Podbit · Pardon My Take
Hank learned Jaylen Brown was traded to the Sixers while stranded on a wedding island full of the DeLente family — avid Sixers fans. Small talk was dead. Every conversation became a bing bong.
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Big Cat ticks through the full litany of Hank's sports misery this year: the Patriots' Super Bowl loss, Live Golf's cancellation, Celtics losing to the Sixers in the playoffs while at Max's bachelor party, Duke's buzzer-beater loss, soccer becoming huge and the US beating Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the Knicks title. Hank's list also includes being forced to golf as a lefty with a righty handicap and the USA beating the Dominican Republic. The crew wonders aloud if this Jaylen Brown trade is finally rock bottom — the only direction being up — but Hank refuses to commit because acknowledging a bottom might invite something worse. Big Cat offers increasingly bad spin zones about the wedding being easier now that everyone has one conversation topic, and about Paul George's infamous dog photo.
BetterHelp's 2026 State of Stigma report found 85% of Americans believe getting mental health support is wise, yet 74% say society discourages it.
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The Philadelphia 76ers had 100-to-1 odds on DraftKings Sportsbook to acquire Jaylen Brown — the worst odds of any team in the NBA. They landed him anyway, sending the Pardon My Take crew into full emergency podcast mode.
DraftKings Sportsbook had the Philadelphia 76ers at 100-to-1 — the worst odds in the NBA — to acquire Jaylen Brown before the trade happened.
Over Jaylen Brown's entire Celtics career, Boston wins 67% of games with him and 70% without. Last season? 66% with him, 80% without. PFT delivered this stat as a spin zone — but the numbers are real.
Thomas's wife deferred her CrossFit career — she's in the global top 1% of athletes — to put him through law school debt-free. He wants her to chase the dream now; she wants the emergency fund and house down payment first. On a $200K lawyer income with no debt, the opportunity cost is just a few months of slower saving.
Underground calisthenics battles are exactly like UFC meets a rap battle — 150 people crowded around a circle, fighters walking out with masks and chains, nicknames like 'Extra Money' vs 'Calisthenics the Prince,' and people throwing money and betting. The battle set: 100 burpees, 50 muscle-ups, 75 dips, 75 squats with a 65-pound dumbbell. This is the next big spectator sport.
Rico Verhoeven controlled the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion for approximately 10 rounds — and had his appeal upheld when officials admitted the fight was stopped after the bell. The result was never overturned. Rogan calls it either incompetence or corruption, and argues the money behind Usyk made an upset politically inconvenient.
Rogan lays out a blunt case: boxing's 3-judge system is structurally broken, and the judges know who the promoter wants to win. Glory's 5-judge format is the right model. Corruption doesn't have to be conscious — just knowing Usyk is the cash cow is enough to tilt the scales.
With the Usyk-Wilder fight stalling and Fury-Joshua coming too late, the real fight the world wants is the rematch. Rico is a free agent. Usyk vacated his belts. The story is unfinished and both Rogan and Rico know it. His Excellency Turki Alasheikh already called for it ringside — the question is money.
Rico texted Jason Statham during the Canelo-Crawford fight. Statham showed Rico's highlight videos to promoters. Two days later, Rico was on a call about fighting Anthony Joshua. When Joshua pulled out, Rico pitched Usyk himself — Undisputed vs. Undisputed. Usyk said yes in two weeks. The whole thing started with one text.
Every heavyweight who faced Usyk tried to move to the right — straight into his power hand. Rico and Peter Fury identified the obvious solution: move left, away from the left hand, and smother him with size. It sounds simple. Nobody had done it. That one adjustment was the foundation of 10 dominant rounds.
MMA fans boo when fights go to the ground. They love stand-up. Kickboxing is pure stand-up. Yet it barely exists in America while boxing and MMA are enormous. Rogan's diagnosis: no promotion machine. If the UFC got behind kickboxing the way they've built MMA, it would explode. The talent is there — the storytelling machine is not.
A nation of 17 million people gave the world Ramon Deckers, Peter Aerts, Badr Hari, Melvin Manhoef, Rob Kamen, Ernesto Hoost, and Rico Verhoeven. Rico's theory: the country is so small that every gym shares knowledge freely. In the US, you need a flight. In Holland, you drive 40 minutes and spar the national champion.
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