“Game 5” with PFT Commenter | 2018 Stanley Cup Final: Capitals vs. Golden Knights

I'm Julian Edelman, I'm Samurel, and this is the search for the greatest games of all time. But we have a special, special special guest PFT from Barstool the Man. I feel like this is a pro am. I'm a little scared. I'm a little intimidated because you know, he's always I like one of those father son events. Just come on, Yeah, you can putt for me, all right? Thanks? Dad? Is this the Part three Masters? Yeah? Those tournaments are awesome.

I love the Part three. But whenever they hit the shots that like skip across the lake and they do all the trick stuff, Yeah, well we'll do that. I'll be uh your caddy today. I like it all right? What should I hit off the tee here? Straight up? Should I just be like, this was the greatest night of my life? Because for me, when you ask me what game I want to do, I thought to myself, Well, there's some games I could talk about. I'm not I'm not a professional athlete. I played my sports for the

love of the game, unlike you. So all the games that I would talk about there aren't. You know, it's not presented by Gellett Razors. It's not glitzy and glamour. You know, it's not on primetime TV. I'm talking stuff deep in the heart of Texas, off the grid. You'll never see it on camera. That's where I like to do my work, kind of under the radar. But this was not the greatest game that I've participated in. This was probably Yeah, I'm gonna say this was the greatest

night of my life start to finish. It's more like the greatest night ever, the great night. This is better than the r words winning Super Bowls in the eighties. Well I was I was two years old when they won their first one. I don't really remember that much. There's so many uses for our wards now It took me a second. Were they called that, I was like another, Well, now I call them the Sea Words. Now that the Seawards Washington Sea Words, which is a lot nicer. But

I know, I don't remember. I was blackout when I was two years old, so I don't recall that. And then I was six, and I remember some of that game in nineteen ninety one. Don't be deceived. It's the nineteen ninety one Super Bowl, even though on the back of our jackets now on our official team Crest it listed as nineteen ninety two. They made a mistake when they made the team Crest. That's something that only the

Sea Words could pull off, you know. It's It's kind of true though, because the Super Bowl is played in the actual next year, so it technically happened in ninety two, but it is definitely wrong. It's like the ninety one you're the ninety one NFL champions. Yeah, but the Super Bowl was played January whatever, like twenty ninth, nineteen ninety two,

so I remember a little bit of that game. I just remember after the game, my dad got me a can of coke that had the Washington Arwards logo on it, and we just kept that up on my mantle, and that was like our shrine to our local sports team. It's the sadist shrine. Ever, it started a fade after like three years, and it just stayed up there for like ten years. And I do the same thing with Santa Pax. As a Jew, I like the Coca Cola Santa Pax. For some reason, it was like a forbidden

fruit to me. I don't know. Yeah, it was not the greatest trophy that we had, but it ad meant a lot to me as a kid growing up. It's like, Okay, I remember when my teams weren't all total losers back then. So I grew up a Washington Arwoods fan, and then the Capitals were always like that second tier team for me, but I would go to more Capitals games. It was closer to my house, tickets were more affordable, so I would go to those games more frequently. I grew up

loving the Capitals. We made the Stanley Cup in like mid nineties, got swept lost in four straight games, and after that it was just like a NonStop parade of playoff heartbreak for me. As a Capitals fan. I would go almost every year. I think I went to like four games in a row in the playoffs where we got eliminated, and I didn't go to any games in between that. So, like I've I grew to hate the Pittsburgh Penguins, I grew to hate Marc Andre Fleury, who will get to in a little bit because he was

a big part of this game too. But the Capitals, they were the closest that I got to tasting success in any team that I rooted for, like as as relatively speaking an adults. So this was a like I said, it was the greatest night of my life because some of the stuff that happened after the game was over was even crazier than what happened on the ice that night. I've heard that you've actually you drank from the Cup. I drank from the Cup? From the Cup too? Oh really? Yeah?

What year was it? Twenty eleven Bruins. Bruins, Yeah, Shawnnie Thorty, Thorty, Sean Thornton. Were they were they pumped to have you around or was there anybody on the team that was like, who's this guy wise here drinking on the Cup? It was early in my career, so like they really didn't know who I was, but Sean Thornton was. He's just a beauty. Yeah, as they say in hockey, what is it? He's such a butte this guy, and he he let me come over and take a little little sip of

Grandpa's old cough medicine out of the cup. I love it. There are definitely some guys that were around me that were giving me the side. I like, who the fuck is this guy drinking out of my Stanley Cup? They just wanted like three hours before, some of the guys on the team knew who I was, and I think they were instrumental in helping me get to the place where I was like close enough to the cup to drink out of it. But there were a couple of guys that were just like I think Dimitri Orlov was one.

There's a picture. I don't know if you guys have the picture, but I'm drinking out of the cup. I can get to that whole story. I can do it later, which well we might as well. You're you're feeling hot, you might as well go, let's hear it. So so after the game's over, we're in Hakkisan, which is the club at the MGM, I believe, and a couple of times, so I was namely establishment. Yeah, it's a nice place. Family, yeah, definitely,

definitely some families made in there. After the game was over, I was wearing my shorts that I had worn into the arena. It was hot out that day. It was you know, classic Vegas weather, probably like ninety two degrees something like that, and I wore shorts of the game. And then after the game was over, when my friends that was in town, was like, Hey, I'm actually hanging out with Larzella and his family. My family has like a relationship with him, so we're invited to their suite.

After the game, went up to the suite, hung out, partied there for a little bit. Then we went to Hakasan and there were a few Capitals that I was with at the time, and they were like, yeah, just come on by. You don't need to like go home or anything, don't need to change into nicer clothes, just come to the club. So I show up to the club. I'm wearing shorts. Everybody else is wearing like club outfits. But I came like drenched in beer, just looking like

a mess. And the guy at the door it was like me and I don't know, four or five Washington capitals and their girlfriends or whatever. And the guy at the door was like, you can't come in. I was like, I was. I was halfway expecting that anyways, because I'm not on the team. But they were like, no, dude, dude, you're good. Just go buy a pair of pants and come back and we'll wait here at the door for you and we'll get you in. I was like, okay, they're trying to get rid of me, so I'll go

buy the pants and then i'll come back. They'll probably be gone whatever. So then I go on a mission to find pants in Las Vegas, which is harder than you think it might be, is it. Well, if you're inside a casino. Here's not a hotel. Yeah, but it's like a malinus in the casino. They want you to spend all the money. Yeah, they're not open all night. So this was probably like, I don't know, eleven thirty at night, something like that. So I walked around. I

found the gift shop. The gift shop in the MGM had pants and I was like, perfect, I don't care what they are, I'm buying them. And I asked the lady. I was like, do you have pants here. She was like, we have one more pair of pants left. I was like, I'll buy it. She goes, do you want to try it on? Nope, I don't care. If they're pants, that's all I need. So she sells me the last pair of pants in the building. There are these giant khakis.

They're massive. The waste is probably like a forty two on them, and it looks like Mitt Romney at a jazz game. Yeah, yeah, exactly, like just giant flat front. I put them on and they're just falling off left and right. I'm holding them up with one of the belt loops. The belt loop snaps because I'm pulling up so hard on to keep these goddamn pants on. And I eventually figure out a way. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna hold it like this. I'm gonna walk down the hallway.

I'm gonna get at the club, no problem. I'm walking down the hallway and who comes around the corner in the casino but Alexavechkin, and he's got the fucking Stanley Cup in his hands, and we almost run into each other. And he's walking He's like doing this like big strut down the hallway. He's got a probably like fifty people following him, like taking pictures, and he's just singing, I am the champion, my friend, and he like almost walks over me. I'm like, fuck yeah, let's go over. So

I'm like, where he's going, that's where I'm going. We're going to the same place probably, and so I follow him. They let him, and they don't they don't care what he's wearing, just because he's got the Stanley Cup. They let him right in and then the guy stops me again at the door. I was like, I got pants, bitch, and they're like, okay, we'll get you back to the

back area where where the team is hanging out. There there's some people in management at the team that I had become friendly with over the years, and a couple of the hockey players there recognized me. They're like, okay, yeah, you're coming back party with us for a little bit. And then a couple of minutes later, the pants are falling off. They're just like falling. I can't keep them up. I look ridiculous, and a security guard comes over to me.

He flashes me with a flashlight in my eye. He's like, excuse me, sir, come with me. I was like, I knew this time would come. I've been kicked out a lot of places. This feels like one of those situations. So I start following the guy out and then he sends me over to another security guard who's flashing a light. He's like, this is the guy, and then that security guard flashes his light to another security guard and then escorts me directly behind the stage where Diplo is playing.

He's on stage. Yeah, I think it was Diplo. He was doing the DJ stuff at Hakasant for the capitals. OVI is like on the mic with him, asking him, hey, play Jesse's Girl. Play Jesse's Girl. So Diplo like stops his set. Maybe it's Chesto. I forget. It was one of those one name guys. And so Ovi's like singing Jesse's Girl as loud as he can. I'm being walked directly behind Ovi as he's like celebrating the time of

his life. And then they turned me around the corner and there's the cup right in front of me, and they go, do you want to drink out of it? And I was like sure. It was filled to the brim with beer. So it was a heavy ass cup.

So I picked it up and then somebody helped me, like from the bottom, lift it up, and I take that sip right there that we're looking at, and you can't see from this angle, but the guy in the white shirt if you scroll up a little bit, the guy in the white shirt right there, his face is cut off. That's Dmitriolov from the Washington Capitals. And the look on his face is like, get this guy off my fucking Stanley cup. Like he had no idea what I was doing. I still don't know what I was

doing there. I think it's out. Yeah, there he is. Wow, there's Demitriolov right there, and he's just fucking furious that I'm drinking out of his cup. And so then I put it down. And then then I do get kicked out for a second because one of the players are one of the guys back there, thought that somebody, some random guy just ran up and drank out of their Stanley cup. So they kicked me out momentarily. Then I got brought back in for the rest of the party.

Was a wild snapped the picture, just some random guy that was there, and so he was a listener of part of my take. He was like, oh fuck, it's pft. I was like, dude, I'm about to drink out of the cup, can you please take a picture for me? And so he took that picture. I got his number, I got the text from like two hours later. I think I was gonna end up with any evidence of it whatsoever. But yeah, one of the craziest moments of

my life right there, for sure. Can we talk about leading up to this because you hate the Penguins with a passion? Yeah, I mean it's like Crosby and Ovechkin drafted together two of the best of all time. I mean, can you go through just your hatred. Yeah, I mean it was like every year it seems like they would bounce us out and we were always the two best

teams out of the East. But the way that the NHL Playoffs are set up, they don't really protect they It's more about like the separating the divisions from each other and how how the brackets are set up. So it was like every year we would play the Penguins in the second round, it felt like, and we just had a lot of really heartbreaking losses of them. I remember two thousand, shit was like two thousand and nine twenty ten where the series went back to DC for

Game seven. I was really pumped for that and they scored like six goals on us in the first period. Uh. There's just been like a lot of times where it was like, the Capitals are the best team in the entire NHL during the regular season, and then we're going to get to the playoffs and we're going to run into the hottest goally. Ever, it was always like that. One time that happened with Hendrik Lunguist, we were better than the Rangers and we and we lost them. He's

just too handsome. He's too handsome. I agree, he's really good looking. Everybody named Hank. I feel like it's just an absolute lady co team Hank Hank Hill not really, No Hank Hill could Hank. Aaron was good looking. He was big hands, big hands. Know what that means. Yeah,

big gloves, big big gloves. Yeah, big gloves. So yeah, it was it was just year after year of running into disaster in the playoffs, and it really it beat me down as a fan for a while, and I've I reached a point where I never thought that it was going to happen until this year. And we got to the playoffs and I was like, you know what this team feels. It was after the first the first series against Columbus, I think we were down to nothing, and then game three and overtime we won, and I

was like, okay, I'm officially back. I feel like this team might be different. And we had a we had a fun team to root for me And it felt like everybody was rooting for the Caps that year too, trying to see Ov get his first his first Stanley Cup. Like it's like Dirk or Elway or guys who everyone wanted to get one, and it took him a while. You know, Yeah, it made it better in retrospect that it waited that long where everybody, they all got their

jokes off. It was like every year after Ov would lose in the playoffs, somebody would tweet out that meme of like Ov holding the golf clubs like it was a Stanley Cup. It's like, oh, first of all, Ov doesn't play golf. He's rushing. Okay, that's he's an insane athlete. I bet he could play pretty good golf. So his mom was an Olympic basketball player. Dad didn't was his dad in the Olympics as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's

got I mean he's got athlete blood. His first round of golf that he ever played, he hit a hole in one. He's not a golfer, but they took him out one day and he hit a fucking hole in one the first time ever out. Hockey guys are really that's like the same kind of motion. Those guys are studs at golfing. I feel like people that are are really good at like three point shooting, yes, and foul shots are also good at golf. Hunters, yeah, hunters, No punters, oh, punters,

hunters and kickers. Yeah, because they do the same motion. They're they're in their psycho in the head a little bit. Yeah, they just get locked into this one thing that they do repeatedly. So I I was almost at my wits end with the Capitals. I was like, if it doesn't happen this year, it's never going to happen. Well, it did happen. Those were our first initial thoughts to this game, which is obviously the loss of a Vegas Nights in their first year ever in existence. Getting to the Stanley

Cup Final playing against pft's Washington Capitolis. Now on this podcast, we break down what was going on in regular life pop culture. What were we doing on the day of the game or in the era of the game. This game June seventh, twenty eighteen. Number one movie Ocean's eight. Hmm. Didn't see it? Did you? Never saw it? Oceans e? Was that the one? The real cast? Yeah? I think I saw that, like the day that I got back from Vegas. Actually I came back and I was so

hungover from my trip. I was like, I just got to go sit in a cold room for three hours and try to like sweat out or not sweat up, but try to like just get whatever it is out of my body, like when you reset myself to zero. Just just a bunch of alcohol. And yeah, just a bunch of alcohol. There's a lot of alcohol. It'll do that to you. Not a great not a great? Uh, I guess. Review for the movie, well, you know what, I sucked. Never saw I gave it. I gave it

zero stars. But I did fall asleep for almost all of it. The real heist was paying the all female cash lesson they would have paid men. Julie Roberts was great, That's what I thought. I thought she was great. In that movie. I was never an ocean's guy. Oh, the first one's all right, we get it. Heist movie. You don't like a heist movie. I like a heist movie. But it was it was all right. I feel like I saw it without even seeing it. You remind me of the gymnast in the first one a little bit,

the Asian guy. Yeah, it's just a real nimble It's a real nimble cat like a squirrel. You'd probably always land on your feet. Right if I threw you out of this building right now? What floor are we on? FI five? You'd probably land on your feet. I'd land on my feet and both of my tib and FIBs would just be shattered because I have no cartilage or ligaments or anything in my knees right now. So I learned a fun fact about squirrels. You probably already know

this as one yourself. Yeah, but you know that squirrels they can't die by falling out of a tree. No, Their terminal velocity is too slow where when they hit the ground, it's not gonna be enough to kill him. So you could throw a squirrel out of an airplane and it would be fine. No way, Yeah, you can't throw it out of an airplane. You should squirrel. I swear to God. You want me prove it? Prove it? Okay, I'll prove it. Hang on, just give me one second.

I've got an expert. I've got a squirrel guy. Who's this squirrel guy? Billy football? Buddy? Are you bringing Billy football? But does you know who my squirrel guy is? This kid knows everything about animals, footballs, that's about it, and like performance enhancing drugs. No, that's you, your buddy, Rodney Harrison. You can't. You can't walk me into that one. Jewels, Come on, hang on, he's I got my squirrel guy coming in hot? Does he pick up You got to

pick up the boss better? I know that he doesn't have anything else to do. Hey, Billy, Hey, I'm here with jewels. All right, looks good. I said that you're my squirrel guy. You're my squirrel expert. Is it true? Could you throw a squirrel out of an airplane? And

would it survived? You could? Technically it won't because of the fall, but he could die from like being thrown out of an airplane and like getting hit by the jet engine or something like squirrels damage it because they're like evolved that their terminal velocity is too low to kill them on impact. So it's just cool cool facts about squirrels. That is cool fact. All right, Billy, thank you for being my squirrel guy. Thanks, Billy, get back

to work. He's fishing. He's fishing. It's like four o'clock on a Monday in New York. Billy, where is he fishing on the Hudson. I don't know. I've learned not to ask too many questions when it comes to Billy. Just like, if it's a small thing that I'm upset about, just let it slide. But one thing Billy did not address. Also, if you throw a squirrel out of an airplane, the oxygen if you're up super high, is so low that

the squirrel will probably suffocate on its way down. There wouldn't be enough for it to breathe into his little squirrel lungs. But the fall would not kill the squirrels, is the important part. I think he'd be all right with them there. I mean, they got heart s, gruls or nimble, you do you know what I mean? Some of these ridiculous trends CBD cures all you guys, remember that kick into twenty eighteen. I used some CBD. Still, I'm a fool. I don't know if it works. I

use it every day. I think it's placebo for the most part. I think so it's like it was also a bunch of people being like I want to get as close to doing weed as possible without doing weed, you know, like, oh, you can buy this weed at a gas station and give you like no psycho psychoactive effects whatsoever. CBD like the inflammation queen that you would use. I feel like that worked a little bit, but it's

not because of CBD. I think it had like actual other antif they can put this stuff that gets you high and get you high when you put it for the Tiger Bomb, Yeah, I used to inject CBD. I would freebase it sometimes I would mainline it between your toes. Yeah it didn't work at all. Yeah, I'm a keyster myself. Boof it. I like the boo boof and CBD. We're getting this. That's the least amount of anxiety I've ever felt in my life. What's this in my life? Dance challenge?

Oh the yeah that Drake remember the music video where he just sat and danced all day? Is that what this is? This is kind of a bummer and kind of a downer. But I do remember on this day, like I was just getting back to the hotel at like six am and I checked Twitter and it was like Anthony Bourne Boordane just killed himself. Oh yeah, And

I was like, must have been a huge too. I remember that too because I was playing a gig in Timonium, Maryland, staying off the side of a highway in a holiday inn, and I was like, if this guy's killing himself, what chance do I have? Yeah, I mean his his life was like we're gonna pay you millions of dollars to go to the coolest cities and yeah, now we're getting too a dark place. Let's just let's get back to hockey guys. On this same day, Jerry Mayern, last surviving

Wizard of Oz Munchkin, died at ninety eight. It's a good run for a Munchkin, it is. Yeah, it's the hell of a run. Yeah, the last survival people they have like a pack What was going off? What you said that? That was the character in on the show that they were called like the little Munchkins, Right, how many oopa loopas we got around kicking from the chocolate fact. He remember that song of I used to love that song? And uh what did what did Sam tweet? I didn't tweet.

I guess what do we got from Julian? What did I go? Rkk? It was his birthday? Oh Bob Kraft rkk? Or no wait, yeah, the best man. I know. Your kindness carrying a passion for everything New England is an inspiration. He just got a big Lifetime Achievement award at the Business Sports Business Journal Awards. I went to. He's pretty good with everything. I mean, he gives a lot for a lot. And uh, how many of the shirts does he own? The like blue shirts with white collars on him?

He switched it up. What's he wearing? He doesn't wear the collar, the pink the pink title. The collar is very like eighties Wall Street. It's kind of cool. Yeah. I like that about him. Yeah, now I feel like he's gotten cooler, way cooler. He's got his own They're called Aircraft Ones. Oh really, yeah, they call him the Aircraft Ones. They're actually like a custom air Force one limited edition. Got a pair of them. They're pretty tight.

They're a little bedazzled black white, white, white soul. It was. It was pretty insane. It hangs out Meek Mills. Meek Mills brought him onto the stage. I mean, you call Meek Mills meek Mill, like he's a cereal meek Mill. Meek Mill, Yeah, meek millilly guy. No, that's what that's what happens. That's when you can tell that you're starting to like become your father, is when you start pluralizing everything. Let's go, like, what are your kids playing the Nintendo's

Chicago Illinoise what. So, now we're going up to the run of this playoffs and the Pittsburgh series versus the Caps. Can you take us through that? The bet every thing that you go all out with. Yeah, so I'm trying to remember exactly what the bet was that we had for that series. I remember watching Game six. We were on a flight out of New York going down to Baton Rouge. We're gonna meet and interview Coach Oh for the first time, and we get on this airplane and

it's basically me Hank Big Cat. I think I'm not sure if Liam was with us or not at that point, but it was a very small crew. We were almost the only people on that on that flight, and the game went into overtime, and I was like, you know, three years of seeing the same movie happen to me over and over and over again, I was like, well, we're gonna lose this game in overtime. Then the Penguins are gonna fucking smash us game seven, like five to nothing.

So I was in I was super anxious. We end up winning that game because nets Off scores in overtime. He does the bird celebration. I start running up and down the aisle on the airplane freaking out. The flight attendant brings me a bottle Mini champagne. I pop that thing open. I'm like, I can't believe that we're doing this,

can't believe it's actually happening. So that was one of the best, one of the best couple of days that I've had as a sports fan, not only just winning that game, but also getting to like share my joy with Coach O. The next day, I was wearing like an a Vegkan shirt he was. We talked for a second about like being a hockey fan. Coacho doesn't know shit about hockey, by the way, Like why would he?

He's from like Louisiana. Yeah, deep Louisiana. He's probably never seen ice in his life ever, and so he was just like, oh, I'm happy for I'm you seem like you seem like you're a good fan. Now did you get a little nightmares? Because the first time that the Capitals went to the Stanley Cup Final, they got swept by Detroit. That's were you starting to feel feel a

little nervous that like this could be deja vus. We get there, we get over the hump of beating the Penguins, and now we gotta go battle in the championship against some like destiny team. Would happen? Actually there was a series in between that, so I felt like at the time when we beat the Penguins, I was like, that's huge for us because this never happens. It never happened,

So this team is different. But we still had to play against the Lightning Lightning and in the finals, and they were a really good team and they still are. Isn't it kind of crazy to think of a Tampa Bay, Florida team really they're like they're dominant in hockey. Well that's what that's the Tom Brady magic. So there they became dominant in hockey once Tom Brady moved to Tampa and then the uh, the Ray has got good at baseball. The Rays made the World Series. It's just everywhere Tom Brady,

this guy is it just wins, just excellent. I mean San Francisco when he was there, that's when the Niners had their their run. Also, I think the porn star capital of the country, Tampa is it everywhere time goes they win. I know that's Jimmy G with the porn stars. Okay, Jimmy G. We don't talk enough about the fact that, like Jimmy G got a lot of ship for that picture. But he was taking her out to dinner like he was. He was treating her like a gentleman would on a date.

He wasn't like sliding in the DMS be like yo, can I come over? Egg plant emoji, water emoji. He was like, would you like to go out for a nice meal? Yeah, let's go a nice meal at the most paparazzi spot in downtown Beverly Hills. Like those are just nothing but great decisions for keeping anything V I think it's very thoughtful for him to do that, Like we we should be applauding him, like who says chivalry is dead? He's going to take you out to Nobu

first before you go back. That, I mean, that's the kind of guy Jimmie g Is. I guess you know he's Those Italians are just smooth. I feel like he could have taken her to Subway and still banged her, though, I don't feel like he needed to take her to Nobu. But I don't know, I don't know. It's a classic guy. I think he's a classic guyball Yeah, there you go. Although their foot longs aren't a foot long are? They

had that class action lawsuit. Turns out they were all eleven inches not twelve, and so they were defrauding America, Oh my god, for years and years and years. So we straightened that right out. And their bread is made out of yoga. Man. I'm fine with that though, like yoka, it tastes good. Great tuna is not really tuna, it's dolphin, right. Yeah, Subways had some pretty adverse situations to overcome. Jared Fogel,

This is we don't RG three. It could be argued that RG three is a work worst spokes before your brand that Jared Fogel, what do you think I'm joking about that? I love Archie. Yeah. How do you think he's doing on TV? I think he's doing okay. Yeah, he's like finding his his groove a little bit. Yeah, it takes you a while. I mean, you know, how do you think Jared Fogel is doing in prison? And I know you know, Julian, you're actually like I I

watch your stuff on inside the NFL. It's good. You do good on TV RGE tomorrow, gotta go to the Emmy's got nominated? Oh really, we'll see you and how many other people they nominate everyone? I know? But hey, still a resume builder, it is. And you can say, like, for the rest of your life, I won an Emmy, which is part I don't know if I win it. I think there's a couple of people are gonna win nothing. But what are you nominated for? What am I nominated for? Jack?

Up and comer? Up and coming? Wow, I'm up and coming. The bad thing is like, you can't get nominated for that twice? Can't like that? Wells is up and coming? Who's in ther who's in our group? Jack? We got for the Sports Emmy of Outstanding Sports Personality. Emerging on air talent is the technical name Eyler Rooks, Greg Olsen, Eli Manning, and Jules. Wow, Taylor's gonna win. She's good. Yeah, but Taylor, I feel like she's already here, like Taylor's

been around for a while. That's a stretch of the definition of up and coming. I think that's actually just sneaky good. It's disrespectful Taylor Rooks that she's included like a newcomer award, like she's been good for a long time. Eli, is he's your your biggest competition Yet again, wouldn't that be something? Fucking Eli? Cover five down the sideline, He's gonna toss that away to right in front of you. Jesus, I was literally right in front of that catch. Here's

a good pass. It was a spectacular pass, but it's technically like the worst place to go with the ball in that coverage. He should never thrown that ball. Should never have thrown that ball. You should never throw that ball. I mean, a real student of the game would know that. But so then, yeah, you get the series against Tampa, and how are you feeling at this point? I felt I felt okay going into that series. Then I got nervous as it went on. But the guy that turned

that series around for us was Tom Wilson. Because Tom Wilson he gets a lot of shit. People say he's a dirty player, But if you ask everybody in the NHL do you want this guy in your team, they'd be like, absolutely, that's the perfect guy that I want my team. He will beat the fuck out of you. He will hit the shit out of you, and he's a great goalscorer, and he's a good guy in a teammate and he's a man rocket. So if you just wing men for him all the time, you get the runoff,

you're doing great. So everybody on the team loves Tom Wilson. Yeah, And I'm getting these stories from like chick Lits because the chick Lits guys love him. He's been on that pop. They're incredible. Yeah. And Biz has a way of talking to them that just makes them like open up about everything. Isn't hockey talk like some of the funnest stuff to listen to when you hear too, Like, And even the guys that are from the United States that play hockey

sound Canadian, yeah, because they're around Canadians all the time. Yeah. And like just there there. Terms of endearment are like completely different and nothing like you've ever heard, and like it's just it's it's fucking one of it's crazy. It's also addicting being around hockey guys. You start to use their language, got it, and they're vernacular all the time. Uh. There was one time we're talking to Ryan Whitney, I think, and we asked them about hockey nicknames, like what's the

flow chart like for a hockey nickname? Because you're either gonna be like and you're gonna put the word or the letter why at the end of it, or you're going to put like er at the end of it. So it's like, uh, grets I guess Gretzky is a bad one or no. So like they called Wayne like Wayne oh sometimes and you sometimes you just toss a y at the end of it. You're like Willy, we're gonna call them willy or over you know, like you have you just put like these three suffixes at the

ends of all these names and boom. That's how you get there and that's that's who you are for the rest of your life. And I'm always curious how because Thorty was thirty. Yeah, Tom Thornton was thirty. I'm curious how Paul Bissonett got the nickname biz Nasty, Like, how nasty of a guy do you have to be for other hockey players to be like, yo, this guy is disgusting. When they call the terrible the Nazi, it's like, well, you're bad even for a Nazi, you know. Yeah, that

guy sucked. Yeah, that's exactly that's a perfect way to describe biz Nasty. Yeah. I love the hockey ays, but we were down. We were down actually in Tampa for this game seven at the Eastern Conference Finals, and the game before, Tom Wilson had just beaten the ship out of somebody on the lightning I forget who it was, and we got the We got great seats for this, and we were close enough to like hear the sound of Tom Wilson's knuckles like destroying guy punching a guy's

helmet off as he's like smiling. I remember watching the dude's helmet go flying away and Tom Wilson's like laughing like a maniac as he's doing it, and I was, I was. I was very pumped to be to be in the crowd for that game. And at that point I was like, I was so so confident going into the Stanley Cup. I was so confident actually that we won Game two in the Stanley Cup to level the series at one to one. I was out at a bar here in Soho and the server brought over champagne bottles.

I was like, you want to pop these champagne bottles. I was like, hell, yeah, I do, And so we got behind the bar and started popping champagne bats was a Caps bar and I go into work the next monday. He didn't feel like that was bad luck at all, popping it early. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have, but I went into work. That's confidence right there. And Portnoy was like, what the hell are you and Nate doing popping these champagne bottles. You just won one game at

the Stanley Cup finals. I was like, that's that's where Dave's inner, like Boston sports fan came out. Yeah. He's telling me that. Yeah, he's like do your job. He's telling me to act like I've been there before. Like I've said, I've never seen a Washington Capitals Stanley. It was to win for the you know, for the R words and in sixty. It was a blur and they've been around since what seventy four, They've never won. You know,

the Capitals they won a Stanley Cup. I want to say in like forty didn't they win one in like nineteen seventy something? I don't know, checked Jack, Jack, I don't know. I mean, you're the capitalist guy. You gotta know that, Caitles. I don't know. Maybe I just maybe I misremember, maybe probably think about the Yeah, yeah, I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about the Bullets when they won back back in the day. But I've literally never seen the Capitals win a Stanley Cup finals game before.

I thought maybe it was like one of those rinky dink like early like sixties when there were like twelve teams and maybe they stole one then, but it was it was a situation where I'd never seen any sort of success in the finals before, and so I was like, you know what, I'm going to pop this bottle and I don't care. I was just so excited to get one. It's a loser mentality for sure, but I'm a loser, Like, hey,

who are you talking talking to here? I've never won anything before, well, at least the Jinks didn't come out. They would go on to win it, and they were against an expansion team. I mean, this is crazy. They're going against a Vegas this is our first year existing. Yeah.

So game one when they beat us, I was I went to a dark place for a little bit and I was like, you know what this this would be the absolute worst if we lost to a first year team with Marc Andre Fleury, the goalie, goalie from the Gennsburg Penguins that had just ruined my life for like twelve years NonStop. So the thought definitely went through my

mind that where I was like, uh, maybe not. But then Game two, that's when Holtei had his save, one of the greatest saves I've ever seen hockey, where he just reached his stick out across the goal line as he was diving, brushed it off the goal line. We end up winning that game. After Game two, I actually felt I felt really good about where we were. Confidence was soaring, soaring, soaring. Then we went back to DC one two in a row, we're up three to one.

It's in the bag? Is it in the bag? By then, well after game were there there was no there was like no sense of they could come back. You guys knew you had it done. After Game four, I really felt like it was it was gonna happen because Game four, I think that's when OV came out there and he was wearing like the Van Drago outfit before the game.

I think he was wearing like a bathrobe and like a towel around his head, and he was talking to the media with this big ass chain and he was just like we captioned it and sold a bunch of shirts that just said like if they die, they die on it with OV, and I was like, this is

we're I'm confident because Ov's confident at that point. And so we won Game four I want to say, like six to two or something like that, and uh, going now, going to Vegas, I did feel like when I got to the hotel, I was like, did I feel like, I I, this is gonna be the most painful of all of them if I just flew all the way out here to watch them. Motel to treat yourself. I think it was Caesar's Palace. I'm pretty sure was Caesar's. So it was. It was a decent room. It wasn't

didn't break the bank or anything. They got the builder trip, they got good, they got great villas. I've never been to it. They have like like you have your own pool, and or is that the win? I think it's the win. I think Caesar has some sick palin for the and and the win too. The wind has amazing. It's definitely the win. Amazing. But yeah, I uh what is this? Oh? There we go? Yeah, they die, they die. See that's

a pretty that's a pretty badass outfit, right. You see that guy coming at your pre game and you're like, we're done. He'd be someone that'd probably be insanely cool to like root for, just because you know what I mean. Yeah, besides besides the putin stuff I've had to do, besides that, besides that, of course terrible, but like he is lovable. He is. He's a lot of fun. Like the joy that he gets out of out of playing hockey and

scoring goals. Like he scores fifty goals a season, but every time he scores he acts like it's his first time. It's like a little bit Brett Favre in that way where he smiles, he jumps into the ball, has a great time out there. He actually lives really close to where my parents live now in McLane, and occasionally if I go back to visit them, I'll be like going for a walk around the neighborhood or taking the dog out or something. I'll see Ov just like biking a

BMX bike up and down the street. Wow, just like smiling, having a great It's actually funny. The first time I saw him, I was taking the dog for a walk and I'm going around this lake and there's this woman that's walking towards me, and she like smiles and waves at me, and I'm like, oh, hey, how's it going. I was like, that is a very beautiful woman that just said hi to me. And then about like two minutes later, see OV riding his bike right up the

street a BMX bike. He was rehabbing from an mcl and that's what he was doing, just like pedaling his bike back to GT Interceptor. Was not even a mountain bike, no, dude. It was like the bikes that we used to ride when we were like eight years old. Pegs have pegs

on it. I think he did. You know what I just got out of this story that you probably grew up very rich if you live in the same neighborhoo oh, so you're not far off in that the neighborhood is very rich, but it's it was like my grandfather's house that he built in like nineteen forty before there was anything in that neighborhood. So it's a small, tiny little house that just got surrounded by these giant mansions everywhere.

So no, I grew up. I grew up. My mom was a teacher and my dad couldn't work, so it was good. Yeah, having a teacher. She molded the future exactly, that's why you're so that's why you can speak. So I bet because she was a teacher. Because your mom's a teacher. She was an orchestra teacher. So yeah, so maybe maybe not the whole speaking thing. But I can't play. I think I can play. Oh to join in the violin? Still, can you? I think so? I mean it translates to guitar,

and so like that's where I learned. I learned music from. But no, I did not, by any means grow up grow up Bridge. But now the neighborhood is like super super wealthy, and so I just got this confidence boost. I was like, yeah, man, this beautiful woman just waved. I mean, she gave me this like really nice smile. And then uh, I see ov rids bike back towards me, and I'm like, wait, that's definitely like Ovie's wife that just said hi to me, And so I looked her

up on line. I was like, yep, that's who she is. And then she walked past me later and she was like, I see your dog out all the time. I just wanted to come by and say hi to it. And I was like okay, and so she's pet the dog walked away. I was like, no, she just liked the dog, not me. Back to back to the cellar with with me. So Ovie's wife was hitting on you. No, I'm saying she just liked the dog out of respect to ov. I would never. I would wow, I would never. I

didn't know you had that kind of games. Yeah, that's energy right there. If you give me a dog, that's when I'm at my best. Then, little dog, this was a big boy. This is a big boy. But my move with a puppy. I used to sell used dogs. That's why I called my job. But I was really just you know, I worked for like a dog adoption non dogs growing up, and so I used to to

get more donations for my nonprofit. I would pick the puppies up and then it's like a I would drive by, which is give them a little puppy wave we would like to hand. And then it was like a magnet. They just pull over and just go over. Put some money in the jar for the dogs. And then also where we you know clearly the other team was the Las Vegas Knights, first season ever, first pro team in Vegas.

So they had they had a little steam record fifty twenty four and seven, one hundred and nine points, first Pacific, third in the Western Conference, beat La beat my San Jose Sharks beat Winnipeg, broke the record for the most wins for expansion team in their first season, which was previously thirty four. First expansion team in pro sports to finish above five hundred that did not join from a different league. They had this whole expansion draft. Hout do

you know what do you do? You know how this thing goes? The expansion draft. I remember they changed some of the rules to make it more competitive. They wanted this team to be good right for the get go. Oh, so you think that this was designed was rigged? It was rigged NHL rigged, well, they were. They wanted to have the they want to have a team in Las Vegas be successful. They didn't want that to be a flop from the get go, So the way that the draft was set up, they got much better players than

you would normally get from that. The NFL should take a book out of that and put a new team in norh DC and then maybe a real team in Washington, d C. That would be nice new team. I actually think that if you created an expansion team in Washington, d C. It would have more fans instantly than the Seawards have. Right now, we're down that bad. I'm dead serious. Like the entire city is like, we don't we don't give a shit about the Seawards. We're like, this is

too much for me to care about. Until Dan signed ourselves a team. Wasn't it one of the biggest, like most profitable franchises though until just recently they had the biggest stadium in the National Football League for like the longest time ninety thousand. Yeah wow, and it's a shithole and it sucks. Well, didn't someone almost die there? A lot of people? It was RG three and then no, that was Philly, Or was that some of the stadium hurts.

Some of the stadium collapsed almost onto jail and hurts this year, damn, which, yeah, that would have been that would have been bad. There was like a sewage leak earlier this season where the sewage was pouring onto people. There was another pipe that burst or a sprinkler that went off and flooded a part of the stadium. It's just bad. It's soulless. That's what I don't like about it. You can build a decent sized stadium. You can build a ninety thousand seat stadium. If it has like a

little bit of personality to it, that's great. But this place, it's just a cement bowl designed to pack as many people in as possible, and it's got these columns and some of the seats that you sit behind and you can't even see the fucking field. It's like from twenty yard line to twenty yard line you're just behind a pole and you can't see anything whatsoever. So yeah, I hate that place. That reminds me, reminds me of Candlestick back in the day when they used to share the

stadium with the Giants. They'd roll out the bleachers, and I would sit you brought like a like a curt and of milk, and you can get like a ticket for like eleven bucks or something or ten bucks, and they'd sit you in an area where you literally couldn't see the game because were they the bleachers would come out to make form up the stadium for the football team. It would be over in this corner and like, yeah, eighties design was not there, but at least it had

like a little a little soul to it, right. The stick was awesome. He had personality. The stick was also beautiful, beautiful stadium. Well it's not there anymore, yeah, but uh it was. It was an amazing place. The things we remember about this game the pregame, theatrics at Golden Knights games. Yep, they know how to throw a party in Vegas. Yeah, it's actually it's very cool if you've never been to a Golden Knights game. At the time, since it was a Stanley Cup finals, I was like, look at this

Mickey Mouse cartoon, Disneyland shit. Before that, I was like mad about it because I was like, this isn't hockey. Though I'm not like a hockey guy that would traditionally be like you know, ending up for the lore of the sport or like being humble. At the time, I was just I wanted the game to get started. Yeah, it was candy As. It was absolutely Candias. So before the game they brought out like all these archers and stuff. It was like Medieval Times, which is maybe one of

my favorite places. Medieval Times is awesome. I just didn't want to deal with that before the game. But there were it was like a fifteen minute like play that they put on like a like dinner in a in a combat theater before the game even started. And also we did have a bet going into this game. There was a bet me against John Taffer from Bar Rescue. Oh wow, because he was he's a big Vegas guy.

He's a huge Golden Knights fan, and so tradition of sporting there, Yes would be a big Golden Knights guy. They just started the tradition. The city, like Las Vegas actually got really behind the Nights when they first came out, like they were the people that live in Vegas were pumped to have a sports team there because like usually their entire like all their economy is built around like other people from ou the town, this was like their thing that they have together. So it was the fan

base was actually pretty cool there. And Taffer was like, if the Capitals beat the Knights in the Stanley Cup, I'll have you on bar rescue and I'll name a drink after you. Whoa, And so I forget what I had to do for him if we had lost, but we ended up winning, and then I think we're still trying to figure out when we can pay off that bet. What kind of drink are you thinking? Like a bud late Seltzer or a mad Dog a mad Dog cocktail? Do you like mad Dog twenty twenty? Since a pf

T Lord Stanley's Cup, that's your drink. Yeah, it's a pf T T e a Yeah, and they serve it in like a Stanley Cup replica. If he does a bar rescue in DC, I'm gonna make him do that. That's a good idea p f T. Yeah, like a MIC's Hard tea or where do they have those? Yeah? Yeah, I'm sure they have, like a like John Daly a mix of of vodka, yeah, with a mad Dog floater John Daily they called that. Yeah, So there's the Actually

I might make them do like a margarita. This is what I've been making a lot recently, where you crush up cool Ranch to Rito's and then you put that on the rim rim Yeah. The trailer. That sounds good. It's pretty good. Yeah, because you get that little yeah, that little fire from the chips. Yeah. Oh, flaming hot cool Ranch sturritos. That would be really good. Yeah. Guy plays instruments. He has an award winning a podcast. Guy, have we won awards? I don't know if we've won

any awards? Have you not? Well? I think you are in my eyes you have. I know. We get nominated every year for what is the iHeart Award. Yeah, but they give that award to like whoever says that they'll show up to the awards ceremony, and so every year we lose to somebody new. It's like a rotating cast. And so this year it was us against like Colin Coward,

Bill Simmons, and then the other. The third nominee was like a once every four years, a look behind the female athletes in the Olympic Games and we're like, well, we're not winning again this year. I think I know who this one. Things we also remember this was a backdoor sweep. What is it they call that a gentleman sweep? That a gentleman sweep, back door sweep. I liked that. I've never heard backdoorswee heard that gentleman sweep is if you win, if you win four games and you lose one, Yeah,

it's a gentleman's gentleman sweet door stoop. I've never heard though either. I like that. This is also the Stanley Cup with the celebrations of ov those were always priceless to watch on. He was always promoting drinking, which I like out of an athlete. You don't hear a lot of athletes be like, go get a beer now, Like I like that energy out of a pro. I mean he was drunk for a Russian like was It was noteworthy how drunk he was. And the entire team I

think they were on a bender that lasted like three weeks. There. They would just show up to a different place in DC hammered and shit. I remember one time they went to like one of the fanciest restaurants in Washington, like Suit and tie place that you have to have reservations for like a month two months in advance, and it

was like a quiet evening. They showed naked and then like yeah, then it's like Ovi and Tjoshi walking through the door shirtless and they're just like give me all the liquor, and the entire place just like melts down into a rave just because Ovi came in. It's like, well, it's time to get drunk right now. Right after they won the Cup? Though, can I tell the story about like how I experienced the last two minutes of this game? Are we gonna do it? What do you want to

do it? Like chronologically? Here we'll go through chronologically, we'll go that's a tease. That's a tease, that's a professional. I don't want to jump ahead on the on the rundown of the show, so I'll wait. Things we may forgotten Flurry's incredible postseason up to that point. Four shutouts, a percentage save of ninety four to seven crazy, also a third straight SDF appearance, although he was benched in

each of the last two years. That has to be heartbreaking, or like you gotta be so nerve nervous when you're a Capitals fan and you see these incredible stats by Flurry just came over from the Pittsburgh Penguins, I was I was. I was a little bit nervous before the series started, but again, like the way that we were playing after after the first game, I felt like Team of Fate, We're yeah, Team of Destiny were a team of destiny. Uh, let's go to the gaming corner real quick,

presented by win bet. So we're doing it a little differently this episode with the gaming Corner presented by win bet. We had to do this before PFT got here because he's going to be joining in on our whole episode. So we have this is like full mission sneak sneak attack mission on this. What are you thinking for the prop bet? What do we do? How do we get him? Huh? What's a fun phrase that we can say? They do? Call the trophy Lord's Stanley Cup. That's good. That's an

annoying thing to say too. I know Lord Stanley Cupp did I said, Lord Lord? It's Lord stan Lee's, it's his possession. So he's been Does that mean he's been knighted? Is that like? Is it like Tim Horden's That's all they talk about up there, their nightings. I don't know what I'm talking about, but yeah, I think Lord Stanley's Cup is plenty annoying. Let's many times over under four? Can we hit four? Can we hit four? All right, let's try to remember we never remember. Yeah, it depends

on how the flow of the show is going. That seems high, but we'll see what we could do. Let's let's try, all right, tell us break down how the last couple of minutes went. First period, no goals zero. I went outside. I remember I found I'm not a cigarette smoker, but when I'm in Vegas, I definitely smoke SIGs. And they have this. They have the nicest cigarette porch in America at this stadium. So I went outside. It was like couches and shits set up. They have a

cigarette station. They have like an outdoor lounge just for Ja Vegas. Yeah, I had a great time. So I blew off some steam there, came back in, but I bought two hundred and fifty dollars worth of fifty to fifty Raffle tickets. Then Big Cat hit me up. He was like, get me two hundred and fifty dollars worth two and so I got those. I was just like trying to occupy my mind. I knew once the scoring happened, it was going to get crazy, and I just needed to, like,

I needed to center myself. Yeah, so as all the great yogis teach, go out, burn a few lung darts and then gamble, and so that's what I did and came back inside. The scoring gets started. I felt okay from the start with the only problem was I think we hit the pipe twice. I think we there were two shots that went off the post right. I think it was left. I think it was upper left hand corner. OVI hit a shot that might have hit two posts at the same It was a double doink. You know.

You know what that reminds me of what when Gordon Bombay hit the post against the Blackhawks. Yeah, I'm a triple deck. If it was a quarter inch to the right, would have gone in, would have gone in. Yeah, maybe he would not have been as hungry to go back and beat the Black Knights, that's true. Or the what are the the Golden Knights? No, the Blackhawks? Black? Were they the Hawks? And D two or D one? I don't know, Mighty Ducks. I forget what what team they played?

The Hawks? Yeah, I know it's Iceland and D two. That was D two C two Gunner My bed for interrupting not so good. I remember seeing Ov hit the post, and I always feel like, if you hit the post twice and it doesn't go and you don't get a goal out of either one of them, that's a game. But you're always gonna lose because you're gonna go back and think like, oh, that shot, Like you said, that

shot should have gone in. But once the scoring got started, I felt confident until the end of the second period when we fell behind. I think it was three to two at the end of the second period, so I need to change up the juju a little bit, so I went outside, had another couple of cigarettes, then went downstairs the morals that cigarettes are good, yeah, and gambling and gambling yeah. Somewhere in the in between that, I

lost the fifty to fifty ravel spoiler alert again. So I went to the bottom row or bottom bowl, and then I found this are that had a lot of caps fans. I was like, Okay, I'm gonna go sit with these people, and right when I got down there, that's when dsp scored his goal. Where it's actually a lot like the catch that you had against the Falcons, where you just like lay out your you know, off your feet and you just concentrated the last second you're able to haul it in. That's what DSP did on

that goal. Uh, and that was the tying goal. I believe on that one. Oh I did. I did taunt the Golden Night mascot in the second period. I forget what I said to him. I was just in a weird zone. But the Golden Night mascot, I was basically like flipping him off it like a mascoti night. I think this one was like like a Medieval Times guy like I think he was wearing the armor and stuff if I remember correctly, and so I was just a fun maskot. It is like I in retrospect, I really

liked the franchise was it was a business trip. I was there to destroy them. So it was still like the Phoenix Suns where they just have a gorilla and you're like, why a gorilla? Oh, there will be no rilla slander on this spot. Really Yeah, well gorilla, I know he's awesome though he just dunks. It's a gorilla that dunks. He's the best mascot maybe in sports. He goes off the trampolines, he has flips and shiites. I just don't understand how you go from Sons to Gorilla.

I guess that's my thing. But it is a good mascot, Yeah it is. And the Knights have good mascots too, and I do enjoy like the theatrics around it. I'm glad that the entire sport isn't like that, but I feel like Vegas should be, Like it's very authentic to like what Vegas is. So yeah, DeVante Smith Pelly, he scored on Yeah, it was yeah, Brooks or pick a system on that one. At that point, I was, I was so pumped, Like it was such a beautiful goal.

What because you see that, you see a player that you root for, like laying out like that for a goal. And that's when as a fan you're like, these guys care more than I care about this, and that's a good feeling to have. Leave got to leave it all

on the ice. Yeah, And that's what they did, and they did and then we got another goal Laura Zella and and at the end of the game, I remember the last two minutes of the third period they pulled the goalie out and there were like three or four plays in a row where we immediately just iced it. We just got it, and we just sent it down to the other end, and like maybe a total four seconds ticked off the clock. So I started doing the math. How many more times do we have to do this

to win the game? Is this what the rest of the game is going to be like? And then this was the worst ever. We win a face off and we're like battling for the puck and the clock just turns off. The game clock turns off entirely. So I'm sitting here, I have no idea how much times left. Something's rigged, something's going on. My buttthole is puckered up to like the size of a lemon seed. I'm freaking out.

I'm sweating. I have no idea what's going on. No one in the stadium, like, for all we know, the clock's not ticking at all at this point, and we missed a couple of open nets by a matter of feet, and then eventually the clock comes back on with like thirty seconds left. That's an eternity, by the way. So you're a pucker up kind of guy. Huh, when you got pressure, you puck her up. Yeah, my body becomes air tight, So you gotta have that. Tom Brady Jean.

He doesn't puck her up, he gets loose. I guess he gets loose. He just doesn't puck her up, that's for sure. Tom Brady's got a loose butthole. He starts here first, He's got it's called the clutch gen guys, or the loose butthole, whichever you prefer. The clutching sounds better. Well again, I'm not I'm not a winner, like I'd never won anything before. It's hard for me to believe that.

And my butthole tightens up doing movies like I'll see, like you ever see Eastern promises the steam room scene where he's like fighting dudes off button naked, My butthole was it was a lemon seed like you're saying, it was terrible. Only time I puck her up. My buttholes when I'm doing g forces in a plane, because that's how you, that's how you. You don't pass out. You gotta puck her up. How many how many gees have you pulled in a plane? None, but that's what I've

heard they did. No, I'm supposed to go to the Blue Angels here soon, oh eighteens. Yeah, so I've been you know, kind of prepping for that. I gotta watch Top Gun too tonight. And are you going tonight? I'm going tonight. Where's it playing tonight? There's like this uh little private okay screening? Here we go, you know somebody, Yeah, Miles, Miles Tell Miles Teller's throwing this thing. I don't I've never met him, but I did see him once. We did.

They both like we went to We went to a movie once in La and it was Miles Teller was in line. And in La, if you go to the movie theater and the movie already started, they won't let you in. So we had our tickets. We went to go get some food and they wouldn't let Miles Teller or me into the movie because we were late. What movie was it? Don't even remember? This was a Miles Teller movie. I don't think so. So I, mister Teller, you can't come and see Whip Last. I'm fucking this

was like ten years ago. He was just like getting into the stage. I was like a no, buddy, I'm pissed off at you. Why cause you're going to see Top Gun tonight. It doesn't. First of all, the sneak previews for Top Gun don't even really start until tomorrow. You're going to the sneak preview of the sneak preview. I've been looking for this movie for ten years. We should say we're backlogging episodes. We tape this in advance. Top Gun. By the time this is out might be

on a Blu ray laser disc whatever the hell. I will have already seen the movie too by the time that you're hearing this. So, like, I've gotten really into flight simulators recently. It's one of the coolst things that I do. Uh, and I like her up when you're turning. Yeah that it gives you a more realistic experience. Yeah, you got it. So you're you're getting in. I've been trying to find out a way to get into these

sneak previous for TIS. Dude. I guess Tom Cruise is like super crazy with this, Like he doesn't want to join Scientology Dude, you get right in. I would you skip the line? I would join. It's like when tell some Dark Secrets you get to see Top Gun. Dude, when you're in college and you sign up for like a credit card with nineteen percent APR, so you get a shirt that says Philly's blunt on it or whatever. That's what I would do for Top Gun sneak preview tickets.

I would say, like whatever, scientology, Yeah, inject denias in directly into my veins. I don't give a shit, but good for you. I'm happy for you. I'll let you know how it goes good. Yeah, Please don't if you spoil it, don't spoil. I don't spoil. I'm not a spoiler. What's the legacy of this game? Pft. The legacy of this game is fucking finally, fucking fight fucking finally. So we name these games games with names. Should we just call this the fucking finally game fucking finally. That seems

like the right name for it. So if the Knicks, everyone will call it the fucking fucking finally game. Yeah, because I'm That's what It gave me joy to watch the video of you, because I could just see that you're a real fan, and as a Knicks fan, that's the one that just hurts I want. I grew up. My first sports memory is the Knicks lose into the Rockets. You know, game seven Starks, who my favorite player goes two for eighteen, brutal, But you know, uh, someday, give

me hope something. Look, we all can't be winners. They came close, and i'd rather I don't think the Knicks are close. Yeah, they had one. They had one good playoff run, kind not even really good playoff run. They won a game in the playoffs. I'm still mad at the Knicks. I love R. J. Barrett. I have won. What's the owner's name, Dolan? Dolan. So I was supposed to go to a Boston Knicks game and I was supposed to sit court side, and he wouldn't let me

do it. Really, you're Boston celebrity, Boston celebri in the front row. It's crazy to me, juju, how like super super wealthy people. They shouldn't have They should have so many better things to do than to micro manage. Like what celebrity is allowed to sit near their court? What's next? Ben Affleck court side? We got to protect the garden home floor. Well, it's like maybe I don't know, they spend more time finding good basketball players. That's we do

have to work on that. That would be, that would be the Knicks have to get better. I know we'll get better. I believe. Yeah, I remember at the end of this game. After it was over, with about like thirty seconds left, that's when I first started to believe Okay,

it's it's like I first started unpucking. At that point, I got looser, and then I had decision to make, and my decision boiled down to thus, I was with some people that were family members of John Carlson, who is a defender, defenseman, whatever you want to call it, on the capitals, and they were like, this is where they're going to open up the gate to get on the ice if you want to come on the ice right after the game's over. And I was like, okay,

what's the decision? That sounds well? The decision was to my left a section and a half Mark Davis was sitting over there right behind the goal and he was wearing his all white jumpsuit just looking like a like pegasus like landed behind behind the ice, and I was like, I got to get a picture with Mark Davis. So I jumped over like two superate like big dividers just to get over and took a picture with him in

the stands. The selfie of Mark Davis at the last second, and then I came back and tried to get down the ice and they're like, no, you can't get down here. I said, well, I may have chose poorly on that one, but I don't know. Also, like I got a picture of Mark Davis. I guess you had to be there, Davis. Yeah, I chose Park Davis. You got to drink from the cup. It all worked out. I drank from the cup and then like it was kind of cool seeing Ovi like

skate around the ice holding up the Stanley Cup. There was that one lady that was on the glass behind OV and she just like took her top off, like pulled her top down on her dress and pushed her hooters up against the glass as he was skating by on national television. It's like, that's the most Vegas thing that could ever happen. Here she skate from the Spearmint Rhino for one last show. Yeah, so yeah, it was a it was a good night. It was a very very momentous night in my life, and it just it

felt good to win one. Pretty awesome. You got to experience it. OV going out getting his first championship, his first Stanley Cup. This this really is does wonders for his legacy. To you. You need to get that one. Yeah, he would have been forever known as like, you know, the Dan Marino, which is tough. Oh, I did forget about the bet. I can't believe I forgot about this bet. Yeah. I don't want to push it because I don't know. If you don't want to talk about it, No, I

can talk. I forgot it, Like I I completely spaced on it. It wasn't so much a bet. As I said at some point at the start of the Capitol's Penguins series, I said, if the I would eat shit, I would eat shit for the Capitals to beat the Penguins,

like I would eat horseshit. And then obviously, like you say something like that, I'm part of my take, and Hank and Big Ket just jump all over you, and they're like, well, let's define this, let's talk about this, let's let's nail you down on what you just said there, because like people say stuff like that all the time, but if you say it on the air, then it becomes a real thing. And so we worked out an arrangement where like, if the Capitals won that series, I

would have to eat horse shit. And I went up to Central Park with Hank after that series is over because everyone was saying, oh, if you don't eat shit, then the Capitals are going to lose in the Eastern Conference finals because you jinxed them. And I actually kind of believe that a little bit like you. So I chose horse shit. Went up to Central Park, that's dedication right there, went up to one of the carriages, got in the back, grabbed like this. What are people saying

when you're doing this. There's one of the people that is like in charge of driving the horse and carriage thing just saw me go in there, and they're just staring at me, like what is this person doing? Did you swallow it? I put in my mouth, I chewed and I tried to swell, but I immediately threw up. So I gave it an honest affort. I saw you had lemon juice with you, right, I was maybe ginger ale or somethingbe sprite. I forget, but I gave it an honest effort to put it in. I chewed it.

It tastes like the grossest hay that you've ever had, and then I immediately just puked everywhere. And there's like families around me watched me do this. His family's visiting from Tokyo like, look at it. It was pretty embarrassing that Hank was there to verify that I actually did do it. Jack, did we forget anything? We're pretty clean. As far as Ovechkin's dad goes, looks like he played

high level soccer. His mom, of course a hooper. And then as far as the subway tune of the old goes, there have been a couple of lawsuits, one in Ireland recently that claimed they couldn't find amplifiable amounts of tuna in I think it was six feet of subway subs tuna subs, and then it was also dismissed. Here in the US, the suits said they found detectable sequences of chicken DNA within it. Judged threw it out. So Subway skated on that one. Big big and pork not kosher.

I know the Wizards did win in nineteen seventy eight, with West Unseld getting the SuperSonics four to three. I'm a moron. I knew that. I just I switched up the Wizards and the capitalism my head for a brief second. And then the Mighty Ducks played the Hawks just and they were the bullets when they won, right, They weren't the Wizards. They were Bullets. Yeah, you know what, the new expansion team for the NFL and DC should just

call themselves the Washington Bullets. That'd be awesome. They were cool as Hello Jerseys, and I think it was like Calbert Cheney bullets here, like that's a clean look in Jersey. And then a little quick rundown on the origin of

the Phoenix Gorilla. Apparently it started in nineteen seventy nine when Henry Rojas, a West Phoenix native who's working as a part time greeter doing singing telegrams, got called to do one at the stadium, and when fans caught him walking by the court, he kind of busted into a show and the rest is history. Ten years later he was the mascot and he's been a beloved guy in Phoenix ever since. I'll shut up, I'm wrong, it's cool.

I can till you make it. I like that. I think at the Dancing Homer Simpsons episode a fucking classic, PFT named the game the fucking Finally Game. We like to score our games afterwards after we watch and then do it, and we get the medium of the totals and we come up with the score the stakes of this game? What do you think of the stakes on this game? They're up three to one. It's the Stanley Cup, but they're up three one, So yeah, we're talking about

the last week. You can't go too high. If we lose this game, we lose the Cup, though, I'm convinced of that. Yeah, I think if we lose, if we if it's three to two, yeah, I think they're taking three in a row off of a vein. Maybe. Yeah. I mean, I've seen some bad shit happen before. I've seen this. Lose three to one. Where are you going? What are you going? Rangers came back from three to one?

Actually they just did against ten. If it's if I'm being honest, I'll say stakes seven, okay, because it's not. It's not an elimination game for us, So I'll admit that we go start power Yeah, ov Oshi two pretty big names, Flurry, pretty big name. I'm still going to go with, like, say, like a seven, because it's it's hockey, you know, like a lot of Americans aren't. You're not drawing into the role players that much. We all know a Vechkin. Yeah, but yeah, I don't know. I don't

know too many names in this for sure. Yeah, I'm going seven. The game play ten. It was a great game. If you go back and you watch it, start to think it was an awesome It was exhilarating, Like even in the first period where they weren't any goals, that crazy play. The goal I I can't compare across sports nine nine four five, all right, nine point four nine. We'll give them nine four nine. The name, the fact

I love the name me too. I love the name because it's so much about being a fan, you know, Yeah, it's more about yeah, like it's about the weight that went into it. FFG, fucking finally got I think about the Chicago Cubs fans and how long they had to wait. You know, it's there's something cool as hell about that Red Sox fans. Yeah, the Bambino. Yeah, I mean I would say it's eight. I'll take an eight. All right. What's our grand total, Jackie? Seven point eight seven two

five seven nine? Is that? Is that below average for what you guys normally do here? I mean, you guys talked me into into downgrading the gameplay from a ten to a nine point four to nine. Now, we didn't talking. We haven't given a round ten. I don't think that anything. And we've done you know, Pats Giants eighteen, like we've done a bunch of big games. This is a huge game. Yes, a pretty good score's it's a decent score. It's a you know, if it was curved right, that could be

a you know, B minus C plus. It depends who you asked to, Yeah, it depends on who you are. If you're not a hockey fan, it might not mean the same to you. Yeah, but it's also not like there's nothing crazy historic there is. It's their first championship, but this specific game, I don't know, it's kind of disrespectful to the memory of Anthony Bourne. And if you give it that low a score, like say, how can the stakes only be a seven? If he off himself

right afterwards because he was so depressed? Well, you know I didn't. It was a nice fan, is it confirmed? Yeah? Huge? Well you know he had a Ryan Reeves tattoo and he was like, no, that' this camp you have? All right, that's that's a little dark. I'm sorry. Thanks for coming in into our grid iron. Yeah, it's nice in here. This is a really nice studio, as I love it. Thank you. You know it. You know, I was a

little banged up as my birthday this last weekend. Thanks for the invite to the party and to the Top Gun premiere. You're a great friend. But I just want to let you know you're the inspiration of you know, podcasting. You know, when you're not feeling the best. Yeah, yeah, you got a podcast Hurt. You got to play hurt, something to play hurt. Absolutely, you know that's that's absolutely true. As you get older, you'll learn to do that with

less and less frequency. We're backlogging a bunch of episodes, so now people are just gonna think Julian has hungover every episode drinking problem. Yea cool and thanks again PFT for joining us. This is this was fun, This was great. Thank you guys for having me. Well back to the Gaming Corner presented by win Bet. PFT just left. I completely forgot. I think we both said it once. I might have done it twice or was it just once? I counted one a piece so we clocked in it too. Total.

Oh I stink. I'm sorry, I spaced. I was a little intimidated. Yeah, you know, he's a pro. He's one of the best at what he does. He's one of the best of what he does in this world. So I was just thinking about trying to get the best possible content out of them, and clearly forgot everything about the bet. And we you know, this is not our area of expertise, hockey, so we kind of let him roll with it a little bit. We wanted him to take over. You know, we're hockey by association, guys. I

love hockey. I respect hockey. Playoff. Hockey is to me as good as the guts in sports. Yeah, like when it's in the clocks winding down. Holy shit, man. Yeah. I didn't get introduced to hockey until I moved to Boston. Really, the only hockey memory I have as a kid was getting lost going to the cow Policy to see the ninety four Sharks. Well they were an expansion team, cool colors. Yeah, unbelievable, but you know we got there in the third quarter

or the third period, the third quarter. Such a football guy, so you know we're not we're not hockey guys. Yeah, but uh, I get there in the fourth inning, and I no, I think you know, I was a Rangers guy growing up. I was spoiled with, you know, a team that had Marko Messier, Mike Richter, Brian Leech, Alexey cove Love I believe was a rookie on that team. I mean they were stacked Adam Graves. So I was

so spoiled with this awesome team. And then the NHL fucked up and it became impossible to find on cable. I don't know if they were on the Oprah network or whatever the hell they were on owned the hell own, Yeah whatever, I couldn't find a game. So I kind of fell out of it for a while. And now I'm just kind of getting back in. The Rangers are good again. It's a great time to get back in. Yeah, you know, I just never I don't know the game. And then I mean I went out to Boston, learned it,

enjoy it. Just like you said, playoff hockey's awesome, and you had a hot team when you were there. We had a hot team, you know, and experiencing hockey in person is really the key. Yeah, you got to go to a game to really feel it. Because I can't even see the puck on TV. It's tough. Remember them, they had a little follow a thing or follow the puck for a little while. I remember that for a second, but that didn't pan out. But we definitely did not

hit the over. We did not, but it was a great app and you know, thanks again to win Bett, thank you to our sponsors, to our listeners. Follow us at games with names I'm Sammurel and I'm Julian Edelman and we'll see you guys next time down that old dusty roa