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

Today, we relive “Game 5” of the 2018 Stanley Cup Final with Washington Capitals super fan PFT Commenter in studio. We look back at the world of June 2018 (15:23). We dive into “Game 5” through the eyes of PFT and relive his wild celebration stories (23:03). The guys wrap it up and score the game alongside PFT (59:21).

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
June seven, twenty eighteen, t Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Lord Stanley's Cup is in the building. With seven thirty
seven left to go. In the third period, the first
year Vegas Golden Knights are tied with the Washington Capitals.
Brett Conley rips the shot from the slot. Marc Andre
Flurry makes the save, but the puck trickles in. Though

(00:27):
this is game five of the twenty eighteen Stanley Cup Finals,
you're here joining games with names presented by win Bet.
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.

(00:52):
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

(01:14):
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

(01:35):
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

(01:57):
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

(02:19):
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

(02:41):
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

(03:02):
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

(03:22):
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

(03:43):
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

(04:03):
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

(04:25):
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,

(04:50):
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

(05:11):
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

(05:32):
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,

(05:57):
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

(06:17):
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

(06:40):
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

(07:00):
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

(07:22):
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.

(07:44):
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

(08:06):
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

(08:27):
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

(08:47):
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,

(09:08):
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.

(09:29):
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.

(09:51):
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

(10:11):
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

(10:33):
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

(10:53):
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

(11:14):
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

(11:34):
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

(11:55):
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

(12:16):
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

(12:38):
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,

(13:00):
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

(13:21):
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

(13:41):
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.

(14:03):
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

(14:24):
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

(14:49):
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,

(15:11):
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

(15:32):
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

(15:53):
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

(16:16):
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?

(16:36):
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

(16:59):
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?

(17:19):
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

(17:40):
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

(18:04):
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

(18:26):
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

(18:46):
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

(19:07):
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

(19:28):
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.

(19:52):
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

(20:14):
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,

(20:34):
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

(20:55):
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.

(21:16):
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.

(21:40):
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

(22:01):
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.

(22:23):
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.

(22:44):
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

(23:05):
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,

(23:25):
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

(23:46):
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

(24:06):
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

(24:26):
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

(24:47):
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.

(25:08):
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

(25:29):
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.

(25:51):
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

(26:12):
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.

(26:35):
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,

(26:58):
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,

(27:19):
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,

(27:40):
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?

(28:03):
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

(28:25):
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

(28:46):
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,

(29:07):
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

(29:28):
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.

(29:49):
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

(30:10):
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

(30:31):
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

(30:52):
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

(31:13):
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

(31:35):
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,

(31:58):
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.

(32:19):
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

(32:40):
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

(33:00):
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

(33:22):
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

(33:43):
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.

(34:04):
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

(34:26):
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

(34:48):
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,

(35:11):
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

(35:35):
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

(35:55):
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

(36:17):
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,

(36:40):
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

(37:00):
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

(37:22):
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

(37:43):
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

(38:07):
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

(38:28):
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

(38:48):
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

(39:09):
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.

(39:29):
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

(39:52):
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

(40:12):
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

(40:35):
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

(40:56):
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

(41:17):
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

(41:37):
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,

(42:02):
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.

(42:25):
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

(42:47):
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

(43:08):
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,

(43:29):
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

(43:49):
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.

(44:11):
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.

(44:33):
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

(44:55):
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

(45:15):
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

(45:37):
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

(46:00):
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

(46:21):
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.

(46:42):
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

(47:03):
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

(47:25):
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

(47:45):
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

(48:06):
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

(48:28):
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

(48:49):
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,

(49:11):
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

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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

(49:52):
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?

(50:14):
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.

(50:37):
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

(51:00):
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

(51:22):
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.

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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

(52:04):
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.

(52:25):
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

(52:45):
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

(53:08):
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

(53:30):
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

(53:51):
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

(54:11):
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

(54:32):
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

(54:54):
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

(55:14):
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.

(55:35):
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

(55:55):
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,

(56:17):
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

(56:39):
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

(57:00):
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

(57:21):
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,

(57:41):
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.

(58:04):
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

(58:26):
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.

(58:48):
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

(59:11):
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

(59:32):
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

(59:52):
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

(01:00:14):
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?

(01:00:37):
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,

(01:01:00):
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

(01:01:22):
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,

(01:01:42):
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,

(01:02:05):
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

(01:02:26):
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

(01:02:47):
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

(01:03:07):
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

(01:03:28):
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

(01:03:49):
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

(01:04:10):
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.

(01:04:32):
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

(01:04:54):
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

(01:05:14):
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

(01:05:34):
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

(01:05:55):
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

(01:06:16):
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,

(01:06:36):
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,

(01:06:57):
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?

(01:07:18):
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

(01:07:39):
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

(01:07:59):
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

(01:08:20):
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

(01:08:41):
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.

(01:09:02):
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,

(01:09:27):
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

(01:09:49):
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

(01:10:09):
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

(01:10:30):
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

(01:10:50):
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

(01:11:11):
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

(01:11:34):
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,

(01:11:56):
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

(01:12:17):
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,

(01:12:38):
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,

(01:13:01):
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
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