The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1134 - Indy 500 Pole Sitter Scott McLaughlin, Patrick Mahomes, Shōta Imanaga and Interpreter Edwin Stanberry, Brian Windhorst, Michael Cole, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: May 23, 2024

On today’s show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about last night’s incredible Conference Finals in both the NBA and NHL, and look ahead to tonight’s games as well, before breaking down the recent videos of the Scottie Scheffler incident between him and the Louisville PD and what it means going forward. Pat and the boys are also joined by several incredible guests including the pole sitter for this year’s Indy 500, Scott McLaughlin (14:19-29:15), Patrick Mahomes (29:15-56:17), Cubs Pitcher Shōta Imanaga and his interpreter Edwin Stanberry (1:16:31-1:37:16), Brian Windhorst (1:40:50-1:59:46), and Michael Cole checking in from Saudi Arabia (2:04:17-2:09:17). Make sure you subscribe to YouTube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. Or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome, on this Japanese Thursday, May 23rd, 2024. This program starts right now. DORIGANDO! That's right. Today is a big day in our show's history. We will be airing an interview that we recorded literally about 30 minutes ago with Shota Imanaga, the pitcher for the Chicago Cubs who does not speak a lot of English. We also had his translator, Edwin Stanberry, alongside of us. And I'm going to say this one might go up for a daytime Emmy.

This one might go up for a daytime. I'm not sure how many times in the history of daytime ESPN television there has been a talk show where two different languages, one of which is vastly different, is coming from one end of the interview and then obviously stupid Americans

coming from the other side. But I was pumped with the way it turned out. We'll be joining, that'll be one hour from now, we'll be airing that. In this particular hour, we'll be airing a conversation we had with Patrick Mahomes yesterday after hours, where he is launching

Throne Sport Coffee. He's a main investor, but then obviously we got into all the football and the life and what people are saying about him. We also have Scott McLaughlin, New Zealand boy, Kiwi, I do believe is what they call him,

who is the pole sitter for the Indy 500 here in about five, ten minutes or so. Wendy will be joining us in the second hour because tonight the Pacers go into Boston for game two of the Eastern Conference Finals as eight and a half to nine point dogs, depending upon which ten minute span you look at the sports book. We'll talk to Wendy a little bit about that and also what happened last night in the Western Conference Finals as the Dallas Mavericks get a massive win over the Minnesota Timberwolves

with the first quarter and the first half being a Kyrie Irving show. And then the second half to end this thing, Luka Doncic takes it home. Not only on the offensive side of the ball, but on the defensive side of the ball. Had a steal where he actually jumped and swatted Rudy Gobert. Didn't know Luka could jump. Had no idea that could happen. And he took over here at the end. As you see, 102-98

Minnesota over Dallas. Luka says, oh, is that right? Oh, is that right? How about this? Anthony Edwards who called out Kyrie, and Kyrie said he used that as motivation. Came out and scored 12 points in the first half. At the end there, here's a steal from Luka. What's he going to do with it? Well, he's going to move in slow motion while still making people happen.

Ball, ball, trade ball, boom. All of a sudden, Dallas has the lead now, 104-102. Luka hits a three. Then he has a steal. Then he has a hockey assist. And then what's going on? They have the lead in the fourth. What happens next?

Luka can't be doing anything else. Yeah, right, pump fake towards Conley. Jump swat out of Gobert's hands. Well, is he done? Is that all? Just do a little bit of a swat skate? Uh-uh. He's going to run the court.

He's going to celebrate a little bit. He's going to end up getting the ball. A little shimmy. A little shake. Take to the rack. Step back. Clean. 106-102.

That's all she wrote. Western Conference Finals, Game 1. Dallas Mavericks. With a 1-0 lead now in that particular series. And we assume Anthony Edwards and Rudy Gobert and the boys and Carl Anthony Towns will definitely answer. And Big Perk said that he thinks that game's going to 7. Just like the Eastern Conference between the Celtics and the Pacers

is going to end up going to 7. And in the NHL last night, Eastern Conference got started. Eastern Conference Finals got started. And I'll tell you what, I don't know what's going on in New York. Oh, boy. We talked to Chuck, obviously, friend of the program,

and he's a physical lad, an American lad. He's also an absolute dog. Scores early, has a massive shot. And the New York Rangers actually healthy scratched the story of their year Rempe who hasn't been on the ice in a matter of weeks and there's physical team that Florida

Panthers team you'd think you'd want Rempe on they don't seems to be going the wrong way Florida Panthers up 1-0 now today's a massive day because of all the interviews but also because we're talking to a great group of men here the talk's the tables here at Boston Corner at Ty Schmidt Ty sweet shirt hey thank you very much. Not very often is my shirt, you know, being considered sweet because his is pretty good. But you know what? I pulled this out. I said, burn orange?

You kidding me? Why not? Yeah. Why not? It's May in Indy, too. We got the Indy 500 pole sitter that's about to join us. Ty, I know you're jacked up. Yeah.

I mean, I'm just, I was skittish all morning, obviously, because I knew he was coming in. And, you know, I've kind of come back around. You mentioned there's just nothing quite like May in Indianapolis. There's just not. And then people say I'm bummed, though, that it looks like we're going to get a lot of rain on Sunday.

No, don't say that. We got the 85. We got the pole sitter in the building right now, and you're going to be talking about the Doppler on Sunday? Easy come, easy go in Indiana. Could have snow on Sunday. It could be clear skies. Could be rainy. Could be tornadoes. That's a lot of people in one area. Very flat.

It is. That's not good. I don't like what the Doppler's doing. I wonder how the Indianapolis Motor Speedway folks will end up handling all that. Will they have to move it a day if there is? We're not going to put that in the universe. You just started doing that though. Hey, listen. I, I just, hey, listen. I mean, I'm not a meteorologist, but I certainly do look at the Doppler because I know everyone loves the Indy 500.

I don't want to ruin their weekend. Memorial Day weekend. This is what every other house in Indianapolis looks like for about the last few weeks. And Ty's obviously not thrilled about it because he's sick of driving down the street and seeing these checkered flags everywhere. And then, obviously, the cows make milk and winners drink milk so that's going to be out but this city celebrates this Indy 500 like no other place celebrates anything it's the largest sporting event on earth every single year and we're lucky that it happens in this city and we

have the fastest qualifying run in the history of the Indy 500 happening this year so we're going to assume that the cars are going to be a buzz in yeah on Sunday unless weather comes in the history of the Indy 500 happening this year. So we're going to assume that the cars are going to be a-buzzin' on Sunday. Unless weather comes in. One half of the hammer. Dad! Cowboys 10. Digs your tongue. Pacers, Celtics tonight. Obviously, Celtics are favored by 9, 8.5, depending upon

at what time you look at the book. Is this a game that you're betting on? Do you think that the Celtics are able to close this out? Or are you worried about what the Pacers did at the end of that game? How do you think Gombler should be viewing this one? I didn't bet the first one just because the spread was so huge and wanted to see what happened. The Pacers played super, super well.

And now there's two ways of thinking about this one. Did the complete devastation of just absolutely blowing the end of game one, is that going to lead to the absolute collapse of the team? And is this going to be a 30-point victory for the Celtics? Or did that game show that they can play with the Celtics? And are they going to keep it close? So in that situation, you would take the dogs here. I don't think I'm going to take the Celtics strictly because it is such a big spread.

Not because I don't think that they're going to win or whatever. I just don't like taking spreads that big. It would probably be the Pacers or nothing because the way that they just threw away the end of the game, they just absolutely just said, hey, Celtics, here's the game. Take it. Celtics did. That is tough.

Yeah, but it's like 10 seconds left, too. It's not just like the end of the game, like the last two minutes, three minutes. It was like the final 10 seconds just kind of gave it away. And Boston actually steals one at home, even though at one point they were minus 1,000 to win the series. Now they're minus 2,000 to win the series. The sportsbooks are only getting more favored on the Celtics after watching game one.

Yeah, which is tough, but you would hope that the adjustments that Joe Mazzulla makes going into tonight are a little different. Hopefully they have some sort of plan to slow them down a little bit. But it's going to be interesting to see if they continue to just run and gun what team is just going to crumble first, because really that's what happens when you're running up and down. I mean, they passed the ball 390 times, which is crazy. I mean, all those passes you would think that they would have won, but again, we'll see what happens. I'm still very, very confident. Game two in the last two series, though, the Celtics have lost. Okay, yeah.

Both at home. Historically bad game two team. Yes. But with what happened with game one, are they viewing game two as game one? Because you hear Jalen Brown talk after the game. He's pissed. He's like, yeah, we played. Would you be happy with what we just did?

Well, I think what he is realizing is his Pacers team is for real. For sure. And the Knicks tried to downplay it, obviously. Well, they beat a bad bench. And then, well, they beat a hurt team. And, you know, all this shit. It's like, no, the Pacers are is for real. For sure. And the Knicks tried to downplay it, obviously. Well, they beat a bad bench. And then, well, they beat a hurt team. And, you know, all this shit. It's like, no, the Pacers are the real deal. And the Pacers move.

Yes. They run. You know, this late into the season. This late into a career for some of these guys. And now you've got to face a team that is going up and down as if it's a college football team. Can teams keep up? Is that why people potentially get hurt? You know. Maybe. It's who you're playing a part of this

entire thing? We'll see. Celtics are obviously a phenomenal team, but as are the Pacers, that's why I think a lot of us are like, a little bit more respect, please, for this Pacers team whenever you're chit-chatting about them, even though everybody loves the big markets. Now, speaking of markets, ESPN holds the college football playoff market

for like the next 10 years or whatever it was. I forget how many years it is exactly. They signed an extension on top of what they already had. We all know it's moving to a 12-team playoff, so there's more games. They have now become like a landlord. They are subleasing some of the games to TNT Sports. Congratulations to TNT now getting into the football world and into the college football

world with some of the big games tnt will add two quarterfinals each year through to 2026 through 2028 and tnt will present two first round games during 2024 and 2025 now those games will be decided we assume by espn which ones they're going to let go just like how fox did with the big 10 things whenever big 10 was trying to negotiate with Peacock to sublease some of the Big Ten games that they had bought outright. ESPN's doing the same for college football playoffs. I think it's a brilliant idea

by ESPN. Good business by them. But with what TNT's going through right now with the loss of the NBA rights, now they're pivoting to get some of this. I'll be excited to see how it all works out. Charles Barkley was on Dan Patrick this morning, and he said that morale is terrible. Morale is terrible.

And he also called out leadership at D&T saying, I don't know how the hell we got to this point. They've won, obviously, the Emmy for studio show. College Game Day and Inside the NBA are the two that are just kind of batting the ball back and forth over the net for best studio show for the Emmys. Now, once again, Emmys, who's voting on them? Do you care about their opinion? A lot of people do, especially

in the TV world, and normally it causes a good representation of what's good, what's not. We all agree that that show is awesome, phenomenal. Charles Barkley also said to Dan Patrick that he's approached the guys on the show to maybe take that show underneath his production company so that then they can go license that or sell that somewhere. That is the move, boys.

That is the move. And I understand it stinks for TNT fans, but in my eyes, with what they have, and I think I saw Mike Golick's wife. Yes. She added me in the tweet. She said, if you're ESPN, you give the Inside the NBA team all the money that they want and have the autonomy of what our show has. I would agree completely with that entire thing. Now, did TNT put that show together or did somebody who owns the show put it together?

A little bit different setup than what we have, where I own the show, we license the show. Whoever works here is decided upon by one person. So Charles Barkley, if it goes into his production company, then he would obviously be the one, or whoever is in the production company would be a part of it. Nonetheless, we need them to figure that out. Need that show to stick together for the good of sports media,

for the good as a whole. If it ends up at ESPN, sweet. If that's part of the conversation with TNT, because Ernie, I think, still has a deal with TNT. I like that there's a business door being opened between ESPN and TNT because all the back-end people, who are they hired by? TNT, you would assume. So getting everything else in the business line could happen, but it feels like a lot of moving pieces

we're all hoping that it survives. And TNT might have football people but it can go both ways too. Like when the college football playoff comes around and they have to do a pre-show for that it's like hey you can also use ESPN people to do that show on TNT correct or would that be another separate? Yeah I would assume I mean there's a chance. I just like that the business

doors are opening between TNT and ESPN, mostly because of that inside the NBA show. That is how we're all viewing it. It's like, hey, there is a property over there on TNT that is the best in the game. So if you're already doing negotiations and businesses, and it's not just the people that are on camera. Obviously, it's all the people behind camera,

whoever's writing the blocks and everything like that, with how their show goes, I assume, is important. It's like, this is good news for ESPN, definitely. And I think for fans of their show as a whole, it's good news as well. Now, their hockey show has also done very well. The golf, the match has also done very well. So I think they've earned a ton of respect as far as what they do for sports over there. Yeah, I wonder if ESPN is going to sublease any of the other games you know because there's 12 team playoff happening right they uh you know maybe maybe take trip down to cw cw's deserves it cw's been trying to get in this how about amazon you

don't think amazon will pay right apple so all of a sudden now the college football playoff committee had to leverage and espn says sweet we'll buy it all because we are a college football network it's the number two sport in america behind the nfl we love everything about it are the people that work here are obsessed with college football they breathe college football we'll do that now they are all of a sudden are the ones who you know those big platform checks that maybe weren't enough yeah to sway the college football playoff, maybe one or two games now you can go in there. This is not from inside information.

This is just a natural thought. If they're already subleasing some to TNT, you don't think Amazon's going to be coming with a big one with what they've already proven to do to the NFL for Black Friday games, Thursday night football games? We're talking billions of dollars they're paying. So I'll be excited to watch it all unfold. As I read the tweet, I'm like, all of a sudden they become their landlord. Now they are

the college football player. I don't know if this was their idea whenever they got it, but it certainly has become a pretty good business plan as we kind of unroll it. I think it's good for fans to see other networks, a different taste on everything. Now, pivoting away from college football and from football as a whole, let's go to a man who is a record breaker at one of the most historic races in the history of planet Earth.

Ladies and gentlemen, from the Penske team, New Zealalander the pole sitter for the Indy 500 Scott McLaughlin didn't break the record we we wouldn't have done it yeah we wouldn't have done it obviously great to see you buddy hey there's your job he stared you, buddy. He stared you down. He knows the shit you talk about the race. He'd be fun at parties. Yeah, he would be fun at parties. From New Zealand, which is not Australia. No, no, far

from it, but it's like me calling you a Canadian, probably. Oh, don't do that. You son of a bitch. Absolutely, don't do that. Scott, let's not start like this. Okay, I watched Flight of the Conchords. I assume that's... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep, yep.

Yeah? Yeah, I know that show very well. Okay, so you go New Zealand, start racing whenever you were a kid over there? Yeah, six years old, started, and then I moved to Australia actually when I was 10, and that was more for racing, my mom and dad's business as well. My dad was a truck driver, had a few trucks and stuff, and then I got into race cars when I was 16. Okay, in Australia, big racing, right? My dad was a truck driver, has a few trucks and stuff. And then I got into race cars when I was 16. Okay.

In Australia, big race scene, right? Because I think you and I chatted about this. We definitely chat about this. But there was an Australian supercar racer, I believe was the title, that came over for NASCAR, raced in Chicago. He was a rookie in NASCAR. He wins. Like immediately, it's like, okay, here's the next NASCAR guy. He's like, actually, lad, mate, I nascar guy he's like actually lad um mate

uh i think you said a word that rhymes a punt maybe too you guys love throwing around over there which is vastly different but he's i'm going back to australia the racing in australia is a big deal right yeah it's big deal you know he won the bathurst 1000 i won that race as well which is like our daytona 500 our indy 500 it's our basically our everything and uh that was the opportunity that allowed me to come here and race. That was the race he went back for and ended up winning. He's a stud. He's racing the NASCAR now. One of my good friends, Shane, is. It's cool to see him. I don't think anybody's thinking Australia or New Zealand is a race driver hub, but then all of a sudden your eyes

get open whenever you guys with these awesome accents show up win and then decide to dip on back yeah you what now supercars what type of cars are those most similar to very similar to NASCAR so the same sort of concept so when I went from supercars to IndyCar which is when that was in 2020 end of 2020 I got the opportunity to come to America I always wanted to be here like America for me was a big leader. I'm actually married to an American, so it sort of helped. USA! USA! USA! Exactly. So one day I'll be a citizen.

Don't hold your breath. We've got a Canadian back there you're speaking of. No, but we moved over here. I always wanted to be in the Indy 500. This was the race for me to be a part of. Now to be here and be on the pole and stuff is sick. Which number Indy 500 is this for you? This is number four.

I've been told, and now Kyle Larson came over from NASCAR, and obviously he was in the Fast Six. I think he qualified fifth. The Indy 500, it is, right? It is the spectacle. Does it take a little bit to learn, the amount of people, the racing? What is it about the Indy 500, it is, right? It is the spectacle. Does it take a little bit to learn, like the amount of people, the racing? What is it about the Indy 500? It's a big month.

Like just getting used to like the cadence of it and the press. Tie-in-os. Absolutely. That's huge. You know, the check of flags on everyone's houses and stuff like that. You know, it's a big deal. So, no, look, I took a bit to learn. I've gone really bad, honestly, the last three years.

I haven't had good results, but I've worked hard this year. What does that mean, worked hard? Just like looked at a lot to learn. I've gone really bad, honestly, the last three years. I haven't had good results, but I've worked hard this year. What does that mean, worked hard? Just looked at a lot of tape, worked with a driving coach and understood where I've gone wrong, and I feel like I've come in with a completely different mentality and just ready to rip, man. How old are you? I'm 30, 31 in June.

Okay, is there a prime age for drivers? Probably about now. From 28 to sort of 35, that's where you're at. But then I'm racing against like Alio Cash Nervous and stuff. He's like mid-40s and just killing it. So hopefully I'm here to win. Hell yeah. Whenever you talk about the Indy 500, I know you guys will start with groups of three.

It'll be three wide. And Penske, one, two, three. The whole front row is Team Penske. Congrats to you guys. What do we call the team here? Thirsty Threes. The Thirsty Threes is my team. We're the Thirsty Threes. We're thirsty for wins.

Hell yeah. And it's caught on. All the commentators call it that and the fans as well. Fastest ever qualifying speed. And for those that don't know, you do four laps, right? And that will raise your average speed over the four laps. I think the person that ended up lowest was a rookie uh he's not in uh he was like going 229.8 or something like that yeah he has a record at 233.492 so when you're talking about like tenths

of a mile per hour average around the track that is the difference between on the pole and out of the entire race how do you steal those extra little tenths? And how did you become the fastest ever? Is it the car? Is it your driving? Is it the year? What is it? Look, for me, it's like you go after.

I went after my teammates. So we were just pulling downforce out of the car. So the more downforce you can pull out of the car, the faster it goes in a straight line. So you're trying to move around with that thin edge that you've got. But someone like that young kid, Nolan Siegel, that crashed out, like he literally got so much respect because he like was flat or I'm hitting the fence, which is like an amazing way to go out.

I could say. You guys all have to have that mindset. Flat means pedal completely down. Yep. To the middle. And they actually track that on the screen. It's like, where is your pedal at? And that's basically like a check.

Like, is this, does this person have it or not? But it is on the screen like I got a little scared right there, you know, you know Yeah, and he was flat till we hit the fence So it was like it went bad in the end, but it was an amazing way to go out But for me like you just you constantly work and I remember seeing the first time come up on the dash Like it was the fastest speed I've ever gone around there and I was like, oh my god Don't stuff it up just like just keep it smooth and i kept working you know tools and stuff in the car that we've got to look after the tires and uh yeah brought it home over four

laps was one of the best feelings i've ever had man congratulations going one through three and qualifying obviously penske owns the indianapolis motor speedway which inevitably owns the indycar series and you guys you guys cheated a couple weeks ago. There was a push-to-pass situation with Joseph Newgarden. Didn't hit it whenever he was allowed to. It became this big scandal. And since then, you literally win the next week. Now you guys are 1-3 on the poll for Indy 500.

This is like when the Patriots got called out and the Patriots had a mindset of, you guys think that we need to cheat to win this thing. You've used it as motivation, it feels like, within the team. Is that accurate? I mean, for sure. At the end of the day, I pushed the button and the rules are the rules.

We got penalized and it was all about just, you know, working hard to get our integrity and our reputation back and build that with our competitors. But, like, man, we came out the next week. I've never been, you know, felt more ready to come out and just smash it. And we won the poll, won the race. And then now we've got the Indy 500 poll, the biggest poll everyone wants. So, like, let's just go. That's the biggest.

Oh, is that right? Because it was getting real loud. Yeah. It even made it. I think we led the show with it. It was on national news. I think they were talking about it. Yeah, yeah.

It was like a big deal. And then you guys afterwards go, let's all relax's all relax here con man's got a question for you so obviously scotty you're not just waking up and hopping into the car and then driving 234 miles an hour like what is the routine to get to that point where you're ready to go we we watched a video of tyree kill at an f1 race and you know say what you want F1. We think it stinks. But what do you do to get ready? So boring. I agree. They do the reflex thing, like catching tennis balls. What's your routine before you actually get in the car and know, like, all right, I'm ready to go as fast as humanly possible? I've got a couple of little reaction things that I do on my iPad type things,

like reaction testing and stuff like that. And then I just try and get my heart rate up as much as I can, whether that's just with a skipping rope and whatever i find i'm more alert when i'm sitting at like 110 120 heart rate um and then eventually when i get out in the car it's sort of sitting around 162 the whole time how much weight do you lose you're pretty skinny lad five six six pounds normally during a race so i'll burn like in two and a half, three hours. I'll burn 22, 2300 calories. So it's a big workout, but we're not just sitting in the car, but it's...

Yeah, we know you're peeing all over yourself. Of course, pooping. No, no, my teammate does that, not me. Your teammate poops all over you? No, he doesn't poop himself, but he does pee, I know for sure. Oh, you got to do what you got to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, if you're in the last lap and you got to poop... You just got to stop drinking. You got to stop... As soon as you stop drinking, you just sweat it out. Yeah, but you're losing five, six pounds. I mean, what you're in the last lap and you've got to poop. You've just got to stop drinking. As soon as you stop drinking, you sweat it out. Yeah, but you're losing five, six pounds. I mean, what do you want from it? It's a tough game there.

How fast were the supercars going? How fast did NASCAR go? And then is IndyCar the fastest amongst all racing cars? At the Indy 500, yes. We're 180 miles an hour probably at Bathurst at the fastest race in Australia. And it was about 205, 210 for a NASCAR. And then, you know, on the oval, we were 240. I think the fastest I've ever gone was 244, 243.

Okay, so do you know you're going that fast at that time? It's all relative. It's not until you have a moment. Like if you have a slide or, you know, you're going multiple football fields a second. So, like, the minute you have a moment, you're like, oh, wow, this is going pretty quick. Or you're trying to pull it up into pit lane. I had a crash a couple years ago, and it was like 86G, and it just happened like that, like when I hit the fence.

It was just nuts. So 86Gs? Well, 86G, I hit the fence. When it stops. Yeah, it hurt. It hurt. It wasn't great. I would assume. So 180, 205, it hurt. It hurt. It wasn't great. I would assume.

So 180, 205. You guys are going 240. What's the F1 race? Do we know what that is? I think they get up to like, yeah, 205 around there as well. Like, they're pretty fast there. Boom. Okay, so.

Losers. How about when you're, you said you're going multiple football fields a second. So your eyes, it can't catch everything or it does catch everything? It's like a little bit of speed blur, you could say. But, you know, like I said, it's all, all the people going out with you they're all doing the same speed so it's all relative well not everybody we see people get laughed in the back and they're just trying to collect dango yeah they're starting the race getting the check getting on going but no no look it's man it's competitive out there i'm telling you like there'll be 33 and it'll be

just a dog fight the whole time and that's what's so cool about but you guys have to look out for each other because at that speed, obviously there can't be any fuckery. Yeah, there's a lot of trust, man. You're running wheel to wheel and the minute you touch wheels, you're just like a ping pong ball down the walls if that happens.

So you've got to be pretty careful and I think that's why you have a lot of camaraderie between the drivers but at the same time, you've got to sort of, you stand up for yourself as well. Yeah, if you don't win, you're going to get kicked out of there.

Camaraderie's good until you're no longer part of the group or whatever. I know that they've been trying to change the build of the car so it's safer, but every year there's somebody that squirrel suits. And like Scott Dixon a few years back. The tire last year. The tire went flying. It's like this year's car, has it changed much from last year's car? No, it's the same car, same car.

So we've still got the aero screen and stuff that comes over, so it's the halo but with the screen on top of it to stop you know anything coming in the cockpit but they've made a huge amount of like technical you know changes to be it safer for us but at the end of the day it's motorsport you're always risking at some point like you know you can go over the top of a wheel or something like that an open wheel they used to not even have a used to just be their helmets sticking up out of the thing, and it's like 230 miles an hour. That's badass. It's cool, man, though.

You've got to have that element of risk, though. That's the cool feeling about being a racing driver, is being able to have that risk and know that, okay, if this goes wrong, it will hurt. It'll be a problem, but that's, if you can go fast and you can do the lap that we did on the weekend, it's unreal. I just got a heads up from a friend of the program,

Connor Daly via Zito. Connor. Heard you can just erase beers. Yeah. Wow. That's what Connor says just real quick. The guy that you're talking to right now can house beers. So we're celebrating success?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. That's why we call it the Percy Threes. Is that a New zealand thing yeah no i mean i guess we do drink a lot of beer over in new zealand for sure but um we brought a new party scene to the indycar series for sure i love that tone has a question for you there's a chance for storms and rain on sunday does that matter to you when the slicks come off and the wets go on or does it doesn't matter we don't run in the rain on the oval so we don't have we don't wet. So we'll just have to wait.

I'll just be playing PlayStation or something. Any rain or just like if there's any moisture on the track? Any moisture. If this is like a mist, they'll stop it. But I think they can get air tightens out. It's like 240 miles an hour. Yeah. Can't just have rain on it.

70 minutes to try the track. You just put the wets on and you just keep going. Oh, yeah. I do that on the road course, street course, but on the oval, man. John, 240 miles an hour. Indy 500, Tony. They don't just race. I'm just saying where I come from. Yeah, you're doing like 30 mile an hour, right? Yeah. No. No.

Boom. Boom. Boom. I was born down in Talladega, so. Oh, respect. Respect. Those guys don't play. What is the best weather? Warm, cold? Warm's like it's humid. That's a problem. But yeah, we'll go warm.

Warm's best, no humidity though. No humidity for the engine performance. And for stickiness of tires on track, right? Yeah, yeah. So the hardest thing when you're falling in traffic is like getting right behind a car in the heat. And if it's a little cooler, it makes life a little bit easier.

Ty, this is a question for you. Massive 500 fan. Yeah, so obviously I've been very vocal about the Ind indy 500 but that does not mean that i don't i mean you're going 234 miles an hour in a car i do love the van so that's that's yeah i do respect but i i didn't grow up in like a racing community per se same deal like parents weren't into cars or anything like that i've been once i have, hey, if you have the opportunity to go once, absolutely do it. It's sweet.

But how would you sell watching the Indy 500 to someone who has no stake in the game, doesn't care at all? Like, why should I watch this weekend? Look, I think it's amazing just being a part of, one, you see history. It's a race that's been going for, this is 108th running of the race. The historic feature of it is it's hard to go past then you have 450 000 people there's 50 000 inside the place it doesn't know what's what's going on because the snake pit's happening and whatnot it's like timmy trump at 8

10 a.m yeah it's wild it's hot sunday just an amazing if you're a sport fan you just like it's the it's amazing to be a part of just seeing like it's one of the top five best best sporting events in the world and just to i think it's a bucket list for any sports person to come over and just check it out and and see what goes on well hopefully you'll get the milk what type of milk you do whole milk whole milk absolutely yeah yeah oh yeah i'll be drinking that like crazy well i mean dump that and then you get a couple yeah uh scotty good luck we appreciate you making time to stop by, man. Appreciate it.

Thanks for having me, guys. Appreciate it. Hey, before you get up and leave. I don't know. What's the deal here? Do I just go? Well, we're going to throw in a conversation with Patrick Mahomes, Super Bowl champion. Could be Indy 500 champion.

We appreciate the hell out of you, man. I appreciate you. Can't wait to have a beer or two with you. I don't think I've ever drank with somebody from New Zealand. Yeah, let's do it. Australia? Not now, but Sunday for sure. Foster's, New Zealand for beer. Right now, we're locked from New Zealand. Yeah, let's do it. Australia? Not now, but Sunday for sure. Foster's, New Zealand for beer.

Right now, we're locked in right now. Yeah, we're locked in. Yeah, I'll have a sherbet on Sunday. Okay, good. You deserve a good sherbet. Yes, you do. All right, from Scotty McLaughlin, the poll center for the Indy 500, to Patrick Mahomes, the new investor of Throne Sport Coffee,

and obviously on his way to be a GOAT. Here's our conversation with Patrick Mahomes from yesterday. How's practice? How's life? How do you feel? You know, people calling you fat again. That's a whole time of your life. I guess this is going to be the new angle. People are going to attack you, but you're back at OTAs. People are attacking how you looked.

How do you feel, though? How's the body after another offseason? I feel good, man. Yeah, it kind of surprised me. I thought we got the whole dad bod thing out of the way last offseason. Last season, actually, in the playoffs. But I guess people still haven't realized that I don't have abs. So I'll continue to work on that.

And hopefully one of these days we can figure out how to get a looser T-shirt. I mean, the backpack's just holding my shirt in, man. Yeah, yeah. Looser T-shirt, at least. Yeah, and also you got that, you know, because you're so explosive, you got that massive ass, so the t-shirt sits up on the ass, too. You know, it's because you're so athletic

that you look this way, but this is the, this is your new world, pal. Everything you do is going to be overanalyzed and chit-chatted about because you're on your way to goat status at such a young age. Congrats again for that. Hell yeah. This comes with it. I appreciate that. This comes with it.

I appreciate you. This comes with it. Oh, this guy's fat. We've got to find things that aren't perfect to this guy because seemingly everything else is perfect. We are very lucky to watch your time. Let's talk about it a little bit. You're in the middle of the business era now, it feels like.

I saw you give a speech, I think in a Sports Illustrated, talking about the women's soccer team that you and your wife are invested in, about the other businesses you're a part of, and now, boom, we got Throne Sport Coffee. Yeah. This is awesome. How'd you get into this? And what should people expect whenever they open up a Throne Sport Coffee on the go?

Yeah, no, I actually got into it very naturally. A guy named Michael Fideli, who's the guy who invented Throne Sport Coffee, reached out to me because he heard I drank a lot of coffee. And he basically said, I have a healthy iced coffee. Would you have any interest in it? And I definitely was very interested in something that I drink on a daily basis. And whenever he gave me, he actually gave me samples first. I tried them. I thought a lot. I liked that a lot. We kind of tweaked some things here and there. And whenever you can have amino acids, natural caffeine, some vitamin B, all the healthy stuff that you get in all those healthy hydration drinks, but in a coffee, it seemed perfect for me.

I'm crushing them on a daily basis now, and I'm excited for the world to really get into them. Absolutely. You can get some at sportcoffee.com. It's also available on Amazon. Whoa, that feels like a cheat code. That's big. Hey, hey, let's go.

That's good business. That's good business. That's good business. Amazon, man. You can't go wrong with that. Dude, overnight, literally just overnight, you could just get probably a pallet of 100 of these. Now, The Office has had a few of these for the last few days.

We also, coffee drinkers over here, love the buzz, love the energy. I believe the Mocha Java is the fan favorite over here. Love the buzz. Love the energy. I believe the Mocha Java is the fan favorite over here. French vanilla not beloved by everybody because we don't have a sophisticated enough palate. What is your favorite? I like Mocha Java as well. I also like the salted

caramel or caramel from whatever region of the country you're in. But I do like both of those. and then the black coffee's easy i drink black coffee um anyways if i drink it hot so just have a nice easy option or no no flavor i mean they're really all good man it just depends on uh your taste that's real and there's so many different options of coffee i've gotten into it as i've grown older and i do feel like an old man whenever i'm having my coffee my loves it. She makes great espresso and everything. These are delicious.

Hey, you did it. Got one. This feels like a good business. It's in our fridge. It's literally stocked in our fridge. The salted caramel one ran out quick. I believe everybody grabbed it. So congrats to that.

Are you going to be able to be focused enough to still play football? Oh. You said you'd be focused enough to still play football? I'm going to be too focused. The thing is. Sometimes I drink so much that I kind of get too amped up, too excited for the day. So, no, I'll definitely be focused, man.

And it's a substitute for me for some of the other energy drinks or whatever you wanted to drink. And so now I can just focus on my hydration and sports coffee to get me through the day of those long meetings and stuff that we do in football. Yeah, you do. I didn't have to do that all day. It was a pretty short meeting.

I'm meeting, and you're at the golf course. That's how I roll. Actually, cornhole. Yeah, I stayed in the building. I was in the locker room. I got real good at the cornhole. I got real dialed in, felt good. It was a little bit of a hustler, but let's talk about this.

Because you've got businesses, people are going to buy it because you're associated with it because you're Patrick Mahomes. You've had all this success in the world already at such a young age you've gotten paid massive now you're due well it's not other contracts have happened we you don't have to be the one doing that but it still feels like you guys are incredibly hungry and driven do you think it's because your dad professional athlete do you think it's because you're coaching why do you think you have the jib of a guy who just constantly wants to keep going as opposed to getting satisfied ever yeah I think it's just i understand how lucky i am man um to be the kansas city chiefs

um to have coach reed to have uh travis kelsey all these great players around me and i don't want to look back and have regrets man i want to win as many super bowls as possible and i know it's hard it's hard every single year but uh i just try to be driven every single day to be the best that i can be and i know that's a serious answer but that's it's hard. It's hard every single year. But I just try to be driven every single day to be the best that I can be. And I know that's a serious answer, but that's really who I want to be, is someone that gives it all on the football field. And if I do that, I'll have no regrets at the end of my career. And I've been lucky to be in this position,

and I'm going to try to do whatever I can to maximize that. It's not serious, and it would only be cliche if you didn't mean it. And I think, like, whenever the greats say things, other people try to replicate it. You have obviously proven it time and time again no team has ever gone three in a row you know no team you guys were already talking about that immediately after the last one like oh yeah we're gonna run this shit back i think travis said or whatever nobody's ever gone three in a row you guys already had it in your mind and now you look at some of the acquisitions that your team has made we got hollywood obviously incredibly explosive and fast and can make all the plays you bring in the fastest

40 in the history of the combine it feels like it's cheating with your your style offense what is it going to look like how does it feel to have a little bit more uh weapon re i think around you maybe than last year and what are your early thoughts on it all? Oh, man, I'm excited. I mean, just getting those guys out there. I mean, Hollywood's been making plays all week long since we started the OTAs, practice against the defense. Seeing X-Man really running how fast he is and then adding the guys like Rasheed and Travis and the Wiley tight end that we got and Noah Gray.

I mean, it's cool to have weapons, man. It's cool to have these guys out there that want to go out there and be great. And obviously we made it happen last year. We added to that mix to go along with that Spagnola defense. I think we're going to be a hard team to beat when the season comes around. Let's talk about that Spagnola defense, and he was great on our show. It seems like everybody loves him that's ever played for him. You said something at a press conference.

I forget when it was. Maybe in the playoffs after you guys beat Buffalo. You said, like, earlier in the year you had to to learn like, hey, our defense can win us games. Like our defense can win us games. Now that the offense has been loaded up with weapons and you also still have the mindset of the defense being able to do it, do you think like last year made you a much better quarterback situationally or what do you take away from that going into this upcoming season? Yeah, it's a mixture of both. I mean, you got the feel of how the team is built. And I think this year we're going to have a team

that's built to throw the ball deep. I mean, Coach Reed's been preaching it all offseason. We're going to get back to throwing the deep ball. I have to be smart when we do that. But at the same time, I want to be that explosive offense that we've seen in the past. And it takes pressure off the defense. And then when we get up, that's when Spagnola

can really show off all those blitzes he's working on, man. And I'm glad that I don't have to go up against him in the season, only in training camp, because I do blitzes from everywhere. And I want to make sure we can give him that lead so he can really show off that entire defensive game plan that he has. I'm excited that we have the opportunity to see Patrick Mahomes sprinting backwards again. Yep.

Sprinting backwards, delayed, delayed, delayed, Madden, Madden, Madden. Fuck it. We're all pumped about that, but watching you guys win in a new way last year, I think solidified and upped the respect that everybody had for you guys from a football team. Now, this upcoming season, though, schedule release, there's some big dogs early. Go ahead, Tone.

Yeah, Patrick, last year in the AFC Championship, you guys had the Ravens, and then the year before that, you guys had the Bengals. You guys have them week one and two. Do you like those early tests early on in the season to see where you guys are at or would you rather have those guys maybe later on in the year?

I mean, it doesn't matter. I mean, they're great football teams. We knew we had to play them and we know we had to bring our best in order to beat them. I mean, they're great football teams. We knew we had to play them, and we know we had to bring our best in order to beat them. I mean, Baltimore and Cincinnati, both great football teams. I mean, that's why we're playing them in the AFC Championship games these past few years, and I think it gets

guys focused. It gets guys focused to know that we got to come in with our best stuff week one. I mean, we saw that last year when the Lions beat us, so we got to be better than we were at the beginning of last year, but I mean, it's going to take our best football. We're going to be able to just walk in and win football games. Even the Sunday night football

week three against the Falcons, that's going to be a great football team. The only thing I don't like is the early buy. The early buy is always tough. Other than that, I'm just ready to play football and let's see what happens. I didn't pay attention. Super Bowl champions, what week did you get by? I think it's week six.

What? Come on. Earliest I've ever had a bye, man. We do get the Christmas Wednesday night game, which could be like a four-day weekend. So that could help out a little bit, but at the same time, man, I mean that week six bye, it's Texas takes a bye, so I can't even go to my college football

game either. You guys getting a week six. This is all kind of hitting me. That's disrespect. That's bad. Normally you get an early bye week. It's like we were crap early last year. You earn a good bye week normally. So the Super Bowl

champs are week six. Wow! The hell's going on over there, Rog? Do you think they're working against you? Do you think now you guys have gotten too good? Are you guys now the Patriots? Everybody's working against the Kansas City Chiefs. What are your thoughts on on over there, Rog? Do you think they're working against you? Do you think now you guys have gotten too good? Are you guys now the Patriots? Everybody's working against the Kansas City Chiefs? What are your thoughts on that being a real thing? Not from the league, obviously,

but you guys have gotten to the point where you're too good. You're too likable. Travis, obviously. Yeah. The man. He's got songs being sung about him, his friends, and his dad by the biggest star on earth. You've kind of embraced that heel role. We saw you punch or give a dynasty to Logan Paul to punch somebody in the head at Monday Night Raw.

Was there a moment where you realized, like, okay, people are going to hate us regardless of what we do? And have you fully embraced that and expect that for, what, the rest of your life now? Yeah, you're probably going to get it pretty much at least the rest of my career. I mean, Brady did come back at the end and kind of got back on the good graces of everybody. So maybe I can make that a turn at the very end of my career, maybe. But we're definitely, we weren't liked.

The playoff run kind of really stamped that for me, going to Buffalo, going to Baltimore. You could tell that the teams and the fans did not like us. But at the same time, man, you just got to go out there and win football games. They can't say much when you're winning the games. And so I just embraced that. And then, yeah, the WWE thing was awesome.

Awesome. That thing was sweet. I wish I should have got in the ring, man. I got to show off my skills a little bit. I think any time you'd like to do that, that is certainly available for you. You know, the place was very conflicted because obviously you're Patrick Mahomes, but they're not the biggest fan of Logan Paul.

Logan Paul doesn't want any of those people to like him. And then the guy with the head that ends up getting hit with the dynasty, he's J.D. McDonough. Nobody likes him. Nobody likes him. And everybody loves Jey Uso. But boom, you knew that it would be too much time. Jey Uso would be able to regain his balance

and be able to flip this thing on its head, right? You didn't think Jey Uso was going to get punched, Patrick. No, I've seen enough to know that Jey Uso is good about getting out of those situations. What he does with the yeet, that was intense, man. I love that. And then at the same time, though, that's my man Logan. I know he's not the biggest fan favorite there over there in the WWE, but I had to make sure I tried to help him out a little bit.

But I was definitely scared of the big dude. The big dude was a lot bigger than I expected to see whenever he walked up. I was very, very glad and thankful for Jey Uso of getting him out of there because I was not ready to go. Yeah, and the boys obviously stood up and ready to fight for you, and that's good leadership. You're a multiple-time MVP, the face of the league, and the boys are still ready to fight a big son of a bitch on the site for you.

And Braun Strowman, we were very thankful that you came through there. That's the first time ever Super Bowl rings. Oh, yeah. Those fake? Those are fake Super Bowl rings? No, they're real. What are you talking about? Damn.

Right to that JD. I know. Still wearing it. Yeah, he talking about? Damn. Right to that JD. I know. Still wearing it. Yeah, he's still got bruises. Yeah, brutal. Logan never gave my rings back if you want to get those back for me. That's a heel move. That's a heel move.

Yes, it is. Hey, that's what you sign up for. You know, that's what you sign up. Let's talk about, I wanted to chat about, you said, you know, at the end of Tom's career, people started coming back around. Do you and Tom talk? Feels like that would be the only human maybe that would understand potentially where you are in the history of the game, potentially.

We do talk a little bit. He's always kind of giving me some advice here and there. He's not going to tell me all of his secrets, but he's done that. Even, I remember back today, as he changed game, that they beat us. I mean, he gave me some advice in the locker room after that. He's a really good dude, man. And I'm glad that he was able to go out there and win those Super Bowls, except for the one against me,

and really just show off what hard work and dedication can really do. And it's taught me a ton of I've got to continue to get better and better. And you saw that throughout Tom's career. And when I do reach out for advice, he's willing to give that. And I think he's going to make a great impact on the game, calling games, and then at the same time giving advice to young players. So when Tom and you talk about, you know, advice and stuff, he says, they're going to come for you, people are going to hate you,

you're going to have to rebuild your team multiple times, and don't ever do a roast is that how it goes i will definitely be staying away from the roast that was when i heard they actually asked me to go to it and i was like man i just can't even believe that this is happening um but uh there was some funny moments in there i will give that the comedians did a good job but roast i mean there's no rules you kind of just of just have to go out there and just sit there and listen to everybody talk trash about you. So I will stay away from that throughout my lifetime and try to just stay on the straight and narrow. Hey, that's a good decision. Good move.

We're all very flustered as well. Whatever this was about, I was like, so Tom's just signing up to go out there? Thick skin, got Gotta have thick skin. I think Tom afterwards, I was a little naive to the thought of everything I've ever done in my life that is not great is going to get put out to the world so I can relive it.

And then I gotta laugh. If you don't laugh, you're an asshole. Okay, you're a bad guy. I thought it was so good that guys like you who they would want to do it again will not sign up to do it. Like, no. Nobody's signing up to do that. Especially afterwards. Tom's like, yeah, one of the worst decisions

I've ever made doing it. My kids just lost their... It's a shame, but it was a good night. Hey, it was good. Thank you, Tom. And that's the advice. They might be able to get Travis. They might be able to get him. Oh, I didn't even think about it. That would be giant. You would have to be there for that, obviously, because you two are a tag team. I don't

know, though. I don't know. Gronk was getting almost as bad as Tom was on the road, so I don't know if I could even be there if Travis goes. You have to be. That's a part of the whole you guys are like the greatest tag team in football. It's becoming that. I mean, does it feel real? Everything that you two have been able to accomplish?

You walk into the F1 race, you throw a ball into the second level. That's like the most exciting thing that happens at the entire F1 race. We even chit-chat. Look at him undo his buttons a little bit. Just showed up, has sunglasses. Go ahead. I got to get some room for that dad bod, man. That shirt was kind of tight.

No, they didn't even warn me. They just kind of handed me a football and said, can you throw it to this guy? And I was just like, yeah, why not? I mean, it's football. I can do it. And so we chunked it around there in the Dolphin Stadium and got to watch a great race.

Got a pole. Alpine got a 10th place finish, which is points on the board. So we had a nice weekend down there in Miami. Well, okay, so you're the bell of the ball at F1 where everybody is. Everything you do is documented and watched and judged. Travis Kelsey, he's dancing at concerts. We're seeing 45 different angles of how he's responding. Just a few years ago, you know, just a few years ago,

Chiefs weren't like, hey, Chiefs are good, but they're not going to be anything. Could you guys ever imagine where you're both at right now? You two are like the faces of the NFL in Kansas City and obviously playing at a higher level than everybody else still. Yeah, I think you'd be lying to say that we couldn't imagine the run that we've been on. I mean, obviously this is the goal. You wanted to win Super Bowls, and you wanted to do it as quickly as possible. But I think when we look back on it, we'll even realize how special it's been.

Right now we're just embracing the moment, being able to come to work every single day and play football and win football games and then live all our dreams outside of football. It's been a lot of fun. I haven't been able to travel like Travis because I've got kids, but I've been able to move around a little bit within the United States and kind of take my kids and let them see stuff that they probably won't get to see again because of this run that we've been on. Yeah, I assume you get invited to a lot of things.

It's wild you didn't go to Lake Como. Yeah. Travis was at Lake Como this weekend. My algorithm also tells me everything Travis is doing with his life, and then my wife will tell me everything that Taylor's doing. So I feel like I'm a part of their relationship. I couldn't even imagine being on that side of it all. You guys are handling it great.

You need to know that. Legit. Legit. I appreciate it, man. We enjoy it. It's been a fun run. I'd like to take some of the credit. I was the one who invited Travis to the first Taylor concert

when the friendship bracelet was – he was sitting in my my suite so i feel like i was the matchmaker um i i had some input in there as well i was like dude just go for it just go for it and and you know travis man he does it and he's a great dude and i'm glad that it's all worked out for the best potentially going to be the greatest football player of all time. Greatest matchmaker of all time, maybe. Unbelievable. There's a chance that this guy's the greatest sport coffee investor in the history of

business. I mean, the accolades go on and on. Speaking of that, with how much success you've had, Ty, is a question for you. Yeah, Patrick, at this point in your career, coming off two Super Bowls, everything you've accomplished well on your way to being the greatest of all time, what do you even have to work or improve on going into an offseason? When you're going into OTAs, offseason, and then training camp,

is there anything specific that you're like, okay, this is where I wasn't very good last year, this is where I need to be better? Or is it more so just like, hey, I know that I'm going to be ready when the lights come on and now it's kind of just like building that rapport with my new teammates and kind of shaking some of the cobwebs out from not throwing the football around for a little bit um kind of kind of both man i mean you you want to i think what i wanted to emphasize this year was getting back to the deep passes i feel like i missed some last year um where prior years'd hit them. So I'm trying to make sure that I push the envelope and especially in practice and try to see if I can, um, can continue to work on that and hit some

of those deep passes that I missed last year. And then with all the new guys that we have, um, you gotta kind of, like you said, get, get on the same page with them. I mean, Hollywood, Xavier, some of these guys I've worked with a little bit, but I want to continue to get that work in with them and so that we can get them up to speed. And whenever we get on that football field here in the early September, we're ready to roll from the beginning. Cause like y'all said, man, we play two great football teams start off the season. Do you feel like there's a time of year where you got, obviously the end of the year is when you guys are always playing your best ball. You guys get bored in the middle now at this stage? Because of how many dubs you've had?

Is that a thought, too? Like last year, there was a couple games. You were sick. It was windy. Back to back weeks. There was like you were sick, I think, one of these games. And then it was windy. Super windy.

The wind was insane. But there was a big turn. It was like, oh, Chiefs is no longer the Chiefs. And literally all he kept saying, I, loud stooge, just because I wanted to believe. I said, Chiefs is still the Chiefs. Let's fucking relax here. But is there, you know, a part of the season now at this point?

Like, hey, we're going to have to focus in the middle. And there's going to be 18 games by the time you're done with this entire thing with how long the season is. Is it impossible to go wire to wire? Is that something that you can't think about? Or what is your view on that as a whole? I think we've got to be better. I don't want to say we were bored because you can't be bored in the NFL.

You play great teams every single week. But there's definitely a different intensity in the playoffs. And I think just trying to make sure that we can replicate that intensity on a weekly basis and have that same mindset is something that we're going to work on this year and try to play better football through and through so that we're not on the road going to Buffalo or Baltimore or wherever that is. And we can try to have those playoff games home at Arrowhead because it's a special place. And I think we just got to be better as a team. I mean, we won the Super Bowl and and everybody kind of glossed over the whole entire season that we had,

but we have a lot to work on, and I'm excited to get these young guys working. Yeah, we just got to be better, you know. Of course. We just got to be better. My team didn't even make the playoffs. They got to be better, too. Yeah, definitely.

I hope they're saying the same fucking thing. They are. I watched that. First of all, the Colts are like one of the only teams that have a losing record against something like that. You know why? Is it you? The Loud House. It's tough. Lucas Oil Stadium. that have a losing record against something like that. You know why? Is it you? The Loud House. It's tough.

Lucas Oil Stadium. It's a tough place to play, Pat. Hey, it's a tough place. Because they opened the roof. They opened the roof, man. The shadows got us. Well, that's the thing. I know Kansas City is a pretty windy place, but when that window's open, oh, it's a wind tunnel in there. It is tough to handle.

That was a stat that came out last season yeah it was your first away playoff game now super bowls have never been played at home i don't think what you had had in the past but your first away play and that's because you guys weren't the number one seed and it was like is it over is it over for this because you guys weren't number one seed is it easy or hard to deal with the expectations every year that you're Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs need to win like having a road playoff game was like have they lost their fastball that's a real thing that's happening now at this stage of where you guys are is that easy or hard um it's I mean it's easy I mean just you have to have the mentality of being

the best you can be man you want to be the best and when you, just you have to have the mentality of being the best you can be, man. You want to be the best. And when you're there, you have to continue to work at it to stay on top. And in any profession, man, you've got to continue to work. And I think Tom was the prime example of that. He never was satisfied with where he's at. And I think our guys in our locker room have that same mentality. If we have to continue to compete, and that's what we're doing right now. I mean, we're talking trash out there offense versus defense. And both sides and the entire team want to be the best.

And that's what you have to have. And Coach Reed's kind of the leader of that, man. He pushes us to continue to be better and better every single year. Feels like you got all the right guys. Veach out there is seemingly a genius alongside Reed. Go ahead, Connor. Yeah, Pat, how is the relationship with Veach? Because when we were talking to GM of the Buffalo Bills, Brandon Bean,

he mentioned how Josh Allen texted him, hey, Keon Coleman, love him. And when Xavier Worthy ran that 4-2-1, I think we all assumed somehow, some way the Chiefs are going to get this guy and he's going to have 2,000 yards next year. Did you text Veach like, hey, you son of a bitch, you better trade up right now and get Xavier Worthy so we can bring the deep ball back? Or is that something where you just kind of let those guys do their thing and then you go out there and win 12 games, 13 games in the Super Bowl? I give my input, but I let those guys make the decisions. I'll go in there and, I mean, I'll watch the film of all the guys

coming out of college as much as I can. Not as much as them, obviously, but as much as I can. And I kind of give my input on the guys that I like and the guys that I would love to get on our team and think can fit really well. And then I let them kind of rank the board and make those picks. They do show me kind of what they're thinking

and if this situation falls the right way. But I'll just say I was very excited to get Xavier worthy. I'll just put it that way. Yeah, it made no sense. It was so stupid. How did the Chiefs end up with this fucking guy? Ridiculous. How is this what this is? You know, because

Tyreek Hill, obviously, it was a different Chiefs offense, had success. Today's Tony comes in, obviously, still a lot of hope and optimism out of the entire building, Coach, you, everybody. But now it's like that one piece that seemingly is unstoppable is back now in the offense.

And when you pair that with Travis and you bring in Hollywood, then you got Rasheed. Let's go, Rasheed. Let's go. Okay. It's like all of a sudden we're staring down maybe the best Chiefs team, which is bullshit. You need to know that it's absolute bullshit, and we all feel that way. Okay? You just need to know that and keep going, keep continuing to represent the NFL, and we're all incredibly grateful for you, pal.

How's the golf game right now? Golf game's really good. Just got back from Augusta last weekend. Got the last weekend in at Augusta and played really well out there. Played great from the members' tees and then tried to play the pro tees, did not go as well. Did you say on the property there? Oh, yeah, suit and tie, baby.

Oh, we lost you. Is he gone? That won't be a gust. Augusta said you said our name. Stop it. They tried to cut me out. I was suit and tie. I was on property. Okay. How many bottles of wine did we go through at the dinner? You know me, man. I'm not a wine guy.

I'm a Coors Light guy. I've heard. I think Kelsey's man. I'm not a wine guy. I'm a Coors Light guy. That's just who I am. I've heard. I think Kelsey's right. I think on New Heights, Jason and Travis talked about how, you know, Patrick always says Travis is a party guy or whatever. They're saying the amount of Coors Lights that you can put down is an absurd amount, and then you're just completely operating as if nothing happened.

Actual football guy doing everything you're doing. It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing, Patrick. Yeah, I mean, the dad bod doesn't happen by itself, man. You gotta get some Coors Lights in there. Boom. Amen. Gotta keep living. Still like ketchup? You done with ketchup now?

I'm still a fan of ketchup. Not as much as I was as a kid, but still have ketchup on most things. What is the high society taste buds that have gotten in? We got cars. Obviously, everybody's seen the house. House is phenomenal. Great work on that.

You deserve it. You've earned it. But cars, anything else? I got a good amount of cars. They gave me some free cars, so that helps. And then I have a couple of expensive cars myself. Which one? Obviously, if you don't want to say, which one?

The two that people know about are the Rolls that I have and the Ferrari that I have. So I'll leave it there, but I have a couple more as well. Good for you. Good for this guy, man. Good for you. Wow. Good for you, bro. You've earned it all.

Hopefully, Throne Sport Coffee will buy you some more cars and more success and hopefully more happiness and fulfillment as you continue to etch a path that could end with you being the greatest of all time in the history of our sport we appreciate your brother keep enjoying life over there tell the family you're crushing it as well obviously yeah i will appreciate you man ladies and gentlemen how about it patrick mahomes thrown sport coffee i will say uh the french vanilla one as we alluded to him, isn't for us. I assume there is people that enjoy French vanilla that would like it. That mocha java one.

Delicious. Home run. I'm going to get my hands on the salted caramel. Yeah, I assume it's going to be available in every store everywhere because he's Patrick Mahomes. Could be. And also the Michael Fanili. Yeah. Whatever the case, thank you for stopping by.

Patrick, you're the man right in the middle of OTAs. They're on a they're on a tear trying to do something nobody's ever done three straight. Whoa. They got better somehow, which is a bummer, but that guy is an incredible face of the NFL. He was trying to help out Jey Uso. Domo Arigato! Domo Arigato! Shota Imanaga on the program and he speaks Japanese so he had a translator with him

whose name was Edwin Stanberry. Bingo. And he was just wait till you watch this. This is not the first time that I've interviewed somebody who had a translator next to them. In my

early relationship with SeatGeek they had the MLS deal and we had access to their media day and SeatGeek. They had the MLS deal, and we had access to their media day, and SeatGeek was like, hey, good opportunity. We'll pay you to go do this, and it was in California, and it was great content, and we were very thankful to get there.

Nobody spoke English. Not a single person spoke English that was available for media days, and obviously, we found that out 20, 30 minutes beforehand. So we ran, had somebody go run to a local store, get a bop it. Yep. Good move.

Get a bop it. Cross barriers. Yep. And turns out it did. That was a good icebreaker. And then what it becomes is me and the translator here. Wait, just wait. It is.

I think we did okay. We're a Japanese talk show interview with a pitcher who is historically great right now. As a rookie, 30-year-old, which we dive into, for the Chicago Cubs. I think it should be good. There's also a lot of information coming out of Louisville. The talk show table is here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt. One after the hammer. Down.

Cowboys turn digs here. Joining us live from Manatee, Ohio, is a college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion, and current president of Ohio, A.J. Hawk. A.J., good to see you. Wait till you see the balance with the Japanese-English thing that we do later. It's pretty solid. I'm looking forward to it. I know if anyone can handle the whole

translator interview, it is you. Hey, we all got involved here. The whole team got involved, which is I think this might be one of the greatest translators to ever exist. Definitely better than Shohei's from what we know right now. AJ, we know you're the president of Ohio. That was a crown that was bestowed upon your head by Ryan Day, the head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes. You had to give a speech.

You had to do everything. If you were the president of Kentucky, I think the way you'd be speaking about what we're learning about what happened with Scotty Scheffler outside of the Valhalla Golf Club a day into a major happening there with the number one golfer in the world. I think you as the president would be embarrassed of your state and what's taking place. Now, there was a press conference earlier today by the Louisville mayor and everything else. They're going to continue this on to June 3rd, where he'll get arraigned and they will let the law process kind of happen, is what the mayor said, which immediately everybody goes, what are we doing here? What are we even doing? And that was before we even saw the video of what happened that was just released. Now, remember, no body cams were on any of the

police that were out there. Interesting. But there is a video from a telephone pole across the street. Now there's two buses in between where the incident takes place and where the telephone pole is. So the original shot of this video is about three quarters a bus. And then you got to look above it to see Scotty Scheffler in the incident with this cop who, I'll tell you what, there is no cop in America that's like, yep, that cop represents all cops.

Because it's situations that happen with cops like this that make all other cops look like assholes. And now we know that in any profession, there's always going to be assholes. There's always going to be

ego-driven people, especially in that particular one. There's people that have a little heavier badge than other people that are in any profession there's always going to be assholes. There's always going to be ego-driven people. Especially in that particular one, there's people that have a little heavier badge than other people that are in their profession. We have to understand that that's how humans operate. Not all cops are bad. But whenever you hear something like this with the number one golfer in the world

and his description of what's taking place and Jeff Darlington's description of what took place right in front of him, it's hard not to immediately assume that this is all bullshit, which the entire world did. Wait till you see the video. I don't know if everybody's got a chance to see it. Wait till you see the video.

So what were happened, what we're thinking happened here is there was a blocked road. It was, is this mic on? There is traffic stopped right down here because there was a terrible accident that took place in the morning where a member of the PGA Tour vendors or something that worked for the tournament, PGA Championship, ended up dying. So we're incredibly sad. We're all, this is not cool. This is a terrible situation that's taking place. Traffic has stopped here.

Scotty Scheffler's car is about to come from over here. What we're thinking happened is somebody told him, oh, you're the number one golfer on earth. Yeah, you can go into the golf course at 6.01 a.m. to start your routine. This is the golf course right here, okay? Right from what we've been told. And a marked courtesy car as well. And a marked courtesy car that all the golfers are driving. PGA Championship. Plus, Scotty Scheffler, number one golfer in this tournament. Number one. So this is him coming through here.

Nicest guy on earth, Scotty. Just to add on, like, hey, this guy's a wet blanket. He's boring. Everybody's saying it because he's the nicest human ever. There is no pizzazz about anything in his personal life because he is, once again, the nicest human on earth. Gotta have a rap sheet

if he's going to be charged with a felony in Louisville, right? No! Actually, never got anything lower than an A in school. Like, that is who this human is. Here he comes driving a PGA Championship car. He'll be pulling in from this particular side right here. Okay, here's his car. Bang.

Who told him to go that way? I don't know. Here's the cop running. He tries to smash the windshield. Tries to smash the windshield. Now, did he get dragged? I don't know. I didn't see a dragging anywhere, which was in the police report. I don't know how his pants could be in any trouble unless he

and I think I saw Pompliano say this, unless he shit his pants. We're not 100% sure if that's the case. Maybe he did shit his pants running, jumping, trying to break the windshield. So now him and Scotty Schaefer are talking to each other. Scotty's probably telling him, I was told to go golf at a golf tournament,

that I'm the number one golfer in the world. There's a major happening, actually. Yeah, that's why I turned left here to get in. And they go, shut the fuck up. That's what they're saying. Now, we don't know if that's true. This is a major happening, actually. Yeah, that's why I turned left here to get in. And they go, shut the fuck up. That's what they're saying. Now, we don't know if that's true. This is all alleged from us just watching this video. It gets so heated. They open the door. He tried to

he reached in at one point trying to, I think, turn the car off. They open the door, drag him out, put him in cuffs. And then this is when we see Jeff Darlington's video of him getting walked to the police car saying, what is what is going on yeah and then Jeff Darlington's video is recording the situation and remember that cop comes up to Jeff Darlington as he's recording yeah and uh the cop goes well he's he's going to jail or any shit you could do about it to the Jeff Darlington Jeff Darlington

is like I'm a media member here I'm gonna be oh okay okay so we understand the tensions are high there was a very serious traffic incident that took place near there but boy from what we were told happened in a police report which i think if you lie in is also oh yeah you know a pretty damning situation to what we just saw and what we expected out of it. I mean, it's come on, man. You know, like we're in a time where people are allowed to just use common sense, I think. And if not, we have to get back to a time where people can just use common sense and go like, nah, yeah, we're not, we're all moving on here. The cop doesn't, now the cop certainly is going to be embarrassed by the whole world. Yeah. Forever. As hopefully what's that? He needs to get better. Okay. Scotty, you need to get better whenever somebody's running next to you

at 6.01 a.m. in the dark while it's raining with lights everywhere and you're turning it and he tries to hit your windshield. Maybe you stop a little bit nicer so you can catch his body on your car because he is chasing you down. But, like, can we not? You know, this is tough. This is a tough look for Louisville as a whole here, I think. Look how fast Scottie's going.

I remember Jeff Darlington said multiple times the morning of the event when they brought him up to the desk. He said the cop attached himself to Scottie's car multiple times. Or latched or attached himself. He kept saying that. I'm like, wait, was Scottie driving 400 miles an hour right outside the gate? No, Scottie was creeping along, turning into the gate of the golf course in a marked courtesy car.

And the guy, like, you could see the guy was pissed early on and jumped. Did he hit him with, did he hit his car with his flashlight or was that his arm? I think it was his arm. I don't know. But could you imagine bashes in Scotty Scheffler's windshield? That would make you jump. Wouldn't you? That would make me jump and hit the brakes or the gas.

Like, I'm glad Scotty didn't react, you know react and all of a sudden hit the gas and take off. Imagine that thing shatters. Oh, man. And then Scotty gets dragged out. Yeah, glass on his face. I know there's a lot of people watching. They're like, you should see what happened to me. I wish there was a camera on a telephone pole across the street from my situation.

And I think as the years roll on and as we see more and more, which is why the body cam became such an important part of this thing, so that some people who have been telling these stories for years that have never been believed by people who have no idea or no interactions in these particular situations, could find out, like, yeah, there are some cops that aren't necessarily by the book, that aren't, like, necessarily here to protect and serve. There are some cops who potentially have an ax to grind with society because of how things worked out for them before they became a cop. Not all cops. We're not saying that. And that has to be remembered on both sides. Like, Hey, you, I, there's a lot of people that in our comments, whenever we first mentioned about the high horse that was happening down there that

just say like, uh, you know, people would say like, fuck cops. And it's like, we have friends that are cops that legitimately are just looking to help society. Like, that is what they sign up for. It is an incredibly dangerous job. You have no idea if you're going to return. You watch a couple of those live PD episodes. Even the most easy, convenient-looking traffic stop can turn into a war zone literally out of nowhere. Need cops.

We're appreciative of cops. But these cops also exist, and these situations also happen, and hopefully with Scotty Scheffler being the number one golfer in the world, it can bring even more spotlight on it, and hopefully in the future, cops like this,

allegedly from what we've seen and what we heard, are a little bit more scared to do this because they're going to get publicly killed like this guy is going to get i would assume a.j hawk yeah so i i watched uh the the press conference they had down there and why did they say multiple times that they don't have any video of the initial interaction between scotty and the cop basically they don't have body cam footage but we have that didn't they put that out yeah so i would assume you know this is just from watching dateline documentaries okay anytime

anything happens right they scan the neighborhood. And they say, hey, was your ring camera on at this time? We need the footage. So I would assume that the Louisville police and detectives, because this is a felony against a cop, you know. So I assume they looked into this and they scanned where the cameras were and they found this one on telephone pole. I would assume that that is the case case just from the documentaries that we watched now the initial thing was here where scotty has said and we know scotty scheffler to be a massive liar yeah start to finish he has that's what he is scotty scheffler oh yeah massive liar he said i thought i was just following the

directions that i was told like he said that numerous times like i thought I was just following the directions that I was told. Like, he said that numerous times. Like, I thought I was doing what I was told. So what I'm assuming is when he's here, there's a conversation, whether it's with the guy that chased him down or the guy that chased him down to maybe next to the person that had it, where they go, yeah, you, oh, Scotty Shepard. Oh, he's playing. Yeah, you're Scotty.

He was going 100 miles an hour there. Yeah, a little too fast. Wait, how come they didn't release the body cam footage? What's that? How come they didn't release the body cam footage? Well, and that's the problem. Because they lied about all these things. There's a lot of cops there, isn't there?

A lot of cops, yeah. There was like three that come in here at the end. So everybody's body cam and audio is off? Well, that's the thing. They're liars now. No matter what. All those things in the police report are a lie, and now you can just assume, at least I assume now immediately,

like, oh, okay, so everything that this police department has said is complete bullshit. See, that's the problem. No, no, in this situation. I'm not saying everything forever. I'm saying in this situation. And, yes, then it opens the door to, well, okay, what else could possibly have gone awry in the past

where situations like this might have been handled, but it wasn't Scotty Scheffler, so it wasn't as big of a deal and kind of gets swept under the rug. Are there other reports from other cops that detail him getting dragged, or is it just that cop's report? I think it's just that cop's

report, or maybe it was the other person that came in there. I guess I shouldn't be answering things that I don't know, but I did see a bunch of other cops shaking Scotty's hand. You know, like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good luck today. Yeah. You'll get there. And, like, after I got my public intoxication situation, you know,

there was some cops that maybe you're hanging out with at an event, having a couple beers. And they all seemingly came up and, like, it was just the one guy. Yeah. And then they walk away. And I'm like thanks for hiring that guy what are they yeah yeah of course of course of course and when i got pulled over in ohio going on 70 what like a week later or whatever you know the cops were like if you're a buckeye we just drove you home thanks where were you i'd assume there's a lot of people on the Louisville Police Department

that are incredibly embarrassed. Absolutely. By everything that's going on right now. Yeah. And the longer this goes, this is like how the Colts felt whenever they were doing the New England Patriots deflating game. When the Colts were like, yo, yo, can we shut this down? Every time it gets brought up, they just had, we get reminded,

we lost by 30 in the AFC Championship game, or we got killed in the AFC championship game. Nobody's fault, obviously. The entire team's fault. I'm not saying one person took blame. But every time that Deflategate thing that went on for two and a half years was brought up, it was like, does it matter? That Colts team got killed.

It's like, can we just move on? Yeah. Every other police department member down there is like, can we? Why don't they drop the charges now? What are we doing? The mayor coming out and being like, no, we're going to continue with it. Makes me wonder. Mayor from New York, graduated from Harvard Law,

went to Michigan, then graduated from Harvard Law. Also, one of the owners of Ohio Valley Wrestling, OVW. What? Buzz Backlund's promotion? Yeah, Buzz Backlund. So obviously, we did a little research on the mayor this morning to learn about him, to try to see which way this could potentially go, if anything he's done in the past. And he's kind of followed through his career.

Ooh, maybe he, maybe, and he found out he owns OVW and Ohio Valley Wrestling, which is the school or the promotion down there in Louisville that used to be the actual NXT, pretty much what is now for the WWE. You're talking John Cena, Brock Lesnar, Batista, Shelton Benjamin

went through down there, trained down there. Did I say Randy Orton already? No. Randy Orton down there. Everybody basically went through O orton already no randy orton down there yeah like everybody basically won through ovw then as the wrestling business changed still around still doing promotion but it's not necessarily the the this guy has bought it now and uh the mayor is part owner of ovw so so you start thinking to yourself like all right so does he want this process to go like what's his relationship like with the police department?

Like, does the mayor and the police department get along? Because there's some cities where I think we've heard that they are not necessarily on the same page for whatever reason. But whatever the necessary reason is. So then you think to yourself, this guy is in the wrestling business. If he doesn't get along with the police department, I wonder if he's like, yeah, we want to. Yep, every video we got, we would like,

yep, let's go ahead. You know what I mean? And that's just like a wrestling angle, me thinking, but he owns a wrestling promotion. So I don't know if it's the right one or if he is trying to show respect to the police of his police department and saying, I believe in my guys. I trust my guys.

So it can go so many different ways, but nonetheless, the mayor said, yeah, we're running with this thing. But he made those comments this morning before these videos had come out, too. I wonder... He had to have seen these videos, right? Yeah, you would think, but after this, anyone who

is sane or... No one is looking at this and being like, well, yeah, Scotty Scheffler was still in the wrong. You'd think the immense amount of public pressure because if they don't drop it, they're going to continue to kill the police department, that guy, and everything associated with this situation because it's pretty cut and dry. It looks like he didn't do anything wrong. I think he's even using a turn signal.

Yeah. Blinker's on. I think he's even using a turn signal. Yeah. Blinker's on. I think he's even using a turn signal. It's like... Seatbelt on. Yeah, Scottie was doing everything. I guess what the cop can say, you can't see what happened behind the buses first right before he turned in. But I'm sure...

Well, the attorney's already said, hey, we're going... Good luck. We're going to trial if this doesn't get dropped. Yeah. Scottie Scheffler's side has said, this is either getting dropped or we will fight this there's no deal being negotiated right and remember that that attorney goes from bearded disheveled to clean face yeah in one change yeah one tournament day this this case has changed this man it's changed also you know shaved because he's you know gotta be in front of a judge

yeah and then did someone send that in this is scotty yeah d-butt sent that in yeah it's not clean shaving on the course yesterday yeah i mean if you're gonna be in front of a judge you have to no you don't i kept my hair they everybody was telling me like yeah i was wrong but also like i'm just gonna slick this thing back to you it's gonna look professional okay let's just move along well how about a countersuit then and sue them for damages because we know he's not the same golfer. Future earnings. Exactly.

He could. Psychological. Anyways, the more things that come out, 4Play Podcast just posted a video from Flushing at Golf, which is a United Kingdom news site. This is another angle of Scotty turning. Why is he driving so fast?

I was trying to figure out whether or not he had... Rewind it. Go back. Go back. Here it is. Does he have his turn signal? On the far side of that bus, on the left side of the screen, he'll be turning left here coming on. Does the turn signal? I thought I thought it was from the other angle.

I did not see it. If he didn't have his turn signal on, add that on. That could be. Yep. Could see that. You know what I mean? That district attorney needs to add that on. So I would assume there's going to be more and more.

And then Scott, he's like, wow, I'm going into jail. What the fuck? I think I'll make my tea time. Like, he's going under five miles an hour, you would say, right? In that turn? Yep. And he seemingly stopped

within two feet of that guy. Getting dragged. Trying to shatter his... That had to shock... Imagine Scotty driving, just turned in, all of a sudden, bam, he hears the loud...

The dude blasts his windshield. That had to jolt him for a little bit. 6 a.m. 6.01 a.m. A little rainy. Yeah. Major championship. Major, yeah.01 a.m. A little rainy. Yeah. Major championship. Major.

Yeah. Hold on. He's won four. Just had a baby. Just had a baby. And then you got a yellow jacket. Boom. Holy shit.

Yeah. And all of a sudden, the guy rolled down your window. And the guy reaches into his car at one point. I don't know if he's trying to turn the car. Put it in park. And then he gets him out. It's like, Scottie had to be so. And then he goes and shoots five under.

Okay. We'll continue to update everybody as more videos come out. We had an incredible opportunity earlier to chit-chat with one of the hottest pitchers in baseball. Actually, the odds-on favorite to win Rookie of the Year over Paul Skeen. of the year over Paul Skeen. Ladies and gentlemen, our convo with Shota Imanaga and Edwin Stanberry. Bingo. Ohio gentlemen, domo regato for joining us on this glorious morning.

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Oh, thank you. Domo. He bows to the umpire every single time he gets a new ball. It's like a head. Is that just a thank you? Has he done that his entire baseball career? Is that standard operating procedure in Japan? Is that because he doesn't want to speak English to the umpire

because he ultimately hates him? Why do you think that is the case? Is he the nicest guy of all time?一番優しい人は誰ですか?その 星をとって相手にを授業するっていうのがまあ 一つの礼儀としている伝統があるということと まあとはまあその例を を学んで 成長しいいたんでプロ野球でもやっていたっていうとあとは審判の人は決して嫌い ではないです so it's something in japan ウェイテイクアフィー I don't have any feelings for them. I want to take off the hat every time, but if I do, it's going to take a lot of time,

and it might end up being a pitch clock violation. So I just do it, bro. Okay, hey, great. Edwin, hitting the home run right now which a lot of people have been able to do obviously again showed up yeah compliment yourself yep that's smart that's good uh i had the incredible fortune and uh luck i would say to get asked to go to japan for a uso tour we went to a bunch of different cities and it is a vastly different operating culture uh than the united states of america how has it been getting into日本の大きな市場とは大きく違いますが、アメリカの国土の環境はどのように変わっていますか?

シカゴの大きな市場ととかどんな感じですか?どういうふうに慣れてきましたか? シカゴは日本人にやっぱりゆかりのある場所も多いですし、日本食のスーパーだったりとか日本食レストランも多いので、 There are many Japanese restaurants and supermarkets. So, rather than coming to Japan, I'm spending my time in Japan with the same feeling. Japanese food. So it doesn't really feel like going to a different country. It just feels, it just feels like something I'm familiar with. I feel like you left out a few things there, but it's all right. Hey, that was good. Hey, that was great. Edwin, you did fantastic. Uh, Ty Schmidt has a question, Edwin. Now his tone's a little bit different than mine. Let's make sure we're, you know, let's make sure we're capturing the delivery of all this. Yeah. Edwin, can you ask Shota, uh, does he attack hitters in the mlb differently than he

did in japan and i know he started in the world baseball classic championship game against the u.s how acutely aware of like the different hitters and great players is he over here like obviously they're scouting and stuff like that but how aware if he was of like of like the the really good hitters in the mlB that he'd have to be facing Every single day, you know once he came over here No, WBC down. I mean you gotta die Tyson Stanton. Oh, well don't look at all I'm not gonna bet this on all America no matter any time state My son the same yakutaka. Yeah, pretty new home no prayer. You know, but it was a challenge cut or

Some of the home need a token more America no matter. Don't know my dog. I said, oh wait now that would go Edwin日本のプロ野球のバッターとはまず違うんですか?日本にいた時もアメリカのバッターとの名前は知ってたんですか? もう一回エドウィン! 戦略はやはり日本のバッターの打ち方と こっちのバッターの打ち方っていうのは少し違うので 戦略は少し変えないといけないなと思って それに適応できるように頑張ってきたっていうのと、 でもアメリカ代表のタラガッタ選手の中は本当にもう、 見たことあるなとか、ワールドシリーズで打ってた選手だとか、そういう気持ちで見てました。

WBCで対戦した選手は、世界大会に入った選手を認識できるようになった。 Yeah, so, like, the guys I faced during the WBC, like, you know, I can recognize them. And, like, you know, guys that are in the World Series, like those hitters, yeah, I recognize. In terms of attacking the hitters, it is a little different. The way the MLB players swing and the way the Japanese players swing, they're different. So I've just been getting adjusted to that. What is the difference? We're...それによって変化が出てきています。どんな違いがありますか? チゲのバッターとチゲのスイングのバッター。シングルではなく、ホームランにもしてしまうような力があるので もちろん日本にもそういう選手の数名がいるんですけども こちらのバッターは1番から9番までそういうバッターがいるっていうのは驚きでした instead of being like a base hit, they'll hit it for like extra bases

or like a double, a home run. There are hitters like that in Japan, but over here, that's really just one through nine. It's the whole lineup. So I was very surprised with that. Okay, well, he's doing A-okay. It's one through nine, 10 through 50 if he needed to. Sometimes. No, all the time.- 私もそうです。- 全然、余裕で頑張ってます。- 平常です。- 時々です。

- 全然、時々です。 - 彼はどれだけ英語を知っていますか? - 彼はどれだけ英語を知っていますか? - うーん、早口で言われると、ちょっと難しいんですけども、 - 場面とかシチュエーションに限れば、 - あ、これ言いたいんだな、だからこう答えた方がいいなっていうのは 英語が分かってなくても こう答えた方がいいなっていうのは分かります

なぜ30まで�まで待ち続けたのですか?自信を持てるタイミングとやはりこう メリットデメリットがやはりこうあるので まあそのタイミングがこの30歳が ルーキーアートなったタイミングですね そうウェイフ ジェンジション from japanese ベースポーツ mlb をだホース スタンベースのタイミングで アーメンなしとフォロー a 30 ロングウェイフアームもコンフェンス on the timing of it um it matched up for the age of 30 along with um just having more confidence and like just those things having like the pros and cons looking at that and just the timing of everything it just worked out to be when i'm 30 okay well we're happy you're here we would love to see you for the last 10 years or so just slicing and dicing up these strike zones tone

digs has a question for you he's wearing a a cowboy hat. Yeah, Shota, I know there's McDo in Japan, but since you've been in the U.S., have you had a favorite American meal that you didn't have in Japan? Yeah, a nice fat, fat meal. I know an American meal. Fat, Edwin, fat. Fat, Edwin, fat. Tacos.

Tacos. So I would say tacos. Like I came over here and tried it and I was like, wow, this is really good. Hell yeah. How about pizza? We have pizza already?たこを食べたら、本当に美味しかった。ピザは試してみた? シカゴのスタイルは悪い。 シカゴのピザは一度食べたことがあります。 レストランで一枚出たんですけど、本当に2枚目まで手が伸びなかったんです。 1枚の中で? ピースで2ピース食べて、2ピース目までいけるほどのお腹でした。

ここでピザ食べてみた。レストランに行ったら、ピザが大きかった。1枚食べて、2枚食べられなかった。 so big i ate one i couldn't get the second piece yeah that's chicago tell me you need to try to like new york sour thin crust tell me chicago thin crust pizza is very very good i don't know okay yeah connor has a question for go ahead what'd you say i'm sorry i stepped on i think you're saying english again i tried i'm right yeah we love that hi is yes right英語で言ったらすみません。私は試してみました。 はい! はいは、はいですよね? はい。 おはようは、おはよう。 そうです。

はい。 どうもは、どうもを言うときに、 どうもを言うときに、 どうもを言うときに、 どうもを言うときに、 どうもを言うときに、 どうもを言うときに、 どうもを言うときに、

どうもを言うときに、 どうもを言うときに、どうもを言うときに、どうもを言うときに、どうもを言うときに、どうもを言どうもだけでもいけますちょっと意味が変わってくるけど まあまあいける時があります そういう場合に使うこともあります どうもありがとうって言っていいですか? これに加わってくれてどうもって言えます どうもありがとうの方が 文としては正義とします

どうもありがとうって言うと文としては正義とします is more of a good line. Probably don't worry about it. It'll fit the line better. We'll remember that. Connor has a question for you. Shota, what do you do in your free time? Obviously, when you're only pitching once a week usually, then there's a lot of stuff

to do. Do you play video games? Is there any clubhouse playing darts or cards or anything? Or is it mostly just baseball 24-7 for you? How do you play, Edwin?お時間もきっちり空きあってエドベイビーは?えーと、そうなんだ、暇な時 YouTubeとか主に見てますね、日本のYouTubeですけど 通常は日本のYouTubeを見てます 何?音楽?ゲームショー?

日本のゲームショーは見たことあると思うけど、多分見たことあると思う 日本のゲームショーも見たりとか、あとは海外の人なんですけど、ボロボロになった革靴を修理するみたいな動画を見てます。 So coming over to the US, I've realized a lot of players, they'll travel in casual attire. So I've been looking into clothing, a lot of leather shoes. And then I'll watch a lot of videos where they have the worn leather shoes, and it's like a restoration video. I like that. Nice. Just regular ass dude. Yeah. How's the relationship with the teammates here?その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、その後、ロッカールームにも大きな出場力があるが、ロッカールームとの関係はどうですか?そうですね、みんな挨拶をしたら、挨拶だけではなくて一言二言声をかけてくれますし、ラテン系の選手なんかすごく明るい選手もたくさんいるので、僕と彼らならではのコミュニケーションを取ったりしているので、 すごく僕としては毎日ここに来ることが楽しみです。特にラテンの選手は、とても簡単に話せるので、 クラブハウスの人々に楽しみにしています。

彼が何を投げてもらったら、 彼がどのくらいの距離で私がそれを打つかを聞いてください。sx はこの構え方ですか あーどうまあスイングを見て何ちょっと わからないんですけども はとりあえず あのちょっと顔付近になれ自覚しようかな と思います あさにねっさあ キャンリー西部へのパイオファースボール からによるフェイス ああああああ kind of near the face. I'm coming out. I'm coming out. No, I'm charging. It'll be a ball. It's not going to be a hit by pitch.

Okay. Thanks for scaring me here. Last question. We appreciate you guys so much time. Go ahead, Ty. Shota, have you asked for advice or spoken to any of the guys who have made the jump from Japan to the major leagues like Masahiro Tanaka? Obviously, everything with Shohei right now.日本から日本から来た選手にアドバイスを聞いたりしましたが 日本からこっちに来た選手との関係はどうですか?

ポスティングの際にはダルビスさんに連絡をさせてもらって ポスティングの後? ポスティングの前後で アメリカってどういう環境ですか? この街はどんな街ですか? というのを聞いたりして、カブスに決まった後は鈴木選手に連絡を取って、 シカゴの街の様子だったりとか、カブスというチームはどんなチームなのかというのを聞いて、すごく参考になっています。 So I talked to Mew Darvish Before and after Making the transition

I'm just kind of saying How are the cities Life in the US And then once I was with the Cubs I contacted Seiya Suzuki Kind of the same thing How is Chicago How is the lifestyle around the city

Just stuff like that Okay and last question for you edwin obviously everything that happened with shohei right with the translator like are like for you that's obviously not cool to happen especially because i assume everybody in your position now is getting asked the same question about like do you understand the power that you have for somebody that you are the eyes ears and mouth for in situations has that been a part of any conversations between you guys and how you kind of go about your business i would say not really i mean this is my first year

so like everything's really new to me and so it's just really been kind of, you know, getting to know Shota since spring training. And, you know, honestly, like, my job is to make his life easier. So just kind of been working on that. Well, hey, Edwin, I think you did a great job today. Hell yeah. Yeah, you're a tag team partner for Shota who's doing amazing things. And we can't wait to watch you guys continue to ascend. Thank you for the time, Shota. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, Domo regatto to, right? Yeah, right. We

did it right there. Yeah, there we yeah, yeah. Well, Ka-oon-oh the rest of the way. We appreciate the hell out of you. Ladies and gentlemen, Shota Imanaga, Edwin Stanberry. Yeah! Oh, my goodness. Hey, hey, oh, oh, oh, go back, gomanaga, Edwin, Stanberry. Yeah, boys! Hey, hey, oh, oh, oh, go back, go. Hey, hey.

Oh, you're still here. Yep, yep, yep. Domo regato, boys. All right, cheers. Thank you so much. Thank you. Man, I'll tell you what, I had a blast in there. Oh, yeah.

Hey, that's a cool crew right there. Awesome. Hey, Edwin, how about Edwin? Now, Shota, obviously, incredible. How about Edwin, dude? Crushed. First year. He just joined him in spring training. He gets thrown into that, into the fire right there. He did a great job. He really did. I think so, too. And it's his first year, and

the Ipe Mitsuha situations unfolding right in front of our eyes. And it's like, hey, translator, let's... That'd be Edwin when he would deliver a good question. That'd be Edwin when he kept pumping it good question That'd be Edwin He kept pumping it Whenever I hear Whenever he had a little juice

Because that's the That was my I was I don't want to say I was fist fought One of the translators at the MLS thing But this guy just had no juice And it was like Hey bud

Of course we're not getting an answer Yeah Right Like whatever you I don't even know I can't understand what you're saying But the way you're delivering Needs to

We need to Pump it up We're delivering needs to, we need to pump it up. We need to pick this thing up. We need to let them know this isn't a job right now. We're having a conversation. Okay, they're excited to be here. Edwin, you did Hey, Edwin. You're what the translating world needs right now. That's right. Amen. We think. We don't know. We think.

We don't know. From what we know. From what we know. From what we know at this exact time. That show to you guys, for real. I don't know how From what we know at this exact time. Yeah. Right now. And that show, guys, for real. I don't know how many people know about the Chicago Cubs or anything. I think they're second in the NL Central. Bingo, which I knew that.

And he's second in the NL for Cy Young. Yeah. Odds, I think, which is the best pitcher in the entire National League. He's a rookie. He's the odds-on favorite to win Rookie of the Year in the MLB. And his ERA is.84, which I guess is bananas. Yeah. Ridiculous. Pretty good. Pretty good. And he's fun. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

He almost threw you a pitch when you got the bat. You had the bat in your shoulder. I thought he was going to throw you one. So Edwin was talking and he was not paying attention to what Edwin was saying. And as Edwin was talking, I was standing there and he started like, I was like, oh, yeah. And I wasn't really paying attention to what Edwin was saying. And as Edwin was talking, I was standing there. I mean, he started like, I was like, oh, yeah. And I wasn't really paying attention to what Edwin was saying either.

I felt like I was in the batter's box. Shut up and inaugurate. Basically were. Hey, this is what you're seeing right now, pal. I did that to, I think I did it to Skeens. CeCe. CeCe. I think I did it to CeCe.

We need to do like an off season. Yes. Whenever they're working. Because they have a set schedule. Right? So, like, we got to show up at their practice whoever is and like all right let's go spring training let's go yeah maybe even spring training where they're all near each other right yeah paul skeens and then the next day show to him and all good could you well those spring training locations too aren't too shabby either oh Oh, Arizona and Florida, right? Yep. I would have maybe 60 straight strikeouts. Could you imagine?

Oh, yeah. I want to wear hockey goalie pads, too, if I'm standing in the batter's box with them. Maybe the big boss is the big unit. Could you? Yeah, Randy Johnson is keeping track. Final boss. Boom. He's at 60 straight strikeouts would be the best video of all.

Hey, I want you to pitch like I'm a... Like I'm a fucking guy right now. Break it through me. I would like to see what it's like just for a second. The amount of times I would... He'd fall down on strikes for sure.

Baseball's getting better. Baseball's getting more entertaining in my eyes. And that might be because Q Country Roads, Paul Skeens is in it. Let's go to the NBA. Western Conference Finals tipped off last night as the Dallas Mavericks steal one in Minnesota by a dominant display of Kyrie Irving in the first half, Luka Doncic in the second half.

And Minnesota Timberwolves team is now not only a fan favorite, but up against it to make it to the finals to take on the Pacers when they inevitably knock off the Celtics game 2 this evening. Celtics 1-0. Joining us now is a guy who played high school basketball with LeBron James. He's a man who's covered the NBA forever. A dude who has a massive brain and a massive heart.

We got to meet him at the last game in Gamebridge Fieldhouse. Ladies and gentlemen, Big Wendy. Yay, Wendy! How you doing, pal? I learned a lot about you that night, Pat. First off, Mr. Hawk, as always, sir. You know, we were having a good time. Everything was going good.

Your boys were in there. I was hanging out with them. And then you found out that the Bruins in heartbreaking fashion lost at the end of the game. Now listen, I don't know anything about hockey. I don't know how many people are on the ice at once, if you want my honest opinion.

Same as basketball. Exactly. If you say so. You pull up, not even on text, you pull up Boston Connor on FaceTime, not to commiserate with him, but to ride him and give him crap after he was at the game, just watched his team lose. And I was like, okay, I understand how about you guys. Yeah, well, you fit right in, it seemed like. And we appreciate you stopping by. Everybody enjoyed your presence. I know you got cornered a couple times for some 10- to 15-minute basketball conversations by different people at different times. Bruce.

Thank you for being – Bruce and Mitt. Oh, no. I'm so sorry, Wendy. Yeah, Mitt had a full-on LeBron, so, you know, conversation. You can't let that happen. The last book I read was yours, Wendy. I almost got in big trouble because, like, I was the only guy. Like, now in the conference finals, ESPN has, like, 15 people at these games.

But, like, I was the only ESPN, like, reporter in Indy, okay? And, like, I was up there, spent some time with you guys, and, like, Jalen Brunson, like, left the floor for a minute. And, like like i was going to be responsible for like what is his injury uh you better go get some reporting on his injury what was i supposed to say like luckily he came right back out i think he just like went to the bathroom or something but like jaylen's a dog what was i supposed to say well josh hart didn't something happen with josh hart while you're up there too i think it was a josh hart josh hart

yeah he hurt his like chest or something abdomen It was an abdomen thing. Because I think Bruce was so drunk. Oh, really? I mean, hilarious. Obviously, very passionate. But he turned around and he goes, Josh Hart to Wendy. And Wendy immediately goes, oh, it was an abdomen thing. He had an answer.

And then I looked up and I'm like, what is this? This is happening right now. And I'd been talking to you for 10 minutes. So I had no idea how you... That stress had already passed by that time. I was like, what is this? This is happening right now. And I'd been talking to you for 10 minutes. So I had no idea how you... That stress had already passed by that time. I was like concerned that I might have to like go explain why I was late filing a report. Why were you late? I was in Pat McAfee's suite.

And what was I going to say? Was I going to say I was in the bathroom? Was I going to say I was... Dumps? What was I going to do? Well, you could say you're taking a dump. I mean, people would understand. Everybody dumps, Wendy. Everybody dumps, Wendy.

People are saying you look higher than me in that photo, which I appreciate. I got the heavy eyelids. Me too. Amen. I don't know whether you were sober, but you were lucid. When I got pulled over

for the first time when I was a teenager for expired plates, I was dead cold sober. I was coming home from work. And that cop was not believing that because I got the heavy eyelids. Was that Louisville? Akron, Ohio. Okay, Akron, Ohio. Got it.

Yeah, the expired plates can't have it. I mean, that is a spotlight. And there's some paperwork tough paperwork's tough for a teenager man no it's not only paperwork it is uh that is a spotlight to pull your pull your ass over oh yeah and uh i didn't like those islands we're gonna we're gonna find out if everything in this car is good or not and yeah how open are your eyes sir i mean that is a have you in the last 24 hours potentially uh done anything oh let's go take a look.

So the plates always have to be up to date. That's one of my biggest fears, actually. Like need to not be a distraction out here. Just need to get in and get out. You got in, gave us great information. Let's talk about getting in. Dallas Mavericks went in to Minnesota. They brought their ass to Minnesota and walked out with a massive win.

How do you feel about the Western Conference? Kyrie Irving, Luka playing phenomenal basketball. Kyrie Irving afterwards on the set of Inside the NBA was very loose, happy, chatting, talking about his motivation of Ant calling him out. It just feels like the team's vibes are very, very high as opposed to like one year ago whenever he was chatting about Luka didn't love the game maybe anymore and obviously everything that took place with kairi at his last stop and why have we gotten this point and am i reading the situation right wendy yeah well luca was not down with them tanking at the end of last year they tanked to avoid the playoffs they keep their draft pick and luca did not like that and they ended ended up getting them this young center they've got, Derek Lively,

who is excellent and perfect alongside him. And Luka has amended his position on that. I can't believe the Kyrie that I'm seeing right now. So I started covering Kyrie when he came in the league in 2011. I was there not every day, but virtually every day when he was in his three years with LeBron. And he was not down with sort of being the LeBron co-star. Like, I'm not saying that there weren't individual nights or individual moments where they were down together. And obviously they

won a title together. And that was huge, the highest moment of his career. But he wasn't down for it. And then he went to Boston, and he didn't like that grouping. And then he went and got his hand-picked, you know, not sidekick, but his hand-picked co-star, his hand-picked other franchise player in Kevin Durant. And that didn't work out for various reasons. At the end of the day, Durant pulled the plug on that before Kyrie could pull the plug.

So for me to believe that this was going to work out with Luka Doncic after seeing all of those situations where he was in pretty awesome situations and it went sideways and maybe not all his fault, but largely due to him, how could I possibly have expected that this was going to work? And so now as I watch them play, and more importantly, as I listen to Kyrie talk and I listen to Luka talk, and more importantly, as I listen to Kyrie talk and I listen to Luca talk, Kyrie is like genuinely, as far as I can tell, truly invested in Luca's success. He's truly gotten to a spot where he wants to do things that make Luca better. And I would love the real, real of how LeBron and

Kevin Durant feel about seeing this Kyrie Irving. Now granted, when he was with LeBron, he was like 24, 25. I can't compare that. And he's 32 now. And even when he was when he was when he was first got to Brooklyn, he was like 29. He has just been a different guy. And so last night is a perfect example of this. Last night come into the game the mavericks game plan is all right luca is battling this knee he looked a little bit tired at some of the end of these oklahoma city thunder series games we're going to try to give him a little bit of a less of a workload at the beginning of the game and we're going to try to save him for the fourth quarter and so kairi comes in there also jittery building last night. All right.

Western Conference Finals haven't been played in Minnesota in 20 years. Like when they on the pregame warmups, right, they're going through their normal routine with all the fireworks, whatever the smoke. And as soon as they put Western Conference Finals on the scoreboard, the crowd like even gasped because the crowd was like pinching themselves. Like, oh, my God, I can't believe that Chuck and Kenny and Shaq are here in the building. I can't believe it says Western conference finals on that scoreboard. Everybody was a little bit on edge. And Kyrie was like, don't worry, don't worry.

And he took the ball and he's like, listen, I'm going to go to work here. I'm going to calm everybody down. All right. And he scored like 19 points in the first quarter. I mean, Minnesota was actually hitting shots. Then he calms everybody down. And then in the fourth quarter, at the agreed-upon

time, when now it's going to be Luka time, Kyrie stands back and goes, Luka, go for it. And when the game ends, yeah, he gets to dance a little bit on Ant Edwards because, you know, he, you know, went back at him with game, you know. But he played a beautiful team-first, Lucas-centric game plan in a road Western Conference Finals game. And it was amazing to watch. And I have to say, I got to take my hat off to him. I'm skeptical that it will last forever. And I've just filibustered here on your show.

Thank you. But that was what I was watching last night. No, I'm happy you got it all out. Now, we missed the hard out for sure, which is on you and not on us. That will not go in the score books, in the record books like that. But I do appreciate your take there. I think you broke it down wonderfully. And if I had to probably give a guess,

not that I have anywhere near the same mindset as a human and as driven and worldly a brain as Kyrie Irving has. I would assume he's – Oh, I thought you were talking about me. I'm sorry. No. No, no, no. Applies to both.

Yeah, both of you. Okay. Yeah, definitely, definitely. Worldly, for sure. Windy's going to cover the Olympics. He was in France for Wemby when he got picked. Oui, oui. Yeah, you're right.

Very worldly Windy out of Omaha and Ohio. That's right. So what I'm thinking is happening potentially to Kyrie is at this stage, Kyrie knows that people will talk about him as being, yes, great basketball. The kid's one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Handles are filthy, better than everybody else's. The ability to create a shot, how smooth he is and everything. That's just what everybody kind of standardly understands about Kyrie Irving's basketball game now there's people that are going to never like Kyrie Irving because there's some

shit that happens off the court and you know things that he is very passionate about there's going to be people that feel that way but on the court even those people think to themselves yeah the things that Kyrie Irving could do with a basketball is fucking magical, which is why he is allowed to be and have as many people get mad at him for things because of how damn great he is at basketball. I wonder if there was a moment where it clicked for him

that his legacy is good. I wonder if there was somebody that talked to him and said, hey, this is how everybody feels about you, and then you're able to move on to like, okay, now I want to help the next one. And luca is probably a guy who has the very same exact thoughts maybe not the handle but why not the way he plays basketball so that's i'm i'm very happy to hear that because if you got a guy who's an actual magician with a basketball on your team trying to make you great that's gonna help you know luca's gonna love that w Yeah, so it could be a number of things.

Number one, Jason Kidd, like this is a coach. Now, he had Tyronn Lue. Point guard as well, right? Handles, point guard as well. Yeah, and he had Tyronn Lue. But Jason Kidd, certainly there's a connection there. His agent, you know, he switched to a new agent, who's his stepmother, Shatalia.

And I don't know what they're doing day to day but kairi is in a special place and he seems to have a good so i think she gets some credit absolutely nico harrison the general manager of the mavericks he was an executive at nike where kairi had a massive contract that basically got spoiled by the way he was doing stuff off the court in brooklyn that contract's over he was making eight figures a year on that deal. It's over. But Nico Harrison, you know, I mean, Luca, all the, I think everybody right now, and like, look,

we're in the middle of a piece of art here. Like, we're not done. Like, he's got to finish it. But I think all those people, and more people that I probably don't even know, deserve credit for how he's turned it on, including himself, obviously. Go ahead, AJ.

Wendy, Pacers-Celtics tonight, game two. Pacers feel like they let one slip away, obviously. Coach Carlisle came on here and said too many turnovers, everything, but he was happy with how the guys fought. What do you expect tonight? What are you kind of looking for as the Pacers? Eight and a half point dogs, which is a bit surprising to me. Up to nine some places too, AJ.

Yeah. Okay, so what I'll take away from that game, obviously it was a devastating loss. There's no other way. I could go on and on about it. I won't. That game was played as a Pacer game. That was a Pacer game. They played fast,

high possessions. Everything about that game was an Indiana Pacers game, which is why they should have won it, which is why they were 99.5% or whatever to win it. They dictated the style of play. And that's exactly what happened in the Knicks series. Every single one of those games, even the games where the Knicks blew the Pacers out,

were Pacer games. And if you're Boston, a team that is used to dominating games and dictating the pace and playing defense, you don't want to play pacer games. You don't want to play these games where I think the pacers got up 99 shots in that game. They had 22 turnovers and got up 99

shots. That's a pacer game. If you keep playing pacer games, the pacers are going to win. Maybe they won't get to you in seven, but you can't keep playing pacer games. I watched this happen to the Knicks. They started doing this. Okay, so to me, the big thing tonight, is this going to be a Pacer game

or is this going to be a Celtic game? Pacer. Because if it's a Pacer game, even if the Pacers lose, that to me says a lot. Not just about whether the Pacers are going to win this series, but about how the Celtics are going forward. That's what I'm watching tonight. Yeah, and it's a lot of this. Up and down.

And if you're not ready, if you're running your first marathon here, Eastern Conference Final against this Pacers team since January, I mean, it's a whole different ballgame. And they pride themselves. Coach Carlisle was like, yeah, it takes a lot of commitment. He knows. They know that it's a lot. There was conversation about that, I think, last year with the Knicks

when everybody was just playing like 48 minutes. They were like, no human would be able to just keep up with our pace if they're able to do it. That's why they have such a deep bench. They're like a defensive line. They are rotating, and everybody's contributing. And their confidence, even after the devastating giveaway, I assume, is going to remain high.

Now, Connor is on the side of hoping that that is not the case. Go ahead, brother. Yeah, really hoping it's not. And, Wendy, I think a lot of people don't think the Celtics are as deep as the Pacers. But once Porzingis comes back and then Horford goes to the bench, that does kind of equate what they rock with and what the Celtics have. But if it is a running gun game, and you just mentioned, even if the Celtics win a running gun game that

they will still view that as a win at least you will because of the fact that they're playing their basketball and they're not kind of being dictated by the Celtics but if the Celtics do dictate the game and they do kind of figure out how to slow down the Pacers do you see this kind of changing this series do you think that there's any way that the Pacers will say like okay you know what we've done this twice running gun the first game is close the second game is close but we still haven't really been able to make any headway as far as winning the games or do you think that this is going to be hey who's going to have the best cardio for a seven game series and the celtics do you think that they will be able to kind of play that type of basketball and how does their recovery kind of play that type of basketball?

And how does their recovery kind of change? Because a lot of times, at least I think in the past, it hasn't been every other scheduled every other night. There had been a couple differences. But this year it feels like, hey, they're going every other night no matter what. The finals are set for June 6th. It's happening June 6th. How do you see that happening? Yeah, I think the Pacers are going to pace. They're going to do what they do. And, um you know the pacers are a team of mistakes what i mean by that is the way

that they play super fast lots of passes all over the place they're going to they're going to make mistakes but they're also going to have 125 possessions and they're going to make successes and so that's the way they're going to play i don't think they're equipped to play any other way but it also makes them resilient because they're used to making mistakes unfortunately they made a couple mistakes in the last minute but i actually respect i respect the way they handle their business i really have come to respect the pacers after watching them in the in-season tournament respect watching them every night in this celtic series so the the Celtics have got to Celtic,

which is they're the number one or number two defensive team. They usually crush other teams in three-point shooting. The Pacers outshot them on threes the other night. I think the Celtics might have had two more overall, but the Pacers outshot them a percentage. The Celtics win by firing a ton of threes and forcing stops and getting like that. That's the way they need to play the celtics can probably beat the pacers playing high tempo over the course of a long series

the more they do that the more they open themselves up to problems and every game this goes on the more the celtics open them up up to problems because we know that the celtics are prone to kicking games away wendy amen you just said the Celtics can play Pacers basketball and beat them. Probably. They won 64 games there, and I will say this. Thank you, Wendy. Everyone's bitching about not being battle-tested, and it's like, hey, why do we play 82 freaking games?

What's the point of playing 82 when we get to the playoffs? Everyone's going to bitch as if we didn't get tested. Pacers are a different team in the playoffs. I agree. Different team. Yeah, but they did win 64 games, and they're 9-2 in the postseason. I realize that they're not blowing teams up by 20

while riding a white stallion, but they are still doing fine. They're just not hitting the standard that people would like to see. All right, Wendy. We appreciate you so much for joining us on this glorious Thursday. You were our first English-speaking guest in a while.

Yeah. I know. I appreciate it. I enjoyed every second of that interview, especially the deep bow. As somebody who's been in Japan, the deep bow is very important. Very worldly culture. Very worldly. Gave a lot of face. Gave them a lot of face with that bow. I didn't have a hat on,

but I wanted to let them know if I did have a hat on, I would take the cap off, tip of the cap, and bow because of what just happened. We've gotten an update, I believe, from the organization. They said they enjoyed it. Okay. Thank you, Cubs. Look at us. That's huge.

Holy shit. Go, Cubs, go. Look at the depth of our show. We're talking in different languages. We're doing a fucking talk show in different languages. A lot of different languages. Talk show, Wendy. Interview.

You've been known to speak French. Oui. You've had your French unpardoned many times. Oui, oui, yeah. In 2HRA Intelligent, obviously. That's why you remember that and others don't. Wendy, where are you at right now? Are you in Boston? Minneapolis, Minnesota.

I was at the Western Conference Finals last night. Now, covering this series. I said, can I avoid the Indy 500? No, I'm just kidding. It wasn't up to me. But, I am in the Western Finals now. My Indy days until the finals. I'll come back for the finals. Oh, thanks.

We had the poll sitter for the Indy 500 in here earlier. I think you would like him as a person, Wendy. Scott McLaughlin, you'd like him as a person. I know the hotel's too expensive and everything, but you would like Scott McLaughlin, I think, Wendy. Just like we all appreciate the hell out of you, man. You crush it for us every time you come on. Thank you, sir.

You make us smarter. We appreciate you. You're the best. Ladies and gentlemen. All right, guys. Have a great day. Brian Windhorst. Yeah, Wendy.

All right. And – Can I ask a question? Yeah. Before we move on. I wasn't there, but I thought we like Wendy, right? Yeah. And you guys just let Bruce admit it happened?

We were watching the game, too. It was tough. It was a good game, so... What happened exactly? What do you mean? I chopped it up with him for a good half hour. Thank you, Gumpy. Yeah, I did. Well, Gumpy was one of the people I was talking about. Yeah, we were...

You know, once... Well, Gumpy couldn't watch one game because there was a TV in the suite in the back that had the four piece on it yeah so we had different sports on so you know gumpy's not able to just watch one correct so he was in the back where windy was so there's a lot of me jj reddick's uh producer producer uh came up and came through no talking between those two about what jj was doing uh we actually heard that that was potentially kind of a

thing about Wendy is a news person. He works for ESPN for a broadcast that JJ Redick is a part of. I think there's a fool trying to respect the process here.

JJ's got a call and he's a big game as well. Like, and we're co-work. So it was kind of a, it was an interesting thing. It was, because JJ Redick is the topic of conversation in, you know, one of the biggest organizations in all of sport, let alone just the NBA. And I'm sure, you know, it's,

JJ's not just trying to have his shit out on the street. And Wendy, everything that he and JJ potentially talk about is like him wondering. Can't help but wonder. You know, so they weren't able to catch up in the sweep, but I wish that it would have been the same time. You know, that would have been a cool thing. And then what Wendy says after that. From my understanding. First horse, yep.

Yep. He's awesome. He came in there and commanded the room. First horse. Yep. Yep. He's awesome. He came in there and commanded the room. I'm telling you. I'm not sure. I would assume so. He said lucid, too. What's he talking about?

I wasn't. I mean, but that's windy football, baby. Yeah, you're right. That is windy football. Wendy came in, described the room, took the place over, told stories for 45 minutes in there. I don't know. Did he dive into any of the food told stories for 45 minutes in there. I don't know, did he dive

into any of the food? The food was really cool there. I'm laughing. What do you mean? The food was really cool there. It wasn't. What was cool about it? What was cool about it?

It's like they're looking out for us. You order a cookie tray, you get three cookies. That's really nice. How many people in the box how many in the box how many people i think you can fit 15 or 20 or something okay chop them up a bunch i guess get like little quarter squares bingo they're looking out for us don't have too much you know many chips ahoy that was uh that was a funny thing that was i looked at because i'm a sweet that thing is ordered yeah yeah do you want that is literally one eye so i go over to ellie we got what three cookies on this thing what how much and then i go to the wife how much are we sam how much are we paying for this thing and then she doesn't i go you see the cookies

she goes what we go up there and we full judge now you know because the coats with that sweet the food every week you know you got to order different stuff to see what's good and what's not good. There's some places that are running a racket. Yeah. Some arenas that are running a racket. I will say the Pacers chicken tenders are top notch. They need to be leading with that. Hey, you probably want two bins of these chicken tenders.

They were phenomenal. And then, you know, the people that work in the suites at the Pacers building, very good. Very active. I think they should be a little bit more authoritative whenever there's a comedian talking down there in a suite. Maybe he's just having their own conversation for an hour. Those people should come in and say, hey, why don't you guys shut the fuck up? Forever.

But they're trying to be as hospitable as possible. So I would say... They get a lot of practice. It's not like the Lucas Oil crew that gets, what, eight games and then a couple concerts. Lucas Oil crew is good. I know, but I'm saying. You're talking about the food and everything. The GameBridge, I mean, you're getting 41 games and every concert that comes.

That's almost every night. Yeah, you're right. A lot of work. GameBridge got an update, a full update. Yeah, it was very nice in there. It is. That place, it's a nice building. It is. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, not only did we do an interview, full update yeah it was very nice in there it is very that place it's a nice building it is it is

joining us now uh ladies and gentlemen not only did we do an interview on espn tv with a man who doesn't speak a lot of english now we're going to the other side of the world okay live from Saudi Arabia. What? The voice of the WWE. Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Cole. Yeah, Cole. Yeah, hi, guys. We're talking about the cookies at the Pacers game. I thank you for waiting there a little bit. Before we get into any of that, I'm a little perturbed.

Wow, good work. First off, I'm not allowed to show up on ESPN. What? I get preempted by a guy that sits on a pole. A pole stand. By a baseball pitcher that you have no idea who he even is. I know him now. And then by a guy who comes onto my television show on Monday nights and steals the spotlight.

Oh, Patrick. in Patrick Mahomes. Yeah. Yeah. So, today's a tough day for Michael Cole, but it gets better. You're in Saudi Arabia! Yay! Cool! I'm trying to get this stupid phone to work right, but it's all off. Anyway, I'm in Riyadh.

I'm at the WWE Experience. We just had a big kickoff event here tonight. It was great. It was awesome. They love me here. They were chanting my name, Michael Cole, Michael Cole, Michael Cole, all night long. I got my own security team. Jimmy Kelly's running security for me here, keeping me out of trouble.

It's been great. Hey, Cole, will you please tell Jim Kelly that the Rangers lost 3-0 last night in America, and also the Knicks lost to the Pacers. You bald dummy! You bald dummy! Jimmy Kelly's so old, he didn't realize the Rangers game was even

on when he got over here and they got shut out. And the Pacers, come on. You guys are going to get swept by the Celtics. The Knicks had so many injuries. Full Knick team, we would have taken in four. We'll see what happens next year. You got a crybaby coach. Wah, wah, wah.

Let's do it for the big market team. Did you hear you? Did you hear you at the beginning? We lost to Boston. Wah, wah, wah. No, there was no wah, wah, wah from Coach Carlisle with the Boston. Did you hear at the beginning? If we weren't injured, we'd be wah, wah, wah, wah.

That's all I hear. Just in more of abundance Because it's a bigger city Which means there's more eyeballs on TV Which means there's potentially a little bit of bias Not only from sports media But now the voice of the WWE That's disgusting Cole But let's go back to what you do great

Which is WWE Logan How are you man I love you man Hey I love you too WWE. Logan! Logan! How are you, man? Live on Pat's show. Pat, I love you, man. Hey, I love you, too. Always working. Yeah, always.

Hey, we just talked. Where you at, Pat? Hey, I'm in Indianapolis. I'm always working, too. Hey, Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes on earlier. He said he loved you. He said he loved you, but he was giving enough time to Jey Uso to get out of the way.

Man, I love Patrick Mahomes. I love everyone named Pat. Pats are great. Bye, Logan. Have a I love Patrick Mahomes. I love everyone named Pat. Pats are great. Bye, Logan. Have a good night. See ya. By the way, big news tonight. Logan Paul gave me his brass knuckles

and he vowed not to use them against Cody Rhodes on Saturday in the big WWE Championship match. Holy shit. Breaking. Put it on the ticker. He's going to steal them off you, Cole. He's going to beat you.

He's going to bully you. He's going to bully you over there. Also, major news, Pat. Okay. Winner of the King and Queen of the Ring will get a championship opportunity at SummerSlam in Cleveland. Wow!

SummerFest? Jeremy Piven called it SummerFest. Obviously, back in the day, we're talking about SummerSlam, which is in Cleveland. So the King and Queen of the Ring is all of a sudden a Money in the Bank type title where you get an opportunity to go on and let's go that's good news i like that good luck out there the man you beat at summer slam is

actually here in riyadh with me a bum ass corbin he's no longer bum ass corbin though i saw him bowl the other night yeah he's in his best no he's big bowling bowl last corbin but he was very excited though though. There it is. Because you gave him three minutes of your time on Raw Monday night. That's right. Hey, that's good work. That's good work for him. Let's talk about Saudi Arabia, can we please?

Enough of your bullshit. Not that the breaking news wasn't. And I'm having trouble hearing you. That's why I'm talking over you. I apologize. But can we do a little plug for my merch? Can you get a close-up on the Michael Cole t-shirt that's at the Toxic table? There we go.

Hi, Guy Conner. Take care of me. That's available at www.shop.com right now. The Voice of WWE Michael Cole t-shirt available now. Jimmy Kelly is actually wearing it as we speak. Okay. I love to hear that. I'm sure the sales are booming over there in Saudi Arabia.

The thing about that shirt that's a little bit different than now, flavor saver on that Michael Cole. That's our Michael Cole. Amen. That is our Michael Cole right there with the flavor saver right underneath the lip. This new Michael Cole, people are saying, maybe not. Not the same. Hey, listen, everybody misses you here, Pat. Seriously, they wish you were part of Saudi Arabia.

They wish you were here in Riyadh. We're going to miss you on Saturday. We'll see you on Monday night in Savannah. All right, buddy. Hey, I appreciate the hell out of you, Michael Cole. Be safe out there. Have fun. Love you guys.

See you later. See you, Michael Cole. Have fun. It's a short flight back to Savannah. He couldn't hear a word we were saying. Not a word. Not one word he heard. He's deaf plus on top of it all. No chance.

Every once in a while, he'll. He's deaf plus on top of it all. Oh, I forgot he's deaf. No chance. So every once in a while, he'll put the full-time AirPods in. Hearing aids. The hearing aids, yeah. I got you. I got you. They are full-time AirPods. They're wonderful.

He'd kick Bluetooth to his phone on those. Game changer. Chopper has that. My father-in-law, Chopper, does the does the same thing yeah he's sitting there talking on the phone like what who you talking to chop you realize his sweet yeah whatever hearing aids are full-time bluetooth full-time airpods and that's the most noise canceling of all time oh yeah like the most i think it's even rattling on like a bone and they said that's how the sound is getting through it so you can't hear shit so he'll watch like a video or something on his phone and i won't know that he's watching a video so i'll walk up right to him and i'm like cole how we doing baby i just got there or whatever and not

a single movement and then he looks up he goes when'd you get here show up to work today it's like all right that's 35 seconds ago you couldn't hear anything oh i had to plug yeah i know i know but he uh he's obviously fan i'm happy he has merch this is the first time yeah pumped it's great merch too there's another one that doesn't have him on it which isn't as good but it does say in his uh entrance logo uh logo excuse me michael cole voice of wwe as well nobody really gets to see it he gets intro'd you know every night at every arena before we go on air and i'll tell you you, there's a lot of respect and love for Michael Cole. Oh, yeah, people love that guy.

What do you mean? I mean, yeah, how could you not? I know he played, like, yeah, Michael Cole is the WWE. Bingo. But it wasn't like that for a long time. He was the guy that had to follow JR, obviously, who is beloved by every wrestling fan still in this point. But, like, and also he was a heel character,

and also he was the one who had to carry literally every single storyline. You know? Yeah. Hey, you got to had to carry literally every single storyline. You know? Yeah. Hey, you got to shoot. This is what it is. You know? So he had to do that. So there's a lot of people that held up a lot of angst and hate towards him, you know?

And all he's done is just been there for 27 years. He's only missed three shows, you know? And he's finally, I think, doing like in his eyes what he would do or how he would call it if he was to be able to have the autonomy to do so and uh it's an honor to be out there next to him he is an asshole oh yeah such a douche yeah i don't know about that i don't know about douche does he get a lay down seat i hope on the white back he's going straight to savannah i hope yeah they do uh i think it's all business i think they get a full plane that is all business class. I think.

There we go. I mean, that's a quick turnaround. So it was so quick a couple years back that they couldn't make the Buffalo. That was actually my first time getting to commentate SmackDown. That was during the football season. I get a text at 1.30 maybe in the afternoon, middle of the show, from Mr. H, Paul Levesque, and he goes,

can you be in Buffalo tonight? And I was like, yes. Didn't even know. Just said, can absolutely be in Buffalo tonight. And he's like, okay, yeah, we're doing an NXT Friday Night Smackdown. Do you want to commentate?

And I'm like, yeah. He's like, all right, I'll see you. But show obviously starts at eight. Just need you there before the show starts or whatever. And it's like, okay, cool. So then you start texting everybody, every business you've ever worked with that maybe you've got a plane from.

And none of them were able to turn around in a three hour period. You need a plane in Indianapolis that is staffed, piloted, cleaned, maintenance checked. Fueled. and fueled and get there uh sorry we can't do that jim ursa let me use his plane so then i fly on jimmer i eat a steak on my way over there on the plane good living on the plane direct i remember when all that happened how was that three years ago? Four years ago? I don't know. 2020, I want to say. 2019. Oh, the year before.

So, you know, everybody says I'm brand new to wrestling. I've been around WWE. You had a match. Was that OVW? You had that match when you were before the Combine? No, that was, uh, fuck. It was awesome. Either way, the video was good. I was in West Virginia.

Oh, they're not going to be happy That I forgot this name Of the promotion They're still going We talking War Pig here? Yeah Yeah Do you remember the promotion?

East Coast IWA East Coast Oh the IWA EC That sounds familiar There's a lot of promotions bro A lot of promotions I know it's crazy I am new to wrestling So so learning all of them.

I mean, that one that you just listed from Louisville. OVW. OVW. Never heard of that in my entire life until today. I went to shows. When I was playing, I've been down to numerous shows down there. Rip Rogers trained down there. Yeah.

So IWA, East Coast. Yeah, okay. Just like I thought. Just like I fucking said it was. Okay, that was the name of it. But yeah, that was when I wrestled Warpig. And Thomas Morstead, punter for the Jets,

he's a jugs machine. He is a punter. Like, that is, his legs come up to here on me like he is. He's the guy who had the onside kick for the Saints at halftime, the ambush.

He's the one who taught me how to punt. He told a story on a podcast for The Athlete, I think is the name of the group that had the podcast or whatever. And he said, yeah. So me and Pat, first time I meet him, he tells me he's going to try to parlay an NFL career into being a WWE wrestler or superstar. And I go, okay, buddy. And then it all kind of works out. It's like when I say that to people, like every single era of my life, like conversations revolve around like, yeah, I'm supposed to be a fucking wrestler.

You were like five years old, I feel like. I've seen the clips you guys put together when you were a tiny kid. That's what you were doing. Well, I thought that's what I was supposed to do my whole life. Superhuman? Superhuman like a mentor? Superhumming? Humming? Yeah. Like, I'm supposed to. Superhuman? Superhuman, like a mentor? Superhaman? Haman?

Yeah. He still has his fastball. Still has his fastball. Does he? He's still doing it? In our trampoline wrestling promotion that we had on my particular street, I think Superhaman would have been a star. Yeah, he would have done very well.

He would have done very well. And I think any trampoline wrestling, he would have done good. But, yeah, he was, I guess, inspiration. Yeah, I guess. More so like Sandman and them back then. Sure. But, yeah. Yeah, there's Warpig, IWO East Coast.

Rest in peace. There's me in Overton. And there's me training with Rip Rodgers. Then debut at NXT. Then go ahead and work some panels. Then have a match with Adam Cole because he's a piece of shit. Then I'll see you at WrestleMania, cuz. And then...

SummerSlam. Yeah, and then SummerSlam with the bum-ass Corbin. Yeah, it's crazy, dude. It is awesome. They're the best. Started your own promotion. Yep. OCW.

Office Championship Wrestling. Season 2 coming at some point. Yep, sometime. Don't forget. We already have those written. We have those wrote. We have the scripts for Office Championship Wrestling Season 2. And I'll tell you what, somehow better than Season 1.

Well, isn't that where Jesus Christ saved everybody? Well, yep. Jesus Christ came out and saved Dylan Ballstick from the devil and the Easter Bunny. Oh. Yeah. Remember? Because the Easter Bunny. All in one.

Well, and then all of our souls in the office. And thank God Jesus came out there. Jesus almost got knocked off the ring, too, at one point. Very close. Right into the coffin down here. It was a coffin match. It was almost Jesus in a coffin, which we knew was never going to happen. No, of course not.

No chance. Even though it was pretty close. It was very close. Someone say by about two fingers. Jesus had great flow. Yeah, great beard on Jesus back then. Yeah, it was great times. That was one of the most fun things we've ever done. Oh, my God.

We stayed in the office while I was kind of getting pieced together and just laughed at every single part of it. Every single part of it. When did you film that? Because I don't think I was around at all when you filmed it. That was pre-COVID. That was like 2018, probably. We brought fans.

We had, what, 35, 50 fans? Oh, yeah. A crowd. Yeah, here it is. Oh, my gosh. I guess not 30. 20, it looks like. 2019, it looks like.

So are some people just random people? Yeah, there's random people. Yeah. The guy, a lot of the diehards from back in the day, there's the devil. Is that Tone? Is that Tone's Halloween costume? No, that was the devil for shoot. That was the devil.

There's Dylan Bostic. He was wrestling on our behalf. And good old Ty Schmidt had quite a line. Look at Nick with that short-ass hair. Yeah, Nick got us into a situation with the devil. Yeah, never good and uh basically turned into fighting for our souls yeah and uh it all came all came together pretty nice setup the setup was unbelievable oh yeah i'm telling you we did it we fucking did it i mean this gets all the shine

but the mama's dinner table match i mean that's that's what that was the one one of the greatest was that mother's day yeah. Yeah, Mother's Day. This was Easter. Then we had a Mother's Day, you know, because the holidays are back to back to back. Rest in peace, Test 2, baby. Not to mention Bill Ding. He's an asshole. Yeah.

Bill Ding. Bill Ding. The Wall. William Ding. Yeah, William Ding. Bill Ding. The Wall. Yeah, of course. At that time, big conversation.

Yeah, certainly. Big time. He fucking lost. He did. Yes, he did. I need to go time, big conversation. Yeah, certainly. Big time. He fucking lost. He did. Yes, he did. I need to go back and watch those. It's been a while. That's what our champ does.

That's maybe the hardest I've ever laughed in my life, watching it after we were done. Ty and I could not hear a word each other were saying. Just screaming at each other's faces for like four hours. Three episodes, four hours, no voice. We got a wrestling promotion And at that time there was a lot of people starting them And trying to make money off it

I had real thoughts as I laid down Should we fucking make it? We do this every weekend Can we? Jeffrey Gorman had an interview In the locker room Gorman was electrified Gorman was absolutely electrified

I mean, Bill. Yeah, let's turn it on. It should be any minute now that the Test Tube baby comes for a quick pre-wrestling match interview. Sorry to bombard you, Mr. Test Tube, if you could. Are we bothering you? What? Are you bothering me? Gordon, do you have a father?

Gordon. I do. Do you have a father I do Do you have a mother what's their name It's personal What do you mean it's very personal My parents What do you mean it's very personal What's with the eyes

Why are you touching me right now Wash your hands He just came out of the bathroom Gorman's not going to be happy about that That guy always had Always had the hands clean Wash your hands. He didn't wash that. He just came out of the bathroom. Borman's not going to be happy about that. No, he wasn't. That guy always had the hands clean. He doesn't like getting personal. No, but Test Tube Baby was just drinking water.

He wasn't pooping or peeing. Yeah, Test Tube Baby was drinking on the toilet there potentially. So Test Tube Baby had no mom. Yeah. So obviously he just came from a lab. No dad. So he was fighting. He was a bit of an asshole.

Do you think maybe Babyface with coming from a lab? That was not the case at all. He had no respect for anybody. And he fought against our office championship champion, Dylan Bostic, for not only the title, but Dylan Bostic's mom would then be Test Tube Baby's mom officially for Mother's Day. It worked out for Test Tube Baby, too, because he turned out to be J.D. McDonough. Watch it.

What? I mean, he was a fucking technician in the ring. There's Dylan Bostick's mom. Yeah. So, anyways, we've been into the wrestling game for a long time. I saw some people that, whenever we put out that video, that talk put together excellent. Great job. About the year, about our show going to change. I saw some people comment.

Yeah, half the time we talk about wrestling and WNBA, you say it's not going to change. It's like, buddy, we've been talking about wrestling a long time. We are probably the dumbest wrestling show in history. We could actually potentially classify. We could rip shit and release podcasts as a wrestling show. We just respect the

art, baby. We just respect the art. Michael Cole, though, makes it difficult to sometimes with the way he fucking acts. He didn't put over the king and queen of the ring at all. Not at all. What's this guy supposed to be able to cut promos? Does anybody know what time that's on from listening to that interview? Nope. Wow. Work

on it, Cole. And tell that Jim Kelly. Pipe down over there. Yeah, me better. Because if he doesn't soon. It's over. Yeah. All right, let's get the fuck out of here.

I was going to shoot one of these basketballs, but today's not today. What? I missed eight yesterday. I'll shoot one. So you're due. What do you mean? The next one's going in. Shoot or shoot.

Did you hear what Dak Prescott? Shoot or shoot, bro. I just saw his name on the paper. Yeah. Did you hear what Dak Prescott said? I just saw his name on the paper. Yeah. Did you hear what Dak Prescott said? Is he playing for free? Please run the Dak Prescott video from OTAs where he was obviously asked about his contract situation, which is certainly looming down there once again.

Business is business. I'll leave it where it gets handled. Right now it's about being my best for this team right now in this moment. OTA is helping these guys out and just focused on that. And I know my business will take care of itself. And so I've been in it before, experienced, and just controlling what I can right now. Why have you been able to be so patient when it comes to the business? I don't play for money. Never have. Never cared for it, to be honest with you.

You play for money. Never have, never cared for it, to be honest with you. Play for championships. Yeah, would give it up just to play this game. So I allow that to the business people to say what it's worth, what they're supposed to give a quarterback of my play, a person of my play, leader of my play, I guess you can say. And for me, it's about, as I said, control. I can control and handle that part, and the rest will take care of itself. I think it was a great answer for the situation.

I think it was a great answer for the situation. Now, saying he'd give it all up just to play the game. Never cared for it. Yeah, it's part of the game, I guess. It's not really my thing. I appreciate that. I respect the hell out of that. Sure, sure. You know, sometimes when you're not looking for something, you find it. It's not really my thing. I appreciate that. I respect the hell out of that. Sure, sure.

You know, sometimes when you're not looking for something, you find it. When you're looking for something, you can't. Like, you want to look for money, you found it. Championship's on the way, though. Amen. And that's why that's a beautiful answer out of Dak Prescott, A.J. Hawk. Control the controllables, right? That's a coach's tagline a lot of times.

Absolutely. And be who you can afford to be. How much is he able to afford being? The quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys? You don't want to give any back. I mean, it's one thing to give back. It's one thing to say, hey, I'm not going to make any more in the future. But to give back what you already have, that's a different story.

Yeah, it's like when the IRS comes and says, hey, you owe $3 million. It's like, that sucks because that's gone already. Yeah. Where's that supposed to come from? Well, the money that you didn't pay for. I don't have it. We still need it. That sucks.

If they came to Dak's house, he'd say $3 million. I'll give you $10. Just play a game. He seems hungry, doesn't he? He does. The offseason, they didn't do shit. Everybody thought they were going to do a bunch of stuff. They didn't do anything. That's because thought they were going to do a bunch of stuff. Correct. And they didn't do anything.

And that's because Jerry Jones says, I like this team. Yeah, and then he could have done something with the team and paid everybody, but yeah, they decided not to do anything. You've got Micah still, CD still, Dax. What's Dax's situation like, though? Like, where is he at in his contract? A few years back, he got a $100 million contract after breaking his leg, remember?

Yeah, after the franchise tag. Yeah, it was nasty. And that was talked about for like a year and a half. The longer they wait, the higher it's going to go. The longer they wait, the higher it's going to go. And Jerry's like, we'll see. We'll see. What's going on over there? We'll see. We'll see. Free agent after this year. Yeah, and he has a no franchise

tag clause, so they have to have a deal. Last year of his contract. So if he was at the free agency market, you would certainly see a team we assume pay a lot of money for him. Just because Dallas maybe, unless they win this year, and if he wins this year, then it's the Joe Flacco

situation, where Joe Flacco went into his final year of his contract with the Baltimore Ravens, and he wins the fucking Super Bowl. And then he's worth $110 million all of a sudden, and he can play football forever because he's already made it, already won a Super Bowl. Legacy's good. Now he's on the Colts.

And Anthony Richardson actually said, I remember I was on a school bus, I think, whenever he was winning the Super Bowl. So maybe that is what happens, or maybe they get a deal done like I think everybody in Dallas has alluded to, A.J. Locke. But how big is it? Yeah, how big? Obviously, Dax deserves and he wants a

monster deal, but what if the Cowboys aren't 100% sold on him being there in the future and giving him that kind of deal? What can they do? What if they say, Tom Brady took $25 million a year? Yeah. Are you saying? They'll say, good for Tom Brady. Definitely. That's what Dax's

business people will say. But if they're not able to get a deal done and then jerry and what's the other one steven steven comes out and says we offered him 40 million dollars a year four years that 120 million dollars guaranteed like we tried and he wanted like you know because with where the quarterback market is going and where it is right now for people getting paid, I mean, Jared Goff just fucking won. He hasn't won with the Detroit Lions, but he is certainly a guy that they all think they can win with.

And that's what this check is. Do you guys think you can win with Dak Prescott? And that's kind of the contract question that's happening. And he's got a lot to prove this year, but if he fucking goes and wins and then he becomes a free agent, boy, with the way these quarterback deals are right now, he is going to be mega wealthy. He's got to feel great about where he is. Yeah, especially with how old he is. Like, Kirk Cousins just got $100 million guaranteed.

And Kirk Cousins is, what, 34, 35? I didn't even think of Kirk Cousins. Like, that deal is probably the one you look to. Like, hey, man, absolutely, sure, they go win the Super Bowl. That's one thing. They go to the conference championship or even the divisional round. It's like, hey, Kirk Cousins got $100 million after tearing his Achilles. I understand that maybe you don't have the utmost confidence in me

to win a Super Bowl, but my price should be there. Are you 31? 31. Dak? Yeah. He's going to be 31 by the time the season starts. Yeah. Well, happy birthday.

Happy birthday. July 29th. It's coming up. It's coming up. I by the time the season starts Well happy birthday Happy birthday It's coming up I like the way you answered that I like the way you handled it Now you know It's going to get held against Got Zeke back on the squad At 3 million bucks a year or whatever

For a year That's going to get held against What is it? Zeke's coming back? No that statement he just made. If they don't get a deal done and then the Cowboys leak, which they would never do. No. Leak what they offered him.

Yeah, would never do that. But leak what they offered him and then say, well, this guy said he wants to do this. Then I guess the agent just says, well, I'm the one doing this entire thing. Is it Mulageta who reps him? I don't think it's Mulageta. I thought it was Tad.

Tad Prescott, his brother? He reps him publicly. Todd France. Todd France. Also a Frenchman. Todd does a lot of business. He didn't do a $230 million guaranteed deal. No, only one guy's done that one. Did he revive the safety market? He did Jared Goff's deal. Oh, only one guy's done that one. Did he revive the safety market? He did Jared

Goff's deal. Okay. Respect. Okay, France. That was his quarterback's agent. They were just referencing Jared Goff's deal in this article. So he did not do Goff's deal. Back on the hot seat, France.

Back on the... What have you done? He's Aaron Donald, Russell Wilson, Kyler Murray, Patrick Mahomes. Russell Wilson had a pretty good deal. Patrick Mahomes' deal was great whenever it was done. The last deal Dak had with the Cowboys was 2021, and he got four years, $160 million, $126 guaranteed, averaged $42 a year. At the time, it was second, just behind Mahomes. And that was after an injury,

right? Yes. So, he wanted more than that, right? Or does he want the same deal? What if they just say same deal? Same Z's? He's like, alright, here we go. Let's do it. Maybe. I'll take him. So, France does good business. Congrats, Todd. We always knew. We had faith, Todd. Dallas Cowboys

quarterback to agent, yeah, probably good business. Now, the market says what it is. it is, so you don't really have to. You're already going into a. 55. 55 million? That's the market. See, that's the thing, though. Is Dak not going to take the next big one?

Is he just going to choose to. Bet on himself, right? He'd have to be betting on himself. I mean, if he wants to keep throwing to CD, have Micah on the other side of the ball. And maybe an offensive line he can build up. I thought this was potentially going to happen with Andrew Luck.

Because Andrew Luck seemingly had his dad obviously his family very successful. He had another career that was waiting for him that he would be at the top of the line if he wanted to. And it was like when his contract was up, I was like, maybe Andrew's the guy that's like, you guys give me $30 million a year. Like, I'm playing football. To make that work.

I'm playing football for $30 million a year or like $25 million a year, whatever it was at the time. I thought there was a chance and then so many people just educated me so quickly on how impossible that would be for andrew luck to actually do with all the other bull i don't say bullshit but bullshit going on with the nflpa the amount of people that push other quarterbacks that are like also waiting his own agent his own agent too his own agent other agent like it's just like everybody is literally telling you like oh you want to fuck over everybody else okay yeah i mean if that's if that's what you want to do i guess if you don't want to make uh uh player salaries better going forward okay that that's yeah yeah sure yeah sign whatever you want to whatever you want

to do you know and it's like a very it's just a fascinating tale about what decision you want to make could he be the guy because he hasn't won a Super Bowl, wants to win a Super Bowl clearly, since he played for free and then think to himself well, whenever you take up a percentage of a salary cap, it's been kind of proven that you don't win a Super Bowl at one position

maybe we try to build it up. I don't know. I have no idea if that's the case or if Dak gets paid again. Either way, good on him. I'm up for him. To your point there, that kind of goes to Todd Franz being a good agent because he set up Mahomes with that 10-year deal where he's still getting that massive

paycheck and still resetting the market, but also they weren't strapped for cash. I mean, have they been? I guess the Tyreek Hill deal, but for that long, for about four years, that cap hit wasn't massive whatsoever and they obviously won a bunch of Super Bowls. And now everybody just compares Patrick Mahomes' average per year versus everybody else's, and it's like,

do they all have like half a billion coming? You're right, though. If Dak believes the words that he speaks, he should play for $10 million a year. Well, that's what I'm saying. So now everybody, so whatever, if they don't get a deal. $5 million a year. Better in mid.

He should play for Russell Wilson when he's playing for the Steelers. What is Russ playing for? Like 1.3 or something. Legit. And that's a massive piece of why you guys love him so much? No, not anymore. Originally. But once you saw the way he operated.

Yeah, now he's integrated himself so perfectly. And the Pirates relevant again, right? Yeah. Who was at their training thing, camp? Russell Wilson, I believe. There it is. Russell Wilson was there. Did he start at shortstop?

If he wanted to. Yeah, he started pitcher. He threw the first one. How glow. McCutcheon asked him actually for some batting tips. Did he? Yeah. Did that turn it all around?

Good outing out of Skeens today. Okay, what do you do? Skeens is pitching late. Game started at 1235. Six innings. One earned run. Only three strikeouts. That's okay.

Lower to ZRA, and the Buccos are up 5-2 heading in the bottom of the seventh. Against? Against the San Francisco Giants. And they stink. Two games under.500. They're, you know, about the same as the Pirates. That'll be a skink. Skink's in line for a W.

That'll be a skink. How many strikeouts? Three? Yeah, just three. 300 more bucks to the... Gary Sinise Foundation. Bingo. Gump said the Giants don't strike out, I guess.

That's kind of their thing. So three, it's not unnormal. They're always going to get some wood. Okay. Good eyes on the Giants. Good to know. Yeah, they're going to get some wood. Okay. Good eyes on the Giants. Good to know. Yeah, they're going to get some wood. They might not put it in play, but they're going to get some wood.

Bats on balls. That's Giants football, baby. Amen. All right, let's get the hell out of here. AJ, great work today, pal. Sorry we had so many prerecords. We had a good time with him, though. I'm not joking.

The Showtime interview, I had a great time sitting here and watching that thing yeah him and edwin edwin congrats to edwin too he's a good interpreter seriously yeah that's and shout out to zeke having the connection obviously with the cubs in chicago and making that whole thing happen when it was presented would you like to talk to shota imanaga uh in he's he speaks japanese oh, this would be fun. Let's, yeah, let's try to figure this out. Let's definitely try to figure this out. And then, you know, I guess they've done other interviews together,

and everybody prerecords, and then they just kind of chop out the interpreter, and then they just have Shodan, and then they'll have the captions of what he's saying. And then, you know, just kind of move on. That's kind of like how it's been. And it's like, nah, nah, nah. Bring them in.

That's not the truth. They're a team. They're a team. They seem to operate well together. Well, they're going to have to. Once again, we don't know everything at this point, but we're thinking Edwin's a good representative of interpreting. Mm-hmm.

100%. Shota should keep an eye on his bank account. Yeah. He's not making nearly as much as Shohei is, but. Yet. Yet. 30 years old, first year in the MLB? Correct. What's realistic here, you think? I mean, it depends if he wins a Cy Young this year. You know, he signed a four-year deal with the Cubs, I think for like 53 million, which isn't crazy, but also with a guy like, you know, you don't really know what you're getting with him. But if he is, like, their ace for the next two years or whatever,

like, he could, you know, I mean, it's probably not going to be crazy because he'll be 34 when this contract's up, but he could definitely still sign, like, another $125 million contract, something like that. I bet he showed up. Hell yeah, he showed up. Oh, oh. Ko-u-san?

It was, yeah, Ko-uno oh it was uh yeah ko-uno ko-uno ko-uno ko-uno yeah good luck good luck yeah it's a tough language to learn i feel like sounds nothing like ours just try writing it sounds nothing like ours yeah i guess in looking at it nothing like ours so when you get dropped in to their, and if you go, you actually go into, like, boy, it is. You didn't pick any of it up? Context clues are tough. Ohio. That's why I said Ohio at the beginning of that thing, because I had this sweet Japanese lady who seemingly was older.

She might have been 150 years old but you know i have no idea sitting next to me on the train no talking on train okay we're not fucking nobody nobody's talking no he's sitting down and we are not talking and you're on time too these fucking things they you've seen the videos of all the sounds and then it shuts it does shut but you're also in seat or you're we're not talking in this thing i need how many times am i going to be here i need to know so you start using phone keyboard translate in the japanese so then i'm showing her and then she's responding and it's coming back so then i'm learning a little bit like ohio and then there's something like that one of the the local

people that were working uh with the uso to help us like doio and then there's something like that one of the the local people that were working uh with the uso to help us like do not touch my mustache like something in that that's what it sounded that's what it sounds like it's a pretty vital thing and then they also gave me something that makes me an asshole too like somebody told me to say something and then i walk right into a place and i say it and yeah and it was not something you should say that's just classic it's classic banter classic yeah so much talk came back to the bus and they were like yeah oh yeah i uh i did i did say i did kuso yep kuso that's what i need to know that's you in japanese that's what I need to know Yeah That's fuck you in Japanese Yes it is Really

That's what he learned Okay Afterwards Oh Like how long afterwards So we kept them all on A little bit longer I wanted to

I wanted to learn some more stuff You know I wanted to learn some more stuff Didn't want It was the interpreter saying Obviously not him No Edwin was

Cameras everywhere Yeah Edwin was just dropping it out Out of nowhere That guy Geez Alright let's get the fuck out of nowhere. That guy, geez. All right, let's get the fuck out of here. Good feel good Friday coming tomorrow. Yeah.

Hell yeah. Huge. There is somebody coming on tomorrow that's a big deal. I forget who it is. Just happened today. It's big. I'm excited for tomorrow. Let's go.

Tomorrow should be a lot of fun and obviously three-day weekend. Then we're back on Tuesday for some magic. Oh, yeah. Lots are overreact to after the three-day weekend with the Western Conference Finals, the Eastern Conference Finals for both the NBA, the NHL continuing. Then obviously the race day that is Sunday for the Monaco F1 race that's in the morning. Go ahead and watch it. Watch it.

It's their Super Bowl. Then you got obviously the Indy 500 in the afternoon available on Peacock, I've been told, especially if you have a maybe out of city VIN or whatever the hell it is. Might have to hack and find one of those. And then NASCAR on Sunday night, let alone everything

else. So Tuesday's show should be absurd. We'll be off Monday celebrating Memorial Day alongside everybody else saying thank you to everything that has happened and the people that have done it for us. And then tomorrow's Feel Good Friday should be electrifying. We're lucky to do this. We're thankful to do this. You're the greatest

people on earth for allowing us to do this. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. Just like available at Costco.com. Ooh, nice. And select Costco's. I think in Alaska. I think there's maybe a couple others. Dude Wipes is available at Costco.com. Oh, nice. And select Costco's. I think in Alaska. Okay.

I think there's maybe a couple others. But yeah, dudeweb's available at Costco.com. You can get the box. I believe that box is available. Just Alaska? Only Alaska? I don't know. They sent it in the email I was on.

It seems kind of remote. They said in select Costco's and then like Alaska and then like nothing else was said. I'm like, I assume they're in other Costcos as well. But definitely in Costcos in Alaska. From the email I read. But also available on Costco.com. Shout out to Dude Wipes. They're also a sponsor of the Concava SC

team that will be battling in two weeks or less than two weeks down in Cary, North Carolina at about 140 degree water. Should be good. Ripped the net yesterday. I saw that. Ripped the net yesterday. I saw that. I mean, I tell you what, your game's really rounded into form at the right time. The ball was starting to go like where I would like it to go, which is good.

You know, that's good news. Running's going to be interesting, you know. Running's going to be interesting. First shot of the day. People aren't talking about that. Yeah, I felt good coming out of the gates yesterday. And the ball has been going where I want it to go, which is the most important part. Like, that was the thing I was worried about most.

Not only, like, making solid ball contact, but, like, putting it where you want it to go is the, that's the game. That is the game. So, early in the training for, you know, Concava SC down at TSD, I mean, I was a little bit worried about, are we ever going to be able to keep this thing?

But even though, think about it, you want to make an impact. So even if you sail that thing 10 feet over the net, they're going to hear it. They're going to feel it humming by their head. There's going to be those. If I'm pulling the trigger, there's going to be those. Just set the tone. You want to set the tone early, whether it goes in or not.

I don't know if it'll set the tone that I'm pulling the trigger, there's going to... Just set the tone. You want to set the tone early, whether it goes in or not. I don't know if it'll set the tone that I'm looking for if I airmail one out of the fucking complex. Which is possible. It's 230 miles an hour, though. 230 it will. Ball's moving. Ball is moving. I'm excited to see how goalies respond to it. Because obviously I haven't shot against a goalie in a long time, so I have no idea.

But I think it's moving. Is it all real goalies? I mean, the teams are all real soccer players. The Reggae Rovers we're playing against, I think I've already said this, some old members of the Jamaican national team. So that's our first game out the gates. That one!

And then we got Cincinnati, and then we got Burnley. We're eagerly awaiting those matches for sure. At first, we have no idea what's coming. We have no idea, but we've heard pretty good squad. But Coach Gumby's back there feeling good. Yeah, Coach. Coach, we've been getting a workout there on Cal Pasture seemingly outside.

Yeah, we're dialed in. You get on a pitch that is a little flat, nice pitch. Those balls will be going top shelf every time, brother. And I see some people saying still, like, well, the 7-on-7 nets are smaller than that. It's like, I'm hitting where I'm aiming right now. So what I'm assuming is if I aim a little bit lower, hopefully it'll be able to go there.

And the balls that they're using, pretty good balls for shaping. Pretty good moving balls. We're going this way with it, too, this time. We're going to try to figure it out. They're kind of flat? What does that mean? They're kind of lighter balls. flat don't want flat balls how much can you curve it how much can you bend that thing pretty good pretty good depends on the amount

of time that you have or space that you have you know like when you're throwing a football trying to turn it over it's not necessarily easy like it's seven yards five yards seven yards but you double that thing like 15 obviously that thing's turning a little bit 20 it's a little bit so it's just like that with one of those like there's incredibly talented guys that can you know strike balls that can make a move a lot more than others a lot of it revolves around leg strength you know so you can kind of go with it but like Bennett like Beckham obviously that's a movie I'm not sure uh was critically uh scored high or whatever maybe it was but like he could move a ball because how strong his leg was like Beckham could really do was critically scored high or whatever. Maybe it was. But, like, he could move a ball because of how strong his leg was.

Like, Beckham could really do it. So that was legit, though. He could actually really do it. Yeah, he had a strong leg. He was the first guy I saw hit a ball real strong that I found out that it was possible to hit a ball like 90 miles an hour. You know, that was my – I wanted to kick the ball harder than everybody else. That was literally my – That was my goal.

Yeah. So that's why i sat uh next to my house and just ripped the ball off the side of my house all day every day whenever i wasn't doing any other fuckery like that's literally what i did to pass time when my brother was playing a video game or they're watching a movie and i didn't have the fucking stamina to sit in there and do nothing and do it so i would just kick his heart i wanted to have the strongest like that's what i wanted to have so then beckham in the world cup i think he had a pk it was like 92 miles an hour or so his first time i saw miles per hours uh on games and like his and if you go

to soccer tournaments they would always have like a gun and he would compete against everybody else at every other tournament and then you're unable to be on the board it was like one of the windows like that was that was gold like hey sideshow here at this tournament would also like to be on the board. It was like, run into windows. That was like, hey, sideshow here at this tournament would also like to be at the top of this fucking radar gun thing. It was nice to see the ball move a little bit again because I haven't kicked a ball in fucking soccer ball in a long, long, long time.

Football, long, long time. It was nice to see it move. It was nice to see the ball move again. Now, am I going to be too exhausted to ever make solid contact with the ball, potentially? You'll find out. Tap your head. That's why we've got subs on the fly. We've got subs on the fly. I've been running with the ball, though, dribbling with the ball. That's come much more

naturally than I thought it was going to. It's hard to do. Yes. Especially on our field out here, it kind of sucks. Trapping the ball, a little touch, you know, like when a ball gets played to you, because our team in the roster will debut next week. I'll debut in the roster next week. Our team has a lot of talent, so the ball's going to you, because our team in the roster will debut next week. I'll debut the roster next week. Okay.

Our team has a lot of talent. So the ball is going to be pinging around, like moving. Boom, boom, boom. So if you have a bad touch, you just, you fuck up everything. So it's like touch is a big deal as well. I'm nowhere near where everybody else on our team is going to be. But I won't be a complete fuck up, I think. Now, once I get exhausted's there's certainly a different

conversation happening but i think i got a good two to three minutes each game where i'll be able to do some plenty of time plenty of time for you to have a huge impact can gumpy check himself in ever can he play no he's registered as a coach yeah i'm just close brother dumpy's right thigh too almost oh buddy my right quad is tight i was was only left foot yesterday, but it's nice to use both feet sometimes. Yeah, Gumpy's been handling it great. But, yeah, the day we were working on touch, it was like, all right, Gumpy, I need you to hit me some balls here. Like, I need you to be hitting me some balls.

And he was just righty sending them in or whatever. And it's like we did probably 30 to 40 of these types of balls. And then on the ground, we're hitting some as well. And I didn't even think about Gumby's leg being worn out. But if I was on his side doing this, certainly there's a chance that he'd get worn out. Gumby, I appreciate your sacrifice. It's awesome to be out there, man. I literally, I loved playing soccer my whole life.

And it is just, it's cool to nick the ball around. It does feel like I'm a little kid again. Legit, dude. Like, I'll stand out there and juggle by myself for like 20 minutes. and it is just, it's cool to nick the ball around. It does feel like I'm a little kid again. Legit, dude. Like, I'll stand out there and juggle by myself for, like, 20 minutes. Even, like, the process of, like, I'm tying up my cleats again and then, like, first touch on the ball on the day and then, like, hitting one over to Gumpy, it's like, oh, this does feel like I'm right back in high school again

for whatever team I'm playing. But then I have to remind myself, like, body is not. Let's remember. Not actually. Let's remember the brain. It might be nostalgic here, but the body doesn't give a fuck. It is in 2024. So we're trying to manage it all,

but I think we're getting to a spot where we'll be useful, a little bit useful. Just play hacky sack to get warmed up. I'll bring mine down. I already have. I have a couple in my bag. The wrestlers enjoy hacky sack. I love hacky sack.

When I was in like middle school, fifth grade, middle school, man, we'd hacky sack all the time at recess after we got done playing football. Were you inside of the foot? You did inside of the foot? I was all over, you know. I'm headbutting it. I'm using my knees. I'm doing everything.

Yeah, obviously the knees were the, that was home base for it. But the people that do this you're like oh you don't you don't play soccer you just tell that they don't play soccer they're full-time that's what i used to do no i don't know that i don't do that unless i have to whatever i have to do you come across a motherfucker doing this with the hacky sack good they're good like they're gonna fucking bomb that that would that feels like that would shear the so little cart which i have left off my knee if I even do that movement. Yep.

Impossible for me as well. I did top of the foot and then obviously stole that thing. You throw it up again. You headbutt it like you're A.J. Hawkeye. All right. Let's get the fuck out of here. It's been a fun day. Use Dude Wipes.

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