The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1549 - Feel Good Friday with Kendrick Perkins, Adam Schefter, Dan Orlovsky, Action Bronson

Episode Date: May 8, 2026

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk and the boys recap the week of NBA & NHL Playoffs, NFL news, and more. At the top of the show, we are joined by NBA Champion & ESPN NBA Analyst Kendrick Perkins to discuss what’s going wrong for James Harden and the rest of the Cavaliers as they go down 2-0 to the Pistons, the overwhelming conversation around the Thunder flopping against the Lakers, whether or not the 76ers are better off with Embiid out of the line up, and more. After Big Perk, ESPN’s Senior NFL Insider Adam Schefter joins the program to announce that the NFL & NFL Referees Association have reached a new CBA agreement that runs through 2032, confirm that the NFL schedule release date is next Thursday, talk about Jauan Jennings signing with the Vikings, the Packers releasing K Brandon McManus, the opportunity in front of Kyler Murray in Minnesota, and more. To start the second hour, we roll through 5 Things That Aren’t Ass & fire up the Oh No Train with ESPN NFL Analyst Dan Orlovsky. After Dan, we are joined by critically acclaimed chef, actor, and rapper Action Bronson who takes us through his thoughts on the New York Knicks, his VHS tape collection, and much much more. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We will be back tomorrow LIVE from the ThunderDome. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our Humbley, the Thunderdome, on this Feel Good Friday, May 8th, 2026. This sports program begins now. Sports! Are the greatest. We're so incredibly lucky that we get a chance to chat about them every single day. We hope you have had a fantastic week, and I hope you're ready for the greatest weekend of your life. Why? Because it's the next one.

Let's go ahead and enjoy the hell out of it. Sports are going to deliver for us all weekend, just like they have all week. We'll have a couple recaps of the things that we like this week. Speaking of things that we thought were hilarious this week, we'll show chit-chat about things that happened last night. In the sports world, just know this. These Kaniacs, okay, on a little bit of a run right now in the NHL. Feels like there might be a Carolina, Colorado, collision coming for the cup

in just a matter of weeks. Hurricanes beat the Flyers four to one. They have now won seven straight to start this particular playoffs. It's a special story in a special town with a special fan base. that's excited to maybe lose their mind at a Stanley Cup dream. Now, how would all bode? We shall see. The Buffalo Sabres obviously have some things to say about that. Same with the Canadians.

And in the West, it feels like the avalanche are for real. But if you look at this hurricane steam, you think to yourself, well, they certainly got the talent, they certainly got the run. Do they have the gritness? Do they have the toughness? Do they have the togetherness? Well, let's just go to the end of the game, shall we? Let's go ahead and just see 4-1 here.

Time's running out. It's hockey, though. Okay? there, up on the boards there, about the middle of the screen there, maybe a little bit to the right. That's Stankovin. He's 5'8 guy. He's about his third year playing for the hurricanes.

He led to Carolina Hurricanes and points in the first round of the playoffs. Number 55, big Rosmuss Wisteline and 6 foot 4-205 gun shoots him. Then Seller goes in a no, we're fighting actually. So Stankovin was just standing there. Then 6'5 guy comes over, boom, hits him, and Cellar guy grabs him. No, you're actually, we're fighting. Yeah. You think you're going to win 4-1 and nothing's going to happen.

Now let's look to the left here. Okay, let's look to the left over. here. You have Shane Gostis Spirit. Gostis Spirit, who played for the Flyers for a long time. Okay, now he's tangling it up with Big 55. Okay, Big 55, because he just got into it. He had to grab somebody. Seller picked up his fight. They started fighting on the left side. This guy say, hey, we're done. We're good. Everybody's good. Cellar's trying to get some shots back. Stankovans, like, you know what? You could just bottom me like this. And then we got a Jake to Snake D.D.J. Boom. At the very end, eat some ice pie. Okay, so I'm just talking about,

Okay. Old buddy, Josh the spear came in and stuck up for his teammate. Yeah. Stankovin, five foot eight, okay, getting body there by six foot four guy

and then passed off the seller who jumps in and forces him to fight. So you saw at the very end of that. Stankovins throwing lefts at the end. We got Jake the Snake Roberts, DDT's happening. It feels like the canes. Uh-huh.

Yeah. Flyers are big, strong, tough, bully team. Physical team. The Hurricanes, I think they're talented

And obviously, these boys were ready to brawl. I think that's what I saw after the, as the game was ending. And anytime you get a chance to see one of these in real life, you know that could be dead. Uh-huh. So we have no idea what the state of Ross Muson is after his head, obviously, bounce off the ice there. But I like the hurricanes a lot. I like the NHL. And then in the NBA, Stauns continue to do what the Stauns are doing.

The stons, the pistons. And we learned that it's mostly the hwats up there in Michigan saying that the storms from areas. that aren't necessarily Detroit on the internet, but the stones and the Detroit Pistons win again. Story of that one, James Hardin's not good at basketball and the playoffs. What's the deal? We'll ask Kendrick Perkins here in a matter of moments. I'm sure he's going to have a lot of thoughts on that.

And then last night, also big story, LeBron and the Lakers are getting screwed by the refs. What? Again. It's rigged against the Los Angeles Lakers, huh? And LeBron James for Oklahoma City. Big City, O'KC. Los Angeles Lakers and LeBron James

It's rigged against them for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now, if this was to be rigged in that fashion, I'd like to say to Adam Silver, congratulations on rigging something for a small town. That's good for sports. First time ever. That's good for sports. And the Oklahoma City people deserve it. We've seen them show up in a massive way.

Obviously, there's like a 30 for 30 about how great they are as a fan base and the Pacers fans and the Oklahoma City fans got a chance to really experience a great run there in the finals last year. But if they were rigging this for the Oklahoma City Thunder, that would be awesome. Just like that never happened seemingly to the small towns and the small fan bases and everything like that. But it certainly does look like this Oklahoma City team, every time they play, there's a question on what's going on with the refs. Yeah. And it's not just fans saying this. Now it's actual coaches and players coming out being like, hey, this is what it is.

They're cutting back clips of people and they're having lip readers say, this shit is rigged whenever they're playing against the Oklahoma City team. Are they better at getting foul than everybody else? Are they better at embellishing it? Or do the refs like the small town story just naturally? And all of a sudden they're starting to give it up for these guys. We'll ask Perkins about it all. It is a hot conversation in the streets. Speaking of hot conversation in the streets,

congratulations, Skip Bayless, Stephen A. Wow. Take a trip down memory lane. Talks at Boston Connor and one half of the hammer. Cowboys AP tone. We watch out, we turned it on. It was appointment television. Shout out to both of them kind of going in there.

It was a nice tell of the tape there. Like the last 16 years, a lot of people have been trying to kind of emulate either Stephen A or Skip Bayliss or both of them at the same time. A lot of shows, a lot of sports media personalities. And obviously, whenever two master debaters, master debate against each other, right in each other's faces, you know, you can get some really magical moments in there. They certainly created a lot of those throughout the times. There's a lot of people chasing those. I think there have become great debaters in sports television that aren't named Stephen A and Skip. But I think those two were so good at what they did back in the day in 2012, 14 years ago.

that everybody else thought that was the only way to do sports television. So getting them back in the same room earlier, that was a good time. A great time. Let's get Bayless through some heat. Los Angeles, fakers. Oh, got him. Yeah, and they'll smoke you with pot.

Yeah. Points off turnovers. I believe he also said playoff P, but he spelled it P-E-E. Oh! It was good to S-E-E-E those two on my TV, I will say. It was good to see that because I forgot it. I was taking notes the entire time. So be prepared for a good show.

Yeah, be prepared for a good show. It was fun, man. Good for them. Hey, congratulations you two. Oh, Legends, man. Good run. You guys did it. Change the entire course of sports media, television,

and in doing so, obviously, I think both lived great lives, I think, from my understanding, and also influenced sports. So good for them. I hope they had a great time. And I hope the catching up was fun, too. You know, anytime you don't really talk to somebody and maybe there's potential fallout or anything,

animosity, nice for them to catch them. up and fun, good for sport. Joining us now live from in Attica in Ohio is a man who's a college football national champion, Super Bowl champion. I'm surprised we got him this early. I thought he'd be scrolling those files that were just released.

Ladies and gentlemen, AJ Hawke. Yay! Hey, Hawth. Standing those alien files? Yeah, I mean, has anything new come out? Have you checked them out? Like, in depth? I've seen anything new. So what I found my, because I've been eagerly awaiting this day

for a long time, I think anybody that knows me knows that this is probably the one thing I've been thinking about, you know, from the beginning and openly talking about just wondering. As somebody that did a lot of moon watching, you know, somebody didn't fall asleep much and was just looking up, just always wondered. And obviously certainly had an open mind. And then you hear some people talking. It's like, okay, let's go. Let's go ahead and do this. And then to think we're alone in this whole thing would be crazy. That'd be crazy just with how big it is. But if we weren't alone, that would obviously have to change a lot of opinions and thoughts and religions potentially. And like, you know,

everything in the world. So such an awesome topic, I think, just to kind of visualize from all different angles. And then when you run into somebody and they're like, I saw you, if all, I'm going to get chased, so I think it's like, why would you lie to me? I don't know why you would lie to me. Feels like you have a pretty important title. You're not a complete whack job. And then, you know, the internet kind of does what the internet does. And now you don't know what's fake and what is it real. And then they put out this entire UAP, unidentified aerial phenomena files out. It's like, okay, what's real in it what now who's going to go

Joe Rogan's going through who's going through this to tell me what is real what's inside those craft what's inside the craft that we see on the video what that's what I want to see like show me what's inside yeah what if what if we get a look inside and actually just like it's been right in front of our faces there's 45 Wembe's just in a bunch

of these things yeah just kind of waiting to come down and just do whatever what if he is an actual way his symbol is an alien we've been watching him he has to be guys hanging with and Kevin Garnett. Look at the graphic.

His logo is an alien head. What if, in these files, inside one of these things that they're showing us floating around in the United Arab Emirates over there by the nuclear facilities, all that type of stuff? What if inside is just a bunch of little baby, little Wembe's? And they're just training their hands, training their feet, doing all the thing. And then boom, they grow. What if the other one is just a bunch of little Elon Musk's?

Yeah, we're never going to know. It's possible. We're never going to know unless who tells us. I have a good idea. Who's the guy from Blink 1-82? Tom DeLong. We need Tom DeLong to get in there and tell us if Wembe is a part of these files. Please, sir.

If I was... Lazar, too, we need his ass in there. If I were President Trump on June or July, whenever it is, I would trot two of these things out for the UFC and co-main event. At the White House? Yes. Maybe they've already been trained. That would break everything.

Yeah, maybe that's what this is all a lead up to. Somebody has to go through those files, but also somebody needs to talk about sports and how the end. aliens will affect sport, and we will always be the ones to do that, right, AJ? Haven't we been pretty clear about this? Yeah, from the jump. We have always said we'll be that show. And if, I will say, if these aliens start to think they're tough, remember,

ain't none of them to beat any of us in an Oklahoma drill. No way. So if we need to alpha these things. Look at their baby little necks. Come on now. Snap in them. Could you imagine with your cobra? Seven inches around.

Oh, yeah, head and hands all day long on those guys. Boom. And I think about just, like, especially you with the way you were built, like, think about the leverage we'll have on these things, whether they're little tiny things or if they grow into their full size. And they don't fucking get gravity. They're coming from a place that doesn't have all gravity. You think they're wrong arm? Yeah, right. They can't set an edge?

No way. Good luck. And I had an affliction shirt. I could arm bar one of these things if I had to at one point. Choke hold. Right, age? Yeah. I mean, I cannot wait to see the first time that we have an encounter with the true.

and someone like Brock Lesnar chokes him out. Yes, that's what I'm saying. We have representatives, I think, that we can send out there. That will protect us. Now, if something in these files tells us we need to be worried a little bit, I would like to know, somebody needs to go through these things, okay? Somebody needs to let me know what I need to know. Now, that's part of the problem.

Yeah, exactly. That's part of it. Because now who's gaykeeping information that's got already behind his. A lot of issues here. All right, I'm reading them this weekend. Here we go. Okay. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who,

I mean, hell, he probably knows more than we do about this entire thing because it feels like his league that he played in for 15 years, filled with aliens. Yeah. All over the place. He might be one. Yeah, who knows? Straight out of high school, this guy.

Big boy. NBA champ, this guy. ESPN basketball pundit all day, every day during the NBA. Ladies and gentlemen, Big Perk. Yay, Big Perk. Hey, Big Perk. Yo, what up? What up?

What up? Anything about the UFO files? You think any, what if Wembe actually did pop out of one of those things, then you got a file out of that thing? We don't know. I'm trying to, I'm trying to, I was just listening. I got to catch up on all this, you know what I mean? I'm telling the vision right now.

Nothing in the outside world matters to me. Football, off baseball. I love that. That's actually outside world. Yeah, actually, yeah, I respect that kind of deal. Unless they're in our oceans inside of us, which is also part of the conversation, which you'll dive into.

if you were to catch up. It's going to take a while. I think you should wait until after the playoffs. Let's talk about the playoffs. Oklahoma City team cheats. Oklahoma City team just cheats all the time. The refs are rigging these games for them to win to get more fouls. And last night it did feel as if it was a showcase of being pissed off about the refs from the Lakers. Now, JJ Reddick, former player, former fiery player.

I think him being a head coach certainly doesn't help the fact that, you know, he probably operates a little bit differently with the refs than maybe some other head coaches would to come up through the coaching ranks in a different fashion. I think he's a little bit more comfortable with knowing who they are. But it was certainly a display of, hey, you guys are asked. And then Austin Reeves afterwards, they circle these refs. Don't let them leave and say, hey, we got more to say to you, actually, before you get out of you. This felt big.

This felt like a really big deal to me. Perk, how did you view it all? And why is this always the conversation around these Oklahoma City Thunder teams? Well, number one, let me say this. I love when JJ throws those temperate. on the sidelines. Those are the classic moments. If we could bring up a top 10 of JJ rants in his temper tantrum moments, that would be great. Okay, that's number one. Number two, we have a problem. We have a serious problem right now, and that game last night highlighted.

You know, I believe that Adam, you know, I love Adam Silver. I think he's the best commissioner in sports. I love that, you know, he's a man of the people. And with the But that being said, he's going to have to listen to the people. They have a lot of upset fans that are on the internet, that were watching the game, that didn't like the way that that game was called last night. And I'm going to be honest with you, I didn't like it either. Matter of fact, I hated it, every single moment of it. It was nothing but complaining.

It was a lot of flopping going on. It was a lot of no calls. And here's the thing, right? when you get players and this has been a trend throughout the postseason calling out officiating, you have to address it.

And it's not just addressing the players with fines, that's one thing, but the officials got to have some level of accountability. And also, you don't want to get to the point where fans are sitting up here talking about the game is rig. Because we do have to take in mind

that what's one of the biggest, you know, things that make the biggest money makers out there? betting, sports betting. So we don't want to start missing and having fans thinking that it's something going on with the integrity of the game. So you got to clean up this flopping nonsense.

You have to clean it up. Last night I thought it was extremely bad. I thought OKC all across the board. This was one of their worst moments, in my opinion. You know how I feel about OKC. You know how I feel about Shay. But damn it, I got to call it like I see it. It's facts overfill.

Carry on. Kendrick Perkins. Carry on. How long do you think it takes to change that type of basketball if it means anything? Because I remember there was a time not too long ago where the flopping was outrageous. I think it got really, really bad. And I always point back to watching James Hardin. That's like kind of my first thoughts of it because of how good he was at all. And then it kind of exploded. It felt like then we played in like an international tournament.

And we got our asses kicked. It was a Fiba thing, I think, where they weren't calling stuff. And we just like got our ass kicked. Then it felt like the game changed a little bit back to more physical. style with the less theatrics. Is that an accurate depiction over the last few years? And how do you stop it? How,

legitimately, how long is it take to kind of stop? Well, you got to get back to enforcing a rule of finding guys for flopping. Because let's be real. Let's call it, let's call it how it is. Marcus Smart, LeBron James, SGA, Luke Dort at some moments, even Chet last night. All of those guys then had moments of flopping. And so to me, when you talk about how do you fix it, the only way to fix it is for the NBA to do more work,

meaning that, hey, man, we got to get back to finding guys and put something in place for flopping. We used to have that. They kind of went away from that a lot over the, what, last three, four years. But when you get back to that moment of you're going to find guys for flopping, then you clean up the game. I'm an old school type guy. I want to see physicality.

You know what I mean? I want to see guys get it, get it in the mud, get it in the trenches, earn, not giving, right? And so, again, again, the only way to clean it up is that the league is going to have to do more work, meaning that they're going to have to take a deeper dive into this, put the fines back in place for flopping, and I think it will work. God, AJ. Yeah, Perk, we heard JJ after the game talk about LeBron being, you know, so big and physical.

He may be penalized at times because, he is so big, and he did mention some younger guy, or smaller guys, I should say, have theatrics at times on the court. Do you think, LeBron, is that a situation? Like, is that real? Because he is so big and dominant, he may not get the foul that he should? Well, no, you know what,

you know what LeBron is experiencing? He's experiencing, you know, the old guy, right? And when I say the old guy, I played with a lot of Hall of Famers. I played with, you know, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, KG. And I started to see the same trend with them when they was on their way out of the league.

Like, as you tend to get older, you know, in those, you know, 16 to 20 years played in the NBA, you don't start to get those, you don't get those calls you used to get when you was in your prime. That's just part of it. KG used to be mad. Paul Pierce used to be mad. And they used to say, oh, these young guys getting it. We see it. Yeah.

And if you go and look at the history of the game, as guys got older, they were. It wasn't getting those quote-unquote superstar calls that they used to get when they was in the, you know, late 20s, early 30s. That's just part of it. It's part of the process. So it's part of the league saying, hey, it's not your league no more, kid. Okay, yep. Watch what it's like to be, the sixth guy. Yeah, and you're out of here. That's what this is like all of a sudden.

LeBron, we appreciate your service to the league, though. Keep going. Yeah, absolutely. And on that note, you aren't getting shit. No, you're currently, nobody else on the team is. When Luca gets back, Luca will get calls. So you just need that hamstring or whatever to heal as quickly as possible. Okay, let's stay in the old man conversation, shall we?

James Harden, okay? Everybody says what they're saying. I love James Hardin. I love James Hardin. Me too. Okay, I don't know him personally. I only know him from outside looking in from his life, every moment that he has, basically that he's documented and gone viral. I've seen and appreciated.

Everything from being in a sprinter van with the Christmas gifts or the gifts whenever they said he was 400 pounds to everything with, you know, him in France at the fashion show. His lady getting the bouquet of flowers at the wedding. Yeah. Yeah. Everything about him. Okay. They're throwing a lot of numbers at me saying he's ass in the playoffs. Like, people are throwing a lot of numbers in me right now.

Superstats people are telling me that this guy sucks in the playoffs. and I don't like it because I'd like to see James Harden go crazy. What's that going on? And just to clarify on that stat, okay? Bob Coosie was basically the only one shooting the ball for the Celtics. All right, so let's not throw any shade towards him, okay? Okay, and before we get to James Hardin, I guess, we should talk about how sometimes there are some ricochet shots that do get taken

whenever stats are getting dropped. Yeah. Perk, has it, how's the week been? Have you been okay? Your name's getting thrown in some stat conversations. You don't even have a microphone in front of you at the time. That's what I'm saying. I'm catching strays and I'm like, okay, cool, whatever, man.

You know what? Hey, you know what? I'm glad I'm on their mind. I'm living rent-free. That's all I can say. Well, certainly in the history books, and it should be that way forever with you. But let's get back to James Harden. They're throwing a lot of numbers at me telling me he's ass in the playoffs.

Why is that? Is it because, like, defenses are preparing for him? Maybe that it, why do you think he does see the downfall a little bit in the playoff time as opposed to regular season? and Stons. Is this team the Pistons? Are they stoppable at this point with figuring out how to play basically again? So let me say this.

You have guys that are built for 82 games and you have guys that are built for 16 games for the postseason. And the postseason is going to expose those guys who heart pumps Kool-Aid and who hearts pump blood. And right now with James Hardin, his heart is pumping Kool-Lade.

And look, it's not really a knock. on him. I think James Harden has passed his prime. The person that I'm pissed off at the most is Kenny Ackison. Because my thing is, at this point, why are you not putting the team first? And when I say

putting the team first, if James Hardin has been horrible over, I think, what, the last four or five games straight, he's been horrible with his turnovers and everything, defensively, all that. At some point, you have to make a business decision

and do what's best for the team. At some point, you have to take him out of the starting lineup and put in one of those dogs that you have on the bench, whether that's Dennis Schrooter, Tyson, Ellis, Max Trues, like, you can't continue to do a disservice to the ball club because you're saying, and this is his quotes after the game. I take full blame for it because I didn't get my future Hall of Fame of my Hall of Fame of enough shots,

meaning James Hardin in the fourth quarter. And I'm sitting up here saying myself, Kenny, you and I must be watching two different games. Because it wasn't about James Hardin being able to get shots in the four quarter. It's about him being a defensive liability. It's about him turning the ball over. And these are careless third, fourth grade turnovers.

This is not like it's forced turnovers. These are careless turnovers, Turnovers that you look and you say, well, what the hell was that? So again, you're down O2. You know that physicality matters. You see that the others outside of Cade Cuddenham, Tobias Harris, he has been having it his damn weight since this series started. Jenkins is coming alive.

Duncan Robertson is flat out balling and not just a shooter, by the way. Duncan Robinson is a damn good basketball player. Let me state that right now. So you see that happening, but you steady riding with James Hardin. And I'm sitting up and saying, do we got secrets on your ass or something? She put this ass on the bitch. Okay. I understand what you're saying because he's obviously not performing to the level that the team deserves,

or he should be playing that. But do we know if he can still go for like 35, 40 at this stage? Because obviously he was with a clipboard for a while, right? The rockets. The rockets. And then there was the nets. Sixers and nets. Yeah.

Yeah, so like I feel like we have followed along with James Hardin, and I always just expect James Hardin to do James Hardin stuff. I think I saw him the other night go off a little bit. But it's like, are we expecting him to go for like 31 night out of nowhere? No. No, but we're not expecting him to turn over the damn basketball at the rate that he's turning it over. Look, he's not the first option on his team. He's not the second option on his team.

And a lot of times he might not even be the third option. I understand that. I'm not sitting up here saying that he should be a focal point. or I expect him to go for those type of numbers. What I'm telling you is, Pat, he's been more of a liability than he is being, like, than he is a help. And at some point, Kenny Ackerson has to make that decision and say, I'm not saying bench him. I'm saying, hey, man, he needs to be playing limited benders off the bench as a role guy,

as a bench player, not starters minutes. And I'm going to say this too. I be down. if we're going to end this conversation and I'm going to let Evan Mowbly off the hook. I'll be damn. Like former defensive player in the year, you finish the game with one rebound

in the series that you know you've got to come with a certain level of physicality. Can't have it. Unacceptable. And look, I don't want to hear, I know it's been a lot of complaints. He needs to get the ball more. He needs to get more shot attempts.

But it's not all about scoring. when you can impact the game. Winby has showed us that. Winby put on one of the greatest performances defensively that we've seen probably in our lifetime. So Evan Mowbly, it's other ways to impact the damn game. Now, it's on Coach Agerson

to get you the damn ball in position where you need to score, but finishing the game with one rebound, I could go get two rebounds right now. Really? I know that much. Really? Well, is that because you got the Dennis Rodman eyes? It's going here.

But I would stay. You know, I will stay on one side of the floor. Sure. I ain't saying I'm running up and down, but I know when they come down, I'll be able to get two rebounds. And you're guessing what side person's going to miss to? Is that also, is that a big part of this?

You're going to let a couple go. They're on the other side of the rim, right? You're just hoping. No, it's about, when you're in the trenches, it's about elbows, positioning, and who wanted the most? Like, it got to be a mentality. And that 7-1, with that type of athleticism,

it's unacceptable for him to have one rebound Coming in a playoff game. Get your base down there. We need elbows out. We need jabbing. Fundamental. We need a little bit of this. Fox out.

We need to read on the ball. Oh, it's in flight. That's short. Let me go ahead. Oh, that one's going along. Boom. Dive. Let's go out.

Let's do it, Mowgli. Come on. Sick of my God, James Hardin's getting murdered right now. Deservately. Bad. Mowgli needs a little bit more of this. Agreed. The whole team.

He's the most important player. There's a video of Donald Mitchell not fighting over screens and other other teammates not being happy about it. Oh, I saw that on the defensive side. There was just a full. Oh, it's disgusting. I didn't like that either, Mark. I mean, hey, listen, the one thing, Donovan Mitchell talking about what he said is no pressure, nothing like that.

He don't feel pressure. You need to. And if I'm his teammate, if I'm his teammate, I don't want to hear that. I don't want to hear that because then it, it, it, it, it shows signs to me that you don't care. You should want to embrace the pressure because pressure comes with you having to perform and if you do your damn job

and play at an all NBA level consistently, that means you're going to get wins. And I came into this season, into this playoffs, and these playoffs saying that the cows were under the most pressure coming into the playoffs. Donovan Mitchell was under the most pressure as any other player in the NBA coming into this postseason. A Donovan Mitchell-led team has never been to a conference finals.

A Donovan Mitchell-led team has never been to a conference finals. That is a bad indictment on him. And he has to get it done. With the East being as wide open as it is, you look on paper. And I'm not saying, this is no disrespect to the number one Detroit bad boys, the pistons, what they call themselves the nasty boys. But if you look on paper and you say it just, going off who by name, who has the most talent. You will say it favors the calves. But when they get between the lines, I see otherwise. All right.

So you think that Donovan Mitchell should take his team this year to a conference championship and maybe even a finals this year? If he don't, it's another failed season. And it's another huge disappointment. I understand. I understand. Hey, that's the pressure that I think he is a nameless, faceless opponent guy. I think that's why he says,

everything's the same. I think that might be that I don't feel pressure because, you know, every day is the same, every game's the same. That is how he performs. I don't think you like that just by the look that you're giving there. I don't, I don't, Pat.

I want a guy that embraced that. Like, I want a guy that won't that. Feed me. Like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, like it's supposed to be, let me tell you something. When you're trying to win a championship and you're trying to make a deep one in the postseason,

damn it you're supposed to have a lot of sleepless nights. You're supposed to be stressed out. You're supposed to be angry. You're supposed to not want to deal with the outside world. It's a lot of stuff comes with trying to win the championship. Damon, when you finish, it's a reason why you see guys fall into their knees crying, popping the bottles of champagne because it's a grind. It's a process. The only thing that matters is the guys in the locker room. It's a mentality. You got to have that dog mentality. You got to want it. Let's go, Mark. I use your, I always. I'm a lot. I don't know. I, Mark. I use it. I don't know.

I don't want to run through a wall from Kendrick Perkins. Hell, yeah. That is a... Either you want to... Look, it got to be... It got to be in you, not on you. Hell yeah, Perkins. And some say you're born.

True. With it either in or on, Paul. You know, that's what they say. But I've met a couple of the nameless-faced, and people who are super hippie that have become killers. But usually everybody that's a killer is exactly who you think they are.

Yeah, and they go. Is that right there what you just said? You know, Manning, still is a psycho. That guy is an absolute psychopath. It is in a good way. These are good things.

Nelly Cordo, who might go down as the best LPGA golfer. She said the other day, I'm a psycho. You know, you watch the last dance with Michael Jordan, psycho. LeBron James is 41.

Psycho. Wayne Gretzky, psycho. Tiger. Serena Williams, psycho. Tiger, psycho. That is kind of what, and this is in the most positive way, but they are crazy in the competitive sense.

That is the psycho. cis that I am diagnosis seeing them with, I think is the proper way to describe that. But it is a little, what you just described there, I would like my daughter and future baby boy listen to like, hey, this is what you need to be the greatest of all time. Can spide

get it done? We shall see. Let's go to the west. The guy that has all those things it feels like. Go ahead, con man. Yeah, Perk, he's talking about Wemby and also possibly aunt. It feels like the Minnesota and Spurs kind of combination of the two are that exact thing and they both want that moment, want that pressure. What do you

think about the series now. You said if Minnesota won game two, then they would probably sweep. They didn't. Spurs get it done. Is this probably head into seven? We got game three tonight. What are you expecting? And do you think the Spurs kind of go on a road to make another statement? Or

do you see a big bounce back for Ant Man and the wolves? Well, look, I believe we're in for a brawl for it all. I think this series is going to go seven games. And the most important thing that I took, that I took way, the biggest takeaway that I had from that game was they started talking noise.

They started, you know, they started getting in the trenches and mixing it up a little bit. Like, you know, that's the energy you want to see. Coach Finch said they got pumped. And then all of a sudden you hear Anthony El was saying, hey, man, listen, we came out cool. They did what they were supposed to do. You know, basically they kicked, what, they kicked their ass, right? They kicked their ass. But I'm going to tell you this, it's going to be.

be crazy in that arena in Minnesota tonight. It's going to be rocking in there. It's going to be, they have done an outstanding job of establishing a dangerous place to play in. And I believe right now this is going to be the most exciting, one of the most physical series that we're going to see. It's a lot of games and a lot of basketball left to be played, and this is going to be one of them. Because I know Wimby hates losing, and we saw his spirit when he bounced. back in game two. But you know who else have a hatred for losing? Anthony Edwards.

And I need, listen, I'm looking at Julius Randall. Julius Randall has to come with it. If I'm Julius Randall, let me tell you how I'm wired. If I'm Julius Randall, I'm watching all the Knicks games. And every time I see Carl Anthony Towns go out there and have a great game, damn and I get jealous and I need to go and outdo him. I need to go and I'll do him because that's who I got traded for and I see him over there making the difference.

Damn and I got to be the difference maker over here. That's how I'm why. And it's okay to be jealous. You know what I'm saying? It's okay to be jealous. It's okay to envy some people when you're trying to get what they got. I actually enjoy that. Hey, I just got a stat drop to my ear.

Randall led the team in scoring in game one. And they got the job done. Yeah. So if he's able to do it again, maybe they go crazy. And I like the fact that you're like, hey, I'm going to be judged off of this trade on how he does versus how I do. You see him get one. I need to go get a couple out here. I love the Minnesota team.

I love the timber wagon. I also enjoy the thought of Wemby going into that atmosphere. Oh, yeah. Because I think he will relish. But Wemby's not fazed by then. Exactly. I think you'll relish it. I think he'll relish that entire thing.

And my only wish here is that I could get this into the YouTube TV four bucks. Yeah. Okay, last night, hockey is on everything else. Prime is by itself. Got two games over there. This is certainly something. Their coverage is great. I'm not knocking the coverage.

I appreciate the fact that Prime is getting into sports and all that. But it's hard to, you know, whenever we got two playoff series is going on at the same time. Obviously, going to be difficult. We got two big ones tonight on Prime. Perk, let's have you pick these games. Sixers favored by one and a half. Before you give that, Tone has a question for you. Yeah, Perk.

A couple questions about this series. Obviously, OG with the hamstring is huge. What do you think that does to the Knicks and especially on the defense side of the ball? And then am I crazy when I was watching game two and Embed was out? Does it feel like the Sixers offense kind of flows better when he's not on the floor?

Or am I just crazy watching that? You're not crazy. You're not crazy. I'm going to answer this one first. You're not crazy. It does flow better the first, second, and third quarter. but you know the 76ers lost their game in the fourth quarter because they couldn't make no shots. Yeah.

Because Tyrese maxi, he was exhausted. Paul George was exhausted, right? And so when you think about what MB brings to the table, he brings that balance that when you're outside shots are not falling, he's going to put and apply so much pressure on your defense that, one, he's either going to get the bucket in the low post, make the 15-footer, or he's going to get to the free throw. line because he's one of the most skilled bigs to ever play the game. He's unstoppable. Now, when you talk about

OG and Anobie, one could argue that he is the most important player in the NBA for his team's success. His impact for what he brings offensively and defensively,

I've been calling them this for about two years. He is our new era of Scotty Pippen. And if I'm the Knicks, I don't even think about playing him games three and game four. I wait to see what happens because I wait to see what happens. And then, you know, if it's in a must-type win, I'm bringing them back for game five. But game three and game four, especially with his history of hamstring injuries,

I'm not rushing this and I'm not speeding it up. You're up to O. And on top of this, you know, Jalen Brunson is averaging about 36 to 37 points in Philly in the postseason. I know he was, you know, I know that's his second home because of his Villanova days, but damn, he's averaging 36 to 37 points in Philly. Yeah, he's unbelievable. This over the past two seasons. So he's very comfortable going into that arena. Yeah.

So you got to expect that Big Body Brunson and Carl Anthony Towns, even without OG, they could go in there still one. I don't believe they get game three. I think Philly gets that one. but I think they got enough to still won and that will probably be game four. Okay, so I appreciate you saying he's the most important player to his team, okay, and then saying they still could win one without him.

We got a Wembe existing out here, okay? You know what I mean? Like, yeah. I know what you meant. But Pat, we pulled up some numbers yesterday. I don't have a graphic on NBA today. And it showed his impact on both. of the floor or some, like some real nerdy numbers, you know what I'm saying?

But he caught my and it showed his impact on, you know, what he brings offensively and defensively. I want you to think about this for a second. There's no knock to wimby. No, no. We're complimenting both guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

So I want you to think in game two in the second half, Mike Brown chose to go with a small ball lineup when Carl Anthony Towns was out of the game. You know who was at the center position? O.G. Ananovi. And he did an outstanding job on both ends. Like, he is one of those guys. Like, when you talk about the ultimate three-and-D guy, he's that. He's that.

He's that. We need to put a little bit more respect on O.G. Anobie's name is what Perkins was just saying there. Hey, they are quick over here. Yeah. Shout out to the production crew. Out of that, boys. Good work, Foxy. Oh, Todd.

Yeah. inside of mouth. Hey, Bruce also, the guy in charge of flipping through the HEMBO stats here, massive Knicks fan. So he could not wait. Oh, okay. Okay. This thing had been sitting in queue here for about, you know.

Most underrated player in the league, Ogen, and O. there it is. He couldn't wait. It's not what the graphics said. Well, yeah, no doubt. Highest true shooting percentage by 20 point per game score in playoff history, says O.G. Anobie. Good luck to him in his recovery.

I also appreciate the fact that you're saying, Let's go ahead and rest that guy for the long term. Okay, so who do you got? Let's hear your picks then for tonight's games. You like... I got the 76s. At home? They got the 76ers.

Yeah, they're going to protect the crib, even though it's going to be infested with a lot of Knicks fans. Okay, I got the 76s. But then in that Minnesota game, I got Minnesota. They coach called them out. It's going to be rocking. He said they got pumped. They will respond.

Anthony Edwards, even though he gives the, best post-game interviews that I've seen in the long time. He had a little smirk on his face, but he was pissed off. I think it's going to be close, but I think, you know, Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwood was going to pull it out. The role players, Bones Holland, you know, Terrence Shannon, they're going to make shots and play better at home. They're going to feed off the energy of the crowd, and Minnesota is going to go up to one

after tonight. All right. All right. You're in a robe right now? I'm in the green room. I'm in the green room. I tried to get my light together, but you know, sometimes, you know,

with the half cut, you know, I ain't got my makeup on yet. You know, sometimes it's just going to work, Pat. But, hey, look. Park, you don't need it. You don't need it. You know what they tell me? Hey, you know what they tell me

like my church, Lighthouse, right? Come as you are. Come as you are. All welcome. We appreciate the hell out of you. Carry on. Ladies and gentlemen, Kendra Parker.

Yeah, Per. He's a legend. The best. The best. There was a time where he was potentially in our studio once a week. Do you remember that? He came one. Oh, yeah.

First week he had it. That would have been incredible. Him in here once a week just experiencing Kendrick Perkins would have been phenomenal. What a home run? He'll say it. He doesn't care with his chest. He will say it. How do you describe Burke?

Open. Yeah. I think he is very willing to kind of say it, which is why we enjoy him. and he'll always have some hilarious angle in which why he is speaking the gospel and why he is right and you are wrong. I think a lot of people didn't necessarily love his delivery because it isn't like straight out of a journalism playbook. So I think they wanted to hate him. I'm telling you, hard to hate Perk. You know, unless you are directly being attacked by him, which I could see how current players would certainly hate him.

Donovan Mitchell could certainly think Kendrick Perkins. I could see how he would potentially be like. Julius Randall. Julius Randall, potentially. Just like the team scoring in game one. Okay, he could certainly do that. But for all of us, it's like Perk, willing to say it, does the research, does the work, and delivers in his own unique style.

And he's a champ, 15-year player. It's like, we love Big Perk. Yeah, growing up, Kendrick Perkins was the guy for the Celtics. As far as, like, enforcer and guy that she's going to go out there and embody people. That was not about that. It was, I just saw the view of the person that's about to join us right now. We love Perk. I love you love Perk.

with ladies and gentlemen joining us now senior NFL insider for ESPN Adam Schaefter Yeah, Chefty What's going on guys? Oh gee, yeah. Oh, gee. Where are you, Sheffey? What are you got going on here? Pal, you're under an umbrella of sort.

I am in Florida right now. There's a Michigan event here. I guess a fundraising event through the champion circle. And they've got all these Michigan players, coaches, football program, basketball program, and there's a function tonight to raise money for the program. and so came down here, emceeing a conversation out at a football event. I mean, I can show you the field.

I'm off to the side right now. Otherwise, we would have had some surprise guests, but we are now in the shade, so that's a good thing and happy to discuss football today. By the way, Pat, breaking news. Breaking news. It looks like the NFL and the NFL RA have reached an agreement. We should hear word of that fairly soon, but that's going to come down soon when the league will be able to avoid replacement officials,

but there's some information going around right now that agreement has been reached, and I would imagine we're going to hear about that very shortly. Hey! Way to go, right. Thank you for the news, Chafety. You're at Michigan. Let's fund a better football team event happening down there in Florida for the refs association to ratify the vote.

I believe the voting hours or window open last night, because I thought we'd get an answer last night. I guess it was just a window opened. I don't know if it was via email to all of its members, but there was a window closing for when the vote ended. We didn't know when we were going to get a response on that. We thought if they went to a vote, that means they were going to approve it. You're saying they have, that is gigantic news. I don't think, especially with the number of eyes that are on the game now,

with the amount of countries that are in on the game, the amount of gambling that's in on the game right now, what happened before with the replacement refs was an embarrassment to our sport, to our league, to everything. It could have ruined everything. And I know that the refs knew that. So the fact that they kind of bent and gave in whatever the NFL was looking for and the fact that the NFL did the same for the refs to make sure they get this done early,

I think here. This is a couple weeks early. Congrats to all parties, Shefti. Legit, that is huge for us as football fans. That is gigantic. And I don't think people really understand how big that really is at this state of time. That's a huge deal and they're able to avoid replacement officials and they get the CBA done. And there obviously have been a lot of discussion about how dire,

Dyer, talks had been in January, February, March. Oh, we're getting texts about it right now, it looks like. Oh, yeah, there it is. Yeah, okay, here we go. Here we go. Okay. The NFL, oh, yeah, it's official. Seven year collective bargaining agreement.

Congratulations. Congratulations, NFL and the NFL Ref Association. Seven years you have agreed to keep the game, the game, the league, the league. keep the integrity of the game together. You two, great entities, have come together to become better officials with more accountability and a little bit more advancement of technology. And you, as a league, having the best officials

in the world would be a great thing to happen. So you two agreeing to do that, congratulations and thank you. Hell yeah. It's official, say, Chef, Dio on a beach down there in Florida next to a football field. It's official. In fact, Pat, we're gonna tweet it out right now, as we're going, we're gonna put it on the ESPN

You're going to get all the news here on all the platforms as we're doing this because this is what we do. We try to multitask so we're going to send that all the information everywhere. Well, how's the Wi-Fi down there? The Wi-Fi's, man. The tweet is up. The NFL and the NFL Referees Association. Have a good picture. Keep going to read your tweet there that you were either typing up or you had your talk to text,

which is why you were talking in a text form whenever you told us that the news was breaking. Whatever the case, seven-year deal, the current deal was scheduled to expire on May 31. It goes through 2032. Congrats to all parties. And I love the photo you chose to use there. Good compromise. They all look kind of pissed. Yeah, kind of pissed, but also understand they got to work together.

Yep. Yeah, and I think everybody's happy here. This is good news for the league. This is good news for the ball. Huge. Congrats to football. Congrats football. We won today, football.

Okay, let's talk about some other football news as you're standing next to a football field in Florida about to raise millions and millions of dollars for the Michigan Athletics. program, which is not just football, by the way, a lot of Olympic sports, and you can act like it's a good thing and for the future and all that. But what they're doing right there is showcasing why they are going to be able to continue to compete in athletics in college and some other places won't. This comes fresh off the news that the University of Michigan were one of the initial investors of OpenAI, and now their investment is worth $2 billion. The University of Michigan invested early in Open AI. Okay, I don't know how they have an investment fund at a

University of Michigan, but obviously they do. That makes sense that they have that. They found this. They get in on it because of the networks. That is now $2 billion in profit. Who knows if they pool that, if they have that, but that could certainly help you get a quarterback. Pretty good investment. That can certainly help.

Shefter's certainly doing all he can. Good luck to you guys over there in Ohio, AJ. Now, let's keep it moving in the NFL conversation. AJ has a question for you, Michigan man. Yeah, Shephti, Joan Jennings signs with the Minnesota Vikings. I guess how did this come about and what other teams were possibly in play for Jennings? You know, the interesting thing, AJ, is I was told that there were a few other teams. I can go back and get the exact list.

I think it was the dolphins, the commanders. There was somebody else that was interested. The Vikings were the only team that I believe he wound up visiting at all. That was the only one. The other team, oh, the chiefs and commanders also were interested in Joanne Jennings. Also expressed a little interest, Washington, Kansas City. but ultimately he got a one-year deal for Minnesota worth up to $13 million. It's about $8 million in base pay.

And so, look, I think that ideally you want to get these deals done as early as you can for agency, but he was able to salvage a pretty good situation. And now we got a lot of J-Js in Minnesota. J-J. McCarthy, who's out here right now, we're going to talk to him in a little bit. J-J. McCarthy, Justin Jefferson, another J-J., J-J., another J-J., like if you are a JJ, J-J-J-Spawn, might wind up playing for the Minnesota of Vikings this year, only go. Yeah, JJ Watt maybe comes out of a fourth couple of game. I mean, there's a chance that a lot of these

J.Js could potentially go, Craig. Yeah, exactly. For the Minnesota Vikings. You just mentioned J.J. McCarthy there, who we saw at a wild game a couple nights ago going crazy with the lads. And also, incredible A, you know what I want? Bang. Okay, so we talked about this actually. The way he took his hand and put it to Ray here, it was pretty evident

what he was looking for. Okay? This is a one-dap slapper here. That everybody in the world understands that. No matter how much chaos is happening here, my guy right next to me, shows me this, I know what's coming. Everybody knows that that's a bang and a boom and a pow and we're out of there. Okay, I like that he's doing that.

That's good communication. Okay, that's good nonverbal communication from this guy might lead to better awareness on the field as he continues to grow as an NFL quarterback. There's others that give you a little halfie here, okay? Is that a fucking handshake or a high five or a tap up? What are we doing here? I don't know. Some people, you know, go with a fist bump straight ahead, then open hand, then back to the thing. You're not letting me know what you need.

JJ handles the moment perfectly, I'd say. With the hey, you know what's coming. I'm smacking the shit out of your hand, guy that has a button down tucked in at a hockey game. So, I mean, that is just good stuff. Let's explore that conversation a little bit more. Go ahead, Tony. Yeah, Shepty, seeing him with the boys being here at the game,

it just rattle my brain. Like, is Kyler definitely going to be the starter? Is this an open competition you think going into training camp? Well, I think that Uh-oh. Uh-oh. You're kind of... We have more news. Oh. We have more news.

Oh, JJ. The NFL is confirmed that the schedule release will take place on Thursday. This, a week, six days from now. Thursday, May 14th, the NFL schedule will come out in its entirety, Pat. So we can begin to get ready for next Thursday. There it is. The news, like, who would have ever thought Friday at 12.45 that the news is going to be pouring in here. But that's what's going on right.

now. Well, Shifty, listen, the NFL's 24-7, especially on Friday news dump days. And we know we're in the middle of one of those. May 8, 2006 in the spring. Got a big weekend of sports ahead. Oh, yeah, and a bunch of NFL shit's about to be dropped on everybody's sports. And aliens and haunta-fanta. Yeah, yeah, you're right. There's a lot of news going on. Shout out to the schedule coming out next Thursday. There was a little bit of hub-up about them potentially delaying the schedule release because not knowing what platform the game is on or Maybe they don't know which games or when. Our source says at the league said that was not the case. They was just, you know, we're just still trying to figure it out. There was a comment made on a podcast before the draft by somebody who was like,

and that got kind of taken out of context. Now it's official. It's coming out on Thursday. Excited to see what games are when and where. Remember, the division games, okay? The placement of those are always big conversation pieces. Early and late. Used to be division games are kind of as you worked in,

because of the most important games. The NFL wanted to start with a bang with division games. So a lot of teams are having their most important crucial games at the very beginning of the season, which gave us better football, but had very big, big possible ripple effects very early in the season. I'm excited to see what the schedule masters do this year. Now, back to the question.

You can't say J.J. McCarthy's not going to be the starter because he's 10 feet away from you. More breaking news. The Green Bay Packers have released Brandon McManus, their kicker after they drafted the kicker from Florida in the sixth round. and they paid Brandon McManus a lot of money. They gave him a $3 million deal last offseason.

They paid him his $1 million roster bonus in March, but they have already moved on from Brandon McManus after drafting Tray Smack in the sixth round last month. So there'll be a new kicker in Green Bay, so much for the competition that they thought they were going to have. They have now moved on from him. So again, a lot of news here all of a sudden. We got a new kicker in Green Bay.

We got the NFL schedule next Thursday. We got a seven-year labor agreement between, the NFL RA and the NFL itself and we have James McCrothie out here and go talk to you about the Vikings quarterback competition, which I'm happening to get back to if you'd like to. Okay, so let's expand on Brandon McManus there because he started with the Indianapolis Colts. I know him. Super Bowl champion has done incredible things in the NFL, missed more kicks than he would ever like or have on his entire resume.

I assume he'll bounce back to go somewhere. Anytime they say there's a competition between two kickers, that's always one more roster spot that's getting taken up by a kicker, especially in this offseason as you're trying to accrue numbers and create things. I assume McManus understood the situation whenever this guy was drafted out of Florida. This guy that got drafted out of Florida bombs balls. We watched him kick. Hopefully he's good.

Hopefully McManus continues to go on. Seven-year ref agreement, that is awesome. Schedule release coming out Thursday, spectacular. Starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings, Michigan man, J.J. McCarthy, who's 10 feet away from you or Kyla Murray? Is that an actual competition? How do you see that going? Listen, I'm not ready to write off, JJ yet.

Look, Kyle Murray's got a great opportunity in front of them. It's probably as good of an opportunity as he's had in a long time when you look at all the talent surrounding Cala Murray. He's got Jordan Mason. He's got Aaron Jones. He's got T.J. Hawkinson. He's got Justin. He's got Jordan Addison. He's got Juan Jennings right now.

There's a boatload of talent in Minnesota. And that doesn't even include a hey coach who's obviously a debt and proficient at getting these offensive plays in and having the offensive production that Kevin O'Connell has. I think, I don't know you're handicapped. Look, I think a lot of people believe that Kyler is going to wind up as the starting quarterback, but I think JJ is going to give him a run still. I don't think the Vikings are willing to give up on JJ McCarthy just yet. I think they've got two good quarterbacks there. I mean, these are two high trackics, so it'll play out.

But I think a lot of people believe Kyler's going to prevail and win the job. But again, I'm not ready to give up on JJ just yet. Okay, I'm excited to watch it all unfold. obviously Kevin O'Connell's offense is one that is spectacular. They're able to sign another wide receiver who had other options and Joanne Jennings without telling him who the starting quarterback's going to be. That's how prolific that offense can be and should be. Hopefully, JJ can continue to get better. And if Kyler ends up the quarterback of a Kevin O'Connell offense as a diehard Vikings fan for his entire life

and as a full resurgence of being the guy that maybe we thought or hoped he could be, that's a great story too. Good luck to all parties. Vikings are currently interviewing for a GM. When's that going to happen? Say that again? It feels like Juan Jennings just signed there. They don't got GM.

So, I mean, are they going to get a GM or is Kevin O'Connell running things? Like, how does that kind of all go over there? No. They've got about six, seven guys that are on the list right now. They've submitted. They've got turnkey of search firm

helping them to identify the right candidate. They've got a situation where they've identified all these candidates and they're going to interview them go through the process and we'll see where they get the information from, but where they wind up hiring. But I think

it'll play out here pretty quickly. Rob Brzezinski's the current interim GM. He's done a great job there, and I think somebody that has been overlooked there for a while, they'll have an opportunity, but they've got some really interesting candidates on their list that they've reached out to arrange interviews. Okay, I cannot wait to see how it works out there.

Grigson, also potentially in their former coach general manager who had, you know, not necessarily, necessarily the greatest ending in Indianapolis, but did have winning teams. Kind of seemingly had to go back, earn his way back up to a position to be in interviews again. I had a nice chance to catch up with him. Feels like he's a different person where he's at now. Second opportunity is normally good for people in the NFL or completely asked both times.

But I don't think that'll be the case. There's so many good talents out there. Only 32 jobs, just like in coaching. But there's only one senior NFL insider. And that's this man down in Florida. We appreciate the hell out of you, Shepty. Pat, no more things today. I gave you all I got today.

That's all I got today. Well, tonight you need to go give it a little bit more. I think there's a lot of money in that room, Chefty. Let's be smart. There's a lot of money in that room tonight, Pat. A lot of money. Okay, all right, all right, as Adam Schaefter, ladies. Yeah, Jeffty.

Yeah, I think there is. I think I know where he is. Probably a cool event. I don't know. I don't know. He's like he's the emcee of the whole thing. Yeah, one of the MCs. It sounds like it's a Michigan.

Do you go to Michigan? Do you have any tie to Michigan? Can you afford to buy a plane right now if you have time? Why don't you come down here? And Schefter's like, they ask me to them to see it, I guess. I'm there. Go, yeah. This feels like a good room to be in, pal.

He loves that he's a part of the Michigan. Like, he loves them. There was a chance he was going to be the guest picker for Game Day for Michigan. And he called me 30 times a day, just like, is this happening? Is this happening? I'm like, I don't know. You've got to ask other people. So he's got to be so pumped as are we.

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Are the greatest? That's AJ Hawk. He's the all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers. The Toxic tables here at Boston Connor and one half of the Hammer. Cowboys AP Tung. Ty Schmidt, we love you, buddy. Hi, Ty and family. Hell yeah.

Congratulations. The boys in the back, you guys are absolutely crushing it this week. I think we should do a weekly recap thingy. Yeah, for sure. Don't you think we should recap the things that we like and the things that we think are hilarious, A.J. Is that not something we should do on Fridays? Oh, that sounds amazing, yes. Do you want to go with the bad or the good? on Feel Good Friday first, AJ.

I say you start with the good. Oh, I like that. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for five things that aren't as. Yeah. From this week in the sports world, we looked around the entire globe in the sports universe and found our things that we think should be spotlighted is definitely not being ass.

These things are so far from being asked that they're actually being celebrated for not being asked. Let's start in Madison Square Garden. Timmy for three at MSG. Known superfan, Timmy, Shalabell. He was about to come out with it. Splashy splash. He was at a dame time there.

He almost called it. Obviously, it looks super cool. He doesn't dress like too much of an asshole. Certainly has a little bit of moxie and swag, but it certainly played hoops before, which is what we like to see out of megastars, A.J. Hawk. Yeah, I don't even care if the ball goes in. Haven't you seen guys where they take a shot,

but they shot put it, and they're not basketball players, and it goes in and people freak out. And I'm like, no, it's a terrible looking shot. So for Timmy, not only to make the shot, but to hit this sweet little step back and look like he's played some ball. Like, I am very impressed. You stacked us on top of the game day thing.

Yep. We're a new ball, clearly understood ball. The way he acts at games, how he crushes everything, the ping pong shit. I mean, it's like Timmy's an athlete who happens to be a superstar. And on that note, we're pulling for you, Timmy. Great shot. Keep going, Timmy. Timmy for three.

Cash. At MSG. That feels so good, by the way. Where's camera? Holy fuck. Thank you. Not bad defense either by his buddy. Even if he was by himself, like if there was no D, I would be like, that's good.

Clean shot. That's definitely non-ass. Let's go to another thing that is an ass. San Antonio Spurs, Timberwolves, shock clock dwindling. Ooh, for sell. A no dip tip, tip three to lead. The Spurs as they continue to do their thing down in San Antonio. The timing, the effortlessness, the cleanness of it makes you wonder like, how difficult is that actually?

Well, we tried it out with Tyrese Halliburton, who's in the middle of a recovery from an Achilles yesterday, and he back at home, but I'll tell you, it was not like clean. No. It was not like clean. And now, granted, Tyrese is coming out of an Achilles, and he's not necessarily the biggest jumper whenever he shoots it. But him describing it, him giving it a go, it was like, oh, that was an incredibly impossible shot that guy took. And how about the perfect timing of jumping and basically the ball just kind of coming into his hands as if it was like a video game glitch while he's jumping, AJ? I mean, this is a playoff game in the NBA, too. Like, this isn't some backyard game you're playing with your bud.

So, yeah, when you hear other professional athletes talk about how difficult of a shot this is, yeah, you can't help with you. It's a no dip tip. Yeah, no dip, tip, no big deal. And also a lot of people are recreating it and stuff. And even Tyrese, it's like, this guy was not prepared for this whatsoever. It's just like, hey, situation, one second to kind of react, buries it. That's incredible.

Yeah, the past was also money. Yeah, right. That's what I learned from me and Hallie trying to do it. The past certainly matters. The past certainly matters, AJ. You know, you can really kind of dictate whether or not that's going to go in with the pass. You kind of gave him the laces, though. It looks like you gave Tarese the laces.

Thank you. And also the location, yeah, because if that thing's a little bit right, obviously, we're jumping sideways. We're doing this number here. That pass that the Vesel got from Champagne there was like literally right in. It was as if the ball was dropped into his hand in the middle of his shooting. Unbelievable stuff all around. Can't wait to watch them tonight. Let's go to another thing that wasn't asked.

Let's go to the NHL, shall we? We talked about this goal already. but how could you not showcase it again whenever you're trying to showcase things that are certainly not ass. Hockey, so fast, so beautiful, so physical, so filthy. Absolute filth from Doc right there. AJ, he loses an edge.

He loses his time. And then he drops an absolute dime, top ched over the goalie's shoulder, and the goalie's thinking to itself, wow, lad, can't believe you did that. You know, this is the first thing I thought of when I saw this was something I talked about in this program a year or so ago,

the little frog getting eaten by the duck or whatever, and he's all the way in his mouth, but his hands are coming out strangled him and says, never give up. That's kind of a definition of what this play is. Yeah, you're right. I assume that Doc had the duck and frog poster in his house growing up in his bedroom, just like you, AJ.

Had to, had to. Make a play like this, yeah, for sure. Yeah, the resiliency, the never say never. The no play is over mindset is certainly what Doc is doing. And that frog that was getting swallowed by that long-necked bird, thought that, hey, this ain't over just yet if I can get these big powerful legs around the neck and then maybe I won't be able to go down. Turns out I think they both die. In this situation, Doc is the winner. And the, uh, there it is. There is right there. I think

there's no way they're both. There's no way they're both dead. I mean, I don't think the frog can breathe. Pelicans eyes are red. He strangles them before he, he loses all of his life. But I think duck ends up not living. Yeah, lock jaw for the dog. Duck's dead for sure. The frog was was close to death, but I think he made it out. I don't think it's a duck. It's more like a crane. Yeah, it could be a crane. That's a big frog if that's a crane.

That's a big frog. King frog. I mean, think about the deepness of the ribbitt this fucker would have. I mean, geez. I got a crane behind my house. These things are pretty big, you're right? Yeah, that would, if this would. That ribbit would keep you up at night.

Yeah, it would certainly get you. I think the frog wins this one, though, yeah. You think frog just holds its breath while it does this? I mean, frogs, you know frogs. They live underwater, so. True. They live on? No, they don't live. They can be on all the time.

They live on those cool little things. Well, different times. You have toads and bullfrogs and poisonous frogs. You never know. You're talking about that big sunbos right there. That's a bullfrog. I can't see his face. I can't identify it, to be honest.

Based on the legs. You're right, because it could be like an Andre, the giant version of like a little frog. Yeah. It could just be the biggest. If it's a bullfrog, it wins. Feels like a standing 10 count. I think they both dropped dead. And what a fight they both put up.

Yeah, they did. And we certainly respect that. but Doc Lyft is what we're saying for that Canadian's goal, and that's certainly not ass. Another thing that's not ass, I don't know if you saw this on Monday night, 330-pounder flying through. You ever seen a missile European upper cut, pal?

Yeah, that's what. He's doing this to Otis? And watch him just literally shot. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, it just kind of throws him around. And Opa's not done yet. Hey, that 400 pounder that you guys love, yeah, low center of gravity.

How about we take him to the sky and we take him down? One, two, and Ova three. I don't like that. They did that to Otis. Did what the Otis? They fed him the Oba? Yeah. Throwing Otis around like he's nothing.

That's not ass, dude. He's flying. You see him? That's a Randy Orton. No, I know, but I mean. Don't you. Big Brock Lesnar. Otis is the best, man.

Well, no, he's not. Not anymore. Not anymore. I'm not taught. The best is that guy you're looking at. This is why I gave up on this thing. What? This thing.

The business, whatever you guys call it. Look, you don't think Obo did that to Otis? What are you talking about? Come on. You crushing all your great people, man. No, they're not crushing anybody here. They're building. They're lifting.

Just like Oba does to anything he sees. That's certainly not ass. What you're trying to do right now, I don't like it one bit. Going to help Otis, too. I love Oba. Doesn't sound like it. I love Otis, too. All right, let's travel to another world as we talk about college softball

and things that are not ass at all. Here's Bree Ellis. We saw this from the SEC. network social media account. Let's see what type of pitches she gets all game here. Oklahoma versus Georgia. Yep. Okay. Or Arkansas. Arkansas versus Arkansas versus Georgia. Sorry, Arkansas. Patty Gassau actually gave a great promo after her team lost the game. Arkansas is Brees Ellis is up to bad here. It gets hit. Okay. So that's nine straight balls. They do not pitch to her. Let's not, let's make sure there's no balls in the strike zone. Because if there are, she'll do this.

Boom. Walk off Grand Slam. First pitch that was in the zone all game. Rie Ellis hits a walk-off grand salami against Georgia. That had to feel so good. The amount of patience all game. I assume this happens to her a lot. We should follow along. I assume they know that if you deliver anything that is reachable for Brie, that thing is taking a trip out of town.

Walk off grand slam after not seeing a strike all damn day. That's certainly not ass, AJ, for Brie Ellis. It is not. And I don't know. The only thing Brie Ellis can do now is. use like a 96 inch bat, I guess, and try to get some of those balls that are way outside. Yeah, maybe, you know, the thing about it is,

her plate discipline is one of her best skills. She was a softball player of the year in 2025. So. About to run that back. Yeah. Did you see Coach Patty guess so? Oh, yeah. She's not.

Always. She's not happy. Back to basics. Hands bleeding. Crisp. Hands bleeding. We need to work. I don't think we should run just because I don't have enough.

walls to run through. Okay. Just know college softball is starting to heat up and it's certainly not ass at all. And those are five things that we thought were not ass. Now, do we want to go to the things that are ass? I think so. Yeah. All right, well, let's hop on a train. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to hit the, oh no, train, joining us to host, oh no. Ladies and gentlemen, it's football official for ESPN. Dan,

oh no! Dano, how you doing? We were hoping it was an oh yeah type day, but it feels like it might be an oh no, Dan, no, no day, if you know what I'm saying. How am I a part of this?

What did I do? You're kind of the face of it. Yeah, it's supposed to be done six minutes ago, but obviously it carries this long because we want to celebrate all the things that we're not asked, but we also have to celebrate the things that were maybe,

oh, no. And if you're waiting on hold there, we need to bring you in because you have been a part of a couple old nose. We all have. We all have been apart some old no. We've definitely been apart of small. We're not going to show your, your biggest, oh, no. Yeah, you are. Oh, no, we're not. We're not going to do that one. What big games? No, we're not going to do Fernando Mendoza. We're not going to do any of that. We're not going to dive in it. We got time for that. We just would like you to help us describe what you were watching in this week in sports for the O No train. Believe it or not, you are not getting dunked on this time. Phew.

Huh? It's a good day for me then. Well, actually, ladies and gentlemen, the first. Oh, no! Comes from a few years back. Dan Olin, the quarterback of the Detroit Lions being chased by a legend. That's my first time. He gets credit for the sack, right?

Absolutely. I think so. I think that, thanks for that. I think that's the most important part of that, AJ, is who got credit for the sack. You got credit for the safety for sure for a long time. He got credit for the sack. And also he's a Hall of Famer potentially because he's scared of safety into the other team.

And Dano, I'm on your team here. If I was in that position, which I certainly never was NFL quarterback. I don't know if I would ever get to that position where Jared Allen is over there. But sometimes you're so locked in. You're just not worried about how far back it goes because we're trying to go all the way that way for a touchdown. I'm not worried about backwards. spaceships don't come equipped with rear view mirrors. They dip. You aren't looking back.

You're only looking forward for a 98-yard touchdown. So you're such an optimist. You look like an asshole. It made everybody say, Oh, no. All right, let's go to this week, shall we? Let's go to a game for the... No. Would you like to comment, Dan, oh, no?

Would you like to turn this into a Dan, oh, no, pot session? No, go ahead. Go ahead. Please, please, please. Yeah. One, you said spaceships. Aliens aren't real. to the I saw an eight-sided thing

while I was going to the bathroom. Had a three-minute break. People were going through the files. I saw an eight-sided thing. I saw an eight-sided thing. No, dude. The storylines of that play in that game, we lost that game 12-10.

Oh, no. Gus Farrat. Who was the kicker for Minnesota? Ryan something. He was good, yeah. You lost 12-10? Brian Greasy. We lost 12-10.

I'm bummed out about that. On a game-winning field. That was also the 0-16 season. Oh, no. So you basically caused that. I don't want to do. I don't know that. Dan, oh, no, and 16.

We should not have done that. Okay, we're going to put that to bed. But all those bad days kind of led you to here, though, right? Both Lions fans. Now you guys are super pumped up about your players going to Pistons games and sit at courtside and having Celebrity Row. Yeah. You can be looking super cool, right?

Yeah, we went Owen 16. We drafted Matthew Stafford. He had about 12 great years in Detroit. Ended up trading him for Jared Gough. and now we got Jared Goff, Jerry, Goss, Hodge, St. Brown, all the boys, MCDC, you name it. So, yeah, Dan, that play pissed me off at the time, but now that we're doing this, thank you for out of the back of the end zone there. Thank you, Dan. Thank you for doing that for all of Detroit.

Team guy. Team guy. From the Stones fans to the Tigers fans, all the way to the Lions fans and the Lions players sitting courtside. Aidan Hutch said looks so cool. Yeah, he's Detroit's Obah. Did you see how cool he looked yesterday? Yeah, it looked good. It looked pretty good. Good looking, dude.

Yeah, it looked pretty jacked, too. Had sunglasses on. He even gave a, excuse me, let me hear it for me, please, one of these. You know, Hulk Hogan, come on, let me go ahead and get that. I love that Hutch and the boys are supporting the team. I like that Jamir Gibbs is there. I like that the city of Detroit's coming together around this number one seat, Detroit Pistons. Are the Stones about to rally the city?

Are the stones about to go on a real run here? Foxy, is life good? all because, and remember, we don't have any of this, if Dano doesn't run out of the back of the end zone back then. Is that not something we need to talk about a little bit more? That's 100,000 percent, correct? Dan, if I were you, I would be taking all the credit for all of this. The pistons are back.

The tigers are back. The lions are finally good for the first time in my lifetime. The red rings still kind of stinkless and I'll talk about the red wings, but all of this is because you ran out of the back of the end zone. Thank you, Dan. And Ryan Longwell was the kicker. Ryan Longwell. Ryan Longwell.

He was great quick. A great kicker. Game winner. I'm not going to take all the credit. I will say that Detroit is an awesome, awesome sports city. And like the whole sports complex that they have. I don't know where the Pistons new arena is, but the football Ford Field and Comerica are right next to each other.

And they're sick. That whole little section or stadiums on top of each other. You guys were there for the draft years ago. So you know it. It's a great city. Oh, so great town, right? Is that the... Great town.

And then Little Caesar's Arena is also downtown now. which is where Pistons and Red Wings play. People are very happy about all. Hey, congrats, Detroit. All because of this guy. Dano. Thank you, Dan. Okay, let's go to some onos happening now, shall we?

Dano. Is that better to talk about others doing Ono instead of you doing an O-N-O? Let's make fun of other people. Okay, we're not making fun of, we're just pointing things out that are happening. Here's a Cleveland Guardians fan. I assume he'd been a fan of the team since there were another name. He goes to the athletics game in Sacramento, drops the ball, spills beer on date. Worst case scenario.

Absolute. No. Situation as the athletics fan comes in and goes, shut your fan ass up and grabs the ball away from him as he walks off. AJ, that's a Cleveland Guardian fan. Two of them. And I'll tell you what, Ohio representing well out there in Sacramento, it appears. No, it's not a Cincinnati Reds fan.

We know that. I mean, at least catch the ball. You're going to pop the beer all over your girl. At least catch the ball on your left hand, man. What are we doing? She was smiling, so that's good for me. Why is he jumping for the ball? Okay.

You guys to catch it. I liked everything up until execution. I like that he didn't think about putting the drink down. I like that he thought blindly with the amount of optimism and that in athleticism that is currently in his body the last time he did something athletic, who knows? Decades were thinking? Yeah, probably.

Him immediately thought to himself, I can do this. I like it blindly. No thought of gravity and inertia and all that shit with the cup. Just golden shower. He's seen others do it. Complete golden. Just a beer golden shower all over the. the date. We want to let them know. We appreciate

you guys. And her laughing about it all. That's great. Guy taking ball, even better. All those things. But it's certainly in the moment. As soon as you see it, you can't help but say, Oh, no. Sounds like you're starting to get it, Dan. Oh, you see it. Let's stay in baseball, shall we? Let's go to the bottom of the 10th. Man in second.

Cannot give up a hit right now. Cannot at all. Michael Bush hits a ground ball up the middle. Oh, no. Keep your body in front of the ball. Chopper style. Sounds so easy till you're in the bottom of the 10th

with all the pressure in the world on. He cubs in the middle of a win streak and all of a sudden, get, g-g, gone. Ball is O. Cubs win. They have now won nine straight. I believe so after yesterday, right? Nine straight games, the Cubs have won.

And on the flip side, the Reds, they haven't won either. I think they've lost seven straight or something like that. It has been a tough go. This has been a part of both sides of the story. And as soon as you see it, you go, Ellie, you're so cool, but, uh, oh, no. Let's stay in baseball, but mix in football. Dan Rolofsky, Sonny get your take on this.

Malik Willis, new face of the Miami Dolphins franchise. Go pitch one for the Marlins. Oh, no. Guy couldn't hit the broad side of a born, Dan. Oh, what the hell's going on down there? That's a tough one. Otten looks like he has a baseball background, too. Like, if you just watch the wind up and the step back,

you got this dude done this before, man misses by 20 feet. Yeah, AJ, he brought a club with him, which we like. We like that he brought the glove. Was he trying to throw a hook? like is he trying to throw a break I think he's trying to throw it up there Dano He just didn't want to bounce it

I think he's trying to throw it up there I don't think he was really worried about throwing a strike He almost took a guy out This is by 20 feet He almost hit a guy in the head back here I mean there's a light blue shirt I assume worker I mean he's right

Oh you're right barely dodged Maybe that's Malik thought he was supposed to throw it to that guy Sure There's a chance that maybe he just didn't know Who he was supposed to run He didn't want to hit the checkdown He wanted to hit the post

But as soon as we saw it He's aggressive You know who knows how that's going to go down there in Miami But as soon as you watch that you go. Oh, no. All right. You're not bad. A little dramatic little theatrics kind of hanging on to the O a little bit longer than you should, starting a little bit later than he can. But yeah, we'll continue to get better and better. Let's go to soccer, shall we? This is A.C.

Malongoli, Michael Maynian. They just got a huge win. Go ahead and enjoy yourself. Let's go get after. Actually, it was a zero zero draw, and we're down. Oh. No. I thought a team won. That's on me. It was a zero-zero, it's soccer, obviously. This guy just had a shutout. really fall forward down the steps like that I think his cleat got caught maybe in the edge of that step

and then it just kind of kind of lost it down there gravity what are those steps just like your traditional stairs down I don't know they might be a little medley they look like it

is it in Italy because they make sure this doesn't look like a great instruction set up okay and also thin stairs it appears thin stairs you know those thin stairs

will get you because you slip off the bottom he got stuck I think with his cleat and kind of ate shit after having a shot out game good for him. AJ, doesn't Lambo have like some sketchy situation where I'm going down some like cement stairs

and cleats? Is that Lambo? Yes. Yes. Oh, yeah. Yes. And the stairs are like that wide. Yeah. That's sketchy dude. Like I remember you got go down sideways. Yes, exactly. That's right before game. About to play in Lambo. Here we go. This is the coolest night of all time. And then you get there and it's like, all right, don't bust

ass coming down this thing. You got cleats on, everything's slick. Now obviously we got Manyaon going. Oh, no! All right. Let's Head to Liga Portugal and soccer. Sporting CP knocks it around. And then Zeno da Bost, who's not the best. Boom, bang, let's go and pass it back to the goalie.

Actually, let's go slide this one right behind. Oh, geez. Ungoal out there. Zabast eventually knocks it in for an own goal. Victoria SC ends up losing five to one. So this was just an ass beating altogether and not being on the same page. And quite a little slot there by the old goal, you know?

The goalie had no chance. to get there. You want to talk about own goals? I think that's on the goalie. Don't you think that's the goalie's fault? Once he passes it forward, he just kind of hangs at that right post. Why would he be hanging at the post and not, is that a goal? Is that a starter then? Yeah, I don't know. And also, you should make himself available,

I think would be what the coaching point would be here. You know, like, hey, if somebody has the ball, make yourself available. Can he get the ball right there? I think he probably thinks so. I don't know. I don't think you need to go right back to the center of the goal because he's a part of that play there. He's passing it. You know, they're part of that entire thing. He can't pick it up because he was passed back to him, so he's part of the ball on the ground.

He had his little triangle stuff. I don't know. Could be on the goal. Let's do this next one. There's another one, Dana, that might be on the goalie. Let's head to Suda Americana, a team from Brazil. Vasco da Garmes taken on a team from Chile. Oh, no.

I mean, goalie. Come on, dude. Exactly. That's Alan Saldivia, who puts a sneaky pass past his own goalie to give Adoxet Talion, though. He looked like he was running in mud there. Yeah, he did. That one's on the goalie.

That one's on the goalie. I know the feeling. Yeah. Dano. You were running the Monday. Yeah. Jesus. That's tough, though. We've got to be more explosive. Places packed, by the way. Yeah, places is Brazil taking on Chile. Obviously, people everywhere. There's no one there. No, it's the world sport. You just can't see it. Wait, was this during COVID? Yeah. Okay, potentially. Ladies and gentlemen, as you watch it, you can't help it say, oh, no.

That was not during COVID. I believe that was it in the last week, although they got. I was going to say COVID? There's not many fans. There's nobody there. Dan, we get it. Let's go to Garnett Hathaway. He goes to back it up on somebody. Let me go ahead and check you. Actually, boom. Oh, my God. Banana tailpipe.

Sitch. Pause. That's tough. Boom. Worst place that he could potentially be going for an ash check and end up at. I mean, that's a situation there that could potentially be long term. I assume you've got to get that checked.

But you're certainly walking around a little bit like this. He's skating like this for a while, I think, people would say. Dano, when you see that, is your first reaction not. Oh, no. Don't you think, Dano? Yeah, absolutely. My first reaction is I have no idea what the hockey padding setup is like, so I don't know if there is an actual pad on the back there.

There's no balloon not perfection. I don't know if they have that. There's a tailbone protector. I don't know. I don't know hockey like that. I don't think it's a tailbone we're worried about there, is it? I think we're worried about more so little south. Yeah.

Who did it shut the door? That's on the team. You're not shutting the door. You got to lock that thing. And that's what he said. I think, come on. You saw my ass coming. Yeah, we need a back double or triple padded.

Whatever the case, when you look at that, you can't help it say. Oh. No. All right, let's just stay in hockey. Let's go to Avalanche Parker Kelly in the middle of a little bit of scrum there with Boldy. Who can eat it? Oh, the ref.

The ref can get it right in the face. It doesn't blink, though. No. Yeah, well, that's hockey. And that's why. we're punk, boom, and he takes a shot at him. Chief shot. Well, hockey says any shot's a good shot, I think.

Square it up. A little face wash. Boom, punch to the ref. You can get it. Boldy, you can get it. Oh, you're breaking us up, huh? That's cute. How about this? Boom. Left clock around the guy. I'll tell you what, the entire situation for the linesman makes us go, oh, no! Then obviously, Dano, you know this from golf every once in a while.

The sun's going to make you look like an asshole. Sapsraka says, hey, you know what? Everybody, take a look at this. Whoa. Oh, no, Zapp, you know, got to get some lotion on that. And then let's go to South Korea, shall we? This is an MMA league organization down there that's basically like South Korea versus the world. No, it's Filippe Pereira, who's going to be doing a lot of the antics before the fight, and then it's Hukminji who does a lot of the dancing afterwards.

That's a good? Oh I kill you. I do it. That's a big one. That's a big one there. You better win. Who wins the fight?

Well, I think you know. Go to sweet, go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Night night night. Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no. Anytime this comes up in this morning, right, and then you, yeah. Boom, that's two. Boom, that's three.

Boom. That's four, and then also, remember what you did earlier? Yeah, a little bit of that. Hey, Felipe, all that talking when you got into the action, it was one big. Oh, no. I like selling a fight, though. I do appreciate that. And that was the oh-no train there.

Thank you for joining us there, Dan O'Olofsky. And that's about all the time we have for you today. I'm joking, Dan. I'm joking, Dana. Okay, let's dive into some football talk after the O-No. I got nothing going on. You're good. Yeah, you tell.

Well, you're saving a world by fighting the alien files. It sounds like. Yeah. Sounds like that's what you got going on for the next, I don't know, month or so of your life. I just don't believe aliens are real. I used to argue with Stafford about this all the time. Stafford says, hey, Dan, you have a look up.

Stafford's a big space guy. I don't know exactly where he stands on aliens, but he's obsessed with outer space, but, or intrigued by it. Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of us on this particular show are as well. So obviously Stafford's like that, obviously, that's our MVP. Makes it. Yeah, that's our MVP. He's thinking like that.

Our MVP, huh? Not all of ours. Yeah, I mean, he's our MVP. He's the NFL's MVP. That's, we view ourselves as NFL people. It makes sense that he's a space guy in the entirety of it all. What if somebody showed you direct evidence that they were real, though? You would still have to not believe it.

Is that how you are? No, no, no, I could. I can get into that, but we don't, to my knowledge, I'm not the smartest person. I don't think we've ever seen direct evidence that aliens are real. I don't know the alien files are out today. Department of War said, hey, here they are.

What's coming out? We don't know. I saw a bunch of this though. I saw a bunch of these things just out there. Yeah, there it is right there, Dana. It's right there. Yeah, I don't know what that is. I don't, I don't, what is that.

Where's it from? It's clearly what it is. Yeah, that's what we're saying. I do want to see them, I need to see them, though. Great, this is their ship, whatever. Yeah, I need to see what's inside. You need to get one of those. Yeah, I need to shake one of their hands.

You know, I want a high five. In Times Square in a glass box. I want Oklahoma drill one of these things. Yeah. Yeah, maybe a show. I want an alien zoo. Every main city needs one in a box that everyone can go and look. And ask questions to.

Yes. And it has to answer. Because even a video now. So your team, your team aliens are real. Me? I'm team. They're definitely possible. Yeah, definitely.

More likely than not. Yeah. And then are you team like they are like from the movies visually or they're many black people on earth? I don't know. I don't know. There's been so many things. Like the gray people conversation, you know, like that whole thing. There's been a lot of that.

Yeah, that is a tiny little jug there. Make sure you don't get enough hydration. There's just a lot of conversation about them, a lot of different descriptions of them. I don't know. Hopefully these files will lead to seeing them. And once again, I would like to think that if they're so damn sufficient, and educated that they can get to us for files to even be open, that if they did want to wipe us out,

they would already done that. So I would like us to potentially, if they do exist, which I'm open to the idea that they certainly do. Okay, I'm certainly open to that idea. I would just like us to work with them. You know, this is like AI, inevitable. Let's work with AI.

You know, and let's remember that we can unplug AI, right? Did you happen to see the old X-Files episode that was going around this week? Oh, I hated X-Files. Did you see what was going around? Scully and Mulder, dude. In one of their episodes, the aliens released a virus. I don't want to hear it. Guess what the virus was?

See? Haunta. No. That's real. I don't want to be haunted by these hauntus stories. That's the next episode. I think I saw what was it, what NFL player tweeted? Tyron Matthew tweeted,

Haunted virus in 2020 or something like that. Let's, hey, football, please. I'm not worried. With that being said, I would like the coach to sign one of these things if they are out there. Sure. Because I know they can figure out. alien draft, like supplemental draft, would be cool. Yeah, think about them getting to the quarterback.

They have to be a separate drafts, right? Boom, all of a sudden, the coach are winning the Super Bowl. I mean, this is what I'm here for. Let's move to NFL Congress. Even with an alien, they probably still would. Do you see what they did? They disappeared. They came back.

Magic man, now you see me, now you don't. Somebody goes, put their hands on. Tough to block. Yeah, absolutely. Tough to block. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's why we need to learn. That's why we need to talk.

We need to keep these open minds because our football teams might get better from this. And if we win a Super Bowl because of an alien, I'm cool with it. I'm still going to the parade. Now, speaking of parades, Pittsburgh Steelers, the hell is going on over there, Dan O in your eyes. There was mixed reports going on. A lot of mixed reports going on within Pittsburgh.

Doran Dickerson, scoring Doran Dickerson, went to Pitt, playing the NFL. He is part of 937, the fan. He reported yesterday morning that he heard that Aaron Rogers was coming in this weekend. And I don't know if he reported the sign or not signed. Ian Rapport quote tweets goes, yep, they're planning for him to come out there and do it. Then we're hearing reports that no, it's not happening. With all this being, it seems like Aaron Rogers is going to be the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback,

but it is not beneficial and we have no idea. What are your thoughts on the situation that's brewing over there? And are the Pittsburgh Steelers with Mike McCarthy, who are definitely in win now mode, I think with the hiring, going to be able to do as such next year? No, what's best for the team is that Aaron Rogers is the quarterback. What's best for the organization is that anybody but Rogers is the quarterback. Okay. I think with Aaron, with Aaron as their starting quarterback, they are a fringe playoff team.

They are, they're not going to be better than Buffalo, New England, Baltimore, Sincere, Houston, Jacksonville, the Chargers, Denver. So you got to hope that one of those eight or nine teams doesn't play well, kind of shoot over your skis. I think they're a nine-win team with Aaron. And that's why I say with the team, yeah, like I get it because there's Sam Hayward and T.J. Watt and Jalen Ramsey, some of these, you know, long, obviously two long-time Steeler veterans, Hall of Famers, all three of them.

They want to win now. And so for this team, this 20-26 version, the best thing is to have a quarterback as good as Aaron playing. But for the organization, it's not because you're just going to be picking at 20 again. Tone, you may know this. It blew my mind. The Steelers have had two top 10 picks since 1990. Yeah.

Winning season. And so it's great. Two top 10 picks since 90. And one of them is the 10th pick. And so I just, I can understand and appreciate the history of the organization and the consistency of the organization. But what's best for them is to fall back this year and to not be good. and try to gather a top 10 pick

and figure out the long-term spot at quarterback. Okay, so you think they hired Mike McCarthy. They still have T.J. Cam Hayward, all the vets on the building, right? All the olds. They still got a lot of the olds that have been around for a long time. To kick it in a year? No, I don't.

I said this to you guys a month ago. Aaron's going to be this our quarterback. I said write it in Penn. That's happening. But that's what's best for the team is not what's best for the organization. This is one of those situations that what is best for the team

is for Rogers to be the quarterback because that group can win but what's best for the organization long term is not. Okay, so I can understand where you're coming from strictly because a lot of Steelers fans have been feeling this way about Tomlin. You talk about the two top 10 picks, that's because they're always winning enough games

but they never win enough games and they never lose enough games. So they've been there in the middle of the draft literally for 20. It's like purgatory, but do you think the team next year, no matter who is in Pergatory? purgatory. Does Aaron keep you in purgatory, I guess is what Dan Orlovsky is saying.

But what if Dano, what if Dano doesn't realize that maybe because Haunted, maybe because everything going on that this is Aaron Rogers in Mike McCarthy's offense. Exactly. I love what you're doing. Just keep doing what you're doing, bro. Tunnel vision. Don't worry about anything. Fuck it all. Just just don't worry about anything. What is this haunting? This guy. Wake up. How big is a rock? Is the rock come with the house that you live under? Like, I don't understand. Am I supposed to know?

Nope, you're not. You're supposed to know. Everyone knows that. It's an entity for sure. And I think you'll, just go ahead and sit back. Just sit back. Just make sure you just sit back. We are on the internet a lot.

I talked to a group yesterday. I was the only one that knew what it was. Okay, so I guess, yeah, that is the difference we found ourselves. We know. We live on the internet. So we kind of hear everything happening. You live in film. So we'll keep you updated on stuff.

Just know the haunted thing. Yeah, there it is. Dan, where do you live down there? Patrick Starr's house, right? Isn't that SpongeBob? No, SpongeBob lives in a pineapple owner to sea, dude. I did not know that. I would have right there was.

I believe that's a neighbor. I believe it's Patrick Starr's house. Or I guess he's two down. He's next to Squaboard. All right. Anyways, don't worry about anything. But let's talk about the Steelers team. Do you think they can win at all?

Because if you can win another Super Bowl, it's the only thing that matters. I agree with the majority of what Dan said. I do think they will be a better team this year with Aaron because of the coaching change. Will it be enough to get to the Super Bowl? Probably not. No. Jeez.

I said that, Dan. I just said that. There was a lot of the injers and me included when, you know, Aaron, like when, and he's still not back, but was like, hey, let's, fuck it. Let's go with Will this year. Either you find your quarterback for the future. He surprises people, Dan being one of them, or you win four games and you get your quarterback of the future in the 2027 draft, which is supposed to be much better. A lot of people were hoping for that, but the coaches don't want that.

The players do not want that. I don't even know if the organization wants that at all. So, well, obviously not because, you know, they want Aaron back. But no, I agree with a lot of some of the teams that he said would be better. I didn't agree with, but, you know, a lot of what he said was right. Yeah, and he left off the Colts. Obviously, the AMC is certainly stacked. AJ, your thoughts on your friend, Aaron Rogers, being in the middle of a conversation around the Pittsburgh Steelers, yet again.

It feels like this is back-to-back years of this, and then it was the Jets before that, that it was Packers. Like anything Aaron does is always going to be a conversation. I think he knows that. I think we all understand that. But this one has become so dynamic, I think, because the way the fans who are die hard and loyal and would be, if you won, are at the point of feeling like, if this guy who already knows what the building's like, already knows who the coach is, already knows everything doesn't want to come back, what are we waiting around for? And I think Mike's waiting around.

And I think Omar's waiting around. I think the Steelers are waiting around just like they were last year. But fans can't really comprehend that, it feels like, AJ. Yeah, well, fans aren't talking and having conversations with Aaron and his representatives as we've seen Omar has said that and coach Mike since he's been on the job, I guess. So they obviously feel like from their dialogue they have had with Aaron and aside that that he's going to, you know, they're going to figure things out, I guess. Doesn't it seem like that? We're almost in June right now and it's still up in the air.

So, yeah, and I know Dan says it's not best for the like the organization of the franchise, but I guess it's just short term, long term, right? Like short term, it's obviously better for him. But I just don't know how it can be a plan. Hey, we need to lose enough games to where we get to pick high enough to get our next franchise quarterback. I think that's hard to sell to anybody. I don't think Steelers fans are necessary. They talk about it in theory, but then doing the season. I mean, it hasn't happened in 20-plus years.

Rookie minicamp starts today and the mandatory minicamp starts June 2nd. So, I mean, we're still have a few weeks before mandatory minicamp and other guys getting reps isn't necessarily the worst things, but we'll see. Okay, so Omar Khan did a Westwood one interview earlier today. Omar Khan on Aaron Rogers to Chris Mack on Sirius. Okay, also serious. I don't know where specifically Aaron is. In the world?

I think that's kind of what that could be. you that Aaron and I and coach and Aaron's representatives have had good conversation since season ended and since Mike got hired. It's been positive, but yeah, I don't know where he is at this moment. Okay, could be in the building. Maybe he's downstairs a quiverment room. Oh, could be. Maybe he's in a bathroom. Maybe he's in a locker room. He's probably up to his ears in these alien files, if we're being honest. He was probably going to come and then he heard that the files were getting released and he's like, well, I don't have time for the sealers right now. He's had the file. See you tomorrow. Yeah. He already knows a lot of me. I'm a little bit worried

that if you are on the internet, you know a lot of these files that are potentially getting released. So I'm a little bummed up. But Aaron's not on the internet. Remember? He's always there. He gets all of his info from Mia, his sister. Come on.

In law. In law. That's, which is also your sister-in-law now, you son of a bit. Yeah, because you're- Well, he hasn't signed yet, so. Let's talk about more things that happen around the NFL world. Joe Burrow looks super cool out and about. He also was training with the Bengals just yesterday.

He had a, a full sled on as they're continuing to work out during the spring. They have the sports bra, catapult sports bra. So cool. But he has the black shirt underneath it, so it looks cool. And obviously, Joe Burroughs going to look cool whenever he does anything. Running full speed obviously seems to be pumped. Do you think Joe Burrow and his Cincinnati Bengals have a big bounce back this year,

Dan Orlovsky? I do. Right now, that would be my pick to win the division. I think it's obviously a huge year for Cincinnati. Cincinnati for Joe. That's why they make the trade for Dexter Lawrence. A bunch of new starters on defense that just have to pay off for them. Two years ago, Joe Burrow has this historic season. In NFL history, it's one of the great quarterbacking and offensive seasons we've seen, and they don't get into the playoffs because the defense is equally historically bad.

I have very little doubt that if everyone's healthy on this offense, it'll be a top five offense. Now, part of that's got to be Joe. Joe has to own some of the head. health of his own career. They've got to protect them. I thought the offensive line was better last year, but it's still a challenge, right? It's still been the narrative as they haven't kept him clean. But if he's healthy, then this defense just gets a little bit better. Yeah, this is the, for me, the pick to win the division and absolutely matter in the AFC playoffs. I think that it's a fascinating year in Cincinnati and in Philly for the quarterbacks because, you know, they're three straight years without the playoffs. They don't go again with what they've invested now

into the team and kind of given Joe what is needed and wanted, at least by reports, yeah, you could absolutely see it getting very noisy and him wanting out. Okay, last question before we let you go, because we've got action Bronson on the other side. Whoa.

Can I wait to talk to him? Chef, rapper, actor, content creator. What? Respecter of aliens. What? Yes. Unlike who we're talking to right now. It doesn't respectful. These things are listening. Thousands of years, we've got no evidence.

They just released all the files. Dan might be a hybrid. That's what he's trying to throw us off. Oh, yeah, for sure. An alien would run out of the back of the end zone. Maybe it froze off. An absolute burial. There was no reason for that.

Holy shit. That's on AJ. That was so quick and so rude. That's on AJ. So quick and so rude. You're right. Complimented aliens. Barried Dan. That was on AJ.

You know what, Dan? Have a great weekend, man. It was a great time. You didn't have fun doing it all now? That was not part of the point. You were part of the show. You're part of the show, no. It's a great time.

What do you have this weekend? You watching Mayhem? No. I got a bunch of sports tonight. Wives going out for a girl's night in New York City. Oh, nice. Big night for Dana with the kids. Thought you were a lacrosse guy.

You're not going to watch it. Yeah, what the hell? It's this weekend? I'll be at games. all day tomorrow and Sunday. So Mother's Day, Sunday. Don't be an idiot, boys. Good call, actually. That's a great call. A reminder to everybody. Mother's Day Sunday. Yes, it is. Oh, Mother's Day. We thought about these things because we appreciate them. Yeah, Mother's Day. Thank you. Mother's Day. Mother's Day. I think my sons

played Fairfield on Sunday, Connor. Oh, look out. That's a strong program. Tell you what. They know how to put it. How old? What are we playing? Very good. Eighth grade. So my sons are four months from last week, dude. Last week, we We had a lot of change in the Orlovsky household. Wednesday afternoon, all three boys got braces. And then the next day, I had to pay off the bet with them, and they got cell phones on Thursday. Oh, huge.

Holy hell, you've got to be monitoring that thing. You better have odds on all these phones. Yeah, yeah, I'm all over it. You got, I'm all over it. Once Haunta gets in there, maybe this is how you learn about the world. So is this like an internet thing? Yeah.

Yeah, everyone's doing it. Do the honka. Do the hauntah. Do the hauntah. Do the hauntah. Do the hauntah. We don't want to do the internet. do the haunta.

I'm not doing anything, dude. Dan, dan, da, dan, dan, dan, dan, dan, dan, dan, dan, dan, dan, dan. Don't do the hauntah. You don't want to do it. Dano just keep living in your little bubble, and we respect it. Ladies and gentlemen, that's Daner. Yeah, Dano. He's a 12-year-old boy.

Yeah, he is. He just got a cell phone, too. Yes, he did. He's about to learn a lot through their phones. But he's not going to know how to wash their phones. I mean, there's somebody's going to have to walk him through that whole. to restrict his own. Ladies and gentlemen, a man joining us now

has another album released today called Planet Frog. One of the greatest brains that I've ever encountered. I know him from the hosting shows. Fuck, that's delicious. Watch along of ancient aliens amongst many of workout stuff.

Also, rapper, obviously album released today. Actor, massive New York Knicks fan. Ladies and gentlemen, legend, action Bronson. Yeah, action. What's up, Chef? What's up, fellas? How are you guys?

Hey, life is good for the Knicks right now, huh? Looks like you guys are really going to go on a run. You got an album release. The Knicks don't look like ass. This is a good time for Action Bronson, I would assume. Oh, no, he's gone. Oh, gone. That's Action Bronson football right there, by the way.

Exactly. He's fading in. Yeah. There's a Matt McConaughey movie right there, Inception. Is that Matt McConaughey? No. Yeah, that's McConaughey. Okay, so.

No. Oh, it's not. That's Leo in it? Oh, I thought you said interstellar, Inception. Interstellar. I'm thinking interstellar. Inception is the... Yeah, the dream.

Yeah, Leo, it's a little top. The dream inside a dream. What is Severance? Is Severance a dream? Severance? No. Severance is a choice. It's an operation itself. But is that what you are when you dream? Ladies of the gentleman, join us now.

Fresh out of the... Action Bronson. Yeah, action. So motherfucker called me just now and broke it all up from Portugal. I'm sorry. No, hey, no problem. Anytime you're getting calls from Portugal, we know that's a good thing. You know, action Bronson's cooking up all over the world. You got to do what you have to do. Can you tell me about life right now for you other than getting Portugal calls in the middle of a conversation? Album drop, Knicks are for real. How's life for action right now? I feel great, man. Inside I'm battling demons, but on the outside, I'm happy. Well, at least you got music to kind of let the demons speak for themselves. Obviously, try Saratops. I just started taking GH.

You did? I want to. Well, hold on. So what are you going to get jacked? Because you do have moments where you get super jacked up, especially with the working out. Fully jacked.

Bam. Properly jacked. Look at this fucking thing. Yeah, I mean, it's a full screen on, I think, so we can see it. Go ahead.

Get it up in the screen a little bit. We didn't get to see the full thing. Nah, wait until it, wait until you'll know when I'm on the G. You'll know when I'm on it. Not yet. What is your head going on? What do you think will go most?

The head's going to be gigantic. Barry vibes. I'm going to hit 75 on run. Tell me about this, team this year, action, you think you can actually win it all with their squad or no? I like the way they look. We have a deep bench. I'm telling you, the guys got hard. They want to win.

I mean, we have a path. It's going to be a rough one, but every year, when is it ever easy for us? It's never easy. Well, I think the tournament's not easy for anybody. You know, it's the best teams out there, action. Sounds a little dramatic in New Yorker's saying,

you know, Nick's fan saying, it's always going to be, your guarded. People say the hardest place to play, or best place to play. How do you feel about the Mecca and why is it viewed that way, you think? Mecca is, it's intimidating to people because, you know, some of the greatest sports ventures ever have ever happened in their classic fights. The motherfucking wringling brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus pulls up, you know? How shows WWF 1987, WrestleMania 10. Things happen at the garden. One of my favorite

things that I've ever watched was Justin Gachey and Michael Chandler was one of the craziest fucking I can't even believe that that was one of the loudest times ever. It's just an intimidating place but it is the most electric arena there is. And I think that's been on display

every single NBA playoffs. The Knicks inevitably break the hearts at the end. Is this the year that Brunson goes absolutely crazy? Tell me about the album release action. So what is today? Doing a lot of chat about the album bouncing around, letting it just kind of hit send and let the world kind of deal with it?

What is life on output? Yeah, that's why I just, I let it hit send, let everyone deal with it. I'm just talking to you. I only have capacity for one. Tell me about your life. It seems like you pick and choose to do whatever the hell you want at this stage.

How long has it been like this? That's how I feel. This is the way it is, you know, like I broke my leg and stopped, you know, like something unlocked. It was like DMT straight to my neck. Like nuke, rogo cop too. You know, like. Bar.

Straight up. It's like it was interesting. inserted and then I haven't stopped since. I just feel great. I'm ready. I'm just ready. I'm ready to run through a wall right now, to be honest. Well, you look fantastic. We've been reading through some of your lyrics and the way your brain pieces words together. Absolutely.

Love. Can you tell me about the alien files being released? I watch some ancient aliens alongside you and your friends. Plenty of nights on my life. How do you feel about the files getting out there? How do we feel about it? I don't know. I don't like to read files. You know, I like to see substance. I like to see things.

Yes, yeah. At the end of the day, I've been places. I was just in Tijuana, Tijuana, you know? I was at the Temple of the Sun giving praise. I was at the Temple of the Moon giving praise. Like, literally, this was, I've seen, I've been,

I've been to the other side too many times to not believe. You see behind me? You see that, hold on, that's shri. I can't even get it nice. There's a frog, man. There's five frogs. Yeah. That's like the five, that's like the five Italian families.

Yes. Okay. You know? Those five frog? Five MEO. Okay, I like that. Lucchesee. What?

Gambino. What? Banana. What? You know what I mean? Givese. Genevizzi. Why?

I just smoked some crazy hash. Yeah. Boreen, Kemp. Okay. Got it. We nailed it. as we started the Watts, you knew you had to finish it. You didn't know when you were going to be able to get there.

I respect the moment. I respect what just happened there. I'm with my man Connie Gorgeous right now. We used to drive uptown to 172 an Autobahn six times a day with 10 on it. Shout out Connie. You guys made it. You guys made it. You guys made it. It's too crazy. Any car we can find.

Now we're here. Now we're here, baby. Look at you. Five frogs. Smoking hatch. Release it out. Dual G99 M5s, one sedan, one touring. You're the best action. Connor has the last question for you, sir.

Yeah, actually, it's incredible. I'm going to be at UFC on Saturday, yes. Okay. Boom. Okay, thank you. Any other scheduling? I was at Chamayev, yes. Oh, okay.

Sounds good to know. That's who we'll bet on. Everything you say sounds like a lyric. It's probably the coolest thing I've ever heard in my life. Is it hard for you to stay locked in on one thing because you can basically do so many other things? Yes, obviously. That's an obvious fucking thing.

So how do you handle that when you can do so many things, but you have to kind of lock in on one? You sit and do nothing. You just let it settle for a second. You just take patience. It's like Lamaz. You just have to breathe through it. I love a good Lamas class.

You know, like every good sniper should take Lamas classes. Control the heart rate. You know this. Control the body. You know this. Do you want to do a Lamar's class right now? Maybe. Do you want to lead us in a little breathing extra?

I just did Tybo with Billy Blanks. You remember the last Boy Scout? Yeah, I remember. In the last Boy Scout? Yeah. That's all I cared about. I was just like, yo, I was fucking bugging out because I watched him and Bruce Willis

Damon Wayne's every day. I love that movie. I got it on VHS. Did you do double... What? Did you do a great movie? Yo, I have 2,000 VHS tape. That was my inheritance for my grandfather.

Shout out. Rest in peace, by the way, to the legend. Hitler's list. Fucking Robocop 1, 2, 3. Walt Disney movie, like the King and I. Yeah. Home alone. American me.

Home alone, for sure. You got that. You got a B. You got that. Home alone. I mean, you're kidding me? Like, let me think about what else. Every lethal weapon.

Die hard. Three ninjas. Die hard. Cyborg. Yeah. Matrix. Depressido, deprestito. Heavy weights?

You got 2,000? We're going to be here for a wall. I told Ben Stiller I needed to be in heavy weights too. A lot of traction about this. We talked to him yesterday. He said he'd be interested in having heavy weights too. I think you'd be great in it, obviously. I mean, bro, I lived it, man.

I could fucking, I could get candy anywhere. I thought we were going to potentially go through your 2000 VHS is right there. I thought we're going to potentially get. I mean, I know the whole top row of my mother's dresser right now that we got of mine. You're the greatest, okay, hold on. It's like showboat, beaches. There's a lot of Bet Midler. Beaches are good movie.

Yeah, Bet Midler legend, by the way, back in the day, obviously. VHS era. Serious, serious. Imagine dropping into the VHS era and tell them what we have now. Now, on that note, one thing that you crush... Drop zone, by the way, fucking Gary Busey, Wesley Snipes, maybe. That was right next to beaches. Okay, Gary Bucy's been through it.

You know, Gary Bucy's been living. Certainly made some great. He was also great in Undersea too. Oh, my God. Underrated. Tommy Lee. Underrated there. When he watched... That's a huge one. When he watched the VHS, is that in 360, like 380? How's the quality?

It's on... The TV's on a stand. And then the VCR set up underneath it. It's like a little metal thing and then I have a rewinder next to it. Yeah. It's like one of those pieces of shit that they used to roll into the classroom. Yeah, I got you. Yeah, I got it. There's a good days. Substant Teacher days.

Okay, let's talk about something. I'm not trying to mess around with it because these are freshest pieces of film. That's right. They are precious pieces of film. That was back when they were filmed, actually. You know, as opposed to digital shit. What I mean?

It's on actual tape. It's on tape. That's because you respect the art, obviously. I really do. I'm of the arts. I'm of the land and of nature. Hell yeah. End up the sea.

I mean, you really are. I think that is something we would all... I mean, I'm a seaman. If there's anything I am. Yeah, Coxman. I am a seaman. Yeah, you certainly are. Coxman, seaman.

We're all semen. Well, at one point. But I'm truly a waterman. Okay. Out there in the lakes or the rivers? No, on ocean, in ocean, I need lots of waves. I need sets from Tibet. Of course.

I need to be out during the hurricane when it's 18 degrees. Perfect. Are you going belly up or belly down? No, no. Me, I only boogie. I'm a sponge. I'm a dick dragger. Yep.

I ride, I ride a boogie board, aka a bodyboard. Yep. I'm head first like a crocodile only. See, now why they're fucking around? Who the hell is this? Is that a call from Portugal? This is the second, I don't, hold on, nah. Let me hold on.

There it is. All, boom. All right, boom. We made it good, though. They always trying to catch me. Never. No one calls me when I'm not doing anything, and when I'm doing something, this is.

This is what happens. Okay, we got about a minute and a half to a hard out. You are a chef as well, which I assume people picked up through this conversation we've had here thus far. Tone has the last question for you here. Yeah, you are, action. And we talk about a lot. You think they would have picked that up from this? Yes, definitely, because you're a man of culture.

You're a man of the world. You do everything, action. We always talk about it. Hey, which country has the best food? Who is the best cuisine? Why is it Italy? Recently, I've been chasing the Silk Road. A lot of the stand.

Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Pakistan. Sure. Uzbekistan. Good stuff. Some of my favorite kebab, just interesting animals under the ground. Some of my favorite stuff. Okay. Last question here. Connor has it for you. Yeah, actually I have to ask. What are your thoughts on artificial intelligence?

It feels like it is something that you would have some sort of take on that you've thought about deeply. I mean, it's really not that much of a deep thought. Like, just think about this. Like, what the fuck are we doing right now? Well said. That's all you really need to think about it, and then think about it. All this shit is ridiculous.

It's all silly. It is. Everything's silly. You have to adapt to life. This is what we're at. You either fight for your right, or you lay down and die. See you on Monday.

Goodbye. Be good, baby. Hey, that was a perfect wrap up there. You're the man, action. Hey, baby, action. You're the man. He was amazing. I should have expected that.

No, I did not put much thought into what that segment was going to be like. I just thought, man, I know action pretty good. I feel like we should be able to bop this thing around. I should have known he was coming in here brain wide open. Did we know that he made the Not My Chair, Not My Problem video? Yeah, it could have been him. That's his voice. Tying nuts.

And that's his brain. I promise you, that's him. Hanging on to every word. That's all I can think about that. the entire time. Unbelievable. Sidewalks. Yeah.

That's him. Oh, Mr. Walk Down Me. Mr. Walk Down Me, I'll lead you to it. Mr. Pathway. Think about how he just talked, his voice, his brain, and that video. How about Connie to? Back behind the camera, they used to drive that thing up stay. Fucking whatever, whoever can get it.

That's from Tibet. I loved you asking. You have problems? You got any issues sticking to one thing? Yeah, obviously. Is anybody watching this? Yeah. Hey, I feel like people could pick up that you or a chef. You think they could pick that up from this?

Yeah. No. That's a valid question for me. Got over 2,000 VHSs. It was amazing. I thought he was going to list them all. Kipped it from my grandfather. Inherited.

Yeah. Rest and peace to the grandfather. I knew my mom's entire top row. She fucking loved Bet Midler, Gary Busey. God, I can't wait to relive that. That was incredible. Hey, his album's available now. I'm going to listen to the whole thing.

Five frogs, like the five families. What do you say? Fuck, I can't get out of the way. Yeah. Oh, man. Gave praise at the Temple of the Moon. And at the sun. Yeah.

Action, quickly into the Mount Rushmore of conversations on our show. Yeah. He was perfect for Feel Good Friday. Yeah, I was. Action Brunson's name was mentioned to the program. I think it was like Wednesday. I was like, oh, we're packed Wednesday. We cannot.

We're so sorry. But we like Action Bronson, please. We would like him to know that we would definitely like him on a program. And we pitch you. We appreciate you pitching somebody. Like people pitching people is very abnormal. So like we're very, very thankful for that. So then they're like, yeah, it wasn't him.

It was like people, you know, they're like he's doing, he's got his album release, but he's also a Knicks van. We're trying to get him to do stuff. That's basically what they're saying. Think about trying to rally him. Oh, impossible. Oh, yeah. Impossible.

I can't believe he was on. Oh. So then they were like. Like Thursday, we could try to rally him in, like, the noon hour or whatever. Like, I think we got, I'm so, please tell him Friday with him would be amazing. Anytime he's good on Friday, we would love to have him when I feel good Friday. 140 happened to be the perfect time. Yeah.

Going right into the end of that. Maybe 205 next time, but. Try to rally him, you say, his people try to rally him. The amount of times we said, well said. Oh, yeah. The amount of times that's been said to him. Well said. And I just love that he completely knows, too.

Like, yeah, think about what I just said. We got anything else to talk about? Nope, didn't think so. Let's keep it moving. Man, chef, rapper, actor, liver, absolutely a liver. Beast. He's living. Yeah.

What's the fuck about right now? Just rolling through the Silk Road. All the stands. He left one off, a couple off that I immediately thought of. I'm happy he didn't go there. Might be closed off. Let's make some picks on these games. Sports are up right now.

Sports are up right now. Come on, sports. Can we go to that graphic of the, the, yep, right here. Hell, yeah, sports. We would like to celebrate this. This is certainly not asked. Sports are way up.

Honestly, it makes us all wonder what people are doing before watching sports, you know, if all these people are becoming, or coming back to sports or becoming sports fans, or more people are getting access to watching sports. Whatever the case, we appreciate everybody diving into the sports world, and we're fucking very lucky to be a tiny part of this entire thing, AJ. But it feels like sports are up into the right, pal. Absolutely. I mean, we're in an awesome time for sports right now, especially since all, like, every sport seems to deliver, especially when it comes to playoff time. So, yeah, we are, it is true. Like, what do you do if you don't watch any sports? Like, there are people that don't watch anything, like, when it comes to- I think they read books. Yeah, is that it?

I think so. Or like, what kind of TV do they watch? They watch your stuff? There's people that don't have TVs in their house, which is. I assume, you know, those, what's that, like, trash TV? I don't, I say trash. I used to watch it as well. No, like. Like reality TV? Oh, yeah. Yeah, like all that TV. I think the genre is actually trash TV. I'm not calling it trash TV.

You're talking like Lizard Lick Toad? No. That would classify as old school part of it. Blizzard licto. We're talking Rock of Love, Flav. We're talking Summer House. We're talking all that stuff. Jersey Shore.

All that type of stuff is our era. All my friends that don't watch sports, that is what they watch. But you have a lot of friends that don't. That's interesting because I've been trying to figure out who in my life would I be able to ask information from about don't. But I do think it's all those shows. Yeah, they, yeah, addicted to those shows. Like Netflix has a bunch of them, Peacock has a bunch of,

it's almost like the new soaps. Like soap operas used to kind of carry the afternoon for everybody. Now it's like all these different serieses, games and realities and shows from all these platforms. Because there's some of these platforms that I think are probably seeing magnificent spikes whenever one of their series pops off when nothing else pops off. I'll watch my wife go over to like some platform

that have not been on at all just to watch some show. And it's like they're just trying to create ways to get people to places. Sports have always rang. King seemingly still King but I like that there's some other shit kind of drawn attention around there for content but sports up and to the right is

a wild thing whenever you think about like the amount of money that's being spent on all this. The licensing, the contracts, the streaming platforms that seemingly have a bottomless pit of money trying to get into the game and then news comes out it's like YouTube might not have any

NFL games. Netflix actually might pick up more NFL games. Amazon Prime are they going to get another game? It's like we're now in a world where every platform is trying to get in, at least on our league, and as these numbers continue to grow up, every one of these sport things are going to be the most profitable thing

on television until television's no more. I mean, that's just kind of how it is. And I'm fucking lucky I grew up only in the sports world, to be honest with you. Yeah, especially when we're talking about some of the biggest stars in all these sports. Like, we mentioned the MLB. The MLB with the World Baseball Classics,

one thing, like having a player as fascinating as show Hey, O-Tonnie, in the league and, you know, Paul Skeens, who's setting records that have gone back hundreds of years, like even just that as an attraction. I don't like the Dodgers, but if Shohei Otani's on,

you're going to go watch him. It feels like there hasn't been a draw like that in the MLB in my lifetime, at least like there is right now. Since the home run race. That's in a bunch of sports. Yes, it's the home run race. Yeah. Shout out to sports. Let's have a great weekend of sports. Let's make some picks for tonight. The NHL has two games. Canadians at Sabre 7 p.m. Eastern on TNT.

Golden Knights at the Ducks, 930 on TNT. AJ, who do you like? How do you like it in the first one in Buffalo? I have a hard time picking against this Buffalo team, obviously. Everything they're doing on the ice, off the ice, I am a fan of, so give me Buffalo here. Fresh off of Matthew Kachuk saying that the Buffalo Blade Gang could beat up all the other groups from all the other different places. Go ahead and consider me all in on the Buffalo Sabres. I like the Sabres.

I like them to win it again. Congrats to them going up to O in our eyes, even though. these Canadians are not going to go down lightly. Golden Knights, Ducks, 9.30 p.m. Eastern. We know Ty will be up. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. We know Ty will be up for that entire thing. Ducks or Knights, who do you like? How do you like it, AJ? I mean, I like the Golden Knights. I've been riding with them since the beginning. I will continue. Jack Eichael and the boys will get it done. I love the Knights as well. Give me the Ducks. They got a lower access to their coach. I love everything about the ducks, especially them being at home up there. I think it's going to go, well, let's go to the NBA. Tonight on Prime. at Sixers. Knicks have been beating the hell out of everybody, the Hawks, then into the Sixers. Joel M. Bede gets hurt. That kind of changes the entire storyline. Spurs at wolves, one, one tie.

Ant Man, one into San Antonio, stole one. Wemby and the boys answered. Vassell did a trick shot in the middle of a game. AJ, who do you like in Knicks versus Sixers? You know what? I'm going to go with the Knicks here. M. Bede is out, correct? Yeah, a black symbol at the moment. question okay i'm taking i'm taking the nix i know kendrick thought the sixers were taking this one right i'm going to ride with the nicks here okay so you

you wanted to point out publicly that you're opposing kendrick perkins honestly it came out that way it did not mean it to come out that way i love perk by the way he's amazing he's outrageous action bronson needs maybe a once a week mike foss who was the connection between action bronson's

group and us really uh said this is both the best and worst potential booking I've been a part of? And I said, no, best, by far. We need more Action Brunson. I don't think everybody can pull off Action Brunson. But I like that Action Brunson's Action Brunsoning. So I think it's spectacular.

Do we have Shams on? Shams, Sharnia. Ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, Shams. No, we can't hear you. What you say? We can see your face.

What you say? I took my AirPods off. Hey, Shams, what you say? I took my AirPods off. My AirPods weren't working. Hey, Joelle Ambide, what's he doing the night? Is he playing? Are we, I think we read questionable is what we heard.

But should we assume that questionable means out, or should we assume questionable means in for Joelle Embed? I think right now it is a situation where he's going to probably end up going to the arena, warming up and then seeing how he feels. I can't tell you there's hope inside that Sixers building right now that he's going to be able to play, but they're not going to know with a guy like Joel Embed until he gets the arena,

sees how he feels not one-on-one, two-on-two-twenty. But with Joel Embed, it's always about how he feels. Okay, we appreciate it. How about Spurs, Timberwolves, anything we need to know about there? Aunt Edwards in, Iodosumo in right now. I mean, I think this is one of the most physical. and competitive back in fourth series. I think we're going to get, obviously,

game two was a blowout, but I think as it shifts back to Minnesota, I think we're going to be in for, I think, two very competitive games. Okay, next Ogen and Obey, Kendrick Perkins said, let's rest him, games three, and games four. I think you reported he's day-to-day with a hamstring. What is the actual diagnosis as we sit today?

Yeah, I think a lot of people look at a hamstring strain and say, well, whoa, whoa, it's not like a day-to-day situation. but I was told by multiple people that I trust around the situation that this is a tweak of the hamstring. It's considered to be on the minor side of hamstring strains. This is not a severe hamstring strain. So he's going through treatment today. We'll see if you can play today.

We'll see if you can play in game four if you can't play tonight. I think the hope is that this is going to be a game-to-game day-to-day thing, not a week-long thing, which is good news for the Knicks and OGN and Obie. But the good news for them, it's not considered to be. a serious strain and he's he's trying to play tonight okay all right well we appreciate the hell out of you shams you're even better when we can hear you ladies and gentlemen with the drive by senior NBA insider ds psalm shams yeah yeah shammer all right so you like the nix tonight yes i do and i think uh i agree with perk that uh oh g said sit out the next couple games for

sure hamstring's tough uh obviously we don't it looked bad i mean anytime you pull up like it's something like your body's not just doing that for no reason You can't, like, tough it out like it's an ankle spring. Like, you roll it your ankle or something. And he tried to, like, right here after he kind of tweaks it, he tries to die. Yeah, he's awesome. Yeah. Yeah.

We obviously are bummed out for him. But if the Sixers win tonight, then it gets him. Is he back, you know, because, wait a second. Do I want to take the Sixers tonight? No. Action Brunson. Give me the next. I like the next.

Bridges, too. Bridges. Gary for a little bridges. Bridges, Ben Stiller, I mean, Shredgs. This is coming to New York by show. Don't love that. You guys kind of took over our shit. We're out here in Indiana trying to stay away from these coastal elitists,

and all of a sudden we got Action Bronson acting like he's not a coastal elitist. That was not, he's not supposed to be that likable. This guy's a New York Nick fan. This guy is supposed to be hateable. And then Ben Stiller comes on and goes, I didn't think it was going to be a big deal. Honestly, I don't know what's big deal. I'm not even invited to the fucking MacGell. I'm trying to go with a friend.

It's like, Johnny. Are we kind of carrying the New York Knicks water over here because we're kind of becoming a fan of them? Bruce, what the hell is going on with this program over here? And is this partially because of you, you think? I will say yesterday when Triggs was on in a Knicks ball cap and we were FaceTime and Ben Stiller, I did think, wow, we are kind of doing it, supporting the New York Knicks a little bit. Action Bronson's the man. And Mitchell Robinson is back as well tonight.

He missed game two with an illness. He's back. So if Joel and B does not go, then we got two centers, and they got one in Andre Drummond, and that could become a potential issue that covers up OGB now. Okay, sounds good. I appreciate the optimism coming from the Knicks fans. Action Bronson knows there's a game tonight. I can't wait to see what his picks are.

I'm going with the Knicks as well plus a point in a half. Spurs at Timberwolves, how do you see this going, AJ? Who do you like? How do you like it? So I would not mind seeing Minnesota win this game, but with that being said, I think that Spurs will win and cover minus four to half. Yeah, I think Wembe loves going into that Minnesota. Timberwolves have not lost in Minnesota in like 14 straight or something like it.

I forget the number. Tough bar. Tough bar. And they're going to need about 30 out of Gobert. You're going to need 30 from eight. Who do you like? Who do you tell you? He'll get it.

I like four and a half. Tomby, who do you like? Which one? I like the Timberwolves here. It's kind of Spurs always win after a loss. It's just what happens, win and cover. I like T. Wolves at home. That place is going to be rocking the night.

all right i'll go with you guys i'm on spurs just want to get that out there okay foxy who do you like timber wolves home court advantage bruce who do you like i'm on spurs fuck although i do love julius randall i'm going timber wolves plus four and a half okay great working in the back there this week boys way to go good week boys the week boys graphic design boys way to go gdbs way way baby gbs Way to go out there. Talk to tell him good stories. Bill, way to go with you too. Hey, Bill. Zee, way to go, Zee. To our guests that stopped by, thank you so much. To everybody that sent me a text message telling me happy birthday, thank you so much. Okay. I would like this message right here to be my response to your text message.

I've, all week I've tried to slot some time like, okay, that's when I'll go through the text messages in respond and say thank you so much for the messaging. And then all of a sudden something comes up. Pretty big. You don't need to. We're in the middle of a gigantic up to something season right now. This might be the biggest up to something season of all time, actually. Probably. Like, actually. It's a lot.

A lot has happened very quickly here. I mean, we have found ourselves in quite an up to something season. I mean, we are prime up to something season. We have prepared for this up to something season that's kind of dropped out of nowhere here. It's a lot of phone calls. A lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of, a lot of. Shout out to the graphics, making graphics for these phone calls. Shout out to graphic makers on our phones making.

Sure. Graphic designs. You've seen some of the work come in through the group text, AJ? I have. Very, very professional. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. We love that we're alive right now.

We're very thankful that we get to do this for a living. And this is a massive up-to-something season. And we hope we get a little bit of grace after this up-to-something season is announced by people that maybe followed along for a while, please. But on that note, we're so thankful for all of. You! It's been a hell of a week for us. We hope that you feel the same way.

You know, spring, summer, sometimes you can say it's a little bit boring, but I think every morning we wake up, very, very excited to celebrate sports alongside all of you. Sports are up into the right, and we're a tiny little piece of it. Big piece of it is because I'll love, you take your time and energy to invest in sport the greatest thing

that's ever been existed. We appreciate you all so much for allowing us to do this for a living. Have the greatest weekend of your life. We'll see on every reaction Monday. So many things are about to happen over the weekend. By Monday, we have a whole new world potentially with aliens playing on the D-line

for the Indianapolis Colts. Great work, you too. You great work. Great work, AJ. Great work. Where to go, Ogle. Happy birthday. A goal.

Happy birthday week. Ago. Thank you to my daughter, McKenzie. Thank you for that. And to tie in their family. Yeah. Be your friend, tell the friends, have nice.

It might change your life. We're in this thing together. Thank. You. Team on me, team on three. One, two, three. Goodbye.