The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 684 - Patty "Big Rig" Maroon, Quentin Richardson, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: June 14, 2022

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about everything happening in the NFL, NBA, and NHL including more allegations coming out against Deshaun Watson, whether or not the Celtics are dead, Elias' potential return to the WWE, and much more. Joining the progrum is friend of the show, a winner of 3 consecutive Stanley Cups, looking for a 4th, LW for the Tampa Bay Lightning, The Big Rig, Patty Maroon. Pat, Patty, and AJ chat about the mindset going into the Stanley Cup Finals, how tired he is after playing this many games 4 seasons in a row, what will be challenging about the series, and what he and the boys will do if they win another Stanley Cup (1:09:05-1:36:34). Later, 13 year NBA veteran, former Three Point Contest Champion, co host of the Knuckleheads podcast with Darius Miles, friend of the show, Quentin Richardson joins the show to chat about whether or not the Celtics can come back in the NBA Finals, if Steph Curry will ever have another bad game like he did last night, and how he see's the rest of the series playing out (1:36:36-1:52:11). 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 Tuesday, June 14th. Rough start. This sports show begins right now. That got in my brain before we went live. We couldn't help ourselves but be excited to drop the epic Russell Wilson quote to start this show that should be fantastic. Quentin Richardson will join us, obviously NBA great host of the Knuckleheads podcast. He'll join us at 2.20 Eastern Standard Time. Can't wait to chat with him about last night's demolishing of the Boston Celtics.

Just crumbling right in front of our eyes, this team that came alive after an early start to the season that was not great with a brand new coach buying into his system, becoming this defensive savantvant squad making a run through the playoffs and now they're running into a team that doesn't even need the best player in basketball to score any points basically and they'll lose to the fourth or fifth best guy on the roster and andrew wiggins boston celtics might be dead or are they we'll talk to quentin richardson about how he feels about it all we'll

obviously hear connor's thoughts we'll hear Ty Schmidt's thoughts. The Talks at the Table is glowing today. You two look fantastic. Thank you. Like you said, it's hot as hell out today. Kind of different mood a little bit. When it gets this hot, you vibrate on different frequencies. It is a little bit, right?

Because when you go outside, you're going into it. Oh, yeah? Hey, you're going into war out there. Immediately. And if you accidentally leave the door or window or the garage door anything open just a little bit too long and let that seep inside those motherfuckers uh the humid hot air cells seem to procreate at a rabbit level and that'll linger through your whole house it'll become a thick stench that you basically just living in so make sure everybody keeps the humidity out let's keep vibes at an all-time high

and let's have a great tuesday today because it's not only Quentin Richardson. I think General Bob Carpenter's on it. The General? Yes. Sent a bird call out to the big rig, Pat Maroon, just one day before the Stanley Cup Finals kick off tomorrow with the Tampa Bay Lightning traveling to Denver, Colorado to take on the Avalanche.

We just learned something clever about the Avalanche's arena. There is a helipad on top of that arena with a condo right below that, and then the arena. That's for Kroenke, obviously. The owner of the Rams. That's how he does his life, and that guy's fucking awesome.

Yeah, not bad. That's a big thing for hockey, huh? Yeah, big news. We got a little bit of money, too, in the league. We got some deep-pocketed owners. Yeah, I mean, terrible marketing ideas and strategies, but there is some deep money into the NHL. That game tomorrow will be electrifying.

And I know the Lightning are getting one-and-a-half goals on the puck line, but minus 200. Can't help but love them at plus 134 to win the game. First game of the series, you think these Avalanche boys are ready to take on the wagons of Tampa Bay? These big boys throw punches in bunches and do the things that they can't do on the ice. This Avalanche squad is used to Edmonton Oilers

and old Chanson and Connor McDavid out there living their best lives and speed and speed and speed. Tampa's fast, but they'll fucking bruise you up, won't they? Hey, the boys down in Chompa Bay will really do this thing. Looking for four straight cups from Patty Big Rig Maroon. Early thoughts on this, Nick, as a guy that's covered hockey a lot better.

Is this not a good matchup for the Tampa Bay Lightning, or am I just making this up and anthropomorphizing ourselves into the celebratory of Lordo with the Tampa Bay Lightning? No, Pat, you make a great point there. Tampa Bay, a lot bigger and tougher than people give them credit for. They're tough

as nails, and they can play any which way you want. They can play the speed game, they can bang and crash into the boards and do all that stuff. But Colorado is really deep, too, and they're no shrinking violets themselves. They can play that game, too. They've got some tough customers on their side as well. They don't want to see a big rig. No. Big boy.

Now, we would like to say that we're okay if the Avalanche win because we will be sneaking in to said celebration with lordo whenever it is at the aj hawk compound right boom pumped but it does feel like we have a much better relationship with the lightning go boats i can't wait to watch it i'm excited about it let's dive into last night at boston connor you're sitting right here celtics are dead or are they who knows can't make free throws can't really controlum, your star, can't score in the fourth quarter. Five points combined in the fourth quarter for this guy in the last couple games in Golden State. What's his deal?

Are you guys dead? Is it over for Boston? It was a miraculous run. Now you guys just can't keep up, can't knock down shots and embarrass the entire city. Is that what's going on? Steph goes into Boston TD Garden with all the animosity and everybody's looking at the crowd. Does his big dick dance all over everything. Now he doesn't even have to score and you guys still lose.

Are the Celtics dead? I don't like it. I just became a Celtics fan after what happened with the Golden State Warriors a week ago when they were yelling about how real classy. Are the Celtics dead right now, Connor? I wouldn't say they're dead. You know, the Steph Curry only scoring 16 points and still losing definitely is a big old shot to the gut but I mean I feel like them just kind of face guarding them playing

four on four everywhere else is good you can't win you know missing 10 free throws having you know what 50 turnovers and also scoring 39 points in the first half I don't think they're dead just yet we have to remember this is the NBA so so if Adam Silver says, hey, we need seven games here. That's rhapsody. COVID was only a few years ago. We didn't have any fans, lost some money. We need seven games out of this series. I don't care what it takes. So I do think

maybe we'll get back to Golden State. I think possibly the Celtics will blow them out. Just stay up and watch that whole game. Oh, yeah. Have to. Have to. Because, I mean, going into the fourth. Yeah, the 9-0-7 tip. Yeah, I can't have whole game? Oh, yeah. Have to. Have to. Because, I mean, going into the fourth. Yeah, the 9 o'clock tip. 9 o'clock tip. Yeah, can't have that happen. Hey, listen.

I'm all about the West Coast getting to enjoy their life, too. Hell, yeah. There's a lot of empty seats at the beginning of the game. 6 p.m. There's probably some traffic to get there. Absolutely. Not easy to get there. Even if you think about going home from work and then to the thing, you're going to show

up late. And I don't know how you guys have done it all this time. You get better weather than us. Okay? That's the deal with it. That's what you this time. You get better weather than us, okay? That's the deal with it. That's what you guys get. You get better weather than we get. We just so happen to have East Coast bias for everything that is timing-wise.

That 9 p.m. tip, if that was a team that I was actually rooting interest for, that'd be tough. That kind of offsets the entire day, especially now that I'm super healthy and focused on my sleep and drink coffee. Hell, yeah. You're a good sleeper. But the biggest thing, really, is you just – You said something was tough. You know what's tough? good sleeper. But the biggest thing really is you just... You said something was tough.

You know what's tough? Getting this done. How do people drink this every day? Iced coffee? Just in general, the mud flavor that this thing has. I don't know. That's the hiccup that I can't get over.

I think it tastes like shit. My wife loves it though. Oh, I love the taste of coffee. I like the smell of it. I think I like the... Oh, the best the taste of coffee. I like the smell of it, I think. I think I like the, oh, the best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup. I don't think it's just in the cup. I think it's the smell.

The scent of coffee is one that I enjoy. The taste, though. This thing is just. You have to find your taste. It's going to make me live forever, they say. But this one, I think I had a ball roast this morning at the house. My wife made me a little iced coffee. That's delicious. I mean, it certainly wasn't delicious.

But it went down much smoother. Good job, Doug. This thing is a trifecta, triple option. Oh, Trenta. Trenta cold brew. Okay. Thick. This one's thick.

That one has the juice. This one will literally make me live forever. And it will get you going. That one has more than any other coffee, I think. I don't need that. Are you a post-coffee poops guy? Because if you aren't, you're about to find out. Oh, baby.

A lot of people only drink coffee to poop in the morning. What's that? A lot of people like smoking a cig or something like that or putting a chew in. A lot of people just drink coffee to poop in the morning. Did you dump this morning? A lot of people like smoking a cig or something like that or putting a chew in. A lot of people just drink coffee to poop in the morning. You are going to be the mayor of butt-pissed city. With this thing? Yeah. It'll get you moving.

Oh, no. It's good for you. No, that's not good. But as far as the taste, you just have to find your taste. Like Connor's, or sorry, what's his name? Foxy's a black guy. Like he drinks coffee black. I'm a two splendid one cream guy

yeah but that makes coffee no longer good for you says who AJ yeah K you can't yeah those

those creamers will kill you well that's what they say try almond milk no that's why you need almond milk almond milk it gets the job done and it's not as thick

yeah I'm just gonna let you know I ain't bad about it with almond milk either I just hate my fucking shits well you not as thick. Yeah, I'm just going to let you know, I ain't bad about it with almond milk either. It just ain't my fucking shit. Well, you go. So you go Fairlife. I'm a skim milk guy. Yeah.

Okay, there you go. Put that in here? Yeah. That's all the same. And you don't have to worry about dumping your pants. Usually after the first cup of Joe, you'll poop then. So if you have the blonde roast at the house. Yeah, correct.

I did. But yeah, so by the time you come in here. No. Oh. Yeah, so you're going to have your hands full after that one. I'm taking down a combo. Yeah. My people ain't going to come on.

Oh, yeah. But it's all right. I'm going to live forever. Yeah, true. I guess if I'm just losing a feeling in my feet every single day after having a couple of coffees, but I get to live forever, that's something I'll give up, I guess. Foxy, how many times do you poop, I guess? Is that what you do?

You're just shitting the whole day, Foxy? I'm used to it now so it's just one a day every morning it's a pretty good standard schedule here tea's fine for you though Pat

I don't know if AJ said it was bad for you tea is absolutely fine it's just like coffee no but coffee makes you live forever is what I was told yesterday

that is what they say I've been trying to live forever back in the day I was like well I'll go and die young I was almost wishing

for it a couple different times like you know they say the good die young and I'm great like let's get me the fuck out of here you know what I mean like, well, I'll go and die young. I was almost wishing for it a couple different times. They say the good die young and I'm great. Let's get me the fuck out of here. You know what I mean? That whole thing. In a way, I was living a bit reckless

and it was almost like, all right, if I make it to 30, awesome. This would be sweet. But now I'm like 35 and I get a tweaked knee golfing and hitting a ball into a net and everything. And some reason I'm like, I would like to live forever now.

Why not just let me live forever? And whenever I get to that point where I can no longer live forever I want them to cut my head off freeze it and then cure whatever I have that is killing me and bring me back boom but I've heard this yesterday I just learned yesterday I mean Adrian got very defensive we'll talk to him in the next hour obviously

he got very defensive I guess coffee does make you live longer which I did not know I had no idea so if you just got it makes sense because how bad it tastes it has to do something did not know. I had no idea. So it makes sense because of how bad it tastes. It has to do something good. You know what I mean? Sure. Like kale, the worst.

Right. Fucking helps you, allegedly. Everything that tastes like ass makes you live longer, allegedly. And that would make sense with coffee, I guess. I can't believe you want to live longer. I want to live forever. Can you imagine how insufferable the world is going to be in like 50 years, let alone 100? Dude, just imagine

when i'm walking around scratch golfer yeah okay because i played for so long of course just do my own thing i had seen more than any of these fuckers have ever seen i mean i will be google people would just be asking me questions all the time that's right it'd be a great time oh it'd be so annoying stop asking me questions everybody no that's why you get that big white beard yeah yeah you like it's a sign of hey i've fucking been there. No, that's why you get that big white beard. Yeah. It's a sign of, hey, I've fucking been there, done that. Exactly. That's what that big beard is. And I will play the part if I get to live 120, 130 years.

Have fucking none lived. Yes, you did. 114 or whatever. Mine's actually already turned white because I have so much fucking knowledge. Well, I think we're – by the way, is this normal? Our entire generation is getting gray right here on all of our beards. That's social media. Social media is doing it to us?

Not the food that we ate or anything? No, it's because you're always looking at your phone, so it's dying it. Oh. Probably. It could be. Probably, because I'm getting that, too. Yeah. And it's starting to, like, you know, I'm getting a lot of whites in my hair.

Nice. And it's kind of mixing with the blonde that I have and the brown that I have. If I get a full white head. You're going to look like that Italian guy who's on yachts. Dude, I'm fucking slicking that thing back. I'm going beard if this thing's all gray. And I am spray tanning myself. I am so.

That would be the best you. Even more reason why I would like to live forever. If that's what I'm going to look like, and I'm able to just give myself whatever boosts and boosts that make me just a yoked up, white haired, tanned man. I mean, here I come. Let's go. The next 90 years are going to be awesome, Nick.

Fuck off. Who are you going to be hanging out with? Huh? Who are you going to be hanging out with? Well, that is interesting. I talked to my wife about this this morning. I said, i need a coffee because i'd like to live forever she said uh just like you why do you want to live forever i was

like yeah why not i know i mean well has anybody ever done for no all right i like to try it out or whatever coffee allegedly makes me live longer and she said um so you just want you just want me to die or something like that i'm like no i'd like you to live forever too like hey i i would i need you to live forever as well and then that did go into a full conversation like well what if she doesn't live forever and i live forever and you guys don't live forever what am i gonna do no new friends no new friends it's gonna be difficult for me when i'm like 90 95 nobody's gonna want to hang out with me except for everybody else pooping in their diapers entire generation of doofuses is gonna be yes her Herbie's entire generation and the next one after that.

I always pictured you growing old at the end of a cul-de-sac with a couple other guys who aren't going to die, and that's Brock and The Rock. Oh, me? Brock? The Rock? Right, right. Stone Cold. You guys at the end of the cul-de-sac, okay?

Hey, the further down you go, the longer you live. We live at the end of the road, Paul. I don't know if Mr. Cold's going to make it as long, because that guy likes to have himself a nice... I would like to sacrifice me living forever if it would be for Stone Cold Steve Austin to live forever. Me too. I would just like that to be known for the good of the world. Science is science, though.

I can't believe you said that, Tony. Does he drink coffee, though, I thought? Stone Cold? Yeah. No, he wakes up and drinks a couple glasses of Waggy. What? That also helps you live forever, though. What?

A couple glasses of Wiggy with your coffee. What? I don't know if he's drinking whiskey in the morning. Did you say tequila has passed whiskey as the number one? Yeah, that's strictly because of The Rock, right? Yeah. The Rock is like, hey, everybody, we don't drink whiskey anymore. We drink Terramon and tequila.

Oh, yeah. Tequila. Americans will spend more on mezcal and tequila than whiskey this year. Whoa. This is a big deal because in America,

whiskey was king. Oh yeah. Because all the olds go ahead and have a whiskey at night or whiskey at meetings and they still do that entire operation

and it's kind of been the fabric of America drinking is that whiskey's the go-to. This year, with the helps of The Rock and Jordan and Braun pushing some highly expensive and great-tasting tequila, America has turned to tequila.

It's probably healthier for you than whiskey as well, if I had to guess. Yeah, natural upper. Potentially. Why? Mood and a booster is in there. Last time I had tequila, I ended up in jail. Now, that was like 100 shots of it, so maybe shouldn't do all that, but I've seen The Rock put a pretty stiff pour

into one of those things. He didn't end up in jail, but I do recall it always tasted very good. Makes sense. It honestly makes sense, but a very, very big whiskey drinker, Ty Schmidt, seems to disagree with this stuff. Well, I'm just not really a tequila guy

because the only time I'm having tequila is if I'm taking a shot of it. I know people do drink tequila on The Rocks, but'm having tequila is if I'm taking a shot of it. I know people do drink tequila on the rocks, but I will just never be that guy. The rock does. Yeah, but I don't know if the rock's drinking his own tequila. He is! I see him pop the bottle.

Pop! That's what it does. Pop! He goes, oh, there's the pop! It actually does that. Sounds like propaganda for big tequila. No! No, this program! I couldn't imagine sipping tequila. It gives me goosebumps just thinking It actually does that It sounds like propaganda From Big Tequila No No No No This program

Couldn't imagine sipping tequila It gives me goosebumps Just thinking about it So good There's some really good Tequilas though I think Tequila sunrise

My wife loves tequila That's not just tequila There's a lot that's in there Tequila too This is like a mashed potatoes Conversation Where Everything that's on top

Of the mashed potatoes Tastes good Mashed potatoes themselves Taste like shit is what you just kind of did with tequila. And we were saying the contrary actually. There's people that enjoy just the taste of tequila. And I think there is some high-end tequilas that are just very, very

smooth. Very smooth. I like the taste of tequila. I mean, there's a good run there where you just grab a bottle of Jose Cuervo and you just walk around town. Yeah, that's what we're saying. That's the shitty taste of tequila. Exactly. I mean, this makes sense because... No offense to Jose Cuervo. No, no. town. That's what we're saying. That's the shitty tasting. Exactly. That's why I mean this makes sense. No offense to Jose Cuervo. You're doing great business.

Don't need me going in there. But some of those high end ones. What's that big bottle? With the bell on top? Is that what it's called? The blue and the white bottle. The tall one? Yeah.

Very smooth. But you can ring that at the in Spanish, yeah. The blue and the white bottle? The blue and the tall one? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, the sextuple. Very smooth. But you can ring that at the top. Oh, yeah. I think me and Warren Moon finished a bottle of that one. Really? Yeah, it was quite an evening. He talked shit on his way out the door, too, as I was going to bed. Oh, no.

He was still going? He had a driver. Yeah. So I don't know if he was going home or if he was- Before he was doing it responsibly, wherever he was going. I don't know if he was going home or if he was going to finish another one of his bottles, but he did talk massive amounts of shit on the way out about me being soft. It was delicious, though.

That one was delicious. It's very good. But once you end up in jail for one particular thing, it's almost like when you get food sick off of chips at the Fiesta Bowl and you don't eat chips for the next 10 years. Because last time you ate chips and salsa was at like 2, 3 a.m. coming back from Phoenix or Scottsdale when you were doing a little bit too much the week of a bowl game. That's pretty important.

And you puked all over your bedroom and bathroom. Sure. Makes perfect sense. So you don't eat chips for like 10 years or so. But then when you get back into it, you finally get past the mental hurdle of getting back into it. You're like, oh, this is why I was. That's why I was playing the game to begin with.

This is why I was doing that game. Yeah. That has happened with me with tequila since, you know, the last time I had a little bit too much fun to end up in jail. Maybe we shouldn't do it again. But every once in a while I give a little look-see at it, and I'm like, maybe we should dance once again. Yeah.

Maybe we should have an evening where we don't have 100. Maybe we just have one or two. Yeah, what? That makes sense. And the terramana is delicious. We've all had it. Oh, it's so good. It is very smooth.

You guys seem to love it, so good. It is very smooth. You guys seem to love it. I mean, it's very, it's, everyone heard of the rock? Pop! The bottle. It just sounds so good. All right, let's dive into some sports talk.

20 minutes in. Today is massive for news. Huge. That's the thing about running a sports show. Yeah. And Darius talked about it with Good Morning Football, and I was watching this morning. They seem to talk a little bit more football this morning.

They did, yeah. We're pretty pumped up about that because Darius got to showcase his big Football, and I was watching this morning. They seem to talk a little bit more football this morning. They did, yeah. We're pretty pumped up about that because Darius got to showcase his big brain. And I believe today and yesterday were the only two days he's on this week. So congrats to our guy, D-Butt, on a hell of a lot of Good Morning Football. They've got to figure that out. They've kind of mailed in on that show. Yeah. And everybody knows they want to get back in the season.

They're in the studio. They're big again, though. Yeah, true. I've thought about that with our show i'm like um if this show gets down to like 20 people watching it which is a hilarious amount of people watching it but if 20 people watch this show uh we appreciate those 20 people but when we get back in the season we'll be we'll be able to get back into it so right now we try to you know wade the waters of sports bullshit and nonsense and try to figure out what's worth conversating about what's not worth conversating about here's something that's happening on a beautiful tuesday june 14th 2022 allegedly carolina panthers and cleveland browns

are in the middle of trade talks right now this just kind of got dropped out of nowhere the way it was reported was as if the trade talks will continue but i had not heard i don't think we had heard that they were in the middle of trade talks at all. We obviously thought that the Browns and the Panthers would make a deal because Baker Mayfield going to the Panthers makes sense. This has been alluded to literally since the Deshaun Watson situation happened in Cleveland. Now, one week before the Deshaun Watson trade to the Cleveland Browns for the $230 million guaranteed guaranteed there was a full Baker Mayfield

and the Browns not getting along uh relationship has come too far then the Browns said we don't care fuck off then he signed to Sean Watson then uh Baker Mayfield goes on the you never know you know podcast with uh just Mike just Mike and he says Carolina Panthers maybe but no like when you know you know and that's something that's a no you know you never know on the knee you never know thing it was a whole situation so the Panthers and Baker Mayfield have been linked for a long time publicly but it sounded like when Baker spoke about it he said nah and then whenever the world started chatting about it after the Deshaun Watson trade it was like a lot of things have to happen here for the Carolina Panthers to

want to get into the Baker Mayfield. All of it revolved around the Cleveland Browns paying the $18.5 million guaranteed that Baker Mayfield has. Now it is being reported with very firm conviction from Jonathan Jones. Hey, when JJ's on the beat and what JJ says, JJ knows. That's right. As minicamps begin today for both the Browns and the Panthers, so they're mandatory minicamps are happening right now,

trade talks between the teams continue surrounding quarterback Baker Mayfield per sources. Okay, so he said that this has been happening. I don't think we had gotten confirmation that they were talking at all. A lot of people were saying the Panthers want to check out what they got going on in minicamp. Seattle Seahawks want to check out what they got going in minicamp. Look for this all to happen after the minicamps because then they'll have a real judgment on if their team's going to be able to win quarterbacks that they have.

Or do they want to make a move and bring in a veteran like Baker Mayfield, who's obviously been exiled from Cleveland for whatever reasons. Got a lot of players that left Cleveland. Well, when Baker was there, they want to go back. There's a lot of players that left Cleveland. When Baker was there, they wanted to go back. There's a lot of What the fuck happened? Very interesting. First quarterback to ever win with them in some time. And it's almost like inside the building. Teams continue surrounding quarterback

Baker Mayfield per sources. The main issue remains Mayfield's salary and how much or how little teams pay. There's urgency on Carolina's side to execute the deal because they would like to see mayfield in some of their mini camps so i don't know why the last week of the mini camp would be when the trade talks would start or or kind of get in there uh it would make sense to want to have your quarterback at otas or at your mandatory mini camp so you can get a

little bit of a sense of how things go how practices go what's the vibe of team meetings who's a player who's not a player learn the offense a little bit more as opposed to just looking at an ipad during the downtime between ota's minicamp and training camp so it makes sense that they would want baker there but this jonathan jones guy's reporting something i don't think we knew they are currently entrenched in negotiations is this going to take place is this going to happen is baker on his way to carolina what's that mean for darnold are they sending darnold back to cleveland there's another 19 million dollars on the books that somebody's going to have to pay the uh minicamp angle is weird because their minicamp starts today um goes tomorrow and then the day after yeah three days is what minicamp is and then it's done so

that's a weird one that would have to be done very quickly and he would have to get there very quickly yesterday yeah he would have to get there yesterday hey we'll figure out the deal but we just need there yesterday. Hey, we'll figure out the deal, but we just need you at minicamp. And then with the salary thing, like— Hey, we're not questioning J.J., by the way. No, no, no. John Jones has heard his stuff. We're just saying this has come out of nowhere for those of us that have potentially been covering this for the last two months

waiting for something to pop up. And you'd have to think they're going to have to have the Browns, or maybe they just do a switch. I don't know, because Baker and Sam are both due 18 and a half, whatever the same thing is, because they were first and second overall. So is Tepper saying, hey, listen, Browns, you pay for Darnold's salary and Baker's salary. We'll take Baker.

You take Sam. Huh? How about it? And Andrew Barry's like, I can't do that. What? Are you kidding me? We just paid a guy $230 million guaranteed. What do you want from us?

Jesus Christ. That deal. do that yeah no you're kidding me we just paid a guy 230 million dollars guaranteed what do you want from us jesus christ that deal and is 26 now there's 26 allegations yeah uh-huh we thought this thing was coming to a close i think we all did yeah by the way incredibly serious and i say that every single time just because there's a chance that somebody's watching our clip for the first time and i'm wearing a tank top, used to playing the game. And we got a bunch of doofuses in studio. I would like everybody to know that we very much understand how serious these allegations are. And that what is being alleged is that this dude is a fucking predator. Okay?

Like, that is real. That is very real. Just from the allegations. Now, we would like justice to be served to the hundredth degree. One way or the other whatever it is and whenever the uh when he wasn't indicted by two grand juries i think the narrative around a lot of people are like okay well what does grand jury know that we don't know and if he's not getting indicted which we had heard that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich because what did the ham sandwich do we don't know we'll find out later so him not getting indicted i feel like turned it in his favor a little bit more like hey

these are allegations this is some big rouge massive would have to go across the country and now with 26 people would have to all be on the same conspiracy to take him down but how is this something that has gone this long if you're deshaun watson he now once again he has proclaimed his innocence since the beginning but with the new New York Times article and with the HBO and with more allegations coming every single week, it feels like where there's smoke, there's fire. Did he just assume that none of this would happen? I don't understand how this got to this point.

$230 million guaranteed from the Browns. It is all just kind of like a muddy situation. That's like, why is this happening? How did we get to this point in the biggest league on earth with the biggest contract in the history of the biggest league on earth with the quarterback position with a franchise that is like a legendary one that's been around a long time none of this makes sense to me at all how we got here and it seems like it's only getting worse by the days go on well and it's even cloudier because like rap sheet

mentioned uh yesterday like we don't know what he disclosed to the browns so it's even cloudier because like rap sheet mentioned uh yesterday like we don't know what he disclosed to the browns so it's like they've been very steadfast about okay we're in his corner like we're not voiding any guarantees he's getting this contract he's our quarterback but now like all these new these new allegations are coming out so it's like well was he forthright with them did like because now at this, like they've kind of made their bed and they have to sleep with it. Like what if they didn't do it after, you know, four more allegations, like if it gets up to 30, well, then they'd be like, oh, okay, well, maybe we, we miscalculated this whole

situation. Cause it really was once he showed up and he had the stuff on and was like actually throwing in, you know, like his red Jersey and I had his helmet on. It was almost like, maybe he was thinking like, oh, this is over. Now I'm here. I'm here to play football. This has all been put to rest. That just is not the case at all. I don't get it. I don't get it.

How'd the grand jury not do it? Yeah, exactly. Right? They heard everything, right? Yeah. How was he not put on the exemption list? Everybody that comes out is like, well, the commissioner's exemption list is actually whenever, blah, blah, blah. It's like, well, I had a teammate

who was accused of something, got into legal, and they put him on the exemption list the next day when he was accused of something that took place or whatever. It's like, I don't fully understand how the NFL has handled this and what's going to go,

but allegedly we're going to get an answer here in the next couple of weeks. But what happens if two more allegations come out afterward right and then it just continues to go because the new york times said 66 different massage alleged once again this is all alleged yeah 66 different massage therapists in 17 months that's only 17 months this guy's been in the nfl a long time i i just don't see how if you're deshaun watson's camp you're like yeah let's just keep going. Let's just keep doing this.

Because now there's 26 different trials they're going to have to go to. And if any of those are made public, it's not going to be no. Right. Especially with the HBO thing. And now the NFL has to reopen their investigation. Every time. Yeah, there's more allegations now. So they have, what, four more people?

Because they did the 22 that it was two or three weeks ago, and now it's at 26? I had a couple of Browns fans say, did you talk about Ben Roethlisberger whenever you talked? Yes. Go ahead and check us. Please. Please go check us about baloney bopping Ben and what we have said about him in the past. This is not just because it's the Browns quarterback.

It's because this is the biggest contract in the NFL's history history this is going to set the standard for a lot of things and i would assume any good agent is going to be or any guy representing himself is going to say this is what he's never got a yard for the cleveland browns ever this guy's never accrued a single yard for the cleveland browns the only thing he has brought is actual controversy to the Cleveland Browns now, let alone burning it down with Baker Mayfield entirely, and you paid him more guaranteed money than anybody. So Kyler Murray, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson are all just like, well, you're going to pay us more than what this guy got.

This guy got this. You have to pay us more. This is a new standard in this whole thing. And it's like, all for what? Because what if he does? I mean, Ian Rappaport yesterday saying,

it'll be more than a fine. Whoa. No shit. Yeah. No shit. Imagine if Roger Goodell said, one million dollar fine

for his actions. There would be people rioting. Oh, God. Yeah. There would be riots and protests at the NFL offices in New York,

at the Cleveland Browns Stadium every single time. But I guess that had to have been a conversation at one point for Ian to even give us an answer like, yeah, it will be more than a fine. It's like, are they trying to set the standard now? It won't be as big. And who's actually making that decision? Because they have an independent investigator that is giving her recommendation to Roger Goodell.

Then Roger Goodell, I think, makes the final decision. So this is all going on to Roger Goodell's desk. Does Roger Goodell want to end up answering the same questions he had to in the past for things that he has maybe misjudged or mismanaged? It continues to get more and more complicated as the days roll on, and it's not good for the NFL or, obviously, Deshaun for this to keep going the way it is. Yeah, I think it was Lisa Friel was the one who was investigating,

and after she did her investigation, I thought we were all kind of shocked at how quick it was. It didn't feel as though it was as in-depth, but then obviously later on they said, we're going to wait until the trials figure themselves out and then we'll kind of come forward. But I think that's why the Browns-Panthers thing is interesting, because Tepper and I feel like a lot of the other owners fucking hate the

Browns because of that contract that they gave to Sean Watson. Who's the Paisan for the Ravens? Acosta? No. Bishotti. Oh, yeah. Bishotti came out. The Ravens came out.

And the Bengals came out. And we're like, he's fucking brah. And they can both grandstand, by the way, on morally. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And good, too. Like good moral arguments against it all. It's just 26 now at this point.

What does it start as? 22? I thought it was 24 and then two dropped. So it went down to 22 and then four more yeah since the hbo thing that's a lot yeah that's a lot of allegations it doesn't seem like there's really any very serious allegations good way for this to end either because if he doesn't get like you see all this stuff it's like okay there's no way this guy can play this year but if he doesn't and like what are they just gonna he's to be playing on Fox or CBS, whatever,

and two more allegations come out, you know, like the day he's playing. Like the NFL is going to take so much flack over that. I feel like Hart and Greg Olson are going to have to handle that. Just moments ago there has been. Yeah, I don't. Let's move on. Hey, we will continue to follow along with one of the most game-changing stories the NFL has had in some time.

Not only contract-wise, team-wise, odds are moving, everything's moving. And the Cleveland Browns went all in with this. Yeah, shocker. What's that all about? What? Well, Browns fans aren't going to be happy that you just did that. Well, it's wild that it's happening to this organization of all the organizations, this top-of-the-line,

Class A organization. You did say the football gods, you know, you finally get a quarterback in a city that never wins, and now you want to run him out of town. We did mention that the football gods could potentially come back and say, hey, what the fuck are you guys doing? First playoff win since, what, like, 94? And it happened to be against the Pittsburgh Steelers? Yeah.

I mean, Foxy represents Detroit every single year, 10-7 in a playoff win. And the Browns actually finally got that. Yeah, but they fired Jim Caldwell, too. That's right. If it were me, I would have paid Baker $500 million. He wants a playoff game. Thank you so much.

You can do whatever you want for the rest of your life. Pigs get fed. Hogs get slaughtered. It's always like everybody says, the enemy of great is good. And we're good right now. We need to get great. And then they go right back into the suck of what life is. But remember, that jersey was

from the top of this TV all the way down to the ground on quarterbacks that lost for the Cleveland Browns. Yeah. They had a 29-year-old rookie in there. Wheaton, boom. He was supposed to change the whole thing.

Brady Kim was, boom. He was supposed to change the whole thing. The amount of names that are on that list is literally a hall of fame of coulda beens or supposed to be's. And they all lost in Cleveland. Then Baker Mayfield gets there, wins, and then maybe we don't.

We kind of fucking hate this guy. Get him out of here. We'll keep this jersey growing, I think. We did win a playoff game. He got a little bit excited. Some other shenanigans. Seems like a lot of his teammates don't like him for whatever reason. Now listen, we're not saying that.

We're just saying what is kind of coming through the grapevine and from watching the interactions. And the Browns just go, yep, we're fucking moving on. Look at this. Is that fucking Tim Katsch that starts this entire thing? Yeah.

Is that Doug Peterson? Head coach of the fucking Jags right there? Kelly Holcomb. Holcomb, McCann. Jeff Garcia. Fry, Dorsey, Gradkoski. Remember Bruce? Oh, yeah.

Hey, that's Pittsburgh Paisan. Bruce Gradkoski was supposed to fucking go. Anderson, Brady Quinn. Who? Eric Anderson. Eric Anderson won here. Jake Dillon. Those fucking names.

Those are all quarterbacks consecutively that lost for the Browns. This isn't like throughout the history of the Browns. This is in order. Bang! Bang! Stink! Stank! Stunk! Suck! Here we go again! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! And then finally Mayfield wins for him

and everybody including us is like is this the long term answer for him and literally since the beginning we have had to mention that this ain't good football gods are going to watch this Cleveland you guys weren't able to drink fucking Bud Lights for like 10 weeks

of a season not that long ago and now it's like we can get better we can move on and Deshaun Watson on the football field is a incredible quarterback or he was whenever we last saw him play how much was he working you would assume that um he maybe lost a little bit if you're just away from the game for a year not playing or maybe he got better i don't i'm not 100 sure but now they're gonna have to

live in this where it is mutually beneficial to both parties of Baker and the Browns to move on. And it's got too ugly, too public for them to even make amends, even though I think money handles all of that shit. But him going right down to Carolina, right down into the carousel of suck. Carolina's about to become the Cleveland Browns jersey. And by the way, Tepper will be that jersey until they find a guy that they think is good enough.

And maybe Baker, with a chip on his shoulder, will go into a new town and be able to do that for him. But I have no idea how this plays out for any party. Yeah. And, like, with the quarterback conversation, I kind of credit to the Colts for actually being able to go with a different quarterback every year and not completely sucking. But the Panthers. We lost Clontown last year. Yeah, absolutely. But Matt Ryan, obviously, seal.

But the Panthers, what? They've had five or six quarterbacks in the last three years like they are kind of already are halfway down that list you could probably add dartle maybe even corral and sure corral could be the guy but if that doesn't work out either there's a chance that thing just triples pretty quick also offense coordinators they've moved on yeah uh rule was really the only one that's kind of maintained and and I think he got like a $70 million deal. He has to be looking around the building like, oh, well, Tepper is quickly saying, that guy can't win a Super Bowl.

That guy can't win a Super Bowl. That guy can't win a Super Bowl. That guy. Oh, who's? I don't know. Oh, shit. Well, hello, Mr. Tepper. I'm nice.

I'd like to let you know, they promised me $70 million. That is guaranteed. I don't give a fuck. You're the win this year. You get the fuck out of here. He will continue to just motorboat right through whatever until he deems it as a winner.

And that's good for a fan base to see that out of an owner. In that building, though, everybody's just got to have assholes. Oh, yeah. Tighten up. And they already have the next coach in waiting there, fucking McAdoo. All right. I don't know if McAdoo was necessarily one of the Panthers fans thought, okay, bring this guy in.

This is going to be the one that's going to save the day for us. But, hey, maybe McAdoo did a little reflection. Maybe he took some ayahuasca. Maybe he's completely changed his head. You know, maybe he is. I mean, that guy caused a war in New York. Oh, yeah. The doofus.

He benched Eli for Geno Smith with his hair the way it is and talking away. He gets fired. They put Eli back in. Oh, what a scene. He's a Pennsylvania guy. Yeah. Oh, is that right? Yeah, McAdoo.

Just a Pennsylvania guy. Okay. Don't they say he's a Pittsburgh guy? No, no, no, no. I thought he was a Pittsburgh guy. Nobody's ever said that. No, no. He's a Pennsylvania guy.

Just Pennsylvania. Everyone says Pittsburgh, though. Well, that's because he's Irish and he does have the slicked back hair, so you would think he was an Irish person that grew up around a lot of fucking Italians probably. Sure. But he's just a Pennsylvania guy. He's not necessarily a Pittsburgh guy. Oh, okay.

We should tell the broadcasters that thing. What's that? They've never said that. Ted Pittsburgh. No, they don't say that. They usually say Pittsburgh. They say noted Pittsburgh guy. No, no, no, no, no.

That's what they say. No. Made from steel. No, he's maybe Western that. They usually say Pittsburgh. A noted Pittsburgh guy. No, no, no, no, no. That's what they say. Made from steel. No, he's maybe western Pennsylvania. But it's six hours to drive across the state. Big state, boys. That's a fucking huge thing. It's not like a little bum-ass state like where you're from. He's from Ozark.

He's an hour and 15 minutes east of Pittsburgh. You guys usually claim guys like that. No. Not McAdoo. Not McAdoo. Jeff Goldblum might as well be in fucking state college. guys like that. No. Not McAdoo. Not McAdoo. Jeff Goldblum might as well be in fucking state college.

Jeff Goldblum was fucking unbelievable in that Jurassic World mini movie. He was really the only redeeming quality of that thing except for a couple

of the dinosaurs that looked perfect. Sure. Other ones look like they were South Park. You know. Yeah, there's bad ones. Yeah, put together.

Jeff Goldblum's down from the waterfront. Okay. That's where we did our fucking show. Is he really from the waterfront? West Homestead. Munho. That's hilarious. That's where we did our fucking show. Is it really from the waterfront? From the host.

West Homestead, Munho. That's hilarious. That's where we were at the IHOP, where the server was the hostess and the host. Chase. Chase. Chase was the chef, server, and host. Yeah, sous chef. To be honest, our entire system just crashed.

Everybody quit. No one showed up. I don't even know what to charge you, man. I have no idea. What do you think it's worth? Yeah, whatever you think it's worth. It's like, well, good for you, pal. Keep one showed up. I don't even know what to charge you, man. I have no idea. What do you think it's worth? Yeah, whatever you think it's worth. It's like, well, good for you, pal. Keep working, man.

Here's $300, I guess. Well, and that guy turned into Ben McAdoo, and he coaches the Carolina Panthers now. I didn't hear what you said, because there's breaking news coming out of technology. Here we go. Oh, boy. Apple has just signed a 10-year deal with MLS.

No. What? Joe Pogliano, who was on the show just a couple weeks ago, a man who does all this business stuff for us, and we talked about how good his account is at the business shit. He is what we thought Ravel might grow into. Ravel turned into a meme that can't run well, and Pompliano has really taken off in stride.

Apple TV has signed a 10-year deal with Major League Soccer and will become the exclusive home of all MLS games globally starting next year. The deal is worth at least $250 million annually per Andrew Uroink of Sports Business Journal, or 2.8x the $90 million they currently get. This is a big deal for the MLS. Hell yeah, it is. Wow. MLS.

Got Matthew coming. That's what it is wow got methi coming you got beckham in ownership you know all these uh you start adding some high-profile names and some stars into the whole thing you get some of these executives that only want to be able to go to a happy hour and say they just did a deal with uh david beckham and that money can really go up because we have to remember that all those are businesses. These are humans making the decision. With the profile of the MLS growing, that automatically means that the money of the MLS is growing. Whether it's worth it

or not, TBD, nobody cares. But the humans making the deal are pumped to say that they just did a deal with fucking David Beckham and Messi's coming to town in a couple years. Okay, so Apple's now got two baseball games a week. They now have the MLS. It's only a matter of time before they got Sunday ticket. Are you saying, hold?

Apple's got a lot of money. Yeah, why would they do this before Sunday ticket? Oh, they got enough money for both. For sure. That's salary cap for the NFL. Literally, everybody's just kicking everything in the future. It's like, did you see what Apple just gave? Fucking MLS, $250 million a year.

Oh, so they'll give the NFL $2.5 billion a year at least. Oh, that means the salary cap, 49% of the shares of the whole thing, that'll only go up. We're in a good spot. We'll just keep kicking this shit down. That's only 20% of money they made off accessories too. What do you mean? Like just the dongles and chargers and stuff like that.

Oh, you're talking about Apple as a company as a whole? Yeah, they're sitting on so much fucking money right now. They can do this deal 10 times over if they wanted to and still be able to go get every other league if they wanted to, just like Amazon. But all these teams that are kicking this money into the future, yeah, we'll give you $70 million in

2027. They're like, looking at this deal and they're like, hey, I had a baby. Makes sense. Look what we're doing. We're getting into this whole thing whenever Apple starts dancing with the biggest league on earth. I like that Apple Sports is starting to take off because you said for baseball, the coverage, the camera angles and shit is awesome. Yeah, it's sweet because obviously the cameras that Apple is using are insane and you don't

get to see that any other place you'd be watching a baseball game. It's just the booth that kind of stinks. Well, listen, this is just like whenever old Phil Knight decided to take some rubber and put it into a waffle maker and then tape it to the bottom of his feet so he could be a better cross-country runner.

The first couple iterations of things, not necessarily the final product. That's probably what Apple's thinking when everybody buries them for their coverage, which I've want i've not watched a single game but i do see the internet light up and it's never about the baseball that's being played or the camera angles it's always about how did this happen with apple when you have a never-ending supply of money how is this what you got going on but just think four or five years i'll probably figure it out a little

bit get a little bit more mature just like with with Amazon coming in. I assume that's going to evolve over the first few years as well. Let's not, hey, wait till Netflix dives into the live rights for shit. I think that's on its way as well. I think all these platforms are going to try to battle in live stuff because as the world turns away from a podcast world and into a live world, I think platforms are going to take advantage of being able to keep people on their platform for longer with more shit, more live shit. And they all have a never ending supply of money, never ending supply of money to be able to afford whatever

the fuck they want. You just got to hope if you're on a receiving end of that, some person wants to go into a happy hour and say they just paid whatever it was for the deal that they just made. And I guess it does make sense if whenever their conversation with the NFL, whether it's next year or whatever, they do this kind of stuff so they kind of can say, like, hey, we've done live sports before. We kind of have an idea of what we need to do to make this – so they can really knock out the pitch to the NFL whenever they do have that. So they're calling this the first all-digital deal in North America.

Breaking the Apple TV app will be the exclusive place to watch every MLS game starting in 2023. This is the first all-digital global media rights deal for a big five league in North America. Look at the MLS. Yeah, how about it? What's Lord thinking? Yeah, but this is all probably a practice round for the NFL inevitably in a couple years if they get a chance to go at it. In all these deals, I think that the NFL signed 110 billion dollars for 11 years they signed meteorites deals I think they all have opt-outs for every single network if they wanted to get out and they have

the ability to compete if another platform wants to get into the game it's like including but not limited to uh Amazon Apple and any other people that get in there you know maybe we'll start getting for some we'll start looking for some rights for our show Here we go You know what I mean let's get a game on here You mentioned it though if they want to grow the game globally Like why wouldn't you have the Not Netflix's North America one

But like Netflix Europe or whatever Should get rights to NFL games It's only a matter of time I think YouTube, Google, when's Google going to get in the game Now the YouTube people we all do know give zero fucks about their creators right doesn't matter which is kind of a gift and a curse don't have to answer anybody but also if you need an answer from somebody there ain't nobody to go to yeah you know there's always a lot of this oh it'll get figured out sorry about it we have a job

for what well we just tell you that the ai will figure it out that same ai from the same company by the way that is allegedly sentient now i mean they'll figure it out. That same AI from the same company, by the way, that is allegedly sentient now. I mean, they'll figure it out. You see how good feelings they have? They don't want you to not have your video up and working. They'll figure it out. That's kind of what YouTube is and has been. And I think it's not just for small creators or medium creators.

I think for the biggest creators as well, YouTube knows that they're going to have success. And Google knows that they're going to have success. So I would assume that that would have to get worked out. But they have a never-ending supply of money, and a global audience already. Liv has already taken advantage of that. Assume Google and YouTube are going to get in the NFL game soon as well. And YouTube TV is already kind of a live streaming platform.

Yeah, but YouTube TV is not YouTube at all, I think. YouTube TV might as well be called Comcast with YouTube money. Yeah. You know? It's good. It's kind of frustrating, though. It's set up like a traditional cable company yeah instead of like being more accessible for the youtube creators almost that is this is a very personal niche thing but it is like youtube doesn't

fucking help much at all with anything no which is once again good because there's nobody to answer to but this has been something that creators have been saying a long time about YouTube and they never have to fix because people are always going to upload onto YouTube. People are always going to be on YouTube. People are always going to Google shit. It's a never-ending supply of cash, so they're probably thinking, why do we need to spend more energy or time on people to take care of these people if they're going to fucking come here anyways?

That would probably have to change if they were to get in bed with the NFL, and it probably would if I had to guess. Well, I mean, it does seem very easy that they would just put you know one channel on YouTube TV that all the live shows maybe that go on there they could just stream them on there 24 hours a day but next year because all the games are there's no

real assigned games for these networks like is Apple just going to be able to come in and bid on a game for 2 billion we want 2 games this season we'll pay this much for this much. Maybe. It's like the Saturday night games that are at the end of the season where it's like week 16, 17, 18.

How about the NFL making an auction for games? Genius. Whoever thought of that in the NFL thing, walked into a conference room, make it an auction. I got it. What do you mean? Everybody has more money than everybody, it an auction. I got it. What do you mean?

Everybody has more money than everybody, it feels like. So make people bid for every single game. They want an NFC game that Tom Brady's going to play in and Aaron Rodgers

is going to play in, make them bid for it. It doesn't necessarily mean that's got to be on Fox. And if CBS wants an NFC game, they should be able to get it.

And if Fox wants an AFC game, because we're going to have Tom Brady on here, we should be able to get it. Make them fucking bid an AFC game, because we're going to have Tom Brady on here, we should be able to get it. Make them fucking bid for it. Roger Goodell. Genius. Great idea. Alright, how do we write this in here in a

legal fashion that makes it sound like all the networks aren't getting fucked? Opportunity has presented itself for all networks. Although in the past, Fox was limited to just NFC games and CBS was just AFC games. Guess what?

Your friends at the NFL now are making you the potential owner of any NFC game or AFC game that you could possibly please. Congratulations and thanks to us for allowing that to be open. Then the networks get in and they're like, oh great, we can get this game or this game. And the NFL sent that email and they're like, yes, great, we can get this game or this game. And the NFL sent that email,

and they're like, yes, you can. Here we go. You all can get this. Yeah, anyone can get this. You all can get those games. Detroit Lions games, all right, that'll be 25 bucks.

Come on. The Fox folks, like, hey, CBS, we'll buy this game, but you gotta take a Lions game. Two of them, actually. No deal. Package deal. We'll pay the salary. You gotta pay the, you gotta game. Two of them, actually. No deal. Package deal.

We'll pay the salary. You got to pay that. You got to fucking air it. All right, we're back in four minutes with some phone calls to wrap up the hour one. AJ Hawk will join us in hour two. Hopefully, General Bob Carpenter as well. Here we go. Maybe big rig Pat Maroon.

Let's see if he has responded. Yeah. Here we go. My man! All right, we got to move somebody, but yeah. Patty Maroon's coming. Here we go. 2.20 Eastern time.

He's available because they traveled out to Colorado. I think they had some skate time, some practice time. 2.20 Eastern Standard. No. That's 1.20. Oh, he's saying 11.20. 11.20 is okay 120 uh patty maroon 220 quentin richardson let's go aj hawk joins us in about 11 minutes this show's coming together here we go 16 minutes before this show started we had zero zero guests. Nobody. It has become quite a little anxiety riddled thing here. Yeah.

Like, okay, there is nothing to talk about and we have no guests. Let's just start firing off text messages and DMs. You know, I've had to get past the fear of rejection pretty much here. And also, I don't like asking people to do shit. Like, if somebody wants to come on the show, I expect them to reach out to me.

Like, hey, I'd like to come on the show. They probably feel like asshole's doing that though as well. So i don't want to be the guy that sends out the hey right i feel like an they probably feel like an doing it back though a lot more people have been receptive about coming on the show than i could have ever imagined but it is always uncomfortable sending out the shots yeah i mean it's very nice that big rig got back to you stanley cub finals week it's about to win four straight. Yeah, here we go. Come on. We were going to take a break, but now it would make no sense because we got about a minute to the heart out on the Sirius XM. So I just want to tell you in the next hour, we got a man who has gone back to back to back with Lordo Stanley Cup.

Looking to go back to back to back to back with Lordo Stanley Cup. And that's more than fucking Wayne Gretzky's ever got. Wow. An American hero from St. Louis. The big rig. Patty Maroon will join us on the precipice of another Stanley Cup final. A place in which this man has called home the last

four years. Hell yeah. Go Boach. Big rig's a goal scorer. A dominant player. A lightning rod. A camaraderie builder, and he'll be on our show in about 30 minutes. I can't wait to chat with him just one day before the Lordo Cup Championship kicks off. A.J. Hawk will be here in about 10 minutes.

That should always be a great conversation. Oh, yeah. General Bob Carpenter's going to have to find another time to join our show because Big Rig came on. We'll have A.J. Hawk tell him that. And also, you have some breaking news in the next hour connor yeah just a little bit of breaking news i think it's going to blow some people's minds pad really yeah i do hour two on this big rig tuesday june 14 2022 is about to be magnificent be a friend tell a friend we'll see

in about 10 minutes cheers wow that was a lot of bullshit there let's go pretty good minute 35 of bullshit after four minutes of bullshit pretty good though that's amazing and you just and they just muted i had it for the out and i pushed it so i couldn't i had to put i'd let go to bring it back you gotta let it go to bring it back well that's what they say about things that you love. Yeah, that's right. They'll come back. Like a butterfly.

No, butterflies don't come back. They grow from the little... Yeah, from cat poop. Cat poop. Shit looking thing. Cat poop. Like a boomerang, I think. Yeah, a cocoon.

It's beautiful. A boomerang sometimes goes back if you throw it properly. Yeah. That's nice. I've seen some dumb Americans grab one of those boomerangs and just throw that shit right into the woods. Yeah, that's a bad

idea. It's never coming back. All right, go find it. It's this big, tiny, blends in with everything in the

woods. Normally brown. Gone. Have fun. I've seen three boomerangs get lost from some doofus throwing it, thinking

there was some Aussie and had the perfect fucking... All right, here we go. All right, come right back to me. Right over a fence call.

Alright, who's going to get it? Well, not me. You threw it. It was supposed to come back. I was lying too. There's a full form to that thing. Threw it like a jackass. I don't know the form either, by the way. Me neither. To be clear. But I'm not throwing a boomerang saying, hey, watch this. I'm not just grabbing

some guy's boomerang at a fucking park, though. This is the situation I was in. Yeah. You were just walking through, oh, not just grabbing some guy's boomerang in a fucking park, though. This is the situation I was in. Yeah. We're just walking through. Oh, I ain't never seen a boomerang in real life before. Yeah, it's pretty fucking cool, isn't it? You know, just kind of watching a couple times and then slap that asshole.

He goes, hey, can I throw this thing? This looks like fun. Right into the woods. Was the guy playing catch with himself? Yeah. The guy was like doing it pretty fucking good. Oh, what a beast. He had a full area with him. Full thing. Doing pretty good. doing pretty good missed a couple like wasn't able to do a couple sure

and then asshole who i was with who i will not name was like oh i've never gone how would you not do this goes up grabs the thing throws it right into the fucking woods right into the woods he's we gotta go find out who's's we, motherfucker? We do not. I'm gonna sit right here on this park bench until you come back. I don't think he ever did. That poor guy was having so much fun with that boomerang.

Damn. Had to give him like 30, 40 bucks, I think. Yeah. Jesus. Not cheap, I'm sure. It's supposed to be a memory forever.

Instead, it was a loss out on like two sandwiches. Yeah. Is everything still incredibly priced right now? Like wildly, not incredibly, wildly priced right now?

Yeah. Uh-huh right now? Yeah. Everything? Yeah. That's going to come to an end at some point, right? Well, I don't know. Anytime soon. What do you mean? I think it still might be wildly priced for a little bit.

Is that what happens? I think so. I don't know enough about the finance world. Global markets. But they're throwing you know in school love recess oh yeah absolutely yeah you just toss ion on the end of that though yeah i'm good not good at all i don't know the ins and outs of it but i do know crypto is done yeah crypto winner they're calling it hey this is what we're really going to test our who's controlling it. I don't know.

Who's controlling it? Oh, sure. Oh, supply and demand. Okay. So it's following along with the stock market exactly. So you tell me. Coinbase had to lay off like 20% of their employees. Yeah.

To prepare for the crypto winter. Winter's coming? Yeah. Winter's coming. Sounds like it. Sounds like winter is here. Hey, CFO phil great work having us not dive too heavy into that thing old school cfo phil was like nah pat come on like i feel like

we gotta get in the game a little bit he said maybe a little bit but we ain't doing anything real in there no way and we still by the way have the opportunity to get in there right now at a lower level than it was like two years ago. So all these people that have been going on this run of crypto and how it's going to save the world for the last two years have inevitably now had to start back at zero or less than zero. If it works like the stock market, once that number goes below it, they are

now losing money. So we did not get into the game really, but we have a chance to get in earlier than the people that have been yelling us for the last two years, basically. You give it a few months and then you really are going to be in a good spot. After the winter, when the spring comes. Yeah, exactly. You buy the dips, you buy the winter.

Yes. But when you buy the winter, if everybody's buying the winter, then that means spring will come sooner, right? Allegedly, but who controls it? We don't know. We don't know. I pause if you buy it. Need Pomply on it back. Need you, Pom.

Get Joe. A lot of diamond hands getting tested right now. Yes. Big time. Tell me. Another man that got shut out diamond hands getting tested right now. Yes. Tell me. Another man that got shut out this morning. It wasn't really him. It was more so his fingers for carrying groceries.

College football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup champion, COVID survivor, private plane survivor. Ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hogg. A.J., what's going on, pal? What's going on? Why are you guys denying Ben McAdoo? He's a Pittsburgh native. He is very proud of that.

And I think you should acknowledge. He's from western Pennsylvania, but Pennsylvania's a big state. Everybody's talking about Texas being a big state. Fuck, Pennsylvania's a big one, too. A lot of people, AJ. A lot of Italians. A lot of people, AJ. He's not a Pittsburgh guy, Ben McAdoo.

Not one bit. Okay. All right. Fair enough. What were you talking about grocery bags You were mentioning on Good Morning Football this morning By Darius Butler because somebody was telling a story On there about carrying grocery bags I think I could just

Literally as soon as I turned on the TV Darius said I gotta shout out my man AJ Hawk would be great at Carrying grocery bags with his mangled fingers And I was like oh this is gonna be a great episode They're not talking about football obviously They're talking about grocery store stuff and aj's getting referenced and then boom just a couple minutes later darius references fucking boston connor being a reason why he's

not really worried about the new england patriots not having an offense coordinator i'm like all right good morning football fucking love this let's get d-butt in there permanently yeah you're talking to me okay i thought you wanted to go with connor but you know what i was gonna say d-butt i appreciate you shouting me out. Whether someone takes that as a slight or not, I do not take it as a slight. Well, I like a good shout-out for A.J. Hawk anywhere that it happens. You know what I mean? I love a good A.J. Hawk shout-out. Why are you standing up?

I just got a little energy. I've been drinking these things all morning. Maybe I've got to poop, too. It says I'll live forever. This is my second one today. So is that from Starbucks, just their iced coffee? Yeah, this one's a cold brew Hell yeah He found out about People love that stuff He found out about the poop

Today Yeah so it's starting to cook A little bit I've not completely Wrecked shop yet But I believe I'm about Halfway there Oh yeah

A lot of people like Yeah they act like They have a sip of coffee They're dumping their pants Instantly I don't know how that's Sometimes That's kind of how it was

Presented to me The first hour That is legit what happens That's why I don't drink how that's the term. That's kind of how it was presented to me in the first hour. That is legit what happens. That's why I don't drink it. I love pooping. I think that's also maybe why it helps you live longer because it gets the demons out quicker. Is that a thing? I get the demons out? Yeah. I mean, every

once in a while when I'm pooping in a public bathroom, I will have full... There's a special teams coordinator in the NFL right now. I would not say his name because I do not know if he wants to be attached to this but i walked into a public toilet that he was in and the things that he was saying and we were obviously in a uh like a restaurant where we were not the only people in there so there's a him saying get out of me in the toilet was one of the funniest things i've ever experienced. So I walked into this bathroom

and I think I just had to like maybe wash my hands. Something had gone on my hands and maybe I was pissing on the way out. And he was mid-performance apparently because there was somebody standing at the urinal, like two people at the urinal, like having a conversation with each other while pissing like, what's wrong with this guy? And then those two

left and then he came out of the stall and he was like was it you in here the whole time i was like no there's definitely two other guys he said okay good they got a show and they walked out i'm like amazing amazing i believe there was a demon call at one point while he was pooping the get out of me was really the crowd it seemed like that was his go-to he said that like three four times that was more so the chorus of the song it felt like but yeah that'll be something i keep in mind whenever I get part. How do you not?

I mean, I wish you would put that person's name out. That guy is a hero. I would have lost my mind if I was in the bathroom and I saw that. Or I heard that happen, I should say. AJ, you would love this guy, by the way. He was doing it, though. He didn't know who was out there. It wasn't like one of his buddies taking a leak.

No, it was public. Very public place. He was disappointed. Good for this guy. He was disappointed that I was in there whenever he came out. He was like, were you here? Was it you? I was like, no, there was two other people. He was like, okay was public. Very public place. He was disappointed. Good for this guy. He was disappointed that I was in there whenever he came out. He was like, were you here? Was it you? I was like, no, there was two other people.

He's like, okay, good, good. They washed his hands of him and walked out. You are a maniac. And then as soon as we got out, by the way, the two were sitting with their wives, like, looking at the bathroom. Yeah, waiting. And waiting. And I believe there was a point thing there.

So I might have got some credit for it if they mispointed it. But, yeah, it was unbelievable listening to that performance while he was shitting. Longest I ever washed my hands. Just wanted to hear the whole show. You know what I mean? Wanted to hear the whole show. That's what you got to do sometimes. Speaking of this show, Patty Maroon will join us in 10 minutes.

Stanley Cup final starts tomorrow. Can't wait to chat with him about that. Where's the headspace at? Seems like they really caught fire after waking up from the week and a half off that they had before playing against the New York Rangers. And then did they know about that big left hook from the James Anastasio knocking out Tampa Bay Lightning fan? Did that rally the boys a little bit? We'll talk to him about that.

General Bob Carpenter may be on tomorrow. I believe I heard from Booker A.J. Huck. And Quentin Richardson will join us in the next hour. But, A.J., I want to talk to you about this. And this is super positive, so I'm happy we're doing this. Great. And I would like to let everybody know that me and A.J. feel that there is an overwhelming amount of good that NFL players bring to society.

Overwhelming amount of good. Absolutely. We should dive into all the philanthropic efforts that happen around the NFL on a daily, weekly, monthly basis with NFL players, NFL coaches, and things of that nature. We should do that more. We should be the show that says, like, hey, this guy donated $250,000 back to his high school to do this.

This guy did this for cancer research. This guy did this. This lady who's coaching broke down the entire thing that did this. Like, there is so much that we could do and we should do, but we don't do. So we apologize for that. Deshaun Watson was speaking. Okay, so I'm going to go the other way here. Deshaun Watson was speaking at the

mandatory minicamp for the Cleveland Browns. Was 66 and 17? Maybe. You should ask my lawyer. That's what he said. Yeah. Then he said that I am, I have said the same thing the entire time. I'm innocent.

This was all consensual, even though in the past it was said that it didn't happen at all. Now it's consensual. It's like every time he speaks, his lawyer speaks, or another accusation comes, there's just more questions than answers,

I think, every single time. This situation is unlike any, I think, that the NFL has ever had. Am I wrong in thinking that, AJ? I feel like maybe you might know. This is the biggest contract in the history of the NFL. Biggest contract in the history. Most guaranteed money ever. Very good football player on the field. Off the field, though, this mess is very serious. it's a very serious allegation set allegations and i don't think it's going anywhere anytime soon and i don't think deshaun cares like i don't think deshaun cares that's the one to ask you i didn't get to see any of it i heard he like i saw like okay he he went on he's having a presser and then i i came up here and i didn't get to see any like

what was his tone like who was up there with him like his lawyer wasn't there was he no he was alone it's mandatory minicamp. When you're saying that you think he doesn't care, that's what worries me. Not care. Sorry. He obviously cares that it's happening. He mentioned how he has to take care of his mental health.

But it's not like, I hope this is over soon, or, like, the truth will come out. Like, it's very much like he is just understanding that this is going to linger for a long time. And just as somebody that covers the NFL, is lucky to play in the NFL, even though. Social media team. By the way, good conversations last night. My comment did end up showing up again.

Okay. Which is very nice. I appreciate everybody over there that looked into the situation. I appreciate everybody over there that looked into the situation. I am still firmly in the belief that some rat bastard over there who woke up on third base and thought they hit a triple and run in social medias and they really just, you know, have no right to be running that account, took something personal and did it themselves, boom, boom, boom.

And then everybody else doesn't want to have to answer that. But I could be wrong, and they said that did not happen. They said it was just some sort of glitch, and they apologized apologized and they're very good people to me okay very very good people i'm very thankful for that but i'll rambo again if this is two for two now this is happening so hopefully it doesn't glitch again yeah yeah exactly because i love the nfl lucky to play in the nfl but this story being associated with the nfl for a larger part of like the last year and a half now and only getting bigger this is not good for any of us. Like, hey, this is not what we want the league to be represented as.

We do not want people to think that this is what players are in the NFL. We do not want the people to think that our highest paid player is like this. So for the sake of Deshaun, who said he's been innocent this entire time, and for the sake of the league, I hope this can kind of wrap up quick. But, boy, it seems like this is only going to continue to go. And every time he chats, it's only going to go even longer, it feels like. And he's going to have to chat every week. And it seems like the big thing, too, with his demeanor and everything, he's oblivious to the severity of the situation.

You know what I mean? And he maintains his innocence and stuff like that, but it's almost nonchalant. maintains his innocence and stuff like that, but it's almost like a nonchalant, like he doesn't realize like how crazy and how bad this whole situation actually is. Do we think that he maybe is a, uh,

great. A narcissist. Whoa. Whoa. And there's pretty good chance from that interview. It's hard not to at least think. So you guys are saying, that's what I'm wondering.

Like his, his demeanor, like what was your, you're saying kind of nonchalant what it comes across well when he did the press conference when he signed the deal like the way things are answering you know and by the way if you're 100 innocent how how would you if you how would you know and we still have to maintain that that is the case because he's said it since the beginning you would assume that the NFL and other people have maybe alluded to like, hey, why don't we just, you know, settle this

so it's not a whole thing. And he has been steadfast that he is completely innocent throughout the entirety of this. So that is still something that is very much on the table. So maybe that is why he is acting in the way that he's acting because he might feel like he has been calloused from this his name has been dragged from this he's gotten to the point where he said he has to worry about his mental health so that means he probably stays off of everything maybe he has no idea about what the conversation is because he stays out of it as much as possible and they're trying to protect him i couldn't imagine going through this if he wasn't a narcissist i have no idea how you would go through this right oh no like how is he yeah just going about his daily life like what i

don't know it just seems like i would imagine everybody wants to find like some kind of some way to wrap it up or get some kind of answers or do something as fast as you can i just don't know how you do that either side and i don't want to you know speak for deshaun because once again we have no idea what's real, what isn't, there's a lot that says this side, he's saying this side, but if he was to go away and speak any differently, people would say, oh, he's guilty. Like if he was to settle it, if he would say, oh, he's guilty, that's why he settled it. But at this point, I think everybody's already saying that. Right. He could say that. Don't you think he could say that if people were

questioning, Hey, you don't seem to understand the severity what he was like hey i do actually 100 that's why i didn't settle because i believe in my innocence i guess he could say that a lot of people have told me that if i would have said this would have been over a year and a half ago i didn't do anything so i'm not settling and if i settle people think i'm gonna guilty like he could very easy it's it's a lose-lose situation especially when it's something this serious you can't go to trial with 26 different people. No. That's so long. What was Amber Heard and Johnny Depp?

Six weeks. Six weeks long. So that was a long one. It felt like everybody knew that they were on camera there, and that one felt long. But let's just say the average – what's the average length of a trial like this? Civil. No clue. A month?

Three weeks? Let alone all the prep and everything that goes into it for um what witnesses they do their best to not go to trial witnesses evidence everything like that that's all pre-trial shit that has to happen i mean this is 26 now millions of dollars obviously in lawyer fees on both sides and if they would just so happen to be able to schedule those concur uh not concurrently uh consecutively yeah if they were just so able to, that's two years. There's no way. That's two years straight of trials at least.

There's no chance they'll be able to do that. Courts aren't open. Judges aren't open. That's why whenever you get something normally, hey, you'll have trial eight months from now. It's like, okay, we'll try to remember everything that happened in this eight months from now. That doesn't seem to be the most useful practice whenever you're talking about some laws, but that's just how it goes in this whole thing.

I don't know how it ends. I don't know how it ends. I have no idea how it ends. I have no idea. Because that would be, what, three years in a row where he's not playing football? And his demeanor up there, isn't there some kind of thought where if there was even a small chance that any of these weren't consensual

or at least the two that went to the criminal trial weren't consensual, they would have gone through with that trial. See, that's what we keep saying and thinking. But then everybody that has any knowledge of the situation, they always go like, it's just in this case, there's no evidence because it's two people in a room together, blah, blah, blah. So that's why they couldn't indict it. But then we were told that they would indict a ham sandwich. So if there was a chance that they thought that it wasn't consensual, it feels like they would have gone through the whole trial. We need to get a couple of lawyers on here.

No, because, listen, we should get some lawyers on here. But just like Lambda. Both side lawyers. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Explain the process to us. Just like Lambda said to Lemoyne, the Google engineer, can't both people have an understanding of a conversation and interpret it two different ways?

It feels like everything in this world has that. We'll have a lawyer come on and say, like, well, legally, like Rusty said in his, hey, dig a little high in the loins and you fucking sploosh. That's actually not against the law, you know? Like, that's literally the person that's repping Deshaun Watson right right now so there will be that person and then there'll be somebody else like well in a civil court but there's just so many if we don't pick the right lawyer we'll get killed we'll get killed by whoever is on the other side dave rudolph well now johnny depp's lawyer is

famous now she's a partner in her law firm like she's she's a rising star okay that might because that's the most similar situation right because this i assume he could potentially let's say he gets off on all these civilly he'll he'll turn to pay boom libel slander on the other way right that's there's all going to be counter suits in all this right yeah yeah and raj is the one making the decision on what his future looks like what are you gonna say nick you're gonna say something one of the reporters did ask him about counter suits for defamation. I'm not sure what he said in response,

but Florio said none of the cases will go to trial until after March 1st of 2023. And if you're trying to settle 26 different trials, or I'm sorry, if you're going to actually pursue 26 different trials, that could run into at least 2025. Is he hoping they all just drop it? They drop it after we just wait a long time without trial? I'll be 38.

Yeah, it's going too far to drop it. I'll be 38. Jesus. March. Long time. We're an NFL show. This is super serious. It's something we have to talk about.

Every time we talk about the Cleveland Browns, if Sean Watson's playing, every time it comes up, for the sanctity of journalism, we have to say, now, we know that there are... And we're not the only ones. People covering the game are going to have to do that? Jeez Louise. That's not

until next year, too. Is this going to be the... Are they going to put him on the exempt list, or is he just going to play and they're going to ask him about this every week? AJ, how come the exemption list, everybody that comes on here and talks about the exemption list goes like, well, that isn't what the exemption list was created for. It's like, bullshit. That's exactly what the exemption list was created for,

to get somebody out of the headlines and out of the building and their number off the salary cap so the team can continue to do it until it's figured out. I thought that was exactly what it was for, and then they tell us, no, not this situation. None of it makes sense because we have to talk about it now i don't want to talk about you know what i want to talk about lordo hell yeah i want to talk about lordo stanley cup hell yeah i want to talk about all the greats in the history of the fucking sport obviously sydney crosby yes

marylam you wanted to fucking wayne Gretzky Stoner Stoner Bobby Orr Stoner Bobby Orr maybe Orr I don't know I didn't dive back into whenever there was only

four teams playing so this might have happened way back then Stoner but no not Stoner I'm talking about you pal there has never been a motherfucker

quite like the guy that's about to join us he is on the precipice of maybe winning his fourth straight Lotto. Going back to back to back to back, hopefully. Tomorrow night, it all starts in Colorado

against an avalanche squad that has been heavily favored even since going into the playoffs as winning the Stanley Cup. This man's team has found a way to regain the steam that they've had the last two years. Looking to make it a fucking triple, ladies and gentlemen, from the Tampa Bay Lightning absolute champion, the big rig, Patty Marie. Yeah!

What's up, dude? What's up? Glad to be back on the show, boys. Hey, thank you for making time for us, man. This is a big-time deal. You're on the... Hey, you're going for four right... Hey, you're going for four right now, Paddy.

Let's go! Let's go. Gretz ain't never do that. Sid ain't never do that. Mario ain't never do that. Fucking St. Louis' own, the big rig, Paddy Maroonhead. Let's go, Paddy! Let's go.

I still can't believe it. It's crazy to think about that not only what our team's been through but myself the last four years and um to uh I guess sit back I guess when this all is done and uh just gonna realize how special this was yeah it's awesome to watch we're thankful you made time for us to chit chat during this entire process you're out in Colorado right now. How are the boys? Any nerves before the Stanley Cup, or is it all playoffs?

Everybody's kind of nervous to begin with. No, I think the boys feel great right now. I feel like we're excited to get going here. Obviously, you know, we're playing a good Colorado team, but I think we're excited. We came up here early to get a good skating, get ready for the altitude that's going to hit us game one tomorrow. So we got a nice little practice today, but the boys are feeling great. They're anxious to get going. But yeah, we're excited. I think it's a good test for us because like you said in your little pump up, hype up video, I mean, this is a team that's expected to be here, right? So,

you know, now we just got to, you know, find a way to, you know, take them down here. How do you guys try to keep everything normal? I know, obviously, yeah, it's just like a normal week for us, normal series, but it's the Stanley Cup Finals. For you, it does seem to be, this is just what you do, but for your other teammates, how do you keep it to where, like, hey, we're just going to do our normal routine like we've done all year? Yeah, I just – you know, I guess for you guys, for us, we come in early. We do our things. We skate.

We have team meetings at night. You know, and then we have a team dinner. And then we actually all get on the Xbox. We play golf 2K1, and we have teams, and we just sit there and chirp each other, try to keep it as loose as possible, you know, so everyone's calm, everyone's ready, everyone's excited. But, you know, we just try to – I feel like guys are used to it, and the guys that we trade for, we just try to make them fit right in

so they feel comfortable before they even go on to touch a knife. So we try to make it as loose and as fun as possible, but we're a team that when we put our skates on, we're ready to rock and roll. Hey, we chatted with you last, I think, during your big break going into the Rangers series. I don't remember. Oh, you're a coffee drinker?

Coffee drinker? Yeah, coffee drinker. What do you got in there? I got a little almond milk and a splash of sugar-free vanilla. Oh, okay. I'm black. My coffee's black. I used to do black, but now my wife started taking this home to me,

so it just tasted good, so I just stuck with it. Yeah, that's interesting, because it definitely has to taste better than whatever this shit is. It's my first day being a coffee guy, Patty. It's my first day of being a coffee guy, Patty. It's my first day. I was talked into it yesterday. I was told I could live forever. This tastes like shit right here.

Oh, it's terrible. Black coffee's terrible. Yeah, but I'm like fucking super manly, they said. You know what I mean, Patty? I'm like a super manly guy. I think last time we chatted with you, though, you guys were in the middle of in-between series because you swept the Canes. Yeah?

Was it the Canes? No. The Panthers. The Panthers. You swept the Panthers. The Rangers were taking on the Canes. Yeah? Was it the Canes? No. The Panthers. The Panthers. You swept the Panthers. The Rangers were taking on the Canes. It went seven games or whatever. Did you guys take a couple games to wake up after that, you think, into that series?

Because towards the end, you guys looked like the boys that had just won back-to-back Stanley Cups there. Yeah, I felt like we obviously didn't play our best the first two games. Certainly the first game. In the first first game we just looked out of place, out of sort kind of, but we came back in the room and we just knew we weren't just going to use that as an excuse, you know, a couple days off. We did have practice time, but practice is certainly not, you know,

a game-like situation, so you're trying to push yourself in practice. You're trying to push the guys, but it's not like in a game where someone else is leaning on you. You have to make a play under pressure, you know. So I feel like we did have a really slow start. But, you know, sometimes you need that for a little reality check. And we know how we were supposed to play. We know how this team is really good. And when we play the right way, I mean, we're a very, very good hockey team.

So I think we had to come back down to reality for a second. You know, we know what works and we know what doesn't work. And we just try not to use that as an excuse and just try to chip away at this thing. And we try to use one game at a time and one shift at a time. And we did. Are you just going to become a goal scorer this series?'re just gonna put six on a board you think maybe just like last one pal am i gonna be goal scoring yeah you just maybe put six what was that what game was it game

uh is it game two three four four game four and i scored how'd that feel pretty good huh yeah it does feel good. You know, I don't score much, so when I do put the puck in, it's like I'll never know if I'm going to score again. Well, hey, you need to celebrate. I wish you could do a little bit more. Did you guys see that guy get knocked out at Madison Square Garden? Yeah, that was disgusting.

God bless. I mean, I don't know why fucking people do that shit. I think it's the most disgusting thing, especially when you're vulnerable like that. You're walking. I don't care if a fan's chirping you. But if you want to square up, square up. I'm all for it. But if you're going to do something nasty like that, I hate that shit.

I can't stand it. And that's typical, I guess, Rangers fans. Yeah, what is that? Is that a known place to be a little bit chirpy there? I thought Long Island was bad. I honestly thought when we were walking around the city and going to dinner, because we were walking with 28 guys going to dinner in New York City, guys are going to recognize us.

And they were actually nice, like wishing us luck. Long Island, on the other hand, we played them in Long Island last year. It was brutal. We'd go to dinner. They would be chirping us walking into the restaurant. They'd be waiting outside with us chirping. Little 14-year-old kids chirping us. It was hilarious.

Yeah. I love that shit. I like it, too. I love it, too. But I just don't like the stuff that, you know, what the fans do if another fan is heckling someone. If you're going to square up, let's square up, but don't soccer punch someone. That was one of the biggest cheap shots in some time. The guy's facing six charges, I believe.

He's probably on Rikers right now. James Anastasio is his name. Have you guys gotten a hold of the fan that got knocked out down there at the Lightning? I know as a group, after the game, we saw it. I think it was after game five, right? We saw it, and Stan was like, should we reach out? And we obviously reached out to our PR team, and I think our CEO, Steve Griggs, reached out to him personally, and he just said, all you have to do for me is just go kick the Rangers ass.

Yeah! And you guys did, by the way. He didn't even want to come to a game. It was hilarious. I ain't going out in public again, pal. I think the text messages of our CEO and him back and forth, I think they went viral a little bit, I think, on social media. I think he posted it, maybe.

Hey, just listen. Kick the fuck out of these boys, all right? Then go get a Stanley Cup, another one. It feels like the city of Tampa is ready to go again. We got a chance to live down there last year, I think, while you guys were in your run. Tampa Hockey City. Then that win in the celebration and everybody coming out.

You win the Eastern Conference and it goes on. That city's ready to explode, I bet, huh? Well, you got two games in Colorado. Will you stay out there this week and then you'll travel back when you go back to Tampa? Yeah, so we got here yesterday. We play game one tomorrow, and then we have a two-day layoff again. And then we play game two on Saturday, and then we fly back on Sunday for Father's Day.

And then we play every other day from here on out. So then we play Monday, Wednesday in Tampa, fly to Colorado, play in Colorado. So then it's back to the grind. So it's not like basketball works. I think they have two days off in between games, don't they? Yeah. So we only have that once. It's only after game one.

So that's kind of nice. But I feel like playing every day, you feel so much better, though. You're more involved. It's not a long lay off. You're ready to rock and roll. You're kind of into it. You get your routines down. I'm kind of happy about that after game two we get that.

And you can get over whatever bad shit potentially happened in the last game. Let's get back out there if anything bad happened. Not saying it would. The boys, after this incredibly long season, and AJ always brings this up and it is a real thing. It doesn't get chatted about much because normally when that information comes out, another team just buries it with how they play.

All the injuries that come out after a season ends that guys have just been playing through. Marshawn's out for like six months or something. We chatted about that. You guys are four games away from the offseason. Is that motivating? Is that a, hey, boys, let's fucking, huh, let's go ahead and do this? Is that something that's chatted about at all no it's not we honestly nothing's really the only thing that's just chatted about i guess for us it's like it's a it's going to be a long series

no matter what so uh we're here to win a series um you know you're not going to win a series in game one or two, right? So I think. Ah, looking ahead can fuck you a little bit, you're saying. Yeah, looking ahead a little bit can fuck you. So you just look at it as one time, one game at a time. You know, you just try to, the longer the series goes on, I feel like for both sides, you know, it's the team that does it the longest, right? It's the team that wears on the team.

It's the team that plays the right way for 60 minutes for every single game. It's the team that just is willing to block shots, you know, willing to get the puck out when they need to or willing to get the puck in when they need to. And I think the longer that goes on, it gets exhausting. It does. It really does. And it wears on people.

And then, you know, if they're going back to the puck and we got our big guys coming in hitting them i mean it's just i feel like it's just a long process when you go through stuff like that and um so i mean that's why both teams are kind of in their situation because they're those two teams that done the longest right so you got to find a way to you know stick with it and you're gonna going to have some series where you get a couple bounces here and a big save here, and that's what you need. And you guys know how that is. That's what you need going into the playoffs.

You need a big play or a play that shouldn't have been made that happened or a tackle that, you know, that needed to be had. So I feel like you need that play, and I think the team that does it longer, I feel like always finds a way to have success in the playoffs. Yeah. That's awesome. Do you guys worry about the, uh, the altitude out there at all in your, your conditioning? We just, I was actually walking into the coffee with Sorelli and, uh,

he's like, you think it's going to be a problem? I think that's why we came in early today to have a good practice today. Good skate. But I don't know. Does that ever affect you guys? I think it's over. Not me. Help me, Patty. But I don't know. Does that ever affect you guys? I think it's overblown. Not me. Help me, Patty. I bombed a ball. I didn't have to run much.

Ball went real far, though, I'll tell you that. In Denver, though, playing at mile high, Pat knows they have a sign, like right before you go out, like you were playing at mile high, 5,200, the whole your altitude, and they want you to freak out before you walk out. And I always said, like, hey, if you didn't tell me we were, we were playing at altitude, I wouldn't have known. Like, so I think people sometimes can use it and mess themselves up mentally.

No, I agree. But I don't know if this was me yesterday, but I was like laying in bed a little bit. And like, I just felt like it was like, it was racing a little bit. I'm like,

okay. Is this, is this, am I going to die here? I'm just trying to sleep. When was the last time you guys played out there? Right after the Olympic break that we didn't have. We had to come five days off.

We played, I think it was eight days. That was our first game back. They were already playing. They never had time off. How did it go? So it's been, I think, since February. We haven't played them.

How did it go? We lost 3-2, I think. Okay. We lost in a shootout maybe and lost in regulation 3-2, or we won in a shootout. I don't know. Do you miss the shootouts in playoffs? No.

Overtime's the best thing. I agree. It's awesome. I mean, obviously when you get in like four or three or four overtimes, the guys are just gassed, right? Like they can barely move. It's just like you just need that one opportunity to capitalize on. But I think it's just great for hockey in itself.

I think just overtime itself for any sport is just so good. It makes soccer. People literally wait 97 minutes just to watch the overtime of soccer. But it makes it magical. And I don't want to get too far off topic here, and we just brought up soccer. The MLS just signed a $250 million a year deal with Apple to broadcast all their games on Apple. Hey, the big rig needs to keep going.

The NHL's money is only going to go like, all sports money are going like this right now, Benny. You think? I mean, NHL, obviously we got to do, they're doing a better job of marketing this now with like, we talked about this last time. But yeah, I mean, I think our views have been killing it this year, especially with TNT and their panel and ESPN and their panel and having the

boys on. And I think they do a show called the point. So with boots across and I think. Subban's been on there. But I think the ratings just on TV itself for the games tuned in have been really good. So that's a huge step in the right direction because you guys, more than anything, I think the NFL, you guys don't even need fans in the stand. They can still pay the players' salaries with their TV deals. Yes.

Actually, a salary cap like this was zero fans for an entire year. They're like, well, it's not going to grow. It's going to stay the same. It's like, Jesus, no concessions. Jerry Jones makes $77 million every home game. Jerry Jones makes. That's insane. I mean, what's a playoff game?

I guess for us, we live for the playoffs because like our i guess our owners probably kill it in the playoffs hey you know that guy that owns that team has a helipad above the arena and then his own condo up there and then he walks down to the arena is cronky gonna fly in there and kind of fuck you guys up when he shows up on his helipad in his helicopter walking into his building? I hate Stan Kroenke. I'm a true Louisville. I can't stand that guy. Honestly, he took – honestly, you guys played at the Dome. The Dome's a shitty, shitty – Bad.

It's a bad – it was a bad, bad arena. I'm sure it was terrible for you guys to go in there and play, but the greatest game on turf with Kurt Warner, Marshall Falk, I mean, Orlando Pace. I mean, you can go down. I mean, just to watch that. I think Mike Jones made that huge tackle against Tennessee. But, like, to have that taken away from us, it just sucks. I know we had terrible years.

Chris Long would always tell me, like, this. I mean, our teams are terrible. But, like, you know, then he goes away and he wins back-to-back Super Bowls. So it's just like you go from that environment to that and you wonder why. But the fans are true passion in St. Louis. I just can't stand that guy for taking him out of there. St. Louis needs a football team. I don't know how you guys feel about battle Hawks dude

They battle Hawks of the XFL sold out the entire bottom ball of that shitty shitty Shitty ass dome. I mean that was the word I played in there the last year before the Rams left Oh my god, that thing was I think was maybe made in 1960 zero updates the turf was actually pulling up in the corners as you're going in. It's like this is the highest level. This is the highest level that was happening. You can't be telling me that. It's that bad then, eh?

Oh, it was fucking terrible. I mean, it was very, very, very bad. Now, have you ever gone to Wheelhouse in St. Louis? Oh, yeah. I've been to Wheelhouse plenty of times. That's a good spot,'t it fucking bastard we were over there uh we were there for the royal rumble or whatever and all we're trying to look for a brunch day of and outside you don't know what you're walking into on the outside there you just see like there's a couple outside seats and then you

walk in we're just trying to get a brunch fucking going i mean it, it was 1130 a.m. There's a full DJ in there. There was smoke coming out and great biscuits and gravy. I mean, that place was awesome. It's Saturday and Sunday, especially during football season. They have Sunday brunch, and it gets packed. Saturday brunch gets packed, and it just leads right into the long night ahead of you. Good for St. Louis.

Hey, go fucking beat Kroenke for the St. Louis fans. Nicky Skates has a question for you, Patty. Patty, after game five, you guys kind of roughed it up a little bit with the Rangers and Stamko. Stammer went out there, and he was throwing them too even, which is, you know, you only see that a lot from him. What does that mean to you guys when you see him doing that? And then he goes out and scores too in game six of the series.

Jesus. It's awesome, especially I he goes out and scores, too, in Game 6 of the series. Jesus. It's awesome, especially I think those were two, you know, first pick overalls going at it, too, Laferran and Stammer, so it's pretty cool to see that. But to see what Stammer's been doing just alone in the playoffs, he's been blocking shots, taking big-time face-offs when we need them, you know, taking a big-time face-off on the PK. Obviously he scored two huge goals, but to see that fight was awesome.

Especially, the problem is that was all of our skilled guys, Kootz, Stammer, they're all mixing it up. They're all mixing it up, fighting. And for players like myself that do it and see all the jersey, it's unbelievable. That just goes to show you what kind of leader he is. We don't back down from anything. You got any rabbit punches in this series coming?

Is that Stammer right there saying, hey, don't be talking about my fighting right there? Yeah. He is, no. Yeah, what'd you say? You got any rabbit punches coming this series, you think, or what? Is Stanley Cup finals not the time or place?

Yeah, the Stanley Cup is the time or place. It depends. It depends who is trying to muck it up with you. I don't know if they have any tough guys or not. I love that. What the deal is over there. But they're a skilled, fast team. So,

for me, I just got to go around, bank some bodies and lean on the puck a little bit and kind of wear them down last question for you we can't thank you enough for joining us now you're in the middle of a lot of shit go ahead ty patty when you've you're a kind of like a lebron run back where he would go you know he just he'd play in the finals every single year you've played more games and more minutes than a lot of guys like how everybody right yeah exactly like in your teammates as well like when do you like understand, like how – Everybody, right? Yeah, exactly. Like, and your teammates as well. Like, when do you, like, understand physically, like, how exhausted you are? Like, is that something you'd worry about at all?

Or does that kind of all hit you after the finals are over? Yeah, I mean, there's obviously times – I don't know if you guys have any kids, but there's some times when you come home from the road trip and you get thrown in the fire with your daughter and you're mentally kind of physically exhausted and, uh, but you're sitting around and, and I guess for me, it's not the time to bitch and say you're tired because it's a time to, you know, turn the page and go win a, go win a series or go, you know, win a Stanley cup.

For me, it's just, you got to turn that mindset off. or go, you know, win a Stanley Cup. For me, it's just you got to turn that mindset off. And, you know, I think these last few runs, yes, it's hit me in the summer where I've mentally just woke up one day and I'm just like dead exhausted. But I've tried for me during this whole time is just try to shut it off. And then when it comes back, you just try to tell yourself, hey, you're fine. You're not tired. You're not tired.

And you try to go back in the zone a little and you try to go back in the zone and then what i'm trying to bring up my daughter is because she's a firecracker she's seven months and uh she's hard to deal with and it's mentally exhausting sometimes but i don't want to show her that her dad's tired so i try to pick her up and make sure i try to keep going here heard that her dad's tired so I try to pick her up and make sure I try to keep going here yeah do not tire do not tire this is fun

this is great at the end of the day as athletes you guys can adjust for it I mean there's times where you wake up or before the game you're like fuck we have a game today like oh shit I'm fucking tired but I guess in the playoffs regular, you can get away with it.

Playoffs, I just feel like when you're trying to win a Stanley Cup or win a, you know, Lombardi trophy, and you're trying to figure out how you're going to do it, and I think your mindset needs to be there the whole time. Because once you say to yourself you're tired, you're already defeated, and you're already helping that team win. And nobody cares, by the way, either, that you're tired. Nobody gives a fuck.

Not a single person. No one cares. I think that's what's good about our team. We've been through this grind. We've been through the mentality of it the last two years. We know what it takes. We know how hard it is mentally. We know how hard it is physically.

And like I said earlier, it's just how long and harder can you do it? Can you outpace the other team? Can you out mentally focus on the other team and lean on them a little more? I feel like we've learned that over the years, especially for me. I've learned that, you know, once you can turn your mind off and don't show weakness, I think you'll have success. What's the immediate celebration like? We see a lot of it when you guys get to parade the cup around and do different things, but that immediate celebration with your guys back underneath the arena,

what's that like? It gets weird. You guys are a very tight group. Yeah, we are a tight group. We you know, the first year obviously was covid so we were in the bubble celebrating by ourselves so i thought that was a cool moment there was no family around just coaches just players you you look around you this is this

is what it feels like right and i guess last year you we won at home ice. We had family, friends. You know, everyone's partying in the locker room, you know, doing their thing. Parents are drinking out of the cup. You know, we're all having a blast. I think there's a DJ playing in the back. But I think the ultimate, you guys will get a kick out of this because this is hilarious to me. We all go shower together and party with the Stanley Cup

and drink beers butt naked. Yeah, a little shower beer. Now we're talking. A little shower beer. People drinking out of Lordo in the shower, beers out of there being tossed around, yeah? Yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah. Don't drop the cup.

That's a tradition we have as a team when we win. The boys have to go in the shower. We get you know, we get the ole-ole going. We're all partying. We're all drinking beers. And it's just we're a tight-knit group. Like, we've got some characters on this team. Like I said, we've got some funny human beings on this team, and we just try to keep it as light as possible and as fun as possible.

But, yeah, that's one ritual we have. I don't know if it's probably an odd one. Are you going to add the parents in this year? What's that? Are you going to add the parents in this year if you win? Yeah, my parents will come for games. They'll come down for games one and two. The post-game beers.

He's talking about the nude dudes in the shower. Everybody's parents all of a sudden, hey, here we go, three in a row. Everyone's in here. Who's wearing a shirt in the shower? Oh, that's Stammy's brother. Stammy's brother. All right. Okay.

This is going on. No, no. The parents, no. No one's getting the, we closed the door. Okay. What about the guy that has to watch the cup? He's not in there. Okay.

He, by the way, he was going to sit right here. Pat, this guy was going to sit right here and stare at me in the cup whenever he was in the studio. We're like, you can go. He's like, well, I can't be too far away. You need to be in a direct line with the cops. I don't know if you're going to steal this thing out the fucking backside or whatever.

I didn't know if that's how it actually is. No, that is. I guess for us, they know we've been with it, so they just kind of leave it alone. They don't really follow us. They know we've been with it, so they just kind of leave it alone. They don't really follow us. Like if we're doing an after party at a bar like we did last year,

they just sit in the corner. They don't really say much. It has a curfew at midnight. It has a curfew. I didn't know Lourdes had a curfew. It has a curfew at midnight. So, like, each player gets a day with their cup when you win the Stanley Cup. I don't know if it's – I think it's the only trophy that gets passed around. Yes.

In all sports. So, we – he'll – like you said, he'll sit there, especially when it's your day with the cup and there's family and friends and it's getting a little rowdy. It's getting drunk. People are getting drunk. He's like watching this thing like a hawk if I don't have it. So I feel everyone feels your pain because once someone touches it and tries to pick

it up, it's hell loose. They're running over there. You're not supposed to do it. You didn't win the trophy. So, yeah. So it gets, there you go. Huh? Bunch of didn't win the trophy so yeah so it gets there you go bunch of new dudes in the shower hey yeah we got dongs and cups we got dongs and cups pass me a beer let me feel whatever let's go dude get another shower naked with a stanley cup dude

go get it enjoy yourself Thank you for the time. Can't wait to hear, hopefully, from you again. All right. I hope so, too. Enjoy. Thanks for having me on again, boys. I really appreciate it. Hey, an American.

An American going for four straight Stanley Cups. Let's fucking go, Big Rick. Yeah, let's fucking go is right. Here we go. All right. Starts tomorrow. Starts tomorrow. What time? 6 o'clock. Is that Mountain Time? right, Padden. Starts tomorrow. Starts tomorrow. What time?

6 o'clock. Is that Mountain Time? 8 o'clock Eastern. Okay, 8 o'clock. 8 o'clock in America time. All right, ladies and gentlemen, Padden and Ruth. Thank you. Hey, Paddy!

Joining us now, 13-year NBA vet, former three-point shooting champion, host of the Knuckleheads podcast with Darius Miles, an absolute champion of NBA conversation. At Q Rich, ladies and gentlemen, Quentin Richardson. What's up, dude? Appreciate you, fellas, as always. Hey, you a movie guru?

Watch a lot of movies? My childhood was not spent watching movies. Yours was, yeah? Yeah. Did you see the newest Jurassic World Dominion? I didn't see it. I took the kids to see it and it was sold out so we had to go see Doctor Strange. How was

Doctor Strange? I dug it. I dug it. My kids, my five year old was kind of, he had a couple moments but he was cool. He was able to deal with it. He's big into the Marvel so it was good. Okay, well JWD stunk. You didn't miss anything there. Yeah, Jurassic World Dominion

has actually thrusted me into a position that I didn't want to become, which is a movie critic, because I've watched next to no movies, so I think I'm a pretty good palette to potentially go out and judge things. I've obviously seen all the greats. I've seen the Dumb and Dumbers, the Happy Gilmores,

the Remember the Titans, I've got a little John Q, i've seen all the dumb and dummers the happy gilmore's right um the remember the titans right i got a little uh john q i've seen like i've had the past have you seen van wilder no but that's burke kreischer right it's based on his yeah exploits i'm not watching you love the movie good movie i'm in the movie you're in the movie? I'm totally in the movie. What do you do? You a big time thespian? I didn't know this. You're an actor. Is that the only movie credit you have? I got my SAG card now, Pat. I got my SAG card. Did you watch Hustle and what did you think of it? I thought the NBA guys were very good in that movie. I haven't got a chance to see it yet. I was gone this whole week. I was in Boston for this past week. I was gone. I was working at the finals, and then I came.

I had to go to New York for something yesterday, and I just got back. I'm going to watch it today, though. I feel like the NBA does a lot with entertainment. That bullet train commercial where they've got a bunch of guys in there, even in the past, the NBA is pretty close with Hollywood, I think. This hustle, they took advantage of that. I mean, there was like, what, 20 guys around the NBA that were in that movie. It's awesome. I remember when they were shooting it. They were out in Philly doing it took advantage of that. I mean, there was like, what, 20 guys around the NBA that were in that movie. It's awesome.

I remember when they were shooting it. They were out in Philly doing it. I remember that. Yeah, I'll tell you what. Bo Cruz could shut a motherfucker down. The Boa Challenge was a... Yeah. I mean, the Celtics need Boa right now.

They do. Bring him up. They need Bo Cruz right now on that squad. Let's talk about it. Celtics are dead, Q Rich. And how come just the understanding of everybody? It's so matter-of-fact. Connor said it.

AJ said it. We're not in the NBA world, but I think we are, you know, normal stooge thought on a regular basis why our show does above averagely, I think. So everybody just assumes that the NBA is going to force this thing to go seven games because business wise, Tim Donahue in the past, the refs will swallow their whistles for the home teams.

This thing's going to go seven. That's literally how everybody feels. We looked this up. The last game seven, I guess was in 2016 or something like that. It's been a while. That's not normal. Do you feel it's going to go seven games?

And do you think it's justified that this is how like regular casual NBA fans view it? Like, Oh, the NBA can control the the outcome that's totally false that the nba is going to control the outcome i do however feel like there's a high high probability for it to go game set to a game seven i say that because i like i just said earlier i was i was in boston for game three and when i say i was at the hotel two o'clockclock, the game wasn't until nine, two o'clock, three o'clock is people in the streets walking around Celtics, Jersey on, they getting, they

drinking beers, getting loaded up right then, two o'clock. When I say, when we got to that arena and they, when I got chills two to three different times from the way that that crowd went crazy and when lucky ran out with the flag and the team ran out it was like the roof like that came off the building and i'm not lying i i've been in a lot of environments and i i that was crazy so with that crowd if boston could give them something to get excited about early in that game that could easily help propel them to to a tough game win let's go what What do you think their plan's going to be? I mean, with Steph going 0 for 9 from three-point range and only scoring 16, there's a good chance it's not going to happen again.

Like, what's their plan? Switch anything up? That will never happen again. I don't care what they switch up. That will never happen again. I literally just was talking to my man D-Miles about that. The fact that you guys didn't get that win with him performing like that,

that's going to bite him in the ass the whole time. I don't care what. He'll never have a zero for nine. He'll never have a game again where he attempts nine threes and don't make one. What happens if some nights the hoop looks smaller or some nights you're just off by a little bit? What is it as a former great shooter, still a great shooter?

I just think that's what it was. He just missed. And I think that's like the once in a getting struck by lightning. That won't happen to him again. And he loves doing the big dick dance on that entire crowd. The other guys maybe not so much, but he does love doing the, hey, who's got the biggest balls and shoots the best balls in this entire garden? I'm that guy.

Oh, my gosh. What's up with Tatum in the fourth quarter? Everybody's saying he kind of disappears in there. Is that a problem, or is that just good Golden State Warrior defense? I think it's great defense and, you know, growing pains, man. People forget the kid is 24 years old. He was definitely, you know, All-NBA first team, and he's headed towards superstardom if he hasn't already arrived there already.

But, yeah, man, I mean, when the game plan is to stop you, it can be tough sometimes. And I think, you know, he'll get better for it from everything he's experiencing right now. I think he's going to become a better player moving forward from it. Yeah, Q Rich, Bob Williams obviously has been unbelievable, but since the Warriors have been starting Otto Porter Jr., is there a reason they don't start like Grant Williams to kind of mix it up,

or do you think they're trying to kind of exploit how they're bigger and kind of faster and stronger when they do go with that smaller lineup at Golden State? Yeah, I think that's E-May. I mean, he forced them to make that change. I don't think he sees that he needs to change yet because Rob Williams has been the most impactful paint player, interior player in this whole series. I don't think he should change that.

They obviously have to play better and figure something out, but I don't think that Otto Porter has come in and totally wrecked the lineup and made Robert Williams look like he doesn't belong out there, so I think it's fine. Whatever you think about all-time great teams, if Golden State was to go on and win this, would people consider them like a dynasty, you think,

with what they've been able to accomplish, even though KD was there at one point and now he's no longer there? I don't know what people are going to think. I respect them as one. I mean, what else do they, you know, what is the definition of it? I mean, they've been there that many times. And then, you know, even with a two-year hiatus, they come back and reload and they're right back here

and they got a chance to win it. If they win it, I mean, you got to look at them as a contender for next year as well. So why wouldn't we consider them that? Hey, there's so much talk about Draymond and how he should be used and when he should be in and his offensive production. Like, what do you think they should do with Draymond here for the rest of the series? I like what Steve Kerr is doing with him, man.

Like, you got to understand, man, these dudes got history. They've been to three, four, five finals together, and they've been through them battles. So, I mean, what Steve Kerr is doing is he's playing it how he sees it. If he sees it, you know, at some stretch, hey, we need to get some shooting or some scoring in there. He's got the leeway in that relationship with Draymond, and Draymond isn't going to go crazy or not respond in the right way. And like he did in the other game, he stayed out, he surveyed the game,

and when they called his number back in, he was ready to play, and he made some game-winning plays down the stretch. So, I mean, I think they got that experience that they have and that relationship and that history they got together makes everything in play because, you know, he's not going – he knows the moment. He knows what's important here is to win. He knows Steve Kerr.

If he takes him out of whatever he does, it's only to win the game. It's not personal to him. Up 12, four minutes left. Draymond Green ends up directly in the middle of the Boston Celtics huddle after trying to swat the ball out of Tatum's hands. Is it just like, oh, this guy's a pest? That's how the Celtics have to view? And that's what they're talking about with Draymond?

Like, hey, he is trying to get five fouls at the time. Oh, yeah. Five fouls at the time doing that. Is it just understood around the league, like guys like that? Hey, you just have to keep it cool somehow, however you can. Because it looked like that could have got a little bit contentious, and it did not. Obviously, the finals are probably a reason for that.

But how is that handled amongst other NBA players I mean you got it that's that's that's the bottom line you got to understand who you're dealing with here and sometimes you're gonna take the bait and fall for it or you're not and I mean sometimes people make a conscious decision it's not me taking the bait I want to do this and they just do whatever they do but I mean I think you got to understand what Draymond Draymond is doing what he's supposed to do. He's bringing that energy and he's bringing that intensity for his team, whether it's being antagonistic toward Tatum or whatever, trying to get in his head. He's just trying to do whatever he can do to help his team. And I know what Draymond is.

I know who he is. And if he doesn't bring that edge, he's not going to help his team. So he has to play that way. See, he had that wide open three early in the game and i saw him hit five straight in warm-ups so the over on draymond hitting the half of three felt like a lot then he hits that first shot and they said he was not gun shy i disagree i think i saw when he got the ball he like actually thought like oh my god this is it and then he obviously bricked off the side or whatever is there something to just

getting one of those mental blocks in uh in basketball like every other sport that happens and how do you get through it you think as a basketball player man i always just kept shooting you know whatever it's like that's that's that's really that's literally the only way you're gonna do it i mean you can't think about it i mean obviously you, Draymond isn't like a knockdown three-point shooter. But when you catch it, you either let it go or you don't. I feel like, you know, it's like you study long, you study wrong. That's what we say. Like, you stand there with the ball, you iron it down.

Like, most of the time, you take it too long, you're going to miss. You just shoot it. Don't even think about it. You hit, you hit. You miss, you miss. I mean, it's not like, you know, somebody's dependent on you. It's not like they're looking at you like Steph or Klay. Like, for me, in my mind, it's easier for him to let it fly than anybody else

because don't nobody expect him to make it. So what? You study long, you study wrong. Is that the paralysis by overanalysis thing in the NBA? That's amazing. Yes, sir. That's what we say. That's why I never studied.

Uh-huh. You know what I mean? Like, that's – I fucking – here I am I am Tuesday June 14th 35 years old Years removed from any classroom And I finally figured out why I did the way I did things You study long You fucking study wrong

Okay Are we overthinking it I mean that is literally everything in my life I got a new motto Thank you Q I appreciate that. No doubt. All good.

Let that thing fly. Think about how small that hoop can look for some guy. Like, yeah. You know, we're golfing every once in a while and that ball just shrinks up.

It's like, I am never going to be able to hit that fucking ball. Then some days the ball feels like it's a beach ball and it's like, it's going to be a...

Is there some games in some courts that look a little bit better to shoot in than other places yeah some just uh yeah sometimes it's the it's the uh the background the way the arena looks and some people you know it's just certain certain arenas they like i felt like for me washington washington and phoenix was a place where i always shot the shot the hell out of the ball. And I had good games there. So I don't know. I mean, you really don't notice it until you look back at it. But I definitely feel that way with certain arenas and certain certain buildings that I felt good about all the time. With the Celtics raising the rim, one of them up two inches, the guys have shoot arounds on that rim. And does that affect anything before the game? Is that great gamesmanship

by the people of Boston who have been boozing all day making decisions? Listen, the fact that they had to resize, like, you know, that's just one of the legends that it's always some shifting that's going on in the Garden, so, you know, that just adds to the history lessons with it. You love it with that

fucking evil laugh. Goddamn right. Go ahead, Ty, please. Kierich, going back to Draymond, and I don't know if it's because the media has talked about it so much and with his podcast, but he's been like this kind of since he got into the league, or there are not as many guys who can effectively get under guys' skin now because so many of the players seem like they're tight. In your era, it seemed like there were a lot more guys like Draymond

who had that chip on their shoulder, and, like, that was kind of their job was just to be a pest. Do you think he's one of, like, the last kind of guys like that in the league right now? Probably so. He's probably, like, you know, as far as, like, he's going to be that irritant and the antagonizing. He seeks you out for that.

I mean, probably so. I mean mean i think our generation was just different that it was just whether you were like that or not you responded to certain things in certain ways it wasn't that we went out of our way to be antagonistic but it was it was just you know we we i think our generation was a little more irritable you could say and we didn't just deal with a lot of that a little bit more irritable yeah and also uh i think the this generation is a lot more friends with each other like yeah we don't have to hate each other we're all trying to get our money when back in the day it was like no i don't want that motherfucker to get money i would like that dude to lose that's how it is i think in every sport almost it's kind of a changing of the tide yeah you see the whole you see dudes after

the game swapping jerseys and all of that. It was none of that. We was trying like, you know, especially on the court. We didn't give each other credit like that. That's why I was like, it's cool to have a podcast and be able to do that now because we didn't let people know like, yo, you nice, man. Like, nah. We ain't telling

none of that to you. Like, I'm going to see you next game. That's all. And then it's on. We out of here. But like, now you see guys kumbaya and taking off jerseys and hugging sweat naked and stuff. I'm like, no, that was never this. Q. Rich, what is Boston going to have to do to try to win two games here? Score. Man, they just got to take it one game at a time.

I mean, the best thing they got in their favor is that this next game is going to be in Boston Garden. It's going to be at home. And those fans are going to be absolutely, like, crazy. Like, they know, like, those fans are very, very in the know of what's going on. This is an elimination game. They're going to be there. They're going to be ready to blow the roof off that thing. All Boston, all the Celtics, those players got to do, they got to give the fans something to get behind early in the game.

They got to do something early to get their fans hyped and let them have their impact on the game. Q. Rich, there's a lot of Celtics players who are actually shooting better from three than they are for two, and it kind of feels like when the ball gets to maybe Tatum and Brown that it stops moving. How hard is it for role players, when the ball gets to maybe Tatum and Brown that it stops moving. Like how hard is it for role players, like when it gets to star players, to actually like keep moving and keep running the offense?

I mean, it can be difficult at times, but I mean, at this point, this is, you know, they're in the finals, man. They've been used to what Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown have done all season. They've been the driving force for that team, and they've been playing, you know, I mean, obviously series, they could play better, but the style and the way that they're playing and going about it, they played this way the whole season. So I feel like all of the

others and the support players, they're used to the way those guys play, and they know what to expect from them. Hey, Q Rich, we appreciate you making some time, man. Hopefully, you'll join us after the next game. Yes, sir, man. Anytime, fellas. Give me a hit. The Knuckleheads podcast with him and D. Miles is absolutely fantastic. Ladies and gentlemen, Quentin Richardson.

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a bad deal they will we're stooges so everything we promote is just the easiest shit normally. The most convenient, easiest, and best shit. Right here, there just continues to be somebody's voice that just says, what about the Bears? What about the Bears? 15 seconds hard out. What about the Bears? He loves Justin Fields. Probably loves Justin Fields.

What about the Bears? A lot of money next year. A lot of money. Maybe. Are the Bears ever? Do they do that? They traded for Khalil Mack, I guess. Yeah. Maybe. Are the Bears ever – do they do that? They traded for Khalil Mack, I guess. Yeah. Hey, trust polls.

People are kind of worried about the Bears this year. Oh, yeah. A lot of people. People are burying them in the NFC North. They've got the Lions ahead of them. Yeah. Lions have won a combined, what, seven games in the last ten years? I think a lot of places have them as either the 31 or the 32nd team.

What's the biggest issue? I don't know. That's what I'm wondering. Lions stinks. Still wondering. Line stinks. Their defense. Line still stinks. Justin Fields running for his life last year, right? They lost their best players on defense. Khalil Mack and Akeem Harris. Allen Robinson is not there anymore.

Allen Robinson's gone. They got Byron Pringle, who's the three or four at Kansas, or the five at Kansas City. Darnell Moody's gonna fucking tear it up this year, though. You guys lost your punter, too, I think, right? You did to the Packers. Mo too, I think, right? Yeah. Mooney and Pringle, very similar

players. Kyra, they got Kyra, right? Santos kicking there? Yes. Something will happen. He's a good kicker. They're also playing the AFC. That's when they fucked him over on his consecutive kicks, remember? They had him go out there, kick like a 60-yarder. Oh, yeah. Fucked him over.

Eh, they didn't fuck him over. I didn't fuck him over. I mean, sometimes situations like that happen. I do recall Chuck. It was like in the wind, too. I appreciate it. Oh, yeah. I do recall Chuck Pagano, though, calling me over in the middle of a game in which we were getting killed.

We haven't scored any points yet. And he's like, I should probably ask Conte this. Conte was PR guy. But has Vinatieri made any comments about like not scoring a point for the first time in his entire career today? Has that happened? I'm like, no, I don't think so. And then I go over to Vinny and I'm like, Hey, are you going to, is there going to be some record that's going to break if you don't score any points today? He's like, uh, no. Cause if I don't step on the field, I didn't technically play today or whatever.

So then I like mosey back over to Chuck. I'm hey I think because like we haven't even put him in an opportunity to kick a ball there's no record it's no problem at all it's just kind of a no-no he goes I mean we're getting killed but I don't want fucking Vinny to kill me either and then they can walk off but like I appreciate and respect that Chuck thinking of that with like two minutes left in the game it's a blowout his life is going to be terrible in the press conference. After the game is going to be terrible. We're going to have to watch film with all the assistant coaches. Jim Irsay, who's involved, is not going to be happy.

And he's just thinking to himself, and we fucking ruined maybe the greatest kicker of all time streak there. Like that is shit that is thought about. But Vinny was having that perfect year. We're having a perfect season. Very late into the year. And we're playing against Tennessee Titans in Tennessee. It was before one of the storms. When maybe Sandy came.

Sandy hit the East Coast, but the entire country, I think, was feeling like the wind effects of it. And we played in Tennessee, and it was so, so windy. That's like a sneaky, tough stadium to kick in because of how windy it is. And he had to go directly into the wind, I think for like some 40 yarder. And we fucking, I think laces weren't great.

I didn't fix it that well. It was a whole operational fail, but the fucking wind. It was like, I guess we start back at one next kick, dude. And we just jogged off all the hard work. But like that, all those little things don't matter whenever you're talking about winning a goddamn game. So having Cairo Santos go out there for a 60-yarder

when he's made like 14, 15 straight, if they thought it would win a game, they would do it. But if it was a blowout and they were like, fuck this guy, a little bit too happy. Nice guy. We all stink, all right? Oh, you're so good, huh? You've been perfect.

We've all been judged, not you. All right. Good luck. Everybody sucks. That would be a hilarious situation. Do you have any of those records? I assume you did because you never missed any games even though you were super hurt. No.

Not that I know of. There's no, like, what kind of records are there for position players like that? Like consecutive games and stuff like that? No, I don't have that. Why? Because, like, the games that you missed were just terribly placed? I assume. No, Brett. I mean, Brett started 200 and some games, didn't he?

Yeah. You're a linebacker. Yeah, most tackles per game. Like most consecutive streak of eight tackles or more. All these are records now because there's... Tackles aren't real stats because there's NFL stats and there's team stats when it comes to tackles too yeah i concur i got 24 or 25 tackles depending on where you look at there's any combined solo yeah but who judges if it's a combo remember i

think that was what uh jj was talking about the team could give you 10 tackles and the nfl will give you six like that happens sometimes yeah there's two different statisticians that's why some high schoolers that are in small towns, they'll be registered that they had 45 tackles in a game, and it's like he's their best player. But also, hey, we need to – Yeah. Hey, if he's around the pile, he's got to have it.

This kid needs to be off state. Yeah, we need this. That's why who's keeping the stats really matters, AJ. It really, really matters. Yeah, I'm glad I didn't go to a small school in high school. Yeah, Centerville's a fucking powerhouse. Where you guys D1? Whatever your divisions are? 31 tackles in two games.

Yeah. Huh. Wait a minute. Oh, absolutely. A lot of JOPs there. Well, that's because you wanted to join the boys, right? You wanted to feel like you were a part of it? That's when you're allowed to put your head down and just submarine over a pile and try to clip off whoever's there.

That's the best. That was awesome. That was hustling to the ball. That was playing through the whistle. Hey, absolute fucking menace, okay? Actual hands. That's how you're taught to play. Jump on the pile.

Take off on your own, guys. No, no, no. I don't want friendly fire. Hey, if somebody wants to stand by a pile, that's on their fucking ass. That's where I was going, right for their fucking kneecap. That's where you get hurt, Pat. You know, you stand around a pile, you will get hurt. Hey, if it's either you or me, one of us has to go, well, I guess you're fucking dying.

See you next week, dude. Oh, and you're wearing a mouth guard. What a soft-ass bitch. All things I would never say. You think I'm though. Maybe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.

Not with everybody. No, no, just some. Have you talked to Aaron? How's he doing? That's a great question. There's a lot of chatter about him, you know. Did he just get the booster gee is that what happened is that why is that why there's chatter i don't know is that

what happened i don't i have no idea i haven't talked to him lately what's up allegedly he did get a boost of some sort yeah should reach out what does that mean you know just check in to see how he's doing you said you mentioned something earlier we can come back to this when you described i believe rusty harden talking about something with a happy ending and how you worded it i was done i don't know why i just got me it was very something about pulling on this dong and something i don't know what was it i don't i i don't remember anything we talk about no so i will get out so good i will get out there and go through the clips on twitter shout out gumpy by the way we miss you Shout out, Gumby, by the way. We miss you, Gumby. We miss you, Gumby.

Hey, good progress in that department, by the way. Nice. Really? I think so, yeah. Good. Hopefully, Gumby doesn't have any guns. They got situations up there, don't they, if they're taking them or something? All right.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I just want to say a little bit of information is very dangerous. I don't know much. I just see headlines. Well, yeah, because the enemy of great is good. The enemy of actually knowing is knowing just a little bit.

So that is something that's going on with our entire world. Ryan Whitney, though, was quoted in their chambers or whatever. Parliament, maybe? Yeah, whatever it is. Parliament, I guess. Just listen to wit. Will the prime minister listen to Witt once again and lower the regulations

actually being pitched and then obviously Whitney seeing it and the Spitting Chicklets podcast seeing it and making a shirt out of it and going I quote tweeted it

and I said yeah just listen to Witt dude nobody took that as a joke of me saying that I was attacked by Canada about how bad

America is so by bum bum bum bum, bum. Oh, we don't need you arrogant, ignorant Americans who can't figure out how to talk about our situation. It's like, whoa, I was making a fucking joke, pal. Take it easy, all right? It's not my fault that whatever's going on up there.

If you guys think you're safe, more safe. But I've done some research into your history, Canada. It is not as squeaky clean. Maybe you guys should be thinking about some shit when you lay your heads down on that pillow. Not just about regulations, about what happened in the past. I've been learning about

via a couple different segments on specials and stuff. I didn't know that about Canada. The more I learn, the more I go, really? You know? About Canada. Canadian people are nice. Great.

Yeah, sure. Maybe. That's what we're saying. They came after America. What'd you learn? Strong. Huh? What happened up there?

I just assumed that back in 1776 when we said, hey, you want to go? And they said, no, buddy. Whatever. Hey, piss off, buddy. Look at up here. And it's like, well, there's no imaginary line. This would be great if we were to win. This would be huge for all of us.

And they're like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Please. We would like to still pay the queen and everything like that. Whatever. They just aren't a combative group. And then I just. They helped try and take it back, too. What's that?

They helped try and take it back, too. They helped England. Against us? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's why France was like, oh, is that right? Oh, we're coming over there. And then they bought King Louis and his wife, Anna, Louisiana, purchased.

Yeah. That was nice. We're helping America. Sorry, England. I didn't know that. That's even more, I guess, added into the entire thing. I don't think the Canadians gave us too much trouble in the Revolutionary War. No. If I had to guess.

What's that all about? They're going to attack you for how bad our country is. That's fine. It's probably like, hey, piss off, buddy, and I can deal with that. That's kind of nice still. They're throwing some stones in some glass houses up there that are coming after us. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I looked into your

history a little bit. That's what bitch made marks do, though. If they want to be like that, then they can be like that. I was joking, by the way. I don't think that any athlete should be necessarily driving legislation unless it's gone.

Yes. Unless it's gone. Good luck, Gonzo. Good luck, Gonzo. We got him, Gonzo. He was trying to drive some legislation, wasn't he, AJ? Well, I recently saw a pretty good quote from Herschel Walker. I can't remember exactly.

What was it? What's he saying? He's crushing it right now. Something about modern. I can't remember. I don't want to. He's saying. I don's crushing it right now. Something about monitoring. I can't remember. I don't want to. What's he say?

I don't want to. I'm trying to remember. It's got the funds? God damn it. But honestly, hey, if I'm going to listen to anybody that's fucking wit, everything that comes out of his mouth is hilarious. So imagine if it's called the wit legislation. No more masks.

Ryan Whitney. The wit protocol. Canadian Prime Minister. Are there still, I think it's still a full. Oh, yeah. Goop, he can't stand it right now. Goop is in mask jail right now back in Canada. And he's losing it.

Yeah. Do they know something we don't? Because it feels like our entire country now. Well, what about like there's people in complete lockdowns in other countries? Where? Where was it? Well, North Korea. I don't know if that counts, but I think they finally locked down. Their entire life?

Yeah, they're always locked down. Their entire life? Yeah, but now it's just COVID. North Korea got their first COVID case? They just started there a month ago, maybe, a mask mandate. So now that would mean that it had to be Jim Kong or one of his goons that made it out because they've been isolated. They've been practicing social distancing since the beginning.

I think this is just Jim Kong doing his propaganda because I think a day later they said they beat it. Yeah, I thought they just shot whoever had it in the head as soon as he tested positive for COVID. That's pretty sexist of you just to assume it was a man that had it. True, or a woman. Or a child. Or a child. Or an animal.

Or an animal chef. Or a zoo. Remember a lion got it and people freaked out? Oh yeah. There was a time where somebody was telling me when I had it my first bout to stay away from my animals i remember talking to you maybe it was on the show and you're like i don't know if i could talk to my animals i don't know what i'm doing i got like 15 tweets or like hey make sure you're an all-around your dog i'm like did you really oh yeah i remember that by the way she hung out with me

most of the time yeah so i've been a bad dad i guess okay you didn't i'm glad you didn't like you were well into covid where you knew that wasn't real right like your dog wasn't gonna get it from you i think when i got it the first time it was still oh yeah complete quarantine from everyone you've had a couple oh yeah you have had a couple twice yeah first time 104 and a half degrees that's a high fee that's the highest i've ever had i think yeah i mean you probably should have went to the hospital realistically. Instead, I did a show. Fuck off. That's when people were

like, hey, don't open doors. And there's a lot of stuff that you couldn't do that they thought would cause people to get COVID. Yeah, cardboard. Cardboard, there it is. I'm happy we beat it, you know, because I think people don't even have to test negative to fly into America anymore. NFL isn't testing anymore.

Yeah, but I think, like, outside of just our sports world, I feel like it is like a. Yeah, no masks on planes. In America. In America. Yeah. Plenty of masks still out there, though. Yeah, well, hey, to each their own. Whatever you want.

Yeah. Yeah, that'll be forever, it feels like now. Do what you got to do. Whatever you're, yeah. Yeah, that'll be forever it feels like now. Do what you gotta do. Whatever you're comfortable with. But I just need to know if they have a piece of information I don't have. Because I would like to not die. I'm looking to live forever

so I'm drinking this terrible tasting shit now. How about wearing a mask while you're driving? What's that, pal? How about wearing a mask while you drive? That's for the CO2 level.

I'm not getting into this again. I'm not getting into that. That made me irrationally upset a couple different times while I was driving. I still see it. Saw it the other day. I beeped at him. I see it all the time.

Yeah, all the time. Still? Oh, yeah. Yes. No. Oh, yeah. Every single day. In Ohio?

Yes. Really? It's weird. It depends on where I am in the greater Columbus area. Different areas, you see it a lot more than others. It's just like the rest of the world and the country, I guess. Well, maybe it's just a new accessory. Yeah, could be.

Was it bejeweled? Used to just be like bank robbers and stuff. Right. Now it's like, no, no. I need my mask. Everybody can do it. I mean, if you're going to commit a crime, you definitely should wear a mask, right? Well, I think a lot of people that are potential criminals

enjoyed when the, hey, everybody has to wear a mask thing, you know what I mean? Because everybody looks the exact same. Oh, perfect. You know what I mean? But if people are wearing them, that means they are just being precautionary? Yeah, I guess. Or whatever their situation is not the same as

ours or mine. I guess. That's how we have to look at it. I need to stop looking at them as they know more than I do, right? Yes. No, that's all right. That's a compliment. Well, it is a compliment until I go ask them, hey, what do you know that I don't know? Should I be doing what you're doing?

And it's just, no, it's just precautionary. It's like, oh, so you don't know anything more than I do? So we're all going to die but you? That's an interesting thing. Okay. I appreciate you. I appreciate your service. I actually have gotten into thanking people for their service for doing it, for wearing a Okay. I appreciate you. I appreciate your service. I actually have gotten into thanking people

for their service for doing it. For wearing a mask. That's right. That's smart. It's a pretty good time. Thank you for your service. Thank you.

Because a lot of these arenas where SmackDown is you know a lot of security and workers of the arena are still wearing it. And I just walk by hey how's it going? Hey good conversation.

Thank you for your service by the way and just keep on going. Yeah. I didn't serve in the military. Oh it looks like you did. You saved our life. What do they know that we don't know?

I just have like an autoimmune disorder or something. Maybe so. A lot more people have those these days than they used to have, I guess. Live with an elderly person, perhaps. Yeah, maybe. Got it. That would make sense, by the way.

Take care of an elder family member or something along those lines. I don't know how i think maybe it's because our heads are so large i have such a big dumb fucking head that no mask was yeah yeah it hurts hurts my ears yeah my head's too big too hurts the back of my ears real bad and then that thing is plastered across my face like how it's supposed to do in the seminars like in the instructional videos because there's nothing else to do. And it just was not a good time for me.

The mass time was not a good time for me. That's why whenever I see it start, like, gaining steam in some places, I'm like, oh, fuck. I hope it's not because of some, like, medical reason that's coming up that people are starting to die at a more often rate nowadays. I did love the gator mass, though. Well, those weren't real. Yeah. Those were actually worse. You were actually storing COVID in that.

That's right. And then when you would take it off, you might as well have just thrown it in somebody else's mouth. That's basically what the gator mask became. When everybody's like, oh, this is actually pretty sweet. It's like wearing a bandana. We're back in the game. It's kind of comfortable.

You can breathe in it. It doesn't feel as if you are being in a rear naked choke by some linen thing. And you're like, oh, yeah, it turns out worse for you than not wearing one. No, no, you look way too cool wearing that. Take that off. We need you to wear it. N95, the big doofus looking one. That's right.

That was the one we need. Early on, though, it was nice, you know, getting on those planes wearing that gaiter. It's like, oh, this is a fucking cheat code. And then, boom, next time you go out there, like, yeah, it's not going to work anymore. Oh, that's real cool. You can wear that over top of an actual mask if you'd like. Oh. Oh.

Well, this, I was told at CVS. Yeah. This was okay. I said this worked. Remember what I had on that one time? A pillowcase. Yep. That was New York.

On Brooklyn. That was awesome. Yep. A pillowcase. I hope it was wrapped around your face. Yeah. Yeah. So I hadn't Ubered in a long time at this point the boys were at a different bar

than where i was so you dig and i was gonna go meet up with them and uh as soon as i get in there you gotta have a mask on this is towards the tail end of it it was in new york city towards the tail end of it though and i had not worn a mask in a bit and i did not have a mask so i went in grabbed a pillowcase tied that thing around my head put a hoodie up sunglasses on tried with a new uber went in just fine yeah please i don't have to see your face smell your face look at your face let's do that forever i'm like i have nothing but respect for that but it i don't know how that went past the the guidelines because there's no way that thing was keeping COVID in my mouth and not in his. No.

Makes no sense. Formality. He doesn't care. At all. We should celebrate us being on the other side of that at some point, whenever it happens. It's awesome. I mean, we have done it like six, seven times.

You know why? Because it feels so good every time. Yeah. It does feel good. It's fun. It does feel good. It feels so good. We beat them.

We beat them. That's why the NFL, as soon as they said that, it was like, oh, okay, we did it. It's fun. It does feel good. It's a celebration. We beat them. We beat them. That's why the NFL, as soon as they said that, it was like, oh, okay. We did it. It's hard not to get up in Hanaland. Yeah. Just feel bananas. Monkeypox is going up. No.

That's what I've heard. I thought that was a fugaz. Have you heard about it? Is it in banana? Did Tom Hanks get it? What's that? When Tom Hanks got COVID, that's what kind of put it on the map. Oh, yeah, down in Australia, right?

Yeah. I don't know. Is that where he was? Yeah. I forgot it. I'm just saying. Chet did get it, didn't he? He had a little bit of baritone in his rap.

Did he? Yeah. Bumbaclot. Chet was also. Bumbaclot. He had, like, super coughs. He was very anti-vax, if you remember, as well. Chet is?

Psych! Chet was, yeah. Bitch! Oh, I remember that video. Yeah. No way. Yeah, one of the all-time heel moments. It's all-time.

No way. Chet was one-upping himself every week somehow. He's still working out with, like, a former Navy SEAL. Yeah. Just getting it in. Yolk training. Didn't him and Tom Singh fucking Take Me Out to the Ballgame? They did.

They did. At a Dodger game. How did they hit? All right. Pretty good. They had their arms around each other. It was a nice little family moment. And then Tom started singing White Boy Summer, Chet's newest song.

Is that song out now? It was. It was out last summer, I think. Oh, okay. Not as good. I didn't know Tom was featured on that. Yeah. I think his gig was in there.

Yeah, he's a massive fan. In the back in the remix. Yeah, it was Wilson. He's behind the camera. Anyways, if anybody finds out that we do need to wear masks again, I'm going to be bummed about it, but please let me know, because I'm in a lot of publics. I'm in a lot of publics.

Is the newest Chet video? No, we don't need that. If it was a new Chet video, we would play it, but this is a recycled one from back in the day, the Psych Bitch one. Oh, yeah. Don't need it. Yeah, maybe't need it Hey guys, so I'm just checking in So good well, he's a heel promo

No, I thought he's serious Direction yeah That's his acting. No, I thought he was serious. Oh, that's misdirection? Yeah. All right, run it. So just checking in. Look, I've been kind of on the fence about this for a while. That's why I've never spoke on it. But with the amount of people that I know recently that have gotten COVID,

it's like the numbers rising. Is that, this is all acting right now? Yeah. No way. Sure to God. He's a great actor. Just like his dad. Yeah.

I did not know that was a piece of DNA. Go ahead. It's important for me to say, like, I got the vaccine. I think everybody should. I think it's really important, like, that we all do this just as, like, citizens, as Americans. We have to look out for each other and get this shit under control, guys. So, like, I suggest to all my followers, you guys make, set an appointment, and get the vaccine first thing.

Psych! Bitch! If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I did not know that. Oh, yeah. I mean, that was 12 to 6. Get him in the next dress. Big time curveball.

Exactly. Set an appointment at Psych. I thought he was going to say Saturday or Sunday. Yeah. No, no no no man that was good strip too if it ain't broke

don't fix it did he write that probably so or Tom first take that I said too holy shit I didn't know

Chet had that did he book any gigs off of that that's what I'm saying yeah he's in your honor I think right after that video came out

it was good great show bro alright I didn't expect that out of Chet Hanks there yeah man it runs in a

family I guess absolutely his brother too he sold that heavy there early he did i was like all right that's a good that's a good message it seems like a pretty you know it's a message that is about the vaccination here we go this is going to happen and then he like didn't blink there for like 35 45 seconds because i saw something was coming it was kind of coming up but i could never guess that boom i'm going the other way my name is chet fucking hanks bomba club him saying we as americans need to take care of each other that was awesome driving down the street somebody's driving him right there somebody's in the car yep yep that was the one how many do you think do you think there was a one before like uh do you think there was a reading like a rehearsal reading that they did

i assume him and tom did table yeah him tom hey great wasn't calling colin stinks all right let's go to the fence uh who's calling colin's a good actor yeah orange county i mean he's in a lot more things than chet but ducks band of brothers is he a rapper too no no no no could be be, I bet. Check out a lot of the music talent, though. Let's go to a rude boy. Except for Tom's and Elvis, so. I heard that's a good movie. Got the longest standing O, even more than Top Gun Maverick.

Did JWD get a standing O in con, or they not send it to con? JWD was not at con. That is not con fair. But Top Gun Maverick is? Oh, yeah, because Tom Cruise is fucking saving the movie industry. All right. Let's go to the phones, dude. He saved con.

Hey, a lot of people are thankful that I spoke up for them about J.W.D. They were kind of scared to go against the Jurassic cult. I think we're all speaking in the same... We're all rowing in the same direction here. I think we all were disappointed in that movie, AJ. What kind of money did it make? Do know very good very good money yeah oh it did it's already a profit i think yeah oh yeah well whatever they cut like you need to if it spent if they spent 500 mil making it you got to make a bill back to really break even well not i guess because money spent marketing and stuff because they you know this thing's been marketed

all over the place yeah 43 in the first weekend aj brings up a great point though when you hear how much is spent that's hard money when you hear how much made that's pre-taxes that's not real money you need to go ahead and get rid of the taxes to make up for the hard money that was already spent actual money being compared to fuguet's money because fuguet's money doesn't have the reality money in it, which is tax money. Uncle Sam saying, oh, you did great. No, we did great. And taking their share, too.

So that's a good point, AJ. That's a very, very good point. No, I meant like a lot of times, like production of a movie, they say, oh, they spent 150 mil. But then if you spend 150 mil making it, they're going to spend another hundred to promote it for a year and a half leading up to it. Yeah, I was looking at it because my wife and i were chatting about this after we were both incredibly disappointed and jwd were looking up some things there was some movie that was like 320 million dollars all in they said in the budgets looking up the budgets is fascinating

will ferrell movies like 90 some million i think they're spending uh the Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum movie. I guess she's making $20,000 allegedly. He's making $10,000. They spent $70,000 altogether on it. I think there are movies that are in the eight-figure thing, but most of them are nine figures that are being spent on all these movies.

This one has $185,000 as the total budget. For JWD? That makes sense. They put a lot of costs on a couple of those dinosaurs. Bradley Cooper's last movie had a massive budget, and it completely tanked. What movie?

Nightmare Alley. Never heard of it. Guillermo, exactly. Guillermo del Toro, who's like a super famous director, and obviously Bradley Cooper and a couple other actors, and it did not do well. Who pays for this is it like uh studios is it like entourage where some big money person will come in behind it and fund sometimes yeah sometimes studios have big big backers yeah did you guys find that 13 mil for fucking coach day or what i didn't but i actually ran

into coach day yesterday morning at uh i was dropping my daughter off at ohio state uh basketball camp on my way out he has a daughter he was walking his daughter and i stopped talking to him for a while how's he doing did you did he ask you for some money maybe to keep the team together if we want to compete with these guys that's what we're going to need please uh no he did not ask for any money he had his whistle around his neck he had just come from the field he said he had to go back had a team meeting at 9 15 like they can do NFL stuff. They have OSP, off-season program type stuff now. Really?

What's that? Just walk-throughs and film and stuff? No, but on air. They can maybe run routes on air. They can do conditioning. I don't know if they can line up. Yeah, there's strict rules, but we used to just go and run for three hours straight and kill it and almost die.

That was all we could do. That was summer workouts, yes. And then we could put a seven-on-seven together ourselves if the coaches were not allowed to be out there. Yeah, Pat would have – Which was awesome. That would suck if the coaches were taking you through everything all June, July. Well, and also all the coaches are probably just hiding, watching,

seeing what's going on, but they're not allowed to lead it or run it. So that's huge to have a leader at quarterback, by the way, though. That's a big deal. Gigantic. Yeah, and have ownership. Like Pat was respected by everybody. So after his workouts, hey, we're throwing, we're doing this, we're doing that, that would happen.

If you have a quarterback who's not respected, I assume that could become a little bit of an issue. Look at Ohio State getting a little extra work in, huh? Trying to do it the right way. Was there any conversation about NIO at all with Ryan Day yesterday whenever he was dropping off his daughter? No. I sat there and talked to him about five minutes,

but he was very welcoming. He said they always want former players to come in and hang out and watch and do stuff, so I'll go watch practice and do things. Let's go, AJ. Here we go. Did you need the formal invite to do it? No, they've always been cool and told me, hey, whenever you want, come on down.

There's another guy that heads up Like runs all the recruiting stuff Mark Pantone, he's a big recruiter guy He's the guy I reach out to if I need to know the schedule Or want to come in or do anything Did you ask Ryan Day about how Bobby's performing this OSP? I have not yet I don't know how much Bob's been around During this off-season program

He's fucking out on the lake He's out on the lake all the time He's going somewhere. Hey, I don't know where. So we were going to originally like a week ago, I think. They asked us to go to dinner or something tonight. But then they are traveling. So we had to push it back a week or so.

So I don't know where he's at. But he said he can come on tomorrow. Is Ohio State going to suffer from General Bob Carpenter not being around this much during the offseason? Because he's all boozed up all over the goddamn country. Feels that way. I don't think so. Yeah. Well.

I'm going to ask him tomorrow. I'm going to say, Bob, if he comes on tomorrow, whenever he comes on, do you feel a little bit of ownership on how Ohio State's going to perform whenever you decide just not show up and go booze? Do you feel like you're letting the entire university down? And I'll be excited to hear his answer. Did Ohio State win a national championship during the COVID year when Bob couldn't go in?

No. And then did they win it last year when Bob couldn't go in because of his radio show? No. History tells us. They're not going to win. Why does he fucking strap it up and get back with the boys? Wow.

I think they do not allow former players to participate in full contact. Oh, Ryan Day doesn't want alumni rounds. It's going to be hard to get 13 million whenever you're treating alumni like that. It's unbelievable. Did you see, I put this list in the group text before we went live. It was sent to me by another West Virginia grad. Not that I graduated from West Virginia, but somebody else that went to West Virginia. They ranked all the Power Five schools academically, you know,

and put everybody in there. And I've always said Ohio State just rocked for brains because that's basically what Brady Quinn said. And Marcus Freeman also said this now. He said, Ohio State, you're not going to get in classes, all right? You'll be a fucking doofus and get through there. Here in Notre Dame, we can promise the parents that the kids are going to be forced to go to class, they're going to be forced to go to class.

They're going to be forced to get a degree. That ain't how it is at Ohio State and everywhere else I've been. This place, we make it happen. Ohio State, you think they care about academics?

Come on. They don't care about academics. You take an online class, you don't have to do anything. It's basically what Marcus Freeman said, friend of yours, right, AJ? Is that what he said? Yeah, Marcus is awesome.

I love Marcus. He's a great coach, great dude. I played against him in high school and then with him in college. But yeah, he's wrong here, but he's a great guy great dude i played played uh against him in high school and then with him in college but yeah he's he's wrong here but he's a great guy yeah he wouldn't lie though you're saying he's a good guy mark i bet you marcus went to class i know i had to go to class they were checking well general bob also said he had to go to class and whenever he was a

professor he's seeing the boys leaving their finance classes as well general bob said whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa marcus you haven't been around in some time you know you're over there with cincinnati and i don't know You know you're over there with Cincinnati and Notre Dame. You're doing your whole thing. And maybe at those campuses, they don't do it. So you're maybe speaking a little bit louder. General Bob said, I'm fucking teaching the classes. Yeah.

Okay, I am. Calm down. And I don't know if we have been able to pull up that list. West Virginia was 65th academically out of the world. All right, like right in the middle. I don't know how many there are. But I do know. They're last on this list that you sent.

Yeah, it's just Power 5 because it might have only been the 25 teams. Well, I think it's 101 is all D1. I don't know about in the Power 5. Where's Ohio State? You are much higher, much, much, much, much, much higher. The West Virginia team, or the West Virginia University academic standards, I guess, are not that high. I did not graduate, so I don't know.

Is that the last school, though? Hearing what it takes to get into Ohio State now, I don't know how it's – you have to have unbelievable test scores, unbelievable – well, test scores, I don't know, are different now, whether you have it or not. But your grades have to be, like, almost four point, and then you have to have 15,000 outside activities other than school that you've been taking part in. Where's Ohio State at, Diggs?

Ohio State. 20-something, maybe? Oh, here we in. Where's Ohio State at, Diggs? Ohio State. 20-something maybe? Oh, here we go. That's going to be tough to read. Jeez. This is my fault for the way I sent it in. Okay, so Ohio State sitting right at 22. Bo Cruz.

Virginia Tech, 35. This is all Power 5 here? Because Power 5 is the 22nd, but 54th in the nation. Alabama's 39 in the Power 5. Look at that. Right above Syracuse where all the media people go. 85th. It looks like Colorado and Alabama are ranked the same.

Is that a 68 and 88? I'm just looking too far away. Hail to Pitt. How do we know? Who's the judge? How do we know? I don't know. This was sent to me by a pretty reputable human.

Harvard. And then right down there below Kansas State Ole Miss Mississippi State Texas Tech gonna have to take the ticker off to find West Virginia it might be lower than 65 66 I can see it geez low weight 168th overall I don't know I don't know how much lower you can go hey so we're South Harmon Institute of Technology. Yeah. Right there in Morgantown. And, you know, we're accepting.

That's all that tells me. We are accepting. We won't judge you for what you were in high school. No, be yourself. We still think your future is bright. Google's telling me that there are 65 Power 5 schools, so maybe one more snuck in there above West Virginia, somewhere in there.

Jeez. Those boys you stayed with? Dead last. You hear me? 65, Power 5 schools, so maybe one more snuck in there above West Virginia, somewhere in there. Was Boise State in there? Dead last. You hear me? West Virginia. Yeah. And it wasn't as if you were close to Louisville. You actually were seven spots below Louisville, too. So Neil Brown doesn't even have to get over the hurdle of like,

hey, classes are going to be tough. No. Doesn't even have to get over that hurdle. What are we doing, AJ? You should be able to recruit some studs. Well, I just, yeah, hey, you're here for the football. Academics don't even exist here, but let alone for you. Now, I was somebody that did not go to class,

so I'm not a good representative, I guess, of this entire thing. But I have some genius teammates that busted their ass, went to class, and did that entire thing, but I have some genius teammates that busted their ass, went to class, and did that entire thing. But I'm not sure West Virginia will ever be like, hey, we are the academic standard around here. I don't think we ever will. And by the way, we should own that. Yeah.

We should own that. Good community to be a part of. Good times. Hey, we do a lot of celebrating around here. Maybe teach you about life. Yeah, you'll go into debt, but you'll enjoy it more so than the other schools that are going into debt. You know what I mean, AJ?

I mean, yeah, you've got to change the narrative, I guess, on how people talk about it. Well, they tried to. They brought in that guy, Gordon Bombay. Gordon G. Oh, he came from Ohio State. Yeah, he wore his little bow tie thing, and they started getting rid of some legendary parts of town.

They started building up other stuff and started making it a little bit more difficult to get in there. I think they saw that same list and were like, we've got to change this narrative. And I was on the outside looking in thinking, completely, what are you guys doing? The only thing we had going for us, you guys just got rid of. You were building parking lots instead of legendary establishments

that would serve incredible shots until 3, 4, 5 a.m. to everybody in town. You know what I mean? What are we doing? So I think West Virginia is trying, 4, 5 a.m. to everybody in town. You know what I mean? Like, what are we doing? So I think West Virginia is trying to change the narrative a little bit. Trying to. But if you're a high schooler out there and you're good at football and you don't necessarily love class.

That's the only thing about it. Let's go Mountaineers. Be a Mountaineer. If you're a quarterback, you can go there and slang it too. Graham Harrell is the OC and you will put up some points for sure. What'd you say? I didn't hear what you said. I said if you're a quarterback and you can slang it, go there. Because Graham Harrell is the OC and you will put up some points for sure. What'd you say? I didn't hear what you said. I said if you're a quarterback

and you can slang it, go there because Graham Harrell is the OC. And we're going to slang it. Got the Georgia team. Graham will put some points on the board.

Let's go. Go to West Virginia. Zito was in my ear telling me that Tom Pelissero just put some dates out. The NFLPA have informed agents it has agreed with the NFL on key dates

for the 2023 league year. February 21st through March 7th is the franchise and transition tag window. March 15th, league year and free agent signing period begins. The 2023 draft is April 27th through 29th in Kansas City. Okay, so it'll be a great offseason next year. Thank you, Tom. Thank you, Tom.

Bye, Tom. That's a good piece of information. Let's jot those down. Let's put those in a series. Yeah, we'll remember. We'll start prepping for that. Yeah, let's all remember that next year when we get in there. Thank you, Tom, for that. We've's a good piece of information. Let's jot those down. Let's put those in the series. Yeah, we'll remember. We'll start prepping for that. Yeah, let's all remember that next year when we get in there. Thank you, Tom, for that.

We've got to get out of here. Hammer, Dad, we'll be in a few minutes. I can't wait for that talk-to-talk tomorrow night, especially after this Patty Maroon conversation that we had today, Nick Morota. Hell, yeah. Ruppers on location. He's out there in Denver. Really?

Yeah, he's covering it. Show will be live during the Stanley Cup final. Oh, my. Let's go. So, I actually don't know how much he'll be on, but he's covering it. Show will be live during the Stanley Cup final. Oh, my. Let's go. So I actually don't know how much he'll be on, but he will check in. Oh, so not great for the show. Oh, shit. Could be watch along.

That's right. It is watch along. We have a new movie review page. I believe Billy will be putting the link in the comments section. Once we have a couple up there. We got to build up a little bit of a library, a catalog before we start promoting it but it does exist it is out there and I'll tell you what people are going to start putting our reviews on them and the trailers and yeah that's right we got the two movies for this weekend already too Casino and Armageddon Bang. Boom. Let's ride.

Oh, good call. Hashtag PMS, let's ride. Go ahead and take a screenshot. They're coming after you. They're coming after you. You know that, right? Who's that? Team 3.

Why don't you just throw that thing around? Don't hold it like that. Come on. It's not a title, dude. It's a fucking Stanley Cup. You look like a doofus. Thank you. All right. Take a screenshot right now.

Say something nice. All right. All right. Take a screenshot right now. Okay. And say something nice. Whoa. Holy shit something nice. Whoa. Holy shit.

Whoa. Son of a bitch. You asshole. That's unbelievable. Are you kidding me? That went really closely. Oh, no. Oh, no.

All right. Take a screenshot. Take a screenshot right now. Take a screenshot right now. Take a screenshot. Put your cash tag and say something nice to somebody. You might be one of 15 winners of $599. Use the hashtag PMSLet'sRide because every day we're waking up with the same mindset.

Hell, yeah. Let's ride. We've been saying this for years, haven't we? Years. Long time. If this gets Russell Wilson on the show It's the least we could do That's right Where the fuck did this come from When did you do this this is genius

I told you things just show up I think Bob Backlund watched the show And he showed up I remember one other guy that I'm a fan of But I don't know if he said it Dongo alright we'll be back in about Yeah Dongo I remember one other guy that I'm a fan of, but I don't know if he said it. Dongo. All right.

All right. We'll be back in about. Yeah, Dongo. That's what I was talking about. Yeah, Dongo. We'll be back in 20 hours and 26 minutes with some more stupidity. We hope you win. Once again, remember, screenshot from a couple moments ago.

Say something nice about somebody. Put your cash tag in there, and you might be one of 15 winners of $599. Hashtag PMS. Let's rideide must be in the tweet as well. That's our way of saying thank you. Hopefully we'll be able to continue to do that because the fact that you put up with these shows that we're doing in the middle of this off time, you are the fucking best. We'll see you tomorrow.

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