The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1159 - WE'RE BACK With Adam Schefter, Shams Charania, Jeff Passan, Dana White, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

On today’s show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys are back from their 2 week vacation recapping everything that happened during their break while also looking ahead to some of the things on the sports calendar that are right around the corner, while being joined by four great guests. First, ESPN Senior NFL Insider, Adam Schefter joins the show to update us on everything we may have missed in the NFL during the last two weeks (16:19-41:34), then NBA Insider for Stadium and The Athletic, Shams Charania joins the show to chat about Team USA Basketball, how Klay Thompson wound up in Dallas, and early reviews of Bronny James in Summer League (49:40-56:43). In the 2nd Hour, ESPN MLB Insider, Jeff Passan joins the show to chat about tonight’s Home Run Derby, the magic of Paul Skenes in Pittsburgh, and if he can keep up this incredible start (1:11:39-1:27:37). Lastly, the President of the UFC, Dana White joins the show to chat about Michael Chandler vs. Connor McGregor, the upcoming UFC card at the Sphere on Mexican Independence Day, and what he’s heard from President Trump in the aftermath of his assassination attempt (1:31:56-1:47:27). 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’re off for the next couple of weeks. Enjoy the 4th, we’ll see you soon. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome back to our humble abode, the Thunderdome, on this Magic Monday, July 15th, 2024. This program starts right now! Ooh, no sports, y'all. What's that all about? How many more changes is there going to be? Is this show completely sold out after a two-week break? I don't think so. What we do know is that we are waiting on football to yell about, and to be excited about, and to get anxious about. And there's already teams reporting. Rookies have already gone into buildings to try to learn what they're going to have to learn to be the team of the NFL to hopefully live their entire dream. And then just in a couple days, Houston Texans are reporting training camp.

Wow. We are just two days away from the NFL season kicking off officially down in Houston with other teams joining them. And Adam Schefter will join us in about 15 minutes to keep us updated on everything that happened over the last two weeks or so. Speaking of the last two weeks, we had a nice break. We had a good time. Our air conditioning stopped working in the Thunderdome, but life is amazing. We hope the same for you. We missed doing this every day.

I hope you missed us a little bit, but also I'm sure it was nice to get away from the Stooges. You know, we are a dumb group of men who get a chance to chat about sports every single day, and we've certainly caused some controversy over the last few years but whenever we're away we can't help but wonder what life would be like if we'd be talking about sports so we are zipped up to be all the way back into this entire run all the way through football season here we go and then all the way through super bowl and then all the way into the nba all- Game. And then we'll have a break then. But now is the time for us to chit-chat about a group of men sharing the stage with me.

The talk table is here at Boss of Conner and at Ty Schmidt. Conman, sweet shirt to get back into this thing. Yeah, thank you very much. This is the one that kind of went a little nuts when I first wore it. Everybody in the office loved it. And actually kind of huge news here. We are, in fact, doing our first show in front of live fans. We're pretty jacked up about it.

I don't know if anybody could see them but pretty cool we can end that countdown immediately. Z actually tending to them. I don't know if they need drinks. They were blowing right into your microphone. I tried to move them before the show so that they weren't but I heard it as well right off the bat. But hey, that's going to happen

after a two week break sometime. 115 degrees is supposed to get up with the humidity today oh my god 200 in here yeah shout out to our ac guy actually came to do a checkup on all the air conditioning last monday saw him whenever he was here all our air conditionings were working oh yeah completely fine everything's good just come and do a checkup and then all of a sudden hottest day of the year our first day back yeah they don't work anymore so So it's going to get hot in here, but you know what else is hot? Our sports tanks. That's right. Ty, how have you been?

How was the break? It was great. It was great. Didn't go anywhere. Spent a lot of time with my daughter, which was pretty sweet. Kind of just played with her for two weeks. But like you said, we get so into a routine, and I'm so used to being with you guys and being here that midway through, you kind just you don't know what to do with yourself like it's just like I mean I'm I was

waking up every day and I'm like she'd take a nap and I just like lay down and do nothing like wouldn't even watch tv is just like what the hell am I doing so I was I was very ecstatic to get back it feels good to be back here with you guys it does feel good to be back and you know the college uh football conferences are having their media days that's right saw Paul Feinbaum on tv this morning he was saying a bunch of shit that didn't really. And, you know, the college football conferences are having their media days. That's right. Saw Paul Feinbaum on TV this morning. He was saying a bunch of shit that didn't really matter. What did it sound like? So, basically, he was talking about how Nick Saban is no longer the head coach at Alabama this year, and he's actually never needed a credential

to get into the SEC media day. So he doesn't really know what to do with himself. But, obviously, a lot of hustle and bustle down there. Brent Venables and Oklahoma and obviously Steve Sarkeesian in Texas, new members of the Big 12, the SEC, obviously a little Freudian slip of the tongue there.

So yeah, there's a lot of excitement around college football in general today. Welcome to the Thunderdome, Paul Feinbaum. Heard you've been running your mouth. Sitting in the spot of one half of the hammer. Cowboys' Tone Diggs is a I heard you've been running your mouth. Sitting in the spot of one half of the hammer. Gone. Cowboys' Tony Diggs is a nine-year NFL vet, one of the smartest humans on earth.

Ladies and gentlemen, Darius J. Butler. Hey, buddy. D-Bot, it's great to see you, pal. How was the break? Hey, glad to be back. The break was awesome. Obviously, spending time with the kids. We actually took a road trip up to Georgia to see some family, spent some time with my

brother and his kids as well. Obviously, golf, you know, as much as I could. So the break has been great, but glad to be back. Glad to be back. Yeah, and as you can tell, South Florida boy there, he has a hoodie on. Of course. There's no air conditioning in this. 75 is freezing.

Well, George, a lot more chilly back there than it is right here. So second hour might make some. Yeah, things are getting hot in here, but lucky to be back, thankful to be back. A lot happened in sports. Yeah. And a lot of people are wondering, I think, like, where do we stand on things? Well, first things first, the United States soccer team sucks. Awful. I hate that.

It sucks. I hate... A lot of soccer has been happening. Congrats, Argentina! Yeah. And the people we saw. Don't cry for me, Argentina! Messi broke his ankle. He did. The MLS season's about to continue, and he's not going to be there.

Soccer's kind of riding high right now. We think, you know, Fox's coverage has obviously been something, but with the Euros and with Copa and no other sports really happening, Americans are kind of watching this entire thing. Messi's team was doing his thing. How about Spain? They've got a 17-year-old who's dominating soccer. It might be on the time.

The MLS is about to kick back in. Messi's not playing. That ankle was the size of a beach ball. It was. It was this big. Now, is Argentina the greatest soccer team, international soccer team to ever exist? Some people are saying yes. Some people are saying no. Some people think that might be Messi's last appearance wearing a blue and white. What I do know

is we got a couple years before the World Cup and our stadiums need to tighten up. They need to tighten up. I time. They need to tighten up. I saw humans from Colombia, I think. Maybe some Argentinians as well, but mostly yellow. I saw jumping over gates, scaling the stadium, climbing through vents, fighting cops. I mean, it was absolute mayhem in Miami last night for the Copa Finals. This game was supposed to start at like 7.30 or something. It but then 9.45 because they were trying to get people out of there.

There was escalators that had glass just absolutely broken and demolished. That is the Miami Dolphins Stadium after the Copa Final last night. That's only one shot of one area. Who knows what those vents are supposed to do? I mean, there's humans running in and out. And where's the other side of these vents? Where are they dropping into? And I do appreciate the fact

that these fans had this place scouted. They had this place scouted. They were looking at the blueprints. Where the hell can we get in? Where can we get out? They got a weakness right here. Think we can hop up over one of the terminal gates. Then we'll hop into a vent. Then we'll drop in. Boom! Right in the fucking neck.

We're playing for Argentina all of a sudden. It was a wild evening. Argentina gets a win. And I think we're still going to be seeing the effects of their fans taking over Miami. But this is an indicator, I think, of the Miami Dolphins' season next year. And D-Butts, I will let you kind of speak for yourself. I wouldn't go that far. But this is Columbia football, baby.

I mean, this is Miami. I live about an hour north of here, and as soon as I got on the highway, I saw Colombian flags, a lot of cars. It was a lot of energy down there. Miami, a lot of Argentina fans too as well, but obviously Columbia showed up. It was an authentic, very enthusiastic crowd out there. Great game. Obviously, you know, not a lot of scoring,

but came down to the final, you know, some extra time in that goal. I tried my best to stay awake. I tried my best. Come on. I was fighting it. I made it to the halftime of the overtime. Sure.

Which is 105 minutes of soccer. Almost there. I made it through. That's a lot. And then they do the little break ski thing, and I see Messi's dying out. He's crying. Messi was crying.

It was tough. Messi was crying his eyes. Tough scene. All right, let's keep it up. Let's keep's dying out. He's crying. Messi was crying. It was tough. Messi was crying. Let's keep it up. There he is. He's crying. Cristiano Ronaldo in the Euros when Portugal got a limit. Crying. These are the two goats crying. This is the end of an era potentially.

I was trying my best to stay awake. I fell asleep. They score a win five minutes after I fell asleep. Obviously, I didn't make it. That's soccer. I was trying to make it to the penalties, but instead they end it in overtime or extra time in Miami. Those Colombian fans that were climbing through the vents and breaking everything, went home bummed out, but what a tournament. Good time for soccer.

Gumpy, soccer had a great run for us over the last couple weeks as we were away. I know you were watching, obviously. Canada had a chance to have a go at it. United States sucks. Argentina wins again. What are your thoughts on the state of soccer, Gump? It was all unbelievable. Last night was a bit of a disaster, but it was kind of the change of the guard, as you were saying. The younger players kind of took over. Ronaldo didn't score in the tournament. Messi didn't score in the tournament, even though Argentina won. Harry Kane looked like he was playing in the mud most of the tournament. And yeah, Spain didn't score in the tournament, even though Argentina won. Harry Kane looked like he was playing in the mud most of the tournament. And, yeah, Spain didn't lose a game in the Euros.

It was great. Spain's got a 17-year-old who was 16 when this entire thing started. Michael Grella came on and told a fellow, Mike Grella, about this entire tournament. He said, this guy, phenomenal. Spain's going to win it, is what he said. They end up doing that. This guy might be the most talented soccer player on earth. He's 17 years old.

He was on the best team in the Euros. Now, granted, Copa is much better because it's this side of the pond. We all agree with that. And if the United States didn't suck so bad at soccer, so bad. We've been talking about how good we are. We've been bamboozled. Big time. Panama? Why are we so bad? Panama?

Well, that Berhalter son of a bitch. Our coach is a dick. Yeah. I mean, that guy sucks. The whole thing sucks. I don't like that. The Adam Gates of soccer. That's what people were saying I saw. There's a chance, isn't there? Mm-hmm.

Wide eyes. Weird press conference. Yeah. He's an odd character. He's been fired. Thanks for your service. I mean, we didn't say anything else there. Not really, though.

Yeah, not, yeah. Yeah, we didn't say anything else. Appreciate you though. Yeah, we didn't say anything. Appreciate you holding the title. But that 17 year old kid needs to be in the MLS tomorrow. I agree. Somebody needs to give him the entire team. Let him own a team. New England Revolution. Yamal? Yamal? Lamin Yamal.

Yamal. He is the great... Not the New England Revolution. Well, I think he did show a little after the Euro Championships that he won. I'm pretty sure he said in Spanish, so I don't know how it translates that he wanted to go and wear the red, white, and blue for New England. I don't know if that's exactly what he said. Speaking of red, white, and blue, a lot of people are talking about

Messi's last game as Argentina. Does that mean he's playing for America? I think so. I think it does. It kind of paves the way for him to win us the World Cup. And for people who have never watched our show, obviously we don't think Messi's going to play for the United States, but he is the balloon, the ore winner, and he plays in the MLS.

So it's our game now. We just hope that our soccer team can one day be great. Speaking of sports that we would normally never watch, it's hard to escape Alcaraz. Yeah, it is. It is. This son of a bitch is talented. It is.

He's, what, 20 years old? Just signed a $200 million deal with Nike. Just beat Joker for his second back-to-back Wimbledon win. And some of these shots that he was hitting early. Now, it went 6-2, 6-2. Then they had a little thing. Joker made a run at it whenever it was championship point. He couldn't find a serve to put it in there.

But he's just, like, so much better than seemingly everybody. And Joker's my guy. Joker took Stan a couple years back. Joker bought a medical facility so much better than seemingly everybody in Joker's my guy Joker took stand a couple years back Joker bought a medical facility so much he was so stubborn and took such a stand he actually bought a medical facility to prove that he was right now I'm sure he is doing a victory lap alongside a lot of other people that we potentially know that had the same stance as Joker a few years back but this like the passing of the torch in soccer it's passing a torch

here in tennis. And this Alcaraz guy, phenomenal. So much fun. And he seems to have like a joyful spirit, you know, a lot of ha-ha-ha-ha in his interviews afterwards. I don't even think he knows how good he is, which is a phenomenal thing to think about. I mean, it's unbelievable to see. 21 years old to have that poise. Like you said, another change of the guard.

But he's like watching Conor McDavid play hockey almost. Like regardless if you know what you're watching as far as the sport football basketball you know tennis in this case it's like okay this guy's doing some freaky shit he's special love to see especially the young guy pricey's got to do this for another what 20 years what's that movie where she bangs the bullet angelina jolie i wanted that's what this fucking face. That's what this guy is doing with this. There's some down-the-line shots where they got slow-mo on it, and he's shaping it around. And Joker's just watching it going like, I used to do that.

That used to be me. Now it's him. Congrats. This guy's worth a lot of money. He's only going to make more. That tennis crowd is something. Yeah, there is. Wimbledon especially.

Strawberries and cream crowd, as they say. Is that what they say? Yeah, because I saw the... That's their thing. That's like their pimento cheese at the Masters. Strawberries and cream. Looked really good. It's just that, if that's your go-to, you know? I don't know. Yeah, do you drink that? I'm not sure how it works, to be completely honest. Best served with a spoon, I think.

Great coverage by ESPN, though. Yeah, fantastic. The McEnroe's killed it. Yeah, with Fowler. Fowler, back to college football. Paul FeinbaumEnroe's killed it. With Fowler. Fowler back to college football. Paul Feinbaum, what are your thoughts on Chris Fowler? Chris Fowler is a consummate professional. He's one of the best in the business. If you've never met Chris Fowler, sit down with him.

That man can command a room. It doesn't matter if there's two people there. It doesn't matter if there's 20 people there. He will talk to each and every individual there and make you feel special in your own way. And, lest we forget, he is incredibly jacked. Incredibly jacked. He's hiking mountains. He's watching lions do each other in a safari in the offseason.

And then all of a sudden he shows up in a tiny booth in Wimbledon. Because Alcaraz went up to see his team and then walked past Joker's team and everything. And they saw where the booth... Have you seen the booth that they sit in? Yeah, very small. It's a hut. Yeah, he's basically... I mean, Fowler really is arms around the McEnroe's

living the dream. It's great to hear Fowler's voice back. So nice, yeah. And we're going to hear it more actually. 4 p.m. today! NCAA2K comes out! Congratulations to all the gamers. NCAA2K is back after a long, long hiatus.

Obviously, Kirk Herbstreet and the boys have their voice over it. Everybody's excited. There's been a lot of people that have been sampling it on the internet. We've seen a lot of clips. Jalen Milrow, seemingly unstoppable. He might be the next Pat White of these games. Pat White, Steve Slayton, obviously former teammates of mine. They were unstoppable in the original NCAA 2K.

In this one, it feels like Jalen Milrow, just from the highlights I've been watching, might be the guy. It all comes out at 4 o'clock. Good for everybody. That means football is right around the corner. It does. It does. It is here.

And one of the best players, Ollie Gordon, he will be playing in this game as well, which I'm pumped about. A thousand times. Three, four? I mean, I don't want to go into the science but i googled it his height his weight they said like three four beers and i thought to myself shit obviously driving intoxicated is not something to laugh at right but the way ollie gordon's head coach handled that entire situation is rather hysterical.

We have never heard a coach ever handle that type of situation. How am I going to punish him? Shit, he's going to get tackled 50. We're going to give him a ball 55 times. We'll see how he feels. Yeah, you're going to get tackled for what you did. Oli Gordon doesn't get tackled much. That's kind of the Oli Gordon thing.

And Coach Conde knew that. How am I going to punish him? Fucking feed him. Give him the rock. Now, hear me out. Hear me out. Three beers, two mixed drinks, especially if they've got a heavy hand. How many times?

You. I mean, come on. A thousand times? Shit, be honest. Hey, at least he's honest, you know? He needs to stop drunk driving. Hey, Coach Gundy. Coach Gundy, it's 2024. He needs to stop drunk driving. Hey, Coach Gundy. Coach Gundy, it's 2024.

Nobody needs to be doing that, obviously. Wait. That's something we got to ask now. I suppose maybe he is a little boozed up. Here's the deal. In 2024, there's way too many options for you to be drunk driving. So everybody needs to stop it. It's stupid. I've had friends that have passed away both from being drunk drivers

and from getting hit by drunk drivers. It is a very serious issue. For a head coach of a football team, though, to go, did he really do it? I talked to the cop. I thought he should have. He's only.1. That's a Heisman favorite going into the year.

I believe the odds moved up. I think Oklahoma State is now a favorite even more to me. Anyways, college football is very near, and Ollie Gordon is a monster. Yeah. We didn't start talking about him on game day until like week eight, week nine, I think. And his numbers were very comparable to Derrick Henry. And like basically every running back who has had a fantastic run, he was up there. It's like I can't wait to watch him again.

But everybody in football, the offseason's ending. Thank God. Because all these offseason things that happen, all the DUseason's ending. Thank God. Because all these offseason things that happen, all the DUIs, I mean, shit, there was a Rolls Royce past that. Yeah, Georgia. Georgia, everything that happens in the offseason is coming to an end. Thank God. Guys, lock it down. We are five weeks out from most football.

No more incidents. Let's get to the season. Let's move ahead. Joining us now is a man who probably has more information on everything than anybody else we could ever chat with. Senior NFL insider for ESPN. Host of the Adam Schefter

podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Schefter. Gentlemen, welcome back. You guys have nice breaks. I got burned a little bit, as you can see. I got bit by a spider, too. I i potentially uh got to hang out with the family yeah we had great break how about you how are you doing you working at all right now where where do you get bit by a spider yeah down an island too so those spiders i think have a little bit more sauce you know what i mean they got a little bit more sauce and i think i swallowed a few too sure nice good protein yep

anyways how have you been working or no? Always working. Obviously not crazy. It's been quiet. It's been slow. It's been nice, but you're always working. Of course, Pat. Okay, so, Shefty, you haven't been doing shit. Got it. You've been shaking hands, kissing babies. Tell me this, Shefty. You've been in the NFL now how long? 35 years.

Congratulations. Wow. Not for long is what the NFL stands for. Not for Shefter, though. NFS. Schefter's going to be around a long time. The Houston Texans, I believe, report the training camp in two days. Yeah. July 17th. Vets and rookies reporting at the same time.

I like that D'Amico's doing that because they've got a young team to begin with. We'll all report at the same time. Nobody gets any extra yada, yada, yada. Is this earlier than normal? This feels a lot earlier than it used to be is that kind of happening and how has this been how has this transition into becoming an earlier reporting time than maybe what it used to be it's a great question again i think we're starting the hall of fame game it's august 1st in canton uh that's crazy you had the ravens rookies report to training camp Saturday. You got eight more teams, rookies reporting tomorrow. And it does feel like it's moved up a little bit. Now, look, the bottom line

is these drills don't start until late July for the most part by the time these teams get into camp. But you know what? The league has put this emphasis on that kickoff Saturday drill or that television special that they now do like Saturday, July 27th. I'm in Bristol all day as we bounce around from training camp to training camp. They put it on ABC. They put it on ESPN. And so by that time, by Saturday, July 27th, everybody's in camp. There's a Hall of Fame game on Thursday, August 1st. And so the schedule is just getting moved up. Everything's moving quicker. And that's sort of how it's working right now. Again, you're right. The Texans become the first team

this week on Wednesday to have the entire squad in training camp. Even on Saturday, I'm looking down like, wait, wait, wait. The Ravens rookies report to camp today. They're in the building today. It just screams your summer's over.

Here we go with football again. Sorry, you're going to have to work again, Chef. James, the week screams your summer's over and here we go with football again yeah and chef sorry you're gonna have to work again chef james lowe screams your summer's up did you hear how we started the show we were so bummed we're so excited to be back yeah we're so we're getting antsy whenever we're on break shepherd's like i saw the ravens report i'm like already you know what it's like it's like the start of the school year. You're excited to get going. You want to be back with all your friends and see what's ahead. But you also know all the work that's involved. So there's that element that you understand.

Yeah, I completely understand. And also what we all forget, and we just got super excited about the Texans reporting, and we will give our Super Bowl predictions on the 17th. We'll give the Texans report because the season is officially starting. Already? Okay. On Wednesday. On Wednesday. Super Bowl predictions on Wednesday 17th. The Texans report because the season is officially starting. On Wednesday. Super Bowl predictions on Wednesday on this particular show. But Shefty, what we all realize, I think, whenever we get excited about training camp and these preseason games, boy, preseason

sucks. Now, it's great, obviously, for players and coaches and teams to find their people, but as fans, we're going to get so worked up for that Hall of Fame game, we're going to get so worked up for that Hall of Fame game, we're going to have nobody that's playing in those games. And then the first weekend of preseason games, we're going to know nothing. And then we're going to be so excited.

That second round of games is the worst shit ever. It's UFL times 100 almost. And then we'll kind of be creeping back in the seat. So let's hold our horses, but let's also get excited. Let's get incredibly excited. And the fact that football is back for us to chit-chat about is good news. But there was something mentioned by Joe Burrow, you know, on Pardon My Take, who obviously we're massive fans of Big Cat and PFT.

And I don't know if Joe created it or potentially had heard it for a few years, but he said 18-game season, if that's going to happen, which we all assume is going to take place, immediately upon the 17th game being added. I think most people who had microphones at the time were like, this is definitely going to get to 18 games. And then add another bye week. Let's go two bye weeks, Joey B. Pitch.

Is that real conversation happening? Because obviously, if you're the NFL, you're a business. You're not scared to do a little testing of, like, releasing some information, see the reaction. Everybody loved the 18 games, two bye weeks, even a potential Pro Bowl week like they have for the NBA All-Star, which maybe heightens it a little bit better. So that answers the Pro Bowl question where it still matters, but not really as much. And is there any real chatter about that behind the scenes that you know of?

And how do you think that would look if it was to take place? Well, you said everybody loves it. Everybody loves it except the actual players that have to play the 18 games everybody else wants 18 games ask the players how many players want to play in an 18 game schedule pat let me ask the question when you were a player you want to play 18 games hey and the extra bye week gives you two more paychecks, two more game checks. You know what I mean? Unless they divvy it up, which they probably wouldn't. Here's the whole thing. Game checks get smaller. Oh, no.

Here's the whole thing. If we go back to when the conversation of more games, more than the 16-game season started, it felt like the NFL started out of the block with 18 games. And it felt like that was roundly dismissed. And so the league, I think, did a pretty smart thing. It went from 18 to 17. And rather than take one big giant step, they said, let's take little steps and we'll get to where we're going over time. But it's not going to be as quickly as we'd like it to be. And now the fact that Joe Burrow is even talking about

the 18 games, to me, it just seems like there is a momentum to this. There's a track. I don't think it's real right now, but it's only a matter of time before it does get real. And we get to that point. And again, when you get back to the 18 games, in my mind, it's going to be about money. It's always going to be about the money. You're going to have to dangle enough to the players to make it worth their while as distasteful as it is to play 18 games. I even heard somebody is to play 18 games. I even heard somebody float to me this summer. We were having a debate about the 18 games.

And they're like, hey, how do you get the players involved in terms of the valuation of the franchise over time? Because the value of these franchises has skyrocketed so much that how do you give the players that? And I don't know how you do it. I'm not smart enough financially. But look at the prices that these teams are going for oh yeah and with all due respect it is the players who help make it happen right so the players get paid while they play and then they leave and that's it right so how about somehow getting them in on this now i don't know how you do that i'm not an economist i'm not smart enough financially to figure it out, but you want to get to 18 games. You want to maximize your revenues. You want to grow the sport around the world. How about giving us a small percentage of the franchise value over time? So players get 49% of the TV ads and some

other shit calculated in. I assume you could just do an overall franchise valuation addition, but that'd be tough because valuation isn't a real fluid number until somebody goes to sell it so how do you i mean that would be an interesting thing but that would be you're a much savvier businessman than i am so you will have to figure out exactly how to do this and make this work for the players so that if they get to 18 games that the players get compensated in an appropriate and according fashion well and then what's the valuation right because the valuation is whatever somebody's willing to pay. If you get a couple of these bazillionaires,

which there are a plenty nowadays, seemingly, that want one particular team, all of a sudden that franchise that was worth $4 billion or whatever is actually $6.5 billion. I mean, it's like, it's a wild world. Roger Goodell's in a good spot, except for a Sunday ticket. Except for a Sunday ticket. What do you think happens with that whole thing?

I think the NFL is going to keep appealing it. I think it's going to keep being drawn out. I think that there will be no quick, immediate resolution to it. That would surprise me. And I think that's how it'll transpire over time. It'll take a long time before the league is willing to write a check to go pay off the

ruling that was issued last month in Los Angeles. I can't believe Roger Goodell testified and they lost. That's got to be the first time he's ever spoken and lost. Yeah. Legitimately. We've seen him sitting everywhere, even in D.C., where they called him Goodell and called him the wrong name. He won that conversation. You've seen him at press conferences. He's won that conversation. You see him in negotiations and you go back to the 18 games and an extra bye week. That's an extra like how many more primetime, three, four primetime games of an extra bye week, that's an extra, like, how many more primetime?

Three, four primetime games, let alone if you do that. What's going right for the primetime games is, if you look at what Netflix paid for, what, one game, two games? Amazon paid for two games now with Black Friday. What Apple could potentially get in the game? Like, each primetime game has a value that will certainly lift the players' percentage to 49%. But I'm excited to see where it goes because it seems like there's no end in sight to the growth of the NFL speaking of we got

access to everything oh yeah NFL films created this hard knocks offseason for the Giants everybody's loving it deep but got a question for you chef do I'm definitely one of the people loving it just for not not because the Giants necessarily the access that the GM's talking to each other theouts around talking about players and how they value different positions. I know you're obviously tied into those group of people. Have there been any specific response from the new hard knocks with the Giants behind the scenes? I think that I can't imagine that the Giants are thrilled to be airing all their private opinions publicly. Like, again, just one statement about Daniel Jones is now going to shadow him the entire year.

Like, hey, either we find out we've got our quarterback for the next 10 years or we pivot off him. So you think, as if playing New York Giants quarterback isn't a pressure-packed enough job already, you know, now you throw in some of these statements, which everybody kind of knows he's under the gun and he's got to step up and perform. But to hear the general manager actually say that on air is another thing. And to hear those conversations, how fired up do you think Saquon Barkley is going to be

when they play the first game against the Giants? The Giants felt like they didn't want to hand off to a $12 million running back when they had a $40 million quarterback. But the Eagles have a $50 million quarterback and they're going to hand that off for a $12 million running back, right? So these things are going to be remembered. And it's one thing to have hard knocks when it's about the roster spot for the sixth wide receiver job or, you know, guys practicing during camp in the heat and

some of the jokes and pranks that go on during it's another thing when you're hearing the actual decision makers yeah the actual words of the decisions and i promise you we're going to hear about that throughout the course of the season oh yeah like these teams are not thrilled to do hard knocks in the summer and frankly i don't know how they got not thrilled to do hard knocks in this summer. And frankly, I don't know how they got the Giants to do it in the offseason. Good for them and good for the Giants. I respect everybody. We love to hear it all, but I'm just telling you, we're going to hear a lot about those

comments all summer into the season. Well, remember, Mara said he was sick of answering questions to his billionaire friends about why his team sucks. And then he kept telling them, you know, those guys are geniuses. You know, Shane, Dave Ball, I got geniuses here and then the nfl films were like hey we were wondering if you want to do an off season mars like i get to showcase how smart my people are absolutely fucking put him in here we go you said they're saying these things on air like i guess they do

end up on air but they put those ptz's in those rooms it's like a big brother operation they completely forget that they're i think some people forget that they're even being recorded, which is obviously what every reality show is hoping for, that it's kind of out and we're out, we're hands off, we're out of here, just like moving cameras, zooming in. We got a microphone in the cup right there. We got a microphone on the desk right over there. We are in a good spot.

I think they hit a home run with this one. But to your point about things hanging over their head forever, Malik Naber's decision, you know, where he's like's like yeah i need to get the ball early if daniel jones doesn't get on the ball early and then like second quarter third quarter he's throwing some shit you're gonna be like they knew this exactly what they were getting whenever they signed up for this entire thing so there is a lot of shit that like people that are on microphones that follow the nfl are gonna watch and listen to what's being said because everybody's a super genius in those meetings. And then whenever shit goes the opposite way,

get thrown in their face. But also, maybe it goes the other way. Maybe they look like super geniuses in this entire thing, able to manage certain situations, and they're being able to display it. It all depends on how it works out. I'm pulling for him. Daybo's running a 9-4-40, though.

Daybo's running a 9-4-40. No doubt about it. No doubt about it. No doubt about it. I think he's spending his summertime running 40-yard dashes and training to be faster at the combine. That's what I think he's doing with his certification. You're getting bit by spiders and Brian Debo is training to be in shape

for the 40. I'll tell you what, if they capture him training for the 40 and they lose some games, this guy's trying to run under a 7-0-40 instead of trying to win a football game with a $40 million quarterback. It's a wild thing. I appreciate NFL films taking hacks. They've tried to reinvent, try and reinvent.

This is seemingly a good one. Everybody gets a little taste of football during the offseason. Ty has a question for you. Yeah, Shefty, for a while now we've been talking about contract extensions for both Tua and Jordan Love, and both teams have said hey, we want to get it done before the start of the season. Is there any

kind of update or timetable for when that's going to get done, or is it still just kind of a waiting game for both those guys? I think you'll see a push with these teams going into camp right before the start of drills or right at the beginning of drills. I think that there'll be a final push to see if the two sides can figure out a way to bridge their differences to get a deal done.

And if it doesn't get done within the first week or so of camp, obviously you could talk during the summer. It could always happen at that point. But the next real artificial deadline would be right before the start of the season when there's always some extensions that are done right before the regular season begins i think that you're looking at this possibly getting done um essentially at some point once camp opens and if they can get it done then good for them they've been working they've been talking we'll see if they can get it done oh you're talking about their training camp or all training camps because you're talking thursday these deals are done yeah that's great news right hey happy football yeah it's huge they're reporting thursday but they're on the field when friday saturday by the time veterans go out there so it gives them

another week to see if they could figure out a way to get it done it's not like okay we're reporting you got to get it done that moment that's sort of like you're on the clock then you get another 24 48 hours any expected hold? Any expected holdouts or hold in? Is that the new thing? Well, that to me is a really interesting situation because it used to be that the language in the CBA was prohibitive. But now, last summer, you saw a guy like Zach Martin, who the fines are supposed to be mandatory. He didn't show up for a while. And Nick Bosa stayed away for a while. And so there are guys out there that I believe, if they don't already have decisions, have a decision to make here in the next week or

so. C.D. Lamb, Brandon Ayuk, some of these guys that want new contracts. Again, do they show up? Do they not show up? Do they show up and then hold in? Because if you're not showing up, you're getting fined. So it all becomes one big question about what you can and can't get done. So I think there's absolutely the chance that some of these guys could not show. And that's something they're going to have to decide here in the next week. I think Zach Martin took those fines out and just said, yeah, we're going to add that to the new deal that we're negotiating, right? Again, let's just use it. Let's say they reach a deal for 30 million and they say, oh, I know the fines are mandatory.

They can't be revoked. Let's make the deal $30 million. $600,000. Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah. Done. All right.

Yeah, we'll cut a rookie. Yeah. Perfect. Yeah, we understand. We understand. We got to do that. That's how it goes. And yeah, that's why I never understood why.

And this is not me just like grandstanding. But whenever people are like, you can't hold out anymore. Can't hold out anymore. It's like, well, like well why not well they punish you financially too much well aren't you in the middle of a financial that's why you're holding out so isn't that kind of don't those kind of go hand in hand i guess if a deal didn't get done with zach martin then it would be the massive uh-oh this guy just missed the whole year and he's losing out on all the money it just people by the way go ahead with the money, with the money that some of these guys are going to get, you think it matters

that they're going to accrue a couple hundred thousand dollars in fines when the guaranteed money is going to be what it is for a guy like Brandon Ayuk or C.D. Lamb? Do you think that really matters in the grand scheme of things? And to your point, at the very last thing, you have the team throwing some extra money

to cover the fines yeah and they'll say that's not what we did this is the rate we got to but it's like you certainly did any other nfo owners are going to be pissed at the one per club meeting because you're allowing these people now you're setting precedent that this is how to take place and it's like they'll figure it out sometime but that drama is always worth it you know because how's the locker room react to where everybody wants you to get your own. But also, there's been a lot of drama with this Iuke shit. A lot of drama. And there's, what, 31 teams that would be like,

we'll take Iuke. We will take Iuke. We'll roll the dice on that. He knows that. The Niners know that, I guess. It's just a weird sitch. I do really ponder how that's going to get figured out, Shafter. And we know you know.

Because you're plugged over there. You are plugged at the Niners. We know that. Well, here's what I would say there. They have wanted him back. They've intended to bring him back. But the wide receiver market has shifted, which makes it tough. So it's harder to do a deal now than it was a couple of months ago. And Brandon Ayuk thinks that he deserves what all these top receivers are getting and the Niners have a certain price point figured out and the other thing to keep in mind here I think he's playing this year for 17 million and then after this year if he were to be tagged the number's like 22 million dollars and my math might be a little off but it's not terribly off so

17 this year roughly 22 next year that's. That's two years. $39 million. Now when you start to sit down and figure out the guaranteed money, again, the franchise tag here is a weapon for the 49ers, which is not what the franchise tag was intended to be. But again, that's the 49ers' advantage. That's not how the franchise

tag was marketed whenever it was created. It was always supposed to be the weapon, Shefty. We know that. We know that. We know that. No, no, no, Pat. We know that, Shefty. Shefty, we know that.

Pat, let me tell you this. I was in Denver when the franchise tag was created, and the Broncos owner, Pat Bowen, was one of the driving forces behind it, and he helped create it to make sure that guys like John Elway would not be allowed to leave Denver. Faces of franchises, quarterbacks, vital people. Not a weapon!

Not a weapon of the franchise! Chef, do you want to see what you're talking about? Come on, Adam. That's a game out of your mouth! My point is, it's branched out to other guys that the franchise tag was not supposed to be intended for.

You're talking like punters, for instance. You're talking like punters. Like hunters. Exactly. I signed that thing so fast. I'm becoming a millionaire if I sign this thing? Done. Deal.

Where's the pen? I'm going to Canada. Shout out Niagara Falls. Nick Morota, happy birthday. AJ Morota, he had turned 19. We damn near spent that entire franchise tag in two nights up there in Niagara Falls. Hell of a time. Hell of a time.

It was the first time I'd ever been a millionaire. Didn't even get the money yet. But I signed it. Knew it was coming at some point. Let's go ahead and drain this account. Boston Pizza certainly gave us about 700 ounces of beer. It was a good time. Anyways, let's move along.

And you knew it was a weapon the entire time, Shefty. As you were stating here, like I'm kind of backpedaling here. But nonetheless, we appreciate your input. Connor has a question for you. Yeah, Shefty. Another wide receiver that didn't get a deal done that was assumed he wasn't going to get a deal done is T. Higgins. What was that kind of negotiation like, and is there any chance he gets moved,

or is he just going to play out the tag and then just sign somewhere else next year for $35 million? Well, there wasn't negotiating on a new deal there for T. Higgins, and basically there wasn't hope that a deal was going to get done. He was the only player of eight to be franchise tagged during this offseason period, not to get a long-term deal. And they're going to be in a position where they really can't afford to tag him again next year. The franchise tag would be too much. And it's going to be very difficult, not impossible, but very difficult for the team to resign. And particularly when a guy like Dak can hit the market, when free agent wide receivers

are getting what they're getting, if T. Higgins becomes the free agent that he's expected to in March, what is his number going to be? It's going to be bigger than anything Cincinnati can pay. So in all probability, it's like the Jesse Bates situation playing out again. The Bengals tag Jesse Bates. They knew they wouldn't be able to keep him after that year, but they wanted to compete that season with him. And I think the same thing is true for T. Higgins. Tag him.

Can't get a deal worked out. Didn't try much to get a deal worked out. Recognition and acceptance of the fact that he'll become a free agent after this year and an old probability he'll leave Cincinnati after this season but one final run back with Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase as they try to do what they want to get done here in Cincinnati. I think he understands that we saw a documentary I think his mom came out and said that she was like I think everybody just kind of understand and isn't it crazy that that's Bengals football yeah yeah bingo like that's literally the difference is like yeah this is how the cincinnati bangles operate this is the situation they're currently in right now with obviously the plethora of weapons that they have they started selling advertisement on their stadium

last time do so they built an indoor facility they start doing business to try to afford all these things but you're not going to be able to keep everybody in t higgins hitting the market next year i want to let him know indianapolis is just two hours away baby indianapolis is two hours away t come join anthony richardson get it right we'll start house shopping for you here in indy for next season but go have a good one with joey b do one little swan song over there in cincinnati and do your thing don't do too good because we need you to be too expensive but when you get to India, stay healthy. Get faster. Learn all the intel. Don't do too good, once again. Drop a couple balls, maybe, here and there.

Don't need it. You're up by 15. You can drop some. Don't get caught up with any what's-his-face, the guy that was missing shots because he was in it with the bookie. Don't donate that. We're just saying, keep your price at something that the Colts can afford. We're not the only team thinking that already. He's already coming to New England. Drake May looks any of that. We're just saying keep your price at something that the Colts can afford. And we're not the only team thinking that already.

Oh, no, yeah. He's already coming to New England. Drake May looks good in that. He doesn't look good, my friend. He looks fantastic. Fantastic. He's the future. I mean, Clyde Toth.

Six to midnight. Connor Wentz. Set that clip in there. Did you see Drake May? Did you see Drake May in Hard Knocks? Anything we missed over the last two weeks that we didn't ask you about here, Shefty? The Vikings situation, their offseason has been very challenging, very difficult.

You have Jordan Addison, obviously, being arrested in L.A., suspicion of DUI. He was asleep, right? They said he was asleep in his Rolls Royce. Behind the wheel. In LAX or in a high, where was it? He was at the airport still? Yeah, Field says white Roll rolls royce there i've read lamborghini i don't know which is which again um it was a high-priced fancy car he was

asleep at the wheel and this is a guy who last year jordan addison uh was cited right before training camp for driving 140 miles an hour and had to settle that issue and then of course we know the tragic circumstances that the vikings already have gone through a week ago losing tragically their rookie cornerback kary jackson so um i just again this is why i think at this point you know teams are ready to get back they just want to get them back into a structured environment and the whole situation with with Minnesota that they've been through, challenging, tragic, sad, unfortunate, everything about it is not great. And unfortunate that Jordan Addison went through that situation

that he did this week, especially after everything that organization went through the week before. Yeah, and I'm not immune to it. A lot of bad decisions made you know uh throughout a lot of learning through your life everybody's got to tighten up though you know i think a lot of people myself included you forget how lucky you are to be in the position that you are and then whenever something happens you can be you know perspective can be put back into place like hey this can all end very quickly for you you are not the first person that the nfl needed and you won't be the

last person that the nfl has needed it's't be the last person that the NFL has needed. It's like that's why getting back in the building will hopefully get guys back straight, you know, and kind of locked in. But we need to stop wasting opportunities just everywhere. And I can't wait for guys to stop fucking up. And I was one that messed up. But nonetheless, Chef D, hey, appreciate you, buddy. You're the man.

Hope you're okay from the spider bite. Welcome back, everybody. We've got a big season ahead. It's going to be a lot of fun. Look forward to it, and welcome back to everybody. You too. Way to work. Let's go, Shafty. You did some work today. Always work. Always work. Every text I send is potentially a work text. Every time I look at his phone.

You never know who's going to give you the information. I just texted with my DoorDash driver. he actually delivered some food to the jets facility hello and like everything you do could be kids we appreciate ladies and gentlemen i'm shifter his insiders literally everything could be work oh yeah he might i mean he might have known seen it was retired before anybody else i think we kind of knew that i i just i won't accept it i can't believe that that's happening. He's got one last run. We're going to get one great run

still. I need ten. Your time is up. One last time is now for John Cena, dude. I can't be wrong. Bad trumpets in the building. Yeah, that's on me. Insiders, though, do they have any real conversations?

I don't think so, from what he just said. I'm always working. Yeah, and a lot of the stuff. I mean, that whole entire thing that he went on that he was wrong about immediately. I'm already forgetting it because I turned my brain off. Brand tag. Yeah, there it is. It was not meant to be a weapon for the franchise.

They were sitting in a room. They're like, how about this? Motherfuckers can't leave. Isn't that the guy that said he doesn't want to get drafted? All right. Okay. Switch some shit up for him. Yeah, no big deal.

Not a weapon, though. Just as a person that got franchise tagged. Okay? No big deal. I don't know how many people host shows that have also been franchise tagged. I would like to say that in my particular position, the thing that i got robbed out of is a lot of the escalators you see because it's an average of the salaries not of the bonuses and the escalators and the potentials so at the kicker punter position is always so low because there's a lot of escalators in the kicker

and punter contracts so if i wasn't a dipshit i probably should have been a little pissed you know that i got franchise tag instead of like a four-year deal or something like that that everybody else is looking for. But the price, if somebody's getting franchise-tagged, is so much lower than what you're talking. And $39 million over the next two years for IUC or whatever, he could literally sign for $50 somewhere on a Thursday. Like that could happen out of nowhere. So business is always gonna get in the way. Business is always gonna get sorted, hopefully. But I just hope we don't get to a point where guys actually opt out of nowhere. So business is always going to get in the way. Business is always going to get sorted, hopefully. But I just hope we don't get to a point where guys actually opt out of seasons. Yeah, that would suck.

That would really, really suck. Well, after the Lev Bell thing, too, you saw what happened. He was one of the most electrifying players in the entire NFL. Yeah, it was sweet to watch him, and then you lose him for a year, and then he's never the same. Do you remember how Chuck and Manusk and everybody used to talk about Lev Bell whenever we – Oh, yeah. Now, granted, how and everybody used to talk about Lev Bell? Oh, yeah.

Now, granted, how much you guys seemingly talked about Lev Bell kind of distracted you guys from, you know, Killer B's. Yeah. You know, Martavis, I think, went for 750 or so. I mean, Ben Roethlisberger threw for an actual thousand yards in one game against us. But the way Lev Bell was described in those team meetings whenever they're laying out the plans and then the highlights that were shown he was oh one of one so sick and then there was other people trying to be him and it was like yo you are not Lev Bell and then that year off obviously affected it yeah he was at his peak he was all the time his patience power speed then he can go out and be like a legit probably wide receiver too for a lot of people at his prime and to to your point, it did start with him.

You know how defensive coordinators are. You know how defense is. Hey, you got to stop the run first. And we still – we had a plan for 84. But, you know, everybody got a plan until they get punched in the mouth. And, you know, 84 was special as well, especially when you had a seventh throwing the ball. But Lev Bell at his peak.

And like you said, once you take that year off, it's hard to get – for some reason, he was in his prime. Was he mid-20s at that point? Well, I mean, you lose that money, and then he had to just go to the highest suitor, and it was the Jets, and their O-line was terrible. They didn't have a quarterback. They had Adam Gase.

So it's like because – Berhalter, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Because he lost a year, he's like, okay, well, I mean, this situation sucks. It's not the Steelers, but I need to make up for the money I lost. So I got to do it for the money I lost. So I got to do it. All right.

Well, we want to let Lev Bell know, hey, it was fun watching you play, dude. Yeah, I love watching the highlights. It was. Anytime they come up, it's like Pat White at West Virginia. It's like, all right, I'm going to sit through this video and watch it because it's electrifying. But sitting out a year is an aggressive decision, you know, and if it ever works out for somebody, we will certainly applaud them and congratulate them. But the NFL is a league that the teams, they got it.

They got the power. And if they want to flex it, they certainly can. Franchise tag didn't used to have a limit. Vinatieri got franchise tagged, I think, three times in a row. Damn. Nobody really talks about that. Yeah, Vinatieri, I think it was three times in a row. Yeah, I think he got franchise tagged three times in a row.

And then as soon as he became a free agent, like, the Colts were like, we'll pay you, please. And then he went to Super Bowl. Yeah. First year that they're here with the Indianapolis Colts. I think – I don't want to give away his business. I think the Packers were interested. I think the Packers were interested in Adam Vinatieri. Yeah.

And because there was maybe some intel being told to him that nobody really had any offers for him. And then he got franchise tagged. Don't even look around anywhere, pretty much. There's nothing. And then as soon as he became an actual free agent, it was like, teams are like, yes, yes, yes, yes. But Julius Peppers, too, I think, he got it like three

times in a row. Didn't Kirk get franchised twice? With Washington. They dropped it down to two, though. So it used to be like three, and then I think they dropped it down to two. And it's like if the NFL players are going to give up that 18th game and the extra bye week, it's like that's probably not a bad one to maybe try, especially with where these contracts are headed for the top end.

Like Lamar Jackson was potentially going to get screwed by the Baltimore Ravens franchise tagging him. Oh, yeah? Like they had him for, boom, boom, three years whenever we started talking about his contract extension that he was earned and worthy of having and already been an NFL MVP. Now, obviously, the Baltimore Ravens

got it worked out with him, just like they said they were going to. So, like, let's not knock the Baltimore Ravens at all. But it's like, maybe drop that down to, like, one year, you know, as opposed to being able to do it multiple times. Because whenever you're staring down, not a lot of hope that a deal is going to be able to get done that affects the leverage of the whole thing too because lynch and uh shanahan can literally say bud you're here for three years okay so so make the best out of it

yeah that was kind of interesting too though from uh from hard knocks you know just hearing hearing him behind the scenes kind of get coached up on how to you know how he's speaking on things hey we talked about um franchising saquon and then things. Hey, we talked about franchising Saquon. And then Saquon, hey, we've got to talk about – Saquon has spoke publicly about not wanting to be franchised. So how do different organizations attack that publicly? Because from watching that, if I'm a player, a star player at that, I'm like, okay, when I talk my shit like that actually impacts what they say.

People can be a human. Yeah, how the franchise moves. Obviously the fans are going to be affected the media the narrative so on that's definitely interesting interesting another spin to see on how that show how it keep going see when i watch it i thought to myself like okay shane doesn't want to deal with bullshit which i appreciate joe shane don't want to deal with bullshit i do appreciate the thought of like other players potentially watching i'm being like tell my tell agent tell, do you want to deal with this shit? Yep.

All over again. You don't want to deal with it. Like Jonathan Taylor. Yeah, oh man. You know, at the Indianapolis Colts. He was mentioned in there too. It was so loud. It was so loud here in Indy.

Brand new head coach. Brand new quarterback. Brand new era. We had number four overall pick. Team was not good. We earned that number four overall pick. It's not like we traded for that number four overall pick. Team was not good. We get high number four overall pick it's not like we traded for that number four overall pick team was not good we get high draft pick we get a quarterback we got we got a new coat everything going and then one of the guys that was on a team that led us to the fourth

overall pick one of the pillars of the team dude who did not is not coming off like the most healthy injured injured year two years ago it's as good year before his contract he's now like holding the franchise hostage yeah like publicly he's the best player we have. This is how this goes. And then that inevitably, we would assume after watching Hard Knocks, is certainly the reason why it got done. So now, yeah, it's going to get loud. Oh, yeah. I use documentary.

Oh, yeah. You hit all the stuff on your social. And the fifth-year option, if we're limited, it's like, hey, if you use the fifth-year option, then maybe you can only use the franchise tag once just because then it's not a three-year thing because that was the same situation with Lamar that it is with IUC right now where it was fifth-year option, tag, tag. Maybe if you use the fifth-year option, you can only use the tag once or something like that

if they want to change it. That feels like a good bargaining chip, though, because it's normally like, Weed, we'll learn them out. We're testing for weed. You guys put your bodies into 50 more car wrecks one more time. How about it? No, we'll test for weed though. It's like, let's do some actual shit.

Yeah. You know, if you're going to do it. Easier said than done whenever you're negotiating with 31 billionaires, best lawyers. Joining us now is a man who was supposed to join us about 10 minutes ago, but I believe there has been connection issues because this guy is always on the job. Don't know if you saw a screen time. It recirculated 23 hours or 21 hours on the phone or something. This guy, NBA insider for the stadium, FanDuel TV, 21 hours.

Sleep, son. Come on. Come on. Ladies and gentlemen, Sean Sean, you're going to die. You're going to die. How do you look this good? Look at how good the hair, the skin, the whole – every 21 hours this guy's staring at blue screens.

No glasses in the window. See his ass everywhere in the blue glasses. Good. I got to get the blue blockers. What do I got to do? I mean, do I look tired, Pat? You tell me. I feel tired.

I mean, I've been in Vegas about a week now for summer league. Saw some Team USA. Canada. Spent some time around USA basketball, so I'm doing a little bit better. Yeah, Canada. Suck it. Same with Dylan Brooks, too. Shut up. Listen, it works in the NBA, but

whenever you're talking USA, get out of here. Anyways, since we missed out because you don't have any service because your phone wants to work, but the Wi-Fi in Vegas doesn't want to, the Wi-Fi in Vegas can't keep up with Sean Schrodinger. Can't do it? It's bad. It's bad.

These hotel Wi-Fi, really, really bad in Vegas. All right, we're running out of time. So let's get through the important shit here. Can we please? You just brought up Team USA. I saw a clip from the NBA Twitter uh twitter account of lebron james literally just directing traffic on the court for an entire practice and then i think there was people uh steve kerr like called and asked somebody like hey is this him every single practice and

they were like yeah this is him every single practice i know anthony edwards spoke i think before this entire training camp and before the game got going he said everybody's gonna have to just around me i'm the. I'm the best guy. This is clearly LeBron James' team still, and is this dude an actual alien, and how does everybody feel about him? We know that you and him dap each other up whenever you see each other walking through hallways, Shams.

Yeah, that's the no-look. That's the no-look dap right there. I'm not taking any credit for that one. What I will say about LeBron James, spending time in that Team USA practice setting, watching that game, and the way that he's moved, the way he's looked, you think about he's going into his 22nd season in the NBA. He's going to be 40 years old in December. He's not supposed to look this good at this age.

And just watching how Steph Curry, LeBron James, and hopefully Kevin Durant, if he gets out there, those are the three players, the pillars of this USA basketball team. LeBron James really started it last summer when he had conversations with Steph Curry, conversations with Kevin Durant about

forming this kind of last dance at Team USA for those three in particular. Now you have a team, Jason Tatum, Anthony Edwards. Anthony Edwards got off to a great start today in their exhibition against Australia, by the way. Joel Embiid, this is a team that has obviously the old heads per se, but also a lot of youth, a lot of the next-gen players in today's NBA. But for sure, this is really LeBron James, his vision for the team. When you think about him, Steph Curry, and Kevin Durant,

you're seeing it kind of come to life. He's looked really, really good at Team USA practice. Okay, it's been fun to kind of keep up with it all. I can't believe Bronny's not on team. Bronny make team maybe in a few years after some work in the G League and with the Lakers. Fully guaranteed contract shot, Rich Paul. Dude's an absolute dog.

Let's talk about Team USA, people that leave. Kawhi Leonard just said, nah, I don't want to represent the United States. How did that entire thing work out? And are we ever going to watch Kawhi Leonard play basketball? I miss that. That guy was good. Remember in the corner, the shot, the bounce? Remember the handles, the smack, the floor?

I mean, are we ever going to watch this guy play basketball again? What is the case here? That was the part of why essentially you know Kawhi Leonard left the Clippers because of how he looked and USA Bass as much as this was a Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers joint decision as far as him withdrawing from the team this was also a little bit about Team USA as well and they saw him go through multiple days of practices and and I saw at least one day and the way steph curry lebron james and those guys looked on the court and compared to how kawhi leonard looked usa essentially

determined that he did not meet their criteria for fitness and fit to be able to play moving forward so as much as kawhi leonard and the clippers pulled the plug usa basketball pulled the plug as well granite was was actually a little bit surprisingly more vocal about that, the fact that they also, Team USA, played a part in this. Kawhi Leonard wanted to play. I think the Clippers are hopeful he's going to have a full offseason, get healthy, but there has been some concern about his knee, the same knee that he had that tore an ACL a few years ago.

He had that torn meniscus a couple years ago. This is something that the Clippers have to monitor the rest of the summer. And that's what this is about, his longevity and his being able to play in NBA games this season and for the next few. He's starting a three-year, $150 million contract this upcoming season. So that is very important. He wanted to play, though, you're saying. He wanted to play. He wanted to play.

And the people around him believe that he wants to work. He'll get back. We'll be able to. People around him believe. Got a full offseason. He wants. He'll work. He'll get back. We'll be able to see Kawhi instead of the, oh, where's Kawhi? I'm excited. Hey, Kawhi, we missed you, buddy. Good luck, Kawhi. Kawhi, good luck with the knee.

Good luck with the injury. All right, we only have a couple minutes left here because your Wi-Fi sucks so bad. You literally, your face is so handsome, so it doesn't look as bad as it possibly could. Every fourth worse, you're just, you're freezing up. Gross. But you look so handsome, dude. You look as bad as possibly could every fourth worse you're just you're freezing up but you look so handsome dude you look the hair looks can we can can we just blame i'm blaming the wi-fi here 100 but we let's get the more important no more important clay where so he doesn't go back to golden state i heard the la lakers who couldn't bring anybody in then lebron james was going to take a pay cut i heard and then did not he didn't he did not take a picture that was a wild that was a wild development of my friend during the break

it's like i thought the ball was taking a picture and then people were like well they couldn't land anybody they tried to land clay right and clay chose dallas over la is that the accurate depiction how'd this all work out quick we got a minute thompson had clay thompson had more on the table potentially from the lakers four years 80. i even last offseason, he turned down two years, 48, I'm told, from the Warriors. He believed the Dallas Mavericks had the best opportunity for him to win a championship than any team. The Warriors, the Lakers, that's why he chose Dallas. He's going to be their starting three, and he's going to be the guaranteed starter. He's a guaranteed minute there, an opportunity to play.

He's Ray Allen in the corner. Somebody's putting out some bad pub on Clay right now. What? Very bad. You saw it too? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I saw it on my timeline. It's not great.

He's going to fit right in. He's the exact piece that they need. They got videos of Clay getting locked up at LA Fitness. I don't like it. LA Fitness? I don't like it. I don't love it. They got basic-ass whites playing at LA Fitness.

I need to arrest whoever put this out. These are not the basic-ass whites? No, they look like some basketball players, but... I mean, he's just jacking around. He's drunk. He just got off his boat. He's got sea legs. Don't worry about him.

We appreciate you, Shams. Keep crushing it. We'll talk to you later this week. Appreciate you guys. Shams Ryan. Yeah, Shams! He's got sea legs, bro. He's the captain of the ship

he arrived on a boat what do you want him to do someone delete that video that did look weird that didn't look like is he working on new shooting technique he might be

maybe he's working it's practice he'll be in a corner post it up not good start for Clay at Desjardins we speak business.

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All-star things happening. Holy shit. Paul Steen's first rookie to be the starting pitcher in the All-Star Game ever. Pittsburgh Pirate mustache. Permanee special. Permanee Brother Sandwiches, which is a local sandwich shop that started in Pittsburgh because all the guys that worked in the mills didn't have long lunch breaks. So a sandwich shop started where they put the fries and

a coleslaw on the sandwich because we ain't got time. We got to get back to work. This is Pittsburgh, America depends on us. Then Primanti Brothers continued to expand and go nationwide because Steelers fans are literally everywhere because once the steel mills moved, not only in Pittsburgh to around the country, a lot of yinzers got displaced, which is why there's a Steeler bar in every single city. And Permanente's brothers started

following him. Well, there are specials at Permanente Brothers. If you have a mustache, because Paul Skeens is the man that he is, you get a free sandwich, I believe, on July. I don't know what day it is, but that is correct. And I don't think it has to be like a full mustache.

That could suck. Yeah, if you have any hair above your lip whatsoever, boom, free mustache in honor of Polsky. Okay, so we'll talk to Jet Passant about that here in about eight, nine minutes or so. And then we've got Dana White joining us at the end at about 1.35 Eastern time. Obviously, big things on the horizon for UFC and for Dana White. Can't wait to hear what he has to say about everything happening in his world. The Talks at Table is here. Obviously, big things on the horizon for UFC and for Dana White. Can't wait to hear what he has to say about everything happening in his world. The Talks at Table is here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt.

I mean, that's going to be... I mean, come on. We've all been thinking about it. We've all been locked into it. How could we not? UFC's big stuff. It's UFC 304 next week. I mean, the card's unbelievable. Well, then you see that tweet Conor McGregor sent to Michael Chandler about,

hey, I talked to Dana about our new date. All looking good. 24 for sure. And Chandler and Conor, although they're yelling in each other's face, they're an ultimate fighter as there are two coaches on our teams. In this particular tweet thread, they were like, we're united on this thing, brother. And then I think Dana, too, also probably.

So I'm excited to hear conversations about this. Mexican Independence Day at the Sphere. At the Sphere, their stuff. And obviously there's a lot going on. Yeah, sure, sure. I'm excited to hear what Dana has to say. Sitting in for one half of the hammer. Done.

Cowboys, Tony Diggs. Hey, we miss you, buddy. Miss you, Tony. Tony Diggs, classic schedule, vacation. Little snaffle. Is that what you meant by a lot going on with Dana White? I missed that at the end there. What's that? What did you mean by there by a lot going on with Dana White? I missed that at the end there. What's that? What did you mean by a lot going on with Dana?

I think he's making an announcement this week. A proclamation today of all days? No, I think just I don't know. I think this is Magic Monday July 15th. I'm excited to hear. Tony Diggs scheduled his vacation

full thing. Full thing. Full family. Both sides. I think real travel. Kids, obviously. Before, we knew when we were having vacation. And he just assumed that we were going to do vacation at the same exact time. And Tone is a planner.

I mean, if we're doing anything, Tone is actually the one planning it. So, hey, Tone, we miss you, buddy. But I know this trip is awesome. And we miss the hell out of you Miss you Tone He felt terrible Oh yeah You're talking about walking in With just like an uncomfortable

So I mean wait till he comes back next Monday I mean I think we should just make a pact now We're not talking to him For at least a week Just Just put him off Just silent treatment

Like he just hit his first home run. Okay, yeah. Oh, you mean walking through a duck? Yeah, yeah. Bingo. One of those. Think about how tan he's going to look. He's going to look fantastic.

With his new body. Hair. Super fit. Sun-kissed. Oh, my God. He's going to be itching to gamble on something. Oh, yeah. I can't wait for that.

Can't wait to see. Hey, Tony, we miss you, Tony. Love you, Tony. We have a nine-year NFL vet, absolute stallion, host of everything DB, good D, bad D, ladies and gentlemen, Darius Butler. D-Boss, you do a great job up there, obviously. Good to be here. Hey, I'm excited for college football season.

Pumped. And I know you, much like everybody else on this stage, the announcement of NCAA 2K25 got everybody zeked up. Yeah. It's being released today, 4 p.m. I didn't download that one yet. I downloaded a game. No, no, no.

That's the one. Oh, that's the name? Yes. Gosh, I might have got it. No, it's NCAA 2K2025. Okay. That's the name of the game. Wake up, bach.

That's the name of the game. Okay. We all get what it is. We know what it is. Yes. Anyways, that's coming out 4 o'clock. Are you a player? Are you a good player?

I am. I obviously haven't played that. Madden. I'm in and out. It depends on if my brothers are playing or not, but I will be all in on this. It's already loaded up

in the hotel room. Got the PS5. It's loaded up. Cannot wait. Hope the Wi-Fi's good. Oh, Wi-Fi's good out here. Come on. We're in the Midwest, baby.

We're wired in out here. I don't know about Vegas, what they got going on out there. Hey, that is real. I mean, there is some, you know We're wired in out here. I don't know about Vegas, what they got going on out there. Hey, that is real. I mean, there is some, you know, good fiber opportunities out here. Oh, yeah. Indiana, you can really lock in.

You guys play this game online? Is that how this thing goes? Yeah, you play it online. You can do, like, a dynasty mode, if you will, so we would all be in the same season with different teams, different conferences. Oh, shit. Oh, yeah, no.

Pretty sweet. It is very, very legit. 2K got it right. Okay, so I'm not a big gamer. Sure. I suck. Oh yeah. Pretty sweet. It is very very legit. 2K got it right. So I'm not a big gamer. I suck with my thumbs. I'm not good with the thumbs. Can't do it. My brother very good. So I chose not to play because I would just get my ass beat every time. Why am I

signing up to do something that I'm just going to get murdered? So I went and kicked the soccer ball on the side of the house for hours and hours and hours. Thank God. It worked. But it's on days like today that it really sucks. Because if I was to go into that online thing, I would

get brutally beat down. We're talking maybe Dolphins early season, 70, Dolphins late season. That's like 70 to like next to nothing. We're talking that type of beatdown if I was to get in there.

But I can't wait to watch you guys. I can't wait to learn about what guys are maybe on the rise in NCAA 2K 2025's ratings. What do they know behind the scenes of practices to make people who? What are they going to rate Ollie Gordon? Especially now we know with what Coach Gundy's saying and everything.

He is the fourth highest or fifth highest rated player in the entire game number one i believe is uh edwards from michigan do they take actual hits for what happens in real life in the rating system for instance if jalen milrow comes out who looks unstoppable but if jalen milrow throws another what was that what was it called dagger maybe is that the name of the grave digger yeah there it is great digger what if he comes out in a training thing and gets 75 yards into a bucket? Are they boosting his throwing in real time? So they do that in Madden.

There'll be updates. If guys are playing really well, their overall ratings will increase. I would assume they're going to do it for 2K as well as CAA 2K 2025, but I'm not positive. What if a guy goes on there and is playing and just buries his teammates? These offensive linemen suck!

That happened, actually. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, did it? Did the awareness drop for that particular player? Because he's really fucking good at football. I don't think his drop. He is also one of those top 10 guys, but that brings up a great point. If Arch Manning ends up coming in

and he plays unbelievable, does his rating just go through the roof? It should. He's already 87. Yeah, but Quinn Ears is also a top tenner. I mean, he's on the damn cover. He's in the 90s. Yeah, I can't wait to

learn, and maybe this is the game that teaches my thumbs how to be good. You should just play on rookie, because then you can just learn. It's so easy to learn all the players now. Now there's an actual reason. It's like studying. That's why I want to watch you guys. That's why I'm watching.

Like, all these clips that are coming out of people playing, I'm, like, watching. And I'm like, all right, who is it? All right, sweet. This is obviously new tight ends. You've got people in new positions, new schools. I mean, it's going to be a wild college football year. I can't wait for NCAA football tooth K25. Joining us now is a man who's been in a lot of video games.

He's also going to be in WWE tooth K. Ladies and gentlemen, a college football national champion. A Super Bowl champion. Phenomenal golfer. Phenomenal. Better than Romo, baby. A.J. Hawk. Yeah, you beat Romo's ass. Yeah, A.J than Romo, baby. A.J. Hawk. Yeah! Okay!

Yeah, you beat Romo's ass! Yeah! Yeah, A.J.! Come on, Hawk! Yeah! Come on, Hawk! Yeah, somehow I did out the American Century Championship. I played better than I ever have. So, yeah, Tony, I don't know what's going on, but, you know, we know what Tony can do.

Tony can shoot three straight days of 62. He just didn't do it this year. He can't. Say no more about golf, Tony Romo. AJ Hawks better golf than Tony Romo. Signed, sealed, delivered. Nobody said that.

Yeah, it's right here. Tony Romo, right there. You, right there. Let's go. I'm proud of you, dude. You guys weren't bullshitting about AJ, huh? I've never scored anywhere near their... I got 22 points. The best I ever had was, I'm proud of you. You guys weren't bullshitting by AJ, huh? He's a sandbag. I've never scored anywhere near their... I got 22 points.

The best I ever had was, I believe, maybe 10. 84-80. We're scores in a PGA golf tournament regulated. Damn. Tough golf course. 80. Just shooting 80. Never plays. Better than the Rocket? Never plays. Hey, AJ. Listen. What? It's up.

We all know. You golf every fucking day of your life. We's up. We all know. You golf every fucking day of your life. We know it. We know it. You drop the kids off at school in the morning. Yep. Then he goes and gets around to Mark Wahlberg golfing. Yep.

And then he kind of sits down in here, does this show, picks the kids up at home, see you later. He's telling everybody I work out all day. Oh, I handle stuff. Oh, sorry, babe. Gotta go do bills. No. He is on the putting green because he's burying pots this dude. Is that happening? AJ, are you

legitimately the biggest sandbagger on earth? You're getting all this work in, not telling anybody you say you suck and then you're better than Tony Romo who has three golf coaches. It makes no sense, AJ. Golf doesn't make sense. We know that. We all know how it works, but I know that I don't sit there and try to tell people one way or the other how I play golf.

You try to tell me how I play golf. I don't ever present to people and say, I'm a great golfer. I can do this. I can do that. I mean, he honestly is like that. Aaron plays way less than all those guys out there. He's getting top 10, top 15 every year. Yeah, dude almost won it last year.

Almost is relative. He would have had to hit like two more Eagles, which wouldn't have been possible. But he was a top five finisher in this entire thing. And where did he do? He just got back from Hungary. He was in Hungary. I'm sure he was golfing. I'm sure he's in Costa Rica working on his putts.

Yeah, the course is there. How was he? You got a chance to chat with him? How's he feeling? How's the body? How's life? How's mind? How's spirit?

You get it? Yeah, he was great. He looked great. I know you saw him last year in Tahoe. He was in great shape. Looks the same. Looks like the Achilles wasn't even a thing. Nothing he even talked about, never mentioned it. A few fans want to say, oh, watch the Achilles, you know, when he's sitting there walking, jumping around, throwing the ball on the 17th.

I mean, that dude threw some dimes on 17 each day because I play with him every day. He threw so many perfect opportunities for people to dive off of boats and catch it. I don't know if anyone really came down with a clean catch, though. Dude, well, I mean, they're boozing. What do you want? But he throws some of those footballs. We had a clip, was it two years ago, maybe? Where I'm standing from beach and he tee-box. I was either probably taking a fireball shot. That thing's tough to survive. You got a fireball?

There's a lot. I got firebombed. I got firebombed in there. But I have a video of him throwing one in there, and it looked like it went 95 yards. It just absolutely traveled. That's hole 17, obviously, after a goal. So it sounds like he's in great shape, good spirits.

He said he's going to play with Devontae again. I watch receivers. There seemed to be a time during the season when Jimmy G was his quarterback and things were going great. Well, I think Devontae would have been playing for another team if anybody would have asked. That's what I saw in receiver. He said he's going to play with him again.

What does that mean, golf, football? You were there. I don't know what does that mean. I don't know if he was just messing with people or he's just trying to put it out there and trying to manifest that and get Devontae on the squad. I don't see how it would happen. But, yeah, he definitely is a huge fan of Devontae and would love to throw the ball to him again.

Whoa. Are you guys hanging out afterwards after a round? Because I know Devontae is out there. Oh, yeah. Devontae can play, man. He's a good golfer. He just started a couple years ago, and he's a grinder. We're not talking about his ball.

Yeah. We love Devontae. Football. He looks great. Devontae looks in great shape, too. He looks very quick. We all know he runs great routes. We know he wants to score every time he touches the ball.

So, yeah, I'm looking forward to the season. He is the best part of a receiver. For sure. Did you watch all those episodes? I watched most of them. Yeah, yeah. I think it's a quarterback show. I think it's a quarterback show.

What do you mean? That's not a shot at anybody. I just think it's a quarterback show. And that's just me personally. I'm not saying that it couldn't be defensive line. It couldn't be offensive line. D-line. If I could put in a vote, D-line is where I would like this thing to head next.

Yeah, like Wilkins and Crosby. D-line is right where I would like, which they're on the same team. Exactly. That needs to be. They should do D-line room instead of quarterback receiver. Most entertaining room in any football building is the D-line room. No doubt about it. Not even a question.

You go to a D-3 school. You go to the NFL. You're at the UFL. I'd assume. Now, Canada's different than us. Yes. Canada's a very different place than us. You know?

I assume you go up there, D-line room. Most entertaining room of all the rooms. let's do d-line next year let's do d-line i didn't mind i that damn spider bite see you might be getting super powers out well from that damn spider bite i hope it wasn't a brown recluse oh geez louise you got powers? Have you tried to do the Spidey thing? Jump in front of a car? AJ, did you see this? I was on an island, got bit, got four bumps on my arm. They haven't gone away.

What the hell? I'm going to die. Have you talked to anybody about that? Like, what that could be? Every day, I just assume it's going to go away. And then I'm like, I'll die if it's still here tomorrow. Can you hold it up again? Hold it up close?

It looks almost like a tattoo. Should I have a spider? Maybe you do get a tattoo. Bro, that is not a spider bite. I mean, the government might have stabbed you while you were sleeping. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you trying to say? What are you trying to say?

So I think I potentially closed on something, right? Because it seems to. So he got you. You closed. He got you a couple more times yeah he went down yeah swing yeah everybody can get it that's what i think potentially happened and then i popped it and there was like water dude you're changing man you might you might actually be turned into a damn superhero i still have so many edibles in my system from that

vacation i don't need you telling me I'm changing right now. No, in a good way. I'm saying physically, genetically. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is maybe a Spider-Man. Okay? You're talking about a guy who stopped. We're talking about legs gigantic.

Brick shit house. He is brick shit. Like Braun Breaker. He is a brick shit house runner. this guy. Hair, somehow better than Shams. Yeah. Shams got the best hair I've ever seen. True. And then Jet passing comes, pops his head on the screen.

It's like, boom, better than everybody. Ladies and gentlemen, it is baseball season. We're in all-star week. The home run derbies this evening. Paul Skeens is starting as a rookie for the first time in the game's history. And to tell us all about it, the next face of baseball, the next generation of baseball coverage, friend of the program, the Jet, Jeff Pass.

Yeah, Jet! Look at that hair! Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, don't even be comparing me to the other guy. Come on. It's not even a contest. It's the other guy. Come on. Yeah, Sean. I don't know.

Hot eye. Just saying. Truth is truth, boys. You know, Pat. You said it yourself. You're right. Your hair is fantastic. Baseball is as well.

I've been watching this year, Jet. Consider Paul Skeens a needle mover. I don't know about how everybody else is. But for me, if there's a clip floating around on the internet and it's Paul Skeens anything, I'm going to watch it. I don't even care if it's the way he's walking off the field because he's got a little pizzazz. He's doing interviews. He's giving the right answers.

Mustache, phenomenal. This guy, everybody's saying he's dry. I think he's a hilarious human if you get to know him probably one-on-one, I would assume. And he's just getting started, and he's seemingly better than anybody could have expected, even though he was one of the highest-rated pitchers coming out of college in history. Is this dude the future of baseball? This guy's the guy, and he's a Pittsburgh Pirate? Let's go, Jet.

We've been talking about—we've been dreaming about this, Jet. Pat, I don't think he's the future of baseball. I think he's the present of baseball. Love it. I think he is that good. And to come up less than a year after you were drafted and be starting the All-Star game. Remember, the draft and the All-Star game happened in the same week. And so literally a year ago now, Paul Skeens was just leaving LSU and joining the Pirates organization.

Comes up in May. We have talked about him on the program for a while now, and he's been better than anyone expected. The fastball, 102 miles an hour. The splinker, nasty. The slider, just takes souls. And the idea that tomorrow we're going to see Paul Skeens and the American League lineup is going to be announced in about an hour. The idea that it is going to be Paul Skeens against Gunnar Henderson, Juan Soto and Aaron Judge. Even if you don't think you like baseball, you have to watch that because it is power versus power. It is excellence versus excellence. And frankly,

it's the sort of thing that Major League Baseball needs. I know this is an exhibition game, but this is as must watch as baseball gets. No, there's been plenty of times where leagues histories needed their all-star game to be a showcase of what their sport was so that more eyes would be on it and grow it. This seems like the perfect opportunity to do as such. And I think Skeens loves the opportunity to do this which is a very cool part of Paul Skeens in the way he's handled all the pressure of being this guy and seemingly always on the same even keel in the special that is being run by Permani brothers is actually during the all-star game tomorrow if you show up with a

mustache during the all-star game here a free sandwich boom get a free sandwich shout out to the braves shot paul skeens with his upper lip decoration feeding families yeah you know feeding families out there because those are big sandwiches now now ty has some follow-ups here yeah jet in terms of skeens uh obviously you know what he's done has been amazing but i think a lot of people assumed like obviously his stuff is ridiculous but long longer season than he's ever played in once he's ever played in. Once he's faced these teams a couple times, maybe they get a little bit of a book on him.

Is there any thought that, like, the other shoe is going to drop after the All-Star break when, like, the season starts to get a little longer? Or is his stuff so good? Like, are we thinking Paul Skeens should be, like, the odds-on favorite to win the NL Cy Young? I think he's got as good of a chance as anyone at this point. And that's with a multi, you know, start like head start that Chris Sale had, for example, you know, Chris Sale has been awesome this year. Ranger Suarez has been ridiculous this

year. And I think at the end of the year, it's going to come down to just how dominant he's been. We had this case a few years ago, when Zach wheeler had i think it was like 40 more innings than corbin burns but corbin burns's 170 or so innings were so good that it wound up getting him the cy young if skeens continues through the end of the year tie pitching like he has right now i think he's going to win the cy young and it looks like he's going to win the rookie of the year. And this is a guy who is so good that if he stays healthy and pitches over full seasons, we could see him in the MVP conversation eventually too. Probably not this year, but the Pirates are going to be good.

They just need to go out and spend some money and get a couple of hitters around him. Oh, that's a beautiful jersey, man. That's an heirloom. You need to put that in glass. I was going to say, that's an Indianapolis skiing jersey, isn't it? Indianapolis? Indianapolis what?

I don't think that. What team? Indianapolis who? What are you saying? Go Bucs. Go Bucs. Right here. Go Bucs.

So I got a Pirates shout-out. Go Bucs. On the AAA team he He played for the Indianapolis This could be worth a lot this guy's gonna be the guy he's gonna be the greatest of all time I'm not going that far You want me to anoint him? Yeah! By the way,

by the way, what are you doing calling me out for graphics on a broadcast? I thought that was hilarious. I didn't even know who the person would be to act. The only baseball person I know is you. Hey, Jack, figure it out get out of west

virginia university you know what they call west virginia university what's that you know what that uwv's got a good team they said so obviously this person had to make a thousand graphics they're gonna make mistakes i just thought that and we make i mean, literally, this person did do this on purpose. But I thought it was a good time to take a shot at you. And also knew we're coming back today, need to chat with the Jet because there's a massive thing taking place tonight. Go ahead, call me.

Yeah, Jet, everybody loves the Derby, but I do believe the rules have changed this year. What are we going to expect tonight, and what is the setup now? Are we going back to the 10 outs, just swing the bat as hard as you can or what's the deal? Are they going to put metal bats in there too? When are they going to do that? Oh God, I wish

we had metal bats. How amazing would that be, by the way? I worry about the safety of the fans, frankly. They got 8-year-olds running around in the outfield taking, I mean, you're worried about the safety? We already got that question asked a bunch all night tonight.

I think that's... The metal bat actual potential reality or no? No. Why? Because baseball hates fun. That's why. If they used metal bats, three to five people would die in the crowd. That's not

an exaggeration. Put nets up then. Boo hoo. When you buy a ticket and you know there's metal bats, wear a helmet. Give him a football helmet. Connor, since you're such a tough guy, why don't we bring in a pitching machine

into the Thunderdome and have you wear something at 100 miles per hour. How would you like that? Well, look, I'm going to talk a lot and then I'm going to be a big baby about it.

You almost said it, you son of a bitch. Serena, I'm excited for the Derby though. I think we all are. What are the rules? What, because I'll turn in,

I'll watch, and then I'll see bonus time, and then I'll see time, and then what, this guy just hit a thousand home runs. Well, he didn't win. He's got to,

he's got to do it again. What, what is the setup? What are the rules? And who, who is somebody that has a legit opportunity? Obviously, the polar bears the show every single time no doubt yeah the new twist this year is in the

like in the past couple of years it's been essentially swing as much as you can within the set limit of the time this year they're limiting the amount of pitches that you can see so there's a lot of pressure on the actual home run derby pitchers and every player selects his own pitcher. Pete Alonzo has Dave Jowes who threw to him during his second home run derby championship. Bobby Witt Jr., his brother-in-law is going to be thrown to him. Now he's a former big league pitcher, James Russell, but they essentially have to throw it because you get 40 pitches in a three minute time limit. Uh, everyone's going to go, the four highest totals will advance to the semifinals. And at that point it becomes match play. And, uh, yeah, uh, you know,

there, there's a point later on, uh, where in bonus time, you have a limited number of outs like you have three outs to hit as many balls out as you can so the rules change every year it's all the same though man just trying to hit box yeah that's exactly right you're just trying to hit the ball really far and put on a show like josh hamilton has like pete alonso has uh you know like so many great home run derby champions of the past have. And when you look at the guys in recent years who have won, it's not just Alonzo, it's Juan Soto, it's Bryce Harper, it's Aaron Judge, like the biggest names of the sport have participated. And when you see that list of guys out there right now, the ones I'm keeping an eye on beyond Alonzo

are Bobby Witt Jr. and Gunnar Henderson, arguably the two best young stars in the sport today. All right. Well, I appreciate the hell out of the fact that the dunk contest is what you're referring to there. The people that have won in recent history are the stars of the game. So I appreciate that the MLB is still keeping it exciting and keeping it fun. I feel so bad for those pitchers, though. Yeah. You know?

It's on them. It's on them. They start throwing some balls. Hey, we all see high inside. This guy's taking it out every single time. And all of a sudden you see low outside. It's like, Bob, get it together. Well, Bob's not a fucking professional athlete.

Yeah. You know what? Bob's been hanging out. And now all of a sudden, Bob, get it together. Well, Bob's not a fucking professional athlete. Yeah. You know what? Bob's been hanging out. And now all of a sudden, hey, the whole world is watching baseball at the same time. And they're judging the shit out of how you're throwing. It's kind of a beautiful moment, but I feel bad every single year. Now, Jet, if this goes out, who wins? If this goes out, who wins?

This is a universe ball right here, Jet. You're picking the winner. Here's the thing. I'm going to pick the winner that I'm going to pick on the pre-show tonight, which means I have faith in you to hit a bomb here, Pat McAfee. I'm going with my Kansas City guy.

I'm going Bobby Witt Jr. Bobby Witt Jr. What a name. I'll tell you what, when Bobby Witt Jr. steps into that batter's box, he's going to hit dingers, he's going to hit bombs, because the universe said so. Oh, no, grounder. Double play. Oh!

Infield. In the park. That was a good hit. That was in the park. Okay, are we sure Bobby Witt Jr. is not a NASCAR driver? Yeah, that does sound like a little BWJ. Yeah. It does sound like a little bit of a BWJ.

You know, he grew up in the Dallas area, so he's going to have friends and family here. His dad was a big league pitcher, got all the bloodlines, and has been one of the best players in baseball this year and a really good kid to boot. So whether it's him, whether it's Henderson, whether it's Alonzo, I mean, this is like Pete Alonzo every year at the Derby shows up and shows out. And this, you know, as long as the Mets are Metsing,

like this is the highest profile kick that Pete Alonzo is going to get. The Mets are awesome. Shout out to Michael Cole and all their fans for being along for that terrible, terrible ride it seems like. The Pittsburgh Pirates are the hardest thing in baseball. They've been better lately. I've been getting texts from Cole lately saying I'm back on board. Like, Cole swore

off the Mets, like, probably about three weeks ago after they lost a couple games. He's back, though. You're going to see him tonight. Ask him what he thinks about the Mets. He really rides the wave of emotion with that Mets team, and it's normally Don. It's terrible, it seems like. It's perfect for his personality.

AJ has a question for you, Jet. Jet, will we actually get to watch these dingers go and see how far they land? I know in the past they're pitching so quick that we don't even get to really see the ball land in the outfield stands. I'd like to see it. I'd like to see where that thing lands. Tonight, will we get that? I hope so, man, because I'm with you. Part of the beauty of what Josh Hamilton did at Yankee

Stadium 15 years ago now was that we got to watch the ball fly into the upper deck. When it's timed like this, you don't get to appreciate a majestic 475-foot home run. i don't think with 40 pitches in three minutes it's gonna be like that because i mean if we break it down that's like 13 pitches a minute that's like a pitch every four to five seconds um so it's uh it's not ideal for home run watching and uh you know it's the sort of thing that mlb i think needs to frankly think about more i don't know i don't know if they're going to go back to the format that we had growing up when we were kids What just happened budget come on

There you like bullshits back up there again Foxy Jerry they talking to you I was getting on board with what you were saying because you're talking about all the goodness of seeing how far the ball traveled. I want to know who's hitting the biggest bomb. How often are they hitting the bomb? And then Foxy once again. No, no, no, no. Foxy went on his European vacation. Did you see this, Jet? Foxy goes on his European vacation. He goes all over the world. It was incredible. Foxy, we're proud of you. Now he says, while he's on a beach in France, he goes, they think that that whole glitch thing stopped.

I'm going to bring it back. Literally, day one, we come back, Foxy. We declared weeks ago this was not me. This whole thing is frozen. My board freezes. I can't do anything. We go black. What does that do with my vacation?

Well, because it's not very Nice at all, okay? I know you're over there. That isn't Nice. No. It's south of France. Do I feel like Chad Gable right now? Chad Gable's in some shit. I will tell you that. I will absolutely tell you. It seems... I saw that

lady... What the hell? What happened? What's going on here? I don't want to know. What's in there? It's probably a body part. Oh, no.

A big dump. Body part. Hell. Boys. Keep that shit over there. Yeah, I'm not here. Agreed. Yeah, it is.

Is that a videotape? This is a videotape. Yeah, it is. Yep. Is that a videotape? This is a videotape from that. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. You got a VCR in there. What year is it? Yeah.

I think Tim got one. Jet, this is on you, I think. Jet, we appreciate you. Let's have a good home run derby tonight, Jet, okay? Great seeing you. Thanks for this. Last time I saw this box, a freak show was staring at me. Thanks a lot for Jet Passing.

Yeah, Jet. Maybe that's who bit you over. Oh, my God, D-Bud. Oh, my God. He's got a point. Well, I think this is actual bed bugs, but there's a chance that that thing that was staring at me last Monday in Canada, he's a bed bug. I was going to say, who says that they can't speak to bugs? Did you see that?

Yeah. This is the box. This is it. That's cute. Foxy, sweet. Happy you did this. Yeah, well, you guys think I got up and set that there? Like, what do you think?

We don't know what you do, you freak. Anyways, we move on. Jet Passing was talking about the Home Run Derby. What is that shit, though? I don't know. I don't know. I'm about done with it. Put it away was talking about the Home Run Derby. What is that shit, though? I don't know. I'm about done with it. Put it away.

Because now we know there's somebody. Exactly. Yeah, there's someone. Has to be. In cahoots. There's somebody in here. Yeah. Check the tapes.

Who put it out there? We're going to have to get a scary photo. He's putting the lights on the door. Yeah, I was just going to say. We have no air conditioning either. Oh. Trying to smoke yourself. Interesting.

They climbed in the vents just like those fans. Did you see that? The vent climbing from Columbia and Argentina? Why? Why'd they have to do that, though? Because they didn't have tickets. They didn't have tickets. So here's the things that took place at that. That's weird. I would like to know why.

Don't love that. Don't love that at all. We'll keep that out of sight there. That means there's somebody. Yeah, there's a mole. That means there's somebody. Yeah, there's a mole in here. That means there's somebody. Who is it? Great show on Netflix.

The mole. Watching with my wife during the break. Season two, phenomenal. There's some good moles out there. There's some good mole out there. But we got a mole in here. Speaking of moles, you're right. We saw these.

That was wild to watch last night during that Copa final. What is going on here? This is obviously a tactical manager, I think, is his account. He's a blogger. I think he's a blogger. Whenever we were at TSD, he was saying a bunch of stuff. And it seems to be great. Legitimately.

Has popped up on my algorithm a lot. Follows along. He went to the Copa final because I think a lot of people were very excited to get there. Massive game. Messi's playing in what's potentially his last international game. So the entire soccer community wanted to be there. Well, they weren't the only ones. Everybody in Colombia wanted to be there and everybody in Argentina wanted to be there. People without tickets, people that maybe had tickets at the upper deck that wanted to get down closer because we're here earlier. I mean,

there was a full shit show at Hard Rock Stadium last night, AJ. And this is obviously going to get talked about until the World Cups here in 2026 because there's a lot of stadiums that are going to be used. And there's a lot of people, I think, in a lot of stadiums and cities going, what the hell is that? Is that going to happen?

Did you see the escalators, AJ? These things were just bashed. I don't even know why you would do that. Escalators are a good thing if you're trying to get from one spot to another. They didn't care. Argentina wins. Columbia fans potentially get pissed. They bashed the place and were they buying

concessions or just was it just like a full-on yeah diving back there grabbing shit how much is a beer no it's not i'll pour it myself what all happened they were dragging people out in extra time with like 10 minutes left in the game still going through all the rows checking tickets yeah they had full-on cops going checking seat the seat the seat the seat about ticket to ticket and then they were escorting people out of there it's like okay that seems like a great thing to be doing while the game is taking place think about those cops like they're completely outnumbered oh yeah oh yeah and they're going into a hey hey, yeah, you guys can't. Maybe family has tickets, like couple tickets. Eight people in two seats.

I mean, it's like, and then are you getting people in there? Because then there was people outside standing there that were like, I paid $2,000 for this ticket. It's right here. You're not allowed in. You're not allowed in. They missed the whole game. The amount of lawsuits are going to come from this entire thing. It's going to be bananas.

Also, I saw a lot of people ripping the security and the cops and stuff like that, but also when you have people acting like this, something like this, just acting like animals, and it's like there's nothing they can do. When you have a mob like this, you either resort to violence and then people

are like, oh shit, okay, we better, or you can't do anything. You got people crawling through vents and just doing whatever. That was wild. Smashing escalators, like what are you supposed to do? There is nothing, I don't think there's anything that you would find a majority of Americans climb through a vent to get in to watch. No, no.

And that's a shame. I want to let you know the passion that these people have to watch their sport is obviously admirable, but what a fucking wild scene in hard rock last night for the copa finals joining us now ladies and gentlemen is a man who knows a lot about hosting big events that are potentially hostile because there's actual humans beating the shit out of each other in the dead center of it ladies and gentlemen the president of the ufc friend of the program dana white how you doing boss what's up boys how are you? How are you? Hey, I'm fantastic. I hope you are as well.

I don't know if you got a chance to see those clips from that Copa final down in Miami. What are your thoughts on that? Because like big events, obviously security is a massive part of the whole ordeal there, Dana. Do you have any thoughts on that? That is insane. I mean, that's just, that's something you can't prepare for. I mean, look at that. That is the craziest thing that I have ever seen in my life.

I was literally watching it here when you guys were talking. I was like, oh, my God. Where are they trying to go? To the soccer game. There was a final Argentina versus Columbia down in Miami. That's the Miami Dolphins Stadium right there, Dana. And what, do they not have tickets or something? Why can't they stand in line?

Why are they trying to break in there? What's going on? We don't know if there's no tickets. We don't know if they had higher tickets or something? Can't they stand in line? Why are they trying to break in there? What's going on? We don't know if there's no tickets. We don't know if they had higher tickets or trying to get in line. It just seemingly started, and then they couldn't stop it. Wild scene, World Cup's coming down. But also, UFC continues to power on. Dana, let's chit-chat about some news that broke over the weekend.

And then that will obviously span into a conversation about a great friend of yours. Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler shared a tweet in a bond over a feeling of the things that took place in Butler, Pennsylvania, whenever President Trump was shot at by a sniper who's 20 years old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Michael Chandler said, we stand united on this one, where Conor McGregor said, this billionaire could be doing anything. Instead, he's eating bullets right now trying to run for president. And then Conor McGregor replied to Michael Chandler.

He said, I talked to Daniel Leigh about our new date. All looking good. 24 for sure. Now, obviously, the history between Conor and Chandler is very long. And people have been waiting for this fight for a long time. Is this tweet accurate? And what are your thoughts on the buzz that this fight still has? Has to be a good thing.

Yeah. So, you know i was i'm in italy right now and i was flying over here and i was sleeping on the plane and my wife woke me up and told me that that that somebody shot uh president trump and you know obviously very very close good friends of mine so i started freaking out and i grabbed my phone i had like 350 text messages so i was just trying to figure out what was going on with him. And then Connor was one of the guys that that reached out to me about him. And, you know, obviously a support and, you know, taking a shot at the president. Some of the things that are being said, it's like this.

This is a former president and a candidate. I mean mean imagine if somebody took a shot at biden or obama or clinton it's like this is our president it's you know what i mean if it happened to anybody any of our presidents every american on earth should be horrified by this and disgusted and and upset and angry um what is the question you asked me about the fight? No, it was an attack on the United States for sure. That's how you have to feel about it. And I think a lot of people did. And I think almost more unification than I could have imagined afterwards with how everybody kind of was like, this is bullshit. Not everybody. Obviously,

there's going to be people that aren't. But with that came the conversation of Conor and Chandler. And we'll definitely talk more about you and President Trump and everything like that. But the Conor McGregor and Chandler thing that spurred from this entire conversation led a lot of us who are excited for that fight to take place, think to ourselves, okay, here we go. Is it going to happen? And do you think there will become a time where that fight is real? And is 2024 going to be the time? Yeah, that's the fight that needs to happen. you know every we've been waiting for it it's it's an awesome fight it's a fun fight and um yeah i mean as of sitting here right here right

now no i don't have a date for it or a plan or anything like that and obviously me the fans and espn would love to have it to happen in 24 but we'll see what happens. Okay, sweet. And let's talk about another big day you have coming together. Mexican Independence Day at the Sphere. How deep is that card into being created and made and what are your thoughts on how the Sphere is going to look for a UFC fight? We've been in there.

We saw the U2 concert. We didn't know any of the songs. We didn't really. We were on a lot of edibles obviously because there's a lot of 120 know we got like 120 milligrams coming in you know what i mean right down the door we're just we're living in the sphere you know we're doing that entire thing but obviously with the way the seats move in the air in the wind in the led and then if you were to put a fight in there you told us this before we even went in there you're like i'm gonna put on the greatest live event in the history of combat sports or something like that that's slowly seemingly making its way to being fruition

here on mexican independence day how far along in the planning of that are we and what should we expect out of that thing yeah we're we're deep into it um you know you got listen i would love to hear your your assessment of the sphere when i went there it's crazy because the way this whole thing lined up tom brady called me and said you want to go see you too and uh i was like yeah when is it he's like this weekend that the sphere so we end up going and um 20 minutes into it i'm blown away by you know everything i start to realize you too is not the star of this show the sphere is the star of this show right and um i'm like i'm doing this i'm gonna be the first guy to ever do a live sporting event from the sphere so i called my head of production craig borsari and i said

i don't know what you're doing next weekend but cancel it you and your guys are going to the sphere i want you to see this we're going to do an event here. What did you think of the Sphere? I was blown away by it. Yeah, the Sphere was the show. We didn't think U2 knew that. You know what I mean? That was our kind of takeaway, but there was a lot of diehard U2 fans in there too. For sure. And shout out to them. That was an incredible show. It was Super Bowl week, so there was a lot of people that maybe were just coming to do the Sphere. So I think there was a little feel situation there maybe early in the week. But the Sphere was the show.

Like, it's 8K seemingly all around you. The suites are sweet. I'm bling-bling. So nice. It's everything set up perfectly. Maybe use it a little more, maybe. Yes. Yeah, a little more.

For sure. But are you going to want people to sit down, though? Isn't, like, the seats in the suite a part of it? Have you thought about that? Yeah, so you're going to sit down, though, in the seats in the suite, a part of it? Have you thought about that? Yeah, so you're going to have the people that are in the seats, the people that are in the suites, and then the bottom level where people are actually standing and will watch the whole thing standing room only. And then there will be bleachers and seats, and it's going to be a— I'm already $17 million into this thing and uh we're not anywhere near

september yet so when i tell you guys when i say that i'm going to put on the greatest live sporting event in in the history of combat sports maybe in in sports period um nobody else is going to go win and spend it like let's say you two spends i don't know i'm just throwing this out i don't know what they spend let's say they spend you know uh you know 30 million dollars that's that's that's across 40 nights i'm going in one night one time that's it never again and uh that's why i keep telling you guys it's going to be the most unique, badass, incredible show that you've ever seen in sports. Okay, we're doing performances, musical performances? Oh, hell no.

I don't do that stuff. Oh, you're just doing fighting. We're doing fighting. We are fighting the whole time. Listen, it's Mexican Independence Day. When you think about fighting and the history of fighting, some of the baddest human beings that have ever walked the face of the earth have been Mexicans, right? And Mexicans, it's Mexican

Independence Day, and when you think about the history of combat in Mexico, you realize their flag is a battle between, like, a serpent and an eagle. Their flag is the only flag that actually has a fight on it in conflict. You know, the Mexican people

are hardworking, love their family they've been fighting since the beginning of time um you know their whole culture has been about i was in mexico city we just did a fight down there recently right we're driving to the arena for the fight and i shit you not there's a playground there they got swing sets and the monkey bars and all the shit and there's a boxing ring in the middle of the playground next time i see you in person i'm going to show you this video i literally started filming it out the window that's awesome so when you think about what a tough durable uh you know hard-working group of people the mexican people are boxing is just so ingrained

in in their history and like i say some of the biggest legends of all time in combat sports have come out of mexico so this is a love letter to the people of mexico their history who they are and where they come from okay so that's a theme of the evening obviously on mexican independence day we're excited for that how many fights are going to be on the card? Do you know that? We're going to do 10. 10? Is it going to be like a fight week? What type of card? Because you've got to balance, right? Main events, main events.

But if you have five main events, how many main events? Or are you not worried about that? There'll be a main, a co-main, and obviously this card will be very Mexican heavy. Okay. Alright, we're excited to watch. Let's talk about the UFC. So I don't know if you saw this because you were flying,

and you said you got a heads up. Immediately following the shooting of President Trump in the air, the Internet did a lot of things, but it said one of the trends that started was that he was flying to UFC Denver, and he was going to walk out, because that's become like one of the staples of these UFC events is not only the celebrities that are in attendance but the walk out whenever whoever seemingly comes when President Trump comes it obviously makes massive news and it is always a massive pop people thought that after saying fight after getting shot in the

shot in the ear tackled by Secret Service got to be able to holster a, tackled by Secret Service. Got to be able to holster a gun. Tackled by Secret Service. Then gets up. Where's my shoes, please? These are good shoes. And then goes fight. And then people thought he was going to get on a plane from Butler, Pennsylvania,

and go to Denver and show up at UFC and walk in front of an arena. The internet was cooking up one of the most absurdly iconic evenings of all time. Was there ever a chatter with that? And I know this week you're obviously going to be alongside of him later this week. How much have you talked to him? And what do you think people should think about the thoughts of how he is right now mentally? Because that's got to be absurd. Even a man who is as mentally tough seemingly and as unshakable and unfathomable i mean getting shot is a whole

different animal and his natural reaction is fight let's do that i think he's going to say fuck him but he said fight i i mean that's that's either here or there how is he and uh what does your week look like and was there ever a thought of him going to ufc denver no he was never going to ufc denver i wasn't even in i was on a plane Denver? No, he was never going to UFC Denver. I was on a plane to Italy. So he wouldn't go to the UFC unless I was there, number one. Number two, I've been saying this forever about this guy. He is one of the toughest, most resilient human beings that I have ever met in my life.

And let me tell you what. Everybody wants to act like a tough guy, right? Everybody wants to act like a tough guy. Well, when the shit goes down, you find out who tough guys are and who tough guys are not. This guy is the legitimate, ultimate American badass of all time. You know, the guy takes a shot at him. He goes down. He stands up. And then he starts chanting to the crowd, you know, fight, fight, fight. I literally was blown away. I called him as soon as I landed.

I called him and he answered. And he was already home from the hospital. And we talked for like 30 minutes. Pat, I'm telling you, I have never known a human being like this in my life he is literally one of the toughest most badass guys of all time and listen you you don't like him you can say whatever you want about him it is undebatable now literally undebatable this sniper tried to take a shot at him and missed him by millimeters. A bullet through the ear.

I had a buddy in Boston when we grew up, and a bunch of guys tried to kill him one night outside a bar. And he was never the same again. He was never the same. He literally moved out of South Boston and went down South Shore and was never the same again mentally after that happened to him. This guy's almost 80 years old the guy tried to blow his head off and and to have the reaction that he did when he got up up um this guy's been a friend of mine for 25 years one of the greatest human beings i've ever met he's an unbelievable friend and he is forever now the ultimate american badass that picture that you just showed will go down in history a hundred years after we're dead well you just thought that you've got absolutely and uh i mean

the blood across the face just all it was it was a wild scene his reaction obviously something that everybody is reacting to in the way you're talking about is how a lot of people i think that weren't even trump fans maybe going into the weekend we're like yeah i mean that dude shot in the head and stands up and is like still the same guy because to conor mcgregor's tweet this dude's a billionaire he could be doing anything man he could be doing anything you know like literally could be doing absolutely anything until the day he dies without audience no i don't know he maybe he'll live forever i mean he might be able to figure that out but But until the day he dies, he can do nothing. Get shot. And you talk about your friend's perspective

has changed on life and changed him. This guy seemingly was like, nah, flight's still the same time to Wisconsin. I'm still doing this. That says a lot, too. That's not like a Fugaze. That's seemingly not a Fugaze, which I don't follow closely enough, but I feel like a lot of people say that. That.

People who know me really well know me first of all i'm nobody's puppet nobody tells me what to say nobody tells me what to do ever um hell yeah the the narrative that is put out there about donald trump is completely false absolutely disgusting this guy loves this country so much and every American in this country. He loves every American. And like Connor said, this guy, he loves to golf. He could be golfing every day. He could be on a boat right over here next to me, you know, doing whatever he's doing.

This guy is literally fighting for this country and for every American in it. He's one of the greatest human beings I've ever met. And the other day, man, I just, I told him, I said, you are, you are the ultimate badass, man. Think about people that have been put in positions like this. A sniper tried to kill him and by a millimeter missed blowing his head off. And you saw the reaction he had. Everybody thinks they're tough till the shit hits the fan. That guy is legit.

Yeah, and I hope, you know, with everything you say there, he utilizes what is seemingly a lot of momentum in a good way to unify. We need it. We need it. That shit can't be happening in the United States of America. We appreciate the hell out of you, man. Good luck this week, and congrats on that fucking boat. You see that thing? He's in a lobby.

This dude's in a lobby right now on the water. You've earned it, pal. Congratulations, ladies and gentlemen, Dana White. We appreciate you. Thank you, guys. Yeah, Dana. All right. I mean, it's crazy that, you know, sports guy is going to be the one that's going to be basically introducing him later this week. It's a political thing.

And it's crazy. It's a wild time, AJ. It is a wild time. I don't follow closely enough. I just follow the internet's reaction to things. Seemed like this weekend afterwards, the amount of many men. Oh, yeah. A lot of them.

A lot of those. It was, I mean, legit. Is it Thursday Dana will be introducing him, I believe? Yeah, I don't know what's all public. I don't know that world enough. I was just told this information. Sure. I think Dana said that publicly, I believe.

Can you imagine the reaction that happens? And Dana also, I think he gave $50,000 to the firefighter that passed away protecting his daughters and his wife, I believe. I think UFC matched it. I think they gave $50,000 as well. There's a GoFundMe out there for the sad, sad situation. But there's an opportunity seemingly, hopefully, in every devastating thing, there's a silver lining. Hopefully, there's a little bit more somehow unity behind something that there hasn't been for a long, long time.

Politics are crazy, but the world is something we all have to live on. So let's try to get along and enjoy the hell out of all of it and stop trying to kill people yeah yeah that'd be cool bottom line all right we'll be back tomorrow we hope you enjoyed the hell out of day we've been lucky to be back haven't we AJ oh man great to see you guys for real yeah it's great to see you as well we'll be back tomorrow be a friend tell friends something nice that might change their life. Goodbye! Right on the screws, first one. Yeah, not bad.

Do we break? Start a little early. Now, Rust, you almost broke that fucking window, by the way. Where? With that hit. No. It nailed that front bottom window. I thought it was going to shatter.

It was a good piece of hit. Yeah, yeah. It was good wood. Good wood. There it is. All right. We've got to work back into it. Yep. Got to work back into it.

What's that box all about? I don't know. I don't love that. I'm kind of sick and tired of that bullshit happening here. I don't know what it's all about. And we have been attacking Foxy. Uh-huh. Yeah.

Maybe it's time to set our sights on Bill. I know Foxy didn't move. Once that shit went dark, I looked back. He was still there. We do have a mutant that lurks in a cave back here. I wouldn't trust. Who? Who's that?

AJ, don't make a mistake. I wouldn't call anybody a mutant in there. He's been working hard. He came in with new shoes on. He did. Great shoes. The Salmon ones. The Salomon brothers.

No. They're Salomons. No, the Salomons. You're right. The Salomonses? The Salomon Brothers. Oh. No. They're the Salomons. No, the Salomons. You're right. The Salomons. You're right. Excuse me. They looked awesome.

The Salmon Ones, baby. They're like hiking slash athlete shoes. They look sweet. Talking about Beal? Yeah. He's tactical, head fashion icon. He's so jock. You are too.

I saw you were lurking in the back of some photos at this golf thing. Yep. Lurking is the proper word because it appeared as if you were always flexing. Oh, yeah. You're holding a tee. Look, always. Jack. Jack.

I'm not flexing. I'm not flexing or anything. Hey, you're a monster right now, bro. You're an absolute monster. An incredible golfer. And I think you're friends with Carlton, right? Hey. Hey. He's awesome. Alfonso is the man. Got to play with him Saturday and Sunday. Good golfer, and I think you're friends with Carlton, right? Hey. He's awesome.

Alfonso is the man. Got to play with him Saturday and Sunday. Good golfer, but honestly, great dude. How was the tournament as a whole? I heard there was a delay. Everybody have good vibes? Yeah, a little delay on Saturday. We were on the 17th tee, and they blew the horn.

We had to get off the course for a little bit, came right back, and then it got delayed Sunday morning before we even teed off. It got suspended for a little bit. Jeez. See Jerry Rice? Not too long, no. Oh, my God. Is Jerry okay? Jerry's out there. Jerryed off. It got suspended for a little bit. Jeez. See Jerry Rice? Not too long, no. Oh, my God. Is Jerry okay?

Jerry's out there. Jerry's playing. I think he's doing all right. Is he okay? I don't know exactly what that dust-up was on film that I saw. Smacking a fucking puff. Yeah, that was awesome. That didn't seem like a very aggressive question.

I'm always with you. The Niners? What about tailgating? He's going to fight a guy for the Niners on a golf course? Hell yeah, Jerry. Now, obviously not great, but like what a fan. Well, I mean, yeah. He was going to fight him.

It seemed like he was going to. Now, I will say. What was the question? Hey, where's the chicken helmet? No, that's not what that is. Do you think the Chiefs are going to be better this year with better weapons. That's the tail end. We know how the American Century Championship is.

That is true. We know how the American Century Championship is. A lot of fan access there. That's why I like Travis going this year. I was thinking to myself, that's going to be wild. Travis Kelsey out there. He won karaoke, too. He won the karaoke deal on Thursday night.

I saw the host today. I saw the host of that. I saw the Baumgardner. Yeah. He was up there with Riggle. He and Riggle were kind of hosting it. That looks like a good time. We never went to that. No.

No, we never did not once. We need to go to that. That looked like a great time. Go. Travis Kelsey absolutely crushed it. But I will say, not going. It is really nice not to have any bruises on my feet. Sure.

Or any pulled muscles. Blisters. Or blisters. Sunburn. Sunburn. Like, well, I kind of. It's like training camp. It's like a training camp with blisters and bruises on your toes and stuff.

Yeah, golf. How'd you hold up? It's a physical sport. I was all right. You know, I knew going in, like, hey, this is a thing. This is a battle. Physically, mentally, yeah. Get up and get in the lake every morning.

That definitely helps, I think. Did you meet anybody new that you were like, you know what, pretty cool, because there is a lot of awesome guys. There's new guys there. A-Rod? Yeah. Travis and Jason, both there. A-Rod, yeah. Alex Rodriguez played this year. He sucks at golf. Hey, A-Rod, that shouldn't happen. Explain that. How's that happen?

I don't know. I'm not sure exactly how it happens. His swing looks good. I saw him on the range. Swing looks good. Looks like he enjoys golf. I don't know. Yeah, and he does business. That's an NBA team. Maybe that's why Mark Lurie won sell-to. He didn't want golf at one time, and you're like, this guy sucks. Yeah, I need you to break 90

if you want the rest of this team, pal. I don't know if you saw Liv golf. I think A-Rod normally does a lot of what Answer did this weekend. He was close, did a nice deep sail, duffed quickly. Ball rolls short of the green. He's not happy. He's in shorts. It's golf, but louder. Full set. Fuck that club.

You're going to do it. Do it. You're right. We've seen guys kind of throw, like, gingerly throw their club. No, you're going to do it. Get rid of that thing. I've seen a few of those on a golf course, to be honest. I've seen a few of those. You never expect it in an actual golf tournament. That's why when it happens, you think to yourself,

so there's no fans anywhere near where that thing's going? Right. That's an actual golf tournament. And is that the – Whatever we're all following, you know. Is that the pro? Rom, Sergio, it's a Spain. Rom's still playing?

Rombo, Bombo. Rombo is going to throw that at one of those drones one of these days. You know that. He's got fires. He should tee one up. How was live this weekend, though? Good. It was good. Spain had a great weekend. I saw clips

everywhere. Good to see you. Good one. Obviously, we talked about Carlos earlier in the soccer team, so they had to trifecta. I'll bring up something that D-Bud is too humble to bring up as Sergio Garcia buries the winner in Spain.

Okay, you tell me. You tell me. He wins in Spain? Look, come on. Okay, he's trying to build a league? Yeah, bingo. Okay. Put somebody over? Maybe the hole's a little bit bigger. Golf, but bigger hole. Maybe for Sergio or whatever he's playing. I mean, maybe it'll work here.

Guess what? His team won, too. First double playoff in live history. Now, people are, maybe it'll work here. And guess what? His team won, too. Oh, okay. First double playoff in live history. In live history? Now, people are saying maybe it's a work, okay? And I don't know how it could be. Really? But the work actually might be the man, the myth, the legend, Darius Butler. There's a real Darius Butler effect.

The D-butt effect is happening in live. He played with Bryson DeChambeau. Then the next tournament that DeChambeau played in wins the U.S. Open. This guy plays with Sergio Garcia. The next live event that Sergio Garcia plays in wins the live event. It's the D-Bot effect. You said they're teaching you, pal. I think it's the opposite.

I don't make the rules here. You know, maybe good vibes, good mojo, but Bryson was great. Sergio was awesome. Both of these guys, all these guys, once you get in that kind of golf community, they want you, obviously, to be better. I obviously took a lot of tips from them, but maybe they're getting something from me. I don't know. Right there, you just told them, hey, just make the putt. That's what you said. Let's go for it.

It's going to be a double playoff, and you just got to fucking win it, Serge. Is Rom called yet? I was going to say, maybe play with Rom next so this fucking guy can get his mojo back. Okay, Ron, yeah, Ron needs to, he's struggling right now. AJ, are you going to play NCAA 2K 2025? Yeah, is that the official name?

I'm kind of confused with how you guys talk about it. Yep, that's the official name. That's what the cover says. Yeah, that's what the cover says. I have no ties with this game at all. Yeah, okay. So for me, that's the game. That's the game.

There it is. In my eyes, that's the game. It's not the game. That's the game. There it is. In my eyes, that's the game. It's not the game. It is college football. It's college football 25. That's a terrible name. It is. Why?

I think it's a boring name. I just think it's a boring name. Because they're rebranding it. It's back for 10 years. I mean, they should have just called it NCAA football 25. I do like that they're not doing business with the NCAA. But the NCAA, once again, showc that they're Stooges, should have been doing business to keep their name in there.

They can't even keep their damn name in their game. No. Most sought-after game in decades. For sure. NCAA can't even keep their fucking name in there. What type of Stooges are running this place? I mean, I don't know. I don't know.

Bunch of morons for sure. They got their fucking name removed. Yeah, they did. Get them out of there. Biggest game in, actually, like you said, the last 10 years. I can't play. I suck. I suck so bad. AJ, are you good at the game? No, I told you. I tried Halo one time

online and everyone just killed me a hundred times and I stopped playing. Yeah. Sit down and call it duty. This one's easier, they say. Oh, okay. Let me see. Okay. Oh, I'm recharging or whatever the fuck it is.

Rebooting. Okay, here we go again. I'm rebooting. All right. As soon as I recharge, boom. Does everybody know where I am? All the time. To be fair, as someone who has played Vela games their entire lives,

I can't play those games anymore either because that's how good these kids are. Now that there's avenues to actually become and make something of yourself through video games. You can't play the Fortnite I'm going to get 10 runs on this college football. That's what kids want to be now. You go and talk to a room full of fourth graders. They want to be streamers. Marks.

It might be two or three of them that say I want to go to the NBA, NFL, whatever. That's what kids want to be. In some ways. Is that a – What was that? Speaking of, have we checked in with Bruce? Bruce walked in this morning with a bag over his head.

He was so bummed out. No, that was a wild internet turn. Still going, brother. Yeah, he is. He is. He is so – You can't help but just be in a good mood after watching that. You can't help it.

It's great. You legitimately cannot help it. What does he do? I heard there were some things. I mean, hey, he's... Who? Who? Brother, if you don't know what this is...

What about Bruce? What's going on with Bruce? Bruce is a big fan. Bruce is the one... Bruce, I didn't know who... Sketch obviously took over the entire internet there oh okay but the first eyes on sketch was bruce and bruce presented to the team championed him yeah i became massive fan foxy became massive fan oh yeah just like

everything in this office though i mean there are certainly some toxic thoughts on the entire thing but i think sketches only go to the top, brother. Yeah. I mean, this ain't – Bruce. For the buck. Bruce, thank you for doing that. Yeah. I mean, you know, he's playing Madden with Fontes Perfect and Sauce Gardner.

It's good stuff. Doing it. Doing it. Boom. Sweet. That had to be for him. Yeah. Teasing piece to him for sure.

Watching that whole – yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sauce Gardner is still on X or he just deletes every tweet? Sauce is certainly he was getting into golf there. Getting into golf there for a little bit. There's a lot going on here on that, man. Sometimes you gotta delete tweets. I mean, you gotta test

the water sometimes and then, you know, say maybe this isn't the time. I do appreciate that people always attack people for deleting tweets and it's like what if the person just realized that i do it you don't want to change your mind yeah you can change your mind absolutely i think so i don't think we should do it now granted should certainly if if there is a series a trend yeah it should be like this this isn't a deleting because you're changing

your mind this is deleting because you want to do this one again in a week. Okay. We got to realize that as well, I think. I think we should follow along with that. A lot of internetting during the break. A lot of internetting. Oh, yeah. I think we got a lot of talent.

This world's got a lot of talent. It's hard to keep up with everything going on. What is real, too? What is real? What is not? What's AI? Well, that's impossible. You just got to give up on that one.

And the people in the real world, good luck. I'm pulling for you. No chance. Because there's shit that you just have no idea. How am I supposed to even fact check this? How am I supposed to even fact check this? Well, you got to go to the person. Well, the person does it. They deleted the thing. Well, why did they delete it? Well, if they delete it, well, is it? Is that a fake deleted? That's a fake deleted post. Well, how do you know?

You can't because it looks exactly like the post. Why? Because the AI is so fucking good. It's like, we're in a time where you just got to mail it in. You just got to take everything for like kind of... We got a lot of talent on the internet. There are meme makers right now whose brains are Scorsese-like. Yeah. Summer of Sosa

and McGuire. I mean, we're talking there is talent. Like, we went live on X today for the first time. Shout out, X. Welcome. Thanks for watching here. I think there's a lot of people who live on X. That's where I spend a lot of my time, and only our clips are on there. I think a lot of people don't even know that we potentially go live.

Toss it up there live, because X is kind of forcing you to see that people are live. Yeah. Put it right at the top. Right at the top. Even when you're scrolling. They'll force you to touch it. You'll be scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. You touch it.

And all of a sudden, you're the only person in there. Oh, fuck. Oh, no. Get out. Get out. Get out. Can't do it. Close X. Can't do it.

Can't do it. I was so scared. There was one time. There was three motherfuckers in there. I was like, ah. Sorry, sorry, sorry. You didn't see me. You didn't see me.

Wrong door. Wrong door. Don't text me. Don't text me. Don't text me. Start going to the next videos. I hate that. Yeah, I don't like, wrong door. Don't text me, don't text me. I started going to the next videos, and I hate that. Yeah, I don't like that at all. I hate that.

Very different things, too. It's not even like the same sphere. That's like the TikTok thing, right, where it's constant. It just goes and goes and goes. I hate that. See, I don't mind it anymore. Because depending on your algo, that next video, it can be kind of fun. And then, you know, okay, I'm already at two.

Let me see where the three is. Oh, so this is their wormhole. Yeah, bingo. Well, the scroll was the wormhole. Bingo. That was the... Now they have a video scroll. It's their Instagram reels.

Got it. X is by far the most important platform. Without a doubt. For sure. Yeah. They know it, though. Everybody knows it. Oh, yeah.

Reddit, right, is the real deal, though, too? Reddit is like the gate. I'm not smart enough for Reddit, I don't think. Reddit's too much. For certain. I wouldn't say. Reddit's, I mean, I guess it is technically a social network, but I feel like that's just. Hold on.

Hold the phone. I joined LinkedIn. Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. Congratulations. You've been active on there? You've been putting your resume on there? Two posts.

I made two posts. Good luck future suits was my sign off. I was going to get on there and really teach game. Say, here's the fucking reality. Okay? Because I got on LinkedIn. You know, me and suits have an interesting relationship. Well documented.

Me and suits. I get along with good suits. Bad suits I seemingly don't get along with i actually hate them that is a real thing because i you know just think there's a lack of a lot of things on their side so i say you know what fuck i'm gonna join their little platform i'm gonna join linkedin see what's going on over here i'm gonna extend an olive branch to the suits this is gonna be me saying hey suits let's work together. Because normally, not how I operate. I'm growing, evolving, reflecting, trying

to be better, you know, everything in this particular world. Then I start scrolling through there. Oh, I got so mad. Everybody's fucking lying. Everybody's lying. Are they just posting resumes and congratulating some story

that they saw their buddy in? What table would you sit in if you had to sit in one of these tables? Okay. And if you give the right answer, potential chance we'll hire you. Okay, good luck. I'll be scrolling the comments.

This is a CEO of a fake company boasting this. It's like, get me the fuck out of here. This is not the real deal. So I said, I want to help the future generation. Like, hey, if this is really for business and everything, I've done okay, business, done okay thus far. It's like, let me, this is my reality. This is my side of this thing

as opposed to maybe how other people operate. Posted two times on there and just said, fuck it, not doing it. I'm done with it. I'm done with it. I posted two things, though. It seemed like it was okay. Steve Jobs quoted another thing. Good luck out there. There was an article by BroBible

written about me going in there. Oh, wow. He talks about me. Shout out to BroBible. I've been following along for them for a long, long time. Yeah, they said just the use of the word suits is like kind of a shot at an entire... And then they gave a full depiction of what a

suit is and like the history of the i like that i was like god damn i was sitting on an island reading that thing i'm like this this person's breaking this down a lot deeper than i was thinking of it i guess he's right because i was so high i was like yeah i guess this guy's into it linkedin seems like a good place though i need to get back in there but that reddit i'll never be able to figure out linkedin i don't think i'll ever be able to figure out. TikTok, shout out talk. Shout out talk. Talk to figure it out. YouTube, Twitter, Instagram.

That's all I can operate. I'm a dying breed. I know I'm an old man. Like my daughter, Mackenzie, she can open an app. She's 14 months. What the fuck? Well, who knows what apps to by the time she's at the age where she'll be on her phone a lot. What app will be there?

She can't put together a sentence if she can fucking open that thing and get it to the camera. No problem. Let me get to the camera. Huh? I don't want any B phones by the time she... Those are some of the shit I see on the internet, too. The future's wild, huh? Yeah.

They're thinking about it. Like, contacts? What's this shit Elon just did? Elon just did something. Neuralink? Neuralink, yeah. That guy already had it. He's already done it. Like contacts? What's this shit Elon just did? Elon just did something. Neuralink. Neuralink, yeah. That guy already done it. Can you do that for sports?

I'm sure that's where people will try to take it. Yeah, try to create superhumans. Oh, Patrick Mahomes knows everything, huh? Watch this. Oh, that's interesting. How's he able to break down every defense so quickly? How does he know exactly what to do all the time? How's Travis Kelsey able to find the hole? Wait a minute.

Someone checked their brain. Could you imagine if you had something in there that was just like takes a picture. Going out to each game, do the refs have to scan everybody's head to make sure they don't have a neural link? Like the MLB umpires do whenever the pitchers come out. Put your head in the fucking hat.

That's wild. The future is a crazy place. The past two weeks have really put a lot into perspective. Oh, yeah. The past is a crazy place, dude. Sports are the greatest, dude. Mm-hmm. That is literally...

I was watching that Wimbledon shit. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh. Yeah. Replay? Fucking so close. I thought it was in. Then remember, we heard the conspiracy theories about that agent.

From McEnroe. They don't believe it, right? They don't believe the lasers work. Yeah. Some tennis players, they see it. And then the thing. And they're like, that's not. I literally just watched.

So they think it's a work. Yeah. Everything's fucked up. It is. Everything's fake. Always will be. What is real? What is real?

Dude. What's real? It's a wild time. We're lucky to be here, though. And we appreciate the hell out of all of you. Tonight, I'm in Dayton, Ohio for WWE Raw. Oh, where? Nutter Center?

Is that where it is? You're damn right. Don't be eating too hard in a Nutter Center. Yeah. I played high school basketball games there. What the fuck is this thing? Foxy, this is not from you? Absolutely not.

Excited to find out. I've been in this seat the whole day. All right. So I assume I'll have to take this box. Yep. To Monday Night Raw. Oh I'll have to take this box. Yep. Come on in and roll. Oh, man. Hey, Wyatt Six.

I'm a fan. I love everything. Come on. I love what you're doing. Big time. I love the amount of forethought. I like the way he's... Everything.

The videos. Yeah. He's got an inside job. He's working with somebody on the inside. I'm just saying, though, Michael Cole is the one. He should be here. Yeah, they should be setting their sights on him. Yeah, get him. Michael, right? I'm just saying, though, Michael Cole is the one. He should be. Yeah, they should be setting their sights on him.

Yeah, get him. He should be. Michael, right? He's the voice of the W. He's doxing Michael Cole and swatting him, as they say. Yeah. No, no. Yes, exactly. He's on an airplane public all the time.

These need to go to him. Yeah. Eat McDonough's brains, you know? Stay away from us. Yeah, if we're just talking any human at all. Bingo. Okay. That's a light meal, though, you know?

I'm all for JD. Don't take JD. I'm all for it. Anybody, but I don't think I should be the guy. I'm not the right guy. That's a big Bronson Reed. I see that. I think he's got an Eric Connell title.

Yeah, Dragunovsky's put together a title match tonight. Hell of a run. How did he get a title shot? I mean, because he's a technician, my friend. Is he? He'll do anything. Oh, yeah. I talked to sources in the back that tell me Ilya Dragunov is just looking for that mirror of hope in front of him, and he will do whatever.

That choir he comes out to that you can't see but you can hear, that thing's just running through his head. Get it, get it, get it, get it. Nobody doesn't get decked by another chair tonight. Well, I'll tell you what. That was a fastball. Yeah. Brawnbreaker. He's the one. We all see it. Now, granted, there's the great one.

Sure. There's the tribal chief. Oh, so this goes saying he's tribal chief now too. You guys see that? Oh, yeah. He's like, no, it's me. I am the tribal chief. Oh. So this goes saying he's tribal chief now, too. Okay. You guys see that? Oh, yeah. He said, no, it's me. I am the tribal chief. They put Paul Hamill.

He's a dead man walking. You don't fuck with the wise man, my friend. You do not fuck with the wise man. And he did. And he's going to fucking pay. And I can't wait for his day of reckoning. Wise man's got a lot of friends. Yes, he does.

He knows a lot of people. He does. And he is a wise man. He knows how to get back. That's a koa. And we appreciate the hell out of our champion, Damian Priest,

who's in the middle of it with Judgment Day. Obviously. Obviously. Sami Zayn, incredible champion. What a winner. Can't beat Braun Breaker,

actually. Braun Breaker, though. The way he fucking dips. Hey, with where I'm sitting, with that little runaround thing he does, he's fucking turning.

He's got his shoulder. Get him in a camp. Get him in a training camp, for real. How'd that dude move? That's what I'm sitting, with that little runaround thing he does, he's fucking turning. He's got his shoulder. Get him in a camp. Get him in a training camp for real. How'd that dude move? That's what I'm saying. He had shoulder on ground. The bend. And this is like a little bit of a slick surface.

He's got like a bend, hand trajectory. I'm like, God, that literally looks like. Yeah, look at this bend. He's touching the ground there on that. What's that drill? The hula hoop. The hula hoop drill. He's running the hoops. He's touching the ground there on that. What's that drill? The hula hoop. The hula hoop drill, yeah. He's run the hoops, yeah.

He's literally run the hoop, and he's fucking absolutely stacked. And Adam Pierce, obviously, big, bald stooge, looks at nothing, gets distracted. Guy gets smeared in half. Yeah, fool. So Adam Pierce is in a tough spot for sure. And I think he does better than Nick Aldis for sure. Sure, yeah. I mean, that's no question asked.

But, you know, Adam Pierce has found himself in quite a pickle a couple for sure. Sure. I mean, that's no question asked. But, you know, Adam Pearce has found himself in quite a pickle a couple times now. Yeah. He's always making announcements and saying things are official. Well, I'm officially going to say this. Figure it out, Adam Pearce. We need less chaos overall.

I hate to say it, too. I am all in on Dirty Dom. I'm a Dom Mysterio guy. And that stays because Ray is one of my goats, but Dom is kind of, I feel like, the future of the WWE. Hello, Mom. He's back. He is.

Excited to see you. Did you see that, AJ? Oh, yeah. We know Mommy. We knew it was just a matter of time before she came back and took her throne. Mommy's always watching, too, you know. That's right. Like Santa.

Liv Morgan scurried out. Oh, yeah. Smart. Don't want that smoke. To be fair, that's smart, though. I don't... I wouldn't either. Pick your moments. Especially when you look and you see how Rio's walking.

Oh, shit. Oh, now's not the time. No braces. And then Don was in there. Oh, what's he gonna do? I don't know. I know he'll be chubbed up, though. Alright, we'll be back tomorrow on that note. He might be. He might be ch He could be.

He might be chopped up. That's just my assumption. I don't know. We're not 100% sure, but there's a chance. Dirty Dom is chopped up. There's also a chance he finds himself in a conversation he just don't want to have. Mommy's going to lay a whooping down. You all right? Come on, come on, man man i'm good yeah yeah i'm good i can't wait i'm excited you think dirty dom's good you don't really get

to see him operate though as often no no but everything i see as of late i've been like i i'm i'm with it i'm in it you know like they just won a tag team match obviously against selena and ray mysterio And maybe about to have a Happiness smoochy smooch And he doesn't run Oh shit mommy's back let's go And for those that don't know Rhea and that man right there

Yeah Tied to the knot Didn't they right? They got married I don't know Anyways She got out of there right past the table I don't know if they tied the knot. Didn't they, right? They got married. I don't know. Anyways, she got out of there right past the table. I saw her.

I'm like, that's a smart play, Liv. But Rhea Ripley's gone. She got out of the whole arena. Yeah. But that's a smart move. You got to respect that chess move. Look at her slide in. Yeah, that was sick.

That was sick. Excuse me. She's back. Oh, no. He said, no. He fud Excuse me. Oh. Oh, no, he said. No. He fudged up. Yep, he knows it. He fudged up.

He's going to figure it out tonight. I can't wait to see what happens. Oh, he went for a hug. Yeah, exactly. See? I didn't remember that. They always, USA cuts it off. I had the Canadian feed back in Canada. I saw the whole thing.

How was your trip back to Canada? Pretty good? Oh, well, you see, you go back home, and it's fine. And then, you know you you go to come back to america i love it here love indianapolis uh just the customs you just what happened you kind of do you get your phone taken and taken into the back and i tell you what i don't think i'll be heading back to canada anytime soon well i want to let you know uh if that was your last time back for a while, I'm happy you made the most of it. Definitely did. Gumpy thought he was banned from the United States for 10 years again.

They took his phone, put it in a bag, sat him in a back room, started asking him questions whenever he tried to come back. It was a real deal. What are they checking your phone for? Are they allowed to do that? They can take your phone? They say that you're not allowed to have it in that back room. They're like, you can't be on it, but they just put it in a bag. I was like, oh, here we go again. Well, I assume also people can text you the answers

to questions. What were they asking you, Gump? What were they trying to get to the bottom of? They were trying to circle back a few years, and that's when I was like, I don't know if we can just carry on, just let it go, it would be sweet. I guess a... I forget this guy's name. I stared at his vest

and I went to remember it. He's a shit banger. He was a good man. Really came through there. Did they ask you, too? Like, are you Team Mommy or Team Liv Morgan? No, they did not ask him that. They did not ask him that.

No, that wasn't on the desk. They actually asked him, though. You're Gumpch? Papa Gump. The guy came in. Yeah. I guess. That's awesome.

The guy came in, and he guy came in and he was like Pat McAfee show I was like oh thank god Get me out of here I had my phone back In my bag within like two minutes It was unbelievable I forget his name but shout out that guy

Seattle Customs legend Now he didn't do anything illegal Gumpy is completely illegal We had to go through all this shit. I know more than I should about the immigration process here to the United States of America

especially with everything that's happening because of trying to get Gumpy a job that only he could have and the fact that, think about other people that aren't Gumpy like they're putting him in that back room for hours. Still sitting in it, yeah. Just like waiting for you to break almost and just say, ah, fuck it.

I'll just go back home, I guess, in this entire thing. It's wild. We appreciate it, you know, because there's probably a reason that that is happening. But also, what an interesting dynamic for everything going on at this exact time for a guy. Well, the guy was like, make sure you have these papers every time. I'm like, yeah, I gave you those papers.

I handed you them. That's why I take them everywhere I go. These papers that I just handed you? Yeah, yeah. Those were mine. I need those. That's like passport.

I had to go to Canada last week. Passport, the whole thing. What an interesting, because at any given time, they can just stop you. You know, like, I landed up there a couple hours before the show. I'm like what if their customs just is like We got some questions. Did you say?

White bitch about yeah. Yeah What they show you like clips of things you've said on the show like oh, what do you think? What do you say about this? What did you say about can't Trudeau? What are you guys talking about? Okay. We'll be back. We're going to go and then just make you wait. Yeah.

That could actually. But then you get up there and it's, hey, it was cool to be back, I assume. Canada is very different than the United States. Yeah. It's always good to see my mom and dad and my brother's kids. I hadn't seen them in a while. So that was cool. Good people. I fucking loved.

Yeah. I was in Ottawa. That was my first time in Ottawa. Country's capital. Yeah. Super. It was really nice. that was cool. Good people. I fucking loved... I was in Ottawa. That was my first time in Ottawa. Country's capital. It was really nice. People were cool. Driver was awesome. Saw the town side. Drove through some neighborhoods. It was like, I could live in Ottawa, I think.

Well, hold on. Easy. Easy. You don't want to fucking live in Ottawa. Not bad being there for three hours on a Monday night. Living there? Fuck that. They got a canal.

They ice skate to work. That's neat. That's cool. They ice skate to work. It's the Rideau Canal. Rideau? Anyways, seventh coldest capital of a country in the world. Wow. It was 110 degrees when we were there air conditioning did not work in the arena which i do fear this evening in dayton i went to a play

in game at dayton they always have like the playing game yep um i forget if it was vanderbilt i think it was vanderbilt kid from plum was playing on vanderbilt it was a play-in game in dayton so we went to watch him do that i didn't really know him that well but It was a play-in game in Dayton. So we went to watch him do that. I didn't really know him that well, but it was a plum kid. Dayton's close. Let's go do this. 400 degrees in this thing. I don't know if it's the same place. I would assume that's not Nutter Center. You're at UD Arena, most likely. Old school, great arena. But yeah, I could see the air conditioning not working in there. But the Nutter Center is a bit newer. It should be good. Okay. I can't wait to get there. Ohio fans are good fans of wrestling. Great, great fans of wrestling. The Rideau Canal. Yeah, we just pulled up a picture be good. Okay, I can't wait to get there. Ohio fans are good fans of wrestling. Great, great fans of wrestling. The Rideau

Canal. Yeah, we just pulled up a picture of it. Boom. Boom. Sweet. That looks awesome, Gump. That's what I'm saying. That's Ottawa. Is that a castle up there? I don't know. A state? Maybe it's a state building. Hey, do they clean up the Poop River yet in Paris? I don't know. I saw Poop in Politics.

Messy situation for Paris. Nice. It's coming down to like the wire they're going to test it like three days before two days and day of I think to see if they're going to Some big wig like took a dip in it to like swim in it and say like hey it's not a big deal and I think went and like oh god that was fucking disgusting

like said right after they got out I would never do that again So I think they're still figuring out what exactly they're going to do So are the Parisian poopers just the most prolific poopers in town? Has this ever happened for any other Olympics? Are they the most poopy town in the history of hosting the Olympics? Because I assume there has been poop protests in the open water event for the Olympics before. Or is this the first time we've ever had a shitty protest at the Olympics?

Or is this the first time we've ever had a shitty protest at the Olympics? I would imagine when the Olympics were in Rio, because it was kind of the same thing. They spent billions of dollars on building these new stadiums. And then after the Olympics left, now they're just overgrown. They haven't used them since then. So I think the people who live there are not very happy about it. AJ, is it the amount of poopers or the amount of poop poop it's they said that river's been shut down for 100 years i believe where you're not supposed to swim in it because when it rains the sewers back up and all the turds come flowing into the river because of how it's set up so they spent billions to dig this

gigantic hole to try to get it to go into we We had boots on the ground, ladies and gentlemen, a friend of the program. Foxy was in Paris. I was just there. There's absolutely 0% chance, and I'll swim in a lot of things, lakes, ponds, rivers, you name it. There is an absolute 0% chance I would ever swim in that river. Okay, just because of how it looked?

Yeah, it's just nasty. Is it like Pittsburgh River? Is it like Pittsburgh River? Yeah, but worse. The whole city runs to that river like every nasty thing goes into that river trash poop pee anything you can think of it's all you can get oh dude and it's i mean like and this doesn't really matter but it's very brown obviously it's not it doesn't look great there's no way you could get me to swim in that river okay so how was that ever decided hey, this is where we'll have a fucking swim?

Because it's the Seine, baby. They thought they could. The Paris committee that puts together the pitches to get these events, like cities have these people that put together pitches to host events. Normally, a lot of, you know, in the past, some stuff going on. When they were pitching pitching what is it the sen yeah the historically ground because there's great bridges over top of this they are awesome think of the views as the olympians swim down the sin river in the open waters whatever but

as they were pitching that to the olympic people the olympic people were like perfect that is awesome holy they're kind of just throwing that one in there. And then what? They get there and they're like, we can't put humans, we can't put animals in there. No, and then I think what Ty was referring to, or maybe this is a different story, a politician said he's going to swim in it because he said it's clean,

and the people don't like that politician, so they pooped in it even more. So it actually didn't help at all. But it is beautiful. Eiffel Tower, they would be swimming right now. The opening ceremony is on it, right? Foxy, in the opening ceremony, they're going to be on boats going down. Hopefully no Americans fall off the boat.

Hey, Peyton Manning's going to be on a damn boat. He'll be on the show Thursday, by the way. Tell him to strap in. Tell him to get a safety line strapped to the boat so he doesn't fall over. He needs to wear one of those Ebola kits. Yeah. It is a beautiful area. Just the river itself. No chance

How about how old school that place is, obviously I mean, I've only been to Europe two times now And I'm just like, everything is in the 2000s Like everything is so old 2000s? Yes, they don't have anything new They got cobblestone streets Well, obviously that stuff doesn't count

I'm saying technology wise The plugins for me were always the problem. Oh, yeah. I'm sick of these plug-ins. You can't even order a pizza online if you just want takeout. Like, you have to go to the store. You know what they say, though? It's better for the soul to do that.

But, yeah, everything is beautiful. Like, it's really awesome. I enjoyed that city. Only because of us. How'd it smell over there? Last time I was in Paris, boy, oh, my God. The city itself wasn't as stinky as I was expecting. I will say this though.

Not a lot of deodorant being worn in Paris. So the humans were pretty stinky. A lot of smelly humans. It was a lot nicer than everyone led me on to believe going into it. The city or the smell? The city. Well, that's because they're getting ready for the Olympics. You went at the time

when they are making the city as nice as possible. I don't know. Dude, they got a lot there. They got a lot there. It was really nice. Everyone was saying they'd see a lot of homeless people. They didn't see a lot of homeless people. The Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower.

They got those cafes that they always drink in in Louisville. They love biking. The triangle things there. Biking everywhere there. What's it called? The Louvre. Yeah, there it is. Is that where Mona Lisa is? Oh, is. Is that where Mona Lisa is?

Oh, yeah, that's where Mona Lisa is. He said so many things at once, I wasn't sure what words. Oh, you thought those were all one title. I was like, yeah, I got all those fucking things, yeah. This guy went to the Arc de Triomphe, Louvre, La Folle d'Arc. Boom. Notre Dame, Ron. Good place.

They're all next to each other. The amount of times that I heard silence, or whatever it is when I was in Notre Dame as a teenager. Parisians react to French sports minister taking a dip before the Olympics. Oh, she has her mouth open. Just let him still alive. I think she's got staff.

Paris resident Aaron Pauloska says, I don't care. Why would you ever go in there, Axel says. Axel dish it. I poop three times a day all of our poop in my building goes into this river so I'm just doing it three times imagine what my neighbor stands doing what are they saying Stan caboli uh Marco Boli of Paris stop dumping dumping a dump in a bag we need to see these swimmers swim. And speaking of swimming,

the United States is going to beat the rest of the world. I'm excited for that to happen. Did think that whenever we scheduled the break, the Olympics were right now. Turns out. Yeah, we got about another 12 days. We're close. A week from Friday. Opening ceremony.

Interesting timing of the break. Training camp starts in two days. Incorrect. USA got another basketball game tonight? No. They won today. It was at noon. Yeah, they won today.

They had a close one, right? Who do we play? Australia. Australia. It ended up being close. They're up by, like, 20 with four minutes left. I think they won by, like, eight. So who do we sub in?

Yeah, exactly. Probably Derek White, who just got given a break. Yeah, probably a Celtic. Well, first time. It probably was a Celtic, wasn't it? Got there three days ago. That was interesting. He was picked over Jalen Brown.

Yeah, that's why when they asked Tatum about Jalen Brown, I was like, well, that's a very tough spot to be in because if you know one of your other teammates is going, if he says, yeah, it should have been Jalen, are you killing your other teammates? I mean, bro, come on. We don't need another scorer. Hey, Derek, guess what? Pass the ball, fucking play defense.

All right? That's what your job is here. Oh, a team building, you're saying? Yeah, for sure. Exactly. 98-92, we beat the shit out of Australia. That's what I thought. Boom.

That's what I thought. Never a game. That's two threes I think it was 86 to 68 With like 8 minutes left I can't believe that was the score We're going to win it all, we know that, in every sport Even the poop swimming

Because if somebody's got to do it, we're going to do it better than everybody else Shout out to Perry Merci beaucoup pour la poop Paris, France I think that's about it Is there a backup river, backup pool I see beaucoup pour la poop. Paris. France. I think that's about it. Is it a backup river or backup pool or lake that they're going to swim in when the turds start flowing to the top? No, you just have to deal with it.

8680, Tyrese Halliburton in the corner. Bucket. Splash. Keep it moving. That's our guy, dude. Oh, yeah. What are these like? These are friendlies, as Goop would call them.

Yeah, exhibitions, warm-ups. Did you watch the soccer AJ? Nope He's like shooting right here What's that AJ? What'd you ask? The soccer, it happened, big Oh I missed that one, I heard

Did we do good? Well our team sucked I saw people broke into Hard Rock Stadium I saw that soccer We showed you that Literally within the last hour Did you see Spain? They got a 17 year old who needs to be in the MLS tomorrow

Needs to be in the MLS tomorrow Some of these guys tend to Separate themselves from the other people on the field And you can kind of see them They move different, they move quicker and faster It's fun to watch The guy that passes that right there, 17 years old. Beautiful. Just perfect.

Nico Williams, 21 as well. He's 21 years old. That other guy who's faster. You talked about everybody being faster. 17's faster than everybody. And then that 17-year-old seemingly smarter than everybody. And everybody talks about Spain being the most talented team. And he's the most talented one on the team. He missed two sitters. Obviously can't have that happen. If they end up

losing, he's going to wear that for a long time, just like Messi had to for Argentina whenever he didn't win anything for the first 16 years of his career with Argentina. And then he wins the last four years of everything, pretty much. But it's like that 17-year-old, so much fun to watch. Grella told us about all this shit. He did. Grella literally told us about everything that was going to happen

in this tournament, and it took place. Not a lot of goals, a lot of excitement. And it seemed like every one of their stadiums worked. Yeah. Yeah. The fucking Miami Dolphins couldn't make it happen. He told us who was going to score the game and win the goal last night. Cole Palmer as well talked to Pat.

That FaceTime, he's like, it's not coming home, dude. I was like, just wait. Cole Palmer's going to come on. He's going to tie it, and I don't know what's going to happen after that. And then he put out a tweet and said, it's got to be Cole Palmer time. And then eight minutes later, Cole Palmer comes on and scores a goal. Ripper.

Absolute class, too. We had five minutes after this goal. It looked like we were going to win it, and then it just... Well, the devastating thing happened in the 89th minute, you know, whenever there was four headers. Yeah. and that was really yeah it was on a quarter oh they're scoring no big save oh no big save oh better miss boom boom boom boom boom miss miss miss that's what he knew the thing is with england it is always the most heartbreaking fashion every time

90 minute game this is the 89th minute that guy was the leading goal scorer of the tournament, saving the goal off the line. Wasn't the golden boot. And there's Harry Kane right there. That's right. Soccer was good to us. Soccer was good to us. I know. Olympics are going to be better.

You chose not to watch anything. All right. Sweet. Are we in the Olympics, soccer? Isn't it like under 21 or something? They should get rid of soccer in the Olympics. So we don't know any players? I was thinking about that.

They should. When Dana was on, imagine if they did UFC. Oh, mixed martial arts. Yeah, by country too. That would be sick. So sick. That would be so sick. If we had freaking Chandler and Stipe Miocic going up and did that.

I don't know if Stipe. He's a dog. Frickin Chandler and stipe me. Oh, it's going up and He's dog I saw him playing video games he has an OnlyFans yeah Not that kind of yeah, I could see no fans Hey the SEC we got Lane Kiffin reporting on SportsCenter right there. He looks good. He's like His dad passed away this weekend. Yeah. Rest in peace, Monty Kiffin. Also, yeah, rest in peace, Jacoby Jones. Monty, obviously, legend, yeah. Jacoby Jones, not as well known, I don't think, by a lot of football fans other than the people that obviously followed the Baltimore Ravens' historic run to the Super Bowl where he had not only kickoff returns, but also the miracle in Denver

where Joe Flacco threw the ball 100 yards. He was on the other end of it. He took over dancing with the Stars. He's been on a lot of different teams. I was lucky to kick a ball to him more than a few times. This guy's nine returning touchdowns, five, I think, on kickoff, four on punt. Absolute weapon, beloved by literally every human that he's ever met. He and I were in a dance-off against a couple other people at like 3 a.m. in Baltimore, and you're talking about every human that he's ever met. He and I were in a dance-off against a couple other people at 3 a.m. in Baltimore. You're talking about every human in there loving this one person, and it was Jacoby

Jones. I never got to play alongside of him. I got a chance to chat with him a lot of pre-games because he would go on to play for the Texans, and obviously whenever he played for the Ravens, and then also getting to hang out at a couple different events. Everybody that was ever around him fucking loved him. Passed away at 40 this weekend. It's like, he said he passed away peacefully.

It's like, man, that is not, we lost a good dude, a good energy, a good aura, a good soul. Yeah, that was crazy news to see, to wake up to. Everything you said and everything that everyone has said about Jacoby is true. Always a ball of energy, always dancing, always smiling. I knew him over the years through Anquan. Him and Anquan were close.

I knew him through Anquan, knew him through DRC. So I used to see him kind of once a year. It was always a good spirit. He was coaching. He was doing some great things. I obviously hate to see losing someone this young. 40 years old, you should have a long, long life ahead of you. So I'm praying for him and his family.

Rest in peace, Jacoby. You've done good, buddy. Everybody's saying your praises. peace, Jacoby. You've done good, buddy. Everybody sang your praises. You know? That's not normal. You know what? Football starts in two days. Yep. This season's going to be electrifying.

The return's back for Jacoby, right? Yeah. Hey, here we go. Here we go. We're going to see some of those. You know what? The way he ran, too, was just like hysterical. Yeah.

Fun to watch. Fun to watch him return it. And then, obviously, you know, every time. It was sweet. Rest in peace, dude. Everybody loved you, man. Yeah. Fun to watch. Fun to watch them return it. And then obviously you know, every time. It was sweet. Rest in peace, dude. Everybody loved you, man. That's sad, dude. Perspective, though. Once again, just like the events that happened this weekend. Perspective can change at any moment. You're allowed to. You're allowed to

evolve. You're allowed to mature. You're allowed to say, hey, I'm thankful to be alive because we have no fucking idea what's going to happen tomorrow. If we're all here, we're going to be alive. Let's enjoy it all. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. We're in this thing together. Never forget it.

Team on me. I think these are bed bugs, by the way. That's what I've been told by you. I'm going to get checked out again. That seems kind of scary. Yeah, I don't like it. But team on me. Don't let it become staff.

They don't give superpowers. Continue. That sucks. What's that, buddy? They don't give superpowers. Bed bugs. Spiders. It was a chance. They might, though. They might not. I'm going to find out how I seemingly attack don't give superpowers. Bed bugs. Spiders. It was a chance.

They might, though. They might not. I'm seemingly attacking my voice. Might be able to sleep better than ever. We'll be back tomorrow. Team on me. Team on three. One, two, three.

Team. Goodbye.