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PMS 2.0 1449 - Happy Veterans Day LIVE From Parris Island, South Carolina, Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Carlos A. Ruiz, Dan Orlovsky, President of the United States Donald Trump, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk
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Pat McAfee
Sam.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
That is Parris Island Marine Corps Band. And what you just heard is the iconic, incomparable, the Marines hymn. Every Marine knows when they hear that song, they stand at attention until that song is over and they sing with everything they have. By the way, my name is Sergeant Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz, Sergeant Major of the United States Marine Corps. And we are here at Parris Island, South Carolina, where we make United States Marines. Right over my right shoulder is one of the most iconic images in our nation's history. Marines raising the flag in Iwo Jima on Mount Suribachi. What that told our nation is that there are people today, as they were yesterday, willing to fight for every piece of freedom that we have to today and thank you to them for their sacrifice and their relentless pursuit of never stopping moving forward. It is a reminder that freedom isn't easy, that it isn't free. And it is gifted to all of us by those who are willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice. So for the first time ever here at PARRIS ISLAND, South Carolina, welcome to the Pat McAfee show and oorah, veterans.
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Pat McAfee
Hey, let's go. This show stinks. And the fact that you listen, we are very, very thankful. McAfee allied with a gorgeous assist, the all time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers. You pick.
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Donald J. Trump
Damn it.
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Pat McAfee
Your friend. Tell a friend something nice could change their life. Hello, beautiful people. Welcome to Parris Island, South Carolina, where they make Marines on this Veterans Day, November 11, 2025. This program starts now. Is what we're saying on these particular grounds, on these hallowed grounds where Marines have been made since the beginning of America, kicking people's ass. Now, obviously it's Veterans Day across this beautiful country and we just wanted to say thank you to all those who signed a line and said, hey, we don't want there to be a fight, we don't want there to be war. But if there is going to be, which is the reality of the current world that we live in, we will definitely be the ones that will go and kick some ass for this country that we call home. We say thank you to all of our vets, served, serving and those that have passed away. And we are so incredibly honored and thankful to be live from where they make Marines. At the beginning there, you saw a man chatting from this particular stage who is the highest ranking enlisted Marine in the United States of America. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us, Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz. Yeah, that was. I think you are muted. I think we need to turn his microphone on. We can't do that here. That is something we cannot be doing on these particular grounds. Super bowl champion, college football, national champion, Ryder cup winner, AJ Hawk is here, ladies and gentlemen, Darius J. Butler is here. Nine year NFL vet, your dad, I believe in the army. Army. Brad, if you will. Born in Germany. Veterans Day is always such a beautiful day to say thanks and shout out to all those not only in the military and serve, but also families alongside of them all in appreciation.
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Darius J. Butler
Absolutely huge appreciation to everyone that signs that dotted line. Like you mentioned, my pops, he served in the army. I was born in Frankfurt, Germany on Army base and my youngest brother is now serving in the Air Force. So obviously this day is near and dear to my heart. And this is awesome, man. We had a chance to experience something special this morning and I'm sure you'll get into and talk about, but this is, this is absolutely incredible.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah, we're just kind of dropped into Parris island here. Okay. We didn't want to, we didn't want to disrupt anything because what's happening here is very important to America. Now our show, very stupid, us very dumb sports people. That is kind of how it goes. Toxic table at Boston, Connor and at Ty Schmidt, con man. Kind of absurd that we're just dropped into their world. There's Marines and future Marines, recruits right now currently that are going to be doing drill here on the parade deck behind us. On this parade deck behind us here is where the eagle, globe and anchor ceremony takes place. After 13 weeks of boot camp here at Parris island for the Marines where they are officially made Marines. This statue right here, Iwo Jima, with the flag raising by the Marines is where they gather around after earning their eagle, globe and anchor. And they talk about what they're chasing, which is the perfect Marines. Who are these men that basically did this in Japan? It's like. And then we get a chance to kind of walk around and see everything. It's absurd that we're here. And obviously I think, I hope we do it some justice. Con man.
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Boston Connor
Honestly, no doubt about it. I mean, it's almost like there's different waves of emotion as you see different things all over Parris Island. Like you go to that plaque on the Iwo Jima Memorial and they're saying from the beach. And like, even just being around something like that is special. But just being here these last, you know, 24 hours, whatever it is, it just reaffirms your faith in America. Like you really do just have like a. Okay, we are fine. You hear a lot of the noise from the outside. World, especially dumb Internet show, you know, conspiracy theorists. You see a lot of dumb stuff when you come to a place like Parris Island. It's like, thank God this place exists in America because it just really. It just brings everything together. And it's just an honor, man. It's. The emotions are flowing. It's incredible.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah, we got dogs all over the place. So we got a chance to celebrate the 250th birthday last night of the Marine. So let's talk. Sergeant Major, we have some brand new Marines that are joining us here, sitting in front of the stage. And you come up here and obviously there is a massive, like, ura, ura, ura. Can we talk about the passion that Marines have for each other? Because it felt like last night, the 250th birthday, what I realized is you guys say happy birthday to each other. I think that happens everywhere. And it's a Marine's birthday. Can you just tell me a little bit about the family that is the Marines and why you're so proud to be the leader of Marines?
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Yeah. This is unbelievable. That's 3rd Battalion, Kilo Company, about to graduate this Friday. Ura. And that's right.
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Pat McAfee
Hold on, hold on. Okay, so, Sergeant Major, I don't want to cut you off, but it's going to probably happen. I apologize. It's kind of how I operate. I am not disciplined enough to be a Marine. But if I just say, like, if I say ooh, ra, they'll say it back.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Yeah, say it.
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Pat McAfee
So I just look at him And I go, 3rd Battalion, congratulations on, you know, conquering this incredibly tough task of boot camp in Parris Island. Holy hell. That felt pretty good.
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AJ Hawk
Pretty cool.
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Pat McAfee
What if ty. If ty. Does it, does it count?
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Yeah, do it.
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Pat McAfee
Ooh, ra. That wasn't bad. Okay, okay, so we'll be able to do that. That feels like a pretty cool thing. Now I will say, sounded like whenever you did it to him, there's a much more attention to detail as there should be. You're the highest ranking enlisted Marine. What does that mean? And why the Marines do you think is the perfect kind of military situation for the United States of America?
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
I look across and I see those future Marines here. They're Marines now. They're about to graduate this Friday. But I came 32 years ago, just like they came three months ago. They're looking for something that's different, that's a different path than any other person in their life. They were looking for the Corps to change something about them. Their confidence. They're too skinny, they're too fat, by the way. We don't allow fat. But it is absolutely a tribal calling. You become a Marine, we don't just give it away because you show up here, you gotta earn it. And they know, because the individuality that they came here with was stripped away within days. And you saw this morning, two weeks from arriving here at the depot, the way that they were moving, the way that they were moving as a team, no longer thinking like an individual. Now they are accountable. They're supposed to be accountable for their own actions and absolutely know the task, know their jobs. But it is as a team that they win. That's how they become invincible. That's why they win, and that's why nobody will ever want to tangle with the United States Marines.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah, that was awesome, what you just said, describing what you're creating here at Parris Island. Obviously, there's the yellow footprints, and you talked about stripping down the individuality that starts immediately upon arrival. And I think that type of discipline and the way you guys go about your 13 weeks of making Marines here is something that even goes back old school, I think, like, to Connor's point about us feeling like, man, so much is moving, so much is changing, is the world going to be able to be tough enough? Like, are we able to do that? It feels like this 13 weeks here at Parris island has been pretty similar to how it's been for the. I don't want to say the entire time here, but basically it's been pretty similar. Have to be tough, have to get through here, have to create dogs. Because the mantra is first the fight. Right? That kind of. The Marines mantra is first the fight. So you have to create certain types of people here. And there's only, like, maybe one way to go about doing that. Is that an accurate kind of description?
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AP Tone
Accurate.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
The moment they arrive, we start injecting into their soul the history of the Marine Corps. So it is their responsibility to carry that legacy forward. And so immediately this pressure comes over you that you must not be the generation that gets whooped. Right? It is up to you to continue the legacy that those that came before us, these giants that came before us, that they will honor that legacy when they get on the future battlefield. This is an era of technology, Right? And they knew exactly what they were stepping into. They could. They YouTube everything they read, everything. They asked a bunch of questions to veterans or whoever came as a Marine from their family. Still, they came and they handed their soul over to a Marine Corps drill instructor. The Most lethal, legendary campaign wearing. Oh, my goodness. And they say, yes, change me. And they deliver.
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Pat McAfee
Okay, so let's talk about those DI's that are changing these maybe, you know, lost souls or somebody searching for things into a cold blood and not cold blooded. Yeah. A dog, would you say? An absolute dog. A war fighting dog. First, the fight mantra. Hey, we're going to be. If there's any fights happening, Marines are going to be a part of it. Like that is just the difference between us and everybody else. We are trying to create war fighters here. Like that is what we know. Tough people, everything like that. The DI's the drill instructor. So drill sergeant, army drill instructor, Marines. Now drill instructor title that I know, First Sergeant. So drill instructor, First Sergeant, army drill sergeant. So I think people kind of get it kind of conflicted. The drill instructors at the Marines, they wear these campaign covers, these flat bills. Okay. And they have to project themselves as the most on point Marine in the history of the marines. 24, 7. Okay. And lights, lights, lights start at 0400. We were there this morning as it happened. And these drill instructors, there's a senior drill instructor. Then there's an experience, experienced drill instructor. Then there's two younger drill instructors. And it is their job to transform these 79 people. Okay? There were 79 guys in there this morning in this particular platoon. There is six platoons per company. There are four companies per battalion, and I think there's four squads per platoon if I'm not 100 mistaken. Did I get that right?
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
You're good.
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Pat McAfee
Ooh, wrong. Yeah.
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Ty Schmidt
Okay.
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Pat McAfee
They're saying I got it right too. But from 0400 to 200-These drill instructors are creating the Marine. They are the ones that are basically the Marines culture. There's 565 of them here on Parris island at this exact moment. There's anywhere between 5,000 and 8,000 recruits on Parris island at any given moment. Can you tell me about the drill instructors? Because let me tell you how I was introduced. I was asked to play a World War II drill instructor in a Marines movie called the Mosquito Bull. And. And the more I learned about it from my high school friend, First Sergeant Gartland, who was a drill instructor for eight years. And then coming down here, I realized that I was being placed into a position of impossible reflection. There was no way I could be an actual Marines drill instructor or the Greatest Generations Marine drill instructor. Whenever they had just gotten out of World War I to serve for World War II. As drill instructors create future Marines. So the task was crazy, but these are superhumans. It feels like these drill instructors, they have to appear that way, they have to act that way. They have to be that way all the time, all day, every day. Who are they? And how is a drill instructor different than maybe what other branches of the military have?
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
That's an awesome question. But the drill instructor can only do so much with the quality of Americans that come and raise their right hand so that Marine Corps recruiter must look like, walk like, talk like a United States Marine as well, because they're out there representing the entire Marine Corps alone and unafraid at local high schools, colleges, trying to tell you that this is a tribe that maybe you want to try to try to belong to. So when they do arrive here, those drill instructors have been trained for 12 weeks, right? And then there's the high school instructors, right? And then there's. There's levels of experience here that. So we put our very best to develop the future drill instructor that will come across the street to this side of the house and get after developing young people. Right? So it is what you saw, okay, the hours. But that's just when they're taking care of somebody's daughter and somebody's son, right? They understand what they have in their hands, Right? So they must be thoroughly and professionally trained. But the day is not over. So when the lights go out, then they get to the business of repairing the next day, and then they're up. Right?
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Pat McAfee
Yeah, it's like two hours of sleep a night for 13 weeks, basically. That's what I heard. It's like two hours, three hours max sleep. And, oh, yeah, you're on at 0400. Literally saying stand. You know, a lot of that. You know, there's a lot of that this morning, but it is a. It is an impressive thing. And once again, to echo everything Connor said to start, it's like, we are so thankful this exists still in the United States of America, and we appreciate the hell out of you. Now, the boys have some questions, if that's okay, Sergeant Major, A.J. go ahead, boss.
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AJ Hawk
Yes, Sergeant Major. You said 32 years ago you came. I guess 32. Did you. Was this your plan to be in the position you are now? Like, did you think this was my life? Like, this is going to be my life from here on out?
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
No, this is much. Much like I'm sure some of them are thinking, now, I'm gonna do four years. I'm gonna get discipline. I'm gonna get a leg up on my competition, and I'm gonna get some reps and sets, and I'm gonna exit the Marine Corps and I'm gonna go chase the bigger dream. Right. Whether it's to be a governor, doctor, or whatever, this is a place to launch you that way. But as most as life has to say, right. You tend to find your place and you start realizing, you know, hopefully sooner rather than later, that, oh, this is about people and the way that you can, as a leader, say there's something different about you. And I think you should do this. Imagine somebody, how they looked at you, maybe one day says, there's something different about you. Right. And someone actually looks at you, not through you. And that's what the Marine Corps leadership does, is they zero in on that human being and they can get them moving in the right direction. So as My commandant says, 32 years later, I'm still thinking about getting out.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah, absolutely. Well, we're appreciative of the fact that you're still in. And somebody did look at AJ's jaw and his structure. Yeah. And they were like, hey, that head could do some damage. We need him to play some football. D, Bud, who obviously grew up in the military life, has a question for you.
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Darius J. Butler
Yes. Speaking of football and as a football player, we try to steal so much from, you know, the military, the Marines, and the different armed forces. Who would. I want to know, what team are you a fan of? And I want to know how you became a fan of that football team. I'm assuming you're a football fan.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
I am a big football fan. And just like all of Kilo Company, they're all Cowboys fans.
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Pat McAfee
No, they are not.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Verified this morning.
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Pat McAfee
How'd you verify? How'd you verify?
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
I made them all raise their hand.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah, he goes, kilo Company, raise your hand if you're a Dallas Cowboys fan. There's like 10 in there. I think he goes, Everybody in kilo company, raise your hand. It was awesome. You are a Cowboys fan, though.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
I am. I suffering for 30 plus years, but still hanging in there.
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Pat McAfee
How did you become a Dallas Cowboys fan?
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
My father. So I was born and raised in Mexico and came to the United States when I was 11 and we moved to Arizona. In Arizona, it's Cowboy fans.
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Darius J. Butler
Really?
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Back then, okay, half the stadium was Cowboy fans. I'm not sure what it is now, but it was in my family. You, you are a Dodgers fan and you're a Cowboys fan.
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Pat McAfee
Well, congrats on the World Series. Yeah, that's not bad. They're going to be good for the long haul, it seems like, especially with the way you guys are kind of cheating with the salary thing. Is that what you guys are doing? That you said, nope. What do you want us to do, dude, we're going to defer money however you want to. Jerry Jones would be happy to hear, though, that the highest ranking enlisted Marine is a Dallas Cowboys fan. How do you feel about Jerry? You think Jerry's doing a good job? What do you. Let's go ahead. You said 32 years you've been suffering as a Cowboys fan or however long you've been suffering as a Cowboys fan. So thoughts on the state of the team?
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
I think that maybe the military model, the Marine Corps model, could probably fit into a cowboy executive model. Meaning that every commander has a senior enlisted leader, a sergeant major. That command team makes the team. Right. And you got that senior enlisted leader providing advice and saying, you may not want to do that. Think about this, this and that. Right. And then together, that commander owns that decision. Absolutely. But it is that team, that senior enlisted, that is telling the hard truth. Right. About what we need to do to move forward. Maybe. I'm just saying that there needs to be a command senior enlisted leader, a sergeant major in a capital organization.
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Pat McAfee
You're saying somebody is going, jay, we're not trading Micah Parson. It sounds like that.
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Darius J. Butler
Get him on the phone.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah, it might be a good idea. Ty has a question for you, Sergeant Major.
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Ty Schmidt
Yeah, Sergeant Major. We talk a lot in sports about how, like, now, you know, like, locker rooms are so much different. Guys have changed and, you know, the way they're brought up obviously, is much different than it was several years ago. And that applies in business and all other different walks of life. Do you believe that this institution where you're at right here, like, this is maybe one of, if not the only place where that stuff doesn't matter. People who come in here, like, there isn't a. Oh, this, this group of, of young kids, like, they don't get it like the previous group did. Like, do you think that this is the one place where people come in and you can, You're. You're producing the same Marines that you were 50 years ago, 100 years ago.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Yeah. But 100 times better and more deadlier, more lethal. Right. Because the Marine Corps is about the human being. So we equipped the Marine to get after the fight. AI model says there's a 4% chance that this mission is going to succeed. The Marine looks at 4% chance and said, that's really, really freaking good. So I am Ready to go. So those are the kind of Marines.
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Pat McAfee
That we need to be.0.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Got it.4% is like, really high because they don't know how to fail. Right. Because they have to work and depend on each other. Right. And to leave it all out there is what it's about. So we are always evolving, we're always modernizing, but we're never letting go of how we got here. Right. There's a million ways from nutrition to the way that we get after resilience, the way we get after grit, and all those things that you see here that will continue. But there is a better way that we are modernizing to get them to a certain level, like a Division 1 athlete. Right. When they enter that program. That's what we're trying to get after with these Marines.
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Pat McAfee
It was 4:07 this morning, and they were in the middle of their third round of V ups. I do believe this is the last one. Then they would stop up, everybody up and hit the deck. Chest through deck is one that they're. 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3. Then I heard chest through deck from one of the guys. I'm like, yes, this is awesome. But that was 4:07. Sorry. 0407, I believe, is the exact time. This is. This video is being taken at probably like 0404. I don't know how you 0404, but it was 4:15 in the morning. Everybody in that place, full sweat, crazy. They had gone through I have no idea how many jumping jacks on the side. And I mean, it was by 4:20. It was like, all right, what are we doing now?
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Well, what you. But what you saw, Pat, was incentive training on the side. That's what you said. So you move slow. You're moving. We're not supposed to be moving. You're touching your face, you're doing something that's undisciplined. Then you get reminded by doing some extra things. Right. Because we. We relate that to combat. Right. You're moving, you're doing things that you're not supposed to be doing and giving away your position. Or you put trash out and somebody will find out where you were.
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Pat McAfee
All the.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Everything that we do has a weapon. Why to it not just do it and learn it. This way they understand why we do what we do.
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Pat McAfee
And they're going to find out.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
If they don't, they're going to find out. Yes, they found out today.
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Pat McAfee
Yes. They're very quick, actually. Hey, good morning. Yep. Line up. Yep. You, fatso, right over here. That's not how it was. It was unbelievable to watch.
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Darius J. Butler
They were speaking English too, and I didn't understand. I probably understood maybe 10% of the words that were being said. It was like kind of like organized chaos. Organized for you guys, of course, but definitely kind of chaotic. Almost intentionally. You said everything has a reason. So, you know, all those things cross over to actual combat.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
I'm sure they do. And that what you saw is the, maybe the, the movement of the recruits, what you're. What they're having them do. But the drill instructor's eye is zeroing in on hydration. Did they sleep? How are they moving the tickets? The arms are going down. They're taking accountability to ensure that every recruit woke up that went to sleep that previous night. So for a parent that's out there, this is the kind of professional that is looking after.
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Pat McAfee
Every morning they're counting, they counted out every human. I think it was between 56 and 57. There was some sort of disconnect and they were standing right next to each other and boy Di was pissed. I mean, because they have your hand up and then you drop it whenever you count. I think it was 79 because I heard the last guy say 79. All kind of like the entire thing. 56 and 57, though, just clearly held up the entire operation.
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Ty Schmidt
Oh, yeah.
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Pat McAfee
And lo and behold, it was right around the corner for 57. It was one of those like, no, we're not all waiting for you, basically.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
That's right.
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Pat McAfee
And like, hey, you leave a mess, it's not just you that's going to be in shit, it's going to be all of us. So it's a, it's a beautiful thing to watch the team building and the discipline being dropped in there and knowing that you only have 13 weeks in war times, I think it was eight weeks or seven weeks. I forget exactly what it was.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
During war times, we have wartime programs of instruction, so we have to get the throughput right and inject the culture and the training and then in stride, right, the lessons being learned in combat. So as they're making movement to the fight, it is the after actions that are being injected into those Marines. So they're learning to the newest ttps, the, the procedures that are happening on the deck. So we do have moments where it's an emergency and we get up and go.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah, it is, it is a crazy thing. Last question here from Connor. For you, Sergeant Major.
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Boston Connor
Yeah, Sergeant Major. I watched a couple. An episode and a. Slept in a.
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Pat McAfee
Barracks last night, by the way. Yeah, awesome.
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Boston Connor
Time in the Echo Company, the evil empire.
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AJ Hawk
It's great to be a part of it.
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Boston Connor
But watching some of the Netflix documentary, one of the things that's very apparent is the fact that sure, you sign the dotted line, but it is a calling. Like it's not just something that you, you can really understand unless you're called to do it. And you know, seeing people like this who have just graduated and just watching the documentary, that's very apparent. And one of the things especially, and it was kind of the generational Marines, you know, like the families that kind of pass it down to their sons, kind of to their, you know, cousins, however you want to say it. In the town I grew up in, the Cody's and the Gramlichs, Oorah, how to get one. Their fathers and sons and grandfathers, they all served. And then in the documentary, the Price family, I believe, or the Smith family, I don't want to get it wrong, but it's Copenhagen. Roland Smith and then Price was kind of the son that they adopted and they ended up, you know, going to Parris Island, I believe, or and you know, eventually going over to Pendleton and, you know, Okinawa. But what, what do you think that says about the Marines as a whole when generations of family members are, you know, signing that dotted line and there's not just, you know, the calling from one person, but that calling also kind of gets passed through. And then what do you just think of the documentary as a whole?
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Yeah, I, we're working my way through the documentary as well. It is, it is unapologetic of what Marines do and what they're after and what the mindset is each and every day. It is a, it is starting to become more and more a family thing to serve. Right. But I would tell you that's not good enough, Pat. Like that's not good enough for, for America. This is an all in thing that we all must choose. I hope that we are finding a way to inject into our children, into our, to the future of America. That service is a thing. You don't have to join the Marine Corps, but maybe there is something else that you can do to learn about what it means to serve and give and not worry so much about what's in it for me. Right. And in that I think you can find yourself, right, and get after whatever it is, dream that you want to, that you want to get after so you can come to this tribe and then you can exit this tribe and build a family, build a business and then all of that ends when you're in your 50s and you're close to 60s, and then the tribe calls you back, right? And then you're wearing things like a red jacket and USMC hats, like version garland. Like he's. You're doing all these things to return back to the tribe and you're cutting cake and, you know, 25 years, 30 years since you last wore a uniform, and yet you still return. So if you. If this is the kind of life that you want to live and this is the kind of service, you want to have any impact into the human beings, that's how you get to live forever, Right. That you don't just arrive on Earth and you go away, you make an impact on the next generation after next generation. And this is why this tribe is so tight.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah, that was awesome. Everything you've said has been spectacular. We appreciate the hospitality last night. Obviously, we got a chance to. I, not you, obviously, you have actual job to do. 200,000, I believe, is who you oversee. 200,000 marines.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
I helped the commandant with, with training, manning and equipment of over 200,000 Marines.
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Pat McAfee
Well, obviously, you can't just be having booze, like, alongside everybody else, but last night was the 250th birthday. Yesterday, I guess, was 250th birthday. The Marines older than the United States of America. And we just so happen to be at the Brigand Brew here at Parris Island. On Parris Island. And I believe that's a pretty legendary place. And I'll tell you what, Monday Night Football was on, which we're about to dive into. And Marines are pretty good at hammering beers.
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Boston Connor
Yeah, sure.
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Pat McAfee
I think Marines are pretty good at hammering some of the best. And we obviously were honored to be there. We're not the only ones, though, that were from the sports world that wanted to say happy birthday to the Marines. Here's NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman live from the NHL hall of Fame. Yesterday, greetings from the Hockey hall of Fame in Toronto. I wanted to join Pat McAfee virtually to Parris island to wish Marines a happy 250th birthday. Thank you for all you do. Thank you for your service. And again, happy birthday, Marines. He didn't drop an E row at the end, but he did want me to say that he wished he was there at the Brigand Brew to chug a bunch of beers and happy birthday to the Marines. And also he'd want to say thank you so much for the hospitality. Thank you for your service to our country. Thank you for your service to the Marines. And thank you for your service. Happy Veterans Day, man. We appreciate you and many, many others that are. Signed a line and say, I'll go ahead and do it for America.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
To every marine out there, we love you. We're proud of you. My wife of 22 years, submarine herself, I love her. And this is what it's all about, is showing you what this place is like so you can go forth and tell the rest of America that we got a good thing going here.
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Pat McAfee
We will certainly do that. Thank you so much. Ladies and gentlemen, Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz.
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Ty Schmidt
Sergeant Major.
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Darius J. Butler
Thank you.
- [29:49]
Ty Schmidt
Thank you.
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Pat McAfee
Thank you. Golly, that's right there.
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Ty Schmidt
That's crazy.
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Pat McAfee
Hey, thank you, Sergeant Major. You're the man. You're the absolute man. 32 years in the Marines, multiple tours of duty over there. Now he's. Yeah, can we mute. Oh, geez. It is a little breezy. I will say. Yeah. Coming in. Yesterday we had to land like 50 minutes away. Hilton Head and gale force winds. As soon as we land, actually alerts on our phone gale. I don't know what that means, but I've heard anytime she's associated with winds, it's big, huge. And we were certainly experiencing that yesterday as we came in. This place has been incredible. Last night the brigand brew was fun as 1/2 of the hammer done cowboys. AP Tone joins us. Last night we watched Monday night football from the brigand Brew. Yeah, it was awesome. It was on the 250th birthday of the marines. They were certainly celebrating as they should Monday night Football Philadelphia Eagles take on the Green Bay packers in Lambeau. It was going to be a cold Monday night in November. 80% of the bettors are on the Philadelphia Eagles getting a point and a half, I believe on the road on Monday night, 80% of the bettors win, myself included. Tell me about the game last night that took place and I cannot wait to hear Ty Schmidt's response to this Green Bay packers loss to the super bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.
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AP Tone
Yeah, it started as bit of a cagey affair as we like to say. It was scoreless at halftime. Defense has played awesome. Here you see Jordan Love at the end of the first half trying to make a play, didn't make a play, got them out of field goal range, ended up not scoring there at the end of the first half. But defenses were dominating early. Things got going for the Eagles later in the second half. But as you know, yes, Eagles win, cover. And then the under was just an easy, easy play for the Eagles. As you see Saquon catching A ball out of the flat, hitting a dirty spin move.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah, absolutely. Dirty spin move. Looked a little slow by my eye for Saquon's accounts. But I'll tell you what, a professional athlete, a great one at that, missed him completely on prime time. Anytime you can do that, it's absolutely beautiful. What do we see from the Philadelphia Eagles last night? You know, KG affair for sure, not a lot of points D. But what did we learn about this Philadelphia Eagles team? They can win the ugly one.
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Darius J. Butler
Exactly. You got to be able to win the ugly ones. Especially at this point in the season on the road. We all know it doesn't matter how it looks. Long as you're in that locker room celebrating a victory, that's all that matters. And yeah, points and big plays were hard to come by. This is a big time play by from Jalen. Hurts down the fielder Devonte Smith on a double move, beating quarters coverage, what looks like. Gotta watch the All 22 to make sure because I know it's a lot of coaches out there on the Internet, but big time play by him. And like you said, you got to find a way to win the ugly ones now for the Packers. You lose another game now and you're playing great defense, only giving up 16 points. 16 points or less. This is three losses now from this team. A lot of people are calling for a lot of jobs, but the Eagles, I mean, you find a way to get a win with the questionable fourth down attempt late in the game with Nick Sirianni. Talk talked about it after the game because it's fourth and six. Kind of a funky, you know, part.
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Pat McAfee
Of the 35 yard line would have been a 53 yard field goal. They're up three. Sirianni came in afterwards and said like going up six is not much different than going up three. I disagree. I mean, I kind of disagree. But on that note, if it's a 53 yard field goal and he misses, you're getting the ball at the 43, only down three. Can't punt from there. They are kind of in an interesting spot. Why not roll the dice and throw a deep ball now on that note, we showed the Devonte Smith touchdown. Incredible play. The packers would answer. Josh Jacobs would end up scoring a touchdown. It would get to 10 7. They're late. After Josh Jacobs scores here for the first time for the packers with five minutes left in the fourth quarter, you finally get on the board. What a long night that had to be for packers fans. Just trying to figure it out. And obviously D butt talked About. There's a lot of jobs online. It's like that offense. People are starting to question a lot of things. Yeah, well, who runs the offense? Well, the head coach does. Well, let's talk about the end of the game. That kind of went down. Whenever they're down 3. I don't know how many people are still up watching this. There was an interesting thing that kind of took place. We got five seconds left. We spiked the ball. Okay, you spiked the ball. 10 7. All right, 10 7. Brandon McManus is going to come out in a very windy, windy night, try to kick a 64 yard field goal to tie this thing up for the Green Bay packers in November in Lambeau.
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AJ Hawk
Coming off a quad injury as well.
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Pat McAfee
Coming off an injury in a windy night, though, I think they were even.
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Ty Schmidt
Saying, you can hear it in the microphone.
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Pat McAfee
It's a windy. There it is. Hell, yeah. Happy birthday, Marines, and God bless United States of America. McMahon comes out for a 64 yard field. That's cool. Every time and every time. Philadelphia Eagles call it. Timeout. They go, nope, timeout. Let's ice it. Let's make him think about this. McManus, OG, veteran of the game, goes, snap it, snap it, snap it, snap it. He wanted to get a look at his 64 yarders with how windy it was, just see what the ball would do. Now, years back, there was a decision by everybody that that's not how this is going to go. Soon as timeout happens, a ref's job is to run in front and basically stop the snap. Because anytime somebody can get a mulligan shot at something, they're definitely going to want that. Kickers, we used to steal it. I mean, Venatori and I, we used to steal Overton on the same page.
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AJ Hawk
They would practice that back in the day.
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Pat McAfee
Definitely. We're going out there. They have two, three timeouts. It's venatori. We don't know if they're going to call timeout, but as soon as I hear the whistle for the timeout, I mean, we're snapping that thing.
- [35:12]
AJ Hawk
Better jump and put his body on the ball.
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Pat McAfee
Exactly. Because we want to see that thing. Like, especially if you're outside in a windy night, it's like, we want to see what that is doing. Any golfer would want to do that. So McManus realized that the refs were not jumping in front and the whistle's blowing. He's like, snap it, snap it. Newer to the team so he gets a chance to take a shot at it. He ends up being Short. Hit a great ball, but he ends up being a little bit short. They even show the replay on TV. LaFleur sees this and goes, he's short. That's the best ball he's going to hit right there. Sirianni says, why is he allowed to do that? He's not allowed to do that. LaFleur says, we got to run play. We got to try to pick up some yardage. The Eagles defense said, what? Stupid. We saw it, too.
- [35:47]
Darius J. Butler
All over.
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Pat McAfee
You're not going to get anything. What are we talking about? So now they waste three seconds. Sirianni is pissed that they even had the opportunity to do that. People are saying, leflore was it. Was it like, what are you even doing with the three seconds? And then McManus would get out and he thought he was going to have to drive it a little bit more. He hits it fat. He pulls that thing completely great. And they lose on Monday Night Football. And at the end of it, it's almost like a comedy of airs, of a disrespect for football is how some people are maybe viewing that it was also clunky throughout the entirety. And the offense has been the downfall. You pay. Jordan Love, head coaches. Matt Lafleur, Ty Schmidt. You're an owner of the Packers. Feels like you're very excited about today and the future of the Packers.
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Ty Schmidt
Yeah, I'm just sick of it. I'm sick of everything. To be quite frank, this is like the first time in my life where you can rely on the defense. Their defense is unbelievable. They keep them in every game, every moment. Last night where it was like, hey, we need to stop here. We need. We need something to happen so that we can at least get the ball back and get an opportunity to go either tie this thing up or win the game. You mentioned it. Jordan Love is making $55 million a year, and, boy, he's looked bad the last couple of weeks, like, real bad. And, you know, a lot of people want to put it all on him. I tell you what, I'm not going to call for Matt Lafleur's job, because a lot of people are doing that today. Yeah, you don't have to. Yeah, exactly. I don't have to. Everyone's already doing that, but it's just like it's the same shit every week. You know, the offense is terrible. We. There was that fourth down play where, you know, the. The Philadelphia Eagles knew exactly what the packers were going to run their offense. You know, for a lafleur who's supposed to Be this wunderkind, genius offensive coach. Like, they have the most vanilla plays. Everyone knows exactly what they're doing. And, you know, they don't have anybody they can rely on, especially after Tucker Kraft, you know, gets hurt. And then there's points in the game where things aren't going great. And you see Leflore overplaying Candy Crush on his. On his Microsoft.
- [37:44]
Pat McAfee
That's not what he was doing. He was trying to figure out the defense. He knew the offense wasn't doing good.
- [37:47]
Ty Schmidt
Maybe, but I need to remind it, like, you're still the head coach. You know, the game's going on like, this isn't half. Like he was. He was sitting over there for 10 minutes dicking around on his Microsoft Surface. And it's like, hey, you still, like, you're the head coach. You still kind of got to know what's going on in the.
- [38:01]
Pat McAfee
Does everybody agree with you in Packers Nation? You think of Cheesehead Town? What do you guys call your Packers Super Cheese Head Town? Everybody in Cheese Head down.
- [38:10]
Ty Schmidt
Well, no, it's. It's split because people love to make excuses for him. But my big thing is, you know, I understand his record, I understand his winning percentage and all that kind of stuff. I'm very curious what that would look like and if he would still be the head coach if Aaron Rodgers wasn't the quarterback when he got. When he first got hired.
- [38:27]
Pat McAfee
Let's not be doing Revision is history.
- [38:29]
Ty Schmidt
I think you have.
- [38:29]
Pat McAfee
Rogers went into a hole in the ground. Okay? No lights, no phones. Just him and his thoughts. Yeah, he didn't know what he wanted to do with football while he was doing that. Guess what all the packers people are doing. Lafleur included. And Gutkins and Mark Murphy, they. They had their phones, they had lights.
- [38:49]
Ty Schmidt
Sure.
- [38:50]
Pat McAfee
They had their conversation, and they sent him a hundred text messages. This guy won't respond to our text. We wanted to maybe keep them, but he didn't respond to our text messages. Did you know he was in a hole in the ground? Maybe. We tried to reach out to him. Aaron comes out of that hole and he's told by the Green Bay packers, hey, we're moving to hell.
- [39:05]
Ty Schmidt
You suck.
- [39:05]
Pat McAfee
See ya. Welcome back to reality. Welcome back to life. And lights and electricity. You're gone, everybody. Okay, we're associated with Aaron because Aaron Rodgers. Tuesday's taking place, and obviously we know him. And AJ's like one of his best friends, actually. So we immediately go, wow, what a decision. Okay, we judge Gutekuntz pretty hard, big time. We judge Lafleur pretty hard in this entire thing. We go, okay, yeah, just get rid of a first ballot hall of Famer. That's the right move on how to get better. That's the right play. It's always going to be. Then they start having success.
- [39:34]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah.
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Pat McAfee
And we look like assholes. Us. Me mostly because of what I said about good to go. And then what the jets ended up doing, you know. So the jets jets really hard right there. And packers bad. We kind of go after Dornett. Then we end up being completely wrong because packers start having success. They have the future. Now it sounds like over the last couple of weeks, maybe even the last maybe season and a half La Flor maybe doesn't have the. The vote of confidence from packers. Is everything. Is Jordan love a guy?
- [40:00]
Boston Connor
I mean.
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Pat McAfee
Is every. Exactly. He's good to go. It's a super genius.
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AP Tone
Change the plays a lot.
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Ty Schmidt
Absolutely hitting the panic button. What they're not, they're not ever ready to play. Ever. You can't play to the level of your competition. I knew last night would be close. I didn't know if they'd win. But like, like Debut said you the three games they've lost, they give up 10 points, 13 points and 16 points. In this day and age in the NFL you have to win those games. Especially when again all we hear about is how young and talented this offense is. Well, a couple guys get hurt. You put a. You sink a bunch of money into the offensive line in the off season and a guy like Aaron Banks, he got his ass beat all night. He. And he's been hurt a bunch. They have other injuries on the offensive line and it's just Jordan Love. Like we've seen the spurts, but it seems like he. You just, you can't be as inconsistent.
- [40:48]
AJ Hawk
People not think he's the guy. Do you like. Do people honestly think he may not. He's not the franchise guy.
- [40:52]
Ty Schmidt
Everyone is saying that this morning. I think it's.
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AJ Hawk
I mean I'm talking like have they been saying it for weeks or is this, you know, just overreaction? We lost when we scored seven points. Is there Rumble. Has there been rumblings for a while like, hey, we might have to seriously starting in another direction eventually.
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Ty Schmidt
Yeah. Start. It's been starting to kind of bubble to the surface a little bit. But I think that's why it's like, well, you know, just wait until the floor can kind of really take him under his wing and, and he can, you know, he's. He's Exactly. But that's what? I mean, like, a couple weeks ago, we watch him against the Steelers, and he throws for 380 yards and three touchdowns. And I know it's not the vaunted steel curtain that it used to be, but, like, that's an NFL team. That's an NFL team.
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Pat McAfee
Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a football guru, quarterback, pundit, super face of espn, former NFL quarterback, former teammate of mine, ladies and gentlemen, Darlowski D. Couple, I would say about 22% of the Marines out here clap for you. I was trying to. I was trying to eyeball it. I think about 22, 32, I think, Dan.
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Dan Orlovsky
I think they're all Cowboys fans, so. But thank you for your service.
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Pat McAfee
I think. Thank you for your service, Dan. You should think about giving him, like, a URA right now. You should try to do that right now.
- [42:02]
Dan Orlovsky
Let me see if I can do this in, like, the. The proper fashion.
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Pat McAfee
You should not have responded to that. Okay, that was bad. That was bad for the Marine Corps right there. I. I don't.
- [42:13]
Dan Orlovsky
I gotta do it better again.
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Ty Schmidt
Nope.
- [42:16]
Boston Connor
You had your chance.
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Pat McAfee
No, no, we cannot have that.
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AJ Hawk
So bad, dude.
- [42:20]
Boston Connor
Holy.
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Dan Orlovsky
All right, I'll do it again.
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Pat McAfee
Oh, my God. Your. Your AirPods actually said nope in the middle of that, so we didn't hear it because they were so embarrassed for your mouth. Your AirPods were so embarrassed for what was coming out. I think you need one more. I think if you were to hit one more good one.
- [42:41]
Dan Orlovsky
I think I can't do it louder. All right, I'll try to do it.
- [42:44]
Donald J. Trump
Not loud, but louder. Hoorah.
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Pat McAfee
Why is he doing that?
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Darius J. Butler
That was the worst one.
- [42:52]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, you're like, doing a Duval thing. You're doing, like, one of those.
- [42:57]
Dan Orlovsky
Because, dude, I'm trying to get it to hairy across my earpods to you in an area that's got speakers. And do it respectfully so I don't look like a complete jack A.
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Pat McAfee
So, like, it turns out you just did it. Yeah, see, Dano, I mean, that is just. All right, let's get the.
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AP Tone
His AirPods are letting them down.
- [43:19]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, it's your AirPods down. Knock into it.
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Ty Schmidt
Knock it in, though.
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Pat McAfee
And I would like the marines to know that what you are first to fighting for is a man to be able to drink what appears to be 10,000cc of a blue juice every single day. So thank you guys for doing that. We appreciate you guys doing that for us so this guy can live. Big deal. Let's talk about last night. Did you hear Ty? I think you were on there while Ty was talking about full panic button in Green Bay and I kind of went through our relationship with the Green Bay packers fans and how stupid we looked at times and now maybe in the end I don't know how it's all going to play out. What are your thoughts on the Green Bay packers last night? And is Jordan love a guy? Is La Flora guy? Are the packers done? Like Ty is really hitting that panic button pretty loud this morning. Should he be?
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Dan Orlovsky
They got to rip the band aid off Jordan love. They got to rip the handcuffs off him. This ain't a Jordan love thing, okay? I've talked about this offense and the offensive line not being good enough. That was once again the case a little bit some of the play call and trying to be over create overly creative. When I watched Jordan last night, I'm sitting there going, this is why I hate the term when people talk about in quarterback context, protect the football. Because I feel like the packers for the last month offensively are in this, let's live in this protective world. And it even is impacting the way I feel like Matt's call in the game. You're not going to be great by living in this protection world. Jordan really hasn't been this oh my gosh, he's careless with the football player for years now. It's this narrative that was a little bit of his early on.
- [44:55]
Donald J. Trump
But the.
- [44:56]
Dan Orlovsky
The protective element is forcing him to play at times. So gun shy, so cautious. And I want to be and I want to tell Leflore like, dude, you got to rip the band aid off of this. Your defense is fantastic. Stop playing it so close to the vest. Stop playing it so shy. Stop getting this quarterback to be so cautious with the football that like even the fumble that he has right before the half, Deepa knows this. It's man to man. When you're in that situation, you get, man, there's only two people he could throw this football to, right? It's a double move at the bottom of the screen or the tight out tight end run the corner route. Other than that, it's like there's not really any other options. So there's not really a read that has to get made. Jordan love like goes to like kind of make a throw before then right when he catches the snap and he doesn't throw it now.
- [45:48]
Ty Schmidt
Yes.
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Dan Orlovsky
That he can't do that. Like yes. If you were gonna ask me, the one area Jordan's gotta grow and it's like that situation of football, the first drive sack on second down don't take that sack. Don't take. But I'm. Before the sack even happens. Debuff. I'm sitting there going, you got one on one. Roll the go route in the corner and see if you can make the best throw you could possibly make. So that's my overall offensive takeaway is like they got to take the handcuffs off the quarterback and stop playing this protective style of offense.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah. AJ has a question about all of that for you. And I appreciate that you're saying, hey, that guy that maybe isn't making the best decisions all the time, let's put more decisions on his plate, let him rip it. Let's take the band aid off. Let's make this thing even bigger. You think that'll actually unleash him as opposed to maybe continue to put him in situations where he panic? I don't say panics, but I think.
- [46:35]
Dan Orlovsky
I think that when you have quarterbacks that are so cautiously and consciously playing a don't make a mistake mindset on a play by play basis, you. You box them in so much and I think that they become so high stressed with that. That decision in that moment. Of course you want guys to make the right decision on a consistent basis, but I need you to make aggressive decisions. We didn't pay you $55 million to manage this game. I paid you $55 million to go win a Super bowl. And I need to have you be in an aggressive mindset to do that.
- [47:10]
Pat McAfee
All right, Dano. I don't know if that's how every Green Bay packers fan feels like is the answer. LaFleur might be the guy all time leading tackler for the Packers. AJ Hawk has a question for you, Dan.
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AJ Hawk
Oh yeah, Dan, is this offense too predictable? There's obviously a hot mic that picked up, you know, the Eagles D line calling out inside zone last night on one of the running plays and getting a TFL on that. Is that something you see when you watch them?
- [47:33]
Pat McAfee
And.
- [47:34]
AJ Hawk
And I guess, how do you move out of that? How do you make Jordan Love more aggressive too and make him push the ball down the field?
- [47:40]
Dan Orlovsky
Yeah, I mean, so to answer the. How do you get him to be more aggressive? Like we could be honest about their number one, their number two and number three pass catcher is not being available last night. As. As well. No Tucker Craft, no Matthew golden, no Jaden Reed. He's been out for a while. That certainly impacts three or four vertical drops. It would. It could potentially change the narrative of this. I don't find this offense predictable. I think There's a lot of move. Sometimes I feel like they're overly complicated. Yeah, I've been on that train. So the fourth and one play call, here's my, my takeaway from that fourth and one play call AJ that you're talking about. Jordan talked that in hurry up when they were playing with some urgency that they had run that play a couple times. I'm, I'm with that. Like you got to use a different code word or like maybe get to a different thing or don't snap it because obviously Philly, you know, was all over. I would also say this. Can we all agree to stop putting a non mobile or non threatened running quarterback in the gun on third and short and fourth and short. If you're, if you're not going to run the quarterback on third and one or fourth and one, stop being in the shotgun to run the football. That doesn't make any sense. If you have him as a running threat, then I'm fine with it. But if the guy's never going to be a running threat on 3rd and 1 and 4th and 1, then why are we in the shotgun handing the football off? But I don't, I don't find it overly complicated and I think to be more aggressive. Like I'll go last night. AJ Second down is the reason the packers lost the football game on second down. They're terrible on second down. And on second down it's run, run, run, second and nine, run, second and eight, run second and 10, run. Well, like the defense is aware of.
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Pat McAfee
That inside zone right here. 97. Name Ojoro.
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Dan Orlovsky
Oh, Ojomo.
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Pat McAfee
Oh, Jomo Ojomo. That's an awesome moment. Now obviously there's times where D lineman or somebody calls out a play and they're completely wrong. Okay, that's a moment. Game winner basically where they know exactly what a best player he was.
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Darius J. Butler
One for 100.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah. Best play. Gotta have it. That's the only time he's ever called a play. Always gets it right. Let's go to that side of the entire game last night. Deebot has last question for you here about the Eagles.
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Darius J. Butler
Jayla Phillips had a big time night too. But I want to ask you about the offense we're talking about. Obviously the packers offense, but the Eagles office, they didn't put up a ton of points. You know, wins a win, especially on the road. Had that 4th and 6th late that they went for. Didn't execute. What's your thoughts on the Eagles offense now and going forward?
- [50:01]
Dan Orlovsky
Yeah, mentally tough was the performance last Night from the whole group and shout out to Lane Johnson. I mean to. They got to remember that most of that game was played without their best player, Lane. Somehow Lane Johnson comes back and finishes that game. I have no idea how because I can't imagine the physical and the toughness that he displayed. But I mean, the first drive is a huge deal because they chew up so much clock to punch out. Fumble for me. D. But the touchdown pass to devonte is such a thing of beauty because they got their play action pass going in the. In the second half. Okay, so this is why this touchdown pass is so good to me. If you guys can rewind it from the start, 1D. But they put formation in the boundary bottom of the screen. There's trips. Okay, so that. That gathers the attention. Two, it's A.J.
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Pat McAfee
Brown.
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Dan Orlovsky
Three, they motion over play action. The safety near the bottom of the screen. You can't see me. Be on your guys left side. He's got to have vision on the tight end and the back. The Titan goes across the formation, the back ball fake. So now it really becomes a double team on A.J. that's why the pump fake right there by Jalen. He's trying to get that backside safety to stay down. And it's really about devonte Smith now. I've created all the space to the bottom left of the screen. Devonte, you have to go into route. Indeed. But you'll appreciate this. Devonte does such a good job with the route because devonte's lined up like three yards outside of the hash pre snap.
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Darius J. Butler
Very condensed.
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Dan Orlovsky
The safety's on the hashtag. He just chases leverage. Chases leverage, chases leverage, gains leverage. See how he never makes a move? He just chases the leverage. And it's a great trust throw by Jalen and that dude's one of the best 5050 go getters in the league.
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Pat McAfee
Devontae Smith getting a touchdown. Good news for the wide receiver room in Philadelphia. Good news for the Eagles as a whole. And it sounds like the Eagles are pumped. They get a win on Monday night, they keep it moving and packers fans think it's over. That's football, baby. Dan, any final messages here to the fine Marines on Parris Island?
- [51:49]
Dan Orlovsky
Just a massive thank you. I don't have really anybody in my like direct family that is a part of the military. My wife's father was in Vietnam, but I never got a chance to meet him. My grand. Both grandfathers fought in the wars, but my. I never met them, so I don't really have a direct family. That's Part of the military. But I have such, like a ridiculous appreciation. I think when a lot of us accomplish some of the things that we're able to accomplish and get to live the lives that we get to live, we take it for granted at times. But today's a. Certainly a reminder that freedom's amazing, man, and we don't get it without you guys. And shout out to Saw Dog for that's a family friend that was in the military, but, man, on a daily basis, just super grateful. I think what you guys are doing, Pat, is awesome. So I wish we had every day like this, candidly, you know, every wish every day we took five seconds to appreciate what we have as Americans.
- [52:36]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. Buy a coffee, say hello, say thank you, and maybe even drop a. Ooh. Raw.
- [52:43]
Darius J. Butler
Hear that, Dan?
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Pat McAfee
Hoorah. Hoorah.
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Ty Schmidt
Yep.
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Pat McAfee
Thank you, Dan. Let's go walk it off. As Dan was giving us incredible answers about last night's Monday Night Football teams on the parade deck behind us, some of the platoons started to drill. And this is obviously, I got some quotes here on. It's a team building, discipline building. Throughout the 13 weeks in which they are becoming a team or becoming. They will practice their drill out here. And then at the end of this all they will be on the parade deck and they will become Marines at the eagle, globe and anchor ceremony. That comes after a 12 mile hike basically around the entirety of Parris island. And also at the end of a 54 hour period called the Crucible, which is the final days of your 13 week boot camp, which is basically just like a test of everything. Okay. And it's. I think it's like three hours of sleep maybe throughout the entirety. It ends with that 12 mile hike. And then out here, there's a lot of emotions and empathy as drill instructor becomes peer with Marines as opposed to recruit. And that's why getting an opportunity to be where we are right now is absolutely absurd, because of how special the parade deck is behind us. And then obviously the Iwo Jima statue here is a part of the Eagle, globe and anchor ceremony as well. After they get their pins, they come over here and gather round and they tell the story of basically this scene and talk about the Marines that they're chasing and who they're looking to be. And sergeant Major said earlier today that no Marine wants to be the group or the generation that gets whooped. So the amount of pressure that is bestowed upon them on this parade deck behind us is one that basically is carrying the entire Marine Corps for the next 250 years. So it's pretty special things. And obviously, we know that we're not supposed to be here, but since we were allowed to be here, I think we're the only show that was allowed to be on a base here on Veterans Day. I think we feel incredibly honored to be able to say thanks to all the badasses that, you know, do everything they do for us and their families. So happy Veterans Day. I do appreciate that there is a sign and there has been a little bit of a crowd that has started to build. We did not ask for crowd, okay. Because this is an operating place right now. They're trying to make war fighters right now. Okay. So we did not. We just want to kind of get dropped in their world, showcase their world, do the show from the world. We don't want to interfere with anybody. Hey, Sergeant Major wants.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Come on.
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Pat McAfee
Is that all right? You okay with Sergeant Major Fee? Yeah, yeah, I think so. Yeah. Well, Sergeant, how about the President of the United States?
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Ty Schmidt
Sure.
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Pat McAfee
Is that possible? Yeah, he would love to call it, especially say thanks on Veterans day. So at 1:10 Eastern time, we will be having a call from the President of The United States, Mr. President Donald J. Trump. And obviously he is calling in to chit chat about everything that happens here at Parris Island Veterans Day. And also, hey, sports takes, you know, and I think. I think there's a chance government also. Right. I don't follow that world enough. I do know air traffic controllers down because everybody's life is pretty much at a standstill whenever it comes to that. But I do believe there's good news coming out, especially on Veterans Day. We can celebrate the hell out of the great that has come from our country, which we are certainly surrounded by right now.
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AJ Hawk
AJ this place. Unbelievable.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah.
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AJ Hawk
Obviously, I've never been here. I know you were able to come, but just the trees, everything. I was talking to some guys that said they were stationed here. This was where they slept for three months 20 years ago when they were. When they were becoming a Marine. So, yeah, just. What an unbelievable setting.
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Pat McAfee
And before we get out of here in the first hour, we reached out to Commissioner Goodell of the NFL if he had any messages for us to be able to deliver. He was en route back from Berlin at an FBO and said this.
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Darius J. Butler
Hi, I'm Roger Goodell.
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Pat McAfee
On behalf of all of us in the National Football League, I want to.
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Donald J. Trump
Say thank you for all you've done.
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Pat McAfee
And all you do for our country. We are so proud of you and your bravery and your commitment and the sacrifices that you make and your family.
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AJ Hawk
Make, we couldn't be more grateful to you.
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Pat McAfee
Thank you on behalf of all of.
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Donald J. Trump
Us in the National Football League and.
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Pat McAfee
We are proud of you. And what Roger didn't say at the end there is, ooh, raw. I bet you Goodell's got a good all right, hour two will be on the Other side. We'll be joined by the President of the United States. We also have a couple more commissioners and presidents that want to, you know, make some statements and appreciation of the vets. And that's all we're trying to do here today. So be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. We'll see you on the other side. This Marshon Beast Mode Lynch Prize Pick is making sports season even more fun on Prize Picks.
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Pat McAfee
Damn it your friend. Tell a friend something nice could change their life. Beautiful people and welcome to Paris. Silently on this Veterans Day, November 11, 2025. Hour two of the program begins right now. Hell, yeah, I stepped on you there. That's 100% on me. The Marines, we are live from Parris island where they make Marines for the eastern half of the United States of America here on Veterans Day, as we try to shine a light on those who raised their right hand and said, we will do it. We for the United States of America. If you need us to shout out to all the vets, we appreciate the hell out of your service. And shout out to the platoons that are currently on the parade deck behind us here working on drill, which is a part of a 13 week boot camp to become a Marine. They show up in buses, in trucks and load onto the yellow footprints. And 13 weeks later, on that parade deck in front of that statue of Iwo Jima where Marines are raising the United States, States of America flag, they become Marines in an eagle, globe and anchor ceremony. And the grounds that we are currently sitting on for this particular show are hallowed and amazing, and we are very thankful and honored to be here. And we will be speaking to the President of the United States in about six minutes or so on this Veterans Day, live from where Marines are made. The toxic table is here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt. Tyler, you didn't make it this morning.
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Ty Schmidt
No, I didn't.
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Pat McAfee
Okay. That was something where I think last night we all kind of knew you.
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Ty Schmidt
Pegged it, right when I left, you pegged that I probably wasn't gonna be there.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah. 0400 hours. You know, we got lights, lights, lights. Which is the start of a day for every single recruit and obviously their drill instructors. We had the opportunity to watch it. You obviously missed the intensity there in the start to the day. But what is the sense that you're feeling as we're here on Parris island, your first time visit?
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Ty Schmidt
Yeah, I mean, it's just an unbelievable experience. Like Connor said, it's hard not to kind of get overcome with emotion when, you know, you're in front of the Iwo Jima statue right here. And I mean, same deal, like the hospitality that we've received, like we're all civilians obviously, and for everyone to kind of take us in and, and show us around and to be here on Veterans Day, I mean, this is truly like a once in a lifetime opportunity. And I like, we're never going to get this opportunity again.
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Pat McAfee
You talk about being here on Veterans day. Yesterday was 250th birthday exactly. Of the marines and we're on Parris island. That's like somewhere where we were somewhere a lot of marines stationed all around the world wish they they were so and we would like to let you know we feel like we tried doing service. Okay. We had beers, we had drinks, we ate fried pickles, we did some burgers, we did some toast, we did some slow. We watched football with the boy. I feel like we tried our best to enjoy with the child this morning. I mean we really boys. Yeah, you're damn right. Has did we win?
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AP Tone
Him and Bruce were rolling on the table.
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Pat McAfee
That's nine year NFL vet Darius J. Butler. Did not know he was a billiard shark down here. Brigham Brew, the all time leading tackler for the Green Bay packers who had a brutal loss last night on Monday Night Football. AJ Hawk is here in 1/2 of the hammer done Cowboys AP Ton what would you put the odds on any of us surviving? Just let's go first 48 hours here at the beginning of a 13 week boot camp to become a Marine.
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AP Tone
You three. I put pretty good odds.
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Boston Connor
Yeah, I was going to say why don't we just do those three odds.
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AP Tone
Pretty good odds for you three.
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Pat McAfee
Well how old are we though? Like there's, there's no way. 18.
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Ty Schmidt
18.
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Pat McAfee
Oh, 18 year old me.
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Ty Schmidt
Yeah, obviously 37, 38 year old you not.
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Pat McAfee
I mean you didn't even think about.
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AP Tone
I tried to s the dotted line this morning but you have to be 32 under I believe so that was a shame on my part.
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Pat McAfee
So are you trying to do fake potential stolen valor? Yes, that is what it sounds like.
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AP Tone
What I've learned here since I've been here. I don't feel better about myself as a human being but I feel a lot better about the country in our future.
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Pat McAfee
Okay, okay, okay. I think that was a compliment. Have you, have you delivered one to the he just tried to steal your guys. No, I didn't. Yeah, he said he wanted to get a sign of paper this morning but he's too old. He would have never. Okay. That guy would have showed up on a yellow footprints not only made them more yellow but would have collapsed immediately from an anxiety attack. But on that note, dogs are made here and we're very, very grateful for that. We'll be joined by the president here in a matter of moments. Let's talk about last night's game. Eagles get a win over the packers. They miss a 64 yard field goal at the end of it and the NFL is starting to become what we think it is, especially in the NFC side. We talked about the 4 o' clock slate. The heads of the NFC kind of dominated, made football bad. I think he tossed the Eagles, obviously, in there. Do what the NFC is at this point. D. Budge?
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Darius J. Butler
I don't think so. And I know everybody's hitting the panic button on the Packers. I'm still not fully out on them because when you have a. A dynamic and a dominant defense, I feel great about that. So I'm not out. But we don't know yet. They're stacked at the top, for sure.
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Pat McAfee
Stacked at the top. The AFC obviously being dominated by the Indianapolis coach, which is a beautiful thing. And on this Veterans Day, it is our honor, live from Parris island to say, ladies and gentlemen, joining us now for the first time ever, the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. Yeah. Mr. President.
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Donald J. Trump
Hello, Pat. Hi, Pat.
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Pat McAfee
So most people would think with our show that this would be an impressionist of the President because no president would actually join us. But on this Veterans Day, we want to say, Mr. President, thank you so much for joining us.
- [64:32]
Donald J. Trump
Well, thank you. And I'm only joining you because I hear you say such nice things about me from your very large audience. I have always heard you've said such nice things. So when people say nice about me, I join. When they don't say nice about me, I take a pass.
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Pat McAfee
Okay. That's not a bad way to look at things. You should see. I don't know how much you know about me. I feel very similar about how I treat people and operate people. Mr. President, let's talk about Veterans Day. Obviously. Obviously, we're down here at Parris Island. I think we're the first show that has ever been broadcasted live from here. We're very thankful to be the only show that's currently on a military base. And we wanted to say our thanks, even though we're just sports stooges for you. What does Veterans Day mean, especially now that you're Commander in Chief again?
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Donald J. Trump
Well, to me, it means taking care of the veterans because they've taken care of us. And, you know, we have a 92% approval rating at the VA, and I just got back from making a speech. Beautiful. The whole surrounding, the whole. I don't know if you've got to witness it a little bit on television, but it was something. And the veterans have taken such good care of us. What I think of with the veterans is how do I take care of the veterans? And we've done a really Good job. Doug Collins, as you know, is the secretary. And we have a tremendous approval rating. We do a couple of things. Number one, we. We allow veterans, if they have to wait on line, we allow veterans to go see a doctor. We take care of the price. You know, the veterans before me had to wait on line for, in some cases, not even believable months. And they had something that could have been taken care of easily. And they end up becoming terminally ill. And I took care of that. Then Biden came in and he evaporated that and I just put it back again. And that was choice. And we have a choice. And we also have accountability. We call it Veterans choice and accountability. We had a lot of bad people at the va and you weren't able because of the various unions and laws and everything else. You couldn't fire anybody. I got that taken care of in Congress. And we let go of 9,000 people and put 9,000 loving people, people that love the vets. We had people, we had sadists in there. We had people that was just horrible. You couldn't do anything about it. I got rid of that and we ended up putting in 9,000 people that love our vets and we take care of our vets. So to me, the vets, they've done their job. They've been fantastic. They're incredible people. They also voted for me about 92% or something. So we have to remember that. It's always nice when you have that. It's like the beginning of our conversation appreciation. But they're just spectacular people. They don't want much and they gave so much.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah, they don't want much. And today is certainly a good day to remind everybody to say at least of thanks, maybe buy a coffee. You talk glowingly there of Secretary of Veteran Affairs Doug Collins, who I got to meet this past weekend whenever he came and visited Texas Tech as BYU was down there for college game day. Massive, massive crowd. He cut a promo and he basically said that the messaging that he is trying to get out, obviously, amongst other. All the other stuff, is there's a lot of young veterans, I think, that don't know that the VA is there for them. Is that a message that you guys can kind of all giving? Because I think a lot of the younger vets view the VA as like an older type thing. And I think if I'm listening to Secretary Doug Collins speak, his big messaging and why he was at game day and I think there's a chance why you guys are joining us is like young vets Also need to understand that the VA is there for them. Mr. President, is that accurate?
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Donald J. Trump
Well, it's true, and Doug really brings that to heart, and it's really an amazing factor. The young vets don't know about it too much, and the older do. And frankly, the older vets, they wouldn't be able to make it without the va. They do such a good job. So we're there for everybody. I mean, we're there when you're a vet, you're a vet, and we take care of our vets like nobody's ever taken care of them before.
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Pat McAfee
Well, we appreciate the hell out of that, for sure. And that's one big ooh roll new Marines, Mr. President, just ooh, rod the hell out of you there for what you just said about the version.
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Dan Orlovsky
Good.
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Donald J. Trump
Well, we love them. They are a Special group indeed.
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Pat McAfee
Mr. President, have you ever done an ooh raw to a bunch of Marines?
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Donald J. Trump
Not the kind that I just heard. I just heard a level of professionalism with. With the way they did it that I don't think anybody can match it, to be honest. That's very impressive, Mr. President, why don't you drop one.
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Pat McAfee
Mr. President, why don't YOU drop an URA real quick?
- [68:53]
Donald J. Trump
I will.
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Pat McAfee
Yes. Okay. We love everything about that. Let's pivot away from, obviously, all the great work that the VA and you all are trying to do for our vets in our military. Let's talk a little bit about sports, and we'll talk about our country. We all saw you fly over the Ryder cup, okay? We all saw the decision that was made while you're wearing golf cleats in the White House lawn saying, hey, the boys need us. We need to fly over there. Obviously, we don't get the win. Even though Sunday ended up getting a little bit more of a fight than we thought. Are we ever going to be able to win a Ryder cup going forward? How do we answer the questions that we have at USA Golf, Mr. President?
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Donald J. Trump
Well, look, you know, if you look at the Ryder cup and I play golf, and I guess a lot of people play golf, and some people understand and some people don't, but, you know, the. The other team, they really shank a lot of putts. I mean, you're looking. And they sink in. 30 footer, 40 footer, 70 footer, you know, just one after another. And it was interesting. It looked like it was over. And then Sunday, really, it. They almost came back. You know, you have to give a big hoot to an opponent who dropped about a six Foot putt to. That was a big putt. That final putt. That was a big putt. But that, that was very close. Look, I think they sank. They putted unbelievably. Really, they were unconscious with it. I. I really believe that that was unusual because I've never seen so many long putts go in before. And I don't think, generally speaking, that would happen. We actually, our team actually hit the ball a little bit better, hit more fairways if the rough were longer. As an example, they were saying if the rough four longer. And you had a great captain of the American team, of both teams. You had a great captain of both teams, of course, but if the rough were longer, it might have been a little bit different. But look, they're all great players everywhere. I know so many of them from both sides, and they are just very talented people.
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Pat McAfee
Why were the golf gods letting their putts fall and not ours? Mr. President? I don't know.
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Donald J. Trump
I guess it was just our turn to. You know, you speak. You speak. Somebody probably said the wrong thing, but the golf carts, they would not. Well, they almost came back on the final day.
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Pat McAfee
Yes, they gave us a little bit. They gave us a little bit of a show. Mr. President, it looks pretty good.
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Donald J. Trump
I'll tell you the. It was looking pretty good. Well, pretty good. It was. It was a hope and a prayer because going in. But to come that close was, you have to say, it was a pretty good comeback.
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Pat McAfee
Okay? Absolutely. You know, the American spirit fought on on that Sunday, even though we need to win next time. The all time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers, A.J. hawk, has a question for you, Mr. President.
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Donald J. Trump
Yeah, okay. He's a great player.
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AJ Hawk
I appreciate that, Mr. President. Obviously, you look around the NFL, there's a lot of great leaders that are coaches. Have you ever looked and thought like one of these guys who would be a great president for the United States of America? We got Dan Campbell, we got Mike Vrabel, we got Matt LaFleur last night. You ever think of these guys who could possibly be a great president, by the way?
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Donald J. Trump
They were. You know, we had the great Philadelphia team here and that. He's some coach too, by the way.
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Pat McAfee
Coach Sirianni Paisan.
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Donald J. Trump
He's great. They're all. You got a lot of talented people. I've often thought, you know, strategy wise, you see some of the good strategy. Every once in a while you see some pretty bad strategy, too. We can name plenty of that. But you see, strategy, I've often said, we go out and we get the best four or five coaches, put them in a room. If you go into war and you use them as. Because they do it, ultimately it's all about strategy. It's about attack. It's about, you know, what angle. Give me the angle of attack. I'll bet you some of these coaches would make great warring generals. And I would say I would not be beneath doing that. You get, you get five or six of those guys. I know some of them, you know, they come to the White House every year with the winning team, the winning super bowl team. I've gotten to know them really through that. But that you wouldn't, you wouldn't lose badly if you did that. I'll tell you, they are tremendous guys, great leaders.
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Pat McAfee
Mr. President, can you tell me about your chat with foreign leaders about sports? Has it come up much? Because I believe that sports are like the great unifier, I think, in the United States of America, obviously. I mean, you're in the middle of this world now. Former businessman dropped. Dropped into politics. Very. Everybody's going to yell at each other's face basically about a lot of things in your guys world. You just hope for some progress and obviously make some magic happen. But sports, if you look at a stadium, and I think you mentioned it being a microcosm of life, if you look at a stadium, there's people from so many different backgrounds, so many different socioeconomic backgrounds, all coming together with different political beliefs, all rooting for their team to kick the other team's ass. I think it's one of the greatest unifiers on earth. Do you and world leaders talk about sports, the importance of sports? And have you ever thought about that as a concept of conversation?
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Donald J. Trump
Well, I did it the other night with two very nice people, as you know, with the Fox broadcast. And it was a little bit of a blowout game, in all fairness, with the commanders as opposed to the Redskins. What happened to the Redskins, by the way? But it was. The game wasn't the greatest game, but those two guys were really. We had a good talk and I talked about sports. To me, it's like a microcosm of life. It really is. It's a, you know, you see the winning and the losing and the comebacks and the routes. You see everything and you see it quickly. You don't see it in, you know, over a lifetime. You see it over two hours. And you watch football, you watch games that are won and all of a sudden they're fighting for survival and they lose the game or they barely win the game. It's just, that's what it is. And you know, life is very much like that. You have to fight and you have to just keep fighting no matter what, no matter what the circumstance. And you got to win and ultimately you got to win. It's about winning and you got to keep winning because if you win, but you don't win the last couple of years, what have you done for me lately? Unfortunately I find that a lot, certainly in politics. We just had a big win against the Democrats with the opening. They shut down our country. They wanted one and a half trillion dollars to be paid to.
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Pat McAfee
Is that open again? I heard there's like, Mr. President, is that open? I heard there's like a third. I don't know your guys's world well, but is it open? I heard there's like a 30 hour time period where maybe it's not. Are we back open?
- [75:14]
Donald J. Trump
Well it doesn't until the House votes. So the House is going to vote and I think they're going to vote positively. I think most people want to see it open. Only people that hate our country want to see it not open because our country is doing so well. So we don't want to waste these times. These are precious time. You know, we have $17 trillion plus being invested on our country. That's many times more than any country has ever had. We don't want to be wasting time. So they tried to basically renegotiate the great big beautiful deal. They didn't, they weren't able to get it. And now they said let's close up our country and we'll see if we can get it. But again, getting it for people that came into our country illegally from prisons, from gangs, from, from mental institutions, from, you know, places that you don't want and giving them one and a half, think of it, $1.5 trillion in medical costs and things. You just can't do this. You can't do it and it ruins it for everybody else. So they were not successful in renegotiation and it looks like it's going to be opened up. But you're right, it's the House has to vote and then of course I have to sign it.
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Pat McAfee
Okay, so once again I don't know your guys world. I assume everything you just said there will have some people very pissed about it and then obviously the rest of the world, United States of America will be very excited that the government is back open. So I think that deserves a big ooh, roll. Yeah, I think they're loving it. The government's back open over here.
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Donald J. Trump
We got the military paid anyway, Pat, you have to understand, we got the. There's no way we weren't going to pay the military. But how about this? There was a little bit of a shortfall. And a friend of mine called a very successful rich guy, a great guy, a great patriot. And he called, he said, listen, if there's a shortfall, I want to pay for it. So I looked around, I said, is there a shortfall? They said about $130 million. He wrote a check for $130 million so that our military got paid perfectly on time. How about that? That's called a patriot.
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Pat McAfee
Ooh. People are writing checks, you know, these college football places, to build up facilities and get players. Not 130 million or whatever, but maybe for some building. Somebody saying, hey, does the military need it? We'll write the check today. That's awesome. That's private business coming together with the government to make things happen for the military. Happy Veterans Day for everybody. That. A couple more questions. Is that okay? Mr. President, I know you're very busy.
- [77:36]
Donald J. Trump
Yeah, go ahead. Sure. You have a beautiful audience. So the answer is absolutely, why not?
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Pat McAfee
Hey, why don't you give him another? Hey, why don't you give him another.
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Ty Schmidt
Ooh.
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Pat McAfee
Mr. President. Ura. It's getting better and better. I think Connor has a question for you.
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Boston Connor
Yeah, it was. Mr. President, it's an honor and a privilege to ask you a question. One of our friends of the program is coach Nick Saban, and we're talking about the Ryder cup and maybe, you know, them bouncing back. And also the World cup is on the horizon in America. Do you think we could possibly get coach Nick Saban to help out in some aspects so we could have some success on these world fronts?
- [78:12]
Pat McAfee
Nice.
- [78:13]
Donald J. Trump
Well, I know him, and I got to know him because he brought his team to the White House. You know, he had team, he won a lot, and I got to know him. He's a fantastic guy. And, you know, he's somebody that really. They should get involved in college sports in terms of making sure that, you know, it all works out. Because what's happening is it looks like it's not working out too well for colleges for most of the people, and a lot of the lesser sports are being totally terminated. You know, that it's a shame. It was almost like a training ground for the Olympics, and a lot of those training grounds are being lost. And, you know, Nick knows this stuff better than anybody. He'd be. And he was. He's really active in it. I think they ought to let Nick Saban take a good, strong look at it. And we all. I can tell you from my standpoint, I'd listen to what he has to say, but I know him well and he's a fantastic guy and what a great coach.
- [79:04]
Pat McAfee
Mr. President, he's not going to love it. You just signed him up for that job. He's not going to love it. That college student. College sports, easy.
- [79:12]
Donald J. Trump
I'll tell you what, that's not as easy as it sounds. That job.
- [79:14]
Pat McAfee
Yes, a lot of questions over there in college sports because obviously sports are up and to the right with everything, even the blowout games, which I appreciated whenever the Washington commanders, okay, which I love that you're like, okay, that's their name. They lose to the Lions when I'm at the game, maybe we change the name back to what it was. But on that note, as soon as they score in that blowout game, your immediate thought is that should be good for your ratings. And then they go to a commercial break because the game was getting better sports ratings right now, up and to the right. Everybody wants to come together. College sports up and to the right. Everybody just kind of feels like the back end of it is kind of just full chaos and it can't hold up for long enough. I think if you were to get involved and we asked Governor Jeff Landry from Louisiana about this as well. I think we do need some sort of government something, Mr. President, for the back end of college football. I think we all understand that the players deserve money. I think we all understand their value. But I think an actual market and guardrails would be something that would be really good. This could be something, along with stopping wars and building in tariffs and $17 trillion. Maybe just put that on your desk. Go ahead and figure out the back end of college sports, Mr. President.
- [80:21]
Donald J. Trump
Well, it is a very serious problem because even football, when they give quarterbacks 12 million, 13, $14 million, I read a couple of them and all of a sudden you're going to see it's going to be out of control and even rich colleges are going to go bust because you're not going to be able to do this. And you know, they had the old way, they gave scholarships and they did lots of good things. But yeah, there's. There could be some form of payment. But when they start bidding up the costs, look, the NFL and all of, you know, all teams, they have caps. You don't really have that in college sports. And when the guard comes along that weighs 350 and he's phenomenal. And they say that's going to make the difference between having a great team and a lousy team. And they give him $10 million. That's going to start happening pretty soon. All of a sudden you're going to have like NFL type payrolls. And I don't care how rich. The colleges don't make that much money, even the most successful. So they're not going to be able to do this. Bad things are going to happen unless they figure this out. That's why a guy like Nick Saban and I'd work with Nick, but a guy like Dick Saban and some others getting together, because they're going to have to do something. Colleges can't afford it. And what they're doing, I don't want to use any particular sport because it's, you know, degrading. But they are really terminating a lot of sports, you know, sports of you would call them lesser sports, but, but big sports, good sports and sports where they have tremendous interest, they're getting rid of them. And frankly, the college football, it's very big. But as big as it is, if they don't do, you know, some very powerful caps, these colleges are all going to go out of business no matter how rich they are.
- [82:00]
Pat McAfee
I'm fascinated to see what 10 years from now looks like with college sports. And you said Coach Saban should be a part of it. We agree completely. He's going to say, you're a president. All right, you go ahead and do it. But anyway.
- [82:12]
Donald J. Trump
No, you do it. You tell me. I'm not doing that. You know what, get involved in that.
- [82:17]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, exactly. He's golfing right now. Hey, Mr. President. He's golfing right now. Two times a week. He's got a little speaking circuit. He's selling Ferraris. He does college game day. Him and Miss Terry living good. You know, he's like, you want me to go take on 1300 student athletes in every business behind it? He would be perfect. Hopefully you're able to get to that Last question here for you, Mr. President, comes from Ty Schmidt.
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Ty Schmidt
Yeah. Mr. President, you've obviously been afforded the opportunity to go to some of the best sporting events, you know, over the last, you know. Well, I guess, you know, over your lifetime, I suppose. But we saw you, you know, in the Yankees clubhouse on 9 11, which was awesome. A bunch of different big time college football games, Army, Navy included. You were just at the Ryder cup, obviously the NFL game. Is there one sporting event that either you haven't been to yet that you'd like to go to, or is there one where you, you know, are thinking, like, man, if I could have the opportunity to experience that for the first time, time again, I would love to do that.
- [83:11]
Donald J. Trump
Well, you're going to see, you know, I was able to bring in my first term, sign up the World Cup. So you're going to have the World cup and you're going to have the Olympics. I never did the Olympic thing, so we're going to have both the Olympics. I signed both of them up. I never thought I'd go to see him as president, but then we had an election that there was a little hanky panky going on, as you say, and now all of a sudden, I'm the president during those two. And then of course, we have the 250th year, which, you know, the anniversary thing, which is big. I do have to say, look, I like them all. I love sports. But I do have to say, and I'll probably get myself in a little trouble with this. I hate the kickoff.
- [83:48]
Pat McAfee
Oh, come on, Mr. President.
- [83:51]
Donald J. Trump
I think it's so terrible. I think it's so demeaning, and I think it hurts the game, it hurts the pageantry. I've told that to Roger Goodell, and I don't think it's any safer. I mean, you see, still have guys crashing into each other and it's so, you know, it's the opposite of what the game. The ball is in the air and nobody's moving. It's supposed to be when the ball is in the air, when the ball is played.
- [84:13]
Pat McAfee
You're supposed to be a live ball, Mr. Brady.
- [84:15]
Donald J. Trump
You walk in and the pageantry of the game is so badly hurt. And I don't think NFL, you know, they don't. They do what they want to do, but I don't think they'll change. I hope college football doesn't change because, you know, the power of the kickoff is. Was so beautiful. And now it, you know, I don't want to say what it reminds me of because I'll get myself into big trouble. It is not football. And I have no idea what you guys. You guys may disagree with me. I don't think it's going to help.
- [84:44]
Pat McAfee
No, Mr. President. Mr. President, this is how we feel. I feel as if they were just going to get rid of the kickoff. In special teams as a whole, as a former punter and kickoff team guy, anything to save the play, I'm on board with because they were on their Way to kind of move it out. So this version of the kickoff kind of became like the last hope, basically, for the kickoff. But what you said about the original kickoff, I think every football person is like, yeah, let's go back to that. Especially with onside kick capabilities and surprise onside kick capabilities.
- [85:12]
Donald J. Trump
Oh, so good.
- [85:13]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, so good.
- [85:14]
Donald J. Trump
Now it's so bad. It's so mad.
- [85:17]
Pat McAfee
It's so.
- [85:18]
Donald J. Trump
It's so unromantic. And it just is demeaning to football. I don't think they have a right to do that to the game. You know, the game is so important. I don't think the people that approve that. I don't think anybody has the right to do that to the game. And I hope college doesn't change, and I hope that someday the NFL will stop it and go back to football.
- [85:39]
Pat McAfee
Goodell has no idea you got Cash Patel on the rolls right now to see if he's even allowed to change that kickoff in the United States of America. Mr. President, we appreciate your time. Do you have any final messages to the Marines that are around us and the veterans as a whole on this Veterans Day?
- [85:54]
Donald J. Trump
Well, I just want to say hello to all of the guys and gals that are in your audience. They're fantastic. You just don't get any better. And we love our veterans. And I'm taking care of the veterans better than any president has ever done by far. Nobody's ever had those approval ratings at the venture NBA like we have. And Doug Collins is devoting his life to it. It's the most important thing he's ever done. So I just want to thank everybody. Happy Veterans Day. And, Pat, keep up the good work. We really appreciate it.
- [86:21]
Pat McAfee
I appreciate you, Mr. President. How about one last hoorah for the crowd?
- [86:26]
Donald J. Trump
You want me to do another one? I'll do another one.
- [86:28]
Pat McAfee
Hoorah. You're the best. Ladies and gentlemen, that's President 45 and 47 of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Trump.
- [86:38]
Donald J. Trump
Thank you, everybody.
- [86:39]
Pat McAfee
All right.
- [86:40]
Donald J. Trump
Thank you very much.
- [86:41]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, you too, Mr. President. See you later. Okay. That's outrageous. Holy. That was not an impressionist. It was actually. Mr. President, I will like to say, though, for the immediate people that are going to be mad about that happening as president, United States, it's Veterans Day. He's Commander in Chief, Obviously. If we have the opportunity to talk to him, we're going to. And he is hilarious. I mean, he is. The way it's demeaning to the game. He's talking about the game. Are they even allowed to do that? Are they even allowed. Allowed to do that? Got to be the only president that's ever acted the way he is. I would like to say as soon as we found out that this was an opportunity, I reached out to President Obama as well in his team to potentially come on because of scheduling and conflicts. They were very kind and obviously sent incredible hope for the veterans and everything and thankful and honor for them and everything. And I believe they just released a video of him welcoming back an honor flight of Vietnam vets back to America. So obviously very thankful, but because the schedule wasn't able to do that. But I did reach out to President Obama as well, and his team got a chance to get a hold of him. I think there's a chance that conversation will happen later. But on that note, aside from politics, aside, we just had the president on during Veterans Day and listening to him talk about sports is cool because I think he is legit sports fan. Like, I think he's actual sports fan. The college football thing, it feels like he's got world stuff going on. I don't know if we can just toss the college football in there. But he talks about how important is the United States American. I appreciate that. But I did want to put a little pressure on, like, hey, let's go ahead and look into that. Yeah, there's a lot of paperwork that needs to be done.
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AP Tone
We've tapped everything we could. You taught you tap Saban, now you tap the president, United States. I don't know who's next?
- [88:08]
Pat McAfee
Jeff Landry. Governor Jeff Landry. He's got a lot.
- [88:10]
Ty Schmidt
I don't know.
- [88:10]
AP Tone
He's got a lot on his plate, too. He's got a lot of gator hunts.
- [88:13]
Pat McAfee
Not just gator hunt. So allegedly, they're potentially looking for a probable cause for that Fireman. So. So it was 54 million, which was director, what was owed to Brian Kelly. And you know, there was a chance that they were going to have a conversation about maybe a buyout. Like right now, if we were to give you 40 million as opposed to this 54 million kind of over the next couple years, maybe you will agree to a buyout right now, a lump sum. It's like when you win the lottery and you can either take it over like 30 years or you can take the lump sum, but you're going to get taxed a bit to get that money into your bank account the next day as a negotiation. It's like a deal or no deal. So everybody thought maybe they're going to offer like 40 million, 44 million out of the 54. You can get it today as opposed to over. Well, now, that didn't happen. I guess Brian Kelly and his people said, nah, we'll take that. Yeah, we'll go to court. Next couple years are cool. And then allegedly, now LSU is like, do we owe him anything? Actually, just a probable. Probable cause for the firing means no guaranteed money going forward, which is always a part of a contract. So that's where LSU is right now. It's going great. It's going great. They still don't have a head coach. But what we do know is Brian Kelly's going to end up with a lot of money. LSU is going to have a new head coach. Maybe it's Kelvin Shepard.
- [89:16]
Darius J. Butler
D. Bud, I hope so. And I mean, God bless America, you're getting fired and you're getting that type of check to walk out.
- [89:21]
Pat McAfee
That's what Jeff Landry said.
- [89:23]
Darius J. Butler
And probably, you know, golf. But me and Jeff Landry see a lot of things differently. But so what are you talking about? He earned that job, you know, and obviously, you know, you sign a contract on both sides and you gotta, you know, pay your due. Then we have. Didn't Matt Rule or didn't he have a situation with the Carolina.
- [89:40]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, I think there was a little bit of that.
- [89:42]
Darius J. Butler
So, yeah, it's a good gig to get into and even a good gig to get fired from. So, yeah, I'm not.
- [89:47]
AJ Hawk
Why would Rule agree to it to.
- [89:48]
Pat McAfee
Or why would Brian Kelly or Brian Kelly.
- [89:51]
AJ Hawk
I'm sorry, why wouldn't he say no, you. My buyout clearly says you owe me $54 million. Why would I give you a deal?
- [89:55]
Pat McAfee
You get 40 million right now.
- [89:57]
AJ Hawk
Stand up for Brian Kelly.
- [89:58]
Pat McAfee
You get 40 million right now or you get it over the next.
- [90:00]
AJ Hawk
So they're going. They're going to boom. 40 mil lump sum.
- [90:03]
Pat McAfee
That would be the deal. That's the negotiation.
- [90:05]
AJ Hawk
Negotiation.
- [90:06]
Pat McAfee
I think they're past that negotiation.
- [90:08]
Ty Schmidt
Wasn't it reported that. I think that the lump sum offer was like 25 maybe, and he said, no way. And then they raised it to maybe like 28 or 30. But yeah, I mean, you're not leaving for years $25 million on the table to get a lump sum right now.
- [90:23]
Pat McAfee
I don't think so much going on in sports, obviously, on this Veterans Day, we're so thankful to be here at Parris Island. As platoons are rolling into the parade deck to drill. I believe there's an all female platoon here. Okay, so I believe females account for. And Bruce Brown back in the truck. Might have to correct this a little bit. It's 5.1% of the marine Corps as a whole, and we saw one of their platoons this morning at 4:27, maybe 4:30 outside. 30 degrees. Howling wind.
- [90:55]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah.
- [90:56]
Pat McAfee
Hear him two buildings over. Just. Oh, man, just the entire thing. You walk by, obviously, badass dogs everywhere around this place. And it's been cool to learn about. It's been very cool to learn about. It's also been very cool to reach out to different leagues and say, hey, we're going to be very lucky to be live from Parris island on this Veterans Day. Is there anything you want to say to the vets from your league? Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred actually answered the call and this is what he had to say on this glorious Veterans Day about our vets. Pat, thank you for the opportunity to be with you on Veterans Day.
- [91:31]
Donald J. Trump
Baseball has a special relationship with the.
- [91:34]
Pat McAfee
Armed forces and veterans.
- [91:37]
Donald J. Trump
Historically, great players like Ted Williams and.
- [91:40]
Boston Connor
Yogi Berra interrupted their careers to serve.
- [91:44]
Donald J. Trump
And today many clubs honor a veteran.
- [91:47]
Pat McAfee
At every single game on this holiday.
- [91:50]
Donald J. Trump
All of us at MLB want to recognize our veterans and thank them for their service.
- [91:55]
Pat McAfee
Hell yeah. Thank you, Rob Manfred. Baseball has a lot going on in it right now. So obviously I saw the clays and the, the other case going on right now with pitches and balls. Jeff Passon. As soon as this entire thing started off, Jeff Passon was like, it's going to get to a point where we're going to have to wonder if every single pitch is potentially up for grabs, especially with live betting, how you can just, hey, next pitch is going to be a ball or second pitch, fifth inning going to be a ball. And now it's coming to fruition, I guess, and they're saying it wasn't a lot of money going to the pitchers, but there is 400,000 bucks plus being won by the bettors on the outcome of one pitch throughout an entirety of a game. They're pushing to place $200 max parlay bets on these things so people can't win. 400,000 can't be as leveraged as it has been. Baseball's got to get this figured out, though. Ty Schmidt, it feels like. Thank you to Rob Manfred, thank you to MLB for their history with the military, but they have certainly a problem that obviously sports has created as a whole. It's not just a baseball problem, but they have one that they have to get to the bottom of.
- [93:00]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, they got to get Rid of it. I think, like, I understand that's a, that's a good start with 200 bucks. But like Emmanuel Clase, the guy you're talking about. Yeah, I think he got maybe 7,500 bucks from doing this.
- [93:09]
Pat McAfee
So it's not like, why doing it.
- [93:11]
Ty Schmidt
That's. Well, that's what makes he is one of the best closers in baseball. If whenever he is going to get a new. Like, he would have been making $35 million a year. So it's just like, I don't know, maybe you're trying to help out somebody, but that there, you just don't need to have that. That's like real degenerate. Like, it really is. I mean, I know a lot of people like to gamble, but like, man, do it inning. But at bat, you don't need to have pitch by pitch because you could see, like, it'd be very easy for a guy to just be like, oh, okay, I'll throw the, the first pitch, I will throw a ball and then I'll strike this guy out. Nobody's going to be, you know, none the wiser and we'll, we'll move on. But for a guy who's making millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars every year to potentially throw his career away for like 7,500 bucks, like, come on.
- [93:53]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, none of it really makes sense in our eyes, but we do know that if you have a friend or you're leveraged somehow, right. If you become out of leverage, you're in a bad spot, four or five thousand bucks, you're kind of forced to do something. Doesn't sound like early indications or any of that with taking place. It was just kind of like friends helping each other because they put some text messages in there about the better. I think somebody swung at a pitch that was supposed to be a ball.
- [94:15]
Ty Schmidt
It's clearly Volpe.
- [94:16]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. So Anthony Volpe, I guess, is in a, in a court case with having a terrible eye. Having a terrible eye in everybody's eye. No problem, Volpe. We still think you're a dog. But I guess because it wasn't a ball and it was a strike, the better loses better sends emoji to pitcher. Pitcher. First thing he does after game is almost respond saying, I'm so sorry, he actually got a win. So I think there's a personal relationship there that was potentially happening as opposed to a leverage relationship that was happening in this case. But nonetheless, to your point, I don't think we need to be gambling on every single pitch. That's not what we're doing in sports. It can't be what we're doing in sports. And if you just get rid of that as a gambling thing, it takes away a huge liability of integrity of sport. I think, I think each sport needs to start looking for those things.
- [95:01]
AP Tone
Yeah, I agree. And I'm with Ty and with you that it's, it's not necessary. Like, there's enough stuff to bet on that you don't need to be able to bet on every single individual pitch. And I know this might not be popular either. I, I'm not even like a huge, like, hey, we need player props type guy because. Oh, see, I.
- [95:17]
Darius J. Butler
Slow down.
- [95:18]
AP Tone
Oh, sorry. I'm just saying, like, there's a lot, there's a lot to bet on that it's like, like obviously touchdown parlays, stuff like that. Those are awesome. Okay, yeah, but like.
- [95:32]
Pat McAfee
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Ty Schmidt
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Pat McAfee
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Ty Schmidt
A little self care beforehand.
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Pat McAfee
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Come to DSW for the shoes.
- [96:38]
Dan Orlovsky
Stay for the fun.
- [96:39]
Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Because let's be honest, if shoe shopping.
- [96:42]
Pat McAfee
Isn'T fun, are you even doing it right?
- [96:44]
Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
So go ahead, try something new. Try something different, Good different. Try something that feels like you, you know, the real you.
- [96:53]
Pat McAfee
And then definitely brag about it later.
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Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
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- [97:09]
Pat McAfee
Hello. I don't Know what's going on. We're going somewhere right now. We're going right now.
- [97:15]
Darius J. Butler
I feel safe.
- [97:16]
Pat McAfee
I know that this is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. I must treat it as I must treat myself. God, I don't know where they're going, but I'm thankful that they are doing it. They're going to the next part of their day. What could that. Oh, you guys only. Yes, sir. No, sir. I gotta do. Yes. No, sir. Are they potentially heading back to barracks right now? So they're going to get changed right now. Oh, they got stuff still to do back when they get to the barracks? Yes, sir. Okay, what is that? We got more discipline. We're doing more workouts. Are we eating again?
- [98:06]
Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
No sleep.
- [98:06]
AP Tone
No eat, sir.
- [98:07]
Ty Schmidt
Squeeze a nap in. Yeah.
- [98:09]
Pat McAfee
Any naps? Any naps? Okay. Okay. Crucible. 54 hours. More than six hours of sleep. Okay. Through the whole thing. That's. That's the whole thing. And they're.
- [98:26]
AJ Hawk
They're marching, I believe Sergeant Major said they do they graduate on Friday.
- [98:29]
Pat McAfee
Yes. They've already done their crucible, though, so they've already done that. They graduate on Friday. So you've been here for 15 weeks now? Oh, no. 16 weeks. 12 weeks. 14 weeks.
- [98:46]
Boston Connor
10. And one more.
- [98:48]
Ty Schmidt
13.
- [98:48]
Pat McAfee
13. We've been saying it's 13 weeks this entire time. Why did I not count this? I've literally been saying that. That's all. I mean, I apologize. No response. I appreciate that. Don't apologize. Don't be sorry, sir. You just gotta keep it.
- [99:04]
Darius J. Butler
What were you saying when they were. When they were running?
- [99:06]
Pat McAfee
That's a rifleman's creed. It's a. It's a seven parter, you know? This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. I must treat it. There's seven pieces of that thing.
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AP Tone
Is that. This is my rifle. This is my gun.
- [99:18]
AJ Hawk
Child's play.
- [99:19]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. This one's for fighting. This one's for fun.
- [99:22]
AP Tone
Yeah.
- [99:22]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. Arley. This is my rifle. This is my dart. That whole thing. Yeah, Yeah. I watched that about 10,000 times getting ready for the mosquito ball. But the creed of a United States Marine is, this is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My rifle without me is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will. My rifle and myself know that what counts in this war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit. My rifle is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will ever guard it against the ravages of weather and damage, as I will ever guard my legs, my arms, my eyes, and my heart against damage. I will keep my rifle clean and ready. We will become a part of each other. We will. Before God, I swear this creed. My rifle and myself are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it. Until victory is America's and there is no enemy but peace. Ooh. Raw. Yeah. So that's the Rifleman's pretty good.
- [100:59]
Darius J. Butler
It's awesome.
- [101:00]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. And they are saying that. I mean, that is a kind of a constant reminder of what you're trying to do here. And they talk about their enemies trying to shoot them. It's like we talked about it with Sergeant Major. When they talk about first to fight, they're talking about, like, that is their mantra. Like, hey, you're coming to the Marines. You are. Hey, you're going. Like, this isn't like, is there something happening? And I think they take a lot of pride. 250th birthday, 250 years from yesterday. Started as a militia in a bar before the United States of America started. Now they're under the Navy's branch, but they still operate as their own entity. Go ahead. Deep.
- [101:35]
Darius J. Butler
I mean, just so blessed and thankful. I know Dano said it. We all said it, you know, that we get to live the life that lives that we live because of what they do. And the line that they signed and spending some time with him last night, just having those conversations, you know, watching the game. And then you really understand because, you know, as football players in sports, you know, we pride ourselves on being tough and playing through injuries. And a lot of times people compare, you know, football to battle, you know, but it's obviously much different. It's life and death there, and it's wins and losses for us, but it's a great feeling to know that they are on our side. And when you're actually having conversations, you know, with these humans, where it's like, if it's time to Go. I'm ready to go. And I'm like, hey, please, Please be ready. And I'm like, damn, we really need people out there like this, man. But it's just been an awesome experience just being here, this setting, just seeing it, just feeling it. Like, it's hard not to. To, you know, almost have, like, some emotions. You're in it, man. It's awesome.
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AP Tone
Yeah, the Brigand Brew was awesome last night. Just, like, have some drinks with the boys and talk to all of them. But it was also, like, awesome. Just the atmosphere, because it felt like kind of like how a European football game feels. Everyone was just. Didn't matter that it was packers and Eagles last night. Everyone was just wearing wherever they're from, whatever team they root for. That's what they were wearing. So it was cool to talk to everyone about, like, their individual fandoms.
- [102:53]
Pat McAfee
That.
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Ty Schmidt
That was awesome.
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AP Tone
Him last night.
- [102:55]
Pat McAfee
There's a beach volleyball pit in the back of this place. This is on base here. Need to get back for the summer for the beach. I wanted to.
- [103:02]
AP Tone
We were driving by, and I said, we need to recreate Top Gun.
- [103:05]
Pat McAfee
I don't think we need to just be inviting ourselves back to Parris Island. Very abnormal that we are here. Yes. I don't think it's.
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AP Tone
Sergeant Major said we'd come back.
- [103:12]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. Well, I think he felt kind of obligated to say that in a moment to our faces, because he's a good man. But on that note, we do have much appreciation for the access that we've been given and the ability to be here. On that note, there was some breaking news out of the NBA this morning. Nico Harrison. Okay. We all know him as the guy that traded away Luca via Shams Sharon's Twitter account after Royal Rumble last year. He's been fired. Yeah. So I don't know how. I don't know how you let him trade away Luka Donchic and then you fire him a year later. You know, you have Cooper Flag. Obviously, you win the draft lottery. Feels like it's kind of everything he envisioned now. Anthony Davis, another injury, Another injury, another injury. You got Kyrie, Cooper Flagg supposed to go on and be the next guy. It felt like they were kind of building this team in his image, and they moved on from what their team was. That made it to the finals quickly because he didn't believe in the guy because he drank some beers after games, and maybe he wasn't as committed to his fitness as, like, Kobe Bryant or one of these other guys. Luka plays in his own way, Nico didn't like that. Nico said, we need defense and we need somebody that's like a full professional. Trades away the face of the franchise, every single jersey, basically, that their fans own. We saw the Mavericks play the Pacers in Indiana. I saw it with my own eyes. That was a Mavericks crowd that was in this before. Tyrese really goes on. It was a Mavericks crowd, and everybody in there had the two sevens on. Everybody in there was really. That was in Indiana, let alone in Dallas, let alone the entire NBA. So they somehow move on from him at this guy's kind of guidance, and then they fire them less than a year later. I don't think I fully understand what.
- [104:47]
AJ Hawk
We haven't got to figure out if the trade works out.
- [104:49]
Pat McAfee
Exactly. They had to.
- [104:51]
AJ Hawk
I would assume it was Nico's idea. Right. He brought it to the new ownership group and said, hey, this is my plan. But they co signed.
- [104:56]
Ty Schmidt
They.
- [104:56]
AJ Hawk
They signed off on it, obviously, if you're the owner. So to not to give them out before you can kind of see how it goes. I don't know, maybe something else is going on.
- [105:03]
Pat McAfee
We don't know.
- [105:03]
Darius J. Butler
At least give them a full year. You know, you're assuming I have been paying that close of attention to the Mavericks because it's still football season, obviously. So I don't know how things are looking, but I would assume last.
- [105:13]
Boston Connor
They suck.
- [105:14]
Darius J. Butler
It's got to be looking pretty shitty. But no, it was a bad.
- [105:18]
Pat McAfee
Historic pace.
- [105:19]
Boston Connor
He's the first player in NBA history to average like 40, 10 and 10. Nico Harrison's an idiot. Like, it's about time. It's ridiculous that we're even talking about this now. It should have been two weeks ago.
- [105:31]
Pat McAfee
Exactly.
- [105:32]
Boston Connor
They did have a chance too. Like, AD was healthy at the beginning, and Kyrie Irving, sure, his. His knee was hurt, but, you know, Cooper Flag wasn't really the Nico Harrison mastermind. He fell into that. And so Cooper Flagg, who's still going to be incredible, awesome player, like the team that whatever is that don't even have to talk about anymore, whatever his name is. Harrison built minus Kyrie, who was hurt. That team sucked so bad at Cooper Flag. Still not great. So it's like, okay, this guy completely blew up our franchise and the player we traded away is having the greatest season in the history of the NBA.
- [106:06]
Pat McAfee
And what we're saying is tough to fire him that quick after letting him do what he did to your franchise. Like, you got at least publicly say, like, hey, it stinks now, but we got vision hey, remember how bad it stunk when we traded Luka? That stunk. Remember, it's going to be some stinky times as we try to get to what his vision is. And them just saying halfway through it now, and people are posting a photo of a child wearing A Lakers jersey. 77. Luca sitting down with the owner at the game. And they. The Internet. The post basically said he had a pretty passionate and spirited conversation with this boy. I wonder how much ownership has heard about this entire thing. That they finally got to a breaking point with how ass their team is that they choose to move on. But it's hard not to look at him and say, we told you so, though. Like, you're the ones that got talked into trading away Luca. Like, this is on you as well. And maybe they're just owning that and saying, yeah, we it up. Maybe that's just what they're saying. And they're trying to hit a reset. Yeah, I don't know. I have no idea.
- [107:01]
Ty Schmidt
That could be. Do you think? And in my heart of hearts, I feel. Because this kind of hat. This kind of started to happen a little bit. The conversation did. When Luca first got traded. I wouldn't be surprised if the Mavericks owners are like, you know what? We want our team in Vegas.
- [107:13]
Pat McAfee
So, no, that's what they said deep down.
- [107:18]
Ty Schmidt
That is what. Because. Because it is. It's like you had this guy, you had Kyrie, they made it to a finals, and then you blow up your entire team for what?
- [107:25]
AP Tone
But Dallas is so much bigger than Vegas. Like, as a city and a sports town.
- [107:29]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, but isn't the lady who owns Casino Casino.
- [107:33]
Pat McAfee
It's certainly conspiracy fodder. As soon as Lucas traded, it's like you're trying to tank this team. You want to get rid of all the fans. That's how bad of a trade it was. And then everybody's like, no, Nico's G vision. He wants defense. Then we saw him play okay a couple times, and we're like, wait a minute. Maybe Nico has an idea. They fall into Cooper. Flag to your point, that wasn't part of Nico's vision. When he trades away Luka, he just so happens to fall into it. And they're still being asked. I appreciate ownership saying, yeah, we fudged this up, and they just kind of move forward. The NBA, though, highest ratings they've had. Long time. Congratulations to the NBA.
- [108:01]
Boston Connor
Unbelievable.
- [108:01]
Pat McAfee
We're very appreciative of the NBA. I enjoy the NBA. The NBA has been very good to us. Now they also just like the MLB and every other sport has to play defense on what's going on with the sports books world. But we're very appreciative of Adam Silver. And whenever that narrative was brought up about ownership down in Dallas, we actually asked Adam Silver and he was like, no, that is. Why would we do that? That is not the way to go about doing that. Correct. If that's the way you want to go about doing it, that's not how the business will be responded. He basically kind of cut it off. Adam Silver front of the program and what we have found to be genuinely good and smart. Commish, it feels like able to negotiate a mega rights deal, which is certainly working for them as they're seeing an uptick. I reach out to him and I said, hey, we're going to be live from Paris Island. Do you have anything you want to say to the vets, if possible? This is literally yesterday. And this is what he sends back to every veteran, including all the Marines on Parris Island. I want to offer my sincere thank you and gratitude. Pat, many of your viewers may not know that the military and basketball have a long connection. James Naismith, who of course invented the game of basketball, was an army chaplain during World War I. The sport then spread across American military bases around the world. And throughout the NBA's history, veterans have played an important role as hall of Fame players and coaches, as executives at our teams and the league office, and as leaders of USA Basketball. Tonight, in arenas across the country, NBA teams will continue a time honored tradition of recognizing the service and sacrifice of our veterans. On behalf of everyone at the NBA, Happy Veterans Day to all of you. I don't, you know, because they're so like in the boot camp right now as, as they're watching Adam Silver there. I don't know if they're impressed or not, but I would like to say Adam Silver in the NBA put that together in about four hour turnover period and did the entire thing. Obviously very much appreciative of the vets and everything that their team. Naismith being an army chaplain back in the day and then spreading it kind of global, obviously is a beautiful thing and we appreciate Adam Silver doing that. And then what Veterans Day would it be if you didn't have the man that basically epitomizes American dream and American success? We reach out to the UFC President Dana White and said, hey, we're going to be live, brother. Anything to say? This is within. Responded within 47 seconds, sent this thing back. Dana White here to every veteran and Every military family. Thank you. You're the toughest, most selfless people on earth, and because of you, we get to live free and do what we love. Discipline, sacrifice, and heart. You set the standard for this country. America is built on your grit, and we'll never forget it. We respect you, we honor you, and we thank you. Happy Veterans Day. Yeah, it is cool that, like, all the heads of everything basically understand what the military does for us and respects and appreciates the hell out of them, I'm telling you. Message sent over. And then, like, see the little bubble? And it's coming back. It's a video. It's like. Absolutely.
- [111:13]
Darius J. Butler
Thank you for standing there already.
- [111:15]
Pat McAfee
I think that's. Yeah, I think that's potentially everywhere that he is. Which American flag should we.
- [111:20]
Boston Connor
Yeah, exactly.
- [111:21]
Pat McAfee
This one. I don't think we've done this one. Yeah. So we appreciate. Yeah, exactly. Ram trucks. Exactly. So we appreciate the hell. Out of all four commissioners, Dana White, the President of the United States stopped by. Sergeant Major obviously stopped by. Dan Orlovsky, gave us real good stuff. Do you remember him saying. Yeah, yeah.
- [111:44]
AP Tone
It's confused. What, How.
- [111:45]
Pat McAfee
How did he get to that?
- [111:46]
Donald J. Trump
He ended on a good one.
- [111:47]
Darius J. Butler
He did.
- [111:48]
Pat McAfee
He did. And his AirPods were working against him.
- [111:50]
AP Tone
Yeah.
- [111:50]
Pat McAfee
I will say his AirPods.
- [111:52]
AP Tone
He has a cadence voice, though. Like, that's not how he did the cadence.
- [111:54]
Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Right.
- [111:54]
Pat McAfee
Get down there. Yeah.
- [111:55]
Boston Connor
Doesn't he have the low ready?
- [111:57]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, but we got to remember this is tv.
- [112:00]
Ty Schmidt
Dan, though, that's a good point.
- [112:03]
Pat McAfee
What's.
- [112:04]
Ty Schmidt
You always have. No, no, no.
- [112:05]
Darius J. Butler
That was my quarterback.
- [112:06]
AP Tone
You always have a cadence.
- [112:07]
Darius J. Butler
Part of reason. I went. You probably don't.
- [112:10]
Boston Connor
How good was his cadence?
- [112:11]
Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Wasn't it to.
- [112:13]
Darius J. Butler
To that point? He is far removed from that.
- [112:16]
Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
He.
- [112:16]
Darius J. Butler
He definitely has. You know, you got. You got to command the huddle. You got to commit 10 other men.
- [112:20]
Pat McAfee
In the huddle, and he was able to do that. This guy was old American, 12 years.
- [112:23]
Darius J. Butler
And he played 12 years in the National Football League. So. Yeah, you know, he saw that nice kitchen.
- [112:27]
Pat McAfee
But now. Yeah, exactly. It's not just. I blame him.
- [112:30]
Darius J. Butler
AirPods.
- [112:30]
Pat McAfee
Could you imagine? It could be the AirPods or it could be the fact that if he was to get into that ever around anybody. Not the NFL Live Crew, obviously, we know they know balloons, but, you know, lawsuits are on.
- [112:39]
Boston Connor
Sure.
- [112:39]
Pat McAfee
If he even gets into that, all there's going to be a fool. Just start swearing.
- [112:43]
Ty Schmidt
Are we. This guy.
- [112:45]
Pat McAfee
This isn't what we're looking for. Yeah, we need the fudge guy. Yeah, the fudge Guy, we need the entire thing. And obviously, he was mentioned by the President of the United States a couple different times. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs. I had the opportunity to meet him down at Texas Tech this past weekend at college game day. He sent a video for us there. And Doug Collins, we want to let you know you're the absolute man. And for all vets, we hope you get a chance to hear this message, especially the younger ones. Hey, Pat. Gang, it's good to be with you today. I just want to say thanks for all those folks. I know you're down at Parris Island. Those young veterans are going to be coming through. There are veterans, but they're just getting started. Right now, young people all across this country, if you served in the military, we want you to know that when you get out of the military, no, what matter how long you serve, there are veterans benefits that you've earned. Make sure that you find out about those. They can help you get started with a new home. They can help you get started in business. They can send you to school or get vocational training. Look, this isn't about the old stuffy VA that you heard about from your relatives, your parents. This is about a VA that's focused on one thing and one thing only. That's our veteran. So you know that you're out there. We love you. We support you. This secretary wants you to know these benefits are you. Don't let them for somebody, somebody else. They're there for you and the service that you did. You raised your right hand. Now let us raise our hand and serve you. Hell, y' all have a great day down there. Hell, yeah, Mr. Secretary. Hey, remember that, okay? You guys are about to do a lot of things in your life. Remember that the VA is there to look out for you, no matter your age, especially if you're willing to do something for our country. Our country should look out for you. I love that that's been a message from the highest of high. Okay, Commander in Chief, as we sit on Parris Island, Sergeant Major, the Secretary of Veteran affairs, everybody's basically trying to say to you vets, we appreciate the hell out of you. If you need help, the government's got your back. And if you need a coffee, your fellow peers would love to buy you one to say thank you. We appreciate it so much. We're so lucky to be here. From AJ Hawk, Darius Butler, Ty Schmidt, Boston Connor, AP Tone, and obviously Parris Island. Thank you so much for joining us today here on espn. As we say. Ooh. Raw. Ooh. Raw. Good show. Oh, there's a delay. Shoot. Say thanks to those who served and are serving in this for this beautiful country and enjoy the hell out of the rest of your Veterans Day. We'll be back tomorrow live from the Thunderdome. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change your life. We're in this thing together. God bless America. That was sick. All right.
- [115:27]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah.
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Pat McAfee
As we wrap up here on the way out, can't help but give a shout out to obviously, Marine football players, especially Marine football players that I got a chance to learn about and study and also, easy to say, absolute badass Americans. The Mosquito bowl is a book by Buzz Bissinger. Okay. And it's a movie that'll be out next fall. Literally, this time next year, the movie the Mosquito bowl will be out. It is a showcase of Marines being absolute badasses in World War II and what reality was like while fighting in the Pacific theater. It will also tell the story of these five all American football players that, instead of going professional in football, joined the Marines during World War II. McLaury from Brown University, Butkovich from Purdue. Shriner and Bauman from Wisconsin. No, Buckovich from Purdue. Yeah. George. Nah. Don't know all their schools. But anyways, badasses who decided to join the Marines. The story is immaculate. Wisconsin was right. Okay. I had it right.
- [116:36]
Ty Schmidt
You got it.
- [116:37]
Pat McAfee
Okay.
- [116:37]
Ty Schmidt
You got it.
- [116:37]
Pat McAfee
Okay. I'm happy I got it right. But the stories of these dudes and the sacrifice is a great kind of depiction of everybody in the military. Obviously, you're not forced to sign up for the military. Obviously, you're not forced to say, hey, I would like to fight for our country. It is a calling for people. It is a service to others that people are yearning for. And inevitably, it's a kind of a thermostat of badass that you have inside of you. Everybody that joins our military are absolute dogs. And the ones that go from football into the military, we obviously have so much respect for and appreciation for. And this Mosquito bowl story is beautiful, not only for football, but for the Marines and for society as a whole. So I am so lucky and thankful to be here. AJ Any final thoughts as we wrap up here at Parris Island?
- [117:25]
AJ Hawk
This is overwhelming. Like, the whole situation pulling in here, seeing everybody and getting to. Getting to speak with people was. It's pretty overwhelming. It's awesome. But the Mosquito bowl thing obviously reminded me of Pat Tillman. I know Pearl harbor happens, and these guys decide to, hey, I'm gonna go serve my country. And Pat Tillman. A very similar situation happened after 9 11. I know. He started to think and then, bam, he's in there. And unfortunately, he's not with us anymore. But.
- [117:48]
Pat McAfee
Yeah.
- [117:49]
AJ Hawk
Thank you to everyone here and everyone serving all around the world. It's just we are very, very lucky.
- [117:54]
Pat McAfee
To be Americans and, And, and, And.
- [117:58]
AJ Hawk
Ooh.
- [117:58]
Dan Orlovsky
Ra.
- [118:00]
Pat McAfee
Man. Sound like Orlovsky. I know I did. That was kind of a bad one. Was that a bad one?
- [118:05]
AJ Hawk
Well, he.
- [118:08]
Ty Schmidt
Was.
- [118:08]
AJ Hawk
I agree with you. Yeah, I'm okay. I can take some criticism. I agree.
- [118:12]
Pat McAfee
I'm.
- [118:12]
AJ Hawk
I'm very coachable, but that was. I'll get you guys back, just not right now. And just give me a second.
- [118:16]
Pat McAfee
All right?
- [118:18]
AJ Hawk
I shouldn't have let Dan influence me.
- [118:20]
Boston Connor
No, you shouldn't have.
- [118:20]
AJ Hawk
Like, I can hear Dan in my ear.
- [118:22]
Pat McAfee
Don't do that.
- [118:23]
Ty Schmidt
Why would you do that?
- [118:24]
Boston Connor
Get him out of there.
- [118:25]
Pat McAfee
Think about.
- [118:27]
AJ Hawk
We're trying to raise the flag.
- [118:28]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, you're damn right we are. It's Veterans Day. We're on Parris Island.
- [118:32]
AJ Hawk
It's on me. I'll get you guys in a little bit. It's not against you. I want to be able to. I want to be. You know, I don't want to. I want to honor you guys. I don't want to just haphazardly throw it out there.
- [118:46]
Pat McAfee
Well, you already did that.
- [118:47]
AJ Hawk
I know. And now we're making it even a thing, so that's why I just hit it.
- [118:50]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. I think you just need to go ahead and send it. I kind of stepped away.
- [118:57]
AJ Hawk
That's all we need.
- [118:58]
AP Tone
No, it's good.
- [118:58]
Pat McAfee
That was a good one.
- [119:00]
AJ Hawk
I don't want to disrespect him. I feel like I'm disrespecting, maybe even saying it.
- [119:03]
Pat McAfee
No, not at all. If you were to say, I believe what Sergeant Major told us is don't say who. Yeah, yeah. Just don't be. Don't be doing that. But certainly you can say it. I think they get jacked up. Does that. Does that feel good coming out?
- [119:15]
AJ Hawk
Feels great. Feels great. He's trying to get me to do it again. I'm not. I respect you guys way too much. My father in law, Tyrone Joel Quinn, though Marine, fought in Vietnam. Vietnam, as they say it sometimes. But yeah, he decided to enlist. One over. And once a Marine, always a Marine. He was not in Paris Island. He was actually West Coast.
- [119:34]
Pat McAfee
I texted him.
- [119:35]
AJ Hawk
Yeah, I texted him earlier to check on it. But yes, thank you to Tyrone Joel Quinn as well.
- [119:40]
Pat McAfee
And for him, we say yes. I feel like that Was. Hey, that was much better. Right? See, look at that. Coaching. You said coaching. We got that entire thing. AP tone. 80% of the betters won last night. The Marines turned 250. We honored the veterans today. Feels like a good 24 hours. AP tone.
- [119:59]
AP Tone
Yeah, it's been an awesome 24 hours. Thank you, boys, for sitting here for the entire show. Boys and girls, it was. It was awesome. Like, looking at you guys, it's hard not to get emotional. Shout out to my grandpa, who was not in Pacific Theater. He was at Normandy. He was.
- [120:12]
Pat McAfee
Is awesome.
- [120:13]
AP Tone
So I just want to, like. It's hard not to get emotional while you're here.
- [120:15]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, yeah, exactly. A lot of history.
- [120:17]
AP Tone
Just thank you. Thank you, everyone, for this. Like, thank you, everyone who served.
- [120:20]
Pat McAfee
Are you gonna. Oh, yeah, yeah.
- [120:22]
Boston Connor
I gotta.
- [120:22]
AP Tone
I gotta get myself back first.
- [120:24]
Darius J. Butler
Gotta do it.
- [120:28]
Pat McAfee
Red ain't ready. That was good. Yeah, it felt good. That was awesome. By the way, Boston. Connor, your thoughts as we had the chance to be a part of history here, man.
- [120:38]
Boston Connor
Yeah. Just so cool to say in the barracks. Like, it's just one of those experiences you'll never, never forget, you know, just the whole. The whole thing. Coming here at night, seeing everything at night, you know, when it's all lit up was incredible. And then, you know, not one cloud in the sky today. Talk about being blessed by God for an incredible day as well. So, you know, shout out to the Echo Company, because those are the barracks. Me, Bruce, and Bill, we kind of dubbed ourselves Team BBC. Bruce, Bill. So.
- [121:05]
Pat McAfee
Really? Is that what that means?
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Darius J. Butler
Yeah, well, we're kind of our own little.
- [121:07]
Boston Connor
We're kind of our own squadron within the Echo Company, so it's just kind of an honor to be in there. And the Evil Empire. What a sweet, like, kind of call sign and name to be a part of when it comes to Echo Company. So it's just, you know, an honor and a privilege, man. I mean, got to ask Donald Trump manage question. Thank you for that.
- [121:26]
Donald J. Trump
That.
- [121:27]
Boston Connor
That's unbelievable. But, yeah, it's just. It's just cool, man.
- [121:29]
Ty Schmidt
It's.
- [121:29]
Boston Connor
It's an honor of a lifetime.
- [121:30]
Pat McAfee
I can't wait to see the mentions for all of that. But I do feel like having the Commander in Chief on. On Veterans Day is the right play.
- [121:36]
AP Tone
Yes.
- [121:36]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, it feels like that is how it's supposed to go. Con man, any last calls for these folks here?
- [121:42]
Boston Connor
Yeah, I. I mean, I got one earlier, but I. Anytime it's called for. Absolutely. All right, one more.
- [121:49]
Pat McAfee
I felt like a good one, though.
- [121:50]
Boston Connor
Yeah, I felt Good.
- [121:51]
Ty Schmidt
About solid.
- [121:52]
Pat McAfee
Was that a good one? Yes, sir. There's somebody over here in this corner. They haven't had any sun. Okay. It is freezing. Yeah. It is 15 to 20 degrees. Different from the shade to the sun. We want to let you know. Thank you for toughing it out here. It's almost too hot up here. And then I look over and I see you and I'm like, God, we were living two different lives. And then I start thinking, yeah, we are living two different lives. So I appreciate you.
- [122:14]
AP Tone
That third one in here has been freezing the entire time.
- [122:17]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, we appreciate you battling through this. That mental toughness is going to protect the United States of America. Yeah, they're about ready for this show to be done. Ty Schmidt, any thoughts as we.
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Darius J. Butler
Ooh.
- [122:29]
Pat McAfee
Raw on Paris Island Somehow.
- [122:31]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah. Thank you all for your service so much. Every veteran out there too. I tell you what, I had a lot of reasons coming into the show today to just be in a pissy, shitty mood. Packers are dead. I think they should maybe fire their head coach. I don't know if they're going to. I needed to get a couple IV bags this morning cuz I was feeling a little under the weather, which made me feel like even more of a puss being here with what you guys go through, so. But then you get up here and you're surrounded by all this stuff and like I said, it's just, you know, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. It's. It's very special being here not only last night for you guys birthday, but also today on Veterans Day is awesome. I'll remember this day for the rest of my life. And with that being said.
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Pat McAfee
That one felt pretty good, right?
- [123:19]
AJ Hawk
Very good.
- [123:21]
Pat McAfee
Well, he's pumped. Yeah. Fist bump this guy. D butt. Military family, obviously really enjoyed what you said at the beginning of this entire thing. Paying tribute to your family, including your younger brother who's currently in the Air Force. Your thoughts as we wrap up here on this Veterans Day, first and foremost.
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Ty Schmidt
Nice. That was really good.
- [123:41]
Pat McAfee
Hey, that was the best one of the day. God damn civilians.
- [123:47]
Boston Connor
You know. Yes, the costume was a question.
- [123:51]
Darius J. Butler
Be respectful. But this was awesome, man. This, this whole two days. Last night obviously on the Marine's birthday and then today on Veterans Day. This is just awesome. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Got an opportunity to. I didn't sleep in the barracks last night, but got got to get up. Oh, 0400 you correctly said.
- [124:07]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, 0400.
- [124:08]
Darius J. Butler
Yeah, 04004. Heard the entire. You know, countdown and wake up and. And just see, you know, day 19, what we saw, the young men going through and getting shaped into Marines. It was just awesome to experience. Thank you so much for the hospitality, for allowing us here and allowing us to just be right here in it. Like we got live drills going on behind us.
- [124:29]
Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
Yeah.
- [124:29]
Darius J. Butler
This was just this all time moment. I'll never forget this. You know, you have different moments, whether it's sports or kids and family in this moment. This whole experience has been kind of right up there with us. Thank you once again. And.
- [124:44]
Pat McAfee
I like, you stuck one in. You got me.
- [124:46]
Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz
I didn't know.
- [124:46]
Pat McAfee
I thought you were kind of wrapping it up and then how could you ever wrap it up if the opportunity is just sitting there to say, I mean, how many can we get?
- [124:55]
Boston Connor
I mean, I don't know, if you had to guess, probably as many as.
- [125:01]
Pat McAfee
Possible, kind of forcing them to do it. But how many opportunities do we have to do it in front of an entire platoon? So you got. Yeah, every once in a while you.
- [125:09]
Ty Schmidt
Just got to hit him with an.
- [125:13]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. Because just feeling that back, it makes you feel good about America, AJ. Doesn't just kind of make you kind of get a patriot kind of little. Little feeling down in your loins every time. Yeah, your plums do feel it, don't you, aj?
- [125:27]
AJ Hawk
Yeah, my plums do feel. Feels great.
- [125:29]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. I don't know how often you're going to be able to do it. So every once in a while you just kind of got a. That was not as good one. That was all not your best. But there's certainly going to be an opportunity around the corner to be able to look Marines and say, I appreciate the hell out of you guys. And your call back and forth to each other is so cool. I love just saying.
- [125:52]
Ty Schmidt
Whole. Oh, you don't love, sir.
- [125:54]
AJ Hawk
It's got to happen organically now you're forcing it. I don't want to disrespect these people.
- [126:00]
Pat McAfee
On that note, we're out of here. Thank you all so much for hanging out with us here. To the 565dis that are currently on Parris island, thank you so much for being superhumans and instilling the Marines culture into generations and generations that have lasted for 250 years of badass dogs who are willing to go fight for all of us at all times, to all the vets out there that have signed a line that said, you know what, if there's a war, I don't want it, but I'll be the one that'll go fight it. We can't thank you enough. From Parris island, this is the Pat McAfee Show. I can't believe I get to say that. We can't thank you enough for joining us today. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. Tell a vet they're awesome. We're in this thing together. Let's never forget it. Team on me. Team on three. One, two, three. Team goodbye. Ooh, roll. Ooh, roll.