Pardon My Take
CBB With John Fanta, Steve Smith Sr Dominated The Weekend, Picking A New Pope, Who's Back Of The Week + Monday Reading
Mon, 24 Feb 2025
Steve Smith Senior has dominated the weekend after a guy took to the internet declaring he had been cucked by the future Hall of Famer(00:00:00-00:17:07). Ovi gets closer to the goal record. The Yankees change their facial hair policy and we pick a new pope based on names alone. Who's back of the week(00:17:07-00:51:56). John Fanta joins us to talk college basketball, what teams can make a run, the resurgence of St Johns, plus a bonus dunk on his new mini hoop(00:51:56-01:39:29). We finish with a Monday Reading and remembering Hooters(01:39:29-01:56:24).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take
Chapter 1: What happened with Steve Smith Sr. over the weekend?
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And just when you think we don't have any sports to talk about, Steve Smith fucks some guy's wife.
Yeah.
So viewer discretion.
Not just fucks. He rearranges her IUD.
Yeah. So viewer discretion advised if you're taking your kids to school right now. Mm-hmm. The biggest story from the weekend was... They might be Steve Smith's kids. They might be Steve Smith's kids. The biggest story of the weekend was Steve Smith Sr., recurring guest, friend of the program, would love to actually have him on to talk about it if he ever gets to a point where he can.
I'm guessing right now... Maybe having some harder conversations with family might be a little bit busy right now. But, yeah, the weekend, just when you think like, hey, there's not a lot going on. You had great college basketball slate, a little hangover from the NHL All-Star game. We have a guy who in his his his at was limb limb limb bony.
So Lambeau Field and Lamborghini, I think, decided to take to Twitter on Saturday morning and tagged A.B.
espn tmz the panthers steve smith nfl nfl network ghost golf club tailor-made golf and yeti coolers and said my wife works for the marching ravens uh she met steve smith senior at work steve smith has been fucking my wife i got receipts i got a lot more homie wow now what was this guy's in-game He – I went and I followed him right away.
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Chapter 2: How did the Yankees change their grooming policy?
I'm trying to have a nice steakhouse meal right now. Okay. The last day of my fitness vacation.
Okay, listen to the stat.
20-point games this season. Paul George has nine. Peyton Pritchard has 17.
Peyton Pritchard has 17 20-point games. Paul George has nine. Paul George is horrendous. Okay, so you admit that.
Max, your entire statement on the Sixers should have just been birds.
Also that.
Okay.
All right.
What about Yabu?
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Chapter 3: Who are the potential candidates for the new Pope?
To elicit their perspectives. Yeah. Yeah. There we go. To elicit their perspectives on our longstanding facial hair and grooming policy. And I appreciate that their current. You go ahead. I can't read this.
And appreciate their earnest and valid feedback. Can you make it a little bit bigger?
I'm getting fucked over here.
These most recent conversations are an extension of ongoing internal dialogue that dates back. Stop. Stop messing with it. That dates back several years. Ultimately, the final decision rests with me and after great consideration, we will be amending our expectations to allow our players and uniformed personnel to have well-groomed beards,
Moving forward, it is the appropriate time to move beyond the familiar comfort of our former policy.
Wow. We used to be a country. Wow. A proper country. And then this. And Don Mattingly and his sideburns, it'll be a tale lost to the ages. Kids won't understand that anymore.
Goose gossage.
Yeah.
Punching air.
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Chapter 4: What is 'Who's Back of the Week' about?
Pizza Bala. What a name. Uh, then I also have Cardinal Mateo, Maria Zupi. We have a Zupi here. Thought that would be good. Uh, Matthew Liberatore, Gordon Gracheffo, These are all names that I think could make big-time popes. Lorenzo Baldessari. That's pretty good. Yeah, I like a Lorenzo.
They don't keep their name, do they?
No, they have to change it, but I'm just going off of just vibes, just off of name vibes.
This Baldessaro guy.
Yeah, they all become like John or Francis or something.
This Lorenzo, he looks like a pope, doesn't he? He's got a little Dick Cheney vibe to him, but he looks like a pope from Central Castile.
Yeah. Victor DiMuchiegi. That would be a good pope. And then here's the last two I got for you. Are you looking these up? What? What are you laughing at, Shane?
Memes wanted me to Google fattest pope in the world.
No, we need a fat pope. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We do need a fat pope. All right, here's a couple heavy hitters for you.
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Chapter 5: Is J.J. Watt considering a return to the NFL?
And it could take weeks.
It's like they do a vote. Then they like the smoke. And when the gray smoke comes out, a new pope has been elected. No, white smoke. White smoke, okay.
Gray smoke is when they haven't. So yeah, that's them sitting there.
They should do a different color besides gray and white. Those are too similar.
Yeah, that is a little similar. But yeah, so they sit there again. I'm an expert because I saw one movie about it on a plane. They sit there and they politic. And the first time they vote, there will be, I don't know, 20 guys getting receiving votes. And then they'll slowly get it down to a couple of people and they'll go against each other. And then we'll get a new pope.
Do you think that'd be a good job to be pope?
Probably not. I don't think it'd be any fun.
I feel like you get blamed for a lot of shit.
You get blamed for a lot of stuff. You do get to meet Jim Harbaugh once a year. Yep. So that's cool.
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