kind of like sputter down the stretch this is a big big win for them obviously the Warriors like have been their you know they’ve had some great Wars with them in the last few years uh sabonis is so much fun to watch sabonis does does he just have uh has he just had a black eye for five years I feel like he’s had a black eye constantly I think he he like does the uh the smokey eye to himself before every game for intimidation reasons yeah but he looks he looks intimidating you don’t want to [ __ ] with a guy like that it’s like you see a guy with a black eye you see a guy with a missing tooth or you see a guy with cauliflower ear you steer clear Chris Paul is this another Chris Chris Paul loss he’s asking us for the playoff Los yeah what asking for comment doesn’t count as the playoffs right isn’t playing separate oh true [ __ ] so how do how should we phrase this well let’s let Ryan arrive at that conclusion on his own I don’t want to I don’t want to give him excuses ahead of time the fact that Hank’s sending this text is great uh and also shout out ke Murray Iowa basketball is is on fire right now um we talk a little bit about the WNBA draft during hoty cool Throne he was awesome he had everything so yeah maybe let’s light the beam let’s just keep lighting the beam I do I want the Kings to be good yeah yeah I do too I I don’t think that they have a chance against the Thunder but I want them to be good um I also would like them to maybe lengthen their Nets because I just I can’t stand watching a game this is a very sad old guy take but whenever the Nets are really short it just bothers me I want to see swishes I want to see cool swishes I want to see the I want to see the net really swish I would like them to do the the uh inseason tournament with chain Nets so you get the swish sound with the chain like playground sound that would I would like that as well um all right so you send the text Han there’s no way he’s going to respond in time for yeah I mean his last yeah no problem we should we should have Hank just be the designated rillo texter cuz you know that he’s just not going to respond and we could be like well Chu it up to iing Hank uh PFT other things we got to talk about oh they’re lighting the beam right now sabonis with his with his uh black eyes lighting the beam they [ __ ] killed the Warriors they killed the Warriors there’s the beam it’s lit uh the beam is very cool bft congratulations to your capitals clinching the A spot in um the NHL playoffs St Cup playoffs that was a crazy like 10 minutes of hockey I was actually watching the Red Wings game that was kind of wanting Patrick Kane to get in the playoffs the Red Wings scored with three seconds left yeah and then the the Flyers knowing that they needed to win in regulation pulled their goalie and then lost in regulation and people are big mad at you PFT in the capitals that’s fine that’s I understand why they’re mad they they should be mad at torch they should be mad at the coach of the Flyers because what happened was you’re right the Flyers needed to win in regulation to have any shot at it and nobody told Tor that the Red Wings had scored to tie it up at the end of regulation so torch was operating under the assumption that they could still get into the playoffs with a regular uh regular time win so they pulled their goalie and nobody told them that the goal happened until after the capitals went down and scored which is about a minute and a half of real time uh like after the the goal happened in the Detroit game to win the Capital scor it was about one minute 20 seconds and in that time nobody let torts know okay you can put the goalie back out there um but I don’t know like if that was the plan along to have some guy on the bench with like an iPad checking the scores every 30 seconds and and keeping him informed but for whatever reason he didn’t do it it ended up working out pretty good for me so I’m not going to complain uh but this is this caps team is the weirdest [ __ ] team ever nobody thought they were going to make the playoffs their goal differential is uh unbelievable bad last time I checked I don’t know what it is now I think it was like 36 they end up minus 36 on the season I think in goal differential the last team to make the playoffs with a goal differential of minus 30 or Worse was the 1994 1995 San Jose Sharks whoa so uh yeah we had I’m rooting for you guys because there’s nothing better than when a team makes the playoffs and everyone’s like no one wanted to see this [ __ ] this this is [ __ ] that’s a team you got to worry about because everyone was so mad and was like [ __ ] this the capitals are boring they’re going to get killed by the Rangers I might have to bet them against the Rangers [ __ ] it well here’s the good news is the caps made the playoffs bad news is they have to play the Rangers who won the President’s trophy which is you know basically impossible to lose in the playoffs if you’re that good of a team that you win the president’s trophy so there’s like no chance that we can beat the Rangers but I’m just glad to be there is very happy to be there we got a hot goalie too don’t forget about that our goalie is standing on his head I think the last two months he might be I think he’s first in goals or goals against average he’s got a bunch of shutouts he’s playing really really well um the thing about the Caps is they they get the [ __ ] kicked out of them all the time that’s why it’s been such a frustrating season they’ve lost 13 games by four or more goals this year 13 games but they’re tied I think they’re top five for most one goal wins this season so they they can win the close ones so I mean really all I wanted I said this to you guys before we left for the day is all my teams stink right now I just I want to have one team that I can root for in a playoff situation and the capitals are that team and actually tip of the cap to the capitals because every everything else in DC by and large has sucked for the last like 20 25 years that the Nats had that one World Series run which was incredible but the capitals are just they they’re always there for me they’re my main [ __ ] I love them yeah um hey oh you got a response said that’s mean oh oh he can’t actually care about the Chris Paul at this point like it’s he’s not even he’s playing Off the Bench that wasn’t a Chris Paul loss I’m gonna say right now rill that wasn’t a Chris Paul loss that was a Klay Thompson loss I’m excited for you I think it’s partially Chris palto yeah partially I’m excited for you PF about the capitals I I I really do I I do love whenever a team makes the playoffs and it’s like you you like everyone that was I saw everyone’s like [ __ ] this we’d rather see this team or that team n capitals got in and they did it in the last like three seconds or or two minutes of the Season yeah I asked um I asked Vikings fans how I can prepare to respond to all the haters out there that’ll be like but the goal differential is so bad you know they had their team that made the playoffs not this past season but but two seasons ago and uh the majority of responses were just like it’ll be fine just try not to lose to a team from New York in humiliating fashion in the first round so I’m going to try to take that to heart and then uh they also told me just like any anytime somebody says a capital should be in the playoffs just tell them to suck my dick so that’s what I’m gonna do um I have also one last Advanced analytics I’d like to share with you guys um so I’m going to read I’m going to read something and then I’m going to tell you the advanced analytics behind it so this is from March 26th um about to tune in to my first Flyers game of the year apologies and Advance all the die hards out there at this point the the uh Philadelphia Flyers had 36 wins on the season this is March 26 they finished with 38 wins they went two- eight after that tweet and they missed the playoffs by a point they went two- eight and that was from our very own maxen I can’t believe that I I remember when you said you were GNA watch your first Flyers game and then I just went and looked at the schedule and it’s just L’s just everywhere how did you do that he was fed up big cat I don’t know I don’t know if you heard the news L’s everywhere two and eight to finish the season after Max decided to tune in they only lost that’s actually what one single point I think they lost I think they ended up losing by there was a bunch of tie Breakers uh for the last spot but yeah the Flyers ended up with uh 87 points capitals ended up with 91 but uh that was also including tonight’s game where they lost in regulation uh that’s even for you Max that’s impressive I don’t give a [ __ ] it’s Sixers it’s all about the but there there’s definitely a bunch of people from Philly that are listening to this and they’re pissed off at you what do you say to them I’m I’m I am I do apologize to them but that was also that was the only game I watched and that was you just you just you drive by stunk them I literally like hey here’s my stink I’m going I’m out of here guys I guess I don’t know I don’t think this counts I don’t care like I I I I know like two players on the flyers I would have if they made the playoffs though I would have got flyed up you would have been you would have been in the [ __ ] flyer Zone yeah sorry sorry to Philly yeah I was I was going to be really mad at you max if you had beaten the capitals tonight and you would have gone into like little flyer Zone in the playoffs and then I would just be sitting here sad about everything no I’m happy I’m very happy that you made it over over me thanks Max means a lot we got I just need one I don’t I don’t ask for a lot in sports I just I want to I want to have one team that I can put my heart and soul into for at least a week during the playoffs over the course of a calendar year I don’t think that’s too much to ask from the sports Gods we’re just we’re right in the I mean I expect the blls to maybe win on Wednesday night but then lose uh to the heater the Sixers and so we’re back in the spot where Hank just sitting with two teams everyone’s else just you know you you you got in at the last game I’m gonna play in Max is gonna play in just trying yeah trying but try get in you’ve had you’ve had like a banner year in drafts though that’s true that’s true all your draft success true your draft success this year has been worth like one playoff series for sure in terms of enjoyment that’s true um we we also I I completely forgot and we’ll get to it later with Mr peir who’s owned by a one and only memes but we get crazy memes coming up soon with the Islanders because they have been on a historic run to get in the playoffs and memes is a [ __ ] psycho with the Islanders and you know what he’s he might hate the Rangers more than I do right now so like got I got him on my side I’ve got a very powerful force behind me yes he absolutely does um okay let’s kick to ourselves we have uh hot SE cool Throne we have a great Blake Griffin interview and then we have Mr pear awesome show awesome awesome show uh let’s kick it back to ourselves in studio okay before we get to Hot sea cool Throne Top Golf it’s golf it’s not golf it’s Top Golf if you’ve never heard of them they have all the stuff to make them legit golf like balls clubs Turf and even a ball picker upper cart thing but they’re very much not golf too we’re talking loud music giant targets climate controlled bays and unbeatable food and drinks day or night we went in Arizona we had a great time great food by the way uh the wings were were phenomenal the flatbread pepperoni honey pizza so good incredible and the golf was also incredible from PFT and myself yeah I think I got a win big cat you got a win I got a couple wins it was great yeah it was a fun time for for the whole Squad you had to order a second round of appetizers yeah cuz Max ate everything oh that’s mean oh that’s mean that’s mean but uh yeah go watch the PM TV we had a great time at top golf Hank lost everything so with spring and summer on the horizon if you’re looking to add some more play to your life Top Golf is the place to be since they want everyone to play they just launched half off golf Monday through Wednesday when you book in the app all you have to do is book a Monday through Wednesday in their app and you’ll get half off the golf of course even they have some rules half off golf Monday through Wednesday applies to gameplay only isn’t offered at the Vegas menu and is only available when you book in their app for a limit time get half off golf every Monday through Wednesday when you download and book in the app for full details visit topgolf.com PMT that’s topgolf.com PMT Henry Hot Seat cool Throne did you file your taxes my hot SE is uh CBS oh okay did they not file their tag I don’t know about that uh but they did air a live televised concert of Billy Joel at MSG yes and they cut it off with two minutes ago in the middle of piano man basically before it started the Masters ran too long also not great not great ratings for the Masters oh really so we didn’t like it didn’t like it doesn’t help that Scotty had won by the by 10 or 11 Caitlyn Clark bad for men’s golf I would say so everyone was gearing up they saving their watching for the WNBA um so CBS did pay their taxes CBS probably did pay their taxes although you know networks corporations it’s a little they get a little shady with that stuff so they cut off after Friday or Saturday when is when is the uh the Billy Joels song when does it take place uh it’s Saturday Saturday it’s it’s 5 o’clock on a Saturday yeah yeah 9 o’clock on a Saturday yeah people were pissed they lot of commercials they’re re-airing the entire thing damn cuz people are so mad Billy Joel lives the best life he just takes a helicopter from his house I think that’s Court mandated yeah that’s true he can’t fly the helicopter can’t drive uh he takes a helicopter from his house goes to MSG sells it out M 20 minutes he’s home yeah Glenny balls in the front row every time yeah great life it’s incredible yeah I feel like we should have I should have gone to one of those at one point yeah I feel the same way because you go to MSG and you see the B invited me no less than 500 times I think he invited me to the one on Sunday yeah the banner they have a dedicated Banner next I think it’s bigger than the Ranger Stanley Cup banners actually all right so next time we have to go to New York City let’s just say we can’t go unless Billy Joel’s playing yep and we’ll do that is this a good he is the he just has hits after hits after hits you forget all of them yeah top three Billy Joel songs uh Vienna okay um Italian restaurant yep that’s a good one bottle of red yeah and I will go uh down Easter Alexa Rocket Man rocket man’s a great Billy Joel song goodbye yellowbrook Road what are your the one they did for Princess Diana I thought was really touching yeah Candle in the Wind yeah Candle in the Wind is number one um number two I’m going to say uh the [ __ ] back yep [ __ ] back rocks and then Saturday night’s all right for fighting yeah Saturday Saturday satday Billy Joel Rock a song’s pretty good too cool what okay did she do her taxes what does that have to do with anything I don’t know why keep bringing up taxes my cool Throne you did your taxes though of course I’m an American that’s all it takes uh my cool Throne is the WNBA cuz ratings talk the uh ratings came in for the WNBA draft stunning stunning stunning numbers 2.4 million viewers for the WNBA draft last year it was 572,000 the NBA draft did 3.7 million on ABC the MLB draft had 74 4,000 NHL 681 th000 I didn’t even know that the MLB draft was televised yeah noidea MLB Network they do it in studio 42 at the baseball field where you guys took BP that should be that should be a punishment at some point somebody should have to sit and watch the entire MLB draft do you think we could talk uh MLB GM like I don’t know if we know any but like if we if we actively started being like all right what front offices listen a part of my take there are so many rounds I think we could maybe get drafted just gas they kind of throw away those last picks like they’ll draft someone who’s playing college football being like maybe maybe if he says yes to us right yeah yeah you’re right somebody always takes a pick they use it on like Russell Wilson yeah a quarterback who’s definitely going to let’s get Max drafted cuz he actually has you could be like well he he we have tape I have a baseball reference we have a baseball reference so let’s get Max drafted I don’t know who we can do like someone please listening who works in some organization please reach out just all we’re asking for is 40th you know what will’ll even we’ll pay you we’ll give you a signing have a rookie wage scale no I mean could be an issue Max what if you got drafted then you refused to sign Max just heard the word scale and shook his head that’s all right come on now I’m getting too many straight come on guys he started it I haven’t taken one stray shot at you and the top C wasn’t even a straight that was just an observ about you being well yeah I mean that was also I mean you were getting made fun of so you were just like oh yeah let me defle fact fiction had one camera in one hand and 17 pieces w i mean you acting like you weren’t even chewing you started to lose and you just like Max just won’t stop eating you just turned the vacuum button on and he’s like Kirby yeah they cut the draft in half there’s only 20 rounds by 19 there was 40 rounds there 40 rounds oh no we might not be able to get max4 picks last year let’s get Max drafted speaking of baseball uh Larry lukino and John Henry all time scumbags what happened I mean Larry John Henry didn’t Larry Lino die time scags for not attending Larry Lino’s funeral was two days after opening day which they were at that is crazy all time scumbags all time scumbags all time scumbag probably send some nice flowers all time scumbags definitely don’t pay their taxes lock them up yeah you would right right right right right we don’t want to do the tax because then if they started no lock them up lock them up for what for what reason not paying their taxes being all time scumbags okay but not for the tax thing yeah that should be part of it but not you can’t judge a book by just someone that doesn’t pay the taxes but I’m not one of those people um the oh stop stop spreading this for me this not this is a satire podcast the WNBA uh draft the the all the rookie wages getting tweeted out and everyone’s like what the [ __ ] it’s like well this is what Caitlyn Clark might be able to fix she might be able to improve things a little bit like if people watch and then it starts making more money then they get to pay more but was funny for people to be like oh that you can’t even live in New York City on that well her number one she was number one like they got excited cuz her Iowa teammate got drafted later on to the same team what is she making yeah probably like 50 I don’t know unrelated I I’m a big Indiana Fever fan always have been yeah well unrelated uh we should probably get the boys some Chicago Sky season tickets because we’re bringing back bul ball what do they play uh win trust Angel Reese is she’s really [ __ ] good Angel Reese and Cardoza uh my friend friend Ricky odonnell uh threw out a tweet CU he he covers all Chicago basketball I think he said that in the last year the two of them have shot five total three-pointers yeah bully ball rebound we’re going just bully ball everyone’s shooting the three we’re just going to [ __ ] pack the paint and just have some beasts down there rebounds all day do you think I could get a rebound over cardosa NOP yeah she would dominate me in the paint hopefully I would love to have both of them come in and we’ll have uh we’ll have them on the show yeah would love it uh but yeah the the the W the the contracts getting tweeted out were tough to look at but it will get changed also endorsements I mean kayin Clark that’s the thing Revel keeps talking about how she’s she’s tooking a pay cut from Iowa but now she get a shoe deal I would imagine her shoe deal is going to be huge 10 million $15 million it’s going to be massive she’s going to get a ton of endorsement and she couldn’t do a shoe deal at Iowa because they’re a Nike school yeah she’ll make a ton of money yeah okay good job hot seat cool Throne Hank nothing to do with taxes nothing okay I don’t know why I keep bringing it up but than a tax I just passed uh my my hot seat is Hank cuz he didn’t do his taxes Shut up I didn’t say it was you I didn’t say it was you Hank any Hank yet let me finish yet U my hot seat is Trump who’s on trial tax ta ISS for that one year when but I would have got money back but uh no my hot seat is Gordon Ramsay Gordon Ramsey because his restaurant got taken over he had a pub in central London and it’s up for sale for 13 million quid which I think is their way of saying okay uh and then six people squatters have taken over the building and they’re occupying it and saying we own this place now and so now he can’t sell it cuz you got squatters just living in there who I mean not to get political but the squatting thing is it blows my mind who set it up how is that political why can’t they just arrest him so squatter someone in politics it’s someone in politics fault which which crazy so this is in London so I don’t know what their law is over there true but um remember back in like 2008 2009 when the housing market crashed there were a ton of people that were just moving into foreclosed homes and putting up these like legal notices they’re they’re like the same people that would go to court and then complain to the judge about it not being the proper type of court because the tassels on the flag weren’t right yeah like those they they know like the letter of the law and nowadays there’s a bunch of people that are doing it that are taking advantage of like renters rights in New York that are doing but this just squatting has gone back I think back since like the 1800s you can’t like kick someone out it’s crazy the thing is whenever I see these videos of like a guy who’s like I just started living in this house and nothing anyone can do and nothing happen cuz I’m like wait how I don’t do like what would you do you go home and [ __ ] lose my mind if somebody was in my house when I went home I would be like dude you probably don’t pay taxes yeah yeah they definitely don’t yeah I would just bad bad group to be in be like cool I guess you’re paying rent I would just charge him rent probably file a mean extension yeah mean extension I’m dealing with some issues right now what’s a mean what’s the difference between an extension and a mean EXT that’s just a really good one yeah maybe after the date no no no uh my cool Throne is the American judicial system so I I alluded to it a second ago but the Trump trial is starting in Manhattan right now and they’re doing jury selection for it and in the jury selection one of the questions they’re asking the prospective jurors is do you listen to podcasts uh oh and then they’re asking them what podcast do you listen to so juror number b354 from Nomad was in seat number 10 and the podcast question do you listen to podcast he says yeah if I get bored every once in a while I’ll listen to barcol sports yes might be in the Trump jury pool later on there was an upper east side resident a native New Yorker and investment banker at KPMG lives with his fiance works at a nonprofit uh he’s another Sports podcast guy he listens to pardon my take yes which got a nice from a reporter that was sitting in the courtroom holy [ __ ] we might we might get some some fellas installed on the Trump jury right now that rocks yeah they just basically were asking this question for anyone who answers the daily yeah the daily you’re out of here yeah you’re gone see you you’re gone see you that’s awesome yeah so out that guy so shout out those guys that are in the pool I hope you guys get selected really scary thing to think of anyone who’s listening to this right now deciding anyone’s fate in a jurk yeah will will the former president go to jail well his fate is in the hands of a guy that listens to us pretend to know what we’re talking about and just bought a turtle to gamble on Sports a guy who basically was like clearing my schedule Mr pear is about to be unveiled yeah I can’t I can’t make jury this morning I got to see who he’s got in the in the playin game oh I love it we might we might have some friends in very high places right now yes like it all right my hot seat is the Chicago White Socks so we have a strategy betting against the A’s it’s been mixed reviews they did lose by two runs the other night on Monday night I am a [ __ ] idiot because this weekend I tried to bet on the bet against the Athletics I put the bet in for the next day’s game for the following day’s game which was also listed on the odds that I could put down on they ended up losing that game by a lot that would have been a rare win for us in the past week I missed out on that money and then yesterday I don’t want to blame Stephen Chay yes we can I don’t want to blame Stephen in charge of telling but it’s Stephen chay’s fault yes and he didn’t tell us to bet against the Athletics and I didn’t get the bet in and the Athletics end up losing by two runs yes that’s another I guess it’s a total of um units that you need back yeah units that I need back that’s the exact way to it’s it’s multiple units that I need back and so I’m 0 for two on the last games that we should have won Under the system so the the thing is with the uh betting against the AIDS it was because of that [ __ ] John fiser [ __ ] him uh and also we thought they’d be really bad we should have picked the white socks because the white socks are so so bad and Jerry reinsdorf also a [ __ ] was going to be uh if if the Bulls win on Wednesday night going to be like look see we got to the second level of the playing game another year in a row uh but the white socks I have some stats from you this is from uh Jay Cuda who’s great Twitter follower uh he also is a white sock fan number of times the Braves have been shut out in the last 430 days two number of times the white socks have been shut out in the last 430 hours six in baseball history two teams have been shut out at least six times in their first 16 games the 1907 Brooklyn super baz huh they were the do before the Dodgers and the 2024 Chicago White Socks uh we also have this stat that um hold on uh games won since opening day Yukon men’s Huskies four Chicago White Sox two uh it’s it’s just bad it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse and worse uh they are on Pace for the uh 2003 uh tigers that end up winning 43 games and here’s the last one uh number of days Pedro griffall has been manager of the white socks if you remember we talked about it last week that Jerry rinworth didn’t want to fire him yeah because he wanted to let his contract run out a little more so number of days he has been the manager of the White Soxs 531 number of days he has had a winning record one opening day last year yeah it’s bad things are bad on the southide they don’t know where they’re going to play in the future too right they’re looking for a new stadium Jerry rers is doing the John fiser thing he’s just being a [ __ ] [ __ ] somehow and this is shocking the the story of the lady that snuck a gun into the Guaranteed Rate field and accidentally shot herself in the stomach because she was too fat to be holding a gun in her belly yeah that’s not the saddest weirdest story to happen with the white socks in the last two years yeah and listen I I’m not I’m not a white socks fan but I I have a lot of friends people in my life that root for the white sock and I feel bad for them I’m going to do something for them uh that will hurt me but I’m going to do it I always say honestly this should Chicago White Socks and uh where they play guaranteed rap field has some of the best food in all of Sports Major League Baseball everything food beverage everything beers everything More’s milkshake way better than Wrigley like world’s better than Wrigley so whenever I tell people like oh go to wh like dude it is they just do a top class job of it I’m no longer going to say that because that’s what Jerry rinworth wants you to say that is because like it doesn’t matter what happens on the field we got great food we got great beer it’s a great atmosphere I I can no longer say that I’m going to stand with white sock fans I will no longer plug the fact that going to a game there is actually fun and uh a great experience so no more they get dog ship food they get nothing out of you nothing because I I would I would people would ask like dude not have even close to the same food as the white sauce that milkshake though I would let that milkshake do unspeakable things to me yeah it’s so good-looking yeah so uh white socks are really down bad uh and then my cool Throne is golf because golf they did have a bad Masters ratings but it was fun to watch the Masters nonetheless uh golf uh has Rory maybe going to the live so way to go golf he denied it yeah I know he it was it was such a classic go like live being like Oh The Masters just happened this is cool everyone’s talking about the Masters let’s just float out that Rory’s thinking about $850 million didn’t we talk was it with Whitney or was it with uh rigs I forget one of those guys we said how much would it Rock if if Rory just decided to go to the live after after like talking all that [ __ ] but it’s just impossible he was Mr PGA Tour for it seemed like forever he was the spokesperson but this is all Li Liv’s entire strategy is this now where it’s like oh some big PGA event happens let’s just say oh Tiger Woods is thinking about taking $ 1.5 billion doll also did you read the story about Greg Norman at the Masters yeah his hand his hand is sore because he shook too many hands during the Masters he got denied credentials which there’s every time this happens people are like we don’t even know if he actually tried to get credentials he bought a ticket from uh he just bought a ticket online showed up uh said that there were so many people that came up to him and said thank you so much for what you’re doing for golf and then he also he like tried to stare down Rory for a couple holes like basically tried to get in his eyesight and Rory just never acknowledged him but weird weird dude I did hear some people saying like you could the microphone picked up that said thank you for everything you do online thanks for all the content yeah now we do stand with Brooks and his live team smash smash we can separate the art from the artist uh also golf’s back because Scotty sheffler went to uh hole in- thewall dive bar when he landed in Dallas that was cool that is cool yeah just like us and people were like whoa he wanted to be with his wife his wife’s probably sleeping yeah also I oh they they also they clowned Tonio Brom the PGA Tour did they like he had he woke up in the morning cuz obviously his wife wife is pregnant she’s sleeping in and he made himself his own breakfast and the Instagram caption was Chef sheffler o Big Time clown Tonio Brown nice nice it’s literally in his last name he was wearing the same uh outfit that he won the Masters in at this bar which was very cool I also was looking back and I’m I’m GNA I’m going to retract something with Scotty uh I was like I need this baby to come soon so that he doesn’t get all this credit for being you know this awesome dude that I’m going to leave I think that he was forced into saying that he was was going to leave he just said his wife was pregnant and then media members asked if he would leave if she went into labor he never was like she’s imminent for L he didn’t have that plan right he wasn’t like oh she could have a baby at any time yeah the reporters kept on saying if hypothetically she had a baby so Scotty’s off the hook great dude all right good yeah I stand with Scotty we like Scotty like he you know how that can happen where he gets duped where people are like well like his wife could be 3 months pregnant and reporters would say that like what if she has a baby mhm he’s got to answer it one way that was he he didn’t have that discussion with his wife before talking about it right he was boxed into a corner where it’s like she’s probably not going to have the baby why are you bringing this up okay if you ask me this question directly I guess I have to say I’d leave yeah by the way I did just look it up Charlotte the pregnant Stingray yeah by the way pregnant air quotes in North Carolina still has not given birth now they’re doing a bait and switch news story now the story is she’s regrowing her Dro tail Barb that she lost isn’t she crazy so now it’s just oh we’re supposed to forget about the the pregnancy because she’s apparently resprouting limbs this this stinks to high heaven I don’t think I don’t think this [ __ ] is pregnant okay and and guy who’s listening who’s about to walk back into the Trump trial you can now go now that you have this Charlotte up yeah the Charlotte that that [ __ ] ain’t pregnant I just love the idea of that guy just yeah just sitting there oh this high stakes moment and we’re just updating on Charlotte and Scotty Sheffer to die SC sheffler drank beers drank beers news news story that looked actually like a lot of fun like imagine being at that die bar and just sitting there on a Sunday night and the Master’s champ walks in yeah I I mean if I was Scotty I would I would just live in dive bars for the rest of my life so awesome I would just wear the Green Jacket everywhere yeah but you probably get a phone call from Augusta if you’re wearing it in like an establishment they don’t approve of you only get to keep it for a year yeah you only get to keep it for a year and then they keep it at austa yeah Sergio or John ROM talked about that how he had it in his closet and he was saying he kind of wishes he wore it more because he has to give it back yeah yeah but uh Scotty off the hook hopefully we get Scotty on sometime we stand with Scotty that was uh he was duped by the media my apologies for falling for their tricks no my apologies as a member of the media yeah the media will do the media makes us look bad as members of the media like the media right now has been saying that Hank didn’t do his taxes [ __ ] fake [ __ ] [ __ ] they’re saying Max stuffed his face with food M [ __ ] that did happen did Tom forelli do his taxes Hank probably probably probably okay jury R all right uh Jake my hot seat is international basketball teams we talked about it with Blake Griffin coming up but the USA announced its Olympic roster for 2024 in Paris and it is stacked they’re looking to win every game by 50 I am uh predicting that the United States will win a gold medal in basketball this year Steph all the ANS Tatum embiid Booker H Burton Edwards holiday AO ad and one open spot there’s just one ball maybe for a guy Blake Griffin who’s coming up yeah I we have squashed the beef with uh Zack Edy because he didn’t make any nil money and uh he was an all-time college basketball player I really want to play Canada and just [ __ ] yam stunk on him just yam on him Canada’s Got a good team is that is he on Canada yeah okay good it’s like Shay Shay guilis uh Andrew Wiggins uh RJ Barrett L Dort maybe what are you gonna say Max we we were Ed no I just positive but MB him trying to guard embiid is going to be when you when you say like we’re Ed positive it sounds like we’ve got to you can’t get it up yeah we’re we’re a POS I guess saying positive Ed doesn’t really help we have Ed we we have Ed that’s what I would say if I was Canadian Canadians have Ed yes correct wait is uh where is is embiid playing in the Olympics yeah he’s on the list for the US which is weird but really yes MH ring Chaser that was yeah he because he knows he’s never going to win one in the NBA uh yeah here we go it’s actually a pretty good team uh SGA Jamal Murray RJ Barrett Dylan Brooks Lou Dort Kelly o lenck uh Zach Edy decent team yeah and then a guy named toas Thomas scrub that sucks yeah that’s awful that sucks to be the last listed that’s brutal dude old Tom scrub old Tom scrub we got to throw them yeah so they’ve kind of put themselves in a position where if they don’t blow every team out so why do we have an open spot uh I don’t know oh man who could it be yeah who are they who are they saving it for so the potential list I’m looking at from his blog is Jared Allen Paulo Desmond Bane Scotty Barnes Bridges Jaylen Brown Brunson Jimmy Butler Alex Caruso ah Caruso it’s got to be cuso got to be cuso Darren Fox Paul George needs to be cuso for sure we got to get kuso on this team Bronson snubbed oh Brunson snubs you can’t you can’t be doing Pro Brunson stuff until we find out who you’re playing in the first round suck Max having mber just snubbed max having to go against the the New York Wild over Knicks I hate that they all play for the Knicks if they were any other team they’d be my second favorite team in the NBA but just brutal uh Jake your cool Throne two cool Thrones one of them quickly plug God First Responders we have a huge event this weekend on Long Island FDNY NPD 50th annual hockey game on bar.txt to make it because we have a NHL playoff conflict so it be me and Colby Armstrong who does great things on spit and chicklets he calls games for the Penguins so he’s great uh Whit will be in between the benches I believe and then Jeff I think Dave will be there uh part of the pregame and intermission did Big how you did that last year it it’s an awesome awesome event always fights in that game too which is great oh yeah I can’t wait to call him it’s going to be awesome yeah any rumors to the truth that that Biz was afraid because he he can’t spell in ypd I believe that’s false okay all right I read that online but that’s the that’s the media any truth to the rumor that Biz is missing because uh Will Compton scheduled this for him I don’t think that’s true either okay no Biz has the the hockey playoffs are starting yeah so it’s understandable yeah TNT uh so that is a cool throne with Ruff and Rowdy Big K will be there and my other cool Throne is John Sterling yeah retired retired out of the blue that’s a weird time to retire right I think he just like was like all right I got it one more time and then two weeks and he’s like I guess not he said I I read a um interview he did with Jimmy TR of where he was basically like I really wanted to retire to start the season I kind of convinced myself I could keep doing it and I can’t um goes out on top yeah no Jake on his own terms no Jake he I mean he did this for 64 years Legend but Legend it might I mean the stantonian had a great career he say like that’s way out of here yeah and that is gone the Stant and then he’s just said what what happened what did I do wrong he is a legend though I mean a legend radio Bas baseball and radio is just the best so whenever you lose a baseball uh announcer for radio it does hurt yeah those voices become part of your childhood growing up and it’s the summer The Boys of Summer right you I’ve seen a lot of guys say it and and girls the a big reason why you get into the business is because you like what you see from the guys and girls you listen to so what is he doing one last game no that’s it he pulled the plug they’re honoring him Saturday oh wow his last home run was a stantonian grand slam oh wow it’s fitting at the stadium Susan waldman’s thing she’s around yeah oh good good that’s basb all the dramatic things George’s box Roger Clemens is in Georgia have you ever seen anything in all my years all my years oh my God what voice really spoke to you what voice was like I need to I need to have that voice I mean in terms of like people or their actual voice no just a voice huh Kevin harland’s got a great voice Kevin but he’s got like an all time you can’t try to fake a Kevin Harland voice it would sound very fake yeah it’s got to be yourself uh we you GNA say Hank do you had something to say you had something to say you want to say something I I want to say something yeah to ju taxes Hank were you falling asleep during Hot Seat cool Throne no is a couple times no to see not off do you have a sleep problem you addicted to sleep I think you’ve been working out too getting up early yeah you got sleep addiction I was trying to get I was trying to get Max’s attention to put the camera on you during Hot Seat cool thr no he didn’t see me yeah I wasn’t asleep are these things recording even when it’s not on them do you know getting up they are so we can review the tape okay yeah we’ll review the yes please make a a a brief clip of Hank falling asleep during Hot Seat cool Throne why are you guys coming at me so hard I just had a question what is it if you fell asleep Sleeping no I I heard the whole thing Hank has been coming in early since the time he uple till 11:30 that’s a fact I’ve seen you here very early he’s training to dunk yeah sleep problem you addicted to sleep no I haven’t been getting any sleep yeah because you’ve been thinking about dunking and getting up early Hank did put a camera in my face about 5 seconds ago and he was like do you think I’ll be able to dunk by yeah for the dentary coming out soon oh [ __ ] yes that I mean you have to watch a dentary mhm uh okay let’s get to speaking of documentaries let’s get to Blake Griffin he retired from the NBA today he’s been a big part of our show and we have an awesome interview very very Blake Griffin interview stay till the end when we go on a side tangent that it’s more of a side quest it’s a side quest but it was also perfectly blade if you’ve listened to the show for a very long time you know it was just perfectly Blake Griffin on this show uh and Blake is brought to you by our friends at pelaton let’s talk about pelaton wherever you’re beginning and wherever you want to be pelaton encourage you to just start pelaton helps you start no matter what level you’re at whether uh you’re starting there’s thousands of classes to get you moving I have the bike and the treadmill whether that’s beginner or Advanced rides Feelgood live DJ rides or even artist theme rides they’ve got you covered with pelaton get started with pelaton bike or bike Plus Rental at www1 peleton.com bike rental uh terms apply that’s www1 spelled out peleton.com bike rentals uh pelaton is the best get working out you don’t have to go to the gym you can do it in your own home and they have people that will get you kick you into high gear get you working out so go right now one peleton.com bikes rentals and get into a pelaton today okay here he is Blake Griffin okay we now welcome on a very very very very special guest one of our oldest dearest friends on pardon my take he is a six-time Allstar rookie of the year but bigger than all of that he’s a two-time Blake of the year three time right three time Blake of the year it is Blake Griff who has announced his retirement from the game of basketball uh let’s start there you retir did you want to throw an a mention to us in the retirement uh note I did I actually you know in like a week I’m going to start putting out my previous drafts that didn’t make the cut um so just be on the lookout for those it’ll be probably in the form of a video or something so were were we ever like you ever like oh let me sneak you in right right after my parents and brother like hey if we’re talking about people that mean the most to me in my career and what made it was like it was like you guys are my agent and I’ve had the same agent the whole time and he like he he was in a he was in a mess about it so I was like you know what the guys will understand yeah yeah we don’t yeah definitely don’t I don’t know you guys I guess apparently I’m sorry it’s okay next time I retire from something you’re in there I’d like I’d like to retire from my career potentially being in the NBA right now I’d like to thank Blake Griffin for showing me that I could play in the NBA even though I can’t dunk I too would like I would also actually like to announce that I’m retiring from not dunking I will be duning men’s leagues um smaller Hoops um on my you know friends whoever it is so I’m un retiring I’m I’m retiring from not dunking okay wait and I would like to thank PFT and big cat yes okay I like that so wait are you actually going to play men’s league because that is I I whenever I talk to someone who retires it’s like the coolest thing you could do is just show up to like pickup games or men’s league games and just [ __ ] dominate I don’t know I mean you never say never you know Justin Bieber I I’ll probably there’s a chance I slip into a men’s league game here or there yes who knows yes who knows all right so maybe I come to Chicago the the new the new dome and play a little we play a little pickup basketball it would be it would be awesome to see you do one of those videos I always love it when athletes pretend to go undercover for you know some sort of like marketing stunt and they’re like oh [ __ ] that was Kyrie Irving I had no idea if you did it you’re like 610 going undercover you could act like you were like an old man on crutches and then you just go out there start yamming on people that would rock yeah it doesn’t work as well when you’re playing the sport that you are playing professionally undercover yeah but you know but you you had a great career obviously a lot of highs um you’ve done a lot of cool [ __ ] a lot of cool [ __ ] so congratulations I think we truly mean that that like you know it’s a good moment for you and I I hope that a lot of people are telling you all the you know good memories they have and thanking you for whatever you’ve done for them I want to know what your favorite part of your NBA career is because I have one and I’m just curious if we had the same one um I I I can almost guarantee it’s probably not going to be the same one mine might be the same one mine might be the same one as yours Man favorite favorite part um probably the probably the um the the tunnel debacle oh okay yeah yeah with the Rockets you know they they buried they they dug deep they came they popped up into our locker room like the Looney it was like a Looney Tunes situation yeah um just popped up and you know we were there to we were there to meet him we held our ground like that app yeah what’s your favorite cuz I have a favorite as well mine was going to be when you when you dumped that glass of water on the fan when you were pretending to like say oh what’s going on on the video board and you just doused him with water that rocked what do you mean pretending you were pretending to be like oh what’s going on and then you threw the water on him yeah that was unfortunate man unfortunately the fan he he happen to be a Warriors fan but I actually I actually know him he’s a nice guy and we’ve uh we we’ve reminisced about it yeah my favorite uh moment from your NBA career is when you made $258 million oh man was that it that’s a pretty cool moment right uh yeah it was pretty cool I guess you know growing up didn’t never imagine that was that would be a possibility so that was that was pretty cool I guess yeah so all right so what’s today like though because it is I we were talking before I mean I’m sure you’re just getting texts from everyone and it probably was like oh uh I didn’t want to get this many text messages today but is it like have you had had a moment to be like this is pretty cool that this many people are reaching out and like uh care about me and and appreciate my career um yeah I mean definitely I you know it’s been three hours I kind of just like I’ve responded to some you know people that I know but um it’s been pretty cool man it’s cool to see teammates older old teammates guys that are still playing uh all my friends and family I mean you know when you when you play this long and like it’s been a been a career like a lot of people are affected by that you know you’re friends your family you can’t go to stuff I’ve missed weddings I’ve missed you know a whole bunch of stuff so um it’s cool to like sort of put that put that in the past you know actually you know I didn’t know how it was going to feel but it is nice man it’s um I was I was ready to be done yeah so wait so there was there any because when we had pton Pritchard and Derek white in here they said They begged you to come back was there any part of you this year where you were like maybe I can just get on a team for the playoffs be you know give some give a couple minutes here like or were you just I’m done uh I I kind of left it open uh for a while I I I did did have sort of I guess a standing offer to go back to Boston and I I remember like December like into of December hit and I called uh Brad Stevens and I was like man I really appreciate I had communication with him the whole time and I just I I wasn’t I wasn’t there man I I just I don’t know something changed and I knew like when something changed like that like it was time to be done and I told him you know like I think it was like end of December um and then I kind of like waited around I honestly I just kind of was enjoying life a little bit and and uh you know finally decided to put it out there but yeah I mean if I got if I if I had gone anywhere I would have gone back to Boston I love those guys and I’m pulling for them and they got a great shot but it was just time for me to be done I I don’t think that I would have been like I wouldn’t have been able to give what I should give to a team you know if my heart like truly wasn’t in it you know that’s got to be awesome though to that you retired while someone was still wanting you to be on the team like that’s a good way to go yeah it was I mean yeah it’s nice to sort of retire someone on your own terms you know and and and not uh you know not like be begging the whole season but um super appreciative of Boston and those guys Brad and all those guys but it was time yeah yeah so what is actually next for you because you we have we have a feeling that you’re coming after our job mhm in some shape or form well you’re coming after our job podcasting you’re probably coming after Hank’s job in golfing yeah I’m I’m I’m pretty serious about my golf game uh hopefully big strides this summer uh I think I’m think I’m gonna play in that Tahoe tournament so you know didn’t get a championship in basketball so hopefully I get a get a get a meaningless championship at a celebrity golf tournament that counts yeah yeah it does count um I don’t know man you know podcasting maybe only fans maybe uh you know maybe maybe start coaching a g-league team get into a fight get fired try to become a GM get fired I like that start start a podcast get fired yeah I don’t know that sounds like f Blake Griffin gets fired would be a great reality oh too see how many jobs you can get canned from yeah wait know does wake up miny yeah fired what’s your uh what’s your what’s your handicap right now uh it’s about 10 something right now 11 111 I think right now but you know we’re working on it you still suck yeah yeah I’m not not good at all it’s been like two you know almost three years now and I was like I think it was like 15 beginning of last summer and I’ve just been grinding hey I don’t want to admit how how much I practice golf now but um I love it it’s like it’s a it’s a huge like stress reliever yeah but that’s actually good that you’re a 10 handicapped because if you retired and you were a scratch it’s like what do you what do you have to do now yeah I mean like like I I feel like all the scratch gol most of the scratch golfers I know are miserable yeah cuz they’re just like unless you shoot under par you’re you’re not you didn’t do well yeah I can go out there and I can shoot 95 still had a great day yeah yeah if you see somebody that that tells you that they’re scratch and you’re right if they don’t shoot par then you’re like that guy’s bullshitting me he’s not really scratched they don’t understand how like the the system works also we’ve been said I think we said this to Brooks keco when he was on the show one time I think we have more fun playing golf than Brooks ke or somebody at that level does because when you hit a good shot out of nowhere you’re like holy [ __ ] golf is awesome that was great and for them they hit one bad shot around and they’re like I [ __ ] suck so we’re actually we’re doing it the right way I mean you saw guys like come every every tournament the guys are coming down the stretch and they like put one in the water Danny McCarthy the other day or the two tournaments ago had an unbelievable bag nine record-breaking back nine sorry don’t mean to pile on here but he and then puts one in the water and every like oh that sucks I put one in the water I’m like got one in my pocket actually right here you’re like I didn’t see that go in yeah didn’t that bounce yeah yeah oberg when when oberg was playing so well and yeah Scotty beats the [ __ ] out of him and then he’s like damn it I just lost a masters potentially it’s like dude you played you you hit like a hundred great shots this week and that would be enough for my entire lifetime yeah yeah I can’t wait to hit 100 good ones have you played Augusta no oh you got to play it before Hank shouldn’t be hard all right that’s my new goal yeah yeah do you have a do you have like a list of things you want to do I feel like when everybody retires they’re like okay here’s five goals that I have for myself yeah it’s mostly like travel stuff like there’s just like a not a lot of places I’ve been able to go you know just because our offseason was so short I want to do do Australia but in their summer you know all the places that are summer during our winter yeah never got to go to I checked the Box off on skiing skied first time that’s that had to look weird yeah I mean also you know I don’t know if you guys know this but my knee history hasn’t been great so that was a huge concern on the mountain I was like literally I took a lesson and I’m just I get on the bunny slope and there’s legitimately like six fivey olds getting lessons and it’s just me just like just going so much slower than them but we got to hang out the tallest man on skis what about uh visiting beautiful Chicago and hanging out with us here that’s got to be on the list yeah that’s on the list as well you know I hear it’s beautiful this time time of year or maybe in a month or two yeah um so you know I’ll let you guys know when I pop by it’ll be fun I want you to dunk on Max so bad yeah yeah there’s um there’s a there’s a few things I want to do that’s that’s one of them that’s close to the top of the list sorry ma no you have to dunk on him yes yeah just any Philly fan you you might not be able to jump over Ika anymore but Max how tall are you six foot 6 foot we’ll say 61 six flat he’s six feet tall could you jump over Max yeah I think so it’s like a midsize op midsize sedan yeah yeah that works yeah just come to Chicago tag Max yeah that’d be perfect I’m there um all right so your retirement uh letter yeah well no not it wasn’t a letter well it was kind of a letter it was a non-letter it was a non-letter letter it was a non-letter letter what part of it are you going to look back in like two days and be like man I wish I hadn’t written that uh I mean hopefully none of it I don’t I don’t know was it bad no it was good but you it felt like you didn’t want to write it and you were forced to write it because it’s like that’s what guys got to do they got to write it like you’re you know you you even said it in it you’re like I never envisioned myself as the guy who had to write one of these yeah well just I just felt like I would do it a different way I I don’t I don’t I don’t think I’ll regret any part of it I think I my message that I just wanted to get across was like I I am thankful even for like the shitty moments that’s like what makes the ups and downs of like the season the ups and downs of a career the ups and downs of life that’s like what makes it all worth it you know what I mean I was trying trying to be sincere um with like a little bit of little bit of levity but um I don’t know I I felt pretty good about it I honestly I just wanted to just get it out there and be done with it you know I mean the correct answer was the part that you didn’t mention us but um oh yeah yeah but I I said I was gonna I was gonna there there’s like a part two to the retirement that would have turned it into a letter being part being part two of a letter is actually cooler than being part one of a letter yeah yeah because it’s like the PS part is like the part that everybody remembers because it’s just like the last thing they read so like you know true I’ll put I I’ll put something together real nice for you guys have you have you spent any time online today looking what people are saying about you no I have not you should do that I I I sincerely mean that because like all the things that people are saying I I search for Blake Griffin on Twitter and I just get to watch highlight reels of your best dunks you should do that you should treat yourself and just be like yeah I was pretty [ __ ] awesome at dunking the ball yeah yeah I mean yeah maybe I will it’s fun to fun to relive it from a different perspective I guess who’s who’s who were you teabagging in this Nick dunk oh man oh Timothy mozgov oh man oh yes that was B brother do you have do you have a favorite dunk over the entire course of your career um that was one of them I remember like the ni that Nicks game I had like three dunks that I felt like were were like I don’t know after that game I’ve said this before but like after that game like I think I went home and I woke up the next morning and I feel like my life like never changed after that game so like it holds like a a special moment you know to me that that it was just like everything just kind of just like just took off yeah are you gonna are you going to be an actor because I feel like you would be an awesome actor um I’ve got a couple things uh lined up that I can’t really talk about yet but um not not like not as maybe a little bit um I got a couple things that I’m I’m pretty excited about um kind of at the intersection of of sports and comedy I guess a little bit so well I I mean like we we’ve known you for a long time I I think like there are athlete funny where a guy can like do a quote and it’s like oh he’s funny because we don’t see an athlete do those you’re legitimately funny and I would love to see you I even saw you in that commercial you [ __ ] crushed that commercial was it super commercial uh I don’t know the ones where you were doing a bunch of stuff in the kitchen oh the uh uh Daily Harvest one yeah I was like this is this was great like I want to watch more Blake I only like when I started doing endorsement deals and like had to do commercials I asked like early on I was like I only want to do something fun I only want to do like a comedy commercial you know like something that’s funny and then over the course of time like it just worked out because you know I think Brands and people like enjoyed that a little bit more than like the typical like you know every day I wake up and train yeah and you know what I put into the game like get out of the game nothing wrong with those but like I just like never wanted to do that there it’s so fun like try to think of funny things and and execute so um that’s kind of what I’ll be doing on out it a teaser it would also Rock if you ended up like sha where your face is on every product known to man like you’re selling printers and Best Buy yeah that’d be funny like just but just like everything Shaq does but just like the competitor like B gay whatever the competitor General Insurance is yeah hulet Packer printers yeah go oneon-one with Shaq yeah what uh who is your favorite teammate that we wouldn’t know either you can maybe don’t do like uh like a someone that’s like a perennial all Allstar someone famous but like someone some guy that’s like give him his flowers like yeah no one knows this guy was the best I love like I’ve said I mean I mean Jamal Crawford’s a name everybody knows that name right but he’s the best yeah one of my young boys I love Bruce brown man awesome dude yep um love uh Lamar odm was awesome like a awesome dude awesome teammate just like so caring so kind uh I could I could name so many guys I’ve had I’ve had some awesome teammates I don’t want to leave anybody off the list but those guys are great yeah and then what uh are you gonna miss are you gonna miss the guys in the locker room you gotta say that yeah you know what I think I’m gonna miss the most is those little times in the locker room the bus rides the camaraderie no I really will I mean everybody like every every teammate I remember like you know guys would retire and I talked to him and like that everybody mentions like that’s what they miss I will miss like playing basketball a little bit you know sometimes I’ll watch games I’ll be like I mean it’ be fun to be out there but also like you know end of my career I was only out there half the time not that many minutes so you know it’s it’s when when like your favorite thing to do is play basketball and like you’re you’re not doing that all the time you’re not doing it at a level you’re used to it’s like God it’s probably time yeah you know yeah but I will miss I will miss like those those conversations like the I told some of the guys on Boston too like I’m not just going to sign before the playoffs because like part of like growing together as a team like through a season is like you go through all like training camp you go through all that [ __ ] of like road trips that are miserable losing streaks like bad games whatever it is and like you sort of like grow together and you have that Kindred Spirits so like for me it was like I don’t want to just jump on a roster and like at the end of the season try to win a championship like part of the joy is like being there from the beginning you know yeah that makes sense you could get that same kind of locker room environment uh if you were to do like the uh NBA show on TNT have they talked to you about that I feel like you would you would be the one guy that I feel like would fit in with Shaq Kenny Charles the whole crew I don’t know man I i’ I’ve had some conversations about doing some some uh what’s it Studio stuff broadcasting stuff it’s just like I don’t know talking basketball is fun and something I know but like I don’t know I just kind of want to do something a little bit more broad than that um so never say never again but you know those guys are great I think they have a good formula and I I think I want to try to try to forge my own path a little bit all right I I respect that um I noticed actually let me ask you to this way um who is your favorite owner that you’ve played for who had to sell the team oh man favorite owner that had to sell the team gotta be D stir I mean got a bad rap got a really bad rap but Jesus was he a sweetheart you know once you got past the racism and the bigotry and you know dude I mean talk about misunderstanding yeah I notic I notic he wasn’t included in the thank you yeah your retirement part part three baby part three part yeah whatever you do if you if you do a part two we don’t want to be on the same thank you as Donald Sterling yeah why not actually no we can you can throw us in there that’s fine he did have the best uh testimony of all time yeah yeah sir sir I asked if that was your handwriting big Magic Johnson man miss miss miss D Man Miss D going to get back to Blake in a second before we do he’s brought to you by vator VOR is a great great service um Hank and I used VOR last summer booked a trip on a boat here in Chicago VOR is a solution to ensure that you plan the perfect trip and travel experience vator is a tool that you can use to plan and book travel experiences around the world the VOR app and website make it easy to explore 300,000 plus travel experiences so you can discover what’s out there no matter where you’re traveling or what you’re interested in VOR can help you plan a better travel experience again they have over three 300,000 travel experiences to choose from so you can plan something that everyone that you’re traveling with will enjoy you can enjoy Real traveler reviews to get inside 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best team you ever played on oh oh man dude Boston last year like we that’s what’s crazy about Boston this year is Boston’s better this year than we were last year um I would I would have said Boston last year or obviously one of the Lob City teams I mean the our Nets team like we were super talented but there was just like something missing obviously like you know we got I think if we had beat Milwaukee game seven like we had a great chance to win a championship but I don’t know I mean I was super fortunate man some of those Clipper teams man we had we won like 20 straight games one year and just felt like we were just like on a roll and then you know for whatever reason we just always injuries or just just mental lapses that didn’t get us there but out I was at that game the game seven against Milwaukee the KD foot on the line you that series you were just [ __ ] all over the place you were just like you were the energy everything just [ __ ] guarding everyone you know sometimes the old dogs got to learn a few new tricks yeah I just remember CU you guys had so many injuries and it was just like Blake is just doing literally anything asked for him and it’s everything yeah it was like Katie was just like scoring 50 and then we were just trying to put like plug gaps of like there’s just like a new leak and we’re like no go get that go get that we just like plug that one um it was a fun series it sucks that we lost but it was a it was it was fun because like on every team of my career I just I sort of played like a very different role yeah um which was kind of fun it just kind of brings your career kind of gives you that that full full spectrum yeah and the Pistons have not been the same since you left that’s a fact you know they got some good young Talent got some good young Talent getting a new president soon and you know things are uh things are looking up I remember that that Pistons year where you took them to the playoffs and you had like before one of the games I’ve never seen anyone have their knees wrapped more and you just still went the offensive yeah the offensive lineman break yeah and you like even before the game you had all the towels and everything and you just went out there and just gave everything and just was a warrior for them yeah that was fun and then um you know I I do I get I get some I get some some some nice love from Pistons fans I think maybe the majority probably hate me but um tell you what I gave it a quite literally almost tried to give it my all yeah well Hank Hank just stepped in here Hank do you have any Celtics questions he said the one of the best teams he played on was last year Celtics and they’re better this year not because Blake’s not on it maybe no question that’s all I needed to hear that’s all you needed to hear Hank’s very nervous about this year I’m not nervous I’m excited I mean dude they’re they gotta stay healthy but like I mean Joe Joe Missoula is a like a year under he’s he’s he he I think he’s like more comfortable now jtj it just feels like they just have pieces that all work and they’re [ __ ] they’re so good they’re so good yeah Hank’s nodding he’s poured his entire self worth into this into this Celtics postseason yeah I mean you know sounds like just like a diard sports fan yeah Die Hard sports fan uh has anybody started the Blake Griffin for Hall of Fame conversation oh can we be the first we’ll do it yeah if you guys want to um I’m sure I think it’s no-brainer I think it’s first ballot a thanks man I appreciate it I don’t know though you never know I uh sometimes you you you see guys like oh they got not like U who was it this year Chanty I mean that’s a hall of fam right there Vince Carter Hall of Famer then you look you try to go look and see like what guys accomplished what like Awards obviously winning a championship helps but I don’t know I I honestly I’m not GNA spend too much time thinking about it I have one I have one question Blake yeah one one Mulligan for your career one shot if you could have one single shot back and take it again what would that shot be ah like a like a actual shot yeah uh man um there was like uh moments like with the Clippers I don’t know I mean there was there was there there was I that’s a great question great there’s probably the series against uh the series against we went went up 3-1 on Houston they came back and won there was a point in game six at home uh where we were up and then you know they came back there was like there was there was moments where like you know had a had a missed shot that like you never know like with four minutes left a made shot could just completely deflate them so it’s probably in that series somewhere I don’t know exactly a shot but not necessarily a game winner yeah do you think that um you retiring at this time can take your name officially off the list for the Olympic team for that open roster spot that they’re keeping I I mean you know I said I was retiring from the NBA not the Olympics skip Blake a gold medal yeah no I mean listen I uh I don’t know never say never yeah kind of the theme for me today uh did David Duke reach out to you today uh junior the one that the the basketball player the basketball player yes yes yes yeah yeah yeah no was there another David Duke that reach out to you uh I don’t know when I first met him I walked up and I go hey man big fan I don’t know if he got it but obviously it’s yeah that was a joke yeah it’s very much a joke I think there’s may be a message message here from somewhere Junior David Juni David Juni the finer yeah exactly what Jeffrey uh who’s your favorite point guard you played with oh man uh gotta be CP yeah um gotta be CP yeah yeah he’s like you know kind of he like as a young player came he was there my second year taught me uh he like taught how to taught us as a team like how to how to like will a victory like that was his thing yeah or wait I have I have another basketball question for you um Kyrie Irving is beloved in the NBA by all the players is it just because he’s so goddamn good at basketball like or when you when you play with him or practice with him you’re just like he does things that we all wish we could do yeah I mean like perfect example is the left-handed running pushing floater that he hit over uh joic in the game this like it’s just like a shot where he he does that and you’re not like I was like lucky it’s just like he shoots it and you just expect to go in also like the way he like hangs it like I the things he can do are like I think he’s the most talented basketball player in the NBA maybe still yeah it’s a weird thing to say because like you know there there’s so many talented guys but the things he does at his like stature and like he’s not like crazy athletic he’s athletic but he’s not crazy athletic it’s it’s like it’s pretty mindblowing what he does yeah because it’s always so funny whenever he’s in the news for whatever reason but then all his teammates always have us back and you just you realize like they probably just watch him and they’re like that guy can do all these things that help us win and are so incredible that like no one else in the world could do that stuff yeah I mean yeah he he he makes shots I’ve seen him make even in practice I’ve seen him make shots that you’re just it just like leaves you just kind of like scratching your head and like in NBA practice like you’re playing five on five like guys are hitting crazy shots it’s not quite the game like a game setting so guys are trying stuff guys are doing stuff so you see some crazy stuff and he probably has like three of the top five things i’ craziest things I’ve seen in practice at all time yeah yeah just the way that he uh he puts the exact right amount of spin on the ball as he’s coming down from the peak of his jump like in the paint and getting a layup around somebody that’s like 7 ft tall and he spins the ball off the backboard and then yeah and also he’s going the opposite way or like he’s facing the opposite way and still spins and still like it’s like it’s pretty nuts to be like that talented at at controlling a basketball yeah one of the craziest like in-person uh basketball performance that I ever saw was remember we went to that game it was Cavs Celtics in like what 2016 and he scored like 18 straight and it was just like what like it just every type of shot and you’re just like what is going on here like no one can even come close to touching him he’s a great he’s a great player and I think I do think he’s he’s misunderstood he’s definitely he definitely misunderstood yeah um but you know what uh not to it is your retirement so not to make it about us but uh do you think we’ll ever get Kevin Durant on this podcast yeah yeah yeah d perect another guy who’s misunderstood yeah I don’t know I don’t know that I don’t know how many podcasts he does does he do does he do a lot of podcasts um I think he probably listens to a lot of podcasts yeah he he leaves me on uh scene on Instagram all the time always hurts my feelings yeah I mean listen Never Say Never Never Say Never Never Say Never solid maybe we never you know you never there was probably a day when you were like you know growing up you’re like will I ever make $258 million like Never Say Never No never say yeah Never Say Never that’s what I said as a kid I said Never Say Never to$ 258 exactly yeah it’s weird how that worked I written down actually yeah a lot of kids say never you’d be surprised yeah um so want to talk real quick about Missoula because we’re fascinated with him as a coach and especially his love of the movie The Town um you you know that he loves the town right like would he always bring it up like constantly no that wasn’t even really want I I think he did he definitely did bring it up once all the coaches last year had shirts that said whose car are we going to take um so that was like definitely like their their their thing I did know he love the town I don’t I don’t remember him like mentioning it multiple times like maybe once um but that’s just who he is man he’s like he’s like what you see in like uh press conferences and like you see him like try to block a guy’s shot like that’s how he think like that’s not like a he’s not putting on a uh like a character yeah you know he’s not like playing that up like that’s who he is so like and I think that’s one of the most important things about head coaches is authenticity like guys can sniff through it immediately you know even if it’s not your style like guys can sniff through you know somebody who’s in unauthentic um and that’s just who he is so I think that’s why he’s he’s going to be a great coach for long time did you know that he was getting choked out that he he would have his uh his Jiu-Jitsu guy come over and just make make him pass out for a little bit I didn’t I we didn’t we didn’t touch on that uh but I did I have seen him I have seen him in his uh was it g no not maybe it might be G yeah it might be G um I’ve seen him do that and then he him and like him and like Grant I think Grant Williams him and like Grant would like they would try like play far and I mean I got there’s no quitting that guy can you name all the Williams you played with oh boy Robert Williams yes start there um there’s a guy named Jamal Williams who’s on the Clippers that I played with this is a tough question uh let me think Williams uh let’s go to Detroit uh there was no Williams on Detroit no there was uh okay now this guys come on what are we doing here be Robert Mo Lou Grant CJ that’s a lot of them that’s a lot of Williams CJ Williams yeah CJ Williams play with a lot of William that’s a ton of Williams that’s a lot of Williams that you play yeah I mean listen for I was fortunate you know fortunate to have a lot of williams’ teammates a great name um all right I have one last question it’s a rowback question rho b.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase qzip polos hoodies joggers shorts rack.com it’s actually not a question I wanted to get a little sentimental for a second and say thank you to you Blake um you are a very important part of this podcast podcast and you can’t tell the history of pardon my take without Blake Griffin I I really do sincerely mean it like you coming on you know whatever it was six seven years ago having fun with us knowing that we’re idiots like playing with the Blake of the year like that’s what made it cool was that you were like you took it seriously and uh I just want to thank you like you are you our success is there’s a there’s a piece of it is because of you I greatly appreciate that and uh yeah man I uh I’ve always I’ve always had fun this is like the podcast that you look forward to doing um because you never know what’s gonna happen but it’s uh it’s awesome I love you guys and uh yeah man yeah when we retire yeah you will be in our retirement letter with with Donald sterl part one we’ll thank Donald part one we’re gonna thank Donald Sterling for giving us so much material yeah and also Blake griffi yeah we’ll put you right back to back I appreciate that man good like like the good old times me and Donald MVPs call man I gotta call yeah you should just see what he’s doing uh oh I I little tip if you do decide to get into the podcasting game here’s a great question you can ask your guest so this will be my last question Blake if you were to interview yourself on the day that you retired what question would you ask yourself good question thank you oh man I get I mean would have asked the Williams thing yeah I mean talk about you talk about hard-hitting questions just leave people in a [ __ ] just a just a pretzel uh we’re gonna have to ask every player that comes on the show yeah how many Williams did you um man what would I so what would I ask myself on the day that I was yeah I’m basically getting you to do our interview with you for us uh um I would ask uh oh [ __ ] the Williams answer was good yeah I mean I guess we could just leave it we can cut we can cut it after that yeah you actually you for you forgot Willie Green Willie Warren well no no Willie Reed you guys said Williams was that apostrophe s or just no how many Williams I think he said Williams yeah yeah Williams so you forgot a bunch Willam I I I did forget a bunch man sorry sorry sorry to all the Willies and Williams well so if anyone asks you this if you do another show you just got to Simply go I think I’d ask myself was it all worth it and then I’d say yes and then I’d say and then you repeat it and then I’d say yes then I’d say yes was it all I love when I love when everyone any professional athlete says that like was it all worth it yeah I mean I I think so you got to play in a professional sports league would would I change anything if I had to do it all over again hell no hell no I would answer that differently I’d be like I’d try to play with a few more Williams just to yeah just to collect a few more Williams along the way yeah I mean I’m I could be up there all time oh will yeah but you have to go up against guys like Robert Ory guys that like bounced around yeah oh let’s look you know what let’s look right now Robert ory’s teammates yeah let’s see this is why this is why people tune into this podcast Robert Ory I’m going to guess I’m going to guess 13 Williams’s okay so Blake I mean he may have rings but is there a website where you can just type in how many Williams no you can just we should make it uh so actually yeah yeah Blake had one two three four five Williams if we’re not counting Willies but he had three Willies as well yeah we’re only talking Williams last name okay so Robert Ory had oh he had hot rod Williams Eric Williams that’s two Robert Ory only had three Williams holy [ __ ] good job Blake who else could have a lot of Williams we’re we’re we’re going to trap you into the basically the the lottery ball again the ping pong ball again uh let’s just see uh Kobe Brown no I think maybe we just end it there no no Lou Williams Shaman Williams Shawn Williams Kobe only three Williams not everybody can handle being on teams with Williams I I just like I treated him like everybody else you know what I mean J Crowder I bet you J Crowder no you know who is is Ish Smith or Jeff Green je Jeff Green a good Jeff Green all right all right he might be the all time real quick shout out shout out to is and Jeff Green all right this is big all right Jeff Green Terrence Williams Nate Williams only two Williams look up J Crowder we got holy [ __ ] we got to find somebody that can be might have the record for Williams what about Lou Williams Oh you think Lou you Williams attracted Williams no I don’t think so you just play for so many teams yeah because how many times did you see L Williams on the back of his jersey if there was another Williams then he’d have to be L Williams and he was always just Williams on the back yeah Jay Crowder you ready for this uhuh oh God Jay Crowder can’t just let me have this on on my day on my day has never played with a Willam what that’s got to be the biggest statistic anomaly in the history [ __ ] feels pretty good boy Jak Crowder has never played with a Williams how is that possible did you guys just have uh keep this in mind next time we do Blake of the year you know add that to the old resume Lou Williams only played with one Williams no no he played with two Williams and himself so that’s he probably played with Mar I mean U what’s his name Marvin Williams in in Atlanta this is a whole subset of category which Williams has played with most Williams this is a perfect way to have your retirement uh PMT interview go where we just how long mostly just you guys typing stuff in on youru yeah well you just sit there and your phone blows up with like a bunch well actually did Anie Williams text you uh uh does Instagram messaging count yeah then no no I did I’d have to I’d have to scroll back you know I’m getting so many messages guys it’s just it’s hard to keep track right now so yeah let’s just put put me down for two Williams messages yeah I F I found one guy who has five as well but I’m not gonna well you know what I could say because he’s one of your favorite teammates Jamal Crawford also played with five Williams yeah so that’s that’s cool you get to share it with Jamal that’s great you know what that’s an honor yeah and Jamal we’ll have Jamal on when he retires in what 10 years from now uh yeah you know he’s uh didn’t he officially I think he did I think he officially re yeah he did yeah no of course he did I remember yeah I remember also credit to you for retiring when it wasn’t like Oh I thought he retired a while ago because you know your namesake Blake Bortles did do that on this show where he just accidentally retired on this show so you did a good job with that because you never want to be the guy who’s like retiring and everyone’s like oh [ __ ] didn’t he retire like 10 years ago yeah yeah yeah you always leave people wanting more you know you got to know got to know when to exit although I’m sure people are like I didn’t he retire 10 years ago no that those people are lazy yeah that’s a that’s a lazy comment lazy sports fans La sports fans I like you said yeah got to know when to exit as we look for the 10th person who has the most Williams uh as teammates all right Blake got call yeah you you are the best though we can’t thank you enough um we do want you to come out to Chicago and dunk on Max it would be awesome one last dunk we could call it one last dunk yeah maybe maybe make a whole documentary about it oh the last dunk yeah yeah one last dunk we could actually do like we could we could have it be like you start with you know we could have you dunk over our Turtle Mr pear and then like go up from there we’ have you dunk over a dog and then it’s just and then it’s Max is the one last dunk and just balls in his face God can you imagine if I like slipped and kicked the turtle or the dog oh you can kick me that’s fine yeah you can kick Max you can kick Max me you’re a tough guy dude you’ll be fine yeah uh all right Blake thank you as always congratulations on incredible career we love you you’re always a part of this show and uh look forward to Blake of the year coming up thanks boys I appreciate it as always thank you Blake and you’re not retired from Blake of the year no for the record okay still active still active yes still active Blake was brought to you by our great friends over at visible here’s something you might not know about Wireless sometimes when what you see is what you get with visible what you see is always what you get switch to visible the Wireless company that makes Wireless visible get a oneline plan with unlimited 5G data powered by Verizon just 25 bucks a month taxes and fees included on line Wireless just $25 a month taxes and fees included Vis visible is the Wireless company that makes Wireless visible 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were actually getting Larry II in 2017 we were talking about getting turtles yeah anybody oh by the way there’s a chance that we might just want to get a turtle as well actually I’m going to say this right now there’s an idea in my head we’re going to announce Turtle racing uh this winter we’re going to buy like six Turtles and make a track and going to race them every Friday so for anyone who says that uh we took an idea or jacked we’ve had this idea for six years seven years yeah it’s been a long time years long time of the making Turtle racing the first bet I ever won a turtle RAC in Qs Florida 100 bucks love Turtles oh here he comes so it appears that this is a a Russian tortoise uhoh is what it isop this Russian Mr you’re adorable look how cute he is Hank get in this was your idea to name him Mr pear Mr he Mr a good boy oh he’s can he fall off this Max no he’s fine he’s got a shell um but the cool thing is this is the uh the first type put it further on the table wait wait a second memes oh me by the way memes it is memes’s turtle um memes is already well we’re all Papas but memes is the number one Papa memes is tasked with keeping Mr Paar alive memes is also madly in love with Mr peir after 24 hours he’s very cute he’s territorial of Mr peir That’s my boy he likes scratches show a little B can he bite no he doesn’t bite he’s too sweet to bite Max Max put it further on the table yeah no it’s MES I got it no what I was going to say this type of tortoise is actually the only type of tortoise to ever go to the Moon oh we’re going to go to Moon Mr pear you’re an astronaut you’re so cute oh no Mr pear did you forget to unlock the door in the Apollo Mission Mr Mr pear Mr pear already pooped on Max oh he came on came on Max he came on max Mr pear why’ you chew on the kn he’s very cute isn’t he he’s so cute he’s adorable all right so Mr PA’s going to pick the Sixers verse Heat playing game this is his first pick you know he’s going to live to be like 40 yeah memes was really nice to us when he came out and he just goes he’s going to outlive all of us and I like what MH he’s like yeah he’s going to live to 50 and so I mean I for me and PFT I understand but memes is putting a cap on your life Hank at 80 you m at 77 or whatever you are um pug I don’t know how old you are you have to factor in dog ears pug wait whoa whoa pick him up pick him up pick him up pick him up memes is very nervous him down mes he’s totally safe and put the camera on first put the camera on so we can see where he goes Mr Paar and let’s do some listener FAQs while Mr pear makes a pick oh he’s going oh he’s going he’s going to the Sixers he smells the he did it so fast he did that with some He’s a Philly guy Mr pear you did it Mr pear you picked the Sixers love Philadelphia M Mr pear did you know that in Philadelphia that Max’s dad will put you in a soup and eat you no we can never bring him to Phil yeah no Max’s dad is not allowed anywhere near this Turtle all right so I’m going to put a responsibly large W wager on the Sixers right now let’s go what are oh they’re five and a half that’s fine they got that they’re basically the best team in in the league right now Mr per let’s say five five is minus 115 we’ll go five Mr PA’s pick is Sixers minus five responsibly large wager has been put on Mr pair’s first ever pick Let’s Go 76ers come on Max this is now big time pressure for you Mr Pear’s first pick uh first question valid question what steps will be taken to prevent Billy from [ __ ] Mr peir oh wait by the way if you’re everyone who’s watching watch watch it we obviously have uh Mr pair out right now you can see him he’s making his picks live on camera he made his pick live on camera so well how Billy can’t [ __ ] Mr pear I wouldn’t put it a passibility to try but I think he’s more of a frog guy right yeah he’s not a frog Mr bear is not a frog he’s very much Turtle we should get a frog though yeah dress it up all [ __ ] just to taunt Billy yeah who is the most active in the PMT group chat who has the funniest messages most active memes is surprisingly active for how how much he talks yeah I’d say the the text per word that memes actually says is a very high ratio can’t you see depending on the how big the bubble is is that what that means I think that’s recent yeah so what I’m looking at right now it’s Hank and Max or is that memes Hank and Hank and Max and memes are are most active um Max has some good on liners on there yeah I usually am only if I’m if I’m popping in it’s usually just to stir the pot yeah Shane is easily Shane and pug they stay off yeah they they they don’t they send the Dropbox they don’t even like a message yeah yeah they they won’t even like it yeah I’d say the person who likes messages the most is Jake Oh by far Jake Jake will just Hammer the like button on everyone and I wish you guys luck when you’re talking about bets yeah actually that’s true anytime anything remotely good happens to us Jake is in there with her congrats yeah I hate sometimes we do the like someone congratulates and you have to I hate it I hate it congrats I have to say congrats to get sh for not saying congrats but I actually don’t feel correct I agree with you we got to just stop doing that all right I’ll stop no no you can keep doing it Jake but Hank you and I like yeah I just don’t want to come in and be like well everyone else said congrats all right so you and I will do an alliance no congrats unless it’s a championship I’ll congrats on a championship but like winning like a playin game no congrats Jake you should keep being you because that’s you yeah it is me yeah that is you how long would you have done the podcast at the start with no success before quitting oh good question yeah I don’t know it was fun like I think our goal from the start was always just to entertain ourselves so it probably would have lasted for a little bit with no success yeah we didn’t really know the success there was no I guess the charts yeah and we also did have that when we when when they couldn’t really tell actual analytics and I think it was the first Harbaugh interview and they’re like 10 million people listen and we’re like that’s not possible yeah uh but I think I said this maybe a couple months ago when PFT and I were we got to drive back from the Arizona Bowl together it was just two of us and we had a moment where like imagine if this didn’t work out like our lives are awesome because of this yeah like it’s directly obviously bar stool and everything before that and everything after that but this has been the Catalyst for everything else yeah it is it’s it’s real we do remind ourselves of that from time to time I remind myself pretty much every day that uh when whenever I get down I’m like but I get to do the best job ever yeah when I use my sauna I’m like this is this is the sauna that hot takes built yeah because there’s days where I get down on myself I’m like but dude you [ __ ] have an awesome job actually the the real answer is probably if if we had gotten fired from ESPN and we didn’t have a successful podcast we probably wouldn’t have gone back to our unsuccessful podcast after that yeah although we wouldn’t have gotten ESPN if the podcast wasn’t successful that’s true which would have been a great success yeah I would say a year it seems right if we had just been doing a year and like they’re like yeah 10,000 people are listening that probably would have been okay we got to do something different I know you guys give each other a lot of [ __ ] that’s all in good fun but has there ever been a legitimate beef between anyone involved with PMT legitimate beef I don’t I don’t think so nothing’s coming to mind I I’m trying to think if Hank and I have ever had legitimate beef I’ve never had legitimate beef with PFT I’ve had no beef with anyone Hank’s just drama free that’s what we always say about him no there’s tense moments but they’re never they never last yeah we get in cat fights but yeah right which is it would be crazy if we didn’t yeah that would be [ __ ] weird if we just never got into little like tiffs yeah I the only time that it’s not beef but there are moments when we’re on the road and like breakfast yeah bre breakfast that that breakfast is a perfect like if you call that a fight yeah you didn’t let me eat if you call that a fight then yeah of course we fight but that wasn’t a real fight oh dip spit dip spit oh yeah cuz you yeah that also was but we also we also still don’t know who dip we could never know who who had the dip spit next to your seat in the Mountain Dew container yeah you also di cuz we’re all drinking Mountain Dew so we don’t know um there’ll be moments like when we’re on the road where we just like sit silently together in like an Uber where it’s just like we’re just tired that’s usually the end of a trip yeah but that’s not that’s not beef yeah no we’ve we’ve been lucky to never have like an actual I was mad at Max for about for about a minute actually mad when he was watching the Phillies last year and he spat on me but that was an ACD he didn’t mean to spit on he was just too excited and then I was just I you ever been in a situation where you’re just mad at what happened but you’re not actually like you don’t know what to do about it because you understand that Max is just going to yell and scream he’s got very moist lips yeah and so when sometimes it gets a little out of hand you you said the Splash Zone you get Gallagher in the front row and then I just have to call myself down and be like he didn’t mean to do it Max would never intentionally spit on you he’s just a messy guy yeah we’ve been very lucky because it is there have been a lot of successful podcasts have broken up and we’ve never had we’ve I don’t think there’s ever been something that’s lasted like over like couple like through a night yeah right never go to bed angry we’ve never gone to bed angry and also we got lucky cuz our beef guy isn’t here anymore yeah there is there was a guy that there was a guy who did beef we all had legitimate beef with him at some point there was a guy who just he basically was cooking beef yeah but not seasoning it last one uh Mr per Venture oh dude Mr Pear’s on the Move shell yeah Mr that’s what they’re saying all the kids don’t let them go under the couch don’t let him go on the couch oh no Mr pear we’re never going to find you if you memes how nervous are you about Mr pear rolling around here uh not that nervous it’s very funny Max just keeps putting him back in the H he like what the [ __ ] Mr Pear’s technically moving faster than Max I love Mr pear I love you Mr best I love you Mr pear who’s a very good boy is it can I Boop him Max can you bring confirmed boy sure yeah yeah yeah it’s a dude memes yep confirmed can boop can he he goes in when you boop him yeah he goes in it’s so cute you want you want to Boop him yeah I want to Boop him he loves you Mr bear he loves you mrar give him a kiss loves you Mr Pear’s one of your Papas one of your Papas Mr pear I just kissed him a little turtle head oh let me give him a tummy ta tummy ta tummy tax tummy tax a tummy tax yeah he’s so cute we’re going to get all kinds of weird [ __ ] from this pair yeah I’m circling back to the fact that you said that you wanted to record an episode at an aw’s wedding in Thursday during NFL off seon NFL week six recap I’m having a wedding at the end of August on a Thursday which pug is invited to and hopefully comes and it would be pretty chill if you guys came to pugs actually knows the person and recorded an episode at the wedding I cleared it with the fiance who believes Peru shingen and Abra LaVine will also be attending if invited no shot that happens so thought I would shoot my shot with the PMT boys love you guys is it a flight pug are you aware of this yeah I’m pretty sure I know who wrote this is it a flight hug yeah it’s in it’s in Jersey okay no I’m out it’s at the end of August yeah what day Thursday just a Thursday at the end of AUST I’m gonna say something that’s gonna make Hank even more mad I think the only way we can do this is we just have to host a wedding here no don’t say don’t say that don’t say that I mean the worst idea that we’ve ever done there’s you know the entire history of this podcast was when we married we married I don’t we we’ve probably told the story we said we wanted PFT wanted to marry someone so we no not get married to someone I was an ordained minister still am you wanted yeah you wanted to marry I’m ordained that’s that’s the correct verbiage but you could ALS it also sound I’m just clarifying you said marry someone that’s what you said I want to marry someone PFC really wanted to marry someone that’s not what I said so we found two people for PFT to marry got them in the back of a van in a in a parking lot in in LA in Ralph’s with like 150 people outside the van PFT officiated the wedding most awkward thing of all time I think I left the van in the middle of it like I can’t do this like I’m I’m out I want to crawl out of my skin this is so awkward thinking they were actually getting married then it ended and it was the kid’s sister yeah that was actually my sister I just really you know convinced her to do it because I thought it’d be cool worst idea ever very bad idea so yes I would say that this is also a terrible idea there was a zoom one that we did for real over Co the zoom one for real yeah that was two people just getting married yeah married married um if yeah it’s just a bad idea it’s just a bad idea to there’s there’s a hundred fiances listen to this right now that have already turned the podcast off because they don’t want their fiance to have any ideas from this I’m not gonna I’m not gonna say no to this dream eventually we will do it no no I’m not giving up I’m not giving up no we’re not gonna do it giving up I’m just every person that tweets at me D at parcel B eventually someone’s going to invite us to a wedding that’s like down the block on a Thursday day and we can just pop in just record 10 minutes during the electric slide and then be it nope nope okay I’m I’m not giving up on the aw big cat really wants to go to one of your weddings you guys I’m saying it would be a funny idea at pugs what’s Mr peir doing we could pug wedding next year he said that we could do in a pugs wedding next year okay yeah okay that that works is it a flight yeah it’s also a flight yeah this his flight I’m out it’s also in New Jersey I’ll get you a really nice gift pug awesome pug look at Mr P’s numbers look at Mr P’s little tail 40 eight 18 someone should 99 he’s trying to escape cuz he’s so happy um I just did the dumbest Google ever I’m do 76 in honor of Pete uh pe’s first first pick what number is Turtle what does it say 6112 I’ll take 61 okay I’ll do three andone want 12 I’m sick with eight okay what number is Turtle wait wait you said 12 let me just it says 61 the four-digit number for Turtle is 6112 is turtle is 12 Turtle No 61 I know but I’m verifying if if 12 is Turtle I’m not saying anything that 12’s Turtle I’m sticking with eight okay all right uh everyone say their numbers 76 three if it’s 40 I will maybe kill what just kidding just kidding oh 72 72 undefeated Dolphins Mr pair undefeated love you guys love you guys for
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1:44:26 no he’s got a shell
OHHHH LOOK AT MR PEAAAARRR
PMT about to be on the jury. Let’s gooooo!
When they were talking about commercials Blake griffin had been in I was hoping they brought up Dr Drain from the jordan commercial! One of my all time favorites.
Some people follow sports podcasts to listen for the latest takes in sports. I follow PMT so i can watch a turtle make sports bets.
Blake is that guy.
MAGA. shame on PFT with that impish grin on his face talking about our real president getting persecuted by corrupt demonrats
Get Blake on the new TV show Tires.
Where did you get that capitals flower print?
Mr. Pear wanted the ML
Mr Pear remains undefeated! (1-0)
The FAQS are the same every time
Hate to report this but Vince Carter has played with 6 Williams meaning he’s beat Blake. Vince has played with more teammates. Blake has more Williams per capita
Has anyone else ever noticed this has kinda just turned into a show about big cat and pft bullying everyone and that they both have their own shows where they bully everyone 😂
Ok Ok…. One Last Dunk MUST be made!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blake griffin should take a Channing Tatum career turn. Call me gay… fine
1:25:30 this might be the hardest I’ve ever laughed at this podcast and I’ve laughed a lot
Billy the beef guy
Love you guys, but have to dislike to stand with theo von
Intro song grew on me boys. It’s amazing
Mr pear 1-0 ML
Need a black griffin jersey above the bortles one in the studio boys
Jake being the “like” guy in the group chat is just not surprising at all
jake is so annoying
Pistons fans have mad respect for Blake. All love from Detroit.
Gordon Hayward has played with 10 Williams
Dude the Williams bit was so good
Put a black Air Force 1 in front of Mr Pear please I need to see his reaction
Always electric when Blake is the guest
hanks question was so bad lol
Mr. Pear is lowkey fast
Blake was also in the drake skit for the espys
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Memes wasn’t fuckin around about Mr Pear being on the edge of the table and rightfully so
This will be the same fate that would happen to Jalen Green with all his dunking. Lol
Can’t have the baby turtle voices ngl boys that shits aids
Have they ever asked him about Lana Rhodes and the kid??? Just curious
Blake is the best! Hire him!
WHO WANTS TO SEE BLAKE IN THE BIG3
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Just think of any past footballers who played the full Super Bowl then flew home to their newborn and wife. Masters are almost the same, just 4 day game… odds are they have a doctor/hospital in the area.
Blake should call one of these streaming services and do a travel show. He would be great
“Mr Pear” from the guys was cringe…. miss peaches?