PMS 2.0 1377 - Jelly Roll, Kirk Herbstreit, Pete Thamel, Dylan Langholf, Shams Charania, Jerry Jeudy

Beautiful people and welcome to beautiful Los Angeles, California on this glorious 33rd Espes.

Wednesday, July 16th.

This program begins now.

Especially!

We are live from Los Angeles.

We are currently at the four seasons here in Beverly Hills.

And I'll tell you what, it is a beautiful place.

Obviously, a lot of things have happened in this building in the past.

I assume a lot of magic has been created here.

It is the pseudo-home for the Espees, where tonight will be the 33rd edition of the Sports Awards Show and Shane Gillis will be the host.

Adam, Shane George.

Come on up.

We're pulling for Shane O to have a great night.

We're pulling for sports to have an incredible evening.

And obviously we're pulling for all the people that are up for the awards to win.

Chris.

We want everybody to win.

That's right.

We hope everybody walks out of here with some hardware.

We hope everybody walks out of here with an SP.

We hope everybody understands that their commitment to sport and what they do for society is a great thing, not a bad thing, and that sports are the greatest thing of all time.

I had a chance to go to the Sports Humanitarian Awards last night, which are a part of the SPs Week celebration here, as somebody has an open microphone as they're ruffling something into the barcode.

Water bottle flavors somewhere it's happening, which is unbelievable.

We're at a very nice hotel in the crew that pieced this together.

Great work.

Yeah, crazy.

Barcode and crew.

Incredible work here.

But to follow up, the Sports Humanitarian Awards last night is a part of the SP celebration.

It was at the same theater, I do believe, that the Espies is at, but at a different location.

And And just getting a chance to hear about all the good things that come from sports at this humanitarian awards, meet a lot of incredible people, a lot of companies, a lot of businesses, a lot of teams that try to give back in a certain way.

And last night, kind of learning from each other on what everybody's able to do and accomplish.

And that's Kaylin Ursay, who's a owner of the Colts and a chief brand officer.

And she's been in the community of Indianapolis since like birth, basically.

She has tried to give back to the city and society as much as possible.

as have the Indianapolis Colts, kind of following in Jim Ursay's way, which is very much a philanthropic mindset every single day.

So last night was epic.

It was incredible to meet a lot of people.

It was a suity affair.

Sure.

I mean, there was a lot of suits there.

The Bob Father was there.

Okay.

That helps.

Jimmy Petaro was there.

Okay.

You know, Burke Magnus was there.

Of course.

It was great to see and meet a lot of people.

And then there was a guy named John, and I don't know John's last name.

John provided all the wine.

for the night.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, John was at our table.

So is Mina Kimes.

I got you there.

Mina Kimes.

A few, I forget, I should have got everybody's name better, showed up late.

Okay, that's 100% on me.

Not to do a show yesterday.

And a flight.

He flew in show.

Long flight.

But it was a wonderful event, and this Espy's tonight should be one that's very enjoyable.

I'm very excited to see how Shane is as the host.

And we think Shane's going to stop by here today.

Everybody's schedules are so fluid, you know, because everybody's traveling in from so many different places.

We think we're going to have a pretty good amount of people stopping by.

And not only will they be stopping by to chit-chat with us about their life, like our friend Jelly Roll will be here in a few moments but also they'll be attempting a putt for charity okay now it's a big deal here the program's putt putt invitation will be taking place after these conversations that we have on this beautiful putting green that was placed together here by the ESPN production people if the jib could go up a little bit so we can get a a shot of this so the uh everybody that stops by here will attempt a putt from about four feet behind the very cool looking Darius J.

Butler shades on in LA.

Connor, holy hell, those shades look so good on your face.

There's a 48-foot putt from right right behind Debutch all the way down to the hole in front of that SB that's in the middle of that beautiful fountain here at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills.

They'll have three attempts to make that putt.

The first one will be a $25,000 donation to the charity of their choice.

The second putt will be a $15,000 donation.

And if they make it on the third putt, it'll be a $10,000 donation.

Now, if they make the first putt, it's over.

Yeah.

Okay, we're just going to go out on high-not.

It doesn't stack.

Yeah, we don't actually get...

You know what?

He's thinking about stacking them.

Maybe it should.

I try to to make this putt.

15 times have not made the putts.

Oh, I was.

A little right to left.

It is a little ridiculous.

We'll try to see some athleticism, try to make some moments, maybe give back some money in the name of the Sports Humanitarian Awards last night in the Indianapolis Colts and Kaylin Ursa Jackson.

And we'll try to enjoy the hell out of the opportunity of being allowed to be here.

Now, on that note, it's obviously not just me.

The boys are here.

D.

Buch already talked about how cool you look.

You look very cool.

You too, bro.

Jack.

I got after it, too.

Yeah, you look good, man.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, thanks.

I felt.

You know, because out here, when you're on Eastern Time zone, you wake up and you're like Mark Wahlberg.

Yes, you are.

You're like The Rock.

You're like these guys are like, I'm up at 4.30 a.m.

It's easy to wake up out here like that time.

I think if we were to be here for more than three, four days, it would start to get more difficult.

But whenever you're here for the first day, it's like 4.30 a.m.

Who's the killer?

Me.

Yeah, this is what we do.

We wake up early.

You know, we're not out there just hooting with the owls.

We're up soaring with the Eagles way before sunrise.

Because when you guys have eight hours to your day, we have 11.

That's the people that wake up at 4 a.m.

Yes.

They talk like that.

And they do look down on the others, myself included, that do not wake up at that time.

This morning, I was one of those people.

Hit the gym,

got a coffee.

Wow.

Coffee machine rattled the mug.

Okay.

Hit the button, go to the bathroom, come back.

My coffee's going to be done.

Hit the button, go to the bathroom.

Come out.

Best Western.

The mug had

off the coffee machine.

Bang.

That's not good.

Full explosion.

Hot coffee everywhere.

It was a good one.

It was, but once again, little adversity.

That's why I wake up and feel like I was tired.

I want more of that.

I want more of that.

So I found a little broom.

I mean, I've done a lot this morning.

And it's fun to be here.

We're so thankful that this got set up for us.

Shout out to Mike Foss.

There's a lady named Lauren here that helped out immensely.

And the people that are at the Espies,

This hotel is filled with people that hate our guts.

No.

Yeah?

Sure.

You could argue that for sure.

Our fault as well.

You know, we are a part of the relationship as well, you know, in this entire 2-8 street.

But I will say, this has been a wonderful 12 hours here thus far.

It's weather.

And it is beautiful to be in LA.

And we're excited as hell to celebrate sports.

And tonight should be a celebration and fun.

And hopefully it brings the entire world together.

One half of the hammer.

Don.

Cowboys AP Tone is out here.

Tone, it was a big night last night for baseball and we got a chance to follow along as we are traveling let's go to the toxic table at boston corner sweet sunglasses you bought those at an fbo last night you look so cool so thank you very much yeah these are the nicest sunglasses i've ever had and you know i think they brought us good luck in the sky last night because it was a great fight out here after kicking d-butt and foxy and tony's ass

in euchre let's get some honesty

okay honesty four games each game is 210 connor and i won the aggregate 40 to 4 in euchre So the game of Euchre.

I think you keep the score like this.

It's not like it's one game at a time.

We're telling that scary.

You had zero.

You had one.

Short-term memory, I lose a game.

Move on.

Lose the next one, even worse.

Maybe win one.

Yeah.

Baby.

Holy shit.

We're from the Midwest over to Rockies, all the way through a desert to Los Angeles.

Didn't score a single point of either.

That was embarrassing.

Didn't score a single point of that.

I would love to spin zone this, but I've been playing Euchre since I'm 14.

That was the worst run in the history of runs I've ever seen in my entire life.

Or

I just want to let you know, you guys are viewing it in a very negative way because you happen to be on the negative side of it.

Correct.

I mean, the sky wolf con man last night had four lone wolves

in two games.

It's crazy.

We're howling.

You know, the parents, the dads are in the back trying to take a little sleep.

You got Ty back there trying to enjoy a little bit.

We got blankets around there.

You got Nick Beraldo laid out in the back of that plane.

Obviously, has a child living his life.

He's sleeping.

And you got Connor up in the front with me.

Oh, woo!

Just howling in your face?

We had a great time last night,

but that's not what we're talking about.

And then, just you guys getting your asses beat at cards, you guys call in the righty.

Then Tone comes in, he loses, then he wins.

They win the last game.

All of a sudden, we're gonna be.

Thank you, Tony.

Okay, shut up.

I want to hear, you guys did have a good, you guys kicked our ass that funnel game.

We were just kind of, we wanted good vibes for everybody.

How selfish can one team be?

Especially coming out to the Espys.

Yeah, plus, what is this?

You know,

we won four games in all sports.

That is a win.

That is a series victory.

Yeah, it went from best of seven and a best of nine and a best of 11.

It was one of those nights, but not just our cards.

We're impeccable.

Shout out to us, by the way.

We dominate the skies.

Baseball was awesome.

Home run Derby, we had a chance to be there.

Obviously, we were a part of that whole thing.

What an honor.

And thankful for the MLB welcoming us over there.

And obviously, that is an upside to having

access to these leagues.

Correct.

Like having rights to these leagues.

You get a chance to have conversations with people in the MLB, how they took care of us and welcomed us in, and getting to know all these baseball guys who know of our existence.

Even the guys that don't speak English.

Yeah.

The Dominican guys who speak limited Spanish watch our show because I think they're forced to watch our show because we're all on the TV whenever they come in.

The time they show up to work, we are the thing.

So that was a cool experience.

And I would like to let the baseball people know.

It's an honor that you guys understand we exist.

And it's been fun as hell learning about your world.

And shout out to McGill out there in Milwaukee.

Yeah, big Trev.

Hey, he's a problem.

Oh, yeah.

He is a problem.

I think he is potentially

the straw that stirs the drink.

You could argue.

I think he is the straw that stirs the drink in most places.

What a legend.

A lot of dudes over there we've loved.

Their game, though, last night, home run derby ratings are up.

Yep.

Okay, the all-star game, I assume ratings are going to be up.

They had a great game.

Is that not accurate?

No, yeah, without a doubt.

Like you mentioned, first-class experience all the way through while we were there.

And then last night, kind of just to put the cherry on top of the weekend,

Looked like a blowout early.

The NL jumped on top, which not a lot of people expected.

You know, you got School and Skeen, so I think we were talking and the idea was like, okay, probably going to be 1-2-3.

But the NL,

they took a 5-0 lead here on Pete Alonzo's three-run homer.

And at this point, you're kind of just thinking like, all right, Jesus, this thing's going to be a blowout.

Corbin Carroll pinch hits, hits another homer to make it 6-0.

for the NL.

And then after that, the AL started scrapping back a little bit.

Brent Rooker, who was kind of taking heat from fans after the home run derby for no reason, he kind of got jobbed a little bit, getting eliminated.

He hits a three-run homer, which was huge.

And then, you know, play the trumpets because Edwin Diaz comes in and blows a save for the NL.

What's your problem?

Stephen Kwan beats out an infield single.

Bobby Woods scores, so we go to 6'6 in the top of the 9th.

And then first ever swing-off in the All-Star game.

Each team, I mean each Warbo.

Pause it, Foxy.

Pause it, Foxy.

What's the swing-off?

So yeah, this is the first year they did this.

There were predetermined rosters for both the AL and the NL because a lot of people were bitching, hey, this is a perfect opportunity for Shohei and Judge and some of those guys to get out there with travel implications and just the way they played.

They already had three guys picked out for each team.

Each player had three swings, and it was just as many homers as you could hit.

Three guys, three swings each.

Yep.

Total of nine possible dingers here.

Correct.

And whoever had more would win the game.

This is a penalty shootout

for baseball.

Right.

And I would like to say, not knowing this was going to happen, I assume people knew this was going to happen, and maybe this has happened in the past.

No, it was the first ever.

Okay.

Outside newbie, baseball people already love me.

Let me follow up with this.

Every fucking Thai game needs one of these.

100%.

This thing

was unbelievable, let alone Schwarbo doing what Schwarbo did back to the action.

Sorry.

Yeah, no, no, all good.

I mean, because you're right.

Like, in a lot of all-star games in the past, like, it's tied 6-6 after the ninth, and it's just like, all right, game's over.

Everybody had fun.

Nobody got hurt.

Let's go home.

So, for them to do this and actually have kind of like a walk-off moment, and then a guy like Schwarber, who, you know, if he enters the home run derby, he's probably arguably one of the favorites.

He gets three swings, and what does Schwarbo do?

He hits three bombs, and the NL goes up 4-3.

First one, 4-0-8, dead center.

Yeah, barely got enough.

And then, because when he came up, we were at dinner last night, and I told these guys, I was like, there's no way Schwarz not hitting three homers yeah and so the expectation is that these guys should hit at least two out of the three dongs

I mean maybe you know like with you guys were talking about that with like the internet was talking about that with like Aaron Judge and Shohei they're like we should be able to see these big guys and there's a lot of people mad about that and then it comes out that they actually had to put these three together beforehand and who's gonna be playing at the time right is who they're gonna continue in there and then I saw some people get pissed that travel people were leaving it's like I want to let you know from what I've learned this is the least

like comfortable or break like all-star experience from any sport.

Now, I know, hey, they're professional athletes, they got to work.

These dudes get in 2, 3 a.m.

Sunday night, Monday morning, right into, all right, we got press, home run, derby, press again, game.

Then, by the way, you got to go play.

Thursday's Friday.

Yeah, Thursday, Friday.

It's like,

they are working in there.

So, so I saw a lot of people taking some shots at some of the big names because it came out like, well, travel is going to affect some of that.

It's like, I agree.

If we would have have got Judgy and Shohei just back to back with one-on-one.

Which leads me to say, we need this in the games.

We need this in the damn games.

Now, I know X-ray innings games are part of the entire thing, and it's probably been a part of the history.

And the amount of stats that matter in baseball are never ending.

So I assume that would ruin a lot of things in the sport of baseball.

But if this was a real game between the Dodgers and the Yankees, and it came down to your three dogs versus your three dogs with your pitching coach or your batting coach.

Because now it matters.

Now that job matters even more in this entire thing, which you saw a couple of good pitches there.

And that last one for Schwarbo kind of broke off a little bit.

I think we need to continue to pound the drum that the pitchers matter in the home run derby.

And in this situation, they matter.

But that would be electrifying for baseball.

I mean, we would cover that, what, every day?

Oh, yeah.

If there was a

dong off the night before an all-time game, I mean, we would cover that, I think.

Now, baseball people would hate that, I assume.

And how was this received last night?

Because this was electrifying, especially because because Schwarbo literally put the squad on his back out there.

Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of people bitch just because, like, that's the thing to do, is you can just, you can pick holes in this if you want to and just take the angle that, well, we had the opportunity to have Judge and Otani out there, and they didn't do it for whatever reason.

But, like, this was actually, I mean, this was drama.

You know,

it was incredible.

Like, the stakes were there.

And we obviously didn't get to Pete Alonzo because Aranda didn't hit any homers.

But there was an opportunity for a true walk-off moment in terms of them actually using this, probably never going to happen.

That is the one thing that I don't like.

I hate the guy on second.

Yeah,

and I wanted to ask Kamish about that.

The Manfred Man, where they put a Ghost Runner essentially at second base to start extra innings.

I don't love that.

But the big drawback to this would be that it really nullifies your bullpen, like late in games.

And that's what a lot of teams will, like at the deadline, will go out and get a bunch of bullpen arms because that's very important.

So they, I I mean, I can't imagine that they'll go to this anytime soon, but you're right.

If we had a playoff series, you know, or a World Series, I guess, and it comes down to John Carlo.

Yeah.

Judge.

Yeah, exactly.

And who

would probably be?

Yeah, Jazz.

Maybe not now.

Jazz would change his swing.

Yeah, Cody Bellinger, maybe, or something like that.

And then who would the Dodgers have?

The Dodgers would probably be, you know, Freddie Freeman, Shohei, and then maybe like Tay Oscar Hernandez or

that would be awesome.

He's so cool.

It'd be incredible.

Game seven of the World Series going down to a dong off.

And we've been trying to get a dong off in the offseason for the last couple years.

Yeah.

We did not have the relationship with baseball.

Right.

What, Debuss?

I know we're in L.A., guys.

You guys got to relax.

It's all right.

It's crazy.

We're talking about brainstorming.

Relax.

You're thinking of like a McGregor dong off.

We're thinking of like a baseball.

We're not having any dongs lifting wings.

Which his would win because his lifts, yeah.

Yeah, I'm talking about...

We've been trying.

Wait, when you were at the gym this morning, did you?

What's that?

Lift.

Did you McGregor it?

No.

I don't don't know how many people are doing that, to be honest.

I didn't know that was a thing.

Fascinating.

I mean, just very, all of it is wild.

He's going to be fighting on the White House.

That's right.

He's going to be fighting in the death.

I think he's running for president

of Ireland.

I think I see a couple tweets every other day out of that.

Could see that.

Pop up in a week.

Vote McGregor.

Big smile.

Then next day he's on a yacht.

Then next day he's training his kids in Monaco.

Yeah.

And like, fans, I think, are just like standing around.

And he's like, hey, listen, kids, if if we're going to travel the world, we at least got our worker.

Him trying to get actual workouts in in these very public places is awesome.

His ability to be able to do it, I get distracted.

I would get way too distracted.

Maybe run one hill, I'm exhausted, what's over there, anything other than working out.

So his ability to seemingly be able to mix just living a full life of luxury all the time while still trying to maintain

his ability to stay in shape, his entire body,

is very fascinating.

Absolutely.

He's a fascinating individual.

I mean, there are not a whole lot of people out there who are putting kettlebells around their dongs and, you know, making sure that their summer sausage is getting work in as well.

Now, on that note, that is not the dong off.

I mean, I assume in the world that we're in, that's going to happen at some point.

Yeah.

Everybody needs to be ready for that.

I play the steroid Olympics.

And that's probably five, ten years out from that.

And we're not saying we like it.

We're just telling you about the reality.

of the world that we live in.

What we always thought, me, as somebody outside baseball, what do I like about baseball?

I like to see pitchers throw over 100 miles an hour.

Shout out to young Buckingham.

He threw, what, four of the fastest?

Yeah, the four hardest pitches in the game.

What did he throw?

They said they brought him in literally for this.

Like, hey, we got a young guy who's 23 years old and throws the ball hard at everybody.

Yeah, and he was throwing, you know, 102, 102.4-ish,

101.

Just basically came in and just unloaded the tank.

Which is exactly what they were expecting and hoping for.

And what he said he was going to do.

Yeah, he told us, yeah, I'm just going to throw heat.

I guess he holds on to it very long.

He does that.

I like seeing 100 plus, and then I I like seeing balls leave.

So in the offseason, whenever baseball is going through, it's what, you know, money thing.

They're always seemingly going through a money thing.

That's how we learn about the local media rights deals being so important.

It's like they need to just take dong show on the road in the summer.

You can go do minor league parks.

You can literally go do minor league parks.

You have a couple of the big-name guys, and if they're going to have one day where they're working anyways, like instead of taking a workout, just go to a fucking stadium, have your BP coach there, and like just do, just do a dong off.

dong offs get the people going yeah every time and they had one last night and that is i love seeing that yeah i and i like the manford in the in the team over there they're willing to kind of roll the dice on whatever

i see my dude bob okay so that means one thing and one thing alone ladies and gentlemen joining us now guest host of the jimmy kimmel show

I believe the next two days, a man who's going to be stepping into the ring at SummerSlam here in a few weeks to beat the hell out of Logan Paul and Drew McIntyre alongside the legend Randy Orton.

Ladies and gentlemen, Jelly Roll.

How are you, baby?

I've been listening to y'all talk about a dog off for 15 minutes, man.

I didn't know y'all.

I don't know if y'all kept anybody with listening to this program.

There was somebody dog talk.

And then when Connor got in, I was like, man, it's getting crazy.

Not that Connor.

The old Irishman with the pub scout.

Have you seen it?

I mean, it's all over the internet.

Of course, you've seen it.

Yeah.

How did everybody's algorithm just be like, gotta see it?

Yeah.

Anyways, let's move along.

He's from Ireland.

You're gonna be heading over to Europe here in August.

This big-ass stadium tour that you were doing with Post Malone.

Yes, sir.

I got a chance, obviously, to see the one at PNC Park in Pittsburgh.

What a show.

And I guess you guys sign on for another year.

I think it's a brilliant move.

You two are perfect together, it feels like.

Do you feel the same way?

Dude, I love it.

I love Post.

He's just so awesome to work with.

The tour was so fun.

Y'all got to see it.

Y'all got to go.

Yeah, yeah.

We had a good time there.

It's just, dude, and he's taking me international for the first time.

And when they called and he was like, we should just do this again next summer, I was like, yes, we should do this again next summer for sure.

I think I heard you on the stage.

And I assume you've said to him multiple times because you are a guy who likes to showcase your gratitude, which is one of the reasons why everybody, I think, loves you so much.

On the stage, you were like, Posty, I would do this for the rest of my life if you asked me to do this.

This is awesome.

And you know, because we're friends in real life, that's exactly what I told y'all off stage.

Yes.

You were like, yo, what's up with that?

I was like, dog, this has been the easiest tour.

Like, we run a light crew.

We do a little shorter of a show, which for the amount of songs I have worked, favors me a little bit.

You know, it makes it more

heavy.

It's a dong off.

It's a dong off.

Never mind.

I'm just Connor McGregor helicoptering out there.

You know what I mean?

But it is.

It is like a home run derby, basically.

And I think your fans and his fans are a great mesh.

Like, the vibes were immaculate.

So congratulations on that.

You're hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight.

I'm hosting tonight, dude.

Tonight and tomorrow night, y'all.

This must have been the white trash week because it was me and Chris DiStefano were the guest hosts.

I don't think it could have got any trash here.

Just an old East Coast trash bucket and an old down south just trailer trash.

I saw, we're big fans of trash around here.

You know that.

I saw Chrissy and I believe Shane chugged a beer, had a beer or two last night on the show.

Excited.

Are you ready for tonight?

I'm excited.

Have Have you hosted?

I'm nervous.

Have you hosted?

I've never hosted anything.

So it's like.

Yeah, but when you get that award, anytime you get a microphone, you're great.

Yeah, you host.

Yeah.

During your show, we watched you at the big ass stadium tour.

There's plenty of times you host and kind of get a navigating guide.

Have you done rehearsals?

Do you know what you're saying?

No, no, I go to rehearsals right after this.

So it's like,

it's so cool.

I don't know anything about what I'm walking into.

And like in an hour and a half, I'll be texting you like, dude, guess what this is?

Are you singing or no?

No, I'm not singing.

Joey Badass is my musical guest tonight, which I think is really cool.

And tomorrow night, I have the All-American Rejects.

Have y'all been seeing what they're doing?

Yeah, they're playing people's front yard.

I wanted to talk to him about it.

I was like, please get the All-American Rejects.

Did you see what he did with his Savannah Bananas?

Yes.

Sick.

Lit.

I mean, it was amazing.

The Savannah Bananas are just lit, period, by the way.

Yes.

Big fan.

Goodness gracious.

They got it figured out.

They got it figured out.

Hey, don't you think everybody that's in the entertainment content business just has respect for the Savannah bananas because selling out stadiums is like that's very different.

difficult.

The power your fan base has to have to be able to sell out a stadium.

I don't think people understand the levels of everything.

So like if you're able to captivate that group of people, which is why UM Posty's thing is so awesome to watch, it's like you got to be doing something right.

So even if you're not a fan of the product, you got to be a fan of the business.

Like I think there's so many things that they've done right and I think everybody's watching them and I assume that that is similar in the music world.

This is the way I put it to people.

It is so hard to sell arenas.

Now, imagine that you would have to sell that arena four nights in a row to justify going to the stadium.

Insane.

Like, and you know this because you sold an arena.

I've sold a couple arenas.

God's blessed us to be in that position, and that's not an easy position to be in.

And so I look at guys like Morgan Wallen and Post Malone, like

Taylor, four nights, five nights in Indianapolis, dude.

She's the goat.

I will fist fight anybody who says otherwise.

Travis, don't even worry.

I got this one.

You know what I mean?

Literally.

Like, she's the goat.

You know, it's like, you just, that is so hard to get people connected in such a way.

Because when I think about selling tickets, Pat, I think about it as souls, not tickets.

Like, we've all watched our wife pick out her outfit, try two or three on.

We've all spent two or three hours sitting in the living room.

Like, this is a big night.

Like, where are we going to eat?

Where are we going to park?

Like, it's so much more into coming out than just to see me.

You know what I mean?

So, like, I think of that every single night and just like how precious that is when me and my wife get those moments.

And I just think about 17 or 60,000 people out there that were doing the same.

We're going to get there early, but we don't want to get too early.

We don't want gas, but we want to get a little pre-drinking in.

You know what I mean?

How hot's it going to be?

Who's the opener?

Where are we?

All the fun stuff.

All of it.

All the fun stuff.

Yeah, I agree.

Jerry Seinfeld had a bit about like, this is it.

Yeah.

You're welcome.

You bought the ticket.

You had to wait in line to buy the ticket.

You had to get through the whole thing.

You basically went through it.

That's why I called that big night out in Pittsburgh because it's like, this is it.

This is, there's so, let alone the babysitter potentially.

potentially the babysitters you might have had to call an in-law you hate you know some people have had to call in-laws they flat don't like like

and also I think like I'm such a blue-collar guy that I would assume that the people that connect with me were like I was when I was going to concerts like I didn't go to concerts every week no way we saved up for that one big one for the summer that we wanted to go to it was the it was our one or we would sneak in the amphitheater through the gate or something like that yeah not bad to sneak under a fence every once in a while and if somebody makes a hole before you you didn't really do anything wrong, except for season opportunity.

You need to arrest whoever cut the hole.

Now, on that.

Did you ever sneak into Starlake?

So Star Lake's very far from our house.

Right.

Like, very, very far from our house.

I think I probably in trunk.

Yeah.

I think I trunked one.

Yep.

I'll do it.

Yeah, I think I one time with, yeah, I think my mom.

It is far, but like, that's, like, to your point, like, we would go, like, once a summer because it's,

like, an hour from our house.

Like, because that's on the west, southwest side of Pittsburgh.

We're on the east side of Pittsburgh.

So, yeah, that's like, hey, like,

the whole thing.

Yeah, that's what it is.

And it's like every other amphitheater in America.

I love Starlake, but they did not think of the traffic at all.

No, they did not.

They did not think of what's going to happen when 25,000 people show up to this thing every couple weeks.

That's crazy.

Do you ever think about that?

Like, we'll just put

maybe the songs that people don't want to hear at the end so everybody knows when it's time to get out of here and beat the traffic.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, we just like, we just expect it.

Like,

we know that whenever we start certain songs, like I put Nita Favorite towards the back of the set with Save Me, of course,

inside baseball, because sometimes, you know, Nita Favor will play, and you'll watch,

you know, 60,000 people there.

You'll watch a couple thousand people get up and kind of be like, well, that's it.

Nah, I'm going to beat this traffic, I swear, dude.

And you're like, I got three more songs.

It's like, you're walking out.

I'm singing the most emotional.

I'm singing Save Me.

People are crying.

And there are people like, let's go to Sar Champ.

The set list is on the internet, too, now.

Yeah,

it's on Apple.

Apple promotes it.

They're like, this is the set list.

And here's a good time if you need it.

Here's a piss.

You need to take a piss.

Here's a drink.

You need one if you're wrong.

And I only talk to God when I need a favor.

Yep, that was hat.

I need a remember, babe, we said what do you say?

Let's go.

Time to go.

Hey, let's talk about you.

You have something massive this summer.

And we are so incredibly proud of you.

Obviously, we've witnessed this fitness journey and health journey that you've been on.

And I'll tell you what, that jawline bubba, it looks spectacular.

From where you were, you were posting photos from like a couple years ago on your IG story, I think from like award shows and presentations and things that you've done in the past.

From what you look like then to what you look like now and all the hard work you've been putting in, nothing short of admirable.

One of the dreams you had to get back healthy was to be in the WWE.

That was my North Star.

It really was.

It was.

Y'all know.

I was telling y'all behind the scenes the whole time.

Think about that.

Think about that.

Like, obviously, you know,

you got to a moment in your life where you're like, I need to save my life and get in better shape.

But also, then you were like, I also want to get back in shape.

I want to get in shape to accomplish a dream where you have to be in in shape, which is WWE.

So then whenever I turn on SmackDown and all of a sudden you're singing in your hometown, brother, and then Logan Paul comes out and thinks that he can just interrupt.

And then all of a sudden you say, excuse me, you're going to attack Randy Orton.

And then all of a sudden now we got you and Randy Orton taking on Logan.

Good strength there.

Logan Paul underestimated you.

He thought this was the...

He thought I was soft.

He thought this was two years ago, Jelly Roll.

He thought this was a year ago, Jelly Roll.

This is not so.

He thought this was Marshmallow, the Michelin man jelly roll.

This is not the Michelin man, joe this is regular fat jelly roll summer slam jelly roll randy orton drew mcintyre logan paul congratulations and are you ready like how we get prepared for this dude so here's the shoot on it i've been um you are a big inspiration man like watching you get involved so much and even going and doing the gunther match was just like was like another god wink for me a little bit that i was like i should do and you like

What I want people to know is who you are on the show is who you is off the show.

Like, you are that guy, like, that will hit your friend up at three and four o'clock in the morning, like, proud of you, Bubba, you're kicking ass, keep doing it, like, just to send, like, the love.

And that stuff kept me going.

When I was probably 13 years old, do you remember the Disciples of Apocalypse?

They were the bikers.

Chains had a wrestling academy in Laverne by the co-op.

My dream, I didn't think I was a musician because I didn't come from any musicians, but we would go to like the Smoky Mountain wrestling or like the fairgrounds every Saturday.

It was like our two things my family did.

It's how white trash we were.

Love it.

We would either go to wrestling on Saturdays or we would go watch night court did y'all ever heard of night court hell yeah yeah we'd go as a whole i'm eight my what my mom would put me in a car chain smoke cigarettes the whole way there with the windows up love that and then we'd get there and we would just watch drunk people plead their case for a judge at night because you could do it it was like our entertainment

So I would always go in that ring and bump around and just, it was just something.

I just love the storytelling, lifelong fan, weekly watcher my whole life, pretty much.

And

I just love it.

And when me and Hunter started talking, the more I got involved with the WWE over the last couple of years I'd go hey man every time I'd lose a little more he's like you're looking good I was like do I look good enough for a match yet or do I need to lose another hunter he'd be like a little more a little more bubble

so I just kept pushing for it man and um I have been training this is I'm announcing this on your show I've I have quietly been living in Orlando for about four three four weeks at the PC I'm showing up every day like a piece of furniture over there they can't kick me out of there dude I'm there from the moment I wake up till the closes almost well that's exactly what the Performance Center

is that's what the Performance Center is for and it's like we've been down there.

I was down there, I think, the first day it opened and kind of watched it grow.

And obviously, I was part of NXT down there.

Lucky to be a part of all that.

Hunter's operation.

Now it's Sean's operation.

And the way they run that, Matt Bloom down there.

Oh, Matt Bloom's my coach.

Okay.

I love you, Coach Bloom.

Coach Bloom and Coach Moss are my guys.

They're full.

They're spending every day with me, man.

Matt Bloom football guy.

Absolute dog.

And it's like the fact that you're fully committed, I think everybody behind the scenes is probably having massive respect.

But also, it'll be very evident at SummerSlam.

We can't wait to watch you, dude.

Dude, it's been so like, I was training with Matt Bloom the other day, and I'm not name-dropping, but this is so cool.

And Undertaker comes in with Michelle, his wife, and they come in and they go, hey, we just want to watch for a minute, just kind of chill.

Is that cool?

I was like, yeah, for sure.

This is who he is as a human.

The entire three-hour session, him and his wife stood on those ropes and just gave me pointer after pointer.

And the most like.

Kevin O and Jacob Fatu came in and wrestled with me the other day for like three, four hours.

Like, what?

That's awesome.

These dudes are like pouring into me because they see that I'm trying to take it as serious as I can.

Like that my heart is just to bring like you.

Like I just like when you started working with the WWE, you were like, yo, this is cool.

And I want people to know how cool it is.

Like if you're out right now and you're not watching the WWE, like right now is the time to tune back in.

Yeah, there's a lot of really good stuff.

It's really cool.

So it's like that was my heart.

And when Randy jumped on the idea,

dog.

Like when the Viper wanted to be my guy, you know what I'm saying?

I'm like, yo, this is awesome.

So Drew and Logan are just, I can't thank them all enough.

Randy Orton, Mount Rushmore guy.

Mount Rushmore, absolute dog.

He's been so nice to us as well.

And monster.

Yeah, huge.

He's a guy that should not have a shirt on ever.

He's like 320 pounds to just absolute ox out there.

Just

can't wait to watch you work and the respect that you show in the business throughout.

I mean, you would come to shows all the time.

And it's like, I think you are jumping at the opportunity because you're excited for it.

But I, as a fan, I can't wait to watch you, man.

Thank you, bro.

And it's going to be awesome to watch.

Tonight, Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Tonight, Jimmy Kimmel Live, y'all.

Listen, if I I ever needed y'all to show up for me, it's tonight.

Let them help prove that they didn't make the worst decision of ABC's career by booking.

Is it at the same time as the Espies?

It is.

I'm going to miss.

No, no, no, no.

No, this is even better.

Actually, you can go straight from the Espies into Jimmy Kimmel.

Like, legitimately.

I am perfect.

I think the Espies are on ABC too, right?

Yeah, so it should just roll right into me.

Yeah, this should, but just stay.

Just keep watching.

Fall asleep with your TV on.

I just need the ratings.

Hey, overnight ratings are a big deal for me.

They're real.

Y'all know what I'm talking about.

I'm pleading.

At least I'm just stating my intentions on the front end.

Hey, we know you have to go soon to the rehearsal.

D-Bun has a couple questions.

I got to ask you, I'm going to go back to the WWE stuff.

And you perform.

We got so much respect for anybody that goes up and does their shit in front of live crowds.

You obviously do that in the music realm.

But how much different is it going out into a big WWE event?

And obviously, you have no idea what's going to happen when you go out in that ring.

No, how is it, I guess, pre-game going into it?

It's electrical.

I've never felt nothing like it in my life.

Pre-game, though, believe it or not, is the same, man.

I have a tradition.

I sing Oh, Happy Day on the way to the stage.

I pray right before every show I've ever done.

I've kept that over there.

And the cool thing was the first night when we prayed, it was like four or five dudes and gorilla that huddled up.

And by the second night, my Saturday night main event, it's like 30.

That's the whole back of houses back there.

They're like, oh, and I was like, y'all get ready.

This is what we do.

That's dope.

So it was cool.

It was also cool because it is the theater of the unknown in there, you know, and there's just so much happening.

I will will be honest, though, Debud, I'll answer this on the front end with people.

Man, I didn't underestimate.

I knew how physically grueling it was, and I knew that's what I needed at this point in my weight loss journey, that this would be the spire I needed.

But, man, dude, if I took my shirt off right now, not only would you be appalled by the loose skin, but you would see, I mean, I am beaten, dude.

Like,

I have ropes.

I have so much respect for you.

Them ropes, dude, my back is so bruised.

It's a cable.

It's a steel cable.

Yeah, it's a steel cable.

You have to be wildly tough to be in there.

Anybody that's ever played in the city.

It's the toughest sport.

It's tough like every other sport I played in middle and high school.

Like, it's that kind of a tough title.

Yeah, in your body.

It's a lot tougher.

I can't.

Yeah, I don't know how they do it.

I mean, you had bruises for four weeks after the Gunther fight.

Yeah, let alone broke my toe.

Yep.

And

I think my.

T1, T2.

Yeah, yeah, right.

I mean, when you were training for that.

And I've done four or five matches.

Yeah, no, it's.

So.

It's crazy.

Four or five matches.

There's about 2,000 matches matches on some of these.

The bump card that some of these dudes have.

And you talk about Undertaker.

Oh, my neck right here is just pulsating painful from all them bumps just from just getting beat up.

Hey.

And I didn't have the proper neck muscles.

Like, I'm having to build those in this process.

Like, my shit's, excuse me, I'm on TV.

But my stuff is.

Yeah, I'm on Pat McAfee's fan.

But it's like, my stuff is just banging around.

It's like my first week of bumping, we just had to, I had to wear a helmet because I couldn't keep my neck straight.

I never went there.

There was nothing I had to do.

Well, is it a hockey helmet?

No, no, you know, like the spongy kind of helmet, like the boxing kind of helmet.

So you're just thinking.

I'm not embarrassed of it neither.

It's like

I'm so honest to say these dudes are, I'm so out of my league even trying this, which is what makes it so fun.

And every day I think about like, I've just bit off more than I can chew, but Randy and my partners in this are like all really constantly pouring love into me.

Yeah, the greatest supporters of all time are the people you're in there with.

I don't want to give away the game too much.

But it is, you know what I'm saying?

Like, shout out to Adam Cole, brother.

We're playing for you, Baron.

There's a lot of people that can make you look really good in there.

No, dude.

I say it about this all the time.

I wouldn't have this position at SummerSlam this year if Austin Theory didn't make me look like a rock star last year.

So there's another one.

Shout out to Austin.

Austin, we love you, brother.

What you do for this business does not go unnoticed.

And what you do for us, yeah.

Very, very much so.

And last thing before you have to go, you brought up Undertaker hanging out there for three hours.

You and I have one of the greatest Undertaker interactions of all time.

I don't know.

Are we going to tell it?

I think we should.

I feel like it's probably one that should be told.

Just because Undertaker is the man, and everybody feels that way.

It's a moment I'll think of the rest of my life because I got to watch it happen.

So we're standing backstage and me and Pat are...

getting

our heads straight and hurting helping our inflammation.

We both had inflammation that our altitude.

we were just making sure that he was ready to do the show and i was too

and we're sitting back there with the undertaker he walks in and like dog if y'all have ever watched the undertaker walk in a room it might as well go dome yeah like the room stops it's it's the craziest thing and he walks in and i i i i i pass the stick to pat and pat looks at undertaker and looks at me and all i see is pat go take her

and dude it was but it was like a movie because it was like i'm standing here and they're in front of me so it looks like a ufc postal pic they're like nose to nose and Pat is like trying not to cheese out of his face but he's like take her

and and Mark goes nah not tonight and I was like we both had a moment where we like dog if he would have took

smoke with the Undertaker we would have fainted like we were so gifted he walked out of the room we were like two little girls

you know why he didn't take it

Oh, because the hook of horns.

Yeah, horny.

Yeah, Undertaker.

Yeah, he's so pissed off.

You've given too many horns, though.

Yeah, I should be back.

Yeah, I should be back.

And I saw Weed Man here.

Oh, yeah, my baby.

He brought a present for you, by the way.

My dude, I love the dull team.

All right, great spot.

Okay, before you get out of here, will you try one of these putts?

Dude, I'm totally going to try one of these puts.

What are you talking about?

All right, so I don't know what the best way.

Maybe hit baby, go around that one.

And we're going 15, 25, 15?

25, 15, 10.

25, 15, 10.

Yes.

And here, you just go head down there, right?

Okay.

And then we'll do this.

$25,000 donation.

Now, here they're, here, yeah.

I'm in.

If I seek one of these puppies, I'll match it.

Yeah, but

all right,

Joe.

That's your move, by the way.

Get it in Big Night Out as well.

Yeah.

You got to hit that ball.

It's a far putt.

It's 50-foot.

No, he said it's a 50-foot putt.

I'm like, dude, Scotty Scheffler couldn't hit this.

Well,

Scotty's actually a pretty deep-thinking guy right now.

Scotty might have been doing the same thing that you and me and I were trying to do a tape.

He's giving some very deep answers.

For sure.

What is the meaning to life type stuff?

You know who would do that to me every now and then?

mgk what's that like like just like the meaning of life questions we we were on a red carpet one night together and they looked at mgk and they were like

how do you feel about the grammys he said i hope to be in a place one day where i don't think about the grammys but right now it would mean a lot to me and i was like that's the most honest answer i've ever heard in my life yeah and i assume the person asked the question okay good so yeah and they just bumped on i'm like yo my man gave you some gold

what's your favorite meal

like hey what's okay okay where'd you get your nickname you literally were supposed to leave five minutes ago so so somebody is pissed off at us, but we're in the building and people that are pissed off at us.

No, and now you know what?

They love you, Pat.

Okay.

I don't think

I'm going for this big one down here, Bubble.

Yeah.

Hey, MGK, cool, dude.

He's the sweetest soul ever.

I've got to get y'all hooked up, bro.

Okay, so he came and said, what's up to me?

What was that?

SummerSlam.

Yeah, that's why I'm the same one.

He is

like the most misunderstood dude ever.

He said a very self-aware comment to me whenever he came up to me and talked to me at SummerSlam.

And I was like, wow, that's very cool of you to say.

And then then he walked away and I haven't talked to him.

But I saw him on WorldStar do a freestyle from his car.

Oh, so way back in the day.

Okay, Jelly Roll, this goes right to left.

Okay, it's 50 feet.

If Jelly Roll makes it.

So it's going to go dropping this way?

Yes, right from your right to left.

That's what it looked like.

And it is far.

I think the first one, you should just try to get.

Yeah, you don't have to use my hockey stick.

That might be a lefty one.

Oh, no, that's a lefty putter.

Okay.

There's putters over there.

No, no, no, no over there.

Oh, we got more putters?

Yep.

And just so you know, the original way you were lining up there, you would have missed it by a fucking mile, so maybe aim for the hole.

Okay.

Just so you know.

Don't throw me off, Connor.

I appreciate it.

I just want you to know.

So how far is it falling?

Like a foot or two?

Not too far, no.

I'd say maybe a cup and a half.

Okay, there you go.

About 11 and a half.

Dude, talk a little golf to me, Daddy.

A cup and a half.

Hold on.

Ladies and gentlemen, Pat's on the wireless if you can turn that mic on.

Yeah, because y'all want to hear his reaction when I sink this puppy.

50 feet here at the program's putt-putt invitational at the SP.

Is it fast or or slow, Conn?

Slow, slow, slow.

Yeah, you gotta hit it.

12, 11 to 12.

You gotta run it.

Oh, that feels like a good stroke from the jelly roll.

Known golfer, jelly roll.

Aiming right in the middle of the middle.

I said

that one.

Yeah, no, that was off.

So, okay.

You know, it's because I didn't have my Undertaker moment this morning.

That's right.

Oh, I did, though, actually.

I haven't yet.

I'm scared to host a show stone.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Don't be.

Don't be.

Don't.

All right, cool.

No, you're just firing a hole Bob.

We're going for it dude.

You're just talking to people Joe.

My publicist is somewhere right now quitting.

Hold on.

More this way?

Yeah yeah let's go yeah like that but try to go through it.

It's all in the hips.

This is for a $15,000 donation.

$50,000.

Get going.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh, that's hey.

I might sink this dude.

Okay, I think so too.

Dude, do y'all know how much shit I'm going to talk to all of the athletes in this building?

They're going to hate me too, Pat, if I think this.

Now, the athletes like us.

The athletes always like us.

Oh, it's the corporate people?

No, yeah, yeah.

You understand how it is.

Dude, hey, man.

Hold on one second.

It's the Constant Arts versus Commerce, brother.

Am I close?

Yeah, I think you're in.

Ladies and gentlemen, Jelly Roll Makes this will donate $25,000, even though it's the third shop, because the first one wasn't really a shop.

Second one was amazing.

The program's putt-putt invitational.

Live from the SPAs.

It's not going to turn.

It did turn.

It's all right, I learned.

Hey, welcome to the public.

Thanks for that.

Good lag party.

Thank you, guys.

Good Glack, Pat.

I love you so much.

Seeing you this morning on my way to workout was like the joy of my day.

It was hot.

It was like God letting me know I'm doing the right thing.

No, no.

Do not have my presence.

No, dude.

God loves you too, Pat.

We love you.

We love you, brother.

Good luck, buddy.

Man, y'all know how much I love y'all.

Love you, man.

I'm so proud of y'all, what y'all are doing a little bit more.

Appreciate you, man.

Appreciate you, brother.

Y'all keep it.

Hey, you're going to kill it.

I love you.

Everywhere.

Thank you, man.

Yeah, you got to be happy.

I love you.

I love you.

Thank you for your appreciation, Pet.

Ladies and gentlemen, Jolly Roll.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.

I'll see you tonight, brother.

Hey, keep that water bottle to yourself, though.

Well, maybe not everybody.

Yeah, I bet you do.

Yeah, I bet you do.

Okay, all right, okay.

Love some of that water, actually.

I bet you too.

Yeah, yeah.

If that's right next to the Espies, that would be incredible.

Yeah, if we could just hop on over there.

Yeah, we should think about that, actually.

100%.

I don't know if the Jimmy Kimmel people.

See, that is a whole.

What time do they tape, though?

You know.

No, we love Kimmel.

We do.

So.

I don't know if it's the reciprocated.

Well, this would be a perfect time to put our swords down.

Well, take their hearts.

To be clear, I don't know if we ever.

Our swords were never drawn.

Now, there were swords

representing us.

Someone who came

to the program once a week, maybe.

Unsheathed the light.

Friend of friend.

Friend of ours.

Yeah.

Certainly said, hey,

I have some feelings.

Yeah.

And hey, listen,

that guy's first ballot is Hall of Favor.

Yes.

Just wait.

And then boom, that seven-minute rebuttal comes back.

Oh, shit.

You're in the middle of one.

With that being said, I don't know if we're going to be able to go to Jimmy Kimmel live tonight with Jelly Roll, but we would like to say to Jelly Roll, you're going to kill it.

Oh, yeah.

And don't be nervous about anything, buddy.

What we were just talking about down here.

Well, I don't want to, you know, when I'm hosting, do it.

You're an LA brother.

Do as an LA does.

Exactly.

Jelly Roll's team is awesome.

They've been so cool to us.

Gumpy, you back here?

Yes, sir.

Jelly Roll's guy came on the bus

down in Nashville.

Vibes were immaculate.

Obviously, learned a lot of things.

We're not taking that water bottle, Gumpy, right?

Yeah, I think we're good on that.

It was a great conversation to learn about the water bottle, but I don't think I need the water bottle.

The water bottle, I believe, is an untapped resource in my life that I've never experienced.

But anytime I'm ready, I guess it's time I go.

I think it's one of those things where, yeah, you got to hear the pitch, and then it'll either tickle your fancy, and it won't.

But my fancy's been tickled.

You haven't even heard the pitch?

I did

at the big-ass stadium tour.

And let me say, in that moment, it didn't strike me, but in California right now, yes, I do believe I will have some water.

We are big fans of Jelly Row and his team, and thankful for him, and also thankful for sports, always providing stuff to talk about.

Congratulations, Sauce Gardner.

Yeah,

huge.

Same day the Garrett Wilson deal was done for the New York Jets out there, we didn't know what was going to happen with Sauce immediately upon Darrett Wilson signing a massive deal to remain there.

Sauce Gardner gets his extension, four years, $120.4 million, 30.1 mill a year.

We had a chance to chit-chat with Sauce.

He was very confident.

He was very complimentary to the Jets.

We brought up the contract.

He said, hey, it'll get figured out.

Basically, he was kind of laissez-faire about it.

I respect and appreciate the fact that it was behind the scenes this deal got done.

It did not get loud.

It did not get ugly.

It's a brand new regime over there, but obviously you keep a couple pillars on the team.

The family ownership, obviously, very proud of these two being drafted as Jets, remaining as Jets, and carrying the torch as Jets going forward.

So congrats to Sauce on getting his deal done.

He has certainly earned a debut.

We love this type of stuff happening for guys who, you know, are hyped.

Yep.

Very much hyped, hype, type, type.

And then live up to the billing, especially in a very tough position like Corner.

Yeah, top five pick, and he's been everything you wanted if you are a Jets fan, if you're a part of that Jets organization.

He's been locked down a few all-pros already, Pro Bowls, Pro Bowls, one of the premier corners in this league, and does all the right things off the field as well.

We talked to him, brought up the contract.

He even said he kind of cut back on golf a little bit because lockdown, big year.

And Aaron Glenn, that new regime, and kind of doing things.

This is kind of how you want your organization to do things.

Take care of things.

Don't let it be drama, let it be drawn out like it's going on in Washington right now with Terry McCormick.

Play that guy.

That's a guy you obviously have to pay.

Pay the cornerstone guy, Garrett Wilson, Sauce Gardner, and you give him a little more.

30.1 per year.

You obviously get over his draft classmate, Derek Slingley Jr., who signed for 30 years.

So now you have four years locked in at 30.1.

Well, well deserved, man.

Now, the whole conversation is going to be the same thing that happened with the Bengals.

It's like, can you win whenever this is how you spend your money?

And when you're in the middle of especially rebuilding a team, we think keep your best players on your team is the right play.

So we're happy that the Jets did it, but new regime, new eyes, new everything.

I'll be excited.

It's a good deal, too.

Like as far as value-wise, like Garrett, you don't reset the market to jump up there.

Obviously, Chase, it's a decent gap between him and the second guy with him been up at 40.

And then Sauce, you bump and make him the number one guy over Stingley because, like I said, he's lived up to that bill and he deserves it.

So they're doing all the right things right now in the July.

I hope the Jets win.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't think they will, but

being the Patriots.

I hope they do.

Think about

it.

Why do they deserve to win?

They won't.

Gunk.

Dolphins.

I don't know.

Hey, Gunk.

I think maybe you should think about maybe not thinking about that.

The Dolphins guaranteed Dolphins better record than the Jets.

Wow.

Okay, I love to hear that.

Shout out to the AFC East having a little bit of a battle down there at the bottom.

And with that being said, maybe the Jets aren't at the bottom anymore.

Maybe the Dolphins aren't either.

Maybe they have a plan that none of us can see and everything like that.

And we like McDaniels, so there's a chance, and Tua can spin it.

But with the Jets, we got a chance to experience their life there for a couple years.

Yeah.

That sucked.

Awful.

That was not fun.

No.

Especially because we bought in

just like they do.

We actually lived the life of a Jet fan for

two years.

Fuck.

Yeah.

Right?

Oh, yeah.

Awful.

So that's why I hope, like, for the good of the sport, that's a big city.

That's a lot of people.

And they have never really got a chance to have like a fucking

football.

That's in Tamith.

Yeah, that's why.

60 years.

That would be a tough existence now granted i think they feel like uh they're tougher than everybody else because they've been able to live through it sure and jets fans and mets fans have their own you know kind of view on life right we know a few of them and it's like that's almost a part of their charm is like yeah we suck we're gonna be like he's a miserable bastard yeah exactly this guy's a miserable sports fan yeah what do you mean oh he's a jets fan it's like i understand that that's the angle they've had to take to survive and i respect and appreciate that and i think it generates pretty hilarious sports fans.

Like miserable sports fans are funny as fuck, especially with the New York attitude and everything like that.

Imagine them winning.

And I think that's why the dream was so big whenever Aaron gets there, because it's like, this is an entire city that's just waiting to explode, basically.

And it did not work out with Aaron.

Obviously, injury, fluke injury out of nowhere changes everything and the trajectory of that.

Then they pay Justin Fields $20 million a year to be their quarterback.

It's like, all right, they're going in with Justin Fields.

Does that mean they're going in with Justin Fields running the rock?

Are they going to pound it?

And then all of a sudden now you pay Garrett Wilson wide receiver a lot of money.

It's like, okay, so what messages?

What are we going to do?

You have to be able to throw it at some point anyways, even if your quarterback is going to run it.

So I'm excited to see what they do.

And Aaron Glenn, we all have respect for, right?

Yes, definitely.

We all have respect for Aaron.

I like how he carries himself for sure.

Yeah, and we like his attitude and the way he views football.

And I actually kind of like,

I don't like the disrespect, seemingly, to Aaron, but I am very okay with Aaron Glenn and them being like, we're going to

go in a different direction.

I would assume the Jets fans feel similar.

Yeah, exactly.

Like the three, I think the way Aaron Lee, as a friend of ours, Aaron, like the fly across the country and then basically just told, get out the door.

It's like the guy has earned more than that in football.

I think first Ballot Hall of Famer here, no matter how you feel about anything like football, I think he deserves a little bit more respect than that, personally.

There's a lot of people that don't think that, but also not inside ball in the entire conversation.

But the fact that they decided to go in a different, like, I respect that.

I appreciate that.

And I think Jets fans do not have like the hype that they have had over the the next years.

So there's a chance these Jets fans have like a fun football run here because the expectations aren't that we're going to win a Super Bowl.

But that's going to be a tough division, dude.

Yeah.

Allegedly, what we're hearing,

yeah, Vrabel, massive Mayfit.

Oh, yeah.

They've been together for an offseason now.

And it's like all of our thoughts, as soon as Vrabel goes up to New England, it's like, New England's back.

Sports books go.

Hey, just a heads up, New England's back.

How many games are they favored in?

11.

That's unbelievable.

Unbelievable.

11 and 6 for the New England Patriots, fresh off the last couple years that they've had would be an absurd turnaround.

But we all just kind of believe in it.

And then early word is that Vrabes believes in the quarterback.

Yeah, big time.

And all the mic dup of Drake Mays coming out, his interaction with the teammates are awesome.

The stuff, the defense is going to be incredible no matter what.

But back to the Jets with the Jets.

Like, as a Patriots channel, this is the first time this has happened in forever, where they have a coach that it feels like the majority of people are on his side, think he's great, and they have a stud on offense and a stud on defense.

Like, even them just having Garrett Wilson and Sauce Gardner has to be a positive for Jets fans going forward because it has been a while where every time they draft a first-round pick, either something goes wrong or they leave.

And now they have a guy on both sides.

Brees Hall is still back there.

And the whole change-up thing, too, that you're talking about.

Yeah, D-line, I forgot.

D-line, Quentin Williams is unbelievable.

His brother, Quincy, like they have actual guys, which usually doesn't happen, but going from Rodgers to then Fields, like you talk about the different styles, sometimes that's awesome.

Like

when the Patriots did their Cam Newton year, and you go from the typical pocket offense with Brady to a Cam Newton running the ball style, obviously it's weird.

You want Tom Brady to be the quarterback of the team you're rooting for.

But when you switch styles like that, it is fun because it's just a completely different game.

And so if they throw the ball 20 times a game and Brees Hall and Justin Fields are, you know, running for 150 combined and then Garrett Wilson has 100 yards, like at least they have an entertaining brand of football.

That has never been the case, probably since Fitzmagic and Eric Decker and Brandon Marshall.

But again, those guys didn't start with the Jets, like them actually hitting on their draft picks, giving them a second contract.

I forget what the exact number was, but I don't think they've extended a first-round pick to their second deal in, you know, since 2015 or something like that.

Congrats to Jets and Jets fans.

Hopefully it works out.

Hey, we're pulling for you, GoPro.

Well, Patriots fans, certainly not.

I would like to answer the 16th.

Not week one.

Just 2016.

Yeah, we're pulling for everybody.

Yeah, we're certainly pulling for everybody.

Big news down the SEC, they had their media days, and the bell of the ball is the quarterback for Texas.

Yes, it is.

There was a photo released of his particular press conference versus everybody else, and it's a Shohei Otani type situation, Caitlin Clark type situation down in SEC media days.

And I'll have you know

that the young buck handled it perfectly.

I haven't done a damn thing in the SEC, you know.

Basically, he took the Manning

PR play humble as hell, ready for the moment, excited for the moment, obviously, appreciates the opportunity, talks about his teammates, how he's hung out with his teammates.

It's like Texas has got a guy, and I feel like everybody is starting to think the same thing.

And I know it's obviously chalk to say this, but it's like that first week against Ohio State, we're going to learn so much.

So much.

Now, granted, both teams are going to be alive for the playoff in the end.

Both teams can take a loss, but it's like Arch Manning in Columbus to kick off the entire game day season and the entire upright.

It's a career, really.

Let's go.

This is it.

Yeah,

well, that's because that Ohio State defense still,

that Ohio State defense, they lose a couple guys and then they just replenish them.

Who's the quarterback for Ohio State?

Julian

Sane, probably.

They're saying.

Another five-star guy.

Guy.

Yes.

Yeah, and they still got Jeremiah Smith.

And then, like, what a start for college ball.

And shout out to Arch, you know?

And shout out to Atkinson, who's not going to obviously be down there until next year.

The humility of these young guys.

It's insane.

I think because they've had money since they're like 15, they've already got past the honeymoon phase of being like, I'm better than you.

Now it's like, hey, I'm a professional and I'm super mature.

And Arch is obviously going to be that way, but it feels like this whole generation kind of has.

Especially these guys who are getting 40 scholarship offers when they're in seventh eighth grade it's like okay you get you don't have a choice you got to grow up a little bit be arrogant in ninth grade yeah and then once you get to like college it's like i've been here done that right hour two on the other side who knows who's going to stop by we're live from the esps it's going to be great tonight be a friend tell a friend something nice might change your life we'll see on the other side

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Are happening tonight?

It's the 33rd time this particular award show is taking place.

And tonight it'll be hosted by a man who is a Philadelphia Eagles fan, a man who is a writer, creator, comedian, and a guy who should be able to turn tonight's affair into quite a celebration of beautiful sports.

Now, there's a lot of categories this evening.

There's a lot of chances to win.

There's a lot of great athletes and a lot of great stories that are going to be told.

But tonight is all about celebrating the greatest thing that's ever been created, competition.

So whenever you see whoever go up and win tonight, just think about the amount of hours that have been taking place behind the scenes, when the lights were off, the commitment to sport, the commitment to body, the commitment to trying to be the best they could possibly be in whatever their particular sport is.

We say thank you to all the athletes that have committed themselves to make our lives better as a society as we watch them try to accomplish a feat that maybe has never been done before with no blueprint.

as they just bust their ass and commit to craft and sacrifice so much.

You know, maybe they don't go to that party.

They don't go to that hangout.

Maybe back in high school, instead of having the opportunity to go drink the booze with the underagers, they got to go run sprints.

They got to be up at 6 a.m.

lifting weights.

They've sacrificed so many things so that they can be the best in the world at what they do.

And tonight, we get a chance to celebrate the shit out of that with one of the funniest humans to ever exist on a microphone.

This should be a blast tonight for the 33rd Espies.

We hope you will

join us 8 p.m.

on ABC.

I knew it was on ABC before reading that.

Yeah, you're going to be talking about it all all morning.

Yeah, yeah, and I think Disney Plus as well.

For sure.

I have found out that we are on.

We are a pretty big show on Disney Plus.

I did not know that until very recently.

Yeah.

Every day I go to watch Moana.

We're right there.

That's crazy, isn't it?

It is.

Now, on that note, so many great things have obviously been created in this city.

Obviously, LA is in the middle of quite a transition because of the catastrophic wildfires that took place and kind of took over.

But what they talk about when it comes to the weather in this place,

they're spot on.

Yeah, they're not joking.

This is outrageous.

There's no humidity.

No, none.

There's a little breeze.

Somehow we're completely surrounded by trees, but a breeze just kind of peppers its way down and says, Hey, don't you need a light little blow in the face right now?

Right, nice.

Yeah, yeah, and you do, and they feel it.

And there's even some, you know, clouds seemingly coming and going, and it's kind of blocking the sun perfectly.

And then, whenever the cloud moves, it's right at a perfect time that the wind comes.

It's almost like the weather has

a vision for what you need to feel.

Without a doubt.

So whenever everybody that lives out here is like,

I'm willing to pay, bye,

I'm willing to wait in the four-hour traffic, bye-bye,

they always respond with, the weather's perfect out here.

Every day is paradise.

And I'll tell you, right now what we're feeling,

they're telling the truth.

Yeah, they're certainly.

Sat in traffic last night, 45 minutes to get three and a half miles from here.

Yeah.

Wanted to be upset, rolled down that window.

Holy shit.

This weather is perfect out here.

Yeah.

Did you catch any of the

extracurriculars, if you will?

Because when we were walking through the little town down here on our way back,

saw a guy pissing on a police station.

So I don't know.

I don't know.

And by the way,

I'm kind of bummed no one said bullshit because I wanted someone to because I took a photo.

I couldn't believe it.

Sometimes we could believe it.

They got everything.

I've seen a lot of things in a lot of these cities.

A lot of cities have a lot of things happening in it.

You see that rave thing in L.A.

that they did with with the encampments surrounding the dystopian future look yeah the dystopian future with the with the fire and the and the stuff i have not seen that it's wild but i do know i do know whenever you fly into here so many lights oh yeah la is so big so many people out there huge so so so big i i didn't really fully uh kind of grasp that until flying in this time because you go over one of those hills there's like a desert and then a kind of a big town and then you go over over a hill and it just turns into this isn't it crazy back in the day la was the place everybody kind of wanted to get to yeah i mean ty you came out here did you not i mean for me it was like i assume that at some point i'm gonna be living in la now with the way the world operates and with the way the internet is it's like you can do whatever wherever although i hope la never loses its like because getting out here it's awesome yeah it's far so it's super far i mean it is super far out here but it is beautiful there's a lot of great people out here we can't wait to see them all last night there was a gathering of the who's who's of people at the Sports Humanitarian Awards.

A lot of good things happened.

A lot of teams.

They spotlighted last night all of the L.A.

teams and how much they kind of did for the fires and how they all kind of came together and how the sports community really rallied around this city and tried to help this city.

It was really cool to see like kind of, because there's a hundred teams in L.A.

Yeah.

Are you?

There's like two soccer teams, two football teams, two basketball teams, two this, two that, WNBA, like soccer, professional soccer, women's soccer.

I think there's everything together.

Professional women's softball.

Like there is, just in LA, they all kind of came together, I guess, to help out with the fires.

There are so many sports that are happening out here.

So many sports fans in L.A., just naturally, because there's so many humans.

I think that gets forgotten about whenever people think about LA because you think about like Hollywood and movies and hippies and shit.

But it's like there's a lot of sports fans out there.

There has to be because there's so many goddamn teams out here.

Cal, when you went to Cal, I felt like that was one of the biggest takeaways from Game Day last year.

And even, you know, it kind of makes you want, at least, you know, for me, like it makes you want USC and UCLA in those schools to be good again because you remember the times when like Leinard and, you know, Reggie Bush and USC.

Those were our days.

That was you guys.

Those were our days.

Dogs.

All right, let's get into some sports news on this sports celebration day.

That's one half of the hammer.

Done.

Cowboys, AP Tone, looking incredibly cool.

This weekend in Northern Ireland,

okay?

We got a big one.

We got a major.

We got golf mattering.

And with that coming, we know we got Scotty Scheffler all weekend bringing it.

Tone, what's going on at the Open?

What do we need to look at?

Yeah, being over here on the West Coast, I have no idea.

Couldn't even guess what time it is in Northern Ireland right now.

But on Thursday in Northern Ireland, the fourth and final major of the golf season is going to go on.

Someone is going to try to join Scotty Scheffler, Rory McRoy, and JJ Spawn in the major champion list of 2025.

It is golf's oldest major.

This is the 153rd Open.

You mentioned it is in Northern Ireland, which is Rory's home country.

So it's kind of a home game for Rory.

It's at Royal Port Rush.

Is he going to win that or is that too much pressure?

I don't know.

I mean, he played decent last week at the Scottish Open.

He was tied for the lead going into Sunday.

I'm going to say this to Rory.

Yeah.

Rory, I love everything you're doing.

You walk up to the media and tell them, kiss your ass.

Yeah.

You do whatever you need to do, buddy.

It is great whenever you're playing incredible golf.

Yes.

Rory, you need to know from us.

And if you need to take some time, you need to take some time.

Shit, I just took some time.

I am taking some time from WWE.

Sometimes a lot can kind of happen, and then mentally you get to a place where you're like exhausted and things like that.

So if that's what happened to Rory, or if that's going on with Rory, or was happening to Rory, and he's threw it on the other side, Rory, we just want to let you know.

We love when you're golfing good.

And I love that people hate you.

I think that is a good thing for sport, not a bad thing for sport.

And if Rory was to win in Ireland, I mean, holy hell, what a scene that would be for golf.

It would be insane.

Like, the crowd is going to to be behind him.

There's not going to be a lot of people hating him.

If you could pull that back up, Foxy, 2019 was the last time the open was at Royal Port Rush.

Shane Lowry won.

He's at plus 2,500.

Tommy Fleetwood came in second.

He's at plus 2,500.

Tyro Hatton also another Euro up there.

I mean, the Euros kind of have advantage here.

That's always a Lynx course.

So what's that mean?

That means we're just hitting long lows.

It's going to be windy.

No trees.

Not a lot of trees, a lot of pop bunkers.

A lot of pop bunkers.

It is supposed to be windy and rainy, so we are going to have classic open conditions this week.

Oh, what's beef?

What's that?

Oh, Andrew Beef Johnston.

No.

Is that his name?

You're talking about Beef?

The old guy from a couple years ago?

The guy with the beard.

Yeah.

Me.

Yeah, no, it was beef.

Beef.

No.

Who's the guy?

He's a European guy.

He's got a good beard.

We're talking Shay Lowry or no?

No.

Is that who we're talking about?

Shea Lowe?

You're talking beef.

I know who you're talking about.

Is he a European fella?

Yeah.

Okay.

I like Sprinkle Little Odds on.

I don't know if.

I don't know if

that's right.

I can't think of who the hell beef is.

It might be Tommy's Tommy.

Andrew Johnston.

Yeah, Beef Johnston.

Go show him pictures.

Fleetwood is.

Oh, no.

This is who you're thinking of.

I hope.

Did you see that one drop area?

Yes.

It's diabolical.

I don't think that's a reality.

Are you talking Shane Lowe?

It's got to be Shane Lowry.

I don't think it's Shane.

No, you knew his name.

Beef Johnston.

Yeah, I know Beef.

Start popping up.

Beef troll, guys.

But I don't know if Shane has a beef.

But I'm saying Shane won this in 2019 at the same place.

That's Beef Johnston.

That's Beef Johnston.

That's who you're thinking of.

You don't like Shane Lowry.

Nobody does.

No, everybody loves Shane Lowry.

Everyone on the tour loves Shane Lowry.

I like Shane Lowry.

That guy looks like Lane Johnson with a terrible beard in the golf.

I probably...

have in my history of golf fandom had massive respect for that particular fellow that just got shown on the screen.

That is who I am referring to, though, Shane Lawrence.

I could have sworn you were talking about Beth Johnson.

Man.

No, but Shane's, you know,

he's the defending champ in 2019 at this situation.

They're all going to win the Claire Jug.

You know, we watched Cam Smith love declare a jug, and then he disappeared for a few years, so maybe he'll find his way back this week.

Who knows?

I just feel that that weather

live guy.

Cam's still burning.

With the weather over there, it feels like the Europeans always have some.

They're just used to it.

Yeah, and it's like there's something that's going to pop up out of nowhere.

Didn't John Daly win this one right now?

Oh, yeah.

John Daly won this one.

Yeah, I remember the entire scene.

Yeah, the 19th hole guy running.

Yeah.

Yeah, and I think the style of golf, I mean, we just brought up Beef.

And we just brought up Shane Lowry, and we just talked about John Daly.

Shane Live go to the spot.

Since a wobble?

I think the style of play that you need to have over there in these types of tournaments, especially if the weather's going to be the weather, I think it is different, you know?

Just as somebody

that had to deal with a ball in the air.

Yeah, right?

Hey, my job was punting.

Whenever you go into a place, like I'm from Pittsburgh, very lucky to be from Pittsburgh.

Went to West Virginia, Morgantown, very windy.

Like it is a very windy place.

So I've always had like a natural like confidence in some places.

But you get some guys that like punted for the Cleveland Browns forever on that lake or whatever.

It's like they have a different level of just like, this is what life is going to be like.

And it's just, that is such an advantage over everybody else.

So I think the European, not only the home and feeling like, hey, this is us representing it's us versus the world right now.

Kind of like a Ryder Cup feel to the entire thing, especially with their fans, how awesome and loud they are.

But it's like, I think the weather plays a massive role and the style of play.

How many Lynx courses are in America?

Definitely not.

They're starting to pop up more because they're doing the whole take the tree out of golf thing in America now, which I don't love.

But no, like you're going to see it.

I'm okay with it.

I'd like to let everybody know that I am okay with it.

When we're playing, yeah, but you're going to see guys from 150 feet out just putting from off the greens and stuff like that.

This is where like

it's hard to

those shots through the trees.

Those are the moments.

What are we talking about?

We're getting them out of the pot bunkers this way.

Well, yeah, I get it.

Yeah, but what about a roll?

A fucking 22-yard putt?

The fairway is basically the green.

That's dark golf.

So, uh-uh.

153rd time they're doing this?

Is this all the courses for the open?

I know, like, are all the courses set up like this?

Yes.

Yes.

That's why we won in 1776, bitch, because we knew that this was wrong.

We knew what they were doing.

Carnusty, St.

Andrews, they're all.

Not like our measurement system or any of the other differences that potentially change in 1776,

strictly the golf course setup.

That was one of the things.

I remember, you know, Ty actually told me about George Washington's kind of short game, and it was one of the biggest problems he had with the country itself, honestly.

Well, we're talking about the open as royalty has arrived.

Congrats, Burke.

Art George.

Hey, George.

If If you are

so brave.

Hell of a setup here, brother.

This is amazing.

Theater last night was amazing.

The Espes whole thing is really 33 times this has happened.

Think about probably from the first one, how many different like iterations of the Espes there's been.

I think it's a cool thing to happen.

A couple years ago when I was a part of it, obviously the situation was a situation and everything like that.

But like

it is cool.

Like Tyson was there.

Yeah.

Like the people that are that come through this, it's like a, I don't want to say a Hall of Fame, but it is like a Hall of Fame of sports.

It's kind of who?

That's cool.

And it is a Hall of Fame of sports.

People you would never think that you would see are going to be here throughout the day and throughout the night.

It's like, that's a cool thing for sports as a whole.

And shout out to ESPN kind of linking it all together.

It kind of reminds you just everything that happened, too.

Yeah, it does.

We're so locked into it day to day.

You forget some of these great moments, some of these great teams, you know, big championship moments.

So I'm excited.

It's my first one, so I'm excited about everything that goes down tonight.

Who's going to win these awards?

It's going to be dope, man.

All right, let's go to some other things happening around sport.

The SEC media days are taking place.

Joining us now live, Boots on the Ground, the authority of college football, ladies and gentlemen, Pete Thamel.

Scott Sharon.

Scott Hollywood here at SEC Media Days, Pat.

Not Hollywood.

Just a lot of grinding down there, huh, Pete?

We're pounding the pavement down there.

What are we doing?

What is your role down there at SEC Media Day?

Trying to learn everything you possibly can about everything?

It's talking season, Pat.

So the role is to get to know as many of these new players, new faces of the league, and then just kind of talk to all the coaches and get a vibe for

what's next.

Okay, so what's the biggest thing?

It's a British and Blacks, man.

It's a good run.

You know, it has been, if we're going to be really honest here, it's been a little boring.

You know, when you think about Johnny Manzel running around here, and you think about Tim Thibault and think about all the guys from there,

there has not been an earth-shattering headline at all.

Today is Alabama Day, among others.

And so, you know, Big From Zintai did make a playoff last year.

So there was a lot of chatter about that.

DJ Lagway, who I really think is going to be one of the best players in all of college football next year and a top five pick in 2027, he's going to speak today.

He's coming back from injury.

He went six and one as a starter last year for the Gators.

So yeah, it's kind of, everybody's kind of rolling through.

There's some macro issues that are being discussed,

you know, from the playoff and some different some different things.

Yeah, big brain things, as you like to say.

So yeah, it's been, you know, we're kind of in the throes of day three now, Pat, and it's been a media day.

The throws, obviously, day three, we're in the middle of it, okay?

Alabama's rolling in there.

I saw their picture of their plane.

Yeah.

I did love it.

New plane?

Old plane.

Stinky plane.

You know the Alabama style, though.

Well, maybe Sabin took the plane with him.

No, you know.

No.

You know his style.

Oh, yeah.

Coach Saban.

Yeah, you're right.

Yeah, that's what I mean.

He's flying on these

planes.

Coach Saban is.

I've never...

Old school.

I don't want to get too deep into the where I live in Indianapolis with where the Indianapolis International Airport is.

Is that her who is?

That is Kurt's Herbert Street.

Yeah.

Oh, indeed.

Yeah, wait, where the hell is D?

He's right here.

Oh, wow.

Herbal.

Did he just roll that in?

Her ball.

He's been golfing a lot this offsea.

Yeah, I see.

Can you will you put a headset on?

We're talking to the authority.

I know you're a baseball guy, Centerville Elk.

This guy has the home run record for the Centerville Elks.

Also,

I did not know you were going to be here this early in the day.

This is genuine surprise that he is here.

Did your camera catch that?

We had your head, not the actual putt.

No, we didn't see it.

You saw it.

I saw it.

I saw it.

Left overall.

Hey, Pete, real quick, Arch Manning's story of SEC Media Days and

how he's handled it.

Everybody understands what Texas is supposed to be.

Is that kind of how everybody's looking at this?

Is this Texas's conference all of a sudden?

Is that what you feel?

And then I heard Kirby Smart say, I don't think anybody's for adding nine more losses or something like that to the league or something like that.

Is it what is kind of the chitter-chatter about where the league is right now as a whole?

Sure.

So, Arch was the story yesterday, Pat, and obviously his appearance here was a huge deal.

It generated the most headlines.

And look, he's the most anticipated player in college football and probably the last generation, right?

I thought Arch really was composed and handled himself really well.

He was deprecating.

He was like, I don't really deserve to be here based on my performance so far.

And really spoke to what the SEC means to him because of his uncles and is obviously his granddad and dad

playing in the league.

So, look, there is a unique pressure on Arch Manning right now, Pat, to go dominate college football.

I thought what Steve Sarkeesian said yesterday was the most interesting is that they have the best defense in his tenure here.

So, Arch Manning is not going to have to go score 49 a game for Texas to win.

They're going to be able to play complementary football, ease him in.

There's going to be less pressure on him to

go.

As for Kirby, it was his anniversary yesterday.

He was really pleased to be spending it with us.

Congratulations.

Mr.

and Mrs.

Smart, I think it was a smart decision.

Use that, Peter.

You can use that tonight, Shane.

Sorry, Peter.

There's an eternal debate in the SEC right now of whether they go to nine conference games.

That's a key piece of the CFP moving forward here because the Big Ten won't want to go to the five plus 11 model, the 16-team playoff, if everyone isn't playing nine games, SEC and ACC included.

So Kirby Smart yesterday was basically like, do we want to add more losses?

Because obviously there's a feeling within the SEC, Pat, that

top to bottom, the league is much, much better than the other leagues.

Big Ten national champs

as we currently sit back-to-back years.

But with that being said, anybody that just holds that over the head of the SEC is certainly

leaving out a large piece of the argument

in my eyes.

But with that being said, Tennessee came up to Columbus, Ohio.

Saw what happened.

You know, so like, can Big Ten teams build their rosters the same way as SEC teams?

I kind of got a little bit of a new angle on how we're judging how good teams are because I think where you come from, you have to build your team in that certain fashion.

And I think we found out that the SUVs of the North, also not that bad, even though they might not be able to have as many five-star 4-3s on the team as the teams in the South.

I think the conversation has gotten much broader after having now these college football playoff games.

And that's why I think the home playoff game is so awesome.

I thought that was the coolest part of the college football playoffs.

I think college football is in such a great spot.

Senkey mentioned that yesterday.

He said, the sport's strained, but we're not in problems or anything like that.

It feels healthy.

And speaking of healthy, ladies and gentlemen, a man who has looked 24 years old for his entire life has joined us.

He just made a left-handed putt with a right-handed putter.

Ladies and gentlemen, the face of College Game Day alongside Coach Corso for the the last 30 years.

Thursday night, Amazon kicking off every single NFL weekend, which we appreciate him for.

And Saturday night, primetime college football game.

Kirk Hercshead's here.

Sir, Herbie.

Thank you, boys.

Herbie, how are we doing?

Do you have a question for me?

I do.

First, I want to hear him and Ty go back and forth.

Pete, you touched on where we're potentially heading there with Sankey and Tony.

What do you think the final, what's the answer?

What will they end up doing as we try to that next playoff contract

yeah kirk if i had to predict i think we end up at 16 i i am not confident it will be that in 2026 because of the different variables that have to sort themselves out but i do think access is king And I do think if in 26 it's only 12, there would be a lot of animosity for those teams that are 13, 14, 15, 16, and the leagues they come from because there is a window right now to expand.

And if you're a commissioner, there's a danger in holding that up because it could really backfire on you with your constituency.

So I think that the scheduling metrics and how they are judged by the CFP committee, strength of record is a buzz term.

Look, I mean, I'm sure you love this, Pat.

They had like a Google mathematician at the last CFP meetings to come in to help them quantify.

I don't, no, shout out to the mathematists out there, obviously, and the scientists.

You're going to do what you got to do.

And the Englishians out there like myself.

But I like the fact that they're trying to figure out a better way to figure out what these teams are.

But man, the more chefs you put into the kitchen, I think.

But I do think the subjective part of this for all of us, and Pete, I want to hear what you think about this, is I do think a strength of schedule,

strength of record, whatever it might be, needs to come into play because

if you go to Iowa City in a night game and win, it's different than going to West Lafayette at noon.

You know, I mean, it's shut your fucking mouth, Tony.

The new is going to be really good this year.

But

I just think there are certain losses that you can't just look at a 10-2

the same way.

You know what I mean?

What happened?

Oh,

that was

a good one.

You almost went down.

Wait a minute, Athlete.

You almost went down.

I laughed at Ty being very upset at the Iowa City and the West Lafayette comparisons.

And I did a lean back, and this thing

popped there.

Saved it.

I think we were going, which

wouldn't have been great because you're making a great point.

I would like to say that I agree with that.

I just think that two 10-2s or two 11-1s, you know, how you got there, I think that's what's holding the SEC back, right, Pete?

I mean, isn't that what they're concerned about?

Is they don't, you know, like LSU's playing Clemson week one.

We don't want those games to go away.

We don't want everybody to go to Kennesaw State or whoever they're playing right now.

That's Braun Breaker.

Shout out.

Braun Easy.

Braun Breaker.

Yeah, WWE's dog.

All right, we appreciate you, Pete.

Thank you for keeping us updated.

You're the man.

We'll see you soon.

Okay, on that note, shout out, Pete Hammel.

College football is right around the corner, dude.

It is.

Game day.

How are you only one in the sun?

Yeah, it just happened.

It did just happen.

Yeah, I'm going to be

as red as the ESPN logo.

We'd rather a marine layer anymore.

Going some shades.

Yeah, D.Butch.

Oh, come on, man.

I'm putting yours on my face.

No, thank you.

Whatever.

Those sunglasses were meant for your face.

I guess that's true.

You got a deal with those?

No, no.

Yeah, I bought them.

Not yet.

Not yet.

Maybe I did.

Yeah, it's almost here.

NFL,

who was it?

Rams or Chargers?

Somebody reported it already.

Chargers are in camp.

Teams will be showing up this week in the NFL.

College is right around the corner.

You guys have done a hell of a job getting through the dog days.

Thanks for watching.

Thank you.

I don't know how you do it.

I mean,

I did radio for about 18 years, and you get past March Madness,

and then if the Reds suck, which they usually do, and then you get all the way, you got the draft, and then you got to get through June and July.

Let me tell you.

Can I tell you something?

It's tough.

Can I tell you something about this year as opposed to years past?

Yeah.

The Indiana Pacers, obviously, doing their thing.

Yeah, that helped.

It was huge for us.

But also the NBA just being like, yeah, come on, come on, come on, come on.

It's very cool.

The MLB.

I saw that.

You just talked about the Reds.

Yeah.

I got a chance to meet L.E.

De La Cruz.

Yeah.

First of all,

huge.

Stud.

Vibes, immaculate.

Like he is a good vibes.

Why wasn't he in the home run derby?

I think he was pulling for O'Neill Cruz.

I believe if you watched when O'Neill was the entire Dominican Republic

was showing up for him every day.

Sure.

That group, I love.

A lot of energy.

I love

everyone.

Everybody.

And then even whenever they were just sitting in the team mobile area, very together, and the vibes immaculate.

How about MLB reaching out to you, lads?

So cool.

So cool being a part of it.

With that being smart by them.

You love baseball.

No, you love it.

You love it.

You love baseball.

Always have.

The Reds, I think, are in the same boat as the Pirates.

Is that an accurate depiction?

No, let's not get carried away.

No, we have to.

No, the Pirates have the best pressure.

The Reds are three games over 500, and they're actually competing, have a shot.

The Pittsburgh Pirates had to starter for an all-star game.

Three up, three down, by the way.

I know.

How are you doing?

Keeping moving, Paul Skeens baseball.

He's a beast.

Oh, Neil Cruz, hit one 513 feet.

Did anybody do that?

No.

Hey, Reds?

Hey, Reds?

No.

All right, let's talk football.

Let's talk a little bit more.

I'm glad you guys still support the Pirates.

That's good.

I support the Seniors.

They play

the Players and

you follow baseball?

The Marlins are

okay.

Yeah, they're battling.

They're going to everybody.

There's only one team we should be talking about, and that's the Boston Red Sox.

Of course.

Talk about college football.

Why should we talk about the Boston Red Sox?

You guys lost yet?

No, we haven't.

We went and visited

the commander in chief.

You got a good run, didn't you?

Didn't Boston's got a little run.

They're currently on a 10-game win streak.

Donald Trump told Alex Cora, like, hey, man, why don't you think about moving the lineup around, changing some things?

Alex Cora.

Whatever's happening is happening.

Next thing's next.

And, you know, all of a sudden the Red Sox are.

Real quick, stack your teams in order based on passion in that talent for you.

Patriots, Celtics, Bruins, Tide Socks.

Socks last easily.

Wow.

Builds third.

Bruins.

Bruins.

Bruins is.

I don't know why we're doing this, first of all, but it's Chris Forsyth.

It sounds like you're right at two, kind of 1A, 1B.

Who's better?

Wow.

Okay.

Did you know that?

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

But if they all stink and the socks are good, like you just heard, they all of a sudden moved to one.

Right.

And they're the ones that matter the most.

And let's talk about that.

Let's not talk about the other ones.

Yeah.

Boston, very good sports fan base.

Great shit talkers, but also great at deflection and moving to another one.

And then also, look at the history.

Are you kidding me?

What are you talking about?

Where are you from?

Yeah.

What can you do?

It is a constant move.

Yeah.

And it's wonderful.

I think that man.

They always win the argument.

Just won a title last year.

Yeah.

And the Patriots, for instance, 20 years in the biggest league, the biggest sport, being able to talk shit to everybody.

Just on top of everything.

And they can do that forever because they had it.

And also, they think they potentially have it again.

They're favored in 11 games already.

That's crazy to think about just because of the Braves experience.

Let's go to college ball.

Wow.

Your thoughts on now.

We're a few weeks out here from College Game Day starting.

Obviously, this is going to be a hell of a year, hell of a run.

Yeah, I think the teams and their fan bases are only going to grow.

Like, I don't think anything's getting smaller.

I think college football is very healthy.

I think numbers are going to continue to go up for college football because the product is so damn great.

What are you looking forward to for this college football season?

Feels like with the transfers, there's so many different stories you could potentially go with.

Yeah, I think the unknowns.

I think Arch Manning coming finally into the forefront.

You know, he's kind of,

by the way, this was very calculated by his dad and his family, sending him to a school with a coach to kind of intentionally kind of put him on that back burner.

It's just right up kind of the way the Mannings do things.

They didn't want to throw him in the way a lot of these five-stars immediately have to be the guy.

They put him in a place where Quinn Ewers was the guy, let him ease himself in, and now, after kind of seasoning for a couple years, now he's ready to kind of take off.

I'm excited to see what Texas can do, and they jump right into it.

into it when they go to Columbus to take on Ohio State.

Great weekend.

I mean, are you kidding me?

What a setup there in a tough environment against the defending national champs.

But like, think about Ohio State.

Think about Georgia.

Think about Alabama.

Like a lot of the teams, Oregon, a lot of the teams that are normally just fixtures in the playoff, they all have new quarterbacks.

You know, so it's impossible to sit here and say Julian Sand's going to be an all-conference or all-American.

He might be, but you have no idea.

I think that's the part about college football that every, I've been doing this for a long time.

Every year you kind of get excited about, we know Kirby, we know the brand, but are they going to develop into being the team that we think they can be with a new quarterback?

Yeah, and Gunner's a dog.

Can't wait to watch another full season.

I mean, he was knocked unconscious just yesterday.

And he got right up.

Yeah, just got right up.

Safety came up and blew him.

Knocked it on the side of the team.

What team do you expect to make a big, big jump?

I know we are in that NIL era and the checkbooks are coming out.

So like a team like Texas Tech, I know they peaked.

28 allegedly.

Yeah, so what?

They're paying attention.

Specifically, you think can make that jump?

I think when I say make a jump, I think it's Clemson kind of coming back to the party.

They've been away ever since Trevor Lawrence left.

I think Cade's ready to kind of handle it, and I think they've got enough defense, new defensive coordinator.

Tom Allen takes over as their guy.

I think they'll be back.

By the way, they open up with LSU.

So that's the way college football should be.

If you're a player, I've heard a lot of these players interviewed at the SEC.

They're so excited to play in these big games.

They don't want to play in these games where they're favored by 20 or 30 points.

So I think

LSU Clemson winner would be interesting because Brian Kelly, I think, has got a lot of heat.

I think Penn State has a chance with what they went through last year.

They've been so close.

I think their fans want them to get there.

Boy, they were close last year.

I'm excited to see them.

But a team that's maybe off the radar that

it used to be easier to predict that because you'd say, oh, wow, they got 19 returning starters.

Vandy.

You like Vandy with?

Diego Pavia said that the mission's not done until we win a national championship.

He said national championship.

He didn't smirk.

Everyone says Illinois this year.

Everyone's talking Illinois.

You know, when you wonder, Texas Tech and Illinois, those kind of teams.

My history with this is when a team is off the radar and then everybody's talking about them, they don't handle it well.

Like a South Carolina is better when nobody's talking about it.

I don't know how you feel.

Like, Iowa is one of those teams.

To me, Iowa's dangerous when nobody's talking about Iowa.

For sure.

When everybody's saying Iowa's going to be great,

those teams don't typically handle that.

So I don't know how Bilam is going to deal with that.

Hold on.

We got to pivot to the newsroom.

Ladies and gentlemen, joining us live to break some news from the Basketball Association.

Ladies and gentlemen, friend of the program, Kirk, do you know this man?

I don't know.

Ladies and gentlemen, Sham Sharon.

Yeah, Shyam Villaman.

I know of him.

He does great work.

Great work.

Hey, we're talking 20-hour 20-hour screen time trying to get to the bottom of everything.

I believe we have some breaking news, Shams.

We do.

Bradley Beale of the Phoenix Suns has reached agreement on a contract buyout with the Suns.

He's giving back $13.9 million out of his $110 million contract.

His representative, Mark Barlossino, Priority Sports, tells me the plan is for Bradley Beale now to sign a two-year, $11 million deal to join the Los Angeles Clippers.

So Brad Beale, Kawhi Leonard, James Harden will all team up together with the Clippers.

And so he's giving up some money in this buyout with the Suns.

But this now gives him an opportunity to compete for a championship, a better basketball fit for him.

So he is set to join the Clippers as we are tweeting away here right now.

That baby Sean's way to walk and chew gum and talk and tweet at the same time.

We appreciate the news break here.

Congrats to Beale seemingly losing $2 million, but probably ending up where he wanted to be now with Aiton doing a similar thing.

Is this normal for NBA offseasons for guys to get out of contracts and maybe go to where they want to go to?

For players like Bradley Beale, Caliber and DeAndre Ayton, it is not the norm.

But when you think about

he has $110 million he had over two years.

So it was really his decision to buy out.

The fact that he's now giving up almost $14 million, the Suns are going to stretch and wave.

So that word stretch and wave is something that we saw happen with damian lillard in milwaukee so they the bucks stretch and wave essentially two years 113 million on damian lillard's deal so that they can go and sign miles turner and then deandre ayton buys out gives up i want to say nine ten million dollars in his buyout with portland to go sign with the lakers and now bradley beal same thing giving up uh you know almost 14 million dollars he is now headed to the la clippers so not the norm for players of of this caliber.

Damon Lillard is still a free agent.

We'll see if he ends up signing the offseason.

Does wait till next summer?

But, you know, it's definitely not the norm at this point in the offseason.

Okay, so Bradley Beal gone, Kevin Durant gone.

The Phoenix Suns now have gone into the luxury tax below him.

Where are the Phoenix Suns?

Because I know with all the rules against them with all the contracts, they couldn't do shit.

I don't even know if they were able to field a team next year if they continued down the path that they went.

Is that accurate?

Or where are they at now?

This gives them tons of flexibility moving forward if as they try to build their team pat so that these words first apron second apron the phoenix suns are now officially fully out of the first and second apron they are congratulations second apron team they they are scheduled they they can essentially decide do they want to be a luxury tax team they can even go fully out of the luxury tax this offseason so they're out of the aprons they also now unfreeze some of their draft picks so they're gonna have more tradable draft picks moving forward because as we've talked about it's way more punitive being in the second apron, the first apron.

It restricts you, it freezes your draft picks.

So a bunch of draft picks are now going to be unfrozen in the years to come.

That's a lot of fun about, especially out there in the desert.

And they'll have some money too.

They're going to have about seven, eight million dollars to use in free agency.

They'll have a little bit of their mid-level exception.

to use in trades.

So they're going to have seven or eight million with their mid-level.

They're out of both aprons.

They'll have more draft picks to play with in the future.

So, the Suns, this is a move for them to get them fully out of this position they were in.

Much more financial and team-building flexibility.

That's awesome.

We appreciate the hell out of your work, ladies and gentlemen, Sean Troy.

You got your own newsroom here.

Yeah, we did.

Well, it came from, it looked like a bedroom.

So, they're out of there.

Were they tier two?

No, no, no, no.

There's like right here.

Oh, free luxury tax.

That's huge.

It's a big deal because the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers were the first two teams to make the finals that weren't in

the luxury tax, then the first apron, then the second apron.

This is how much money you spend on all your contracts.

Wow.

The Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers are the first team that didn't even crack into that.

That's like the Rays of MLB.

Pirates.

Pirates.

Reds, yes, like that.

You're able to have that.

That's why it's so easy to pull for them.

Right?

Yes,

unless you're one of the fans and you say, spend your money.

Now, the Pacers have had to do that.

Oklahoma City Thunder have had to do that in a big way.

It's kind of just a part of basketball.

Like, I think in basketball, it happens.

You get in there.

But with the first apron, second apron thing, whenever you keep climbing up there, you become like a team that literally just can't do anything.

Like, you can't trade.

You don't even have first-round picks.

Thank goodness they got out of that nerd down.

I'm happy you care.

Okay, so the boys have some more questions about the ball.

You talked about Arch Bannon coming out.

You talk about the stories.

Diego Pavia said, hey, I'm going to win that.

You're going to win it all?

Yeah, and I hope he does that.

The NFL has a bunch of stories brewing as well.

How is the Thursday night football schedule?

Have we seen it?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

It's good.

Yeah, put it up there.

I mean,

it keeps getting better every single year.

Really?

So it feels like

same team you guys have had, right?

Same team.

Same scenes, everything.

Studio show, same.

Al, myself, Kaylee, the same.

Yep.

Sorry, what, fourth year?

You got to feel like very much more comfortable, I assume.

Yeah, it has

crazy.

Fourth year.

Yeah.

I think that that probably set in year two.

Year one, I was just kind of drinking out of a fire hose, trying to do game day and the Saturday night game and working with the Amazon team.

But now, there's the schedule right there.

I mean,

look at the opening game, by the way.

Wow.

Look at that game.

It's unbelievable.

Ty, they scheduled that one for you.

Yeah.

In Green Bay, too.

In Green Bay.

In Lambeau.

I mean, with Jaden Daniels coming in?

I mean, that's...

That's a good schedule.

And then the next one, we got a great one with Miami and Buffalo.

See Josh and Tua early.

I mean, literally, you go down almost every game, and it's, you know what, they've done a really good job over the last couple years is getting more divisional matchups.

So I think it's created a little bit more interest

and importance in those matchups.

If we're going to do divisional...

How about December 4th?

It used to all be divisional, right?

Yeah, it used to be.

And if we're going to do that, let's make sure we're color rushing the shit out of these things.

Yeah, please.

You're big on that?

I thought that was a good era.

It was all division rivalries, and they all had certain special.

I don't think we need to do color rush, but I think if we did a special

alternate uni.

Yeah, like some, maybe it's a throwback unique.

And Dean Knights, like how they make those cusses.

I'm not saying those jerseys, but how they are trying to make like

a pick jerseys.

Yeah, yeah, with some sort of ticket.

What was your guys' analysis and take of Omaha Productions quarterback series?

I enjoyed it.

So we enjoyed it.

Did you watch it all already?

I haven't seen every episode, have seen a lot of the clips.

Jared Goff, awesome.

Unbelievable.

His whole story, too, him being willing to kind of be voted on.

How about Cousins just taking, you know, he loses a job.

Everybody said, Pennex, why did they draft Pennex?

End of the year, he's starting.

And they stay on Cousins the whole way through that.

And that story, and I thought Joe Burrow opened up, did a much better job.

It's like kind of showing who he is.

You know, I thought that was a good idea.

Foxy back in the truck, obviously watching because Detroit Lions fans love it.

Yeah, of course.

Foxy said every single quarterback he liked more, obviously, after watching it.

He loses that job.

Right, Foxy?

Absolutely.

Yeah, 100%.

I like all three guys more than I did before.

Like you said, Kirk, I didn't know a lot about Joe Burrow at all.

It's just cool guy, Joe, to me.

And then you see him open up a little bit more.

I'm rooting for him and the Bengals

after how he handled that.

I forgot he was MVP season last year.

But the team was so bad that he couldn't win the award, and he was so open about that.

I love that.

Also, I got to give a shout-out.

The editing and the music selection as an editor, I loved it so much.

They did a great job.

Let's go inside baseball a little bit.

The scoring of it.

It was awesome.

Spectacular.

Obviously, there's a scorsesia of sports over there, NFL Films.

And they view themselves that way, and they love

everything they put out.

And

the attention to detail that they do, phenomenal work.

I enjoy quarterback a lot.

It's also off-season football.

Yeah, exactly.

And then it gets us a little bit closer to hard knocks, and it gets us a little closer to camp, and it gets a closer to the game starting.

When's hard knocks?

Probably early August, usually.

Yeah, after the first week of August.

Who is it?

Bills?

Bills this year?

Chargers?

Oh, for hard knocks.

I believe it is.

The in-season one is the NFC East.

Okay.

Yeah, man.

In-season one.

Tone has a question for you, Kirk.

Come on, Tone.

We were talking about all those, you know, Oregon, Ohio State, Texas, all having new starters or whatever.

So do you think this could be the year where, you know, a team that no one's talking about with a quarterback can come up?

And I'm going to give you an example here because I just listened to Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks talk about the Manning Passing Academy.

And they said...

Yeah, they said

Kubnik was great.

Nuss was great.

But there was two guys who stood out above everyone.

It was Arch, which, you know, we kind of expected.

But then the other one who I didn't expect, they said Lenora Sellers

down there was unbelievable.

His throwing, his body, everything like that.

So do you think a team like South Carolina where they have one of these quarterbacks who just have it more than everyone else can maybe make a run?

Let's remember now.

They were in the

ship at the end of the year.

So when you say that,

I feel like Shane Beamer, I think maybe year five, I feel like they've been trending towards this.

Setback, you know, those second-tier bowl games, games, sometimes people say whatever, but I think it loses momentum.

Bielama beats them.

That creates momentum and juice for Illinois, and it sets back South Carolina a little bit.

But I think Sellers, I mean, we had him at LSU maybe week four or five last year.

Then he had to deal with some injuries.

I mean, he's one of those guys, if he were to walk into the SPs, you'd be like, that's a guy.

I mean, he's a, and I think, I'll tell you, another team is DJ Lagway.

Yeah.

Billy Napier's team last year, at one point, they were like two and five.

It was the hardest schedule.

Guaranteed fired.

Yeah.

And everybody had him fired.

Guaranteed fired.

And in this era.

He didn't fire him.

Right, right.

In this era of NIL and Portal, you're just expecting his guys to check out where are they going to go.

And he rallies them.

At the end of the year, they win a bunch of games.

Lagway, to me, if you're trying to find the guy that in the middle of October, we're talking about, where's this guy?

I'm telling you, that's the guy.

Because we know about sellers.

We know about, I think Matir at Oklahoma has a chance.

But I think if there's a guy, it's DJ Lagway at Florida that I think a lot of people are going to fall in love with.

And I just,

I was proud of Florida the way they kept fighting.

Yeah, on that note, I'd like to say shout out to Napier because we were a part of it for sure.

We were talking about how they had no shot.

This guy, he was great at Louisiana.

Dude, going into the season, he was on the high shot.

He was on Louisiana.

And there's a range of occasions.

And so he was great there.

And then he gets to Florida and it just does not go well.

Like, this is obviously terrible.

And then the forecasted schedule, this guy's got six straight losses on the the board.

I think we were all just like, he's gone.

Who's the next?

Who's going to be the coach?

We were a part of it.

I was a part of it.

Then he comes on game day

and he does that throw across the street.

And he was like super cool.

I'm like, man, I appreciate Napier not like getting mad at us for talking the way we were.

But also, I appreciate Napier that like he clearly just kept the outside noise out and was just trying to find his team.

And as soon as Lagway became a guy, it was like they all kind of bought it.

They knocked Olmiss out of the playoffs in the last week of the year.

Yeah.

And it could have been folded.

Yeah.

Now, Jackson.

What you're saying is so hard to do in our era, especially right now, you know, where other schools start to see there's blood in the water.

Let's go get this guy, this guy, this guy.

And so give Napier credit for the culture, but give the players and the leaders of that team a lot of credit for not

just cashing in and just saying, I'm out.

That's tough.

Because you got a lot of people around the players telling them.

Yes.

You know, you got agents now, managers now, family now, social media.

It's a challenge.

Telling you, like, hey, think about how great you were in high school.

Look what your college career is turning into.

Everybody's trying to get you to abandon ship.

In fact, once you're out of the playoff, I feel like as a head coach, you got to have your head on a swivel because keeping your players engaged, finding their why every day, that was always a problem.

It's really a problem now.

So that Florida to me is a greatest example of that last year because their season was for most Most people looking at it, coach fired, season's over.

Still had four or five games to go.

And they, man, they just went out.

I don't know what he said or what he did, but he deserves a lot of credit.

And like I said, Lagway and those players deserve a lot of credit, too.

Let's stay in the state of Florida.

We all like the team.

Yeah.

But the fan base certainly hated you more than most.

Me as well.

I think we were all kind of lumped in there.

Florida State have a bounce back.

What happens with Florida State?

What do we know about Florida State?

Again, I think it's one of those, I don't know how many new players they have.

They open up with banks.

Tommy Castellanis is already talking shit on the day about that.

I saw that.

I saw that.

I don't know if I personally would reckon on that one either.

I would like Florida State to be great.

Yeah, well, it's good for certain teams that it's great for the sport when they're good.

And I would say that the whole state of Florida, Florida State, Miami.

When Miami's good, like the days of Miami and Florida State, and you just put it like Georgia and Alabama now, you just, okay, we know we're going to Miami and Florida State.

That's a given.

I miss those days.

Like, I love those brands.

I love USC.

Like, they're just

those teams.

West Virginia.

West Virginia, they're good.

And I hope Florida State's.

Jesus and Spikes.

Yeah.

Have you heard about Sir?

Oh, yeah.

Sir Paul.

Have you heard about Sir Paul?

No.

Jesus and Cleats?

Jesus and Cleats, Cheeks?

Sir Paul Cheeks.

Sir Paul Cheeks?

No.

You're going to learn today, Kirk.

That's from a skit.

West Virginia got a commitment from Sir Paul Cheese.

Sir Paul Cheeks.

Jesus and Cleats.

Jesus and Cleats.

Cheeks.

Where's he from?

Sir Paul.

He's from fucking football God, brother.

Hey, all I can tell you is if Rich Rod recruited him, he's a great player.

Boom.

He's a dog.

It's a new era in Morgantown, and I am officially on the bandwagon

because Rich Rod, to me, I'm all, all in on.

I've heard some stories about the first hill that these boys had to experience with the people.

I love that he says things, the way he talks, the way he says, like, we're not doing that.

Like, you know, we're going to go back to work and we're just going to grind.

You know, we're going to, and these guys probably, they don't know what hit him.

Has he lost a lot of players?

So there has been a lot of action in the portal.

And I don't know if it's been a two-way street or not, if it's been potentially like, hey, don't know if you're going to fit in with our style or if the player's saying, I definitely don't fit into this style.

But we've replaced.

The style is relentless.

We've replaced now.

We've got dogs in there.

So I...

They're coming.

So that's what I'm saying.

So I had immediate like, yep, this year they're going to go.

But I think if you go from one culture to the next, especially with how polar these particular cultures were for each other.

Yeah, opposite.

You got to get it in there.

That's the whole department.

That's food, nutrition.

100%.

Everything.

Everything in the building.

Couldn't be any more opposite.

And I'll tell you, I think the state of West Virginia is excited to have a little bit of a

rich rod saying, hell, if we win a big game, yeah, I think they got an ordinance against it.

I guess I'll pay my fine in advance.

I'm burning fucking cow.

That is.

Who do they open?

Who are their first two or three games?

Can we put their schedule up?

Absolutely.

We got dubs across the board.

And we're starting out completely undefeated.

Pitt is

week three, I think.

Oh, my God.

I hope we go to that.

Is game day go to that?

It's in Morgantown, yeah.

Oh, we got to go to that.

Yeah, there is a real opportunity.

We got to go to us.

We got to get back to that.

West Virginia and Pitt can't trick off the first couple games.

Like, I think there was a plan in the past, and then something happened.

Or Penn State.

Yeah.

All right, Foxy's got us here.

What do we got?

Should be all right.

So we got Bobby Moe.

Go sleep on Bobby Moe.

That's where Wal A went.

That's where Wal A went.

Ohio.

Bob got away.

In Athens.

That's going to be a problem.

You're going to Athens?

Great Halloween party.

Yeah.

I don't know about all the decisions financially, business-wise.

All right.

All right.

Then we got a big one.

September 13th.

Then we got pay.

Yes, absolutely.

That is a war.

Then we got Kansas

on the road.

Love what they do in Kansas.

Love the place over there.

Utah at home.

Utili back.

BYU.

On the road.

Oh, they don't have a quarterback anymore.

Well, yeah, some things.

Yeah, yep, yep, yep.

I knew that was

just put on a T there.

UCF.

UCF.

I'm noodling there.

UCF, TCU.

Uh-huh.

What do we think it's

syndrome.

called Uh-oh.

Coach Prime's coming to Morgantown.

Wow.

Love Coach Prime.

Uh-uh.

ASU, Texas Tech.

Take the Big 12's got more depth to it.

You know, since they've.

Texas Tech is spending 28 million bucks on a roster.

This is the modern era plus side, I think, if you're from one of these schools.

If you have a couple boosters that want to get into the game in a big way, you can flip the script.

I mean, Vandi's a great example of that.

They get a couple guys out of the portal and are able to pay them, and all of a sudden, your entire culture is like, wait, all right, all right, all right, all right.

28 million.

What's your over, what are you going to set the over-under on their win total?

Because just because that's, is that the highest?

Is 28 the highest?

I don't think that's five.

All right, sorry.

All right, so it's allegedly true.

These aren't real numbers.

We don't know what are the numbers.

So let's just say they're top five.

They are.

So everybody equates, well, if they spent that much, they're going to the playoff.

What do you guys think their win total will be?

I know they're co-favorites in the Big 12 with K-State.

It's them, K-State, Baylor, Utah.

West Valley.

Wow, we got a lot of co-favorites.

Yeah, they're all like...

No, seriously, they're all like plus 600, plus 650.

That's five teams.

Eight and a half is their over-under.

ASU's got to be up there.

They were the same as Iowa.

Iowa State's got to be up there.

He's due, by the way.

Matt Campbell?

Yeah.

Yeah, they're due this year.

Eight and a half's the over-under, Kirk.

Your thoughts?

I think they have all 11 coming back on defense, if I remember correctly.

They can get to 10.

You think they can get to 10?

What was their record last year?

Do you guys know?

I want to say and five if i wanted if i'm gonna that is they were

they were eight and five last year i believe so and we gotta go over then yes definitely especially if they're paying 28 million i would like any place that's paying a lot of money to a lot of people to win i wanted the yankees to win whenever old steinberg did you yes because i like that my team if we're allowed to do this if we're all allowed to do this I like that my team is fully committed to it.

But what if your team's paying $14 or $12?

So that's why I didn't, I wasn't ever a Pirates fan.

So like you guys stink and you're not not even true.

But what if West Virginia in this era who you love with all your heart?

Yeah.

And they stay in that 10 to 12 range and say, hey, it is what it is.

And everyone else is in the 20s and 30s.

Well, somebody's a part of that 10 to 12 range.

Okay.

So, you know, there is a thought to that.

But I appreciate that we understand who we are, though.

Like, we have to get the dogs.

Yeah.

We have to get the dogs.

That's the equalizer.

Like, Indiana Pacers.

They knew exactly who they were.

They had to get their bench with.

You can win.

Yes, you can find it, especially if you have the right recipe.

Now, the issue is, if you win, now the teams that are spending more money now do i think there should be regulations and a salary cap and everything yeah yes has to be but i'm saying if there isn't i'm happy if my team is going for it like i like that penn state wants to be great at every sport yeah like i appreciate that they're doing that yeah now granted do i think that it's unfair that they're able to do it in everybody else's yes should they put a regulation on it yes should everybody know what everybody's paying yeah it has to be but in the world that we're in that it's not a rule I love

in the meantime you're saying just you put it on go all in I like that you have to strike while the iron's hot right now too if you have that ability because you have no idea what's coming next.

If they do put a cap, then it's like, hey, right now we have all these alumni and boosters who are basically saying,

I'll write you a blank check.

You do whatever you can.

Like, that might not be an opportunity in three years.

Now, to be clear, doesn't mean we don't think there should be regulations.

We don't think it should be allowed.

We're just saying it is allowed.

If this is the way it is, it is allowed.

I like it.

Why not participate?

Yes.

Ty, what's Iowa spending, would you guess?

Are they football?

Are they?

Yeah, no.

Football.

Are they?

15.

Wow.

They got the best transfer quarterback in the country.

They did.

One of the big things.

Hank?

Hank Brown?

Is Hank Brown starting?

Hank did.

Mark Gronoski.

I don't know who he started.

FCS Heisman from South Dakota.

He's starting?

Yeah.

Okay.

Hank Brown did transfer quickly.

Because I thought somebody transferred.

Hank Brown did from Auburn.

But didn't someone after spring ball leave

Iowa?

Yeah, he was never going to play anymore.

Okay.

Okay.

So you got the FCS guy.

You think that's your go-to guy?

Yes.

Okay.

Yep.

15's.

That's crazy.

I mean, that is the big thing about Iowa.

Those farmers will give money.

I'm an Iowa guy for football.

I love Iowa.

I appreciate that.

How can you not like Iowa?

Okay,

the internet, we looked up how much Iowa spent, and the internet's saying this, Ty, not me.

It's the internet.

Iowa's football recruiting expenses are relatively low compared to other Big Ten schools with only $683,000 spent in 2024, according to Hawke Central.

This is significantly lower than that.

This is recruiting.

That's your investors.

Yeah, that's a lot.

That's for

travel costs.

I worked at the office in school where

people would call in, and it's like you're trying to get money for the general scholarship fund.

And farmers would be like, Yeah, I'm not going to do that, but I'll write you a check for the football team.

Like, if they're going to put new facilities up, it's like, I don't give a shit about these kids.

By the way, scholarships.

Iowa's one of those places, their facilities.

I'll put them up there with anybody.

They're unbelievable.

Iowa's facility, yeah.

Hell yeah.

You go to Iowa and you're like, oh, we're in Iowa, and you're like, oh, my God.

Also, they're fans i'm talking about like the softball the track like all the athletic facilities state of the art all right herbie hold on one second uh ladies and gentlemen there's a uh oh back to show there's a young lad that i got a chance to meet last night and i believe okay i'm out no no no you you should stay here okay uh

his make-a-wish trip uh was to do the esps last night he was at sports humanitarian awards they put a spotlight on lit up the room awesome lip colts fan oh here we go absolute dog uh i believe from illinois Don't know it entirely, but an absolute beast.

I would love to get him on the show to come say what's up, especially to you, Herbie.

Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for Dylan.

Come on, Dylan.

Yeah, Dylan.

What's up, Dylan?

Here, you can sit in my seat.

I'll stand back here.

Let's go on that.

Give him this, Herbie.

Slide down, Kirk.

Connor.

What's up, my dear?

Nice to meet you.

How are you, bud?

Good to see you, man.

There you go.

Dylan.

Thank you for stopping by.

Okay, so we have a few minutes here before we go off ESPN, but we will continue digitally.

Dylan, can you just talk a little bit about this weekend?

And also, I don't know the official

title of the prognosis that you have.

I tried to read it or whatever.

You've battled this.

You've beat it before, right?

You're currently battling it yet again.

How old are you?

Where are you from?

And what is this weekend?

So I'm 18 years old.

I'm from Peoria, Illinois.

And I got to make a wish.

Well, my cancer is I have rhabdomyosarcoma, which is a solid tumor in my my prostate area.

And when I was diagnosed, it was 9 centimeters by 8 centimeters by 7 centimeters in diameter.

So a very big tumor.

And I had 66 weeks of chemotherapy and 7 weeks of radiation.

And I'm a St.

Jude patient.

So I beat it.

And then in my three-month follow-up scans,

there's a suspicious spot that they wanted to monitor.

And it ended up being

another growth, another

just a relapse, so reoccurrence.

And so I have, I'm on chemotherapy again and I've been battling it and it's going good.

And so for my make-a-wish, I wanted to come to the Espus and then I was blessed to be here now.

And I was on NBA today, yesterday.

Come on, dude.

Yep.

We're lucky you're here.

Yeah, it was a clean dab.

We're lucky you're here.

We have a minute to with a heart out on ESPN.

I wanted the people watching on TV to learn about you because you're in the middle of battling chemo yet again.

Your energy is awesome.

It really is.

You can feel that, man.

Are you always above your attitude?

Is that the mindset is, we beat this, we move on.

Yeah, yeah, just like put your head down and work and go through it.

And so, that's what I've been doing for the last two years and just enjoying every moment.

Just everything's a blessing.

So,

and you're a sports guy.

Big sports fan.

Yeah, so fishermen in high school.

Yeah, hell yeah.

High school fishing, you know.

Fellow angler.

That's what I'm talking about.

Yeah, hell yeah.

All right, we wrap up here on ESPN.

We continue digitally.

This is Dylan.

He's a badass.

He's going through something he's going to beat.

We obviously will all send positive vibes, and we will see him down the road conquering something because he is going through something that's going to make him tougher forever.

We appreciate you all so much for watching.

Espies tonight on ABC.

We'll see you later.

Goodbye.

Okay, now we continue digitally.

Sorry about that.

You're good.

That was eight.

Now, to be clear, Dylan, he's really perfected that.

I fucking nailed that.

I absolutely nailed that.

Okay, so you're a sports guy.

Always have been.

Espies feels like the right decision for a make-a-wish.

That is.

Yeah, my mom wanted to go to like Hawaii or something.

I'm like, we're not doing that.

I was like, let's.

Sorry, mom.

Yeah.

So, my dad is a big sports fan.

He's a high school basketball coach, girls varsity basketball coach in Illinois.

So

I grew up in the gym every day going to the open gym in the summer and stuff.

So I grew up there.

And I just, we just fell in love with sports.

And that's all we do now.

So I'm a three-sport athlete.

Both of my brothers are three-sport athletes.

And that's like our whole life is just basketball, golf, tennis, everything.

Who are your favorite teams and favorite athletes?

I'm a Colts fan.

Yeah, hell yeah.

Give me some.

That was good.

Feel bad for it.

That was a good.

Yeah.

Yeah, a little moist too, because I've been sweating for the last hour.

The sun is really right on you.

Yeah, I'm getting broiled on LA.

So you're Colts?

Yeah, Colts, Lakers.

I don't really watch baseball, but I'm a Cardinals fan, I say.

Yeah.

Don't really watch hockey, but playoff hockey.

I love playoff hockey.

That's what I watch.

So you hate the Penguins.

Pick up the Panthers.

I don't care.

Panthers.

Good squad to root for.

I do like Florida.

Golden Knights also.

No, I haven't been.

The Panthers have been in the playoffs the longest, the last Florida.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So the Panthers aren't a bad team to become a fan of.

No, no, no, they're not.

Pittsburgh Penguins are on a comeback.

I mean, if I'm you, and this is just unbiased, I'm picking the Mammoth just because they're a lot of people.

Oh, a brand new team.

They did new, and they're cool.

And their owner's going to spend, he's going to try to make that team as good as possible.

It's your boy, right?

Yeah, Ryan Smith, good guy.

And is if he heard you were a mammoth fan obviously i think you potentially be playing for the team if you want

uh let's talk about your favorite angler van dam is that your favorite fisherman kv well i met scott martin when we went into the bathmaster classic and uh we met scott martin super cool dude and i've been watching his fishing stuff for a long time uh john what are we doing small mouth largemouth we fly fishing what do we got large mouth that's what we have in illinois mostly is largemouth so that's like what i do

I've gone down to Texas and fished a couple times.

That's really cool.

Ty Schmidt was a college angler.

Yeah, big 10 angler.

Really?

Where'd he go?

Iowa.

Need to get you out onto Lake McBride.

Yeah.

Need to do it.

Yeah.

I for the trout fishing in some of those creeks is pretty good, too.

Top-notch.

Yeah.

It really is.

What is the best fish?

Swordfish, obviously.

I caught one of those in Lake Minneton.

Bingo, deep sea.

Yeah, no, deep sea fishing.

That's pretty cool.

Never been deep sea fishing, but it looks pretty cool.

Yeah.

That's where men are made.

Hey,

we'd like to let you know, if we ever do the deep sea fishing, which sounds like a no, seasickness

out in the ocean.

Nice.

I think you're going to wake up like 4 a.m.

or whatever.

If we ever go, you're coming.

You're in.

All right, sound good.

Anytime.

All right, kick ass.

Enjoy all this and know

that your energy makes us all better.

You need to know great spirit.

And do you want to try to give a putt here?

for

maybe a little charity, maybe a little bit of St.

Jude?

St.

Jude.

Perfect.

Okay, let's do this.

You'll get three putts.

Each of them will be for a $25,000 donation.

All right.

Okay.

It is a 50-foot putt.

Very difficult to make, but certainly attainable for somebody as awesome as you.

He's a golfer.

Each one will be $25,000.

That's exciting.

There's stairs back there.

You could also go that way.

You got to go right here, huh?

I'll hold the stick, Mike.

That's tough.

Yeah, no problem.

Herbie, you want to come down here?

Yeah.

That is tough.

Yeah, yeah, it is.

Yeah, you could never make it.

No, I made mine from 25 feet.

Lefty feet.

Herbie, Herbie, you're going to be putting after him.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, so make sure you know that.

Righty or lefty?

Righty.

You are are righty.

Okay, we have a big one, like a hockey stick right here, if you'd like.

This is from our friends at lab.

Not conventional.

I don't think a lot of people would say that's the right one to pick, but I love it.

Oh, we got a little blade here.

Okay, I like what we got going on here.

What is your golf game?

You said you play a little bit, right?

Not really.

Yeah,

golf's hard.

You don't have to have it on that thing.

You're just in the area.

Just in the area.

Just in the area.

Kirk was putting on this green earlier.

Do you have any advice for him about this green?

Just make sure sure you don't leave it short here.

It's right to left.

It's right the left.

Network.

Great.

Don't leave it short.

Final thoughts here.

Did Kirk Herbstreet help you at all?

No.

Okay.

Not so.

What's your advice?

You should see what he does to the field goal kickers every Saturday.

He looks them right now and goes, nah, I don't think you got it.

He got no shot.

This is, I think it's like, I think it's like two and a half cups right to left.

Oh, so you've been out here practicing.

I hit 15 at this earlier.

Did not make a single

close.

this?

There's a little wrinkle here in the turf.

You see that?

Oh, that might have been.

Maybe let's go in front of that.

Let's go in front of that.

Let's go in front of that.

Let's go in front of that.

That's not.

That's why I was.

Did you see this?

That's me looking out.

First time.

That's good guy Herb Street.

That's Good Guy Herb Street.

Actually, you might be able to play it all the way down the line there.

All right, let's make this makeable at least here.

It felt like we're.

Yeah, that was.

Where's Peter?

Dylan, for $25,000,

we just asked about that most famous dog I know.

I'm just joking.

He's doing squats.

All right, Dylan, here we go, brother.

$25,000 donation.

What's that?

Is it playing fast?

Me.

Middle.

I think you do have to hit it a little bit.

It's like an 11 on the stent meter.

They're saying 11 on the stint meter.

I don't know what that means, but you will.

Just like we're out there on the lake.

Dylan, for $25,000 to St.

Joe.

A little left.

That's all right.

Hey, that's a good roll, though.

That is a good roll.

Hey, that's a great touch.

What did we learn from that one, Dylan?

I just got to hit it right.

Boom.

Okay.

First of all, what helps him here is he's going Nike socks with the roll.

He's got it all lined up here.

I think he's going to drop one of these.

Great accessorizing.

It's important.

93 angles, what we got going on.

Yeah, I think, yeah.

Just do it, they say.

Let's push this to the right, just a cup or like he said.

Got a man in a great tank top right behind the fountain.

Looking good, huh?

Guys, look, don't be distracted, Dylan.

Tighten up, Dylan.

$25,000 donation to St.

Jude on the line.

Dylan, dog.

Oh!

Ooh.

Ooh.

Get in.

Oh.

Turn.

Oh, man.

Is there another bump in front of you?

Is that even makeable?

Yeah, is there another bump in front of you?

I think there was a bad thing.

I mean, that was unbelievable.

You got a bumpy gross.

I think there is.

I think there is.

Gimmick hole.

Come on.

See that?

You see that?

Oh, my God.

Oh, no.

What the hell?

Oh, no.

It is unbelievable.

Maybe we should go this way.

Hey, how about this one?

Is there a gimmick?

Over the side?

That one would have never went in.

No, this is.

You got no.

Oh, my God.

We're the worst people of all time.

We did that to you.

What a putt.

What a putt, dude.

Buba bago.

Holy, could you imagine doing that?

That was unmakable.

That's carnival.

That's a state fair.

That's a state fair.

How about this?

We'll count that one.

Oh.

Okay, we'll count that one.

We'll count that one.

That was a great putt.

Now, on this particular putt, we have no idea what this is doing.

Nobody has putted at this green since it's been built on this property.

Now, I feel like you could be able to get a good eye on it.

Maybe you get two rolls at this thing.

Okay, so $25,000 already being donated because you got jobbed out of that one.

$25,000 for this one and then $25,000 for the next one.

If I'm you, I'm probably getting a feel for what the role is on this first one and then attacking the second one.

You agree?

I like that strategy.

Let's go.

All right, you already have one in.

That was a great put.

Great put.

The speed on it.

Excellent lag.

There is a hill.

I can't believe we did that.

Yeah, no hills here.

We're good.

That was too much, the first one.

Connor giving you advice from the back.

Dylan.

It's got some good-looking strokes.

Dylan.

Good ride.

Oh.

Right at it.

Great speed.

Perfect speed.

Perfect speed.

You're on your high school golf team, too, or no?

I've never played a full 18.

That's my guy.

Wow.

Nine?

Dylan has ADD like we do.

No, you play nine, you get a sandwich.

You don't play 18.

That's me as well.

Yeah, 12 holes is the right answer.

Don't you agree?

I don't golf.

I don't golf.

I just.

All right, unbelievable work.

Last opportunity here, Dylan, for 12,000.

You go 12?

What's that?

You go 12 holes?

If I could, yes, I would go 12.

Sorry, Dylan, we are talking in your backswing here.

$25,000 already donated.

Here's for another $25,000 to St.

Jude.

Dylan from Illinois,

about 30 feet.

He's aiming left.

Yeah, you're aiming left.

Oh, no, they called it.

They said your air lined up right.

Oh, boy, they did call it.

Yeah, it's all right, Dylan.

All right, now let's do another one.

Let's do another one where Connor lines him up.

Okay, hold on.

This one's for the boys now.

They're going to line you up.

You want to get down there and read it?

no, from up there because he's got a great view of it.

Yeah.

All right, here we go.

Line me up, Connie.

All right, that ball.

There we go.

Just yeah, stand over like you're about to hit it.

He said, stand over like left still, right?

Yeah, no, stand over like you're about to hit it, and then they'll just move you.

Little more to the right.

Yep, there you go.

Aim a little to the right.

A little bit more to the right, they're saying

too much, a little back.

A little bit back.

You went too much, they said.

We might be in play here.

They're saying that's it right there, Dylan.

We might be in play for $50,000.

50.

50?

This would be cool.

Put a slight fade on it.

Boom, boom.

Oh, we got a shot.

We got a shot.

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

Boom, boom, boom.

Oh, catch it.

All right, $25,000.

Still great.

Dylan, your story is going to inspire many.

We appreciate you hanging out with us, dude.

Enjoy yourself.

All right.

Cheers, dude.

Have a great time, man.

Oh, yeah, Dylan.

Family, great to see you guys again.

Sorry it wasn't Hawaii.

See you next time.

Dylan, we appreciate you.

When we go deep sea fishing, we'll call you.

All right.

I don't think that's going to happen, but you know, you never know.

Never know.

You never know.

Never know.

We should put a pawn into the Thunderdome.

See you, Dylan.

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Stock it.

All right, lads.

I know you guys got a lot of

more show to go.

So, no, you got to sit down for five more minutes.

Okay.

Because we're going to separate the putting.

Can't have putting back to back.

Oh, you're serious about me putting.

Yes.

Someone's going to putt with me, right?

What do you mean?

It got it.

It's your show.

No, no, he's going to put with Butler Birdies.

Okay, we'll do Butler Birdies and Butler Birdies.

Okay, you too.

We'll putt eventually here.

You see the soccer?

We can break the soccer down.

They lost.

Gumpy, what happened in the soccer?

What happened in the soccer gump?

Where's Gump?

They were robbed.

Gosh, I missed that voice.

Gump, it's almost go time, buddy.

Get your dolphins ready.

It's our second game.

Yeah, we'll see how they do this here.

It should be fun to watch.

I can't believe you guys have not asked me about big-time wrestling.

I went to WrestleMania.

I never got to talk to you guys.

You're right.

How do you feel about it?

It's awesome.

It was an experience, huh?

Did you see?

See a tribal chief?

He's back.

He's back.

I'm going to be honest with you guys.

I went in with

very low expectations.

Wow,

he said where it could be

to showcase how low they are.

And Nikki Khan put me almost in the ring.

Front and center.

Saw you, right?

Every time something happened, I'd look over at Pat.

Pat's going crazy over there, just going wild.

It's awesome.

Kittle's right behind Pat.

Other they're going to do their own big-time wrestling show.

That was the coolest thing I think I've ever been to.

Yes, right?

Forget about

fake or real, the athleticism.

It's real, Hervey.

You don't even have to do it.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's just a conversation.

Just listen to me.

The jumping,

they are stunt men that are doing theater.

Joining theater.

You know, with the way they grab the mic and they yell and all that.

It's storytelling.

The way they come into the performance, into the ring.

Interested, yeah.

The way they jump over top of the ring, you know, down on the ground.

Randy Orton was right in front of you.

Randy Orton was just

using it.

And I'm like,

when's the next one?

Herbie came over.

I had a

Sin City street fight.

He said, that was like the best 13 minutes of my life.

The women's triple threat match.

I know.

That's what blew it.

I thought that was the time to maybe go get a drink when the women were playing.

That's all right.

They were as entertaining as

Herbie.

Herbie, you need to go in there and feel it one time, too.

Like, you need to feel the...

Get in the ring.

Take a bump.

Oh, no.

No, no, you need to.

You need to feel the energy.

You need to feel...

No, not.

It can be an empty arena.

It can be a barn.

From the ring.

You need to feel the rust like one time on your body.

Yeah.

You need to feel the.

Physicality.

Just the amount of toughness you talked about.

Those guys are.

Everything hurts.

Those guys and girls that go in there are absolutely.

That's what I was going to say.

Like, when they're done and they go backstage, tell me their hurt.

Tell me their lower back hurts.

It has to be.

I mean, it has to be.

I mean, it's, I don't know how they are.

Some of the girls.

It's so entertaining.

People get like very, very hurt.

Some of the screenshots that like Seamus or Gunther will post after.

I mean, the one you posted after, like, it is immediately

incredible what they did.

You're committing to a performance, but the the performance is obviously one that you can win.

You know, if you can get it, but you are exposed completely.

Oh, yeah.

You know, everybody's right.

You said you're right in the ring.

Right there.

You're right there.

So everything that's happening is happening from all angles.

Everybody's watching.

And it's like one slip-up, catastrophic.

People have passed.

One slip-up potential being

paralysis because that can happen.

That has happened recently.

I mean, it's like dude, the production,

the whole thing was just so first class.

It was really cool to go to.

Can't wait.

Go back.

You said

in the moment, at least when we were there, you said Joe Hendry was your favorite.

It was his favorite moment.

Aside from Joe Hendry.

I did.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, you said you believed in Joe Henry.

Who was the

hero that you aside from?

Randy.

Okay.

He's with Jelly Row.

Just to, I saw that.

Him and Jellyroll, Logan Paul, drew that there, SummerSlam.

That was in Nashville.

They just had a...

Yeah, they've gone after him on Friday night smash.

Randy Orton, I mean, if he were a football player, I mean...

Three-tech?

I think he's

an old Patriots, Willie McGinnis, like outside defensive end.

You know, like,

what's his height and weight?

They're saying

he's 300.

Is he 300?

I was thinking 285.

Dude, he is so jacked.

He's broad.

Yeah.

How old is he?

40.

48.

Oh, way.

Late 40s?

Yeah.

48.

Are you kidding?

Early 40s?

He's been doing it for a while.

Listen to this.

Listen to this.

He was the youngest world champion.

So he'll disappear for a little bit for whatever reason, you know, because it's like he's

40.

However old he is.

And then he'll come back and he looks somehow even bigger and more exact.

Damn legs.

Quads, yeah, quadzilla out there.

Real deal.

He's a quad god for sure.

Yeah.

Yeah,

he's put it into miles, too.

And here's into bumps to the business.

That's an I remember his dad.

Yes.

Yeah.

Cowboy.

The business, though, is one that I think you would appreciate.

It's built on like respect and like everything.

You know what I mean?

It's a really, it's a great business.

It's a cool business.

It's a fun business.

And the live events that they put on are outrageous.

Unbelievable.

Yeah, I was lucky whenever I was commentating out there.

No.

She had a million.

You do a great job with that.

Thank you.

I got real tired, man.

I bet.

I cracked.

Hit a wall?

Yeah, I hit one.

How could you not?

I've been going since Dublin.

I know.

And they started raw early.

And I'm like an energy guy.

And I like don't need a lot of sleep to operate.

Like, I've always been that way.

And then I just got to Money in the Bank in L.A.

And I was on the East Coast for TST.

Yep.

And then I went down to Paris Island

and then I went to LA for Money in the Bank and I could just feel it.

I'm like, oh my God, my brain is not like operating right now.

I talked to others that have maybe experienced like mental exhaustion before whenever they have had it.

Yeah.

It's like brain fog.

And I've talked to them and I've been like, I'm staring down what you went through there.

like i knew this moment was coming like i i knew it was gonna happen at some point and it happens to people so like i talked to people about it happening and what they went through whenever it happened and like as money in the bank was happening i was like oh my god yeah this is it this is i've finally hit it and i never thought it was gonna happen but you add in like my daughter

That's real.

Daily show.

Wanting to be around the daily show, the travel.

And then also trying my best.

And I know wrestling fans don't think this.

I think a lot of them don't think this.

The wrestling wrestling community doesn't think this but like I was trying to put everybody over like maximum effort full every time trying to put people over to people that are watching and it's like I think that with the travel with me not getting back till like 2 3 a.m.

on Monday takes a toll and then that's the beginning of our work week Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday I got 12 hours left of being there's a premiere event every fucking weekend yeah yeah and those Atlanta we start stacking up then we're out there it's like it was

an honor to be a part of, but like how'd you get out of it?

Work ethic.

Nick, come on, man.

I was like.

How'd you get out of that

brain, that like just fatigue?

I think I, because we had to show, we still have to do show.

So like got a couple good nights sleep.

Have to do show, like not, yeah.

I think just kind of backed up.

Just slowed down.

I stopped going to Monday Night Raw.

So that took away two planes and a two-hour sleep a night week away from schedule.

And it was like stack a couple of those weeks back.

By Wednesday.

Yeah, it was like.

It wasn't even a couple weeks.

By Wednesday, you were like, man, I feel like that

game.

It was.

Well, if you didn't do it, like, you snap your fingers and then, boom, game day's back.

People say, here, I'm just, like, whatever.

And also, Corey Graves, so good.

Wade Barrett, so good.

Like, for people that watch wrestling, there's, for like, if, like, whatever happened to Seth freaking Rollins.

Yeah.

Like, that's a massive ordeal to the WWE because everything that's going on right now.

For me, at the commentator position, it's like

show moves on regardless.

So, like, the ability to not feel absolutely fucking terrible for having to take a step back because I'm tired.

WWE has on the other side because they have such a hard work kind of mindset and travel mindset, and they've been doing it for so long.

They understand, like, people get to like, hey, yeah, we understand that you might need to take a sleep for a little bit.

Yeah, for sure.

So, they've been great.

That's awesome.

And I will always love the WWE, and I miss it.

But I'll tell you what, I didn't think I would have made it.

I don't think I would have made it.

I was eyeing football season right around Quantum.

Yeah, it's going to be awesome.

I don't know if I'm going to be able to survive this thing.

Yeah.

And well, you maybe learn from that for next year and

in the years to come.

Yeah, just as an adult.

Yeah.

Yeah, like being a well, having a daughter is a different ballgame.

It's changed everything for you.

Yeah, she's awesome, man.

You know?

How are the boys?

Everybody's great.

How's Peter?

We didn't talk about Peter.

Peters couldn't be better.

He's got a little brother named Bo now, so he's six months.

He's the same dad as Peter.

Awesome.

First time I've ever had already.

He's 65 pounds and he's 65 pounds.

You have some monster dogs.

They're big guys

and they're just chill.

They look like a pride of lions when I take them for a walk.

They're the best.

They're doing great.

I'm going to bring Peter out every week.

I have a lot of people asking about Mitch.

He's the five-year-old.

It's a little bit darker.

Red, red, red, right?

He's looking

not red.

It's like just more of a traditional kind of golden.

And then Bo, I got to bring out.

Bo's still a work in progress.

He's still in training, but you said Mitch doesn't really give a fuck, though.

Does not.

He thinks he's about 100 pounds, but he thinks he's a purse dog mentality.

Like, he'll just sit right.

He would just sit here right here.

Saven will love that.

Just chill.

I can't wait to get back.

I know, man.

We're celebrating tonight.

Yeah.

Legend.

Legend.

Living legend.

We're all out here, or at least I'm out here.

I know you'd be out here regardless, for Lee Corso.

And

the SPs are going to do a nice tribute to him and everything he's meant to the sport and to ESPN.

That'll be awesome.

It'll be a cool moment.

I think it's in the first hour of the show tonight.

The show's at, what, 8 o'clock, I think, tonight, Eastern.

And,

you know, he turns 90 August 7th.

Unbelievable.

So.

We'll see how this goes.

It's very unpredictable how it's going to go.

You know, it's going to be fun to see

how he does.

I hope he gets a chance to take in all the the flowers.

You know, like getting a chance to see him get emotional in Indiana when he saw his old players.

And then I forget where else were they gave him a key

and you saw him like take it in.

Yeah.

You know, and it's cool to see him take it in.

I obviously haven't known him anywhere near as you have.

He's been very good to me.

Yeah, he loves you.

Yeah, he's been very, very good to me and nice to me.

And it's like a very interesting time

to kind of watch.

your guys' relationship, watch the show, watch college football, and then also watch a pillar of sports.

Yeah.

You know, basically basically

through it all.

So

he's honored to be asked to be part of that.

Yeah, I'm glad you're here.

Des is here.

He's got one show left.

He's just going to do the Ohio State, Texas game for college game day in Columbus.

It's a noon kick.

100,000 people in that stadium.

The first headgear he ever put on was Brutus.

And now the last headgear would be the ultimate WWE move if he put Bevo on.

But I think I'm guessing he'll put Brutus on.

I think they're going to try to get him out on the field, you know, because we move inside and maybe a special moment there.

And also, Texas and Ohio State are all people that everybody in there, all of their organizations, I think, love, Coach Course.

I think that's the behind-the-scenes stuff that I've learned about college football, is the family aspect of college football as a whole.

And I know a lot of people think, like, ESPN has a monopoly on college football.

Why are they able to do this?

It's like, I can understand why people would think that on the outside, especially if your team feels like you got robbed or whatever.

The people at ESPN with college football, they are, they

their entire lives.

Like there's people that their entire lives, now granted, coaches and you know, PR people with schools and SIDs and athletic directors, they feel the same way about the sport.

So everybody kind of is like-minded and everybody respects and appreciates Coach Corso.

It is one of the most

kind of unique things to watch because everywhere there's always heat with somebody.

You know, there always is.

I mean,

there's a lot of heat in this hotel with us or whatever.

And there always is.

He is one of the only people I've ever watched that just like

everywhere.

Universally everywhere.

Good in every single locker room neighborhood.

And yeah, it's been cool to watch.

I will say this.

The one thing that

probably your age group doesn't know about him is when it was just linear TV and I first started.

He was the Pat McAfee of College Game Day.

Like, he would say things that no one would say.

Those clips are great.

great and people people

a lot of people forget that part of him it'd be like you 30 years from now still being around the business and people forgetting this part you know I'm saying like this part of Pat McAfee because you've changed because

Lee was a very

he'd get sideways you know like like one time Northwestern played Wisconsin And we were in studio doing a rap show, and Wisconsin didn't take a knee at the end of the game.

And they handed it off, maybe to Ron Dane or somebody.

They fumbled and Northwestern recovered and Northwestern scored and won.

And it was a game that was just, it was supposed to be over.

Wow.

And then the guys that were calling the game said, oh my gosh, pandemonia, I can't believe it.

Let's go back to Chris Fowler and the guys in the studio.

I'm like in my second or third year.

And Lee Corso,

because of the pride of coaching, like he was, in his brain, he was coaching that game.

He went off on, of all people, the guy I call Al Capone, Barry Alver.

He just was pounding the desk saying, he needs, he blew the game.

He needs to go into that locker room and apologize to his players.

He lost this game.

And we were like, okay, hey, yeah, yeah.

And he just kept going and kept going.

And then like two months later, we had to go to the National Football Foundation dinner in New York City at the Waldolf Astoria.

And I'm just like...

following Coach wherever he goes.

And Barry Alvarez, I swear to you, that's why I call him Al Capone.

He had like a white scarf on, a black coat down to his knees, and just happened to be coming out of the elevator right when we were trying to get by.

And Barry Alvarez had about three or four guys with him.

He looked at Lee Corso and just MF'd him and told him like, you're basically,

you're dead to me.

And so that was kind of where he was when I started in the career.

So now he's around.

He did have heat.

He did have heat.

There was a time, okay.

But he got heat from coaches because he was the one who said stuff that just

nobody else would say.

I don't know if he told me this or if somebody else told me this, and I don't know if I'm supposed to say it live or not, but I guess there's been a lot of coaches that have wanted to meet Coach Corso and like talk to Coach Corso, and he doesn't want to meet any of them.

No.

He said, I don't want to have any of them.

He doesn't want to be friends with any of them.

Because he doesn't want it to prevent him from saying what he wants to do.

Dude, it's awesome.

Because everybody will come up to him and be like, hi, Coach, McFan, or whatever.

Okay.

Yep.

He literally is.

Yeah, he just kind of stays at a distance.

It is awesome.

Yeah.

Because in my head, I'm like,

I think I should stay like that.

I know.

I think I should stay.

But it is nice to know the coaches to know them as people.

Then I meet like Coach Lanning, and I'm like, oh, this young guy is having.

I'm like, yo, good guy.

And they're such good guys.

And hardworking.

Yeah.

And they love ball.

Yeah.

And we love people that love ball.

That's why we get along with you so well.

Now, I think it's time to wrap this thing up, and we need a putt made.

Oh, boy.

All right, golf.

Coming with me?

Let's go.

All right, boys.

Come on, boys.

All right.

Hey, you can use my putter.

Which one?

The good one, duh.

The hot.

They're all good.

Come on.

They're lab putters.

I don't know if all the putters are lab putters.

Oh.

But the.

Which hole are we getting in?

Don't you think we should do the one that Dylan tried to do?

Yeah, he's definitely making it right.

He didn't leave it a little short.

It was going in.

A little bit of a read on it?

Yeah, it looked like the other one.

Hey, he was makable.

Hey, he first shoot got fucked.

Yeah, big time.

That thing would have never went in.

No.

So I think you guys got to put from here around, like on the other side of this one.

Yeah, I think you go to that one.

Okay.

All right, boys.

You going first?

No, after you.

How many balls do we think they should have?

Three a pop.

Yeah.

Looks like dull.

Yep.

Do you want to come down here, boys?

Yeah, yeah.

Three swings.

Come on down, guys.

What are we lining up over here?

You got to be on the other side of that thing.

Yeah, exactly.

Is Connor going to line me up here?

I mean if you want I think we do team ball last ball okay for each guy okay

where you can

you know get the squad to line you up Connor how do you feel about today here in Los Angeles I feel pretty good about it you know like you said you kind of look around keep your head on a swivel make sure you're seeing oh you're not able to just walk we need to have an interaction first but it's been it's been incredible I mean the jaunt you want me to hold it for you I want you to think about it a little bit yeah yeah okay I want you how is your putting you would say I I am terrible at everything in golf i disagree i saw you make a left hand

i did hit a lefty that was cool and how about that and you play a lot of golf no that's all you do that's all you do look at the tan no he's lake life lake life i i i go on a boat yeah hitting them off

i must be nice herbie here's the part i can't figure out

how to square up the club face back on the ball sure so some people they they always slice me i could hit it here i could hit it here i could top it i could hit hit it.

It's frustrating.

It's a frustrating

golf.

Kiwa Shama.

Oh, you watch his videos, you're going to

square it up.

Please,

it's changing.

He's unbelievable.

Text me that.

Yeah, I will.

Yeah, because he teaches baseball players how to hit.

Okay.

That's what you are.

But my problem is I batted left-handed, and I

golf right.

Why don't you play golf left-handed?

Because when I started to play,

you couldn't find left-handed.

Just restart it, dude.

Just pop it.

I need to restart.

Do you look back and say I was a baseball guy?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think it was Wayne Sports.

Wayne Gretzky had the same problem.

That's what he told us.

He said there was no lefty clubs.

Yeah, there was no clubs.

All right.

All right, what are we going here?

We had black and white televisions and no lefty clubs when this man was a child.

Now we are at the Espys, at the four seasons in Beverly Hills.

If Kirk makes this putt, which it does not appear he will be.

Not enough.

Can't leave it short.

I know.

Your only advice for Dylan was don't leave.

I know short.

That's why I said that.

Because I leave it short.

Hold on now.

So what is the, what are we doing here?

I thought Darius and Kirk agreed whoever doesn't make it losers.

Whoever makes more.

I've been a part of that.

I'm getting for $250,000, I think.

Yeah, that's awesome.

We lined up, boys?

I can't wait for that.

Well, we're only telling you on the last one.

What are the rules this year about?

I want to bring in a blocker.

That'd be crazy.

I want to bring in one blocker.

The utter guy.

That's a great idea.

You should bring up the blow-up clown that's in the shower in Homewall.

Oh, when he's doing the dancing?

You get to come out in the referee shirt if possible.

If the other guy does it, if the other guy doesn't, and I'm back there calling it good.

All right, Darius, here's what we'll do.

Thank you to you guys for agreeing to do this.

Of course.

Whichever one of you guys makes more putts

will be the one who determines what foundation $25,000 will be donated by the other person.

Okay.

Wow.

Boom.

Thank you for doing that, Kirk.

You're such a good guy.

Fourth season of third season.

Season of football.

Thank you so much for agreeing to do that.

Thank you.

What if no one?

What if no one makes one?

What do you mean no one's going to make one?

Well, debudges.

Oh, so you're a good putter.

Now, that's speed.

I got speed.

Do you putt?

Do you play?

I got speed down, Typically.

I get out there.

Oh, God.

He's a live goal.

Why do you tell me that?

He's a live goal.

You walked out here going lefty.

No, yeah, lefty.

Harby, you're always underselling your abilities.

I don't like it.

I feel like you're probably going to make this putt.

He's an athlete.

We'll see if somebody's able to take the lid off.

About 30 feet.

No one's going to be able to do that.

No chance.

No chance.

You missed by an inch, you missed by a mile.

Who cares?

Yeah.

Doesn't matter.

Doesn't matter.

Does not matter.

Okay.

He's going to drop one.

It matters in golf, guys.

No, not in this particular case.

He's going to drop one for sure.

Okay, that's reverse psychology coming from Kirk Herb Street.

Yep, did he have a bad guy?

That's wide left, guys.

That's wide left.

That's wide left.

What an asshole.

Hey, you'll hear that throughout the season.

You'll be like, this guy's about to go for 400 yards.

500 yards.

Maybe shit.

Might have a thousand yards today.

Oh, my God.

Ladies and gentlemen, Kirk.

Come on, Connor.

We'll attempt to bury a putt.

Jerry Judy looks so cool on the other side of the fountain.

No, I'm not.

Why am I missing right?

You're in your own head about it.

Are you right-eyed, Dominic?

I must be.

That's a good question.

You definitely are.

Oh, shit.

All right.

Here we go.

Jerry's butler looks like.

Why don't you guys all get in on this?

Jerry Judy is here, ladies and gentlemen.

Yeah, he looks good.

Unbelievable.

Baby, Jared.

Good to see you, Jerry.

No putts have been made.

Jerry, you putt for me.

Help me out here.

You good, putter?

Come on, Joe.

You got it.

Ladies and gentlemen.

Yeah, you get to putt for me.

Appreciate you, man.

Ladies and gentlemen.

This counts for my ball club.

What's up, man?

How you doing?

How are you doing, man?

How you doing?

Jerry, all right.

You look so cool.

We are live, Jerry.

You need to know that.

What's up, Jerry?

You can make this for me.

Jerry, hold on one second.

Hold on one second.

How you doing, man?

I'm doing good.

Yeah, man.

I'm just out here living the life, man.

You just got done with the workout, I do believe.

Oh, yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

UCLA got a good workout in.

Now we're time to celebrate all these great people.

How do we feel body-wise?

We're close to camp.

It's right around the corner.

Oh, I feel amazing, man.

I'm ready to get it going.

Fresh off your best year, I do believe.

Tony's question.

Was Aaron at UCLA?

Rogers?

Was Rogers throwing at UCLA?

No.

Oh, no, that's where he plays.

He's a Pittsburgh Steelers fan.

You should tell him to go fuck himself.

No, no, no.

I'm always going to be able to do that.

Jerry, thank you for stopping by.

Okay, so.

This counts for my ball club right here.

Hold on, we'll give three putts here.

We'll give three putts here.

Here we go.

$25,000 each putt to donation.

Charity of your choice.

Are you a golfer?

No, I'm not.

Oh, you got a better chance than me.

You're an actor.

Hey, it's really hot, too.

I know you Florida boys can't deal with the heat like this.

The pressure.

You know, we're used to this, man.

Drive free down.

All right, all right, all right.

Here we go.

You got a coat on.

Okay, that hole.

Guys, got a coat on.

Are you not hot as hell right now?

I feel pretty good.

That's shitting me.

You Florida boys, I think South Florida boys, you guys have something chemically wrong with the body about the temperature.

We grow over the humidity.

They're just used to it.

And the humidity, so it's just a little heat out here.

Yeah, man.

We breathe it.

He had a hoodie on, 94 degrees.

I've never seen anything in my life like that.

Drop this, Jerry.

Drop this.

Jerry, I have faith in you.

Now, 25,000 each ball.

That's the hole you're aiming for.

Nobody has made it.

Okay?

Couple hours.

You're the one.

You're the one.

You're the one, Jerry.

I'm just going to say, I got a bad feeling about this.

I want to let you know, Jerry Judy, this guy right here just talked a lot of shit about you.

He said

he's got a bad feeling about you.

You got a bad feeling.

I'm going to show you how I'm going to do that.

Drop this.

I said that?

Yeah, that guy right there.

I didn't say that.

Jerry Judy does not have ears in, so he's not able to hear that, but we will see.

This is in.

It's gonna be closer to mine.

Yaga, get left.

There's something about this putter that's pushing it right.

Don't you think so?

Okay, good, good feel, good feel, good feel.

We still got two balls.

Yes, exactly.

Exactly.

You got this.

You got this.

Ladies and gentlemen, Jerry Judy, fresh off of how many yards?

How many yards are we making?

I think he had 1,300.

Yeah, 1,200 yards last year.

90 catches.

1,229.

There it is.

Who's counting?

Everyone.

Hey, I am.

Every yard counts.

Jerry Judy, fresh off a 1,29

season.

Come around.

Come around.

Come on.

Come around.

Come around.

That might be it.

Come on.

That was close.

Okay, okay.

Here we go.

Here we go.

Last one.

25,000, Jerry.

Come on, Jerry.

How do we feel off of off-season workouts and OTAs and everything about teams?

I feel amazing.

We play.

We got a great team, you know, great quarterbacks, and I'm ready to see what happened this year.

Hell yeah.

We're excited to watch it as well.

All right.

Jerry Judy last butt here for $25,000.

Come on, Jerry.

That's a good line right there, Jerry.

The team likes it.

Now, that guy talked a lot of shit on you before, but he is seemingly on your side.

Now I'm here.

No, no, it's to your face.

I'm on Steve Smith.

Jeez.

He just.

What?

Yeah, I got.

Oh, man.

Oh, hold on.

Whoa.

We appreciate you, man.

You going tonight?

You going to the Espies?

Yes, I'm going to be there.

I'm going to be there.

How's the Fit?

Don't look pretty good?

It'll look pretty nice.

I'm going to look.

Have a great season.

Good luck, and thank you for stopping by.

Thank you.

Appreciate you.

Good job out there.

CSA.

That was a good roll, good role.

Good to see you.

What a beast.

So that's like the thing about the Espespits.

That's the thing about the Espies.

People just love it.

He's got stars.

I mean, golf sucks, dude.

Yo, no.

Thank you, Jerry.

See you, dude.

See you, dude.

So

go ahead.

Yeah, it's crazy.

You never know who's going to pop out.

How many rounds of golf do you play a year?

I hadn't played golf in two years.

Proud of you for that.

Thank you.

But I played two last week.

Oh, okay.

Down in Nashville.

Nashville.

Give me a call.

Go ahead.

Go ahead.

What happened last time we were here?

We went to that party at Kirk and

left, and then they left when we got back.

45 minutes of travel.

Bro, 10 o'clock.

Yeah, what really satisfied me?

The guy who had to park, pay, and then pay again when we left left as a tip.

Oh, that was me.

I haven't played in two years, and I don't plan on playing.

I quit.

You quit the sport.

Okay.

I would say probably 10 times a year.

What?

You play really?

Yeah, when I can't.

I go out and play by myself.

If my wife gives me the yes, then that's okay.

And what do you shoot ballpark?

Like 110?

No, no.

You're in the 80s, 90s?

Like 88 to

90 something?

So you're a player.

Base ballpark.

But I'm not shooting 110.

I wouldn't be playing 10 times a year if i'm shooting okay 10.

i haven't played in years okay proud of you tonight all right i just started playing a couple years ago so i've played

i play at least a hundred rounds florida all day every plays every week florida dude multiple times twilight

twilight

living the dream leave 530 straight you're addicted you can tee off in india at seven o'clock indie it gets like dark it gets dark like 935 out there

what do you shoot i'm like 90s low 90s high 100 a year, and you're in the 90s.

I just started.

Just started.

Never played before.

Little judgment there, Herbie.

I thought he'd be.

He'll be there soon.

He'll be there soon.

What's the strength?

What's the strength of your game?

I would say putting.

I can see that.

Yeah.

Probably irons.

Balls are remote.

Okay.

I can work him a short game.

That's where I'm in.

100 rounds.

He'll leave Thunderdome and go straight to court.

In Indy, it stays light outside till 10 p.m.

Yeah, you can tee off at 6 and play.

Do you live in in Indy or 3.

Tony, you think you can make this?

Yeah, I thought you were in South Florida.

All right, Tony.

Like full time.

He's in Indy half that.

Three and fourth, yep.

Yeah.

He's in Indy like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

We're lucky for that.

Do you like Indy?

Thanks for following the show, Kirk.

Yeah, Kirk, he's on the show.

I know he's on the show.

I didn't know he lived there.

No, he flies back.

No, he flies every fucking day.

What are you?

I just thought he had a lot of people.

He's a big part of our community.

He's a Pacer fan.

He was Don Don at a parade.

He's a South Florida fan.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Whoever's a good fan.

He can't claim the Pacers.

Okay, he can't.

He needs that.

All right, Kirk, thank you, buddy.

Oh, yeah.

Thank you.

Do you want to take the putt?

You should take the last put.

Yes, you should.

No, no, no.

I'm going to follow you.

Okay, Kirk, we'll take the last putt.

All right, here we go.

You want one more putt?

Here you go, baby.

Here you go.

Thank you.

You have a ball?

Yes, sir.

All right, one more putt.

Tone this business.

Let's do this one for the Steelers.

Real quick.

And just

bullish here.

I wouldn't go that far, no.

What?

I'm a Bengals fan in the AFC North.

Why don't you guys pay Trey Trey Hendrickson?

Why don't you guys pay Team Watt?

They will.

Why don't you pay your first-round drop pick?

No doubt.

How about the peanut gallery back in Indy chirping in?

Nah, they're on Indy.

Big Gump.

Gump's in a room.

Oh, is he?

Where is Gump?

He's here.

He's in the tree.

They're in a room.

Yep, there he is.

See him?

Come on, Gump.

You see him up there, Kirk?

I just got to ask the card questions, Kirk.

Okay, here we go.

Tone for a $25,000 donation here at the program's putt-putt invitational live from the SPs.

It's been a beautiful day.

Tongue Diggs first putt for a charity, and he pulls it.

That's right.

See, I can follow that with some confidence.

Debut, you're going last.

Okay.

I like that.

I'm going to let

your wire.

Yeah, I think it might be unmakeable.

Why don't you putt it left-handed, Kurt?

I should.

I made the first one.

It's clearly not worth a shit, right-handed.

$25,000, and he puts it off the green for a fifth straight time.

You cannot end on that one.

That was embarrassing.

That's your high school.

D, get over here, Pete.

That's your boy, D.

All right, Darius J.

Butler, $25,000 putt to a charity of his choosing if he's able to make this.

Maybe a little sanctity of our show.

And he pulled it as well.

Jeez, why don't you?

Pat, you take one.

All right, yeah, I will.

Where is it?

You got a ball?

Thank you, Fosso.

Thanks, Foss.

You want to go last?

I got close to the pit.

I got to try one time here.

Grab the mic.

Watch.

Let the experts get to the next one.

Watch this, Pat.

Hold on.

Watch this putter here.

You're going to like the way this looks.

That's pretty good.

Excellent speed.

That's a good putt.

Excellent.

Excellent speed.

Great line.

There's a ridge.

There's a little thing right here.

That's a good putt.

Really messed you up.

It's a hockey.

You see?

Yeah.

There you go.

See, open up.

You get that.

The rotation.

Yeah, I got the thank you, D-Buck.

Hip rotation.

Like, Dak.

It's tracking.

It's tracking.

Oh

my God.

Wanted to go in.

Dude.

So close.

You're going to walk off on that one.

I think that was a dub.

That should count.

All right.

That's an excellent lap.

To be clear, yeah.

That was in.

I found my butter.

Yes, you did.

Both kills were good.

Thank you.

That's great news.

That has really been the weak point of my game.

I can hit it, I can get it, and then I'll for it.

Oh, yeah.

And then all of a sudden, your rounds of golf are terrible.

Done.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So that's fun that I found that.

Shout out to the lab and shout out to Dylan, the only one who made it putt.

Yeah, he did.

Legend.

Yep.

What a day here at the Espy.

Shout out to the whole crew that set this entire thing up.

It's great.

Great setup out here.

It is.

Shout out to Jibman.

Jibman, Jibman, man on the jib.

Brian, obviously.

Great hat.

Yeah, great hat.

Talking it over there.

I needed it about halfway through the program.

Yeah.

The sun that came out.

Shout out to everybody that's going to watch the Espes this evening.

Should be a fantastic show.

And shout out to Jelly Roll, hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live after the Espes.

Oh, okay.

I didn't know that.

That's great.

What do you know, Kirk?

Yeah.

College ball.

True.

College ball.

Football.

Elliott.

Steel balls and bats.

Reds.

Golden retrievers.

Yeah.

You know, golden retriever.

I do new golden retriever.

In and out.

You can get these dogs to do whatever.

Raising sweet balls.

Movies, too.

Yeah.

Movies.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

You've doubled down on Frances's

review.

Oh, my God.

Did you watch that?

Oh, we haven't seen it yet.

No, no, no, no.

Did you watch the breakdowns?

Yeah, it was unbelievable.

It's all mitigated garbage.

But on.

So you agree it's unmitigated garbage?

It's terrible.

You were caught up in the fight game?

A lot of people were telling you that you were wrong in your assessment of that stuff.

Oh, were they?

Yeah, I think you got pretty loud.

I think you probably just muted that one.

I've trained myself not to go down there.

Yeah, you can mute it, actually.

Yeah.

And you should.

Just as a person that lives in those worlds.

Yeah.

Do you go down there?

No, you guys send one, and then you can kind of get a taste of what's coming in.

I don't get a taste.

Just mute it.

I don't want to taste it.

Just send it and close it.

Dude, it's heavy.

Yeah, I get some real mean stuff.

No,

you tend to live in there.

I have to.

I feel like I have to hear stuff.

I have to know what's going on.

So, like, everybody, they're always like, you got to stay.

But I don't think that's a great representation of how people, the real people feel about you.

But you got to know that that exists out there.

I think for everything, you have to know what the other side is, which is why I enjoy the internet because I like to hear what everybody's argument is.

So at least I have a little bit better understanding why people are are coming from where they're coming from and every once in a while where you're trying to learn that you're gonna learn some things about yourself and they're like holy this guy should run face first into traffic and that's a little rude yeah but then there's some wordsmiths out there that really make me laugh with it i'm like all right i need to stop reading this and i get out of the way but i think when i retire from this yeah because i think with the daily show it is responsibility to me to know a little bit about everything so that if anything comes up, I have to know about it.

You got to be ready?

Yeah, I think so, personally.

Like, for instance, when a press conference pops up, you know, and you're in the middle of it, it's like.

How about that?

That's what I'm saying.

Like, I think I have to know at least.

Mask on asking the question.

Yeah, that's why we couldn't hear it.

Of course.

And I don't think anybody knows

or.

I wish you would have just interrupted and just said, we don't have time for this.

That's what I would have done.

I've reached that point in my career.

We've had enough of that bullshit.

All right, let's get back to it.

That's what I would have done.

All right, but they have.

Now, on that note, because you don't scroll through,

I do scroll through.

They are very passionate.

It's like, all right, like I, whatever, okay, let's enjoy this.

Did you screw that up?

That

we all thought it was great.

You did great.

I thought I did.

I would have been much more.

I know, yeah.

A lot of people said that.

But for me, I legitimately couldn't understand.

If you were to see her, you'd be like, she's very committed.

to this.

Like now is not the time to have a full debate.

And I'm not the right person to have that.

But also, like, respect what you're saying.

This is a home run Derby press card.

If you're an old-star game press card, we don't have the answers up here.

And I think the research that that has been done post that question and what everybody said, I think there's a lot of things I could have said, I guess, if I would have been a little bit more in the know.

But with that being said, it's like we move on.

I was representing the MLB.

Yeah.

That crossed my mind while I was standing at the podium.

I'm like, holy shit.

I'm representing the MLB.

And Dave Roberts and

Booney.

Booney.

Booney.

Yeah.

Paul Skeens.

Terror.

Paul Skeens.

I think it was Paul Skeens that I saw.

Yeah.

The shot that I saw was Skeens and Roberts.

Yeah.

They were saying that.

And Skeens was was kind of like...

Well, Skeens hates everything that that was.

Yes.

Sit up on a podium on a stage.

We're going to talk about how good you are.

Talk.

How good you are.

Open questions, microphone.

Like, Skeens doesn't want any of that.

Like, I think he's...

People are like, well, he's getting GQ.

He's taking photos.

Like, taking photos is vastly different than sitting there having to explain your thoughts and why you think you're this or why you do this.

It's like these guys all just want to kind of.

Plendan.

That's what it feels like with the baseball players.

How big is Paul Skeens?

Huge.

6'6.

Huge.

Yeah, 6'6.

So is that

Mizorowski, that kid with five starts, five years in this thing now?

He got drafted out of Juco, went through the entire minor league system, has five starts.

He gets into the all-star game.

A lot of people pissed off.

We met him.

He knew that people were pissed off.

And he was like, I'm going to throw gas.

He's so big.

Yeah.

And lanky.

The guy that's big is Raleigh.

My God.

Oh, yeah.

Dumper.

You're talking about the big old booty on that guy.

Yeah, I don't follow the American League at all.

I'm a a national league.

He's a massive human.

I really don't know anything about him.

I'm going to look forward to watching Seattle now.

That guy.

Well, how about his thinking

throwing to his youngest brother?

And his kid is behind.

That's cool.

That was amazing.

That has to feel cool.

And by the way, the 15-year-old, you may want to buy stock in that guy.

Yeah, he's going to.

Yeah, we all kind of moved this way.

I think it's about time for us to get out of here.

All right.

Nobody made a putt except for Dylan, which we appreciate.

Yep.

And

now you're blocked.

I mean, I'm just going going to

put up a lot of time.

If we stayed on for two more hours, I would just keep drifting

into the shade.

Want to get that one off the board?

All right.

We're out of here.

Great job, guys.

I think we're off tomorrow.

We apologize.

I think we're off roading.

See you back Monday.

Travel restrictions.

That's the summer.

You guys should do that more often.

Yeah, your summer starts in February, doesn't it, Kirk?

It does.

January 21.

Earned that.

Don't earn that.

Does earn that, doesn't it?

You've earned that.

Exactly.

You've earned that.

Agreed.

All right, be a friend.

Tell a friend something nice.

It might change your life.

We're in this thing together.

Let's enjoy the Espes tonight.

Let's enjoy Jelly Roll.

And then have the greatest weekend of all time.

Team on me.

Herbie, anything?

No.

Go team.

Hell yeah.

Well said.

Cheers.

Hell yeah.

Yeah.

Ritra.

All the teams.

Especially tonight.

All the athletes.

All the athletes.

Celebrate.

We'll see you guys later.

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One, two, three.

Team.

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