The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1154 - Triple H LIVE In The ThunderDome, PK Subban, Ryan McGee, Michael Cole, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: June 24, 2024

On today’s show, Pat, Darius Butler, and the boys are joined by the voice of the WWE in the ThunderDome as Monday Night Raw is in Indianapolis tonight. They chat about tonight’s massive game 7 in the Stanley Cup Finals, the deciding game 3 of the College World Series between Texas A&M and Tennessee, Scottie Scheffler winning yet another tournament, the US Men starting hot with a 2-0 win over Bolivia in the Copa America, all the different NFL news, and everything else happening in the sports world. Also joining the show LIVE from the ThunderDome is the current CCO and Head of Creative for WWE, one of the biggest WWE Superstars of all time, Paul “Triple H” Levesque to chat about the current state of the WWE, where it’s going in the future, what the WWE will look like when on Netflix, the Royal Rumble, SummerSlam, and WrestleMania all coming to Indianapolis, the whereabouts of Roman Reigns, and much more (14:09-51:49). Next, 13 year NHL veteran, 3x All-Star, and current ESPN NHL analyst, PK Subban joins the show to preview tonight’s game 7 between the Oilers and Panthers, who has all the momentum, who he expects to win tonight, and if Connor McDavid has already cemented his status as one of the greatest players of all-time (1:10:00-1:27:50). Later, journalist and co-host of Marty & McGee, Ryan McGee joins the show to chat about tonight’s deciding game 3 of the College World Series Finals (1:40:57-1:48:27). 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. We’ll 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 massive monday june 24th 2024 this program starts right now are the greatest thing on earth and today is a massive day in sports history not only do we have a game seven in the nhl stanley cup final down in florida who were once in the lead three zip in the NHL Stanley Cup Final down in Florida, who were once in the lead, three zip in the series. Now, the Edmonton Oilers with McDavid, Dreisaitl, and Stuart Skinner standing on his head have evened the odds, and we have a game seven in which we can make history.

For the first time in potentially 82 years, a team could be down three zip in the finals and come back and win it in game seven. The team that ended up losing in 1942, just so we can remember this forever, the Detroit Red Wings. Come on. Yeah, they were up 3-0 and the Toronto Maple Leafs came all the way back and won in a game seven that happened in 1942.

That's the last time the team has come back from being down 3-0 and winning the entire thing. And then in 1945, a team was up 3-0, then it was 3-3, and then the team that was up at the beginning would go on to remain and win the Stanley Cup in game seven. That's the last time a team was up three zip, gets all the way back to a game seven, and ends up winning it.

The team that did that in 1945, the Toronto Maple Leaf leafs they're up 3-0 then the detroit red wings come fighting back and then the toronto maple leafs beat the detroit red wings in game seven so the red wings on the wrong side of history for both of these things but tonight history will be made regardless of the outcome will connor mcdavid continue this climb to the top of the mountain with putting an entire country on his back, his legacy to be created, and win in a game seven? Or will Kachuk and the boys down in Florida be as dominant as they were throughout the entirety of this playoffs,

including the first three games of this series, and win the first ever Stanley Cup for Sunrise Florida? A lot on the line. Cannot wait to watch tonight, 8 p.m. Eastern on ABC. PK Subban joining us in the second hour. He's been on every show this morning on ESPN. As has Steve Levy and Moose Marc Messier. The ESPN push behind

hockey has been very real as of late because hockey is awesome. And tonight, hockey makes history. Also today, we have game three of the best of three for the College Baseball World Series National Championship happening in Omaha. Game one happened on Friday, Texas A&M, or Saturday. Texas A&M beat the dog shit out of Tennessee. Just beat the shit out of them.

Tennessee was the number one team in the country. This was the team that were supposed to win. Heard their coach talking and giving an interview about the development of his players through college baseball and the NIL where guys are sticking in college as opposed to maybe going to the minor leagues or to other leagues. College baseball should really reap the benefits of the NIL

and the way the world is going. And they talked about how they got all guys all around the yard. In the infield they look like outfielders and the outfielders they look like dns we got monsters going through a college baseball system and the sport's only getting better and better and then texas a&m said that's funny and beat the shit out of them yep killed them mcgee was down there oh yeah he loves tennessee volunteers who have never i think since 19 something never never won a world series a college world series they had uh clay travis down there they had peyton manning down there volunteers who have never, I think since 19-something, never won a World Series, a College World Series. They had Clay

Travis down there. They had Peyton Manning down there. They had everybody that has ever gone to the University of Tennessee in Omaha to celebrate, head over to Rocco's, buy some jelly shots. Why? They get their ass beat. Then game two, guess what? Tennessee says, hold the phone. That ain't us. They come back,

beat the shit out of Texas A&M, and tonight now we have a Game 3. Will Tennessee continue to ride the momentum of Game 2? Who will become the national champ? Who will win the College World Series this year? And in Game 3 fashion, I expect it's going to be Aces pitching against Aces. I expect it to be a tight one. Or maybe both bats will get hot just like each of the teams have done in different games.

Game 3, the best of three. Tonight, 7pm on ESPN. Hell yeah. And tonight, Monday Night Raw is in Indianapolis, Indiana. In the middle of about a thousand different storylines, one of the biggest is the fact that Indianapolis has inked a deal

with the WWE for the Royal Rumble to come to Lucas Oil Stadium. SummerSlam to come to Lucas Oil Stadium. SummerSlam to come to Lucas Oil Stadium. And WrestleMania will be coming to Lucas Oil Stadium here in Indianapolis. So it's obviously a massive Monday. We can't thank you enough for joining us. We hope you had a fantastic weekend.

The Talks at Table is here at Boston Corner. And at Ty Schmidt, con man, big news all around the yard here in sports right now. In the middle of June, this is a beautiful thing. Yeah, incredible. And all those things were awesome. I mean, can we talk about how it's our sport again? Yeah. Holistic off the draw for Team USA right away on the Bolivians. I figured maybe Bolivia came in a little nervous because they were playing the greatest country in the world

when it comes to playing soccer, football, as they say incorrectly overseas. But that was magnificent to watch. I mean, we've been watching the Euros and talking about that. Now that your own team is in a massive tournament, incredible entertainment all weekend from sports. And like you said, middle of June, very unexpected, honestly. Yeah, we got some magic. And obviously the United States is going to win the Copa America

and we're going to win the World Cup. We're going to be in the Euros next time. And we're going to win that as well. Because Captain America out of Hershey, Pennsylvania, Christian Polific is unstoppable right now. The boys are buzzing, and obviously, Bolivia had no shot. And I was told that Bolivian team, like, number one team in the world. Tough side, tough side. Number one team in the world the whole time.

Time with Argentina. That's a big-time win for us, you know. People have always wondered when the United States are going to take that big leap. Well, we just did it last night. We did it. Boom. With a nasty goal three minutes into the game. Two minutes and 23 seconds, actually, I do believe to be exact.

So we're talking very early in the game. And then in the 44th minute, we score again. Two-zip. We ride the wave. We continue to do it. Goalies are stud. Yes. Matt Turner.

Matt Turner, yeah. Fairfield, Connecticut graduate. He's a stag. He's a stag. Yes, he is. I did not expect him to be a stag from what I've seen stags do. I did not expect him to stand on the head in soccer. So shout out to Turner.

Shout out to the soccer team and shout out to the United States owning soccer. It's coming home. It's coming home. Sorry about it, Gumpy. It's never going to Canada. It's never going back to England. You know where it's going? Home for the first time. The United States of America. That's one half of the hammer. Cowboys, Bubba Gumpino. Soccer is real right now. Yeah, the boys are buzzing.. That's one half of the hammer. Done. Cowboys, Bubba Gumpino. Soccer's real right now.

Yeah, the boys are buzzing. Both games yesterday were awesome. USA game and then Uruguay-Panama was unbelievable as well. Very fast-paced. Hey, Uruguay. That's a good group there. That's awesome. What's his name?

Nunez? Nunez. Yeah, that guy can play some footy. Cristiano Ronaldo, too. Don't look now. Making people fall over at the age of 37 or 39. Absolute beast. One half of the hammer. Done.ota, too. Don't look now. Making people fall over at the age of 37 or 39 or whatever the hell it is. Absolute beast. One half of the hammer. Down. Cowboys turn diggers here. We're betting on baseball, too. Right.

Isn't that a thing that's happening as well? Holy shit. Look at sports right now. It's actually kind of picking up. There was that little bit of a lull because it was just NBA finals, NHL finals, and now it's like we got all these, I don't want to say odd sports or whatever, but sports that aren't normally in the forefront with the soccer, with the golf,

with the baseball. Golf, here we go. Yeah, everything's right in the world. Scottie Schaefer's back on top. That is nine-year NFL vet and normal big brain guy Darius J. Butler. I don't know why you keep doing this to yourself. The G1 race happened this weekend in Spain and for the fifth

consecutive time for that particular race and also every race that has ever happened at g1 since anybody learned of its existence max van der stop and one exactly nice thanks anyways back to golf a man who wins a lot six times in 10 weeks including a erroneous felonious arrest in the middle of this entire thing scotty scheffler wins the travelers in extra holes i'm just extra holes but it was only one where scotty sheffler wins the travelers in extra holes i'm just extra holes but it was only one where scotty sheffler proved that he was the number one golfer in the world tom kim buries a massive putt on the 18th green after some protesters come out and say

stop using oil okay no golf until there's no oil being used that's gonna be a tough thing to happen but i do appreciate you spray painting with flares on the green and Tom Kim buries a massive putt moments after people are slaughtered on the green. Hey! Hey! I mean, just let me get my flare out. Let me get my messaging out. And that cop said, we've been waiting for one of these wicked assholes to come through

here bang on top of the green. But then you see the greenskeeper. Oh my God, it's going to get ruined. I mean, flares on here. We got people jumping and falling all over this thing remember you're not even supposed to walk in people's lines this is the 18th hole the two leaders are currently on the green i mean this is a massive moment scott shuffler goes boys you don't want to get arrested that's a real problem in there okay you might you want to get your little golfing routine in the cell like i did the morning of the tournament in Louisville whenever I was arrested for...

What was he arrested for? Vehicle manslaughter? Yeah, a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. If I remember correctly. Oh, it was... Assault of an officer, I believe, was one of them. Assault of a parapet. Resisting arrest.

Didn't they say at one point he hawked to it? All over Louisville? Didn't they say at one point he hawked to it? Yeah, he did. All over the world? Right in the top of his forehead. Didn't they say that? That's how we read that. Anyways, these protesters get arrested. One of them on the way out kicks a pot of plants.

I thought we liked the plant. Yeah, I can't do that. Why are we kicking roses? We like the plant. We're fighting for a plant, I thought. I thought so, too. What are we kicking the roses for? Are they fake?

Maybe he touched them on the way in and he said, oh, I'm going to get these. Oh, he was writing notes. Yeah. He was writing notes. Bullshit. Need to get that. That plastic's actually hurting the earth more than it's helping. Those aren't real roses. I'm going to kick the whole pot down.

Somebody try to catch them. Can't get them. This guy went out on his sword. If his sword was being a massive hypocrite. But nonetheless, Scotty Scheffler ends up going to an extra hole with Tom Kim. And they're both sitting in the middle of the fairway, eyeing the green. And Scotty Scheffler said, I'm the number one golfer in the world. I'm going to put this thing to about six feet.

Okay? This is an extra hole. This is to win a tournament. Tom Kim, who was ranked 26th, I do believe. Yes, coming into this, yeah. He ends up going right into the sand moments afterwards. And there's the difference. If he hits that thing about a yard and a half further, it probably settles very nicely

right next to the green, or right next to the hole. Instead, Scotty Sheffer, for whatever reason, the golf gods have blessed him. His hard work has blessed him and his skill has put him into a spot where he just absolutely is dialed in at all times. Congrats to Scotty Sheffer winning over $27 million in purses this year already. Why did he win again?

Because he's in absolute peace. That too, but you see what's coming back. Yeah, he's growing a beard back. Remember, he's been doing all this shit to prove to people that he doesn't need a beard or a different haircut or anything. He's trying to break all the stitiousness. He said, I don't want to be superstitious. I don't even want to be a little bit stitious. I don't want to be no stitiousness.

He learned that in jail. He's talking to guys in jail. They said they do a lot of superstitious stuff. It doesn't work out. Now that he's got the beard back, he's won six events in 10 weeks. I guess nobody has done this since Tiger, some of this stuff. But even Tiger wasn't able to accomplish a lot of the stuff that he's accomplished. He's going to end up being a guy who's going to make, they're saying, $100 million potentially on the course. All this stuff, and it's good for him.

But the haters will say, in which there are many, you don't have to play against the best golfers in the world every week. That's what they're saying. It's like, I don't think it matters. You see the way this guy golfs? It doesn't matter. Because Liv has taken so many big names and great golfers, there's a lot of people trying to kind of besmirch the legacy that Scotty Scheffler is currently building. That's not Scotty's

fault. And what Scotty's doing, I think, beats anybody at golf any weekend. Is how I feel. I'm on the record. But those other people are going to have a real talking point for a while. Because you start thinking to yourself, Rombo Bombo double-crossed one into the water, but he was in it. Like, you think he's going to...

Brooks Koepka is back. I was watching Full Swing Season 2. Koepka's wife, what's her name? Jenna? Jenna. There's a lot of people talking about how this is like a retirement tour and you're a bad golfer you go here. She goes, Brooke's back so let's see

It was a cool thing So there is a lot of chatter about that but Scotty Scheffler, historic. Congrats Scotty Golf's awesome G1 is so terrible but this weekend it was awesome. Great race. Lando could have won, had the fastest car got pole

Max George it was a great race Lewis got another podium in his what who knows what year 18th 18th

Sir Lewis Howard you can't spit at him 198 so two away from 200 which would be insane but it was a great race this weekend how about the Florida Panthers

potentially part of history they're about to join the Detroit Red Wings maybe I'm shitting bricks right now pretty nervous I'm not going to lie probably will be How about the Florida Panthers potentially be a part of history? They're about to join the Detroit Red Wings maybe. I'll tell you what, I'm shitting bricks right now. Pretty nervous.

I'm not going to lie. I probably will be. I feel like I got a game tonight. I probably will be nervous until, number one, I see who's on the drum. We had Jack Nicklaus last time, you know, a little long in the tooth. Whoa. The great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, but we need somebody a little younger with more juice on that drum tonight. But Bob, he was on the skates this morning, so I'm excited about that.

Once that puck drops, got my cap right here. Sasha and the boys will figure it out. It has happened in the history of the Stanley Cup. One time, 1945, a team goes up 3-0 in the series, ends up giving it up completely, ends up being 3-3, and then winning again. Remember, Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Detroit Red Wings. Game seven, at home. And then what happened in the other one? Well, the other one

was the Detroit Red Wings were up 3-0. This was 1942. So they would be the Florida Panthers in this situation. They were up 3-0. Then the Toronto Maple Leafs won a game. Then they won another game. Then they won three games. All of a sudden it's game seven and they're like, there's no way

the Toronto Maple Leafs can win four straight games in a Stanley Cup final. And everybody's like, they're playing the Red Wings. Yes, they could. And they did. That was in 1942. That's crazy. So that's what the Edmonton Oilers are trying to duplicate 82 years later.

First time anyone's ever tried to duplicate the Red Wings. Well, no, they're trying to flip. They're trying to beat the Maple Leafs. Now, the reason why today is so damn big in Indianapolis, Indiana, is because there are three fantastic men standing right over here. Okay, there's three. One's a suit. Okay, obviously we've known him for a long time on the left.

He does PR. Handsome as hell. The one on the right is a damn good dog right there. Big Tim. Hey, what's that coming down the track tim bulldogs baby everywhere and the man in the middle there is potentially one of the greatest minds in the history of entertainment yeah yeah current cco for the wwe the game paul triple a's we're to put smoke in the skin.

We did. That's on us. Legend. Put three cards. Here. You're saying that's right? Three. You can't just say it.

It's all about the game. And how you play it. It's all about control. You're going to do it? Just aim that way. I was, just for future reference, a little intimidating walking across here. You don't know if you should cross the cornhole tournament or if you should go into the paint. You should cross the green. Yep. A lot of options. There's a lot of options. So, Mr. H, cornhole board or if you should go into the paint you should cross the green yep a lot of options there's a lot of options so mr h cornhole boards brand new actually just got shipped here so all this shit has just been shipped here okay from people we don't know so it's hard not like cornhole boards those are hand-painted very good boards so they was just gonna put out i believe this weekend the green got sent here and it's been a fantastic addition you can play a little pickleball too if you to. We can put a net up for you.

We have a pickleball court already set up here. I was actually standing over there listening to you do the show and thinking NXT should come in here and put a ring up right there and run an event out of your studio, out of the Thunderdome. Okay, let's make it official. Yes. Yeah, I'll get it done. Maybe even the Speed Championship.

Boom. Okay, all right, so we got NXT. Finding contracts. Yeah, home of a future NXT. Maybe even the Speed Championship. Boom. Okay, all right. We've got NXT. Finding contracts. Home of a future NXT event here at the Thunderdome. Okay, let's talk about Indianapolis, Indiana. Massive news breaks today. You guys at the WWE and Indianapolis Sports Corp have found a way to get all three main, main,

I mean the big ones, all three of them, coming to Indianapolis, Indiana. We got the Royal Rumble, which is obviously a fan favorite every single year because the nostalgia they get shown and obviously all the incredible moments that have taken place. SummerSlam, Party of the Summer. Hey, how you doing? I'm going to SummerSlam. Life is great. Major

moments in the history of WWE. And then WrestleMania, also coming to Indianapolis. And Monday Night Raw is here tonight. We appreciate the hell out of you guys for doing that for this city. How'd we get here, do you think? Well, I'll tell you how I got here is I got tired of you asking about it. I got tired of wearing me out on it.

Pat has been the biggest advocate for us coming here to Indy, and I feel like ever since you hijacked Fastlane, ever since you hijacked Fastlane and put it in people's mind, you've been wearing me out on it, you've been wearing Nick out on it, and we got to a place where we were like, look, just give them everything and just shut the hell up.

The one thing you can do is talk, my friend, and you got us there. Too much. Kudos to you. Yeah, well, we're a city that's perfect for it, and I appreciate you guys listening. And obviously, every time you come to Indy, it's a massive show. I mean, the Shield, Seth Rollins turns here. The amount of things that have happened in Indianapolis

and the Indianapolis wrestling community is a huge one, but our city is ready to host. We are excited to host. It's easy drive from so many cities. You're talking about Ohio, Michigan, Chicago, St. Louis. It's like we're ready for it. We're excited for it. Anytime WWE shows up, it's an awesome time in every city.

Yeah, it'll be massive. All those events will be massive. Plus, you know, we're going to come here. We'll do our normal cadence of Raw and SmackDowns and live events here as well and in the surrounding cities. So it's a great partnership over the next few years. I'm really excited for it. The sports corp here, which is headed by a guy, Patrick

Tulte, who I've known for a long period of time. He's a great guy. He used to work for us at WWE. Just a wonderful guy that was really instrumental in us getting here as well. The city loves hosting stuff, and that Indiana sports corp is a good group. They just negotiated the Olympic trials with USA Swimming to be here in the middle of Lucas Oil Stadium. Sw city loves hosting stuff, and that Indiana Sports Corps is a good group. They just negotiated the Olympic trials

with USA Swimming to be here in the middle of Lucas Oil Stadium. Swimming was just here, right? Yeah, literally wrapped up yesterday. Michael Phelps got a big pop. Oh, yeah. Incredible. That was his first time back. Huge star. Yeah, huge. That was his first time really back, though. I think there was a little... I don't want to speak out of pocket for anybody, but I think there was a little

disagreement. A little friction? Yeah, like whenever somebody has an incredible run with something and then it kind of ends. It happens in the NFL. I assume it does happen in WWE. And now, so him getting him going back, I think, is a big deal. And then the pop was huge. When you're at the top and then you've got to step

back and welcome somebody else at the top, it's always tricky for both sides. Your business is certainly one that has been in spotlight for that, but the business has gone on for so damn long let's talk about where the business is right now yeah on fire on fire absolutely everywhere yeah it's um hard for us to say it in any other way i feel like every week there's we're putting out a new uh you mentioned chris over there putting out a new press release of some kind of soon we've known him a long time. He was with DAZN when the show was getting licensed. Let me ask you a question.

Do you like him now? Chris, yeah. I heard at first it was a little bit, you know, he's a suit. You're not big on those. You look good in one, by the way. You don't operate as one, so that's good. He did. I just have to wear one. You know that's not my gig, right? But with him, he is a suit, and you know that.

It didn't work out at first, but now you're in a good place. Yeah, he works hard, which I appreciate. A lot of the suits that I've potentially encountered seem to lack one particular trait that I think is vital, which is a work ethic. So I have issues with that. So for him, he works his ass off. So I am a massive fan and earned his respect.

But you're right, press releases are going big. I want to show a clip here before the boys have their questions from France. And obviously, I'm a wwe fan so i know like the international crowds are awesome the european crowds in soccer they're known as the fan like the hooligans the hooligans for wrestling though i always knew like when you guys would take a show over there we'd see clips on the internet crowd was was insane. Here's a clip from this is a couple months ago, Lyon, France. Backlash. This is Backlash.

In Lyon, France. The WWE is over there. Listen to this crowd basically shake the building until it almost collapses. the camera is bouncing that's michael cole who'll be here later potentially obviously he also massive suit and stooge can't wait to talk to him but is this one of the main reasons with what you've experienced with the european crowds and taking the show on the road why that netflix deal is such a big deal because i feel like that is a truly global platform right and yes is this what you're trying to kind of uh cherish almost and take care of through it all you know wwe is

one of the true only true global products right when you you break things down and there's other ones that are there but like when you break things down like um it's it's it's becoming much bigger obviously but soccer is becoming big in the u.s but it was massive everywhere else right like football in the u.s they're trying to move it outside of the u.s um other sports they don't all resonate wwe we go everywhere i mean there's not a place in the world that I've not been over the years of my career, a country or a place on the planet that we've not been to where there's a massive fan base. Even sometimes we would go to places. I went to Russia years back where we didn't even have TV there,

and we were completely sold out, and people were insane over it just based on bootlegging you know old school yeah and so the international stuff for us is is massive and a platform like netflix so when when we move over to netflix in january we will immediately when they when they pull that trigger be on live with raw smackdown and the PLEs, including WrestleMania, in 80% of the world outside of the U.S. immediately, which is, you know, right now we're just individual deals, so every place is slightly different. They'll all transfer over time until 100% of it is on Netflix internationally. Damn.

Hey, congratulations. Yeah. So it's a massive deal, and it's why Nick and I are so – Nick Kahn, our president, who's amazing. We second that. Yes. We're so adamant about expanding and reaching outside of the U.S. for a lot of what we do.

It's why you've seen us in the last, since January of this year, right? We were in Perth, Australia. Then we did WrestleMania, two nights at WrestleMania, obviously. Then we went to Lyon, France. We went to Saudi Arabia. We come back to Scotland. We're going to Canada in a couple of weeks. We come back for SummerSlam in Cleveland.

Then we go to Berlin, Germany. You know, it's just outside of the U.S. Everything is so big. And the U.S. markets are going to have to step up their fan reactions here because the international markets are putting them to shame. Well, Indianapolis will show up. Yeah, absolutely here in Indy. But I did hear from some of the people that were part of, like,

the France show and the Clash at the Castle in Scotland. And then you come back to an American operation or whatever. And it's like, okay, a little bit different reactions whenever things happen and trying to play it and create the greatest show. And I think the thing about the WWE and why it translates is because everybody can see what they like. There's entertainment, obviously. There's comedy. There's action. and why it translates is because everybody can see what they like. There's entertainment, obviously. There's comedy. There's action.

There's mind-blowing in world class athleticism happening right in front of you. There's an environment. And then there's horror as well. So, Jack Gable, good. Yeah, he's good. You know, I don't know. You see people on, you see things on TV, and it escalated quickly from,

there's Chad Gable laying down, he's obviously unconscious, has a little bit of blood on him, to, oh, my God, he got shot in the head and he's dead. That's where we're part of the problem. And here's obituaries being put up on him and people wishing him well. You know, like, look, it's one of the wonderful things about our fans is they just love to be engaged in the product and to, in their minds, fantasize where it can go and what it's going to be. And it's an awesome part of what we do. So every now and then we've got to pull back into reality a little bit.

Like, no, Chad Gable is still alive. Okay. Let me just clarify that for the record. That's crazy. He was an Olympian. Still alive, and if you come here tonight,

you will probably see him actually competing. Whoa. That's the kind of stud he is. Tonight? Tonight. Whoa! Maybe he's back.

He was a bit of an asshole there for a while as he was at Alpha Academy. But I think he's back. He was a bit of an asshole there for a while. Oh, yeah. At Alpha Academy. But I think it's all those things that encompass wrestling. That is why it's such a global phenomenon. He can't help but be a fan. Last question for me. You mentioned his name, Nick Khan.

He, obviously, we know him very well. And I'm a big fan of his as well. He has a massive brain. He's also a wrestling fan, though. Right? Like, grew up a wrestling fan. And he also happens wrestling fan though, right? Like grew up a wrestling fan. Huge, huge. And he also happens to be one of the greatest business people of all time.

What a weapon that has been for the WWE, and I assume you feel that way as well. Massive, yeah. Like look, I've never really met a better businessman than Nick that is so intuitive to just what is going on. Like It was funny for a few years before the TKO merger where we would do earnings calls and I felt like the investors wanted to know as much of Nick's opinion as of what was happening to outside sports as what was happening within WWE as he was talking because his insight is so good um plus you know it's funny that he at one point in time if you would look Nick up he would be seen it would be written like

most powerful man in sports right he's doing all these massive deals but in many ways like he's not a massive outside sports fan he doesn't know that much about all these other sports. He does, but he's not like, you would think that he would be like so, so into it. What he's really into is combat sports, like boxing and MMA, and what we do in pro wrestling and WWE. I mean, he is just a massive, massive fan of that.

Grew up, was an usher at WrestleMania at Caesars Palace. Was like, you know, he's just super into it. So when I first met him, having that insight from him on all these other business things that we were doing and him giving me his opinion that always 99% of the time ended up being dead on, plus him being such a big fan, we just got along amazingly well. And then we were lucky enough to have him come into the company and I'm lucky enough now I get to work with him every day and get his insight on everything.

He's a genius. Yeah, absolutely. And I don't put that kind of stamp on a lot of people because I think a lot of people are really good at what they do and that's where it stops. He's a genius. Yeah, he's been fun to just send questions and fire questions at.

Like, hey, I hate this guy. I don't like the way he's talking to me at all. What? Should I? And then I'll get a text from Nick like, tell me, all good, what's going on? His all good thing. All good.

All good, all good, all good. Any situation. Like Chaco, right? I think his. All good. All good. All good. All good. Any situation. Like Chaco, right? Yeah. I think his motto is good. Like anytime something happens, no matter what, it is good. Like now we move on. I think Texas A&M, the baseball team actually has good across their hats right now.

I think it's like kind of the, hey, no matter what, good. Now what? Good. Now what? Kind of like the messaging or whatever. It's like that's Nick Khan seemingly. Yeah. And like business.

I only worry if Nick sends me a text and it doesn't say all good. I've never got one of those. If it doesn't say all good, I'm like, oh, something's going on. We've got to figure this one out. Connor has a question for you. So, Mr. H, as you go globally with the WWE, do you have to think about people who are viewing the product for the first time ever? what you specifically do things at certain shows or try and market in a certain way based on knowing the fact that hey there's some people in this

country that have never you know seen any WWE products let's do this tonight or is that not even a thought and you just kind of have a like a longer-term plan where you're heading towards so I think we have a longer-term plan where we're headed towards but there's always – one of the things that is so great about what we do is we run the gamut of across, like, everything, right, from across, like, every race, every nationality, everything. But then we run the family thing of, like, grandfathers and grandmothers are watching with their grandkids and their kids

and you know what i mean and it goes down the line so you sort of have to i feel like you sort of have to look at it all the time of like this might be this kid's first day watching this and you don't want them to be there like i have no idea who this is or why this is important you always want to kind of you don't want to insult the people that watch every day and overly tell them everything same point time you want to keep it for the for the people that don't know make sure that they have at least of a base understanding of it while they're watching it to get what's going to happen and the other great thing about what we do right now is everything no matter what it is is the touch of a button on the internet so you know you guys have leaned into that oh yeah yeah with our social media following know, with billions of people that with the number

one, I think we're like the number seven channel on all of YouTube or somewhere in that range, which is not sports like for all of YouTube, you know, the following is massive. The amount of traffic we do is massive, but you can utilize that as a weapon because when you people don't know something, if you just give them enough information, they can go look for it. They'll go find it, you know, and it's right there in front of them. So live in Dom's Kiss. Yeah.

Legitimately, you know. USA, end show. Immediately afterwards, the arena knows. Arena sees everything that takes place. And for those that don't know, Liv is our champion. And she's currently seemingly hot to trot for this scumbag named Dominic Mysterio

who has a mommy who's currently injured by Liv Morgan. It's quite a conundrum for this dirt bag. Dominic. And Dom, when you look at him, it's not like you look at Dom and go, well, this is the guy that all the chicks are shaking. Incredibly ugly. I mean, the hair

is fantastic. He does have good hair. It's a good flow. And obviously his moxie and his confidence is something that he shouldn't have. But he has no self-awareness. That's kind of the Dominic Mysterio thing. Ray Mysterio, we love. Apparently Dom's a machine though.

You know what I mean? It has to be. My respect for him has certainly started to, in moments, I'm like, all right, Dom. And I'm like, nah, I remember the guy sucks. You know? Yeah. But anyways, that happens immediately. There he is.

I mean. There he is. That's good lettuce. Look at that mustache, though. It embarrasses everything happening on top. Yeah. This guy stinks. Nonetheless, his kiss

with live happens immediately after the show ends uh but it's still in the arena and all the videos from the arena go and it's like 100 million 200 million views and you guys like utilize social media as a part of your entire product and it feels like wwe has always been ahead of the curve of everybody else legitimately feels that way do you think it's because everybody in your business has like a content mind do you think it's because it's not as big as people might think there's only i don't say only a few people but there is a smaller amount of people that are kind of direct in traffic than that why do you think you guys lean into shit before everybody else i think our fan base is just so ravenous for it like there's really nothing else that episodically airs.

If you want to look at us, like I say this a lot, we're not a sport, we're a movie about a sport or a TV show about a sport. So the interest of all the other things happening are just as great as what happens in the ring. But people are so interested in not only those storylines, but then who are the real people behind those storylines. And yeah, just the drama of all of it.

So if you're younger or if you want to buy into it that much, the drama of the storylines. If you're in a different mindset, the drama of what's happening behind the scenes. Is that guy leaving? Is he signing his contract? Is he going to stay? I heard he's got problems with management.

They're trying to restrict his style. Whatever you're... They're burying him. Yeah yeah he got shot in the head whatever whatever your mindset is to where you want to go with this you can go there and follow up with it on a regular basis and the content it's easy to watch it's easy to understand right so you can sit on a bus or a train or in your car or whatever and just watch clips. And they do massively well, right? Yes.

You guys crush on the internet, obviously. D-Bot has a question for you, Mr. H. Yeah, we had the final boss on the show. A lot of people don't know this, but obviously athletes, regardless of how long you've been in the game, how long you played, you still kind of get those butterflies and nerves before a match. Obviously, I grew up watching. We grew up watching the attitude there. What are those nerves like now,

being the CCO behind the scenes? Are they similar to when you were a superstar in the ring or kind of different, or how does that play out? So I say this a lot to explain it. It's like having your career and what that means to you, the nerves of being a player, the moment before you walk on the court or the field or in the ring or whatever that is, those nerves that because you're so passionate about what you do,

but then being a parent and standing there watching your kid go do it, the nerves that you have for them, the passion that you have for them to go do it, right? The internet will joke a lot about my NXT or the WWE kids or whatever it is. It kind of is like that because you're invested so much in all these talent, men and women who are trying to do what you did, live their dream and have these moments. And you, you try to write all this stuff and then they bring their,

their spin to it and put their stamp on it. And you want it to be so good for them that it's, it's just the, i think the butterflies are almost worse for me now watching and and then you know when especially when they're doing dangerous stuff you know um which a lot of this you know they're professionals and they're highly trained to do it but there's very little space between something being part of the show and something being overly real yeah almost falling off the top ropes, yeah. Sure, yeah.

Yeah, and you know, you sit there and you hold it. When the announcer gets up on the chair with wheels on it and spins in a circle. This is SummerSlam in Nashville. This is SummerSlam in Nashville, and that's Lil' Natch, Charles Robinson right there. And that is me going, oh, oh, oh my God. I'm about to fall right on little

nature right here and then I just stumble off onto Baron Corbin and then that has been in my mind forever so anytime somebody's like you getting back in the ring I'm like ah there was a moment where I thought I was dying and the only person I could see was little nature and he's like ah what do you need from me good luck but that could happen at any moment that could literally happen at any moment whenever we're watching anything that's taken over. It can happen at any moment. We were just in Scotland. Damien Priest goes to do a dive over the top rope.

Just slips, like probably quarter inch, half inch, foot slips off the rope. His ankle gets caught up in the top rope. And in one move, he is hanging upside down by one leg. Looked like he killed himself. Looked like his leg just snapped. Looks like everything tore, the joint snapped and all this stuff. You know, here it is. There it is.

And, you know, we have communication with the referees and everything like that, and now they're trying to figure out how to get him out of there. Drew McIntyre's like, we're in Glasgow. Yeah, I'm just going gonna kick him till he falls out but you know when you see that that's live right i'm like oh my god show's over um we're gonna have to get him out of there stretch him out and my wheels are immediately spinning about where we go with this and we ask is he okay and then you know a few seconds later we get says he's fine

and i'm like there's no way he is fine and we ask again he says he's fine and he gets up and I can see him and he's like he's adamant that he is totally fine I'm like okay so we're gonna watch I'm thinking maybe adrenaline here but he you know turned out he was totally fine but that stuff happens all the time so when you talk about nerves it's it's the nerves of how well this will go it's the nerves of the moment nerves, it's the nerves of how well this will go. It's the nerves of the moment in time. It's the nerves of the big event. It's also the nerves of, I want these kids to all come out of here safe

and in one piece when it's over. And their safety comes, you know, first and foremost in everything we do. So there's nerves all the way around. Might be worse for me now. When I was, you know, 25, 30 years old and I was going to the ring, I just didn't care.

You know, I just wanted to put on the ring, I just didn't care. I just wanted to put on a good show, and I didn't care what happened to me or anything else. Everything hurts. That's something that doesn't get talked about enough. Those ropes hurt. Like, oh, I want to run ropes. That'll be fun. I got drunk and bought a ring whenever I was a rookie in the NFL. I found out you could buy wrestling rings on the Internet.

It's just a shocking story. Yeah, right? I would have never seen that. I was getting ready to come, you know. I was getting ready to come hit you. I was going to do it all. So I bought one like 2, 3 a.m. or whatever in the summer. Thing shows up on an 18-wheeler.

A few months later, I'd forgotten that I had ordered it, obviously. Put it into the bar and put the whole thing together. It took me like eight hours with a couple friends to figure out how to put that thing together that everybody's doing every single day. And I'm like, this will be fun. We worked our asses off to get in here. I run the rope like the first time. I'm like, that hurts so bad. So when am I ever going to do that?

Never. So then I'm like, let me go ahead and drop an elbow here in the middle of the ring. You know, do people's elbow. We'll do the whole thing. Boom, bang. I hit the ground. Every bone in my body cracked and it hurt so bad. And I'm like, okay, so I'm never going to do this again

unless I'm signing up to get injured. so literally everything that happens in there hurts and uh i think that's why the more you learn about the business the more you appreciate it that's why your fans i think continue to get deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper because there's like so much respect that needs to be shown to everybody that's in there and it's insanity it is absolute insanity why you know because you still get people every now and then that don't watch and don't understand it that will come up to you if you're a performer in this business and say, isn't that fake, right? It's fake, isn't it? You know what I mean? Isn't that fake?

It's like, yeah, no. The word fake bothers them so much because of what they go through on a day-to-day basis. Yes. You know, it's like getting hit by a bus every day. And that ain't fake. All the stuff that you go through is not fake. Is it a storyline? Is it predetermined? Whoa, whoa, whoa. No.

No. No. Answer no. You're right. The answer's no. Thanks. You're asking questions. We're answering them. That word for people angers them so much because of what they go through

and how much they'll have given of themselves and their bodies when they're done their careers. But happily for people's entertainment. Yeah, and the crowd's reactions. You watch all these documentaries about wrestlers and movies that are made about wrestlers. It's like that crowd reaction is literally, that is the thing. That is the entire thing.

It is hard to put down, and unlike any sport where, you know, if you're a player in the NFL, even if you're a boxer, an MMA fighter, whatever that is, your job sort of is to shut out all that outside noise, focus on your task, and go do it. In our business, the task is make them make noise. So you're keenly aware of every single reaction that they have and that's the addictive piece of it it's it's like a drug that adrenaline that you get from that crowd that electricity that that reaction

is like nothing else and it's why you see performers sometimes way past when they should be doing it still doing it yeah chasing dragon yeah it happens in i think every sport but in wrestling it feels like it is the preeminent thing about dealing with post-op ty has a question for you mr yeah mr h when it comes to netflix and obviously this is a ways away and you have shows damn near every single night so you have a lot on your plate already but have you thought at all about how you might kind of tweak some things and change it for the netflix area with it not being on traditional linear tv or is it one of those things where it's like a hey if it's not broke don't fix it we don't want to go to netflix and then have people be like well this is a completely different product why is why does it look different like

have you thought about what small changes or what you'd maybe like to try on netflix that you're not necessarily afforded being on tv absolutely we spend large chunks of our time every day when when we're not thinking about business at hand now we're thinking about those moments so in the fall as the shows shift around and then once we get to netflix netflix a completely different animal it's a streaming service how are commercials going to in the fall as the shows shift around. And then once we get to Netflix, Netflix is a completely different animal. It's a streaming service. How are commercials going to work? How are breaks going to work?

What's the length of time? What are the restrictions? What are not restrictions? You know, like right now, you know, just as an example of us being on Fox and, you know, if the crowd chants, holy shit, or something much worse, they just take that audio sometimes they take the picture and the

audio off and it's just black screen oh yeah you're talking about The Rock there was a big message being delivered and you guys just want to complete nothing remember that was your decision yeah look and you know The Rock comes in and like

you sort of kind of can't tell The Rock what to do, right? Like, what are we going to tell him? So he does what he does. But we won't have those issues, Netflix, right? The ability to be live globally, the ability to have everything seen all at once everywhere, it's a game-changing moment. And I think in many ways, not to disparage other partners

because we want to be everywhere, but, like like that's sort of where the world is heading right is is streaming services you see the nfl sticking their toe in the water um nba is every sport is right and i think it's why this netflix deal was for us was so game changing and i think everybody's going to be watching us in january especially those other sports from a business side they're going to be watching to see what we do, what we do differently, and how that's received. Everybody from live content

is very thankful you guys did a deal with Netflix for a weekly live show. Just want to let you know that. I think it's going to revolutionize that for everybody else. And opens that door massively. Yeah, look. Crush it. Come on.

Yeah, yeah. You're 100%. As soon as I saw you guys signed for how many? It had to be at the beginning is all you really need to know. That's a part of live entertainment. So that's wrestling with a Netflix deal. Does the NFL have a Netflix? They do.

They do. How much is that one? Oh, wow. Wait a minute. Don't be a selfish prick here, Pat. Send the congratulations where they are. Send the congratulations. Send the congratulations before you ask for a contact number.

Exactly. No, but it's awesome. You guys have always done that, though. Literally started the WWE Network before anybody else started their own. Everybody tried to do it. And then now you guys have figured out how to make that a profitable both international and domestic with the peak. I mean, it's just like- It's been the secret of WWE since the

beginning sort of when there were all the territories, WWE saw cable television coming and they went national first, right? Then it was closed circuit TV where WrestleMania one was seen closed circuit TV. You had to go to a, a gym or a theater or whatever it was to watch it with everybody else. Then we sort of pioneered pay-per-view. We kept that alive for a lot of years before, you know,

then boxing came in and everything else. We switched to our own streaming service, which people said we were ridiculous to do at the time. They questioned the sanity of doing it because nobody was there it was netflix pretty much in us um and then everybody started going there that was then seen as a genius move then as the bundling started happening we pulled out of that and went into you know the deal with peacock which was seen as wow genius we're not we're not a tech company we can't keep up with all the other you you know, tech advantages that are happening and all this bundling.

So we pull out, we go to Peacock, and then we go to the biggest streaming service there is. So you've got to stay ahead of things. You want to be where you're at in the moment, but you also want to see what's coming around the bend and do the best you can. You don't want to be the first in, but you certainly don't want to be the last.

Isn't it what? Amen. You also don't want to be the last one out of any event uh that is certainly unless you're working it but the uh the thought of wwe always being like that and then adding nikon as the president to like yeah you guys gotta figure it out last question here from our cowboy tone dude yeah mr h we were actually uh talking last week you know after watching after watching a RAW, we were like, that RAW was amazing. Or a PLE, that was an amazing PLE. He clashed with the castle.

But we were just like, there's something missing. And it's our tribal chief. Do we know where our tribal chief is? Do we know when we can expect a return from our tribal chief? Because we need him. Yeah, so I would just say this. And when you talk about tribal chief, you're talking about Roman Reigns, no matter who lays claim to that now. Oh, yeah, Solo says he's the head of the table.

You see the bloodline carrying on. You see Solo putting himself out there as a tribal chief. You see Tamatanga coming in. You see Tongaloa coming in. Jacob Fato. You see Tonga Loa coming in. Jacob Fatu. You see those guys start to run wild. And then the game changer happens of Jacob Fatu coming in this week, the Samoan werewolf.

Hey, what a weapon. Dude. Jeez. He's a game changer. You very clearly see that shift of we're running the show now, and this is the new tribal chief. This is the new head of the table table and this is where this is headed um that's only going to um yeah last for so long before yeah there's a return i can only imagine um and let's hope that hayman uh hayman's

nerves can take it until he comes back because hayman looks like he's on his last, his very last nerve on this thing. But it's an exciting time because that is ramping up incredibly big. Now they're starting to go directly after Cody Rhodes and the WWE title. So you can feel it ramping up. You can feel Raw ramping up. You know, Seth Rollins' return. The Wyatt Six coming in. Wow.

Who? Yeah, if everybody makes it through them. You can really feel both shows ramping up as we come into summertime and we head into SummerSlam where those stories will all blow up. And he mentioned Liv and Dom earlier. I would imagine at some point this is not going to sit well with Rhea. Yeah. So when you look at where we're at right now and how much excitement there is

and you still start thinking about we don't have Roman, we don't have Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch is out on a hiatus right now. Final boss. The amount of people, yeah, The Rock. He's currently a UFC fighter. Yeah, he is. So the amount of people that you have still to come the amount of storyline that you still have to roll out um and then you

know it makes me beg the question of uh all right so down the line whatever resolves around the bloodline whatever resolves around the why it's like man that's if those two come together that's so you know it's it's as i said earlier it's thinking short term it's thinking today it's Man, if those two come together, that's intriguing as hell. Whoa. So, you know, as I said earlier, it's thinking short-term, it's thinking today, it's thinking mid-term, and then it's thinking long-term and just constantly planning for the future. But as Pat said eloquently earlier, the future is very bright right now. Yep, I would say.

We got the hottest announcer on the planet. Hell yeah. Not everybody feels that way. I'm sure you've heard that. I'm sure you've heard that. I'm very lucky to be there. I do. And lucky Michael Cole is here.

I don't know if you know, but today's his birthday. Is it? Today's his birthday. You would know? You're his boss? Oh, my God. Wow. Every week you tell us it's his birthday.

So I'm going to go be against it. Well, I'm going to guess. You know, because a lot of people are, you know, after it happens on Monday Night Raw or whatever, people are like, that's on his birthday, and they look on. You guys all right? See, that's, I think, Foxy's been doing. Foxy's been putting that up.

Foxy's been putting that up all year. Come on. We're frozen back here. Nope. Okay, we're back. Okay, Foxy. I've been telling you, Pat, I've been telling you, this whole switcher has been going frozen every time that's happened so far.

Okay, Foxy. Foxy's married now. Uh-huh. Yeah, he's got this entire thing. Different guy. Yeah, Foxy. You guys aren't going to buy into it until the camera rolls through there and he's in the corner shot in the head.

Well, listen. That's what everybody on the internet is saying. They're saying, oh, that's the wide seat. So he was shot in the head. Foxy's. on the internet is saying. They're saying, oh, that's the wide seat. So he was shot in the head. Foxy. You're talking about that being Foxy. No, I'm going to get shot in the head because you packed. Now everyone's blaming me for this. Well, Foxy, you keep running the stupid video.

I'm telling you, this whole thing went frozen, but in the past, we just were out, and it came back this time. Okay, alright, Foxy. Anyways, I'll just go on the, like, having met most of your staff. It's not out of the question that it's a mistake. You're right. Thank you.

Thank you. That's what I was saying this whole time. Get it together back there. Though it does seem very coincidental. Okay. See, now you're doing this whole game. Time to play the game. That's what you just did right there.

Long-term planning. I hope you guys are still here next week. Oh, Jesus. Just saying. What the hell? Well, I mean, they can just clone us like they did Chad Gable. Either way. Yeah.

Heard that's happening. Just bring us back. Anyways, Foxy, we get it. It's fun. You did your thing. Ha, ha, ha. A couple times. Put the internet in a tailspin.

Everybody's going to say, I'm dead again. I saw myself dead a few times. It's not fun. It's not real. Anyways, I can't thank you enough for stopping by. Indianapolis is very thankful for the big three coming through. Indianapolis should be thanking Pat McAfee. When Pat walks out tonight, everybody should stand up and worship him.

No, shut up. No intro. The reason we're here, the reason we're doing these shows, the reason we're all of it, Pat McAfee has got us there. Yeah, let's move on. And I think no intro tonight. Just have me show up at the commentary table. That would be good. And we'll just continue to roll. the reason we're all of it pat mcafee all right uh he's got us there yeah let's move on and i think no intro tonight just have me show up at the commentary table that'd be good and we'll just continue to roll but literally i tell you this after every single show thanks for having me man i am so lucky to be a part of your world i loved the way your brain is operating right now in uh

you know because the way i do uh my particular gig is a little bit different than how i think every person has held that gig in the past has done it. Where, you know, there's a lot of prep and understanding and everything like that. Your prep is showing up, I've noticed. So me trying to get in your brain sometimes has been a lot of fun, dude. And you're an impressive dude. I want to let you know that. And we're very lucky to watch you work.

You're the man. Ladies and gentlemen, the chief content officer for the multi-billion dollar global entertainment company, the WWE, Paul Triple H. Thank you. Appreciate it. Hell yeah. Hey, can you move Jabba so we can get a photo right here real quick? Time to play the game. Come on, boy. Come on, boy. to play the game come on boys, come on boys Hell yeah.

Ladies and gentlemen, taking Mr. H's seat is a future Hall of Famer. Oh, you got to get your ears. Get your ears. Yeah, we'll get you next hour. We'll get you next hour. All right, that was awesome. Big Tim, who's Triple H's guy. He's Georgia Bulldog down there.

Go Dawgs. Go Dawgs. Go Dawgs. He's getting this hat. And there's going to be a lady down in Georgia, Athens, who's going to say, you don't deserve to wear a hat with a G on it. But I will put it right here in honor of my guy, Tim. He's the man. He is the guy.

He's been everywhere that Triple H has been since we've got to the WWE. Always got shit kickers on. Always got jeans on. Always working his ass off. I appreciate the hell out of them. Big thanks to Triple H for stopping by the entire time. And Foxy, I hope you feel good. Chief content officer, got to watch you do your little thing.

Now he thinks I stink at my job because I'm getting hacked over here, okay? Oh, okay. That whole thing's frozen. This has happened before in our old studio. Whole thing goes frozen. So nothing new. You usually restart the system. This one's different. This has happened before in our old studio. The whole thing goes frozen. So nothing new. You usually restart the system. This one's different.

Halloween episode. Yes. Exactly. One camera only. Remember that? Oh, yeah. And I think that is potentially why Mr. H was like, after knowing you guys' operation,

there's a chance you could really fuck this one up. Because Triple H knows the program. Oh, yeah. He knows the program a long time. I mean, he's been there since the very beginning because I started with WWE like six years ago. Oh, yeah. He knows the program a long time. I mean, he's been there since the very beginning because I started with WWE like six years ago. Oh, yeah. I think a lot of wrestling fans forget about that

whenever they start attacking me for whatever reason. It's like, yo, I've been around. I'm sorry, I had another career I had to finish and get done with. And as soon as I could start with the WWE, I did. And the person who brought me in is a 27-year vet, greatest of all time, the voice of the WWE, not dressed like an today instead looking like a full journalism school suit michael cole

good to see you good to see you what the hell is this really good to see you. Good to see you. Whose music is this? That's his. That's your music? Yes, my music. He gets intro'd every week. I've had that theme music for a very long time. I could tell.

Never heard that before in my life. He gets intro'd every single week. There's big pops from Michael Cole. Every once in a while, he'll go out there, and they're still trying to fix the ring and everything, get it ready for the show. So there'll be full chaos happening. And Michael Cole just walks, beeline, waves, right straight to the commentary desk and sits it right down.

The people go crazy. Great to see you, Michael Cole. We appreciate the hell out of you. Hey, Foxy, I appreciate you. No matter what anybody says, I believe that your stuff got hacked. And you kicked out of it wonderfully. Thank you, Michael Cole. Thank you so much.

All right. Geez. He did kick out, I guess. All you so much. He did kick out, I guess. Alright, I guess he did kick out. You don't think that's just Foxy messing around right there? No, not at all. No. Hey, by the way, I wore shoes today. Thank you for doing that. And that's strictly because you're too lazy to bring

another change of clothes. Because you've got to go to the arena at night. This is exactly what he's going to be wearing tonight. You will see this tonight on the USA Network. Hi, John. Already. Guy has this thing in a 10 a.m. He will see this tonight on the USA Network. Hi, John. All right. Guy has this thing in a 10 a.m. He is in Monday Night Raw suit ready to go because he doesn't want to carry anything else.

We're wrapping up this first hour. Triple H did a great job. But you know who's been one mainstay on air throughout all of these different, you know, the closed circuit, the Attitude Era, the Ruthless Aggression Era with John Cena through this Triple H, Michael Cole, the voice of the WWE.

What an honor it is to have you. Thank you. What an honor it is to work with you every Monday night. Okay, all right. Let's move along here. Baseball doesn't suck right now. We've been talking baseball.

I heard you guys have a cheater on your team. New York Mets closer. Michael Cole, who's a diehard New York M your team. New York Mets closer, Michael Cole, who's a diehard New York Mets fan, New York Mets closer came out with actual super glue on his hand. Just absolutely on his hand. Facing a 10-game suspension. How do you feel about it, Cole?

You're a fan of cheaters. Well, first off, he did nothing different than he's done his entire career. Rosin and sweat. Bottom line. Now, here's my issue with this. If he cheated, he cheated. You throw him out, you give him his 10-game suspension.

However, he has no history of cheating. He had not thrown a pitch in this ballgame. They should have allowed him to go back to the locker room, wash his hands, and come back and pitch. Oh, okay.

So this guy's coming out with a spider attack. That has been set before, and they back and pitch. Oh, okay. So this guy's coming out with spider tech. That's a precedent that has been set before, and they should have allowed him to do that. You know, six pitchers have been suspended for illegal substance use. Three of those pitchers have pitched for the Mets. Okay. Exactly my

point from the beginning, or maybe they're out to get him. You know who isn't being questioned at all for anything? Paul Skeens. Paul Skeens. Paul Skeens. In his last pitch this past weekend, 102 strikeout, seventh inning. How you doing? Keep it moving. First pitch, dinger.

How will he respond? The young buck. Oh, he just threw harder, faster, better. Struck out the side. He's amazing. It's must-see appointment viewing if you're a baseball fan. It reminds me of six years ago when Jacob deGrom was dominating New York. You had to turn on the TV set every five nights

to watch this guy pitch. Skeens is one of those guys. He's absolutely incredible. Here's my problem, though, with baseball today. And we're talking about... We got five seconds, so... Before we went on the air. There will never be another 300-game winner

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and contact desjardins today we'd love to talk business sports are awesome sports are fantastic and uh today we have a game three and a best of three series to decide the college World Series baseball champion. We also have Game 7 in the NHL Stanley Cup Final to decide who will be hoisting Lordo for the next year. Will it be the Florida Panthers, who once had a 3-0 lead in this series, or will it be Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers, who have stormed back and taken this thing all the way to 7? Either way, history will be made. It hasn't been since 1942 where a team has come back after being down 3-0

and winning the Stanley Cup, and it hasn't been since 1945 that a team who has been up 3-0 has given up the lead to a game seven and then ended up coming back and winning inevitably. The Florida Panthers could be the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1945, or the Edmonton Oilers could be the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1942. History is on the line tonight as Monday Night Raw is live in Indianapolis, Indiana. Always a massive show when things are taking place in this lovely city that will house the Royal Rumble, SummerSlam, and WrestleMania

here over the next few years. And that man right next to me on that graphic has a photo from 40 years ago. 27 years he's been the voice of the WWE, ladies and gentlemen. In front of the program, Michael Cole.

You know, I was really conflicted about whether to come in here today. I saw a lot of stuff on social media warning me to stay clear of you after what's been happening on this program over the last few days involving this group that has, I guess,

been called the Wyatt Six, S-I-C-K-S. What's going on here? Shut up, Cole. We talked about this in the first hour. This is Asinine. This is Foxy running stuff. And last week when we lost power, obviously, we showed. What did you lie about?

The we lied that popped up as you went off the air. No, we lied. It's Foxy dicking around. You lied. You lied. No, that's Foxy talking to himself when he puts that thing up. He's like, I lied. So you're not nervous at all heading into the show tonight?

Live on the USA Network with these sickos running around after what they did last week? Shot a guy in the head. In Indy? That did not happen. This is an actual question. And we can ask people that have been around me a long time. Have you ever seen me nervous to walk into any situation? No, but this is...

Thank you so much. That's all I need to hear. This is an any situation. No, you're only nervous if you appear to be nervous. Okay, that is the only way anybody tells... You got to walk in there, chest back. This guy's been ghost hunting. Carrying surfboards.

I actually might... I might come bopping in more than I've ever been because I know that this is all... No. There's something happening in that back room back there. Yeah, something's happening back here. You may soil yourself tonight on national television. Okay,

Michael Cole. Jeez Louise. That isn't something that I do. That is something that happens over at the Topps. You're right. At Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt. Known dumper on television. Yeah, absolutely. I haven't done it in a long time. You might want to not wear that color. Okay, Cole.

I mean, when you got people coming in and shooting people in the head and killing them on live TV. So that did not happen. Everyone is reading into that entire thing. Chad Cable is actually in a match tonight, so he's back. The dead guy? Yes. Someone with his name, maybe.

Yeah, one half of the hammer. Damn. Cowboys turn. Diggs, maybe. Yeah, one half of the hammer. Damn. Cowboys turn. Diggs is here. Nine-year NFL vet. Darius J. Butler is here. And, boys, we've got some big news coming out of the sporting world. Not that Foxy and the boys in the back are having their fun with this entire thing.

Come on, boys. I'm not going to laugh, which is you're just – that's very journalistic of you. Guy graduated from Syracuse with a journalism degree and has been in war zones and in the middle of rivers on fire. And the first one to talk to David Koresh and all that stuff. And I think you're, I mean, whatever it is. Okay. That is very journalism of you to point out something that is obviously not the case. And that is certainly your job as a journalist.

That's my job, though. Well, let me tell you, my job is journalism. Guy. Ladies and gentlemen, we have some breaking news. Scotty Barnes, a basketball player for the Toronto Raptors, has signed a five-year, $270 million extension to remain with the Toronto Raptors. Remember, the NBA has a bunch of rules in place

where if you stay with the team that you started with and that you're on, you're up for more money than before. Tatum's up for like $315 million because of the all-NBA tags and how long he's been there. There's a lot of different circumstances that up the amount of money you can get paid from the team in which you're on because they didn't want the Hedo situation to just become a boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom a boom. Scotty Barnes, Florida State, averaged 20 points, eight rebounds, six assists last year, is now with the Toronto Raptors for another five years at 270 million. The highest played, paid player in Toronto Raptors history. Yeah, T-Mac, he used to do some sweet shit up there. Oh yeah, there was incredible times up there for the Toronto Raptors. They just won. Yeah, T-Mac used to do some sweet shit up there. Oh yeah, there was incredible times

up there for the Toronto Raptors. They just won 2019. And now Scottie Barnes is going to take them back there. They stunk this year. They were horrible. Well, they had guys betting against themselves on that team. Trying to miss threes. Yeah, that's right. Taking themselves out.

Do you remember this? Do you know what happened here? Guy was actually betting against himself on that deal. They got him out. Scottie Barnes is in. Everybody loves Scottie Barnes. I checked the internet. Everybody loves Scottie Barnes, D-Butch. I think it's a good signing for the Toronto Raptors. Good player. Florida boy. Still young. This is the price of doing business in the NBA.

You average 28-6. You're going to get maxed. You're going to be the highest paid player most likely in that franchise history. What happened with Jalen Brown, obviously a great player, but 300. Tatum will pass that. So great for Scottie, obviously, and great for, obviously, these young – I think Cade, even coming off one of the worst – probably the worst season in NBA history.

He's about to get maxed out too. So it's good to be 6'10 and athletic. Yeah, I would say. I wish I could do that. That would be very cool, especially with where these NBA contracts are headed. 275 is what Trevor Lawrence got paid, and everybody lost

their mind. Scotty Barnes just got $270 million. We like Scotty Barnes. Fully guaranteed. This is a lot different than... These NBA guys sign these deals, though, that are just absolutely absurd heard of scotty barnes before so this is a different story but there'll be somebody that'll

come out this offseason in the nba and i think end of june is a big time because a lot of guys either opt in or opt out of their contracts and then shit goes wild brother i mean that's kind of how it goes if players are staying with their own teams they can negotiate right now so we'll hear more of those numbers but some of these paychecks that some of these NBA guys that I've never fucking heard of in my life. I don't know how many tickets they sell. I don't know how much merch they move. I don't know how many beers people are buying. I don't know how many points they're putting.

But some, not Scotty Barnes, some of these guys averaging like four points, nine rebounds, and like two assists. $500 million guaranteed. That's the NBA. Good for them over there. Yeah, I mean, you got guys who are making like top-end wide receiver money.

I mean, Derek White, again, I wouldn't say he's like a massive superstar, obviously, but he's very good. He fulfills his role. They're talking about him making $30-some million a year with his next contract. It's the expectation. It kind of begs the question.

If you're an elite athlete and you have the ability to play one or the other, a year with his next contract. It's the expectation. It kind of begs the question. If you're an elite athlete and you have the ability to play one or the other, why would any of these guys play anything other than basketball? Because a lot of these stories come out that it's not like choosing football or basketball. It's like football kind of told them, hey, you're going to go play basketball. Yeah, you're a basketball guy. There's been so many stories. Austin Rivers was the first one.

And then I heard Memphis guy, former Memphis Grizzly. Dylan Brooks? No. I know Charles Barkley. He had a similar story with football. Who's the bigger guy? Lefty. Oh, Zach Randolph?

Zeebo? I think he told a story about how football, something happened, and he was like, I'm going to fight. This is not how I'm going to go play basketball, where football practice creates basketball players for some cases, but also some guys I think know that they're going to be like 6'10". And if you're 6'10 and athletic and you're not working on your threes, or if your parents are both over six foot tall or 6'4",

and you have a chance to go to the NBA with the prices that they are getting paid right now, and you don't put up a thousand shots a day i think you're doing yourself a disservice yeah that's like whenever you go to a club and you see a seven foot tall bouncer and you ask did you play professional basketball they say no you got a question to work at yeah you're seven foot tall all you had to do back in the day is seven foot tall was just literally get from one end of the court to the other and just stand there that's right so if you're tall or have a chance being tall, boy, you need to get in on what the NBA is cooking right now. Money is huge.

And if you can shoot, which it seems like it's going, what's Wemby going to make? Oh, my God. 400? What is Wemby going to make? He'll be a billionaire before he's 30. He'll legitimately, by the time he's 28, be a billionaire. Good for that.

Hey, good for you, NBA. Good for you, NBA. Life is good. Cole, that's your contract, right? That's for you, NBA. Good for you, NBA. Life is good. Cole, that's your contract, right? That's what you signed with the WWE? Oh, yeah. A billion. Nice job, Cole.

Can you imagine Michael Cole was a billionaire? Yeah. Were you going to be a sports guy ever? Well, I'll tell you what. If I was a billionaire, you wouldn't see me having four-hour delays, so I couldn't go out for dinner with you guys. I guarantee you that. I'd have my own jet.

Michael Cole, 27 years in the WWE, has only missed three shows. Three shows I've been assigned to. I want to make that clear. I don't show up to SmackDown every Friday night. Michael Hayes actually does show up to every show. So he's the guy that deserves that type of credit. But you've missed three shows in 27 years on your schedule. Commercial travel

everywhere. How many miles do you have with these people? Three million United, three million American, two million Delta. Holy shit. My God. I thought I was doing it. And my wife flies under those same criteria.

So you don't see it a lot. There are perks. Don't get me wrong. Commercial travel, there are some don't get me wrong commercial travel there are some perks but it's just getting worse lately i had a flight canceled to go to scotland like in a hub of chicago how are you how do they cancel an international flight when you're in a hub city well then all you have to do is drive another airplane and put it at the gate okay so let's talk about this because there's a lot of uh travel convo. You were traveling before September 11th, post-September 11th, and then now post-COVID logistics world that we're in. You're saying right now seemingly is the least consistent?

Worst ever. The last couple of years is the worst that I have ever experienced flying commercially. And it's across the board. It's not just one particular airline. It's everywhere. What is it? Not enough uh pilot what is it i think i i think it's just a plethora of things i think the schedule screwed up uh i think like for instance yesterday something happened to the schedule early on so the plane that i was going to fly from atlanta to indianapolis was supposed to take off at 4 15 but they pushed it an hour because the flight was going to come in.

Instead of coming in from Nashville, it was coming in from Memphis. It was leaving an hour later. They just screw around with their schedules. They don't care. The airlines don't care. You've already paid. They're sold out. Every single flight is sold out.

They don't give a shit. They don't. They're just going to say, well, this moron's got to get to work, so we're going to put them on a plane three hours from now. They don't care. They really don't give a shit. And it's terrible, especially for people that might travel once every

six months because they're going on vacation with the family or whatever. I feel bad for those people because they're stuck back in economy in the back row by the preparing. They prepared for this forever. Exactly. Forever. Pumped for it. Yeah, took work off. I mean, this whole thing. And then all of a sudden, yeah, actually two days later now

because we got this entire deal. If I'm delayed, I can go sit in the United Club or whatnot and have a drink and watch the ball. He's a high society here. Now, if you have traveled 8 million miles with that math you just did. Oh, at least. That's like 320 times around the earth.

You have traveled in 27 years. That's absurd. I think you're the right person in the wrestling business. Obviously, there's musicians. Do they tour all year round? I don't know. You've been on tour for 27 years pretty much. 52 weeks a year.

We don't do repeats, as you know. He's been on tour for 27 years. Pretty much. He used to fly middle seat, this guy, for like 20 years. When I learned that he was flying, I'm like, yo, we got to at least have a conversation. You're on the eye or the window. 20 years into this thing, you can't be flying in B or E. That cannot be.

Oh, I don't care. I just sit down and I just. He's like literally just this little hobbit that goes bouncing around back and forth. Your work ethic and humility is so stupid. The worst part about coaches, you got to pay for the boost. That's the worst part about coaches. Your work ethic and humility is so stupid. The worst part about coaches, you've got to pay for the booze. That's the worst part about coaches. No doubt about it. Amen, brother.

Joining us now is a man who hasn't had to pay for booze for the last at least three, four weeks as he has been traveling back and forth from Florida to Edmonton and then all the other towns. Oh, ladies and gentlemen. Shit. Ladies and gentlemen, from Manatee, Ohio, A.J. Hall. Yeah. A.J. 100% on me. 100% on me. 100% on me. Oh, no. gentlemen. Shit. Ladies and gentlemen, from Manatee, Ohio, A.J. Hall. Yeah. A.J. 100% on me.

100% on me. 100% on me. Oh, no. We're good. We're good. What's up? 320 times around the earth this guy's traveling. It's got me all boozed up here.

Very silly. And also, we've got a big-time game, 7 to 9. Somebody's trying to hoist Lourdes like your brother-in-law, Jack Johnson, and stuff, like you have done in the backyard with your kids. To tell us more about everything happening this evening and a historic night for the NHL regardless of who wins. Friend of the program, man, has been on TV all morning selling the great game of hockey as he should be. Ladies and gentlemen,

PK Spaniel. Yeah, PK! Wow! Oh, yeah! Getting some rays. Getting a little baked today, that's all. Just getting some sun. I like that. Seems to be on a patio that's covered, and it's a little blurry out there, but it looks like you're down in beautiful sunrise, Florida.

How are the vibes? Are they all scared to death because D-Butch here said you couldn't pull something out of him with a freight train right now because of how tight his ass is with how everything is. He's nervous as hell with how the Panthers have gone in this entire thing. How do you feel, and what are the vibes down in Sunrise? Well, a lot of people actually here in Sunrise thought that, you know, I would have something different to say here in Game 7 about their team

other than the fact that I thought that they were going to win the game today. I think they were surprised by that. But, you know, I think there's some hope, maybe not as hope, as much hope as the Edmonton Oilers fan base right now. But I think that hope is going to grow. I think from puck drop, that Florida Panthers team is going to be ready to go once the puck drops. They know they got to have a good start. That first goal is going to be key. But I think that the Florida Panthers just got to get back to their game. But it's a little shaky here in Sunrise. I'm not going to lie key, but I think that the Florida Panthers just got to get back to their game. It's a little shaky here in

Sunrise. I'm not going to lie. People are a little bit on edge here. No doubt. I can understand why people are on edge. It's because this guy right here, he's still on pace to break a record that Wayne O set in NHL playoffs for the amount

of points. He's obviously come alive in a big way. That's Connor McDavid. And then we saw a photo, I don't know if this was this morning or yesterday, look how joyful this guy is. He seems to be incredibly confident. Obviously the quads, that guy can skate.

You can tell that he's flying around. His beard, obviously, he's got a good playoff beard. We're in the finals. It's been a long time. Hair, obviously flowing. Got a nice coffee with the lads. Incredibly comfortable, happy, and confident. Is that how the entire Oilers team feels, I would assume? time hair obviously flowing got a nice coffee with the lads incredibly comfortable happy and

confident is that how the entire the Oilers team feels I would assume and why do you think this has happened here we we did some research and obviously 1945 a team was up 3-0 and then they let the other team all the way back and then they won in game 7 1942 a team was up 3-0 and then they end up losing the Stanley Cup that's the last time it has happened when a team goes up 3-0 and then they ended up losing the Stanley Cup that's the last time it has happened when a team goes up 3-0 in the Stanley Cup final and that was the Detroit Red Wings losing both of these both of these, the Detroit Red Wings lost obviously, could have gone

any way, did the Edmonton Oilers feel that and what do you think it was that the Edmonton Oilers did to get to this point to force a game 7? Well, if I'm on the Edmonton Oilers I'd be all smiles as well, first of all you came back from being down three nothing in the whole world thought you were done and out and now you have a chance at a game seven is it too windy here let me go inside that breeze off the Atlantic

crazy wind crazy tan i'm getting but you guys just hang on. Buckle in. Crazy tan. Look at this. Here we go. Much better. Is that better? Yeah. Is that better? Yeah. Are you wearing sunscreen, PK? You wear sunscreen? Nope. Nope. I let her buck. No sunscreen. Careful. No sunscreen, boys. No sunscreen. All right. But if you're

Edmonton, you'd be pumped too, I guess. No, listen. I'd be pumped. I mean, you're going into game seven with literally the best player in the game right now who's breaking Gretzky's records left, right, and center. I mean, as a team, you guys couldn't be playing any better than what you're playing right now. Top to bottom, goaltending, defense, everything. But there's one thing. Some of those smiles could change pretty quickly because

you know i still think that that edmonton oilers defense if florida gets back to its game early in this game and puts the pressure on a young broberg cc who's susceptible to mistakes um you know you got you got a d core there that's played really, really well, but if I'm looking at the decor between Florida and Edmonton, I like the experience of the Florida Panthers in a game seven. All this being said,

Florida's got to get back to their game, but if I'm on Edmonton, I'm feeling great. I'm feeling great right now. PK, what about what do you make of the news of Bobrovsky? Obviously, he's sitting out of practice. They claim that this is kind of a normal thing that he has done for rest a couple days ago, and he was back on the ice, I guess, yesterday or today, whatever it may be.

But where do you think his confidence level is, and what's your confidence level in Bobrovsky able to kind of put it together here in Game 7? We're in bed with PK Savan right now. Yep, you're right in bed. You're tucked right in with me, guys. We're in bed. Bit of a gauncho now yep you're right in bed you're tucked right in with me guys we're a little bit of a run it is yeah a little bit but brohamski i think he needed a break i i gotta be real with you everybody thinks it's his mental thing i think it's he's just exhausted man two months and this guy has saved nobody. There's a reason why he was the front runner for the cons mic going into the Stanley Cup final.

He covered up a lot of the mistakes that were being made. Florida's the best defensive team. A lot of that came on the back of Sergei Bobrovsky. So I think he's a little bit tired. I think he was exhausted, not just physically, but mentally. I think he just needs a break, which he's only human. I mean, he's a human being. So to get him out of the rink, get him away from the rink, recharge his batteries for one game, absolutely. I wouldn't even have him anywhere near the rink. Go and do what you need to do, Bob, and we'll see you Monday night for the game. I assume he's at the beach just like the chalk told us that he hangs out at the beach every single off day. That's a nice little weapon that Sunrise Florida has.

They've never had Lord Stanley Cup down there for a home team. We see if that changes tonight. Edmonton, obviously, a city representing a country that would love to have Lordo back, and a Canadian's doing it all. Go ahead, Connor. representing a country that would love to have lordo back and a canadian's doing it all go ahead connor yeah pk obviously with the performance mcdavid has put on in the entire postseason but specifically in the stanley cup final if they are to know you know go and win the cup and let's say mcdavid has two three points maybe maybe a goal a couple assists sorry darius but if that does

happen and they do come back down 3-0 does m McDavid immediately become like an all-time great in the history of, you know, hockey as far as performances go in the playoffs and just individually? Or do you think he needs like another cup here if they don't get it done? Well, he gets it done tonight. He accomplishes something that both Wayne Gretzky and Mary Olamu have never done. And that's being down 3-0 in the Stanley Cup final to come back and win. Not only that, leading the playoffs in points, breaking records. And I'm going to go out and say this right now.

Watching him lead this team, I said it earlier today, and I've been saying it, and people think I'm crazy for saying it. I watched that last dance, and Michael Jordan, I remember the quote, I can't remember which player it was that played on his team, but they had said, you know, he just had the ability to win the game. He knew how to play the game. He knew how to let his teammates do their thing, and when he had to turn it on, turned it on conor mcdavid i've watched him develop into one of the game's greatest leaders maybe one of the greatest leaders in sports you know if he finishes this thing off just watching him pull his teammates into the fight like the difficulty to do that at three nothing says so much about

this guy's talent ability and how much his teammates believe in him that's everything in sports like this is what sports is all about it's all about team so you can be a great player you can have greatness in you you can have all the skill in the world but if you can't pull guys along with you like jordan said i wanted to win but i wanted my teammates to win too well connor is showing a lot of similarities to that guy mj and i'm i'm here for it i love it i've watched it when he said that quote fans just keep cheering just keep cheering we're not out of this thing yet you have to commend a hockey player for doing that and for me he wins this thing 100% goes into that select group of all-time greats,

not just in hockey, in all sports. I'm not a hockey. I agree with what you're saying about Conor McDavid, by the way. And watching him has been mesmerizing. You name it. Even if he doesn't win, I think after watching him, even if they don't win the cup, he's going to win the consmite. It's a whole thing.

A lot more people in the sports world have been introduced to Conor McDavid, which means next year they better. It has to happen if it doesn't happen tonight. I'm no hockey historian. I don't think Mario was ever down 3-0 in a Stanley Cup. So whatever you say, he's been able to do something that nobody

else has been able to. Well, no shit. Super Mario ain't ever getting down 3-0 in a Stanley Cup final. Now, Wayno, a whole different animal down 3-0 in a Stanley Cup final. I mean, that's just how it's, now Waino, a whole different animal. He just lived in the Stanley Cup finals, I think. The amount of points that that guy has scored in playoffs and in hockey as a whole

is befuddling. They need to be telling his story more to more people. He needs a last dance, a, a, a, he needs one of those to let people know, like, hey, this guy, if you were to just get rid of all of his goals, goals and assists account for points. He has the most in the history of the NHL.

If you were to get rid of his goals, I believe, would still lead the NHL in points in history. Exactly. So good. And I think people are getting introduced to him, obviously, through TNT. But as this surge in hockey continues to happen, I hope there's some people out there that find, you know, at least enough footage to kind of make this entire thing happen.

Darius, who is very nervous about tonight, has a question for you, PK. Until that puck drops. And, no, MJ also no Game 7s either with his finals runs. But speaking of pressure with this game tonight, which team do you think right now has more pressure? The Florida Panthers obviously up 3-0. Now we're in a Game 7 at home. But Connor mcdavis his oiler team getting a lot of hype everybody's talking about hey the next jordan the next great which team which players has the

most pressure on them this uh tonight well everybody's talking about all this pressure on florida it could be one of the big well one of the the worst uh uh you know meltdowns of professional sports and all this stuff. Of all time. The worst team in sports. Oh, no. Sucks so bad. They're worse than the Mets. Which is crazy to me because people that say that haven't been watching

don't know much about hockey because first and foremost first and foremost first and foremost you got you got the best engineered hockey player on the other side and conor mcdavid who's been breaking records some of them are wayne gretzky's by the way so when you're talking about a guy like that on the ice and that's why i prefaced my pick i said florida panthers in six but as long as there's still life and Connor McDavid is still breathing I'm not conning him out because I know what this guy can do so you have to respect that talent and I think the Florida Panthers understand that they respect the talent that's on the other side they know what they have to do tonight but I

don't I don't see it as in there's pressure on one team or on the other. I think both teams understand it's one game. So you take out the six games, throw it in the trash, none of it matters. None of it matters. Amen. None of it. None of it. You know what does matter, though? If Darius Butler

was up 3-0 in the Stanley Cup, and then they lose, that's going to be tough every single day. Oh, my God. And then they lose. That's going to be tough every single day. I got faith in the boys. Hey, you know what? I kind of do, too. I got faith in them.

Really? I kind of do. I kind of have a lot of faith in Connor McDavid. Well, I do have a lot of faith in Connor. Yeah, he's a pretty good player. He looks a little too happy for me. I'm excited. He's McMoney.

He's McMoney. Oh, McJed. Oh, not for me. I'm excited. He's McMoney. He's McMoney. Oh, McChed. Oh, not McJesus. No. Let's not compare ourselves to the guy that moves a rock on the back, bitch. Okay. Let's not do that. Let's do McMoney.

Let's do McChed. Let's do McDavid. Let's do the guy who potentially is going to pull something off that hasn't happened since 1942. Go ahead, AJ. PK, what are you going to be watching early in the first period like for a casual fan for me i'm watching the game what do you what are you watching to see like what both teams are playing like what the style might be maybe some tiny adjustments being made but what can we look for early well my eyes will be glued on the florida panthers for the

first 10 minutes of the game i'll'll be watching them and Connor McDavid. You know, I probably won't be watching much of what Edmonton does, mostly Florida, because to me, that's going to be the tell-all of the game. If they don't find their game, if they don't find their game, the Edmonton Oilers are going to be flying all over the ice. There's going to be odd man rushes again. There'll be rush goals, rush chances, all of that stuff. Florida's got to put that all to bed. They got to put that to bed in the first 10 minutes and set the tone. And I think the first

goal is going to be important. I think if Florida scores that first goal, I think they'll be able to find their game a lot easier than if Edmonton does. If Edmonton finds that first goal, it's going to be tough. A lot of those defensemen that I spoke about that could be exposed, they're going to gain confidence and they get right into their groove so the first thing that i'm going to look at is florida in the neutral zone are you guys going to be above your outs if they're looking if they're back checking and there's odd man rushes it's just it's just it's not a good recipe explain what the hell that is right explain? Hey, explain what that is. So, okay.

So, okay. So here's the thing. When the Florida Panthers are four checking, they throw the puck into the corner. They usually come with two guys strong, right? F3. And I spoke about this. Dan Orlovsky had told me, he's like, you got to explain what rush goals are. You got to explain what the F3 is.

For hockey fans that don't know, you got to explain that. So3 is for hockey fans that don't know you got to explain that so f3 let's say not hockey fans they hear four check and they don't even know what the hell that is right so there's always a buffer player there always has to be a guy that's above the puck so if the puck is down by the goal line you got to have a guy high because you don't want an odd man rush is when you're outnumbered off the rush, when teams are attacking you and trying to score on your net. It's a three-on-two, four-on-two, four-on-one, or a breakaway. Florida, 24 goals in this series. 14 of them, I believe, are rush goals.

Like, guys, the worst teams in the National Hockey League, even if they tried, couldn't do that. That's how bad Florida's been the last three games of the series which doesn't make any sense so so so what i'm looking at somebody gotta take a penalty charge to simplify it to simplify it what i'm looking at are self-inflicted mistakes like self-inflicted wounds. Florida shot themselves. I don't want to take anything from Edmonton. Edmonton's played great, and they turned it on the second half of that series.

But a lot of those odd man rushes and goals are self-inflicted mistakes. I mean, bad decision-making, bad pitches, not managing the puck. So I'll be watching all of those things. The decision-making, the pitches. Are they managing the puck? Are they supporting the puck. So I'll be watching all of those things, the decision-making, the pinches. Are they managing the puck? Are they supporting the puck? Or are they giving Dreisaitl and McDavid, you know, opportunities, free opportunities and freebies to go in on Bob?

Everybody's talking about Bob. I mean, what the hell do you want him to do on all those opportunities? 2-on-1s, East West, come on. Especially with the McChed. And there was games where Bob would stand on his head and win a game for the Florida Panthers. Not that he hasn't, but there was some shot differentials

in which the Florida somehow won games throughout these playoffs. I think everybody just expects him to stop literally everything that is fired at him. And tonight, maybe he's able to do that. You just got to stop shooting yourselves in a skate tonight, Florida Panthers. Stop the fast break. Hey, we appreciate you, brother.

We can't wait to watch you tonight on TV, 7 p.m. Eastern with The Point, alongside Moose and Steve Levy and Emily Kaplan. You guys have done a great job promoting the game and covering this entire playoffs. You guys should be proud. Thank you, Pat. Thank you, and thanks for having me on the show. It's been great for hockey, so I really, really appreciate it.

I think the Panthers will be hoisting that cup tonight. It'll be a big party in South Florida. Let's go. Okay. And maybe, you know, they'll be able to do Miami and South Florida like JT. I do wonder what the parade's going to look like, especially after how many Bostonians showed up, brother. That parade the Celtics had.

Oh, my God. Historic, epic, legendary. Now, potentially, the Panthers or Oilers are next. Edmonton, they would. Oh, God. That would probably be the most equivalent. No offense, South Florida. Edmonton would be.

White Ave would be rocking, brother. Holy shit. Well, Oilers and Panthers, if any of those players are watching right now, my phone will be on as soon as that game's over. Vibrate. It'll be Do Not Disturb will be off. I'll be fully engaged and available. So if anybody wants to pull me in, I'll be available. Hey, that's good journalism.

We appreciate you, ladies and gentlemen. PK Savan. Look good, Mario. I got a comment. Yep, go ahead. And I'm not a big hockey guy. It's my fourth sport. I bet the house on Edmonton tonight.

I'll tell you why. Nobody's really talked about this. Forget about all the four checking and the rush goals and all this other stuff. Forget about everything he just said. Forget about all that bullshit. That's not the point I'm making. The point I'm making

is the mental aspect of it. If you're Florida, you've collapsed. You've choked. And now you're home in game seven, and I don't know how you correct these things on such a short time frame. Edmonton has all the momentum. They have everything going their way. They're playing with house money.

They have absolutely nothing to lose. If they lose the game, they lose the game. Okay, they had an opportunity to do something that hadn't been done in almost 100 years, right? I don't know if you're Florida how you recover. I don't know how you turn it around in one game tonight, game seven at home. I don't know how you correct all the mistakes

that he was talking about and how mentally you survived this game tonight. Just my thought. Aaron Rodgers, your quarterback, has once been on the record as all you need is one play sometimes to turn around an entire team, to turn around an entire franchise, to turn around an entire season. All you need is just one thing to pop off in your direction.

You think to yourself, okay, now guess who's on our side? Big Mo, who does exist and has currently been rolling against the Florida Panthers. All you need is one. Kachuk. A minute in. Bob actually stands. Yeah, on his head. On his head.

He does something early. And then the Florida Panthers fans, which we know there are many. Oh, yeah. A lot of tickets on sale. Maybe other Panthers fans. For Game 7? A lot of tickets on sale. They're expensive, too.

Correct me if I'm wrong, Nick. There was a Game 7 Pens caps where I think there was a breakaway or whatever, and Fleury made a huge save early, and that changed the whole momentum of the game, and then the Pens won and went on to win the Cup, I believe. Yeah, against Ovechkin. Yeah. Yeah, so that's, you know. This is sports.

It's like a big breakaway, and Bob just robs them right off the top. And they start chanting, Bob, Bob, Bob, and at all places. Other than all the tickets ever for sale. What happens if Edmonton scores first five minutes of the game? Then it's over. Send those shirts that say the Panthers

won the Stanley Cup to Africa. People are talking about how Florida Panthers fans are selling their tickets in droves here for Game 7 because they know that those Edmonton fans will pay top dollar to get into that building because obviously this is a historic evening in

the history of the NHL and some people are saying these Panthers fans are never real. Yeah. These ones. Arguments be made. We know that arena has been loud. Kachuk said that that arena is going to be the loudest that he's ever played in. Let's talk about some NFL stuff that's happening. Off-season football is taking place.

So what does that mean, AJ? Well, we're paying attention to everything that isn't actual football. Does somebody unfollow? Somebody on Instagram? Wait a minute. What's going on over there? Uh-oh. Somebody may be running into law enforcement.

Are they okay? What's going on? How about guys walking in fashion shows? Are they confident? I'd say so. Joey B ain't worried at all about his wrist injury that happened last year. He's wearing an open-backed suit with no shirt underneath it, killing it in Paris, France.

Is this the first Ohio guy that has ever walked in the Paris fashion week? I'd say yes. He and Justin Jefferson, obviously old friends from LSU, absolutely crushing his Vogue magazine, following along with it all. There was horses walking in the same fashion show that Joey B was walking in. This has got to be great news for the Bengals season, AJ. I would assume this definitely has to be great news. He probably is the first Ohio guy to be walking in this specific fashion show.

So I believe Pac-Man was telling us, these are the fashions that are going to be cool next year. These are the new things that are coming out. I've been working on my back. I've seen this shit coming. Now, I don't know if that's exactly how it's supposed to look, just kind of like a loose opening. You should have worn assless chaps.

It doesn't matter what the back looks like. Do you see how cool he looks with his hair? He looks like a model. He looks like he should be there, doesn't he? Cole, you wear suits every week. You're telling me you would wear that if you were asked to wear it? You would wear that on Monday Night Raw tonight. That back open with the flaps hanging.

It looks like when Jim Carrey came out of the bathroom. I'd wear it on the USA Network tonight. That back open with the flaps hanging. It looks like when Jim Carrey came out of the bathroom. I'd wear it on the USA Network tonight. What'd you say? I said if I wanted to look like a jackass, I'd wear it on the USA Network tonight. You don't get fashion. This guy doesn't get fashion. Wait a minute. I don't get fashion. You ordered your tuxedo for WrestleMania from Amazon.

Well, six of them. Only three of them fit. Cole, would you rather have your quarterback in a fashion show in Paris or missing OTAs because God knows where he's at? Let's not get started with that now. Come on now. It's a reasonable question. He made all the non-voluntary stuff. Let's not get started with the whole Aaron

Rodgers stuff now. He's going to be fine. I jinxed the season last year. I'm not going to do it again this year. Thank you for that, Cole. It's not you jinxing it. This is the year where the Jets fans get to experience the full Aaron Rodgers experience. And we're excited for that. I hope so.

After everything that's been said about him from all the people, all the doubters, all the haters, boy, those are just chips getting stacked up right there on Aaron Rodgers. And he's got weapons now. And he's got a defense. And it's going to be fun to watch. And a head coach that he's on the same page with. Oh, yeah. That guy's really good.

That bum should have been fired. Oh! Love it. Love it. Tell him, Cole. For who, Cole? Jeez. We would like to reiterate the fact that opinions taken on this particular program do not reflect

the opinions of other people that are on microphones on this particular program. Or the person with the name on the name of this program. But that is, I think, the sentiment of a lot of Jets fans. Yeah, it is. I believe that is the sentiment of a lot of Jets fans. How long has it been that way, though, Cole? How long have you guys felt that way about Saul? So, I think the first year, AJ, we liked him.

We thought he had something. And then I just think it went downhill from there. I think the problem is the fans believe that he's lost the locker room the last couple of years. And, you know, he didn't handle the Zach Wilson situation, although I don't think anybody could have done anything for that kid. But it's been like that for a couple of years. He's got to win this year, obviously.

He has to win. Whether Aaron plays the full season or he doesn't, Salah's got to win or he's out. I thought Douglas had a really great offseason. I was a little up in the air about him as our GM, but I think he had a really good offseason. Salah's got to produce this year or he's gone, so. Zach Wilson is a sweet boy. He's a sweet boy. We got a chance to meet him. He's a sweet

boy. He is, and he's got talent. We'll see if it works out for him this upcoming season, but the Jets, I think Aaron actually said the quiet part out loud at one of his press conferences. If we don't win, we're all gone. That's why it doesn't make sense. Nissan Reddick's in Japan training too.

With his samurai sword. He's going to slash Drake May's head off. He's got a sword. He looks sweet. We heard Coach Sala say he's working his ass off him. Has been on tape. Working his ass off doing the whole thing.

Aaron, yeah, he's got something he thinks is important. He'll be fine. Certainly an interesting technique by Coach Sala, but maybe it works out for the best. Maybe he thinks that Aaron needs a little bit of sauce, maybe a little bit of spite to go in there. We don't know what his plan is, but we do know that Jets fans, you guys are going to win this year.

This is the year. We hope. Super Bowl. We'll see. Let's continue to talk offseason NFL football. Travis Kelsey. Yeah. Once again.

Poised, prepared, strong, filled with moxie, and also willing to do whatever to support his partner taylor swift once again i can't reiterate this enough a football guy has gone into this pop culture world and showcased what can be you know there's a lot of songs i think she is uh saying that i've heard through my wife's phone and through the entirety a lot of assholes she's been with not everybody but from the songs i've heard there's been some certainly some feelings that have been brought to her via other dudes in the past football guy going out there performing catching her she's tired oh yeah let's wake her back up still got a show to do here in london for 90 000 people

motivating inspiring and willing to wear that silly costume. I don't care. And you know, 90,000 people, what's that? In Kansas City, he's got the entire Chiefs kingdom, including bank robbers watching him every single day. Showed up, showed out. We're proud of you, Trav. Way to go. Never a doubt.

Never a doubt. Good job. Paul McCartney was in the crowd, on the floor, dancing along to that entire sequence. Can you imagine? Tom Cruise? Tom Cruise? I don't know if it was that particular time.

It was the day before, the show before. Trav and Tom Cruise getting after him. Tom Cruise comes in. He's like, Trav, what's up, dude? He's like, how you doing? Are you the man? Yeah, Trav might be in the next. Yeah.

Tom, let's go. This is awesome. Jason was there, too. Yeah, Jason. Kylie, I believe, was there. Paul McCartney was this is awesome jason was there too yeah jason kylie i believe i was there paul mccartney was there uh dave bro was at a different royal family right the royal family except for mom not all of them hope mom's okay obviously buddy was dancing prince was dancing yeah he was shaking it off of course he was certainly feeling it with the farm you know different stratosphere right now where's mom mom? Trav right now? He's in a different year. It's absurd. You know what I like most about this? Yeah, I'd be last dance this year.

Amen. But he's a son to your deal. And also, I think Taylor motivates him to continue to go. I think he watches her do her thing, and he goes, holy shit. She sells out stadiums in every city around the entire world. She continues to make bangers. She's a massive part of the rehearsal. Everything, she's hands-on in everything.

He probably thinks, like, that's, yes, this is exactly who I need to be around. You know, because they say you are the company you keep. The company he's keeping is taking over the world pretty much in an industry that I don't think she was supposed to take over the world as fast as she certainly did. So I think he's inspired by it. I think he wants to be great. And I think whenever he puts on that goofy suit, the costume, in England, when he puts on that

England costume, what was that thing? It was goofy. It was goofy. It wasn't goofy. Did you see how fit he looked in that thing? He looked better than the Joe Burrow thing. He looks happy. Yeah, it's about a thousand times better than the Burrow thing.

Anyway, they both look fantastic. They're both crushing it. And congrats to Trav and Taylor. I think their internet official, Taylor, has finally posted a couple photos with him. Unreal. So it's official. What was up on social media with Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters?

There's no reason. Taylor Swift was lip syncing and stuff? No way. He said, we actually play live., there's no reason. Saying that Taylor Swift was lip-syncing and stuff? No. No way. He said, we actually play live. What? Just no reason. Hey, Dave, you got your own stadium.

Grohl being Grohl. Taylor's doing it. Yeah. Taylor's absolutely crushing it. I think my favorite part of this entire thing, and we'll wrap up on this, Travis Kelsey is in London. Yep. Me and the Roel family. Yep family usa hat on love it usa hat good

look see that usa big hat on hey how you doing yeah just want to let you know about a month or so remember yeah about a month or so we're fast in the pool yeah we are very fast in the pool you should see us on track and on track we're very. We are very fast on the track in our gymnastic all the way back. Still got it. Basketball. Nice to meet you guys. Hope you guys are great. I watched the crown.

It was fantastic, obviously. Rest in peace to your mom and everything. I respect her. Whatever the case, thanks for showing up. But USA. USA. I love that, that that happened. The best.

And a good year to do it because it is possible that England doesn't win one medal at the Olympics this year. So, you know, kind of just rubbing it in. It's alright. Good luck, England. Well, they don't have summer ever. True. They don't have those awards. They were better at soccer. They don't have winter either. Is England good at soccer? Are you guys going to make it? Top of the group.

I'd say it's pretty good. So why is Wade Barrett, our broadcast colleague on WWE, complaining nonstop about how bad this England team is? Well, the coach is kind of a dipshit is the issue. Southgate's an asshat. He's kind of checked out. He's done whether they win or lose in this tournament.

And also, I'm afraid I've got some bad news for you. Oh, no. Wade Barrett, anytime he attacks anything, he's going to be incredible. You know, he's going to be a full go. I was a massive fan of the Bad News Barrett era, and I wasn't with the WWE yet. I ran into him in, like,

a cafe in New York one time, and he was right in front of me, and I, like, marked out completely. I'm like, bro, you are the man. Then he called the match at NXT whenever I was there, and now, Friday night, he and Corey Graves absolutely slaughtering it.

I love that dude. Great accent. You know where the Bad News Barrett started? On the JBL and Cole show. Oh, Jesus. Which was an original YouTube show. I watched it. Before the Pat McAfee show.

We were sort of the trailblazers, the forerunners. So you can actually thank me for this program. Cody Rhodes made a couple appearances on that program, and that's what really inspired us. Speaking of inspiring us, there's a man from North Carolina who wants to introduce more people to Bojangles and also more people to NASCAR and college baseball. Ladies and gentlemen, in front of the program, Ryan McGee.

What's up? Four horsemen. Four's up. Four horsemen. That's not for Arne and Rick And the boys No no That's for his

Four college friends They always give Four horsemen Four horsemen Four horsemen Yeah Michael Cole Throwing up the four For your four horsemen

Right there McGee Hey I saw Arne Anderson I saw Arne Anderson Two weekends ago And told him the whole story How'd it go?

And he's like Alright And it was awesome He took a picture Of the whole story. How'd it go? He's like, all right. It was awesome. He posed for a picture. He did the whole thing. He signed a picture to the other four horsemen. I'm like, yeah, there you go, Roller.

Orrin Anderson, former mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, Orrin Anderson. I did not know that. Wow. I did not know that was the case. I know that he should have given you a spine buster right there. That would have been absolutely awesome. And then put the four in your face. Let's talk about a weekend in Omaha.

This has worked out perfectly for college baseball, for Omaha, certainly for Rocco's, the bar where people are buying shots. Texas A&M beats the hell out of the number one team in the country, Tennessee, in game one in the best of three series for the Natty. Then in game two, Tennessee answers. They win by a wide margin over Texas A&M. And now we've got game three and a best of three to decide the World Series champion. How do we feel?

Is this going to be like an explosive night? Is it going to be a big defensive night? Are they both found their groove? What do you think, McGee, we should be looking for? It's going to be tense. I know that. And it's going to be hot. It's 100 degrees right outside this window right here in Omaha.

It was in the 90s yesterday, but they're talking about like 101. So it's a night game, you know, 609 local, 709 eastern. But it's going to be – I really believe – so the first two games were very tense. Like the first game was tight. Yesterday, Saturday's game was – or Sunday's game was 1-0 until the – we got to like sixth, seventh, eighth inning. So it was super tight and tense, and I think it will be that today, but I think the dam's going to break. Like both coaches have said, we're going to empty the benches. There's no more games after today. The pitching's actually set up

pretty nice for both with rested arms. So I mean, they're going to use everybody. If you see a pitcher walk a batter and even two batters, he's gone gone. They're going to yank him and throw somebody else in there because the entire roster is available for the most part. I personally believe it'll start off tense, but this could end up being like an 11-10 deal.

The first two games were tight and this one I think could blow up. Go ahead, AJ. You mentioned the pitchers are set up pretty good. How far do you think either one of these starters could go? What do you think they would let them, like you said, one or two walks, they're going to pull people, but could you see one of these guys possibly going

5, 6, 7? Yeah, I mean, they're all about momentum. We saw it yesterday, you know, when Texas A&M or excuse me, Tennessee put a guy on the mound and pulled him almost immediately, and the same with Texas A&M because they kind of – you got a couple of batters. And if you don't have it, you don't have it because we don't have time to mess with this today.

So, yeah, I think the starters could go. So the big thing is both these teams' bullpens are amazing, particularly their closures. So what we're going to see is even if it's a three-run game, even if it's a four-run game, when we get into the last couple of innings, you might see those closures come i what we're going to see is even if it's a three-run game even though it's a four-run game when we get into the last couple of innings you might see those closures come out a lot earlier you know than what we normally see because they're going to try to close the door right i don't i'm gonna say it's gonna get desperate but i feel like you know you can i'm in the texas a&m team hotel the tennessee team hotel is right next door and i've been here for a long time and it's just tense like that was there's 30,000 people there.

So, literally, like, climbing rafters and, like, squeezing through fences and trying to see the game. There's 9,000 people trying to get stand-in room-only tickets. And they were kind of quiet yesterday because it just was tense. And so, I feel like the dam's going to break today. So, that's a real long way of saying, yes, they could go a while, but I don't think we're going to see any pitcher for more than a couple innings today. I saw a tweet that you put out before Game 2

that basically gave the percentages of who wins after Game 1. How often do we get to a Game 3 here in the final? And what are the percentages of what whenever it gets to this point? We get to three games a lot. And I know this because I had to book my travel, right? And what night can I really get drunk? Because if there's a day game, I can't the night before. But last night I did.

I mean, full disclosure, because there's a night game today. What do we have? A little whiskey? Whiskey, beer? I'm a pirate. So I just walk into these. You guys come to Omaha. The old market is this amazing area.

And they have this incredible, really fancy stuff. I just walk in and go, all right, what's the fanciest rum you have that tastes like something I could get at the grocery store? And that's what they give me. So the percentage is this. have that tastes like something I could get at the grocery store. And that's what they give me. But, yeah, so the percentage is this. It gets to game three a lot, but the percentage is that two-thirds of the time the team that won the first game typically wins a series. And so if you're Tennessee, that means you've got a one-in-three shot. If you're Texas A&M, that means even though you lost yesterday,

it's two out of three. And I think the reason is because you win the first game, and we saw what A&M yesterday. When they had a 1-0 lead, they weren't ready to put their closer in the game. If they had a 3-0 lead, I think they would have put them in the game early. They saved him for game three. So if you win on game one, it gives you a little bit of leeway, whereas Tennessee yesterday kind of went with the, you know,

every man off the bench if we need them on Sunday. So, yeah, I think the advantage is still the Texas A&M because of that. But Tennessee's still the number one ranked team in the country. I saw one of the closers for Tennessee, this Mustachio man. He was a senior, 5'11", 176. But to your point, I think it was one batter, and then they brought in another pitcher. And I'm like, oh, this is how college baseball can literally be.

Tonight, could see a quick exit for plenty of aces as we're got a national championship on the line and journalists out of Syracuse University. Michael Cole has a question for you. Hey, Ryan, obviously college baseball has taken off immensely the last number of years. Will they ever expand from two out of three to three to five or four or seven, do you think, as the sport continues to grow? No, and the reason is this,

because they play three-game series all throughout the regular season. So there's kind of a natural fit. The entire postseason tournament is a double elimination tournament. It's a double elimination in the finals. Again, every weekend is a three-game series. That's kind of the rhythm of the sport. For years, they went with the one-game championship game. When the College Bowl series was on CBS for years, we'll always remember Warren Morris, right,

when he had his, you know, home run down the right field line to upset Miami and he was hurt and the whole thing. The foul pole is still sitting over here in the parking lot. But we remember that. But for years, because CBS wanted it, they just had the one. I hated that. Like, the drama was fine and Warren Morris was great, but the two out of three is the rhythm of the game.

And I talk to you guys all the time about don't mess with the fabric of what the sport actually is. Oh. We just boomed McGee out of there. Did I just boom McGee? Was that Foxy again? Come on. That's Foxy.

No, it wasn't Foxy. That was his whole Wyatt stuff going on again. We're not doing this. We got a hard out here on ESPN. We'll continue on YouTube, ESPN Plus, and TikTok Live. We can't thank you enough for joining us. Tomorrow, we live in a new time. Who's the Stanley Cup champs?

Who's the World Series champs? Am I alive? We'll see you then. You see that? That was a transition into the closure of one show and then the beginning of another one. Really good how you did that. You're like a professional broadcaster. Nobody really talks about that.

Speaking of professional broadcasting, my deal is actually our deal with ESPN. That seems to get confused in a lot of things that I see on the internet. Our deal feeds 15 people in the entire thing. So if anybody's aiming to be the most and the highest, I think you already got it. I think that's already. That doesn't get talked about by a lot of the people that graduated from fucking Syracuse and all those other fucking places that are the super journalists, Michael Cole, all your friends that just bury us on a regular basis.

How come they never get anything right? How come they never, when it comes to us, how come they never get anything right? How come they never, when it comes to us, how come they never get anything right? They're not my friends. They are! They're in the same school. I'm not really a journalist anymore, Pat. I'm a sports entertainer. Oh, jeez. Come on. Don't move the goalposts. You got

that Syracuse degree, though, right there in the office. Yeah, exactly. What was the award? Did you win an award? I won Robert Costas Scholarship at Syracuse University. Bob? Dad? Bob Costas' dad? No, Bob Costas himself went to Syracuse before me.

So Bob Costas paid for you to go to school? No, I won it as I was in college. It was to be the best sportscaster in the school. Wow, Bob knew? Did he vote on it? I have no clue. Anyone in your class around?

Is anyone in your class around working that we would know? Mike Tirico. You won it over with the big one? That year I did. Beat Tirico? Yes, I did. Did you guys come to blows? Was he fucking pissed?

No, not at all. Me and Mike were very close friends. We still talk to this day. They talk about that class at Syracuse like they talk about the Rivers, Eli Manning, Ben draft. Same thing. Historian. Actually, the Zach Wilson draft they talk about. Trevor Lawrence just got 275.

He's the only guy. That's a whole question. Are any of these... Here's a good question. I guess it's a better question for these quarterbacks that we judge as rookies. Are any of them going to a team that has a chance to win? I guess C.J. Stroud kind of debunks that entire thing because none of us would have said the Houston Texans were ready to win with a rookie head coach, rookie quarterback,

and a dumpster fire of a recent history. And then all of a sudden they turn the entire thing around. So I guess any quarterback or culture can be changed immediately. But, boy, a lot of these guys go to teams that just have no chance. Right, Sean. Bingo. I mean, Trevor Lawrence, you could argue, too. When he first went there, he had no chance.

That whole first year, he basically said, hey, forget about that. That doesn't count. What if a part of this deal was like, we're sorry for how this whole thing started? What if that was – that would be a funny situation. We know that once you sign this deal, people are going to compare your record to Mac Jones, and they're going to compare it to all these guys. We understand that that first year just didn't count. We are so sorry.

Sure. Okay, 14 losses. Here's an extra $55 million. Yep, you can do it. Just as like a we missed out situation. An Urbanville tax. Hey, he's obviously going to be back on college football coverage this year. Does he get back into coaching in college ranks, I wonder?

You know what I mean? I wonder at any point. With all these guys leaving, with the college coaches, I mean, leaving like the guy leaving BC to go to Green Bay and Saban obviously being done, you think you can go from? Yeah, but with his resume, there's a chance that he can do like the I don't have to be on the road. And if you go to a place that has big NIL thing, like the way he can do like the i don't have to be on the road and if you go to a place that

has big nil thing right the way he can act you know where some because his college resume is fucking phenomenal i mean utah florida ohio state just whatever you need however let's go ahead and turn this thing around he's hard-nosed too right like i mean i know i remember he allegedly kicked the kicker. Allegedly. He's wired. Those guys are all like, he is big enough to be like, hey, I'm not going to do the traveling stuff, but he would because that's just how they're wired. Saban was

still doing it and he didn't have to. Yeah, you're right. You're 100% right. Now, Coach Prime has taken on a, hey, listen, we are going to we'll Zoom, we'll FaceTime, we'll get people to Colorado so they can see the place. He's kind of been able to reinvent the entire process, but he's Coach Prime. Does Coach Urban Meyer have enough clout in the modern world to be able to get back into college football and just run shit?

I'd assume yes. I think so. I'd assume yes. He's only 59. It's one of those things where like— He's only 59 years old? Yeah, exactly. He's still young.

Obviously, he had the heart stuff and everything everything but even before Notre Dame hired Marcus Freeman like they were talking about how that was always Urban's dream job and I'm not Marcus Freeman's been great so far and they're in playoff contention every single year but same deal like when Brian Kelly went to the SEC if Marcus Freeman were to get an offer to go to the SEC or something like that and he decided to take that job and Urban doesn't have a job by then I would imagine Notre Dame would be first in line calling him because they're one of those schools who has an endless pot of money they could do that or even Ohio State like with how much pressure Ryan Day's under like if he doesn't win national championship every year you know and they start to try to run him out like they would happily bring Urban back

in AJ were you at that event or it might have been during the week so you weren't able to make it and we appreciate you missing it. But I guess Trestle and Urban Meyer both came out, because I saw the headline. The headline said, Trestle and Meyer put more pressure on Ryan Day. And I think they came out and said, this is the greatest roster maybe ever assembled in the history of Ohio State.

Let alone the coaching staff, but just the roster as a whole. It's like, is that how everybody in Ohio feels? I guess that's every year we're supposed to win the natty is how people in Ohio feel. Yeah, it's definitely every year where you can't lose a game all season. But now I think with all the money that everyone knows that they spent and the roster they have, and then, of course, former great coaches coming out saying this roster is unbelievably talented. There's studs everywhere you look.

Yeah, I think it's amped up a little bit this year, no question. How about Trestle and Meyer going like, I wish I had this. Yeah, yeah. This would have been rude. Damn it. Trestle's like, I had guys selling memorabilia for tattoos. Now we can just give them $500,000? I mean, could you imagine?

Right. Could you? Yeah. Urban, could you fucking imagine? And Trestle isn't like the biggest. Could you imagine if we had what Ryan Day has right now? And then they do that interview and they're like, we're actually just talking about how awesome it would be to be Ryan Day right now.

They're going to have to go a different direction if they don't win a national championship this year. This guy just, I mean, spoiled. Can't get it done. What if Trestle and Irv Meyer come back as co-head coaches of the Ohio State? Trestle's just special team. Ryan Day, obviously an immense amount of pressure and obviously has the talent to go on and win it.

But this year they're talking about Ohio State and this team. That's basically the chatter. Hey, here's the two that are going to inevitably run the Big Ten and run the SEC. And it's like there's like 15 other schools that are like, hold the phone now. We got a lot of returning starters. We got a new quarterback in a different situation.

We got an opportunity as well. College football, less than 10 weeks away. Yeah, so we're 73 days away from NFL football. I think we're like 62 away from college football. I forget the exact one. That's awesome. Let's take a break. We'll return on the other side with our three of this particular program

with Michael Cole guest hosting. A lot of things happen around the sports world that we have to talk about. Austin Reeves has come out and chatted about J.J. Redick being his new coach. Can't wait for that. Michael Phelps was at the Olympic swim trials getting a big ovation. We'd like to hear that, AJ. Absolutely. He's the man.

We like him receiving his flowers. Is he back? He might remember. He might remember what that guy did. Might be. Yeah, he did it all. He won it all. And he heard Australia

chirping a little bit and was like, I don't fucking think I can see. Yeah, exactly. Hold on. My arm's still longer than everybody else that's ever been born? Yeah. Are my toes more webbed than any human in history? Yeah. Do I have a work ethic where I could get in a pool if I had to? Yeah.

Keep running your mouth, Ozzy. Running your mouth. 2028 might see a return of the big bad wolf. You keep doing that. I like there's a rivalry in swim. And I also like the fact that the Americans, the swim, I feel like they think that this is like our best team.

We're going into Paris. We're not swimming in those poop rivers. We're not swimming in their poop rivers. No Americans. Do we have a backup? Huh? Do we have a backup? I mean, they claim that place

is, that river is not ready. They're taking the Boyce Park wave pool and setting it up over there. And they'll have to swim into the wave that the Boyce Park wave creates for an extended amount.

They did the math and said like, instead of swimming in the Seine River here that goes through the middle of Paris, that we can't swim in because protesters are pooping and diarrhea-ing in it. So the E. coli numbers are spiked,

so it's not healthy enough for any of the actual Olympians to swim in. We'll bring in a Boyce Park wave pool. You got to swim into this thing for 45 minutes. That equates to the amount of miles that it would be in the poop River that they can't swim in. Shout out to old Poopy Paris, by the way. There was a bunch of, if I remember correctly,

poop and garbage in the Rio River, too, and they got that cleaned up in time. Yeah, I think these French poopers, though... It's been around for like five years. It already reeks there. Billions of dollars trying to clean this thing up. Yeah, it's going to be tough, because you know the food that they eat over there?

Cleansing. Oh, yeah. Aren't they timing it up? They're saying, hey, go take a dump at this time. They're all trying to do it together. Yeah, they're spraying their shit so that no matter what the riptide is, which I've heard has gone a little crazier, no matter what it is, we get a little diarrhea. Just knock them in.

Just knock them in if you see them. You're right. Yeah, you just got to kick those people in. No, but then they'll puke. They want to be in there. I think that's kind of their thing. Like, we're okay with swimming in poop, are they? Yeah. And that's really the

big protest that they're doing. This is a real story. And we're giving you actual information right now. Well, you're a journalist. Bingo! Thank you, Cole. You get it. But they are spraying poop all over that river. Yes, they are. Just like they were spraying flares all over the 18th Green at the Travelers.

Up there in Connecticut. Yeah, Connecticut's the worst. But now that we're talking about it, it's probably one of the better protests I've ever heard of when you think of efficiency and kind of actually working. Yeah, they're hanging their asses off of bridges. No TP. And just dumping, just dumping in there. Not even getting on their legs. They practice so much at their houses in the lead up to this event that they're actually able to not get any poop on their legs.

There is no run. This is fascinating. This is the most fascinating conversation I've ever been involved in on television. I swear to God. They all have an app where they're scheduling their dumps. People do tutorials like, hey, this is how you do it if you're on this bridge. And you know like Waze? You know the Waze app

that tells you if there's cops or an accident or something like that? They actually tell you where the high rocks are, so don't dump here because it'll hold up the poop. Exactly. We need the poop to get down into the water so that that shit can nestle and cook up some really cold eye. These French poopy protesters are really ahead of the game. These dumpers are truly magnificent. And I hope other protesters Follow suit so we just got people

Shitting all over the place They have designated areas too If you know you have a huge log You need to go to that one But if you know you're going to diarrhea And there's going to be some mud squirts You got to go over there What's the app called?

Poopopolis It's called WeWePP With two O's in between. What's that? They're not wiping. No, they don't want wipes. They're actually splashing. They're doing this.

Get all the remnants out of there. No poop left behind. That's what they said. Dingleberries are in there. I think that actually is one of the rules. Dingleberries required. Did anyone store it that actually is one of the rules. Dingleberries required. Yeah, exactly. Did anyone store it?

Did anyone dump it in a big trash compartment? They'd say Jean-Luc did that. People are at work. They can poop in Tupperware containers and then go dump it on their lunch break. Did someone come pick it up for you? Did someone come pick it up from your work and dump it in? Honestly, I don't know why we're the only ones talking about it. Me neither.

We just want our swimmers to swim. Is this oil? Is this no oil anymore? Clean up costs, I believe, for the Olympics. They already spent it all. I've watched the whole thing. They already spent so much money trying to clean this place. Well, AJ, protests don't always make sense, okay?

Like the Earth protester who kicked flowers. Yeah, what is that guy doing? That's on your team, pal. I don't know if anybody else here is, but the flowers are on your team. They also ruined the grass. They also ruined the grass. But why did the climate protesters run under the 18th green yesterday? Well, right there.

We don't know. And then he kicks flowers, Don. It's like, who's on your team? I think that guy was rogue, too. He wasn't wearing the same shirts as everybody else. I think he might have just been a drunk faggot. I'll get into this. I don't think he got his shirt off quick enough.

Poor Scotty Scheffler. Scotty Scheffler misses his... That guy with the mustache was the most pissed, most matter of fact. He was the most protest-looking guy ever. And this guy's like, I regret this. What did I sign up for? That was the guy that got bodied, got tackled, and may have broken a couple arms.

I didn't read this in the protest pamphlet that I'm going to get speared in half. He was moving slow already. Way to close ground. He might have started drinking throughout the day. Well, Akshay said that he was scared for his life. And honestly, you have no idea what these people have in their hands. Especially there.

There's no way you're able to detect everybody that's coming through a golf tournament. That's like on a football field whenever those protesters are running down with a flare on a sideline and some player took them out. Bobby Wagner. Yeah, Bobby Wagner. And people are like, didn't have to do that. It's like you don't know what the fuck that person has. That person literally just jumped over something onto

a field when everybody knows like, hey, we don't that's not how this goes. And then starts running with something, smoking at a group of people. It's like, you have no idea. And Akshay said, he's scared for his life. What if Akshay just sweeps him? That's what I'm saying. We need to teach him now. Tell Scotty. Let's teach Scotty how to tackle.

Can you imagine if Scotty just absolutely form tackles one of these people? Scotty tackles cops with his car. We know that. Steve was concerned he was going back to the jail. He was. Can you imagine poor Scottie? He's standing over a putt to win the tournament and all of a sudden here come the cops. He's like, what did I do

now? All he has to do is make that putt. He wins. Instead, he leaves it an inch outside. Tom Kim comes back and answers. Then first overtime hole 18 there. I mean, he sticks at six feet. Dude, he's insane. Six wins this year. Only guys from Tiger Woods would do that at number one. Yeah, he's a stud. 27 this year. Only guys from Tiger Woods would do that at number one. Yeah, he's a stud.

27 million plus in purses. To play golf. That's excluding a Nike sponsorship that I assume is gigantic. Yeah. And every other. Hopefully that has grown, too, with each win he has.

Hopefully he has incentives. He's must watch. But you do hear the people saying, well, a lot of live golfers not golfing on a weekend. It's like, I don't think it matters. Let's just watch what Scotty's scores are. Yeah, he's learning Nashville golfers not golfing on a weekend. It's like, I don't think it matters. Let's just watch what Scottie's scores are. Yeah, he's learning in Nashville this weekend

too. I don't know. Terrell Hatton was locked in with those drones. Could you imagine what Hatton would say if he had to golf next to Scottie Scheffler? I don't know. I would love it. This fucking guy just, the amount of talking Hatton does. The wind, the wind. He couldn't talk

because of the wind. Well, the drones got John Rahm double-crossing the water. Every fucking time in his fucking backswing, he's fucking drones. He loves it over there. He does. He's having a great time. Him talking about the drones making a sound in his backswing, and then it says golf but louder. Yeah.

And I sign up. I saw 600 million. I didn't fucking see this. You can wear shorts. Drones in my backswing? Yeah, I can wear shorts. I get 600 million. We're having this you can wear a show drones in my back yeah i can wear shorts i get 600 million we're having fun man think about this drone's been there turn this up what's the penalty yeah it's a double cross

incredible right on my backswing drones every time first mistake of the day first mistake since the opening hole yesterday For John Rahm Golf butt louder right there And DeChambeau is literally teeing off there The hole before going like this to the ground And then fucking driving the green On a 416 yard par 4

What a weapon And he left it like 12 feet from the pin Twice, two different holes With a 3 wood I think he drove a 400 yard Par 4 and then a 4-wood, I think he drove a 400-yard par 4, and then a 416. Yeah, he's awesome. He should be in poopy pairs.

He should be. But he can't. Spores! Hi. Hello, everybody. I'm the voice of WWE Michael Cole

On the back board right there That's AJ Hawk, Darius J. Butler is there One half of the hammer, Dan Cowboys Dan Diggs in the cowboy hat And the toxic table at Boston Corner And at Ty Schmidt, join me on this I just want to make sure Thank you guys, thank you very sure. Thank you, guys.

Thank you very much, guys. Thank you very much for promoting my stuff. I appreciate you guys. Shut the fuck up. Whoa. Been wanting to do that for a long time. He's Michael Cole. Way to go. You got your merch now. been wanting to do that for a long time thank you for having me hey no congratulations on having merch thank you i might take it down now after that fucking charade why what are you are you talking about? Yeah, why? You could have just let it be.

It's appreciative. Well, no. Thank you, AJ. I was appreciative. No, it was one of those, look at me. Look at me. It wasn't smug. Yeah, it was.

Well, it wasn't smug at all. You're a dick, by the way. And it was just me showing the appreciation to this show for what you've helped me accomplish in my career. Which is? So, if you don't want that, fuck you. No problem, Michael Cole. No problem at all. No problem at all.

That's not the first time you've said, fuck you to somebody on air. Remember, you were hosting a talk show. Somebody called in. On the Howard Stern channel. Yeah, and this guy calls in and says something about Cole, and he goes off on, but what are you doing?

You're calling into my show that I'm hosting. Fuck you, like Cole. You can get it on, what are you doing? You're calling into my show that I'm hosting. Fuck you, Cole. You can get it on find it if you Google it. Cole, let's talk about your career though. For 25 years, I don't know how many years, you were kind of a heel voice of the WWE, not liked

by the WWE universe. Now, Michael Cole is over, baby. We're not the only people that own that merch. You're acting like we're the only ones that have that. That's not true. There's a lot of people with Michael Cole merch. Michael Cole is over, baby. We're not the only people that own that merch. You're acting like we're the only ones that have that. That's not true. There's a lot of people with Michael Cole merch. Michael Cole is over, baby. I hope so. Well, thank you. I mean, it's been a long road. I think it's one of those things where

if you last long enough, people There we go. Way to go. Hey, stick with it. If you stand the test of time, people respect you. It was tough. You've got to remember, when I came into the company, I'd come from CBS News.

I was a wrestling fan but knew nothing about this business. And as you're aware, it is a tough business to learn. It's a tough business to be a commentator for. And I also had to replace probably the greatest of all time in Jim Ross. And, you know, it was a tough position to be in right out of the box. And somehow I persevered and got through it. Atta baby Cole! It's an honor to be your tag team partner every single Monday night on Raw.

Tonight, 8 o'clock Eastern on USA Network. Chad Gable's back, AJ. Did you hear? I heard Triple H talk about that. I mean, someone get a DNA check on that guy. They had to clone him. They had to do something. He was dead. Okay, so you believe the Connor conspiracy, which is that Chad Gable, there's no way. Look at that guy.

He's not all... That guy's alive? He's wrestling tonight. Yeah. We'll see. Yeah, I'll be tuned in. He's in a triple threat match to determine who's going to qualify for Money in the Bank. Really?

Yeah, triple threat. We're all learning that at the same time. Against Bronson Reed, Chad Gable, and Big Reed. And? Chucker. That big son of a bitch, Braun Strowman. Yes. So we got Braun, Bronson Reed, and back from the dead, Chad Gable.

Wow. To qualify for Money in the Bank. Yes. It's a heavy battle. Wow. This guy potentially goes from a hearse to a potential Money in the Bank briefcase. Yeah. What a come up for Chad Gable.

That's wild. Incredible. And did you see, I don't know if you saw, AJ, Foxy's been doing all this stuff to put himself out there. No, no. Just like cold it. I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's Foxy.

I'm not sure. I'm still, I don't know. I'm not sure what's happening. It could be the oil people. It could be, I don't know. Foxy had a little panic in his eyes earlier. Yeah, it's not me. I about had a heart attack every time this has happened so far.

Anytime the show freezes, I lose my mind. And then you guys are blaming me, of course. I mean, maybe. Oh, sorry. Woe is me. Well, yeah, I don't lie to you guys. That's the biggest thing. Well, Foxy, we do believe you have been an honorable,

truth-telling person to us through this entire thing. But last week, you started lying to us when this whole thing happened. This week, you're lying to us. I mean, it's just a never-ending tale of lies as of late, but anybody can get out of that. Let's move along here. How about the massive, massive, massive news?

You know who's going to be banging the drum tonight for Game 7 down in Sunrise, Florida for the Florida Panthers? Everybody knows that the big-ass drum down there is the pregame routine for the Florida Panthers. Now, they didn't always have this as their pregame show, but since they've added it in there now, we've got back-to-back

years of Stanley Cup finals appearances. Will they be the first team since 1942 to trick off a 3-0 series lead and lose the Stanley Cup? Or will they win tonight at home and bring the first Stanley Cup to South Florida for the Florida Panthers Darius J Butler obviously massive Florida Panther

fan from down there in South Florida did you see who's banging the drum D Butch I heard I don't know if it's confirmed yet it's confirmed Roberto Luongo former goalie for the Florida Panthers. We'll be in the building tonight, swinging the hammer, beating the drum. We thought maybe Dan Marino would be a part of this entire thing. Maybe Mike McDaniel would get back in there. Maybe Tua. Maybe Hawk

and Tua get down there and bang the drum, but instead it's Roberto Luongo, Florida Panther legend. And Connor, obviously Luongo's been a goalie a long time in the NFL. You don't look. You don't look. Look, I think this is science delivered. The Edmonton Oilers are your Stanley Cup champions.

I think this is kind of it. I was telling D-Butt, you know, this is probably the worst decision any organization has ever made in the history of pregame festivities. Roberto Luongo, I believe the only Game 7 in the Stanley Cup Finals that he played in. He was goalie for the Vancouver Canucks, and they were playing the Boston Bruins. And he laid an egg in the Bruins 1-4-1 against the Canucks. And a lot of people say that the whole reason Vancouver burned down that night was because of Roberto Luongo. So I'm not sure if that is.

You make the documentaries about it. Exactly. So I'm not sure if that is a little telltale sign. Maybe this is trying to reverse fortune for Luongo and Vancouver. Oh, yeah, I didn't even think about that. Yeah, that's Canada. You know, we're in America, South Florida. So America versus Canada.

He was a Florida Panther legend, obviously. Absolutely. That's why he's banging the drum, D-Bug. He's a Canadian. When you guys see Florida Panther Roberto Luongo around town, you guys all buy him drinks? You're all super pumped and know him? Oh, yeah, absolutely.

He can't walk around South Florida. But he will be on the drum tonight. What is he doing now, Robert? As long as we got some youth and energy on that drum tonight, get the momentum flowing early before that puck even drops in that building. I'm excited about it. I just learned. For who?

Who else should it have been, Ty? I mean, you fucking bring the Hulkster out there. Is he a Panthers fan? Okay, I don't care if he's a Panthers fan. We got karaoke. Monday, that's a big night at Hogan's Hangout. I don't think he's missing it, brother. No, we don't need to miss it.

He goes in, he bangs the drum, and then he obviously pilots a helicopter back to Hogan's hangout and does it. And he could have even done the bit. He could have, you know, like, Welcome to the Pontiac Silverdome, brothers. He could have done that before the game, and then they're set. They're set. He bangs the shit out of that thing.

Maybe he does a leg drop through it, and then guess what? The Panthers are winning tonight 8-0. And he's even doing the full wall. Cue the music, dude. Now, I am a real American. Taking on Canada? Exactly. I mean, it just eroded itself.

Like leg dropping the drum. It's the last game. They don't need the drum. So he could put somebody through the drum. Take's the last game. They don't need the drum. So he could put somebody through the drum. Take it down, brother. Now, I believe Luongo, which is good news, I think. This doesn't feel like this was just

a last-ditch pick or anything like that. I think he works in the front office of the Panthers. That's even worse. Was he the goalie before Bob got there, too? Yeah, he was. He's won two gold medals for Canada.

So he's got some big game chops. But Connor is right. He did lose that game seven. This does feel like they had other lines in the water. Like maybe two Hulk Hogan. Maybe two Dan Marino. Maybe two Tua. Maybe two McDaniel.

And then front office, we got, remember, we always got Longo literally sitting in an office right down here if we ever need it. And they said, Game 7? Stanley Cup Final at home? You know what we need. Get out from behind the desk. Bill Zito told them, get the fuck out there and bang that drum. Hey, Bill Zito's been very

intense in his suites. That's who should be banging the drum. Bill Zito. With his water bottle. What's he going to do if they lose tonight? He's going to murder like 15 people probably. I don't know. Have you seen this Bill Zito? He's an intense character. Right there, he's crazy.

Well, they blew a 3-0 lead. I mean, what do you expect? Yeah, I mean, he's not happy. And then there's another one where the Edmonton Oilers... Fuck! You actually hear him say it right there. And then the Edmonton Oilers. Fuck! You actually hear him say it right there. Yeah, that's awesome. And then the Edmonton Oilers fan taking a selfie with him and the rest of the crew. Yeah.

I mean, it's been a real scene. The Florida Panthers have looked like a different team. This is bad, man. They've shelled themselves. They've got to score first. Van Beesbrook probably would have been the only other option. Who's that? Van Beesbrook.

The other Florida Panthers. What about Ruud van Nistelrooy? Maybe you get Ruud van Nistelrooy. Oh, that's my guy. I want him to throw out a first pitch in a Mets game. Okay, well, the Mets could use anything. And as long as Ruud van Nistelrooy is not cheating, I think the Mets will be happy to hear that he's pitching for them.

But Ruud van Nistelrooy, who's a soccer legend from Holland back in the day, used to score goals all the time. Used to just be parked up front, scoring goals. How you doing? Keep it moving. Was allegedly going to be the head coach for Burnley, J.J. Watson. Yes, parked up front scoring goals. How you doing? Keep it moving. Was allegedly going to be the head coach for Burnley, J.J. Watson. Yes, let's go. Congratulations.

But I think he's going to take an assistant coaching job elsewhere, actually. Yeah, J.J. had landed an icon plane into Burnley in the championship league with Ruud van Nistelrooy as the head coach. And then that plane took right back off and said, I'll park at a different FBO in a smaller plane actually to be here instead of be at Burnley in the Championship League with Ruud van Nistelrooy as the head coach. That plane took right back off and said,

I'll park at a different FBO in a smaller plane to be here instead of be at Burnley. Which is a damn shame. This Burnley team could be stuck in what has been described as the black hole of soccer forever, which is the Championship League over there in England. I'm a Preston fan. Who's that?

Preston. Preston North End? Exactly, because Wade Barrett is. There was a rumor going around that Wade and I were actually going to buy the club this spring. You should. I don't think you should buy many of these teams. I'm watching JJ do it, and it's seemingly going the wrong way. You know, they say, like, stock arrow up or down. In soccer, it actually happens.

The team just goes down. Like, it actually just, yep, moves down. Different graph. And any time it's shown, it's like down. Like it actually has the stuff. Well, you need to buy a championship team, right, that gets promoted. Isn't that what everyone wants? Yeah, but the problem in soccer is if you're promoted,

you go up for one year, and chances are you're probably going to get demoted again the next year. It's just this yo-yo cycle that these teams play for so many years. Yeah, but not Burnley, right? JJ Watt's going to live over there the full season next year. He already got demoted or relegated. Yeah, but what'sley, right? J.J. Watt's going to live over there the full season. He already got demoted. Or relegated. Yeah, but what's that?

You might have to coach the team now. That is the worry. There hasn't been any other coaches linked to Burnley except Rude. Smart play by Rude here because Ten Hag is on the hot seat. He gets canned. Rude, head coach, a man new. Sure. Your phone's not ringing, coach?

Yeah, what's the deal? You told me you're Burnley. I pulled out. Yeah, I'm not answering that call. It is official. Yeah, I'm happy where I am. Coach Gumpy of Concava SC has withdrawn his name from the Burnley coaching search. Damn.

Wow. Holy shit. This guy can't hire anybody. Can't hire Rude Van Nisaroy. Nope. He can't hire Gump. It's all right. Up the clearance.

That's right. They're going down. No Nisselrooy. They can't hire Gump. It's all right. Up the Clarence. That's right. They're going down. No, they're going up. I got faith. JJ's living over there the full season. You know, this year when he lived over there.

Coach K. Take a different angle. Get Coach K or one of these legends that retired. Yeah, that Ted Lasso guy. Yeah, bingo. Michael Polito.

They need to hire J-Sud. Yeah. Why not? They could. And then if you hire Jason Sudeikis, here we go. Field an entire celebrity all-star team.

You know what I mean? Now we're selling tickets. It's a spectacle. Yep. Yeah. Do you have any chance of being promoted back to the big leagues? You never know. Maybe the celebrities get hot and they find something.

Taller and goal. Maybe taller just starts standing on his head. Listen, we're pulling for JJ, but we've talked to him the entire season of him being an owner of the team, and every time we just go, what's going on, bud? What's going on? But the story will be even better when this Burnley team loses a coach, was signed, loses a coach, and oh, we got a new coach, gone.

Whoever they hire is going to take the boys back up. Give me the right one. Way to go, JJ. Oh, yeah, JJ. Good luck, Watt. They're so fucked. He should buy a different team in the fifth league. He loves that team, man.

He really does. He's fully committed. He's Burnley through and through, man. He almost, I mean, down at TST, he almost fought somebody for you. He loves that Burnley team. Like, four-shoot, all-in on the Burnley team. I think he needs to be more hands-on. You know how they say some owners are too hands-on and everything like that?

I think he needs to get in there more. Because we were talking about the coaching hire, and we're like, how's it going? He's like, well, the Burnley staff are going to search and find this whole thing. It's like, why aren't you? JJ, you know what it takes to be a good leader. You might not know the X's and O's. Have somebody else in the room that can explain that, but at least get in the room and feel the aura.

I think JJ needs to do more because of how much he loves Burnley, how much he's invested in Burnley, what he sees the future of Burnley. I think he needs to do more over there. Speaking of owners that do a lot, Jerry Jones, him and Mike McCarthy, don't like each other. Ty Dunn is reporting that front office people are saying

that these two, yeah, who knows? Mike McCarthy sick of the song and the dance. Now, what is real, what is not, we have no idea. We do know that Mike McCarthy is going into his final year of his contract and this past year they were ready. They were at home playoffs.

They did it all and then in the playoffs they shit the bed loose to the Houston Tech, or Cleveland Browns, sorry, with Green Bay Packers. Jordan Love goes in there and propels himself into a conversation if they got another guy. But Mike McCarthy now, is he at

the point where he doesn't care? Listen, we're going to go. I'm on my last year. If we win a Super Bowl, I'll be happy. I'll get another deal. If we don't, seems like I'm done. Is that how big Mike's mind is right now, regardless of what reports we get from whoever and whatever side they see it? Because I'm sure there could be a story written from the other side where they saw Jerry and Mike having breakfast the other day and they dapped each other up and seemed to be on the same side. Anytime you get behind-the-scenes stuff from one person's point of view, it could be the complete opposite from another point of view.

It's just the way the world actually is. And what Ty's reporting could be very real, especially because Mike's in his last year of his contract, and we know how Jerry operates. Jerry's giving tours of the facility while guys are trying to practice and work out and do meetings. It's a different place down there. How do you think Big Mike is viewing this year, A.J. Hawk, going in?

I mean, I don't know exactly what his relationship is like with Jerry, but you can imagine being in Dallas, there's a lot of pressure to win and win Super Bowls, and that's all they ever care about, and they haven't done that. So, yeah, of course there's going to be – Big Mike knows the situation he's in, but I think it could free him up a little bit. He knows – not because – I'm not saying his relationship with Jerry, but last year of his deal, he's like, hey, this is kind of house money.

I can go and do my thing and kind of just not worry about any of the things you might worry about earlier as a head coach, I think, in your career. So sometimes that can free people up. You know, as a player, when you just let go of everything, I don't care what happens. Like, I hate everybody. I'm against, like, if you feel like you are getting screwed or something, a lot of times you play your best ball when that's the case.

So maybe as a coach, that could free him up. As long as you keep the distractions out and are able to focus. Some people let it all kind of affect everything, but it can go two different ways, especially for Mike McCarthy. Pittsburgh guy, I think he's probably got a good bit of spite in there, if I had to guess. Just if I did, as a Pittsburgh guy, I assume there is some level of… A big motivator.

That's a big motivator, honestly. Yeah, for some people it certainly can be, and I assume Big Mike is utilizing it as that. As a Jets fan, who is a team that's talked about, you know, ah, going to be good. Cowboys, same thing, ah, going to be good. Michael Cole, you live in Texas full-time. People really think Cowboys are going to win Super Bowl every single year.

Every single year. It's incredible. The entire state, unless you live in the little Houston area, no one talks about the Texans. Little Houston. Houston's fifth largest city in the United States. You know what I Houston area, no one talks about the Texans. Whoa. Houston's fifth largest city in the United States. You know what I'm saying. No one talks about the Texans. They all talk about the Cowboys everywhere across the entire state. If you do not win the Super Bowl, forget about it.

It's time to move on. Who's better, the Jets or the Cowboys, when this year is all said and done? Cowboys. Wow. Okay, so that means everybody's fired over at the Jets game. That's what you think. Listen, I have 50 years of torture. I just can't.

As much as I want to believe in Aaron, as much as I want to believe in this team and the offensive weapons and the defensive weapons, I just cannot. I can't do it. D-Bo, what's that all about? I mean, 50 years is a long time. I'm sucking. It's a long time. But you said you weren't going to jinx it, though. No, I'm not.

So that's why I'm not going to jinx it. I'm going to go in with an open mind. No, don't sound like it. But I have that feeling deep inx it. I'm going to go in with an open mind. No, not necessarily. But I have that feeling deep in my pit that something's going on. Who has a better chance, the Jets or the Browns? The Browns. Jets or the Colts? Colts.

Okay. Jets or the Steelers? No, honestly, in all kidding aside, listen, if Aaron's healthy and the defense is good, they could go a long way. It's just been 50 years of disappointment, guys. I mean, you've got to. Last year, too, was supposed to be the year. Yeah.

It was supposed to be the one. I was sitting at ringside that Monday night calling Monday Night Raw with the game on my phone. And it happened, and I couldn't believe it. I was, like, in complete shock. Oh, my gosh. I would have loved to hear you during that commercial break. Oh, my gosh.

That next one afterwards? Oh, I bet you that was historic rant out of you. Oh, it was. About the New York Jets. That's right there. Wade was actually sitting next to me. Then we actually, as Raw ended, we actually went to, I think, to grab a beer somewhere at Hooters or something,

and we watched the end of the game, and if they actually won. Yeah, Xavier Gibson. Yeah, my turn. And we were like, oh, my God, this could be, you know, this could be the end of the game, and if they actually won. Yeah, Xavier Gibson. Yeah, I'm going to turn. And we were like, oh, my God, this could be the most amazing thing to ever happen to Zach Wilson. And then, of course. Well, it was supposed to be. If Zach gets a chance to watch Aaron for a full season,

and Aaron's success, full. I don't know. You said earlier, I don't know if anybody can help that kid, is what you said about him. He's a sweet boy. He's a very, very sweet boy. Speaking of sweet boys, Jalen Brown, sweet boy,

lost his ring. Can anybody find it? He took to the internet saying, hey, anybody that was at the parade, you know, there's like a million people. If anybody got my pinky ring, can we please talk about it? It wasn't his obvious championship ring because they haven't received that yet, but he did have a pinky ring that was lost during the parade, so

if you keep an eye out in the streets of Boston, that would be great. Conman, obviously from the area. What is the likelihood of some Bostonian finding this particular pinky ring and returning it to the owner? I think pretty high. They say needle in a haystack. No. No. No, because haystack is like a confined area.

This is actually an entire city. So I think it's a little different area. But that's a nice pinky ring. I hope he gets back on his hand. Yeah, yeah. I hope actually an entire city. I think it's a little different area, but that's a nice pinky ring. I hope he gets back on his hand. I hope he does, too. The odds of it being found, 100%, they will be found. The odds of it being returned, 0%. Everyone knows, hey look, Jalen.

This was incredible. That will be kept. That will be a family heirloom for the next 200 years. They can make so much money, though. He did say cash reward. It's going to be a lot. Perhaps. Perhaps. You hold on to that.

You know what I'm worried about? Street sweeper. And I'm not talking about, like, an automatic weapon. I'm talking about actual street sweepers. Yes. Just into the sewer. And then that thing is gone. Yeah.

Huge. And it's so cool. It's sick. That is a very cool pinky ring. I mean, a very, very cool pinky ring. Yeah. I mean, he'll buy it. You think somebody found it?

Oh, yeah. The sun hit that thing, I think pinky ring. Yeah, I mean, he'll buy it. You think somebody found it? Oh, yeah. The sun hit that thing, I think. What the hell is that? Yeah, somebody found that before that parade was over. Okay. No doubt about it. I actually think that, too. I think someone's holding onto this thing like, holy shit, I have Jalen Brown's fucking pinky ring.

I'm never letting this thing go. And now they're trying to figure out, like, I give it back, good story. Yeah, and I also probably get to meet Jalen Brown, get a signed jersey, all that cool shit. Tickets, hey, let's think here, cuz. Tickets, yeah. Let's get tickets. Do they take his money if you give him a cash reward? Oh yeah, no doubt. I think you take the cash

reward for sure, and it's cash, which is good for tax purposes, not that I'm trying to dry snitch on anybody, but I like that Jalen Brown offered up cash reward, which is very nice, but also, cuz, if you got that ring, it seems like he really likes it. You know, we got an angle here. Don't do the Tom Brady thing. We just kind of hand it back, get a signed autograph, and then keep it moving.

Could have got tickets forever probably down there for the Buccaneers. Oh, yeah. With that ball that the person had. So let's be smart here about this pinky ring. Let's not, hey, you're still a good person. Jalen Brown's done a lot for the city, but I feel like you can maybe get tickets to a game or two. Yeah, but if it's like a $500,000 cash reward or dinner with Jay-Z,

you take the dinner with Jay-Z, okay? Let's not be stupid here. Yeah, Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum. That is always a thing, isn't it? It's so stupid. What are you taking? The cash. Amen.

What? $500,000? Yeah. Dude. You're going to be able to earn a billion dollars with what you learned over that fourth course of that seven course. You're right. It's called wealth. Might really wow him, too.

And be like his next business partner. Be like, hey, you want to buy the Nets with me? I'll pay for everything. You can just be 50% older. You never know. Yeah, because you got a full performance at dinner with Jay-Z now. Exactly. I know my capabilities.

I'm not capable of that. All you need is $501,000 from him to make that thing worth it. How about a dinner and somehow an investment of $501,000 from Jay-Z? Now we did the whole thing. Exactly. How come we're always figuring these things out? Who would you take to dinner? Nobody.

Steve Jobs. Jesus Christ. Not even. What? There's no one on the planet. 500K tax-free? Nobody. Steve Jobs. Jesus Christ. Not even. What? There's no one on the planet. Tax-free? No one on the planet. Well. Russell Wilson. No one on the planet.

Seven. Ben Roethlisberger. Not even close. Bill Carr and Mike Tomlin. 500K. Give it to me. The Roonies. I can't wait to go spend 10 bucks on dinner tonight and then I'm on my way alright well now that we know that

we know that Tundig's is taking the cash give me the up front money now okay I'm not caring about long term you win a lottery you're taking the cash yeah yeah up front yeah everybody says you're supposed to do that

because tax purposes and everything I think it'd be pretty cool just get paid for the next 60 years of your life it would be that would be neat that would be pretty cool if you live that long obviously true that would be what you're banking on do you get to pass that off i would hope yeah i would that's different then because if you get to pass it off then i might change my mind but then you become a target to whoever it's being passed off to oh secession whoa good call aj how

was the weekend for the Hawks? Did you watch a lot of sports on this weekend? A lot of sports. You know what? Honestly, I watched a good chunk of that USA-Bolivia game, and I feel like they weren't giving this Bolivia goalie enough credit. That dude stood on his head for the last 30 minutes of that game. That dude was making all kinds of saves.

He gives up a goal two minutes in, too. I mean, that's not easy to necessarily bounce back from. United States, Captain America. Sorry, but all I heard watching all the post-game stuff was they said Bolivia is like the worst soccer team ever to live in. No. Pretty much. So I was getting texts from my friends that were on Concava, and they're like, don't judge this team off the Red Cones. And I'm like, this is the best team in the world.

It's a formidable side, yeah. Yeah, you think Bolivia just didn't put a good team on the field? Yeah, right. Basically invented soccer. Bingo. They say Copa. What a goal. There's like four of the ten best players in the world on our team.

Their goalie being one of them. So we just beat a shitty-ass team? No, no, no. They need to sell it a little harder for us. The Bolivia team hasn't won in like 45 games in this tournament. What? I don't think that's a real stat. They haven't lost in 45.

Was that Grock? Was that Grock that was saying that? No, it was Alexi Lawless and the crew. Oh, Alexi Lawless. That guy's always pissed off about everything. It was our first game in Copa. Obviously, down there in Jerry World, we had to put on a show. We got 2-0.

We don't want to give away all our tricks. This goalie, you say, stood on his head. That seems to be one that he should have got. But anyways, that was at 44 minutes into the game. Well, they got that tough Panama team coming up next. What's your problem? Panama actually did look good against Uruguay last night. That'll be a good game.

Uruguay's a good team. Yeah, they're real good. Filthy goal from Panama. Uruguay is sick. They're good. They're a tough side. Uruguay is sick. They're good. They're a tough side. How much of a U.S. game did you watch? Oh, man, I watched the whole thing.

I sat there. I was on a plane yesterday flying into Indianapolis, had it right there, watching the whole thing. People were looking at me like, you watch this stuff? I said, oh, hell yeah, every minute. USA's going to win the World Cup. I know one player on the team. What's his name?

Pulisic. Oh, my God. Christian Pulisic. Pulisic. And I know he did really good this year because he played in Milan. Yeah. And he had a really good year. There you go.

You get it. They are the only guy I'd have any clue on the team. But that's all you need to know. He scored two minutes into the game. He's the guy who scored. And had an assist. And he scored in the last friendly against Brazil on a free kick. Like, very game. He's the guy who scored. And had an assist. And he scored in the last friendly against Brazil on a free kick.

He's coming into full form. He's coming into Captain America form. So this thing they're playing in right now. Matters. It matters. It's Copa America. There's tournaments every weekend, Cole. So this is just as big as the Euros? Bingo. Bigger. It's bigger.

I wouldn't go that far. It goes Copa. Yeah. It goes Copa, then the World Cup. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no. It goes Conceifa. Sorry. TST.

Copa. Oh, yeah, yeah. Sorry, sorry. TST, Conceifa, Copa, World Cup, Euro. MLS Cup. El Trafico. She believes. Don't forget about the she believes.

And then there is the Euros. So you start doing the math there. Good six, seven stages above the Euros. Oh, really? Okay. I was in Scotland a couple weeks ago, and I found this pub literally in a cornfield outside of Edinburgh. And I walked in because I just wanted to have a beer and eat some food, right?

And I walk in, and it's mobbed. There's 300 people in there. And I had to get this little seat in the corner of the bar like this, and I couldn't understand anything. They had, apparently it was like, sorry, apparently it was like the biggest soccer game Scotland's had like in 200 years. Yeah, they're playing Germany to kick off the Euros. Host country, Germany

hosted Scotland. They were excited. It was so much fun. The atmosphere was great. Pounding beers. People were going crazy for about eight minutes. And then everybody left. What? It was like two-nothing in like 15 minutes. Tough draw. Germany's a host

country too. Scotland had a tough draw. But if we know anything about Scots, they drank, and they're tough, and they'll bounce back. Just like Drew McIntyre, who quit last week, and he was back on Friday. I thought he quit. I was so bummed out. We're all bummed out. You weren't bummed out enough. No, not at all.

He's a hypocrite. What do you mean? And by the way, he embarrassed me on your program, and you allowed him to do it and didn't defend me either. No, I allow my guests to speak freely. It's actually caused a lot of problems for us. Yeah, but you didn't defend me at all. Well, that's his opinion. He's allowed to have his opinion. People talk.

Well, I got a text message from Zito while I was on an airplane when that happened and it said, you should hear what Drew McIntyre is saying about you. So then I went on social media and I saw it and there was absolutely no defense from you at all. Journalism, I'm letting a person speak his mind. We would like to learn

the opinions of our guests. That's what we do here. We are hospitable. But journalists are supposed to balance. They're supposed to balance what happens. Well, I was balanced one way and then he laid out his side. I'm like, alright, that's a valid case. How many journalists are talking to a Scottish psychopath? Warrior. Well, I know, but are talking to a Scottish psychopath? Warrior.

Well, I know, but he's also a Scottish psychopath. We saw him Friday. Man, psychopath. Push him too far. But he wouldn't say he's a psychopath. No, no, he's actually quite calculated, quite cerebral. But, I mean, CM Punk fucked around and found out. Push him too far. In Chicago.

Yeah. Not one, not two. Is Drew McIntyre going to be in Indianapolis here tonight? I heard rumors that he may be But I don't know for sure I hope not He was in trouble He was a sack of bones Unfortunately people did see him drive

He drove out He went to the hospital first Then he came back because he had to get his car He couldn't leave it in the parking lot That's a good point Is Rick Shea still in the hospital I don't know. I have not gotten an update. I haven't gotten an update either.

Okay, that's not good. Not a life support thing. They might have flipped. Cole knows something. Yeah, he does, doesn't he? Look at his face. He knows something. I said on the air, we may never see the guy again. No! I don't know how bad the injuries are. What happens if you run into Breaker? Yeah, Bron Breaker's a problem.

I mean, Bron Breaker is... He'll be in action tonight. Wait till you see this guy in action. Oh, wait till you run into Breaker? Yeah, Bron Breaker's a problem. He'll be in action tonight. Wait until you see this guy in action. Oh, wait until you see Bron Breaker. They might have put Ricochet's brain in Chad Gable's body. Now the conspiracy. Could you imagine? Wait to see those moves tonight. Alright, let's get the hell out of here. Big night tonight. Game 3 of the College World Series.

First pitch, 7pm Eastern on ESPN. Game 7 of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals, 8 p.m. Eastern on ABC. And Monday Night Raw, live from Indianapolis. Indianapolis! 8 p.m. Eastern on USA Network. It's a packed evening, AJ. We'll be back tomorrow to talk about all of it.

You all are the greatest people on earth. Thank you so much for allowing us to do this. Michael Cole, great work today. Thank you. Mr. H, thank you for stopping by, Mr. H. Thank you, Mr. H. Good to see you guys. DK, Saban, where you go? Ryan McGee,

hell yeah. Tonight should be awesome. Let's enjoy all of it, okay? Because we're coming up on a time here where there isn't going to be as much shit to watch that matters. So let's enjoy this. Let's enjoy all of it, okay? Because we're coming up on a time here where there isn't going to be as much shit to watch that matters. So let's enjoy this. Let's appreciate this. And let's remember, any day you're above ground is a good one.

Never forget it. Hey, be a friend. Tell a friend something nice.