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The Mavs finished off the Timberwolves in Game 5 and we’re set with a Finals matchup. KAT has to be the hardest guy to root for and Luka decided to finish the series in the first quarter. We talk NBA Finals and Hank’s prediction. Bears get Hard Knocks. Hockey and Baseball talk with some serious side tangents. Mike Breen joins the show to talk about his incredible career in the NBA, what type of shot elicits a Bang and a Double Bang, will he ever do a Triple Bang, an incredible Bill Walton story and more. We finish with Fyre Fest of the Week.
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bet up to 1,500 bucks if your first bet doesn’t hit today is Friday May 31st and we have an NBA Finals the Dallas Mavericks versus the Boston Celtics Hank is wearing his Boston remembers shirt with lucky stomping on Kyrie it’s a JFK Revenge series it is and we’re ready to go the NBA finals are set we had a a moment so we obviously had a week with Memorial Day we had a show on Tuesday the uh Timberwolves won on Tuesday night and then tonight they got eliminated uh credit to the Timberwolves for not getting swept Anthony Edwards said he’s never been swept in his career he did also say I’ve only been in three playoff series so or four playoff series so um he was kind of talking like a a 20- year old 20 year vet in the NBA yeah but never been swept never been swept that’s important it’s important to keep a clean sheet on the sweeps uh Adam Silver very happy that we at least got one more game a little closer it would have been weird if the series just ended on Tuesday night then we had to wait a very long time for the ba finals to start so still do we still do but it could have been worse they called him Scott Foster uh everyone was like oh Scott Foster the extender uh he tried to give that game to the Mavericks on Tuesday tried his very best yes his very damnest but yeah went five games Timberwolves fans Minnesota fans I don’t know if you’re listening to this show my guess is you probably are I think Timberwolves fans are probably they’re very happy with how this season win obviously not happy with the series but yeah I’d say they’re not happy right now but getting to a Western Conference Final if you look at perspective in the Giannis terms was a good good season for you a good year they lost to a team that they that couldn’t beat him yeah that’s true and also if you’re a Timberwolves fan I God bless you because you are you have to root for Carl Anthony towns and he must be so infuriating to root for doing some stat padding tonight I’m just saying he he is probably the hardest player to like fully delude yourself into getting behind in the Rudy goar’s pretty fire but also they’re on the same team but but I like you can be like a Rudy we don’t expect anything from him on offense which was a weird strategy when they were like let’s let’s run the offense through Rudy in the first quarter I think he had like six or seven shots they’ll never see it coming yeah but yeah Carl Anthony Thomas and to his credit he played really really well in game four he did he had a great game four bounce he could not be as bad as he’s been in the past and yeah he had that blip that was his legacy Game Y was game four and then it’s just so it’s so infuriating to see a guy who’s that big be so passive and also like cannot wipe a smile off his face yeah I I I was saying this I can’t I don’t remember when I was saying this because it feels like all these weeks have just blend together uh but when they show like going into break and they do the bumps and it’s like Luca like staring at someone Kyrie like crossover ant yelling in the crowd and then they show Carl Anthony towns it always looks like he’s been practicing whatever he’s doing for 20 minutes in the mirror right before they came out yeah god this is my pumped up face this is my three-point douge yeah he’s kind of smiling and you’re like God damn it yeah they were stat pouting tonight also the Timberwolves you lost the game the minute you went with those jerseys terrible jerseys terrible you got the you got the good classic one well it’s two things Max I saw your face I I after I looked at him a little more Max Max can’t speak so when I sat down next to him to watch the game he’s like he like I was like yeah the jerseys yeah jerseys are terrible those are those are that’s exactly how it happened he couldn’t get it out but I knew I know his brain so well that when we flipped on the game he just started making grunts I was like Max down boy I know the jerseys are different those okay they’re not back against the wall jerseys those are game two jerseys yeah bring those out game preferably a game two on the road we those uniforms preferably a game two of the Season yes in October that’s a that’s a inseason tournament Jersey yes that’s what you should be wearing that for and then they made their half court logo bigger mhm which is stupid I I like it when it’s the only small logo in the league I like it it stands out because it’s so small and they’re falling into the Trap that everybody else has been doing I think we’ve talked about on the show the half court logos are getting bigger so that the announcements can be like another logo three another logo three uh Hank you want to just be you wantan to I was saying before we should maybe get some headphones for you for the Luca glazing so you can put them on so you don’t have to hear no bring it it’s got be one of your last last couple this game was over this game was over when LCA donic outscored the Timberwolves in the first quarter by himself he could not miss he was hitting shots and the net wasn’t moving he hit uh stat hole our guy stat Hole uh text me he said that he hit 165 feet worth of shots in the first quarter that’s so many feet yeah so that’s it ties uh Steph Curry for most feet on shots made in first quarter playoff game Rec in history Curry did it vers Boston in 2022 I mean that’s incredible those are the two best 165 feet of shots it’s a lot of shots Hank a lot of feet so many feet you know how many feet cool that you know how many feet the cord is 99 I think it’s 94 right yeah 94 feet I know ball uh yeah that’s that’s like what was that that’s a a qut and a half worth of feet it’s pretty impressive that’s a pretty impressive set also are you okay with the glazing no I’m again like you’re not going to have many left I I want you to get them in while you can the Tuesday Tuesday night’s game I know the Mavs lost and it was I I do like put a little what are you gonna say I’m just I I I don’t know how you’re going to glaze Luca from from Tuesday but yeah yeah I am don’t worry I’m gonna land on the plane um and I I I made fun of the the that’s a pro that’s a pro Glazer that’s a what no I don’t know what go ahead goad you’re not getting upset though go ahead Jay Glazer yeah I’m I’m Pro Glazer okay uh I do give the Timberwolves a little bit of credit for not giving up because they gave up tonight but they didn’t get swept and I made fun of the Anthony Edwards quote but I like I like I love Anthony Edwards and I I like how he’s wired and I actually think in a weird way he probably at halftime was in game five being like they still can’t beat us down 30 or whatever um the Luca lob to Derek Jones was one of the coolest lobs I’ve ever seen he threw an alleyoop when Derrik Jones was still past the three-point line and it was like the most his lobs are just so precise they lost the game Hank um but you did you do you know what lob I’m talking about Good lob and he had that kickout drive pass oh the kickout drive pass that’s going to go down as one of the best assists that will never show up yeah SC it was one of the best passes I’ve ever seen hit it off the back rim he he threw a lob that Derek Jones was behind the three-point line uh when he when it released his hands or yeah when lucco threw the the ball and it was just a perfect perfect pass Luca’s really good Max or I mean uh Hank I just said max he he’s a good player they’re a good team uh he did have really good player he did have a heat check of a lob tonight though yeah he was feeling himself in the lobs a little bit and he threw one that went I think it went over the backboard yeah it’s a great lob it’s a great lob great lob good all right so that was my glazing of Luca he is um really [ __ ] good most feet in lob he had 20 feet worth of lobs Hank’s acting all cocky right now he was watching that game uneasy I wanted a good game I wanted to keep watching basketball I don’t want to wait another he was like this is pathetic what the t- Wolves were doing disg you’re afraid of Luca though I’m not I knew we’re playing the Mavs there was no doubt in my mind we were playing the Mavs yeah but you saw what Luka did in the first quarter Factor fiction that was an embarrassing disgusting performance in a elimination game from the Timberwolves yeah no especially the second half when they stat patting I agree but it was also the game was over because Luka that’s just unbiased Luka but you agree the the game was over when luuka came out and said I’m going to beat the Timberwolves by myself in the first quarter yeah I mean the series was over when they went up 3 right but that was when you go up 3 0 and then you lose game four and then you go back to the other guy’s gym and it’s like okay if the t-wolves come out hot here we could have a interesting scenario Luca basically shut that all down by himself and was like there’s no I’m giving you no hope I’m giving you no chance I’m going to hit 165 feet of shots that’s a lot of feet Hank just say it’s a lot of feet it’s a lot of feet it’s a lot of feet who the [ __ ] tracks feet Jerry who but it’s a lot of feet it’s a lot of feet if there was I will say that there I love getting triggered by a yeah foot you have the opposite of a foot fetish 16 it’s just you’re mad about that the Celtics almost did it last year and obviously it’s never happened in the NBA but when it does happen in the NBA it will happen almost like it did last year and I thought potentially Maybe This Year where it’s going to be the home team if the Timberwolves win tonight they somehow win game six they have home game seven that’s the uh he’s very selective in in his uh in his opinions about feet because he does not like the feet stat but all he thinks about is Kyrie Irving’s feet on Lucky’s face you can’t count one foot and then not count the other do you not like feet is that why it didn’t work out with I’ve never been a fot guy I don’t really understand the appeal but 165 ft a lot a lot of feet uh Hank you bring up a good point the the the 3 0 coming back uh it’s very very hard to do never been done in the NBA the only Solace that I think Minnesota fans should have tonight well one is that you have Anthony Edwards and I don’t know what Carl Anthony towns like PFT said is maddening to root for I don’t I don’t think there’s a word to describe we need to figure out like we need to might maybe invent a word like the Germans would do to describe Carl Anthony towns and how frustrating it is to watch him if you’re a fan of his and to see how aloof he is in the biggest moments well I I also Carl Anthony towns is a self-proclaimed best uh big man shooter of all time I feel like you have to have post moves like really good post moves to be able to say that to claim that right you’re just a tall shooter otherwise he’s just kind of like a a chubby KD right you’re a tall shooter yeah that’s it but you’re not a big man no there’s a difference between being tall and being a big man D back someone down in the post um but the Solace for the for the Timberwolves fans because this was a very fun season and it got a little crazy with the Anthony Edwards uh hype which was not Anthony Edward’s fault not Timber hols fans fault media I I took some blame for it as well uh I fell in love with watching Anthony Edwards play basketball this actually in a weird way you didn’t have a classic Minnesota uh loss Min a classic Minnesota loss would have been winning game five and then like losing game six in a buzzer beater or something so like not like because it wouldn’t be classic Minnesota lost to get all the way to game seven you can’t get all the way there but getting like a a play away from being a game away I think if you get to game seven and you get blown out like you did tonight that’s a Minnesota loss yeah but this was not a Minnesota loss because it was like you know you had the moment like oh we won one game who knows what’s going to happen and then it was just over it’s just the better team won yeah it was just over well that’s it Anthony Edward still doesn’t know if if they can beat him that’s didn’t get swept didn’t get swept Kyrie also is playing insane basketball right now Kyrie’s a great player Derrick Lively is back which is very important I think he’s their leader in plus minus he’s very important to their team Chris stops back back he posted today said see you in the finals all right hey love that all right so let’s talk about the finals let’s talk about it let’s talk about the finals can I glaze lucky real quick yeah yes let me glaze lucky please all right Kyrie Irving has lost his last 10 games against lucky and the sage remember he saged it he saged it yeah but the sage didn’t take Sage didn’t take do you think he’ll reage I think he should reage oh man that you think he’s GNA res what will you do if he reses I mean saging is whatever spiritual I don’t really have a problem with that but what would you do if he reses because that might be the sage that takes no I mean that’s it’s I you believe in that [ __ ] that’s all for you like that this could be a mistake the only way to defeat Sage is with crystals yep you got get need to jerk off crystals you got to get some Crystal we could re we could reage right back oh yeah get some Sage for the gambling cave if he sages I will Hank are you going are you going to be on on the wood at any point in this uh series I don’t think so well a I don’t think Dave is inviting me but even going to the games of schedule does not line up great uh for anything so you couldn’t even Sage if you wanted to we’ll see I mean we’ll see I I got a I got a the the schedule sucks for me going being able to go to a game which I’m sure everyone was wondering number one yeah I’m sure everyone was curious like how how that was going to factor in and and that’s the answer what about an a Wei oh it’s not good for that either until like game six with Miss gas game in game three we’re I guess Dave said it we’re going to the uh Brady we got invited by the Patriots to Brady’s retirement ceremony it’s it’s [ __ ] in the middle of game uh four what or game three would they do that Wednesday June 12th is game three Friday the 14th yeah Wednesday why because they tried to do 612 for Brady I guess and weren’t why in the middle of the day that’s what I thought it was until today wow it’s at night according yeah I was listening to to Kirk and Dave on the unamed show Kirk was like it’s at night it’s supposed to end at 9:30 which I guess will be like is it in it’s at Foxboro so you’re going to be with the lighthouse yeah oh that’s nice yeah that’s nice good constellation yeah that’s huge is Tom Brady bad Sports Town Tom on the Jumbotron he should move it yeah I’m C I don’t know what they’re I’m I’m curious what they’re going to do it’s I thought it was just like a day ceremony will you be in a suite I don’t know if you’re in a suite then you’re fine I don’t know what Mr Craft’s got in store for us you said a lot of bad things about the dynasty do yeah it’d be a shame if Mr craft got a hold of that before you were his personal guest what were you saying about him getting jerked off I nothing oh do you think uh you think you think Joe missoula’s jiu-jitsu instructor is J I said it not you Hank Hank loves Mr craft uh what do you think well I’m not gonna say it again all right I’ll say it again you think Joe moula and jelle have the same Jiu-Jitsu person oh it’s possible it is possible when are you going what is it uh 612 what is it it is Tom Brady’s retirement ceremony and who invited induction into the Hall of Fame well not me personally uh he should have invited you personally Brady 4 were invited yeah you went to you went to prison for him I did let’s talk about the M finals did they drop those charges by the way uh in in Florida yeah no no for no the one Hank when Hank got arrested oh oh yeah dropped those yeah six months no bad behavior nice nice uh Hank how are you feeling I I’ll say this right now I have to look into this series some more I have to crunch youve been saying that for a month well the series hasn’t started yet true I’m goingon to look into some series but I’ll give you my gut kneejerk prediction which I will not be held to because I’m going to give my final prediction when we have verilla on next week my gut knee-jerk is Celtics and seven I I’m think it’s Celtics and six that’s my gut kneejerk I think it’s going to be it’s going to be a role player series I think it’s going to come down to you know our defense will stop or obviously stop Kyrie and Luca as much as they can they’re going to make him you know pass the ball and and their guys have been hitting shots all playoffs if they and but it’s going to be the same for us it’s going to be you know I also think this weirdly work but we have a better we have a better the way we have better role players the way Luca’s been playing the way Kyrie’s been playing I think this is weirdly like Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown like they are going to step up to the challenge cuz this is the ultimate challenge of these two guys and Luca especially being anointed the number one guy they know Kyrie Jaylen Brown has played Kyrie he knows he knows his game he knows what he’s got to do they you know match up in practice for years wouldn’t could you say the same though uh oh he didn’t think about that yeah CU Jaylen doesn’t like sometimes it takes a while for people to realize he can’t dribble left yeah but it’s Jaylen neutralizing Kyrie is better for the Celtics than uh Kyrie neutralizing Jay Celtics have oh yeah Celtics if that’s if they neutralize each other then the Celtics come out on top of yeah I think the Celtics have a better uh like depth and and Drew holiday is going to be important in this series Drew holiday and porzingis that’s the biggest difference that’s what makes me feel much better about this series even though I felt pretty good against the Warriors but Drew holiday and porzingis just make you know are going to be the reason we win the what’s your knee-jerk gut reaction my gut reaction is Celtics in five love it love it I think I’m a bigger Celtics fan than Hank is I guess yeah he said six CU like I was thinking about our role players and I actually think that they’re I would say that Jaylen over cancels out Kyrie Max just put up his hand I disagree what do you disagree with Max what do you think I think that this is going to be a very close series it’s going to come down to very tight games at the end and one team has two guys that have proven to be excellent closers against very good teams in this playoffs and the Celtics have looked a little iffy I mean that doesn’t sound like came back we were down in the fourth quarter in three games in the Eastern Conference Finals the mall against [ __ ] Pacers they made to the Eastern Conference Finals Max yeah playing against four teams who didn’t have their F best player you know what Celtics and four there I mean listen the the Mavericks like you can’t debate that the Celtics close you said that they the better closers did the Celtics close those games or not fact or fiction one of the Pacers just gave them the game was so like if a closer comes in and makes three outs but it’s you can’t watch those games and you watch the Mavericks and you see what Kyrie and Luca did and hit incredible shots against like all odds to win those games what about when the Celtics were down three with didn’t have the ball with 8 seconds left and won the [ __ ] game the Pacer just got it got it the them the ball nothing to do with Jaylen Brown nothing to do with the Celtics just that the Pacers threw them the ball like the the Pacers lost that game but if Jaylen Brown misses the shot he had to make the shot right correct correct that’s a good that’s a good shot I think the harder you work the luckier you get how about that and one team has lucky on their side yep and that’s the [ __ ] Boston Celtics to me this is this is lucky Legacy the lucky Legacy series I said it Tuesday though you can’t you can’t ding the Celtics for who they play when they’ve been they they lost two games they’re the best team in the NBA what about the regular season Max does that matter did they just played tomato cans then too you I mean I’ve heard you say you Tom but with that said Hank you have to say like when someone says who’s been more tested in these playoffs the Mavericks have been more tested for sure so it’s it’s a fascinating series because it basically is like if you if you take who the Celtics have played and you’re like will they be up for the Mavericks test there’s a chance like oh [ __ ] they’re nowhere near the Mavericks I don’t think that’s what’s going to happen but it’s like the stakes for your happiness are so wild right now yeah because you could either win a championship or you could get absolutely clowned on the internet and that’s why Max something you you’ll never understand like you just have to go all in I’m not I’m not going to be scared I’m not going to be worried about I disagree with that Max goes all in all the time he goes in all the time I will disagree with that he goes in all this he goes too all in like he needs to step back like bro take a step back he was look he was he looked ridiculous I’m looking at game six right now game six NBA Finals if necessary Thursday June 20th in Dallas Texas Hank what do you think that could be a closeout game yeah that well that’s they’re all show recording days like that’s where it’s like I don’t want to you know you don’t want to rob the for vacation appreciate that no I’m not talking about vacation I didn’t say anything about vacation where’s game seven when’s game seven I don’t have that in front of me right now but I do know that game six I think game seven is game five is Monday in Bost the 23r Sunday the 2 [ __ ] insane be at the Beer Olympics hell yes I’m so pumped that one you could go to Dallas and do the show oh you’re oh that one you were going to go to game seven well I mean beerm no I’m talking about game six yeah okay down under certain circumstances there’s a certain person that’s not going to like hearing this don’t have a lot of confidence in your trivia team oh my God oh that’s that would be so [ __ ] uh you guys are about to go on a magical run are yeah uh game seven Ian yeah we’re also not so Vegas uh you won’t go to Vegas with us for Beer Olympics I’ll come Monday you’re backing out sounds like he’s back we you for the show you just said I could go to Dallas but I can’t go to Boston I think there’s more content to be had in Dallas that’s true true also we you could go that would be hilarious if you won the NBA Finals while we were in Vegas and you could just do like a onean like party go to hackinson that be second they probably fly out that actually yeah o they definitely would they’d probably be there we’re not getting ahead of ourselves we’re not we’re focused on game one we’re focused on game one think the directly to Vegas that night they might maybe they do like mon uh they usually go after the parade so you have toay in Vegas you can stay in Vegas are we getting ahead of ourselves no I don’t think so I think this is appropriate it’s cocky Hank I don’t give a [ __ ] yeah if the C if the Celtics well you just said no the the the happiness thing is true if the Celtics lose this Championship like I be embarrassing just retire from the internet for the summer uh probably until the next basketball season wait so you’ll just go silent when your team loses oh gotcha well talking about they’re talking about the podcast Max which is my job not just silent Max he’s also talking about he’s going too got it got it he’s not going to hear or say and blind he can’t he can’t type they’re talking about actually speaking words you’re talking about social media which is not part of my job yes it is not my personal yes it is 100% is is it 100% is screaming back here they track that they track that they track that when you ask us to you know retweet the dcent I I I didn’t ask that will if you dunk I’m just so excited Okay so I’m excited to see Hank with so much on the line that’s gonna be a real it really is because because if the Celtics had been tested along the way in the Eastern Conference Finals again not their fault and you get to the finals like oh man they lost this everyone there are so many people who are entrenched with like the Celtics are not good and the Mavs are way better and like so if that ends up being the case you just have to just sit there and be like well I’m embarrassed I’m pretty sure I mean you tell me you guys are unbiased more than than me but it feels like the general public it’s like 8020 Mavs or just not Celtics yeah because the Mavericks I don’t know no one wants the Celtics to win except what do you think the first line get Whose Line Is It Anyway I think Celtics minus three and a half is my like five see I think there I think I think once we get to it what is it six see I I I I think the Celtics as weird as the Eastern Conference uh playoffs have look because of all the injuries wow and all teams going down like Celtics are still a [ __ ] awesome team they this is a very even series that’s why I have a Celtics in seven with Mavericks it’s like Luka is so [ __ ] good you can’t deny how good he is he’s just at the top of his game at the top of the league and he’s also a dick so a lot of people they appreciate him for how good he is but they’re also like I wish he didn’t scream at everybody all the time although it was awesome when he screamed at that fan tonight saying yeah who’s crying now [ __ ] yeah it was great it was but but they’re it’s not like they’re America’s sweetheart no but if you pull the general public who do you think they would choose I don’t know I think pretty close yeah I don’t think I don’t think you’re right on thatas I’m biased I mean no but I’m saying as a fan like a rooting interest like a f just a rooting interest L side I’m not talking about like who they think going to win but like who they want to win I think it’s probably close you were you were two and a half points off on that line I too much respect I’ve been listening to [ __ ] over here straight glazing Luca should be allowed no I know but I’ve been the glazing has has infiltrate got in my hair and like it’s got in my ear and it’s made me think that the Mavs are maybe are better than they are you got Luca com in your ear yeah get you tow I also it would be funny if the if the Celtics win this we said this a couple maybe last week but the Lakers would have lost to the maximum amount of teams yeah which would be very funny because they all Lakers fans were like the Nuggets were were the only team that could beat us it was a bad matchup lost to the Nuggets nuggets lost to the wolves wolves lost to the Mavs Mavs lose to the Celtics it’s just a domino they had so many teams better than I have a very serious question about this if the Celtics win yeah P Vegas for sure if the Celtics win does Blake Griffin get a ring no I would say no you don’t think so I have a very serious answer why because everybody wanted him on the team this year right I I would love for him to get a ring but I don’t think Blake would take it I think they should give him one I don’t think that would be a Pity ring yeah they should give him one was he in preseason camp no he should go to a game yeah you should you should get him to a game all if you can if you can get Blake to a game and he you’re allow and he allows you to sit on his lap during the game you can go at all the games okay okay but you have to wear like a Blake Griffin jersey and you have to sit like have a pacifier and have the announcers think that you’re his son you have to be like Duce Griffin is that Jason Tatum’s son’s name yeah yeah yeah Duce Griffin Duce Griffin just walking around high-fiving players maybe get like headbands signed yeah get on the court before the game and shoot around running around you got to put you got to put little you got to put sneakers on your knees and walk around on your knees the whole time and be like sprinting but never dribbling the ball on the court do it right now let me see you could take off your shoes and put put put your knees into your shoes can you do you have this angle I think you could pull it off this is the best NBA preview finals preview of all time just saying that right now we’re going to have rill on next week yeah yeah there he is there’s dece Griffin dece Griffin he’s adorable you get to go to Every Finals game Deuce I I just know that I like to ride with her guys on this show BL Blake is rooting for the Celtics he is a Celtic right now um in in spirit and we’ve got uh we got white we’ve got Pritchard and I like Joe missou lot Joe mou I I’m basing this all off although Jason kid has been on the show that’s very true yeah I’m basing this just all off of there’s no heart or like any it’s just brain I think the Celtics are the better team in a seven game series I just do same yeah all right well we’ll find out I’m going to Crunch more data though so that’s again don’t that’s my knee-jerk it could even go it could go Celtics and six I go Celtics in five I go Mavs in seven I got to decide I’m excited I’m excited I’m excited I’m not going to say I’m nervous one strategy I actually the one only betting strategy I think I have for this is I think I’m just going to bet whoever loses game one because I do think it’s going to go seven yeah so no matter who loses game one I’m just GNA bet that they’re gonna trade games back there are enough really good players on both sides where it’s like you can’t count either team out I’m just going on Vibes right now I’m going with my heart not my not my head yeah and also Joe moua said that the Celtics are are weaponizing time that’s how they’re spending this this off week football guys weaponizing time they’re on some DARPA [ __ ] right now that is crazy Dragon Ball Z what is that I was trying to think of what it meant to we I think it just means like practicing Vel did it to bich we he did yeah he stole time from him stole time this is yeah wh what’s that uh what’s that confusing mo movie that Christopher Nolan made tenant Interstellar ten Interstellar no tenant ten no was no it’s tenant the most no before that tenant nope tenant was the weird one there was another one tenant not Interstellar Meo no that is also time kind of well the guy had tenant Interstellar Inception Inception oh that’s dreams he’s weaponizing dreams but momento as well Missoula definitely weaponizes dream tenant is weaponizing time I never saw it so I can’t speak again this is great NBA preview which Chris Nolan movie is most like the Boston Celtics okay all right we we we’ll we’ll change Sports before we do that uh Kors light the beer of the summer shout out to the people who are ride or die 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think it I think it was originally if you’re a playoff team you can choose to not do it they ask you they all say but no team wants to do it if you have a new head coach you can’t do it so I think that the decision was basically like the Giants the Saints and the Bears I have a theory do you think that the Bears didn’t fire Matt eberl because they wanted Hard Knocks no you don’t think so no I do not I don’t think any team wants Hard Knocks um I mean maybe maybe the Bears listen one pick I’m I’m excited to watch hard KN bears trying to get that new stadium Buzz yeah which by the way I think the lawmakers in Illinois have gone on vacation for the rest of the summer shout out Hank uh uh so the Stadium’s like they’re like oh we’ll figure it out later the Stadium’s never getting built there’s a small I’m very excited for Hard Knocks for the Bears I think it’s going be awesome there’s a small part of me that’s worried that Hard Knocks might taint all the success the Bears have had these last few years yeah like this could go south yeah uh people are going to get pumped for these Bears though oh yeah it is I mean I’m already there’s nothing hard knocks can do that I won’t already be thinking in my head I I can’t wait for the the fashion episode with Caleb Williams they’re definitely going to go out to like some designer stores follow him around for a day him and romad dunes a being best friends already have him try some stuff on for the cameras yeah a little catwalk yep that’s going to be good Ryan Po’s getting to work at like 4 in the morning which I respect hardworking guy genius um yeah I’m excited you should be I’m very excited you should be but you should also be very wary of the fact that hard KN makes us amped up for any team oh no PFD I’m so scared that I might be like way overhyped Bears going into September and then they don’t do well when has that ever happened not you not you everybody else having the expect like they already are they already like over eight and a half win total in Seasons P damn with the Bears you’ve been pumped up for the bears but everybody else has been like uh maybe pump the brakes a little bit this time everyone’s going to be like bears bears bears you do realize there’s literally nothing that can happen in this course of Hard Knocks and then the season that hasn’t already happened to me like what what’s the worst thing that could happen I become a laughing stock of the internet oh welcome to every football season yeah I’m I’m just saying hardock yeah that’s why that’s why it’s like I’m at the point where it’s like what I have nothing to lose the only thing I could lose is just going back to where I’ve been it does give your enemies more ammunition in terms of memes they have all of it in terms of things to bring up PF they have the stats yard or pass listen I’m with you I think the be are going to be good I’m excited for Hard Knocks they’re a fun team their offense seems like they’re incredible their defense seems like they’re on definitely the right track on their way to being U an elite defense so I’m high on the bears but I also don’t want to see you get crushed that’s a lie one that’s a [ __ ] lie one everyone in this room wants to see me get crushed everyone who’s watching this wants to see me get crushed that’s a lie I root I root way harder everybody else’s teams you’re you’re the team that I root the most for out of all the teams that I want to see lose I think that’s I’m I reciprocate that um the two I there’s nothing I mean it’s what’s going to happen people like oh I’m going to get crushed I’ve been flattened so many times I’m I’m in I’m those compressor videos which rock by the way they they are very s squash a candle yeah we got to get on some oddly satisfying stuff on this show yeah on the socials yeah I watched one where it’s in my algorithm I’ll start sending over my algorithm’s just tits and and just tits uh I was thinking what else it is but it’s not even for no it’s not even for dogs I think I’ve just basically curated just tits uh the they shave soap bars you ever watched that one that one rocks but cleaning rugs yeah like cleaning rugs biggest waste of water I’ve ever seen have you watched watch them all have you watched the lawn mower guy who just shows up random people’s houses he is the best guy unclogging drains oh the drains dude I have two drains in my uh back patio and I have I I won’t clean up the back patio just because every time it rains it gets clogged and I can just scoop it and I’ll put it like right next to the drain just so I can watch it yeah the leaves yeah the leaves and all the gunk in there yeah yeah the the lawn mowing videos are very satisfying U are you talking about the dude that just shows up people’s houses that don’t have lawnmowers and does it for them it’s like that guy rocks or it’s like a person has passed away and let so they’ll go to the neighbor like hey can I clean this up yeah is a hard KNX preview well there will be we’re on some good tangents right now we’re having a great show there’s definitely going to be a grass cutting scene yo yeah at the beginning of Hard Knox the smell the sprinkler so many drone shots of the lake and the river yeah listen I’m going to be excited to watch it and again team’s going to go with the the Sears Tower 360 Tower what’s the bonding or whatever the [ __ ] the hand it’s the Willis but it’s always the seious tower to me they’re going to go out that that that over wordss the Bears although they they’ve no I think they’ve been back at bourbon they don’t do it at houseace anymore because of covid they were doing it like everyone was doing at their facilities um oh slow-mo hot dog shots yeah I’m excited I’m very excited I uh there’s really nothing that could hurt me more than I’ve already been hurt and I say that and obviously I’m going to get like way more hurt but come on like save this you you guys know you guys know how this works it is porn I I they going to be awesome I would like I would like to experience at some point like being a commanders fan getting to watch the full documentary behind my own team right maybe you’ll get the in season I might get the in season yeah but nobody watches the inseason and they did the offseason with the Giants Giants yeah so we’re going see like free agency and draft why doesn’t every team just do this now also lot a lot of them do also we’re going to get you know episode three where we stop watching I’ll keep watching but America will stop watching cuz that’s just what happens now with hardock yeah after the preseason starts yeah um okay uh I have oh we should talk some hockey oh actually wait one more football topic memes he doesn’t look old what are you what are you talking about I know what you’re gonna say what no I was not going to say that who are you talking about you you know who I’m talking about who are you talking about Aaron Rogers oh was there a video out there’s a video it was blister maintenance prevention what that’s what Pat McAfee said okay and how did he look uh running around he he looked fun Oh I thought he kind of was hobbling a little yeah he just got taped up so you’re not worried not worried okay great I mean he looked he looked really good last off season we saw where that got him yeah that’s true and he’s also he’s young maybe the secret is to just not be able to run away from defensive lineman mhm just get hit this is mean this is mean memes this this video you w you watching you got bothered I got a little bothered because people just kept tagging me yeah but it was the non Achilles uh foot though I don’t think the looking the blister maintenance means nothing to me it’s him running around looking like he’s 50 years old like he looks that little hobble is that a blister all right it’s a blister it’s just a blister guys might be Co toe might be Co toe I don’t know what that is but yeah he was also he was examining his feet a little bit we’re talking about Aaron Rogers anyone hasn’t picked up but yeah he looked is that who that is I guess that is Aaron Rogers I didn’t know he’s looking at his blister maintenance okay hor maintenance he’s going to drop back he’s fine pitch it and then he’s got a okay oh a little ginger little ginger little ginger okay little Andy dalon yeah little ginger uh we should talk hockey though let’s talk hockey memes this is the nice part of the show for you the Panthers take a 3-2 lead win at the mecca uh you have to feel like you’re you’re it’s over uh don’t feel like it’s over yet feel like it’s going seven uh but what are you going to say well you literally just asked me before the show it’s got to be over right it’s got to be yeah memes is in a incredible crisis mode with the Rangers being this close to a Stanley Cup Final he I walked in uh like maybe at like 7 I don’t know 45 and the big TV was hockey and there was no basketball and I was like hey can we put the basketball game on he goes oh I totally forgot that there’s a basketball game tonight he’s so invest I think he Roots harder for the Rangers to lose than he does for the Islanders to win correct which I respect that’s a that’s a your hater move absolutely yeah so memes it’s over I don’t think it’s over so what is your analysis for the Rangers uh ability to come back here I would like the Rangers to win game six what what and then lose in historic fashion G bad oh that’s a really you got to make this a must you got to make this a must lose play with fire it’s a must lose you and Max are just two sides of the same coin you don’t understand must wins must loses Panthers must win game six there you go Jake Jake gets it uh and then the Oilers that was an incredible comeback uh I know there wasn’t it was only two- goal lead but it was more how fast they went from down 20 to 22 and then how fast they went 22 to 4-2 and it was a gut check moment for the Oilers because they lost game three at home crowds amped up so loud game four they come out flat it’s like uh oh this series is over and Conor McDavid turns out he’s really goddamn good even if he’s not scoring goals yeah he is might be injured he’s a good facilitator you think he’s got lower no people are saying I was I was reading some of my own Twitter replies saying that Conor David might have something going on with his wrist and that’s why he’s not shooting as much and uh a little Adam Bank situation hold this stick and rotate upper body and he got he got screwed with that shot that should have gone in the the the goalie stick was just sitting there yeah yeah he did he did uh I’m I’m rooting for Edmonton to get to the finals I would like to see Edmonton and and uh Florida yeah people who say we’re anti- Dallas I was I’ve I’ve been Hank am I anti- Dallas God no yeah glazing been glazing Luca yeah I want glaz donut I want every Dallas team to win except the Cowboys yeah um okay we’re gonna have uh Whitney on by the way next week and possibly Yan neither of them know it so if they hear this just hit me hit me up uh do you want to do my baseball topics yeah yeah let’s do it okay I got four baseball top I’ve got one too it’s probably one of the same ones you’re okay well you want to pick one through four three three three Jinx oh okay three’s good um Ben Verlander is the weirdest tweeter of all time what was that he jinx me oh I can’t talk good okay thank you uh yeah no I agree I concur yeah so uh he tweeted yesterday it’s so wild to me that when a pitcher throws up near Jose altuve’s head fans loudly cheer I honestly think if he got hit in the head and died on the field people would cheer so here’s the thing Yankees fans short King to short King talking here uh it’s hard not to throw near altuve’s head yeah they’re all up and in anything above the belt on a normal human is is towards his head they would hold on I honestly think if he got hit in the head and died on the field people would cheer I don’t think that I don’t think so I think it’d probably be pretty quiet probably probably cancel baseball for a couple weeks maybe a week yeah at least a day yeah uh no he bends way off on this one yeah we might have to have him on like dude what like I he seems like a really nice guy but he just he remember he said that he was literally throwing up from show Otani getting hurt yeah I um I admire his passion I do too he’s very passionate I like that but but I I just more want to be like it’s kind of like when we had um John Rosine on like hey explain some tweets it’s not a mean thing there’s gonna be a lot of them don’t yeah I don’t I I’m not like coming at you I just I would like to know what’s going on through your head when you’re like if Jose Altuve died people would cheer I would not no I would bang on a trash can yeah at his funeral yeah like B bag pipes that’s probably Ben probably thinks that people would show up at his funeral like the Westboro Baptist Church with a bunch of trap it’s also not hard to understand we were robbed of making fun of the Astros because the co year so people feel like we’ll never get our full Justice yeah all right uh that was topic one or that was topic three Hank two two uh the Mets Jorge Lopez did you guys see this I did not see this one he came off the field uh had a terrible relief outing and threw his glove into the crowd in disgust and then afterwards he was asked by reporters what’s going on and he said uh he’s been on he’s on the worst team in probably the whole [ __ ] MLB oh did you see a statement though what he said uh because his efforts to address the media in English he felt it made him the worst teammate in the entire league oh it’s a good Spin Zone well what about the was there translation issue when he threw his glove into the crowd no oh okay and then he got cut yeah they DF him yeah but he’s saying he was the worst teammate not the worst team got it difference got it but why buy that that’s the sh high so did he get DFA because of the of the quote or because of his play I think it was the throw I think it was both yeah he thre he threw his glove and a Yankees fan caught it which is so perfect for the Mets oh that’s tough yeah that’s really tough so he threw his glove they they def for throwing a glove you can lose your job for that he threw it in Anger at the I’m assuming he’s also bad yeah yeah that too and the Mets are bad like he’s not totally wrong I mean there’s a couple teams worse but they’re pretty bad white socks right white socks yeah Rockies are pretty bad Marlins are pretty bad yeah Athletics sneaky not that bad yeah unfortunately we’re hovering around uh we’re right below 500 right below 500 okay that was uh topic number two Hank one okay good cuz four I didn’t want to do till the end did you guys see uh we have a knuckle baller again yeah David Fletcher he was the angel angels He was Angels infielder he’s now on the Braves triaa and he’s basically become a knuckle baller and uh it’s a very cool story because we’ve been saying for a long time we need one also cool part about David Fletcher he’s under investigation by the MLB for the shotani uh gambling issue yeah that is very cool the fact that he’s a knuckle baller is awesome too we we do need knuckle Baller in Major League Baseball yeah it’s so fun to watch if for nothing else than just to give everybody that’s like 30 or above just the chance to think to themselves like if I really put my mind to it I could become a knuckle baller yeah I too could be a major league baseball pitcher and that’s what he’s doing yeah and he’s also under investigation he was dubbed shani’s best friend was gambling with the same bookie also another teammate of his was gambling on games of his allegedly with that bookie a little messy but the knuckle ball is cool yeah the knuckle ball is really cool I’m willing to overlook all that stuff yeah just like sh I’m willing to overlook it uh because sh is so much fun to watch right if it’s a knuckle ball pitcher absolutely yeah bring him in yeah and then I had my last one was um The Negro League’s uh Records Was that yours or no yeah that was mine okay I have um I have I so it’s it’s cool because guys that were kept out of the sport by the MLB are being acknowledged it is it crazy to say though part of me feels weird not there’s a lot there were a lot of people online like this is [ __ ] we like our records I don’t give a [ __ ] about that the weird part to me is MLB segregated the black players told them they cannot play in the MLB yes created like made them create uh their own leagues because like you cannot play we’re keeping you out and now 80 years later they’re basic basically inheriting their statistics and putting them on the MLB website and almost erasing it like the Negro Leagues being like Oh yeah it’s all part of MLB well yeah they’re that feels weird to me they’re trying to make people forget the fact that it was the MLB that kept black players out of professional baseball and made them start their own league for a long time and by inheriting those stats and bringing those in they’re kind of saying these belong to us now right and that’s not at all what happened like what happened if you were to ask players who played at the time you probably could I don’t know what they’d say I don’t want to speak for them but thinking if I put myself in their shoes I’d be like [ __ ] you you wouldn’t let me play baseball and now you’re trying to act like that era never happened it it is very cool that people are going to get to see the records and the individual stats are going to come more to light on a much bigger scale which is good that’s that’s the good part of it the bad part is MLB is essentially doing this to try to make themselves into a good guy based on the fact that were a very bad guy back in the day our friend Ryan sper had a good uh I don’t know if it was a thread or if it was just one tweet but he kind of laid out the case for it because MLB will start to now say like uh these are MLB stats they’re probably going to start to say NL record instead of MLB record right for certain stats that were surpassed by players that played in The Negro Leagues that came over yeah so all right so we had the same thought because it’s one of those stories you’re you’re like all right well you know it’s good that uh the Negro Leagues are getting the Acclaim right now and I know that getting some of these guys in the Hall of Fame was very important but the MLB feels like they’re just kind of patting the Negro Leagues on the head being like these are ours now and in 50 years from now when you look up who was the leader and you see Josh Gibson you don’t realize you don’t get the full story that MLB kept Josh Gibson out of Major League Baseball yeah and then also ended the Negro Leagues by not like a lot of times when there’s a uh you know the ABA NBA they inherit some of the teams some of the teams become part you know they they bring them in as expansion when the Negro Leagues when when they started integration they brought in a couple players but they didn’t bring any of the teams in and basically that decimated the Negro Leagues so it’s like MLB you kept them out then you ruined the Negro Leagues now you want the records I don’t know I could be way off people could be like this is the wrong take that’s fine I just that was my initial this seem weird I I think it would be better to be solved like the way basketball does it Professional Baseball Hall of Fame or just Baseball Hall of Fame and have it not be well it might is that what it is in Cooper S or is it MLB I think it might be baseball National Baseball Hall I just know I went to mlb.com today and I looked up stats like uh career leaders and Josh Gibson is leading in uh I think it was batting average and you You’ have to click on his name to see that he didn’t play in the MLB again because the MLB kept him out so it it is the National Baseball Hall of Fame so that’s good so that it tells the full story there but for Major League Baseball to say these are our records when No in fact you kept them out of MJ baseball it’s a little dicey to and it’s going to get as years go by it will get confusing that the story will get confusing to to Future generations and it won’t get fully told that they kept all these incredible players which the Negro Leagues like by all accounts and you you you like we’ve heard the stories also when guys went from Negro Leagues to Major League Baseball they flourished so the Negro Leagues was playing at a very high level so the argument that oh they didn’t play enough games or oh that wasn’t as good no it’s probably better than a lot of baseball players in MLB that argument doesn’t hold any water I think the Stars would have been the Stars no matter what’s what league they were playing in some of these guys left played in The Negro Leagues then after their Prime went to MLB and still dominated yeah they were also forced to do some barnstorming so they had to play there were some games that were against inferior opponents at the time but you don’t hold that against those players because they were forced to do that because MLB would not let them play professional baseball so I just I I don’t know that was just I it felt and again I could be way off but it just feels like in 50 years 100 years the story will be so like confusing that it won’t be fully told that Major League Baseball did not let black people play in Major League Baseball for a large part of their history MH which is very bad yes also I Learned taob was actually not like a big racist so there’s like one author that [ __ ] hated ta cob yeah that just completely sullied his name and I don’t know if ta Cobb had like some bad streaks and I’m probably probably not an Angel um but I don’t think he was the bad guy that he sometimes made out to be he W for I read a long story about it last night he was a surly guy he was you know quick-tempered thin skinned but by all accounts was not the racist that everyone was taught he was when we were taught about Tai cob whereas like he’s the most racist guy in the world put the statue back up it yeah it it it really did look like it was one author basically wrote a book and that was just his story there was one author that really really did like ta Cobb yeah and yeah so be nice be nice to authors who might be writing your biography one day yeah Josh Gibson’s arms were [ __ ] massive see pictures of those yeah yeah Satchel pige was was a Monster yeah Satchel pige is a perfect example I think Satchel pagee I think pitched in MLB at the end of his career when he was well past his Prime and was good correct me on that Jake if you can no I’m pretty sure he did I I’m pretty sure in 50 yeah like in the early 50s he pitched in in Major League Baseball um but yeah that was it’s a it’s kind of a you know people were getting angry at each other online 48 to 53 and then he came back 65 for one year yeah look at him he’s 41 years old and he went to to Major League Baseball you you’re not telling me Satchel Page if he was allowed to play in Major League Baseball his entire career wouldn’t have been one of the best pitchers of all time and didn’t he pitch like nine innings every single game yeah um so yeah there yeah there people were upset about their old stats who the [ __ ] cares I actually think you should just get rid of all old stats pre- integration because that what M the major league stats are also tainted you kept out because you kept out some of the best players you deliberately kept them out you shouldn’t be able to count those as those that like the number one stats I think that people in general should just not fall in love with numbers yeah numbers aren’t everything oh my stats oh the stats are different now oh no when I look at these numbers there’s a different name next to some of the numbers it’s a very Major League based Bas story because Major League Baseball is like the number one we got to protect the stats yeah they are it’s weird yeah imagine if the NFL acted that way like the all the passing stats are going to be broken 100 times over in the next 20 years there’s 20 games now 20 games in the season right they’re they’re all going to be shattered I mean the only thing that that really whenever they change the the amount of games in a year it does make you go back and be like OJ was built different was built different every time they had another game 2,000 yards every time there’s another game OJ Simpson becomes 0.00001% more likable uh well he’s very likable dead that’s true yeah uh okay anything else before we do our great Mike Breen interview we had this spelling be oh yeah when did that happen today the finals were tonight hey who won uh guy named bruhat s he spelled 29 words and a spell off in 90 seconds there a spell off there’s a spell off spell off Hank I I got a a question for you his winning word was absil meaning a descent mountaineering by means of a rope looped over a projection above can you use in a sentence the Mountaineer had a real great abale and [ __ ] rocked to the language of origin uh English it’s an English word is that really yes yes Jake yeah it’s an English word abale abale abale yes H I’ll use it in a sentence for you no actually I won’t no you should do it you should use it in a sentence hey you agree that big cat should use in a sentence yes I don’t really have a sentence for it I was trying to figure out a way to do Hank Hank promises that he will have a sixpack but I’m AB sailing on that one absolutely work see it didn’t work if Hank is not able to dunk he will absil himself from the rim of the basketball court in Barcelo headquarters yeah Hank can suck a mean abale abale absil abale a descent in mountaineering I’ll give it a try after a yeah B mhm are you just saying the alphabet s okay A I L ding no they do the ding when it’s wrong okay oh that that was so confusing an that’s what they do yeah we don’t we don’t know that um you know the Bell I don’t I have not watched the spelling be a very long time I do know the Bell but in the moment when you ding I think correct yeah ding is correct the guy goes that is correct H Scott dozen brain though he’s so committed to abale I’m gonna give it a shot abale what would you what did you say ABS he said a Ab BS a i l I’m a there was a Phanatic spelling be I would dominate AB is that just spelling words wrong spelling them phonetically abale what what was the language of origin English it’s an English word Abel AB d s a l e no abale dang a [ __ ] it’s got to be there’s got to be like a u in there I somehow got a D was very close was really close was it s a l e no a b s e i l he said a i l very close Hank s e i l yeah you said S A barely doesn’t sound like an English word I’m going say it I think PF banged me I have no idea what [ __ ] kind well that’s a huge part of the spelling it’s an English word I don’t know where it came from I don’t know the word parents you can tell by the letters it’s not England Hank spell the word I cup o i k no you know it he knows it right that was spelling uh okay let’s get to our Mike Breen interview PFT you have a quick ad before we get to Mike Breen before we get to Mike Breen he’s being brought to you by our great friends at Morgan and Morgan we all know that Morgan and Morgan is the official injury law firm of pardon my take did you know that they’re also the official injury law firm of the UFC we’re pumped to announce Morgan Morgan is giving you the best chance to score tickets to UFC 303 as America’s largest injury Law Firm Morgan and Morgan knows a thing or two about fighting for the people over $20 billion recovered for over 500,000 clients Morgan and Morgan has proven track record of fighting to get you full and fair compensation they’re giving away to one lucky winner they’re giving two tickets to UFC 303 to see the highly anticipated McGregor versus Chandler fight in Las Vegas that’s 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vers rust for announcers is there a certain point where you’re like I’m kind of losing it I need to get back in the booth well am I allowed to give a a dumb answer to the dumb question of course of course oh no it’s a good it’s actually a good question um good question you know what there’s been a a bug floating around the the crew so I’ve been battling a chest Cod last couple of days so rest is ideal right now although we still prefer I mean I want every series to go seven games but since this was was a sweep I’ll take advantage of the rest yeah yeah classic tibs announcer getting getting drained by the end of the year right yeah R you too hard yeah uh no we we love you you’re you’re obviously like uh something that I think American sports fans can all point at and say we like Mike Breen um which is rare because you have to find something to hate about everybody do you have any haters oh of course I’m sure they’re there must be many of them out there I mean it’s it’s impossible and this happens every playoffs guys where you know say it’s say I’m doing a Lakers Celtics finals you go in to Boston and the Celtic fans are yelling at you man it’s clear you want the Lakers to win so you do the couple of games there then you go to La and it’s just the opposite the Laker FS is saying oh man can you try and hide how badly you want the Celtics to win it’s just it happens every year it happens in every sport uh you can ask anybody who does the other ask Joe Buck he dealt with that the world the guys who do Super Bowls it’s the same thing every year yeah we we’ve actually talked to Joe Buck about that and uh we said I think every team has a part of their fan base that just hates you and thinks that you’re biased against their team and he told us which team he really hated and had a bias against so which team do you really hate I I I I really don’t I’ll tell you what you know what’s an interesting thing that that I I wish fans would understand sometimes most of them do but when you’re doing an NBA game and what one of the complaints the fans will say well you get getting so much more excited for them than you are for our team but often it has to do with where you’re playing so for example last night in Indiana you know the Pacers hit a shot the place is going crazy you’ve got to raise your your intensity to overcome the crowd you don’t have to do it as much when it’s when it’s the road team because obviously the crowd isn’t going as crazy so that does come into play sometimes um because there’s been some some games where all right so I’m Warriors Cavs and the Warriors are are getting beaten the Cavs hit a big shot and it’s in San Francisco and you’re you’re yelling the top of your lungs what you should do on a big play in a big playoff game but the people who are sitting around you are so quiet because the opponent you scored and they’re looking at you like can you please shut up can you like that so that that does come into play in terms of of sometimes that you have to go a little higher on the home team yeah um I just want to give ourselves some credit this is a a big big J journalist move by us I know that you went to forom and you’ve you’ve been in the industry for a very long time credit to us uh for lasting all of three questions before we started talking about the bang um had to I’ve been like holding it back I’m I’m the meme holding holding in your bang yeah I’ve been holding in my bang uh how when did the bangs begin uh I have many questions let’s start there the bang the or the origin of the bang and when did you know like hey this is my thing like I’m I’m Marv Albert yes like this is going to be my thing you know what I started it when I was a student at forom but I didn’t do it on the air when I was sitting in the stands I went to every forom basketball game drove everywhere to root for my my college team and there was about 10 or 11 of us uh including Michael Kay who who of course is the Yankee voice for so many years and when we weren’t broadcasting the game on the student radio station we’d sit in the stands and we’ cheer like crazy and when a for and player hit a big shot I would yell at as a fan and I tried it on the air as a student broadcaster but I didn’t think it worked so I kind of shelled it uh but then I started doing it again when I my one of my first jobs I was doing this High School game of the week package and we’ do these Friday night games Friday night high school games in packed gyms I mean packed they were small ones but so loud and it was hard to overcome the crowd so I was searching for a a concise call for a big month moment and a one syllable word seemed to work so I started using it there and and I kind of like the way it worked um I’ve always tried to be less is more as a broadcaster so that’s when it that’s when it started on the air okay so that’s a that’s a great story that it was it was as natural As Natural could be that you were doing it while sitting in the stands what then uh the Double bang do you know when a double bang is coming you’ve done eight total I know I’m sure someone’s told you this but do you what is the what what’s the Benchmark that has to clear for a double bang because when it happens now it’s actually like a seismic event online like Mike Breen just did a double bang well I’m concerned that you know how many there are yeah well we’re big fans they’re tracked yeah and when when you when we get a double bang it’s a big big moment a great double bang this playoffs fantastic double Bang Yeah you know it’s it’s completely spontaneous um I’m I’m still I’m 63 now and I love basketball as much as I did when I was six and first started playing so when I watch something and somebody does something U spectacular and especially if it’s a surprise especially if it’s you know in a huge situation um I just kind of lose it and I I um I’ve never planned it it just comes out the excitement’s you know so good like for example the um Dante Devan chenzo hit one earlier in this in the playoffs for the Knicks and the way that game had turned on a dime it’s it just came out and uh I’d like to think that I maintain my my fan Love of the Game and get excited when something unexpected like that happens yeah yeah do you ever think to yourself I’m about to say bang so MF and Loud I’ve seen the the me no I’m fortunately I’ve been able to uh to avoid using that word on the air you should do a bet where if you lose you actually have to get that literally tattooed on your forehead so you you become the meme in real human form that would work well at my age yeah no we we appreciate like the enthusiasm y yeah well I was just going to say do you know can you recall your double bangs in history do you do you have them like off the top of your head um well Steph Curry was the first one yep sure um also also when you do so Steph Curry’s the first one you double Bank do you go back to the booth afterwards or the or the truck and everyone’s like Mike what the hell was that I said it twice like you you’ve never double banked no the the first one even shocked me whole thing was even it was the buildup to to that shot the whole game the whole season that was a buildup um let’s see there was um Julius Randall had one last year um in a game on the MSG Network for um when they beat Miami down in Miami Eric Gordon had one it was a a huge game between Houston and Golden State or maybe Houston and Lakers I remember now um and then there were two there were two this um this playoff Steven chenzo and who’s this I’ve already forgotten who the other one was I can’t remember who the other one was either I’m trying to think Steen Cheno that that was a big one because it was New York you were there it was a awesome comeback it might have been Jaylen Brown in the corner was that a double bang yes that’s yeah this this is now this is disturbing that I can’t remember the one that happened last week the double bangs are great it really does feel and it captures the moment because I like the fact that there’s only been eight of them makes it extra special where it’s like it’s only coming out for a really unbelievable moment well I think if if I somebody told me that uh there were people that are upset that they didn’t feel that Jaylen Brown deserved double bang so now they’re rating the quality of the double Banks I thought it did I mean he basically saved the playoff game and an important playoff game because it was the first of the series yeah but again out it it just comes out yeah they’re saying that because the the other double bang happened so recently so it’s like oh is he is he just becoming a double bang guy have you thought about ever doing a triple bang you wouldn’t do a triple bang would you no you I don’t no I don’t think you got the chops for a triple bang that’d be crazy Mike no I I I don’t think so I I’ve tried you know the other thing too is is um you know people think I say it all the time I would say more than 50% of the games I never even use one I I’ve tried because I think if you do it too much it just it wears out it’s welcome so I’ve tried to be selective not just a double bang but even just a regular bang for an important one in the game there’s been some games where it seems like you know there’s going to have this phenomenal ending somebody’s going to hit a three at the buzzer and that’s when sometimes I’ll say to myself let’s save it for maybe the big play at the end and the big play never happens the guy gets fouled and the winning points are from the free throw line yeah so don’t normally go bang on a free throw made but um sometimes I know even games I just I don’t even do any of them yeah what what about if you if you go that stretch where like there’s you know blowouts or whatever and that you haven’t used a bang in a while do you ever get nervous like do I remember how to bang no you know talking about the free throw um you know my kids show me a lot of the stuff on social media and somebody actually made made a a video of me scream I mean the ultimate screaming bang on just basic free throws made in the first quarter I love it it’s awesome yeah love it it’s great it’s iconic it is like I said Marv Albert yes like you know when the bang happens like That’s Mike bre it’s a big moment it just works so perfectly for basketball well what I mean obviously Marv was the biggest influence for me and people at least for me this is what Marv had different levels of yes you know there’d be a there’d be a first quarter guy make a nice move hit a shot yes and then in the second quarter there might be like a big 1 15 run a guy hit a three-pointer at at the end of 1 15 run be yes a little more and then of course he had the great ones at the end that the you know a game-winning call or a momentum changing call and that was the beauty of Marv is like you could tell by the tone of the yes whether it was all right that’s a pretty big shot or that was the shot of the game yeah yeah yeah we I have one more bang related question then we can get back into uh real interview um do you have a favorite bang what’s your favorite bang you’ve ever done um the the curry double bang is is very special because of that year the way it happened and the Ray Allen one because the Ray Allen bang was that shot decided who was going to win a title he doesn’t hit that and the Spurs win the title um but because he hits that they win the game win game seven so that one was was was pretty big um there was one which with Derek Rose that I’ve always loved um I was a big fan still am of Derrik Rose just not only a wonderful player but uh but a terrific guy and he hit one in Chicago against LeBron James and the Cavs to win a game at the buzzer a playoff game I was there yeah that was pretty exciting yeah if you uh this might be another dumb question but if you go back and you listen to those calls we love those calls like I get excited just thinking about that Ray Allen shot and your voice providing the soundtrack to what I remember as like a a pivotal moment in NBA basketball when you go back and you watch those clips and you hear yourself do you enjoy your own voice do you enjoy your own bangs or are you like oh my voice is gross get it off no you’re kind of like who is this screaming fool just just chill out there pal but what I do when I when I do U watch them or somebody send something to me it just it brings me memories of the particular game and how exciting the games were and you know how a great player can step up um I’m still I’m Blown Away by the talent of these guys and what they’re able to do you know and for Ray Allen like especially Ray Allen won here’s a guy you know I watched him play for over many years I think he played like 17 years and any game I ever broadcast that he played in whether it was Milwaukee Boston Miami and I must have done a 100 Ray Allen games maybe more he was at the arena when I arrived on the court already shooting and that shot he hit in game six I saw him take hundreds of those in pregame warm-ups so that was no fluke that was something that it was just in his Arsenal and uh the practice year after year of doing it and then the biggest moment of his career was able to knock it down yeah yeah um so Mike your your career is fascinating because I I think you know a lot of the guys that we hear are calling National games that’s kind of what they always have done but you started in radio and you you know you worked for Don Imus and you did there was I read a story that you basically were working you know 5:00 a.m. in the morning and then calling Nicks games at night which it’s incredible and it’s also a testament to your hard work and getting to the place you are but how much was radio how much did radio help you in doing the live broadcast of games and and I would assume like you have a great sense of humor and I think you know when you’re in do you call back on that when it’s a blowout or it’s like I got to fill some time well the radio part was um instrumental it’s much harder to do a a radio broadcast than a TV broadcast because you have to describe everything you’ve got to be the you know it’s not a cliche you have to be the the eyes of the of the listener and if you can do that all you when you start to do TV you know you you have to pull back a little bit and you know there are other obstacles that are that are difficult the way you work in your partners a little more difficult you obviously have a a producer and director that talked to you in the year while you’re doing the game um but radio is it’s the ultimate Foundation to start and and that’s what I did my I mean my first um broadcasts were all radio with the forom radio station and then my first job I was um uh a news reporter on radio for a pipy radio station in New York so it uh it created a foundation that allowed me to be on the air quite a bit and and get better because if if after you do it for a while if you don’t get better then you need to do something else but it gave me the chance to approve and work on um my on air uh presentation so to speak yeah yeah so um unfortunately we we learned of the news of Bill Walton’s tragically passing away uh yesterday and we we talked about him on on Tuesday’s show and how much of an icon he was and what a great human he was and what an interesting individual uh he he was and I know that you have a personal relationship with him and at one point you told a reporter that you would fight any anybody to the death if that you heard them speak ill of Bill Walton and I want to hear your story about Bill and why he meant so much to you yeah that was uh an article Katy Baker wonderful writer for the ringer um wrote it and all right I’ll I’ll try not to make it too long I apologize guys no go as long we we loved Bill we we we talked about it on our show we we had the the joy of getting to interview him once and it’s like when when when I retire someday that will be up there with like I got to spend three hours with Bill Walton like that was incredible that’s that’s up there for me as well um the story was this about 15 years ago my dad uh had Parkinson’s disease and it was advancing to the point where we were worried he’s not going to get out of the house he wasn’t going to be able to get out of the house now we lived in New York and my uh my younger brother Pete uh called me up and said hey before he can’t travel anymore let’s let’s take him to see the USS Midway the Midway is the aircraft carriers it’s in San Diego right now as a museum and my dad served on the Midway in the Korean War had not been on the ship uh since he he left the service so we made plans to go and and take him out to see the Midway one last time and um I called bill because Bill lives in San Diego he said I need a hotel recommendation well of course Bill’s like you’re not staying in a hotel you’re staying in my home so we planned this three-day trip out there and for three days when we get out there um bill was by my father’s side for three straight days first thing he did is he put him in in the bedroom the Bob Dylan room all Bill’s rooms in his home were named after people mostly musicians and the Bob Dylan room was a place of honor so he put put my dad in the Bob Dylan room and you know every meal John you sit here next to me uh breakfast lunch dinner we’d go for for drives to places John you sit in the front seat with me they were inseparable for three days bill would not leave his side and then the day we went to the um to see the Midway I was thinking we’re just going to go buy tickets like anybody who can get a tour well the day before he had called over to the Midway and told them that um one of your Heroes is returning to the ship that he served on so when we get there we are greeted by the commander uh of the Midway and he takes us on this two-hour tour are in and out and guys uh uh an aircraft carrier is no place for a 7 foot man who has back knee and Ankle problems it was a painful walk for Bill but he every step of the way never left my father’s side it was really emotional form um for my dad U going back in the condition he was in and he broke down a couple of times and every time he broke down my brother and I did the same thing and I’d look at Bill and there’s Bill he’s got tears just streaming down his cheeks um so then we get back to the house after this just amazing day that meant so much to my father and that bill came with them I couldn’t find the two of them like where where’d they go Bill had a teepee in his yard I mean an enormous tee that you could sleep a number of people and I go back looking there’s the two of them sitting in the Tepe just talking about life and and Bill listening to my father’s stories and back and forth um so when we left it wasn’t Bill wasn’t my friend bill was my father’s friend and he didn’t live much longer after that and my mother who’s still alive she said until he he passed he talked about that all the time it was in a in a tough stretch the end of his life was very difficult those were the three best days in the last years of his life and uh there’s a huge picture still in this day my mother still lives in the same house there’s a huge picture of the the two of them sitting in the teepee together that she just she adores the picture and U when I was uh giv the gouty award at the Basketball Hall of Fame I took my whole family up there including my mother and uh there was so many NBA legends there she had no interest and she’s a basketball fan she had no interest in meeting any of them she just kept saying to me where’s bill I need to meet meet Bill Walton and uh when when she met him she and I get emotional even thinking about it she just wanted to say thank you for what you did for my husband what he did those three days uh were three of the happiest days of my father’s life it’s incredible that’s such a good story yeah I mean that and that is so Bill Walton like he just like I said even the three minute three hours respect with him he makes you feel like the most important person in the world and he does that for it seems like he did that for everyone right you you think you’re the only one that he’s sending these wonderful texts to or he’s doing those he does it for I know and it’s you know how many people in our lives when they say your name or say their name to you the first reaction you have is you smile or you laugh and anytime anybody would say hey tell me about B walon I’d either laugh or smile and then I’d go into a story and that’s the gift he gave all of us and that no matter if he was with you or even when he wasn’t with you when he came up you had to smile that’s awesome yeah he he really was the best so so in your career um um you know doing the Knicks now doing national uh broadcasts is there a moment that you look back at and you’re like that was when it not became easy but like oh I’m I’m really good at this and I can feel comfortable being in the booth because I’m sure most broadcasters I deal with it myself like a little bit of impostor syndrome like am I going to be good at this was there a moment where it clicked and you’re like I’m I’m really good at this I’m Mike Breen bang I’m that’s interesting you say that because that never fully goes away yeah um you always think okay I better be prepared I got to do my best because you know they still think I’m good enough to do this are there other people who are better that and that’s that’s something that drives you um but it’s just a matter I mean I still get nervous before NBA finals games um or a big playoff game seven or something but it’s good butterflies it’s adrenaline butterflies and if I didn’t have them I think I’d be more worried um than if I than I have them and and I think it’s good I think it’s a good motivator um but it’s like everything you do like I remember the first NBA game I ever did I was so nervous my voice must have been so high and then the first close game you did uh that it’s like this great fight to the Finish I was hyperventilating as as the game is going on trying to keep up with it then it’s the first close playoff game you do so each each step that you take in terms of the magnitude of the game um you need to do it at least for me you need to do it a few times before you really feel comfortable um but what’s always helped me whether it’s a huge game whether it’s just a regular season um game that doesn’t have a lot of meaning if you go in prepared if you’re fully prepared um then you can relax knowing that whatever happens at least you’ll know how to deal with it and that’s that’s what that’s what’s always kept my confidence is that my preparation allows me to feel confident when I go on the air yeah so what does preparing look like for you I think some people out there think that announcers are just they’re handed a big sheet of paper with all the stats that they have to read off and that’s it then they just go and and they commentate on what they see but when you’re preparing for a game how much time does it take and what do you do specifically to prepare no that that’s basically it I get handed the [Laughter] Sheep No they it’s um I tend to and I’m sure every announcer will tell you this you tend to over prepare I think of all the stuff that that you do if maybe you get 15% of that preparation on the a that’s a lot and the way I like to phrase it on a basketball game is okay so each player like in an NBA game now there are 13 active players on each team for that game what I want to do is I want to have if that any of those 13 players either the best player or the 13th has the game of their life I want to be able to have enough information on them to tell their story in terms of where they are their career what they’ve done where they’ve come from um and that’s that’s part of the preparation for me for an NBA game yeah now I assume the answer is no but are you ever preparing uh like time filler blowout talking points do you ever go to a game you don’t want it to be a blowout but in the back of your head you’re like if it is like we could talk about this or that or is it all just kind of stream of Consciousness whatever’s happening no that’s pretty much every that’s part of the preparation oh um and like to have like for me with players I like to have personal anecdotes about players so when when a game gets out of hand at least you can do is you can kind of talk about their you know their upbringing where they came from or their their history in terms of clutch games or whatever kind of information you want and the other thing they try and do is League issues you know have there been a lot of traveling calls lately what’s the reason for that um and even um different things like other other NBA things that are going on like been an a rash of technicals or whatever but I try and have some League issue stuff on the side and personal anecdotes on the side in case it gets like that yeah H H has your job become more difficult with replay be not because obviously replay helps get the calls right but the paus is in the game and you guys having to sit there while you know they they look over video for 3 four minutes in the middle of an intense playoff environment has that made it more difficult to broadcast um I don’t know if it’s made it more difficult I think it hurts the product a little bit it’s become a necessary evil and they’re certainly not going back to no replay but there are certain times that the flow of the game is affected and that’s when the game’s at its best the end of a game when they’re just going back and forth and back and forth and when it stops with the replays now the league did address that a couple of years ago and they did change some of the replays especially the out of bounds if you remember they they used to have last two minutes every out of bounds call they could review and they did they fortunately um they got rid of that so they’re trying to do a better job and I think it’s worked but those games especially a playoff game where it’s like a three four minute review those are maddening to me it’s like okay if it’s going to take this long just go with the initial uh call and move on and everybody will accept that and I think players and coaches would accept that as well yeah i’ agree it does it it gets stretched out sometimes and you’re just like okay we see what the call should be why is it taking him so long to to make that announcement I’m curious to know because you’ve seen so much of the NBA you’ve watched all the best players up close who’s a guy that you got maybe it’s a current player maybe it’s a former player that you would get the most excited to do his game to be able to sit front row and watch the sky play but you know what it changes every year like this year wanyama I I couldn’t wait to do one of his games because I’ve never seen anything like it you know same thing in the last couple year like when donic first came in like oh I got a Dallas game good I can see this amazing player obviously uh Kobe was every game there was something electric about him he just had something um and and Michael as well um I think the the current guys now the two guys that you can’t wait to see and even at their age that they’re playing LeBron James and Steph Curry uh the two of them um there’s never an off night in terms of their focus and their effort and in what they bring and they know their responsibility too of the people are paying a lot of money to come see them play in particular um so so there’s there’s a lot of guy Tim Duncan was another one that even though he wasn’t flashy just how in such a business-like uh fashion he would just obliterate his opponent and uh and never change his expression so there’s also there’s so many of them like that and and it’s um that’s why I mean I know this sounds corny guys but it it’s such an honor to call these games and a privilege these guys work so hard to play and and get to the level that you you want to get it right I I feel you have a responsibility to get their moment right by a call that’s worthy of the play so that that makes me think have you ever gotten it wrong have you ever disappointed yourself and then gone back home been like damn it Mike Breen what did you just do oh all all the time I mean I make mistakes every night I’ve been doing that I’ve been making mist every night for 30 years plus um but it’s the end of game ones there was a game was it last year game one of the playoffs where Jason Tatum hit a big shot at the end and I I mean I butchered the call so badly because I didn’t see it correctly and I didn’t sink it with the clock and it just it was an absolute mess I didn’t sleep that night and part of it is you ruin the call for the player so here’s this big moment you ruin the call the other thing is you know basketball is a team sport to play it’s a team sport to broadcast and I felt like I let the rest of the crew down because we had up until then it was an amazing game and we had all the right replays and graphics and sound bites and and Jeff and Mark um who were my partners were outstanding down the stretch of this close game with strategy I thought I was having one of my best games and then the last play I just killed it and it was it was awful awful Mike Breen is being brought to you by meta and Facebook everyone should explore their interests if you do it on Facebook there’s a world of possibilities that open up to you when you tap into the people and the products on their platform with Facebook reels you can discover so many sports tips tricks seriously up your game maybe add a couple inches of that vert first and foremost is the people on Facebook you can use the marketplace groups and Reals in your interest exploration Facebook is so amazing with so amazing about Facebook is where it’s going to take you I am a Facebook user I’ve been 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razor where it’s like the first company said we’ve got two razors and the other company said how about three razor about four I think you’re going to Triple bang at some point yeah you will I think you just you you you want to say you’re not going to but I think there’s going to be a moment that you’re just not going to be able to stop yourself well again and I’m not just saying it it it comes out it if there’s an NBA Finals game seven that’s decided decided by a three-pointer I might lose it completely on some yeah it might be like 10 bangs you just might that might be the only word that you say for the rest of your life a triple bang might sound better than a double bang I I haven’t I haven’t tried it yet yeah a bang bang bang how’d that sound that sounds good sound right to me bang bang bang bang There got to be a pause in between them all right give us a triple bang right now no you’re smart you’re smart you’re smart guy don’t waste that yeah no I we would have definitely dubbed that over every every like Clank yeah I think the three bangs would have to increase in excitement so you start out with a normal bang louder and then screaming just yelling your face off at the third Bang Yeah nice little cresendo yeah um can you tell us just how crazy the malice at the palace was from your point of view because uh I think we’re at the point now where it’s been over 20 years and everyone knows it but there’s a new crop of sports fans that don’t understand just how insane it was watching I remember watching it live and being like what is going on right now and you were there calling the game uh just how how nuts was it to see that by the way I was calling the game with Bill yep Bill Gray was was our sideline um and I remember I I’ve never seen bill so upset uh from something that happened on the court he felt he was wounded on how he felt this look for the league and the sport that he loves so much um he was really really really down after that and we were up we stayed up to like two or three in the morning talking about the game and he just couldn’t believe that that’s something happened on national TV because it was it was in person it was uglier than when you watched it on on television and the reason was every time it seemed like the security and the refs got a handle on it something worse happened and then more and even like when the players went into the stands it was like I don’t believe we actually watching this and even when they finally got them off there were some more skirmishes and it just seemed like it wouldn’t end but the thing that worried me the most was we were on the opposite side of the benches the the crowd started coming down in Mass um and that’s what was worried like is the crowd going to come down and and start more of this and attacking and then there’s nobody that could possibly break it up there’s not enough security to break that up and that was worrisome to me me this this mob mentality that you felt was developing and I’ll never forget I’ve told this story a bunch when the Pacers they were trying to get them off the court and to go to the to the visiting locker room it’s a narrow little hallway with the stands like right above so if you’re in this one part of the stands you can almost reach down and touch their head and I remember when the players were trying to get off there was a woman who was um really nicely dressed like dressed like she was going out to dinner and she was like standing right there amidst these guys who were just screaming and yelling and cursing and I’m thinking to myself oh my God this poor woman is in the midst of this mess and all of a sudden she takes out a full bottle of water and just heaves it at one of the players heads and that’s to me that was like okay this woman would have never done anything like that but she got caught up in this mob mentality uh that everybody’s emotions just ran a muck and that’s to me that was the scariest part of the whole thing it it was it was uh like something you hope will never happen again but it while watching it just like what is you’re right like it was just the waves of it where it’s like oh man there’s another person there’s another person there’s another guy oh there’s turtle from ontourage he just got knocked out like I actually thought you did a very good job of of telling people what was going on as it was happening because in a situation like that it’s just such chaos in the building you still were like you got you got a job to do Mike you have to tell people exactly what’s going on who’s in the stands who’s on the court what’s happening was was that a conscious decision you made in the moment like I’m going to stand here I’m going to just kind of be like a play-by-play announcer for a giant brawl well I give credit to that that time the Knicks had been involved in a number of different brawls so it wasn’t the first one you know I talked before about how the first time you you experience something on the air you you kind of have to navigate and sometimes make mistakes the first time and then you get better each time well I got better with each basketball brawl and by this time I had done a few of them and I remember I can’t remember where I I first heard it from but they said when something like that happens do play byplay just do the play byplay talk about what you see it’s it’s obviously not basketball it’s a fight and that’s that’s what I tried to do um on that particular night yeah I’m I’m also curious to know from your point of view how the game so the game basketball has obviously changed a lot in the last 20 30 years um how has the announcing game changed um that’s a great question great question thank you first off um you know the technology in terms of coverage and the amount of cameras and the ability of the cameras to catch every little thing uh really gives you a better insight and feel of of specific plays in-depth look at you know whether fouls are called Etc it’s just I’m Amazed by the technology um I do think the analytics has just gone crazy and they’re great for the game they’re great for the fan but trying to find a balance between okay let’s do some numbers uh but let’s not get crazy with numbers because too much numbers uh the spoken word can just get all mangled up into one thing so I think that’s that’s two of the ways that that it’s changed um you know I think another thing if you look back at Old any sport and I’m sure you guys have seen this you go back to an older old older game broadcast in the 70s or in the 80s and often you don’t think the announcers are are that excited there was a much more a calmer way of calling the game even big moments yeah that you know they raised their level a little bit but the calls have become much more high intensity than they ever used to compare in 1970s or 80s call of a of a Finals game uh or a Super Bowl and then compare it to now it’s it’s different in a lot of cases and I think that’s a big part that um it’s become okay in fact it’s become a good way to show you’re excited as much of a fan back in the old days you you wouldn’t do that because you’d sound like a fan now it’s I think it’s it’s more um encouraged and I think fans like that that that you’re excited or as excited as they are sometimes on a big play yeah I mean I I love like the home broadcast whether it be for basketball or baseball where it’s like you can kind of mix that the guys are rooting for the same thing that you’re rooting for for you the Knicks uh and then you know you you call the Knicks all during the regular season then you got to call them in the playoffs was that difficult and did you get any did did were Nicks fans mad at you because you are their voice and they listen to you all regular season now you’re in the playoffs and you have to call it down the middle were did you find yourself slipping at all or was there was there any moments you’re like oh man I kind of hope I kind of hope the Nicks win this game yeah no I I’d hope not on the air but we you know I know some Nick fans are upset like um NIMH hard hit a big three to win a game game three against the Pacers and he got a bang there and Nick fans were like mad that that I did a bang for an opponent Pacer fans were very upset they they felt we were way too uh pro- Nick and rooting for the Knicks you know I went back and and and especially on games like that I don’t do it a lot but I went back and watched the games to see if I felt there was bias because I’m I’d like to think I’m my harshest critic and I didn’t see that um so I felt good about it but I know you know there’s always people that think that that you’re rooting one one way or the other for whoever the team is yeah it’s also just got to be difficult for you just sitting there because you’re sitting in you know MSG and you’ve been doing it all year and then you’re watching the same team that you know so well it’s like kind of hard to not have something slip out it’s a testament to you and and your professionalism but I would definitely just be like yeah I’m rooting for the Knicks I’m ack what do you want me to say like I want to keep calling Nicks games I’ve done enough of them over the years and and there’s so much to concentrate on in terms of the actual job um that it’s not as hard as you think I’m sure there’s some people that will disagree but um I’d like to think we we did a a nice unbiased down the- middle call uh what about Luca we were talking with uh with Rachel Nichols last week about Luca donic and uh how how he likes to get in the ref ear he likes to get in everybody’s ear when he’s yelling at the refs is he yelling in um was it Slovenian or is he yelling in English I think he mixes it up um he’s trying to get better um he was really bad probably the worst in the league for a couple of years but he’s really trying to get better there there was a game recently where he started to get mad and he stopped and and he went up to the ref he had his hands together like he was praying like please I just want to talk to you I don’t want to yell I want to talk to you so he’s working on on it um you know sometimes we do forget these guys are so young it’s like I can imagine me 22 being in that kind of hostile atmosphere the pressure of playing against the best in the world it’s hard not to get emotional and um I think he’s gotten better at it and and hopefully that’ll continue because man he is he is a generational player so competitive and um JJ reck who now is one of my partners on ESPN and ABC he he played with him and um because Luca is pretty close to the vest with the media it’s hard to kind of get close and get to know what he’s really like um JJ said he’s one of the one of the the best teammates he’s ever been around the guy is like so normal off the court and uh just an encouraging supportive teammate so what was your advice to JJ when he told you last week that he was going to leave and take the Lakers job after these NBA Finals so when when the word came out we’ve been having a lot of fun with them uh you know it’s clearly a compliment uh that he’s thought of so highly his basketball mind that that teams would be interested so I told him I said listen if if you take one of these jobs um you know I’d be so happy for you and I’d root like crazy for you and I would never talk to you again yeah he yeah he would collect like all the stones of being one of the most hated people being a Duke guy and a Laker yeah you need to you need to keep them around because when JJ reic sits next to you people will just like like naturally be like I like that other guy who’s not JJ reic cuz you know just years of just having all this hate build up in us for JJ reck you can’t help it you’re just like yeah shut up JJ reck let Mike Breen talk you know he he has he has amazing stories about when he played at Duke and uh it wasn’t easy to say the least there was there’s some mean cruel ugly crowds that that he had to deal with and um the the amount of mental toughness to be able to to deal with that and play at the level he played while he was at Duke um I find remarkable and and now getting to know him uh the guy is just he’s got such a brilliant basketball mind and what I love is he he loves the game as much as any player that I’ve ever been around and that combination is pretty cool to be around all right we’re gonna cut that part because uh we’re not we’re not we’re not complementing JJ on this podcast I I I I wanted to go back to a name that you mentioned earlier uh Michael K who’s the voice the Yankees who was your good friend at forom and uh did you ever I mean do you guys pinch yourself being like we were sitting you know at the Freshman dorms or wherever it may be at forom saying oh we want to be the the voice of the Knicks and the voice of the Yankees and then it happened like that’s crazy that that happened well the first part did happen and we would we would say that that like what what if you could pick any job what would you want to be and his was the Yankees and M was the and mine was the Nick and um you know it’s we do we talk about it a lot uh we realize how blessed we are H we can’t believe it U I’m so proud of him uh and how long he’s been there I mean it’s just incredible that maybe the number one franchise in all of sports and he’s been there for so many years and has done such a fantastic job so it’s the odds of that happening um I think are probably small but um it we do talk about it and we realize how lucky we are yeah it’s pretty cool when you were a kid did you have you know we were talking about an athlete the other week that wrote down like I will be uh an NFL football player in the draft and then put it up on the wall of his house did you want to be a professional athlete or did you want to be a broadcaster for sports oh no he want I wanted to be a I want to be a major league baseball player I wanted to play for the Mets I I was a skinny kid so B Bud harlson was my favorite player so every uniform I wore little league and I think even in uh in high school when I played baseball um always wanted to get number three so that was it but I I was the I have a lot of faults but one strength I have is I’m very well aware of my limitations and I knew very early I had no shot yeah yeah you’re this high school kid with a booming voice and your coach is probably like have you ever thought about talking about sports instead of playing him like when did you realize you had a good voice yeah uh I never realized that um and you you know what that that’s another part of the question you asked before if I can go sideways for a second yeah there was a time in the industry where if you didn’t have those golden pipes that you know so many you didn’t get a job and now you don’t have to have the golden pipes you just have to be able to to project and and have a voice that cuts through the sound and stuff like that um but I never felt I had that that kind of that kind of you know deep pipes that they that they talk about um I just um I didn’t start thinking about it till I was like 16 or 17 because a neighborhood friend was working at a college radio station and he gave he kind of put the bug in my ears guy Tony mola in Yonkers where I grew up and that’s the first time I thought about doing it Tony mola what a name a great name yeah so so did you ever have to like lose the New York accent oh yeah yeah I still there’s still if I get tired it’ll come out like the G on ing words they’re nowhere to be found when I start get and every once in a while there’s there’s other words that come out but I I I I tried to have I’ve tried to work on it so did you did you have to practice that no not really just like just more enunciate that was my biggest flaw was that I didn’t fully enunciate words I’d leave off like the last letter of of of some words and just get a little lazy I guess yeah what’s the dumb probably a dumb question what’s the best uh Arena to call a game in is it is because you know we ask that about we ask that with athletes all the time like what’s what’s the toughest place to play is there a Best and a toughest place to call a game at there’s there’s a number of Arenas that are just off the charts that it just you you feel it in your bones when you’re sitting there Madison Square Garden is right up there there is no better place when it’s a big event yeah whether it’s basketball whether it’s hockey even like a concert there’s just no better place the Old Chicago stadium was the loudest building I’ve ever been in um you could be sitting next to right next to the person and when the Bulls fans were going crazy I could be screaming and you wouldn’t hear a word I say uh Oracle Arena at the the Golden State U old arena was as loud as they come um the TD Garden is is fantastic right now the one in Boston Oklahoma City it’s like a college crowd there yeah yeah is there is there any bad ones is there not bad in terms of the crowd but in terms of the setup where it’s like ah the sight lines or you know it’s a little bit more difficult I got to be on my aame tonight well um when you do National games the sight lines are the same midcourt Courtside yeah Fant for better what’s changed in the industry and here’s another part of the other answer U they’ve now moved the local broadcasts both radio and TV in a number of Arenas up above the first level and that can be hard there’s there’s some really rough ones where you’re way up and you you wind up doing a lot of the game off the monitor as opposed to watching in person you’re there in the arena and you’re you’re doing the game off the Monitor and it’s I think there’s like 13 uh Arenas now where they have us way up and it’s unfortunate I think it it U compromises the product it’s not good for the fans who are watching at home because we can’t do as good a job H but it’s all about selling uh selling the seats down low where we used to be for a lot of money yeah what about the uh the meal situation is there one team that has that’s known want to hook you guys up with some real Choice Cuts good question thank you well um if you’ve been doing this a long time um you know that that’s not only a good question it’s one of the most important questions because I eat for every when I I like to eat at the arena when I get there and when you have good food at a media uh media dining as they call it dining is a depending on where you go perhaps not the right word um there’s no question we we talk about that all time we rate them who’s got the best who’s not the best like we’re just in Boston Boston has a great one just a great one and um Dallas is another one that has one of the better meal rooms too what about a what’s your pregame meal is it something that you stick to are you a creature of habit where you have the same thing before every or do you just kind of mix it up depending where you are no I’ll I’ll eat anything I have my my appetite is whatever is available yeah and that includes as much dessert as possible J in fact JJ was making fun of me goes how could you eat dessert before for a game I say how can how can you not eat dessert such a dup isn’t he the worst he’s the worst ah uh all right well so Mike this has been so awesome I have one last question for you it’s the roback question rhob bac.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase qzip polos hoodies joggers shorts uh roback.com promo code take so you have called so many NBA games you’re you are the voice of the NBA that’s how I introduce you here and I I I do believe that um you’ve also called the Olympics I I I would I got to go try to find track it down you called Ski Jumping how was that was that like what do they even do in ski they just jump right it it was one of the coolest things I’ve ever done and the thing is here I’m the announcer on Ski Jumping I’ve I was never on skis in my life at that point but they gave me an analyst guy named Jeff Hastings who was a an American ski jumper and he took all care of the technology I’d basically say who the jumper was where he was from his record his history at all that kind of stuff and then would the guy would take off and Jeff would take over and he would he would um you know he could see if this was going to be a good one or a bad one how deep it was how high it was all that kind of stuff and and uh it was really fun because I took it from a standpoint of a novice I didn’t know anything about it so the questions I asked him you know anybody who is an idiot about skiing that’s what they’re going they were going to ask that that and that’s what I asked because I didn’t know any better and I felt it was I was actually really proud of that because I I took it from a standpoint of all right I’m a viewer who does not know this Sport and I have a chance to ask him this but a part of the thing that was so hard is you never you couldn’t do it live what we would do is you’d sit there and you’d watch 30 guys go off and NBC wouldn’t have all 30 guys in their coverage they’ only take 10 so they would take the top 10 scores we’d go into a studio and now we’d have to announce it like it was live going on and I Could Have Cheated you know if I knew this guy was going to good I could have said and I just get the feeling this is going to be a special jump yeah but I didn’t do it and Jeff didn’t do it and but it was interesting trying to to manufacture the enthusiasm on a big jump like that when we knew whether he finished second or he finished 43rd yeah did you did you B it all then or no no no oh would have been awesome oh that would have been if they crashed not if they just what if they hit like a big one I don’t even know what a big one is called in ski jum but they hit the big one you just give them a bang can bang go in any other sports could you use it in any other sports I suppose we should think boxing yeah feel like boxing would be a good one boxing be good I did the NFL for for a number of years long time ago and maybe on a on a uh a great catch in the end zone I don’t know a field goal long field goal yeah long field goal would work really a field goal game winning field goal game winning field goal bang Works can bang a field goal right now do you do it like soon as it goes through the crossbars do you wait till the to the hands go up I mean I I think you go hands I you wait for hands you can’t you can’t miss that bang if it looks like it’s good and it’s short and the ref don’t you can’t prematurely bang yeah yeah no bang going off is there any other sport that you would like to do are you just going to be basketball for the rest of your life um yeah I’ve been kind of a one Trick Pony um I I um I think I’d love to do because I’m a huge Met fan I would love to do a Met game someday oh oh you you could bang a you could bang a a third strike for sure home run yeah yeah uh we should we should do a broadcast Mike Breen and Frank the Tank we got a color guy for you you know Frank the Tank are you aware of Frank the Tank yes I’m aware of Frank the Tank I mean everyone is you can’t be in I think that’s the like you’re not a New Yorker if you don’t know who Frank the Tank is um but you know I think I think um what else I love golf so I would love to I would love to uh love to do a golf golf broadcast someday use my voice yeah careful with that that’s when we that’s when everyone started hating Joe Buck again because they already hated him and then they started hating him again after for that well it’s funny like you asked about um do you have haters and you really do after a while you develop a thin thin skin and and uh you’re like you don’t you don’t worry about it and one thing that I think I think Joe Buck is one of the most talented people who’ve ever done this um the guy is phenomenal at any sport um one of the greats of all time on the Mount Rushmore whatever you want to say so if he gets criticism anybody could get criticism yeah yeah he told us one time he p in a bottle during a game because you had to go have you ever done that it’s probably harder for you because you’re not up in the booth Joe went there I don’t think people need to know that yeah yeah we know we love Joe he’s a friend of ours he’s also addicted to hair plugs so we should we should we should plug that for him um almost took his voice away yeah yeah he’s got a big head he’s got a lot to cover Jo has a big head yeah he’s got a big head real pretty big it’s big for yeah for a size um what oh we we got Nicks fans are just like cir in outside of our office being like Oh Mike Breen’s on the call we got to so you have a lot of fans in this office uh if you call Bulls game next year we’d love to have you come by maybe you could call us playing five on five and uh that would be probably the end of your career but I I promise I will come by it’s it’s I I you guys are so much fun I uh I’m honored to be on yeah all right well thanks so much Mike we love 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of Aderall you took before the challenge I did take a couple is prescribed I am prescribed and I don’t really yeah whatever he just said we were driving up to the suburbs and he just said to me I’m I got to take some Aderall because there’s no way I’m be a to smoke these cigarettes without it I don’t like smoking SS I know he’s just like I was like you want to drive the car I tried to drink like a couple beers cuz I’m I don’t really smoke sigs but when I do it’s I’m like very drunk so I was like maybe I have to you know feel a little alcohol in me I only drink when I smoke um what was I about to say [ __ ] oh and then I was also Aderall makes me mute so I like was just a miserable [ __ ] on the video and you guys were makes you good at golf yeah tune in yeah I mean at times or don’t especially my mom at times you’re I so my firefest was going to be like I miss smoking cigarettes yeah I miss it a lot so Hank you just had a awesome week this week’s flown by well cuz it was only four days I know feel like is a shorter week than every also at the time of this recording it’s been three days it’s Thursday it’s flowing by Tuesday Wednesday and most of Thursday yeah that’s a that’s a short weekend I mean we had a fun week we did it we we we golfed on Monday we played roof ball today we got P Punk tomorrow it’s been an awesome week it’s been a fun week it’s been the best weather like today was the best weather possible there’s not a cloud in the sky 72 degrees or Celtics are in the finals like life is good all right yeah good Hank happy for you I want you to to be happy thank you to a certain extent how’s Duncan going it’s going well I trained I trained four times this week well three so far one more tomorrow I’ll say I’ll say it I’m getting a little nervous I’m you you do look like you’re in better shape I found a trainer that is has his master’s degree in like fit in Fitness so he’s like we’re going through a program that is designed for me to dunk and it’s I’m doing stuff that I never do on my own and it’s working so and I think if I just if I just stick to it like and I I’ve I’ve told this guy a million times he doesn’t want to hear it but once we get to September and it’s lock in time like the steroid conversation will probably happen wait what what is this like special routine that you’re in what kind of exercis is he having you do that you’ve never thought you do yourselfs legs all of the legs feed the wolf uh a lot of Plyometrics a lot of jumping stuff but like just just it’s also just like grad ual increases versus you know I’m like let me put a bunch of weight on and try and do a couple good reps it’s like lower weight higher reps and then the next week you do more weight it’s obviously for anyone that lifts weight and trains it’s like no [ __ ] dude but yeah I’ve never done that so good for you it’s working good for you good job Hank good job I I got a couple fir fests uh my first one was going to be about like the golfing I really enjoyed smoking the cigarettes I don’t smoke anymore but now I’m it rocked it rocked honestly smoking cigarettes on the golf course and I truly miss it um but I’m not going to do it not going to dive into it um but that kind of also goes against what I decided to do on last Saturday which was I just thought to myself it’s time to get back in shape got to get in shape before you’re 40 feel like anything you do before you’re 40 That’s who you’re going to be after 40 40 is like a big cut off wait but what about our deal cuz I’m I’m I’m with you I I’ve lost 10 pounds since football season I’ve been trying to eat clean Donnie’s been cooking for us playing basketball what I’ve been cooking those to oh Han’s been cooking those to um the ones you cook are bad well I just I we agreed we were going to get cut tomatoes for Donnie but we’re going to get in great shape at 40 and then just get fat again then get fat real fat right afterwards yeah I mean for that I don’t want to but that’s what I’m saying like if you if I’m in shape the day I turned 40 I can get fat and then get back in shape no problem what weight are we hitting I said 220 which is crazy so right now I’m at I’m at 183 but it’s a bad 183 so I got to lose like 10 pounds and then gain 15 pounds back so I want to end up at one I want to end up at 190 but a good 190 I was like 247 jacked 190 50 24750 floating after football season I’m like 235 is floating seven eight that’s not bad so so to accomplish 20 more pounds to accomplish this I decided to start intermittent fasting yeah so you do I only eat between noon and 8:00 p.m. didn’t eat any Wings tonight didn’t eat a single wing tonight it’s very mean that you guys ordered Wings after I told you I wasn’t eating after eight my favorite food in the entire world um but I’ve kind of put a Twist on because I think with intermittent fasting you can just eat whatever the [ __ ] you want between noon and 8 right so I’m trying a new diet that I think I invented which is strictly Uncrustables so I’ve had I had four Uncrustables on Tuesday I had four on Wednesday I had two today and you look thinner I think I’m just going to eat that’s it I think I’m going to eat Uncrustables just only uncrust no wings no but I’m saying that’s all like that’s your intake of the day yeah yeah two Uncrustables no wings well four yeah no what about for my meal plan there’s no breakfast my meal plan is I eat four uncrustable you jum today yeah but that was I also had the two on crust that was roof ball jum ey that’s totally different you have any pizza at P Punk practice uh no I didn’t max oh and he also didn’t have any Wings you N I was just I mean we were chatting no yeah we were we were chatting but no I did not I did not and then memes is over here raying on my parade being like oh you can’t drink coffee how of you of all people not going to have a wing I didn’t have any Wings tonight you didn’t have any Wings what are you talking about I didn’t have a single wing no wings that’s that’s hard to believe I watched him he went and sniffed him he looked at him it was very sad I was like have you have a wing Jake back me up on this did I have a wing today no wings no wings Never Lie pug you were in the kitchen you were in the kitchen did PF have any Wings have any wings I did not see PF have any Wings pug thank you pug honest men why’ you say that so funny yeah but no I think I think that there’s something to the uncrustable diet I think that the uncrustable is probably the perfect snack the perfect meal the perfect everything I did not have an uncrustable until I was it was like two years ago I had my first one changed my life yeah oh yeah overnight they’re incredible I mean we just kind of talked about it but since I’m like an Fitness expert now what about you know protein peanut butter there’s peanut butter on no he he said he didn’t have any Wings greens there’s there’s purple and Uncrustables purple is is a green PF purple is a vegetable you saw the wings do do you think they tasted good if you you saw them I mean I can’t imagine I don’t I have no idea yeah I would have no idea I had one it was hot as [ __ ] you tricked me with it wasn’t that hot [ __ ] you tricked me with one that looked like a barbecue wing and I almost died oh that was the natural hot yeah it was hot [ __ ] yeah I can’t I can’t even begin to imagine what the wings tasted like so I will not definitely had one I didn’t have a single wing no no he did not have one he did not have one a bite of one no he did not have one or a bite of one did you have two I no he did not have two did you have three I didn’t I didn’t have I didn’t have a wing I didn’t have a wing but yeah dude [ __ ] it like I think that the uncrustable diet some some dietitian out there tell me that I’m right I just need one person to say they dietitian if you were like one years old I think you’d be in the clear you’re right you think one-year-olds eat Uncrustables or like I don’t know yeah uh not one-year-olds but like two three my neph my nephew eats uncrossable diet I guess my one-year-old does it’s the new diet it’s called Uh eat how you dress and I dress like a six-year-old no I dress like a six-year-old dress like a chicken wing most frequently no I dress like three chicken wings or four no anyways me and big cat are going to be [ __ ] jacked up by we are like listen can people be supportive I know that I’ve said this many times before but I like 40 is it’s kind of [ __ ] my head up yeah and I would like to just be in decent shape i’ spent my 30s being a fat [ __ ] working a lot let’s get to 40 and and just be beasts and then we’re going to be like 40 and a half and be fat again that’s fine as long as we kiss the wall just kiss the wall say we got there we could get there again if we want that’s what I’m saying like if you get there by the time you’re 40 then when you’re 45 oh I was in good shape when I was 40 let go back to Uncrustables in three Wings exactly I’m just going to eat seven Uncrustables a day and get jacked that’s a a good business idea like what if there’s Uncrustables with protein in them yeah like Uncrustables for the guy that works out hard yeah that lifts heavy yeah that’s what I’m talking about so please be supported we’re going to be 40 we should take pictures before and after well I guess we we’re just taking pictures all the time you’ll see us when you see us in Super Bowl week it’s going to be [ __ ] on we might actually go topless all Super Bowl week what what does the intermittent fasting thing say about about drinking beers I don’t know I would venture to say most of my beer consumption is post isn’t fasting just food I don’t think it qualifies when you’re like enjoying yourself okay having a good time if you’re having a good time got smile on Super Bowl I thought of a a bet for our season long contest I don’t know how many bars there are on Bourbon Street but loser has to put on a GoPro and just get a drink from every single bar yep in that’d be so funny in there’s probably like 50 probably way more actually there my guess is I’m in I don’t think you would do that I would have to it’s 30 30 bars all right well we’ll figure it out I mean it would be funny maybe do man on the street it would be funny all right we we we have a lot of time to decide that all right I have two fir fests my first firest is next weekend I’m going to uh sorry there’s 60 bars 60 bars that’s a lot of drinks that’s too many drinks uh next week I’m going to Belmont uh the s at Saratoga uh and the firefest I’m excited to go there but you guys I think some of you guys are going to be going to see uh the red stars play at Wrigley oh yeah yeah so the nwsl they sent us some kits uh nwsl is hot right now they’re playing a game at Wrigley on Saturday uh so that’s next Saturday the red stars are playing so Shout Out Nike for the gear Hank’s going to grab his right now he’s going to rep it on Saturday so see you all there I’m a big uh Washington Spirit fan dude a soccer game at regle is going to be awesome yeah you you have I think they gave you some oh sick uh Dennis Rodman’s daughter Trinity Rodman she’s awesome these are sick jerseys okay okay that’s an awesome Jersey the red stars all right so uh Hank you gonna go yep Wrigley Saturday red stars are playing the national women’s soccer league so uh o look at that oh that’s a Washington this is a Washington okay here you go this is Chicago oh we just did a kit we just did a jersey Jersey wait no oh yeah no that I want one of the DC and you take one of the Chicago hold it up hold them up okay here we go yeah I’m trying to I’m trying to just uh cross off like every wrigly event that exists I love it they you know they do like top top golf we you did it oh nice of course you come on stupid was it awesome it was stupid to me yeah it was really cool all right my uh my my other firefest is um I I share some stuff about my kids there’s I think there’s a good amount of dads that listen to Pardon my take CU we’re aging we’re about to be 40 um I’m now in the questions I can’t answer phase with my son um and it’s getting increasingly difficult can I throw some of them at you guys uh yesterday you asked me what what uh blueberries are made of blue that’s what I said blue didn’t really he didn’t really take that for he also asked me when you die do you become alive again how do you yeah no that’s actually that’s a good question yeah dogs someone in his class is talking about death Incarnation I don’t want that kid around my son you know what a good thing to do is you got to answer those questions with a question you just got to say why do you ask just yeah that that does that doesn’t work just get like more doesn’t work more childlike on him why he no his move is he goes you’re you’re the adult why don’t you know that’s a good point he said he dropped that on me tonight Point uh you bust out the Bible on them just go Bible yeah just read him a passage and be like this is your answer and he’ll be like what yeah the the answer is in this book yeah read it read it uh what’s stronger our house or our car house is it though yeah that’s an easy one car could hit you yeah but if a car hit your house the car would break the house would still stay but the car the house doesn’t move the car moves it’s a weapon the house is like an offensive lineman and the car is like a linebacker okay all right that works and then the last one he had was uh he asked me if his younger brother who’s one when he uh starts speaking will he speak in English or Spanish that one confused the [ __ ] out of me you got to teach your one-year-old Spanish now I was just like what dud like where did we get this one from yeah what the [ __ ] whatever he chooses he’s like which one is he going to be doing did you hit the sap button on this thing yeah I’m in that phase yeah the when he when he when he responds with you’re the adult if you tell me oh also what are uh spider webs made out of I said come yeah spider come yeah that he asked what that was yeah spider come no spiders are back with avengeance oh yeah you got a lot of spiders and I I think it’s with of Vengeance just [ __ ] spray them dude I I have and they keep coming like that’s the problem blow torch them I I ordered I ordered some smelling things that apparently they might keep them away no those never work so is is it still contained on your balcony I’ve taken them out I took them out last year got rid of them and then couple weeks ago saw some webs broomed them out and then last weekend like I went out last night and there was they’re they’re back so it’s like they’re fighting back and now I’m worried that they’re mobilizing and like going to in in they’re mobilizing 100% they are they’re talking to each other yeah they’re going to invade what about what was that book Charlotte swb get a pig no they’ll become best friends did that end up well Charlotte died [ __ ] yeah but the pig I think lived oh speaking of Charlotte until he became bacon speaking of Charlotte have you guys heard the news the stingray update no I only get it from you this the only this [ __ ] aquarium a journalist went there asking some of the same questions I’ve been asking for the last 3 4 months what just fell [ __ ] just felly Lounge is down oh all right we got to fix that uh a journalist went there being like when’s this [ __ ] Stingray going to squirt out the pups and you know what the aquarium did they called the cops on the journalist oh wow and now they’re now they’re muting all comments yeah China yeah there’s something fishy going on at the aquarium that’s that’s what I’m saying damn that’s CRA was right by the way we should have mentioned on Tuesday’s show rip harambe 8 years yeah eighty year anniversary Gone Too Soon uh all right Jake finish us off yeah I have a new addiction uh-oh few years ago it was an AEL spray yeah cocaine no oh oh oh mushrooms cuz you were in Hamsterdam no no no oh prostitutes there you go Jake I don’t like you get wet what stuff do it Mr position come on Jake uh this one I actually think is relatable to you guys but no free ads but a certain snack company has been sending a lot of their product say dot pret because after after the uh interview with msh I was like I would stand on the table in terms of snacks in my war room for Dots pretzels yeah also I do want them to advertise with us um Can dots can you please send us some of the pork rinds cuz those are no carbs and they are so good I haven’t had those yet oh my God they’re so good cinnamon sugar pretzels are the most addicting thing I’ve ever had I went to the store the other day Jake you also haven’t had any drugs right but still like you have zero addictions never been addicted to a snack more than this and it’s dangerous it’s crack now it’s crack it is crazy yeah they’re all good they’re advertis with us dots yeah this do it we’ll never say your name again after giving you yeah we’re never saying thousands of dollars never advertising also sent us the pork runs yeah so it’s been I I got to watch myself but they’re delicious they are good you’re fine I don’t know I hoard those things on airplanes too you want a small small thing of pretzels I’ll take three yeah I’ll just put them in my pocket yeah have them later we going to start smelling Jake’s fingers I already do every morning [ __ ] or dots it’s game we play with Jake every morning it’s always dots Mondays it’s [ __ ] oh what you got Max you saying something you about to say something uh by your Father’s Day merch yes last day last day you got to buy it now and you’ll get it in time for Father’s Day we have a ton of awesome stuff in this shout out all the dads also ky’s dad great hey get those shirts that are right next to the camera great great uh Father’s Day this year US Open final round nope nope Final Round right next to Big cat’s camera yeah at Pinehurst at Pinehurst we’ve played that all right Hank lies that shirt you should get that shirt for blue that’s my yep nope no okay thank you that’s sick coat right this thing is wait what yeah someone made that for me is in the store awesome no oh yeah we’re selling sport coats for my coffee company uh Max has to come in here and do everything for Hank look at that Max Max oh I actually wore this shirt uh today nice got a lot of compliments nice new mountains are blue new mountains are blue go buy them Father’s Day merch got to buy it now uh go to starsports.com all right great show boys let’s do what what are you going to do Max go back to your seat go back to your seat I haven’t said anything numbers 18 20 three6 eight 56 oh [ __ ] he got 56 99 pke 40 212 what was that 42 42 I have 20 Max would you like to trade with me uh no but PF that my voice I’m worried what oh Max is singing with us tomorrow night oh no my voice my voice just went right there just don’t talk yeah just stop talking Max would you like to trade with me I’ll give you an option 20 for 56 straight up no okay what was your number PFT I I did eight was everyone else in the booth 18.99 pugs how many songs is he doing three’s doing I’ve never seen someone more nervous for something in my entire life you just did your one man show in last that you spent 6 months talking about you literally ruined our life for half a year that was that’s what I’m saying though that was 60 minutes if I was if it was two oh Hank 40 42 42 Jordy 40 you were so close I should have done it you were so close I actually was also pretty close because 2 time 20 is 40 was to Max you were not close also you’ve never gotten it love you guys
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52:26 damn I know the boys don’t know anything about baseball but matt Waldron from San Diego has a nasty knuckleball.
40 BABYYYYYYYYY
didnt think id be getting choked up during a pmt interview with mike breen but here we are. what a great story.
Big Cat finally shut hank up 23:45 mark 🤣🤣🤣
Bonk @40:30
PMT gassing up a minor league knuckleballer while there is a legit knuckleballer on the San Diego Padres, Matt Waldron
can you say the N-word leagues like that?
Stop playing parts of the show as an intro
Fuck DraftKings I hate you DraftKings.
PFT knows so little about basketball, lol.
Shoutout SB mowing!
The Mavs will be the best team the Celtics have played this postseason by far.
Celtics are best team Mavs have played as well, but it's a smaller gap.
Lakers woulda beat Mavs
“When did you know you were good at x?” big cat every single interview
Breen should do bang in spanish
Grew up just north of San Diego and bill did so many events and was apart of our community hours from where he even loved just found my autographed bill Walton mini ball last week from when I was 10
Hank was faded for Fire fest
Hank spell the word Icup
First one's free. Careful with that fellas.
Bad takes about the Negro League records. Y’all are better than that. Saying that baseball gets more confusing by new numbers is a dumb take.
Hot take: Breen’s “Puts it in” is a better call than “Bang”
So Mike Breen is awesome
Mikes story about Bill is just one of idk probably a thousand stories ive listened to over the last week that should inspire everyone to be a better person like Bill was.
42:25 in the classical sense a tragedy can only occur when someone has reached prestige and power. Its a heros fall from grace. Bears having caleb Williams is the difference now. They got the hero, the expectations are raised, people are optimistic. A perfect scenario for a tragedy to take place.
Maxey standing against the wave he can see the truth note it the butt boys all picked the Celtics and the once always wrong man has now started the path to redemption
Breen’s Walton story has a grown man in tears over here.
Keep that awful book (bible) away from your kid at all cost big kat!