The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 907 - Pittsburgh Steelers GM Omar Khan, Las Vegas Golden Knights Captain Mark Stone, Pacman Jones LIVE In The ThunderDome, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: May 18, 2023

On today’s show, Pat, Pacman Jones, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about the PGA Championship starting today, Jimmy Butler putting the Miami Heat on his back after a big road victory in Boston against the Celtics, some of the other news stories floating around the NFL, and everything else happening around the sports world. Joining the show to chat about his draft process, break some news about a new signing, discuss what’s on his plate the next few months, and explain how he does things differently than his predecessor is Pittsburgh Steelers GM, Omar Khan (1:07:35-1:23:23). Later, the Captain of the Las Vegas Golden Knights, Mark “Stoner” Stone joins the progrum to chat about his career, what it’s like playing for Vegas, being the first captain in the history of the franchise, how his back is faring after several back surgeries in the last year, if the boys are buzzing right now, his pregame superstitions, and much more (2:25:12-2:45:51). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful sellouts. Welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome. On this glorious Thursday, May 18th, 2023, the program starts, all right, now. Sports! Is what we will be chatting about all day today. There is actually a major golf tournament happening as I speak into this microphone in Indianapolis, Indiana, right now. The PGA Championship is taking place, and all the stars are out. Oh, yeah. A little frost on the grass this morning made it feel like some nice fall, golf almost. Got some sweaters.

I assume as the afternoon begins to come, the sun will bear down. We'll be in this awkward time period of you're sweating if you've got long sleeves on, but you're a little chilly if you don't have long sleeves on. That's just another added element. You're going to have to battle it all to win the PGA Championship. Goddamn right. Jon Rahm is the favorite. No, sorry. Yeah, alongside.

Nope, Scotty Scheffler. They were tied. But Rahm, I believe, is already teed off. So those might be live odds. Okay, so this is an interesting graphic here isn't it i mean this is uh yeah those are the odds to win the masters too it says oh geez he did win the masters okay so that's why i didn't see that okay so there's no way i saw that i'm happy i didn't because the brain i thought just shut off you know because the baby life has been

pretty pretty overwhelming i'd say a A little bit of a roller coaster. People have multiple kids. People have twins, triplets. That one lady with that dude on purpose had eight. Yeah. And then he made a TV show, made us all have to live through it for a couple years. That obviously ended great. Oh, yeah.

Everybody knew that was going to end up. As you heard that a couple had eight kids and then they wanted to make a reality TV show about it. Yeah, good idea. You knew that was going to end up well. I have no idea how humans did that. My wife is kicking so much ass, okay? So, so, so much ass. Every once in a while, though, I get tagged in.

Wow. The anxiety of the... Man. Every single breath, you're worried that you're going to... Like when I'm at home and the wife is gone. In the past, not now. Last two weeks, happy two-week birthday, whatever, to old beautiful Mackenzie Lynn.

In the past, we have four cats, two dogs. If wife is not home in any of those things, get out and don't get back? Yeah. Are you kidding me? Full shit show. I am donezo. One of them happened to cough and choke on something pass away they're not the only dead ones no no no add me to the list right in that lake now it's like this bingo now

this baby it's like my whole world crashes if this breathes wrong i don't know how long this is going to last but i don't think i can take much more of it i'm just staring and wondering and hoping for the best expecting the worst at every single turn. Had a sneeze, you know, a couple of sneezes, like three in a row. I'm like, oh, normally good luck. Bah, she's never done three in a row. Yeah. Oh, a little different fart this time.

Sounded a little bit of a wet fart. Oh, is that okay? Is her bowel, what's going on? And then an explosive shit comes out the top of the diaper. It's around to the front side. It's like, did I not do this right? You Google, there's people like, oh, you should see it. My kid had it on the back of the diaper. It's around to the front side. It's like, did I not do this right? You Google. There's people like, oh, you should see it.

My kid had it on the back of their neck or something. I'm like, golly. So the whole process has become very fascinating and overwhelming. But I have fucking enjoyed what we got going on in the sports world. Oh, hell yeah. Last night watching that fucking basketball game where Jimmy Butler, who is a certified dog, goes into the garden.

Yeah. Okay, and the garden hasn't really been what we thought the garden would potentially be. No, no. Especially with how people who go to the garden all the time talk about how the garden is. Not really the garden of old. No, because they used to go ahead

and park an Elka in the garden. You know what I mean? If you're on the road, go in there. Nailed it. Not anymore. That is not the way it is. Jimmy Butler goes in there and says,

this is my garden now. And you know, I'm planting coffee beans at this motherfucker. Yes, he is. And I'm going to have a sick hoodie that says big face

right across the top that he needs to start selling for a ridiculous price just like he does his coffee and he's built this thing to hundreds of millions of dollars valuation. He is awesome to watch.

This Heat team loses the first play in game. Then they bounce back and beat the shit out of the Bulls. See the photo they used? Right in Caruso's face. That was rude. Caruso played his ass off in that game. He's a nice guy. The highlight of Miami Heat beat the Bulls in the play in game.

And it's Caruso, good defense. All defense. All great defense. First team. First team. His name, too. Caruso. Just so you were wondering.

Right on the screen. That's who it is. This is how the Heat got it. It's like Caruso played great. First team. His name, too. It goes to Caruso. Just so you were wondering, right on the screen. That's who it is. This is how the Heat got him. It's like, Caruso played great. He did. There's no need for him to be on there. But you watch this Heat team play. They're fantastic.

And if you go to the talks with Tay Boa, at Ty Schmidt is rocking a Jackie Aces jersey that was gifted to him by 14-year NFL icon and super fan of the Las Vegas Golden Knights, Pac-Man Jones, who is here. Pac gifted you that jersey because we got Stoner on today. Unbelievable. I mean, you want to talk about it.

I feel like I've been having a lot of, wow, this is maybe the best day of my life over the last couple weeks. When Whitlock writes a report about our operation, was that one of the best days of both of us? We talked about his closing punchline, which I got a good chuckle out of. That was certainly an interesting article. I've been just dreaming about the chance to maybe talk to Stoner. Ever since

I've become a Golden Knights fan and he dawned the sea for the first time in the franchise. First ever captain. Exactly. Then obviously, Pac starts to get into hockey a little bit. I told him, hey, guess what? There are enough swords in the cavalry, my friend. You join the Golden Knights and you will not be disappointed. He does. Now he's

on a first name basis with Stoner. He's not even calling him Stoner. He's calling him Mark. He's kind of Mark. In a good way. Exactly. That's crazy. And then to my surprise, I come in this morning and he gifts me with this beautiful Jackie Aces sweater. I mean, I'm just over the moon right now. Thank you, Pac. Thank then, to my surprise, I come in this morning, and he gifts me with this beautiful Jackie Aces sweater. I mean, I am just over the moon right now.

Thank you, Pat. Thank you, Pat. Yo, Pat. Ty, without you, I wouldn't be a Vegas Knight fan. So I had to make sure I take care of my boy. Hell yeah. I like the fact that the Vegas Golden Knights fan base community seems to be very tight now.

Oh, yeah. Guys buying jerseys for each other. Exactly. That one looks like you're wearing shoulder pads right now. I look across, it looks like you're about to go play in a deck hockey game. It feels like you've got Adam Vinatieri shoulder pads on, and then they're strapped across the middle just in case you catch a clapper right to the sternum.

That's right. Well, I'm not so sure Jackie Aces hasn't worn this this year. Last owner, last owner. Yeah, last owner when he's on. This could be a game-worn sweater, but yeah, this thing is beautiful. The Stoner will join us in the third hour, 2.40 Eastern Standard Time. Obviously, the NHL has its playoffs going on. You need to watch it.

But what we led off the show with was the NBA playoffs. At Tone Diggs, one half of the hammer. Died. Cowboys. I don't know if you saw this. Heat were plus 350 as ball was tipping off to beat the Celtics in the garden last night. And they go ahead and do that. I mean, they go ahead and pound.

Jason Tatum wasn't getting the rock. Scored like 29 or 30 points still. Jimmy Butler still did his thing. They just beat the shit out of it. I mean, they just beat the Boston Celtics outright, and it was one quarter that really changed it all, but plus 350 feels like a good hit to start that entire season. It's a huge hit, 350 in my line.

They were 8, 8.5, depending on where you looked as far as the spread before the game tipped off, which they have been all playoffs long. Starting with the Bucs, going to last series to this series. They have been that big of underdogs a lot, and they have continued and continued and continued just to. Do we ride them now? Do we continue to bet them? Or do we wonder if they're, oh, they're due, you know, the sports culture?

I have faith in Jimmy Butler, and they've, like, they just click. Like, they're one of those. We talk about it a lot in the NFL. I don't know if we talk about it as much in basketball, to be honest with you. Well, we don't talk about it as much in basketball. Well, yeah. We don't know. We are getting highlights, though.

Stat that. We do not talk as much basketball as we do football. Stat that. But we talk about NFL teams getting hot at the end of the year as they go into the playoffs. I don't know if we talk about that as much as in the NBA, but the NBA definitely happened with the Heat this year. They started just fucking shooting lights out, and Jimmy's just playing out of his mind.

To be honest with you, in the regular season, they were one of the worst against the spread teams you could imagine. Bet against them a lot in the regular season. Do not bet against them in the playoffs. That is a fool's omen, error. Fool's gold mission sure there it is nailed it that's why we're going on the the worldwide leader bingo right things like that people love it speaking of loving it um watching this celtics team okay just try to fire the coach

last series remember that's right joe Mazzola, West Virginia guy. Get him out of here. People do not like him. He's getting outcoached by a guy who now everybody is fired. Yeah. This guy knows how to win championships. Joe Mazzola's in over his keys. He's getting outcoached, outwitted.

Get him the fuck out of the garden was what was being said. They obviously go and win by 30 in game seven or whatever. That guy's fired. The other guy that they were talking about. So I guess the NBA is kind of easy easy come easy go when it comes to emotions especially in the playoffs in a seven game series you're gonna learn a lot about each other you got any worries at all you guys look bad i mean it was not good last night no we actually had this exact same conversation last series when james harden put up 46 in the garden and they won game one and

actually you know i sent something in earlier this same situation celtics at won game one. And actually, you know, I sent something in earlier. This same situation, Celtics at home, game one of the Eastern Conference Finals, 2022, up by 13 points against the Heat, and the Heat came back and won. So I'm not worried. Is Tatum not a dog? He can't shoot the basketball. He can't hit a shot outside of the free throw line. He had 30 points, but I – sure, Pac-Man, okay. But he had 30 points. Sure, Pac-Man, okay. But he had 30 points.

He was catching heat, though. He still can't hit a jump shot. 51 points two games ago. I think you can shoot better than him. Hunter does have a sick jumper. I do not have a sick jumper. Can we focus on the task at hand? Yeah, you do.

Well, we're trying to, but you won't just acknowledge the truth. You do have a good jumper. It's a great jumper. Not a lot better. Yeah, right. Well, neither can him is what everybody's saying. just acknowledge the truth. You do have a good jumper. It's a great jumper. When we were out here right before, I couldn't even hit a three-pointer. Yeah, right. I don't know if we can call it a jumper. Well, neither can him is what everybody's saying. That's like the conversation.

EJ, in your defense, I don't know if we can call it a jumper. It's more of a set shot, but it's beautiful from three-pointers. Same three-point line they shooting in. NBA three-point line. You can hit more shots than he can. I love talking about us in here. Now, we don't know how. I do.

We kind of put him in a blender here, too. Complimenting him, burying the Celtic. Same time. Kind of put him in an ego versus pride kind of a battle. That's how good his jumper is, though. Pac-Man, that's good stuff you just did. I mean, I will never acknowledge anything good that I do. You all know that.

But you know your jumper better than he is. So, really, in the end, his name is Jimmy Butler, but that's not true. It's Jimmy Jordan. He's Michael Jordan's son. And I am not calling is Jimmy Butler, but it's not true. It's Jimmy Jordan. He's Michael Jordan's son, and I am not calling him Jimmy Butler ever again because what he does, not only offensively, he had

his last three-pointer rattle in. It drops in. It's unbelievable. There's his father who had the same stat line as he did in the 90s. Just for everybody that maybe does not understand every single crevice of the internet, which we're going to have to do a lot of this on the Worldwide Leader. And we're taking a lot of heat from our people right now.

Oh, yeah. Okay. And whenever things go, we're not going to get heat from them. We're actually going to get heat from the other side. The other side. Both sides. So there's actually two waves we're about to kind of get it from here. Yeah, it's our people just murdering us.

It always do be your people, it feels like. They're killing us. But then whenever, like in my mind, all good. Worry about the baby, but also, like you'll see in a few months. Exactly. Chase got the puck up. We'll see in a couple months. There's a lot of people projecting what their contracts

and their situations were on us. Please have a little bit of respect. We do things a little bit differently than you do or have done in the past or at a much different time period where things are changing than what it has been in the past. So please have a little bit of faith, please. Now, with that being said, we're going to get fucking killed from the other side. So, I mean, this is not going as smooth as we could have imagined.

I thought really after the whole rally cry of like, hey, I think we've been pretty apparent that we're going to do things our way, you know, so please have, if I'm doing the conversation, there is probably a very solid chance that I am not going to be like every other human that is potentially talking.

So please have a little bit of faith. So we're getting killed there, but a couple months, everybody will just, there'll be a lot of dumb tweets on the internet. For a long time. Rude, rude, I think. Rude! Rude! Very rude. Rude! There are some rude things being said, but I understand.

This was potentially going to happen. Didn't expect it to be at the level it is from who it's from, but when we get on there, we're going to get murdered by this. That one's going to be even... No doubt about it. It's going to be deafening compared to that. Boys, let's put up our shields and let's just do what we do. Let's talk about sports.

On the internet, there is a lot of dots that have been pieced together that say, oh, Hemi Butler is actually potentially Michael Jordan's child. Because if you go through Jimmy Butler's past, I think as a kid, he was just giving up. I think his mom just gave him up. Yeah, kicked him out of the house when he was 13 or something like 13 or something yeah just said like get out of here and then like he ended up moving like he was a bunch of places then he ended up making friends with somebody i don't want to say it's like the blindside movie but it feels like that is kind of what jimmy butler's actual story yeah never knew his father you're talking about actual dog here

like dude that was kicked to the like almost just kicked to the curb and said just like jimmy graham apparently yeah jimmy graham. There is some really motivating, inspirational fucking stories happening right in front of our eyes. Jimmy Butler is one of them. But whenever you have these types of question marks about things, people on the internet are going to

snoop around. That's right. And there's also, Adam Lefkoe mentioned, they lined up when Michael Jordan was in Chicago, where Jimmy Butler is from. Maybe it wasn't Chicago. Maybe it was Cleveland. I forget where it was.

I believe it was Texas. Texas. The city that Michael Jordan was in lines up with nine or ten months before Jimmy Butler was born. Yeah, so it's a fascinating thing because, I mean, I don't, as somebody who's only been through one pregnancy. Sure. My daughter came two weeks early. Mm-hmm.

I think there's like, so like anytime they go, like, if you go back nine months to the day, right there, who was doing it? 23.

Yeah. 23 was doing it. It's like, pregnancy would have to be absolutely perfect, but I think they say it's like in the time frame. it's not exactly nine months.

Yeah, so it doesn't even rule it out that it's like... 10 months for a pregnancy. They don't tell you that either. There's a lot of things I'm learning that... Well, I guess I didn't do any research, and I've never been around a baby in my life,

but that is something I've realized. Yeah. That could I have learned this stuff beforehand if I had maybe a friend I hung around that had a baby? Maybe. Because that's just not what happened, though. When my friends had kids, it was like, all right, we don't really see you that much anymore.

And when we do, the kid is not present so i know nothing about him the only thing i've ever only thing i know about kids is just like going around being like i'm scared to death that fucking thing how come because if i say what i just said that things can go repeat it parrot yeah just a little puppet and then all of a sudden i'm the bad guy and more people i don't need to be around that thing and then it would like follow me you know do the whole song dance but i never knew anything about it so much shit is coming into my life through this child here right them learning things for the first time is bananas me watching my first like disney movie which is very incredible i can't wait for that but back to the point about the child he might be michael jordan's kid oh yeah 100 they have side-by-side photos with him where it's like ah pretty similar ah pretty similar real

similar but we have no idea if that's anywhere near real conversated or just only internet fodder which is literally talking about absolutely everything yeah everybody talks about this being a thing and then when you watch them in the playoffs, it is real. He does everything. It's not even like the 36 points, all the rebounds and stuff. He gets steals at the most opportune time. Like the Celtics might be going on a little run coming back. Jimmy Butler's steal, they get a bucket. And everyone always says when the other team wins, they were hitting everything.

They couldn't miss. They couldn't miss. They shot the ball really well. Like they had more threes. Yeah, Jimmy Butler's last shot rattled in, popped up, and then sunk. Above the backboard. Oh, yeah. Rim kind.

Shot up to the rafters where Posta's jersey was hanging because the Bruins had the greatest regular season since 2005 in that same garden. That's right. Jimmy Butler, brick rattle, hit Posta's jersey hanging to honor the regular season. And then it came back and went in. And it was a very important shot at a very important time.

Oh, yeah. And it was like the Kawhi Leonard bounce. Basically, yeah. It touched every single part of the rim. But, no, I mean, the Heat are really good. This is what I was saying yesterday. Like, you can't not respect the Heat for what they are. Spolstra, we were saying before the show, he doesn't get

enough credit. And then the other guys, too. Bam Adebayo, no one really talks about. It's all Jimmy Butler, all Jimmy Butler. Bam Adebayo was unbelievable last night. There are just things that... He was friends with DJ Khaled, right? I think I've seen him. DJ Khaled's like the Drake of the Miami Heat.

Did you see he was doing something yesterday? Papa John's, maybe? Khaled? like the Drake of the Miami Heat. Did you see he was doing something yesterday? Papa John's, maybe? Khaled? Just eating it? No, maybe Taco Bell. Just nuking Taco Bell. No, it might have been Papa John's. He thought of an idea, though.

Okay. The commercial said, my idea, nachos and pizza. Doritos and pizza or something. Oh, okay. Doritos and pizza. My idea. they did it. And then his head pops in from the side, another one. Yeah, it was Papa John's.

It was the first time I'd seen it. Tan looked impeccable, because I think he just got done with the golf course, which we watch him make golf content earlier in the day. He's a stick. Oh, yeah, big time. DJ Khaled is not only a newfound chef, because he used to have a chef that lived in the house.

Remember, if you followed along. He had breakfast every morning. He'd go down that fucking elevator. He'd go in the shower. He'd lie on. And then he'd get breakfast from the chef or whatever. DJ Khaled is maybe the biggest anomaly of all time. Yeah, he's out there.

He had his feet on what? Pillows at a fucking game. You remember that? He had his pink shoes on a pillow courtside on a thing but he made doritos and uh and pizza it's his idea they did it so hopefully he's getting a little bit of a fee for everyone that sold probably went into shark tank there dj khaled papa is gonna be pissed well the thing about it is doesn't matter yeah and he's still working with his therapist now to you know get out. Right. You've never even said that. He's getting close.

It's only been a month. Is he still eating 40 pizzas a day? What's that, pal? Is he still eating 40 pizzas a day? Yeah, he's doing the 100-a-month challenge. To be honest, that's the last I heard of him. That was a long time ago, right? It was.

Paul Papa, John Schnatter. Yeah, right before he warned us about COVID. I'll tell you what. John Schnatter, that interview where he said, I've been working with a therapist to eliminate that word from my for like eight months now i'm getting really close what how was that the answer john how was that the and then shack just fucking becomes the owner of papa john boom shakaroni's out the next week exactly what a businessman i love the way that show operates

by the way i've been watching a lot of it the after as well when there's nobody in the arena and i feel like they think nobody's watching like when i'm when i'm watching shack ernie chuck and kenny after the games it is just like best it's comical it is fucking great so good it is great television out there i've enjoyed it all but last night just felt like the miami Heat were going to win that game. As soon as they got the lead, it was like, oh, the Celtics are going to come back. They're going to come back. And as soon as it got close, they stopped it. I think they're a great team. And this fucking playoffs for the NBA

has been fantastic. LeBron is still in it. Now, Darwin, Coach Darwin... Ham. Ham. Dog. Got shot. Dude got shot. When? As a kid. Teenager. Damn. He was on, Got shot. Dude got shot. When? As a kid, teenager. Damn.

He was on, I think, Up in Smoke. I was watching it, and he was talking about, oh, Saginaw, maybe? Is that a place? Yeah. Saginaw, Michigan? Is that where he's from? I actually don't know, but that would make sense. I know he played for the Pistons for years.

I don't think that's a song. Is it Northern Michigan, though? Saginaw might be up there. It's not Northern, no. Yeah, he's from Saginaw, Michigan. Okay, so Saginaw. Good pull. Good pull. Holy fuck.

That's where Draymond's gone. Still got it. Still got it. Okay, so he was describing the area he grew up in and how many people were murdered in the summer and the whole thing. And he walked to a store. They stopped at another store.

They came outside. He was in his car. He turns his head. If he didn't turn his head toward the gunshot, I think the way he told the story, he's dead. Like, he's a dead man. So since he turned his head towards it, it, like, ricocheted off his jaw,

went out through his back there. I didn't know who he was. Jesus Christ. Yeah, I didn't know he was, like, a... This dude's a dog. Yeah. Watching him walk, like, not only getting shot and doing his thing, but the way

he's handled coaching the Lakers, I have really enjoyed. Not that Frank didn't, because we like Frank. Frank used to be here. Love Vogel. But he's a perfect coach for LeBron it feels like, to be honest. But they got a problem in Joker, and I know you are not sleeping well as a diehard Laker fan. That big

tall Ser... Serbian bastard is unbelievable at basketball. You think LeBron's in trouble, pal? No, I don't think LeBron's in trouble, but that big motherfucker is really good. Really? He is really, really, really good. And I guess why we don't give him enough credit is because we don't get to see him as much on TV being on the East Coast. Denver's never on for us.

That's just late. Because what was it, the first round of the playoffs? I said, hey, this big, tall guy. He's good. This dude's doing no-look passes. Making it look easy. He's like a show. He's like an editor, and he's a bully.

He's like the best of all worlds, pretty much. Yeah, and he fucked up the Suns. And we love the Suns. But he pulled his dick out and put it on their forehead. Which is a wild thing to think about because the Suns had the opportunity to win this year, is what everybody said. Yeah, traded for Durant. And the team that was never

talked about. They missed out on Chris Paul, though. If Chris Paul would have been healthy, I think that series would have been totally jammed. No, remember they were telling us that because Chris Paul wasn't healthy, the team was playing better. And then they end up out. And then now it's supposedly big news that they're keeping Chris Paul around. It's like, no shit.

Isn't it hilarious? What are we talking about? You don't think they'll be able to figure out how to have Chris Paul be a point guard for that team? Man, Harden. But Joker, hey, he's a guy. He's the best player in the league. They called him Shaq last night.

And Shaq was insane. Yeah, he could say it. He's the closest thing to Shaq, I guess, in the history since Shaq has been out of the NBA. That's what people were saying? Yeah, way better. His skill. Jesus. Seriously.

He can shoot the ball. Yeah, he can pass the ball. Shaq would say he's about to win three straight MVPs. He should have won three straight MVPs. Yeah, he didn't even attend a Zoom call, right? No, he didn't. And when he won his second one last year, they had to fly to Serbia because he was riding in a horse cart just hanging out in his hometown.

He's not – I won't say he's as dominant as Shaq, but he's a better basketball player without a doubt. More well-rounded. Yeah, that's what I mean. Very well-rounded. He's more skilled. He's a better basketball player than him. And his brothers will beat the piss out of him.

Yeah. I remember that. Who was it? That was a Miami Heat guy, wasn't it? Yeah, that was Marcus Morris. Listen, this guy is riding around with one horsepower, okay, back in Serbia. Boom. The patience this man has is no problem at all.

Yeah, I do believe those are both full-sized bars. Yeah, and those are hockey sticks connecting the horse to the cart. Yeah, and he's too big. He just stares at this horse's asshole while he drives around. That's what they used to do though. This is the world. That's not how big he is. You know how big that damn horse is. He damn well can see over the horse. How many hands is that horse?

I don't know. Joker chans or Bill McComas hands. He's awesome. He had a triple-double in the first half. Yeah, he's ridiculous. He's the best part of the league. And Jamal Murray's knocking down threes in LeBron's face. And LeBron's going, pretty good. It ain't going to last.

We'll win it in six. You on the team? Yeah. I'm on the team. There we go. I'm with LeBron. You going to shave your whole head? No, I'm not going to bet that on this series. Smart. That's smart. No, I'm on the team. There we go. I'm with LeBron. You're going to shave your whole head? No, no. I'm not going to bet that on this series.

You're smart. That's smart. Smart move. No, I'm not just a dumb fuck up here. Well, you did a lot. I don't know. You're offering up. Last series, yeah.

That was a good bet. For nothing, though. That was a good bet for myself. It wasn't a bet, though. It was just like, hey, I'll shave my head. I'll do it. Well, I had a lot of money riding on that series. Oh, okay.

So we won. Yeah, we won. Okay, so we just wanted to add a little hair. To have a little actual hair in the game. Yeah, exactly. I absolutely understand. The PGA Championship is taking place. Bradley is currently in the lead at three under through four holes.

Jesus. Yeah, Keegan came out hot. Kazuki Higa came out. He had four straight birdies. He's cooled off a little bit. And then there's the big dogs of Rom, Scheffler, Morikawa, JT. They're all sitting like one, two under. So it's a nice little start here at Oak Hill in Rochester, New York.

How much? Did he just hit that ball from the cart house? Yeah, the other side, I believe, from the tent. Still in play, though. You don't mind laying there. Not at all. How much money does Winter get here? Do we know?

Rory's back. Is this Rory's first tournament back? Yes. He missed that elevated event, remember? And everybody was calling him, what's that? He just smacked the T-marker because he didn't like his drive. He's two over already. What's going on?

Is Rory okay? Did Rory lose it? Because he was the face of the PGA, remember? Oh, yeah. Still is. So he talked about how that's weighed him down the last couple months, and that's why he left that elevated van and took a break a little bit. Boo-hoo!

Shut up! Fucking golf! Are you kidding me? That's what happened. He's playing bad because I'm going to put the PGA on my back. No, but wasn't he kind of signing up to do that? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's what I mean.

Yeah, he was coming out like cutting promos. Oh, yeah. And then he was like, whoa, actually. See, he was playing really good, too, when he was doing that. Yes. So I don't know what happened. There was also a time, I forget how many years ago,

he broke up with somebody, public breakup. Caroline Wozniacki. And then he became the number one golfer in the world immediately afterwards. Yes. It was like, ooh,

revenge body out of Rory. This dude. He actually did get a real, because he used to be that curly-headed fuck who was a little pudgy, and then he became jock. He got properly jocked.

Properly jocked. Got in the lap. And then he got really good at golf. And then when his PGA Live thing started happening, he became one of the, we're going to hold it down for this association. Fuck Saudi Arabia. He's a Jordan athlete. I think there's two or three

Jordan athletes on tour. He's one of them. Out of Boston. Hell yeah. Love that guy. Doyle Brunson, Texas Dolly. Rest in peace. Yeah, all right. Peace. I read an internet meme.

Now, obviously, he won back-to-back World Series of Poker Championships. Two bracelets. Dog. With the hand 10-2. So 10-deuce is the Texas Dolly. It is a hand that when you get it, you're supposed to play it in honor of what is said to be the greatest poker player of all time. Actually wrote the book on how to play poker.

So people that became professional poker players said, hey, the book that we read was Doyle Brunson's book on how to become a poker player. So rest in peace to him. He was just a gambler, though. I read an internet report. He won millions and millions and millions of dollars on the golf course.

Really? He's one of the greatest golf course gamblers of all time. Hell yeah. Did not know that. Just lived his life outlaw gambler every single way possible. Michael Jordan, right? Isn't that his thing? Oh, yeah.

He just loses, loses, loses, loses so much money on the golf course. That's right. Is that right? Lawrence Taylor, too. Lawrence Taylor, Michael Jordan, they all out there. Bill? King, Griffin, Jr. Man, Lawrence Taylor.

What? I mean, you know, he broke the record in the NFL for what, a three-year, $3 million deal? I don't know if he should be gambling with Michael Gordon. He might be good. He has that short, he has a real short swing. I've seen him golf. I think he was at Tahoe or something like that.

He gets it like, it's like right here. Like up to his hip? Oh, keeps it short. Not even. It's like mid-thigh. And then it's a power. It is a violent. And so I think I've seen him play. Oh, he's a stick. Okay. Ah, keeps it short. Not even. It's like mid-thigh. And then it's a... It's power. It is a violent... Mm-hmm. And so I think I've seen him play. Oh, he's a stick. Okay.

Ah, I think he's... He can play. He gets it done. He can play a lot. I played with him. What the fuck? We was in Vegas. We played at...

What's that place? Wynn? Wynn, yeah. Yeah, the Wynn Golf Resort. It's recent or old? Recent. Has to be that Wynn place. That's where everybody's...

That's where the match was with Josh Allen. It was in the desert. I can't think of the place. Oh, you guys went to Chicken that wind place. That's where everybody's. That's where the match was with Josh Allen. It was in the desert. I can't think of it. Oh, you guys went to Chicken, the Bunny. The TPC. Oh, yeah. Bunny. Oh, the old Bunny Ranch.

You went to the Bunny Golf Course? No, we went to the Bunny. Oh, you went to the Bunny Country Club. That's where all the girls are toppling. I've heard of that place. No, no, no. Almost Rest in Peace, right? What's his face?

Oh, yeah. Dennis Hoff. No. Definitely Rest in Peace there. Almost Rest in Peace. Lamar. Lamar. Right. Yeah, he was Dennis Hoff. No, definitely rest in peace there. Almost rest in peace. Lamar. Lamar. Right. Yeah. He was playing golf. Oh. KFC and Red Bull. Oh, my

bad. Hell of a... That'd be so awesome. Yeah, nice little concoction. Welcome to the jungle. Can't fault him for that. No, you can't. That order right there. Understandable. Everything else, I mean, you got a lot going on. Hope everybody's okay. When you think of the golf I mean, you got a lot going on. Hope everybody's okay. When you think of the golf course list, though,

it is not the Bunny Ranch Country Club. It's not. It's not the VRCC. Good to know. The only thing we missed with the Heat game was the YouTube TV crash. Well, that's a known story, so. Okay, so this is fascinating because YouTube TV is Diggs' streaming service of choice. He's the McElroy of YouTube TV. I am a mark.

I will fucking champion it. As soon as it McElroy of YouTube TV. I am a mark. I will fucking champion it. As soon as it started, Diggs YouTube TV. Yep. Some of us got on Hulu. Some of us did some other things. Some of us still had satellites and DirecTV

and everything like that. Diggs was always pounding the drum for YouTube TV. Yep. Loves it. Like kind of shoehorning in like when didn't need it.

Talking about something on Hulu. YouTube TV actually has selling YouTube TV. I don't even know if YouTube TV knows this, but Diggs has been selling YouTube TV like three, four years. It's been a long time, right? How long has it been around? Probably three years. Three years.

It's been around for five. Okay, so as soon as you got in, it's been a long time. So they get the NFL Sunday ticket, and they get Red Zone, and they're bidding on things in tone is just like, you know, yeah, yes, come on in talking about how great it is, how good it's going to be. And we start thinking about the possibilities. They're going to have a four screen split. They're going to be able to have tech where you can sign in easily without having to do the whole direct TV. Are you on the app? Are you in or you're not? How many streams do you get? How do

you control it? The entire thing. YouTube TV is the next step. Just like Amazon was for Thursday Night Football and there's going to be other streaming services. This makes everything much easier, much more efficient and from what my friend Tone says, it's going to be top of the line. Game changing. All of a sudden we can't even watch the Easter Conference

finals. The most important time. I signed up for YouTube TV. Why? Because Sunday tickets coming. I got rid of my other streaming services. And I'm like, you know what? Here on YouTube TV tonight, I'm going to watch my guy Tatum, who's a dog. Everybody says he's a dog. Come back to win this because I bet pretty heavily on a lot of Boston Celtics stuff. You did?

And instead it just freezes up and absolutely not. Tone, explain yourself. Is this just a norm on YouTube TV? I'm new here. And how do we get this to stop before this Sunday of fall comes around when we're going to hit them at a very, very, very high level? Okay, so this has happened

one time in the five years of existence. Oh, of course. How convenient. Through what? Four Super Bowls? But AI just came out too, though. No, this ain't AI, okay? I'm G-Zex. This ain't AI. Don't fucking start with that, Packers. I'm G-Zex. That's not a. Don't fucking start with that, Pac. This ain't AI.

I'm GZUX. That's not a real picture for you to... That was on the internet. I don't know what happened. It was only TNT. All the other channels were working and everything like that, so I don't understand. It was probably TNT's fault if I had to take a guess.

I was working on it. I had to switch over to Hulu. I was watching the whole game. Yeah? I was watching the whole game. I got to see everything. Jimmy Butler made that. They didn't see that.

No flubs. No flubs. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I mean. Everybody's worried about Sunday Ticket. I don't know what happened, but I wouldn't worry about Sunday Ticket. But they put $2 billion into that. That was their bid, I think, for Sunday Ticket?

Yeah. That's not yearly, is it? I mean, I could see it being yearly, but it's definitely yearly. I don't know. How many billions was it? We should, I could see it being yearly. Oh, yeah, it's definitely yearly. I don't know. How many billions was it? We should. It was a lot. We went through the.

Because those were all like, because those companies for like Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football were paying over a billion for one year. That's what I was going to say. And ESPN is like one nine. I remember we was talking about the one in Canada. It was 1.7 billion a year. What's that? We was talking about. Premier League.

Yeah. Sky Sports, what they pay. I think it was around two billion. A year. Yeah,'s that? We was talking about. Premier League? Yeah. Sky Sports, what they pay? I think it was around $2 billion. A year. Yeah, so they're investing a lot of money in there. Yeah. I mean, I've watched billions of hours of NFL football on that. It's never enough.

Billions of hours. Billions. Holy fucking shit. $2 billion. Every Sunday. Seeped in his brain. I did the math. Billions of hours.

Billions of hours. Every Sunday, at least 10 hours a day. Hey, still got it yeah two for two still got it i wouldn't worry about it i'm not the only one there's a couple other youtube tv users in here they who didn't speak up to fucking back me up but that's fine i'll remember that no tone actually recruited me to get youtube tv and i love it and i just thought my wi-fi was out so i was actually mad at my wi-fi provider last night. Turns out it's YouTube TV. So here's another thing. If you upload a video that isn't of

the highest quality, everybody that's watching it thinks it's their internet loading the video. That's right. So like, I'll watch a video that we put out and the first 45 seconds will be grainy and I'm just like, oh, it's got to be my internet. And I'm like, what if it's not though? What if we're just, what if we're just

launching 45 seconds worth or not and like everybody's just like, you kind of get by with it, you kind what if it's not, though? What if we're just... What if we're just launching 45 seconds worth or not, and everybody's just like, you kind of get by with it, you kind of accept it. Full crash, though. Can't have it. No. And they know that. Google knows that. They know. Has to be an exit, come back in, you're good. If it is that. So we need to not worry about Sunday, too. Nah, it'll be good.

If this happens one more time... Warren Sharp was tweeting last night like it was the end of the world. Warren Sharp was? Oh Oh yeah. He was fucking pissed. What'd he say? Basically just like, oh yeah, I think they have a problem on their hands. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure they got a big fucking problem

on their hands. That's what he was going back to. Can you imagine what's going to happen if the first Sunday they think it's a hack? The streets are going to burn. But I don't think it was like a two-minute users issue because it was the Eastern Conference Finals. No, keep in mind.

They've had Super Bowls. And March Madness. We had four screens going at one time with no issues. YouTube TV will be just fine. What happened last night then, Foxy? It wasn't just fine. I think they wanted to save Boston fans. I will say, I think this does keep up Boston fans. I will say,

I think this does keep up with a pretty good streak that we're all just going to have to learn about. Every platform crashes. Oh yeah, technology's hard. Every single one. Every single one. It's batting 1,000 right now for crashes. Literally every platform. You can send in an AI. They'll figure it out. Do we think they're

doing this on purpose though so they don't crash in game week one? You think they're testing things right now? No, I think they just did last night as a marketing thing. And week one happens, nothing happens. It's like when Elon had those windows break on the non-breakable windows on the Cybertruck. Well, that's because you won't be able to do what we just did after saying it wouldn't be able to happen.

Let's make our current product as shitty as possible so you could only have high expectations going into this. Is this AI dude that went to court? Is this the real dude? So, Pac, this would be a good time to pivot. Pac has been trying to buy AI. I need this fucking dude. I gotta find this dude.

He's looking for AI. We had something in the group text about some guy going to court like he owned AI. yeah i think he does open ai is the sam fella that was speaking and he created chat gpt which has done a lot yeah and there's a lot of words he said and we certainly listened to him oh yeah but it was really hard not to pay attention to the uh sleepy fuck right uh right in main shot yeah in main feed right over shoulder yeah of ai guru he was a superstar whole world is wondering yeah what's coming out of this guy's mouth ai oh my god what is this it's a real thing here we have an expert testifying right now has to tell the truth it's that thing right there i could not care any less about what ai guru was saying

yeah this dude i was just watching clips they're 45 second clips this dude was falling asleep two to three times oh yeah per 45 second clip we get this guy fucking coffee can we get him a five hour energy pal you're distracting all our ai information pal also, shout out to you not giving a single fuck Yeah, exactly Look how big that motherfucker's head is Look at the size of that dome So, here is something I've learned with the baby It looks like Elon in a Carl Havoc costume

Yeah, exactly This guy sucks A lot of Tim Robinson references. Carl Havoc, need to watch it. I actually learned from a doctor after Baby was born. I met with a neurologist or something like that. Oh, a big brain doctor. For the brain, yeah.

They said, well, monitor obviously brain growth. Well, alongside the growth of the size of the head, that is normally the indicator of that whole thing. So I said, this is a very serious conversation. I said, can I i stop right there so i've always said because i have a massive head i've always just said yeah big brain what the fuck do you want like literally whole life people say you got a big head well sorry about it big fucking brain as a kid i'm saying this can't put hats on that they're giving out for teams because my head is too large okay so what

do you have well i got a big brain. Sorry about it. This doctor told me, yeah, that's pretty much the case. Your head grows with your brain. So all you small-headed fucks that somehow become valedictorians, you need to know that you beat the odds, Ty. You beat the odds. You absolutely beat the odds.

Probably a higher percentage of his brain that is being used as opposed to the wasted space that big-headed people have. Yeah, the gray area. Stuff travels of his brain that is being used as opposed to the wasted space yeah big-headed people have yeah the gray area stuff travels between his brain faster sam was not necessarily thrilled that i was having this conversation in the middle of this conversation find out info yeah i learned something it was a big time i mean i was very excited i actually stood up and started like walking around big brain tone of this sounds like baby's healthy yeah okay good let's get into some yes let's. All right, we got a big brain out here, too.

But yeah, that guy's brain was huge. Huge. And he could not keep it awake. No. At all. And what the guy was saying was actually fascinating. He was talking about how AI can, you know, hopefully cure cancer, you know, help climate change, and it can also destroy the world.

Elections. And rig presidential elections from any country into another one. So it was fascinating. Do you think he makes people call him Mr. Samuel Altman? Probably. You know what I mean? I don't know. He doesn't look like a Sam.

I know that. He doesn't look like a Sammy. You know, he looks like a Samuel. He does kind of. How many Sammys do you think he's gotten in his entire life? Zero. None. You don't think?

Zero. No. No chance. Sam-e, good work, Sam-e. I bet his dad one time was like, Sam-e, nice job. And then he was like, fuck, my son's not a Sam-e. I can't call him that. He's Samuel.

But even his dad, just like all of us, were like, hey, thanks for existing. Yeah, keep going. Yeah, we need your brain. Right. So if you're Samuel, whatever the fuck, Mr. Samuel. We're thankful that you're here. We think. I don't know.

I mean, who knows? Might be Samuel. We need his name. They might call him Control-Alt-Delete with that last name. I thought that. I was thinking the same thing. Is this his real name or is this his AI name? No, it's his real name.

I'm going for it in this fucking game. I hadn't watched this. That guy's actually sleeping back there. Oh, yeah. Yeah, dude. Three times in a 45-second clip. He just woke up. Bro, he was fighting it the whole time.

I mean, I am 90% sure that there's an alien inside that guy's brain. So he might not even have been thinking, like, hey, I need to keep my eyes open during this. So that was during What's-His-Face's thing, too, right? There was two people. Yes, the guys who were breathing out their ears, yeah. Yeah, and those people have not come out and said, everybody's making fun of me at all. No, no, no. They went back and.

The internet's awesome. It is. Yeah, it is. It is a. It's the best. It's the wild, wild west. I love Twitter. Love it.

Couldn't love it anymore. I mean, right now, actually, I'm not sure, but when stuff goes on. It is awesome. Oh, because we're getting killed on this? Yeah. They're saying we're sellouts. Yeah, yeah. Uh-huh.

It is a little bit more negative. You got to stay out of the mentions. A little bit. I just stay in the- I'm in for you and falling right now, and I'm just fucking scrolling my ass off because it's so fun. It's been tough to go over to the mentions part. Yeah, I'm paying for the trap, man.

It has been tough out there. I don't think I expected that. That was a miscalculation there. Yeah, I didn't expect the volume and the personal. There's some things I really don't get. Motherfuckers are waiting for him. They are. They were waiting.

Things are being said out of pocket. Okay. I think the reason why I did not expect it is because it didn't even cross my mind what is happening. At this stage? And we're young, obviously we're 20 years younger than pretty much everybody else that's on TV at this stage. Right. Pretty much 20 years.

So we are young, but I feel like our people were the ones that were most mad. It's like, Hey, we have a good history. Do we not? Do I not have a pretty solid of, ah,

don't love what's going on here. Do I negotiate those in to things? Yes. Know how we operate. Are there expectations going in and everything? Yes. It's like, have I not earned any trust at all from anybody for any of the things that we have done? I don't know.

I guess not. I guess not, yeah. Some of the things that are being said are very, very, very rude. But back to your point, Twitter has become a different experience. It has. Twitter has become a different experience. And has. Twitter has become a different experience. And that's the thing about us being live so much since 2020. It's like these people have been with us.

There's a lot of hours. Yeah, they know. They spent a lot of time with us. And we obviously appreciate them and are eternally grateful for them. But it's like, hey, you think that we're just going to go to a different place? They're kind of disrespectful of you. A little disrespectful. Yeah, disrespectful. A little a little disrespectful of you. A little disrespectful. Yeah, disrespectful.

A little bit. A little bit. A little bit. A little bit. I'd say. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. But I do appreciate where it's coming from. It's all coming from like-

It's a place of love. They enjoy the thing. They don't want the thing that I think. Now, they've been saying some stuff that I'm like, these people do not enjoy the thing. I don't think they enjoy it. I don't think these people, but I think a large majority of the people that are killing, I mean, absolutely brutalizing my shins right now for this entire thing, which hasn't happened yet.

Just the thought of potentially something happening that I'm saying is not happening, and I'm the only one with that information because literally it's this that is creating the show. So, like, it is a very, I did not expect it. It has been hard, though. Hard in the street. But it's coming from, I think, of a very, I did not expect it. It has been hard, though. Hard in the street. But it's coming from, I think, of a thing we like is going to change.

I don't have thing anymore, which I appreciate the fucking hell out of that thought. Yes. Because you have to have that first, like, feeling to have that next one. But, geez, Louise, let's take it easy. Take it easy. Have a little faith. See what it is first. And then let's go ahead and go bananas Because when that happens

We're getting killed by the others It'll just get lost in the shuffle at that point Bingo, so it's a whole Wait till they find out about all that blood you drank At the Disney up front I was actually in the back That was the first thing I had to do Taught me a handshake

Some signs Whole thing, gave me a handshake. Sell out. Taught me a handshake, some signs. A couple handshakes. Whole thing. Gave me a couple suits and ties to get tailored and start wearing. You want to try the blind. Yeah, that's Dracula. He was disrespected by what he just did. But it was Epstein.

Yeah. Why? Jeez Louise, dude. It is really, it is fractured into a lot. It's nuts. You got an Eggsy suit? Yeah, dude. I got the whole thing. That's awesome yeah gotta wear it every day these fucking people i am so mad about it and i know people that are in the world that some of these people are talking about us are from

you know the way their beliefs are the world how it's going oh yeah like that it's like yo come on dude what are we talking about we have a chance chance to make it, I think, good. I think we have a chance to make like – Point the arrow. We're getting actual freedom on a thing that you don't normally – It's never happened. It's a good thing. I don't know why it's the complete opposite.

But once again, a couple months, a lot of dumb tweets. You'll see. A lot of deleting of tweets. They were rude. I've screenshot them, don't you? Oh, me too. I have those things remembered. A lot of deleting of tweets. They were rude. I've screenshot them, don't you? Oh, me too. I have those things remembered.

And I asked Phil, you know, CFO Phil, I said, how much money have we given away just in contests and charity and everything? So in contests, we've given away like $4.4 million in giveaways. That's a lot of money. That's like publisher clearinghouse. That's how much money we've given away to people that just watch the show. I'm a fucking sellout. I get it. But $4.4 million, I think, is what we've given away.

Well, just in that one facet, not in both. Well, charity is like five point something or whatever. But you're supposed to do that. So all that shit is supposed to happen. You're just giving away, though, to people that watch. Because you made a shot from the stage. Boom. Yeah.

This morning I woke up after reading like 40 to 50 of these people telling me like i'm a coward at least all these no i'm saying after reading those oh okay yeah yeah that was just that was a five scrolls worth of me being a bitch and everything like that i was like i'm never doing a giveaway again i wish i i'm never why would i ever do it it's not everybody it's not there's been a lot of love there's been a lot of love too we got to remember there's good eggs out there. Love you, love. Yeah, love you, love. And we can't be the people that are just pointing out the negative either. Right. It's kind of what we're saying we're not going to do. Yes.

But this current moment in time, it is a lot easier to get bombarded by the negative than it is possible. People are fucking killing us out there. Oh, yeah. Oh, well, we're not the only ones with shit popping off. The whole world has stuff going on. Ticket prices in the NFL have kind of been released and analyzed by The Athletic. And this is something that I think is a great indicator on how a team is doing. Where a team is at.

Obviously, the draft and what pick you have is a certain indicator of where your program is. But how about how the organization is doing with its fan base? According to SeatGeek, and this is from The Athletic, the average ticket price of an NFL game is $331. $307 last year. But if you go back to 2021, immediately after the pandemic, when people still had a bunch of money from storing up during COVID, whenever everybody was getting money,

and they were just paying whatever to go do live events because you were locked in your house for so long, $411. And that wasn't just the NFL. That was all live events ticketing prices in 2021 were way up. It's kind of settled back down now. Before the pandemic, $258 was the average, $307 last year, $331 this year. Up and to the right is the graph for ticket prices around the NFL, just like everything else

that the NFL kind of touches. The Patriots' average ticket price, $560. Damn. The Las Vegas Raiders have the second highest ticket price of $468 per average. And SeatGeek shows the two hottest games right now are the Eagles at the Pats, which is where Tom Brady will be celebrating, I believe, on September

10th. And the Kansas City Chiefs visiting the New England Patriots. I believe this is coming out of a New England highlight. Then you start looking around. The Jets ticket price saw quite an increase after Aaron Rodgers signed with the program. They're at $527. Cincinnati

Bengals might have been to two straight AFC Championship games. And they might need to be making money right now so they can pay all of their players. That's right. But according to TickPick, the Bengals moved from 32nd with the lowest ticket price to 30th. Average price of $179. Shout out to the Bengals.

One of their fans in there. Yeah. They want the kids to go to the game. Family. Not just the kids, too. Let's talk about college kids, young professionals who maybe don't have $500 and some dollars to spend to get to a game. You can price out a good audience. You can price out a good

crowd. A lot of stadiums do it. They start charging too much money for too cushy of seats and then all of a sudden your atmosphere is shit. You price people out. Now $179 is still a lot of money to a lot of people. But at least you have an opportunity to potentially go to a game if you work up for it and you can go raise some real hell in a stadium and the cincinnati bangles uh

atmosphere and environment is top of the nfl right now especially with this team they got cooking also the return on investment like you know if you're going to a bangles game like they mentioned like you're going to a team who's been to two straight afc championships could win the super bowl this year have one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. It's an exciting brand of football to watch. $179, yeah, that is expensive. When you're comparing to other events.

Absolutely. If you look at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they 50% drop off in ticket prices. That's the Tom Brady effect. That's the Tom Brady effect. It's called a goat collapse. Yeah, exactly.

Just everything crumbles whenever a goat leaves the place. $359 down to $179. That is absolutely bananas. Shout out to Tom Brady. He should have got paid more, dude. Yeah. Hey, Bob, should have got paid more. That's got to be the highest drop-off ever, right?

I would assume. Priciest games, Eagles and Patriots, $1,000 average price because Tom Brady's going to be in the building and it's kickoff weekend. Yeah, exactly. And they're probably going to retire his number, do all that bullshit. You look at the top 10 though here, you got Raiders on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 of the top

10. What's that, Paul? I got a text from some friends from Pittsburgh this week. They were like, hey, you want to go Steelers at Raiders? Sunday Night Football? That's why. Everyone wants to go watch their team play in Los Angeles. Yes.

And also, their tickets are very pricey because they just built a stadium. Yeah, stadium's very nice. So they can charge, and it's a destination, and people will go. Seven of the top ten priciest games to get into, Raiders games. Good luck out there, Jimmy. Yeah, Jimmy. And look at the teams. All those teams' fans travel so well. Yeah. Every single get into, Raiders games. Good luck out there, Jimmy. And look at the teams. All those teams

fans travel so well. Every single one of those Raiders games. Yeah, absolutely. Good marketing there. And I assume the Jets fans will even travel this year. They'll get out there. People from New York love to go mix it up with the Italians in Vegas. Oh, yeah. New York has a big hand in Las Vegas.

Huge. In history. I mean, a couple documentaries I watched. New York, KC, Pittsburgh. Things. Youngstown, Chicago. What? Indianapolis now. What? What's the horn?

You said it's a Italian horn. McDaniels. That's fine because it was given, not bought. Yeah, McDaniels is Italian. Who? Garfield Daniels. This was earned. Thank you.

Hell yeah. That's what rents do every day, okay? Mm-hmm. You'd love to see me out here. I think he's wearing it. Okay. You know it's for dinner, Tony? Do you have your ragu's for it?

I didn't have any gravy, but I did get a New York City Shark Board, some paisano from the Bronx. Bruce and his lady sent it to the house. He was pumped about that. It was fantastic. Was it? The guy does got to work on the bread he's using for his Italian subs. Who am I?

I am not a... So it wasn't a good... No, the shark board, the meat, the meat, cheese, and the fruit were phenomenal. And they came together. They came like... Any olives? Oh, yeah. Whole thing.

Had the little apricots too. Apricots. So good. There's some dried fruit in there. They ate the dried fruit. There was real fruit. There was a little mozzarella. They had the full thing. It was incredible. They need to stick with that though. Let's get away from the sandwiches.

Just as somebody that worked at the greatest Italian sub place probably in the history of Earth. Standards are high. And I got an Italian horn right now. That's right. But anyways, yeah, everybody wants to go to Vegas. There's other stats coming out from this article with The Athletic that are fascinating. Indianapolis Colts fans are not expecting much this season,

says The Athletic, with the team holding the title of the cheapest average ticket price in the NFL at $150, obviously $29 less than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who were cut in half after Tom Brady left. They tried to upcharge me. Sure did. Which is good business. Try to charge the people that are paying a bunch of money a little bit

so you can make up potentially for the money you're not getting from other places. But it's an interesting dilemma that this is like a statement of where fans' faith is in the team. Last year, fifth-best odds to win the AFC. This year, cheapest season tickets in a brand-new stadium, pretty much, with a brand-new quarterback that just got drafted fourth overall morale is low around the colts i think that's what this article kind of added a stat to if i had to guess well and they're primed for a jump i mean anthony richardson goes out there week one and he rushes for 200 yards and throws two touchdowns the indian apples colts tickets are going to skyrocket and barter minshu he's been

around yeah he's been a starter he's been a sensation He's been a backup, he's pumped his chest In the parking lot with his dad I mean, he's done it all He's lived in a van, he's had sweet hair He's done it all He said, Anthony Richardson, first time I see him This guy's got a chance Quick, Anthony Richardson, wow, this dude's really got a chance

Says Gardner Minshew Love that, love everything about that Gardner Minshew ain't ever lied to me He said, this dude's really got a chance I fucking hope so says Gardner Minshew. Love that. Love everything about that. It's a big deal. Gardner Minshew ain't ever lied to me. No, no, no, no. He said, this dude's really got a chance. I fucking hope so, Gardner. Yeah, I hope so as well. I mean.

But I do like hearing that. And yeah, I think he also said the ball just fucking explodes out of his hand when he throws it. Scouts and things, I guess, have been off the record talking, which, stop. We don't need you guys talking. Don't do that. Okay. No, no, no, no. Let's lock up the ship over there.

But allegedly, quotes get out like, the calls that he is not ready to be a quarterback were very wrong. He's picking up the offense. He's spinning it. He's making every single throw. He's very comfortable. Just because he didn't have experience at Florida running

whatever offense they were running down there, I guess the NFL game is going to be one. Steichen's offense is going to be one that he is very, very quickly comfortable with. This is incredible news. And if you can get a ticket for $150 or season tickets right now, probably not a bad investment with the way this team might go. I also always wonder, if a guy is ready to go, obviously all these guys who get drafted are waiting to play in the NFL their their whole lives but like once you get there and like now this is your profession you don't have to

worry about school you don't have to worry about any of the other bullshit that comes along with it i feel like some of those guys who go high and like he already has a chip on his shoulder because everyone's been saying hey this guy's not ready he's he's only started 12 games he's gonna stink like you would think that maybe like if he does start picking it up it, oh, yeah, I'm right where I'm supposed to be. I'm ahead of schedule. I'm going to prove a lot of people wrong. I assume Steichen had some sort of like, this is where we plan on him being at this time,

this is where we plan on him being at this time, and kind of mapped it all out. Sounds like everybody's impressed by him, but you can't come out after OTAs and say the guy sucks. Yeah, true. You just picked him fourth overall. Paragraph three right there. Yep.

Guy's doing a rookie min minicamp a lot of pass rushing. You didn't see Ben Roethlisberger get his pads thrown at him? Yeah. You didn't see that? That was incredible pocket awareness. It was. That was Ben Roethlisberger's pocket awareness, which was if they get into my pocket and they want to hit me, good luck, because I'm going to be right here.

He's dodging, ducking, diving, eyes down the field. What are we talking about? When did the NFL switch from tape to printed paper on your fucking helmet? No, it's just a little bit more professional. That's for all my boys. Yeah, actually, the reason they could do that, the laminated names, is because of the low-priced tickets. Ursae is making everyone in the city pay $10,000 just as a flat fee to live there.

That is not a factual statement. Well, no, no. I think it is. He talked to Hogsett. Did Hogs factual statement. Well, no, no. I think it is. He talked to Hogsett. Did Hogsett win? We just had an election. Is he up for it? Let me look.

I hope he didn't. I thought Hogsett's term was done. Yeah, my goddamn highway has been fixed in eight fucking years. I'll tell you what. I don't know what it is to be a city mayor, a small city mayor. I assume you don't expect that COVID's coming and you have to do a lot city mayor. Like, I assume you don't expect that COVID's coming and you have to do a lot. But boy, what a time to be local government

all over the country, not just here. I'm talking all over the country. You're just, what, doing it because I want to help the community. I want to do this. I have a good time. And then all of a sudden it's like, hey, you got to make actual like regulations, laws,

and you have to explain it and make decisions. And there's death here as well. But also future, like not run your city into the ground. More pressure on you than any mayor in the history of anything. In some places, did not react well. I don't know what color he is, but he did win the primary. Yeah, he's running for re-election for a third term. God damn it.

Can we get Rainwater to run against him? So, I don't think rainwater's gonna win either rainwater was the green party candidate he was i only learned about him during the gubernatorial uh debates yep he literally wore a hawaiian shirt the man and he was talking about how much he loved doobie yeah rainwater listen me too pal i don't think this is gonna get the job done okay this is cards against humanity pal will you read the people that are judging what's the funniest card thrown and what isn't? I don't know if that's, but Rainwater went in there with some stats and facts. He did.

And he did his thing. But local government is something that would be an absolute nightmare if you had actual responsibility. Instead of just like ribbon cutting and like the city thanks you and welcoming, which I think is normal. Yeah. I think that's normal that's what you're signing up for like hey i'm just happy to represent indianapolis and new businesses and everything like that okay now yeah no nobody's coming into business actually you're actually kind of like the president of the state now so uh good luck and outside of here

they're going to be living by different different rules different code because where you are a little bit different than like literally 15 minutes this way, 15 minutes this way, 15 minutes this way, and 15 minutes. Good luck. So there was two different states happening at the same time. There's no way he knew that's what he was signing up for. I also never have understood why you would want to be the mayor of a big city.

I'm going to be the mayor of Cincinnati. Why? Why would you do that? Jerry Springer did that. I guess he did. Rest in peace. Heartbreaker for your mother. Shout out to the kids. Why? Why would you do that? Jerry Springer did that. I guess he did a rest in peace. Rest in peace. Which we heartbreaker for your mother. Shout out to the kids. Yeah, she was hurt by Jerry, man.

She was. She was hurt. We heard the agony in Mama Jones' mouth. Oh, yeah. Whenever. What? Oh, Jerry died. Oh, my God. My daytime is over with.

You want to be a mayor, though, for real? Yeah. No way. I'm going to be a mayor though for real yeah no way cincinnati mayor for real no bullshit saying things like no no no no for real this is real shit but why because i got juice okay so you got juice now let's talk about what you're gonna do with said juice how are we doing it what are we uh i mean you're one for one over you want to get into politics are you serious is that real you don't want to get into politics? Are you serious? Is that real? You don't want to get into politics, dude. Anybody with an actual I think no offense to the politicians, but enjoyment of your life?

Nobody wants to get into politics. You do, huh? You don't want to use your juice. Why not save your juice for something that's sweet? Yeah, like... Is that sour? Yeah. I believe the landscape's a little sugar in it, though?

Spicy, I think. Sour, more so. I believe the landscape's a little sour, you know? Well, good luck to everybody running for everything. We hope you do good. We send you all. Hope everyone wins. Let's get to a break.

Hope everybody wins. Uh-huh. Nobody dies. And we need that guy behind the AI guy that's testifying. Stay awake, Bob. Yeah, get the call. We need the AI dude. Yeah.

Pack is trying to invest. Hey, we're looking for you. Mr. AI, whoever you are. If they need investors, they'll just come in your bank account and fucking steal a little coffee. That's a little bit of a worry. Yeah, that's what he was talking about in that Congress thing. They're just going to take pennies from everybody.

Everybody talks about like... He kind of knows this fucking dude because he knows everything that the dude says. No, you watch it because this is right in his... Yeah, I'm fascinated. You know AI? This is his internet internet this is the for you part of twitter you don't think this guy's entire thing like was in there in four different probably iterations if anybody know him that motherfucker i'm talking about like if i see it i'll bookmark it and i'll save it for later and i'll fucking listen and watch the entire thing but to your point like

it's basically a nuclear weapon. Like if anybody has it, if it's in the wrong hands, people can be fucked. Yeah. So like Bitcoin, right? Yeah.

In the blockchain. Yeah. Right. Where nobody can hack into, but if you lose your very real fungible, your very fungible key, nobody can get whatever you got in. Just stayed in there forever this

little thing can't get in there so i respect it but money now is just a number on an app yeah pretty much right pretty much everywhere yeah getting money is like a real hassle at this point so if they do just want to go in there and change people's numbers i mean they can do that simple yeah nothing we can do that's not. Yeah. Nothing we can do. That's not even AI, too. Remember that shiny flake stock? Where there's just a part of the deep. Yeah, there's like 13-year-olds right now that can do whatever they want.

They're going to hack into you. You get this, they won't hack into you. It's like, you get this, you might slow them down a little bit. But if they want to get you, they will get you. Let's just build a vault somewhere, take all the cash and put it in that vault. Okay, smart. But then all of a vault somewhere, take all the cash, and put it in that vault. Okay, smart. But then all of a sudden that money will no longer have value somehow because there's nothing supporting it except for potential. All right, we go gold.

I was just going to say. Then there's a whole other argument. I don't have all the answers. Yeah, that's why we don't do it. But I'm just saying, I thought about this the other day when we had to give money to tip somebody. It it was like how often do you have money on you never what is your money it's like and with the new card you just tap a screen yeah i literally just walk up to something and i just poop and it goes bing and it's all right congrats and i'm just out

of there it's like i do not see a dollar of that thing. From work to payment to card somehow to tap, just number on a screen, and then somehow, boom, like the Holy Spirit in some of those churches. Exactly. Threw the card into the thing, and I'm able to leave here with a receipt and not get patted down. It is a wild time. Absolutely.

And we need the AI to remain on our teams. Yes, we do. Don't even use the card anymore. I'm strictly Apple Pay. There was a sweet Justin Timberlake movie a couple years ago where he had an implant in his wrist, and it was the time. How much you had time left to live, and you would transfer it to people by shaking their hands

and twisting and turning. So that was the currency. Like a Viking shake? Yeah. And then they turn their arm over, and your arm is underneath, and then you suck the time out of them. Really? What if you have a good grip?

You can just kill the person? Yeah, that's called time battling. They battle with time. Oh, my God. Like a knight's tale? Yeah, basically. And then if their time runs out, they die. Some rich guy gives Justin Timberlake 150 years

and then jumps off a bridge and kills himself. Oh, so he can buy time. Yes. Yeah, and it's separated into districts. The Greater Victoria's Secret did it? Yeah, see? Basically. This is a good movie. They're separated into districts, so the people in the top district, they never

die. They've lived for thousands and thousands of years. Oh, so it's a caste system. Cool concept. Exactly. Interesting. Yes. I hope it's not real in the future. Yeah, that would stink. No, it won't be. I don't want anybody doing anything. No. In the future, it'll be like The Matrix. I just want to let you guys know, though, if you're going to come try to time joust with me Yeah, that would stink. No, it won't be. I don't want anybody doing anything. No. In the future, it'll be like the Matrix. Like, we're all like- I just want to let you guys know, though,

if you're going to come try to time joust with me or whatever, I'm going to be like Dan Snyder when they're trying to give me a subpoena. My hands are nowhere to be held. Imagine Adrian Peterson. Yeah, he's probably jock. Need not go- Adrian Peterson is going to live 4,000 years. Yeah, I mean-

Let's get to a break. What about Serena? How long will she be living? She said she had to go break. What about Serena? How long was she living? She said she had a good little shake. What was she about to? Bro, with that racket? Oh, yeah. That's what I thought of

as I was shaking her hand. I'm like, oh, racket. Yeah, incredible grip strength. Former Packers quarterback. You should have seen her deliver her speech, too. She was a fucking showman. Yeah.

It was great. I don't doubt it. And she's unbelievable. She's like the greatest tennis player of all time. Yeah. It was great. I don't doubt it. And she's unbelievable. She's like the greatest tennis player of all time. Yeah. Not a doubt. Not even a game. Venus, interesting life.

Yeah. Still good. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They were great in doubles too, right? They won a bunch of games. Older sister too. Serena's like an inspiration for the world though.

Oh, yeah. It's so good. And Will Smith was her dad Let's get to a break And he smacked Chris Rock Was that the movie? Yep Will Smith was Serena's dad for six months

And he became such a big dog He slapped fucking Chris Rock in the face That's what happened Let's get to a break Dumbest show of all time That's all gonna change What just happened there Never again Drink it down Let's get to a break. Dumbest show of all time. That's all going to change. That's right. What just happened there.

Never again. Take it in. Drink it down. Soak it in. It's never happening again. Just like that time joust. That clock is going down. And we got nowhere to go. That's right.

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Pat didn't think of that. Oh, of course not. Yeah. Fuck. The real worry is... Little bit of faith, dude. How are writers going to be able to choreograph a different show? Well, they're on strike. We walk through the strike every day. Good point. LeBron versus Jordan on the other side.

Boom. Pumped. Then Tim Tebow. Then the Cowboys. Then the Cowboys. Hell yeah. We should talk to him. That's what we got on the other side.

Okay, cool. And we got A.J. Hawk. So we got LeBron and Jordan. Who's the GOAT? Huh? And Steph Curry? Does he deserve to be in the conversation? But what about Jimmy Butler?

Is he working his way in there? Yeah. No. We got that and more on the other side of this break alongside Super Bowl champion and handsome devil, A.J. Hawk. Be a friend. Tell a friend to go watch a Disney movie.

Hey, bye. Bye. Joining us live from Manatee, Ohio, is a man who's a college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion. He's not a Ryder Cup champion, but he did win at the Ryder Cup as a celebrity, taking on Europe. And he said, suck it, afterwards. That's right.

He is the champion of Ohio, father of 10 COVID survivors. Ladies and gentlemen, AJ Haas. That's what you said right after you beat Europe. You said, Haas! I don't know. I mean, maybe I did. You know, sometimes you get excited after you win a big match. So it's possible, but I don't know. Especially when you're competing for your country. That's right get excited after you win a big match. So it's possible, but I don't know.

Especially when you're competing for your country. That's right. Bingo. Are you watching this PGA Championship right now? Scottie Scheffler, odds-on favorite. It's great watching golf. Scottie Van Pelt looks impeccable on the side of the course. A little frost on the ground this morning.

Didn't know how it was going to play. The boys are putting up good numbers, AJ. They are. The rough looks – I've seen some clips where the rough was crazy thick. Like, if you get – is it one of those courses where it's just brutally hard? Is that what we're going to see all weekend? Well, listen, warm weather, pretty boys. Welcome to fucking four-season climate golf.

All right. Okay, everything's not going to be perfect, okay? And the frost this morning, they said, well, it's going to change the course a little bit. It's going to make it a little bit different. $2.7 million, I think, goes to the winner. $15 million purse as a whole. So there is cash out there, 2B1, if you can figure it out. Can't wait to make it a little bit different. $2.7 million, I think, goes to the winner. $15 million purse as a whole. So there is cash out there, 2B1, if you

can figure it out. Can't wait to watch this all weekend. Pumped about it. Live golfers are in here. We'll watch them play golf during the weekend. Welcome back to golf. Com Smith, Brooks Keptoe, and anybody else that is on live that nobody watches on CW. Why'd they pick CW? Should've just stayed on YouTube until

one that maybe more people watch on a regular basis and one that doesn't cut you off whenever you're going into the final three holes because your allotted time on the network is over and One Tree Hill is going to be on next. AJ, anything? One Tree Hill. Well, I did see that Liv, they're not reporting their numbers, correct? That's on the CW

which I didn't know they were still on the CW. I really didn't. So I actually with Baby, you know, at home, TV, I have a CW. I didn't know they were still on the cw i really did so i actually with baby you know at home tv i have a cw i didn't know i know that okay i know the reason why i knew that's because it said hulu or uh it said live or whatever so i go to it and uh i didn't know the names i didn't know who the logos so i said i'm out of here I turned on another one, and I just did my thing. But golf during the weekend is great. This is great for all parties.

I can't wait. Thank you, PGA, for the championship that you're having and for allowing the live golfers into the PGA championship. Smart move. Joining us now is a man who makes a lot of smart moves. And we got to see him work during the draft, didn't we? This guy made a strategic trade. He said, hey, the enemy of our enemy is our friend.

That's right. Exactly. You hate the Jets. We know it. We need to make a move to lock in. We're going to go up, too. You do your thing. Makes a steal of the draft, is what people are saying,

to load up on the offensive line. That makes a big-time trade from the Philadelphia Eagles. Jason Kelsey, center for the Eagles, says, hey, Isaac. Ciamolo. Ciamolo. Mm-hmm. Philadelphia Eagles, Jason Kelsey, center for the Eagles, says, Hey, Isaac. Ciamolo. Ciamolo. Oos. Smartest player I've ever played next to.

So it's very clear that this man said, You know what we need? We need the trenches a little bit. They got a new quarterback. They got a great fucking wide receiver core. And they're in a city that loves football. This man loves football more than you do. He's called the con artist Omar Khan. What's up, dude?

What's up, guys? Thanks for having me on. How are you guys? First of all, congratulations on the baby. Thank you, man. I don't know. I got two daughters myself. It's the best thing ever.

Okay. It is the best thing ever. I will say. It is. Like, whenever I'm holding her, looking at her, thinking her thinking about like her entire life that's happening you know middle of the night you're like this is this is so cool this is like real purpose here you know what stage am i gonna get past thinking she's gonna die every single breath that she's it is high anxiety at all times it doesn't mine are seven and five, both girls.

That doesn't end, Pat. It doesn't end. Every night I get up, I got to get up in the middle of the night, I go up, check up on them. It doesn't end. It doesn't end. I'm not this type of person. I'm not a guy that has any worries.

I wasn't either. I wasn't either. I'm not a worries guy. You're a GM, though, now. You've got a lot of worries. Let's dive into what you've done here. We were told by Missy Matthews, who works for the Pittsburgh Steelers from our high school, friend of the program, she gave us a little research that whenever you were a kid,

you used to read newspapers or something and then drop a draft board for, like, fun. Like, literally, that's what you did for fun as a kid alongside. So you've been wanting to be a general manager in the NFL since you were, like, a child? Is that an accurate depiction? Yeah, since I was young. Look, I mean, I think once I figured out that my path to the NFL wasn't going to be as a player or being Archie Manning or one of those Saints guys that I love,

I figured that my path to the NFL was going to be trying to be Jim Finks, who at the time was the GM of the Saints. And I loved watching him in action. He was helping turn things around for the Saints back then in the 80s. And ever since then, you know, people used to ask him, what do you want to do? I said, I just want to be a general manager in the NFL. And fortunately, I've been very blessed

and consider myself very lucky and fortunate to be here. Hell yeah, dude. Go ahead, AJ. Yeah, did you ever think about getting into coaching back then? Like you said, you thought, hey, I'm not going to be able to play, but coaching also is another option. You know, never really – I guess a little bit I did. When I was – my last year with the Saints,

I was working on the coaching side with Jim Haslett and primarily Mike McCarthy, and I loved working with Mike. He was awesome to work with. And, you know, part of me just – when I had the opportunity to come to Pittsburgh, a part of me, you know, I thought about it, and I with. And, you know, part of me just when I had the opportunity to come to Pittsburgh, part of me, you know, I thought about it and I stay back and, you know, stick with Mike and those guys and just see where that takes me. But then, you know, to work for the Steelers, you guys know, to work for the Steelers and the Rooney family, you just, that opportunity comes your way. You just don't pass that up. How long were you with the Steelers? And did

you know you were being groomed to be the next general manager while you were there the whole time, or no? I didn't know, but I can tell you my first day was Valentine's in Pittsburgh. My first day was Valentine's Day 2001. So that's the first day that I started here with the Steelers. Every day that I've been here, this place has had all of me, and they've given me all of them. Awesome to be working for the people that I have here nice give and take with the steelers organization it sounds like that's 22 years dang man hey i think i won the punt passing kick during uh steelers game 2002 maybe 2003 i don't know if you saw i don't know if you did any scouting i fucking hawked it and

then on the way out i dunked on the uprights too just to see if I could get up there. I think I was like 14 or whatever. That's a long time though. Steelers have always operated in the same exact fashion. You seem to be operating a little bit differently. Did you have to get the Rooney's blessings to be a little bit more aggressive whenever it comes to being a general manager

for the Pittsburgh Steelers? Did they know this is what it was going to be? Do you think this is just classic evolution? What are your thoughts on that? Because you are vastly different than how Colbert ran it, and do you see it that way? Yeah, I don't really see it that way. I mean, I was trained by Kevin. I mean, pretty much everything

we do, we tweak some things. It's similar to the way we did it before. But when we make big decisions, any big decision here, Coach Tomlin, Art Rooney, and myself, we'll get together and make a Steeler decision. And if it makes sense for us to do something or not do something, that's what we'll do. Tomlin um Art Rooney and myself we'll get together and make a Steeler decision and if it makes sense for us to do something or not do something that's what we'll do

Tomlin has some real say right yeah Tom is great yeah yeah we work we work very very close together is that like that is that uh that was like a part of the interview because you had to interview didn't you do right I'm like trying to think back now you're there for 22 years yeah I would just assume that it would have been handed to it. Then they had to do actual interviews, I do believe. And I think Steelers fans wanted you. I think that was a thing, but there was a chance you weren't. I'm not sure if they did or they didn't. I don't know. We did.

It was a pretty thorough process. But you're told they're like, hey, obviously you've been here. You know how this works. Tomlin will have some say. Rooney, we would like to have some say. And you kind of know. That's all just kind of laid out there on the table during the interview process, and is it expected? I mean, I guess I had the advantage of knowing what the structure was here, right?

I'd been here for so long. I knew the structure wasn't going to change. And, you know, like I said, every time there's a big decision, it's always going to be a Steeler decision, and the right people will get in the room and discuss it and, you know, we'll make the Steeler decision. Go ahead, AJ. Do you guys as a front office and gms and teams around the league do you guys do like a self scout about the whole drafting process to where you look back at previous drafts and you

try to i don't know maybe see like trends that you may have that you want to throw teams off maybe not let anyone get a like a read on you yeah absolutely it's funny you said that because we were actually talking about it with our group today about self-scouting ourselves, about how we were during this first year and how we can improve. And if we were, you know, if I was someone on the outside and I was looking at how we did things this past year, what would we say that we were doing? We actually did that today. It's funny you ask that.

Oh, what'd you say? What'd we say? Let's tell everybody. Here we go. This is a good time. It's a first step. We haven't gone through it. gone through we just said well this is what we're gonna do we haven't exactly come up with the uh the final tally yet how long will that take will that be like a week-long process will that be like a couple months like how do you know it'll be it'll

be a couple weeks you know there's no rush on it right now so a couple weeks something just all right some in the thunderdome yeah they up. You guys are right over there. Well, listen, you probably just made another big-time move and it just landed here in the Thunderdome. Something just blew up over here to the left. Made quite a sound. Probably somebody should check on that. Great to hear that we're still live, it sounds like.

Tone Diggs loves you as a human. He has a question for you. Yeah, Omar, as a longtime Steelers fan, obviously we all know you came from the finance side, and then you're coming into the GM side. I believe Colbert was on the scouting side, so it was a little bit different there. And then you guys bring in Andy Weidel, who's on the scouting side from the Eagles, and obviously you said you work with Tomlin.

So what's the biggest difference coming from the finance side to the GM seat? Are you dealing with player scouting situations, or is that more like Andy and Coach Tomlin? How does that work exactly? Yeah, no, I mean, I'm involved in all aspects of it. I mean, I started off when I was in New Orleans, I started off on the scouting side, worked a little bit with the coaching side, and then when I came here, my role was a little different.

One thing about Kevin, he was awesome, is he always involved me in everything that he did. So from that standpoint, you know, I've been very fortunate to have great teachers. I've had great teachers. I've been around some great Steelers here, you know, from Kevin to Bill Nunn, you know, a Hall of Fame owner, and Dan Rooney, a future Hall of Fame owner, and Art Rooney, Hall of Fame coach, and Bill Cowher, future Hall of Fame coach, and Art Rooney, Hall of Fame coach, and Bill Cowher, future Hall of Fame coach, and Mike Tomlin.

I mentioned Bill Nunn was around. You know, Joe Green. You know, when I was young in this business, the best thing was I sat in the back of the draft room and just took it all in. I sat next to Joe Green, Bill Nunn, and Ron Hughes. You know, those were three of the greatest football people who have been around. And that was just, you know, I don't take that for granted. So are you like a film nut?

Tomlin allegedly just lives in that little dungeon, the film dungeon or whatever it is, the cave. What is your process through it all? Do you need to see him live? Do you travel to a lot of these things before the draft? I have to. I have to see him. That's how you get to know him.

It's the best way to get to know the guys. You've got to travel. You've got to be at the pro days. You've got to be at know the guys. You've got to travel. You've got to be at the Pro Days. You've got to be at the All-Star. Oh, you've got to get dinners. You guys do all the fucking dinners. We do the whole thing. We've got to get to know these guys as well as possible. What do you ask? What are the questions? Do you watch them eat? Do you watch them order?

Do you have to judge everything? Do you have to? So Mike Tomlin is the best at this. When you have dinner with Mike Tomlin, you guys know Coach Tomlin. Like, he's so easy to get to know, and he's, you know, he makes it easy to talk to. And, you know, when we meet with these guys, you know, we just have a casual dinner and get to know them and really learn a lot about them.

You know, we don't have a lot of time, but we take advantage of that time. This guy used a fork for his oatmeal. You can do it. Saw that? Don't know. Hey, does anyone ever order booze? Anyone ever sit there and be like, yeah, give me a double vodka on the rocks? Not yet.

Not yet. Not yet. Is that guy getting drafted if he does? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you hope that somebody has a little more common sense. I'm not saying we're going to take him off the draft board, but you like to think that they think twice about doing that. Double jack and die.

No, I'm on a diet. You know, hey, draft season. Yeah. That would be amazing. Connor has a question for you about a guy you drafted. Yeah, Omar, there was this old clip of Mike Tomlin talking to Chase Young on the sidelines saying, I'm never going to suck as much to get a guy like you. And it turns out you kind of did get a guy like him in Darnell Washington

who's 6'7", you know, 280 pounds, and he's moving sleds around like they're nothing. Did it get to a point where in the third round you had to say to yourself, okay, this guy probably should have been drafted 30 picks ago. We have to take him? Well, we obviously had him graded really, really, really high, and he got to the point. He's in the third round, and he's one of the highest guys on our board left,

and it's just hard to pass up on a talent like that. Why did he drop? They said his knees or something like that, but then he came out and said it's bullshit. We wouldn't have done it if we didn't feel comfortable with everything. So for us, he was good. I was so mad. I was so mad. I was watching, and I was so – do you have to get out of here?

I assume you've got to actually go do it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Somebody just came. My door shut. Somebody came in, even though my door shut, so I told him I was done. General manager still. Was it TJ? It might have been TJ.

Yeah, it was TJ Waddy. Do you want to see? No, well, it was – Oh, look at this group. Oh, hell yeah. Oh, well. We were just talking about you and how you get answers out of people at dinner whenever the drafts. Because you guys are at every fucking dinner, Coach.

Every single dinner you're there. It's got to be everywhere. How are you? How's the offseason? Man, I'm undefeated, so things are good. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. How are OTAs?

OTAs good? Well, we haven't got started yet. We're kind of still in team development, man, conditioning and skill development. Man, we'll get busy next week with snapping it a little bit. Hey, the con artist is a dog, Coach. Man, hey, hey, he has honed his skills to a fine edge, man. I'm going to get the hell out of your way, man. Let's do it.

He gave me that nickname. I told him the gloves are off now. Now it's my turn. It's my turn to find a nickname for him. I'll tell you what, not the most flattering, like whenever it's first said. Yeah. No. Oh, this guy's scheming and lying and scamming.

But then you start piecing it together. It's like, this dude does so many. You know what's crazy? It wasn't Coach that gave me the nickname. It was Coach's mom. She's the one that gave me the nickname. This guy's a weapon. He's like an artist in the way he's working this entire thing.

He's fantastic. Pac-Man has a question for you. I was reading, with that trade with the Patriots, was that really just to say fuck the Jets, or was it nothing up to that? You know what? It was one of those things where we were working the phones and we studied how the draft was coming off.

And, you know, I can't remember who called who first, but we had a conversation and said, hey, if we're in that situation, would you guys be interested? And, you know, it made sense for both of us. Is that before the draft starts? You have that conversation like prepping? It was during the draft. It was during the draft. It was during the draft. How active are the phones during the draft for you?

It seems like you're a little bit more of an aggressive GM than maybe some places, but yeah, I mean, I can't speak for other people, but I can say I take every call and I listen. So are all those deals done with all the drafted guys? Cause aren't they like slotted now?

Isn't just kind of like, Hey, this is what you get. Or is there any real, we're getting there. I think we've got a Cole, Cole Mark who handles it for us, but he he i think we got three through seven done so far oh you stay out you stay out until you got to come in that's smart yeah yeah i kind of i got i

got a good person handling it so we're in good shape there yeah and then if anything has to get settled you know your baby face come in hey let's go ahead can we get this deal done you're like a hero all of a sudden that's a that's a great place that's a good way to do it right there's nothing wrong with doing that yeah that's why you get the gm job oh there's other jobs there's a bad cop they gotta do all that well you get to the top that's how the espn deal came together right you came in at the end and look like a hero no hey con artists i'm a good cop and bad cop through that entire thing entire thing right how's your negotiation how's your no you? You feel like you're stern or upbeat?

What's your style of negotiation? My style, I'd say, you know, I understand it's got to be a win-win for both sides. And, you know, try to be fair. Transparent? I think I understand both sides have a job to do. So just try to be fair. You're a transparent guy whenever you're talking to them? Hey, I need this to happen.

You need this to happen. Absolutely. It absolutely keeps it. It keeps negotiations short. I got too much going on to have long, drawn-out negotiations. What do you have today? Today, we just were finishing up an extension with

Mitch Trubisky. Okay! I love Mitch! So, we feel good about our quarterback room. So that was an important piece. We've got, you know, obviously Kenny Pickett's our starter. And we feel really good about Mitch Trubisky and the role he's in. And he feels good about it. And, you know, we've added Mason Rudolph.

So we're really excited about that QB room. But there it is. So we're working on that. It'll be done here shortly. All right. Well, babyface that thing. Get in there and get that job done. Last question here for you.

Kenny Pickett's going to be a guy. That's cool. Yep, feel good about it. This guy wants to be great, man. His work ethic is second to none. Let's give him some hot rocks. When Tomlin was in there, I was like, let's give the guy an opportunity. Can't wait to watch. AFC North is a prop. Do you have to think about that when you're building a team?

How good the division is and how the teams are shaped? Absolutely. After the season, Coach Tomlin, Art Rooney, and myself, we got together and we said, look, this is the vision of what we want 2023 to look like. And that was before we got into free agency and started signing people before the draft. And I think if you look at our signings and our drafts,

I think it's reflective of what we want 2023 to look like. Isaac. Ciamalo. Ciamalo. Ciamalo. Jason Kelsey is a smartest player he's ever played with. He's going to be fun to have around, for sure. He already is.

He already is. You're the man, ladies and gentlemen. General manager for the Steelers, Omar Khan. Yeah! Thanks, guys. Thank you. So, Trubisky deal's done. Yeah.

Let's go. Breaking news. Rudolph deal. Congratulations,isky deal's done. Yeah. Let's go. Breaking news. Rudolph deal. Congratulations, man. Mason Rudolph's coming back. Let's go. QB room is stacked. Bringing all the boys back.

Come on. Can't wait to get your calls on the 5 Energy phone line, 1-833-432-3663, or 1-833-4-DADOM. How about him, though? He's a little bit more aggressive than Colbert was. He knows it, too. He definitely is 1,000% more aggressive. Like the Allen Robinson move, I don't think he would have done.

Like trading up, that wasn't a big Colbert thing. He did it a couple times. I mean, he traded up to get Troy. That was awesome. Steelers fans didn't want him. He sounded like he said, well, it's not. I don't know if everybody wanted me. I'm 22 years old.

No, no. It was down to him and someone else in the organization who was on the scouting side. But Omar's been doing the deals for years. Finance, coach, and scout. seems like the perfect gm aj i mean he's been there what 21 years he said so long 22 yeah 2001 well imagine hanging around that long well i guess there's they probably have multiple people that are qualified to be their next gm do they i'm guessing do people get hired away to become gms other places like, like from other roles in Pittsburgh,

because they kind of have that family thing going where they have a lot of people stick around. Yeah, they don't leave that much from the front office, to be honest with you. That's because they get a nice house down there, got a good community. Hey, wherever I'm at, I just need enough to make... Oh, cuz, just retired after 28 years.

Steelers, people stick around the Steelers a long time. There's not a lot of turnover because obviously you go Coward to Tomlin. When the coaches turn over, normally you get a lot of turnover because then if the coach is getting fired, GM probably sucks too. GM's getting fired. Coach is getting fired. New coach is coming in. New scouting staff is coming in. It's just like a fucking

constant move. The Steelers have been for what? 40 years. Pretty much same names and faces in charge so the people are still going to be around that are in there. You rarely get out of there. Old Cuz, though, that was the 40-yard dash for him. Dorsak, I believe. Mark?

Yes. Mark Dorsak? Gore. G-O-R. He came to the office. Mm-hmm. Combine week. Yep.

Had to ask him about what he's looking at. You know, some of these guys, he's big fucking hands. Nice. Had a Super Bowl ring on his hand while he came by the office. Absolute dog, dude. Coach T coming in was the best. The combine is going to miss that, man. Hell of a run there, Mark.

Way to go, Mark. Two more. Tom looks like he's in great shape. He looks pretty fit. And spirits. He did. Does he hear you talk shit about? That's my man.

He would rap on you. I just want to let you know. Look at Tom right there. He would beat your about that? That's my man. I just want to let you know. Look at the thought right there. He would beat your ass. I love Coach, man. He's awesome. That ain't got nothing to do with the Steeler part, but I love him.

That's my dude. We've had conversations. Coach Stu is the first guy to hire him. Tomlin put me through my workout at Pro Day. Mike Tomlin did because Coach Stu, who is my coach at West Virginia, rest in peace, absolute legend. His son, Blaine Stewart, that we have both known

since he's literally like a child. He's now coaching at West Virginia. Shout out to Blaine. Let's go, Blaine. Let's go, Blaine. Coach Blaine, let's go. Let's get some wins, Blaine. Smell me. We got some nice jerseys. Great jerseys.

I got gifted a jersey here. We didn't have jerseys like this when we were there. And then we started piecing things together. It's like, oh, because of all the, oh, they all have every, these motherfuckers don't deserve this jersey. You guys didn't have nice jerseys? What's that? You didn't have nice jerseys?

No, we didn't. We had the OG original Nike contract. Then you win games and you get bumped up. Oh. And then we were just winning. By we, I happened to be there. It was not because of me, but the team that I was on was winning, winning, winning. So we get thrusted up into the top Nike contract because we're on prime time pretty much every single week.

So we get these incredible gear. They build up the locker room. The locker room gets, like, I forget how many millions dumped into it. That thing finishes immediately upon us leaving. leaving perfect immediately upon us getting out of there never seen anything like it they got a brand new one as i they were during my senior year they moved the weight room out to the indoor facility and put chain link fence around uh the end zone and honestly we we grew to love it like we missed it when they took that down because they were building a new one. We were in the locker room I was in my freshman year was like a junior high locker room. Nice.

We had two locker rooms in one locker room. Bingo. Steve Slayton, freshman, who was in shit bag locker. Corner. Terrible jersey. I mean, just absolute worst thing. And then going out and running for 200 against Georgia Or whatever just like how you doing

And then all this money comes in it's a whole different world Let's go get some wins Blaine Let's earn these things that we have there Look at this fucking thing Jeez So this is kind of like the lipstick Adam Jones I still have my locker That was pretty sweet

Hey dude that is sweet Look at you. They got digital screens showing whose locker it is that can change that easy? Yeah. Did you get to pick that locker there? How'd you end up on that? Yes, I did pick this one. You got a locker in this other room over here.

Of course, yeah. To the left over here. No, for real. It's all glass. It's an NFL locker. It's got everybody's locker that went to the NFL. Oh, wow. That's sick.

What do I got in there? You got cleats in there for me? What is in the locker? Top, bottom, sock. I need to bring some stuff. Hey, WVU, you should send us a picture of Pat Locker. Blaine has sent me a photo of him. Just the title, the head thing.

I haven't seen the whole locker, though. If you could lift, too, I want to see what I left in there. Yeah. Ever heard of somebody just not practicing at all, ever? Did you ever hear about that? Anybody? Have you ever heard? Any player off the top of your head.

Somebody just never practicing? AJ, have you ever heard of this? What are we talking about? I don't think so. Me neither. We've never heard of it. That was a rumor that was going around, though, just a couple weeks ago. Remember?

You remember? I remember. About who? People. That was a rumor that was going around, though, just a couple weeks ago. Remember? You remember? I remember. About who? People. It was about Nuke, remember? Yeah, D-Hop. It was D-Hop. Whenever he was potentially getting traded, they were like,

I don't practice here. He refuses to practice. It's like, there's no way. I mean, that is not a real thing. And if he does, the coach, like, how is that even happening? I'm happy he stayed in arizona by the way d hop i wish he would have came to indianapolis i was gonna say but i'm happy he didn't go to another place that is already loaded with weapons yes and we just get pissed off that our team chose

not to sign him so he would end up at the chiefs or the bills or maybe the jets exactly and everybody would be like how come our team how come these teams are the only ones trying? How come we aren't trying to do it all? So I'm happy that he just stayed in Arizona and no transaction happened. Although our source says did lead us astray a couple times. And there is a chance, you know,

without Kyler starting the season before the trade deadline, yeah, some team makes a move. We broke news. That's breaking news? Yeah, it's breaking news. Let's go. Hey, baby bitch. Yeah, some team makes a move. We brought news. That's breaking news? Yeah, it's breaking news. Let's go. Hey, baby Mitch. Joel.

Sorry. That's your thing. Yeah, it is. Mitchell. What do you mean? He does not like to be called Mitch. Why? His name is Mitchell. Oh, really?

He changed it a few times, right? Huh? I thought we went back and forth. Did he come in as Mitch and then went to Mitchell or other way around? Has he switched it a few times? I don't remember. His mother likes him to be called Mitchell, but he doesn't care. This is like Patrick Mahomes, right?

And Matthew Stafford. I'll call him Mitchell. Yeah, that's what I mean. He's not the only one. He's a guy you can have a beer with. He's a guy you can have a beer with. Yeah, you will call him Mitchell, Pac. I'll just say this.

Only position where this is happening is the quarterback position. And that makes a lot of sense. Right? Yeah. That's not my name. A lot of mocks. Give him a pacifier. You're able to... Whoa! How come not every time? What is the deal? I thought babies, binky, here we go. This is the answer.

It is not the answer. No. And you need to know that you don't have a kid. Because I didn't do enough research. I was told, get the binky. That's what people say. Boom, supposed to be over. She don't want that fucking thing sometimes. She'll actually shake her head and spit it out.

It's like, what are you doing? Now I got to clean this fucking thing. And I got to hold you. What are you? And then we've had to go through like six different binkies to get the shape that she likes. And if she doesn't like it, she starts to cry.

So now a binkie is making the baby cry. I thought it was supposed to be the other way around completely. What is going on? You're still in that time frame where you're trying to figure out which one's the right one. Do you have the same binkie as the top of the nipple of the bottle? Yeah, it's a Dr. Brown. Dr. Brown's, yep. Everyone lives and dies by Dr. Brown.

They love it. Dr. Brown, also the head of the substance of abuse program. Really? Yeah, but I don't. And we don't like that dog. We don't like that dog. Yeah, he's probably a good guy. He's very rude with what he does every single day.

We actually passed each other in the hallway one time. And that motherfucker 4 a.m. in Georgia got me. I see you. He's the actually passed each other in the hallway one time. And I'm like, that motherfucker 4AM in Georgia got me. I see you. He's the one in charge of all the testing. Right. That guy's a fucking asshole. Real big asshole. But he might be a good guy.

Terrible job. No, he's not. He's got no shot at being liked by any of us, though. No. No. You know what I mean? Lose, lose. But the Dr. Brown nipple you're talking about, awesome. Great nipple.

I don't know how many passes you got. The green one. Did you get the one that I've seen in the bait? Yeah, you did. I heard the taste, the cherry, the whole thing. It didn't work? She doesn't like the shape of it. We're trying to figure out what it is. See, mine didn't like the same nipple as the bottle. It's just like

every sound, too. Like, what is that for? Every once in a while, I'm like, oh, I got a good read on her face. She must have just pooped. So then you do the whole thing. Take the whole diaper off. That's the whole scene. And then she just farted. And it smells like she pooped. So it's a fake out. Diesel fart. You just gotta get to the point where as long as you know that she's swaddled good

and it's not gonna come up above her face, you're good. That's impossible too. Because her hands, she is Andy Dufresne. Coming out of that pipe. I can do as much as I can. She's gonna have both those hands here is andy dufresne oh yeah coming out of that pipe i can do as much as i can she's gonna have both those hands here in her elbow she's like full guard the fucking boxer yeah dude i gotta might got a boxer on your hands then that's good you'll get more efficient with the swaddle it takes weeks to finally fucking realize how to get them in that thing i'm gonna say this okay i'm seeing the field well right now.

Burritos, anything else you could potentially need. Sushi. I am seeing the field very well. That's great. The diaper, though, that thing is sliding. You know what I mean? That thing is sliding inside the thing. So my burrito wrap, swaddle wrap, too good, too much of a hassle to get all the way back out

just to up the diaper or check the diaper. Oh, it's just a fart. Fakesies. It's a whole thing. Diaper too big? No. Fakesies. I don't strap it right, I guess. Wait till you... Have you had it happen where you the back of the diaper, you're trying to check, hey,

is this just a fart or is there a dump in there? You think it's a fart, you put your finger down in there and it's just all wet turds on your fingers. So that has happened once. She's like a couple day poops. Like a couple days, then a poop. Then a couple days and a poop. But you're just waiting.

Because Vesuvius is, there's some rumblings. And what I've learned is like ass and head is what I need to have. I need to have hand on ass, arm on head. Or hand on ass, hand on head, or hand on ass, hand on head. And when you're holding it, her farts feel like...

I mean, it's a full... Make you jump. What is her deal? What are these little things deal? It's the formula. Every time I make her burp, though, I feel like I hit a home run. Come on, come on. Every time I make her burp, though, I feel like I hit a home run. Oh, yeah. Come on, come on, come on.

Let it out. Hell yeah. Yep. Let's go back in. Yep. Let's go back in. Exactly. That's exactly what it is.

What a time. Yeah. Two and a half hours sleep last night. It was a good time. Everybody said this was going to be the thing. I said, how real could that be? I thought you had the night situation. Well, it's every other night except for Friday and Saturday.

Oh, okay. Doing a lot of work, man. Yeah, I feel like I'm really dadding. Yeah? I feel like I'm really dadding. Sounds like it. You did way more than I did. I wanted to do some real dadding here. You know what I mean?

I wanted to help out, be a good tag team partner. I don't know how anybody does this alone, which I've heard has happened. I don't know how that happens. What do you do? How do you do it? Possible, it sounds like. Legit. That's why we got so much respect for our other halves.

Bingo. It's a lot of work they have to do. Yeah, legit. It's like a superhuman thing that's happening here. It's a lot of work they have to do. Yeah, legit. It's like a superhuman thing that's happening here. It's a gift of life. I'm going to chug some more caffeine, though, and get through this fucking hour and a half because we got Stoner going on.

Hell yeah. Let's go to the phones. Hey, Stoner coming on the program is a big deal, AJ. First ever captain for the Vegas Golden Knights. What time is he coming on? 2.05, 2.40. Long time from now. Not 2.05.

Let's go to the phones. Let's go to Andy in Florida on a 5-hour energy phone line. What's going it coming on? 2.05, 2.40. Long time from now. Not 2.05. Let's go to the phones. Let's go to Andy in Florida on the 5RNG phone line. What's going on, Andy? How you doing, boys? Keep it moving. All right. Shout out. How you doing?

Hey, I just want to congratulate all you fellas. The ESPN deal. So happy for your boys, man. Just congratulations, man. Thank you, Andy. Shout out. A positive call. Just congratulations, man. Thank you, Andy. A positive call. Thank you, Andy. I did wonder if everything that was

being tweeted, the people would say it to my face if I was to see them. Oh, no way. No, you're not going to do that. You're a sellout. What did I do? You changed your show. The show hasn't even started yet. The show hasn't even started on the platform. When did? You're a big, woke what did i have a good one what did i do what did i why is that

because you did something that hasn't even happened yet i'm like this is not real none of this is real exactly can't be real but agent we talked about this like as we're coming on the air and uh we haven't got your take on this for every every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction. So right now, our people are, you're going to sell out. So when we don't, there's going to be a lot of freezing cold takes, rude things that were said, but we're going to get killed from the other, hey. The other side. Have we even thought about the other wave that's coming?

Oh, my God. That's going to be a big one. Yeah, that's a tsunami wave. Oh, we need intro to some people get intro to some people that haven't don't have any idea that wave's fine though because those people don't know us yeah you're right but those people were very loud at game day remember that was like the first six weeks it was just like the same avatar same profile photo same thing but it's like a song that isn't good if you hear it a hundred times, you're going to eventually catch the words.

The things that were being said to me about game day the first six weeks, so rude, so incredibly rude. We got to do that again at a much broader level. Alright, this way, hey, that's when we get paid the bucks that we're reporting. That's right.

You smell me? That way, though, that's like random, easier to ignore, in my opinion, than the people who. Yeah, because those people, they were never going to like us ever. Correct. Right. Same thing. And we wouldn't like them.

Yeah. Right. Maybe we wander into a hole-in-a-wall bar and happen upon two of the old whites sitting at the bar, and maybe we send a shot of whiskey over in a big glass we light up a cig yeah and we say yeah hell yeah what are you doing brother yeah and we do that whole thing maybe we'll be able to win them over two at a time one at a time yeah plus if those old whites are the ones that don't like us they're probably doing some you know hard work if they're in a hole-in-the-wall bar

drinking wiggy, smoking cigs. Yeah, you're right. Those people probably like us. I respect those people. Those people probably like us. So if we go to AJ's massive country club that he goes to every weekend. Boom. And then we see a couple people with their vineyard vines.

So we'll go to a couple of these Ohio State cult events. There it is. And then we've got to find one in the south we'll go to a couple of times too because they have a contingency of people that certainly hate everything about us. Me most specifically. They're going to be getting a lot of us, AJ. High heat too coming. Oh, yeah.

High heat coming. It'll be fun. Especially if fucking Paul Feinbaum's simulcast radio show is getting bumped for our show. Oh, no. I haven't even thought about that. All the things happening, and that's, of course, our fault, too. The way some of this shit was being positioned, like, ESPN thinking of signing Pat McAfee to lucrative deal.

It's like, well, I also got, like, 15 employees, but okay. Yeah, just me. Just 100% me. You're right. Yeah, that's the way it is amidst layoffs optically looks terrible or something like that it's like well when you phrase it like that i guess it sounds terrible dude it is we don't like it that's not cool but we would like to let everybody know um our goal is for everybody to have as much fun as they've ever had working

and be as successful as they've ever been working. Always going to be the case, no matter where we go. So it's like we can't change anything that has happened. Actually, we tried. We couldn't get a job. Couldn't get a meeting. Couldn't get a job. So, you know, like that whole thing.

But going forward, we are pumped to, like, be, you know, part of the team. Yeah. Let's fucking, let's do it. And we talked about it. Like, we wish there were 50 hours in the day and nobody was getting laid off. We don't want anyone losing their job. But unfortunately, there's only, you know, 12 hours of sunlight. And we don't know who's getting laid off.

That's right. It might, because allegedly it was, like, huge. We don't know any of that thing. That never came up in conversation. But as a human, I'm obviously reading. See it. Yeah. And that's also not your fault.

People get fired and hired every single day in America. That's just the way it works. And also, I said this the other day when I was sitting here before the announcement happened. You know, when you lease an apartment in a building versus build a building there's a little different you know business views that happens there you know that's just standard business real estate which is kind of what this is don't want to get too deep into it but enough with the disrespectful shit please yeah that's right the salads has turned out to be kind of sweet yeah kind of off although i was thinking like if i'm taking the trash out and someone pulled up in a car rolled down their window and said like

good morning you woke pussy bitch and then just ignored it and drove away. That'd be pretty funny. I'd probably get a pretty good chuckle out of that. Face to face. Keep those coming. That was awesome. I'll look at like some of the profiles

of the people that are sending these and then I'll go through their media and photos, and I'll scroll back. They think I don't have time. I do. I'm all big. I'm scrolling back, and I'm thinking to myself, oh, this is one I screenshot right here.

This is one I screenshot right here. This is one I screenshot right here. Oh, look at the way his friends are looking at him. This kid is hated by his own friends. Boom, I'll go ahead and click here. Now let's go ahead and do this whole thing. But I don't do that anymore. You know why? Why's that? Because I'm a sellout. That's right.

To Ty's point, could you imagine if you went to pick up a smoothie or some food and they were like, yeah, we got one smoothie for Joe Biden. And then he just fucking handed it right to you. That would be awesome. I didn't read the article. I saw, obviously, a bunch of screenshots of it.

I guess Whitlock ended his article by calling me Joe Biden. He did, yeah. Fucking Mr. President. Yeah, Pat McAfee is Joe Biden. That's hilarious. That's the last sentence. I saw the headline, and he was tying me to some stuff. Oh, yeah.

I'm like, geez. First couple paragraphs were nuts. I think you served in the 1812 war, too. That's right. I saw KFC posted a screenshot of, I think, a paragraph. I don't know how long the article was. Long. Okay, so I saw a couple paragraphs of it,

and then you told me this morning that the Joe Biden thing was the closer. That was the punchline at the very end. I did not know that until the moment you told me this morning. He was very angry, it appeared. He was. Is everything okay, dude? I don't think so. He's pissed.

All right, man. Good luck out there. I'll get into writing next, though, okay? You writers. Your job's not safe either. I'm coming. You know what I mean? I'm joking.

Well, those long tweets i mean shit everybody's allowed to do whatever everybody's allowed to say whatever they want but like they've you have no idea what i don't understand that's what i don't understand it's like you have no clue the only person who knows is literally me which is a wild thing well and that's like we were talking about like the negative stuff too like we talked about it on i think we talked about it on the show earlier like you know so whitlock writes that writes that but then jimmy trainer at si writes my god one that was hey shout out jimmy trainer yeah he was like i don't understand the backlash at all it really makes no sense to me what are they so they're saying that since our show's going to their they're

they're licensing our show yes we've done a few of these deals in the past okay this is a standard thing whenever you own a property this is something that happens you know like it is a a form of media agreement that has taken place for years and years and years so they're thinking that i'm gonna one morning wake up and be like you know what i'm putting my jj reddick suit on yeah i'm gonna bring up governors and the Second Amendment, and ESPN's going to force me to do that. Or as soon as this thing gets sent to a place in Bristol, our bodies are going to, okay, have to.

I don't understand, AJ. I don't get it. I am so flustered by it all. I mean, I don't think anybody understands anything. You read headlines, you see clips, you do whatever. Unless you're fully invested in you, which no one can be fully invested in everything. It's just, I don't know, man.

Yeah, you're right. I say it all the time. People are irrational. They have, I don't know, man. Who cares? So am I going to read a script? Is that what they're saying? They're going to put a teleprompter out here for you guys?

If they think that, that's just so ignorant. It's hard to even respond to, I think, if they think it's going to be that. That's what I'm saying. These people are saying some very rude things. I'm like, what in their minds is happening that we're missing? This is just like we've been saying. We see somebody wearing a mask out still, okay?

Bingo. We just want to know what they know because we're probably wrong and we would like to be safer. I just want to know what these people because we're probably wrong and we would like to be safer. I just want to know what these people know that are telling me I'm like the worst human of all. I think that was Whitlock's entire thing was. It was pretty close. I'm the worst thing that

happened to sports was kind of like the. Oh, he doesn't like Joe? Well, I didn't even see that paragraph. The paragraph I read is I'm the worst human of all time. Yes. I do not believe he is on Joe Biden. He is not team Biden. I didn't know if that was a compliment or not. He had the lawyer on that said he was going to bankrupt me too.

He did. That didn't happen. There was some news. Sports Illustrated, better watch it. I was just going to say, head down over there. There's a couple letters coming. I've seen them before. I can send you pictures of them.

They started saying that i apologize in there due to pat mcfee's apologies like that's a narrative trying to be built about me yep people call me a coward there then they're doing this other things i never what do we there's no they obviously didn't see the statement bingo fuck but they quote tweeted some news stations quote tweeted the statement and then their title was apologizes to brett farve so case goes away it's like i you know they assume that you don't they assume that you don't care if you like you're okay apologizing for that which obviously you're not because you didn't do anything well and also first statement live radio row led the show with it i'm being called a coward these people the led the show with it going that's my wife. I'm terrible at apologies, especially if I don't, if I don't believe it.

So that was kind of like my entire thing. Like, no. And they, before they sued me, they wanted a public apology by Wednesday of Superbowl week at 8 PM, a public apology posted is what they told me. And then obviously that's not going to happen. And then the next day I learned from a daily wire, I think article that I was being sued by Brett. I think that's how I learned that it was happening.

I thought it was all a joke up until then. I thought the letters telling me to publicly apologize for a joke. I thought it was like Michael. I actually thought it was like Michael, Adam Vinatieri. I thought it was somebody too much time on their hands, too much money fucking with me. And then whenever it pops up,

it's like, no, this is real life. It was like out of nowhere. So whenever you got like Fortune Magazine, all these other news stations saying like, due to Pat McAfee's apology, it's like, your motherfucker's trying to kill me right now. They are. You know what I mean?

People are trying to get us. It's a compliment. And they don't listen either. It's not like those news organizations who co-tweeted your statement about the Favre thing being over. It's not as if they actually listened to the video. I wouldn't either. I'm sick of listening to me, but it's a pretty important thing whenever you're talking about it. Especially if you're going to

report on it as a news outlet knowing what you're talking about. Yeah, it was just rude. Just know that I'm sitting in the bunker right now, and I don't know what I'm going to come out the other side as, but it is going to be awesome. Just want to let everybody know that. Thought about turning heel this morning. I deleted a lot of tweets. Just kept this one.

Just kept the rocks thing. But what was coming out there in a deleted tweet was quite a heel turn. But I didn't because this isn't everybody. And this is all coming from a place of people caring. You have to remember that. Let's go to the phones. Some of them don't feel like they care, though. You know what I mean? Some of them just feel like they're jumping on the bandwagon. I have to remember that. Let's go to the phones. Some of them don't feel like they care, though. You know what I mean?

Some of them just feel like they're jumping on the bandwagon. I knew you were coming back. What's that? You didn't think I could move on? We knew you were coming back. We knew that phone call wasn't getting picked up. Yeah, let's go. Let's go.

Let's go. Brad in Delaware. Brad, what's going on, pal, on the 500 phone line? How's it going? Keep it moving? Nailed it. Thank you. Kind of smooth.

Aussie eye. I'm fucking healthy.? Nailed it. Thank you. Kind of smooth. Aussie eye. I'm fucking healthy. So, two things. First off, congratulations on everything that's going on and incredible opportunities coming to the show. Thank you. Hell yeah. See, it's all fake.

The internet's fake. Thank you, Brad. It's just the callers. Yesterday was like this, too. Yeah, it was. Super positive. We need to hear this. This is actual voice.

You know what I mean? Because you're in a voice when you're reading other people's words. True. You're a little mean. Yeah, I was. Super positive. We need to hear this. This is actual voice. You know what I mean? Because you're inner voice when you're reading other people's words. True. You're a little mean. Yeah, it's a harsh voice. Who knows if even the way those people talk,

the people that are tweeting it, they can even deliver it in the way that I'm delivering it to me. Right. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Who knows what emphasis

they're putting on? Yeah. How they're delivering the hateful shit that they're saying. So when I'm reading it, I'm delivering it as like, I assume you're doing the same as I am.

Oh, yeah, you bet. You're giving them like pristine delivery. Oh, yeah, you bet. You need to stop doing that. These motherfuckers ain't got delivery. Well, now we're joking about sellouts. And now when people say it, I can't tell. So now when I see it, I'm just like,

oh, these people are just joking around. No, no, yeah, yeah. We should read it. It's not the sellout. It's the personal shit. It's the other stuff. Yes, yes. Someone wished I would die.

It's crazy. Wishing you die? I wish that was all I got right now. I got people telling me that they're going to potentially die because of this. Well, I don't care about that. I would let down. Thank you, Brad. You're a bad guy.

I know I am. I got people telling me. I looked a bad guy. I know I am. You are a bad guy. That was crazy. I got people telling me, you know, like, fuck you. I looked up to you for blah, blah, blah,

blah, blah. And now you're just another bum, bum, bum, bum. Corporate sellouts. Oh my God.

Loser. I got to stay out of here. Give me the four year. They'll calm down. People will calm down. Yeah, but then it's coming from the other side. But we've said already that we don't care.

That side, we do not care about. Pass them. Because we're going to win them over. Exactly. They're going to be. Or we're going to win them over. Exactly. Or we won't and they'll just go away. Bam. Which is just as good as winning them over. Right. Counts the same.

Yep. That's right. Because we ain't got here anymore. Exactly. Still win. Alright, let's talk about some shit happening around the NFL. Matt Ryan doesn't rule out a return to the Falcons or to the football field. He said, I'm just not going to rule anything out at this stage. Now, that might be because there's some clause in his contract to potentially get another

$15 million if he doesn't retire because the Colts got rid of him. But there is a lot of things coming out of the Matt Ryan camp about him going to do TV, him going to be an analyst, and then him potentially still playing football, even though he probably is never playing football again. He shouldn't. AJ, your thoughts on this seemingly being employed to get the money from his contract that he certainly earned he got hit more than he's ever been hit in his entire career last year it did not work out at all but his contract had money in it i think if he retires he wouldn't get the money i think is the way this

goes aj yeah that's what i assume it's both things to where he'd be stupid to say he retires if he's given up millions of dollars, obviously, just hang out and take this job with CBS. But also I think in the back of his head too, if someone comes calling, if something happens and a team needs somebody, I think he probably would strap it up and go out there. Yeah, why not? I mean, he's –

The dumbest thing he could do is say, hey, I retired, because then he doesn't get, what, maybe $15 million? Yeah, Ben Roethlisberger was potentially going to go to the Niners. Exactly. That's right. You got to leave all the options out there. Now, if he was to do that, come back and play terrible, he's going to get cooked. Like, this guy should have retired a long time ago.

Well, he can't get no better than what he played. I mean, get no worse than what he played last year. Shit. It was bad last year. You're telling me. One of the worst teams in football. Lowest season ticket prices with the Colts. We paid six figures to watch those games.

You got Bench for Sam Ellinger. I love Sam Ellinger. He's got Moxie for fucking days. They saved him with Sam Ellinger. I think that was the decision. Maybe that too. This guy doesn't know the plays. He's getting killed.

We stink. Let's get him was the decision. Maybe that, too. Yeah, but this guy doesn't know the plays. He's getting killed. I feel like there was another. We stink. Yeah. Let's get him off the field. That was kind of what it was, I think. Don't you have a rib? Probably. I mean, I think I blew my splain up.

Alpine Franklin was calling plays. Yeah. Park Frazier, goddammit. Tony. Alpine. What? Alpine Franklin. That's a great name.

Yeah. Alpine Franklin. That's a great name. Alpine Franklin. Is that a person? Apparently. No, I don't think that's how it goes. We were talking about the Alpine slide yesterday. There we go. And the park. Anyways, Matt Ryan's retired.

We know it. He was also good on CBS when he, I think it was just a couple games at the end of the season. So, getting a full year of that, he might realize, I actually really like doing this. Is he on the desk? And if you do recall, him and Nate. Yeah, massive dap up. And then him and Boomer.

How you doing? Whose spot does he take? They just add a spot. I think, yeah. Is that in the chair? So he's on the pregame show and all that? So you got Boomer, him, Nate, Carr, James. JB, right?

JB's the host, isn't he? JB and then Phil Simms. And Romy will occasionally hop on there. From Booth. Yeah. But Simms is on this side, I think. Yes. These two, no offense offense they've done a lot

for football you could put them right next to each other and say pat one million dollars which one's which who and i think they know that because they just got like one half of the face on this side and then the other half of the face is on this side two great quarterbacks in the nfl's history equals one on opposite sides. Morph together. It's almost like that Jimmy Butler, Michael Jordan photo thing they got going on. But they're a good show, right? Do you watch any of those kickoff shows, Pac?

You watch any of them? Never? No. Never have, never will? I will. Now that we're on the main screen, but I never watch the show. It don't grab me. They have some stories.

Yeah, it's not bad. There's some stories on those things. Like, I watch NFL Networks. That's the problem is theirs is so good. NFL Networks is very, very, very good. I mean, they got the resumes. They got Hall of Famers all over the place. They all buy in.

And whoever the producers are, aren't like, they don't take advantage of the players and coaches buying in. Like, I think there's some of these places where the idea people take advantage of the people on the screen like oh this would be good do this it's like maybe it'll be good but also there's a chance you make this person look like a fucking asshole yeah and you're not and they don't want to do it they don't want to do it probably too yeah so it's like a full i feel like at the nfl network with that game day i think it's nfl nfl game day morning or whatever it NFL Network with that game day, I think it's NFL game day morning or

whatever it is. That show is, hey, that's a great program. Doesn't it feel like they have fun? Yeah. But Pac, I would recommend watching that show. Yeah. ESPN has one too. They got Hasselbeck.

Rex Ryan is electrifying. Teddy Bruschi. Ponder. His name is Bruschi. Bruschi. It's spelled Teddy Bruschi. Technically, I guess that is. Teddy Bruschi. Bruschi. It's spelled Teddy Bruschi. Technically, I guess that is. Teddy Bruschi.

And I've never met him in person for him to be like, hi, Teddy Bruschi. We met him down at the Super Bowl dinner, didn't we? Miami. Did we? Talk about a dog. Sharp. He looked very sharp. I had a strong.

Oh, yeah, because you were on set. Bingo. Bingo. And we were hanging out on the wall. Literally in the back of the shots. Yep. Sellouts! Yeah, yeah.

Yep. Just wandering in the back of the open set, standing up on things. Holding signs. Yep. Whole thing. Had the flag, right? Yeah. For the brand.

Yeah, we had the camera time. Oh, boy, it was hot out there. Miami. Yeah. Oh. Anyways, the NFL Network ones.. Miami. Yeah. Oh. Anyways, the NFL Network ones, solid television. Very, very good.

They had Mooch in a Spider-Man costume that didn't fit. Yep. It was awesome. Who needs to be a superhero today is the name of the segment. Well, let's not forget it. Mooch is awesome. I love Mooch. He's awesome. Love him. Absolutely. Let's not forget Jay and Michael. I'm Fox. That's's awesome. Love him. Absolutely. Don't forget Jay and Michael. On Fox.

That's a good one. Terry. Terry. But Kurt won't. Howie. I watched that one. Jimmy. Jimmy.

Jimmy. Yeah, because you turn over that one to watch the Fox game. Yeah. So it's kind of hot. Gronky. Gronkowski's on that one, right? Yeah. On the middle of...

He's in the middle of the table. Oh, I forgot about that. They got rid of Gonzalez? Amazon. Yeah, because he rid of Gonzalez? Amazon. Is Tom working for them or not? What's going on? He said fake news, whatever. Yeah, he is working. It's not this year, right?

He's taking a year off to kind of settle himself. I'm living in the same neighborhood as Kim Kardashian and stuff. Let's get to a break. It's a tough move, though. Did you hear about that, AJ? I did hear. I don't know. She was asking for flavors of jam or something like that he liked. Yeah, I think she was saying, hey, if I was to move in the same neighborhood as you, where is a good jam store?

Grape or strawberry jam. Where's a peach jam? Yeah. What's the difference between jam and non-jam? I actually just heard this for the first time. Let's get to a break. I can tell you. The internet's saying Kim and Tom are together.

They're potentially friendly. Courtship. Real friendly. I also saw something. That Tom's dating a blonde lady. Yes, and that's... Which both might be true. Taylor Swift, maybe.

Kim Kardashian wouldn't be going to the Lakers game for no reason. Oh, was it on ABC? Tristan Thompson's on the team, isn't he? They had a Tristan Thompson sign. She wasn't even with Chloe. No, I know. No, but the family. Her son or daughter was holding a Tristan Thompson sign.

She was just with some other supermodel. Her son or daughter wasn't there. Yeah, they were sitting in the R.E. manual seats. Yes, they were. Right next to the Lakers there. So it might just have been something to do, too. Or the jam and jelly thing. Yeah, maybe they were looking for good baked goods.

The whole, was it on ABC? It was on ESPN, I think. Okay, so did you see her up front? She might be sweet on Jack Nicholson, too. We don't know. He was on the inside. Welcome back. She might just been enjoying a basketball game. She loves ball.

And if you're going to get an idea about how a place is, wouldn't you want to ask somebody who's in your sphere? Tom Brady. I have no idea about but I also assume Tom's not just some guy. He's a dog.

Okay. This guy's a father. He is a father, and he's also a fucking man. I think we know what Jack's looking at. Oh, yes. Holy shit, look at the boobs on that lady. No. Good job.

He's looking at the guy. He said, who's this guy? He said, look at that guy's honker. That was his first game. That was his first game in like a whole year he was there. Yeah, true. He might be saying, geez, the beast. Why hasn't he been there?

Because he's sick, I think. I think he was sick or something like that. Health concerns. 2K and Sam. He used to have a kid. Jack? Robert De Niro did. Yeah, he did.

Robert De Niro. Bob De Niro had a kid? 79 years old. That's not the Bob De Niro I'm thinking. That is the Bob De Niro you're thinking. From Internship? These shoes. Irishman the Bob De Niro you're thinking. From internship? Big shoes. Irishman.

Big shoes. Big shoes. Yeah. 79-year-old Bob De Niro. Had a child? Yes, he did. Still shooting swimmers. No way.

There it is. Number seven. No, I couldn't. Did they freeze it? Or did he really? Did he shoot it in? The logist guy can shoot at 79. That's impressive.

He put a lot of salary. Italian people. What is he? Mick Jagger? I don't know if he's got the moves like Jagger at 79. That's impressive. He put a lot of salary. Italian people. What is he, Mick Jagger? I don't know if he's got the moves like Jagger. 79 and still can swim. That's amazing. Howdy, baby, Bob. Bob.

Congrats, Bob. There you go, Bobby. New movie coming out. That baby's going to be loved. Sweet movie coming out. Yeah, great movie coming out with Bob De Niro. He's probably. What's it called?

Killers on the Fire movie? Yep. Oh, no, he has a movie with Sebastian that just came out, I think. Oh, yeah, he's dad going to in-laws. He's got a break. He does. Be a friend, tell a friend to go watch a Disney movie. That's right.

Okay, whichever one you want. Lion King. What? The other ones. Remember the Ducks? Mermaid. What? Frozen. All the Pixar movies. Mermaid. What? Frozen. What? All the Pixar movies. Toy Story.

Bug's Life. What? A Knight's Tale. Yep. Starring Heath Ledger. What? Saw it yesterday. Is that a Disney movie?

I don't think so. It could be. Yeah, it is. I think it is. Black Knight starring Martin Lawrence. Great movie. Great movie. Remember, he wakes up there, right?

Oh, yeah. Rush Hour. Three Ninjas. Three Ninjas. Little Giants. Little Giants is a Disney movie? I don't know. I think it is.

Oh, we're at the point where we're just naming movies. Z for Zenith. Dumb and Dumber. Yeah. That's all, man. Watch a Disney one that we said. Right. They all weren't Disney.

No. But we need you to watch a Disney one. Princess and the Frog. Yep. That's a Disney one that we said. Right. They all weren't Disney. No. But we need you to watch a Disney one. Princess and the Frog. Yep. That's a Disney one. Beauty and the Beast. Yep. Boom.

Shrek. Pocahontas. The Princess and the Frog is not the same as Beauty and the Beast. It sounds like they need to think of some more names. Yeah. Pac-Man's actually just looking them up on his phone, scrolling through. Whack at them. Pac-Man's got 10 kids living in his house.

You got to see all these, I assume. Well, no, I don't because my son sit there and watch nothing but porn, football on the phone.

Jesus. That's what he's gonna say. What? That's a whole thing I gotta think about with your daughter and her cell phone. What?

I'm just saying. I thought that's where he was going with it. Cell phone's a real deal. Oh, yeah. He's not there yet. Well, shit. I don't know. I don't know what he was going with it cell phone's a real deal he's not there oh yeah well he's well shit I don't know

I don't know what he's watching you never know see now I got Pac-Man thinking now I got now I got Pac-Man

thinking go home hey man what the hell are you big watching on this phone give me your phone don't clear your cookies

get the rope out someone pull Pac-Man back down yeah Pac seems to be a bit at altitude let's get everybody back down to earth and Pac seems to be a bit at altitude. Let's get everybody back down to Earth, and let's have a great hour three.

Hell yeah. We got Stoner joining us of the Las Vegas Golden Knights, first ever captain. I think he's had like three back surgeries in four months. He's been killing it. Still playing hockey. Yeah, does not have cement in his skates right now. Doll. He's on the ice right now, they said. So we get him fresh out of a skate.

Excited to see how they feel. The NHL playoffs have been fantastic. So good. As have the NBA playoffs. We as a sports program are very, very grateful. Just like we are to be joining ESPN this fall. No matter how much you hate it, I promise it's going to

be good. This is a good thing. This is good for the future. For the future. We'll show you. You see, you can shape the future, AJ, in certain spots, I think. I can see how you're doing it. Up and to the right.

You can shape. Always. Still going. Had a little line over top of it. Repeater. What is pi? 3.14. 3.13333333.

Is that what it is? It's like 3.14678. There are kids who can memorize the first 100 numbers of pi. It matters? No, no, not at all. Why were they shoving that shit in our... Something with triangles, right? Yeah, Pythagoras.

The Pythagorean theorem is much different than pi, right? There it is. A squared plus B squared equals C squared is the Pythagorean theorem? Yeah, I was just saying something like math. It's for some math thing. Oh, the radius is... Some theorem. What was the pi?

What is this for? You're a valedictorian. I'm not a math guy, though. I do not remember. I wanted to say that to do something with the circumference of a circle, but I don't know if that's... Oh, yeah. It's for... What is it? Pi r squared is the circumference

of a circle. Radius? R is the radius. 3.14 times the radius squared. All right, this just sucks. I knew it. Anyways, that's what we're going to do. We're going to be an educational program, too.

Going to Mickey Mouse. Welcome to Mac. Say it with me. Purple. Purple. Purple. Red. Red.

That's blue. Blue. This is Joe fucking DiNardo. Joe DiNardo. Okay? Love you, Joe. This guy read the doctor better than DiNardo. Okay? Love you, Joe. This guy read the doctor better than anybody. That's right.

Miss you, Joe. Gone too soon. Gone way too soon. Rest in peace, Joe. Love you, Joe. Unbelievable. Joe's going to be on ESPN in 2023. Hey, Joe.

That's my favorite part. We're just watching some highlights of you. Take you to a little glory days there while you were flying around. Yeah, man. Had a lot of fun in those days. You remember right now Connor's making catches on you. Yeah, exactly. You've come a long way.

Connor caught one ball. We won one. He tried twice. He caught one. He missed it. AJ, did you see those highlights right there? I didn't see the highlights, but I saw when Connor supposedly caught that ball on Packer. He packed his head down, writing

it in his phone, and he just caught a ball over top of it. That was part of the... It's like when dudes would fake dunk on me or get a fake rebound on me. That would make me crazy. That's much different. Yeah, but like, expectations were actually set. Like, if you're not looking, and he's

standing behind you... So what happened the second time? I don't remember the second time. I wasn't trying the second time. I think he's 100%. I wasn't trying the second time. Oh, is that the one you jumped up against? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Self-handicapping then.

No, I wasn't even going for it the second time. I wanted him to get a win because he was pretty down on the dunks when I mossed him the first time. Confidence builder. Team morale. Good guy. Thank you for that because Pac-Man was losing confidence. Never. No, no.

Never. That's what it was. Never. It was crazy confidence. Never. No, no. Never. That's what it was. Never. It was crazy. We're like, oh, jeez. How is this happening? Two days later, too, I beat him in basketball. So it was kind of like one of those things.

We did a live pickleball. Yeah, we did the pickleball. That's what we're saying. We were worried. Yeah, I was getting tired of beating him. Anyway, speaking of Pac, we have full faith that you'll get a win at some point. At some point. At some point. Maybe Goff.

Maybe Goff. Yeah. He cannot beat me in nothing besides pickleball. And shooting and catching. No. So three things. Was it shooting? No, pickleball.

He could beat me. What about Goff? Can he beat you in Goff? He can't beat me in Goff. We'll see. Are you guys Goffing today? No. Somebody bagged up.

No, I'm not Goffing. Because he was scared. No. Do I really? He takes me. I'm like, yeah, can't wait to play. What happened? I got to do something. I'm like, yeah.

PGA Championship, Sonny. You guys got to golf. You got to golf. Second time. Okay. First of all, I'm not getting pressured in by you guys to golf. Second time. Okay.

That's one. Second. What's this guy's deal? I think I've come to learn that I don't have 18 in me anymore. Nine. Or nine. Is that what you're about to say? I can do a nine.

I can't. I don't know how anybody does it. Who's got the time? 18 is just too much. AJ, what are you doing? Because we're watching some of your Tahoe clips. You definitely practice all year before Tahoe. Right.

But I do believe you don't go to the golf course. So that's always your route. Like, you don't go to the golf course so that's always you're out like i haven't been to a golf course yeah i mean yeah i do get to hit down the basement but i don't uh like every day no but i don't live here really i'm only here for the show right now i live here every once in a while we'll be back eventually soon enough but yeah over the last like year and a half two years i've actually started not somewhat every once in a while consistently you know for like a week or two, you use it, and then you won't use it for a week or so. A year and a half, two years, which would be before last Tahoe.

Yeah. Which is when we were sandbagging. But I'm saying a lot of these guys talk about playing 150 rounds a year. Not a lot of us. There's like seven of those guys. Yeah, Romo. No, a lot of the people out there in Tahoe absolutely play a ton. Those people had to have hated me being on that course.

Yeah, like I'm playing tomorrow for the first time. It's an early round. Bobby and Schlage asked me to the Ohio State alumni outing, so I'm going to go play probably 10, 12 holes until I get to the – I'm going to leave and come do the show. But, yeah, it'll be fun. Finish it up. Do what you got to do.

We appreciate the hell of you on a feel-good Friday. That's one of those cult events we got to go to where we win those people over. Let them know we're good people. Let them know we're, hey, we might say something about Urban Meyer. We've got to. It's going to be amplified a little bit. Every once in a while, you've got to talk about what's going on in dance floor.

Shouldn't have went to it, but we've got to talk about what's going on in dance floor. Please tell the Ohio State people, we've got a lot of love for them. They're not wavering. Believe me, everything, it's very positive from all the Ohio State people. You sure? Thank you, Ohio State people. We're keeping an eye right now

on practice over there at Vegas. We got Stoner on the ice, skating around with the boys. He'll be joining us immediately after this session. A little break out. Go, go, go. We got fans at practice. That's sweet. Look at that City National Arena.

Beautiful. Look at the backdrop there. This is their morning skate they got going on practice. Score, Stoner. This would be so tiring. This is just a standard morning for them. They all had a water break a little bit ago. Guy just stick-tapped himself. I respect that. Stoney.

Is this a cell phone? Yeah, they just sent it over to us. I respect that. Stoney. Who's filming this? Is this a cell phone? Yeah, it just says it over us. Oh, this is a video. Stoner just chopping it up with the boys. Stoner, hey. Stoner. That's Stoner right there for everybody that's wondering. Yeah, Mark A.

We knew that the entire time this video was on. Didn't we, AJ? I did. Well, we identify him with the C on his chest. In practice, like Stoner, because he's just a run-of-the-mill guy. He doesn't want to stand out. He is massive, though. Huge.

He is a skyscraper. I think he just had a kid, too. He did, March. Middle of playoffs? No, in March. What's his name, Young Mark? Scarlet, okay. Young Mark.

Stoner Stone would have been pretty cool too scarlet stoner is pretty oh yeah is that her name really that's sweet according to wikipedia well not stoner her name is scarlet stone but i assume she will be called stoner she'll be a stoner so he's gonna smoke dope this guy last name stoner have to have to stony hi my name is pat booze bag okay right well i assume yeah i assume the guy is your last name, Stoner. Here's a live stream now. We're back at practice. The coaches aren't fucking around.

Hey, over there. Who they got? Fucking Bruce Cassidy. Former Bruins. Why do they have the camera on the side of the ring that doesn't have the action? So this is family and friends probably down here, we think? I'll tell you what. Nothing gets the juices flowing like watching an NHL practice.

A lot of standing around. A lot of just lounging and floating. Can we get a direct line? Can we get a direct line to camera person here? I think we might be able to do this. I love how the person is basically just zooming in on Stoner at all times. Thank you for this. This is for us. I think they're doing this for us. This is live

on their YouTube right now. Stoner's got eyes on a puck. Let's watch him work the slob here. Go ahead. Distract. Deflect. Stoner. Put it out. Oh! Oh, I missed one. Good on. Good on. Good on. You get the chances out in practice, you know. I think his back might be a little stiff.

I don't know if they're doing full turtle shots or not. Stoner's just cleaning up the garbage right now. Just cleaning up the trash. Oh, a little power play action. He has his four and four power play. He has a weapon in front of the net on the power play. Can we put one in behind this mark? I don't know if they should be showing what their power play is,

but I'm happy that they are. Must be saying, oh! Oh, great save. He's standing on his fucking head. Holy fuck. Can we get a little confidence boost for Stone or let one of these slip by, pal? Brick wall.

Look at that facility. I love that facility. Knee clapper. Second unit looks good today here. Okay. Well, obviously, they don't have as much ice time on the knees. Maybe they go with the twos. Oh.

Big clap bomb. Snapper. Oh. Good goal. Good stick by the fucking dealer. That's good goal. Go back to Stoner. Oh. Big clap on. Snapper. Oh. Good goal. Good stick by the fucking dealer. Go back to stoner. Go back to stoner. Kid down here has no idea.

You just watched fucking Magic, kid. Yeah. Wake up, Mark. Jeez. Who are these people? Do they always let fans in, or how does that work? It might be media. Media.

I don't know if that child is writing anything at this point. He might have a podcast. There's a lot of people. Every casino has someone there just to change the line. Power play number two is moving the puck real well. Is this penalty kill number one or no? Ooh. I wonder.

Isn't that one of their things, Ty? They're trying to work on their penalty kill, right? Absolutely. Absolutely. I have a rock-solid penalty kill. Well, you know, if Alex Pichangelo, he's back from his suspension, so, I mean, we should be okay. I mean, we're good with our, you know, number two unit right now.

Listen, AAA Insurance and fucking Ryko are investing in this team. They need to go on a run. Oh, that was a great pass. I like the little cross ice pass. Not a lot of crop on this ice right now. Oh, did you see how he stopped that puck? Yeah.

Stick right on top of that thing? That was sick. That was so clean. Rico sells some of the best fucking printers in the market. I don't know if that guy is media with the kids. Yeah, he doesn't look like media. He's family, but he'll take it.

AJ, what? You don't want to strap your kid and go write about the team? That whole getting out of the house with the baby, I haven't even thought about that. Remember, I went to Target. Go to dinner. Take her to dinner. It's fun taking your kids to dinner.

Get your fat head out of the screen, Paul. That guy's passionate. There's no need to be rude to the lady and the man there. Take her to dinner. It's fun taking your kids to dinner. Get your fat head out of the screen, Paul. That guy's passionate. There's no need to be rude to the lady and the man there. They're just passionate. Give the fucking puck to Stoner. Game one Friday. Here we go. Coming to Toshiba Plaza Festivities.

They kick off at 1 p.m. Doors open at 4. You should be pretty lubed up. Nighttime. 5 p.m. Wait for the show. And game time is 5.30 local on ESPN. Get yourself ready to launch into the weekend with the Golden Knights.

Hell yeah. Okay, power play work is the last period of practice. Goal. Oh, they're really dishing the puck around. Stoner. Stoner. Stoner in his office. Stoner.

I want to say this goalie. Put him in the fucking game. Aiden Hill is standing on his fucking head right now. Stoner! Stoner in his office! I want to say this goalie! Aiden Hill's standing on his fucking head right now. I think it's Johnny Quick down there. If it's Johnny Quick, if he's in between the pipes for game one, might as well not even play. Look at the dangles. Look at the intensity on the pipes.

Oh! That's a good puck battle one right there. Yeah, hell yeah. Little guy passing out to the left. Then behind the a good puck battle one right there. Yeah, hell yeah. I can see him miss the stick. Little guy passed it out to the left. Then behind the net. Is that Wild Bill Carlson? That's a little guy.

Oh, off the post. That was a big guy. I don't know if we need to. Oh, yes. Hold it. Can we get sound? Who is this? Yeah, this is the Realm Report.

Can we please get sound on this? Hell yeah. I love how they go all in on the night theme. Oh, yeah. Dude, look at the practice facility. He's happy to jump on the floor. They just stream this during practice? Fans just cheered.

The defense got scored on. Goalie sucks. It's all right. The Penguins in between periods pretend like they're in a Penguin exhibit at a zoo. Let's start there. Let's hear what's going on here. Let's get a breakdown. Ashley touched on it, but after maintenance day, it puts anything to rest.

It's his brother. It's pretty common this time of year. If a guy needs a day of practice, it's not a priority. It's about games. All about games. It's not a big deal. Certainly, for those who may be concerned,

it's good to see him back on the ice, but ready and good to go off a real strong performance last series. Boy, you think about it, and we get so involved and focused on the game to game, but big picture, he didn't start the Stanley Cup playoffs and only has a handful of games under his belt. You tell me. But they've been good.

They haven't. I think getting in late in that one game might help just to get the pace, the intensity. That's what it's about. It's all about, you know, building some stats. You know, a guy who's been a big influence, and he's standing right beside Aiden Hill is Sean Burke. What he's done this year. Fucking wow. Sean Burke. Sean Burke is a legend, goal big influence, and he's standing right beside Aiden Hill, is Sean Burke. What he's done this year. Fucking awesome. Oh, Sean Burke.

Sean Burke is a legend, goalie coach, and former player. This show is going to ESPN. Yeah. They're streaming their practice games on ESPN. Look, this is – look at us. Remote company, man. That's what it's like. We're reading the script.

Friday, nighttime, 5 p.m. Let's go. All part of the show. All right, we appreciate these guys, and Stoner will be Let's go. All part of the setup. All right, we appreciate these guys. And Stoner will be joining us here once he gets off the ice. It does appear as if they're wrapping up a little post-practice stretch there. You saw the groin stretch happening, huh? We're doing a little straddle.

Smart. A little IT band type stuff. Yeah, man. It was good. That hip flexor stretch, you know, the deep one of these things, the underground? There was like a season and a half where I had to do that before every kickoff, or there was a chance the whole hip flexor was just going to blow off. That's a terrible feeling.

It is. That is a terrible feeling. You had that? Yeah, I did. I couldn't even, like, you know how you stand up, and you hold your leg up like this and have somebody push down? I played a half a season where I couldn't even, like, really have somebody push down. That thing is a nightmare right there, AJ. Right here.

Oh, yeah. That's one of the few muscles I pulled my groin and my right side has never been the same. Like, that hip whole area just sucks. How many games did you miss?

Oh, that's when I missed one. I missed one, yeah. Oh! They're going to pull the Ohio trophy! What happened? No, I didn't miss a game with my groin.

I think it was like a Thursday and we had like eight or nine days, and I played and could not move. Yeah. Okay, well, we were just wondering if they had to take your Ohio trophy away. Just making sure. When you have a groin, you can't stop. You can't stop and start.

Once you get going, I would roll into my start, and then the play would be over, and if I wasn't in on the pile, I would just cruise on by because I'm like, I can't stop. Did you do any fall stops? Oh, yeah. It was awful. Terrible situation. That's like a guy on the ice

doesn't know how to stop, just falling the quickest way to get this thing over with. Him in the middle of a game with a pool groin just boom. Alright, let me go back this way. Let me stop on a dime. What a time. AJ, you are a meathead, bro. Oh yeah. Full on. Let's go through a couple more things happening around the NFL.

Christian McCaffrey spoke out about his trade to the 49ers and in this time spoke in glowing fashion. He said it was like the best thing that's ever happened to him, getting traded to the 49ers. Now, we know the McCaffrey family and the Shanahan family are very close. They are very good friends. Shanahan knew exactly what he was getting with Christian and more. Probably knew Christian McCaffrey better than any coach

that has ever coached Christian McCaffrey because of their relationship due to the dad and the dad in Denver being together and kind of growing up the families together. So whenever he goes there, first game, he's throwing a touchdown. He's catching a touchdown. He's running a touchdown. Christian McCaffrey had to be like, holy shit, I'm getting an opportunity to do absolutely everything. This is what I've dreamed of. I'm happy for the Niners making a big-time trade and it paying off immediately.

And the players saying, I love Carolina. Queen City queen city you go uptown you don't go downtown loved everything about charlotte with that being said out here we're playing for a super bowl and they are using me everywhere i don't blame christian mccaffrey for feeling this way at all aj no he's not taking a shot at carolina he just if you think about it if you say kyle shan, who's a player where you want to get to, where you get your hands on, where you could use him, you would think top of the list would be Christian McCaffrey. And if you're McCaffrey, you're thinking, hey, what's a coach I could get to that would really utilize everything I do?

Oh, Kyle Shanahan. Here we go. Perfect match, Pac. And I think that's what I heard you in agreement with while we were talking about this. Yeah, perfect match. Because, you know, when he was in Carolina, he was like, oh, is he really that good that that 2 000 yard year because the performance

had went down but like this is he couldn't ask for a better situation with the way kyle shanahan does with the motion all the stuff he do with the backs the misdirection the up tempo um this is a perfect situation for him and he's shown that he still is a dog. Absolutely. And we wondered if he could stay healthy. He seems like he's – that was just a couple unfortunate situations with how explosive he is. The taxes, though, a little different.

Yeah, a little bit. A little bit different. Health-wise, he's from California, right? That helps. Like if you play where you were born and your body's used to being in that atmosphere all the time, that's your – Oh, yeah, because you were born in the dark. Exactly.

Also, he didn't have a fullback like Kyle Juszczyk ever in his career in Carolina, right? Yeah. There was never a time where he was not only the runner. He donated a field or something. Juice just donated a field back home. Ohio? Is he from Ohio? Yeah, I saw that picture.

He is from Ohio. I'm not sure where that is, though. He was wearing— In what part? You know, I looked at the picture. I'm like, this is awesome. I didn't know he's from Ohio. I had no idea Yushek from Harvard was an Ohio fuck.

Did you know that? No, I didn't know until I saw that picture. Fullback in the NFL, you would put Ohio in the list of people that have produced said position. But then you hear Harvard, you're like, aha. We do not think so.

Because if he's good enough to be in the NFL and he plays football and he's smart, But then you hear Harvard, you're like, aha. Wait a minute. We do not think so. No chance. Because if he's good enough to be in the NFL and he plays football and he's smart, he's going to be a Buckeye. That's right. What are we even? So him going to Harvard and then being from Ohio, awesome. This guy might be president. Yeah.

But he donated a high school field back and he was on the field. I think they had like a camp going on. White shoes, white shorts, white shirt, very green grass. I was like, wow, this guy's very fucking confident in himself. That was an aggressive we're talking full white fit at this game. I'm like, good dude, that is a grass stain guaranteed

coming at some point. But he's the juice. He can do whatever the hell he wants, I guess. With McCaffrey, too, in Carolina, I think the big thing was he was getting 35 touches a game. he was getting 35 touches a game. He was getting 20 rushes and they were thrown at him 15 times. He's making the same impact

with the skill players they have by only touching the ball 15 to 20 times a game. We talked to Kittle, right? What do you say? Well, Christian's a very good football player because as soon as he got there, he became the focal point of the offense. Hey, we just traded for a guy. He's a superstar.

Everybody knows he's a superstar. We got a lot of superstars here that we paid. Right. Debo, Kittle, you name it. We paid people around here who were superstars, and then we're going to trade for this dude from Carolina in the middle of the season, and he's just going to become like 55% of our offense.

Yeah, also a superstar. And everybody else was just cool with it. Kittle was like, well, if he wasn't a good football player, we're probably not as cool with it. But he dropped in there and was fucking immediately, AJ. Immediate. If they get Purdy back again and they get another year together, let's go, dude.

When can Purdy start throwing? July? End of June? They had that 12-week mark where it was going to go one way or the other. Like panic mode or he's going to be okay. Allegedly the first 12 weeks were good. I thought there was a good report about him being able to throw by the time

week one rolls around. He's thrown in a couple weeks. Good to go you mean. Fully operational. Like ready to play. They do have the best thrower of football that's ever been in a 49ers uniform in Sam Darnold. Why'd you say what you just said? Because per Matt Maioco, he said that that's the case.

What happened? Matt Maioco, a 49ers beat writer, said that Sam Darnold might be. I don't think I announced his name in my head the same way you are, but I think I know who you're talking about. Yes, Maioco. M-A-I-O-C-C-O? Boom. Is that who we're talking about on Twitter?

Yes. Does cover the Niners. Yeah, and he said... How's it pronounced? Matt Maioco. I called him Maiko, I think. I mean, it could, but we just assumed. Yeah, I just assumed from his photo.

Well, we can't say that. Why? Jesus Christ. I got this Italian horn on. Exactly. It works off evil. You're the evil right now. No, because if I saw your photo, I would know it would be Pat McAfee.

Me. Yeah. Yeah. Like it's the same. It's the same case. Anyway, shout out to the Italians. Shout out. Shout out.

I love the Italians. But that's what was said by Mr. Maioco? Yeah. That Sam Darnold's the best ball thrower to ever wear a Niners jersey? Bingo. When was this? Was this when the baby? Yeah, this was three weeks ago.

Yeah, so this was in the heat of the moment for you. He's down. What? When? Did he say he might be? He said, can I say this? Sam Darnold is the best ball thrower of a football that the Niners have ever had. This Niners quarterback room?

The entire 49ers? The Niners franchise. Fucking Montana? Montana. Steve Jones. Jeff Garcia. Jeff Garcia. Boom. What is this? There's no way. Fucking Montana? Montana. Jeff Garcia. Jeff Garcia. Boom.

What is this? There's no way, Mike. J. Beathard. I refuse to believe that this happened. Nick Mullins. We can pull it up. Yeah, but did you say Beathard already? Yep.

What he does with football. Oh, baby. Antonio Brown plans to play for the team that he's not a member of. This will be the first time a foreign national will be playing in a professional football game. Now, there was conflicting reports by Antonio Brown and others on whether or not he was an owner of this team or not an owner of the team. When he was getting kicked out while walking around the field, he was an owner of the team. When players were getting kicked out of the hotel and bills weren't being paid, he was allegedly not an owner of the team. When the players were getting kicked out of the hotel and bills

weren't being paid, he was allegedly not the owner of the team. Seems like they got it all figured out now. He will be taking the field as he still got it. We saw it in a rap performance about a month and a half ago where he said, if you got one, throw a fucking ball up here.

First throw, bad throw. Second throw came, he literally snagged it, spun it, and then put his shit on. Yeah. It was quite a moment. It was. It was awesome. It was quite a moment for Antonio Brown. Now he'll be playing for the Albany Storm, and we're excited to watch.

Super excited. Where do you watch this at? It's like fan-crazed football. That's right. It is right there on the Twitch, I believe. Okay. On the YouTube. Yeah, same way we just watched practice, too.

Speaking of practice, joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is Amanda. We were watching him go to work in his office, which is right in front of the net doing a power play. Yep. This guy's had numerous back surgeries in such a short amount of time you would assume he wouldn't be able to walk without being in excruciating pain. That's right.

Well, don't you worry about walking. He said, I'll fucking skate. And not just skate, I will dominate on the ice. The first ever captain of the Vegas Golden Knights out of Canada, the same high school as Chris Jericho. Mark Steiner. Mark Stoner. Yeah!

Mark Stoner! What's up, Stoner? What's up? So you're from Ottawa? No, where are you from? You're from Manitoba? Manitoba. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

And you're right, Chris Jericho, same high school. Western Collegiate. Hell yeah. Does he ever come back and put people in the walls of Jericho or anything like that? Or do you ever meet him in the line, Tamer? Never met him, but he gets a pretty good reception when they come to Winnipeg. Yeah, pretty big pop, just like you, though, huh? What a dog you are, pal.

Let's talk about it. Are you just in incredible pain all the time with the back? The back is something like in our sport, once you get one back thing, it's like this is the life now. I would assume in hockey, same exact thing with the way the physical toll and skating and everything. The back, are you just, what is life like? Are you like miserable pain all the time, Stoner? No, I got it fixed. Went to a doctor in Denver. Same guy that Jack went and saw, Dr. Kresmak. He's actually operated on tons of NFL guys with their backs. He swore by the surgery

and I feel great. Really? I mean, great. Yeah, you're a hockey player. Hey, Stoner, this is the bullshit, and I know you're a fan of the show, so we can talk to you like this. This is the bullshit out of hockey.

We'll find out after you guys get eliminated. A guy that you just saw play last night for however many minutes skating all over the place, he actually has two broken shins. Like, yeah, shins are completely broken. They just taped it up. Now he's got surgery. He's out for the next four years, actually. He's like, we just saw this dude playing literally yesterday.

That's you hockey people. See, your back is miserable. You're just a hockey. Got it. Thank you for clearing that up, Stoner. You did lie to our face. Go ahead, AJ. Stoner, what's that atmosphere like out there?

Ty Schmidt, who's on the show, big fan. He says that you guys have the best barn in the league, obviously. Were you expecting that atmosphere out there? And also, like, the fans of Vegas seem to have really got behind you guys. Yeah, it's like, I guess one thing I say is normally usually it changes from regular season to playoffs. And ours does a little bit, but ours is always buzzing no matter what. So we're pretty fortunate to have the fans behind us that we have here.

You know, I think being the first pro sports, our first top league sports team in Vegas, they've been begging for this for years, and it's really taken on kind of a world of its own here in Vegas. There's Golden Knights everywhere, and getting traded from a Canadian market, I wasn't sure what to expect, taken on a kind of a world of its own here in Vegas there's gold knights everywhere and uh getting traded from a Canadian market um wasn't sure what to expect but it's been unbelievable fans are incredible um just love playing here a lot of success too I mean you're the first ever captain they've only been around what six years or something like four out of the six years

have made it very deep into the playoffs you're the first ever captain of a franchise does that weigh on you at all or like that's real deal. That's a big thing. I'm definitely proud of it. There's no doubt about that. Everybody here just wants to win. From the owner to the GM to the coaches, the players. We want to win a championship

for the city, for ourselves, for the organization. Yeah, you take a little bit of pressure, but we've got cup champions in this locker room that take a lot of heat off me. You got nighttime, 5 p.m. local there on Friday. I saw we were watching your practice. Seems like you were going to work in there. Goalie was staying on his fucking head there, eh, at the power play.

What do you think? Hiller's ready to go. The guys love jazzing at him, so pretty good. It's been a good sport throughout the season, taking extra shots, and now he's getting his chance to be our guy. Okay, so we didn't know who the fuck was who, because there's no name. We were watching the stream of your practice. There's fans? Is there fans at your practice?

Are those fans or family? No, we've got open practices, so we've got tons of fans that come watch us. Yeah, especially now with where we're at, fans are definitely buying in. Practice has been full for six years. So other teams are at that practice watching your power play? Like we were watching the power play practice and it was like, are we doing, because in football, this shit ain't, no way. This ain't happening at all.

Is that not, practices are just kind of practicing, you're not really giving anything away? I mean, there's so much video now, it's hard to not know what teams are doing. We're not doing like a, like you say, football is a new set every play, right? Ours is a little bit more reactionary, so. At the end of the day, you've got to execute on the power play,

so I don't think we're too worried about other teams watching us. How was practice today? It looked pretty good, didn't it? Oh, yeah. It looked like vibes were pretty high. Buzzing. Yeah, the boys are pretty amped up. You know, feeling good about ourselves.

Scoring lots of goals. Pace was high and got a pretty fun group. So guys like to have fun. PGA Championship's on. Guys are talking about that. So there's lots going on at the rink today. Things are good for the Golden Knights, Ty. That's got to be amazing to feel.

Hell, yeah. So, first and foremost, I just got to say it's a dream come true having you on here. You are my favorite NHL player. I have been a diehard fan since the inception of the Golden Knights. You mentioned how fun the group is. When you first get there, like, is the locker room a little bit different than any other locker room you've been in? Because a lot of you know that like i've heard was you know i don't want to say you guys were like misfits but and obviously you got traded but um everyone kind of like being

an expansion team getting plucked from different places um is the and then obviously you guys go out and trade for jackie aces which we are just you know over the moon for. But what's the locker room atmosphere like compared to your time in Ottawa? And also, when you look ahead at playing the Stars, obviously you guys didn't fare that well against them in the regular season compared to basically every other team in the league. Can you take anything from that from the regular season? Or is it, I mean, playoff time, everything changes and you guys aren't worried about what happened in the past? Yeah, I yeah i mean we got a squad in here there's a group of characters there's no doubt about that um you know whether it's petro is add marsh is so guy never shuts up

there's so many guys i mean we had a castle this year's guys one of my favorite teammates i've ever had just brings a smile to my face every day. He's almost like a Shaq type guy. Always the center of it. It's been great. We didn't have a great regular season against Edmonton either. We found

a way to win that one. Obviously, we want to have success against the team we're playing against, but at the end of the day, playoffs is different, man. I think you guys know that. Playoffs is different. Yeah, how does it feel? They talk about that in football all the time. They say, like, preseason is one speed, regular season is this speed,

and then postseason is like a whole other level. Is that something you guys notice? Oh, yeah, especially the first round. I mean, guys are so amped up to get going. It's almost just a war out there, but it kind of slows down a little bit like Nixon Bruises throughout the next couple rounds, but that first game of a new series is always a bit of a gong show.

Guys are trying to run around like idiots sometimes and set the tone. Do you guys rest? Because you guys play a lot of regular season games and then best of seven series and playoffs. Is there thoughts on resting? I forget what it was. Maybe Edmonton was up. I think Edmonton was up on you guys. Maybe.

It was 2-2. No, no, no. In the game. Oh, in the game. In the game, they were up like five or something. Or four. And somebody mentioned maybe Biz mentioned on TV he was like, maybe think about resting McDavid and the boys here. Got along and then the coach was like, nah, let's bury

this team or whatever. Do you guys do any rides? That was the first time I think I've ever heard that. Well, they're a bit of a different team than we are. They kind of rely on those top guys. We kind of rule everybody. But, I mean, our third, fourth lines are some big dudes out there that can punish you. But, I mean, when you're down in those games,

I think the only time they're thinking sitting guys is maybe for injury purposes. But when you think like that, I think that's usually when the injuries happen. Stoner, exhausting sport, dude. It really is. Are you full sprint pretty much, what, like 45 seconds to a minute? Then you're big ass because you're huge.

We literally, at practice, you were in a fucking skyscraper. Then you've got to get your big ass up over the thing, and then you're just trying to catch your breath, and then you're back out there sprinting. Is there off-season? How do you train? Is this cardio all the time? Like, I don't understand, I don't think.

Yeah, it's different, right? It's definitely different than football and basketball, but, yeah, all the training is different. A lot of, you know, you know quick burst stuff like you said but um honestly the older i've gotten the um shouldn't say the less hard i've trained but maybe smarter you know um i don't know i definitely don't put i don't put too many barbells on my back and squatting anymore that's for sure are you a golfer big golfer i haven't played and i mean i've had two back surgeries in golfer? Big golfer. I haven't played in, I mean, I've had

two back surgeries in a year now, so I haven't played a whole lot of golf. No, you got a fix, remember? We got the back fix. You said it, not us. You lied to us earlier, remember? Oh, yeah! Oh! Hey, Stoner! Hey! I haven't had time since I got a fix last, so we'll see you at the end of the season, right?

Yeah, you're a long way away. We got nothing but time still until that time's come. Pac-Man Jones, obviously, one of your the season, right? Yeah, you're right. Long way away. That's right. We got nothing but time still. Pac-Man Jones, obviously, one of your biggest fans, has a question for you. Let's go. What's up, my boy? What's up, Simon? First and foremost, I want to say thank you for letting me harass you,

or should I say text you, these last couple weeks. I want to ask you this. Going against your old head coach, will this be a little harder task for the guys or not? Could go both ways. We know the way he coaches, we know some of the tendencies, but at the same time, he knows some of ours as well. But, yeah, we haven't really thought of that too much, but we definitely, I mean, we want to beat the Dallas Stars.

That's all it is. Hey, I know you guys got that whole Las Vegasgas pregame show have you seen how green their arena their arena oh yeah very green down green at is there are these all good environments left or do you guys notice differences in venues oh yeah for sure i mean we played two two pretty hectic barns there they had the white out going in winnipeg, which was pretty cool, and Edmonton was all orange. They had the orange pom-poms and now it'll be all green. But yeah, the buildings are all great. I mean, same thing

out east with Carolina. That barn's turned into quite a spectacle. Their fans are behind them. And Dallas, they've been one of the better atmospheres for the last number of years. Great city to play in, fun city to visit, tons of good restaurants there.

So it'll be a good series for us to be a part of. Yeah, before you guys get to the barns and between barns, when you're traveling from barn to barn, you guys booze, don't you? I mean, you guys are NHL world. You guys do, I think you guys do eat out. Like that's a part of the NHL culture, right? Definitely changed a little bit since I've started. I don't think it's quite as much going down the hatch as it used to be,

but when I first got in the league, there was usually a six-pack waiting for most guys in their rooms when we'd land. Fucking love. Hell yeah. It's the best. It is, really. Connor has a question for you. Yeah, Stoner, you mentioned the Dallas head coach.

What about your head coach? How was it when Bruce Cassidy came to town? Did he immediately just fit in with all the boys? And how was that adjustment for you guys? Yeah, it was definitely different for sure. He's an intense dude. Brings a lot of intensity behind the bench. Expects a lot from the guys. I think

he's really gelled in with the guys lately. I think he's realized the type of characters that we got in the locker room and is starting to almost kind of buy into the fun nature of what some of these guys bring. He kind of loosened up a bit, which has been fun, but when it's go time

for puck drop, he's just as ready to go as anyone else. You guys have come together at the right time, you think? Right? Feels like it? I mean, for sure. I think we've been good all year, though, you know. A lot of guys go down. Said you stunk in Edmonton during the season and in Dallas.

So I apologize. And Jackie Isser says he doesn't have a hat trick. No, he doesn't. Offered him 100 grand. Did you hear about this? Offered him 100 grand to him, Stoner. I can get Marshall Stowe on the show if you need. He doesn't have a hat trick. No, he doesn't. Alfredo, I'm up 100 grand. Did you hear about this? Alfredo, I'm up 100 grand to him, stoner. I can get Marshall still on the show if you need. He seems to be getting hat tricks.

Oh, is he the one that got it the other night or whatever? There he is. What's that? Screaming at me down here, Marshall. Hey, tell him he gets another hat. He will donate 100 grand. Marshall, if you get a hat trick next game, we got a 100 grand donation in your name.

Anywhere you want. We'll keep working on it. You said working on it? He's working on it. Yeah, well, Jackie Aces told us that too. And then his shot line was like over one and a half, literally the next night. And he was like Tatum last night.

It was just nothing. Ridiculous. He was passing everything. I'm like, this guy hates charity. Jackie Aces hates philanthropy. I mean, what is the problem out there? You don't have to worry about 81 not shooting a puck. He was passing everything. I'm like, this guy hates charity. Jackie Aces hates philanthropy. I mean, what is the problem out there? You don't have to worry about anyone not shooting a puck.

Tell him that's something for you. Stoner, we've been talking about the Barnes and the atmosphere and game one being a bit of a gong show. I mean, when we get to the siren going in Vegas, who is the best siren goer of all time? Is it Chris Angel or who do you want for game one? God, when we went on a run there a couple years back, we had

a new Raider doing it every game, which was pretty sweet. I think we had, was it Jonathan Abram was doing it once? Waller came. Other than that, it's Waller. Sounds not good for the Raiders. Dude, you're gone. Those guys are all out of time. I'll give the one thing about those football guys,

they know how to get a crowd going. Yeah, we don't mind working it a little bit. Vegas, do you guys see Penn and Teller pop by and Carrot Top say, hey boys, let's go to the Knights. And then Chris Angel shows up from the fucking top of the United National Center you guys are in right there. Face on the Knights. And then Chris Angel shows up from the fucking top of the United National Center. You guys are in right there.

Face on the puck. Exactly. Bang. Copperfield. He cuts your legs off, puts your back on Jackie Aces, says this is what old buddy's going through all season. Do you see the Vegas community a lot? And how has that been?

Yeah, we see a few of the guys for sure. I ran into Carrot Top a couple times at lunch around town. Brad Garrett, his comedy show, he's a big fan of the guys. Shania Twain, she was a big supporter. Shania Twain, dude? Come on, Stoner. Wayne Newton?

Good question. Huge supporter of the team, for sure. He comes to the games quite a bit. Yeah, I mean, I think as much entertainment as there on the strip, like you guys know, live sports is just different, so these people love it. Stoners are probably a fucking hero to Penn and Teller. Oh, yeah. No question.

I didn't even think about that. Who was the guy I went and saw? Poof, David Copperfield. Yeah, that's right. Did he ever show up? And if he was, would you even know he was there? Probably not. I went and saw one of his shows.

Have you done any of the shows in Vegas? I've been to a bunch. I haven't seen Copperfield yet. I go to a lot of the, like, Absinthe. No one's unreal. You've never seen Absinthe? Wow, surprise. Cirque du Soleil?

Yeah, it's a Cirque. It's right up your guy's alley, I think. I think Absinthe is a drug, right? The Absinthe, that drink. Yeah, it's that one. I don't know if you know me that well or you just assume this guy will like the drug one, but you're right.

I would enjoy. Nick has a question for you. Stoner? Stoner, we know a lot of hockey guys are superstitious I was curious if you follow that same route or if you got any routines before the game you gotta do like you gotta have your stick taped up a certain way you gotta have the pads you wore

all the way from juniors anything like that God I mean I haven't changed much of my equipment since probably 15 years old a lot of stuff I'm still wearing but yeah I mean I got tons of... Stoner, that's by the back. You got fucking new technology, Stoner. What are we doing here? Well, I'm not very fast.

I got to wear all this small stuff, you know. But I got all this stupid quirks, you know. Get calls in the middle of interviews. David Copperfield. Boom. Go through the drive-thru at Starbucks, get my coffee at the same time. If Theo's not at the rink before me,

I'll wait for him to go in. A lot of stupid stuff, but once I get the gear on and out the door, that's when all the superstitions go away, but for the first two hours before the game, I'm doing all that stupid stuff. You got through Starbucks. Let's say some asshole is in front of you, just order for

$15. We don't need it. People used to do it at Subway when we didn't know. I had no idea. We did not know what was going on. None of us knew. When Subway first launched, we didn't know what was going on with spokespeople of Subway at all.

That was crazy. That was in Indiana. Saw the helicopters buzzing over top. But people would show up and they'd have an order for like 10 people. It was like, hey, you're ruining Subway. You're actually ruining what this whole thing's about. Starbucks could happen. Does that get you off your game?

And will you give us an update if your Starbucks thing went smoothly or not so we can rest a little easier going into every local game? So I actually scan the drive-thru as I drive in. If the drive-thru's got more than three or four cars, I'll jet in there quick. What's the order? Because nobody goes in anymore, I feel

like. Everybody has to drive through. So I'll just park quick and just jet in. But I just get a cold brew and head to the game. Any Splendor sugar or cream? Just black. Hell yeah. That's a weird superstition, you know. You got to go pay somebody to give you just a regular fucking coffee.

That's a weird thing, Stoner. But it works for you. I like that. It works. Have you been like this your entire career? You said you won't go in until Theo goes into the building, so you're just sitting outside on a bench or in your car? I usually stay in the car, but he's usually –

it's probably about 80% of the time he's there before me and then maybe 10, 20 off the way. But, no, he's usually there. I don't even think he knows this, but – You need to add more. You need to add more things. Yes. Let's get more of these things in there.

Do we want to win in Florida or not? Yeah, exactly. Hey, Pac-Man has one more question for you, Stoner. My bad. The atmosphere at the game. I heard they have some dancers on the other side of the arena over there. How is the atmosphere? Is it real dancers on the opposite side bench?

Oh, yeah. over there. How's the atmosphere? Is it real dancers on the opposite side bench? Oh yeah, there's they get the I don't even know what those dancers are, but the Vegas dancers are there's about six or seven of them behind the glass before every warm-up trying to distract their team. This is what the Bulls did.

The Bulls allegedly did this. Michael Jordan, this was something like Jordan did. If it was like massive game or something like that, and they had a read on somebody on the other team didn't have the most disciplined eyes or whatever, they would line up in the front row, allegedly a lot of temptation in the front row. The fact that Vegas is doing good research, Pat.

Pat, good research there. Hey, Ruppert told us last night, Dallas does the same thing at the intermissions in the tunnel. So I'm sure you know this, Stoner, but watch out. Eyes ahead, eyes on the prize. Eyes down, eyes down, Stoner. Blinders on, boys. Let's go. It's the fucking playoffs, Paul.

All right, we appreciate you so much joining us. If you score four goals, we'll give $250,000. I've never done it before, but I appreciate it. Hey, no problem. Maybe, maybe, you know? Maybe. We'll see. I'll take the win over anything, but four goals, 250, that sounds pretty damn good.

Okay, four goals, 250. And if you win, Lordo, Gumpy's so mad right now. Oh, he's sorry, Gumpy. We got some of the biggest Texas hockey fan watching right now. He's actually deported back to your home country, not able to get across the border. Shout out. Hey, Gump, we miss you. You guys win

Lordo, though. We'll give $250,000 somewhere, too. You guys can all kind of vote for where we should give it to. I appreciate that. Thank you guys so much. Go Colts, man. Hey, good golden nights, man. Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Stoner. Stoner!

Did we make it official with that Marci guy? Because he wasn't on camera. Sounded like he was working. Marci has been firing fucking boxes in that shit. Oh, he does shoot. I had a bad heartburn right there. Yeah, we saw you almost die there. Are you okay? I wasn't sure, yeah.

Great question. You did that research. I had a hearty sandwich and had a jelly on it this there. Yeah, we saw you almost die there. Are you okay? I wasn't sure, yeah. Great question. You did that research. What did you do that research? I had a hearty sandwich and had a jelly on it this morning. More of the jam. The jam. More of the jam. All out of jam. Shout out to Stoner.

The Golden Knights team. They've really bought into the old program, I think. Yeah, they're unbelievable. I got a text from Jackie Aces calling me a sellout yesterday. Really? He called you a sellout? He said I would tweet this like everybody else, but I always text it, you're a sellout. Aces. He said he's never fucking talking to me me again He doesn't want the $100,000 donation

Because we're fucking sellouts He doesn't have my number Everything I just said was a lie But they know the program enough to know That we are being called sellouts right now Let's go to Hunter in California Before we wrap this thing up What's going on pal

Shout out he's's behind him. Here we go. Here he comes. Yo! I finally got on this bitch. Yeah, Hunter! Yeah, you did! Yeah, you did! What's up? What's good, Pat and the boys? Keep it moving.

Hell yes. I just want to ask Pac, man, when the fuck is your tree landing down in Cali? I've looked everywhere for it, and I can't get my hands on this pack. What the fuck, Pac? You should be able to go to

any cookie store. We're not on ESPN. Come on. Don't buy into this. Don't buy into this. This is a good call. I'm supposed to be good, but we're still on. Go back and ask the same question. No, Hunter, geez. Hey, Hunter, you can go to any cookie store in L.A.

Got it right now. I don't know if it's in L.A. I hung up on him because of the amount of fucks he was saying, which is disgusting. San Diego next month, if you're in San Diego. Okay, so NorCal next month. Yeah. Cookie L.A. I hung out with him because of the amount of fucks he was saying, which is disgusting. San Diego next month, if you're in San Diego. Okay, so NorCal next month. Yeah. Cookie stores.

Yeah. All cookies and lemonades. Gary Payton's a part of the cookie store? Yes, sir. Oh. Yeah. The glove. I believe he's one of the founders.

I didn't know that. Are you only in Southern California or Northern California? Both, Southern and Northern California. He'll be there a couple weeks. San Diego. You smoking dope? San Diego is Southern California. No, it's San Francisco, you said, right? San Diego. Oh, be there a couple weeks. San Diego. You smoking dope? San Diego is Southern California. No, it's San Francisco, you said, right?

San Diego. Oh, so you're not going to San Francisco? We'll be in San Francisco, too. Okay. Okay, sweet. San, San. San. The San.

Hans, Hans. Han, Han. Han, Han. Han, Han. Han, Han. Han, important. To be in the San. San.

San, San, San, San. Right. San Jose. San Francisco. San San. San Jose, San Francisco, San Diego. San Diego is getting an MLS team. Congratulations. A billionaire from Egypt is paying $500 million

to MLS to license another team in the MLS that will bring them to 30 teams as a whole. This is the highest price that will bring them to 30 teams as a whole. This is the highest price tag somebody has paid to join in on the MLS. And we'd like to say congrats. We love what... The MLS, I've never seen... I think the ones that went to Apple, I never

saw a single thing that they did again. They do promote it heavily on there, though. Yeah, so whenever you watch Ted Lasso... Shrinking. Pretty good games lately. Shrinking. MLS? Yeah. They were. Before they did that Apple deal, I feel like they were really. Hitting their stride. I think they were starting to really catch on.

Now, I know Apple paid them a shit ton of money. They probably had to take the deal. Apple's looking at getting into sports more and more. I assume they'll get to a point where they'll be very, very deep. But that league has disappeared from my world. Absolutely. And it was catching up. Gumpy covers it quite a bit

so that's the only way I know about it. Gumpy is one of the best footy gamblers going. But the MLS has good shit, I think. They weren't able to pay $500 million a year to get Meshie. But if they did, that'd be sweet. And if the owner's from Egypt, so is Mo Salah,

who's one of the best players in the Premier League, maybe he comes over too. Yeah, the MLS is going to take over. That's what this says. Don't be surprised when the Champions League comes calling. Ryan Reynolds bought a club in their country for like $25 or something. That's right. These guys are paying $500 million here in America.

They know the value. So, you know what's next? We're winning the World Cup. Sorry about it, soccer Super Bowl. Sorry about it. Sorry about it, soccer Super Bowl. Sorry about it. Sorry about it. I believe last night they unveiled the 2026 World Cup logo on top of SoFi. The United States logo?

No, the logo for the World Cup. Oh, my God. What did it look like? It looked like every other World Cup logo, but it was pretty sweet. No. Yeah, it was pretty sweet. Did they think about changing it up a little bit by having our guy, the guy that is the guy,

the guy that's better than everybody else? Polithic? Polithic. Did they have him standing on top of the mountain maybe like hand on waist, foot up on something like he was the beer person? Oh, that's so sick.

That's so good. Holy shit. You see, that's a six down there for 2026. I know the USMNT also got a kid who declared to play for them instead of another country. Yes, he's supposed to be real good. So fucking things are looking up. That was happening with Garden Hoser, the coach a couple back. He was from Germany.

Juergen Klinsmann. He was trying to get every German kid to play for the United States. And they did. And we stunk. And nobody cared because they weren't Americans. Have we got a coach that's not a huge prick? We still have a fill-in. Yeah, the a huge prick? We still have a fill-in. Yeah, the Reina situation. We still have a fill-in.

There's been no coaching decision. Why hasn't Tony Miolla got that job? What's Tony doing? AJ, would you like to give a word for Tony? Let's call Tony Miolla. It's a cold call to Tony Miolla. Tony Miolla. Yeah, he answered last time. What about that Spaniard that was

eating his boogers and smelling his armpits? Pep Guardiola? What? That doesn't sound like a real name. And that doesn't sound like a real person. But nonetheless, if that person is that much of an independent thinker, love to have him on the bench for the United States Men's National Team. My fan favorite is a guy named Jesse Marsh.

He's a U.S. coach coaching in the Premier League, which is top of the top. Okay, we like that. He's at Chelsea or where's he at? No, he's at Leeds. I want to say Leeds. Yeah, there's like three Americans. There's an American coach and two American players. Yes.

Can we get Leeds? Might be Leeds. Yellow. Oh, sorry. It was a German coach, not Spain's. Oh, that German guy. Yeah. You can't be doing that, especially with where we're at.

It is Leeds. That's the first time Tony Miola has not answered a cold call. You know why? Sellouts. That's right. That's right. Tony Miola has not answered a call. You know why? Sellouts. That's right. Tony Miola has us on his fucking phone as sellouts. Do not answer. Damn it.

Why can't we get Ronaldinho? Call Alexi Law. I don't think he coaches. I don't have Alexi Law's number. We could get apparently Thierry Henry. Thierry Henry. Thierry Henry. Oh, yeah. Thierry Henry is interested in the position.

Let's get Thierry Henry. Or is it Dane, that guy that headbutted those people? Is it on? Thierry Henry. Thierry Henry. Oh, yeah. He's interested in the position. Let's get Thierry Henry. Or Zidane, that guy that head-butted those people. Zidane. Do you have to be born in the country to play for the country? You can have no citizenship. Yeah, and or parent. Okay. I was trying to make that team.

That was my dream. A lot of traveling to go play. Trying to make that team. I did not. So you fell back. That's a crazy world. Yeah, then I just started team. I didn't know it. So you fell back. It's a crazy world. Yeah, then I just started kicking footballs. It worked out.

A couple of my friends made it out there. They were in a lot better shape cardio-wise than me. I think I had undiagnosed asthma. Awesome. I thought I could do it. Could have also been the vitamin intake. I don't think there was a lot of soccer players doing that. I had you around with the Columbus crew.

Yeah, I think I could have played there if I would have had another, I don't know, seven, eight months to get in shape. That's what the coach actually said. Seven, eight months? Day one, not bad. But if we're doing this, this is a year plan to get you in shape, dude. Yeah, I got it. I can't get out of bed right now.

I'm just going to go enjoy this lockout. I'm going to order 14 pizzas. See you. Because I lost 30 pounds to do this. I did. I was 5. a half percent body fat. Wait, you played soccer when you showed me that picture, right? Is that what you were playing? So during the lockout. You weren't in shape there. You could run all day, I bet.

Cardio. I couldn't. The lungs were not, they were not ready. They were not ready. The body was 205 pounds, five and a half percent body fat. I look like an alien. My head, I was actually pretty chiseled, yeah. But I, it was during a lockout. I was going to go play with the crew. I was going to try to play with, everybody's talking about Chad Ochocinco going to play with Kansas City or whatever. I was like, shoot, actually, potentially going to

Tony Miola's on a coaching call right now. Holy shit, ask him if this is an interview. Ask him if this is an interview. Omar Khan breaks it. They sign Metro Trubisky, and we break Tony Miola's on a coaching call right now. Here we go. Holy shit. Ask him if this is an interview. Ask him if this is an interview. Omar Khan breaks that they signed Metro Trubisky, and we break Tony Miola's potential on an interview call. What if he's actually doing the interviewing? What are you going to do to the team that I fucking helped raise?

Okay. What if he's one of the gatekeepers? That should be. It would make more sense. What if they're interviewing him to be the coach? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. We hope. I mean, that would be incredible breaking news.

Tell him to give us one of these if he is, two of these if he's not. Okay? We don't need full answers. We just need. Just the emoji. We'll get that for you tomorrow. Let's get the fuck out of here. We took calls.

We did it. Yeah, we did the show. We talked about everything on here, too. Did we talk about what you were going to talk about? Oh, you mean that today's show is sponsored by the best ticket app on planet Earth and the moon? Yeah. Yeah. Did you talk about that? SeatGeek? No.

With over 28 million downloads. We did talk about that, though. We did. We talked about SeatGeek earlier. Yeah, because they were doing the ticket prices for the athletic. Shout out to SeatGeek getting to be the ones in that thing. And the reason why they're the ones that people are referring to is because SeatGeek is the greatest ticket buyer. They are the best.

I mean, we've talked about before, they will rate their tickets on their site and they'll actually tell you like, hey, if it's red, this isn't a good deal right now. If you need the ticket, cool, buy this. If not, do not buy this. You are getting absolutely royally screwed here. Prop seats.

It'll feel like crop. Crop price for these tickets. But then the reason why they know that is because they scan the entire internet. They have their own AI. It tells you what tickets are available and what places, how much they should charge, how much it is being charged in other places. So it tells you if it's a good deal, bad deal, or in the middle, and they have access

to every single fucking event. I love SeatGeek. They're our first partner, pretty much, our first sponsor. And they have only grown, and they survived a world live event stoppage somehow. I don't know how they did that. Me neither. I would really like to know how they survived that. Yeah, it would be interesting to find out. I mean, it's not really for us to

dig into, but how did they survive that? Good question. I'm not sure. It's because they're a great business. Yeah, and they're such a good business that right now you can get 15% off NFL tickets with the link in the show description. It works whether you're a first-time buyer or not. No code.

Just click the link, and the 15% off code will be auto-applied to your account. 15% is more than 10. Yeah, it is. That's a lot more than ten. Isn't it, Pac? A lot more than ten. How about more than fourteen, too? Not as much. Good discount word there. Still higher. And that's a sliding amount of money now, right?

Because the percentage is about to fall. How we doing over here? I see Speed's got walking with him. Scoot's up there. Hovland's up there. DeChambeau. DeChambeland's up there. DeChambeau. DeChambeau tied for first. DeChambeau hit a guy earlier, and now he's up there. Yeah, the Canadian, Corey Connors, is up there.

Johnny Rom's not having a great day, unfortunately. Tony Miola left us on red. God damn it. Are we going to continue the golf update? That was about it. I was just trying to chime in there with a little piece of information I learned. I got this Italian horn around my neck, Tony. we're halfway through day one i mean there's god aj guys are golfing he's responding he heard it he he had to be reminded real quick oh my oh there's dude oh wow they're still teeing off yeah yeah did you tell them to

do one or two or two we tease off at almost four o'clock. Do you want to get 18 in? Two-hour frost. In New York? There's no way. Dude, Indiana is like 9 o'clock. It's the fucking... New York's not gonna... Sun setting 9 o'clock. You could tee off like 7.15 right now. You could start nine holes and get them in at 7.15 p.m.

Indiana is crazy. Is Ohio like that as well? Yeah. That is crazy. Is Ohio like that as well? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's awesome. That is crazy. Not as much because we're far to the west, but they can lie about it for sure. Yeah, he's saying because geography, you guys can't be experiencing the same thing we're experiencing,

but we appreciate what you're saying. Well, since he's pretty damn close, but that piece of shit up there is a big crop. I woke my dog at 845. There's still light outside. Okay, well, we're at nine. Yeah. Tony, you have to understand, too, a lot of people are questioning the curvature of the earth.

Can't have that. Can't have that on when we're on ESPN. Why? Because they told me, remember? I'm just asking. They literally just told me to tell you. Don't say that. Oh, no.

They just told me. I'm just asking questions. This year's Zito. This year's them. Mm-hmm. Oh. So anytime you hear me say this, when we're on ESPN,

those are watching right now. Oh, no. Gotta talk about a governor and the guns. Okay. You know? What a joke. All right, let's get out of here, bro. Thought we were maybe gonna have Tony Miolla.

Tony Miolla texts us back that he's literally in the middle of something pretty important right now can we maybe it's going to be a beautiful feel good Friday though once he's announced as the head coach of the United States men's team we were told that was not to get we did get a no

we're not happy about it I'd like to also do you guys mind if I take this moment thank you haven't addressed this yet No, that's a statement. Oh, I'd like to also, do you guys mind if I take this moment? No, man. Please. Thank you. I haven't addressed this yet.

And Pac-Man, I think you'll want to think about this as well. There's been some rumblings from the NFL, both from players, coaches, GMs, and even like owners around the NFL that have made its way to me, that they're thinking about passing this kickoff fair catch rule that college football has in the NFL. Don't fucking do it. Please don't do it. Do not. We cannot have that in football. In professional

football, that cannot happen. Anytime you watch a college football game and the ball is kicked off to the 15 yard line and the person waits for a fair catch, you think to yourself what, this is not a sport. This is not the sport that we watch. That rule was put in there because they're still able to make wedges. They still have five-yard run-ups.

They still have that. They have a much different setup for kickoffs than the NFL has. You've already made enough changes to the kickoff. We need not to have the fair catch thing in field of play in the NFL. And I've heard that they're trying to fast track it. Yeah. I've heard it. That's what, like, I'm happy I remembered this because they're saying like,

hey, if you have a chance, can you please maybe mention? And I'm like, yeah, when's this happening? They're like pretty, seems like they're trying to get it through. We can't have that happen, AJ. Can't. No. Do you fair catch and get the ball at 25 no matter what? Yeah.

What is it? Yeah. Just take the kickoff out then. If you're going to do that, you might as the ball get at 25 no matter what or what is it yeah just take the kickoff out then if you're gonna do that you might as well just get out and get rid of it that's stupid it is it's crop but then if you take the kickoff off you're taking away a lot of jobs for a lot of fucking people I made a really good living catching balls you weren't the only one a lot of people blocking for you that made it yeah come on that's ridiculous can't have it hey come on come on can't have it it Come on. Come on. Can't have it. It does look weird, though. I agree, though.

It does look weird. We've got fair catches at the 15. It's not even like a competitive play anymore. And in the NFL, guys are too good to just put them on the 25-yard line. That means two plays, you've got a first down. You're in scoring position. Yeah, it's just bush league. It's crop.

It is. If you want to touch back, tell your kicker to get stronger and kick a touchback. And if you can't, then tell your coverage team to get better. That's football. This is a part of football. We need not to be looking like some Bush League bullshit. Like in college, this past year, I loved the college football year. The pageantry,

the great games, the great teams, the fan bases. Obviously, game day is an incredible experience. You're getting first class everything everywhere. You watch a game and you see somebody do this on the 10-yard line, I almost puke. I'm like, what are we doing? I can't do it. I can't do it. We can't do it.

I've heard there's a chance that they're trying to do it. Don't do it. We need that, not that. Don't do it. I can't do it. We can't do it. And I've heard there's a chance that they're trying to do it. Don't do it. We need that, not that. Don't do it. Hey. Don't. Makes no sense. At all.

For safety? They claim it's for safety? Yeah. Everything's for safety. It's like, how come this one play is always being talked about? I would like to see these stats. Don't do it. Don't do it.

Don't even think about it. Don't do it. Also takes away the strategy of a high kick. Yep. Don't do it. There we go think about it. Don't do it. Also takes away the strategy of a high kick. Yep. Don't do it. There we go. I got my fucking eyes on you. Okay.

Don't do it, dude. There's no reason. Okay. They got different rules in college football for the kickoff than we do at the NFL. Okay. You've already gotten rid of so many things that take strategy out of it. But in the name of safety, which we appreciate. We can't have Bush League fair catches at that 10-yard line.

That'll make every human that has ever created football puke and vomit. Lombardi rolling over and puking with no soul. Puking about what happened. Can't have it in the NFL, AJ. In college, okay, got little baby legs. You don't have enough time to really strategize on how to tackle, how to go about doing things properly so it's safe. The athletes aren't as good as they are in the NFL.

They're able to have wedges, so maybe that takes away from high-speed collisions and people that are reckless. Cool. Let college football – congrats, college football, one foot in. It's fun. It's fun. That's college. It's cool. They got their own things. It's great. It's an incredible sport. Don't do it to the NFL.

Don't do it. Don't do it. Alright, let's get out of here. Can't do that when we get to ESPN. No chance. Might mess up the NFL contract later. All right. Let's get out of here. Can't do that when we get to ESPN. Yeah. No chance. Might mess up the NFL contract later. Oh, good.

Not that we don't fucking have one already. I heard those people say, I ain't not going to be able to say anything that they say about the NFL. Going to come another corporate ESPN show. Okay. We have an NFL. Have you heard about PAFL, bro? We got our own relationship with the goddamn NFL.

And it's not as large as ESPN's. But it is pretty significant. Come on, bro. Why is everybody so mad? Not everybody. Yep. Past it. Fuck them all.

Get through the weekend. Fuck them all. Everyone stay over it. Fuck them all. Here we go. Stay strong. Stay go. Too strong. Too strong. Too strong.

Perfect line, though. Great line. Too short. Too short. Too short. This one's good. Oh, yeah, it is. Oh, come on.

There it is. That looked good from here. I thought that was a one. You got another one right there. You got another one in the front. Good eyes, Edge. We're back! Oh, no.

Hit the TV. All right, you guys win nothing. Sorry about it. Can't give anything away. Wanted to. Honestly, wanted to. Wanted to do it forever. Just that ball didn't fall.

Sorry. Sorry, guys. I didn't do a giveaway. Throw that camera again. They look great from here. They did. Sorry. Sorry.

Try it. Oh, man. Sorry. There's one more under the desk. You should have just hucked up one at the camera, though. That was really cool. I don't know. I got it.

Right next to it. No. Put it in the hole in the wall. Sorry. Sorry. Good don't know. I got it. Right next to it. No. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Too many push-ups. Lost a touch. Damn shame. Yeah, sorry. I'm going to do every giveaway going forward.

Damn. Wanted to make one. Two jocks. Yeah, crank that thing. Calibrated. Calibrated. Oh, yes. Oh, sorry. Sorry. I feel like I threw the shit out of that.

You did. That was doing a hole in the wall. There's a pumpkin down there by Pac. Yeah, that's his foot thing. Baseball. There's the bat. Yep. Oh, yeah. Give it a rip.

Don't hit the TV. Oh! The bat! Sorry. Homer! Holy shit! All right. Sorry.

All right, you guys win nothing. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Whoops. How about it? Fucking upper deck. That's great ball.

Holy shit. I mean, just wide open swing. There's 20 cameras out here. Oh, yeah. If you would have smashed that TV right in front of you. I mean, that was the last thought, too. Practice TV. I also have no idea where that ball landed in.

Right. Yeah, that might be in a water softener. Right. Heater or something. Right. What if Mitt's up there? Mitt might be up there doing some maintenance. What if it hit him in the head? Nah, Mitt's in. Right. Yeah, that might be in a water softener. Right. Heater or something. Right. What if Mitt's up there? Mitt might be up there doing some maintenance. What if it hit him in the head?

Nah, Mitt's in his hole. Yeah. His whole brain. Mitt. Five, four, three. Go to the can. Two. There he is.

Yes. Yes. Nice. Mitt. Hell yeah, bro. Hell yeah, dude. Bro, this fucking lit. Yeah, dude.

Hell yeah. Hell yeah, dude. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, bro. Yeah, good callers today, dude. Bro, this is fucking lit. Yeah, dude. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, dude. Hell yeah, bro. Yeah, good callers today, Mitt. Yeah, Mitt. Where you going? The 500 and your phone line. Yeah, oh, call God.

Call God. Call God. Hell yeah, Mitt. Hell yeah. Get him a more comfortable chair in there. Yeah. Yep. He can pick that one himself.

All right. There's a Herbstreet in here, too, again, all of a sudden. Oh, Jake. Yeah, this guy's Joe Burrow haircut, too, walking around this place. He looks like an idiot. Talk to him at the derby for a minute. Doesn't look like an idiot. Yeah, he does.

He looks like a sex symbol. Yeah, he does. He looks like a sex symbol. Real pretty boy. You are insulting Joe Burrow by even just putting him in the same sentence as Herbstreet. Real pretty boy, Joe. Hey, Joe. Come on, Connor. Hey, Joe.

Joe's a real deal right now. And we're calling the sheep dog Joe Burrow. It's ridiculous. Herbie! That ain't real. There you go. Whoa! Guess who's back. Back again. Or to summer.

Tell a friend. He looks good. He does kind of have the Pauly Shore biodome haircut. Great movie. Great movie. Yeah. Great movie. How good of a movie is that? Oh, my God. Is that Baldwin?

Is that Billy Baldwin? Yeah. Steven, I think. God, that was a good movie. Steven, yeah. Steven was the one that obviously had the gun that killed the person. That was out. That was out.

Nope. His older brother. Steven is Bieber's father-in-law, right? Yep. Bingo. No. The one that did the thing is. No.

That's Alex. He's a new man, though. Alex. They finished shooting and he shaved his beard. Alex is the talented one. Oh. I think my mind's blown on who's who here. I don't think I understand which one's which.

There's three of them, right? Yeah. I think my mind's blown on who's who here I don't think I understand which one's which There's three of them right? Yeah Cause Billy and the other one were in that movie Where all the brothers had to go sit in a circle And talk about being brothers of someone more famous You old guy you gotta think about it Dinner for schmucks Was it dinner for schmucks?

I don't know I don't even know what movie we're talking about Dinner for schmucks One of them loved copious amounts of drugs Holy shit They all got the same face Except the right one kind of looks like Bruce from Shark Tale

Doesn't really look like that Doesn't really look like a human That one on the far left looks like he's up to something But he looks very happy He's from Backdraft, right? So this is the entire Baldwin family here? Hey, great Way to be successful, all of you something but he looks very happy i mean middle he's from a backdraft right is he he's open so this is the entire baldwin family here hey great way to way to be successful always oh there you go yeah it was fred claus when they're all sitting in the uh the circle and fred claus is uh oh you

you're not fred claus guy you're a fucking santa claus which yeah we did not ask stoner about will and behold uh scott calvin's wife actually went to the same high school as Stoner as well. Forgot to mention that. Fred Claus was in the movie. Not his ex-wife. His ex-wife. Oh, no. I thought you meant the new wife, the principal.

No, no, no. You're talking about when I married a therapist. Yeah. Oh. Hey. Holiday movie season's right around the corner. It is. So is football.

How many days till football? We are at 113 days until NFL football. We're going. Right around the corner. We're pumped. So fast. Yeah. You see how we build it up?

People should do that. Yeah, slow clap's great. Yeah, start slow. Did you get a slow clap at Nick's wedding? That's a good thing. As you're starting to announce the bride and groom, someone starts a slow clap. No.

There were so many introductions. I don't think the- Yeah, no. That would have been super lame. So we definitely didn't even think about doing that. We did that for Tech Joe when he got out of the car with his sweatpants on. As he was walking through him and Mark Madden.

This used to be much more prevalent, I feel like. Slow clap was great. You start a slow clap at a random place, what a moment. Baseball game. Grocery store. You used to be able to really, oh, hey. Yeah. Just like real dramatic.

Huh? Huh? Yeah. How about fucking Stoner going, you know, those football guys really know how to get a crowd going. Yeah. Both those guys fucking gone. Yeah. Out of town.

Abraham was the best practice safety of all time. You remember that on Hard Knocks? Hard Knocks. They were talking highly about him spearing people in walkthroughs. Do you remember this? Yeah. Why was that happening? I don't know what's up with the Vegas players.

You know, they got another kid that I guess just got drafted that had an assault with a daily weapon or something. Last year there was one of those. There was a DUI, obviously. There's been a lot out there. They're out of their first-round pick. I think that's who you're talking about, right? Yeah.

This year's? The same kid. No, no, no. Last year. Yeah, last year. The same kid in the rugs draft. The other first-round pick. Damon Arnett.

He just got assault with a deadly weapon. Jeez Louise. All right, so what we think and we hope is that in the future, nobody's going to do anything dumb anymore. Yep, that's right. Right? Nobody dies. Right. Sounds good to me. never doing a moment of silence again not gonna have to nobody's dying forever this is good we'll be back tomorrow for a feel-good friday then hell yeah

be a friend tell a friend great week this week pack be a friend tell a friend something nice we'll take more phone calls tomorrow massive guests tomorrow huge Nope, not even going to say it. Maybe some more sellouts. Definitely. I don't think maybe. Well, isn't everybody? No, I'm not going to say. That wouldn't be the truth, right?

Literally every human that is in this business works for somebody. Nobody else. No, not typically. We were kind of like the only ones. We were the only ones. So that's why everybody's so mad. But then they're going to bat for other people that

aren't sellouts. But they certainly sold out earlier. In a different fashion. We'll figure it out. We'll get to the bottom of it. It's going to be alright. It's It'll be alright It's gonna be alright It'll be alright It's just like a bamboo seed

You know what I mean? That's right You gotta plant the bamboo seed And you gotta water it Water it Water it Like five years You just gotta continue to really care

That's right Can't give up Even though there's a lot of reason to It's just a boring fucking pot For a long time. And all of a sudden, boom, 30 feet. Bang, another one. Boom, pow, boom, pow, boom, pow, boom.

That's what we're doing right now with this entire thing. We're playing our bamboo seat. We're taking it on the shins. Water, water, sunlight, sunlight, water, water, sunlight, sunlight. Oh, forgot the water. Why? I got bored. Bought back in. Shout out to that person. Water. Water. Sunlight. Sunlight. Oh, forgot the water. Why? Got bored. But bought back in.

Shout out to that person. Water. Water. And then bang! When it all happens, it's like, oh! And then you got to worry about the other side. That's right. And we'll do that.

We appreciate you all so much. We're very lucky to do this for a living. D. Shambo almost hit a guy in the head and killed somebody on the golf course. We're lucky we don't do that. Yeah. True. All right. All right. Tomorrow, feel good Friday. Big time day. Good somebody on the golf course. We're lucky we don't do that. Yeah. True. All right. All right.

Tomorrow, feel good Friday, big time day. Good luck on the golf course tomorrow, AJ. Go get them, Hawker. Send back everybody, AJ. Go get them, Hawker. Thank you. We'll probably shoot 15 under, 18 under. Nice.

Yep. Thorson. Quack. Is that where you're starting? See you, Colin. For you guys tomorrow, go win that thing. We'll see you.

See you, friends. Have a nice day. Goodbye.