Adam Schefter, Combine Review And Airport Review Number 2 (Madison Airport)

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Speaker 1 Our voices are shot, and we're in a hotel room, and we were told that we can't talk too loud because there's an echo. We have to get super close to the mic.

Speaker 1 Hank is being very helpful in telling us, like, okay, be this close, talk at a normal volume. We were talking about maybe doing a whisper part of that.

Speaker 1 I have no voice anymore. This road trip that we just did was two days, and it felt like 100 days because

Speaker 1 we didn't sleep, and we did everything. We, I mean, obviously, Tuesday, you heard Wednesday show.
I'm still coming down from that high. I did appreciate that, like, we're in Indy for the combine.

Speaker 1 We're, we went out to dinner last night, we did a couple interviews. People were coming up to me, like, congratulating me on the Big Ten championship.
I was like, Yeah, that's huge.

Speaker 1 Thank you for your time.

Speaker 1 I did a lot. I did a lot of work.
It's good to see it pay off.

Speaker 1 It's fun going around Indy because this is

Speaker 1 a great place to come visit for like two days. It's our most visited city.

Speaker 1 I challenged any AWL to try to figure out in terms of content road trips. We were driving to Indy from Madison, stayed in beautiful Hoffman Estates on Tuesday night.

Speaker 1 And I said, this has got to be the city we've done the most content and visited the most. So it's kind of our second home.
I think it's Indy and then Cleveland. Maybe Buffalo.
And another one.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we are the official podcasters of Indianapolis. That's a fact.
That's just a basic fact. It's our home.

Speaker 1 I'm going to miss Indy because a lot of people, I was talking to some big J's last night, and they were lamenting the fact that this is probably the last year that the Combine is going to be in Indy because the NFL, anytime they have something nice, they're like, well, how can I make this 50% shittier but make more money doing it?

Speaker 1 So they're going to move it. People are speculating maybe Dallas.
I actually hope that they move it to L.A.

Speaker 1 because just to see the big J's just shit themselves. No, people would be so upset.

Speaker 1 They hate change.

Speaker 1 Everybody likes going to the same restaurant on the same nights sitting in the same seats year after year after year going to the same restaurants waiting in line at the same starbucks people fucking are in love with this one starbucks there's a story about it they wrote about like starbucks where all the deals get made yeah this is the best this is most important starbucks in the world uh and they're gonna absolutely flip out when it moves if it moves to la and like they have no idea where anything is yes it's gonna be yeah it's india is the perfect city for the combine i mean we've we've we've i think this is probably our fourth or fifth year that we've come here.

Speaker 1 We obviously missed last year because of COVID, but we've explained it. Like, it's essentially the entire NFL world

Speaker 1 shows up to Indy and all converge at like two steakhouses, and they all stand around sweaty, drinking beers, being like, I'm getting sick access right now.

Speaker 1 When it's like, really, just like Matt LaFleur is talking to like 15 people at the same time, which is smart by him, by the way. We did see him last night.

Speaker 1 The only story I have from last night is I don't know if you ran into Pete Prisco, but he yeah i love pete so much he we were talking and then some guy came up to me and like um not interrupted but was like hey i just wanted to say a big fan like he does next-gen stats and so he introduced himself and pete just goes let me ask you a question when the ball is is this far away from from the goal line so he's got his hands like probably like three inches apart he's like what is that and the guy's like uh like one yard to go and he's like and what about when it's an inch in from the two-yard line what is that he's like it's like one yard to go he's like like, when you fucking figure that out,

Speaker 1 I'll subscribe to your stats. And that was it.
Like, and then walked off.

Speaker 1 It's like the perfect summation of Prisco.

Speaker 1 He's the best. I think he's got a rock in tan right now.

Speaker 1 I don't know how that's possible, but he showed up, tannest man in the room. I saw him coming, and he stuck his hand out to shake my hand.
I said, get that hand out of here. We're going to hug, buddy.

Speaker 1 He's the best. I just wrapped him up like a little, Italian little burrito.
Yes, yes. And he's just, and I like, he was like, hey, Prisco watches the film, buddy.
He doesn't need stats.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was a good time overall. I got to do my annual three beers with Scott Turner.
Yes.

Speaker 1 That's like, if somebody asks you what happens at the combine, it's like, well, I'm going to get drunk with Scott Turner. Yes.

Speaker 1 He's a mainstay there.

Speaker 1 We met a couple coaches. It is weird seeing them.
It's almost like the coaches are in a zoo when they come into that steakhouse. Yeah, it's so uncomfortable.
Everybody there is waiting.

Speaker 1 for like, oh, I'm going to talk to a coach tonight. It's so uncomfortable.
It's like a girl at a club being like, oh, I'm going to go home with a baller. Yeah,

Speaker 1 it's like the most uncomfortable feeling to be standing like in a circle with someone talking. You can't really hear them.
And everyone's like kind of doing that like half fake laughing.

Speaker 1 Like, I'm in this conversation, but I'm not. Yeah.
It's, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, I enjoyed more seeing Pete and then my arch nemesis, Aaron Nagler, who he actually told me breaking news that Aaron Rodgers is going to retire. That's huge.
So tag him on all the tweets.

Speaker 1 It was crazy. It was great catching up with him.
But yeah, he was very sad. He was actually crying when he told me it.
So I had to like console him. He cried on my shoulder.

Speaker 1 He's like, Aaron Rodgers is going to retire. I was like, dude, I'm sorry.
That's really, really tough. And he's like, yeah, I'm probably going to just stop watching football.
Probably too.

Speaker 1 Because he's such a huge fan of not Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Nigler's not a huge fan of Aaron Rodgers.
Football plays more a fan of what Aaron Rodgers stands for.

Speaker 1 And the fights that he's taken up and the cause

Speaker 1 he represents.

Speaker 1 So I feel bad for him. So maybe shoot him a tweet and tell him.
Yeah, I think Aaron said, didn't he tell you he was the modern-day Muhammad Ali? That's what he said.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he said it's incredible what he's done for the sport and everything that he stands for.

Speaker 1 And he's like, it's actually going to be great when he retires because he's taking a stand against the NFL. You know what?

Speaker 1 Maybe the funniest part of last night was at one point, I think both of us were talking. It might have been to, I think LaFleur was there.

Speaker 1 We were basically just giving him trade offers for Aaron Rodgers and seeing what he would take. Like we had any authority whatsoever to do that.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Like making concrete offers and he was just saying no to all of them. And I was just doing it for like every other team.
I was like, let's just, whatever the farthest destination is.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, it was a good time. We had a good dinner.
Hank, you didn't like the calamari. We ordered calamari, and hank hates it so much.
And shrimp cocktail. No, there's a shrimp cocktail.

Speaker 1 There's a shrimp cocktail arms race store on right now. Smile on his face.

Speaker 1 Have you noticed that the shrimp cocktail sauce was spicier than normal? No. I think they're trying to compete with St.
Almo's. So, like, I mean, once.

Speaker 1 Do you get a spice on? It's an arms race as well. Wow.
Sounds like an article. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know what? Jake Athletic. Jake, you should write the article.
I think the term cocktail sauce is getting spicier at Prime 47.

Speaker 1 Yeah, basically it's like

Speaker 1 at what point is it too spicy? It's a nuclear arms race. Yeah.
Like St. Elmo's is going to eventually just burn your mouth off.
Be like, here's your bill. You're going to kill us all.
That was fun.

Speaker 1 I'm doing an underground cocktail test. You're locked in on the war, big hat.
What?

Speaker 1 You got someone else. Oh, dude, I'm just, yeah, it's a lot of, not like actually locked in, like

Speaker 1 learning, yeah, I'm not like learning anything. The lingo, yeah, the lingo, like nuclear options, sanctions, all that stuff.
That's pretty much all I've picked up from this war.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, except and also the fact that like half of Twitter has decided that uh the war is like their new favorite Netflix show where they're like this fucking president would be so good in Ted Lasso season three.

Speaker 1 There's a guy, I'm not gonna say his name because he doesn't deserve to have his name said, but he's like everything that he posts about this fucking war seems like he's like he's an Earth 2 guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like on meanwhile on Earth 2 hillary clinton has already avoided this um but he just i i i'm sick of it i'm sick of people like using war for cloud it's

Speaker 1 yeah billy yeah exactly just fucking shut up and go to ukraine dude we were actually joking on the way to on the way down we were like saying how like jake like someday jake is our will hunting someday we hope that he like no goodbye no see you later he's just like all of a sudden calling like professional sports and then we're like and billy he's like he's like the kid that like never leaves the house.

Speaker 1 He's going to live there till he's like 30. We're like, maybe one day he just goes to war.
He's just like, no, goodbye. No, see you later.
He's just got a fucking rocket launcher in Kiev the next day.

Speaker 1 I actually on Twitter. I told Billy the other day, just think of how viral your video of you coming home to Whitey would be if you went overseas as a troop.
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 That would probably break the internet. That's a great point.
That's a great point. I don't think there's a lot of ton of sports stuff.
Obviously, there's some good college basketball games.

Speaker 1 The Sixers are officially, like,

Speaker 1 if you're an Eastern Conference team,

Speaker 1 James Harden and Joel and Bi last night, like, they just basically run pick and roll, and then no matter what, it ends up either in a layup or, like, the best case scenario is it's a free throw, and they maybe miss one.

Speaker 1 This might just be the fact that I took James Harden over two and a half three-pointers, and he only had two, but I noticed him, he was like going out of his way to make passes when he was wide open for a shot.

Speaker 1 He's a good teammate. He's a great teammate.
I think that James Harden, he's really figured it out this time. I think he's going to be smooth sailing for the season.

Speaker 1 Maybe he's like, that's the key to James Harden. You just need six-month rentals where it's like, he's going to be in shape.
He's going to be happy. He's going to try really hard.
Yeah, you lease him.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You don't buy.
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 Never buy James Harden. Always lease him.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're awesome. And then also, did you see Coach K requested to be in the Midwest region? Because he wants to play his last,

Speaker 1 well, he's being a little presumptuous because he's saying he's going to be in the Sweet 16,

Speaker 1 play in Chicago, his hometown. So it's like he requested that.

Speaker 1 I mean, I'm sure the NCAA is going to do...

Speaker 1 do they're probably just going to put all 16 seeds in his bracket right probably he i think they're letting him pick the teams that he gets to play against i am going to hate watch saturday night more than i've ever hate watched anything in my life oh the mega cast is it's and they're doing like a lead up where they have like every player that ever played for duke like like saying their statements and stuff it's Roy Williams did it right Roy Williams went out the right way that's a classy ass coach they should do on the mega cast

Speaker 1 I am gonna miss him because I miss anyone that I hate They should just straight up have like every hatable Duke player in the coach's room like they do on the national championship game. What if?

Speaker 1 Get Leightner, get Grayson Allen, get J.J. Reddick, get them all.
You know what they should do?

Speaker 1 They should get all those guys and they should do the version of the Haka and slap the floor one last time for Coach K. I like that.
The Duke Haka. Like a step team.
That's their step team in Durham.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's going to be. I will miss them, man, because I did, I mean,

Speaker 1 sports,

Speaker 1 the fun in sports is rooting for your team, but also hating your rivals and hating the teams that you hate. And I will miss him as a foe.
I absolutely will.

Speaker 1 I hope somebody asked him about like military strategy. Yeah.
He was in the army. He was.

Speaker 1 It's also very funny because when we were driving, I asked a quiz question

Speaker 1 to everyone in the car, which was just a fact that I had learned the night before. And I was like, How many years do you think Jim Bayheim has been at Syracuse? I think the answers were like 35.

Speaker 1 He's been at Syracuse for 46 years, and he's still not retiring. It came out today.
He was like, there's a plan in place. And like all the beat writers are like, what's the plan?

Speaker 1 He's like, I'm not going to tell you the plan, but there's a plan in place. He's probably going to have his sons take over.
But he's coaching next year 100%.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. 46 years.
46 years. That's a long time to do anything.

Speaker 1 That's a long time to live. Yeah.
It's a long time to be in a house, be in the same house, be in the same city, be in the same country. Yeah.
So,

Speaker 1 yeah, what else? Anything else from Sports World before we do Fire Fest? We're gonna do Firefest before Schefter, and then we'll do Madison Airport Review to finish the show, which was great.

Speaker 1 Anything else? I'm waiting on pins and needles right here to figure out what Kenny Pickett's hand size is going to be. Oh, yeah, so they're doing the measurements right now, you're getting released.

Speaker 1 Daniel Jeremiah, DJ himself, keeps tweeting about it's so funny to see when they like the way they write heights down, it's like 06-02,

Speaker 1 6'2. You can just say like 6'2.
It's like military code.

Speaker 1 No, they've deputized themselves as being like in the infantry.

Speaker 1 And then Kenny Pickett's hand size. I talked to like a lot of people last night about Kenny Pickett's hands and they're talking about like the different stretches.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No.
Just quite a sentence. I did.
I did because he's doing the stretches. So I'm very curious to know like how much bigger can one make their hands via stretching?

Speaker 1 I think a quarter inch probably.

Speaker 1 So he's up to like eight and a half now. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's still very, very small. I think like, you know.
Oh, here we go. It just came in.
Breaking news. Breaking loose.
Breaking loose.

Speaker 1 Breaking loose. Can you pick his hands measured 8.5 inches? Oh, there we go.
Shifter. He got that extra quarter.
He definitely got the quarter inch. He definitely got that quarter.

Speaker 1 Schefter got that first. Shaft, well, I don't know.
I just have alerts for Schefter.

Speaker 1 By the way, we are definitely writing the blog.

Speaker 1 If you're listening to this right now, we're going to have Schefter on in a second, but Schefter is officially talking to Barstool.

Speaker 1 Also, I was giving him a water in the beginning of the interview, and BitKat didn't want to redo it.

Speaker 1 What? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was good. I mean, people like to see the behind-the-scenes.

Speaker 1 I was listening to it, though, and it looks, it sounds stupid, very confusing. Yeah, so I'm getting that's how the sausage gets made.

Speaker 1 All right, should we do Firefest? One take Dan. Yeah, one take Danny.

Speaker 1 Should we do Firefest? By the way, just one last PSA.

Speaker 1 We are now officially, so this Saturday, change of clocks.

Speaker 1 Is it go ahead or back? It's spring forward. Forward, forward.
So you're changing the clocks Saturday. We finally get more sunlight.

Speaker 1 What happened is we screwed it up last year because we said spring back. Right.
And so a lot of people were mad at us because that's what we screwed up.

Speaker 1 Spring forward. It's spring forward on Saturday.
Well, it's technically Sunday morning. Yes, right.
Sunday morning. Sunday morning, 1 a.m.
More sunlight at the end of the day. Set your clocks forward.

Speaker 1 Yes. So we're good.
So just a reminder to everyone, because you don't want to be the guy who's late on Monday morning.

Speaker 1 Hank, your Fire Fest.

Speaker 1 So we talked about it. We were on the road late.
We left Wisconsin midnight, drove for two hours.

Speaker 6 I was pretty hungry.

Speaker 1 I don't think we really, I had some food, but I was starving. We get there.
The hotel has like a little snack shack area, and they had this like trippy

Speaker 1 Cheetos

Speaker 1 mac and cheese. I got two of them.
I was starving. I'm like, I have to eat this, go to sleep, get fueled up.
Wait, Cheetos mac and cheese?

Speaker 5 That's sick. I know.

Speaker 1 Is it Cheetos like flavored cheese or is it Cheetos in the mac and cheese? Like Cheetos flavored. Like, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Well, I couldn't tell you, PFT, because I got to my fucking room,

Speaker 1 look around everywhere. I opened every cabinet, every drawer, every every closet.
No microwave. They sell microwavable snacks and they don't have microwaves in their rooms.
That's fucked up.

Speaker 1 I was furious. That's fucked up.
I was thinking about making like hot water and then pouring that in, but I didn't think that was going to work. That's so.

Speaker 1 I don't think the water can get hot enough in the hotel for that. So I went to bed starving and angry.
Did you try to crunch on them just like raw doggy? No.

Speaker 1 They just drank water. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like a like just drank water? Yeah. Just a belly full of water? That's all I had.

Speaker 5 Like you drank a deer?

Speaker 1 Damn. It was infuriating.
Yeah, I feel like you've been hungry this entire trip. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I've been trying to rub. I've been trying to catch up.
That was my catch up. That was my get-right.
That was my get-right meal. And you just couldn't get right.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because last night, like, we went out to dinner and it was a late reservation. It was like 9.30 was the only one we had.
And Hank was like, yeah, at 6, I ate dinner.

Speaker 1 And then he went to

Speaker 1 another dinner. Healthy meal.
Yeah. You got to catch up.
They probably had a microwave in the lobby, but didn't think to tell anybody, like, hey, you have to use this one. It is bullshit.

Speaker 1 If you sell microwavable foods, you should have a microwave in the rooms.

Speaker 1 Most rooms do. I actually don't know how it is because I've changed to the OMAD diet, but

Speaker 1 I don't do it correctly where I just eat one meal a day, but I eat so far past full that I'm just sick for the rest of the day. And then I'm not hungry again.
But it's definitely not.

Speaker 1 Seven ice cream sandwiches was a switch. Four.

Speaker 1 Four.

Speaker 1 I thought it was a bit too much. I thought it was a bit.

Speaker 1 You're like pulling them out out of your sweatshirt pocket. It's called cooling down the core.

Speaker 1 You ever see Chernobyl? When the reactors don't get cool fast enough, my body was overheating. I needed to cool the core down.

Speaker 1 It's like when a horrific hit in the NFL and they have to do that crazy thing where they basically hit your body with ice. Yeah, and they basically cool you down so that your body can

Speaker 1 heal. That's essentially what I do with ice cream.
I cool my body down. Don't hate on it.
Also, if you keep it in your pockets, you're cooling your skin down, your belly, too. Yeah, exactly.
I did.

Speaker 1 There was a moment

Speaker 1 in the second half where I was like, I'm like, I'm cramping.

Speaker 1 I got so tired cheering at a basketball game. I put my hands on my knees at one point.
I had to take a blow. Yes.
It was bad. Yes.
All right, PFT year, Firefest.

Speaker 1 Did Kevin Duray respond to you, by the way? No, he saw it, though. Yeah.
He's, I'm just going to keep.

Speaker 1 We're going to get him on eventually. Never.
Never. My Fire Fest of the week is that we're all fat pieces of shit compared to Evan Neal.
Oh. So have you seen the pictures of him?

Speaker 1 Evan Neal, who could be the first pick in the draft from Alabama. He's six foot seven, like 337 pounds, and he's like way skinnier than I am.
Yeah. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 He's like a freak like Aaron Donald, where it's like you shouldn't be

Speaker 1 what you are. His body shouldn't exist.
Right. It was like built in a lab.
He's probably got like the heaviest bones in the world. Can I see a picture? You want to see pictures?

Speaker 1 I've got several saved on my phone. Just shirtless? Shirtless, yeah.
Hell yeah. Let me see this.
Now I'm type his name into Twitter. Hang on.

Speaker 1 I think I did, by the way, it's going to be the greatest PM TV that we've ever had on YouTube. When is it going to drop, blah, blah, blah? Tuesday? Next Tuesday? It will be everything.

Speaker 1 I think there's a moment when you were painting my belly that I said, like, you know, me and Aaron Donald are kind of kind of got the same physique. If I just worked out a little more,

Speaker 1 oh, wow. That's crazy.
How much does he weigh? 340 pounds. That's nuts.
That looks like the after picture of like he was a thousand pounds. Yeah.
Biggest loser.

Speaker 1 this is ridiculous yeah they're getting too big he's going to be a monster look at this picture of him this is bad radio but look at this picture of him at the podium yeah he's skinny he's legitimately a skinny man who's some someone's gonna draft him be like you got to put on 30 pounds yeah no there's gonna be like some coach some strength and conditioning or nutrition coach that's like this is the perfect frame for me to work my masterpiece right he could you know what he could probably get up to 400 pounds and still look regular yeah that's that's nuts it is crazy that is wild my other fire fest of the week is we've lost our darling jake yeah i i don't know Should we sanction Jake?

Speaker 1 No, I actually think we should let him. I think we should maybe sanction him.
I think that was good for him.

Speaker 1 Jake is sanctioned.

Speaker 1 So he was on Stool Bench Rob, his podcast. Go subscribe now.
They had an awesome interview with Tyler Hansborough, Psycho T.

Speaker 1 He lost his cool. He swore not once, but twice.
I loved it. I think we need to encourage it.
He dropped the F-bomb. Yeah.
Like, deployed the nuclear F-bomb. Which is good.
Yes. No, it was big.

Speaker 1 Jake is hereby suspended for part of my take for the rest of today's episode. Okay.
I think Jake, though, should like Putin, should just have

Speaker 1 the case of F-bombs open. Don't use them, but just have them.
Ready to go. Well, now Rico knows that he's got them.
It's called

Speaker 1 Get an F-bomb off. It's called deterrence.

Speaker 1 That's what you get. You get a can at your head for that.
That's what the policy is. You get a can at your head.

Speaker 1 All right. My Fire Fest is my streak ended, and I should never gamble on the road.
So it's terrible. Gambling on the road is the worst.
I was 10-0, 10 in a row. I'm now 0-3.

Speaker 1 I'm going to get back to it.

Speaker 1 Also, my Fire Fest is like going back on Tuesday to Madison and having that night just like makes me be like, damn, college is pretty fucking sweet.

Speaker 1 I wish I was back there, which is not like a thought you should have as a 37-year-old. I think it's fine to have that thought.
It is. As long as you don't act on it.
Right, exactly.

Speaker 1 It is to like to momentarily have that thought, but like, you don't want to be the dude who's like in his late 30s sitting around being like, man, college is so sweet.

Speaker 1 Like, I wish I could go back there right now. No, it's, it's actually good that you have a weekend where you get it all out of your system, as opposed to like constantly thinking about when I go back.

Speaker 1 And then you repress that, and then you find yourself like sneaking off in the middle of the night, finding a college job. Yeah, then I gotta

Speaker 1 fucking earring and a Corvette, and the whole life is falling. Then it's a totally messy situation.
So, but it was, it was awesome to be back.

Speaker 1 I still am like, that was fucking, that was the perfect night. It was the absolute perfect night.

Speaker 1 And this is March. I'm very excited for March Madness.
Very excited for Conference Attorney Week. We got some big guests coming up, right?

Speaker 1 Huge.

Speaker 1 Huge. Mark Titus.
That's not the biggest guest. If you apologize,

Speaker 1 that was confusing.

Speaker 1 That's not the headliner. He's like...

Speaker 1 No, he's not. He's not even starting five.

Speaker 1 He needs to apologize for what he's done. No, I love Mark.
He's on the Mount Rushmore of guests. Okay, let's get to Adam Schefter.

Speaker 1 And before,

Speaker 1 or sorry, this is Adam Schefter. Then we're going to finish with our airport review and then we'll have numbers at the end.

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It's Adam Schefter.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest, recurring guest, great friend of the program. It is Adam Schefter.

Speaker 1 That was a great intro. That was a solid intro.
Let's just keep going. All right, so Shefty,

Speaker 1 thank you for coming on. We have a theory, and this is where we're going to start.

Speaker 5 We haven't seen I can't wait to see where we're gonna start like i'm waiting for these

Speaker 1 man to fly out fall out of the ceiling credit to you come on to the table no tricks no tricks

Speaker 1 no tricks where are we going a sale

Speaker 1 a salt credit to you you always you whenever i text i'm like hey you want to come on you're like yep just tell me when so we were thinking about it we haven't seen you in two years you haven't been on in two years because last year obviously covet no combine Do you think that we've been more mean to you in the last year because we haven't seen you recently?

Speaker 1 Because we thought about it when you were. So So I've heard.

Speaker 1 So I was like, I think we were too mean to Shefty because we, like, this is our reset every year, our annual reset, where we see you, we have some laughs, we have some fun, and then we go about our ways.

Speaker 1 And we're like, next time we're going to dunk on Shefty, we like pause for a second and maybe don't

Speaker 5 until you want to dunk in the next.

Speaker 1 It is like the annual airing of grievances.

Speaker 1 Where we get it. We got no grievances.

Speaker 1 No, we have grievances.

Speaker 1 You'll ask me about all the grievances, right? We'll get into all of it.

Speaker 5 You want me to throw them out? Like, where are we going?

Speaker 1 Well, which one do you think is the most grievous?

Speaker 5 Well, I figured that Cliff Kingsbury signed his contract today.

Speaker 1 I was just saying.

Speaker 5 So I figured you could start right there.

Speaker 1 Dude, Oklahoma.

Speaker 1 Yeah. What happened? Better switch in Oklahoma.

Speaker 5 Let me say something.

Speaker 5 If he wanted the job, he had the job. Okay.
And I know everybody said, oh, his agent called Adam to tell him this and to plan. Let me tell you this.
I'm sitting on my couch Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 5 I get a call from somebody, not in the Cliff Kingsbury camp, connected to the campaign. Cliff Cliff Kingsbury's mom.

Speaker 1 Yeah, his mom called.

Speaker 5 And they said, are you aware of the fact that Oklahoma is kind of after him? And I said, no.

Speaker 5 And they said, they are. And I said, okay.
Well, I made a couple more calls and found out that if he wanted that job, he could have it. Now, now, it was portrayed as I'm giving Cliff Kingsbury lever.

Speaker 5 I could care less.

Speaker 1 He did get leverage.

Speaker 5 Great, good for him. You know what? His record is going to give him the leverage he wants or doesn't want.
That's true.

Speaker 1 So under that same

Speaker 1 argument, argument, though, is Bill Belichick not open for every college job every year?

Speaker 5 Well, again, do I think Cliff Kingsbury is going to go to Oklahoma? Probably not, but I'm just telling you that

Speaker 5 there were people that weekend reaching out to him, asking him if he wanted the job.

Speaker 5 So my question to you would be, if there was an NFL head coach that was receiving interest from a college about becoming its head coach, whether or not he wanted it, would that be newsworthy?

Speaker 1 It could be. And again, we don't know what your source was on this.
I trust your source. It's probably rock solid.
It was.

Speaker 1 But there is, like, I think in this past year, there's become more of that skepticism. Skepticism.
And I think that's unbelievable. I think, by the way, I live it every time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think it's fair to have some skepticism because you are, I mean, you do have a lot of power. Do you know how powerful you are? You're a powerful man.
Do you think the skepticism is?

Speaker 5 I'm not powerful enough to be on the Wisconsin podium hoisting the Big Ten trophy.

Speaker 1 That's true.

Speaker 1 But you might be powerful enough, hypothetically, to say Jimmy Garoppolo has outperformed expectations and is a big part of why the San Francisco 49ers are where they are right now.

Speaker 5 You know, what I said was, what I said was, I have the whole quote, Jimmy Garoppolo simultaneously

Speaker 1 has raised his value to other teams in the league, which he did. 49ers and other teams in the offseason

Speaker 1 market.

Speaker 5 What is wrong with you?

Speaker 1 The 49ers would not be where they are today without him. I think the timing of it was what did it for me because it was just like out of no, like out of the clouds.
Adam, it was like he woke up.

Speaker 5 You start up Sunday afternoon?

Speaker 1 You woke up and you're like, you were playing that I'm gonna gas up Jimmy G today was that a direct one-for-one trade that Donye gave you so that you get the Brady news 100% not Don Yee news in fact I did speak to Donye afterwards on the Tom Brady news yeah oh we got to go through this time we're gonna go through all this I knew I knew we were gonna come in here to talk about the four ice cream sandwiches in 28 minutes okay I knew we weren't doing that Ultimately, you were right about the Brady news.

Speaker 1 Yes, I want to hear all of it. I want to hear.

Speaker 1 But there's got to be a moment for you, like after you put the Brady news out there and then it starts to get disputed, even if you think, like, yeah, you're sourcing is rocks.

Speaker 5 Well, here's the thing on any story, right, anytime. What you always wonder about is you can say that this guy, this team is doing this.
Things get out. Dynamics get changed and shifted.

Speaker 5 That's what you always wonder about.

Speaker 1 Material change.

Speaker 5 And so

Speaker 5 he was retiring. I mean, there were other plans.

Speaker 5 He's doing a movie. He was talked about as a limited owner of the Miami Dolphins.
His family was at the, like, the decision had been made. He was retiring.
And we reported, and it, yeah,

Speaker 5 it, again, it's shocking to me sometimes how some of these things take on a life of their own. Like, the Jimmy Garoppolo thing, he was being ripped on all year long.
They were in the playoffs.

Speaker 5 They made a deep run. Did he not raise his value in the postseason? I think he did.
Danye never said anything.

Speaker 5 In fact, on the Tom Brady thing, to get back to Danye, the first contact I had with Danyi was afterwards when he called, he said, and my wife was in the office. And

Speaker 5 I haven't talked about this before, but I'm in my office. It was a Saturday afternoon.
It was a snowstorm in New York. Wife is sitting there.

Speaker 5 Dony Yee calls and he's like, why would you not call me in advance? I said, I did call you multiple times, left messages, never heard back from you.

Speaker 5 He said, I have a statement I want to read to you.

Speaker 5 Now, when he said that, I will say,

Speaker 1 okay, what do we got here? Yeah.

Speaker 5 Like, what is this statement going to be? Because that statement could be what?

Speaker 1 It could be sued.

Speaker 5 Or it could be like

Speaker 5 other people said it's wrong.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Or whatever. Sued.
What am I getting sued about for? I don't know if you're going to be able to do it.

Speaker 1 Because you're wrong.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You said something interesting right there, which is that Tom Brady was talked about as a limited owner of the Dolphins.

Speaker 1 That seems like that conveys that like the supposed bad blood that we've all kind of like talked about between Brady and the Patriots.

Speaker 1 Like that might be even even more real if he's going to get in the division.

Speaker 1 Who?

Speaker 5 Now we're really coming up with conspiracy theories.

Speaker 1 No, I don't think that's that far off.

Speaker 5 I hadn't thought about it like that.

Speaker 1 What do you think about the theory that maybe

Speaker 1 hold on, but I want to go back to a one-on-one person because you were saying it was a one-on-one on Jimmy Garoppolo

Speaker 5 when I didn't speak to Donney till after the fact.

Speaker 5 You know, there are people who...

Speaker 5 Media critics are like, why would you not reach out to the agent? I did reach out to the agent. The agent never responded.
He never responded.

Speaker 5 In fact, I remember he was saying he was sitting out by a citrus trees that day.

Speaker 1 That's nice. Well, he's like, Don Corleone.
What's going on here? All right, so

Speaker 1 what was the statement? It was a statement that you squeezed, right?

Speaker 5 Yeah, the statement was that whatever I put out there that, you know,

Speaker 5 Tom hasn't made a business. Tom is the only one that'll announce his decision, and he'll do it when he's ready.

Speaker 1 Something to that effect, right? So was there ever a moment that you were like, uh-oh? Because like, this is obviously an enormous, enormous story. It's the greatest football player of all time.

Speaker 1 You're basically saying he's retiring. He's saying, no, he's, no, I'm not.

Speaker 5 You know what's funny?

Speaker 5 I remember back in the day, I reported that Tony Romo on a Monday, it was at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The Cowboys and Eagles were playing for the division championship.
It was Monday, 4 o'clock.

Speaker 5 We had just finished NFL Live at ESPN.

Speaker 5 We're in the studio, and I get a call that Tony Romo needs back surgery. And I reported back surgery, and it's the Cowboys, and it's for the playoff spot.

Speaker 5 And they're playing the Eagles, and all the media forces mobilize at the Cowboys training complex, and the SPN sends everyone they got there. And

Speaker 5 Jason Garrett walks out, and

Speaker 5 all the people start screaming, what's the deal with Tony Romo?

Speaker 5 We'll see if he's in practice tomorrow. We'll see if he's in a practice.
My boss is cutting you, you sure you got your information right? You sure you got your information right?

Speaker 5 And I had somebody on the ESPN staff text me, hey, you might want to soften your report now.

Speaker 5 Again, when you report what you report, you report it for a reason. You're going to walk it back at that point.

Speaker 1 So it's not softening your report. It's just saying, like, hey, retract your statement real quick.

Speaker 5 You're saying, do you worry about it?

Speaker 5 No, no, listen. There wasn't a moment.

Speaker 1 Because it was obviously very, like, I even said, I was like, I'm kind of, I don't have no dog in this fight, but I'm kind of hoping Tom Brady plays five more years.

Speaker 5 Well, that's why I brought in Jeff Darlington as my body show.

Speaker 1 Jeff Darlington is

Speaker 1 great and he knows what he's doing.

Speaker 5 So like, I figure, figure, you know, people are going to come after us. Let him go after Jeff Darlington, not me.

Speaker 1 Well, we did the option. We gave Jeff credit for it as you can.
As you should. As you should.
How does that work out when you're splitting a scoop with somebody? It's like.

Speaker 5 More credit for everybody else. I don't need any.

Speaker 1 But deep down, give it to me. Not one moment where you're like, uh-oh, Adam.

Speaker 5 No, no, you know what it was?

Speaker 5 It was like picking up my daughter at school on Monday, and she's in seventh grade, and she gets in the car, and she's like, Dad, why is everybody mad at you over Tom Brady?

Speaker 5 Why are there articles in the New York Post about you, about Tom Brady? I'm like, oh, because we reported that he's going to retire, which he did the next morning, which, again,

Speaker 5 I mean, it's just amazing, right?

Speaker 1 Like, it was crazy. And I still think, though, deep down, there was one moment where you're like, oh, man,

Speaker 1 P-Boy, you did it again. You put yourself in a pickle.

Speaker 5 P-Boy never peed his pants.

Speaker 1 Now, do you think, now let's transition to this?

Speaker 1 Because you broke the news before Tom Brady could. Do you think you're partially to blame for Tom Brady not adequately thanking Hank and Patriots Nation? Because he didn't have enough time.
Well,

Speaker 5 I think Tom should have thanked Hank and Patriots Nation. I thought that was out of line.
Correct.

Speaker 5 Very much. That Hank was not cited in there.

Speaker 1 He was eventually.

Speaker 5 And honestly, I was quite surprised that Tom didn't come under the scrutiny and criticism that Jeff and I did for our reporting of the story, because that, to me, was a much more major transgression that was more valid.

Speaker 1 Tom Brady's reporting was incorrect on himself.

Speaker 1 Well, when he put the skepticism out there,

Speaker 1 you ended up being right. Do you take a victory lap after all that? Like, what's that like when you're peaceful? When you're vindicating

Speaker 1 celebrating scoop?

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 1 Just go on to the next one?

Speaker 5 I mean,

Speaker 5 there's relief. Like, okay, this is over.
Like, my daughter's not going to hear anything at school. Like, she got kids

Speaker 5 saying things to her.

Speaker 5 I don't like that.

Speaker 1 No, that's fucked up. Yeah.
Is that what's legit? So she's actually like encroaching on your territory a little bit. Or is that you also using her as like a bodyguard against you?

Speaker 1 Like, no, she broke it, not me.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that'd be a good idea to just credit her on the scoops and no one's going to get mad about her botching one. Or just have her do the reverse scoops so one of you is right.

Speaker 5 You know what?

Speaker 5 I was doing a thing with Rich Eisen earlier this year and he said, you know, we're talking about my daughter doing stuff on Nickelodeon on Slime Time, which honestly was probably the coolest thing of the whole year by far because for years I took my daughter to work with me.

Speaker 5 And this year, for the first time, she took me to work with her because I walked in the Tuesday morning after the Pittsburgh Cleveland Monday night game. And I had a 6 a.m.

Speaker 5 flight back from Pittsburgh. And I left the hotel at 3.30 in the morning.
And I remember walking in by 8.15 and thinking, I'm going back to bed for an hour. I walk in.

Speaker 5 8.20, the phone rings, and it's Nickelboard. And the regular host, young Dylan, can't make it that day.
Could my Dylan, my daughter, Dylan, make it? I'm like, okay, well, there goes that nap.

Speaker 5 So literally turned around, went into the city, and it was the coolest thing ever to watch her

Speaker 5 work. But in talking to Rich, at one point, he's like, has she ever gotten scoopage information that you've kind of picked up? I said, no, but you know what?

Speaker 5 She had Jamar Chase on early in the year, and she was talking to him about his nickname or why he wore one. And everybody calls him Uno, and

Speaker 5 his brother was born on the first, and his father was born on the first, and everybody, it was a lot of Unos in the family. Well, somehow that kind of made its way into reporting, and

Speaker 5 my daughter, I guess, triggered this little insight on Jamal Shea.

Speaker 5 So, Tom Brady, she was the one that initially came to me, and she said, I just want to give you a heads up.

Speaker 5 We canned our Tom Brady Nickelodeon interview, but he told me he's going to talk. I'm not going to use it.
I think it benefits the family more if you report it. But you didn't tag her.

Speaker 5 So, I brought in Jeff Darlington. We knocked her out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Jeff Darlington is actually just a fake person. Correct.
He's just like one of those PCI people.

Speaker 5 Jeff Darlington is the alias for Dylan Sheffield. Yeah, okay, okay.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 Tom Brady, chances he plays again.

Speaker 5 Today, I would say not going to play again. Today,

Speaker 1 well,

Speaker 1 listen,

Speaker 5 today,

Speaker 5 March 2nd, as we tell you, I don't think he's going to play again.

Speaker 5 How he's going to feel in July and August, when people are going back to training camp, when we're talking football, when you guys got Blake Bortles coming on, and he's going to be getting a job somewhere or something like that, right?

Speaker 5 Like, he may get get the itch.

Speaker 1 That sounded like a shot at Blake right there.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 I've got rabbit ears. Blake's your guy.

Speaker 5 Blake's your guy.

Speaker 1 Is Blake going to get signed somewhere?

Speaker 5 Is there a buzz? There are a lot of teams that need a lot of quarterbacks. I think he's going to get, I think he might have another opportunity.

Speaker 1 I've heard that simultaneously, Blake Bortle has raised his own stock as well as the stock of the New Orleans Saints

Speaker 1 after he played on the team, and there are a lot of teams calling about him.

Speaker 5 Would you say that's fair? Confirmed. Confirmed.

Speaker 1 Next grievance: Are you Shams? Kind of, he's kind of encroaching on your territory now?

Speaker 5 Shams's? Yeah. Oh.

Speaker 1 Jameis. Oh.
He broke that in your face.

Speaker 5 How'd that feel? Credit to Shams.

Speaker 5 Well, I guess, you know what? It's sort of like

Speaker 5 who was the guy that got dunked on the other? It was Jacob Potil by John Morant, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah. You put a permanent job.

Speaker 5 I feel like Jacob Potil right now.

Speaker 1 But you've dipped into NBA, so now it's like a tit for tat. They're going to come on your turf.
Is it a turf war?

Speaker 5 I'm coming for more NBA news. Really?

Speaker 1 Because I've noticed that you're breaking

Speaker 5 down the gauntlet right now.

Speaker 1 Wow. You've been slacking on the NBA news.
You've been laser flicking on the NBA.

Speaker 1 You know what happened?

Speaker 5 COVID happened, and they've got a host of NBA reporters. They don't really need me.
Mine was just like a fun kind of thing to do.

Speaker 5 And so anytime that they have a game in Philadelphia or Brooklyn, I'm happy to go do that. Nobody from ESPN has asked me to do that.

Speaker 1 That's just, that's just you. That's like what you do for fun.
Your hobby is I'm going to report on a different sport.

Speaker 5 And just dunk on that. Honestly,

Speaker 5 when I did do that, I did about a half dozen NBA games. That was fun.

Speaker 5 Like, the only thing that wasn't really fun was I remember we were getting ready for the draft, and they said, Could you do a playoff game? Like, I'd love to do a playoff. That would be awesome.

Speaker 5 The only thing I ask is, like, we're getting ready for the draft. We're still getting out of free agency.
Could you just keep me close by?

Speaker 5 So, they only sent me to Salt Lake City, you know, to do the Utah Jazz.

Speaker 1 So, I appreciated that.

Speaker 5 It was very thoughtful of them.

Speaker 1 You got to pay your dues, man. Yes, exactly.
You're starting over again.

Speaker 5 You go to Salt Lake City. And the funny thing is, I lived in Denver for almost 16 years.
I get out of the plane, and

Speaker 5 by about 12, one o'clock, I had so much altitude sickness that I couldn't, I mean, it came up on you really quick, really.

Speaker 5 And you would have thought that living in Colorado, maybe you would have been used to it. No.

Speaker 1 No, us short guys, we don't do well with the heights. It's awful.
I'm not used to the air up there.

Speaker 5 It's too. It was terrible.
So they hadn't sent me back to Salt Lake City on another assignment or anything like that. So we'll see.

Speaker 1 Where are manners? We didn't even. How's the knee doing? Yeah.
Oh, I asked them in the elevator. He said everyone asks.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Sorry, credit to the.

Speaker 5 Two things that we get asked more about than Tom Brady and the knee. The knee probably won't.

Speaker 1 The Des Tape and the Dez tape. Where is it?

Speaker 1 A long time. We had to bring that up.
No, no, no. That's always going to come up.
I've always, I wrote it right here, Dez tape. Okay.
Where is it?

Speaker 5 It is somewhere on the bottom of the ocean.

Speaker 1 Okay, I would like to see it. All right.
But yeah, the knee. So yeah, yeah, how's it? Assault.

Speaker 5 You know, the knee, what happened was that night, I want to set the record straight a little bit because Steve Young was the white guy doing the gritty like all over the field.

Speaker 5 And I'm with Booger and Randy, and we're having a good time and so we're trying to stay warm so i just did i i didn't realize the camera would capture me and that my knee would get injured and so i went in i got an mri

Speaker 5 and again

Speaker 5 injury information that has not been revealed anywhere else we'll reveal here but we scheduled surgery knee surgery for after the super bowl um my doctor he'll appreciate dr freeman shout out Yep, and

Speaker 5 we decided what we do is we do an aggressive form of physical therapy leading up to the Super Bowl, take two weeks off, see how it felt after. I got to tell you,

Speaker 5 feels pretty good. Hello surgery.
Not right now.

Speaker 1 So you gutted it out for the rest of the year. You're like, you know what? I'm going to put it off

Speaker 1 for my team. I'm going to continue to show up at work, do my best, play through pain.
You know what the worst part is?

Speaker 5 How many players have we seen do that, right? Like you just say like they need the surge, and they're like, you know what? Screw it. I'm not getting it.
I'm going to play right through it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And that's what we did. It's refreshing to see.

Speaker 1 Thank you. I think the worst part about that visual wasn't necessarily the dance.
It was awful. It was the boots you were wearing.

Speaker 1 The boots boots were bad.

Speaker 5 You know, here's the thing.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to let you go. Here's the thing.
You know, there is a thing. There is a thing.

Speaker 1 There is a thing.

Speaker 1 Of course,

Speaker 1 of course, there's a thing.

Speaker 5 Had fur on them. We were in Buffalo the week before where I'm being blown out of chairs.
Where were we?

Speaker 1 Yeah, we were. It wasn't that cold.

Speaker 1 It wasn't that cold at all.

Speaker 1 It wasn't cold. It wasn't that cold.
No, it wasn't. We actually took our shirts off because it was so hot in the sweet.

Speaker 5 Well, I will say this. I am very soft.

Speaker 1 Very soft, okay? You're not.

Speaker 5 You're not. Very soft.

Speaker 1 You played through menace?

Speaker 5 Yes, I can do that, but put me in the cold. I don't do well.
I can't stand it. And so we're on the field in Buffalo where you say it wasn't that cold.

Speaker 5 I had a little bit of a different interpretation of it.

Speaker 5 We were joking.

Speaker 1 We were in a suite the whole time. Okay, well, there you go.
But we were shirtless.

Speaker 5 Well, to me, it was freezing. That wind was unbelievable.
And so we went to Chicago. Now, what was notable about that trip, not only was the knee, but I flew out with a guy in my row

Speaker 5 in the plane. He continues to take off his mask.

Speaker 1 Two hours flight from New York to Chicago. Jail.
What's his name, Aaron Rogers?

Speaker 5 Coughing, sneezing, wiping his nose the entire time. And then when we got off the plane, I'm walking outside.
Like, literally, the guy's like walking right behind me.

Speaker 5 Two days later, I get home on Wednesday, scratchy throat,

Speaker 1 coughing. Hold on.

Speaker 5 Three days later, the entire Schefter family.

Speaker 1 Big C.

Speaker 5 Big C. Everybody.
Everybody tested positive. That guy.

Speaker 5 Was that guy Rogers? That asshole on the plane. I'm telling you, there's no doubt my guy.
That guy in the plane gave me.

Speaker 5 So I damaged my meniscus and got COVID.

Speaker 5 So we played through it.

Speaker 1 This is a great way to just totally get us off track of these boots.

Speaker 1 So the boots. So the boots.
I had completely forgotten about the boots.

Speaker 1 I went on a journey.

Speaker 1 Just answer the boot question.

Speaker 1 That motherfucker.

Speaker 1 Here's what happened. That motherfucker almost killed your daughter.
That's disgusting.

Speaker 5 My wife is a type 1 diabetic.

Speaker 1 Literally, literally, like,

Speaker 5 we had to get her IVs to kind of help bring her along because that's dangerous for a type 1 diabetic.

Speaker 5 And it was that asshole on the plane that gave it to me. I'm so pissed off about him.

Speaker 1 The boot.

Speaker 5 Buffalo haunted about how cold I was. I'm like, I don't really care.
Like, I'm on a set. I don't care if I'm wearing fur boots and fur mittens and fur earmuffs.
I'm going to be warm in Chicago.

Speaker 5 Now, it wasn't that bad that night. It was cold.

Speaker 5 I'm not expecting to get up from the desk. I'm not expecting to be shimmying around on the field with Randy and Booger and following Steve's lead.
But I was.

Speaker 5 And so, yeah, you caught me in these furry boots, but you know what? They were warmer than what I could normally wear. And honestly, I don't care what it looks like as long as I stay warm on the road.

Speaker 5 That's all I really care about.

Speaker 1 Did you consider reaching out to Dr. James Andrews? Were you like, you know what? I'm basically in the NFL.
Let's see if I can get an A-lister to do my knee.

Speaker 5 No, but you know, there was a time in

Speaker 5 the Super Bowl in Miami where I was working for NFL Network at the time and came down with a violent, violent stomach virus. Like, I had to go to the...

Speaker 1 Is your immune system okay?

Speaker 5 Maybe not. Maybe not.

Speaker 1 I'm concerned about your body.

Speaker 5 As you should be.

Speaker 5 Too many donuts in the morning, too much coffee. Big cat probably can understand, right? Yes.
And so.

Speaker 1 I'm healthy like an ox, though, so no big deal.

Speaker 1 I've had COVID like three times. No big deal.

Speaker 5 Get right through it, right? Yeah. Every strain.

Speaker 5 I was sick at the NFL Super Bowl, brought me on set. They had a couple of the NFL doctors assigned to the teams looking after me.
I never got well that week. I literally could not eat.

Speaker 5 I was in the hospital.

Speaker 1 The Miami one?

Speaker 5 The New Orleans.

Speaker 1 Oh, New Orleans.

Speaker 5 New Orleans, Indianapolis.

Speaker 1 Back in the day.

Speaker 1 So Prince Super Bowl. So, no, that was Indianapolis, Chicago.
Oh, yeah, that's right. Yep.

Speaker 5 Indianapolis, New Orleans.

Speaker 1 Was that also Miami?

Speaker 5 That was Miami.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 All our years blend together.

Speaker 5 Yeah, they do after a while. It's hard to.

Speaker 1 Here's a tough question for you. Yeah.
Okay. Yep.
You just told us about the meniscus, right? You didn't get surgery. You're a free agent coming up.

Speaker 1 Do you think maybe potential people now will hear this and be like, well, we want to sign him, but his knee could blow at any moment.

Speaker 5 I mean, that's got to be a concern.

Speaker 1 I'm now putting that as a red flag. We're at the combine.
That is an official red flag. This is similar to the Jimmy G thing.
He's getting

Speaker 1 shoulder surgery right now.

Speaker 1 We're buying, you know, if someone's like, hey, I want to get Adam Schefter,

Speaker 1 it might just blow up. It could.
You could be on the DL.

Speaker 5 And I'm trying to find a good deal. Like, I've been following some of these bets of the year.

Speaker 5 Game of the year.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Are you going to get into the gambling industry? Because that's, listen,

Speaker 1 that's my theory.

Speaker 1 I think you're a smart guy, and you've proven yourself at NFL Network and ESPN. You've worn the Big J, and heavy is the head that wears the Big J sometimes.

Speaker 1 I feel like the gambling industry right now is throwing so much money at people. It's going to be hard for you to say no.

Speaker 5 Well, I think the times are changing. I think it's a different day and age.

Speaker 5 But I will say that truly, I mean, I've loved being at ASPN.

Speaker 5 It's been 13 years.

Speaker 5 There's been all sorts of fun incidents here that we've documented. Des tape.
Des tape.

Speaker 5 You can blame Florio for that, by the way.

Speaker 1 Because when he's on the show, we just ask him about the des tape.

Speaker 1 What's that? Is the news?

Speaker 1 No. Oh.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 And so I'm waiting for Cliff Kingsbury to tweet out where

Speaker 1 Jake Marshall will do it. He's actually been covering your impending free agency.
Yes. For sure.
We had him get on top of it. Yeah, we want him to be covering every move that you know what's funny?

Speaker 5 There are these things out there that never happened sometimes. Like, you know, Adam Schefter met with this company.

Speaker 1 Okay, but and PFD's got to want to bring up something about Jake Marsh, but real quick, you, you, you are, like, I'm going to give you a compliment. You are an insanely hard worker.

Speaker 1 You are at the top of your profession.

Speaker 5 it has to feel a little bit good to maybe get close to free agency you know it's cool like you know it's cool people want me well i've covered free agency for 32 years and it's kind of fun to study it watch it and then essentially yeah do something like that your own and you are you yeah so so what lessons have you are you like deleting i actually from your twitter bio you should do that unfollowing people everybody that's excellent that's a great idea yeah you should oh that's a good idea you should unfollow jimmy Petaro.

Speaker 5 Well, you know,

Speaker 5 well.

Speaker 1 That would be great. That would get everyone.

Speaker 5 I love Jimmy Petaro.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but why'd you unfollow him?

Speaker 5 I don't think he has a social media account, but there are other people I could unfollow.

Speaker 1 Kirk Magnus?

Speaker 5 I like him, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we like him a lot, but why'd you unfollow him? You've got to play a power play. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 Well, you know, the power play takes on different forms, right? You got to plot it out. You notice them? Well, you know, listen.

Speaker 1 Are you on Instagram? You can scrub your Instagram like any pictures that you've ever had with Booger McFarlane.

Speaker 5 I could have my agent release a statement that ESPN better pay me, or I'm not going to cover a super. Or I'm not going to cover a super.

Speaker 1 You know what you could do? You could also hold out. Like, what if on the eve of NFL free agency, you just said, you know what? I'm not going to cover this.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to give you anything until you give me my contract. The double holdout has never been done before.
Are you? I love that. Yeah, the double holdout is a genius.

Speaker 1 You don't understand your value. You're like Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 You're like, and right now, Aaron Rodgers, I believe per our best friend Diana Rossini, said he wants to be the highest paid player in the history of the NFL. So you deny.

Speaker 5 Which he later denied. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, no way. He said he insinuated something that was like, why is the media misconstruing my words?

Speaker 5 He's an honest guy. You know what's amazing about that?

Speaker 5 The Aaron Rodgers situation, we continue to divert and all these other areas, but there are people in that Packers organization that have no idea what he's going to do.

Speaker 1 Oh, no, duh.

Speaker 5 He holds them hostage. No idea.
He's going to be. And here we are on March 2nd.
Players don't know. Coaches don't know.
Like, what's he doing?

Speaker 1 So, I mean, the report was he wants like $50 million.

Speaker 1 I could ask you the same. Like, what's your number?

Speaker 5 $50 million.

Speaker 1 It is?

Speaker 1 That's money. You could put it out there.
Wait, so you said your agent could... Adam Schefft just demands $50 million from ESPN per year guarantee.
Guarantee.

Speaker 1 And the use of True Tilford's private plane.

Speaker 5 That too.

Speaker 1 Or...

Speaker 5 He's going to consider holding out on the EVA Free Agency and not show up to do all the studio shows in time.

Speaker 1 All released by your agent, Don Yee.

Speaker 1 No, we're now his agent. No, his week.
His agent is Donye. No, we get 10% records.
We absolutely get 10%.

Speaker 5 Well, it's actually the person,

Speaker 5 Big Cat, and I had a funny thing today, was texting me where the room was, where there was a team that wanted to do an interview for one of their websites.

Speaker 5 So I said, hey, I'll talk to you this afternoon. So I was texting.
Big Cat when I thought I was texting them, and I told, accidentally.

Speaker 5 I told him. Yeah,

Speaker 1 please don't sue me

Speaker 1 yeah you did the Bill Belichick sorry I really fucked this up bash AS

Speaker 1 Congrats so I mean what a great week you get the buffalo job and you're on the podium with the Wisconsin team presenting the trophy a part like what do you got to do to make that happen I it was crazy I don't really know he's basically part of the team now yeah it was crazy it was nuts I'm still the only reason that I've come down a little bit off that high is we're now in the hotel that I was in when Wisconsin lost to Duke in 2015.

Speaker 1 So I'm having flashes.

Speaker 5 And you're with me. It's like, what a company.
You're going to go to Madison. Yeah.
Celebrate.

Speaker 1 And then right back here, I walked into the lobby

Speaker 1 of our treatment.

Speaker 1 Hank was like, I was like, what's your memory from here? And Hank's like, you dying right there. And I was like, cool.
That's awesome. I'm going to grab my phone real quick to read the Jake Marshall.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
So, so, no, seriously, though, I want to compliment you. It's incredible.
Like, free agency, we give you, we give you a lot of shit, but you are an insanely hardworking person.

Speaker 1 You're at the top of your profession. Is it like, are you going to do maybe a little wine and dine? Like, take me out to a steak dinner kind of thing? Like, let me go and, you know, let me go to,

Speaker 1 I don't know, DraftKings, and they'll put you up on the Jumbotron, or maybe like CBS Sports, we'll give you a jersey.

Speaker 1 Maybe you do like Ray Allen, He Got Game, and you, you go and fuck two women at the same time. I don't know.
What are you going to do?

Speaker 5 Yeah,

Speaker 5 I don't know because I really haven't been through this before, but I will say that I already, I did have one. You talk about wine and dine and women.

Speaker 5 Well, the only thing I've had so far is I had one breakfast with ESPN in a diner.

Speaker 5 And I said to them, I'm like, hey, the last time that I had a meal with an ESPN executive, right, was when I signed my last contract

Speaker 5 seven years ago. Seven years ago.
We went to a really nice dinner. It was me, John Skipper.

Speaker 1 And now it's a diner.

Speaker 5 Right. Seth Markman, Stephanie Drully, Rob Savanelli at the time.
I'm trying to think of all the people that were at that dinner. It was a great.
It was a Barcelona employee, Rob Savanelli.

Speaker 1 It was a memorable dinner.

Speaker 5 And And this time, we started out with a breakfast at a diner in Connecticut. I'm just telling you.

Speaker 5 You tell me.

Speaker 5 You know,

Speaker 5 you see teams like there are free agents that fly in

Speaker 5 commercially, first class, some private.

Speaker 5 I'm just telling you.

Speaker 1 Wait, free agents fly in commercially?

Speaker 5 Yeah, I'm throwing my football free agents. They do? Oh, there are some, yeah.

Speaker 1 I guess there would be like lower price, but like big ones, you've got to fly privately.

Speaker 5 Well, different teams take different approaches with different guys. Like the Bengals.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Bengals just straight up put you on spirit.

Speaker 5 There are coaches. There are coaches that I know who have been on job interviews on connecting flights.
Like,

Speaker 5 wait, they're flying you to wherever they're flying you on a connecting flight.

Speaker 1 That's crazy. Like, what the hell?

Speaker 1 Thoughts and prayers.

Speaker 5 So, anyway, so we start with the SBO

Speaker 5 at a diner, but

Speaker 5 like I said, I have a lot of affection for a lot of people there. I really do.

Speaker 1 If you go somewhere else, you should demand to bring in talent

Speaker 1 like a high-priced quarterback, being like, I'm going to need a wide receiver out here. Of course.
You got to hire my daughter, too. Of course.
Darlington's going to be a little bit more.

Speaker 1 Packaged you, Darlington. Exactly.

Speaker 5 If Darlington's going to take bullets for me,

Speaker 5 I'm going to absolutely do that again.

Speaker 1 All right. So I wanted to read this to you because Jake Marsh, he's one of our most trusted, loyal employees here.
He's at PMT Sports Biz.

Speaker 1 He's the one that's been reporting a little bit on your free agency, gassing you up a little bit, actually. Okay, good.
Thank you, Jake. He wrote to you.
Yeah, it's very cool.

Speaker 1 He wrote to you back in 2015 when he was a student at Syracuse University because

Speaker 1 I guess he had had read a Q ⁇ A that you did with the Michigan Daily back in 2013 and Jake was rushing fraternity and he got rejected a second time from rushing. Do you remember this email? No.

Speaker 5 But I know somebody else who got rejected twice from fraternity. Yeah.
So I'm gonna

Speaker 1 go ahead. So he's like a big fan of journalism in general.
That's what he wants to do and he's gonna do it eventually.

Speaker 1 But he wrote you an email. just kind of explaining where he's coming from.
He's like, I saw how you talked about dealing with rejection.

Speaker 1 And I got chills when he read it, is what he said. And then you replied to his email, actually.
You said, Jake, pleased to hear the encouragement you got from my interview in the daily.

Speaker 1 If you get a moment, please look at the speech I gave at Northwestern a few years ago. I think there's a link to it on my Wikipedia page.

Speaker 1 That speech will sum up my thoughts on the college experience and advancing your career. But you're doing the right things, getting involved, reaching out to other organizations.

Speaker 1 There's always a place for everyone.

Speaker 1 It's up to you to find it. It sounds like you're well on your way to doing that, which I congratulate you for.

Speaker 1 Make sure to use your college experience to gain as much experience as you can, do as many summer internships as you can, and work as hard as you can. And screw the fraternity.

Speaker 1 One day they'll regret not inviting you. One day you'll be better off for it.
Have a great time in college. Keep chasing your dreams.
Sincerely, Adam Schafter.

Speaker 1 That was a very nice email that you sent back to Jake. And it encouraged him a lot and put him in a better space.
So as much shit as we give you, I think you're a good guy.

Speaker 5 And I would say with that email,

Speaker 5 I would say with all the people that you listen, yeah, I don't know, you think I'm a good guy, but anyway.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, it's just a very funny, like, listen, you're an ex-holes. Everything you do, Boyd is terrible.
You're a good guy.

Speaker 1 Despite your boots, I don't think you're going to be a good guy. Begrudgingly.
Yeah. I don't care what everyone says about you.
You're an okay guy.

Speaker 5 But listen, you had all those Wisconsin fans swarming big cat last night, right? There's a lot of people. You guys have a huge audience in that age range.

Speaker 5 There's a lot of people across college campuses that hang on every word that you guys say. So I'm asked for advice.
That's advice that I would give to almost anybody.

Speaker 5 So his situation was that he was rejected from a fraternity. But there's somebody else that didn't get into a club or didn't make a team or doesn't get a job or whatever it is.

Speaker 5 It's all, we're all going through the same things in college, right? It's the same stuff. So it's up to everybody else.
I don't go to my soapbox here to just go make the most of your opportunity.

Speaker 5 I got rejected from a fraternity my freshman year.

Speaker 5 And that was when at that point in time I went down to the football office to see if they needed somebody to pick up jock straps and hand out water bottles, and they didn't.

Speaker 5 Basketball office, they didn't need anybody. I'm like, I got to do something.
What am I going to do? God, the fraternity doesn't want me. Football, basketball don't want me.

Speaker 5 I'm going to go to the student newspaper. And if the fraternity had let me in, I'm telling you right now, I never would have went to the student newspaper.

Speaker 5 And then the fraternity the second semester, a different fraternity, didn't let me in.

Speaker 5 And my college buddies to this day laugh about it because they finally let me in first term sophomore year so all my friends got in.

Speaker 5 Freshman year, I was enough of a loser that I couldn't get in till my sophomore year.

Speaker 5 But at that point, I had started to work for this student newspaper and just tried to make something happen when nothing else was happening.

Speaker 1 I think it's a good message, though, that some people can take rejection and then that turns into anger and resentment and it becomes a negative thing.

Speaker 1 Or you could try to turn it into something positive. But what did you do in between your freshmen? How did you get so much cooler?

Speaker 5 I didn't get that. Let me tell you something.

Speaker 1 That got worse.

Speaker 5 No,

Speaker 5 no, you know what? I had some friends there. I don't think I got it.
They had a fight to get me in. Like, there was a real chance I wasn't going to get in.
You know what?

Speaker 5 If I didn't get in, I would have lost out on some of those great experiences and some of those friends. But it probably would have worked out elsewhere.

Speaker 5 Like, it just, it would have been a different experience. That's all.
That's the point, right? Whether you're applying to a fraternity, an internship, a job.

Speaker 5 So there are always going to be people that tell us no. Like, I have hundreds, hundreds of rejection letters, right?

Speaker 5 Like I wanted to go cover the Colorado Rockies baseball team for the Rocky Mountain News, and they wouldn't let me go cover the new baseball team, the expansion franchise.

Speaker 5 No, you're going to stick on the NFL and you're going to like it, okay? Like you got no choice. And so I was forced to stay on the Broncos beat.

Speaker 1 But it's also, I think, a great lesson of a lot of people successful, like a lot of lucky things have to happen.

Speaker 1 And, you know, things go your way in different ways where it's like, oh, that happened and now I'm here.

Speaker 1 Like, I think a lot of people get to a point of their career where they kind of forget about the luck or the little breaks that happen along the way.

Speaker 5 Oh, it takes all that.

Speaker 5 Right. Like,

Speaker 5 I never would have imagined being in this position today. With us, you mean? You know, holding out a free agency, contemplating a holdout, scrubbing my Instagram page.

Speaker 1 He's always been a team first guy. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 5 But at some point in time, that's got to stop.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Listen, it demands.

Speaker 1 Listen, they're trying to make you play with a Tormeniscus. Antonio Brown, rip off your shirt.

Speaker 1 Get out of here.

Speaker 5 I need

Speaker 5 to be able to afford the next pair of furry boots.

Speaker 1 That's true. Yeah.
Listen, yeah, absolutely. Your business.

Speaker 1 You got to start thinking about yourself as a business. It would be so awesome if you actually did this, if you leaned into it.

Speaker 5 By the way, how come I don't have a furry boots endorsement deal yet?

Speaker 1 That was probably because you tore your knee off using them.

Speaker 1 That probably is a bad thing. Come to Barstool Sports.
We'll get you all the furry boots you need.

Speaker 5 Oh. Is that an offer?

Speaker 1 Are we in the...

Speaker 5 Is that an offer?

Speaker 1 Can we at least get a hat on the table when you do the announcement? Hats on the table.

Speaker 1 Like, can we please at least get a barstool hat? Yeah. Like, he was considering it.

Speaker 1 We'll have an offer. We'll absolutely have an offer.
$49 million.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Okay, great.

Speaker 5 Let's do it. You can't.

Speaker 1 Oh, you just negotiated against yourself. You said $50 million and I'm out.
We just talked you down.

Speaker 5 Got you. Well, I mean, like, let's get the conversations going.
You want to start at $49 million. We get the hat on the table.
We go from there.

Speaker 1 You're using us as leverage because now you're going to take the 49 million and you're going to be like, I'll take this and less 50 million.

Speaker 5 Let me see what Danyee has to say about that.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 1 Let's do quick, let's do quick stories that are coming up. Obviously, you don't have a definitive answer, but like which way the wind is blowing.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 Those always result in headlines.

Speaker 1 No, listen, we're not.

Speaker 5 Last week, I said, yeah, likely Jimmy Garoppolo is moving on, and that turns into a headline of not a lot that the 49ers are going to trade him.

Speaker 1 We'll do percentages.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, percentages always. I'm not doing percentages.
How about this one? We'll just call it gun to your head. Yeah, gun to your head.
Gun to your head.

Speaker 1 Russell Wilson is the starting quarterback for the Seahawks to start the season.

Speaker 5 I would think that that would be the case. Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay, gun to your head. Carson Wentz is the Colts' starting quarterback to start the season.

Speaker 5 Carson Wentz, I think we should put him in Washington just to see PFC.

Speaker 1 Shut the fuck up. No, that's not even mean.

Speaker 1 That's not even.

Speaker 1 You put a gun to my head and I'm going to get you. That's not even a mean thing to to do.

Speaker 1 When I think about Carson Wentz playing for the Commanders, my soul just kind of like, my body just goes, it just goes limp. Oh, it'd be so bad.
Do you think about that, by the way?

Speaker 1 And when you tweet out the graphic, that's like Sean McVay, Kyle Shanhan, Matt LaFleur, all on the 2013 Washington Redskins team. Do you think about how pissed off I'm going to be when you do that?

Speaker 1 The thoughts got to be, you got to be like, I'm so glad that PFT's mad at me right now.

Speaker 1 That was an incredible staff i'm not trying to rub yeah i know also mike mcdani

Speaker 5 mike mcdaniel was there too yeah thanks yeah

Speaker 1 it's gotten so bad for pft he's like inventing new guys he's like i think that guy was there tom landry was there

Speaker 1 vince lombardi was on there

Speaker 1 you were like i think that guy was there it's like no it's a few

Speaker 1 and it's like that's how bad he's been wounded by this

Speaker 1 and rightfully so i mean i said as a commander's fan it's it's it's been a tough go for well let me ask you this what do you think So it's going to really bother you.

Speaker 5 It's going to really bother you that all those guys are not there, but Carson Wentz is.

Speaker 1 Yes. God damn it.

Speaker 1 It really notes. It takes my soul away.
They were interceptions last year. And they were the worst interceptions ever.
I know. What happens first? Dan Snyder sells the Commanders or I die.

Speaker 5 I can't see Dan Snyder ever voluntarily selling

Speaker 1 this guy. No,

Speaker 1 don't those suck? Add like 13.

Speaker 1 I've had 13 kidney stones. Yeah.
Not 13 incidents. 13 incidents.
13 kidneys. 13 stones.

Speaker 5 And how many times, like, how many times are you in the hospital that they passed?

Speaker 1 I went to the hospital one time, passed two of them on my own, and then

Speaker 1 there was a problem. The others were really small.
So I'm pretty sure I just pissed those right out.

Speaker 5 Have you revised your diet?

Speaker 1 Absolutely not. No.
No.

Speaker 5 Because I passed a kidney stone and my doctor's like, you can't drink beer. Like, I'm like, can't drink beer?

Speaker 1 That's their answer for everything.

Speaker 5 Well, okay, but again, since he took, like, that was so painful.

Speaker 1 Well, you could never drink beer. That's why you didn't get in the frat.

Speaker 5 That's exactly right. And you see my chugging contest with Dan Orlovsky?

Speaker 5 Yeah, I can drink beer. You're damn right about that.

Speaker 1 All right, so answer the question. Yeah, it is.

Speaker 1 Who's going to die first? And I know you said voluntarily sell, but the question is, will he sell the team?

Speaker 5 I don't think so.

Speaker 5 I think he's got zero, zero intent to sell.

Speaker 1 But what if, what about this new investigation?

Speaker 5 I can't predict what's going to come out. I don't know.
Gunt your head.

Speaker 1 Does he sell or no? No. God damn it.
Okay.

Speaker 1 I don't like the news that you break.

Speaker 1 That's my problem.

Speaker 1 Change the news. You got bad news.

Speaker 5 Welcome to the crowd. I know.

Speaker 1 It must suck sometimes when you tweet something and it's like, I'm reporting the news and then everyone just gets mad at you.

Speaker 5 It's become more and more like that.

Speaker 5 It's unbelievable if you think back.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, it's true.

Speaker 5 Everybody's offended. Like, change the news.
When it involves their team. Right.
Right.

Speaker 5 I'm not trying to defend anybody.

Speaker 1 Which team do you hate the most? Like, which fan base when they're like, this classic Chefty, he hates the Seahawks? Like, are you like, yeah, they're right either.

Speaker 5 I don't know that I hear any that stuff.

Speaker 5 It's probably just a, honestly, a cyclical thing. Like, like when you say that, you know, Tom Brady's leaving New England after the year,

Speaker 5 the fans in New England don't like that. You know, fans in Green Bay don't like the Aaron Rodgers.
They think it's contrived or made up or whatever it is.

Speaker 5 And he was pretty open about his feelings when he reported to camp. So honestly, it's whatever team, whatever fan base is involved in that particular story, a lot of times they're not happy about it.

Speaker 1 I think you hate the Commanders based on the news that you've been giving me.

Speaker 5 I can't say I'm a big fan of that name. Yeah,

Speaker 1 it doesn't, it doesn't roll off the tongue.

Speaker 1 It's just an average name.

Speaker 5 Nothing harder than saying the commanders is the commanders quarterback Carson Wentz.

Speaker 1 That mouse changed the news.

Speaker 1 Here's another one I'm curious about. Your college coach, Jim Harbaugh.
How close was that? What happened there? Because I was worried. I mean, I think Harbaugh is an unbelievable coach.

Speaker 1 I thought he would have been

Speaker 1 home run hire for the Vikings.

Speaker 5 I think he was definitely interested in hearing what they had to say. He spent about nine hours.

Speaker 5 He and I spoke that night, and he was very complimentary of the Vikings' organization.

Speaker 5 the ownership. I think that they just had different ideas about the way that it was going to work and flow.

Speaker 5 And so he said, back to Michigan, not going anywhere else. I actually think I believe him.
I think he's very honest about that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's not someone who's like playing some kind of weird mind game when it comes to news. I don't think so.
Yeah, I think he tells you the truth.

Speaker 5 He's an honest guy. And so when he says he's going back to Michigan, he's not doing that again.
I believe that.

Speaker 5 And it's probably true. Like, that's where he is right now.
He's done a great job. We hope and expect that he's going to continue to do a great job.

Speaker 5 Hopefully he's not pushing any Wisconsin coaches or doing anything like that to Greg Gard, right?

Speaker 5 We can't have that.

Speaker 5 But

Speaker 5 also the NFL, a lot of the, they're looking to hire these young guys right now.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 5 And Jim and I are like very similar in age. They're looking for the next Sean McVay.
They're looking for the next Zach Taylor. They're looking for somebody like that.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 And so I don't think they're looking for

Speaker 5 as much so for middle-aged guys.

Speaker 1 Do you think it also kind of came down to the fact that I'm just guessing that Harbaugh probably didn't want Kirk Cousins? He was probably going to come in and be like, this is not my kind of guy.

Speaker 1 And they want somebody that has worked with him. That's another Washington coach.
God damn it.

Speaker 5 Well,

Speaker 5 he wasn't on that staff. He came in after that, Kevin O'Connell did.

Speaker 1 But he was on the football team.

Speaker 5 If you got in the full directory for him, like everybody, like that team photo from that year,

Speaker 5 yeah, you need to do that.

Speaker 5 It would be fun.

Speaker 1 Deuce Gruden, probably. Deuce Gruden.

Speaker 1 What's Deuce up to these days? You haven't reported on Deuce.

Speaker 5 No, I have not reported on Deuce.

Speaker 1 With the whole Gruden thing that he's done. You caught a stray in

Speaker 1 the whole thing.

Speaker 5 That was going to come up, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, maybe we should just.

Speaker 5 Yes, there's 650,000 emails that wouldn't come up.

Speaker 1 Do you think that was because you're in a contract year?

Speaker 5 You know,

Speaker 1 interesting. Ooh.
Ooh.

Speaker 5 ESPN planted.

Speaker 1 ESPN leads.

Speaker 1 Do you regret using the phrase Mr. Editor?

Speaker 5 I've had so many editors over the years that I'm conditioned to just say that, like news editors, managing editors, senior editors. That's the way it goes.
Editors. You know, 10 years ago, also.

Speaker 5 And

Speaker 5 we move on.

Speaker 5 You proud of everything you did 10 years ago? Probably not.

Speaker 1 Do you, I actually think you have

Speaker 1 a resiliency where you do seem to move on. Do you try? Do those things linger a little bit, though? Do they like affect you? Oh,

Speaker 5 I think they

Speaker 5 a little bit. You do your best, you do your best to

Speaker 5 develop thick skin and tune everything out. I think I do a pretty good job of it.

Speaker 5 But in the world we live in, it's so around you, like that Brady stuff that day when my daughter gets in the car. Right.
She brings it into the car. Like, I'm not looking for that at that moment.

Speaker 5 I've done a great job of not picking up the phone. Like, that Sunday morning, I pick up the phone and there were a couple of woof.

Speaker 5 I mean, strong.

Speaker 1 Strong-worded. Woof.

Speaker 1 No, I don't think that's.

Speaker 5 But people in your company don't.

Speaker 1 I just was rooting for you.

Speaker 1 We all. I was rooting for you to go.
That's fine. Because I thought it would be fun.

Speaker 5 Yeah, like the Odell Beckham one. There was another one.

Speaker 1 Which was that?

Speaker 5 When I said he's signing, and all these people said he hasn't made a decision. He's saying he hasn't made a decision.
And you guys are doing a play-by-play of it on your podcast. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 5 Right. And what happened? Yeah, yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 What happened? I think that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 He only tore his ACL. That's the last I remember.
You probably shouldn't break any news in between the hours of like five and nine at night because there's always a chance we're recording.

Speaker 1 We're just going to start talking about it. And I'm just like, wow, Shafter said, that was right for the NFL lives.
And we don't fact check. No.
Just so you know, we do not fact check.

Speaker 5 You make the facts work for you.

Speaker 1 We have the best news.

Speaker 1 We have way better news than

Speaker 1 just all it feeds into our delusions. Exactly.
We make a news.

Speaker 5 It's an alternate what you determine them to be.

Speaker 1 It's an alternate universe. But yeah, going back to that Gruden thing, because it seemed odd, the selection of emails that were released.

Speaker 1 And at the time, it was like, yeah, you can look at John Gruden's emails and say, these are bad things objectively.

Speaker 1 Like, he should not have said all these things offensive to so many people, including NFL commissioners. It was a clean sweep, I believe, is the phrase that you use.

Speaker 1 But you also have to ask, why were those the emails

Speaker 1 that were released? And I don't think that we've gotten any closure on that yet.

Speaker 5 You'd have to ask the reporters of the story. I mean,

Speaker 5 it didn't come from me. I don't know.
It's kind of weird. Yeah.
650. A lot of offensive things.
I'm sure. A lot of

Speaker 5 terrible things.

Speaker 5 And so a couple of others came out.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
I just have to wonder, like, who benefited from all that? And it seemed like, I don't know, the target was obviously John Gruden on it, and they got him out.

Speaker 1 But there's still some like remaining dots to be connected on that.

Speaker 1 That's the fascinating part of the NFL sometimes for me is like, there's so many really wealthy, powerful people that are trying to pull out.

Speaker 5 You never know who's going to come after you, right?

Speaker 1 You never know. And it's like everyone's trying to be the head puppet master at all times.

Speaker 5 So who is the head puppet master? You guys on the fact-checking? I mean, if you're making the facts up as you you go,

Speaker 5 exactly.

Speaker 1 We might be. Shadow Commissioner, Arch Manning.
Just say Ernie Adams anytime.

Speaker 1 Ernie Adams. He's the answer to everything.

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So you're at a point in your your life. You're about to hit free agency.

Speaker 1 You've done everything.

Speaker 1 Have you, serious question here, have you been able to

Speaker 1 balance a little bit with the work and life and not being so, I need every scoop? Or is it still there? Is it still maniacal? You can't do your job unless you're doing it 100?

Speaker 1 Well, I think that

Speaker 5 when you devote yourself to your job, you can't kind of do this job. You're

Speaker 5 in it or you're not. Right.
It's not that kind of thing. But last summer, someone called me

Speaker 5 in the NFL media world and they were talking, hey, when your contract's up, you know, we'd like to do some things with you.

Speaker 5 Just kind of talking, generally speaking, and they said, what do you want to do? I want you to think about what you want to do. And I said, okay.
I called that person back the next day

Speaker 5 after thinking about it. I said, I want to be happier.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 I want my life to be a little simpler.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Because it's not. It doesn't feel that way.
It feels like

Speaker 5 it's just,

Speaker 5 listen, I love what I do. I've been doing this for 32 years since 1990.
It's a privilege. It's an honor.
And it's not a complaint because it is, I can't imagine what else I do.

Speaker 5 I can't imagine loving a job. But any job done the right way, it just, it takes it out of you.
You guys, I mean, I know you guys are up to way more than $50,000 per episode right now.

Speaker 1 It was a long time ago, dude. I think that was like our first year.

Speaker 1 102

Speaker 1 gross 83 net. See that? Yeah.
Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 Unbelievable.

Speaker 5 Not a big deal. Do you still feel the same passion for it now

Speaker 5 than when you first started?

Speaker 1 It's different, right?

Speaker 5 It's different.

Speaker 1 I think I feel the same passion for it.

Speaker 1 There's never going to be the same level of holy shit that there was at the start when it kind of like took off. Right.
Because the rise is like a different feeling.

Speaker 1 But as our friend Tom Crean taught us, get ahead, stay ahead. Get ahead, stay ahead.
So there is a rush in staying ahead, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so I think that we have something similar at times to your profession where it's not that you don't love your job, because I think we all sitting here love our jobs.

Speaker 1 It's that when you get a scoop, you get what, like 10 minutes, and then it's the next scoop. Like we were in Madison last night, had a great night.

Speaker 1 We drove here, like after four hours of sleep to do interviews. Like, so it's the constant, like, you do one thing, it's awesome,

Speaker 1 next thing's up right away.

Speaker 5 When I covered the Denver Broncos, which was a different animal for a newspaper for 16 years, I can remember getting news stories and following them and thinking, like, wow, that's a great story.

Speaker 5 And then it doesn't mean anything the next day. And I said, it's kind of like just watching waves at the ocean.
Yeah. Wave rolls in, boom, it rolls back.

Speaker 1 Another one rolls in. Do a podcast.

Speaker 5 Exactly. It just keeps coming.
And I guess that's being a pro, just doing it time and time again. But I do go back to that happier answer.
Like, what is it that would make you happier?

Speaker 5 Like, I've never had an assistant at all.

Speaker 1 Really? Ever. That's crazy to me.

Speaker 5 Are you looking for one? And my life becomes unreal. Yeah, I'm going to, yeah, I am.

Speaker 1 Yeah. We could do that.
Yeah, we could set you up with one.

Speaker 5 You know what?

Speaker 1 I got your email address here from Jake. I could just read it out loud.
You get a ton of resumes. Why would you have an assistant? That's not.

Speaker 5 Well, but I think I'm at the point now where, like, you know where I need it. I need it with help at home, too.
My wife, a few times this year, type one diet, but like I said, a couple issues.

Speaker 5 I'm in Seattle one time. Right.
I'm not even there. Like,

Speaker 5 my daughter's too young. My son's in college.
Like, what are we doing here?

Speaker 1 Right. No, I agree.

Speaker 5 It gets probably, so I need somebody just to help out

Speaker 5 just to kind of be there.

Speaker 1 Do you know Billy Football? What's that? Do you know a guy named Billy Football? Who's Billy Football? I think he'd be perfect for this assignment.

Speaker 1 I'll tell you what. Barcelon Sports will get you an assignment.

Speaker 5 You probably never should have said that. Well, I've spoken to a few people.
And you know what? There was a woman that I worked with at the Denver Post back in the day, a woman who was unbelievable.

Speaker 5 Love this woman, gracious, kind, generous, thoughtful, professional, like everything. And I always said, one day, one day, I'm going to see if

Speaker 5 you can come work with me and be my assistant. And I'm going to call her soon and see if she would be interested in doing that.

Speaker 1 But this is like, this is real talk because

Speaker 1 I do think that there's watching you from afar and knowing you a little bit, you know, we catch up every couple of years, which we'll have to do again next year. We're going to be nicer to you now.

Speaker 1 This has been a very good therapeutic airing of grievances. For all of us, I do sometimes see you and I'm like, dude, like Chef D's just fucking, he just, he never stops.

Speaker 1 And it's gotta, it's gotta, it's gotta like wear you down a little bit because we have something similar.

Speaker 1 We're a little younger and, you know, maybe not in, I'm in worse shape than you, but there's times where you're doing good shape.

Speaker 5 I saw the basketball in your boobs.

Speaker 1 There's times, though, where we're like, man, we're just tired. Like, we just took a vacation.
It was very.

Speaker 5 We cannot take a vacation, right? Guess what? I haven't taken a vacation in 10, 15 years.

Speaker 1 As guys who just took a vacation, take a vacation.

Speaker 5 Here's the issue.

Speaker 1 Touchgrass, Adam. Touchgrass, bro.

Speaker 5 Lock off. Touchgrass, smallgrass, right?

Speaker 1 All right, Trey. I didn't know you got down like that.
I'm surprised

Speaker 1 you and the frat.

Speaker 5 Here's the deal.

Speaker 5 Here's the deal. I would go.
My wife, again, has some health concerns. We've got five dogs at home.

Speaker 5 She would never leave the dogs.

Speaker 1 So, why don't you just go to the Hamptons or something? Well, bring the dogs. You know what?

Speaker 5 Now you get an assistant.

Speaker 1 Take care of the dogs. Or take care of your wife and you.

Speaker 1 That's a good idea, though. I like that.
You take a vacation.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Billy loves dogs.

Speaker 1 And your wife.

Speaker 1 I can tell you this.

Speaker 5 I hope that the woman I work with in Denver is a dog lover because if she is, then she is going to meet qualifications for the job.

Speaker 5 But somebody that could literally stay at the house for a weekend weekend

Speaker 5 to try to mentally disconnect, which I haven't done.

Speaker 1 Dude, you got to take a vacation.

Speaker 5 You're crazy. Wait, let me say this.
You crazy? This morning, I'm flying to Indianapolis. This, to me,

Speaker 5 is my closest form of a vacation. But it's not.
Well, I know that, but in my mind, I've reconciled. This is what I'm doing.
So I was in the airport this morning, right? I went into the Delta lounge.

Speaker 5 They had this excellent,

Speaker 5 they had this excellent breakfast. I'm like, oh, I'm sitting there by myself.
I'm online.

Speaker 1 Well, hold on.

Speaker 5 I get to the gate, and there's this guy. He goes, Adam,

Speaker 5 they announced they'd have moved my seat because the seat was disabled. And so the woman in the airport,

Speaker 5 could Adam Schefter please come to the podium? I'm like,

Speaker 5 so all of a sudden, I got two guys. I go, what do we got here? Well, one of the guys I went to sleepway camp with back in the day.
No way. And he wanted to talk to me.

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Speaker 1 Vacation is going to an airport. Yes.
Like people put, when they go on vacation, they put like they tweet out the airport they're leaving from and then the plane emoji and then where they're going.

Speaker 1 Your vacation is just like New York City and then just the airplane. You got to go on a vacation.
Just like going, I'm going on an airplane. You got to go on a vacation.

Speaker 5 Talk to my wife.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 All right, we will.

Speaker 5 Honestly,

Speaker 5 I would love that. Let Chef teach it.

Speaker 5 Maybe one of these decades. But

Speaker 1 you know know what you should do? You should just schedule some tweets in advance. Just like what you think is going to happen.

Speaker 5 Yeah, just like. Carson Wentz has signed a four-year contract with the Washington Commander.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, if you're going to bring it up again, I wasn't going to do this, but my last, last question was, did you kill my dog? Ooh.

Speaker 5 What happened with Leroy here? He missed him.

Speaker 1 He passed away.

Speaker 5 I know.

Speaker 1 Because he was so good at breaking news. I know.

Speaker 1 He's a legend. You got mad at him.
No. And you came on and slid his throat.
You're a kid dog lover.

Speaker 5 Exactly. No, no.
Dude, no, no, no. I get enough crap for a lot of other things that are on Marketing.

Speaker 1 Just kill the money. I killed this dog.
Yeah, okay. Come on, man.

Speaker 5 I would never kill a dog.

Speaker 1 Never kill a dog.

Speaker 5 I have great love for all dogs.

Speaker 1 Even the ones that beat you to scoops.

Speaker 5 I admire Leroy all the more for he would have been coming with me.

Speaker 1 He would have been your assistant.

Speaker 1 Agency. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Were you a little bit jealous when he broke the Gronk news?

Speaker 5 Yeah, I was.

Speaker 1 I never thought I'd get to a point in my career where I got beat by a dog.

Speaker 5 I know. Those are the dog days.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Truly.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, Adam, thank you.
It's always great to have you on. This was therapeutic.
We needed it.

Speaker 1 No joke, a week ago, we were like, hey, we've been kind of mean to Chef D. Is it because we haven't seen him in a while?

Speaker 5 You know what? No, I had heard, you know, Cliff Kingsbury, Odell Beckham, Tombray, on and on and on. But we're good.

Speaker 5 Like, I feel like, you know, Big Hat gets to go on the podium, and I get to go on vacation in the embassy suites with you guys.

Speaker 1 Yes, exactly. It's a beautiful hotel.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's a suite. Let's go in the pool.
Come on. It's the three of us.
Two cannibals. Yeah, let's wait around in the pool.

Speaker 5 And I'll change to my furry boots afterwards.

Speaker 1 Jeez. Thank you, Adam.
Thanks, guys, guys. Oh, man.
That was great.

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Speaker 1 All right, airport review number two time. We are in Madison, Wisconsin.
Our first airport review was, what, three years ago in Indianapolis?

Speaker 1 Yeah, the only thing I remember from there was there was a Chick-fil-A, and then there were lights that would turn on as you walk past them. Yes.
Overall, a great airport.

Speaker 1 Airport reviews are like whenever they're going to release a new Batman, you're like, oh man, I hope it's this year. Nope, not this year.
Next year. Okay, I hope it's next year.
Nope.

Speaker 1 It's actually going to be 2022, and it's Madison, Wisconsin. Yeah, it's the Avatar trilogy.
We'll make our way out to like Seattle in 2029. I do like, you know what I really enjoy about this airport?

Speaker 1 Yeah, so let's go.

Speaker 1 Brain dump for me because I've obviously been in this airport a few times. I like the size of it.
You can see from end to end. And that's, in general,

Speaker 1 I like state capitals. They have efficient airports.

Speaker 1 You know what it is? it's this oh whole place shakes when a military

Speaker 1 oh that is actually that is a fighter jet yeah

Speaker 1 the no offense russia the nice thing about no offense russia no

Speaker 1 fucking hate you fuck to putin um this airport is very like if if you could close your eyes and imagine what uh airports look like in like 1940.

Speaker 1 do you know what i mean like this is what this is what the initial terminal at jfk looked like what i like is there's no digital signs anywhere everything Everything, I feel like somebody comes by and like flips a number or they put it up like it's a movie theater marquee sign.

Speaker 1 We're literally walking

Speaker 1 by the way. So for people who are listening not watching, which will be on YouTube, pardon my take YouTube, we're walking the entire airport.
We're halfway through now.

Speaker 1 From the start, we're now halfway through the airport.

Speaker 1 Ooh, they got spotted cow here. Yep.
Should I get a spotted cow? You can buy it pretty much anywhere now, so you probably don't have to buy it in the airport.

Speaker 1 But it's like the first time that I see it.

Speaker 1 It's it's like whenever you just get off in an airport, you're like, oh, I got to get this. Like, yeah, they have that everywhere.
Yeah, it's like Cinnabon. When you smell Cinnabon on the way out.

Speaker 1 Got some good Badger gear.

Speaker 1 They call this place Madtown.

Speaker 1 I mean, you could, yeah. I just saw a thing that said Madtown.
You definitely could. You can call it whatever you want.
Mad Dog?

Speaker 1 Sure. Mad to the bone.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Keep going. That's all I got.
Okay.

Speaker 1 I really need a coffee.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I will. I'll get it while we're taping.
We'll talk to the person if we can find...

Speaker 1 Nothing's open right now. The brewery.
Oh, look at this. This is cute.
The book nook. It's got a little...
It's got a little fake... There are no books.
Fake library. It's just books paper.

Speaker 1 That's my type of library. It's wallpaper made to look like a book.
That's actually a genius idea.

Speaker 1 If you're building a new home, if you're an interior designer, shout out Carissa Thompson, Aaron Andrews. You can just put up one.
Just Carissa, right? I don't know. I think Erin doesn't do it.

Speaker 1 She doesn't? No. Shout out Carissa.
She just. I don't think she does.
I don't want... No, I think Charissa's doing it all on her own.
She's fucking crushing it.

Speaker 1 I thought Erin told me that wallpaper was back. Yeah, that's...
Aaron Andrews has something we call opinions. Charissa's an expert.
Got it.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, regardless, I think that there's a good future for that in homes. To have wallpaper resemble other things.
So you don't actually have to buy the books.

Speaker 1 How much do you think this Rolex ad is? Like, we could probably get some Rolexes sold. Madison and Rockford, Power Cities, right there.
Yeah, I feel like that's

Speaker 1 Madison seems like an upscale Casio town. Like the top of the line, Casio.
Yes. Yes.

Speaker 1 A little bit. There's a lot of...

Speaker 1 Central's got a bunch of stuff, too. I'm exhausted right now.
Got a lot of bags we're carrying. I don't think anything's open.

Speaker 1 I think that that bar was the only place that was open. Let's go in the bathroom.
The bathroom is exceptional. It's very clean.
This is women only.

Speaker 1 All right, so we almost went in the women's bathroom. I thought Big Cow was doing a bit right there.
No, I thought it was the divider was

Speaker 1 the divider

Speaker 1 on one side. 90% sure we're in Bittown.

Speaker 1 All right. So

Speaker 1 this is the men's bathroom.

Speaker 1 I don't know why there's.

Speaker 1 Probably can't bring the camera in here, Liam. Look at this lighting.
It's like the ring lighting when you, you know, when

Speaker 1 you're doing an Instagram video. Yeah, look at that.
It's beautiful.

Speaker 1 Yeah, your eyes look great behind those.

Speaker 1 Wow. Yeah, that's a good, that's a good sexy.
Yeah. It's a great mirror.
This is a, I would say, this is a 10 out of 10 bathroom. I'm gonna take it for a spin real quick.
Okay.

Speaker 1 A 10, I'll narrate while he does this. It's a 10 out of 10 bathroom in my mind.
One thing I love about this bathroom here is it's got a shelf above the urinal. Yeah.
See that?

Speaker 1 You can put anything you want up there. What is this? Oh, look at this.

Speaker 1 You soap,

Speaker 1 you wash,

Speaker 1 you wash.

Speaker 1 Oh, got a part there.

Speaker 1 And then you dry all in one place.

Speaker 1 Unbelievable. It's its own station.

Speaker 1 That's great. That's great.
This is an incredible bathroom. Oh, sorry.
Someone just walked in. That's a substantial stall right there, too.
Is that door go all the way? Red just walked in.

Speaker 1 It was like, are these fucking guys doing a podcast in here?

Speaker 1 That urinal was... It was rock solid, no splashback.

Speaker 1 These are some very, you get a lot of privacy in this. No, I know.
You could.

Speaker 1 This airport was built for people that like to use the bathroom. Yeah.
Yeah, no, those toilet poles have seen some shit.

Speaker 1 Get it? I just rinsed my hand. I don't need to

Speaker 1 introduce soap to this equation. Well, they have the all-in-one.
Did you see it?

Speaker 1 I've already shown it for the people, so we're good. But it's quite something.
You good? You want me to carry this? If you can just hand it to me, I can grab it.

Speaker 1 I'm not great at bending over right now. That's back right now.
It's incredible. All right.

Speaker 1 I'd say the bathroom's a solid 8 out of 10. I gave it a 10 out of 10 just because, I mean, listen, the airport doesn't have to have a lot of people in it, so

Speaker 1 like that's a really nice bathroom in there.

Speaker 1 I would give it a 10 out of 10 if

Speaker 1 the doors went all the way to the ground on the stall. Oh, so you could do cocaine? Yeah.
Also, I didn't get to take the main bathroom area for a spin, you know? Yeah.

Speaker 1 So can't give it a ten for that yet. Oh, look at this little spot where you can maybe do a little studying

Speaker 1 It's a nice plant they have in here, too. Is that a palm tree?

Speaker 1 We're gonna loop around here. Guys, they got a palm tree in the airport.

Speaker 1 We're gonna loop around here

Speaker 1 gates one, two, and three.

Speaker 1 I thought that guy's coat was a dog.

Speaker 1 The bus. Oh, it's the business center, guys.
That's the here. Want me to carry it? Making deals, so I'm fine.
You're you're literally grimacing i'm fine

Speaker 1 i'm great

Speaker 1 i'm fine guys i got no problem i got this i'm basically a shirt

Speaker 1 this is the business center this is where deals go down how how big of a deal do you think has been made here specifically it's got so just so people understand in the podcast it's got like seven cubby holes uh where you can just sit there

Speaker 1 You know what it kind of looks like? It looks like somebody could actually set up a full-time boiler room there.

Speaker 1 Just like put an ad on the Craigslist, hire five telemarketers for a day, do work here until you get kicked out. I want to ask that woman what she's working on.

Speaker 1 Business.

Speaker 1 It actually looked like she was working on a cheese platter.

Speaker 1 It's business, baby. Business.
That could be business, too. Business is booming.
Shout out to Antonio Brown, not for anything that he does in his life, but for the fact that business is booming.

Speaker 1 By nature, when you say it, you're just like, wow. Business really is doing well.
Antonio Brown is like a sneaky low-key genius because pit to the palace is a banger. Yep.

Speaker 1 But business, but just saying business is booming. Like, hey, hey, what's up, man? How's business? Oh, it's booming.
Like, damn, dude. I don't know you were crushing it that well.

Speaker 1 Also, just saying, like, pit, not the palace. It's just a cool thing to say.
Look at that. Nice chair.
Massage chairs. Thumbs up.

Speaker 1 Love it.

Speaker 1 Alright, so we are, we just did the, we just walked the entire. We just double it back.
Yeah, no, we walked the entire airport. Now we're going to try to find our bags.

Speaker 1 I kind of want that spotted cow now. You can only get it in the airports here.
Get it in the airports.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like, I don't think there's someone who does that where they like eat a full meal when they land. Yes.
Before they leave. Before they even get to the

Speaker 1 chilies, real quick. I guess chilies would be the exception.
I would do that.

Speaker 5 I bet you Billy would do it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 If it was being expensive. It's like whenever I land in an airport, the one thing you want to do is get away from the airport as fast as possible.

Speaker 1 The Vegas airport. Sometimes I get hung up in there at the slot machine.
Yeah, all right.

Speaker 1 Okay, so now we are walking out. Okay.
Exiting. Let's go this way to the lobby.

Speaker 1 Hi, guys. How you doing? Good.
Awesome. Thank you for your service.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 Thanks, PFT back. All right, watch out.
What was that?

Speaker 1 They thanked you back. Oh, you're welcome.
They said thank you.

Speaker 1 Okay, look at this. Beautiful, airy, light.
Again, I think this this actually teaches us that airports were meant to just serve like the fewest amount of planes because it's actually a nice look.

Speaker 1 There's a fireplace right there. This is great.
You know what I've noticed about the airport is I think that there are more actual customer lounges than there are gates. Yeah, which is awesome.

Speaker 1 Right, because you just this doesn't serve enough people that it like

Speaker 1 you have to have chaos and all these things. It's like small 12 gates.
Small regional airports are the best. You don't need all the bells and whistles.
I don't need a Buffalo Wild Wings in every wing.

Speaker 1 Look at this fireplace, boys. Look at these chairs.
It's incredible. We got Marty Mush here.
Jake. Marty, what's your general impression of this airport? One of my favorites.

Speaker 1 I love a small airport in a quaint... Yeah, it's beautiful.
It is very quaint. Jake, Jake, what about it? Very nice until I saw that sign.

Speaker 1 No pre-check. No pre-check.
No pre-check. Oh, my God.
What about clear? It's JSA pre-check. I realize the reason why I have no pre-check is...

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's like two people in line at any time. I got to take my shoes off tomorrow.
Oh, he's gonna take his shoes off. All right, you know what? I actually am gonna agree with Jake.

Speaker 1 That does ding you a little bit. Having to take your shoes off?

Speaker 1 Jake on the flight. Oh, yeah.
So when we got on the plane, I guess

Speaker 1 they hand you hand sanitizer or like little wipes. I thought those were just so that you could wipe your hands.
Jake,

Speaker 1 it was like he had like a

Speaker 1 67

Speaker 1 Ferrari or something. I don't know if that was a good year for Ferrari.
My apologies to car people.

Speaker 1 But he was wiping down his seat like he was waxing the car.

Speaker 1 He was doing it for like five minutes until he was having a conversation with me because I was sitting behind him. I was like, dude, are you wiping your seat?

Speaker 1 He's like, yeah, I've been doing it for two years now. To me, it looked like he was just bathing a dog.
Yeah. Just like really scrubbing it down, getting every single inch of it.
It was so.

Speaker 1 And then we kind of busted his balls for wiping down the seat so hard. And he's like, I'm sorry, you know, I've been doing this for two years.

Speaker 1 and then the guy two seats behind us goes uh hey you know my name's also jake and i wiped down my seat so it's a jake thing it's a jake thing clearly it was just a very i honestly had every single time i gotten on a plane in the last two years they handed me that and i would just either not do anything or sometimes wipe my hands yeah that was it one time never did i ever think like oh let me wipe down the entire seat one time i took it and i wiped my face down with it and the person next to me was like i think that's for your hands yeah see they didn't even think it was for your seat they corrected you and they corrected you incorrectly.

Speaker 1 I just assume if you hand me anything on a plane, I'm going to bury my face in it. Let's do the last thing real quick.
Let's just check out the

Speaker 1 baggage claim and then we'll end this. This is a nice little coffee shop down here.
Yeah, I know. I wish one of them was open.
No, it's even better to just imagine.

Speaker 1 Like, I could see somebody in there sitting down next to

Speaker 1 the speed real quick of this thing. Let's put on I'm gonna put my bag on it just to test.

Speaker 1 Marty, can you grab, can you go make sure that this doesn't go through? I like that poster.

Speaker 1 My bag just went back through. But if you look back there, there's a poster in an airport advertising for flying on airplanes.
Oh. Just in general.
I mean, the best time to do it, right? Just flight.

Speaker 1 It's on everyone's mind.

Speaker 1 That's pretty good. Although, there's no like guardrails, right? Things could easily fall off.
You could just get on there.

Speaker 1 You could, in theory, just hop on there.

Speaker 1 And you're gonna test out your bag? In theory. And then you're gonna have to pick it up again.

Speaker 1 Can you grab that for me?

Speaker 1 Okay, I'm fucking picking up. I'm just gonna go for it.
Just gonna stand on.

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Speaker 1 Every time I step on a treadmill or in a golf cart where I'm like, oh,

Speaker 1 there's a lot of power. I don't want to get off.
I guess I got to go. All right.
I got to get off.

Speaker 1 All right. Baggage claim rating.
How many great baggage? Nine out of ten. Yeah.
Very fast. Good motor.
What's the horsepower on that thing?

Speaker 1 Pretty solid.

Speaker 1 Oh, no, I got the.

Speaker 1 Yeah. The other ones back there.
All right, so final ratings. I'm going to say,

Speaker 1 now this is obviously on a curve because the regional airport, like obviously if we were voting, like, hey, how do you feel about going to fucking like Paris from Madison? It's not

Speaker 1 great. Have you been to the Paris airport? This is a million times better.
Yeah, no, I love how small and quaint it is. I'm going to give it an eight out of eight and a half.
I'm going to bump it up.

Speaker 1 I'm going to bump it up to a 9.1. Whoa.
I love these regional airports. I think it's everything that you need.
The bar was open, which is great.

Speaker 1 You guys wouldn't let me have a beer because, I don't know, I guess I'm the only real man. Well, it wasn't the best.
The bar wasn't open. It was a gift shop with Spotted Cow.
Even better.

Speaker 1 We're like, we can just buy it somewhere else. All right, Hank, your score, and then we'll rank them through.
8.1. So 8.1, 8.5, 9.1.
So that means that's

Speaker 1 8.6. 8.55.
Let's say 8.6 for the people. 8.6.
It's a pretty good rating. That's a great rating.
And look at this. Look at the rental car area.
It's right here in the airport.

Speaker 1 Hardly any lines whatsoever. Although we couldn't get one.
Maybe I'll try to get one if I didn't pay for it.

Speaker 1 I love this badge. That's it.
Tune in three, four years from now. We'll do another airport review.

Speaker 1 Okay, that was our Madison airport review.

Speaker 1 Let's do numbers. Let's do numbers.
Let's do numbers. By the way, we're going to hold us to this because I'm going to say it out loud.
Burt Christ, you're Monday. Awesome fucking interview.

Speaker 1 Incredible interview. Yep.
Burt Christ, your Monday. I talked to him at the Super Bowl probably like an hour long.
Hank gets mad at me because, and I understand it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but you're, I do like having, like, when I do, when we do an awesome interview and we don't have to run it right away, I like having it in my back pocket where I can just like it's like a draw four card Nuno yeah you you can announce it publicly but we we've said Burke Rischer the following show like first five five episodes this one I mean it I mean it this time guys

Speaker 1 there's like 50 50 chance we don't do it um all right

Speaker 1 let's end with numbers send everyone on their way remember clocks change uh I can't my computer I'm gonna I'm gonna go eight twelve okay you know what I'll just do it off the top of my head what no you guys

Speaker 1 Yeah, you guys. That's not how it works.
No, you guys text it. Text it to the group chat, and I won't look.

Speaker 1 Okay? This is not how it works.

Speaker 1 Well, then you know, yeah, no, I don't get it. I'm not going to guess.
Hang on, let me watch. I'm going to do it in my head.

Speaker 1 Yeah, text it. I'm not looking.
I'm not looking. My phone is down.
You see it? My phone is down.

Speaker 1 My phone is down.

Speaker 1 My Wi-Fi is off.

Speaker 1 Ready? Has everyone set it?

Speaker 1 61. I got it.

Speaker 1 No, I'm just kidding. Shit.
That would have been sick. What were we going to say? 99.
66. Oh, kind of close.
29. Oh, damn.
I mean, it was five off. Somebody out there playing at home guessed it right.

Speaker 1 Yeah, 61. That would be an electric point.
That was a true random number generator because I was literally just like, I emptied my brain. I was like, just whatever number pops in my head.

Speaker 1 Also, it sucks that Rick Petino is not going to be a Terrapin. Yeah, but then again, Rick Petino, it almost makes me think he might be because he lies so much.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you don't think he just pulls out of an opening like that?

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