Pardon My Take hosts don't buy Hank's pancake claim
TLDR: Hank told the Pardon My Take studio he makes his own pancakes 10 to 15 times a year, and on the November 9 episode nobody in the room believed a word of it.
The pancake fight was in the middle of a normal Monday NFL show. The episode notes list it right after the Week 9 football.
PMT 11-9 -NFL Week 9 -Fastest 2 Minutes -Bengals offense keeps rolling -The afternoon of blowouts -Bears survive SNF -Hank makes pancakes and who’s back of the week Listen/Watch —> t.co/AN4p4ZDLRO
Look at that rundown: Fastest 2 Minutes, the Bengals offense, an afternoon of blowouts, the Bears surviving Sunday Night Football. Then, slotted in like it's just as important, "Hank makes pancakes." Only on Pardon My Take does a staffer's breakfast routine get billed next to the NFL slate, and it ended up being the part people actually clipped.
The setup is easy. Hank says he makes pancakes himself, 10 to 15 times a year. The room says that's a lie. The official show account clipped the moment and didn't bother hiding which side it's on.
What makes the bit work is how specific the number is. Saying "I make pancakes sometimes" doesn't start a fight. Saying 10 to 15 times a year does, because it sounds like a stat he invented on the spot to win the argument. A guy who says he does something once a month or so is begging for a cross-examination, and on this show he got one. Hank pushing back only made it funnier. Every defense sounded like a guy who'd been caught.
By the afternoon Big Cat had given the bit the official, completely serious name it obviously deserved.
"The great pancake controversy of 2026" is a mock-serious label for something with zero stakes, and that's the point. Big Cat and PFT Commenter have been running PMT for about a decade, and some of their best moments come from tiny staff claims getting picked apart way past reason. Nobody is hurt. Hank's breakfast credibility, though, is in real trouble.
There's one clear way out: pancake receipts. A video of Hank at the griddle, ideally with a timestamp, would end this. Until then, the room's verdict holds, and 10 to 15 times a year will follow him for a while.
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