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Spurs go into MSG, win game three. We at least have some game pressure. We have some finals that we can get excited about again because if the Nixon won game three, it would have been a sweep most likely, but now the Spurs answer and we got game on. Yeah, it was another good game. All the games have been awesome and history so far. Even game one, I know that the final score wasn't exactly super close, but yeah, the Spurs did what they had to do, win be. I

thought that the defense that they played was interesting and they kind of let heart shoot the ball

“a lot. I think it's already making it pay, but it was like very much a concert effort to have”

win be ready to come through the paint and swap anything that's coming nearby. It's a great game by Castle. Fox will look good at times too last night. Yep, when it mattered a lot. So yeah, I'm excited. The atmosphere in the garden, I do think it got to the point where they priced out

people when we lived in New York when the next weren't that good, they were crazy expensive games. Not like this, but still like expense. Why do you, by the way, PFT to your point, game one, one point game with two minutes left, game two, tie game with 10 seconds left, game three,

“three point game with 30 seconds left. What makes you say that they priced out the real fans?”

Uh, that the, I think the lowest ticket price was like eight thousand. No, but I'm saying like from watching was it like a vibe you got vibe I got because I think there's also a vibe and

memes, you can, you can maybe test this. I think there is a, especially in the first quarter because

the first quarter, it was like the crowd was so jacked up and then the spurs come out really hot. I do think that the, the weight of how many years has been since the next one of title. It, it is a little bit in, in the fans head where you've seen this before where it's like the cops or the red socks or like the bills where you have a moment and then when things go bad, everyone's like, oh fuck. And it got a little silent. Then the second quarter, I thought that was

the series. I thought the second quarter, the way the nicks played in the second quarter. I was like, all right, that's it. They bounced back from, from, from not great first quarter. They were down nine or 11 after the first quarter. And then the spurs just, they, they got to the free throw line, which we can talk about the refs. They did a really good job on on Carl Anthony Towns. I also think

Mikhail Bridges getting his second foul so early was huge because he never felt like he was part of the game.

And they made Jalen Brunson dribble a lot. And Jalen Brunson has not been his best. He's, he's shot,

“I think he has the same amount of turnovers as assists. And he shot a lot for not a great efficiency.”

And this was the game that they, they kind of the spurs put it all together defensively. Like they are, they're absolutely hammering Jalen Brunson. Like, Steph Castle picking him up early, like, you know, body blow after body blow. It's clear that that's the point is like, hey, if we can stop cat if we start doubling cat when he gets the ball and make Brunson dribble too much, we have a chance. Yeah. So the thing is with Brunson, I don't want to act like I'm saying he played poorly because

I do think he played good enough to win. Like different times in the fourth quarter, I thought that the nicks were going to win. I thought that Jalen Brunson was making some big plays down the stretch, kind of putting it all in his hands. Um, the ref thing, I think can be, I think that can actually be a legit cause for complaint from Nick's fans. Although we saw last night. Keep two was worse. Game two was worse. Game three might have been worse, but I guess specifically like,

I think Winby might be a dirty guy. I think he might be a dirty player. So here's the competing theories. Win, one is Wemby's dirty. Two is Wemby and I actually don't know where I land because I just feel like I have to watch more Wemby to totally figure it out because that the shove on Jalen Brunson, like, what was that? That was crazy. But it's Wemby's dirty or Wemby is essentially telling everyone who plays against him. Hey, if you're going to play me rough, I'm going to play rough

“back, which I kind of respect if that's the, if that's what he's going for. Yeah, I respected”

the Jalen Brunson one made no sense. That was, I don't know how that wasn't a foul. It wasn't anything. It was crazy and in a cat was getting fouls in that play, too. And I said, it reminded me of when Zedon, the French guy had butted the dude in the world cup. Yeah. It was like kind of out of nowhere. He just kind of flipped out on a real quick. And he's got a few of this, this playoffs. He's got the elbow on Nazarede. Yeah. He's got the, the Phantom hair pole of Lou Dorth that I don't think was actually

a hair pole. But from the angle on TV, it looked like it might have been. Yeah. But it's, uh, I don't know, it means where do I, I will say, by the way, Mike Brown probably the greatest press conference in terms of, uh, funky math about the rest. Did you guys see this? Mike Brown after the game. He, he did

give credit the spurs and he was like, but we had the 24 free throws in the second half to R8. And he was like,

if you go full game, that is, that is 48 free throws for the spurs. Meanwhile, we only were fouled four times. So he have the eight. Yeah. And doubled the 24. And by the end of the press conference, I was like, holy shit, that was the worst officiating game ever. So Kudos to Mike Brown. No, that's really good. Yeah. To take the eight foul shots and be like, that was just four fouls. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then the 24 to be like in a full game, that's 48 and be 48,

wait, 48 free throws. Free throws. Yes. He went free throws, full game for spurs. Just fouls half for that. I mean, he could have been even more than that if they got an off the three point shots that they wanted to shoot. Yeah. And you had been fouled on those. I do. Think there's like a hat, there was some bad calls, which Nick's fans have a rights complain. I also think the spurs were very deliberate in attacking the hoop. And they were deliberate

and being like, we got to get these guys in foul trouble. So there's a little bit of both. I also think the spurs just finally executed well late, where if you look at the first two

whether it be Deer and Fox, that Steph Castle three was kind of a prayer, but there was a couple of those in the game for both sides. This spurs, being the young team, they finally stepped up to the moment and they're like, this is how we have to execute and this is how we have to play defense down the stretch. If I was a Nick's fan, I would not be confident. And I'm not saying that I'd be confident if I was a spurs fan either. I don't think either team should be confident

right now because the games have been that close and they've been decided on just like a very, very small margin of error at the end of the games. So like, I don't think that either team should

“be comfortable. I'd still be confident that I was an expert in memes. How are you feeling?”

I feel fine. The reps were joke. It was definitely, oh, called one sided. That's a problem with the reps. It was only called on the next. I agree. I was going to say the other problem with the reps that I don't like because I actually love the physicality in this series. I think it's awesome

to watch. The problem is they have not called the physicality the same half to half. The first half

it was super physical and they were letting them be physical. Second half, they started tightening it up and it's like, hey, let's just, let's just be consistent both halves because I want to watch the same product. And like, I liked that it's physical. I liked that guys are like nasty. And there was a moment where I'm pretty sure Steph Castle and Kat have like a competition who could scream at the most people after made baskets because that's they're so animated and there's

like real bad blood. But then the second half starts and the rest are calling it differently. Yeah, it was the it was the Keldon Johnson foul in the corner that which was everyone off. It was just somebody bumped up. They just called a media foul. But meanwhile, Jail Browns is just getting molested up and down the court and they're just not calling anything. Just just either let him play or call it both ways. Like, I just don't get it. I agree with that. MBA finals. Like, everyone's

watching this. I also don't love the in this happened with the SGA when Jail Bruts have got smashed. I, that was a foul. But I also think it's bullshit when guys don't turn around to go for a rebound. SGA did the same thing. Like, you can't, you can't just stand straight at the guy in the corner and not even attempt to rebound and then be like, oh, man, he hit me. I think it was definitely,

“it was a foul, but also it was also a flop. Right. You have to actually turn around and try to”

try to get the rebound. Otherwise, you're just, you're taking charges on loose balls, which is weird.

Yeah, keep yourself in the play. Landry Shamit is human after all. The most important player in the

series, when do you go like, one for seven? Yeah, he was not great. Do not look good. That one shot that he did make though when it went in, you thought, okay, well, it's just about to get back on his Landry Shamit bullshit. Yeah. I talked to our good friends, Steven Chey, at about lunch time today, and he was very focused on one aspect of the game. I was not aware of, but I feel like we should discuss. Okay. Yes. I know what he's going to say. I know what you're going to say. Carl Anthony Towns,

girlfriend's bag. Jordan Woods. So I had a blame pie if we wanted to do blame pie. We knew blame pie, but I think we should unpack the bag a little bit. Yeah. Well, the first two blame pies we can, we can rip what is the bag. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. So she has a bag that she has a lucky bag that for the last, 12 games she has brought to the game. They've won a month. What a month. Lucky bag. President Trump in the building. No bags allowed. Right. My question for her,

“she said. Well, that's what my blame pie was also going to be President Trump with. If he deserves”

a blip. Well, my blame was going to go actually to Carl Anthony Towns because I would assume that the players were allowed to bring a bag in. Why didn't he just bring her bag and then he sees her feed on the wood probably and then takes the bag over to her after he's already brought it inside. I will say the bag is perfect size to conceal a gun. Is he gun size bag? What about, could the bag have had its own seat? If the bag has a ticket, if you animate the bag? The bags,

yeah, you buy a ticket for the bag. The bag sits here. What about an emotional support bag? Yeah, you put a strap on it and you're like, hey, I can't be without this bag. And then when I was talking

to him, I thought to myself, wait, this is actually maybe a million dollar business idea,

because you're seeing a lot of like, major league baseball stadiums have different bag rules, things like that. What if you made a shirt or a blouse? Maybe like a long sleeve shirt that turned into a bag. So like a sweatshirt? Yeah, like a sweatshirt that you go out and like girls, you know, they get, they get hot sometimes. They take their jacket off. They're sweatshirt off. And then it zips up into a stylish bag. They put their stuff in that bag. Boom.

Hmm. Instant bag. Memes? I was on a wear of this bag. It's a pretty important bag. So I blame names a lot then. And that even knowing about the bag. That was Memes off of this bag talk. Would you like cat wasn't, can't play great in the first two games? He didn't play great in game three.

for this offense. You've seen his assist numbers go up. He's the most important player on the

Nick's offense. It feels like not jail in Brunsett, jail in Brunsett. Obviously, he's your closer. He's your point guard. He's your best player. But in this series, it feels like how cat goes the Nick's go. Is that fair assessment? Yeah. That was a big emphasis in the post game pressers that the Nick's offense was just stagnant. Yeah. And it was a lot of dribbling. We just allowed dribbling a lot of one on one. It does feel like the spurs have

imposed their will to the point where the next are playing in their head and they just can't get out of it. If we're doing blame pie, is there any blame memes for you kind of softening up on Zach? I didn't even think about that. But oh shit. Someone pointed that out to me. He's like memes essentially saying like we're all good. He should have kept that same fire on the number 11 controversy. No, it means that golf. We're good. Okay. Okay. I have another maybe piece of blame pie. Okay.

What about tips? The Nick's are so exhausted from last season playing for tips that they finally

hit the wall. This this post season. It's a good point. I need to think about that. Just random too hard. That's a good point. All those minutes add up memes. Did you think about that? I didn't think about that. I disagree with that one. Okay. I think I've had a lot of time off. I don't know. I don't know about that. But listen, if you want to blame the rough side yet, if you want to blame the bag or get it,

“if you want to blame memes not being hard on Zach anymore, I get it. I think disperse like for the”

most part just played better and their young guys like Steph Castle was he even admitted it. He like was a little bit lost in the first two games. He was great. His defense was great. When he was awesome, like they just put together the the game that they thought they could put together.

Yeah. You could blame Trump because he left early. We blame Brandon Johnson for that.

Yeah. For leaving the bear's game early. You can't leave that game early for the president and you you make everybody get rid of their bags. Also do you fall asleep? Yeah. For sure. 100%. Yes. Just a little nap. We just thought like I fall asleep watching sports all the time. Yeah. Nothing to be ashamed of. Just close your eyes for a minute. Yeah. Just resting his eyes. What about Cardi B? Cardi D? Cardi D? As Charles put it. Shout out Chuck. There was a big old women in Santoni. You

could use some Cardi O. Mm-hmm. Nice. Oh, she looked good. She looked great. Excellent performer. I thought she she killed it as usual. Mm-hmm. Stuff on digs probably watching that. Like look what I like get away. Yeah. Who by the way, Hank is he? Well no, he proposed. That's right. That's right. Yeah. Is he going back to the Patriots? It's rumors. It's weird that he hasn't been signed.

“Yeah. He had a good year last year. Yeah. I think it's like who's who's going to be more crazy this”

off season. I think the less crazy guy between digs and Brandon I do cool have some closure. Yeah. And then the digs hasn't been acting crazy. Yeah, but there's a bodywork there. Yeah. For sure. Meet memes. What is it in Zach? You chime into like it has to feel I don't think the next fans should panic. It's one game. But part of being on a winning streak like that and then losing a game, it's like oh fuck. This is foreign. I don't really know what to think now. Like is this

guy falling? You haven't lost it so long. You're probably not used to it. Right? It's definitely weird. But I think I think it was almost needed to be certain extent. Okay. It just brings down Earth. Then you just gotta have your back against wall. You're just fight. Is the old saying true that the series doesn't start until the home team wins a game? That could be it. We could just be in for Ashiro's Nationals style final. Yeah. No, you don't want that. You know,

the next wall with that. The next one. Yeah, the next one is right. Yeah. It was sobering in in terms of like, all right. Is there a healthy reminder? These guys are also like playing the best their ability. They want to win a championship just as bad. You didn't see that through a previous series just because they were able to walk through teams. So yeah, I'm so feel confident in team. I feel good about it. And if we can get good officiating, should be in a good spot.

What do you think about somebody in Grammarcy Park giving Wimby a key? Because you can't get into that park, right? They don't you know, you're not allowed to just walk in. He was in there. He was sketched. He was doing a sketch of a sculpture to pass the time. Some in this office would say that's

“a bad optic. Yeah. And it's a bad look for him to be doing that on game day. I think he was the”

day before, but still. It's still bad optic. Yeah, a bad eye. Like some guys go to carbone. Some guys go like, there's a lot of bad optics going around. What do you think about about carbone? What don't talk about carbone? He just talked about carbone. I'm saying like if you go like our, you tell me that guys should be going out for dinner like the night before a big game. Where are you getting these sources from? I mean, it's publicly available information. You can read on barcelsports.com.

So, so we got to say it now. All right. So Wimby, there was a video of Wimby sketching the statue. Okay. And then somebody at barcel did a blog being like this. Who? Rico Bosco did it. Did he get arrested? No. No, that was an, that was AI. Okay. It looks, it looked so real. I got somebody from the Taliban. Okay. What did he say about carbone? Well, he said that some guys go and they like do sketches of statues and stuff. Some guys, you know, they go out to carbone.

Tonight before a big game. So like there's some bad optics that go around there. You never know

which one is going to be the one that like is the bigger distraction. So he was just writing a blog being like, I know this. No, no, definitely not. Like the entire purpose of the blog are you, are you saying was just so that he could say, I know that one of the players on the spurs went out to carbone. I would never say it. Neither would I. I would never. And if you did, I would never agree with it. Yeah. But still pretty weird that Wimby was like,

“that's what he does to just pass the time. Yeah. And just when you think the guy can't get”

any more French, he won up so you want it. But yeah, I did also hear there's a quote from from Carter Bryant on how him and Wimby passed the time because they asked about like, you know, doing art and things like that. And he said, we love to do extra curricular activities. Usually me, him, HB, we've done painting. We've done game days like playing board games. We went to the world's quietest room. We've done a bunch of dumb stuff. So, I mean, you can look at this

and say, like, okay, Wimby is eccentric, et cetera, et cetera. They're just running back the same playbook from the spurs of the 2000s. Yeah. Like, they didn't do it. They didn't go out. They didn't party. No, Wimby's famously sleeps 12 hours a night. Yeah, they would just hang out at each other's

houses and like play Xbox. Listen, it worked. I wonder, here's the thing I'm worried about,

but I'm curious about is Wimby has looked a little gased when there's, it's not backed back, but one night in between. How's he going to look in game four? He did get, he played the entire fourth quarter on game three, but there was also so many stoppages. By the way, credit to the reviews, they nailed so many. They, but they nailed them. Yeah. There was like multiple times. It was like, hey, good review. That was, it was the Wimby three great review. The ball had a bounce, great review.

“They just crossed the, the reviews. I heard some people on, I think it was get up this morning that”

were crushing the review system being like, they screwed up a bunch of, I don't think that they screwed anything up. I just think that it, it, it, it, it fucked with the flow of the game. Yeah. And you could be like, yeah, it gave Wimby a chance to like stay on the floor and catch his breath. Big 'cause when, when, when I was playing last night, like, he cannot say in front of can. No, it's impossible for him. No, it's, it's when, when Wimby comes off the court. Everyone just goes to the hoop.

Yeah, every single time. Was there? That was actually the moment, memes. I assume you had the same thought. When they, when Wimby hit the three and one and they got reversed and then the next corner, I was like, oh, this is it. Like, this game is over. Yeah, that was a great time out by Mitch Johnson. Yeah. Yeah, it was. 'Cause yeah, it was about to be a 10 point game that was a five point game. It was like, this is it. Do you feel like the crowd was, do you have any grade for the crowd?

I like the crowd. ESPN was speechless before the game inside the NBA. They're like, wow, this is, this is unreal. Yeah, Chuck, Kenny and Chuck all like stopping to be like, this is an incredible moment and they've been in, you know, huge games, huge moments, all played in finals and they themselves are like, wow, speechless. That, I feel like settles, you know, the crowd was, the crowd was alive. Yeah,

“I think there's, in a game like that, you have to have like the rowdy boys lounge. You got to,”

you had to set aside like a thousand tickets that you, you sell for face value for like, diehard fans of the team. Yeah. If I spent $10,000 on a ticket, I probably wouldn't show that. That's me. No. True. By the way, I wanted Stephen Chay to come in here to help us with the parlake, because we were so bad with our parlake the other night. Have a seat, Jay. Sit down, Jay. We're talking about the cat bag, letting the cat out of the bag. Yeah. And

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you are a massive, massive Nick's fan, former season ticket holder. You have Nick's in five,

“you're not, you're not, you're not deterred at all. He actually was like, he's, it's odd how”

confident he is. Do you have a pick? Because we are parlay's have been bad in this series. Do you have that OG 18 plus? That was memes. That was memes. Shout out memes. Good job, memes. The Mitch Robinson and um, I thought it was cat 3s were, we're bad. Robinson even take a three. Robinson was close. I thought he was going to show out for the president. I thought he was going to like really explode on him. So what do you got for us? You just want one single prop. One single prop and then we'll add in to us.

I'm going to give you two and give you the option. Okay. So that's not, you're already falling

not falling in the assignment. My favorite one is questions though. No. My favorite prop. He did.

He said you just want one prop. Oh yeah. Yeah. My favorite prop is Jalen Branson rebounds and point our rebounds suck because a lot of it is happenstance. Like does the ball bounce their way? Let me

“you be a stat. So four plus rebounds is I think last track like plus 133. He's done this in his last”

we got for seven is last eight games against the spurs. Had I bet this in game one it would have been reverse. So knock it down or boost it up eight in a row because it was that tip out. Yeah. If we just got credit for how did I fault that we would have got in the reverse. Why didn't you find it? I didn't bet it. Okay. Okay. So what he's had. This is all just like all of this from the record. If you had fought it it would have been eight in a row. You're the Mark Walberg of props.

If you've been there it would have gone different. But you tell me that you're your selfish because you didn't think to fight injustice. You know, you're the people. You know, yeah, maybe some people at the other. In justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Not fight for the fair thing. If you're a niche fan you're not. I'm not auditing for every single guy. Okay. But you're telling me that you knew that it happened and that was wrong and you do anything about it. Correct. Okay. Can we get back to your pick?

“Okay. If you want to if you want to if you want to pick that hit that is hit in every game that is”

a little juicy. It's largest come back five plus points. That means, okay. I like that. Yeah. It's very easy to root for because it's on it. It's usually like minus 150. Okay. Can you parlay that? Yes. Okay. All right. All right. I have Dylan Harper of 20 points and rebounds. See how he's that was? You just give a pick. I've got Dylan Brunson six plus assists over five and a half assists. Dylan Brunson. Okay. Okay. And then five plus points come back. Yeah. Do you want to have one more?

I think that's good. No. Let's have one more play. Meems. You want five? No. Four. Dylan Brunson. Oh, we're doing both yours. I don't know. We're just doing the five pointy thing. I have a parlay that's either live or going to be live or going to. This is now he's making he's killing me. Let me let me let me me. He was money. He goes. You go land jam at 10 plus points. Okay. Okay. Sorry. We'll do four leg parlay from and and and bed on draft games. All right. See

when I've won last question for you. Yeah. But I got to do a quick ad. We have new sponsor alert. Beaming new sponsor alert. Uh, tick pick is going to be the official tickling partner PMT starting in July. Thanks to tick pick. Uh, we are very excited to be with tick pick. We're excited to be

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Thank you to tick pick. Yeah. Saturday night. That's amazing. Yeah. Thank you. We're going to win in five. Yeah. We're going to win the championship. You guys might get to watch the next win a championship live in person. Yeah. That's unreal. Absolutely unreal. That's crazy. Hey, it seems to Larry O'Brien's going to be in the building. Yeah. I'm crying right now. Oh, I love it. It's going. Yes. Memes. Fucking hell. Yes. Zach, give, give, give, give. They get a tick pack. Give

me a hug. Thank you to tick pack. Thank you to tick pick. That's awesome. Give me a hug. That man needs a hug. I'm so, I'm so pumped for you guys. It's going to be a good moment. Put the camera on on the max. In the three of you, they're going to get some content. We're going to get we're going to get some funny stories. Steven Chay might have to come in Sunday night. That's fun to recap. Sure. Yeah. Because

what we're going to do. So we're going to get all the tickets done. And you tick pick. Shout out, tick pick. This is they're coming on as official sponsor July. It's a guess what? Start using them now because they got memes crying. They got Chay going pumped up. Zach is sweating. Zach is just fix his glasses for the hundred times. I mean, yeah, unreal unreal. I've seen a couple of next playoff games in person. The fact that Nick's fans travel, especially the San Antonio is like 20% Nick's fans pass

couple games. It's incredible. Yeah. That is an ideal environment. Thank you so much. Vampire meet up.

We can do that. No, do you guys lost that game, right? Oh, shoot. Yeah, no vampires. No. Femmes.

“This is so awesome. Yeah, I'm lucky. Yeah, memes. You know what you're going to wear?”

I do black sweatshirt. Yeah. Yeah. You got a win. You got a win Wednesday. You got a win Wednesday. You got a win Wednesday. That's a win Wednesday. That's a win Wednesday. That's a win Wednesday. It has now just become a must win. But listen, no matter what, even if you lose Wednesday, game five will be massive massive pivotal. That will be the biggest. Yeah. I mean, that's the biggest game in the series. If you even if you lose on Wednesday, but I want you guys to win on Wednesday, so you can, the, the, the

Larry OB is going to be in the building. Chay has been saying to Chay's credit for the last two weeks. He's been saying next in five. So if this actually, if he, if he calls his shot and then gets to see it in person, what? Was that a, was that a scheduled loss last night? I thought we're going to lose either two or three. We won two. So three was not going our way. That's okay. Any,

“anything that you're very concerned about with the next? Jordan Woods bag needs to be back in the”

building, because that's good. We're, we're, we're straight. For Twitter offense, does she take them to away games? Does she take the bag there? Okay. Can we find a bag, can you get a bag like that to bring? Where do they sell those? Just in case she doesn't bring it. Probably like Macy's or something. Try to, try to find that bag for me, Jay. Okay. And then we'll throw in, we'll chip in for the bag, too. Okay. Sick. Hell yeah. Yeah. Oh, pump. Thank you guys. Thanks. Take, pick, pick, pick, pick. Thank you,

take, pick. I'm pumped for you guys. Yes. All right. I just text Caitlin, so we'll make sure we get your flights. Do you guys want to go in Saturday morning? Yeah, that'd be fine, right? It's got to go early so that we don't have any issues. Sure. It's a late game. Yeah. Saturday morning, you come back Sunday. What a day. Meet up with the boys, the PM. Listen, you guys do a little, little AWL. If you

get Nick's fans, AWL, just get strength in numbers. Yeah. I never say no teeth. I do have my

backpack just in case. You keep your fan part teeth on you at all times. At all times, never, yeah, never, never. I got him on me in my backpack 15 feet from here. Okay. Okay. Go get him. Okay. All right, Jay. All of it. Good luck. See, Jay. You got this. Thank you, boys. Love you guys. Yeah. Take pick. Thank you, take pick. So yeah, new spots were very excited for, uh, take pictures come on. Excited for the boys. This would be awesome. Imagine if they get to see it in

person. Pretty, pretty, amazing. Pretty, freaking. Is this about me, the summer of memes? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I think so. Um, okay. Other things we got to talk about memes. You good? Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. Thank you so much. Yeah. Of course. Take stick pick. Um, what else we got to talk about? Should we talk? Source B. Brennan Source B. So there's no rules in college football. As of two days ago, officially no rules. Correct. Because he bet on his own team when he was at Indiana, uh,

40 times I believe was he the number, number bets that he put in on just on just his own team, bet a lot of money on some other sports, other games, and, um, a judge in love with Texas, which is where Texas type is located, has ruled that he is eligible to play next year. Yes. And, um, now that that could go up for appeal, but the appeal would not be heard until I don't

“think until after the season's over. PFT, the only thing you got wrong there, the judge in”

love of Texas has actually is a judge from Fort Worth through as a Houston degree. So it's totally on the up and up. Okay. All right. So it's just coincidence that he lives in love. I think there

was a Texas tech judge that recuse himself at first. So that's what it so it works. So the judicial

system works. This is, and look, I know that there will be people who will, uh, say we're hypocrites. I do not think we are because we obviously are sponsored by a gambling company and we love to gamble. We talk about our bets all the time. We don't play the games. We don't play in the games. We're not on the teams. You can't be on the team and bet on the team. You can't be on the team and bet on the the, like the games that are taking place. The integrity of the sport and I'm not a clutching

pearls here is 100% it's thick. Like you can't have that. I'm not going to clutch pearls either

done to itself for the last 50 years. And it is, all, all the different elements of like pretending

that they're not employees saying that they can't get paid. They can't get tattoos. Everything that's gone into the evolution of college football and the ability of players to make money has led to this point where they don't really have a governing body that is capable of enforcing any of the rules. They used to and then it turns out that that whole system was fucked up and illegal and so then they got rid of that and now it's just essentially college football is

“on the honor system now. So if you want to self-report, if you want to suspend your own players”

for stuff, you're more than welcome to do so. But just know that the rest of the schools probably won't be doing that. I have heard that a bunch of the big 12 schools are going to get together potentially all agreed to not play against Texas Tech in which case in which case I think if it's already scheduled like for the big 12 schools, that would count as four fits. So Texas Tech would win a bunch of those games, one nothing. Well, it feels like there's a lot of

things that could happen here. One is the big 12 schools could be like, hey, this is absolutely not we're not doing this. And then Texas Tech would probably have to play ball and be like, hey, you know what? This actually is kind of ridiculous. The other one is like the college football committee, let's say Texas Tech goes undefeated. They could just not rank them. They could, yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, great. We're not going to rank you. It is crazy. Like you can't

you can't do this. Do you can't have someone who bet on the games? And I also, the whole thing is so weird because bread and source be, and I'm not, you know, addiction comes in all shapes and sizes. It feels like he's not taking a lot of accountability for it. Where he's just like, yeah, you know,

I did this, but I really should get to play. He did. So when the news first came out,

and he said that he was addicted to gambling, I was like, okay, well that's like, what we'll see what happened. It turns out he made a shitload of bets. Yeah, I don't, I don't know the exact number. I don't know what the average amount was. He bet a lot on a lot of different sports. So he might actually have an addiction to gambling. In which case, I hope he gets better. I hope that he's able to like continue his career and make a lot of money and be successful and all that stuff.

But again, like this is, it's, it's entirely a creation of college football in the way that the governing bodies have been set up and evolved over the years. They have nobody to blame but

“themselves about it. And the only way that you can get past this is you have to have a collective”

bargaining degree. And until you have a CBA in place that the players negotiate along with the universities, you're not going to be able to enforce anything. And even so there's a bill that's going through Congress right now that's trying to fix a lot of these things. I think it comes closer than than most having past, but what's going to end up happening since the players won't be designated as employees. They won't have a CBA. There's going to be a lawsuit in the next year and the

next two years that challenges that bill that goes through and challenges the whole like given them the anti-trust exemption that they're talking about giving to the NCAA. And they're going to challenge that anti-trust exemption in court. And then that's probably going to get overturned in like two years anyway. The only way that you can put a permanent fix this is if there's a CBA where you agree on like what what the rules are and what the punishment's going to be and the

players are like officially finally designated as as employees. Because otherwise, and you can

agree or not with whether or not we should call college football players employees of the universities. That's like a semantic conversation we can have. But the upshot of it is if you don't call them employees legally, you're just going to end up tying yourself up in court and then whatever rule comes after that is going to make even less sense. And we're going to have no ability to enforce anything. And that's kind of where we are right now where it's like every school you can just be

“on your own honor system. If you get caught doing stuff, if you want to punish your star athletes,”

you're more than welcome. But there's going to be a lot of schools that don't. Yeah, the so I'm not a slippery slope guy because I think a lot of times those are disingenuous people will be like, oh well, if this happens and then they'll take it all the way to the end and be like, well, then this could happen. Yeah, I guess it could, but most of the time it doesn't happen. This is a slippery slope one because I read an article yesterday, Dan Wetzel who's an awesome college football

reporter talked to a lot of coaches anonymously. And this was the quote that I was like, he, this is exactly correct. The quote is from a big 12 coach, he said, if this is the precedent, then I owe it to my players to bring in people from Las Vegas to teach us how to gamble, then collectively we need to decide which games we will play hard in to cover and which ones we won't. I'm supposed to do what's best for my players and in that case, they would be able to make a lot

of money betting on our games. That's the precedent for me. It's not as far fetch as you think

clear because we did kind of overlook something. He is going to be punished. There's a punishment for

source be that he has to serve. He's going to sit out the first two games against abling Christian,

Oregon State. Yeah. So there is a punishment in place. Huge punishment. He's not skating, Scott, free from this. It is great. This is crazy though. Again, I don't want to, like, for the most part, all these things, I don't really care, but there are certain lines where it's like, if you have players who are allowed to bet on games, how can anyone trust what they're seeing? Okay. Like, it's why the Giante Porter and the Terry Wresier, those are big, big issues.

“Yeah. That's why they're Matt and the NBA comes down super hard on them.”

And you would think that, like, schools would recognize the importance. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. If you have a player that's betting on his own games, you have to be smart enough to realize that if you don't actually take steps to make sure that he's punished or has to miss games or kicked off the team, whatever the case may be. You're going to end up just creating a massive amount of doubt that's going to go through your entire sport.

The entire product just becomes people, like, this is actually something that people would start tuning out. If they're like, hey, this is this is all rigged and players are playing hard for one game and not playing hard for the other. Like, that quote from the coach, maybe think like, what, you know, when you play when the when a big time team plays a small school, like a SEC school, plays a max school in the first couple weeks of the season. And the spread will be like 48.

And they always end up taking their foot off the gas in the in the third and fourth quarter.

These are up by, you know, 35. Yeah. Would they just keep your foot on the gas and have everyone, you know what I mean? And then, and then guys can get injured because they're playing four quarters in a game that's totally out of the, like, there's so many weird things that

“can happen if this is the precedent. I don't, I, I think if I had to guess, I, I feel like”

something is going to have to worry. He's not going to play. Also, I know source. He's good. But is he, is he worth, like, pulling up everything? Wait, from who's perspective like that? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. It would also be, I think the thing I'm rooting for is for him to play and then think. I, I read the judges ruling on this and it was very funny because it was like, we've ruled that if we, if we suspend this kid,

if we don't let him play football next year, that's going to impact his ability to make money and get better at playing football. So that's not fair to do. Let's let him play. Yeah. It's like, yeah. No shit. It's crazy. No shit. But I mean, like, if you are betting, that's the thing, like, how if you have a big picture perspective on this, it is, if you think that there's, if that element of distrust has proven itself to be true,

where you have reason to believe that players are betting on their own teams, then there will be consequences in terms of ratings, in terms of sponsorship money, TV deals that come in down the line.

“And again, I think the only way past it is, like, you have to actually have a CBA in place.”

That's the only way that it's worked for, for the NFL. That's the only way that it's worked

for major sports in America, which college football is. It's a second biggest sport in America.

Yeah. And to, we need to stop pretending that it's not a major sport because if we keep pretending, then it's going to be the Wild West. And it will kill itself. Yeah. Yeah. And it feels like we're on that path. Um, yeah. It was pretty shocking that they were, I mean, I guess it's not shocking, but then again, there have been judges who have, like, judges who are hometown judges, like the Alabama Betty Acos case. Yeah. That judge is from Alabama. It was like, hey, this is probably

a bad idea to have a guy who's a professional athlete coming play at Alabama. He, he, he actually made the right call. Yeah. You know what? This judge might actually just hate college football. He's like, if I get, if I allow him to play, yeah, then it will end up killing college football. It's, it's, it's crazy. Yeah. What if he, what if he does play? And I, I don't blame, by the way, any Texas tech fan who's like, like, fighting for this. Yeah. I do the same thing. Yeah.

- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, like the way that he left. He won't leave a place better than he found it.

What do you do? So when he left, he decided to sign an autograph on his way out. I don't understand what the big problem is. Okay. Yeah. And what are the autographs? I'm so don't care about that. So when he left, he went to pick up

at the team facility. And he signed it the best to ever play here always open.

What do you love? So if anything he made the facility more valuable. Yeah, signatures right there. They should get it graded. Max? Don't care. Don't. Yeah. Cool. I said he was when he got traded the traded to the Patriots. I said he was the best receiver to ever play for the Eagles. He thinks so too. I have no problem with that. T.O.s piss somewhere. Do you don't want to ring? I don't know what you want me to say. Say,

T.O.s better. Wasn't. Okay, there you go. Wasn't. Wasn't disagree. But he didn't say the best wide receiver. He said the best ever play here ever play here. You can take that. Always hope you can take that for what you will. I don't care. You guys can care. I personally. Where do you put

“AJ Brown on the Mount Rushmore of Eagles all the time? I don't care. Where's your big gum?”

Bobblehead. It is on on my desk. Where's mine? It's behind you. Oh. Check this out. Wait, how did you get it to Bobble so well? Did you? Is there is the things to underneath it said? Yeah. Oh, no. Look at that big dump. It's nice. You might just be ahead of Bobblehead. I'm going to fuck you up. It looks a little, I guess we pay a little bit. A little bit. Okay, should we, let's do a time travel real quick for stand the cup final game four, which will

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Stanley Cup final game four and PFT, I just treated this, but I feel bad for the people who are too proud to enjoy both hockey and basketball at the same time because we are living in blessed days.

This series has been absolutely incredible. We had another game where a team goes out to a

early lead and the other team comes back and now Carolina has tied it to two in the series. Jordan Stahl, 37 years old, he's got a goal. He scored two goals tonight he has four. Every single game he's got a goal in the Stanley Cup final so far. It's been awesome. It's just been awesome hockey. I don't really know what else to say, though, then it has been the most entertaining hockey and we have a great series and just like the MA finals that you just talked about, we're just

blessed to be living in times when we have such a competitive, awesome finals in both sports.

“Yeah, I mean, we can do head to head. I think right now, NHL might be up three games to one”

on NBA, if we're just going like game by game. Yeah, yeah, game by game. Yes. Every single one of the hockey games have been incredible. All the hockey games have been incredible. The basketball has been great too, but the hockey has been just unreal. There's no such thing. I tweet out the other night that like there's no such thing

in the NBA finals as a lead and a team's always going to come back in hockey. It's the same way,

too. It's like, yeah, every team that has taken a lead has blown that lead in the Stanley Cup and then at times they've gone on to reclaim it. What do you think about bussy? What is it? Is this galaxy brain moved by a Brenda Moore number one? I just love saying bussy. We're saucy for bussy. We're saucy for bussy. We're saucy for bussy, but am I part of the priest? My point was that more than like the people who do the Jake Malisecs of the world who constantly

are bitches and can't have like a thought of, hey, I like both sports. Those guys, a little brothers. My point is, if you only have to compare it, we don't have to do a game by game. It's just both are great. Enjoy both because they've been great and they haven't been on the same night and it's been every night has been awesome. That was my point. But yes, bussy.

“I think I'll make a joke about three games to one lead. I don't give a shit. The games have been”

great in both series, but it is fun to just like provoke both sides because I do like the please like my sport people. I think these are a very valuable part of the sports ecosystem. It's, it's the please like my sports versus the look at the ratings NBA finals ratings

happened to Anderson. Maybe he was concussed like I said after game three. I think also being on the

group chat with hockey guys, he might be in not, I'm not quoting anyone. There's more of the vibes I was getting. He might have the S word attached to him as Goli, a little soft, so they weren't totally shocked that he was scratched, but he was he, yes, so they didn't report an injury. So it seems like he was just healthy scratched. And healthy scratched, it could be gamesmanship by Brendan Moore. It could be just not reporting an injury. It could be that he did get

clip when he kind of hit his head and neck at the end of the last game. Or it could just be that they wanted to mix things up and go with the lefty and switch up the catching hand.

“Because Marner had said that I think it was game two or game three. He got confused when he was”

going up against Bussy and when he had that penalty shot. And he was like, oh yeah, I forgot that his glove was on the other hand by the time that I shot. So it could be just like giving them a different look and having a different hand and Goli might just be enough to to fuck him up a little bit. Yeah. And guess what? It worked because they just tied the series and now they have essentially home ice because they have three games left and two of Marin Carolina. And he did a

good job in the third period, not letting Vegas score. It was also like that was a Carolina performance

where Vegas had 21 shots total. Like they were, you know, their defense and getting on top of the hurricanes had it felt like the possession of the puck a lot more than the Knights. And that's the game they want to play. And we talked when we talked TJ Oste, he said it.

“Like the way to be Carolina's, you have to get out early. The exact opposite happened.”

Carolina scored a minute and 15 seconds into the game. And it was, I'm telling you the boards, they're juiced because I was another one similar to the overtime goal in games three. It was a funky bounce, real hard bounce, not like just a funky like the the puck is bouncing far off the boards back in front of the net. And I think maybe the Vegas boards are juiced, which would be cool. Maybe they should do it even more. And the empty netter. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So the something up with the

with the boards and Vegas. And also 14 playoff goals for Howton. Pretty incredible.

Nots. Did I tell you guys the little miss hat I had with our good friend Liam Blutman, who is a diehard Vegas Knights fan. He was actually at the game. During game two, I want to say, he texted in the screw chat a minute and he said, uh, howton plus 250 to win the Cons might LOL. I read that and immediately went and bet it. And then when Mitch Marner scored his hat trick in game three, I was like, hey dude, like there's no way Howton's going to win the

Cons might now. And he's like, yeah dude, I was saying plus 250 LOL, no chance he wins. I can't believe his odds have gotten this low. Yeah. I've put that on him. He's like, yeah, we're saying there's 101 before the playoffs assuming that everybody is as locked in on the Golden Knights as he is to the point where he can use sarcasm about the Golden Knights. Yeah, he was like, he was 100 to one before the playoffs. Now he's plus 250 LOL. I was like, oh, fuck. So, but hey,

maybe I don't know that. I mean, the Knights have to win the series. I don't know who's going to win the series because it feels like at times the Knights have just been the better team, but then you have a game like tonight. And it's like Hurricane's hockey. Now they have the home

“home. I see vantage going to the last three games. I think the the Jack Eichel Cons might”

three might be dead officially dead. Not going to blame Marles for it because I think the process was right. But the puck's just not bouncing his waist unless something weird happens. That might be over. But yeah, I hope we get seven. I just want this game. I want the series to go seven. I want there to be hockey for as long as possible. I'm not ready for the start. The start of Mount Rushmore season just yet. I agree. And who do we have for the crank tonight? Was it T-Paint?

I was looking that up right now. I was trying to figure out who it was. I think it was T-Paint. Yeah, it was T-Paint. T-Paint did a pre-game concert. He also did the crank. He cranked it. He cranked. Max, do you want to share the update on the crank that we might have? I don't want to jinx it before. It's official. But we're looking like we got a crank. Yeah, from a big five major sports league. Yep. Yep. You can put context clues from there.

Well, across water dollars crank. Well, big six major sports league. They have all the major sports leagues, but major. But major rugby major big seven. Then if you want to count rugby in there in the

It's a major league. A golf. Live to live crank. The yard goes crank. It's major. It's so major. Yeah,

you can't get more major than this league. If you stay in the confines of the United States from America, as you stay in our country, it says major of league as you get in its given sport at a beautiful stadium. I'm not familiar with this. Actually, I have been looking up. Swansy played there once in a friendly. I won that. Yeah. It was a bridge in Philadelphia. Who knows where it is.

“But you should look up that stadium. It's beautiful. Very aesthetic aesthetic stadium for sure.”

Yeah, the home club for, what's his name, Kevin Sullivan, future face of the league? What's this like? Yep. But don't want to jinx it. Because I still haven't, we're still the beginning stages of getting this crank. But we're in the stage. We're in a stage. Lost in extra time in their championship game. There's so many sports that have extra time and fill it up. Dave, for this hates this team. Yeah, true, true. Good. Good, good, good, good, good.

I don't really get there. Yeah, I don't really get there. Yeah, we're starting to get a nice class. Because I purchased today the St. Bon Avengers 2022 NIT semi finalist banner that they raised. That has been purchased. I think schools are now targeting me. And they're just going through their storage and being like, well, this, this is something that we have a buyer of one that will will take this. That's all you need, right? He's the one buyer. What was like, we need a backup

point guard from Lithuania. What can we do for NIL? We need, like, a couple, we need like $10,000. Oh, I know. I've got Jeff the fundraiser plan. Listen, it's a sick banner. It's, it couldn't be more

“brown. It's just so brown. And it's the NIT semi finals 2022 safe. Bonnie's basketball. I think it's”

the last, I think it, I think it, I think it was the last NIT that was that took place at MSG. So, a little bit of history for people. NITs do shout out. He would love this banner.

It's basically you and NITs do going ahead to head. Yeah. Okay. I had two other things real quick

before we get to our before we get back in studio, hot sea culture on one is Aaron Donald playing football next year. So, yes. Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, they're made it seem like he was. Yeah. Like saying, I can't report that he's going to come back and play. But if the rams come up with a presentation that Aaron Donald likes, he will say yes to it. My guess is that Sean McFade knows exactly what kind of presentation Aaron Donald wants to see.

“He will then present that to him. I need to know what it's going to be. Is it going to be a power point?”

I'm guessing it's going to be two commas and seven zeros. You don't think it's going to be like down with a presentation like a team's meeting. Yeah. No. I think it's going to be seven zeros, two commas, and then like Aaron you picked the number you want to go in the in the beginning. Okay, Aaron. I'm going to slack you real quick. I'm going to send the deck over to you. And you can pull it up and just look for my dongle here. Yeah. It's basically like, hey,

we're getting the band back together. Max, we talked about it earlier, but Hank doing his math. I think that was earlier, right? I don't even know what portion of the show was. Max just had to do his his mental math face, which did did not. I was saying he's going to

ask for $20 million or $30 million or $40 million. You couldn't see my fingers, but I was going

one, two, three. Okay. Four, five, six. Okay. That would be one. And then the seventh million. Okay. So between 10 million and 99 million. Correct. And I think that's probably the, I think they're going to be like, you decide where you want to land and then we'll figure it out. Well, the, the cap isn't real. We'll just figure this out. Oh, I'm looking at the Rams cap space right now. They're like right in the middle. I think I'm reading that correctly, which I'm probably not because

nobody really truly understands the cap. But yeah, they're going to work it out. Aaron's going to come back. He's going to be great. I don't even know like he's probably not

beats and he's going to be fine no matter what, Mao's Garrett next to him, congrats to the Rams. Yeah, congrats to Aaron. And the last thing was just, uh, it's worth mentioning. So the white socks, who have been electric this year, uh, brain Montgomery, they called them up today.

“I think it's their number two prospect in the whole system. Walk off home run for his first, first”

home run in the big leagues, first home run, uh, or first game in the big leagues hits a walk off

home run. I don't know you can do it better than that. That's got to be the best feeling of all time. Awesome feeling. Awesome. Yeah. And also, uh, quick update, uh, they did not upgrade Wimbie's foul against Bronson. Oh, yeah. So they reviewed that. Took their sweet ass time looking at it. They couldn't. We all knew they couldn't because four flagrant foul points means you're suspended for a game. Wimbie has two. If they gave him one more, now you're basically saying, if he

fucked up, even a little bit, he's going to miss a game and everyone's going to cry foul for the rest of, you know, time because Wimbie was out for a game series is over. They couldn't do that. They had, I think, I mean, that would have sucked. That way, I don't think it was a flagrant foul, but it was stuck for God. Like, he's, it was a foul. It's crazy. Pushed him. It's bullshit.

Webbies get a little bit dirty. But, uh, yeah, you can't, you can't upgrade that given everything

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team in the East next year. Can you imagine what people gonna be saying? I have been played much in the year and a half, but trust me, I'm just entering my prime. Yeah, that's right.

“Ice tray. Are you scared? I mean, that got me a little scared. I think about it.”

Not because it's like, I'm not, I can't see them as the one seed, but I'm worried about them being in the top eight seed. It's the fact that he, he changed, he moved the overtime window. Yeah. If I, you were thinking like, okay, maybe somewhere in the 10 through seven, but hearing him say one, you're like, damn, now they might be like four through six. To answer the question, what would they say? I would say PFT saw the future. True. Although, no, technically,

he didn't because he said eight seed. That's true. I would love to be wrong. Right. I'd love to be. Yeah. Actually, PFT, you'd be, you'd be more wrong if they were the one seed than if they were the last place team. I'd be way off about my prediction. Yeah. If they were last place team, that would be like what six away from being in the plan or four away from playing, if they're the one seed they're all far away from. That would be, I'd be, I'd feel like, I'd feel mentally

resarded. It would be tough. Now, I do think that the wizards probably trend more towards the one seed than they do towards the 10 or the 12. If you did gun to your head, you'd say one seed over 10 or 12. One to my head? Yeah. Crystal ball to my head? Yeah. More likely they get to one seed than Mr. playoffs. Now, you're, you're also discounting the, the nature of the rivalry that we've got built in with the nicks for next year. Like the nicks need to be, they need to start thinking

about Tre Young. Is that why the nicks lost Game 3? Think the nicks are always thinking about Tre Young.

“Always think about Tre Young. It's honestly like he's already right free. Yeah. You just, you just can't”

stop thinking about it. When be was thinking about Tre Young when talking about the nicks. Yeah, he was, the whole thing is thinking about Tre Young. Like you guys, you guys are forgetting about Tre. I didn't, I never suffered about Tre. I never would. That's good. I like that, Hank. And then my cool thing. I got to, also, it, people sleeping on Tre Young might be right. Yeah, they didn't play near half. Yeah. They could be right. They could, they could,

they could just stay asleep and be fine. No one's going to wake him up, doubt it, doubt it. Me and Tre are going to have a conversation about this on the bench. October. 2026. Lock it in Tre. See you there. And then my cool. What math? Where are you just doing right? I was year math. It is. Well, we'll be

I know. I did not object. I'd literally just said nothing. I know. But I can see the first second. And I realized you were correct. And I moved on. We should do a silent film of Hank's faces. I'd watch that. That was a good face. Yeah. Really good. The Hank math faces. It's good time. My cool throne is, it's again, DC. PFT. Good sports town. Yeah. UFL final this weekend. Yeah. DC is in it in the championships in DC. DC defenders looking to go

back to back. Never been done before in UFL history. I just could be literally all far. Literally all

wild. It's going to be viral. Fifty cents playing a half time. It's going to be electric. Would you rather see 50 cent or that boni? Bad boni? Probably 50. Just I like saying bad boni. Yeah. Bad boni. I guess the Louisville

“Kings. No Kings March and DC this weekend. Is that kind of a hard place for you? Do you your kernel?”

No. No. I'm a DC defender. I'm an alum. Kind of kind of kind of kind. Practice quite a long. Practice quite a long. Practice quite. Try out alum. Practice quite a long. Practice quite a long time. He got a jersey. Yeah. Everyone. Well, anyone who goes to the trial? Not true. Not true. There's a lot of guys that have tried out for UFL teams. I don't get it.

I don't get a jersey. I don't get a custom jersey afterwards. Yeah. But no, it's going to be. It should be

wild scene in DC. Get the beer snake going. Yep. On fire. And then my other cool throne Charlie Woods. Yeah. Going to the U.S. Open. Yeah. About time. He was cating for his good friend Miles Russell lefty. I think they're going to be playing in Florida State next year. And Miles Russell qualified through the longest day in golf. He's going to the U.S. Open. I don't know if Charlie was going to be on his back for the U.S. Open, but he should be. How do you make it through and then

switch to another caddy? I mean, we learned from Cats Girlfriend. Like now this time of year, you got to have, you got to bring the bag. Yeah. Lucky bags. Bring the bag. We got you there.

“Yeah. Trust the bag guy. Yeah. Who's the bag? Who's the bag guy? Who's the bag guy? Who else qualified?”

Shane Bacon did not qualify. Unfortunately, Jim Renner also did not qualify. Unfortunately.

Max Homa also did not qualify. Unfortunately. You know what? I was keeping track of the guys. I was rooting for to qualify and I didn't pay as much attention to the guys that did. James Nicholas corn fairy guy. I follow him on social media. He made it. Is that Jack's grandson? No. Do you think Max is going to watch the U.S. Open? Like the entire tournament? I'm probably he's probably going to be like most golfers or probably like play during the day. Maybe you know catch some stuff on TV

when he's not playing, but I would imagine he's not sitting on the couch watching the coverage. Maybe a little. I mean, he's got friends. Yeah. No, that's what I'm saying. Like I'm sure he'll be relatively aware of what's going on. Probably watch on Sunday if he has nothing else going on. But okay, we have Neil Schipley qualified. Nice. Jamie. Good for him. Who else? What are the names? Ben James, Dylan Wu, Billy Horschall, Decepti Pettardy. I'm just giving all of these people qualified. Yes,

all of these people qualified. Oh, I don't know. There's this man. There's a lot of people in this tournament. Cole Hammer, great name. Robbie Higgins, good name. And give us a name to know. Keith Mitchell, Kashmir Keith. A Meliano. Chris Kirk is good. JB Holmes. Gracearman's good. JB Holmes, slow. Really slow. What do you mean mentally? Like no, he's got a piece of play. Okay. Keep going down. Who's Cole Hammer?

“That's why great name. Great name. Yeah. Where's he from?”

Cole Hammer, Max McGreevy. He's from Westford. Toasty's good. Toasty. Okay. A Miliano Grillo. Yeah. He's good. That's a guy. Hey, do you think you have any chance one day of playing qualifying? I don't. What about just making it to the longest thing and go? I don't. Do you know you could? You could qualify. I think you have to be like a plus one to even enter to compete to

then get to the longest day. You could just lie about your handicap. True. But no, yeah, no. Maybe if I had twice as many holes as them. Actually, no. You just want to play. If I had like if I could if I could play like four holes. And then that's my score. Then you qualify. I would have a chance. I would play 36.

These guys are all like minus eight. How are you going to get minus eight and three holes? If I started to minus ten and had to play four holes. Maybe you started on the green. Yeah.

hot seat being Dylan Gabriel. So there's a quarterback controversy in Cleveland right now. The controversy is they don't know what number Dylan Gabriel is going to wear. Because Jared verse verse number eight. Dylan Gabriel also wore number eight at the same practice. Then the Browns don't have any uniform numbers that are open for Dylan Gabriel to wear. They're all tied up with other other guys. But I did hear that today.

Worried not because J.O.K. is not going to be able to play this year. So number six is now like temporarily going to Dylan Gabriel. But for a while, a guy that is in theory competing for a starting job didn't have a number probably doesn't speak well for the chances of him getting the starting job. Yeah. Okay. And then my cool thrones the United States. The US is back and all it took was some Europeans to come visit us and just do like stream of consciousness blogs of

visiting like the south. I had this as well. And it makes even people that live in America be like, yeah, you know what our country's not so bad. We got some good spots. The chatter, who do you river watching. So these are like European people who are here in the United States for the world cup and getting to see them discover waffle house in real time, getting to see them discover just like random little towns, the stone mountain in Georgia. And watching them really understand what

America is has been fun to watch. And it makes me a little bit proud to be an American to be like, yeah, yeah, all those, yeah, all those guys from Norway that are visiting Bucky's for the first time.

“That's what it's all about. Yeah. This one guy said some proper Chicago food bro. They have a milkshake”

with cake in the cup. It's ridiculous. Talking about Portugal's cake, which I love. It made me realize you know, when Europeans or people from other countries say like America has no culture, we actually do. It's called gluttony. It's called eating past being full. That's what we do better than anyone else. Having a German dude show up to America and being absolutely floored by a big gulp. I take some pride in that. Yeah, having a Swedish chick come to the United

States and be like, what is ranch? Yeah. Oh, my God. I've never had ranch before. Blue her mind.

Eating two half pound burgers at 10 30 in the morning. America, who did that? They got to that America. Listen, I might have taken my I burger myself out of like the first seven whole charity golf event because I ate so much burger. Just just people that like this lady right here discovering a road trip combination of combos and Twinkie and being like this is American. Yeah. She's right. Yeah. She nailed it. Like you can read books about American history.

If you want, we've made more than enough movies about it. If you really want to experience America

“as a foreigner, you need to just rent a car and then just drive it about 12 hours across as many”

states as you want and then stop once every three hours to get somebody. There was one guy who just went to chillies for the NBA finals. He's like at chillies for the NBA finals and it looked incredible. Yeah. He had everything. That one guy has cars and everything. One person discovers a like Coca-Cola freestyle machine. Uh-huh. Yeah. Who is mine? That's America. And that's what we do

better. We'll always do that better than Europe. And then also, I started reading on some of the

rule changes in this world cup because I have heard some of the Europeans complaining about some new policies at this world cup. There's some wild ones that you should get to know. You're not allowed to cover up your mouth as a club. If you cover your mouth when you're talking to an opponent, you get a red card for that shit. Huge little lip readers. Yeah. Which I don't know,

“like I think it ties back to trying to prevent players from using racial slurs. But I mean,”

there is a possibility that they want to cover up their mouth because they don't want people to read their lips because they're talking about a tactic or about the game. So that doesn't make sense to me. And then there's going to be a five-second rule on throwing. Like is it drop food? Yeah. Yeah. You can do that. Or on throwing or goal kicks, they're going to count like the referees going to do the arm motion like in basketball. I think count five seconds if you don't

kick it off boom, other team gets of all. Never been done before. That is never done before. But it's

good if you hate time wasting, which I do. Uh, it's going to be good to help address that. But yeah, God bless all the Europeans that are just like using their three months of vacation that they get every summer to just drive around and eat at chain restaurants because that's really what it's all about. It's going to be so awesome. I'm like watching watching all of these or Europeans figure out just how much we rock. Mm-hmm. It's just the best. And if you look at where some of the teams are

staying right now and where some of their supporters are probably going to be flying into,

funny mix of cultures. You've got Saudi Arabia is going to be staying in Austin, Texas.

“You've got Norway and Greensboro, North Carolina. And you've got, uh, there was one other”

really wild. Oh, yeah, Iraq. The Iraqi National Team staying at the Green Breyer. Oh, I didn't West Virginia where like Calshahan will make the 40th century on back to back weeks. It's very funny to imagine these teams just like, okay, uh, Iraq here, you're experiencing

West Virginia first time. Yeah. Go for it. West Virginia rocks. Egypt staying in Spokane, Washington.

Pretty much in Idaho. Perfect. Um, okay. My hot seat is me because I, uh, I posted a picture from the pause Chicago golf outing on Monday. Wasn't the most flattering picture for some was flattering for Max. Max, you looked awesome in that picture. Yeah, love that picture. Um, memes, nipples went viral to put it to put it as, as can forward as possible. Canons. Memes, nipples took over the internet for about three or four hours. It was a trending topic when I

went and looked. It was not good. So, uh, memes, I apologize. How are you feeling? You're mad at me. I know you are. All of the tickets now have softened the blow. No, I'm not mad at anyone. My body's just a weapon on the golf course. You kept on saying that. What, what is that? I just, um, a viral machine on the golf course. I don't, I don't get it. Look at those fucking tits. He's talking about the, oh, yeah, the other one is. Yeah, but you're actually, you are actually, mate, you didn't,

when I came in this morning, you didn't, you wouldn't fist bump me. Yeah, but I know that bothers you. Well, I mean, yeah, it's because you're just walked right by me and you're just like, I'm not mad at

“you, but you're mad at me. Yeah, and it works. Okay. So, you are mad at me. I'm not mad. I think the most”

amazing part of that picture was, you were wearing, is it two shirts or three shirts on the

second's poke throw? It's actually a great, it's a great sign for a robot. It's going through because two shirts. You didn't have a robot on, a robot wouldn't do that to you. Yeah, they gave us a gift card and I got a sweatshirt at the shop because it was gonna rain and then just immediately back far. Are they pierced? No, not, didn't you? Were you, I don't want to, yeah, I'm going to Photoshop. Oh, yeah, I was about one point out back here. I saw him while we were doing this show,

I saw him cropping out the picture and I'm putting something in the AI, I was like, what are you doing? He's like, I'm giving myself pierced nipples. Yeah, like right, but like right as you guys were setting that. Can you explain what happened in this picture? And again, I did not, so Hank will test so we were playing, it was Zach, Max, memes, and Jerry playing a scramble. And then Hank and I were auctioned off for a charity, for a pause Chicago to play with two other guys who were awesome dudes.

“I got this picture sent in the still blue group chat. The only thing I saw was Jerry being short,”

I just hit sent. Hank was with me. If I had seen the nipples, I would have said something that you write away. Oh, yeah. And then I got off the golf course and memes like, why did you post that? I was like, what are you talking about? And then I looked, I was like, ah, now I see. What happened? I don't think there's really much to explain. I just have pepperoni nipples. Are they, though? They're like, they're kind of going up. I didn't think that you,

I've seen your nipples before, memes. They're, no, it's nothing right home about. I got nice nipples. There's just normal, I think you got normal nipples. Normal nipples. I got the pepperones. Someone said no offense to be your staff as an estrogen in balance. It was a, eight, eight tits, eight breasts, and not a chicken sight. I matched you look strong. You look like you have six back. Yeah, I, I don't care about any of those

comments. I'm looking at this picture and being like, maybe the needle needle looks good.

That's always tough when there's like an imbalance, like such a huge picture and balance between

two guys because Max is going to have to spam that picture all the time. Understand, we do look great. And memes just like the worst possible angle of a picture for you. Meanwhile, like, yeah, Jerry, little on shorts. Yeah, Jerry's looking short. And that means has the biggest small tits in the world. Yeah. That means small, like small, you just have a really good focus on the, on the, just forget the biggest performance in there. Don't let these fellows get an elevator.

What? That was, that was wasn't that funny. I'm just reading one of those. Don't say that. I had St. Louis stripper titties. What? Did you go through all the comments? You were trending. And then you got on golf Twitter. Like, there was like burner golf Twitter was like, look at these fucking guys. Well, they were just were like, respectfully, what's going on with this guy's nipple. I love the golf Twitter looks at memes shrink. I don't even want shrink in hips.

shout-out style blue. Yeah, I would rate that out. We went after the, after the round, we went to

uh, there was like a cocktail hour. And then I went and looked at my phone and I saw 550 replies and I was like, oh boy, I didn't rub the six hundred sixty nine replies on this picture. No, three, two, three,

“memes. I apologize. I don't mean, I don't mean this in a perverted way. Were you aroused?”

It looks like it. You sure? Did they look like that the entire round? I'd love to flick up. You just like playing golf? Yeah, yes. What the fuck? They're really sticking out. Did you hit a good shot with those nipples? I did. Oh, so that's all the matters. Single handly part of this hole. No one expects those nipples to par a hole. memes and max anchors yesterday. Yeah, we needed them bad. Zack also did you see Zack's uh, back.

I saw that he had like two irons and a putter. Yep. Yeah. He was six approach putter. He was saying that other guys have too many, too many clubs. You listen, you got to master the clubs you have,

then you can add on. You can, you can always add on. Yeah. There's a billion clubs in this office.

Yeah. And even more specifically in our back corner. Yeah. I have my entire writing set. That's not even a picture of a bunch of clubs on on Tuesday or Sunday night before. And he was like, I'm good to take these, right? I'm like, yes, take all the clubs in that corner. And for some reason, he just chose to take four clubs. Well, yeah, I see a photo of the ones in the bin, but they were, I didn't realize at the time when I sent it, they were like,

some of this handed, some of the other handed. So I just went with the dominant handed.

“But there's so many other clubs back there. That's what I've just grabbed other clubs that were in that corner.”

That's where I played it wrong. Yeah. That's, you look, hindsight is 2020. Yes. Zach, you got to just get conflict. Like, he also picked a he Zach and Max live like two minutes from each other. Zach took like a hundred and fifty dollar Uber. He was too nervous to text me and ask for a ride. Well, I wasn't a usual man. It was crazy. I was at the Dixporting Goods, right? I went, which again, he was at the Dixporting Goods, getting golf balls, which we have for him,

and getting a golf bag, which we have for him. He spent like $300 on this trip that could have been free. Step up, Zach. Why didn't you ask him? You just have to ask any questions and we would say, you would not have been going to Dixporting Goods if you were explaining to me what you were doing at Dixporting Goods. No. Why didn't you ask Zach if he needed a ride? So there was a group chat before that, so this is what happened. There was a group chat before

that memes asked Dom for a ride. And Dom said, yes, I'm already, I already have one in the car, but I can fit you too. I assumed that one in the car was Zach. It was not Zach. It was somebody else.

“So then once memes said who was in the car, I texted Zach and said, do you need a ride?”

And he said, I'm good. I'm already on the way. Still didn't tell me that it was an Uber. You know, worked out that we had a great day on golf balls. Yes, everyone did. Everyone did. The golf course in the internet is different. Two different things. You had a great day on the golf course, not a great day on that. I had a great day on that. I do. I would say they might even be opposite things.

Yeah, like you've run on the golf course, you're touching grass. Yeah, big time. All right, my cool drone is the internet because you've you've done a good enough job. The same press, you had to mention you in the press conference. You know, round up of the OKC season where he said that SGA is playing six guys, five guys on the court and a guy on the internet. No, the six guy I believe is social media. Oh, social media. Yeah. So you did it all the time.

Quote. You did it. Those are bars. Rachel, when you hear him say that, if you're on the thunder, you're like, fuck. Yeah, Sam. Yeah. I appreciate that. And if you're like a burner who's just been tweeting SGA flops, you're also like, fuck. Yeah, we did it. Well, I was going to say, if you're a burner that is the guy he's talking about you hear this and you're like, I've fucked up big time. You're probably thinking yourself like he's making a lot of you. I should stop. No, I think you're proud of yourself. You're like,

I got through. You're thinking I should stop. This is Jim mentioned. It's really bad. I can't believe you know how trolls think when they get acknowledged by somebody like the GM, they're probably just going to stop and be nice. Yeah. I mean, you made a lot of good points. I'll start to be polite online. They're not going to be like, hey, Sam Pressie triggered. Right. Right. All right, Zach. Go ahead. I'm about to see this week. It's going to be 10

bay book and years legend Tom Brady. I don't know if you guys saw this, but Tom Brady might be a freak you ask boy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good nut. What do we think about good nut? What are our thoughts?

Weird. Never had a good nut. We're talking about original sponsored and Tom Brady is good nut

every day. You drink it one of the times good nuts. Yeah. This is weird. Can we just say it's weird? Super unsuit. Now quite a bit. Look at Tom Brady and look at you guys. Maybe he's doing so. Games nipples are totally fine. He could probably use a couple of good nuts in his life.

What? It's weird, Hank, to name a brand good nut. What? I mean, who doesn't like a good nut?

“I sell many people sell my nipples. It's so many. One point three million views.”

It's weird. Hank just admit that it's weird. It's just weird. Like it's just weird. It admit that literally everything Tom Brady has done for the last like three years has been weird. No. Hank, it's weird to have a coconut water drink and name it after like implying that your drinking come. That's weird. That's no, you're weird. Your mind is perverted. Oh, get your mind out of the gutter. Okay. So, but who is this for? Like who is excited about

healthy people? Drinking believe athletes. No, the name. Who's excited? Who's amped up to drink?

Good nut. People that like nuts and coconuts. Would you go original sparkling or chocolate?

Ooh, it's pens. I mean, they should do a giz flavor. That would be it. Then I'd be like, you know what? It went from weird to you're just probably original and chocolate at the same time. Like lean into it. Yeah. Yeah. Once one after the other, yeah, to a fist. Would you have two hands at once? Yeah, ski pull. And would you pour them at the same time? Yeah. Like, yeah. One of those? Yeah. Yeah. No. Okay. You're making some, yeah. Some good points. It's weird.

“It's okay to say it's weird. I think you need to get your mind out of the gutter. I think it's”

perfectly normal and healthy and like if you probably, you know, drink one of these every day and city in a burger every day, your would be in a much better place six months. Wrong. Meet is good for you. Coconut's also good for you. What if it was just like suck this meat? Big cats burger company. Mm-hmm. What would you say about that? Suck this meat? Yeah. That's no sense. Who sucks burgers? Big cats meat too.

What is it? It was big cats meat too. Suck one. When you think that was a horrible name. What about good mouth meat? That's a good name. That's not a good name. It's just you're right in a way, Hank, that I could see, I could see a guy like Tom Brady having thought so highly of himself that he would make like a Tom Brady flavored comb. Coconut drink. Mm-hmm. Be like, it's not

Tom. Studies have shown that. It is. It's coconut. If you consume like 15 million sperm per week,

you actually end up living five seconds longer. So we're going to optimize. What like what are the other alternatives? To not drink and come? No, it's coconut dude. The zero comb in this. Okay, that would actually, I would love to have that as a tagline. Yeah, zero comb. Yeah, good night. No longer featuring comb. Yeah, zero percent comb. Come free drink. Yeah. I guess we're the sickos that need that like you. Like it should list on the back. It should say

potassium, 5% vitamin C, 90 milligrams, 100% comb, 0 milligrams, 0% niacin, 16 milligrams, 100. Maybe even, maybe it comes 0% just to really. Yeah, really hammered home. And then you could even, like, if I was a competitor, I would have like negative 10% comb. Yeah. Like you get more, your body will make more comb if you drink this. It would actually be actually the straightest drink that you can ever have. It would actually be funny at pretty put a little pre-comb in every single one.

Right. I told you it's no comb. Yeah, it's pre-comb. Yeah. Okay. Sack. Good. Good hot seat. And then my quote from. What? What are they laughing? I was good. I did a Google, I did an AI search. And it was. Yes, yes. Yeah. Yeah. The water is connected to semen in two main ways, internal health and external sperm preservation. Okay, helps promote. So if you drink coconut water,

“it's good for your sperm. Oh, that's why you called it good nut? I would, I just thought maybe that's”

why I wanted to. I was trying to do some research. Is this drink, the world's leading source, or the world's most healthy thing that you can do for your own comb? Pine apple juice. That makes it taste sweet. That's good. Yeah. Onless. I don't really have a preference. Unless you're savory. I think it's all good. Okay. I'm not picky. I'm not picky. You're cool throughout. Oh, my quote from this week is going to be a Kai-Sanat and guys who's stream. You guys see a

stream university back. Stream university. Streamer university. But yes, but Kai-Sanat was last time in history. Eight months ago. So, wasn't this like a, didn't, didn't this happen? And everyone was like, that didn't really work the way they wanted it to. There was some rough patches last year, but it wasn't like proof of concept wise. It kind of plays. They took over the

are trying to stream online. Then they bring you into a campus. They got some classroom,

some alumni. Sign up, Zach. The classes. I was waiting for you to finish. So I could. Yep. That's your next year. We're, we're getting sign up streaming. I want you a streamer university.

“You will be attending streamer university 1227. 100%. Yes. First, first student. How much is it cost?”

No, it's just like there's application process. I don't think it works. We're going to figure we're going to get you. We've got to hold here to figure out the application problem. You will be in streamer university 20. Nobody said. If anyone knows anyone who's involved in stream university 2026, and we can get Zach into this one, he would love to be in this one. Yes. Don't send me DMs. You don't not even PMT Boucher party. Send me DMs. If you have any

connection to streamer university 2027, or 2026. Well, 2026 is over. It already happened, right? No, this is the trailer for the, for the new one. Oh, we have occasions already submitted? No, no, I was just, I thought it was happening right now. All right, so Zach, get in the on the app now. We've got to get you in. We've got to get you in. We've got to get you in. We've got to get you in. That's streamer university. I can submit one if you guys like me too.

But yeah, it's not, it's not if we like it too. Okay, you have, I can do that. I can do that. I was more, also, do you guys see the trailer? No. Trailer kind of rapes watching it right now. It

“touched 32 million people on the everything app. I think it was great trailer. When, when does”

happen at this at this university? Obviously, you just go, and so there's a lot of happens. Basically,

you applies for me. It's like going to college. You also, you're in. When, what happens next thing I want to hear about streamer university is with you and a fucking hat and gap and gown. I can submit an application. Yes, sir. I can definitely do that for you. You know, you will. You will do streamer university. We're going to, we're going to clip this right now. Anyone out there who has any connection to streamer university 2026, please reach out. We need to get stopped. Tom just takes

a thing. He's got a guy. So we're already. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. But I great. I guess I'm curious to know what goes on at streamer university. We're going to find out because that's going to wait. Wait, but do we know, Zach, do you know at all? Yes. So you go in. You apply. If you get accepted in, didn't have everything's live. So like, all the students are ripping live. You're ripping live. And then you'll go to see you go to class. Are they teaching actual classes? Are they teaching

you classes about streaming? Yeah. Like, there's like, there's like valuable lessons to learn. Like how you can't borrow. So you're streaming while you're attending a class learning how to stream. Yes. Yes. Do they have a sports team? No. Currently, no sports team, no sir. Well, you're going to have to try out for the sports team. All right. Yeah. Maybe I'll walk on. Maybe you create the sports team. Yeah. That was that couldn't. And then you stream. I can't

wait to watch you as streamer university. It's beautiful thing that he does for people. And I I can submit if you're going to be the people. I will submit an application. So we'll just use to be streaming on PMT YouTube. Okay. Great. That was streamer university. But yeah. Yeah. Saxon is streaming. He's going to learn how to stream by streaming. Yep. This is great. Easy. Come back. He's going to be a stream. He's just going to be our easy. He's just going to be a

stream. I fucking love it, Zach. Wait a go. Hey, Zach. Let me be the first to congratulate you

on being accepted to streamer university 2026. I don't know if it works quite like that.

“I will submit an application. That's how to achieve. That's how to achieve. What is the”

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“along with North America. I think those are the two hosts. It's North America and Rob Stone,”

who you will see on your TV all summer long hosting on Fox. Rob, great to see you. Also big noon kickoff, which we've worked together and had a great time. Rob, good to see you. We're ready for the World Cup. Are you ready for America to get a ton of Rob Stone right down their

face? Nobody asks for that. Nobody wants that. I'll give him as much as they can take it

then I'll back off. But yeah, the summer of soccer is here. I don't know if you guys can feel it. And I kind of wanted to feel it when the calendar turned to 2026. And I've been in patient for the last couple of months, but like the last probably since Saturday, I've felt kind of like the refrigerator sitting on my chest and it's harder to breathe and the brain won't stop. And everywhere I go, it's soccer conversations or soccer visuals. And it's all about the

World Cup. So it is here and listen, nobody does FOMO like the United States, right? Like we are the capital of FOMO. And people are coming out of the woodworks talking soccer and world cup and tactics. I was sitting in a sauna at my gym three days ago. And I had a 20-minute conversation about the World Cup in Argentina and the USman's national team. And then I had to like stagger out of there. I was like, I'm done. I can't take this anymore. But that to me was like this great

sign that yeah, the World Cup is here and people can't get enough of it. And we haven't even started yet. Yeah. And it's your, I would assume is your favorite sport. I mean you host big noon kickoff,

“but you you played soccer diligently. It's got to be your number one, right?”

Soccer's my DNA, right? It was my gateway drug into this business. So it's, it's up there. But let me tell you, like the big noon kickoff is over my shoulder. I love college football. I love everything about it. But we can have two loves. Can't wait. Yeah. Right. We, we have, all the three of us have a lot of love to share. So we're all right. Yeah. Actually, what are you bowling? Just that one in there. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Let's go. We haven't even talked to US national team. We're already going to bowling.

Yeah. I was just saying, let's just, you know what? Let's not talk to any soccer. Let's just talk what your thoughts are on Brendan Sorsby. Oh, man. Don't answer that. All right. Yeah. Yeah. I thought what you said is actually, I agree because I don't, I agree with what Westen McKinney said the other day too, which is that he expected there to be like soccer fever in the United States for the last couple of years. But what ended up happening since we're hosting the cup, we didn't have to go

through the trials and tribulations of qualifying for the World Cup. So it felt like none of the games that we've been playing had anything at stake. And so it's tough to kind of build up that excitement if you just kind of like jump into the World Cup at the very end. But now like that game in Chicago against

“Germany was awesome. The first half, I think, and also the first half against Senegal, I think it”

gave a lot of people myself included who were like a little bit skeptical about the way the US men's national team has looked. It gave us reason to think like at least our attack, our offense could be really, really entertaining and really good. And I think that the bare minimum, my, my bar for success is we have to win at least one knockout stage game. What do you think? Wow, you and

points. And one of the key ones was I feel so much better about this national team than I did probably a week, week and a half ago, you know, uh, big cat we were talking. I don't know when I was with you guys, um, in Chicago and your studio and you were like, this team, what are we going to do with them? And I was like, yeah, I'm nervous. Yeah. I wasn't feeling the love. I wasn't feeling the vibe,

“but it, it certainly has picked up. I think home field advantage has something to do with it.”

To your point, PFT about those strong starts against two really quality teams that will be in the world cup as well. And that should get out of their group stage. Um, that gives me hope gives me optimism.

I, I feel better, but that doesn't change what the reality is of what they're going to do

at this world cup. Again, my, my gut is, you know, we get to the round of 16. I think that's kind of the ceiling. And if we're, if we're really lucky, we get to the quarter finals. And that is as, as good of a tournament as we could hope for. Uh, but I guess my point is I feel better about those thoughts than I did a week and a half ago that they haven't changed. I don't have them rising into the semis or I don't have them as a surefire quarter final team. But I definitely

feel better that they're going to get to the round of 16. I feel better that they have a chance to get to the quarter finals. Yeah. Are we going to get bullied? That was our conversation last time. Because I remember what was the, what was the, what was the cup we played in last summer? Gold cup. Gold cup. Yeah. We got bullied. We lost to Mexico. We got pushed around. Yeah. So that's really, like, my bar is I, I want us to do well. I'm going to get excited. I'm going to watch every game.

“I don't want to get pushed around. Yeah. I love that point. And I think that's been something”

that has been felt by the American fan base for the last couple years. PFT probably goes to your point to that there haven't been these meaningful games or not enough meaningful games for people can get motivated. And the team can get excited and they have that camaraderie and that real fight and that real steel that you can only really build up through real cup qualifying. I've seen that right. And I really saw it at the tail end of that Germany game. You know, there was a lot of

pushing a lot of shelving. There was some questionable tackles by the Americans. Right. Coming in, low and hard and clean on the sideline. Totally unnecessary. Totally unnecessary. You know, just a few minutes and tell the world cup stage is finally upon you. And I know if that was a German player doing that to the American. I would feel so agreed. But since it was an American doing it to the German, I was like, Hell, yeah, there we go. I don't care. Let's come in with these

tackles. I don't care for losing. Also, we were fighting to get that equalizer. So again, this goes back to that those feel good vibes where, hey, that blue collar mentality, that fight that we're

“not backing down from anybody approach seems to be coming out of the US camp. That's what the”

manager Mauricio Pochitino. That's always been kind of his directive when he was at where

there he was with the club or he was with the national team in the United States. He wants some of that fight, some of that steel, some of that hit, some of that, that nastyness that makes you happy and proud. A little blood on the jersey and a whole lot of grass stains. I'm all for it. And I'm seeing more and more from that from the US. Obviously, he takes way more than just the heart in the in, you know, and the blue collar. But at a minimum, I'm seeing that right now. No such thing

is a friendly. I like that. He took away the effort. He said, I hate, I hate that term. And I banned it. I banned the term friendlies from my use at Fox Sports. Everything was like a world cup tune up, right, or a goal cup tune up, or a preparation for the world cup. Friendly just like, what, what, what are we even doing? Yeah. If it's called a friendly, why don't we even play in this? I have, we can do friendly all day. Yeah. You know, 5v5 pickup. Is that a friendly? I don't

think so. People are blowing out their Achilles on the basketball court. That's not friendly. Get after it. Let's play. Let's play to win. I agree. I'm knocking on wood right there. Let's combine. Let's combine two out of your three favorite passions. We'll leave bowling out for once. Is wrestling, is wrestling going to get in there? Well, I was going to say, like, if you were to, if you were to compare the US men's national team to a college football team, who would they be?

Ho. All right. I'll give you an NFL team, because I thought about this the other day. I, if they're an NFL team, I would say. I have a couple, but let's show it to everyone. The chargers feels like that's the US men's national team. Like, we've had a couple good teams.

I felt like we've been able to do something never really works out. We played good team in the

playoffs. We get balanced. That's kind of what happens. Yeah. That's good. You're right. Because there has been past success, right? You know, the first ever World Cup, and let's be honest, that was a different World Cup than what we're in right now. The US made it to the semi finals. After that, and the one that really matters in modern times, 2002, that great quarter final run in South Korea, and Japan, and a goal that we should have had, that, you know, a handful, and

this allowed things we get at a chance to be at the semi finals. So, I guess my point is they have had some brief level of success, but they are an underdog, and nobody's thinking much about them. You know, like, there's elements of Vanderbilt football, the last couple of years that kind of peaks with me like, hey, nobody really expects much about them. What a great place to be, right? Like,

good at football. All right, like, I'm not mad at you Vanderbilt, right? I'm not mad that Vanderbilt is having good football season. I'm not mad like when TCU had that run to the national championship. I kind of like that, like some, some good American boys who are maybe kind of, you know, over their skis a little bit, but get in away with it. You know, I don't think it's the big Alabama's, the Georgia's, the Ohio States, the Michigan's. That's clearly not what this USman's

“national team. I think it's a bunch of a plucky dudes. Here's why. How about this? How about, if this”

summer's USman's national team is the Indiana University of college football? I wouldn't hate it's like coaching this to be nice. Why not? I think you're doing it right. I would take coaching to sit on the bench next to Pochatino. Yeah, what could go wrong? Yeah, I liked that. That's good. I,

I was thinking, so we have a co-worker said maybe Texas A and M because, like, kind of always in that

conversation and then a cult. Yeah, but A and M's got all that money and they've got all those, all that recruiting perks and the US doesn't quite have, have that, that box that we can check. Yeah, like A and M though, because we're a cult and there's always kind of like a, like, faint of like militaries somewhere around. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We can use 12th men too. That would probably help our chances. Yeah, see, that works perfectly 12th man. Yeah,

all right, we're on to something. In terms of actual news with the men's national team, the defense feels kind of suspect is Chris Richards going to play because he's been hurt and it took him a long time to get back. He hasn't played yet with us. I did hear that he practiced, like in

full yesterday and he would be a big piece. I guess first question, do you think he's going to play

in the opening game and then to how big of a deal is getting it back in the lineup? So Chris Richards last played May 17th, and that was for his club. So if he plays on Friday versus Paraguay, it'll be 26 days since his last game. That's a big number, you know, and talking with former US national team coaches Greg Burhalther and Bob Bradley and Bruce Arena, we've got a podcast throughout the course of the world cup and we brought that subject up and a majority of them were

“like, I think I'm good. You know, we've trusted him this long. We know who he is. You can figure out”

how to scrape off that rush. You can get that steel wool across that rush over the next couple days and get him fit because you're right. The backline, the cohesiveness, the spacing, the timing has been problematic and Chris Richards has been by far our best defender for the last couple years and he's in the middle of that defense. He's a great communicator. The fact that he was at practice as a full participant and I will say that practice was pretty light, right? It wasn't

like, hey, man, we're hitting some bodies. It wasn't like full pads, right, to go back to the college for more reference. But it was a full practice for the US. The fact he was there, the fact he was able to do that, everything that was asked of him is promising to me. It's more about, hey, how's Tuesday and Wednesday? Like, how do you feel? Right? Is the ankle good? What's the swelling like? Well, no more. But I think even if he's 75%, you let him go. Yeah. All right. So the rest of the

world. Let's talk about the world cup, the rest of the world. Give me, if I said, you get to pick five

“teams and the winner has to come from these five teams. What are the five teams? Yeah, I think that's”

actually pretty easy. Okay. All right. So, so four teams. Okay. Keep talking. I'll say three. Yeah, right. No, we'll take away. So let's let's let me throw two quick facts at you that might help you kind of like shrink the field a little bit. Only eight nations have under ever one the world cup and they've only come from Europe and South America. So you're probably going to pick from from that little pool of those eight, only seven are here at the world cup. Italy, of course,

is not here. No nation has ever won the world cup with a foreign head coach, which is really unique. So all the success has been with somebody who is from that country leading that country. So like Brazil is now led by one of the greatest managers ever, Carlo Echallotti, but he's Italian, does that scrub Brazil? I don't think that scrub's Brazil. I just don't think Brazil is good enough

this year. So if you gave me four nations to win it all, the first two are super easy, Spain and France.

After that, it starts getting a little bit more open. Argentina, you know, it's a quote, Rick Flair, to be the man. You got to beat the man. So Argentina still has the belt. I think they are an absolute threat. And then I think the other team is going to come from Europe. And I'm not exactly sure who it's going to be and part of me wants to say England and part of me also thinks England is really overrated, but when you look at their collective talent, you do say,

oh, these these three lines can go really deep. So I think those are the four that you would feel really good about. Okay. I like to eat and say Portugal. Yeah. Because I don't want Ronaldo to get one. Well, I, that's my goat. Why not Portugal Ronaldo? I, I actually miss my goat. He's a Ronaldo,

93% of his career goals came from penalty kicks.

“Yeah. All right. So that's a good nickname. Here's my thought of Portugal. I think”

it's hard to call Portugal a dark horse. Right. I think a lot of people are starting to lean into Portugal because people aren't just frankly talking about them enough. To me, what will be most fascinating is will Portugal have the messy effect this world cup, like Argentina had with Leonardo Messi four years ago where hey, we have a goat. We have this pressure. We have this responsibility to win the world cup for Leonardo Messi. It's that one thing that had been missing from his

hardware case. And so he finally gets that trophy. And everybody was so invested in winning it

for Messi. I wonder. I just wonder and I don't know because there are two different characters. But is there that feeling in the Portuguese camp? Like, hey, man, Ronaldo's one of the best ever. Can we do this? Can we send him out on a proper, on a proper note? And I get it. He's, he's easy to wear that black cat. It's easy to kind of cheer against him. You know, he's got ab muscles and I didn't know existed. You know, everything is perfect. The cloth, the leg muscles are fantastic.

He pulls the shorts up to let you know how how to find his quads are. So he does a lot of things that make you lean against him and want to cheer against him. But I am curious if Portugal gets gets a bounce in their hope to try and win it for him. So I'm a Messi fan too. And I feel like maybe

“the funniest outcome would be if Portugal won, but Ronaldo didn't play. Because I think in the last”

world, it's happened before. In the last world, they were better when he wasn't on the field. So to that point, like will he accept what his role needs to be? And that was the drama four years ago in Qatar. Like, can you still have Ronaldo on your team and not make it dysfunctional if he's not starting? Yeah. So if he can say, hey, you know what, I can start game one and three. And I'll come off the bench game two if needed. If he's in that mindset, which by the way,

I think he should be. Watch out for Portugal. Yeah. All right. So what about a player that you think might have the most to gain from this world cup? Like, you know, what was it four years ago? No, he years ago in Bapé where it's like, holy shit, this guy. I guess there's four years ago.

It was like, oh my god, this is incredible. Is there a guy right now that's he most

a diehard soccer fans know he is, but a casual like myself. Yeah. I'll be talking about him in three months. Yeah, Erling Holland. The big norwegian strike. I know who he is. He strikes that look, you know, he's super pale. You know, it's like you just pulled him out of the Arctic circle from some fishing boat and all of a sudden, this guy is able to lumber around and score goals. Listen, if you're a true soccer fan, you know how talented this guy is. Yeah, but I'm not

I'm not telling anybody any secrets right here. But I was having this conversation with Peter Schmeckler, yesterday and I said, here in America, the casual fan, the FOMO fan, that is going to be jumping on board. They don't necessarily know this guy. And when you get the shots of him, this towering imposing, you know, figure that looks like, you know, he just, he came out of the Norwegian ice, you know, with the slick back tight hair and his goal power and the smile and the fact that

when he scores, the team is going to run up to him and hug him and he's going to be towering

“over them and patting them on their heads almost. I think he's that type of mythical figure that”

the non-socker diehard here at America could really lean into. He is a Targaryen. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, he does a score goals. He's just a machine when it comes to that. When it comes to England, I feel like this is this should be England's year, right? Like on paper, this is setting up as good as it has now. When you say it's England's year, then instinctually every like English soccer fan will hear that and be like, "Here we go. We're about to get our hearts broken again." Like

the expectations I feel like are just so beaten down in that country that they can't really get that excited about thinking this is their year. But on paper, they feel like they have as good a chance to win this world cup as they have in a very long time. Is that fair? English fans, light nut, man, light nut, enjoy it, right? Have your pints enjoy your three lines and how well they're playing. You know, they are major factors in every major international soccer tournament over

the last stretch of years, right? Don't be down and down or raise up, enjoy them. Don't suffocate them. That's been the problem with England. As I feel that national team has been crushed by the press and the fan base and the stress and the expectations rather than just kind of being like, "Hey, we're a really good team. We're one of the top five in the world. We have a real

chance to finally bring it home for the second time ever. I would encourage English fans to just sit

back and enjoy. Like go to Dallas for your opening game versus Croatia and just cheer on your team. Don't be nervous. Don't be tight. Just embrace what this team is. And I think if they can be

can smile and for sure, for sure, England has a chance to bring it home this summer.

Yeah. What about the next group of teams? If there's one that could make that jump up and you could see them in like the semi-finals, if it's Japan, Netherlands, I guess Croatia would probably be in that discussion. So just because Croatia's been there. Yeah, Croatia's been there so often, but their team is old. I don't know if you guys saw that meme out there with like, it was like four shirtless 50, 60, 70 year old suits who look like they are from Eastern Europe and they're

coming around and looking like they're ready for a fight. And they're like, here comes the Croatian national team. I kept playing that on loop and I'm cracking up and that's kind of the vibe. You know, like, I still don't want to fight those guys. Like half of them look drunk or on some type of meds, but I'm back and I'm back and away. Yeah, I'm going to the other side of the street to avoid them. So Croatia still, they still got it, right? They are still something to

“be reckoned with because they've done it for so long. I think asking them to get to the final”

force probably too heavy of an ask. I don't think enough people are talking about Ecuador. Again, we talk about South American Europe. This is where your champion is probably going to come from an Ecuador is on a rise. They had great qualifying through comable. You know, all those games are just absolute bears. I think Ecuador is going to be one of those nations like a Norway. Czechia is another nation that I don't think people are talking about. They have some really

young emerging talent that might surprise some folks. So, and I do like the Dutch, you know,

three times runner up, you know, is this the time that they can kind of finally get over that hurdle

and win it all? I think they're close. I think they're going to make noise, but I think their lack of depth is eventually going to sting them whether that's in the quarter final or semi final rounds. And then one thing people don't talk about with Ecuador, like we talk about the Denver Broncos, like training it altitude, I'm pretty sure keto is like twice as high as Denver is. It's probably like the highest capital city where they train in the world. I like their

defense too from what I've read about them. And then I was also just thinking about the story lines

“that could possibly come out of New York City because I believe France is playing in New York.”

When we could be in, like playing at Madison Square Garden, the day that France is playing a game in New York, that could be a tough day for New Yorkers or for the French or for the French, either way. Yeah. It'll be a tough day for anybody in the greater New York New Jersey metropolitan area if they want to get anywhere. Bad day to have a kids birthday party, not too far from whatever the stadium is called New York New Jersey Stadium.

Oh, not a lot to call it, MetLife. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's going to be tough, isn't it? You can't touch myself. You know, it's like, oh, they're going to Boston Stadium, right? All right. That's, that's fine. Real quick note that you're talking about the altitude for Ecuador. Also, I do feel like there is a bit of a home field advantage for South American nations. You know, obviously there's such great diversity in this country, but there's a great South American population here,

whether it's, you know, the Ecuador's or the Brazil's or the Argentina's, the Uruguay's as well.

“And, and the weather this summer, you know, I think is going to suit them. You know, it's what”

they're used to in South America more so than maybe you'll see with some of these European teams. I don't if you guys saw those great images. They're Norwegian national team after training in North Carolina. They're all shirtless. They're all like on the, it looked like a bunch of college kids out on the quad, where you, when you go to school in the Northeast or you go to school in Wisconsin, you got that first sunny day, you know, that the sun came out yesterday. March or April, everyone's like shirts off.

Let's go. Let's get some vitamin D. So the Norwegians, the English, you know, how are they going to handle this heat, this sun, the travel? I think the South Americans are a little bit more built for it. Yeah, that's good point. What about, uh, give me a couple of teams because I love to bet the over. Give me a couple of teams if play, open style and like, hey, these games are going to be electric. Well, I would say games that are going to be electric might involve the menos of the world.

You know, we talk about this being the largest world cup ever. So 48 nations are playing, which means there's a lot of teams that wouldn't be here under the old format. Right. And there's a

handful of teams who've never had World Cup experience. So there are going to be some teams out there.

This is probably more to your point that might get overwhelmed by the moment, particularly in the first round. And I said this to a couple of people earlier, there's going to be a lot of moments to pick the over in goals scored in the first round because you're going to have on paper some real mismatches. And you're going to have some some Hades or some Kurosau's who are going to say, you know what, here's my chance to step on the field with the big boys. I want to prove to them that we

belong that we can play instead of maybe being pragmatic and like hey, hey, hey, let's get all 11 behind the ball and just kind of defend I think there's going to be some a few games that are going to sneak in there. We're going to go, oh, how many goals were scored in that game? Five goals, six goals. So for me, that's the entertainment value. And again, you know, goal differential is a

Argentina is a team that can score, you know, Brazil has shown that they have a surplus of offense as well. Their question mark is on the defense of back line. They have a great goalkeeper,

“but I think those games are going to be high scoring. It kind of goes to our theme, too,”

about like South America. This could be kind of a tournament of South America where they feel at home, their fan base understands this. The weather doesn't impact them. They're playing with joy. They're on an absolute upswing right now. And a lot of them are pretty offensive-minded, unlike Paraguay, also from South America, who's very defensive-minded in the US opens up with them on Friday on Fox. But outside of Paraguay, I think the rest of South America is ready to be open and score some

goals and electrify their fan basis. I love that. From the defensive standpoint, the US has always been

known as having the best goalkeepers. Like that's been the one bright spot that we've had going back to. I guess Tony Meolo was even a pretty good goalie for us back in the day. It was a great goalie. It was a whole favor. It was a great goal in a pretty good place kicker for the Jats to it, one point. That's right. We almost be Brazil on the 4th of July who could forget. So looking at that tradition of always having topped your goalie, we're going to this world cup, not we don't really

know who's going to be starting for us, right? It could be freeze or it could be Turner? Correct. I've had a lot of conversations about that topic the last few days. I was with Brad Goozon, former USman's national team keeper last night and we were discussing it and I'm like, all right,

well what do you do? And we were kind of breaking down Germany's first goal off that set piece and

what was that the second minute in Chicago on Saturday. And the first thing he said in first thing, some of the former coaches said to me is like, why was there a four man wall? So now we're getting soccer nerdy. Can we go soccer nerdy for 30 seconds if you're all right with that? So they put a four man wall. So now you're a little bit thin with the coverage behind you, right? Because if you have a four man wall, you have that many dudes trying to block it because you think it's a shot.

If it's across, you don't need four guys in the wall, okay? And if it's across and you think or you think somebody's going to make a quick pass, you need at least three in the wall. So that guy can break out and cover that, okay? But if first four in the wall, you as a keeper are saying to your defense, everybody else, this guy's shooting it. Well, you remember where that ball was. That wasn't a shot, right? That was a tough angle. That was distance. So already your the non-verbals

“from the keeper mat freezes, I'm not feeling confident. I need four in that wall, right?”

Rather than, hey, we're good with three or maybe even just two. And now I can bring those surplus of defenders back here to have tighter marking on some of these great German attackers. And then he was stuck on the line when the ball came in. You got to own that box, right? If you're a goalkeeper, you own that area. American keepers own that area. Get off your line. Any ball that's flighted, that's like, you know, the hang time on a punt, one one thousand,

two one thou get to that ball, right? You've got your hands. You've got your body. You have free reign literally to run over people more times than not in soccer, right?

goalkeeper always gets the advantage. So you got to get off your line. And that freeze wasn't on

it was stuck to his line and then that pull in the ball out of the back of that. That one moment said a lot about where his mentality is and it's scared me a little bit. I have a ton of belief in this kid. He's going to be great. But can you handle that big stage? And that was just a tune up. But that was a tune up in front of a big audience in a big state in versus a team that is going to have a say at this World Cup in Germany. So I'm nervous. I think I feel a little bit better about

Matt Turner and where his mental state is right now, his comfort level. And if my goalkeeper's comfortable and upbeat and confident, so am I, so are his defenders, so are the players, the 10 players in front of him as well. So I think it'll be really interesting who starts on Thursday. I also wouldn't be surprised if there's some form of goalkeeper rotation that goes on at this World Cup, which would be incredibly unique and awfully rare in World Cup circles. If you have two

“goalkeepers, do you have one? Well, here's the thing. I don't think we have one goalkeeper, right?”

Like the last time we rotated, we had Casey Keller and Brad Friedle. Like those are two number one dudes. Yeah. Right. Like you're you're kidding. Hey, man, whoever's in goal. I'm good with. Right. I'm I'm I'm sleep and easy the night before. Now I'm not sleep and easy whoever it is. So it's not like you got you have two quarterbacks means you don't have one quarterback. Actually, no, it's exactly what that means. We have two goalkeepers because we don't have one goalkeeper. Yeah, it's better

than everyone else. So I think part of the the management is hey, is it better for that player? Is it better for this team? Is it better for our future going through the stage of this World Cup to commit to one guy? Say, hey, buddy, I believe in you. You're my guy. Take it easy. Right. You don't need extra melatonin tonight to go to bed. You can go you can shut it down with the clear conscious to know you're a guy. Go play free. Go play confident. I think that's what

up on Friday. Yeah, I would say that is a problem. All right. So Rob, what is your what's your schedule

like? Are you so you have shows in LA? Are you going everywhere? Going a lot of places. Yeah, because the US opens up in LA and you know, the Fox base is kind of right here. It's all hands on deck for, you know, the opener, the opening two games on Thursday and then Friday where they play at LA stadium and so far and we'll be there. That's a three hour pre game. As soon as that game is over and we're done with our post game responsibilities. Uh, myself, John Strong, Stu Holden,

we jump on a jet and fly right to New York to cover Brazil, Morocco the next day. Uh, as soon as that game is done, we jump on a jet and go down to Dallas and get ready for, uh, who's who might

“get England. Who am I getting ready for? England, Croatia. Yeah. I think on that one, England,”

Croatia. No, I'm sorry. Netherlands, Japan as soon as that one is done, we jump on a jet and go right to Kansas City to get ready for Argentina. Once that is done, right back to Dallas, when that is done, I think it's a New York or a Seattle and then back to LA. So you're doing it all? It's a lot of travel. It's all right. It's a man. There's no, if you heard me complaining, you missed red meat. There's no, no, no, no, no, I didn't take you to complain. I know. I can't wait. I have a question. I have a question. Listen, if they stuck me on a

gray house bus to get from LA to New York, I'll figure it out. I don't believe that part. I'm not going to be fun. Now you've gone too far. Fair. That's awesome, though. So you'll be like this, it is, whether you roof or, you know, the US team, whether you root, like everyone should get and get excited about the world cup. It's the best. It really is like such a fun thing for, you know, every four years to just have, it's free sports. It's like, I didn't expect sports the middle of the day.

Now I got it. It is the greatest sporting event on the planet, whether you're a soccer fan or not,

“and that's why I encourage my sporting fans, like my urban mires, like urban, just come to a game,”

please, like, he's kicking you out. He's kicking you out. He's kicking you out, but you can't use your hands.

He always hates kickers, Rob. Can use your hands and soccer. That's a problem.

I'm trying. I'm trying with him. He's my pet project. He's a lot of work, but like the matte liners and the Mark Engrooms and the Brady quids, they get it. Coach Meyer is a little bit more work, but there is nothing like it. And, and I love how it's, it's, it's overtaking everybody's social media right now. Like, we didn't have that in 1994. And, and my algorithm is all over the place, but I'm getting these, these images, these Instagram things that are just making me laugh and kind

of proud of the American. And, you know, like, there's this one German dude who's like just mesmerized by the concept of, um, a big gulp at 7/11, right? Like, they're taking pictures of this and like, this is amazing. Like, look at how much soda they can put in this container and they're going to Wendy's and Taco Bell and like taking pictures of the spread. They're talking

about their, their first 1 a.m. meal at Waffle House. I'm like, yeah, yeah, Waffle House meal. I get it,

you know, how did you get your, how did you get your, um, you know, your hash browns, really, smothered and covered, you know, did you get the Waffle combo? Did, did you get the all star? What was next? You were doing this? And, I love the fact that so many people are coming to America, particularly right now where I think a lot of people have some preconceived notions about what our country is and they're coming here with this open mind and they are embracing, embracing who we are

and what we are and, and I think that love is going back from Americans. I, I saw it in Russia, I saw it in Qatar. You know, we were a little hesitant like, what are we, what are we walking into into Russia in 2018? What is Qatar going to be like in 2022? Those two nations could not have been more hospitable. It was a summer of love. Everything was open. The, you know, the natives wanted to talk to us, the locals to learn more about us. We wanted to learn more about them. That is happening

right now in real time in the United States and, and I, and I love it. I see that the airports, I can see like, you know, the World Cup paraphernalia or a team flag. When the fact that you just know, they're, they're from another country. You hear the dialect and I go up to them and like, where are you guys from? They're like, all right, you're, you're from Ecuador. Welcome. Like, how can I help you? You're here in the Bay Area. You're here in LA. Like, come do these things. Try these

things. Go, you're in LA, go in and out. Right. Figure out what an in and out burger is because I know they're not everywhere, right? Um, I love the fact that we get to share it. I know we're talking a lot about

“a food in beverage. Yeah. Now, but that's what we're doing. That's what we're sharing. That's what we do in America.”

We do it in America. Really well. Yeah. I, I, I actually thought that the, the waffle house was perfect diplomacy. Yeah. We could have, the you inch and meet in a waffle house and everything would be fixed and be like, all right. Yeah. I get it. You guys are pretty cool. This is good food. Oh, shit. I got this food that fast. Yeah. That was awesome. And there might be a fight across the restaurant. We get to watch a little bit of a yelling, okay. That's cool. Let's make dinner. Yeah. There's the

juke. There's the juke box. Right. You can play certain music if you want. Yeah. You can, you can have that super sized sweet tea at eight in the morning. You know, your body doesn't need it, but your body needs it. Yeah. Come, I love, I love me some waffle house. I had some evenings at waffle house now. Yeah. All right, Rob, I know you got to go in a minute. I got one last question for you. It's a rowback question.

hoodies, joggers, shorts, rowback dot com promo code takes Zach. Get us going. How are you doing?

They're all I did have a quick question. Yeah. So we're just the end of a lot of stadiums here to comply with fever regulations. They're putting in the grass, right? Are we going to see those same guys maybe keep the grass or are they going to go right back to the turf? Like, do they see the knot and kind of read the room of like, oh, this is injury prone. This is bad for the players. Maybe I should respect my team and put and keep the grass. Are they going to go right back

to the owners? Yeah. Talk to the NFL owners. Other ones who're making that final decision, the upkeep in the maintenance about it. But it will be interesting. If it's a pretty injury-free tournament, I guarantee you, to your point, Zach, that a lot of those NFL stars, those studs,

“the Sake Juan Barclays, et cetera, going to be like, hey, man, why aren't we doing this here?”

Right? Like, these guys are running around hard and cutting and everything is fine. It's easy

on our body. And by the way, we are your investment, right? You're spending millions on me and my body. Why would you not want it to be at its absolute best? And why would you not want it to be protected? So I'm with you. I think grass is better for every sport out there. It will be interesting to see if there is some carryover effect. But my gut feeling tells me, as soon as that game is done at whatever state in the last one, they're pulling it out and donating it to some school, some college,

some college, some college, some college, some college. Yeah, who would want it? We could be on the roof. We'd be on the roof. We'd Zach, that was a, that was an NFL question. Do you have a soccer question? Yeah, we can do a sorry question. I would like to know, I feel like it's an important question has anybody. We're going, you're going to an all-door messy. Careful, Rob. Yeah, so I've changed. I've changed. I was in the Ronaldo book for a while, but the

last four or five years. I've kind of leaned to messy. And as much as, here, I love the showman of Ronaldo, right? I love his look. I love his, his wings, how his goal celebrations, how he does everything. I love the fact he's a showman. Messi's not a showman. He's just a quiet guy who gets

“stuff done in remarkable fashion. And I think I've grown to appreciate that. I love the fact that”

he had a team and a nation absolutely fighting for him. And how much it meant to them and how much it meant to him to win that world cup. So I now lean towards Messi. Correct. And I think he has some of those messy magic moments this summer. And I think he will. They have a tune up. They have their final game tonight. By the way, you know, we were talking college football. Did you see like they're playing, people are playing warm-up games at Texas A&M? Yeah. Playing it at Auburn University.

I love that international soccer is coming to these, you know, these SEC communities, hence the waffle house, or even, or even the huddle house. Have you guys ever been to huddle house? That's true. Huddle house, not bad. Yeah. I'm not bad. Yeah. Crystal. Have you ever been to Crystal's great? Yeah. Yeah. Like the southern white castle? Yeah. Yes. And a little more affordable, which is telling you something. Yes, people enjoy your crystal on your journey through

America. Yeah. I love the fact that Messi's played at Texas A&M and played in the SEC community. Well, you were saying we were joking. Like, let's no shot at Marcel Reed, but like, that's got to be the weirdest. Marcel Reed given him a sign jersey. It's like, what are we doing? Yeah. I'm sorry, my dog, my dog is parking. That's all right. We love dogs. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's a mean 30-pound golden retriever.

That's this person, that's my wife. The, the Marcel Reed, like, you saw Messi, like, come into the tunnel, and some guy talks. It was like, you know, like you're like,

“liberty, like, hey, man, you, uh, you need to go over here, just just smile and disguise”

into your jersey. I know I have no idea who this guy is. You're like, Marcel Reed, I'm a Heisman candidate. I'm a quarterback from Texas A&M. I don't know what any of that means. Yep. Here's the jersey smile nice, off into the pile of goes. Who wants this Marcel Reed sign jersey? I would even say, I'm glad that you came around and saw the light with Messi. First of all, I don't want to push you away. We should be acknowledging people for growing

and knitting their past mistakes. So welcome to the right side of history. Thank you. I would even say Messi number one, Maradana number two, Ronaldo number three. I don't think he's top two. Pay late. You're not even putting pay late in there? Yeah, good point. Pay late three. Only three. Yeah. For me, it's hard to bump pay late out in

number one. The problem is, you know, the further and further we get away from his legacy,

the less and less we remember about it. We're watching greeny videos and some of the stuff he didn't. And the same goes with Diego Maradone in the moments of magic that he created, particularly at the World Cup. You can't go wrong with any four of those guys. All of them I would love to have on my team. And it'll be interesting to see who joins that level, right? Like, kill eat and buffet, you know, with a magical run this summer and leading France to another

World Cup title, you're going to start putting him in that conversation. Yeah, I do have one last question about the ball. So I love the ball controversies every year. Seems like somebody has like the ability to connect with the ball that's like back in the South

What have the early returns been on the new World Cup ball? I haven't heard any. That's a good

“point. I'll have to dig into that when I get in today. I haven't heard any, but you're right in”

years past like this one is faster. This one floats more. This one's got more Ben to it. To me, it's just, it's just dudes overthinking things. Like, can you just put a ball out there? But

they're also like trying to find the needle nipple or whatever. They're always kind of lining it up

and they want to strike it. Talk to me about that. That means we'll show you where the nipples are. We just, we just ventured off the soccer highway. Yeah, Rob doesn't have to say that. Well, you might have actually went so far. It was very viral. It was a big nipple. Yeah, and they were protruding because they could that party Frank very disgusting. Yeah, let's let you the period. Rob, Rob, you're the best. We look forward to seeing you all summer long and safe travels.

Hey, hopefully we can do this again. Yes. You know, my number man. I love the chat with you guys any time we can make it happen. I'm here for you. Absolutely. Thanks so much Rob. You got to guys be good and enjoy this world cup. We'll get back to part of my take and as y'all be just coming up here in a second, but Rob Stone was brought to you by Mountain Dew. Summers coming. I can't wait to crack open some Mountain Dew. It can't borrow stool. Just no, I don't know. It's better

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It's an American original. Grab a dew tasting great since 48 Mountain Dew. And now here's Azielbys. Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very special guest. He is three-time all-star world series champion, second basement for the Atlanta Braves. The first place at Atlanta Braves. Azielbys in studio. Azie, thank you for joining us. Let's start there. You guys are the best team in baseball right now. Is there a point like how high can you get about this team and how you

guys are playing? Or is it like, hey, it's 162. We got to just keep grinding. Yeah, we like you said 162. So you got to keep grinding. We got to keep pushing every day. You know, we are up-lays right now. Number one and it's fun when you win in games. That would imagine. Oh, yes. What was it like last year? Because it feels like it's about the same group of guys and last year obviously went sideways for a lot of different reasons, but then you bring back a lot of the

same guys and now it's good like what was that like getting through that year? Yeah, going through years like that is definitely tough after being like seven times in the playoff, you know,

seven three years in the playoff. It's, you know, for being there, it's special first, you know,

and going through a year like last year was very, very tough on everybody because everybody's expecting to win. Like we go to the field, we expect to win every single day and it wasn't going our way, but we kept pushing and we had like a great finish towards the end, but it was definitely late time to, you know, get it going, but they tweak, you know, some stuff here, change some players, coaching staff, and I'm so happy that I'd be doing great right now. We talked to Matt Olson last year,

and he told us about something that you guys had in your clubhouse that you don't have anymore. Or at least you didn't have, you didn't have it last year and that might be the reason things kind of got messed up. You used to have an ice cream machine in the clubhouse and they got rid of the ice cream machine. Yeah, they got rid of it and we didn't have a good see as we push to bring it back. So is it back? No, it's not back yet. We have one here. Hopefully we get it back, though.

“You should get a ice cream here. Should I take the one here? Yes. No, you can't take it.”

But we'll give you a slide. Listen, last year, Cal Rawley came and had some ice cream right, did he hit like six home runs against the club? Well, I got it. I got to have two clubs. Yeah. Yeah. I need, I need a couple of them to take back. Wait, so you should get the ice cream machine back. Yeah. That's an important thing for team around. When they took it out away, was there not like, did you guys not have like a player's meeting being like, hey, how can they do this?

We try it. We try to bring it back. So not hard enough. Well, let's try harder this time. Yeah. We'll get it back. We'll get it back. I feel like you got to be angry about that. I don't know. I just go off on time. I'm mad about it. I'm mad about it for you. But was there any one guy who was like, hey, this is real bullshit? Yes. Okay. Who was? Yes. Well, most of the guys, not just one guy. Okay. Because for example, we have our closer, he loves ice cream. Like he will,

he will eat the whole machine. I mean, I'm telling you. He loves it. So he was asking every single day, where is the machine? Where is the machine? Like, so I'm happy we're in the talks right now to bring it back and the boys can't find again. Okay. Besides the ice cream machine, which again, I don't want to minimize the impact of the ice cream machine. But besides that, what's the biggest

person in general. Not beside his manager role. He has his just phenomenal human being and a person. You can talk, you can talk crap with him. You can have fun with him. And when his game is serious time, let's go. So to me, he's definitely a role model for a lot of people on the team. And you don't want to mess around with him because you saw what happened in that brawl too. He'll take you down immediately. You don't mess with him. Yeah. But he's definitely he sets the tone for us. And

he straighted a point like he comes to you, tell you what's going to happen. If you're going to play or not, if you're going to do this from the bench, whatever the case might be, he's just phenomenal. Yeah. All right. I got a weird question for you. So you're from Curseau. It's population of 160,000. You grow up and you are the biggest Andrew Jones fan, which makes sense because he's from Curseau. He's probably hero on the island. But then you play in major league baseball for the braves.

“Was there any part of your life where you're like, am I living in a simulation?”

Because that does feel like too perfect. I'm going to be fully honest with you. I never thought

because once I was coming up through my living in Curseau and I did some tryouts and most outs were like, you do small. I don't think you ever make it. This isn't that we don't trust in the small guys. They want to talk guys. So I'm glad and happy that I proved them wrong. Yeah, definitely that. But then I remember from my birthday, my birthday, my dad so priced me with Andrew Jones. That was right when after he hit the two home runs in the playoff. Okay. Yankees, something like that.

I mean, it was one of the best things of my life and to play in the big leagues and play WBC when he was managing me was like literally a video game. Yeah. The type of like, is this really happening? Yeah. So to me, it's like you're living the dream every single day,

“till you sit down and it comes to your mind like, hey, they just happen to be like, this is the coolest thing”

ever. A ten time gold glove, Hall of Fame guy managing you and it from that small island. Yeah,

from the small island. Yeah, definitely living the dream that he had always. Was there a moment

when you were coming up where Andrew Jones is like, hey, I actually think you can do this. Yeah. What when was that? It was in double a triple. He actually came down to the field before a game and we said down and talk for like a good 30 minutes in an hour and I'm like, I'm literally seeing one of my role models. Yeah. I faced telling me that I can make this reality and all I got to do is keep going and keep pushing. Yeah. It became reality. It became reality. The dreams

did come through. Yes. For an island of 160,000 people is everyone in your neighbor? Can you say like Andrew Jones is your neighbor? Like I can't imagine he grew up much further away from you, right? Like ten minutes. Yeah. Because everything's probably ten minutes. Everything is close. Everybody calls each other, cousin and family. Okay. So that's all right. So your cousin was Andrew Jones. It's basically you, right? Yeah. Who else is on the the Kursha Baseball team? On the WBC? Yeah. It was

me, Didi Gregorius, Raphaella with Boston, Kenny Johnson with Detroit. We had pro first brother and and a couple more trump. He was with me early this season. And let's see. That's who else. That seems like it. I don't know. Andrew Jones song. Oh, okay. He's a big

prospect. He's a top prospect. Did you play at Williams Porter? No. I never played Williams. Because

I feel like Kursha was usually in it, right? Kursha is always in it. Yeah. Like they they always represent our our island with a good team at Williamsport. But I was the team that she arranged me pro for a two or some pro for a broader beat in Kursha. So they went and I stayed in Kursha that I lost I lost the final game in Kursha to make it the team. Oh, that's brutal. Why do you think

“what do you think it is that Kursha has such like outstanding representation in Major League Baseball?”

Like a lot of talent, a lot of baseball talent comes from a very small country. I think it's because like you said small island small country and we focus on baseball a lot. Like the I think it's a number one sport on the island. Most people laugh soccer also. But when you have the baseball like crazy guys that wants to make it wants to be an energy Jones wants to be a canny chance in the game. Me as as well. Rafael are like they push for that. Like they just focus on that. They stop going to school.

They're like tell their parents, I just want to focus on baseball. I want to be a big leagueer. And I think they they just push to the limits and see how good they can be to when they sign free agents because from Kursha you've got to sign free agency. It's not like you come here and go to college scholarship and all that stuff. Yeah. We have to talk about your fish for a little bit if that's okay. Oh, of course. So you're a big fish guy. Maybe the biggest fish guy in baseball.

500 fish is right now. Holy shit. 500 fish. How do you keep them alive? Because we

used to have a goldfish, a gambling goldfish. Actually, we had a multiple. The first one we

died in less than a week and people were like, I've been there. Okay. All right. So it's because we got a lot of shame for that. It's normal. Okay. Normal, but obviously they feel afelt sorry. Yeah. Because I should have done my research a little better. Yeah. But we all start at some point at some somewhere. Yeah. So our second one, we stayed alive for like five months and we put them into a Las Vegas gambling contest. He actually finished like 50 it. Like against other humans.

All the perpetual gambling. Yeah. He picked five and it felt games a week and he went like 54% against the spread, which is pretty insane. Yeah, it's really good. Yeah, it's special fish. He also died and then we buried him at the pro football hallfam. His grave was robbed. That's a different

“story. But yeah, so you have to like 500 fish. A lot of fish is at the house that has been there for”

five years. And they don't stop growing. Like they growing growing growing. Yeah. Um, it takes a

little bit of definitely the hobby is not for for people that are like, I'm gonna do it tomorrow. Like if you have a schedule, you gotta bestow on the schedule because the fish you haven't on a routine now. Like if every Sunday you do a water change, that means I know it's a fish, but it's expecting to get his water quality back to where every Sunday he knows, hey, that is fresh water coming in. I'm gonna feel better. Yeah. It's literally like a human. Yeah.

Yeah. So it's like feeding your body the good food, the the special water and all that stuff so you can keep going. So to take care of all of them, I have to do water change on my smaller things because the smaller things, the water gets polluted faster. Obviously because it's a small volume of water. So every week I do 30%. So either every Saturday or either every Sunday.

“Yeah. Yes. Do you know all your fish? 100%. You know all 500. Oh, like if I if I posted”

if I just showed you a picture, but like, oh, yeah, that's my fish. Yeah, 100%. I don't believe you. 100% if you name. Did you name all 500? No, I can't do that. I don't even have names. A couple of them. I'll say about 10 of them has names. They have to do some really special to get notice you get in there. Yeah. And it was some of them that were adopted that local adopted that the people that had it used to named used to call them under name already. So I kept it.

So just in case, I talked on the channel and they realized that's their fish. So for example, I have mango to coifish. They got adopted from a local coi place. I go to and I still name it mango because it's just special how I, you know, was able to, you know, rescue that fish for that particular fan that I have. Are they all salt water or all fresh water? Do you salt water? All fresh water and then one of them is brackish water with African cyclists. Okay. And you do the maintenance yourself?

Oh, 100%. Yeah. You don't have any, but like, someone has to help. So when I'm out of town, I have my wife's mother, modern law thinks care. Okay. That's giving me sharks. I do have fresh water

“sharks. Okay. Yeah. Not salt water. I think that's what the next chapter. Right? Yeah. I like that”

you, your hands on though. It's like you have a relationship with all these fish. I'm going to be honest with you. The hands on is actually fun because it gets me something to do beside, you know, play based after playing baseball. I'm home. I'm doing some stuff. I have to do oxygen running all around. They wash the fishes. When I go feed, they want some food of the fish. It's stuff like this. That's one. Yeah. I have fun with it. All right. Is that one your fish? No. I don't know.

Right. Do we got that? Yeah. You look good. All right. He knows his fish. He's pulled up a random

clown fish. No. You have clown fish? Yeah. I know about it, but I never own one yet. Why?

I should, right? Is there, is there a fish that, I mean, it's like a movie dig? Is there a white whale fish that you're looking for? I'm actually looking for a fresh water air pima. If you can pull that one up, you'll see how big they get. And they are a true monster Amazonian fish. A fresh water. What is it called? Arapima. Okay. I actually saw a one yesterday at the Shadakwan him. Okay. Is it there? And he looks like it's 12 feet long. Did you go by the stingray? I did

touch the stingray. He's we have a lot. How many? I don't know how many or in the tank, but I touched about 34. Okay. I have the record no big deal. I have the record. Yeah. Oh nice. Yeah. I got the record. I broke it like probably about 15 years ago. How many? I bet like I, it was like 40. Oh my gosh. Dominating. Just walking around and it's no more. The sturgeon too. I didn't pet the sturgeon. Okay. I listen. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a traditionalist. I just keep it to the stingray.

Okay. So when else could have the sturgeon record. Yeah. I'm not sure. Oh, so that's a, that's a gnarly fish. Yeah. Holy fish. We fished it actually in spring training this year. They have a

where four of us was holding the whole fish and there is still more room that tells you how like big.

I mean, I mean, it was bigger than this guy. Holy shit. If you have a fish that, that if you, if you win another world series where you get like, we treat yourself to a nice fish. That one, you might be that one. Yeah. I mean, how do you get that one? Is it hard? Like can you just call and get it? I think you got to get like where I live. We got to get permission for this county. And then make sure the spaces enough because they get really, really big. Yeah. I'm not kidding.

Yeah. They are monsters. So what got you into this? I guess I guess growing up in an island probably helps growing up in an island three to five minutes from the water to you go, you go fishing most of the time, most of the weekends. And funny enough, my grandfather used to own

coifishes. And I always help him like feed the water change, maintenance, change the palm,

“do taste do that, scrub the algae that grows over time. And that's how I got into it. And”

I always had a goldfish. I started with a goldfish. Okay. And how was the gambling? No, I didn't do anything. We just add them as a, we had them as a pat and like 30, 50 cents for it at a pat's mark. And happened to live eight years. All right. That's pretty good. Yeah. We call them gold the Fredo. And we started my whole fish hobbyist. I'm not kidding. He was the original. He was original. We buried him in the backyard, put a whole rock with this name, everything on it. You

got your hook. Wait, wait. That's a fish show. Wait a show. All right. What about this? These are your cores. One second. We got a picture. A couple of cores. Those are your cores, right? I do have the same.

I do have the same core, but those are not mine. I do have the same pattern though. Yeah.

So, when you go on the road, do you go to every aquarium? I tried to visit all of the aquariums in each city. Yes, I did the Arizona, the Philly one. Obviously, she had the

“aquarium yesterday. We tried to go to the one. I think it was in Boston, but we didn't have time.”

So next time I'll go to that one too. Baltimore's got a good one too. I heard. Baltimore's got a really good aquarium. It's a very cool design there too. I don't remember the sketch if I'm going there this year, but if I do go, I'm definitely going to see it. What's the best one that you've been to? The best one so far. Obviously, Georgia aquarium, one of the biggest here. I'll say number three right now. My three favorite ones are Chattanooga. Okay. Okay. So, like big because of fresh water too.

So, I'll say Chattanooga, the Chattacornium. Oh, the one I have to record at. Yeah. Okay. On a percent, like I saw their pie, my red. I only like about eight red till Chattacornium. So, I saw the red till yesterday, I'm like, oh man, I can't wait for mine to get like that too. Did you? How smell? No, I don't believe you. On a percent. Like there's that's like someone who has like multiple cats and you walk in. You'll see. You'll see. It doesn't smell at all like fish or an aquarium,

“overflow traded tanks, flush the plums every week. And that's I think that's what does the”

the part of not spelling. And it's closed. So, it's nothing coming out. Okay. Yes. Do your fish love you? I think they do. I feed them very well. Yeah. Like you walk by and they come swimming immediately. Immediately. Yes. They want me to like put my hand and they try to like bite my finger all the time. And your dogs, they love your dogs too. The same way. How many dogs you have now? We have seven at the house and one rat. You have a zoo. I'm a small zoo. You know. We have

seven dogs and we foster one at the moment. Oh, that's all. And they get along well the fish too. Yeah. Like the fish like them and they like. So when they go inside the room and they wiggle in their tail the fish is thinking it's like a like a bait. So they're trying to like grab their tail through the glass. I don't like you can't like relax and I just give them some food like some treats so they can feel better. Do you ever go swimming with the fish? Yes. You did. I saw a video

of you swimming with your coi and the monster fish is through the rat tails. I go in there. You jump right in. All right. Right in it. They're like playing with my snorkel stuff on and go right in it. Do the fish know when you're in a slump? I don't know about that. Okay. Hopefully they don't know because we don't want to know. Yeah. Do you have a slump mustard? Do you have something to get you out of a slump? Oh, not really. I just, you know, keep pushing, keep going hard and you know, sometimes you

just do less. Yeah. Sometimes people start doing more and more but I think it's just you take your mind away from it and just keep playing because the game is more about, you know, all around. You still got to do good based running. Still got a good defense also. That wins your games. So sometimes those moments present but you got to take your your head away from it. Yeah. What's who's the hardest picture you've ever faced? I'll say the tough, one of the toughest pictures in the

game that I face as a starter is the Jacob de Grom. Yeah. We've heard that before. Oh my God. He,

good days where I took the same pitch and I had a base it like score around like stuff like that helped the team win and you know, those are great stuff when you do it, it can somebody like him. He's super, super good but there's definitely pictures out there that they very tough. Yeah, does it ever annoy you guys in the clubhouse that that fat fuck blooper pretends that he's part of the team? Because he does and he's like bro thinks he's on the team. Well, it doesn't

annoy me. Okay. But definitely some other people. Okay. There we go. I will say names. Some people, you know, not everybody likes everything that happens. Right. You heard comments here and there, but I'm like, oh, I'll keep going this way. Yep. I wouldn't be shocked if he's trying to take it bats in the middle of the season. You imagine that? Yeah. You know, I can't just say ego, maniac like that. It's crazy. Try to make it all about himself. It's fun. Do you have a favorite

unwritten rule of baseball? And one that you, do you have a unwritten rule that you're like,

I actually believe this. Don't do this. I'll say I always make sure I don't step on a white

line on the field. Okay. I liked that one. I heard that before when I was like coming up in the league and all that stuff, they're like, hey, you respect the the white line. You don't, don't ever go over it. So I'm really like, when I'm crossing to go take defense or even go like just practice, I make sure I go over it. Have you ever messed up? No. No, hopefully I don't. Never stepped on line. I mean, playing like running down the line, probably. Yeah. That's, you know,

“in the game, because you're just going. Yeah. But I make sure every time I think the field,”

I promise you, you see pictures do it too. Yeah. Yeah. I go. I make sure I jump it. That would be really funny if you tried to avoid the white line while running. Oh. Yeah. That, I mean, I'll probably have to be run on the grass. Yeah. You're in the field. Yeah. That's like a pop up. Exactly. I can't touch that line. Yeah. That's different. You know, like I'm looking at the pop up and you're going like, falter or to worry. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Take in the field.

I'll always try to avoid it. Are there, are there any rules that you have on the team for,

who is and who is not allowed to challenge pitches? I don't think we have a rule on that one, because I want, I want the team guys to be aggressive. Especially, like, I'm not as aggressive with like, odd guys. Like, when it comes to, if there is no situational moment, let's say the game is 0-0, bottom third. I mean, if it's really close and I'm like guessing, I won't challenge that. You know, but if it's a guy on third, less than two outs or even with two outs and you can be

three one instead of two two, for example, like, I'll rather you take a shot and be wrong. Yeah. Don't take a shot and then you see it on the iPad. You're like, oh, I should have challenged that. So, you know, because we had Francisco Lindoron here and he said he'll never

“challenge because he's so, he's so bad at it. I think everything is about two. Okay. Like,”

don't get me wrong and from defense, I think everything is a strike. I'm like, there's with a country like, let's go. Ask for it. Then it was like three inches off the blade. Yeah. So, what, what's your record on challenges? I think I'm pretty good right now, actually. I think I want, I say two out of six, but that's not that good. Two out of four. As you, I'm not good. I mean, you go three, you go three, four, ten and you had in three hundred, right?

Yeah. I know. Yeah. So, baseball trick, but still like, you got, I don't know how much to be honest with you. I don't know how much I challenge before, but they have challenged against me a lot. Yeah. Because I don't, like I said, I don't ask for it consistently, but I think I want two challenges this year from the four or five, I challenge or three. You've got, I think

when I'm reading right now, you might have the most important challenge in the history baseball.

“Yes. I had one in Arizona. I remember that one. Yeah. So, you extended the inning.”

Yeah. We walked in a run and then you scored eight runs that in it. Yeah. And it led to a 17 or two blowout. Oh, yeah. Okay. That's the biggest challenge. I remember that one was really, like, not so crazy off the plate, but I saw it like high and far. So I was like, no, no, let's go. This is what I'm going to walk. I walked the first immediately without even looking. Can I give you a tip, though? Because it's going to be like, you know, the challenge just

and I love it. I think it's great for the game because they figured out a way to do it so fast, even when you're at the stadium. You're just like, wow, that was quite amazing for the game. But here's what you got to do. Because I doubt anyone does this yet. You need to start going up the dumps before the game and be like, hey, I don't respect for you. I won't be challenging. Be like, I trust everything you say. Then they're going to start giving you a some extra, you know,

like, balls here and there. Yeah. Just look, just be like, hey, man, I respect you so much. I'm not trying to show you up. I just want you to know that I'm not going to challenge. And I was wrong. I think a week ago, and I challenged. I was like, it was like, bite in the line like this much. And I went in and I was like, hey, my bad. I think my eyes are not telling me what it is today.

Okay. There we go. Cool. Done. That's good. But I'm cool. I'm cool with him. Yeah. Like, we talk,

“be a fun. And, you know, it's 162 games. You got to have fun. Yeah. Have you been kick out of a game before?”

No, not never yet. Oh, you got it. Hopefully, you got it. Hopefully, I keep it going.

As you people are saying, you're soft for never getting kicked out of a game. Not soft. I just respect their job. I'm going to be real on that one. I respect, uh, I won't, I don't want to curse them. I'll pick on TV. You see my mouth going crazy on that. I mean, they have a family to have tough kids. So, I don't want them to go home and say, hey, dad, as he was saying, this isn't as on you. You know, like, I keep it respectfully.

Yeah. But, um, yeah, never been throwing out yet. What about, uh, hopefully doesn't happen tonight. Yeah. You're playing second base, uh, batter charges to mount what you're moved. Because you're one of the first lines of defense. So, that happened this year for the first time in my career where I actually saw a punch just being thrown like life. And what were you doing? And so, I was, the play happened.

It was a throw to second base, I take the guy. So, I have the ball. Like, I'm like, where do I throw it? Do I throw it out? Do I throw it to the picture? To it out. Turn my back, go and back to my position and happen. So, I wasn't even paying attention. Then I saw, I was like, oh, crap. I got to go. And then by the time I said, I got to go, I saw already punches being thrown. So, I just walking there and then if you, you see the video, actually,

I went to the slayer. And, uh, I don't know, hey, that's not you. And he's obviously like six feet four. I'm five seven. So, it's like, a little guy trying to stop the guy. Yeah. Yeah, you get, I mean, you can just go for the legs though. You know, you've got to go for the

“legs so you can come down. That's the only way, or the only chance I got, take what he kicks you.”

Yeah, no, or a hurray slayer saw. He's a monster. I will never be in a fight with him.

Yeah, even though, I've talked a lot of trash to him when he was with us, having fun and choking, but I don't think I will ever be in a fight with him. How much did he hate playing in the cold? He does hate the cold. I mean, I'm one of them too. I hate the cold. Okay, because he was on the cubs. I just remember when it was like early season, like, we can't really expect a much from Jorge here because he looks like he wants to be anywhere else.

So, you hate the cold as well. I'm the same way, but once I get in game mode, like game mentality, so I throw some Vaseline on the body, abling whatever the game is about a little moist. And, you know, you just go play. Yeah, you got to go play. I mean, yeah, I got to be on the offense. I got to hit some heat warm, heat warmers here, like for the hand hand warmers and stuff. Just go at it. Yeah. I have a question here from BigT. You met BigT outside earlier.

He's a massive brave fan. Get married this weekend. He asked me to ask you this question. So, again, not for me. This is from him. He said, is it more fun when the meds are total garbage

“all season or watching them suffer at the very end and choking it away? Which is more fun for you?”

Oh, all right, I'll say this. It's more fun for when we, you know, clinch the division and they have to go fight for it. To be like, so like we said, late in the season when they choking for their life, I'll say that. Because there are biggest, rapidly, I think, beside the fillies. So, yeah, we definitely want to do great against them. So, definitely the late season. Yeah. We heard a, we heard a rumor from somebody on the

Braves and it was that when the meds had their most recent epic collapse at the end of the season, that the team would gather around and watch our colleague Frank Detank melt down whenever you guys would win and the meds would lose. Do you remember watching that? I heard about it. Yeah.

I never watched about it. I heard about it. He would always just say like the Braves never lose.

And it's true, when the Braves are good, they never lose. Yeah, when we good, I would be honest. We play really good baseball and it's just fun. Like I said, early. It's fun when you're winning and you want to keep doing that every single day. Yeah. Kind of a sad season for the Braves with Bobby Cox passed on the way. And I didn't know if you had a relationship with him with that was like the guy was a legend. Maybe, you know, what he has to be in the discussion with the best manager

both. 100% know doubt about that. Yeah. And I did have a relationship with him. Even when he started getting sick and thought of us, I was sad watching him come to the club. I was on a wheel chair, still knew my name. Still sad Aussie and everything because he was kind of like, you know, losing it slowly. And I do remember we have a group picture with him in the club, as one of the special, like one of special moments we had because, you know, you see one of the

best managers in the game suffering and it kind of melts your heart a little bit. Yeah, just in all time guy for what those Braves teams of the 90s were able to accomplish for so long. Like he deserves so much credit because not only yes, he had a great team and maybe one of the best pitching staffs of all time. But people don't realize that he put that team together. On the other hand, all the rules he actually bring to the team. Like I remember when I got to

the team, there were rules he created since the 90s. Like we used to wear only black leads, black turtles for practice socks. You have to do pants up, everything talked in all the time,

up since the 90s. Yeah. It's still carrying until today. We still don't do it. If you watch anybody on the team and even when there's a new guy that come in, we like make sure we

tell hey put it on the back. Like watch any day game when we have glasses on, it's always either on

or on the back. You never realize that that's very cool. Those are rules that we still just keep following because he's one of the biggest guys that put this team together. How how the hell do you switch it? That's the craziest thing ever. I really don't understand it. I don't you guys you could switch it. It blows my mind. Yeah, it's definitely tough and I started late. I started when I was 15. No way. Yeah. So you just never bat lefty when you're, until you're 15. Oh no, only when I was

“15, I remember doing a try out with the Braves. When I was 15 with a metal bat, they wanted to see”

what I can do and you know, they saw I can hit. I can swing on the right side. I could have speed and all that stuff and they were like hey, we want you to be a switch hitter, especially on the left side, put the ball in play and run. So I did that through my minors minor career and then about double later and like hey, we need to start elevating the ball now and I'm happy I worked out. That's crazy. So you because like I just assumed most switch hitters, they just grew up doing it the whole time

and it was just natural. They were almost any dexterous. You just like a kind of late part of your development had to just start doing how bad was it to start. Oh terrible. I couldn't hit the ball of the tee. I was hit in rubber more than I hit the baseball. That's insanely impressive. Yeah, yeah, I was hitting the rubber, break the rubber, split it into definitely hard and then you know, you slowly like instead of doing too much, you slowly

slows down the process and start focusing on what to do and I had a guide to always

was there with me helping me be better. So they haven't been put in the work, start swinging in from the left side way more than the right side till like our better and then I'm so happy to work out. Yeah. Have you ever thought about messing with another pitcher and let's just say they have a left hand in pitcher and going up to play and be like, you know, I'm going to bat lefty again. I actually did a riding on ridey. Did you? Yes, I did it in 2021. I guess there was a

pitcher called last name Harper. I'm I'm not sure if it's rain Harper or rain Harper the way you say it and I want to ride on ride and to condemn. So that was like a special moment because I normally go ride on a position player like if it's a blow up game. But I did it that day in the game and they were like, they don't know what to do now. So yeah, I'm so happy I actually hit hit a bomb and helped the team win and it was fantastic. That's awesome. So what was the

reason why you decided to do that? Because he threw a lot of breaking balls and I'm definitely more confident on the right side and I was like, I can I can take a pitch and actually do a little adjustment I need to do to have a better, you know, better F bath and I'm happy and I'm being the two run home run to help us win. So it was fun. Can you? I think you're allowed to switch

sides, but if you're talking about doing that, I never did it, but that would be probably some

“that can be pretty cool. Yeah, why not? Can I have to do it? Yeah, you should do it. Please do.”

Well, try to do that. Yeah, let's do it. Also, we ask every baseball guest that comes on maybe next game, if you get walked, can you sprint to first base for us? Okay, respect 90. All right, let's do it. Yeah, just like hard sprint. Okay, I'll do it. We like do it for you. Really, respect 90. Hopefully that happened to mine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that really respect 94. When you hit a home run, how fast have you have you like compared how fast you get

around the bases to your teammates? I do have gone fast before. Yeah, because it was like it barely made it out. So I was running faster, I was like, mine as well. Keep going. Yeah, that's what you're going. Yeah, I remember David Ortiz. He used to sometimes just like walk around walk. He does walk it, but I mean, Big Bob, he lagging through. So he deserved it. Yeah. All right, I got a baseball like fundamental question, because we have a slow pitch softball league. We're actually in the playoffs,

no big deal. And we sometimes make errors all of us, the entire team. Yeah. Do you ever find yourself? Have you ever in a big league game thrown behind the runners and been like shit, that was stupid? Behind the runner? Yeah, like if there's like a guy on say first and third and it's like you're trying to get the guy out at first, but then the guy at third can just go home because you threw behind the runner? Probably. I don't remember, though. All right, probably. You yelled out for that. No,

you just felt like they asked you like, what was that? Yeah, okay. I was like, I thought I can get him. I did that one time. I was catcher. And I threw the first base. That was the guy on third. Yeah, but I got aggressive and it happened. They're challenging with a big secondary lead and they weren't

“respecting my arms, so I had to try to force you. You have to. You have to. We do it like once again.”

But it's only deal. Yeah, we just just try to play. Is that that fun? Yeah. How do you feel about bat flips? I love it. Good. I feel like if a bishop leaves you a ball that you're not supposed to

Just don't get mad when you strike out, though. Yeah, and then show you up. Yeah, what about if you have somebody like a teammate that bat flips maybe a little bit too high. Maybe. Yeah, I might get real next up. Yeah, they like what man can you just maybe not do that right? Yeah, especially if you went in by a lot. Yeah, thank you respect the game. Yeah, what about when do you stop stealing? Six runs up. Five runs up. Yeah, late in the game. Okay. Yeah, not early late in the game.

Would you ever want to break up a no hitter? No, I think that's a really shady way to like break a no hitter. I feel like if you went six inning and you didn't try before that. Yeah, like even fit

“inning and you didn't try to get ahead before those five trainings went by, I think you should”

keep swinging the bat and just get it. The like earned the hit. Yeah, you know, like don't don't lay down a bound to her basement and explain back like there's no need for that. Play the game. What about a combined no hitters? Those count, right? Of course. Yeah, I agree. I mean, I agree on that 100%. It's a hard game, man. Yeah. Like it's hard to throw strikes consistently. It's hard to hit the ball. It's a round bad, round baseball. And if you did a combined no hitter, they both the cap. You guys earned it.

Yeah. What about either? Is there any times that you're you noticed yourself? You're like swinging too hard? We're like, hey, I got to I got to loosen this up a little bit. I got to I got to have a little more finesse at the plate. Yeah, happens. It happens here and there where you're trying to hit the ball five on a

feet. Yeah, and you will never hit it five on the right. Right. Right. You know, there is probably like what four

guys in the whole 200 years I'll baseball that went that far. Yeah. Um, that you like hey, slow it down. The last you do sometimes is even better. I grew it back to playing a couple years back through a little bit of like pain on my shoulder. And I was not taking hard swings and I had one of the best years of my career. Oh, wow. Like crazy fact, but yeah, happened and then after that I did surgery and all that, but I was like, wow, I actually happened. Yeah. If a coach told you like, hey, we

noticed that you're swinging too hard. What would your response to that coach be? I agree. Yeah, because you see me trying to do too much. Right. And it's great that he's actually, you know, he trust me to come to me and tell me, hey, see you over swinging like so down a little bit. Right. And, you know, what about what they said once in a career was like one of the worst hitters on the team. That's not worse hitters on the team. That it's my OBP. I like to say. Yeah. I like my OBP.

Worst hitters on the team is crazy. That's not crazy. Not one of the best. The guy who is on the base two out of like, you were going to, he's like, you have it on the wall and on the team, like, for three or four years, a guy comes in. He's like, you're six hitter and it comes up to you. You have you're hitting like 800 on the year. You have one bad game and it's like, oh, you're going to wait too long. Hold on. No. I didn't say, oh, you're swinging. I said,

hey, just, you know, that's not what he said. Not that's not a friend of friend dude. Max, we're a little easier. You're hitting 800 on the year. Yeah, 800. At that time, he also, I would love to go through my stats. This is so I've been on this. I've been on

base. Basically, every single thing. Great. Oh my god. Max, in this circumstance,

we were talking about a coach saying it. Yeah, the thing is, he's not a coach. Right. What about a friend? You'd hear from a friend. I heard from outside of the base. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And sometimes, not that I took it immediately. Like, hey, you didn't know what you're saying. Yeah. I was like, kind of like, wasn't the back of my mind. Like, when I get to the

“feel that I'm actually going to look at that. Okay. So that's good. So that's what you see”

your friend, your mom, your partner, whoever it is, they see you from the TV, from a different angle. Like, hey, I saw your actual, like, your lag is turning more than a normally turn. For example, like, you rotate it more. Your swing is going, your fat is going underneath the ball more

than it used to be directed about like, they can see that. Yeah. Always being so people that want

you every day. They can see that. Yeah. You play in the game. You worry about so many other stuff. You don't even realize you're doing it. Right. Until it become a habit. And now like, you set early, you like, over whatever. Yeah. And you're like, oh, down. Actually, it is doing that. Yeah. You fix it. Boom. You write back on track. Right. So sometimes it does help. Yeah. Good. Sure or not. It's a good friend. It's a good. Whatever. Yeah. You'd say that person is a good friend.

Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm actually good. Some people think you've taken on them, but no, I'm not paying you good friend. You can take everything. Is there a difference between like a bad first-based coach and a good first-based coach? Because to me, that seems like my God's job in the world. The best chop in the world. Like, we have on tour, in terms of the team. One of the best coaches I

“have. And he's always prepared. Like, always prepared. I remember there was a ball. I”

finesse it to like, left field. It was a lazy fly ball. Whatever. He come back to me. I give him my helmet. We chill in. You go, say, what are you actually swing the bat? Like, I looked at him. I go,

Hit a homer next at bat. Like, he's like, yeah, you're aggressive. Like, you're aggressive.

And you didn't have that on that particular bat. And then boom, I hit a homer. I'm like, bro, thank you. Yeah. Okay. That's the way it needs to be. Like, you're not picking on me. You're just telling the, hey, I saw this and go get better at it. Yeah. I love that. Yeah. All right. So you have your foundation. The Ozzy Albeys Foundation. Your focus on dog and animal rescue. That's awesome. We love dogs here. So what, what do you got? What kind of work you guys doing? So we rescue dogs from, you know,

“shelters and stuff that, you know, we can, I truly believe we can give them a not a chance in life,”

because sometimes dogs can be, you know, not fitting their family that is there. And they take it to the shelter. They don't want to know more. So we definitely believe in the, the best chance program we have. And we rescue the dogs, train them, give them a new home, give them a new family. I truly believe in giving them a lot of chance and help. And we rescue over 100 dogs just in one year and rehome them and it was one of the best things we could have done. We actually,

a matter of fact, we just rescue a dog last Saturday, like, three days ago. And they say he was, like, you know, biting and stuff like that. He's aggressive and then we picked them up, one of the sweetest dogs, dogs we have very like hat from the shelter. It was all not it. I'll be giving them about, that was running the house. Yeah, enjoying, we made like a little fasting. He jumps the fancy go play with my own dogs. Yeah. So it's like the best fun thing you can do because I love

we love animals. That's awesome. I mean, yeah, it is, there is like a stigma with with rescue dogs where it's like, oh, something's wrong with them or, you know, they gone through trauma. Yeah,

“I think they're not wrong with them. Yeah, it's more like humans that didn't want to talk or”

puppy anymore and they mistreat them. Right. Because the minute I raised my hand and the dog went like this, I was like, oh, he probably got hit before something like that. So then we rubbed on the belly and he feels comfortable and and and trust trust water again and boom, the dog is a different animal. Yeah, my, my different type of dog completely in one day. Right. My dog said, yeah, I remember when I first rescued her, she was like, loud noises like dropping your keys or like everything is door

everything was scary. I think I mistreated it before 100%. Yeah. That's awesome. I love that. We love to do it. Hopefully we can do a 100, 200 more this year because that's the goal. We tried to keep rehoming dogs and make it a better chance for them because, you know, I think the problem is not

the puppy, the problem is what we do towards the puppies. And the thing that I always say because

I was telling you before the still blue coffee where we, we were trying to get a thousand dogs adopted this year through it. That's a pretty drink. But the big thing is people want to get a dog and they don't realize how many dogs need a home. So they go to a breeder but it's like, there's so many dogs ready to be ready to be right, you know, put in new family home and gift them a chance because they deserve it. Yeah. Like I said, I don't think the problem is the dog.

“I think the problem is the humans that mistreated the dog. So I think I will never go to a breeder.”

I think it's just go to the shelters and adopt is a better way to do it. I agree. I used to work for a a dog adoption place way back in the day and the most common thing was like me and my co-workers saying, oh, I'll foster this dog and then that dog just becomes like part of your life. And you're like, well, I guess I got another dog. We did it. How many of those? How many of the dogs that you have right now? We're a fosters that it's like I really like this dog. So definitely

max max was one we found and my wife come to me and she's like, hey, this dog, the family doesn't want to know more. He's getting a bad right now. I'm going to keep it in the house and maybe re-home him. One day later he chewed my car bumper. I kind of like expected one of us. Hey, yeah, you don't do that. No, don't hit him. Just talk to him, teach him. But I wasn't like mistreated him. I was just like, hey, don't do that. And like, they're going to talk to him. And after that, now I love to

play with him everyday. We have a story man. He's the biggest fash player played dog that I have at the house. So the troll base ball about 30 times a day and he still wants more. It's back to big boy or something. He's like a hundred pounds. He's a golden dude. I love that. And now I'm like, he's my best friend. He stands up and he's saying my shoulder like that. He's tall. So love them. We do everything for him. Every time we finish a game, I get home, I'm like,

hey, let's go outside. Yeah. You just go in the back. Every time you foster a dog, you're like,

there's like a 50% chance that this dog is just never going around. We have fostering one right now.

And I love him a lot. And I know I already have seven, but he's having dogs a lot. I think it's not going to be that much. Yeah, no. I think once you get past like three, you just kind of, you just have a farm. Yeah. Literally have a farm. And he's like literally eight and bounce. Okay. So we're funny. And I mean, I love him. Like the way he just went right away and play with our main dog,

Exactly. That's what we're talking about. Exactly. That's what we're talking about. Yeah. He doesn't

“care. He, he chased max right by the max. And athlete. Yeah. And he played with him. And I was like,”

oh, this dog is lovable. Like, I already want to take him inside the house. Yeah. You know, who do you let your dog sleep in the bed? Because that would be a problem. That's seven dogs. I mean, I let my dog's bed. Tough question, but yeah. We try to, you know, train them to not sleep in bed. But we have two of them that sleeps with us every night. Oh, those dogs sick. They run everything. They can sleep in the bed. Yes. And now I can't even hug her a night. He just took you one.

Me, yeah, he wants me to hug him. Yeah. And cuddle with him. So I'm like, too. Like, give me a chance. He's like, nope. I'm a little more, more, more, more. I'm in the middle. I'm the, I'm the, I'm the guy. My dog's 30 pounds. Like, small dog. But she somehow finds a way to sleep diagonally. Yes. And like, take up the most amount of space. Yes. And all the time. Yes. All the time. Yeah. At all time. 24/7, man. As soon as I lay in bed, he's right here. Yeah. And then it throws his head back like this.

“Oh, that's awesome. I love it. You must get the best greetings when you get back from the long road trip.”

Yeah. Like, like, seven dogs at once. Eight dogs at once. Just a single run errands. And we come back. It's like, I've been gone for a month. Yeah. Yeah. Like, running up to me. Jump, jump, jump. They want to be babe. Like, in my hands like a baby. That's one of our seven. Are the fish happy to see you after the long trip? Yes. Definitely. They'd read to be honest, man. People don't think this, but they do realize when you don't like, you're their owner. Yeah. I walk in and they're like, oh, you're here. I want food. I know what you're going to do. I know

there's I know that. It's it's facts. Yeah. If you do a video where you get back to your next road trip being like, I return home to my fish after the long road trip. Just watch how I do that. I show it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You'll see. You'll see them come up the tank right away. Like, I know you're going to feed me. Yeah. Give me my food. That's awesome. It's awesome. It's awesome. All right. That's thing ever. Well, obviously, this has been so much fun. I've won last question, row back question,

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Hoodie's jogger shorts, row back dot com, promo code take Zach. You got a question. Zach's out of big baseball fan, but he's trying to get into the game. All right. How are we today, sir? I do a quick question with this being a 10 year 10 year in the majors. Are you excited to get your goal card? Oh, and if not, if you be willing to work out like a joint custody situation with us. Mm. All right. Fun fact. I got to say this. So I know it used to be 10 year, right?

The gold card, by the way, for people who don't know, it's it's a certain amount of time played in major league baseball. They give you a gold card. It gets you two tickets to any game at any time and in a major league baseball stadium. So I do have the gold card already. Oh, they bumped it down to eight years. So now you have eight or eight full service years in the show. You get the gold card. Okay. That's a two ticket suit. Whatever game you want to attend, and it's a lifetime card.

Yeah. Are you going to use it? You think? 100%. Okay. Yeah. When I'm down playing, I think, you know,

“like a playoff game. Yeah. That is the best thing ever. Yeah. I attended the 2024 World Series”

Yankees Dodgers, and I was doing the questions on the side after games. I was one of the most fun moments that I had. Obviously, I want to be playing. Yeah. But we got out of it quick, early, and I had the chance to do that. It was, I mean, the energy of the game. And in LA,

it's, you know, how crazy it gets. Right. Crazy. So it was good. To Zach's second part of his question,

would you consider maybe letting him hold it for a little bit? Because you're playing. I don't have it with me right now. All right. But like, maybe send it to us. And he can just hold it for like, I'll tell you a copy. Yeah. Yeah. I have it already. It's actually a cool card. I don't have a picture. You're going to have to prove it by giving it to Zach. I haven't seen it in per se eight years now. Yeah. Somebody should try to just copy those. Yeah. I think it's the

game. I think I played a year's Dodgers. Yeah. We'll just do a proof of life. And then we'll send it right back. All right. Yeah. Let's see his whole first second. And we'll get it back. It made 14 day shipping. We do two weeks and then right back. It would be funny if we did a video of Zach trying to go into the family. You got him saying he's Aussie all these. He's been like, hey, I'm Aussie. What's up, guys? One of my two free tickets. It's a cool thing to achieve,

definitely in the big leagues. It's fun. Yeah. Well, Aussie, there's been awesome, man. Best to lock the rest of this year. Great. Having you in the office. Also, Matt also wanted me to ask

if you can dunk. I always tell him that I can dunk. I always dunk on him. Obviously, he's

way taller than me. Yeah. Yeah. There is no chance. I said, well, he, I might use a trampoline. What about that? Okay. Okay. So, tell him yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. All right. Well, thanks so much, Aussie. Thank you guys. I appreciate it. Thank you. As y'all business brought to you by Chevy or AWals know that Chevy Silverado is the official truck of part of my take. That's because Silverado is the truck with grit that shows up every time built the hall toe and take a beating

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would not interview in a 15 minute time frame. I would say a guy like Michael Jordan. Yeah.

“I think it was like, hey, it's 20 minutes. We've been like no chance. We can't. We just don't.”

We cannot do an interview that quickly. And all we're going to do is make our fans mad, being like, why don't you ask this? Why don't you ask that? Right. How could you not ask that? So yeah, we've said no to people that are in that like 15 minute hardout range. We also I think have started to say no a little bit more to people who are on hard core press junkets because those

don't always do great. Right. We're going to say Max. I, I, well, I disagree with them. Yeah. I,

I, I, I think if you 15 minutes, it's not enough. It's not enough. I know. But 15 minutes would literally be also MJ, if he said 15 minutes, it's not we can figure out a way to get 30 out of that. they would be instantly like, you're done. It would just be, it would be a tease. It would be such a tease memes.

People would be mad. It would be a tease for the people. It would be just for us. It's such a good 15 minutes. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I have to be a conversation with them that would like develop like the bellichack interview. Yeah, it would have to be like, I would want two hours with them to say, I would be very confident in two hours. We'd get an awesome interview. If you do a 50 minute interview with Michael Jordan, then the entire 15 minutes he's thinking about how he's going to get out of there. Right. 45, 45 minute. I would obviously say, yes, 45 minutes. I would, I would internally want an hour or more.

I would say not how much how many questions we would have for Michael Jordan. I would say yes to 45 minutes, but it would have to be in person the first time.

Yeah, it would not be over. And we do that as well. We've done, like, I'll say, I'll just say the name. We were, we got offered Bill Murray who I would love love to interview, but it was like a 20 minute over zoom. And I was like, I don't, we got to do it over. We got to see, I want to do it in person.

“Yeah, he's a guy that I want to do in person because I think that we would jail and it would be awesome.”

And I don't want to do an interview just to say, because I think there's, it would be, it would be wrong of us to be like, here's a name in the title, get everyone pumped up and then you listen and it's like, oh, it's it's 15 minutes, 20 minutes. Yeah, it's over zoom. Bill Murray is like a dream guest. I'd want to sit down with him for an hour. Like, it would be so awesome. It'd be, yeah, it'd be really tough to get into anything, no, where they would build it.

Like, if you even feel like you're having a conversation right in 15 minutes, I would, what about Tom Brady? I feel like he, you need time. One good nut with Tom. Yeah. Post nut clarity. You need time. Oh, the time. That's another one. You need a lot of time. Um, I would say no to I show speed. Yeah. I just don't think that the, the audience is there for him. If we're trying to actually know, if we're trying to take our ratings, we do I show.

Like nobody would let, they'd be like who? But I shall am I. Yeah. Shall I do it a second? In person.

“I do shall move or zoom because I think younger people can understand zoom a little bit more.”

Mm-hmm. That's also it. It'd be way better in person. I think shall I would. I would say rate in person. Yeah. First time I would say in person. Like do you think Michael Jordan or Bill Murray have ever opened a zoom themselves? No. Right. So then I wouldn't do. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Shall may as. It's also there, it's the list of people now of

will we travel to that person? Yes. That's like that's that also. Yeah. We would, we would drop everything for MJ. Yeah. We go anywhere. We go to his like yacht if you want us to. Magic too. If magic wants us to go to the Mediterranean, we'll be there. Show up. Yep. 100%. I don't know. Like if the Nick's win, I feel like traveling to shallow met, we would do. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Big cat thought about saying no. No. I would say yes. I'd have to, I'd have to

feel it out to see like, is he a fan of ours? Because that's the other thing is like if we're traveling and he just doesn't really, he's just doing it to for press. But if he's like, hey, I listen to you guys or I know who you guys are, I'd love to come on for an hour. Can you come

Yeah. I think the fact that he obviously watches a ton of sports. Exactly. We would get a one.

“Yeah. But it's a long real one. But you understand what I'm saying? It's like, is he doing”

a press junket? If he's doing a press junket? Probably no. If they're like, hey, after the next one, if Michelle moves doing a press junket, he had 15 interviews in a day and we got 30 minutes. I'd say no. That, that is sure. Correct. That is sure. Because I, I just don't think we would get a great interview. And he would probably be tired. We get our best interviews when it's people who want to come on or people we have enough time. Yep. And they're not like he's

exhausted and they get to know us and like, we have a good rapport with them. We, we earn that trust. And we wonder what was like a press junket? He was good. I wouldn't say a press. No, that wasn't. That was just doing press. No, but we've done lots of those interviews via the PGA tour. Like, when they have somebody reach out to just one, it's usually a pretty good interview. You say the movie press junket? Yeah. I'm not, and look, I like these guys, and I'm happy they

came on, but like a Seth with Farland or a, uh, when, would do we have Walberg? Do we have Matt Damon on? No. That would do. That, that's like Matt Damon was good. Yeah, but that's a little, it's a little awkward because they're, how it works from the other side is they're doing, they're sitting in a room for an entire day doing 15 interviews and we're just like interview

seven. So it's always a little bit hard to, to navigate that because they're very much

aware of their in-interview mode, they're like, very, you know, not uptight, but they're not relaxed. When we get guys relaxed, that's when it's the best. It's big. I worried about a very flation when it comes to interviews and guests. How many varies is too many varies? Yes. What? One of the first intros look like in five years if this doesn't stop. It's a problem. I've gotten myself into a hole, and I don't know how to get out of it,

because I also feel bad when when we have someone and I don't hit him with like five or six varies. I'm like, people are going to be like, oh, you didn't really like that guy.

“I don't really know how to fix it. I think you got to go back. You started with two, I think.”

All right. I think it's very, very special about that. It does. I will say this. It is intentional. People like, the people who sit there and they're like, oh, they really like me. It's like that. We do that for everyone. But in the moment, I think it disarms people a little bit. I'm trying to think we had on that you just hit them with, we welcome on a special guest and didn't say any varies at all. Yeah. I can't rock. It's a problem. I got to figure out how to fix that.

We might have to, we might have to have like a black Monday market crash, and then get back to one, because the various have lost like all meeting. Yeah. I just get lost in them. All right. From here on forward, I think maybe not Friday shows, because we already taped those interviews. But after this week, we're going to, we're going to keep it to water two varies. Unless I really mean it, and then we'll go more. So you'll know. So everyone will know.

So that still just means the one vary. You just don't really like that much. No, no. That means it's, there are very, very special guests with that. But like a run or two. So one means you don't really like the much too. It means you really like like a Ryan Whitney or silo. They're going to get like six or seven. It means where are you going horns down? Didn't spider man back here. Okay. Nice. Okay. I don't know. It looked like he was going horns down. It was about to find him. Why are you doing

spiderman? But yes, good. A student question by that person, because it has been in my head every time we start an interview. All right. Well, I know with this one, as a lifelong next fan, I need to hear Zach give us a pump-up speech. I want Zach to act like he's in the locker room talking to the next. Last night's game was brutal to watch and vibes are low right now. Love you guys. Right now. Yeah. Okay. Gentlemen, let's get together. We're going to go commit crime.

Listen, we're going to go out on this court, and we're going to murder them. They'll never see

their families again. It's been a physical series and today it reaches the precipice of physicality. You go out there, you kill them. Let's go. Oh, nice. Uh, memes. Enzac, would you like to disavow the next fans that did commit crime? Yes. I also don't think they're

“next fans, even though people are. Yeah. What do you mean? The guys in the next series. You know what they are?”

They're first fans. No. No. No. You're wrong. They're filled with alpha offense. Dressed up as next fans. That's 100% filled with alpha. The one guy was one of the other stars. I didn't like that either. To put good people from Philadelphia forward to travel up to New York. For crime? Yeah. No, that was bad. Disavow next fans. We did talk about that. We did talk about this a few

pacers fan. Now they're just beating the shit out of its first fan. They heckled windy. The likeable next fan story. Sorry, line is now dead though. Yeah. I said, I was going to have it.

I said New York. Listen, that's New York shouldn't have. They should just never try to be

likeable again. We know where it's going. Just be yourself. That's a beauty of Philly. Philly never tries to be likeable. But those videos are bad. I'm saying that. You saw the video not comparing you to Philly. I'm not comparing it to Philly. I'm saying Philly never, it's the whole week. They don't like us. We don't care. What Max, was it your first thought when you saw those videos? Imagine Philly did this. Well, not really because it is a pretty big deal regardless. Like people are

“talking about those videos. Yeah. And I think they're talking about them just as much.”

I think we probably would have led the show with it if it happened in Philly. Because you could have,

you know, swim back Philly fans. They've got under my skin. We're part of the problem. But I think that those those videos were bad and people realize those videos are bad. Yeah. And I do think it's probably like, you know, 1%. Yeah. Every end-based has highly bad people. I had this argument. I had this argument for memes. There's so many more New York fans that the percentage wise is about the same. Yeah. Yeah. But that was bad. Disavow. Disavow. Disavow. I felt so bad for that guy with the

blade nose. They took off his jersey and then burned it. Yeah. That was bad. Let it be known.

“I was saying Kilma points. We're talking about basketball and then hype up speech. Not what.”

Yeah. That was a bad red room. I thought we should clarify it after Zach's violent speech like me. Okay. We're talking to the telling the team. We're talking about fans, you know. Yeah. Fans come on. What we do. When we clip that, we have a graphic understanding. Zach is only addressing the team not the fans. Yeah. We're just about all fans. When Zach says we're going to commit crime, he's not talking about actual crime. He's talking about crime on the basketball court. Mm-hmm.

And when we're in San Antonio, don't beat us up. Oh, yeah. That was awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Don't forget what I said. San Antonio, the people are awesome. Yeah. Big old women. Yeah. We've been there.

“Do you think maybe is it? Is there a strip club that suits San Antonio and WL? Yeah.”

Yeah. There's some places. There's some places. I could I could point you in the right direction. Zach, maybe maybe bring some backup glasses. Yeah. Yeah. Probably no vision on the flight back. Mm-hmm. I'll get ahead in front of it. This place is it's recommending Jaguars. I've only been to the Jaguars in the Dallas Fort Worth area or IPF and you close down. If San Antonio's half is good as Dallas won, you boys are in for a hell of a night.

There you go. Good times. I feel like San Antonio's like blown it by not having a big women-only club. That would be awesome. Yeah. That would be awesome. All right. Good show boys. Again, thank you to Tick Pick, incredible memes, Zach, Jay. What I love that trio. Thank you, Tick Pick. They gave us that. That trio gave us Zach. Yeah. And the McDonald's stuff. Yeah. That's something like the McDonald's story was when we were like, "Oh shit, this guy is fucking weird."

And we'd like them. Get the teeth on me. Yeah. Oh yeah. Put 'em on. In. Yeah. Put 'em in for the numbers. Number Zach, you lead. 98. Mames. 11. Two. 95. 88. I've got 15. Oh, go. 50. 55.

If I didn't need coffee that night, we'd never know that would don't sleep. Yeah, it's real.

91, 91, 91, 91, 91, 91, 91, 91, 91, 91, 91, 91, 91. 27, 27, 27, 28, 28, happy birthday to Kate Upton, happy birthday to Poki Reese, the big two, happy birthday to Bench. Bill Burr, happy birthday buddy, happy birthday on Thursday to Joe Montana, invincible and party, maybe the best football birthday of all time, happy birthday also on Thursday to play. On Thursday to Diana Terrasy, Kodak Black, and Henry Hill from Goodfellus, and also, we were on birthday watch, Hank's birthday coming up on Saturday, but you told me it was Wednesday.

The 13th. You told me it was Wednesday. I got to see this one. Listen, Hank's birthday is not Wednesday, Hank's birthday is the 13th, which is Saturday, and we're waiting for it.

Okay, which one? I think Nick. Alright, don't mix.

Oh yeah, it is, it's pretty.

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