The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1555 - PGA Championship Recap, Adam Schefter, Mike Tirico, Erik Johnson, Shams Charania, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: May 18, 2026

On today’s show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk and the boys chat about Aaron Rai’s improbable victory at the PGA Championship, becoming the first Englishman to win the PGA Championship in over 100 years, plus they look ahead to tonight’s Western Conference Finals game 1 between the Spurs and Thunder, game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semis between the Canadiens and Sabres, as well as everything else happening around the world of sports. They are also joined by several great guests including ESPN Senior NFL Insider, Adam Schefter; play-by-play announcer for the NBA on NBC and Sunday Night Football, Mike Tirico who is on the call for tonight’s WCF game 1; Stanley Cup Champion, 18 year NHL veteran, and ESPN NHL analyst Erik Johnson to preview tonight’s game 7 between the Canadiens and Sabres, and lastly, ESPN Senior NBA Insider, Shams Charania. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you, we’ll see you tomorrow. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Beautiful people. And welcome to our Humbley Bo, the Thunderdome, on this massive overreaction Monday, May 18, 2026. This sports program begins now. Sports! Are the absolute greatest. And tonight we got a game seven in the NHL between the Canadians and Sabres, and that has been obviously spectacular. Now, game seven last night for the NBA, kind of ass. Kind of ass. Congratulations to Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Going into Detroit, and two best words in series sports, game seven, and smacking them around for four straight quarters,

and basically taking all the excitement and exhilaration out of a seven-game series in one night where they go into Detroit in D-Town and go ahead and smack them around. Congratulations, the first time in his nine years that he's been with the Cavs. Obviously, they make it to the Eastern Conference Finals. First time without LeBron James that the Cavs have made it to the Eastern Conference Finals since like 1990-something or something like that. So congratulations to the entire city of Cleveland.

We got a lot to celebrate over there. Todd Munkin's going to bring the Browns. A little fudge, Elfie, Fudge. Brownie, the Elm. Yeah, Frownie. A little fudge. Yep. The little thing that does it for the Brown.

He's rolling, so good for the Cavs. Sucks for Detroit. But we got a game seven tonight in the NHL, and we got a game one in the Western Conference finals between an alien and an MVP. Yeah. Wembe. SGA. Chad Holmgren.

About time now. This is the time for the American alien to kind of do his thing on the biggest stage against a person that is potentially going to take over all of sport over the next five years because of how tall he is, obviously, how dynamic he is. And what he has done to basketball as a whole. Alongside a cast of characters that understand what their deal is, this Spurs team obviously incredibly tough. The Oklahoma City team wildly deep. This is a dynasty run that they're in the middle of. And SGA is now just getting comfortable winning MVP's. He's got gifts for all the boys just on deck.

Yeah, here's rollies, here's a bunch of this. going on. The Oklahoma City Thunder team is very comfortable with who they are. They know who they are. They're an MVP team. They're a championship team. Can they get through this alien? It starts tonight. This is gigantic. Tonight is going to be a Battle of the Goliaths. I know the NBA playoffs have obviously been spectacular up and to the right. There's been some blowouts like last night on Detroit let us all down. So bad. And that entire thing. But this is kind of what we've all been looking forward to on the West here. Spurs and this young team, upstart team, that has a guy that has never been seen before taking on a team that is basically doing it in their own way.

I mean, they got a lot of pizzazz in this Oklahoma State team. I'm seeing a lot of dancing from that team off the court. They got the most pizzazzed in here. And they smack people around. I mean, they beat the shit out of these people. So congrats to them. Cannot wait to watch that tonight. It'll be on NBC.

Joining us today in about 28 minutes or so, Mike Tariko. Really? Nice. No way. He'll be on the call. Mike. A great shout with him. Shefter will be joining us here in a matter of moments.

Stanley Cup winner, formerly of the Avalanche, 18 years in the NHL, will join us in a second hour, obviously, because massive night tonight. And then, Sean Sharania will join us in a second hour to talk about the integrity of reporting. Yeah. And what he needs to be doing and he needs not to be doing. Sure. That's right. Has the MVP been leaked by an NBA insider basically every year for the last 100 years? No chance.

No, that's right. You'd be wrong. No way that's ever freaking happened. I think it has happened before. Nope. I don't know. We'll find out. He is senior NBA insider.

I don't know how you get this information. Okay, who won. I think it's from like a accounting. The people that do it. Ernst and Young or wrong? Yeah, that's right. Are they the ones that, he won't give us his sources, but we will ask him directly.

How did you find out? And if he did find out, isn't that his job? I don't know. But some people say it's not your job. No. It's disgust. Not for that one. We'll find out.

We'll see what Sean has to say. Blake Griffin certainly didn't enjoy what he did to Amazon. Yeah. And he's dunked on his ass. Yes, like he did that fucking Kia way back in the day. I remember those things. Now, if Amazon had an insider, do they have an insider? They got a lot of people on payroll over there doing NBA, right?

I think it's pretty good show. They wouldn't have broke you, though. You don't think so? No, why would they? Nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Bother? Because I think that's what insiders do. Like, they get news and blah-bl-blub! They got to get it out.

Like, that's kind of the gimmick. Last game on prime, but you know, Shams. He doesn't care. Can't be doing your job, man. Yeah, well, that's a talk to the table, at boss of Connor. Great to see you. Good to see you too. I like you're taking up for the people that are saying,

Shams, you're despicable for this entire thing. As if Shams created this game, of getting information and releasing it. I do understand. He should have his mom and son when the MVP is announced, not through a Twitter account. Is that what you're saying,

John. I'm just saying Shams, you're doing what you're paid to do. How dare you? You son of a bitch. Why don't you just slow down, okay? It's Sunday.

You know, I kind of liked what Blake Griffin said, hey, Shams, go to brunch. Little does Blake Griffin know. Shams only eats long. lunch. So that's kind of one of those things that doesn't really play together. He doesn't do breakfast. He doesn't do the in-between the brunch. He only does lunch.

That was one of the dumbest conversations I feel like I've seen on Twitter in a long, long time. And then people came out and basically said, hey, the MVP's been broken every single year since 1980. We didn't know Dirk was going to win. Hey, they're put, yeah, well, actually

Nash. Steve? No, yeah, we actually did. Do we? I believe there was an article like a week ahead of time actually that was written about it not even like day of and in wode he's getting active on x again i see him is he coming back in because i think his college team sucks yeah bonnies aren't great they're kind of ass right yeah yeah no i knew he was selling those phones yep is he picking those things back up because the shams started to tweet a little bit he's starting he started getting anxious i need to support somebody i need i need to do something here i need to get back into the game and maybe he see shams doing this and maybe wodge is like well he's doing my game right now

okay i'll break the MVP news not he's there's there about to be a research. She comes back. Do you have to be junior now? Yeah. Work his way up. Wow. Wow. Yeah.

We cut his teeth. I don't know. I don't know. We'll certainly find that out. Shams. Shams needs to explain himself, though. I'm disgusted that he's going to come on here and have to explain himself. 18 million views.

Sean Peser said, I think I'm doing okay. Now, is that right, though? We're just running up. It's not. I don't think so. Anyways, none of that matters. Tonight, Western Conference Finals in the NBA, Alien, Shea, cannot wait for it.

Let's never lose. the fact that at 8.30 tonight, we have a chance to watch something that might be the beginning of something absolutely legendary for like the next 10 years potentially in the West. Who knows what all the other storylines are going to be? Obviously, Luca in L.A. LeBron. So we all feel the same way? What's that? Concert. He's playing, but he's not going to be at the Lakers.

Yeah. That's how we all feel? Oh. Going back to Cleveland. Is that how you feel? No. I didn't know. I didn't know that.

One half of the Hammer. God. Cowboys AP Tone. And the other half of the talk stayed with Tax Shemakers. you back. Thank you. Good to be back. Good to be back. Congratulations, obviously. Celebrate your family, adding, and I assume it's just very casual and calm for the last couple weeks. So we appreciate you joining us. It's great to have you back. Yeah, no, it's good to be back. And that is the one thing that you kind of miss. Not only is it just weird, kind of living your life in two to three hour increments.

Not used to doing that. We're like kind of nothing really matters until you have to feed the baby neck. So I miss, you know, some of this stuff, but it is nice because this morning, you know, when we're talking about the Shams thing. Typically, you'd be like, you know what? I don't care. I don't care at all. But I was like, you know what? I've kind of been back in the saddle for a while.

You can go ahead and put me on the list. I'm pissed. I don't like it. I don't like it. I think it's bullshit that Shams did that. I just needed something to kind of get my juices going. We're all on the same page. Kind of get back into the flow of things and just a gift from the gods.

Shams being an asshole, doing his job. I don't care. Do it somewhere else. Welcome back. So it's good to be back. Welcome back. I'm excited for you and Shams. I'm excited for you and Sean's having an interaction.

Sean certainly saw what you just said right there. And he's going, Ty, my guy. T.Y. Come on. Come on. New D-A-D. He'll do all that stuff. It is great to have you back.

We appreciate the hell out of you. Tonight should be incredible. Also, huge news, Ty. I think you'll be intrigued by this. Do you remember what you saw when Big Mike McCarthy and Aaron Rogers were donning that beautiful green on a helmet out there in Lambo? Whenever you were growing up watching a good old days. That's right. It was a good old days.

The West Coast offense. offense going crazy. Aaron Slicen Dyson. Lambo alive. The Green Bay Packers traveling the world. I mean, it was, you're right. That was the beginning of these days. It was. Double check. Oh, my God. Rogers!

By you! Do it! Right there. Those are good old days. Well, guess what? They picked up those days, and now they're in Pittsburgh. Aaron Rogers officially signed. It's a huge deal, obviously, because we had been waiting.

I think the world had been waiting. Yenzers had certainly been waiting. we went back to Pittsburgh for the draft, tone digs went around town, talked to all his old friends, every different generation, and it seemed like there was a unanimous thought around Pittsburgh,

which was, if this guy don't want to play for the Steelers, tell him to get the hell out of town. We don't care, okay? See you later. People were getting a little bit upset, a little bit aggravated. For the second offseason in a row, they felt as if they were being held hostage by Aaron Rogers.

We're the Pittsburgh Steelers. We are sick of this entire thing. Now, as soon as it was announced that Aaron was back in getting some ice cream in time. Yes, he was. Then as soon as it was announced that he signed, every Yinser was like, Got a chance to win now.

Got a chance to win now. He signs for $22 to $23 million. Incentives up to $25 million. I assume when a Super Bowl, you'll get all the way up there. There's going to be some interesting stuff that's going to have to happen in a quarterback room. Obviously, Drew Aller is in there. Mason Rudolph's in there. Will Hard's in there.

And then obviously, Aaron comes back and is a starting quarterback. Phenomenal leader, I think, for the younger quarterbacks and a Mike McCarthy-led offense for Aaron, for them to kind of watch. Feels like that would be a perfect situation for whoever is the next quarterback. Mason Rudolph, intrigued. see how it goes. In our source since...

That are at the practice field right now for the OTAs that just started. Aaron, by the way, has not missed anything. Nope. First voluntary OTA today. He's at it on the field.

We got clips from Mark Caboli, boots on the ground of Aaron stretching and doing his thing around there. But if you're going to go with Drew Aller in the future, if you're going to go with Will Howard in the future,

or Mason in the future, this would be a pretty perfect person to watch kind of operate in the Mike McCarthy system, not just on the field, but also in the meeting rooms where they're tight everywhere. This feels like a good thing for the Pittsburgh Steelers fans.

I think Jensers are feeling that way or no, Tone Diggs? If the goal is to win football games, this is a good thing, okay? We've talked about it a lot over the last few years about how they, you know, they hover around that 10 and 7 get into the playoffs, not do well in the playoffs, and they've hovered around that for the last few years. And a lot of people will say that that's where Aaron gets you back to because that's where they were last year. And it's hard to argue that.

But if winning is the goal, which I believe it is in the NFL. I found it definitely is for Coach McCarthy and the entire Steelers organization. I think Aaron does give them the best chance. Now, will it keep them in that, you know, limbo for the next however many years that Aaron's going to do this? Maybe potentially with next year's class, but if you want to win games, Aaron is the best option. Do what? Do what are you saying? What do you mean? Is he going to continue to do this?

Debutt, your thoughts on Aaron Rogers, 25 touchdowns last year. Yeah. And I think everything we've learned about how the Steelers were operating last year, I think we're all impressed they win a game, right? Just with everything that it had potentially been, it's like, holy hell, how of the Steelers continued to do so well? They got a great defense. We assume that's going to continue.

They'll have a good defense. The AFC North always going to be tough. Obviously, we know that. But Aaron Rogers operating the Mike McCarthy offense, should I be as excited as I am? I'm blindly thinking you're picking me up and dropping me back in 2011. That's what I think is happening. A long time ago. That's a long time ago.

And that's the only thing. It's the only reason you wouldn't be excited. Like most people were saying, like, yeah, this gets you in play. off contention. But if you're the Steelers, obviously you want to win a Super Bowl, so that's kind of where you've been hovering around, just like Tone said. Does this get you as excited as a new phrase inside a big-time trade with a young guy, a new draft pick, a number one overall pick out there in Vegas? No, because you don't have that long runway out in front. But for this year, with the defense that they have, who are, you know, kind of up there in years, you know,

they are high-paid, they are good players. And the tooth, made some additions on the offensive side of the ball as well. So, yeah, you should be better than last year. The EFC North is always going to be competitive. It's a new chapter over there in Baltimore. Cincinnati, what are they going to do? Cleveland. Brand new chapter, Cleveland.

You're right. You're right. Sean. Pro Bowl is your doer is back as well. So we shall see. But yeah, if I'm a Steelers fan, I feel, I mean, this is something I feel like all the Steelers fans kind of expected for it to happen. So him being there, not missing anything, I think it will be good.

I don't think the Steelers fans expected this to happen, but it felt like everybody around the Steelers. expected this to happen. Oh, yeah. The fans were, like every time we would ask, you'd be like, hey, who's playing quarterback? Relax. It was kind of what we were told. We're talking to Aaron.

And it's like, yeah, we've been talking to them. There's constant contact, constant communication. It's like, okay, well, then how come like it seems like the fans don't feel that way? And he's, well, we're telling them every time. Rooney's, well, next Tuesday we'll have an answer. We're talking to them next month, we'll have an answer. And then those days come and go, they kind of put their foot in her mouth, I think, publicly in that entire thing.

If that was never expected, I'm excited to see. how that kind of came to be. But it felt like the building thought this was inevitable. Cam Hayward even came out and was like, we're in May. Okay, this guy is old. He knows what he's doing. We're been there. He's there for the first OTA. It's good for them. Joining us now is a man who could probably piece together the entire context of how we got to this point, why we got to this point. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now, senior NFL insider for ESPN, Adam Schaefter. Hello, gentlemen. What's going on? Okay, Shephty, you felt like the building every time we chatted with anybody from there felt

this was inevitable. I don't know who was giving you your information on it all. Was this inevitable from all parties? And is there anything that is kind of, or was there anything that was kind of holding it back from happening, or was it just waiting before the OTAs to start? Well, I

want to thank Tone for all those tips and information that he provided during this entire process. That was very generous of Tone. Tom broke the news. Thank you very much for that. Tom broke the news. Don't know. Don is the man. Don is the man. Don't is the man. Love you said on your tweet.

And so look, this is a process where I think there was always an understanding that the time to circle on the calendar for Aaron to be back was today, the start of the OTAs. And I think this team told them, look, take the time you want, do whatever you need. We'd like you in there for the start of OTAs. And inevitably, those conversations picked up. He was back in Pittsburgh about a week and a half ago, getting situated. like you're not going back to Pittsburgh if you're Aaron Rogers and you're not intending to play. And then there was a matter of working out the contract, which they did over the weekend,

a one-year deal worth up to $25 million. So there were the little formalities, none of which, none of which was bigger or more important than Aaron Rogers ultimately deciding this was, in fact, what he wanted to do. And I don't know that the team fully was convinced of that until this weekend when he signed off on that end the deal and agreed to come back for the start of the OTAs today. If you remember last year, he didn't show up until June. So by that standard, he's a little bit ahead of schedule right now, showing up in May. But I don't think the team was absolutely in the know until this weekend that he was coming back.

Okay. Now, last year, a very different situation for Aaron, obviously figuring out whether or not he wanted to continue to play, but also had a very close person in his circle that was going through a very, very serious life thing. So I think he felt obligated to be a part of that, take care of that situation before he made any decision for himself. He was very open about that. I think Jensers didn't, Jensers were cool with hearing that at one point, but also like, hey, need you to either play or not. This year, I think there was seemingly no excuse for that type of reasoning from the Jenser fans. And the reason why you saying the expectation was for him to be always back on this particular day, kind of got lost in the translation is because, I remember Rudy came out and said, well, that's my draft.

What I'm answering by this day? We have an answer by this day. So it's always like fake deadlines seemingly being put public. And now it feels like none of this is going to matter whenever they get started. What are expectations here? Because we got Koboli sending us video from practice. I believe Will Hard was taking the number two reps behind Aaron Rogers. What does this mean about the rest of the quarterback room in your eyes, Shefty?

And they could just be rotating who's getting two reps. Legit. This is first OTA. This could just be a reps thing, but we're just telling you what we are hearing. What does this mean for Mason Rudolph, Drew Al, or Will Hard in your eyes? What are you hearing, Schaefter? Well, what's interesting is, I think the organization is very high on Will Howard.

And if Aaron Rogers had decided, for whatever reason, he wasn't going to come back this season, I think the organization was fully prepared to move forward with Will Howard as its starting quarterback. Now, again, we haven't seen anything that Will Howard can do in the NFL, but they're a big believer in what he brings to the table. Mike McCarthy has had success working with younger quarterbacks who are sharp. And that's Will Howard.

right now. And by the way, they also believe right or wrong that Mike McCarthy is just the guy to unlock the talents of Drew Aller. And if we go back to a year ago at this time, there are a lot of people that would have thought that Drew Aller was a potential first round draft pick, potential top 10 pick. The year did not go the way that a lot of people envisioned. And now the Steelers get them where they do in the draft, mid-round pick. And I think that they think Mike McCarthy can bring it out of him as well. So I think that there are two young quarterback on that roster that they believe in, that they have hopes for, that they think McCarthy can help unlock and grow into the successor to Aaron Rogers.

We all would assume this would be his last year, but then again, everybody assumed last year would be his last year. He had said that he thought last year would be his last year, and it didn't turn out to be that way. He decided to come back from one. I think that's a credit to the organization, the city, for kind of reigniting the fire and how much he liked it last year, how much he liked the people there. and the organization really loved having him around.

As we talked about in those exit meetings, almost to a man, the players all wanted Aaron Rogers back for the season, and they've gotten their wish now. He's back for one more at least. Yeah, fascinating. Why don't you remember that whenever you're putting out your little tweets about Aaron Rogers going forward? Why don't you remember that, Shifty? Okay, whenever you're putting anything out.

Remember what that? What you just said. What you just said there at the end, exit meetings, every person in the building was like, we love Aaron. I've said that all along. No. Loose's number, Sheffty,

you had to have said something. You had to have said something. Whoa. No, it is crazy, though, like how some people have a narrative about Aaron Rogers, and obviously we've gotten a chance to experience it over the years

because we've been very lucky that he would join our show and chit-chat with us, but it's like, obviously, I think, from, was it The Bachelor? What was the show? Yeah, that did quite the toll.

The Bachelor set him up for failure completely. Him and his, obviously, everything that went down there, And if you were him, I think if you heard his side of the story, you'd be pretty pissed off from him. But his side of this whole thing. But there has been a lot of narratives about... The potion. Yeah, everything about him.

There's been a lot of narratives about who he is as a person. And then everybody but what one team made. Yeah. Basically has come out publicly and been like, nah, we love him, dude. He's an absolute dog. We love everything about him. I'm appreciative of the fact that he's getting a chance to run it back again over there in Pittsburgh with Mike McCarthy. Because how that ended with them at the Packers.

Now, they have obviously very much tight. Mike sings his praises on a regular basis. I think they did have a moment where they talked to each other and kind of buried the hatchet almost and moved forward. A lot of history together, a lot of reminiscing happening. Obviously, they're both very intelligent individuals, so they'll pick up right where they left off, we assume. I'm pulling for you, tone. I think this is going to be good for the Steelers. I think this is good news, not just, oh, we'll win nine games.

I think you guys, I don't know what other option. I agree, and Mike McCarthy gives me the most confidence in the world. You know, there's some players who have been coming out. I've talked about the game plans over the last few years, and that is the opposite of what Mike McCarthy is. Everyone talks about how great his game plans are. Then Patrick Graham being to D.C. I do think coaching will give this team an advantage this year as well. Okay.

He'll help that too. What's that? Aaron, you know, like we've seen all the throwback clips of Mike McCarthy. We're just doing the same drills and the same. We were in his actual office and you see all the different things around the board about his specific offense. So now these young quarterbacks, you know, who knows how good they'll be in the league. We've seen Mason. But now you'll at least know exactly how Coach McCarthy wants his offense.

Yeah, and Aaron is another coach in the room, obviously, which is good news. We've had a chance, obviously, to chit-chat with the people over at the Pittsburgh Steelers organization. And it's like they're going to allow Mike McCarthy time to build up Drew, too. I mean, they're just working on his feet right now. I don't even think they've even, I don't even think they've got to his upper body. I don't even think they're anywhere near looking at the ball. Like, I think they are just trying to fix and get his feet perfect, how big he is, how powerful he is. They think, like, hey, if you can shape him into being a quarterback, which you're going to give him time to do, this only helps.

Good luck to all parties out there. Speaking of the quarterback position, there's a goat potentially not getting a lot of hype this year as he heads into a bounce back season potentially. DeBott has a question for you, chef. Yeah, I'm talking about Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback. We've seen some glints with him doing some football dropbacks.

We saw him swinging the golf club at his golf outing recently. Any health updates from Mahomes? Yeah, listen, they have said he is way ahead of schedule, and it sounds like he is tracking to be ready in time for that Monday. night regular season opener. The fact that he's out there playing golf as an indication. But just the one thing that I just think it's important to remember for everybody is we're talking about a quarterback that tore his ACL. It was five months ago on Thursday. Five months to the date that the

schedule came out, he essentially tore his ACL. He tore his LCL. And the opener is now under four months away. And again, it's hard to imagine and think that Patrick Holmes wouldn't be back for that game that Justin Fields will be stepping in and starting against Bownecks. But he's going to be out there. But I think the better question, the more relevant question is we're talking about a legendary Hall of Fame quarterback. How much of Patrick Mahomes is he going to be in that opener? Is he going to be 80%, 90%, 100?

100. But that's hard to imagine that he could just step in there right away after such a significant knee injury and pick up right where he left off and be as great as he's always been. I just think there's going to be a little bit of an adjustment to what he's come back from, which is significant to get back to where he is today. Which everybody wants him back on opening night. Everybody wants him to be Patrick Holmes. The NFL does for sure, yeah. Yeah, of course.

But I just, I think expectations need to be tempered a little. Look, and by the way, he may come out that first night and throw for 380 and four touchdowns. They're like, okay, well, I guess he's exactly where he was. But all I'm saying is it's a significant knee injury that he's bouncing back from. That's all. On that note, they wouldn't let his ass be golfing at all if they didn't feel good about where he is. Because obviously, that's a lot of twisting on your knee. So, like, there's a lot of people, because I think this is his fundraiser, golf tournament out in Vegas.

It's done every year. I think there was millions and millions and millions of dollars. It's an incredible event that they put on. I think it's only getting bigger and bigger. But there would be a lot of people talking on whether or not he should be swinging a golf club. at this for coming off of a knee injury. If they weren't very confident, like very, very, very confident,

there's no way in hell he'd be swinging this. Think about what you're doing. Pat, Pat, I had a doctor calling me last week from a team. He's like, he's not playing golf at his own truck. I'm like, he's not, no, he can't play coming up that. And look, he's playing. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, pipe at my point.

Yeah, the doctors around him are saying, yes, you can do it. So for me, that was the biggest indicator, like, okay, maybe this guy is going to be back. Seems like that's how everybody's talking about the debuts point Patrick Mahomes, week three week three would be good

week three, got Colts primetime week two so week three for Patrick Mahmonds be sweet with Justin Fields in there yeah sure Nossmar

good players we'll do what we got to do Pat week three because he doesn't want to see a C.J. Allen either one yeah sure he might actually flipping it

some people are pontificating that they actually made the Colts play the chiefs, you know, in the second week to get Mahomes back. Really? Really? No, no, no, nobody said that. That was what you said, you pig. Some people thought, hey, if it doesn't go well against, you know, the Denver Broncos number one defense in the league week

one, let's wheel out the Colts. Mahomes will piss on them. Please, get your question, please. A different knee we could talk about. That's just what some people were thinking. Please. I'm not saying, I mean, we won't even go there. Shepty, Malik Neighbors, another knee that's kind of

in the news right now. I don't think he's golfing. He had his second surgery. I think there was some sort of procedure, kind of normal, just the scar tissue. Are we worried about his knee, his situation going into training camp, or is this more something like,

hey, they had to do a second surgery? He should be fine by week one, or is this something to keep an eye on? I think it's something to keep an eye on. I think that whenever you're talking about a player as talented as Malik neighbors, undergoing a second surgery to clean up the scar tissue that had formed, to address some of the stiffness that was in the knee. That's not a great sign.

Now, again, he is so good as a football player that you want him out there 100% at all times. And the fact that the organization is now saying it's hopeful, it's hopeful that he'll be ready for week one, that Sunday night opener against the Dallas Cowboys. the fact that they're hopeful doesn't give me a lot of hope. Like, it makes me leery. It makes me leery. That's all.

It's a cyclop lesion, Jeffer. It's potentially, I'm not doctor. I'm not in her hempsonsons. Sure. But what I've been told from people that would know is this is potentially a thing called the cyclops lesion, which is a cluster of scar tissue that develops,

that then leaves you prohibited from being able to reach full extension. Okay? So you don't really know. until you're almost back and then you find out like, oh, can't get full extension. There's some stiffness here, what's going on, especially with somebody who's that fast and explosive. So they see a scar tissue, you go back and clean up.

Then you've got to break down the scar tissue again. Again. Now you're going to do that. Actually, human rust. This is, this, yeah, it is human rust. Exactly. And they rub it off with metal. Nope.

Rafter? That's tough. Oh, Chefty, have you ever had to have this happen? No, I'm not tough enough to endure that. I have had, I've had a media, an MCL in my name. And that was an ordeal to get back from. So I can't even imagine what these guys go through.

No, so I would assume they would have to do it if they cracked up here. So what happens is they do the surgery, okay? Then whenever your body's healing, from my understanding, I've only had four of these things. So as your body's healing, you know, it's coming back together. Scar tissue develops to re-mold things. They've got to bust that down. Get it out of there. So they got to bust down a scar tissue because, I guess, the problems it could cause.

To do that, they literally rub a metal bar up and down your word. It is. Yeah. It's probably why, to be clear, probably why I retired what I did. Staring down on the surgery, I'm not fucking doing it. I'm not doing that again. It was the worst. So Malik's going to have to do that again.

Not saying he didn't do that before, but scar tissue is a constant battle in recovery that nobody really talks about, and it's by far the worst part of it all. I mean, it is. See, and I don't want my stark players being operated on their knees once, no less twice, after a first surgery. And so now the tally's running on that And I just don't love that Like he's gonna be back

But I just don't love it for a player as great as Malik neighbors I think he's gonna be okay though I think they probably felt obligate like they had to do this Like hey for the good of his career let's do I think he probably could have kept going Like without the full extension But I think they're like we gotta go Yeah

This is from my source Not put a restriction Any entire thing exactly Yep Yeah let's take the governor off Give the blue grab Yeah you know let's let's flip it to make it a positive. He needed some time off his feet to get well from the toe injury that he'd

been dealing with. The toe had been bothering him. Limited his practice. So maybe, maybe the toe now can get healthy while his knee is recovering. Pulling for you, Lake. Yeah. Okay, let's talk about last thing. That seems like it's pretty large news, even though it came up out of nowhere. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, Chefty, it seems like the expectation is that Nashville is going to be awarded the 2030 Super Bowl. I don't know if they still have to vote on it, but everyone's kind of operating like that as a done deal. Is there any more news on that front? And then also is it a done deal that Minneapolis is going to get the 2028 draft as well? I expect both to happen.

I expect the Super Bowl to be awarded to Nashville officially tomorrow. I expect Minneapolis to host the draft in 28. So that would mean the draft lineup is Washington, 27, Minneapolis, 28. The Super Bowl lineup would be L.A., Atlanta, Las Vegas, Nashville. and look, we were at, we were in Nashville for the draft. That was a scene. That was incredible. I think that helped take the draft to the next level, frankly,

because that was a time where the league was just starting to travel the draft on a year-to-year basis, and the draft from that point on in Nashville just exploded from year to year. So, yeah, to me, these are just formalities, and that's the way I'm expecting both to go here in the coming days and weeks. Congratulations to Nashville, and congratulations to everybody that's going to go to the Nashville Super Bowl. That's going to be awesome. I was just in Vegas last night for the Academy of Country Music Awards, and it's like every time you go to.

No big deal. What were you doing there? Riley Green, football guy, winning awards. Asked me if I wanted to come sit his table up front. Then I was told, like, who's going to be at the table? I think there's going to be some good group out here. I think it's going to be. I think Blake's going to be there.

Shibuzi's going to be. be there. I think Cody Johnson is going to be there. I think Bubele is going to be there. I'm like, fuck. Cool. Booblay? Michael? Booblay. Yeah. Booblay's out there. Hey, Bubla, big fantasy footballer. Really? Big fantasy footballer. I didn't know that he was like very eager to talk about that. But on that note, all I can think about, shout to Riley Green, by the way.

Hey, Riley, football guy. Just absolutely doing it over there. Congratulations. You usually when he walks in. Like, it's cool to see his peers in like his world, right? Because I'm walking behind. We walk into the room. country music fans all over the place. As soon as they see Riley, everybody's face just goes, holy shit, look at this thing.

Because he's so hands. It is a Zach Top, legend, gay, absolutely legend. It was nice meeting him. Tyler, Florida Georgia line. Ray Clay Stras.

Oh, man, the best. Hey, lads, we appreciate you. Best band out there. Parker McCollum on an album. Okay, let me get back to.

You said Danny Shay. Dan Shay, Jensar, shout out, North Island. Ganey. He's a Tigers, 38 years old, he's our age.

It's unbelievable. We probably ran. into each other back then, now he's all super jack to. What I'm saying, though, every time we go to Vegas, you go, like, this is a perfect setup for everything, everything's connected. You know, everything's connected. There's venues everywhere. It's like Nashville is a perfect hosting city. I'm excited that they're going to get into it, especially because they got that new stadium. Last stadium, ass, like, not worthy of being a Nashville stadium, I don't think, like a venue. It's not supposed to be like that. So new stadium comes in there. That city's going to crush it.

Weather in February. I just looked it up. The average high is 53, and the average, Low as 33. Not terrible. Not great. But remember when Indianapolis had... It could be cold. It could be cold there. Yeah, the football gods, though, kind of blessed us

whenever Indy had the Super Bowl, if you do recall it. It was like 60, 55, 60 degrees. It was like perfect. Let's assume that will happen again. Football gods will bless Nashville and bless all of us. We appreciate you, Chef. Anything we missed? Yeah, a few things you missed.

Eight teams open OTAs today, Pat. So that's interesting. We got eight OTAs going on right now. a big congratulations to Aaron Rye for seeking that put and winning the PGA championship and becoming the first golfer from England in 107 years to win. And the most interesting thing that I heard over the weekend. And it's neither here nor there, it's offbeat,

but I thought it was worth sharing. Is I had somebody tell me that in two years, in two years, Marcus Spears' son is going to be the number one pick in the NBA draft. Yeah, swagoos. Yeah, take that to the bank. And Mama Spears too, I think, right? No, on one.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Good dad. Number one. Mommin. They've been all over. I've followed it through social media. I've watched them. Yeah, I should also be careful, though, Shephty. There's a 16-year-old who is basically Wembe's size already dribbling and doing everything Wembe's doing. So let's just take kind of temper expectations here with some of these Europeans. We are on Team Spears, though. No doubt about it. Yeah, absolutely. You're the man. Ladies and gentlemen, that's Adam Schaefter. Yay, Jeffty. He talked about it there. Aaron Ra, first man over 100 years from England to win a major. congrats to him.

Yeah. I mean, just an absolute two-gloved assassin. 68-foot putt really brought us to our feet because there wasn't a lot of action. Now, the action was saving par. Saving par. I mean, there was a couple holes. I was watching Tom Smith just all over the place and making a par putt. It felt like he just felt with the weight of his world.

The Aronimo, of course, beat the hell out of these guys. The greens were tough. The roughs insane. The Johns, spectacular, except for that one, I guess. Yeah. Well, I guess Rory would say. Roy said, I don't like him, get him out of here. I think it's what Rory.

Bullocks! Yeah, there was a lot of that. But nonetheless, I thought it was a cool tournament on Sunday. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, I do need to see some action. That's why I've learned about me. I heard a lot of the players bitching about everybody kind of being lumped up together and everybody having the same score. What I learned about me when I'm watching golf, especially big time golf, I do need some action.

I need a double bogey. I need a birdie. I need movement on there. as opposed to everybody just kind of park in the bus. But Sunday, I loved it. Scotty had four holes left, and he was within three shots, and he had not done anything really good. But you think to yourself, Scotty Sheffler gets three birdies right here,

which nobody's been able to do. Maybe Scottie Shepler's able to do it. He might win this tournament. And then all of a sudden, Aaron Rye kind of puts his foot on the gas pedal late on Sunday, and it kind of gave us something to really cheer for. But on that note, congrats of this guy, dude. Right time, right place, right guy. Major champion.

Two gloves is. something, two gloves is something, you know, because now people, and I saw a couple people got to try it. Yep. Exactly. Got to get it. Are you going to be a two gloves? I will be a two glove goofball out there. Going forward. I'll try it. I'll try it. They're not even golf gloves. I looked them up. Did a little. Yeah, guarders gloves pretty much. Okay. I thought they were horse racing. Handling horse and yeah, but very, very interesting. Obviously, he's been getting a lot of shit. Oh, yeah. For his iron covers and, you know, hearing the story behind that is pretty cool. His wife been

broke offer as well. It's awesome. But yeah, this is an awesome story. And the leaderboard on Sunday, like, I kind of like it being jumbled up. I definitely was pulling. You know, I'm always pulling for my live guy. So I was pulling for Ronbo to really make a move and get on top. And he tied it a couple times. But I was looking for a potential eight, seven, eight, nine player playoff if we had to do it. But he did close the deal. That puck was unbelievable, especially with how the Greens were performing all weekend long. So shout out to Rodman. Been the first Englishman over a hundred years to get it done. That was awesome. Go on, lad.

And since this came home, you know what I mean? The World Cup's staying home here. Yeah, sure. We kind of give those two. Yeah, that's a nice tradeoff for us. You really enjoyed it because Foxy was kind of bummed out. Foxy was talking about the lack of explosivity in the tournament. And then you had to come in for the good of the game.

It felt like in the group text. But that is how you kind of viewed it. For me, Sunday good. Saturday, I need to see some action. See, like even Saturday, though, like there was points where I would like, my dad was in town for this weekend. We were watching together. and he was like in and out doing stuff.

And I'd be like, oh, JT's winning right now. Scotty's winning right now. Rom's are in a night right now. There was some movement like because guys would then bogey and drop back or whatever. And then on Sunday, like going into Sunday, was there 20 golfers within? Oh, yeah.

So that's, like, as a fan, I love, I hate when it's like, we're going into Sunday and the guy's got a four shot leader with it. It's like, oh, are we rooting for him his downfall? Or are we rooted for him to keep the leader and someone to charge? I like when everyone's in it like that, but I guess I'm not a professional golfer though.

Yeah, you're not professional. golfers were not happy about it. There was a lot of whi-wah-wah. Yeah. I thought it was a snooze fest personally on Sunday. We had all these big names up there. Scotty, Rory, Zander, so many guys.

It's like, all right, who's going to make a move? And no one did. It was just a bunch of pars out there. The only one that did was Rye, so he deserved to win that one. Good for him. Yeah, that's why he was sick, though. Because, like, he's three under on nine. He gets an eagle on nine or ten. And it's like, hey, this whole entire thing was who's going to just reach out and take it.

And Rye did. With two gloves on. gloves on and he wasn't dropping a thing. Like, that's why I thought it was so good. And also to what you guys were all saying, too, like going into the day, even on Saturday, it was, hey, anybody can actually win this thing. Foxxie's a frontrunner

and he loves Roy McElroy, so yeah, he's bummed out because Roy didn't get a whole month to sleep on the course like he did at the Masters. But having a guy like Aaron Rod kind of come out of nowhere was kind of the point of golf, especially once you hear his story and everything, like it is cool. Rory was

taking his body. He's or school, which then he was going to play golf, and then he was going to pick her back up. He earned that right. He wasn't sleeping on the course. And that's great. Him bitching and moaning about the man placement and then getting a guy kicked out, especially in Philly.

Like, hey, that's kind of the thing that Philly brings, though. Yeah. Well, I would like to let everybody know. We appreciate good golf. Rod played the best we've seen, and congrats to him. That course was beating everybody's ass. And I didn't like coming into it that everybody thought the golfers were just going to dominate the course.

Of course heard that. That's legit. You got a lot of it. Rory. Oh, okay. You think that's the case? We're just going to put the pin at a 70 degree angle. Yeah, who's going to be making this putt-putt course?

Not you, Rory. What's that punch? How do you do? He just missed the cut. He just missed it by a hair. But he did look himself in the mirror and say, I'm a good guy. All right. I'll be back here at least five more time.

Don't you worry, everybody. Block he will be back. At the Masters. He'll be back. Think about how hard that course was now, historically, and Blockie's out there, and you guys are talking about this like this. Blockie. I don't want to hear it.

Blockie played number one defense in the country. Hey. And he showed up. And that's what he said. He said, I had every shot I had to on Thursday. And then I just crumbled on Friday. And that wasn't the Blockie.

I was expecting. I was expecting the Block Party to go on all weekend. And I was fucking choked up just like he was when he missed the cut and said, I'm going to have to qualify for five to ten more of these. He's going to. He will. The aeronimoic was tough. Joining us now, ladies

a gentleman is a goat, a legend, a man that we've enjoyed following along the NBA season alongside. He's magical on a microphone, no matter where you put him, international events with sports he had never heard of, Super Bowls, and now, ladies and gentlemen,

the Western Conference, game one tonight on NBC 830. An alien takes on the MVP. Ladies and gentlemen, on the call, be Mike Torrico. Yeah, my. Oh, wow. Rainy arena.

What's going on? We're in the building. We're in the building. Just watch the, spur shoot around. So getting ready. Putting the extra mile in. Big game down in the Western finals. Let's go. I like that you're doing that. Obviously, we saw you court side up in Detroit. You're putting in the

extra mile. How's the shots look? Big hoop for the spurs tonight? Is it falling? Do we feel like any inside information to what you're seeing right now? Everybody looks good and warm-ups. Don't ever forget that, right? And the guys look bad warm-ups, they have great games. No, they're loose. Look, they're ahead of schedule, right?

They missed the playoffs last year. They're ahead of schedule, and it's not a house money deal, but they beat the Thunder 4 out of 5 this year. So they walk into this building with probably more confidence than anybody else will or would. And I love that. When you are ahead of schedule, you've gone farther than people think, and you're playing somebody who you know you can beat multiple times, not a fluke, then you feel pretty good.

Now, Oklahoma City feels pretty good because they haven't lost a playoff game. they went to the finals and won last year. So I think this series that has been built up as this is the series everybody wants to see, I think it's going to pay off. I think it's going to be a hell of a series. I think so, too. Unlike what the Pistons did for us last night in Game 7,

which is obviously just a massive blowout at home. Great year, though, out of the stones. Great year. We'll be back. That building you're in. So let me ask about this. Seems you got Pistons fans there. Last year, first round,

knocked out. This year's second. around, won a series, two game sevens. Maybe you know a little bit more of what you need to do with your roster. Successful season or not a successful season? I'll say it's a successful season for sure. They were the one seed all season long and were young. Cade Cunningham, 24 years old.

Assore Thompson, 23 years old. And Duren, only 22 years old. Now they know what they need. Let's add more firepower and we'll be back next year. Yeah. Lose your mentality. Good answer, but, but do you pay Duren? That's a question

Big Perk came on our show Mike and he was just saying how he'll learn from this, he's only 22 he's so young and he was so good in the regular season you still need that to get to where you are in the playoffs I think he'll be okay and I think we do pay him but that's a huge question mark. All right enough with the stoned

Torrico please we talk about tonight and it was great environments obviously in that particular series. The Oklahoma City building we got a chance to live it last year whenever they were taken on the Pacers. Phenomenal environment tonight. Now, with that being said, feels like Wembe thrives off of these situations, especially with SGA getting the MVP over him, obviously going into that building. Tonight's going to be a buzzsaw atmosphere. How do you think Wemby responds? And what do you think

SGA does fresh off of his second MVP in a row? Well, also, he'll get the MVP trophy before the game tonight. So you got a little bit as that. It's like right in front of you, right under your nose, like, here's the trophy. Congratulations. Now let's go play the West Finals. So if you need to salivate even more if you're on the San Antonio side, here's the reality of it, right? So that's number one. My camera stinks, by the way. No, no, it's good. I think you're doing great. Well, you keep moving the

box on me. I'm just trying to work out here. What we're trying to do is we're trying to amplify all your thoughts because of how damn good you look and sound, Toriko. That's all folks. Yeah, forget that. So, I think that factors in, that factors in a little bit.

But, you know, Chet Holmgren and Wembe have a really good thing going, right? These seven-foot-plus unicorn kind of guys who are all over the floor, step out and hit shots. There's nobody who looks like Wemby. Homegrid might be the closest thing. This is the next generation of big man in the NBA. These guys who are 7-1, 7-4 plus and can do all this stuff. So it's a different kind of match-up. So I just want to see who sets tone first, right? Because the NBA, especially the playoffs, it's like, message sent, reply. message sent reply how's that going to go back and forth and when message is sent and it's a 10 or 12 or 14 point lead and you can't come back then it's advantage you so i want to see how that lays out right from the start who takes the hammer at the beginning and takes the game one momentum in tone to the other guy hey listen it's good to be the hammer hate being a nail especially for four quarters in game seven what happened last night foxie unbelievable i don't want to keep doing it we're done with this stuff

We love Cade. We love Cade. We were hoping for more games. Coming back to it. Yeah, well, I didn't want to, though. It was hammer and nail. Hammer and nail. You know, they were the bang, the boom, with a pal. You said message and in response, there was none. There was none last night. But we do think tonight would be massive. You talk about messaging. How should we be talking about one guy who's seemingly at the top of the world? Go ahead, D. Yeah, we know the expectations for Wemby since coming in, but I feel like SGA didn't have these same expectations. But how do you feel? What is this run that he's kind of on compared to over the long time that you've covered. the major sports leagues back-to-back MVPs now four years in a row where he's averaged over 30 points last two years over 30 points over 50 percent from the field where does this kind of rank amongst the great runs that you've seen so a couple of things i got to interview them yesterday it'll air

on the pre-game show it starts at eight tonight um 14 guys who went back-to-back MVPs very few of them guards and they're all like one-name guys i'd give you the guys in order but I'll miss one. It's like Russell and Will Chamberl and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Moses Malone and Magic and Larry and Jordan and Duncan and Steve Nash and Yonis and Yokic more recently. I think I got magic in there. But it's a very small list. He got the trophy last year and said, I am motivated to come back better. And he did come back better.

He was more efficient, shot 55% from the field this year and scored over 30 points again as an average. So he went to the lab after he got his trophy, and he got better. And he's in the prime of his career. So you can say he gets fouled a lot. That's an art. But you watch James Hardin and you go, oh, my God, Hardin, you're going to draw a foul again. And guess what? He's at the line and the guy who foul them, sorry to bring up the stones again.

The guy who fouled him is complaining right by his coach to the referee. I mean, how many times we've seen that shot? We're going to see them in the next series in the East Finals. Shea has really mastered that, plus the ability to have a great mid-range game. So I put nothing past him. I think all the Oklahoma City guys love hearing all the noise about here comes San Antonio. They're the team of the future.

Wembe's a unicorn. He's a unique star. They've got such a good cast. Their cast is amazing. Harper, Fox, you name it. So I think they're fueled by this. Wait a minute. We won the champion.

Our banner's up in this building. Don't put us out to pasture just yet. We're in the prime too. Getting Jalen Williams back is going to be huge for them. They haven't had much on these playoffs. So Williams, Shea, Chet, the guys they've developed, AJ Mitchell's been out of this world in these playoffs. They just keep developing guys and developing guys.

So I put nothing past SGA, nothing past OKC. They got a lot of pizzazz over there at OKC. Yeah. Love each other, man. They got a lot of pizzazz over there. Where are you going, Treyko? Well, here's the deal. Here's the deal.

Where are you going? When I go in the small box, I got to go this way. But when I go back to the big box with you, I've got to go this way to even it out. So it took me like two questions, but now I'm with it. Thank you for figuring that out, by the way. Because you know, there is a lot of people that have come on the show on a very regular basis and still half-face this thing.

You know that. There is a lot of people. I understand. Yeah, that's your, hey, that's why you are. Hey, that's about three. Yeah, Mike. Golf bat. You know, if you give me golf, I'll give you this.

I love when a guy makes a par. It's like a good pod. It's just short. And it wasn't a great shot. And the golfer lightly takes thumb and four finger to the, right there. Got to acknowledge it. That's classic. Got to acknowledge

the people that are talking or in clapping for you like 10 feet away. You're also probably very pissed at yourself right now. Okay. Thank you.

I put it made it. Don't want to celebrate. It's not a celebratory shop but is really good. It's professionals. You just kind of... A lot of that at the PGA championship. A lot of that at the PGA championship.

A lot of that. A lot of Phares. A lot of making pars. A lot of Duff's too. That was pretty awesome. Hey, two gloves. You do that? Triko, you a double glove golfer?

I don't, but glove sales through the roof right now. That in iron covers. You go to your golf store, iron covers, short supply right now. And that putter. Yeah, and the Spider 2Y banana. Yeah. I never do the covers, but. You see this thing?

Hey. See this thing? This is a water two wide, super duper wide banana. It makes all the putts. How about you and Gruden design a putter? You call it Spider 2 Y banana. And take it out to the market, man. I think they've already figured it out, but we wouldn't like to drop our names on

this shit. I don't want to speak for John Gruden, but coach, I think you and I would love to get in on some potter tube banana sales. I think we would certainly love it. All it does is make putts. All this thing does is make putts.

I don't know how it works. 68 and a half foot. So JJ Spahn hit that 44-footer. Like whatever it was. I got that putter the next day. Yes, you did. Then these guys, go ahead. Have you made a 44-footer with it?

No, the lab, L-A-B putt. Actually, I got worse. Yeah, lab. Okay, I bought all of them. I got the tall one, the short one, the hockey one. I got all of them because I saw him make the putt. Go spider now? I think they got like 10 of the winners this year are basically

all of this potter right here. It just makes the putts. Best petting round of your life. I make 10 pots. This is in a rental bag. You are guaranteeing a whole box coming your way. You know that, don't you? Don't eat it. I got one. This is the one right here. But if they were to send more. Okay, yeah. Taller wine,

short, yeah. Absolutely. We'd like to do that. Okay, yeah. And Tari. know, Mike. We assume you have plenty of those his brother over the years. Let's stay for the game tonight. We know you have to go. We're appreciating you taking time here. Last question. Go ahead, Conman. Yeah, Mike, you've mentioned it.

Wemby versus Chet is going to be awesome. If Wemby threw one of those elbows that he hit Nasreed with against Chet, he'll probably concave his chest, but at least it wouldn't hit him in the throat. Being an old school basketball guy, what did you think about Wemby turning the clock back in a little physical? He did end up, you know, leaving the

game and they ended up losing. So, it hurt his team but what do you think about this kind of style almost coming back with these throwback spurs i love vic is real he's real he's going to be honest about it and i love the fact of the whole thing that his coach mitch johnson had his back is like hey our guy had to take his matters into his own hand and we didn't he took Mitch told us we didn't send any video into the league all year they were being physical with our guy we needed to respond and he took it in his own hands hurt them for that game but they came out of the first quarter hand and unbelievable first quarter in the series was never close after that.

So look, do we love guys getting thrown out? No, we want to do the best players play the entire time. But it just shows you the growth. There's nothing I've seen in Wembe. We've had them for four of their playoff games so far. Nothing I've seen that would take me off the track of, this guy will be the face of the league. He's special.

He's a great teammate, works his tail off, super talented, gets it in every way. I think guys will be physical with him all the way through. And he knows it's coming. And he has built himself. He goes through a routine before the game out in the arena where guys are physical with him. He has built himself to be able to handle physical play. Not a lot of guys are out of that mindset in year three. I've got to add this to my game.

And he has and it hasn't taken away from his ability. What's going to be key for him is playing 35 hard minutes in the playoffs with a terrific Oklahoma City team that likes to be physical with you, likes to get a couple of hands on you, has enough guys who can give you a solid rotation of different looks, how will he handle that? But these are the stages where great players become great players, right? Playoffs, defending champs, good matchups, hostile building,

carry your franchise, you are already ahead of schedule. Like, let's go. This is why sports is great. And to see, that's why I love these series in hockey and in basketball. see like seven games of this. It's so awesome. So I think he's more than ready to handle the challenge. Big time players.

Make big time plays in big time games. There you have it. Yeah. I don't know who said it. I assume it was somebody in the sports world who's awesome. And I'd like to let them know. I were over. Blocky. It was not blocking. One of the, Mike.

What is? For you go, relax. We can't be encouraging. I love Blocky. Yeah. How could you not? How could you not? Exactly. How could you not? Okay. Hey, football is right around. I've got six or seven left of me.

All right. All right, we don't need to hear this. Okay, Blocky, we're happy for you, Block. Love you, Blocky. I don't know who guy is behind you right there with a good beard, but shout to him. Yeah, he's got a ball, good retrieval there. What's all you, boys? How you doing? Hey, Tim, Mike Tariko here. Yeah, I've been around everything.

And speaking of that note, congrats you and your NBC team. You guys have been on quite a run. You figuring out the big box, small box thing in the middle of that also. part of the run. But you go all the way back through it. You guys have been absolutely crushing it. Congratulations. The NBA run, I think, that you had this year has been awesome. It's been so much fun, kind of watching your ass travel throughout the entire NBA season and then get to watch a game with you. You've done great, man. And football's right around the corner, brother. I mean, schedule release already out there. Let's go. We're in a good time and we appreciate your

contributions to all of it. Draft in off of your speed, brother. We're just try to keep up with your comment, man. That's all we're doing. Listen, the altitude I'm at, I think, is a little bit different than you, just strictly off the vitamins usage, but know that you are the North Star, brother, ladies and gentlemen, as Mike Hercru. Yeah, Mike. He's a weapon. Yeah, the man.

Yeah. Not to mention the Olympics. In the middle of every sport. All that. Super Bowl, Olympics. He does golf when NBC has it. Yep, yep. And then he'll just drop into a speech, too.

There was like, I don't think that was supposed to go there. But boy, this one feels like it's a pretty important speech. And then he'll somehow have the right words at the right time and somehow doesn't, you know, I think he's the most liked commentator in sports. Yeah. And everybody that commentates on sports is going to have an opportunity, especially if it's a long time, to piss fans off. Oh, yeah. Okay, we, we experiences. I mean, the fucking Pistons, what an embarrassed scene right here. So just the entire city of Detroit later. Yeah, no, no, Foxy, they're going to kill you too for this entire thing. But at some point, you're going to

have to call the worst moment of a team's history. And your voice is the soundtrack to their depression, the fans. So they are naturally going to hate most commentators. Toriko, college, Olympic, all this professionally golf, basketball, football. Kentucky Derby. I think most people would say, Trigo's fair on a call. He's very smooth, but he does let others kind of do it. Like, hey, what do you think about this team?

You should say, not me. And I appreciate the way he kind of passed. He's phenomenal what he does. I genuinely have massive respect for the way he operates on a microphone. I mean, even at the Super Bowl, where the Patriots were just getting their shit kicked in for four quarters straight,

and Torrico is on the call. Walking away from that game, you're hammered, but you're also not thinking, like, oh, I hate Mike Tariko because he just called, you know, the entire, and you even feel that way about Collinsworth in a sense. But for Toriko specifically, it's like, wow, he at least called the game well,

even though that was the worst watching experience in my life. Tough to do. Tough to do. Believe me. It's hard not to be on that microphone, just be like, all right, let's spice this up a little bit. This team, remember this team, it's hard not to do that. Toriko balances the smoothness that I don't think we have seen before. And he never loses him. He never gets lost out there. Every thought seemingly has a takeoff and a planned landing. You know, we are all landing plane in real time.

That is kind of what everybody knows from all. If we get there. Sometimes that plane, guess what? still going. Uh-huh. In a portal. Mm-hmm. What?

Feels like it's all coming. You might have to move that thing off. What a thing? Oh, this thing? Yeah. Our four beans, allegedly, and what I heard, they're all six foot tall,

which is what I've been trying to say, ain't none of them can beat us in an Oklahoma drill. Nope. They don't know leverage. Okay, the spiky one might be a problem, but we've dealt with this before, sticks and stuff.

You know, you just got to keep it away. We've done with spiky creatures before. The one with the bunch of the shit, that might be problematic, but there is holding penalties. Okay, so they're going to have to understand that's the case. And this one right here would love to chill with this one, but we're, no question. That's a front office one for sure. Yeah, all of them.

Yeah. So we win in Oklahoma Drol, which means we win in general. But I do think it's interesting. We're learning a lot about a lot right now. And I like to shake their hands and get them into ball. We'll see you on the other side. Goodbye. has all of ESPN all in one place.

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Sports. It's 2026. It's not 26. We're not living in the past, we're living in the moment. The moment right now is awesome because sports are fantastic. We have a game seven tonight and a game one tonight. Whenever you talk about playoffs having something spectacular, you think about a game seven.

Now, last night, shite game seven. Just... Thanks a lot. Such a letdown. You don't get the game seven, especially this particular playoff run. There's been a lot of very dominant teams that have kind of made their way through. So to hear the words, game and the number, I guess, seven to kind of piece together there, it is a magical time.

It is something that we look forward to. Last night did not live up to the hype. Tonight will live up that hype. Canadians, Sabers, obviously hockey has been up and to the right. How could it not be? Wait until you see the barn tonight. The Blade Boys, a Buffalo, are obviously going to be looking to do something that has been seemingly not great. Home.

Ice. Not good. Nope. What? Not good. Nine year NFL vet, Darius Jay Butler here. The stats are saying home ice actually not that big of a deal. So all the environments that we've been pitching and saying has been spectacular.

and wow what a buzzsaw that would be. It certainly is a buzzsaw, but in hockey, it's not working. I guess people are going into places and snatching souls, which could potentially happen tonight in Buffalo, a place that we love. I can't wait. I think it was it, P.K.? He was the one who said not a thing. Yeah, these players don't really care because we're talking about,

I think the Bell Center at that point. But yeah, that is, that's very, very odd. NBA too. Yeah, 730 tonight on ESPN. And speaking of NBA, Western Conference Finals, start tonight. Wemby in the Spurs take on Oklahoma City, 8.30, 8 o'clock pregame on NBC. The Toxic Tables here at Boston Corner. And at Ty Schmitt, good to have you back, Ty.

Good to be back. Good to be back. So much has happened. Yeah, I know. I'll tell you what, it really is weird being gone for like two weeks like that. It feels like it's six years because like you try to keep up with stuff. It's just, it's happening so fast. Same deal. You try to watch some stuff fall asleep. But it is crazy. like we really do do this every single day and there is stuff that's going on every single day like and if you do get out of the routine even like a little bit it is kind of a whirlwind trying to get back in like Jesus there's something here there's something here there's something here oh you miss this we heard this yeah yeah exactly but it's nice though congratulations on a beautiful baby

thank you being added to your family tie's going to end up with 30 kids no I'm done really yeah I'm done after that one yeah congratulations Now we start the vacation clock because that's the big thing. You know, you want to go on like family vacations and stuff like that. You can't really do that every time you're just resetting and you have a newborn. It kind of just pushes that back a little bit. Work really hard. You and mama as well.

Did you hear Herbie at all? Yeah. I heard that he made some off-color jackass comment, which I would expect nothing less from Herbie, you know. Did you watch it though? Did you see it? I saw the clip. Yeah, I did. I'll have something for Herbie next time I see his ass, that's for sure.

But that's fine. You know, that's Herbie, you know. That's Herbie. That's why we love Herbie, right? Harvey didn't change one diaper, girl. That's one half of the ever. That's crazy. That twins.

You know how many butts? I mean, everything that had to be clean there. Unbelievable. Get back to work. I loved it. He was very, he's very steadfast, too, in his belief. Yeah, what's he up to this week? What's that?

What's Herbie up to this week? I, uh, that's interesting. What was he there last night? That thing was on Amazon. I saw Fitz and Witt. I saw them. They were out there doing it. Good point.

I didn't see Owl. I did not see Howl. I did not see Herbie. I did not see Sherm. I did not see Carissa. Did not see Tony Gonzalez. I did see fits and wit. They were representing very well.

Big old belt buckles. A couple cowboy hats on. One up there did their thing. Move from one stage to the next, looking like athletes. I feel like they really represented well. And then Bubebley. You know, Boobley's out there as well.

Blake Shelton, obviously. If you get a chance to be within earshot of Blake Shelton door and anything, I would recommend that. Bubele also, I would like it to be known. Boubley is worthy of being within earshot, I think. I think he is a good conversation. Riley and Shaboos, good times last night. Is Boulbla going into country?

What was... He said he's moving Nashville to make his next album. He said that on the stage. Do anything. But he was just talking and talking and talking. And the reason... I didn't think I fooled... I didn't know he was going to be at her table.

Okay, I knew his name was mentioned, but I didn't know he's going to be at her table. He walks up on a stage. He starts talking. He just starts talking. And then he like, I'm like, Is this guy gonna, he's gotta sing, right? This guy's gotta sing.

And Blake's like, he is so nervous talking right now. He would much rather just be singing right now. I'm like, really? Like, yeah, he's got a little bit of a fear of speaking in public or whatever. And I'm like, that's amazing. He should start singing. As we're saying that, he dropped into,

and it was like, that's the guy right there. He's a good time. Blue Blase good. Zack top, good. Anyways, thank you to the Academy Country Music Awards last night. Congratulations, Ella Lang. That's right.

You want them all. Our guy Parker? Parker. Parker, McColl them, Album of the Year. moment. That was good moment for you. Brooks and Dunn still winning stuff. Red Clay Strays, the goats. Unbelievable performance. Congrats Riley Green, music

event alongside El. I wrote this song in Fayetteville, Arkansas, so I love it. Thank you so much. Is he go hogs? Who? Riley. He's from Jacksonville State, brother. He's Auburn. He's War Eagle. He's War Eagle.

He's War Eagle. Cody Johnson. Cody Johnson, former Bull rider. Now he's singing music. Hey. He had American flag behind him flying pretty good. I said, Boubley. You see what's going on in her, Bubbley? And at that moment, Riley Green learned to Boo Blays from Canada in that exact moment. Then there was a couple, I mean, we had a good table, I feel like.

Shaboo's incredible vibes. Shaboo's incredible vibes. Where's Shabooz are from? Virginia. Okay. Yeah, so I'm trying to set up college game day performances. That's literally what I was trying to do last night. Hey, hey, what teams would you?

What teams would you? Who do you like? Who and we, uh, sweet. Need James Franklin, Virginia Tech. That would be great, right? We'd be able to do that? Yeah, certainly. Thank you. Let's lock that in. You, sir, who needs to be good? Auburn.

All right. It'd be great to have you on getting good. They've got some hope. I hope so. Red Clay Stray's Big Aubrey. Down on the plane. All right, join us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup winner. Ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hawke. Yay. How you doing, Hawker? How you doing, bud?

I'm doing much better. I mean, I'm doing much better hearing that Boublee might be getting into the country music scene. Do we have any Canadian country music artists, right? now? No, hey, welcome. Shanae Twain. Yeah. Welcome, really? Shanah Twain is a Canadian, at belief.

She hosted a show last night. Absolutely crushed it. I mean, just absolutely crushed it. Shanaa. Lainey started that thing off. A hundred dancers. They came out, seemed doing the whole thing. Lady Hodges?

Duck Hodges was there? I don't think that's how that worked. But you're suspect to both of them. Correct. Doug Wilson. Yeah, certainly. Yeah, I believe that is. There's a chance it should be.

But that was a. That was a spectacular show, I would say. There was a blonde girl that sang at a different stage. I forget her name. She was wearing... Avery... She rocked. She liked the country rock song?

Yeah, she rocked the house. She rocked the house. And then there was a lady who was singing about having sex, it seemed. Casey Musgraves, yeah. She was at grocery store. I noticed this. Every detail matters. They were only selling it.

It was in like a fruit aisle, I guess. And it was like peaches. and then it was like eggplant. Okay. That's the emoji for penises. Well, these are euphemisms. Thank you, Jay.

What's the peach one for? All of them were 69 cents, too. Okay? That's a good price. Yeah, everything, everything. So literally, I had no idea what was going on. Just got back down, sat down, had a nice jack and diet. Thank you so much, Jasmine.

Lady working, she was unbelievable. Certainly Jasmine was a weapon in this entire thing. Sit back down. All of a sudden, performance starts. Okay, here we go. Can't really see it because she's in the back. We're too close. Never been there before.

Okay, so comes walking out. And I looked at my right, and I just start seeing all these sexual A& does. I'm like, wow, that's pretty crazy. And I'm listening to the words. I'm like, it's like he's talking about Bonner right now. And I'll tell you what, stand ovation in there. I'll tell you what, everybody was like,

hell yeah, that's a good performance. Everybody crushed last night. I don't think there was one like fall off for the entire night. It was an incredible show. Lucky to be there, thankful to be there. Shout out to Riley Green. Football guy. winning awards. We love everything

about that. That's a duck man. Joining us now, he is the duck man. He does the walk too, you know? He's fucking six. Yeah, he's a big son of a bitch. Is he a quarterback? He was. I remember. Didn't he dunk in cowboy boots in here? Yeah, in jeans, cowboy boots, dunk. He's six, four, I'd say, six, five. In the cowboy boots? Yeah. So he's a gigantic

and he's perfect posture too, you know? And then obviously he looks how he looks. Yeah. You're watching. You're watching. a peacock literally just walk around you know and it's uh it's fantastic it's everywhere we're in a casino last night i didn't want a single hand blackjack i lost thousands of riley greens dollars which casino thousands of them uh we're at the resorts world i believe oh okay we're over there resorts world that was good the uh show was at mgm i didn't like blake shilton's currently doing residency at caesars okay wow wow yeah i didn't gotta love that we should have went to one of those yeah

watch that entire thing and uh this was as we directly sat down to kind of a nice hey hey you're doing great no yeah you buddy you buddy yeah Blake like so you're in my shot turned around I said yeah certainly was I think we couldn't see the TV we didn't know what program was sure so I from where I was I did not know program there's a couple times somebody around me that looked like me was in the middle of maybe hitting a vape very very strongly but then there's cameras you know everywhere you know yeah what you know I mean hey you got Blake and Riley here yeah and obviously what's going on with all the awards So there was a lot of cameras all the time.

You don't have to do this one. Yeah, you clap and smiling. We're here. We're on camera. We are so supportive of everything. And everybody, we are happy. But that was a lot of pressure. I didn't feel that until I didn't think about that until I got in there.

It's like, hey, this is going to be a pretty, we have to visibly. Yeah. Everything, you know, because where we're at. And it turned out it was easy to do because I lost someone was. Joining us now, ladies of gentlemen, a Stanley Cup champion. A man will be able to break down. Tonight's game seven in a better fashion than we could. Fresh out of a Cabo,

golf trip where he describes golf game like his abs. We'll let you give him the joke, ladies a gentleman, Eric Johnson. Yeah, Eric! How you doing, Bub? What is? How was the golf tournament? And how did you describe your golf game in a caption?

I forget the exact word. Did you don't want to mess it up? I would say my golf game is like my abs. They are there. You just cannot see it. I like that. Look at there. Yeah. They're in there. Yes. A little sunburn, like,

Yeah. And then this is bad. Look at this. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got 12. I need about a two-day nap.

I'm done. I'm out. I tell you what, a little sun cooking. I assume you're very sober while you're doing all this down there. Yeah. Yeah.

I certainly feel like. Did you win? No. No. We got completely killed. The vibes were high, though. The weather was great. We played barefoot.

We played in a t-shirt. it was awesome. But the golf was like the least of my worries. You know, it was awesome, though. Toro Loco, the crazy bull. Yeah, of course, Toro Loco, we much gross-e, all of it. Obviously, we appreciate that. We're happy. That's how golf is supposed to be. Now, let's talk about hockey. Tonight, insane atmosphere, we all assume, in Buffalo. Some of the stats that have come out, though, have said, you know, the home ice actually hasn't been that much of an advantage for the Barnes. What is your thoughts on that? And how do you see this one going? And did you expect the Sabres to be able to do what they did? the other night, which was an absolute drumming in game six.

I think I think the only reason why it was surprising to me is because that bell center is unbelievable. Like that, that atmosphere is so good. But I'll tell you this, I think when you're a young team, like both of these teams are, there is something to be said about being a little bit more anxious and a little bit more nervous about playing at home. And Montreal looked it to me. And on the flip side, Buffalo's playing at home tonight. They stayed in a freaking hotel last night. That's how much they're searching for answers on home ice. They were trying to keep the exact routine the same as they've been

doing on the road. But for me, I do like Montreal tonight. Yacob Dobush is 5 in O with a ridiculous save percentage and goals against after a loss. And Montreal hasn't lost two in a row in almost 30 games dating back to the regular. season. So this is a team that's really sharp on the road. Buffalo, I don't know if they can get it done at home. They've been bad at home this entire playoff, but nonetheless, it's going to be, it's going to be an amazing atmosphere. But I like Montreal tonight, boys. What's the first thing we should look like at the beginning? Let's say we're going to live bet this thing. What would be something you would maybe notice early that says like, yeah, Canadians are doing what they've always done,

which is not lose back-to-back in 30 games or whatever the case is. What is something we can maybe look, Goldie's standing on head, somebody dicing, control the puck. What should we really be looking for early that we can maybe live bet this thing? Because I'll tell you what, I watch a video from Ronda Rousey, about two minutes before her fight, and I saw a video of Gina Corona, and I want immediately Draft King's Live Bet under half a round. I hit for that. Okay, that was the most obvious thing. You got the crown.

I got the crown. So what do I need to? I'm kind of hot right now, E.J., would like that to continue. What's something early we can look that maybe could tell the story of the entire game in your eyes? I don't know if they have this prop, but if you can do like a Montreal power play goal in the first period, I would play something like that. Their power play is awesome. They can shoot from the flanks.

They have bodies in front. They play something called an umbrella. So an umbrella is, you know, the shape. And then the top is the guy. The top is the top of the umbrella. That's the point man who kind of facilitates everything up there. And then they have shooters on the side, which can take one-timers on the side. which can take one-timers on their offside, Cole Caulfield.

I would put a Caulfield power play goal at some point during that game. I love Montreal's power play. They're clicking at an absurd rate, and I think they're going to get another one tonight in game seven. E.J, thank you. I'm going to get the crown. Bulls plus 200 to score a goal in general, so. Let alone niche on power play goal as well.

Let's stay in this. I love what you're doing. We're starting tonight in NIT. Well, that's why I think that is the big conversation. Yeah. No, no, but Pima, you're not. Oco pecalucanin. Uco peccalookanin.

Say that three times fast. Uco peccalukin. Oukopakalukin. There you go. Better say it right or Sabers fans are going to be pissed. They're always pissed. They put out of a video. What happened?

People were saying his name wrong. I think it might have been ESPN, if I remember correctly from the tweet. Was it EJ? Was it him? Oh, I played with him, so I have no excuse. I have no excuse. Oco peccalooka luken. Ucakekekelekenkenin.

his hockey nickname, by the way, because I've been sitting here and I was like, is it, is it Eric Cole? Yeah, what did I call you? Me, E.J. Okay. So that seems not hockey. That one kind of stinks. What? Yeah, it's not great. Is it? Call me whatever you want. E.J. Oh, no, we're not creating hockey lingo.

We want to learn what hockey told you. Like, we don't want it. We were not that out of think. Hockey speak is better than our speak at everybody. And I think it's just Canadian. E.J. Staptoe. Johnsoe, maybe. Johnsoe. Johnso. Johnny. Johnso. So Dickle. Dickle. Pucks on Ned Johnson. Yeah, Rickle.

Do we go here, Dickle? Dickle. Dickle is a good one. Dixie, maybe. Whatever the case. We appreciate you, man. Any time, boys. Anytime.

Have a good one. No, you're not leaving. We got more questions. We got more questions. We got more questions. Are those game sticks? Those are game sticks right there? Oh, you still need me?

Yeah, they are. You want to see some? Yeah, absolutely. We do still need you, Paul. Yeah. What do you got there? They all different sizes? Look at that banana hook.

Yeah, no cheating, I think. Sidney Crosby goes straight. I don't know if. Holy shite. Think about the snopper with that bend. Oh. Whose stick is that? That's Crosby, the butter knife.

Yep. Yeah, that's insane. Four apples today for Team Canada. You guys don't even know who your captain is, so I don't want to hear it. Okay? You guys don't even know who should be wearing a sea over there in international. I was sliding against Finland. Did you USA get the shipbeat out of them?

Yeah. What? What? All right. Let's not worry about that. We're talking NHL playoffs. The Fins. Go ahead, Con, man. Yeah, E.J., even though I think Dickle kind of has more play. But E.J., torts, there was a situation last week, towards the end of the week where Vegas and, you know, basically Tortoella won the series and said, you know what, I don't want to talk to those Muppets out there who are reporting on the game. We win. We're going home. We need to get on the flight now. He gets fined 100K and the team gets their. second round pick taken away from them. Is this normal? This feels like something that's kind of ridiculous looking at it, especially the punishment, you know, fit in the crime.

What was your read on this situation? I'm actually glad you asked me this because I can kind of look at this now from both sides of the coin like eight months ago when I was still playing. I would say, you know, screw the media. We don't care about them. But now I am the media. And so I can see why you would be upset. If you're spending all this money, your company's taking you there to write.

And you need quotes from the players and the coach, right? So the media has a job to do and they deserve the respect to be able to talk to the coach. But at the other side of the coin, and I played for torts, I think he is fantastic. Like this guy needs a reality show. He's that entertaining. But they had an air curfew that they needed to be wheels up by a certain time to get out of Orange County because they have the air curfew with the plane. So they had to turn and burn and get out of there.

And at this time of the year, I think Toritz just thought, Hunter Grant, I don't give a shit. I need to get my team back home and get home. Otherwise, we're staying a night in Anaheim. And as you know, just being at home is so important. So I can see why he said, we got to get out of there. You know, maybe they could have sent a guy to the podium a little bit longer or Torts could have just done a quick scrum on his way out.

But I get why he wants to get in and out and get his team out. And I also get why the media was upset because they have a job to do as well. As a player, I want to get the hell out. You want to leave. You want to go. Yeah, it's fair and balanced take out of you. Johnsoe was very fair and bound. Johnsoe was talking about players' perspective, 18 years in a league.

Yeah, first out of Kabul. Absolutely. Fresh out of Kabul with a clear perspective. Sunburn, DMT. Yeah. A lot of cobwebs. A little foggy boys. No, no, no.

You're seeing it clear. You're seeing a clear. Skating well. Any Monizumo's revenge? Yeah, you have no cement in your skates. No, no, no, no, no. I'm not have flashed you. Is that okay?

Are we going to get in trouble for that? No, you're good. No, I didn't see the wiener. Just saw, just saw you're in a good spot. You should see our buddies back over there. Crazy lads. Yeah, I'll tell you, you're from Minnesota. Is that right?

Yeah. So I'm from Pittsburgh. We're all from cold climates, okay? Debuts from South Florida. We are all acting like assholes right now with the weather. Yeah. Okay, we all need to remember that there will be more sun. It'll get you.

Okay? We're all burnt. everybody is sunburn right now i think that is of our complexion i do believe from the cold weather climates and i know you're in cobo but we got a guy just went to a pool the other day is 65 degrees he's got fourth degree burns scott it's not even june it's may you're not supposed to have in indiana sun no that's not supposed to happen no he's got to be putting butter on his back to get to where he was he may have been we don't know his life i thought it was so screed live his life but anyway sunburn means that life is getting better not

necessarily it's a great thing but hey j has a question question as we get back to the playoffs, please, Jesus Christ. Yeah, obviously, Eric, you mentioned playing for Torz and Vegas is taking on Colorado. I know Wednesday night will be game one. Can you explain, like, what Torts brings to the team? It's a very unique situation. They fire their coach with, what, under 10 games in regular season, bring him in, and he breathes some life into him.

It seems like, what does he do, I guess, that sets him apart from other coaches? Yeah, AJ, I think, and I don't know if you guys have had coaches like this in the NFL, but what Torts does that a lot of coaches don't, is torts will have his meeting in front of the entire team, and he airs out his individual grievances with each guy in that setting. He's not pulling you aside and, you know, having a one-on-one conversation with you away from the team saying,

hey, you've got to pick up your shit. You're playing like, like ass. He's saying that in front of the entire team. And he's a complete classic. So he doesn't have a guy. great eyesight anymore. He's getting a little older, and I could say that to him, but he can't find certain guys in the meeting room when he's looking to call him out. So he's like, he'd call me Johnny, but where the hell is Johnny? And he's looking around.

He's like, you, awful, pick it up, you know, like just stuff like that in front of the whole team. So he's the only coach I've had that does that in the team setting, as opposed to pulling guys aside. And I really appreciate it because he can be absolutely terrifying and he lays into you. and you know exactly where you stand. There's no gray area with torts. Johnny. That's what we're looking for. See, hockey did give you a nickname.

That's super hockey, and we just learned it. That stinks. Johnny stinks. What do you think? What? Johnny pretty good. I guess you have a bad recollection of Johnny potentially because Johnny usually what was coming after was ass to you.

Yeah, you were absolute ass. Johnny, good, though. Let us for Johnny. I mean, Eric, Ricky could play as well. Yeah, Ricky. We could do John. John. John O'all is a good one.

John Sol. John So those are like the basic ones. You call me whatever you want. Do you think it's the Canadians that make the hockey lingo as good as it is? Or do you think it's the hockey culture that creates the lingo from the hockey world that makes it great? What do you think it is? I actually have a nickname that actually a coach gave me. So here's the backstory.

As a defenseman, I would jump up into the play a lot offensively earlier in my career. and a coach called me out in front of the whole team. He said, Johnny, you're being way too goddamn horny out there. I'm like, what? I'm horny. So horny, meaning I'm jumping up in the play too much, sacrificing defense for offense. So then a bunch of the guys just started calling me Big Hornie, and that's actually my Instagram, really is Big Hornie.

So literally I'd have Nathan McKinnon, I'm out on the ice, and I hear him calling for the puck, Horny, horny. I knew that was my teammate because no one calls me horny. Yeah, of course. Big horny. Let's see big horny. Big horny plays, I think. Yeah.

That one will stick. Maybe horn dog. Yeah. Whatever. I love what we asked them earlier. Do you have any nicknames? Just E.J. We found out like four or five.

You're the greatest horny, man. You're the great. Big horny. I didn't know if I could say horny. And then I'm like, I'll just say it. I'll tell it. It's a good. We appreciate you having the thought.

Way to think that through. That's very good that you can do that. Keep doing that with TV. Perfect way to describe what you were doing, too. Yeah. I mean, obviously, you're getting a little bit too prickly down in there. Yeah, you weren't getting a little bit too. It's like linebackers, like linebackers biting on the run fake.

And they're getting sucked up. You're being way too horny. I don't use that. Yeah, people, do they use horny or just always sucked up? Because we've been a big sucked up. Sucked up is more of this program, kind of made it, they know popularized it but yeah i've heard coaches say you know stop being horny like it's just you know getting in there where you shouldn't be taking two extra steps when you should be taking

you know reading the quarterback hey somebody getting sucked up up you're kind of getting sucked up not that i think about it because you're kind of trying to get in the action or whatever and they go deep on you boom we eat too lorna big hornet's big horny though yeah exactly i mean that's kind of part of it is big horny out there man i'm trying to yeah that's what i'm about saying we got change this shit immediately this is big horny, Eric Johnson, Stanley Cup, champ. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Horner, let's talk about the

Avs and VGK series. Obviously, we know all the star power with the abs, but when you look at the Knights, like with Marner and Eichel, got no Hanofin, I'm a gold medalist. I believe Wild Bill Carlson's back. Hurtle.

Like, they, Stoner if he's healthy. Yeah, cheese and peace. They have a lot of star power. Are the Knights the only team that you think star power-wise can match up with the abs? I still think the abs have their number, but it's going to be a tough series. And to me, it's going to come all the way down between the pipes. I'm not worried about Colorado's goaltending. Vegas is a little bit. Carter Hart, he was a stud in Philly. He got drafted there, and he played for John Tortorella in Philly,

and now they're reconnected here in Vegas. So he's going to be the X factor for me. But the biggest difference from the second round when the abs played Minnesota to the conference finals now where they're playing Vegas is Vegas is almost 100% healthy. They got Carlson back like you said. All their big guns are healthy. Remember, over the while they're missing Jewel Ericksonac and Jonas Brodine, two of their best defensive players. That costs them probably the series. But Vegas is healthy. And the other big thing is they've won. They won in 20, 23, the year after the abs, the ab's won in 22. So these are two teams that know how to win, savvy veteran teams with veteran coaches. It's going to be a really good series, great buildings, great atmosphere. I think it's going to go six or seven,

but I still think Colorado comes away with it, and they end up playing Carolina in the final. All right. Thank you, Hornsey. We appreciate the hell out of you. Hornell. Great boys, whatever you need. What are chilly ones up here on the hat? Got to give a shout on my boy, Tyson Barry. I played with him in Colorado. He just started a beer company. Trushable light logger, chili ones. Hold on what you say.

Say it again. I stepped on it. 100% my fault. What you say? Tyson's. One of my old teammates, Tyson Berry, he started a beer company called Chili Ones, a crushable logger. So we're, uh, we're reping the chili ones out here today in the wild.

Okay. What's, what's a logger just so I know. That's the one like a forced. Cushing. No, those are IPA. Yeah. Okay. I hate those.

Loggers like Sam Adams. Or yingling. Oh, I like that a little taste of history. Yingling's better than Sam Adams. Not enough alcohol content in this. these, but you just drink a few more and you're good. That's big horny football. We appreciate the hell out of you, man.

We'll talk to you soon, hopefully. Anytime, boys. Thank you. Hey, are those horse racing stuff up there above you? No, what do you want to see? Yeah, you tell us. So you own horses, you train horses, you are a horse. What is your horse relationship?

So basically, you know, I've had race horses in the past. Those are two of my horses. They won, Bowies here. I want a grade one at Keenland. comical one at Saratoga. So I race, I breed. We have a farm out in Lexington. I'm actually going out to in a couple hours

to see some of the moms and babies. But I just, I love the business. I can only describe it as seeing your horse in the lead coming down the stretch is no different feeling than, you know, scoring a game winning goal in a game or scoring the game winning touchdown or the game winning three-pointe. If I could bottle up that feeling that you get

watching your horse win a race, It's very similar to a big game in pro sports. So I think that's why it's a big adrenaline rush. Look at you chasing the dragon. I like that. Are you going to have anybody in the derby? How's this work? What's the breeders?

How old are these horses? When should we look for one of your ponies to bet on one of them and maybe feel a little rush with you alongside the racetrack? I typically breed and sell boys. So I had the mother that won the Breeders Cup last year. So that was a nice score owning the mom of one of the horses that won last year. That was a pretty big deal. and then, yeah, we have a couple two-year-olds that are going to race,

hopefully at Saratoga this summer, and then you never know down the road. They could be in the big races, but it's tough. People ask me all the time, like, do you have any horses racing in the derby? And I always respond with, have you ever played in the goddamn masters? It's that hard. I'm like, it's not just like, oh, yeah, you walk your horse on the shank and put it in the gate and you're in the Kentucky Derby, you know? It's like, holy hell.

All right, Hornall. We appreciate that out of here, man. Good luck to all your horses and to you. You are seemingly a horse, a stallion that we are going to call upon in a regular fashion. Ladies and gentlemen, Stanley Cup champion, don't ever forget it. Ask golfer. Big Hornet. That guy's unbelievable.

That guy's unbelievable. I'm so happy he just kind of got dropped into our universe. What a thing to experience here. The man. 18 years. any NHL that guy. He had seven nicknames. He said he had zero.

He just kept thinking about it. That was hilarious. That's the conversation with all, yep, this name, this coach gave me this one, this player gave me this one. But I'm intrigued by, like, the sticks. How different is every player? Like, Sid is very different. Is that his unique?

Sid is unique. So there's big rules on all that. So, like, huge rules. Because those look completely different. Yeah, so Yarm or Yager, I think, used to have a pretty good little hook. I think he had a pretty good little hook. So he's obviously wrist shot. Like you can snap that thing off pretty good.

The NHI had to make a bunch of rules, I think, on how curved it could be. Because I think they were potentially getting at the point where it was like a lacrosse. Two-Gers. And I think it was something because Sid can go backhand or forehand. So like that was the big story whenever it came. Like wait until you see this guy stick. Because in Pittsburgh, obviously we've seen Yager. Mario obviously had a sweet stick.

Let's not even talk about Ron Francis and where he had going on in between his mitts or whatever the case was. But they're like, wait until you see Sid stick. This shit is just straight. And it's because he was so lethal, I think, with the backhand and the forehand. So he's basically righty and lefty on the ice. And somehow he can still have it glued to the stick, which is obviously an incredible feat. But yeah, that's a different, that's a little different piece of hockey intel, I guess, that if you didn't really grow up around hockey, you would have no idea.

But that was just like, it was nice to see all those sticks. And as soon as he put SIDS up, we immediately were like, that SIDS stick right there because it was so abnormal. How many people now, Nick, have the straight blade, if you will? I'd imagine Sid probably popularized it a little bit, but still, nothing beats getting a big old curve on your stale. A lot of guys do it just because it makes your shot so much more dangerous. They used to, I haven't seen it forever. You used to be able to challenge a guy's stick.

You could say, hey, that's an illegal stick. They'd take it to the penalty box and measure it. And if you were wrong, your team got a penalty. And if it was legal, they got a penalty. It was like abuse leads to restrictions. You know, that always works in every sport, basically. Like the footballs, you know, in the NFL, and then it just got so bad.

And then they had the restrict it. I think the stick became like that as well. Oh, yeah. I think how they're making the stick, what material was making the stick. And then the, because I remember deck hockey, Nick Blake, you get up there, some of these guys sticks. It was literally like the lacrosse. Took a turn. So you could, I mean, but you could throw it out of there, you know, and with a puck, like the amount of control these guys have, that thing's perfect saucer fucking, they just basically hand it to it.

It was, it's a crazy thing. But the amount of this that they have to do. Go down a little rabbit hole. Get your own stuff. It's interesting. No, I'm just looking to it. Just learn a little more about it. There's going.

Yeah, sharpening their blades. Always get better. Taking their sticks, tape and the sticks, a big deal. That's a whole thing. Oh, yeah. They take down those sticks, right? Yeah. That's pretty cool.

Got to you don't want anybody else spray water in your mouth. No. That's happening a lot in football these days. That's your league. It's becoming like the norm sometimes. Sometimes. That's your league.

For some team. It's your quarterback. His hands. Yeah, that is one team. His hands get slippy. And he still throws them. going to be a two-gloved guy in the league? Oh, he should be.

No, his hands are big. Current athletes, we don't like to grandstand much. I think that's factual about us. I won't high horse about a lot of shit. I don't think we do. Modern athletes, you need start spraying the water in your own damn mouths, okay?

I don't know where we want wrong. I don't care about the gloves. If the gloves don't work because you have to squirt bottle of water in your mouth, get rid of the fucking gloves. Okay, we need better gloves. I'm done watching like a bunch of baby birds get fed with that

I don't like it AJ I don't like any sport I don't like it in any sport we can spray our own bottles of water I think the top the NFL guys got to set the tone that's where NFL guys are the role model for the young kids

like have you ever seen high school kids doing it because that happens in high school where they're having I've seen them put their hands in their hips and I was like I almost want to do a 50 yard sprint and try to stop these guys like come on now could you imagine swat in that bottle

oh don't don't even In fact, yeah, I did that in Green Bay at times. I would swap the bottle out of the trainer's hand when he would try to get to a guy who was asking to squirt water in his mouth. Now, there might be a moment. You have both arms broken.

Sure. Okay. Jam, good jam. Then you just don't need water at that time. You just don't need water then. I think they would say you should hydrate with two broken arms, but if there comes a time where you cannot physically grab the bottle

and squirt it into your own mouth, we would like to hear a good excuse, but basically unless you don't have arms, We don't want to hear. And you can't control your feet. We saw a guy with no arms able to shoot a gun. So, I mean, you could do a lot. That was kind of becoming a thing there.

There was like back-to-back weeks where how is that even? He did climb the tree. Yeah, he did climb the tree. Yeah, keep fucking eyes out. He was determined. He was determined. I'm not for sure we'd be safe for that, you know? Like whatever they say.

That guy was something else. Now we know. Yeah. I saw him video with throwing stars. All right. Let's move along. Accurate with him, too. Deadly.

Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now, is a man who is... It's real. I don't see a video. The throwing stars? Yeah, I'll find it. I'll find him. And he wasn't just nubbing him around. No.

He was chucking him. Good philosophy. He was going to go. He was great. He couldn't get away, D, butt. You wouldn't get away, D, bud. All right. The internet's alive right now.

That's what we're saying. I'm getting away. You know, I don't know. I don't. You think you could just boom, but that's not the case. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen. He's dead. Plan for that.

Can't do that. There was a Canadian goose that was kind of sizing me up with McKenzie the other day. Those? Got to watch those. Yeah. The punt to its head that I visualized. Not allowed to protect a species somehow. I don't know how fuck we go.

You can defend your family with it. Yeah. definitely can. And I thought I was going to. I thought I was going to kick a head off. I thought that was going to really happen. I was very, I was at a moment in my time where I'm like, holy hell, I'm about to. You got to tell McKenzie to turn around maybe. That might scar her a bit. No, no, no. She needs to see that. Need to learn. Yeah, you're right. She didn't see Dad, the protector. You're right. Actually, you're right. Actually, film this real quick for you. Not only to protect. Let the girl watch. The educator. Hey, you're allowed to do this if one of

these things starts acting up. Yeah, you're allowed to do this, McKenzie. Not all the time. Let's not do that. Because I don't need her messing around with. animals. Yeah, doing all that. Especially out here in May West. That's how AJ got how he is. You're talking about. May Western kid that fits the mold.

Well, I was actually going to say, don't worry about, you know, kicking that thing, what you do is you take an old golf club. You take the actual head off. And then you got, guess what? A couple pop, pop, pop, right in that thing's neck. Yeah, ain't going to fuck with you. I'm not just going to carry that around, though. No, it's like a walking stick kind of.

You use it for, and then, you know, you got a goose comes up. I've been a can a few times. I have never seen your guys as geese. And you're, they hate it there. Why aren't your geese? Why don't your geese go back to your country? Gump, why don't you guys do that? Why don't you get your geese wrangle them up and get them back up north?

That's where they should be. I tell you what, they're a problem back there too, brother. Wanda Fuka soccer field, you never seen anything like you played in geese. Every time you played there. Of course. Wanda fugues. They're a terrible team and a terrible pitch. Such a little fuzzies?

No, it's Spectrum warm fuzzy. Oh, okay. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a little fuzzy. A warm and fuzzy. Ladies and gentlemen, guy we love. He's a senior NBA insider. And to get to the top of the mountain in which he is, you're going to have to make decisions and tweets

that certainly ruffle some feathers. Ladies and gentlemen, the man who broke the news that SGA would be a back-to-back MVP on his ex-account hours and hours and hours before it was supposed to be announced on Prime. Ladies and gentlemen and journalist, Sean Sharangia. Beams!

He shot of a beer! All right, Choms, there is a contingency of people who are not. Tye's first day back, okay, first day back, he was coming in all kind of uppity and excited. Ordered a triple burger with extra bacon and everything you possibly get. God damn right. True, Red Bulls in here. He was flying high in here. And then he saw what happened with you.

And he said, that's all I needed. Flip the switch. He said, I don't like what Shams did. Shams, can you please clarify what happened with this whole MVP announcement? And how many discussions were had by you with yourself? with every, like, how, first of all, you get this news. You are an insider. You're supposed to break news if you get news.

That's kind of your job. But then there were some people kind of attacking you acting as if this has never happened before. Ty, Connor. I think Debutt was even the other way right there. Don't like as loud as I could. So, Shams, can you just tell us a little bit more about where you stand, how you stand, and how you came about this piece of information that it seems like you would feel obligated to put out if you got it as an insider? first of all my guy t y three time d a d of the year oh wow i don't know about that but thank you

shaw that's what you're talking about nailed it good goddamn right chum one three times morning with the newborn i just i just wanted to spice up my guys morning i knew you know you might have a slow morning you know start a little bit with the dad i get it d ad yeah of course yeah i'm just trying to stir it up um i mean listen i'm i'm uh part of me is i what are we talking about here? The other part of me is like, you know, for me, when I get news, when I get information,

if I've vetted it, like I did late Saturday night, early Sunday morning, when I have news 100%, no matter how big, no matter how small. And in this case, obviously,

very, very big accomplishment, very big news around the NBA for the NBA, for Sheg Giles Alexander being the 14th player in NBA history to be the back-to-back league MVP. He's only,

you know, Since Stefan Curry, the only guard to be back to back, the only player to go back to back, period, is Nicoli Yokic. There's a list of accomplishments here. I mean, he's a rarefied heir. So this is a massive story. And when I get it, I vet it. And then my job is to report the news. And so that's all I focus on.

That's what I wake up thinking about. That's what I go to sleep thinking about. I feel responsibility. And like you said, Pat, this isn't the first time necessarily. necessarily, but it's not going to be the last time where I'm just going to try to do my job to the best of my ability. All right. Well, hey, Shams, we appreciate that. Good job. And remember, the road to the top of the mountain is obviously going to be a rocky one.

You know, there's been other insiders that have certainly broke this type of news in the past, but they are obviously been around the game a lot longer. You, multiple times now, been dropped into fire. I think a lot of people say, you can have to prove. You can have to prove to me. And you've sat in there, Shams. We're proud of you. through lunch, through forks with oatmeal,

oatmeal, ice cream, for all your shit. We're proud of you, Shams. Keep working, Shams. Hell yeah, Shams. Yeah, I think I might be a lunch guy more, to be honest. Yeah, we know. We've seen your tweets. And Blake Griffin, like, that was funny.

I mean, he absolutely freaking owned you. That just is what it is. Yeah, we like Blake Griffin a lot. That's kind of, I think, why the boys were booing your ass there just to be on his side. We love you, Shams. We don't know Blake that well, but we are fans of his. But on that note, I appreciate you doing your job, and this is only going to continue to happen.

How old are you? I am 32, but I feel like I'm 52 in basketball years, but I'm 32. Okay. How old's wodge? Was he 100 years old? Yeah, with that math, I think he's like 400 in basketball. No, but how old is it? 60 to 65.

57 years old. Okay. So there's another 20 years, okay, of the Shams train coming right up. And I think people are just going to have to get used to that. These guys everywhere. Okay, and Shams knows it. everything somehow and he doesn't sleep. This guy actually doesn't sleep.

Might be one of the... Yeah, could be. And stands on his reporting. Always. Jimmy Butler thing was crazy. Pat Riley came out. Had the team owner. Had the team coming out saying, this guy's full of shit.

And then what? And then Shams Sharani says, hey, welcome to the game, folks. Yeah, I know I'm new around here. And then obviously the honest stuff continues to move. And we're definitely going to ask you about that because how could we not? Because that is kind of your thing?

The resolution's coming here on that one, Pat. When? It's coming on. When, yes. In process. Okay. Like within the hour? Hmm.

Not within the hour. I would say between now and the NBA draft on June 23rd, within the hour would be pretty great. That is still. That's above. Between now and June 23rd, those conversations are going to start picking up, going to start escalating. I reported last week, actually, on this show, about a week ago, that the Bucks were officially open for business on all offers on all trade calls that has continued into this week and that's only going to continue the crux of this is yannis has believed for a period of months now that

it's time for both sides to move on uh the bucks obviously last year they felt like they had a team that would compete and when you have yonis on your team you do everything you can right and we've seen john hoarse their general manager drew holiday in 2020 dame lillard in 2020 through Miles Turner last summer They're gonna make swings They're gonna go all in But this is a team that has gone all in over and over and over again And I think it has reached that point

To where how much all in can you go? Do you even have the pieces necessary to go all in? And so those conversations will continue to pick up From ownership to management with Yannis One thing I did pick up last week and into this week Yonis's stance has not changed As far as what I've reported the last several months So this is a situation we'll keep an eye on

over the next five to six weeks. All right, we can't wait for that. Last on that, quick. Go ahead, Conman. Yeah, Sean, it's been kind of said, or at least on the internet, that there's a chance that he might be headed to Boston. I think he is the favorite at some places. What is kind of that status? Would that be a trade that could possibly happen,

including, you know, Jalen Brown or just assets of some sort? Or are we looking at the teams that Janus has already kind of approved that you have pontificated about, like, Miami and spots like that? where he'll go. Minnesota, the Lakers, the Celtics, the Heat, those are all the NICs, those are all the teams that had interest in Yannis at the deadline. There was conversations, some teams more than other teams. You think about teams like Miami and Minnesota, those were more extensive conversations.

Those were more back and forth engagement conversations than you have teams like Cleveland and the Lakers and the Celtics that checked in, that had interest. There were some conversations on concepts. But the Celtics did check, and they did make a call. They did have a level of interest. And I think that is going to continue into this offseason. But they've never gotten into the particulars because it takes two to tango. You're not just going to offer up a player that it might take to get a deal done

without their being interest from the other side. So those are all things to be determined. And it's to be determined. Does Milwaukee feel like their best offer is going to come from a Minnesota or a Miami or some other team? And that's what we're going to find out over the next few weeks. Shams, you're always so focused on work. Have you ever tangoed? Not recently, but, you know.

I don't know about tango, but I've gone to a few dance classes, but I don't know about tango. Okay, so it takes two to tango. You've only, you solo. What does the dance that doesn't take two to do with? What are you doing, macarena? Probably a little electric slide. Yep.

Probably a little bit. Yeah, I've done some, I mean, back in high school, back in like middle school, we did. Oh, you haven't been tanked, yeah. That was a bang in a boi. That was a banger, bro. Banging the boom. Pooop to pow. Pooop.

Quaked. Hank. Bang. Bang. Bang. to boom. Pound to pow. Pau.

Hi. Baha. Bane in a boom. Wow. Good memory. First time, long time right there. That felt good. That's put me back in time there.

That was a nice little trip back in time. Great day. We were all doing that shit. Uh-huh. I mean, everybody was really. Universal. What? heater actually kind of now that we think about it still holds up hey maca random the electric slide was

was real too though yeah oh it still bring it yeah keep right foot two stops people still wobbling yep people are wobbling nix aben wobble he'll fucking wobble right over stank you leg sure i think those still happen right oh yeah yeah definitely we're a dancing society aren't we i'm kind of proud of our species for that these aliens can't dance i could tell just by looking at their ass. They got no rhythm. They're going to be so confused by us, just, bang, boom. They're going to, whoa, what is this? And then we're going to low leverage them. The Nordics look like they might

have some. So aliens are real. These are real. You tell us, Shams, you, you got any news on this? You want to break before, Ron? Real pictures? This might have to be my next mission. Well, what if you are? That's the thing, you could potentially be one of these. I don't know which one you would necessarily

line up with the knees photos. I think we know. Yeah, we do. You're not a Nordic. We know that. Unless you are, I'm not heard of saying shore. The Nordic, I guess, is... Now, they said it's seven feet, but then I heard a guy say none of them more than six feet. How do we know?

Is it from Lord of the Rings? No, it's a Nordic, dude. These are all potential. That's not Gandoah. No way. Let's get away from this. I don't want these Nordics playing any sports, though. We've got to ban these Nordics from our sports.

This is my first time. Oh, okay. Oh, the rents. Yeah, seen a few. Eight feet, but this isn't right because... That's eight feet. Are these real or these AI generated? Why am I only seeing this for the first time?

These are not real, so I'm not real. Take them off the screen, please. Geez, we got Shams confused. I just saw it. These are all, those are not. Jeez. But is that what they're supposed to be? This is real, though.

Definitely. I don't know. As you're walking through the airport. Yeah. Oh, my God. I didn't think about it. Hague chef posts those on social media, actually. They're all real.

Yeah. Okay. No, all right. Stop. Stop. Please. We do not. Just kidding.

Just kidding. That's a joke. Don't kill us, please. whatever. Was this war of the world? I am fascinated by how much we're learning in a very quick manner, it sounds like. Are we learning anything, though? We're not going to learn anything.

No, I think everything's kind of being like, yeah, right? That's a big deal I feel like. Who reported that? What? You're talking about that specific information? Or the four species thing? What we just saw? No, we didn't say.

That was either. What are you trying to say about the New York Post? I'm asking legitimate questions. They do great reporting. I've seen the reporting. I've seen all the photos. They do great reporting, okay? Thank you.

Easy. I know exactly what you're talking about, asshole. We've talked about that a lot, by the way. And we're getting attacked for naught. But it's like, I feel like we've... No, but those things that we just put up. The New York Post put those out? No, this is from the Internet.

That's a... Nope, not doing that one. So everybody here is one interview. Okay. And then they all... The way the internet works is, now how far can we take all these things? It's a great place to be.

I miss the alien dump this weekend. That's why I've got questions. And some of those interviews aren't recent, which is interesting because it's almost like bringing back an old article to... It's weird. No, I will say the New York Post, I guess we are learning, did put that photo out, though. Yes, they did. Okay, this is good. Yes.

Okay. Yeah. Does the pet mac be shown need a correspondent for this? Yes. We've been trying. We've been trying our best. I might have to say. I'm praying Manisting is going to eat our inside.

The Manisting, that's straight pump kick to chest. Maybe. Okay, we can't let that mouth get anywhere near us. The little one, not even worried about this thing. Come on. Unless they have telekinesis. The reptilian could be a problem. I'm worried about the reptilian one.

He's got armor on. He's got like an actual exoskeleton. In Nordic, we've seen these before. Okay, we've seen Nordic before. You go to some up-a-neigh neighborhood with the blonde family. They pose no-free. They pose a dope-gray. He plays Thor and Marvel.

So the reptilian one is really who we got to maybe rally the others to join us to fight against. It appears. But everybody else? Is that say eight feet tall? Yeah. You said six feet. That says eight. The guy that did the interview who said the sizes of these things, I listened to the hearing myself.

Okay, this weekend, I say I had a lot of time on a point. I was at the American Academy of Country Music. Sure. He said six feet, all of them, about the same size as us. That Nordic one played striker for Man City. I've seen him. So good. He won a thing the other day.

Yeah, always does. He won the balloon? No. No. The door is not out yet. But what we're saying is, if these aliens are real and they're out here, Shams might be one of them, to be clear. No more if, brother.

They're here. Are they fighting each other, though? Are they in the same team? How does that work? And who's talking to them from our side? Yeah, let's turn them against each other. Well, that is a good point. You said we do need to go right to the reptilians.

They like, hey, the Nordics, they hate you guys. They despise you. We got to do some real human stuff. Yeah, exactly. That's like super homo sapient stuff. Correct. He's like, hey, we got to drop some drugs. Because I think we're probably the best at that, if I had a guess.

Probably why we've been held back so much tech-wise is because how much we are like, hey, how much trauma. Let us work this a little bit. They need to sit down with Andy Cohen and do like a season recap. And then. That's what we're talking about. That's a good idea. Yeah, they're going to start some real shit.

That's where we can get them because they've never felt those feelings before. Reptillion looks over at the Nordic and goes, really. Right? Yeah. And we're like, wow. I couldn't believe it either. I can't believe it. Oh, my God.

And his tail turns. We jump over his tail. Yeah. You know, as he's turning around and talk to the Nordic guy. And then we go to the little one, like, hey, little one, they said that you're just basically a little bitch. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Turns out his power. All of a sudden, we're humanizing this thing. Exactly. What are we best at? Cause a chaos. Turning people against each other. Yep. That's what we got.

Trick point. That's what we got. Little misdirection. Yeah, we're fucking taking the thing. Double pass. To them. Exactly. And then maybe we even send them on one of Elon's ships.

send them out of there. You guys can have Mars. That's what I'm saying. We're winning this whole thing. They already have. I wouldn't trust the game. Now that we kind of broke it down. I feel good. I just hope they don't get into sports. Because, you know, if they take over a league,

I ain't watching it. We got to have rules. Strength the game is right. If Goodell and these owners get a heads up that one of these reptilian can really catch a bowl, they're going to be trying. Good luck. Yeah?

One of those Nordics on Skate. at the blue line? No thanks. No thanks. I think it's Eric Johnson. Exactly. It might be now. We're bigger. All right, Choms, thanks for everything, bud. Anything we need to know about tonight?

Tonight, Spurs, Thunder, I mean, just to meet two of the Titans of the NBA right now going against each other. We'll see how much will the aspect of experience play into this? We know the Thunder have won at all already. This is the Spurs' first foray together as this. unit, but I mean, I think about this group right now, Wemby, Hassel, Harper, Fox. Then on the other side, you have, hey, you have Jay Dub, who's back in the lineup tonight,

Jaylon Williams. He's missed the last four weeks. He is good to go, cleared to play tonight, and I'm told he's going to be a full throttle, so you have him back. You have Chet Holmgren on that team. Then they have waves upon waves of guys, too, right? Alex Caruso, AJ Mitchell, who just broke out as a star in the first couple rounds of these playoffs. So two very deep

teams. I feel like this has been a absolute kind of heightened battle all year. We've been waiting for this moment. I think the last time I've thought about it, there's been hype around a conference finals like this is the one that didn't happen. Lakers, Clippers in the bubble. Like we all

everyone wanted the Lakers and Clippers to face off in the bubble. Everyone's kind of wanted the spurs and thunder to face off now they are. And then the east, Cleveland, New York. I mean, New York's had, how long? Ten days? and 11, nine days of rest. So I think one positive for them,

you're going to have a little bit of rust maybe to start, but O'G. Annobe, he's going to be playing in game one. That's the most important thing to come out of the second round for them. He suffered a grade, you know, early, a very low-grade hamstring strain against the Sixers. I believe it was in game two missed the last two games of that series. But thankfully, for them, it was a sweep, allowed him to rest. And now, because they were able to get even more additional days, he's going to be good to go for game one on tomorrow night.

Okay, that's great news. Thank you for the update, Shams. Quickly, we have about 30 seconds or so. We're talking about Yonis being on the move. LeBron James, going to play basketball again, and it's not going to be for the Lakers? Is that kind of, is that how we're all feeling right now? Or how do you feel?

How do you lean right now, Sean? I wouldn't say that that's something that's been determined. Honestly, I think LeBron, more than past the years, probably needs even more time with his family, with his inner circle. You know, I do know a lot of teams are calling him and his camp. I spoke to Rich Paul the other day at the Chicago Draft Combine last week, and he told me like every contender in the NBA is essentially since the season ended,

placed a call. So that line is going to continue to be open. But listen, LeBron, all indications throughout the season have been that he's going to play another year. We'll see if that remains to be true. He's got to take that time. never seen this. 41 years old,

year 23, I think if he decided to step away, I don't think anyone would hold it against him, but I think the expectation has been that probably you're going to get one more, and we'll see if it's going to be

with the Lakers or somewhere else. But listen, being in L.A. having that comfortability and the Lakers want him, I think all those factors do play a part. You're the best. Ladies is, Sean Sierrean. Yes, Tom.

All right, as we wrap up and we continue digitally, Sports Center, we'll take it from here on ESPN. We'll be back tomorrow after a game seven and a game one. tonight. Be a friend to tell him something nice. Might change your life. Goodbye. Oh.

Good up. Thank you. Yeah. A lot was really coming together there. Because he was still power in at like 22 seconds. Yeah, who's going? Told him. LeBron's gone, right? He's out of there. You get in motion? Yeah, I am kind of. Maybe he's coming back to Cleveland. Yeah. That's what I'm thinking.

I mean, what other, I don't know, it just makes sense to me. They're good. All the contenders are calling, Pacers are calling. Boston? Paces are calling? Contenders. What? Real? NBA finals last year. Yeah, and you guys have the fifth pick. Add that to the repertoire

with Braun. And LeBron, from my understanding, he'd love Indiana. He said that when he came out here. I love this place. Who's got the most golf courses out of any state? Michigan. So, Arizona. Florida.

Indies right there, though. Yeah, Indies in there, for sure. Especially when the weather's warm. There's certainly opportunity. Flatest golf courses. I saw a map come out there a day. It was shocking how many golf courses of Michigan has. Yeah, I was wondering if that was true, Tony. I know we have a lot of golf courses, but it just seems like it'd be impossible to beat Florida.

Doesn't make sense. Michigan. I hear Tim Allen just speaking right now. Pure Michigan. I saw the speedway. Golf course near the Speedway? Oh, yeah. I ain't just looking out of playing.

It's pretty big. Inside the track? Yeah. There's four holes in her. There's a full par three. Wait, it's one right next to the track. Yeah, and then three of the holes are inside the track. Oh, shit.

Yeah. You got to walk underneath to track it in there. M-N-N-N-M-N-N-N-N-N-Y. Check your flags everywhere. So cool. It's beautiful. Got cars in the airport now.

Oh, that's this week, isn't it? Yeah. It's a month of May in Indy. Here we go. Yeah. Catherine Lake, going to try to do the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600.

That's a lot. That's a lot. I saw Coral Joy last night. Okay. Good to see him. Good mustache. Who's the other one? Carl.

Carl Edwards. I saw him. No shit. See? Did he do a backflip? Yeah, off the table probably. No, he did not. What? He hadn't raced in a while.

I didn't see a backflip. He was just standing up there. He's kind of standing just hanging out. That's kind of disappointing because he's kind of known for the backflip. I didn't see a backflip. I might have missed it, though, to be clear. I might have missed it. Do you guys see the choir that came out last night during Red Clay Strays?

Yeah. I thought we were doing, I didn't know. Is this a baptism right? I didn't know what was fucking in it, though. I was doing this one right here. Is it a new song? You want to get baptized by you, buddy. the clays.

This one right here. It's a great one. He's unbelievable. Yeah. This one? The way he sings? Do you know who we're talking about? Oh, yeah.

He wails. Is that what that would be called? Yeah. Yeah. I told him that. I don't know. I don't know what D-Butt. I don't know.

What? You're a team player. He answered me so quick. Oh, yeah. Like so quickly. Bang. What do you have to know this guy? Guys, it's a whole team.

A bunch of rednecks from Mobile. They said last night after they won an award. I like the table. that's how he started his answer. And I like the deeds. And they're Wardam Eagle? Wardham Eagle. Seems like most of them.

I don't know if all of them were, but most of this guy right here. Go back to that one shot there. You don't have to play the video. I don't think we'd be allowed to. It probably get sued for it. But you'll know that, you'll know that face it. Yep. There, that guy.

You know this guy? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Damn, he looks like, um, shit, like a couple people. Barry Pepper? Bad guy. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. You know what else looks like that. El Terminator 2? That guy. Yeah. Ask yes. Hey, Tom Brady, hell yeah, bud. Thank you for doing that out there for all of us, Tom.

And I appreciate that the NFL felt obligated to market it as well. Our greatest player of all time is now a Gucci model. Yeah, does he look uncomfortable? Possible. But this is the greatest of all time. Rapped in all black Gucci, looking cooler than everybody else in the room. I'm happy that this is kind of what he's doing. He's surely living his life.

Yes, he is. His best life. He certainly is. Come on. Think about everybody. Everybody sees him walking and goes, holy hell. That's, is that a model? Jeez.

Yeah, no, that's the greatest football player of all time. That'd be so sweaty and there's leather pants. I expect him to look a little more confident. Yeah, I think it was really tight leather. If I had to get down to the bottom, looks like he wasn't able to really move as much as he wanted to. But maybe this is his walk, you know, maybe this is what he's trying to message to the world with his art is how he walks.

And maybe he thought that this outfit called for this style of walk like The Terminator. Maybe he thought to himself Schwarzenegger, would he do that? We don't know what his artistry's saying. Yeah, this is probably the, well, I mean, getting the booth, maybe he was a little uncomfortable at first, or maybe this is what this is in his modeling journey, because, you know, we've seen Tom Strutt for a long

time, and he always, you know, kind of got that peacock about him. This thing gives him. It's early. It's early. Maybe we get a little bit. Maybe we feel a little bit. You own a team, Tom, and your QB1 and you drafted first overall, looks like a goofball. So maybe get back to camp

and fix the guy's helmet and help. help out the team that you own. Okay. What the hell are we doing, Mon? Aaron Rogers is there. Why isn't Tom there helping Fernando? Why, why do you do England people always want to control Tom's? I don't want to control them. I want the league, the NFL to be as great. This guy looks so foolish. Okay? It's not okay. Who looks foolish? Foolish Fernando? Fernando. And I have a theory. No, he is not foolish for now. I have a theory on Mendoza. And so I believe that he's going to be first bout for many,

many reasons, especially just seeing a photo like this, because if you can put a helmet on, it's awesome. Look at yourself and say, yep, let's go take photos. With that being how you look, this guy's going to... I see why. This guy's going to soar. What are the racially of these helmets?

Yeah. It does look very uncomfortable with the chin strap is god awful. You see halfway up his forehead. Yeah, the face mask to the chin strap. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. The space for the nose to get punched kind of worries me. As a guy who had the punter, I did ask for the single

when I got drafted. I wasn't all lot of having. You had to be grandfathered in. I did ask for that. Two frog. Think about that's my first interaction with frog, now that we know frog. That was early a. I want the single bar. You can't have it, Paul. You can't. How come the guy from Cleveland? How come I can't have that?

You got grandfathered in, guy. Jeez. You want to kick her mess? So we got you. Jeez. Get out of here. What a convent. What an interaction. I called for it. So I know the shitty face mask. Sure. Please. I've been around there. They're saying okay. There's always a worry, though.

There's always a worry. Fist, nose. Like, that's the whole purpose of that thing. So there was a couple that had been put on my helmets over the years that were like, hey, we've developed a better vision face mask for you. So you can see and there's no. That's the big deal. Because when you're looking down to drop a ball for me for punting,

I don't want anything in my line of sight, right? So that's why they open that thing up. quarterbacks trying to get as much sight as possible. You see a lot of the other positions have a lot more shit in it because it's not as much of a vision or a, what's that called? Peripheral. Peripheral vision type thing. So Fernando wants to be able to see everything.

Wants to be able to feel everything. I am worried, though, about somebody just punching him right. There's a lot of space there. Good luck reaching up that high. I think they get in it. And you would have to throw one of those overhands, I guess. But guess what? D.Ns, they're also tall.

I just, I don't like what's going on, but I do. We've seen, this obviously looks terrible. He looks like a goofball. here, but we've seen the throws. Run them. So that's the bag. You've got to at least show the good. Here's Kirk on the bottom. Hey, veteran quarterback. Obviously, it's good ball, Brock Bowers.

Look it on top, though. Spin it. Oh, what a ball. Oh. Class. Nando. He can spin it. All these photos, everybody's called him goofball. Yeah. He's the only one smiling.

Everything like that in the NFLPA high rookies. We're going to steal you. Showcase. We're going to steal you. for another round of marketing before you become an actual business. We're going to do this entire thing. So when Fernandez is only one smiling, just know he's smiling because he knows how he throws a football. And we do too, and we know when the season starts, it's going to be an interesting little situation that they're going to have to figure out. We like Kirk Cousins.

Obviously, we think Kirk will be able to have success over there. But number one overall, for a reason, when do you get him reps? How long does he sit? How long does he start day one? And you just kind of roll with him. Who knows, we shall see? But knows he can play a ball. no matter how he looks in any of these photo shoots that are being forced upon him because he's number one overall. I agree. Obviously, we're a Nando show and we believe in Nando. Did you notice anything in that picture? Which one?

That one. Right there. No. Yeah? A lot of thin bodies. Not one offensive linemen. There isn't one offensive lineman. Is there a D-Lyman?

Do they hate the trenches? Wait a minute. Does the NFL hate the trenches? What if the offensive linemen were given the opportunity to say no? No. When this came out like a couple weeks ago, whatever, who was invited to the rookie symposium? No offensive linemen.

Or whatever this bullshit's called. The rookie premier. Rookie premier. Sorry. 52. Arvel. Yeah, it's Reese. Sorry, D.N. I guess.

What the hell? What's going on here? They hate offensive linemen. These jersey movers? I know Caleb Lomoo said he just had too much, too much work. You need to work out or stuff. Chris Bell's absolutely locked in. Guys gonna be unbelievable.

All right, good luck to all these rookies. Hey, they could all be Hall of Famous. Yeah, every school. Ladies and gentlemen, I feel like we are a sports program. We try to be at least. I think we try to be of service to the sports universe. Don't you think that age? I think that is an actual thing we try to do.

Yes, we love sports, absolutely. We don't have morning meetings or like quarterly zooms to talk about it. But I think we all understand. We're trying to promote the shit out of sports. because sports is the greatest thing on earth. I will say live music also awesome. Had a great time last night. Certainly. Anything that brings people together.

Sports do that, though. So we would like to celebrate all sports that are happening. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for magic happening around the sports universe. AJ, you see that in sports universe. If it's happening and it's magical, we would like to celebrate the shit out of it. Let's go to France, shall we? Let's go to France with R. Willie. Ryan Williams.

He won the FI's World Series Spine Best Trick Contest. Live in France, first time anybody's ever done this. Wee, Wee, won 80. What? Wee, Messi Boku. Or Willie going crazy. Almost hits his head, obviously, off the top of the spine. First of all, easy, backflip, flipski.

Send it in France. Congratulations, R. Willie. That's crazy. It's yet to be named. Got to be named. So it was that one going backwards. That was the... Yes, the backwards.

Yeah. The backflip is kind of just whatever, but we're going to hear Sal Masichela going crazy over that at the X games in a matter of months. Yeah, and he's got a Nitro Circus shirt on, so obviously he's been there, done that with risking his life on a regular basis. That's kind of the Nitro Circus game. But the backflip was a setup, I believe. I should name it. I don't think we should be the ones name in it, but it is in France. His name's R. Willie.

You know, there's a lot of French things. Loop de Lou. It is a super dupter. Normally it's just named after the guy that first. did it, right? Maybe it's called a Mercedes-Bocco. There's so many potential opportunities with the French language. But yeah, he had Bo Koo with Bo Foo or Willie doing something crazy. All right, now let's head to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. And we've all seen monster trucks. Obviously, are supposed to run over things. How about running by things? This is a monster truck world

speed record that happened, 103 miles an hour for power rush. Had to be scared to death. Had to be scared to death in there, driving. Obviously, we've seen them jump. We've seen them flip. Going a hundred miles an hour plus this high, whenever it's not normal to move, you think one wind gust potentially rolls you over. Instead, power rush breaks a world record in a monster truck,

and we're pumped that this kicks off the Indy 500 hundred. This is all fun and good. Where's Pistrana at? We need him get in this thing and jump this thing at 100 miles. Yep. It feels like Mistrana just learned this was possible. Bingo. Yeah.

You're right. Into the track, I think. You're right, AJ. Yeah. Yep. That's how we started off the race. Oh. That's Power Rush football right there.

All right, let's go to soccer. We like this. Things are happening in soccer. This guy's a dog, former player of Indiana University. Sam Sarver scores a goal in stoppage time. And in a way, born does his dance. Sweet hair on Sarver. This guy has lived a lot of lives, boys, boys, boys, boys, boys.

Oh, we're schoolbodied. Going in there. Sarver, I wanted to do that celebration in college. His coach, Todd Yigley, said, No, you guys are going to hurt yourself. So you got a chance to pull it off in the MLS in stoppage time. They start hurling beers at them. He goes, oh, is that right?

Well, actually, thanks. I'd like to have one of these. I sold them a dollar. Wow. What? What? This guy scuba dives, chugs of beer, scores a goal, and stoppage time. That's Sarver soccer.

Hell yeah, bro. I hope you're in the World Cup for Team America. Let's go, Sarver. That may be Sarves. We need more Sarves, don't we? Yeah, this is him, by the way. He's got Jay's on, tatted up. Three cases of Mad.

of Madello next day, beauty and a beat with Justin Beams. This is what we're talking about. Hey, Punch. Yeah, find him. Go ahead. Dime up. Dime up. A junkyard dog. Make him a captain. Is he from him? We know he's from America. Yeah, he is. 23 years old.

23? We need that three goals and nine matches this season. Is that good or no? Not bad. Why isn't Sarvo on the team then? I didn't see Luna out there either. He's scoring all the goals for us before and I didn't even see him out there. And what about that 16 year old? Can we get some fucking cap minutes for that guy on the national

team? We not try to win this thing? What's the problem with all these guys you're talking about they play in the MLS? What's that? What's wrong with that? Oh, you mean the league where freaking Leon Messi plays? Well, speaking of that, ladies and gentlemen, having around his words, did you see what Messi did? Obviously, he's a goal scoring machine, but him being a wizard in the box with so much pressure on him, with the ball on a string, ah, he?

Hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah. That's messy soccer because he's Messy and with everybody. And I'll tell you what, this Miami team might be on back-to-back title runs here, Gumpy, what do we need to know about this Inter-Miamy team? That was their first win at their new stadium. They're on a hot streak right now. Messy's cooking. There is some beef happening between the fans and

Messi and DePaul and some of the lads. The loyal fans aren't happy that they're not going in addressing them after the matches. What? What are we fucking this up? It's an interesting situation. What do you mean they're not addressing them? So basically

a lot of people will go and like clap to the fans. I guess Apparently, they haven't been doing it. So at the start of the game, instead of playing their drums and everything, they usually do, La Familia, the Inner Miami Faithful. They didn't play any of it. Kind of, you know, and Messi kind of gave him one of these during the match. So it's kind of heated right now in Miami. We would love him to come play for the Pittsburgh Riverhows.

If the Miami team and the fans do not want Messi, don't worry about it. But Messi might not want him to go over and clap to the fans because he got robbed. Did you see the save? No. Look at the free kick. Lano Messi. Go! No!

Oh, shit. Go! Crazy work. Is that goalie on the team USA? I mean, what a perfect shot, first of all. I mean, that is exactly what Messi wanted that thing to do. He was dancing with him. We need that goal.

Who's a goalie? Who's goalie? This is vert. Gump? James Pantemis? Where's he from? I'll check. Because the USA goalie's what?

Just scoring goals on ourselves. Yeah. That was tough. That was a tough. He's Canadian. This guy's Canadian? This is Canadian. Oh, no.

Bubele is celebrating right now. I fucking hate that. All right, let's move along. Matt Turner will figure it out. Ladies and gentlemen, it's guys, softball world. You're talking about an explosion of runs. How about two outs in the seventh?

Down seven runs. Texas Tech softball. Ha' dong. See ya. Home run. Bye, bye. Now it's eight to two, right? Seventh inning, two outs.

Grand salamis. Still. Seventh inning, two outs. Not able to buy an out. All of a sudden, Texas Tech back in it in a big way. Let's go to the bottom of the eighth. Nine, eight. Takes a knee, takes a shot, takes the lead.

Texas Tech all the way back. Nine, nine, nine. What are we going to do with it? Well, let's go to bottom of the eighth. Still, give me that. Texas Tech completes the comeback with a tagged runner. Congratulations. What a comeback.

And I'll tell you what, we're almost, is this, are they heading into the, This is Lubbock Regional? Yes, this is the regionals. They advance, so now they go to the Super Regional's, and then the winner of those different games and the Super Regionals will go to the Women's College World Series. Kennedy is still the pitcher for Texas Tech? She's about to go on a run.

Yeah, she got roughed up a little bit. She only gave up like five earned runs, but I think that was a little bit of an anomaly because her ERA for this year is like 1.4. So she's still dominating. She just got got by these guys. Congratulations to Texas Tech as they move on. And women's softball starts lighten up the end.

afternoons on TV. There's a lot of ping, bum, b'am, b'am. They're fast. Yeah. Paddy Gassos has got a team, I think, this year. She's had to give a couple, hey, we need to go harder. Speaches publicly for that Oklahoma team. Gasso football. Look out. I could be wrong, but I looked at the bracket this morning.

If memory serves me right, I think there is a chance that Oklahoma and Texas Tech are in the same super regional. Oh. There is a chance. I don't think that should be illegal. Uh-oh. I don't think that should have. We're talking about fireworks, though, early. Yeah, can't wait for it.

Speaking of fireworks, ladies and gentlemen, can you ride that eight-second ride, seven-second ride? You can be a world champ. You can get on the back of any bull and ride that thing in front of millions. And millions! Of PBR fans, you can be deemed a world champion, just like that stud. John Crember rode the back of this bowling beautiful fashion, and that bucker couldn't buck him off. So he's world champion. And I'll tell you, going into the PBR season, they've been saying, hey, John Crimber, he's an artist on the back.

at these bulls. This man's not scared of nothing. John Crimber, he's future of PBR. Turns out, he's also the present. John Crimber, absolute star, world champion. He knew what he just did right there. John Cremmer knew exactly what happened. He heard that bulls snowton. He saw that bull bucking and he said, I'm going to conquer this thing and I'm become a world champ. Congratulations to Mr. Crimber who exits gracefully too, actually use the bulls as as a thank you on his way out of there. Unbelievable work and congrats to him. Good moxie after after the win, too, AJ, which we love. It's beautiful. I've never been to a PBR event.

I know Tone has been. I think I'm going to have to go in the near future. When we went to the one in Indy, like, they, obviously, they introduce all the riders before they get on, and they introduce the bull and they hype him up. Crimbers was the longest. He's the, I believe he's 20 years old. He broke the record for most money. One for youngest, whatever. He's got $1.4 million on the year because he's been so goddamn good at riding bulls.

But yeah, he was the one when they, when I was there. Look at all his belt buckles. He's one. You know, that's where the belt buckle game comes through. You win a title, you get a belt buckle in Crember. He's going to have a lot of them, it feels like. Oh, yeah. He's just getting started.

And remember, the Bulls are the show. Those are the best Bulls in the world. That bull gave him a good ride. It did. Gave him a good ride. Has to give him a good ride. That's a part of the judgment. You got a lazy bull.

You can get a bad score just strictly because the bull's not good. Crimber in that bull created magic. World Championship magic happening in the sports universe. Yeah, kind of sweet too. Like, you would think youngest guy, people pissed, upset about it because he's coming in and taking over. like that celebration. They clearly love Krimper too.

Like everyone just kind of embraced them. Like he starts crying here. That is, that's a special moment for the bull riders. What was that movie where McConaughey was a bull rider? Dallas Byers Club. Yeah, Dallas Byers Club. If I know what's going on in that locker room after this.

He was a bull rider in it? Was he? Well, he hung out at the rodeo. He wasn't exactly a bull rider. But he hung out around there. I was like, I remember that differently. He'd go and get drugs from the rodeo and whatnot. It's a good move. I appreciate anything McConaise in, I won.

I agree. He was having sex in the stables a lot when they were Mee. He won an Academy Award for that one. He did. He was in, he was wrong. I don't remember right Bulls when he was 96 pounds at the end of that movie. He was, he was at the rodeo all the time. He was at the rodeo a lot.

Matthew McConae played Ron Woodruff, a real life Texas electrician and rodeo bull rider. Oh, okay. Boom. That's what I thought. Hey, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Great movie. Great movie. Yeah, best actor But I think they get after it in there I think they are beer drinkers Oh yeah Cody Johnson Won some music awards

He's ex-bull rider I do believe that's gone In the country music So, you know I appreciate it He said he wanted to come on a podcast Maybe talk a little sports ball Okay

Oh I said I like that Sports ball Yeah he was good Maybe talk a little crimber Yeah I want to what his thoughts Are on crimber

Sure Because Is the bull riding Evolving like every other sport Are these fuckers getting better? Probably Are they learning new techniques

Are they getting stronger? Are they more explosive? Are the bulls getting better? Are we training the bulls in a fashion and maybe getting better rides? Better bucking. These are questions that Cody Johnson will have answers to the weed in on. That's a good point.

Maybe we do have Kojo on. Why not? Cojo? Oh, yeah. He does. He got a good one. I mean, last night his performance is very, I mean, I put my head down on for one point because we were fucking in the red, white and blue behind it.

Oh, man. That's color, baby. Booblae's in there. His voice. Mm-hmm. Unbelievable. Could you make, we're trying to think, is he male Adele? Is it male?

Cody or bubble? Boobble. Okay. Boobly. I'd put him in that same Mariah Carey. Yeah, because they both do the Christmas. Once that time coming, boom. Because I feel like it's just there.

Yeah. I feel like he just, any time, any words, anytime. Does Boobway have any, like, upbeat stuff going on? Yeah. Everything. I know he's an unbelievable thing. I'm just wondering, especially. he's getting into country or got to get some more BPMs in this well yeah he does uh

Santa Claus is coming yeah yeah just haven't met you yet yeah that's yeah that's yeah show hey's walk up song what is the fucking feeling good i mean feel i bet boobley is massive feeling good kind of upbeat if you it is uh boobley's massive everywhere you know what else is massive everywhere banana ball i got a chance to go see it these eyes downtown indianapolis at victory field what a production, what an incredible thing that Jesse Cole and the entire team is put together. Got a chance to meet his wife as well after learning the entire story

of how much they've invested and put into this and the amount of belief that they had a great catch behind the back. I was actually on the call during this happening. It was a great... All of Indianapolis is here. Drive out to that field. Oh, behind the geister.

Brian Dancero goes behind the back. They're putting on a show for you. Drake, perfect, one, two, in there. I appreciate him. Just every single... second is accounted for. Okay, the DJJC, bangers only. Two hours straight, only heaters. 30 minutes before the game started, full Broadway show telling you the history of the Indianapolis Clowns Organization and everything like it. It was, it was unbelievable vibes.

The team's running through the stands, giving them things away during the game. I mean, it's just like the gimmicks for every, it was, it was spectacular. I think, I think obviously baseball people are like, this ain't baseball, this is a fucking circus. Okay, and baseball there, playing baseball in it. And the amount of talent that is on the field. There was a, I mean, this is outrageous. This guy turned two, I think, earlier. Boom.

Boy, Howard Edwards. Yeah, I mean, and then wait until you see the catch from behind the case around and I failed. Hey, it's like good baseball happening. Obviously, one of these players has gone on to the MLB. I guess I learned a lot. A lot of minor leaguers in here. Yeah. Because the, I believe, the money that is available.

He didn't do that every pitch, did he? No, this is just one play. And there was a white suit guy that came out. He was a little submarine pitcher. He had a full entrance. He looked super cool. Clearly, like, either college or minor league pitchers, because they're throwing, like, actual kind of heat.

You have to throw strikes. Yeah. Or none of this works. Yeah. Okay. This sideline, or sidewinder guy was throwing for the clowns. Everybody was excited for him. He was wearing a white suit.

I was fucking pumped for him. He's fucking sidearm and this thing in there looks sweet. He gets shelled. Gave a five fucking runs. Get him off. Get this? And then Peanuts, the mascot, 92, they're saying he's throwing. He's throwing 91, 92 miles an hour. He's 6 foot

5. This guy, he had a 1, 2, 3 in it. Elephant? Yeah, Peanuts is his name. He is big. Is he throwing a glove on? I was going to say, if he's got the mascot glove on and he's still throwing 92, like some big league team needs to get this guy right now. Well, I will say he

a lot of his ass. I don't doubt it. I mean, I was walking with McKenzie and Sam in the back area, and he's trying to get past us, you know, because it's tight hallways and he's just like kind of casually walking there trying to be nice we turn around holy shit it's an elephant here you know and I go wow peanuts very big he goes yeah you know that whole thing and then he had say hello to mackenzie keep him everybody so kind to families there it's such incredible and then he comes in later to pitch I didn't know he was a pitcher I had no idea

Drake the guy that I'm on call with I go peanuts is huge six five because 92 mile on our fastball coming from peanuts you'll see that next inning bad and glove yeah it was how booze at this thing Yeah. Okay, good. There was people boozing. Talk, actually, is boozing pretty good. Well, I didn't know if talk just snucked in.

This guy's cool. This was the guy. This was the guy. Talk about possess. Yeah, there's Monet Davis. Remember her? Yeah, she pitched. She had a one, two, three inning, I do believe.

Phenomenal work. Yeah, a lot of possess. I mean, the whole show stop for this guy coming in here. I was super excited for a super suit guy. And then. Five runs. Yeah, you gave a five. And I thought it was over for the Indianapolis cons.

Obviously, I mean, how could you not be enthralled? Yeah. It's tough to pitch in a suit. Yes, it is. Yeah, but look, it's tough to dance, too. What are you doing? Hip generation going on. Ryan Howard was in time.

Don't make excuses for the pitchers. So we just all got a fucking elephant costume. Yeah, throw it 92 on the bump. Peanuts does make it kind of difficult for anybody else to have any excuse. But I think they're all very good, like, you have to be a good player. Certainly. To be out there. And there's a lot of trick plays happening.

You know, they know their audience. They completely understand it. But this Jesse Cole guy, yeah, yellow tucks. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. I like the way this guy's brain. I like the way his brain thinks. Saw ex-WWE guy over there,

saw other people directly from the circus coming out. Like, I like the way this guy's mind works. I appreciate the live show, and I appreciate him bringing it to Indianapolis two nights. They had 15,000 some on Saturday night. That was the second night. Friday night, same thing. It was like everybody was there.

The whole city was a buzz. And it's super positive. You walk out of there, like, huh, that was a fun time. Everybody seemingly has a fun time. I'd recommend banana ball. I would recommend going to a banana ball game. Well, that's what I was going to say is.

I think it's actually kind of gotten past the baseball purists or whatever people being like, hey, this is ridiculous. I think people at the start were maybe a little pissed because there are more bananas games on ESPN than MLB games, but that's, you know, it's not out of their control. I mean, that is out of their control. But, like, if you watch this enough, like, it is neat. It's cool. And I've never been to it live.

But I can imagine, like, if I brought my daughters or my kids there, like, I'm It looks like it's very tough to have a bad time at one of these things. Yeah, and DJJC, I can't stress this enough. Two and a half hour straight. Every 30 seconds, do song, did not miss. He did not miss. This guy, I don't know if he has missed. I genuinely do not know if he has missed every song.

And then a song comes on. You're like, wow, a lot of kids here. How are they going to do this? Oh, remix it. Mm-hmm. Bows up. What's up back that ass comes on. And I'm like, how the fuck is this?

Well, this is interesting. I'm excited to see how the DJ handles this and immediately right into another beat it's like just one after another every song you've ever known played with great it was they did a cool thing with the flashlight and phones

where everybody sang what a wonderful world yeah it was awesome it was very cool yeah speaking of cool we got an elephant here AJ see the elephant room I did you you mentioned it

but you didn't say anything about it what's going on here You tell me. I mean, it's a unique pattern on his head and face and ears. Oh, this isn't a baby elephant. It's got obviously got fucking wrinkles. Anyone getting on top of that thing? Anyone wrote it yet?

Ball sack. What's that? What? Is that a unique pattern you were referencing? No, I can't see it. Oh, it doesn't have a head. The head? You don't talk about this elephant's head if it is a nut sack.

I do not think. It's elephant's first day here. That's unbelievable that you did. How did he get here? For real, how do you shift that thing to it? Walked. What do you mean? Yeah, wake up. Wake up. Did it cause a ruckusk? Walking the streets over there, the suburbs? It actually did, yes. It actually did cause quite a bit of a rockus school. Ball sack? Yeah. That's not the name.

To this elf. It was tusks. Sack. Okay. Listen. Sackie? Sackie? Our favorite elephant? Yeah. Big sacks. It's got heelies, too. So it has Eulies. Oh, so he can move around you better. Yeah. So it was going through town just kind of What is the story behind this guy? Whatever no. He just walked in one day and said I want to hang out? Yeah, just see the Pittsburgh Zoo sent Frankie a cake saying thank you up there to Boston. What you guys send a little Joe, anything?

Well, we said little Joe, we just didn't put him in prison for a mall. Two-year-old. That was our gift to Little Joe. Now he's your problem. And clearly the Pittsburgh Zoo already has a little bit of, oh, fuck, a little buyer's remorse. Maybe we get this thing of cake. I have news to break.

Please. Thank you. Both females at the Pittsburgh Zoo. since the Little Joe's, they're already both pregnant. We're expecting two noodle little gorillas. We don't know how that science would work. But from our understanding, that is what Little Joe did up in Boston. And they called him down to Pittsburgh to do the same.

And Little Joe knows that. He is the alpha immediately upon arriving there. The old bull. We're getting the young calf, baby. Well, I assume the young calf is going to have to learn some things. And Little Joe won't be there to guide him. So good luck to Frankie and the other as they joined their back. bachelor trope up there. The silver-backed gorilla that is in Pittsburgh, I would assume,

has massive respect for its handlers in Pittsburgh, and he's going to do everything he needs to do, go ahead and grow that entire thing. We'll see. We'll see what it's like. Wait, did he, did him all with Toddler? Connor, is that real? That's old. It's old news. Yesterday's headlines do not involve today. Oh, it's real. We're talking about a brand-new start here for Little Joe. Okay, he's down here in Pittsburgh. Good news for both Tone and Connor. We have scheduled them trips to go see. Oh, nice. Joe. Thank you, boys. Thank you guys.

Let's freaking go. Happy zoo trip, boys. You'll both be going individually to your own separate zoos. Yeah! You have to document it yourself. Can't wait. We'll be excited to see your guys' big takeaway on how Lil Joe is kind of dominating Pittsburgh. And how Frankie and gang are having a good time up there in Boston at Little Baby Zoo compared to what's going.

I'll make a day of it. I'm going to go to zoo in the morning and then Kennywood at night. Did you see who was at Kenneywood? Yeah, I did actually. Jeremy Renner. Bam. Front row. He's been through it.

it. Big time. I watched an interview of his. That doesn't sound that bad. What? What happened to him? Getting run over by the whole snowmobile? He's dragged by a freaking snowmobile. Obviously, you guys haven't heard the interview.

He said it was very, very peaceful. I watched that it was very comforting. Yeah. It was nice to know what's awaiting on the other side. Yeah. Oh, okay. All right. Because he was saying it was so bad that it was peaceful. He was legally dead for like minutes or whatever. And he said it was very peaceful. All right. Well, I'm happy to hear the

Jeremy's back. What the hell? Just state dead. Thank you to him for the inspiration that tone clearly got from him sharing his story there. Yeah. Steel Curtain's about to bring it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's about to be one for him.

Mm-hmm. Bring him back good memories? No. Horrible movement. That song. Kenny Wool was awesome, but it's a bad memory of Hinesfield. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What's new memory? Talking about the wood. We're talking about steel curtain. Oh, that's unbelievable. And I saw a deal. They have a good deal going on right now, Kenny Wood. Yeah, they do. They do.

They do. Yeah, exactly. Everybody's been trying to smear Kennywood for a long time on microphones on this program. And I've been disgusted by it since the very beginning. They are maybe the most reasonably priced amusement park theme park in the country. You can take your family there,

and everybody will be entertained. You're the potato patch. Have the greatest potatoes you're ever heading your life. The patch, you mean? Yeah, the patch. The patch is what you put on your arm when you're addicted to smoking. Okay, you're trying to get off. The potato patch is the world famous potatoes right there in Kennywood.

It wasn't there when we went. Nope. Just the patch. Ricky Spikuzza said he was putting the sign back up. Spikuzzi never said anything like that. That's not his fucking name. Okay. Is that his name?

It's Ricky Spacuzzi. Yeah. I would forget that one. There's a law of names. It was a draft. There were a lot of names. But I missed the draft. If you can go to Kennywood, go to Kennywood.

Jeremy Renner makes a point of it every time he's in Pittsburgh to do it. As you should, it's unbelievable. And also support the cause. Yeah. I'm sure Big Mike will have the boys there this week. They might. Here's the... Oh, Mama.

I'm in feet. Oh, my... Don't look down, boys. Connor, put your hands up. Let's enjoy this. Let's have some real... fun out here. You got it. Highest whoop-ty-woo. In the United States of America

coming right-oh! Shit! Debutt. What a time. What a time. When's Connor pass out? He's coming up here. Pretty soon here. And how many of those are? Nine whoop-de-woo's, right? I think nine, yeah. Connor made it through four of them.

There's two. Get the hair out of your face, smart. Here's the third one. And this is it. How you got. Yeah, a little twist. Yeah, that'll get you. Tom Cruise pulling 11 Gs coming up and around the band. AJ, you weren't there, right? You missed Kennywood experience?

Yeah, I missed it, but I've had multiple random people come up and ask about Connor passing out at Kenny. Yeah, Kennywood kind of fought back after everything Connor had been saying. Beautiful day. I respected enough. Gino's, Gino guy, you know, that's

taking care of all the coasters. He spoke to it. Ed McCannick. He said, remember what this fucking asshole from Boston said. You know which one he was. He has the big fucking B on his chest right now. Yeah, that's who he is. Rens are still on it.

Let's go ahead and put his ass to sleep. And that ghost her said, coming right up. We'll hit him with a fucking he, he, he, and then dead body. Good news. That all works. Yeah. It all works well. Spakuz tried to screw with me, too.

I was like, hey, man, can I keep my glasses on for this? He was like, yeah, don't worry. You'll be good. On the first go-around, because that was the second one. First go around, my glasses dinner fell off my face. I caught him right here. said a lot of things about Kennywood, bro. You were saying a lot of things in the microphones. I continue with too. You know what? It's funny because the New England Patriots actually

for their schedule release, they went to six flags. And I was reminded how many fucking whoopty-wooos that place has. Six flags? Yeah. Where's it ranked? I don't know. There was there was a coaster theme park ranking that was done by the official theme park authority. That's depending on who you ask. I know a lot of people who, used to like USA today and then they you know they've made some mistakes in the past will say and we don't go by them anymore i think they are the coast or authority though so they might be picking and choosing yeah maybe uh speaking of authority there is a win in a cage a hexagon this past weekend in the intuit dome it has a lot of lights okay so many lights that you don't know if there's

humans sitting in the sea it's right behind the lights because of how distracting the lights are People saying nobody's sitting in those lights are behind those lights. I will say I watched the MVP Netflix Super-Duper Fight Night and I enjoyed it. A lot of knockouts, obviously, incredible knockouts. Rhonda ended this thing literally in 17 seconds.

I don't know if that was necessarily what everybody had in mind. Certainly what Rhonda had in mind. I did find a crown, which was very nice. Gina Corano got in great shape for this. We appreciate her. First fighting like 16 years for her. It's been a long time. She talked about the emotional journey it was to get back in shape to get into fighting once again.

Rhonda, obviously, same situation, same story. And, Gina, I'm not breaking my arm for this. Yeah, right. And Rhonda was asked the night before, or two nights before, if you have the arm bar, will you break her arm? Ron was like, yeah, I absolutely felt like she would have right there. Felt like that was a quick tap for a good reason. For me, it felt pretty obvious after we talked to her.

And then they were showing Netflix ran like buildup stories in videos to introduce Rhonda, her life and Gina, her life and everything like that. learned a lot about her in Vegas and the time that she had and how she got into training and everything like that was cool to take that trip down memory lane but like it was clear that the one of them was sharpened to be a weapon and the other legend not saying not a legend seemingly different story ronda was training to kill somebody gina was training to i think better every like to see if she could still and i think she did it was an incredible thing That was the easiest under half around bed that I've ever placed in my entire life.

I mean, I watched the video. I was half asleep. Eyes like kind of the, as soon as I watched the video, I go, yeah, okay. And I go right to my phone, placed a thousand dollar bet on her. And then she walked out like this. It's like, yeah, okay, this is going to happen. And she did. Dos Santos got a big knockout.

Diaz, is it? Yeah. Was that story true? Did he poo with his? I don't think so. But I do know there was a lot of blood, bro. I mean, he had a lot of blood on his right. eye early. Mike Perry's awesome. Okay, I wish I knew more about this guy. I wish we could have

been around him a little bit more. Any Nate Diaz fight that happens, you will see me watching it, strictly because Diaz will get his ass beat, and then he will outlast you. He's tougher than you. He has better cardio than you. And it was five-minute round, so it's going to be a long-ass time they're going to be in there. So we're all kind of waiting for Diaz to do the Diaz shit. It never happened. No. And Mike Perry just kept coming. I mean, he was gashed up. I mean, eye, skull, back of skull, blood everywhere. He was doing a lot of this in the middle of the fight, which I'm like classic Diaz here, just kind of doing his thing. But Mike

Perry, I mean, Platinum Perry here, he beats shit out of Nate Diaz. I didn't like it. Neither did I. I like the Mike got to win. Congratulations with him. He obviously trains very hard. But I was hoping to see the Diaz come back. Just standing literally flat-footed

just throwing punches. Eventually knocks somebody out. He said he's going to fight again. I like that. I can't wait to see it. It does. I saw Francis and Ghanouanou back in there fighting? Jesus. Heavy hands. Yeah, heavy everything.

This looked unfair. He had a big weight advantage. Oh, geez. Yeah, and talent, I'd say. Weight advantage, talent advantage. You name it. It was like 60 pounds? Right behind the ear, huh?

Yeah, there's nowhere near a button. I don't think they train for you to punch behind the ear back of the head. But that knocked them out. Inganu, obviously, absolute beats. Look at him. Just look at them. Are you serious? Yeah, I don't think that's somebody I'm signing up the fight.

But hey, good to see him back. in the MMA world. Obviously he went over to boxing there for a bit. Tripp Hale, a member of his training team out of West Virginia University. He was posed of photos. Great to see him back in there. He's jacked. There was a lot of chatter about who's fighting who next.

You know, Jake Paul putting on the event. Is he fighting Mike Perry? Is he fighting France? We're trying to get something going. Hopefully not in an MMA. Does he want to break his jaw in? He's back, by the way. I do like Jake's little booth he built right off like the corner of the hexagon.

Yeah, great idea. literally great idea for yourself there MVP area certainly it's going to be us great seeds great stuff great night I think congratulations to them the payouts to the fighters I was surprised to see those I thought those are going to be because the big conversation about is mixed martial arts fighters UFC fighters more specifically and how much they get paid for all these fights and everything like that it's like I didn't know are those were real yeah I didn't know until this morning I don't know man I don't know what's real what is it in in fact four species aliens what if they get in MMA

They won't after watching Ingunu. We'll let them fight each other. Well, I mean, guess who's back, though? Pretty big announcement, as Inganu's walking to the hexagon. Dana White on Alifi. Connor McGregor's back. Take it on Holloway. Congratulations.

International Fight Week. Headline. Come on. Connor McGregor, Max Holloway. Obviously, we've all followed along with Connor McGregor's journey and fighting here. We saw the notorious documentary that kind of where he came from to where he is now, outrageous story of commitment to sport

and the whole family buy-in. I mean, he was living in tiny little apartment, dedicated to this, becomes global sensation, obviously hits on a couple businesses as well as fighting and boxing. That Floyd Mayweather Pay Day, I couldn't even imagine what that is,

let alone all his, is proper. Proper. But his bar, too. His bar is beer, whiskey. I mean, he's in everything. And we always wondered, like life too good for Connor.

Is he ever going to come back and fight? There was rumors he's going to fight. Then he hosted a UFC ultimate fighter. It's like, well, he's going to have to fight there. And, well, no, he's not going to be able to fight. Now he's back in the testing pool, officially back on the card. And I can't wait to watch him, AJ. What should we expect you think, age, out of Connor?

I don't think we know what to expect after this much of a layout. But what I'm looking forward to is the buildup to a fight. Anyone that remembers being around back when Connor was like really doing it, like the whole two, three, three months leading up to a fight. There's something like every other day with this guy. Like he knows how to sell a fight. He is very entertaining in front of a crowd. And I think his fans are going to be pumped to be back in the game.

Who's one in this fight? Yeah, definitely. I don't know. I'm taking them just because that's my one. I'll take him. You have to. Holloways minus 700. That's insane.

And it opened that like minus 156. So everybody who knows anything about UFC seemingly immediately put thousands of thousands of dollars on Holloway but you have to I mean this is when the UFC is the best yeah cannot wait to watch

cannot wait to check it at UFC at a big weekend right yeah was that this weekend or last weekend Strickland and when's Bob this this weekend

oh that is this upcoming weekend that's Johnny was training Johnny's training hard took five steps on the beach yesterday while he was smoking a cigarette he's ready

Johnny Johnny Manzo yeah yeah come on John that was this weekend No, I think it's this Saturday. Okay. At the UFC Apex. At the Apex, yep.

Come on, Johnny. Johnny Manzo. Yeah. It's fighting a tiger, aka Bob Mennery. What are their weight? How much? 156. Is Rue?

What? Yeah. Johnny Manzell is fighting this weekend at the UFC Apex, which means it's not MVP. Against a guy named Bob Menary. I think a lot of people will probably like see both these guys get punched, so that's good. I would like to see Johnny just absolutely handle Bob Mennery, just absolutely pound him into a bit, just representing football out there. I would like to see that.

I would certainly like to see that, but. I didn't see it. I didn't see it. I got to get eyes on this. Yeah, they're saying Johnny's not taking it serious. Yeah. Wait, right? He's fighting?

I didn't know Ray J. Johnny? Yeah, Super Hot Fire. Ray J? Yeah. Are you Ray J? Comane. I'll put his car together.

He'll be huge. Man, these guys better, I hope their cardio is in check. Like, fighting. It's no joke. I didn't know Ray Jee was that jacked. Yeah, I think it's Aiden, right? This is all Aiden's stuff? Is this Aiden Ross?

Yeah, in the middle. See the one that organized it all? I'm trying to look at the names down here, see if, oh, there's an island boy fighting, I guess. All right. Oh, Fly Soldier? He's been training for quite some time for this, so. What are you all right? An Island boy?

Yeah, dude. They're going to call him the fighting Island boy this weekend. Fly Soldier's been in the live. Don't just remember him as an island boy. What are you doing, man? What? We're staging fights between people who want to say get beat up. That's kind of what's happening.

It seems like we are at that stage of society. It's only a matter of time before the movie The Pest becomes real. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. I'm looking at Johnny Menzel smoking a cigarette. I'll watch a lot of bit. Johnny, come fuck on, buddy. He's confident.

Can we at least get into a hyperbaric chamber somewhere? You know, at least one time? What's he saying? Been a long day training. Going to go get five steps on the beach. I would fight this motherfucker for free. The fact that I get pays even better. All right.

So we got some real beef here. Oh, yeah. It feels like it. He might be throwing him off. Maybe he's really training hard. He's just throwing Bob off. He wants Bob to relax. Oh, yeah.

Sure. That's what I'm golfing. I don't know. I don't know. No, no. No. Maybe next. It's ain't golf.

Is it mixed martial arts and boxing? I think it's boxing. It's boxing. Johnny, what we need is just boom. boom boom and then if I know anything from um my oculus boxing the right hand over johnny this one's the one you're gonna want boom that's where you go because mary's gonna do this number here okay classic out of a movie not an athlete okay so he's just going what do i do here boom johnny we got to get around

bang right you're on the side there bruce completely wrong it's mma okay so the undercard's all boxing and then it says next of mansell and menry on the post through there. It says M.MA there. Oh, yeah. He doesn't have to train that. He's fucking tackling it. Do not. Well, I wouldn't go into fucking Bob Menry's guard. Yeah, he's been kickboxing for years. You can't forget. That's why it's M.MA, not boxing.

He wouldn't sign up if it was just boxing. Bob Menry to, you know, submit Johnny Manzi, Zelvia, Omoplaza, or something like the shoulder lock. That's the last thing we need. I cut it all wrong. They just need to make it full Roy Rumble. Just the entire car. I think. Throw them all in there? Yeah, that'd be better.

That actually is a three-10. Ray J. No, no. I think just one on one on one. Last man, Sandin wins. No neck guy would definitely win. I've never seen that guy before,

but he is in the Oxt. I think he's R3. No neck J? Yeah. L3. Taking on Shane Chance. Yeah, no neck J looks like a...

Tommy Tuff knuckles. Tommy Tough Knuckles. That's awesome. All right. Okay. What is this on? ABC. YouTube kick, Twitch,

Action TikTok. It's on ABC at 8 p.m. All right. Good luck to all. Rico's doing it. By the way, he would be able to. Yeah, he would. He would be able to, yeah.

He would be able to, which is why we love them. Speaking of people that we love, you know, the Cavs and Pistons quickly became a series of Evan Fox, representing all of Detroit, all of Detroit. Sure. And Mike the Miz representing all Cleveland. Sure. And I think both cities really appreciated that that was even a thing.

I think, right? They loved it. Absolutely loved it. I represent Detroit really well, is what people say. Yeah, they were really pumped that you were kind of interjecting yourself maybe. Yeah. And the Miz certainly found an opportunity to do the same. Yes.

And I'll tell you, in Detroit last night, game seven, cool. Miz got the final laugh. And I asked him to maybe make a video just kind of describing how he feels right now. And this is what we got back in. Hey, Ms. How do you feel? Send us a video. This is what we got back in return.

Hey, everybody at the Pat McAfee's show. I just want to see how Evans doing after that Motor City massacre. You would think that the NBA would figure out a way to do a mercy rule. To save teams from embarrassment on national television in their house. Speaking of their house, that loyal Motor City, Detroit fan base, man, fourth quarter, seven minutes left. Looked like someone pulled the fire alarm because it was empty. People vanished. That number one defense in Detroit got depressed.

Now they can go on D vacation to D-Cancoon. I heard it's nice this time of year. Meanwhile, the calves are going to go to New York. They're going to take on the Knicks. They're going to beat the Knicks. They're going to go on to the championship, win the championship. And then we can dedicate it to you, Evan, and your little Motor City sport group. Meanwhile, to help you feel better,

you can watch American Gladiators on Prime Video. I'm the host. It's pretty amazing. And so everyone in Detroit, at least you can watch a contender survive. That's what it's all about, right? So thank you all. Hope you're doing great. And as always, I, as well as the Cavs, are awesome.

See ya. Man. Well done. Pass one. True professional. Bomb wrong. I don't know there's a lot. American Gladiators pitch coming in the middle of that, obviously.

I mean, that is the Mizz football. Kind of dancing your face a little bit of Motor City Massacre. I didn't know that. Who pulled the fire alarm up there, Foxy? Was that you? That wasn't me. And that's why that guy's a scumb bag. Okay. You guys just got to remember, the Mizz has been in the WWE for like 40 years now and for about half that. 20 years, this guy hasn't won a single match. So he's done a lot of losing in his life. So for the first time in his life, he's finally won something. He didn't have anything to do with it.

In fact, he didn't go to any of the games. So this guy's kind of a fake fan, if you ask me, but we'll give Ms. one win, okay? So what do you mean? Fake fans? Busy. Let's see how gladiators does, Ms. Let's see how you do in gladiators, okay, pal?

Because guess what? From what I heard, the whole gladiators is pretty damn good. So you guys got a lot of work to do to be that good. Jeez, Foxy putting a heat on American gladiators? Also, look at this guy's hat. Rick! Is that Mike the Miz on Mike the Miz's hat right? there. Who does that? That's a jackass move, Ms. Andrew, suck at golf.

Hold on. He's got it on his hat. And I think from the conversation we had with him earlier, he's got himself right there on his chest too. Ms. Golf, Ms. Golf, picture. There's three Mizzes looking at you if you're at a French time right now. So that's how it's supposed to be. Yeah. Need one of those hats. And I'll tell you what. Does he sell that merch? I hope he sells it. Yeah. He said, well, somebody's got to come watch the YouTube, too, you know. It's on www.com. He's got some golf tournament today. and I'm sure the people that are at that golf tournament

certainly are going to buy Ms. golf stuff. Oh, great, the Mids is here. More of a name. He's wearing his fricking hat again. He's the best. We're trying to buy it. Yeah, we're trying to buy it out. Absolutely.

How about the Mids, though, in the middle of the game? You say he's not a real fan? He was chirping in the middle of the game. He goes, hey, Evan Foxy, do you have a towel J.B. can throw? It's just embarrassing at this point. Whoa. The Mizz is riding alongside. Boogs, too?

I don't like what you're saying about American Glover. Gladiars. The original American Gladiars certainly had 220 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal and Malibu. They ain't got fucking boogs doing what boogs do, though. I got nothing bad to say about boos. I love that guy. I hope he's doing good in it. A.K.A. The bull. Bugs, the bull. Is that boogs

the bull? Yeah. It's not boogs. It's just the bull. They don't call them boogs? They do not mention boogs at all, which I don't love, but everyone knows who the bull is. Did you watch American Gladiators? Not recently here. When it first came out, I watched the first two episodes, the bull wasn't in them. So I got pretty pissed off, and I said,

Okay, I'm going to have to take a break. Was the amazing him? Yeah. He is the... Wow. He's the hope. He stopped watching? Yeah.

I was... All the promo material. Look out for the bowl, and it was boogs going crazy. He's not in the first two fucking episodes. I said, okay. Maybe they filmed him, and he just didn't deliver. They're saving him. He did.

He did. You got to build. Look at him. Look at him. Yeah, exactly. Why is that guy not... That guy should be playing Powerball in every episode. Every episode.

But he's not. Did they have the tennis ball can? Yeah, I need to. I did not see that. From what I saw, it was, it was solid. It was a good watch. Shout to America and a lot of yours. Shout to Riley Green for the invite last night.

I appreciate you, man. We had a good time out there. Shout to Blake Shelton being hilarious. Booblae. Sneaky. Hilarious Canadian fella. I did not expect that. Teddy Johnson, his crew, unbelievable group.

Shaboos, legend. Zach Topp, hero. Parker McCollum. Congratulations, man. That was awesome. Mm-hmm. perfectly pleaded jeans over his boots. Of course.

I'm glad he's wearing boots. What do you mean? Sometimes he wears Jace. Oh, yeah, you think, hey, cowboy, fucking cowboy. I'm trying to sing her songs like, I'm a fucking cowboy. Red Clay Strasse. Tall, sorry. Red Clay Strasse.

That was so cool. The Goats. That was a cool moment. I'm going to be honest. That was a cool moment. Gake him over. Hey, we all watch the show. We love it, man.

Holy fuck. It's a hard to meet you guys. I love you guys. Are you guys performing tonight? Yes. Thank God. I can't wait to watch it. You're gonna whale?

Yeah. Okay. Alright, I'm gonna sit back down here and drink another Jack and died. You guys probably got some shit to do. Yeah, we do it. At that exact moment, there was a fleet of people that are like, this way, this way. Everybody's moving. Everybody's like cattle.

Move-b-b-b-mov-ne. It was cool. Thank you for the invite. Riley Green is the one, though. I think he knows it. He certainly knows it. Fucking costume designer. former baseball player.

Really? Now he's putting together his suits and doing the entire thing. That's at Losers in Vegas, MGM. It's been around for 11 years. I believe this was after Zach Top forced me to drink second tequila shot.

There would be three total within a three-minute period. Zach Top Football is what I was told. On that note, he just no-sell. Putting them down. I'm doing one of these. Full-on.

Got your booge, judging me in the background. Don't like that. You okay? No, Shaboos. This fucking guy's a maniac. What a life. Thank you all for allowing us to live this. Great concert last night.

If you could go to one of those, I think you should go. I think you should go. I would recommend that to everybody. And to a banana bowl game. Mm-hmm. And to Kennywood. Bingo. Hell yeah. I agree.

1,000 percent. Who else had some shit to say about you fucking were talking shit about Kennywood? Not that much because they're owned by the same parent company as Adventure. which is, you know, near me. And I did say on camera right after we got down with Steel Phantom. I said, I'll never say a bad thing about Kenny, whatever again. Be your friend, tell you something nice. Might change your life. We're understanding together. We'll be back tomorrow. Huge night. Let's pick these games real quick. Canadian Sabres. Who do you like, AJ?

I'll give me old Sabres. I'll take America too. And then let's go. Game one, Western Conference Finals. Wemby in the Spurs versus Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City favored by six and a half. will be MVP trophy night for Shea before the game tips off. Obviously, Wemby does find a way to be motivated by a lot of things. DeBut, who do you like? How do you like it? A big moment of going to SGA and the Thunders to win in cover.

All of them. Wow. The thunders, all of them. AJ? I want the Spurs plus six and a half. Me as well. Talks the table? I like Thunder as well. I'll take the Spurs.

I just think Wembe is going to be pretty pissed off. Six and a half is a ton. Yeah. But Oklahoma City is. Jay Willback? They got some guys, yeah. Chit. It's always been these two teams, though.

Yep. Like all year it's been... Six and a half is a lot of points. Six and a half is a lot. They got real heat. They can definitely see... Thunder by five could easily see that. But...

Let's get a crown. And also, coal, power play, golden night. Cole coffee. There it is. Be your friend, tell friends, something nice. It might change your life. We're back tomorrow.

Team on me. Team on three. Shout Sacky. One, two, three. Dave! Goodbye!