The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 454 - A Wild Weekend In Texas, MITB Recap, Collin Morikawa Wins The Open Championship, Michael Cole, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: July 19, 2021

On today's show, Pat and the boys recap his weekend in Houston and Ft. Worth for Friday Night SmackDown and Money in the Bank, and all the other wild things they did down there including going through CowTAHN, USA, and reacting to John Cena's return to the WWE universe. They also chat about Collin Morikawa winning  the Open Championship in a very impressive performance at Royal St. George's. Joining the program, is Pat's commentating partner on Friday Night SmackDown, the GOAT, Michael Cole, to chat about the environment in Houston and Ft. Worth, how John Cena's entrance was one of the five most memorable moments of his career, getting a curtain call by fans outside the stadium, and how Pat has rejuvenated his broadcasting career (16:30-35:09). Later, Pat and AJ chop it up for awhile about teams reporting to training camp, why playing in the Hall of Fame game sucks, Pat's experiences in Texas and what AJ did this weekend, and much more (36:31-1:43:19). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow and listen every day on Mad Dog Radio, Sirius XM Channel 82. We appreciate you all for listening, come and laugh with us, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello. Massive day. Huge show. Dumbest life of all time continues. The boys and I have a really cool conversation about everything going on in the world and joined by Michael Cole, who is still trending, I think, on the internet for something good as opposed to bad. It's a hell of a Monday. Be a friend. Tell a friend if you like this show by the end of it. If not, just act like it never happened. Massive weekend down in Texas. Massive thank you to not only Cal Town, Fort Worth, but also Houston

and everybody in between that we get a chance to meet, interact with, and hopefully entertain a little bit as Smackdown took over Houston and then Money in the Bank took over Fort Worth. Texas is it is, I mean Texas is is a, it's a fantastic place. It is very different.

Okay, it is very different. You are in a, we were in Florida for a while because of Tampa and SmackDown, and I was in Orlando a little bit for NXT. So during this entire COVID situation that we all have had to kind of battle through, I've gotten a chance to see how Indiana has handled it it i got a chance to see how florida handled it and then i just recently got a chance to see how texas just operates i'll take good fucking p they're very nice to us they were very very nice to us we were dressed from Cowtown. We saw longhorn steer cows. Texas longhorns, okay?

Hook them. Longest of all time? Big ones. From tip to tip, okay? Okay. 100 inches. Woo-hoo! Okay, tip to tip.

We're talking whenever she walked, I was told by Cynthia, who was the traffic guard outside of um dickie's arena who dickie's arena is where all these cattle get auctioned and sold and everything and right outside there's a whole bar so we were we were doing money in the bank last night from a very prestigious cattle land oh yeah 100 inches tip to tip, longest of all time. The current representative of longest Texas Longhorn from tip to tip, 87 inches. Damn, wow. That's the biggest walk. We saw a couple walking down the middle of the goddamn road in Fort Worth over there in Stockyards.

Probably, I don't know, 65, 70 inches. Okay. 30 of them with five dock holidays on horses. Oh, yeah. Okay, Ron, this is in the middle of the road. We saw this happen. Just walk down right through the road, right through town, down the other way. There's shops.

There was bars. There was restaurants. There was actual cowboys. You know, there was actual cowboys walking around with their goddamn belt buckles, you know, trying to shoot their shot on some ladies potentially working down there. It was out of control in fort worth i guess everybody else in wwe stayed over in dallas because that's where the uh hotels i want to let them know the fact that we got an airbnb in fort worth was a great decision yes i don't know if i'll ever be back in fort worth ever again and while

we were in fort worth walking around fort worth saying wow this is fucking live music everywhere yeah it's in live music everywhere unbelievable it was amazing this you're in a movie you're picked up and dropped into a cowboy movie set that's exactly what it was as we're walking around me Connor and Zito and we got a lot of eyes I think while we're walking also people knew us down there shout out yeah shout out down there did not think that was our demographic like full fucking real cowboy but some people knew us as we're walking around they're going probably never going to be back to fort worth which is a damn shame unless wwe goes back to fort worth we would probably never get you only get so many days off since i went to fort worth i don't know if i'll go back to fort worth but i would like to at some point when i retire i'm going back to fort worth

like fort worth is a place if you're a traveler i think you would absolutely love it but while we're walking around like probably never going back let's enjoy the shit out of this that town was fantastic at boston connor traveled this weekend can't thank you enough buddy what a blast on the wwe put on some incredible shows you got a chance to like be there it was pretty cool little moment yeah i appreciate you bringing me along man that i was saying to you and z and everyone that was the first time i've been in a full stadium since 2019 so just that atmosphere again in houston and obviously money in the bank last night was wild but that atmosphere being around it you know goosebump feelings basically the entire weekend because all the cool shit we got 14 496 people in houston yeah okay that doesn't include all the security which was

a lot just probably add another hundred in there so it's like it was that it was just like you got a chance to see it on tv madison square garden yes when the knicks fans came back got a chance to see it ufc you know there's been some events where you uh college baseball you heard a couple but being in it for the first time especially where i now connor was down on the bottom lower level too so he wasn't really up in there but me sitting like on the floor of that thing and it's you really just feel the entire now there's a stage on one side in for the history of wwe i've been going to events now for a long time as a fan now being a part of it there's parts of the arena that you can't sell obviously for whether it's staging purposes visual purposes optics houston it felt like they sold every single seat oh yeah and it i got a chance like when i sat down early i got an entrance by

the way pretty cool it was pretty sweet very very thankful to everybody in the arenas that were very nice to me too nice to me it was fantastic thank you so much came out to seven nation army because it wasn't on tv it's just in the arena so they said any song you want you can come out to and i'm like okay give me the sing-along song let's go ahead and have a good time with this and as soon as that boom the place to the song they're cheering so i kind of steal jack white's pop yeah. Yeah, a little bit. Which I apologize. But the people were very nice. Just going out there and looking around and taking it in. Then I sat down.

And when I think it was Roman. I think Roman. No, Vince McMahon. Vince McMahon came out. Whenever Vince. It might have been Vince or Roman. I forget which one. But as I looked around and just saw everybody on their feet screaming,

it was like, we're back. Yeah. It was so cool. So cool. It was so, so cool. And obviously, you know,

I mean, Roman Reigns, greatest of all time. Let's not get it twisted. Okay. Universal champion. He smashes him. He stacks him.

He pins him. He gets out. I mean, he just, he's the guy. All right. I saw a lot of lust and a lot of eyes, by the way, from the ladies that were potentially booing Roman when he came out.

I saw men booing Roman Reigns who with one swing of his hand could have knocked out five, six of them straight. I mean, you're talking about the guy in Roman Reigns right now. And I think I'm not hurt. I've been sure because as you probably heard i was not told of anything so people are wondering i think that and not a lot of people but a lot of people on the internet after hearing the clip were wondering uh was was that a genuine what was that they did not tell me anything and allegedly all day there was a lot tighter lips around every situation so i am not a part of any

of the like i don't go to any of the meetings okay i don't go to any i don't i know i rarely know what potentially is going to happen in the grand scheme like i i know next to nothing going in there and that's by design by the way it's a i'm not i don't think i'm good enough to know what's going to happen and also have a genuine reaction not i don't think i'm good enough to know what's going to happen and also have a genuine reaction because i think that is a tough balance and michael cole has really found a balance with that i think hunter mr h is also on board with it so that helps a lot but i think michael cole is saying he's like hey we just need pat to show up and just be a fan almost like you be a fan you react accordingly now obviously there's some things that i'll get like

a heads up like hey boom and bang need you to do boom it's like okay got it and that's normally doing like a commercial break or something that's about to happen so they keep me out of the loop for almost everything i almost as soon I, because it was rumors. There was a lot of rumors. Okay, there was, on the internet, there was Cena rumors. There was CM Punk rumors. There was even Lesnar rumors. Okay, and then Goldberg rumors. There was so many rumors.

And I obviously read the internet. Okay, this is an internet show. I'm on the internet. So I see all these things. And I get some people that will even tweet me or friends of mine that are fans that will ask me. They're like, so who is it? Who is it?

You know? And I'm like, I have no fucking idea. Like I actually have no idea. And they think I'm bullshit or whatever. I legitimately don't. I, whenever I heard a conversation earlier in the day, I heard a conversation take place between two people and something was said. All right.

And I think those might've been two of like maybe the four people that knew what was happening. They kept that thing real, real, real tight all day. So I overheard a conversation and I heard big guy used or something like that. Wow. Okay.

So that could be Sina. He's big guy. Yeah. Could be Brock Lesnar. He's a big guy. Could be Goldberg. He's a big guy. And I was likenar he's a big guy could be Goldberg he's a big guy and I was like all right so that kind of I didn't think it was CM Punk CM Punk obviously massive name big name but no when you describe CM Punk you don't say like hey big guy or whatever

you know what I mean but I didn't know if they were then I started overthinking it a little bit when they said big they mean name big or whatever but I at one point yesterday was like okay fucking Brock Lesnar's coming out yeah all right here I, at one point yesterday, was like, okay, fucking Brock Lesnar's coming out. At one point yesterday, I was like, is Brock Lesnar coming out tonight? That's going to be fucking awesome. And then if it was Brock Lesnar-Roman with Paul there, I actually got myself cooked into an entire corner in the bathroom. I was like, what am I going to do? Yeah.

What do I do? And then I just sat there. I was like, stop. You'll figure it out. Who knows what's going to happen? Kind of got back into it, go out there, do the thing. And then when that thing hits, it's just amazing. It was strong.

And, you know, I didn't see him. No, you couldn't. That's what, like, we were talking before. I was super jealous, obviously. I mean, the entire weekend, like, it looked like you got – I mean, it looked awesome. But, like, it was legit, like – I mean, I know, like, same deal. I haven't been back to a full stadium in a while.

And, yeah, we've seen the stuff on TV. But, like, it really – like, the energy in the arena last night was, like, palpable. You could feel it through the TV broadcast. And then when Cena came out, like, I mean, I'd put that with, like, the top the top five moments of like in any sport in terms of people just going ape shit in there post quarantine yeah absolutely post lockdown post no fans in the arena thunderdome was an incredible innovation by the wwe and vince and kevin dunn and

everybody that came up with that to like make it the best it could possibly be, which is what the WWE normally does with things, by the way. And then it might take a little bit, then they'll adapt, and then they do it again. That's what the WWE has done then, now, and forever. That is just what the WWE does. And I was birthed in the Thunderdome, so I don't ever want people or anybody to think

that I have any negative connotation towards the Thunderdome because the Thunderdome. Because the Thunderdome and the Capitol Wrestling Center with 20 fans probably in there is all I really know in that entire thing. But in front of those, you listen to anybody in the business talk, they're like, just wait until we're in Houston. Just wait until we're in Houston. And I'm like, this isn't bad. We're still having a good time here.

They're like, just wait until we get to Houston. Wait until we get to Houston. Then when we got to Houston, it was like oh okay okay okay i get it okay and then it was like there's no way forward because i've been in a lot of wwe crowds and the crowds kind of you know it depends on the night like the crowd is a mass part of the show oh yeah crowd i i think the crowd knows that but then they forget some parts of the show then they know it i've always been very active crowd participant at wwe events you're you're supposed to be like that is what the wwe is like

you're supposed to be a part of the show roman's match with edge last night was dictated by what was being said to him by the crowd by what was being said and everything somebody called roman a bitch and then last night if you heard Roman Roman was laying on and somebody in the crowd called Roman a bitch Roman's laying on edge and he said I'll make him my bitch 360 looking at the guy that said it's like that is what the WWE is like the universe is their own character so I've been to a bunch of different shows and after houston i thought to myself like well there's no way fort worth's going to be able to do what he's no way no way it's not

as big of an arena there's no way to do it and then fort worth was fucking absurd it was awesome i mean two for two on incredible crowds they're in dallas tonight i think for monday night raw cena said he's going to be there. Friday, we're in Cleveland. And then there's some matches happening, I guess, down at Rolling Lod. Let's go. I think Cleveland, though, is another city where I think you're going to get some. I think it's going to be a fucking romp. I think for the foreseeable future.

I think so, too. We got some great shit going on. I'm excited to be there. What's that, Nick? You talked about the amazing electric environment in the crowd but pat i need to know how much of that was pumped in through the speakers because i know the good patriots of texas were not cheering for john china in that ring all right you're absurd i mean come on. Come on. There were a couple people. No, we're not happy.

Well, of course, but not that. But as soon as Roman won, there were some people so pissed off. Sprinting out. I'm out of here. Are you fucking kidding me? No way. Yeah, so because, you know, it just felt as if something, it's just money in the bank, first pay-per-view with fans back.

It felt as if some, as a fan, it felt as if, okay, there's something special going to happen. And I turned and look after Roman won. There was people running up the stairs. And I'm like, they're trying to beat the traffic. And I was like, oh, maybe the show is over. Like, maybe they know something I don't. I actually thought maybe they know something I don't know.

And then Seth came. Seth came through the crowd. And I was like, okay, this makes sense. Now Seth Roman also. Absolutely massive. So then call that. And then Seth leaves. And then Seth comes back again.

And it's like, okay, so we are going to get this. Then Edge and Seth leave. And all of a sudden I'm like, oh, wait a minute. And then Roman gets the microphone. I'm like, are we still live? Or is this just for the in-house or whatever so I I asked Michael I think I asked are we still we're still on he's like yes and I was like okay so I was like Roman's cutting a promo at the end of a pay-per-view okay so now immediately like my fanhood starting to kick in like as also I'm trying to be professional and i can't stress

this enough i think it's a very good idea for me not to know shit i think it is a very very very good and that that now obviously there's a lot of people in that building that are mocking my schedule you know because i get into the building after all the meetings you know what i mean so there's a lot of people that have a lot of questions about how we're going, because those are, those are long days, I think for everybody else in there. We're very, I'm very, very lucky for what they're doing, but I think it has been quite a benefit for me not to know what's going on. Like, I just think my natural reactions, calling as if I think has been very cool. And I got Michael Cole next to me who is able to do, can we call Michael Cole by the way? Yeah, can we call Michael Cole?

So then we got Michael Cole right next to me, so anything I do, he's going to make... No matter what I do, Michael Cole's going to make it. Yeah, he's got it. He's the fucking best. For instance, the fluttering eyes of Edge. As soon as I said it, I just looked over at him to see, like, am I going to get any...

He didn't even look at me. We just kept going. I didn't hear anything. I was like, all like am I gonna get me he didn't even look at me we just kept going I didn't hear anything I was like all right I guess I'll hear about that later but like anything I say he will save me so as Roman's cutting that promo I'm like there's no way it's just ending with Roman saying like that there's no way in that whole I mean watching Michael Cole okay and it's in a wrestling business called Mark out basically because you're uh Mark which is a I mean, watching Michael Cole, okay, and it's in the wrestling business, it's called mark out, basically,

because you're a mark, which is a mark is somebody, you're a target person, basically a fan, right? A mark is a fan of something, a stan of something called a mark. Watching him mark out to that moment in front of fans again, and watching him hit a groove almost it was awesome it's like you're watching fucking bob ross paint in words joining us now i have no idea where he is somewhere in texas i assume ladies and gentlemen the greatest of all time michael

hey um you know i'm gonna go through this again with you for my last appearance as well pat you know in radio things are supposed to start on time. So when I was doing radio news, when I used to do morning drive, at the top of every hour, like not a second after it, but at the top of every hour, we would do our news report. So when you said you were going to call me at 1210 Eastern, I'm sitting in my office by myself. You realize I'm the number one trend in the world.

Oh, this guy. I i will let you know okay just like last night though just like last night and the previous time i get so lost in the conversation that i look up at the time and i'm like oh shit we're supposed to do that so i apologize i will get better at that you're much more professional than i but let's talk about why you were trending all night. By the way, this is the first time I've seen Michael Cole trend and it isn't people being like, Oh,

Michael Cole, WWE's mouthpiece, blah, blah, blah. Instead it was, everybody was so pumped about your reaction. And it was for me to get a chance to see you in that atmosphere in that

moment and then this with cena it was so cool last night was fucking awesome michael cole it was unbelievable pat it was one of the top five moments of my career uh first i do want to say this is that um you know you've and i've read a lot about this online as well, but it's absolutely true. You have completely revitalized my career. Oh, man. I've been doing this for almost 25 years now, and I've seen and have been a part of everything in WWE. And, you know, you go through different partners over the years, and everybody I've worked with has been great,

and they've all brought a different style to the product. JBL, unbelievable partner. Corey Graves, incredible talent. But you're different than all those guys because you're, you know, not that they're not fans, but you're a true fan and you bring that enthusiasm to the product. And seeing how you've been acting over the past couple of months has really revitalized what I do. And I realize I have to step up my game to keep up with what you're doing from an enthusiastic standpoint. And that's what I'm trying to do.

And it's been a lot of fun for me and it's been really different. And I just want to thank you for breathing some life into this old body again. So maybe I can hang on for a couple more years. No, no, no. Hey, I want to let you know that was incredibly cool of you to say.

And I think as a fan for a long time, I think the general thing was like, OK, Michael Cole is going to be WWE's driver. OK, he is driving everything. He's answering why things that none of us truly understand are happening, because that's what Michael Cole is. because that's what Michael Cole is. And I think it has been an honor to kind of get a chance to, I don't want to say fuck with you, but almost like remind you like, hey, this is a fun thing. I think that is something that I do on a regular basis. It's like, hey, let's remember that this is fun.

I got a chance to do it in football. I get a chance to do this. And with you being as good, the only reason why I could do it in football is because a chance to do this and with you being as good the only reason why I can do it in football is because I had Adam Vinatieri there in a team that was much better the only reason why I can do what I'm doing is because I have you there you are the biggest safety net and harness that anybody

could ever have so I think the fact that I just go out there and have a good time and the fact that you're like saying like thank you or whatever you don't have to do that at all I just am honored that I get a chance to see you have a blast like i think you were having a good last night when that when that hey that was so cool because you have did you call every single one basically a john cena's like you and cena same exact kind of time frame right well so pat you know it was there was just so many emotions going through last night on so many different levels for me i mean it was obviously it was an incredible

weekend and starting friday in houston with the sellout crowd and the reaction that they gave the wwe superstars and i mean it popped a great rating for smackdown and you and i had so much fun i mean we couldn't stop talking about it all weekend and And then, you know, last night I thought was just a step up from what happened on Friday. The fans were great in Fort Worth. It was an emotional night all around. You and I talk a lot about calling pay-per-views because we have to split with the Raw team,

so it's really hard to get into a groove because you're not calling a full show, especially since we called the first match of the night and then called the last one. But it was really cool, though. A, Roman Reigns and Edge put on an absolute master class. first match of the night and then called the last one and but it was really cool though a roman reigns and edge put on an absolute master class in wrestling psychology and how to put a match together you and i were on the edge of our seats it was a roller coaster it was incredible is edge

going to win is he going to pull off the miracle is roman reigns going to continue to dominate here come the cousins here come the mysterios now Seth Rollins, who's got a beef, gets involved. Referee goes down. I mean, this is old school, 1999 WWE. And then, of course, the moment at the end, I mean, it was a really emotional moment for me. You know, John and I have been through so much in our career together. You know, we really both broke through at about the same time. I was here a few years prior to John. You know, many times over the years, people have said Jim Ross had Stone Cold Steve Austin, Michael Cole had John Cena, and it's true. I believe John is the greatest of all time. I have no doubt in my mind that that man is the greatest sports entertainer because he did it longer than anyone at the level that he was at as a 16-time world champion and to see the emotion he had the smile on his face and the high-fiving of everyone um to see how excited he was to be in that atmosphere i just reacted like a little boy again you know i was i was sean colth, not Michael Cole, who was watching this product as a 10-year-old kid and mark it out for, you know, Hulk Hogan and Bob Backlund and those guys.

And that's who I was again. And the reaction was legitimate. And, you know, obviously you had the classic line of where to play off and you can't see me. But it's just that I think that's why, you know, you and I work, Pat. I mean, it's just it's real. And nothing's rehearsed. And it's just you and I that's why, you know, you and I work, Pat. I mean, it's just it's real and nothing's rehearsed. And it's just you and I being two cool dudes hanging out. And but that's Cena stuff, man. I'll tell you, I've been in cars and buses with John Cena for a decade.

And that man is the salt of the earth. I've learned so much about this business from him. And to see him come back like that, it was a legitimate markout moment for me. I know you were talking about what a markout moment is moments ago but it really was and i don't have many of those in my career anymore but that really was one and as a guy who's a friend of cena's after you said traveling the road and everything like that watching the positive response just for all the years and years and years of just beating the shit out of his body for people because he used everybody used to talk

about his shit out of me too a number of times oh geez michael cole oh great tattoo on the calf i didn't know we had a sweet calf tat dude good for you um you said greatest of all time fascinating i have my opinion. And I think what's going to be cool, Pat, and one of the reasons I'm really excited about what's going to happen over the next five weeks leading up to SummerSlam. I mean, think about this. We're in Las Vegas, right? There's going to be 45,000 people there. It's in the Raiders Stadium, the entertainment capital of the world with the greatest entertainment company in the world.

And you've got the greatest of this time in Roman Reigns and the greatest of all time in John Cena, who are now meeting in what seems like the perfect moment. It's like the universe is aligned, right? And WWE fans are back. The excitement's back. Roman Reigns is the uber heel right now he's the most dominant man and he knows it john cena's coming back as the old baby face that he was the you know you can't see me hustle loyalty and respect and it's going to be this unbelievable meeting of these two great uh individuals in the main event and you and I get to be a part of that what's going to be cool about the lead up to this obviously Reigns and Cena are going to have an

unbelievable program getting to this point but the fact that you and I get to sit there yeah and the fact that you and I are so adamant about who we support in this match and you know we're supposed to be unbiased right we're journalists I'm a cena guy you're a roman reigns guy and i think it's going to lead to some really interesting debate and conversations over the next few weeks about can cena win his 17th can he beat rick flair can john cena cement his legacy as the greatest of all time will roman reigns slay yet another legend took out the undertaker is he he going to take out John Cena? There is just so many unbelievably rich storylines and layers to this show.

Where does Paul Heyman fit in in all this? The greatest talker in the history of sports entertainment against John Cena, arguably the greatest talking superstar in the history of sports entertainment. I mean, you cannot write a better scenario. I am so psyched to be able to sit down and call this with you starting Friday night.

All right. Listen, the promos are going to be epic. Okay, the promos are going to be epic. But Roman's on another level right now. Okay, this is – hey, listen. Hey, Jacob Toretto. All right, before Jacob Toretto was even born, all right, that's when John Cena was doing his thing.

Dominic, he has no idea what this Roman is right now. I'm like, I don't even think you know. I mean, you call these matches. You don't even get a chance to take it in. You're talking about the guy right now. You know how much lust I saw in the eyes of the ladies of Texas when Roman walked out there and their husbands and boyfriends were booing this man that could beat up their entire family if he wanted to?

This is the guy. Hey, hey, hate to break it to you, Cena. All right, last night was awesome. It was an honor to be a part of it. It was amazing. Happy that I got a chance to be a part of that. Honor to be a part of that. But just like Edge, I mean, Edge signed up for the Roman thing.

It's dead. Sorry. Okay, John Cena signed up for the Roman. This is just not a good time. You said it's perfect time. As a fan of John Cena, I think it's a bad time to be John Cena if he's going after Roman Reigns. And that's just my thoughts personally.

I agree with you on that point because, you know, Roman's in his prime. And I don't remember a more dominant individual at this stage of his career than Roman Reigns has been. I mean, he's held the title for almost a year. He has knocked off every single competitor. And you can talk about Seth Rollins getting involved and helping him win last night or whatever the case may be. He didn't ask him. The bottom line is he's dominant.

Roman believes in himself. And he, like you said, is on a completely – he's on another level right now. But you can't count Cena out. No. This guy has accomplished that in his career. Seriously. He's a 16-time world champion. Your buddy, The Natch, who, by the way, invited you for beers, which is great.

He did. Natch, 16-time world champion. Cena has an opportunity to break that record at SummerSlam. And if you don't think John is focused, he came back at the right time in between movies. He's a big movie star now. Box office draw. Not wrestling every week. Roman has the advantage there,

but there's that intangible factor that John Cena's going to bring to the table. And JBL coined John Cena this about a decade ago. Big match John. Yeah. Well, big match John was roaming around, you know, Ferdinand

before Roman's yard happened. Okay. Roman's yard is one that nobody really just walks through now. That bull Ferdinand

would have walked in there and Roman would have said, welcome back, Ferdinand, worldwide box office superstar, guten tag, hola,

bonjour, ni hao, John Cena right to the mouth. That's what Roman Guten Tag, Hola, Bonjour, Ni Hao, John Cena right to the mouth. That's what Roman... Hey, listen, I'm a big fan of John Cena, okay? Big, big fan of John Cena. I just, I hate that it has to be... I hate what's going to have to happen to big match John from Roman Reigns because

it's just, it's going to be tough. Well, what I can tell you is this, is Friday night is going to be epic. I mean, we're in Cleveland for SmackDown. Cena and Reigns, you know, most likely will have their first confrontation. Real confrontation. And let's not forget, Pat, that I'm going to be in my wheelhouse Friday night. Because not only are we in Cleveland, but we are also going to be broadcasting from Rolling Loud in Miami

by the way which I finally found out yesterday what Rolling Loud actually is I cannot wait to be a part of that seriously it's a pretty cool event man we've never partnered with Rolling Loud like we're going to this week. We've got a number of matches set for Miami that will be broadcast during the show. I think it's going to be pretty cool.

I think people are going to learn a lot about me and my hip-hop culture. I mean, a lot of people don't understand that back in the day when I was part of the Green Machine 10-speed gang and I had the boombox on my shoulder listening to the Sugar Hill Gang. There you go. I said a hip, a hip, a hip, a hip, a hip, hop, hit on the top, a rock, a bang, bang, boogie, sit up, jump, that boogie, the rhythm of the boogie, the beat.

Shift gear. It is not it. I know you have to go. Can the boys have one quick question for you, though? Is that alright? Of course. I'm all yours. Go ahead, Ty. Cole, Pat sent us a video last night of when you guys left the arena, and you came out to basically a curtain call and a standing O,

and people chant your name. Is that very common, or is that like one – I mean, how many other times can you remember something like that happening after an event? Oh, never. I mean, usually I walk out of the building, and they're like, you're a piece of shit. Just go home. You know, you look like an event. Oh, never. I mean, usually I walk out of the building, and they're like, you're a piece of shit. You're stuck.

Go home. You know, you look like an idiot. No, but actually, yesterday was pretty epic. I mean, people were cheering for me. You know, I got some really good support online. Listen, it's been a long haul, and any time I can get some positive press, I like it, but at the end of the day, listen, I've busted my ass for 25 years in this business,

and nobody can ever take that away from me. I may not be the greatest of all time. I honestly and will truly say that I think when it comes to emotion, Jim Ross is the greatest ever in this business. I think I'm the greatest ever when it comes to running a show, running traffic. But no matter what you think about me, listen, that's your opinion. That's the beauty of this business. It's the beauty of wrestling.

You can love people. You can hate people. But you're never going to be able to take away the fact that I've worked at this for 25 years. Yes, on the road. On the road. And I've literally missed two television shows in 25 years. And to me, that's a badge of honor and um it's pretty cool and as you're understanding pat and you've only been doing this a couple months

it's a grind and um hey you know it is what it is but i love it and i love what i do and um i love working next to you and i do want to say one thing that your uh team the guys I met this weekend, of course, you know, everybody there, absolutely class act. You have got the best team to support you on the entire planet. You're an incredibly talented guy, man. You are, your show is unbelievable, but that crew that you have around you are absolute saints. I mean, they are, you can't ask for better people. They are, they are so respectful. I cannot tell you the amount of people that I spoke to this weekend about, about you and your crew and how you respect the business and you, everyone you talk to, you're polite to, there's no ego, none of that. And, you know, I just want to give you a thumbs up for that because the more I get to know you and your team, man, it's pretty freaking incredible, and you guys should be proud of what you've done.

The Bugle Boys, huh? Yeah. Hey, way to go. Good pander, Cole. Good pander. Hey, I was smart, by the way, to keep Connor on your side. This is Connor's first weekend, I think, really, at the WWE. Oh, yeah. Ever really.

He had a question for you, then we'll let you go. We appreciate your time here, and thank you for those kind words, by the way. We are very thankful for the opportunity you guys allow us, and also, the boys, you guys are a pretty fucking cool group, baby. Aw, man, thanks. No, you're cool. It's okay.

You're going for the ride. You're a good guy, you know. Cool, Trey. And not to be lost in the weekend, because obviously yesterday was unbelievable, but Pat cut a promo on Friday in Houston. I don't know if you knew. You can't let this go, can you? Hey, what?

No, no, no. I don't know if you knew what he can't let this go, can you? I don't know if you knew what he was going to say. What were you feeling? It was pretty cool, guys. You know, Pat does this thing now during the commercial breaks of SmackDown called the McAfee Minute. And who knows what he's going to do.

And he got up dressed as Gene Autry. All you old school people know that. That guy died in 1998. He called me that on TV. Yeah, you didn't know that. The guy's dead in 1998. Great guy. Great western outfits he had, but

Jesus Christ. But check it out online. Pat just basically buried me to Houston and told everyone that I left the city because it stinks. It was classic, Pat. I'm looking forward to doing more of that stuff with Pat over the years and with you guys as well. Remember, you guys still owe me

a ride on the Coltrane. Yeah, all right. If it ever comes, bring that back. Yeah, right. You're always bouncing out of town. Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Coltrane. See you, man. Thank you. 25 years, missed two shows. It's unbelievable.

And he was driving. And layovers. Yeah. Commercial layovers, flying coach all the way up until, I think, a couple years ago. Yeah. Just, you know, you can hate him, which people did for a long time. There were some eras there where it was hard to like Michael Cole. Sure.

Because he had to put over some stuff that was happening where it was like, alright, dude, come on. This guy's got no brain if he thinks we're going to believe that. That was his job. It's entertainment. That was his whole thing. But that guy just works his dick. He's loved. Loved backstage by people, too.

You don't last, I think, around there for 25. That place is like a family over there foxy has missed now hell in a cell and then he also missed this particular weekend because he had amazing things going on and he is walking back into i think a little bit of a uh i had a wedding to go to saturday i already missed two shows michael cole's been doing this 25 years has only missed two shows in his whole career it's unbelievable yeah and he realized that you've already missed i know i got a text message.

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Not only the Hammerdown boys here, great to see you guys. What's up, boys? How you doing, boys? Good, you? Hey, not too shabby, thank you for asking. Joining us from an addict in Ohio, college football national champion,

Super Bowl champion, and an incredibly well-dressed and great host of this show on Friday, live from the studio, A.J. Hawk. Yeah! What's this shit? What's up, man? Yeah, I'm not in the studio. I've got to dress down when I'm at home.

That's for Indy. I want to let everybody know I love the Centerville Elks. Okay, I put on for the Centerville Elks long, long before I knew A.J. Hawk. I love that shirt. I think I might even have the same shirt even, and I didn't even play for the Centerville Elks. I won't let you know that. But this is despicable in comparison to what you wore on Friday.

Okay, and what's that all about? Just because you were in, Stu, you thought the studio deserved a shirt and tie? Yeah, I want to respect the seat, man. I want to respect the show. So when i when i come to town yeah i feel like i need to dress up a bit i think you kind of disrespected don't you think why how was that disrespected you became a suit no i'm saying hey like this show this is a very it's a great opportunity for me i get to host this big show i'm gonna give it kind of i'm gonna let people know like i'm taking this serious. It's a big responsibility sitting in that seat. Well, you did great. I want to let you know you did an incredible job.

And I thank you. You did an incredible job. A couple people tweeted and said it was the best show that we've ever had. I blocked those people. I did. And I agree with them too, by the way. I listen, but I don't need that in my life. Nope.

I try to talk every single day and be entertaining, say it's the best show, the one that I'm not on. It's my name. Fuck you. Block you. You don't win any of the prizes I give away. See you. Okay, that's what I just want to let...

But I can understand the sentiment, because I actually listened to the show after we got kicked out of the hotel. You ran a good show, AJ. Great show, man. The boys were electrifying you guys. It was a great Friday, and I thank you so much for driving over here and doing that. Hey, I had fun.

The boys obviously are a gigantic help for me, everybody that was there in studio. So it was fun. It was fun to have you and Connor on for the first hour, too. I know Connor got a lot of good pub from his hour and his facial expressions, his hair, everything that makes Connor who he is. Yeah. What was it? Klon. He's Stooging a Klon.

We watched that clip. Somebody tweeted us that clip because we were, we got kicked out. Okay. We got kicked out of the hotel. It was unbelievable. This is not a hotel that we booked. Okay.

And I'm not saying that I would do it differently. WWE booked a hotel in Houston. Then we got an airbnb in fort worth or whatever and i normally get an airbnb so i can get a balcony you know what i mean like hey if there's i need a balcony for kind of what aj just did there in his shirt but i just need a balcony all right i need to be able to get out into the open air for how my brain operates in the way i need to fall asleep you know it's not great getting into an elevator going down 19 floors going all the way I need to fall asleep. It's not great getting into an elevator, going down 19 floors, going all the way outside, into an alley because it might not be there, and then going all the way back.

It's hard to get tired and fall asleep when you have to do this. So I need a balcony. But in Houston, we couldn't find anything. We get a hotel, and there was no late checkout. We called in the morning. I was like, can I get a late checkout? Because I was like, I could at least do an hour and a half, two hours here.

They're like, nope, sorry. Place is sold out too. And I was like, are you kidding me? They're like, I can at least do an hour and a half, two hours here. They're like, nope, sorry. Place is sold out too. And I was like, are you kidding me? They're like, early check-in's coming for your room. I'm like, there's 7,000 rooms in this hotel. Come on. They're like, can't help you, basically. Literally.

So as we're walking out, the person, the cleaning lady, is like almost jamming in the door. So we're listening to the show. Fucking great show, dude. I thought you were potentially going to maybe drop some news. Speaking of, since then,

a lot has happened. AJ, big news out of Green Bay, Wisconsin this weekend, and I'm happy you are here to talk about this, and I'm not sure if you did chatter about this on Friday before the news was broke

on Facebook, I believe. A deep clean service was ordered to Aaron Rodgers' house in Green Bay, Wisconsin, says Lace Marie. She says, my girlfriend is a supervisor in Brown County who works for the home cleaning service. Guess whose house was on for a deep clean early next week? They've cleaned his house for 10 plus years. Aaron freaking Rodgers. For 10 plus years, Aaron freaking Rogers.

Lace would go on to say, many players and coach personnel are getting their homes deep cleaned as they are returning after two months to six months of not being in Green Bay. Love this. Optimism grew throughout Green Bay and the Packers faithful. Aaron's cleaning the house for a big season. My immediate thoughts as I saw all of Green Bay Packers fans get excited, I was like, I'm with you. I'm hoping he goes back to Green Bay.

Love what he did. Hope they get it figured out. What if he's cleaning that thing to sell it? Oh, no. That's a possibility. Has Lace Marie thought about that? Certainly not. Has Lace Marie thought, oh, you're going to sell this thing dirty?

No, no, no. What if he's just cleaning it and it's like his country club membership that's just sent on, hey, need you to do it this time. But every little thing that happens like that, Green Bay Packers fans are like, he's back. He's back. Have you heard about the cleaning service? What does this mean? And what is some breaking news you have about this cowboy right here?

Well, this is the first I'm hearing of the cleaning service news. It's pretty amazing how many steps removed someone can put this together. And if you look at it and you believe it, I go, oh, yeah, hey, maybe this is a really good sign for him coming back to Green Bay. But I instantly was going to say, well, yeah, what if he's putting it on the market? We hear the house is for sale three days from now. Then what? Your emotions shift a little bit, I guess. I saw the entire Internet get excited.

I saw Green Bay packers fans in faithful get excited from lace marie's post there because the narrative she painted it with everybody was like oh that's got to be it and as soon as reading it i was like well i don't know if this is great news i don't know if this is great news for packers fans and that is because we're also invested as the nfl's mvp it's a guy who's on our show every week we're also invested as the NFL's MVP. It's a guy who's on our show every week. We're two weeks out from training camp. There's three teams starting training camp this week, and we still have no idea.

Let's hope and assume that that thing will come into a little bit clearer picture. The Buccaneers, the Cowboys, and Steelers are the three NFL teams reporting to training camp this week. Shout out to Field Yates on that tweet. We're getting very close. The Buccaneers, is that because they have the first game against Dallas? Steelers don't have a new coach. How come they're allowed to?

Steelers and Cowboys play four preseason games. They play in the preseason game this year, which is a week before. The Hall of Fame game? The Hall of Fame game. Yeah, the Hall of Fame game. That game. We had, the last year I played. Great.

We had the Hall of Fame game, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's, I believe. Wow. Triple crowns. How does that work? What? Well, I was thinking about it, but now. Now I'm doing it. We're here longer.

We're here on every worst day. I mean, it's awesome, but that longer training camp for a game that means. The Hall of Fame game, yeah. Shit. All the other stuff. Hey, Thanksgiving, Christmas, all of that, that's fine. You can handle that. But the Hall of Fame game is the first thing everyone checks.

Like, hey, we're not in that game next year, are we? I'm sorry. Hall of Fame game, London, Thanksgiving. Oh, jeez. I'll get out of here. Yeah, you looked at the whole thing. It's like, all right, so we're a week and a half earlier than everybody else basically to training camp.

We've got to do this whole thing. I was like, all right, so we're a week and a half earlier than everybody else basically to training camp. We've got to do this whole thing. I was like, it's like whenever you get your class schedule in high school and you see where your homeroom is and you see what classes you got. I was like, God, I got to study. Come on. Go study. We're not even going to Denver. Can we get at least one treat?

Can we get one in there? That Hall of Fame game, they need to scrap that. You think? I mean, they can't because they're always going to be introducing the next class every year, so they just won't have a game, you think? Yeah, just make it an event, like a concert thing.

The game is not, the players aren't even playing in it. Aaron wasn't going to play in that game that got canceled, the one we were in. There's no way Aaron was going to do it. It's just, why are we... I guess because you're putting on for the team. And I understand. I was lucky to be there. Tony went in. Everybody goes,

I get it. This year, there's a lot of Colts going in there. It's huge. But that game is just a complete... I mean, it's a waste almost. It is a complete... The players who are going to play are probably not playing in that game. So I guess it's good football, but once you get, what, three plays into that game, everybody's like, alright, this ain't a fucking game.

When's the game? I think it started in 2002, and I'm pretty sure the Hall of Famer was around before that and survived without it. So I think they can do it without the game. Can we have like a quiet spectacle? Could you not make that on Thursday?

You can make Hall of Fame weekend a full spectacle without having to trot out basically the replacements. Does it get good ratings, though? Because it's the first preseason game, do they get pretty big ratings, I'm guessing? Yeah, they would get good ratings regardless of what they did there. Whatever they did there, it would still get good. Don't you think?

I don't know. If you don't have a game, I think when it's like the first football people get to see of the year, I think people are kind of excited, even though it may only be for the first quarter. All right. And, by the way, I can buy into that because any football game is going to outrate anything else. So maybe you tie in football somehow.

Well, isn't it? It's at a high school stadium, right? You could just get like the number one and number two high school teams in like the nation or something and have them play each other. And then the NFL guys don't have to deal with it. And it'd still be a lot of those guys are going to go play big-time college football. Hey, did you play high school football there when you were in high school? Not there, not at Canton.

But, I mean, that's a great spot. High school teams could do that, but they start camp basically when that game happens. Make them go to camp earlier. Yeah, they're young. Fuck them. Send them July 1st and get them ready for that Hall of Fame game and then they'll have a four week break before their first regular season. Hey, they're on national TV

playing a Hall of Fame game. They get to play. They don't have to play. They get to play those high schoolers. Especially with this name image likeness. Do you know how many juju beats, juju dance you can do in the Hall of Fame? Come on. What I'm saying is as a player on a team that had to play the Hall of Fame game, that inevitably got canceled because they painted it, the field,

and then put a tarp over top of it, which acted like a magnifying glass to the paint, which then melt on the entire turf, which made it a basic just sticky surface nobody could run. So the game inevitably got canceled anyways, and we had to make a tunnel for the Hall of Famers to walk down. That's sweet. They should just broadcast that. Why don't they do that? They probably did, I think.

They did, yeah. That's what they asked us. Big Dave Baker came in to the locker room, and he had the doc to get in because he is such a big guy. He's got a building on his shoulder. And it is a high school locker room, so it's so small. And he gave a full speech about the Hall of Fame and how much the Hall of Fame cares about players.

And he gave a really cool speech like how in this business, there might be some places that might not always be for the players. The Hall of Fame is 100% for the players all the time. That is what the Hall of Fame is, he said, basically. And if we were to put you out there to play on this field, we'd be going against everything we believe in and then he like did it was a really good speech actually it was a very good now a lot of us were pumped because it was like all right does that mean we're getting the fuck out of here like is this what's going on and we're getting

back into this this whole thing maybe an off day next day tomorrow like whatever the case is but he handled it very well and then he said is there any way you guys could go out there so we could have some sort of ceremony for these fans that came out here, though they didn't expect it? He was like, yeah. So they handled it very, very well, but that probably did great numbers. Sit-down interviews with a couple of the names, the head names of it, from the state.

I think there's a way you can make it an event still without having the ipso facto fake game but i do like your point of it's the first taste of nfl football and everybody well i watch it i'll watch the whole thing i'll watch and i'll hate it after the first three plays i'm like you're saying oh this is like the aafl this guy played in the uh xfl he's really good i like what we're watching oh these these teams don't even know the offense or defense that they're running. Okay, so it's one of those, but you are right. It is the taste of football.

Slight correction. I might have been wrong. It did start in 1970, not 2002. Ah. How'd that happen? In 2002. How do we get over the... 2002 was bolded. Before that, it was commonly played in July, it said.

But, you know, we're good. 19-7. Hey, Pat. Go ahead. I'm sure you guys already talked about it. How did Diggs do? So this is a great question. I'm happy we're getting a chance to see this.

Diggs was running around before we got here, so this is our first real time getting a chance to catch up. Didn't love that they introduced him as friend of Pat McAfee. I saw the video while I was in Fort Worth. Felt terrible immediately. I'm like, alright. So Diggs is up against it. Well, it's true.

I understand that, but your host is a fucking hammered down. Come on. The hottest gambling show on earth. YouTube.com forward slash hammered down. We're making money off of sports we don't care about because of you guys. So, now, I was a member of that team, so I get it. But you went out there.

The game got – So, we played two innings, and then there was a rain delay. Two innings is all you played? Yeah. How many was it supposed to be, nine or seven? Seven. So, five innings that thing was cut short. Yes.

Okay. And then after – it was like a half hour, maybe 40-minute rain delay, they talked to the players. Where did you guys sit? Hang out in the dugout? Yeah, in the dugout. Did you get good conversation with anybody? Yeah, good convos.

How's everybody doing? Everyone's really cool. Get all boozed up? Yeah, hell yeah. Actually, I did not drink at all during the game. Yeah, you're focused on the game. After the game, probably got after. Were there people drinking during the 30-45?

Not a lot. During the 30-45 minutes? A little bit. Like, it was only beer. So, like, the fans were definitely. Who's cool? Cam's very cool, obviously. Everyone on my team.

Julius Page is super cool. That's cool. That's a University of Pittsburgh small player. Colby Armstrong, obviously, former NHL, former Pittsburgh Pan Am guy. Super cool. Everyone was really, really cool on my team. Got to talk to a lot of the guys. All the Steelers were really cool.

The whole event overall, I had a really good time. Yeah, but I think they did you a disservice on social media. Whenever they posted the score of the game as if it was a game, because two innings, that's not a game. Not official. They posted the score of the game for nothing. You guys got blanked in a softball game. That can't happen.

But in a celebrity softball game. Come on. So I didn't know it was only two innings. Then the home run derby, 9-8, I think you guys won. So what we did was every single player on the team got three outs. And however many home runs you hit in three outs, you just added each player's score up. And then our team won that one.

What was the score? 9-8, I believe. 9-8 was the score. You hit two dingers. I hit two dingers. Tony! I didn't see any of that, though. And I don't think their social media stressed enough

how much the Home Run Derby was like PKs for this game that got out early because they put it as the score of the game and the Home Run Derby score. I was like, oh, so there's just two different different things you guys got your asses beat in the game but you won by one home run and home run derby i didn't know that that was the answer for the rest of the game i think they kind of threw your team black under the bus yeah one at bat i did get in the game just i don't even think i saw the ball at all i swung harder than i've ever swung in my life grounded out short did not hustle down the line at all. I saw a ball there, hit a ball.

He did. Absolute nuke. Out of the actual stadium. Yeah, what was Phillip Pony doing? Throwing fucking fast? As easy as you possibly could. He threw that thing high. As I saw Molinaro just, I mean, blast off on the ball.

Send it into the stratosphere. I played a couple of these games. The purpose of softball, and they give restrictions on how high you can actually throw it in some of these leagues. The drop of the ball is the problem. Filippone, I had to ask you, I was like, who the fuck is pitching for your team? That ball came in Joe Mara, Shohei Otani, high heat. He fucking turned on it. Incredible shot.

I was like, who's pitching for this team? Why didn't you pitch? That guy stunk. I mean, that was, I only saw a clip of just the home run from Molinaro. That pitch should never see the light of day in one of those games. I thought that was a home run derby. They had all four of their runs off, I think, off of solo shots. Jeez.

Four balls? Was Philip Poney fucking, did you mound visit? He threw a nice ball to those nice ball I tried to tell you team gold was going to pound those balls you're lucky that game got cut short

that might have been 21 to nothing oh Philip Pony's throwing fucking Ristano like pitches he looks like Dave Joss out there

that pitch as I saw I was like god damn well he was the one actually he was pitching during the home run derby. He forgot.

That's why they picked him to pitch because he saw what he did in those two innings. And batting practice. He threw a nice ball. Yeah. Did you have anyone else in the bullpen? No. Come on. As soon as I see that guy pitch, get the fuck out.

Give me that ball. Give me that ball. Let's put that guy on hot corner. He's going to be able to fucking slow pitch one over to first base. He's going to be able to get people out there he was throwing heaters of course cory graves tried to eat you know at the plate was taunting the crowd trying to be the heel was hell yeah by the way um congrats to you on getting a photo with cory graves without having to completely lose the photo just the back yeah because digs graves it's the same that was his idea he came

up with that that's great and. And you said, great. We can do that. That's great news. He's a good guy. It was a good time. Got a chance to chat with him. Congrats, by the way. Thank you.

Go, John. Congrats to Molinaro, too, man. That ball seemed to go a long ass way. It's still going. It hasn't landed yet. That pitch, though. What the fuck is this going on? Does Molinaro have a baseball background

Don't know He must Look like it That's the only thing I saw I didn't see anything from Diggs But I saw Molinaro hit that bomb I was like man this dude must have played in college Is this guy fucking Ole Miss baseball player

That's what I thought I thought this guy maybe represented Mississippi State down there Diggs had a bomb in BP We didn't see any of that I put the one out Mississippi State down there. And then a bomb in BP. Oh, yeah. That's what I'm saying. We didn't see any of that. I put the one out. I was in Cowtown.

Okay, and I was trying to keep up. Shout out, Cowtown. Shout out, Cowtown. Thank you, Cowtown. Thank you, Cowtown. AJ, you need to get to Cowtown, by the way. And I think, I don't know him well, you need to get Schlegel down to Cowtown, too. Schlegel would love Cowtown.

Okay, sometimes you got to take the bull by the horns or the back. And that's what I did. That one right there, about 55, 60 inches tip to tip there. 55, 60 inches tip to tip. Biggest on earth right now, 87. Of all time, 100. That's just a little baby Teddy. Teddy's just a little baby, but he is a sturdy horse.

He was not moving. He was sturdy, son of a bitch. Teddy, that Longhorn. True Texas Longhorn, right there. Are they just tied up for people to sit on and take pictures? No, no, we rode them up there. You get on them back there at that building back there. It's right next to the John Wayne Museum.

Yeah, there's a John Wayne Museum. Right here, literally, like right here, there's a John Wayne Museum. Legit. We hopped on them before i wrote him up so we went in there and uh there's an artist a western photographer whose art was being displayed in the john wayne museum great photos great photos a lot of people on horses and shit you know what i mean but there was a line going through there and we definitely stopped the person right in front of us was a fan of the show.

So as we get into the room, the photographer's there, you know, greeting everybody, welcome to my exhibit or whatever. And then the person in front of us turns around and starts yelling at me and Connor in this museum. Oh, my God! Holy shit! And the photographer guy who is decked out, he is cowboy. You know what I mean?

He's like, thanks for coming to me. And we just kind of walked by. It was amazing. AJ, you need to get down there. But anyways, we wanted to be at the game. I'm sorry we missed it. No, it was awesome. Don't worry about it.

And we would have echoed the message that, you know, that wasn't a full game you guys got playing. There was a lot of Pat McFishow fans there. Really? Washington Wild Things? Yeah. Hey, shout out to you guys. Thanks for coming out.

We should have been there, though. You didn't let us, though. I would like it to be known. It was my fault. We wanted to send Mitt. Gumpy, I think, wanted to go. Next time, can we send people now that you know you're going to do well? Absolutely.

Here we go. Is it getting rescheduled? Because of the rain delay? Next year, yeah. AJ, what did you do this weekend? Anything cool? No, I don't think so. Normal stuff happening over here.

Nothing like you. Didn't have the weekend you had. And also, with your outfits that you wear for SmackDown, did you have those already or do you buy them for each show? How does it work? I stopped by Cavender's. I stopped by Cavender's right down there. Willie Wilson. Willie Wilson sold me that belt it work? I stopped by Cavender's. I stopped by Cavender's right down there. Willie Wilson.

Willie Wilson sold me that belt buckle, actually, in the Cavender's in Houston. And it was too damn nice not to wear it twice while I was in Fort Worth. You know what I mean? What about the shirt? You get the shirt there, too? That was from Cavender's. Thank you very much. That was in Cavender's Stockyards.

Yeah, that was in Cavender's Stockyards down there in Fort Worth, which Willie Wilson, who did have a million-dollar sold belt buckle. His belt buckle was the only belt buckle bigger than the belt buckle that I bought in Cavender Stockyards down there in Fort Worth, which Willie Wilson, who did have a million-dollar sold belt buckle. His belt buckle was the only belt buckle bigger than the belt buckle that I bought in Cavenders in Houston. That's right. And he was wearing it right there on his stomach, and it said million-dollar sold. So obviously we had to ask him,

and cowboy Willie Wilson had a fucking response. Two years or so. He was riding. And the boots that I bought came in in crocs all right for friday night and then ostrich obviously for fort worth i bought those down there in uh stockyards down there in fort worth uh willie wilson i asked him i was like hey these are good boots you know because i know the the country boot community is a little bit like hey them boots them boots he his exact words were shit man somebody doesn't comment on those they don't know fucking boots

that's what will Willie told me. I was like, thank you, Willie. I feel like you're leading me to the right place. He's like, you're goddamn right. Get the boots first, then we'll match the belt. All right, we'll go there. We'll get the belt after. Willie Wilson sold his first million already before we got there.

And after seeing the prices on all this Western shit, he's going to make the second million pretty quick, especially after us visiting. Yeah, well, and that's what the guy in Cavender's Stockyard stockyard said he was like because you went up to him while he was looking for boots and you're like hey pretty awesome place here gotta go shit yeah if you have a few thousand fucking dollars yeah it was pricey big thanks to texas though aj i don't know how much time you spent down in texas that place was a movie dude it was a movie it is texas is great man there's so many different so big there's so many different spots you can go and also the big return of john cena right so is he back like full time now so after

money in the bank went off peacock which had its own issues last night he cut a promo to the crowd and said that he's happy to announce that this was the first night not just a night or something like that so i think the plan is that Jacob Toretto is potentially going to be around. He's back. He's potentially going to be around. Roman is an animal, though. He's screwed, but he's back. 265 pounds

last night. He was saying, I'm the only heavyweight around here. I'll roll around on this bitch for 365 days. He's awesome. Look at Haven's face in this picture. Yeah, he's... How much does Cena weigh? Do you know?

He's still absolutely short. Like, how tall is he? I don't know. I didn't get close enough. I'll find out over the next... You can't tell me the truth anyway because I'm sure he's listed at like 6'6". No, he's 6'2".

AJ. Didn't they say Hulk Hogan was like 6'11 when he's 6'4"? He was when he was 6'11". I don't know. It's in his boots. A lot of back surgeries. You're right. Well, it's in his boots.

You know what I mean? And it's amazing. I remember you were telling me last week that Cena was coming back, and I had to hold it in. I didn't tell anybody. So I'm glad it's actually happened. He's listed at 6'1", 251. I think it's probably about right.

I don't know. I believe it. I just wonder because the dude is so jacked and so shredded at all times. He's in bodybuilder shape year-round. It's pretty amazing. So I think he did transform his body a little bit. He is still shredded and absolutely jacked, but it doesn't look like it is the same jack.

You know, I've seen The Rock transform his body into this Black Adam character that he's creating, and it's been years and years of training and dieting to get into shape to be a superhero. I think John Cena has had to potentially taper his outfits or his workouts to look for whatever character. He is still a monster. Let's not get it confused, but I don't know. Is he wearing a headband still, you think, on those arms? He's gotta be.

He's gotta be. Yesterday, he had a couple. He was doubling up. He better hope, because what Roman Reigns is doing right now, I mean... Well, that's the thing. Hey, big match, John. I'm pumped for you, pal, but you're looking in the eyes of the fucking guy. You're saying he can't see you? Well, I don't know if he can see you. He's signing up for help. I've never been more

conflicted about anything in my life. You know what to do. AJ, whose side are you on? Roman, right? You like Roman. I mean, whose side should I be on? Roman. Come on.

Who's Roman? Hawk. Yeah, I'm going to go with Roman. Okay. Acknowledge him. Hey, listen. Shout out to you, okay, being on Roman's side. Smart move.

Long play. This is a smart move because Roman's the guy going to be for the next 10 years or whatever, you know. And maybe one day he'll have to come back for, like John Cena is doing here, to run into the next, whoever the next is. But right now it's Roman's time. But in a much larger story here, Connor was called an oose. I was called an oose.

What? I saw the Ooso penitentiary And they had their belts and I said hey Congratulations boys and Jimmy Ooso said Thanks oose And so I am officially An oose I will be representing

The Oosos for the rest of my life So they didn't see your comments about No Jimmy's a rest of my life. So they didn't see your comments about... Jimmy, he's a character, the way I know him at least. Every time he walked in the room, I thought he was going to smack the fuck out of Jimmy. No, no, no. Come here, oose! He gets it. Hey, but that's the thing. When you're

a noose, you're a noose. You're allowed to mess with ooses. So now I'm on the inside. Ooses being ooses. Ooses being ooses. It was funny to see that whole thing. Oh, man. My jaw was on the floor. Like, holy fuck, Zeke.

He just called me Usos. It was awesome. Did you shoot one back or no? Yeah, he did it right away. I was like, anytime, Usos. Anytime. You don't have to remember anybody's name. Usos is the perfect brother.

It's like perfect cuz brother. It's like perfect, you know, cuz brother. It's everything. And it's so awesome. And, you know, when the Oosos became the Oosos, I loved it because, you know, I thought the whole world was going to get introduced to the word Oos, which we had heard in locker rooms, I think, right, from players or teammates that we've had from Hawaii. I had a teammate who used it like it was.

Machine gun fire. And then Woe is one used in Louis. There are some named tags that are on the end of sentence that are used often. So when the Usos got in WWE, I was like, okay, cool. Everybody's going to start calling everybody Usos. And then I think there was a lot of whites who had never met somebody from Hawaii before or Polynesian or anything of descent. And they were like, when I said, like, what's up, Usos? They're like, Uso like you can't say that I'm like oh so you don't know what the fuck you're

talking about no no you're not Jimmy and Jay are the Usos there there's no other Usos it's like no no that is like that's the perfect name for them because they are brothers and they are Hawaiian it's like a perfect name but that's just like a casual friendly term and to hear them use it by the way they do use it as if it's uh it's fucking awesome it is really really cool when you get when you get acknowledged like when in hawaii somebody would uh you know say something to me like uh what's up oos it was yeah what a moment aj what a fucking moment it made you feel good yeah it's like you could could say. What's good, Uzo? Chuck a shocker, Adam, real quick. Chuck a shocker.

From Hawaii now. Yeah, dude. How you doing? Go so over the top. Let them know you know what they're talking about. Hey, I got to go get one of those tattoos. Yeah, you should. I got to go get one of those tattoos.

You want to try one? Get a full sleeve of that old school thing where they hit you. Yeah, they do. Isn't that right? They do like a hammer. They hit the sticks on you? Yeah, that would take... Talk about not having time for a regular tattoo.

Something like that would take you two weeks. Could you imagine, though? I walk into, like, SmackDown one night, fully clothed, shirts. Then I walk into the Roman Reigns locker room, just unannounced. You know, he'll be real pumped about that, I assume. Then take my shirt off and go,

what up, Boos? And she's like, oh, it's a full thing. Gotta do it real pumped about that, I assume. Then take my shirt off and go, what up, Oos? It's a full thing. Gotta do it. That had to hurt so bad. Have you seen Roman's? It has gotten so thick over the years. Front and back.

That has to hurt so bad. Once again, that's why Roman. Both the Oos's too. Coming down over their chest and everything. It's pretty cool tats. They're sweet. Takes a long time though. and that's why Roman. Both the oozes, too, with theirs coming down like over their chest and everything, too. Like, ugh. It's pretty cool tats. It's awesome.

They're sweet. Takes a long time, though. Mm-hmm. Long time. John Cena had those same jean shorts on last night. Didn't miss a beat. I like John Cena's rap album from back in the day.

Thuganomics? Is that what it's called? Like, does he do it anymore or what? He's still got it in the chamber if he needs his fucking John Cena. And I don't want this to get conflicted over the next couple weeks. I appreciate what John Cena has done.

Of course. I'm going to say that a lot. Thank you, John. Thank you, John. Thank you, John. Hashtag thank you, John. You're running into a buzzsaw, dude. Yeah, you're screwed.

Should have went to the other show. Should have maybe showed up in somebody else's face other than Roman Reigns. Should have went somewhere else. You know what I mean? in somebody else's face Other than Roman Reigns Should have went somewhere else Not with fucking Roman right now Good luck buddy Headlock tossing edge around Lest we forget Pat Roman is the head of the table

And you know what they're not serving to that table Is Chinese food So John's going to have a hard time trying to eat Listen John may John may be an ambassador someday soon, so let's treat him with some respect, Nick. Yeah, he might be, actually, wouldn't he? He speaks better Chinese,

I think, than any other white person in the history of white people. He's basically the next Dennis Rodman. Does he? I mean, he's pretty fucking close. Is it called Mandarin? Is it called Mandarin? Yeah. There are different dialects, though, so you can refer to it as Chinese. Is he full-blown

fluent? Does he have to talk pretty much? Yes. I watched a video on the internet a couple years ago that he is fully transformed into a citizen of the Jiangxi province, I believe. I forget the

province, but he lived there. You're saying he's a citizen? Six months he was living there. He just has a lot of information. Well, that's the problem. He has all damn near every word in the chamber but information when it comes to the Chinese language. All right. They don't have a word for it.

Just can't unholster that one. Cam Jordan has come out and spoke about Kyle Pitts They don't have a word for it. Just can't unholster that one. Cam Jordan has come out and spoke about Kyle Pitts. Obviously, Cam Jordan as a saint, Kyle Pitts as a falcon, who will become the next great tight end in the NFL. Connor, whenever you heard of tight end university, founded by Greg Olson, Travis Kelsey, George Kittle, he said, well, they're going to have to have Kyle Pitts, the highest drafted tight end since like 1960-something,

a man who while playing at Florida, everybody said that's an NFL guy. Now Cameron Jordan of the New Orleans Saints, he's going to have to play against Kyle Pitts two times a year. Cam Jordan ain't scared of nobody. He's been in the NFL a long time. He said, you know, I've been looking. He's a little light in the ass to be a tight end, isn't he? Shout out to Bleacher Report Gridiron for pulling that clip from draft. The PR draft show.

The Bleacher Report draft show. He's a little light in the ass to be a tight end. I don't know if that matters anymore with the way the tight end position operates, but I like that Cam Jordan's like, let's not get crazy here all right still a rook ass rook or whatever i'm pumped to see what kyle pitts does i'm excited to see how they use him and can he be that breakthrough tight end that everybody has been expecting aj i mean he should he's so athletic i mean i love cam jordan he's so like articulate and so like me too whenever he trashes on like people he always does it like he's not scared.

I love his personality. I think he's great for the league. But Kyle Pitts, yeah, hey. Cam Jordan, I don't think Kyle Pitts is going to be trying to seal the edge with you too often, at least his rookie year maybe. They might give him some time to grow into that role. Travis Kelsey said he has recently started taking a lot of pride in his blocking.

He said it was something for a while that I think people talked about, and he was such a good route runner and ball catcher and could get open. It didn't really matter. But he said recently he's taken a lot of pride in his ability to get in front of somebody. Because blocking is just getting yourself in front of somebody. Now, can you have the proper leverage to maintain that position, and can you give an ass for somebody to run off of,

which is what every running back is looking for, just looking for somebody on your team's ass, let me hit that thing so I can separate it there. But I think, is it an effort thing mostly? Technique is obviously huge, but effort and mindset is a massive ordeal, right? Huge. Yeah, when it comes to blocking, because guess what? Blocking is not nearly as much fun as running good routes, touchdowns so if you're a tight end your number one goal is

probably to catch touchdowns so you know if you want to be in the game when it when it matters you got to be able to block so but it's absolutely it's a huge technique thing like it's a big deal once they get to the league and if you have a good coach that teaches them how to block and fundamentals but then after that it's just strictly effort mindset like. Like, hey, this is something I want to do. I want to be great at that. I think that's what we're seeing with Kelsey. He said it. He didn't take it serious before probably.

Now he really wants to be a good blocker. When I think I saw from tight end you, Travis Kelsey standing in front of Kyle Pitts saying something, that tight end you thing is so cool because Kyle Pitts is going to get a chance right now to learn the game which is all you're trying to do once you get in the nfl you're hoping that you can learn the game because it's there's so many little games inside of the game there's so many situations that only experience can teach you and you have to be around and learn from and everything

like that and vets can't tell you the cheat code vets can't explain to you how to be great but they can give you a lot of tips that they learned over their time that can make your life a lot easier and give you a lot better chance and i think that tight end you and uh what is it the defensive end the wide receivers and corners like that type of stuff is gonna be vital to these young guys i think and cal pits i hope he was just a sponge down there. I like that about Cam, though. He did use an awesome football term, and just lighten the ass. It's a shot,

but it's not terrible, because that's just something that's always said about people. Yeah, he's a little light in the ass, you know what I mean? There's scouts, though, that live and die by the bigger the ass means a lot of things. Explosive, more athletic, leverage is probably pretty good. You just look at the ass, a lot of things. Explosive, more athletic. Leverage is probably pretty good.

You just look at the ass. If I see a big ass, all right, that's the guy I'm looking for. He's going to get off the ball quick. All right, that guy has earned that ass. That is in the scouting world. That is a real thing that happens in football. Too much probably. I think Lombardi always talks about how Al Davis would always tell

like look for dudes with like bubble asses that's what he wants like that's what he wants for to be explosive athletes and you know especially if your ass starts in the middle of your back too those guys like they're fulcrum the lever those dudes can knock people's heads off I play with some guys like that long levers I mean it's amazing how quick it's like Giannis Giannis got from the free throw line to the goddamn backboard in the time of an alley-oop somehow. And then the other night he's dunking on somebody. It's unbelievable.

Maybe I'm not in a scouting game, but you heard it from Al Davis. I've heard it from people. I think everybody has talked about it. Is that a real thing? I wonder if that's a real thing. Oh, yeah. That's big. I've talked to scouts that write up reports.

Yeah, that's something they mention. They want to know. They all have different terms for how they describe it, but yeah, it's definitely a thing. We talked about it. That's why they're in all those goddamn tights at the combine. Exactly. Hey, let's see exactly what we got. Let's see the cakes. Yeah.

You were running in white tights, AJ. Oh, yeah. Coming out of college, you're like, let me put these white Spanx on. They'll see his ass. Jesus. Look at that. Pooper on. Yeah, yeah. Centerville, Ohio.

It's quite a dumper, don't they? Holy shit. Look at that shit bucket. That guy takes massive dumps. Bring him in. You know, Pat, don't you think the worst look is, though, when sometimes NFL linemen, their pants are super baggy? Football pants are almost impossible to be baggy,

but they're real baggy and look like they have a turd sitting back there. Yeah, some guys just have bad bodies. And they know it. Everybody else knows it. And they got the hiking up the pants of guys. There's some offensive linemen that have terrible lower half somehow, and they still have the leverage, obviously. So this isn't like a, hey, need to have big ass.

But you don't see a lot of dudes that don't have pretty girthy bottoms doing much in the NFL. I mean, Saquon, that picture of Saquon, that had to be fake. I felt like Johnny fucking Drama looking at that thing. Have you ever watched him, though? You ever watch that dude in the weight room? What he can do? I think it is 100% real

How can he be that fast with his calves the size of thighs? And his thighs the size of torsos? Yeah I don't understand how He's super vascular too Veins all through his calves and quads That's awesome And he's up on a ball of his feet in the one photo.

It looks like he is cutting in there. How do you maintain quickness with your legs being that? I mean, you look like each one looked like it was elongated with like a fisheye zoom in. I mean, how? How do you tackle that guy? That's the question. How do you tackle him?

He's coming back from ACL, right? So they've been just rehabbing every muscle in his leg. Already go down. Early last year, too. Look at the – I mean, just look at the – I mean, what the fuck is that, dude? How is that even – how is he that fast? This is – A.J. Dillon, I know he's got big quads over here.

But Saquon's here has something to say about it. And they put this workout out. Is this just how he looks every day? Is he walking around looking like this? I mean, this is un-fucking-believable, I would say. I don't know. Do you think this matters at all? Like, is this a good thing for coming back from an ACL?

What do you mean? I think the more muscle, the better, don't you? Well, I don't know. Just, like, the more, like, stress and pressure he's putting on it. I mean, his legs are absolutely monster. See, the muscles, I think, are taking away the stress because they're eating the stress. I just think the more stability.

I don't know how you remain that fast with that much. I mean, he was jumping over dudes, too. Explosives. And when you're that lean too i think how do you can how does your how are you still run the ball your 30th carry of the game in the fourth quarter like to to pump blood to all those muscles and you have such little body fat too man like i don't know he's an absolute freak i mean that's that's all it is hey yeah hey there's some humans out there that you just you know some humans that you just never beat no you gotta stare in the mirror and understand

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due to the fact that I got home so late and could barely sleep last night. This show might stink, but the people that watch and listen, do not. We appreciate you wherever the hell you may be. Today on Hammer Down, COVID Cowboy, what are we betting? What are we talking? Are we doing Olympics predictions? Is Gabe Morenci back on?

The kingpin of world games betting and predicting? What do you guys got cooking for you? I believe Gabe is on tomorrow to break down the Olympics but I am bringing someone else this week to talk Olympics just not going to just give Gabe the title of best Olympic gambler on the internet. We're going to make him earn it this week so but today we got baseball

a little bit of NFL futures right now it's pretty much all we're doing besides Olympics sounds very exciting well that was like a riveting that I dropped to Schrager or Rappaport the other day is what you just did to Diggs there. And it's hard to be a sports gambling show in a time where there's little to no sports. But I don't necessarily love the attack on at sports rage there from Diggs.

You're not just going to hand the kingpin title in the World Games predictions to Gabe Morenci. Does he know that you have this type of slander inside your soul coming out of that mouth underneath that cowboy hat? He does not. He does not know that. Is Gabe maybe never coming on the show again? He will. He will just to prove himself. I mean, you saw he bought a Canadian

the Canadian jacket that they're going to be wearing at the open ceremony just to spite a Canadian Olympic speed walker. So, yeah. Yeah, he told me he was giving us good odds on a gymnast that wasn't named Simone Biles. And he had

some figure skating inside sources. He was giving out picks on who's going to have a good routine. Wow. And then I asked him, I was like, hey, Gabe. And Hammered Down airs literally monday through friday live every single day it is a great show they are printing money for people on this show somehow some way in these sports that don't matter we're winning money with them

and beating the dog shit out of fanduel sports book but i asked gabe i said hey gabe you're the world games kingpin i don't even think we're allowed to say the name of the thing the world games kingpin i said i get into speed walking he goes oh fucking speed walking he has he has a battle with some speed walker that he does not like that either lost him money in the last olympic games or something happened i didn't get a chance to hear the entire so the jacket or the outfit that the canadian olympic team is wearing for the opening ceremonies is a denim jean jacket, obviously, has Canadian flag on it, blah, blah, blah.

And the Canadian speed walker tweeted out, I'm not wearing that fucking thing. And Gabe said, if you're not going to fucking wear it, who cares? You're a speed walker. We don't need you. Okay.

So the speed walker has a little edge to him. And I will say, there is some maverick speed walkers out there, and they will separate themselves from the pack because in speed walking, it's a lot of hip Action because the feet aren't allowed to both be off the ground at the same time one foot has to be on the ground at All the time so there's a lot of hip that I mean they are

Show me can you walk studio? I don't ruin. That's the rules though. got to do is keep one foot on the ground? Yeah, yeah. And what happens is a full... You know what I mean? Like the hips. The hips, you start like tossing. So there's a poop walk. You have to do that? What if you just try to walk normal? Well, you get fucking run out of the race.

You get walked out of the race, dude. You get walked out of there. Crouched. They're talking full... You know, who's that pitcher that bladed his ankle? Kurt Schilling. Oh, Kurt Schilling. Kurt Schilling, you know, who's that pitcher that bladed his ankle? Curt Schilling. Oh, Curt Schilling. Curt Schilling, you know, that whole thing happened, whatever.

When you watch the speedwalkers in the Olympics, every fucking one of them is going to have blood pouring out of their feet, out of their shoes. It is a blister haven the way they have to walk with these shoes. I watched it one night. It was like a seven hour race too. They're just walking through this goddamn thing.

And they don't break. Their hips are We're talking the entire time. What are their arms doing? Are their arms swinging wildly? Oh yeah, they're punching. Elbow. A lot of elbow room there. Are they allowed to wear Hoka's or no? I think Hoka is one of the presenting sponsors of Ace Ventura.

That's how they walk. Yeah. Ace Ventura, Jim Carrey, watch the speedwalking race against that guy. When I need to look fucking absurd, that's what I'm doing. Boom. And they do that around the goddamn. They do like 26 miles. So people really gamble on speedwalking?

I guess you gamble on everything, right? It is tiring. I mean, you've got to have good conditioning. Oh, yeah. Gabe Morenci had an in, and then that walker burned a bridge. Put on that goddamn denim jacket, okay? We're all wearing them. We're all wearing them.

I would like to keep an eye on the Maverick Walker, though. Oh, yeah? Yeah, have to. Because he seems like he's got a little... Edge? Yeah. He'll probably be shaking the rules a little bit as well. He might be gliding.

Maybe an elbow or two. I think there is a challenge. So somebody's watching every single walker to make sure that they don't ever have two feet off the ground i mean to be clear i was watching it's like 2 30 a.m at training camp you know so it was like i couldn't sleep i might have misheard some of the rules i'm pretty sure but when you see 30 straight dudes just yeah it is hard not to watch. And then the goddamn – when they have the ribbon, the banner. The checkered flag. No, no.

I'm talking about the floor routine. Oh, yeah. Will Ferrell. Oh, my God. There are so many sports that Gabe Morenci is going to give us all the answers for. And Diggs is over here saying this guy stinks. Don't listen. There is a rule known as the straight leg rule, which means the moment the leading foot touches the ground and until the leg passes under the center of the body the knee is

not allowed to bend so that's why your hips oh yeah that's why you gotta pop it yeah show us like can you just can you show us what digs just described so i think he's saying the butt leg has to be straight. Until, yeah, boom. Hey, that's why they do the fucking hip jump. I mean, I bet you got to get your hips replaced by the time you're 50 if you're doing that. Hey, the speed walkers are beating the fuck out of their bodies. And they ain't running. They ain't jogging. They're not even waltzing.

No. They're walking their asses an entire marathon. The U.S., do we have a guy this year? Do you know? We got a guy. I'm worried about the amount of grit, you know? No, we got a guy. We got a maverick up there in Canada.

I know. That's all right. We beat the fuck out of Canada in soccer, ain't that right? Yeah. Our D team. Anyway, hey. Hey-oh. Our D team's pretty good.

We got a guy named DK up there. He's just a goal scorer. You guys lost. What is this? This is the concave. Gold Cup. They scored 20 seconds in. Very good game.

Won nothing and finished. Soccer. Oh, man. So it was over in 20 seconds. I didn't watch that. 89 minutes and 40 seconds at the very least. At the least of least, nothing happens. It was electric.

Soccer. They're on different side than Mexico now, though, so they'll only play each other in the final of the Gold Cup. See you there. So are there tournaments every single weekend? See you there, L3. Well, it's Super Bowl every weekend, AJ. Soccer.

Yeah, that's what it's just. Yeah, I still don't get it how there's every week. Okay, so what Super Bowl is next weekend, Gumpy? Well, what happened, AJ, is there was a pandemic, so everything got canceled. So now they're trying to make up all the tournaments. Well, then you need to understand that, too. You don't need to be living and dying with every fucking game

for the last two years that have all been made up in the first month. No, we do. No, no, because then you get me all worked up. I'm like, oh, this matters. And then I realize, like, oh, being dramatic, it doesn't matter. You know, I see you almost crying. I'm like, fucking A, dude. And then literally the Champions League starting tomorrow.

Hey, this Gold Cup squad, this is going to be the guys coming off the bench and supporting the A team, though, for the Olympics. I understand. Hey, DK's a gold scorer. Let's put his ass up there. That guy finds it out. I think he had a hat trick against Martinique. Yeah.

Wow. I watched the game. When the fuck is the MLS Cup finals? MLS is still going. A guy on Nashville scored a hat trick in six minutes on Saturday night. That's what I'm saying, dude. Really? Yeah, it was fucking awesome.

So he's gone, right? Where's he from? I have no idea. Is he an American? He's not on our national team, obviously. I don't think he's an American. No way. Have we figured out an answer for why Trey Young isn't on the goddamn Olympic team? I I have no idea. Is he an American? He's not on our national team, obviously. I don't think he's an American. No way. Have we figured out an answer for why Trey Young isn't on the goddamn Olympic team?

I still have no idea. I don't think the cardboard beds are going to help, though. There's no way he's going to go over now. Yeah, Trey Young takes that tweet, delete tweet. Yeah. Yeah. Don't invite me if you guys are gone. I'm good.

I'm just kidding. Mayflower cardboard moving boxes. Kawhi Leonard also. I guess he partially tore his ACLs. Never mind. I was going to say, he's been sliding under the radar, I guess he partially tore his ACLs. Never mind. He's been sliding under the radar. Why is he going over? No one wants to.

They don't fucking play over there. None of these guys want to. You know, this is supposed to be the Olympics. Yeah, for your goddamn country. When I was a kid, this is real. When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was play in the Olympics when I was playing soccer. Now, I wanted to be rich. I knew that was probably going to come from other things.

But I wanted to be, you know, an Olymp going to come from other things but i wanted to be you know an olympian yeah played in the olympic development program got a chance to do that was in project 2020 i think which was supposed to be an olympic thing i mean there was there's a lot of shit in the olympics were like the big dream the big goal olympics have become big old sham it sounds like cardboard boxes aj do you see this they're sleeping on cardboard boxes oh yeah i saw that see this? They're sleeping on cardboard boxes. Oh, yeah. I saw that, but it seems like the Olympics, there's all kind of stuff going on. I just saw the guy who was supposed to do the opening ceremony,

the music is backing out because of something, like old tweets exposed. There's all kind of issues happening. Old tweets exposed. Who was it? Was it Bob? Kid Rock was supposed to open the Olympics. Kid? Kid was lighting the torch? All summer long is the Olympic Summer Games

you know not anymore I was gonna be did walk out song yeah cancel it because Bob was trying to cancel himself Rory macro did interview this morning he's like well go in the Olympics and there's nothing to do there so I guess I'll just go for 16 hours a day and try to fix my game so they're in the bubble but it isn't like Disney World. And it looks like they're not going to have enough isolated alone time to play video games or anything like that.

No amenities. It looks like they're in a hospital there. Go back to that... It's like an office building. Aren't you glad we weren't good enough to be Olympians, AJ? I would imagine, do the basketball players get a special dorm or something? They have to have something special.

A couple more boxes for those big guys. A couple more boxes for them. Let's not get it twisted. I'm pumped for the Olympics. Anytime I get a chance to scream about us being better than everybody else, I'm going to do it. Call it whatever you want. I get excited whenever the world of sport

gets to kind of overtake the political international game. You know, like sports throughout history have been a great, I don't want to say distractor, but maybe a unifier. Uniter. A uniter, yeah. Yeah, a unifier of the world in the sports. I'm excited for it to start Friday, but

goddammit, it feels like everything has to become a shit show nowadays. Can we not just make this awesome, pay them if we have to, put them in a goddamn Olympic Village? I was in an Olympic Village light out there in San Diego. I think San Diego has one. It's like a training ground. And then in Colorado there's one as well for soccer.

It was beautiful. These dudes had their own little apartments and this whole little thing. And they maybe had roommates and this whole little thing. They maybe had roommates and this whole thing. It felt like in the facility, the cafeteria was incredible. It was beautiful. It was like a college football facility, but for Olympians. I was like,

this is what I want to do. I was out there playing, obviously, for the ODP team and doing everything. I was like, this is it. This is it. Everything we're starting to hear from it now, it's like, come on. Why's everything got to fucking stink now? What is the deal? Why is everything... Why do they got to sleep on cardboard boxes? Like, put them on a goddamn

bed. We're asking them to go run a, what, a 10-1 and we want to... I mean, just, can we not make this good? What's the... There's enough money out there to make everything good at this point, all right? And now, I know the money is not equally distributed and there's a lot of problems i'm just telling you what reality is but with the amount of money that's being spent

and earned in the olympics and the amount of potential money that's getting you know for these decisions can we not invest it into the athletes so we can get the best fucking thing possible as opposed to just looking at the bottom line all the fucking time i mean what can we not make things awesome anymore come on i agree with you a thousand percent. At least it's only the beds that are cardboard here. I believe in Sochi, the entire town was built out of cardboard. It's like fake glass and stuff like that. It actually was.

It has plumbing. I mean, the bad thing is, once it leaves, though. Like, haven't you seen those pictures? Once the Olympics leave, these giant stadiums are just overgrown because they don't maintain them anymore. They don't have events there. Some places do not really rebound after the Olympics come to town. So I watched an animal documentary.

I think it was on Netflix. It was about the Akok monkeys. Oh, yeah, of course, of course. How do you spell that? With the cast? Well, it's C-A-Q-U-E at the end, I think. I don't know if it's Akok or Bukok. Mukok?

Mukok. Definitely Bukok. Mukok? Mukok. Definitely Bukok. No. They might Bukok, but the Mukoks, this monkey hierarchy. But if his name is C-A-C-Q-U-E, why are you putting an A or a B or something? No, it's a brand of monkey. A Mukok is a legion of. It's the speech type of. Yeah, yeah you get it i believe it is pronounced

macaque macaque i watched the documentary okay and by the way i watched the documentary three days before my smackdown debut and the amount of macaque monkeys would not stand for what's going on right now because they are a hierarchy tiered if you're born in the bottom tier the bottom rung you stay down there's getting pushed out and they they live in this overrun temple i think and they kind of have like an actual hierarchy and who lives higher in the temple and everything it's only a matter of time before we have like an animal planet special that are living in these stadiums oh yeah and it's going to be and i'll tell you what's probably going to be the macaques or another brand of

monkey they're going to be fucking using the taps wow they's probably going to be the macaques or another brand of monkey. They're going to be fucking using the taps. Wow. These things, you watch the macaques operate and then every other monkey species, and you're like, okay, so we are definitely. I mean, I saw a brand of these things, not the macaques, but another monkey, pulling fruit from a tree, okay okay walking with it okay going down to a river cleaning the fruit what and then handing it to the baby and the baby eating it and then washing off the hands and the thing and then they just walked away and i was like those fucking monkeys are smarter than me so we're not saying those monkeys are smarter than me but it's only not the same. Those monkeys are smarter than me.

But it's only a matter of time before the stadiums are used, I think, right? Because those aerial pictures and shots, whether it's in Brazil or Russia or China, I think, or Greece, those things are magnificent stadiums that hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on for a six-week period, and then they're never used again. Maybe that's where we should move the show to, one of these guys. Oh, buy an Olympic Stadium. Yeah. Yeah.

I bet you can get it pretty cheap now, some of them, for sure. We might need to bring your dad to be the maintenance man. Well, the macaques run a strict business. All right, Chip. You're not just going to get that thing for the macaques for low dollar. They're going to ask for premium top dollar with the macaques, if they're anything like I think they are. So before you get to your call, the whole documentary was about these macaques for low dollar they're gonna ask for premium top dollar with the macaques if they are anything like i think they are let's go to this whole so before you get to your car the whole documentary was about these macaque monkeys well so the macaques were just a chapter

or what you choose to watch and what you have what you have seen and what you have not seen is just continues to just break my brain i saw 15 minutes of space jam this weekend then i stopped it because my wife and i will probably finish it here in the next couple days and it was tough to continue save that one for the wife she'd be mad if you watch that by herself right well anything that i watched what if she would have been upset because i don't like a lot of things that i don't stick with it so if i watch something whenever she's not around she's like i thought we could have watched that together she's dying dying to watch Space Jam 2, though? It's a new movie.

We tried to watch Jacob and Dom Toretto. Yeah, Fast 9. But it's not at home. It's at the theater, and we haven't had time to make it to the theater. So it's really like the first movie in a long time that we've been able to watch together. So that isn't the bigger story here. The bigger story is here.

I got 15 minutes into that, and I was like, okay, I fucking am a LeBron fan. I don't want to watch this. I hate this The bigger story is here. I got 15 minutes into that and I was like, okay, I don't, I fucking am a LeBron fan. I don't want to watch this. I hate this movie. It is pretty, you know. Yeah, it is a, definitely a massive,

you know, support piece just for LeBron. I thought Mitt saw it a few times already. He did. Well, Mitt is a massive LeBron guy and Mitt kept saying, it's a storyline,

it's a storyline, it's a storyline. And I understand that, Mitt. It's a fucking movie, okay? I get it. There's a storyline in this whole thing. But as a LeBron fan, the first 15 minutes is tough to be like, okay, is this actually LeBron? Is this what we don't know about LeBron?

Is this movie LeBron, which everybody says in the end is there? So watching it was a little conflicted. I haven't finished it yet, so this is a little bit of an ignorant take. But I will say the first 15 minutes was tough. LeBron, just like the way he's a basketball player, that's how he is as a human. He's also an actor. He has all the skills. He can

do it all. He's the goalie. In the first 15 minutes, a nutshell. I get that he's a thespian. I've seen him in Sprite commercials. I've seen him in Nike commercials. I'm just telling you the lebron james so this this rings well with me i guess so in the wwe i'm pat mcafee okay in the wwe's like pre-show thing it says the characters being depicted on the show do not

replicate that of the actors play whatever you, you know, like saying, hey, what you're seeing here is entertainment. This is not, I'm me. Like, so whenever people were burying Pat McAfee earlier, it was like, they're not going after Michael Cole, who's also, you know, he said it in there, Sean Coulthard or something like that. Like, that is actually

me, so they're going after me. Watching Space Jam, it was LeBron playing LeBron, and I didn't make it through the end. I will probably tomorrow, because Cena's supposed to be at Raw tonight, so I'll probably watch that and see what goes on. I'll probably watch it

whenever. I'll watch it whenever. As a LeBron guy, I was like, I hate this guy. I guess that's good acting. That's good heel play by LeBron. I guess that's good heel play.'s good heel play, I guess, by LeBron. I guess that's good heel play. Oh, he plays a bad guy early? Well, that's the thing. He is not supposed to. It's just insufferable.

It's kind of, I like it. He's just brutal. But I think it's for the character development. I don't know. It's what Mitt was telling me. Mitt is Cisco and fucking Ebert wrapped up into one bowl. You know what I mean? So I guess we can kind of take that.

Did you watch it with your kids or no? I did not. I realized I do have HBO Max, though. So my eight-year-old has been mentioning it. He wants to watch it. But he doesn't really know anything about it. I think he just hears his friends talk about it. So he wants to see it.

Well, that's kind of the world we live in, the mob mentality. If one person has an idea, normally a lot of people are going to have the same idea because they look to somebody else to create their opinion. And there has been some bashing of Space Jam by some notable people. Oh, yeah. I will say I haven't finished it. Seems like most adults hated the movie. It's not for adults.

I mean, if I was LeBron, I'd be like, yeah, guess what, bud? It's not for you. Agreed. 100%. This is just like my Drake conversation from earlier. He's not making music for me to like at the moment. So it's like nobody. You mean you just don't like the music he is making in the moment? He's not making music for me to like at the moment. You mean you just don't like

the music he is making in the moment? He's not making music for me. Maybe he is. I would imagine Drake says his music is for everybody. I doubt he's saying that. No way. You don't think he wants to make all the money? He already has.

It doesn't matter. Warren Buffett's 200 years old with a guy still working every day. People don't stop. Yeah, Warren Buffett and Drake, two very different people. Warren Buffett is trying to manipulate the stock market, and he has been able to do so

by eating the same McDonald's sandwich every fucking morning, driving that terrible car, and doing his own thing. Okay, shout out to Warren Buffett. Way to go. You've made money in a place that a majority of the world hates,

so good for you. Drake, though, he has had an evolution in his artistry where he now just sells out full stadiums with all women in it, basically. He's gone full Mr. Loverboy, has the heart tattooed in it. Now, maybe he's making music for me while wearing the heart in his hair. I don't think so. I think Drake's much smarter than to be trying to win me over. He's not looking for me,

but that's just a different, he's, he's making stuff for other people. LeBron made this for kids. We knew that. Is everybody going into this though? That's saying it's a bad movie knowing that it's for kids or are they judging it for kids or just for themselves?

Well, I mean, he kind of fucked up too. If he would have just named this something else, then he would have been good. But anytime you say space jam, then you have all the nostalgia of the first movie. A lot of these people that are seeing it were, you know, like 10 years old. And I heard LeBron is a massive sellout in it because they just pull, like, a bunch of good clips from Warner Brothers movies.

And kind of, like, smash that in there, kind of shoehorn it in there, flex a little bit. So a lot of people are saying hey he couldn't come up with a good movie idea on his own what do you mean like there's a scene from casablanca they put him in it then there's a scene from the matrix they put him in it there's a scene from game of thrones threw him in it like they really did pull out all the stops to basically get every big warner brothers show or smart by the, by the way. This sounds terrible. Okay, well, that's what a lot of other people have said, AJ. I had no idea that they were doing all that.

Oh, yeah. So let's dive into this a little bit more. Okay, so whenever you say if he uses a different name, then he doesn't have access to all that stuff, right? All the Warner-owned stuff. And then they use that all to obviously market it and build it as big as possible just like the avengers do with all their fucking people showing up and all the goddamn stuff and by the way it's a great show but the reason why he did space jam is because how important

space jam is to the sport of basketball he felt like he needed to carry the tradition of space jam from one generation to the next now just like with everything else, I think nostalgia is a beautiful thing because only the bangers survive. Only the good survives. Only the good memories or the good songs survive. There's a lot of eras that have terrible, terrible, terrible music that was debuted during the era, but nobody knows about it past two, three weeks the phone was so or the song was so bad and then when people say back in my day we had absolute bangers like you had shit bag music as well that stuff just hasn't survived i think a lot of that happens with the memories of old movies as well because i've gone back and watched some of these old movies i was like man i thought pest

was a lot better yeah i thought pest was a lot better and i. I thought Best was a lot better. And I think that happens at Space Jam. So you are rolling the dice with nostalgia pop, which is a real thing. But I have not watched the full movie. But a lot of people have said what you said, AJ. It sounds terrible. I hope not, though, because I'm a LeBron guy. You need to go in with the expectation like, okay, this is made for 5 to 12-year-olds. This isn't made for 5 to 12? That's

basically where I'd throw the range at. Maybe up to 15. I'd drop it lower. It's a kids movie. Show us the deal. Rich Paul's dating Adele now. Oh yeah. Allegedly. They were at a game together.

Adele looks great. She's lost a lot of weight. Rich Paul's doing well. What are you saying? It's a big win. Well, she has self-immolatedly explained that she has had problems with her weight in the past. What are you saying, AJ? What? You said that?

You know what I think is garbage with Adele? So she lost weight. People were coming at her like saying, no, you shouldn't be celebrating the fact that you lost weight. It's like a weird deal. Yeah, it's like Jonah too, right? celebrating the fact that you lost weight it's like a weird deal yeah it's like jonah too right because jonah was representing a pudgy group of dudes whenever he was out there crushing it and then when he lost weight i believe there was a pudgy group of dudes saying you sell out you change you did your own thing you like vegetables now yeah like it's a it's a wild world you know

it's a wild i hate like sorry man like however i sorry if – whatever weight you're at, whether you're big or small, this is where I feel best. This is how I operate best. And you're going to tell me how I operate the best? Hey, I'm sorry. I'm trying to live. Yeah, what if there were things he wanted to do? Like he wanted to go down to Cowtown and he wanted to sit on a bull,

but they wouldn't let him because he weighed more than the weight of the bull. Come on! Oh, no. Come on! Zito was told by the cow lady. Oh, man. It was a – Wait, did they ask you your weight,ito was told by the cow lady. Oh, man. It was a... Wait, did they ask you your weight, Z?

Yeah, the cow lady that was running the Teddy and Turdy Longhorn ride was the mom. And then I believe the daughter and the son were running each individual Longhorns. I got on Teddy's back. Connor got on Turdy's back. I got on Teddy's back. Connor got on Turdy's back. And Zito was told, you weigh 250? By the cow lady.

And Zito goes, ah. And I follow up with what the weight limit is because I am a much heavier person than people assume as well. She said 260 or so. And then she looked back at Zito and told Zito that he could get on this particular couch. Don't get on Teddy. But I was about to get on Teddy and I'm like, is Teddy alright? They're like, for you, yeah. And I'm like, I don't know if you know that. And they're like, no, no, we know.

It was a wild scene. It ended up with Zito saying, nah, you're good. And then they said, sir, you already paid. And he goes, yeah, keep it. It's a tip. And then just walks away. So Zito did not get on the back of a Texas Longhorn. Kind of got body shamed out of it. It was wild.

It messed up. Zito, those are good Longhorns, though. Yeah, you know, I did jump on 30, and I took a souvenir home. I did kill it. Let's go. Let's go to a break. Oh, no! Zito did not kill Tardy.

Shut up. The thought was he might. Yeah. I'm hungry. If Zito got on Tardy, Tardy was going to lose its shit and start, you know, bowling the streets going through everybody. I'll tell you what, Teddy, I could feel Teddy. Oh, yeah.

You know, underneath me. I could feel that thing. You were underneath me Breathe it I could feel that thing You were on with him Yeah it felt like I was I feel you You knew Zach about it Did you know You know hey

He's gotta be all doped up On Xanax Rebellion isn't he Oh yeah I mean yeah That's why we did say We're so sorry About this Turdy and Teddy But

Thank you so much For letting us on your back And getting off Of Turdy and Teddy We did full thank yous Good luck His name was Turdy That was his yeah back. And getting off of Turdy and Teddy. We did full thank yous. Good luck. His name was Turdy? That was his, yeah.

I wasn't fucking making up. Turdy and Teddy, dude. You can see the names actually on the saddles on their noses right there. Nice. Turby. Turby. Well, it was a little bit of a turdy situation. He was making some turdies.

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