The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 472 - Jake Paul, Gable Steveson, Carli Lloyd, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: August 12, 2021

Today's show is highlighted by three incredible interviews. First, The Problem Child, Jake Paul joins Pat and AJ to chat about his upcoming fight with Tyron Woodley, his boxing career as a whole, when he decided he wanted to take boxing seriously, how much involvement he has in the presentation of his fight cards, his beef with Pete Davidson, and much more (27:31-48:43). Next, NCAA National Champion and new Gold Medal Winner, Gable Dan Steveson joins the show to chat about his incredible Olympic Gold medal match in wrestling, whether he's been contacted by the WWE or UFC after his meteoric rise, how things were in Tokyo, what's next for him, and what he ultimately wants to do with his career (48:45-1:09:23). Later, 2x Olympic Gold Medal winner, the most prolific scorer in US women's soccer history, Carli Lloyd, joins the show to chat about her career, how things have changed in women's soccer from the time she stepped on to the scene to now, if the weight of being the greatest women's soccer team in the world was ever too much to handle, what she plans on doing once she hangs the soccer boots up, and much more (1:10:56-1:28:42). 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, it is Thursday, August 12th, 2021 years after zero, my brother's birthday. Happy birthday, Jay. I think we got a pretty good show for you with three brand new guests and a lot of conversation. Can't thank you enough for allowing us to penetrate your ear holes on this beautiful Thursday. And if by the end of this thing, you enjoy the show, please be a friend and tell a friend. If not, just act like it never, ever, ever happened. These drop-in ads, by the way, I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of them either. Okay, we'll figure it out and let's assume that I will handle it. Okay, I'm all about the quality of the show and I can't thank you enough. Never want to disrespect you or your ears or your life whenever you choose to listen to a show like this is supposed

to be a mental vacation let's keep it as such let's get to it ty please run this beautiful bean footage please we got three guests that we have never had before and i cannot wait to chat with them gable dan steveson olympic gold medalist wrestler a guy from minnesota who did the uh yeah oh yeah he uh he did the six and a half second buzzer beating takedown to win the gold medal over the guy from Georgia who looked to be a ginormous human being. This guy's an electric factory guy. I cannot wait to chat with him. He's already tweeted Dana White and Vince McMahon.

He's 275 pounds, just won a gold medal, and does a round off backflip, dead body backflip like it's no problem at all. Maybe one of the most explosive humans our earth has ever seen. Cannot wait to chat with him and see what he's going to get into in the next coming months, days, years. Carly Lloyd will be joining us. What? Huh? Big soccer show. Let's go.

Big soccer show. Big soccer show. Nobody ever talks about it. We've covered soccer kind of pretty in-depthly here. We talked about the number two, number three overall soccer tournament on earth, the Europes. Of course. We talked about the Gold Cup. Yeah.

We talked about the... The Concava. The Concava, which were champions. We talked about Messi being messy and then finding home when in paris i mean we've covered the olympics i mean i feel like we're potentially one of the biggest soccer shows on earth at this point we even got a british guy calls in and tells us what's going on over there and nigel seeley i feel like the soccerness of our show has grown at a rate that none of us could have expected or wanted because watching the sport is tough to do but the one team that you can always depend upon being great now didn't win the gold

obviously in this olympics but our u.s women's nationals team is normally the team that we say hey we got the ladies yeah here we go didn't win it all in the olympics but carly lloyd has been an og on this team for a long time has won won a gold, has accomplished a lot of things. Cannot wait to chat with her one hour from now. I assume when she gets off that phone call with us, she's going to say, that show's the worst show I've ever been on. Good chance. Never again.

At Ty Schmidt and at Boston Connery here, what are you excited to talk to Carly Lloyd about, Ty Schmidt? Well, I just want to know if she was actually close at any point to signing with an NFL team or getting a shot. Okay. Because she was kicking, you know. Field goals with the Ravens. Field goals with the Ravens.

And then they had the whole Bears thing where they were trying to find the kicker, and a lot of people were saying, well, hey, maybe Carly Lloyd goes over there and kicks for the Bears. Good pop of the football off of her foot whenever Sam Cooke was holding for her at a training camp, I believe. She dominated that. She scores goals. She's a guest in one hour from now.

Cannot wait for it. And then, in two hours and 55 minutes at YouTube.com forward slash The Pat McAfee Show, the problem child, Jake Paul, will be joined. Wow! That's right. Keeping it a YouTube exclusive strictly because Jake Paul basically built YouTube. Yeah. Okay?

So I can't wait. I feel like we're doing him quite an honor by doing that. And I also believe that Jake Paul is good for the sport of boxing and for everything. Cannot wait to chat with him at 3 p.m. I'm sure people are going to absolutely love it. Can't wait to talk to you as well on the 5-Hour Energy phone line, 1-833-4MACAFEE. Call in with your questions, opinions, and everything in between.

At Ty Schmidt, Werner, John, Deer, Denim, Button, Dan. Big day to be in Iowa. Big day to be a New York Yankees fan. Big day for corn. Yeah, absolutely. Field of Dreams game tonight. And the closer we get to it, I am getting very excited. Because, you know, you always talk about the thing that people like about baseball

who aren't baseball fans is all the bullshit that surrounds the game itself. Bingo! And that's what we're getting tonight. A lot of pageantry. Kevin Costner is back for, I think. What? Yeah, exactly. He got off of that gang thing that he's got running over there in Montana?

Yeah. And he's coming all the way over? He left the ranch for a little bit. He put on the old fit? Put on. Yeah, I think he had denim on him, if I'm not mistaken. He's back in Dyersville. It's only a town town about 4,000.

There's going to be 10,000-plus there at the game tonight. And I'm also – like someone mentioned it out there, very hot in Iowa, so balls are going to fly tonight. Into the field. Into the cornfield. Here we go. And it is. Like you look at the pictures and everything, like it looks awesome.

I really wish I was going to be there tonight, but it's going to be pretty sweet watching it on TV too. Aaron, nothing better than hopping off your John Deere. No. Okay, right there in the town of 4000. Going down the main street there. Yep. Stopping by the bank real quick.

Let me get a couple extra dollars because I want to buy an American Pie hot dog. Apple Pie hot dog from Guy Fieri at this thing. No islands are doing that. I'm just telling you what I would want to do if I was in Ireland. Okay. Hop off my Jones here. Sure, sure. Okay, go downtown, get some money to get the apple pie thing,

go and watch the boys play a little baseball. America's pastime in the middle of a goddamn farm. Is there a fence out there, or is it a home run just if you make it to the corner? No, so I think the way it's set up is where the actual movie was. People are going to walk in through there, and then they kind of just have a pathway to the other field that they just built. There is a wall in the outfield, but then right on the other side of the wall is the cornfield.

Okay, so are we going to see any humans going into the corn? It's possible. Can of corn! Yeah, exactly. Hopefully some of the players will walk out from the cornfield when the game starts like they do in the movie. We'll see. I mean, I don't know. Hopefully it's not a boring game. I hope there are a lot of bombs and we don't get just like a pitcher's duel because there's a lot to be excited about in this game.

Should we not have Shohei Ohtani versus the New York Yankees in this thing? Is this not the team that we should have playing in there? And how does this, do the Yankees always play the White Sox? Are they in the same thing? They're both in the American League. How did the White Sox become the team that is should have playing in there and how does this the yankees always play the white socks are they in the same thing how they're both in the american league so how did the white socks become the team that is doing this to be honest i don't know i want to say that last year when they uh were going to do this when it got canceled by covid they either were going to play the red socks or the cardinals or something like that and i think that it just kind of this is the way it fell is this like the Lions taking Thanksgiving? Kind of.

I mean, like, hey, you guys are going to have a little corn party, all right? The whole world's going to watch it. Our terrible team that never gets seen is going to play in it then. We're going to do that. We are going to lock it in. We are going to, Zito's handling business right now, it sounds like, but we are going to lock in that we are in that prime time spot in the cornfield forever.

If that's what the White Sox are doing, I love the business move. But for me, I don't know if that's going to drive me away from preseason football. Here we go. New England is playing tonight against? The Washington football team. And Mac Jones is starting playing? He's definitely playing. I believe him and Cam is also definitely playing.

Fitz Magic, Heineke, both playing. This is going to be an absolute battle tonight. Hall of Fame game stunk. It was terrible. Hall of Fame game stunk. It was like the cornfield game. All the pageantry around it made it a much better viewer experience. I will pop in to see if any balls are going in the court.

You need to. I need to watch the whole thing, but you need to pop in at least once. It'll be put on the internet. I assume I'll be able to see it if a ball goes into the corner or whatever. And I will hopefully get a good review or ten from the great people of Iowa that have that apple pie hot dog that Guy Fieri put together specifically for this Field of Dreams game that Kevin Costner's probably going to eat two or three of them if I'm right.

If Costner wants to eat a couple, that's fine. He's not from Iowa. But like I said, Iowans, they don't want that bullshit. Yet Guy Fieri shows up with an apple pie hot dog. Iowans are lining straight up. Remember, Iowa, also the home of John Wayne Gacy. Boom. How about that? I actually heard they're doing an in memoriam for him before the game tonight. I mean, you make it man of the year over there.

Anyways, it's going to be tough to watch that. No way. It's going to be tough to watch that game if you're not a super baseball person or, you know, maybe a nostalgia act. I mean, I'll pop over there, but I think everybody's going to bounce over to see what the hell's going on in this Washington-New England game. One week ago, that Hall of Fame game was trash. No points, no real good plays.

Defense was flying around, but it was mostly shit because there's only five days of practice leading into that. Tonight, you've got Bill Belichick coaching. All right. Mack Jones trying to earn a job there. You've got Ron Rivera with his team back on the same page, it sounds like. Ryan Fitzmagic literally looks like Teen Wolf right now with the way he was built. Heineke is Fitzmagic at the same time.

Cam Newton's probably going to be playing a little bit, if I had to guess, because of what's going on up there. This has a chance to be an actual good football game, and we're back. Is the NFL season back? 100%. We're back. Feels like we're back.

We did it. We're back. We did it. Everybody on earth is going to be pouring for the Washington football team to beat the hell out of the Patriots tonight, I assume. But I'm excited to see what Mac Jones got out there. Boston Connor rocking an incredible new mullet. Need to get you some of these so that we can see that thing because the headphones I think are kind of

impeding on the beautiful fade that you have for the Kentucky waterfall, for the business in the front, party in the back, for everything you got going on. But tonight is exciting. Massive night. You finally get to figure out, okay, Mac Jones isn't going to be wearing number 50 this year. What is he actually going to be wearing? Let's see what that happens. You mentioned the Pittsburgh-Dallas game before. Neither of the starting quarterbacks were playing. I feel like in this game with Mac Jones, Cam Newton, Heineke, and Fitzmagic, you just mentioned, kind of battling. I don't know about Fitzmagic, Heineke, if they're not,

but Newton and Mac Jones is a full-on battle. Hopefully that's first quarter Newton, second quarter, into the third quarter for Mac Jones, maybe get him some time, and then let the wild hoyer run wild because I have full faith in the new england patriots getting the job done tonight we are a great preseason team and brian hoyer unbelievable quarterback i mean he'll get the job done brian hoyer did make a couple decisions last year as quarterback for the new england patriots that would say hey that guy should be playing in the fourth quarter of the first preseason game exactly there's a couple of those moments but Hoyer is going to be around right obviously through the year so him playing

in the fourth quarter isn't like a complete slight on Hoyer he is just in third he's the third string quarterback he's the guy like for Mac basically what has been explained by a couple people who've been at practices Hoyer will go in he'll you know do a drive or whatever and then it's essentially like okay Mac that's's how you want to attack the defense because him and Newton are so different. Newton can scramble and run around. Mac's more in the pocket, just moving with his feet. He's a lot more athletic than everybody's saying he is.

That's right. He's got some swag. It's weird. There was a lot of things said about Mac Jones whenever he was the expected projected three overall that San Francisco 49ers got rid of numerous future first-rounders to go up and get. We learned a lot. That actually happened the same day, I believe, as the Alabama Pro Day. And Mac Jones went out and put on a show. There was a couple drops.

There was a couple of this. But then we learned a lot about Mac Jones. Because Mac Jones, very similarly to Joe Burrow, only had one year in college to really do their thing. With that Sarkeesian offense that was brought into Alabama and Mac Jones' big-ass brain, they were able to run motions. They were able to utilize all the five-star blue-chip weapons that they have. And that offense that we thought could have never been able to touch what LSU was able to do just a year before, they were putting up numbers.

Because college defenses are rather basic, And that's just how it is. That's how it always will be, I assume, because you can't really do as much. You don't have as much time in the IQ, football IQ. Whenever you're not just studying film all day or getting tells, you can't be as aggressive. I believe the Clemson defensive coordinator is a very aggressive. There's a couple of them maybe out there but most college defenses because of either the turnover of player and new players coming in are pretty basic so if you have a sophisticated offense with motions and you have a quarterback that can dissect the defense quickly cover two boom this is the hot mac jones was able to do that with alabama last year got sarkisian

the head coaching job at the University of Texas immediately after one year of success so once we started learning oh he's much more athletic than you think he's off balance throws are good his his arm is strong he's faster than you think once we started hearing all that shit I started learning about Mac Jones I thought man there's a hundred percent chance this guy is going to be a bust this guy at three overall is going to be a bust seems like he's come out of nowhere then as the story continued to unfold, and then obviously Trey Lance is a mini Patrick Mahomes. He's the one that they were actually targeting at three.

Mac Jones drops to New England. And immediately upon him going to New England, you start thinking to yourself, of course, the guy that I thought was potentially going to be a bust and maybe somebody reaches too much for him, doesn't have enough experience, and who knows. It wasn't just me that thought this. A lot of people thought this.

Of course, he falls to Bill Belichick. And then you see the photo. Mac Jones with no shirt on. Looks exactly like Tom Brady with no shirt on. Then the comparisons coming from his former teammates. He's got a little Tom in him. It's like, all right, what does that mean? Then you start hearing he's picking up the offense very, very quickly.

You start hearing the fact that he's dropping balls into absolute buckets. He's got more swag. He's got more. The team likes him a lot more than you could ever imagine it's like is mac jones about to be a fucking guy and does the new england patriots know that that is potentially the outcome and that's why they spent 150 million dollars in the first day of the free agency tampering period. Imagine if Bill does this with the Patriots again. We will have no idea what the future looks like

after tonight. There will be an overreaction tomorrow from this mulleted man up here for sure about one way or the other. Mac Jones is either going to be the greatest quarterback of all time starting tomorrow or we might be in trouble starting tomorrow. Let's go Cam. There will be something like that out of him. But I think tonight is our first chance to kind of see, like, okay,

everything's been said about Mac, both good and bad. What is real? What isn't? And does this guy have a chance to be the squad? Or is Cam Newton, one year removed from the old Uncle COVID showing up at a dinner he had with somebody else, is he all the way back? There's a lot of storylines coming out of New England. Washington's kind of an afterthought.

No offense to Washington. I got you guys winning the NFC East or whatever. But tonight in New England, we're about to learn a lot about potentially the next 10 to 15 years. Yeah, very pumped just to see the Patriots back on the field with some fans in the stands. And for Mac, the biggest thing that at least I think that I've heard out of camp is that he'll go in, he'll screw up, he'll make a mistake. But then going forward,

he won't make that same exact mistake again. And also, you know, Belichick and McDaniels will absolutely rip into him, and it won't really affect him as much, and it'll almost motivate him. So I like that type of stuff, and it'll be good just to see him toss the rock. Oh, he likes to get coached up. Exactly. He likes the fact that he gets coached up. Yeah, he gets motivated.

Yell at me. I'm trying to get pissed off so I can throw a touchdown 90 yards to John Hugh Smith. up you're saying exactly he likes the fact that he likes it yeah he gets motivated yell at me i'm trying to get pissed off so i can throw a touchdown 90 yards to john who smith now you are potentially a little bit overhyped and you shouldn't be because no you should be actually there was a video that surfaced of mac jones out of training camp where he threw an incompletion do you remember that he threw an incompletion and uh connor was losing his mind because of where the ball was located. It was a little bit of an overthrow, kind of. The wide receiver definitely could have made a play,

but it was every video or every play that was coming out about Mac Jones out of training camp was a good one. It really did seem like that was the case. This is just like Aaron Rodgers throwing the goddamn balls into the buckets. It's like, what are we not seeing? Is there terrible reps from Mac Jones? I guess he has thrown a pick in training camp and everything like that but with the way it's being talked about about mac jones it's almost like this guy is being anointed as like the next guy

i guess tonight second third quarter we'll get a chance to see it hopefully in other preseason news justin fields is going to play all the way into the second half i guess yeah for the chicago bears andy dalton not playing at all then is that that what that means? Yeah, probably not, right? I figured he'd get at least a couple drafts because if he's playing in the second half, you think they're going to give Fields damn near three quarters in this preseason game? Probably the first half into the second half or whatever.

I don't know. Unless Andy Dalton's doing like a drive or two or maybe three to get him comfortable. But if Justin Fields is going to play into the second half of the first preseason game, even if you don't think he's going to be a great quarterback, you have to assume he's going to be able to outrun some people and move around and scramble and keep plays alive. I like that a lot. Who knows what the Dolphins are going to have on the field? I don't know if Tua is going to be playing much

out there. Jacoby's probably not going to be playing much unless they got Jacoby playing. If they got Jacoby playing a lot, we're going to have to change this entire thing around. Gumpy, our Dolphins expert, has told us though that Jacoby's probably not playing yeah I mean if Jacoby's not playing I definitely don't think two is playing I would imagine they want to do whatever they can to get to the season with him being a hundred percent but yeah if Justin Fields is playing two plus quarters and the Finns are playing some guy who's probably not going to make the team at quarterback yeah hammer the bears yeah me too ipso facto gambling's probably not going to make the team at quarterback, yeah, hammer the Bears. Yeah, me too.

Ipso facto gambling 101. This is going to be my new thing. If I see something, I'm immediately betting it afterwards. Yes, yes. And we'll see how this works out. This might be a mistake, okay? I might lose this one. I might lose the next one, and I'll have to adjust my strategery.

But in my eyes, this seems like the smart bet, and we're trying to take every single dollar from this stupid FanDuel sportsbook. Without question. I have to use this handheld mic because this microphone was working for YouTube, but not for Sirius, I guess. Yeah, so for some reason, I don't know what happened, but Sirius couldn't hear you. They could only hear you off these mics, but YouTube could hear you perfectly through that mic, so it's very odd.

This is Zito, our production expert back there also uh he was handling a potential punching machine being delivered as the show was going on to the air then what sirius called you and said hey we can't hear a word he's saying they said uh yeah 12.2 we couldn't hear a word you guys were saying over there i was like yeah he's talking youtube could hear him hey shout to youtube uh so is it this microphone just basically said like hey i don't want to do it with serious anymore or what yeah he hates serious i guess i'm trying to tell you jeez whoa whoa but we're trying to figure it out we'll get that up and going again for you all right i'll do a handheld i ain't no problem to me there's a couple other stories around the NFL here that are worthy of note. Michael Thomas got injured last year

in junk time, garbage time, hurt his ankle all season. It was a story alongside the Saints. Michael Thomas, one of the best wide receivers in the NFL. Everybody will put him in the top five. I'm not getting into who the best wide receiver on earth is. He's in the top five. He is a guy that people talk about, obviously out of Ohioio state an absolute weapon and a stud for that saints offense alongside kamara tasem hill and obviously for a long time drew breeze but last year when michael thomas got hurt in junk time that thing lingered all year and allegedly via liked tweets from michael thomas we have learned that the new orleans saints did not want michael Michael Thomas to get surgery last year they wanted him to treat it rehab it get healthy play played a little bit was nowhere near his absolute best missed some games came back was ready to play got benched

because he got into a fight with CJ GJ last year for Michael Thomas was a catastrophe with the New Orleans Saints it came out after the season from his people i think or maybe it came from breezes camp that michael thomas was playing at the end of the year when he definitely shouldn't have been because he knew it was drew breezes last go and didn't want to waste the opportunity wow good teammate good teammate michael thomas then the offseason comes and if we're reading the situation right it sounds like the saints medical staff the same one that maybe told him we could play through this season and not get surgery right now and i'm not hey that happens in conversations like hey think you can battle through this we can get through this and

then do a surgery at the end of the year i'm not sure if that was the conversation it has happened to me i assume it's happened to other people like hey we can get a surgery michael thomas seemed to have lost trust in the new orleans Saints medical department the coaching department decided not to get his surgery then cut off contacts with the New Orleans Saints for three months came back had to get surgery it's going to miss seven to eight weeks Sean Payton has come out and said fuck it not happy about it Michael Thomas has subtweeted and subposted about the entire situation. Then Sean Payton had answered and said, I'm not doing a press conference based on social media

situations or something like that. It seemed ugly. Jay Glazer told us it doesn't end good. No. This has been going on a long time. This doesn't end good. Well, good news, Saints fans. They sat down. They got a little... Jesus. They got a little bit of what's that stuff? Gumbo? Gumbo. They got a little... Jesus. They got a little bit of...

What's that stuff? Gumbo. Gumbo. They got some gumbo. Probably extra spicy down there. Extra spicy gumbo. They talked to each other over a couple hurricanes. They drank a couple hurricanes.

They each potentially forgot exactly where they were or what they were doing because those hurricanes do hit very strong. I have no idea how those things are legal. They give you basically a bucket and say hey go ahead and just don't remember anything for the night shout out for new orleans for doing that it's a blast they had a situation where they talked and i don't know if they had hurricanes or gumbo or what they were eating down there uh and allegedly things are much better than it was before wow sometimes a little sit-down can maybe make some things happen. Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports, which is still a company, says,

despite issues in recent weeks between the Saints and wideout Michael Thomas, sources said the wideout had a productive meeting with head coach Sean Payton, and the two sides are working to move past their frustrations. Was Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson there saying, hey, let's put our swords down? Is that what happened? There had to be some day. How about the wedding, hey, let's put our swords down? Is that what happened? There had to be some day. How about the wedding night? How about when you signed a deal?

Is that what happened? I like seeing this, by the way. People get past situations so that they can continue to thrive together. Russell Wilson, Seattle Seahawks, we seen it. Aaron Rodgers, Gunter Kuntz, Murphy, and everybody else. Is that going to be able to happen? We'll see. This one seems like they're getting back on the right foot.

This is good news, especially for the football team. Whenever your stars get along with the team, that's good news for everybody. See, I assumed it was bullshit. I don't know why. Just because, like, I mean, with how pissed off both sides were. Sean Payton in that press conference, you don't see him like that hardly ever. Michael Thomas' quote tweet and stuff.

I thought this was maybe just them like, hey, we got to put the fire out on this right now before social media kind of carries it to a point where it is irreversible. But you think this is genuine? You think they really did get together and things are much better now than they were two days ago all right let's think back to a time of the past sure whenever you and by the way i'm not saying that this is how it should be now i'm just saying this was something and this was how something was of the past you and somebody don't get along you get mad at each other so mad at each other very mad at each other. So mad at each other. Very mad at each other. You actually might have a physical altercation with that person. You might actually throw a bomb and laying that thing on a jaw or a face somewhere. And that might get returned

from that person that you never thought. And then immediately afterwards, once that entire dump is out of you, whatever emotional dump that you have out of you, it's in those moments where the most clarity comes. Is it not? It is in those moments where you potentially say, all right, I'm done with this shit. And there's the handshake that happens after. Doesn't always. There's some people that we know from our area that are going to hate each other forever. You know, it makes no sense. They fought before.

And then they would fight yet again if they could get the energy back and do it again. It never made sense to me. Thought they should maybe get over it. But we've all seen those types of people. But most of the time, when somebody has it out with somebody, gets loud, gets emotional, a lot of energy, normally you get back on the right side of things. Normally on the other side, there's a moment where it's like,

okay, I respect you a little bit more now. I appreciate what we've been through. Let's learn from this so it doesn't happen again. Maybe that's what happened. Maybe Sean Payton threw a big right, too. Maybe they had it out. Maybe they got an octagon with Jay Glazer. You know what I mean? Maybe they were doing that shoulder thing that Jay does. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, the warm-up thing. I just assumed he showed him a video of James Winston throwing the ball 95 yards and said, you don't want to play with this? You see this guy? He got LASIK. We're going to win every single game that we play in this year. Get your ass to camp right now. Hey, James is throwing the ball 95 yards?

Absolutely not. He said that they had the best running back condoms in the league, and then he corrected himself and said tandems. All right. Combo. Not me. Not me. Jameis.

Combo, tandems. You can see how. Sure, yeah. You know, that's going to happen. But once again, it seems like those types of things do happen much more often for Jameis than anybody else. Unfortunately. And Jameis now at this point

has to be one of the most mentally tough humans of all time. He has put himself into and through in the reaction that has been seen on the other side. That might be a weapon, but Taysom Hill, Storm and Mormon, he's balling as well. Happy birthday, Jay. Happy birthday, Jay. Thank you.

Hey, another trip around the sun, Jay. Completed. Good for you, pal. One more. Good luck on this next one. It's going to be a big one, by the way. This is a huge one for you. Hey, another trip around the sun, Jay. Completed. Good for you, pal. One more. Good luck on this next one. It's going to be a big one, by the way. This is a huge one for you. Big one, Jay. A little bit going on. All right, man.

Good luck with this year, dude. Thank you. Happy birthday, man. Happy birthday, Jay. Congrats on surviving. Thank you. Living. What?

Breathing. What? Working. What? Eating. What? Sleeping. What?

And you're getting married here soon. That's pretty cool, man. Let's have a weekend. I'm going to celebrate the hell out of you. Happy birthday. What? Eating. What? Sleeping. What? And you're getting married here soon. That's pretty cool, man. Let's have a weekend. I'm going to celebrate the hell out of you. Happy birthday. I appreciate you. Now that the world's opening back up, so many new thrills are on the horizon. Okay.

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Roman Ready. There is a massive fight Sunday, August 29th on Showtime. The man that will be involved in the main event has rewritten the history books when it comes to the sport of boxing when it comes to being an independent businessman a person that i am a massive fan of because without him his brother and many a couple others we would not be able to do what we do right now for a living ladies and gentlemen undefeated global superstar boxer Jake Paul What up, dude? Bro, I need to pay you to do my intros all the time Hey, I'm pretty good at them, Jake

It's kind of a thing I do But it only happens with people I actually respect I can't fake it You know, it's tough for me to fake it You know what I mean? No, I appreciate the kind words man and um it means a lot and i'm a big fan of your show aj what watched you growing up man so um yeah happy to be here listen you ohio guys are something special i mean always have been always

will be i'm from pittsburgh aj and i have a great relationship i think because of the massive amount of ohio he is i think watching you jake afar, just, you know, when you're in the spotlight in young ages, as you're trying to grow and develop, you can make some mistakes and the world sees it. I think what you have been able to do and trailblaze business-wise for shows like us and other people, I want to let you know, massive ally, massive fan. I appreciate you for joining us, Jake Paul. 100%, man. Thank you. Thank you trying to change the game make history and innovate pave the way How'd you get into boxing just get bored of making hundreds of millions of dollars dominating the internet or what you say?

You know, I need to get punched in the face. What were you thinking? Honestly, like partially true there I was I was sort of sick of filming. I was like filming every single day for two years straight. And these other YouTubers in the UK called my brother and I out. And we basically signed a deal to fight them. And we had like four months to learn how to box. And I knew that everyone wanted to see me lose because I was like a very polarizing figure at the time like everyone there was like this whole um you know hate wave of Jake Paul so I just made it my mission not to lose and sort of just fell in love with the sport

beat my first opponent and uh just loved the content loved the press conferences loved winning loved standing on the ropes, flexing on everyone afterwards. So I just fell in love with it. Jake, what part of your whole crazy life do you not love right now? Obviously, you're all over the place. You're a unique, polarizing character. Is there anything you wish you didn't have to deal with? You know, I try to live life with like no regrets and and just have like a positive

mindset i think you know boxing um is is something you have to sacrifice so much to to do you know it's the hardest thing i've ever done in my life um and so part of me misses the old days where I would just wake up and do whatever I wanted. But look, I'm having fun, enjoying life. And the critics sometimes will try to ruin what you're doing and hate on you and bring you back down because they don't like to see people succeed in anything. And so just dealing with them and shutting shutting them up that's pretty much it yeah being a star on the internet and not just i mean stars kind of understating it but then watching the mainstream kind of catch up to you and your brother and it's been awesome you know because you now you got people dealing with the paul brothers who i don't think they fully understand everything you've accomplished on the Internet and how hard it is to accomplish what you were able to accomplish on the Internet after your Disney fame and everything like that.

The amount of work that goes into it. But now mainstream people are, you know, they know who the Paul brothers are. They know who the problem child Jake Paul is. Whenever you had that Triller fight and Pete Davidson, I thought for sure that they had to go. Just like the Green Bay Packers with Aaron Rodgers, when they make decisions, they should do it. I thought for sure, since you were kind of introducing a lot of us to this Triller, I had no idea what the fuck a Triller was. I probably should. I'm a social media company. I don't know what that was.

But whenever you were having fights on there, like you introduced me to Triller, I signed up for it. Then listen to Pete Davidson, like the way he was talking the entire time I was like oh Jake must just be like yeah that's cool we'll buy into that whole thing did you expect and then the commentators basically being like oh this is bad for boxing we were like what the fuck like the only reason why this is happening is because Jake has decided and Logan has decided do you guys have a hands-on with the production or are you more so stand off and just kind of work your business and show up and do your thing no yeah so that that was a situation that sort of got out of control um you know i was very involved in the production as much as i could be uh i was the one who like came up with the idea to you know have pete davidson because i thought

he would do a great job and then boom all a sudden, they show up and start talking shit. During the broadcast, I didn't know that that was even happening. Like, I was focused on my fight. And afterwards, you know, my manager was pissed at Triller. And, you know, that was just a nightmare. And you're right. Like, I'm the one who literally hired these guys to be there. And, you know, they're sitting there. They're talking shit. So, yeah, if I ever see Pete Davidson, I'm slapping the shit out of him.

On site, huh? On site? A hundred percent. A good old, like, backhand because he's a bitch. He's a good bop. Yeah, got to do it. This fight is on Showtime pay-per-view. Is it going to be, like are we going to get to see some of the absurdity

that we have seen in the past on some of your fights? I feel like Showtime is more buttoned up, more professional. What you do is professional, love the bizarre like circus atmosphere that surrounds your fights you know i i think there'll be some different elements to it um but it's definitely going to be a lot more buttoned up a lot more professional and more so focused on the fight you know i think i had a bad taste i think even my fans had a bad taste in their mouth after watching that broadcast because they're even my fans like what do we want? Isn't this Jake's event? Why are they talking shit about him?

And so for this one, we kind of wanted to just dial it back, focus back on the fight. And, you know, some people loved the circus thing. Some people didn't like it. So we're sort of just testing out new things within the sport and you will see some awesome things. My outfit that I'm wearing, my shorts,

I've never seen anything like it done before. So there's some cool things. Cool surprises on fight night. But for the most part, it's going to be more professional. Don't wear a 40-pound suit. Deontay wilder lost the fury because he was fucking tired you know i mean walking out to the ring or whatever the mount westmore performance though

love that thieves love that i mean you you made it an event you made it a spectacle which i think was desperately needed not just in boxing but in the world like hey we we need something to entertain us, and I think we did that. Let's get to the fight, though. You know, Tyron Woodley, this is a striker, right? That's the big conversation. It's like, hey, this guy has lightning in his hands, as do you, by the way. That's all you've done is knock people out. Are you training differently, or is this kind of the evolution of Jake Paul,

the problem child boxer, and you're just kind of going to go in there and handle business? Yeah, no, look, I boxer, and you're just kind of going to go in there and handle business? Yeah, no, look, I mean, this is my hardest fight for sure, most serious opponent. And so everything in this camp is more serious, you know. I have to be perfect on August 29th, and this is a guy with knockout power, one of the best welterweights ever.

And I know that, and my team knows that. My coaches know that. And so we're doing everything in our power to prepare for him, doing everything right in camp. And this has been the most serious I've ever trained and the most amount of sacrifices, the most amount of isolation I've ever done. So I'm ready, and, you know, it's been a perfect camp.

But Tyron is a serious, serious opponent. Are you in Puerto Rico? Yes, sir. Hey, you and your brother. I'm wearing my Puerto Rico shirt right now. I think you're like in charge of the tourism department over there. I think as soon as we heard you two were moving down there, we're like, okay, what the fuck's in Puerto Rico? Like there has to be a reason they're going down there. You've kind of just did it to get away, to escape. And then you just fly

back whenever you need to be at a thing. And then you go back to Puerto Rico. Yeah, look, man, I came down here and I fell in love with it. Uh, it's, it's simply paradise. You know, originally I was thinking of moving to miami the beaches and the ocean and you know all that stuff but then i go to the beach i get hit by the paparazzi you know a bunch of people are attacking me on the beach i'm like what's going on i come to puerto rico it's private secluded um and so so amazing here my brother lives right across the street from me so uh you know it's, it's really a perfect situation for training. And the boxing scene down here is incredible.

Like the talent. So there's good sparring and amazing places to train, amazing places to run, amazing gyms. So it's really the perfect place for me to be for the next chapter of my life. You talked about not getting hit in your first two fights. Only professional boxer ever to basically not, or three fights, not to get punched in your first couple fights ever. In those sparring sessions, you know, we've talked to a couple MMA guys and we've talked to, I don't think, have we ever talked to a boxer?

Evander Holyfield. Evander Holyfield, but that was obviously towards the end there. He was not in the middle of his fighting. Are you getting punched in the face in these sparring sessions? Is there off-limit rules? Have you gotten tested on whenever you know you have to eat a couple and bounce back? Has that ever happened before? And in sparring, are you guys going that far, or are you kind of laying off of that?

No. Sparring, we go 100%, 110%. Like, my nose is crooked. AJ Hawks, yeah. I got a little black eye here. Another one over here. Just kind of going away. But I go through real tough moments in sparring.

I'm sparring really, really tough guys. Top, high-level world champion boxers. High-level MMA guys. Bare-knuckle fighters. Those guys are tough. guys are tough there. And they crack me in the face. You know, they, I get hit every day in sparring in the gym. But you know, in the fights, I've just, I've just managed to knock people out. I think when the 10 ounce gloves come on, like I just stopped these people and they don't have enough time to even get to me

that's awesome hey jake you mentioned it you haven't been hit in a fight but where people claim you have been hit is when you crashed your brother's whole situation in miami and floyd's floyd's guys grabbed you and started roughing you up they act like they really pummeled you how'd you feel after that yeah no they uh they they roughed me up pretty good uh they were not happy man i took his hat and uh that was the main thing they were like give us the hat like give us the hat and i was like no no and i didn't want to give it to him and then there was like 10 guys like pushing me down into the cement and i was like all right fine i'll give you the hat i was like all right you want the hat all right so but but floyd got me with a good

uppercut um and yeah i had a black eye but you know i told logan afterwards you know, 10 guys holding me back, both my arms back, my neck extended, my face down and Floyd rips a uppercut shot, bare knuckle hits me in the eye. And I was like, Dan, like that didn't, that didn't even hurt. Like he hit me in the perfect spot. He hit me in the perfect spot where I got a black eye, but I told Logan afterwards, I was like, bro, this guy doesn't have punching power. You're going to beat this guy. I don't know. I love the fact that you just eat an uppercut from Floyd Mayweather.

You know what I learned there? I definitely have a black eye, but the guy didn't knock me out. Hey, Logan, this should feel pretty good going into your fight. Go ahead, Ty. Jake, you obviously know how polar, like how polarizing you are. So you have to have thick skin. But does it ever piss you off when you go into like these fights and you've put all this like time and effort into becoming a boxer and guys still shit on you and underestimate you? Like, does that piss you off at all?

Or do you prefer that going into a fight? It's like, all right, well, no one, no one's expecting me to do anything. And I'm about to fucking put this guy to sleep yeah i guess i guess i don't mind and and i almost think that people are doing that because they don't want to accept the reality of the situation and they're just making excuses for the mma community or making excuses for tyron woodley but you know I think everyone has to see that I can actually fight. And if not, then they're just not ready to accept reality and then I just don't care about those people.

And soon they will respect me. I think I have a lot more to prove and I understand why there are still a ton of critics and i haven't really even been able to show my boxing ability i haven't shown my inside game i haven't showed my cardio i haven't shown my ability to take a punch uh so i think i do still have a lot of respect to earn and um you know i never try to dig into what the critics are saying okay you got a big brain all right you're from ohio so obviously you ohio folks are you know a special fucking breed of human obviously but you have a very big brain it's obvious what you've been able to build

accomplish business wise and also you're bringing a sport back into full relevance i mean you have a massive brain at what point did you say you know what need a fucking robot did you watch avatar and you saw them get into the thing you're like yeah i need one of those when did the robot become a thing because it is spectacular thank you man uh man i'm just thinking constantly how to do things differently and how to brand myself better than everyone else in this sport. And I was thinking like, why do, why does every NFL team have a mascot? Why does every NBA team have a mascot? How come boxers don't have a mascot? And so I literally like started scouring the internet to find the person who could make me the dopest Transformer Problem Child mascot ever.

It is, by the way. It is very sweet. So who, is that the same person? It has to be somebody you very much trust in there, because I think they were getting in Tyron Woodley's face, actually. I think there was a full thing happening. Is there any rules or guidelines on what that robot can do?

He's kind of has his free reign you know he's he's the problem bot so he can cause problems and get away with a lot of shit but he you know he he does talk he does talk a lot he does have a loud mouth uh so it's been pretty funny in the press conferences a business wise anything you haven't accomplished yet that you want to do on how old are you sorry i'm 24 okay so we've seen you since what you're 12 years old basically you just kind of take over and there's been i mean you you shut down vine basically you and your brother shut down vine you created basically this youtuber existence thing at this point.

You're 24 years old. You trailblazed for us to do what we're doing right now and actually be a legitimate show. Is there anything business-wise that you look to accomplish, or right now everything's focused on boxing? You know, I think the boxing and the business go hand in hand. You know, I have my venture capital fund, anti-fund, that I run on a day-to-day basis, which has been crushing it.

That and boxing are sort of my main focuses. Just looking to build some brands here in the next couple of months. I think the overall goal is to become a billionaire. Just to say I did it. I've had the challenge for myself since I was I think 18 years old. And it's not even necessarily about the money. I just think like, hey, if you know that guy over there can become a billionaire, or Joe Schmo can become a billionaire for inventing Billy Bob teeth. You know, I want to challenge myself. and I want to become a billionaire just to say I did it.

Yeah, that'd be a cool resume piece. I also have the same dreams, not because of the cash, but because there's only a few amount of people that have ever been able to accrue that amount of success. I think you're obviously well on your way. Pool Noodle Guy also made a billion, so something to think about. Connor, what do you got?

Yeah, Jake, obviously you're focused on the Woodley fight, but looking ahead, have you ever considered, you know, you and Logan going at it, or are you guys just Team Paul forever, no matter what? No, we've considered it. And I think, you know, everyone sort of wants that to happen, besides our parents. And so my dad, anytime I get asked about it in an interview or is mentioned to him he freaks out

and calls both me and my brother puts us in a group chat and is like no absolutely not this isn't happening like i hate i hate everyone who thinks they want you to do this and blah blah blah it's not worth the money but there's always this like thing between logan and i when we're both boxing even when we're both sparring we're both in the same gym it's always kind of like who who is better so i don't know he's got the reach right for sure on you yeah he's like he's about half inch to an inch taller. And we actually have the same reach. And I'm actually heavier, which a lot of people don't realize. Because he has a massive upper body, but he sort of skips leg day.

And I have these tree trunk legs. So have you ever virtual reality boxed? I don't think I have like these tree trunk legs. So have you ever virtual reality boxed? I don't think I have. Okay, so that's all I do, Jake. That's all I do. I don't want to get punched in the actual face, but I'm in the Oculus. I'm throwing these big bombs. That first time you were in the gym whenever the European guys called you out,

did you know immediately, like, hey, this is what I'm going to love? Was it something you knew immediately? And would you change how you got into boxing any different way? I wouldn't change it. No, but you know, it was sort of rough. The first couple of sparring sessions, I was in there against like an undefeated pro uh named nico for the first couple of sessions and he wasn't really holding back and that's that's how we learned like we learned the hard way i remember my first couple of sessions i was like bleeding out of my face and like i was like what is this sport why are we doing this and i was only able to go like two rounds at the time. So it was a very hard start, and it's been a very long journey since that moment.

But people, you know, always say like, oh, how long have you been boxing or how many years? And the answer is three and a half years. But the quality of those years and the quality of that experience is far greater than three and a half years um so you know you could be doing something for 20 years straight but doing it the wrong way and think you're you're good at it yeah the quality of the hours mean a lot more than the quantity of the hours and jake next sunday august no, couple Sundays, August 29th, live in Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio on Showtime. You'll be fighting against Tyron Woodley, former UFC champion. We're pulling for you and your problem bot, bub.

Awesome, man. I really appreciate it, and I look forward to talking again. Oh, you'll come back on the show maybe? 100%, baby. Let's go. Oh, you'll come back on the show, maybe? 100%, baby. Let's go. Hey, that'd be very nice. You'd be blessing us and we know that right now.

So I appreciate the hell out of you. Good luck in your training. Good luck in your fighting. Can't wait to see you the night, Sunday, August 29th, bub. Awesome, man. I'm going to get this KO. Peace out, guys.

Ladies and gentlemen, Jake Paul. Yeah! Legend in the making, a guy who's going to be able to do whatever the hell he wants in the future. A guy who has already tweeted Dana White and Vince McMahon. Won the Olympic gold medal in buzzer beating

incredible fashion. Ladies and gentlemen, from the University of Minnesota! Gable Dan Steveson. What's up, man? How are you? Fine. Hold on.

I don't think I can hear you. It's probably our fault, not yours. Is there a phone ringing in the back there? Can you hear me or no? Oh, yeah. You sound amazing, Gable. What's up? Hiya. Hey, how was Tokyo, dude?

Pretty good? Tokyo was good, you know. Gold medal, can't complain. Hey, whenever you go over there, this was your first Olympics. Have you dominated everywhere? Is this just something that we didn't know about out here? You see the name Gable, obviously. Then we had heard about you at Minnesota because of the round-off backflip that you did.

It's such a big thing. Then you go into the Olympics and you dominate everybody. Then you get an Olympic... Has it been like this forever? Have you just been the most dominant wrestler in the history of wrestling? I probably wouldn't say that. I think I've done a good job since this point. But I think most definitely a lot of people haven't heard about me

until the Olympic Games happened and I made that stunning final finish. But, I mean, I don't know. Well, the, uh, six and a half seconds left in the Olympic gold medal match. Is it match wrestling match?

Yes. Yeah. Not a game. Come on. Have a little fucking respect. That's on me. That's on me. Me too,

by the way. Six and a half seconds left in the gold medal match. And you're down two or whatever. You just done something amazing to get or you're down one and you get to that point did you and i watched your dad i think in your family watch and it seemed like your dad didn't have any panic either going into that in your mind have you done this before is this a normal thing like a buzzer beating like takedown at the end because for me i was at home watching zero connection to you and i'm just

watching this thing i you know we haven't met yet i'm happy to meet you now i'm honored to meet you now but i'm watching that with six and a half seconds i'm like golly so close our guy like we have our and then you do i jumped up out of my bow i was like let's go dude like did in your mind with six and a half seconds left you just say you think yourself i got to get them down however possible here? Is that something you prepare for? Is that a situation you're used to, like going in there? Can you take me through that?

Most definitely not used to that position because I'm really not even there in a lot of matches. But, I mean, probably in that last six seconds, I mean, I went all the way to Tokyo for three weeks to not come back with a silver medal. You know what I'm saying? I came back. I'm trying to come back with a gold medal. So, in the last six seconds, I was just like locked in if you saw my face on them in the match like no stress no nothing so i just went out there like i'm gonna get my ass whooped so i gotta i gotta score three points to to bounce back in and win this gold medal and somehow i did it and you know

it's just just what happened it was awesome and i think that was the first time any of us had seen you maybe look like maybe the guy was even in your level you know because it was a very I don't want it wasn't easy I assume you're very tired but you 10 run that son of a bitch in like two minutes early and I was like oh yeah this is awesome I didn't even know this was possible what is that a technical tech whatever yeah 10 running somebody you dominated and you just went all the way through doing that and then seeing you have to battle a little bit of adversity there i think as a fan made me dialed in even more so when you were wrestling in college and you're a national champion i believe right yeah numerous times or one just one time we got canceled last year so one time covid would have been two times

would have been two time but just one time right now. Okay. Are you back in school? Uh, not yet. We start in September, but I'm, uh, debating if I want to come back and wrestle, you know, WWE, MMA, play football, who knows? You know what I'm saying? There's the doors open. Okay. So let's talk about your future. Then you have an Olympic gold medal. You have a national championship. You could potentially go back to school and just get another one. Cause COVID took away your resume that everybody else got a chance to go for that is it your level of wrestling um i saw you tweet dana white i saw you tweet vince i just heard you say football there have you done any mixed martial arts has vince reached out to you and have you ever played

football before you seem to be explosive you could probably figure it out uh we'll start with um we'll start with dana i mean dana gave us congratulations um on on instagram dm and so i mean i'm assuming he's gonna he's gonna holler and say what's up uh eventually but vincent man i have not met vincent man personally um triple h has always been the one i've talked to and you guys know paul hayman brock lesnar i know rick flair and a. So he's the one that has hit me up. And NFL, I mean, the Vikings gave me a little tweet, you know, Brock Lesnar played at the Vikings. So, I mean, why wouldn't they give me a shot?

You know what I'm saying? It's just, you know, greatness comes and goes. So I actually, I went to go for football practice with Coach P.J. Fleck and he told me, strap the pads up and let's go. You know, we're going to row the boat till we die you feel me um i was there uh buffalo bills um i guess scout was there he said hey and he's he told me how that i knew the head coach of the bills loved um loves wrestling because he likes the determination the heart it takes and um there's uh there's some guy that i know that has um there's the det Detroit Lions reached out to him about me.

Hey, congrats to you, dude. Seems like the world is kind of your oyster right now. In your mind, what are you going to focus on? You think are you leaning any way? Are you kind of seeing what the right move would be? See who's actually interested so you don't waste your time? Or are you young enough at this point you could probably give it a go at a multitude of things. I'm going to weigh out all my options.

You know what I'm saying? I'm going to take the best options, best for me. At the end of the day, I'm trying to live a comfortable lifestyle. I'm trying to keep my feet up and do my work. So whoever's going to put the best on the table for Gable is who's going to get Gable at his best. So that's all I can do. Hey, I love Gable, dude.

I'm a big fan of Gable. Have you been wrestling your whole life? Did you play any other sports? I mean, funny story. I ran cross country my sixth and seventh grade year. I would come in last, like, every single race. I was running 1.2s in, like, 13 minutes. So, I mean, normally people run a mile in, like, six.

So I was, like, seven minutes late. So, yeah. I mean, I was just this big big dude i mean dick all around just just huffing and puffing trying to get up the hill trying to get to the the finish line so that was kind of that was kind of embarrassing but i mean i did it for wrestling i did it for fun and that was cool and hey if he's here is a shout out to coach hart man he did that up to him a shout out to Coach Hart, man. He did. Shout out to him. A shout out to Coach Hart for sure, Gable. And whenever I think about you, you just talked about it there. You did cross country for wrestling. Going back through high school, I played football, soccer, volleyball,

but it was friends with everybody, you know, and watching what the wrestlers went through. It was just the commitment to beating the shit out of yourself so that you can either make weight or be in shape well enough because you can get god out there you don't play wrestling you can get god out there so the commitment to the craft is something and then just a couple years ago weren't they trying to abolish it or get rid of it basically you you by the way might be a massive part of wrestling still going in america for the time for the future because you becoming this lightning rod what is wrestling it's a tough

road did you have you just you just fell in love with it or how did you get into it oh man i mean first of all my name is gable so i i gotta wrestle somehow because dan gable won the 1972 olympics and here i am gable dan i won the 2021 tokyo olympic game so i mean wrestling has always been in my family wrestling's in my blood um you know how i look at wrestling it's like a it's like do or die it's like life you know i'm saying i'm not when i go out on the mat it's either me or you i'm not trying to die that day he's gotta go so i mean that's just a you gotta have out every time you go out on the mat and wrestling's been in my blood i mean i, I love the action that comes with it.

I love going out there and putting on a show for the people. And I love going head-to-head with somebody and breaking their feelings and just, you know. Because you have a personality. I think there's a lot of robots potentially in the wrestling world or meatheads or hard-o or anything like that. Do you talk during the match or are you normally quiet out there? Oh, there's a lot of times i talk um you know i just say i say a couple things get in his head and just go take him down again you like whisper in their ear like hey hey that cauliflower here ain't gonna do shit for you is that what you do like what happens ah there's some

there's some worse things probably said but you're just i try not to cuss i just i mean in my big 10 finals match i told him he had no chance that's hilarious yeah you're pretty fucked here bub that's an odd that has to be a pretty good feeling have you ever it was the georgia guy uh that you wrestled there in the uh finals i believe is that right the guy was from georgia have you wrestled any of these guys before did you get the chance to see film on them and then is it is it not until you like finally get your hands you're like oh okay this is what i'm dealing with here today is that is there a feel-out process in this whole thing oh yeah most definitely the feel-out i feel like the first 20

to 30 seconds of a match is always like a feel-out unless you don't unless you know the opponent so guys like those guys i've never wrestled in my life they're all like 30 years old um just i just went out there and i don't really like watching film i feel like film like messes up my game plan and so my coaches were watching and they just told me what to watch out for and yeah like i said just feeling those guys out and having that game plan is most definitely something that you need have you always been faster than all the other heavyweights it feels like that is a massive advantage for you you just give a little swoop get to their back well you're down see you later there's two it's over that's what you did the first one when you 10 run the person it seemed like it was the same move every single time and there was nothing that

person could do and by the way i think that was the same move you did with six and a half seconds left right you kind of get their waist get their back and then you do that is that your specialty is that like a gable, Dan, Stevenson specialty? And is that because you're faster than everybody? Most definitely it's my specialty. I mean, I practice that move all the time. Just snap down, go behind. It's so basic.

You know, a lot of people think you need some high-end move to win a big tournament. I think I proved right there that all the kids that are watching, they're going to see that I just did a snap down, go behind, and that your coach will teach you that when you're like two years old, three years old, and I did an Olympic final. So you guys, coaches, go tell your kids to go do that move. I thought we were losing, okay? I thought we lost.

And then all of a sudden that ref fires his hand. If that ref doesn't get his hand up with, what,.2 seconds after whatever, does that still count? Can that go to review? Can that go to challenge? And as soon as you see that hand go up, do you look at the clock and know, like, oh, my God, I just did it? Or did you know like self-aware enough, okay, that was within six seconds. Like when did you know, like, holy shit, I just stole basically this guy's gold medal right from underneath him?

Right when I went behind him, I looked at the clock and it was like 0.2 seconds left. And I threw up my two and I looked at the ref next and he threw up his two. And like there's like a sign in the video like that has like the two that pops up on the blue and I just got up and I was like oh my fucking god I like ran over the coach and I jumped on him and it was like um it was like geez I just I stole and uh I didn't really steal an Olympic gold but like he had it in his hands and he gave it it up to me, and I just took it from him, and it's crazy. Well, stealing has a negative connotation as if you didn't deserve it or earn it, but I would assume whenever that thing gets started back at six and a half seconds,

that Georgia guy who speaks I don't know what language, the conversation that's happening in his head in his language is, I'm a fucking gold medalist. Yeah. This is odd because normally when he just try to delay there a little bit? Just a little stall for six and a half seconds? He could have started out, but he's got to think

about he had to engage because if I would have pushed him out, I would have won the match too. So you had numerous strategies there. If I pushed him out, I won the match. If I circled behind him, I won the match too. So he had to engage or they could have gave him like a caution and won. There's so much that goes into it.

Yeah, I didn't know any of the rules I realized while I was watching. It was very – I knew you were doing well in a lot of the things, but I didn't know exactly how or why you were doing well. I saw the points flying, that whole thing. Did you get a chance to interact with any other sports athletes? For instance, American Taekwondo, 18 years old, Anastasia Zolotich. Did you get a chance to conversate with any of the other kind of like martial arts community? No.

So we were with our own team the whole time. So we started out a place like three hours away. We were quarantined and stuff like that. And then we moved to Tokyo. And then we were in a hotel. So we really couldn't go nowhere. It was was just us we didn't see any other athletes all the other athletes we saw were the women's wrestlers and greco roman and our men's freestyle so that was it so you're literally just living that quarantine life over there in japan three weeks straight

did you sleep on cardboard box beds like everybody else yeah it was bad damn man heavyweight even had to sleep on the cardboard box bed over there he's how they treat the treat the biggest fluffiest dude out there you know i'm saying we should have got a five-star bed something like that come on it's the olympics it's the olympics what is i mean covet i guess congrats on doing that even while sleeping on cardboard boxes winning the gold medal go ahead ty gable when it comes to like the ufc or mma like have you done any training or anything like that with that? Because I assume no one's fucking with you.

So do you know what you have in your hands or anything? Obviously, you're a very accomplished wrestler. But have you practiced boxing and kickboxing and any of that kind of stuff? Most definitely. I've actually been putting on the gloves lately, to be honest. I've been rolling jujitsu a lot. So, I mean, I got the striking just a little bit down. Most definitely need to get a good learning curve, just like wrestling.

I mean, it takes a while to get the hands ready. So, I mean, most definitely I'm working on my hands and I'm working on my ground game. I feel like my wrestling's okay. Pretty good. You couldn't even keep a straight face there. Gable cracked up Gable right there. I mean i mean that was a you cracked me up as well the um the thought of getting into the ufc though before the ufc was a thing and before mixed martial arts was a thing and i think before it really blew up this is what i would say to my wrestling friends it's like i appreciate the

sacrifice you guys are doing like i appreciate the amount of work and what you guys do and by the way if we go to a bar and get into something like i'm very thankful you guys are with us okay the cauliflower here automatically makes us look like a much more intimidating group and if we get into something you're going to be able to handle it i'm very thankful but there was never that professional right it was never it never and then wwe with kurt angle and others, it kind of became the route, but then the amateur wrestling community,

the wrestling community hated the professional wrestling community. Now it seems like there's a lot more of a, like, and that's, I don't want to say like a pipeline, but it seems like if you're a good amateur wrestler, at least now there's places where you can go make some money in your sport, right?

That has to be good news. Oh, most definitely. That's very good news to be honest. I mean, Kurt Angle and guys, guys like kurt angle and brock lesnar really started that out i mean kurt angle won the gold medal with a broken freaking neck went over there to the to the wwe and became a legend a superstar now not kurt angle's name rings bells everywhere he goes i mean brock lesnar won the national title now he's he's a legend in wwe and ufc so those guys right there have have opened a pipeline for,

for guys like me that are going to make a decision here on whether I want to go UFC, MMA, or go play ball somewhere. You know, it's opened a big door for, for Vince McMahon to see me, Dana White,

and anyone else that wants to come talk. Yeah. Paul Heyman, massive brain, by the way. So when I saw you with a picture of Paul Heyman, I was like, okay,

awesome. I am also a massive fan of Paul Heyman, have the utmost respect for him but i think paul hayman potentially you know minnesota pipeline with brock as well but i think whenever he saw you do that round off backflip paul hayman was like oh there's there's a sold out stadium somewhere i think there is potentially that you have all the athletic ability to do everything man it was so fun to watch i'm happy that you did that for the sport of wrestling this past week go ahead connor yeah gabe well you mentioned there's some words that goes into it at the end of the match where you can push a guy out you can go for the takedown do you guys go over that you and your coaches or is that something

that you just kind of aren't prepared for and he's yelling at you like hey you got six seconds you got to get something done uh in the practice room we go over stuff like that we we go over like 30 seconds left in a match we go over like uh 10 seconds the guy's up by one or you're up by one or it's tied by criteria so like we we know how to go get through so uh those positions but realistically like in that type of match like olympic gold medal match like that that six seconds is like last is is straight heart and just determination like you can't you can't teach heart and determination you know i'm saying like you can teach guys that come back from three points in 45 seconds but you can't teach heart like that six seconds was it was it was strategic but it was just straight like i wanted i wanted it more than he did god that's awesome

you made me just want to run through a wall there you know especially hearing that you were living basically like an isolated bear and hibernation and cardboard boxes for three weeks in the middle of japan how's the food do you have obviously a heavyweight you can weigh whatever like is that in my i'm sorry you cut out there say what you said 275 is the max so at 275 are you 275 right now or now 260 something about 60 265 what do you wrestle at what did you wrestle at uh my last weigh-in was 255 that's like the last I weighed in a long time you know I'm saying I wasn't I wasn't eating that much so I was just just locked in to be honest because the food was terrible over there I've been in Japan food's terrible the food our food is fine because they're cooking like american like our our style of food

so we had like it like uh a little lunch room or whatever like i don't know what's in the hotel where like um a meeting room conference yeah conference room we had that filled with like our type of food and they would throw on like the japanese culture and stuff so we were eating good i was just like i was just like so locked in and just like i wanted to win that i was just like barely touching anything so when you're on those cardboard boxes were you playing video games what were you doing to pass the time over there what do you do now as a hobby are you a gamer you work out all the time you put what do you do most definitely back at home i finally got to i finally got to touch my xbox again my war zone but when i was over there me and my homie um aaron were we would just watch movies like we had like a schedule we would wake up go to practice

go watch wrestling and then eat dinner movie repeat every day what movies any good movies get you to the olympic gold medal that you could point at and say hey you know what this character right here really carried me through a time where i was missing america was there any movie that got you there uh we um probably y'all know that movie don't breathe like where the the military dude was blind and yeah new one coming out day before our wrestling i was locked in like the way he was coming about the way they did the blind it was like bouncing back from people slapping them and punching them but he was also like a freak at the end of the movie so i rock with it but um but you drew some inspiration through some parts of the movie like that so like how locked in he wasn't determined

to kill these people and how determined they were to get his money so like i was like you know me i gotta go get my money so i was locked in uh the olympic gold medal where's it gonna live you could put it in a vault a safe are you gonna wear it every day would you wear this out and about i would uh i don't know no i'm not wearing that out and about you wear it every day? Would you wear this out and about? I would. I don't know. I'm not wearing that out and about. You wear it during Warzone? Do you stream? Do you stream with that thing on? No, I don't stream.

But, you know, I actually shot it out of Tfue in like a video. And, you know, he followed me on Twitter. So that was kind of cool to see Tfue follow me on Twitter. And Nick Merckx, too. I want to play with them. So I'm trying to get locked in with a couple people to play with. So I'm trying to do what I can do. Gable, shoot every fucking shot, pal.

You did a lot for America. Everybody was a fan of what you did. We've all fallen in love with you and what you did for the sport of wrestling. You deserve everything. Shoot your shot. Go live your life. Can't wait to see the superstar you become whether that's with the wwe ufc football internet continuing to dominate your wrestling world we appreciate the hell out of

you pal thanks for all the hard work and uh sacrifice for that yeah thank you guys for everything for sure no problem hey i want you know if you need to uh i got heavy hands in the oculus if you're getting in the mma world of ufc and you need anything in the Oculus and fake fighting, I'm undefeated. Just if you need anything. You got my phone number. I'm going to call you probably tomorrow because I'm going to need you. All right. This is what it is.

It's a sternum shot. Okay. And then as you go overhand right, pow, just knock him out every time, Gable. Ladies and gentlemen, gold medalist Gable Dan Steeves. Thank you, Gable. Hey, so sorry to interrupt, but let's talk about dating for a minute. Okay. I've been out of the game for a while, but I feel like I got a pretty good handle on how you guys are living your life out there in the dating world. You're not 22 anymore. And that's a good thing. If you like someone, they'll know. If you don't, they'll know,

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Five and two yesterday. Oh! Gumpy. Five and two yesterday. Oh! This guy who gives out picks publicly Monday through Friday for free every single day, 15 minutes after this show ends at youtube.com

forward slash hammered down, has been on a heater that you're not supposed to be on whenever you're giving out picks publicly. When you start giving out picks publicly, normally the gambling gods say, oh, is that right? Oh, is that right? That's what the gambling... Oh, is that right? That's what the gambling gods say. Somehow, our Canadian shit-painting friend has debunked that entire gambling god thing. He has been on a heater that has been unforeseen.

I have no idea how you're doing it, pal, but I want to let you know, thank you, Gump. Thank you, Gump. Thank you, boys. What are we betting on today? More baseball. We're just hammering baseball. Probably take the Steel, Gump. Thank you, boys. What are we betting on today? What are we betting on today? More baseball. We're just hammering baseball.

Probably take the Steelers tonight in the preseason, too. Steelers-Eagles tonight at Tone Diggs. Also host of Hammered Don, which goes 15 minutes after this show ends. How'd you do last night, Diggs? Are we back on the heater? It's been even Steven, even Steven, even Steven. I've decided I'm done betting baseball, Pat. Oh, bad night for the Cowboys.

Bad night for the Cowboys. Favorites are 78% in the last two weeks. I bet puppies, okay? I roll with the dogs in the mud. I don't want to bet favorites. I don't want to be out here fucking, oh, this is easy. We're betting favorites. Is there beef amongst the Hammerdown boys?

No, he's not betting favorites. What's he betting? First five? Just betting winners. Never heard of it. So, Diggs, I don't want you to lose, you know, any of your confidence as well. You know I never have confidence bet. True, but at least sometimes you at least feel good about yourself.

And I don't want you to think because you are not going 5-2, 5-2, 12-0, 13-1. Just because you're not doing that, you need to remember that what you do with your brain gambling wise, also incredible, you're just sitting next to fucking Babe Ruth. You're sitting right next to Aaron Rodgers. You're sitting right next to our next guest on this show, basically. Ooh. A GOAT, a great, joining us from his attic in Ohio, maybe with some internet.

Not who I was referring to in the last sentence, but I guess it could also go for him, ladies and gentlemen, AJ Hawk. Hey, hey, how's the internet? Yeah, who knows, man? You never know. Minute by minute here, what's going to happen? I want to let you know, you did not send me a text telling me that your internet was back operating. This is quite a surprise. I thought we were without the hawk for at least three to four days because the internet in Ohio is terrible. It's great to have you back. Thank

you. Joining us now is somebody who could be compared to what Gumby has been doing for the last three months going basically undefeated as a gambler publicly with some are calling him the goat already, a goat goat already and has been defined Olympic gold medalist and named synonymous with our best team over the last what 10 to 15 years ladies and gentlemen US women's national team member captain and record holder Carly Lloyd hey what's up? How's it going? You know, it's a lot better now, Carly. Having a little greatness amongst us is good.

You know, this show, his internet's terrible over there in Ohio. He wasn't even able to be a part of the show yesterday because it cut out. The boys in here, we're a bunch of idiots. Having greatness with us is great news. So thank you, Carly. I'm honored. Awesome. How was Tokyo?

How was it? Obviously not the outcome we wanted, but anytime you get out there and break some records and history books, that has to be at least a little bit of a positive, right? It was good. Obviously we went there to win gold. We didn't accomplish that goal, but we came home with some hardware, just a little bit of a different color, bronze metal. So it was good. You know, it was a, it was a really tough and challenging trip. I'd be lying to say it was an amazing trip because with COVID and all the protocols, it honestly was not anywhere

near an Olympic experience, but very grateful that they were able to hold the games and we were able to compete. Okay. So let's talk, you guys are basically our only sure thing whenever it comes to like hey our united states women's national team soccer they are the hey we got the we got the team that's better than everybody through the covet year and is there is it almost like you know it feels like it comes in generations to uh mia brandy and then kind of now this generation has had so much success do you look at the team from you know the run that you guys have been on that has been incredible and then is there a younger generation that's about to pick up the baton and continue to run this thing you think carly um you know i can't speak for for everyone else um but yeah i mean i

you know if you want to look at some of us, our ages, we can't play forever, unfortunately. So it's going to be very interesting to see the next cycle, the next wave of players. But that always happens, you know, a generation comes in and generation leaves. So I think that we're closer to perhaps a generational shift with some players, you know, leaving within the next several years. And that's just the way it goes. So we're going to have to just continue to pass the baton and hope that this next generation continues the winning spirit. Have you noticed anything of those like these younger generations coming up as you've been around for a while and you're a veteran? Like, is it different now coming into soccer than it was when I guess you broke in, really? It definitely was, yeah.

I think just the world we live in now, there's a huge generational shift. I think, you know, the culture is a little bit different, the work ethic, the mentality is a little bit different. But I would say with, you know, the players coming in with the national team, they have the mentality, they have the fight and the grit, we just have to make sure that we continuously bring that because that's what's made this team so successful over the years. I've said it before. I think I said it in some of my interviews, you know, talent alone doesn't get you to the top and talent alone doesn't win you championships. So you need to have the talent, but you also need to have a mentality and a fighting mentality to bring that with it.

Hey, your competitive edge is awesome. Is it in everything? Is it like, we're throwing a bottle into a trash can, you know, cause I don't know much about the women's national team, or I know a lot about our world and our most competitive people are our most successful people. And whatever you're talking about your team, you guys have won so much. So often, I assume it carries into everyday life. Are you competing in absolutely everything in your life, Carly? I am a hardcore competitor. Yes. Especially, you know, when I'm going at my husband, whether it's axe throwing, whether it's mini golf, we are ultra competitive, but that's just how I roll. I've always been like that. Yeah, you have a championship mindset,

but that's just how I roll. I've always been like that. Yeah, you have a championship mindset, which is why I thought, you know, you were potentially going to be the first woman to ever kick a football in the NFL because in between the years, you have this mindset that is unshakable. And then I watched you hit a kickoff off the ground

with Sam Cooke. You murdered that ball. I mean, it was absolutely slaughtered. Did you stick with that? When was the last time you kicked a football? I was excited for that. I was super pumped. We got an Olympic legend coming in and kicking and representing for the brand,

and then it kind of dissipated a little bit. I guess soccer, you know, got a little bit more important. But are we going to kick? Are we going to give in to kicking again, or what's going on? You know, I'm not sure. My day job kind of got in the way of that. So the last time I kicked was at that Eagles training session, which was probably a couple years ago, I guess.

I mean, you murdered that ball, Carly. Full leg lock, too? I mean, not every soccer player can kick a football. That's where I think a lot of people get confused on. They're like, you know what? If a soccer player just goes and kicks, they'll be able to kick in the NFL. It's like, that is not accurate at all. Your swing seems to have a natural transition in it.

You murdered that thing, Carly. I mean, you took more steps than a normal field goal approach, obviously. But let's go. Hey, whenever you're ready, whenever the day job's done, I would like to offer up any potential inside information I can get from other people that are good for you to continue that dream, hopefully. Yeah, it's somewhat similar. I mean, obviously no pads, no helmet. I have quite a few steps there, but I've broken down my technique within the game of soccer so much. So I think that's why it's sort of easy for me to

transition to kicking up a field goal. You know, it's a little think that's why it's sort of easy for me to transition to kicking a field goal. You know, it's a little bit different, but it's similar in some fashion. So I have a friend since kindergarten who happens to be the CFO for this company. His name is CFO Phil. All right. He's numbers stooge. He has to run through all the numbers. He has a beautiful family. His daughter, Bella, plays soccer. And obviously for little girls, not only around this country, but they're around the world watching your team is massive inspiration and everything like that. If you had to speak to maybe you, whenever you were young, trying to make it and break into the Olympics or the Olympic team or anything like that to get into

the pools, what would you do? What would you say to a young girl that was trying to make it into the U.S. Women's National Team and maybe carry that baton for years and years to come? Well, I think it's, uh, it's incredibly difficult. You know, that's why there's a select few that make it to the top and even a more select few that stay at the top for so long. So I think that the biggest thing that I would say is, is embrace who you are, you know, be authentic and be comfortable in your own skin. And don't compare yourself to others. Don't compete against anyone else. Just try to be the best version possible every single day. And, you know, my, my motto, uh, that I live by every day is, is better every day. You know, there's, there's opportunities, uh, that we can all be better

every day in whatever aspect that may be. And you've got to work incredibly hard to, to get to that point. So, you know, that was with my career, um, head down, sleeves rolled up and, and just got to work. I never imagined having a career that I've had, but with hard work and many other things, you know, you're able to achieve any dreams you want. I think your microphone cut out there at the end, but I think you said also Bella, Uncle Pat's the coolest dude to ever exist. I think I heard that. I appreciate you doing that, Carly. Go ahead. That's right. I'm joking. Carly, you said that it was a much different Olympic experience this time

as compared to the past. Was there any ways that you guys kind of passed the time as a team together or was it just kind of locked down for most of it? Yeah, it was pretty locked down. I mean, we were on the road from our send-off games all the way to Tokyo, about 43, 44 days. So it's a lot of time together. And, you know, we would all just kind of hang out in our rooms, pass the time with movies, shows, books, podcasts.

But, you know, aside from training and other team meetings and stuff, that was the most exciting bit of the Olympic games, unfortunately. Did it become, does it ever become overwhelming? I mean, you guys, you know, I mean, with the, everything that happened in the world becoming every, like, I think our show is a nice mental vacation for people because we're way too stupid to be giving them actual opinions on things that matter in the real world we're just talking sports but because you represent the united states and with everything that was going on in the world did it ever become too much to be like not only are you have to be great at oh geez not only do you have to be great at soccer not only do you have to continue to work and continue to get better every single day, but you guys were also becoming like a big part of a political world that was happening out there.

Was there ever a moment where it kind of got too much or nothing that you expected or hard to stay focused on just the soccer and what's going on in the pitch as opposed to everything else that you guys were kind of being, I don't want to say forced, but almost like pressured into becoming? Was that ever too much for you, Carly? You know, I think everybody's different. Um, you know, I, I try to, um, live my life as simple as possible. You know, first and foremost, my job is to be the best soccer player that I can be and to help my team win. Those have been my focus and my focus for, you know, 17 years I've been a part of this team. So, you know, as I've learned throughout the course of my career, you have to block out so much noise. And every year that I've gone on

with the national team, it's been different. You know, uh, social media has obviously come into play a lot more, uh, over this last five, uh, you know, five or so years. Um, but I've just tried to, to be positive. Um, you know, my social media is, is all about soccer. I love quotes. So I put quotes out. Um, that's really the extent of it. So I try to just clear my mind of everything else and focus on what I can control and what matters. And, you know, that's no different what I did this this past trip to to Tokyo, you know, just blocking out everything and making sure that I'm prepped and ready to go. Do you have big plans for whenever you hang them up and you don't want to play soccer anymore? I think you could be a great TV commentator, I'm sure, talking about soccer, maybe an analyst for the games, coaching.

I don't know. What are your plans? Movie star. Yeah. I'm not really sure. I do clinics, like one-off clinics, where they're just in and out in two hours. I enjoy doing that. I would love to travel more and hit up more cities to be able to do these clinics. My schedule over the last several years has obviously been really tough. not sure I want to do the commentary route. I think that it's a lot of preparation. It's not easy by any means. And I'm not sure that I want to travel and be having to do all that, but I enjoy speaking. So hopefully things start to kind of open back up again and be able to go to colleges,

companies, corporations and whatnot and speak about my story. And then, you know, I'm not sure after that. Obviously, I want to start a family with my husband. I want to do things before starting a family, have some me time, because once you have kids, it's pretty much all over. That's what I heard. So that's what I have in mind right now. That human that asked you that question has seven kids right there. No way.

Yeah, he does. He has seven children out there. It's absolutely, well, whatever the case. I mean, it seems like they're sitting there flying around. I would love to have a Carly Lloyd Clinic in Pittsburgh for, I don't know how we go about doing that, but that would be fantastic. Carly, thank you. We're talking to Carly Lloyd, obvious U.S. women's national team legend.

Ty Schmidt, go ahead. Carly, I think it was the last World Cup that you guys were in. An article came out that was like dubbing you guys the ugly Americans. Because you have beaten the hell out of teams for so many years, like is that palpable when you guys go to tournaments? Like, oh, everyone here hates us and we're getting their best shot. And do you guys feed off that? I think, you know, being a part of this team, we've always had a target on our backs. We've been the number one team for a really long time. We win. We always find a way to

win regardless of what it may look like. So that comes with the territory. But I think it's really important to have a mindset that we aren't the number one team in the world, because teams are catching up to us. Teams are pushing us to be even better, which is what we want to see within the women's game. I think you saw that this Olympics, you know, teams are fit, they're strong, they're sharp. Tactically, they're so much better. So, you know, long gone are the days where we just kind of roll up to a game and it's an automatic win. That's good for the sport, right?

Oh, absolutely. I mean, you want to see this. You know, look at Sweden. Canada, you know, they came away with. Oh, we hate Canada, Carly? Hey, we got a Canadian in here. We hate him, too. Canada stinks.

Canada stinks the worst, dude. Hate him. We don't like Canada. But it's really good. It's really good for the sport. So that's what we want. Carly, you ever do this before? What?

What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What?

Very impressed. Try your left. The left foot ain't worth a damn. That's why I kicked balls for a living with one leg. That's all I needed. Carly, incredible career thus far. Can't wait to see what you continue to do on the field and in life. We appreciate you so much for allowing us to be a part of your life here on this beautiful Thursday.

Appreciate it. Great chatting with you guys and all the best did you say you guys were just listening to our podcast over there i think i heard you say that the whole time no yeah yeah ladies and gentlemen hey she was cool man that was awesome whenever she got this show, there was no way in hell she thought, you know what, I should go do that show. I'm very thankful for her. She has most goals in U.S. women's national team history. History, I believe. In Olympic history probably, right?

Olympic history. She just beat what? She beat out old Abby Wambach. Oh, really? Yeah. Abby was an assassin on the field. Yeah. Rude Van Nistelrooy of the women's game.

That's right. Abby Wambach. Uh-huh. Undefeated. Hey, Bella was watching that, though. Phil said he was going to force Bella to watch it. She has school? They do school?

Yeah, what the hell? I thought school started. Bella, get your ass in fucking class. I mean, it's summertime. If they should do year-round school? No, I thought school started early now because of the COVID. Summertime. And class is easy.

They're all Zoom calls, and they get A's and B's. I don't even think it matters anymore. I'll FaceTime with Phil whenever they're in the middle of that quarantine thing. And in the background, Bella was probably in history class. I think little Phil was in some other class, and the youngest was just running around i think naked just causing a complete chaos there's no way actual grades happen are you worried about the the schooling now i mean this is quite a diversion here but

isn't i mean did school even like if people are watching the zoom calls that's all they're really looking for right it's brutal it's really tough for especially young kids like i have uh i had a second grader and a fourth grader and when they had zoom like the beginning of the covet back whenever it started they had like three months of just zoom and yeah they can't you're gonna pay attention for six hours on a zoom when your teacher's talking like it's impossible luckily we've got them into a school where last year they went to class and we're actually there yeah god bless them too for that. And they're right, AJ.

What? The school you guys got them in, they are learning about Noah out there. Oh, really? Yeah, I mean, that's... Heavy, heavy. Oh, so it's very serious by the book, right? Oh, yeah, hey. Hey, hey.

No, no, no, the sequel, though. Uh-huh. The sequel. It is actually the sequel, I believe believe is the one that aj's got his kids and i don't want to give too much away but i think everybody kind of understood that these are wooden pews these things are not sure these are not comfortable pews you are not coming in here to have a good time you are coming in here to thank the lord for what you have here thank you lord get the hell out. I'm happy I wasn't a parent through this entire thing because I would honestly be telling my kid, or if I was, I mean, it's my duty, I guess,

to look out for my child, and I don't know how Sam would feel about this, so this would be an entire conversation with her as well. But I'd rather have my kid watch Carly Lloyd just do interviews all day than go sit in a Zoom class where they're fake paying attention and something happened on a goddamn screen.

It would have been tough for me to say, hey, you got to sit down and stare and listen to this person that went to school to tell you stuff. Like, it would have been very, very difficult for me to do. So good on all you parents out there getting through. Yeah.

Good job, parents. Hey, there's a lot of rules coming out now with these stadiums, AJ, and it's great to see you. We didn't get a chance to chat with you yesterday. We'll talk about hard knocks and Big Mike being an absolute fucking star, a guy that you love. We'll do that in a little bit here to get your take on that. But the

ticketing and mask mandates in these stadiums is getting very interesting. The Baltimore Ravens came out, I think, yesterday or two days ago and said, if you come to a game to watch us play here at M&T Bank, I believe, Field or Stadium, places loud, does not get anywhere near the amount of credit it deserves for the atmosphere that they create down there. As part of the new protocols for Ravens games played at M&T Bank Stadium, this season all ticketed fans are required to wear an approved face covering at all times when in an indoor area of M&T Bank Stadium, regardless of VAC status and less actively eating or drinking per team.

That came from jocene anderson okay so baltimore says when you go up take a a leak or buy something or go into concession area that's covered got to have the mask on if you're in suites got to have the mask on if you're out in the bowl seems like you're going to be okay don't have to wear the mask now this has led to other places coming out with their own mandates and maybe this is gonna we're probably gonna see more of this as we go. Buffalo is you've got to wear a mask regardless. You go to a stadium in Orchard Park, you go up there, Buffalo Bills,

Bills Mafia, whatever you're doing in the parking lot, going through tables, throwing ketchup and mustard all over and doing whatever the hell you're doing, drinking all the Labatt's you could possibly drink. When you get in the stadium that is very much a bowl and wide open, have to wear a mask everywhere. Indianapolis, Lucas Oil Stadium, it is recommended but not required. This is going to be another step in the entire rollout post-COVID, or are we getting back into?

Oh, no. AJ, your thoughts on all these things that are being released here in the middle of preseason and it's only going to become a bigger story as we go and get closer to the regular season kicking off well i mean we knew i feel like you you felt this coming that stuff like this is going to happen but my question is this on the owner or is this on like the city the local rules the local protocols do we know what each stadium, like who's making these protocols? Okay, so it's fascinating because here in Indianapolis, our mayor, okay, he cared.

Hogshead. Hogshead. He cared. Okay, that's Diggs' thoughts. Everybody has their own thoughts. He cared about humans more than anybody else. That's why he refused to open this place up. That's right.

Other states that in cities that were maybe more locked down than anywhere else on earth opened back up but here in indianapolis the mayor said i need to see some more numbers okay he cared about people more than anybody else cared about people so bravo to him for caring about people thank you joe thank you for thinking for me joe thank you thank you thank you Joe. Thank you, Joe. Can he count on your vote next election? I think it's going to be tough for Joe to get back in. I think it's going to be tough for Joe. I think Joe knows that.

I'm not in the political world, but I think just the feel of the city since, you know, and I think a lot of local government, by the way, is going to be looked at through a magnifying glass a lot more than ever in the past. You go vote and you vote on the local thing it's like yeah who gives a fuck all right now i think a lot of people that are going in there going who's in there get them out whoever isn't in there get them out i think that is potentially going to happen so not just joe going to deal with this i think the entire country is probably gonna have to deal with the turnover of local leadership if i had to guess not i'm sure not in the political world that is just a hypothesis for the future if i had to guess

joe is going to fall into that category i do believe but he was the only one that said nobody's allowed in our stadium okay he was 31 teams said you can fill up the stadium full we'll be at full capacity mayor joe hoggs had told the colts not yet all right so that went weeks and weeks and weeks and then officially it was announced it will be filled, and now the mask mandate is not mandatory but recommended. So I don't know if it's the local authorities with the team ownership. I don't know. You assume that local authorities are running all of this because that's what it has been for the last 13 months or whatever, but I'm not 100% sure if it's teams taking control and making their own decisions

or if it is also local authorities kind of weighing in on that whole thing. Well, and it seems like when everything was rolling out, it was state by state. So you've got to assume that they're talking to somebody. But do you think that eventually they're just going to require vaccination cards if you don't want to wear a mask, or they're just going to say mask or no mask? So Buffalo Bills ownership, though, might be putting this in because they feel like they're doing, like, even if the state doesn't have the rules or the local,

maybe Buffalo Bills are like, we're doing like even if the state doesn't have the rules or the local maybe buffalo bills are like we're doing our part like you know you never you never know like how owners feel or how how organizations might want to take a stand or do something like that you never know like honestly you never know so i i don't think we can broad brush paint like the local authorities are making these decisions uh because i have no idea but it's going to get because what if they have to start going down percentages of stadiums being filled yeah what if that has to happen again because of Uncle Delta and in lambda what what Delta Tau what Delta plus what and Delta tri Delta what and Alpha Phi Delta and the Alpha Delta Betas.

Those ones will get you. They spread through the eyeballs. Don't even fucking look at each other. COVID Alpha Beta Delta does. But honestly, it feels like there's going to be more of this conversation in China. I mean, hopefully, this is where they're starting. You would think the next step would be they're going to start reducing capacity

and keeping people separated. We hope we don't get there but if they can obviously the rules the protocols and everything could ramp up to where they could limit capacity but hopefully we can also go the other way too right if something changes though they could take the mask off they can not have as many restrictions right there is a lot of people that are not happy about any of this man isn't it yeah i mean just both sides both sides people are pissed but the anti-vax people are pissed because oh now we all go back to the rules whenever we didn't even have it you guys are doing your little thing i didn't want to do it you're if i die i die yeah let me do that and then the people that got vaxxed were

like you motherfuckers i did this and now i'm gonna have to go back into this because you're doing that and this is a standoff and it's not a political party affiliation standoff by the way and i think that is continuing to be confused i know people in my timeline and this is how i judge the real world that are all the way on maybe the furthest left part of these wings i guess that there are and then there's some people that are cemented in the right in that have popped up in my timeline and both sides hate it both sides like it and that's why i don't know if there's ever going to be i mean rogan i mean rogan anytime oldan who has what, 20 million people listening to his shows, whenever Rogan, 10 million, that clip probably seen by 50 million people, whatever it is, whenever he comes out and goes, hey, we're one step away from a dictatorship.

I mean, that is that is like a great depiction of how one party feels. And then you can just turn on any news and be like, this is how nothing by party. I mean, in this particular case, not political party in the Vax non-vax party. And then the other it's this is going to get ugly for a long time. Who knows how long it lasts? I just hope there's fucking NFL football, dude. I fucking hate it. Just got to sit down and watch Man 101 together.

That would help. Sting did put out episode two. Sting did put out episode two or three. He did. It was good. It wasn't quite as good as the first episode, but it was good. No, the first episode was him putting together that pottery. There are multiple characters.

Yeah, the planning. No, you guys are talking about... Was that the second episode? The neon green relish. Yeah, that is not Man... That's not 101. Oh. That's not Man 101?

That was Man 101, but that wasn't the first class. No, because I did see him give a guy... Blast a guy off a boat for one episode of Man 101, but that wasn't the first class. No, because I did see him give a guy, like blast a guy off a boat for one episode of Man 101, too. Yeah, and there was another episode where he literally went to Lowe's, I think, and got two by fours and built a thing to hold the shit that's under plants. Like a compost deal. Boom, compost box. That's what he built one of those.

That was Man 101, and he even gave it at the end. So I think there's been numerous episodes. It does feel like he has potentially found a season here, though. Yeah. Okay. We are on season three, I think, of this one. Put them together, sell them on Netflix, and let's make this fucking thing go. Let's get to a break.

Is the beer helmet in play? What do you mean? Well, if you have the beer helmet with two straws, you probably don't have to wear a mask if you're drinking the whole time. So there was a chance that I potentially have to in some places that may be traveling to, to do something where

mask might be mandatory full time. Okay, this is in the future. Not whatever. Unless you're drinking or eating. So I just assumed I was just going to have a straw in my mouth at all times. But the beer helmet is. That's the cheat code. Quick solve. Everyone get

very, very drunk at the games and then drive home. COVID hates alcohol. I was going to say COVID hates alcohol. That's what the local government's doing, Pat. It just stinks, just what we've been saying. Now it's full stadiums months ago and the whole time you're mentally thinking, hey, we're going to have full stadiums and now that we're here, everything's going back.

Not everything. Not everything. Not everything. This show, we'll stand on the side of, hey, they'll figure it out. Is Ty wearing a costume today? What do you mean? It's not a costume. He's honoring the Field of Dreams game.

What's your deal? Oh, okay, cool. Now I get it. He had some shit kickers on earlier. He did take them off. Yeah, they don't show up on camera, so I said, fuck it, I ain't going to wear my shit kickers. I'll wait until I'm back in the field with those. Can't thank you enough for allowing us to penetrate your ear holes on this beautiful Thursday.

Thanks to our guests for allowing us to, you know, ask them very dumb questions and hopefully get some above average answers in the listeners eyes. I hope you felt that way. I mean, new guests here, huh? This is the bookers paying off. I think, I think it's what we're watching happen right now. All right. Feel good Friday tomorrow. Massive show coming tomorrow. I mean, big time show to throw you into a big weekend, hopefully. Then Smackdown's happening in Tulsa, Oklahoma tomorrow night. You know, there's preseason games happening. Football season's around the corner. Summer slams next week. Oh my God, let's go. Be a friend. Tell a friend if you enjoyed this.

If not, just act like it never happened. Ty, please play some independent music and propel these people into a beautiful Thursday night. Hashtag in the pod squad. I appreciate you so much. Cheers. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.