The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 105 - Aaron Rodgers, Triple H, Matt Hasselbeck, Bangers & Locks. Happy Friday

Episode Date: September 13, 2019

On today's show, Pat and the guys recap the week from the box truck studio as they break down all the chaos and hilarity surrounding the week and how everything for the radio show and live stream was still being worked on down to the last second. Also included is a conversation with friend of the show, Super Bowl Champion, Super Bowl MVP, 2x NFL MVP, Quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers. They battle tech issues at the start of the call and cover his relationship with Head Coach Matt LaFleur, how his relationship with Brett Favre has evolved over the years, his thoughts on the Packers week 1 performance against the Bears, and Aaron looks ahead to this weekend's matchup again the Vikings (8:48-38:40). Next, Pat's boothmate for Thursday Night College Football on ESPN and friend of the show, Matt Hasselbeck, stopped by the radio show to discuss the Aaron Rodgers/Brett Favre relationship, what it's like to be in a competitive QB room,  the best places to hang out in an NFL facility, and the hardest hit he took in his NFL career (39:29-59:34). Later, one of Pat's bosses, the Cerebral Assassin, The Game, Triple H, joins the show. They discuss WWE becoming a massive global brand, his competition in the sports entertainment world and whether or not he thinks WWE will get in a Wednesday night war with AEW, and how he maintains his work/life balance (1:02:58-1:20:35). To close out the show, Digz gives a couple of NFL gambling locks, and Nick gives a few bangers to help send you into the weekend. It's a good one. Come laugh with us. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Let's get to it. Mack Brown is the man. Got a chance to meet with him today down here in Winston-Salem. Got a chance to chat with the Wake Forest coaches as well. I think there's going to be a great game tonight at 6 o'clock on ESPN. I honestly do. I think it's going to be a very good game. And after meeting with Coach Clausen down in Wake Forest,

they got a brand-new facility, by the way. Just a ribbon-cutting ceremony was last night. We were ducking under ribbons to get into rooms that they were debuting. It was beautiful. The first room they showed us was this, like, a theater. They built a theater, but it was kind of small. It was one of those theaters that, it's like, goes all the way around. It was IMAX.

Yeah, yep. So they have an IMAX theater they built, and they were like, this is where we're debuting tonight. And they showed us that room, and I was, like, looking around. I was like, I don't think it's really that big of a fucking deal, you know. Is this all they their debuting? And then we turned a corner, and it was like brand new team meeting room, brand new this. It's beautiful.

The Wake Forest football facility is beautiful. It's brand new. I mean, I was in there before the day. Day negative one in the facility, I was in there. And then we traveled over to talk to Mac Brown. Everybody talks good about Mac Brown. Everybody talks good about Mac Brown. I never knew why.

I never knew why. I was like, why does everybody like this Mac Brown. Everybody talks good about Mac Brown. Everybody talks good about Mac Brown. Never knew why. I never knew why. I was like, why does everybody like this Mac Brown guy? Yeah, I guess he won at Texas and all this, but I don't get it. So then I got a chance to sit down with him yesterday, if you listen to this on Friday, for 45 minutes, and I listened to him talk, and I was like, oh, I love this.

I wish this guy was my dad. Not that Tim McAfee is anything, but if Mac Brown was involved in my life, something like a grandfather or something, I think the world would be a better place. He was hysterical, man, telling stories about back at Texas. He used to work with Adam Amin, the play-by-play guy. He did games with Adam Amin last year. So they were telling a bunch of stories.

It was really cool. He handled it all well. I guess the way he runs his thing is he's the head coach. He points the team in a direction. He schedules the thing. But he lets the offensive coordinator and the defensive coordinator do their own thing. He has enough humility and he doesn't have a big enough ego that he doesn't just interject himself in everything. You know what I mean? Which I think is a big deal, by the way. I think that is a true gifted trait of a guy.

I assume there's not a lot of coaches that are that humble to delegate those situations. Yeah, because they want probably more credit for things. He dug deep into what it was like at the end of his career at Texas there. The quote he said was, winning was a relief and losses were devastation. He said he wasn't happy anymore because the pressure was so big he said we win all these games we lose one game we end up winning like a sugar bowl and all anybody's talking about is how we underachieved and he was like i fell into the trap where i didn't think i was successful and he was just like miserable almost and he said

when you coach for 30 years you don't even realize that that's happening to you like he didn't even realize that he had changed. So when he retired, he got a five-year reset here, refresh. And I guess his wife is just a saint of a lady. Nate Boyer said that on the thing yesterday, and he reiterated it. And it's like he's got this brand new life.

It's going to be a great game, I think. A lot of older players on Wake Forest because they have a full program. UNC's with 2-0, 2-0. This is the first time they've played in a while. They played for 85 years straight, Wake Forest and UNC. Then there was a conference realignment. They were like biggest rivals for each other.

Then there was a conference realignment, and they stopped playing each other. And both schools, after the decision was made, was like, hey, we should play each other. Like, what are we doing? And they made it happen. They're back in it. And I think we're in for a good one tonight at 6 p.m. on ESPN. Why don't you pregame with us? I don't know what you're doing.

Whether you're going to go watch a movie with your lady or significant other or you're going to go ahead and burn a town down. Turn on ESPN 6 p.m. We've got a good one for you. This week has been a good one for us. Incredible first week. Incredible first week. We've had a lot of great interactions with a lot of great humans.

We've had interviews with people that we never thought we could get interviews with again or for the first time ever. We did a show from a box truck just yesterday where it was 127 degrees inside of it. Roughly, yeah. Maybe hotter than that, actually. We are not 100% sure if any of your microphones work. Nobody will be able to hear anybody, and the cameras definitely won't work by the time the show starts. But go ahead and hop in that sauna and put a show on.

And just know, we got it all on film. All the behind the scenes will be on a vlog coming out Monday, and you're going to want to see it. I went through the footage today. It's fucking hilarious. Do you think any other show, we're a worldwide show. Like we are actually a worldwide show. Do you think there's any other worldwide show that has ever

had the behind the scenes shit? People think we're lying right now. Wait until you see the behind the scenes. Foxy filmed everything. Mostly because we didn't have any cameras that worked. But Foxy filmed everything and Zito got involved too. We needed two cameras to catch all the madness. I think the vlog's going to be beautiful.

When's that coming? On Monday? Yeah, hopefully. Should be, right? This sounds exactly like the show this week. I hope your microphones work, they said. I have a little insight into that. While you were at the ESPN stuff, we were talking to the Zone higher-ups,

and I guess they had a call with the Zone higher-ups somewhere else. They were like, how's the team? Like, asking about guess they had a call with the Zone higher-ups somewhere else. They were like, how's the team? Like, asking about us. Like, how's the team after the day? They were like, it's very, very refreshing because if we would work, they're the happiest team that we've ever worked with. They were like, if this happened to anyone else, they would have just been cursing us out the entire time and refused to do the show and stuff like that. We're putting on great shows still.

You know why? Because we were born in the dark and then they were also like you know it's so weird a lot of people would be freaking out like your team didn't freak out at all all you guys did was pull out a bunch of cameras and film us being absolutely ridiculous behind the scenes hey people are panicking man oh the sam my fiance sam has just been referring to this entire week with that one gif it's just been that one gif where that dog is sitting down at the table and there's just fire the fire is raging around us that's all anytime i start talking or anything starts happening sam just sends that gif over and it always pops i always get a good pop i'm always like it's a hundred percent accurate it's real i think i think we're delivering a pretty good product if you're not listening to us live on from 10 to noon i think westwood one actually is putting out a link for people to

listen online which is a smart move happy for them but yeah so it's been an experience this week we got a chance to talk some really cool people. A man that I became a champion with stopped by. This guy is widely considered to be the greatest ball thrower in the history of throwing balls. I don't know if that's accurate, actually. Yeah, I think so. I think it is, actually.

Physical skills. Arm talent. One of the prettiest balls you'll ever see. Of all time. I'll say this. You could say this. The greatest Hail Mary thrower of all time. Without question.

Without question. But a lot of other things, too. Best mustache in the game. We talk about that. Facts. We got a chance to talk to Aaron Rodgers earlier this week, and I think you're going to enjoy it. Ladies and gentlemen, I think joining us from nope just hung up we've

had a little bit of a tech issue we literally just had a three-minute conversation with our next guest during the break this man is a two-time nfl mvp he's a super bowl champion he is a man that is revered as the greatest ball thrower to ever throw balls in the NFL. He throws the deep ball. He throws a beautiful ball. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, currently Super Bowl champion, number 12 for the undefeated Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers.

Wow. Rodgers Rodgers Wow Pretty good huh Nothing about the Bahamar showdown Oh and also Reigning Bahamar golf showdown Hosted by Aaron Rodgers And Chris Paul

That I was on his team Undefeated champion in golf. Pretty good intro, right? Yeah, it was amazing, Pat. Thanks, buddy. Hey, congrats on this. You're looking good, too. Great haircut.

Thank you so much, Aaron. I'm happy you noticed because we have a guy that comes through the office. His name's Kay New. He just brings the things by. He's a wizard with the hair so i'm happy you noticed i'll let him know too that he's anytime buddy his bob ross work is really paying off um you're undefeated on the season everybody can't hear him unbelievable we're just about to get to it i wasted too much time in the front there when we had connection just kind of dancing around i should have got right to it um and he's back by the way and he's back yeah just pick up this act like you this question

yeah we just dumped it uh i said a swear word there nobody even heard it uh you're undefeated opening night chicago bears electric atmosphere uh the first thing that you wanted to compliment directly after the game was the defense. It seemed like something you were very, very excited about. What do you see on the other side of the ball for the Packers this year that makes you very excited about what's going to happen going forward? Well, I think we're just better on that side of the ball than we've been in the past. We've got a couple great guys, last name Smith. You might have heard of him, Zedarius and Preston.

We added to the mix. Got this guy named Amos. Might have heard of him. Interception to seal the game. Pretty good little player. Yeah, would have been better if you had been on the other side, though, with the punting, but I did enjoy starting off the season 1-0. You started off a little rocky.

Negative 12 yards in the first quarter, which led to everybody saying this. You've probably heard it. Everybody said this. Aaron Rodgers didn't play it down in the preseason, so that's why they were rocky to start. Is that how you feel? Or you said in the interview that the bears defense was an incredible defense they're probably going to give a lot of people

problems early we thought we'd come out hot i think that was the whole thing we really wanted to come out the first quarter just blazing you thought that was going to happen no that's what we did i think the world saw that did you feel though what was the mindset whenever you decided not to play in the preseason was that just something like hey we're going to do this we're going to take care of the body or have a long season already what was the thought going into that yeah it wasn't my decision he just he said you're not gonna play the first one and trying to play the second one my back kind of locked up on me. So he sent me out for that one.

The third one, you know, we had a little field issue in Canada. And the fourth one, he already said I wasn't playing. So I ended up not playing any snaps. That never got said. That never got said. Everybody was making it sound as if you decided you weren't going to play in preseason because that's the new narrative is that guys don't want to play in the preseason. It never got said like, hey, they had an 80- yard field or something in uh canada they did this he got hurt

was that you plan in the in the future you see preseason as a uh something that you would play in and you do like this isn't a decision forever i'm not saying that i'm fighting to play any snaps in the preseason but if i'm if i'm told I need to play a series or a couple series, then I play a couple series. You know, Pat, that's the way it goes, bro. Yeah, literally. I mean, I had to play in the fourth preseason game, too, every single year. It was basically just a roll of the dice on whether or not I was going to get my leg broken

by a guy that was probably going to be playing in the CFL and a guy that was blocking for me that was definitely not going to be playing in the CFL and a guy that was blocking for me that was definitely not going to be playing in the NFL. Fourth preseason game was always a nightmare for me. How do you see your team going forward? You like what LeFleur is doing out there? I do. He's taking a bunch of average Joes

and really inspiring us to to be better you know to be okay with ourselves first and to be like we are great already but then you just gotta you know work on just the little things well sometimes you gotta dodge duck dip dive and dodge your way to victory in the nfl and at the beginning of your relationship with uh mr lafleur uh there was a lot of chatter because one misquote i believe where you weren't allowed to change the play at the beginning then after then after there was it was a wild scene that became a firestorm on the internet by the way uh then after the game you guys had that magical moment that'll live on forever in his career literally for the rest of his career his first win as a head coach you gave him the game ball it was like a magical moment it was a peek inside your relationship that

hasn't been talked about since the firestorm happened how are you and lafleur coming uh coming together is there no sound there or is that the question i don't think it was the question to be honest my god is his name lafleur yeah i'm just rolling with a complete dodgeball answer by the way is one of my favorite things yeah the whole world the whole world at the beginning was like yeah these two are going to hate each other uh leflore's already saying that aaron rogers can't audible aaron rogers can't change the play and i would assume that was not how it all went down because i think even later leflore said i would be uh making a big mistake if i didn't let aaron rogers make decisions so i'll be excited to hear if we ever get him back on what his answer is to that whole thing because nobody has talked about aaron rogers and that guy making a big mistake if I didn't let Aaron Rodgers make decisions. So I'll be excited to hear if we ever get him back on

what his answer is to that whole thing, because nobody has talked about Aaron Rodgers and that guy getting along potentially. It's always been the opposite way. Well, yeah, I mean, it's very, very hard to think that you have Aaron Rodgers, who's been incredible, the two-time MVP, Super Bowl winner. You're not going to let Aaron Rodgers make checks at the line.

Why wouldn't you? And I wonder why Aaron rogers always has this narrative that he's there's drama around him right his brother goes on the bachelor and all of a sudden that gets spun into drama and i think it's because he's so good i think it's because he's so good he's so he's talked about by everybody and he seems to be just this cool dude but the media and him i don't think think have a great relationship. I think it's the indifference thing, too. Kill him with indifference.

It makes it seem like he doesn't care. Because he doesn't. And that's what Cutler got killed for, too. He killed people with indifference, too. I mean, definitely not as good as Aaron Rodgers. Threw a lot more interceptions and looked like he didn't care on the sideline. Easy. Cutler didn't deserve that.

He's a big-time reality TV star. If I had to pick a best friend in this entire world, it would be jay yeah you do love him i would like to see aaron rogers in a reality tv show post football i bet you he would crush just like just like jay cutler is right oh just like that type of reality show not not on a reality show that already exists like he's not going on survivor no aaron rogers is creating his maybe i don't know maybe he would go on survivor and win it i assume he's a resourceful guy resourceful guy smart guy is he on right now ty ah they're calling in now we don't get the facetime so i don't get to see him i wonder if that's our fault who do you think's fault i would assume they have a really bad

internet connection where he's at in that building well looks like todd's putting it on them yeah you just immediately pointed fingers at the green bay packers directly at la fleur i mean it worked it worked for triple h yesterday so and he was calling us from madison square garden pretty old place though yeah so i don't know a different place though i don't think there's cell phone towers in green bay wisconsin that's what hey green bay was a cool city i got a chance to call that lions backers game last year green bay is a cool city. I got a chance to call that Lions-Packers game last year. Green Bay is a fun city. Outside the stadium, too, they've got this entire festival that happens every single game.

They've got this Mason Crosby owns a bar right there on the corner. I mean, it's a pretty awesome. It's by far the biggest thing in the city, so they should celebrate it every single day. I think we have an incredible football player back on the line. Aaron, are you there? Did you say Mason Crosby owns a bar? Yeah, it's right across the street from the stadium there.

I was told right to my face that he does, unless they were just pandering to me. Is that accurate? I don't think that's accurate. Bro, I went right into that game I was calling to, and I dropped it I think middle of the second quarter. I was like, right across the street, got a beer at Mason Crosby's place. They're making so much money at that bar saying it's Mason

Crosby's. Oh, man. What a great idea uh by the way if you want to stop by aaron rogers bar here in indianapolis indiana it's uh right down the street hey let's get back to this this is a uh i think you haven't had the chance to talk about this and you should at the beginning of your relationship with mr lafleur the only thing that came out it was negative it was negative. It was spun negative that he wasn't going to let you audible, and then that got a firestorm on the Internet about everything.

And you're always talked about by everybody. It's just the way it is. You're an incredible football player. And then after the game, you have that incredible moment where you hand him the game ball for his first head coach victory. It was like a nice peek inside your relationship with him how is the team how has it been with him and uh what are you excited about working with him moving forward yeah it's been great i mean we spent a lot of time together uh it's been a really uh

really good partnership you know sharing uh ideas and. And obviously when you see the kind of work that he puts in, that gives some instant kind of respect to the relationship because he is a grinder. And, you know, he's always, you know, texting me or FaceTiming me or calling me, and it's like, you know, 9 o'clock. I'm, you know, at my house, obviously, and he's at the stadium. I'm like, know nine o'clock i'm you know at my house obviously and he's at the stadium i'm like go home man what are you doing but he's always you know uh hey what do you think about this or hey what you know what about this

hey you see this so there's been a lot of great communication it was fun you know when when uh our defense after jk's pun and then our defense you know holding them our defense, after J.K.'s punt and then our defense, you know, holding them there on the last drive, I really, you know, just wanted to make sure I grabbed that ball because, you know, like I said, you know, it's not every day you win your first NFL game as a head coach, and it doesn't matter if you're, you know, Matt's age 39 or Vic Fangio's 61, you know, first-time head coaches. There's got to be something really special about that, knowing all the hard work you've put in over the years to kind of put yourself in this position to finally be the guy.

And getting your first win is a pretty big deal. I am so happy to hear that, by the way. Just because of this, your career has been such an incredible one to watch, so many magical plays magical moments and then there was a transition phase there at the end of last year whenever I came into the city into the building there for the Lions Packers and talking to everybody the future was one that everybody was very excited about so whenever the negative press came out early about you too I think there was a lot of people are like damn not this and i'm so happy to hear that things are going to be great moving forward you mentioned it

not me you have 22 game-winning uh drives in your career 22 peyton manning is at the top of the thing with 50 or something like that i was on a couple of those teams it was a cardiac situation every single game it was like who knows what's going to happen. But J.K. Scott now has one game-winning punt under his belt. Would you like to comment about that? I just can't believe the flexibility. I really can't. That's real. His foot and his leg, that straight and that high.

I mean, I've done a lot of yoga in my time, but that looks painful to me. But, you know, I think you made the disparaging remark about how old he looks. So I want to give you a chance to apologize to JK if you want. Not saying you're wrong. JK, you know, I was laughing with Tom, a PR guy here. I said, you know, it's a big day for the defense and special teams when the punter has more cameras on him than I did at my press conference.

It's good for the punter. Yeah, J.K. is a little different personality-wise than you, Pat. But I'm sure I've seen you make friends and get along with just about everybody except for Ray Allen, so I think you could probably get along with him. Hey, Ray, that golf tournament, by the way,

that you and Chris Paul put on down the Bahamas, you personally donated $10,000 to every single participant in that thing and then it was matched by the bahamar people uh t's and p's by the way the bahamas hope everything works out down there but then that golf tournament that you put on for a good cause was a beautiful event everybody was so nice to me uh including scotty pippen who dunked on me but ray allen just was not a fan a Aaron. Just not a fan.

Well, you can't please everybody, right, Pat? One of my favorite moments, though, was kind of the welcome dinner, and I kind of came over to you, and I said, hey, Pat, you know, you've been on tour. Would you stand up? Do you mind doing a couple minutes? And you were like,

no, not doing it. Which is great. Which is fine. But, then I got up there, Chris And you were like, no, not doing it. Which is great, which is fine. But then I got up there, Chris and I were talking, and, you know, we're kind of going back and forth,

and I'm introducing my team, and when I introduce, you know, Pat McAfee, you come right up, and not only did you do some stand-up, but you got the crowd going. That was impressive.

It gets the people going. You know, I don't even know what I said up there. What does that even mean? You know, the thing about Aaron Rodgers is you can tell he makes good decisions. Yes. If you want to make good decisions like Aaron Rodgers, you need to start with what you're shaving your kitten caboodle with immediately. Listen, men.

We've been battling against razors for our nestled goods for far too long. You're stretching. You're pulling. You're shaving. Scaring the living hell out of not only your brain but your balls that you're going to nick at any given swipe i like to keep it clean down there keep it fresh let it look good don't want it to be irritating whenever i walk around but if i shave my ball sack there is a hundred percent chance that i'm gonna nick it and bleed out and potentially die. Wrong-o, friends.

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me wonder now what type of music do you listen to metal really all day every day no oh my god i was i was so mind blown right there i was mind blown yeah what what do you listen to what is uh i mean you and your beautiful lady uh seemed to have an awesome relationship by the way she was down there cheering on everybody in the bahamas seems to be going beautifully but let's say you and danica are hanging out at night uh just kind of watching tv maybe drink a little scotchy scotch down into the tummy tummy you listen to some music what is it well if i'm controlling it it's definitely something from the 90s oh okay yeah big uh big fan of that decade so i'm gonna i'm gonna keep in the 90s you know foo fighters nirvana pearl jam

keep it kind of in that uh you know if we're listening to Spotify or Pandora, it's definitely on Eddie Vedder or Pearl Jam or Foo Fighters. Oh, my God. Ty Schmidt. Let it roll. Ty Schmidt, who you met down in the Bahamas, who is an owner, shareholder of the Green Bay Packers, who said right to your face that you have brought him more happiness in his life than his family has.

He's losing his mind back there hearing uh your music selection i would like to let you know that in a good way or a bad way oh yeah i didn't know i could love you anymore and then i forgot how big of a pearl jam fan you are and it's just you know it takes it over the top dying back here aaron dying thank you yeah big big big Eddie fan for sure. He's kind of weird being just absolutely loved by an entire fan base. The Green Bay Packers fans are diehards. It was 31-0 that Lions-Packers game. You got hurt second play with a big-time hit. I mean, as soon as it happened, I was like, not good.

That is not good news but that place stayed filled the entire game all the way and through the end the green bay packers fans are such an incredible fan base how has it been playing for a team that will always have your back because a lot of places their fans aren't that crazy unless they're doing well yeah i mean i've talked i've talked at length over the years about how special it is. I think the one thing that you can truly, truly respect and appreciate is the expectation, because I know it's not like this in every city, but in Green Bay, there's an expectation of greatness every year. And I think that has been an important factor in the excellence

sustained excellence in the history of our franchise is that there is a constant expectation and appreciation for the greatness that's happened over the years 13 world championships and then obviously the names Lombardi and Starr and Nitschke and Favre and on down the line. But playing in the city and for an organization that expects to win has got to be a lot more fun. I've only been here, but talking to other people, than playing in places where, you know, making the playoffs is great or going 8-8 is great or improving and rebuilding is the focus. We just don't operate that way in Green Bay,

and I think that makes it a lot different. That's awesome. You and Favre obviously have been through it, but watching you two interact down in the Bahamas was awesome. Have you and Brett Favre had quite a friendship build here? Is this a guy you talk to on a regular basis yeah it's been great man it really has it's been fun to fun to see that uh that change you know go from uh teammates and be close to then we're kind of rivals as he's on uh minnesota and then uh you

know just the last couple years i just been reaching out a little bit more and, you know, just the last couple years, I've just been reaching out a little bit more. And, you know, we've been keeping in touch, and it's been a lot of fun. I mean, I have a ton of love for Brett and appreciation for his role in my early development as a quarterback. And it's just been great. You know, we're talking, you know talking at least once a week. Having him come down to the Bahamas was amazing. I went down there a couple years ago and spent some time with him at his house. I just think that him and I had met as kind of older quarterback

and young quarterback, as kind of older quarterback and young quarterback, and now kind of reestablishing the friendship as, you know, retired legend and myself kind of now the older quarterback. It has been really fun to kind of see him through different eyes as I kind of understand him a little bit more. Because I'm 35 now. I was drafted. He was 36.

So, you know, when you're 21 and you're playing with one of your favorite quarterbacks as a kid and a guy you looked up to, you know, I don't think until you get in this position can you really understand some of the thoughts and ideas that were going through his head as he's trying to hold on and keep playing. And they just drafted this young kid and what does that mean for me and so it's been fun to uh just be friends again and uh you know just give him the love and appreciation that uh that he deserves for kind of the time we had together

and and uh and just having him to bounce things off of it's been really good that was awesome hey everything you just said there was absolutely awesome little old bull young bull situation i like everything about that and it makes a lot of sense by the way because in the nfl when somebody gets drafted into a position room sometimes it depends on who the person is they'll say oh he's refusing to help the young guy he's refusing to help the young guy or this guy is overly helping the young guy it's like there's a lot of things up for grabs in the NFL, and positions are not in abundance. So it's always interesting to see how those get played out. Your mustache that you took for your media photos this year

is one of the best mustaches I have ever seen in my entire life. Would you like to elaborate on what makes your mustache better than everybody in the history of the NFL? Surface area. Yeah, I think so. No, I mean, I think the best mustache I've had in my life was probably the one that I wore with the Canadian tuxedo when we went to Winnipeg.

I really felt like, and I spent a little bit of time on that outfit, just put it together, and I felt like, and I spent a little bit of time on that outfit, just put it together. And I felt like I got to a point, and I just knew something was missing. I had the stash. I had kind of the, you know, I was in between a couple of jean jackets. I felt good about the jeans and the boots. And then I found the bolo tie. And I said, okay.

Kind of like the rug in the dude's house house the bolo tie just kind of brought it all together you know just kind of brought the outfit together like that rug brought the room together tied the room together you know what I mean and that mustache anytime you can get it to cover your top lip you know you got something going

you know kind of the only one I've seen that trumps that I'm not saying my mustache against his I'm just, now this. You know, kind of the only one I've seen that trumps that. I'm not saying my mustache against his. I'm just saying the mustache that covers the top lip is Sam Elliott's mustache. And I've been a big proponent for years of him. Whatever movie it might be, it's made better when he's in it and has a mustache. A couple movies he's in, he doesn't have a mustache in, not his best performances. A couple movies he's in, he doesn't have a mustache in, not his best performances, but with the mustache.

And, you know, Tombstone is a favorite of mine. But his covers both lips, and that just, I mean, when you look up the definition of badass in the dictionary, it's a picture of Sam Elliott as Virgil in Tombstone. If I was Sam Elliott, I'd put that on a quote, put that in my Twitter bio immediately. I'm not sure if he has Twitter or not. That mustache, they just put a picture of it up where he's holding a revolver and his top hat game is a little bit better than what you had going on in Winnipeg,

but that mustache is a thing of beauty. Upper lip decoration is just a fantastic thing for anybody to rock i have adolescent pubic pubic hair on my face much like jk scott so i can't pull it off i'm incredibly jealous i think you got jk beat i i agree i don't think he's shaving yet i don't think he's shaving yet hey you said it not me uh you said it not me did but he's a dad so he's got that on you he procreated yep hey good for jk scott hey hey yeah big year for him uh for you guys you got a pretty big test coming up this weekend uh the vikings if i'm recalling correctly big talk show host, did a lot of research there.

They looked good early. Vikings, obviously, in the division, big deal. What's the work week look like this week, and what can we plan for this weekend? And I know you can't talk about it, but I bet on you guys to win the Super Bowl, so pretty excited to see that all work out as well. Oh, yeah. Did you, huh? Yeah, I did. I did. I'll send the 31 other teams.

What'd you say? I'm sorry. I missed you right there. I was being told we have to go to a commercial break right now, but we're going to push it for four minutes. What'd you say about that? I'm not sure what the question was, but I'll just say that... Wait, what was the question? How are you guys going to do this weekend? Oh, Minnesota, yeah. Yeah, they're a great team uh coach zimmer you know fantastic coach got a lot of great personnel

you know stud stud guys up front hunter and griffin stud guys inside two great linebackers and their nickel package guys that can cover on the other side of the ball obviously got kirk great player. They're running back. You know, had a big game to start. Whenever he's been healthy, he's been really, really tough. And then you have two of the top receivers, one of the top tandems for sure, and our teammate and phenomenal golfer, phenomenal golfer, Adam Thielen.

Phenomenal. Hey, he hit his three-wood 280 or 300 yards i watched it he carried us to a tie it was unbelievable what a tie incredible how do you feel about that hey hey real quick while i have you here and you just did a full breakdown of the vikings how do you feel about the tie in the nfl arizona cardinals detroit lines here's my answer i got to get it in quick i think it's two point play offense play. Your offense is on one side. Their offense is on the other side, competing against the defense, shootout style. If it's tied after five, have the kickers come out and bang field goals right next to each other, just like a shootout. You like that overtime offer?

Yeah. I mean, the college one isn't bad either, though. Yeah, I do kind of like it. It takes out punters completely, but so would the two-point play thing. No, punters, you got to hold, right? You're right. Hey, I didn't even think about it. You're 100% right. Come on, bro.

Yeah, it means a lot. You're right. Mr. Rogers, we have to get to a commercial break, I'm being told. I've been yelled at four times during this thing from the Westwood One people. But I want to let you know, I can't thank you enough for coming on the show. You don't do this a lot. You're magical in here. And good luck the rest of the season,

not just for my wallet, but also for your success as well. Thank you, Pat. You're a gentleman and a scholar. I dropped out of college. Ladies and gentlemen, Aaron Rodgers. Thank you so much, Aaron. We've got to get to a couple of breaks. That awesome that was awesome he's the best i mean the tech didn't work

there early but we got some good he's the best pure surface area pat that's what he said why is your mustache so good i asked he said pure surface area and I'll tell you what, I believe him. Lip coverage. That thing is very strong, very sturdy, and very beautiful. Thank you so much to Aaron Rodgers for stopping by. If you want to send him a tweet thanking him, we'd be grateful. Another man has stopped by that talked about the Aaron Rodgers situation. By the way, some articles were written about Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre's relationship after he came on the show. Because Aaron doesn't talk much. And I'm thankful he did.

And some articles were written that took some quotes out of context, which is why Aaron Rodgers doesn't talk much, by the way. Exactly. It's because that happens. So we had to ask another quarterback that played alongside Brett Favre who stepped into the sauna with us just yesterday here at this box truck studio and chatted about it all. Another guy that I'm a big fan of a man that i was a teammate

of uh with i showered with this man i learned a lot from this man and tomorrow night on espn at six o'clock i will be calling the unc tar heels versus wake forest demon deacons with this man mr matt hasselbeck yeah boy. Welcome to the truck, man. Hey, wow, this is awesome. It's a little hot in here, huh? Matt, you have no idea. Trying to make weight? You got, like, a wrestling tournament or something?

That's funny you say that. This is a little bit of a sweatshop operation here we got. Matt, the first hour was a little bit of a debacle, but we are on the air, which is all that matters. When did you get into town? Just now, literally. Actually flew into Raleigh-Dur air, which is all that matters. When did you get into town? Just now, literally. Actually flew into Raleigh, Durham. Kind of a pro tip. You're trying to get to Winston-Salem. You have two options. Flying to Greensboro. Actually, three options. Flying to Greensboro. Yep. It's a good option. Hard to get a direct flight. Okay. Or you go to Charlotte.

Okay. Or Raleigh and you have an hour and a half drive. I opted for the Raleigh-Durham traffic over the Charlotte traffic. Well, I think that was a good decision by you. What you will learn about Winston-Salem, which we learned, not a lot happening right now. I mean, we walked to the— Not yet. Not yet. Not a lot happening yet.

Friday night, it's going to be what, as the kids say? Friday the 13th. Freaky Friday the 13th. There you go. Full moon, too, I think. I heard a rumor Lindsay Lohan might be at the game. Or Jamie Lee Curtis. Isn't that the movie? Now we're playing the game. Hey, now we're playing the game. We get Lindsay Lohan talking about Thursday night football on ESPN on Friday. Now we're playing the game. Mr. Hasselbeck. Yes, sir. You played in the NFL for 18 years. Correct.

You were a starting quarterback for the Green Bay Packers for a game. No, never for the Green Bay Packers. I was the starting field goal holder for the Green Bay Packers. The starting quarterback was this guy named Brett Favre. Favre. Favre. That's what it was. Hey, were you and Brett Favre tight your entire relationship with him there? I think early on I was like probably just the guy that would go fill up his truck with gas. Yeah. Like first year. Yeah, you got to do what you got to do. But we became friendly. Yes. Yes. Because Aaron Rodgers was on here the other day. He doesn't do a lot of shows. No big deal. Mr. Rodgers, by the way, if you would like us to be your outlet forever for everything, we're completely down with that.

Ain't that right, Ty? He's an owner of the Packers? That is absolutely correct. Ty owns the Packers, by the way. I love it. My former boss. Yeah. By the way, Ty, you sent him out of town to the Seattle Seahawks. Kind of a rude thing you and your family did, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Yeah, he had a lot of success in Seattle. I think we did each other a favor. That's what Green Bay people do. They do good things.

He's from Iowa. But Aaron talked about how at the beginning of his relationship with Brett, he was brought in. He was contentious early. Brett Favre was kind of an older quarterback trying to hang on, I believe were his exact words. And then whenever everything went down, it kind of got weird. But now they're good friends again.

As Amanda was looking from the outside during that entire situation, as a guy who knew Brett Favre, was that something you would have expected to happen because of how competitive an NFL locker room is? Listen, it's competitive and Brett Favre is competitive. I go back to how Brett Favre became the starting quarterback in Green Bay in the first place. So he gets traded from the Atlanta Falcons. Oh, I forgot that he was on the Falcons.

And the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers was the magic man, Don Makowski. He was a really good quarterback. He gets hurt against Cincinnati. Brett Favre comes in. Young guy. High pick. He was a second round pick, but traded for a first round pick. And he comes in, throws a

touchdown pass, wins the game, and they never look back. And so I think if you look at how Brett Favre got his start in the NFL, he probably was thinking, I'm never coming off this field. I saw the Magic Man, guy who had posters of him all over Green Bay, all over Wisconsin, lose his job to a young guy who came in and took it. It's part of the reason why I think that Brett Favre

had that streak. It's part of how he was raised to never come off the field. But also, I'm not coming off this field because there's somebody else to come take that job. And early in his career, it was guys like Ty Depper or Mark Brunel. But never really was there a first-round pick, like a guy with the talent of Aaron Rodgers. And so I just think it was like that competitive mindset of Brett Favre. It wasn't personal. He was just a football player and had a one-track mind. And I also think that if you're an older quarterback,

you're trying to win the Super Bowl, Brett Favre, you're expecting that first-round draft pick to be like a guard or a corner, a lockdown corner. Help me out. Help me win a Super Bowl. Eli Manning, Daniel Jones right now in New York. Right. The difference is Brett Favre was probably playing at a really, really high level.

Whoa, hey. I'm just saying. You cannot talk bad about the Mannings. I know that from firsthand. You cannot do what you just did right there. I'm saying. We'll dump it. We'll dump it.

The Giants aren't necessarily a playoff team right now. Yes, the Packers were a hot team. Spend your first round pick on a kid from Cal who's a quarterback. Brett Favre was like, hey, I thought we could have got better as a team. So there's automatically a little bit of a situation coming in. Yeah, so when I listened to Aaron Rodgers, your interview with Aaron Rodgers, and I heard him explain that. You listened to the show?

I did, I did. It was good. Pretty good show. I really tuned in for Aaron Rodgers, but, you know. I don't care. Okay. Hey, some people might be tuning in right now from Matt Estabek. But listen, it was actually a really good good because I do know both of those guys,

and I like both of them, and there was a time when they didn't necessarily love each other. And it happens. Quarterback rooms are very competitive. Well, you guys are treated like royalty everywhere you've been your entire lives. Your entire lives, quarterbacks are treated as royalty not always yes not always maybe maybe yes i i deserve i think always i think ever since little league if you show the ability to throw a ball well if you show the ability to be intelligent everybody knows like hey there's not a lot of people like this this is a job that can make you

hundreds of millions of dollars and be in the most prestigious position in all of professional sports, as some people say. So your entire life, like Trevor Lawrence, for instance. Trevor Lawrence, and no offense to Trevor Lawrence, I think he's an incredible football player. There's no way he's ever going to be relatable to me. I'm never going to be able to talk to Trevor Lawrence.

He's a great guy. He's a great guy. You're saying that, though, because you were in the same position as Trevor Lawrence. Quarterbacks are treated differently, so whenever you've got two of those people that have been treated like that their entire life in the same room, I don't know how it doesn't happen more often, is what I'm

saying. I don't know how that type of stuff doesn't, because you've got humans in there. Well, you're competing, but, you know, I think, like, Brett Favre the rookie would have had a better chance of being best friends with Aaron Rodgers the rookie rather than Brett Favre the the rookie, would have had a better chance to be in best friends with Aaron Rodgers, the rookie, rather than Brett Favre, the 40-year-old. Makes sense. You know, competing for the same job. I mean, Brett Favre, the rookie.

Brett Favre's rookie year, he was playing for the Atlanta Falcons and Jerry Glanville. Brett Favre is not in the team photo. Why not? Because he was out partying the night before and never made it to practice in time for the team photo. So now the Hall of Fame player on that roster isn't in the team photo of that roster. Is that real? Yeah, it's real. It's a real story.

True story. That's like Mr. Ursae. Anytime we had a team photo day, they were always like, Hey, by the way, I posted a picture this morning of team photo day. Team photo day, pretty big day in the NFL. Big day. I know what you're going to say. Day, pretty big day in the NFL. Big day. I know what you're going to say. You wait for the owner of the team to show up.

Is that what you're saying? Yeah, so we would have a scheduled team photo. They would actually say on the thing, 1030-ish. That's what they would say. Listen, I'll one-up that. When I was playing for the Seattle Seahawks, I was 10 years in Seattle. Paul Allen, the owner of the team, bought the team more out of civic duty initially. He just loved the city of Seattle.

It wasn't necessarily like, oh, my dream is to own it. Is he the guy that owns Starbucks? No. No. That's not the same guy. Paul Allen is the gentleman that started Microsoft with Bill Gates. And he recently passed away last year. Very, very sad.

Rest in peace to Paul Allen. But Paul Allen had a lot going on. He owns the Portland Trailblazers. He owns a away last year. Very, very sad. Rest in peace to Paul Allen. But Paul Allen had a lot going on. You know, he owns the Portland Trailblazers. He owns a lot of things. And so we would get dressed up in game uniform on a Saturday walkthrough before the game for the team photo. We literally would get in the team photo, wait there, wait there, like just seeing if maybe he was going to show up. And, like, you wait for, like, 10, 20 minutes that someone would come out and be like, oh, he's on his ship in the Mediterranean Sea.

Oh, okay. And we were just practicing our uniform. So there were a couple times, a couple years where there's a chance we might have like superimposed him in from like a picture. But it was a very big deal when he would show up. It was like, it was a great thing. Sosae he who knows by the way from what i've heard ursae is a night owl so that he actually goes into the colts facility like all night like he works literally at night so whenever they schedule these pictures at 10 30 i mean you're kind of ruining the the owner of the place is kind of operation but there's no other time to do the photo because you got to travel to a game

so it's like there's a lot going on. So every time, it was 10.30-ish on the thing. All right, here's what you do. We got this at this. We got this at this. 10.30-ish, we have a team photo, and then we'll wait it out. It turned into a whole show.

I mean, it literally turned into a whole show. I ended up doing an entire stand-up set, basically, bringing up rookies to sing, and then all of a sudden, Ursae would turn the corner on his golf cart into the indoor facility, drive that thing literally straight up to where we're sitting, and goes, boys, let's do the photo. And he'd come walking.

It was a legendary. I actually think that's where your stand-up bit kind of started. For sure. Because we're sitting there. Everyone's on a bleacher, just waiting there. Uncomfortable. And it's awkward silence. And somebody, maybe a coach coach or maybe you just did it

on your own i did they were like uh pat get up and entertain us that's basically what it was they were like uh hey clown uh you know what you're here for please go up there and uh go ahead and talk and by the way this was during an era where the potential general manager did not love me and now i'm just standing up there in front of him. He's in a suit in front of Chuck, who Chuck has always been a big-time laugher to me, which I appreciate. It makes me feel good. And then you've got all these other people. You've got everybody's in that team meeting.

That team photo was a big moment for the team. And, yeah, it turned into a show. You know, the team photo, my rookie year, I was actually on the practice squad of the Green Bay Packers. And so there were four quarterbacks in our room. It was Brett Favre, Doug Peterson, Rick Meyer, and then me. Pretty good little room. It's a great room, but there's not a lot for the fourth string quarterback to do at practice. I was playing scout team tight end, blocking Reggie White every

day at practice, but I still would wear a red jersey, like a quarterback jersey. In Green Bay, the offense wears white, the defense wears green, and the quarterbacks wear red. Well, for Team Picture Day, everyone wears their game uniform. Well, since I was on the practice squad, I didn't have a game uniform. So my rookie year, I am not in the Green Bay Packers team photo either. So that's the draft class of 98. So then in our Super Bowl in 2005, I tell that story.

And I was like, yeah, Mike Holmgren back then didn't allow practice squad players to be in the team photo. I just made it up. It was a little bit of a scab that I got picked or whatever. Mike Holmgren, this is right before the Super Bowl. Someone says, oh, how come you didn't let him be in the team photo? He's like, oh, he's lying.

I let him be in the team photo. They come back to me, just trying to create Super Bowl week media controversy. They come back to me and just trying to create Super Bowl week media controversy. They come back to me and they were like, Mike Congren said you were in the team photo. And I was like, oh yeah? Well, the team photo exists. Somebody Google it. I don't know if Google was a thing back then,

but maybe it was. I don't know. But anyway, these team photos are kind of a little bit of a tricky thing. There's a lot. And they hang on the walls of every facility forever. Those things, you get immortalized in the facility forever. And there's always one guy that ruins the team photo. You don't know it, but there's always one guy that's given a weird emoji face,

trying to screw up the photo. Like Jeff Thomason, people know him as a tight end for the Eagles, but when I played with him with the Green Bay Packers, he would do a funny face, kind of screw up the team photo. How about the Super Bowl photo? That's something to look at. I got to be a part of one of those. I mean, they do that on like Tuesday, media day or whatever.

I mean, I was with some people that night before. They were also in that team photo or in that Super Bowl photo. We might have been running on about an hour and a half sleep. I had no idea what I was walking into. I had these big fake earrings from Clair's Inn. You? team photo and that Super Bowl photo, we might have been running on about an hour and a half sleep. I had no idea what I was walking into. I had these big fake earrings from Claire's Inn. You? Oh, it was a rough time.

A lot of people ask me if I have any. Yeah, for the Super Bowl. I'm in a Super Bowl photo, front, lower left. I didn't have shoes, so the equipment managers had to give me shoes. You had to wear black shoes. I only had white shoes, so they gave me these size like 14 shoes. I mean, I'll never be there again. Never be there again, and my photo is just a complete joke.

Because it is so funny. You've got the highest level in everything, right? It's the biggest, best athletes, the richest athletes. You've got all this stuff going on. You've got owners there. You've got coaches. And just for a brief moment there, it's just like you're back in high school taking a photo, and somebody's ruining it. You look terrible.

Your parents are going to be embarrassed. Don't ruin the family's name. And there I was right in the middle of it doing it. It was a joke, man. It was a bad situation. Speaking of bad situations, we've got to go to a commercial break. Don't know if we'll get to it. Honestly, don't know if we'll get to it. I have no idea if we're going to go to a commercial break. Don't know if we'll get to it. Honestly, don't know if we'll get to it.

I have no idea if we're going to go to it or not. Hasselbeck will join us on the other side, I think. Sure. I could do one more. One more segment. We've got Romanowski, 1130. Oh, Bill Romo. Boston College, class of 84. One of the hardest hits I've ever taken in my life was a preseason game, Green Bay Packers at

Denver Broncos. He hit me so hard. He hit me so hard. Later in the same game, I got Packers at Denver Broncos. He hit me so hard. He hit me so hard. Later in the same game, I get hit by somebody else, 94. And I go, hey, 94, is that as hard as you can hit? Like trying to act tough. And he looked at me and goes, hey, bro, I'm not the one who hit you. I was like, wait, what?

I lost my helmet. Probably lost my head. That was before concussion protocol. That was bad. But he didn't break your eye socket like he did to a teammate years later uh wild scene there i think bill roman i know you gotta hit a break but bill romanowski has nutrition 53 like a supplement company good stuff good stuff he was also on other supplements while he played that i'm trying to get on uh if you know anybody let me know uh we're kind of in two different worlds here ty is in

the middle of a full construction of an operation while we're out here in a hot box. But Matt Hasselbeck has joined us. We are in the sauna. We are literally in the sauna. I feel like I'm back in the NFL locker room, right? Yes. Because there's two options, basically. If you want to hang out, you're either in the sauna or you're in the steam room.

Or? Or the hot tub or the cold tub. I'm bad at math today. There's a lot of options. No, I mean, you just got out of an hour and a half drive. Training room, weight bad at math today. There's a lot of options. No, I mean, you just got out of an hour and a half. Training room, weight room, locker room. There's a lot of options. You know, that is something that's interesting.

The training room is a place that if your trainers and physical therapists don't have a good personality, the whole team can be ruined. They want to be known as athletic trainers, not trainers. ATCs want to be called athletic trainers, not trainers. Listen, my lady was a server, not a waitress. I completely get it. I read PFAT's weekly. Look it up.

It's a magazine. Professional football trainers, something. I can't. Well, you know what? At least I called them trainers. People on the internet call them water boys, and I always get very angry. I'm like, those water boys you're referring to, they work 20 hours a day for about seven months during the season.

But if they don't have a good personality, the team can really go into shambles. That's a real thing. A lot of time in the training room. Nobody's happy when they go in the training room. You're not walking in the training room, you know what, feel good today. Let's take care of everything. Let's just have a good time in here. Well, think about it.

It's a lot of people coming off of surgery, a lot of people dealing with injuries, painful injuries. It's the opportunity to have kind of like a half-empt a half full, you know, feeling when you walk in there. They always said. Contagious. If you have a glass and it's half empty, you're a pessimist. And if the glass is half full, you're an optimist. I've always said, get a smaller glass and that thing will be filled to the top.

Jim Irsay told me that during my retirement conversation with him. I started dying laughing. He was hitting a vape, which, by the way, shouldn't do. I've been learning you should not be doing that. Somebody should tell Jim Irsay to stop vaping immediately. It's not good for you anymore. Yeah, I think I'm the one who sent you that. I sent you that initially.

Matt Hasselbeck's looking out for me. He's become my pseudo-father of this whole thing. Well, I just saw your father over there. He wasn't being very fatherly. I'm like, is it hot in that truck? He's like, yeah, it'll be fine. He could cut a few pounds. You've got to remember, my dad built this thing by hand in like a week.

So the fact that we're telling him... I'm looking out for you. I'm looking out for you. Yeah, but Tim McAfee is not happy with all the slander being thrown at the air conditioner because putting in the air conditioner... You are his athletic training room right now. Exactly. Very pessimistic view of this thing.

Glass is half empty. I think we've been talking about that. I think the glass is all the way empty with the temperature. Well, if we make the glass smaller, it'll be colder in here. People pay a lot of money for a sauna. You got one free. Like, this is nice. That's right.

And I need to get some stuff out of me anyways. Thank you. You probably not. You're a much more pure man, but not me. Speaking of getting things out of you, have you ever heard of a human past the age of 15, maybe 16,

getting mono? Sam Darnold is out with mono. Le'Veon Bell is getting an MRI on his shoulder. Sam Darnold has mono and they're saying at his age, it is a very dangerous disease to have. I don't even know how you get mono.

I have no idea. Sam Darnold is not very old, though. He's one of the youngest quarterbacks. 22. 22. Yeah. So when I was kind of evaluating all those guys coming out in the draft, Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, Josh Allen, all those guys,

Sam Darnold was like 19 or so. So you're comparing him to like a 23-year-old Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, Josh Allen, all those guys. Sam Darnold was like 19 or something. So you're comparing him to like a 23-year-old Baker Mayfield, and he's like turning 21. I'm not surprised he has mono. That is right. He's a young kid. They call mono the kissing disease, I think, right? Well, that's what I'm saying.

I had a friend in college. He was a little bit overweight. Retired offensive lineman, moved to Everton Long, snapper. Was just on a team to party, very obvious. But he was always little bit overweight. Retired offensive lineman, moved over to long snapper. Was just on a team to party. Very obvious. But he was always battling his weight. And there was a female at West Virginia who got mono, and he was trying to make out with her.

Like, he was like, I get mono, I lose 20 pounds, I'm going to be right back into things. I'm like, I don't think that's how mono works. I don't think you just lose weight and it stays off. So that is the only interaction I've had with Mono since high school when kids would just disappear. Kids would go on a six-month vacation. I'm like, you know, what happened?

Did Ryan move? They're like, Mono. I'm like, damn. How do I get this thing? I don't know the details on this, but Andrew Luck's freshman year at Stanford, he missed almost all that year, I think, because of Mono. It's a big thing. It's a big thing in college.

Andrew Luck had Mono? Yeah. I think a lot of people have had Mono, but you don't hear a lot of people in the NFL. Chicken pox. It's a big thing. It's a big thing in college. Andrew Luck had mono? Yeah, I think a lot of people have had mono, but you don't hear a lot of people in the NFL have mono. Chickenpox. Everybody gets chickenpox. Mono, I'm not sure. I never got the mono. I don't even know how you get the mono. Maybe you're the guy giving people

the mono. It's an interesting way to look at it. It's an interesting way to look at it, Asselbeck. And to my friend that was trying to get mono who's probably listening, I would have made out with you, bub. If you wanted to lose 20 pounds, that's the type of guy I am. Good friend. So that's big news.

That's a crushing blow to the Monday night game. It's a real shame Monday nights got worse. That's a real shame. I feel very bad for them. Thursday nights on ESPN are really an electric factory. Friday this week. Friday this week. Very confusing. Do you want to sit around? Where are you going to go? Honestly. I've been inside that hotel. You can't hear them. Thursday nights on ESPN are really an electric factory Friday this week Friday this week, very confusing

Do you want to sit around? Where are you going to go? Honestly, I've been inside that hotel You can't hear him Never mind I need to actually prep for this Wake Forest-North Carolina game That we're calling tomorrow night On ESPN at 6 o'clock Eastern

On a Friday 2-0 vs. 2-0 Sold out stadium, A blackout. I got a little news to break here. North Carolina, since Wake Forest is going with the blackout, they got that fresh Jordan deal. They're going white on white on white on white. White helmets, white jerseys, white pants,

white shoes, white everything. It's going to be a great optic. Pat McAfee will be there calling the game. I can't wait. I'll tell you what. I haven't prepared for it yet. I'll do that at some point. Can't wait for it. Matt Hasselbeck, you're the absolute best. Yo, Matt Hasselbeck stopping by the sauna, dropping some jewels. Next time he stops by, I would like him to do it in a different language.

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Babbel. Confidence. Jesus. It was German. confidence jesus it was german that guy will be calling the game with me tonight at 6 p.m he was a teammate of mine uh he was one position ahead of me a quarterback until he got hurt and then i jumped him he's a good guy hasselbeck's a guy. Speaking of a great guy, another man who's one of my first ever bosses. Jim Irsay was a boss of mine. And then this guy was a boss of mine. That's it, yeah.

Don't forget about Rudy's subs. Mr. S. I guess that's true. Dave and Erica, I mean, I guess. That was more of like a mutual partnership yeah because i was like i was an affiliate of theirs so i guess they could have fired me if they wanted to so that does make them the boss but i feel like we had a great relationship with each other chit-chatting so and you had complete creative freedom yeah it never wanted to never felt like the boss employee

relationship even though i guess you could describe it. So they could be. But this next guy is definitely my boss. Still, at the moment. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now. By the way, happy 11 o'clock hour to those listening on Westwood. It's September 9th, 2019.

We've covered a lot of things. And right now, our first notable guest to join us is a man who's one of my bosses actually believe it or not he's a man who is world renowned i got a chance to walk around madison square garden where monday night raw is tonight with him during a fight for top rank it was all ukraine it was loma chank's people. And this man couldn't walk two steps without everybody wanting a picture with him. He's the founder of NXT, which debuts on USA Network on Wednesday nights. WWE COO, the Cerebral Assassin, D-Generation X. Suck it!

Triple H. That's a hell of a build-up, Pat. I feel pretty good about it. You deserve it, too it too though man how is life as wwe co founder of nxt and also in-ring competitor triple h right now it uh it's fairly busy the uh the addition of the uh wednesday's live nxt every single week 52 weeks a year is uh is huge and it's uh it's obviously very time consuming, not only from a creative standpoint,

but everything else. But awesome opportunity. I can't wait to show the world what NXT does. I think it's such an interesting point. We'll start there. Back in the day, everybody knows WWF, WWE. Everybody was like, oh, that's just the sideshow wrestling thing that it is that would

come on on monday night some people would watch it some people wouldn't right now here we are in 2019 and what wwe has become that you've sat through this entire transformation of the company is now a globally stock market traded company that makes billions of dollars and produces like 14 live shows a week around the world entertaining people what has it been like for a company that is still a family business basically to become this massive global thing for you vince stephanie and the others in charge to deal with well it's it's been an awesome ride but i can tell you in in some ways i feel like we're just scratching the surface you know um vince will say all the time that he's been you know he's been working on this for a long time as you can imagine but uh he'll say all the time one of

these days we're going to be an overnight sensation um but it it really comes down to everything that's being done and the build of it, I feel like is just all steps of something that is supposed to take place. And I feel like even as big as it is now, you know, when you go 20, 30 years down the line, you're really going to start to look at it as the way people do with Marvel or the way people do with Disney, where Disney's not about cartoons anymore. It's not just about princess movies. It's so much more than that. You know, Marvel's not just a paper comic book company anymore. It's so much more than that. And I think that is the key of where WWE really is headed as a global brand. It is now, but it'll be so much more than that in the future.

That's going to be wild to see if you guys can grow even more. You have your hands in everything, okay? You have movies. WWE production company creates bangers, by the way. We're on Marine 7 right now, I think, and every one of them is good. There's a podcast network that has been announced that's going to happen. You're on Monday nights on national TV. You're on Friday nights national TV.

You're on Wednesday nights national TV. You're doing business everywhere. What is something that you see growing? What is the WWE going to dive into that you see really taking? Is it going to be more in the production world are you guys going to create more shows what the network by the way whenever vince mcmahon started the network he was an idiot everybody thought he was an idiot now everybody's doing it what is next i mean i think those are all things that are based on the

core you know the core product of what we do when when most people look at it wwe they just see you know the the wrestling product the sports entertainment product but it's become a global media company and so much bigger so when when you first talk about the the sports entertainment side i still think that we're just nicking the surface the ott or the wwe network that said, you know, Vince, Vince kind of started the closed circuit TV genre all those years ago. That then morphed into the pay-per-view model. Pay-per-view model morphed into the OTT, the network that you see now.

And each step of the way, people thought he was crazy for doing it. When he when he started the network and tore up the pay-per-view model, everybody said, oh, my God, that's the craziest thing. He's taking his number one line of business and tearing it up and going in a different direction, and now everybody's doing it. He's very rarely seen for being that vision and being in front of it, but that really is where it is. And I think as that continues to grow, our viewership is massive internationally.

We're the second biggest sport, just take it as an example, India. The second biggest sport in India. And like 70% of the consumption of WWE product happens outside of the U.S. But only like 30% of the monetization does. So the growth opportunity is huge. And one of the things that we're working on now is what I've coined the term of global localization on is going to these different markets.

So say, for example, India, where the geography prevents us from getting there on a regular basis, but we can go there with a brand and build a brand on the ground in india of much like we've done with nxt here in the us the nxt uk in in uh in europe and build their own brand there that plays into the bigger brand and becomes um that will make the markets much more engaged and grow the business exponentially think about that they're just going

to have like little armies around the world like okay the nxt uk all of a sudden cesaro will show up in an nxt uk who's a big time wwe star superstar and then now they're just bouncing around the country you guys are normally four to five steps ahead of everybody else and that's why it's been so fun to work under the umbrella of the wwe with nxt and kind of see how it operates the schedule is a grueling one i couldn't even fathom what it was like back in the day whenever you were trying to balance your diet your workout you were a meathead back in the day i mean you were absolutely really still am that doesn't change you were an absolute animal of a man back in the day. And still are, by the way.

49, you wrestled in like 145-degree weather. Big 5-0 now. Yeah, big 5-0. And I can see all the white in my beard as I'm talking to you. Hey, happy birthday. I probably should have known that going into this. That's 100% on me. You're just getting rolling, you know. Day one.

What was it like back in the day whenever you guys were trying to find your business because now i think the wwe is a much more stated place back in the day wwf and wcw were battling you guys didn't really know what the road was ahead you were just trying to put on the best show every night while traveling every night of the year basically yeah i think though i think the key to what you just said is just going around and putting on the best show possible at the end of the day. And these are all things that Vince says, you know, over and over and you find yourself quoting him over time. But like if you just put yourself in the seat of the fans, if you just put yourself there, you can never go wrong because if you do what's right for them everybody will follow and um you know back in the day during the the monday night wars for us it was really just survival and

us you know kind of going out there and trying to put on the best show every night if if uh if they were if wcw was in chicago we wanted to put on a show after them or prior to them that they couldn't touch. And I think that's at the end of the day, what helped us win the war is just everybody was willing to work harder to put on a better product. And that's what will always work. If you're willing to work harder and, and go further than everybody else,

then, then you can succeed. So, you know, it's, it's really not changed now. It just, like you said, it's a bit more established. So the how you're working harder has changed. It's not just about going out there and doing the individual show every night. It's multiple shows across multiple platforms. All right.

I have to ask this question. You talked about it, not me. I mean, you brought this up. show every night it's multiple shows across multiple platforms all right this has i have to ask this question uh you talked about it not me i mean you brought this up so if you fire me for this question um coming up on wednesday nights i mean for the first time in a long time it appears as if there is a potential alternative market for wrestling with a billionaire guy that owns the Jaguars, launching AEW. And they chose to put their show on the same night that NXT has been on for five years. First show they did, Cody Rhodes, the founder of it, took a sledgehammer and hit a throne that looked awfully similar to a throne that you utilize with a couple pyrotechnic things that go off in the background. It looked pretty interesting.

You seem to be back into a war now with a company called AEW. How does WWE feel about it all? You know, the war thing gets brought up a lot. And competition is great. So if they are coming on Wednesday nights and they want to put on the best show they can, great. That's where we are. We've been on Wednesday nights, like you said, for five years. It's been our home.

We've been in discussions with various networks about moving NXT and growing it. Now's the right time. So if Wednesdays is the place, people can say war, they can say not war. I don't see it that way as competitive in that nature. I just see it as us

putting on the best show possible. I think at the end of the day, the winners are the fans and they'll choose what they want to watch. I'm confident in NXT. I'm confident in the talent. there's not one person i would trade anybody for um i can look at that show and say uh bring your best we will and uh and good luck

that's awesome that's such a professional and just and just like we did back in the day when the nxt talent gets done the their goal will be to put on a show that they can look at the world and say follow that oh i love that that's what i did with punting by the way you know what i mean that's what i did when i was kicking a ball i was like all right whoever's next game follow that never in my life but i respect the mindset and i think all elite humans have this mindset where it isn't like we're competing with somebody else if we are our our best us, if I'm my best me, there's no such real thing as competition because everybody can get it. There's enough to go around.

I'm excited for that mindset. With that being said, NXT Takeovers, I didn't really know the brand much before I started working with the brand. And boy, something that you built literally from scratch has become one of the most entertaining live shows in probably live shows you you got cirque du soleil type athletes with an incredible toughness and a storytelling ability both both dramatic and comedy nxt has come full circle for you there's no way this is what you thought was going to happen whenever you launched this product was it you know when we first started it it was designed

as a feeder right and it was designed the the the original idea of it was basically seeing where wwe was and not seeing where the future would come from who's who is creating talent and we're a talent getting the opportunity to go and learn the right way to do things and the correct way to do things, not just in and out of the ring, because that can be taught fairly easily. But how to produce television, how to how to be a television star, how to be a global star. And so it was originally created for that. And so it was originally created for that. And to do that, you need to have a place for, first you needed a performance center for talent to be brought in and the best place in the world to train with the best trainers and the best of everything else. And then you needed a brand and a place for them to go work and apply their craft and improve. And that became NXT. And as it started, it began to take on this kind of cult following very quickly. And then once we started to roll from there,

people started really wanting to get involved in it. And we knew we had something special. Then the concept quickly became, we had the opportunity to create a, if you will, third global brand brand which is where really i think we are now you know this this usa deal um puts it at a different platform level and the goal will be to create this to make it as big as raw and smackdown and uh have a third brand that uh everybody is uh open to going to so that talent can, like you said, go from one brand to Raw to SmackDown to NXT to the UK to wherever we are and seamlessly go around so that they can have a very long, meaningful career,

but without just being in one place. Jeez. There's a reason the companies were just like, Mr. H trips, Paul Hunter. All of these are names that people call you. What is your favorite? Dad? Hey, that was such a good answer right there. Such a good answer. How do you balance your personal life and work life?

Like I said earlier, it's a grueling schedule. It's an incredible family you have. People bring that up a lot. It's one of the things outside of industry talk. People ask me all the time, like, hey, how do you do work-life balance? Tell us about work-life balance. Work-life balance is a load of crap. There is no such thing.

When you do the best you can, just like every single parent does, just like every single person out there that has to make ends meet and work multiple jobs and be gone. And when you're at work, you feel guilty you're not with your kids. When you're with your kids, you feel guilty you're not doing something for work. You know, the biggest thing you try to do, just like everybody else, is make it work. And I think for me, the biggest reminder is to be present wherever I am. If I'm working, I'm working.

If I'm with my kids, I try to turn off everything else and just be with my kids and dedicate that time to them. It's not about the amount of time. It's about the amount of time. It's about the quality of time. And so, you know, you do the best you can with it, but it's not, there's no magic formula where you go like, oh, I have perfect work like that. Chuck Pagano used to say, hey guys, be where your feet are. And that's such a good quote. It's a real one. Be where your feet are. That's exactly what you just said. It's a real one. Be where your feet are. That's exactly what you just said.

It seems like a lot of success. Yeah. Although my daughter rides horses, I have to bring her to the horse farm a lot of times, and my feet sometimes aren't in good places. Ladies and gentlemen, international businessman, rock star of a human. I can't wait until you're giving TED Talks in like 40 years from now, just talking about the billions and all the success WWE has. I can't wait until you're giving Ted talks in like 40 years from now, just talking about the billions and all the success WWE. I don't even know Ted. You know, like you talked about the genius of WWE. Here we are. We're on the ground floor of

greatness of the Pat McAfee time. Oh gosh. You were the first person. You guys were the first people to put me on your network, and I'll never forget that. Gamblers, man. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm so thankful for not only you being my boss, being an incredibly intelligent human, and also all the entertainment you brought the world, because there wasn't a day, I don't think, back in the day that went by that we all didn't just

say ladies and gentlemen let's get ready to suck it i mean and then and then get thrown out of school yep yeah i mean there was a couple conversations my parents had to have with me because of you but other than that i appreciate you so much for everything. Ladies and gentlemen, a stellar father, Triple H. Thank you, man. Thank you so much. Thank you, guys. Good luck with the show, man. I'm excited to see this thing grow and become something massive.

We're on in Italy. The Pope might be watching. Anything you'd like to say to him? He's probably on the can right now. He's watching on his phone. In a moment, he's going to look down and go, holy. I get it because it's the Pope. That's a dad joke for you.

You can take that with you. Boss man, thank you so much. Cheers. Thank you, guys. Appreciate it. What a guy, man. Hey, when I. Cheers. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. What a guy, man. Hey, when I say this, I mean this.

It's the first Monday after NFL Sunday. And it's the first show. And I was talking with the WWE people and talking with everybody. They're like, you should have Triple H on the first show. I was like, would Triple H want to come on my show? They're like, you should go ask him yourself. I'm like, I'm not walking up to that man. And I literally did.

The last one, I walked up to him. I was like, hey, man, I think I'm about to have a show, a live show, a daily one. Will you be on the first episode? He's like, yeah, Pat. Why are you even asking? I'm like, what are we on? I feel like that's how you get on your schedule. He's the man. Absolute man.

He's the man. Absolute man. Let's get ready to suck it. They've gone to a PG product, so anytime I bring that up, I bet you he hated it. Mr. H, Paul, Hunter, Terror Risingizing all these names dad obviously yep husband son-in-law boss whatever you want to call him paul he's a good guy the game cerebral assassin the champ is here he's he's a guy i told him this in a text message when he said, how was it? He asked me that afterwards. He was like, how was it? Was that good?

And I was like, yeah, dude. Incredible. And then I told him, I have no idea how you remain relatable with the schedule you have, the power you have, the cash you have, the connections you have, and the experiences you have.

I have no idea how you remain to do it, but that's why you're an incredible executive, and that's why he'll be talking to that fucking Ted guy no problem, no time. The old Ted. I don't know Ted, but that was a great line. It was. I think everybody will stop by this week. I thank the people that called in. Yeah.

Mr. Never Earned a Penny called in. We had a chance to chat with him. I mean, honestly, our live show every single day is a good time. These podcasts will remain to keep pumping out. We weren't able to put out any words on the show yesterday to give away the Cadillac Escalade, which is still happening during the live shows. So I think we're going to have to push it for another week

because literally technology stopped us from being able to give away an Escalade. Absolutely correct. So the Cadillac Escalade will be extended one week. The Cadillac Escalade giveaway will be extended one week. One week. One week to win a Cadillac Escalade that does work. A lot of bells and whistles. Too many buttons for me, but it'll be perfect for you.

All you have to do is watch back the live shows that are on my Twitter. They are on our YouTube. They are on the DAZN app. Go ahead and get the code words. Even watch it at like four or five times speed. Just fast forward to it. I'm sure Zito, if you really, I mean, Zito looks like a guy who's really disciplined,

but if you were to just, you know, try to tempt him a little bit, I'm sure he'll tell you exactly when those code words have gone out the first couple of days. The code words, if you put them together by next Friday, we'll make an entire paragraph. You first person to put the paragraph into a tweet with the hashtag wins the Escalade next Friday at about 12 o'clock Eastern Standard Time. Is that right, Zito? That is very right.

I've been putting the top right screen, if they haven't seen it yet. A lot of words. Top right corner. Yes. Of the screen. Oh, yeah. I like that. I mean, it is insanity that we're just giving away an Escalade.

I don't think it's getting talked about much. You know why? Because I don't think we really explained how we were doing it. It kind of came to be pretty quickly. People have been asking me the rules and if they can guess early. I was like, to be honest, I don't know what the code phrase is. I don't know how you're getting it.

I have no idea what's going on. I think me and Zito are the only people that really know. Which, by the way, is quite a tag team of anonymity for to really know. Literally all it is is my computer. I bold the letters of the words I've already used. So that's the only thing.

If my computer dies, we don't know. It's in my notes. I have the original copy. It's like the Declaration of Independence and National Treasure. I have the original copy. We're in a good spot. But yes, you can win a fucking Cadillac Escalade if you just watch our live shows. On DAZN, my Twitter, and YouTube.

We're going to have to pull those down at some point. A lot of people are asking, are the podcasts not on YouTube anymore? I believe parts of them will be pulled and put on YouTube because we're very thankful for our YouTube community. But DAZN paid a lot of money to have the videos of our podcasts. And as a small business owner, sometimes you have to make decisions like that, especially whenever they just dump a pile of money in front of you. But there's still a free option.

I mean, there's still a free option, which is good. By the way, all the rave has been if you do sign up for DAZN, you get to watch us in between breaks on the DAZN app and see what goes on during the breaks, which from the Twitter reaction has been the best part of getting to the Zone app. By the way, we can't turn off the microphones during the breaks. Hot mics at all times. At all times.

So for two hours straight on the Zone app, we are live. Whether we like it or not. Bill Romanowski called in yesterday. Had no idea he was live yet. Who knows what was coming out? Exactly. By the way, much more buttoned up than I thought. I think so, too.

But I think he knew he was going into a radio interview. Yes. Clinton Portis had no clue. None whatsoever. Clinton Portis calls in, and we didn't have the ability to put him on mute. So Clinton Portis comes in and goes, oh, that shit, you know? And I'm like, ah! Will Lutz. Oh, by the'm like, ah, Will Lutz.

Oh, by the way, incredible line by Will Lutz. Let's play that right now. Well, Will, is your full name Will with one L? No, it's William with two. I don't know what the hell my dad was thinking. Is your nickname Will with one L? That is how it's just Will with one L? Yeah, just one L. We gave an L to Houston.

After hitting a 58-yard game winner on Monday Night Football, go ahead and put your balls on the table, Will Lutz. I'd do the same thing. Balls with two Ls, Will with one. We all know where the other one went. Respect. I like Will Lutz a lot all of a sudden. Yeah.

Adam Vinatieri is still my favorite kicker of all time. He's about to have a bounce-back game of all bounce-back games. Cleveland Browns about to stomp the New York Jets. Has anybody said? Did Demarius Thomas have mono? Did Bill Belichick send mono to the New York Jets? Probably did. That's the most Bill Belichick thing of all time.

What's up, Tamaris? You want to soup boring? Honestly. All right, that's what you need to do. We're going to give you a shot here. It's mono. It's going to be a rough six weeks for you. We're going to send you down to the Jets.

Just need you to spit in Sam Darnold's Gatorade. Yeah. Send a text back to the evil empire. He's hot. Month and a half. Just like kids did back in the day in grade school get mono don't see him till the next semester just the way it goes he's gonna come back 120 pounds that's what mono does it just shapes you up very quickly ladies and gentlemen we interrupt whatever we are potentially talking about at this moment for a reading by Zito.

Thank you, Pat. A lot of words on this one, Z. Let's make sure you're not supposed to read them all, probably. I assume you're supposed to pick a couple. Okay. Something to think about. I'm going to talk about Legacy Box today. We're excited.

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From my childhood I sent them all in I'm going to tell you right now I'm ad-libbing all this it tells me to incorporate my personal anecdotes here no I don't know it's what I'm doing this please just I'm sure it's going great. I'm sure Legacy Box is very excited about how this is going. Yeah, I'm going to motivate my audience, or your audience right now. No, this, by the way, this particular segment, this is 100% your audience, for sure.

This is your show, Bob. No, no, no. Yeah. Save your family film and photos from degrading or being lost forever. Yeah, okay. Unable to play the recordings because they don't have a VCR anymore or their camcorder is broken. You're going to miss the sentence there.

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Get organized. Clean out your closet full of old camcord tapes and aging film reels. Send your legacy box filled with... It's just when you decide to take a break. Your decisions on what to put emphasis on and when to stop and pause.

It really is a work of art. You're like Bob Ross with the reading. You know what I mean? That's a compliment, Pat. Thank you. There's no mistakes. They're just happy little accidents happening every other word. Just because somebody's been reading one way since the beginning of time, don't restrain Zito to that way of reading. Exactly.

He's got a new way. Exactly. It's probably... I'm surprised Babel hasn't asked you to teach your fucking language yet on there. You know what I mean? That'd be cool. It would be. You know what else would be cool?

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Let's get back to it. All right, I've been up for like 14, 15 hours straight, just working and talking, sweating, down here in thick Winston-Salem, North Carolina. There's only one thing I really want in my life right now. It's a couple gambling locks from Diggs. Browns at the Jets, there's a lock. I have the Colts plus three at the Titans.

Love that as a lock. I just don't know with the Titans team, man. I just don't know, but I'm all about that. If the Colts are getting points, I'll ride with it, too. I literally wasn't going to gamble last week because the first six weeks of the NFL season are such a roll of the dice. The only thing that's a lock is Andy Reid's season

is in full-fledged right now. The Chiefs are the only lock, really. But I am going to bet on the Colts every single week because I believe in Jacoby Brissett. I also believe in Adam Vinatieri. A lot of people hopping off the GoATs balls all of a sudden. Let's go ahead and hop right back on that goddamn stock barn animal. I like New Orleans plus three at the ramps.

All right. Okay. And then I like Minnesota plus three at Green Bay. There you have it. Your degenerate friend digs with some locks. I don't like that he bet against our friend there. Yeah, well, I mean, that's a one and two slate right there, so take that with a grain of salt.

Says Todd. It's about as simple as that. We had on a Minnesota Viking. Oh, yeah, Harrison Smith was on the show. It has been nice to have a full-time booker. Yeah, it is nice. It's been a hot week for guests. I'll tell you what, it puts us up at the level where everybody else is that has a booker.

Well, I can tell you right now, not very many radio shows are getting Aaron Rodgers calling in on Tuesday. I wonder if Damon Amendola gets it. Hey, you've actually had to turn down some guests. The requests have been so hot. Todd McComas sent me a text the other day that said, how does it feel to just say no to some fucking people now? Because back in the day, just, what, a couple weeks ago, anybody that wanted to come on the show could get it.

Anybody that wanted to come on the show was like, yeah, fuck it, I'll talk to them. Who is it? They did what? Yeah, I'll fucking talk to them. I don't care. Now it's like, I could say no. They're like, you could definitely say no. I'm like, I feel like a bit of an asshole if I say no.

They're like, well, our job is to make sure there's enough people for you to say no. I was like, well, I'm going to have Foxy say no for me so it's not really in writing of me turning down to people. Let Foxy be the bad guy. But then those text messages started flowing, and I was like, I don't want to talk to that person. If that person's available, they're like, oh, that person's available. I'm like, are you kidding me? They're like, yeah, they'll be on Tuesday. I'm like, what?

I will know to that motherfucker then if that person's coming on. That's what it is. It's pretty cool. It's been a fun little ride here. Thanks to the guests that joined us earlier this week. Thanks to you all for listening around the world. We're getting picked up in Germany on Tuesday. Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

Nein. Ein gross Bier bitte, though. Huh? That's one big beer, please. Down for your boy. Give me a little beerstein. Let's have a good time. So thankful everybody listens.

To send you into an incredible weekend, which I know you're going to have. Remember, pregame with us tonight at 6 o'clock on ESPN. UNC travels to Winston-Salem to take on Wake Forest. A rivalry renewed after a little hiatus after they played for 85 years straight. Ladies and gentlemen, DJ Frankie Maraldo on the ones and twos. It is time for... Oh, you already know what that means. Friday bangers.

All right, we're going to start off with the big boss, Rick Ross and Jeezy from Port of Miami 2. This one's called Born to Kill. You got a question? You afraid of death? Yeah. Is that the question I got for you? I am.

Huh? Flowers on my grave, doves in the sky. Huh? Grass in the sewer, dance when I die. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am a rush. Head all in your system, pussy's tired. Right over top of Rick Ross. Choppers on the seat as they listen to me. Speaking less than niggas, his body's a crease.

He just talked into a microphone. Unbelievable. Saying he's muted. I was forced to kill because I want to live. And if you want to buy a crib, that give you 30 years. Me against the world, pistol in your clutch. We can't even turn off microphones during a commercial break. You're telling me right now you're talking to me, but you're muted? You're currently muted right now?

So this essentially sounds like a one-way conversation to everybody listening? Hey, look at our tech. Me and Ty just had a full conversation over Rick Ross. You guys couldn't even hear it. That's awesome. I think there's a couple other songs in this album that are a little bit better than this one. Maybe so, but this is the one I liked. And I mean, it's

Ross and Jeezy. Come on. Those are your guys. You guys go way back. They are my guys. Me, Jeezy, and Ross have been through plenty of workouts together. That's why I think when I heard this song I was so disappointed. Come on, boys.

They had a beef back in the day. Big time. You don't say. They had a big time beef back in the day. Big, big time beef. I'm happy to hear that they settled it. All right, well, maybe you'll like this one a little bit better. This was actually sent in by a listener, and I really enjoyed it, so I'm hoping you do too.

This is sent in by Justin Whitley, and it's called, I Hope I'm Stoned When Jesus Takes Me. Amen. And this is by Charlie Worsham and the Old Crow Medicine Show. I Hope I'm Stoned when Jesus takes me home. Flying high through them clouds. No one, I don't have to ever come down.

I'm rolling up a J just in case today's the day. I hope I'm stoned when Jesus takes me home. I like this. Bam, bam, bam. It does sound like that, doesn't it? What's that movie called? No Brother Where Art Thou. Great.

This sounds like George Polony's singing. In this place? Yeah. I think I'm just sweating all day. I might be out of sweat. I just done. Boy, Foxy rolling the... Oh, that's a good camera there. Oh.

Oh. Oh, that's a good camera there. Flying high up through them clouds. Knowing I don't have to ever come down. I'm rolling up a J. Just in case today's the day. Hope I'm stoned when Jesus takes me home. And to close it out this week, we're going to go with your selection of Alice Merton and No Roots. You know what this lady likes? You're about to learn.

I like digging holes and hiding things inside them. When I grow old, I hope I won't forget to find them. Cause I've got memories and travel like tipsies in the night. Sam, introduce me to Sam. I build a home and wait for someone to tear it down Then pack it up in boxes, head for the next town Cause I've got memories and travel like gypsies in the night And a thousand times I've seen this road A thousand times I've seen this road. A thousand times.

I've got no roots, but my home was never on the ground. I've got no roots, but my home was never on the ground. I've got no roots. I've got no roots. Funky as all hell. I've got no roots, Funky as all hell. It's pretty good, isn't it? It's a good song, isn't it?

That's a toe-tapper for sure. It's a good weekend song. I've got no roots. I like standing still, but that's just a wishful plan Ask me where I come from I'll say a different land But I've got memories And travel like gypsies This is a good song for like a movie or a TV show

When they're in like a little music club Like a little like 12 seater She's on stage just jamming this She hasn't made it yet. It's like she's Lady Gaga. Reminds me of her. The star is going to be born. By the way, the guy that drives

our box truck has Bradley Cooper's hat from the start. Great. Alright. times. I've got no roots, but my home was never on the ground. I've got no roots, but my home was never on the ground. I got no roots. Hey, have an incredible weekend.

Six o'clock tonight. ESPN if you want. I've done a lot of research. Talked to the coaches for about seven hours today. Let's go ahead and have a good time. You're the absolute greatest humans on earth. You don't have to listen, but you choose to. For myself, Todd,

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