Hey, part of my take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime members can listen, add free on Amazon music. On today's part of my take, we have Michael Rubin from Formally of the Philadelphia 76ers, co-owned it with Josh Harris, new owner of the commanders. We're going to talk some NBA, NHL FAQs, and we got some other things we're gonna get to and we are brought to you by our friends at Morgan and Morgan. If you've been injured in an accident, Morgan and Morgan makes it easy for you. File a claim online, upload pictures, evidence, texture lawyer, get a settlement, direct deposited, and do almost everything from your phone. Morgan and Morgan is America's largest injury law firm. Over 800 lawyers nationwide, over $15 billion recovered so far. Over 100 offices, over 30 years of experience. The fee is free. You only pay if you win. And with Morgan and Morgan's track record, these are the guys you want to trust. So visit forthepeople.com slash PMT or dial pound law, pound law to start a claim today. Visit forthepeople.com slash PMT or dial pound law to start a claim today. Morgan and Morgan, if you have an accident or you've been injured, hit them up right now, they are the best in the business more time for the people.com slash PMT or dial pound law to start a claim today. Okay, let's go. Bye. BYEOOOOOOH! Now in the streets there is violence And then a lot of stuff is worth to be done No pistol hang out or washing And then again they all understand Oh no we're gonna rock it down too. Hey, that's right, Kyver, new. And then we'll take it higher. Oh, we're gonna rock it down too. Hey, that's right, Kyver, new. Is anybody? Barstown sports. Hey, that's right, Kyver, new. Welcome, part of my take today is Wednesday, April 19th. We're on Zoom today and PFT. Yeah. So we're on Zoom right now. I'm down in Virginia. My dad passed away this morning and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do if I wanted to do part of my take today. At first, and I know a lot of you guys at home probably use this show as an escape or to get you through tough times sometimes and laugh and forget about real issues every now and again. And that's kind of the boat that I found myself in today where I felt like it would be good. It's, you know, we're recording this late at night and taking care of family stuff all day. And I thought it would be a good escape for me and maybe be able to laugh a little bit and chop it up and kind of get away from the real life situation. And I feel the same way that we've heard from a lot of people over the years. I feel the same way now. So thank you guys for being there for me. I appreciate that. That goes for obviously everybody in the studio on the show. I appreciate you guys being an outlet for this and also everybody at home listening. I know I've talked about my dad a few times on the show, but he really is the reason why I grew to love sports. He would let me miss class and stay home from school in the morning, sometimes to watch sports center. Most of my childhood memories revolve somehow around playing sports with him, going to sporting events with him or having him prank me into going to a sporting event that wasn't real with him. It's going to funny. I was talking with my family today and we're joking around and laughing about some of the funny things that he did over the years. And that story, the April Fool's story got brought up where he got me out of class. And it turns out I didn't even get the real crux of the joke until just today. The real crux of the joke, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, was there was no game on April 1st that year, April Fool's Day when he got me out of class and taken me to the Orioles game. The real crux of the joke, my brother just told me this today, was the joke was I should have known that the Orioles didn't have a home opener on April 1st and I don't know ball because I'm a casual. So that's what he was driving at, but he was bustin' my balls when he did that. And he was a funny guy. And if anybody knew him, they knew he was the guy who was usually wearing a track suit and usually taking me or my brother to the sporting events. We had the van that was stocked with every sort of sports equipment you could ever hope for growing up. And he really taught me how to love sports. And he was a fan of you guys too. He loved you guys. And he also loved all the AWLs that he would meet when he go out and start chopping up with somebody about sports. If they looked like they were a younger person, he would ask him, do you guys listen to part of my take? And then he would go on to tell them, oh, PFT is my son, and he'd make a new friend, and then he'd always give me

a call and let me know who he met that way. And it meant a lot to him, and sports were, like I said, they were a big part of our lives. And I owe so much to him. He was a great dude. So go to miss him. And yeah, that's pretty much it. So the last thing I will say though is I, for an I,

will played though is,

I for an I will play John Rom,

a tremendous competitor.

I'll make that joke before anybody else does.

I forgot.

So it's okay.

I know some people are gonna wonder if it's okay

to make that joke.

So I'll be the first one to make it.

It is okay.

He would have thought that was funny.

But yeah, so that's where I'm at personally right now and yeah I hope I hope you guys will understand if me probably do another Skype show or zoom show later on this week some things might change with with the formatting but yeah I appreciate you guys being there for me so love you guys. Love you P.F.T. Yeah Yeah. Yeah, love you too, man.

I mean, it's, it's, you know, I don't, it's, it's a horrible thing that everyone

obviously eventually has to go through, but I just, you know, I know your dad, we, we got to meet him a couple

of times. I know how proud he was of this show.

And like that was just so cool to see because I'm sure you know we're very similar there's probably moments where our parents were like are they actually gonna have a career here and for him to see it get to the point where it's gotten and you know when we met him at training camp he was wearing the track suit he was proud and it was yeah mean, it was it was clear that he was so proud of everything you've done and, uh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, when you hurt, we hurt. So it's yeah, it's real life shit sometimes, but, uh, but yeah, I appreciate you guys and yeah, he was, uh, he was a big fan of years and just, uh, it was really supportive. There were some times when he didn't really understand what a podcast was and whether or not this was going to be something that I was going to really take seriously. But he was also like the most supportive person in the world and he was like go for it if it makes you happy. And I was really really lucky to have him as a dad. So if you're on the fence about calling your dad today, give

him a call. Tell him we love him. Permission to make another lighthearted joke? Yes. We can cut it out, but he did pass away without ever seeing Hank get the lottery ball. That's true. That's true. That's true. That's not just fact. Every day. That's just a fact. Every day. Yeah, honestly not cool. Yeah. Oh man, but yeah, PFT we love you. You know we love you. And it's it's tough because it definitely is like. We are we've been doing this for a long time. So we are family and so whenever you know something like this happens to any of us, it's it's really, really tough. So but he did he he I remember I just remember you telling me how proud he was of this show. And it was very clear that picture of him with the tracksuit was like I was like that's that's a dad who's just like my son at the camp. The team you guys rooted for Corona. That's what that was. Yeah. Yeah. We that was that was very a very cool moment. Little behind the scenes. When we went to, I guess it was the football team. It was a Washington football team at the time. We went to the training camp and interviewed Ron Rivera and Ryan Fitzpatrick. I got my dad in and got to introduce him to Fitsy and some of the guys behind the scenes. That's where we used to go every summer when I was a kid. Being him would go to Redskins training camp probably, I don't know, 10, 12 times each year and watch the team practice and it was very cool to like show them around and to, you know, kind of full circle moment in a way that way. So yeah, a lot of emotions. I'm going through a lot of different things right now. Some up, some down.

But it's been it's good to have you guys around. It's good to have an outlet

We're hopefully we can I mean we've already told some pretty fucking sick jokes today. So maybe

I don't even

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