The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 626 - Will Smith's Smack Heard 'Round The World, Kirk Herbstreit, Ian Rapoport LIVE From The League Meetings, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: March 28, 2022

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about Will Smith smacking Chris Rock in the mahth last night at the Oscar's and all the fallout that has ensued since the slap happened, they recap their nightmarish travel weekend, Pat being 6 days away from his fight at Wrestlemania, and everything else happening in the world. Joining the program to chat about his new gig in the booth alongside Al Michaels for Amazon Thursday Night Football is friend of the show, the voice of college football, and now one of the voices of the NFL, Kirk Herbstreit. Pat and Kirk chat about how the Amazon job came to be, how this is going to change his schedule for this coming year and if that's something that worries him at all, building chemistry with Al Michaels in the booth, why he's excited to call NFL games, how quickly this whole process moved, how difficult it is for him to turn his brain off during the football season, and much more (13:09-55:57). Next, joining the show LIVE from the NFL league meetings in West Palm Beach is NFL Network Insider and friend of the show, Ian Rapoport. Pat, Ian, and AJ chat about what is being discussed at the league meetings, what kind of information we'll learn from the meetings, if any marquee free agents are going to be signing anytime soon, and everything else we need to do about the NFL as the meetings continue to happen (1:12:06-1:40:57). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show, and listen on Sirius XM Channel 82, Mad Dog Radio. We appreciate the hell out of all you. See you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello beautiful people! It is Wrestlemania Monday, March 28th, 2022. This sports show shall begin now! Can't thank you enough for joining us. There's obviously a lot to talk about and we will dive into all of that. We are six days away from my Wrestlemania debut, my debut, in which I will beat the hell out of some insufferable douche named Austin Theory. Can't thank you enough for joining us here at youtube.com forward slash the Pat McAfee show. The toxic table is here at Ty Schmidt at Boston Connor rocking a Trashers jersey.

Whose is that? Whose jersey is that? Well, funny enough, Pat, I was selected by the Trashers, so it's actually mine yeah that's right i'm playing goalie next week just a quick heads up the chair you're sitting on has a back oh what turns yeah all the way to it when you just turn yeah it's just what you see is the back you see how i just did that you see the top of the tarp no well we could see bell okay so there you go. Ring the bell.

My name's on the back. Congrats. Thank you. Light up the light. Very pumped about it. Light up the lamp. Ring the bell. Hey,

ring the bell. Connor Campbell is part of the evil empire. Goddamn right. What a weekend. Yeah, unbelievable. Mostly.

We got a chance to, I mean, we almost died. Yeah. We got a chance to meet the Galante family this weekend. Wow. Traveled up to Danbury, Connecticut.

Now, Zito and I had met the Galante family before, but we all traveled up there. We shot a little something-something that should be debuting this week. They have a massive announcement to make. We were honored to be a part of it. And, God damn, the Gobble Ghoul was fantastic. Unbelievable. Connor's now part of the evil empire

I believe there's a couple other jerseys that'll be debuting as well this week it is an honor it is cool it was a fun weekend good to see you guys out and about in public yeah it was fun Pat thanks for bringing us along and not to mention you know we had a nice little pool time on you know Friday night so it was a good time pool time

in billiards you mean billiards excuse me at tone digs is here one half of the hammer So it was a good time. Pool time. Yeah, pool. And billiards. You mean billiards. Oh, billiards. Excuse me. Excuse me. At Tone Diggs is here. One half of the hammer. Done. Cowboys.

So Tone, Connor, Zito, Foxy, and Nick traveled with me to Brooklyn for the SmackDown. We fly into Teterboro, standard. Hour and a half flight. Hour and 40 minute drive for 11 miles. Yeah. From Teterboro to Brooklyn.lyn new york's back yeah new york is all the way back i mean i was fucking miserable yeah like legit miserable wow city's still dead like didn't see a lot of stuff going but the traffic's still there so i don't know where everybody's going i have no idea but it was great to be back in new york city great to be back

in you know beautiful teeterborough area then we flew up to danbury connecticut on you know an interesting flight where we all thought we were dead yeah first time um that we had all thought digs popped the xanax five minutes into this 30 minute flight the xanax didn't hit until afterwards and it was very obvious the way digs looked the way connor connor had his shirt over his face at one point. There are some photos from that flight that are not staged, that people are going to think are staged. Nick almost put me in a rear naked choke a couple different times when the plane felt like it was falling out of the sky.

Worst flight we've ever had. So much so, actually said, I'm not getting back on that plane. Did not get on a plane. Found another plane in Connecticut. Flew home with a completely different company. Played Live Like You Were Dying while we were driving around on the runway in Connecticut when we landed.

I had a text typed out to my wife saying goodbye in case I was going to send it right before we hit the ground. Yeah, because you'll get service at that point. Because the Wi-Fi on the plane was obviously not great. Yeah, this is not get service at that point. Because the Wi-Fi on the plane was obviously not great. Didn't exist. Yeah, this is not a staged photo. Nope. This is actual photo from flight Saturday from Teterboro, New Jersey to, I forget where we were, Oxford, Connecticut or something like that.

30-minute flight. It could have been like eight minutes, had to fly around New York. 30-minute flight. Everybody in there felt the way these two that is an actual picture uh just because um you know i'm an asshole i think people know and i would like to let you know like even if i'm gonna die i am the same person i am like i am the same person i there's moments of like like i even grabbed the chairs a couple bit i'm like oh this is it but whatever you have zero control over anything you feel like you're gonna, I have already faced this a few different times in my life.

I've thought on those planes. This one's the worst we've ever experienced. But I've decided that I'm going to go down just like how I went up. You know, like, hey, I'm going to do this. So I was trying to take some photos so we could remember this. When I turned around, well, somebody could see how we did. When I turned around and saw Connor like this with his face, and this was probably in the middle of one of our 5,000-foot drops

or whatever it was, and then Diggs was just literally full hand on face the entire time, eyes closed. I go, boys, smile for the photo, and that's Connor put his right hand up for me to get the fuck out of his face, basically. Yeah, there it is. He's going to get out of it.

Yeah, it was, hey, boys, it was great to be alive he's going to get out of it yeah it was uh hey boys it's great to be alive yeah seriously it wasn't just turbulence this was straight free falls yeah a lot of them yeah the pilot was interesting yeah it was potentially pilot air and we had our eyes on the pilot and there was a lot of hand shaking it was like oh this guy's never flown a plane before happy to be here uh nice guy amazing of course need to let that be known yeah yeah great guy trusted us with his bag at one point but also give me a fucking asshole if the guy can fly good yeah don't care or girl by the way i've had some female pilots that were like not very nice to me as i got on the plane

that like super fell i'm like all right cool i don't get hey don't give a fuck point a point perfect flight yeah i've had some dudes super duper nice to me great flights that's awesome then i've had an experience here super nice to me horrible plane terrible i mean horrible flight i mean it was bad uh so we left that plane and so we'll get on another one yeah i'm never stepping foot on that plane again actually interesting situation if you're a plane company like i think i am in the market looking for a new uh flight weekly and then also we have to buy a plane immediately very expensive from what i've been told about oh it's so pricey it's so pricey well you don't have to worry about potentially getting

onto a tin can that is not supposed to be in the sky and then you don't know who your pilots are we're gonna potentially die anyways that's a lot of negative drama inside had to get it out there so that it is documented for the documentary eventually let's move on to the good stuff here will smith my god will smith said hey i'm about it about it you want to talk about my wife like that huh keep my wife's name out your fucking mouth he screams as we hear uh the entire oscars community who is all about love oh yeah all about love they attack a lot those people attack a lot of people that are barbarian and uh you know idiots and resorting to violence we handle this uh diplomatically and everything like that will smith best actor. Congrats. Yeah.

You did it, Will. Face of Hollywood. Face of Hollywood. Front and center right at the stage. Walks right up to Chris Rock after a joke. I died! Now, if you watch that back in slow motion, his feet were not set.

No. Like in a proper leverage standpoint, which is interesting. A lot of people mention the Ali movie where he did a lot of training he seemed to have forgotten all of that in the moment because his left foot was still in the air almost as he was smacking

took it out of his pocket didn't bring it from the back at all there was no windmill, no wind up from right here and Chris Rock by the way I believe leaning in to hear what he had to say wham right now eats that fucking thing. And turns his head right back and goes, excuse me?

Will Smith just smacked the shit out of me. And he said, oh, I have so many things I could say. I wonder, the entanglement world is probably just sitting right there. What we learned from this, Chris Rock has a fucking great chin. Yeah. Still got his fastball. Oh, yeah. Enough to get somebody to get up out of the crowd and smack him.

I believe he's going on tour soon. I will go check it out. Yeah. Was not planning on it, but I will go check it out. Will Smith can't take any jokes anymore, especially whenever his wife, who has put him into a lot of interesting situations. I understand. I love, love.

We all love, love. But I believe she has put him into a lot of awkward spots. I think. I love, love. We all love, love. But I believe she has put him into a lot of awkward spots. I think he was laughing at the joke, turned and looked at her, and she goes, that's not, remember I'm a la. Alopecia.

I have alopecia. That was very rude what he just said. And Will Smith goes, fuck, all right. I got to go do this. So big winner of this, Chris Rock and his jaw. Big loser of this,

Will Smith and his wife. Everybody will move forward the Academy though have to make sure everybody knows this the Academy is thinking about stripping Will Smith of his best ass back to Oscar wow that would be a real shame

because I do believe like Weinstein has a bunch probably and I think there's a lot of other people that got a lot of Oscars that we've learned a lot about I'll be interested to see where they draw the line. I'll be interested to see who gets to keep their Oscar and who doesn't. And with all that being said, give Reggie Bush back his fucking hat. Seriously.

Alright. Jeez Louise. Give Reggie his Heisman. I mean, the guy didn't do anything. Especially nowadays. It's all modern. But I guess the Academy's probably trying to get out in front of this and say we can't just have people getting up and smacking people in the mouth uh physical violence is never the answer pat will should know better as a role model yeah just with that being said sometimes it is though like i'm not saying last night i'm not saying last night is at all and by the way will

smith i think he's like a comedian kind of oh yeah is he kind of a comedian yeah really but i think he did get his wife didn't get oh yeah she definitely she didn't get the joke so she kind of doing the whole thing turned that into a whole situation yeah but i just to be honest chris rock still got it same thing happened in troy women are always starting wars um it's not just in troy but you can run it run down love by the way it's not women love love love you're right do you think he when he got up out of seat seat, he knew what he was going to do or he discussed it with himself

on the walk? And why did he do close hand? Just because it's more violent? No, that's all because of King Richard. Well, allegedly, Chris Rock is not charging or pressing any charges. But let's assume California is going to, though, because California has nothing else to spend

their money and time on. Right? I mean, that is something that if California is anything like though because California has nothing else to spend their money and time on right I mean that is something that if California is anything like California we know they're going to try to put him in jail for 20 30 years and they are going to spend every dollar that they can find in between the homeless poop on the ground to make sure they get the proper prosecuting attorney to go ahead and do this whole thing it was crazy it was wild it came out of nowhere and to be honest I think it was the only thing that I can take away from the Oscars is being like,

oh yeah, I didn't know any of those fucking movies. King Richard, I knew of it. I haven't seen it. I've heard it's great. People are telling me Dune was fantastic. I had no idea that was out.

I had no idea that was out. I'm on a microphone every single day. I'm on the internet all goddamn day. I had no idea Dune was a movie. I guess it's great. Coda, fucking I wish I would have known about this it sounds like an incredible like monumental uh historic movie bringing the deaf folks together and the non-deaf folks together and one piece had no idea about that movie existing they had all these yeah this is my actual tweet i haven't watched in a while so i apologize are the os Oscars for movies that haven't come out yet?

Or did I miss all these movies? That's a real thing. Ty, you are the film expert here. I didn't know about any of these fucking movies. I didn't know any of these people. And I haven't watched in a few years. Is this just a new status quo? And what the fuck happened?

Yeah, kind of. Oscars are officially dead. You're right. They needed Will Smith to smack Chris Rock in the mouth for anyone to be talking about it because if they wouldn't have, no one would be talking about the Oscars today. You're right. At this point, it's like I used to try to see every

single movie that was nominated for Best Picture. Not only are movie theaters pretty much dead, but at this point, it's just like it's not for everybody. It's just not. If you're just like a casual movie fan, you're never going to watch the Oscars. I tried to tune in for a little bit. Same deal.

I was like, shit, I haven't seen any of these. Why am I even wasting my time with this? And then, boom, we get to smack her around the world. And it's like, okay, well, I'm glad I tuned in. I was happy I was watching this. It was sweet. I fell asleep shortly after Smack. Seen the world react.

Fell asleep. Woke back up to pee. He was giving a speech. Yeah. About being a vessel of love i'm like tough love protector tough love this guy that's his first ever oscar yeah he should have got a second oscar for the speech he gave afterwards and those crocodile tears he had i was watching uh uh kfc you know he does an entire breakdown of everything that's happening

in the world at all times and uh he said that it was a terrible speech. He said it was a bunch of rambling and mumblings and fumbling all over the place. And I guess in the middle of it, he talked about King Richard being super protective of his family. And KFC said that would have been a great time to immediately go, as am I. Yeah, right. Me too. I was waiting for that too. So he didn't.

That's what he was hinting at. But you could tell he was still all heated up, and so it didn't come out as cleanly as he would have liked it to, I think. Well, joining us now is another man that watched the Oscars because we did share text messages last night about this entire situation. Obviously, the face of college football and one of the staples of college game day, an absolute icon, but now he will be known as the greatest booth in the NFL on Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime alongside the GOAT Al Michaels, ladies and gentlemen, NFL broadcaster, Kirk Herbstreit.

Yeah, Herbstreit! How we doing? Hey, welcome to the men's league. Welcome to the men's league. Welcome to the men's league. You've been telling me about the men's league, so now it's official. Last night, man, I was texting with you back and forth because I was with you like, I haven't seen any of these movies. Like you guys were saying, I used to watch it and, you know, majority of the movies.

And then, bam. Will. And I was like, this is a bit, right? They're goofing around. There's no way it's real until we got the unedited version when he sat down. Because my audio, like yours, went out for like 10 seconds. You missed all that. And then about 10 minutes later, the unedited version came out.

I think you and I were texting back and forth that. And it was like, oh no, this is very real. That was a real thing. And Diddy, by the way, Diddy said that they were going to make up at the gold party. Shout out to Beyonce. Having a gold party there where, you know, everybody was able to set aside their differences. Saw a little bit of Will Smith getting jiggy with it.

Rapping to the crowd, having a good time with his Oscar. That was fantastic. So I guess they're past it. But the Japanese version, I believe, is the one we saw, right? Yeah. The Japanese version was that. And I wonder how the Academy told the English version one, hey, we need to freeze everything and do that.

And they just didn't get the word to the Japanese conglomerate. Like, hey, we need to freeze everything and do that and they just didn't get the word to the japanese uh conglomerate like hey we need to hide this because but because that thing was gone i mean the international feeds were like yep this is actually what happened over there everybody needs to see it boom boom boom the guy that put that out his name's like tim bubba i forget bubba something i forget his name i apologize that thing had over a hundred thousand retweets hundred000 retweets. 100,000 retweets. I guess boom, boom, boom, going.

Everybody saw it. He touched on it, but the thing I took out of that once I realized it was real is Chris Rock. I mean, not only standing up and taking it, but then starting to try to communicate with, like, man, it was a joke. Seriously? Did you just do that? And then he kind of started to, like, go at him. And then he gathered himself. And then he just tried to give away, you know, the next Oscar.

But to put yourself in his shoes. I mean, you've got to be really impressed how he kept his composure. And the fact he stood to take that smack that was impressive hey congrats Chris thank you Chris a lot of people were wondering if it wasn't Chris Rock instead of The Rock would have Will Smith have done that I mean these are all things that we're going to have to find out

at some point but Chris Rock taking that eating it alright let's get to the documentary. That is. And then he also, he called it in the moment, the greatest moment in live television. And by waking up this morning, any of us that have Instagram or any of our social media feeds, it was all that was anywhere. I mean, there was a couple other words trending alongside.

One that rhymes with duck. Right. There's a lot of other stuff that happened out there. Will Smith is taking it on the shins this morning, as he should, by the way. Excited to see how that pans out. Chris Rock's going on tour soon, Herbstreet, so let's see. There has to be at least

five to ten. There has to be at least five to ten on that, Herbie. If it's in Indy or Cincy or anywhere close, you guys call me. I'm coming with you guys. They are coming into he is coming into so we'll check it out let's talk hey let's talk about your full schedule all right because you just added something and we have you know been big fans of yours for a long

time we've gotten to know you now even bigger fans of the human you are especially to us you've always been super cool to us but your schedule has been wild right i think we've all witnessed You have game day, Saturday morning, but that takes two days of prep where you're shooting interviews with the guys and traveling around for that game day, Saturday morning. Then you hop on a plane, fly to wherever the Saturday night game is, get into a truck or a bus where you're watching all the games during the day. Then you travel home. There's like a good five days there where you're on the road filming shit, boom, boom boom boom boom all season long in like four different cities in four days almost every single week it's nothing short of remarkable boomer size since work ethic a lot higher than yours but you are still in the department now you're adding thursday night football first of all

congrats we're all very happy how did that come to be did you know that you were in on that did you want it because esp i've been pushing you for a long time hey do monday night football let's go let's go get in the nfl you said you love college you would never give up college if you were to do it how did the thursday night football thing come to be and we're very pumped for you dude i appreciate it man i i really do i i It happened. Again, you and I text back and forth quite a bit. A lot of times me checking to see what you're up to. But in this case, it just happened really fast. I think Troy's announcement was on February 22nd or 23rd, and I didn't know anything about that. And so my first reaction was I was really excited for the company to be able to bring Troy over to ESPN because to me, he's not only was he an incredible player, one of the best to ever play the position, but also he's obviously a great broadcaster. So I was fired up for him. And then I did think a little bit of, as much as I love college, I'd stay in that space just the

rest of my career. I would have been very content. I just thought, OK, well, all this talk, because there was always talk about the potential of Chris and I may be doing Monday Night Football. Clearly that's gone. So, you know, I guess I'll just college space was basically my reaction. And then your friend in mind called me like the day after, maybe two days later, and said, hey, I got a call from the Amazon folks. And they just want to check out, see what's going on. And I honestly didn't even really, I wasn't like, oh, this is great. It wasn't anything like that. I was like, oh, okay.

And then like a day or two later, he said, you know, we got to, we potentially have a firm offer. And so it moved very, very fast. And to the point where I, you know, I had to really start to think about, can I do this? Can I physically do Thursday night game preparation that it takes to get ready for a Thursday game and then do all the other stuff I was already doing, which takes up most of my week. And then, you know, I obviously decided yes and kind of pride myself on my preparation. And then Al Michaels became part of it as well. And then it was like, to me, I don't care if I have to work seven days a week, 15 hours a day to have a chance to work with Al Michaels, just a legendary broadcaster, one of the greatest to ever do it. Just an honor to even be in the booth with him.

So then it was even more of a no-brainer for me. So here we are. A couple weeks later, we make the announcement, and now it's a go. So I'm excited. And Freddie Godelli, who's the producer of Al's game with Chris on Sunday, is going to be over as well. So, man, they're putting together just a dream team behind the scenes, not to mention have Al there. I'm looking forward to being a part of it.

And, yeah, we're going to try to do something. There's never been streaming done with the NFL and really any mainstream sports in America. And so it's a new endeavor for Amazon Prime. And to be at the beginning of it has me fired up. But it's going to be a lot of work, obviously. But yeah, it's going to be a great time. You don't have to tell us.

By the way, that's amazing. They made the right decision. I think allegedly they were honed in on Troy Aikman. And then when Troy goes to ESPN, our eyes we're like oh they're gonna pick somebody terrible like this is just how it's gonna be and I know you don't watch as much NFL as we do the there's a lot of terrible teams in the NFL it's not an easy job what you make look very very easy on Saturday nights alongside Chris and whenever you had to do Monday night football you had that giant Steelers game I think you made it just look so simple it is a very difficult job

you have a great feel for it. I think you speak to the layman's. You speak to humans that might not necessarily know everything, and you have a good feel, which we are very thankful for. So whenever your name was brought up, I think we brought it up, and then you immediately got interviewed for it, and then you get the gig. The NFL community is fucking thankful, dude,

because Thursday night we got you and Al, okay? Sunday night we got Tariqo and Collinsworth. Then Monday night we got Joe and Troy. It's like the NFL, we're back. Yeah. We're back. You know what I mean? And you said it's a dream to work with Al.

Al told us his first ever World Series was for the Cincinnati Reds in 1972 I know you're a diehard Reds fan had you and Al known each other beforehand are you all everybody obviously loves Al Michaels but have you guys had a personal relationship before this and how will you build up chemistry no man and that's such a big part of it in my opinion if they're doing 26 years of this because you know I worked with Brent Musburger as well and i i you know i grew up watching him the way i grew up watching al and i didn't know him and and so my big thing to my producer was man i gotta go to some dinners you know friday nights let's go to dinner let's try to you know become friendly you know we you're not kind of pretending to have chemistry but it just

you start to get to know each other you get to know you know you tell stories about each other your families and you just start to become friends know each other. You get to know, you know, you tell stories about each other, your families, and you just start to become friends more than anything. And the only way we can do that is to spend time together. And so that's what my hope is. I always have watched Al. I've gone all the way back to really the 1980 Olympics. You know, you believe in miracles like most Americans.

And he's been an icon in my mind from that point on. Not to mention, mentioned the the red stuff which would be fun to talk to him about but now i i i did a few zooms with him look i'm going to meet with him uh in a in about a week out in la uh go to dinner uh but no i'm looking forward to building that relationship and and hopefully becoming friends and uh and i think that'll pay off on the air but uh yeah i i uh i think, just like you guys, I mean, part of what makes you guys great is you can tell when the camera's off and you guys are done for the day, you're friends. You know, you come. Well, not Connor.

We hate him. Yeah. Just me. No, I'm joking. But you can tell your boys, and you can't fake that. And if you have that, man, I think it goes a long way. Like with Joe Buck and Troy, don't they seem like they're friends? Chris Collinsworth and Al Michaels, they just come across.

I think when you're an analyst, you never talk down to your viewer. You almost like want to pull chairs around everybody and like, come on, you guys, check this game out. Like you're talking with them instead of talking down to them. And that's part of it. When you said you talk in layman's terms, that's part of what I've always wanted to do is whether it's my wife listening or a coach listening, you don't want to talk about three techniques and inverted safeties.

You want to talk about the game in a way that people can understand it, you know, and that's really what I try to pride myself on. Well, you're natural, too. Like, you have a great delivery, a good cadence. And whenever you talk about, like, gathering a chair and not talking down, my big thought on these commentators is like, hey, you're setting the tone for everybody that's watching the game. You know, like, I am watching a game with you.

Like, whether I like it or not, I am being forced to watch a game with you and I think a lot of these people forget that that get on not a lot I'm sorry a lot of people that stink they forget like hey this show isn't about you like this show is about all the people that are currently and trying to enjoy it so like a bad game you got to make better right like isn't that like that is something that you actually have to do right yeah yeah and I think the other thing is you get out of the way you know the best you. You know, I think laying out and letting people hear the crowd after a big touchdown or a big sack or a turnover or a game winning field goal, whatever it is, you know, you have to have, you have to try to remember what it feels like to be

on the couch, you know, watching the game. And your brain is full of so much information based on your preparation. You know, picture it. You watch film like you're a player. You get a chance to sit down with coordinators from both sides of the ball. Oh, inside information, too. You got to balance that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you have all this information.

You want to share it. And then you have to, like, you want to share it. And then you have to like use 10% of it. Yeah, you have to know where to kind of draw the line, you know, because you don't want to just talk the entire broadcast. So the most challenging thing for me will be Al and Freddie, the producer have worked together, I think, for over 20 years. And, you know, they first worked together without with John Madden, when when I was with him. And then when Chris took over for John Madden, they were continuing to work together. So there's an incredible bond and chemistry. So I have to kind of learn their kind of way and rhythm of doing a broadcast. Is that going to fuck you up with Chris on Saturday night? Is that going to fuck you up? No, I don't think it will, man, because Chris and I have worked together for so long. I think it'll be a different balance.

It'll be a different rhythm to it. But, you know, you just have to adjust. That's all. At the end of the day, you have to adjust. I'm not going to sit here and say this is how I do a game and whoever I work with has to adjust to it. I would never do that. how I do a game and whoever I work with has to adjust to what I do. I would never do that. I'm very, very kind of deferential and being, I have to look in the mirror and say, I'm the one that's going to have to adjust to the play-by-play guy. You know, he's kind of running the point

and I'm adjusting to what he does and do the best that I can. So I think one of the things that you do that is incredible is you seem to know everything about everybody that's on the field. And you don't rub it in our faces that you know. It's just kind of like a casual thing. And it's impossible to do in college because these teams turn over so quickly and it's a whole new batch. The NFL, have you had to dive into all the drama, the storylines, who did what, how it went, and everything like that? And when will you start doing that before next season? I mean, there's a lot of talk right now, right?

I mean, they're having their league meetings right now. Matt Rule has aged like a president, by the way. Hey, we hope Matt Rule's okay. Hey, Rule, we hope everything's okay, coach. We love you, man. But we're just, from the outside looking in, it appears as if you're going through some shit. And we know the NFL is tough, but good luck.

But like the overtime rules and everything that changes and everything going changes and everything going on and the hirings and every are you gonna do you keep up with that already or is that something you feel like you'll have to add in there or is it like i don't want to know too much like how will you balance oh no yeah that's a great question i mean i i just think like you my hobbies kind of keep me up with a lot of this stuff but where i'll have to really roll up my sleeves with the NFL will be not so much familiarity with the players, because I do know that a lot, but schemes, you know, whether it's the defense or the offense, the structure of the offense and how they like to attack, how the defenses try to slow you down, red zone, third down, stuff like that.

But also the rules, you know know the rules in college and pro are different in some key areas oh yeah so i just want to be kind of dialed in on that you know and sit down with a rules expert and uh but as far as some of these storylines like there are big stories i mean these quarterbacks moving around deshaun going to cleveland i mean there's there's uh monumental uh changes that are happening right now uh but they're you know that that's just more of just gathering intel as you go. When you get ready for your game, obviously be loaded up and ready to go. I'm looking forward to it. Like you said, I've done college for so long. I've got a chance to dabble.

Last year, I did the Chiefs and the Broncos, did the Steelers and the Giants. I think those experiences probably made me more interested in potentially doing this down the road. I think I've told you that in the past. But again, with the hope of never giving up on college. College has always been, growing up in Ohio, it's always just been my passion, man. And I don't think that will ever change. You know, in Ohio, it's always just been my passion, man. And I don't think that'll ever change.

But I'm really looking forward to kind of learning the kind of the nuances and the game that you know behind the scenes about the NFL. I'm looking forward to getting much closer to the product and falling in love with it, you know, that much more. Well, it's going to be fun to watch you do this. And has it been announced how many years you'll be there? Are you announcing that or no? Yeah, five-year deal hey hey and was there any other announcements about your business as of late too any other deals yeah yes espn i i re-upped there for five years, too. Wow. Hey, what's that gif?

That dude just hops into the goal. Oh, yeah. Darkwing Duck. Yeah, absolutely. Whichever duck it is. Herbie! Here we go, Herbie! Herbie! Woo!

What a day! Hey, you deserve it, dude. Hey! Come on, dude. Let's go, bro. Ten years worth of deals. Five years of time. Let's go.

Hey, look what you got me doing right now. You got me doing it. Hey, listen, just walk right over to that bank here in about a year and say, you deserve it, dude. You honestly deserve it. And I'm happy that we're at a time now where I feel like networks are starting to realize that the people that are calling games are very important. And if it wasn't for some mistakes that were made in some very prominent games, I don't think this would ever happen. So as soon as we see the way the market was going, off air, we didn't say it on air the first day, and I was actually, like, bummed.

I said to the boys, like, hey, we kind of fucked up. We forgot Kirk. Off air, we were like, hey, we kind of fucked up. We forgot Kirk. Off air, we were like, this is good news to be Kirk. This is a good time to be Kirk Herbstreit. But not just you, Kirk. I am also selfishly looking, you know, there is other people that are watching this that are like, oh, maybe in the booth for five years.

What will the numbers be like then? So congrats to you. We're all very, very thankful thankful for you the boys have some questions kirk go ahead don't kirk nothing's gonna be that how much easier does it make it that you've been doing college game day and college games for so long and and preparing for the draft coverage and stuff like that so like the players and stuff like that you'll know all of this you'll have more you'll probably have more background info than the current nfl announcers because you've been following these kids for a while yeah i think that's a big part of um when just what i noticed when i did those two games and and i didn't really plan on it i didn't

really think much about it i asked you guys i mean i'm not sitting there constantly wanting to bring up stories about these guys from college obviously but there are just built-in memories that just just kind of trigger um about something they did hey it was a nice added detail nobody else did it that's why it was nice i think yeah and again i i'm not i didn't really go in with a plan on doing that there was just a guy would make a play and somehow or another it would just kind of come out and i want to be careful of that because i would ask, let me ask you guys, the NFL fan, if we took a poll from, from, you know, the East coast to the West coast, every team, what percentage of NFL fans do you think is a crossover where they're passionate college football fans and passionate NFL fans? What percentage do you think are die

hard for both? Like I watch both? Like, I watch both. You guys probably watch both, I'm guessing. What percentage? Like, you get to the Giants and the Patriots. Do they really watch college football? So what percentage would you say? It's regional. It's regional.

But you would know this information more than us, I think, just because you've been so deep in the college football world. To be honest, I grew up in Pittsburgh, right? Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is an NFL and NHL town, right? It is an NFL town, NHL town. So everybody I knew, it was NFL talk because of how big the Steelers were. So once I, then I go to West Virginia, which by the way, West Virginia, the Harvard of West Virginia, it was the only team in the state basically. So everybody came, but whatever we played in games, it was kind of big. Then I go to Indianapolis, more of a cult city

when i did game day and we traveled to some of those places i was like oh shit i had no idea college football had it like this like i think i had no idea that college football had it like that but i don't think that should matter like i don't think the crossover should matter because the nfl fan and i might be speaking out of pocket here, but if we can learn something new about somebody, like that's good. Cause these are professional athletes now, not that the college athletes aren't impressive, but these are the greatest athletes on the planet, like in the crew of those. So an added detail of it, when he went to this school and did something like all that information is good. That's not bad. Like, I don't think you're just trying to appease the

college fans there. I think the NFL fans will enjoy to learn more but it can't be fucking your entire thing though you don't want to be that guy no no not at all but um i was just curious you know with the uh because college you know you go down to tuscaloosa or baton rouge or places you know if you took a new york giants fan who's never been to a college football game that kind of looks at college football like it's the JV, and they went to Baton Rouge and watched a night game against Florida, I think they would walk away like you did. Steelers fan. You drop a Steelers fan in one of the –

the place I was at, Steelers would be like, well, I ain't barking, I'm an adult, but I have a lot of respect for these fans. You know, like that is – honestly, you're right. You're 100% right. It's fucking insane down there. Yeah. I think it's the closest to like premier soccer in Europe, you know like that is honestly you're right you're 100 right it's fucking insane down there yeah i think it's the closest to like premier soccer in europe you know in our country college football you know certain fan bases i mean it's and i think the nfl gets there whether

it's you know a monday night game a thursday night game you get into the postseason i think you kind of ramp up some of the emotion but college football football, man, I mean, it's week one. You know, they are out of their minds with energy. But as far as your question, I think it will help me a lot just doing those two games. I just felt, you know, when you're calling a game and it's Saquon Barkley or it's Patrick Mahomes or these guys that you've just known their entire career, it definitely allows you, instead of having to read up on some of these guys, you already know going all the way back to their freshman year in college, kind of their story.

Yeah, highly recruited guy. Not a lot of people like this guy. He was kind of overlooked. He was a walk-on. Those types of information that build up the characters that are professional athletes, it's awesome. The adversity that they faced, or maybe they didn't face any adversity or whatever whatever their storyline is it just allows you to understand a little bit

more about their journey you know and their path to where they are currently everybody faced adversity even those people that are on top of the world you know because the pressure of staying on top is always a fucking yeah i'd imagine i've gotten very lucky to meet the people some of the people that are at the uh you know like hey this person is the blank of sport like i've gotten very lucky to meet the people, some of the people that are at the, you know, like, hey, this person is the blank of sport. Like, I've gotten a chance to meet, like, said person a couple of times. Such interesting people, man. Just, they know it. They all know it.

But that pressure to stay up there just keeps them up at night. Like, it's like now you have to live up to what is being said about you for however long it is. I have a lot of respect for that as well. But, man, I'm so – Herbie, by the way, of college football. Yeah, right. You're the Kirk Herbstree of college football because you know that everybody's expecting that out of you every single week on the institution of college football. So that drives you to watch more film, I assume, do more and everything like that.

That pressure is not easy to handle as well. You have done that glowingly. football so that drives you to watch more film i assume do more and everything like that that pressure is not easy to handle as well you have done that glowingly college game day huh back in front of full crowds probably you're going thursday night football on amazon in uh some awesome city i i can't wait for you to experience like bill's mafia yinzer's late you know like late in the season when it's cold as hell and there's no reason for the people to be as drunk as they are and crazy as they are. How about Green Bay? You're going to love Baltimore, by the way. Don't let it slide.

Baltimore Ravens fans, awesomely negative. Like that is what you want in the whole thing. We're excited for you, Herbie. A couple more questions. Go ahead, Ty. Herbie, you're obviously the consummate professional best at what you do, so I don't think this will be an issue, but is there any concern with how much you actually have to prepare for game day when you're going through the entire slate that Thursday doesn't become kind of just

like a side gig and you kind of end up pushing it away? Obviously, I don't think that's the case. You mentioned how excited you are to work with Al, but have you thought about that at all, that how much time you actually have to put in to prepare for game day? Is that going to be different than how much time you're going to have to put in for these Thursday night games? That's a great question, man. The one thing I'm anxious about is getting into a routine. I've just had my same routine, and I've known what Sunday looks like. I know what Mondays look like. I've just had my same routine and I've known what Sunday looks like. I know what

Mondays look like. I just I've just known it. And now it's all going to change. I've written it down. I've looked at a calendar. I've done that several times trying to look at my Sunday. You know, Sunday for me has always been a veg day, like just unplug, get home at usually two in the morning. And, you know, I haven't slept in sunday i'm just kind of like half awake half asleep watching a game hanging out with my wife and my kids and now it can't be you know i'm working a short week on a thursday so sunday if i'm doing you know bills against seahawks or whatever it is i'm watching those games you know i'm actually like in dialed end on sunday to the two teams that i'm going to be calling and then monday

just knowing how i am i'm going to be incredibly anxious to work with al and i'm going to be working um probably too much that's right i was just thinking about that like what is it you're just going to be housing days days days days coffees like well i mean this is going to be a thing it's going to be a real thing sunday sunday, Tuesdays, you know, you're going to be dialed in to trying to balance all of them. But really looking at that Thursday game the first few weeks, you know, on all three of those days, I'll have Zoom calls and things like that with game day and the game that I call on Saturday night on those two days as well. Wednesday I'll leave town to go to wherever the Thursday night game is. And so that will be a travel day and a prep day.

You know what that's like, Pat, when the broadcasters of the game, they go to practice. It's like a walkthrough and then you visit afterwards with the quarterback, the head coach, defensive guy. And got to fit in a dinner on Wednesday night with Al, which I really want to do. But it's just, I'd love to answer this question like week three. I don't know how I'm going to balance them all, but I know I will.

I'm just looking forward to kind of finding that routine. But I will not put everything into thursday and and short change game day or short change saturday night i'll i'll be dialed in on all three yeah or vice versa the the interesting thing is it'll work out because it has to you know like i assume you even like as you're reading your rhythm you'll be like oh i don't think i did enough for this last week. Let's do that. Like, I'm very excited to watch you piece it together. Are you a dry erase board guy? Like, will you visualize all of this? Will you type it? What do you do with your life? Are you

a super scheduled human being? When it comes to this, I am. No, I'm an old school, I like to write things down. You know, I like to get get notepad and I'll just go through different versions of what the week will look like. And then I'll just kind of, as you just said, I'll tweak it based on how the week goes those first two or three weeks. But I have an idea of how it's going to go. But until you experience it, you really don't know. What time do you wake up? What time do you wake up in the morning? And is it an alarm? How do you wake up what time you wake up in the morning and is it an alarm how do you wake up i'm up at like six my i'm up early um you like

the mornings or you just you're up and do what in the morning you like the morning or no i i'm not a i don't have a problem with i don't drink coffee how about that but i i don't have a i don't have a problem with, I don't drink coffee. How about that? But I don't have a, I don't. Green tea? Do you do green tea? Yeah, I drink like green tea or water. Okay, yeah, yeah. It's not like a health choice. I just, when I was a kid and I, maybe in college, I tasted coffee and I just didn't like it.

So I've just never, never gone back to it. But mornings aren't a problem for me. You know, my biggest problem is sleeping through the night. Yeah, me too. Because I think just being anxious and thinking about things. I can fall asleep in the blink of an eye, but then an hour or two later, I'm up. And then I have a hard time going to sleep because my brain's constantly, especially in the season, it's just constantly thinking about something I've got to do or a report I've got

or whatever it might be. If I could turn my brain off, that would be great. I'm sure you experience the same thing. I'll start texting you during the season whenever I'm having those same things just to see if we're happening to sync up at the same time. Herbie!

What's going on? 3.15 a.m. Just some random number till you wake up. Herbie, what's going on? Yeah, I'm up for at least the next two hours because my brain wants to figure out right now how we're talking about whatever.

It's a gift and a curse, man. I can't wait to see you balance your energy because I remember that one fall when I was doing Get Up on Mondays in New York and i was doing get up on mondays in new york and i was doing my show from new york and then hopping on a plane we'd fly back tuesday wednesday fly to the thursday night football thing do the show from the back of a box truck on

thursday then fly back after that game to uh indie then there for a few weeks getting the invite to college game day which was awesome flying to wherever game day was on sunday when like okay this is what my show is about oh i was dead i mean it is absolutely i gained like 80 pounds i think i think i get remember you and me on the national championship right beforehand we literally said we're gonna lose some weight this offseason we're literally having that full conversation i'm excited to see you handle that whole thing. But dude, here's the thing. You set your mind to do it. Like if you did what you just described in the offseason, when there was a little bit of downtime, whatever that might be for you, it's like your brain, you set your mind for what it needs to do. And you can go on a plane and sleep for two hours and get

up. And, but, you know, it's just, I don't know. It's like, it's like you can go on adrenaline when you, when you set your mind to something. And if you tried to do that, when it was downtime, you would just be dead. You couldn't do it, but there's something about adrenaline. That's your best friend. You know, when you go through what you're describing, thank God it's, you know, only for four months. I mean, you couldn't do it for, for 12, but, uh, that's, what's really carried me. I think, honestly, I'm not just saying this loving the game as much as I do is my adrenaline. And that allows me to kind of just not worry about sleep or not worry about what I'm eating or you just, you just go because just because you love doing it.

And I've talked about this on my Instagram yesterday. It's like what I watched my dad do, like my dad was a truck driving mover. Okay. He was a long haul truck driver and a mover at the same time. So what are the two like worst jobs? Okay. Probably mover would be the worst job of all time. Nobody likes that. And then truck driving, you're like on a road all by yourself, basically for the, he put, he, he was that that right so whenever i get like see somebody who is potentially in a job that is not like you know oh man i don't know if i can go today or whatever it's like uh shut the fuck up like this is not actual work right like what we get to do is not actual work but managing your energy energy so you can be worth this shit is so fast

like it's been a constant battle for me as well uh that's why like looking up to a guy like you who last year your schedule once we got to see it i'm like oh my god this dude's on the road on the move uh is i can't wait for you dude but what super pumped for you driving what you're describing is perspective you know and is perspective. And just appreciation. If you genuinely have perspective and appreciation for what you do, who gives a shit? You're traveling

here, you're flying here, you're sleeping on a plane. Really? That's your hard time? I'm not saying what you and I and others do in this industry is easy. I'm just saying let's all just have some perspective and let's just make it work and

let's enjoy sports by the way hey we can enjoy sports yeah I mean that is something that I almost gets lost in this entire thing is you're allowed to like enjoy it you're allowed to be like oh this guy's really good as opposed to just pointing out who the really good person just beat like there is there's really good as opposed to just pointing out who the really good person

just beat like there is there's a way to kind of view the game in a different lens like as a celebration we're all so lucky fucking very lucky go ahead yeah kirk uh al michael's former partner collinsworth had a little slide in have you thought about doing like a herbie hop into the booth maybe when it's time and he introduces you man i i i thought about that because i've obviously watched chris do that a lot on social media it's been crazy but man i mean i would ask you guys i'm not gonna copy it's like when lee corso eventually has to retire there's no way somebody's gonna come on game day and and put on a headgear like it retires with lee corso right and chris i'm not you know i'm not saying the slide and the headgear are It retires with Lee Corso. Chris, I'm not

saying the slide and the headgear are the same, but it's his thing. I'm not going to do that. I feel like an idiot doing that. Did you imagine your first game just Everybody would be like, look at this guy

stealing Collinsworth's thing you know what i mean like you he would get buried for that my my whole thing my whole career is i've never had a thing no no you do don't you have like two remotes in your i feel like when they cut and where i see a photo i have i here's my two things i do have like a little remote and I have air conditioning wherever the hell I go. I have air conditioning with me at all times because I run hot. I just it's the way I'm I've been since I was a baby. So those are my only two things. But I've never had a thing like a shtick. And I I'm just not I don't think I'm talented enough. The way I'm talking to you guys right now is just the way I talk on the air, too.

Hold on. What was that school in New Orleans? Tulane. Tulane. Oh, my God. I called a Tulane game on that Thursday night, and it was a little later in the season, I think. No, it was the first one, so it was August. No, not Tulane, then. Was it Tulane? Yeah, it's the one where you sprint from the field up to the...

No, Cincinnati-UCLA was the first one, right? Yeah. So it was early, though. It was the third one, I think. It was hot as hell down there. Yeah, I thought it was later because I thought I was fatter, but I might have just been fatter going into the season. Tulane. Hey, Tulane, dude.

It was 7,000 degrees. That booth, it's a three-man booth, me, Hasselbeck, Amin, two spotters, right? Hasselbeck's got a guy. Amin's got a guy. I'm in the corner down there. You know, everybody was very nice to us, but it was very hot. Man, I lost 70 pounds that night. That my suit was like wrapped to my arm because sweat was so thick in it.

I'm like, I don't know if I'm going to survive this entire. Dude, no one knows heat. Like not Tulane in New Orleans, but Baton Rouge in September. So you got a little box, like a window one? I mean, here's the thing. Air doesn't move. It's almost like, is there oxygen in the area? I can't breathe.

I'm just sitting here for three hours. It's like sitting in a sauna. Set that sauna at about, I don't know, 140. Put your suit on. Make sure your tie is real tight. And makeup. And makeup. Make sure the makeup.

And you're not glistening. We got lights. We got lights with more heat. Yeah. So it could be, dude, it could be 35 degrees out in Pittsburgh, and I got my air conditioning unit underneath the desk. When you come to work at game day, you're going to look at me and say, dude, you seriously got the AC on still?

Yeah, I will, and you'll laugh at me. Hey, listen, you just plug it in? Is it a little bit? Yeah, I heard that. Yeah, I heard the game day thing and i was because i was wondering like all right if this guy is able to plug in an air conditioning under him that probably means can is there an ability for me to have an air conditioning under a potential table if that was to be the case you know these are all things that think i run very hot as well very very hot

herbie good yeah you'll see they all make fun of me because I'm always getting air conditioning and they're like Des especially I mean when I see any moisture on Des's forehead. I'm like I'm dead Des doesn't even Des doesn't sweat he lives in Miami. He never gets hot, you know, and Pollock's the same way. So, yeah, you'll be my teammate when it comes to the AC. A lot of guaranteeing things there. Yeah. The way your tone is saying things is very fascinating. You know, that was a very – it was almost like you were making an announcement the way you were saying it.

I would like to let everybody know there's no announcement being made. No, but I look forward to that announcement. You're going to have me on the show when you make that announcement oh man it'll be great to have you all right we'll see we'll see uh we appreciate you man you're awesome your dogs are awesome thank you for coming on the show today man hey hey two things two things number one this is what i look at is what I look at. Vinny. Good boy. What's up, dog?

Good boy. Here's Mitch over here. He's a one-year-old. Mitch. What up, Mitch? He's by a balloon. That's awesome. He's a one-year-old golden retriever. A lot of energy, right? A lot of energy. I had to show you the boys. I want to wish you good luck on saturday hey sunday or sunday

sunday i know that uh just watching you and i know how much you how passionate you are we're talking about passion for football i know how passionate you are about that so this is going to be a great opportunity for you to do your thing and a lot of people to watch you. I just want to know, you've been practicing there at your office where you're going up and are you going to do one of those deals up in the air like 20 feet? You Ohio guys love the word deals.

I don't know what's going to happen. I've got to be ready for whatever, whenever, however. I'm hoping this thing ends quick like a Tyson fight. I'm hoping this is very quick, like a Tyson fight. I'm hoping this is very quick, somehow kick to the head, one, two, three, place goes banana's eyes.

If we have to go a little longer, I am preparing myself for everything. I just flexed on you there. I'm in probably the best shape I've ever been in. Honestly, probably the best shape I've ever been in. Dude, you're shredded right now. Thank you. I should have done this in the NFL. It's working.

It's working, whatever you're doing there. Now, this guy's a smartass, right? This guy that's smacking you across the head and he's kind of taunting you a little bit. Three times, Herbie. Two in this side, one in this side. He's a young little punk. He doesn't know what he doesn't know. I don't know how he's going to be 10 years

from now. I assume when I was 24 there's a chance I was a little punk. He doesn't know what he doesn't know. I don't know how he's going to be 10 years from now. I assume when I was 24 there's a chance I was a little punk bitch too to certain people. He's Vince McMahon's kind of right hand guy too. He kind of wields the power of the boss over your head. He's a bitch. That's what he is. I'm doing what a lot of

people want to do, Herbie. I'm getting a chance to do what a lot of people want to do on Sunday. I've got to do it for all of us. That's going to feel good. I cannot wait to watch this. Man, thank you, Herbie. Are you going to talk a lot of shit, you think? Like, after you beat him, you're going to grab the mic and talk trash?

What are you going to do? Herbie, I was a pretty chatty guy in all sports that I played. Yes. I was pretty chatty. Not negative, though. No, always very positive. Woo! Fun with the mic. Like when you were at the draft in Nashville and you said,

you probably don't know who I am because I was the punter and we didn't punt very often when we played the Titans. Yes. Hey, good delivery, by the way, by you. And also, that joke pretty high. I mean, pretty high- jokes yeah that was that was a great moment and half of them didn't even know what you meant you know it was it was just kind of right over top yeah but herbie herbie let's do i'm going to talk about this and uh i don't know

if i should tell you this now or later but everything i do is for the internet so everything i say is for the internet everything i do is for the internet every like that draft speech 100% just for the internet so it's like I want the live audience to have a good time and that makes for better internet by the way if the people in the building are doing it but I know that my words will eventually get picked apart in a tweet probably so that is really uh you know my entire thought process almost every single day you know yeah well that's part of it you've handled that really well i mean it's a balancing act because you're trying to please two parties you know the live audience and then also the internet yeah but

the live audience is having a good time the internet's having a good time you know i think that's what gets missed like the people if the people there are having the time of their life that's a better like that's a better mood to watch a video with. I just think it kind of all ties in, you know? Yep. All right. No doubt. You're going to crush it, man.

I hope so, dude. I'll be dialed in. Hey, I've been training. Oh, yeah. I've been training, Herbie. All right, dude. Have a good one. Thank you for the hour conversation.

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How you doing man Good what's happening Is this a bit? What are we doing? Well you tell me. I mean you came in really swinging the bat this morning. What's up dude? What's up bro? So it's real? He actually hit him? Is that a real thing? Dude, yeah. He didn't make good contact though. No, and his feet. Did you hear all of it? It was like a movie slap though how he slapped him almost

looked like a movie deal how he the whole presentation of it yeah and his his feet were like weird for somebody that trained boxing allegedly right he forgot all of it in an instant whenever he was going to bat for his his his feet were like almost like up in the air flat almost which you would was though, to his credit, there's probably those dress shoes that are very slippery, especially on that stage, so he probably couldn't pivot very well. Funny you say that. He had boots on, I believe.

He had some patent leather boots, I think, because I actually checked out his costume that he posted on Instagram and said, we got all dressed up to choose Chaos or something like that. Because his walk was a little bit like Carson Wentz as well. They seemed to be a little thicker. I think he was wearing boots. I'm not 100% sure. But, yeah, his feet were just in a weird – it was just uncomfortable.

At what point did you think he decided he was going to smack him too? Because Jada looked at him. Are you going to let him speak about my – Alopecia. Like that, make jokes? And he goes, well, shit. alopecia like that make jokes and he goes well shit all right so he gets up and he goes over there he's trying to figure you think he's like slower walking at some points like taking shorter strides because he's trying to buy time to figure out what he's gonna do and when did he switch from fist to slap to that kind of hit and chris rock

by the way just ate that thing which which, you know what I mean? So people are saying he braced for it. Like, was he leaning in because he thought Will was going to say something to him? Yeah, I think. Because he probably had ears in, too, so he probably couldn't hear. Yeah, Chris was laughing the whole way as he was walking. Oh, yeah. Yeah, people saying he braced for it.

Remember, when that son of a bitch Austin smacked me, you see something. You know, like a natural human instinct is something is moving. Basically the same situation we have here. Essentially. Very similar. It actually is. Yeah, except for Austin, like, backed up and Will turned and ha-ha. Gotcha.

I mean, it's the whole situation. I still don't know what to believe. I didn't see it live. I mean, the show was amazing other than that. We all know that. But I saw it this morning when I got up. I saw everything about it. I'm like, well, this is great for the Oscars.

Gives them a bunch of pub. I think it's going to be great for Chris Rock and his career. Not like he need any help. He will run with this and he will use it and it will be awesome. I think Will Smith is even going to come out like he's going to be fine. Now, Diddy said they made up at the gold party, dude. It's going to be fun. It's going to be like a bit they do on SNL eventually or something.

Well, probably this weekend. Chris Rock has a new comedy tour coming. So I believe it's coming to Indianapolis. There's going to be five to eight. Yeah, for sure. Maybe 15 to that. I was going to say, this could be like a big chunk of that will smith is probably on the horn with chris rockley i can't have you be doing 15 30 yeah you know what

i mean it was bad night i made yeah well jada well so if he talks about this a lot will jada be mad if chris rock has this in his new special she'll probably have him at the uh red table again for sure that'd be sweet that's interesting choice by the way what the red table just that i don't know i guess it's a good people can look up to it and understand that people in very successful positions are going through similar things that they are i guess is a good thing but also like uh i don't know you really think people can relate to their entanglements with other people and how they talk about it? I don't know. Maybe that's what they think, though.

Like, hey, people need to hear that we go through stuff, too. Maybe that's what they think. For me, I'm just like, and I think it's because Tom Griswold of the Bob and Tom Show told me this one morning when I was on Bob and Tom. Something happened where a story took place, and he wasn't talking to me. He was talking about another guest. And he said, hey, the world and people have enough shit. You know, just make them laugh. And that has become something that I've actually thought about.

Like, just bringing more drama to the world, I think, is such an aggressive move. Because you've got to live with it, like, every single day. And I think, I don't know how people choose to just live in that type of shit every single day. But I guess there's a lot of reality TV stars that do and everything like that. But you would think they don't have to so why would they want to it's almost like they just enjoy it i guess i don't know i don't understand the people

that enjoy it like therapeutic for them maybe for the people that are doing it that okay like will smith's wife and will like getting all stuff out. Will wrote a book talking about a lot of it, I guess, recently, didn't he? Yeah, he had to get his side of it. Yeah, I don't know. Jada probably made him write that book. What's going on? Probably. What's going on?

There's no reason to bury all this. What was her reaction? I'm trying to figure out what she was doing throughout all this and even after, like with the clips when Will was getting calmed down by, what, Tyler Perry and Denzel. That's a power group right there. Yes, yes. She rolls her eyes. Perfectly. She rolled her eyes big time, like right after Chris Rock made the joke,

and they did the two-shot on Will and her, and Will's laughing, and she just, like, rolls her eyes. And then I'm assuming when they cut away, she was like, hey, go fucking slap him in the mouth. Now, so you think she said, hey, go write a book, Nick, because that happened? He does everything she tells her. Hey, Will, sit in the corner and watch. We're going to go do it.

Jesus Christ. Some people are into that, man. Yeah, we don't know if that's true, right? That never came out. That just started to become your entire. He's passionate, though. There's no Wells there. I guess Chris Rock has taken a shot at her at the Oscars before as well.

That's what a lot of people are saying. Also, is this an on-site type situation? Potentially. Potentially. It's 2018, the whole thing. Years ago, remember when she was upset that they weren't invited to the Oscars? And Chris made a joke about it? Yeah.

Yeah, so Will thought he should have been nominated for Tell the Truth, and he wasn't. Oh, concussion? Yeah, so Will thought he should have been nominated for Tell the Truth, and he wasn't. Oh, concussion? Yeah, exactly. And then he basically said, like, hey, Jane, I don't know why you're mad. Like, you weren't getting invited anyway. Basically saying, like, you're not a good actress. You were never getting nominated for anything anyway.

Oh, Chris Rock said that? Yeah. Oh, shit. I did not know that. Yeah. I think that was, like, 2016. But don't you almost expect to be roasted at these events? For sure.

It's part of it. Yeah, I assume. You don't you almost expect to be roasted at these events? For sure. It's part of it. Yeah, I assume. You should, but Will expects to get roasted. He probably doesn't expect his wife to get roasted. Well, his wife certainly didn't expect it. Obviously, this happened in the past. And she probably was like, you going to do something? Like, you got to do something. She probably wasn't feeling great going into it with Chris Rock up there.

Hey, those award shows, and I'm going to pivot away from just the Oscars to basically all award shows. What a terrible evening know yeah i went to that how many have you been to i assume you've been to numerous i've been to some yeah i went to espy's a few times which is more fun than a normal award show too though okay so that was fun all right so no it was not but i'm saying bro these are the worst i don't know how anybody goes to them. You're stuck in tiny little seats. Nobody that goes to an award show would ever sit in the seat that they're forced to sit at, at a theater or a live show, fucking ever. That's why they're at the award show, right?

So you're sitting in all the, I mean, granted, they had the tables and stuff, but they still had all those things in the top. And it's just uncomfortable. It's awkward. There's a lot of losers in that room, too, by the way. So it's just uncomfortable it's awkward there's a lot of losers in that room too by the way so it's not just the winners you got losers scattered amongst you whose energies are always real high jealous of you too if you win it's an honor just to be nominated okay yeah of course but there's people that probably love going i guess there was a

hundred thousand dollar gift bag for everybody that went to the Oscars last night that included a plot of land in Scotland so they could be. Welcome fellow neighbors. So you are. Lord Zeta. There it is. They're all made lords last night. Congrats to both Will, Jada, and Chris Rock. Nice.

All becoming lords of Scotland in the gift bag that they got that was worth over a hundred thousand dollars a three-night stay in scotland's turn castle worth fifty thousand dollars and inspired by denzel washington being nominated for best actor in the tragedy of mcbeth butler service is included thanks for checking oh yeah beautiful this time of year by the way a four-night stay at the golden door resort in california worth 15 grand a small plot of land in scotland along with the title Lord or Lady of Glencoe. A $12,000 liposuction procedure. Awesome. From Dr. Thomas Sue. Celebrity arms.

What's that all about? They're doing lipo in arms now? Is that what they do? Oh, yeah. This stuff. Tie it up. Is that why everybody's all yoked up on Instagram out there? Oh, my God.

These guys got celebrity arms. I assume there's some other doctor doing celebrity there? Probably. Makes more sense. Oh, my God. These guys got celebrity arms. I assume there's some other doctor doing celebrity abs. Probably. Oh, and they're rejuvenating their genitals. Oh, yeah. $10,000 treatment of rejuvenation procedures for Dr. Konstantin Vasilyevich. Yep. I don't know if I trust that guy.

Oh, that's what it is, huh? Yeah. The old vag tightening thing. Is that what this is? So, i think males can get it as well a life coaching get a pump put in the balls or what yeah i think you just kind of lift them like a face all of them uh life coaching session with coyote joseph for 1200 bucks listen when coyote sits down with you You fucking accomplish everything that you've ever wanted to accomplish. We bring he or she in.

Well, it's $1,200, so let's bring him in for 15 of them. Yeah. Coyote, she, he, or she. That probably covers about nine minutes with Coyote. Yeah, it's probably, it's a Zoom. It's a she. Okay, Coyote, Joseph is a she. That's a $1,200 10-minute zoom call in a life coaching session popcorn hell yeah

uh zito's doing more information on uh coyote coyote joseph uh holistic coaching as well okay okay what so what's that mean i don't know we probably need her by the way now that we're thinking about it like especially this table. Use earth minerals. And this guy in the attic over there. Yeah, for sure. What'd you say about the earth? Use earth minerals and stuff like that to create potions. Are they immunized?

Let's move on. This may be the immunizer. Popcorn, 25,000 in home renovations from Mizon Construction in L.A. Get yourself a little, uh, what? Like a, like a grill in LA. Like a little my zone window.

No pies on. I don't know if my son is a pie zone, but you're part of the trashers. Hey, come on, Tony. That's not what happened. Uh,

it's one, uh, there, those are some of the more expensive items In the gift bags Nominees will also get treats, alcohol, skin care items Toys for their kids, books and other luxury items All of which comes to $100,000

I thought $100,000 was already in there I guess congrats to everybody out there Congrats on the nomination That's why I'm pumped Get nominated, get your house renovated Get your face redone, your arms dead. Get to talk to Coyote Joseph. I mean, here we go.

Just an honor to be nominated. I didn't get that at the College Football Awards at all. I got forced to sit through that entire thing. You would have had to pay taxes on it anyway. We're in L.A. out there? Oh, yeah. All that stuff, they get taxed. Like Price is Right.

That's bullshit. What? How many of many heard people win the showcase showdown or whatever at the end and they have to end up selling it all because hey you got to pay 60 000 in taxes on all this free stuff you just got well yeah the cars are normally get people right because the cars are normally pretty expensive so the taxes on that whole thing is going to be pretty good so people normally just choose to sell the car right just take the cash value so then they can pay the taxes out of it. I think that's a smart move.

I would assume there's, with one show every single day for, what, the last 40 years with winners, I'm assuming there's some people that have mishandled their funds that they have won from those game shows. Yeah. That's the same as some. Maybe. I would assume that's the case.

I was going to ask you a question about something. I forget what it was. Oh, you win a lottery. Lump sum or paid out annuity i gotta sit and talk to a lawyer or somebody that knows this better that deals they don't the lottery what are you doing me at this stage of life give it to me forever yeah it's more money right lump sum takes a chunk off of it but but you get it at once. A lot off of it, right? I think it takes a lot off it, let alone the taxes.

It takes a lot. Yeah, you're right. I'm taking it all. I'm just, yeah, give me the rest of my life. I don't know why people don't. We are very much in the minority in that decision, by the way. And I think it's because if you asked us, you know, when you were the mute from Ohio State before you got drafted

and I was the guy who got $40,000 out in loans so I could have a good time in college. If I was asked at the time, I think, give me all of the money right now. But that guarantee of a payment, at least all you got to do is survive forever. How old am I now? You know, how old am I? You're guaranteeing me a certain amount of money every year for the next 30 years. Give me that money.

What if the lottery dies? You think the lottery's going to die? What if you or me, especially after this weekend, I'm going to live like I was dying. Give if the lottery dies? You think the lottery's going to die? What if you or me, especially after this weekend, I'm going to live like I was dying. Give me the lump sum, okay? I'm not going to be here

in three years when that annuity's fucking still going. I guess you're right because they say, what, 2040 or whatever is the new Y2K. And I'm going to need

a bunch of money so I can pay to get into whatever secret lair everyone who survives is going to be in. So give me that now. It's not going to be enough. I don't think. Yeah, whatever secret lair everyone who survives is going to be in. So give me that now.

It's not going to be enough, I don't think. Yeah, that secret lair is expensive. I think, yeah. I don't think that's going to be enough, yeah. You got to remember, there's people with big money out there. How about Elon Musk? You see Elon Musk calling out the Washington Post? Oh, yeah.

Elon's pretty active these days. He is. He's calling out Twitter. He's calling out the Washington Post while you're putting stuff that's vital to democracy behind a paywall. Spells Bezos wrong on purpose? He said Bezos. I see he just got a landing yacht for his other yacht.

He doesn't need the money behind the paywall for the Washington Post stuff. Like actual stuff that's probably good for the world that everybody needs to hear that's behind a paywall that 99% of America will never pay because they just assume that people will pick through that and bring it on to free platforms and i think elon says he's been doing a little snooping around and that's also a pretty big cause for some misinformation that maybe is reported but isn't seen i think i'm not 100 sure i looked into it a little bit because that's billionaire on billionaire

so anytime you got two billionaires going after each other, always should watch. Always should give a little peeksy just to see what's going on, I think. I don't know shit about fuck in this world, but that is something. So when he called out Bezos, I was like, oh, here we go. This is going to be a thing. Elon's been, hey, he's been rounding third there on a home plate trip to try to really disturb some shit. I mean, he is. He's been rounding third there on a home plate trip to try to really disturb some shit. I mean, he is. He's doing it out there.

Joining us now is a man who has information in a much different field. Although I would be interested to hear his take on Elon Embezos potentially getting into a little bit of a Twitter beef. I would much rather hear what the fuck's going on at the league meetings. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us, NFL insider for NFL Network, NFL.com, and host of the weekly wrap-up with Rap Sheet and friends. Us being the friends, he being Rap Sheet. Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Rapoport. Hey, Rap Sheet! Hey, so you're there.

You're there again. Well, hold on. My AirPod's okay? Can you hear me all right? All right. You sound good. Okay, you sound good. Tim Cook got it all taken care of.

You're at the league meetings right now. Everybody looks fantastically dressed. Where are you? I'm at the Breakers in West Palm Beach. It is where I do all my vacationing, obviously. I have my boat here. I have my, you know, not like the big house, but the little house. You got a submarine?

No, I do not have a submarine. But everything else has. So this is lovely. This is vacation. It's great. All right. So there's a big conversation we could have with you right there, and that is not for now.

Okay? Congratulations on having a great time down in West Palm Beach. Let's move on. Is anything going to come from this? I mean, obviously, there's always the coach's picture. That is amazing. Matt Rule, you know, we are all pulling for Matt Rule. We love Matt Rule. Okay? we hope he's okay everybody has

looked awesome is anything gonna come from this you think that's vital and what is exactly happening right now I mean the as far as like football the overtime is probably the biggest news right so it's like is there going to be guaranteed possession in overtime or both teams gonna be able to get the ball? Or is there going to be a situation where kind of like we saw in the playoffs this year, where one team gets the ball marches down, scores a touchdown game over and one of the best quarterbacks in the game doesn't get to touch it like that's that will probably

be tomorrow when that's voted on. And I know there's momentum for change. I just don't know if there's enough momentum to get the 24 votes that are necessary. So obviously that's sort of like a big pending decision that will come tomorrow. That's one thing, you know, there'll be some other kind of ancillary football related things that will come up, but that's probably the most pertinent. The other thing is the Buffalo Bills are not going anywhere. They're going to remain in western New York, and they're going to build a new stadium using $850 million of public money, which, you know,

it's a thing that happens sometimes. I put the clap on. Ian, what are they supposed to do? What are owners supposed to do? Pay for it! You're a billionaire! The city's going to give them $850 million. Nah, I'm good. Like, what are you supposed to do? yeah you're right no that's the argument people like people like free money and

i think in western new york uh as brandon staley walks by me i'm sure very happy to see you guys but nice very nice guy. But, I mean, you know, it's in Western New York. This was something that was important enough to put $850 million on the budget. It's not something that's going to get voted on by the fans. It is in the budget. When the budget gets approved, it'll be all good. So they are getting a new stadium in Buffalo, basically, and the tables can remain.

And I think it's a good thing for those fans. However, it ends up happening. Hey, so is that just always been the status quo? And I very much understand the value that an NFL team brings to a city. Okay. Like the Colts bring so much value to downtown Indianapolis.

Like I think everybody who is in the league around the league, a fan of the league realizes that, I mean, just game days are awesome. And it's people who are spending money, by the way. The people that are going to games are people who spend money. It's good for this city. Pittsburgh, the Steelers are great for the city. I mean, there is just a lot of value up there.

But has it always just been, what did he say? A little bit of news. Oh. The 2024 draft has been awarded to Detroit. Okay! Here we go! Let me tell you why this is good news.

Why? Because the people of Detroit deserve something great from the NFL. Think about that. The Red Wings yesterday lost 11-2 to the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Lions 11-2. A touchdown, two-point conversion, and a 55-yard field goal in there against the—

That is embarrassing. That's embarrassing. Make it easy. First time 11 goals have been scored since 2003 for the Washington Capitals or something like that in the salary cap era. They are a fucking despicable AHL franchise, let alone NHL franchise. Keep the octopi back into the sea. You guys stink.

Anyways, how about Geno dropping a hat trick on you? I did not expect to get into Hockey Talkie, and I'm sorry we're wasting your time. But then the Lions fan. I mean, the Lions fans have had to watch this turnover after turnover after turnover after turnover. Now they get to watch Hard Knocks with the team. Here we go. Hard Knocks is going to be a good time. Let's talk about the Doge.

And now we'll actually get to see what's in that building, what has been going on. The fans are – and they get the draft. Good for the Detroit people. Will this be the first time that the number one overall pick is in the exact, in the same city as where the draft is happening?

Oh my God. That's actually a good question. No. I, 2024. So, are they going to have the number one pick in 2024?

Yeah. Yeah, they will. Hard knocks. They got the hard knocks curse. Yeah. Yeah, just bet on it.

Yeah. Fuck. Not allowed. They got the hard knocks curse. Yeah. Yeah, just bet on it. Yeah. Fuck. Not allowed. Not allowed. Congrats. Hey, that's awesome. Good for Detroit. Hey, great piece of information.

It's also, I think, a really cool thing because, like, Detroit is probably not going to get a Super Bowl, right? I mean, I think that's fair to say. But they have beautiful – right, ever. But they have beautiful facilities, and they're a football crazy place. And they get the draft, which is awesome. That is a great way to show off Detroit and celebrate football. And it's Kansas City, it's Detroit, it's all the places that are awesome

but probably won't get Super Bowls. It is a solid prize. Okay, so let's talk about that with what I was about to ask you about. So since the Bills are building a new stadium and how much value they bring to a city, one of those values is the Super Bowl. So since it's a new stadium, I think it's one of the unwritten rules or it actually is written in the NFL. If you build a new stadium, we'll send a Super Bowl your way. Are we looking at a potential February Super Bowl in Buffalo? Roger Goodell talks tomorrow and I would say that will be,

if I get a chance to ask a question that will be my question because that was the first thing I thought about and like I mean we just did LA it was amazing it looked incredible the game was good like that was their prize for that mecca of football that they created in Los Angeles like do

the Bills we're going to get a 1.4 billion dollar new stadium open air awesome stadium. Do they get it too? And like my first inclination will be to say, I can't imagine Super Bowl in Western New York. On the other hand, they sort of deserve it if you get a new stadium. So like, I don't know.

That's a good question. Ian, you said Roger Goodell speaks tomorrow. Yeah. How does that work when he speaks? Who sets it up? Like you said, if you get to ask a question, who do we know is going to get to ask a question? How many people get to actually fire stuff at him?

And do you have to submit your questions beforehand? No. You just sort of – basically the way it was. So, like, when the meetings wrap up tomorrow, he will get to the podium and he'll talk about all the different things, like the diversity initiative that will come out at some point today, meet Bill Stadium. He will probably answer questions on Deshaun Watson,

you know, is he looking at a suspension or not. There's a couple other kind of league matters that he will, you know, like things kind of hanging over the league that are out there. And basically you'll raise your hand and they will give you the microphone. You can ask whatever you want. It's really just... Who picks? There's a Brian McCarthy,

the head of NFL PR, sometimes will point to you. Your turn first. It's also televised, so you've got to get the mic so they can hear your question on TV. You've just got to get your hand up quick and be like, right here, right here. Hopefully, you know,

and then hopefully you get called on. I attended, I forget if it was a seminar or a camp whenever I was a kid. And the person who was talking to somebody in the crowd was definitely talking to the person behind the person who thought that they were being talked to. So there was two people being talked to at the same time, two different actual full celebrations to go up on the stage.

One of the kids had to have their heart broken. Oh, no. I assume that happens a lot in this press conference. Like you. No, no, no. Me. Yeah, okay. Like somebody gets jumped over.

Like you get punked by whoever's behind you, and they ask a bad question. Is this like Roger Goodell's Super Bowl? These things, these like he's prepping all last night for this press conference. You think this is what he's been prepping for? He's getting, you know, he's going through all different scenarios. Do they have a mock press conference? You think for him going into this?

No, but I would, I think the Super Bowl press conference usually bigger, but it's like in a big ballroom like this. Like you look around, this is pretty relaxed. I'm not even wearing a tie. I am not wearing a tie today. Casual. Casual. He will probably be

in a polo. We'll see. It's a little more relaxed usually. Super Bowl press conference could literally be anything and I think he preps for that he got to go through it with with his different people and kind of looks at all the different things that could be asked. This is this is a little more chat. What was that? What happened?

That was a tweet from Mike Garofalo. He's at a pro day. He is a Sam Howes pro day. Pretty interesting development. What happened? No, but we'll see what happens. You said pretty interesting development. Yeah. Take a look at it. No, I mean the fact that, no, the Sam Howell pro day, who's there, who's not. Giants have like four people there.

I think that's interesting. We'll see what happens. Oh, it is interesting development. All right. All right, baby. Wrap sheet. Go ahead, Ty. Wrap sheet.

There are still a lot of marquee free agents available. Do you expect any of these guys to sign within the next few days or weeks? Our team is pretty much just going to stand pat until after the draft. Yeah, I mean, I think probably what will happen is there will be like a de facto deadline right before the draft. Let's say like the Rams and Ravens have talked to Bobby Wagner. Both have interest. I think both want the price to come down. I think he wants the price to come up. So they haven't arrived on a solid price yet.

And basically what it'll be is, like, if you, like, let's say you're Bobby Wagner and you want to join the Rams. Well, like, if you don't sign before the draft, they may draft a linebacker in the, whatever their first pick is, the third round or whatever it is and that could be it so like for a lot of these veterans if you want a specific team and you want to be the kind of veteran filling that role you've got to get in now before they might take someone but there's like let's say you're an offensive lineman well the team drafts an offensive lineman in the first round like they're not signing you

so I don't know about like this week we're probably as we get closer to the draft and maybe like early to mid-april you probably see a couple veterans sign whereas like there's some others like you know tyron matthew who like i don't foresee him signing for quite a while um today is going to cause no rippling developments is this a one day thing down there two day thing down there When will you get back to breaking news that we can use? I'm upset that you guys aren't that excited about the Bill Stadium. I know in western New York. Well, we were pumped, and then we just heard they're not getting a Super Bowl. Yeah.

So, you know, I would say like, you know, so this is, I got in yesterday. I'll be here until probably tomorrow night. Then tomorrow I'll kind of go back. If there's something that's newsworthy, if there's something that, like, demands attention, it's usually not great. Like, these are, I think this is supposed to be, like, about the rules, about wrapping up the season, about kind of clearing, like getting a health and safety update and, like, you know,

announcing some drafts and some hard knocks. Like the league seems to be in pretty good shape. The rules seem to be in pretty good shape. The football was really good this year. And the fact that there's no news here is one, slightly boring, but two, also fine because it means that there's no like, you know, crazy issue that must be addressed. And every media is down here waiting to see what

it is you know what i mean yeah you know are there any coaches down there or like what coaches can you get like an idea of who's kind of running the show who may be in charge or has more pull maybe some coaches that have been around longer is there anyone out there that's just kind of directing everything yeah what do they mean about like hey this is how we should act this is how we shouldn't act uh so coaches are divided and every coach is here except for mike mccarthy actually just kind of oh no big mike what at jerry jones's league meetings whoa he was yeah i actually uh so i had lunch next to jerry jones today not at the same table but he was in the same vicinity he knows you exist he knows i exist me and palisaro were

standing here and jerryicero were standing here and Jerry Jones was eating kind of over there. And McCarthy, and there was a big Cowboys contingent. Steven was there, a whole bunch of others.

And Mike McCarthy, not here. He is on the road at several pro days this week and is the only head coach not currently in attendance. Oh, that's... Is Tomlin not at these pro days?

He actually was asked about it and he was pissed that he had to be here. Of course he's pissed. He's like the king of pro days. Yeah. But he went because it's professional? Is that why? What's up with Mike McCarthy? So Tomlin is on the competition committee.

What's up, man? What's up, dude? I am live right now. Arthur Smith says hello. Marty! Woo! Send him one of those to his dad, please. He will not do that.

Come on! No, you don't like the troops! Wow! Wow! I like how he walked by and said, I was hoping you were live. I'm like, I'm literally live. I'm doing it right now.

Anyway, so guys like Tomlin are on the competition committee. So they are, like, this stuff is really meaningful to him. So there's, like, a whole long, month-long process, the competition committee meeting, looking over stats, videos, data to get the rules right. And so, like, it usually culminates here. So, like, talk about coaches that have sway like Tomlin does. Harvard does like these guys are very, very into the rules and how about

the huge say in what gets passed? What happens in overtime? Like, I'm gonna came out today and said he is for sudden death. And I was kind of like, Oh, Oh, like two kickers kicking. You know, don't know. What are you talking about? Two kickers? Kicking? No. Don't have. What are you talking about? Tomlin is okay having just one possession overtime like it is now if you get a touchdown.

That's because he's a defensive guy. AJ, you feel the same way, don't you? I feel like a lot of the defensive people have come out and said, hey, it's on us to make a fucking play. I think, right, AJ? Isn't that something? I don't know if you feel that way or not. i mean that's my opinion doesn't matter but yeah i think if you get it yeah if you score a touchdown take it home you win that's how defensive players in the nfl feel like we have to make a stop it's not like you're starting on the

25 if it was college and they started at 25 and they score a touchdown i get it but you're kicking off to them they got to go to the length of the field that's how they feel yeah no i get it but the game has changed i I mean, it's like if you have an elite quarterback, like if you were on the Packers now, and Aaron Rodgers did not get a chance to touch the ball in overtime, you would rightfully lose your mind.

Absolutely. And we'd get fired, too, because we gave up a touchdown. We should have gave up a field goal and got the ball back to Aaron. Yeah, that's what I was about to say, Ian. Like, there's much different reasons on why you guys are upset, though. Yeah, yeah. He just lost a playoff game. You know what I mean? A.J. Aaron. Yeah, that's what I was about to say, Ian. Like, there's much different reasons on why you guys are upset, though. Yeah, yeah. He just lost a playoff game. You know what I mean?

AJ did, personally, because he's the one calling the plays. Yeah. Jesus. Way to go, Hawk. It's basically that guy's entire fault. That's how he would view it. Right, AJ? I think that's how every defensive guy views it.

Yeah, you can get a stop. You can hold him to a field goal. Yeah, see? So this is the offensive mind of the NFL. Life's not fair. Life's not fair, guys. There you go. Oh, thanks, once you learn that It gets a lot easier or something like that

Go ahead, Connor Is Mark Davis walking around with his Xbox And dum-dum lollipops in his backpack And also, is he peacocking around Because he got Devontae Adams and Chandler Jones Okay, two-part question First of all In the

Keep backpacks out of your mouth, okay? I'm a backpack guy. Oh, Jesus. I will. Smack him in the mouth, dude. Backpack slander. No slander. So you can come a lot of places, but leave backpacks out.

I got a great backpack. Sure. Leave backpacks out. Smack me, Rapshie. You won't. I won't. I will not will not that's true yeah um yeah i was actually talking to mark davis earlier about uh and he's about the davante davante trade and all that i mean i would say he's happy but he also knows the realities which are if you don't perform if it says you know if it doesn't work out no one's going to be that excited So he was I would say, happy,

but a little measured, seems more happy that he's got a coach, GM that are on the same page working together, like it seems to be a really good feel now for the Raiders. Whereas like the last two years, I would say it was not great there. You know, I mean, like there was not, I'm not sure they were everybody was on the same page. Now it looks like they're pushing in the right direction. And that trade was monstrous. So yes to the backpack

and the dum-dum lollipops. Kind of peacocking, but cautiously optimistic. Cautiously optimistic, yes, I would say. And has he done it? Go ahead, Daryl. What was that? Go ahead, Daryl. See you guys later. Oh my God.

There was something coming out of the radio. It was the Gruden. Oh, I remember that. It was last year, yeah. And everybody was waiting for Mark Davis to speak. And then the first thing we heard from Mark Davis was he told reporters, I'm going to dinner, guys. Thanks.

And they just walked right by him in a backpack. I think that was – wasn't that right after Gruden got fired? Yes. I think it was. I don't know what Gruden got fired? Yes. It was. I don't know what I'm going to say. I'm going to dinner, guys. Thanks, man. Did we just see Ari Mirov walk by at MySportsUpdate?

Is he at every NFL function now, and how scared are you? He is at every NFL function. I would say he's a very nice guy. I've met him a couple times. He wears AirPodspods a lot You have airpods No I'm doing a thing I'm like literally talking

He just wears airpods So the first time I met him I was like hey you have airpods still And he's like oh okay cool Then he took it out and the next time we met He still had the airpods So hold on let me Let me talk about this because this is a real thing We had somebody come to our team We had somebody come to our team.

We had somebody come to our team. Former locker room gave a shout to new locker room and described guy like wears his headphones a lot. Like that was how he was described. So that is somebody who is isolated is what was basically being said. And then as soon as the person got there, by the way, they did. They wore their headphones a lot and they did not care about anybody in the locker room,

but themselves. It felt like, you know, but I, I enjoyed every once in a while. What are we listening to? You know, but it could never really crack through like as,

as much as anybody tried through. So that's what you're saying, huh? That's what you're indicating. They're like, already done. Like talking to anybody. That's because he's working in.

I guess. I mean, and I'm not saying anything that I didn't literally say to him before when I said, hey, you're still wearing your AirPod. But still, it's a little something. Yeah, it's like, hey, you're in the networking biz. He's in the accruement of information biz. He needs to hear everything. He actually has two different podcasts going in each AirPod.

He has a pairing AirPod in each AirPod. He actually has another. He has a pairing AirPod in each pocket in two phones. He's listening to two different things. That actually makes sense. Yeah, and he's reading on one phone and tweeting on the other. So that guy's got a lot going on. He's trying to crack into the biz. We love him.

Go ahead, Tone. Ian, is it similar down there to the Combine, like where maybe we're talking about draft deals like hey maybe we're thinking about moving up stuff like that going on yeah i would say it's i don't know that there's anything quite like that this year because usually that would be based around like the number one or number two pick and it's it doesn't seem like there is a slam dunk i gotta get to number one or i gotta get to number two um just doesn't feel like that but yes this would be where it is and i think like one thing that's always interesting to me

is you get like rivals who battle like crazy on the field but then they get in this setting and like you see them you know at the bar hanging out or like you know that we had the afc coaches sort of interview slash breakfast this morning and the first scene was Belichick hanging out with Mike McDaniel and his two rivals. We'll see each other. And, like, they were very friendly and respectful, and you're kind of like, oh, okay. Like, that's how this happens is, like, casual conversation.

What are you going to do with this guy? Like, oh, okay, maybe we'll trade him. So I think that kind of happens here. Ian, I think I saw Drew Rosenhaus walk by in the background towards uh your camera what are agents doing down there are they talking and working out deals for the guys yeah you know they're at uh what's up man hey what's up hey hey hey what's up grab a beer later what's going on brett beach yeah right here not not to be show says all right You want to be on the show?

Hey, come on! Veach says he'll do it. Yes! Hey, Rappaport, you're a booker! Not right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I understand. This is your time. Your time.

Hey, by the way, Ian Rappaport, awesome. Can you hand your phone to Veach time? No, I'm joking, I'm joking. That would be so rude. Hey, we're actually in the market for a Booker. That is awesome what you just did for us there. Thank you so much. Yeah, just throw me some 15%.

Hey, listen, I would like to let whoever is out there that could do what Ian Rapport just did on a very consistent level, just a little bit of consistency. We will pay a good chunk. Not to Ian, obviously. No, no. But we will. So we actually can do it. Yes will pay good show. Not to Ian, obviously. But we will. Yes, absolutely. So he's talking to agents though, potentially. The agents are here just like

the combine or no? Well, sort of like the balance of power shifts a little bit, right? So like before the combine and then during free agency, the teams, like they want to sign these guys. And then you get through free agency and the teams like they want to sign these guys. And then you get through free agency and the guys who are not signed, a lot of times it's agents being like, Hey, have you taken a look at this guy? They looked at this guy.

And it's like, it's a lot of times more agents selling teams, their players, you know what I mean? So like, it's like, Hey, look at my list. You can get this guy for this much. You're like, this guy's still available. Here's where this guy is health wise. Like agents come down here to get in front of owners and get in front of GMs to be like, Hey, my guy's still available here's where this guy is health-wise like agents come down here to get in front of owners and get in front of gms to be like hey my guy's still available like we could do this deal fairly quickly kind of like kind of like that like

get in person and do it do you ever think you could you should report which agents are there so the guys that have agents that aren't there no oh probably should not be with this fucking people. No, I will not say that. But I will tell you who's here. It's Drew Rosenhouse is here. Jimmy Sexton here. Frank Bauer, who represents Devante Adams, is here. Neil Schwartz, who is around, is here as well.

Some guys. Derek Carr's agent there? Yeah, because Derek Carr's agent is not here. But that was an interesting statement to put out there. Yeah, because you had the response. You almost had a clap back or whatever. That was very fascinating because this has happened in the past,

obviously, public disagreements. But the statement of the Raiders basically saying, yeah, we're working on it. We're going to try to make this whole thing work. And then his answer being like, yeah, I mean, deals are two ways, basically. It's kind of how they said it. That was very interesting.

What do you think is going on there? Kind of a low ball of an offer? I just know they haven't gotten there yet. So let's take what Josh Bedano said, which is basically like Derek Carr needs to decide what is best for him and the concept of helping the team. And I was like, okay. And then the agent basically says like, actually, it's a two-way street. And like, we're not going to talk about this in the media,

but kind of like doing the eyeball emoji, which is my favorite emoji. I like Derek Carr is not. What's that? I like the yelling guy. I like, I like this one. Or the looking glass one. The melting face one. The new one's pretty cool.

Which one? The new emojis, dude. What's that, Diggs? There's a new emoji? The eggplant's not a new one. The eggplants are very... Not as an eggplant for a long time. Yeah.

Anyway, so you think that's going to get worked out or not? You think this is just early negotiation, leverage play for each side? Yeah, and these are sort of – yeah, I would say like both sides, like when they spoke, that's okay, and then the agent responds, and that's also okay. It is really like getting now i think they will get something done because like they've done so much to put him in a good position including getting his very good friend davante adams for the low price of a first and

second rounder and a huge contract so my sense is that we'll get something done but this was a this was a good i think message slash reminder that it's not going to be easy, and I don't think he's going to be able to push over that some might have assumed. I think they'll get something done, but it might not be imminent. People are saying, oh, Derek Carr, super nice guy, super religious guy. We'll just offer him something. He'll be thankful for it.

He's like, excuse me, are we still making billions of dollars annually? It's the right way to look at it, by the way. Go ahead, Gopi. Agreed. Yeah, Rapsy, Dolphins have added a lot on offense. There's still some money there. Have they thought about anybody on defense, do you know? I think it's fair to say the offense was probably the focus here.

Defense was good. Now, they lost, you know, it was Brian Flores who was, you know, if not the play caller, very, very heavily involved to run the show on defense last year. Most of the staff remains. And I think, you know, I think they will be okay. I wondered if they would add a corner and do something, kind of do something on the back end.

Really haven't. So my sense is during the draft, that will probably be the area they'll hit. But, of course, they don't have a ton of early draft picks because they now have Tyreek Hill. So it will be more try to hit on some mid-rounders and get them to play pretty quickly. I can't believe the Miami Dolphins are the team of the summer. Yeah.

Off-season, I guess. Yeah. Good for them. Feels like that, right? What's that? Raiders and them. I mean, that's what it feels like. Yeah, I guess Chargers too. I mean, fucking Khal what it feels like. Yeah, I guess Chargers, too.

I mean, fucking Khalil Mack, J.C. Jackson. That's a pretty big place. Michael Thomas, we signed. Browns. Colts. Mike Williams. Browns. Yeah, Browns is right.

Matt Ryan, that's a big deal. How's that going to work out? Is everybody happy, you think? I just saw that we brought in John Fox to be a senior defense assistant. We got Gus Bradley. We got Frank Reich. What's going on? to be a senior defensive system.

We got Gus Bradley. We got Frank Reich. What's going on? I mean, the most interesting thing is, like, where is Matt Ryan right now? He's fucking ready to ball, dude. What are you talking about? He's in a suit looking great. Right. But I was surprised.

Like, Albert Breer wrote a nice thing this morning on, like, how everything transpired and, like, basically how the deal happened. And they couldn't, for a long time, they couldn't get better than a fourth round pick for matt ryan who has a very manageable salary and is not injured and there's no issues it was just like it didn't feel like the league view on him was as high as maybe it should be and i'm kind of like okay maybe everyone's kind of sleeping on him or maybe everyone's wrong everyone could could be wrong. Could have a great season and everyone could just literally be wrong. That happens.

I heard this morning they said four-time pro bowler out of 13 years or something like that. Everybody that plays quarterback makes the pro bowl, basically. Right. I mean, that's... Yeah, but four is not that much is what I'm saying.

Out of 13, I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why is everybody sleeping on old Matty Ice? This guy's about to come in here with a great team around him, great offensive line, MVP at running back. You've got a lot of young guys that throw the ball to you. Jimmy Sexton says hello, by the way. Hey, Jimmy Sexton, how's it going? Make sure you move your face around there, boss.

All right, Ian, we appreciate you, brother. Thank you so much for the time. Hopefully, we're going to stay tuned to your Twitter to break some sort of news that's positive. I'll try.

Not necessarily negative. All right. All right, I'm on it. I'm going to go back to work. Thanks, guys. Hey, ladies and gentlemen,

any interruption? All I do know is the last conversation we had went hilariously and then it ended and we haven't spoke to each other since. Sounds good.

Since I've started repping myself in all these conversations. That one went great, and then it just kind of ended, and then haven't heard a single thing since. You guys were with Kato Kaelin this weekend? Yeah. How did that happen? K-Trade? Good question.

We don't know. I'll tell you what, not 100% sure. Wait until you see the clip, obviously. We had a chance to hang out with the Galante family. Love them. Literally. They are so cool to us. Great people.

They are. Chessing these boots that Jimmy had on. And, you know, one of the things you would think you wouldn't want to do is, like like piss off Jimmy Galante or the Galante family, you know? Sure, makes sense. AJ just refuses to answer FaceTime, so whenever I'm around I'll be like, can't have it. He's very angry. Doesn't that make you, it makes me feel really good, by the way, because like I'll FaceTime you when I

actually have a question and need an answer and you won't answer and then I'll get a text, I don't know, 19 hours later and it's like, okay, probably had something for you 19 hours ago. I don't remember what that is now. What's the purpose of this? You know, you got things to do. But whenever I'm with, you know, Jimmy Galante, I'm like, yeah, I'll FaceTime.

He goes, let's FaceTime him. I'm like, yeah, I'll FaceTime him. This would be great. Knowing there was little to no chance of him answering. Even screenshot it after the AJ Hawk's not available with me and Jimmy on there. Screenshot that, send it to him. Hope you're happy, AJ, is what I said. And then he sends me a text that goes,

next time you're with Mr. Jimmy Galante, I need a warning that you're FaceTiming me. I refuse to miss another one of these or something like that. So now every single day, guess what? When I have a question that I need answered, I'm with Jimmy Galante. I'm FaceTiming. I just left it.

So sorry. So now it'll be a boy who cried wolf every single time. I'm excited for the next time I'm with him. And you don't answer because it's kind of got worn out. But he wanted to talk to you, AJ, and you said no. No, I didn't say no. You FaceTimed me at 3 p.m. on a Saturday. I just wasn't near my phone or available to get it.

And so I texted you back a little bit later and let you know, you know, Jimmy Galante, I mean, he's the king. He's the man. I don't want to miss his call. Well, you missed my call with him. This is twice now, I think. I didn't know. So what did I text you?

Hey, how about a heads up next time, bud? That's what I said. Oh, like I'm supposed to. Oh, how did I know he's going to be like, let's FaceTime AJ Hart. Okay. Hold on. Sorry, Mr. Galante. He needs a 10 to 15 minute window text message.

Is that what I'm supposed to do? I don't know. No, I'm saying if you knew, if you thought you might FaceTime with him, where you're going to be with Jimmy, like maybe earlier in the day at some point, Hey, we might stick around. We might, uh, you're going to be alert. Do you know Pat? What happened?

Do you know Pat and how he operates? Yes, I do. I know I'm speaking to a brick wall, but hey, you might as well try. No, it's not a brick wall. I'm just very much in the moment right now. That's a great thing. It's a great trait. Okay, but it's not so good for this type of thing.

You know, this type of thing is not great. So maybe if somebody's around, okay, so somebody who's around needs to send AJ a bird call that, hey, there's potentially going to be something that's going to come. That's kind of smart. That's a smart move, I think. Then I can at least, like, I don't, I've never had my ringer on my phone or anything, so I'm not going to actively see it unless I'm right there looking at it. I don't know.

When's the video going to come out, Foxy? Hopefully tomorrow. Is it an interview you did with him? Yeah, I did a sit-down. I did a sit-down. I did a sit-down. Barbara Walters style. Yeah, it was awesome. I don't know if that's true.

I'm actually pretty excited to see how the video comes out. But why is Kato Kaelin involved? Good question. I asked. Kato is awesome. I love Kato. He had energy, dude. He brought the juice.

He had energy, dude. He loved you, too. Yeah, I remember he brought up you like two, three times. He's a big Packer guy. You him and Oge hanging out? Bro, he had energy. I'm talking energy, energy. As soon as we got there, I'm like, oh, fuck.

We almost just died on a plane. So sorry. Let me wake up a little bit. The K train's here. Yeah. Can we see you, dude? He had energy. There was another guy named Canadian Charlie.

He has the greatest Canadian accent of all time. He does. I was on a call one time, and Canadian Charlie dropped into the call like, oh, we're going to connect this guy. I thought I was getting ribbed. This is an impersonator doing a Canadian accent. This guy's Canadian accent is the most flawless Canadian accent. Every word is hit in the most Canadian accent of all time.

And he speaks clearly and projects his voice. Love that. He's in there as well. Big announcement. Big announcement. Big announcement. Big announcement. We're lucky to be a part of it.

I'm looking forward to seeing what that might be. Almost died getting there. Yeah, that was terrible. Do you get sick? Do you feel sick when the plane starts getting bumpy and all that uh depends how bumpy like i'm past the point of like just standard shit getting me you know because i have to be because i fly literally every single week and in the in this winter weather that we've had and like turnover of seasons i've realized

yeah you know is a bit windier. So every landing has been interesting. Every takeoff has been interesting. But normally you can find an altitude where it's pretty smooth. And if there's a little bit, I'm cool. But if we're falling out of the fucking sky, there's going to be a little bit of a oh, what's going on?

You knock on the door, ask the pilots what's up. So I never know how to do that. Because I't want them to think like I have lacked faith in them because we still got to fly. It's not them. You can just ask about the weather. Oh, this weather's pretty rough, huh? Oh, yeah, that's a good question.

I mean, that's what causes the plane to bounce around. Well, it's the different airstream. Yeah, this one it sounds like there are some decisions. There are some decisions made. Guy's still working on getting his license. No. I don't know if that's true or not. 10,000-foot free fall.

But literally, when we could see, I watch, okay, I sit in a seat in which I can see the pilot's opera. I know there's a lot of spinning of shit. I know, like, the classic, they're going to hit two buttons. The sound's going to happen. This is going to happen, the whole thing. But this particular time, it just felt like there was not a confident ever. No. There was never a confident.

And the co-pilot was doing a lot. I mean, the co-pilot was doing a lot of the, like, flipping and switching. Let's stay straight on the runway. Also not sure I've never taken off straight up at a 90 degree. So Teterboro is an airport that you have to do shit like that because how short the runways are but with that being said valid doesn't have to be like it was just a wild scene dude it was a wild scene i feel soft even talking about it but i mean whenever you're

playing live like you were dying on the ground as soon as you get there wanting to kiss the ground like the pope we've been on enough flights to know. Yeah, well, that sounds so self. Were you more worried because you saw the clip of that awful deal where the plane was plummeting straight down that crashed over there? Was that China? Yeah. I didn't see that. What?

Oh, scary. Very scary. Don't look at that. From like 20,000 feet just straight down. Wow. Not watching that. Yeah. Brutal. Sounds like you Wow. Not watching that. Yeah. Brutal.

Sounds like you just described it for me. Yeah. You don't need to watch it. I assume you had seen that recently and you were in your play. Like, oh, I just saw this happen. No. By the way, I'm pretty pumped that we didn't. Yeah.

I'm just going to continue not to look it down. I'm going to ban those words, actually, in my Twitter mentions. Okay. All right. We out of here? I like those white laces. Oh, these are the Ben 5s, dude. What?

How'd you get them? Ben? Are you shitting me? Yeah, I mean, these are Ben 5s, dude. Don't worry about it. What? What does that mean?

Ben 5s, bro. You never heard of them. You don't know. I know. You're right. I'm not a sneakerhead like you. It's that Ben 5 deal, dude. You're so dumb.

Yeah, they came with wax on the box. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Pretty big deal, these ones. Yeah, it's part of the Ben 23 collection. AJ, get cultured, dude. Come on.

Thank you. That's why Mitt is here. Thank you, Mitt. I appreciate it. Top world. Thank you. That's why Mitt is here. Thank you, Mitt. I appreciate it. Thank you, Mitt. All right, that's the show. Hammer down in about 24 minutes at youtube.com forward slash hammer. That's D-A-H-N.

We'll be back tomorrow. One last phone call here on our way out. Let's go to Dakota in New York. What's going on, Dakota? How you doing, Patton, boys? Keep it moving, Dakota. I was wondering if I would get to see you

put that scumbag Tyson Fury through a table at WrestleMania. Alright, so I'm not touching Tyson Fury. Austin Theory, though, is going to get his ass beat. Tyson Fury's got a fight coming up. I'm obviously excited to watch that. No tables will be busted by me or Tyson Fury ever, hopefully.

But Austin Theory on Sunday, going to get his ass beat. I'm preparing, AJ. I'm ready. I want that thing to end in like a minute. I want that to be over. Why? Quick. What are you talking about?

Why don't you let it play out a little bit, really soak in the atmosphere? I mean, maybe before the bell. You can soak it in while you're standing over his unconscious body. Hell yeah. Yeah. Do you know what you're wearing yet? Well, I know this is going to be in the back pocket. Yeah, that'd be awesome.

You should hit him a few times with that. That'd be sweet. That would be cool. Are you guys doing a thumbtack match? No Do those happen anymore? The hum is special? I think

I think I've seen I think AEW did one I think Recently Jesus Yeah they did Yeah I don't know

What nut job did that? That one feels I think it was I think the ladies did it Yeah I think it was. I think the ladies did it. Yeah, I think it was Britt. Jesus. And I don't know. I saw the pictures though, and I was like, I'm going to try to stay out of that for the rest of my life.

Yeah, weapons. I saw Super Hummin' did one yesterday. Actually, he had a couple of tacks still stuck in his arm. The video hasn't been released yet, but I think. Oh, just the preview photo? Yeah, yeah. He just had several tacks stuck in his arm. Super Hummin' still got it.

Oh, yeah. All right, that's good. That guy's still alive, and he's still doing that? Yeah, new video coming out. Thriving. Right today. Wow. Sam Roberts, turn me on to him.

Sam Roberts, are you friends with him? He was in the building in Brooklyn. Yeah. He sat with us for a little bit. I've never spoken to Sam, but I used to listen to he and Jim Norton, and they would play the clip, so I went and looked at him after that. You've really never talked to Sam Roberts? No.

You're a big fan, though. Yeah, I listen to all Sam's stuff. Sam doesn't know anything about sports. Yeah, he's – believe me, I know. He owns it. He says that. Yeah. Yeah, he – whenever I would do those pre-shows with him,

he would always, you know, rock for brain, like he would. He's the guy, by the way, who's not happy about the public funding. Oh, he's not? Well, he's not a sports fan. I assume he doesn't really care, but he's like one of those people who doesn't care about sports. Yeah. It's the people who don't care about sports.

I'm not saying Sam would go in on this, because it doesn't feel like this is something Sam would touch because Sam, you know, comedy like that type of thing. But he is somebody the sports. Not about. I don't think so. Yeah. Not about. I'm sure he knows about it, but he's not like into it or whatever.

He hasn't answered. Let's see. It's not about it. He loves wrestling, dude. Yeah, he does. Loves wrestling. He knows everything. he has a big role like what does he do for him now he hosts the pre-show I believe so probably on Saturday

he'll be done in Dallas nice this is my treatment I need to text somebody I got you to go on too with me he was on Smackdown a couple weeks ago too right Sam Roberts had an interview with the Usos yeah oh nice I went crazy. Is that Sam Roberts? Yeah. So happy for him, man. He's really... I mean, that's his dream to do anything with wrestling, right? Yeah, he's really dedicated too, so I was so pumped for him.

All right, fuck him. We'll maybe talk to him tomorrow. We'll talk about WrestleMania. Yeah, yeah. Let's go. Yeah, big WrestleMania this weekend. Fight week wide. AJ, I'm in the best shape

I've ever been. You look good. How much you weigh? I haven't really got on yet. I think I'm in the 20s, though. been. You look good. How much do you weigh? I haven't really got on yet. I think I'm in the 20s, though. What about that gentleman that you have the program with? Is he in good shape right now, too? It's a fight.

He's always in incredible shape. He's 24 years old, that guy. He's yoked. He is yoked, by the way. I mean, he is. I ain't worried about that, though. Nope. Look like Tarzan.

Eat a swing, dude. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. That's all that matters. That's all I'm saying. I'm a Will Smith-em. Oh, you need to. You need to work that in. Please. You're going to let him sleep with your wife?

Oh. No, I'm going to smack him. What is your problem? Will didn't allow it, did he? He was watching. That's not true what guys who said that

that's not true you did actually you kind of alluded to it earlier I did not think that was the case yeah you didn't say that people enjoy it remember you actually said it I didn't say Will did

I said people enjoy that no whoa that's what he did that is not true he had a backpack on he was sitting in a very similar style chair to the owner of the

Mark Davis. And he was watching it. He looked just like that. Okay. We all know that's not true. Guys. Not substantiated. You guys are all lying.

A lot of false news here. Come on. Guys shouldn't talk about something like that. Cheap. I agree. I agree, Goop. My wife's name out your fucking mouth. See, I still thought he was acting there too great acting if that was acting

i mean that was real and everybody else what if everybody else and seen what if everybody get uncomfortable everybody this is what we're gonna do everybody be uncomfortable okay oh what's he gonna say next oh my fucking god oh my god i saw doug stan you know doug stanhope comedian you probably don't know who he is doug stanhope i saw him tweet something like I saw Doug Stan, you know, Doug Stanhope comedian. I, you probably don't know who he is. Doug Stanhope. I saw him tweet something like he's, he said, if that was, if that was fake, Chris Rock would have had a much better response after getting smacked. Oh yeah.

Probably. Yeah. You're right. Cause he would have had something prepared for it. Yeah. Well, he did say, Oh, he was about to. Yeah. Eviscerate.

Imagine Chris Rock's first 10 thoughts. You're going to tackle him from behind as he walked away. Well, I'm not talking about physically. I'm talking about the first 10 things that came to his mind is the exact same 10 things that probably came to everybody's mind. But Chris Rock probably would have delivered it in a little better fashion or whatever. What was coming out? Well, I got to see him on tour again.

Yeah, that's right. What I wanted to say was, and then I thought about saying, he can have like 10 different ones just set up. And then right before I said, boom, another one, I thought to myself, this is the greatest live television of all time. So he gets 10 punchlines in that entire thing if he really wants it. That's going to be must-see. I think so.

Yeah. Good for Chris Rock, dude. Let's go. Coming June. What? It's coming June. To Indy? Yep.

Here we go. Oh, yeah. I already bought tickets. What day of the week? I actually don't know. It was June 14th, I believe, the day was.

7 p.m., I know. I'm not sure. Do you have an opener? Will. What if Will Smith... Slap everybody? What if he's... Oh, it's... We can't go.

Why? It's Flag Day, so we already have plans. We were going to put one up. What if Jada's... That's true. That's a good point. That's true. Yeah, Jada might be...

Is that a Monday? Tuesday. Chris Rock's coming to Indy on a Tuesday? If that's the 14th. Man, he's making so much money. If he's doing Indianapolis on a Tuesday, think about what he's got on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Yeah.

Where's he playing? Marat. Theater. Okay. I think it has 28 or 18 in it. 100. Hmm. I've played the

Maronical Clash. The New Year's Eve, the classic New Year's Eve. That was whenever Joey Chestnut drank 13 beers in 61 seconds. Pints. Does he get drunk?

Oh, yeah. Does he get drunk? You'll see in an hour and a half later he sacrificed yeah for real how do they hit him he sacrificed his body his mind and his soul for that particular stunt and i'll tell you what the crowd loved it yeah crowd loved it just as it would hit you if you were to do it i don't think the beers bothered him it was when we uh went to the other thing and he was just brain in a bottle of vodka on stage that i think is what really got him he's unbelievable at chugging and eating does this does he do this all the time with alcohol i'm not sure i think maybe we're one of the first ones to ask him and he just so happened to be in town for another event that day

so or the day after so it was almost like just the world coming together hey joey chestnut was wondering if he could stop by the show. All right, so I send back. Joey Chestnut, want to be a part of the show? Joey Chestnut would love to be a part of the show if you have any ideas for him. This was like day before, I think. I'm like, what can we have Joey Chestnut do? How about you just chug like two beers or something?

And then the person said, we should ask, he should chug like a dozen, right? And then they asked him, and then the answer was Baker's dozen, actually. It was like, he's going to do that? Yeah, he said he feels like he's pretty comfortable in doing that or whatever i'm like fucking love joey yeah holy shit i love joey justin joey will drink 40 beers for you awesome it was amazing it was a standing out the place oh yeah i mean did you just have him lined up like in glasses and he just pounded him yeah had him lined up on a wheeling cart boom boom boom boom boom boom boom on glass mugs in glass mugs or whatever and he just went the first seven were pretty quick they're like ziggy zaggy ziggy zaggy oi oi oi guy rest in peace it was like that and then the last couple there was a couple like gulps or whatever it was still fucking all right right, Joe Chestnut.

Get him a huge beer bong next time. Try to do 13 at once. Oh, that's a good idea. We fucked that one up. I did a. Might drown himself. Oh, yeah, maybe. That's a lot of brew.

I did a. It was in the. That athletic article. It reminded me. One of our equipment managers in West Virginia would have parties at his house. Like pretty, pretty notable parties at his house always would be going over there. And I happened upon the place a couple of times. First time I went over there though, they had like a two and a half, three story beer bong, you know, just hanging right outside as you show up. So people are on the deck and people are the, all the windows are open. There's like a DJ happening and this bong is hanging.

There's a bunch of people out front. So I was pretty good beer chugger and I showed up and they're like, Pat, you got to hit this or whatever. And I'm like, what is it? They're like, uh, six beers we can fit in this thing or whatever. And it kind of, I'm like, yeah, fucking no problem, dude. So I do it. Boom.

Take it down. Place goes bananas. Place goes bananas. Place goes bananas. Distract. We need to go inside, right? Let's all go inside. I go around house, cross street. I mean, five and a half beers, just projectile vomiting,

almost like hitting the wall in front of me. Eyes just completely crying or whatever. Wipe them off. Go in a different door. He told the story in The Athletic that I took it down and just kept moving. So I guess I played it off, but I did not. I was damn near – I thought I was dead. Like that thing came – it's almost like the gallon of milk challenge.

You ever do that? I did chocolate milk one time, and I got like, I don't know, like that much left. That thing came up faster than you can't even like get it – I mean it's – your stomach just says, nah, that ain't the case. That's why Joey Chestnut's so impressive, right? Because they can eat all that shit

and then just sit it out. I don't know how they do that. Yeah, I mean, are they allowed to puke after the hot dogs? I don't think so. Is there a certain amount of time where they can't puke? I don't know.

30 minutes? I don't know. Yeah, it's something like that. Is it really? Like they get it pulled like Will's about to get his Oscar pulled? Potentially. I something like that. Is it really? Like they get it pulled? Like Will's about to get his Oscar pulled? Potentially.

I think you have to keep it down. What, Will? Now, the Oscars, whoever puts it on, should be so happy because at least for another year or two, if Will Smith is there, we're going to tune in. Well, you never know what Will's going to do at the Oscars. I can't wait for that conversation. But also, once you go down that road there, right, don't you have to start looking into all the previous winners?

Didn't a lot of stuff come out about Hollywood? What do you mean? Oh, AJ, don't. Oh, you mean if you cancel Will for this action, you have to cancel other people for things that they have done, usually behind closed doors, though. Yes. Yeah, of course.

I mean, it'd be stupid to take it away from them well it just opens a door that then oh is that right well how come boom movie that weinstein created one yeah but you know nothing makes sense there's no rational thinkers kairi irvin's back playing basketball i watched watched some of that, man. That dude is fun to watch. He's so good at basketball. He is so good at basketball. I said his name in the Barclays Center on Friday. Pretty good pop.

Good pop. And then on Sunday when he came out, good pop. And then how about them cheering for him right before he hits that free throw? I mean, good for Kyrie getting back out there. Now, with that being said, he will forever have people that don't like him because of how everything happened and unfolded. Well, don't you think he seems like he's okay with it? Like Kyrie's –

Yes. He's a unique dude, man. It's unique what that dude can do with the basketball and how he moves and how quick he is. Like I forgot what it was like to watch that guy. And how he operates off the court. I'm a big – Oh, yeah.

By the way, because of how good he is at basketball, he also, just like, you know know a guy we know pretty well you know a guy we know the there's people that are just at the top of the top and everybody wonders um how come they're allowed to act and do different stuff than other people it's like well because kairi Irving's one of one on a fucking basketball court. So like the Nets are going to stick by him through the entire thing, even no matter how public it gets, no matter how political it gets, no matter how slanderous it got at times for that entire thing from the middle of it all. It's like Kyrie made a decision and said, I ain't changing.

You guys are going to change before I change. He won the holdout by the way yeah well don't want people didn't he lose how much money do you lose yeah but i don't think kairi i mean people always point to that kairi knows it's a business and he's gonna get his money because somebody's making money but i don't think at the end of the day money is what's driving krie Irving obviously yeah he lost like a hundred or something like 20 or something yeah he lost a lot I think it's like close to what Ben Simmons lost which is I think he ended up losing 20 million it's a lot a lot of money that's all I'm not saying it let's get out of here I'm not saying it. I mean, you almost died on Saturday.

You might as well. Are you saying don't hold any thoughts? Exactly. It looked like you were dying. I want forgiveness. I've been denied here. Nah. That song hit on Saturday.

Yeah, it did. Man. Cowboy Tone was in the back of the plane dead and then he put a cap back on and he was, I went scat down there. I mean, it was, what a moment, man. Unbelievable. See, that's like that moment in a locker room after a win. You get those five minutes to really feel alive. Enjoy it. We feel alive. Enjoy it. That's what that tour around the airport was after we landed to get to our little airport. I mean, it was a full on. This is what we fought for.

All right. Is Tim McGraw in WrestleMania? Oh. He's jacked. You see how tan and ripped he is. Yeah. Speaking of, I'm getting spray tanned soon. Here we go. I don't know.

Where? I don't know. The last one I got gave my entire body a fungus so yeah i gotta research that who's cleaning their spray tan booths i bet michael cole knows because he gets a spray tan in texas like every week he's lost like a good 20 30 pounds his head looks like a turtle popping out of those old suits he had these other oh you know he had these old suits because that guy's been on the road for 25 years. Missed two shows. 25 years.

I don't know if he's hit 25 yet. There's a date. But he's been 24 years very close to 25 years. Only missed two shows. He's lived on the road. So his weight has fluctuated in his travel and everything like that. His suits, though, were set for a Michael Cole that is not as thin as michael cole currently is he looks unbelievable jawline face he looks like he's in great shape i'm like cole you getting back in the ring cole

what's going on what if he pops up in the middle of this match that'd be awesome and punches me in the head that would not be oh what if he turns heel what if he turns heel in the middle of this thing that'd be wild He'll be upset yeah And he'll be upset that you turned on Vince And that you're taking care of Vince's boy Yeah cause Michael Cole is the voice of the WWE Who's gonna call your match though

Cause what if you look back You look over to the announcer's table And Cole's not there anymore Some other people doing the announcing And you're like oh no Where's couldn't he pops out from under the what do you call it the apron underneath the ring? I'll sing like through the ring like Undertaker. Yeah, Michael Cole's head pops up out of the He's in a single with the heads the head headgear headgear on

He's pops up and I'm like, Cole, good to see you. And he's like, Will Smith. Right to the face. I'm like, you asshole. I knew it. I knew it all along. 3.45. Hell yeah. Hammered down. Let's get out of here. Can't take you all enough.

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league on earth, the NFL. Hopefully more news breaks manana. Can't wait for you all to see what I do on Sunday. I've been putting in a lot of work, AJ. I've been putting in a lot of work. AJ. I've been putting in a lot of work. I can't wait. Do you have any idea what time frame you may be going on?

No, I don't know anything. What time does WrestleMania start on Sunday? 8 or 7. And ends at what, 4 a.m.? When does it end? Well, there's two of them. WrestleMania Saturday, WrestleMania Sunday. And they both start at night That late

Yes I don't know I don't know Seven or eight I think both Till like But is seven a kickoff show Like is there a kickoff show For Wrestlemania Saturday

And a kickoff show For Wrestlemania Sunday I don't know I'm not sure 6.30 on Saturday Zito's telling me This is what I'm gonna be doing At 6.30 on Saturday

You know Probably arriving Some headphones. You know? Probably arriving. Some headphones on. You know? Getting in there. Locked in. Getting in the mood.

Oh, my God. About to go fight a guy. What? Oh, yeah. Wait. How do you do the commentary when? Are you guys rotating back and forth just like a pay-per-view? Yeah.

It's just standard pay-per-view. We'll be switching back and forth. This says the main card starts both nights at 8. All right. Here we go. Main card at 8. All right. I think I'm on the main card. I got a graphic.

You got to be on the main card. I got to be on the main card, I think. Who cares? What's the undercard on? On the cock. Peacock. It's all on the cock, though, right? Yeah, everything's on the cock.

Okay. All right. We'll be back on the YouTube tomorrow. Hell yeah. We're on the cock though, right? Yeah, everything's on the cock Alright, we'll be back on the YouTube tomorrow Hell yeah We're on the cock Friday, Saturday, and Sunday Because Friday, Hall of Fame After Smackdown Saturday, WrestleMania Saturday And I think NXT's in the afternoon

And then WrestleMania Sunday Then we're back here, Indianapolis, Indiana On Monday Can't wait, this is going to be a blast Thank you all so much for allowing me to live this dumb life. Thank you all for supporting us. Shout out to Herbie and Rappaport. We'll see you tomorrow.

AJ, have a great afternoon, pal. If I FaceTime you, I'm with Jimmy Galante. See you all. Goodbye. សូវាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្វាប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បាាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប� Outro Music