The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1552 - Iman Shumpert, Erik Johnson, Dan Orlovsky, Ronda Rousey

Episode Date: May 13, 2026

On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk and the boys recap Pat’s trip to New York for the Disney Upfronts and cover everything happening in the NBA & NHL Playoffs along with all the latest NFL news surrounding Schedule Release week and College GameDay announcing the first two GameDay games of the season. In the first hour, we are joined by NBA Champion Iman Shumpert, who tells us what the New York Knicks & Thunder have in common, Wemby’s dominant start to Game 5 and his thoughts on the elbow he gave to Naz Reid, what he thinks LeBron’s future might look like, and more. Also in the first hour, 12 year NFL Vet & ESPN Analyst Dan Orlovsky joined us to discuss his cryptic morning tweets, dove into how he views NFL Quarterback Tiers, and much more. In the second hour, we are joined by Stanley Cup Champion, 18-year NHL Veteran, Erik Johnson joins the program to talk about what make the Avalanche & Hurricanes so dominant, the evolution of Defensive play on display in the playoffs, and more. Also in the second hour we are joined by the first female UFC Champion in history, former WWE Superstar Ronda Rousey to chat about her fight this Saturday against Gina Carano on Netflix, how she’s mentally approaching training differently now, and 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

people and welcome to our humble abode the thunder dome on this sports wednesday may 13 2006 this program begins now sports are the absolute greatest and uh i'm fresh off a trip to new york city and i'm going to be honest i had time my life over there hell yeah okay i had some carbone zz club night one wrapped it up in amelios with brother mario had some incredible italian got a chance to see incredible people do incredible things. I'll tell you, New York, the city of never sleeps. Had a lot of question marks on what it was going to be going in there. Had a wonderful time.

And I appreciate everybody that I got a chance to see you over there at the Disney upfronts. What a wild thing. That's a suit Super Bowl. That is what that is. A place that you would think I would be allergic to. Certainly not the most comfortable place for me to go to. Just because of, I don't know, never really had good relationship with many of those types. A lot of love in the room.

People were very kind, had a lot of drinks with folks, a couple jacking diets with folks. I mean, we're really doing it. I appreciate the opportunity. Peter Herb Street was obviously there. Coach Saban was incredible. Reese Davis, fantastic. Desmond Howard, he had one of the coolest hats and glasses that I've ever seen in my entire life. I mean, it was just a, it was a good time right there as the big pop was happening.

They did a huge announcement that week one game day, bat and roo. Hell yes. Hey, obviously, Lane Kiffin's day. debut with LSU. Week two, Texas. That's a huge deal. Archmanning, obviously, getting the boys in there for Ohio states travel back down to Austin. Remember last year, Texas traveled up to Buckeye World.

This year, Buckeye World traveling south to Austin. Game Day, weeks one and week two, have been confirmed and announced that they will be at LSU and at Texas. Week three, though, still no announcement on where college game day is going. Okay. I will say this. There was a time in my life yesterday where I thought we were definitely announcing only that we were going to LSU Ole Miss.

When I heard we were going to be announcing game days, I was like, all right, let's just do the one. Let's just go ahead to announce it. We're going to go to that. Week three, two, we can all schedule ahead a little bit. Hey, this is coming right around a corner. We're going to be down there. It's going to.

Obviously, this is the game, this offseason, that every college football fan is eager to watch. And we know everybody in Mississippi is excited to welcome someone back home, especially after every new interview drops. So I thought that was going to be the announcement. Then before we go up there, I'm told, hey, we're announcing week one and week two. I was like, what about week three? Because I know that's where we're sitting right there.

They're like, we're not announcing week three. I'm like, who's not announcing week three? Like, we've been told not to it. Just not week one or week two. So obviously, Herb Street hears them tell me that 10 minutes before we go up there. And Herbie goes, you're not going to say that, right? And I go, nope, I'm not saying anything. I look at Coach Saban.

I go, don't say anything about week three of college game day, LSU Ole Miss. And Coach James goes, that's the only one anybody wants, right, isn't it? And I'm like, don't say it up there on stage. We've been told strictly, do not say it. Look at Des, same thing. Des, we're not saying it. And he goes, what? I go, we're not talking LSU Ole Miss game day, definitely happening week three.

We're not going to do it. Des goes, oh, yeah, yeah, no, we're not. So as soon as it happens, Reese looks over at me. Okay, after week's one and week two is announced, Reese looks directly over at me. I'm reading what the prompter is for what Reese is saying. They got a 40-foot prompt in the back of this thing. Everybody's just reading it.

I had no idea what's happening. Reese not reading it, by the way. Shout out, Reese. But also, I was not supposed to come to the next. I see the name that it's supposed to go to next in the back of the room. And Reese goes, Pat, what do you think about that? Literally, after saying week one and week two. And I'm like, oh, my dude, Reese knew.

And I'm like, week three, we're definitely going to be an Ole Miss LSU or whatever, you know. And there was a good little pop in the back. And then I get to the back. And then I'm like, why are we talking about there? Like, just right now, it's probably not the right time because how hot it is or whatever it is. Like, now is the time. Yeah. We're going down to Baton Rouge week one.

I cannot wait to get down there. Suck that. See, that's kickoff college football season. Yes, it is. Remember? That's another situation where 10 minutes before I go on that stage, hey, please do not say, do not entice them to do the whole suck that. You got it.

You just put this in here, though, right? Before I go up there, I think that's not the right decision. I've been with me a long time. A block, they all hit that thing. That place is going to be awesome. Yes, yes. I mean, I started getting like yesterday, as they say, this is where our announcement, and I probably should have known this is where we're going to head week one or whatever,

but I just took me back to the last time we were down there, and it's like, holy hell, I can't believe that is what football season delivers, and I can't believe that's how it's going to start. Then week two down in Austin, you got the Buckeyes traveling down to, I mean, those two communities, coming together down there. Weather's going to be nice still, very nice down there, obviously. It's going to be special.

And then that week three game back, game days, we don't know. I'm sure. Okay, we do not know. Some other good ones. We do not know if game day will be heading down as you will miss. Yeah, I think Auburn's taken on. Georgia, right? Yeah, and I think Florida State has a game.

Florida's got one too, yeah. Yeah, there's a couple other options. But what we're saying is yesterday was a nice reminder. The college football is so spectacular. Yeah, yeah. Get a chance to be around Des and Reese and Kirk and coach, obviously, and just catch up and then they're running clips. And Des did a voiceover that was like fantastic.

It's like, I cannot wait for football season. On that note, we're lucky to be here. We're thankful to be here. Thank you to everybody that took care of us yesterday and the day before that in New York. Peter Schreger is the king of New York. If you need anything, you call Shregs. Love that. Okay, that is what you need to do.

I was just walking around. It's like, hey, here's Shreg's in the city. And he knows everybody. Okay, he knows everybody. We were in Amelios last night. They got 10 tables. I don't know how they're open. They are.

There's a line all the way down the street. Mario, super handsome kid took care of us last night. Straight out of back. Hey, he's wearing a suit. The whole thing, Karats. I'm so Italian. Shregs hooked that up. I mean, it was just like Shreg's is the plug seemingly for everything.

So we appreciate you, Peter Schreger. How we appreciate you, Peter Schreger. The Toxic Table is here at Boston Connor. And one half of the hammer. Cowboys AP tone. Ty Schmidt, we love your brother. Congrats to you and the family. Can't wait to see you soon, even though Kirk.

Cheese, Derby. Yeah. Bull from a guy who takes six months off after the college football. Whoa, he used to do four hours of radio. That's true. He did, I mean, it was something. I'm sitting there next to him, and he's like, let's talk about this. It seems like he did want to talk about it.

Yeah, he did. He had the thoughts. He'll do that. It had never really popped up for him to have the convo, and he said, I'm happy. We're here. What's he going to do at home? Well, that's the thing. Herbie is addicted to work, though, we think.

Like, he does take now, he's got some months on the beach now. 30 years. But he was in a four-hour radio show, I think, 6 to 10 a.m. local radio for like 22 years or something like that. I forget what it was, while doing Game Day and everything else. So I think he has just always been kind of a busy body. I think he's always been that. And I think his wife always, like, super badass. So I assume Kirk comes in, what's going on?

She goes, get out of my face. Let me know if we need anything for the baby. You know, so I think Herbie thought his best case, scenario was potential. Let me go ahead and work and then everybody else will figure it out. But him basically just saying, what are we doing as a species? Get your asses back to work out there. We'd like to say, once again, to Ty, how are much time you need. How much time you need. And we will certainly be excited when Ty gets back. We would assume next week. That has kind of been standard down here. But there's never been formal rules.

No. There's never been a standard. There is a standard. There is a standard. standard is the standard. So when Ty comes back next week, we will celebrate the shit out of him, just like we have been with his family. And we'll call Kirk too immediately and say, hey, Ty's back. Nine-year NFL vet. Darius J. Butler is here. I've been loving the Compton Country Club hats. Different colors.

Good logo. Huge golf tournament this weekend, D. Huge golf tournament this weekend. Cannot wait. I've been shuffling around my fantasy lineup for sure. Been looking at some of the other guys. But yeah, it's a big one this week. I can't wait to talk about it a little bit later today.

Welcome back, man. How did you have fun up there in New York? I said this earlier. I don't know what my New York Minute is. I know people say it. Yesterday was a New York year. We, I spent a year in New York yesterday. That is actually what it was.

And it was spectacular. And Big City Bruce, hey. Big City Bruce in the suit. He was going through his subway. Going to go that way here. He would do a lot of these as we're walking around the town. Watching him just kind of get back into his thing with the suit on. Because we're also with Foss.

Sure. Foss never dresses like super nice, had a fashionable dress-upy thing on, them in the subway doing their thing. We might have won up 200 steps. So the subway is down in Earth. To get out of there, there's an escalator that goes like this. It is like straight up, right side of escalator, you stand. Okay, everybody's standing.

Single file line. Yeah. Okay. We got it out there. And don't be a fat ass either. Because on the left side, everybody's moving. Yeah. So nobody was moving on this one.

because the thing was straight up. It was like actually straight up and down. We were very late to something. So we marched that thing. I'll tell you, if that was a part of my everyday life, that would make me much. New York is very active city. I mean, these people are walking.

It walked fast too. That was the most walking I've done in a long, long time. We were walking all right of Madison Square Garden. Then we're over here, Hudson Yards, and then we're over here at the Soho House. Was it a Soho House? Saw John Light Was Alma. He was the Soho House.

The Pets. Members only. How was that so awesome? Yeah, I thought that was members only. Yeah, well, I'm not a member, but maybe. So I was shocked you needed Shregs because you had Bruce with you. Well, Bruce Brown, I will say. Bruce Brown knew his way.

Bruce Brown, I don't think spend a majority of his life potentially meeting the people inside all these. Okay. Okay. I think that's where Shrags has a little upper hand. Shregs does know his way around, but also he gets to place, gets in place, and then he's Shregers in there. And then everybody, you know, he's electric. He knows everybody everywhere. Bingo.

He's a magnet. And then all of a sudden, hey, what are you need? You're a piece. He wants to slice. I got a place. You go, hey, you want to buy. We got Ty Amelio. He's got a carbone.

Yeah, Shrekge's dealing. I don't know how many days he could have done that for us. Enough. I don't know if we would have stayed for 10 days. Would he have been able to do that every single night with how many things are in New York City? A lot of stuff. Potentially, but certainly a two-day span. Shragge, you're the man.

We appreciate you. Shout out to everybody that took care of us. The NFL for their hospitality yesterday. It was a dream. Now, sports continued to deliver. You know, we said yesterday, literally. Hey, this is a huge game for the huge bond. It is Wemby.

France's alien, okay, was put in a situation where, you know, Perks said his game two was a must win. But it really did feel like every single game in this particular series is a must-win series. Wembe did not get any more suspension other than getting kicked out of the game in the second quarter. There was no fine either. That had some people who, I don't really know their angle pissed off.

Darius J. Botherer. It's ridiculous. Should have been fine, maybe. It should have definitely been fine. I don't mind him not being suspended. He is a superstar. Superstars do get treated differently. He played and he dominated.

Yeah, he certainly did. 18 points in the first quarter. He went absolutely crazy. And then he would continue to do as such. Wembe leads the spurs to an ass beating of the Timberwolves, 126 and 97. Now, you would think maybe this shifts the momentum towards a big Wembe, San Antonio Spur title.

But let's not forget that we're talking about LeBron James that were playing basketball game because that Oklahoma City team just does. stop. It feels like there's a couple teams in the NBA playoffs and in the NHL playoffs that have been head and shoulders above everybody else. And there's been great parody kind of at that second tier.

But in the playoffs, it's a war of attrition. Who can stay healthy? Obviously, the big layoffs for the Knicks and for the Oklahoma City Thunder and over there in hockey where the canes are getting like a week. That can help you. Long time. Or can make you rusty. Sometimes. Joining us now,

ladies and gentlemen, he's a man who played in the NBA forever. He's former Dancing with the Stars champion. I saw all of them yesterday. Shout out. I saw the entire dance with Stars crew. Robert Irwin. Okay, great Ozzy.

Oh, the man. Great energy, great juice. The whole crew. I know. I do it. They were there. Julianne. Julianne Huff was there.

Carlton. Yeah. He was there. Derek Huff was there. The man. I mean, it was American Horror Story was right over here. Okay. Lundy Lownd walked him.

What? What? Yeah. Freaky Friday. To Olivia Rodriguez. I completely forgot about that. Of course. Completely forgot about that.

Big time asshole, I'm 39 years old. I apologize for everything that I'm about to say, but I do think I was super positive. Okay, walking off stage after we did the game day thing. Kelly Rhodes was there. I thought he did a good job. Good to see him. Still got a black guy. Oh, wow.

He really got a pun. Really? It was good to see him. We moved on. As we walk off, there is this five badasses women sit, guitar, bass, just clearly a band. Yeah. Sitting backstage. Very dark though backstage, okay? Big area, very dark. Walk by, catch corner of eye. Okay. Actually, stop back up. Holy shit. You guys look so cool. I have no, I am so excited to watch you guys do whatever you're about to go do. They said, thank you. And then the bassist told me, you better. And I was like, all right, I will actually. Crushed it. I don't know how many songs they played 100. It felt like they were playing forever. It was, that was an incredible show.

yesterday. It was an incredible show. She's got bangers. Yeah, it really. It was awesome. It was awesome. We should not have been there. But on that note, a man that should have been there. Former NBA champion. NBA analyst, superstar. Great to have them back. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm on. Jimper. Yay, my gosh. How you doing, Shump? Good to see you, man. How's life over there? It's good, man. You know, I'm in LA. You know, sunshine. It's a lot going on. It's all right. I'll tell you what. Over here in America, too, there's a sun coming out. You know, we're starting to get spring. I started getting a little springy over here.

New York City was like 65 degrees walking around. It was, it's a special time. Obviously, and this means the NBA playoffs are cooking right now. Saw Jaylen Brunson. He's like 6'2. You saw him? He's taller. I thought he was 5-4-5-5.

Well, compared to everyone else. Yeah, that is not the case. He is 6-2. He's big dude. I did not know. Saw Cooper Flagg as well. Big guy. Giant, dude.

These guys. The New York Knicks, obviously, have a little bit of rest rate here. on. And I was just talking about it. Oklahoma City also has a little bit of rest. In hockey, the Carolina Hurricanes have a little bit of rest here in the series. And, you know, anytime you have a best of seven, if you get a sweep, obviously you get the job done quicker, do you think about

rust in these moments? Do you think about rest? Like, how do you maintain rhythm, if you will? And I know I brought up the NHL, but I'm going to continue to do it. Like, the goalie over there for the Carolina Hurricanes has been standing on his head. Just standing unbelievable seeing it. Now he's away from it for like a week and a half. That's like something that could happen. In basketball,

obviously, you can get into a rhythm and get hot. Super long time. Is this good or bad, do you think? How should we be judging these teams, Eamon, as we continue through? Well, it could be good or bad. I think that the Knicks and OKC both do a great job of just making sure that they have a rhythm. I think whatever you have to do in practice, the three-on-threes, the four-on-fours, making sure you're doing full-course stuff and keeping guys sharp and getting shots up. But the playoffs, the best ability is availability.

So with guys knowing that we did our job in advance and we got our work, win that we got, we need to make sure that health is number one on the list. So it's about getting treatment. It's about getting in the weight room. It's about staying sharp, watching film and improving yourself in other ways rather than going out there physically trying to stay in a rhythm and stay upbeat. Sometimes it's good to just say, hey, we're just going to do maintenance work. We're going to make sure we get our conditioning in, but we're not going to do as much five on five because you want to just make sure you're healthy going into the next series. Remember, OG Ananovi had a hamstring in game two. Didn't play games.

Game three, game four, gets another week. He's probably going to be healthy, and he's been described as one of the most important pieces of the Knicks. Let's go to the West. Oklahoma City Thunder seem like a machine. Anything you see last night from Wemby and his Spurs team to make you think maybe this is going to be the Spurs year in the West, or is this seemingly inevitable with the Oklahoma City Thunder, you think, Eamont?

It's going to be a challenge either way. I think one thing that you can learn from Minnesota, which we'd have to take away the first quarter from last game because Wemby just kind of had his way. in that first quarter, that first half. But Minnesota has played him tough, and they played him tough in a variety of ways. They've done the beat-em-up tactic

where they've just putting elbows in him after every play that I'm making sure he hits the floor. It's becoming playoff basketball, but it's been cool to see Wendy invite that challenge. He got up clapping. They made him roll his ankle. He still got up clapping, encouraged that no matter what y'all do,

this is my path. That's encouraging. It's just when you look at the OKC thunder, it is not just Wimby that's got to go out here and play well. They put pressure on your guards every night to defend. They put pressure on your guards to be able to handle the ball and not make any mental mistakes, not let them get out there. So when the spurs are going to be looking at OKC, they're going to be looking at a mirror as far as their back court goes. And Chet doesn't, I'm sure he knows that, you know, Wimby's got an advantage on him. But I don't think that he's willing to just let things go.

I think they still have that little antics that they have from playing overseas. They still got that going on. And that's what the people signed up to see. Yeah, you talk about looking at a mirror. I mean, those two at some point are going to have to get along because there's going to be like similar tailors and shit on that they're going to have to deal with that whole thing. But for now, it's going to be great to watch them absolutely battle. Hey, what are the OGs around the NBA?

And what do you think locker rooms around the NBA thought about Wemby with the L. though. I thought it was Wemby saying, hey, I'm done with the shits. That's what I thought. Without a doubt. Okay. How do you all respond to that? Is there group texts about this situation from Wembe? Was there? Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead.

Oh, yeah. We've been talking about that. But what's wild is it's players understand the rules. And we understand what we're supposed to complain about in the moment to get the call. If you're in the locker room, yeah, that's a flagrant two. He should be ejected. the next game he shouldn't even play. You're just going off the rulebook. But in all our heart of hearts,

if we're allowed to throw a bow two, we wouldn't care. And what I really want to get back to is understanding that did we all forget that usually the seven-footer, the seven-footer, the seven-foot, whoever the biggest guy is, you probably shouldn't poke the bear

unless you're willing to go in there and lose some teeth. Like, I remember going to the basket a bunch of the times when I was, my rookie year, especially, jumping off one foot, either leg, and getting thrown into the cameras. Just because they're like, we're not going to keep letting you get hands on the rim, young fellow. I'm sorry.

It's the same thing when dealing with somebody like Wemby. It's just he has such a skinny physique that we don't think about it as he's strong. It's like he just has long limbs. I'm sure that he still can crab, grivel and, you know, cave somebody's chest in. He's not just going to keep allowing people to impose their will on him. He's a grown-ass man. So I didn't see such a problem. I didn't think he was like a malicious person.

He's sending a message. It's just not if Reed happens to not be tall enough to catch that bow in more of the chest area than the face. He's just so tall. He didn't mean to hit him in the face. He meant to hit him just not in the chin. You know what I mean? You think you meant to give him right to the chest. I didn't even think about this.

Probably a sternum shot. This is supposed to be a sternum shot to back up off and be. Okay. Yeah, that would make a lot more sense, actually, and his jaw just happened to get in the way. Yeah, Dave. Yeah. He was 7-4 for a long time. Okay.

He hit too many. Chet probably won't be a fucking eating a test. He was off balance. He was falling, too. He just, you know, turn it back, trying to clear a little space. Look, chicken wing. Look, chicken wing. And Nasree, and Nasree, to give him credit, he was the true professional about it,

didn't make sure that, you know, that play didn't keep going on and on and on. He didn't egg it on. He didn't cry. He didn't go out here in interviews and start begging for more. I respect everything about the way he came out for this last game and said, hey, man, I'm going to play you tough. I definitely remember the chin shot. He definitely had plenty of plays after the play where he threw a little extra one at Wemby.

And Wembe honestly kept it in all fairness. He kept it real and said, you know what? I hit you in the chops. I expected that. You know what I mean? I love that about that. And then the referees, I'm going to clap it up for them, too. Yeah, that's right.

Because they just sat there and watched it. Yeah, y'all sat there and watched the whole thing on four. I love it. That's playoff basketball. It's supposed to go up a level. They're supposed to hate each other for 48 minutes. And y'all allowed us as fans to enjoy that. So shout out to the referees from last night.

Yeah, it does it feel a little old school, doesn't it? It feels a little old school. It's not about it. You go to the wait room. Yeah, go to the weight room. Yeah. There's no jersey swapping. Yeah, there's no jersey swapping around here.

We're throwing it. right now. The NBA's got a little in the NFL and then you talk about the refs. The NBA refs letting kind of an H.O. Ref like, yeah, he's going to have to get him back when, yeah. Let's know tonight. Nause is going to do something. We know that's going to happen right. Yeah, something. Yeah, something.

And then we'll tell him immediately afterwards. Okay. That's it. All right, here we go. Real talk. Yeah, let's get to hear you. I like that. Hey, the NBA kind of swinging a hot back. Yeah. Kind of old school. Baby. Yeah, yeah, it is. Hey, who's the Lamb Beer? Yeah, we're looking out for the new Lamb beer coming through. I can already see him getting excited.

Let's go to the East, shall we, with a man who likes the new school game with limited contact. Yeah, game five tonight in Detroit. This series, I hear you NBA guys always say the series doesn't start until you still won on the road. Both teams have been holding it down home court. Game five pisses are favored by four and a half points.

How do you see this game and the rest of this series going? Well, it depends. It's going to be interesting to see how the cabs respond. I think, excuse me, the Cavs have figured out that Donovan Mitchell throughout a game can keep you train on the tracks. I've said it before because of Donovan's ability to score the ball in so many different ways. You can trust him throughout the game, but it becomes extremely difficult to set your team up for success, not knowing which way he wants to go or what he wants to do at the end of game. It's much easier as a player on a team to say, hey, our guy has the ball and he's either going to get to the left elbow or the right elbow for this shot.

But I now know all the cuts and all the screens I could set in, you know, on the court without getting into his way, without messing up spacing, without bringing my man to him for a double. I think that has to be James Hardin's job. They figured that out the last couple of games. James Harden also figured out if I have more FGMs than TOs, then we're going to win the game. It's a numbers game. You know what I'm there? As long as he gets up field goal attempts and puts them up there high enough with enough art, they'll land somewhere around the rim and Jared Allen can go out there and be a responsible adult.

Evan Mowbly can go out here and be the footer that he was always meant to be. Yeah, it's like you know how to do it. It's just at the end of games, especially, you have to be in that same position as a driver if you're James Harden to say, hey, I can get to any spot on the floor. I can make anything happen and I'm going to keep my turnovers down. Donovan Mitchell, still allowed to be aggressive. You can go out there and have three or four turnovers. It doesn't bother me much. When James Hardin takes care of the ball and make sure that they're successful, especially at the end of games, this cast team is dangerous.

But they only can go as far as James Hardin can figure it out at the end of the game. James on crazy a couple nights ago. It is still in there. And then afterwards, the interview of him saying, what chatter? Exactly. Trolling everything? Yeah. Awesome.

I love it. I love it. I love it. And I hope he shows it because a cavalier's run against the Knicks would be fantastic. It's going to put me in a bad spot. Don't he tell me. Yeah, yeah. We'll have your ass on TV.

Hey, we're going to put you on for two hours straight, make you piss off everybody. Got to get past the stones. Let's talk about the easy. Yeah. The number one of raw seed is the stones, obviously figuring it out. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Sean, obviously the Knicks are hot. They were shooting incredible.

And then you have, like we just talked about, calves and pistons left. Now, when you look at the odds, the favorites are still to win the title, are the Spurs and OKC before you get to anyone in the East. Do you think that's right? Like, do you think whoever comes out of the West should be the favorite? And does anyone in the East have a chance matchup-wise against either the Spurs or OKC? I mean, it's a clear reason why the favorite would be in the West.

The one wrinkle is prior to us all making these playoff predictions and everything that was going on when we, right after All-Star Break, when we was all putting in our picks of what we thought this would be, the Knicks decided that they were going to play through Carl Anthony Towns. And honestly, it intrigued me because it calls for teams to, have to adjust. There's one thing to have to adjust to a guard,

but you have a team full of guards that can defend. But they've never had to deal with quite anything that goes through. Besides Yokich, they would have to, they would have had to deal with Yokic. But I think

the way the Knicks are playing, it kind of makes the Yokch of the East, so to speak. I'm not saying there to say. I'm just saying playing through him, him being able to make the late pass. I think it becomes a different matchup than we once thought if OKC has to see the Knicks. I think that would be the best viewership. I'll tell you that.

It would be the best chance that they keep at. We know if the Knicks are in, the viewership is going to be up, Emon. We saw people everywhere. We were walking around New York. There's people everywhere. I mean, there ain't nowhere with nobody. No. Everywhere.

Everybody. It's a big apple. I just get nervous. I get nervous when I see Detroit, even though Detroit and Cleveland can match up, when you start saying matching up with the West, they have those lapses in time that they can't score. Detroit has those lapses in time that they don't know kind of what to do.

And they only can live through Cade. And if Cade starts turning the ball over against the OKC, against the San Antonio, it's just lights out really quick. The way you can come back in the east is not that simple in the West. So when I look at it, I look at the matchup and say, I hope that the Knicks have to, if it's okay, see, I hope the Knicks have to do that matchup, because that's what I want to see. And then vice versa, with the Spurs coming out, I would hope that you get to see it against Detroit because I think that matchup would be good. I like what you just did there.

You put a lot of teams into the finals. You did good. Yeah, that was a good job. As good TV. I'm just saying, as a basketball fan. Yeah, as a basketball fan. Hey, listen, into other basketball fans, I do see your team in the finals.

That was an incredible work right there. You know, it didn't rule anybody out. No. We love to see Spurs, make it. If they pissed in the big group. Hey, I'd love to see Ant Man. Ant Man just sent me shoes. Hey, hey, thank you, Edman.

Shoes, man. I got the shoes. Ant Man, sent me like Timpair shoes, man. Make sure y' y'all go get the AE's dog. Yeah. I got them Timberwood blue them. Yeah, what size? What size are you, man?

What size? I'm a 14, 14 to walk, 15 to hoop. You know what I'm saying? He sent me both, too, just in case I want to mix it. Oh, yeah, I don't know. He never know. Yeah, I never know. Size 12, and size 12 over here.

12, 12, 12, 12, 12. 12, 12. 12, I think everyone's, 11s in the bag. I think there's an 8 and a half, too. Gumpy would love some. 11 to walk, 12 to hoop. Okay, that was really, Gumpy. Double son.

Yeah, yeah, 13. Okay. Speaking of hooping for a lump. time and obviously you know him very well there's a wild conversation happening right now that I just can't in any any way could that be the ending of that particular story go ahead con man yeah Sean we know Jordan's your gopal LeBron got you your ring and it feels as though the dialogue right now helps you get you help it feels like the dialogue right now just is completely ridiculous this whole entire you know is LeBron done

is this it and this is ESPN so obviously we have to bring it up are we not actually though like we're not at we're not contract because I just walked out of them Disney actually keep keep reading a telepropter but we don't have a teleprone please no it just wouldn't make sense for us to talk basketball see it's not a problem for if you can see it's a program so we know for life it's just a TV I get all my lines way before the show starts No, that is not how this goal. But if we're talking about LeBron, is it ridiculous to think like, hey, one, this guy is not going to step away without a retirement tour? Two, he deserves one for everything he's done for basketball, for the game.

And is it more so a conversation of, do you think LeBron's going to go back to the Lakers? Do you think he might kind of go year 24 somewhere else, maybe back to Cleveland? What is kind of your whole entire read on the LeBron situation? because it does feel as though his time in the Lakers is done, especially with them having to pay a lot of guys. Yeah, I think that with the cap, well, I'll say this first. As far as the retirement tour goes, I don't think LeBron's focus is at all on a retirement tour.

I don't think he needs one. I think that you can grow to appreciate LeBron's career in a number of ways. He knows that. He knows he's one of the most visible people to walk the earth. it's not something that he's going to come back so that he can be celebrated. I really don't like that narrative getting pushed. I think that if he comes back,

it's going to be because he smells like, I mean, he feels like he can smell another championship in the future. LeBron is a winner. He's a person that always wanted to be around winning. He preaches a winning culture all the time. You don't have to like the way he does it all the time. But that's what his goal is, and that's what's in mind at all times.

So I can't imagine him going back to the Lakers because one, I think the cap space is off and I don't think he needs to take a pay cut after proven to the rest of the world. Age is nothing but a number. And he still can be one of the most efficient players in our game for him to be able to go out there and, you know, average above 20,

still be able to rebound, jump on the floor for a loose ball, Yeah, I don't think he should take a pay cut. And with that being said, I think that, you know, if you can, you know, figure it out with the payment plan in Cleveland, you know, why not? Okay. All right. If you can figure it out even more, go to go to state play with Steph Curry,

because I ain't going to lie. I can't act like watching them playing USA wasn't just like, wow, that was great basketball. Wow. They can get KD up there too probably if they wanted. You can get the Olympic team. You can get the Olympic team. You don't want it. Hey, remember, we're watching Olympic games, you know, and we're up early,

and it would turn into Kevin Durant, hitting 27 straight points. Yep. You know, whenever he wanted to just go ahead and take a game of it. And then Steph going crazy. LeBron doing his thing. Draymond's in there, setting picks, Schengel has said. Jimmy Buckets. Oh, yeah, Jimmy's coming.

That's too much. That's too much fire, pal. Why don't you go play? Put those hands on. Get your ass back in there. or maybe get another ring. Hey, man, listen, that's it. You know, I just need a visco shot of two.

Go to tap the knees real quick. Get it up, man. They know, they can call me. I never retired back. I don't retire. It's either they called me or they didn't. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

Did you do a big three or anything like that? Have you ever played any other? No, no, no, no. I haven't. I haven't yet. Would you? Do people talk about that? Because it feels like we've seen a lot of NBA guys go over there.

Do who? Yeah, people do. Yeah, I do. I just, I was literally supposed to do some, you know, some health stuff. and get a surgery and didn't want to get it and then just messed up my timeline to play in it. At some point, I'll get it done

and go out there and play. Okay, so you're going to be flying into big three at some point. That's cool. Any other news that we need to forget here, Eamon? Are we doing anything? No, man, they just need to watch the Shump Street Pied. You know, every Monday we're doing the Shump Street Pob, baby. That's all. We talk at basketball. The playoffs is on. I am unimportant.

You're the best. Ladies and gentlemen, great from the Shump. Emot and Shum. Yeah, Shum. I like that. Shump Street's a good name. Yeah, great. It ain't by me.

It's about the basketball. Yeah. I love that. Let's give the sports. Sports. Him talking about LeBron, and he's saying the same thing everybody else is saying.

Cleveland, because I don't think if he was to play one more year, just put on a random jersey would be weird. Like, that would be a weird thing to do. And now, who knows if he's only playing one more year? We saw him this year. He looked unbelievable. And who knows if he's playing at all.

I mean, he has earned that right. He's 41 years old. But it's like if he was to put on a Cleveland Cavalier's jersey again and go back with Donovan Mitchell and maybe take them over the hump again. That'd be a great way to kind of wrap up an entire story if you were LeBron James. And this has been a movie, obviously, since the beginning.

He's been there, obviously. I think the cookies thing kind of soured the Miami heat. He's always wanted to play with stuff. Sure his wife loves me. That's what if he was going to go to Golden State, I think he would put, I think it would be multiple years. I think that would be a two-year thing, I think personally. I don't think you'd want to just do a one-year added New Jersey,

personally, just from the LeBron. This is me as fan watching. nothing about nothing. They just signed Steve Kerr to another two-year-dealer. Yeah. Okay, so. Steph is, well, I think Steph's on the same timeline. Probably two years, yeah.

Yeah, so. Oh. And Steph's never been swept. So if he goes there, then he probably won't get swept. Braun going up to Golden State and just going. That was a shot. That was a shot. I was just talking about the positives of going.

That was a shot. Tony. It was an unnecessary shot, Tony. I didn't even hear what you're saying, because my mind just immediately went to LeBron James going up to where all those billion-dollar companies are created up there. and just becoming a percentage owner of all of them. Rich Paul bouncing his way around the, what is that?

So, Scott on Valley up there. And you shake the amount of, this guy would be a bazillionaire if he was to go up there. Not Steph Curry isn't. The Steph Curry is as well. I think that's one of the benefits of being up there. But LeBron, one of the most savvy business people, obviously Michael Jordan's shoes are the most savvy business move. Well, time shout to David Falk.

I just watched something with him in there in the entirety. But like Rich Paul would figure out a way, okay, to figure out gold. the state's area, not just on the court, but also off it. And if he was to be the guy that could just kick that thing out to Steph, I mean, LeBron loves passing the ball. That is why people judge him against Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan would take that shot at him. It's like, well, LeBron actually, he, like views himself kind of as he got a little

Magic Johnson. He thinks he's a little bit. Yeah, we know he's six, nine and can just kind of run over anybody anytime he wants. But he likes the show. Him kicking to Steph and then Steph hitting them all turning and running at the same time. Like, that would be a show. Jimmy should be healthy by then. Porzengis is still on the roster, I believe.

Go, I'm pulling for this all of a sudden. Pacers, too. Okay, let's not talk. I don't want to see him on another team, man. I don't want to see another jersey. I kind of do. I think it's kind of sweet. I can't see a one-year jersey.

That's a weird thing. That just doesn't feel like a good ending. Absolutely. Unless they win a title, I guess. Yeah, and I do think it would be a multi-year thing, but like staying in the West and, granted, if he goes to the Warriors, they become probably one of the top, favorites but the West is just so

stack like I and I don't want this that's probably still at least third best but like if you were to go to the Knicks how cool that would be like we're talking about by far the most crazed fan base in the NBA I think we see that every single time they play like if you were to go play at the Mecca I think that would be really

cool Cleveland will be cool too I think Miami would be cool to like going back to his old teams yeah Pacers I don't know probably's number one spot but like one of those spots I can see Boston as well and I and I'm being dead serious just because of what Shump just said, like, winning culture, all that stuff. Like, Joe Missoula and everything, he's given praise both to the sun and moon, I'm sure,

but to Joe Missoula as well, just about how, you know. He's giving praise at the Temple of the Sun. Okay, that's what I'm talking about? Yeah, I'm sorry. The Temple of the Moon. I've been there. No follow. Takata, Mexico.

Shets in Tibet. Is this Joe? You follow. This Missoula? He's bogeyboarding. Crocodile. Oh, oh, okay, see. 18 degrees.

It's hard for me to get on the same page with it. I face time. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. I don't want to sound braggadocious, but I've had, this is what I'm saying. New York,

a year, New York here yesterday. I faced time with Action Brunson yesterday. Okay. I had a couple drinks, had his phone number, cold face timed Action Brunson. Let's see.

Yeah, why not? He answered. He was with a jazz band. He said, I'm doing jazz. I said, of course you are. Yes.

I started laughing. I said, are you guys playing? He goes, yeah, let me play you something. Puts the phone down, okay? A full jazz band starts playing. He has a microphone. In a studio or is his apartment?

I assume it was a studio. There was a lot of music. There was a lot of, I mean, we're talking. Maybe in a bodega. You never said to your trumpet. Yeah, so it was a little bigger room. I assume it would be a studio. I don't know if he was recording what he said to be.

He showed up. I mean, it was immediately one into a minute 30 freestyle about everything from going the Knicks games on mushrooms to being unstoppable. I mean, it was with the jazz band in the back. And then somehow, I don't know if they had rehearsed this, there's no way they could. If there's no way that he had thought of those words he was saying before he was saying them in that exact moment.

They were dropping the beat whenever he was in there. This is all in a face-time. I'm in the back of a car going from one of it to the next. People in the car. Bruce sitting up there. Bruce immediately turns out. It's up, Barcelini. It was so sick.

Turns around, turns his camera on. Obviously, other people in the car. Is this fucking real? And I have to tell him, like, hey, you're being filmed right now. Who cares? Let her run. You know, just it was outrageous. He just released a video, I think, on his Instagram with that jazz band.

Okay. There's a chance he's kind of piecing it together. It was a wild run. It was a wild run. But to your point about the New York Knicks fans, they are. Yes. They are wild. It's the only thing missing right now from the playoffs is because they swept the Sixers.

We haven't had like the Knicks going nuts, which will bode well for the Eastern Conference finals. But still, like, they are a genuine. attraction, I'm sure, for everywhere. So many people. All over the place. That is a crazy, you know, you get reminded. I haven't been in New York for a while. You get, it's so big.

So big. It is, I know the New Yorkers just probably, yeah, yeah, of course it is. And people that live in the coast, whatever. You forget. You forget whenever you don't go there, that your city is a part of a part of a part of the city over there. And it's just

humans everywhere. It was it was perspective and then you realize like oh like 80% of these people are nicks fans oh yeah like this is their the nicks are their team just naturally they're going to be nix fans nets i know they're in jersey we ran into old alex grew up in jersey uh no aaron maybe i forget the kid's name somebody came out to me from jersey loves the nets and i'm like what's the point i said why didn't you just that's cool you could just go over right they loved the jets too they did the nets have won more recently right yeah but it feels like if you're champion champion if you're in the new york area everybody is a nick fan like

it just feels like that is kind of the thing like it feels like you kind of are are in it and it with how many people there that's why whenever the pacers knock out the nicks last year like oh the tv network's gonna hate this you know and it's like yeah i think losing that city's interest is certainly something but the numbers in basketball were just fine because how it's good if new york is to continue to ride It's like I think the NBA numbers are only going to be outrageous, and Adam Silver is going to do that. And they say like the networks only care about that. It's like, no, what the Knicks are doing right now, not good, actually. They want Best to Sevens.

They would like, the biggest thing for networks is we, Best to Sevens, to not be sweeps. Like that we are paying for three extra games in return hoping to get this, you're losing that. So the conversation of like, are they rooting for New York? It's like, well, if the people are from New York and on TV, they certainly are. And obviously that's a massive amount of people that will certainly continue. to follow because they're all Knicks fans over there. But also it's like the game has a chance to. NBA is in a good spot, I think.

Great spot. And this is without the Pacers. Like I've seen a lot of that too. Like the thing that's missing this year from the playoffs is what the Pacers and Tyrese did last year. I mean, they went seven games with the Knicks. I do think the other part of the LeBron thing that we're not thinking of is the two expansion teams. Like you do genuinely wonder if that there is, you know, some sort of draw to a Vegas for LeBron, whether that is.

He said he was out on that, right? Said he was out on the ownership part, but if it was the first time ever with the team and they're building a whole new team and they get some sort of bonus, and Grant, I don't know if that's immediate or next year, but yeah,

it has been a hugely successful playoffs, at least I think for the NBA. Yeah, I've enjoyed it. The NHL is delivered as well. We're very thankful for all sports that are happening right now, including how do bull riding go? Those bulls are bucking. I think it's still going on.

Them bulls be bucking the shit out of those bull riders. I mean, these are best bulls on earth right now. A couple, I think there's a couple rodeos I've seen down in Mexico that had some good bulls. Yeah. But I think the PBR had their eyes on him probably recruited a hump. Still going on. Seven to the 17th. Okay, so we're in the middle of the PBR World Championship right now.

Okay, let's pay attention to that. PGA championship this weekend. Huge. Let's go ahead and enjoy the hell out of all of that right now. Rory's got a blister on his toe. Yeah. Rory's got a blister on his toe. I don't know if the blister was under his toenail.

Pinky toe, I believe, was the report. The pinky toe is always the problem with the. shoes. I mean, it will always get you. Hopefully this is not a problem. If your base is not good, though, especially with how Rory's swings could certainly affect them. So we'll keep our eyes on the blistery toes of Rory

McElroy throughout the rest of the week as we head into another massive weekend of golf at the PGA championship. And the NFL is always cooking. Yes, it is. Schedule release is tomorrow night. A lot of games have been leaked, including all of the internationals. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who's always on the television, talking about

ball. Or he's always on a state. Talking about life. Ladies and gentlemen, Dan Rolofsky. Yay! Oh, Dan, coming from a barn. Where are you, pal? I am in, I'm in Richmond, Virginia. This is an old train station that I,

from what I've been told, is the old train station, but also the present-day train station. So I think it is the... Remodeled train station? Yeah, that is used for, like, big events in Richmond now, but also the train literally still does come 20 feet behind me.

Okay. Okay, I like that. Did you ride in on the train? No, I flew this morning from New York, 52 minutes. That's a good flight. That's good flight. So maybe hop on one of those trains and just one-way ticket, especially if you're going to keep putting out these emo tweets.

These tweets, you just guess the only option is just keep working. And then he hops on that train. You can't it? It shows up, gets one ticket. Yeah. that's the only option is just keep working and grabs that thing and then I think

just go Fudge it man All right What's hard with that tweet? Nothing, dude, don't worry about it I know he's so cryptic. All of us are just worried about you all of a sudden as soon as it happens because there's nothing

cryptic about it I think honestly I was probably on the car ride or waiting for my plane and watching me being honest probably watching some Instagram reels and like motivational stuff popped up and I just like plagiarous.

Fodget it, Don. All right, I get it. Okay, and then let's go to your most recent tweet, shall we? Just two names with the word and in the middle of it and just say, hey, world, God and guess where I'm good? Jared Goff and Jordan Love. Okay, so, Dana, let's start here. Jared Goff and Jordan Love.

Well, I saw that Bart Scott, I believe on Get Up this morning, said that he could see that Kyler's the best, quarterback in the division at the end of the year. And I'm just like, did Jared Gough and Jordan Love, are they not playing in the NFC North anymore? And Caleb.

And Caleb. But I think those guys are more accomplished than Caleb. You know, Caleb obviously has a chance to take a big step in year three. But. Gotcha. And did they just read this? So do you have a deal with him? Whoa, whoa, whoa, Tong.

That's not real. That's not true. Has Kyle been to play? Okay. Ton, so just to reiterate, because I was asking you about this all of stuff. You said Kyler Murray, I said Kayla more successful than Kyler Murray? Yep, I did.

Fascinating. No, no, no, no, dude. Kyleor Murray's played like a top five quarterback multiple times in his career. Maybe not over the course of the full season, but he's had two-month stretches. Tyler has been a top-10 quarterback for the majority, maybe top-12 quarterback for the majority of his career.

So you'd rather have him over Caleb moving forward? What? Good question. No. Though, hold on. More accomplished. I mean, it would be Kyler. Just he's played longer. He's had more opportunities.

But to Tone's point, that's a great question. Would you rather have Caleb or Kyle? Kind of got to win a QB competition coming up. I would take Caleb right now going forward over, Kyle, but. With Ben Johnson. Tyler with Kevin O'Connell. We have not seen. Two great play callers.

Holy hell. Good TV, Dan. You're doing a great job. But, Dee, D, but if you were ranking the NFC, quarterbacks one through four right now. Who are you putting at one? You're putting Jared golf at one. I put golf at one. I would put golf at one,

love at two, and that would be a clear one, two for me, and then there would be a gap in my, like, honestly, belief, and then I would go Kyler at three, Caleb at four. No, you know what? I go Caleb at three, Kyler at four. Okay, so we just made all the answer. We all came to the same kind of

conclusion there. Yeah, I think Caleb in love for me would be sitting right next to. 2A to B. They'd be sitting right next to each other for me. And then, Kyle, can you put Caleb in love

on the same plane, the same tier? Yep. I think so. What are we ranking for what they've done or what they're doing? Going to do?

I think it's a little bit of everything. What they've done is not fair because one has probably played, I think, three seasons longer, so that's not like a real. We got to do the TV. It's not a lot.

We need the tears. We need the tears, we need the tears, we don't want to just fall into, every internet trend. Okay, we have stayed away from that

pretty good at this particular program. Nobody talks about it, but you've never seen us dance. You haven't seen it. We are on the internet, but we very much understand what we should be doing, what we should not be doing.

Okay, we are not good at this. This is what other people are good at. The tiering thing that has been happening on the internet forever, in the quarterback tiers, in the titles of what the tiers are, having great internet for me to follow along. Yeah.

We have never participated. We are going to do it. Yes. We have to do it. I'm all in on college. Are you going to make your own tiers? Yeah, all of them. We're doing a whole thing.

All of them. We're going to do the entire thing. Who's in the top tier? Who do you got in the top tier in the entire NFL, Dan Rolovsky? There's two of them. No, there's more than two of them. I think that there's... How many tears do you got, bro?

You're handing out all these tears. Three. No, you need at least five to six tiers, buddy. At least. I don't have to. You're not doing it right. Yeah, you do. You have to, Dan.

Yeah, you do. Jalen Hurts, Super Bowl, but now where are you going to put them? In the entire thing. You win with Jaylen Hertz. Oh, so your tears are win with, can't win with. Win because of. That's easy.

Okay, your tears are stupid. I don't like you doing that. Win in spite of. Okay. Well, your tier is going to be. We got six of them. Stop crying. Keep working.

Yeah. That's one of them. Sucks. That's going to be down here at the bottom. Young and really good. We don't know yet. Going to get somebody fire. Yeah.

Yeah. A lot of potential. Can't win Super Bowl. And the elite. Yeah. Yeah. And what if we put all 32 and one and we just decided to leave the others out? Yeah, we can do that.

Okay. Our tears. But Jalen Hertz and who is the other? Darnold. Sam Darnold. Jalen Hurts and Sam Darnold, both Super Bowl winners. Okay, play great football, great football. But if you were tearing, like you obviously got Patrick Mahomes and Stafford.

Josh Allen. Lamar Jackson. Joe Burrow, I guess is right to her underneath. Joe Burrow. Got Mahon and Stafford on the top shelf. I think that's what we had. we had Lamar and Josh. Yep.

And then we said is Herbert in the same as Hertz and Donald, even though they've won a Super Bowl and Herbert hasn't even come close. Yeah, so then we have a lot of guys that haven't really had success all in one tier. They're like, maybe. I'm into this. Yeah. And then you got Sam, Darnold, and Jalen Hertz above that group because they won a Super Bowl.

But they're definitely not yet at this point. And what do you do with Bo and Janeline? Daniels or Jane Daniels? Drake May. Drake May and all the, yeah. Yeah, like Drake. made is he following the Joe Burrow because they both Trevor Lawrence.

Trevor Lawrence. That might be stock up into the right, but it's down here. Where's that? Jared. Gerard. 30. Which falls up into the second. Is Dak in the same as Hertz and Donald?

Jack. Or is he in the Herbert and? Yeah. See, this one we're tearing right now. We should do a whole show on this. We should do a whole show on this. Where's Joe Flacco go? Hey, wait.

That's not a question. Old. Yeah, we do have an old tear. Yeah. Aaron is the old one. Flackos and the old one, but, you know, obviously, Aaron would be pissed as soon as he saw that we didn't put him into one of the top tiers. The rifle.

So we will have the old tier positioned outside of the tier. It'll be higher up in the tiers, but it will be because. Baker. Yeah. Oh, yeah, exactly. Where are you putting him? When with? Yeah, but we're not doing your tears. We're doing these years.

Remember, you said in the middle of our tears. I want to be a part of your guys tears. I'm intrigued. Is Baker below? I'm intrigued. or same or similar to Sam Darnel. Baker, I would put in the same tier, but you have to put them below because Sam won it,

but I would put them as the same, very similar type of player. Yeah, so there's one right there that's like Herbert. Jordan Love. Jordan Love. Jordan Love. That's a packed tier. Packed tier, because I think we don't know.

I think it's like good. We all think they're very good, but are they going to climb up the ladder? We don't know. Super Bowl champions have to be above them because they've already done it. And even May and Burroughs. where it's like, hey, they have gotten there,

but May only has done it one year. Burrow, he's been kind of in and out of injury, and he's also missed the playoffs multiple times. It's very tough to tear. It's tough to tear. Maybe, what are you doing over there in the train station? We never even asked you. Packing a lip.

Are you potting? Yeah, you got a zinn in right now? You get a little. No, it's bubble gum. That's bubble gum. I have a couple things. One, what I'm doing here is I'm doing is speaking engagement. I speak.

Nice. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. So I have to do that. And now I'm on a 530 flight home tonight. Oh, in and out. My second thing is no dip. I've dipped once in my life. I think I've given you guys that story. My third thing I am interested is, do you think that there's NFL general managers? Honest question here, because the quarterback value or the quarterback annual contract is very high. We know that. You know, like there's quarterbacks, a lot of them, I don't know how many making 50 north or north of 50. I know the cap keep. growing, but we just watched Seattle with the quarterback that makes $30 million that allowed more money to go to the roster,

not rookie quarterback value, but a mid-quarterback value. A lot to go to the roster. Yeah, like I wonder if there's general managers sitting there going, I actually, like, unless I have a Patrick or a Josh and there's only four of them, I'm not going to pay them.

I'd rather pay a guy that I think is in that mid-tier range, 30. They're interchangeable parts to me, and I'll build up the roster around. I think that's a better Super Bowl recipe. Yeah, because then you're using the rookie quarterback thing, but just not exactly a rookie quarterback. It's been happening to-

That formula. Sam Darnold had happened for, obviously, because he had already had high aspirations, big contract, and then fell off second chance, still getting great money. Let's go ahead and take that money and go ahead and on with our life.

Kirk Cousins got 180 down there in Atlanta. If it would have worked for him, obviously had some questions. But if you think about, like, the deal that Baker Mayfield signed, it's not forever. They can still work with it. I think they're going to be trying to negotiate that in a lot. Tom Brady, obviously, what, $20 million or something like that? Yeah.

Drew Breeze was like $20 million. Aaron's working on a $10 million deal. Now, granted, these guys have all been paid. Yeah. But it also does help the roster immensely if you can spend a little bit more money on the O line. If we can get $8 million, that is very good. Three or four starters. Yeah, very good.

This is going to come up with C.J. Stroud and Bryce Young. Like it happened with Trevor and they paid Trevor. Okay. Now is there buyer's remorse? I don't know. Maybe at the beginning of last season, but then he played really well towards the end of the season. But then when CJ and Bryce come up, like, there's this thing in the NFL where it's like the next quarterback up. It doesn't matter if they're better than Josh Allen and Lamar or not. They have to get paid more to them for some reason. Right.

That's something. Some reason? That's because they got growing game. For the next generation, yeah. I'm just saying, like, when is it going to stop? When is it going to stop? When are these guys? There's a guy staring down a young quarterback coming to the next few years in this entire.

Why hasn't there been those 10-year deals, though? I think 8 is the most. Okay. Seven or eight. I think seven or eight is the most. Remember, Patrick Mahomes' deal was announced. Exactly. And we were told it was 10 years, 500 million.

Yeah. That's what we were told. Then it came out. It was a seven-year, $41 million average every single year, and they're tinkering with it every single year. It's like, we don't know what's real, what isn't real, but we do know that if the quarterback doesn't get the top of the market, you can build a team.

If quarterback gets top of the market, they're going to have to win a Super Bowl. And you just have to be, your drafts have to just be flawless. You know, it's, there is more wiggle room, obviously.

I just think with watching how Seattle did it, how Eroseman has done this, right? I think the Eagles, two Super Bowls have been with quarterbacks or rookie contracts, right? Because Wentz was on his rookie deal

when Foles won it. I think Hurs was paid. Jaylen was paid after the loss of the Super Bowl, I think, and won the Super Bowl after getting paid, but they might have kicked that money down. And they had all rookies on their D-line. Yeah. They're all working on.

So it's just like, I wonder if some general managers are sitting there saying, my quarterbacks are really good player. Like, he's a top 15 player, but there's eight top 15 quarterbacks, right? Because the quarterbacks that live between eight and 15 are kind of the same guy. They are, I believe that 100%. Top 15. But you're saying

they're kind of swapable. Anyway, we got to get to a break. You've got to get to a speech. Think about that tier on your 52-minute flight back home. All right, you're the man. Ladies and Jim. That's Dan O'Lovsky. Dan, Donald. We'll see you on our side.

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They always swing a hot bat. Oh, they are. And is their pitcher the greatest of all time? The guy that won a national championship at LSU, a guy who is freak show on the mound, a man who has changed baseball in Pittsburgh immediately upon arriving as a rookie. Paul Skeens is only getting better somehow. Every time it's Skeen's bump day, you can go to six, seventh inning, and he's throwing no hitter. That's the new thing. You got no hitter happening. We got no hitter happening.

We got no hitter happening. And it's not just no hitters. We got Dyson happen. I mean, it is a full show when he's on the mountain. The Pirates might be good. Baseball is actually kind of hot right now, Tom. Yeah, Bucco's are 23 and 19 if they face the hardest schedule so far in the MLB. So things are looking up there. It was Skeens Day yesterday. Well, night last night. He is now off back to back starts where he has gone eight eight innings with no earn runs. This is the in the seventh that was to break up the no hitter. O'Neill Cruz dove couldn't make the play. He made a diving play later in the inning to get Paul out of the thing. So that was awesome. And Paul like Paul just looks like he's having so much fun

out there. After this, O'Neill came into the dugout. Paul was all smiles. He gets it. But back to back starts, eight innings pitch, no runs. He's setting records that has hasn't been done since the early 1900s. He is absolutely absurd right now. He struck out the first six batters last night before the seventh batter decided to screw that. I'm going to bunt, which Paul laughed at too. He just feels like he is in a really, really good place.

I guess Paul also said nice bunt, and he gets caught on camera saying nice bunner or whatever. And he goes in afterwards. He said, I don't talk to the opponent. I was probably just saying, you guys are good lip readers, he said. He gave a nice compliment. And then he said, I was probably just saying it to myself.

like I strike out six and then a guy goes a bun I end up picking him off anyways nice bun it's like Paul Skeens is a machine like he's an absolute machine and I think the cone oh they're yeah hoisted brother I think the cone yeah I think the welding mask I think the vibes the young team it's amazing what can happen whenever you get a superstar on the squad and Paul Skeens has changed what the Pittsburgh pirates have used to do into what they're about to become and I love that they're building the roster are we going to went long because I heard the Dodgers stink. Oh, I heard the Dodgers

stink at face. The Dodgers have lost four in a row by four plus runs, which hasn't happened for them, I believe in, what is that, 90 years ago? What? Yeah, July 1936. So they're on a bit of a skid right now. Shohei did pop out of his skid last night. He had a home run. He ended his homerless

streak, but that didn't matter. They still won. He's on the mound tonight. He's been unbelievable pitching so we can see if they can get the Dodgers can stop their skid tonight. Love that Ice Cube's on the mic as show gets off a little bit of a shine of a run there. Shohei obviously pitching very well. The hitting had suffered while he had been pitching well.

A lot of people said, see, see, not going to be able to do both. Shoah will be able to figure it out as we believe the Los Angeles Dodgers will have as well. Yeah. Anytime we're going back to 100 years away. That's a long time. It's a long time. And obviously their fans are very passionate bunch over there. Speaking of getting off the Schneider, Cal Raleigh.

He did. Let's go, Cal. This guy was having a worst season of history of baseball. He was on a O-14. 38 stretch before that hit last night in the 7th. He also had a hit in the 9th. So he had two hits last night in the 7th and the 9th. He was 0 for 36 before this game started. Night before last, sorry, two nights ago after that game when he was over 36, he went into the shower in his full uniform. The team made him do that. It was kind of, you know, just get all the stink off the uniform or everything. All right. Everybody peeing in a bucket.

Exactly. Putting the jersey in there, go sleep in it. Okay, anything can kind of get us on a different, You know, because they got rally. Baseball has a lot of this shit. Same underwear. Baseball has a lot of these things. Whenever you're on the road for a long time and you're together and you're living off of, you know, streaks and then droughts. And it's all you can find yourself becoming very superstitious. I think baseball sets up to be a super duper stitious sport.

I think it's been mocked and ridiculed in a lot of movies. But I think it does become a thing. I didn't know just putting jersey on, taking a shower, makes you have a hot bat the next day. Everybody's going to put that in their back. pocket now. And when those bats get cold, you're going to see a lot of linen in a lot of showers around clubhouses, Dee Bud. Yeah, you know what? I've kind of been all in on the baseball stuff since the WBC. We start playing Thunderball. I saw something last night in Alfa. I didn't even send it in. I saw C.C. Sabathia. It's too nice about it. Is that too nights ago? Yeah. I may not.

I may be out on baseball culture after seeing this. I didn't. Somebody scour the internet. It was the Orioles? No, it was the giant. It was the Giants. Okay. And, you know, when you win a baseball game, your outfielder's come together. Oh, they celebrate. They were knocking knobs, okay? Sorry, Deep butt. I know what you're talking about there. Guy closest.

I just thought about you start piss the bunk and all that shit. Yeah. Guy closest to camera, he was really going. Yeah. I felt like he was the one that was the stir that was, or the straw that was really stirring the drink. He felt like he was trying to go make contact with the lad. See, he was the most, I think. That was two nights ago.

Okay. They got cups on. What's going on, man. They got pee-p-waxed. They were told, they were told, hey, we're not doing the tummies, okay? We're not doing that anymore. But they said if they're going to do it, Gilbert said, I'm going to make sure I get it all. Yeah, I'm not.

And I appreciate that. No, no, let's not talk about this. They won a game. Let's not talk about the boys kind of bumping, bump in here a little bit. Yeah. That's what Gilbert was saying there too. So they got to catch a beat. Let's not talk about this outfielder operation.

Let's talk about a friend of the program. Mm-hmm. The guy who now has 12 doctors. Ladies and gentlemen. P. Crow Armstrong, center fielder. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Where's the wall? Who cares? Bang! Give me that. Yeah. They're talking about stats on this.

The amount of feet that he covered, how fast he went, in the entirety. I guess this guy, they're saying best defensive player in ball. That's what they're talking about. So whenever we mentioned doctors to him, and he said, I don't know what those are or whatever. This dude is awesome. He's a bra from California. He's been on the program. He's been paid. He represented for the United States in a beautiful way at World Baseball Classic.

didn't really play in the final. So all of us were just like, man, I wish this guy played. Really a perfect runway for Pete Crow Armstrong become a national sensation. And he's done it. And I think he's handled it beautifully. He's a guy out there, though. He's out of guy. Yes, he does.

You know, I might be back in. Exactly. Don't be mad at the Giants' fielders just because they wanted to hear the sound of their cups clanging together. That's cool sound. Yeah. You know how sweet that is. They just beat the Dodgers by four runs. But, boys, let's progress to them.

That's what they're doing. America, do you think. Cups on three boys. Gilbert, Gilbert, wears a 3X. Yeah, uh-huh. And that's why he's the one swinging. What's that?

Don't need to know that information. Well, we're just saying, that's what they're doing. That's why they're doing it. That's why they took about, but there's one more thing. Oh, is your glove? Our guy. That is Tony's glove. Yeah, our guy.

Tony would do that celebration, too. 100%. If we're bumping cups, I mean, we might as well show up and do it a big I think that was an aggressive decision by the lads there. I think they probably knew what was going to happen. And I do appreciate this is them last night. Bend over to start with this. That's the national.

Okay. Take a ball. No, that was, that was their celebration last day. Should have seen them in the showers. They saved it for them. All right. What else happened in baseball? One last thing we got to get to.

Our guy, Schorbo is now just absolutely raking. His home run in five straight games. The Phillies themselves, since they fired their manager and they hired Don Mattingly, Dony baseball. They've been absolutely on a tear. They're almost back to 500 after being one of the worst teams in MLB to start the year. But Swarbo now leads the league and Helmer in five straight games.

He's absolutely mashing the ball to lead the Phillies. So they're getting hot again. That's a team to watch as well. Cash out. Baseball. How many games left? 135? All right, baseball. All right.

Thank you, baseball. We appreciate that. Joining us now live from Manatic in Ohio is a man who created the Cup check celebration. He's a college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Roddy Cup winner, AJ Hogg. Yeah, yeah, hogg. What's the ball is, the goal to, you know, because, like, the drummers have that ability to, like, hold the drum,

like, the stick like this, and they're like, br-br-de-do. Do you think Gilbert thought they were going for more of the rattle with the cup as opposed to just like the boom, boom? Because it felt like Gilbert wanted the, you know, with the cups as they were meeting up there in the outfield. You've obviously done this before with your guys. What is kind of the mindset whenever you guys are going to do the cup bump? I tell you what, this was a bit jarring the first time that I did see it.

But I may be, I may not be right here, but I don't believe outfiters are wearing cups in the major leagues. That's just me. These guys are for this. That's what you're wrong. I mean, if you're going to do something, don't just dip your toe and don't, you know, go all in. Yeah, Gilbert's doing that. He's the only one. He's all, he may hurt somebody here if they do this again.

But, hey, man, they're just building team culture. You never know. I don't know if J.D. here knew what was kind of going. I don't know if he was fully in the nervous. of what we were about to do, but shout to the lads, getting through a long-ass season. How many games again, did you say? So they're 40, whatever, and so it'll be 120-120-ish left. Okay, that's the standard operating procedure.

You're 120 more games. Get hot, boys. How are the Reds doing? Well, they lost, we lost a tough one last night. You can't give up 10 runs and expect to win. Again? Do you guys? We were coming off a one-game win streak, right?

You know, you got to fall back sometimes. What does anybody tell you? What does anybody tell your pitchers? One-game win streak. What does anybody tell you? your pitchers to stop throwing bigger baseballs. Like, why don't you got... Normally, though, our pitchers have been doing great this year.

We just, our bats haven't come alive. So this is, you know, this is a little bit outside of what the norm is for the Reds, but we'll be back. Okay. I mean, look at the division. We all know. I've said on here a thousand times. The World Series runs through the NL Central. We know that. Now is when you want to be enlast. Okay. There's a couple of teams on there

that are in last that are going to make huge straddle. You guys have been to last since the beginning. No, no, there's a couple. Yeah. It's like day one. You guys have been the biggest. just ass team in baseball. You guys fired your coach already. You guys found baseball with two S's in there.

We started out one and oh against the Cincinnati Red, so I know we haven't been in last since day one. Since day three, we've been in there. Okay, but we're figuring it out. Some teams need to go through some shit. AJ, I don't know if you saw yesterday, College Game Day announced the first two shows will be live from Baton Rouge for Lane Kiffin and LSU's debut. And then down in Austin, Texas, Arch Manning takes on Julian Sane as the Buckeyes travel to take on the Texas. longhorns. Now, not

mentioned, not announced, week three. Definitely not going to. LSU is going to Old Miss. This was an awesome thing yesterday. I talked about this in the first hour, and I know over there in Columbus and in Ohio, it's always a buzz and always a chatter. I mean, the general is

literally every morning for three hours just talking about Ohio State football on local radio and gets paid well to do that and has been doing that for 10 years and can do that for another 20 years if he wants to. Obviously a few of those towns around the country. Columbus is certainly one.

Yesterday was a great reminder of how fantastic college football is for me. And getting a chance to feel, obviously I see the memes and I follow and I read all the up. Who's where? Who's doing what? I have to follow along, you know, because I'm very lucky to be a part of the college football world with College Game Day. But it's like once the video started setting on this massive stage and Des was reading his voice over and you're seeing some highlights, it's like, hey, college football is awesome. And the announcement of the games got me so excited. Cody Rhodes still has a black eye.

So he's still feeling the punishment that me and Randy Orton put on him. Now, Randy also put a little punishment on me. And so Cody. And so jelly roll. So I had a little bit longer night. True. And I'll be out of the business forever. It was nice to see Cody.

He picked the Bulldogs, Georgia. Of course. And he started a lot. And there was a couple dogs in a building. But it was including Peter Herb Street. But it was nice to get in there and feel college football again. It was awesome, AJ, and I just can't wait for it. We are 108 days away from college football, and it's like, it feels right around, it feels

forever, feels right around the corner. But every time I watch or feel college football, it's like such a special thing. I got goosebumps yesterday, AJ. Oh, yeah, I think just popping that, I know that picture came out that you showed up all you guys at the desk, seeing you guys just sitting there at the game day desk, even though I know it's the up front. That got me excited for football. Because that is what every Saturday will look like for us for, you know, once the season.

and finally does get here. But I think once we get into the summer months, once kids start getting out of school, like you start getting in football mode, I think. That's when off see, that's when summer workouts start ramping up. And of course, August comes around and I understand we still have a lot of time

from when camp opens. But it feels like once camp opens, at least for us as non-players now, it'll go quickly in the season start. Let's do some college football news. Tom Moore, front of the program, legend, who was done with coaching NFL football,

is not done coaching football just yet. He's 145 degrees, or years old. He is now going to Iowa, his alma mater. He played quarterback and kicker there in 1914. I believe it was the year in which he played there. Seriously. It was 1959, 1960. Okay, okay, it was good.

Sorry, I knew there was some year, but way, way back there. He played there in 1950. He was an adult in 1959. Gee. That's when he played. He wasn't born then. This guy's still doing it. Grones.

Tom, thank you for your commitment to ball, bro. Nobody will ever question it. He's hilarious. He loves ball. And whenever he went to Iowa and played there, he said it was the greatest decision he's ever made. Now I assume he feels like he can give back to his alma mater, hopefully to all these years.

And maybe this makes Iowa a contender in a big 10. Maybe this makes Ty Schmidt and those Hawkeyes excited about the fact that they got championship pedigree. They got a Super Bowl mind and also one of the most legendary football people in the building. I think it does no harm. I think it only does well. Good for them, and I wish more people would have done this with Tom Moore.

Why isn't he a mountaineer right now? Go ahead, AJ? Well, you know, when he did play quarterback for the Hawkeyes, we understand him going back there, but is this like, do we think the offense for Iowa's really going to open up? Now we're going to see shots down the field, and you know, like an explosive offense we're not used to? Have you ever seen Tom Moore coaching a team that had an ass offense?

No. Never. Legit. You're not going to be in the, you're not going to be coaching for 80 years. and not be good at what you do. Eventually you get run out of it. So I think Tom Moore's a big thing when he has Peyton Manning,

we're going to do Payton Manning. Okay, we're going to do Peyton Manning. Whenever Baker's here, we're going to do Baker. Whenever we do this, we're going to do this. So whoever their quarterback is, I think Tom Moore will have maybe 40,000 plays for that particular style of quarterback. Like, I don't think this means that they're going to be looking for a Peyton Manning

over there in Iowa. Now, it would be nice to be able to play football. You know, it would be nice to be able to complete passes. and do all that stuff. Sure. And Grinowski is certainly an absolute legend. I have nothing but great things to say about him. But I think Tom Moore will make the most out of whoever they have, whatever they have.

Good for the Iowa Hawkeyes. We appreciate that. Ole Miss taking some shots publicly this week, and I think that's only good for week three. I know they don't love hearing all the shots are being said. They get very pissed off. But we as college football fans can only continue to build the animosity for that week three return. They've said that place is outrageous on just a regular game.

I couldn't fathom what it's going to be like whenever his ass walks back in there. And once again, game day not announced week three at LSU Ole Miss. Yeah, it might be Florida and Auburn. Yeah. So don't even Auburn, Georgia. It has not been announced. Steve Sarkesian takes a shot at Ole Miss

on three is reporting that at Texas they only take 50% of a player's academic credit hours. You may be a semester from graduating, but you're going all the way back to 50% if you want to play here and transfer here and get a degree. But Ole Miss, they can take you. All you have to do is take basket weaving and get an Ole Miss degree. Jeez.

That's uncalled for him. Old Miss is taking a lot of shots to the shins right now. A lot of shots to the shins. Sark and Lane were together at USC, so they're old pals. So I assume Sark's got a certain feeling about sticking up for Lane. But it's not like Old Miss fired Lane. I'm pretty sure he chose to leave on his own. So, you know, be nice if Lane just left and kept his mouth shut and went and coached at LSU

instead of taking shots his old old old. alma mater who he had a great time there okay why can't we just all be friends you can leave yes he's pissed he wasn't allowed to coach in the playoff well you shouldn't have left before the playoff started okay well that's the schedule of calendar they said that's not me said i thought i was not happy to be a part of that entire situation i know i i would i did not like that we had to talk about it on game day i did not like that we had a relationship with lane i did that quickly spiraled into something that i was like i don't like this i don't like i don't like that a coach is leaving his team. I don't like that at all. That's like the whole urban

Meyer whenever he's with the Jags thing. My biggest problem, and obviously a lot came from it, he didn't fly home with the team. It's like you're a coach of the team. You fly with the team. Like that is how let's go. So a coach leaving his team before the biggest games, I just got like kind of disgusted by it. But then the explanation on why it had to happen. It's like, okay, I guess that makes sense, but I don't, I don't like it at all. And then everything that kind of followed up. I was like, it was kind of like it, it felt dirty. It did, didn't.

And it was like such a good college football season. And college football was so spectacular. And it was the environments were electric just like they always are. And everything was the ratings that more people watching college football than ever before. And if you look at the NFL numbers versus the college football numbers, it's like football fans still have a lot of chance to kind of fall in love with this incredible thing that is college football. So second largest sport in America, second largest sport in league-wise. Oh, sorry, I guess you got to put soccer in there.

And they got 100 leagues. good leagues second largest sport in the American second largest sport are we talking America well I was not to say the world but then I in my head I heard football should just be in America

is that right pal we're just watching the super duper Europa League World games yeah that's what he was about to say there you know Europa is after the Champions League if you're in the Champions League top four of your league over there in Europe

you get in champions and you play on Wednesday nights but if you're kind of ass but kind of good in all your leagues you can play in a Europa League they play on Thursday nights and then there's the local league you play on on Sundays. It's like, you guys got too many fucking leagues. Is America going to win a World Cup? Yes.

You got MLS tonight. Wednesday night at MLS doesn't get any better than this. Yeah. Like a messy and the boys in Cincinnati, you kidding? I heard the Chicago Fire now have a McDonald's in their stadium. Did you hear that? I deny it there. Chicago Fire, McDonald's Stadium. Is that big news? Is it on Apple?

McDonald's is great, but is that really? Yeah. Yeah. A lot of money, Hawker. Bow has got since. Yeah. You're going to go into the game now. You're right. Yeah, you're right. You know what I want. Triple burger, no ketchup.

You guys got nuggets? No, I don't like ketchup. Naming rights. I get it. That's a little bigger. Yeah, say it's a McDonald's. One solitary McDonald's. I don't know if that's newsworthy situation.

It's at a stadium. They got one in the airport, too. They're loving it. What's that, dude? If there's one in the airport, too, then we know. It's a huge news. Okay. If I fly into Chicago and they're like, welcome to McDonald's Airport.

And there is a McDonald's in the airport. I will certainly say that's huge news. Okay. It's not a hair? I thought we were flying into, no, it's fucking McDonald's Stadium. They never done this before. Here's a McDonald's in there. Best nugs in the world coming fresh out of this game.

Now, the Chicago Fire, I only know one other fire team really doing it right now as Portland Fire. Amen. Portland Fire. Game winning fucking layup. Did you see this? Me? Yeah. No, I did not.

Watch this, Portland Fire. Brand new team up there. Bang. Now, Chicago have had the fire name for a long time. As a professional team, Portland says, give it to us. Step back. Oh, pass off the glass. Rebound, lay up.

What a pass. Boom. Champs go down. We can get the audio from this, so we can hear this pop. Okay. We did not have the pop, but the place didn't go crazy over there. It was a pass off the glass. Fire beat the lips.

Now, I love that name of the fire, but when I saw, I just read this update. Fire beat Liberty. Okay. I thought the Chicago Fire played in a cross promotional thing and beat them. Portland Fire, brand new team. Yeah. Way you go, Portland, Florida.

Let's go, Portland. Lots of the way to get your first win. 90, how many points? 98, 96 to get the win. It was an unbelievable three, a few possessions before this, by the lips to take the lead. This is a great game. We talked about it a couple days ago with them,

in their first game having over 19,000 people in attendance. And obviously it was a bunch of them in seats last night as well. But yeah, that pop from the crowd was one of the loudest pops I've ever heard in a basketball game. Commissioner Engelberg came on our show and said, we are looking at cities that would certainly seem to like the WMBA. And we didn't even have to follow up and say, like, what do you mean? It's like Portland seems like a great town. They have shown up in a huge way.

Not only a great sports fans. We see that with every sport that they have. But also picking, yes. I like what the WMBA is doing. I like what they're doing. Toronto team, too. I think they had over a million viewers in Canada for their first game.

So that's great. Fever Dallas was $2.49 million, I think. Huge. Now, that is Don from last year's game, which was Sky Fever, which is obviously Angel Reese versus Caitlin Clark to kick it all off. Magic Bird.

Yeah, exactly, what it was billed as at least. 2.49 million. What are you laughing at, Tony? That was me. That was me. Why? Magic bird. Yeah.

Look, I appreciate what you're doing up here. Don't throw away a bird into it. I appreciate what you're doing, butch. Easy. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know.

Magic bird won a lot of championship. Easy. Are you right? Angel has one of the championship. I guess everyone in the conversation hasn't. Yeah. In a major league. In a W.

In a major league, Butch, not. in a three-on-three league, easy. I was talking about the college. Listen, Kelsey Mitchell, okay, Caitlin Clark, Bucket, Sophie, Lexie, Raven, Stephanie White, the coach. Boston. Fever about to win.

Leah Boston, sorry, Leah Boston, obviously, fever about to win it all, and they're starting with being ratings skinks. And if you go over the last couple years, the highest rated games are either fever games or the game directly after the fever games. I believe they have fed into, like, fifth highest rated, sixth highest rating.

It's like, whoa, these teams are doing really good. And then you go, look, it's like, people fell asleep, watching a fever. Got it. That's why they're still watching. So the fever need to be good. We appreciate the hell out of them. And then you got that Liberty team that's obviously filled with legends and icons. The Vegas Aces in the middle of a potential dynastic run here. Asia, unbelievable.

She's having a lot of fun. She has a good time out there beating the shit out of airbole. Much better. She really does. I mean, she is 6-4, obviously. But the amount of juice she has, like, smiling while kind of just balling. I wouldn't be surprised she goes for 84 points maybe.

You might. Yeah, you know what I mean? Just one more to bam. You know, just so that can all happen. Let's go to the NHL. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now. Is Amanda, we've never talked to. We've never talked to this guy before. No. See him on TV, though. We look at a picture of this guy.

Imagine. Looks like he's out of a movie. Ladies and gentlemen, an incredibly handsome Minnesota man who played in the NHL for 18 years? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's accurate.

It's an adult. This is not the first time I'm reading this, like when Trump found out about the Rose Bowl. Holy shit. 18 years in the NHL? Wait until you see how good this guy looks. I couldn't even defense. I couldn't imagine how many pox have just.

Oh. So many poxed this guy. It's eating poxed. Oh, eat you. Oh. He was so fast he caught him. You're right. He was... Yeah.

That's what he does with this neat. Guy. Platinum jaw. Ladies and gentlemen. Stanley Cup champion. Eric Johnson. Yeah. This fucking guy.

Yeah, right. That's out of a movie, isn't it? 18. How you doing, bro? No makeup today, boys. No makeup. This is natural. Yeah.

I got no foundation. I got no powder. This is natural. Yeah, that's what I'm wondering, though. 18 years is a long time to potentially just be eating poxes a defenseman, the hair flow, the glow, and the chit, the chicklets here.

Unbelievable work. Eric, way to go, Bob. And your parents, it sounds like incredible genes there. Okay, let's talk about hockey right now. It's wonderful. We love everything that's happening in hockey. Obviously, the ratings are very indicative of how the country, I think, feels about hockey right now, fresh out of the Olympics for Team USA, women and men kind of dominate and put

the entire, I mean, It's up and to the right for everything. What's your favorite team that is still around? And whenever you look at that Colorado, you want a cup there, Colorado Minnesota game series, a lot of defensemen kind of the stars of what's going on. Is that special to your heart? Or how do you kind of view what's going on in Colorado, Minnesota right now?

Because this Colorado team, people are saying maybe the greatest of all time, Eric, maybe the greatest team of all time out there on the ice. Yeah, I mean, I think this abs team, you guys, like, they could go 16. and won the whole way and win the cup. I mean, the while they're a contender in their own right, but the abs just feel like they have that edge. And you said it, like the defense that they have, they get so much offense from their D. And I think everyone thinks, you know, defense, you're just sitting back there, you're defending, you're hitting. But these guys put the puck

in the net, like McCar, Taves, all these guys are so good offensively. The abs just seemed like they're on a different level right now. And did you see that butt end the other night that, that Manson threw on McCarron. McCarron said, I hope they don't kick them out of the game because I want a piece of them after. They have a little bit of an edge to him too. So they can do a little bit of everything. This has been an awesome series.

Like, it's a shame. It might only go five. Like, I think they probably close it out tonight at home in Denver, but this is an awesome series. Incredible series. Yeah, Quinn Hughes, too, has become not only a sensation because of the Olympics,

but the shit he's doing on the ice against his avalanche team, which is obviously big, fast, strong is outrageous. So I appreciate that. And you talk about them going 16 and 1 maybe throughout the entirety of the run. And we thought they were going to be on a collision course with another team that could be undefeated going into the cup final in the east and the Carolina Hurricanes. Why are they so good? And when you watch them, what is your thoughts on their potential? You know, are they going to be able to

beat this avalanche team inevitably if they get to the cup against each other? I think if you put this whole playoffs through a simulation right now, it would be no disrespect to any team still playing. I think it's going to be Colorado, Carolina. These teams just, they feel destined to play each other almost. And what Carolina does for me is they have like four second lines. You know, some teams they'll have a top heavy first line, then they'll have some depth sprinkled in. But Carolina, they have four lines that play exactly the same. And if you put them on any other team, to me, they're all second lines. They all play to the same identity. They're all on the same page. They just do everything as a connected group. And when

you're playing against him, it just feels like you're drinking water through a fire hose. Like they're just, they come at you the same way every single line. So they just have that connectivity to their group that makes them so dangerous. And their crowd in, in Raleigh, it is nuts.

Like for a team that maybe they don't say as a true hockey market, these fans are unbelievable. They get so much out of their crowd. Yeah, the raging caniacs have obviously been going. Banana's down there for a long time. Let's talk about the crowds, though. They've been spectacular. Go ahead, Conman.

Yeah, Eric, too. true hockey markets, Buffalo, Montreal. It feels like every single time they're on the TV, you know, their crowds are going nuts. And Montreal, the Ole, Ola, Ola, was insane. And then in Buffalo as well, they're drinking beers out of Sabres and going absolutely ballistic. What do you think about when you see them playing? I mean, for Montreal, Marty St. Louis got those guys going. It is incredible to see even him in the locker room pregame after the game has been awesome. How do you see them kind of fairing? How do you see this? series kind of going and is both these teams being young and inexperienced maybe going to help

them against Carolina just because they don't realize how massive of a moment it is? Yeah, and I think the other thing with both those teams is they're kind of playing with house money. No one thought Buffalo is going to make the playoffs, much less get this far. Probably the same with Montreal, maybe a little higher expectations. But to me, this has been the most fun series to watch. There's, you know, piss and vinegar in these young guys. They have high skill. this Zach Benson kid that scores right here

is a complete pain in the ass to play against. He's just a little rat. He's like a mini Marshawn. And he's only 21. Just bought his first beer legally yesterday. And he's been kind of the X factor for me for the Sabres. But these two teams are going to be around for a long time. And the hot dog in the press box,

I've been healthy scratched a few times there in Montreal. Fantastic hot dog. If you haven't had it, have to have it. Damn, right. His stories are. Okay, so what's up with this hot dog? We got a crispy outer coat or is it just a delightful? What is the difference?

It's the bread. Perfectly toasted with the buns. Sprinkle a little mustard. Sprinkle little ketchup. Fantastic. Get the hot dog in the press box. Unbelievable at the bell. Okay.

I'm going to head up there and go to the press. I'm sure we walk in. We get elevator and then go press. Use your press pass, Pat. Get up to the top. We, we, right? With the French people. They'll walk you're right in for the hot dog.

You get the hot dog. You get a Labat, maybe a mol, Oh, so good to go. Oh, That's for the boys. Oh, dude, this is crazy. What's the no tax thing? What is it duty-free?

I'm getting some duty-free shit on the way out to. I'm certainly doing that as I go up there. You bring the dogs back. Oh, my God. Hey, bonjour, je ma'am appell pa. Je vu en hot dog. Oh, Eric Johnson ate when he was scratch, healthy scratch here. Do you have a lot of that?

So the Montreal hot dog, I assume we know about this. Is this a well-known thing? Is there? thing. This is a thing. Yeah, in the NHL circles, you know, you get a big bucket of these things after the game. You'd have a cooler of beer. You'd have that, yep, there they are. Absolutely. Look at the toasted outside. You see the toast? That's the key. A little char on the outside. It's unbelievable. And then a little snap on the hot dog. Jeez.

Good wrap on it. Unbelievable. Merci Bocou, Montreal. You know, American thing here, the hot dog. And they just seemingly have taken it and made it so much better. I cannot wait to give it. I cannot wait to give up there. Okay, let's get back to hockey. It'll change your life. It'll change your life. It does it. Is there any ass ones? Any places you've gone to where they just kind of give you just like meat, like a

fire fest type fucking, like a cheese sandwich? Is there any of that anywhere? There's a couple places. I don't want to, I don't want to bury them right now, but there's a few of those dogs. How many of those dogs have Kessel, has Kessel, Phil Kessel, eating? That guy right there. Did he fill up the Stanley Cup with a bowl of hot dog?

Yeah, tried to get traded to Montreal. Well, Eric, that all happened because one writer said that this guy was drinking hot dog juice before games and then that obviously took on a life as you know this you know this but whatever works right do you uh drink your own pee stay healthy over there in hockey you guys have to be in incredible shape you're doing you guys do any weird shit to keep the body together well you saw the abs swimming before the game the other night right you see that clip mckin's swimming in the pool they're not eating that shit it worked mckin is not mckettin's drinking water and we are not eating no hot dogs

No hot. No, pop. No nothing. I wore the full speedo. He wore the shorts. So we would do that in the playoffs. But I had the nice speedo on to get a little extra glow. But this is what these guys have been doing.

They've been doing this for like three or four years. So apparently it's the pressure of the pool when you get low enough just to clear the lack of the acid out of your legs when you fly. So these guys have been doing this. It's the whole team. It's not just Nate. They've been doing this on off days on. Nate would miss some practices. And he'd go with his physiotherapy.

therapist there and they would just go swim. This guy's a complete lunatic in a good way about finding like an edge to stay on top of his game. It's really unreal. Yeah, I've read a couple of the articles about him being a lunatic and people being like, hey, you're a little bit too much of a lunatic. But us in our sport, we got Tom Brady who I think in a similar way, people would say is a lunatic. And then he obviously goes on to become who he is, which is a goat conversation. Thank you for clarifying what's happening there. Because all anybody was talking about was this guy's called flippers on a hotel pool. And you said, actually, this is a recovery thing with lactic acid, whenever you get lower to pull and it's not just. We did not hear the real story.

That was a week ago, right? Yeah. That's the first time I've heard what was happening there. Put it on a ticket. Hey, look at you, dude. Handsome. Hot dog news. We got recovery news. Keep them coming, pal. AJ has a question for you about hockey. Yeah, Eric, as a casual fan, I feel like sometimes a goalie can stand on his head throughout the playoffs and give a team a chance, I guess. When you look at these teams that are left, I guess who do you feel best about in net there as a goalie? In the Ab series, I think, well, the old saying goes, if you have two goalies, you don't have any goalies.

But I think that narrative has changed over the years. It used to be you'd ride your starter 60, 70 games in the regular season, and then he'd play every single playoff game unless he got the hook. But for the abs, it's been Blackwood and Wedgwood all season long, one A, one B, one would slip, the other would step up. And then for Minnesota, it was Gustafson, the Gus Bud. all season long, for the most part, he was the Wilds number one goalie, but Yesper Volstead, he's kind of their future franchise guy and goal.

He's kind of taken the reins in the playoffs and ran with it. But to me, the goaltending has taken a little bit of a backseat to how much these guys can score and how dynamic both teams are offensively. Like Hughes and McCar, as everyone knows, everyone knows McCar. I think Hughes has closed that gap a little bit. I think Kale's still the best defenseman in the league, but Hughes has closed that gap, but just the ability these guys have on the offensive end of the rink is so fun to watch. But the goaltending all season long for both these teams has kind of just been a seesaw,

and they've rotated in and out. So I think it's going to just come down to the ass, being able to close it out at home tonight with home ice. How big is McCar? Not big. And he's not real cut either, right? He's still kind of got that baby fat to him, but he's just a freak. He's got huge legs.

He has like the mental, the mental side of his game. he just doesn't get rattled or phase. He's just straight, even keel right down the middle. He's probably six feet a buck 90. And I mean, I still feel like he could grow into that frame a little bit more if he wanted to, but you don't want to screw it what's working for him. What are you, 18 years as a defenseman in the NHL? What is your dims?

My what? Dims, come on. You dims. What are dims? Like dimensions, like height and weight. He's talking about. Fucking dims, dude. I've never heard of that.

Welcome to the real world. Nobody else has either. What are you there? It fluctuated, all right? So like 10 years ago, I was 220, and then when I got a little older towards the end of my career last year, I was pushing like 238. I was having too many Mick Goldens and, you know, Montreal hot dogs in the back of the bus. A little less towels being burned. But yeah, that 220 range was kind of my sweet spot.

I wasn't in my sweet spot too long. How tall? Right around 6'4. Wow. That's what I'm saying. I'm getting a little wider, not getting any taller, you know. I need to get some of the. those peptides. We got them if you need them. The science is amazing right now. You should

definitely take advantage, especially at 6-4, Jesus Christ. With this face? What do you inject? What are you injecting? Are you taking the pill? No, I've gone to the point where we're doing science real. Yeah, I'm doing it. We got to, I can send you over a whole kit and caboodle bell. We got this entire thing. I mean, who knows what we're borrowing from the end, but whatever. I guess we'll figure that out at a different You're six four, though, right? That's how I view like NHL defensemen is big. McCar, not big.

Quinn Hughes, small, right? He's like a smaller fella on the ice. And he's what, you just said, he's closed the gap to potentially becoming the second best, maybe even become at one point the best defenseman in the entire NHL. Is that an evolution of the game? Like, why is that kind of happening, you think? Yes, exactly right. Like, it used to be, as you guys know, it used to be hook and hold.

And the defenseman didn't need to skate as well as they need to. now. Now it's almost like you have wingers playing D, but they're defensemen. These guys, Hughes might be one of the best, well, he is one of the best skaters in the NHL, but he might be the best skater in the NHL, and McCar's no different. And I think the

best way I could describe it is defensemen are so deceptive with their hands and their shot, but these guys are so deceptive. If you watch their hips and the way they move, not only are they jukeing with their hands, but they juke with their body and their legs too, which just can put

defenders in a complete blender when you're trying to come out against these guys. Like they're too quick. Like it's like doing the, it's like doing the 10 and 2 with your feet. You know what I mean? Like these guys are just so shifty. Just watch them tonight. When they get to the top of the blue line, they'll get the puck. And they won't only be deceptive with their hands.

They'll be jukeing with their hips. And it just can put you in a total pretzel. Okay. So you're backing up. Back skating. What the fuck you call it? You're skating backwards. Okay.

I don't know what you guys do. Defense. A lot of that. A lot of, and you're reading body. puck? What are you doing? You're reading where puck's supposed to go? What is like kind of what you're looking at as you're going back there?

Yeah. So if you're at the blue line as a defenseman and you have the puck, the forward's going to come out at you from their net and try and defend you. But McCar and Hughes and these guys are so good like I said, not only with the puck but they're quick with their feet, right?

So they're doing like three different... They're doing like the Macarena while they're walking the blue line. Right? So it's like how do you defend these guys? They can shoot it by you, they can stick handle it by you, they can skate it by you. Just their ability to change not only how they're skating, but how they're handling the puck at the same time. It's, it's unbelievable. It's like witchcraft. It's, it's unreal. These guys are just complete freaks. I love that. I think you're a pretty big freak as well. You skate still or no? I'm done. I don't want to

ever put them on again. I've gotten asked to playing these alumni games. I'm done. I'm not putting it on. My feet hurt. My toes are all messed up. I'm not putting the skates on anymore. I'm done. I think you've done enough. Yeah, 18 years in the NFL's a long time. You're going to play ball hockey, maybe a little deck hockey. Yeah. I'm out. I'm out.

I'm going to come in about five hours to play golf. No skates. Just golf. You're going to be great at that. 6'4 with the timing. Oh, yeah. Hit it a mile. Good for you, dude.

I don't know. Going to get burnt like a mile. For sure. Yeah, definitely get burnt down there. Yeah. Yeah. Take it all in. Yeah.

Take it all in. Happy life for you, man. Good for you. Thank you for your commitment to sport. Thank you for stopping by. You're phenomenal. Hopefully get a chance to chat with you more. Thanks, boys.

Anytime. Have a great day. So you work with the, so I don't fucking know. You're on ESPN. When are you on ESPN? How come I, did we know this?

A picture. Between the benches, they don't want to give me a lot of air time. You know, they're not a lot of this, right? So, mostly just between the benches and then I'll be involved later in the playoffs here. So I'll catch you on the tube.

Ladies of gentlemen, the Stanley Cup champ, Eric Jolency. Yeah. I like him. Yeah, he was great, yeah. 18 years in the NHL, defenseman, we should have probably known

that there was probably going to be a good lad in there if we had to guess. Healthy scratches towards the end. I was 238, 240 there. Too many Mawlsons. Too many Moleson. Or Mick Golds. What is a Mick Gold?

What does that mean? Is that old school Mikalob? Is that like Mekyllab diesel? Yeah, like the High Life, the Miller High Life of Mickelope. Gold and Gold and Light. Mickle of Golden Light? Is that like the Bud Light Blue that they were giving us? That had like

14% alcohol. Do you remember that? Oh, the... This one's got a 4.1. Yeah, those were. Those were a problem. Yeah, they were. You had three of those. You were feeling good. It's a premium American-style light logger. Get some Mick Golds in here. This guy loves him. Eric, gained 20 pounds on these things.

Montreal Hot Dogs and Mick Golds. Oh, what a lie for him. Good combo. 17. That's... Stick-tops for Eric. Yeah, stick-tops for E-J. Yeah, certainly. Good work. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now as an icon, an actual icon.

Not many people in the sports world, you can say their name, and everybody on earth knows who the fuck it is. Okay, that just doesn't happen at all. And who we are about to chat with is about to make the return to the octagon for the first time since 2016. Ladies and gentlemen, cut a sick promo, the first press conference, about to kick some ass on Netflix. Ladies and gentlemen, the first ever UFC Bannamweight champion, I caught Ron the Rousey. Yay, Rondo! You realized it was a promo. You're the first person to call it out for being that.

Well, certainly, we also respect the hell out of your time at the WWE and going into that world. And obviously, there's a sense, you know, because the crowd is completely around you. You're used to this, obviously, with fighting. But in wrestling, there's a goal to every single thing that's happening, and you've got no room for air. You're pretty exposed out there, you know, and you can kind of, I think you throwing yourself into that world, I had massive respect for it because you were goat conversation in your world. So I appreciated the fact that you won did that. I love the run that you had.

And I also appreciate, that was, hey, the promo you cut for this fight about like, hey, I birthed all of you basically. Incredible promo. Yeah. That way, we need to run that one back, too. I don't know what's happening. After this particular fight, we need to run. Let's talk about this, though. First fight since 2016.

Obviously in incredible shape. We saw that. WW are incredible shape. You're always going to be, we assume, and know what you're doing. Why now? And how do you feel getting in there? What should we expect from you? Is it going to be similar to what we saw from Ronda Rousey back in the day?

Is there an evolution to the fighting style? Like, how do you kind of feel about going in this weekend? There's definitely an evolution to the fighting style. I think the two of us are really unique in that we have that styles making fights. aspects that you don't really see so much anymore, you know, everyone's kind of become like a generalist these days, but we have those specialties that are now informed by, you know, years of evolution of the sport. And so I think this is a combination that's never been seen before and something truly unique. It used to be that you could blur people's faces out

and you would know exactly who was fighting just by their style. And I really don't think that's, it's hard to tell now these days. And me and Gina are, so unique that, yeah, putting us together. It kind of goes back to like when UFC started and I was like, what's better, moitai or judo? And it's like that plus, you know, everything that we've learned since the, you know, the first UFC when you had someone coming out with a single boxing club. Yeah, absolutely.

The first UFC, obviously, anytime you watch that sick and then you automatically go, wow, if somebody would have happened upon just the country of Brazil back in the day, and just accidentally, you know, no matter what your size was. That's what I remember for the first UFC. Just, hey, anybody can get this thing and be out. Have you been training throughout this entire time? Obviously, as soon as I see Travis, double leg him, arm bar him, anytime that needs to happen. But a fighting family, tell him we said what's up.

But how has it, have you maintained training? It feels like some of you fighters, it's like just a part of your life forever. How long have you gotten back into this? And, yeah, how's the body feel, I guess, going into a flight? I've been training like the last year and a half basically from six weeks after I had my last baby. So as soon as I was cleared to go, I've been training. And it's actually just felt incredible.

Like this is what my body is meant to do. I've been an athlete since I was six years old. And so like being sedentary is almost like worse for me. And so I've never felt healthy or never felt better. And Trav actually put a whole octagon in our like garage. So I'm just like, you know, watching the baby. babies with the babies and then I can just like walk out and then my I'm spoiled now or all my coaches and training partners come to me and I just like go out and I do my training and then

I turn around and I go right back into the house and back to the babies and they're in the gym and part of it as well and so yeah it's it's kind of like a like a seamless mesh of it's not like training over here where you had to like go to a stadium and your family had to stay home and then you go home to your family I got to like mix the two of them all the time which was great. I kept my energy up all the time. I think the biggest difference is just recovery.

No, I can't. Okay, listening to you talk about that, being just a badass while doing mom and this entire thing. What was the promo you cut about every muscle in your body? I forget what it was. You said,

Oh, the no DMB promo? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My body is for a purpose. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm not training to, like, my, my body isn't for fucking billionaires. Yeah. I was just thinking about that as you're walking into the garage. You say you're spoiled. No, you earn that shit. You walk into the garage. You train.

They go back in. Mom a little bit. I'm like, you're most badass mom of all time. Just, hey, you understand the deal here. Okay, dad bought a cage, built a cage. Mom's going to go beat the fuck out of some people in here. All right? You're going to do the same.

And then we're going to continue to live. I'm happy you're balancing that and also showcasing to a lot of people that it's possible. I can't wait to see you continue to build through this all. And shout to Jake Paul and MVP. Netflix providing an incredible opportunity here. Not only for you, fighting as a whole, combat sports as a whole, you getting attached to this is a big deal for, I think, the sports world, we're pumped about it.

Now, we have more questions, obviously. Go ahead, AJ. Yeah, Rhonda, I guess with time, you know, I think if people get older, it gives you perspective. I know Pat and I talk about it a lot. I guess what's your perspective like now? Is it feel different going into this fight? What you said, as a mom, with the kids, with everything you have around you,

I guess, do you feel much better? Does it feel like, hey, I got other stuff that's bigger than fighting as well that I can focus on. And I guess mentally, where are you right now? Yeah, I think that entirely. I think when I was younger, like everything was the end of the world and winning was everything. And I thought that any other perspective than that would weaken me. And now that I have kids and I have like, you know, priorities above this,

I didn't realize that it would actually make me better at it and have all of that weight lifted on me and have so much more more energy to draw from even though like I have kids waking me up in the middle of night and stuff like that. It's like I have more energy than ever before. I felt like was so like bogged down and like overworked and chronically overtrained. And now I have to be so efficient with my time. I can't just be like insecure about, oh, am I doing enough? And just like just doing way too much and wearing my body down way too much because I'm so

insecure and I want to make sure that I'm doing more than anybody else. And now it's like, okay, I get one long training session in the most. morning. I do like three to four hours straight. And I'm like, okay, what am I going to do in that time? I have to be able to do everything at once. And I'm spending the rest of the day on recovery instead of just training all day and training all day and training all day. Like I would get home after training before and be like, I didn't do enough. And I'd get outside and I go like run sprints in the sand or something like that. And I was just constantly just doing more because I was afraid. And now it's like, this is your lot of time. Do all your shit. And so it's like, you know, my coach

are so much more organized. They're all like, they do like, their daily debriefs of every single training session and what they worked on, and they have like Zoom meetings without me there to like go for everything that was happening and they're like all coordinating and being like, okay, this is what we're doing, this is we're aiming at, and we're just,

everything is so much more organized and streamlined than it's ever been before. Man, it sounds like you're really doing. So have we thought, I don't wanna put this in your world, and I should have paid attention to more interviews that you've done if you've already addressed this, So you, now remember, you can ask Traff, I got a great double-a. I mean, right here, we're going right here.

Okay, we're going right here behind the knees. Okay, you can have, it's that. This fight, how many are we doing? Is this, what are we going in there feeling how we feel after? And then making this, like, what is the conversation about what you're going to consider? Because it sounds like you are loving the process, which is normally the part that I think people that are riding off at a sunset, hate. They hate getting back into the. feels like you have welcomed getting back into the process and almost enjoyed it more than ever.

Has there been discussions on what this looks like for you and everything like that or no? Well, I am definitely loving it more than ever before. But there's definitely been people trying to convince me to continue because there's a lot of money that could be made. But I feel like this is the absolute peak for me. This is my dream fight. This is the way that I always wanted to end it and to go out. And I want to have more kids, too. We want to try for at least two more.

And it's like I found a way to fit this into the rest of my life. You know, I'm not going to like derail everything else for this. But throughout this process, I mean, it's kind of become a little obvious that there's like a huge opportunity here for me to be that promoter role. and to, I mean, there's an opportunity for me to step in to be the head of, you know, MVP and MMA if this is a huge success and, you know, be an actual rival for the UFC

and give fighters some bargaining power and to like be there Dana. Madonna just turned out. What happened? Hi, what's going on, Madonna? There's a sign. It's a sign. Yeah, I think so.

I know, what is the song? Is there a much? Did Madonna just walk? Girls just want to have fun. Okay. It feels like it is a sign of universe. You dropped through in Madonna in your house. Yeah.

I should be a promoter now. Madonna has said so. Jake heard that. Jake Ball heard that. Hey, come on Jake. But on that, the business side of it all, given back to the sport that is obviously given you a lot, would be dope to watch.

And it'd be a cool thing to kind of see you evolve into that role and see what business you guys can create over there. I love what Jake's doing, man. I really do. I think he loves it as well. I heard some chatter, though. You talked to Ariel, right? He might be done.

Yeah, about his jolly. He said the doctor hasn't cleared him. There's nervous to clear him, so he might not fight again, actually. But I think he'll still continue to give back. Oh, yeah. And through this process, what have you learned about Netflix's want for this to be great? Because obviously the Tyson- Jake Paul fight was a $60 million or something like that. I think Jake Paul said he's expecting $20 million.

That would be a conservative number if we saw in this particular fight. You're talking about the biggest numbers of all time for the game. How has it been working with Netflix? how has it been in the opportunity roles in what you've been learning about what's possible? I mean, Netflix has been amazing in that they have been, you know, increasingly seen how much potential there is here to investing more and more and more and more. I mean, who keeps putting music on it? Is that Trev?

Get off of your phone. I like his Bluetooth. He's connecting the Bluetooth. Hey, you're watching videos. You've got to go to the top right corner, hit the little circle. The worst. Oh, no, yeah. We're about to learn a lot.

Yeah. But they've been great. And we're doing open workouts, like in Venice Beach, like with the sun, you know, the sun setting. And, you know, they were doing, like, fan events and putting, like, you know, giant hexagons out for people to do stuff. The stuff that, like, the UFC used to do, and they kind of, like, you know, stop doing so much. Like, the Netflix went all out into the promotion and doing, like, great commercials. and I was able to make a work out a partnership with Capcom

and we did like special like street fighter like homage like fight shirts and stuff like that remember when these big cool fight shirts yeah well I only wore affliction but yeah I do remember the cool shirts to you there's a lot of good but they did like I got they made one with like you know me and Gina is like Cammy and Tun Lee and like like a where where's

What does that shit at? Who's available right now? Yeah, it's not my story, I think, on my Instagram. And they got like Nate and Mike Perry as Suggott and Zongi. And then we got, what's it called? Francis and Ghanu and Linz as Akuma and Ryu. I mean, it's really cool. I was able to like, you know, work this out because I'm friends with one of the guys that's head of net

vaccination. And he was like, oh, I know the guys like Capcom and stuff like that. And just, we've just, they just elevated everything that beyond we ever would have been able to do if we didn't have an incredible partner like Netflix. We're on the Randy's donut, you know, the Randy's donut, they put a big hexagon over the donut. Okay, I like that. I like what they're doing. This is the entire fight card for Netflix as we run up on a hard out here. This is the entire card, main card, 9 p.m., 6 p.m. Pacific time, they'll go live on Netflix.

We assume it will be an entire cast of characters covering the fight. And let's enjoy it all. We cannot wait to watch you get back in there. Thank you for doing this for us as sports fans. And congratulations on enjoying the hell out of the process. Good luck against Gina, and we can't wait to see it all. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me on, guys.

Hey, you guys out, he needs to watch who he's Bluetooth connected to. We'll learn a lot about him. You know, he's out there. Girls just want to have fun having his day. You're the best. Ladies and Jim, Ronda Rousey. Yeah, Rondo. Oh.

Yeah. I think they're, I think they're really trying to go. That card is kind of unbelievable. Actually. Names everywhere. Everywhere. Boom, boom, boom, boom.

And then Rhonda, at this stage of her life, she seemed so at peace with it. Like enjoying the process, cutting promos, what's next? How can I tie this together? It's like sometimes you've got to take that road to get there and then all the info that you've collected can benefit. Yeah. Feels like we're about to see that on Saturday.

Good luck to all of them as they fight. We'll continue digitally as. Sports Center takes it from here. Be a friend, tell her friends, I'm nice and might change the left of a buck. I think I got it. Yeah, you did. Yeah. I think she's going to win.

For sure. She looks. A lot of people, a lot of people think she might win within the first minute. Yeah. Oh, really? So, that's why I asked, like, what are we, are we judo and the shit out of this? And I'm getting right to the arm bar? Is that what we were doing?

Because it felt like she could get there anytime she wanted back in the day. Like, hey, let me, and yep, fucking gotcha. Yeah, that's what I thought. so. I mean, Turtle. Yeah, I had to get it. Turtle got it. Yeah, I had to.

Adam Pierce. Mm-hmm. Yep. That guy saw it. Adam Pierce. I actually, now that we dealt with four and Adam Pierce, I think we're kind of bigger fans of Adam Pierce. Of the other, yeah.

Don't you think? Yeah, he is. What was that guy's name? Nobody would tell me. Every week I kept saying, four of Adam Pierce, like hoping somebody would tell me. Was that not what it was? He's just a wann-be other guy. He was very handsome.

And also, there was a couple times I put my hands on him. Strapping on the left? Got a jack. It's like this table. Those couple times I hit him a little bit. I'm like, I don't think I should be hitting this guy that hard. But he'll never fucking know that. Nope.

Get out of here. What's his name for an Adam Pierce? That's it. You guys are terrible. Nick. Aldous. All this. Thank you.

Oh, the snow, if you will. Yeah. Yes. Exactly. I thought that was him. But Adam Pierce caught a real brutal one from Triple H from Rhonda. Oh, yeah. About a big one out there.

ended his career. I know. What's the odds? It's fascinating because Gino, sorry, Gina obviously has a lot of experience and everything like that, but I think all of us naturally,

our brains go back whenever we think about female fighters in the past. It's like Rhonda. Ron is the headline. She's minus 500. She changed the entire UFC. She did. Oh, yeah.

Ronda changed the entire. Her and Connor McGregor, would be the two that sent UFC to what it sent. Just ability, character, reaction, polarize, like everything you want. Mainstream. She was

very, very mainstream during her run, like everywhere. She was great on Entourage when she was in there. Yeah. Connor wanted to ask about Fast and Furious as well. Uh-huh. She was in that movie. Like, she was all over the place. And I think her and McGregor were the first on the video game cover or one of the

first couple video games that they made. Like, that was to your guys' point, like, when UFC to me became like the biggest, It ever was It was in Fast and Furious too Was that? Gina

She was in Fast Furious 6 Wow Yeah they were both in it She's been in Star Wars shows as well Demanday the 4th just happened Yes she was Deadpool Hey shout to Gina

Sign up to do this shit again too Yeah Yep That was my big question for Rhonda And then as she was kind of laying it out She was like It kind of fits into my life And I actually need this

It seems like I'm like good for you I'm happy to hear that Because there's a lot of people That's sign up for things And then it's like Oh I forgot what this is This is A lot of work

Can you imagine? Yeah. I was at that the thing yesterday, New York. Dance with Stars people were there. Robert Irwin was there. They just got off tour. They were doing it.

They did a whole thing. Yeah. Irwin. Irwin. Alfonso. Alfonzo. Alfonzo. He's great.

Legend. He was there as well. Julianne Huff was there. Derek Huff was there. Derek? Yeah. They're all. It was unbelievable.

American Horror Store here. Fucking Dance with Stars over here. Fucking the view right here. You said Lohan was there, right? Lansing. Low hand. The view? Was Lady Gaga?

I believe. Big room, a lot of people. Was Marvel there? Yeah. Super heroes. Tom, Tim, Tom. Holland? Hiddleston?

Yeah. No way. Walked right by me. He's the man. He was the man. And the aura was super. Oh, yeah. He's an English super villain.

Yeah. One, two. I'm not used to these types of things, though, whenever these super celebrity people were at this thing. So there's a thing. There's an after thing. Then there's an after after thing. That's where you got to be careful.

Yeah, the third one. The after after thing. No, I think it was a part of the thing. Like, hey, you go here next. This is this long. Then there's an exit for all of us. And then we go to this thing, which is the actual thing. That was kind of the thing.

So we do that entire thing. We get over to that particular place. And it was just like, this is outrageous. We're not. supposed to be and me and bruce definitely thought we're not supposed to be in the room that definitely not but we're having massive conversation i mean Josh tomorrow new head of disney there his boy Alex he's there with his friend chatting with these people then he turn around oh jimmy pittaro obvious good to catch up burke me jimmy burke and josh tomorrow in a diamond formation it's like wow

this is an absurd situation as this head of disney yeah so he like sports love sports that's good Dungeons like sports. Love sports. Bob Eager, like sports. Kids love sports. Bob understood sports and liked sports. Josh tomorrow is a sports guy. That is a suit, okay? Opened up his entire thing. This is his first time speaking at Disney up fronts.

Celtics die hard. Patriots die hard. Hell yeah. Oh, no. Talked about the playoffs. Obviously on ESPN. Hammered Nix. We're in New York.

Talked about it. It basically said like hate that the NICS. This is, he's opening this is the first time. I hear him saying, I'm like, yes, I like what we're doing here. I like that this guy's super suit, because that's that role. The head of Disney is Bob Iger was the Bobfather. I believe he is deemed the super suit in the suit world. He is the one.

So the Disney job is a massive suit job. That is a, yeah, yeah. Tears of suits. The Disney job is, it has been the suit. And he is a sport, you can tell he has grew up. as a sports fan in that role. I think that's a big deal. I think that's a very big deal.

Huge. Yes, I think so too. And if I didn't get a chance to chat with him and talk to him and his kid, his boy, you can tell his kid, massive diehard fan. So it's like, oh, this is actually, you know, like this is a real thing. So that was fun. Julian Huff walks ever because I guess she had a conversation. There's like interesting because there's a lot of conversations.

There's a lot of working. Yeah. A lot of working happening too. You know, as you're watching it all kind of unfold. I'll just have a good time to have conversations. And it's some working. But they're Julian Huff. Huff comes ever. Oh, nice

she starts talking. I'm like, oh, this is my time out or whatever. I go, uh, the Huff family is Monsters, I think was the word, beast or something, I forget the word. And I said, Dance With Stars, what years is this? They were like 30 something. I'm like, holy shit. And then she goes, I heard you were going to be on it.

And I said, that's awesome. I said, good luck, guys. Walked out, okay? We just talked about signing up for all that work. I've heard from everybody that has been on Dancing with the Stars, that that is you are signing up for potentially. If it works out well,

you are signing out for a book, a fight camp. Eight hours a day dancing. Yeah, but your feet too are getting crammed in and mentally you got to, and he can't let down the other, it's a team thing.

It's like, I've heard that. Then you've got to perform live on national television and dancing, something that is so foreign to most people. Yeah, it would be really tough. There's so many, yeah. It's like people go and lose 30 pounds when they go on there.

I heard you were doing it. Oh, that'll be fun. You'll be good on. That'd be sick. Yeah, let's know how good you'll be. What? This season? Let's get to our break, boys.

We'll be back. And he gets to do it. What year? That's no chance. That's one of those things. The boots? Listen, if they're going to let me two-step, I'll do it. If it's electric slide with an extra kick, Kurt Warner was there with his bride, by the way, speaking of.

Nice. Talked about Copperhead Road, hitting the dance floor. Need to get out there, is out of Arizona, do some dancing with the Warner's. Okay. Her hair, fucking perfect. You know, always. Mrs. Warner has sick. air, unbelievable.

But the entire time, all I did is just walk over until, hey, when are you guys fucking? You ready? When are we doing the thing? When are we doing the thing? And I said, copperhead road, electric slide with an extra kick, right? And Kurt goes, ooh, and then she goes, absolutely not. There's no, you're not, whatever this is calling where you're crossing the legs in electric. There's none of that in copper hair road.

And I was like, all right. Okay, I almost caused a little thing. I was happy to do that. But yeah, it was yesterday it was incredible. Let's take a break. On the other side, we're going to cover all of sports stores. Enough talking about me and Mickey Mouse House. I'm going to see Lane Kiffins.

I met Precious. Oh. What? I met Precious. The actress? The rule. Gabrielle was good. Gabby?

Gabby. Bail it. Nailed it. I met Miss Gabby. I was the one scanning room. Holy shit. That's. That's precious.

Right over there. Got a chance of meet her. We had a great time. Yep. It's Ms. Kimberly Martin, Christine, Monica McNutt, Jess Sims, and Ms. Gabby. It's a good crew. We're having a good time. I was told by the crew that I needed to turn on the flashlight, and I was being an asshole thinking that I could. I didn't know what they meant by that, but it felt like they all, everybody that was sitting at that table certainly had remarks to me about how the photo was being taken. Just now, it was an honor to be there, and they were a great time. This was a great crew right here.

This was a great- The after or the after after? This is after after. So there's like, look, you see the booths. Like everybody kind of has their own little spot. Yeah. You know, and then on the other side over here, there was like a, like a standing area. We were doing a lot of standing area because we don't want to confine herself to a booth.

You sit down in a booth, somebody slides in one side. You're kind of trapped. You have no idea where you're going to head to. You said Bruce was holding court with all the suits at his booth? Bruce actually, from my understanding, while I was involved in a conversation that did have some importance with John Leguizzo about the movie The Pest. Wow. I was told,

I like to party with my peace, cruise the street. I started singing the song to him. I think he was impressed that I do the words. Or freaked out. One or the other. I heard Bruce delivered a master class with some suits on the other side of the room. That is from one suit to me unasked for.

You should have seen Bruce. He hit a suit home run earlier. With some. movers and shakers in his suit world good boy bruce just had that full suit on the fucking hair was flowing he was pointing us through the subway

he was right after after Bruce still holding court oh yeah I wouldn't say I was holding court but it was great to meet everybody crazy rooms to be in really just an awesome day Robert Irwin

he lights up any room he walks that guy Radio Row Hall Famer obviously but he is just a rock star yeah he was awesome you could feel him

when he walked into a room because huge small. Always happy. Huge small. And then there is like a glow around them. Yeah. Ozys. But we went to that after one. Okay.

Hey, here's cars. More SUVs than I've ever seen. A thousand of them underneath this thing. Okay. And Bruce left my sunglasses in one of the SUVs. There's 400 of them. The most you've ever seen in your life. There's 400 black SUVs.

Every escalade in New York was underneath this job. center okay driving everybody around the driver just accidentally blurps you'll be you'll be riding in this one on the way out and Bruce like perfect and he takes his sunglasses and my sunglasses that he was holding onto in his suit jacket I did not have one puts them in the car in the SUV and then we just leave no and he goes it fell out of my pocket it felt like Asana put it back in there we're going to be back you think we're going to get the same fucking issue there's 400 of them here you think we're and turns out guess what yeah we didn't that that was number 109 we got in like 240 Saturday or something like that.

But it did become like, hey, where are you going? You're going over there? Everybody kind of gets in, in car. We had no idea where we're going. I had no fucking clue where we were heading.

I'm sitting in the back of this thing, just riding. That's fun. And then we get to a... Call up Mr. Bancelva. We get to some FaceTime back from Bronson. That's exactly right in the middle of that thing

because I was just in the back. Start smoking in there. The driver was not happy about that. I was in the way back. I didn't know if the smoke was going to get up there. I thought I was in the smoking section. It's legal. That's what I said.

he was not happy. He was trying to kick me out of the car. I was way too far in the back. We pull up though and we get into a line. Fucking humans. It's a red carpet with humans that we were going into this event. I said, absolutely not.

Copped out, got out of the side. I said, I'm not fucking walking through this. Is there a side door? Nope. So instead, I had to walk next to the crowd to get to the crowd, to walk through the crowd. And obviously, as soon as Robert Erwin gets out of the SUV behind us.

Huge. Robert Irwin. Yeah, we just snuck right in there. Perfect. It was a, I'll tell you, it was a, it was a unique day. And I've never really done a lot of those things.

The people are all very good to us and we're grateful for it. Let's take a break on either side. We've got to wrap up all the sports and stop talking about that. Be a friend, tell the friend, something nice. You might change your life.

Take five. Fight! Sports. That's AJ Hawke. AJ, I hope you're ready. Contentious. What's happening? I'm sorry. That's what I'm saying. You better buckle that chin.

A little bit tighter. Okay. I will. I'll put my cup on. Let me put my cup on. Triple X like Gilbert. Mm-hmm. Don't, don't, don't, don't.

With your flag jacket on. Toxic tables here at Boston Corner and man's ready to go. One half for the hammer. God. Cowboys AP 10 are not there yet. Tone's not happy. Nine-year NFL vet. Darius J. Butler is here.

Tone's not happy. Ladies and gentlemen, the international schedule for the NFL's 2026 season has officially been released. Starting Australia. A lot of games. Starting in Australia. Then we take a trip to Rio, then London town for a few weeks. Then we head over to Paris.

How about Madrid, Munich, Mexico, City, all before week 12 begins. We take a global tour of the game. And Australia is far. If it's able to work there, that means. anywhere will be possible. Maybe even fuck it, Fiji. You have no idea where a game. Tokyo Dome, brother. Could be anywhere. Could be absolutely

anywhere. There's a team, obviously, it's traveling twice internationally as a San Francisco 49ers. Their mileage this year is so 26,000 or something like that mile. Yeah, it is. Sorry, 38,000 miles. More than the Panthers,

browns, and bears combined. Yeah, that's a lot of traveling. Now, where they're based, they're going to be doing a lot of traveling. Anyways, obviously, if you're on any of the coasts with the way the NFL is now, you're going to be traveling with inner division, inter-conference stuff that's going to take place. But when you're playing in Australia, obviously, it's going to add some miles. And then whenever you also got in Mexico City, by the way, also that's going to add some miles. But that might be closer than a game that they could potentially have on the East Coast.

Nonetheless, a lot of traveling. The international games have been announced. AJ, we're quickly understanding that the future of the NFL is every team is going to have an international game. Okay, and there is going to be one every single week. And we might even see with the development of plain technology. If the Concord, was that the name of it? The Concord? Yes.

Jim Ursay, rest in peace. Legend, rest in peace. Jim Ursay was an owner for a long time. And anytime he'd come on our show, he'd just kind of have shit spill out of his mouth. It was like pretty big news, you know, from the history of the NFL. The NFL was banking, and I assume they weren't the only one. the Concord plane that was hypersonic or whatever the fuck it was, that would be able to get from New York to London in like four hours or something.

I forget what the time was, maybe three hours. I forget what it was. The NFL at that point, from the way Jim talked to us about it, was like the NFL was that going to be putting a team in London. If the Concord plane would have worked out, that would have brought Europe and America closer, quicker, and the NFL certainly would have seized the opportunity and put a team in London. Instead, it became the London Games over there.

Jacksonville Jaguars, obviously, because Conn owns a society. soccer team over there, they kind of became it. Now, it's multiple countries, multiple different continents, and they're trying to go everywhere. How do you feel about it, AJ? And what is your first thoughts whenever you see the schedule get released about how many games are going to be overseas or in other countries? Do you think it's great for the game, bad for the game? Oh, I think it's great for the game. Obviously, it's a global situation. We know the NFL is, and it's only going to continue to happen more and more. I mean, the first thing I thought of was, yeah, I would imagine tone and the rest of Steeler nation

will be very excited to go to Paris, France. That seems like a very big, first tight place. AJ, you want to start the war now? Let's do it. I wouldn't you get your take in on it, you know, so you can maybe provide your thoughts. I love the global expansion of the game. Okay, we got soccer happening over here all the time.

That's kind of the world sport. We got our sport. I love that other places are getting introduced to greatest sport on Earth. I love the flag football is coming along at the right time. So these guys in these other countries and girls in these other countries don't have to have pads and helmets and access to these things that they might not have in some of these places.

All they've got to have is football, a couple flags, a couple belts. They'll be able to play the greatest game on Earth. And within no time, when you're talking about the Olympics, maybe we'll be able to have actual tackle football because they grow through the game. You saw the basketball world obviously grow with the dream team. They go overseas, grow the entire game. Now there's a massive Europe influx into the NBA. That could happen in the NFL. And when you can't grow anymore in America, which I don't.

don't know if the NFL is at that feels like they're getting close no the numbers are absurd i mean the amount of people that are watching the NFL in america is absurd how many how many people watch the super all of them 100 in what 40 20 it's 300 million people in us of a okay we got we can we can triple in the united states of america okay that's something we can do and to borrow you know a little french a contrar montraire au contraire all country yeah that's what i said um no the injures are pissed, AJ. They don't want to go to France. They don't want to go to Pepe Le Pius Town. Where do they want to go then? They want to go to New Orleans.

They want to party on Bourbon Street. That's fine. That is a real thing. They actually are very, very mad that it's in France and not Bourbon Street because, you know, these teams, they look at their schedule. New Orleans is a destination city. Like, when you look at the schedule, like, hey, we're Steelers fans. We never play the NFC. We want to go to New Orleans. We want to see a game in New New Orleans. Whatever. So now they're going to France. There's nine. What is there, nine international games? How long until there's nine American games? Okay? How long

until the entire season is played internationally and then we're only, we only have nine games? This isn't some, to borrow words from J.J. Watson traveling circus. The NFL is not a gimmick. And with all the respect to Savannah Bannas, this is how the NFL's starting to turn into with these internet. Yeah. They are

trained. They drag the bananas into this. Jesse Cole is hitting dingers in football stadium. Riley Green. That's how the third of them. That's not a wrong. Up to the street in the NFL. Like, it's some gimmick.

Bro the game. The back. The game wasn't built on the backs of international people. Okay. Well, it was built on the backs of American. That's a tough road to walk. This is an American sport. It's an American pastime.

And we're ruining it by traveling. And, you know, they don't even care. They're there because it's an event. Okay. Do some other event over there. Have the Olympics over there. Whatever fuck you want to do over there. It's football, babe.

Football is meant to be played in America. on American Great Iron, on American grass or turf, depending on whatever the players association gets done this year. Turf. But I just, no, they don't like the turf. Yeah. They also don't like the soccer grass, though. I've heard that.

Exactly. Owners don't care. It's rather pay to put it in and take it out than to leave it in for a whole year. Players in bad health positions, okay? What happened to health and safety? Okay. What's that? Every time we go and play on one of these fields, it's slippery as shit.

Everyone's getting hurt. It is slippy over it. Very slippy. Went down in Brazil and Pat Mahomes. It was almost tore his knee open. Jordan Love did. I'm not agree with him. Yeah, just do his point.

Thank you. I mean, it's just, pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered. You ever hear that one, Roj? Okay. Now we're playing Wednesday through Monday. Nothing sacred anymore in this goddamn country, this sport. This is, it's unbelievable.

It's unbelievable. It's not even a sports argument anymore for Joe. No, yeah. Tone certainly found a way to get his other shit if you will. But he's not the only one to feels this way. You know,

and I think the Jensers, they show up whatever 800,000 at the draft, you know? It's like, hey, we fucking are all in on football.

We are the football. The draft goes international. I'm fucking done. Oh. That'd be saying, I really hope the draft goes international. That will happen.

I'm saying, no way. They got to go to actual football towns at the draft. They know that. You got to go to actual football towns to play.

Football! It's a showcase of our sport, of our league. It is a showcase. What about the troops overseas that want to watch ball? Then we should do it on an Air Force base or a military base, okay? That'd be cool.

Playing a carrier up. Bingo. It's not your home game. You had your home game in Ireland last year. That's not the point, see? It's not even that. You say this about Ireland last year? Yes.

They take you to Ireland. They're taking it to France. I mean, what are they doing to you? They're trying to make you explore maybe a little bit? Are you not Chris? They're trying to make me weak. All those countries. Ireland ain't weak.

Don't even get me started on Germany. Okay, I guess we just forgot about what happened there. We're just going to give them three or four games. I mean, Germany has certainly made up, I think, in the world society. I can't believe France hasn't withdrawn from this game yet. See, okay. So what year is this? Just so I know, as we can get through the car.

It's 2020. These colors don't run, brother. You're alive? Huh? My grandfather was. He served. He was on the beaches of Normandy. Rest and peace, to John.

Grassey. Yeah. Grand coach. There's a game in Italy, right? There's going to be a game in Italy. How you feel about that? How do you feel with tone? If there's a game in Italy, how would you feel about that?

As far as they don't use the meatballs. But if there was a game in Italy, what would the tune that you'd be singing? I wouldn't like it. Because it's the Browns. I wouldn't like it. EPL, international soccer. They don't even play regular season games in the U.S. That's the world's game.

It ain't. What? So you want us to be more like soccer? in this in this circumstance say it will you please say that in this circumstance yeah will you say it though i would like uh i would like um european soccer they get that that's their sport and they keep it to themselves i would like the united states football leagues do the same ufl yeah you like no the nfl oh okay you would like us to keep our game to ourselves yeah no international games at all zero

I don't think they're going to listen to you, Tone. I think it's... No, shit. You know, I think we've passed that. I just love the lack of reality that, like, you can find yourself in. How many years have they been doing the international game? 30 years. 30 years?

It's been a long time they've been taking good. That's how long they've been trying to ruin this game? Jeez, Louise. That's awesome. Super Bowl in another country would be cool. That whole Champions League or thing you just brought up, like, do they do the chance? They've done the Champions League in, like, Miami. Did you just say Super Bowl to...

another country? Like the Super Bowl, what has happened? Think about it. Think about it. Fans of the teams, we're talking about this every year at the Super Bowl. Fans of the teams don't even go.

No, no, not as many. Typically, Super Corpo. Super Corpo, it's all people that have bought Super Bowl tickets ahead of time, who can afford them normally. Companies can. Tickets to a Super Bowl. Let's hope our team gets there. A lot of people doing that.

So there's not as many teams fans. Exactly. On that note, you want a ball. George to the Super Bowl? I did not say France. Okay. Let's everybody's French fries.

Talk about this. I did not say France. But like Ireland, for instance, if they went to go. Okay. You could throw Italy in there. If they did it in some cool area. Superbo's got to be here. Got to be in the football city and one of these new beautiful stadiums.

Some nice weather. When's a playoff? Same time. All the new beautiful stadiums aren't football cities, though. Like Vegas and L.A. Those aren't. It's a football town. I guess we can do that, but they aren't.

Nope. Apparently Paris is more of a football town. Than New Orleans, I guess. Apparently. I appreciate they're growing the game. And, you know, I think it's good for the future of the game. It's hard to live in a moment that is being prepared for the future. I think that's kind of across the board.

Anything that is preparing for the future, the moment is always going to suck, especially for the generation that has to go through it. And Jensers are certainly not happy about what's going on right now. But what if tackle football ends up in the Olympics? Would that not be sick? I don't care. Other countries don't really play football. Has it yet.

Olympic gold? I don't care about the Olympics. I care about the NFL. I mean, you know what? The more he talked, the more I'm starting to be on his side. The Super Bowl one, I immediately, same way as Connor thinks, like, that's not really like die-hard fans. A lot of diehard fans can't get into the Super Bowl

And also it's a lot of pre-bought tickets So it's usually a pretty good. All the greedy corporate fat gas price them out. Exactly. Yeah. So if you're going to do that. Yeah. So if you put the one Super Bowl game somewhere else

And then all of the other games, the national football league regular season games back home in America. Are they going to start going to the IFL, huh? I don't know. Is it going to be the international football? All I'm saying is it's a slippery slope, my friends. And to tackle football. in the Olympics, that would only set us up for failure.

What? We either win gold or if anything negative happens, it's the worry. How do we even lose? There's no way any of the American lines will ever lose. This is 30 years from now. Great. In 2196, we're pretty far away from that. We are.

All right. Hey, way to go, other countries. Thank you for embracing our sport. Growth game. 2196, redeem team USA football. That's a harsh round. to limit. Yeah.

It certainly is. Bones' son is out there. Okay. Treader, the new head of the NFLPA, not just the head player of the NFLPA, the head of the NFLPA, obviously speaking about the grass that is entering every NFL stadium

that has a turf field that is hosting a World Cup game. So the natural and easy thing to say to all these NFL teams is, you'll do it for fucking soccer, but you won't do it for all. us. We had a whole hashtag, a whole movement about getting the grass. You guys stood firm, but no, can't do it, can't do it, won't do it. And then the World Cup comes to the town,

and you got a couple five-foot four guys that want to flop around on grass and won't play. You'll do that for them, but not for us. That has always been the player's position in this entirety since soccer has come over to the stadium. J.J. Watt, soccer owner, and also very much pro-player guy, like maybe the loudest, the most pro player guy in the history. He said that the soccer grass that they put on these stadiums ass. Like this isn't good either. This would not be good for NFL players as well because I think it's slippy, you know, heavy physical contact,

a lot of torque on this grass, a lot of push. I guess soccer field's not built for that. Soccer grass is obviously different. It's a little lighter. It's a little softer. It's been for running, not so much of like pushing and all that stuff. So the grass that's going into these stadiums is nowhere near what football grass would inevitably have to be anyways. So there's always a constant deflection by the NFL.

As soon as the players say this about the World Cup soccer grass, the NFL goes like, you want that grass? If we were to put that grass in every single stadium, your guys' argument would look terrible because it would be the worst that we have. So it seemingly has been one of these. J.C. Treader, though, is continuing to push for it. Do you think inevitably we end up in a time where there's all grass fields in all of our stadium? I mean, what do you do for the places that are permanent domes that doesn't go, it's not retractable? Walking outside like they do in Arizona. Yeah, I mean, you have to retrofit some stadiums, I would imagine.

Yeah, I think eventually we could get there. We definitely could get there, but I don't see it happen anytime soon. Well, I have a friend who's growing some stuff behind a false wall in a closet in college. And he dropped down these lights, okay, that he was able to put down in there. Sure. And if the NFL stadiums just had The Packers have them The Packers have those lights

They put on like starting in October Where they roll across the field Like all night My guy could grow So I think they could get this grass to be They got tents on Amazon To have everything set up Where you could you could grow all your

All the stuff you need right there Pretty easy People are growing marijuana off Amazon tents What's that? Oh yeah Then I finished this I was going to say did you guys as players Like

Did you always want grass? Okay so I will speak first and quick because these two guys certainly much more particular in this conversation to be listened to. For me, hardest turf possible. Give me cement. Okay, go ahead, AJ. Yeah, the opposite of what Pat said, I would think, is what I would say. It was always a thing where guys never wanted to practice on turf because you practice on turf multiple days in a row.

It is true. Like, I don't know when the field turf came out, but when field turf first was invented, it was made to wear like nubs, like little. soccer shoes. It wasn't made to wear cleats and dig in. That's the thing. Like, when cleats dig into field turf and it torques, your cleats stay in and then something's got to give and the turf is not going to give. You're going to get stuck in the turf and boom, we see injuries and they can say whatever they want at all. The numbers aren't up and turf. You don't get hurt more. Yeah, you do. You definitely get hurt more on turf when you wear cleats when you're playing professional football, I believe. But I would want grass as much I can, but also I'm realistic and I know it's

probably not going to happen. You were talking about AstroTurf to begin there. then sport turf came in. No, I'm talking field turf. I'm talking field turf. I'm talking field turf was meant to wear like nubs on it. With the rubber. Cadillac. Really?

Yeah. Where your Cadillacs. Yeah. Oh, because I thought you were talking about the original Astro Turf, which was cement with green carpeting. That was really. That was safer. That was safer than field turf when it came to like tearing your ACL and things like that because you didn't get stuck in field and old school turf like that because you're not wearing cleats.

You just get burnt everywhere. Oh, and you get, yeah, you can fall and don't know your head off of there and, you know, you don't know your name the rest of your life. Yeah, forever. Just a couple of those, too, maybe don't walk. The on-site kicks on those things. Oh, yeah. You're hitting that.

There was no, there was nothing. It's like a trampoline. You're straight off the concrete. It's, man, that's why I picked the concrete. AJ obviously had to run for a living and hit people and engage with people and torque and twist with people for a living, which is much more like. D. Butt, obviously, corner and secondary have to be very explosive, a lot of change of motion. I'll be intrigued to hear what you would like. Would you want grass?

I'm the same. But practice, grass as much as possible. Now, when it gets cold outside and that grass basically turns in the rock, I wouldn't mind a little turf. Game day, I don't really care. It's really, really an opponent. Like, whatever the opponent would prefer, I would prefer the opposite. So if we're playing Tyreek Hill, I would not want to be on the fastest surface possible.

But game day, I don't really care. Long as it was just decent. There was, I remember Houston back in the day, they would have the turf, but it would have, like, lines and shit. Like West Walker, I took towards ACL, like last. Game of the season. I think my rookie year, I'm just running on that turf. So as long as this some good, whether it's grass, super grass, turf, whatever. I don't care of game day. But practice, give me grass as much as possible.

That Houston turf got a few. Yeah. Because they were putting the strips in. They've got big seams. Seems you can see running through there. I think they had a punter kickoff guy named Brett. I forget his last name. He hit kickoffs like 95. I've never seen anything. Like he got drafted to be a kickoff specialist, basically. This guy, he would kick him 100 yards if he could.

I've never been more impressed with somebody's leg after watching him in a summer camp. He got drafted. He ends up at the Texans. He, he whole leg on a seam. Damn. Brett Hartman? Yeah, there it is.

Yeah, Brett Hartman. What do you do with his, something happened with him on a seam, right? I'll look it up. This guy right here. He could, this guy could kick a football 150 fucking yards. I've never seen anything like it.

It was, I thought he was a donkey. He just got a fucking mule. Yeah, his foot caught in a seam and Torres A-City. And fractured stibula. Yeah. Covering a kick while covering a kick or something? Yeah, I think so.

And nobody really, I don't think a lot of people knew of this man's existence as NFL fans, you know what I mean? But like, he comes to the AFC South. I'd seen him in summer camps doing shit. And I'm like, holy hell, I'm excited to watch this guy like in real life again. And then it all ended quickly. And then I think there was even some loss. Yeah, he sued the stadium owner.

Yeah. And that would be considered grass, though, right? So that would go into the stats of grass. Yeah. There was a seam in the turf at Reliance Stadium. Oh, no, it's turf. Oh. Well, was it turf or they just calling grass turf?

Yeah. Well, Reliant was inside, right? No, Reliant had grass for a long. Yeah, and they did have, I think it was grass. I'm pretty sure it was grass. I'm thinking it was grass. Because grass would be what they would be putting patches down of, right? They wouldn't just be putting patches of turf down in an NFL game.

Yeah, they had grass from 2002 to 2014, and this happened 20, 2011. So, yeah, it was... Okay. Yeah, West's happened in 2009. Right before the play. AJ, I didn't like how you said. They can tell me the stats and analytics. It hurts more.

That's what you said. Because remember, we had Dr. Seals. Yeah. Dr. Allen. I'm a fan. I'm a fan of his. Me too. He'll sit in the pocket, answer whatever.

He is the chief medical officer for the NFL. He said we have his robots, scanning fields throughout the season to tell us which turf is better at what time a year. And it turns out sometimes a year, some turf is actually better than other turf whenever it comes to injuries. Some of the sport turf, newer innovations of sport turf, actually like 4X, some of the grass that was being used. They say there's conflicting data. There's conflicting data because obviously there's different weathers from the beginning to the end. But I think every player that's ever come out and said anything other than kickers and punters is like,

you're supposed to slip sometimes. Like if you have a 900-pound two guys leaning on you and your foot's in the ground, it's supposed to chunk up and fall down and you're supposed to be on the ground instead of your whole body and your foot stays in the ground and then your leg just collapses.

They'll get figured out. Yeah. I'm sure it will. I mean, it can just be realistic. Raj can say, hey, man, like, it's not very realistic to say we're all going to switch to grass all of a sudden. Like, he could say that.

Rod can say, hey, listen, I hear you. Okay? I'll bring everyone of you into the room to go talk to all these owners and tell them they need to put the super dress. Okay? I'm trying. But they all have their own individual conflicting stats about why they're not doing it. Okay? So you guys need to give me answers for me to go in there to answer all of them.

Because they got robots. Now they got AI working on this thing and they don't want to change the shit. So what's that stadium overseas that we saw that has the four. and them hotspurs. Real does as well, Madrid. Those stadiums. That's not as great as everyone says, though. I've heard it. The grass isn't like there's seams in that grass. So the seams of that grass also built for soccer grass. So like soccer grass not built for 600 pounds. Engaged contact.

Yeah, like being engaged. Think of like a three technique taking on a double team. Like that's a lot more stress on the grass than soccer players running around and possibly falling down at times. And I think that's what JJ was referring to whenever he said like whenever the soccer games come over and they put the soccer grass on top of the football stadium. It's like, that's not. Whoa, that's not.

And that becomes the argument for the players all the time. It's like, hey, you'll put grass in. for them and then the NFL just goes you idiots is this you know it's always something it's always something but I like the trekkers getting after it let's move to racing the pinnacle talking of one

no talking NASCAR yes okay and Indy car yes boys what month is it May yeah there's checker flags all around my

yeah absolutely one of my neighbors painted a checker flag into his entire front hill. Of course. Like that. Unbelievable work. I'm worried about the rain what happens if it comes, but it's not, it hasn't, and it looks spectacular. I appreciate that. Catherine Legg will attempt the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 double on May 24th, becoming only the sixth driver ever to take on the 1,100 mile challenge. Notables in the past that have done this, Kurt Bush, also.

Kyle Larson. Kyle Larson did it last year or two years ago. That's Stewart? Yeah, Stewart's done. Smoke's done it. Turner, this is a very difficult thing. Obviously, the Indy 500 is here in Indianapolis, here in front of that, 300,000 or 400,000. I think it's sold out this year, actually.

Yeah, I already sold it out. So that's probably going to be 400,000 people, 450,000 people here in the fastest cars on Earth, racing, and the most exhilarating racing that there is on the entire planet Earth. In the country, I agree. Planet Earth. No, no, no, no. Only race that can go four wide. We know that for sure.

Yeah, or will go four wide because their drivers are actually racing. That's the N.500. Catherine will attempt to go from the N.500, which is grueling. Going to lose so much weight, so much sweat. It's hot as shit in there. And obviously then she'll hop on a helicopter to get to an airplane, which will fly down in Charlotte, which will hop on a helicopter, which will get into another car, race to Coca-Cola 600.

That's 1100 miles. You start doing the math, and all we'd like to do is wish Catherine leg, good luck. The drivers have not fared well doing this. Maybe she changes it all. Good luck out there. Go get it, Catherine. A lot of racing. Hopefully no delays.

That's the thing that hurt Kyle Larson last year. Weather. Rain delay. The year before, too. They're in a holding pattern. they didn't like that need to get the plane down on racing yeah like well he can't it's raining pretty good well how are they racing then well it's actually outside of the race you can't get to the race correct that's a difference and then somebody else is driving and he subbed in right yes yeah he tapped in

and he's a driver oh he's a driver oh he's one of the best they said one of the best that makes me think about the pGA championship yes it does Michael blocky he's doing it Like he's there or he's going to win it? Here's him from a T-box. I need a big cheer. Do you guys see that little electrical pull in the background? You see that thing? Yep.

That's my target. No pressure. It's in Philadelphia. What John's saying? Oh, I like that. That's where I'd aim, too. I block right. I think it's in the family though, boy.

You got to do the same thing for him, though, Harold. Okay, Blocky's having fun out there? Look how comfortable this guy. Who's his playing partner? If I was his playing partner, I'd say, sorry, Blockie, keep me out of your shenanigans. Like, I'm just trying to. What? Thursday.

Don't rope me into this. Thursday and Friday, DJ. So, yeah, DJ is part of DJ's live punishment as he has to play with Blockie. Oh, what are we talking about? Don't do Blockie. we talking about. Blocky's having fun. Blocky. And Rosmus. Rosmus. Dustin Johnson.

Blockis in his 10th major. Now, I will say this. Whoever that golfer was that was with Blocky, getting thrown into his, as AJ would describe it, shenanigans. I don't necessarily love. I do appreciate the fact, though, that we're at the stage of Blocky golfing, where he's about to play in a

massive tournament. And he's talking shit. Having a good time. Talking to the Johns. You see this? That's what I'm aiming at. Oh, Still got the fairway boys. Still got the fairway. And then the guys that have played that course a few times before I go, I don't think so, buddy.

That ends up in the sand trap. He gets booed and walks it off. I like what blocky's up to. Yeah. No, you don't. I like what block. No, the fuck you don't. I love you.

I wish you do not. And I'm so happy for Ty to family. I wish Ty was here right now to just go with his epic rins. But that's why. That is why. What do you mean? People hate Blockie. What happened?

What did he do? I'm missing it. He's engaging with the crowd trying to have a good time. You cannot call out that you hit the ball in a fair way when you're a professional golfer and you know where every ball is in a land. If you say fair way and it goes in the bunker, that's a dickhead move. You cannot do that when you're a pro. It's a PGA truck. I don't even do that.

Are we going to trust the guy who's tweeting on the internet is not real? Are we going to trust the guy who striped the fucking ball? And said, oh, still in the fair way. I think I'm going to trust Blocky. Yeah, you're right. I believe him. Hey, listen, Blocky is living a life that I don't think he could have expected. No way.

I think he probably gave it up at one point. That's probably way behind me. I love that part of it. He expected much truly. And then he gets in there and starts doing it. He's like, you know what? Blockie's kind of hot right now. You know, you start, I think he's good with the ESP's do it all.

Go back to the course, give some lessons, hit some more hole in ones, live his life, get another opportunity at it. I like these comfortable. there. That whole, do the same to him, though, thing. Yeah. That was the only part of video

made me disgusted. I'm going to say, that was the only part of the video where I was like, but maybe that's his best friend. Yeah. We don't know who that is. We have no idea who's playing it.

Maybe that guy said too, like, hey, blocky, look. I know you're the big dick out here. But is there any way you can give me just a little bit of rope when we're, you know, playing, can you maybe tell your fans because there's so many blockheads?

Can you maybe say like, hey, don't forget to die about my guy. And then Blocky says, I got you, dude. I'm going to say it's going to a fair way. I'm going to tell these fuckers, this is where I'm here. I'll put in a sand. You come up. Pipe over the top.

Everyone's going to be like, holy fuck, who's the guy next to Blocky? Yeah, Blocky's working to you, motherfuckers. All of you. You're getting work right now. He's putting over. He's going to rub. I'm a Blockhead. I'm a Blockhead.

He's not working me. I'm in his corner. Good. Tony Blockie. She should get a ticket for the weekend. Plus 500,000. You should get one of those things. I'm going to go to that.

That's scumbag city? No, I'm good. Thanks. No, no, a ticket on Blonkey. Oh, yeah, I already have one of those. Philadelphia, also, from all accounts that I've heard, this course is incredible. And Philadelphia people over the weekend, I'm excited to see what that leaderboard looks like. I'm excited to see what that crowd looks like. Yeah. Sounds like. Yeah.

I'm pretty pumped to see Philadelphia on display this weekend. It should be a blessed. My suits getting into town next week. Nice. I got to wear a suit. Oh, yeah. Flyers are already out. They are.

Quickly. suit. So that's on me. Governor Josh Shapiro. I'll be putting that thing on. I was at Super Bowl suits yesterday. That was a suit, Super Bowl. Was there a lot of suits? How many people weren't wearing suits?

Me. Rodrigo, no way. Cooper Flagg did not have a suit. Okay. Jalen Brunson did not have on a suit. Okay. So the athletes. I think that was me. I think that's the only one.

I think if I had They brought all Super Bowl MVP's. How many of those do we know? Was that all of them? Was Deon Branch there? Didn't see. Had to be there. Deon Branch was not there.

Dang. Hold on. Edelman? No representation. This was for the ESPN up front? So like was Tom there? Because I know he did the Foxx one. No, Tom.

Okay. Steve Young, Jerry, Emmett, Desmond. No Patriots. Oh, so. All, gee, mostly ESPN or non-affiliated. Peyton, Eli, obviously. Who else was up, her? There was a great.

Heinz Ward? Nick Foles, Heinzward. Oh, buddy from Seattle, the linebacker. Bobby? Irvin? No, not Bob. Bobby, you got pick six. Yeah.

KJ. right? Yes, there you go. Yep. It was like 10 wide, it looked like? I don't know. Brought out, Desmond was holding to Lombardi. and I guess they were just like all right, Des, you're going to speak.

Okay. Was it showcasing that they have the Super Bowl? Yeah. Roger Goodell came in and did a whole song and dance. That's sweet. Yeah, it was a good little time. They really moved that thing pretty quick. Hey, you got this many.

A lot of stuff. You got this many minutes for announcing a fucking match. Sure, it could get. It could get boring in the crowd, I bet. Disney's pretty big company. Huge company. And Disney owns a lot of other. companies that were probably well there was just I assume there was Hulu stuff I assume there was

oh yeah what was the one Hulu thing that was being showcased over there somebody from Hulu there was some series TV series was the paradise was the kid you said he was a Saturday beers yeah Connor I think you know it was well and it is uh what's her name's new show Mindy Kaling uh from Massachusetts that's why I know she went to my high school uh yes it is a brand new show about like corporate America and it's like an office ask show yeah the kid from Friday beers will Angus is like one of the four starring people. I just watched that trailer yesterday.

Okay, so they were at bar in front of us, I think. I didn't know 100% on me. I had nobody from Internet once told, hey, you remember this guy from Internet? Yes. Now he's full-time actual actor, I guess, from being Internet skit guy. Bingo, yeah, like for the last four years outside. ISIL come up. Yeah, hell of it.

He had a spray tan on. I was like, holy shit, Angus. You really are doing it now. Yeah, Bruce is really in his bag. I'll tell you. Bruce was in his back. He had a lot of good moments there. Super suit shit, you know.

He dropped a congrats on a deal line. Oh, your package. Somebody did a package way back in the day. He fucking dropped. It was really good suit stuff. And then obviously the way he was dressed. Not a lot of ties. About a business cash.

No, is that what that's called? No ties, business casual? Yeah. Well, business cash could be, you know, the gacky stand. Ullo, too, yeah. Pocket squares? So no tie, but pocket squares?

I didn't see many pockets squares. do that. That's way more than business cat. Any bow ties? He said ties are out. We did see bow ties. At Carbone, ZZ's Club. I asked the workers if they tied those bow ties. They didn't even keep gayfab at all. Just immediately said, no, we get fucking.

Watch this. All right. I was like, sweet. Good idea. We would do that. Tom Hiddleside. Did he have a bow tie on? He walked by us. I didn't see his front. I only saw him side. He had suit on there for sure. He's a fucking nuke. Bruce, did you say ties are out?

Yeah, just like a little bit less popular than I would say they used to be. You're only rocking that if you're like super suit at a bank. Interview. We walk by some banks. Walk by J.P. Morgan. We sure did. Okay. Sick building.

Brand new. We saw the NHL offices. Okay. Can we tell you guys that on the show yesterday? No. We walk out of hotel. Bedman selling hot dogs on the street. No.

Betman and selling hot dogs. What? What? Did make an appearance, though. Okay. So, we walk. So New York, a lot of smoke weed, but you're not a lot of, I don't fucking get it. So these cities in states. Is it medical or?

De-criminalized. It's something. It's the line bullshit. You're allowed to smoke weed. And then there are like dispensaries. And there was a Wild West era where basically every bodega was selling weed. And they kind of crack down on that. But there still are, I,

think they're licensed dispensaries in Manhattan. Okay, so that's buying the weed. Are you allowed? Where are you guys in these legal states? Where is, in your house? Yeah. Like, what am I? It's kind of policed by, you know, the general population.

You're, you're allowed to smoke anywhere. You might get shat on by commuters for smoking weed, like right outside of the subway stop, something like that. For instance. So I didn't have a balcony in my room. Okay. So I am relying upon the outside. outside of the hotel to be where I can maybe try to fall asleep tonight.

Okay, so I can maybe have a day here. Okay, that's what I'm trying to do. Tight little sidewalk, very popular. Pack sidewalk is subways right up here. Two feet, maybe, three feet here on the front of hotel. So you like get right out and you're right in the action, whatever. So I try to find corner. Try to find corner of things.

Table's everywhere. Smoke, no smoking. It's like, all right, I can't do this because everybody can stare at me through the window. So I get out into the walk, sidewalk now. I start smoking. Nasty looks from everybody. I mean, just absolute scolding from their eyes. Like, what are you fucking doing, asshole?

It's 7.30 or whatever, you know. So we had to go find a spot. There's like a little sit-down place around a corner. A little bit of space so we can keep away from each other, good comfortable chairs. Beautiful. Right across from the brand new train station, I do believe. Yeah, yeah. The new, it's like an extension.

of Penn Station, it's pretty sweet. Beautiful, fucking beautiful. This was a gorgeous part. Sit down, start smoking, start looking around, have a good time, turn around, fucking NHL offices. We're sitting at the NHL offices. We're right behind us. So I immediately face-time Gary Betman, right?

It's just what he's doing. He's answering, he's on his way in. Like this place is glorious. He goes, you need to go in, go look around. You know, I'm gonna have like, we gotta go somewhere, Gary. He's, I'll call you when I get there. We're doing, he's so hospitable.

They're building. Nice. The NHEL's doing good. Oh, yeah. Rolling. was doing really good huge building all these fucking buildings are so big who's in all these things what what is where are what is like with the fucking humans we were the all it was armageddon you know when the cars one car's driving this way and everybody else is driving this way yeah

independence day there it is independence day yeah we were walking against the stream i guess for the morning workers is there 10 million i don't know how many fucking people it was never ending wave of people that we were walking 10 million people yeah pretty much exactly but yeah i mean it's like the sales force tower downtown just times you know there are hundreds of them are they still filled up though because that weren't buildings like not filled up anymore some of them are not some of them struggle yeah some of them midtown like where the NFL offices it felt back back like yeah they're back i didn't know if there was enough fucking buildings from all the people at one point all the people were walking and i like started looking around for like where the fuck and then you look up

miles I guess 50 floors of everybody could probably just fit in this one here and you turn around it's like holy fuck and then every lobby we walked into packed packed there's fucking people everywhere i don't indie it feels like like the perfect place where people wouldn't go back to like their buildings because it felt unnecessary like new york city those people are always going to fill those buildings whereas like the indy skyscrapers most companies are making everyone come back Yeah, we have like two blocks of maybe half a block. That's a good call. Block. You said it.

Michael Block's playing in the PGA Championship. Yes, he is. Yes, he is. And I'm excited to watch him do his thing. I can't wait to watch him to you off tomorrow. What time? Do we know what time? Great question.

I think he is featured group one. Yeah, I assume they're live streaming the whole thing, wherever. We'll watch it. We'll be back tomorrow. Be your friend, tall, friend, something nice. It might change your life. We're in this thing forever. And together.

12, 10. tomorrow. Boom. Good night's rest. Perfect. ESPN kicks off at noon. Well, I guess it kind of fucks our show because everyone's going to be watching Blockie. Fuck.

So are we. So it's turning right here. Yeah. All right. I know we're going to be doing tomorrow. Boom. I see a lot of us watching. Yeah.

Like this long interview tomorrow. Maybe we get Lombardi in here. Yeah. Michael Lombardy. Lombo. Runner-Lovsky back. Yeah. Who else will just talk to themselves?

Block will be six over after three holes. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. quick. Let's get Blocky on live while he's playing. Be a friend, tell him something nice, including Blocky. It might change your life.

We're in a thing together. See you tomorrow. You guys are the greatest. Tonight, we got massive, massive. Wowed at Avalanche, 8 o'clock on TNT. Avalanche are up 3-1. They can put this entire thing away in the West. Cavs at Stons.

8 o'clock on ESPN. Stones are favored by 4.5. That series is tied 2-2. Shout to the playoffs for being awesome. Great work in the back. All right. We'll see you tomorrow. Be your friend of something nice.

Might be a change of life. We're in this thing forever and together. Team on me, team on three. One, two, three. Team, three. Good on!