PMS 2.0 1554 - Feel Good Friday with Paul Skenes, Steve Levy, Brock Williams, Quentin Richardson

Summary

The Pat McAfee Show 2.0 | Episode 1554

Feel Good Friday with Paul Skenes, Steve Levy, Brock Williams, Quentin Richardson
Airdate: May 15, 2026

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Episode Overview

On this "Feel Good Friday," Pat McAfee and the crew (AJ Hawk, Boston Conner, Tone Digs, the Toxic Table) tackled the latest and greatest in the sports world with their signature blend of insider knowledge, sharp analysis, and comedic banter. The show dove into key events from the NBA and NHL playoffs, NFL schedule release reactions, and fun moments from MLB and beyond. Standout segments included interviews with Cy Young winner Paul Skenes, hockey broadcasting legend Steve Levy, blue-chip recruit Brock Williams’ college announcement, and NBA veteran Quentin Richardson breaking down playoff action.

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Main Segments & Key Insights

NBA & NHL Playoff Rundown

[00:00-06:08]

• Pat kicks off with excitement over MLB, NBA, and NHL playoffs.

• Focus on the night's NBA games: Detroit Pistons (“Stones”) trying to make history in Cleveland; San Antonio Spurs vs. Timberwolves, with discussions about Anthony Edwards' recovery and Cade Cunningham's struggle for Detroit.

• Betting talk: Tone Digs notes Cleveland has been unbeatable and great against the spread at home. For Spurs-Timberwolves, it’s been “either Spurs win blowouts or Wolves take it.”

  "People are saying, 'I’m not betting against the alien.' Okay. And I happen to fall into that category as well.” – Pat [03:08]

• Hockey updates: Mitch Marner’s goal for Vegas Golden Knights gets props, and the Tortorella ("Torts”) culture in Vegas noted as motivation for their surprising run.

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NFL Schedule Release Reactions

[06:08–21:44]

• The crew react to the glitzy, televised NFL schedule reveal, recognizing the internet’s outsized role in making the event a content sensation.

• Pat praises the schedule makers, comparing their challenge to “betting billions of dollars on who’ll be good in November.”

• Discussed teams with many primetime games: Rams, Seahawks, Packers, Chiefs (“Congrats to them and also congrats to us…we’re gonna watch them.”), Cowboys.

• Major storyline: The New York Jets receiving zero primetime games—a shock considering their market size.

• Steelers receive five straight weeks of national TV games, discussed as a bet on Pittsburgh being relevant:

  “From week 10…it’s five weeks in a row, the Steelers are going to be on national all by themselves.” – Tone [10:31]

• Schedule release videos and social media teams evaluated—the Chargers, Colts (Simpsons theme), Panthers, Jaguars, Vikings, and Steelers receive shout-outs for creative content.

• Debated whether Trevor Lawrence’s “haircut” for the Jaguars' video was legit or a work/gimmick.

  “Feels like we’re in the middle of a work right now, and I’m excited to see what Trevor looks like Week 1” – Pat [17:07]

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MLB Spotlight: Interview with Paul Skenes

[20:45–42:24]

Highlights:

• Skenes' dominance: On the cusp of a historic third straight season with sub-2.0 ERA.
• Charity: Strikeout-driven donations with Pat—over $56,000 raised early in the season.
• Inside the mind of an ace: Discusses reaching “midseason form,” variability in pitch feel, and the relationship with his catcher (Henry Davis).
• Skenes credits run support for his early success: “We’re scoring early, which makes it easy to pitch, which is nice.”
• Clubhouse culture: Mini basketball, bounce houses, and pranks (bubble gum on hats, cone theft). Skenes admits being “terrible” at golf and video games, prioritizing naps and pitching.
• Young stars: Discussed 20-year-old Connor Griffin’s maturity and team chemistry.

Notable Quote:

“I’m too stupid to call my own pitches, so I just let [my catcher] do it. He’s got my career in his hands every fifth day.” – Paul Skenes [25:45]

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NHL Deep Dive: Steve Levy Interview

[43:18–56:22]

Highlights:

• Levy reminisces about playoff passion in Montreal and Buffalo (“best series of the playoffs so far”).

• On Carolina Hurricanes: Unbeaten, ready for the Cup, with Rod Brind’Amour and rock-solid goaltending.

• Detailed breakdown of the importance of a hot goalie:

  “The most important player in all of sports is the hot goalie in Stanley Cup.” – Steve Levy [48:17]

• Colorado Avalanche: Noted for insane third-period differential and 16 different goal-scorers; issue is inconsistent goaltending.

• Vegas Golden Knights: Praises coach “Torch,” Carter Hart in goal, and Mitch Marner’s playoff emergence after Toronto criticism.

• Levy inducted into the New York State Hockey Hall of Fame [56:16].

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Recruiting Live: Brock Williams’ Commitment

[63:54–73:16]

Highlights:

• Blue-chip tight end Brock Williams joins the show to announce his college commitment, with family on Zoom.
• In a feel-good moment, he picks the Texas Longhorns, citing Coach Sarkeesian and top-tier quarterbacks.
• Family shares insight into the recruiting journey (27 visits), balancing football and education (mom is a teacher).

Notable Quote:

“Coach Sark’s been showing me a crazy amount of love almost every week.” – Brock Williams [67:56]

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NBA Playoff Roundtable with Quentin Richardson

[75:35–86:59]

Highlights:

• Q Rich expects Cleveland to close out the Pistons, commending their dominance at home (“hardest game to win is the closeout game”).
• Discusses the Knicks’ impact: “The first team in NBA history to win three straight playoff games by 25-plus points.”
• On Wemby’s “old school” physicality: Praises rookie’s willingness to stand his ground (“Glad it wasn’t an injury… loved every second of it”).
• Predicts Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards to respond big, but says "if Wemby gets any help, it's over for Minnesota."
• Light-hearted discussion about Q Rich’s pool setup and the hazards of Florida living (“No gators here, brother!”)

Notable Q Rich Quote:

“I loved every second of it… These elbows need to be registered weapons.” [83:26]

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Viral & Unique Sports Moments

[96:09–108:57] — “5 Things That Aren’t Ass”

• Paul Skenes’ pitching and Shohei Ohtani’s brilliance: Both aces heralded as must-watch – “America’s ace and Japan’s ace both dealing.”
• Savannah Bananas’ Riley Green: Singing himself to the plate, then getting a base hit in true banana ball fashion.
• Stilts player in banana ball: “How does he get in and out of those stilts? … He had surgery to attach them to his hips.” (joking)
• Soccer phenom Kevin Sullivan: 16-year-old Philly prodigy nets his first MLS goal—“future of American soccer” segment.
• Lacrosse buzzer-beater: Johns Hopkins’ end-to-end winner with under 20 seconds left for a Final Four berth, celebrated as exhilarating.

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Lighthearted Debates & Virality

[87:20–96:08]

• Hilarious “zoo trade” debate: Pittsburgh trades “Frankie” and an unnamed ape to Boston for 33-year-old stud “Lil Joe,” with both sides arguing who “won” the blockbuster animal deal.

  “Little Joe is coming to Pittsburgh and he’s gonna impregnate all the gorillas in Pittsburgh.” – Tone [91:11]

• Chat extends to the life expectancy of gorillas, their “careers,” and the cultural aspects of both zoos.

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Closing Bits: “Oh No” Moments & Rapid-fire NFL Picks

[108:09–137:51]

• Segment of sports gaffes: PGA putting disasters, baseball fielding blunders, soccer fans storming the pitch too early, and self-driving car mayhem in suburban Atlanta.
• Pat and AJ (and crew) pick the entire Week 1 NFL slate (picks are subject to change, but “locked in for now”). Banter about home openers, travel issues (Rams/49ers in Australia), and which teams have a chip on their shoulder post-schedule release.
• End on appreciation for the crew, guests, viewers, heartfelt reminders to “enjoy life” and “be a friend, tell a friend.”

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• "[The schedule makers] are betting billions of dollars on they think your team's going to be good." – Pat [10:17]
• "I'm too stupid to call my own pitches, so I just let him [my catcher] do it." – Paul Skenes [25:45]
• "The most important player in all of sports is the hot goalie in Stanley Cup." – Steve Levy [48:17]
• “I loved every second of it. Those elbows need to be registered weapons.” – Quentin Richardson (on Wemby’s physicality) [83:26]
• "If Little Joe shows up ready to work, then, yeah, I'll go check in on him." – Connor, on zoo trade drama [94:20]

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Episode Structure

[00:00–06:08] – Sports News & Playoff Hype

[06:08–21:44] – NFL Schedule Release & Social Media Reactions

[20:45–42:24] – Paul Skenes Interview

[43:18–56:22] – Steve Levy Interview

[63:54–73:16] – Brock Williams Commitment

[75:35–86:59] – Quentin Richardson on NBA Playoffs

[87:20–108:57] – Funbits: Gorilla Trades, “Not Ass” Moments

[108:09–137:51] – “Oh No” Sports Gaffes, NFL Picks, Farewells

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For New Listeners

This episode captures everything fans love about "The Pat McAfee Show":

• Up-to-the-minute sports news
• Engaging interviews with sports stars
• Playful, sometimes absurd debates (zoo trades!)
• A genuine celebration of sports culture with moments both sharp and hilarious

Summary:
If you care about sports and want news wrapped in laughter (plus, you now know which zoo just got a pro-ready silverback), this episode delivers.

Transcript

[A]

Hello beautiful people, and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome on this feel good. Friday, May 15, 2026 this sports program begins now. Sports are the absolute greatest. Last night hockey had a couple games that turned into blowouts. A series ended, a series continued, and tonight we got two basketball games on Amazon that could decide if we're going to see a game seven or not. Now there's been some blowouts, there's been some big wins, and every night could be electrifying. But the Stones need to go into Cleveland and get a win to have their first NBA conference final since 2008. Oh, yeah, don't worry about it. Donovan Mitchell, nine years in the league, has never won. What are they saying about him? Will he be able to do it in Cleveland? We shall see. And then the spurs, just two years removed from them being 22 and 60. Jeez, bad team. They become the Aliens team. Then all the boys start balling. They have to take on an Anthony Edwards alien like recovery. Remember, it was just what, like three weeks ago he hyperextended his knee. Who cares about any of it? They've been balling in the Timberwolves tonight in a late one both on prime cannot wait to continue the NBA playoff journey. We'll have Q Rich joining us in the second hour. I'm excited to hear who he thinks going to take the Is Cade Cunningham going to continue to live with a team around him that has been, in everybody's words, seemingly letting him die? Is Cade Cunningham going to be able to carry this squad into Cleveland? Is Eminem going to be there again?

[B]

He should be.

[A]

Is he Traveling to Cleveland 50?

[C]

Not if MGK's got something to say about it.

[A]

Well, is MGK? I would assume MGK is going to be in there. Mike the Miz going to be there?

[D]

No, no, he's busy losing a wrestling match probably tonight.

[A]

No, the Miz might be there. We don't know. The Miz might be throwing an honorary pit bull. I hope he does that. The guaranteed Pistons win. If Mike the Miz is at that game. Good luck to you and all you Stones fans up there in Detroit. The the ball knowers up there in Detroit calling the Stones. The Stones. Since what year was that? That guy tweeted. That was like long time ago. This guy doesn't know. Knocking them out. Toxic tables here at Boston Conner and one half of the Hammer Down Cowboys. AP Tone. Hey, Tone, tell me about the gambling on these types of games. Every NBA game could be a big blowout. Yeah, we've seen teams Literally win by like 50 to 60 and then 30 and then we've seen games obviously come down to the wire. What should we expect this evening in these critical games that could be sending people home?

[C]

So Cleveland in the playoffs has not lost at home. So that's going to be tough for the Stones tonight. Cleveland has been unbelievable at home. They've been unbelievable at covering at home, have the Cavs. So that's going to be tough for the Stones tonight. And you talked about how k. Like if the Stones go on these runs where they just. They don't score for minutes at a time and it's screwed them so far in this series, then the other series, it's as far as gambling it goes. You're. It's always like, oh, the, the spurs are. They're huge favorites.

[D]

But it's.

[C]

That's okay because when the spurs have won, they've dominated. Then they've covered by big, big spreads. It's either the spurs win by a bunch or the Wolves win. That's literally the only two options that it's been so far this year.

[A]

Well, you know, there's people saying, I'm not betting against the alien. Okay. And I happen to fall into that category as well. But as you look ahead, the Oklahoma City Thunder are obviously waiting. The New York Knicks are obviously waiting on the other side in the NHL, we don't have a game for a while. We don't have. Come on, we'll have hockey for a wall. Last night had some magical goals. Yeah, we did. Had some magical Mr. Marner last night, they're saying might have had the goal of the NHL playoffs. He goes whoopty woo into the hoop de hoo into the goalie diving, asking who. That was nasty what Mitch did last night. It wasn't just that he also had a filthy assist. This is spectacular showcase of dongles and skill. But obviously they get a huge win. Jackie Aces and the boys with torts who did not do a game interview. He's the head coach of the team that just punched a ticket into Western Conference finals. He did not do an interview. After the game. None of the other players really talked except for one guy who said he loves him and everything like that. Interesting viewpoint from the Vegas Golden Knights is this us versus the world type mentality that the Vegas Golden Knights have created that is literally the torts culture. Now remember, the Vegas Golden Knights have a lot of talent for one reason or another. They had to move on and get torts as the coach and everybody in there publicly had responded in A very big way. They said, we like what he has brought to our team. Seemingly having a little bit of an edge. And now they punch their ticket with dangles all over the ice. I love the Vegas Golden Knights. I like what they did for our friend Ty Schmidt. Ty, we love. Can't wait to see you soon. They. They treat him like. Like a make a wish child.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Yeah, they did.

[D]

Like something was wrong.

[A]

They put him up on Zamboni.

[C]

Something was wrong.

[A]

He was riding. He was riding Zamboni. During the intermission while they're, you know, fresh in the ice, there was. There was another Zamboni that was on at the same time. They had somebody on that Zamboni as well. And ladies and gentlemen, meet the Zamboni riders for tonight. First, Zamboni, 16 year old from Red Rocks High School. She just defeated cancer three weeks ago. Brittany Gail. Gaaaaaaaaaaaa. And on the other, Zamboni, a clearly intoxic adult life, 33 life. One time he fished. They have him on camera for what, a minute and a half?

[C]

He pushed her off the Zamboni.

[A]

Yeah. So we respect the Golden Knights. We didn't think they had a chance, though, in this entire thing. I don't think anybody was really expecting the Golden Knights to go on the run that they have certainly gone on. They obviously are going to have to figure out the Avalanche at some point. Is anybody going to be able to do that? And in the east, you got the Carolina Hurricanes waiting on everybody. And last night, what Montreal did to Buffalo. Whoo. You have to wonder if they're ready for the Kainiacs. Hockey's awesome, but we're gonna have to wait a few days for some games. And obviously hockey is incredibly electrifying, so we will have to scratch that itch in other fashions. Oh, I know how we'll be able to do it. We'll go through every NFL team schedule.

[D]

Perfect.

[A]

Huge night. Last night on ESPN prime time at 8 o', clock, an entire cast from both the NFL Network, Kyle brandt representing, and ESPN NFL crew. You had Ms. Laura there. You had Shraggs there, you had Hawk there, you had Dan Orlovsky there, Kyle Brandt. And they went through everybody's schedule. Guests that popped by, they were trying to make it a big celebration. They were trying to make it a big primetime event. I appreciated the fact that everything is literally becoming everything because the schedule release, which it still is, is an Internet thing. Oh, yeah, okay. That is an Internet operation. This is where Internet digital content creators who are hired by NFL Teams have the chance to shine. So now that they're making it a linear thing as well, I think this is a good idea by the NFL and I don't want to let them know. There's so much to talk about. The schedule makers, who I think try to gather as much information as they possibly can about all the teams and projections of teams. And I assume they're using AI and everything like that. They're trying to figure out who's going to be good, who's going to be asked. They have to project for the entire league these primetime games that have billions and billions of dollars at stake. How do we make them good with good teams with big superstars while also providing incredible content for everybody? And they got to project who they think. Los Angeles Rams. Hey, they got a handsome coach who can talk good.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Peter Schrager last night. Big boy.

[D]

Yeah. Inside joke, I'm sure.

[A]

Yeah. I bet you Schrager maybe was doing something somewhere. Oh, big boy.

[D]

Big boy.

[C]

Daniel got a good chuckle out of that one.

[A]

Yeah, well, he loves Peter Schrager. Yeah. And now he's calling him big boy. They certainly ran with that Matthew Stafford though, at his age, what he's doing, how electrifying he is as a football player. The style of offense that they have, the obviously dogs across the defense. They can win any possible game at any possible time. Let's go and put them on prime time seven times. I appreciate the fact that they did that to the six time crew over there. Green Bay packers, packers fans are everywhere. Chiefs Patrick Mahomes still exists. Josh Allen exists. And super bowl champions in Seattle. Six primetime games. Hell yeah. Congrats to them and also congrats to us. We're going to watch them.

[D]

Yep.

[A]

We're going to be forced to watch the Seattle Seahawks who are so far away but so damn dominant when they got into the playoffs. Congrats to the Seahawks. Six primetime games, that's a huge deal especially for the team is currently up for sale. Yeah, you have to wonder like maybe are they at some point doing a little bit of a. We got you.

[D]

We'll help you out.

[A]

Well, yeah, we will help you out. Super bowl champions, six primetime games. Team still gonna be good. Good for them. Still bringing it. Dallas Cowboys, they get five primetime games. Philadelphia Eagles. Is that gonna be a drama show or is that gonna be a freak show? I like the video they did online. Jalen hurts sitting with the boys, having a good time. Couple good reactions. Is a rod gonna be playing in?

[D]

I don't know.

[A]

Great Reaction super cool with his friends. And then you go through it all and then you see down there at zero. Okay, Colts very close, obviously. Saints and Browns really, really close. The New York Jets 0 prime time games. They are a Tri State, they are a New York, New Jersey team. The amount of humans that just naturally will come from a Jets game being on television, okay, used to carry a lot of weight. You would have to see the jets and the Giants. You're going to have to see their asses. If LA has a team, guess what? You're going to have to see them too. Because there's a lot of humans that are aw, automatically going to be accounted for in the audience because they're going to have to watch because it's their team. So if you're a New York football team and you are getting zero prime time games, they somehow believe that a team in Indianapolis, a team in Cincinnati, okay, a team out there in Kansas City, Green Bay obviously has historic huge ratings because of who they are. But to the point that the New York team is getting zero primetime games, they got to think that they are going to be the assiest team in the history of Ashley, that is a crazy thing from the schedule makers to say a New York team. We're not going to get a New York pop in any of these weekends.

[D]

Nope.

[A]

That. That is in. That is the thought. You know, how do we maintain audience Whenever there's a potential weekend where we can't figure out a good matchup and who we think is going to be good, they have to project injuries, they have to project who's going to play good, they have to project who's going to be hot, who's going to be not. Pittsburgh Steelers. Good luck. You're going to see them.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

You are going to see them. It's like five straight weeks, right, Tone, isn't it? And that the schedule makers in the NFL, they're betting billions of dollars on they think your team's going to be good in about the middle of the season. That's good news for Steelers fans, right? Aren't you pumped up about that?

[C]

Yeah, yeah, potentially. It depends on how the team is. But yes, from week 10 you go Sunday Night Football, then you have the 425 national game, then you have Black Friday by yourself, Sunday Night Football by yourself, and then Monday Night Football by yourself. So five weeks in a row, the Steelers are going to be on national all by themselves and you're going to get a good taste of whoever's playing quarterback at that time.

[A]

Well, nobody really knows who's playing quarterback. Cam Hayward said on his podcast like everybody really. It's the middle summer, dude, what do we want this. I think he knows the system. Yeah, he knows. Singing a different tune. Last year Hayward was saying last year he said he wanted to know.

[C]

Now he knows the guy after a

[A]

season with him, he's like hey listen, this guy might be hiking. Guy might be on Everest radar. We have no idea where this guy is. So asking him to make a decision right now where he's got some other things happening. I think Cam Hayward probably understands it a little bit. But everybody feels like in the Pittsburgh Steelers world thinks Aaron's going to be the quarterback. What are we even doing here? But it seems like there's just more and more questions as the days roll on. But if he's not quarterback, maybe Will H, maybe Drew Allen, maybe Mason Rudolph. Pittsburgh Steelers at that time with a Mike McCarthy led offense. So there's a lot of storylines coming out of last night. There's a lot of different fan bases that are got really bummed out. I mean the Cardinals, they got no prime time games.

[D]

Nope.

[A]

And everybody's saying that their social media teams asked too.

[D]

So.

[C]

And their dogs in all 17 games I think six or seven, they're double digit dogs.

[A]

So the Arizona Cardinals lost last night.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

That's unbelievable. They lost schedule release. How is that? I don't know. Okay. And I don't like that for coach

[C]

LA4 not just a video. Okay. Not just prime time favored everything every. They don't have a quarterback either. Got Gardner Minshew, Carson Beck.

[A]

Carson Beck did look good. He's got one leg tatted just kind of with stuff.

[D]

It's cool.

[A]

It is pretty cool.

[D]

It's cool.

[F]

Look.

[A]

Yeah. I didn't expect it. Did we know that that was. It's just kind of like. I assume they all have very significant meanings. I'm not saying they don't but just like kind of seemingly randomly placed objects on one full leg and then the other one just kind of bare. Looks like he's always wearing a sleeve. Pretty sick. I will say pretty. Is he going to go with the other leg too and shin. Think about how bad that has to.

[D]

Yeah, he's a tough sob.

[A]

Yeah. He's got a pain, stamina and a threshold that I think is pretty impressive because I'm not thinking he's taking the IV and getting knocked out during this.

[C]

No.

[A]

Maybe Carson Beck is because Nil is getting paid a lot of money. Maybe he is paying for you. But I think he's probably sitting through a tattoo on a shin. So I think Carson's pretty tough and he did look good over there. Oh, yeah, he was moving pretty good. He can spin it. He's won games, he's been in big moments. He's been able to be, you know, like a CEO on the field. And obviously there's that hysterical moment that he has talked about during the Miami Hurricane playoff run where before a fourth quarter drive that they needed, he was standing on the sideline before the kickoff and Ray Lewis walked over to him and said, Mr. Beck, my name's Ray Lewis shook his hand. Nice to meet you. Why don't you go win this game for us? And then just walked away. And Carson was like, ah, can't fail then, whatever that feels like. He's a bit of a dog. I think people respect the shit out of his dogness, if you will. The only questions have obviously come from a lot of things that have been said on the Internet.

[D]

Sure.

[A]

Okay. And there certainly has been a lot of. But everybody grows up, everybody matures, everybody changes. Everybody has to go through some stuff to become the person that they're supposed to be. Maybe Carson, Beck and LaFleur over there turn a team from us.

[C]

It's a class good.

[A]

But their social media team got murdered for just kind of mailing it in. I would like to recognize some of the social media teams that did great last night because the schedule release is a social media showcase.

[C]

Bingo.

[A]

Congratulations to more than just a few teams this year. Congratulations to these particular five. The Charger Social team, always. Yeah, okay. They're in la, Southern California. They got a lot of super duper minds. And it feels like a lot of understanding of Ball too, which is kind of on display with some of the teams with things that they post, how they post, where they post, when they post. Kind of like, hey, clearly Admin does not know ball, but has a job that they're not supposed to have that is pretty important in the NFL. And then you see like, schedule release stuff where they're all kind of on display and there's seemingly some teams that are always at the top. And I would assume that their branding and their imaging and all that shit is good. Charger social team. Unbelievable. And I think that's why some people buy into the Chargers hype every single year, is because every time on our phones we see something awesome from the Chargers.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

And it's hard not to just be like, I like them. I like Harbaugh, I like Herbert, I like the way they brand Their team, I like that they got a brand new practice facility. I think it all kind of matters. And then they. They put me as a bum ass at the end. I think.

[C]

What?

[A]

Yeah, come on. I think there was a little bit of a nod to me being a bum ass at the very end of the Chargers thing. I think the Colts did an incredible job this year. Great work last year. Abysmal. Last year. Abysmal. They did something on social that you can't do, which is basically delete a tweet.

[C]

The biggest tweet of the year.

[A]

Everything's screenshotted. It is a digital kind of social showcase. And it was just a lot of things that went wrong for the Colts last year. Okay? They stumbled out together. Obviously, they allude to it right there immediately at the beginning. We will not say, not even Tyreek. There was multiple things wrong with last year. Okay. I think there was like some. Some other type of infringement rights that happened. They kind of reshake up their digital department over there. They start focusing. They go to the Simpsons and ask for clearance for the Simpsons. Hit all the greatest scenes that Homer is in. Okay. Because I do believe. I don't know how the licensing would go. I don't think everybody is licensable. You know, I think there is, like, different deals that are to be had. So them reaching out to the Simpsons, getting it done, getting Homer and announcing schedule after what happened last year. Bravo to the team over there. Bravo. Bravo. Came over there. That was a big deal for the Colts. That was a big deal for me to see. It's like, hey, last year I had to kind of just sit and you guys embarrassing all of us on the Internet as Internet people were very lucky to be streamed on television. We thank you all so much. But this is Internet thing, actually. Internet thing. And now the Colts deliver, like this pump for them. I saw some explosives in Carolina. I saw the Jaguars. Are they working us?

[D]

I think so.

[A]

The Jags are working us right now, I think.

[C]

I hope so for Trevor's sake.

[A]

I think the Jags are working us. I like the haircut idea. I like him committing to the Jags this much. Okay. This is a franchise quarterback saying, I'll do that for you guys. That's a huge deal. Obviously, him cutting what? He is kind of known for cutting his hair. For this to end up being a haircut, gotta be a wig, okay? We know it has to be a wig. There's no way in 2026 that this is what we got. Maybe it is, though.

[D]

No chance.

[A]

I'm not 100% sure, Trevor. You do whatever you want to do with your hair, but it feels like this. We're in the middle of a work right now. Feels like we're in the middle of a work right now. And I'm excited to see what Trevor looks like. Week one for the Jacksonville Jaguars. That's all I'm saying.

[D]

Yeah, there's been some cool, like, mock ups of what he'd look like with a cool fade. I. I know that Trevor Lawrence didn't do this. Okay. I'm not doing the whole.

[A]

You're saying this is AI?

[D]

I'm not. No, I don't think it's AI. I think it's. It's incredible. What's his name? Khan. In AEW work, I think that they brought in some sort of wrestling gimmicks, some sort of makeup, hair, the whole entire. The whole kitten caboodle, and they aewed his ass. And I ain't gonna fall for it. I'm not gonna be a Jaguars mark in a good way or in a way that I'm gonna say, oh, that's.

[A]

You think they're potentially trying to work you into saying that the haircut's ugly?

[D]

I'm trying. I think they're trying to get me to be like, why would Trevor Lawrence do this? Just for the schedule. He had touched cool hair. I can't believe he cut his cool long hair. Why'd he do that? I'm not doing it. And I know. I zoomed in. I took a screenshot while they're going around his head, and I zoomed in, and I put an arrow next to it, and I said, nope. I can see the little glue. I can see the stuff, the Hollywood magic that they do. He probably still has long hair, and if he doesn't have long hair anymore, then he's a fool. And I don't believe in this year,

[A]

you know, there was multiple layers that they showed him.

[D]

If he got his hair to do that for the schedule, Jags might win four games.

[C]

That was the sentiment on the Internet.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

I'm ready to guarantee the Patriots winning in Jacksonville Week 3 if he actually cut his hair for that schedule release. But I don't think he did. I think he knows what he's doing. I think Liam Cohn knows what he's doing, and that was just a great gimmick for their release video.

[A]

Okay, I'm not doing all that. I thought maybe a new haircut was to be revealed, I thought. But they were trying to get you and others that are Reactionary. To maybe bury the haircut that he ended up going with so then they can do a big reveal about. You idiot.

[D]

Look at this. We cut up all the people reacting to Trevor Lawrence's haircut. Shut up. No, you didn't.

[A]

They're gonna take you. You're getting a little bit worked up. He's getting worked up. They're working your ass.

[C]

Turn this work into a shoot, brother.

[A]

I'm working their work, though. It's a little different.

[D]

I'm working their work into a work.

[A]

Work they're gonna get.

[C]

Turn this work into a shoot, brother.

[A]

Yeah, you certainly are, brother. I'm not getting into it.

[D]

They're. They're pissed right now. They're like, damn, he got us.

[A]

All right, Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, away from the schedule release. Congrats to all the social teams.

[C]

Congrats.

[A]

I just want to highlight a few. And to be clear, I thought, I like the Vikings one. I like the. The Rams, the one with the. The hand. The hands thing. There was a lot of Vikings. A lot of them are really long. I like the Steelers one.

[C]

I like Nando and Kirko Chains.

[A]

Yeah, I like that.

[C]

Gardell did crush it.

[D]

Titans walking up to people like, oh, my gosh, Woody Johnson.

[A]

Yeah, we like that one as well. I'm from England, uk. Jerry Jones. Unbelievable stuff out of them. So we couldn't. Also, a lot of them are long this year. Yeah, a lot of, like, cinematic movie type things, like six and a half minutes. The Steelers one, I think was four minutes. So, like, it was. It was hard to catch every single one. But we respect and appreciate all the hard work that went in over. Congratulations. All right, let's move on. Ladies and gentlemen, to a Cy Young winner. A man who's in the middle of a season they're going to say is a story. He could potentially be the first man ever to throw a baseball in his first three seasons as an ace and have under a 2.0 ERA. That is literally how they track who's good and who's not. This guy might be the greatest of all time when it's all said and done. Former Indianapolis Indian, former LSU Tiger.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

Former Air Force Academy, maybe flyer. I don't know.

[D]

Jet. Falcons, Falcons.

[A]

Ladies and gentlemen, Paul Scan.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Skin.

[C]

Oh.

[G]

What's up, guys?

[A]

Sick hair. See, Trevor could have done that with his hair.

[D]

He didn't do anything.

[A]

What's that? Did you see what just happened there with whole Trevor Lawrence thing? Do you have any thoughts? Do you think Connor's getting worked right now? By Trevor. And do you think he is actually a little bit worked up? Seems like he's a little emotional right now.

[G]

He seems a little emotional.

[A]

Yeah, he's reading.

[D]

That's because he's got good hair. Look, if there's a video of Skino changing his hair to something poopy like they did the Jacksonville Jaguars, did I get worked up about that? Look at his hair looks.

[C]

Paul's hair is flowing out of his hair.

[A]

He's got good hair. And he wears that. He wears that like band, that thick bandana thing so it sits over top like old school when we used to wear the visors.

[D]

I'm a hair aficionado. I don't want people to ruin their good hair.

[A]

Yeah, well, sue me. He didn't ruin it. Maybe he thinks that looks good.

[D]

There's no.

[A]

No way he thinks that looks good. All right, all right, let's move on.

[G]

I'm gonna stay out of this one.

[A]

Yeah. Smart, Paul, smart. That's a good idea. You just worry about pitching because that's what you do. You. Let's talk about you pitching, brother. We appreciate you joining us. You're in the middle of absolutely dialing it up. You're obviously raising money this year as well, and we're riding alongside. I don't know if you've been keeping track of your strikeouts, but we looked into it. You're currently at I think 56. Is that accurate?

[G]

Yeah, it sounds about right.

[A]

Okay, so with my 500 donation. Your 500 donation, that's $56,000 already. Way to go. And we're very early in the season. I think we got 150 some games left. You guys play that long ass season. Can you tell me about this successful start though with the strikeouts, with the pitching? Was it fresh out of the world Baseball Classic? You just felt like mid season form. Why do you think you've started so well and how do you feel whenever you're up there every night?

[G]

Yeah, I mean, feels good. Got, you know, everybody bought in on, on the same thing right now. So it's been a fun ride so far. And you know, we're only in May, so really, really excited to see where, where we're going to go this year.

[A]

Okay. Do you get better as a pitcher as the year goes on? Is those things where you get like mid season form? Have you got to mid season form already or do you just have to play at the same level all season, including into the postseason?

[G]

Yeah, I think we're getting to mid season form. I think May is kind of when it, you know, all starts to click for me a little bit in the past couple years. So I think everybody's a little bit different. I mean, you. You get feel of pitches, you lose feel of pitches as. As the season goes on. So, you know, stuff that's working right now probably in all likelihood isn't going to be working and, you know, in a month or two. But, you know, we'll figure it out and go from there. So we'll see.

[A]

What is it? Your body just decides that a new pitch is going to be your favorite pitch at the time. And I will only say this as a person that was a punter, so I had to have a drop and then a kick. Every time I was out there, I'd be like, changing my shit day of game because it just felt better. And then I would have success. And it's like, all right, fuck, I'm just going to do that. You know, it's just like, that's what I'm going to go with. Is it day to day with what feels good coming out and what is it? Grip thing. How do you kind of know which one is the. When's the right time for which pitch? How do you know?

[G]

Yeah, I think it's all that there. There are times where I'll be, you know, throwing a pitch and it feels terrible and in, you know, bullpen and catch play for the whole week leading into my start, and then the day of my start, it's just coming out of my hand nice and feels good. So I think everybody's like that a little bit. You know, stuff changes day to day, week to week, month to month. So. So who knows. Who knows where it's going to be in, you know, in a month?

[A]

How good does that feel after you do that base or that backpack thing and you do the. All the other things. Yeah. And then you get up on that mound for Skeen's bump day, and all of a sudden, the pitch that just has not been acting properly the last couple days comes out, and it's like, oh, nice to see you here tonight. Okay, so does that mean that your Ponche pitch. You know what that means? Obviously. You know a Ponche pitch.

[G]

Yep. Ponche pitch. Yeah.

[A]

You understand what that. I know baseball.

[C]

He was there.

[D]

Bad mems.

[G]

Yeah. You know ball. You know ball. We know that.

[A]

Thank you. Ponche. Obviously, one of the greatest things I've ever experienced in a baseball game, other than catching a foul ball with a fishing net at PNC park back in there.

[D]

Well done.

[A]

But your ponche pitch. Do the batters know what it's going to be or how. How much research do they have on you? And do you know what your ponche pitch is going to be each game you're going into?

[G]

Yeah, to be honest, a lot of the time, I don't know what it's going to be. Which, you know, that's what makes it fun. You know, if you're. A lot of guys go out there and they have the same, you know, two ponche pitches and.

[A]

Nice.

[G]

We're starting it.

[A]

We're starting it. Yes, yes.

[G]

We're starting it. We're keeping it going.

[E]

Okay.

[A]

Thank you. Cone. Yeah. All right, go ahead.

[G]

Yeah, I think with. With me, a lot of the time, I don't know what it's going to be. So I just, you know, start just throwing pitches until it feels good and then, you know, go from there. There.

[A]

Who's calling the pitches? Catcher.

[G]

Yeah, catcher.

[E]

I'm.

[G]

I don't shake a ton. I'm, you know, I'm too stupid to call my own pitches, so I just let him. I let him do it. He's got my career in his hands every. Every fifth day.

[A]

Good luck out there, big dice. Yeah, don't screw it up there, Hank. So he's the one calling it, or are they calling into him? Like, who is the one deciding what pitch is coming when?

[G]

Yeah, it's all him. Some. Some teams are doing the, you know, from the dugout stuff and. But we do it where Henry calls the game, and Joey and Andy and our other catchers, they all call the game for themselves.

[A]

Do they all have different strategies? Like, do you appreciate the way he approaches the game with how he calls it? Does he ask for your influence day to day? Like, when you're pitching, like, hey, what do you like today? What do you not like? Like, how is that conversation going?

[G]

Yeah, I think a lot of the time it's, you know, not even a conversation, just because we see how it's going in the bullpen. We see how it is between innings during the game. You know, sometimes a pitch just sucks, so we just stopped calling it. Nothing really needs to be said then, so. But there's a lot of communication that goes into it.

[A]

We like the change up this year, huh?

[G]

Yeah, I think it's. I think it's pretty good.

[D]

Devastating.

[A]

Did you work on it? This. What was. I think you said you were working on a pitch. I don't remember if it was the change up or not. Is this what you were working on this off season?

[G]

Yeah. I've pretty much gone with the same repertoire as last year. So the change up, I mean we're, you know, constantly working on all the pitches. I might have made some, some changes to the change up or my sinker or something else. I think a lot of the time it's like kind of subconscious for me where I make changes to the pitch and it either gets better or worse and then, you know, we either have to fix it or keep riding with it. But I think the change up I've been. I've been riding with for, you know, probably five or six years now.

[A]

I should have known that obviously. And that's what that. That is. I should have known that obviously. That is a. It looks like fastball coming right down and then it just hits a brakes basically on me or what happens?

[G]

Yeah, ideally it looks like. Ideally everything looks like the fastball and then it, you know, moves different or hits the brakes or something like that. The change ups just, you know, slower and it moves a little bit more down and arm side. So yeah, sometimes it gets swing and miss, sometimes it doesn't.

[A]

Are we nibbling at edges all the time? Right, that's the change up right there.

[G]

There. That's the change up. Yeah.

[A]

Jesus. I would take that yard. I mean, no doubt about it. I've been playing thunderball in here, Paul. Okay. I've been looking at wiffle balls coming at me. Okay.

[G]

Whiffle balls are tough. Whiff Wiffle balls move more than baseballs.

[A]

Yeah, right. I've seen you this year. I've seen some Shay. Have you been seeing him pitch this year? Do you watch other pitchers? How do you kind of feel about the state of pitching in baseball right now?

[G]

I would say, I mean pitching is probably as good as it's ever been and it'll probably only continue to get better. I think pitching evolves very quickly. Yeah. Show his. He makes me really glad I'm not a hitter anymore. I don't want to face guys like him.

[A]

He's kind of struggling with it. I guess they're saying. I'm not saying this. They are saying that now that he is full time pitcher, the hitting is not as what he was like MVP hitter or whatever. Prolific, prolific hitter as it was last year. They're saying it was a balance. You former catcher obviously hit and also pitcher. The. The thought of him being able to accomplish it like Travis Hunter. When Travis Hunter came into the NFL, we were all pulling for him. Like we were all like hoping that he would be able to accomplish something that nobody's ever been able to do. But whenever you would ask guys that were potentially in those positions, they'd be like, it's going to be really hard. That is going to be a very, very hard thing at the professional level, on his body, on his mind, on everything. For you with pitching, the, the breaks in between, it's an all encompassing. We're working on becoming better pitcher at all times. And at one point in your life, did you want to hit and pitch?

[G]

I wanted to hit and pitch for most of my life. And then when I was at lsu, I was. I was hitting and pitching and had a pretty good fall. And then they just stopped putting me in BP groups. I found out after the fact that our pitching coach told all our pitchers that they couldn't throw inside on me. So I guess that's why. That's probably one of the reasons I had a good fall. But yeah, they just stopped putting me in BP groups and, and there was no conversation. They just said it was just, you know, hey, you're not pitching anymore. But. But no words were said. I think it was just an understanding that we came to. So my body feels a lot better when I'm just pitching.

[A]

And during your day's break, your five day break, I think I saw you do an interview with Skubal where it's like day one recovery with Jet pass. I think it's sources. Yeah, super sources or something like that. Super sources with Jet sources. The jet of sources.

[D]

Sources tell jetpass.

[A]

Yes, I think that is the.

[D]

I think that is actually what we found it out.

[A]

Okay. But you were on there talking about the recovery days, like first day recovery, second day we start doing this, third day we start doing that. That feels like a very regimented thing. Is, have you always been like this? You're developing this? Is this. Now that you're an old man, you have one of these. Like how. How do you think that kind of has evolved or where it's going to now?

[G]

Yeah, it's evolved. I think every. I've always been very routine oriented. So right or wrong, I was doing the same thing going into every start, every game. And so I think just as I've gone on in baseball, I've learned more about my body. So I know what works, what doesn't work, but it's the same thing every five days, every six days. It's incredibly boring. But you got to do what you got to do to show up and be ready to.

[A]

Yeah. Be the face of a franchise. Yeah. I appreciate the fact that you're very Boring. We asked you one time, what do you do for a hobby? You say, I nap.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

And then I wake up, maybe fish a little bit. Okay.

[C]

I do baseball with Jared, who we backed food.

[A]

Or we just, we nap and just, just do baseball. You're the man for that. And we are lucky you are in Pittsburgh. On that note, Pirates seemingly a little bit different this year than, I don't know, the last last 30 years. Go ahead, Tone.

[C]

Yeah, Paul. You just got your sixth win of the season on May 12th. Last season, it didn't come until July 27th and that was not your fault. You've had a 196 basically for your entire career.

[A]

Thank you.

[C]

That's because it's awesome you're getting run support. So how, how fun is it now to. To get that run support? It feels like everyone's hitting. Everyone they brought in is hitting. Lao o'.

[A]

Hearn, o'.

[C]

Neill. Cruz is having an unbelievable season. Connor Griffin, since he's turned, turn 20 has been insane. How cool is it now to, to have the run support also with your starts?

[G]

Yeah, it's been great. It's a, it's a really fun group to be around. You know, the last couple starts I got a lot of run support my first few starts and we won a couple of them. And the last couple starts we scored, I think the first inning and two starts ago, we won one nothing. And the last start was three nothing. So we're scoring early, which, which makes it easy to pitch, which is nice. And then, you know, all you got to do is win by one. So we're doing a good job, you know, scoring more runs than the other team. That's, you know, kind of what, what the whole game's about. So.

[A]

Yeah, I guess so.

[G]

Yeah, it's been fun.

[A]

I appreciate that. You say in your mindset is we only need one more run. That's all we need. Just one run. And expect yourself to be perfect, which I appreciate. You got some young studs on that team. Tell me about the 19 year old Connor Griffin. I know you guys had a birthday party.

[G]

He's actually 20 now. He's 20? Yeah, he's a changed man. He's all grown up now.

[C]

They got him a bounce house.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, I remember that. I thought he turned 19. No, he turned 20 actually, which sounds a little bit more like understandable. Yeah, 19 in the big spelt. Outrageous. Just. It did feel a little bit outrageous to me as a non super baseball person. Just like, wow, I didn't know you could do that at Such a young age. He seems like a 90 year old man though, the way he talks and everything. Can you describe him and why he's seemingly the right one to be a 19 year old major league baseball player?

[G]

Well, I mean, you said it. He sounds like a 90 year old man. I wouldn't, I wouldn't go that far. But he's definitely mature. He's been mature ever since he was 19 too. So, yeah, I think, you know, he like everybody, you go through some growing pains when you get into the big leagues, whatever that looks like. And so I think he's learned a lot. You know, it's, it feels like he's, I mean he's been, he was up for. He came up after our sixth game, I think, so he's been up pretty much all year, but feels like he's been around the league for, you know, much longer than that. And obviously he's doing well, playing well. Great guy to have behind you defensively. A great guy to have in the, in the, in the lineup, in the clubhouse. He's, he's one of the guys.

[A]

Can't wait to see what you guys do for his 21st birthday. This is for his 20th.

[D]

Oh boy.

[A]

Yeah, it should be a good time. Middle of the season, obviously. Get a chance that's still in the clubhouse. Yeah. Where do we keep that at?

[G]

No.

[A]

With all the cones that we steal.

[E]

No.

[G]

Yeah, I think, I think we blew it up. It was our, it was our groundskeeper who did it. So I think they blew it up in his office. So he might, he might still have a bounce house just in his office somewhere.

[A]

Good for the lads. Is that a hoop right above it too?

[G]

Oh, yeah, we, we got a little mini hoop in there. That thing gets used pretty frequently in rain delays which we have a lot of.

[A]

Who's the best shot?

[C]

Pittsburgh,

[G]

man. Carmen Machinsky's pretty good. Mitch Keller, it's mostly, as far as I know, it's mostly the pitchers that are, that are taking shots. I think the hitters, because when we're in rain delays, the pitchers don't have anything else to do. The hitters will go into the, into the cage. Carmen's. He's good at everything and Mitch is good at everything. I can make a, you know, a three foot bank shot with the best of them, but other than that it's pretty tough.

[A]

Yeah. Small hoop though, bank shots, difficult. That, that is a, that is a tough shot.

[G]

Thank you for saying that. Thank you for saying that.

[A]

I can, I can hit. I've been a part of some mini hoops as well. In my day, in equipment rooms and in locker rooms, I can hit from further. It's tough for me from close with a little ball. For some reason I can't. But you get me back a little bit. I can get you. You know, I'm not never going to bank that. Fucker's coming way out. If I can flatter ball, maybe I'm in a better spot. So I think the touch you're showcasing is good.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

But it sounds like these other guys certainly embarrass you on a regular basis.

[G]

Yeah, I mean, I'm the type of guy in the clubhouse. It's like if I, you know, I'm the guy that's like, you know, at recess and, you know, you're whooping my butt and basketball, I'm taking my ball and going home or something like that. That's kind of how I do it. So usually when they're going, I'll let the big boys play. But when it's me and whoever else, I'll, I'll, I'll give them the business a little bit. But usually I don't. I stay out of it.

[A]

That's smart. You're on a B court.

[G]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. There's no reason to walk over the a core. That's why I don't play video games. My brother was so good, he beat my ass. I said, I'm not doing this. Yeah, I'm not. Yeah. Same exact thing.

[G]

Yeah. Yeah, I. I suck. It's. It's not enjoyable for me. It's not enjoyable for anybody else.

[A]

So I watch you guys. I'll watch you do it. Like, I, I. When the twitch thing started and everybody was watching video game players, it made sense because I used to have to watch my brother. Kind of have to because the weather was terrible, But I would watch and it was enjoyable. But when I was, I was ass. I was just the worst video game player of all time, and they killed me. Why do I want to feel like that every day? I don't want to feel like that. I'm not doing this. Yeah, Yeah, I understand.

[G]

Yeah. You're supposed to be having fun. Why do something you hate when you're supposed to be having fun?

[D]

Yeah.

[G]

It's the same way with golf.

[A]

For me, you stink at golf.

[D]

Yeah, golf sucks.

[G]

I'm terrible.

[A]

I bet if they figured that out with you, you need to watch Cowashawa. You didn't watch Kyle shallow Get your hips tied. It feels like you should be good at that. Most baseball players can figure it out, can't they? I think you'll be able to figure that out.

[G]

Most can. Yeah. I haven't done it yet.

[A]

That's because you're locked in. We're throwing that change up six years, you know, I mean, we got to throw that every single day. So it continues to get hotter and hotter. Let's talk about some more hijinks that baseball has. Last question for you. Go ahead, con man.

[D]

Yeah, Skino. Did Bubba Chandler possibly beat your ass in that basketball game? Because I saw there was some sort of pranks going on. There was some bubble gum on of his head. I believe this was yesterday in one of your victories. Are you guys a big prank clubhouse? Is this something that, you know is basically going on every single day and this just feels like immaculate vibes? It's incredible that he didn't even realize it.

[G]

Yeah, I had nothing to do with that.

[C]

Sure.

[E]

Other than.

[G]

Other than, you know, not spoiling it. But nobody. Everybody did a great job. Nobody said anything to him. He was dancing there. The camera was right on him. He just thought it was on him just because he's a good dancer, which. Which obviously he's not. So. Yeah, I think that thing was on there for like an hour.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

That's unbelievable. And I appreciate the fact that you all are watching him look at cameras thinking it's for him. I like that. You guys, afterwards. You asshole. What did you think? You were just the star. You're not in the game. You think that's. Are we still doing this? Feels like you guys got a really tight team. If you're doing an hour long bubble gum on hat, talking shit. The guy you guys are stealing. Stealing. Is Pittsburgh still all out of cones?

[C]

Oh, yeah, we're still coning it.

[A]

Are you guys still Conan? Still welding, masking. Are we doing it all?

[G]

We're doing it all. Yeah. We are not the ones actually stealing the cones. I think. I think the fans are the culprits there, which, you know, love it. That's. That's super funny. So not, you know, not. Obviously not condoning.

[A]

No, of course not. But we appreciate buying in on the thing as a city coming together and keeping everybody safe too. Right. They would only take the cones that they're allowed to take as, you know, users wouldn't do that. You know, that's the type of thing they would not do. They would certainly get the right cone. Yeah, but we got any more or are we sticking with the welders mask and a cone?

[G]

No, that's it. We're riding with it for the whole season maybe. I'm sure there will be more hijinks. I think Bubba will be have, you know, head on a swivel, checking. Taking his hat off and checking it. You guys did, you know, probably every. Every inning now. So. So we'll get them again at some point.

[A]

What was that fire that was happening?

[D]

Oh, yeah, the match.

[A]

Hot feet. Hot.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[G]

Yeah. We haven't done that yet. I don't know. I don't know if we will. That's. That's a. That's a little old school. That was before my time and probably everybody else in here. But, hey, who knows? Who knows? It's a long season.

[F]

Bring it back.

[A]

I love that. These are just known things. Hey, when you're on the road a lot. Yeah, we got a lot. We got a lot. We gotta feel time here. Okay? So we're putting on people's cleats. Lighting it on fire, I do believe. And then it just burns up. And he smells fire and it's. He's on fire in the clubhouse. Yeah. You baseball people are awesome. Paul, good luck the rest of the way. We appreciate the hell out of you. Let's keep Ponch people, huh?

[G]

I like that idea. Let's do it.

[A]

So told Harry Davis we need a good Ponche pitch and good, good Ponche celebration as we're going out there, brother. You got it.

[G]

Yes, sir.

[A]

Hey, I didn't get any help out of you. I found my slot right here. Do I need to be. Do I need to be point? Wiffle ball. This is for. With a wiffle ball. I don't think I'm supposed to throw here. I think I'm supposed to go right here. When am I letting go of that ball, Paul? When? When am I letting go of that ball? When? What?

[G]

Maybe like, even with your head, I mean, just keep throwing it. You'll figure it out.

[A]

Okay.

[G]

That's. That's it. You know, you just gotta.

[C]

Big practice makes perfect.

[G]

You just gotta practice.

[A]

You're the man. Okay. I don't have the time, so maybe one day we'll be able to figure it out. I need an instant fix. I need a silver bullet. I. I need a magic bullet and a silver bullet. I'll take whatever afterwards. I appreciate you. You're the man. Good luck the rest of the way. Ladies and gentlemen, Paul Skeens. Listen, Skino's the man.

[C]

He's having the best. He's having a good time out there.

[A]

Yeah, he's smiling a lot. Yeah. He's having a great Time with the boys, it feels like. Okay. And I don't want to say it's an exact comparison, but kinda. I mean, I guess we can. When Wemby gets to the San Antonio spurs, he's young phenom, first overall pick, guy team, already established basketball players. Okay. This is still Rook coming into league. He's rookie on team, kind of adjusting to them as opposed to team adjusting to him. Feels like skino, with the way he was talking this past offseason and the way he was being treated at World Baseball Classic by everybody saying, hey, that's our ace. That's our ace. Feels like the Pittsburgh Pirates organization is Paul Skeen's organization, if that makes sense. It feels like they are. Hey, this is. They know. Everybody kind of knows. We bring in the young buck. Welcome to skino's team. Like, hey, there's probably other guys that are a little bit more vocal than Skeens because you know how I talk. But it feels like that team is maybe being crafted for Skeeno. And boy, they love each other.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

It looks like they have a great time on the road.

[C]

Like, when Paul came in and started his rookie year, he was obviously the youngest, but, like, because it was a. It was an older room for the pitchers. And now Paul's obviously. He's still very, very young. But as far as pitching goes, Mitch Keller is the only one who's old. The all everyone else kind of came up together with Paul, so they've been together for like three years now. So the. That's kind of why that. That pitching room, that pitching staff is so tight now, and probably why he's so happy.

[A]

Yeah. So happy. I'm so happy that the young arms of baseball, him. I guess we can count Shohei in this thing because he's probably just getting started.

[C]

Tom Shitler of the Yankees, he's killing it.

[A]

Yeah, and we got big bats, too. Still happening. Sounds like an old guard of bats taking on like a young batch of pitchers. It's a fun time for baseball and we appreciate Paul's time. Let's pivot away from baseball. Let's go to the NHL.

[C]

Hell, yeah.

[A]

Ladies and gentlemen, a man who's been promoting hockey on ESPN for as long as I can remember. I believe he's been at ESPN since 1993.

[D]

Damn.

[A]

I was six years old. Oh, yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, Steve Levy.

[D]

Yes, Steve.

[B]

The last time I was on you guys, we were still trying to find

[A]

Winnipeg on the map.

[E]

Okay.

[A]

And we found no geography.

[B]

No geography.

[A]

I think it's over. Here. I think it's over. I think it's Manitoba. In my head. In my head. Edge. I think it's over here. The map is here. Atlantic Ocean here. Pacific Ocean here. Maine's here. Yeah. Or is here. I think Winnipeg's is over here.

[D]

I thought that was Edmonton. I thought Winnipeg was more like North Edmonton.

[C]

Winter.

[A]

Son of a.

[B]

This is unbelievable.

[D]

This is hysterical.

[A]

Is above North Dakota.

[C]

Seriously?

[A]

Yeah, it's right in the middle.

[C]

Can we get a. Yeah, but North Dakota's west.

[D]

Yeah, I thought. Get it on here. Edmonton's way up there.

[A]

It's right here. Dude.

[D]

But you see, you had.

[A]

But I had it over here.

[C]

You were thinking. Kyle.

[G]

Gary.

[A]

Sorry.

[B]

You know where Denver is, right? We're good on Denver.

[A]

Yeah. Lower than you think, though. It's lower. The latitudes are lower than you think. Whenever you, you, you talk about Denver, though, that is something that kind of comes.

[C]

It's a square.

[A]

Yeah. Whenever you do the open map. Sorry. Canada. I know where Manitoba is. That's where sure old buddy's boys are from.

[D]

Yeah. Saskatoon.

[A]

Yeah, Saskatoon, obviously. Victoria. Beautiful.

[D]

Come on, Nova.

[A]

Scot, Toronto. And also we know where Montreal is.

[C]

Yeah, we do.

[A]

Hey, that barn obviously spectacular. That team getting incredibly hot. How should we view kind of what's going on over there in the East? Huge one in Buffalo for Montreal last night with the Canes waiting. How do you kind of view the Eastern Conference right now, Steve?

[B]

So this is the best series, boys. I. I think of the playoffs so far. Montreal, Tampa went seven in the first round, but this Montreal Buffalo series has been on fire. For me, it's the two best atmospheres in the league going right now. I think just because the success they've had, the runs they've been on, and the lack of recent success really both franchises have had. So Montreal looks good. They've bought themselves some time here by. By getting their first line, their top guys going, even scoring it, even strength and dovish last night. Who gives up up three goals on the first four shots, is seconds from being pulled, doesn't give up another goal the rest of the way, and now they get to go home. So, you know, Buffalo's been really good on the road. They've been awful at home in the playoffs. For some reason they haven't figured that piece out. But Montreal looks dangerous right now.

[A]

Guys, tell me about the Canes over there in the East. What have you seen from them? Obviously still undefeated. Sweep, sweep, rest or rust. The Kacs ready to go. How do you feel about their chances not only for the east, but obviously for the cup as a whole with what's lurking working in the West.

[B]

Juggernaut. And listen, it speaks to the value of the regular season, right? Like Colorado and Carolina were the two best teams in their respective conferences. And, and so that's, that's holding true here in the playoffs as well. We've never seen a team sweep two, seven games, best of seven series in the first two rounds. That's never happened. And look, they're going to have 10 days off, guys, so everybody's going to be healthy. And coming out of the first sweep, we had the same conversation. Too much rest. Well, they went out and they, they shut out Philadelphia in game one of the second series. So Rod Brindemore is an unbelievable head coach. He'll have them ready to go. But the biggest thing for me in Carolina is where all these other teams are flip flopping goalies. Freddie Anderson is the man and when he's healthy, he's been on and he looks razor sharp right now. Carolina looks like a beast in the east.

[A]

If you have a goalie that'll stand on its head, you can win a cup anytime.

[D]

Yep.

[A]

But then if your goalie forgets how to see a pick puck, you can lose anytime. I mean, that is really how easy it is in the playoffs. As a Pittsburgh Penguins fan, I've gotten a chance to ride the back of a hawk goalie and then I've watched a goalie forget how to play goalie in the playoffs. And we're out quickly when we weren't supposed to be. Most important position. I think by far. Carolina has been obviously seeing everything, what two goals or something like that. I forget what the run was.

[D]

It was something absurd.

[A]

They didn't give up more than two goals. Maybe in like the first seven or eight games out of the playoffs, it's like, yeah, right, because that's even empty nets at the end, like kind of sneaking. I mean, it is a, it's been a wild run for them. But wait, wait, Pat, I want you

[B]

to finish that sentence. You said goalie's the most important position in hockey or all of sports. Because you could make the argument that a hot goalie could be the difference, like the starting pitcher in baseball, but he only goes once every five days. You could make in the playoffs the argument that the most important player in all of sports is the hot goalie in Stanley Cup.

[A]

I'll tell you what, Steve Levy, I

[C]

don't mind the take coming in, except for one position.

[A]

Yeah, quarterback. In the NFL, quarterback comes off the

[D]

field, though, I mean, I do kind of like what Steve's saying. Like you got a guy that is on the ice for 60 minutes. You can literally not affect the game more than any other position.

[A]

And on that note, we, and I hate to say this because he's incredibly handsome and I love attacks.

[D]

Huh.

[A]

We saw Jimmy Garoppolo. What do you do? Six pass attempts in a championship. Sure.

[D]

Bingo.

[A]

Sure. So I guess if quarterback did forget how to take center quarterback exchange, but didn't win the Super Bowl.

[D]

I mean, we saw, we just saw it in the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl MVP was running back the. Their quarterback. They didn't actually throw for any touchdowns.

[C]

Like Montreal just won a game seven with six shots. Well, actually that maybe that makes Steve's point.

[D]

Yeah, exactly. Do Bash kind of won him the game?

[A]

Yep.

[B]

You could, you can make up for

[A]

a lot of problems for sure.

[D]

I mean, you can go back to the old Avalanche, Patrick Roa. I mean, he damn near won him.

[A]

That's definitely not his name. That's what you just said is not.

[D]

I mean, Patrick Wall. Some people, some dialects say it raw.

[A]

Yeah, you could be, you could, you

[B]

could be outshot by 30 and still win the game. Like you could be totally dominated.

[A]

And if you got your goalie's hot

[B]

that night, night, you can win. And so that speaks to the position

[D]

and to your point about Jimmy G. You can have a quarterback who throws for 55 yards, but you can still win.

[A]

Let's let the. Let's let the Internet figure out the Internet figure that one out. Steve, I like where you're at. I don't know how long you've thought about that, if that just came to your mind now, but I appreciate it. Yeah, it's going to change. It's going to change the way I view everything. Ok, so let's go to the west. Talking about hot goalies, let's talk about teams. This Avalanche team, they were going to seemingly be a team that swept through the west as Carolina swept through the East. And we got a kind of a collision course of these two Goliaths in the Stanley Cup. This Avalanche team, there's a stat that we got from Hembo yesterday. Score differential per period, first period minus 2, second period plus 2, third period plus 12. Obviously that's insanely clutch. There's some empty netters in there, obviously, because other teams are desperate against them. So you can obviously count that. But it feels like they're in better shape than you. They have more talent than you. I understand the Minnesota Wild Got a win over them. And Quinn Hughes is certainly something special. But. But this Colorado team feels like a juggernaut. How should I be talking about them in a historical sense? And what does it look like with the Canes if they end up getting there?

[B]

All right, so let's. Let's stay with the hot goalie. Colorado doesn't have that. They go back and forth seemingly every other game. Wedgwood and Blackwood and you know, the 10 year old in me loves when the Ball arena crowd starts chanting wedgie. Wedgie. I feel like an infant and everything. But they. They might have to go back to him. So they're. They're waffling back and forth. One guy gets hot, then he gets pulled, then the next guy comes in. So they've got some decisions to make.

[E]

There.

[B]

That shot right there, bud. That, that McKinnon, that Nate dog shot, that's one of the sickest shots in hockey. All time. And if the ABs go on to win the cup, I think we remember that. Colorado, you want a stat? I'll give you the stat On Colorado. They had 16 different goal scorers in this series. Guys, in a series that went five games, that's never happened.

[A]

That.

[B]

That is your depth.

[F]

Score.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

And that might be why the third period. Sixteen guys, that might be why the third period is what it is. If you got more dudes, obviously you can maybe last longer. And they've certainly showcased that. Need a hot goalie, though, which goes back to your point. This might be the best team. 16 guys are able to score, but if their goalie can't get it done, they will lose. Let's go to the other team that punched their ticket to take on the avs. Go ahead, con man.

[D]

Yeah, Steve. I don't know if they have 16 guys scoring, but, I mean, what Mitch Marner's doing in Vegas has been unbelievable. But I wanted to ask you, I mean, first of all, yeah, we're talking about goals of the playoffs. This is right there.

[A]

This is it.

[B]

You guys are so good. That's the one I was going to talk about. That's the sickest goal in a postseason.

[D]

And let's keep in mind, let's not forget what Kirby Doc did. But yeah, this was a ridiculous goal. And I think there's been a couple others. I think Dorfo is leading the way actually in the playoffs now with nine goals. But I wanted to ask you about after the game, Torch. There was reports. Torch didn't go talk to the media. I think they sent one guy out there Everybody else, they kept the doors closed, kind of kept the change room to themselves. Is that something that kind of just shows you, hey, this team is extremely tight. They are bunker mentality. Screw what everybody's talking about. I know with Marner, his big thing when he was in Toronto is that he didn't show up in the playoffs. And now he's showing up damn near more than anybody. What does that tell you when the head coach, after a victory, after going to the Western Conference finals, doesn't want to talk to the media? And are you thinking the Golden Knights are kind of a sleeper team here? Granted, they're one of the last four teams, but do you see them giving Colorado a run for their money?

[B]

I do. They've got experience. And listen, Torch is going to do what he wants to do now. He was very media friendly and media savvy when he was sitting next to me back in December, by the way. It wasn't that long ago. He's on ESPN and so he shuts the room. It was actually pretty funny. Mitch Marner comes in the postgame presser. He's one of the two players they made available, and he said, look, guys, we got 10 minutes because torch is going to leave with us without us on the bus. One of the excuses out there, and

[A]

I'm not going to.

[B]

I'm not going to say this is true, there is a noise ordinance flying out of John Wayne in Anaheim. You guys know that airport out there that they got to get out of

[A]

there in a hurry or else they

[B]

shut down that airport to get back home to Vegas. If you're buying that, probably not. Torch is not going to care. I'll tell you what, the, the organization, if they get fined by the league and all that stuff for not meeting, you know, media responsibilities, they'll deal with the fine. They'll take that and go home and get ready for the next round. But they have the hot goalie. They've got Carter Hart. It's an amazing story, Pat. This team wins the division and they were very close to missing out on the playoffs the last week. Torch comes in with eight games left. Who changes a head coach with eight games left in the regular season? Carter Hart comes in, saves the day as well. In goal for them. Marner's doing what he's doing. I got caught up in the crosshairs in the Toronto media last week and you know, Toronto's very sensitive about how Marner played up there in big games and what he's doing now for Vegas there. No Jack Eichel is a classy, elegant scorer. And I can't stop watching this goal.

[A]

Man.

[B]

He's doing that in the crease with his back to the net. That marner goals.

[A]

Yeah. And it's not just this filthy goal, which is absolutely disgusting. Look, the only thing is going the other way. Dives his ass that way. He's still looking that way. He has no idea where. Where that thing goes. And he's within a foot of it. And he's an NHL goalie. It's in the deep in the playoffs or whatever the case is. His assist is nasty too. Too sets it up for a shot. Goalie thinks it's a shot, ices him. Goalie's dead. See you. Wide open net. I mean, that was just. What a night for Mitch Mar.

[B]

No. Mark Stone. No, they're without their captain. No Mark Stone the last couple games. We don't know about him. Braden McNabb, one of their top two defensemen. Suspended for last night's game. They still win. Like there's some magic going on with this Vegas squad. And if Colorado doesn't take them seriously, based on their President's trophy and great regular season. Lookout. So this screams seven game series. I'm really glad we got the Western Conference final this year.

[A]

Yeah. Hey, man, can't wait to see how it all wraps up. We appreciate your commitment to sport as a whole, but definitely hockey. It's been fun riding alongside you. Moose and PK and all the boys

[B]

out there appreciate you. Thanks for being great for the sport too, Pat.

[A]

Hey, we're trying, man. We love it. You obviously been pushing it for a long, long time over there. And I'm happy to see numbers up into the right. Steve.

[B]

Yep. Rating's good. And the goalie, most important position in all, a sports Bat.

[A]

You're the man. Take that with you. What's that?

[D]

I. I believe he was just inducted into one of the hall of Fames as well. Steve was? Yeah.

[A]

What?

[D]

I wasn't sure if it was Steve.

[A]

Which hall of Fame?

[D]

Which one?

[B]

It's New York State Hockey hall of Fame. It's a small group, but small but important. Yeah, Small but important.

[A]

Yeah, of course. Congratulations. Hall of Famer. Ladies and gentlemen, hall of Famer Steve Levy. Yeah, Steve. Congratulations. That's awesome. Yeah. Good for him. Steve's always been just like, such a cool, funny guy.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Forever.

[A]

We ran into him one night and I think he was just trying to get to bed. You remember that? I was like, steve, what's up, man? Just head down. What's up. Just head down.

[C]

Didn't even know.

[A]

Straight into the thing. I'm like Steve, good to see you dude. You look awesome. Thank you.

[D]

You too.

[A]

AirPods like baby AirPods in sunglasses. I'll just walk down. I'm like damn, we just missed out on a Steve Levy combo. He's the man. We appreciate the hell out of him. Hockey's great. Sports are incredible. We'll continue on the other side.

[C]

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[E]

Con man.

[A]

How's it been with Tone next to you here as Ty celebrates new life.

[D]

It's been very, very nice. I'll be honest. Tony has done incredibly well to bring Toxicity. You know it's funny, he just shook my hand because I still remember last Monday him going to shake my hand and my first thought was Tony would sit down and to add to toxicity, pull punches and immediately kind of get

[A]

oh, you thought he was setting you up.

[D]

Exactly. I actually wouldn't shake. I stopped to not shake his hand. And then he actually said, like, shake my hand.

[C]

I've always been under the assumption that this table was a partnership and you had to be toxic together.

[A]

Yeah, you guys. You guys have done a great job.

[D]

That's part of it.

[A]

And it's too much. Sometimes it feels good.

[C]

Like, you sit down and it's like you're wearing the green goblin mask, and

[A]

you just have to start saying, yeah, but you're not, though, because we can see you. Because you did an entire take on these international games that I think obviously Ty would have been proud of. I don't think you're given. If you're up on your high horse over here, here at the toxic table right here, you really felt the urge to kind of say, what are we doing? Shrink the game. I'm done with this. The Steelers in Paris really kind of broke you. I think you sent you full into character mode over there.

[C]

Yeah, you're 1,000% right. And I was actually pissed me off earlier today when the primetime game schedule graphic was up there, because there was gimmick games at the bottom and the international games went on there. And those are the most gimmick games you could possibly have.

[A]

Jeez. There's seemingly a lot louder crowd of people against the international games than I could have fathomed them. I like that we're taking the game worldwide. I appreciate that our sport's about to take over for be the sport of the world, but here in this process of introducing it to other countries, a lot of these fans, not just Steelers fans, we've been. We've been learning on the Internet. Maybe they're bots. Yeah, maybe they're anti international game bots.

[D]

Tony bots.

[A]

Certainly Tony.

[C]

I would love to buy some Tony bots and just.

[A]

I think they're getting rid of bots all over the place currently. But as one bot dies, more, good luck at all times on the Internet. But there's a lot of anti international games happening right now, and you really felt the urge to seemingly become the voice of that. Let's obviously now introduce a man who's an international superstar. Yeah. He is the college football national champion, super bowl champion, Ryder cup winner, the pride of Germany, ladies and gentlemen, A.J. hawk brother.

[F]

I'm from the U.S. of A. No question, Pat.

[A]

No, I know. I was just saying, you know, international talking.

[D]

True.

[A]

Yeah. AJ The Hawk family is of German descent, obviously Ohio through and through, which is the horror of America. Right, A.J. let's not get it twisted. The international game response, obviously something that I don't think I expected because I thought we were trying to grow the game. I thought this was good for the sport. I thought we're trying to introduce a new sport to people that like soccer and telling them like, hey, things are allowed to happen in a physical way. Soccer is good. This is great. Remember what you did with basketball, how much you love basketball. Let's do this again with football. And then some fans just aren't happy about it. Okay. I think that's going to continue to be a thing and the NFL is going to continue to push these things and go to more countries and it's only a matter of time before there is one every single weekend and every single team has to do it. Now, other than that, what did you learn from the schedule release last night, AJ that maybe caught your eye? Packers in some prime time moments for us throughout this next NFL season.

[F]

Yeah, packers in some primetime moments. I think that is a win. The one thing that jumped out at me was the Raiders having zero primetime games with number one overall pick Fernando going there, Tom Brady on the ownership part of the team. Like, I was surprised they didn't get at least one prime time game. Now I'm sure they're pretty pissed.

[A]

Yeah. Projecting what team's going to be good, what team's going to be ass is what these schedule makers are trying to do. So you can almost kind of get a sense of how the NFL thinks you're going to do whenever you see these schedules get released. As an Indianapolis Colts fan who has been on the zero list a couple times and our season has not ended up with success or playoff run runs, it is almost like an indicator. But there's been a lot of teams that they've had to flex into prime time as the season goes on because they get hot. Hopefully the Raiders are that team. So we can see Fernando do his thing late or Kirk Cousins, whatever the deal. The Step brothers, maybe the Dolphins. How about the Titans? We think Salah and Day Ball are just ass down there. Is that what we're thinking down there? We don't think they could potentially get hot. Cardinals lost the schedule release completely. Everybody lost it completely. But they could have a lot to build on. And then, then the New York jets having no primetime game, being in the New York area with how many people are just naturally going to watch that game because they're from there. That's a crazy decision. And that's a big statement, I think, from the NFL now, from the current NFL to future NFL players to dreams coming true to Lives being changed. Every once in a while we're asked to be a part of a monumental day for a young freak football stud. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for us to be a part of another commitment. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Say it, AJ. It's a big day for some big names. Where you going next? Recruiting is like chess.

[E]

Got a 4D. If you want to be the best, announce it on the show. Where you going to go? Everybody waiting, they all want to know.

[A]

Cheese. We are honored that we get to be a part of this. And as the highlights continue to grow on that particular video, we welcome, ladies and gentlemen, the next superstar at potentially your university. Ladies and gentlemen, 6 foot 5, 230 pound tight end of Libertyville, Illinois, 2027 tight end, Brock Williams. Gabe. Brock. SES. Dude, hold on, you're muted. It might be on our side, might be on your side. Let's go ahead and figure that out, cuz. You look great. Family looks wonderful. If you guys, we have no audio coming from you to us. Hey, hey. Wow, you look unbelievable though. Jeez, jeez, you look unbelievable right now. Great setup, brother. Can you hear us?

[D]

Frozen.

[E]

Thank you.

[A]

There we go, there we go. There. We got sound, we got sound. Can you hear?

[G]

Yeah, yeah, I can hear you.

[A]

I hear you. Okay, good. I don't know if you heard everything I said during the intro, but the fact that you're 65230 and I've heard you got multiple brothers too, I assume they're all gigantic human beings. I cannot wait.

[B]

Mom.

[A]

Shout out. Mom. Hey, great job, Mom. Dad. Great job over there. Okay, legends. I, I, I appreciate it all. Okay, so, so tell me a little bit about the recruiting process for you. Obviously the tight end position for what it has become. If you're big and athletic in this style of football, you're going to be great. At what age did you start getting college looks and how have you kind of developed over the years, Brock?

[G]

Yeah, so the recruiting process for me has been crazy. It really picked up my sophomore year and I was playing receiver my freshman year and then sophomore year is really when I started to play tight end. Like being physical. So. Yeah, but the recruiting process over the past few months has been insane.

[E]

Game.

[A]

Yeah, we have some clips not only of you catching the rock and they got you split out as a tight end and Obviously you're breaking tackles. 65230 in this particular one. But also road grading, folks. I mean just absolutely demolishing people at the line of scrimmage and kick return.

[C]

Yes, sir.

[A]

Brock, you have been terrorizing Illinois. Holy. Yes, sir.

[D]

Yes, sir.

[A]

Okay, all right, all right. Let's get to it. Brock, I, I, I apologize that we did not watch your entire highlight film. We only saw the first five plays. I thought we understood who it was. Clearly we have to watch more. Brock, if you would like to let the world know where you will be playing football next and where you'll continue your football career, we'd be honored for you to do that. And to the entire family, thank you for letting us be a part of this. The floor is yours, Brock.

[G]

Yes, sir. I want to thank everyone for being here, thank all the coaches for putting me in this position. I want to thank my family. I want to thank all the coaches that believe in me and gave me the opportunity. Especially Coach Key.

[A]

Oh, no. Oh, no.

[G]

Yeah. With that being said, really too.

[A]

Hook them. Congratulations. Brock Williams commits to Texas. Sarteesian gets an absolute stallion of a man out of Libertyville, Illinois. Enjoyment has to be taking place over there in the. Hey, congratulations, Brock. Congratulations, Brock. Hey, let's go. Hell yeah. Let's go. Hook em, brother. What was it about Sarkeesian and Austin that made you want to go down there and play with the Texas Longhorns next? Oh, no,

[G]

we got, we got cut off. Yeah, sorry we got cut off, but yeah, Coach Sark's been showing me a crazy amount of love almost every week.

[D]

All right.

[A]

That's awesome. You're the best. Ladies and gentlemen, Brock Williams.

[D]

Have a good one.

[A]

We don't need tech problems ruining today. That was incredible. He's a tech.

[D]

Sick.

[A]

That whole. I believe, I believe the whole gym was packed. I wish we would have been able to get to that. I'm so happy for him. How about Texas?

[C]

I know.

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

I mean there, I mean he better be ready to go to class. No basket weaving out there.

[A]

Yeah, absolutely. You have to go to school. You lose 50% of your credits if you were to transfer in there. Good thing he's starting.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. And Stark will be able to take care of him. We apologize, Brock, for that type of connection. Hopefully we'll be able to get you back on maybe at a different time on a FaceTime or whatever. Look at this. He's a monster of. I mean, he just drove that guy 10 yards down, right directly down the line of scrimmage. Just caving in an entire end for the run game. Then he have him flanked out wide. He breaks tackles. This guy seems like an absolute superstar heading down to Austin. And everybody kind of forgets about Texas, you know, Everybody Kind of forgets about Texas because how last year went. Everybody kind of forgets about what Arch Manning is kind of being projected to be. I think they're saying he cleared up a little bit. Hey, Brock, you there, pal?

[G]

Yes, sir.

[F]

Yes, sir.

[C]

Here.

[A]

Dude. I'm so happy that that place went crazy and we lost a little connection. That's a good thing, not a bad thing. Okay. I love that. The electricity was crazy. Can you tell me a little bit about Texas and how long have you been thinking about going to Texas? Because we were just chatting about it. Whenever the recruiting gets talked about, it's always like, who has the most? Who has the most Texas, Obviously, with Arch going into next year, a lot of high expectations. Locking you down is a crazy signing by Sark. We're incredibly pumped for him. What do you see in the future? What? Sark telling you about the future down there? And when do you kind of get this whole thing started, you think?

[G]

Yeah. So I've kind of had in my mind where I wanted to go for the past few weeks. I'd say, but, yeah, you can't go wrong with Coach Sark, especially his offense that he's putting you in and then gonna have top of the line quarterbacks, the best quarterbacks in the country. So that's huge for me as well.

[A]

Let's go to dad, Tyler. Okay. I should have went with it. I thought it was Tyler. That's 100 on me. Dad, I so sorry. I was a little gun shy there. I knew it started with a T. Didn't know if it was Ty Tyler trying to guess with Illinois. Tyler, can you tell me a little bit about watching the boy go through the recruiting process and now inevitably traveling down to be a Texas Longhorn? How has that kind of been. I don't want to say emotionally for you, but what has this voyage been like for you as a dad? Yeah, no, I. I appreciate it. First and foremost, thank you for having us on this stage. Truly appreciate this. It's been a wild journey. I've focused on the football side. My wife Kelly here, she's focused on education. So divide and conquer.

[C]

But I've been.

[A]

We've been on 27 trips, and so we just wanted to make sure we made the right decision at the right place for the right reasons. And there's full transparency at Texas. They have an incredible staff. We have a clear vision of their offense and how he would be utilized with his skill set. They have a great player coming their way athletically, but a great person on top of that. He's a great teammate and we're excited for the. For the next Shacker. Hell, yeah, Brock. I like to hear that. Maybe a couple beers with the boys or water, depending upon what life you want to go with. I'm not telling him to do anything. Ms. Kelly, don't listen to any of that. Obviously happen. Okay? Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's team, that's football. That's team, and it's Texas. I think it's going to have to happen. Ms. Kelly, about the education. Sark just came out, literally, I think, yesterday or two days ago, and said, like, at Texas, you can't be doing basket weaving. Dad. Tyler just said you were a big part of the education process. How has that kind of. What have you learned about maybe what's possible at Texas and maybe what have you learned about college education as a whole as you've kind of gone through 27 visits on this? Well, I'm a teacher to begin with, so I have been paying really close

[C]

attention to all the schools that we've gone to.

[A]

And this was my job, kind of by default because Tweedie didn't want to deal with the education. That's the. Oh, I think he's a hard worker. He'll be fine wherever he goes educationally. Okay, well, congrats to the whole family, Brock. Thank you for joining us back on. And to the. To the lads there. How old are the brothers? This is his twin brother. Oh, goodness. Nice to meet you, brother. Okay. Oh, geez. I could imagine that. Okay, awesome. I can't wait to see what your whole family turns into as you guys grow older. Got a teacher and a super football. Can't wait to follow along. Thanks for letting us be a part of your journey, ladies and gentlemen. Brock.

[D]

Yeah, bro.

[A]

So I'm the teacher. I'll deal with the education stuff, dad.

[D]

Sweet divine conquer.

[A]

Let's see what type of field turf we got out here. Let's go ahead and get after.

[D]

What's your first play?

[C]

We don't talk about it a lot. We talk about a lot in the NFL, but not a lot in college. Like, for these recruits. Like, if you're an offensive guy guy, you don't have to worry about the OC being plucked because Sark is the oc. Like, that's huge for them.

[A]

Probably recruiting offensively, you do it in the NFL, right? We talk about that in the NFL a lot. Never really in college. And Sark's offense has always been efficient. Is Arch Manning this year going to be. Nobody talks.

[C]

He's projected Number one pick. He is the projected. He's either one or two for the Heisman favorite. Texas is supposed to be one or two. So it's very similar to going into last year as far as the projections are concerned.

[F]

Concerned.

[C]

But it does feel like it's quieter around Arch in Texas this year, even though the projections at this time of the year are the exact same.

[A]

Yeah, I. What, towards the end, Arch started figuring it out.

[C]

Yes, he did.

[A]

Sort of kind of early. It didn't look great.

[D]

No.

[A]

Like, I think we all feel like

[C]

Ohio State really, really got in his head.

[A]

Like, you think he was seeing ghosts for the rest of the year because.

[G]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, how would go on to be historically. How many in the draft? How many? Six in the first two rounds, less than 10 points.

[D]

If you include Kaden McDonald, you can even say six. And what, the top 35.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Picks.

[A]

And that's Arch first start.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

With Matt Patricia running that thing.

[D]

Three in the top 10.

[A]

Is this what this is going to be like all year? And then outside doubt, you know, where the people are, like, who they play against. Oh, that starts.

[D]

This is the favorite.

[A]

Yeah. You start really feeling it. And then what Florida game. Right. Was that when they were in Florida,

[C]

when that was not a good game?

[A]

Oh, they lose there. Never mind that. If I remember correctly, close.

[C]

There was a Mississippi State game where he, I believe, went off. And then. Yeah. Later in the season, everybody was like,

[A]

hey, Arch has found it. He's figured it out. Now he has a full off season figuring it out. Should the hype be as big as it was last year? Should it be bigger? I don't think anybody really knows.

[C]

No, you don't, because, I mean, there are lines. Here's the. Arch faced a lot of pressure last year, so in their O line is supposed to be incredible. They have a top 10 tackle coming back, so things are going to love Texas.

[A]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They got great odds and the. The books think they're going to be good, but it isn't really much conversation, not much national chatter. And then Brock Williams, 65, 230,

[D]

and they beat A&M.

[F]

It'll be 250 in a year and a half.

[C]

He also got the number one transfer, wide receiver in the portal Cam Coleman out of Auburn, who's not Jeremiah Smith, but bodywise, very close.

[A]

He's huge. Ladies and gentlemen, let's go to some NBA playoff conversation. Two huge games tonight. The Stones try to extend the series in Cleveland against the Cavaliers. Cavaliers favor by four and a half on DraftKings. Spurs at Timberwolves. Spurs favored by five and a half. 9:30pm on Prime. Pistons Cavalier, 7pm on Prime. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is ESPN NBA pundit, co host of the Knuckleheads podcast. Thirteen year NBA vet, ladies and gentlemen. Q R. Yeah. Whoa.

[E]

What's good, fellas? What's good? What's good? What's good?

[D]

What is good?

[A]

We got palm trees. Living nice. Mad might be calling you the next Iceman. You look like you're living a pretty good little life. You've earned it. Congratulations. The backdrop is spectacular. We are looking for that type of weather soon. Had rain this morning and tomorrow and

[E]

this is why I reside in City Beautiful, AKA Orlando. I came down here when I got traded here, when I signed here and I checked it out, I was like, I kind of like it around here. I don't want to be in the Midwest cold anymore.

[F]

Anymore.

[D]

Easy.

[A]

It's good to see easy. I would say. There's a lot of days where I wake up and I look outside and I think to myself, that's a good decision by you.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

But hey, when that sun comes out for the first time in five months, think about that feeling you'll never be able to feel again because you're down there where all the sun is. Think about that one time where we get to be like, come out of hibernation now. We can go do life. Orlando is beautiful.

[E]

I'll be excited for you. I'll be very excited for y' all when that.

[A]

It's already happened a couple times.

[D]

Yeah, it has been sunny before here.

[A]

All right, let's get to the NBA playoffs a little bit tonight. Obviously, Cade Cunningham is trying to extend a series in Cleveland. He's played great. Everybody around him has seemingly not played great. It'd be the first time Detroit would advance since 2008. I do believe if they were able to pull this off. And then spite obviously has never done it in his nine year career. Gone on to win it all. So he's getting judged upon everything. James Harden hasn't been been for a while. James Harden has not been this far for a while. I think eight years or nine years or something since he's made it this far in the playoffs. Can you just tell me about that first game? Stones, calves and kind of what your expectation is on who shows up for who?

[E]

Me, selfishly. Man, as a fan, I would love to see this series go seven games, but I, I feel like, I feel like this, this is, this is Cleveland series now, you know, they were the first thing to get a road victory and I feel like, like obviously they, they've been dominant at home and playing really well at home, so they should be looking to close this thing out. I feel like obviously you come out with Donovan Mitchell going to lead the way and throw the first punch, but like you said, you need James Harden, you need those big guys and Mobley and, and Allen to come play big to close it out because everybody knows the hardest game to win is the closeout game. So. I know and we saw what Detroit has done with they backs against the wall this playoff. So I mean this is not going to be an easy game by any means. But I, I think Cleveland could get it tonight night.

[A]

They came back down 31 against Orlando obviously in the first round. We all thought the Stones were just a bunch of fug. Number one seed in the east can't even get past Orlando. And then all of a sudden a magical comeback and they make that two times this particular playoff run. That would be crazy. Almost a gift from the football or basketball gods. AJ Has a question for you. Q. Rich.

[F]

Yeah, Q. Rich, I guess who do you think matches up best against the Knicks in the next round? Whoever would win this the Stones Cavs matchup.

[E]

I mean by the about when you look at the regular season, I would say Detroit. I mean Detroit kind of owned them in a regular season. Beat him by 31, 38 and 15. So it was like regular season. I mean I will say New York is playing a lot different now. They're playing cat at that top, at that high post and he's being kind of a facilitator, taking the ball out of Brunson's hand a little bit and showing his versatility off the ball. So I do feel like they're playing different and they're playing a lot better than they were in those, those times during the season. But in the season season, Detroit beat them handily all three times. So I mean I would, I would say that, that based on that, I would say Detroit. But why, by the way they're playing now? I would probably say Cleveland because Cleveland is showing, you know, more versatility in their roster beside outside of Donovan, you, you getting good games from James Harden, Jared Allen, Evan Mobley, Max Druce is balling out. So I think they got more players playing well right now and I think that's why they up in this series against Detroit.

[A]

The Knicks are making back to back conference finals for the first time since 1979, 2,026 years. Not as long as I potentially thought there.

[D]

Yeah, I was thinking much further.

[A]

Yeah, me too. I got some fun stats here about some of these teams. The Knicks became the first team in NBA history to win three straight playoff games by 25 plus points. Obviously they've been dominant. They lead the NBA playoffs in field goal percentage and three point percentage. That feels like a pretty big deal. Q. Rich.

[E]

No, that is, I mean, those things are huge. I mean, all things line up. Like I say I was. I'm a former Nick. I would love to see them get to finals and have a chance at the championship. I know the city would be on fire, but even, even more for me, the, the fans and then those guys in the organization has been there forever, man. They got guys that's been there a long time, since before I got there, while I was there. So they've enjoyed all those different ups and downs and it'll be, you know, it'll be great to see them get a chance to be on the high side of it, man.

[A]

New York would be scenes, I believe is how that would be described. It's already packed out and it feels like there is a majority of the humans are Knicks fans in the biggest city in America.

[F]

Bruce?

[G]

Yeah, they're going to have to call

[A]

in the National Guard. If we got A finals game seven on, on 7th Avenue.

[D]

It's going to be absolutely ridiculous. It's crazy with the layoff, like it's just so different compared to last year

[G]

where, you know, we're in a dog

[A]

fight with the Pacers, the Pistons to

[G]

now just be kind of watching the

[D]

Cavaliers and Pistons go at it.

[A]

So, yeah, hopefully, you know, everybody stays

[G]

healthy and, and this thing keeps rolling

[D]

and the city's on fire.

[A]

Bruce is saying it's a wide open road seemingly for us over there. Well, let's go to the west, shall we? There's some things over there that we haven't seen before. Go ahead, Connor.

[D]

Yeah, Q. Rich. We're talking about Wemby. Okay. This guy is a freak of nature. We have game six tonight.

[C]

They're up.

[D]

Three, two. I wanted to ask you specifically about that old school eat my elbow from game four. It felt as though Wemby was just kind of sick of the bs, you know, she. He feeds Nas Reed the back of his arm. Boom. And we were talking too, like with the size, in the amount of force from his 7 4, 75 frame wingspan, that is basically like taking a rubber bullet to the throat. He wasn't suspended, he wasn't fined. Did you like this, you know, Pat asked a couple other people kind of about like the old school group text. Like, was your group text kind of going off like, wow, here we go. Go 90s basketball. Basketball we kind of grew up with might be back. They don't find him, they don't suspend him. He basically just gets reamed out by Greg Popovich getting off the plane when they arrived back from Minnesota, and that was the extent of it. But then he goes bananas in Game 5, and now it feels like they're kind of primed to win this thing in six. What did you think about this and how do you feel about tonight with the spurs going back to Minnesota, trying to close it out?

[E]

Well, first, you know, obviously I don't want to see anybody get hurt or anything. And like, obviously that could have been. That could have been an injury right there. Glad it wasn't. But with that being said, I loved every second of it. I loved everything about it. I love that he did. He took the initiative. And I did think that it was intentional. I didn't think he meant to hit him in the head or really injured him. But I think when you're a guy with a body like Wimby and I think every big man that's coming to the league that's supposed to be a quote unquote star and when they are young, they're going to get tested. I watched Dwight go through it. I'm sure Shaq and Pat and some of those guys go through it. And until you do this a couple times, you lay a couple people out, you gain that respect. Like, I guarantee you the guys are gonna double gonna think twice before they go buzzing around him like a Nat at a barbecue when he get. Get those rebounds after they look at him lay Nas Reed down like that and he may need to do it another time or two before. Before people really just leave him alone and stop swinging at the ball and swiping at the ball. But like a lot of bigs and historically coming into the league, league, they had to take these, these hits and take these fines and suspensions and different things to get that point across to where you leave them alone when they get those rebounds and you stay away from them. And you know that those elbows need to be registered weapons.

[A]

Definitely registered. Especially on his. They're swinging at a different altitude than everybody else who seemingly in the history of the game, other than what, Yao Ming maybe? Yeah, probably Yao Ming full both of those. Yeah, Bobo. The highest elbows that have been swung around. And I think Iman said, said like, the big guys always used to bully people. And then it was kind of like. Then you just kind of stopped messing with them. I appreciate that he knew that he had to do something to stop. Like, I have to prove that I'm not just gonna get bullied down here. Like. Like, I have to do that.

[E]

During that plot. You look at that play, he was being held the whole. Like. I'm not saying that the elbow was, was, was. Was right. And he did. But look at this. He's being held by the jersey around the corner. Then they caught a foul. And watch this McDaniels go to put him in the chokehold after that.

[A]

Like, the play over, bro.

[E]

What we doing? So it's like, yeah, you gotta. You gotta do something to stop people. And if I'm McDaniels, I'm not, you know, he doing whatever he gotta do to frustrate this dude. You don't know how to figure him out. So you do anything. But, like, from Wimby's standpoint, enough is enough. I'm tired of it.

[A]

People know he'll do it now.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

That is one of the things that people know he'll do it now. And hopefully there will be a respect level. We cannot wait to watch. Watch him the rest of the way. If you were to pick this particular game, who do you like? How do you like it?

[E]

Oh, man, I. I like. I said as a fan, I want to see seven, so I would. I. I think. I think Ant man has a huge response. I think he comes out. I love. I love everything about his mentality and everything I've seen for him lets me know he's gonna come out here and he gonna go. He gonna go all out. But I mean, at the same time, if Wemby decides to come out the way he did last game and he gets any support from those guards and wings, it's over. To me, I say San Antonio win if. If Wimy does that type of game again.

[A]

Five and a half points in Minnesota. Remember Minnesota's record before the last time San Antonio came up there in Minnesota? Very good. There is a buzzsaw of a place if they were able to steal or win the series up there. That obviously be notable as the Oklahoma City Thunder await them in the Western Conflict Conference. All right. Q. Rich, we appreciate the hell out of you. Have an incredible week. I don't know how you couldn't, but hey, have a good weekend down there, man.

[E]

All right, fellas. Y code.

[A]

Okay, so how. Let's. Can you. Is there. There's a pool back there. Do we got the fence around because the gators or the crocodile? How many.

[E]

No, no, no. No gators here. No gators here, brother. I'm in the. I'm good. The pool right there. And, you know, I got the screen in here on the patio. That's what you seeing right here, the screen. So, you know, the mosquitoes and everything, I can just chill out.

[F]

You ever jump off that balcony into the pool?

[A]

Yeah. How far of a gap is it from up there to. To the pool or the roof?

[E]

Maybe a younger. A younger me might have. Might have tried that. Not, not, not. Not the grown up me. I'm cool. I'm chilling.

[A]

Okay. I thought that was certainly just a Caucasian idea, because as soon as me and AJ saw that, that was our. Both of our first thoughts, I think, A.J. right, was that. Not to see if we could have made that. Yeah, especially the roof, too. The overhang up there gets you a little bit closer, and it's a little higher. I think that's probably where I'm headed. How deep is that pool there, kirich?

[E]

It's like 8ft on the deep end.

[A]

Oh, we can definitely do that.

[D]

Do it.

[A]

Go up there right now. Can you show us a little bit. Can you show us what that roof looks like up there a little bit, just to see how far of a. Oh, yeah. Can you show us how big the gap is there between the window wall?

[F]

Basically a diving platform.

[A]

Deep ends down on that side. Or is that shallow?

[E]

Yeah, it don't matter. No, that's the. That's the deep end down there.

[A]

Yeah, straight off of that thing. Do not hit that. Cannot hit that. Okay, we'll watch you, gu. We appreciate you, man. You're the best. Have a great weekend.

[E]

Yes, sir, fellas. Y' all too.

[A]

All right, see you. Ladies and gentlemen, Q Rich.

[D]

Yeah, Q Rich.

[A]

I hope he doesn't jump off that without us.

[D]

Yeah, or. Or maybe. Well, send someone else off.

[F]

Film it, at least film it maybe if he's gonna do it.

[A]

Yeah, have somebody with a GoPro up

[D]

check it out, guys.

[A]

I'm off the roof.

[F]

And he does, like, a gainer and bam, Lands it perfectly.

[C]

We should have someone we don't care about go off the roof.

[D]

Like, just.

[A]

We care about.

[F]

Who would that be?

[D]

That's not true. There's plenty of bad people.

[C]

I don't want. I don't want Q Rich to get hurt.

[A]

Yeah, of course. You don't want to think about. I don't know. I don't live in my Feet.

[C]

One of those streamers that Bill or Gump watches.

[A]

Oh, you're right. That's like a thing for them. Yeah, the one, the builder one. I don't know, man. I don't think I like.

[D]

No, no, not Bob.

[E]

Bob.

[A]

Bob helps people. That seems pretty. This is. I think gimmicks are starting to fly a little bit too close to.

[D]

So wait a minute,

[A]

Ladies and gentlemen, there's big news in the zoo world. Oh. The trade of the century potentially just took place between the Pittsburgh Zoo and the Boston Zoo. Ladies and gentlemen, Frankie has been sent out of the Pittsburgh. What are you. What are you upset about? I mean, those aren't.

[D]

That's not even the full details of the trade. Can we get Chef D or Rap Sheet on to include the full details, please? It wasn't just a. A swap.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

All right. There's an unnamed ape as well. Okay, there it is.

[D]

Boom.

[A]

Okay, Frankie, an unnamed ape from the Pittsburgh Zoo have been traded to the Boston Zoo in return for silver back. 33 year old stud Lil Joe, who once escaped the zoo.

[C]

Yes, he did.

[A]

Okay. Now there's a lot of people saying the zoo that got Little Joe, the silverback gorilla, probably the one that won the trade.

[C]

Agreed.

[A]

And then there's other people from Boston saying, yeah, right, we got seven year old Frankie coming to town. This guy's a part of a little bachelor group that's going to be roaming around in Boston. And the only reason why Lil Joe was sent down to the Pittsburgh Zoo, they need his sperm bad.

[C]

Bingo.

[A]

And his sperm's been all around the Boston Zoo. So it seems like a good trade for both parties. But con man, you've been saying that the Boston Zoo clear winner of this particular ape trade that took place.

[D]

Yeah, it's not even close. It's all about scheme and fit. You know, we're talking about how Little Joe who again, by the way, let me just say thank you for your service. Little Joe, we will never forget you. Thank you for doing that in the Boston Zoo. It's not just one of those things like, hey, get out of town, we don't want you anymore. Little Joe, we like love you. And you're 33 years in boss are great. Now he escaped and mauled the two year old. But let's not get into what right now.

[A]

Slander him.

[D]

This is just history. And this is what happened. Now let's get into scheming. Fit. Okay, Frankie. Yeah, you mentioned it. There's two apes up there that have been waiting for an alpha for a third to make themselves a throuple. Kind of the. Of the walk. Oh, walk around Zulu bit. Do some of this, you know.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

See what. Yeah, and they might. They might be partying, they might have a little spillage, but that's. That's what's going to happen when you're a 7 year old ape, you know, 33 years old. Little Joe again, not. Not that he's not past his prime. He's not had his time. Okay, Frankie's coming up seven years old right now.

[A]

Would you like to talk about how

[D]

we haven't even got into the unnamed days? This is what he does.

[C]

He just yells loud. Oh, I won because I yelled loud. Let's talk about the facts. Little Joe, six time super bowl champ, one of the goats to ever do it. Oh. What does Boston do? Someone who's given them so many years of greatness and gratitude, they ship him down to another place. One time it was to Tampa Bay. This time it's to Pittsburgh. Okay, and what happened when Little Tom went down to Tampa Bay? Oh, all of his friends came and they joined and they won a Super Bowl. And that's what Little Joe's going to do in Pittsburgh. Because Little Joe, he's got two females waiting for him. Waiting to just accept Little Ch.

[A]

Little Joe's. Little Joe. Accept Little Joe's.

[E]

Little Joe.

[D]

It ain't little.

[C]

Because the two females in Pittsburgh are both, you know, approaching 30 years old. They need the alpha.

[A]

Okay?

[C]

Frankie's not an alpha. We've seen that. He's been here for seven years, hasn't got one of them pregnant, okay? Not one time.

[D]

He's seven years old, Tony. That is disgusting.

[A]

They don't start until this 13. You're looking through. You're looking through a keyhole.

[C]

Little Joe is coming down and he's gonna impregnate all the gorillas in Pittsburgh. And we're gonna have so many more Little Joes. And the Pittsburgh Zoo, which I googled, is a much far superior zoo than the Franklin Zoo in Boston, okay? So they realize, hey, Little Joe needs to spread his wings and fly to a better zoo.

[A]

Oh. So he kind of went from minor league to major league. Now, hold on, though, I will say, Connor, with what your objection was coming.

[D]

Yeah, big one.

[A]

Darius J. Butler, former New England Patriot. Pittsburgh got hosed. Little Joe's way past.

[C]

I'm sure Darius researched the subject. Or did he just fire off a tweet he didn't even think about?

[A]

Oh, I. I will say I googled, okay? I googled amongst Other folks sure. Maybe have a little possible interest in this particular trade. What the life expectancy is Silverback. Immediately upon hearing that we're getting. We're giving away a seven year old. This is the future of the franchise. Oh yeah, and Frankie, obviously he's like he's. Other teams want it, so obviously he's got some great moxie.

[C]

I assume Frankie was fine.

[A]

He's 33. The first Google search told me these things. 35 to 40 dead. That's what I was. That's in the wild. That's in the wild.

[C]

In captivity, it's 45 to 50. I'm looking at the answer right now.

[A]

Okay, so we got at least 10 years. We'll take it good years out of Little Joe in Pittsburgh up there. What? Frankie's just going to make mix in with the crowd. Little Joe's about to come. Peacock. Look at Little Joe.

[D]

Little Joe.

[A]

Look at him.

[D]

Look. His peacocking years are over. Clearly you guys haven't looked into the peacock in years of silverback gorillas. And I appreciate what you said about him being a six time super bowl champion, but again, this is just the Pittsburgh in you. You're looking through a keyhole, Tony. You see he also has two NBA championships. He also has.

[C]

He also has keep building up Little Joe's resume.

[D]

Okay, so. Yeah, no, and he was. It was a long time ago. Frankie's coming over. He's seven years old. Let me think about this.

[F]

I don't know.

[D]

Looks as though he's probably going to be the one to resurrect.

[C]

Sounds a lot like when he was talking about M. Jones. This is, this is Tom Brady and M. Jones right now is what's happening.

[D]

Oh, that's funny. Because I believe Little Joe made the Mac Jones pick. So it looks like you're getting the guy.

[A]

At least Frankie has won like a playoff game or a playoff series.

[C]

Has he?

[E]

Well, no.

[D]

That's why Frankie was stirring up so much. Frankie. I guess what we're not talking about is the backstory here. He, he, he wanted to leave Pittsburgh back cuz all the alpha gorillas that you guys had were kind of used to bullying them.

[A]

I expect both of you to go check in on both of these.

[D]

I will. I checking on Little Joe.

[A]

He ain't part of my family.

[C]

No, I will check on Little Joe.

[A]

All right. Okay. You'll check on Little Joe this summer.

[C]

I'll go back to the Pittsburgh Zoo, a far superior zoo, and check on Little Joe.

[A]

Not true. Will you go talk to Frankie?

[D]

We'll see we'll see how he shows up.

[C]

If he shows up, 4,000 species.

[D]

He. He ain't just. Yeah.

[C]

Boston Franklin Park Zoo 212 what did you just say?

[A]

Say thing again.

[C]

Somebody Googled it.

[D]

Half of those species are fruit floss, so I don't even want to get into the quality they deserve.

[A]

So now Noah's ark doesn't matter.

[D]

Oh, it does matter big time. Let's not get into the dinosaurs on there too. But if Frankie shows up ready to work, then, yeah, I'll go check in on him. But if his Pittsburgh habits he shows

[A]

up with, you don't think he's going to work.

[D]

I just said.

[A]

In fact, I don't know if I'm done. I'm done with it. Congratulations to both. Zeus seemingly getting what they needed at this particular time.

[C]

Agreed.

[A]

I rule it a win. Win, sure.

[C]

But we know one.

[D]

One more, especially if you get two.

[C]

Well, it's weird because if it was a straight up, like, good trade, you wouldn't have to throw in an unnamed ape at a later time.

[D]

Unless that unnamed ape is kind of the. The quiet one that everybody can kind of wants a piece of, but nobody knows about you. And that's kind of the word that I'm getting.

[A]

Well, that one and another one. So I. I think there's quite a conversation to be had about the main attraction coming down at a Pittsburgh Zoo.

[D]

That's the resume. That's the resume sale, baby.

[A]

All right. Appreciate both of the zoos getting active.

[E]

Okay.

[A]

Giving us something to chat about.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Two different positions. Obviously, those two. Okay. They're playing two different positions. They're at different parts of their career. Yeah. But if you can get 10 good years out of Little Joe stomping the yard.

[C]

Agreed.

[A]

And a couple Little Joes. Little Joes running around. I think that's a success. Frankie, if he's able to meet up with his bachelor crew and kind of run rough shot for a while. So Boston Zoo goers can say that's fun over there. Yeah, that'd be good. I think. Ten years, a long time, that would be a successful zoo animal.

[D]

I guess. I guess Frankie is, from my sources, is actually really melding well with the boys so far. Yeah. I'm dead serious. She's got a fight photo. Looks as though Frankie and the Bachelor are. Yeah, well. Yeah. Well, can you send it locked now? Yeah, yeah, I'll try and send it. I mean, we should.

[F]

You're right.

[D]

There's a lot of other stuff to get to.

[A]

Oh, okay. It didn't happen. All Right, let's move along. That is not ass at all.

[C]

No.

[A]

And on this particular Friday, we've decided we would like to recap all the things that are great and all the things that are bad. First, let's go over the things that we thought were great that need a little bit more of a spotlight. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for five things that aren't ass. We had him on in the first hour. Paul skeens right now. MLB. Not ass at all. He's pitching everything nice. Under 2.0 ERA for potentially the third straight season to start his MLB career. Historic. Love what he's doing, Tone. Love the vibes in Pittsburgh around the Pirates.

[C]

Yeah, he's got 16 straight innings without allowing a run. He's taken back to back games into the seventh without allowing a hit. Skeens is absolutely on fire. He's what we call, we like to call a stopper when it gets to him. Any losing stops, he's going to get you a win.

[A]

That's right. And that's why we're not running into seven, eight, nine game lose streaks. Cincinnati Reds are because we got Paul every five days. The aces certainly aren't ass. It's not just skin though. No. It's also. How about sh. The world's biggest star from baseball. Throwing a baseball better than maybe anybody else ever, AJ they're putting him up against the. The best of all time with what he's doing, how he's doing. The lack of hits, the lack of runs and also the composure, the moxy and the movement on these pitches is must watch. He's not ass at all, aj.

[F]

No, he's not. I'm watching in this, this slow mo Cam in 4K or whatever. It's awesome to see from behind like how much these pitches can move. And obviously we know he has the heater to. To drive it by anybody when he needs it. But look, that one right there, it's just, just loud to think of.

[A]

Okay, so we got America's ace and Japan's ace both dealing. That's great for the sport. Especially fresh out of the world baseball Classic with all the other stars that are absolutely balling shout out to baseball. It's staying baseball. You know what else is an ass and didn't get enough love? Riley Green sang his ass all the way up to the batter's box and then got a hit. You don't believe me? Let's go to some banana ball, shall we? With the big hand, handsome former college quarterbacks. Hey, they're good choreographers yeah, he loses because there was this girl, wasn't there?

[C]

Hell yeah, Riley.

[A]

Yeah, there was. Bananas. Come on up. Yeah, come on, Bananas. Come on now. Come on. For bananas. Okay, so he does that, obviously rocks the house. Place goes crazy. He's Riley Green. Holy hell. How's this guy? So him puts the hat on, cap on, gets the bat, puts the gloves on, steps in the batter's box. Okay. Coolest entrance maybe of all time. Clean. We've seen a lot of people step up the bat in these banana games and embarrass themselves. Riley. Absolutely not. Shot up the middle, strides it out, legs it out. Single. Riley Green batting a thousand in banana ball while singing himself up to bat. What a beautiful moment. That's not ass at all, A.J. hawk.

[F]

No, it's not. And we have seen it is not as easy as it looks to get a hit in these banana games. No question. He's going right back back at the pitcher like they teach you.

[A]

Yeah. And he's got. Look at the camouflage bat there. He just got that from duck blind. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

He actually. That wood there, that wood that made that bat, that was camouflage. And otter actually sawed that thing down to make a dam out there where he duck. Wow. He grabbed that because he had such a good duck hunting day. Maybe 30, 30 different ducks came through with his. With the way he'd been calling him. He said, I want to. I want to remember today forever. Made a camouflage bat out of the otter dams wood. And he hits a single within a banana ball. Now he's batting a thousand. This guy can do anything.

[D]

Yeah. And he might be the only one. They talked about him being the only one ever to kind of sing himself up. He might be the only guy at least I've seen to go up there and perform.

[A]

Well, that's. That's certainly not ass.

[D]

Not ass at all.

[A]

Yeah. And we saw the Yankee legend.

[D]

Yeah. Tino Martinez.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Russell.

[D]

Russell Wilson. Drab breeze. He didn't do anything.

[A]

It's hard, hard, hard to hit a ball. And they're dunking on you too. I mean, they're doing the trick. Shit. In your face. Hey. Welcome to Banana ball.

[C]

Poop.

[A]

Poop. Show your kids this out. See ya. Pull a hamstring to Riley. Striding. Oh, yeah.

[D]

Running, Lugging it out.

[A]

And we've seen him. He's got those big skin, college ass, skinny legs.

[C]

Quarterback.

[A]

Good for him. He doesn't have that tall legs. That was an ass. How about an ass that sits about 13ft high, stilts gets a hit and banana ball as well. A.J. what you say? That's Stilts is on the move.

[F]

I mean, how does he get. How does he get in and out of these stilts doing know.

[A]

What do you mean? What do you mean? You got a 30 foot ladder.

[F]

He climbs up.

[C]

No, he lives. They're attached to his hips.

[A]

What do you mean? In and out. This kind of looks like it might

[F]

be attached to his feet.

[C]

No, no, this is a surgery. He had surgery to attach him to his.

[D]

You know, he's wearing.

[A]

Good for him. You can't see anything. Boom.

[F]

That's amazing.

[A]

Boom. Safe.

[C]

I don't like that. They always try to throw him out at first from the outfit. I see him all the time. I don't that if he gets into the ball to the outfield, you shouldn't be allowed to throw stilts out if.

[A]

No. Yeah, right. These guys might be in the MLB next week. Yeah. You think they want an in any of them? The outfielder doesn't. Gun Don Stilts. You think they're ever going to get to play for the Padres? Yeah, right. Dude, these. These dudes are trying to hit that pipeline up to the big show. That's what they're trying to do. Because they're good. I think that's why banana ball has done well. A lot of good baseball players, even if you can get up on stilts and go. Now, the person that does the stiltsy. I. I heard a fun fact.

[C]

Okay. Stilts man mean that. That person.

[D]

What's a fun fact?

[C]

You mean Albert?

[F]

What'd you hear?

[A]

I heard a fun. Hair is awesome. I've heard hair's awesome. Jawline, phenomenal.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Also, Bruce, would you like to share? He's quite short, A lot shorter than you might expect.

[D]

Okay, man. Okay.

[C]

What do you mean?

[D]

Like he's eight feet, like short for a guy with stilts or just short?

[C]

Looks pretty tall to me.

[A]

Yeah, it looks like about 15ft if I had to guess. If that was like 15ft, 4 inches, how tall would the stuff stilts be? They would probably be 10ft. Okay. That's what I learned. That's crazy. Oh, yeah. So stilts is up there just doing it crazy.

[C]

I don't like what's Bruce.

[A]

I don't believe Bruce was trying to spread that. Very nice guy, though.

[F]

So I'm.

[G]

Holy.

[A]

It's stilts. Okay. Hey, we did get to see the Savannah Banana Boys.

[D]

Shut up.

[A]

How would he know?

[C]

How would he know how tall? He always has the stilts on.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

Does he travel with these stilts on? Like how does he get on the airplane?

[A]

I don't think there's enough room around the couches for the stilts.

[C]

I thought it was like.

[A]

I think they were just kind of carrying around.

[C]

I thought it was like a.

[E]

What's.

[A]

I saw Ziggy the bat guy. He's from Pittsburgh. Sure, I met him. I met one of the other. I love what they're doing. They're here in Indianapolis this weekend without the bananas and they're probably going to

[C]

sell if the weather clowns in Portia.

[A]

All right, let's go to the next things that aren't asked. How about the future of American soccer? Remember Kevin Sullivan out of Philadelphia? We met him when he was 14 years old. Signed a professional deal to go overseas. A part of the Philadelphia Union. He now still playing for Philly as. As a 16 year old. Beautiful lefty cross. How about it? Taking it back. First MLS goal for Kevin Sullivan, the young phenom out of Philly who could potentially be the future of United States soccer. How come I haven't seen this guy on the field, Gump? He scores goals. That was a nasty pass across. And then you get it back to go to the right spot to bury it whenever they're losing. Obviously a great play by him. Don't we need. Why is this guy on Team usa? This is the future. What are we doing here, Gumpy? Where do I watching.

[C]

He has started to play a little bit more, but yeah, it would have been nice, you know, last year. He needs some more minutes, you know, if he's going to be around, he's going to be with the this team.

[G]

16 years old.

[C]

He's got to play. Yamal's 18 years old. He was playing for Barcelona at 17. One of the best players in the world. Like, let's get this guy on the pitch.

[A]

Yeah, let's get him on the pitch. Get him playing a little bit. That's the only way he's going to get better. And it seems like he's pretty comfortable. Has been comfortable since he's 14. Crazy story. That's not ass at all. How about Messi? Ah, Messi thought he had a. A hattrick. Turns out ch. Just two goals. Just two goals. Thought it was a hat trick. Just two goals. Messi becomes the first person to do something. Every game he does something. Yeah, that is. That is kind of how it goes. Every stadium he goes into, it's sold out. The Messi experience in the MLS has certainly been a fantastic one. The MLS league is obviously growing, but the tickets are moving and Everybody watches every clip of everything Messi does. Is he on a little bit of a heater right now, scoring Gumpy? It feels like that. And where are we in the ML MLS season right now?

[C]

We're about a quarter of the way through. He's picked it up the last few games. Inter. Miami struggles defensively, though. So like you see here, they were

[G]

down 3, 2 with about 15 minutes left.

[C]

So they scored five goals to win. And then this night of MLS actually set the record. 58 goals scored was the most ever scored on an MLS match day on Wednesday night.

[A]

Unbelievable. The MLS is kind of bringing it a little bit.

[C]

Kind of bringing it always.

[A]

We would like them to put their pink slips up over there. The Champions. Champions League. You guys get your best team over there.

[C]

Sure.

[A]

We'll put up our best team from the mls. We'll put up the cups, the pink slips for it all. And if we win, you got to take us into the Premier League as well.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

Okay. That's why we're into the Champions League. Grow up. We would like our top three teams in the Champions League now.

[F]

Well, Miami hasn't even made the playoffs in the mls, so that's gonna be

[A]

Champions. I thought it was last year.

[F]

Didn't Messi not even make the postseason?

[C]

They beat the White Caps in the final.

[A]

How old are you? Follow along. It's messy. Soccer.

[G]

Damn it, man.

[C]

Oh, look at me. I don't like soccer.

[F]

I like soccer a lot, actually. I played in first grade.

[C]

We don't know it.

[D]

Okay.

[F]

Green Hornets.

[D]

Okay.

[F]

Still remember the whole season.

[C]

The Big Green. The Big Green.

[E]

Yeah.

[F]

Green Hornets. I'm pretty sure we're undefeated.

[D]

That's a movie.

[A]

You guys eat oranges and half halftime?

[F]

Yeah, it was first grade because it wouldn't let me play football until second, so. Yeah, we had a great year.

[A]

You're the best. How come? I'll tell you what. Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, they got them in first grade playing football. That's a little bit of difference. That's a little bit of the difference. You can kind of sense it. Okay, let's move along. The last thing that we would like to showcase that we think is not ass at all, comes from the lacrosse world. Yes. Ladies and gentlemen, look at the clock. 12:12 under 20 seconds. Stony Brook pressing turnover. Johns Hopkins has it with 13 seconds left in their own end. Number zero, MK. Let's go. Dime. Down the field. Quick passing. Give me that. 3, 2, 1, go. Johns Hopkins wins in literally the final second after a four field press. Con man, can you tell me A little bit more about how likely this is where they're going somewhere. This is.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Can we get the sound on this from the beginning? We don't have sound. Call is fantastic.

[D]

Unbelievable.

[A]

It really builds up the entire time. 13 seconds from their own end, all the way down to the other end. Goal scored and moving on to the finals weekend or something like that.

[D]

Yeah. This is to go to the final Four. Taylor Haas, I believe it was the one that scored actually. What it doesn't show to 1212. They were down 1210. They kind of made a massive comeback. Now a fast break like that, if you will, was basically to a tee. That is how you draw it up and they executed it perfectly. This is to go to the final Four, which is next week. On Friday they will take on Northwestern, who's the number one team in the country. And then Maryland and UNC are the other game. But this is wonderful when you are basically breaking this down. I'm sure with five minutes left the Johns Hopkins coach probably said like, hey, we are going to get a chance to win. And whether it's with 15, 20 seconds a minute left, we're going to have to get it done. And the fact that they kind of tic tac toe, you can kind of see it right there. Basically drawn up, it looked like a three man weave. Damn near. It was perfection. And that is kind of the magical lacrosse. You can win and score basically on any, any possession and sometimes it's that fast. That's why it's so much fun to watch.

[A]

Unbelievable ending. Incredible execution in Taylor Hoss. Hot hands, little potato.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Go ahead and make sure we put this. How long was that pass from? Let's go there. It's like a 35, 40 yard dime, right?

[D]

Oh, yeah. Probably end to end is, I don't know, typically like 110, 112 yards is basically the back of the end.

[A]

This ball right here, this one right here, they're looking for an outlet, right? Yeah, that's probably.

[D]

Probably a 50, 60 right here.

[A]

Oh, that's. Let's go. I'm sorry, right there. I. I missed the name. I apologize for that 100. Whoever did the long pass from the beginning, I should get that name. We should get that name at some point. We apologize for not having that unbelievable dart.

[D]

Yeah, that.

[A]

That's a long. That's a huck. That's like the glasses. So they, the women wear glasses.

[F]

They don't let them wear pads. My daughter plays lacrosse. They need to let them wear pads like the boys and Kill each other. They don't let them hit because they're wearing. Wearing eye protection and no glasses, no gloves, no helmets, no gloves. They should play like the boys.

[A]

Okay, so that's Ohio getting into lacrosse. What you just heard right there, that's lacrosse in general.

[F]

The girls all want to hit. They watch the boys games. Like, man, this would be awesome. And then they don't let them do it.

[A]

Okay, so you have a daughter in lacrosse, and I think you are one that would like to grow the game. I think we've all kind of fallen in love with the game a little bit more here as we've gotten into this world, because we get a chance to meet people. The Kavanaugh families, obviously. Thank you. Care of us. The PO, obviously, we know from the history. The indoor lacrosse. Awesome. Obviously, PLL is awesome. The Olympics is coming. And also, it's a sport where, you know, my particular build, which my kids will have, could potentially play pretty well. So I would like to see lacrosse continue to go. And I love that this is happening. Exhilarating at the end of any game is awesome. And that is certainly not ass at all. Okay, let's run through some of the bad now, shall we? We, ladies and gentlemen, Sorry to all the people that are watching with dogs at home probably going crazy. Hey, we'll just pile on. We'll continue to pile on. We apologize. It's time to hop on the. Oh, no. Let's go to the PGA Championship. The major that is happening currently over there in iron. Bryson d. Shambo. Day one. One YouTube golfer rolls it about 50ft, maybe 60 yards past the hole. The greens in the course have been kicking the golfers ass thus far. A lot of people thought they were going to score. Well, A lot of people thought the golfers were going to beat this place. The green said, I don't think so, and they turned him into Bryson D. Sham. Oh, no. Let's go to baseball. Always doing something sweet for. For us. This is twin shortstop Brooks Lee. Okay? He hits a pop up here. Now, this is something that, you know is straight out of the movie to the sky. He hits this thing. All right, I got it. I got it. You got it. We got it. Nobody got it. Oh, no. They're adults, A.J. how's that happen, pal?

[F]

Yeah. Communication, we know, in everything always helps. And obviously, the. These guys did not communicate very well.

[A]

Hey, you want to talk about communication? I'll tell you what. Fan and team is certainly a part of the problem here. How about let's go to the Washington Nationals Is that a home run? Nice. Is that a Home run? Down two, man on base, box to the 10th. Hit the lights. Somebody hit the lights. We just tied it up in the 10th with a home run. Place is going to go crazy. Actually, the rules set, okay, you're not allowed to do that, pal. You're not allowed to reach over and snug a ball.

[F]

Oh, that was going out anyway.

[A]

Oh, was it?

[C]

Was it hard to know?

[A]

We'll never know. And if it hits the yellow, it's not a home run. But if it hits the yellow and bounces over, it is a home run. But if a fan is trying to help his team and wants to maybe take a ball home in the bottom of the tent. Oh, no. That is tough. That is tough stuff. Okay, let's go to a SOCCE game over in Prague. I do believe what. What country is this here?

[D]

Czech Republic.

[A]

Czech Republic. Okay. 3, 2, 9, 6, 27, 10 minutes of stoppage time. Crowd so excited. This number one team in the league. We just won another game over arrival. They go sprinting onto the pitch, going crazy. We got flares, we got drums. We got madness. We still got game to play. He's what the rest minutes of. We got a lot of game. Nobody blew this game over. The match would go on to become suspended. They would not get a win. They would lose the points. And now their lead for the league has dwindled. And it's going to be a tight race strictly because the fans said, you know what? We'll lose this one for you, and we'll have the whole world saying, oh, no. All right, let's go to MLS soccer. Let's go to Team USA in a World Cup. Ladies and gentlemen, one of our goalies who has done great things for Team usa, Matt Turner. He plays for the New England Revolution.

[D]

Oh, geez.

[A]

He got a ball. Pass back to him, and he loses to the ground. And the Nashville that's unseen mean to do that. You see him, you see the ball just. Just embarrassingly hop off. We know this guy. We've seen this guy. He's Team usa. You're going to make mistakes, obviously. Sometimes you got to, hey, you got to pass it off, but get rid of.

[D]

Oh, no.

[A]

And then let's stay in soccer. This is in Syria. We don't know this guy's name, but we do know the pain

[C]

that hurts.

[A]

We are so sorry that happened to you, pal. And I appreciate you putting your life on the line for your team. But as soon as we see that ball, bust your nose and Potentially concussion. You. You can't help but say, oh, no. All right, we're out of here. Hope you all have an incredible weekend. We can't thank you all enough for allowing us to do this for a living. We've enjoyed the hell out of this week. We hope you. We hope you'll allow us to do it again next week. Have the best weekend of all time. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change your life. We're in this thing together. Team on me. Team on three. One, two, three. Team. See, nobody on TV ever gets to do that. Yeah, True sportsters, actually. Goodbye. You think anybody TV wise did that?

[C]

Definitely everyone.

[F]

Oh, yeah?

[A]

You think so?

[D]

Thousand percent.

[A]

I wonder where they were. Like in an airport.

[C]

Could have been.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

A bar. It's Friday probably. Lot of boozing going on.

[D]

Beer up. Watching the pga.

[A]

PGA champions.

[C]

Oh, yes, I forgot.

[A]

Let's do a little.

[E]

Let's.

[A]

Let's do one more. Oh, no. Okay, let's do one more. Oh no. It's outside the sports world, so we didn't want to keep it in the oh no of sports.

[D]

Sure.

[A]

But it certainly needs to be in the way more. No category. What's the name of the Obama President Obama family produced movie?

[D]

Leave the World Behind.

[E]

Okay.

[A]

If you remember and Leave the world behind. The thing that really got him at the end was these Teslas got out of control and they're basically high speed missiles and they were kind of just taking over everything, shutting down roads. Nobody could get anywhere. They kind of just blew it all up there. Controlled by computers back. Bad deal. It's a bad deal. You see what's going on down there in Georgia. Run the clip. Foxy video here captured several of the self driving cars just clogging up a neighborhood cul de sac. The people living in the northwest Atlanta neighborhood say dozens end up circling their community. Channel 2, Steve Gelbach is on one street where they want the waymos to stop. To stop. It's almost every little cul de sac around our ear. So I think it's a real problem. Waymo after Waymo after Waymo enter this dead end street usually early in the morning. I think yesterday morning we had 50 cars that came through between six and seven. Neighbors on Battleview Drive started seeing the autonomous driverless cars two months ago.

[D]

But the groupings and large number of

[A]

waymos just started circling in and out in the last couple weeks. They even shared video with us when neighbors used this little guy to put them right out here in the street

[D]

to block the waymos from getting into

[A]

the cul de sac. And you can imagine what happened next. And we had at one point, eight wayos that were stuck trying to figure out how to turn around. The wayos are empty and not picking anyone up. Parents are worried, not only calling it excessive, but dangerous. We're families. We have small kids. We have animals and pets. We've got kids getting on the bus in the mornings. And it just doesn't feel safe to have that traffic.

[D]

Neighbors reached out to WH have not got a response.

[A]

They've also contacted their council member representatives and G DOT don't know what to do. We would just like to see them stay on main traffic roads. I don't think there's any reason to be on small residential culdesacks if they're not picking up. Oh, these things are losing their mind. Make you say way more. Especially to you, A.J. you've been a big time supporter of these way Mo's and we've seen obviously the benefits of it. The ability to get home without having to necessarily have a driver. If you, if you're drunk, obviously getting in these is good. If you're a sloppy drunk, you can puke all over it and there's no driver there to be mad at you. Yeah, but this seems like quite a flaw. Maybe a glitch of some sort. They should be able to change the map. This is a 2x speed, by the way. This is not how fast they're actually driving. Just so everybody has that understood. But that the amount of cars that they had stuck there, whenever they put the. The blocking in, they had to turn around. That's insanity. This is what, this is what you think of, you know, when you think of worst case scenario. Scenario. And I. I don't know how they stop. Hopefully they stop it, AJ hopefully this word gets out. Yeah.

[F]

Do we know. Is this like a glitch or is somebody like hacking into this answer, messing with them?

[A]

I don't know.

[F]

No one knows.

[D]

Huh.

[A]

Is there humans at Waymo like, Or is Waymo just one big AI thing?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. Is there a CEO or is it just a motherboard that sends all these cars out?

[A]

Yeah. Do we have to send different prompts to it to talk to it? Do we have to learn its language?

[C]

A.J. you're gonna rethink using them in the future?

[F]

Yeah, no, I would use it. If they had them in Ohio, I would use them. Trust me. These guys are way safer than humans behind the wheel. We all know that.

[A]

Oh, really, guys? These guys know what's going on these things, Google. Okay, so Google owns Wayos. That means it's attached to Google Maps, obviously, and Google sense. So I assume they would just have to redraw where they're supposed to be going. But on that note, we'll never know because these things get these clankers off the road.

[C]

Yeah, that was my neighborhood.

[B]

I'd be laying spike light strips and IEDs.

[C]

Do they blow these things down? Do they have a home where they go at night to recharge?

[A]

Like do they have one or parking lot?

[C]

Or do they just find a bunch of cul de sacs keep going in circles until they get their next call?

[D]

Now these things like to talk to each other, like to mingle at the end of days.

[A]

Do they have a home?

[D]

I'm sure there's some sort of loading station where they all go and suck each other.

[C]

You seen iRobot?

[A]

I have not seen iRobot, but we're all behind same feels and they do probably suck at you each other up. But what if they're playing Pokemon Go? What if it's a game to get to all the ends? Maybe chance check boxes.

[D]

I'm wondering what the hell is in that neighborhood. Now I want someone to go through and clear some basements.

[A]

They said it's a lot of different cul de sacs in there.

[E]

What if.

[F]

What if a couple guys got together and they just keep summoning, like, summoning them around, like, hey, we got 20 of them today. And you got a group of 10 dudes that think it's funny to do this.

[D]

Those guys are fucking hilarious. That. That's the funniest shit I've ever seen.

[A]

If this is a human thing happening, we will say, certainly have to take that into account. But if this is just these robotic things kind of deciding that they want to kind of do whatever they want in our world, maybe it's time we start taking a little bit more control. Maybe we. Maybe we unplug these things and let them know Google's not saying it since the beginning.

[D]

Slash a tire, maybe let them know. Then what?

[A]

What if it just fix it? Oh yeah. What if it just talks?

[F]

Nice try, buddy.

[C]

Watch out, robot. This weekend. It'll put this in perspective.

[A]

I don't think I'm gonna do this.

[C]

It's Will Smith.

[A]

You love Will Smith. I do love Will Smith.

[D]

I did not kill him.

[A]

That. Sony, that's Will Smith.

[C]

Sonny says that from the movie.

[D]

The robot did not kill him.

[A]

He sounded a lot like the concussion doctor with that. If that was.

[D]

Oh, okay, sure. Now The. The guy who says that actually refused to be listed as an actor because they wanted to be like, no, as a real freaking robot.

[A]

Oh, I like that. Yeah, man. He's got so many Wild Wild West Wick.

[C]

A wild.

[A]

We know that's your favorite planet Earth.

[D]

Also known as just Earth, I think. What's the movie called again?

[C]

You mean like with this kid and they land.

[D]

Yeah, with this kid.

[A]

I don't know. He's a KY kid.

[D]

No, no, that's his kid. But no, there's a. Oh, Independence Day. Yeah, we referenced that the other day. There's a movie where they go to Earth.

[A]

Will Smith only has bangers.

[C]

They're making a two of the one in New York when all the zombies are there. But I am legend too in it.

[A]

Hancock. I mean there's so many Hitch. Oh, Hitch is one of the best of all time. Hancock was my favorite. He had me there for a bit.

[C]

What where he's a.

[D]

The legend of Bagger Vance.

[C]

That was great.

[A]

So good.

[C]

The con man one's really good.

[A]

I'm happy we're doing this right now. Let know he's. And we all know what was potentially going on behind the scenes there right now. We all know a lot.

[D]

Yeah, now he was dealing with a lot.

[A]

He was dealing with a lot. Come on, Will. Unless Will did something terrible we don't know about, we would like to be on the record. Come on, Will. Thank you, Fresh Prince, let alone. Yeah, come on now.

[F]

So that was real when he slapped Chris Rock, though. That was not a bit. That was real.

[D]

That was real. Chris Rock has now talked about it enough where I think we know it was real.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, I agree.

[F]

Just so weird. What a weird situation.

[A]

Yeah, I don't. I don't know how you get to that. But I mean, maybe he was just fed up, you know, Maybe and Kristen deserve it.

[C]

Aren't those two fighting at the apex?

[A]

No, that's a man's elementary.

[D]

Oh, no, that's tomorrow.

[F]

Oh, is that at the apex?

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

It's not tomorrow, is it?

[A]

Maybe it. I assume they're going to sell tickets and have a lot of people in the apex pack it out to how they could. But if that was covet Apex and we got to just hear the little slaps, you know, off of each other.

[D]

Dude, that'd be sick. They should.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Testing policy on these guys.

[A]

Time out. It can't be right.

[C]

That can't be.

[D]

Probably in the contract details.

[A]

So one of them is an elite athlete.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Okay. No matter what you Think of them.

[F]

You talk.

[D]

And the other was a Heisman Trophy winner. Yeah, exactly. And the other one, the Heisman. Think about that.

[A]

All right. I think that one's pretty obvious what's going to happen there. We've all seen how that works.

[F]

I'll watch, I'll watch it, though. When is it happening?

[D]

I believe it's next Saturday. And I think they're doing fan controlled fighting. So they both stand there and then people vote on like, hey, throw, jab.

[A]

It's like rock em Sock em robots full of humans.

[D]

Exactly.

[A]

And they actually, they actually do attach him to something and he'll just feel like a butt.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Boom.

[D]

And it's like duck. So sometimes they duck into a butt

[A]

and then he feels another one. It's like sensor, sensor. And he's like, yeah, that's how we get one, two. Yeah, you got to stand like this attached to something. Yeah, that's not a bad idea.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And the other person has to pull,

[D]

drop, move, unless they say, hey, lean forward. And then all of a sudden they're feeding you. Yeah.

[A]

I don't know if that's gonna be the case. I think. Are they boxing or fighting? What is it?

[F]

Boxing?

[A]

I think boxing. Okay. If it was fighting, that's an immediate Johnny Manziel tackle. Just.

[C]

Sure.

[A]

Ragdoll. Somebody that has never had to really utilize leverage before in real life, you know, so that's how that would change.

[C]

I don't know, though. Johnny's been opening for Drake for a long time.

[A]

Time now.

[C]

Like, is he going to be prepared?

[A]

Iceman coming out the same week, near the same time he's fighting, I think is good for Johnny, man, I, I, I. This bodes well for Johnny Manziel. A lot of people will be watching. I mean, where is it?

[F]

Where is it broadcast?

[D]

Abc.

[C]

Abc, yeah. Nine o'.

[A]

Clock.

[F]

Okay. Is it Tirico?

[A]

I don't think it's on abc. I don't know where it is. I felt bad that I didn't. But I will be watching Johnny Manzel and it could be Buckman, we don't know. Johnny, you represent football, baby.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Come on, Johnny.

[D]

Go get it done.

[A]

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[D]

is a whole all of it.

[A]

Yeah, well, people just so obsessed with it that things can happen months and months and months ahead of time. For instance, every Friday of the football season, we normally pick the entire slate against the spread. Do you recall this? A.J.

[F]

i do, yes.

[A]

Now the schedule is officially out, let's go ahead and pick the entire Week 1 slate. The Patriots will kick off a season in Seattle. Seattle 3 1/2.5 favorites AJ who do you like? How do you like it?

[F]

Oh, Seattle's going to be riding off that super bowl and coach is going to have him dialed in head down.

[E]

They're going to be working.

[F]

Give me Seattle.

[A]

I'll take Seattle as well. San Francisco LA in Australia Thursday 8:35 LA favored by two and a half

[C]

now Shanahan's bitching right about traveling there. So is that an advantage for the Rams or like this is just a business trip?

[A]

No. And McVeigh last night on the schedule, prime time thing, said they haven't figured out what they're doing yet. But they do know that that coming back is what everybody says is the problem. And they have an extra day on the back end because they're playing on Monday, I guess, after. So they are very thankful for that, I think is how Sean McVeigh is saying it. But they haven't figured out exactly what they're doing yet. And I will say, as somebody that's been down under, it is the way back that really gets you. I mean, it's going over there. You can, you can time it up. Coming back, you're just fucked. It's just so fucked. For at least four days.

[C]

What if they retrofitted their plane with Stafford's red bed? They all laid in the red bed on the way to and fro.

[A]

Good idea. Good idea getting the ammortal.

[C]

There it is.

[A]

Okay, so the Rams, two and a half point favorites in Australia. AJ who wins the down under bowl.

[G]

Yeah.

[F]

With all that being said, give me the LA Rams here.

[A]

I'll take the Rams as well. Saints, Lions. Lions favored by seven. Shuck coming into his second year. Kelly Moe in his second year. A lot of people like what the Saints have been doing. Kamara is seemingly very pumped and excited to be there.

[D]

ETN also in that back Jordan.

[F]

Tyson.

[D]

Tyson. With Olavi Jawan.

[A]

John.

[D]

I. I'm. Don't sleep on the stage now. I'm not. I'm not saying they're gonna win, but seven points is a lot early on.

[A]

Saints were kind of our darlings towards the end of last year because they were trying very hard. Lions favored by seven. Wow. Foxy, how do you feel? Yeah. I don't know if you guys saw the lion schedule release last night, but they didn't do any goofball. It was a 30 second video. MCDC printed out the schedule, put it on the wall. Straight business. Lions win 49. 14. Can't wait. Okay, I'll take the Saints plus seven. AJ who do you like?

[F]

Saints plus seven all day.

[A]

Okay. Me and AJ seeing this like the same. This is all subject to change for how we feel closer to the game. No, no, no.

[D]

We need to lock these.

[A]

Lock them in right now.

[D]

They're locked in for now. We've never picked them twice. This is it.

[A]

I would.

[D]

You guys better act like it's.

[C]

I want it to be twice. I do want it to be twice. And I don't want you guys to be told this one. I want it to see how much it changes.

[A]

Okay. You got it for the vibe. Strictly Ravens coming to Indianapolis. How you doing? One o' clock to kick this thing off.

[C]

Dan Jones is questionable.

[D]

Wow.

[A]

But just potentially likely too. Yeah, you know, we don't really know. I know. We do have a national game early in the season. I guess we're all banking on Danny Dimes being back because if he's not, it's obviously a different Colts team. Ravens favored by three and a half. Disgusting. Coming into the loud house. Nobody even knows what these teams will look like. AJ who do you like? How do you like it?

[F]

I got to go with my instincts here. I like the Colts at home plus three and a Half.

[A]

Me too. You knew that. But Lamar Jackson with mint or who's

[D]

the primetime game against Chiefs. So maybe it's more so like, hey, let's remind everybody who's watching worldwide. Like the Chiefs still get. Got it. They beat the out of the Colts because they don't know Danny Dimes is there. And maybe it's more so like a get back prime time game.

[A]

We're not. We're not. You think we're not jobbers for the Chiefs.

[D]

Just something to think about. There's a huge chance you are.

[A]

No, we're not doing the job for the Chiefs.

[D]

Huge. You're getting mushed or what's it the Indianapolis jobber?

[A]

Squashed.

[C]

You're getting squashed.

[A]

Squash match happening.

[D]

It's a squash match.

[A]

I'm sick of that.

[D]

There's a chance that gave just hit me.

[A]

Oh, I'm so proud of you. I'm happy it did. That better not be the case.

[D]

There's a huge chance that is.

[A]

And maybe that's why whenever I was in the NFL offices and I was like, can I get a game? And they're like, let's give them the money.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, you can get one. Sure.

[A]

That's not the case, though. Danny Diamond BA Okay. Bears favored by two and a half going in Carolina. That's a good football team.

[C]

That's a good football team.

[A]

AJ who do you like? How do you like it?

[F]

I'm going to take that good football team plus two and a half at home.

[A]

I'll take the Panthers as well. Give me the

[F]

banking on the fact that the Bears are getting, you know, we know coach likes to. To work them in training camp. I think it might take them a few weeks to get those camp legs out, you know, to get some fresh legs coming from camp.

[A]

And the Panthers sent us a really cool shirt.

[D]

Bears lost a lot of people too, so it might take a second to mesh.

[A]

But we all know Ben Johnson's an incredible coach.

[C]

This season's long Rome did really good at the little happy drawing thing.

[D]

He did do a good job. Roma dunes for their schedule.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

DJ Moore though, out their center. Drew Dahlman out.

[A]

Like I'll take the Panthers plus two and a half as well, strictly because they sent us a T shirt. And it's May 15th. Bills favored by a point and a half against Houston. Houston sent you some bloody shoulder pads and guess what that was Cushing's blood.

[D]

Absolutely nothing to do with me, but I still loved it. This is kind of one of those weird lines as well. Just because Houston returned basically everybody shit

[C]

out of the Bills in Houston last year.

[D]

Josh's like, record in Houston is one of those things Trash man points at like that. That's a very odd.

[A]

This a friend of the program game here, aj. Who do you like? How do you like it?

[F]

I'm taking the Buffalo Bill strictly off of how Tone reacted when Connor was

[C]

talking about, can we do anything with Cushing's blood?

[A]

Try.

[C]

Can we clone like a team, Wipe

[F]

it off and drink it.

[C]

That's what I mean. Like what it.

[A]

But if we drink it, then we waste it. Can we multiple.

[C]

That's what I mean

[A]

there. Was that his. I think his blood would be.

[C]

I saw the video. It's his blood.

[D]

It smells like his blood.

[C]

How do they send it to Connor? I heard they tried getting JJ for this, but he wouldn't do it. Too much money. Yeah.

[D]

He's bleeding from Burnley already. Oh, that was pretty good.

[A]

Yeah, that was pretty solid. I will say I appreciate the fact that Cushing did this. I appreciate that they committed to the bit. I appreciate that it continued to go on and on and on. He got more bruised and more banged up and more bloody. This is Cushing football through and through. And I assume he did this method acting. Yeah, I believe that was the problem. And at the very end, he's obviously all over his shoulder pads. And then he. I don't know if it was AI or not, but people are not happy about the usage of AI. No. I hate to break it to him about what's coming.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Over the next couple years. I think it's. Those are the shoulder pads. Where are. Did you have them?

[D]

Yeah, they're somewhere.

[E]

I'll get.

[D]

I see them. They're right.

[A]

We'll get. We'll get them next week. Okay.

[D]

I mean, why the did they send that to me?

[C]

You know why?

[D]

Why?

[C]

Because what it's doing in your head right now.

[D]

We're not playing. I realized that during the video. I was like, we don't even play this team. How the Are these shoulder pads?

[A]

Maybe they thought you would like it because you like old school football, but they didn't know that you wanted Wemby suspended for two weeks or something.

[D]

Don't you dare put that on me.

[A]

You kind of were with.

[D]

Don't you justify. Don't you.

[A]

Was that was.

[C]

Oh, you're right.

[A]

Right. You were completely against it.

[D]

Okay.

[F]

Okay.

[D]

I thought you were making my chain.

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

I was gonna say this guy. Canadian guy. I didn't say suspension.

[C]

I just said a fine. You know, I Said a fine. That was it.

[A]

And Gumpy and the Canadian.

[C]

Yeah, I wanted a fine. Fine was fair. Everybody gets fine. Unrele, no suspension.

[A]

Okay, so you like the bills, A.J.

[E]

yeah.

[A]

Okay, I'll take. I'll take the Bills as well. Tampa Bay Bengals. Bengals favored by three and a half at home. But Kreischer was in Baywatch with Baker Mayfield down there for Tampa Bay. I respect and appreciate it. Jason Light came on the program. They're obviously giddy about Tampa. Bain starting up there. Three and a half points too many for Tampa Bay and Bengals. What do you think, A.J.

[F]

i tell you what, you guys remember we have Sexy Dexie in Cincinnati. This will be his first home game as a Bengal. It's going to be awesome. Give me the Bengals.

[A]

Okay, I'll take Tampa Bay. And I love it. I just think close game. I think, I think three and a half is too many points there. Browns, Jags, Jags with Trevor Lawrence with a new dude.

[D]

No, don't do that. Don't do that.

[C]

I feel like that haircut would look good on H. H, is that the

[A]

haircut you would choose? I guess you didn't now, but is that one that. If it was available.

[C]

Cuz they had similar hair and facial features.

[F]

I don't think this is the one. No. Trevor has amazing hair and this is. Is not what they did looks like.

[A]

So their entire thing is a troll for people to think that they did this to him. Is that the thing? Right? That's the thing. I think it worked. It's gotta be.

[F]

Oh, it definitely worked. I guarantee you he's got family members texting him like, hey, love the new do right there.

[A]

Scared to touch the hair. I don't.

[F]

Yeah, of course. I mean, come on now. That's not his real hair there. That's a wig. They chopped it.

[A]

I like that they worked us though. They worked Connor for real. Come on, Connor. You got real emotional early about.

[D]

I got.

[A]

I got.

[D]

Got worked in the sense that I was pissed that people would get worked by this work.

[A]

Jacks favored by seven at home against the Cleveland Brownies. Ten quarterbacks in. Who's going to be the one?

[F]

I'm going to go. You know, I'm going to go out on a limb here and take the Cleveland Browns plus seven.

[A]

Okay. I'll take the Jacksonville Jaguars favored by.

[F]

Sean Watson has a starting quarterback, right?

[A]

Yeah. I don't know. You tell me you're taking.

[F]

If I had to guess, I'm taking deshawn this game.

[A]

Okay. It sounds like you've been on the DeSean Watson, starting quarterback for the.

[F]

I'm just saying, the guy's been on the squad. He's been saying he wants to play. He's been saying he's rehabbing 250 million, still getting paid. They're going to give him an opportunity to be the start.

[A]

Okay, so maybe he comes out ball and maybe the Jags will continue to evolve. I'll take the Jags favorite down there and do. Pittsburgh Steelers hosting the Atlanta Falcons. Good schedule releases for both of these teams. We are lucky and honored to be a part of the Pittsburgh Steelers. One thought Gardell absolutely crushed it. And who was he with there?

[C]

That was Bill Crawford. Used to be on wdve, which is a local rock and comedy station. He did great. And then Christian Co was the long snapper who was teaching everybody Pittsburgh Ease, which he did as well.

[A]

Yeah, I thought it was fantastic. I thought it was really well done. Trying to get every Pittsburgh Ease word into a bit has obviously been tried a lot of different times. I think they did it in a good way. I think I appreciated them buying into all. All of it and everything about Pittsburgh. And if you can get Billy Gardell talking about Pittsburgh with his Ginzer accent, coach speaking Pittsburghese with Mike McCarthy doing the same thing, I think they did a great job. I appreciate how much effort they put in. Now some people from Pittsburgh say, hey, over this. Why would you do this? Why? It's like, come on. People are just learning about fucking the injuries literally within the last, like, 10. I'm not saying that Pittsburgh hasn't been respected, but the culture and the community of Pittsburgh, I think is, has been on display a lot more over the last 10 years. People are still falling in love with everything about it. I know you're probably tired of it or whatever, but, like, the world's still falling in love with everything about it. I like what they did. I appreciate us being involved. So we're a little bit biased, but I also like that they at least try to create something.

[C]

No, it's great. I mean, Big Mike coming back and AJ knows how much he talks and breeds Pittsburgh. And then to do all the inserts, like, that was perfect. And the fry on everything.

[D]

It was.

[C]

I mean, it's great.

[A]

We recorded two and a half minutes for that tv.

[D]

And then right at the end, you guys said, there's no way they use any of that. They're going to drop that whole entire thing.

[A]

And they certainly did. And they dropped the entire thing. And then as I was watching it, I was like, Man, I wish we would have got more information on what they needed us to do, you know, I wish they would have because it would have been, you know, a little bit different. But it was an honor to be a part of it. We appreciate it. Just like the Titans. We appreciate you with that guy. Handsome guy. You said look like me. That's right. Guy had a lot of position. Daz, I appreciate how much. No comment. That guy said on whether or not. No comment. But no. Jesus. Shot of you. Okay. I, I, I appreciate it.

[C]

The Will Compton guy was funny, too.

[A]

Yeah. Fantastic. J. The Jerry Jones UK guy.

[D]

Way to end it. Fantastic.

[A]

I'm from the uk. I'm all right. So that there's me. No comment. Chase Miles. Oh, yeah.

[F]

I mean, that looks more. That looks more like Miles Garrett than the guy looks like Pat McAfee.

[A]

Whoa. I think that guy looks like me a little bit. Joe Bo. Love it. I, I like the good gimmick. I like the possess and then putting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it was. They're great and it was quick.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

As opposed to everybody else's. That was like a movie.

[C]

I like that they use Broadway. They've used it almost every year.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

As they should. Steelers favored by three. Who's gonna be a quarterback? Great question.

[C]

You know who's gonna be the quarterback for a Falcons? It can be TUA or Michael Panick.

[A]

Might be Matt Ryan. You saw him give cadence last night.

[C]

That was good.

[A]

Yeah, that was awesome. That was good bit. That was a good bit for them. I'll take the Steelers favorite by three at home. I think they are going to cover in Acker to start off the season. Go ahead, A.J. yeah.

[F]

Give me the Steelers at home.

[A]

For sure. Jets at Titans. Two teams that we think are much less ass than everybody else seems to think. I think they're both going to do well. Give me the jets plus three down in Tennessee. I think it's going to be a one score. Yeah. I'll take the Titans. AJ who do you like? How do you like it?

[F]

I. I told you. I think you should have rode with it. I'm taking the Jets. I think they figure something out this year.

[G]

Maybe revenge game for big Bob Sala.

[C]

True.

[A]

Cam Ward, too.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Day ball. We think he's good, right?

[D]

Definitely. Especially with young quarterbacks. Carnell, Tate, Wandell Robinson.

[A]

We love the city of Nashville.

[D]

We mentioned you can't give me the Titan.

[F]

Sorry. Give me the Titans. That's on me.

[A]

Yes. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. But the reason why we're both thinking Jets There is because they've been doing such non jet stuff. You know like they've been doing such non jet stuff should be better that it kind of has shocked our systems in here. We're gonna have to see it. This is what every person on TV always ends up saying about somebody that we think is good that it maybe hasn't won a championship yet. The classic thing to be on TV to get you out of an argument is I I see with my eyes bcmis I've gotten to the point as an old man on television now I guess and on the Internet where I'm gonna have to see it with the jets. Before I could believe it. I used to naively buy in to hype videos and signings. Aaron certainly when I was part of it and jets fans told me I need to shut the fuck up and just know it ain't gonna happen. I would like to see it first. Titan, same thing. Jets have been like this much longer.

[D]

Titans and Raiders are both teams that have no prime time games but have spent the most in free agency. And there has been been an actual correlation that the teams who spend the most in free agency have increased their win total by like 4. So it is hard to envision them not getting better.

[A]

Titans minus three for both of us. Okay, let's go. Commanders at Philadelphia. Eagles425 on Fox. NFC East Big Dom and Sirianni hosting Dan Quinn. Jaden Daniels. Jaden Daniels a part of the new season of quarterback.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Would you be a good time? Can't wait to catch up on that on Netflix. Eagles favored by five and a half. Hosting the PGA championship right now. Big Dom did a fantastic job. Big Dom actually sent a text saying gazi boys.

[C]

Okay, nice.

[A]

We appreciate him doing that. Aj who do you like? How do you like it is Washington travels to Philly.

[F]

I think Philly. You know. Home opener.

[E]

Here we go.

[F]

The place is going to be going crazy. Give me Philly -5 and a half.

[A]

I will take that as well. Especially with how much drama there's been. No A.J. brown there. Allegedly. What's everybody saying post June one one trade to the New England Patriots. Potentially packers. Vikings there. 425 on CBS. Shout out to two massive NFC north rivals battling on opening weekend. Jordan Love favored by a point and a half over Kyler JJ's Minnesota Vikings. AJ you're on the Packers.

[F]

Oh yeah. Give me the packers here.

[A]

Okay. Sick. I'll take the Vikings. No way. I'll take quarterback. I don't know. I'll take the Packers. Mike is back, right?

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Or he should be.

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

Questionable.

[A]

I'll take the Green Bay Packers. Arizona Cardinals. I'll take the Chargers. That's wild.

[F]

Eleven and a half points. I'll take the Chargers.

[A]

All right. Dolphins. Raiders. Raiders favored by three at home. Raiders. Me too. Cowboys Giants Sunday Night Football Cowboys favored by 2 1/2 in New York. The Giants will start a multiple week prime time kick kickoff to John Harbaugh's career as the New York Giants head coach Bruce Brown. How do you feel as we sit here on May 15th?

[G]

Jackson Darton Cam Scatter Boo. Light up that Swiss cheese. Cowboys defense but eventually we lose a heartbreaker.

[A]

Some good news on the week two

[E]

end of the prime time back to

[A]

back the Rams gotta go from Australia to then take us on on Monday Night Football. We have three instances in our schedule

[D]

of playing a team at after they play internationally.

[A]

That is a nice reprieve from last year's toughest schedule based on previous season success. Yeah, got it. Yeah. He listen to the Giants guy. Okay. I like to spin. Well last year we had impossible schedule. Think about that impossible schedule. Nobody has won a playoff game with the tough schedule since 2016.

[C]

Well said.

[A]

Well said.

[C]

That's facts.

[A]

What is the toughest schedule to the year after success rate? Do you have that number? I do not have it.

[G]

But the Bears have this year's tough his schedule.

[A]

Oh Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams is it right? Is are they going to work out Actually that's what's possible of May 15, 2026 when you start looking at trends that don't actually have the games being played. Iceman and then Monday Night Football we're awaiting it Broncos Chiefs in the. Favored by 2 1/2 over Bo Nicks and Sean Payton. Patrick Mahomes return We think we hope Monday Night Football is hoping for he is currently questionable but we're hoping is what we're and hopeful is what we're hoping for. AJ who do you like on Monday night?

[F]

Patty Mahomes will be back. He will play great. Give me the Chiefs.

[A]

All right. And I will take Travis Kelsey and Chiefs as well. What a week one we just what a great good luck.

[F]

We'll remember these picks for sure.

[D]

Write them all down.

[F]

I. I will.

[A]

All right. Let's get the hell out of here. Boys in the back. Great work.

[D]

Great work boys.

[A]

Good work boys.

[C]

Good work boys.

[A]

Behind the glass really did it this week.

[F]

Good work boys.

[D]

Oh yeah.

[A]

A little bit of chaos earlier in the week. Yeah, sure. We dodged duck, dip, dived and dodged. I Our way through that. Shout out to the NFL allowing us to do a show there this week.

[C]

Shout out. NFL.

[A]

Shout out to New York City.

[C]

Shout out to New York City.

[D]

Big Apple.

[A]

What a time. Shout out to Mario at Emilios.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

Appreciate him doing that. Good after King of New York, New York. Burke, great job. Jimmy, Josh, fantastic stuff. Ms. Rita up front show really good to Dancing with the Stars crew. Hell yeah.

[C]

Hell yeah.

[A]

Just hell yeah. All gloves glowing. Just having the time of their life. Just young people seemingly having the time of their lives. Good for them. Robert Irwin, actual magnet.

[D]

The man. Yeah.

[A]

Actual magnet. When he shows up, it's incredible. American Horror Story. Great job. John Leguizamo. Yeah, yeah.

[D]

The man.

[A]

Yeah. And how about Fossil getting a big time

[C]

foster boss.

[A]

That's what they say, right? Foster boss.

[F]

He was honestly. Foss did a good job in that commercial.

[C]

He did.

[F]

But he's a good actor.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. And also Housen.

[F]

Oh I mean we know goaded.

[A]

He is elite Foster boss. That's what they say. Then a promotion gets announced. It's like almost like, how's it new?

[C]

It's like he uncursed him.

[A]

Certainly did. Congrats, Foss. Graphic design boys. Good work this week, boys. Couple decisions that were made by both either we would deem aggressive and not needed. But other than that, phenomenal stuff this week.

[C]

Can't wait to have tie back. One of those guys is talking way too much.

[A]

We got new hair though. He brushed it.

[C]

Yeah. Ty will put him back in his place.

[D]

He should have started brushing a long time ago.

[A]

Well, yeah, that's what kind of the whole thing was. But I'm happy he's learning how to do life in front of our eyes.

[C]

Is he?

[D]

I'm been there.

[A]

He takes his shots too. He will. He'll hear something and then be like, oh, cool. Yeah. That wasn't to me. Even though the person was saying, hey, Debo and this thing and it just goes right out his other ear and he's like, that didn't even happen.

[C]

He's never heard anything that's any good advice. He's never heard any of it.

[D]

Really.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

Just, just. Oh, that was a fun little wave of information that could certainly make my life better and me better. Then it just kind of goes and he just stands in the other side of it and then that wave comes back. Then he finds himself in the same position and guess what's coming.

[D]

I want chicken nuggets. That's what's coming.

[A]

That's what's going on in his brain. But he is a talent. Sure. So you gotta deal with the artistry, I guess. Dirty. Phenomenal week.

[C]

Dirty baby.

[E]

Dirty mitt.

[A]

Phenomenal week, Bailey. Phenomenal week. TikTok, baby. Toggle, toggle. Great work on a taco ziti, baby. Dealing with a lot right now. We got Internet issues.

[E]

That's.

[C]

That's life.

[A]

It is life, isn't it? That's the thing about life, you know. You never know what's coming.

[C]

No, you don't.

[A]

That's why in this moment right here, we have to try to enjoy it. We have to try to find the things that make us feel good and get rid of the things that make us feel like ass. Let's do that to this weekend. Let's cut off the anchors. Let's celebrate life. Let's enjoy sport. We'll see you on Monday and I assume on overreaction Monday. We'll be reacting to all the greatness that happens in the sports world this weekend, but we'll also be sure to tell you that we couldn't do this without you. We appreciate you and we think, think that you are the best. Can't believe this is a job. Be a friend. Tell a friend seven nights might change your life. Great work sitting in there, though. Thank you, A.J. great work. Thank you, con man. Phenomenal job.

[F]

You too, man.

[A]

D Buck, good work this week. To everybody that stopped by to chit chat with us, we can't thank you enough. You are the best. Let's do this life. Let's live this life. Hell yeah. Team on me. Team on three. We'll see you Monday. One, two, three. Team. Goodbye. Every game, every practice, every moment, we rely on energy more than we realize. From the courts and fields we play on to the gear athletes use to the technology and transportation that bring fans together. Energy powers it all. And energy transfer helps safely deliver the energy that keeps it all moving. Oil and natural gas help make thousands

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