The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 120 - Jeremy Piven, AQ Shipley, & Some Incredible NFL Chatter

Episode Date: October 22, 2019

On today's show, Pat and the guys are joined by starting Center for the Arizona Cardinals and great friend of the show, AQ Shipley. They discuss how the Cardinals are quietly coming back to life, what his thoughts are on Kliff Kingsbury and what makes him so creative in terms of play calling. He chats about his budding relationship with Kyler Murray, and what he's starting to figure out about the NFL game which is leading him to more success. AQ also tells a couple stories from this past week in preparation for a tough game in New York against the Giants, including being singled out at practice by an authentic New York heckler, and also chats about what life is like as a new dad (3:01-35:50). The guys also discuss everything of note that happened this past weekend in the NFL and Pat breaks out his power rankings for the AFC and the NFC, and dives into what the Bears need to do with the Mitch Trubisky situation, as it seems to have reached it's boiling point. To close out the show, Golden Globe winner, 3x Emmy Winner, accomplished actor on both stage and screen, and the man responsible for one of the greatest characters in TV history, Jeremy Piven joins Pat and the guys in studio. They discuss his career as an actor, what Entourage did for it, and whether or not he knew it was going to be a massive success when it first came out. Jeremy also recounts a hilarious story from his time on Seinfeld, goes in depth on what school of acting he went to and what he's most comfortable with, and chats about his standup comedy and why he is such a perfectionist when it comes to the craft (1:04:14-1:30:39). Today's show is a fun one, come and laugh with us. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We have a loaded one for you. Jeremy Piven, R.E. Gold. Ever heard of him? He was in the studio. Incredible conversation. Takes us deep into the annals of acting. There's some deep annals, by the way.

The acting annals. Stuff we had no idea about. Knew nothing about. Very insightful. We talked about Seinfeld in there. We talk about Entourage. We talk about his current life. We talk about Broadway. And even fucking Bill Shakespeare made an appearance in this conversation. It was incredible with Jeremy Piven.

Also, A.Q. Shipley of the Arizona Cardinals stopped by to gloat a little bit about their team winning. Can anybody stop the Arizona Cardinals? Don't let the Carri- It's been a long day. Don't let the Carri-Zona-Mardinals. Don't let the Arizona Cardinals get hot. And they are right now. Three-game win streak.

We'll talk to him about that. Also, full weekend recap with the boys. And there is a man that is back in the studio for the first time in a couple months. A man whose destination was Boston for a while. Then he came back. A man that we have missed mightily, and I can't wait for the people that don't know him to get introduced to him.

Boston Conner is back in the studio today. Here, here, here. Thank you, thank you. Haircut's still terrible, but from what I've been told, life is good. Can't wait to chat with you, Conner. Very thankful for everybody listening. The World Series is coming up.

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mac v twenty dollars off your first order shout out to c geek shout out to you for being here ladies and gentlemen joining us now is a vanilla gorilla uh screen just went black Did you just fall? Joining us now, Vanilla Gorilla, Center for the Arizona Cardinals from the Pennsylvania State University, Alan Quay Shipley. How do you do? Just gave myself a round of applause. Good to see you guys. I'll tell you what. I don't think I've ever seen you this joyful, but little three-game

winning streak feeling good out there in the desert. Feeling real good. Just keep this thing rolling. I'm going to call in every week until we lose. Never going to lose, by the way. Oh, no. Getting that ball. Don't do what you just did there, Doug. There's not enough wood for you to knock on, but Doug Peterson did it. There's a lot of wood

up here. Look at this thing. Attaboy. Doug Peterson made a guarantee last week, and then they got slaughtered by the Cowboys on primetime television. What has happened with the Arizona Cardinals? You guys have looked like a good football team all of a sudden, literally out of nowhere. Yeah, no, I mean, I think we're doing a good job. I mean, Cliff's an incredible coach.

He's an incredible – he's incredibly creative. I mean, he really is. He does a heck of a job just kind of mixing things up, staying balanced, keeping teams off balance a little bit with his tempo. And offense is kind of starting to kind of catch fire. And Kyler's done a heck of a job just kind of growing through this whole process and learning the NFL game and learning when to throw it away, learning when not to try and fit things in or try and outrun everybody and make every play the big play.

You just learn to kind of throw things away and do all those things. That's kind of like a young quarterback thing, especially when you're incredibly athletic. It's almost like it's a gift and a curse. It is. I mean, because he's so talented. I mean, he really is. He's one of the most talented guys I've ever been around.

The way he can throw, the way he can run. But he, you know, in college, he's never had to face these defenses. He's been able to make every throw. He's been able to make every run. He's always the best athlete on the field since the time he was probably six years old, right? And so at this point now, everybody's kind of at that level. You've got to just learn and go through the process and go through the growing pains. And he's done a heck of a job.

He's growing every week. We're seeing it. He's seeing it. And, yeah, we're rolling. You guys look damn good. I mean, Danny Dimes and the Giants, we're going to be quite a test for the Arizona Cardinals this week. The quarterbacks of the future, everybody says.

Here we go. Rookie QBs battling in MetLife Stadium. One team that's kind of, and another team that's kind of heating up. And you guys won that game. And I'm not sure how many people expected you guys to do so. But now I think the Cardinals are kind of on everybody's radar. That has to feel pretty good for literally being almost like the Sacramento Kings of the NFL there for a couple weeks

where nobody was talking about the Cardinals. Nobody was talking about the number one pick, Kyler Murray. I haven't heard shit about the guy anywhere for a long time. He was the number one pick. And now people are like, hey, this Cardinals team seems like they're like legit and seem like they can really do some things. It's going well. I mean, and at the end of the day, I think one of the things that people

aren't talking about enough is the impact that Patrick Peterson brings when he came back yesterday. You see Chandler Jones go off and get four sacks, but I don't think what's talked about enough is the fact that Patrick's back and allows that coverage to kind of let our defensive front get after it a little more. And he was able to have a heck of a game yesterday. I mean, I think Patrick finished with seven tackles, a big sack fumble at the end of the game.

He used a huge impact on the game. I pitch this ball at you. Any chance you hit it? 100%. 100% I hit that ball. It looks like Altuve versus Chapman. That's a touchy subject in here. A couple Yankees fans.

He is now demonstrating Altuve's fucking batting stance. He knows that I throw this thing right. You're saying the Cardinals are back. I think we're going in the right direction. I think we got some good things going on right now. As long as we can stay balanced and stay on track offensively, I think we've moved the ball up and down the field on a lot of teams and a lot of really good teams this year.

Stay ahead of the change. Stay on schedule. Stay on schedule. Man ahead of the change. Stay on schedule. Manageable. Is your finger all right? That looks pretty nasty. And is that the worst injury you've ever had?

Oh. He's got a gash on his knuckle. I've got cuts all over me, guys. I'm just fighting through pain. Tough guy over here. Is that from your baby or is that from the – is she gnawing on your hands? I don't know, but you want to hear something pretty hilarious? So every time I come off the field and I have like a nick

and I'm bleeding or something, I always tap my O-line coach like, hey, look at this shit. I'm still playing though. I got it. I've been doing it for weeks, right? So last night we get on the plane, he gets me back good. He sends a text to the whole group, the whole offensive line. He goes, guys, check on AQ's finger.

I'm really concerned. Hope he's all right. That's classic. Literally have a little cut right here. You said you like Cliff Kingsbury, huh? He's a good coach. Has he been adjusting well to the NFL life? I mean, usually when coaches come from college to the NFL,

there is a much higher percentage that that guy's going to stink as an NFL coach than he is going to do well. I think we've seen that all over the place. Even with very good college coaches, they have failed out miserably in the NFL. Saban, Petrino, it goes on and on more and more. Your guy, you said you like him, huh? Cell phone breaks were something that caught a lot of people's attention, called him a super millennial.

But it feels like, I mean, when you're 0-3, there's a lot of chance for a lot of people to give up. And instead, your team has done a complete opposite, which has to fall on the desk of the head coach in my eyes no he's been awesome i mean he really has and just watching him week to week just be as creative as he is and bring some of the stuff that honestly a lot of these head coaches for years have been going to him and coming up with these plays the andy reeds the sean paytons have been going to him probably trying to take some of his creativity that he's run at texas tech and bring it here and now you're seeing it on full display from week to

week from him i mean he's an incredible coach he's uh he does a great job letting us be who we are and not try and taper or like you know shut down some of the personalities lets everybody be who they are and go out and play fast and play with swag and do that whole thing and doesn't try and kind of corral anything. And he's done a heck of a job. He really has. I mean, from week to week, the way he's approached this and kept everybody, you know, still in a disciplined approach

but letting everybody be their own person has been pretty awesome to watch. Younger coaches are the wave of everything, and I feel like Cliff was uh the depiction of that to a t i mean young coach college coach not a lot of experience as a head coach here you go get an nfl gig do you think cliff knows that the rest of the nfl was watching cliff kingsbury to see how he does to see what their next future hire is going to be at other franchises i think 100 he knows that you know and i think uh from week to week, I mean, heck, you can see the creativity.

Some of the plays that he's come up with have been unbelievable. I mean, that's the new wave, the LaFleurs, the McVeighs, and you're starting to see all this creative approach to the game on offense. And, yeah, it's becoming kind of the new wave, and I think they're kind of at the forefront of all that. What did you think of Danny Dimes? I don't know how much you got to see him because you're on the bench there studying film and making sure that your bloody knuckles are okay

for the next drive. But did you get a chance to see old Danny Dimes at all? Yeah, I mean, I thought after, you know, a little shaky start, he throws an interception early, and then he's down 17 or whatever it was, 14-0, 17-0, whatever it was. Took him on a pretty impressive drive to get the game back to, you know, 17-7. And then they get a big play on special teams for the brand. There it is. I threw that out there.

That wasn't great for the brand. Your PP needs to back the fuck up and line up on the other side. He's going to get Andy Lee killed. That guy also ran for 100 and something yards yesterday and three touchdowns. He had a pretty good game. The PP did? Yeah, it was Chase Edmonds.

Is that your starting running back? Yeah. David Johnson's nicked up. I take back everything. He's probably pretty tired. Yeah, he had two touchdowns at that point. That's on me. Hey, man, I just want to let you know, do what you got to do the first three downs.

But if you're going to fucking play on fourth down, you need to line up on the other side away from the stack, away from the bunch. It'll open up the picture a little bit more for you, pal. There's your little coaching. I thought Daniel Jones did a heck of a job. I mean, he's one of the young quarterbacks Obviously be in this game

By the way Cliff Kingsbury having his start Running back playing PP makes me like him even more I love Cliff Kingsbury I love what this guy's doing He's an innovator man That's what they are But Danny Dimes Had a lot of grit and composure came back

Yeah so I think I mean from what I saw They are innovators. But Danny Dimes had a lot of grit and composure, came back. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I think, I mean, from what I saw, when I wasn't motherfucking the equipment people for fucking having my bench wet when I came to the side. I saw him throw a couple nice passes. Was that swim? Everybody. Dude, I was on a tear yesterday.

I was in a bad place. My finger was bleeding. The ball was wet as hell. It was slick as hell. I had a two-handed snap yesterday. I looked like I was playing in the 1930s. And then, highest level, we run out of towels. It's fucking in a goddamn monsoon, and we run out of towels.

Then this, middle of third quarter, I'm like, why is the ball so wet? I'm trying to figure this out. And the referee at the beginning of the game had a white towel, and now all of a sudden it's pink. And I'm like, why the hell is his towel pink? He has a soaking wet towel trying to wipe off the ball. Take a wet towel on a wet ball, it stays wet. But you guys ran out of towels.

You couldn't help the guy out. We had blue towels. I was like, hey, just take this towel. He was like, no, it's got to be white. And I'm like, there's no more fucking white towels. Schwimm is one of their equipment managers. He came from the Colts. One of the best humans on earth.

I would love to hear your interaction with Schwimm about these fucking towels. I couldn't even fathom it. That has to be incredible. Yeah, we had some good interactions, for sure. We interrupt this incredible conversation to let you know that books can now be as easy as in your headphones really you might know that audiobooks exist but did you know that audible has the world's largest selection of them from audiobooks and audio entertainment including audible originals audible originals are stories created exclusively for audio including

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backbone of a fucking team, man. They're my favorite people in the whole building. The best, dude. They're absolutely the best. Yeah, 100%. Except for when they run out of fucking towels. What are we doing? That's what I was saying.

We're trying to win? Highest level. I'm getting higher. There's literally no higher place you can go. Except for the XFL coming soon. A high-level college football game happened. That cult of yours on Saturday night with that whiteout was unbelievable. Isn't it?

I admit that. I know you're not a big fan, but that atmosphere is incredible. I texted herb street and I was like, Hey, that place looks fucking bonkers right now is what I responded. And he said, you have no idea.

It was awesome to watch. And that team seems to be good again. Yeah, they're pretty good. They got some studs. I mean, that number one, Hamler, absolute stud. 99 on defense, absolute stud. 11, 6.

I mean, they got a first-class defense. Yeah, they got some players there. You don't know those kids' names either. I do the same thing when I'm commentating games, what you just did right here. Oh, number 16 with a great tackle. I think I got this. Hold on, let me see if I can do this.

Number one, Hamler. Number 99, number 16 with a great tackle. I think I got this. Hold on. Let me see if I can do this. Number one, Hamler. Number 99, Yeter Gras Motos. Number 11, Micah Parsons. Number six, Cam Brown. I think I nailed that. All right. Nailed that. We didn't check. We did not check. You don't need to. You don't need to. Do you and Saquon

have a cult meeting on Sunday about the game on Saturday? We did a little dap up. We're both captains. We did a little dap up at midfield. It was nice. Did you see his earring with the number 26 on it on his right ear? That was pretty awesome. Was it? You didn't love it.

Yeah, it was great. Would you like to say anything about it? No. I have a 53 on my necklace. I just never wear it. You sound like Dave Peterson a little bit, the guy from Penn State. Oh, no.

You sound like Dave Peterson a little bit because, yeah, the guy that wrote in because of the 26 earring, yeah. Did he write in about the 26 earring? He wrote in about me, wrote in about the 26 year it was a long road about me running about my barbed wire he did talk shit on that tattoo but he did write a lot about tattoos why'd he do that why is he coming after tattoos I

that why do a lot of Penn State people do what Penn State people do you can answer that question on me all right let's move on to the next subject Joe Paterno's just worried about Nebraska. How's fatherhood? Fatherhood's great. Baby's not here. She's not making

noise. She usually brings some pretty good entertainment to get you a nice little comment in the background. She's not here though. It's just me having a me day. I love my me days. You don't have a lot of me days. How does this happen? Normally I text, call when I'm on my way home. I didn't do that today because I had something important called a podcast.

Come on. That's right. Business. She has no idea I'm home yet. I'll call after this and be like, babe, I'm on my way home. I'll do it. Come on home. These are these little games you got to play as you get older and married with kids.

I respect that a lot. Yeah. All right, man. How many rooms do you have in your house? Every time we talk to you, you're in a new room. He lives well. You want a tour? Yeah.

Yeah, we would. We're in the middle of a sauna room, it looks. Yeah, this is Sherry's office that I have completely taken over, as you can see. All of my stuff. His wife's office has literally every single jersey he's ever worn since he was a child. Which is 43 teams. Now we're going out. Oh, here you go.

Beautiful. We got a kid's playroom. Yeah, nice. Got a wine and liquor room. Great bean bag. Right across from the playroom, by the way. Right across from the playroom. Yeah, nice. Got a wine and liquor room. Great bean bag. Right across from the playroom, by the way. Right across from the playroom.

Get the tequila. You like whiskey, right? Bedroom. Huge gun safe. Not an eyesore at all. Nice. Smart. Hold on.

Master closet's back in there somewhere. Oh, yeah. It's a very nice bedroom you got there. A lot of wood. I was going to say, is that an Arizona thing? It's a fucking cabin I live in, apparently. Is this the new place you just moved into? Yes, new place. Oh, beautiful kitchen.

Oh, wide open kitchen. Little open concept. What's the fridge? Oh, that's good for entertaining. Shitty fridge. Do you host a lot? Huh? Do you host a lot? kitchen little open concept what's the fridge oh that's good for entertaining shitty shitty fridge do you host a lot huh do you host a lot no not as much as i'd like i don't really like people that much me neither that's why i your your house looks like it's set up for entertaining but you're ready for the backyard oh you got the big green egg as soon as we turn the corner. Two big green eggs? Yeah. Two big green eggs.

A Traeger, a grill, a pizza oven, a broiler, a fire pit. A kid's playground. Wait for it. Wait for it. Oh. Oh. You're a center in the NFL, huh? Big backyard.

Why do you got a putting green back there? I should. That's the next move. What's the acreage on this palm trees native to the land? Yeah, and I'm pretty sure we're going to have to pay for them when we're done because they're all fucking dying.

That's not your fault. Palm trees are supposed to be able to survive in any weather. Yeah, that's what I thought. And then the landlord came over last week and was like, hey, why are all the palm trees dying? I'm like, I don't fucking know. Why don't you ask the palm trees, fucker? There's a baby's room. Got a big giraffe in the corner for her.

She loves the giraffe. Smart. It's got bunny ears on it in case you didn't know. Got another bedroom back here in case you ever want to visit, which has been never since I've moved to Arizona. Thanks, Pat. Good friend. That's a lie. When were we out there, Proxy?

February. Yeah, we were out there in February. Did either of you come to the house? We weren't invited. No, we weren't. Golf, and that was it. And then here we go. There's the weight room right there.

Is that a charger? No. BMW. You live nice, dad. Check out my daughter's car. Look at that thing. She's got a Benz, dude. Do you ride a bike around with her in the back?

If you guys want to see something hilarious, I have every means of transportation. Two cars. Got a regular bike. I got a bird that I bought for myself. Smart. Little buggy on the back.

I got an electric bike. Don't have to pedal. This thing's fucking amazing. Definitely. That's what they have to use at Stanford, those smart kids. That's my house. Hey, man. Hey.

Hey. How many years How many years You been in the NFL Eleven You too Hey you tell that baby Oh it's a cat Hi cat

How's it going cat That thing's a little prick I just fucking speared you I'm telling you dude I'm telling Ever since I had this baby She comes up She craves attention so much

She fucking headbutts me for attention Like literally just rams her head into my leg That's what she just did That's what she just did Does the cat get no attention Now that the baby's around It gets far less I feel bad about it

She just follows me around making all these fucking noises. Look at her. Hey, hey, hey. How do you get? Hey. Meow. All right, thank you. Hey, so, got to tell you a story.

We still on air? Sure, man. Good story. Hey, Jeremy Pivens also on this podcast are you going so I just want to let you know, he told a story about going to England and studying William Shakespeare. Your turn. I got an unnamed coach who, going to New York, he was talking about how when you go there,

you get all the New York accents, all the heckling from the fans. Like, just gear up for it. Get ready for it. They're going to be coming with everything, right? So we did a walkthrough. We stayed in Jersey City. We did a walkthrough at, like, a local high school. And it was like the field was basically, like, along the streets.

So the longer this practice goes on on saturday mid-afternoon the more and more people are like poking their head over the fence like hey who's all these idiots on this field oh it's the arizona cardinals like trying to get a peek right cool and they're all like through and through new york new jersey people so this unnamed coach proceeds to find the most New York, New Jersey-looking person, goes up to him and is like, hey, I'll pay you $20 if you heckle the shit out of my center EQ ship. So boom, we're done with practice. Break it down. Cardinals on three. One, two, we're done with practice. Break it down. Cardinals on three.

One, two, three. Cardinals. Get quiet. We're walking to the bus. This guy peeks his head over the thing. Hey, AQ Shipley, you're a fucking bum. Screams. The whole place loses it

I knew exactly who it was I'm like god that was too funny You will not make this putt You jackass That's exactly what that guy was It was unbelievable Fucking beautiful That's awesome

Take that Jeremy Piven unbelievable oh fucking beautiful oh that's awesome hey by the way that jeremy pivin i was about to say the new york guy was kind of right but then you had that punchline to jeremy pivin i think you're probably you won the day there bub i think i won i think i'm one i'll tell you what we didn't know which interview was going to go first. We had no idea which interview was going to go first going into this. And I'm still going second? I mean, we're going to have to have a discussion. All right. Fair enough. If AQ's interview went first, tweet now to AQ Shipley,

a big time king. Did you pick the winner on my Instagram? Yeah. No, he didn't. Did you tell anybody? I just figured all along you do that so you don't take the fucking heat and you still pick every one of them.

No, no, no. I tell everybody else to pick them because I don't want to pick them. I'm not a part of that. They pick them and then they notify Phil and then Phil sends them merch. I mean, you can still pick it and I'll still take the fucking heat. You can just be like, ah, you picked this guy and you still picked it. By the way, did you see my public pass set?

Not bad, huh? Fucking the worst thing I've ever seen. You don't mean that. No, I mean it. Literally the worst thing I've ever seen. Show him the one from today. Do we have the one from protection? I was playing left tackle dude yeah same thing seen the defensive pass rushers in this league if you give them that much space

you're done bro i saw i saw a defensive pass rusher today in the streets of new york washed him down fucking washed him down you had no idea it wasn't i mean look like davian clowny kind of it might have been uh it might have been Carl Vandenbosch, to be honest with you. Carl. Carl. Look at that play. I just showed him the play, his play. Was it the one where Strahan spotlighted you?

How happy are you after that? Guy doesn't get touched. How do you feel about Strahan spotlighting you on that play? I don't know what he said. I got some asshole that did his commentary over top of it. Oh, you're talking about me? No, I didn't mean that. I'm sorry.

I was so happy for you, man. They put a big-ass spotlight on you. Now, granted, smaller than what it could have been because you've lost a lot of weight, but it was still a spotlight that was on you. That never happens. I don't think it's happened in 13 years. 14 years ago it happened.

Let's see it. Jesus. That guy was scared. This guy, watch the pass rush. Watch this guy. Watch me fucking just bury and bottle you, that guy. Pretty good. That guy.

That guy gave you a little wiggle, dude. He gave you like a. That was pretty awesome. Quarterback didn't get touched. Man, that was awesome. You look terrible. You're a terrible offensive lineman. I really thought I'd get a lot more credit from the offensive lineman

for at least trying to do something that you guys do in a public sense. It's so funny to me whenever people who don't play it like try and imitate it it is the funniest thing in the world they like their feet are like literally behind each other like if somebody put a pinky on them they'd fall over i agree those people those people are bumps us guys that have good pass sets know that balance is key to the entire thing. In the trenches, baby. In the trenches with me and Z. Oh, yeah. And AQ sometimes.

Wide base. You need a wide base. It's just like playing basketball defense. That's it. That's all you're doing. Did you see the highlight of Aaron Donald picking up? Did you ever see the old clips of Wojowski at Duke slapping the floor how wide his base was? No. That guy's got to figure it out.

Did you see the clip of Aaron Donald picking up another professional athlete off the ground this weekend? Yeah, I saw it. How's that make you feel? Looking forward to playing him. You play the 49ers in that D-line soon? Yeah, we got them in two weeks. Actually, like 10 days from now, I think.

Next Thursday. Would you rather play someone short and stocky like Donald or big like Bruckner? Brockers? No, DeForest. DeForest, Bruckner. I mean, they're both their own animal. I'd rather face the 6'3", 340 guys. That's who I like to play against.

Why is that? Because I'm 290 now, guys. I got athleticism. I don't think that's how it works. Did you see that? You did? You're just doing jukes to the camera there at 290 how come though because that the little guy who's probably more athletic than you and stronger than you could just beat you in both ways

well no yeah it's just i mean at the end of the day like what has happened is i mean 10 years ago you used to have the really big defensive line, which there's still a few teams that kind of have them, but the linebackers of 10 years ago are now defensive ends. The defensive ends of 10 years ago are now defensive tackles. It's getting faster. They've gotten more athletic. They've gotten more faster. And, yeah, they're freakazoids over there as we like to call them.

And Aaron Donald is just another level. He's by far the best football player on earth, right? He's really good. I mean, yeah, you'd have to put him up there. Would the NFL vote him number one? I think so, yeah. Yeah. Voted on by the players, which nobody ever gets a sheet to vote on.

That one. I know. I often wondered why my vote never got casted for anything. I always voted for my teammates. Oh, I never got a sheet. Me neither. I never got to vote for anything either, I don't think. They never give you the sheets, right?

Have you ever voted? I don't think so. I don't think I've ever gotten a sheet. How many years have you been in? 11. I played for eight. I don't think I ever voted. Who's filling out the Sheets?

As voted on by the players, what players? Mystery. Coaches taking it home, having their kids fill them out. Telling them who to put. Popularity content. Yeah. It's just like high school all over again. Homecoming kid, Aaron Donald.

I think they got it right, though, whoever they were asking. 100%. I think they got it right. He's pretty incredible. What does he do? He's just faster than you and stronger than you? He's kind of got it all. I mean, he's literally one I mean, he's one of the fastest,

quickest human beings going against. I love what one of my teammates, I think, said. This is actually a great line. He goes, I go against defensive linemen. And all these defensive ends, these Vaughn Millers, these Chandler Jones, all these really, really good defensive ends, you guys are saying they're the best athletes on the field, right? What do you call me if I have to do that walking backwards?

I have to block them walking backwards. Oh. I thought that was a great comment. Yeah, for you as an offensive lineman, I would definitely love that. What do we have to do? We have to walk back? I agree. You have to pass that just like what I do out there in public.

Yeah, yeah. So did you just turn that into a compliment of yourself? Way too fucking long, man. I really got better things to do with my life. You don't. You're hiding from your family. The first 15 minutes went really well now we're just fucking going off on dan i don't like it one bit you still don't have to be a dad or a husband though for at least another 10 minutes that doesn't feel pretty good england's play tonight first 15 minutes we're

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That's hashtag. He said what? And at all of us, $ 500 gift card to the merch store uh the last name i just introduced there is somebody that maybe not everybody knows because you might be new listeners of the show if you're old listeners of the show you very much understand who this man is what he is uh boston connor is back with us very happy you're here man how are you good man it's uh great to be back in the heart of the country. I miss the ocean for a little, but I love this flatland. Yeah, well, I bet the geography is really what it's all about out here.

You know what I mean? When you come out to Indiana, you think this flat-ass land is what I'm here for. Beautiful. It has been nice to see. I mean, I've only been here a couple days since I've been traveling and I'm back. But having your presence around has been one that I've enjoyed a lot. I appreciate that. Yeah, no, I definitely, you know, getting the footing back and getting the juices flowing again.

But it's good. Now, can we clear up that you were not in jail? I wasn't in jail. I wasn't in jail. I stayed up for four straight days. And I know what you're thinking. How much cocaine was this guy doing? But there were no operas involved.

But, yeah, I had a little mix-up there. I had to take care of some business on the home front, but I'm feeling great. Well, we're all very happy that you're back. I mean, it's been exciting. And the Patriots are still very good at football, so it seems like nothing really has changed. Nope, haven't skipped a beat. Nope, here we are.

Great to have you back here. This weekend was an insane one in the NFL. I'll tell you what, when I say this, I mean this. And Zito, I don't want to pile on here. Uh-uh. I don't want to pile on. Uh-uh. But the New Orleans Saints basically had nobody playing football for them.

Still a good team. Coach was an amazing coach. Chicago guy, people forget. Sean Payton's a Chicago guy? Oh, yeah. I didn't know that. How'd you let him out of the state? Because it seems like the Saints paid him a lot of money. I think he's an eastern

guy, too. He is, yeah. What happened to the Bears? I can't blame him on jet lag this week. Poor play calling, probably. You're going after the coach? So now it's Nagy's fault? No, I'm not saying any names.

The coach? We found out there's one thing that could beat the Bears defense. Jet lag. And it's Mitch Trubisky. The Bears defense just has completely quit because they know that no matter what they do, no matter how great they play, when the ball gets on the offensive side, Mitchell Trubisky and that offense is going to stink. They were great for like two quarters, two and a half quarters, almost three quarters,

and they were like, this guy stinks. Why are we even trying? Why are we even wasting our effort? Chuck Pagano has beaten leukemia. Chuck Pagano has done a lot of great things. Motivating that Bears defense to make them think that they can still be in games no matter how good they play with whoever's playing offensive quarterback for the Bears is going to be one of his most difficult things

he's ever done in his entire life. And by the way, Pulse of Bears Nation, they've fucking given up on Mitchell Trubisky. The Indians have given up on Mitchell Trubisky. Well, they haven't given up yet, but we're in the market. You were literally on the show today, live show. You said false prophet. I'm done with you.

And then I said Moses had to come back. And you were wrong. For what, the comeback? Yeah, he actually left. Didn't come back at all. No, just wandered off for 60 years. Really? Yeah.

Jesus, on the other hand, came back. That's what I meant jesus come back but honestly like the same thing with the kicker situation why don't you just bring a bunch of quarterbacks in and build the confidence that way oh kind of like goose island did up there where they just had a bunch of drunks stumble in maybe we get a vince papali but that's exactly what i'm talking about that is what you're resorting to in Chicago is a hopeful Vince Papali situation to come wandering off the streets of Southside Chicago. Same thing happened to Vinny, though, right?

Essentially, like, where you just got to, like, build that spark up again. Adam Vinatieri, though, is the greatest in the history of the game. Mitchell Trubisky has never proven that that spark was ever lit for him. That's like if Brady had one bad game, you're like, oh, he'll come back.

Yeah. This is like if the worst kick bad game, you're like, oh, he'll come back. Yeah. This is like if the worst kicker of all time tried making a comeback. Yeah, like if a Roberto Aguayo. Like when Cody Parkey came back and doinked again. Oh, that guy, the football gods. What the? He does not deserve it.

What has Cody Parkey done to these football gods, by the way? They're just punished. He practiced on poles. He won't criticize Mitch, but he's burying Cody Parker. I know. It's just easy for Zito to do that. Just take the easy way. I'll blame the attractive, young-looking kid

from Auburn. He's attractive. But horrible kicker. I would argue he was a pro bowl kicker at one point. He's a better kicker than Mitch as a quarterback. You shut up. hit a pole he's a better kicker than mitch is a quarterback oh you shut up there you go what a pole what a pole of the people that is is cody parky who has been to a pro bowl before has done very good things in his nfl career is he a better

kicker than trubisky his quarterback that is a great question chicago people are gonna go up in arms they have no idea what to do and how to react here because i got a lot of bears fans tweeting me saying they're fucking fed up with it yeah someone started to go fund me for what for getting mitch out oh it's can you imagine looking at that if you're mitch oh god oh my god first of all it's mitchell but they he it's mitch right now i know i bet you mitchell's a good guy i bet he's an incredibly good human but he just has the call river on he has no confidence at all in what he's doing he looks scared i mean he's missing wide open passes something happened inside his ears this past offseason that made him a much worse quarterback than he was last year. I just don't know what happened.

But we're wasting that Bears defense who has completely given up hope. They kind of got that Cam Newton syndrome going on where you just kind of fall out of love with the game and are kind of sick of it because there ain't shit you can do. Now, I would argue this, though. Some defenses could get that pride where they're like, this is our team. We're going to win games.

If this guy who's taking snaps is completely inept at least we'll be able to do our job we're gonna score more than the other team scores we're gonna win this game and i think the bears are doing that early but then they just got wore down yeah fucking hey dude how many fucking turnovers do you need well then they had a block punt they're like a special teams are against us now too uh incredibly smart play there by very very bat netball as somebody who has done that before in the back of the end zone the old quick little bat out they're like it's a penalty yeah it's a safety either way who cares as long as it's not a touchdown that's all we're trying to do five points never ever ever want to hear whenever

you're a punter but as soon as you hear that your eyes are just going oh shit where the fuck is it and then you see a bunch of people much more athletic than you sprinting at your legs oh is it under me let's get it out of there good play by patty o'donnell is eddie pinero still kicking for you guys yes sir you know he had a big ball 54. that a boy eddie pinero he's doing good so pat o'donnell is not bad eddie pinero is not. The defense is not bad. Bring in Cam. I think if you train for Cam, dude, I think that team gets a lot better. Even the New York guys in the studio were saying get.

Oh, you can't hear me. Okay, now I don't know what happened. That thing hit the ground and went out, and then I can hear you now. But what'd you say? They were saying just go for Eli Manning. I don't know if that's going to do it. I don't think Eli Manning would want to do that. Well, he probably wouldn't be much of a trade. Who is somebody?

Ryan Fitzpatrick was the guy we played. I think Mariota. No, get out of here. He's better than Mitch. Is he? Is he? He's the same player. He's probably much more athletic.

Oh, no, Mitch is fast. What was that? Oh, Mitch is fast. Is he that? Oh, Mitch is fast. Is he really? Is that why they're having him run the option all the time and design quarterback runs? With his broken clavicle? Yeah.

It's harder from the run now because of his broken clavicle. You think Marcus Mariota and Mitchell Trubisky are similar athletes? Ryan Fitzpatrick? Mitchell Trubisky, who are you taking? Fitzpatrick. For sure. He's a cool guy. Now that's a guy that could potentially get traded up there

to Chicago because honestly Dolphins are going to fuck around and let Fitzpatrick play and yeah, win out. His kids would love to win out. If Ryan Fitzpatrick continues to let Fitzpatrick play, he's going to fuck around and they're

going to win out. We're going to win out. We're going to win every single game there's a chance. I mean, that's unbelievable to think about. All they need is one more win. There ain't no way the Falcons are winning a game for the rest of the year. What about the Redskins? They stink. There's a lot of teams that stink.

Bengals, dude, don't fuck around. The Bengals ain't going to win a game either. Matt Schaub's still in this league. Where? He's Atlanta's quarterback now. No. If Matt Ryan's out. Oh, God. That's hysterical. The Schwab special. $6 burger. There's so many really good teams.

What are you talking about? When he was playing for the Texans, they did that to his own quarterback where they did a $6 special for a burger because he gave so many picks. He was the pick six king, right? Schaub, not Schwab. You can stump the Schwab. That was a great show back in the day.

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Vikings are, though. I mean, the Vikings are up there for sure. Just kind of leapfrogged. You guys beat them, and nobody knows. That was before the public meltdown in Minnesota that saved their season. They should be thanking Stephon Thielen and the Kirk Cousins show instead of fining them.

I assume that'll all come back around. He looks incredible. That offense looks incredible. You look at the Packers, though. That is my favorite for the NFC, for the Super Bowl, mostly because Aaron Rodgers and LaFleur are getting hot. They're starting to understand each other. Fist pumping and synchronization.

Speeches after the game. Making the checks. Throwing the ball. They don't have Devontae Adams. I mean, that team's only going to get better when you add another weapon. The Packers seem like they're going to be at the top of the class. My number two team is Drew Brees and that Saints. Even though Drew Brees isn't there,

Teddy Bridgewater getting wins is paramount because in the playoffs, these wins, if the Saints can have home field advantage, that is a completely different ball game than if they have to travel to the frozen tundra. Drew Brees down there in the Superdome with those freaks and geeks and witches and voodoo folks stumbling off of Bourbon Street,

blacked out off of four hurricanes, losing their minds for four quarters. It is very difficult to win in the Superdome, but you get end of season Drew Brees with a little bit of a noodle warm, which might not happen because he's been resting here, but if it, you know, trends continue. In Lambeau, I mean, that's a completely different operation.

So it's big what Teddy Bridgewater's been able to do. Then I got the Niners there. I like the Niners a lot. I think they're an incredible team. That defense is suffocating. Not sure the offense has figured it out yet. Not that you could have got a good read in Washington because of the downpour anyways.

So you couldn't really tell. And the other team I like the dallas cowboys am i saying this strictly because i have to yes yes that is 100 right i was told we talk about cowboys numbers go up i'm in a corporate world now where i have to do that but if the cowboys can play like they played on sunday night against the eagles team that stinks i think they have a chance they were clicking on all cylinders going into the bye They played on Sunday night against an Eagles team that stinks. I think they have a chance. They were clicking on all cylinders going into the bye week. Maybe they paid Dak, kind of eased some tensions.

Maybe it's all in the hips and they get going. It'll be interesting to see if the Cowboys can keep up. But those top three teams, I think they're pulling away quickly from everybody else in the NFC. NFC playoffs, I think anybody can beat. If Seattle's going to be a six seed. Yeah, and for everybody else in the NFC, they've got to fucking get going now or they're not going to make it in. I mean, those spots are filling up very quickly right now.

And if you're like the Rams who just beat up on the Falcons and you're like maybe getting back into it, you've got to go quick and you've got to go now because those NFC spots are going to fill up very quickly with very good teams. And on the AFC side, Patriots are obviously going to go. You like the Patriots this year? Yeah, I think we had a good shot this year. They're pretty good.

I knew he felt back today. He started chirping again. Oh, yeah? Were you not chirping the other days? No, no. I've just been slowly. I mean, I don't want to get punched in the face on the first day. I mean, come on.

Give it a couple weeks at least. No, see, I think the first day is when you could have said whatever because everybody's happy to have you back. Now we're kind of getting comfortable with you. You know what I mean? Yeah, fair enough, fair enough. Yeah. You like the Patriots team this year, though.

That defense is fucking unbelievable. Oh, yeah. Jamie Collins all pro this year. Darius Butler wanted me to pull a clip from when he was on the show, and he said when Jamie Collins goes back to the Patriots, he's going to dominate there. We couldn't find the clip, but he was 100% right. Remember, Jamie Collins said something about wanting a contract, and Collins goes back to the Patriots he's going to dominate there we couldn't find the clip but he was 100% right remember Jamie Collins said something about wanting a contract

and they shipped them to the Browns they were like oh is that right okay go do some hard time they sent him out to fucking what's that Alcatraz Cleveland and then he's like you learned your lesson yeah come on back that's what the Patriots did

defense is incredible special teams is going to get better and i think tom brady and josh mcdaniel's are always going to figure it out but nothing matters before thanksgiving for bill belichick so we'll never know what the team truly is until then this is all kind of pre-season but the patriots are obviously going to be in the colts i when i say this yes it's me being a homer but that team the way it is assembled is a team to do damage deep in the season late in the year if you can run the ball and stop the run that's how you do damage in the playoffs in December that's kind of the way it goes and that team can run the ball and that team on the defensive side can stop the run and Jacoby Brissett is an absolute stud I like the Colts a

lot not just because it's good for business not just because a lot of my friends still work there not just because we get to see them day in and day out here in indianapolis but also because i think they're a really fucking good team for once and i think that is why it was such heartbreak city that andrew luck retired because everybody in the city was like oh fucking come on we finally got a team chris ballard kind of finally puts the team together andrew says i'm done cuz see you later i gotta go ride my bike around stanford and then they pay jacoby percent and jacoby has balled the fuck out i'm a big fan of jacoby and i like the colts a lot as a patriots fan is this the first colts team that you've ever like had real respect for here early uh no there are some teams payton had uh what was recent history recent recent history oh yeah for sure

yeah i think so too. Honestly, in my eyes, even as a guy who played on a couple of those teams, this team looks fundamentally different than those teams did. The teams that I played on with luck in them, it was a lot of if luck and ball, our team can do it. Like if luck does good, our team does good. In this particular Colts team, the way Ballard has built this thing, with an offensive line being dominant, if your run game isn't going,

it's okay, let Jacoby have some time. He can throw. The offensive line being good sets you up to be successful in many other ways than just running the ball. It affects everything else. And then that defense, they have depth even though they're young, and I think they're getting healthy. Honestly, looking at this team, I'm like,

this is probably the best built team I've seen the Colts have probably ever, to be honest. Yeah. I mean, aside from having Peyton Manning, one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of the game, probably second greatest quarterback in the history of the game. I mean, this is just a very well-built team, and I like them. I'm a big fan of the Colts.

And Chiefs got no idea what's going on with Patty Mahomes. That dislocated kneecap is going to hurt like a motherfucker. Now they're saying he's going to come back sooner than the three to six weeks, too. That just makes no sense. I mean, maybe. I mean, maybe, I guess. I have no idea. If they popped it back in, which is good.

Mine was floating outside of my knee for eight weeks. Yeah, it didn't come back into the groove. So that hurt like hell. But let's assume if you dislocated, there's going to be some strains on some things. like hell but let's assume if you dislocate it there's going to be some strains on some things with the ankle injury on the left and then the the the dislocated patella on the right knee as a guy who's pretty mobile i mean if there's anybody that's gonna be able to figure out it's pat mahomes but that might that has to hurt the chiefs at least a little bit i'd assume in the afc has to has to i maybe if i were if i were lived in kansas city i would have donated money

maybe they found someone to do it. Oh. And also, Kansas City, good people, because everybody there knows and loves the hum of the cheese. They could definitely get a fucking knee from somebody. Yeah. Not your knee digs. Yeah. I don't know if he wants your knee. I actually don't have knee problems.

I wouldn't give him a shoulder. Bad shoulders. But my knees are okay. Even as a catcher? Yeah. I know knee digs. Yeah, I don't know if he wants your knee. I actually don't have knee problems. I wouldn't give him a shoulder, bad shoulders, but my knees are okay. Even as a catcher? Yeah, I know. It's weird. Didn't wear knee savers either because those were for soft kids. Kids' pop time is next level. Next level. Also, I think it's easy for us to say we have good knees when we never do anything to challenge

the knees. You know what I mean? It's like, I'm sitting in this chair right now like man my knees feel good my knees been resting and recovering for like 13 years did i tell you guys i sprinted this weekend how'd that feel really okay so sam and i took our dogs for a walk around the property beautiful fall day leaves were changing some vitamins it was just like a perfect situation we get in the backyard in the open field and sam's like i want to race and i started laughing i was like okay who are you racing the dogs she's like no i want to race you i was like you want to raise me she was like

yeah but i want you to take it seriously and i'm like like what the fuck even even my fiance just completely forgets that i was like a freak athlete this is a she had a straight face when she was looking at me like i want to race and i was like okay let's do it and she was like i'm scared you're not gonna run i was like i'll run whatever so we put our shit down okay we put all of our stuff down take the hoodie off i had a couple hoodies on it was a little chilly put my drink down put the smoke down put the lighter down everything we line up and she starts like full sprinting she's like all right we'll race to the uh deer feeder put the lighter down, everything. We line up, and she starts, like, full sprinting. She's like, all right, we'll race to the deer feeder in the middle.

I'm like, cool, let's go. And she was like, I want a real race. And I was like, all right. So she starts running, and I was like, all right, fuck it. You know, I'll probably bust out both of my hip flexors here, but I'm going to stride out here, too. So I obviously galloped past her very quickly, but I felt like Jacob Sully in his avatar for the first time.

I fucking went, I just, I sprinted right past the deer feeder, almost like to the other side. I was striding. I was like, man, this is the first time I've really like open this motherfucker up for a

long time. It felt good. I mean, it felt good to run again. And I was like, oh, my shit's probably gonna hurt so bad tomorrow. My ankles probably gonna be yelling at me tomorrow.

My knees, who knows what's going to happen with the hips and the hamstrings. Fucking forget it. I'm in a bad spot. I was running as fast as I could possibly run. It literally felt like that day where Sully got loose. And I woke up the next day feeling good. I think I might be running sprints in my backyard on a daily basis. It was a very good feeling.

I have not done that in so long. So, so long. I told a story on Heartland Radio the other day that I did that in the backyard playing with the dogs the other day. And I forgot. I forgot that I could run. I forgot how to do it. I just fell over. Yeah, that's what I thought was going to happen.

I thought my ankles were going to roll somehow. I felt like I was going to be like a baby giraffe coming out of the vagina. The whole thing. Not the case. Did you handle yourself well? Oh, yeah. It feels pretty good, didn't it? No, it didn't really feel good for me.

So maybe we don't give your knees to Pat Morris. I mean, Jesus Christ. Speaking of knees, you hear Zion's career is over? Oh, man. Are you serious? He's out six to eight weeks, but I mean, this is only the beginning. He's going to play like six seasons, like 27 games a season. This is meniscus, right? Yeah, but there's a surgery coming out that they can fix your meniscus

this is a new state-of-the-art surgery tim mcafee found it sent it across my desk because the mcafee's have bad menisci there is a surgery coming out where they basically just fucking insert a new meniscus for you i think 2020 it's being launched now that's straight from tim mcafee's desk i I'm not sure of the 100% accuracy of that, but I do believe there is a meniscus surgery coming to save a lot of people's knees because that's just annoying pain. Like meniscus

is just bone on bone. It's just like a nightmare, you know, but that's what they're saying is his issue meniscus. He's out 68 68 weeks, you know, they now the gate because the discussion was before, he is this freak athlete that can do things he shouldn't be able to do because of his size, but your body can take some punishment because of that.

I never would have guessed that the 280-pound guy. He needs to lose about 35 pounds. That can jump 75 inches in the air and was that explosive, would have knee issues. Never, ever, ever would have knee issues never ever ever would i guess going to the same thing you oh yeah z you and zion are the same weight oh yeah proud of it he can touch room though it's fine i could barely touch it yeah if i'm wearing the right shoes i could touch right so what are they doing right

now they're they're just trying to get him to lose weight i'd assume for six weeks they're probably just getting weight off because whenever you lose weight your knees feel better that is something that actually actively happened like whenever i would go into a season light my knees would feel so much better and when i was heavy my knees would hurt i'm assuming right now they're trying to get weight off of zion it's hard, though, with all those beignets. Diner in New Orleans. Oh, yeah. I wouldn't be able to lose it. Kills opening night because he was opening night.

Kills the first couple weeks. Any possibility, though, that he battles his entire career with injuries because of his size? I would assume that there's a chance of that. But there's also diets that can kind of fight inflammation in your knees and stuff like that. If he loses weight, there's a lot of things that he'll be able to. He'll have some.

He'll have to have incredible discipline. Yes. To have any longevity. Going to have to have some real discipline when it comes to rehab, treatment, stretching, diet, everything. What's that, dude? Frog legs. He's just talking Louisiana food. Louisiana. Fresh. frog legs everything what's that dude frog legs talking louisiana food louisiana fresh uh he can't

be having popeyes cannot be having fried chicken he's gonna have to change a lot of things but there is a diet though that can combat the inflammation in your knees and stuff like that and he was about to lose weight i assume we're gonna see an entirely new looking zion whenever he debuts he's probably gonna be chiseled up just like LeBron, if I had to guess. And hopefully that'll help extend his career to at least 10 years where he can just be dominant. I don't like hearing he's hurt, though. Not one bit. Because everybody's like, well, he's hurt at Duke.

Yeah, his shoes quit. His shoe quit on him. That's why he was hurt. I don't like to hear that. I assume this is the first time he's been told he needs to lose weight. He's like 19. Is he 19? Yeah. Probably? Yeah.

Probably. Yeah. So no one's ever been like, you got to lose some weight when you're only 18, 17 years old. Yeah. Well, I'm assuming the internet body shaved the fuck out of him. Yeah, probably. Look at how high the fat kid can jump. And then he just puts his highlight video on there.

He's like, yeah, you can't do this. By the way, it'd be very hard for me to want to lose weight because I know exactly how it was just kicking balls. People were like, you need to lose weight. I'm like, is that ball still fucking traveling forever or not? If I was Zion and they're like, you need to lose weight, he's like, is my head still hitting off the rim? As soon as my head stops hitting the rim, then he can tell me to lose weight.

They're like, well, it's not about that. It's about your knees. I'm like, my fucking knees. And then bang, here we are. Probably would have lost it naturally too if he could have got at least halfway through the season with all those games every night without the shoe problem is that what you're thinking just playing those games i feel like rigorous nba schedule i will say though if he drops to 240 he might be dunking from like the

three-point line uh might be the best dunker we've ever seen in our entire life if he gets down first jordan and be zion after you would put jordan as the number one dunker we've ever seen in our entire life if he gets down. First Jordan and be Zion after. You would put Jordan as the number one dunker in history? Oh, yeah. That free throw had no chance. I think he stepped on the line. He did. He did.

Yeah. So? There's people that have not stepped on the line that have done it. Yeah, he did it first. Yeah, just because he's older. He stepped on the line, though, so he didn't really do it. No, but this is not the triple jump. He stepped on a line, though, so he didn't really do it. No, but this is not the triple jump.

He's not getting faulted for it. Yeah, we're actually faulting him right now. Yeah, you said something, and we faulted him for it. No. Yeah. I don't think so. A lot of good pictures of it. Would you argue that Jordan's the best dunker in the game? Vince Carter. There it is. There's the final dunker in the game? Vince Carter.

There it is. There's the final answer. North Carolina guy. No big deal. Alumni. Did you go to North Carolina? Yeah, I did an online class. Pass fail.

Pass fail. Online class. You were just taking credit for Michael Jordan's school. That's why you said North Carolina. Because the guy that you were fighting for went to school with the guy that was actually the dunking champ. That's also why he loves Mitch so much. Because Mitch is also a North Carolina guy. Another alumni, yeah. Mitchell.

It's Mitch right now, I think. Is it really? Yeah. He said that or you're saying that? I'm saying that right now. Okay, Z. That a boy. Alright. Colts going to the Super Bowl. Patriots are always going to be good. Shout out to the Patriots.

They're covering last night 9.5, just like we thought they were going to do against the Jets. Congrats to the Jets for putting up a little bit of a fight there for that little bit of time. You remember when they did that, Connor? It was valiant. It was nice to see, but all dogs go to bed. Good for them.

I love the Colts. Love everything happening in the NFLfl right now this is shaping up to be an incredible one if the bears want to win immediately make a call down to 305 send him a washer and dryer send him a physical therapist send him a couple k balls whatever you can get get ryan fitzpatrick up there with that magical beard and let him lead them to some victories so you're not completely out of it here next week or so because the vikings and packers are doing nothing but heating up shout out to aq shipley and the arizona cardinals good for the dallas cowboys looking like a good football team and thank you so much for listening you guys are the greatest and we're going to top this thing

off with an interview with a very very accomplished man from the entertainment world diving deep into the annals of acting we have an Emmy award winner a Golden Globe winner a man whose character in a show shaped my literal life right now at the time being I would argue the greatest character in the history of television but not only that incredible movie lineup as well and a stand-up comedian this weekend he's at Helium Comedy Club in Indianapolis Indiana he's on tour we'll find out where he's at next i think he's going to be here for a bit with us joining us uh and i have no idea where it's going to go but i can't wait ladies and gentlemen jeremy piven wow that's thank you so much man that was an amazing intro but unfortunately i have to go is that weird there's nowhere to go but down after that. No, man.

The mimes freaked me out. I didn't come here for the mime show. No, it was amazing. But no, I'm happy to be here. I can talk about sports, entertainment, whatever you guys want. I'm from Chicago, so I'm a huge Bears fan. Bear Don. That guy's a big Bears fan, too. He also thinks there's no salt in the Pacific Ocean.

Love it. Wow. Well, look at that. That's one of those throwback helmets i love it oh yeah really cool well he's also a throwback idiot too i love it that you're currently speaking i love it you know what what happened to the bears and the raiders what what do you think the variable was jet lagged you think that's what it was oh yeah we learned that the bears just aren't good in england that's what we learned okay bears aren't good in england so so the raiders didn't have to fly over as well they the raiders they came a week early they live in nodding hill with hugh grant they came a week early is that true oh yeah that's so smart john gruden you know

what is god bless him man he's not playing around that dude. But you thought that, you know, Khalil, because I was over there in England for the past four years shooting a TV show called Mr. Selfridge that was on PBS here. 11 people saw it. Don't worry about it. Do I sound bitter? Because I am. Because I am.

Hey, it was a great show, though. I mean, I remember watching it. I was one of those 11. All of us. We might have been the 11th. Right on. Amazing. Amazing. Amazing.

But I will say that the NFL players would get over there, and it's a great time. So, you know, I don't know how much of a variable that is, but I thought, you know, that the boys would come out a little harder than that. You know, you've got. The England game is tough, and I mean that as somebody who went over there,

and our team lost, and I didn't have much to do with it. I mean mean i kind of chilled on the sideline a lot of the game but we lost the jacksonville jaguars over there routine gets broken so like football players for all of their faults and for all their incredible abilities super routine individuals so like okay at this point i do this at this time of day i do this i eat at this time. Yeah, but hold on. Let me interrupt you because I have no idea. You're an elite athlete, and I'm a civilian. But Khalil Mack is one of those guys that defies all the odds. He didn't have a training camp. He came in with the Bears, and he literally had the game of his life. I think he had maybe just put pads on for the first time since the season before.

They just pointed him to the field and he just started wrecking stuff, right? So I think Khalil Mack... The routine doesn't matter for Khalil. I don't think so, but, you know, he didn't seem like himself. You know what's interesting to me with you is a lot of the Hollywoods,

a lot of you Hollywoods, don't follow the sports, the footballs. I think whenever I go to L.A., what I realize is there's a lot of other stuff going on a lot of other stuff going on we're out here in a lot of the big time football cities chicago being one of them like the bears are kind of like a sanctuary for people here the coats are a sanctuary for in la there's a lot going on i mean you were living in england for the last four years right it is interesting the hollywood sports tie together how it's like

yeah fans don't know much about it you seems like you really understand what's going on well I mean I can say that a lot of actors and myself included what we are is we're frustrated athletes and that's what you see in Mark Wahlberg Mark Wahlberg no no I'm just being honest and I'm not saying anything he wouldn't say he would give it all up to be the middleweight champion of the world and to be a boxer. He'd give it all up tomorrow. And he said that before. I was a five foot nine linebacker, Jewish, going nowhere.

Division three college, maybe at best get my head kicked in. You know what I mean? I had great lateral movement. I was the only white boy on the team. I was just an animal, right? So I took all of my frustration from not making it after high school. great lateral movement i was the only white boy on the team i was just an animal right yeah so i took all of my frustration from not making it after high school into acting you know what i mean and i i don't you know you you want to fail early in this life you don't want to be celebrated too

early because then you're the you know the prom king that's aging and you're still there and you haven't left town yeah do you know what i mean there's a lot of those in our hometown yeah right so you want to fail early and often and so you have a taste of it and go make a decision do i want to continue failing or do i want to kick it into another gear when you did entourage did you guys know just how like first episode there was there like a feeling pilot like hey this is going to captivate every human from the ages of 13 to probably 40. This is going to be something everybody's going to love. You know, here's what's interesting about that is at the time, you know, you had The Sopranos, Sex and the City, and HBO was the place to be. And right out of college, I did a show called The Larry Sanders Show, which kicked off original programming which is dating myself even further because we're going to talk about stand-up comedy I started at Second City with

Chris Farley that's how old I am I mean you go way way way deep you don't look like it by the way bro you know what I'm incredibly vain that no I mean that's the I mean I that's the variable I just I'm not a fan of aging I don't want to do it uh it's not right for me you know what i mean i i have people coming up to me going bro we're the same age and they're in a walker they've got gray hair and i'm like no and they go why'd you do that i'm like that's the sound of me internalizing my mortality because when i see someone my age it freaks me out you have to understand i i i was in chicago i, you know, when, you know, the 85 Bears,

I was there when Jordan and Rodman were there. Oh, you're an old old, I didn't know you're an old old. Bro, I am, I don't even want to get into it. I wanted to go back

to Hollywood and frustrated athletes and all of that stuff because it's true. We are frustrated athletes and I, you know, wanted to be a football player more than anything in the world and it was it was my great love and then you you know you get hit with reality like look if you looked at a picture of me next to brian erlacher that shows

why i can't be a linebacker in the nfl sciences yeah um but you know i i chose the right thing and so i get to you know be creative and do my thing. And I'm here at Helium all weekend. And Indie, I was shocked at, first of all, how cool that club is. It's the dream for stand-ups because it's an intimate setting where you're all in it together. And that crowd was on it from the jump. I was inspired by them. I just literally wrapped a movie. We're shooting six-day weeks.

Got on a plane, came here. I was beat up. And they had such energy. I was like, I got to just bring it for these people. Yeah, that has to be everywhere you go, though. And it's literally because, I mean, still to this day, I'd assume a GIF of your character, Ari Gold, is used once every probably 10 seconds on the internet.

Whatever it is. I mean, just a character. Yeah, maybe you're right. No, i mean just a character you're right no i mean like you know everything from let's hug it out yeah you know what i mean you know when when it and that was one of those cases listen doug ellen wrote the hell out of that show and i had to it was my job to say every word in that script because it was brilliantly written and so people think i'm improvising and the reality is it was like for the jews out there it was brilliantly written and so people think i'm improvising and the reality is it was like for the jews out there it was like my haftorah portion like you can't

stray from a word so i had to lean into this stuff and make it all feel totally improvisational but it was word for word every single are you serious yeah one thousand percent so i had to prepare yeah literally every word if you were to look back he'd like watch it and it would mirror every single word now there were moments where he didn't yell cut and i just said you want to hug it out you little bitch can i say that on the i'm not sure honestly i'm not sure if you're allowed to okay well that was an improv you know that was an improv you know thank you okay we just got the okay oh thank god hey by the way i just learned something hey you know you

want to hug out your little bitch by the way when i threw the first pitch out for the cubs and they were like do your catchphrase and it was father's day you know and i was just like you know come on chicago let's hug it out you little bitches and they were like what just happened and i i had to make a public apology to the Bears and to the Cubs. And I was only too happy. And those are my guys. I was horrified. So that could happen.

They didn't realize that that was my catchphrase. So to go back and answer your question. We've been told by the youngers of our society that you have a nice little catchphrase. Maybe you throw the ball out there. You're a retired athlete. 5'9 guy. Throw the ball well. And then we'll give you the microphone and just go ahead and cut that thing loose.

We'll be excited to have that moment. Absolutely. This water is amazing, by the way, whatever is happening with this water. The good thing about our water here is we actually filter that ourselves. It is really tasty, really tasty water. I digress from your question about did I know when I read the entourage script. Here's the thing. Because the pedigree of shows around us was so great and HBO was the place to be, I knew certain variables like

everyone wants to know about the backstage life of Hollywood like we want to know about the backstage life of athletes and all this great stuff. I knew that people would be curious. I knew that Mark has a very serious entourage and it was based on something that

is authentic mark is that he's a real he's a real hard-working dude that has these people in his life that he's been loyal to there's a drama turtle e there's an ari ari emmanuel you know help he bought the you how similar identical i oh this guy oh no no but i mean the thing about ari is he's as you know a brilliant businessman brilliant and he gets it done on the highest of levels and you know he is uh eccentric and reactive and all those wonderful things and so i just basically took from him and so i knew personally you know when i signed on uh you know the character had one scene in the pilot and you don't know what the show is going to be you know and you just signed on, you know, the character had one scene in the pilot,

and you don't know what the show is going to be, you know, and you just kind of jump in, it's a leap of faith. But I knew, wait a minute, based on Ari Emanuel and Mark's life, there's something really, if we can just kind of be authentic with the depiction, we could be on to something. And I knew that character was just fascinating and he's an equal opportunity offender and he's got you know add you know like you've never seen and he loses his mind and i was like if they let me play that guy we could be on to something they're the the the rehab or whatever with the wife is just because now i have a i have an agent who's 24 6 he celebrates shabbat shalom every saturday he goes off the grid yeah so i think he has those same potential moments where his phone

is ringing and he can't answer it right so now i'm getting a chance to experience and live back through those days and it's just incredible it's it's it's been incredible it's awesome yeah it is it and by the way had we not gotten it right we would have heard about it. You know, so it was up to us to be as authentic as possible. And yeah, I had the time of my life. And, you know, it's funny because I think right now, and I'd love to hear what you guys are watching, but I think, you know, we have all this content and not a lot is breaking through. And I think people are looking for that, what's that next show?

And so that's why you hear these people going back you know to entourage and friends and whatnot stuff that was like comfort food for us what does it say by the bell gonna come back or something like that they're coming back yeah zach moore's ac slater okay today's show has been insightful i think shout out to mr piven for joining us the rest of this conversation is about to go deep you're gonna love it mucho mucho that's it there's nothing i can add on the end of that to make it even bigger right zeke uh yeah you could have moss grande yeah mucho grande oh yeah this show is about to get mucho grande here with jeremy Piven kind of wrapping this thing up and bringing this thing full circle on this beautiful Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019. Today's the day you decide that you want to look and feel your best.

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which is one of my favorite of all time. I'll tell you a funny story about that. Exciting. That no one knows. It's going to out me. I'm such a joke. When I did Seinfeld, I was living in a pool house, and I was a series regular on the Larry Sanders show,

but I had that weird Chicago theater mentality where I still thought I was broke, even though I was on a series. So I'm living in the pool house. I don't have a TV. And Hirschfeld, John Hirschfeld, who cast Seinfeld, came up to me and said, would you audition for our show?

I go, I'd love to, but I'm a series regular, which literally, if you're a series regular, it'd be like playing for another team. You have no time. You can't do it. But I'm such a weird workhorse. I'm like, well, maybe I can slip another one in. Now, I've never seen Seinfeld.

I'd never seen the show. And they're like, okay, it's George. I go, who's George? And they go, it's played by Jason Alexander. I go, I know Jason from the lot. He's a great guy. So I went into this audition to play George Costanza, having never seen Seinfeld.

And so I played Jason Alexander from my conversations with him. And they go, I did my audition. They're like, oh my God, you must be a huge fan of the show. I was like, yes, I have never seen it. And I went and did the show. And it was better because, listen, they were the Beatles. I had no idea. They were just, Jerry was cool. They were all just really cool to me i was like man this is an awesome show

not knowing what show i was on yeah potentially biggest show of all time yeah absolutely and i now he's driving around in cars talking to people just because he's made a billion dollars doing that yeah but i mean think about talking about a guy living his dream the guy loves cars and he just talks to his friends hangs out that guy is living the dream and by the way he tours the country like no one else he kills he's the number one grossing stand-up in the world still still i did not know 60 sit close to 60 million dollars a year just from stand-up that's jerry seinfeld he's crushed killing the game they say get on the cab you get in the cab

they don't say you get on the train you get in the train 60 million dollars it's amazing he's killing the game he's a scientist he's brilliant

people love him I mean they should study his DNA he's really crushing the game that comedian's in cars getting coffee he's captivating I'll watch everything

that they'll put out it's captivating it's the most basic thing of all time right it's the best yeah it is it's incredible yeah but I mean you're killing the game as well

here's my question for you when I see you on ESPN are you just flying to New York and doing it and coming right back what are you doing yeah so Sundays we fly to New York

I do Get Up In The Morning with Greedy which is awesome then we do our live show from uh world for world trade we do this show from world trade then we hop on a plane fly back and then tuesday night i have to fly to wherever the thursday night game is which was this week it was in stanford california so we had to fly to san francisco because there was only a studio in san fran drive to palo alto and then we just flew back landed this morning 5 30 do you have a secret or you're just an animal i'm on some juice right now i mean that's probably helping what kind of juice you want if you don't mind me asking i just want the gnc and say give me everything okay so give me the

stuff in the back too and they're like you got it pals some meathead just wandered out from the back a little mongoloid looking fella okay and he's handing me everything all right so so you got a little testosterone boost what are you doing yeah yeah okay i hate to go deep with you right now yeah it's real okay and by the way i had never used any of that stuff i was scared to use supplements in the nfl because i was like if it's not broke don't fix it guy right i was very much a bad body upper body guy too i had a lot of pizza a lot of wings i looked bad but the cannon down below i could launch a football right so like a lot of supplements people are getting tagged for failed tests and stuff like that I was like well I can still kick a ball far and to be honest my body looks terrible I don't need that anyways I just keep kicking no

one's testing you because they looked at your body no I mean look at Roger Federer he's not on the juice no right but he's killing the game so you were good in that way yeah and then when I retired the conversation is always like man when I retire i'm gonna get on everything yeah that's the conversation in the locker room they're like man when we get out of here and they're not touching i'm gonna eat everything that they could possibly give us and i did that i'm currently doing that it does feel pretty good i mean i'm running on about two and a half hours of sleep i don't know how you do it because i i just i just broke down because i finished this movie six day weeks 14 hour days what's the movie is it good

it's i hope so man it's about these philly guys you know got the peter pan syndrome i get out i'm living the dream i go back home everyone's busting my balls for going to an ivy school and evolving and whatnot and it's called crabs in a bucket which is a metaphor for like when you put a bunch of crabs in a bucket they try to crawl out and everyone keeps bringing you back down oh hey that's deep yeah it is deep and um and is an incredible cast and we were you know crushing it so i jump on a plane and i come here and i've got no sleep like you and it just hit me so i need i'm not on testosterone i'm not on any of that stuff i i would tell you if i was but i need something because I feel like I'm breaking down. Well, I feel like

out there in Hollywood, you guys love the cocaine. I think that is the... You know what? I would do it, but I just can't. My body can't handle anything. I have to be healthy

because that's the only way that I can thrive. Oh, I forgot you're 70, too. Yeah, I'm a 70... I'm a 74-year-old man. I came up... Pat also drinks a lot of black thrive 70 too yeah i'm a 70 i'm a 74 year old man i came up a lot of black teas i drink yeah i'm there you go my body's not tough enough for coffee i crash too hard with coffee okay i just i literally become a sack of bones a sack of crap if i do coffee i just crash okay so i just house these iced tea things from starbucks we've been investing

in them so hard they haven't shown us a single ounce of love back. They don't need you, man. Starbucks doesn't need you. They don't need anybody. No. You know why? Because this is so good. It is so good.

I just house them all day. A little black tea, okay. How'd you get into stand-up as your first love? What's your style? I've been a stage actor my whole life. So what you saw me do as Ari Gold, this is going to bore the hell out of you, but is basically the oldest style of acting,

which is called Commedia dell'arte, which is invented by the Italians, which is kind of like these mimes where you're wearing white face and you look like you've been shot out of a cannon. And you're basically, your emotions are at 11 and you're losing your mind

and yet you have to be truthful. So that was kind of my background. So that's what Ari Gold was doing. He was constantly cranked up to 11. And, you know, growing up in Piven Theater, my parents are actors. So I was, you know, most kids are like, you know, mowing the lawn and, you know, getting yelled at for homework. And I was getting yelled at by my parents for like, are you really going to do it that way when we perform it? Really? Is that how you're going to do it? You know what I mean? So I was like, I just by my parents for like, are you really going to do it that way when we perform it? Really?

Is that how you're going to do it? You know what I mean? So I was like, I just want my parents to be normal. Why can't my dad be a mover or something like contribute to the world? Why is he playing King Lear? Who am I? I was just this weird. And I played football.

I was the only kid that played football and was on the stage. So all the athletes were making fun of me, like, why are you an actor? And then when they start seeing you in things, then they're like, oh, okay, now it makes sense. But I was just weird hybrid. So what was really great for me is I got to hang out with so many different types of people. And that's what's so great. And then I did Second City with Chris Farley and sketch comedy. And that you're writing on your feet. So my background is an improvisational sketch trained actor that also went to the National Theater of Great Britain and studied Shakespeare.

No big deal. Yeah. So I've been at them all. Is that easy to get into? No. No. That's like a top 10 school for football in the acting world. It's actually very surreal because, you know,

they accept about 50 people a year, so it's very strange. You know, so you go and you audition and you, listen, I just figured, I learned early on. How old were you? How old am I? How old were you when you went to them? 21 when I went over to study Shakespeare there. And then I went to NYU,

and then that's a program as well. So with me, I just figured if I attack my weaknesses, and my one weakness then that I saw glaringly was Shakespeare. So I attacked it. I just figured if I'm pretty well-rounded. And what's so funny is I'm talking to you guys about this. No one ever asked me ever, where'd you go to school? Like we all think it's so important. No one's asked me you know I've been to a million auditions

they've never said where'd you go to school where'd you study you know I could have gone to a community college and and literally done puppetry the penis and they would have been like no it's great you're great you know what I mean my background didn't matter but like you know to to play Ari Gold I needed to have been grinding for decades in order to play a character that's over the top, but that's also truthful. And so it was my honor to do that stuff. And now with stand-up, it's the one arena that I haven't done. And I just figured, look, here's the reality. You know in real time, when I get out there, they're all giving me a standing ovation when I walk out.

And the trick is, can I get them doing it when I leave? And that's my goal because mostly you see guys that you know from other arenas and then it's hard to deliver. Because a club owner said to me, are you okay disappointing the audience? And I was like, what? He goes goes because they

have a a standard for you they know you from your work you know as an actor and you're going to get up there doing stand-up and you're going to disappoint him i said listen i don't want to waste anyone's time if i'm not exceeding expectations i'm losing so when i get up there i want to just lose my mind for an hour and just crush it as hard as I possibly can. And that's my job. It's my honor. And I'm constantly taking notes, talking to other standups. And I take it very seriously because as an actor, you have to honor the space you occupy because other guys want to be there. You know what I mean? And so it's an honor to be there. And so I got to deliver and get better. Well, I'm not sure how many people want to be on that couch you're on,

but it's 1123 and you've done an incredible job there. We got to get to a break. We've missed it by like eight minutes. I'm sure we'll get a text about that. This is incredibly fascinating, by the way. This is some of the most enlightening stuff I've ever been a part of. I feel like I know a little bit about everything so I can have a conversation about anything.

Yeah, no, you're good at what you do. No, because you know and you're also curious. Yes. Most people aren't curious. It's like enough about me, more about me. And you're not like that. Well, speaking of that,

I have a great show. I have a great show. It's been a great hour and 24 minutes here. Can't wait to wrap it up here. If you're in a town where Jeremy Piven is doing comedy, let's just assume it's going to be incredible.

The guy studied Shakespeare because it was a weakness. I have no idea what that even means. Okay, Jeremy-Piven.com for all my dates. I mean, that is a terrible website name. We have to change that. Okay, no, we're going to figure that out. But I'm going to be in Spokane, Washington, at the Spokane comedy club all right

kids and then off broadway at lexington and then i'm gonna be doing bar mitzvahs and that's it for the show big thanks jeremy piven at some bitch connect he's awesome learned a lot about that show though that a Ari Gold was not an improvised character. That writer deserves a lot of credit. And by the way, the acting ability to make something look as if it's improvised. Also incredible. The Piven Theater probably should have known about that going into the interview. Had no clue that existed.

He's trained all over the world. Very thankful he stopped by. He looks nothing like his actual age. He looks very young. I'm assuming his stand-up comedy is good. If he comes to your town, go and check it out. The guy is hilarious. From all of us to all of you, we can't thank you enough for listening.

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