The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 323 - Happy New Years Eve With Mark Madden, Sam Roberts, Corey Graves, Ariel Helwani, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: December 31, 2020

On today's show, Pat and the boys look back at their favorite moments from 2020, look ahead to 2021, and are joined by several special guests to ring in the New Year and put 2020 in our rear view.  Be safe tonight and this weekend, we'll see you on Monday. Cheers. Happy New Year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

hello happy new year's eve big show today hey a lot of stupid stupid stupid stuff on today's show you could say that it was a fun one though but i'll tell you what we look ahead to 2021 we talk about 2020 we have a lot of conversations about things that have happened in the world oh yeah i feel like this is a good show yeah it is a good show now it might be one of those shows where you think to yourself i'm not their best show maybe but also if you enjoy the show by the end of it go ahead and be a friend tell friend be a friend tell friend what else are you what else you got going on today you know i mean uh the ball is dropping on your television all right don't miss it we buried him there didn't we yeah a little bit yeah we buried him what a zinger that was by us

um if you enjoy we want to keep growing this thing okay 2021 we want to keep this thing going keep this community keep this team keep this family rolling full speed ahead so feel free to be a friend tell a friend if you enjoy this by the end of this thing we gave away ps5s you might have been one of the winners congrats whoever won the PS5s. And if you don't like this show, fuck off. Alright, let's get to it. Yeah, this is the last show of the year. See you next year. New year, new me tomorrow.

Alright, enough of the bullshit. I can't believe we're here. You know, there was times this year where a lot of things happened not not only in the sports world obviously which is where we live but in the world world and we all have experienced it and although there's been a plethora of sack kicking moments in this past 365 days and some blindsiding moments today we would like to share our three hours with the people that listen to the show calling in talking about their favorite things from the last year and and i know it might be tough to find some favorite things or good things or anything like that but i think there's been a

few hopefully for everybody that we can share and have a little bit of positivity as we lead into 2021 which by all accounts is potentially going to be the greatest year of all time now it is getting a little bit alarming uh because in the people in the real world i've 2021, which by all accounts is potentially going to be the greatest year of all time. Hell yeah! Now, it is getting a little bit alarming because in the people in the real world, I've been hearing some quotes that they've been saying, making its rounds on social media. I guess the first couple of months of 2021 also not going to be great. Yeah, we're looking at the back half of 2021 here. That's going to be awesome.

So earlier in the year, whenever we were talking about, let's get to 2021. Hey, 2020 stinks. From what I've been gathering, and I am no scientist nor person that really has a feel of the pulse of what's going on in the real world. From what I have gathered, we're about three months away from the real 2021 that we want to get to. Yes. Exactly.

So tonight, whenever a ball drops, wherever it is, when the clock strikes midnight and it turns to 2021, what your mindset should be, although tomorrow might not be different than today and next week might be the same as this week, know that better days are right around the corner in 2021. In the new year, new me bullshit thing that everybody says, maybe this year is a year where you do one of those. Maybe you leave some bullshit in 2020 that you don't take to 2021. I think 2020 has been a year where you do one of those. Maybe you leave some bullshit in 2020 that you don't take to 2021. I think 2020 has been a year where we can all be incredibly grateful for maybe the little

things that got taken away from us out of nowhere. Out of nowhere. And even though there's some terrible sports games on, whenever we watch them, we have to think back to the time this year where we had zero sports at all anywhere. There was a sports game about to happen, actually, basketball, and the mc

got on the announcement and said uh everybody needs to be able to go back and you heard a lady and then that one thing led to another with the entire world shutting down so hopefully if anything we take from 2020 into 2021 is a little bit of gratitude for the smaller things in life and appreciation and hopefully we'll get some calls from people around the world. One eight, eight, eight, mad dog.

I can't wait to chat with you. We'll talk some sports. We'll talk about what happened last night in the sports world and hopefully wrap up this year with a little bit of a bang at Boston. Connor's here. How you doing, pal? I'm doing fantastic,

Pat. I have to ask though, a little sore. It seems like something happened last night on the Oculus or what? Thank you. We're getting right into it? Oh, yeah. We're just firing off.

I've been waiting to hear that. Let me tell you a good thing that 2020 brought me. I'm a gamer. Hell yeah. Okay? 33 years on this earth. Yep. Same year as Jesus.

Whenever he decided. Not he didn't decide. I guess the Italians decided. They did. The Italians. People forget the Italians took him out they've been doing

paid gigs for a long time those Italians but anyways 33 years on this earth 32 of them I could openly say I hated video games hated them

why are we doing this it's a waste of time I'm gonna go do real life 33rd year 2020 worst year in everybody's life I became a gamer and last night

I started thinking like a gamer. Ooh. Yeah, yeah. So last night, I'm in the Oculus, okay? My first ever fight night. Hit it with a left, hit it with a right. Oh, yeah. Out like fight night.

Last night, had one. And I'm in a different level now. Ooh. Okay, and I realized that as I was stepping in, after I weighed in, they get me into the thing to pick the fight and everything like that i realized i've made it to another level in the game okay so now we're going five rounds all right it's full five rounds full three minutes and the endurance is now where the competition's at is it so it's like there's like a easy there's

a normal which is realistic there's and then there's an endurance one and then there's like class or something like that. Legend. It's like, yeah. So I'm up in the endurance one now. So I'm one away from, you know, potential professional Oculus box. Right. So the guy got a little bit tougher.

So first three rounds, by the way, I've only been knocked down one time before. I get knocked down once in the first three rounds. The other guy got knocked down zero times. Whoa. Whoa. Yeah, i'm throwing everything okay so after the third round i've never been to a fourth round my oculus knows i've never been to a fourth round in between rounds since i don't have a stool normally i do the full bend over you know what i mean yeah and i think of my strength coaches from all the time going there is no air down there and all i'm thinking is yeah but my body wants to just collapse right now so i'm gonna do this and then all of a sudden in about 15

seconds into the minute long break that you get in between rounds i go this oculus is probably reading me right now it knows i've never been to a fourth round it probably thinks that i'm tired right now and if i'm bent over and it's on my hands and the thing is probably reading my own like my my blood in my head probably they're probably so i stood up okay i stood up and i did one big deep breath tried to do like a sniper slowed down my heart rate and i just stood up for the entire in between for the rest 45 seconds okay so now i'm outsmarting my artificial intelligence Oculus robot that I'm controlling inside of there. And I literally had clear as day.

I said, oh, if I stand up and act like I'm not tired, I'll probably come out here looking a little bit better. Seven seconds, guy gets knocked down. Wow! Seven seconds, first right hand, guy's down. I'm like, ha-ha! 15 seconds, he gets up, obviously. I'm standing now right don't

want to still dead tired but acting not like it about 15 seconds into that thing jab knocks him down so this guy's down two times in the fourth round in the first like 45 seconds i'm like that's it just gotta act like you're in really good shape in between rounds they'll make your oculus guy stronger or whatever anyways he survives fourth round i get three knockdowns. Into the fifth round, 149 left in the fight. I knock him out with a jab. He's down forever. Yeah. I outsmarted fucking artificial intelligence that Zuckerberg created.

I'm already here. I'm a gamer. I'm smarter than them. I am so pumped. My God. I might take over the whole goddamn system at this point. Might as well. Why stop now?

Nick, i called you immediately after this because i would like to know what your thoughts were he was soaking him by the way in his new hot nice can't blame him at nick maroto um soak of the year felt good you're a super tech guy you know the whole thing yeah i'm right right like that thing was definitely reading how tired actually just about to google and look up can the Oculus actually read any type of pattern in your body whatsoever. If it does, you're definitely right. I would assume that if the

Oculus feels that it's just getting right down, like I'm a bit bent over, it probably knows that I'm dead tired or whatever. So I stood up and I thought I was so smart too. I was like, slow the heart down. Don't breathe too heavy. And I was like, don't even like sound tired either. You know, it's probably listening to you.

Yeah. Because it does have a microphone on it. You got to think the AI in the Oculus was like, holy shit, he's standing up. He's in better shape than he was in between the first and second round. Oh my God. Yeah. And then it rewarded me seven seconds in. Fucking done.

See you later. By the way, five knockdowns for me, one knockdown for him. All in the fourth and fifth round. Huh. People would think that the robot had stamina. No, no. By the way, five knockdowns for me, one knockdown for him, all in the fourth and fifth round. People would think that the robot had stamina. No, no. That's me, Ty. I was fucking pumped about it. It's not a matter of if. It's a matter of when you're going to get

the strap here. Are the guys getting much harder? I think I am the champion. You already have the belt. The last time I fought this guy, it said champion at the top. It didn't this time. So I think because they have eight guys, I've learned at this point now. Okay. And you just go up levels.

Right? Because yesterday morning when I went in there, they had me fighting the same guy. The same guy that took me. This same guy. Moneymaker guy. Edward Price is his name. Eddie. Out of London.

Eddie Price. Tough son of a bitch. He is a tough son of a bitch. And he's tall, too, this son of a bitch. He's tall. I almost went out there to have my Oculus remeasure me for how tall this son of a bitch is. I think there's no way I'm fighting a 6'8 guy, but I think Edward Price is 6'8. The last time I fought him, it said champion.

Then I went back in there yesterday morning, and I went to the fight, and normally I can push to my next guy who would have the next poster of who I'm fighting, and it didn't let me go any further with the same guy. I was like, so did it not count it? So I got pissed off at the game, left. Last night I went in there. of who I'm fighting. And it didn't let me go any further with the same guy. I was like, so did it not count it? So I got, like, pissed off at the game, left. Last night I went in there. It didn't have champion. The biggest difference was it didn't have champion.

So I think I am champion right now. Yeah! Oh! And I'm out thinking fucking Mark Zuckerberg and his Oculus. Being artificial intelligence, pretty good year for you. 923 punches I threw. In one match? One fight? Jesus. 807 power power punches you do the math on how

many jabs i threw yeah those those things are just coming and i'm going by the way i'm going i'm switching from southpaw to right hand whatever confuse the opponent no not confuse opponent because at points i can't lift my arms up so So I've got to switch the one that's in front to block the punches because then I'm just throwing the left. It's like a big hook sweeping left that I think a real human would probably just catch maybe even. But in Oculus Boxing, for some reason, I get that son of a bitch every single time. Different game. I see a dog going a little bit of spit.

Well, they need to add some more opponents then. If you've already've already i mean you've beaten everyone they have to offer i guess so what next can you do i guess creed has a game where it's similar oh yeah okay so i think whenever i start streaming my i'll probably go through creed start from the bottom those first couple fights should be fun to watch oh yeah if it's anything similar to the thrill of the fight or whatever but i worked out on dummy yesterday a little bit cool I need to get my uppercut going my uppercut seems only catch him in a sternum every single time Sorry working a body on a guy last night by the way. I just fucking Bow in that soon. He drops his hand. Here we go. We're fucking bangarang

My arms are so tired dude.. That's a lot of punches. 923. I should have challenged you to a money shot today. Today was the day. By the way, just like I outsmarted the Oculus, I outsmarted you, too. I walked in here, didn't say a single word, had my hands in the pockets, because really, they can't go out much further.

So I just locked it in there. That Oculus is probably going to get me in good shape as soon as I decide to potentially eat somewhat healthy. Which wasn't today. We got pizza. Monday Oculus is probably going to get me in good shape as soon as I decide to potentially eat somewhat healthy. Which wasn't today. We got pizza. No, yeah, Monday. I mean, you're going into a weekend here. You got NFL football.

You got some bowl games. I mean, you don't need to be eating healthy until Monday. At Ty Schmidt, 2020 brought a lot of good things. A lot of bad things, obviously. A lot of good things. In your eyes, when you look back on 2020, maybe 2030, you open your eyes, you'd be like, hey, you remember 2020 when? What would it be for you?

I mean, Rodgers. You and Aaron becoming friends. Yeah, you knew it. I mean, you could never, I don't know. I mean, if I would have thought that this would happen like five years ago, I mean, it couldn't have been further from my wildest imagination. So, yeah, being able to talk to him every week and interact with him it's uh it's been pretty cool i mean close second obviously would be um takes

coronation yeah when he left the wwe that was my second like most favorite moment from 2020 when when undertaker yeah when his final farewell takes final ride if you will thank you take i just wanted to make sure i got that out again before the end of the year. In 2020, we learned a lot about Undertaker. We did. Truly. On this show we had him on, he was an incredible interview, good conversation. But with that hashtag, thank you, TAKE, I think in 2020,

we learned a lot about what Undertaker was doing for people behind closed doors. Yeah. Maybe the most important person of a generation. Yeah. That's what that hashtag showed. Yeah. Seriously, the children of Take were out in abundance, and they were amazing.

A lot of Undertakers was like my dad. Yeah. A lot of that. Raised multiple families across the world. Hashtag. Thank you, Take! But yeah, the Roger stuff was obviously very cool. How come you just can't, for one time, give a couple real answers?

What do you mean? I did. You're telling me that thank you take is the number two overall thing. You got engaged this year, didn't you? Did he not get engaged this year? No, I got engaged last year. No! It was last year.

It was last year. So this year actually was bad because you guys had to move the wedding. Yeah, but no. I mean, I'm racking my brain right now. year so this year actually was bad for because you guys had to move the wedding yeah but no i mean i'm i'm racking my brain right now i can't think of anything that surpasses take at number two i really can't know if someone else has something getting a bag of money was pretty sweet that was pretty good oh yeah fucking under thank you take huh thank you take Oh yeah, fucking Undertaker. Thank you, Tank. Thank you, Tank. No, no, no. Thank you, Tank. Cameos from Tank with that face.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you, Foxy. Jesus Christ. I forgot that happened, by the way. I was going to say, that does not seem like it was this year. Well, because you were racking your brain. Fucking thank you, Tank. The Tanker.

By the way, I respect it. Undertaker gave us a great interview, man. He did. Who did you put to sleep? Cypress Hill. 16 minutes into the show, we got no guests today because we weren't supposed to have a show. We'll have some friends of the show call in, though. And I do believe AJ Hawk potentially left his family vacation early.

Oh, okay. Yeah, we'll ask him about that for sure. And we'll also do his favorite segment. Ooh, questions from other sports shows? Yeah, we will do that. Come on! As soon as he gets on the air. There's been a lot of interesting ones.

We'll talk about some sports, obviously, but let's get to the phone calls. That's what today's all about. Hell yeah. We'll celebrate the dawning of a new year with people that listen to the show. And you know what they're going to say here on Mad Dog Sports Radio. By the way, if you're listening on Sirius XM, after this three hours of whatever happens here, you guys are in for a treat. JT the Brick is filling

in for Mad Dog today. What? Brick for Brick Brick. Brick Brick Brick for Brick. Let's go to Brandon in Colorado. What's going on, Brandon? How's it going, man? JT the Brick, dude. Can't believe it. Hey, everything's good. Brandon, what do you want to talk about, pal?

Hey, man. I just first wanted to say I appreciate the call. First time answer from y'all, so I appreciate it. Everything you guys are doing, hammered down. Great gambling show. I didn't know yesterday. I just want to say I can't brag because it probably won't happen again. No big deal.

But I want to talk about the Browns. Are they about to lose to the Steelers and Mason Rudolph, and do they cover? Great question, Brandon. That's not really what we're looking for phone calls today. No, no. Not really. Way to go, man. I mean, I guess.

First one, only up from here. You kind of like where we're sitting. Favorite moment of 2020? You know, it's going to be like a little reminisce thing. You know what? Hammered Down came into Chris. I think that's what he was saying. There we go. Huge. Hammered Down.

I've enjoyed the hell out of Hammered Down. Oh, yeah. Gave the Sports Gambling Podcast out of this office. Diggs, myself, Gumpy, Michael Lombardi. Gumpy, although his NFL stats, well, sorry, record, will not showcase how successful of a gambler Gumby has been this year. Because he bets on other sports that are irrelevant.

You know what I'm talking about? College basketball, soccer, NBA. I mean, he's right now generating a lot of capital. Oh, yeah. Gumby, how do you feel about your bowl game bets so far? Bowl game's not bad. We got Tulsa going right now, plus one and a half. Okay, hammer it.

We'll check out and see how Gumpy did. Last night, we knew Oklahoma was going to win. Yeah, I can't believe. That was a rough outing for Trask. That hurts. Well, the Trask situation last night, for those that didn't watch, Florida played Oklahoma. And Florida, this is the New Year's 6th.

So this is the number five, number six game. So this game means nothing, but it's supposed to mean more than the other shit, right? It's not the college football playoff, but it's the next biggest game, allegedly, is what it was supposed to be. And yesterday, whenever I came in in the morning, I heard Florida was getting four points or four and a half points. And I was like, we're hammering Florida right over Oklahoma for sure. And then Gumpy and everybody really quickly said, no, no, no, no, no, no. They got nobody playing. And I said, is Trask playing? They said, yeah. And no they got nobody playing and I said is Trask

playing they said yeah and then they put up a graphic right before the show started uh NFL tight end not playing yep three NFL wide receivers not playing and Trask who is one of the top conversations of quarterback that kind of rose up the the charts there and for Florida he decided to play and it's very interesting because it kind of puts people in a little bit of a pickle here. Because the conversation is, should these guys be sitting out thinking business-wise, especially for the New Year's Six game, which is supposed to be a big-time game. Now, I guess the four-player stars that sat out on the offensive side of the ball for Florida, they did not view it as that big of a game because they're right.

It's not worth shit. It might as well just be the Cotton Bowl. It is the Cotton Bowl. It might as well be the Monarchy Car Care Bowl. Belt Bowl. Because there's nothing you can do moving forward. Like, oh, congratulations, you got fifth place. It's not really that big of a bowl, even though they try to make it a big thing.

And obviously, at some point, they're going to expand this playoff. It should have been this year. It would have been awesome. But the olds dropped the ball. Yep. What are you going to do? Again. But the players sitting out of bowl games, opting out of bowl games,

and players playing is a very hot topic conversation. It's a generational thing, right? Because whenever you're talking about two different generations, you're talking about two different types of humans here, two different types of football players, two different types of locker rooms, by the way. My generation, I think, was probably at the precipice of the new generation coming in because whenever I was going through school,

this wasn't like unless you were a top five, top ten pick, it was not even thought that you were sitting out, you were going to finish it out, you know? Like, hey, this is a team. We're going to finish out this season. We started this whenever we were running the hills in Morgantown. We went to training camp. We played all these games, these practices, these lifts,

and now the culmination is here at this bowl game. We don't care what it is. We're at a bowl. We're going to play this thing. That was kind of the idea. That was the mindset. That's the older generation's mindset right now. You still hear a lot of older folks who come from the locker rooms that I was in

and the mindset that I was in, like these selfish stars are quitting. That's what they're doing on their teammates. But I don't think their teammates view it that way. So if their teammates don't view it as that way, it's hard, I assume, for the players to view it as that way because nobody really expects them to play because it's a much more business mindset in locker rooms now. Now that everybody has the ability to be their own business and to prosper and make their own money, it feels like there's a much different mindset from the younger generation on like, yeah, we will do this, but also we got to make sure we set ourselves up here. And I guess you can blame them for that, but it also comes directly after a generation that is an eternal debt because they got fucked over by the entire process.

So I think if you kind of take in all of the factors into it, you can't really compare. This is like comparing LeBron and Jordan. You're going to hear older players talk about how this is what it was like whenever we were in that, so these guys can't do it. But it's a completely different locker room now it is a completely different world and to be honest the trash situation throwing three interceptions in the first quarter as a quarterback that was very hot especially coming out for that alabama game yeah cow trash if you're cow trash

people i assume they were telling him to sit out especially if everything you potentially need to be successful is choosing not to play i don't know but i respect the trash play yeah okay i respect the fact that cow trash played yesterday even though his stud tight end three wide receivers are out playing with guys wearing number like 44 out there or whatever it is just one of those things where it's old school versus a new generation and it's two different mindsets completely so i think we should just stop the conversation because it's impossible to compare the two because we're in two very different worlds right now do you think that like significantly drops him out of the first round or is it just

he's just later on in the first now i think it significantly uh entrenches the younger generation into the thought that we're not playing in these fucking games that don't mean anything yeah kyle trask is going to be a story if he does does drop, right, if he does drop at all, you're going to see next year fourth-rounders, fifth-rounders. Did you see Trask buried himself? And it's going to continue to evolve, which is going to continue this conversation that is going to take place between two different groups of humans,

which is two different generations. Yeah, I don't think he's necessarily going to drop out of the first round, but he lost millions of dollars last night, probably. I mean, there's really no other way to – because they were talking about him going in the top of the first round, but he lost millions of dollars last night probably. I mean, there's really no other way. Because they were talking about him going in the top five, you know. I didn't get to watch every pick he threw. Was it bad balls? First one was a pick six.

The second one was off a guy's hands. And then the third one was actually in the red zone, trying to throw a touchdown, picked off in the red zone. Oklahoma ball the other way. Yeah, because I'll be intrigued to see how scouts or gms who might have liked him review that right like okay because they also probably appreciate the fact that he went out there and played trying to make a play no not just make a play he went out there and played yeah you know what i mean like that is there's some gms that are going to be like who are come from that old school mindset they're like

this guy at least chose to play you know what i mean which against he shouldn't have i think we all realize at this point. Especially whenever you see all your weapons around. So, that'll kind of off-bounce. I assume there are some people that maybe dropped him a little bit, though. Which goes to your point, that whole thing. Which, in the future years, people are going to be like, don't pull a fucking contrast. Yeah, but he'll be perfect in Chicago.

I mean, he'll look hell, very good with that Bears helmet on. Bear-ton. Z, that would help you all right, Bob. Love you, Z. Hang in there, Z. Let's go to Adam in South Dakota. What's going on, Adam? Hey, Pat, long-time listener.

Love the show, the boys, the brand. Absolutely amazing. You guys got a lot of people through a very tough year. You guys deserve a damn award. That's what I think. Well, funny you say that because I did win a prestigious award damn award. That's what I think. Well, funny you say that because I did win a prestigious award last night. That's right.

I won also that, but I did not win that last night. Last night I actually won an award. They come. I won the NXT Rivalry of the Year award. Adam Cole accepted the award, which is interesting,

because I carried him to this award. You know what I mean? I carried him in our TakeOver 30 match to a show stealer. I absolutely carried him. There are some people on the internet that are like, he carried me through it because it was my first match. If you watch that thing back, go ahead and flip that. I carried Adam.

And then, obviously, I gifted him a War Games main event. Right? You're welcome. My guys go into War Games against his stooges. Now, did I win either of those? No, no. But people were calling in a question what the refs were up to in those matches and everything like that. So, I did win a prestigious award last night.

But you're right. This show, the boys at least deserve. And you know what, boys? We'll share that NXT award as if it was just a whole year award. Wow. Yeah, how about us, dude? Congrats to you guys. Thank you.

Thank you, Adam. Yeah, so yesterday, guys, you guys talked about one of my favorite all-time games that I've coached, and I actually am an esports coordinator for a team. You guys absolutely butchered the crap out of League of Legends. You butchered each other? You butchered?

You knew that was coming, right? As soon as you attack the boys here a little bit, because there was a little bit of a situation yesterday where I learned what League of Legends was yep and i had no idea what it was it was originally compared to wow world of warcraft which my brother and i lost a friend for four or five years to that kid okay he got lost in there that guy disappeared that's

all i know about that i thought league of legends was a league of legendary people with teams doing things i didn't know what they were turns out Adam, you and a lot of other gaming humans, they were sending me a lot of tweets last night about League of Legends photos, videos. Hey, Adam, League of Legends big events are fucking electric, huh, pal? Oh, it's absolutely amazing. Again, I want to apologize.

I don't want to attack the boys except Foxy. He used an old photo, an old video. How dare you, Foxy? Oh, Foxy. That's very interesting. I did not pull up that video. Who did? That's me. Oh, man. Sorry. Man, sorry.

Foxy up the failure. Coach Adam. Yeah, coach. What is this? Yeah, he's a coach. You embarrass me. You're butchering our show by calling in. Hey, hey, go back to Detroit I think the Lions Appreciate you coach

Have a good one Thanks coach, good luck in the playoffs He didn't catch the train You had a new enemy You know Adam, coach Sometimes you gotta adapt And by the way, the guy you were about to attack there, man, sorry, he plays by a much different set of rules.

Yeah. Barking up the wrong tree. Let's go to Joe. It really is. He truly is. He has no idea. He's opening the door and there's, ah! Oh, yeah.

Let's go to Joe in Jersey. What's going on, Joe? Jesus Christ. What's going on, guys? How are you doing today? This show stinks, dude. We're only 27 minutes into this thing. What do you want to talk about, Joe?

I just want to say I'm grateful that you guys got a show today. Hey. Take me through the workday today. So are we, Joe. Thank you for listening, Joe. We're pumped up about it as well. What was your favorite moment of 2020? I got to say pretty much the exclamation point of the year was getting stone cold down here.

Listen to those stories. Throwing down beers with the Dudley boys. And Stacy Keebler. I think we had 108, 110. You know, I always try to keep a 12 to 18 back out there. Thank you, Joe. I appreciate the call, man. Happy New Year to Joe.

We have to get to a break. If you're listening or watching, yeah, this is probably what today's show is going to be. Know that we are not going to adjust anything, just like Adam and his attack against Foxy, which was supposed to be against Mansoury. We're not changing anything during this break. No way. We're going into the corner. We're not outsmarting the Oculus.

No. We're not changing anything from the first half to the second half, even the first quarter of the first hour to the second quarter of the second hour. There's no chance of that. We're supposed to be off today. We were. Now, some people would say that we're just taking advantage of a

situation so we can save an off day for the off season. That's not us. Hard to do that. No. Because we want to be here. We want to be here. And we're giving away PS5s today. Whoa! What? Four PS5s given away today. Let's go! Yeah, CFO Phil is randomly

selecting them right now. Hot boy, Phil! So if you don't win one, there is one person. That's how Phil deals. Fox is going to get the heat for that, too. And by the way, I believe it's Phil's kids picking the winners. Really? Oh, geez.

So if you don't win and you get mad, go ahead and attack Phil's kids. They're tough enough. Yeah, they are. Hopefully they shut their DMs on their Twitter accounts. Phil would not allow his kids to have Twitter accounts. He watched The Social Dilemma. Oh, that's right. His kids, by the way, are going to be tougher than all of us probably in a year or two if i don't if not now they're smarter than us for sure yeah

go ahead can i address an issue with the arby's brick contest oh there were there were a lot of complaints that people just made burner accounts in spanish i don't think a lot of people realize how many people just watch the show on youtube or listen to it on sirius. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who ended up creating a Twitter account to enter the contest. Yeah, I agree. We have a lot of people that do that, actually. Because I'll see a lot of tweets that say,

I've never had a Twitter account created just to tell you your show stinks. Is that right? Thank you. Welcome to Twitter. You're going to fit in just fine. That's what it feels like. By the way, who? So?

So what? Yeah. Name of the game. Hey, we told you you could enter up to 55 times. Yeah. Okay? Don't be mad that you got outsmarted. Yeah.

That's business, baby. We're giving away free shit. Like, that's my biggest thing, you know? And maybe this is that foxy generation. My hand. Yeah. Who just, you hand something.

We gave $125,000. Do you remember? This is 2020. Let's do a little recap. We gave out $125,000 because we reached a million subscribers on YouTube.

Thank you. Thank you to everybody on YouTube. We appreciate the hell out of you. You guys are the best. You give us so much leverage to go ahead and say literally fuck you to everybody if we want to.

And it's because you're the greatest humans on earth. And we're very, very thankful for you. Just want to let you know that. And it's hilarious how you guys are referenced by the execs whenever they're talked about in negotiation system. Very funny. I'm not doing that oh it's a good opportunity is it

are you sure seems like it's smaller than the network we created already huh no no no this is a good opportunity is it I don't think so

that doesn't seem like the right number there doesn't feel like it I think there's gonna have to be a couple more yeah commas in there if you'd like me to do

that terrible job you're lucky to be getting offered this I'm like well I don't, well, I don't think so. I don't think so. You know what? Because my YouTube's bigger than and my YouTube have a great group of humans and they're riding.

So your people seem to be a little bit smaller. You guys like 300. That's cute. Hey, that is cute what you guys got going on. Hey, listen. Go get one. Yeah. That's cute Hey that is cute What you guys got going on Guys Hey listen Adorable Guys Go get one Yeah But anyways

So we gave away $125,000 Because we did create A YouTube channel That has a million people Following it Which makes no sense We don't understand it We're very thankful for it

And I gave $125,000 away I don't think I heard one I did I heard a couple thank yous From the people that won I might have got 2,000 fuck yous You didn't randomly select

That one Oh yeah well You shitting me I was like Did you not watch the screen We were literally Hayata Bang

As random as it gets Then we give away $500 in Arby's gift cards And people are mad About other things It's rigged I knew it Just

Yeah By the way Whoever Phil picks For these PS5s Man people are mad about other things. It's rigged. I knew it. By the way, whoever Phil picks for these PS5s, man, people are going to be pissed. Oh, yeah. Live it.

It's kind of cool, actually, the way we've kind of put a buffer around this because I did pawn it off on Phil to do it and then Phil pawned it off on his kids.

Yeah. Genius. Smart. Delegating. That is delegating responsibility. So if people attack me, I'm like, no,

you should go after Phil and Phil's going to be like, me? Fucking go after my kids. Get my kids. And then people who would be attacking for that will have no problem attacking his kids. See, I don't to be like, no, you just got to go after Phil. And Phil's going to be like, me? Fucking go after my kids. Get my kids. And then people who would be attacking for that will have no problem attacking his kids. See, I don't see why they don't attack

the people who win. They're the ones that stole the opportunity from you. Yeah. Get mad at them. Yes. Get mad at the people who won your prize. Or don't get mad at all. Yeah. Know that there's going to be a lot more giveaways. Just strictly because I'm not supposed to have the money that I have. I was just going to say, you've given away over a million dollars this year for sure you gave us five hundred thousand

dollars in the office you gave the barstool fund two hundred thousand dollars you gave away the hundred and twenty five thousand dollars and then all the other shit i'm sure you had in there i mean those playstations playstations thousand dollars each yeah so i mean it is over a million dollars gotta be In one year. We were supposed to give away five PS5s, by the way, and that was the plan. It was. But it turns out we bought six of them. Two of them were not legit.

We got four, so we're giving away four PS5s. All right! And we have a friend showing. Who called in? Mark Madden. Oh, shit! Double M! Oh, we got to turn you up. Your Madden. Oh, shit. Double M. Oh, we got to turn you up.

Your woo sounded too good, too. I could hear kind of the beginning of it. You sounded like an owl a little bit. Didn't get the full. Oh, yeah, there's an owl in the back. I don't do New Day, Pat. I only do legends like Ric Flair. Okay.

All right. I don't do the hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo. I just do whoo. Mark, how you doing? Are you live today? Are you going live today? Yeah, no choice. Because you went to Vegas last week.

Well, no, the bronze, their COVID thing. There's talk from the lesser lights in Pittsburgh Sports Radio. Well, if they push the game back to Monday, the Steelers should forfeit. Yeah, like there's going to be a forfeit in the NFL in a game that means something vis-a-vis the playoff scenario. But, yeah, I am on air. And I got to tell you, COVID's really coming through in a big way because it gives a talking point to this Steelers-Bronze game.

Otherwise, it's just a non-game here in Pittsburgh. All right, Mark, it has come out. I'm not rooting for COVID, Pat. It made you flinch already early in the appearance. No, you didn't. I did not flinch. I didn't blink. No, you did. You flinched a little bit, Pat. We had Joey from Tennessee earlier. There's quite a flinch there the way he ended

his call. But, Mark, this weekend's game, Steelers are resting Marquise, TJ, Cam Hayward, Ben Roethlisberger at least. Okay, those are just the names that have gone out. Do you think Mason Rudolph and the boys can get a big win over the COVID Browns, which we don't know who's going to be on the team and who's going to make it

and who's not? Well, first off, we don't know for sure who's not playing for the Steelers besides Ben. I don't think any official word has been out there, but I think it's going to be Ponce, DeCastro, Cam Hayward, and Joe Hayden for sure. And I would sit watches because of the breakneck pace he keeps up, which makes him miss a couple series per game.

I want that guy at the top of his motor for the playoffs, even if it does cost him a career high in sacks or whatever it is he's shooting for, I don't think he's going to get NFL Defensive Player of the Year, even though he's deserving. I think that's kind of preordained to Aaron Donald, who certainly would be a worthy recipient. Now, as far as Mason Rudolph goes, he sucks, and the Steelers have no chance. All right, Mark. See, you quenched again. I saw it.

I did not. I said, as soon as I heard that Mason Rudolph was playing, it was kind of like live on our show when it was announced or whatever, I said, oh, that team's going to stink. Just because Mason is not good at football, we've seen. No, he's not. No. Another year of practice.

Another year of practice. A little bit more understanding of the offensive system. A little bit of experience in the NFL. He could come out and be a ball player, Mark. Am I on the Pat McAfee show or some kind of Disney fantasy world program? I mean, come on. The guy's a bum. He's not even a good backup.

Maybe Duck Hodges will see some time. I mean, come on. The guy's a bum. He's not even a good backup. Maybe Doc Hodges will see some time. Doc Hodges makes Mason Rudolph look like Joe Montana in his prime. All right, so we're doing a yearly wrap-up here. That's today's show. I'm happy you got some shots in there. What were your favorite moments from 2020, Mark? Well, first off, thank you for the opportunity to take those shots.

I always enjoy that. It's, you know, silver platter. Here you go. The two best things from 2020, one far and away that your listeners won't care about, but Liverpool won the Premier League. That's the first Premier League title since 1990. Let's go, Mark. Well, there you go. First top flight title since 1990.

And I was overjoyed about that. I thought COVID might wipe it out. But thankfully, they resumed the season. And the second is, go ahead. Your interruption? Bro, you never walk alone, dude, right? Never walk alone. Never walk alone, bro.

Never walk alone. When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high. And the second greatest thing was Pat McAfee on NXT. Let's go! No question about that. Everything else in 2020 blows goats. But Liverpool and Pat McAfee, that was the daily double of 2020. I enjoyed both immensely.

And I want Pat McAfee. I demand Pat McAfee, that was the daily double of 2020. I enjoyed both immensely. And I want Pat McAfee. I demand Pat McAfee be back on NXT. No, wait. I'll go one step further. Pat McAfee should be doing the opening segment on Raw. Oh, whoa. Never mind NXT. Whoa, whoa.

Pat McAfee's the best promo in the business. He should be doing the opening segment on Raw. And while you're off TV, Pat, I can't imagine. They had Adam Cole accept an award that you did everything to earn on last night's NXT. I mean, Pat, I'm not saying somebody was a stooge in a sellout, but somebody was a stooge in a sellout. All right, thank you so much, Mark. That means a lot.

I appreciate you, man. And I am an Adam Cole fan, too. I've often said I hate it when Mom and Dad fight. Yeah, yeah. We think he's a scumbag, but you have said that. You appreciate you, man. And I am an Adam Cole fan, too. I've often said I hate it when mom and dad fight. Yeah, yeah. We think he's a scumbag, but you have said that. You've been very consistent. We appreciate your time this year, man. You've made our show better. Pat, you are phenomenal. I am jealous

because you've surpassed my career in wrestling and in radio inside of, like, what? Seven or eight weeks? Sorry. Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Madden. What happened to a nicer guy? Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you, Mark. First off of a family vacation, ladies and gentlemen,

a college football champion, a Super Bowl champion, and a man that we're thankful for how much he helped our show this year, ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hawk. A.J.! A.J., how's it going? It's good. You guys are a bit blurry. Am I blurry to you's it going? It's good. You guys are a bit blurry. Am I blurry to you?

No, you look really good. Do you want to hang up and call back? What? Everything froze. Your connection today. Don't do it, Pat. I see what you're doing. Connection's garbage.

You're going back and forth. I'm sure you think it's on my end, but it's alright. Maybe it'll clear up. I don't know. Let's hang up and we'll call you back. I just wanted to see what he was... He probably thought we couldn't hear him. Whenever you do those FaceTimes and it drops out, but you can hear sometimes what the other person's saying and not the

others. That's why I thought we were going to potentially get there with AJ, who's fresh off of a family vacation. I'm excited to hear how that thing goes. Jeez Louise. Let's get to Zach and Dallas real quick because we are still trying to break the record of the amount of calls we've had in one show. Zach and Dallas, what's going on? Texas, hey, listen, these Dallas Cowboys, they need to stop selling tickets to people to come watch the Cowboys practice

because all you need is one person who's maybe, I don't know, a Philadelphia Eagle Scott to go in there and watch that thing to see what's going on or, you know, or the Giants or maybe anybody could go in there. But anyways, thanks for calling us. How you doing down here in Dallas? Hey, fuck the boys, the Cowboys. Not the boys there, though. The Cowboys.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We appreciate that. We appreciate that. What was your favorite moment of 2020 boss man hey man uh this right here is probably the coolest moment living in the moment talking one of my favorite colt players of all time nfl players of all time uh teasing peas dozito and tone hope they're doing well i appreciate you and the boys this year it's been a great year watching you uh my dad and I watch you guys religiously every day.

We appreciate you and your dad. Thank you so much for watching, and we appreciate all the T's and P's and a shout-out, brother. Well, and the other thing that I guess my other favorite moment, according to Foxy, is that Pat gave out millions. And millions! Not bad delivery there by you. Hey, quick question, though.

I know the analysts and announcers suck, but I feel like the Colts' kick coverage on kickoffs has been stellar this year. Obviously, not against the Steelers, but I feel like there's only been like six or seven kicks that have been returned past the 25-yard line, and I'd like to get maybe your feedback on that. Yeah, great question.

Good talking to you, Zach, by the way. The Colts are a team that kick the ball short. Don't try to kick touchbacks. So they do have great faith in their coverage teams, which I appreciate. And they do hover and hum down that field. You can tell people that are confident in their special teams units by the

decisions they make on the kickoff with the kicker. If the kicker's trying to drive that thing out, okay, we're going for touchbacks here. If they're obviously trying to hang it and make it short, it's like we feel good about the dogs we've got running down the field. Or potentially, if you're winning, there's no need to risk it, and you've got a kicker that can just blast it out, just blast that thing out of there. So there's a couple different ways to read decisions being made,

but the Colts do seem to have a couple dogs running down that field second. So what I was referring to there, for those that don't know, is there's a private club in the Dallas practice facility. And it's like Zeke, I believe, said, for the last couple weeks it's been empty for the first time in his career. But now that they're back in the playoffs, you start seeing eyes up in the private club that watch practice. What are they doing down?

And I know this is something that maybe I overreact to, which, no, I wouldn't do that, by the way. That's not something I would do. That's not really my style at this point. But maybe maybe i overreact to which no i wouldn't do that by the way that's not something i would do no that's not really my style at this point but maybe i'm overreacting when i heard that there was a uh corporate basically a corporate building that surrounds their one practice field where people can buy their offices i immediately thought back to whenever i was on the colts we had people that thought potential planes that were flying over were from the new england patriots watching our goddamn practice facility. And they were scared to do some things whenever, if we were not, if we weren't inside with

nobody else in, like, that's how, you know, kind of like, I don't want to say crazy, but yeah, pretty, pretty crazy. Some people view some things are, there's moments where people will look in practice and say, we can't do that now. Some people view some things are. There's moments where people will look in practice and say, we can't do that now. Why? Because this person's here who's maybe an athletic trainer who is like a GA or a friend or something.

Like, can't do that whenever they're here or whatever. Like, that's how secret some of the shit that I was a part of was. So whenever I heard that you could potentially buy an office that could overlook a practice facility and you watch Dak do things, I was like, well, that seems much different. And then now we're learning that there's a club like up there on the balcony. There's like a club where people go by and watch actual practices. That is wild to me. That is absolutely insane.

And Zeke was like, you know, for a little bit, there was nobody in there. What are they doing? Winning games. They're winning games. Whenever the people weren't in there. That's your boy, Double J. A.J. A.J. What's up?

I'm back. Hey, it's great to see you, buddy. Good to see you, A.J. A to the G. Hey, did you hear about this private club that they have that overlooks the Dallas Cowboys practice? Zeke Elliott talked about it, how he said it's been empty for a little bit. Now that we have a chance to get back in the playoffs,

there's more eyes up there. I just started putting two together real quick. It was empty, and they were winning. And then now they've got somebody else. Would you ever expect a NFL team – now, the Colts might have been much different than how everybody else views things. But if there was one person that was maybe not a part of the team that was in there that was like, well, we're not running certain things.

They've got people just paying to watch all practice. That's insane to me. But if there was one person that was maybe not a part of the team that was in there, it was like, well, we're not running certain things. They got people just paying to watch all practice. That's insane to me. I cannot imagine that Mike McCarthy is a fan of this. Is there any other team in the league that has something like that? I've never heard of it. Because, you know, like surprise is a big deal. That's why people studying film, they study hours and hours and hours of film so that they're not surprised by anything and they're not tricked by anything.

But if you're going to have a trick play, maybe for Week 17 to get into playoffs, the last thing you want is anybody to potentially know what the fuck is going to happen. And all they've got to do is have one friend in another city, right? It is insane to me. And that might be me overreacting. Okay, maybe it is. But if I'm the head coach of that team, I'm Mike McCarthy, I'm like, listen, Jer, you got me swinging sledgehammers and watermelons

like they're piñatas with candy inside of it. We're winning. We got the boys running. I'll need you and your NFC East fan club friends up there watching our goddamn practice. I would assume Mike puts an end to that at some point. Well, I guess how much money is Jerry bringing in through this club? What kind of cash is

he making? Is it too good to turn down? Now listen, Mike, I know that you're a Rust Belt guy and all that and I was once that too, but now I'm a billionaire. You know why? Motherfuckers are paying $100,000 to be in there. If they're going to pay me that, I'm going to tell you this, Mike, they might know some of our

plays. It is wild down there. AJ, how was the family vacation? Oh, it was great, man. We're scheduled to come back today. We decided to come back yesterday afternoon, and it was the right move, I think. Anytime you're scheduled to come back a day and a half early from vacation, normally people have to ask some questions. You guys have too much fun?

Was that what it was? It was too much fun? It must have been. Yeah. Well, you know, like I guess we, I think most places are great for about three days. And that's pretty much where we were. And we, you know, Pat, with COVID situation,

you have to schedule anything you want to do. Oh, your kids want to swim in the pool. You got to schedule in advance your time. So we had a full day lined up yesterday with nothing that we could get on the schedule. So we're like, all right, let's get out of here and we drove home. Oh man, that sounds terrible.

That was great. The whole trip was a smashing success as they would say. Sounds like it was a bad one. Who was laughing back then? It sounds like it was a bad trip. Did you have a bad one? Let's talk about it.

It was awesome. We went to the Greenbrier, West Virginia, your place. Everybody's asking about you. No, not that place. Those are not our people down there at the Greenbrier. They actually made me wear rented pants and a rented sport coat to get into the casino because I had shorts and a t-shirt on. Right there on the spot.

I knew a guy that was there, and we're sitting there watching a kid swim, and he came back in, and he was so upset, and he's wearing this baggy sport coat, and he's like, oh, yeah, I tried to go into the casino, but after seven, you have to wear a jacket, and so I had to go get my jacket out of the room. Yeah, the Greenbrier's very, very nice. It's like you take a trip back to, I don't know, the 20s, maybe?

Oh, sure. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. It's very beautiful, though. I mean, what was the family going to do? What are you guys going to do? Go to the casino? Swim in a pool? What'd you drive all the way to the Greenbrier to do that for? Why not? I mean, we wanted to go somewhere. It was a drivable place, and yeah, there was plenty... It was all, like, outdoor stuff. That's what you do there. They have an outdoor

ice skating rink. It's like eight. I get out there a little bit, still trying to skate backwards. Haven't figured it out yet, but it was fun. Me neither. Well, so they got ice skating. Is there anything else going on? Did we only see one particular side of the greenbrier maybe i don't know i mean we did a lot of different things i guess everything's outside you can go up hiking through the mountains they have all these atv i can get in those side by sides and driving through the woods you can do everything why weren't we told any of this i didn't know

we could go atv through the goddamn mountains i didn't know that was possible it's all there they have a bunch of i didn't get. I wasn't able to do it, but they have a bunch of different shooting situations where you're shooting skeet and doing everything. All we got was milk and cookies. The governors. They were the governors' milk and cookies. Governor Jim's favorite cookie.

That's how they were actually being marketed. They were unbelievable cookies. Nick actually had one of the governor's assistants, which there was a plethora of, go and take his cookies and microwave them inside and bring him back a cup of milk. And by the way, they did oblige. They were very nice people. Nice touch.

Yeah, Nick was a scumbag. I was asked. You never turn down. Do you want us to warm up your cookies and bring you milk? And everybody's like, no, no, it's okay. And Nick was like, actually, yeah, is that all? Right here. And they took his cookies.

They go inside. They come back. There's like a napkin on the thing. Is 2% okay? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He says, put it down. Just chugged a beer right before that. That's awesome.

It was wild. Good time. I'm happy your family had a blast, AJ. We have missed you. Today, we are doing a lot of phone calls. We're trying to break the record. We have a friend of the show. Is this? to break the record. We're trying to break. We have a friend of the show.

Is this friend of the show on? Who is it? Wait till you see this face. Who is it? Ariel Helwani. Oh my God. Ariel. Ariel.

That's right. What are you doing? How are you, Jabrons? We're not the Jabrons. What are you doing? Mansuri. Mansuri called me up. I can't get this right.

Where the hell am I? Mansuri called me up and he's like, we need ratings. I mean, numbers are tanking. Call in the big nose, call the big guns. I am here to say now I just want to know. I mean, AJ is the man over there. But who are you going to blindside me with this time? Because I got a whole army of kids playing soccer behind me that are going to take down your whole entire puny army over there.

So who you got for me now? McAfee, who do you have for me now? OK okay you did not get blindsided by booker t okay you've been asking for that for years at this point yeah that was not a blind so you won and who won say it 10 7 helwani say it say it loud say it proud i mean there was and I want to let you know that Foxy edited our year in, like our year in review video. It's eight minutes long with a bunch of moments. And I want to let you know, little leading journalism by Foxy, the way he edits the Ariel Hawani, Daniel Cormier, Booker T thing,

you take quite an L in the part that he edited. Yeah, I just want to let you know that. Well, you know, covering the sport that I do, I'm used to questionable editing and people making hit pieces, but we'll leave that discussion for a different day. Who's the guy who puts together that YouTube little channel of yours? Because I couldn't even get my name in the title. Disrespecting my name.

I should be charging for these appearances at this point. Why can't I get in the middle of the square? That's what's killing me here. I keep going to the... Should I be like this? No, wrong way. Okay, I think I got it. I got it now, Matt. You move your head and your hand at the same time.

You gotta keep... And that's why you're not getting paid. You just can't figure it out. Ariel, are those your children or just random children you're standing outside of? You know, you just can't figure it out. But Ariel, are those your children or just random children? You're standing outside of. Yes. My children are playing soccer right now.

I didn't know you had kids. Congrats. Thanks. Thanks. Can we talk about something very seriously right now? Can we, can we, can we drop the gimmick for a second?

Very serious. Yeah. Okay. I want to talk about the, what is it? 54. What do we got? Is it Superbowl 54? Is that what it is?

Sounds like it. I want to talk about the Super Bowl 54 champions, New York's team. I want to talk about the Buffalo Bills and what they're going to do starting with week one of the playoffs because we're getting screwed this year because there's no two buys, but that's okay. They just opened up New York. We got Cuomo on our side. And oh, my God. Oh, my God. Lord have mercy on the Baltimore Ravens, on the Miami Dolphins, on the Indianapolis Colts, on the Tennessee Titans. Lord have mercy on these teams because we got Josh Allen. Call Josh Allen right now. Let me give him a pep talk. Call Stephon Diggs.

Call Coach of the Year Sean McDermott. I am so hyped about the Buffalo Bills. You have no idea. It is finally our time, first time in 25 years that we win the AFC East. We are going to go back to Tampa because let me tell you something. You guys don't know this about Tampa. We lost the first Super Bowl in Tampa many moons ago. You guys weren't even watching football.

You were playing with He-Man toys. It was in Tampa. Otis Anderson, Jeff Hostetler, Scott Norwood, Wide Right. We're going to go back to Tampa and exercise those demons 30 years later. Yeah! 30 years later. Can I get an amen? Can I get an amen for Buffalo Bills?

Amen! Can I get an amen for America's team? Amen! Just real quick. I had no idea you knew anything about the football. You sounded like very intelligent there whenever you went through that rant. I thought you were just a stupid MMA combat sports guy. I didn't know you knew anything about the biggest sport in the world.

McAfee, listen to me. The world has no idea what's about to happen to them in 2021 courtesy of the nose. I am about to flex my muscles on this entire country and this entire world. You don't know what's going on in my brain. NBA sidelines last Christmas, a couple weeks ago or so on ABC, you probably saw that.

Then we're going to go to the NFL. It's a nose world order takeover in 2021. I know more about the great sport of NF and I'm talking about American and Canadian football here because I could go toe to toe with you guys on Canadian football as well. But I know more about the NFL than you will ever know. What do you know about Jim Kelly? What do you know about Thurman Thomas? What do you know about Cornelius Bennett and Darrell Talley and Steve Tasker and Steve Christie? What do you know about those

legends who bled for the city of Buffalo? We're about to do this. I am so hyped for the Bills. You have no idea. I just feel like I need to talk to you guys about this. By the way, can I just educate everyone? The K-Gun offense isn't for Jim Kelly. It's for... Who is it for? Who is it named after? The K-Gun

offense. It's for... Fucking kill myself if you can talk. That's who it's named after.ith mckellar i'm trying to make it to 2021 to heal one if you could let us jeez louise is your sorry sorry are your kids near yourself near you over there i mean this is turning into a mask thing now is this what i follow the rules. I want this pandemic to end.

I want to go back to Canada, the greatest country on Earth, and visit my parents. So they asked me to put on a mask in the public park. I will put on a mask. No, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking with you yelling into your phone, okay? Thanks for being a fucking hero, Ariel. I'm hyped. I'm hyped.

We have a Canadian here. We have a Canadian here as well. Gumpy, he's in the back corner back there he's big dolphins fan this weekend to uh maybe to uh we don't know about contact trace i don't know if you know this dolphins bills big game this weekend a lot on the line pal there's nothing on the line trust me sean mcdermott is going to play the starters so i have a little story for you and and your dolphin fans and Brian Flores. It's been a nice little cute story. Fitz Magic, yeah, good former Buffalo Bill,

but he's going to play the starters because we want to lock up that number two. We want to lock up home field advantage all the way until the championship game because guess what? Kansas City's not going to be there. Kansas City's not going to make it there. It's going to be Buffalo in the AFC championship. It's going to be great. It's going to be shades of Kenneth Davis.

What do you know about Frank Reich and the greatest comeback in NFL history? You know nothing about Frank Reich and the greatest comeback in NFL historyFC Championship. It's going to be great. It's going to be shades of Kenneth Davis. What do you know about Frank Reich and the greatest comeback in NFL history? You know nothing about Frank Reich and the greatest comeback in NFL history. Frank Reich was literally my coach for a while. Whatever. AJ, do you know Ariel, AJ? Yeah, I know Ariel. Ariel, yeah, big fan of all your work. I'm just curious, when your kids see you jump on the phone

or maybe they catch a YouTube clip of you, I'm not sure if they're old enough for that, what do they think when they see this guy that is not the guy that lives with them in their living room day in and day out? They say, Dad, we love you. You make us so proud. And one day we want to be better than you are on the mic, better than you on camera.

We want to lay the smack down on jabrons like Booker T. Oh, there's a ball coming my way, guys. Wait a second. Be an athlete, Ariel. Be an athlete. Past it. You saw that? Did that did you guys see that clip that off put that on your little clip evan put that on your little clip right there yeah that's right i mean what are the views now it probably started at six thousand we're probably up to nine thousand now because the nose has made it to this thing i would have promoted it but they don't pay me enough to

promote all right we don't pay you anything, first of all. It has dropped off $2,000 to $3,000 since you've come. I figured. I saw you on that little NXT War Games show. It was not bad. It was not bad. You did the flip. Not bad. I give you credit for what you did

over there, McAfee. What are you doing? There's a helicopter landing on our building. It sounds like we have a helicopter landing on our building it sounds like we have a helicopter landing i thought yeah guess what that means ratings right there that means everyone's going to be a part of the show when i join you think the helicopter's coming because you're on this of course i'm a celebrity what do you think all right i'm the biggest name at espn 2021 i'm going to flex on all of them. AJ, didn't love your question there. It felt like it was a little bit backhanded.

I'll let you go this time, all right, buddy? What do you got there? Fake little bookshelf over there? What do you have, your old playbooks over there from the Packer days? You got nothing, AJ. Next time I see you, you'll be lucky if I don't bury you where you stand. Oh, AJ. Uh-oh.

I love this, Ariel. I love this area. I love this area. Ariel, this is what you need to do. This is who we need to hear on the sidelines for basketball. This Ariel. Yeah, because you suck on the sidelines of basketball. Seriously, it's brutal. You suck.

It is terrible. You hate it. Change the channel. Wow, really? Yeah, they say that's why the ratings have been so bad. They said the ratings have been so bad on NBA because Ariel Hewani on the sideline is just a little bit too docile, a little bit too scared of the players. And they say you're scared on the microphone over there.

Crank it up. Crank it up. So I interview Kyrie and I say, Kyrie, stop talking about the flat earth. Let's pick it up a little bit. It's 2021. Let's let's mix it up a little bit. But also know you're at his game. I think there has to be a fine balance. When I enter the building, it's my game.

You've already experienced that, Mr. Analyst over there. Is this the beginning? Should we end the feud in 2021, or do we keep it going? No, yeah, it's going to keep going. Fuck you, Ariel. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. See you, Ariel.

Bye-bye. So what happened? You texted him today, Ariel, you want to come on? He's like, I'm at kids practice. I'm bored as shit, Ariel. Bye-bye. So what happened? You texted him today, Ariel, you want to come on? He's like, I'm at kids practice. I'm bored as shit, actually. Let me tell you, AJ, I will bury you on site. I love that man. I love that man, AJ.

I love this Ariel that we're seeing. And maybe you're the one that brought it out to him. You and Sam Roberts, it seems like. But when he said, I'm the biggest name at ESPN, like that, I'm like, all right, that's all I need. That was the best part of the whole thing. Well, what are you saying? You're saying he's not?

You said that Ariel Lydon? I'm just saying, do you ever hear anyone at ESPN come out and say things like that? Well, he's probably talking about his A-R-I-E-L-H-E-L-W-A-N-I. It's 12 letters. Yeah, that's a lot. Stephen A. Smith, that was a lot. That's probably the biggest, right?

Hasselbeck has a lot of letters. Matthew Hasselbeck has a lot. That's a lot. So he meant actually as in clout-wise. He's the biggest, which is interesting. I fucking love that guy. Randy Moss. Nobody watches the NBA, but did anybody watch did anybody watch him

that's a lot did anybody watch him on the sideline of that nba aj you probably did whenever you're with did you see him do sideline reporting for the nba aj the only thing i've seen him post about doing sideline nba work has anybody seen it that's his channel when he comes on i really do do that has no shit all right let's go pretty good rolodex of buffalo bills information yeah showcase that he was an actual fan because i think he realized he had to go above and beyond to showcase that he wasn't just a bandwagon fan right now granted he might have because i do think he's a pretty intelligent person he might have studied all that information last night true so that he could be a part of the conversation if the bills do get going.

Anyways, I don't know if his name is Frankie or Thanky, like it's spelled, but from Baton Rouge, what's going on, pal? Hey, what's going on, Pat and the boys? It's Frankie, by the way. Yeah, I thought so. Thank you, not bad either. Thank you.

So everyone knows 2020 has kind of been dog shit, but you know, that's not what today's about. We're going to talk about the good things, right? So being Baton Rouge, Louisiana native, we started off with LSU winning the national championship. Big, big run there. By the way, we were down there. It was awesome.

That song, calling Baton Rouge, was being sung. It was a great night. Great night. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. All the fucking Trevors, man. That was electric. Drive-thru daiquiris with three extra shots responsibly, of course, but it was a great time. Frankie was there. Drive-thru daiquiris with three extra shots. Responsibly, of course. It was a great time. Frankie was there.

I'm a San Diego native. Justin Herbert. That's a great thing to happen. If you're a wrestling fan, Pat McAfee, of course. Thank you, Frankie. Roman Reigns. The best thing, to me at least, about 2020 2020 had to be twitter man if you were lucky enough to have a wild twitter twitter was the funniest

shit going on i think that is a great call by frankie twitter does not get it twitter is always a cesspool okay but if you you take a step back and realize that it is a cesspool you can start finding some real comedy in there. And Twitter had quite a year this year. I mean, so much so that they just started blocking tweets. Twitter really started feeling itself this year. Twitter really started feeling itself this year, as it should have. AJ, you got into Twitter a little bit in 2020.

Yeah, every once in a while I will jump in there, but definitely that's where I get a lot of my information is through Twitter. I think think a lot of people do is that where you learned about that video that you forced me to watch for a couple seconds down there in orlando oh that's right no every everybody already knew about chuck very well before twitter i well no i did not i did not they did here like true rust belt guys knew about it why don't you go and give a little kiss it was disgusting it was wild it's the most disgusting thing i've ever seen in my life the best part was how upset you were when i told you about it and then they presented video evidence i know man siri had seen it before i did yeah it was and you were so mad that's was. You're 100% right

because I don't need this in my life. No. Okay? I don't need this shit in my life. I just don't do it. AJ, you haven't been around. I might be the greatest Oculus boxer in the history, by the way.

Oh, yeah. You need to get one of these Oculi. Can I box you if I get one? You don't want that. Oh. Why not? I boxed a guy that looked a lot like your face this morning. Edward Price is his name.

Painting canvases, pal. Five knockdowns. Round four and five. Fucking one. Do you have to play against somebody? Or is there computer people you can play against? Yeah, you're playing against computer people. I don't think you can actually box actual humans yet.

I feel like that one's going to be tough for them to figure out. Probably a little bit while. Because when you play ping pong against people, the ball would disappear for like half a second or whatever, and then it comes back. Probably couldn't do that in boxing. Because if you disappear for a second, you're dead.

Yeah, it'd probably be tough. But they'll get there. They'll get there. AJ Hawk is joining us right off the jump here we appreciate you joining us aj you're the greatest uh you really are thanks for everything you've done for us this year aj thank you aj from your your pep talks that you've given not only myself and the boys but the entire world for your incredibly insightful football takes and your wildly accurate predictions we can't thank you enough for everything you've done for us this year in 2020 aj so we just want incredibly insightful football takes and your wildly accurate predictions.

We can't thank you enough for everything you've done for us this year in 2020, AJ, so we just wanted to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you, AJ. Thank you, AJ. I missed you guys. I missed you guys while I was gone. Yeah, it sounded like you had a terrible trip. Yeah.

Good trip. The trip looked a lot different than if you had gone to the green briar but yeah it was fun huh sounds like a shot there but you did miss me whenever you were there so i don't know what that means blackjack table does hand out winners though they do pay out like you got dressed like an absolute stooge and everybody dresses the exact same in there and even if you have ten thousand dollars in your pocket to get into a staring at a casino they are going to make you get changed or whatever which is very interesting but they do pay out down there and by the way golf course is beautiful that golf course is very beautiful nick and i kind of the

back nine of that thing i think we shot maybe one over two over on the back nine i think really front nine 20 to 30 over. It was a rough start to that morning. A little bit hungry. You had to stop and take a pee in that one house. Yeah, well, also peed in the house. Grabbed some beers off the back porch. Nice.

Jumped into what killed us the night before. Back nine. I might have played the best golf I've ever played in that back nine. You dialed in. Just par, par, par, bird, par, double. Then we kind of closed it out. Back on. Yeah, but John Daly and I are still undefeated as a partner. True.

As partners in golf. Nobody ever calls us for this Turner shit. Whenever me, you know, everybody wants to. I don't know why they don't. What was that? You were trying to figure out what the Turner shit was? Yeah, you mean like the two-on-two matches that have been played? Yeah, yeah.

Like Peyton and Tiger versus me and Daly? dude people are gonna watch that yes people are gonna watch that i mean do you i i think yes people would love to watch it but do you think peyton and tiger are the two guys that they could get to take you you on like is that a good matchup uh well you know depends on what year time of the year it is for me you know john is a great golfer all the time and whenever you watch like a pro golfer by the way and then yourself it is just like it's a very different ball game that's what it's like but for me it depends on where i'm at you know playing golf because if i'm playing good i feel like we can go we can go i don't know i don't know we probably have to work our way up to tiger and uh peyton but there for a little bit we were trying

to offer it to aim by could get it and uh to be honest nobodyton, but there for a little bit, we were trying to offer it to anybody could get it. And to be honest, nobody. And also we thought a stipulation that would be good is you have to drink as many beers as we drink and you have to smoke as many cigarettes and cones that we smoke.

Yes, exactly. There you go. So you have to, if you want to golf, we have to golf the exact, you have to drink as much as us. You have to smoke as many cigarettes and cones as we smoke. And then you can potentially think about what the score is.

And you got to take the 10,000 grams of edibles. Oh, by the way. Don't forget about those. That was at the bachelor party. That was maybe my best golf I've ever played. Exactly. You say you got to work your way up, but you could also just take, you know, an XL Rice Crisp and all of a sudden you're shooting par. AJ, it was cool. It felt like I

was in the Oculus, you know, with that thing. It felt like I was literally just throwing the ball with my club, which never really gets a chance to happen. And I was just picking apart this course in Michigan, AJ. It was awesome. So how do you not get to that level every single time you play now? Well, I just found out it's the last time I played. So don't you not get to that level every single time you play now? Well, I just found out. It's the last time I played. It's the last time I played. So don't you worry. I mean, I'm going to be in the car a little bit longer than most people before the thing, and that's because I'm just eating every little edible

I can find in there. That's everything, the scraps. And then I'm going to show up. People are going to wonder if I can even see the course. And don't you worry. I'm seeing it much better than you are. Yep. Laser it in.

By the way, I've learned that I am, that's not normal for a lot of people. My ability to continue to perform certain things at different levels of the stratosphere. Yeah, definitely not. It's a gift. It is.

It's remarkable. After that course on Michigan, I wouldn't be able to walk. I wouldn't have been able to walk for a whole week. And then you're out there just throwing darts the whole time. I think I went two under.

I went two under, like in a real golf course, playing the real rules. And I'll tell you what, golf is a lot more fun that way. Like, I was having a blast. My thing was, like, you were able to putt. I get, like, being able to swing and just being an athlete, but you were actually making putts. I appreciate that. I tried to match it, and I just stopped playing by about the seventh hole.

I'm just going to start drinking booze and get more fucked up. How about the night before, too? Me and Ty took a dive into the same, and there was beer pong happening, and Ty was sitting in the corner. Ty was holding down the house or whatever, and he was right in front of where the beer pong was or whatever. I was sitting down, too. I was sitting over here. It was one of the most powerful things I've ever allowed

into my body when it comes to a marijuana standpoint. I told Ty, I was like, I think I'm going to play. Ty asked me, how? That's what he said. I stood up. By the way, I think we started going a little bit. We lost. It was hard to play

that particular sport, but golf was in a good spot. Yeah. Ty on that seven hole did forget to mention that he snapped his club in half before retiring. I did. Yeah. My wedge. Turns out you need that on most holes, too. So that, you know.

AJ, you're a good golfer? No, I'm a highly inconsistent golfer. I can hit some good shots, but I'm not good. Ever been good? Like, was there ever a part of your life where you were some good shots, but I'm not good. Ever been good? Was there ever a part of your life where you were pretty good? No, I've never really consistently played to get better like that, and I don't care that much.

I like it, but I don't care. I'm not super passionate. I'm not going to the range banging balls. I enjoy it. I have fun when I'm there, but it's not something that's always on my mind. When you go out to Tahoe with all those guys who take it super serious, which by the way, I didn't know people took it super serious that weren't PGA golfers until we went down to that Bahamas thing.

And there were people super serious, like on the putting green and on the driving range and talking about shots and way to do things. I'm like, what the fuck are we doing? Is this the PGA? And then you watch some of them. It's like,

Oh yeah, they probably could be in the PGA, I guess. And Tahoe, I assume it's like that, but heightened even more because it's like the big one. Absolutely. And everybody like, oh, yeah, they probably could be in the PGA, I guess. In Tahoe, I assume it's like that but heightened even more because it's like the big one. Absolutely, and everybody – like there's prize money. The winner gets $125K.

So, like people are trying to win, and those guys play a lot. You start to realize – my brother and I did the same thing. We're like, man, these guys are like grinding on the range. They're on the putting green. Like what are we – we're sitting there, and I'm eating an omelet for an hour and drinking coffee in the tent before I go to my first tee and that's my first swing of the day my man why would we do that and he's like because they want to win the tournament you have no chance to win that's why you're sitting in here and by the way the reason

why you have no chance of winning that thing is because you are sitting in there planning on how you're gonna your golf run's gonna go oh where am i though i'll probably take a breakfast ball okay just i'll be hitting three off the tee by there. Don't worry about that. And those guys, they do that every day. Who was it? D. Will. D. Will said he plays 36 holes a day, basically, at his club.

He'll go out in the morning, play a round. Then he'll do something. Then he plays another round. He was unbelievable at golf, by the way. But that's what they do every day. That is their daily thing. I'm like, I hope I can get to that one day. I do.

I legitimately hope I can get to that point. Well, and AJ's true problem is that you have your edibles. They take you to the next level. AJ lays guys out. Then he gets a birdie. There's not enough guys for him to lay out in a golf tournament for him to actually make that turn, that next step. I forgot the reason why you're invited to a golf tournament is because you spear random drugs. I forgot all about that.

Yeah, man, the more you can do. I can't get it done with the club in my hand, so I have to figure something out. I like the tournament so much, I want to go back. You absolutely slaughter some of those dudes. Any of those hits better than other ones, or do you think they're all about the same? The first one that kind of started off was it didn't look as good as maybe the second or third year, but it felt pretty good.

But, I mean, they're all, yeah, they all felt pretty solid. So when we talked to Stone Cold Steve Austin, and he was talking about why he did the way he drank his beers, which is still legendary, how you doing, keep it moving. He said, you know, a lot of people tell me I don't drink a lot of beers. Fuck you. I'm trying to entertain 20,000 people. That's what he's trying to do. I'm not just trying to do whatever. For you now, since you said the first tackle might not have looked as good,

did you watch the clip back and say, okay, I have to make a more spectacular-like tackle going forward? Have you changed your tackling mentality or form for the people have you conformed for the entertainment value of the tackle of the random drunk at tahoe's golf tournament amongst the stars fighting for 125 000 prize i have 100 conformed to the masses and tried to to one up it i knew that after the first year tackle i was like man if this becomes i was telling my brother like this becomes a thing like i'm gonna have to hit this dude with a baseball bat in the head like we can't every single year but now we don't just fucking kill the guy probably could the guy that i tackle out there you probably could

hit him in the head with a bat and he would just laugh at me like he savage. Well, you sent the guy into a pond one year too, right? That was a different tournament. That was back in Ohio. We won't talk about that. No, that was fine. Lawsuits pending. You almost drowned. Hey, you want to answer some phone calls, AJ?

Yeah, of course. But going back to that thing, people thought I hit a random dude into a pond. Absolutely not. It was part of a charity package for me to knock him into the pond. Oh, so this is something you've had to explain. I assume that this maybe got taken out of context a couple of times.

Absolutely. People thought I just hit some random guy into a pond. Hey, that's AJ Hawk. That's AJ Hawk. You see him out there at Tahoe. He just spears random guys. That's what he does.

That's what AJ Hawk does. Hell yeah. Hey, I saw you training with the uh military or something yep a youtube video it's been showing up on my twitter what is that what happened there usaa they brought me in to do this thing and i i didn't know what to expect went down drove about an hour and a half away and went through like a 10 hour have you heard of go ruck it's called these people they go out and they do like these 24 hour like they just they they put like 80 pounds in a backpack and they travel through and

they do all kinds of crazy stuff and i i took part in like a light they call it a light ruck or whatever it was six eight hours i thought i was going there to film like a commercial thing and no i went through this whole deal my dad came in and watched and i remember we were like halfway through and i was just i was full muddy because you have to roll in mud and jump into ponds and rivers and all that and carry all this heavy stuff. My dad's like, are you all right? Did you know this is what was going to happen? I'm like, I had no idea, man. I said, I'm glad I didn't because I probably would not have come.

Yeah, no way. It was going to be this hard. It was really difficult. It was awesome, but it was really like I was tested physically and mentally. It was awesome, but it was really like I was tested physically and mentally. The thought of him showing up, you know, for a shoot. Where's the script? What do we need to say?

What are we doing? We're doing a couple different shots. Oh, yeah, yeah. Here's a backpack. Got 80 pounds in it. This is what we're going to do. You're going to go through this whole thing. Did you survive it?

Oh, yeah. I survived it. It worked. Like, it was like we all bonded together, the whole group. The people that took part in it, they had done other ones in the past. So I had to kind of get in there and just pull my own weight and make sure I was accountable to the other people. So definitely, I understand why they do it. But, man, I was not prepared. I drove home that day after I got done.

Luckily, the guy let me take a shower in his house and everything. And I put clothes on. I'm driving home. I was like, this, it'd probably be a lot safer for me to drive after I drank 19 beers than now. I felt like I was like, this is not safe. I'm falling asleep every four minutes. I don't know where I'm at.

I'm dizzy. Like, it was a beast. I could do that. They made it set up like you thought you could do. Yeah, I mean, it's called the valley. AJ's like, yeah, I can do that. By the have set up like you thought you could do. Yeah, I mean, it's called the Valley. AJ's like, yeah, I can do that. By the way, look how handsome you look in that fucking photo. You had to feel pretty good about the photos that got out of that thing, though.

I mean, honestly, it gives me a little bit of PTSD thinking about that. All right, you want to answer some phone calls? Absolutely. All right, this is Lazaro in D.C., AJ. You're going to say hello, you know, the whole thing. Hey, Lazaro, what's on your mind, bud? What do you want to talk about? What's going on, the hot cat, the boy?

Shout out to y'all, man. What's on your mind, bud? What do you want to talk about? Oh, my God. Stop. I can't do it. You're the fucking best, bro. Hey, you think the Texans and the Cowboys just said, fuck it,

combine the team, make a million-seat arena in the middle of Texas and see if they can win a fucking Super Bowl? Yeah, not a bad play there. Sweet. Yeah. Deshaun Watson and Dak, if they get him back starting a quarterback it would do the dolphins thing where you got two quarterbacks it's good idea closer i'll answer this next one aj okay let's go to evan in buffalo evan how are you doing today

see you later evan still counts yep let's go to Evan in Buffalo. How you doing? Hello, Pat. You know, I think he moved things. Oh, he switched? I think. Every once in a while, this phone answering thing, we'll do a little fan. Evan, you are on, Evan. Yeah, sorry about that. We hung up on Steven, apparently.

Sorry, Steven. Still counts. Yeah yeah it does count because we did answer steven you're right put that in there we got to go on a little bit of a run here evan what do you want to talk about uh well t's and p's uh steve there but uh how electric would it be for a packers bill super bowl would that just be the greatest thing ever yeah absolutely it would be the greatest thing ever sick let's go to kevin in green bay i wonder if he has the same thoughts what do you want to talk about kevin hey pat and the boys how's it going today hey not too shabby you over there in uh touchdown town

over there oh yeah oh yeah title town baby title town that's what it was by the way they got a big slide there with the uh tubes you can get on don't you know oh yeah the air and snow hill along with the ice rink a A lot of fun. It is a lot of fun. It's a long walk, I realize. Not a lot of Ubers, but it is a good time out there. And then you can go a couple reservations over. There's a good casino

down there. Really good casino. Giving casino. I'm skipping a jump. What's the name of that tribe that has that casino? That's Oneida. Oneida. Shout out to the Oneidas.

It's in that Radisson right by the airport. Yeah, it is. It is. Bingo. Great casino. Good times over there. Yeah, it's a great casino, by the way. What do you want to talk about, Kevin?

We got to go, Kev. Yep. So, obviously, T's and P's to Fitzmagic. Tragedy over there. But I did want to talk about the Super Bowl. What's this thing going to feel like? We've got multiple stadiums allowing people in now and starting to kind of get a few more here and there.

But what's this thing going to feel like once we get to it? It's obviously good football to watch on TV, but there's people that are coming from near and far, whoever into the game um there's uh there's people that travel with that team so i'm just curious on what you guys think it's going to look like i think they're saying they're putting uh first responders in there i would assume people that got the vaccine frontline workers i think that's what roger goodell came out and said so i assume there'll be a little bit more of an atmosphere down there they said 17 000,000, right? Last I saw it was like 16,500 or 17,000. That's what the plan is.

And it's in Florida. Florida, I think, is a little bit more open than other places. God darn it. Pizza sauce? Well, then I... Mechanical pencil right on my thumb. Oh, man. How the fuck do we got pizza sauce

and a goddamn mechanical pencil? Son of a bitch That's what happens when you wear your stonewashed jeans AJ Let's get to a break dude That show stinks dude If we didn't have today By the way if we didn't have a show today

These jeans still pristine Instead we got pizza sauce From very good pizza Delicious Mechanical pencil right there And I'm sure in the last 41 minutes pristine yeah instead we got pizza sauce from very good pizza very good delicious mechanical pencil right there and i'm sure in the last 41 minutes a lot more is going to happen a lot more shit falling in my fucking lap right now aj you know what i mean i do the bills are going to have what 6200 people there and they're getting tested too like you have to show a negative test to get

in yeah so there's been some protocols that some places have put into place for people to get into facilities. Like, for instance, WWE, everybody that gets into there, they allowed a certain amount of people in for NXT. They're all in a protocol. Test, hotel, the whole thing. You've got to go through full steps to get in there.

I thought that's how it was going to be with the NFL, but then it felt like more and more government made more decisions for the NFL as opposed to that. The thing about the Buffalo Bills fans is, I feel like there's a chance they're not going to see a lot of their guys playing. I feel like there's a chance. I'll be excited to see how

the guys who... I'm talking playoff. I don't know if it's a playoff game. They're not getting fans until their first playoff. Oh, wild card. I thought it was this weekend. Yeah, they're not going to do it for the Dolphins game, just for the playoffs.

Oh, that's smart then. Nice. Get dressed up, boys. Get ready for the playoffs. Don't want to see anybody get hurt out there. At this point, you guys even have a quarterback. I was going to say, Jake Ruddock. Contact tracing could potentially affect that team a little bit.

If Ryan Fitzmagic kind of positive in the last 24 hours, contact tracing potential, you know. Flying Dewey. Get Dewey on the chopper. Dwayne Haskins. Dwayne Haskins wins a playoff spot for the Miami Dolphins. I don't think ballerina glaze and COVID are going to clear protocols. Excuse me? I would like to let you know that

me calling it an adult ballet has offended the ballerina community. Offend? Yeah. I got attacked. Oh. Really? What location was that from? A Canadian ballet ballerina.

Let me know that whenever I call gentlemen clubs adult ballets, I am disrespecting a lot of hard work by people who try to do it. Hey, Pat, watch what all this talk about ballets, buddy. Well, so the thing about that is what about the respect that

should be given out to the adult ballerinas? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Come on. Why are you so... Listen, I got a lot of respect for should be given out to the adult ballerinas. Yes. Okay. Why are you so? Why are you so? Listen, I got a lot of respect for the amount of dedication it takes to be a ballerina. Okay? They had an Indianapolis ballet thing that I did a promo shoot with. Some of the best athletes I've ever seen in my entire life.

I mean, unbelievable. But the adult ballerinas, they put in a lot of work as well. What does she want you to call it? A scummy, seedy, titty bar? I mean, Jesus Christ, you know? Give them a break. They're in a lot of work as well. What does she want you to call it? A scummy, seedy, titty bar? I mean, Jesus Christ, you know? Give them a break. They're just trying to earn a little coin. Come on.

There is some breaking news, I believe, coming into Hour 2 here involving an NFL team that has a game this weekend that does matter. Connor, you just read the tweet. I believe you know what's going on. Ryan Fitzmagic, and correct me if I'm wrong here, is out of practice today for the Miami Dolphins for undisclosed reasons. Yep. And they signed another quarterback to the team?

I believe so. Yesterday they had a guy in from the practice squad, Gumpy. Jake Ruddock. He's been the third stringer all year. And did anything happen with him? If he's been the third stringer all year, why did happen with him if he's been the third stringer all year? Why did he get mentioned? They just brought him up from the practice.

Oh, shit. See, I thought they were going to say Tua was injured and roll with Fitzy the rest of the way. Because, by the way, that would make it a lot easier for them to make the decision to put in the guy that came back in the final minutes of your game last week against the Raiders and win that thing for you. It would make it a lot easier if you just said Tua was hurt or something like that for the crowd, you know what I mean, to handle the situation for the sake of Tua, by the way. But I'm not saying that you should make up an injury for somebody,

but we thought that was potentially what was going to happen for whatever reasons. Instead, Tua's the guy this weekend after what Fitz Magic did to put them in a position. If you're Tua, you're framing this in your head as he put us in a position to go ahead and win and get into the playoffs. Fitz is out for undisclosed reasons, hopes everything's okay with Fitz Magic, by the way. Hey, Bob, peace and peace.

And then is this guy a closer? Do we know how this guy is in the fourth quarter, a two-minute drill? Do we know how this Ryan Fittich, you said his name was? No, Jake Ruddock. Jake Ruddock. Iowa legend. Yeah. You can sling it around.

What's his name? Jake Ruddock. What did I say? Ryan Fittich? Fittich. Yeah, Fittich. Might as well be. Oh, here's the Chris Trafolsky people about to come after me

from down there in fucking Iowa and Miami. What's his name? Jake Ruddock. I feel like I know the Iowa quarterbacks. There's been a couple Iowa quarterbacks that have played now that I have no idea that they were Iowa quarterbacks. Yeah, he kind of stunk at Iowa and then did a fifth grad year

at Michigan. Harbaugh brought him in and wasn't great there. Is he a closer though? Maybe he's not good for the first three quarters of quarters because that's all you need because that's what Fitzmagic does for the situation. We've got a guest, I believe. Man, sir, he's not good for the first three quarters of quarters, because that's all you need, because that's what Fitzmagic does for the Tua situation. Anyways, we've got a guest, I believe.

Man, sir, he's calling people up over there. Who is it? Sam Roberts. Sam fucking Roberts. Sam, you know, hey, one year ago, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, from the Jim Norton and Sam show, or Sam and Jim Norton show, Sam Roberts. Sam, literally, as soon as I intro'd you there my entire headset just died there battery-wise so it might be tough for me to hear you but

it's great to see what's that it's an omen I mean it is better not to hear you but I can hear you through this speaker because this happens so often one year ago Sam you me Mansuri Evan Fox Kathy Kelly, were putting together the NXT Year End Awards. Now, here we are one year later, and I've won one of them. So, I mean, what a year for me. How are you doing, Sam? Yeah, I mean, that's one way to look at it.

Another way to look at it is a year ago, you were hosting the NXT show, and this year, you've actually been written off television, and from what I read, not your call. Wow. I mean, that's a little bit of a damper. Yeah. That's a little bit of a damper. I mean, a little bit of a way to, but I did win a, it's a prestigious award, and I won.

It is. How are you, Sam? What are you up to, buddy? Congratulations on the award, man. Thank you. What have you been up to, man? Well, I just got pumped on to close out 2020. Yeah, but what have you been up to?

You're doing WWE Network. You have a show every single week. Congrats on that, by the way. Yeah. Sam's got a show on WWE Network. Yeah, yeah. So we're doing, of course, Jim Norton and Sam Roberts every morning over on SiriusXM 103 before your amazing show here. And then, yeah, every Thursday, dropping at 10 a.m eastern but it's available on demand for

everybody to get to it on the free version of the wwe network you can get not sam wrestling where i'm just flapping my gums about wrestling for an hour a week and the loneliest late night show on the internet sam roberts live every friday night go ahead and pop in there for a little surprise of uh hilarity i'd say but but sam the wwe network as a friend of yours kind of i mean you know what i mean as a guy who we've worked together you getting you getting that show on wwe network as a lifelong fan of the wwe like that's legit one it was really cool to see that whole thing come together man i i appreciate that yeah i mean it's a crazy it's one of those dream come true things that you wouldn't even put as a goal because you wouldn't even think that it

was a possibility that i'd be sitting there they go okay how about you sit in your basement and produce your own television show about whatever you think about wrestling and you just give it to us and we'll put it on the wwe network man like it and you and you you pay me for that that's a job that a person does that's like yeah and that's the job that's the gig it's it's incredible so what do you do you go to your basement you just recorded the sam roberts studios not sam studio yeah yeah it happens to be in the basement but it is the not seeing no yeah yeah it's you you're in a basement yeah that's what you are well it's in this it's in i'm in a studio and that the studio is on a lower level of a domicile.

Hey, this dude. This dude, he had like, I forget who it was. Maybe Jeff Jarrett. I heard this story and I started dying laughing. He asked Jeff Jarrett, legendary wrestler, by the way. Everybody knows Jeff Jarrett, Double J. He asked him to come on his show, and he told him, like, yeah, just come to the studio, Not Sam Studios,

and then we'll record or whatever. Jeff Jarrett pulls into a neighborhood, shows up at his house, walks through his living room, sees his wife, how's it going, sees his kid, walks into the basement. It's like, oh, this is a nice studio down here. I love the kayfabe that you have about your basement being a studio.

It's like an extra bedroom, basically, but you're crushing it. Sam, go ahead. I don't want these superstars to think that I'm trying to trick them into just hanging out at my house. Like Jeff Jarrett, literally, he called me on my cell phone from my driveway

going, hey, I went to this address and this is a house and i'm like oh no no studio's in the house come on in come on that's fucking awesome sam what is your mindset going in 2021 for the people you know if they want to have a life like sam roberts if you want to look in the mirror and see sam roberts in the year. What's a mindset going into the new year, Sam, that everybody should have? Look, Pat, you have, I mean, like you, you, you, you prosper wherever you can prosper. You have to understand the things that you're in control of and the things that you're not in control of. You can't try to fight the tide. You have to understand the wave as it's coming

and just try to ride that wave. How can you be successful in the circumstance that you're in? You can't change your circumstance all the time, but you can change the way you handle your own circumstance. That's what I try to do. I think that's what you try to do. And that's a way to try to be successful no matter how tough things get around you. Sam Vaynerchuk. oh my god sammy v bro hey sam we appreciate you man and i want to say too my favorite 2020 as a wrestling fan um seeing some football player come to the war games and kick out of the Panama Sunrise was about as good as it gets. Hey, the internet wrestling community was not happy about me kicking out of that.

They were not happy. I saw a lot of reaction on the internet, you know, as I was flying home from down there. And I was, by the way, on the plane laying down because I couldn't sit with the way my body was, you know. So I'm laying in the aisle, you know, just kind of going through the entire thing. The biggest reaction, you know, just did a swanton off the top. You know, there's a picture-perfect moonsault. You know what I mean? All these things.

There's a lot going on. I ate my first chair, by the way. There's a lot of things that happened and caged multiple times. I mean, there was a lot of firsts in there. And the most of the reaction was, that's bullshit. He kicked out of the fucking fan wall sunrise. That's bullshit he did there. I had a wrestling expert on the podcast this week, and we were talking about how you had a breakout year.

Because, I mean, look, all jokes aside, I knew that it was going to be successful when they finally unleashed you. But I think a lot of people who don't know you didn't know it was going to be successful when they finally unleashed you. But I think a lot of people who don't know you didn't know it was going to be successful. They were ready for it to fail. And even the people that were like, yeah, Pat had a good year. I wish he hadn't kicked out of the Panama Sun right now. Hey, Sam,

happy new year. I appreciate you, buddy. Thank you, man. I appreciate you. Sam Roberts. That's so funny. For those that don't know that's the one where uh that scumbag i was gonna do it to him by the way okay and then he obviously calculated and countered and it's uh the one where he jumps off the middle rope and then he uh he grabs me with his legs basically and then flips me backwards, and I land on my head. It's a backflip pile driver, basically.

And it is quite, it's the one that killed me in my first match, by the way. And if you thought I was going to lose to that thing twice, are you out of your mind? Not a chance. Not a chance. That's why the internet wrestling community is so goddamn dumb. Well, what do you expect? You think I'm going to lose to that for two times in a row?

Yeah, right. Do you not understand? I watch film. People think I just come in here and just shoot from the back. No, no, no. I'm in the lab. Okay? I'm learning.

I watch film on that thing. I realize that when that thing hits two, okay, it's time to wake up. Yeah. All right? Who's this? It's like when you get hypnotized into something, whenever something goes off, something happens. For me, when I hear two, I train my brain to be like,

I'll body spasm. Yep. You know what I mean? More people should think about doing that in wrestling. Yes, seriously. Get hypnotized in that thing. Never lose, by the way. Might help. Yeah.

If your body is forced into having a spasm, any time it hears a mat and a two call, you'll never lose. I might never lose, by the way. Now, granted, I lost the war game. Somebody else got it. Submitted. You get submitted, technically. Well, I ain't going to get submitted.

Come on. No way. What are you talking about? Dude, no way. Well, I might get knocked out, too. Oculus last night. I was down for six. Completely black, the whole screen.

I was like, wake up, dude. I was like, what do I got to do? Dance around here? How do you get back up in that? Is there any rhyme or reason to it? I think you have to, and by the way,

this is me trying to outsmart the Oculus thing. I do think you have to stand up and do like a- Move around? Yeah. I don't know if it helps at all. I've only been knocked down twice.

How would you know? I don't know much about it. I'm not experienced in a knockdown game. Maybe when Foxy gets his game, fucking ask him. Okay. You know? I don't know much. I'm not experienced in a knockdown game. Maybe when Foxy gets his game, fucking ask him. You know what I mean? You know what I'm talking

about? No, I don't. Yeah. Well, you're just eating Edward Price's right hand. Pow. Pow. Down.

Let's go to Michael in Chicago. What's going on? Pat and the boys. How y'all doing? Just hanging out. How are you, Michael? What do you want to talk

about? Man, I'm good I got a couple things, but I'm going to be quick My favorite moment of 2020 That freestyle on that Tornado song You went 8-shit I don't know what you was Thank you, I appreciate that Michael

That means a lot, have a great new year I mean, we watch that back And I don't love running that video back Just because I'm not trying to be some rappy rap guy I mean, we watch that back, and I don't love running that video back, okay? Just because, you know, I'm not trying to be some rappy rap guy. I'm not good enough to be a rappy rap guy. But freestyle, I'm pretty good. And I always have been, by the way.

And normally it used to come out pretty late at night whenever things would happen. I'm not scared in the locker room to go ahead and jump into a cypher. I've never been scared. And mine are always the dumbest of the group, you know what I mean? But I can normally get going a little bit. That Tornado beat, whenever I heard tornado, and I had just potentially experienced one a month before that, I thought the brain had a chance to go.

Because whenever you're walking into a freestyle, by the way, you know, they say faith is taking the first step on a staircase without being able to see the end of it. So whenever you decide to go into a freestyle, you're doing that, by the way. You're like, you know what? Think the brain will be able to think of enough shit in this particular category. Let's go ahead and do it. And by the way, that's his show for like three hours normally.

Yeah. Just kind of, we'll just think. So whenever you do that in a tornado, I'm happy with how it came out. I switched the flow a couple times, too. I don't think a lot of people caught on to that. Everybody just, you know, said, oh, pretty good, pretty good, talking about a tornado. I don't know where it went. Flow got switched a couple times, too.

How about that? A couple misses in there when i said one outside i said wife instead of bride hindsight you don't see freestyles anymore no you don't everybody's loaded with uh incredible rhymes the fucking eminem's gnat by the way might be 4 000 bars in that thing 4 000 bars in that one really yeah eminem's not trying to make bangers anymore, I don't think. I think he's just trying to showcase that he can

literally rhyme anything about anything and wordplay any word that's out there. And it's pretty impressive. It's like his brain is just puking all over the goddamn thing.

It's pretty awesome to hear, to be honest. You should listen to it. Nat is good. His last real banger, I think, was what? Godzilla? That song is

an absolute heater. That's what that guy, the rapper that passed away, what's his name? Juice WRLD. Juice WRLD. Yeah, Juice WRLD is his name. But anyways, thank you, Michael in Chicago. Let's go to Brett in Iowa.

There we go. Hey, all right. Hey, Brett in Iowa. What do you want to talk about, pal? Hey, Patty. How's it going? How are you guys doing today? Hey, not too shabby.

Where are you headed right now? Hope you got a mask on in that car. I'm headed back to the butte from work. But, yeah, I just wanted to say I appreciate you and the boys. I absolutely love you. I'm a dire attacker fan. And, yeah, you guys do a lot of good for people. We love listening to you,

and then I'll ask you this. With Aaron Rodgers absolutely dominating the NFC North, for as long as I can remember, what do you think his DMs look like from Bears fans and Vikings fans and Lions fans? Now I think a lot of it is, thanks for the call, by the way, Brett over there in Iowa.

Is the Packers Iowa's team? I don't know of it is, thanks for the call, by the way, Brett over there in Iowa. Is the Packers Iowa's team? I don't know. I mean, I'd say maybe, but there are a lot of Bears and Vikings fans. A lot of Bears fans for sure. I assume there's not a lot of things people can say to Aaron right now. No. You know what I mean? Even if you're a lot of people that listen to this show are potentially Bears

or Lions fans or Vikings. We have some Vikings fans. A lot of tweets are, hate Aaron Rodgers Tuesday because I like, you know what I mean? I like Aaron after. He is just, and with the way he's playing, can't fucking, what are you going to say?

Oh, you had four incompletions? Not really much I could say. And with the way he's operating as a human on this show on a regular basis, I think it's tough to say anything bad. But I mean, somebody on the internet will figure it out. Oh yeah, for sure. I think it's probably pretty tough anything bad, but I mean, somebody on the internet will figure it out. Oh yeah, for sure. I think it's probably pretty tough to bury Aaron right now. Yeah, how can you? I mean, week in, week

out on here, it's like he keeps surprising people and more and more people are still saying like, oh shit, you know, this isn't the guy I've ever seen before. Kill him with indifference, by the way, was a phrase that we learned this year, 2020, I believe, right? Was that this year? That might have been last year.

All kind of blends together i know we got to get to a break 18 minutes into the second hour here aj hawk will be joining us at some point oh i have a friend of the show if you want to take him before who is it mr corey graves corey graves oh look how cool he looks, dude. Every time. Bro, why do you look so cool all the time? He's in a flannel. He's got his neck tat. He's got a classic Hanes, no bacon neck undershirt. Incredible beanie on the head. The beard looks like it was literally just trimmed.

Gear might be the coolest looking dude walking. That must be a pretty good thing there, Corey. I appreciate that. And of all the things I have to be thankful for in life, I'm probably most thankful for this jawline. Yeah. Corey. I appreciate that. And of all the things I have to be thankful for in life, I'm probably most thankful for this jawline. Yeah. Yeah. I'm Irish. You seem to have one of them AJ Hawk jawlines.

You and AJ got these just super defined ledges, shelves, as jaws. It's unbelievable. Corey, where are you right now? Are you about to do a show? Tomorrow, yes. Tomorrow we return to the Thunderdome inside of Tropicana Field down here in scenic St. Petersburg, Florida.

So you guys are in Tampa right now? We're in St. Pete, but yes, essentially, across the bay. Oh, you got a nice spot on the water down there, you and the lady? It's not bad. It's not the best accommodations we've ever experienced, but it'll do. It's somewhere to lay your head for a night and then do the show tomorrow and fly back home first thing Saturday morning. Well, Hal, what are you thankful for this 2020 year, Corey Graves?

I have a lot to be thankful for, but I think everyone can agree with me that my greatest accomplishment was finally purging Steelers Nation of Evan Fox. Oh, come on. Of all the things you did this year, that was it, Corey. He did a lot this year. I'm not one to take undue credit, but I called in last week, told Foxy what was what, and what happened? Steelers resumed their winning ways.

And Foxy got out. Foxy left. Yeah, that team was no fun to root for. They win a game, and I had no fulfillment, so I said, see you later, Pittsburgh. Yeah, he said. Oh, that's it. That's like an ex-girlfriend.

Like, I didn't break up with you. You lost my number. Corey, you're the best. Have a good show tomorrow, buddy. Thanks, man. Thanks for calling in. Yeah, of course. Happy New Year.

Tell Hawk I said Happy New Year, since I don't have the pleasure of seeing his handsome face. Please tell AJ Hawk that Corey Graves wishes him a happy 2021. Call back in like 10 minutes. Seriously, AJ. Believe it or not, I got stuff to accomplish. I'll let him know you're too busy for him. But I'll let him know you said hello.

Tell him I tried to hang around, but Sam Roberts took all my airtime. All right. Corey Graves. Thank you, Corey. Love you guys. Can't thank you enough for choosing to listen to this show. What a year.

What a year 2020 was. And we hope 2021 will be one where you all find incredible happiness, where you all find what you've been searching for, where you decide that the you've been searching for, where you decide that the human you're going to be is going to be the one that you're going to love and be happy for for the rest of your life. Well said. And if you've already got to that point, here we go. Another year, another trip around the sun. Let's go ahead and dominate. If you're not there yet, we can't wait for you to get there with us. We can't thank you enough for taking this journey of life alongside

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