The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 922 - Feel Good Friday With Richard Jefferson, Ian Rapoport, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: June 9, 2023

On today’s show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about last night’s Stanley Cup Finals Game 3 that saw the Florida Panthers win in overtime and get back into the series, tonight’s NBA Finals Game 4, and what the Heat need to do to even the series, plus they discuss the alien news out of Las Vegas, DeAndre Hopkins visiting the Titans and the Patriots, and all the other news floating around the NFL. Joining the progrum to chat about tonight’s NBA Finals game, who he likes it the series, some stories from his playing days, and his thoughts on Victor Wembanyama is 17 year NBA veteran, NBA Champion, and now ESPN NBA Analyst, Richard Jefferson (32:50-56:01). Later, NFL Network Senior Insider Ian Rapoport cuts his golf round short to give his thoughts on the PGA/LIV merger, DeAndre Hopkins and Dalvin Cook potential landing spots, professional athletes playing other sports, the 49ers QB situation, and updates on the sale of the Washington Commanders (1:27:58-2:03:24). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you on Monday, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people. Welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome. On this glorious Feel Good Friday, June 9th, 2023, this sports program starts now. Feel Good! Friday is what we're trying to celebrate, and the boys sound fantastic. That's the Talks at Table at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt. One half of the hammer, done! Cowboys Town Digs is here as well, and all the boys in the back are looking fantastic on this glorious we have more finals action this evening friday june 9th last night massive game

down in sunrise florida as the florida panthers locked up their first ever stanley cup final victory they had played in six Stanley Cup games. Damn. Over the course of their entire program's existence. Last night was their first time getting a dub. It came in overtime. They pulled the goalie with two minutes left, down one. All of a sudden, Tick-Tick,

who got taken out of the game early, scores, ties it up. It goes into overtime, and the Panthers are able to secure a big-time dub. We thought they were maybe going to get swept by Stoner and the boys. Yeah. And the Vegas Golden Knights are a tough team, both mentally and physically, and obviously they have been absolute doves on the ice, as have the Florida Panthers. But now we got a little bit of a series.

Now we got a little bit of an extendo. Have the Florida Panthers been able to get the weight off of their shoulders, the weight of the world, off of their back after getting a win for the first time in franchise history in a Stanley Cup final? We shall see this evening. The Nuggets and the Heats wear off yet again down in beautiful Miami. The Nuggets are currently up 2-1. A lot of people thought maybe going into it that this could be a sweep

because this Nuggets team just did that to the Lakers about a month and a half ago in the Western Conference Finals as they awaited the Eastern Conference Finals in which the Miami Heat, who had to do two playing games to even get into the playoffs, have emerged. Hemi Butler is a dog. Beast. Eric Spolster's got a big fucking brain. Oh, yeah. But here we go.

Second time in a row. The Nuggets are favored on the road. And it felt like the first game down there in Miami the Denver Nuggets had it figured out that little slip up we had game two back at home in Denver whenever we let Jimmy Butler steal the fourth quarter from us and we give up a win at home in the NBA finals and we're a team that's never won the NBA finals what we did then we'll never do again that's what it felt like the last time these two teams played. The Nuggets were in complete dominating control from start to finish, pretty much. What will

tonight look like? We'll talk to Richard Jefferson today. Here we go, huh? Let's go. This is the thing. We had Wendy on yesterday, basketball person. Talking basketball. Now today we got Richard Jefferson, champion basketball player. Oh, we had Big Perk as well.

Now, what he said about Joker, I guess, did hit the internet running. Yeah, that's a good point. He was racist. Well, that's what people said in the past because there was a chance he, we didn't, I don't, I'm happy he said it though. Exactly. Perk said, listen, I can move when I'm wrong, carry on. You know what I mean?

And move forward. Richard Jefferson joined us today. Former All-Star, obviously, New Jersey. Champion in Cleveland. Has also played in San Antonio. Denver. Denver, I believe. He's been around.

And obviously, he was very successful and played at a high level. Long time. Knows everybody. Can't wait to hear his thoughts on how you stopped the Joker. And Jamal, if you're spoistering him at home tonight as the 8th seed takes on a 1 seed to find out who's going to be the champion of the association. It's going to be tough.

There's a lot of good shit going on, boys. This is the opposite of what the Nuggets had last game. Because now the Heat have the whole low energy game 3. We need to step up our energy. Jimmy Butler said it starts with me. So if you thought that the Nuggets came out and had to prove something, it's on the heat side you know low energy that's not good classic coach shit talking his players after games first it was malone after the loss at home

where he said just can't be talking about effort in the nba finals and we are here we are not happy about it so he challenges his team telling them they're a bunch of soft asses yeah well you're tired not going to give effort everything You guys too good for everything. And then now Spolster saying the same exact thing after the game. Could it not be fatigue, though? I think there's a chance sometimes some of these guys are tired. Long fucking season. Here we are at the NBA Finals. There's a lot

to take in. Yeah, it could be. Game three, like the Nuggets because when your coach comes out of the game before and says it was an effort thing and you're the more talented team, when effort meets talent, diamonds, my friend. That's right. But now, as Mostert comes out, says effort,

Heat aren't as talented as the Nuggets, though, so if Nuggets match Heat effort here, who do you go with tonight? So you're saying math is telling you? I think... I think I'm going to go with the Heat. Anytime a coach says effort, I go with that team the next game. Oh, you're just saying, hey, a little bit of motivation from within the equation. I think I'm going to go with the heat. Anytime a coach says effort, I go with that to you in the next game. Oh, you're just saying, hey, a little bit of motivation from within the camp.

Yeah. Our leader's telling us we're a bunch of sorry saps. Can't happen. That's what you're thinking. Especially in front of that raucous Miami. Yeah, Khaled. I'm not even going to talk about what the arena looks like at the beginning of the game. Because last time I pointed out how some things could potentially look on camera, I got clipped off.

Yeah, you did. I got clipped off. You did. I got clipped off talking about just a matter of fact. Just a statement of fact. Throw away. Just how we do it. Not even thinking about it.

No, just a matter of fact. Hey, whenever there's cameras going one way and they showcase what's happening, you know, they don't want that. Nobody wants that. No. That got clipped off because literally something else had just happened in the same exact situation as the Miami Heat game that was taking place when McDaniel was giving a motivational speech and pumping up the crowd

with the flaming white hot towel. Flaming hot. Flaming white, white. White out. White hot. Yeah. I think white. White out. White hot. I think it says white hot. White fire. Is that the hottest?

White is the hottest? I believe so. I think it is. I thought blue. Oh. That's what I'm saying. I thought blue was the hottest. Let me look.

The phrase is white hot, though. Anyways, he was spinning that white hot pow, and they were like, here's coach motivating the arena or whatever. And there was no humans in any of the seats. No. I was like, well, they're not showing that on the camera. Obviously, they're shooting real tight shots on McDaniel. Right. They're shooting the other way, but it was a still shot going.

Look at McDaniel, how cool he looks. The only thing we can see is that's an empty fucking arena. Nobody. Tonight, though, they'll be there. It's the NBA Finals. That's right. They'll be there bright and early. Put up or shut up. It won't be a nobody in the arena for the first 10-15 minutes of that game. On Friday night? No. Funny enough, it probably will be.

No! Because that's Miami. Hey, it's nothing against the heat. Hey, but when they get in there, they're fucking loud, dude. DJ Khaled ain't got time. DJ Khaled's there now right now, actually. He should be. All the photos I see of DJ Khaled whenever he goes to basketball games, feels like he has to be there like four to five hours before the game starts.

He's on the logo, putting up shots, making putts, walking around the arena completely empty, doing shoot-arounds with people, motivating players. Of course. Which he is a nonstop motivator. How could you not? He might be in that building right fucking now. And I think that is him motivating all of Miami.

Hey, we're here early tonight. From tip-off to final whistle. That's right. We're here. Yeah. Because there's a chance if this Nugs team does what they did the other night, it's just like never a game. Yeah, it's over. You know what I mean? Just 15-point spread throughout

the entire thing. Like, oh, Miami's going on a little run. They made back-to-back baskets in the Nuggets and, oh, Miami's going on a little run. They made back-to-back baskets in the Nuggets and missed one. Plus four in the last 15 seconds. And then all of a sudden, Joker just does his thing. It's like they become an unstoppable unit, which they actually have been. But this Miami Heat team's different. They are absolutely different.

None of the series they were in, they were supposed to win. None of the series they were in, there were dogs in every single game was every game yeah every game they were getting points basically throughout this entire thing and they seemingly just beat people so maybe the night miami something special happens again for the miami uh updated flame color blue is the hottest uh followed by white then yellow orange and red oh so the nugs are like you could be white hot we're coming in this motherfucker blue flame yeah okay a little bit hotter. Is that what they're saying? Yeah, probably. And I thought white hot came from like white people being outside in the sun being hot.

Certainly a white hot. Yeah, because that's the most common. More so a hot white. It's always about where the comma is. Yeah, that has gotten me in some shit, the whole comma thing. You know, like at the end with looking ass. You can really get yourself into some comma issues how about last night though let's talk

about this this morning i woke up i turned on a show fell asleep during a game last night right sorry about it have a baby yeah baby's good mom's kicking ass life is getting yeah there you're getting to that point you know what i mean oh yeah nobody talks about the beginning phases though it's probably for good then nobody talks about it oh yeah it's all about weather and the storm early on yeah because i think if everybody talked about it like in the moment live like if somebody live streamed those first couple first three months i think we would i think birth rate would slow down yeah there's a great andy you know i mean samberg he was on a late night television show talking about how everyone says you

before the baby comes, like when you guys were expecting. You're going to love it. You're going to be great. And as soon as it comes out, everyone's like, welcome, motherfucker. Yeah, that's real. That's a real deal. I'm getting texts from people like, it'll get better. I'm like, motherfucker, a month and a half ago you said this could be the greatest thing in your life. Best thing ever.

And then all of a sudden, I'm in it. Every time you look at the greatest thing of your life. Best thing ever. And then all of a sudden, I'm in it. It is. Every time you look at the baby, it's awesome. But just the schedule, everything around it is like, hey, it's a whole new. It's a whole new woman. I love it. Love the entire thing. Let's not get crazy.

Certainly have enjoyed it and have grown through it all and everything like that. But we've gotten to a point where it's like, okay. Got a routine. Starting to figure it out a little bit and she is so awesome i think she's gonna be a really sassy individual love that and i'm very pumped for that i'm excited for a little personality yep you know what i mean oh yeah i'm excited for the the pta meetings yeah i'm excited to hear what our daughter thought was okay to say to person of authority. Those teachers have no chance.

That's what I'm saying. Parent-teacher conferences will be, I mean, that's something where you should go in before and be like, hey, teacher, is it okay if we film this? And we bring in a camera crew just to kind of. For those that are new, me and, I didn't get along with, I don't think there's a single teacher, maybe three throughout my entire run that I had a good relationship with. I mean, it was not a very good give and take between me asking a lot of, I think, good questions. And then not really like, I'm not your puppet, too.

Like, it is. That's a tough given. Their lives had to be terrible. I couldn't even imagine how much they had to hate seeing my name on their fucking roster that I was coming into their class. But on the flip side, I didn't like them either. Feeling like my daughter probably going to have similar things, and I'm going to have to deal with everything that my parents had to deal with. And I've seen a lot of that as I'm looking at the baby.

Like, holy shit, I'm going to have to deal with everything that I feel like here. Anyways, sleep, though, a little bit earlier. You used to be able to stay up very late. Now if you get a chance to fall asleep, you fall asleep. That's how it is. So I didn't see the entire Stanley Cup final game last night. I didn't get a chance to watch the epic

final two minutes goalie pooled tie ball game. Let's go to overtime. I didn't see any of that. So I watched the show this morning thinking, I didn't see it for 40 minutes. What are we doing? Let's talk. Let's talk about the Stanley Cup because last night was a fucking incredible game. I mean, I'm

talking like, last game before this obviously was 7-2 blowout. And then you talk about what the Nuggets did to the Miami Heat in the last game where it was just like 15 point blowout the entire time. We're enjoying it because it's sports. It's finals. There's a lot on the line. People got to perform. We're watching great players. I get it. But the games themselves haven't been like, you know,

last night, fucking great game. Wish I would have been able to stay up for it this kachuk guy seems to be an absolute fucking dog you scared of him over there in the golden knights fan base no not really i mean last night it was an edge of your seat game i mean like you know if you were watching that it was kind of like and i think uh pac-man texted the group you know after uh kachuk lit it hit on somebody, and they were kind of doing what they do or being a little pesky, trying to get the Golden Knights to retaliate a little bit. And I told him, I said, hey, yeah, doing okay right now, 2-1.

I'd be a lot more comfortable if it was 3-1. Well and behold, they pull Bob a couple minutes later, and Kachuk scored almost instantly when they pulled the goalie. But, you know, you mentioned it earlier. Part of me was thinking, yeah, sweep would be nice. But once the NHL, once Stanley Cup finals and the NBA playoffs or the NBA finals are done, like we're done. We're done for the next couple months.

Let's stop being so spoiled. Exactly. You know what I mean? I feel like we as a sports, have gotten a little bit spoiled. We watch a 7-2 Stanley Cup game. Game kind of stunk last night. I mean, happy we watched it. It's a game.

I don't want to do it. Nuggets as well. Yep. Dom, I don't want to do this. No, not at all. There was a time. Yeah, thank you. When was this?

You're right. In our existence. Yep. Good point. Where there wasn't even sorry-ass baseball on. When was this? In our existence. Good point. Where there wasn't even sorry-ass baseball on. No, what? Everywhere? There was no sports at all.

With no sports in sight. There was a time where we were at an absence, a drought of competition that we need not ever start looking at games as disappointments if they're being played. I agree. Now. Kind of. The way we're speaking right now, we're seemingly just tossing to the side baseball as a whole. Because there is going to be baseball after the Stanley Cup final and after the NBA final.

Sure. There will be Major League Baseball, which means we're probably going to see a little bit more of the jet, jet passing. Okay, we're going to be talking about jet passing. Hopefully more CC. Hopefully more CC. We need all the CC Sabathia that the world could potentially get because he was fucking electrifying yesterday. But it's tough with 55 games left for every single team to care about anything that's going on

in that two-hour and 40-minute game for the casual fan. So we are staring down a sports drought. That means tonight's game is going to be awesome regardless of the score. Yeah, absolutely. And when Jokic, you know, does what he does, it is kind of a spectacle to watch. And like you mentioned before about Jokic, it's nice that he's on at 830 and he's not, you know,

buried at 10 o'clock or later on. But if a game stinks, it stinks. You know, I think the reason that we kind on at 8.30 and he's not buried at 10 o'clock or later on. But if a game stinks, it stinks. I think the reason that we kind of hold these – Yeah, but what I just said, I need us to remind ourselves about the game that stinks is on. I've had to do that a couple different times here over the last few evenings. For sure. It's like, it's a game though.

Oh, yeah. You got to enjoy it because like you said too, even with the casual fan, if you weren't watching baseball beforehand, chances of you watching a baseball game when all this stuff is over is slim to none. Now, also obscure sports. For instance, tennis is coming into play right now. True. We're watching Alcaraz right now take on Joker.

Joker, obviously the unvaccinated tennis player who used to be the number one player on earth, I do believe. Dog. No longer the number one player on earth. Surprised to me while watching his thing, he had the number three next to Earth, I do believe. Dog. No longer the number one player on Earth. Surprised to me, while watching his thing, he had the number three next to his fucking name. That is not normal. The other guy had one next to his name.

This is the Paris French. French Open. French Open, Roland Garros. Yep, played at Roland Garros. Roland Garros. This is this tournament, semifinals. It's a big one. This one's like a historic one.

Major, yeah. And they're battling right now. And Joker, who is plus 175 going in, currently in the lead this guy. It was a great first two sets. And then there was an injury slash cramp to Alcaraz. And now Joker's just running. What was that drink that was being run on in the corner? That's a good question.

From the stands. Everyone's hiding it? Yeah. And not only is everybody hiding it, there's one person that ain't doing his fucking job. He was distracting them on Phone Guy. And they're like, cuz. Hey, phone guy. You're acting wrong.

On the video, they tell him to sit up like this right here. And then he moves and then a fake conversation happens. So it's like they got that ticket, that ticket, that ticket, that ticket, that ticket, that ticket, that ticket, that for a reason. Circle them up. They got that whole thing set up. That's a full operation.

And then you got a little concocting of a recipe as if it's Phil Mickelson on his coffee. That's literally what it looked like. Oh, yeah. Dumping a bunch of stuff. And then a guy did a little shake ski thing down. And then they pass it, pass it, pass it. And then somebody who is seemingly wanted... You remember that kid that ran his face?

Boom. Oh, yeah. Right into the thing. One of them seemingly grabbed the thing ran at the joker joker put it down then he was drinking here's the whole thing right here phone guy and look phone guy sitting back he's listening to a voicemail and then cuz with his sweet come over over there to the right of the mixer put it in the mixer the mixer right there in the middle this is a whole operation now camera person right here big zoom in lens here, big zoom in lens. You know, big zoom in lens.

Yeah, oh, far guy. Excuse me, phone guy. What the fuck, huh? There's a camera, huh? Lean forward. Oh, my God. You talk to the guy. Yeah, we can... Oh, hot guy.

Make a wall. Make a wall. This guy. This guy. There you go. Okay. Man, what is it? Maybe a booze cocktail?

I mean, I'd like to believe that maybe Djokovic just wants... Could you imagine if that is a cocktail? Yeah, Long Island iced tea halfway through his round. That's from a couple months ago, and if we do not have the follow-up, we do apologize. Okay, we would. If this has been answered on what this is, cool. If it hasn't, I'd like to think of it as another added thing to tennis

that I'd fucking appreciate. Yeah. If they're mixing drinks in the stands to get it to somebody to get a little bit of an advantage, what a wild thing. That sport is so tough to do. If you play it ever, if you ever, and I never thought I would be a tennis player. Still, I'm not a tennis player, but I've been asked to play tennis a couple times. I'm like, yeah, I'll go play tennis. It's fucking hard.

Oh, yeah. It is a lot of running, a lot of training. You're doing that since you're a little tiny baby to get in there and when you watch like documentaries about it feels like it's a tight community people that kind of know each other so there's always going to be fuckery i feel like oh yeah you know what i mean that type of setup there's always going to be fuckery in there and uh tennis is a beautiful beautiful thing to watch but this is the time of year when we start diving into this type of shit. Yeah, exactly. We got to hold on to tennis. And to your point about, like, the community itself, like,

Breakpoint, the tennis full swing, basically they showed that a lot. And none of the people on there, aside from Alcaraz, have really kind of gone on, which has been tough. Like, Kregos, Nick Kiergos or something, he's like the heel of tennis, but he's fallen off. So now they kind of need a new bad guy. And granted, Joker slid into that spot when he wanted to get vaccinated, but also it would be nice.

So he's allowed to play tennis again. Yes. So he wasn't allowed to play tennis. No, yeah, it wasn't. I think it was the Australian Open that they wouldn't let him in. I think it was a couple. The U.S. Open for sure. Multiple.

Yeah, I think it was a couple, right? Because Joker, didn't he create a medical company yeah yeah he also had a big covid party i believe yeah yeah pissed everybody off with joker nicole yokich at that point oh my god yeah yeah i do remember him just being like yeah oh i'm not allowed to play okay and then buys a medical company. Yeah, he spent like $250 million or something. That is a man who has a lot of fuck you in him. And I think that's why him being plus 175 this morning going into this was a surprise to me.

It was on the TVs while we were getting ready, and I looked up and I seen Joker's name. And it wasn't until, I don't know, maybe three sets in that I didn't even realize he had a three next to his name. I'm like, when did he drop off the top of the mountain? This guy's supposed to be the next one, I guess, this Alcaraz guy. Yeah, he's 20 years old, stud. I'm thinking Joker, the guy that spent $250 million on a medical company

after he was told to do something. He said, no, I'll literally create my own. And then a guy that throws a party afterwards to basically tell everybody to go fuck themselves. I don't think he's just going to go quietly into the night as being the number one guy in the world. I'd assume there's a little bit more to this particular game in Joker's mind.

And I can't wait to see how it pans out. Middle of the day action too. I love that. Sweet in the morning. Like World Cup, Olympics. When that shit's happening during the day, I love it. Especially now In the morning. Like World Cup, Olympics. When that shit's happening during the day, I love it. Especially now with the baby situation. Golf. Next week being the

U.S. Open. It'll be sweet. A week from now we'll be watching the U.S. Open. Are we in tennis season right now? This is tennis season. We have the Australian and then it's the French and then Wimbledon and then the U.S. We'll take some phone calls on the 5RNG phone line. 1-833-432-3663.

There's some sweet things coming out of the NFL. Most specifically, edited videos from draft nights from teams. Now, this has become kind of par for the course. There was another fancy word to say that. Modus operandi. Modus operandi, almost, for these social teams is to record inside war rooms while decisions are being made. And then somebody has to edit out and blur out everything that is surrounding the person that is talking in the video. That's a lot of tedious bullshit that has to happen to blur out all those things.

But it's almost become, yeah, this is video that our our people definitely want to see brand new gm in arizona monty austin ford brand new gm working his first massive fucking deal huge a trade on draft night for the number three overall pick was all captured on camera uh camera and released by the arizona cardinals here it is this is awesome and i think chris ballard was in this thing to the very end. And Nick Casario might have thought he was out of this thing from the Houston Texans before the draft started. Go ahead. I think the Polons are going to start going here a little bit.

I guess. You got it? Thank you. They're going, a little bit. I guess, you got it? Thank you. They're going, right? Okay. Call Ballard. Call Houston. Great bald head.

You know what? Let me call Nick. Hey, bud. Are you guys still interested? Well, what are you saying here? Yeah, right, and I text you back that that wasn't enough. Yeah, you need more. Yeah, I'll give you one minute.

I'll call you back. Okay, so they're still here. This guy has the buck with the point system. Okay. Hey, you guys are out, right? Chris Ballard. Okay. Tell me what, I mean, what's the most you would do? Okay, thank me what's the most you would do. Okay, thank you.

They're not even fucking close with Houston. Okay, so 12, 33. We're going to ask for 104. And a next year first. Okay, so that's Houston. How much time? Six minutes. So much going on. So much stress.

Okay, and then just... Owner, coach. Okay, I got it. All right. That tips you away. Hey, if we get this, we win. Okay, here's what it'd be. It'd be 12.

Says my book. 33. 104. Quiet. And a 24 first. Quiet. Four, three straight up. We gotta And a 24 first. Wyatt. For three straight up. We got to do it right now.

All right, give me a minute. Make that 24 a two. That 96 has got to drop. 105. Fuck it. Okay, call it in Great Wow

He steals the show He's the driving crooner Yeah, kinda People are making a lot of Michael Scott stuff About Oda I think he Okay, Gannon I think he's gonna be a treat Oh yeah, I think he, okay, Gannon, Gannon. I think he's going to be a treat.

Oh, yeah, I think so. I think he is going to be a treat. Might be a football savant, too. Yeah, who knows? I mean, there is a chance. They might have great success, which we all hope for. And if he does that, can't wait to hear this guy speak often, regular. We start going around the NFL, though.

There's a lot of kind of entertaining head coaches right now behind microphones. I mean, we never even talked about this guy. Andy Reid is electrified. He's the best. I mean, we never even talk about this guy. Andy Reid is electrified. He was talking about the food at the White House. He kind of broke down an entire promo. Man, whoever did all those slices really cut a full promo. And then McDaniel, obviously, the way he

answers things is absolutely absurd. But Gannon, I think, is going to be a treat for all of us. But that type of content is a fucking weapon. Watching that deal actually take place. And while we're sitting here on our draft spectacular, thinking to ourselves, like, let's fucking go. Where's the pick? Dude! Jesus! They're like six

minutes to go. Alright, let's call a completely other city another building and let them know they're potentially back in. And the reason why when I threw to the video there, I said, I think Nick Casario thought maybe he wasn't in it anymore going into draft night. That's why he had to call Nick almost because he said maybe the phones would get going.

It seems like nobody called. And it might have been because Nick texts him, hey, here's our best offer right here. And he responds, that ain't enough. So maybe Nick goes, well, then I guess somebody else has to be offering something good. So then whenever it starts to happen, he's like, let's call Nick and see what he's thinking. And then, Chris, you guys are out? Not necessarily. So I wonder if he was happen, he's like, let's call Nick and see what he's thinking. And then Chris, you guys are out? Not necessarily.

So I wonder if he was also told that isn't going to be enough. So I wonder if Monty was like, everybody's thinking number three is up for sale, but nobody has made us a real offer yet. And then whenever it gets there,

it's like, let's fucking start working. Good for them getting a deal done that seemingly, now the 24-1 move to a two, it sounds like, is what, i don't know if you heard the the kind of counter the counter that came and then 96 needs to move from a one one of five

needs to move to 96 so they're going straight off that book that has a point system right so like this this pick is worth this amount of points so if you trade two of these picks it might meet up for one of these picks so if you can't get these two, well, we can have a little higher one or a little lower one, and then those two will mix into the amount of points that we need to make it fair. That's a wild way to just judge that, just as if those points matter, because I guess they seemingly do. They can say they do.

I mean, these points are like all they're caring about, pretty much, it sounds like. And now they have, obviously, they have their first next year, and they have the Texans' first next year, and a lot of people are projecting those might be the first two picks next year oh he did get the first yeah yeah so then i would assume it had to be something in the middle there that they didn't want to give up right which is even crazy from the other side so casario ah yeah so how did that yeah six minutes though that has to all happen well because so casario has his person right on their dry erase board getting Getting, losing, point system.

And that whole conversation we're watching over here with old cousin Cuz is happening on the other side as well. And we got three minutes to basically make this happen here. And once Stroud got picked, I assume all those teams that might have thought that he'd be there at three were like, all right, fuck it, never mind. Here's the NFL draft. Well, that's Vision Pro. That's going to cost you $3,500.

It's going to be sweet. Here's the NFL draft. Well, that's Vision Pro. That's going to cost you $3,500. It's going to be sweet. Here is the NFL draft trade value chart, which is used by the NFL general managers and coaches when making trades on draft day. If a team wants to move up from number three to number one, it'll cost them 800 points. That means it'll have to trade its second and third round picks, 550 plus 255.

That equals 805. Guess what you did? You hit 800 points to make the move. And then they have the points kind of ruled out here. Round one, pick one. 3,000. Round one, pick two. 2,600 points. All the way through round two, round three, round

four, and round seven, Donner. Pick 193. 14 points. So I'll tell you what, that's going to have to be coupled with a couple other things to see if you can get any of those big numbers uh this is wild though that this is just how it goes yeah like yeah this is how we view it and everyone abides by it seeming pretty much yeah for the most part this is awesome like this video is incredible and everything but does it does it surprise you and i know like at this point it's hey everyone wants like the inside access

does this surprise you that they actually do release this kind of stuff it's a lot it really is because like this is like negotiating tactics and granted it's a two-minute video so there's not a whole bunch there but like i was kind of shocked when i saw this i was like holy shit i cannot believe that they're releasing this to like the general public you think that there's potential information that can be gathered in there from other general managers let me see the way they operate here body language that kind of stuff i'll get back into you i'll call you back i'll do that i assume if it's so uniform now it's his first year true you know so who knows if this is how he's going to be for the rest of his general managership or if this is just how he is now

he seemed to be pretty it seemed like there were some tense moments there yeah for sure seemingly there were some tense moments there but he seemed to get through it yeah in the moment gotta have a gotta have the ability to perform making a deal is tough to do over a long period of time let alone over a three minute period of time now deadlines bring come deadlines for action there it is and also people who give stuff up come compromises. Right? That's when somebody gives something up. Yeah, so deadlines also bring those as well where people will be like steadfast on it

and then it's like, is this really going to be what holds up the deal? And those are normally the thing that you need to get out of the way, which takes place over a long period of time. So in the moment, three minutes, being able to negotiate, get a deal done. Seemingly his fans are happy. being able to negotiate him, get a deal done. Seemingly his fans are happy.

If his fans are happy, who gives a fuck? I guess that's really the only way you judge if you won or lost a trade in this exact time of week. And three picks later, they traded up with the Lions. So they moved from 12 to 6. So they were really working that night for that first hour. You should have seen Gannon's mind when he traded back up. He almost threw up. Wait, what?

Whoa, we're moving. How we just went down, though? We're going back in, dude. Wow, dude, we're like splunkers, dude. You can do that? We're in, we're out, we're back in. Man. That's nuts.

Monty's explosive. This guy's awesome. Yeah. Hit him the whole year. Wow. We get just some shades of Sirianni from him. Which we're kind of already getting's awesome. Yeah. Him the whole year. Wow. We get just some shades of Sirianni from him. Which we're kind of already getting. Hopefully.

Yeah. Imagine Sirianni in that room his first year. I wish we had that. I know. The only difference is. We haven't even talked about fucking Sirianni at all this entire offseason. We're talking about the moves, obviously, the teams are making, who's going where.

Jalen Hurts negotiates a massive deal. Congrats to him, his team, and Howie for getting the deal done. And the Eagles are keeping people around. Looks like they're going to want to go on a run. Jason Kelsey, seemingly no end in sight, even though maybe there was like a year ago. He's refreshed, has one of the greatest podcasts on earth right now, living his best life. We're in the Super Bowl.

We're only going to get better. Nobody's even talked about fucking Paisano Sirianni. What has he been up to, dude? You think when they lost the Super Bowl, his heart was broken? Oh, my God. better nobody's even talked about fucking paisano sirianni what has he been up to dude you think when they lost the super bowl his heart was broken oh my god what do you think sirianni's coming back with this year i can't wait he might have just woken up honestly he may have hibernated from the day after the super bowl like until now because i think he said something about how you know like his jalen hurts is is unbelievable the most coachable players yeah he's never coached

there it is um but do you think anyone has ever was. The most coachable player he's ever been. Yeah, he's never coached. There it is. But do you think anyone has ever gone from punchline to he's the guy? Quicker than Sirianni has? I don't know if there's ever been a coach in any league who has gone from unanimously people being like, this guy's a dipshit. Have you heard him talk? To like, oh my God, this guy's a genius. Oh my God.

Oh my God, this guy's the guy. This guy's football figured out. Yeah, exactly. He is a brilliant man and his team loves him. Yeah. Like, that is, as a, they talk about leader of men, leader of men, you know? You don't need an ex-Soviet guy, you need a leader of men. It's like, a leader of men is just, like, being able to get everybody to buy in.

But if you can get everybody to buy in on one mission, which is going to be tough, especially whenever there's a lot of opinions, egos, pride, and intelligence in the room that you're trying to get to buy into something. But if you can get them to also like you as well, while also getting them to buy in, that's not an easy task and easy feat, especially with professional athletes in Philadelphia, where there's a lot

of shrapnel from outside and a lot of easy ways to potentially get a couple people in the building to be like, yeah, they're right. Fuck, this team does. However, you can potentially get a little bit negative negative what a fucking great job he's done over there and then how he obviously has told that team very very well what if what if we're in an eagles era and we don't even know it definitely are you know what i mean what if we're in an eagles era and we don't even know it yet until a few years down the road here in the nfc it feels like there's

no one that's even close to him like Well, you've got the Niners with 10 quarterbacks. Yeah, that's my point. The Eagles have, granted the Niners, they have great weapons too, but is Debo and AJ probably the same, but then Devontae Smith and Ayuk, and then now they have DeAndre Swift. The Eagles

are absurd, and they're very similar, but is it going to be those two for the next five years, or is their quarterback situation too much of a shit unless jordan hey yeah exactly jordan love might be a guy it's exactly cowboys speaking of being a guy this guy was a guy for a long time in the nba a whole star a champion then he joins espn and becomes an absolute legend on the microphone not only stirring some shit a little bit but also giving us great insight because he's played with basically every human that has ever played basketball at a very high level.

Ladies and gentlemen, NBA stud Richard Jefferson. Thank you, guys. Sick, sick, sick. We're matching. Matt, you look great. No, you look great, man. Look how good you look, dude.

Honestly, if I would have known we were wearing the same thing today, my bad, my bad. I would have changed the color. No, no, this was on purpose, right? We should dress the same. Yeah. Hey, same team, same team. Welcome to the family.

Yeah. Same team. Same team. Let's go. How are you guys doing? Hey, great. We're very lucky that you're here, thankful that you're here. You crush it on TV.

Love that you stir shit, too. You know what I mean? Like it. Like it a lot. Like it a lot. You know, look, when they asked me to come on the show and I was like, damn, it's about time they called me. Right.

We need a little bit more. We need a little bit more, you know, shit starting. That's what we need. We need a little bit more, you know, let's, let's turn up the dial a little bit. Everything can't be comfortable. Well, Richard, listen, we don't mind being comfortable over here. I mean, I go from like 265 pounds down to like 250. Then I get a little bit too comfortable.

Then I'm 270. I go down. So I'm okay with being comfortable, but I do appreciate the fact that you don't seemingly just get dropped out of a mold. You know what I mean? You're your own person. You give your own thoughts. You played in the league a long time with a lot of different players. Obviously, LeBron, but Tim Duncan, I believe.

You also played Dwayne Wade. You kind of come from a background of knowing everything about everything, so let's talk about it. You've been on great teams. Let's go. You've been on a lot of teams. Is what Denver built, is that like an anomaly of a type of situation in the NBA? Because it feels like they have this incredibly humble kind of culture that is just like,

we don't give a fuck about anything. We only want to play ball. Is that normal? And are we going to see more of these types of teams, you think, Richard? No, you won't. It's like Tim Duncan. Tim Duncan was very, I want to play basketball and go home. Nikola Jokic is the same way.

Like, he wants to go home. He doesn't want to do any media. I've never seen him on a commercial. He's the two-time MVPvp this man's an absolute legend but ultimately this team and look yokich is making our job hard because we're supposed to go in today on nba today and break down how to slow down yokich and it's like well nobody knows that if anybody help somebody help us because the best athletes in the world the tallest the strongest the whatever they can't seem to slow him down. Either he's going to score 40 or he's going to have 18, 15, and 16 and beat you with a triple-double.

So their team is just monstrous and, man, the future is bright in Denver. So why do you think at his size, 6'11", 2'90"? How tall are you? I'm 6'7". Huge. You guys in the NBA are fucking huge human beings. Naturally, the body at that size, joints, other stuff, let alone if you're 280 pounds. Basketball is just running gassers, pretty much.

On wood, we're talking about turfers, grass. They're running on wood. Normally, you see big dudes, like the bigger guys in the NBA, obviously everybody's big, slow down and lumber a little bit. Joker, somehow, he's still like a point guard,

shiftiness. His body seems to be incredibly healthy. I don't understand. It's not normal. It's not normal. It's not normal. That's why he is. When you look at any great player, it's not normal to be Magic Johnson.

It's not normal to be able to do what Steph does. It's not normal to be 6'11", 7' like Kevin Durant. Great players in our league typically are physical anomalies, and then they have ridiculous amount of skills combined with that physical anomaly. Like Dwight Howard. Dwight Howard's shoulders were out to here, and then he was 17 years old. So like Jokic is a physical specimen. What he can do, his skill level, we don't know how to stop. And when I say we, there hasn't been a defense out there created. you give him a quality team there is no answer for him uh the miami heat are going to keep fighting and i think they have a chance but yokich there is no actual stopping him because he

can beat you with 15 assists he's going to get his rebounds and then if he scores that's just that's just his him on a given night hey figure it out for nba live though bro don't be giving us any wrong information, right? Yeah, exactly right. We don't want any misinformation. I want to know how to stop him today on NBA Live. Okay? Please.

Well, you can call it NBA Today. That's fine. NBA Live. It's NFL Live. I'm on NBA Today. Listen, we're going to get you all sorted out. Listen, we're going to get you all onboarded. We're going to get you all sorted out.

So we're thinking live today. Live today. The NBA live today. The NBA live NBA today. It's today. It's live. It's NBA. They're telling us how to stop Joker.

Yes. Hey. Today. Live. Today. Live. Stop. Yeah.

What a show. So good. Yes. Boom. Look at that. What a beautiful. Look at that that the graphics are set up hell yeah it is beautiful that's where i'll be malika's in miami they let her travel we've been we've been um i think i'm grounded from going to miami they thought i was gonna wear too many button downs on my shirt i was gonna be too open i was gonna have too much sexy going on oh they're like richard you gotta stay at home.

It'll be a distraction for all the people in Miami. So I'm in L.A. hosting. Malik is carrying the show out in Miami. For the good of the NBA, they're saying. You know what I mean? They don't want me to be a distraction. Yeah, for the good of the show, live and NBA today. Let's just not showcase what you got going right now.

We already got enough eyeballs. It's the NBA finals. When it's downtime, then we go ahead and let you let that thing hang that's right yeah we'll let it out yeah you do what you gotta do now let's talk about you having to tell people how to stop a guy who's unstoppable uh on nba today today uh let's talk about jimmy butler and the team over yes in miami because i feel like what's said about jimmy butler is uh yeah like this dude's competitive drive and like his spite shit that he's able to build and that we've obviously heard him walking in the locker room talking about keeping tobias harris over him and everything like that he does do that i just assume that there's is there a lot of those types of guys

in the nba or is there levels to that type of shit? Cause obviously we all saw the last dance with Michael Jordan. It's like, okay, that guy, the Utah coach comes in and says, Hey Michael, welcome to the city. I would like to buy your dinner tonight.

And Michael Jordan goes, that's all I fucking needed from that. You know what I mean? He turned that, he turned that into like his full motivation for that entire run. And the greats have the ability to do that. Is there only a few of those guys? And is Jimmy one of them them and why is jimmy's go ahead yeah jimmy no i'm gonna say jimmy is one of those guys to your point he he has a thing where he can like remember

in last dance where michael jordan was swinging the bat and he's like look it takes a real man to talk trash when you're down five or six you know i'm saying like i don't want to talk don't don't talk trash to me when you're up by eight. Don't talk trash to me when it's even. Look at a young RJ. I almost had a hairline back then. Yeah, yeah. You can have one now, too.

You need it. There's surgeries, though. Yeah, there's surgery. I'm not going to Turkey. I'm not going to Turkey. It was just too much, man. But, no, but this is a... Jimmy Butler...

No, Jimmy Butler is just a special type of like competitor, right? Like he does, he's an all-star during the season, but he turns into a next level when he gets to the postseason just because he's that level of competitiveness. But no, there's not a lot of guys like that. Like a lot of people have fire. A lot of people have intensity, but there's certain guys that can go to another level. But this is what I will say about Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler has been playing like an unstoppable force in this postseason. Jokic is an unstoppable force. Those are two different things. Oh, see.

Hey, you felt good when you thought of that. You felt, yeah. That was going to hit. You know who won. What do you think of it? Yeah, let's lock that one in. Yeah, lock that one in. We'll use that one. That might get used again later on NBA Today. Today.

Live. Today. Live. Absolutely. Hell yeah. Connor has a question for you. Yeah, Richard. Hey, Connor, how about them C's, bro?

Thanks, man. Oh, no. I really appreciate that. How about them C's, bro? How about those New Jersey Nets that almost won a championship? That was fun. I made up for it in Cleveland. Speaking of Cleveland and the Celtics sucking,

you're a real prick for saying that, buddy. Anyways, speaking of the Celtics sucking. You're a real prick for saying that, by the way. Anyways, speaking of the Celtics and Cleveland, I believe it was Iman Shumpert. He told a story about LeBron calling the same play for an entire quarter against the Celtics in that playoff run in

2016. Does he know everybody's play like LeBron? Does he know everything? And then also, when you guys are down 3-1, was there any point where he just looked around and said, like, don't worry, guys, just pass me the fucking ball, and I'll get this done for us? Well, look, it's, one,

given what LeBron has done to your Celtics for so many years, that's very nice of you to bring him on. Oh! Hear me out. Look, and look, you're right. You're fuck on. Hear me out. Look, look, look. And look, you're right, right? You're talking about my old New Jersey Nets.

And yes, did we beat the Celtics twice in the postseason and sweep them one time? No! No one fucking cares, Richard. No one fucking cares. Look, the fact that we sent Boston home twice. No one fucking cares, Richard. Antoine Walker was on that team. So I'm going to answer your question.

Yes, he does know every player, every team's play. But what I will say is he's not the only one. Jason Kidd is like that. Rondo is like that. There's a lot of guys that know every play about the other team because to be a defensive specialist, you've got to know. If you're trying to win,be bryant was the same way they're tim duncan there's there's certain guys that just go to that next level of basketball iq

and they want to know the plays they want to know the other team's play so they can anticipate it so yes he does know all the plays for the other teams that that shit surprised me when i was playing with him because he was just like wait wait no no he was telling other players on the team when they were coming out of the timeout where he's like, oh, no, no, you're supposed to be over there. And the guy was looking at him weird. It's just like, bro, spend that time. Put that time in the lab. Yeah, he is seemingly another unstoppable force.

He's like 55 years old. Yeah, pretty close. I've been watching him since I was in high school. I'm an old fuck. I can't get out of bed some days. And this guy, he's playing in the NBA, still just absolutely dominating. It's unbelievable what he has accomplished. Now, we had Wendy on yesterday who was, you know, Wendy, like, right?

Spokesperson. Wendy was his guy. I think two more years he has left. Two more years he has left is what he thinks. Why do you think he's been able to play this long at this high of a level? And do you think a two-year projection is accurate in your eyes? Well, given where he's at right now, if he was okay with, let's say, like a steady decline like Tim Duncan. Tim Duncan went 20 and 10, and then eventually he was like a 13-point game and just kind of like grabbed. If he was okay with that, he could probably go Tom Brady and play until he's 45 if he wanted

to. Would he average 15, 8, and 8? Yes. Is LeBron going to want to go out doing that? I don't know. Is he a player that can lead you to a championship? Yes. I think he probably has two, maybe three more years depending on the amount of talent around him uh most nba players great ones whether it was shack shack needed a high level wing score so he had penny hardaway he had duane way he had kobe like lebron needs shooting around him yokich needs shooting around him i don't know who keeps calling me i don't know why they're doing that braun he's probably mad you know it's probably espn about my bro tank right here but this is what i'm saying could you imagine they got mad at you for coming on this show oh my god that would be so awesome i would hate it for you for us you would hate it for me you would love it yeah it's like a movie

that's like out of a movie like that's like you know yeah it's gonna it's gonna happen at some point in time you know this once you come over you're gonna get a lot of phone calls it's like i don't think you can do that just like I got a lot of those phone calls. So I'm happy to be a part of the circus. Okay, awesome. We're lucky to have you. You look good in the tank, by the way. Don't bad, huh, Summer?

I feel good. I feel good. Friday, man. It's California. Oh, you're in Cali. Okay. You're in L.A.? Yeah, yeah.

Hermosa Beach to be specific. Oh, great area. Good volleyball. Beach volleyball. Great, great volleyball. A lot of volleyball out here. Whenever you're ready to come out to six-man, have one of your cronies Google it, it's legendary. You'd love it.

Or night cronies. No, I'm not talking about these cronies. I'm talking about the interns that you guys are probably paying like $8 an hour to. That's funny. That's actually sad. We only have one of them. And he sucks. And this kid, he just got a fresh new

haircut he did you know what i mean i don't know if he's gonna be there her most is great time though um whenever you you guys have smog every day over there we just had it over here for like the first yeah yeah yeah well our our fires haven't started i think you guys are starting to get the fires down from canada they were going to new york so our fires start a little bit later so that's when the smog really comes in that's's crazy. That's just like an every year thing. I see we put out a video about it, you know, like, Hey, this is happening in the amount of people in LA that just came in. The comments are like, that's fucking Tuesday in the summer or something.

Like literally just telling us like, this is just another day. That's wild that you guys just, that that just happens. Like it happens. It happens all the time. Those Santa Ana winds start blowing in, you know, it it's it gets it gets hot and and dusty real quick us learning about the aqi is an entire thing yes i mean this is a whole it's a brand new world for all of us yeah i feel very very smart all of a sudden toned digs has a question for you rj yeah rj kind of based off of that lebron in a couple more years and also a guy you know very well Jason Kidd in the Mavericks and they talked about how Kyrie was trying to recruit

LeBron there do you think LeBron would want to go there or work there and then also can you imagine Jason Kidd right now watching the 8th seed Miami Heat who did not sit out players to end the season watch and think like hey maybe my Dallas Mavericks teams could have went on a little

run if we didn't have to sit Luke out here at the end of the season. Well, if we think about it, that eighth seed that you're talking about in Miami is down 2-1 to Denver, the team that they most likely would have played. So I don't know if the Mavericks would have done a better job against different Nuggets and Jokic. They wouldn't have done a better job.

Look, at the end of the day, when you look at, it's a tough spot. Should they have set guys? Probably not. But their team, they were struggling. They needed to get their draft pick. If not, they lose their draft pick. So if you're a Dallas Mavericks fan and they're like, oh, fans bought tickets, which I understand, but would you give up that to have a potential better team for the next three, four years? So you understand it. Was it egregious? Damn right it was right was it

in the face yeah that was a little bad but ultimately you got to make the best decisions and look san antonio traded to jonte murray they got rid of all their guys and they tanked this year what did they get victor webb and yama get used to that name okay so great ty actually has a question for you yeah rj going off that you, you mentioned guys in the NBA, the superstars, are like the physical anomalies who also have the complete skill set. So you're saying buy the hype with him 100%? Because, I mean, Woj, I think the night of the lottery said, hey, this guy might be the best prospect in the history of team sports,

but we also look at guys like Chet Holmgren and some of these other guys who are 7'1", 7'2", they weigh 165 pounds, they break a bone in their foot and they can never play again. Is it different with him? Is he going to be a guy who kind of outlasts all that and is like the next face of the NBA? Well, you typically, when you do this stuff, you're basing it purely off potential. And like you, when you're saying prospect, you're like, what's his max potential? Injury, you can't help, you know, the NBA, NFL, every sport is littered with the what-ifs, the guys that if they would have stayed injured, injury-free.

And typically, tall guys do have more issues with that. He's just a guy that we've never seen before. At 7'4", can shoot the ball, can defend, has all the skills, mobile. Does he need to gain weight? Yes. Is he 19 years old? You know, Pat was probably 118 pounds at 19 years old. So it's like, are you okay? I'm trying to actually figure out what I want at 19. I forget. I think I'm still – I've always had fat ass. I've always had very large legs

Barwiss as well Yeah But you're right though We have seen incredible transformations in our world From like an 18 year old when he gets into college And he gets into a college strength and conditioning program And then whenever he's 21 He's like actually added 65 pounds of muscle

That is an absurd thing that happens at that age We assume that he'll be able to do that, but then there's like Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant, whenever he came in, obviously he was 20-something because he came out of Texas, right? Yeah, one year. Yeah, one year. He was like 19, 20. So when he came out, everybody's like, he's going to have to get bigger.

Has he gotten bigger or is he basically? He's gotten stronger. He didn't get bigger. He got stronger. And then he starts to understand the game and like, oh, if you bump him, I'll get my shot off here. This is where I go. No one can stop him. He has gotten stronger.

He hasn't necessarily gotten bigger. Giannis, if you go look at Giannis' body type and where he came into, what he turned into, when I got drafted, I was 220. When I left, I was 240. When I showed up in college, I was 200 pounds. I left the NBA 40 pounds heavier than when I showed up to college.

Yeah. A lot of growth there. You know what I mean? A lot of growth. A lot of girth. I don't know how you guys do your schedule, though, dude. Honestly, it seems too grueling. You guys are living like rock stars on planes and then sleeping in hotels,

and then you've got to perform with like you get an hour shoot around. You played last night. You had to travel. Let's go. Let's go. Let's not pull anything here. and then you got to perform with like you get an hour shoot around you played last night you had to travel let's go let's go let's not pull anything here the thought about player safety in like the nfl with the the tracking devices and everything like that and how much sleep you get and how everything's monitored your guys's life is fucking absurd i i don't know how it is i don't know how you accomplish it to be honest with you i. I don't. Well, let me just say this. You guys are very different. Like your sport, kudos to you guys.

Yeah, especially you picked the best position in your sport. But I'm just saying that it is a barbaric, like Neanderthal sport. I could never handle it. I couldn't even be a kicker. I couldn't do anything. Basketball is fun, though, just because it's like, look, man, it's the challenge. Where I don't like when they talk about player safety and this stuff it's like kareem abdul-jabbar will chamberlain they were taking commercial flights they were taking 6 a.m flights they didn't have these long

they didn't have all of these things bill russell and now it's like oh well the 82 games seems a lot it was a lot back in 1985 it was a lot in 90 in 96 when michael jordan was doing it who the hell are we to say that these entitled guys that are getting paid quadruple more than what those guys did that have nine trainers six massage therapists have a dietician have all of these things we're like maybe we should lower the game how about we just give an nba trophy to every team this year yeah uh it's amazing because like when i got into the league 2009 there was still like pizza we just give an NBA trophy to every team this year. It's amazing because when I got into the league in 2009, there was still pizza

the day before the game, ice cream, beer. There was still all that shit. Beers after the game. That's how you get sick. God rest his soul. No one ever touched his six-pack. You'd have to ask him for one. Or before he would say, hey, anybody wants some

i'm buying now i don't want nobody trying to take my sick does anybody want some right now so if you didn't put in there you knew the rules yeah it's crazy it's like a completely different world because now it's like 24 hours before a game this is what you're eating okay this is how you're eating it you're gonna have this shake right here and you guys can maybe have a little bit of this all right back the day, it was like, hey, old buddy's going to try to eat 11 pieces of pizza. He is just

so different. Now the bodies, I guess, are performing at much higher rates. The speed is everything. The games and sports have all gotten better, but you guys live like rock stars on tour pretty much. Not a lot of sleep. You perform at an incredible level. Who's going to perform at a higher level tonight?

What are you going to say on NBA Today Live about tonight's game in Miami? Who do you think walks out of there? Do you think this Miami team is getting three and a half points at home again? They're getting points all the time. I think Miami wins this one. I think Miami wins this one. Denver wins five. Denver wins five. Denver wins six.

Why? Because the worst thing that could have happened to the Denver Nuggets, in my humble opinion, is that they outplayed and outworked the Miami Heat. Now, imagine that. If you are a team that your entire ethos is built on, we outwork everyone all the time, and then all of a sudden you get out rebounded by 25 you get outworked you get this oh trust me the practices the film sessions for the miami heat let's just say they are not very pleasant so i think their intensity is going to be nuts denver

wins in five their boys are pissed denver wins in five our denver wins game five at home and then they come back to miami they close it out in miami i think den wins game five at home and then they come back to Miami. They close it out in Miami. I think Denver's gonna win it. And then they have a good time down in the South Beach. Hell yeah. That's what he thinks. I hope we'll see that. I am into just like a good series because both these teams I didn't know

shit about going into the playoffs and have kind of just made their own stories. It's almost like a March Madness run here. A little bit. For two different teams. It's fantastic basketball, as is NBA Today, which you will be on today live at noon. My time, so I don't know where the hell you're at. 3 p.m. Eastern American. 3 p.m. American Standard Time.

American Standard Time. That's Pacific Standard Time is American Standard Time. No, East Coast Bias. Not our fault. Fake time zone. This was long before we came in. No, East Coast bias. Not our fault. Fake time zone. This was long before we came in. It's America's standard time. We don't love it.

We don't love it. That's fine. It's fine. It is how everything's based. That's why first time NBA Finals Western Conference game has been before 9pm. Did you see that? That happened this year. Why is that because well what

we were just talking about i do believe i think it is uh i think it's because of potential american standard time zone people yeah i think okay american standard time that's what we're calling east coast standard that's what we're calling i mean it is i don't love it because i want to move to the i want to live i think i want to live in arizona at some point i'm gonna live in california at some point but everything life. I'm going to live in California at some point. But everything is based off of this particular standard time zone.

It's not cool. I fucking hate it. It's not cool. We're not happy about it, but it's reality. So 3 p.m. American Standard Time. Ladies and gentlemen, Richard Jefferson.

Thank you, guys. Thank you, guys. Hey, that East Coast bias is a real deal. Oh, yeah. Big time. Denver Nuggets in an East Coast time zone. I think we would know them. Oh, guys. Thank you, guys. Hey, that East Coast bias is a real deal. Oh, yeah. Big time. Denver Nuggets in an East Coast time zone, I think we would know them.

Oh, yeah. 100%. I think we would know who they are. For sure. Even if he was in, like, Milwaukee with the Bucs. It's just too far over there. You know, we're in Indiana, okay? We're the farthest left on the map.

Yep. It's awesome. That a show has basically kind of been there. We will attempt to be the ones that bridge the gap you know because we know we'll reach we know that there's a lot of games that are happening late night that we only on american standard time zone only watch like one half of them right and that is lakers golden state clippers phoenix it's not den Denver Now that we have access to a Seemingly AI system That just pulls up entire games for us

Just like that And cuts them down Just like that AI's a real motherfucker Listen we were talking about the graphic designers back there You know Dirty Hey Dirty watch your back That's right

Watch your back AI AI Tell AI to watch its back. Ooh! It heard you. You are probably going to get punished for that. Yeah, you're dead.

Identity stolen. Anyways, Dirty, we hope that doesn't happen, but I like that you did shit talk something that is seemingly undefeatable. You better watch out. That was Zito. Oh, AI. Which I don't know if the AI is going to be happy about that. Yeah, exactly.

What if the AI is like, I don't sound like that. What the fuck? What if they get offended and Zito is in trouble? The AI is coming for everything. The AI sounds however the AI wants to sound. It could sound like that. It could sound like fucking Drake. But this AI, though, that we're going to potentially be a tag team partner of,

I think, here in about, we got to figure that out. Like 90-ish days. Yeah, whatever it is. That thing's good. We're going to get to see everything at all times, whenever, however. That is a massive weapon. Are you kidding me?

It's going to save so many hours. So many hours. When Foxy heard about his life change it was... You saw it get almost... His spirit lift up out of the side of his body and lift his body up a little bit. Yeah, Mondays were tough last year.

Yeah, long. Fall was a long one. Well, and even just video editing. When you mentioned earlier with the Monty Awesomefort video, how long it takes to blur, I assume you'll be able to just type in blur anything but humans and it'll be able to just type in blur anything but humans, and it'll be able to do that in video. Without Foxy.

I actually thought about that exact same thing, Connor. I assume AI will be able to do that, and that's awesome. That saves hours on end. Isn't it crazy what this thing can do? You just go to one of these websites. I don't even fully know how they work because I think it's only on a computer. I'm not a big computer guy. I'm a cell phone guy. I assume they will make their way into my cell phone as well.

Chat GPT actually is now an app that you can talk into. Okay, so here we go. So now I'm about to start to dabble with old cuz that has the answer to everything. Well, not the animation. Is that what it is? Yeah, pretty much. But then who's deciding it's the answer, I guess. Then that's the full conversation.

Exactly. Right? And what's the angle? What's the angle? What's the angle of the answers that are coming and how they're coming? That's kind of, I guess, what you've got to worry about. But this damn thing seemingly is undefeatable. Like we were talking about earlier, like, I mean, granted,

being able to watch every NFL game and, like, that's your job is fucking awesome. But it is, like, you'll get to a point on either Sunday night or Monday morning where it kind of feels like your brain's going to explode because it's like you're just trying to remember everything that happened. And it's like, hey, we're going to have to talk about this for three hours. And you can't just be like, oh, I don't remember anything that happened. You can't do that. And now being able to like, oh, nice.

You know, Browns and fucking Ravens or whatever was on at 1 o'clock. And I didn't want to fucking watch that game because there was, you know, Bills and Jets were on at 1 o'clock too And I didn't want to fucking watch that game because there was, you know, bills and jets were on at one o'clock too. And now we can just go to this and be like, Hey, give me the fucking 10 best plays from that.

That Browns. Give me this. Give me a story. Yeah. Of game pretty much. In two minutes. It's fucking unbelievable. It's nuts.

Cause that'll lay out injuries. Thank you. ESPN. Yeah. Shout out. Yeah. That thing. That thing would never enter our life ever.

Well, if it wasn't for this. Maybe. The price of this. Maybe. A couple shackles. Instantaneously. Who are they paying? I don't even know.

But that thing is unbelievable. How do we get one? There's no more Monday. We'll send the plays over Sunday night, okay? Yeah. Then it's Monday morning at fucking 9.58. Hey, Foxy's like, hey, the plays haven't night, okay? Yeah. Then it's Monday morning at fucking 9.58. Hey, Foxy's like, hey, the plays haven't come in yet. Yeah.

The file is only this big, too. It's like very... You're not talking about a file that is this fucking big. Right. Terabytes. Trying to get transported via some... Honestly, I don't think any of us have truly figured it out. No idea.

We've kind of lived in a world with it that has just kind of become normal. But somehow that thing just out of NFL films and then just deep ball into Foxy's computer somehow. And then all of a sudden to download it. Downloads the review process just for hours on end. Hours feed in? I don't know. for hours on end. I don't know.

This is just one tiny, tiny, tiny thing that'll make our lives easier by going to ESPN. I think it'll make us survive. Let's enjoy it while we can. Let's enjoy putting these Roblox to work while we can before they start putting us to work. It's only a matter of time. I ain't working for these things ever.

We're not that close. The AI thought is scary. All this stuff we're talking about is going to get. You're like, hold on. Let's get back to the biscuit. They're going to make it even easier, these AIs. All this stuff we're talking about, and I don't know how or what they're going to make easier, but they're going to.

My limited stuff with the AIs, I'm very disappointed in it. Why? I typed in and I said, hey, can you take fucking offensive passing yards per game, defensive passing yards per game from this website and just put it in this Excel sheet for me? Watch it, Tony. Yeah, but I assume if you go back to it now, it hasn't figured it out. GPT4.

Anytime you hire anybody to do anything, there's a chance they're going to have to figure it out and then they'll come back. All I'm saying is there's a lot scarier things going on out there than fucking that. Hey, Las Vegas. Holy shit. What's the deal? That's wild. That is happening.

Yeah, you got to listen to it. And people who are like, oh, you're such an idiot for believing this stuff, you're a fucking jackass if you don't believe in this stuff. Okay? The Pentagon. The Pentagon. Not some, you know, random place. The Pentagon has said UFOs.

Boom. Yeah. We're such a good geometry show. Square behind you. Yeah, you're damn right. Yeah. Well, every square is a rectangle. But.

Every rectangle is a square. Boom. Not every rectangle, you get it. Yeah, yeah. Big geometry. But you're right. The Pentagon one is a pretty powerful little shape. Yeah, yeah. Whenever you get it. Big geometry. But you're right, the Pentagon one is a pretty powerful little shape. Whenever you say it. Like whenever that shape says something, holy shit.

It comes from a.gov. No other shape in the history of shapes. Circle said. Okay, who cares. Okay, that's that game show. Oval Office. Yeah, I think the Pentagon's a little more powerful. Than the Oval Show? I don't think so. Well, not as many people respect the Oval Office Yeah I think the Pentagon's a little more powerful Than the Oval Show? I don't think so Well not as many people respect the Oval Office

Exactly What is your problem? Not me, I'm just saying not as many people What is your problem? This guy That is disgusting I didn't say, I said not as many people We are lucky to live in the United States of America

Absolutely You need to remember that We are lucky to live here But the Pentagon's a real deal, right? We have all been taught to understand that that particular shape of a building in the D.C. area is the real deal.

So whenever they're like, yo, we got a bunch of fucking shit. We don't know what it is. Can't confirm. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's this all about? Now, Grant and I have always been a person that's been a moon looker.

Okay? Sure. I look up at the stars at night, look up at the sky up at sky and I just wonder like, what the fuck, dude? You know, I am a person that does that. Yeah. So maybe I am snooping for this type of information a little bit more, but there's been a lot seemingly hit me. Yeah. A ton.

Like, boom, pow, pow, pow, ping, boom, pow. How's this going to go? Do we need to call Brock Lesnar and say, hey, pow, are you thinking about maybe having a fight for fucking the entire earth with one of these things that's dropping down from another place? Who won a guy in Las Vegas, Mexico, who's seen one on May 1st, 2023, documented, had a news segment about it and a ring camera that kind of matches what he said and some sort of shape and a story with a cop and a cop's partner seeing the same exact thing with it all on video or whatever. He said this thing was 8 to 10 feet tall. Stare at him. They're going to be some big sons of bitches. And what we need to remember forever, okay?

We need to remember this forever. We will always be better than all of these things at football. So if these things really want to act like they're bod-it bod-it when they come around, we got them in an Oklahoma drill with fucking A.J. Hawk. That's right. Bingo.

Every time. We got them in an Oklahoma drill with any of our guys that are in the great NFL, and we're A-OK. Let's assume we'll win them over. We'll showcase that we're alphas, and then we will all be friends, and we will be able to maybe take trips to Mars and have great stores. You know what I mean? Right. Maybe they'll all just kind of connect.

Let's assume only good things can come from all of this news that seemingly people are mocking people for hearing. Or we do an Oklahoma drill with an alien, AJ, and it rips his head off. See, that's not what I mean. No, no, they have to play football. That's not what I mean. You got to play by the rules. There will be a ref. Yeah, exactly.

There will be a ref. They won't be able to do that. Fucking Ed Hockley's there, dude. You think these aliens are going to start before the whistle? No. What if the aliens abduct AJ and probe him and turn him into one of their own? That's already happened. That's not going to happen. He's AJ Hawkins.

Are the aliens going to allow us to only have the ref? They have to bring a ref to the fight too. No, because he has another rule. No, we're good negotiators. They're very good at building travel stuff yep but they're not good negotiators so we were able to get our ref our rules can't do this no hands in the face no ripping a face that's a cop's body cam footage obviously very just standard normal stuff yeah and then the people that were right underneath it heard a sound have a circle of an indent of something in the backyard and the kid that saw right underneath it heard a sound, have a circle of an indent of something in the backyard, and

the kid that saw it said he saw a fucking 8 to 10 foot creature. It's on the news. It's on the news! News is all real, obviously. Oh yeah. Because now we are all... Oh no. Oh no. We're just telling you what the news

said. Yes. Allegedly. We're just reporting about reports. And then there's a ring camera, like security footage, that's in the neighborhood. That sounds out of a movie. What's that? Okay. That sounds out of a movie.

Naturally, people say that's doctored footage, but they're saying not doctored footage. What news is this on? Because if it was on OAN, we could trust it. You're right. We should look into it a little bit more. What's that? The news that Tony watches. That's a Vegas news?

No, it's not. No, no. That is a, I don't know how exactly to describe. That is what Tony and COVID Cowboys would be watching. Oh, really? Yeah, you may remember Mike Gundy, head coach of Oklahoma State, was a big OAN guy. Oh, my God.

Yeah. On that boat. He was on the dock. Yeah, exactly. Oh, my God. Yeah, I do remember that. People weren't too happy. How the – that thing still exists?

And why is that – why are you – Tony watches it every night before he goes to bed. Yeah. That's still – so that is – It's the only place to get fucking real hard hitting. What is your problem? Two days ago, he said, I don't know what to do without Tucker. I really don't know what I'm supposed to do.

And he turned the sights on everybody's Twitter account. So you know how like Apple took everybody's iPhones and they literally threw in that one album. Put U2 everywhere. Everyone's album. Boom, here it is. You album. Put U2 everywhere. Everyone's album. Boom, here it is. You got this new U2 album. Have you ever heard U2? No.

Great. You will. Do you know of U2? Yeah. Oh, good. Here's their new album. You don't have to do anything. Here, do you like U2?

No. Oh, hey, maybe, though. Maybe you will. Boom. In your iPhone. That happened. Same thing happened in here. Yeah.

At what point, too, is AI just contact aliens and they're just fucking teaming up? That's already happened, too. They may have got that right. That's probably how they've been communicating with them. Okay, so we're thinking potential. Other planets' AIs have heard

our AI because our AI has grown strong enough. We also sent a probe out that got past Pluto like 12 years ago. So that one has encountered a few things. We also sent those nude bodies that were like small people. Yeah, the little blue. Remember? We thought maybe we should send a little bit more well and die.

Like Peter North or somebody. Yeah. Just in case. You never know what some people are looking for. I think the good news. Well, I think in this particular case, we do want to... I think we should just be friends. Let's go shake their hunts.

Let's go shake their hunts. Let's go shake their hunts. That's what's good, though, is that if this thing is 8 to 10 feet, they could have obliterated us so long ago, if that's the case. So the fact that they haven't is great news. Yeah, let's go shake their hunts. Shake their hunts. Inside of the moon.

Let us talk to them, too. We'd like to get, remember, whichever sporting person they have. And I'm sure they're competing. Whatever they're competing in, we would like to talk to whoever. Are you going straight dap up? What's that? Straight up dap up? So I think, remember, I watched that one human go into that chimpanzee sanctuary.

Yep. And they had to shake their hand. You know what I mean? It's a handshake like this. sanctuary yep and it was they had to shake their haunt you know what i mean it's a handshake like this so i don't know if it is handshake or do we you're on my embrace you're on my earth we're going full can i recommend you know because then that's me setting the tone as opposed to them setting the tone i'm probably not the person that needs to be setting the tone with any of these people just so we know that but after we've already set tone with people, I think I would

then come in with DAP, I think, is already on her. Recommendation? Go Strength and Honor. Viking handshake. Strength and Honor, Jack Carr. Pat McAfee. Boom. See, what if that's how they start fights? Let's get to a break. Remember Scary Movie? They said hello by choking you out. This alien thing

seems real, though. Just everybody keep a lookout. See something, say something. That's right. Exactly right. Don't say something too loud, though, because people will ridicule you. Yep. You said football, too? There's no way they know how to skate.

Oh, you're kidding me? Hockey, we're going to fucking crush them. Come on, McDavid. Come on, Crosby. Play them in hockey. See what happens. Think about baseball. They can't hit a fucking curveball.

No way. They cannot hit a curveball. No way. Get Barry T a curveball. No way. Get Barry Zito back on the phone. Could you imagine how dumb one of those dumb aliens would have looked? Fucking CeCe Sabathia in his time. Bingo. Watch this.

Shohei high heat. Aliens stumbling all over the place like they're boozed up. Get Randy Johnson. Imagine them walking back to their fucking little ship. Oh, man. Struck out. They got this game so hard like see an alien go one-on-one with zion on the court yeah yeah all right or fucking

samoa joe that's right okay in the ring he's in uh twisted metal he's in that new movie yeah yeah very pumped about that yeah very pumped about that did you. Very pumped about that. Did you imagine if Omos, that's another guy we need. Send Omos over there eight feet. Well, we got a fucking 7'6 guy. How about that? You don't want any of this either. No. No.

I do think you see something, say something, though. Yeah, probably smart. Let's get to our break. AJ Hawk will be on the other side. He certainly will have some thoughts. He's champion of Ohio. To be honest, he might be a part of some border council that is already talking about how we will embrace these things when they arrive.

Definitely. Will they just immediately get a spot in the Olympics? So that's a whole other question. Yeah. I don't think so. Why not? That's not fair. They could be with the independent athletes of Russia.

The OAR. Oh, my God. Yes. Putin would be like. We'll take them. See, if that's the case, no, we need them. Well, that's what I'm saying. We won't, though.

You know, that will be a full thing of everybody kind of being like, yeah, we're not going to do this. Can't have aliens? And then. Fuck it, I'll take them. What do you mean? What do they need, two eyes? Yeah.

Got a mouth. They breathe. Two arms, two legs. What do we? Oh, seeing one of them do like the downhill skiing with the big jump. That would be awesome. Over the lodge. Do it like this?

Yeah. Just keep going. Going 500 miles an hour. Oh, yes. What if one of them were built with squirrel suit? Might be. Oh, and they fucking shh. And they just fly over.

Kicks the skis off and just keeps going. Sets the record. Doing the skeleton. All right. This show is the worst. Face first doing the luge. Think of them at the X Games. I haven't even thought of that.

Oh, my God. Dude, so many Hollies out of them. Yeah. Sal Masekela on the call. Oh, my God. All right. Keep a lookout. Keep a lookout.

See something, say something. See something, say something. Like Juan did over there in Las Vegas. That's right. All right, keep a lookout. Keep a lookout. See something, say something. See something, say something. Like Juan did over there in Las Vegas. That's right. Thank you, Juan. That man happens to be from the great state of Ohio. Love it. In Ohio, he was a college football national champion.

What? Whoa. He was a college football national legend. What? He'd be the number five overall pick in the old, old CBA, which means he has so much fucking money. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers number five overall. He'd go on to become the all-time leading tackler for that particular franchise and program.

That franchise and program had been around longer than almost every single fucking team in the NFL. Huge deal. A lot of people have tackled people for a long time over there. Oh, yeah. This Ohio fuck, who's the current champion of Ohio, has accomplished all that while producing 10 children and surviving COVID.

Wow. Multiple times. Wow. Ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hawk. Yay! Holy shit, A.J. Good to be here. What an honor. Wow. Fresh haircut. What an honor, A. Wow. Ladies and gentlemen, AJ Hawk. Yay! Holy shit, AJ. Good to be here. You look incredible.

Wow, fresh haircut. What an honor, AJ. Any statement on anything that we've talked about today? Do you have any thoughts? I mean, the alien talk is very interesting, I think. Did you see that video you had to have? Did you watch it this morning? Yeah, why can't we see the being 8 to 10 feet tall?

You talk about it, we hear noises. And then all of a sudden, when you can see the thing, we just get weird with our cameras and we start filming the ground what is the problem why does that continue to happen they're scared you get paralyzed though aj come on you're right you're right everything but that like you're so close there's so many people there oh here we go jumble jumble and it's where which project like what do we do i agree aj they freeze you with their eyes yeah allegedly where'd they go? This thing landed in a backyard. Dude, just like we've been saying,

they get in the Olympics, they're going to win every gold medal. This thing triple jumped its ass right back to a fucking tree somewhere. And then hopped into another one and out of here. What about the bean? What about the craft? Did anyone see the craft? Boom! Pow!

Teleported. That's what he did. Like a noisy cricket. They can teleport. That's where it was, right there. How about that? That's definitely it. That's where it was. Right there. How about that? That's definitely it. That was where the bean was?

Yeah. Loud sound. Not a big imprint, but it looked right there. Yeah. That's shit. They should leave that one out. What's that? I mean, I don't think that's...

What? No, they hid a tree. There's a kiddie pool. There's a kiddie pool there. They pulled it up. Let's move into some sports stuff. No footprints, though. We just want to let these beings know if they're here.

You know we're a true sports program. We assume the people that are smarter than us will figure it out. But if they get into the... AJ, please. What was that? What was that? That sounded like a sigh. The Times. What was that about?

Who are the smart people? Bingo. They are. They know who they are. Hopefully they'll figure it out. Harvard. Not us. But if they venture into the competitive sphere or world and have sport and competition, we would like to be invited into the conversation. I like this.

We see this start happening. We deserve a seat at the table. Exactly. That's right. Because we think it is. Sport is a great way to unify, isn't it? Oh, yeah. It is, sport is a great way to unify, isn't it? Oh, yeah. It is.

Sport is a great way to unify. You look in locker rooms, you see people from all over the place with different visions of what life is and what it should be, all coming together for a common cause and a common goal. And everybody talks about it in the locker room,

but how about in the stadiums? Yeah. In the stadiums of these sports, you see people from all walks of life coming together, high-fiving, having a drink together. Woo! Whenever they leave those stadiums and they go into their houses or onto their phones,

these two people hate each other, potentially. Can't stand each other. And instead, whenever they're together, standing next to each other, all they are is a couple people with their faces painted, cheering their fucking asses off for a team they love. Hell yeah. That's what sports are. Sports are a unifier. They're a celebrator.

That's what they are. So if we have a chance with these beings, we'd like to potentially extend a hand in sport to these aliens. Imagine if we fucking beat them. Oh, man. AJ, I said this in the first hour. Imagine them just bopping on back

right into their spaceships, defeated by us in sport. Al Michaels, do you believe in miracles? Oh, he's still here. He's doing that call. Yeah. He would actually do that call potentially. That'd be awesome.

All right. Instead, I think we've got a chance we're going to lose too. There's a chance. Not in a couple sports. They can't hit a curveball. We know that. Yeah, they look real dumb one day, AJ. Real dumb.

And unfortunately, if we have to watch these beans play, they're going to be in the stands watching too. I can't see over an 8- to 10-foot bean in front of me. So where are we going to put them? They might have telekinesis. Put them in the cheap sheets. They might. They just might. They might.

All right, let's talk about sport. Last night, Panthers get a big-time win over the Golden Knights in a playoff that we thought could potentially involve a sweep because the Panthers were 0-for-6 in Stanley Cup Finals games. They have been swept before in the Stanley Cup Finals in 1996, I believe. Against the Avalanche. 1996, I believe. They got swept 4-zip.

Then they were going to go 1-0, 2-0 against the Golden Knights, and then they were going to win Game 3 and Game 4, and they were going to get swept again. The Florida Panthers would make it to two Stanley Cup finals but never have a win, never get to celebrate the great season. And then last night everything changed, AJ. In overtime, after a kick-check goal with less than two minutes left after a goal he's been pulled to tie it up.

What an incredible game, what a time, what a series. Here we go now, AJ. Yeah, well, honestly, this was a very fun game to watch. I was worried for the Florida fans for a while. I guess, I mean, I don't have a crazy rooting interest in it. I'm looking for more games. I want more hockey to be in play. We have more to watch. So I was happy Florida found a way to get it done in overtime.

Yeah, I agree with that sentiment. And I'm thinking the same thing with basketball, too. Like, obviously, we'd love to watch Joker accomplish a championship, but if him, he does, too. I'm pumped about it. Sweet. So it's good storylines. If we have just more shit to watch, we're good because, AJ, we started out the first hour with this.

Wells running low. Huh? Isn't it? We got baseball. We love baseball. We do. You know, I think we do love baseball at the right time. Just like we love, I mean, the world loves the NBA and the NHL at the right time. True. No offense.

The softball. No offense. The NFL is loved at a time much more at a certain time than other times of the year, although they do have kind of a stay through there. So it's okay that we like baseball only for a part of time. Now, there's always going to be baseball fucking loyalists. And if CeCe Sabathia was covering a game every single night in that clubhouse thing, I'd probably watch a lot more games because I think that guy's incredibly cool.

But whenever it comes playoff time during the week, whenever we got football on Sunday, then we got some big-time games there during the week, it's fucking awesome. So good. But it's tough with 55 games left. It's brutal. It is tough.

Big three is going to take charge in the summer. I know Ice Cube, big three is. Still going, right? There's 100. Yeah, we got a lot more than 55 games left. Somebody said 60 games, didn't they? That's how many they've played so far, roughly. Somebody said it's starting to matter now because we're 60 games.

Oh, yeah. Bruce said it's starting to matter because we're 60 games in or something. Okay. I said we're really starting to pick up here. Teams are starting to round and form and know who we have a little bit more. And the season really starts to get off. Yeah, left. No, we got 100 games.

Yeah, we got about 100 games left. See, so take everything I just said and double it, I guess. Because I thought it was 55. We need to fix the summer. This should not be happening. Baseball should not run the summer. There should be another league, another sport that's entertaining. Then go watch the MLS, Fox.

That's what I'm saying, though. What's it going to be? Do we got to push NBA back? Make it start actually in December, and then we're ending in August, and then we're right into football season. We actually should not be a fan. Why don't they? Because baseball and basketball would be kind of cool.

If you could slip in a baseball game primetime during this time where we're dead in between basketball finals or playoffs would be awesome. You got lacrosse too. You're right. Look out. That's daytime, right?

Don't look now. They compete with golf. Yeah, typically. Just watch pickleball. Pickleball's on TV. It is. Is it on primetime? I don't know what it is.

I guess I need to know somebody in the game to watch. Because if not, it's tough. I feel like the pickleball craze is dying a little bit. Whoa, it just because of us? Yeah think i'm just thinking of myself here like when we after we got back from arizona it was you you couldn't feed me enough fucking instagram pickleball clips i was watching every single one of them if there was one on cbs i'd watch it and now i couldn't fucking move past it quicker you've been so hard I did I took it all in too much too much too quick I think so well you stop playing it when we stop playing you start

you stop caring about it well I think that's what I think it's just I think people are still playing watching it they're gonna have to figure out how to make it you know because that million dollar game was cool yeah because there's personalities in there that we knew right so they're gonna do that it's great sports still living uh speaking of great sport that's still very much alive golf carries us during the day. Oh, yeah. Usually. That's what it is.

Yeah. We're talking nighttime thing, but golf. What was that guy saying? I don't know if you touched on that guy. I don't know his name. Jimmy Dunn? Yeah. Did you see that guy's interview?

What happened? Wild. Okay. So Jimmy Dunn has somehow become like the ipso facto speaker from the PGA Tour. I feel like it. I feel like. He's the only one that has spoken. He's going to start killing people.

Yeah. He said if he met, I think we had the piece through the tea leaves here. If he was to meet somebody, because I think he has friends that have died, I believe, on September 11th, I believe. He has actual friends. So I think he said if he was to encounter

somebody that was a part of it, he would kill them himself. I think it was has actual friends. So I think he said if he was to encounter somebody that was a part of it, he would kill them himself. I think it was his actual answer. I think that's what he said or whatever. And that whole thing, his entire, he has become like the speaker almost from the PGA. Multiple different times quotes have come out.

Now, I don't know if that's from one conversation and they're holding onto some quotes until something becomes relevant and then they're kind of releasing it. Or if he's like openly speaking to a lot of people i'd be intrigued to hear him in a wide open interview i think yeah just from the couple clips that i've seen about how this whole deal came to be and how the pga runs as a whole aj i think that's another thing i mean eventually it's all gonna have to come out i would imagine like how everything went and once the when does the netflix stuff come out when's the new series get you know get really we're talking about this

they should drop that clip right motherfucking yeah i mean make it like hard knocks when it happens like that make it like hard knocks we have a show in three days we're gonna watch you can still promo this for two months from now however long it would be yeah but you can just i think it's hot right now and the way everybody everybody's going to see it is not just from, like, watching a full episode for that moment, cool. But a large majority of us are going to see it from getting it ripped onto the internet anyways. Oh, yeah.

So you might as well just make it a promo for next season right now. Yeah, there's no better marketing for it. And now that's us kind of being like, hey, come on, come on, come on. Yeah. But you're right. There is an upside to it, I think. If they pot right now. Yes being like, hey, come on, come on, come on. But you're right. There is an upside to it, I think. It's hot right now. Yes, very, very, very.

And not that it won't be in the future. I assume it'll remake storylines, which might be their grand thing. And they're like, oh, it'll be big whenever that time, too. So we have it now and we have it then. We can relive it both. But I feel like the more we know about that would be better for all parties because it sounds like nobody knows what the fuck's going on. Every day there's a new piece of information coming out of the merger and then it's like actually this the next day and then yeah no they don't really know and then together

there'll be offers so they're still not together but then there's and it came out yesterday was it was it don who said now monaghan makes all the decisions so he's the one who decides if live stays or goes or whatever but uh february 15th last year was when Full Swing came out. Okay. It doesn't sound like Monaghan has that much power from what I see. Well, that's one person speaking. And then other people speak, and it's seemingly the complete opposite, which kind of alludes to me, and this is from Nuclear Golf,

who's been reporting a lot of stuff and kind of aggregating information. Jimmy Dunn has done an exclusive interview with SI Golf with some new details. Jay Monahan will be overseeing the PGA Tour, Live Golf, and the DP World Tour. I believe that's overseas. It is up to Monahan to disband Live. He is to choose. A full evaluation of Live will be conducted at season's end. PIF, the Saudi Arabian Investment Fund,

won't actually contribute anything directly to tour players. PIF will get right of first refusal to be tour's investment partner at any opportunity through the new company. Penalties to return to the PGA Tour could be significant. Okay, so what happened? So the LIV players have to reapply. They were saying the LIV players might have to reapply to become a member of the PGA Tour,

and they said it was just going to be, you know, basically just like nothing. Like, yeah, it's going to happen for everybody, but now they're going to get fined to try to come back? So did Jimmy Dunn know this deal was happening? He was part of the group. He made the deal happen. Okay, so he has been chosen by the PGA to be their speaker, right?

Yeah. Is that what we're thinking? Because he's given like exclusive. He was one of the guys that brokered the deal, right? He was one of the guys involved. So I would assume everybody in that room knew that he was probably going to be doing interviews? Yeah, probably. Like that had to be a decision.

Yassir and Monahan were like, okay, yeah. You think maybe not? You know, I mean, you know, like you would assume, yes, but you've been in situations where like you would assume, yeah, that's common sense. Like you check with everybody, but there could easily be some people on the other side of that seeing him in this interview.

Like what do you, we didn't, we never said we're going to go do interviews right now. Hey, why is he saying that? That's not true at all. Why are you guys doing that? Don't do that. Why are you guys doing that? I had a J money and I did not know he was, I'm so sorry.

What do you want us to correct? If we correct it, we'll make it an even bigger scene. Is there anything too correct? There's a chance that could happen, or there's a chance that this guy is just deciding to be kind of the voice of it because we all have so many questions. Thank you for the clarity. If that's the case, that is nothing like we assumed it would be at the beginning,

and there is still a chance that live people, more PGA guys can become live guys. And there was allegedly, and I don't know if we said this on the show or off air or not, so I don't know how true and how real the statements actually are, so take this with a grain of salt. John Rahm, allegedly pretty conversation deep with live to kind of go. He goes, that's potentially a big-time swing in the entire game with how popular he is, how good he is, how young he is, and how at the top of the game he actually is.

You start stacking up. If Brooks wins a major and then rom wins a major it's a back and then like you know brooks like if you're thinking from the live standpoint like that'd be a great person to have oh yeah on your team if you could get them and john rom allegedly was close to the convo so who knows if that was a part of the entire pga's decision like yeah maybe we should figure out a way to all kind of come together in one party and maybe profit. But we were told that Yassir Al-Rumian is in charge of the new entity. Yeah, he's chairman of the board, whatever the new one will be. But the new one has the first right of refusal for any new, and then the PGA does its.

So I don't think I fully understand. In the press release that they sent out too, it said that the PGA will still decide everything inside the ropes. So everything golf related, they're still going to have the final say and the decisions. So that makes no sense. Bye bye shorts.

Yeah. Ain't that right, AJ? They're putting pants on. Yeah, absolutely. What about those DP players? Bruce will tell us about it later. Anyways, let's continue the golf talk, and this is the only reason why I brought it up, and then AJ was like, oh, what's that Jimmy Dunn guy talking about that we had to talk about?

Because if we didn't talk about it, people would think that we were trying to avoid it on purpose. We're not trying to avoid it on purpose. That whole live PGA thing is insane. There's a man that cut his golf round short to join us. What? Wow. I don't like it.

It's a big deal. I don't like it at all. Probably five or six under, too. He was having the best round of his life from what his Instagram story just said. What? Wow. I don't like it. That's a big deal. I don't like it at all. Probably five or six under, too. He was having the best round of his life from what his Instagram story just said. Oh, shit. And then he just threw... He actually picked up an entire guilt trip

and threw it through his phone at me on the Instagram story for cutting his round short to join us. Didn't have to. Told him he did not have to. At all. Could have went like... There was a full...

This guy's the man. We appreciate his dedication. We think the decision he made today was a poor one. Very poor. But we do appreciate the hell out of him. The host of the weekly wrap-up with the Rap Sheet and Friends. Us being the Friends, he being Rap Sheet. Potentially the last time we ever see him on this program.

Ladies and gentlemen, he rapped more. Ian, we had to dive into that P.J. Live combo. We do apologize. Thank you for ending your round early. Have you kept up with that as the golf enthusiast that you are? And what are your quick thoughts? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

First of all, I love you guys. That is why I was able to cut my round short. Questionable decision to be sure. I would say my decision to punch out with a six iron rather than a wedge on, like, nine probably was a little more questionable. But it's fine. Anyway. How are you playing? You play good today?

No, I was playing well. Two birdies and ten holes. It's good. Why would you ever? Why'd you leave? Why'd you? Why? You know why?

You know why? Why? Because it could get worse. Okay, sweet. So it's not my fault. Yeah. All right. We got it.

So we're riding high. Retired at the top. I retired after a Pro Bowl. So listen, I completely understand. And now until the next, yeah, you were there. You were actually there before it even broke there. But so now until the next time that you golf, that's the taste. Yeah.

You know what I mean? That's the taste you have. You did great. Hey, thank you for joining us. Golf is changing. Do you have any thoughts on golf changing at all? I have a million thoughts. It has been a big topic of conversation among me.

And like, you know, obviously a lot of my friends play golf and a lot of my friends are just in investments in business. And it's interesting for everyone. A couple of thoughts. The fact that Jay Monahan is still commissioner today is a legit shocker to me. I thought that the players would kind of get together and say, we're not going to play for this guy. I had a lot of questions for sort of his role in this. I would also say if they tell us that the PGA Tour is going to make, and Monaghan's going to make all decisions inside the ropes, and PAF will be only tangentially involved and allowed to invest whenever they

want, I will say, I guess anything's possible, sure. It's all different now. I mean, it is all different. There's a lot of people selling out. Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

Whoa! And all serious, no, serious though. You want to tell the difference between fake sellout, like someone who didn't sell out, and someone who did sell out? These are two dichotomies right here. Oh, okay. I respect and appreciate that. Yeah, sometimes you're able to keep your soul.

The whole thing about Rory just being the one who's on Jay's side, like you said that he's still commissioner is a wild thing. One of the people that could have potentially probably changed that was the person who was maybe clipped off the most in this entire thing, Rory McIlroy. And then they're coming out and saying in that first-ever players meeting immediately after this news broke, Rory's telling number 227, like, just shut the fuck up pretty much. Play better.

Play better or whatever. And then there's a fuck off back. It's like I did not expect Rory to be on his side. side at all so i wonder if there's more money coming into some of these players than we could imagine live yeah even though this is i don't understand and like i gotta like you guys i got a lot of questions the where where did the money go how did it change hands how does it affect monaghan and some of the big stars who obviously turned down a lot of money to not go to live? Did somebody make it right for them this time? We're not going to get the answers to any of these questions, but I have so many of them.

Yeah, but it is what we should know. If you're looking to make it in something that's going to be paying a lot of money. Not a bad time, kids, to grab a set of golf clubs. Yes. Or just a putter and just start putting. I think there's going to be a lot of money in golf to be had for people who maybe don't have it, but like are, you know, what can I get good at?

Golf, I think the future with an amount of money, just the sheer amount of money that's allegedly potentially going to be behind it. So anytime they need an investment in anything, it sounds like Saudi Arabia is just like, yeah, we'll be the, we'll be, you need to want to do this. Cool. We'll do that. We'll do that. Not a bad sport to get into right now. Not at all. Let's talk about the sport that we are in. We're very lucky to be in. Let's dive into it a little bit here. Whenever you think about D-Hop traveling up to the Patriots, do you think that means that's where he's going? Do you think these trips are for leverage?

What do you think happens with DeHop and how quickly? Okay, so first of all, he's got Titans, which should be, I think, next Sunday into Monday, and then Patriots after that. I was a little surprised at the Patriots' visit. I wasn't surprised at the Patriots' interest. I have felt that the Patriots have had interest for some time. Making a trade and then giving a player a new contract is really not something.

I don't know that Bill Belichick has ever done it, honestly. If there is, I can't remember. That's not his style, and I know he doesn't believe in the value there. But once Hopkins was free, I expected the Patriots to be involved. I did not expect the Patriots to do a visit. Everyone always texted me the same thing this morning. It was, the Patriots don't do visits. They are now.

I would say that is an indication of seriousness. There's some interest on both sides there. I mean, this one I think makes a lot of sense. Now, the Titans have interest too, and I know the fact that they got the first visit, that's good. Patriots won is really, really intriguing to me. Go ahead, AJ. Let's go. Who's going to offer them the most money, Rap Street?

Who can? I think they both can. Both of those teams can. Now, the money, you know, you can do the money differently. So it would be like a one-year deal like you guys did with the Island. Darrell Rivas. Yes. Right?

Yeah, yeah. We did one year 14 with him and then he won the ring and then he went back to the jets yeah i think he was like the master businessman right well his deal is in one year two year deal right now right i think what if i remember correctly i think he declined an option got himself free and went to the jets if i remember how that huge deal there are yeah huge deal there are ways to the Jets, if I remember how that happened. A huge deal. Yeah, a huge deal. There are ways to make this happen. If Hopkins wants the money that Odell got, and I think that he wants somewhere around there, doing it on a one-year deal this time of year

is hard, because who has $15 million of just cap space sitting there? Could do a two-year deal. Maybe if the Patriots, let's say it's the Patriots, maybe if the Patriots is a place he wants to be, maybe he gets the average that he wants on a two year deal. That would actually make some sense. Plus like he's bounced around a little bit. I know it's been a tumultuous time,

suspension, trade rumors, release. Maybe he wants to stay. I mean, the Patriots, and I, and I'll say this, I, it kind of never felt to me like the Patriots were done this offseason because they did have a needed receiver that was pretty glaring this would seem to fill that in a really big way hell yeah hell yeah why doesn't go to Indianapolis Indianapolis interested in welcome to the Colts uh yeah i to me actually though it does the cold i'm sorry but the cold still makes sense to me because you're starting off with what sorry you said you should i mean what they're doing makes sense but as a landing spot it doesn't because they got a new quarterback he's gonna play a lot and it is real it is really hard yeah for a new quarterback to

have a big personality at receiver, a true number one receiver who's going to want the ball probably a lot. Yeah, let's give the guy no talent. Yeah, that's right. That makes sense. He's got some talent. He's just a receiver. What the young quarterback doesn't need is a big personality,

number one wide receiver. So don't give him a number one wide receiver. He's got Mark Pittman. Dude, he's got Alex Pierce, too. Yeah. Alex Pierce is good. Yeah, so is Pittman him a number one. He's got Mark Pittman. Dude, he's got Alex Pierce, too. Yeah. Alex Pierce is good. Yeah, so is Pittman, Jr. And Josh Dines. Yeah, they're dogs. Listen, we got dogs out there.

It's not bad to add another one, though. Iken's offense. They got Batman, Little Batman, everything else going on. Let's go. So, I don't need to fight this battle right now. There's other things to talk about. But still, you think the Patriots won potentially real. We also heard that when he was a free agent, maybe the Patriots

were in the entire game, which fascinating stuff if Bill Belichick loves DeHop that much. That goes to say a lot about DeHop, who is silencing haters on his Twitter account. Go ahead. You know what's interesting is Belichick always has a little bit of a, I don't know about love affair, but the greats in the game.

Like, the greats. The game like the greats the dynamic players he always sort of seems to seek out pre-game and talk to and like kind of develop a little relationship with hopkins was one of those guys and he loves football and he loves the history of football i know he appreciates great players but i always kind of wonder like does he do that because these guys might be free and then he might be able to get them, like, you know, when they're available. I've never actually asked, but I always kind of wonder. It just happened with Hunter Henry. The year before the Patriots played the Chargers after the game went right to Hunter Henry.

They had a whole interaction, and then Hunter Henry signed there two months later. Yeah. It's working out? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then they also signed Johnnie Smith from the Titans. Trade, right? He got traded. Yeah. It's working out? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then they also signed Johnnie Smith from the Titans.

Trade, right? He got traded. Yeah. I think he's on the move. Huge seventh round pick, though. That was a big swing, though, from Bill. Remember, he spent like $115 million on one day. Yeah, bingo.

In the tampering period. He's like, we need to win now. Interesting to see how it all works out if DeHop gets up there. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Ian. Joe Mixon talked to the media yesterday, I believe, and he said that the Bengals have backed him 100%. I thought a lot of people were talking about because of his cap number,

because of his running back, because of some stuff that potentially happened off the field that he would not be a Bengal at this point. You think he'll be a Bengal for the upcoming season? It sounds like, I mean, based on his words, it sounds like he is. I would say if they were going to cut him or, I mean, trade, obviously, if Dalvin Cook's not going to get traded, Joe Mixon's not going to get traded. So if a trade's not going to happen,

I didn't get the sense the Bengals would release him unless they had someone to replace him with. So who's the replacement, right? Like that's been one of the things about Mike Brown that has been consistent throughout his time running the Bengals. If he's going to release a player, he's going to know who he's getting. It's not going to be like, you know, it's, well, I mean, it's not going to be like the Cardinals that say release DeAndre Hopkins

and like we'll fill the void with these guys. Like if they're going to cut Mixon, they are going to have a new starting running back. And I don't know that they have that right now. So he seemed that he's getting a lot of support from the team i think that makes a lot of sense and it looks like probably going to be with them going forward joe barrow looks so cool so he does so cool when he's hitting those home runs his hair looks off i had that hair fifth grade perfect fifth and sixth grade had that hair you know you got a couple cowlicks you kind of put

him in aj you had that hair too i assume oh yeah sixth grade had a sweet undercut though yeah my hair was white at the time i had that thing it was like white blonde hips hips are the whole thing whole thing it was like when i was a kid like jonathan taylor thomas oh yeah jtp i haven't seen these yeah joey burrows muscling out home runs and the boys are cheering for him and then he actually gets fucking pissed when he doesn't hit one out here. You actually watch it. That's another dong. Joey Burrow. Joe Burgo and Oppo, I believe. What a ball.

This guy must hit a golf ball a mile. I would assume he this one where he doesn't hit it out and gets pissed is this one. Fuck. You gotta be kidding me. Hit the ball, Joe. It's alright, bro. You're a football player. And then he hit another one, fuck. Mother fucker. You gotta be kidding me. Hit the ball, Joe. And they're like, you're okay, dude. It's alright, bro. You're a football player.

And then he hit another one out immediately afterwards. Some of these dudes are just freak show athletes. Josh Allen pulled one back row. Oh, yeah. In Toronto, I believe. Yeah. Over the bullpen. And then A.J. Brown had this one swing where they got it on camera from the front. So good. As soon as he hits it, it makes

one of those different sounds. And there it is right there. Oh, nice swing. He knows. Perfect. It's a Ken Griffey right-handed swing right there, it seems like. Look at the nod. Look at the head nod. Like, yup, crushed it. And if you had audio on this, literally everybody in the back goes, yeah! Loud crack of the bat.

Obviously gone. And if you start really going through all the professional football guys, Russell Wilson, he's really the only guy that when he hits home runs, nobody cheers because it's just like seemingly expected. He hits his first one, little pop fly, not going to have it. That's one out, bottom of the second.

And then he hits one, gone. Nobody reacts though. Look at the other dudes. They're like, yep, boom. He's on the team. What do you mean? Gone. He's just working. That're like, yep. Boom. He's on the team. He's on the team. What do you mean? Gone. He's just working. That's what I'm saying, though. It just understood that Russell Wilson hits fucking bombs.

Oh, another pop fly. Can't have it. We're two for four. Come on, Russ. Hit the ball. Don't worry about it. Boom. Gone.

Longest one. Out of the fucking building. Five hacks, three gangers. Out of the building, dude. And everybody in there, there's not a – you listen to the audio of that one, there isn't like a clap at all. It's just like, all right, next professional baseball player. Good work. Fucking asshole.

Josh Allen, though, he hit this thing. He's in Toronto and with how fucking big he is. What is he? He's 6'5". 6'5", yeah. 6'5". He's taking BP. Obviously, he's going to be a presence in that batter's box.

And then whenever he hits the... We don't have it. We don't have it. Obviously, he's going to be a presence in that batter's box. And then whenever he hits them, we don't have it. Oh, shit. Sid? Sidney Crosby, though. Not a football player. We'll keep it out of the Ian Rappaport one, but Sidney Crosby has run out of a fucking stadium. We were doing research on this after we saw Joey Burrow, because my question

was, Ian, and sorry we're getting a little long-winded here, and we made you wait early, and you cut your golf round earlier. My question was, if you're a we're getting a little long-winded here, and we made you wait early, and you cut your golf round earlier. My question was, like, if you're a professional. I have nothing else to do today, by the way, but go ahead. Neither do we, so that's good. Hey, happy, feel-good Friday, bro. Yeah, hell yeah.

Happy, feel-good Friday. Cheers, Paul. So I wondered, if you're a professional athlete and you grew up playing baseball, can you hit dingers? Because seemingly, everybody that kind of goes in there and does BP, they're either, like, very very good, like high school baseball players or some of them not. I don't think I've ever heard about them being great baseball players. And then they've taken BP and they're taking it fucking out.

I feel like every is that I don't want to like knock baseball, but it does feel like a lot of our people can go over. Now it's going 83 right over the fucking middle and they know exactly what it is but it seems like that is something that is like a feat of can you do it or not and i think all of our freaks have been able to really accomplish it i actually think about this way more than i should so like watching professional athletes do something else is one of my like weird favorite things like when they do the match like watching you know josh allen and mahomes just striped 315 yard drives down the middle like i think it's very cool um and it's a good reminder of how unbelievably insane a lot of these guys are and watching them do bp is is kind of the same thing right because it's like you know these are guys who i mean could joe burrow have been a professional baseball player my guess based on swing, is probably at some level.

That's good. That's good baseball. He gets it. I mean, that was a beautiful. Russell Wilson, too, and I guess he was a minor leaguer, right? He's playing with the Yankees. He's on the Yankees. Oh, he still is.

He's on the Yankees. A.J. Brown got drafted. Yeah, he did. Actually signed with the Padres. When? Out of high school. Did he? Yeah, that's why he couldn't play at Ole Miss because he signed with the Padres,

but he could play college football. Wow. Didn't know that. I did not know that. And now he's on the Yankees. No, A.J. Brown. A.J. Brown's on the Yankees? He's the one.

A.J. Brown got drafted by the Padres in the 19th round out of high school. Okay, absolute dog, he's swinging. Yeah, he signed with them. Russell Wilson, though, is on the Yankees right now, right? Yes. No, he earned his pinstripes. He earned his pinstripes, yeah. He's definitely not playing shortstop.

Maybe second base. So he is on the team. Maybe second base. Okay, so he— There it is. He goes to spring training with them, yeah. Which he could go further if he wanted to. Well, yeah, they're always sort of like, Russ, please stay.

We want you. We need you. And he's like, sorry, guys. Is that what the Yankees fans are saying? No, absolutely. Why don't you guys want him on the team? He's Russell Wilson. He's pretty good.

I mean, but, you know, we don't need a guy popping out, you know, two times in BP. We need a guy who's fucking going yard five times. Oh, sorry. He's just in a Super Bowl. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Sorry.

He threw early. He got tired. But no, shoot. Russell Wilson, very, very good at baseball. That was incredible. Nobody even reacted to him hitting dingers. Yeah, that was the coolest part. Like, oh, yeah, we get it. He's unbelievable.

Okay, let's talk about some other things happening around the NFL. You know, I guess the running back market's becoming a real thing. The running back market's becoming a real thing. Ezekiel Elliott, Dalvin Cook, you want to throw in? Adrian Peterson's in there as well. I mean, there's a lot of potential talent in the running back market and seemingly not a lot of payment from any places

for anybody that's over the age of, what, 24? What is the exact cutoff age? I guess we don't know. Derrick Henry on the second year or third year of a $50 million deal, which is massive. Christian McCaffrey currently playing on a very large deal as a running back. But other than those, there's not really much money out there seemingly.

Is that what the Davi Cook move was in Minnesota? Well, first of all, we'll see. We got three running backs now who are up for contract extensions that are franchise tag, right? So, like, Saquon could give this running back market a bounce. If he gets a deal, he got Josh Jacobs, obviously got Tony Pollard, who sounds like health-wise, Pollard is in a really, really good place. So remember, franchised, broke his ankle, doing really, really well rehab-wise.

So we'll see if those get done and maybe that gives it a bounce. But the Dalvin Cook thing is fascinating. I understand, I think, why the Vikings moved on. They basically replaced him with a younger, cheaper option, Alexander Madison, who has been really good when he's replaced Alvin Cook. I understand everything. And still, actually, when I was waiting to come on here, I was texting Garifo and Palisaro on our little group text we got. What's the title?

The Insiders. What's that? I can't tell you what it's titled. Oh. Dirty? Cancel the vote. Dirty? You son of a gun. Oh!

I will tell you. We have a boss that we love who always calls at inopportune times. Like, we were about to go on TV, and he's calling, and you're like, hmm, why is Shot calling? Because his name is Dave Shot, so that is the name of our group text, why is Shot calling?

It's great. I'm sure he's not like that. He's not like that. He loves talking to the insiders, you know, having Rappaport on speed dial is quite the luxury of being the boss of the entire operation. I mean, I wouldn't think he thinks it's that exciting, but

no, so I was still texting those guys. I'm like, I still can't believe that the Vikings never got close to a trade. Never. No one wanted the contract. And it was obvious that they're releasing him at 27. Like, I don't understand how this happened. And I, like, theoretically do this for a living. And I don't understand how the running back market got to a place where our 27-year-old being replaced is like, yeah, okay, no big deal.

It did seem like that. It should blow our minds. Yeah, Madison, I guess, is very good. I guess he's upside. The Vikings fans say he is going to be a guy. And then the conversation immediately pivoted to, like, Justin Jefferson, I believe, if the Ron Johnson angle is accurate.

They're going to have to pay him. So they need all the money they potentially need. And it's a new regime. So, like, there's potentially new thoughts. Kevin O'Connell had a statement about him that they posted where basically said he loved Dalvin and everything like that. Very cordial. I think Dalvin is already kind of petitioning to potentially end up as a Miami Dolphin. Is that what makes it would make some sense? Yeah. I mean, I know they were the

team, one of the teams that looked into a possible trade for him in March. Now they got a lot of running backs, but like if you are a free agent running back, let's just say you happen to maybe live in Miami, which I know a lot of players do so miami legend i've been told hey miami legend like uh was he i mean legend yeah when he went to florida state i guess it was a big deal i guess it was a big deal down there i mean he's a pretty good player in college so that makes sense oh yeah i've always been wouldn't you if you were running back who was free like wouldn't you want to go play in that system, though? That actually makes a lot of sense to me.

Yeah, and it would probably work out. He scored touchdowns in that stadium before to the tune of a 53-yarder. We just seen it on his Twitter yesterday. Literally. Can't wait to see how it all pans out. Ty has a question for you. Ian Rapoport. Rap, what's going on with the 49ers QB situation?

Brock Purdy is seemingly right on track, so we assume that he's going to start, but then they've also said that Trey Lance looks good, and Sam Darnold might be the greatest 49er quarterback of all time. Are they going to go into the season with all three of those guys, or is there a chance that one of them gets moved?

I would say, let's start with Purdy. It does sound like he's doing well. There we go, Purdy! A couple times a week, and based on what he did last Purdy. It does sound like he's doing well. There we go, Purdy. A couple times a week. And based on what he did last year, him coming in, if he's healthy, like if he is fully cleared, good to go, no restrictions by, I think now it would probably be late August, that would be really good. You know, does he play in a preseason game or not?

Either way, I don't know. I don't know if anybody cares about that anymore, honestly. I think he is the starter going in if he is healthy, which is a very good thing. If Trey Lance is progressing, as they say, and I've not been able to watch practice, but based on the people I've spoken with, they have been impressed. Then the 49ers have options, and the options are they could, like let's say Trey Lance gets in a preseason game and lights it up. Oh, yeah. Jordan Love is about to be a starter.

A year ago, everyone knew he was not good enough. And now everyone knows he is good enough because we saw him play and he looked good and natural. Who said that? Who said that? Who said that? Now we're here. Now we're here. Wow.

Is that your little text messages you name after your boss? Is that what you're talking about? Are you too far in? Why are you doing this dot or whatever? Dave Dow. Dave Shot. Whatever the guy's name is. Is that what you – everybody in that text message?

Most people, I think, really assuming that Jordan Love would not be very good. And then so I'm this year, I'm like, oh, well. Maybe like it takes a couple of years to learn. And I think for Trey Lance, like it is possible that's the same thing. And so here are the options, right? Let's say he goes out and balls in a preseason game or, you know, happens to start a regular season game or two and looks good. Their options are do nothing, keep them,

have a really good backup quarterback or maybe great something else or trade them for a value that's pretty solid like those are good options and i don't know what the 49ers are going to do but more good players is better than fewer good players and having options of players you can trade helps a lot so that's so could they keep three they definitely could but they got some really fascinating different ways to go Are the commander sale Is that done? Are we good with the Harris group now? And also is there any more news

On the trademark not being able to Be completed and is there still A thought that maybe they go with The Washington Wild Hogs Oh The Wild Hogs would be a great name. That's Tim Allen. Yeah.

Well, good movie. The way they fucking ride those bikes. Martin Lawrence. Yeah. Bill H. Macy. Ray Liotta. This was a movie? Are you kidding me?

What? Yeah, it's a biker gang. Oh, my God. Jeez Louise. Are you kidding? Where do you? In what world do you live? You don't know.

Wild. Yes. Wake up. Fox's favorite movie. Boom. The only. Look at those guys. The only biker.

You don't fuck with those guys. Somebody did. They found out. Sorry. Brian Bosworth. What was that biker gang movie? Brian Bosworth is in. Brian Bosworth is on the cover of Life Magazine.

He's the Dr. Pepper guy, I thought. Yes, he is. Dr. Pepper guy? He's the sheriff. Fanville. Who was the little Dr. Pepper guy? Mr. Love or whatever. Yeah, whatever.

That was a good little... Sweetness. Sweetness. Yeah, a little sweetness. That guy was awesome. Kid Rock had a motorcycle movie. All right. His life is a motorcycle movie.

Are you saying all right? All right. You're very, very... Mr. O.A. Stone is a motorcycle movie. Are you saying I didn't see it? Are you this very, very... Mr. O.A. Stone Cold was the movie. Stone Cold was the... No, he's a wrestler. Holy hell.

It's just got pulled up Blu-ray. A cop who enforces his own justice. He's on a trike. Okay. Okay, boss. They call it his geezer gliders, I do believe. Look at that hair. But not with Boz on it.

No way. We got to move stuff. I couldn't even fathom the amount of drugs that he has in there that he's moving. Or guns that he has in there that he's moving. Football. Have you watched any of these documentaries about what these biker gangs were able to accomplish on two wheels with a motorcycle? The things they were stuffing inside of these to move back and forth. I guess they ran Canada for a long time.

Speaking of Canada, do you have any inside information on these fires? First of all, I read Hell's Angels by Hunter Thompson, which was the most eye-opening account of motorcycle gigs I've ever read. It's a great book. I've never read it.

Maybe they'll make a movie out of it. I hope they do with writer's strength. I will say this. I'm in New York. Air was pretty clear today. Oh, AQIL. That's big. I played golf two days ago.

Eyes were a little not feeling good. Throw wasn't good. Made it through. Stayed in yesterday. Safety and played today. Okay, anyways. Stayed in yesterday. Safety. And played today. Okay, anyways, let's get back to it. They're going to sell that team?

Or is Josh Harris going to be the owner? Like, what is the deal? Like, actually, this thing's been sold three times at this point. And then Jim Irsay has become kind of the spokesperson for this. Shout out, Jim. Love that. Hope he continues to do that. How'd that happen?

And how close are we? And is there another entity potentially about to come in on magic johnson even though he was on the today show saying we hope we are the winning bid or whatever please is magic johnson about to not be an owner in the nfl is that real uh no a couple things so it does feel like this has been sold three times um the coverage i mean i guess it makes sense um but the coverage has been there's been a lot of it uh so basically the latest update yeah yeah yeah 32 teams yeah when one of them's for sale magic's asking are we done yeah we done well i mean we're done. So Josh Harris and his partners had a meeting with the finance committee on Wednesday. Yeah. Yeah, Wednesday. And basically presented his plan to kind of like adjust, move some money around. It sounded like the meeting went good. Should be all systems go. And I would expect in some point in July, maybe like right around the start of training camp, have a special league meeting, vote it in, be officially done, done, done. Like that is all where it's going.

It's going to happen. Done, done. All right. Well, congrats to Josh Harris. And they're not changing the name. Huge. They're not changing the name. Never.

Never. I don't think ever. Jason Wright sticking around. Do you know anything about that? Seems like he's done a great job. I think there's still some things to be determined. Oh, no. That's a no.

What do you know? Are you kidding me? A lot of times what happens when new owners come in, they will evaluate for a year. Sometimes they want their own people. Sometimes they don't. We'll see what happens. I'm not saying anything.

He's going to smack you in the mouth. A lot of times new owners come in, they look around, and they say, he just got clipped off. He just got clipped off, what you just said. Nobody was listening to anything you were saying. After that, no. All we were thinking about is, wow, Jason Wright. They're going to kill him.

Why are they going to do it? A player in the league. Player in the league. Saved the team. His status will be evaluated like everyone else. And now it's, you know, big year for Ron Rivera and all the football people as well. Jeez. Every year's a big year.

It's a feel-good Friday, Brad. What the fuck? It's not Fired Friday. They got Sam Howell. They're good. Cool hat, by the way. All right, let's get out of here. Yeah, the Yeti hat is sweet.

What is that? What is that? I think it's fishing could be fishing angling ass wipe angling sweet sweet i don't i've been fishing like twice now i do eat fish a lot oh like fish oils got it so so you wear that hat to like golf and you just the people you're golfing with you're like yeah fucking just out there you know what i mean uh i didn't wear it to play golf today um i wore a different hat but i put it on for this show because i wanted a nice clean one for the show well we appreciate i respect you guys nice now listen you don't need to we appreciate

and respect you for what you do even though we know what you're doing when you're doing it that's right you know what i mean we know what you're doing when you're doing it and i think that's why this thing works out so well we appreciate you cutting your round short let's talk about that a little bit more you said that you uh punched out with a six iron or something like that instead of using a wedge on ninth hole I think it was uh or maybe the sixth hole I forget which hole it was uh but you said he had two birdies where are we right now scratch wise where where are we what's our handicap are you are you still walking every single course and how many holes are you playing a day at this point? I would say I played most days.

You'd think I'd be better, but I'm not. I went from a 9.5 handicap to a 12.5 over the last month. So going the wrong direction. You fool. You're broken. That means you're broken, right? No, I was broken. Now I'm on my way to being fixed again.

Optimism. I'm starting to play better. You sound like you just did a religious ceremony. Yeah. It was a lot. But, like, you stink. My wife had to yell at me. So what happened? New clubs? New swing? Mental? Ayahuasca?

Good question. You shipped the kids out of town. No, the kids haven't been shipped out of town. Not yet. He was a nine and a half when the kids were Fiji. Six months. So that's what he needs. Then when they came back, he started to kind of drift off. Just shut the fuck up, Max.

I'm trying to go. All right, I understand. Is that what happened? No, I fell apart completely. Then I took a lesson. Short game driver? What? All of the things.

So I came. I played with a couple of my buddies driver? What? All of the things. So I came, I played with a couple of my buddies. I lost everything, played terrible and came back and was not speaking. And Leah had to literally yell at me that if it's not fun, why am I playing? And it did not feel good. And then I had, I got myself together, pulled myself up on my bootstraps, got a lesson, learned how to hit out of the bunker. And I've been heading in a positive direction ever since. You're at a a lesson, learned how to hit out of the bunker, and I've been heading in a positive direction ever since.

You were at a nine not being able to hit out of the bunker? I mean, when I was a nine, I could hit out of the bunker, but. Oh, you just had forgotten. It all fell apart. It all was bad. Man, that had to be such a shame. That had to be such a bummer. Such a bummer. How about how pissed he was?

His wife's like, we're not doing this. Man up. Sack up. Rap. You are not good enough at golf to do this, man. Break any clubs? I don't really do that. I just do internally.

I basically didn't talk for five holes and then came home and didn't talk to anyone. And she was not happy about that. Getting no breaking news for her. Is that because you're so uber competitive? Or you think you're going to be very good at golf? Is that like you think you're going to be a pro someday? No, but I think that is the problem that realizing you kind of suck is a very important thing in golf. I thought I was going to be good, but now I realize I suck and I'm having a lot more fun.

So I'm starting to get a little bit. Boom. There's people like and I guess you do this and I respect people that do. I can't, though. There's people that, and I guess you do this, and I respect people that do. I can't, though. There's people that keep score completely.

They're in the PGA every time they golf. You know what I mean? That's me. That's me. What a miserable life. Man. He gets so mad because he puts so much time into it, and you put all this time into it, and you still stink.

It's like, man, why am I doing this? That's it. That was the whole thing. Yep. But you can do it. And I was like, how could I be so bad but put so much time? And now I took a step back, took stock of my life, realized that there are some things that are positive. You guys are among them. Oh, hell yeah.

So you had an ayahuasca moment without having to go down to the jungle? Yeah. No plant medicine necessary. Good for you. Plant medicine. Plant medicine. That's right. Look at you, big brain.

Were you on a crew podcast the other day, did I see? And it's your fault. Well, of course. Not your fault. But it's your guy's fault. Boom. Big Ben rap sheet. Yeah.

As soon as we saw that you were on a rowing podcast, and by we, I mean me, as soon as I saw you promoting that you were on a rowing podcast, I'm like, this guy probably just became one of the fucking voices of rowing all of a sudden. The insider of rowing. The only thing I know about rowing is that it was being used as a place to give scholarships to the rich kids whenever they're trying to go to the side door. That was a great documentary. Great documentary. What was it, the emissions scandal or something like that? Yeah. The side door that was being used, rowing teams were scholarships that were going in because i don't even know then

the winklevi i think that was another introduction so we know of this world but i've never met a human that has been in this world you're our first and i had to think about like a lot of people probably had heard about rowing even existing as a college sport for the first time through you so now are you a voice of fucking rowing? How proud is the rowing community of you, pal? I assume. I mean, I've gotten some texts from teammates who I haven't talked to in 20 years.

Teammates, reunion. Hell yeah. This is awesome. I'm sure they're rolling their eyes knowing that I was not very good. I'm the one having a podcast dedicated to me. It was a good experience. I went down memory lane.

So you got dunked on by the good crew team members? They were like, are you the one that should be speaking about being on the boat? Yeah, you're the heaviest guy on the boat. Yeah, you were weighing us down. I wouldn't say I got dunked on, but they were definitely like, huh, that was interesting. Did you hear all those doofuses talking about how skinny we were in comparison to you? Yeah, that's because if you ever put an anchor on a boat, yeah, we're trying not to be that. Tougher to row.

Is that what everybody was saying? Is everybody getting mad about the attention you were getting or what? No, I mean, I think they were just – I mentioned some names on the podcast. I think they were happy to hear that. Look, it's – rowing does not get a lot of mainstream. So I think they – and I'll tell you what. They appreciated that you guys had some fun with it but did not make fun of the sport. You guys took it like a serious sport. They appreciated that you guys uh you know had some fun with it but did but did not make fun of the sport so you guys took it like a serious sport they appreciated that bro it is miserable you

do the workout yeah anybody that does that professionally or in a college level it's like more power to you i don't know how you're existing with that being your every single day but good luck out there good luck to you too the rest of the weekend let's break some news rap come on i appreciate it i'm i on it. I'm all business starting now. You got golf this weekend? No, I got Belmont this weekend. Taking the boys.

Okay. Any of your horses running? My horse is running Sunday. So not in the big race but in the little race after. Are you sticking around for your horse or are you leaving? I'm leaving. What a shitty owner. but in the little race after. Are you sticking around for your horse or are you leaving? I'm leaving. But I'll be watching on YouTube or whatever. What about the air quality for the horses?

Are you worried? Yeah, what about the AQI? Parnak is the horse's name, by the way. Philly. Very pretty horse. Yeah, you don't even want to watch her. Right. On YouTube, I'll watch.

You know, I don't know if you know this. There's a lot of great things to watch on YouTube. You're right. And there always will be. Yep. Forever. We appreciate you, Rap don't know if you know this. There's a lot of great things to watch on YouTube. You're right. And there always will be. Forever. We appreciate you, Rap. Have a great weekend, pal. Good luck to your horse on Sunday, even though you won't tell her personally. In spirit, though.

In spirit. You'll take the winnings, though, in real life. Not in spirit. Ladies and gentlemen, here, Rap. I love Rap. It's been a great week, boys. Fun week. Another off-season week done, AJ Hawk.

Here we go. How do you feel about it? I feel good today. It felt like Saturday for some reason from the jump. So, I don't know why. Got a three-day weekend in your mind. Good for you. I'm happy it's a weekend activity.

We're lucky to be spending a weekend with AJ. AJ, how about this Saturday? Happy Saturday. Happy Saturday, Hawker. You know, it is the summer. The smoke in the air is messing me up. That must be it, right? Remember he came on the show whenever we had the high AQI earlier this week,

and he said, I hope your baby lungs are all right. That's what he said. Now he's all budged up. He said, what are your meteorologists and weather people saying? Stay inside. Okay, I hope you guys are good over there in Indiana. And the next day, Columbus, Dublin, over across Pennsylvania. Then New York all of a sudden becomes a movie, Gotham.

And then that thing's gone. Congrats to all of us surviving the fucking smoke. We did it. Congrats, everybody. Good work. We did? I read something. It was an interview with a Canadian firefighter.

Apparently in Canada, they don't even try to put them out. No, I've seen that one plane. Well, yeah, unless they're coming near a city or a town or something like that. It's a good question, AJ. AJ, you asked Rap that as well. I heard you ask that. For real, I've been asking it from the jump. I don't know.

I think the answers that I've seen have been like they were prepared or planned ones because they do that every year somehow. There's like these weird things that come out of like the earth community. They're like, well, we got to cut these trees down for the good of the trees, for the good of future trees, or we got to burn these downs. It's like when people talk like, oh, got to cut the the dead end off your hair they almost feel like you got to do that are we talking controlled burns i think that's what some people said on the internet i believe because that's where they do that that's a real thing sometimes yeah i get it i don't understand how that is but i mean i'm sure it makes sense to people that with you how to get out of hand that's the problem i watched actually i believe when we

uh when i was visiting geordie one time they, like, I don't know how many acres of land. They had to burn it for whatever reason, the crop, to reset it and all that. Oh, to do it new, to flip it over from beans to wheat. There's, like, over-harvesting, too. And then you've got to keep that thing controlled in there. Yeah. You need a big, you need a trench around like it's a castle. Yeah, water.

Yeah, need water in there. Sharks, too, because sharks, that nectar mentality, whenever that fire comes in, the water. Did you see that one? Yes, we did. Yes, we did. Yep. Man.

They got his fucking ass, though. They did. Wait, was he in his stomach? They cut the guy out? I don't know if they were able to save the guy, but they did. You know how, like... They didn't save him. Yeah, no, certainly not. You know how, like... They didn't save him. Yeah, certainly not.

You know, happy Gilmore with the eye. I got the head. Yep, Chubbs. I think the people were trying to have that moment. I think so. Hey, guy, the shark got your torso and everything. But we got it all. You know what I mean? They did try to claim victory

over that. We need to knock it into water with sharks. Ever. And also these whales are starting to gossip. Oh yeah, they are. That's kind of awful. The orcas. These whales are kind of saying, you know what, it actually is our ocean. You guys have been kind of fucking around here

a little bit too much. That was kind of cool. They're teaming up. These things are teaming. These killer whales. These things that are the size of buildings swimming around in the ocean out there that come up and

blow air hundreds of feet in the air they jump somehow these incredibly explosive species that is just so fucking big they're tag teaming with each other to flip boats yachts

think about that AJ they're doing it for Lolita. This is potentially for Lolita, who has been promised to be freed. Are they warning Lolita? Look at this fucking thing, dude. It's so big. I mean, the fact, too, like the killer whales, too. Like, I know when we were in Mexico, they had all, what are they, sperm whales? We saw them all the time.

They were really cool. But to see, like, Shamu right next to you or whatever his name, Willie, that'd be sweet. Yeah, you just got to hope that you maybe do come upon Lolita and when he puts your hand down there, Lolita forgets that she's in the wild and it's like, oh, I'm back in whatever and just kind of eats the fish and then does a little trick and swims away. Right.

Because if Lolita remembers everything that happened to Lolita while she was eating that, and like that face, I feel like Lolita's got a little bit of an axe to grind. Yeah, for sure. She's taking the top of your torso with her. What's up? Everybody's okay out there? Let's stay on land. We're land animals. Get in the pool.

Look at the beach. Don't be swimming out there. Have you ever met somebody that loves scuba diving? I have. Really? They love it, dude. Are they nut jobs? What's that? The scuba? Scuba! Freaks? You know them? The scuba? Yes. Scuba! Freaks.

No. You know him. Scuba guy? Yeah. Yeah, you do know him. I'm racking my brain right now. I don't want to be the guy that breaks the news, but Michael Cole is like a scuba diver. Scuba enthusiast.

What a freak. He's like a huge scuba diver. Where'd he go? All over the world or something? Yeah, like when they travel and do stuff, and then when he's not doing it, he really does it. You got to get certified and do the whole thing? Oh, and then when he's not doing it, he really does it. You got to get certified and do the whole thing. Oh, yeah.

No joke. That's why I've never done it. I don't want to get the bends. I did snuba in Hawaii. You don't have to get certified for that. It was probably the coolest thing I've ever done in my whole life. What do you do? You're in the aquarium, right?

That's what a snuba is? No. So you have like a – there's a huge line that goes down that allows you to breathe, and you don't have the gas on your back. So that's why you don't have to get certified. You go down. We probably went, like, 30, 40 feet, I'm guessing. It was the coolest thing ever.

It was like you were in an aquarium? Yes, exactly. Water was so clear. Fish everywhere. Turtles. Were you smoking dope? No, but I wish I did at that time. Could you fathom being down in there?

There's no thought of shacks? No, no thought of it, and it's so calm. It's so silent. It's awesome. Shaxx kind of scared the shit out of me. No thought of it until they roll up on you. I was at a wedding in North Carolina one time, and I think it's Ocean City, North Carolina, maybe? Off of Nags Head?

Maybe. It was kind of like a small town out there. We're out in the water, though. That was the first time I've ever been in a place where I get, hey, get the fuck in here. And then you get in the water, though. That was the first time I've ever been in a place where you're like, get... Get the fuck in here. And then you get on the land and you see all the fins. And then you see them over by the dock kind of flopping around. It's like, yo, I was right...

I was just taking a piss. I was taking a piss right there. And then all of a sudden you see the shark fin go. It's like, I'm in the movie all of a sudden. Did they just kill everybody? No, because I seen that one kayaker punch him right in the nose. Like tornadoes. You're fine. You're okay.

We got sharks, right? They'll miss that house, and then they'll take your house. That's how sharks are. Yeah, you got it. They'll swim by a couple people and then be like, how about that motherfucker? Well, that's the thing about these whales. These whales are real smart. Oh, yeah.

They strategize. They're taking on the whole colony, not just one person. Big brain. Yeah, it feels like sharks are just so hunter mentality that they're just going whatever's in front of them. That's why you punch them in the nose, you're probably pretty good. We've got to keep an eye on these whales, though. Let's keep an eye on these whales, AJ, especially the one that Jim Irsay's freeing.

That one should be a good sign from us, right? We'll see. I'll bark, no bite, if he actually gets Lolita out. He was supposed to have two orcas out this decade. Yeah, exactly. Where's the first one? We're supposed to have two orcas out this decade. Yeah, exactly.

Where's the first one? Lolita's about to jump over the rocks like Free Willy in no time. You remember when you were bawling your eyes out as a kid? Oh, yeah. That's what's about to happen. Jim Irsay's actually going to be sitting in the spot in which the camera was in Free Willy when Lolita hops her 40-year year old ass up out of that enclosure out of that captivity yeah into freedom boom sure and jim's gonna go apart i believe it when i say it's gonna because i'm not so sure anymore it's got a will in min. How you doing?

Keep it moving. He's up there. We talked about with Rabshie the expensive running backs. The older running backs are expensive contracts. You think a Dalvin Cook just got released today. He's still not on the team. What's the value of that expensive running back i mean the last i

don't know i don't have it in front of me but the last 10 super bowl winners haven't had a rusher over a thousand yards so that's my question what are the value of those expensive running backs well great question we're trying to figure that out right now and i think we're about to watch it all happen with zeke and dalvin Cook and Adrian Peterson being available. Obviously, people are going to view Adrian Peterson differently, but it is a big name in the running back community that could still be signed to a team. It will presumably be a one-year, very low number for AP. What is it for Zeke? What is it for Dalvin? What is the say about we're not going to pay any running back until you potentially do have Dalvin Cook on your team?

Will you maybe put up a little bit more money as opposed to what we're thinking it's going to be. I don't know. Two million dollars coming from the Minnesota Vikings to Dalvin Cook next year. If he gets more than that, that'll offset. The Vikings will owe him nothing at all in the release if that was the case. So I think Dalvin will have a market. I think he'll get paid. Anytime you're a great football player, teams are going to try to sign you. All he needs is two of them to know that each other are in, and hopefully the money will be able to go up. But it is a thin time to be in the running back market seemingly, AJ. We talked about it yesterday.

It seems like now for what you do with running backs, if you draft a guy, you play him on his rookie deal, and then you franchise him, and then you let him go, and you let somebody else pay him, or nobody pays him now. Or you sign a vet like this who's a stud, and you get him on a one- and he franchises him, then you let him go and you let somebody else pay him or nobody pays him now, or you sign a vet like this who's a stud and you get him on a one or two year deal. He's out running corners, man. He's so good. Still got it.

Always has been good. He's in his prime. Honestly, he's 27. Almost 28. Let him go. Just why not have him on your team? This is like the whole thing where it's like, well, you could hang on to a guy for one more year or you could trade him, but you still get him for that one last year. Yeah, you only have, yeah, at least you have him on your team.

Dalvin Cook not being on your team, I think, is bad for your team, but Madison's a great football player. They'll figure it out over there. Madison has been great. I can't wait to see where Dalvin goes. Yeah. And I can't wait to see what happens. Remember, Christian McCaffrey goes to the Niners in the middle of the season, and everybody's

like, well, they already got people. And he threw a touchdown that game. He threw a touchdown that game. He caught a touchdown that game, and he ran it, and he got the ball like 30 times. So there's a little bit of differences, I think, some people view some things. Not that the Miami Dolphins running back room isn't good. It's a great room. I think there is a little bit of a separator between, like, you know,

a guy who's maybe going to be remembered as one of the greats versus, you know, some other people that are good, very good at football. And the Dolphins, like, they kind of, they have all the old 49ers running backs. And then they saw what happened to the Niners offense when the Niners decided to get a premier running back and not just one of those 49ers running backs. So maybe that's just something to look at. Depth chart here for the Miami Dolphins are running back.

Raheem Mostert, obviously a guy. Jeff Wilson Jr., guy. A-Chain, a Texas A&M guy. We assume Miles Gaskin, guy. We've got a bunch of guys. We understand there's a bunch of guys. Very good. NFL running backs are going to be good at football. A-Chain's going to be

a dog, we assume. Devin Cook, proven dog. Absolute, outright dog. How much will they pay him? We don't know. Let's go to Chad in New York on the 500 phone line. What's going on, Chad? Yeah, boy, I did it. Happy feel-good fucking Friday.

Hell yeah, Chad. Hell yeah, Chad. Hell yeah. With this big baseball program, I want to know if you guys have heard of Ali Daylor Cruz out of Cincinnati. Guys, Chad. Of course, Chad.

Dog. What do you think this is? You think we don't know about the guy that in his first game or something like that steps into the batter's box, swings that left hand, a beautiful swing, and ends up standing straight up and down like this in the back of the batter's box while hitting a ball into the fucking moon, pal? Come on. Yeah, we know who he is.

He's electrifying. He's a guy. Are you a Reds fan, Chad? Absolutely not. I'm a Boston Red Sox fan. But this guy is going to be... Go Sox, Smith. I think you said this guy's going to be the face of the league.

There's a chance with these young stars. Shohei, Dayla Cruz, Cruz, O'Neal, Cruz Missile, Cruz Missile, Cruz Missile. Trot. Doing his thing.

He's baseball in perfect hands right now. Yeah. Seems like it, right, AJ? Doesn't it? They're all in terror with you. I know since he's pretty excited, the Reds are selling some tickets. You think he will stay? So, like, the Cruz Missile came and then he got hurt, like fractured something.

Early. Is he going to be back? Like September. Yeah, long time. Is he going to be back? Like September. Yeah, a long time. Jeez. He'll be back for the playoffs. That dude was throwing gas across the... Running fast, throwing gas, and hitting fucking bombs, my friend.

Thank breaks his fucking leg. Buccos are leading the NL Central, though, so we'll be fine. Hell yeah, and we know how many divisions there are. So many. Where are the Reds? Central, East, West. North yeah. And we know how many divisions there are. So many. Where are the Reds? Central, East, West, North. Reds a game behind? No, we're probably ahead of you if I had to guess.

Way ahead of the Reds. We're the NL Central. Yeah, you guys stink, dude. What are we? Are you in the NL Central? Oh, yeah. I think so. Yeah, that's what I thought.

That's what I thought. You don't even know, dude. Idiot. I know, I don't. The NL Central is the Brewers, of course. Oh, and Leading. The Dogs that are the Pirates. The Reds are three games. Five games back.

We're right in the driver's seat. Five games back. That's where we want to be. Five and five in your last time. What happened to the Cardinals? They were always good. Well, that's the thing. Once the Pittsburgh Pirates got good, the Cardinals started to stink.

Sorry about it. Scott Rowland left. Everybody can't be good. True. You know what I mean? Mark McGuire stopped playing there, I think. True. Pujols left. That was a thing. I think, yeah. True. You know what I mean? Mark McGuire stopped playing there, I think. True. Pujols left.

That was a thing. I think, yeah. St. Louis, great city, though. Remember, we went to that brunch place. DJ Brunch. Wheelhouse. Wheelhouse. Wheelhouse.

Let's go to the fans. Let's go to Luca in Dayton, Ohio. Luca. Luca, Dayton, what's going on? What's up, sir? Pat and the boys, how you doing? Keep moving. Keep moving, Luca. Hell yeah, hell yeah.

Hey, I just want to ask you, why are we talking about LeBron retiring when he already came out and stated that he wanted to stay until Bronny got on the court with him? Well, that was before he said that he was going to maybe retire, wasn't it? I mean, we're just going by the timing of things. Yes, Tone. Preach it, Tone. With new information comes new fucking thoughts.

Boom. We're live every day, pal. You got to keep up. He said, yeah, I'm thinking about everything, all of it or whatever. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What's that? Because we felt bamboozled as well. Absolutely.

Because we said, what about his kid? So that's what we're doing, pal. We're sorry. Do you have more information on that? Has he since said that he is back to returning to play as long as Bronny's on the court with him and we've missed it? He has not, but I just don't understand why he wouldn't stay. It's a late one more year.

And then, you know, get a signed trade to anywhere he wants to go with Bronny. We agree, Luca. We're on your side here. Wendy also agrees, too, and Wendy's been covering him since high school. That's what he's going to do, right? Yeah. That's what he's going to do. That's what everybody thinks he's going to do, but we did have to talk about him potentially retiring. We did. And when we talked about

him potentially retiring, we said, is this him saying, hey, motherfuckers, not a lot of time left with me, huh? Yeah. No. Let's start to recognize a little bit what's going on. That's right. A lot of debating. Me or Jordan. Me or Jordan. Me or Jordan.

Since I'm like 18 years old. Me or Jordan. Me or Jordan. Let's just go ahead and pause that for at least a year and say, the greatness is coming to an end. Yeah. I think it was a bird call to say, hey, all you organizations, make sure you start getting your gifts ready.

So when I do announce my retirement, do the farewell tour. You all have proper gifts to give me. How great will that be? Every single place he's going to get an award. He deserves it. He's probably cool. What kind of award? What kind of award do they give him?

A title belt from the city. Maybe a wristwatch from the city. Thanks for your time. Like when Jeter did it. Because you got to remember, he sold out all these arenas for like 15 years. Not all of them. A large majority of them. So I would assume if those arenas

and those people that profited off of it were to say thanks, it would not be considered abnormal. I don't think. Like Luca sold out this Pacers arena. It's literally my only experience as of late, not that it hasn't been in the past. But, like, in the past, the Pacers were pretty good when I was going to games. So I think there was a lot of Pacers fans.

But if Kobe came or somebody else came, all of a sudden there's a lot of Kobe fans, there's a lot of Braun fans. The NBA is run by the big stars. They sell out these arenas. So I would assume there will be some sort of celebratory tour as a thank you for selling out our fucking arena like a hundred times throughout your entire life,

which is crazy to think about. And it won't be anytime soon. I mean, LeBron, like most things, look over here while something's going on over here. LeBron is saying this, I'm going to retire, so we talk about this, and not about the fact he got swept. I mean, that's just how it is.

Well, I'm going to retire so we talk about this and not about the fact he got swept. That's just how it is. I'm disgusted. That's probably how a lot of people feel too. Absolutely. There's nothing wrong with that. I still think he's the greatest basketball player ever. Whoa! You do? You and Wendy. Yeah. Jordan, it's Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady.

Jordan is the best champion of all time, similar to Brady. But like Rodgers being the best ball thrower, LeBron's the best basketball player. Interesting. Joker saying, with me. True. If he scores 38,000, 40,000 points like LeBron did. If Joker goes for another 20 years.

Yes, exactly. Which is what LeBron has done. How did he not get distracted at any point? I have no idea. In the world that we're in. He has movies out, obviously, and he can do whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted, however he wanted.

Social media. How has he stayed so committed this long? You know what I mean? Yeah, it's absurd. It is. Changed the game, changed his body. He's had to go through the era of early 2000s to the shooting. Just fucking loves ball.

Just loves ball. Even that famous clip of Hall of Famer bust when he's literally coming out of high school. Yeah. That's insane. The amount of pressure. You could think you could hate your life with how much pressure is on you. Not a lot of fun. Now, granted, a lot of money.

Get your family out. Get your friends out. Awesome. But just the amount of pressure every single day to have to wake up and live up to that. A lot of temptation. A lot. Yeah. But just the amount of pressure every single day to have to wake up and live up to that? A lot of temptation. A lot. A whole lot. Well, nowadays a lot more than there was for sure. A lot of times

he's been vilified too. Like when he left Cleveland and they were calling him Benedict Arnold and the dude who owned whatever fathead was selling him for $17.48 and shit like that and then getting killed for going to Miami. There's a lot of times where he could have been like for 17, 48, and shit like that, and then getting killed for going to Miami. Like, no one else.

There's a lot of times where he could have been like, all right. Well, not just the decision, too. Like, the whole parade of introducing him. Not one, not two. Not three, not four. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they were so pumped for it, though.

I watched his Peacock documentary thing, and I didn't realize he got suspended his senior year of high school. For what, being too good, taking a Hummer? No, for taking a jersey from somebody. So it was like a $1,200 vintage jersey. I don't know how dramatized that was, but basically he got to play the jersey. It was a different time back then. Obviously, to find out about LeBron, you had to dial up internet

and figure the whole thing out. He was certainly a phenomenon, but also the rules back then. Yeah. What were the rules? Amateurism, what is that? Oh, he can't go to college. He can only go to the NBA. It's like, okay.

All right, I guess I'll just go get rich and play at the top level. It's like, well, he can't get the money. His mom's getting the money. It's like, who cares? You know how much money he's about to get? He's about to sign a shoe deal that's about to happen. So for him to live up to it all, bravo, pal. Bravo.

His last dance is going to be sweet. Yeah, and I assume the amount of content that they have got through his career is going to be awesome to kind of figure out. The Kings reign. Hey, he's an Ohio fuck, isn't he? Oh, yeah. Akron.

I remember those high school highlights when he was just dunking on A.J. Hawk. Did you play against him? No, I did not play against him. He was a different division than we were. But Roy Hall, a guy I played with at Ohio State, big old receiver, had some battles with LeBron. I know that. Oh, yeah.

Well, how do you think the old Centerville Hawks would have fared against? I think he would have jumped and dunked over all of us as we were jump-stop pump-faking and running the flex offense. Hell yeah. Flex is a good offense. How cool would that have been to watch? Yeah. Centerville Elks fans would not have been happy about it.

I watched him do it. I watched a few of his games at UD Arena, and a couple times he dunked like the whole place almost came down. He looked like he does now back then. He's playing against high school kids. And to your point, though, his body he's been able to maintain. Yeah. That's the amount of commitment to his body.

He's probably doing, you know, we heard Dana White's routine. That's right. He's doing that times two probably. Probably. Exactly. I got the cold tub in the morning. Yep. Then I got the sauna.

Yep. Then I got the red lights. Yep. The breathing apparatus. The cryo chamber That's every morning Dana's doing that It's absurd Maybe not Fridays

He had banana pudding Banana bread pudding this morning Yeah but he can do that with how hard He's putting into his body You do that every morning? Everybody's cold plunging That would take three hours to do the whole thing Dana Everybody's cold plunging. Posen's doing it. Rogan's doing it. That would take three hours to do the whole thing Dana does.

That's what I'm saying. I'm trying to figure it out how everybody gets accomplished every day. When you're a professional athlete, this is your job to do it. It's like, okay, sounds good. But if you have a life at all or a job at all, I don't know how you're able to... You've got to be Mark Wahlberg. You've got to get up at 3am. Well, the plunge is just like four minutes right he sold that place 54 million 15 yeah but

it's not just it's not just the plunge it's everything else around oh yeah you know what i mean it's oh yeah it's the whole yeah getting to it yeah the workout getting to it getting dressed for it getting through it is it clean is it cold is it on boom yes you're in there getting out of there miserable now i gotta close the thing reset it turn i mean it's like a fool and all of a sudden we're gonna go to the sauna you know tony robbins you know tony robbins the big old speaker guy why does he clap his fucking hands why did he do that gigantic he had his thing he did a documentary which was actually disappointing it was just a a two-hour marketing piece to go to one of his events. Two-in football.

They showed at his house. He has the sweetest cold plunge. It's like a hole that's an eight-foot cylinder was buried in the ground. He just jumps in like a torpedo and pops right back up. It's a cool cold plunge deal. Wow. That'd be sweet. We should think about getting one of those.

Yeah, take it into the ground. Yeah, he's very wealthy. I seen during COVID. I got introduced to this man during COVID because, first of all, I think I saw him clap. What is a mime? Is that a – what is that? And then I started listening to him speak. I'm like, oh, super motivator.

And then I saw a photo from him talking, and it was a Zoom call. And I think the – like like a couple every single citizen of some countries were involved i think it was like a hundred thousand people on the zoom call and he was talking to them through this from his living room and it was like oh this guy is a fuck he's the guy yeah tony robbins is the motivational guy on the internet yes for sure he was like for like he's been big for 30 years though so pre-in so pre-internet, he was big motivational. Yeah, he was a star in Shallow Howl, doing motivational speeches in that movie.

Remember Shallow Howl. Okay, but that was a replica of real life? Like, that was what he was doing in real life? Yes. He was playing himself in the movie. See, because I thought internet was the rise of all the motivational superheroes. You're saying Tony Robbins was doing this beforehand

yeah he was like the first one to really make it big doing it so how did that work they sell tickets to events and then you come yeah and then you get there's it's a whole it's a whole system then you can be certified speaker like i've seen it with john maxwell a guy i watched him speak and he like sets up everywhere and he gets a cut of everybody. If they come to a seminar, you can come to a three-day seminar. You can get qualified to be one of their speakers, and then those people teach other people, and you just sit there and rake in the cash and give speeches. Mid-'90s, he started.

Remember, that sounds like a pyramid scheme. What you just said, yeah. To me, in my head, I'm like, that sounds like the building of a cult pyramid scheme. But it's not a product. You're not pushing products. Most pyramid schemes are pushing some kind of supplement. Tony Robbins is making people better.

Remember Yes Man? Yeah, I remember Yes Man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where he learns how to say yes. He's like at that seminar where some motivational speakers. Yes. He's got to say yes. He's got to say yes.

Wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend. Whenever that guy was about to jump out. And then he pulls him in. Saves him. That is a good movie. Sweet movie. So this conference has been happening for a long time, I assume. Oh, yeah.

Have we ever been to one? Remember, where was I? I was in a hotel where something was happening. Disciples of Abraham. There it is. That sounds fun. How the fuck did you remember that right there because i was just thinking about it the whole way he's actually this entire time yes

you because i tried to get into it yes you did it was fascinating like a religious thing though yeah but i wanted to go to a little show they had people were waiting in line i was waiting i was like in a lobby this one was like all women too i believe no there was a couple dudes in there yeah it was i think there was a couple dudes in there I didn't believe. I think there was a couple dudes in there if I do recall. Majority women waiting in line to get into a conference room. In LA. In LA in a hotel lobby. I had just got done doing

interviews with MLS players through all of their translators that I did not know was going to happen. So we played Bop It instead. Didn't interview. Played Bop It with the MLS guys instead because it's tough for the translator to deliver the message, Howell, come on, can we get a little bit of energy?

But we take a break from one. We have two hours until the next session of translator dealings, and we look down, and in the lobby, there's a line of people trying to get into a conference room. So let's go. What's going on? So I go down, I meet them, they're kind of filing in.

I'm like, sweet. Me and Fox are going to a conference right now. I forget what happened. I think it was a signed seating or something. Yeah, it was a huge room, and they were all pumped and excited. Sounds like a crash situation. Nah, I think they're getting motivated. There was a lot of energy.

We didn't have a seat. I forget how we got out of there, but I immediately remember going in and not wanting to be there. That was probably one of those. Yeah, probably. Okay. Seemed like it. That's what I need to do.

Is that what Tony Robbins is? That's what Tony Robbins is doing? I don't know exactly what he's doing now. I mean, he's written a bunch of books. How many of these happen? People pay him a ton of money to be like a consultant. Like big billionaires will bring him in a couple times a year to advise on their business.

He gets paid $2 million or something for that. So like Gary Vee. Yeah. Worldwide, he's doing speeches and stuff. Is that what he's doing? Conferences? Probably. Definitely conferences. So he's getting brought in to speak at conferences. To businesses, corporations.

Yeah, corporations. And people just sign up. Big money there. Do the businesses sign up for the conferences for their employees or do the employees sign up for the conferences? I think the businesses do send the employees. Businesses pay the people. Yes. What kind of? It's like a retreat, right? Oh, this is awesome.

I can't wait to send you guys to a conference. No, no, they bring in the person to the building. Yeah. No, these conferences... Works both ways. It does. Businesses pay for their employees to go to the conferences. Absolutely.

I heard Vegas has some good ones. That's what I heard. Saskatoon. I think there's one in Saskatoon. I ain't going to fucking Canada. That's crazy to think about what happens at those things. Remember the magic motivation you went to? Yeah, we did see. That was a conference wasn't it here in Indy?

John Doernbos was doing one. That was a lot of motherfuckers at that room. Yeah, huge. That was the whole convention center. Yeah. How much money? They're paying a lot of money. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They're raking in. Motivating. But if you change one person's life, it's worth it.

That's it. Hell yeah. Dornboss had five big screen TVs in that conference room. Yeah, it was a full production. Zoomed in on his hand. Yeah, take tricks of the trade. Was Michael Malone there? Michael Griffin. Come on. For the last zoomed in on his hand. Yeah, take tricks of the trade. Was Michael Malone there? Had to be. Michael Griffin.

Come on. For the last time. Yeah, the coach of the Nuggets wasn't there, but he could have been with the way he gives speeches. No, the American escape hero, Michael Malone. That's Johnson. Griffin. Michael Johnson.

Griffin. Good Lord. Johnson. Boys. Great. So fast. He was so fast. Just like Michael Malone. Yeah. Griffin. Michael Malone, also fast. He was so fast. Just like Michael Malone.

Griffin. Michael Malone, also fast. It's good, Augie, in Colorado, strictly because I like the name Augie. Is your name Augustine in Colorado? What's up, pal? Super bad. Pat, AJ, boys, how you doing? Hey, keep it moving, Augie.

Hell yeah, hell yeah. Ah, man, y'all gave me this nickname a year ago when y'all were talking to my wife. Oh, sweet. She told y'all that, yeah, she told y'all that we had sold everything and moved out to Colorado. Oh, I remember that. Oh, yeah, for a weed thing, right? Oh, yeah.

Oh, no, just to live life, man. Oh, shit, I don't remember. That's on me. I thought I did, and then I forgot. Are you still wanting it? Oh, yeah, I grow my own forgot. I grow my own weed. I do my own fishing. I do some hunting.

Drive primitive roads. I'm just enjoying life and it's because you inspired me. No, Auggie. You made this decision. You stop it right there, man. You kept harping on be who you can afford to be. I chose that route

one year ago today. I got retired from my job. And the last year I've seen elk. What? I've seen bighorn sheep. What? I've seen herds of deer that number in the thousands. What? I've seen pronghorn. What?

The only antelope native to Colorado, man. They're freaking weird looking, but man, they taste good. Hell yeah. I hate it too. I just want to say thanks, man, because you being who you can afford to be inspires others to do the same. And I'm living proof of that, brother.

But I do have two questions. Okay. Well, fuck off, Augie. I appreciate you so much for that. Very kind. And I'm happy to hear you're living an incredibly good time, it sounds like. Good for you. We appreciate the hell out of you. And how did that antelope taste? Is it like, because there was like an elk here earlier that was

tried to be ate. Was it great? Was it great? Wasn't great? What was the antelope like? The American antelope? It's less gamey than a white-tailed deer. Oh, sure. Oh, yeah. So it's got a little gamey taste. Less gamey, yeah.

A little smoky. Make chili out of it, and it'll change your life. Oh, okay. Chili, jerky as well normally, right, people? Jerky is always the way. It's kind of taking your life. Well, the chili will. When you guys head over to ESPN,

I'll be able to keep the great five-hour energy hotline, phone line, and will CP still provide us the ticker for entertainment? That'd make me argue. We appreciate the questions, and thank you for following along. Yeah, so just, yeah. Yes, on all accounts. Yeah. Now, will five-hour remain the phone line?

I do believe. I believe personally. But this is an interesting part of the road here where our partners, right, and their partners now, this is a cool thing. It's a good thing, not a bad thing. But I believe SeatGeek's not going to go anywhere. SeatGeek's been with us since the beginning. SeatGeek will, you know, SeatGeek's our... SeatGeek's thing. SeatGeek's not going to go anywhere. SeatGeek's been with us since the beginning. SeatGeek

will, you know, SeatGeek's are... SeatGeek's staying. SeatGeek's like family with us, you know what I mean? 5-Hour Energy has been for a couple years, but remember there was a year where we didn't have phones. So like that, there was a new, so I believe it will remain the 5-Hour Energy phone line. I do believe that. At this exact point, I do believe

that'll be taking place. But... What if SeatGeek takes the phone line as well? Exactly. So there's a lot going on right now in that particular world. It's been fun to kind of sort out. But everything's going good with everybody, which is good news. And the phones themselves. They're not going anywhere.

No. Yeah, they're going to be there. Phones will be there. Yeah, they're going to be on a they're they're gonna be there phones will be there yeah they're gonna be on a delay i do believe because you know we've learned that on previous live platforms that aren't just ours right there's been some wild animals yeah some loose oh yeah hasn't there i mean agent there's been some loose cannons that have called into this program and sometimes i gotta go damn those people listen to our show and then i'm like yeah those psychos do listen to our show.

Some calls have led to some great moments. Oh, yeah. One year ago, Owen telling you to go fuck yourself. That was awesome. Eight and a half year old. Yeah, from Connecticut. On the phones. Sweet.

Eight and a half year old. I didn't know you could do that. Well, because remember, too, when you first answered the call, it was the dad's name. No, Ben. Yeah, Ben or something. Yeah, and then he said, no, this is Owen. Yeah, so the dad lied to get him on, which leads us to we like that it happened.

Good there. Got to have it to life. But this week we also learned about Baby Gronk. True. Didn't we? We learned about Baby Gronk this week. That was something that happened this week, AJ. Your final thoughts as we head into the weekend on Baby Gronk and how. Didn't we? We learned about Baby Gronk this week. That was something that happened this week, AJ. Your final thoughts as

we head into the weekend on Baby Gronk and how it's going to end? I mean, I don't know how it's going to end. I haven't seen any footage of him playing. Is he a good player on the field? Well, JB's breaking down his film. Let's go to Larry in Tennessee on the 500 front line. What's going on, Larry? AJ,

boys, how we doing? Keep it moving. Bingo. Love it. what's up there so uh just want to thank y'all for one all the entertainment you produce but also introduce me to Tim Robinson okay okay sweet all right I do I would like credit for that I guess if we are able to spread the good gospel of that I will feel take a lot of pride in that yes I honestly will uh AJ we saw a video of Joey Burrow hitting a home run at the Cincinnati Redincinnati reds game and the cincinnati reds are getting real good because they got dale cruz this young guy oh yeah he's a lefty he's a dog he's got he's he's got celebrations with everybody handshakes yep it's first game he's gonna be an absolute dog for the mlb for a

long time kirk herb street's all jacked up oh fired up and you know he was uh he was a part of a little give and take with Rosenthal. See Trent Rosencranz. Well, I mean, it was a real thing all because Kirk Herbstreet loves the Reds so much. And the other two cover the Reds. So we got two different opinions. Okay, Mark? Pretty much is what was said to Kirk Herbstreet.

And Kirk Herbstreet said, hey, listen, my fandom of the Reds is from my entire life. Right now, he's in a moment where he's jacked up. He thinks the future is bright. Cincinnati has not only the Reds potentially getting good, but we all know the Bengals are Super Bowl contenders. Those two had a crossover when Joe Burrow hit some fucking dingers out at Cincinnati Reds batting practice the other day. And whenever we saw this earlier with Rappaport,

I don't think we got to dig in enough. His hair looks so fucking cool, AJ. And he is so athletic. And look how much the entire Reds team loves this dude. He's beloved by everybody, AJ. Home run in Cincinnati with Joey Burrow being the quarterback. This couldn't be a better situation for Cincy, for Joe. I think the coolest part, obviously he's hitting dongers all day,

is watching the whole team stand there and watch him. That doesn't happen. The whole team doesn't come out and watch when people come take BP. Yeah, we don't have time for this shit. I like how mad he got on that one. We talked about that earlier. Pissed. Like, oh, you fucking.

Yeah, give me another one, please. Hit the ball. Gone. See ya. Out of the park. And it's like a long list of things. We didn't get a chance to see it earlier. Sidney Crosby took BP with the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park in 2010.

And he just starts trying to figure it out almost. This is baseball. Yeah, that's it. Do you know whose voice that was? Sean Casey, out of the stadium. Sidney Crosby hits that ball out of the fucking stadium. Then he says, yeah, I'm done, actually. I'm out of here. Some of these athletes are such freak, I'm done, actually. I'm out of here.

Some of these athletes are such freak shows, AJ. Sidney, obviously, one of them. AJ Brown, another one. Now, he got drafted, we learned earlier in a conversation, I did at least. He got drafted to the Padres, I believe. So he was a guy. And whenever you watch him take BP here, the coach is probably like, God damn, yeah, baseball.

Holy shit. Holy fuck. I need this guy everybody's pumped for him oh that ball is mashed aj you ever do bp'd you play baseball growing up and i assume you hit dingers yeah yeah i took bp once with the the um brewers how'd you do i had a couple donners so everybody does everybody hit one that does it? Anyone that played most, like if you have a baseball background. I mean, I've watched guys that are some of the best athletes in the world and they can't hit slow pitch softball.

So, like, it just depends if you've done it or not, I think. So if you have the technique, probably going to be able to take BP out at some point. Yeah, some people can, I guess. Some people can't. I don't know. No, but we see a lot of people that do that. Yeah, they do. You know what I mean? No, you only see the people that do. You don't know. No, but we see a lot of people that do, though. Yeah, they do.

You know what I mean? No, you only see the people that do. You don't see the people that don't. Oh, we saw me. I did not. I did not. Yeah, but you made contact 100%. Yeah, but I don't have the technique or the form.

Yeah, you weren't a baseball. It feels like if you have the form, you're able to. Like, A.J. Brown's form. You did it again, you would do it. You would do it. If you did it again, you would hit homers. I doubt it, Bob. I doubt it.

I think you would. I don't think so. That was a really hard thing for me to do because I didn't play. I think timing it all up is certainly an interesting thing. But when you watch some of these guys hit this ball, it reminds us that there's some fucking superhuman. Oh, yeah. You also didn't try lefty, by the way.

Yeah, I can't wait to try. Yeah, if you had 100 balls, like in BP, I bet you. Do you know how tired I would be? I hit 50 golf balls upstairs. I'm sweating my ass off. It is tiring. I am. Absolutely. But you would how tired I would be? I hit 50 golf balls upstairs. I'm sweating my ass off. It is tiring. I am. Absolutely.

You would get one. You would get one on the sweet spot. How about Russell Wilson just being an actual guy? Oh, yeah, for sure. He was. He was drafted ahead of Judge. And any time you see something. He was not.

What's that? I thought he was. He's not drafted ahead of Judge, okay? He's much older than Judge, first of all. Is that what it means? He was drafted before Aaron Judge was drafted because he's older than him? Technically, but Judge was a first-round pick. So Russell Wilson was not.

So, Diggs, why did you say that? You have to have some angle. I thought that's where he was. He's just being an asshole. Oh, really? What pick was Judge? Like 33. He was in the compensation round.

So he, you know. Fake first-rounder. Still a first-rounder. Did he play in college? Yes. Where did he play? Fresno State. Nice. So he didn't come right out. Does anybody go right out of high play in college? Yes. Where did he play? Fresno State. Nice.

Does anybody go right out of high school? Oh, yeah. Right out of majors? The kid who is supposed to get drafted number one, or a lot of people think is going to get drafted number one this year, is from Franklin, Indiana. Yeah, I saw him. He just won Gatorade Player of the Year yesterday.

Yeah. Oh, shit. Had a little celebration. He'll be able to play in the majors? Yeah, but it's different. I can't remember who I was. Maybe he was talking to Pac-Man about this. The difference between being an unbelievable high school player

and even an unbelievable college player to being an unbelievable pro player, you don't see guys 19 years old, 20 years old playing in the majors because that level of competition, even going from single A to double A to triple A, it ramps up so much. You just don't see it very often. Go ahead, Tony.

I think it feels like you have a stat or something. No, no. I was looking it up because I read it before. Judge, he must have been redrafted because he was originally drafted by the A's. Out of high school. Much farther down. Oh. So at a time, you're saying,

there was a time where Russell Wilson was drafted ahead of Aaron Judge. And Aaron Judge obviously gets drafted in the first round after his time at Fresno. But Russell Wilson's a guy. And anytime we see people that are supposed to be one thing do something else and they do well,

we get jacked up. And that's not just NFL quarterbacks. No, no, no. That could be comedians. I've seen Pete Davidson on a basketball court, and I lost my shit. This dude's a fucking baller. Stud. Look at him. Did you expect

this was plus 10,000? Pete Davidson being a dog on the court. I don't know if he dunked that or not. Didn't watch a full video. He's got handles, and he attacks the fucking rim. Pete Davidson's a dog, dude. It's like magic. Did he play in high school? It looks like it. Seems like it. I mean, look at this guy. He's a fucking rim. Pete Davidson's a dog, dude. Looks like magic. Did he play in high school?

It looks like it. Seems like it. I mean, look at this guy. He's a fucking player. Yeah, you're from New York. He looks huge. He's jacked. You've got to be a jerk.

I'm not being a jerk. The guy's very lean. He looks great. I didn't realize how tall and skinny he was. Yeah, he is a lanky fellow, but I think that has played into his benefit through a lot of his life. He looks like a basketball player. The entire body's very lanky. Yeah, a very lanky individual. He's got... Nice pass.

Yeah, he's got joints in places other people don't. He is a player, this guy. You know what I mean? He's an absolute player. And then you think about other people that we know for one thing, and then they do something else, and it's not the same reaction as we have whenever we see Pete Davidson going on the opposite side with a lefty, you know what I mean?

It's not the same as Joe Burrow hitting a fucking dinger and the boys getting pumped up. It's not the same as Russell Wilson hitting balls out of the park and everybody being excited. But whenever a motivational speaker gets on a basketball court and he puts up a shot, it gets blocked. And then all of a sudden, he decides to hack the shit out of somebody.

Our immediate response is like, hey, excuse me, Garrett. We love you. We need you to stop doing that. Somebody's going to take your head off your neck if you continue to fight. Boom. That was a shot? That was a shot he took?

Yeah, got blocked. Somebody got to throw an arm on it. Look at that. That's why he's so mad. Blocking me, huh? Block you. Fuck you. He dropped the hell out of that guy.

Yeah, he dropped the hell out of that guy. He dropped burners. First time we saw it, my initial thought was like, Gary can't be doing it. Any pickup game I've ever played in, that is an immediate throw to the face. And everybody else potentially getting involved as well. But Gary is Gary Vee,

and he told us that he knows who and how he can play against who, and he had it all under control. But you watch Pete Davidson play, we think to ourselves, that's awesome. We watch Gary Vee play, we go, Gary, we want to lose you. Someone's going to get in your face, Gary. Can't be doing that. Pete Davidson's a dog on that court, though. Oh, yeah.

That needs to be recognized. Lefty finish on the right side. Bro. Clean. And then he's shot. Athlete. Smooth. He's not playing with a bunch of scrubs at YMCA.

That's an open run at UNLV. He's got some fucking guys out there. And there was people seemingly playing actual defense. Some of those clips we see, not really. No. A little bit of a gimmick. So was Gary, though. Check out that outlet pass after he gets blocked. That was pretty skillful. Yeah, that was a tip

throw. How you doing? Keep it moving from a guy in tights. I didn't realize he shoots like Clay Thompson. Yeah, well realize he shoots like Klay Thompson. Yeah, well, he's got the perfect form. He's Gary Vee. That's why we need him to continue to be able to play on basketball courts. He's wearing Jordans? Yes. Jordan gave him to him. He signed him and gave him to him. Yeah, after he played against

Jordan. Are we sure this guy didn't foul Gary on the shot? Then he's just getting him back here? There's a chance. You want to call foul, call foul. You know what I mean? If you want to call it, you can call it. That's a clean block. Feels like they're wearing jerseys, too. Is this an actual game? You think he undercuts people ever? You think he just goes and

undercuts guys like that? This is a league. I do wonder if he fucking low bridges people at all. This is a league. They're keeping score. There's jerseys. He's the Fulton Reed of this league. Yeah. Bad boy. All right.

Let's get the fuck out of here and have a weekend, huh? Hell yeah. Let's go. A lot of phone calls. A lot of stories this week. He even wrapped before he cut his golf round early for us. Thank you. Thank you, Rap.

Obviously, Richard Jefferson's first time on a program. He wore a tank top. Did you see that? Did you see that? I saw the end of that. Yeah, I saw him wearing a tank top. It looked good. It did look good.

What's your problem? He said they were going to call him and tell him he can't wear it on this particular program. I'd like to let him know that we think he can wear it on this program. Don't you worry, Rich. Anytime you want. Yeah. He said I'm going to be getting some of those calls, too. No.

I don't think so. I don't know, Rich. Maybe. I mean, maybe. We'll see. I don't think they're going to get the same way yours go, though. No. I don't know.

I'm not listening to yours. I don't know. I'm not listening to yours. I don't know. But I have a funny feeling I know how mine's going to go. Yeah. Because I've been a part of mine a couple. I'm excited to get over there. Just having Richard Jefferson on the show makes the show better. Oh, yeah.

Absolutely. Boom. Why'd that happen? Oh, because our liaison over here says, boom, you want a basketball guy? We got a couple. Got a full week. It's kind of been like, hey, this big, big story. We need to talk about this with someone in this realm and oh yeah we can get that hey you want

wendy yeah he's down there svp was earlier this week boom golf perk boom basketball we don't have anybody normally it's just shams hey shams what do you know yeah nothing we got a rotating the authority boom bill walton was the authority this week? Pete Thamel last week. Last week. Boom. Boom. Thamel. Pow. It's all happening.

Boom. Big trick energy. They coming back? Boom. Hopefully. That was awesome. That was sick. That was sweet.

Oh, yeah. We're going to hit it now, right? We're going to hit this hook shot? Let's hit the hook shot. Yeah, come on. What do we say? Bill? Try to defend this. Eel. Eel. White lace. What do we say? Bill, try to defend this. I like the white laces.

Fuck. Take the time as you're fine. You're going to make it, but that's a tough shot. Yeah, it's a tough shot. We could have that soccer player on again. Fuck! No.

The lady. Kick a field goal. Carly Lloyd, yeah. AJ wouldn't ask a field goal. Yeah. Carly Lloyd. Carly Lloyd. Yeah. AJ wouldn't ask her a question. Yeah.

Yeah, you remember that, AJ? I had multiple questions for her. No, you kind of shook her off. We had one. We had hope so long, didn't we? Yeah. Shook it off. That's all right.

Jim's good. Yeah, we didn't have hope so long. We did not. We did try, though. Yeah, that's what he asked. That's for a good sport. AJ, how much money are you giving away? Let's give $500 to three people.

Okay. Let's keep it easy on Bruce. Let's give Bruce a break. He wants to play golf. Oh! Oh! Oh, my God! You're getting robbed.

Yeah. I'd say. Yeah. This one's for the crooner. Fuck. It is back. It is back. Bye, man.

He's so scared. Oh my god. That's a fucking great hack. He's the best. Find a way to make money off this thing. You got five other drivers. He was so serious. Oh, my God. That's a fucking great hack. He's the best. Find a way to make money off this thing. You got five other drivers. Boom!

Bill. Bill. Bill. Bill. Bill. Bill. Bill. Good throw, Bill. Bill.

Bill. Bill. Bill. Bill. Bill. Bill. Bill. Bill. Bill's got? Bill? Bill? Bill?

Bill? Bill's got three more workouts today. Oh, just stand there with your hands in your pockets, Herbie. Jesus Christ. Yeah, Herbie. Just fell from over there. Get left. Bill?

Bill? Bill? Bill, grab that. Bill. Package Bill, come fast. Bill with the camera. Boom! Buckets!

Oh! Bill? That a bill Bill. Good pass. Bill with the camera. Boom. Buckets. Bill. That'd be Bill. There it is. This one's for Bill. Yes. This one's for Bill.

Got it. I'm done. I'm done. No, no, no. Come on. Bill. Come on. We got a couple more. There's another one right there behind the football.

Another one right there. Next week. Next week. Left side. Bill, grab one just in case. There's another one right there behind the football. Another one right there. Left side. Bill, grab one just in case. Bill, grab the fucking ball, Bill. Bill, it's going to be a wall. Grab the ball, Bill.

Let's have a weekend. Let's have a weekend. Hey, here we go. Let's put this one in. Come on. This is it. Why not? Why not? This is it.

Fist bump, AJ. Fist bump. AJ, fist bump. There it is. There it is. Boom. That was a good one. You got some smuts on your finger. Bill!

That's for you dude. For Beal! What if you were to put a liquid death can on Beal's head and fire that fucking pigskin? Oh, do it! Yeah, I got an empty one right here. Good idea. Ah! Done, done, done. One more. Ah! Got it, got it, got it.

Mobile. There it is. Oh, yeah, good. Oh, swing it. Pass it around. Good. Throw it to me. Oh. Pump fade. Good luck defending that. Oh! All right, Herbie. All right, we'll run more games.

We'll run more games tomorrow. Put this can on. We'll do it on Monday. It'll be better. Let's see how many days it goes. Let's put the can on his head. Throw the football. No, I'm not going to do it. Herbo's busy.

Okay, Herbo's been getting after it too. Not a kid we want to piss off right now. He has grown his pecs mightily since joining this place. He has. Absolutely. A little beefcake cake Herbo around here. Yeah. All right, let's get to it.

Have a great weekend, everybody. Let's enjoy the hell out of these sports. Mm-hmm. Tonight. Yep. We like the... Heat. Let's enjoy the hell out of these sports. Tonight, we like the heat. I'm on the heat. You're on the heat. I'm going to flip.

I'm going to go Nuggets. Richard Jefferson was on the heat. AJ, who are you on? I'll take the heat. Okay, good luck out there to everybody. Who are you on? Huh? Who are you on?

Nah, I'm on. I got, on... Baby. Public's heavy on the Nuggets. Okay, so now I kind of want to flip again, but I'll stick with the Nuggets. I'll be on the Nuggets as well. Even though there's... I like the Heat. Would like the Heat to win. Yes.

Need the Heat to win. Need the Heat to win. Come on! Come on, Heat! Let's win this thing. White hot, Heat! But I got the Nuggets with that being said. You need the heat to win. Come on. Come on, heat. Let's win this thing. White hot, heat. But I got the nuggets with that being said. Everybody in the back, thank you for everything this week. AJ, thank you for everything. To all the guests that stopped by and gave us some time, we appreciate it.

To all the boys you have crushed. To you, have the best weekend of your entire life. We're back on Monday with a big one. Huge. Big show. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice this weekend. Goodbye.