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Ryan Whitney & Paul Bissonnette, Olympics, Indiana Bears, US Beats Canada + Fyre Fest Of The Week

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The Indiana Bears get one step closer to happening and we talk about making Hammond Indiana the site for all Olympics. Olympics winding down and CBB heating up with Mick Cronin having an all time crash out. Max invents the fattest move ever without actually eating and more national sports podcast (00:00:00-00:49:51). Ryan Whitney and Paul Bissonnette join us to talk hockey, the hopeful US/Canada Gold Medal game, we react live to the US women’s winning Gold plus some good old fashioned back and forth trolling (00:49:51-01:25:32). We finish with Fyre fest plus the plan is set for the big punishment stream (01:25:32-01:54:31).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Netflix. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take

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The crown is yours today is Friday, February 20th. And the Indiana bears look like they might be a little bit closer. Huh? Listen, I think that if you're going to do Indiana Bears, the Wolf Lake Bears sounds like an incredible name.

Well, there's also a bear lake right there, too. There's Wolf Bear Lake. Yeah. So I actually don't want to talk about this for super long because it is mind humblingly annoying, terrible, do you like local government?

Yeah, it's local government. It's billionaires not paying for home fucking stadium. It's the NFL wanting everything, one of their cake and eating it to. It's the fans getting screwed over.

It's just the world we live in. So yeah, the Indiana has voted to go forward with taking the bears, having the bears, holding the bears in Hammond while it doesn't actually mean anything because I still think they're going to be in Arlington Heights. It is the closest they've ever been to potentially finding a place. But again, it's not even anything.

Like Kevin Warren is an absolute failure in the fact that the last four years, his only job was to find a stadium and he has released countless open letters. You picked up chairs. Yeah. You picked up the furniture for the sweets.

Yeah, he did that. He basically did a Nathan for you episode on Hard Knocks where he's like, Hey, come here cameras, come watch me pretend to be a president who's picking out chairs for the new stadium that's never going to get built. I don't want them to move to Indiana partially because I think they should be in Arlington Heights. I think they should say it's sold your field one.

And two, it will really piss me off if we lost the horse track for no reason. Yeah. So I think that just every NFL team should threaten to move to Indiana. Yeah.

It could be the state that has like we could get the bangles there. If the bangles want to move there, we get the bears there. We get to ship the Titans. If that stadium doesn't go well, bring back the Rams, which is put in like southwest Indiana.

The yeah, I like this. Yeah, it's every team. It's basically the bubble. Yeah.

Listen, in 49 other states, it's football in Indiana. It's every football. It's serious business. It's all the football.

Yeah. I've been trying to get into stoicism, the idea that you control what you can control. And if you can't control something, you shouldn't give it the energy that in your time in your day, you know, spike your cortisol. Right.

There's just no, there's no reason to things that are out of your control, giving it energy and time will just wipe you out. If you can control something, if you can change something, if you can have a direct impact on something, give it your all. This is firmly in the camp of something I cannot control. So I will not be giving it much time or energy because the whole thing just pisses me off.

And it's like, Hey, guess what? I can't change anything. I can't do anything. It's stupid government officials arguing with each other and people in the bears playing Indiana versus Illinois and Illinois being like sleeping and being like, no way will they ever leave and guess what?

They might call the bears might call their bluff. They might be the Indiana bears. You're right. You can't, you can't really do anything about it.

But I would say that you can do more than 99.999% of the population. You could lay down on the highway, start, start blocking it. Don't let any traffic into Indiana. If they, if they moved to Indiana, but then say, Hey, Arlington Heights is going to come, we're going to get the racetrack back.

I, I would be at least it would soften the blow. You lose the racetrack for no reason at this point. They were supposed to be shovels in the ground years ago. Does the Mars cheese castle, does that have any land in and around it that could be used for stadium?

I, if we move to Wisconsin, that would be bad. Yeah, that'd be the funniest. I mean, I will got in the mix for a minute. Move to the cheese.

I was like, Hey, well, Indiana, where is an Indian is also not far at all. Oh, yeah, people don't understand. It is very, very quickly equidistant to Arlington. Correct.

I like what, him and Indiana has the horse you can see, you know, that I've been to probably too many times. Like we would go, we would be out drinking on a Friday or Saturday night and be like, let's get an Uber, go to Hammond. Yeah. Like that was the trip.

It wasn't, it wasn't a difficult trip to make. Yeah. So it is very close, but it's still the whole thing is annoying. It's more like, Hey, you guys are all incompetent.

Someone figured the fuck out. And at the end of the day, the fans are going to lose until there's a shovel in the ground. It's all up for negotiation. Correct.

And even sometimes when the shovel goes into the ground, it's like, Hey, stop, stop working with that shovel. We got a better piece of land. Yeah. And I wish they would just stay in Soldier Field.

I know they never will because they don't own the stadium. So they're not going to do that. But I, I firmly have come around to the idea that in 20 years from now, we are all going to regret the fact that we put every single stadium indoors. What's going to happen with Soldier Field after the bears move out?

I don't know. Oh, but nothing. Are they going to have trust that we can purchase? I think that the idea of getting like a final four.

Okay. Maybe a little bit. The idea of getting a Super Bowl is the dumbest thing in the world. Having one shoe getting a Super Bowl one time as if that is some type of big prize to have all of the NFL media in the world come to Chicago and February and bitch about how cold it is.

I don't need you to bitch about how cold is I know how cold it is. I don't want that. Well, there's no, if you look at the long term, like financial impacts of hosting Super Bowl, it's not worth it. It's stupid.

It's really not. You just, it's the same thing with the Olympics or the World Cup. You just bend over backwards for people. Right.

And then you're like, this is going to bring so much tourism into my city. And yeah, there'll be like more tourism for a week, week and a half, but long term, like if you look at what Qatar did for the World Cup, they've got like dozens of subway stops that nobody will ever use in the entire history of their country. Oh, yeah. They were showing pictures of the last time the winner of the Olympics were in Italy in Torino and it's just a ghost town.

Yeah. No, no, no city should have been over backwards to try to get Super Bowl if they're not already capable of handling it. Like if we could say like New Orleans, they're already capable of handling it. Just keep going to New Orleans.

Okay. Let's solve. I agree with your take. The Super Bowl should at this point just be Vegas in fourth New Orleans Vegas.

I'd be fine with that. Yeah. No one's Vegas back and forth. So let's I'm hoping the Bears do early tonight's again.

My take on all this is I don't give a fuck until there's a shovel in the ground because I don't believe anything Kevin Moore is going to write an open letter. It's going to be nothing. But you were saying that like the whole NFL in Northwest Indiana, what if we did the Olympics in Northwest Indiana every single four years? No, we're talking.

It's just the permanent spot for the Olympics because the open water kayaking and Gary harbors. Yeah. I said I don't like the Olympics when it's not in our time zone. And sorry.

I mean, that's just a fact. I don't like it. So and every time they do the Olympics, if you look at Rio and all these places, it just becomes a waste of money. Just build a permanent Olympics in Hammond, Indiana.

I like that the home facility. It's not a bad idea. Yeah. Or at least the concept of just having this is where you go for the Olympics.

Even listen, if that's like Athens. Yeah. Well, no offense Athens. I was not a particular big fan of your city.

There's some nice places, a lot of history there. And people drive a little too fast, including the Olympics. Nobody pays taxes. Everyone's all kind of sweaty and screaming at you.

You're talking about Italy. Greece. Greece. That's right.

Yeah, Greece. They should just talk about it. Georgia. The state?

Athens. Everyone driving to the town. Got it. No.

So in Athens, they should just have the Olympics. They should be like, that's what you do is the Olympics are in Athens every four years. Yeah. Yeah.

Uh, by the way, the time zone things have you guys seen. So we're going to talk about the hockey with Biz and Whit. We're going to talk about what happened on Wednesday. We're going to talk about hopefully what's going to happen on Sunday.

Do you guys see what time the game's going to be though? The gold medal game? Early. 710 AM.

Early. Thanks. Go ahead. You're out.

Problem. We'll get you with my fire fest. My building doesn't have internet right now. Oh, shit.

It's a piss. And you don't have cable. No, well, that was also my building. Like, we'll get to fire fest.

It's kind of funny, but it's kind of tragic. But 710. That's too early. 710.

Can we just, what if both teams, I feel like if there's two teams in the Olympics are two groups of athletes. It's the US hockey team and the Canadian hockey team that have all the leverage. Right. This is if it's going to be a destination, a crash course where these two teams play for the gold medal, that's going to be the number one viewed thing in the Olympics.

They have all the power. One, you guys just say, yeah, fuck that. We're not going on until 10 AM. Yeah.

Central time. Yeah. So that our fans can watch us back. Half of North America is going to be asleep.

Half of, yeah. Probably most of the people that are watching are going to be in like Minnesota, Wisconsin. They'll be hung over, not awake at 7 AM. I mean, I mean, Pacific time, you're fucked.

Yeah, half a can. Yeah. Everyone will be a coover. Like 710, like that sucks.

You can technically wake up. No, I will. I'll be up. I'm 510.

No, I'm not. The non-star. I will wake up if we make it. I will make up it.

Wake up at 710. You will? I will. Promise.

We're going to have to do a check-in on the group chat. I don't think you'll be up at 710. I'll be up at 710. I promise I'll be up at 710.

I will wake up. I will turn the game on. I'll probably fall back asleep. And then I'll wake up for the second period.

No, I will be up. I will be up at 710. If we make it to the gold medal. Also, 210 PM is a great time for tomorrow.

Oh, yeah. 210 afternoon. Everyone should just leave work early and go watch that game. Although, aren't we going to dominate, right?

Who do we play? I don't know. We were supposed to dominate yesterday. Well, no, yesterday was only like, the puck line was only minus 1 and 1 half.

So it wasn't. Yeah, it was minus 270. No, no, no, no. Yes.

Against Sweden? Yes. It was not. It was not that.

I had minus 200 in regulation. Yeah. Yeah. So we're at 70 with overtime.

We're winning. What would have made sense? I feel like that would have made sense. I think it was more.

I don't know. I don't know. That sounds about right. Yeah, it sounds about right.

If Phil Forsberg knew how to shoot a puck. All right. Who's lying is the same way? A lot differently yesterday.

Draft Kings. Who's lying is the same way. For some money line for USA, Slovakia tomorrow. Money line.

Minus 360. Minus 400. Minus 800. Oh, we're going to fucking smoke them.

OK. Canada of Finland is only minus 380. Finland is the third best team. I just want to say that if we lose to Canada in the finals, it's kind of Mickey Mouse can soar early in the day.

Like a lot of us probably won't even watch it. I'm going to when we talk to business, I'm going to give a good honest like I'm I'm going to be a disappointed if we don't win the gold medal and I will I will not I will not skate out of it by saying it wasn't real and all that. Do you think Canada sorry? Do you think Canada is going to make the argument that probably got hurt?

It's part of the game. Everyone's got something this time of year. Yeah. Right.

Use an injury says I'm scared. I thought I was talking tough. I'm just I'm just asking the question. No.

If they do. Yeah. When I saw they got hurt. Listen, there were a lot of Canadian troops at Juno Beach that were a little banged up too.

They kept going in stretch. Yeah. Who's that? Who's the pop Wiley?

Yeah. Brown's office like in stretch in stretch their hamies before going on D day. Okay. What what else we got going on?

I my my I watched a little of the Olympics my my pick for short track was disastrous Andrew he oh did anyone win anything? Eileen goo she won another silver medal. Okay. That's her name right?

Lot of controversy behind this lady. Why? So she's kind of Chinese and she's kind of. Oh, I saw this.

So she was American what memes? What was that laugh? She's kind of Chinese. Well, literally.

She's even she no she's from America. She's from America. She's American. She's American.

She competed for the US national team in skiing until like 2019. Okay. And then she switched and she said I'm now competing for the Chinese team. And I'm not doing this all the time.

Well, yeah, if it's baseball and we don't have any Italians that can feel the team and I'm not. So yeah, we'll take my piazza. So the Chinese I think they pay a lot more. They do pay a lot more.

Yeah. But she got the visa. That's that's just the rules. Yeah, I'm fine with that.

I don't know. If you're a dual citizen you can't like I don't know about getting dual citizenship. But you're a true dual citizen. Are parents from China?

She definitely yeah she's got like Chinese ancestry. That part's not made up. It's weird. Is it would she have made the US team?

Oh yeah, she's the best one. All right. Okay. I think she's decorated freestyle skier female of all time.

I'm totally fine with it when you do it to be like, hey, there's no way I make the team this way. But I want to be a meal in this. The Jake Malice. Oh, no, she was going to be she was going to be like a star for the US.

And listen, I want to be perfectly clear. I don't really care. It's skiing in the Olympics. But I like your upset.

I do like how this is a story. Now, this is like the big controversy at the Olympics. Sounds like you're a little upset at goo. Listen, if it were me, if it were up to me, I could be for the United States.

But that's just me. Sounds like you're a little mad at goo. All right. So I'll just count.

You know what I'll do? I'll count this medal for us. I don't give a fuck. How many more do you need?

Too many. How many what's the medal update? I think I'm of it's it's over. It's over for your boy.

It's it's nice. It's not going to happen. I think we're going to get a loser on for Monday show, which I really am excited about. We have seven.

Yeah, it's over for you, boy. We have seven seven gold. Seven golds. Twenty five total.

That's a joke. It is a joke, right, Hank? Did you get any backlash for your slalom women's slalom take? No, I mean people just don't believe in me, but that's all right.

Yeah, no, it's believing you. But it's women's slalom. That's the part they didn't understand. Yeah, turn left, turn right.

Yeah, pretty simple stuff. Stand your feet. Pretty easy stuff. You got the same.

Max, where's the next winner Olympics? Who cares? I'll go. Okay.

I'm going to guess feels like it's time for Canada to get back in the mix. When was your Olympics? Was it 2020? 30?

Alps, French Alps. Oh, that round. Salt Lake City, 2034. Isn't that the same thing?

Is this one? No, it's French Alps. Come on, dude. Swiss Alps.

But French Alps. Oh, yeah. Swiss. But I actually kind of agree with you.

They're on the Alps. Italy, but Italy and Switzerland share their Alps. I think so. But I got Switzerland and France mixed up.

The Alps are one big mountain range. And so, part of the day, I think about Alps. Yeah, the Alps. Like, that's the name of your mountains, the Alps.

Yeah, it sounds like it's delicious. Like, treat. Sounds like an old name. Like, hey, this is my great grandfather, Alton.

2030 after Super Bowl after vacation. I will take a trip to France to try this. Oh, wow, you do that for us? Content, content, content, content.

To the south of France? No, holy shit. What a guy. You're the best.

You know what? I'll go to Monaco, just to keep an eye on things down there too. We got to have eyes on it. What is that name?

Busto Arceejo? That's the name of the town? Busto Arteetio. So it's not.

There's so many towns on here. I have no idea where you're looking. Busto Arteetio. Where you're from.

Yeah. Busto Arteetio. Busto Arteetio. You hate Busto Arteetio.

It's actually not a little transitive. Max's least favorite city. Oh, overrated. Yeah.

Okay, I'm excited for us. Should we talk about the stream now? We're going to wait till Zach gets back. We're going to wait until Zach gets back.

We're going to wait until Zach gets back. We're going to wait until Zach gets back. He's filling in for Crosby. Wait, you can call someone up?

Call him a dard just landed in Italy. Oh, that's the way this might be a parody. Yeah, I don't think you could do that. I mean, it should be on the team, but.

Ross would need to be all right. Yeah. Take count. That was a great breaking move.

I love it. I didn't. I didn't move it. Oh, move it.

Let's get. Let's get some people who are listening right now. I don't speak in facts and I have serious takes on the show. Just move it.

I don't want people to discredit me. Okay. I had a couple other topics before we do that. Draft Kings.

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Mick Cronin. I fucking love Mick. No one's ever called a shot harder than Johnny Fanta did. Yeah.

Part of my take. He was like college basketballs back. Mick Cronin. Yeah.

He was using his mind. And then that was before Mick Cronin goes on to eject his own player from the game. Correct. And then scream at a reporter for raising his voice.

Well, the reporter, can we play the clip? We put the audio in their point of raised his voice. Clearly not only voice but pitch as well. That was the problem.

So this was Mick Cronin after the game he asked about the Michigan State Student Section. What was your job for the student section? I could give a rass answer about the other team. Student section.

That's better. Overall the way that I would like to give you the. To those who works question I've ever asked. All right.

Did you like the preparation of the preparation of the. You really think I care about the other. No, I don't think you care about the other. You guys.

You're watching your voice. It won't be. There you are. You know.

Come on, dude. No reason. I guess you'll hear everybody saying I'm here listening to you. That part is on camera.

I can hear you. I answered the question. I could give a rass answer about the other team section. I coach UCLA.

I don't care about Michigan State students. You can't hear us. This is the bad. I was I was I was I was.

I was. I hear you. This is on camera. I was late in bed last night.

And I was just repeating it. My wife was like, what are you saying? I was just like, are you guys. I think it looks great.

I also like a micron is just only given him the silhouette during this. He's only like, you know, he's turned away. He won't even face him with his full body. Come on, dude.

Because it's just like so alpha of him. He's like, I want to acknowledge you. Did you just. Did you just.

Did you just. You raise your voice and raise your voice and raise your voice. Come on, dude. Also on camera.

That clip of him being like, I'd like to give you kudos for the worst question I've ever been asked. Yes. That is going to be very useful in the future. I love this clip.

I love micronin. I know there's a lot of people who don't like these guys acting like this. There was there was some big time big time. Big time J's coming out being like respect the reporter.

He's just trying to do a job. One. Okay, fine. We all got a job to do.

Maybe two. Don't raise your fucking voice at McChronin like that and the pitch of your voice. But we've had to take whether it be with Danny Hurley or any coach that freaks out. This is what college basketball is the best at is these guys are the most maladjusted adults possible.

They lose one game. Think about this. John Shire lost half of his losses this year. He's done a justy smollet.

Think about that. Like he can't take losing that. He's lost two games this year. And in one of those two games, he was he was like, hey, one of my guys got punched and we can't still find video.

This is great. It's full on college basketball brain that McChronin has right now. And listen, the reporter did in fact raise his voice when re-ordering the question to him. And pitch.

And pitch. And this is all fair. I don't think that anything that McChronin said was inaccurate. I also don't blame the reporter for doing his job.

Yeah. I think this is all just like, all right, great, great game. Yeah. Like Gee gee, it's Jake Hands afterwards.

Covers separate ways. You just raise your, come on, dude. So okay. Yeah, this is a great, this is a battle of the wills between McChronin and the first amendment.

We got to get McChronin back on the show. Yeah. We will not raise our voice. Yeah, we will.

No, I will. We'll have to. I think we got to have a decibel meter. Yeah.

We should just actually have, we should ask a bunch of questions and then just have Zach scream a question at him. Just see if he's still got it. I think for you is we have a decibel meter. Yeah.

We have a decibel meter for every show. Oh, yeah. It's really good. That's more than anything.

No. I would like, I'd like it just be, we need to put some more spotlight though because this post game interview is getting all the press. McChronin ejected his own player. Which I love.

He kicked his own player out of the game. That is the funniest thing I've ever seen. McChronin, if you haven't been following this year, but he basically, it's all based on time zones. If he does not play in Pacific time zone, he is liable to like get naked and scream at everyone on camera.

He's so upset about the Big Ten scheduling. This Cincinnati gets back in him. Yeah. He, listen, this is a guy we have to remember.

McChronin, he had a brain injury, a brain aneurysm, and the doctors had to tell him that he can't watch his team play basketball otherwise he might stroke out and die. He had to drive around Cincinnati, listen to him on the radio. This guy's a psycho and I love it. We need these guys.

The day when Danny Hurley goes crazy and drinks his piss on the sideline and flips out everyone, that's what I love about college basketball. The great part of this interaction too is how calm he remained. Yeah. Like the guy, the reporter was obviously raising his voice and McChronin was just like, dude, you're just raising your, you just call it like it was.

Just like, it was not spiking at all. It was just maintaining a firm baseline, not even giving him eye contact or full body contact. Like this is how an alpha male treats reporter. Come on, dude.

Come on, dude. This is all a camera. You just raised your voice. I also would like to think that is always just waiting around the corner.

Like, dude, that guy raised his voice. We didn't handle yourself, Nick. Yeah. That's exactly how you should handle yourself.

Well, when Izzo watches the clips of this, he thinks like there, but for the grace of God this is pretty awesome. Oh, but yeah. College basketball continues to be incredible. That Alabama Arkansas game was awesome.

Acuff to two over times. Just the shop making was insane. But I do have one question for someone in this room. This weekend we have a loaded slate.

We got Michigan Duke. We've got Houston versus Arizona. We also have Villanova versus Connecticut and Connecticut lost on Wednesday night to Creighton Max. Are you happy they lost?

They lost. So different. Oh, really? So you want to play them off of a loss or off of a win?

Personally, very much would have preferred if they did not lose last night. And why is that? Because Villanova plays on this weekend. I would not like to see them coming off.

Yeah, I'm a different sport. All right. Well, I'm just trying to talk about that. So you said you would rather not play Yukon off of a loss.

Why? In college basketball, yes. Why would you rather not play Yukon? Because Dan Hurley's going to, Dan Hurley's a special coach.

So good coaches will then use that loss as motivation to make their team play better the next night out is what you're saying. I like how you guys keep using this as an argument, even though the Eagles won that game. I have a question because they knew that they had a tough opponent. I have a question.

Can I ask a question? Wouldn't you be happy that Yukon lost because now you have a chance to win the Big East? That's fair. I mean, if you look at the Big East and you guys have three losses.

I know we went out. We'll get a share if we went out. Now we get a share. Yes, St.

John's you have to play again. You can like I'm I'm a huge loss for Yukon. I'm familiar. They didn't lose to Creighton.

You could have beaten Yukon. They could have won out. You wouldn't have any chance to catch him. Yeah.

You know what? I'm happy. They lost. Okay.

There we go. Happy. They lost. Happy rooting for them to lose.

Because now you think you can't snakes because they lost. No, because now we can win the Big East. But not if Yukon beats you because they're motivated after loss. We just got to win on Saturday.

Got to win on Saturday. Massive. Massive. Massive.

That's why it worked up for this game. I was excited for it. I was excited for it. I looked at flights to go home.

It's a thousand dollars round trip before having to buy tickets. So I decided I couldn't good faith justify that purchase. You should go. You want to sit?

What paper? No, no, no, no. You'll let? I would love to go to that.

Big game. Max. This might go. I've been this excited for a Villanov.

I think you're going. You're paying for your tickets. You're going. I can pay for my tickets.

No, I mean, they're flying. Yeah. We're not paying for your game. I can pay for my flight.

He maxes in a tough spot right now because I do this all the time where it's like, should I go to this game? I'm not going to go to this game. And then when you make the decision, I'm not going to travel and go to this game. And they're like, I'm instead going to get to go to the bar and get drunk and watch college basketball day, you're like, that actually sounds awesome.

That is also gone through my head. You kind of sound like Shane right now. I've also. I want to go see my favorite team play.

I texted a bunch of my friends. I normally would be going to the game. Like half of them are still going. Half of them have conflicts and they can't go.

That was another. That was another. Oh, you let us know. But I now that I've played it out in my head, I would not go because this is such a loaded slate.

I think I'm going to the parlour. Slakes going to the parlour. I might go to the parlour. Yeah.

That's fine. I might get some going out to get some milk. You're just not that big of fan of the other basketball. You just like college basketball.

That's fine. I know. I'm so so. So.

And we're also being honest. It would really suck if you made that trip. Oh, that's what you're doing. Trip for a loss.

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