The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 939 - Jake Paul, Nate Diaz, Michael Cole, Pacman Jones LIVE In The ThunderDome, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: July 6, 2023

On today’s show, Pat, Pacman Jones, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about threads taking over the internet last night and their overall thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg’s take on Twitter, The Road to Tahoe presented by PXG, the new Sphere in Las Vegas and how incredible it looks, and everything else happening around the sports world. Joining the program to preview and promote their boxing match on August 5 in Dallas, Texas is “The Problem Child,” Jake Paul (45:00-1:03:47), and future UFC Hall of Famer and combat sports icon/legend Nate Diaz (1:10:19-1:26:25). Later, the voice of the WWE, Michael Cole joins the show to chat about the insane run he’s been on, how the WWE hasn’t won an Emmy yet, his thoughts on both the Mets and Jets, and what he thinks about the state of the business moving forward (1:26:27-2:04:04). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome. On this Thursday, July 6th, 2023, this sports program starts right now. Sports! Are happening, aren't they? We got the Wimbledon taking place overseas over there. A man named Brad is giving rude all he can fucking handle right now. You don't know who either of those people are, neither do I, but yesterday on Hammer Don, we had a bet prediction from a man named bruce

via by way of a man named dirty mike in new york who works at a very powerful business or whatever so he wasn't allowed to continue to give out picks publicly this son of a bitch is locked in i guess in tennis said look out for brady out of the great britain area obviously playing in front of the home crowd to take out the number four Rude. They are now in their fifth set, I do believe, because it's 2-2. And old buddy Brody's up five zip. Oh, shit.

So I believe Rude is about to get run out of England by the English. Congrats to Brody. And congrats everybody on Hammer. Done. They got paid out pretty good on that particular bet. One half of the Hammer. Done. Cowboys turn Diggs. Is your good for you? Hey, that's big time stuff. This is sport nobody fucking knows about.

You guys got a guy named Dirty Mike in New York that knows about tennis over in England? How the hell does this happen? These two people. I've seen that number next to Rude's name before. Four? Holy shit. I've seen that. I've seen four in tennis a lot. Son of a bitch is good. Not as good as three.

No. Or two. Or one. But now, kind of a question between one and... You never know. You never really know. But four is normally a pretty solid player. On the rise.

College football playoff. They're in. On the rise. Fucking losing to Brody with a no number. Four is taking on a no number right now. Yeah. And that's incredible. I mean, good for everybody over at Wimbledon.

Good for the Hammerdown crew. Is this normal for you guys? I didn't know we had tennis fucking shops. So we had baseball last night, which you have in the summer. We went 15-3 and 4-2. Is that good? Whoa. So when it's only baseball and you're passed to the NBA and NHL playoffs,

it becomes kind of the country club sports. And who would you go to more? And those would be golf and tennis. And who would you go to more than the country club East Coast man himself than Bruce Brown? The suit. Our suit. Yeah.

Our, I don't want to say too many negative things here quickly because I've met a few of these types. Right. This is a brand of white, okay, that exists in a part of the world. Exactly. Yeah. They wear the khakis. Yep.

Sometimes. They're trading money. Right. Vineyard buying. Yeah. Boat shoes. They are loving the boat shoes. Let's go to a happy hour.

They love that type of stuff. Oh, yeah. There's normally an underlying some sort of real toxicity. Yeah. You know, you feel it.

But I've met a few of these whites. Not a bad time. Not all of them. There are certainly scumbags out there. And there are certainly guys that have no reason other than nepotism train that they hopped on as soon as they came out of the sack to took them to right where they're at.

But not everybody's like that. No. And I can already tell, Dirty Mike seems to be a guy that wants to see us win. So, Bruce, I fucking love you as a suit. I love this other fucking suit we got. Who is Dirty Mike in out? Should I just be riding blindly with you two suits?

Yeah. Tennis, we basically just trail Dirty Mike pretty much blindly. Brody was plus 365. That's cashing. He had another dog cash already today. He knows his tennis. He loves it. It's what he does.

These guys grow up in this country club. They may see the little things. Oh, yeah. How does that guy put his shoes on? Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? I've seen a guy tie his shoes like that one time. No way.

Never won. He was like six years old. I was walking around a men's club. Women, get the fuck out of here. No job. This is just a men's club over here. And you know what? We're going to get a little iced tea.

It's going to be poured for us. It's going to be chilled. We don't have to finish it, though. If we want another colder one, we can get another one. That is life day to day. And when I see fucking Dennis, I know what I'm looking at. That's what Dirty Mike is. We got a weapon.

We have no other country club friend other than Nick Moraldo. Shout out, Nick. Nick's a member of Nick Moraldo Country Club. That is pretty much Nick Moraldo and 255 to 80 year olds. That's sweet. Young gun in there. Spot on. Pretty much.

I think that's pretty much what it is. Great course. Great course. But he's the only one we know. He's never been a part of a country club before. Only person in there whose name ends in a vowel too, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, first Italian I think to ever be a part of this particular country club. Don't hate that. The only person in there whose name ends in a vowel, too, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, first Italian I think to ever be a part of this particular country club. Don't hate that. So the only other country club person we know is a person that knows nothing about country clubs.

That's right. So this Dirty Mike guy is our guy. Let's win. Let's win in Wimbledon. Here we go. What did Nigel say? Nigel said we got Big Ben Shelton. Yep.

We got Big Owen. Seabass. Corda. Corda, yeah. Unfortunately, he lost. Who? Corda. He's out early. Ohorda, yeah. Who? Korda. He's out early.

Thanks, Nigel. Nick and Nigel, though, did not grow up in country clubs. No, they didn't. You know what I mean? They watch. They enjoy their things. Dirty Mike was literally in there with the boys. That's right.

All boys, probably. Yeah, he probably was. Yeah. I don't think either one of us actually did. No! Come on, Bruce. Come did. Oh, bro! Come on! Don't ruin it!

The Toxic Table is here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt. 14-year NFL vet and icon Pac-Man Jones is here. Boys, we've got a big-time day. We've got Nate Diaz and Jake Paul joining us in 23 minutes. They fight in 30 days on August 5th on DAZN down in Dallas, Texas.

They're going to box each other in a 10-round bout. Not only them, Amanda Serrano is putting up both of her belts. That's right. It's going to be a big fight night down in Dallas. Excited to learn about it. And this will be the first time, Pac, that we have two guys that are fighting each other on the show at the same time.

I'm going to be here in the middle. And Jake's going to be on the left of the screen. And then Nate's going to be on the right. And I'm going to be here in the middle, and Jake's going to be on left of the screen. And then Nate's going to be on right. I'm going to be like, so Jake and Nate. Can't wait to see how this goes. This could be a colossal failure. Could be. Could be.

Could be very bad. It won't. No, there's a chance, Pat. I mean, I've envisioned this a few different times. There's a chance. You're a man that loves the boxing world. I think what Jake Paul has done for boxing is phenomenal. Obviously, I am a noob.

I am not a boxing old school person that probably hates everything and loved what Tommy Fury did. And hell yeah for the boxing community. But what Jake Paul has done, putting a spotlight back on boxing, I think is great. And I can't wait to see him and Nate Diaz actually go throw down for 10 fucking rounds. That's a long time. That's a long time that's a long time and nate diaz is known for the open hand slap um that he came up with i would this is gonna be a good fight i'm i'm just i don't know if jake can handle the punches that nate diaz okay so you not everybody's saying what you're saying no now obviously whenever

jake paul gets into boxing and he takes on Ben Askren, there's a lot of people, this guy, MMA fighter, right? I think this guy's fought before he trains. He understands what it's going to be like. And then Jake just drops it, makes a meme out of him. And then what? That guy. What?

Would wrestle your ass down the ground and play bongos with your face? Yes. Also, when I say something about an NFL player, they would also be better at football than me, too. Yeah, but it sounded like the way you were about to talk about Ben Askren there. And me looking in the mirror every day, maybe this helps. He looked like

a bag of milk at the time of that fight. You're right. He looked very like us. It was very... I don't think he took it as serious, maybe, as he probably should have, obviously. And then Woodley gets knocked out by this guy. And then he really starts doing some things. Beats Anderson Silva.

It's like, here we go. I think Jake... Then he gets in there with Tommy Fury. And as you watch that fight, you see things that Tommy, just naturally growing up in a boxing family, is going to do that Jake Paul, who's only done this

for three years isn't going to be able to keep up with Nate though doesn't have like a boxing background he's a fucking just badass fighter throws fists so I do think back to those UFC fights where it was like Jake was very comfortable he stamina was good seemed like He had power, had juice Didn't have to worry about the person that he was boxing Just having boxing Natural duck move Slide, bang As like a five year old He's learning that with his dad

And his brother and everything like that That's quite an advantage That's like whenever you start golfing against these fuckers that have been playing golf their entire life And they end up in a situation You end up in a situation and they know what to do because they've seen the situation you never have that's just something you can't go back in time and get like you can't so i think against nate i'm very interested to see his fight there's people that think jace is gonna he's a massive thing yeah there's there's like fighting people

that think jake is gonna just handle it Diaz is from Stockton, California. I know, I know. Dog. Came up with the Stockton slap. He is a dog. Dog, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Straight dog. Yeah, swam with his brother from Alcatraz.

Alcatraz, just back to the shore. That's not easy. They make documentaries about that place not being able to happen. Correct. Not only the distance and the waves and the exhaustion. Shocks. There's not easy. They make documentaries about that place not being able to happen. Not only the distance and the waves and the exhaustion. There's sharks out there. That's right.

The sharks don't even want to fuck with the Diaz brothers. Jake Paul said, give me them. I enjoy that. I like what Jake Paul's doing. I can't wait to watch it. I can't wait to chat with him.

Let's talk about something that is being chatted about everywhere. There was a new Twitter last night that rolled out. Not conveniently timed here as soon as elon musk uh attempts to do a data scraping stopping little gage money gage is what people

are saying from one particular political party potentially as soon as he does that and pisses people off the most zuck says is that right boom we got a twitter yeah we got a words app yeah we've been running beta for a few weeks. We think we're ready to debut. And Threads is now available out of nowhere last night. Just popped up. Heard about it. News coming.

Two days. They said we were working on this for three months. Okay. I think I say years. Three months. Interesting. We're kind of in this thing very quickly. But we get in there last night.

I log in because it seemed like everybody was doing it. I was kind of happy for a new social media, potentially becoming a part of our daily routine in our life. I said, I want to get in there. It looks like it's fun. It looks like it's good. That thing is a, I wouldn't even say Twitter light, because I feel like light beers are more of a beer.

Sure. Absolutely. Threads has about one about 1 50th of the feet just active features 1 30th of the active features of twitter twitter though has been around long time so they've been able to build and stack and add and do this do this so comparing threads to twitter is like trying to compare a rookie quarterback to Aaron Rodgers or Tom or something like that. So it's not going to be easy to do that. The vibes were high on threads.

Very. Very high vibes on threads. Felt like the pizzazz was high over on the threads app. Me and Pac had an exchange. There were a couple thread heads out there. I told a thread time story on there. Told a little tale about what was taking place. I made that photo.

Wow. How? Well, I stole the goodnight one with the moon. Goodnight moon. And a star. Shout out to the artist who made that. I don't know who you are, but it was Google third option. Okay.

And I added the thread heads there underneath. You see? Wow. Thread heads. That's nice. Yeah, because we're in the middle of just naming everything on the new app just so you could say hey i thought of something clever i'm wanted wanted straight you know that's kind of where we're at right now yeah with thread just trying to kind of explore

the space see what we can do can't do anything really that you can do on every other app vibes are high how long will vibes be high without expectation of the app being good we shall see this is good social experiment tie yeah i guess but like to your point we were talking about this yesterday it's like this doesn't have enough yet it's still in such its infancy and it does feel like they just rushed it to market like is this to be just in my daily routine now? I don't think it is. It's just such a watered down version of Twitter. I clicked on it this morning. So did I. Did it yesterday. I did too.

Clicked on it this morning. So did I. Like you were saying, you can't search for anything. The homepage is just a bunch of people who I don't care what they're threading about, but that's all I'm seeing. That's what Instagram is. That's what Instagram is. They have a shit algorithm. Hey, suck.

Hey, suck. Your algorithm is crop. It's absolutely crop. No job. No job at all. I also hate how when something like this comes out, no one can say anything even remotely negative or even just, you know, it's all,

oh, this is the greatest thing ever. No, I mean, like on there last night, everyone's talking about how much fun it is. Oh, this is better than Twitter already. This is incredible. Same thing. I'll tell you what, though. The good Twitter folks made their way over to Threads

and their memes about Twitter dying was solid. You know, we'll never get that chance to see these incredible internet brains operate about Twitter being dead. So it felt like the good Twitter brains were just emptying the clip on, all right, this is the first time we get to just say Twitter actually dead, even though they're all prolific Twitters. Yeah, never leaving. And Twitter's never going anywhere. No, of course not.

I don't, well, maybe. Listen, here's a little thing that I picked up, I feel like. Okay. In my thread to Twitter, back to thread. Why is this thing continuing to vibrate? Yeah. It is vibrating so much. Why is it vibrating?

It needs to stop vibrating. It needs to stop vibrating. Hit those settings. Notifications, but you only turn on for eight hours. So for only eight hours, I can't get the vibrating at eight hours, one minute. Oh, really? It's absurd. to stop vibrating it needs it needs to stop vibrating hit those settings notifications but you only turn off for eight hours so for only eight hours i can't get the vibrating at eight hours one minute oh really it's absurd how come it can't be a fucking forever i mean let's just i don't want it zuck okay i'm trying to do your little thread try it just fucking let me not have i'm very very thankful that it was very active yeah very. Very appreciative. I think I got 30,000 on it. Whoa. Yeah. Okay, it was a good night.

How many times have I read it? Did I? No, see? Yeah. See, it was. It felt like that at the beginning. And then also replies, threads, and likes, and rethreads. Yeah.

Yeah, so there was, my phone was, as soon as I opened the app, the fucker just alive. You know what I mean? It felt like I was getting called to a restaurant. They found a table for me. It felt like I walked into one of those Armadillo places and somebody accidentally bopped on. That's what my phone felt like. I saw my battery go from fucking 20 to 10 to 5. I'm like, God damn, Zuck.

And then I had to go up there and turn it off for eight hours. You can get a break from this for eight hours, okay? We're fucking coming back. Boom, boom, boom. So I tweeted about threads, which is interesting. And I feel like there is a chance that any tweet about threads potentially got the, okay, shut the fuck up. You might get shook.

Which I respect. Nobody see that one. I'm on threads. See you. No, you don't. Okay. Sleep. Sleep.

Felt like that was happening. I only got like 20. I think it was like 20 retweets. I don't think that's happened in a long time. Even fake things are going to retweet this thing. Fake numbers are going to cook up at where they're at. So it kind of went down. The people that were

mad about this all felt like they were Republican folks. Yeah, that's what it was. Okay, so it felt like the Republican thing, and it did feel like that a little bit. In the Threads thing, it felt like the the republican thing and it did feel like that a little bit in the threads thing it's like we're on zuck's side yeah yeah exactly because i'm sure everything that has happened on facebook and instagram and zuck has done is certainly oh yeah definitely everything is certainly just one and then i think they've deemed elon as and

i think elon has probably come out and said as well, I do not know, I do not pay attention close enough, that he's a conservative human. Is that what's about to happen here? Probably. Is it about to become? Yeah, that is exactly what's happening. God damn it. I hate that.

Okay? Can we not just all get on one spot and just figure it out? Because last night had a real hint of like, don't be going to that bitch-ass threads. And then Twitter, the hateful, disgusting place. We now have a new home. It was like, oh no.

Because now I'm going to have to, you know, like... Yeah, check them out. Yeah. Zuck saw what we've all seen on Twitter for the last six months, and that's why the whole three months, three years thing. He saw what was happening. He was like, hey, I can probably put something together where we can just talk on there, and all the people that are hating Twitter,

they'll just come over immediately, and that's exactly what happened. Can we as a sports community vote on which one we want to go to, though? I have a vote. I like to stay on Twitter. Twitter. Agreed. I like to stay on Twitter, not for political purposes, but just because of what Twitter has the capability of doing.

Now, if threads would like to prove themselves and get better i would certainly be open to the conversation right i'd be cool i would be open to the conversation but damn that's what it felt like last night yeah hopefully that's not the case because you know social media is a beautiful thing yes it is it gets weaponized a lot of times for people to fucking push their agenda and narrative and in doing so there's a ripple effect of hate that happens from people that will never, ever think about listening from the other side. And that's for both sides. I'm not talking about either. And there is terrible people.

That's why it's called social media. Yeah. There's good terrible people fucking everywhere. But we can't just let the terrible people be the loudest. Right. And when they're the loudest, then everybody thinks that's how it all is. It's like, nah, fuck those people. Let's just keep it moving here.

But it feels like everything gets political, and that's what last night felt like. But Threads is alive. Threads is alive and well, and he can't do anything on it other than kind of just reply a tweet. Just tweet things. Tried to put a GIF this morning. I said, what the fuck is this? Nick was able to do a GIF yesterday. You have to have it saved.

Yeah, I also did a GIF, but you have to have them actually in your camera roll. You can't go to the little GIF tab at all. Not interested in that. Ty, it sounds like you're very anti-threads. I am. I mean, you can't do anything on there you can do all the shit you want to do on there on twitter so like if you just have to take it with a grain of salt and like yeah twitter kind of stinks right now there's a lot of things that

we wish would be changed with it but like it's not just like a beta app like guess what if you want to figure out the score of some sporting event you go on twitter you can find it in 10 fucking seconds if you want to know what's going on in the news or whatever, yeah, there might be a little bit of a bias, but you can find it in 10 seconds. Like, I don't want to just go to threads and see 800 of Gary V's threads in a row. Like, that's all it was last night is just Gary V has ways to get this better and all this shit. It's like, I'm not following any of these people.

That's kind of sweet, though. Yeah. What a gift from Zuck. Yeah. What a fucking gift. I wish he would have gifted me that. That's all I'm saying. It's like White Elephant Christmas, dude.

That's what Gary gifted you? Him and Jonathan Huberman. Those were the only two fucking things I was seeing on threads. I was like, well, where are all the people I'm following? I can't find them. My wife doesn't use Twitter really at all. She just doesn't.

She never did. It's pretty much all live used. It's quite an interesting thing whenever I try to explain to her what Twitter is. The other side of social media. She's like,

threads is a new Twitter. I's like, she's like, so Threads is a new Twitter. I'm like, it has words. It does. It does. It has a character count. You know what I mean? A lot smaller than Twitter has right now.

I got cut off last night in my Thread Time story. I did not expect that. That Thread Time story is Max character. That is, I had to do a couple W slashes. It felt like old Twitter, actually.

It was a nice little, it was actually of W slashes. It felt like old Twitter, actually. It was a nice little, it was actually a nice little nostalgia. It was nice. Definitely words, definitely words, but nowhere near Twitter. Well, how does that happen? I'm like, well, Twitter is like my search engine, too. It's the best. If I need to find something out, I'm going to Twitter search as opposed to Google search.

Like, I am. And, yeah, there's going to be jokes. You're going to have to get through the jokes but while finding information you might chuckle. Can't get offended because these people are just letting things fly from their basement. They haven't been outside in years. These motherfuckers have zero friends. Their friends are the laughs that they have

with themselves whenever they put out a tweet that is incredibly distasteful and you get offended by it. There's those humans. That that exists we understand as well that exists but you'll find your answer might get some jokes and you'll do that uh i also just follow like sports what do you mean you follow sports in there well it just has like all the fucking scores pretty much has a tab on there actually just listed all the fucking and the accounts have the plays of those and then it listens to me so like any human i, if they're trending for something, it just shows, hey, for you, hey.

Just heads up, Michael Cole is trending. Oh, really? Let me fucking... Oh, they're complimenting him. Oh, let me send a text to Michael Cole. Better friends. I've become a better friend. That's right.

Because of Twitter. And this version definitely is the worst. But it is 50x what Threads is. And that is, they got a long way to go, but Zuck will figure it out while he's rolling in jiu-jitsu. And the fact that he's trying to just cuck Elon's social media thing, that makes his fight in the Coliseum a little bit more appetizing. First and foremost, that is just spitting on the Coliseum,

but that's besides the point. But there can only be. What if they were're till death. Yeah, bring it back. We actually... I was having a conversation. It needs to be till death. There needs to be lions and shit like that as well.

It needs to be fucking the actual call of duty. Oh, spears. But there can only be one. We can't do fucking threads and Twitter. So if the winner of the fight fucking gets to keep their fucking app, that's fine with me. That's not good. Yeah, because Zuck is a massive favorite.

That's not good. I want to let you know, it's not good for our life. I know he's a massive favorite. If we're going to bank on the Coliseum in Zuckerberg's jiu-jitsu training versus Elon Musk, what do you call it, the walrus? Yeah, walrus. The walrus where he's going to put his marsupial flap onto somebody's face. Elon's going to beat the fuck out of that little guy.

If it's for the good of the world and, like, us all using Twitter over threads, I'm with it. With that being said, I've seen UFC 1. There's this little tiny fella in a fucking full gi thing. That was just jumping on these big fucks' backs. And he was getting ragdolled a little bit. But he'd just get right back up. That little guy wears thong sandals for a living for 20 years.

but he'd just get right back up. Yep. Yeah. That little guy wears thong sandals for a living for 20 years? I think Zuck wears slides, but case in point. I understand what you're saying. He might wear the G-Stripe. So what are we saying on threads? We got to keep giving it a shot, right?

Yeah. It's like the fleet. So Twitter had fleets when they were trying to take Instagram stories. Instagram stories took that from TikTok, but Twitter was trying to keep up with it. And fleets were so bad. Correct. The worst.

I mean, it was Instagram story, or I don't know what TikTok or Snapchat shit is, but Instagram stories divided by 50. But I wanted it to survive because I was on Twitter, not really on Instagram. Instagram stories seem cool though. If we could have those, that would be... So I was pushing the fleets harder.

It never got better. That was before Elon. This is a different crew of people. Let's assume that everybody respects the engineers that were there. Let's assume that they were investing a lot of money in making that better. I don't know how much threads can get better and how quick it can. I don't understand the backend stuff, but if it's anything like what fleets was trying to do with IG stories,

it's got no shot of getting better. So we're just going to have to live with it being what it is, you think? And people are just going to harvest everything over there because they hate Elon so much. Is that kind of what the thought is, you think? I mean, maybe, but I think, like you were saying, there are people who love Instagram and there are people who love Twitter. I don't really like Instagram, and part of that is because the algorithm is so fucked up. What is the point of following people if you never see the people you're following stuff?

I'm going on there and I'm not getting what I want out of it. You know what I mean? No, I remember Steve Jobs said it, and these are all the next Steve Jobses. The customer doesn't know what I want out of it. You know what I mean? I remember Steve Jobs said it. These are all the next Steve Jobses. The customer doesn't know what they want until you show them. Sure. You followed, let's say, Evan Fox. They were like, if you like Foxy, you're going to love Gary Vee.

Check it out. You know what I mean? You wanted to see Foxy in his magenta shirt on his bicycle out in the corn. Didn't you? Just doing his thing. Jumping on a trampoline. Instead, you got five quick things

that Threads can do better. Also good. That's not what I'm looking for. That's not what I want. You know who the real winner is here? Go ahead. He was on Threads. I'm pissed off because I just realized this.

The real winner here is China. TikTok is going to take over. Both these apps are going to fucking stink and everyone's going to go to TikTok. China won. TikTok, dude. Twitter is not going anywhere. Threads sucks. Let's just be real.

It's not a good app. There's a chance. Right now it's day two. I've been on two days. Exactly. There's a chance it gets better. If it doesn't get better before football season, are we ever going to go on threats?

Threats are for your bad tweets. Yes. Your shitty tweets. We'd be like, ah, damn, I didn't really like that one. You just throw that one on thread. So it's like Walmart. Good idea. It is a Walmart Twitter. Yeah. Alright, just some knockoff shit. Not my best stuff. Let me get work this one a little bit in a thread. See what it does.

Put it out there. Put it in. Let's see what some people say to it. Oh, I'd say smart. Good workshop in here. Thank you. All right, this fucker's ready for the bird. Yeah.

Let me take it over there. Let me go and tweet. That's not bad. That's like a comedian working their jokes. You're talking... Threads like comedy clubs. Yeah. Yeah.

Just like comedy clubs, open mic night. Yeah. Trying to see what you got over there. People will Just like comedy clubs, open mic night. Yeah. Trying to see what you got over there. People will see it, though. They'll play with the material. A lot of screenshotting of the threads. Look at this. And then tweeting.

I saw a lot of people tweeting screenshots of threads. Fascinating. That's fascinating. Interesting game. It's weird. We are a very dumb society. Yep. Yeah. You know? And we understand. We are a very dumb society. Yeah.

You know, and we understand. We are right in the middle of it. We very much understand that we are a part of the problem and also a part of it. We are very dumb. Boy, the way the internet reacted last night about that new app was awesome, though. Yeah, losing their minds. That was a lot of fun. It was. Every news channel.

Oh, my God. What? Every news channel had this shit on. Oh. New. Thread. Thread. they did love it it was getting Zuck was getting promotion for yeah we were loving it everywhere Zuck doesn't always get promotion that any kind of it's interesting so hold on so red hmm so Zuck is Zuck is now here. Is that? I think so. Yeah. Okay.

On one side. But then wasn't he sitting on trial because of something good that happened to the other side? Yes. And he was also on trial for, was it censoring information? Yeah, but that was. Yeah, the election. Yeah, but I think he has also allegedly done good for the other party as well. Yes, yeah. Right, hasn't he?

So not all. But now they're like, what have you done for me lately? Yeah, bingo. Bam, now you're over here? Oh, dude, the political world is sweet. You know what I mean? I don't know enough about it, but it sounds like it is just the wild, wild west over there. Yeah.

Anybody can become a hero at any time. Think about what Elon, he created those electric vehicles. I assume he was saving the world. He was probably a fucking hero at some point, right? Climate crisis champion, yeah. And then now he's the worst, right? Because he gave the patent to every other company. No, no, not because that's not why he's the worst.

He's the worst because he bought Twitter and then wanted it to basically become a much more wide open thing. Forum. The other place took it as like, well, what do you mean by wide open? Like more hate speech is going to be on here. Ruder people are going to be on here. Lives are going to be ruined on here. More political misinformation is going to be on here.

What? And he's like, no, I'm doing it. And then now Zuck makes one and he's a hero and this guy's the worst. Exactly. Oh, my God. It's crazy. I'm doing it and then and then now Zuck makes one and he's a hero and this guy's the worst. Exactly. Oh my god. It's crazy. I'm so happy because it wasn't one of the first things he did when he bought Twitter and granted he doesn't use it but

Trump was banned and he was like well we're going to give him his account back and that just like from the get go people were like oh this son of a bitch this fucking guy. Yeah exactly and then now there's like the community guidelines where stuff can get fact checked so like really i mean that that probably pisses off both sides because people can just be like well that's not exactly true but

yeah there is the commenters i don't think it's fact checkers isn't it like a commenter's thoughts for context or something like that yeah context, context, more information. And then I've seen those, like, a couple of them. Like one clearing up the clear up. And I'm like, what is this? I think it does provide a little bit more information. But then ultimately by the end of it, I'm like, well, who's writing this? Do I believe this? Who do I?

It still just goes back into a battle of. Who's telling the truth? Who's right? Who's wrong? Because they did have those tweet correctors in the past, but then everybody's problem is like, that's not actually right, though. It's like, well, in somebody's eyes, right?

It was right. And now it's, none of it's fixable. We fucked it up. What happened was everything got too big, too good, too influential. Yeah. And now here we are just sitting at the end of it, probably it all kind of collapsing.

What a damn shame. Yeah, it is. Hey, what a damn shame. Yeah. And now here we are just sitting at the end of it probably, it all kind of collapsing. What a damn shame. Yeah, it is. Hey, what a damn shame. Good, we got another social media. I'm happy about it. I hope people find genuine happiness on social media because social media is a great thing. I am a massive proponent of social media. I understand the harms of it, the drawbacks of it. I can't imagine

being a teenager going through it with the things that were said to me, to my face. I couldn't even imagine the things that would be said to me on social media. That is certainly a downfall of that. I hope they figure that out. But social media makes the world a lot smaller, makes a lot of incredible things happen, makes a lot of businesses thrive and do a lot better. Social media is a overall positive, I think, for our entire society.

We are living proof of that, I think. Our families are and everything like that. But, we're getting to the point where it's getting too big, too dumb. You know what I mean? Everything has to piss somebody off all of a sudden. At one point, it was like, let's build this app up. It's awesome. It's awesome. Everybody, ahhh. And now it's like,

I don't like the way this is going. Where I like the nitpick stage. Where I like the LeBron and Jordan stage where it's like you get really good everybody understands that you're good but nobody says it anymore now it's you're not as good as this you're not as good as this

oh you did this wrong, you did this wrong it's like yeah two greatest ever yeah certainly but we're just saying also can't do this, can't do this it's almost like what has happened with Twitter. It's gotten so fucking great that it's gotten to a point now where it's like, what is wrong with this? Well, this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong. And we forget how much smaller it made the world.

How many friends were made through social media? How many news articles were found out hours before the fucking news could have ever told us? How many things have been saved? How many money has been fundraised? Because we forget all those things whenever we're just nitpicking about all the terrible stuff. But goddamn, last night I hope wasn't a sign of things that are coming because I think they're both going to suck.

Yeah, for sure. Fortunately, it feels that way. But Twitter will live. No, no, let's be positive. Thread's going to get better. It's going to provide its own lane somehow yeah exactly it is a great q a place yeah it is a great q a thing so i put five different style of posts up last night just to try to figure out what this would be good for you know like how

would this the q a most active yep that was a good one. Thread time story, a lot more likes. I don't know what is goals, what is not goals. Then I did one where it was six different teams' pictures. Who's going to have a dynasty in 15 years? This is like the least me on social media thing to do of all time. But I was just trying to figure out like what. Yeah, just trying to figure it out. Let's thread about it.

A lot of responses on that one. That 266 replies, I think was the most replies. So I think it is a good question place. Good question answer place. I think you can probably learn some things through that. But Twitter's always going to be in the moment.

What's going on thing, I think. These are always going to live, too. It's not like Threads is the first social media branch off. There's the Truth Social, and you mentioned how you get so big. What is Truth Social? Truth Social is the opposite of the people on Threads. So anyone who was on Threads, a lot of people I saw calling them. I didn't have this experience.

I, like Ty, was more so getting some sweet, factional information from some of the greatest minds in the world. Who? I.E. Gary V. I also saw a few other people mix it in there kind of talk about what they think about threads.

They all had blue check marks next to their photos, so they were awesome. Moseri, who's the CEO of Instagram, I think, he was really active in my homepage. He had, like, I forget how many thousand followers I was looking at. He must have been on there since the beginning, obviously. He was answering people's questions on those threads, I think. It was fascinating to hear their take on it, their thoughts on it. Marshmallow had, like, a hundred and some thousand.

Yep. Really? Mr. Beast had a million, I think, when I saw him. What a some thousand Mr. Beast had a million I think When I saw him What a fucking dog Mr. Beast is Immediately Fucking beast So quick

I listened to him do an interview I forget where it was Was it the one with Tom where they were hanging out on the super yacht I don't think it was Tom interviewing him Tom would be a great interviewer We're going to find out if he's good at calling games too And Gringolson's going to get kicked out of that fucking booth I can't think it was Tom interviewing him. Tom would be a great interviewer. We're going to find out if he's good at calling games, too. And Gringolson's going to get kicked out of that fucking booth. I can't wait.

I can't wait. Hope he's good. But Mr. B said as a high schooler, young kid, him and his friend just studied the YouTube algorithm. Like, that's what they did for fun. Like, they were just studying the algorithm. And figuring it out. And then they're making videos to try to beat the algorithm.

It's like, this motherfucker's a phenom. Yeah. Could you imagine understanding youtube at the age of like 14 or 15 like completely understanding the amount of money that this dude has been able to profit from just from like as a teenager yeah all the way through now what a fucking dog dude just absolute animal good for him now he hasn't cured cancer for everybody. No, he hasn't. No, this fucking asshole. He fixed a couple people's eyeballs.

Not everybody's, though. Must be nice to be able to fix a few thousand people's blindness. Why don't you fix a million of them? He was kind of laughing in the face of those submarine people. No, he was invited to see what we just did. No, he said, look at me. I'm really smart. I didn't go.

Well. A little bit. He is pretty smart. We're not going. That's actually a smart decision. I think he was trying to do a little life perspective or whatever. But Mr. Beast is a fucking dog. I've never met him.

One of his people reached out to us about something. They were doing what? Burgers or something. Yeah. Like the ghost kitchens or whatever. Yeah, brilliant idea. Whenever they thought of it, I'm like, good idea. And I wanted to reach out to ask him, like, hey, how does this whole thing work?

Got a chance to chat with him. The way that they talk about the way Mr. Beast strategizes things, we're looking at a real genius. Yeah, it's a real fucking yeah and you mentioned him figuring it out at 14 the youtube algorithm could you imagine at 10 years old being like hey we need to post different things and learn how this thing operates in order for us to take full kind of control of the entire system yeah i love it i appreciate it i don't know what threads is going to be next week but it's going to have to fucking be better than

what it is now yeah definitely to keep my interest i'm a stooge what threads is going to be next week, but it's going to have to fucking be better than what it is now. Yep. Definitely. To keep my interest. I'm a stooge. I need my stuff to be good. Yep. Simple. Okay.

I went through some hard times on Twitter with shit app, with a shit app to get to this point. I'm not just diving right back in. Not jumping ship for nothing. But would love to be in your pool if it's a good one. Yeah, absolutely. Call me soft. Do whatever you want to do.

We're about six minutes out from Jake Paul and Nate Diaz joining us at the same exact time. Thought we were going to be able to extend the threads conversation long enough for them both to be able to join us. Believe there is a technical difficulty happening on one side. It's okay. This is the world we live in. It's going to happen, I'm being told. Is

Mr. Paul down in Puerto Rico? I don't know where he is. I've seen him on the internet. I think he's newly engaged.. I've seen him on the internet. I think he's newly engaged. Really? No, Logan Paul's engaged. Logan Paul got engaged after Money in the Bank after he did a fucking just insane evening of stunts at Money in the Bank.

That guy's a fucking psychopath. With how much money he has, the career that he could have doing anything other than wwe what he commits to doing in the wwe i have so much respect for the just the gut sack on the dude he's also properly jocked he's properly properly jocked super duper handsome not newly engaged i don't know about jake i don't know if he's newly engaged he's one month out from a fight i assume he is deep in fight camp right now. And I think he does that down in Puerto Rico, doesn't he?

I think he does. Yeah, I know. He just built a new house down there, bought a new house down there that is very, very nice. Seems like a... He's down there with Sugar Shane, ain't he? Ain't this his trainer? I don't know. Is it?

Sugar Shane's dad? Sugar Shane? Who's Sugar Shane? The boxer. Sugar... He dad? Sugar Shane? Who's Sugar Shane? The boxer. Sugar... He's his trainer? Yeah. I didn't know that.

Jake's trainer? Yeah, I think so. See? I should have done a little bit more research. That would be a great question. Hey, let's go ahead and get on top of that. Yeah. Jake's another one.

With how much money he can make doing whatever, he's like, yeah, put me through fight camps for the next four years. For years. Yeah, that's what's absurd. Logan, too. Like, he can do anything, and he's putting himself, the things that he does in the WWE is so sick. So, Sugar Shane Mosley is Jake Paul's trainer.

I just heard that. But, yeah, it's like fight camps are brutal. Yeah. We had Frank Gore on here. Oh, yeah. Remember Frank Gore was on here training for that boxing thing? And he was like, this is terrible, Pat. And, like, Frank is Frank is like known hard worker.

Like, hey, this guy beats the shit out of himself for football. He wears no pads. He doesn't mind taking the beating. He's old school, that whole thing. He was talking about those boxing training. He's like, this is a nightmare. This is a completely different animal. Totally different.

And Jake Paul was like worth a few hundred million dollars. Like, you know what? Let's do that for the next five years. And then let's get in there, potentially get out knock some people out and then just keep doing it must really love the sport like genuine love every single day you get up to go do that you can't half-ass doing it because like oh no you can't have fast you have fast you're gonna get your ass fucking embarrassed exactly it's not a sport that you want to have fast no you don't play boxing you know what everybody says?

So, I mean, and then Logan, I mean, all the stuff he's doing, like his prime is like the sports drink of like several different massive teams. Like I saw they just now it's the official drink of Barcelona. Barcelona? Barcelona, yeah. And he's got a bunch of other teams in the EPL. So to have that business on the side, which could just be your full-time gig, but instead you're here. To have 65 million or how many followers on YouTube,

subscribers on YouTube, which is his own business. And he's doing fucking frog splashes off the top rope onto Punishment Martinez on a ladder at Money in the Bank. His name is Damien Priest. I understand that. He'll always be Punishment Martinez to me. He's Senor Money in the Bank now. I know he is. That Punishment Martinez to me. He's Senor Money in the Bank now. I know he is.

That's what his name is. I know, but I'll always have a sweet place in my heart for Punishment Martinez. That style, when he was that type of ring general, that's always the guy I look fondly on. When he won that match in NXT and jumped in the hot tub to celebrate, that was sick. Hell yeah. In leather.

It was champagne popping. Once again, his name was Damien Priest when he did that. It was. Was he on this program? He was. Damien Priest was on the show. He didn't wear his gold tooth. That's not true.

I asked a question that was rude. It was at the end. It was a shadow. I asked him if he had a gold tooth. He did not. Turned his head. Perfect teeth. I thought normally he did.

No. Remember, I fudged up. I fudged up. I don't remember that part. That was Punisher Martinez. No. That was Damien Priest. That was Dam. No, that was Damien Priest. That was Damien Priest.

That was the archer of infamy. I fudged up, guys. Okay? I did. I don't remember it that way. I did. I remember like, oh, no, I didn't wear my gold tooth today. No, there's a shadow, and I say, you got gold teeth.

No. No, and he turned his head, perfect teeth. I'm like, oh, that's all me. The interview was over. It was over. We're out of there. Yeah, we already clapped for him. Thank you so much. And on the way out, he turned his head, perfect teeth. I'm like, oh, that's all me. Your view was over. It was over. We're out of there. Yeah, we already clapped for him. Thank you so much.

And on way out, he turned his head, and I was like, oh, shit. Wait a minute. You got gold? That's sick. I hope that doesn't happen when Nate Diaz or fucking Jake Paul. No, it won't happen. No chance. They got good teeth.

I believe we're two minutes out from this entire thing, so let's talk about something that really pissed somebody off in Detroit. I believe we're two minutes out from this entire thing. So let's talk about something that really pissed somebody off in Detroit. Jameson Williams was lighting fireworks on a 4th of July evening at 1.15 a.m. Whoa. Who wasn't? And Jim Costa said, this son of a bitch, pretty much.

I get it. America, freedom. But I'd leave the explosives to the professionals, especially if you make your money with your hands. Texter passed this along. Jameson Williams last night at 115 shooting off fireworks. It's from his IG story. I don't like the fact he's not using a torch.

I don't like the fact that he's not using an extendo. He's using just a classic Bic, so his hand is certainly in there. And he's going you know some backlash after initially lighting the wick or whatever but i like that he's having fun enjoying his life but that being said these things are no joke no joke no these things are the real deal i'm from pennsylvania when i grew up there was no fireworks a lot illegal you had to drive to ohio to get the illegal fireworks i came out to indiana you walk into a store and there is a thousand of these fucking Zambelli fireworks that go up in your thing. And I'm like, how much for

all of this? They're like, we got to get to $2,200. I was like, $3,000, perfect. High school kids, yup, they start loading up. I have a Zambelli fireworks show in the back of my car. First year I'm out here in Indiana. Just because I thought I have to do this. So I start lighting it off.

And once you start lighting it off, it's like, this is a real fucking deal here. Those things are shooting through the ground. Grounds getting lit on fire. People die. Then you're watching it explode. Well, not only people. Yeah. Professional athletes have obviously kind of got in there.

You kind of start dancing with it. So I appreciate Costa's messaging. But with that being said, mind your fucking business. Exactly. It's the 4th of July, Jim. Jake, said, mind your fucking business. Exactly. All right, it's Fourth of July, Jim. Jake, Jim, mind your own business, pal. It doesn't need to be news. And it was the left hand also.

You can tell it was the left hand. Bad light on the back. Yeah, and he's had some bad news as of late. So let the guy enjoy some fireworks. Yeah, the guy's not scared to gamble. No, you're right. Not scared to roll the dice a little bit. Hell yeah.

Dance with the devil a little bit. He's not scared of it. People were not happy with Jim's tweet there. Good. I mean, it's easy to say, hey, Jim, shut the fuck up. You know what I mean? But also, Jim has a point. For sure.

Like, hey, need extendo. Yeah. Need extendo because if that thing does burn quick, which is possible, and that thing goes, at least you have like a foot at that point to kind of get away as opposed to being right on top of it. Also, can't have the one that can blow out. Need the torch. If you're going to have a little one, need a fucking torch too. And now we're talking about it.

You can actually string those together, James. Yeah, you can kind of, you know, and then just a couple of them. Then you're just hands off for the next four or five minutes. Neighbor's going to be pissed. Dog's going to be barking. They are certainly not going to be happy. But it's 4th of July. You get one night to do this, James. Yeah, you're just chilling.

And Jim Costa, next time now he knows, if you put that on threads, people are much more accepting over there. The threads community, there will probably be a lot more support, more so like, hey, guys, calm down. Let's listen to Jim for a second. He's got a lot of good points. I don't like what you're doing right now. No, I'm serious. No, but this can't become a thing. That's all. It feels like this is going to be

your thing now. No, no. Threads people will love it. No, genuinely, they are a much more accepting group. That's what he started to find out. He could already hear it kind of trickling. I'll tell you what, I'm friends. Twitter's not started to find. He is. He can already hear it kind of trickling. I'll tell you what. I kind of like it. Twitter's not going to die.

Don't say that on Twitter. You can say that. Yeah, take that shit to threads. Simple. Go down to threads. Have a drink over there. Kind of JV. JV.

It's JV. Zito, what are we doing? Zito, what's going on back here, pal? He's on four. He's got like seven different wires. He's talking to Jake right now. Okay, what are we doing? Zito, what's going on back here, pal? He's on four. He's got like seven different wires. He's talking to Jake right now. Okay, what are we... Are we...

I think, I believe something's... I believe Nate. Yeah. There's something going on. Jake's ready to go. Should we just have Jake? If we can have Jake on the show, I think you have Jake on the show.

For sure. If Nate comes in late, awesome. Him coming in. Mm-hmm. When Nate Diaz's face shows up on the screen, I'm going to be genuinely fucking pumped. This guy smokes so much dope and was able to swim from fucking Alcatraz to California.

Absolute dog. I can't get from one side of the gym to the other. I smoke dope without getting winded. That guy just smokes and goes five rounds. He's looking to go ten rounds with this man on August 5th in Dallas, Texas. Founder of MVP. What?

An absolute dog on the internet and in business. A man who's been professional fighting for three years, and his next fight is just 30 days away. Ladies and gentlemen, from Ohio, Jake Paul. Hey! Yes! Cardio! Love it! Are we on a treadmill

right now? What are we doing? Yeah, we're on the treadmill getting warmed up about the spar. We're sparring non-stop. So I'm in the gym right now. The whole team's up in here. Say what's up, team. Team! Yeah! You guys do great work, obviously. Great work. Are you down in Puerto Rico right now?

Yeah, I'm down in Puerto Rico. 30 days out. This has been the best camp of my life. So I'm just excited, man, counting the days down. Okay. So obviously your last fight was much different than your first few fights. You ended up losing on a split decision against Tommy Fury. I think a lot of people were pumped to see you go against an actual boxer, a guy that was in the boxing community, especially with how great you were in your first couple of fights. You lose that fight. Have you watched that fight back? Have you learned from that? What are you taking from it? Anything? Are you trying to forget about it completely? Oh yeah. I've learned a ton from it, man. And I think it was a blessing in my life because

it reset me back on this track that I needed to be on. You know, when you're knocking everyone out, making tens of millions of dollars doing it, it's hard to go into the gym every day and do the hardest sport in the world. And so I lost that bit of like hunger and motivation and actually losing reinstalled that back into me and made me have more conviction on what I'm capable of achieving in this sport, brought in a whole new team, revamped everything, and have learned so much more in that loss than I did in all of my wins combined. That's awesome to hear, by the way. That's a fucking dog mentality, especially whenever it comes to competition. We were just talking about this.

A friend of ours, former teammate Frank Gore, he was known in football just to be like a hardworking guy, old school guy, where limited pads, going to run your fucking ass over, wants the ball 50 times a game. Tough guy. Known tough guy. He got into a boxing fight, and we talked to him during his training camp, and he said, this is the fucking worst thing ever.

He's so tired, he's exhausted. With everything you could do, and don't take this as a slight, it's not at all when it comes to the boxing world. But you have made so much. Hey, congrats, by the way. Congrats. Congrats, bro. You have made so much money from a business sense to choose to do, like,

the hardest fucking sport every single day. You just love boxing? Like, why do you think you're still doing this at this stage? Not only do I love it, but I need it because I needed that self-discipline. I need that insane challenge mentally when I wake up every single day in the morning. And it's given me this life of routine and discipline and helped me put my focus back on what really matters in life. And I was caught up in this crazy world in los angeles and boxing really pulled me out of that and then i just became addicted to it man i

love every aspect of it the the training the shit talk the lead up the outfits the camaraderie and the team i love you know all the boxers i meet are some of the coolest people. So just everything about it, man, I've fallen in love with it. And now it's just a part of who I am. And at the end of the day, I'm an extreme competitor. And this allows me to express myself through this sport. And when you knock someone out, man, that's the best feeling in the world. So I think I'm just trying to knock more people out. Yeah, I understand chasing the dragon there.

You knock some motherfuckers clean out. Oh, yeah. Night, night. Yeah, big time. Wow dragon there. You knock some motherfuckers clean out. Oh, yeah. Night-night. Yeah, big time. Wow, what a feeling that had to be for you because all the boxing people were like,

this guy sucks. It's a mockery. What's he doing? And then fucking right hand through face, dead. Oh, you had to feel so good. That had to feel so, so good. And then obviously

you do it again and again. Now you're looking to do it 30 days from now. What have you learned about Nate Diaz? Have you watched film? 10 rounds feels like that's an advantage for him, right? Or no? Well, look, yeah, he's one of the toughest fighters ever out of the UFC.

He's a legend. I have nothing but respect for Nate. And that's why this fight is so exciting. He's a massive pay-per-view draw, has sold up to 2 million pay-per-views. I'm a massive pay-per-view draw, has sold up to 2 million pay-per-views. I'm a massive pay-per-view draw. And so this fight and this fight buildup has the opportunity to be one of the biggest boxing matches of the year. And that's really what excites me. But he definitely plunges hard. He definitely has good cardio. But I'm just going to show the world that my boxing ability

is greater than his. I'm sure he's going to bring a good fight. I'm sure he's going to do a lot of good things, but I'm just going to take away his best abilities and outwork him. And people will see my cardio is actually better than his. And that MMA cardio is different than boxing cardio. Okay. What do you do for cardio every single day? What a nightmare,

bro. I, uh, I played soccer growing up, so I used to run. Then as soon as I was told that I could kick balls and make money and you can take like four steps and get paid or you can run nine miles. I chose the four steps. I was like, give me the four steps. I'm never doing cardio again. I get winded quickly. I don't even think I have asthma either. What do you do? Have you always been a cardiovascular monster? And what is the day-day for that in that particular element mainly to get

prepared for this 10 rounds i've been smoking cigarettes smart smart that's smart but i think you're one of the smartest men in sports man just. Just the way you've done everything from kicking to, I don't know how much you got now, like a couple hundred million, bro. Congratulations to you. But yeah, man, I'm just sparring more, more rounds, more runs, more track work, more sprints. Everything's on an elevated level. All types of two-a-days, swimming in the pool,

pretty much anything that has to do with cardio, we're doing it, and we're doing a lot of it. Well, congratulations on getting to where you're at. The boys have some questions, if that's okay, while you're on this treadmill? Yeah, 100%. Is Nate not showing up? Like, what's good, man? This guy's disrespectful.

Well, that's what I was talking about. I heard it was traffic, though. I heard there's... Hey, Nate could what I was told. I thought it was traffic, though. I didn't think it was. I heard there's. Might be smoke. You know, hey, getting a chance. Hey, Nate could be smoking right now. There's a chance he could be smoking right now. Is it traffic?

I don't know. Jake, I'm just telling you what's being relayed to my ears. I assume you would know more than me, actually. Honestly, I thought you would know. Me and my friends talked about it, and we had a bet if he would show up or not. And I said, I don't think there's any way possible that he shows up man the dude's been really unprofessional and i'm gonna make him pay bro like this is valuable time you know this is one of the biggest sports shows in the world and he just stands us both up bro like this kid's a punk he's a bully he thinks he could do whatever

he wants and august 5th i'm gonna make him pay for all this he's done all the innocent kids he's beat up in the street all the times he hasn't showed up to interviews he's a punk and I'm gonna knock him the fuck out okay I like hey any chips that you need to add if this is gonna be one of them I'm fucking here for 30 days out from right now the boys have some questions Pac-Man go ahead Jake hey Jake you brought in Sugar Shane. How has it been working with him? Man, it's been amazing just having a legend around to supervise everything going on and give you tips, advice on a day-to-day basis. It elevates your game exponentially.

So he's here right now. He's here somewhere right now. But yeah, man, it's amazing having him in camp. Have you boxed a virtual reality yet? Have you done that? I have not, but I've seen people do it and, uh,

it looks crazy from the outside. I just need you to get in there and tell me how real it is. Cause I would like to, I see you guys boxing. I'm like, you guys are fucking psychopaths. You know what I mean? Like with everything you're able to do.

I mean, I'm 36 years old. You were younger than me, I guess, but you're still very successful at a point you don't need to get punched in the face but i appreciate that you are doing that so the oculus for me is like i feel like i'm in there boxing yeah no chance of me getting punched in the face i just need to know how you know because that fake guy throws some bombs you know i need to know if it's real or not jake that's what i need so. So if you think about it, easy cardio. Hey, easy cardio in there too.

You and Sugar Shane fucking battle. Connor has a question for you, Jake. Yeah, Jake, you mentioned how you kind of need boxing and that daily challenge every day and the discipline it's brought to your life. Have you thought at all about kind of what's next? Do you equate the other things that you want to do in life to the kind of grind's next do you kind of do you equate the other things that you want to do in life to

the kind of grind of boxing or do you kind of see boxing as this thing that once you do this and you know you can do it everything else after this will be not a cakewalk but extremely possible because of how difficult boxing has been yeah once i started, everything else in life became easier. But I do often wonder, like, after boxing, how do I maintain that drive, that discipline, all of those things. And I think that's just something that I have to work on as, you know, as an adult and a young man and then put my energy and efforts into all of my business ventures, better, most valuable promotions, anti-fun, even my charity, boxing bullies. So I'll always be working, and I think my energy will shift into those business ventures more so moving forward. Hey, you got a great brain, dude. That's why whenever I see you get punched, I'm like, all right, let's fucking, let's watch that brain out.

Do you feel like less people hate you now? I feel like that's the case. Don't you? Maybe. Yeah. I think people are starting to see the real side of me, the more mature side of me. And I grew up on camera in front of the world, you know, from Disney to YouTube, making a ton of mistakes as a young kid with a bunch of money.

Of course, that's what's going to happen. You know, you give a 21-year-old $10 million and some supercars, like, of course there's going to be some trouble. Especially, you know, yeah. Tell me about it. I got a mugshot. He's got a mugshot. Yeah, we understand what you're saying.

I didn't get $10 million, man. All I needed was one. Yeah. That was good. I understand. Especially in Ohio. Fuck, yeah. I can imagine that being an interesting thing, but I think was one thing. Yeah. That was good. I understand. Especially in Ohio. Fuck, yeah. I can imagine that being an interesting thing, but I think it's real.

I think the tide has turned a little bit, especially with the amount of work that you've showcased in a sport that is very difficult. And a lot of people respect how difficult it is, you know? No, for sure, man. And that's why I owe boxing my life, because it's allowed me to mature, to take the time away from being on camera all the time and doing all these YouTube stupid little pranks and stuff and that was the era and chapter of my life I'm not ashamed of it it's made me who I am today but definitely I think the tide is turning a little bit and um yeah I'm excited man I'm excited for what's next and I feel like I'm just getting better and better every single day as not only a fighter but a businessman and a friend, a boyfriend, all these things, a son, a brother,

all these things I'm trying to look to improve on a day-to-day basis. Hey, human. Yeah. Just be a better human. You know what I mean? Just get to be a better human. Hey, here we go. Here we go.

Tony has a question for you, Jake. Yeah, Jake. Always love the entrances. How far out do you start planning those? Do we know exactly what's happening 30 days from now as far as the entrance? What goes all into that? Yeah, for me, there's always like a ton of ideas that go into it. But at that point in time, I just want to get out there and fight you know we've been

working for four months and a lot of fighters have these like crazy theatrical walkouts but i'm so focused then that i kind of just want to get to the ring and get the fight on um so i'm working on something a little bit cool but uh i i don't, man. The walkout for me, I'm just so focused. So I don't know what it's going to look like. It'll be a show. We know it will be. And speaking of show, joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a combat sports icon and legend, future UFC Hall of Famer,

and the man that will be boxing this man 30 days from today on DAZN in Dallas, Texas. Ladies and gentlemen, Nate Diaz. Hey, thank you for coming, Nate. Thanks for having me. Hell yeah, dude. Listen, I want to let you know there were some things said earlier by Jake about you missing this particular appearance on this show. He was not happy about it. We were disappointed. It's fucking great to see you, dude. Let's dive into it. How's the training going?

This guy's been on the treadmill for the last 20 minutes or so. He's doing cardio all day, every day. Are you in the middle of fight camp 30 days out? How do you feel? Yeah, I've been training hard, trying to get ready to get the show on the road. Wish we were a little bit closer, but it's all good how about boxing has it been a fun experience to dive into full-time boxing or is this something you've always done yeah i feel like uh it's the same thing i've done for all my fights just uh a little less wearing tan because i'm gonna do the other Okay. So whenever you think about this dude,

whose tits have been bouncing on his treadmill for 20 minutes, Nate, okay, this guy's boobs right here. He's in great shape right now. He's been in a lot of boxing matches now for you to kind of learn from. Have you watched film on his boxing? Do you have your strategy already laid out when it comes to that? Or are you just going into fight? Look at his boobs.

Yeah, I was watching. i watched all his fights and uh uh he's obviously working hard and training hard and uh uh i'm training like i do for every fight going into the killer be killed and that's my plan and uh i'm training hell yeah jake when you hear that what's that make you think you're gonna have to swing fucking hard on it dude this guy's jaw is just like he eats glass that's what they say jake, what does that make you think? You're going to have to swing fucking hard on it. Dude, this guy's jaw is just like he eats glass. That's what they say, Jake. Does that change anything for you? Yeah, no.

I mean, he can take a lot of punches, but in boxing, toughness will get you hurt. So I'm a smart fighter, and I'm glad that he's watched all my fights. You know, study the film, man, because it's going to be a completely different fighter, and you're preparing for someone completely different. So you're making a big mistake by trying to look at any of my footage and compare me to anything that I'm going to be doing in that ring. Interesting there, Nate. He's saying he's going to be a completely different fighter. Does that shock you, scare you?

Does that change anything for you? Yeah, that's what people said. Jake, he doesn't believe you it sounds like jake he does not because he's saying you're gonna have your tendencies do you think you've broken those do you really believe you're a brand new fighter jake 100 man and like i said i'm not gonna go out there and prove that to the world and prove that to nate and when he's in there you know he's gonna see that to see that firsthand. He's going to feel it firsthand. He's going to realize, damn, what did I get myself into? This is obviously a completely different sport. And he's amazing in MMA. He's one of the toughest fighters in MMA. He could take all those punches in MMA. He can knock out Conor McGregor, all of these things. But when he's in there with me, it's going to be a whole different ball game.

Nate, a question from me. Ten rounds is obviously something that you wanted. I would assume that is something that you were definitely on board with. I know how much weed you smoke and as a fellow partaker in potential marijuana smoking,

when I'm in a legal state, obviously. Texas is not legal, Nate. Texas is not legal. How do you have such good cardio while smoking? He's gone. Is he leaving? No, he's there. Hi, man.

Are you just like, have you always just been able to run forever? Why is your cardio so bananas? I smoke. I can't get across this gym floor. You smoke. You can go do five rounds and throw 4,000 punches. How's that? Is that just a weapon you've always had?

five rounds and throw 4,000 punches. How's that? Is that just a weapon you've always had? Yeah, well, I've been racing and training in sports since I was four years old. So I think I just, I think I just, I've lived in, lived in a, lived in the area of cardio my whole, my whole life, my whole career. So I think I just, I get tired of doing just like everybody else. I think I can control it and be more comfortable than other people. Yeah, you're definitely mentally tougher than I am.

I mean, that is 100% the case in all facets of your life. Did you watch the previous UFC, guys? Because I think the natural thought for me and for a lot of people when Jake was signing up to fight Ben Askren in Woodley was like Ben Askren's been through a fight camp. He has the stamina. He knows what it's going to take. He's been in combat sports.

He's going to be okay. Have you had to like reconsider how serious you have to take Jake Paul because of the fights that have happened with UFC guys in the past or are they different fighters than you so you don't even worry about that? No, I take every fight serious, no matter who it is, because it's even worse if it's somebody not as good. So you got to work harder because they got less to lose. But I know that he'd be a former champion and beat these good guys.

So I'm not fucking around. I'm not trying to get hit. I'm not trying to lose a round. None of that. So everything's serious and real. Hey, Jake, he's taking you. Hey, this is good news. A couple years ago, nobody was taking you serious.

Now Nate's taking you serious. That's good news. Bad news, good news in your mind. You were thinking he was going to sleep on you, I think. No, it's great news. No, I know know he trains hard i know he always comes prepared that's why he's a legend of combat sports that's why the the fans love him it's because he never never backs down um so just to me it's good news i want to put on a show for the fans and i want people to see how good nate is at boxing he's been doing this his whole life.

He's trained with Andre Ward. And then when I win, it's going to make it all that much greater. Ladies and gentlemen, 30 days from today, these two men will box each other in Dallas, Texas at American Airlines Center on DAZN. We can't wait to watch. Good luck for the next 30 days, boys.

And thank you for joining us, both of you. Thank you, Pat. Love you, man. Keep killing it. You too. Nate, see you, buddy. Thank you. Hey, Nate, can we smoke weed together someday?

As soon as I see you. I love it. Hell yeah. At your guys' fight after. Okay, well, I'll smoke. All right. I don't know if Jake does. He does great cardio as well.

Ladies and gentlemen, that's not Michael Goldberg. Wait, who? Jake Ball, Nate Diaz. All right, here we go. That was awesome. Hey, Jake's the real deal, bro. He's got a big fucking brain. Like such a good brain.

And then Nate Diaz. Diaz, is it? Yeah. What a hilarious show up there. Yeah, that was awesome. Am I on this thing? It's going to be a sweet fight. Yeah, I'm on this thing.

He's taking it serious. He said, especially the people that are worse because they have less to lose. So don't want to fucking, got to go harder for them. He's street smart, obviously. Business smart, obviously. Him showing up late to that's good. He knows that. You know what I mean?

And that Conor McGregor build, what those two did. Diaz gets it. Diaz is it? In his fights, the last time he was in the octagon, it was against who? Leon Edwards. Leon Edwards. He was getting his ass beat, but he was just Nate Diaz-ing, surviving, surviving, surviving. And then last round, caught him.

Yeah. And then pointed at him. Had him. And I think he actually said, I could have beat you right here. And then decided to dick around. It's like, it's going to be an electrifying fight. I appreciate both of them stopping by. Yeah, that was really good. I'm eager to like, it's going to be an electrifying fight. I appreciate both of them stopping by. Yeah, that was really good.

I'm eager to see how it's going to go. Diaz didn't seem like... What? What are you going to say? What are you going to say? Diaz? Yeah, he's a man of few words. I know. I love Diaz, but I don't know. What are you going to say, Peck?

You seem like what? You're a boxer. Pretend we're on Twitter. You can say it. We're not on threads right now. You can say it. Looked like Jake taking this a little bit more serious. Well. Indeed. Just to me. We don't know.

You know, he might have just got back from training. That's why he was late. Yeah. And what he said, that was kind of a crazy perspective on it. Like, yeah, the guys that you think might be worse than you, you can't just be like, oh, okay, I'll be fine. Like, those are the guys that go in might be worse than you, you can't just be like, oh, okay, I'll be fine. Like those are the guys that go in like Chris Moutinho and they just eat 200,000 punches.

And they embarrass you. Yeah. Like the guys that are considered worse are a much bigger embarrassment if we're to lose this than the guys that are good. So like that's probably what his coaches have been, hey, can't, right? This is – Jake Paul's going gonna knock you out is that like that is quite a motivator but you could see how people would get kind of rest on their yannies yes and the fact that nate diaz has been doing this since he was four years old in combat sports

wrestling and everything like that he still has that mind it's clear why he's successful like that makes a lot of sense to hear that i'm'm sure he also understands, too, just the semantics. Jake Paul is, what, 26? And in probably the best shape of his life. Nate Diaz is 39. You know how many times he's been punched in the face throughout his career and his life? You can't just go in there and mail it in because you're not fighting some old guy who is the same age as you. You're fighting a fucking kid who is hungry and ready to go and has been busting his ass.

Hopefully we get to Stockton, LA. What's that, buddy? Hopefully we get to Stockton, LA. You want the guy... I want the guy from the hood. Just fighting. Yeah, just fighting. He has a plan.

He says he's going to Australia to watch this film. How about Jake? I'm happy you watched my film. I'm different. That's what he said Alright let's get to a break AJ Hawk will be on the other side Excited to hear what he has to say

Big shout out to both those guys I respect a lot What Jake Paul has done for himself Because obviously I witnessed The entire I've been famous on camera We've all seen the parts Where it's like Come on I witnessed the entire I've been famous, I've been on camera basically my entire life. We've all seen the parts

where it's like, come on, come on, come on. Same deal though. Him and Logan both. I think now they have matured and they could be two pricks and just not make any bones about what they've done. He even said, I wouldn't change it, but yeah, I was a dipshit

when I was younger. Anyone in my position with that kind of money would have been i needed boxing that's cool it's unbelievable yeah that was interesting and i do think people don't hate him like they used to before yeah me neither it's come around i was last night as i was thinking about what i was gonna ask jake the first thought was like it feels like not a lot of as many people hate him back in the day his name comes up it, and I'm sure there's still. That's going to happen. Have millions and millions and millions and millions of people watching your every move.

There's going to be people that hate you. That's just natural. But it feels like there's a lot more like, you know what? Jake Paul's not that big of a fucking asshole. Respect him. I think it's because, in my eyes at least, him committing to boxing as much as he has, so hard. Oh, yeah.

Got to be a hard worker. Got to be a certain type of human to continue to stay with it. Now, I assume he's going to fuck up again. Yeah. We all are. There you go. I have a mugshot. I'm going to fuck up again.

Pac-Man is going to fuck up again. Everybody is going to fuck up again at some point. Hopefully not to the level that we've fucked up in the past, but we're never going to be perfect. Jake Paul is never going to be perfect, but God damn, he should be incredibly proud of who he's become. I think a lot of people have a tough time separating him when he's selling a fight, too, and him when he's on the show

because every time he's been on the show, he's super respectful. Let me get AJ. He doesn't come off like an asshole, but then obviously you've got to go sell a fight, show because every time he's been on the show he's super respectful you know like he he he's he doesn't come off like an asshole but then obviously you got to go sell a fight and you're talking shit and you're very boisterous i think people have a very tough time separating like those two sides of his personality and probably because it came off as the pranks and all of this at first but once you see the work that he's put in from the beginning to where he's at right now. Bro, you can't do nothing but applaud. Joining us now, we will not be getting to a break,

is a man who's a college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion. He's the all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers, and he's a father of 10 and a COVID survivor. Ladies and gentlemen, an absolute dog, Ohio fuck, A.J. Hawk. A.J., you got a haircut. You're glowing. Yep, yep. I just got to watch some of that interview, man.

That was good. MVP treatment. So the reason why we didn't go to a break is because I believe Nate's people ask, like, hey, Nate wouldn't mind sticking around. Okay. All right, if Nate would like to come back on, we'd definitely have Nate Diaz back on the program. You know what I mean?

I think, AJ, that's the right play. I'd say, yeah. Everyone, how do you – I would imagine everybody enjoys watching this guy fight. Yes. Yes. Huge draw. How could you not? Him and his brother both.

He's a needle mover. He's a draw. It's a BMF belt. That's why it was him and – He's a fighter, though. He fights. Yeah, he just stands in there and takes it. He swims from Alcatraz.

I mean, come on. He swims in the shark-infested Alcatraz waters. That makes no sense to me. They have documentaries about how impossible that is. Him and his brother are like, what, Tuesday? We can do it. Let's go to jail. Let's swim over there and swim back.

Is there a boat we can stop at? Nah. Is there sharks out there? Not with us. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us again. Hell yeah. Let's go. Let's fucking go, dude.

Fighting Jake Paul in 30 days in a 10-round boxing match that everybody will want to see. 30 days. Nate Diaz. Nate. Nate. Great to see you again, man. How are you? I am.

You can't see with the camera. Fine, there we go. Hey, man how are you i am you can't see where's the camera hey so where are you you're in california stockton is that where you uh reside full time yeah i'm in stockton at home smell me so what's life what are you training like you so you told us there earlier that the worst guys you got to train for more because obviously they have less to lose that was like a very profound thought to all for more because obviously they have less to lose. That was like a very profound thought to all of us as soon as we heard it. It's like, oh, that's why Nate Diaz is fucking Nate Diaz because a lot of people could kind of rest on those things. What does fight camp look like?

Is it similar to a UFC fight camp you got going? Have you changed it for the boxing? What is it? No, like I said, it's the same. I've trained for every fight that I've had since I was 16 years old. I've trained the same way a boxer trained for a fight. I just even had to wrestle and kickbox. Are you there?

Yeah, yeah, we're there. We put full screen. We thought you were going to say something incredible there about just dropping the kickboxing and just doing boxing instead the whole time. Yeah, I'm doing this. I've always trained like boxers train for their fights because I've been out of a boxing gym

and this time it's like I said last winter I'm going to wrestle and grapple and kickbox and do all that other shit. It's for sure less winter and more fun that other shit. It's for sure less wearing tear and more fun

to train for. Just as far as recovery from all the other shit. Now I'm ready to wrestle and do all that shit as soon as this all over with. Okay. Setting up for another UFC. Here we go. Big money. Big money. Big money.

Go ahead, AJ. Nate, are Jake's people worried that you're going to maybe throw a few elbows or a few kicks just out of just instincts from what you've been doing in the past? And is there anything in the contracts that, you know, takes some of your money away if you do? No, we haven't done none of that. But I'm a professional. And like I said, I've been training in boxing gyms my whole career. And I always would bring our guys and our team of fighters to boxing gyms.

And they're wrestlers and grapplers and stuff. And we would, my brother used to tell me when I was a kid, you can't go in there talking no jujitsu, MMA shit. You go in there, you wear the right gear, you put on your shoes, and you're going protector and your headgear, and you leave all that jiu-jitsu shit at home, and you get better at boxing. So, like I said, I'm a professional,

and I'm going to get done and show people the highest level of the boxing. Okay, so Nate, I assume if you're out of a boxing gym and you've done this a lot, you had to see how much money everybody was making in these celebrity boxing matches and you couldn't wait to do this? Is that an accurate reading of it all? Or why now, you think, you're getting into it?

Yeah, well, I was long ahead of this shit before all this YouTuber boxing shit showed up. I was on a mission to get out of my UFC contract 10 years ago. I've been trying to get out. I've been stuck in. I got paid really good in the UFC.

The whole time, even when I bitched about it, when I was younger, I was just making sure I'd get more and demand and take what I could get out of it. My plan was to get out and do exactly what I'm doing right now, 10 years ago. And then the thing was, I was not in the huge hurry because every fight I had, I was doubling up and doubling up. So that was helping me slow my roll on the way out.

And then now these fuckers are all showing up on the scene, yelling and screaming that they're saving the day. But I'm like, this is the mission I've been on the whole time. And I was going to let everybody know that. So now this motherfucker is still in the show coming in like a superhero. Let's go. And show these motherfuckers how they're already doing that. Okay.

Well, I love that. I respect and appreciate that, that that is taking place. Pac-Man has a question for you, Nate. Nate, big fan of yours. I've seen where you have knocked motherfuckers out and out of the ring. How many rounds is this going to go? I don't think this is going to go 10 rounds. How many do you think it's going to take?

As many as it takes, but I'll tell you the longer it goes, I'm going to make sure that it's a living hell the whole time. Yeah, so let's talk about that. I asked you about this when Jake was on here, and Jake is pumped about it going 10 rounds as well. It feels like you and your brother both, you're such a needle mover too, bro. Everybody wants to watch you fight.

I assume at this stage, business-wise, you know that. That's why you're doubling up. Shout out to you, wants to watch you fight i assume at this stage business-wise you know that that's why you're doubling up shout out to you by the way that's fucking good business yeah that's good business but i think the reason why is you're like this iron man bro like we've seen you just eat punches and it just doesn't matter and then you're still shit talking like that leon edwards fight you had him you could have you pointed at him at that stage i think we all thought you could do is there anything that you're scared of do you think a boxing glove can knock you out like what is there anything at all that you are intimidated by when it comes to a boxing match as opposed to a ufc fight yeah i feel like every fight is is pretty pretty fucked

up so i'm attacking you with with their hands and their legs or whatever and I always think, I'm always aware that I could be knocked out at any time and that's what makes me train harder than most people and I think that I'm just conscious of that. That's the reason why I stay conscious the whole time anyway. And I don't really be eating

punches like how they say. I bleed because of the forearms and elbows and shit cut me up but like i said i've been in a boxing gym and uh it might look like like it but i'm not i'm rolling a lot of these punches that anybody lands i mean i'm not just walking in like a meathead into punches like a retard i try to talk about me like that but uh i've never been knocked out i've never been um i've never really been even fucking stunned, stunned,

stupid or nothing like that. So, and people, these fuckers will talk about how I talk and how I'm fucking got CT or some shit. I'm like, bro, I've been talking this way the whole motherfucking time.

I got nothing to do with getting hit or none of that. And I'm smarter now than ever. I'm not trying to be out with getting hit or none of that. And I'm smarter now than ever. I'm not trying to be out loud. So I think that he's got a long night ahead of him. I believe I do as well. But I'm not afraid of it. And I'm ready to rock and roll.

Go ahead, AJ. Nate, are you still – I know you do a lot of like all the Ironman triathlon type Training situations are you still swimming in The waters of Alcatraz with your brother and the Sharks and everything and first Why are you doing that? How's that work? The fucking sharks there's documentaries About like the sharks will get you If not the sharks the rip current and you guys just said

It's Tuesday we're doing that well how's that work? Yeah I got a race this weekend And next weekend also and uh this one's gonna be in a lake though so that's good another my favorite those are my favorite races i never did alcatraz though my brother did alcatraz oh i thought you both did it didn't they say you both did it that's not true oh i would i would have done that one but uh we always race all year long but about two weeks out, a week or two

out, I try not to do two bigger races. So every time he did Alcatraz, I was about two weeks out from a fight, so I always miss that race. But I've done other stuff. I did the big Kaluna Half Ironman

in Santa Cruz. Out there, you swim around the pier, and the whole time you're swimming, you hear seals and shit. It's the scariest thing ever. I hate those. I hate ocean swims, too. All the racers love that shit. I don't know if they like the thrill of it.

But every time we'd be on the beach getting ready to go in the morning, my brother's all pumped up, and I'm just sitting there like, you motherfucker, I'm only doing this because of you, and now I'm going to get eaten by a shark. I hate ocean swims, but I've done a bunch of them and now now that my brother hadn't been competing as much in races i haven't been uh dragged into too many of the ocean ones i still will do them but i like to uh i like to avoid them the best i can how many iron man how many iron man things have you done i've've never done an Ironman. My brother did Ironman, but I've done about six half

Ironman. So three. You've done three. Yeah. That's quick. You know what I mean? There's the halfs. I know they're a mile and a half swim, a 56-mile bike ride, and a 13-mile run. And you're smoking, Nate. You smoke through this

entire time, or do you like months off before these types of things? Yeah, if I could smoke during would be better because I make a deal with it better, you know. My whole career I've smoked weed and when I when I got to get a lot of

shit done, I might as well be, might as well get high. Yeah, but your lungs, like everything that you're kind of told is like, you smoke, you're gonna kill your lungs. Yep. He's like, Well, I have to have I'm gonna do six half Iron Man. Yeah, I wasn't smoking a bunch of tobacco and nicotine and bullshit chemicals, I think but when you're smoking some natural weed, you have your own you have your own strain.

No, I don't. It's hard. I would, but I feel like you have a heavy responsibility having your own strain. I want to smoke all the shit that they're putting out, and I don't need to be like saying that it's the best shit. They're giving me some funny shit. I don't want to commit to that.

It's for sure going to be some people I trust putting out some kill. I got to send you a care package. Yeah, Pac has his own strand. I need a care package. Send you a seeding package out there, too. That is a hilarious thing. I don't want the pressure of having to like my weed more than everybody else's.

Yeah, my shit better be best of the best. Who knows if they're selling that same shit everywhere. I don't know. I can't sit there and be in that business unless I'm all the way in. It's a wild business right now, too, until it's federally legalized.

I don't think there's any reason to get in that business. But Pac's in there with burner, and they're killing it. So there's always outliers, obviously. Connor has a question for you, Nate. Yeah, Nate, there are so few people who kind of understand what the walk is like from the locker room to the cage. And in this case, you'll be walking to a boxing ring, but still similar environment.

What is that like? And what do you kind of go through mentally? Are you running through kind of what you've worked on all camp? Or are you just so in the zone and what you've done in camp is kind of over and done with and you're just focused on the fight? Yeah, you're usually just walking in there. I'm usually walking in there saying, alright, listen, I'll fuck this up.

The whole time? Alright, here we go. A lot of training. I'll fuck this thing up at all. What's the song? What song do you play? What? That I walk you play? What? That I walk out to? Yeah. Whatever I'm feeling in the camp, whatever's

whatever I'm feeling in the camp or whatever I'm listening to most. Do you guys have a mantra for this camp or anything like that? I like walking out to some Lil' Win or some Tupac or something. Hey, how about whenever somebody asks me on Threads, you get on Threads last night, Nate?

It's a new fucking social media platform. You get on it? What is it called? Threads. So basically... Instagram. It's like the new Twitter type of thing? God, hey, Nate, I don't want to be the guy that says this

because obviously I would never want to disappoint you, but Threads stinks. It is nowhere near what Twitter is, but it is certainly an alternative option that Elon isn't a part of, which a lot of people are happy about. And Twitter's at its worst or whatever. But I was on there last night,

and somebody put a thread to me and said, Prime Jeezy or Prime Wayne? That's a tough thing. But when that Wayne train was hitting every single fucking song there for like two years, hard to top that. Which song are you coming out to on Wayne, and what are you training into right now? What are we listening to right now?

I'm listening to New Zealand's old mixtape. I've been listening to the whole thing on repeat lately. But every week it changes. I think that's pretty much what I've been knocking lately though. Swag surfing there from that particular mixtape has gotten me through the road to Tahoe presented by PXG up there. I've been listening. Why I'm wasted.

That's a pretty good one too. Come on, man. Do you have mantras for your camp? Like, is there a, like, so for instance,

in the NFL, whenever you go to your first team meeting, the coach will say, all right, here's a trust, loyalty, respect. This is what we're going to build on this year. Do you have those for fight camps, like a mantra or a thought or anything like that for each fight camp?

No, that's jock shit. It is so bad. Bro, they put it on shirts, Nate. Put it on fucking shirts. You got to work out with them. Hey, go out to practice wearing this fucking shirt. It's like, come on, bro. It's going to be tough to rely on when you cut 50 of my friends here.

Where's the fucking loyalty? What is the deal there? So you don't have any of that, Nate? Nah. All right. I feel it all, though. I'm not saying this, but yelling it. Let's go loyalty on three Ty has a question for you Nate

Nate just curious How's your body feeling going into this Obviously you mentioned People talk about you bleeding And stuff like that But that's mostly just from catching elbows But you've had so many fights in the octagon How do you feel going into this fight with Jake?

Do you feel as good as you have in a long time? Yeah, like I said, I'm not wrestling and doing all the grappling. There's a lot less wear and tear, so I feel really good. And boxing's still a dangerous sport. I'm boxing with big guys, and you don't want to get your bell rung and hit in the head a lot.

It's different than MMA because there's a lot of headhunting going on. There's way less wear and tear on my whole body for sure. Boxing, you'll still do your shit talk? You're still the same fighter you think when you're in there? Style of fighting in there? Yeah, I mean mean i don't plan on talking shit at all no no but i'm talking like you in the ring like you you fuck with people charisma swag yeah you you have everything you're awesome to watch because it is a show

same shit though in boxing you think or is it different uh yeah well yeah combat sport whatever happens happens if i if if you feel it you feel it pac-man last question for you here nate nate 39 you done did it all like what's after this what's next after maybe how many more fights maybe one or two more fights after you beat him or what's next after this uh i feel like this shit ain't never gonna end for me i'll be here if i'm uh i feel better than i ever have and not to be cliche or no shit like that i feel uh like me now won't meet my ass any other time so uh i don't even feel like i have white point what is it it? New diet? New anything? Or you're just getting better with age?

Smarter, stronger, baby. You know what's up? Hell yeah, bro. Hell yeah, bro. Hey, we appreciate you stopping by and coming back on and chatting with us, man. Do I look cool right now or no? You look strong, brother. You're the man.

Ladies and gentlemen, Nate Diaz. Hey, Nate! Joining us now is a man who's never won a fucking Emmy. Oh, boy. Sorry about it. Loser. He is a graduate of a prestigious journalist school. That's right. He's from Syracuse University, that would be.

Whoa. Been classmates with those who would go on to take over both journalism and sports media. And he would go on to cover a war. What? David Koresh. Yeah. What? And a river on fire.

What? But he's stranded in the middle of it. And then all of a sudden one day he just said, you know what, I'm going to go into wrestling business. And then he became one of the moths of professional wrestling. Then after a decade, he became the voice of the biggest company in professional wrestling. And now he's the greatest of all time when it comes to play-by-play for professional wrestling. And his ass ain't never won shit for it. Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Cole.

Hey, guys. Cole, you know Emmy winning son of a bitch. Hey, listen, just two quick things before we get into that. Number one, Connor, I like the mullet. And if you look online, you can find pictures of me when I covered the war in Bosnia back in the early 1990s. I had a mullet just like that that I used to tie up in a ponytail when I did my reports. So you and I do have something in common, believe it or not. How about that?

He was just saying terrible things about you. I'm sure he was, but listen, I'm turning over a new leaf here. I love everybody. I love everyone in the world. Oh! You've got a jawline. You're super thin. You're super open-minded.

Wow. And by the way way there's something else going on on august 5th so it would be it would be it would be sold out in the home of the detroit lions what ford field what in detroit what kid rock The biggest party of the summer. That would make it. In an event that you participated in last year, you knocked off that bum-ass Corbin. Set his ass to have that dream.

Summer Slam. Summer Slam. Let's go. Hell yeah. Detroit's a lot closer than Dallas, too. Yes, it is. Something to think about. How do you get that plug in? Hey, don't worry about that. That's why you're the greatest of all time. And you don't closer than Dallas, too. Yes, it is. Something to think about. How do you get that plug in? Detroit's a lot.

Hey, don't worry about that. That's why you're the greatest of all time. And you don't think that or say that. I am the one that says that and thinks that. A lot of other people are thinking and saying that. You're at your best right now, Cole. You feel that? Hey, you're a showman, bro.

Yep. This guy, isn't he? Oh, yeah. The guy right there. He's a showman. This guy's a guy. Hey, you're a viral beauty now you know you're trending for good reasons people are complimenting i guess i should start following social media a

little bit more maybe yeah you don't know this i always screenshot it when his ass is fucking trending and why he's oh my god i mean you put together a performance over in london i assume you were feeling the energy of the crowd while you were doing your thing. I'll let you expand on that. You are at your absolute best. Everybody in the wrestling world thinks that. He's what, 75 years? 85 years old?

Yeah. 85 years old or whatever. Why is that? How are you feeling right now? You're crushing it, dude. I think, Pat, it's a combination of a lot of things. I think, number one, it's the experience. It's being close to the product.

It's being a part of this. It's being friends with the guys in the ring. It's being friends with the production people. It's working closely with the people in charge of the company. I'm very comfortable out there. I've had the chance over the last few years to work with some great partners. I mean, Corey Graves is awesome. Wade Barrett, my partner now, is incredible.

And of course, my partnership with you for a couple of years really helped me bust out of my shell. And I've been pretty adamant and vocal about that. It allowed me to really start to become myself out there and start to feel it a little bit more as opposed to just being that talking head, which I was for many years because I came from the news business.

But you're right. And you know better than anyone, Pat, when you're playing off 20,000 people in the O2 arena that are just going absolutely insane for everything that is happening, it makes it easy. When you have great athletes like you see there, like a Logan Paul, who has taken our business by storm, or Damian Priest, who won Mr. Money's Bank, or Ricochet, who does incredible things in the ring. It makes my job easy to react like that. The Women's Money in the Bank match this year was one of the best that I've ever seen, called, or witnessed. Those women put it all on the line. And then when you have a story like the Bloodline, which for three years, and I said this on a number of occasions,

which for three years and I said this in a number of occasions should be nominated for an Emmy Award Roman reign oh should be your your your best actor Sami Zayn Kevin Owens the Uso solo sokoa Paul Heyman all these guys should be nominated for actors actor you're saying because the travel chief whoa that was cool we could make an argument that we could win an espy or we could win an emmy award because what our guys do is so unique to our world not only are they tremendous athletes and and in my estimation the best athletes on the planet because they can do things that that so many others can't but on top of that they're actors you that that so many others can't but on top of that they're actors you have to be an actor if you watched what roman reigns and company did

in that tag match in london it was cinema it really was and these guys are tremendous athletes who put it all their bodies on the line every week but they they're putting together an unbelievable story which yeah the fights are every fight tells its own story yeah we understand what you're saying we understand what you're saying it was the bloodline thing watching along you know because getting to be a part of your world and everything you just said about me was incredibly kind but know that the only reason why i was able to do that is because i had you you know because you could literally just save anything i said at any point about anything that's quite a freeing feeling you know hey here you go.

Put this headset on. You don't need to know anything. Yeah, you're right. I agree. Me knowing nothing is normally pretty good. And then we just go out there and I am just wide open to say whatever. And there's a couple of times where I think I got a couple of questions asked about why I chose to go in that particular direction and maybe next time you know this particular direction from people that I respect and appreciate through conversations but everything else was just like let me go and you would save me you don't have anybody to save you though pal so that's why what you're doing is so fucking impressive you being able to get lost in a moment while being able to keep everything on track is why your brain is a brilliant one and it's the reason why what they said in the athletic even though connor is certainly a scumbag and has

some negative thoughts about you once in a while sorry about it you deserve some sort of award for the work that you've done yeah it is wild that that is not really a possibility though because seemingly you don't fall into a category enough to kind of get nominated to be a part of it but we want to let you know as people that watch a lot of fucking people do play by play, we do. I watch a fucking Wimbledon over here. I was watching tennis over here. We,

I watch people call shit. You would have been great in any, you know what I mean? If you would have left Syracuse and decided to go and do sport and start calling sports, you would have been great in all of them, pal. So I like that you're just a redneck fuck that somehow went to Syracuse, has terrible tattoos, loves whiskey, and does this all day,

wears terrible flip-flops, and your toes are disgusting. Oh, gross. They've been on this show. They should not have been on this show. You should see them now with them working out. If you were one of of those i couldn't even fathom how disgusting that would be but if you were one of those hoity-toity journalist people who hadn't gotten an award yet you'd be bitching about it and you don't care like you hate that it even gets brought up that's a cool thing about you you're super humble i'm happy people are kind of realizing that with you showcasing who you are you're the

man cole a lot of people owe you for their careers too so so pat a couple of things about that I'm happy people are kind of realizing that with you showcasing who you are. You're the man, Cole. A lot of people owe you for their careers, too. So, Pat, a couple of things about that. Listen, I've won a number of awards that matter. And those are the Slammy Awards. That's right. Hell yeah. That are given to us in our business, in our company.

Hell yeah. Good point. They're the only awards that matter to me. But seriously, you know, listen, I'm only as good as the team that surrounds me. I'm only as good as you sitting next to me or Wade Barrett sitting next to me. Don't want the bullshit answer. But, Pat, here, and this I mean from the bottom of my heart because I've been in this company for 26 years, how WWE has not won an Emmy Award for, forget 52 weeks a year of Monday Night Raw, Friday Night Smackdown, NXT, scripted television, no repeats. Forget the unbelievable award-winning documentaries that our

team does each and every week. A guy like Chris Chambers has been doing this for over 30 years and putting together some of the greatest documentaries that this business has ever seen and the television business has ever seen. But let's talk about never winning an Emmy Award for WrestleMania. Whoa. That event is absolutely incredible. Being able to put on a premium live event like we do now over two days on a weekend cannot be matched or duplicated by anyone in the television

business. It just can't. When you look at the amount of production that goes into that, when you look at the work that our executive producer, Kevin Dunn, directors like Marty Miller do, our camera guys, our backstage production people, pyrotechnics, the studio people who put together incredible packages, on top of that the best athletes in the entire planet and we haven't won an emmy award yet that's a crime and that's why i don't give a damn about any of these awards they don't matter because they're not being given to people that actually deserve it or have earned it hey i like so i don't care i like that from you i i genuinely do because i did not know that i would assumed with how many relationships the wwe has in the

business of television and entertainment, you would think at some point somebody would want to be like, hey, we give awards to a lot of terrible shit. You guys have this. That's crazy to me. You taking that angle of giving a shout out to everybody over there is such a you thing to do, obviously. But that team over there is fucking awesome, to your point.

When I get a chance to – It's unbelievable. Dudes, though, they're cool, Cole. Fucking cool humans who are just like you, like don't expect shit. Could be the jadedness because you kind of feel like you're outlaws, kind of outside the entertainment business. They don't acknowledge us. They don't give us any of our awards.

They can't do anything we can do. Look what we've been doing for 30 years. How long has this run been? I mean, the company obviously started in 1960. I mean, you can go back to the 1980s. Raw, though. How long is Raw? How long is Raw?

Oh, Raw was 1993. So it's, what, 40 years this year. 30 years. 93. No, 30 years. 30 years. Yeah, I'll do the math. You do the journalism.

Okay. It's been 30 years. Listen, working here, it seems that long. Dog years. I'll do the math. You do the journalism. It's been 30 years. Listen, working here, it seems that long. Dog years. Yeah, but everybody that's there has been there forever. It's a family over there, bro. It actually is. Whenever we were able to get back into it, Royal Rumble was awesome.

I couldn't wait to get there. I couldn't wait to get in. Couldn't wait to meet everybody. Had a plane delay. Almost didn't make it. Literally landed as the thing started. Go from plane to San Antonio. Yeah, San Antonio. Yeah, went into the thing, the Alamo, and there's fucking humans everywhere. And then WrestleMania, I'm sitting in a bus for 10 hours?

10 hours, yeah. 11 hours, and then bang, right out into a stadium filled with people. But then afterwards, both those things, getting to see everybody, a lot of the people you mentioned, and then obviously more of the boys back there. God, fucking love your business, dude. You guys have done a really good job. We'd give you an award, wouldn't we? Yeah.

100%. Hey, we'd like to, first award. How about this? Yeah, first award. First award in the history of this show, the PMS-y. Wow. The WWE is the only nominee, wow the WWE is the only nominee

and they are the generational award winner for inspiration, consistency hard work and fuckery congratulations first ever PMS first ever PMS I accept it, I accept on behalf of everyone

in the organization there's going to be some people that are not going to be happy about that what's been cool though pat is you know seeing the growth of the company over the over the last number of years and seeing the fact that we're finally starting to get our flowers a little bit as a company right uh listen professional wrestling, sports entertainment, whatever you want to call it, isn't for everybody. It's a niche genre. We have a very loyal fan base of people, two and a half million, three million people every Friday night,

two million people every Monday night, millions and millions watching our premium live events on Peacock. But at the end of the day, over the past number of years, the company is really starting to take off now and starting to be recognized as the global leader in entertainment that it is. And I mean, there's so many people that have come on board over the past decade that have helped us get there. And, you know, it feels really cool to finally see us, especially with what went on with the, you know, the sale and the possible sale now, if it goes through with Endeavor and obviously our TV rights are coming up.

It's just really cool to see all kinds of different companies being involved and wanting to get involved in our product. What did you say there? You said something there. Great answer. You're right. Shout out, WWE.

Respect, respect. A lot of great people over there. We're getting sold to Endeavor. It's not official for a couple of months. You know that. You're a business guy. I very much understand that, but the way you phrased it was also a way that I would understand. You said possible sale. I guess it does have some stuff to still be worked out. Regulations and shit,

which is always going to take place when there's billions of dollars at stake. But also, you talk about the global entertainment thing. You guys are everywhere, bro. I was in, where are we? We're in LA. LA and I'm walking across the street from the hotel I'm in. Burbank. I'm in Burbank.

We walked to go get a coffee, you know, trying to wake up a little bit. How you doing? Nice morning. A month after Mania. Lady from Poland? Yeah, a pianist from... Somewhere. Somewhere over there. Massive WWE fan. Yes.

Stopped me because massive. You guys are everywhere in the world. It is very fascinating to see how it's grown, where it is, and where it can possibly go. You guys got to be thinking the best years are still coming, especially with Endeavor. Who they got, that Ari Manuel motherfucker? Oh, yeah.

They got the guy from Entourage. That's right. You know, Ari Gold. They got, yeah. They got the guy from Entourage. That's right. You know, Ari Gold. Dog. They got him now. You got Vince McMahon, okay? And there's obviously always going to be things said about old Vince McMahon. You know, old Vince McMahon came from Trailer Park,

just sold his company for multiple billions of dollars. What? And it's an American success story that will obviously be talked about business-wise and all of his personal decisions will also be talked alongside of it. Sure. That is the price that comes alongside, I believe, living the way that he has lived, how he has lived, and getting to the place in which he has gotten to. So whatever.

You know, everything's always going to be said. You'll never hear anything negative out of me about Vince McMahon, and you know that. He's been good to me too, man. But there is people who certainly have their gripes, and they will keep those forever. And Vince knows that. He said, if I'm an asshole i'm an asshole

and then just moved on that's kind of but you got vince r emmanuel in there chatting and then obviously who i've known for a bit you guys are uh nick khan's in there yeah so they got some power players they got like three super business units yeah at the top of this thing in a global audience already. I cannot wait to see what you guys do next. And I'm happy you're hitting your fucking prime right now because the world is literally about to see the greatest Michael Cole. Now, the boys have questions for you. Let's start with the guy who loves you so much. Connor, go ahead, Cole.

Yeah, Cole. Hey, sorry for all the terrible things I said about you earlier. And also, it's great. Oh, that's okay. Bygones be bygones, Connor. I couldn't agree more. I love you, kid. You're the best. Hey, bygones be bygones. Paisons be paisons.

It's awesome. And the fact that you're on social media again, you know, hopefully more active these days will be awesome. Let's keep in mind, you know, tweets. I didn't say I am yet. No, but you will be. Get on threads. It's for you. Get on threads. You know, you had your time at Twitter, but that thing's hard

to navigate sometimes with tweets and DMs and stuff, but when you're talking about what is going on right now between Dominic Mysterio and his father, has there been kind of a storyline like that, and why is Dominic Mysterio kind

of such an asshole to his father who's brought him up in this business the reason that storyline works is i think that anyone that has been a parent and has raised teenage children into their early 20s every single person can relate to this storyline uh it is the parent thinking that they know what is best for their child. It is the child thinking that they know what is best for themselves. It is the meddling hot girlfriend who clouds the emotional mind of the young man. I think anybody that's in Pat, listen, 18 to 20 years, you're going to go through this too with your daughter. Well, thanks for saying her name on TV.

Yeah, great. Thanks. But I went through it with my kids too. I just think it's something that everyone sitting at home, sitting on their couch can relate to, and they're going to take sides. The 50-year-old man sitting on his couch drinking his beer watching Raw is going to say, get him, Ray Mysterio. That kid deserves to be punished.'ve handed him everything in his life and then the teenager sitting on the couch is gonna go get up dot stand up to the dad that's what i want to do so nobody's on dom's side right it doesn't it feels like nobody is on dom's side is that because he is not anymore yeah he's

hey that's great yeah unbelievable hey listen. Hey, listen. Terrible, terrible human. Fucking asshole. It's disrespect. This guy, Dom, fuck off. Respect your father. He's a legend. He and I, you know what? We debuted same weekend.

I was with NXT. Wow. Him and WrestleMania. Same weekend. I've seen him since day one. Loved him. What he has become. This guy.

Especially, yeah. His dad gave me Louis Vuitton mask. Yeah. So nice of him. his dad gave me Louis Vuitton mask. Yeah, so nice of him. Gave me his Louis Vuitton mask. Dirty Dom. Yeah, and now Dom is doing this bullshit. It's only right that every time he goes to start speaking, the arena boos him out.

He can't even talk. That's right. Is that happening in every arena? Oh, yeah. It's insane. They won't even allow him to cut a promo to an interview. It goes crazy. House shows, too? He's getting fucking They won't even allow him to cut a promo to an interview. It goes crazy. House shows, too? He's getting fucking booed out of the arena?

Exactly. Yep, our live events, definitely. Hey, way to go. Hey, you asshole. You son of a bitch. Way to go, though. Good heat. Way to go. Ty has a question for you, Cole. Yeah, Cole, I know you're saying that you love everything right now,

and let's let bygones be bygones, but I also know that you are a very, very pessimistic fan of two of the things you love most. I'm curious, are you starting to get a little bit worried about the Jets with how badly the Mets have shit the bed this year, or where are you standing right now? So this is a two-part question. I want to start with the Mets first because it was on the show,

you guys may remember back in April, that I got in an argument with Jeff Passan about the Mets and how, oh, it's so early, why are you complaining? They're going to be okay. They're off to a rough start. Well, it's now the second week of July, and they stink. And, okay, they've won four in a row. They had a big comeback last night.

But this is what the Mets always do. They tease their fans. They absolutely stink. They have the highest payroll in the history of baseball. They've done nothing to correct that. They spend $84 million on two starting pitches that have been mediocre this year or average at best. And they're not even going to make the playoffs.

They're six and a half games out of a wild card with the highest payroll in the history of baseball. Oh, you guys stink. You guys were laughing at me and said I was jumping to conclusions back in April. Oh my God, you guys stink! I was a fan of our team for a little bit. You guys are worse than the Pirates? Way worse. You guys are worse than the Pirates?

The second part of that is the Jets. I have been worried about the Jets since Aaron decided to come here. And the reason for that has nothing to do with Aaron Rodgers. He's one of the greatest, if not the greatest, to ever play the game. It has to do with the fact that we are the New York Jets. Boom.

It has been 50-plus years since we won a Super Bowl. I was three years old when this team won a Super Bowl. All right, he's 53. Something will happen. No way. It's going to be a disaster this season. I feel terrible for Aaron because he's not going to deserve what he's going to go through.

What is your problem? You said you love everybody at the beginning of this. Remember, he was trying to get an Emmy. Yeah. Oh, I love everybody. Everybody's great. It's all awesome. And now listen to you, bro.

I'm sorry, Aaron. There's going to be something. It's going to suck. Oh, my God. But I was being. Everybody's great. It's all awesome. And now listen to you, bro. I'm sorry, Aaron. There's going to be something. It's going to suck. Oh, my God. But I was being nice to the guy. What, because you're apologizing to him before something terrible doesn't happen? Come on. You guys should feel good.

This is a good team. Great team. Listen, I hope the Mets win 30 in a row and make the playoffs. I hope the Jets go 17-0 and get to the Super Bowl. I really do. I hope the Jets go 17-0 and get to the Super Bowl. I really do. But I'm just a beaten-down, tortured, punished fan.

All right. AJ, do you have a question for one of these tortured fans out there in the world walking around? I just want to ask Mike, getting back to the WWE, what are we going to do to get L.A. Knight and Otis a push, get them over the top? These guys are superstars. What are we going to do to give a good push Otis a push? Get them over the top. These guys are superstars. What are we going to do to give a good push to these guys? They'll get there. 100%. Can you get the singlet on?

Maybe get a thruple with them? Put them over. Give them a rub, Cole. Put them over. Oh, there we go. See? Look at that. Look at that physical specimen.

Yeah, dude. Look at that physical specimen. Put them over. Give them the rub. Look at that. That's amazing. Yeah. Give him the rub. Look at that. That's amazing. Yeah. Undefeated at WrestleMania.

Me too. Never been beaten on the grand stage. I'm the only announcer in history that's undefeated at WrestleMania. Whoa. Whoa. Not true. You have an asterisk next to your win. Asterisk. A lot of things do.

The win doesn't at all. The loss is a non-sanction match. It's a non-sanction match. It's a non-sanction match. He said it. He's the chairman of things do. The win doesn't at all. The loss is a non-sanction match. It's a non-sanction match. He said it. He's a chariot of the company. He never even said it. Ah, Texas didn't approve. Put a football through your body.

No. He did. He fractured three of my ribs. Thank you, AJ, for bringing that up. I didn't even think about the tip of that football. Yeah. Cleanly. I didn't think he was going to do that.

I thought he was going to throw it to the fans. Well, thank God Stone Cold gave him a stunner and paralyzed him. Well, of course, yeah. he made his legs not work anymore which is certainly cool he's not gonna be able to pump me ever again no but then what's done cold dude hey come on chuck four beers real quick let me tell you kids and he breaks my neck too had to eat teeth messed up for the rest of the night yeah that. You know, Pat, you and I both had a WrestleMania match, and Stone Cold was involved in both of our WrestleMania matches. Well, I had two of them.

He was a special guest referee in my WrestleMania match. I didn't need to because I stayed undefeated. You needed that second one to get that loss off your record. No, no, no. Listen, the Miz wanted some from anybody. I just so happened to be the person. He was more prepared than I was. He was hosting the thing.

He was comfortable in there. I was in a goddamn bus for 12 hours. That was a little tight coming out of there. Good people over there, though. A couple beers afterwards. The bus we were in was filled with incredible humans that weren't supposed to come through there a couple different times. Some food.

Oh, great food. You guys are doing first class over there. Not award-winning, though. Not no Emmys. Not award-winning. Pac-Man has a question for you, Cole. Cole, 25 years, what's the biggest bout you think you've called? What is the biggest bout to you?

Box office-wise, probably Roxina at WrestleMania. The first one. One of the biggest stories that we'd ever done. Just that moment in time where Rock and John were in their careers. That was probably the biggest that I had the pleasure of calling. But there's been so many over the years. Roman Reigns has just had some incredible moments. Probably the greatest moment, though, was the night that Seth

Rollins cashed in Money in the Bank at WrestleMania to beat Brock and Roman on the same night. That was probably my favorite moment. The heist of the century, is that what you called it? Yes, sir. A2J, too, the night he kicked Roman was pretty good. Yeah, you felt good.

You like that? Yeah, when that came out, you thought, ooh, good journalist. Some people didn't get it. No, no. Those who did got it. It was pretty good. Yeah, you felt good. You like that? Yeah, when that came out, you thought, ooh, good journalist. Some people didn't get it. No, no. Those who did got it. It was pretty good. It was a good little tagline there at the end of the thing. The Seth Rollins call was fantastic.

And on The Rock, Cena conversation. Tone has a question for you. Yeah, I do, Cole. Which WWE superstar do you think? You've been talking a lot about acting and storylines, which confuses us. I don't know why you keep bringing that up. He's talking about the marine yeah okay yeah so which wwe superstar do you think is the biggest star on the on the picture on the movie side is it is it is it rock is it stonewall is it cena is it mr batista backland so if you're talking All time I think no doubt it's The Rock

I think if you're talking Present day of those who are Wrestling regularly for us Not counting Cena who occasionally Makes an appearance I'd have to say Roman Reigns has the biggest upside If you watch what he does in his matches Absolutely incredible

The stories that he is able to tell. So I think Roman right now is up there. He's talking about movies. He's talking about movies. We're not talking about what they do in fights, bro. We understand that. What about Silver Screen? Roman Reigns has done a movie.

Yeah. Roman Reigns may do some movies. Do we want to give him a line? Yeah, he was in The Rock's movie. Yeah. Well, The Rock. But definitely The Rock. If you're talking overall, it's Rock.

You've seen The Marine? Batista? Yeah. Dude, The Rock. Yeah, Batista's doing great. John Cena's doing unbelievable, but The Rock is still the king. The Rock caught a fucking... Did you see that snapper?

Oh, yeah. He caught yesterday. Hulkster had some great films. Hulkster was in a couple movies. Oh, yeah. One was a $70 million grocer. Yeah, he was in what? He was in a couple movies. Oh, yeah. One was a $70 million grocer. Yeah, he was in what? He was in Rocky. He was. Rocky 3.

Thunderlips and Rocky 3. He was in Three Ninjas, High Noon at Mega Mountain. He played Dave Dragon, which is an all-time great role. Hey, don't forget Thunder in Paradise. It's a classic. Macho Man was in Spider-Man. He was Bonesaw. Oh, yeah. Ronda Rousey was in Fast FiveMan. He was bone soft.

Ronda Rousey was in Fast Five. That's right. She's back. Hey, she's back. What's up? Why'd Shayna turn on Ronda? I thought they were friends. Cole, what's that all about? They used to be, but not anymore.

You're going to have to see how that's going to play out, I guess. Well, we will. Pat, if you were going to do a movie, what movie would you do? If you were going to do a movie, what movie would you do? We got, this is no shit. And, you know, everybody thinks I'm not going to get into a Nate Diaz call, but that was awesome. Yeah, it was. But, like, you know, people think we're a pretty shallow, dumb crew over here.

We have, like, a good three to four movie concepts that whenever we get to the stage of the movie, I don't know if I'm the guy that needs to be acting in there. Although I'm getting properly jocked right now. I'm getting properly jocked right now. But we have, there's a couple good ones. There's a couple good ones. The acting thing's crazy, though, because you go away for like four months or something.

And then you're sitting on a trailer for eight hours. And then you've got to do like 35 minutes worth of work and then you go back to the i don't i don't think it's kind of i don't think i'm cut out for the movie life if that makes sense cole oh those you're you're too hyperactive to be anywhere involved with the patience of doing a movie 30 takes what are we doing yeah do you think this one's gonna draw something out of me that the last 29 didn't? It won't. Well, that's why you took to our business so well, because the beauty of what we do in the WWE is. Oh, clip it. Can you get us one more clean?

Hold on. Can you get us one more clean there? WWE. Wow. WWE. WWE. Yeah. Get in the video game voiceover, Cole. Come on WWE. Yeah. WWE. Yeah. Whoa.

Get in the video game voiceover, Cole. Come on. Come on. But it's the instant gratification in our business, as you know better than anyone, Pat, is being able to grab a microphone and knowing immediately if what you're doing is good or bad by the reaction of the live crowd. That's the beauty of what we do. And that's why,

you know, for a lot of guys leaving here to try to get to the movie industry is difficult because you don't have that instant gratification and you don't know if you did a good job. You know, immediately if you cut a good promo or not in our business, you know, if you had a good match immediately in our business, it's hard sometimes when you're on a closed set and you don't know until a year later when the movie comes out. Yeah. I don't, yeah. None of it the movie comes out. Yeah, none of it sounds fantastic to me, but I think we got a lot of good ideas. Hey, why don't you guys go do this

miserable shit? I did my own death scene in the movie once. How'd you die? Good bump? What'd you do? I was a seagull. I was a reporter in a surf's up. I actually did the play by play of my own

death in in the film that's awesome i don't think i fully comprehend what took place here you were a voiceover for a seagull while doing a voiceover of the seagull but it was me it was the michael cole seagull character in the movie and i actually died so i had to actually voice my death scene uh which i believe if i'm going to win any award, I probably should have won an award for that. Yeah. How can you be dead and talking about it at the same time? That's the seagull right there?

Put your soul patch on his head. Yep, there you go. That is an upside-down soul patch on the top. The status of the seagull is deceased. You see that thing's gone? Did you cut that flavor saver because Connor bullied you? Funny story. The woman who gave me a shave a few months

back cut it off by mistake and then I just never grew it back. True story. One of the movies you were mentioning was the Cole movie about his life with Paul Walter Hauser being the main character. Where? I thought that was one of the ideas. Blackbird? No, that must have been

a different writing group. What do you guys have figured out? Serial killer? Yeah, so we're going to have Paul Walter Hauser be Michael Cole in his kind of life story. And then we're going to bring back David Koresh

and have him be in it as well. Oh, so it can be like a Tom Segura's thoughts on Garth Brooks type movie. Bingo. Bingo. Because Cole goes a lot of different... All these different...

Like, AJ can play the dictator in Belize Like we can go all over A dictator in Belize? Sure That sounds like fun Being a dictator in Belize, Cole? You're not going to win any of them Just do the movie overall

As an actor, you're playing a character Alright, Cole, have an incredible day Hey, Madison Square Garden tomorrow, huh? Hey, hey, yeah, oh yeah Need I forget Fox tomorrow night, sold out Madison Square Garden tomorrow, huh? Hey, yeah. Need I forget. Fox tomorrow night sold out. Madison Square Garden, New York City. London sold out. Last week, Madison

Square Garden sold out tomorrow night for Friday Night Smackdown. The trial of Roman Reigns. Whoa! Tomorrow night. Who's the judge? He's the head of the table. The Usos. What? Oh, no. Oh, oh my god big drama tomorrow

night at the garden that sounds biased wake up you know he's on trial for i'm trying to ask questions that someone might have that doesn't know as much okay for a friend what is he on trial for michael cole well because for all the discretions that roman reigns had he put the bloodline through for the past three years like The punishment and the torture he put him through. So now it's time since Jey Uso beat Roman Reigns. By the way, first time Roman Reigns had been pinned or submitted since December of 2019. It was last Saturday.

Three and a half years. Jey Uso pinned him in a tag team match, which means the Usos believe that they now have control of the family and they're going to put Roman Reigns on trial. Is Wise Man on trial? Wise Man's probably representing. Right? Is that probably how this is going?

Well, we'll see. Gonna have to tune in tomorrow night. 8 o'clock Eastern. Need the Wise Man representing somebody. For WWE Friday Night Smackdown on Fox. That's the voice of the WWE. A company that sold out the O2 and then Madison Square Garden

and then next week it'll be another city. Then next week it'll Madison Square Garden. Then next week it'll be another city. Then next Monday it'll be another city. Unbelievable. The show never stops. Neither does this man. Two missed shows in 25 years. 26 years. No, I mean so. You look good still somehow.

You look good right now. Trying to survive another few years. Yeah, but you're like thin. It looks like you're not as... I lost a lot of weight over the last few months. A lot of job. What have you been doing? Stressed out?

It's a combination of eating well, not drinking any beer, only whiskey, and working out. Lost 42 pounds. What made you do it, Cole? I got sick of being a fat fuck. You looked great before, too. That's kind of how all of us feel.

Hey, by the way, I'm sorry. I didn't know. Do you have to start beeping that word? All right, shut up, Cole. Go to hell. Oh, shut up, Cole. Okay, don't you start chiming in. We're having a great call.

Like he's dropping F-bombs on fucking W-E-F-O, Cole. Okay. Don't you start chiming in. We're having a great call. Like he's dropping F-bombs on fucking WWE. WWE Fox. Yeah. What about it? I love you guys. Hey, good luck, by the way, at the golf tournament. Thank you.

Hey. Huh? I'm playing a little bit right now. Cole. I saw. Yeah, somebody sent me a video of you with a two-wood. You had no idea what a two-wood was. Love it. I had no idea it existed.

Whenever I was getting fitted for my PXG, shout out to PXG, when I was getting fitted, my guy was like, here, why don't you just swing this one a little bit? I was like, is this a three-wood? Hit it perfect. Two-wood, actually. Hey, when I was a kid, two-wood was a major part of the bag, and it was an actual wood.

Yeah, it was 1922. Yeah, that's what we've been saying, how old you are. This is the two-wood. Pretty thin, but also thin. There it is. Yeah. It's got some girth to it. It's beautiful.

It's not going to win any long drive contests. How long are you hitting that? Depends. I think anywhere from 260, 250. That makes sense. To like 280. What are you driving, like 320? I don't know, bro.

I can't hit this fucking thing. 300 carry for sure. Well, I don't know about that at Tahoe. What about with the driver, though? What are you hitting with the driver? Tahoe, I don't know. Tahoe, it'll be like a 290 carry and probably over 300. The altitude, yeah.

AJ here, this fucking guy, bro. This guy could hit this thing carry 300. Sandbagger. Dude, sandbagger like a motherfucker. He'll hit this two-wood 300 carry, I bet, out in Tahoe. Guaranteed. He's a barbarian with a... In the next hole, I'll top it 10 yards.

That's the game. That's not true. That's not true. That is not what happened. We saw you golf four straight days. Yes. There was not one top. No flop.

My first tee shot went directly into the water, Michael Cole. Dead straight. That's because you went too far. The next one, I topped 50 yards, I believe. And these guys say I never hit a top. That's not true. Yeah. You're a liar.

I remember your performance last year, AJ. All of a sudden, you just started sneaking up, climbing the leaderboard slowly through the weekend. Yeah, he was. This guy's Aaron Rodgers. Keep an eye out this year. Hey, what was Aaron? Yeah, AJ's looking to win it. Aaron ended up in the top ten.

Yeah, 59 points. Bro, we're staying in the house with these two guys that are fucking, hey, we're trying to win this thing. Again? Oh, no. No, I got blisters all over my feet. This is the last year. I got blisters all over my feet.

I can barely stand up, and AJ and Aaron are trying to win the fucking tournament. I'm like, I'm holding his back, boys. I don't know if I should go out there. Is Romo playing again? Mm-hmm. Yeah, he's so good. Is there golf to be had? He's so good, dude.

I don't know how his back holds up, though. Yeah. I don't know how his back is right now. There's a bad video of him trying to tee a ball where his back did not look good. Uh-oh. He's a mile away, though. He's very good at the golf. Really good.

He's full commitment, though. He's there right at the golf. Really good. He's full commitment, though. He's at that... He's there right now. Pro golfer. Pro golfing schedule. I mean, Steph is out for blood after the match. I would hope. Oh, yeah, with that shitty play he had. And by shitty play, I say he would have beat all of us. Yes. Took two people. Well, not today, if you were to put

together two a year. Yeah, you're right. If I play like I played today, this is my second time out and about on a golf course, Cole. We're fucking doing it right now. Yeah, you're right. If I play like I played today, this is my second time out and about on a golf course, Cole. We're fucking doing it right now. Hey, we made putts. Ooh. We made a putt. What's it, two more weeks?

Next week. Next week. Come on. Next week. Week from today. We appreciate you. How many cities will you be in by next Friday? Actually, no Raw Monday, so just two.

This week and next week. Oh, wow. Lighter schedule back in my day. You know what I mean? That would have been up and down the roads. Maybe one of these days you can come visit us at a show, Pat. Bring the whole crew. Be nice.

See you again. We love you, man. See you, Michael Cole. Thank you, buddy. I felt like that was a little... You know what I mean? Nice. See you again. All right. We love you, man. See you, Michael Cole. Thank you, buddy. I love you guys. I love you, Cole. I felt like that was a little, you know what I mean? I felt like that was on the way out. Maybe he comes visit us again.

Just once. I didn't need that, Cole. It's good. We've been wanting more. They want more of you. The way he delivered it, though. Yeah, it was very backhand. Zito said he's screaming big time right now. He is.

Put the audio on him. Is he really screaming right now? Big timer. Yeah. Wow. There it is. Yeah, big time. You're too big to come back and visit me.

All right. Shut up. Shut up. Thank you, Cole. Have a great day. Michael Cole. See you guys. What's that all about? I don't know. That's not real. He understands the reality of the situation. He's Have a great day. Michael Cole. See you guys. What's that all about?

I don't know. That's not real. He understands the reality of the situation. He's being a wuss. He better be careful. He's going to turn a work into a fucking shoot. Brother. Yeah.

I love that guy. Yeah, he does deserve an award. He really does. The best. WWE. The WWE. W. I can see how, like, the people that just make those really shitty fucking movies and call it art.

Mm-hmm. Could be like what the WWE does is. It's trash. That is not art. That's lowbrow. Tasteless. It is. It's like these motherfuckers are in front of 13,000 people every time they're doing everything that they're doing.

Right. There was a time there where they were super focused on a storyline and they forgot about the crowd. Mm-hmm. And I don't know how many years ago that was but as a fan i was watching i was like well they're not letting the they're not letting the crowd be like they're almost trying to like tell the story and not it doesn't care that we're in omaha year after covid it doesn't care right now that we are in chicago the story that i'm going to tell in the microphone is going to be a story that can be heard anywhere because they're going to use this for video package later. We just got to tell the story

or whatever. And I like, as a fan, lifelong fan, growing up, if the crowd was having fun, I was like having fun at home. It's like, yo, the crowd is the one that's setting the mood almost. Like, commentators are certainly a part of it in jr

and the king whenever i was watching back in the day and cole now coming in there with a litany of incredible commentators that do a great job setting the tone the crowd like really matters yeah so i'll tell you i was the i was a pander machine when they gave me a microphone it was like i would like these motherfuckers to know like i'm to be in Charlotte, North Carolina right now. And they call that cheap pops, obviously, in the wrestling world. It's like, these motherfuckers got out of their houses, drove all the way down here, spent a lot of money on these tickets,

got a bunch of merch, and when you're watching at home, it's like, if they're good, the show's going to be good. In London, I don't think I've ever seen a bad show in London. Because even if it was a bad show, the crowd is going to just fucking take the show over and make sure it's great. That Money in the Bank crowd was spectacular. So loud, so obnoxious.

Creating chance. Stand up if you hate Roman or whatever it was. And then the whole crowd stands up. And then Roman sits down on the side of the thing. It was like, that was a fucking hilarious situation. Obviously improv. Could not happen in any other form of entertainment. And then the crowd's right back into the match.

It's a spectacular world. I was very lucky to be in it. And hopefully in the future, obviously. You know, because we're building the show. And then me having opportunities in WWE are happening at the same exact time yeah you see this aj they're happening the same time is there crossover yeah yeah there's some wwe fans that watch our show some of our fans watch wwe some of our fans hate it like oh yeah some of it's really some of it's very split like they're gonna be pissed about them like why are we having

this guy they're gonna be that whole thing but it's kind of happening at the same exact time. And then also, wife, have baby, families, everything like that. 13 people work here. Really, all that stuff is happening alongside of it. So if I could go back in time, I do wish that I'd be able to just be a full-time WWE person. But there's a lot happening in our worlds right now. So them being as cool as they are to me and have been to me and allowing me to kind of go in there and still be able to experience something I've dreamed

about my entire life and potentially build a little bit of a legacy for whenever the timing comes for it to be a more doable thing. I'm very, very excited for that and thankful for everybody over there. Yeah, to that point right there. Cole's worked there for 26 years. He's missed two shows. There are so many people who have worked there for 20-plus years, and you'd have no idea.

That one fucker from Ohio that pours eight shots in a drink and gives it to me in Foxy, like, yeah, hang out with us. You can do whatever you want. It's a very family business. And obviously with Vince and his kids being involved. But just as a whole, like the entire way they go about everything. Because I forget what it was during this WrestleMania. I think it was actually when The Miz got hurt.

And the camera guy, Grogan, is that the right? Yeah. He basically told, and there's clips of this on the internet but he's been around it for so long that he was able to know what to tell snoop dogg to do to save the kind of match that popped up on that second night of mania it's just unbelievable yeah grogan uh cement mixture that guy's been he's ohio fuck from columbus likes michigan oh so you know what that means that means he loves likes Michigan. So you know what that means. That means he loves the... You know what I mean?

In Ohio, with Ohioans. Yes. Who naturally chirp. Okay? Naturally shit talk. Grow up and shit talk. He wanted to be even more. That's who he is.

Great dude. We'll have a drink or two. Okay, not scared to have a... Or eight. Or not scared to... Towel went on and it wasn't a while. No, no. But yeah, it was nice the

internet like kind of giving them some shine he's not the only one rico there's like bingo yeah there's so many guys that have stew i mean stew gets tapped up by scene every time he comes out there whatever stew's been doing it for 20 years running down the fucking ramp with this thing we're very lucky to be over there they treat us very good over there aj i don't know why but i appreciate the hell out of it you know the? The little bit I've been around it, yeah, with you, I was blown away by how awesome. Like Khan said, it's an absolute family atmosphere everywhere you go there. It's pretty cool.

All right, let's get to a break. On the other side, we'll answer some phone calls and wrap up this Thursday. Combat Sports Thursday. That's right. Boom. Sorry about it. No storylines. Why was he saying that?

I don't know. I didn't like that. What do you mean? Damn, these actors. Yeah, yeah. They should at least win an Emmy, you know. Oh. What?

No, it's not. Best athletes should be Joker, Methy, Steph, Leroy LeBron, and then boom, Roman freaking Reigns. Guy hasn't lost. Still a champion. It should be up for SB. Is there SBs for WWE? There's WWE SB for best WWE moment. It's not an SB competing with other sports.

It is within the WWE to win an SB. Does that make sense? SB's coming up? I think so. Yeah. Is it next week? Who's hosting? Who's the host?

All-Star Games next week, so yeah. I assume that'll be something in the future that we'll probably be a part of, if I had to guess. You would think. I don't know if they're going to want our thoughts. Yeah, I don't know if we. Do we not just fucking have a good time and celebrate incredible athletes? If that's what we're going to do. Let's love sports.

By all means. Let's do it. Okay? We don't need the Hollywood. The sports, we're doing their shit. You know what I mean? Yes. Let's do it.

How do we not know the host? Isn't that always, don't they pub it and say who the host is? Maybe kayfabe, dude. You remember when Beyonce dropped that Lemonade album overnight? That's right. Remember that? That's a good point. It came out of dropped that Lemonade album overnight? That's right. Remember that? That's a good point. It came out of nowhere.

No promotion became the biggest thing on earth. Maybe that's what they're thinking. Hard Knocks. Okay. To the point about hosts, this is the longest Hard Knocks has ever gone without announcing. Not by design. What do you mean, AJ? Hold on.

What do you know? We know the host? I don't know anything, but I'm saying I feel like every team they try to go to says, Nope. We'll see you later, fellas. It's been louder this year than any other year. Every other year, every single coach has said no. Yes.

This year, though, it's been a big like, nope, they're not doing it. Not doing it. They've decided, this team that is eligible for this, because they didn't make the playoffs, and they don't have a first-year head coach. So this team, not the best football team last year. They're telling us to fuck off. We're the NFL Films.

We're a 33rd team. People love hard knocks. Come on. How many of those teams are saying no to you guys? All of them. All of them. All of them have told us no publicly. It is interesting, AJ.

I wonder how that's going to go. Because players, I would assume, and we've talked about this, we are big fans of the NFL Films. NFL Films people had to go to battle i would assume and we've talked about this we are big fans of the nfl films nfl films people had to go to battle for us last year for the whole now granted it's within the nfl but nfl films had to represent us oh that was a whole thing thank fucking god i never have to do that again you want us to use these drawings for the fucking logos we have video we can't what are you even talking about nfl films had to go to battle for us through that entire thing. And we've loved Hard Knocks.

But with, like, what social media is able to do with these teams, we've kind of seen the Hard Knocks model has kind of been copied, taken, and put into social media and everything like that. And the NFL Films people are incredibly talented. It's Scorsese of sports. I believe that. But players also know, like, the value of all these things. So I always wondered, at what

point are the players going to be like, yeah, if you give us a little bit of money here, we will participate in your full storyline. Your show. When we have to go do extra shots at this place. You want to take your camera home to my house. I'm in the middle of training camp. I'm home for an hour and a half with my

wife. But yeah, we will shoot this for Hard Knocks. Well, I'm just trying to make a team. Like, I wonder if that has become a discussion or it's just we don't want the distraction. You know what I mean, AJ? I would imagine it comes from the coaches mainly. I bet some players would love to have it and are fine, like especially guys that maybe feel like they don't get enough attention.

They need a little more pub. Get them out there. I think it's coaches that probably do not want it. And owners, if I'm an owner, I would welcome them into my facility. Yeah, owners definitely would. For sure. What do you think, Pac, on your thoughts? Weren't you on it?

Yeah, we was on it. But I think where social media is right now, the teams can make more money putting out their own social clips than doing the deal with hard knocks. Yeah, I think HBO and Hard Knocks and NFL Films has a prestige to it. The people that are going to see it

I think are different than just the social media people. So there is an allure to that platform and that type of production behind the scenes. Social media teams aren't going to be able to have what NFL Films has. With the storytelling and the editors they have are fucking very highly paid. They're not social media directors fresh out of college

after they got a social media degree. They are. These people who are fucking in there have been doing it a long time. Some of them even since Sable was around. So they've been around the NFL a long ass time. So I think they make quality work. But Hard Knocks I think is going to be a tougher and tougher sell on all parties.

It definitely helped the Lions last year. I mean, people fell in love with the coaching staff after they were on. Helped the Lions business-wise, and the Lions did good, so it didn't ruin them. With Hard Knocks, I'll actually watch that. Majority of the social media, behind-the-scenes stuff, I'll just scroll past unless someone's like, oh, this was really cool. You have to watch it. And the reason is because you have

respect for what Hard Knocks has done before, even though there's been a couple seasons that have not been good. But also's like, oh, this was really cool. You have to watch. And the reason is because you have respect for what Hard Knocks has done before, even though there's been a couple seasons that have not been good. But also, the social media teams are putting out the very PG cookie cutter stuff. You're not getting Dan Campbell saying fuck a hundred times an episode on the social media. You're getting that on Hard Knocks, which is

awesome. But the problem, too, is they want the Jets to do it. Everyone wants to see the Jets on it, and the Jets don't want to fucking do it, so they're just adding impasses. Roger said no. Yeah, exactly. Is that what happened? No. Because that's being reported, and I don't think any of that's real. Sala, like AJ said,

Sala was basically, we're not fucking doing this. I don't want to do this. They're going to force him to. It sucks. NFL Films has been around the NFL longer than Salah's been. Don't you think they have to change something? That's no disrespect to Salah. What do you mean?

What do they got to change, Con Man? I just feel like they got to do it from a different angle. When this quarterbacks thing comes out, everyone's going to be like, Hard Knocks sucks compared to quarterbacks because that's what they're going to compare it to. Less people have HBO now, too. I feel like less people watch HBO than they did before.

Yeah, quarterbacks are going to Netflix. Yeah, exactly. Although Netflix raises their prices, doesn't really put out this stuff. Everybody still has it, though. True. Still watching it. If something's on there, you're still going to go on and watch it. Tom Segura, on there, I'm going to go watch.

Yeah, absolutely. This quarterbacks thing, I'm going to go on there, I'm going to watch it. Mocs, I guess a lot of people are subscribers to Mocs. Well, when it switched over, it was very easy. If you were already subscribed to HBO, it already had all your account information. So I don't think that many people canceled their HBO subscriptions when it went to Mocs. Somebody's going to be forced to do it. Yeah. Probably the Jets. I think it's going to be the Jets. Somebody's going to be forced to do it. Yeah.

Probably the Jets. I think it's going to be the Jets. It's going to be the Jets. That's the issue. The Jets are the ones that everybody is pointing. Yeah, it makes so much sense. Here we go. And they don't want to do it.

And their fans are like, come on. Come on. Come on. It's a good leverage play. Yeah. They should negotiate with them. Woody Johnson would be like, all right, well, give me some preferential treatment here in the future.

Woody Johnson would be like, all right, well, give me some preferential treatment here in the future then. Woody Johnson would be like, listen, next time I make vaccinations, only mine. Entire NFL. Not multiple ones. Will that get addressed in Hard Knocks if they do it over there? Yes. I hope so. That's what Florio would say.

Here's something nobody's thought about. What if Hard Knocks does the Jets? And then the Jets say, yeah, that episode's good. And Aaron says, is it? Oh, no. Uh-oh. Another riff between Aaron and the Jets. It's all begun.

The honeymoon phase is over before the relationship even starts. I love when Florio does that type of stuff. Oh, how about this? Second week of training camp. Aaron hates the Jets. Why? Because the Jets said, yeah, I love when Florio does that type of stuff. Oh, how about this? Second week of training camp. Aaron hates the Jets. Why? Because the Jets said, yeah, that scene in which Aaron's shoeless walking around the team meeting room is okay.

What a wild world, dude. Yeah. If it was the Jets, the amount of storylines that will come out of that. Did you see the way that guy looked at that guy? It was good. Boom. New York media. Oh, my God.

Oh, it would be the biggest hard knocks of all time. For sure. Without a doubt. And NFL Films knows that. Yes. That's why they're going to Detroit. You guys want to do it? No?

Okay, cool, cool, cool. Yeah, sounds good. Hey, Jets, you guys want to do this? No. All right, we'll give you a week. Washington. Huge. It would be huge.

Well, normally they'd be playing highlights of OTAs and minicamp to show you preview, hey, this is what's coming up here when we have this. Hey, Foxy, why don't you text the people at NFL Films, or Tone, why don't you email the people at NFL Films and say, hey, what's the deal, bro? Are we getting the Jets or not? Just start doing it now. What are you guys doing?

You guys need to go in there and sell it a little bit better? They can force it. The NFL can force it on them, right? Yeah. To my point, NFL films have been around longer than Salah. No offense to Salah. But the NFL films was here before you were coaching the NFL. And they will be there after you leave.

And that is, I think they always try to have the utmost respect for everybody in the NFL. But I do think if they were to pull there, we want the Jets. We're putting cameras in there tomorrow. I think they could do that. I think. I'm not 100% sure. They have to know. They're 20 days away from the start of camp. Alright, let's get to a break. We'll have answers on the other side.

Maybe. Probably not. They're not going to tell me shit. We know the answer. It's the Jets. We don't have to act like they're going to do the commanders. Are they going to force the commanders to do it, or are they going to force the New York Jets to do it? I think the Bears would be the distant second. What if the Jags?

What if Shad Khan called up and said, hey. Jags went to the playoffs last year. Yeah, they got to open up the criteria. You can have it, though. If you all volunteer. Hey, nobody wants it. We want it. Could they do that?

Yeah, you can certainly pitch yourself right now, I think, if you were a team that won. Now's a good time to get in there and be like, you know what? We want to add a they do that? Yeah, you can certainly pitch yourself right now, I think, if you were a team that won. Now's a good time to get in there and be like, you know what? We want to add distraction to our training camp, so maybe we can't make it back to the playoffs. Nobody's going to be able to do it. Nobody's going to be able to say. That's a tough spot.

Let's get to a break. My bladder's in a tough spot. Hey, I golfed this morning, AJ. The road to Tahoe presented by PXG. Touched a little grass this morning at old Nicky Spates' country club. It's fun out there. Hitting that two wood. I bet you hit that two wood 300 easy.

Didn't hit it one time. It's got to go. Obviously, it goes farther than a three wood. So, I mean, it's almost like a little driver, isn't it? Yep. Baby driver. It is. It is.

I like it. I was trying to get the driver right. What's been going on in this sim versus what's going on out there? My driver's a little different. I don't know what that's all about. What's that all about? I mean, yeah, I know. It never feels the same when you get that driver out on a real course. Like, okay, I forgot how to swing.

Did you guys play with the voice of his country club? Who? What's his name? He was a former college basketball coach. Dan Dockage, I think, is who you're thinking of, Tony. Oh, is he over there? He's a member of that club. His clips pop up.

I see him all the time. Yeah, they do. I bet he is living the dream. Bro, he has to be so happy with the life he's living right now. Oh, yeah. There is not a single thing that happens that he is not firing at. That's right. Everything.

I love it. Anything can get it from old D.D. right now. And he's never running out of ammo. Never. Dude. He just got banana clip after banana clip. He just keeps loading up. I want to let people know that I was very fortunate to see Dan Dawkins

when he was just doing sports in the afternoons here in Indianapolis. He raised hell in this city. With the things that he said, how he said it, how he went about his business, just raised absolute fucking hell. So much so that obviously his numbers were insane, crushing it. ESPN's like, we need him to do more.

They put him on the fucking court side, commentating basketball, which he very much knows basketball. College basketball. He had an entire arena saying saying to fucking kill a guy. Oh, yeah. He was getting real. He was getting Dom Mysterio.

Yeah. As a commentator. Hated. In Michigan State, right? So much. Not just Michigan State. I think every Big Ten school hated his fucking guts. Dan Dockage raises hell at all times.

And now he has aimed it at politics. And he is, I bet, loving it. Every day just waking up. Alright, here we go. Who needs me today? And then stepping right in there. He's got to fucking enjoy it. It has been a lot of fun

to watch that whole thing. I saw him out at Nick's Club one time like a year ago. He was on a different hole. And I'm like, bro, I don't know how you go into the politics. You know, like those people are mean, bro. Like, I'm staying out of it for as long as I can. Because why? I go, because I just like to live a happy life.

You know, happy. Look at me. I'm enjoying myself. He said, we need people in there. Don't worry. Every once in a while. He just does not give a fuck at all. Yeah.

Good on him. Yeah, I mean, do yourself a favor. Get on threads right now and follow Dan Dodd. We have breaking news. Although I got to pee. We have breaking news. Did they just announce? We have breaking news in the technology world.

Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over their new app threads. Elon said, I don't fucking see you, Zuck. Okay, you don't want to fight and call CM? I don't want to sign a deal. How about we fight a courtroom over what the fuck you just did with this Twitter light, light, light, light app you launched last night? Twitter's accusing them of poaching former employees to create a copycat application, semaphore reports.

Now, there's been a couple companies and a couple different buckets that have hired people that were at the top of another company and just told them hey let's run this company yeah very standard operating procedure we actually would read an ad for a company that said you know lululemon yeah yeah we just took their people oh there's a simple and it's more comfortable like that was their actual marketing campaign so i don't know about the legalities of it all, if there's non-compete clauses in all these people's contracts and everything like that.

But you could certainly see how Elon would be like, this is a basic-ass one of my things that I bought for $40-some billion you created three months ago. Obviously not going to win. This is Elon just wanting to tell the world that they think this is bullshit. I think, AJ, that's how I'm reading this. What do you think? Yeah, I would imagine.

I mean, maybe if they poach some employees, there might be something to it. I don't know how that works in that whole technology world, though. Yeah, it happens. I mean, there's non-competes everywhere in all kinds of jobs. Yeah. That homepage is legitimately a for you page. And if you look at the bottom of of the meta the only difference is that the middle button on the bottom is to post like even the alerts is in the same

spot on meta than it is on twitter the search uh home though is nothing like no twitter searches no that's ig is there trending on thread that would be in the search. It's not. It will be if there's not. There will be. There has to be. Like that is... I mean, the app stinks right now. It's not good. But Twitter's not at its best either. I heard you're stuck with it though. I heard if you try to delete the Threads app, you have to delete Instagram as well. Yeah, that is

all. Oh, really? Oh, no. They gave me a fucking... Yeah, I'm not sure if it's delete your account or delete the app, but... I'm not gonna if it's delete your account or delete the app. I'm not going to delete them. It's right until I'm dead, bro. And I also read that from a very reputable adult film star. She tweeted.

No, she doesn't do that anymore. Oh. Who, Goofy's wife? Former. No. Fantasy football? No, no, no. Yeah.

Oh, that's not who he heard it from? No, that's not who I heard it from, no. Different who i heard it from no different adult film star oh not who former retired i didn't even know who are you talking about would you have a sleepover i think it's wiz khalifa's sister yeah believe me yeah yeah yeah oh i don't know if they're related but i do know who you're talking about i thought they were but She did the threads last night? She threaded. I just tried to delete this, and it says I delete my Instagram if I do. Oh.

And so that is how I learned from Wiz's sister. I'm hoping that. I don't think they are sisters. I'm hoping that that isn't the case because I don't need another app just living on my phone forever that I don't use. Me neither. I need that storage space. Yeah, I got this one game on here I found yesterday when I downloaded the app threads. It didn't even go to the final page.

It just went to one of the landing pages that had some space, like my fourth one or third one. There are so many things on this phone that I'll never use ever again. What game? Heavy bike? MX Elite. Yeah, it's racing. Let's go. It's actually racing dirt bikes. Used to do it on

planes every once in a while. Yeah, sure. Now I'll never get back in there. Nintendo Switch changed the game on planes. Mario Kart's so much better than that. Come on. Give me a break. Speaking of Nintendo Switch, you watched Tetris, that movie? Yes, I did. Good movie, AJ. Great story. Did you watch it?

I didn't know it was out. Is that Eggsy? It is. That's the guy from the movie where he's doing everything so he can potentially have with that woman. Blackbird. No. Yeah, Blackbird. He was in there.

There's a Duggar documentary on Prime, I believe. I heard it's good. Very disturbing, actually. Is that the one that I watched? I think that's the one that I watched. That's the family of like a... 19 kids in county. Yeah, the oldest is serving some time right now. Yeah, Josh, I believe is his name.

He's a real disgusting guy. Jeez, yeah. If you're watching the doc too, Arnold. Arnold was unbelievable. Oh, yeah, I've seen the first one. I need to watch the rest. There's three episodes of that. I thought there was four.

I have seen it all. So good. I slept through the last 30 minutes of it, though. I watched it one night while I was watching Mackenzie late night shift. So I guess I didn't make it through all the way to the end. Arnold's a dog. Dog. And like going back and reliving

like not just his acting because still saw those movies like his bodybuilding days were unbelievable just at how good he was where he basically just had to stop doing bodybuilding competitions because he just kept winning. Yeah, and then let's get to a break. This computer's broke.

I don't know if we're taking any phone calls. Oh, no. 1-833-432-3663. We'll take some on the other side. We will wrap up the day's stories, and we'll get the fuck out of here. Okay. Okay?

All right. This day has flown by. It has. Flown by. Yeah. I think the storm last night did put up some stuff. Bro.

Holiday week. You come back on a Wednesday, that makes a hell of a difference. Yeah. It does. People just take Mondays, Tuesdays off some places. That's not a bad play. I thought it was Tuesday all morning.

It's not. It is not. It's Thursday. Somebody thought it was Wednesday. Yeah, Connor and Wednesday were on top. It's all right. We got here. It's Thursday.

Yeah, crazy. Tomorrow's Feel Good Friday. How about that? For us, feel good. Summer? Nuts. Hi, everybody's healthy? Warm.

Happy? Yeah. It's real warm, actually. Really warm. Alarmingly warm, actually. It was very humid. Are they saying that in Ohio? He's talking about how alarmingly warm it is in Ohio?

I mean, I don't know if people are worried, but it is very humid. Yes. It was so humid this morning. Humid season. I don't know if people were worried, he said. People go about living your life and not worrying about the heat. People in Ohio are worried about one thing, and that's people flying on American Airlines.

All right. We're back in about five minutes or so. That video was crazy. Yeah. Well, and also, we did see something recently of a guy in a suit blinking very differently. That was also alleged on this plane. Remember? It's a good tease.

You remember? The bald guy who clearly looked like an alien when he blinked. I'm like this. Oh. And he looked like he was breathing out of his ears. Let's get to a break. Just saying. Allegedly, a lizard person was flying 23C American Airlines.

That is being alleged. Hey, we didn't make this news up. No. No, we didn't. Why would we? Don't want to be the people that tell people that this is happening? No. A reptilian human being is being alleged to be on an American Airlines flight

sitting 23C. I don't know why somebody who doesn't have to open her mouth to talk and blinks and winks at people sideways would be sitting at 23C, but the fact that they are humble reptilian potentially on American Airlines. Never expected. And there's a woman that was super pissed

that she was on the same plane as this thing. Yeah. I would be too. She said, get me the fuck out of here, man. I would do the same. That

is not real. Yeah. She said. Yeah. And somebody came out, I was on the plane. She didn't appear drunk to me. Yeah.

No. What she was saying was real. Guy didn't appear drunk to me. She was saying it was real. Guy didn't say any words. Why are these lizards sitting 23C? Because you wouldn't expect them back there. You'd expect them right at the front. And I guess if it is a reptilian human, probably got tiny little legs. You know, those things got big bodies, tiny little legs.

Yeah, you're right. Probably doesn't matter about the leg space, right, AJ? Well said. I guess that's what that's that would tip this this lady off she's tall the little baby legs yeah like rap sheet on a barstool yeah yeah rap sheet on a stair renewed getting married has been married again congrats dude send a congrats to rap sheet he won't see it for another kids go huh did the kids go to his wedding what are you you thinking? No. They're in the woods. Oh, they weren't there.

They're learning how to fish. Yeah. Smoke meat. They are. Yep. He's smoking meat in Europe right now. Oh, yeah. Of course he is.

Oh, he is. What else are you going to be doing? He's on a European vacation. Put the kids away for seven weeks. Put them away. Yeah. Put them away. Like turtles in a drawer.

Put them away. This is what people are saying. This is what people are saying on the drawer. Put them away. This is what people are saying. This is what people are saying on the internet. Put the kids away in the woods for seven weeks. Okay, or your problem. No, thank you. FaceTime every time a week. No.

One time, baby. One time. One time. All seven weeks. One time. It's like a mission trip to Argentina. Yeah. Well, looking at it from afar, it's pretty freaking genius.

I mean, now that we're seeing how Ian and his wife are spending these seven weeks, it's like, okay, you got Elvis Maranier. You got bottle service at a pool bar in Vegas. You're hopping on a plane. Looks like fun. He's going to fucking Venice. In Venice now? He's going to another part of Italy.

He's going, I think, around Europe. That's awesome. Then when he gets back, it's like, all right, welcome back from the woods. I got football season. Yeah. Nice throwing you. By the way, Vegas, that sphere, around Europe. Then when he gets back, it's like, alright, welcome back from the woods. I got football season. By the way, Vegas, that sphere is fucking awesome. Oh my God. It looks so cool. I want to go so bad.

So bad. What are they going to do? Laser shows in there? Concerts. There's laser shows on the outside every night. That's what I'm saying, though. Do you get to go sit inside? I went down to Carnegie Science Science Center. And there was an IMAX that was up on the sky. Used to lay down. And they did these sitting side by side. I went down to Carnegie Science Science Center. Carnegie Science Center. And there was an IMAX that was up on the sky. Used to lay down. And they did these laser shows. Yeah. And they were incredible.

Is this place just doing those? Yeah, they can do that, but the screen is much bigger. How many people can sit in there? I think they said like 18,000 or something like that. 18,000 people can sit in that eye? Quite a bit. Oh, good for them.

So much money. I can see this. I don't even see the eye. Who owns it? Is it a hotel owner? MSG. It's 400 feet high. Madison Square Garden? Like the MS.

I think James Dolan is the one. Dolan. Yeah. Yeah, Dolan. Look at that one. Holy shit. That'd be awesome if it opens up like the other one and it shows what's going on in the venue.

They do actually do that in one of these. You can see it. They have a roof? You can see the inside of it. There's like shit going on. All right, boys. Here's the goal. Our goal is to get to a place where we can do a show in there.

Okay. How many people? I don't know if it's for sure, but I swear I saw somewhere that it said it has like 18,000 seats. All right, a couple years. Let's go to work. That's a lot of fucking people. I don't know if it'll still be standing after that first concert.

Who is it? Fucking YouTube. Bono's going to bring the house down. I didn't even think about that. 18,600. It might. Huh? 18,600.

All right, let's keep working. That's our goal, boys. We are 63 days away from NFL football. And right now, in the description below, you can click on that SeatGeek link, and you will get 15% off all NFL tickets. Wow. All of them. Come on.

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is about to be the best one yet, AJ. Yep. Obviously. We all know that. So wait. I know I've asked before. 60... How many days again? 63 days. Until what? What starts right on day six? Until Lions at Chiefs banner-raising football.

That's not far. Okay, good. I'm excited. Yeah, I'm ready. I still can't believe the Lions are kicking off the NFL season. You think about some of the deadlines, too. It's 63 days, but July 6th, we probably two weeks out from D-Hop, Dalvin Cook, hopefully around then if Rap Sheets right, and then we're two, maybe one and a half weeks away from training camp.

Yeah, we will be taking a couple weeks off. We are getting lazy. We understand that. Now, to be clear, don't really have to do any of these shows. Right. Just for the record. Just for the record, haven't had to do any of these. Could have, you know.

We don't start until football season and everything like that. But we absolutely love it. We appreciate the shit out of people spending their afternoons with us. We're very lucky and fortunate that we get to do this. But we're going to be taking two weeks off. While we're taking two weeks off, a lot is happening in here. That's right. A lot is happening in the Thunderdome.

Awesome. Very pumped up about it. But you're right. Whenever we get back on the other side of that, we're going to be in it. Yes. We're fucking in it, dude. 38 days. Perfect timing.

It's there. It's around the corner. Come back for first week of training camp. Is it going to look different? Is it going to look a lot different in there? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The whole show is going to be different.

It's going to feel different. It's going to sound different. It's going to look different. We're not going to move the walls down. We're actually making it look like the big experience. Yeah. Packed seats are going to be over here. This seat is going to be right over here. You're where the screen is. I'm going to be in the tables here. Yeah. Packed seats are going to be over here. You know, this seat is going to be right over here.

You know where the screen is? I'm going to be in the back there. Nice. Town dig is going up above where the Buffalo is. We'll sit on a toilet. Yeah, we'll burn it there on the throne. Hoops are going to come out of the Buffaloes. No, there's just a lot of tech, like a lot of plug and play.

I figured that. But we built a state-of-the-art studio here. That's right. We went through all of the bullshit to build this particular one. And now our state-of-the-art studio has to connect to somebody else's state-of-the-art studio from a little, you know, a couple years ago, though. Yeah, true. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah.

So now we got an avatar whenever you get the bird. Yep. You know what i mean oh yeah so now we got a avatar whenever you get the bird yep you know what i mean our thing has to put the braids together yeah it has to connect link up and there's a lot of that that has to happen in a lot of different departments yeah it's got to be strong and it should all go well shit no problem at all no there won't be any problems that's not how technology is no that first show i'll be good i got two weeks that's a lot of time come on it'll all get figured out. That Monday, there'll be no hiccups. At all. We're going to sound clearer than ever.

Oh, I can't wait for it. It's going to be sweet. It's not going to be a full, I mean. No, none of that. It's going to be a lot of that when we can't change a camera. Oh, yeah. For whatever reason. Yep, when it sounds like static when the first time we did a show in here.

Man, I splashed that. Yeah, and we think everything's perfect until the first break. Don't worry. We'll do dry runs that will for sure take care of everything. Yeah, we'll certainly do rehearsals, too. Whenever we get to ESPN, every show's going to have to be rehearsed. Yeah, duh. Choreographed, choreographed.

Of course. That won't be any different than it is now. Agreed. Agreed. Nobody knows that. Every single word here is scripted and choreographed and thought out way in advance. Yeah, we have more scripts than the NFL.

You said something about D-Hop and Dalvin Cook getting their life figured out. D-Hop has given us an update on his thread. What? Yeah, D-Hop's out there threading. Okay. Yeah, he's a threadhead. Okay, he's threading the needle to go ahead and let us know that he'll retire from football when he's not a 1,000-yard receiver.

Okay, with that said, I was on pace for 1,400 yards last year. One significant injury in 11 years. I might be playing until I'm 37 the way I feel. D-Hop, anybody that got any questions about how I can do it, what I can do, and where I can do, know that all those things are good. I still can play great. I still will play great. And I can play great anywhere.

D-Hop has been with 55 different quarterbacks. Yeah. DeAndre Hopkins has been the only option at a lot of situations for a lot of the teams that he's been on, and he's always succeeded. When defenses know that this dude is the guy to cover, he has somehow figured out a way to catch balls all over the field. Is he a deep threat? Yeah. Is he a speed deep threat? No.

He is fast. Obviously, he's an NFL wide receiver, but he's not a blistering guy. He's not just smoking dudes. He's making catches on top of them, around them, running better routes than they can keep up with. He's a heady player. I wish that he would join the Indianapolis Colts. I think there's a lot of teams fans that would wish he would join their team.

But right now, I don't know who has offers. I don't know what he's considering. We don't know if he wants a chance to win a championship or if he wants the highest payday. Whatever the case would be a decision he would have to make. There's a lot going on, and I'm happy that he chirped a little bit on his thread about how great he feels to remind motherfuckers that he's still DeAndre Hopkins, AJ. Yeah, I mean, it's fun watching.

He makes a lot of contested catches. He does not have to be open to throw him the ball, and he is going to come down with that thing more times than not. That's for sure. Yeah, and then his routes, too, I think are super duper. I'm saying I think he's telling guys, hey, man, throw me the ball. I don't care if I don't look open. I'm going to get it.

Quarterbacks have to use that, too, right? Yeah, because some people – like, why doesn't he just go to the Jets? He goes to the Jets. Simple., right? Yeah, because some people, like why isn't he just going to the Jets? You know, he goes to the Jets. Simple. You know? Oh, yeah. Almost no point even playing the season if he goes to the Jets. Because you got Garrett, right, already.

Garrett's able to do his thing. Lazard. Lazard, he got tight ends, right? They got good tight ends. Yeah, Uzama and Tyler Conklin. And then you just put DeHoff in the slot or whatever. Aaron will throw him. Uzama and Tyler Conklin. And then you just put DeHoff in the slot or whatever. Mm-hmm. Aaron will throw him.

Aaron's not scared to throw to a guy who has a little person on him. No, not at all. Yeah, him and Devontae usually. Aaron actually believes that everybody's open. Yeah. Because remember he put that ball over that fucking guy's shoulder. Against the Lions. The guy was actually covering him.

In guy's head. Pull. This is fucking teach tape right here, bro him. In guy's head. Pull. This is fucking teach tape right here, bro. And the hand's like, I like the way that one looks a little bit. And just hovers one right over his shoulder and then tink. I can see a fourth one of the numbers there open. Yeah. So that'd be, DeHop would be great.

He'd be great with Aaron. He's not the only one. Obviously, Patrick Mahomes would fucking. Sure. Could you imagine Patrick Mahomes with D-Hop? Travis Kelsey making the space? I don't want to imagine that. Buffalo Beals?

Josh Allen will throw to a motherfucker that got somebody on him. He's a gamer. Another team that, you know, you can never have too many weapons because you imagine him with the Bengals and Jamar and T. Higgins. Are you kidding me? They got an indoor practice facility, too. It feels like he's in warm. It'd be a nice little lineup right there.

We'd have a four-head monster. So what are they thinking? It's all about what the money is? Is that what everybody's still wondering about? I'm thinking it's about the money right now. It's always about the money. We got a sweet shirt on right now. That's a super sweet shirt.

What is it? People send us, what is this? Freaky? Zeke? Tour junkies. Yeah, Zeke? Tour junkies. Here we go. Tour junkie. Got me right today.

That's a great shirt. Great shirt. I didn't know it was tour junkies. Tour junkies, obviously, friend of the program. He cut with dull scissors tank top and came on the show two weeks ago. Oh, yeah. I do enjoy following along. Seems to have great personality.

Knows their stuff. Gave me the biggest lock of all time with Ricky Fowler. That was awesome. I told you guys, I haven't been on Ricky Fowler for years. But right now, 12-1. No value. That's just not a – you shouldn't do that. And it's like, definitely winning this week.

DP's a good dude, huh? Yeah, yeah. I like the tour junkies, guys. Yeah, they've been – they actually advertised with the Hammerdown years and years ago before they even came on as guests. Yeah, I like them. I think they're really good at what they do. I also like that no-laying-up crew.

It feels like golf has some good foreplay. I enjoy the foreplay guys a lot. I've obviously seen them since the very beginning. They're rigs in them. So, like, and Frankie jumping in there. Trent, what a guy. Trent, I was in Iowa with Trent having

pizza with that guest. What's that? Casey's Pizza, baby. Casey's Pizza. Dave did a pizza review of Casey's Breakfast Pizza. Yep. Said it was too bacon-y. Trent's dad was disgusted with the two words. Too bacon-y. So upset. So upset. It was

awesome. And since that moment meeting trent his family and i kind of hanging out with him i've always been like all right trent go ahead and go do this thing i'm big fan that foreplay thing seems to be the perfect fucking they are killing it oh yeah they're everywhere yeah they are they're selling merch at the tournament they've really good merch fucking unbelievable yeah riggs big brain right, right? Harvard guy? Yeah, for sure. I see his daily night all the time. I always wonder if he's going to make more than two. Puts himself in bad situations. Yeah.

Puts himself in bad situations. Golf needs that. Golf needs that. Like, bring younger people along, I feel like. Like, the podcasting, all of this stuff, where you get invested in these characters, and then all of a sudden you look up and they're talking to Tiger at a tournament.

Like, they get a lot of good access, too. Yeah. PGI seems to be handling it right, too. No Laying Up is on Peacock, I think, right? Didn't they have him on Peacock during the US Open? Yeah, he's doing covers. Oh, yeah. Was there watch-alongs on ESPN, too, I believe, during the Masters?

Yeah, Michael Collins' comedy and Matt Berry. Matt Berry comedy. Yeah. So both works out. All right. Let's answer some phone calls and get the fuck out of here.

What a day today was. What a day. Jake Paul was on the show today. Yes, sir. Nate Diaz. What? Diaz, is it? Was on the show.

Yep. So sweet. And then Michael Cole, no award-winning motherfucker. He's on the show. Looks great, though. He's so kind, AJ. I love Michael Cole. He award-winning motherfucker. He's on the show. Looks great, though. He's so kind, AJ. I love Michael Cole. He looks good, man.

He honestly does. Did something happen where he felt like he had to change things up? It's always a thing, because I'm a guy that obviously gains weight and likes to eat stuff, too, and then my body kind of comes and goes. So my sport coats get a little tighter, a little bit more uncomfortable. When I went to that Disney upfront, I should have tried that particular jacket on, you know, before just hopping on a plane and going over. That thing was way too small.

Cole has the same thing with the way his body is built. Like some of his suits, they fit a little differently whenever he's gaining weight versus whenever he's not gaining weight. So I would assume I wasn't there whenever he decided to start losing all this weight that he's currently losing. I would assume he put a suit on and he looked in the mirror and said he hated what's going on. There's always that moment where he's like, I can't be doing this. Gotta change

what I'm doing. He looks good. I'm happy for him. He's phenomenal at what he does. Unbelievable. The best. I like that you addressed it. We got a niche crowd. It's not for everybody, but our crowd sells out arenas two, three times a night. Two, three times a week. Rockstars. Let's go to Justin in Austin on 500 phone line before we get out of here. Justin, three times a night. Two, three times a week. Yeah. Rock stars. Huge.

Let's go to Justin in Austin on 500. Before we get out of here, Justin, what's going on down there, pal? Hey, boys. How y'all doing? Keep it moving. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. I just wanted to talk about the upcoming college football season.

It kind of feels like we're coming to the end of an era. Wanted to see who y'all's favorite teams were going into the season. And also Pac-Man. I think he played with one of the great Longhorns, Cedric Benson. If you have any stories from him. Justin, real quick, before Pac answers the Cedric Benson question, what's the end of the era?

What era? We're going from four teams to 12 teams. We also have UCLA, USC going to the Big Ten, and then Oklahoma and Texas to the SEC. It feels new, like shifting. Yeah, we're in a transition phase. The playoffs are actually another

year away, so we've got another year of doing the four. And also, Oklahoma, Texas, the SEC is another year away. I'm saying this is the last year. And then everything changes after this. It is a lot of shit changing real quick.

Big time. But then next year is just going to be a lot of speculation about what it could look like and what it might look like and everything like that. Cedric Benson, awesome dude. I assume he went to Texas. Good guy. Yeah. Cedric Benson was a dog.

I had a chance to play with Ced B in Cincinnati. Man, loving and caring person. He was a tank. Hard worker, bro. Like, he would stay in the weight room for hours and hours and hours at the practice like he was always one of the last ones to leave out of the weight room but like said he was a dog yeah that's awesome to hear speaking of dogs and being built Archie Manning oh man holy shit he's properly jogged AJ you see that he looks great

he looks yeah he's shredded yeah listen is he starting yet or what what are they doing Holy shit. He's properly jogged, AJ. You see that? He looks great. He looks – yeah. He's shredded. Listen. Is he starting yet or what? What are they doing? Quinn Ewers coming back. Yeah, Quinn.

Quinn, who had an – hey, he was slinging it against Bama. Yeah, was on their way. I was there for that. Slinging it. Slinging it. Mollett looked incredible. Yep. Sark's offense was starting to come together. Yeah, Marci.

B. John Robinson. They were doing it. He gets hurt all of a sudden. Quarterback carousel. It was a big time. His shoulder got dumped on. Now he's coming back. He's healthy. You would assume Quinn Ewers would get the nod.

Is that guy from that family going somewhere to sit the bench for a long time? I don't think so. I think Quinn can leave because he went to Ohio State and Texas. I think he can if he wants to leave for the draft after this year, and then I assume he should obviously step in. Okay, got it. So redshirt year for Arch.

Which doesn't hurt. Arch is not sitting two years. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Probably not one. And they're going to SEC too? Yeah, so that transition. They open up the SEC era with Arch. That would make a lot of sense.

Quite the legacy. That makes so much sense. Doesn't it, AJ? Almost too much sense. Is that real? Are they going to the SEC? Yeah. They're going to the SEC the first year that Archie would probably be the starter down there.

Okay. Well, the Manning boys play in the SEC. That's right. Bingo. That's why. That's all part of the plan. I mean, Sark was probably in there. Listen, I know it's your dad.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, your grandpa. Right. I know your uncles. What? I know this family. Mm-hmm. Big SEC.

I was just in Alabama. Mm-hmm. I understand it's different down there. I agree. We're fucking coming. And when will it be? You take one redshirt year, get a little bit older. All of a sudden, guess what?

Texas is in the SEC. With who? Fucking Manning, boy. Boom. SEC royalty. Texas royalty. You can do bigger, better things than they ever did. That is probably what Sark said.

Yeah, and recruiting now for Sark on these next classes. Okay, we're not just going to be in the SEC. You know who Peyton Manning is? We got three Hall of Famers from the SEC's lineage, basically, all in there. So we know a thing or two about winning in the SEC where we're headed. That is because then the TV deals are a whole other conversation. Yeah. Is the Longhorn Network still a thing?

That probably gets bundled into ESPN, I assume, if it goes to the SEC, right? Because ESPN got the SEC. Is that right, AJ? Yeah, I believe so. And then Big Ten is NBC. NBC, CBS. And Fox, technically. But Peacock didn't get.

CBS has the number one game, I believe. It goes from that SEC 330 game to a Big Ten 330 game, I think. But Fox also has the. Yeah, Fox has the big noon game, I think. CBS has the 330 game that used to be like the marquee30 game, I think. But Fox also has the... Yeah, Fox has the big noon game, I think. CBS has the 3.30 game that used to be the marquee SEC game, which now is going to be a lot of Northwestern Rutgers, I think. And then

NBC has the night game. Penn State. A lot of Penn State, I think. That's what I saw in the early setup for that whole thing. Bruce Brown is reporting that the Longhorn Network is already rolled up into ESPN. Okay. Alright. Makes sense. Yeah. And if Bruce is reporting it,

then fucking sign, seal, deliver. Adios! That was a good song. We scripted that. You heard us all kind of react the same way. Let's go to Calvin in Colorado. Probably high. What's going on? Hey, Jay, boys. How we doing? Keep it moving. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

What do you want to talk about, Calvin? I started watching The Terminal List because of the film you guys made. Awesome. And I finished it on 4th of July. Boy, oh boy. James Reese is a fucking dog. Yeah, he is. Yeah, he is.

Hey, I guess next season's going to be even. Hey, look out. They said, Calvin. Look out. Happy 4th of July, pal. Let's go be even. Hey, look out. They've been hanging out a while lately. Look out. Happy Fourth of July, pal. Let's go to Joe. Go ahead. I was going to say, with the sports law,

there's this show that's on Netflix that kind of goes in theme with the Sports Combat Thursday. The show's called Siren. What's it? Go ahead. You got it. All right, so we're checking on Siren. Sports Combat. All right. Sports Combat Thursday. I'm in. and it's like the – go ahead. Is it? You got it. All right, so we're checking on Siren.

Sports Combat. All right. Sports Combat Thursday. I'm in. What do we got? Smackfest 3.0 tomorrow. Slop Fest. Oh, yeah, you're right.

Hell, yeah. Going to be sick. Foxy, excited, got the whole tailgate ready. All the way in. I don't even know. Is Dana coming on to pub this thing because I want to talk to him about it. Siren does kind of sound cool. What is it about it's 24 um police officers firefighters bodyguards soldiers athletes and it's not we

would team up by profession and compete for survival oh you're killing each other it's like the pest yeah yeah it's like what they put out john leguizamo out there that's right see this is like stunt cold steve austin yeah the Jack Conrad. That's a good movie. It's a great movie. A lot of movies are written after the past based on that story. Yeah, I think so.

I think John Leguizamo. I like to party in the streets. Hunger Games. There's about a thousand people that know what that is. Yeah, it's deep cut, but it's a good one. Boom!

Oh, man! Come on! Holy shit. Yeah, dude, things are going my way today. Things are going my way today. Saw a lot of people voting in the Instagram stories. Over or under 39 and a half, I said, for the round of golf we played this morning with the boys. Oh.

What'd they say? How'd that go? 69% overwhelming, over 39 and a half. Jeez! Oh, man. Jeez! Huh. Aw.

We'll try 38 this morning. Oh, is that right? Yeah. Yeah. A legit We shot 38 this morning. Oh, is that right? Yeah, yeah. A legit one, not a... It's good. Yeah, not a really good one. Thank you. Two mulligans.

No, no mulligans. Two bogeys to start. Yep. First hole, bogey. Second hole, bogey. And I had to ask myself, are you fucking just wasting your time up in that golf simulator? If this is how you're going to fucking golf,

why are you spending any of your life up there? And things really started turning around at that point. Things really started turning around. No warm-up either. Straight from the car, right to the tee. Straight in there, bro. I mean, it was good. Didn't have my putter in the first hole.

Are you going to warm up at all in Tahoe or just go fucking straight? I think I'm going to warm up. I need to warm up. Definitely should warm up. Last year you did. Last year I hit a couple balls because everybody else is doing it yeah this year i'm gonna do the same thing you figured out the driver at the end of the round yeah which would have been cool i hit that thing four times yeah so it would be cool to be able to

maybe do that once that's the problem aj up here you get a good sweat going you know i pick up an iron or whatever i'm sweating i'm in the middle of it. Boom. Oh, that's perfect. That's what I'm going to do. Out there, you get a car, golf cart, tee box. Oh, my God. You get out there and you're standing. The ball's either below your feet or above your feet. The different stances, I think,

that kills you. Yeah, the sim, we'll see. We'll see. Hopefully, this morning, I mean, that was a good round. I mean, yeah. Made some pucks. Sounds like it's transition. You're going to keep that up. You're going to win the tournament. Yeah, that was a good round. Made some putts. Sounds like it's Trans-238 out there. You keep that up, you're going to win the tournament. Yeah, we play white tees. Good greens, though. Nicky's Country Club.

Although it's impossible to get a tee time, even if you are a member. There's a reason. Everybody wants to get out there. You don't ever have anyone on your ass or in front of you, really. You can kind of play at a leisurely pace, can get done in a good amount of time. You just see so many olds rolling around in their clubs.

Yep. A lot of push carts out there. Today, cart path only, AJ. Got a chance to feel what it was like walking the course. Yeah. Better to walk probably than do that. Not if you're hitting fairways. No, you're still going to park on the thing and walk all the way over.

Pac-Man's running the 40 here in about 10, 15 minutes. We'll record that. We will put that out tomorrow. The goal is under 4-5-0 or better. He's got it. Hell yeah. What is it? 4-5-0-5 is the over-under.

Yes. 4-5-0 win. 4-5-1 lose. How do you feel? Feel good. Feel fast? Yeah, I will. Feel fresh?

Yeah. How's the hamstring? Hamstring's good. Yeah? Yeah. I see Junie's here. Yeah. Hey, Junie!

Junie! Junie! Junie! Junie! Junie's here. Yep. Hey, Junie! Junie! Junie! Junie! Junie! Junie! What's up, dude? He's pretty fast. He's very fast.

Yeah, I hope he's ready to watch his dad lose. How you doing, bro? Hey, you want to stand up here real quick? Here, look. You got good balance? You got good balance? You want to stand there? Hey, boy, Junie. Come on, man.

Just spot him. I got you. Hey, how do you think your dad's going to do? You boy, Junie. Come on. Just spot him. I got you. Hey, how do you think your dad's going to do? You think he's going to run fast? You're going to run faster than him? You don't know? How old are you? Five?

You like running? You like school? Hell yeah. Go take over the road, buddy. Bam. Your dad's going to need you to cheer him on today. Because a lot of people are saying he's too damn old. He's too damn slow. Your dad's going to need you to cheer him on today. Because a lot of people are saying, he's too damn old.

He's too damn slow. Your dad's fucked, Junior. Junior. Look at that juice. Oh, yeah. Moving. He can run four or five. Absolutely.

He's going to break his dad's record at the combine. Pac's already got his ass running hills. This dude's running hills five years old. I see it. With a parachute on. He's got real speed training taking place. Will he run four,5, 0.5 or better?

We'll see. We'll let you all know tomorrow. Until then, you are the best people on earth. Be a friend, tell a friend something nice that might change your life. That's AJ Hawk. I am Pat. The boys are fantastic. And thank you to our guests today and all week. Tomorrow we wrap it up in beautiful fashion. Hell yeah! See you then. Goodbye.