PMS 2.0 1372 - NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, Quentin Richardson, Glen Powell, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Hello beautiful people and welcome to our humble abode the Thunderdome on this Commissioner Running Man

double trip Tuesday June 1st or July 1st.

Jeez already

sports!

Holy hell.

Yeah.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is July 1st.

Welcome to Song.

Rabbit, rabbit to all of you.

Obviously, we are celebrating the hell out of another day on this earth, another day alive, another day closer to football season, and another day of fantastic weather outside for us here in the Midwest.

We hope the same for you.

Let's enjoy the hell out of this glorious Tuesday.

We got a lot of people stopping by, okay?

The commissioner of the NHL will be joining us in about 15 minutes.

Gary Bettman, we appreciate the hell out of you.

A lot talk about in the NHL.

Obviously, they just had their draft.

I believe they have a CBA deal being done or finished negotiation a year early.

So normally these types of things are very contentious, especially in the hockey world.

They've had work stoppages, a few different ones that have kind of almost tanked the sport and the league as a whole.

They've bounced back in a massive way.

Obviously, high ratings.

There's a lot of talk and conversation about the NHL and the great sport of hockey.

And now they're talking about maybe expansion things.

And they get a deal done ahead of time, whenever normally it's a lot of this.

Feels like hockey's on the rise.

We talked to Ryan Smith, new owner of the Utah Mammoth, new franchise out there in Utah.

And he says, from what they're talking about behind the scenes at the NHL, everything's on the up into the right angle.

So it's it's like, I can't wait to talk to Gary Bettman about how he feels about the world.

Quentin Richardson will join us in about 39 minutes or so.

He

13-year NBA vet.

There's a lot of things happening around the NBA.

Yeah.

Sean Shawnee says it's going to be the most craziest offseason ever.

Sean Shawnee has been batting pretty good here thus far in most of the news or the stories that we should follow looking ahead during the playoff run, what he was telling us and forecasting the future would look like.

Well, now there's an NBA player making $71.25 million a year.

Congratulations to NBA champion, NBA MVP, finals MVP, and now the new highest paid player in the history of sport, $71.25 million a year in salary.

Congratulations to SGA.

That's unbelievable.

He's not the only one that got paid.

Now, granted, he got paid the biggest.

Let's not get it twisted.

Also, on a contract year, on a potential

extension year, year, for him to go out and play the way he did MVP-like, and then win through it all, he had to be seeing dollar signs all season long.

The fact that he remained locked in on the most important year of his own personal life, which also became the most important year of his professional life, we should be celebrating the hell out of $71.25

million

a year.

You've earned it, bud.

Congratulations.

And if that's what they're paying, good for the NBA as well.

Nine-year NFL vet Darius J.

Butler is here.

We have some quarterbacks kind of touching 60, obviously, in the NFL.

One.

One, yeah, but I think there's going to be, I think that's going to be the next kind of number that we get to.

7125 in the NBA.

First of all, obviously, McKenzie's going to have a good jumper.

If wife and I ever have a boy, we're going to make sure and we got that ball on a string.

You know, it feels like they're paying pretty good over there in the NBA.

Yes, they are.

And deservedly so.

He moves the needle.

He had a dominant season.

And it's a lot of times we get up here, we see deals kind of come across X.

You're like, who is this guy?

How is he getting 18, 20, 25 million a year?

This guy getting 70 plus a year.

He deserves it.

He is fantastic.

Had an unbelievable year, finals MVP, won the MVP, and then winning the finals, obviously, all together.

So got a shoe deal.

I would be interested to see if he does more off the court.

Maybe not with making all this money, man, but he's a superstar.

And there'll be more deals like this right down the line and some other players in line to make north of $70 plus million dollars a year.

Who's that?

What are you talking about?

What are you all looking to?

Devin Booker over here in Phoenix.

He'll be eligible, I believe, July 6th for a two-year $150 million increase.

Quick math, that's $75 million a year.

Congrats to him.

He's obviously earned it as well.

And there's been a lot of NBA deals that have taken place over the last 12 hours.

Connor will break them down here in a matter of moments.

The talks at table is Boston Connor and Ty Sr.

today.

Ty, a lot of money giving out to SGA.

You got to love that.

Yeah, absolutely crazy.

I mean, shit, you look at these numbers.

You know what?

A guy like Dale Sr., if I may, I mean, if he was racing in this time in NASCAR, we need NASCAR purses to get, you know, somewhere in the same stratosphere as these NBA guys.

It's crazy.

You look around all the other leagues.

I mean, NFL, sure, but...

We're looking at big deals in the NHL and the MLB.

I mean, $71 million a year.

Are you kidding me?

It just, it's crazy, but I love it.

That's America, baby.

That's capitalism.

That's what it's all about.

Ty,

I think a lot of people watching will say, you seem to look and sound a little bit different today.

Do you agree with that or no?

Well, I tell you what, what you guys see on

your televisions every day, sure, that's a version of me.

I'm wearing something very similar to this every night when I go home, when I put my head on my pillow.

And it's 4th of July this week, right?

Is it not?

Are we not celebrating America this week?

We will be at the end of the...

Uh rah is right, obviously.

Now, listen, I try to, you know, praise Dale and raise a little hell every day of the week, but on this week, 4th of July, I just decided, hey, today's the day.

You know what?

I'm going to let everybody kind of inside my world.

And I'm going to pay homage to the greatest American icon of all time, my goat of all goats, Dale Sr.

I just, I don't think people are doing it enough.

I think we're kind of getting to that point where everyone wants to talk about the Loganos of the world and guys like that.

Joey Logano ain't got shit on Dale Sr.

Okay, and then that's all due respect to Joey Logano, but I just, you know, I got my, you know, official Dale Sr., you know, fire retardant jacket here.

And I'm, you, you may see me combust into flames today because I look so goddamn good.

Uh, but that's why I had to wear it.

You know, you're gonna sweat through it, you're gonna

sacrifice a little bit for a guy like Dale Sr.

on a day like this.

So, when you go home at night, you're wearing that jacket you told me every night.

Do you talk like this as well whenever you go home?

Honestly, I don't even now, I don't even recognize when I'm doing it.

So, you guys, like I'll watch the tape back, obviously, after the show today, and maybe I do sound you didn't hear it there.

No, I sound like Tyrese thing.

Yeah, oh, yeah, two different gears, two different languages,

he has two different dialects.

Yeah, that's a pretty interesting.

So I don't, I don't, I mean, to me,

I sound the exact same I do every day.

Now, you guys are telling me I might sound, I don't know, a little more southern fried.

Maybe that's a thing.

I don't know.

Maybe I've been reading too many McGee articles.

Maybe I've been watching too many.

Reading the articles.

Well, yeah, but you got to, you know, you got to say it out loud in your head and whatnot.

Maybe I've been watching, you know, too much Marty McGee on the Southeast Asia.

With Barker McCollum.

Exactly.

Barker McCollum was on there.

I've been listening to a lot of country.

Listen, it's summer.

It's summertime.

The weather's hot.

So, you know, it does crazy things to people.

Again, I mean,

this is my true self.

And if you don't like it, you can go fuck yourself.

Okay, because I love it.

I love it.

I love Dale Sr.

I love this jacket.

I mean, it's the intimidating.

You love, I don't know.

Can you explain what the hell's going on?

Why are we doing this?

Like I said, it's the 4th of July,

brother.

I mean, what do you mean?

He's an American icon

here.

Let's go to one half of the hammer.

Cowboys, he became a cowboy.

You have somehow become whatever.

Listen, I think he drove in here in his Chevy Monte Carlo, serviced by GM BF Goodrich earlier with his Sunoco gasoline and his Goodyear tires.

I think you look incredible, my friend.

Okay, all right.

YouTube battler.

He's got a South African accent.

You're going to zoom in.

No, what happened is we got together last night.

We watched the Earnhardt dock on Amazon that just came out recently.

I die for him.

It is unbelievable.

It's probably the best piece of content I've ever watched in my life, and I knew that going in, but I was just like, you know what?

Let's just make sure.

Let's just kind of take the temperature.

It's on Amazon, right?

Yeah, four-part series.

It is unbelievable.

All the stuff you thought you knew about Senior, I mean, it doesn't even scratch the surface of what was beneath that man.

What was beneath the hood of you?

Did you learn anything about Dale or anything?

You know what?

Once I saw it, I saw it.

I didn't watch it yet, but I wasn't a fan of motorsports until recently.

Sure.

I obviously saw Dale know of him, American Icon, as you said.

You know, born in the 50s, born in the South.

So immediately,

I got to do some research.

I got to do my own research.

Went to ChatGPT, typed in some questions, some words,

some hot button topics, maybe.

And he came back clean.

So, hey, Dale's good with me.

Raise hell.

Praise Dale.

He is Black Knight.

Had some friends growing up.

That was one of my nicknames, Black Knight.

Don't ever call me that again.

There's only one Black Knight, and that's Dale.

So, yeah,

I can't wait to watch him.

His son.

His son's a good man, too, man.

His son's a great man.

Jill and Chat GPT.

You're in Chat GPT.

I didn't really Google anymore.

Chat GPT.

And they get, and look, once again, born in the South, 50s.

Just have to see.

Are you sure?

Can you do a little more digging?

Clean, Phillips.

We're good.

We're clean.

Okay, that's good news.

Seems like that.

I don't need anybody else doing any more research for me.

My research is done.

Dale's Google, man.

Chat GPT looked into it.

That's a wild time wherein he's having actual conversations with ChatGPT.

Oh, yeah.

And Ty is walking in here is

impersonating Dale Earnhardt.

Here is a picture of Dale Earnhardt Sr., obviously.

And then Ty,

Ty, if we could get Ty next.

Can we get a Ty next to what an honor this is for you right now?

Unbelievable.

It was the best day of my life.

Best day of my deck gum life.

I like that.

I like what you're doing.

Are they going to do it?

There we go.

I mean, who's who?

Thank you in America.

It's like a mirror.

Does it feel good for you?

Even to Jack.

This is awesome.

I'm not kidding.

This is the best day of my life.

All right, we'll move on.

We appreciate you doing that.

And shout out to Amazon for the four-part documentary because Ty did walk, just like whenever Tone went into his COVID cave and came out like one of the best gomblers on earth because all he did was go through.

And then he became a cowboy because he watched old buddy out in

Yellowstone out there in Montana.

So he just started wearing a cowboy hat.

He became a cowboy through COVID.

We called him the COVID cowboy.

Now he's a hammer

cowboy alongside Bubble Gampino in the back.

You have kind of transformed Dale Earnhardt from watching one documentary, and I can respect that and I appreciate your love for him.

Now, sitting next to you at Boston Connor, we were talking about it before Dale Earnhardt got into his pitch about NASCAR pools and prizes needing to get to the stratosphere of the NBA.

There's a lot that has happened since the NBA free agency has kind of kicked or tipped off, we'll say yesterday.

SGA $71.25 million is absurd, but that's he's not the only guy that got a shit ton of money con man.

Yeah, Jaron Jackson Jr.

also signs a five-year $240 million

max extension.

If you remember, the Grizzlies traded Desmond Bain to Orlando.

He gets a big deal there, so they have a little bit more money.

Give it to him.

I believe he won Defensive Player of the Year,

either last year or the year before.

The Grizzlies, kind of one of those weird teams that fired their coach a year or a week before the playoffs started.

Kind of an odd situation there, but Jaron Jackson Jr., unbelievable.

Another guy that that's signed.

Not as big of a money deal, but a big free agent.

Everyone was kind of looking at Brooke Lopez.

He is going to LA, but he is not going to the Lakers.

He's going to the Clips.

Kind of a massive signing for them.

In fact, everybody thought Lakers because center.

Yeah,

that's kind of their number one priority right now.

People are now looking at DeAndre Aten.

Really good highlight there of him blocking Pascal C.

Occam.

That was weird.

But Brooke Lopez going to the Clippers match.

That was the last series he played it.

They also extended James Harden two years, $82 million.

I think the Clippers, so Brooke Lopez and James Harden, going to be a dynamic duo.

Yeah, tough situation there to start.

We pick what highlights are going to be shown.

We don't need Pascal Siakham getting his shit sent.

Boom!

To the goddamn Rafters as the first one for Brooke Lopez.

Listen, this is chronological order.

I want to show the most recent things that he's done.

And the last series they played was against the Pacers.

I appreciate you guys.

I appreciate the video department keeping it honest every day.

I I do appreciate it.

Objective.

I like it.

To Tony's point, it was in the playoffs.

Brooke Lopez, very good in the playoffs.

Clippers need someone very good in the playoffs.

They haven't been good in the playoffs as of recently.

Staying with the Bucs, Damian Lillard towards Achilles in the playoffs and then got released.

Kind of absurd.

No one really saw this coming.

This is the first, you could say,

most craziest offseason move, arguably, just because no one really saw this.

Kevin Durant to Houston?

KD, yeah, but no one saw this one coming.

KD was always getting moved.

Uh, Giannis, you know, kind of up in the air.

This comes out of nowhere.

Giannis then tweets, allegedly, not very happy.

He's not sure what the hell happened.

No, Giannis didn't tweet that.

Somebody reported that, right?

He reported, but Giannis actually put out a tweet that had the 100 emoji, and then the caption on the photo said, I'm not sure what the hell is happening right now.

And it was him celebrating in the locker room post-championship.

I think we could pull that up, but also with the Bucs, have to talk about about it.

Unfortunately, for the Indiana Pacers, Miles Turner said, so long, Indiana, I'm not sticking around without Tyre Reese Halliburton playing next year.

He's signing a four-year, $107 million deal with the Bucs.

Immediately after this was reported was when the Lillard release was reported as well.

So the Bucs making moves, trying to keep Giannis happy.

No one's really sure if he is happy or not, but at least they're trying.

Feels like a lot of times teams won't even do anything to help their stars.

And now with those, it kind of stings for Andy with Turner leaving and kind of just looking ahead.

DeAndre Aten to the Lakers is kind of the next possible big move we could see because the Lakers still need a big man, especially if they want to keep LeBron happy.

That's interesting.

Thank you for breaking it all down.

The Miles Turner stuff to Milwaukee, I think the assumption was that he was going to stay with the Pacers basically throughout all of the playoff series.

Then game seven of the finals, Tyrese Halliburton gets hurt and he's going to miss an entire season.

I think that changes.

This is not from any information.

I'm just saying from all sources, Miles Turner and the Pacers were going to get a deal done.

And then once season's over, I wonder if there was like a re-look at like, what does next year look like?

What does the future look like?

What's right for Miles?

What's right for the...

So him getting paid, I'm happy as hell for Miles Turner.

Obviously, he's done a lot for the city of Indianapolis, the state of Indiana, the franchise, the Pacers as a whole.

10 years, 11 years here.

I mean, Miles was great for the city and obviously got a chance to experience an NBA Finals run.

Him getting paid with Milwaukee, I'm happy for, but I think all indications were that he was staying with

the Pacers.

And then obviously, tragedy strikes for a star player.

And then all of a sudden, what does the future look like now for the Pacers?

I think that's potentially how that kind of unfolds there.

Yeah, for sure, especially because it's four years, $107 million.

Like we talked throughout the playoffs how incredible it was that the Pacers were even where they were because of how far underneath the cap they were.

So it's not as if a four-year $107 million deal is going to break the bank for any NBA team right now, really, especially with the cap going up.

So it 1,000% had to be, hey, Tyrese isn't here next year.

Next year is going to look much different in Indiana.

Do you stay there?

Milwaukee is just interesting because with the whole Giannis question mark, it's like, well, there's a question mark in India.

But if you're going to Milwaukee, there's kind of a question mark there, right, with their superstars.

So you're taking a little bit of a risk, but I mean, shit, $107 million.

It's awesome.

Yeah, I wonder how many teams are offering him $107 million.

I wonder what it all looked like for Miles.

All I know is when Miles is on the defensive end, he's great.

Yeah.

He's unbelievable.

He's a tall guy who actually plays defense, and he's been in the Carlisle offense, so he's had to run, you know, like Miles has had to run in this entire thing, and he can,

and I don't want to say this in a negative way because a lot of people saw him in the finals not really do it, but Miles can knock down threes.

Like he can very much do that.

Like that is something he is good at and the pick and roll with tyrese throughout a lot of his series was kind of like his play so i mean miles is still a very good player kind of a younger version almost of lopez you know he he's going to be a force on the defensive end in the paint and then he can stretch the floor uh with his shooting ability now a lot of fans would have liked him you know get get to the basket more you know be a little more in especially if the three's not falling with that frame if it if it's if those shots are not falling but yeah as you mentioned with that tyrese injury now that definitely changes the plan so the pace has got to do what's best for them.

I think they got their first-round pick back as well, right?

Or a first-round pick.

Okay, which could potentially, hopefully not with Tricky Ricky, they can figure it out, but could potentially be a lottery pick going forward.

Just have to change plans completely for the future.

Whenever you lose your Super Max,

also star player in the last game of the season.

Okay, we'll continue to talk about the NBA.

Quentin Richardson will join us in about 30 minutes or so to chit-chat about what's going on around the association.

Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the commissioners of one of the biggest leagues on earth.

He's been a commissioner for a long time now, has seen a lot of things, but I don't know if he could have projected how popular the league is and how popular the sport is or the fact that he could potentially get a CBA negotiation done a year early.

Ladies and gentlemen, the commissioner of the NHL, Gary Bettman.

Yay!

How you doing, boss?

I'm doing great, and it's always great to be with you because I love the fact that you're such a fan.

Yes, lucky to grow up in Pittsburgh.

Obviously had a lot of great times.

Hockey was good to my family, my community, and the sport is obviously spectacular.

Let's talk about the state of the sport.

It feels like, and I mean, we can dive right into the Four Nations right now, but at that Four Nations moment, it feels like that was a real like Kickstarter to hockey becoming a huge part of Americana thinking and buying into the fact about how great the sport is.

Do you agree with that notion?

And do you feel like the sport in the league is more prominent now than maybe ever in the United States of America?

I think over the last three decades, we've seen an upward trajectory pretty consistently.

But every now and then, there's been an extra boost.

And whether it was outdoor games or going to the Olympics, which we used to do 10, 15 years ago and we're going back to.

What worked so well on Four Nations was the pent-up demand for international best-on-best competition.

We think we do that as well, if not better than anybody, and it was something that was really important to our players, which is why when you saw the event, you could see that they were all in, which is why I guess it drew such positive comparison to All-Star Games in some of the other sports.

At the end of the day, this meant a lot to the players to represent to their countries, and they showed it in the way the competition played out, and they showed it even after Four Nations was over based on the number of players that came back to their NHL teams injured.

I know that you don't love the stage fighting, I believe is what the NHL would like to get rid of.

The booing of a national anthem leading immediately to a fight, I think was great for all parties.

I think it was great for all parties.

But you mentioned there, Kachuk got hurt leaving there.

Kachuk was like Captain America in there.

Now, obviously, he's on the Stanley Cup champions.

He's one of the leaders of the Stanley Cup champs, and he would get back for the playoffs.

and obviously another Stanley Cup run, but they were leaving it all out there for this thing for their country.

And I think people learned about like the players that are that make up the NHO and how great your sport is.

Our players are great.

And whether it's just playing hockey for the love of the game or trying to win the most iconic trophy and the hardest championship to win in the Stanley Cup or representing their countries, they don't do anything half or three quarters ways.

They do it at 110%.

And, you know, the good news was with the booing of the anthems and the issues between the U.S.

and Canada at the time, we got through that.

By the time we got to the playoffs, there were no booing of anthems, either in the U.S.

or Canada.

And people were just focused on the hockey, and the players were focused on winning.

And, you know, I don't know for a fact, but I wouldn't be surprised if Kachuk were still injured by the time he came back to play in the playoffs.

Although, as you know, our players, you know, they play injured all the time, and particularly in the playoffs.

And that's what makes our game so great, the commitment that our players have to their teams, to their fans, and to win it.

Yeah, the culture of the league is ultimately shown by its players, I believe.

And your players are all dogs.

And you talk about playing hurt, we'll get reports after a team exits the playoffs, and it'll be like, this guy had a fractured sternum.

He also had a broken foot.

They were literally just propping his ass up on skates and pushing him onto the ice.

It's like, you don't hear like that anymore about any other sport other than hockey i don't think you ever heard that in any other sport although i assume when you referred to dogs that was a good thing yes yes dogs are good garrett yeah dogs are good d-a-w-g-shaw yeah yeah d-a-w-g-s not d-g-s d-o-gs too good i got a couple of those chuck valerie they're good dogs and all that um let's talk about you talked about kachuck and uh you talked about lord stanley cup obviously uh and how remarkable it is we had a chance to hang out with it here one day and obviously the stories of the Stanley Cup and Darius J.

Butler is obviously reaping the benefit of winning another one.

What is your thought?

Congrats to the Florida Panthers on going back to back.

And now with Zeto signing everybody back, it's like we're obviously in the middle of a dynasty here.

We have to talk about that.

Not every league loves dynasties.

I think there's some leagues that are making rules so that dynasties don't happen.

I think obviously the NFL had the New England Patriots for a long time.

The Chiefs can still be in the middle of making one, but it's very difficult, especially with salary cap and money and business and how everything has to go.

How does the league yourself feel about this Florida Panthers team, especially because how good they represent hockey, I think, as a whole?

You know, whether or not dynasties are good or bad, my view in sports is it is what it is.

And if a team can excel, not to do what the Panthers have done three years in a row in the Stanley Cup final, winning back-to-backs, they're looking very strong as we project ahead for next year, having re-signed the three important

free agents.

The stories are what it's all about.

It's what takes place on the ice that makes it great.

And if they can pull off a three-peat, that'll be remarkable.

But we've always prided ourselves, particularly in the last 20 years post-salary cap, that our competitive balance is extraordinary.

The races to get into the playoffs at the end of of the regular season.

We had three teams that didn't know their playoff status to the last game of the regular season.

And I think that's what's compelling and that's what brings fans to the game.

If in fact

the Panthers can do it again, kudos to them and it's a testament to the players and to what is being done by management and ownership to give all the resources and to build a team that has this chemistry making all the right decisions.

So, you know, we've had a couple of back-to-backs over the years, but overall, we see lots of changes.

At least five different teams, I think over the last 10, 15 years, with one exception, we've had at least five different teams turn over in the playoffs every year.

And I think that's great for fans because we want our fans to know that no matter who you root for, your team is a shot of making the playoffs.

And then once the playoffs begin, anything can happen.

yeah hope you want your teams to have hope that that is legit and speaking of hope yeah south florida has become that here's darius obviously lifelong fan absolutely on that note gary uh panthers came into existence a couple years after you became the commission uh are there any examples i told the boys up here like you i i never would have thought in a million years i know we went in 1996 but i never would have thought in a million years that we would be back-to-back champs and have a dynasty in south florida it was almost like not a joke of a franchise but you had the heat you had the dolphins is there any example for you with the fanfare and the buzz down there compared to what it's been, I guess, the last few decades?

Well, a couple of things.

One, since Vinnie Viola took over as owner, and you'll always hear me say that it all starts with ownership.

Vinny and his family have been all in,

whether it's building a new practice facility and renovating the war memorial in Fort Lauderdale, whether it's bringing in Bill Zito to put this team together, whether it's everything they do in the community, The Viola family has been nothing short of sensational.

You see the same thing in Tampa with Jeff Vinnick.

It's not about state taxes.

It's about ownership.

And I think it does a disservice to the great work that's being done to think that that's what makes the difference in the team.

It doesn't.

Players have lots of reasons for picking or not picking teams to go to.

If you look at what Darrell Cates has done in Edmonton since he's taken over with the Oilers.

But even if you look at things like the Samuel Welles owning the Anaheim Ducks where they did bring a Stanley Cup champion, when they bought the team, I think there were five or six high school teams in Orange County.

And now there would be between 50 and 60.

Ownership, commitment to fans in the community.

giving teams the resources, whether it's the coaching staff of the practice facilities or everything they do around the game, all of it makes a difference.

And that's what players look for when they're deciding when they're free agents where they want to play.

You become an ambassador of the sport as a whole, let alone an owner of the league, especially for that area.

South Florida, a lot of talent in athletics.

I wonder if it'll translate into hockey someday, maybe with Kachuck and the boys with what they're able to build.

Now, that naturally leads to the question of something that has been kind of reported about.

Expansion in the NHL.

I heard there's a couple cities: Austin, Houston, Atlanta.

What's that fourth one, Gary?

What's the fourth one?

There are probably eight cities that, you know, we've heard from Indianapolis, we've heard from Cincinnati, we hear from Quebec City.

The list goes on and on.

We're not focusing on expanding right now.

I'm not going to issue an edict that says if you want an expansion team, file your application by this date.

I think the most important things at 10,000 feet in expansion are ownership, which we've just talked about, market, arena, and what does it do to make the league stronger, improve our footprint?

Because we're a little bit different than the other three major sports in that of our 32 teams, seven are in Canada, which is a good thing because of how strong the game is in Canada.

We're like, if you want to draw a comparison, we're like the NFL is in the U.S.

based on how we are in Canada.

Just look at the last national deal we just did a couple of months ago with Rogers.

If somebody wants to get a big deal.

No big deal.

You just did just a subtle flex right there.

That was a subtle flex out of you, Gary.

Yeah, I was like, just look at the Rogers deal.

What's going on up there?

Little flicks.

Okay, but

if somebody can check those four boxes and wants to do a deep dive, then I'll take it to the owners and we'll consider it.

I'm not pressuring anybody.

We're not giving deadlines.

If it's going to be right, it'll be right.

And if we wait a while, if ever, to do any more expansion, that's okay too, because our 32 teams have never been healthier, never been better owned, never been more supported by their fans.

All right, I'll get to work for Indianapolis.

I assume some others will as well.

Let's talk about the game continuing to grow, and obviously, you're big in Canada.

International growth, obviously, always a forefront of conversation.

Go ahead, Connor.

Yeah, Gary, Pat mentioned the Four Nations this past season.

And as someone from Boston, I actually was able to go to the Four Nations final thanks to Pat and SeatGeek.

And for the city one, it was incredible.

And then, of course, the product was unbelievable.

So when it comes to the World Cup of Hockey,

when you're thinking of what cities to host it, I personally would say Boston's probably the place you want to keep it.

The Northeast just makes more sense, I would say.

And, you know, real, true hockey fans up there.

But what are you looking for exactly with the World Cup of Hockey kind of selection when it comes to the city?

And what do you expect for those eight nations, kind of those those teams to be like that's a great question Boston and Montreal were great hosts the history the tradition the connection to hockey in those cities is is unbelievably strong we just put out a request for proposals for cities both in Europe to host a portion of the World Cup and in North America and so we'll see what comes back but to get everybody up to speed we're going to be on a cycle.

Next season, we're going to the Olympics in Milan.

Two years later, we'll do a World Cup.

Two years after that, we'll go back to the Olympics.

And then two years after that, a World Cup.

So we, with the Players Association, who we do this with, are committed to getting a regular schedule of best on best for our players.

It's great for the game.

It's great for our fans.

And most importantly, our players really want it.

You just said you and the Players Association.

I mentioned it in the introduction, but we haven't really got a chance to chat about it.

A year early.

Now, granted, it hasn't been voted on.

I don't think it's officialized, but there's been a lot of reports that basically, hey, we got a deal.

I think on nhl.com, it says we've agreed to terms or something like that.

So we don't know exactly where it is in the process.

We do know it is about a year ahead of schedule.

That never happens.

Never.

Never happens.

And in hockey, you guys have had work stoppages before because of labor disagreements.

Now, games at a strong level, leagues at a strong level.

And it it feels like your guys' partnership is at a strong level with the players as well.

You're absolutely right.

So let's take it at a couple of points.

One, we have an agreement in principle subject to ratification both by the players and by the teams.

And that process is ongoing.

We've had an interesting history of labor relations, including, as I think everybody knows, 20 years ago, we had to lose an entire season to get the system that we have in place, which is the salary cap with revenue sharing.

We have a new executive director.

I think he's been in between two and three years, Marty Walsh, former mayor of Boston, huge fan of the game,

former Secretary of Labor in the United States.

And he's run unions before he had his political career.

And we have a terrific relationship.

He is very collaborative, very professional.

We don't necessarily agree on everything, but we know how to deal with the process.

And Marty is of the belief that it's great for everybody, including the players, if we're all on the same side and we're working to grow the game.

And with a year left in our collective bargaining, we managed to work collaboratively together to have a good collective bargaining process, which started around the end of February, the beginning of March.

And I think we made a deal that is good for the players moving forward, make some adjustments for the teams that's good moving forward.

And I think it says a lot about the state of the game and the growth that we can have with this terrific foundation and predictability because nobody now has to worry about what happens in collective bargaining over the last year of the current agreement, which happens in most sports.

It's a distraction.

And I think together we managed to go through a really good process.

Yeah, especially with your advertising partners too not having a threat of potentially losing a season with negotiations like hey everything's kumbaya with players and us how kumbaya we get a deal done which is worth hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars uh a year early that's insane to think about it's very abnormal though right this is did it surprise you whenever it was like man this feels like an actual partnership here let me explain my story uh my stance on this gary just so i can explain it to you when i got drafted to the nfl they send you to a rookie symposium okay like a week later Rookie symposium my year just so happened to be Demaurius Smith's first time speaking to like a group of players.

And what he said is, we're about to get into CBA negotiations.

There's going to be a lockout or whatever, and we need to fight them.

We need to fight them on everything.

And my first thought is a person that is interested in business, it's like, man, just fighting your business partner doesn't feel like the right play.

Lo and behold, a lot of disagreements, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Then we move forward.

I wasn't as naive.

I was naive at the time.

I learned like, oh, there's fights in every one of these.

It's like 32 lawyers taking on the player lawyer and they're fighting for every inch.

We can drop a THC testing level, 0.05%.

What do we have to give up?

Well, 45 days of work on the other.

It's like everything is just like tooth and nail.

I don't think that makes sense personally from a business perspective.

So whenever this starts happening with the players, are you surprised and excited, I assume, at the same time?

But listen, we've had our battles.

People credit me, I use that word in quotes, with three lockouts.

If you don't have a partner who gets the big picture and is willing to engage, you're going to have disharmony on the collective bargaining fund.

Fortunately, Marty Wolse and we've developed a great relationship, and as I said, while we don't agree on everything, we know how to deal with that.

He gets the big picture, which says you need a healthy business.

for it to benefit everyone, particularly including his members in his union, namely the players.

And so, first of all, nobody would ever accuse you of being naive.

But more importantly, you've got the big picture, and that's how we've managed to come together.

And in that regard, Marty and I are on the same page in terms of what we need to do is do the things that will help grow the game at all levels for the benefit of everybody, not just the players of the league, but for our fans as well.

Yeah, but it's whatever the league knows, like, hey, we can build, we got to work still.

Like, that's a good thing.

Like, I think some leagues get to a point where they think they're big and they don't do all the other stuff.

And then all of a sudden, people start talking bad about your league.

It's like, I appreciate the fact that you guys acknowledge it.

I love that the players are on board.

The Olympics is a good idea because that's going to be some hockey that some people have never seen the sport before.

And if they're watching like the best of the best play, it's like, yes, this is a sport I love, you know?

And by the way, you're 100% right.

And I agree with you, but stopping in the middle of the season for two weeks is a bit of a disruption and it's hard to deal with.

But on balance, it's something we think is important to work our way through.

The deal terms have a, they're either being finalized with the double IHF, the International Ice Hockey Federation, and the International Olympic Committee either today or tomorrow.

And in fact, Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly is in Zurich today to deal with that very issue.

So we know it's important.

We know it's not without its difficulties.

But on balance, it's important, and that's why we manage the complexity of it all.

That was awesome.

I just heard what the owner said.

Yeah, yeah, Olympics, awesome, awesome, awesome, fun.

We might lose a 30-40 million dollar player, and we got to stop our league.

Okay,

that is a hilarious.

Okay, we got another rule that we think should be put in place.

Tone, one half of the hammer.

Cowboys from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Yeah, Gary, there were some unfortunate, untrue rumors last week that Sidney Crosby was going to be traded from the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Now, they were untrue.

But just so we don't have it again in the future, can you make a rule in the NHL that Sid is not allowed to be traded from the Pittsburgh Penguins, please?

Go ahead, sorry.

Sid has been unbelievable for the game, on and off the ice.

He's been unbelievable for Pittsburgh.

My guess is if he ever moved, and I have no reason to believe he would,

it would only be because he wants to go to a situation to finish out his career.

I'd be surprised if he ever moved, and I know how important he is to Pittsburgh, and I know how important Pittsburgh is to him.

So, you know, in this era of social media where anybody can put out anything, you really have to verify before you get all wound up about something.

Yeah, I'm telling you, yeah, you're

not just in this situation.

That's every single day out there on the internet.

There's a lot happening that you got to kind of keep your eyes peeled for.

And obviously, you two have celebrated a couple different times about what that picture.

Yeah, you look good.

Look at you.

Are you natural?

Much younger then.

Hey, Gary, we will say this.

We've been noticing, I don't know if you've been noticing, feels like round of applause.

Now, at the draft, you're going to get your ass booed.

I think that's just normal.

But I think people, Hockey World's, huh?

Don't you think?

I think Hockey World's like, hey, Gary, you're doing it.

Actually, I get booed.

Actually,

it's a sign of affection.

Definitely.

If they ignored me, I'd be concerned.

From getting booed, it means they're paying attention.

Commissioners have to make tough decisions against fan bases and teams.

So you're obviously putting that spot, especially with work stoppages.

But I would like to let you know, from us reading the tea leaves from outside looking in, it's like Gary Bettman, to use a wrestling term, kind of a babyface right now in the hockey world.

I think you've done great things for the league and sport.

I think people see that, Gary.

You know, thank you for saying that.

And by the way, getting booed at the draft in LA Friday night was worth it to see moments like Matthew Schaefer coming up and the emotion of him being drafted.

And we talked about that when he came up to see the ovation that Meredith Godreaux got when she came to me for Columbus pick to see Charles Barkley and Adam Sandler participate you know on behalf of Philly and Boston there were some really great moments yeah okay we switched from a centralized draft to decentralized Steve Mayer tried some things to make us look a little bit different than what other leagues do but you know what unless you try some things and even stumble a little you don't get to a great place so on balance we had a very impactful and meaningful draft.

We watched, we thought there was a lot of clips too that came from it, which is obviously very important for the modern era of media.

And I'd like to say, as somebody that talks into a microphone on a regular basis, you hosting that thing not bad.

You were walking people to things.

You were talking, I mean, you were hosting out there, Gary.

Welcome to the show.

Welcome to the league.

How are we doing?

Let's send over here.

I thought you did a great job.

Thank you.

I actually had fun.

You know, I didn't sit down for five hours, and so when I finally sat down, I couldn't get up.

But,

you know, at my advancing age, you got to be a little careful.

Seriously,

we had a good time.

I think the people in LA who attended the draft had a good time.

And we actually sent out a survey to see if our clubs were happy with the decentralized draft or they want to go back.

My guess is on balance.

We're going to keep doing what we did.

And it was a lot of fun.

All right.

Well, we appreciate it.

Congrats on another successful NHL season.

Can't wait to see what's in store.

And

congrats to whatever expansion city puts together the proper pitch deck and says this is a city that should have an NHL team.

Because if the NHL comes to your town, there's a lot of greatness coming alongside of it.

I was fortunate to grow up in Pittsburgh.

I love watching a league.

Thank you for taking time for us to have a conversation.

Always great to be with you, and thanks for all you do to cover all sports, but especially ours.

I'll tell you what.

I wish I could skate.

I can't skate.

I saw Patty Maroon.

Never too late to learn.

I don't know.

I think it is.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner of the NHL, Gary Bettman.

Thank you.

Yeah, the Olympics is fun.

Okay.

It's fun.

I can lose my most expensive guy, my entire roster that I paid.

And also, it's two weeks in the middle of the season.

What are we even?

Yeah, Olympics is fun.

Okay, we're the idiots.

We're the main ones.

Okay, we got a league to run here.

We got a business we're doing.

Yeah, Kaichuk came back.

It was awesome.

Charlie McAvoy out for the year after Four Nations.

It damn near

blew up the Bruins.

If there's an expansion team in Quebec City, I'm out.

What?

I'm out.

There's already been a team in Quebec.

Exactly.

The Nord Geeks, Eric Lindrell.

Tried and failed.

Okay?

It's time to bring a team here.

Indianapolis is in the center of the country.

They just put on a show for the NBA Finals.

You see how rompous of an atmosphere that is.

And I don't know.

Can they play hockey in Gambridge?

I saw some people saying they can't.

What?

Yes, they can.

Yes, they can.

They have to be able to.

They had hockey games there before.

They put hockey above place in the freaking jumbotron wasn't even centered on the ice, okay?

So you can put hockey anywhere.

Don't tell me about that.

What's the name?

What would be the mascot?

I don't know.

I've gone through a couple different thoughts of what an NHL team could look like here, gone through many different aerations.

I don't know if today's the day to

the end of the day was the day.

I mean, today it could be the Indianapolis Dales.

No, no.

Put that faith in your face.

What did you think about Commissioner Bettman before?

Intimidators.

Intimidators.

No, that's what I was going to say.

If we're going to do a team, listen, we've seen

the success of the Hurricanes down in Carolina.

Okay, why not go over to Cannapolis, North Carolina, birthplace of Dale Earnhardt Sr.

Are you kidding me?

That's where you want a hockey team?

Cannapolis.

God damn right.

Cannapolis, Carolina.

Cannapolis, North Carolina, the North Carolina Intimidators.

I love it personally.

Would it just be sunglasses on a hockey skates?

Yeah, I think or a helmet.

You know,

you got the hockey bucket with the Intimidator shades on it.

Skates, stick.

Yeah, black and red.

I mean, you know,

sorry, Hurricanes.

I know you already got that color scheme, that paint scheme, if you will.

What city is this again?

Kinnapolis, North Carolina.

A lot of great things

in Kinnapolis.

Well, the greatest thing, the Intimidator was born there.

Now, he obviously moved around a bit.

He, you know, spent his time in the Carolinas.

I thought, you know, Commissioner Bettman was pretty good.

I did want to let him know, though, that I don't think it's fair that as a, you know, Vegas Golden Knights Super fan,

I should be jacked up.

I should be pumped up.

They just landed Mitch Martin, who was arguably the crown jewel of street agency, period.

Well, that's what everybody's saying.

So instead of being jacked up, I'm fucking red-assed because now they're talking about collusion and allegations of tampering.

What?

It's like, hey, listen, just because Bill Foley is willing to spend a little bit more money than some of these cheapskates, maybe up in Toronto, I mean, it really does.

It kind of reminds me, you know, back in the early 80s when,

hey, listen, Childress Racing, they decided to spend a little bit more money to get Dale Sr.

in there, okay?

Sure, there are a couple other teams who, you know, maybe could have gotten in.

Was there collusion there?

Was there a little bit of tampering there?

Maybe I don't think we should be penalizing these team owners who are willing to spend a little bit more cash in order to, you know, chase a title.

I just, I think it's,

like I said, it's got me red ass.

You were going to try to get to the bottom of it there with the commission?

Yeah, I just want to say, hey, listen.

Gare, maybe nut up and just say, you know what, Bill, you're good.

You spend a little bit more money.

If Toronto wanted him, and you know what I'm seeing today, you know, they're whining because he's leaving, but then on the flip side, oh, you're going to love this guy.

He's a choker in the playoffs.

He sucks.

He's never won anything.

That's the type of guy Vegas likes.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Bring all the misfits down to Vegas.

And guess what?

Bill Foley will pay a little bit more for him.

No taxes either.

That's right.

It is Vegas.

I love Gary Bettman saying, I'm about sick of people talking about state income tax being the reason why people are doing things.

Now, is it helping?

Maybe, but there's a lot of talent happening.

A lot of the florida panthers players taking a little bit less money than they probably could uh elsewhere to stay down in florida and you got to think it's not just the tax it's also probably the opportunity to ride around golf carts everybody's different homes

we're all getting along wife's house pretty cool they're actually on vacation all day every day whenever they want to be and then they go to work and work their asses off and then they hop in a pool and have a strawberry margarita or something

with the boys don't sound too bad pina colada the south florida thing is really interesting really really why isn't your football team better Well, there's a lot of distractions, I think, for the football team.

A little different.

Certainly.

Daytona's close.

What's a little different?

Well, you know what?

Speaking of somebody that was in Vegas, we got a tight end.

We were in the tight end market.

Darren Waller, a member of Miami Dolphins.

Pitts got better today.

We just picked that shit.

Congratulations to the Dolphins bringing in a player as opposed to sending players away from their team.

John E.

Smith ends up with the Pittsburgh Steelers yesterday in a trade that involved Jalen Ramsey, Minka Fitzpatrick, a fifth and a seventh round, I believe, swapped.

And now Darren Waller backplaying football for the Miami Dolphins.

I'll tell you what, the guy's mind as a lyricist, phenomenal.

When you talk about athlete, musician, rappers,

he's good.

He's very good.

And on a football field, when he was in Vegas, and I believe before that, but Gruden pulled him up off of the Baltimore Ravens practice squad.

John Gruden, whenever the Raiders were taking on the Baltimore Ravens, saw Darren Waller doing a workout pregame because he was on the practice squad and said, What is that?

I would like that.

Darren Waller then became Pro Bowler all-pro with the Raiders.

Obviously immensely athletic, incredibly talented.

We've seen his life off the field a lot.

We've seen, we know a lot about Darren Waller.

But if he can get, if McDaniel can get the most out of Darren Waller, I think that type of offense suits well for Darren personally.

Hell yeah.

Now,

is he all the way back to being a guy?

We shall see.

Gumpy, how do you feel about Darren Waller coming into town?

I mean, you trade a Pro Bowl tight end.

What do you do?

You get another Pro Bowl tight end, you know?

He doesn't see it.

Period.

That's what could be just.

What do you want me to do?

You know, people are saying, never seen a team with so much uncertainty going into a season.

We haven't won a playoff game in 24 years.

Has there ever been any certainty?

Maybe uncertainty is not a bad thing.

Yeah, maybe.

Who knows?

We don't know.

That's where we are.

We got a tight end.

We needed a tight end.

That's where we're at.

All right.

Let's pivot away from the NFL.

Congrats to Darren.

We're happy you're back in the league.

We hope you're happy, brother.

Whatever the case.

Legit.

Hope you're happy.

Enjoy your life.

He's an incredible football player if he's playing good football.

And that offense, with all the motions and shit, with how fast he can run, that feels like a good spot to land in.

And we'll see if they can connect.

Let's pivot it to the NBA.

A lot of money being given out.

We've talked about this a lot, but it needs to be reiterated.

The National Basketball Association has a team in it that has given one player $71.25 million

a year.

A year

in the world that we're in right now.

Joining us is a 13-year NBA vet, vet, friend of the program, ladies and gentlemen, Quentin Richardson.

Jill, obviously co-host of the Knuckleheads podcast, please shout out D.

Miles for us.

Whenever you see 71.25 million, you just do this to SGA.

You congratulate him.

How do basketball players view this type of breakthrough type contract happening?

Absolutely, man.

I mean, all of us are saluting this.

This is a monumental deal, the biggest deal in the history so far.

And

the other part of it is that, as I understand, he doesn't even have an agent.

So he gone ahead and paid a couple lawyers to do some, you know, a little help him with some contracts.

And he bring that all to the fam.

That's pretty dope right there, SGA.

I love that for SGA on a contract year to play the way he did and for his team to play the way they did.

Congrats to him on getting the bag.

Okay, let's talk about a couple of the other stories around free agency that has really caught your eyes.

What are some teams we should be looking at or situations that maybe we should spend a little time learning about?

Man, H-Town, Houston went crazy yesterday.

You know, I I mean, obviously, it started with getting KD, and, you know, they signed Stephen Adams a little earlier

in the offseason.

But, yeah, the moves they were able to make and to get KD without having to give up some of their, you know, their bigger pieces, like Shangoon, and then they go get Clint Capella and sign Van Vlee back.

And

then they steal Dorian Finney Smith from the Lakers.

Like, that was a shocking move to me.

I didn't foresee them being in a position to do that.

So I think they've gone all in this year and trying to position themselves to compete with OKC for the West and to try and get a chip.

Most craziest offseason ever has Kevin Durant moving from Phoenix to Houston and then Houston continuing to make plays.

They were the number two team in the West, I believe, this past season, also very young.

And they re-signed Emay to a massive deal down there.

Looks like the Houston Rockets are ready to cook down Houston lane of Vegas.

Congratulations to them.

You just mentioned Finney or Dorian Finney coming from the Lakers.

Let's talk about the Lakers a little bit.

Ty Schmidt, Ty Sr.

has a question for you.

Yeah, Q Rich, just curious.

I know the Lakers were pretty keen on bringing in Brooke Lopez.

He was kind of like the maybe, I don't know, the centerpiece

of their offseason.

Now we're here in Aiton, maybe.

Obviously, he's from the LA area, went to Stanford, leaves, and he's coming back home.

How much of a needle mover is he for the Clippers?

And do you think they did this kind of solely to maybe get one over on the Lakers?

And also, how much does this remind you of maybe like Dale Sr.

leaving Bud Moore Engineering and going back to Children's Racing like he did in the late 90s?

It does not remind me anything about Dale Sr.

and because I'm not into the NASCAR racing, but I do know who Dale Earnhardt is, but I have no recollection of

the moves you're talking about back and forth.

So I don't know about that, but on the basketball front,

I think the Clippers did that because it's a great move.

They got Brooke Lopez as a backup.

He's not, you know what I'm saying?

He's not going to be coming there to, uh, he's going to be backing up Zubach.

So I think he realizes that, you know, possibly he wanted to be back home.

And I think it's a bad look for the Lakers that, you know, Brooke Lopez chose a backup role to Zubach over a situation where he could possibly have been a starter for the Lakers.

And I think that says something.

Let's stay with the Lakers.

Debut has a question for you, Q.

Yeah, I want to know, number one, what does that say about the Lakers and their future, how they're going to moving forward?

And then obviously the biggest piece over there as far as name Brand, LeBron.

What do you see LeBron's future?

Do you think it's kind of much ado about nothing?

He'll be a Laker when this season comes, or do you think it's actually a possibility that he moves on?

I think LeBron is a Laker.

I think he wouldn't have opted in if he didn't want to be a Laker.

I think, you know what I'm saying, he had all of the power to opt out and then to be a free agent and to go where he wanted to go.

So

I think he'll be a Laker.

But as far as what it says about Brooke Lopez making that decision and Dorian Finney Smith leaving, I think it says that there's uncertainty about what's going to happen as far as Luca and what's happening in just the look and feel of the team because Zorian Finney Smith is a guy who was there for half a season.

So if he liked what he saw or unless the contract wasn't going to be matched or something like that, I wouldn't see him moving and leaving there.

But with him making that moves and just being there, I think it speaks to the uncertainty of the guys around the league and the guys around that team knowing what's actually going to happen there, whether it's with LeBron, Luca, or whatever.

I wonder how this team looks this year going in.

You know, Rich Paul's quote to Sean Sharanya, very interesting.

Hey, we're just monitoring this thing.

He only has a few years left.

We'll see a couple years left.

We'd like to be for championships.

With Luca, I automatically assume you'd at least have a chance at a championship each year.

I guess we'll have to monitor the situation in Los Angeles from LA to the East Coast.

Let's go to New York, Connor.

Yeah, Q Rich, New York Knicks still looking for a coach.

Mike Brown's getting a second interview.

And then the reports were that they reached out to Dawn Staley about their head coaching position.

A lot of jokes were flying, but it feels as though though the NBA is nearing their first ever female head coach.

How do you think that would work?

Obviously, we, you know, Becky Hammond in the Spurs.

I know the Pacers have an assistant coach, but how do you think a head coach that is a woman would work in the NBA?

And do you think we're kind of probably, what, a few years out from that?

Or do you think that could be any time now?

Yeah, I don't know how far we are out from that, but I think it could work.

Like I said, I played for Coach Nancy Lieberman in the big three.

And

from being a player, being in locker rooms, I know that players respect

the coaches that put in the work, the coaches that are prepared, the coaches that are doing what they need to do to have us as prepared as we are.

And we as players,

we know the difference.

You can't really, you can't cheat it.

We see the difference in the game plan and the things that go into it.

So, I mean, my experience with Nancy Lieberman, man, and I had all pros on my team, Big Baby Davis, Katino Mobley, Corey Magetty.

We were all former NBA players, and we all felt the same exact way about her.

She was as prepared and as intense and as about winning as any coach we had ever played for.

We would have a game on a Saturday or Sunday, and before we even get on the plane to go out of town, she's texting us the game plan for next week and talking about different things.

And the big three was big difference from the NBA.

We weren't with each other as much, so she had to do a lot of that remote, away from us, and she would call and FaceTime.

And to me, if you're going to put in the work to be able to do it, I think the guys will give respect.

I mean, come on, man.

At the end of the day, I don't care who you are.

You had a mother, you got a sister, you got you know, grandmothers and stuff like that.

So, we as men supposed to respect women, and I don't think it would be that big a deal.

I think you've seen females and women start to integrate into the different sports.

It's a lot of assistance across all of us different sports and doing different things and earning great respect.

And I think it's just a matter of time before it happens.

Watching Coach Jenny with the Pacers was awesome this playoff run because I was sitting in that seat that was like on the bench.

She was fucking getting after.

after it.

I mean, it was

true.

I mean, people think that they don't, they are as intense and as dialed in.

Like Nancy was like, that was the first message to us.

Like, hey, this, we're not here to play.

We coming to win.

We want to win this whole thing.

Like, that was the first and the continuing message throughout.

So I think that, you know, people don't understand

that these women, once they get into these athletic situations,

they become dogs.

and all of those

things that we do.

They get into it and they get wrapped up into it and they all in.

And the boys responded, too.

I was watching that, too, because obviously you got to watch how the boys respond to everything that's going on.

Not just Jenny, but Rick Carlisle, all the assistants.

And it's like the boys are bought in, obviously.

Excited to see that.

Now we only have about a minute before a hard out.

Damian Lillard gets waived.

He's going to make $22 million for the next five years, allegedly, via reports.

God bless him.

Obviously, Miles ends up.

Yeah, God bless him for that for sure.

He's coming off in Achilles.

He's going to miss next year.

What is our immediate thought?

What should our immediate thought here be in 30 seconds or less?

I'm excited for him, man.

I mean, not the best situation, but he's still going to get his big-time money while he gets to sit down and rehab.

But he gets to look at the landscape.

After this year, he'll be a complete free agent.

He doesn't have to talk.

He gets to go and choose where he wants to go.

So he gets to sit back, get healthy, and see what the landscape looks like and where he fits in best.

He's got that Benilla deal, too, coming.

Congrats to Bobby Benilla, by the way.

Absolutely.

Another payment of a million dollars in 2020.

What a plan.

What a deal.

Hey, that is the biggest.

That's That's the heat of GOAT right there.

Unless you can get $71.25 million a year, you go ahead and get the Bonia one.

Ladies and gentlemen, Coin Richardson, thank you.

Thank you, Q.

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Sports are happening all the time.

You just kind of have to look for it.

Like, for instance, tonight there will be a baseball game on somewhere if you want to find it.

Hopefully the Savannah Bananas will have a game soon as well.

The WMBA is happening, obviously.

Great competition every single evening, and mostly storylines in abundance from all of the sports.

For instance, in the NHL, we just talked to the commissioner, Gary Bettman.

He said that a new CBA is about to be reached between the NHL and the NHLPA a year early.

Congratulations.

Things are going swimmingly in the NHL with ratings going up and to the right in a potential dynasty down in South Florida brewing and maybe an expansion team.

In the NFL, well, there's massive trades taking place in the middle of nowhere, out of the middle of nowhere.

We got two stars traveling from Miami Miami up to Pittsburgh.

One star traveling from Pittsburgh down to Miami.

We still got some contracts looming.

New storylines developing.

TJ Watts deal now is going to be talked about.

Trey Hendrickson, Shamar Stewart.

There's some free agents.

I mean, NFL is always going to deliver storylines in drama and in the NBA.

They're handing out so much money.

To so many dudes.

Congratulations to all the NBA players that sign new deals or extensions.

Even the guys that are signing like six and a half billion dollar a year deals.

Congratulations!

Yeah, great money.

That is game-changing money.

And you talk about $71.25 million a year going to SGA.

He's living in Oklahoma.

Think about that.

Could you imagine how many barn dominiums he could have out there?

Oh, that's $700.

Now, granted, you don't want to have that in Oklahoma.

I don't think you want to have barn dominiums out there in Oklahoma.

I think you want to have a good base from what I've heard out there.

But $71.25 million a year in Oklahoma.

You've earned it.

No agent.

You've earned it.

Probably the first title.

Nine-year NFL vet Darius J.

Butler makes a great point.

SGA has obviously helped out the city of Oklahoma City, and I assume they feel the same way towards him.

Well earned.

Congrats.

He's not the only guy that got paid, but certainly more than anybody I've ever seen in my life.

I don't know what Lou Messi's entire deal is with the MLS because I think they had a revenue share with Apple and downloads and everything.

So who knows what that is?

I know Saudi Arabia has been paying some soccer players like $250 million, $300 million a year, $450 million a year, allegedly.

I don't know what's being actually reported and what is actual reality of this entire thing, but $71.25 million a year for one of our main leagues is outrageous.

And congrats to him.

The money's only going up because sports are the greatest thing on earth.

Let's go to the talks at the table at Boston Connor and at Ty Senior.

Good first hour, Ty.

Thank you very much.

Yeah, I mean, it's a great day to be alive.

Shit, you know, you're looking at all these influences.

And it's a great

day to be alive.

No, the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

It's a harder time in the neighborhood.

We might get a strike because that sounds exactly like Travis Trick.

Didn't hear D-Butts singing?

I'm not familiar with that one.

You're not a Travis Trick guy.

I'm not.

And here's something great.

Day to be alive.

I'll look up the song.

I'll do my research.

I'll get back to you.

How about the devil taking out Johnny?

Hey, I did my research on that, but the devil never had a chance.

Johnny's fiddle boy is just so damn good.

The devil had no shot, but but he was in a bind.

He was way behind.

He was looking for a soul to steal.

What was the name of the benny?

Charlie Daniels.

Charlie Daniels banged.

That's right.

No need to do too much research.

Yeah, don't go to...

We don't need to know.

It's just right there.

We just need to enjoy what's going on.

Don't ruin it.

It's great for police.

I like that, too.

All right.

Banger.

Tevin Travis.

I mean, the devil was looking for a soul to steal, and he was in the bind.

He was way behind.

He always made a deal.

He is always looking around.

But this particular time, he went down to Georgia, and then Johnny said, get the hell out of town, bud.

Because he banged.

liked that he told him, Come back.

When everybody, whoever you think you got another shot, come back.

Yeah, and you know, the devil said, You got to give me his due.

But Johnny said, I don't.

Fuck you.

And he did a little dance, and that fiddle of gold was something that he made a lot of money off of going forward.

So Johnny really won in the end, just like SGA.

Now, one half of the hammer.

Cowboys AP Tony's here.

You look awesome.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

Cool shirt.

Thank you.

Where'd you get that?

Did you know we had that shirt?

No, where'd you get that?

I believe we got this in one of those packages that came with

dance and stuff one time.

I found this the other day.

People send us stuff and they say, Hey, if we were to do your merch, this would be possible.

And we always say, Yeah, we should do that.

And then the follow-up process is just so much.

That shirt came in one of those boxes.

Yeah, it's a sick shirt.

I found it the other day.

It's like my second time wearing it.

Shout out to whoever made that.

I'd recommend that.

And we would like to do business.

Keep sending.

Keep sending.

You forgot a sport where the saltiest of ball is playing, okay?

The Pittsburgh Pirates have done something that hasn't been done since 1925.

They've won four straight games by seven or more runs.

You better watch out for the hottest team in Major League Baseball because guess what?

Today, they're going for five, and it's Skeens Day, brother.

So look out for the Buckos.

They're on a roll.

Shout out to Between the Numbs, Greg Harvey.

Teams in Major League Baseball history to win four straight games by seven plus runs, as Tone was alluding to, while allowing two or fewer runs.

So the bats are working and the pitching's working.

That's what that is basically at the most efficient level.

Pirates, Pirates, and the White Stockings.

And everybody knows that White Stockings team?

They had bigger bats back then.

They were using bigger bats.

That's what people wondered, but you could get away with it.

And White Stockings did that.

They were hitting the shit out of it in their pitchers.

They were juicing before anybody else.

What city?

I don't know.

That has not been proven, but there's a chance that the White Stockings were juicing.

They did have bigger bats.

It was 1882.

Couldn't keep track of it.

What I'm saying is what the Pirates are playing like right now is out of this world.

Okay, and people need to remember that at one point, this particular program was calling the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates the worst owner in history of sports.

There was people coming on this show saying, the owner's wasted Paul Skeens and his pitching staff.

That's actually pretty good because they didn't bring anybody in that has any bats.

Well, now the bats have come alive.

I wonder if ownership has come out and said, I had belief in our team.

You did not have belief in our team.

Now, he could certainly spend a little bit more money to make this team better.

I agree with that.

He is still an ass owner.

I think we would all agree with that.

But with that being said, there is some vindication for him, I assume, saying we do have the bats and we're doing it right now.

We beat the shit out of the Mets.

You think that owner is looking at what Cohen's doing at the Mets?

Thinking to himself, at all, I need to be doing that after what he's seen.

No way.

No way.

I think it's a major league situation, though, where they hate the owner, and they've got a cardboard cutout of him in

the locker room.

And every time they get a win, they're just ripping off of a piece of clothing.

Bob Nutton sitting there in a G-String at at the end of the season and we got the pennant i see the reds there in fourth in the nl central joining us now is a man who's a college football national champion a super bowl champion oh

who's below the reds uh well we're climbing uh only 11 games out of the wild cards ladies and gentlemen aj hawker

i don't know if you saw where the buckos were right there below the cincinnati reds don't know how that's possible because i saw kirk herbstreet put out his annual tweet about i can't do it with this red i'll still watch but i can't do it saying they're playing bad ball.

Lo and behold,

they're eight games ahead of the parts.

So

maybe he maybe

parts are above 500 since Don Kelly took over.

It's really just

that matters.

It does.

I would just let you know

if they win the next 14, Tone, then you guys can get to 500 and then you reset and then it's another new season then, right?

Is that what you're saying?

Well, baseball every season is a month.

You know, every season.

Well, they've had a great June.

They've had a good July.

Well, this thing doesn't end until goddamn October, so we hope we can continue this thing.

There's a lot.

So you can't be doing that.

No.

Can't be bobbing the ball, but I caught it.

Does that count?

Oh, yeah.

As long as I keep it off the ground.

Yeah, correct.

Ball comes flying.

Boom.

I bobble it.

Boom.

This hand.

Happened in the game.

You got it.

Savannah bananas.

Boom.

Bang.

Yep.

That's an out.

Yep.

Happened in a game where it went, hit the guy's glove in right field.

Center fielder's running over.

Goes from the right fielder's glove out.

Center fielder catches it.

See you later.

Tag team back again.

That's what they're saying out there?

That was like last week or something.

It was incredible.

Okay, sweet.

Baseball's happening, AJ.

Obviously, we're all watching every single evening.

There is a little bit of positive momentum, I will say.

We'll certainly circle back to it, put a pin in it.

All the high corporate terms, whenever a bunch of suits are involved, from a, you know, we all got ways to say things without saying things.

That's kind of their world.

Zoom call, drop some of those.

New Zoom call, we can reuse first Zoom call shit because it's a new audience.

We'll circle back, put a pin in it.

in from a high level.

That seems like a good idea.

We got good momentum on this side.

You know, bang, we jump into a new zoom.

We'll just talk about the good momentum we had in this thing.

You know, that's day.

Bang, bam, da, bam, da, da.

Anywhere, in one of those, momentum came.

There's a chance we're going to home run Derby.

Oh, what?

Oh, shit.

Pretty pumped up about that.

Can you imagine Big Dumper hits 65 home runs in round one?

On that note, Big Dumper last night hits a dinger, obviously.

And I wonder, and granted, he's so locked in and focused on everything.

This is one of those where he hit it, probably thought it was out.

Could you imagine if that ends up short just the same day where I bring up like, hey, if you thought you hit one and then that thing goes short, I immediately think, oh no, we're bad luck.

This is just like when LeBron came on and did the LeBron versation and he had two points in the first half.

And they're like, this is the worst game that he's ever played.

It's like, oh, no.

Then he gets a game winner.

Sucks for the pacers.

Great for the program that we're not the jinx.

Cal hitting a bomb with the big dump chance, obviously happening at the same time.

Feels like we we didn't jinx the big dumper no and that's great news that that just takes us off uh of any of those types of things and we move forward it was actually at the opposite yeah uh jinxing the big dumper because he had not hit a homer in about six games in a row and he comes on the show hits a homer you know and everyone's talking about hey his name his name's being mentioned with you know barry bonds babe ruth ken griffe jr you know of that ilk so uh yeah i'd say dumper's doing just fine well yeah i mean different sport but you could obviously throw in senior in there as well i mean i i'd i'd love to see dumper behind the wheel of a nascar i'd love to see senior in the box yeah me too he's probably taking him one off the head right he he's certainly crowded in the plate oh yeah junior's on top of the plate

senior you're right my mistake junior two junior two

you know it runs in the blood but yeah senior's on top of the plate and you know what he's doing he's almost baiting the pitcher hey hit me and then guess what i'm gonna do i'm gonna charge them out and i'm gonna beat your fucking ass aj i think that's where you're headed there and obviously you made a massive shot for dale earnhurt when we were at jmu uh one of the greatest moments in this show's history we had a moment of silence 4-3 then we came back aj shot a three made it place goes crazy i mean it was a wonderful thing have you been witnessing ty senior here today did not expect this did not know this kind of a nice little treat for a tuesday i will say aj Yeah, an absolute treat.

And every time he pops back up, especially on the one-shot, when you see Ty Senior just, I don't, I mean, I feel like I'm watching Dale Sr.

I feel like this is Dale Sr.

reincarnated, so I'm guessing Dale Jr.

and the rest of the family really enjoyed it today.

Yeah, and this is not me.

I mean,

I saw that at the break, and I almost said, hey, listen, The Bone, just because you're a fat sack of lard doesn't mean you've got to do it.

I said the same thing back here, Ty Senior.

Thank you very much, Gumps.

You don't have to give me eight necks, okay?

He said, guess what?

That was crock.

I mean, you know what?

I don't give a shit about me, okay?

That is a disservice to senior, okay?

Because if you put some fat schlub with eight necks right next to senior, what do you think he's gonna think when he's looking at?

So maybe we could take another one where I could actually lift my daggum head up and I don't have a bunch of fucking necks and I'm sick and tired of these shit.

Senior's eight feet tall, too.

Yeah, well, did I say NASCAR tweeted this out too?

I think I did.

I don't know if I could have a picture, but I know NASCAR did.

Sorry, let me assume the position again.

Uh-oh, I see it.

Yeah, just poke your tin forward.

There it is.

You got something else coming today, Bone.

I'll tell you that.

He's been fired up all day.

And you know what?

I haven't said a thing because usually, you know, I'll rough his feathers a bit.

I'll go in there and say, Jesus, Bones, the eighth bag of chips you've had today.

It's 10-15.

Slow down a bit.

I haven't said any of that stuff lately because I've been, you know, he's a good kid.

He's a good boy.

And I just try not to ruffle his feathers.

Boy, I tell you what, I'm going to be be counting his calories the rest of the week.

Someone better.

Yeah.

Oh, he actually just

texted and said, long time coming, bro.

Oh, my.

Touche.

Fair amount of jokes.

All right.

That's amazing.

That's because a four-part documentary on Amazon.

That's why we got this today.

I need to watch that.

Yeah, you do.

Thank you for your service to sports.

Dale Earnhardt Sr.

Hell yeah.

I think it's, I have not seen the documentary, but I feel like I've learned about it enough.

A person has completely transformed who he is and do it.

Job well done honoring a great American icon here on 4th of July week, obviously.

Let's hit some.

No, we should do this.

Yeah.

AJ, do you have a thought on 71.25 million bucks a year for SGA?

Yeah, when is the first 100 million a year guy going to break into the league is my question after that.

Will it be NBA first or will the NFL sign a new CBA?

NBA possibly quarterback but yeah probably NBA and the crazy thing is NBA guaranteed you know we see Dame Lillard waived still getting your cash 22 million for the next five years for him

the Bobby Benilla deal obviously everybody talks about this day of the year because it's like 1.3 million or something until 2035 beautifully executed good for him uh to pull that off he you mentioned a 75 million dollar a year deal that's around the corner i guess who's that yeah devin booker so the the highest paid player will almost always be from a player that was drafted by that team.

They're always able to get a little bit more.

But Devin Booker, he'll be eligible, I believe,

July 6th to get that two-year, $150 million extension.

I think it'll be 72 in the first year and then 78 in the second year.

Okay, so that's roughly 75 million a year.

So they're already at 75 million a year.

Right now, quarterbacks are at 60 million a year, right?

That's where the top quarterback is.

So will the new CBA?

For the NFL get to a point where quarterbacks are in tears for the Supermax.

Like quarterbacks are taken out.

They're kind of over here.

Then the rest of the team has their own ship because the way the NBA works, you draft a person, you can put the Super Max on them without them ever hitting the market, right?

Yeah, when they make, especially they make, is it all NBA teams and things like that?

Escalators.

Yeah, so we would assume that the NFL could potentially roll out a quarterback tiering system that you could put onto a quarterback if they're going to become a free agent without having to give them 35% of the salary cap or whatever it is now and everything else having to happen.

I think everybody's kind of on board with the quarterback matters.

Quarterback needs to get paid the most, but also their contracts are clearly a direct

impactor of the rest of the roster.

We all understand that.

So I wonder if there will be a conversation about that in the NFL.

And would that lead to bigger deals for quarterbacks?

Or would that lead?

I wonder, you know?

Yeah, would they put a cap?

I mean, I don't know.

Is there a way you could cap the total that a quarterback could average?

I don't know.

I don't know what they're planning, but yeah, you got to pay them.

You got to have them.

It's a great problem to have for NFL teams.

Yeah, because I think they could probably have like a super max tier because they're already tender guys, like first round tender, second round tender.

You could probably have like a super max type thing for a quarterback, a second max if it's a second level, and then you just have to decide that.

And then I guess they could probably go to the market and say, hey, we're getting a second offer.

Will you give us a super offer?

Like that would be a way to get them away from the salary cap.

But they had that in the past.

It was called the Quarterbacks Club.

It was like Jim Kelly, John Elway.

I think Marino was a part of it.

Aikman Favre.

Aikman Favre.

They were doing their own licensing deals.

They had their own everything.

People were not about that.

I think there was a lot of people that were upset about them kind of going to business for themselves.

But now we're at the point where it's like, hey, we...

They kind of are, though.

They're their own separate thing and not in a bad way, in a good way.

Like, but yeah, when they're that elite and there's a handful of them on the planet that can do that job, like it's true, like they should probably be in their own category.

Yeah, like the basketball super max thing, I think that.

I think that makes it easier for teams and for players.

Like, hey, you're here.

We value you.

This is what the contract is.

It's a super max.

We're giving you as much as we can possibly give you.

This is how it works.

So there isn't any beef or tension there.

Now, if you were to give the second max, then there would be, and then you could see it.

But the NFL needs their form of that for the quarterbacks, I think, personally.

Yeah, and the NBA, I think, in two years is going up a decent amount.

I think 2026, the salary cap goes to like 180 or something.

So, but by the time like Cooper Flagg is getting his super max, you would think that if he does hit those escalators, that he might be 100 million a year.

You wonder with the NFL, too.

You know, we talked about the quarterback contracts and like the Steelers situation, for instance, where they're not paying a quarterback quarterback money, but now they have to think about paying, you know, a pass rusher quarterback money.

And then you think about like the Bengals with Jamar Chase paying him like quarterback money, if you will.

Like, do you think you've brought up the percentages before about how a team could allocate a percentage of a salary cap towards a player?

Do you think they'll have to to do that for other positions too?

Because the money for those other positions is getting so massive.

That's crazy.

Maybe that's just a part of like the max, like, you know, like maybe they just have a new tiering system for what contracts are and those obviously all scale and change with the league with whatever it is.

I assume it would be a certain percentage of the salary cap, but it just, the way these quarterback deals,

I mean, especially if it goes up to 65, 70 million.

Yeah, it will.

And now in basketball, obviously five guys on a court.

Now, I know you need 13 guys, 12 guys to win.

I I know you need that, but I'm saying five.

For football, it's 24 people, 25 people on the field.

11 offense, 11 defense, three specialists.

You know, like that is 25 different people that need to get money, let alone the other, what, 28 people on the roster that need to get paid.

So it's not as easy as, I don't want to say it's easy, but you get it.

Yeah.

It's not the same because there's so many more people.

But it's like, I do wonder when the tiering system starts to come to the NFL.

Do you think that they would consider like getting rid of the voided years and things of that nature because it is such a weapon for those massive deals?

Like the NHL just did the, or not just did, but allegedly in the next CBA, the NHL is doing, you know, you can only do six-year deals for free agents and seven-year deals for traded guys when it comes to extended contracts.

Like, do you think that could be something that might help change?

the money allocation at least so you can't just you know pay everybody a ton of money and then you know two years into some of those deals, they're out of them.

Well, allegedly, hockey is

trying to crack down on the teams utilizing long-term IR where they pay people and then they don't play, then they're able to bring them back for the playoffs because they go against a salary cap.

Their new CBA, they're trying to eliminate the gamesmanship, seemingly, from what it seems like.

So, let's assume that other leagues will do the same.

Like the salary cap gymnastics that's happening right now, in Mike Greenberg was on GitUp

for 15 seconds, 35 seconds or whatever.

He's like one of the greatest salary cap gymnasts in the history.

Him, Veech, over in Kansas City.

I think there's obviously Bean is in the middle of doing some of it.

Mickey Loomis in New Orleans has been doing salary for a long time.

And it's like, has it worked out?

I don't know.

That guy loves chewing gum into microphones.

We shouldn't judge him for that and only that.

But it's like, that's a talent, I think.

I do wonder if the other teams that don't have that as well will try to crack down.

Who knows?

Okay, let's pivot away from sports for a second and let's go to a game show.

Let's go to a game show that's about killing somebody.

Yep.

Whoa, I don't like that.

Yes, you do.

I do.

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Speaking of premiering, we were told we were going to have have the exclusive drop on the trailer that you just watched right there.

They dropped it at 9 a.m.

this morning, which is very nice of them to do that.

But we did have a chance to catch up with that handsome legend one week ago.

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Yay, Glenn.

Give him a shout out for the horns.

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Well, listen.

Archie Manning's under at the hill.

I mean, there is a lot of reasons for me to be a massive Texas Longhorns fan.

But also, you know, that's all business.

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You're awesome, dude.

It feels like any role you can play, you know, because you're this potential heartthrob rom-com character all the time, legitimately.

You could be casted in that for a thousand of them forever and make, look i mean just look how handsome you are it's unbelievable it's unbelievable and uh

stop this well i don't know if you can you wake up and see that face i don't know how you do it i i don't know how you remain as humble as you are okay just forget about that take the compliments and then let's move forward then obviously top gun maverick is a different animal then twister different animal then this it's going to be a completely different it's like how much fun was it to do the running man and uh how do you mentally and physically get ready for all these different types of roles if that is a question that thespians are supposed to be asked?

I mean,

this is one that was really, really fun because like, you know, when you obviously sign on to something called the running man, you got to learn how to be a runner, you know, and running on screen is its own complexity.

You know, you and I are both friends with the greatest on-screen runner of all time

who gave me some pointers, you know, I mean, drive with the knees, you know,

but, you know, one of the things that

I really, you know, got to do on this one is really learned how to be out in front of an action movie and like be bulletproof.

So getting like in shape and for all the hits, you know, when you see this movie, I'm taking every hit in the book.

It is a, it is, I went through it on this one and it's awesome.

I mean, the movie just kicks ass all the way through.

Yeah, the trailer is insane.

We were very lucky to see it like a week or two ago.

Then obviously there, I think there were some final changes before the edit that just ran.

It is electrifying.

I mean, I cannot wait to watch.

And this is like the ascent continues for you,

for you as an actor, for you as a person.

Like, how do you view all these jobs?

I think there was a firefighter movie that just got added in to the repertoire.

Like, how do you feel about all these different jobs?

Do you feel like you're in the middle of quite a run right now?

This is what you've dreamt of?

Or do you just view it like

go ahead?

You know, it's like, it's like the only, you know, I love movies so much.

I've loved them ever since I was a kid.

You know, growing up in Austin, it's like I've been doing this since I was like 10 years old and it's finally kind of now just getting traction.

And so, yeah, I'm getting to play play all these roles that I've always wanted to do.

And I'm getting to work with like dream directors like Edgar Wright.

You know, Edgar has been one of my favorite directors for a really, really long time.

You know, ever since I saw Shaun of the Dead or like Hot Fuzz.

I mean, this guy, this guy is one of the great directors of all time.

And this is like his sweet spot.

He is throwing fastballs in this movie and just crushing it.

So I'm just like.

I really, I really think this movie is just designed for the theaters and people are just going to be, they're going to walk out of the theater ready to run.

The first iteration of this movie was done with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

And I hope my knees get the message that you just said after watching the movie ready to run because my knees say, don't run, don't run every time I start to run.

But after watching you, I assume I'll get back out there and, you know, run for my life, which is what you were doing in this particular movie.

Arnold Schwarzenegger obviously did the first iteration of the Stephen King

novel as the had did you talk to him beforehand?

I believe there was like a blessing from Arnold to you to do the movie.

And he actually said back then with the budget limitations versus what's possible now technology wise, he was like excited to watch you.

He said that publicly.

I don't know privately if there was any convos.

And do you talk to any other action stars before you do an action movie?

Yeah, you know, I think like, look, with Arnold, what was really fun is we did Expendables 3 together when I was,

you know, mid-20s, something like that out in Bulgaria, which is we shot a little bit of running man back at the scene of the crime of expendables, which was kind of full circle.

But yeah, Arnold gave us this full blessing.

And I mean, that's the the really fun part about it is he said, look, I mean, the original Stephen King book is awesome.

But, you know, he was like, they kind of took creative liberties and didn't really stick too close to the book.

And he's like, you guys could do this way better than what we did.

So he said that publicly and has given his full blessing in this movie.

And there's a bunch of Arnold Easter eggs in our movie, too.

So he's given his blessing.

And there's a, yeah, if you're a fan of the Arnold, you'll see some of it in our movie.

That's awesome.

You're just going to be running towards a helicopter every time.

Okay, I like that.

Chopper, Chopper, chopper, chopper, chopper.

Ty has a question for you, Glenn.

Glenn, when it comes to a movie like this, and obviously you've been in like Top Gun, you've been in some of those like really top-line movies, but when it comes to doing a remake that a lot of people love, is there any like anxiety or,

I don't know, like

a need to really fulfill what audiences want?

Because you know, when this comes out, there's going to be obviously people that love it, but if it doesn't go at, you know, like

it could, I guess, people are going to say, oh, you know, like this should have never been remade.

Like, this is a pile of shit.

I mean, and I don't think that's the case, obviously, with you and Edgar Wright.

But is there a sense of, like, oh man, I really need to nail this so that that whole conversation doesn't get started?

Yeah, at the end of the day, I mean, I learned a lot of that when I was making Top Gun.

You know, you learn that there's like a reverence when you're whenever you're taking sort of something that means a lot to people, you have to figure out a way to improve upon it, you know, update it to modern sensibilities, and always try to beat your time, so to speak.

And Edgar's like the perfect director for this.

I really feel like, again,

we had the best team around this thing to really make this thing pop.

So,

I mean,

I'm not just saying this, like we really, we really deliver on this one.

So I'm not worried about those sort of reactions.

I feel very confident that audiences are going to walk away happy, even the loyalists.

Glenn, I've only known you for a few years.

Anything you do.

Yeah, gold, you do well.

Yeah.

So we are a believer that if Glenn likes likes the script, it's going to be good.

If Glenn's in it, it's going to be good.

I think that is a massive compliment to you from all of us that don't know as much about the movies.

But obviously, you talked about Top Gun there, huge.

And you talked about running on screen, huge influence in our life.

Yeah.

I couldn't even imagine yours.

Connor has a question.

Yeah, hey, man.

We talked to TC, the GOAT, and he kind of dove into his preparation, his acting process when getting ready for a role.

Was there anything you picked up from TC, you know, that you've carried along with you over these past few years when getting ready for movies and preparing for specific roles?

You know, I think the thing that I didn't really anticipate is when you take a hit on screen, you're actually absorbing that hit, right?

You may not actually be getting hit in the face, but if you're falling over a table, you're falling over a table.

If you're falling off a rooftop and hitting the side of a building, that's exactly what's happening.

If you're jumping off a bridge and the thing's exploding, like it's happening.

so so there's there's a level of of beating that you're taking in this movie that i think you know we all kind of look at it when you watch a movie you're like oh like you know it's the movies and then when you're actually doing it you're like this shit hurts and and so so i think the one thing that cruise really prepared me for was really just making sure that

I was as bulletproof going into that fire as possible.

And I really, really appreciate it because I needed it.

Yeah, I understand we're going to the next scene when we're watching a movie.

And yeah, I just went through a wall.

Yeah.

Look at that.

The running man goes through a wall.

Wow, let's go to the next scene.

Yeah, I actually went through that wall right there.

Like,

let's have a moment from when I hit the wall.

And

that's what you're saying?

Any injuries?

Any injuries?

Well, you look, you definitely get some, you know, cuts and nicks along the way, but nothing we can't handle.

Just a little soreness.

Not a little soreness, but I assume that did take a little bit to get used to.

I can't wait to see how shredded.

oh my god you remember him uh where were we at we were down at the cotton bowl i believe uh-huh yeah yeah

he had the uh the beater on yeah i did my patent black tank and we were all in

and we were all in uh flight service yeah yeah

yeah but you were absolutely so josh sun glistening i mean it was like a thousand degrees masculinity so much masculine i mean you were just so jacked out there i couldn't even imagine for running mate oh God.

He's going to be just shredded.

Like Arnold.

It's going to be gross.

That's going to be a little Easter egg.

That's one of the Easter eggs.

Yeah, the Easter egg is a huge.

I spoil Arnold's, Arnold's biceps for this movie.

Oh, I can't wait to see that.

See that?

Oh, God.

Somehow, Glenn Powell only gets better.

Toen has a question for you, Glenn.

Yeah, Glenn, first and foremost, if you can feel it.

Chase it.

Hell yeah.

Needed that.

Holy shit.

That's a big moment.

Yeah, that's a big moment for him, Glenn.

That's a big moment.

Oh, boy.

You have no idea.

I needed that.

I'm going to need five minutes after this is over, too.

See you boys later.

It feels like Maverick made you want to chase something.

I was watching the Blue Angels dock that you produced on Amazon, which was awesome.

It feels like you're chasing that cockpit again.

So that's really kind of the big question moving forward because I know Top Code 3 rumors are out there.

When are we getting back in the cockpit?

You know, that's up to TC.

I mean,

he probably gave you guys more information than I have, but we're definitely moving towards another trip to Miramar pretty soon.

So I'm not exactly sure where that'll land me, but

I'm very excited to get back in the Jets.

All right.

So by the time the movie comes out, November 7th, I believe, 2025, what will we be saying about the Texas Longhorns then?

Well, that'll be post-OU.

That'll be post-Ohio State.

We're going to be moving.

That'll be around some really, really big games.

So I'm feeling pretty good, guys.

I'm feeling confident.

Just ran into Sark.

We got a hell of a squad.

Our recruiting keeps getting stronger and stronger.

So as long as I can get Pat's longhorns high and strong,

don't you do it.

Don't you do it.

Not going to do it.

Well, hopefully we cross paths to some Longhorn games this fall.

That's what I'm hoping.

Yeah, your life.

How are you scheduling long-term life?

We saw you had eight.

At the time of this conversation, you had eight things in the works.

I think you're even writing a movie alongside Judd.

I think there's, you got a lot of things happening.

And this is obviously, we talked about at the beginning, the dream, but I know all these projects take like a lot of time.

And then travel.

And I think, I think you were living in Europe for a bit.

Who knows?

I don't know where you are now.

It's like, how do you project what the future looks like?

And are you just fully committed to the business?

I feel like,

you know, Clooney, whenever he was on his run, disappeared, gone.

Leo, when he's gone.

TC, gone.

Just like out of sight out of mind basically out of life i think because you're working is it becoming like that for you or are you still trying to remain a human every once in a while oh man well the best part is like i have my friends i'm in glasgow scotland i just had some friends come and visit me here i you know i'm going back to london i got a lot of friends shooting in london i got my family coming out and meeting me there so even though i can't be back home in austin texas right now i can i can have a lot of my friends here so it always feels like there's home around so i'm not i'm not isolated i'm not getting a chance to lose my sense of life and adventure.

I take fun weekend trips and stuff like that.

So we still have a good time.

Like, like, we just went to Bordeaux the other weekend and rented some race cars and just hauled ass through the French countryside.

So I'm still living life.

I'm still happy.

Oh, life's pretty good.

Life's pretty good.

Yeah, we rented some race cars, one through the Bordeaux country.

I didn't even know that was an option.

Sweet.

Happy to hear that.

And my favorite part is Chad Powers comes out this fall.

And so I get to build my entire press schedule around Chad.

I get to just live up Texas Longhorn games as part of

introducing the show to everyone.

So I'm like, I'm feeling it.

Isn't it amazing?

Isn't it amazing that

Glenn signs up for a gig character that they're trying to make him look like an asshole?

Yeah.

You know, a big nose with terrible hair.

Somehow.

It's going to be a sex symbol.

Oh, yeah.

Somehow.

I have no idea how.

Can't wait to watch.

Can't wait to see you promote that movie.

Can't wait to see how much the Running man's beloved.

All your other projects are going to be smash hits.

And we're incredibly pumped and happy for you, man.

Sports guy doing great things in the movies.

We appreciate the hell out of you.

No, I appreciate you guys.

Thank you guys so much.

Obviously, big fan of everything you guys do.

And yeah, hope to see you guys a bunch this fall.

Do it.

Keep them up, baby.

Keep them up.

Don't you dare.

You're the man, ladies and gentlemen, future goat.

Incredibly handsome.

Yeah, Very handsome.

Charming.

And fit.

This guy's going to make you go run after watching his new movie, The Running Man.

Ladies and gentlemen, Glenn Powell.

Thank you.

Shout out to Glenn Powell for joining us last week.

Obviously, he pops on a screen and it's just like, yeah, this dude's unbelievably attractive.

It's outrageous, AJ.

Him, Jesse Palmer, I forget who else.

There's like a couple dudes that have walked by and you just go,

holy shit, this guy's supposed to be.

This guy's supposed to be what he is.

And he's so cool, so humble.

Him living in Scotland, going to London, he's fully committed, obviously, to the business that he's in.

And he's a rocket ship to the top.

Ain't that right, Ty Senior?

Yeah, without a doubt.

You know, if he wants to take that rocket ship really out of the Milky Way and into galaxies we've never seen, I've been saying it for a while now.

I think it's time.

Listen, I love Barry Pepper's rendition of Dale Sr.

a couple years ago.

It was actually an ESPN movie.

I think Glenn needs to grow the mustache out, and I think we need a full-fledged you think he should do like F1 did their movie with Brad Pitt?

You think Glenn Powell should do a NASCAR?

No, I ain't talking NASCAR.

I'm talking Dale Sr.

biopic from the time he was a wee little boy.

In Kannapolis.

Exactly.

All the way up to, you know, winning, you know, cup after cup after cup after cup.

I believe he won seven Winston Cups.

No big deal.

So, yeah, I'd like to see that.

Maybe his relationship with Junior, too.

I mean, I just, I think it's time we get to that point.

So I don't know, Glenn, if you're listening, grow the stash out.

And, you know, we know you're a writer.

Maybe you pen that yourself.

He's a little busy, obviously, with a a lot of things.

And if he was to do another Dale Earnhardt biopic type thing, we would obviously watch.

We'll watch anything he does because in there, I told him, you make good selections, seemingly.

Like he makes good, he's a part of good movies.

Seems like that is kind of a narrative that's building about him.

And the running man thing looks sweet.

That trailer was outrageous, AJ.

Josh Brolin, too, is a great character I saw in that trailer.

Yeah, anything Glenn does right now, it seems to go to the top.

I just hope Glenn, it sounds like he is enjoying himself.

What?

Riding fancy cars, driving fast cars through Bordeaux.

that's not real life.

Like, that's a set of a movie.

And Glenn is living that day-to-day right now.

So I hope he's truly enjoying it because he's living in a great time in his career, that's for sure.

Oh, yeah, we went down in South France, and we actually raced race cars through the threaded countryside.

What's that?

Find that on Yelp.

Is that on Yelp somehow?

I have to figure that out.

Movie looks fire.

Movie does look fire.

Yeah, it looks fire.

Stephen King.

It made me think about the college football season there whenever you showed his offer bus.

Stephen Quinn.

that all the time that was

what a that's soon oh yeah very soon college football is soon that is nfl i mean it's july right now it's july i mean if you're in the nfl you're thinking about camp already yes exactly you're definitely thinking about like all right i gotta figure out how to hit the weight that i need to get at if you're out of camp or you need to or some people think okay i need to sustain where i'm at right now for just a few more weeks i mean we're getting into it right now it's july 1st yeah that's unbelievable august 30th i believe is the first college game day.

Is that right?

That's Ohio State and Texas.

I wonder if Glenn Powell will be there for that.

Yeah, that's week one.

The week before that is the Ireland game, too.

So we're at zero.

You know, we're not too far away.

Okay.

Friday, July 4th.

I mean, of course, July 4th.

Happy birthday, America.

Happy birthday, America.

Happy birthday to Dale Sr.

But also only 61 days away.

So first game is September 4th.

So you get to that July 4th.

Remember when you're waking up, hey, we're basically just two months away.

You know, it carries through the summer.

What's that?

Well, you you got baseball.

Sure.

You got W.

Of course.

Formula One.

The movie, I guess they're saying, is really good.

I mean, I just mentioned it there.

The movie, I guess, is phenomenal.

Very, very, very good.

Did you watch the movie?

I did watch it.

I did watch it.

I don't want to, no spoilers.

I like people, you know.

Does Brad Pitt come out on top?

It's Brad Pitt.

That'd be a spoiler.

I mean, Sunny Hayes, you know, Sonny brought it.

But, yeah, great cast, great picture.

I won't go too far.

I'm hearing Ram Jam of F1.

Is that right?

What's that?

That was the wrestler.

Yep.

You ever seen the movie the wrestler Mickey Rourke?

Nope.

He was ram jamming around.

He was a little bit older wrestlers.

Are you going around indie still?

Well, yeah,

well, we know Brad is an older gentleman at this point.

So yeah, older driver.

I think 50s in the movie.

And then he has a young young teammate.

It's a movie.

All right.

It's a movie.

It's not real.

Okay, we're going to suspend belief there for a little bit or whatever.

Maybe Johnson did it.

Beliefs.

Someone so cool like Brad Pitt wouldn't race in F1 because it's stupid.

No, I heard Brad Pitt was actually racing in F1.

Legit.

Yes.

That's what I heard.

Movie magic.

No, they're saying for real he was doing it.

Because you don't have to pass anybody, right?

Yeah, you think.

Watch the movie, AKR.

Follow that guy.

Hey, follow that guy, Brad.

Watch the movie.

Yep.

AJ's going to be a fan after you watch it.

I have to watch the movie.

I'm a huge fan of Brad Pitt.

I will absolutely watch it.

But is he eating in the cockpit, D-Butt?

Has to.

No.

I won't spoil that part.

No, he doesn't.

We don't have eating Brad Pitt.

Not a single scene of him eating.

It did it in Talladega Nights.

What's that?

Eating in the cockpit.

Yeah, I mean, Talladega Nights, though, you're talking a little bit different style of racing.

Super realistic.

Real racing.

Well, that Fig Newtons

right on the windshield was certainly inconvenient, but I do love me

some Fig Newtons.

Of course.

Of course.

I think it's a little different with F1.

I don't think it's as.

I wonder if Dale could have driven the F1.

What?

Come on now.

Dale could drive anything that's got wheels, brother.

So, yeah, he'd have been just fine driving F1.

Sorry.

I apologize for the disrespect.

Thank you.

All good.

We're supposed to be joined by a champ here relatively soon.

Oh, yeah?

Another champ?

Champ, champ.

This guy might be the best of all time.

He's a stud.

He might be the greatest of all time.

Here we go.

Still young.

We have not been able to connect to him yet, but we will certainly continue to try.

Okay.

Ilya Toporia will be joining us as AJ Screen just froze a little bit there.

So we might be having connection issues all over the place.

This guy's undefeated, has been a champion in two different weight classes now.

He had to vacate one title and move on to the next one.

Now he's the lightweight champion of the UFC.

He wasn't as tall as Charles, obviously.

There's been a lot of reach conversation.

He's got thunder and lightning.

He's got thunder and lightning.

And then he moved to Spain, I guess,

as a boy.

And he goes from Greco-Roman wrestling in Georgia.

being like world champion or whatever.

Then he goes to Spain.

They don't necessarily have that.

So then he just gets into MMA and becomes a jiu-jitsu master and everything.

This guy has been, this guy is made to fight.

He is electric to watch.

In the last 17 months,

he slept KO'd, Volk,

all the way,

and now Oliveira.

You're talking about three legends of sport.

And this guy, I think the world is just really getting introduced to at this point.

For Dana, and for the UFC, this is a great time for a new, oh my, this might be GOAT conversations guy to show up in the UFC.

But I feel like everybody else in the UFC that's in the GOAT conversation is like, we don't really want to mess with this guy.

This guy seems to be a little bit different than everybody else.

What a good thing for the UFC.

And it's been an honor to watch this guy fight.

We've gone through his highlights a little bit more here because we heard there was a chance he would come by the show.

Electrifying fighter, AJ.

Absolutely electrifying.

What's awesome about him, like he comes in with like a jiu-jitsu background, and then all of a sudden he becomes an unbelievable striker and he's knocking dudes out.

He obviously submits people too, but he seems to, I think think he's finished, what, all but two fights.

Like, he, if you want to see some action, you turn on one of his fights for sure, man.

Yes, and he's looking to end it, you know.

And it's like, what's that, Ty?

Well, I was just going to say, I mean, like you mentioned, guys getting slipped.

A lot of times in the UFC, you know, like a guy will get clipped and then they'll take a couple off, you know, and then like they'll call the fight.

And you can tell the other guy, he's not, he's like, he's still there, but he might be a little bit out of it.

Tapuria, he's, he's knocking these guys in the next week.

I mean, he's, he's knocking these folks' heads off every single time.

He's one impressive son of a bitch.

He really is.

Is he as impressive as Senior, you think?

Well, he's got a ways to go to still kind of get to that point, but he's certainly on that trajectory.

All right.

As we wait or potentially not have Ilya Tapuria, we like to say, hey, you're a great fighter, brother.

We still like, don't be big fan.

We don't hate you.

Fox off.

Yeah, absolutely.

We'd love to watch you.

I guess

it was an they did like a numbers check whenever they were asking if we would like him to come on the show.

What are the numbers for for your show, just so we know?

Hippo still accent.

What do you say?

We haven't been asked that in a long time.

It is something at the beginning stages of stuff that is like,

you know, like, is this worthy of our clients' time?

You know, that type of shit.

That's kind of a part of the digital world.

We haven't been asked that in a long time.

And I enjoyed the trip down memory lane of when we used to have to like do that and stuff.

So it was nice to know.

And also it feels like he's probably just locked in.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Guy and his people just locked in.

Hey, you know, these guys worry about knocking people out.

This guy is worried about becoming the greatest of all time.

He's been champion two different weight classes.

Yeah, he don't have time for your dumbass show.

I'm like, respect, but that's kind of like your job to tell him, right?

That's your whole thing.

So that's the, it was awesome, though.

Like, I really appreciated that.

And I guess we kind of made the cut, but maybe not.

Maybe not.

Maybe, maybe that's not the case.

We'll see.

I don't know.

Guy's box office, though.

I will see.

Guy's box office.

So I appreciate that.

Can't wait to watch him fight.

He will knock your ass out, dude.

Deal.

Are you serious?

Have you seen?

You got to watch the documentary.

Have you seen, I'm talking about you not necessarily senior.

Sorry, Ty.

Put this on, I am body of Dale Senior.

Well, have you seen the newest?

You and Dale.

D-Bone did send it to me.

And like I said, me and D-Bone, let's just say we've put our swords down.

I will not be counting calories.

I will not be looking at how many bags of chips and how many Oreo sticks he eats this afternoon because he's a good boy.

He's a good boy.

You guys doing the creamy sticks?

Is he in there with his fingies?

I am.

Bone certainly is.

Those making their way back to the office is certainly a move.

Congrats to them coming out of the cave like they're Jesus Christ back into this place.

And I will say there has been one or two people enjoying it in the entire office.

Yeah, yeah, there's been a lot, but no one that wants to say it out loud.

But that's okay.

You know, once again, I can stay in home business, SOB.

I enjoy you going into that thing.

Oh, I was doing that this morning.

It is you whipping that together.

It's like

are they Oreo stick dunkers?

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, it's awesome.

But he makes an Oreo.

He likes it, you know, we're doing it.

And then we're pressing it together.

That thing's oozing out.

It's one.

It is like a little project.

It's like a little craft.

And I'll tell you, I might have had one.

I might have done one.

I might have dabbled in it.

It's fine.

Anytime I come on too strong about something, you know, you just kind of no matter what, I'm going to take some flack for it.

And people are going to.

That's not true.

People are going to try and downplay.

And that's okay.

We're on your side with the mullet, the mustache.

I think a lot of things you've come on strong for, we're on your side.

Yeah, but

the leather jacket were on his side.

Those are personal looks.

I mean, like, my tastes, the things that I enjoy.

It would be kind of screwed up.

It'd be a bad teammate if you guys were to tell me, like, hey, you look stupid or that's a dumb mustache.

No, that'd be a good teammate.

Well, you got to be

a good teammate would be saying if you looked bad, telling you you looked good.

That's fair, but I guess I'm more so saying, like, mustache, those are undeniable things.

Those are undeniable accessories.

Yours, certainly.

There's some bad ones out here, those little rat scallots.

You know, people that don't have it.

Oh, I said a mustache, I think.

If it was to be lighter colored, I think it would look bad.

I think you found your rig up there.

That's what we're saying.

Yeah, built for it, some would say.

I'm just saying when it comes to my food taste, if I like something and I'm loud about it, chances are

things are coming back on the other side.

I mean, if it's fashion, you're not going to get the credibility or

legitimacy for most things.

Which I can accept.

Foxy says something, though, we're probably going to buy into it.

Have you seen what Foxy looks like these days?

He's been using Kurt Angles protein powders.

Oh,

Foxy put on 20 pounds of muscle?

Yeah.

I don't think his body can do that, but his body has turned into muscle.

I am the heaviest I've ever weighed.

And speaking of Connor's clothing options, I actually have one rule in this office, and it's only with me and Connor.

Rule number one: do not criticize anything I ever wear ever.

That's our rule.

But that's no rule.

Yeah, it's just different styles.

That's pretty good rule.

Some people want to look like a Hallmark cart, and some people just want to kind of hang out and be a normal person.

The thing about Foxy Foxy is he is the mannequin at every store you walk into.

Exactly.

That is literally the way his body is built.

D-Buts, same way.

D-Buts can wear, hey, give me what the mannequin is.

He's the underarm of mannequin.

Yeah, he's the underarm mannequin.

Yeah, I'll take...

Oh, that looks cool on that person.

Thank you for doing the styling for me.

I will take that summer bitch right there.

Foxy can do that in basically every single store.

D-But, I assume, you as well.

So when Foxy walks in here, I just assume that a new New York fashion thing has dropped on a mannequin.

Foxy saw it, and holy shit, this guy looks so cool.

Always does.

Abercrombie and Fitch really became your place there for a bit.

Yeah, that's the go-to right now.

It's really great.

That Target, you name it, it's awesome.

I would like to point out one other thing.

Connor's wearing short sleeves, so I think the office is in a good spot temperature-wise.

So hot outside.

Wore some short sleeves yesterday.

I've learned that if I can get to 11, usually 11 is kind of the deciding factor where it either, hey,

put a jacket on, Connor, or

you know what?

Let's just.

Are you okay?

You look a little pissed off.

I'm not pissed off

because, you know, just when talking about this type of stuff, it is hot as shit in this thing.

Roughly so, because you got to earn fire suits.

Yeah, exactly.

It's fire retardant.

I said, you know, there's a chance I might combust into flames.

And I was, you know, taking it to the cup pretty hard with Dale Sr.

earlier.

And I worked up a pretty good sweat doing that.

It's hot in this thing.

It is.

Today, of all days, I'd say if you want to drop the temperature another 10 to 15 degrees, I'd be with it.

Okay.

I'll think about it.

Certainly, Connor is the one in charge.

Remember the thermostat?

That is not true.

We have found the problem.

That's not true.

It is a consistent hot outside.

So I think that has helped with maybe the inside.

But I'll tell you, you walk outside, then walk in here.

It does feel cold in here.

It's a nice little breeze that you get as soon as you walk in here.

The air conditioner is working great.

Thank you to the air conditioning people.

Also, thank you to Ohio governor, who was not the one pitching for the banishment of flags being planted on fields in the state of Ohio.

Some politician in Ohio certainly was at one point.

I think that kind of got shooed away.

The Ohio governor, though, has approved a $600 million operation for a new Cleveland Browns stadium.

Wow.

Congratulations, the public's coming together with ownership and we're going to make a brand new Cleveland area.

Now, obviously, the current stadium is historic.

It's right there on the lake.

It's very windy.

It's outside.

It's a football town.

The dog pound has been in there representing for a long, long time during a lot of hard, hard years for the Cleveland Browns.

Now they're looking to innovate and looking to move forward.

AJ, how do Ohians feel about this?

And how do you think this will go over in the Cleveland area?

Because I heard there was a lot of arguments on what this would be.

Yeah, I mean, people, I think, are kind of torn about this.

They love where they're at on the lake and everything about it.

Is that the airport in the background I see of this?

Is that where this thing is located?

You tell me, AJ.

I'm looking, I feel like there's airplanes and there's a terminals behind it.

I don't know what that might be, but yeah,

isn't every team, every owner's trying to build their own Patriots place?

Like, hey, let's build it.

Let's own the real estate.

Let's own everything around it.

And let's just rake in all the money I think it is a good thing for everybody honestly yeah I think it'll become a good business venture especially if the dog pound buys into it you know if the dog pounds like this is cool like in green bay the packers have like a museum and a hall of fame and some other that you can come and come visit and make a trip out of it even in the offseason if cleveland does that which we assume they will with stores and everything else hotels places to stay it's like you can make your cleveland browns football team an actual like getaway as well, which is what all these teams are trying to do.

Yeah, the number surprised me.

I feel like it's much lower than I would expect for a new.

And then it'd been a, it's a dome, right?

Not retractable.

So straight dome in Cleveland.

It's going to cost way more than that, obviously, right?

Yeah, I wonder how Chasm's given up.

I assume

that's the conversation.

Yeah, but dome in Cleveland, completely out of the way.

That's weird.

Yeah, very, very, very weird.

But at the same time, I mean...

The shit that they've been doing ain't been working.

So

completely different.

I know there are some people who just love football indoors, football in the controlled climate.

I'm a fan of, you know, the outdoor weather, the elements, especially when you're playing a division like the Browns are.

But like, I mean, I like it.

Anytime, like, like AJ said, anytime you build a new facility, you're going to bring new people in.

You're going to boost the economy.

Hopefully, you get major events coming to Cleveland.

So this is big for Cleveland.

I think...

Yeah, the events that can be held there now with the dome and all the things that can travel whenever the weather's not great, which in Cleveland, cities like Cleveland are.

Real fans definitely hate the dome.

Real fans hate the fact that the roof does not retract.

If Pittsburgh was to put a dome on there, there, people would be very pissed.

Oh, there's footballers.

We'll play footballers in football weather.

And then who knows what the concerts would become?

How would that all go?

But in Cleveland, I feel like that was the biggest argument: football is supposed to be played outside.

And then, you know, we'll have like a Thanksgiving or a November, December game where there's a blizzard and everybody's like, this is football.

This is awesome.

This is awesome.

And then in some of those cities, they eliminate the opportunity to have that.

And then people got like Buffalo was having this conversation as well with everything.

It's like, what's feasible what's what makes sense for all year round uh do punters have a vote because if they do they let's put a roof on this thing let's go ahead and put a roof on everything quarterbacks probably feel the same way that's a tough decision to make especially with how much money is being spent as we have one minute left and Ty Senior takes it away well I was just gonna say you know you talk about identity obviously people want to be outside like this is to me this just kind of feels like what how would you feel if if Dale Sr.

was you know driving the 24 you know Rainbow Sherbert car cool it'd just be weird not really identity was a Rainbow Warrior.

But whatever, you know, because Jeff Gordon, respectfully, so he's never going to be on the levels of Dale Sr.

You know that.

I know you are Jeff Gordon.

But I was just going to say, especially when you're playing in that division, you're going inside.

Like, that's a massive advantage to a team that has Lamar Jackson as their quarterback and Joe Burrow.

Whereas, you know, you're playing in the elements late in the season, you might mitigate a little bit what those guys do.

Not so much anymore playing inside of Delta.

That's a good call, Senior.

Any message for the fans watching on TV as we head into digital here?

Yeah, pretty simple.

Fourth of July weekend coming up.

Praise Dale.

Raise hell, baby.

You really don't need anything else.

USA all the way.

God bless America.

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you nailed it but it seemed earlier thank you thank you

for it how do you think how do you think the earnhard family is going to react to how the way you did

so pump to be quite fair i have no idea i i'd hope that they would uh they would the second photo if we could pull that up i think they'd they'd probably be a little bit more.

I think you're right.

I think you see the first photo, you're thinking, who is this fat slob?

And what's this guy doing dressed like my papa, you know, or my brother, or, you know, whatever the case, my husband.

My God.

My God.

A lot of people are saying that as well.

But I don't know.

I hope that they understand this comes from the deepest part of my heart, and it's the most personal homage I could give to the Earnhardt family.

And the documentary.

And the documentary, obviously, it was incredible.

Again, I can't.

Nice reminder, I think, right?

Don't you think that?

Why it was?

Well, because, you know, like,

I vividly remember, no bullshit, going to school following when Dale Sr.

died in the Daytona 500.

Like, I still remember everything about that.

I want to say I actually wrote a story in my fifth grade newspaper about that.

So, you know, to be able to kind of go back and relive that when I'm an adult now, all these years later, like, it is cool because he was a goddamn American icon.

And I think people have forgotten that as the years kind of go on and on and NASCAR has kind of become what it's become.

And I think I saw a lot of like the hardcore fans were saying, you know, like back when Dale Sr.

was running the roost, like that's when racing was racing.

And that's when NASCAR was NASCAR.

Now it's a little bit more commodified and you got the Joey Loganos bitching about.

You've gone at the Loganos.

I don't like Joey Logano.

He bitches about everything.

You know, he acts like he's a tough guy.

And then you get one of these guys.

Back in the day, Dale Sr.

would have got out of the car and been like, all right, punk I'm gonna fucking knock your teeth out and then we'll see if you're gonna be bitching and flapping those gums a bunch but nobody's really doing that anymore you know like they were

Roddy Kyle Bush well yeah I know KY still wear but the problem with KY is the way his car is running right now you can't really be swinging on guys

I got a Kyle's meal

number eight yeah yeah the the chicken tender combo with the biscuit and the mac and cheese and the the green beans it's delicious but you can't really be calling guys out and swinging on guys

when they're getting top fives and you're finishing in the 20s because you're

not his fault.

Car just ain't built for it.

But I think that, like I said, there just ain't a lot of guys like Senior out there running today.

And I just wish there were.

So anyone who is a big NASCAR fan, if you haven't watched it, check out

the senior documentary.

You have to.

And it's right there on Amazon.

Exactly.

Four Carter.

NASCAR season's happening right now, right?

They had a race on Sunday.

I think that was like a very good race, from what I've been told.

Because anytime a good race happens in NASCAR, I'll get the NASCAR Twitter.

We'll be like, hey,

hey, hey, I saw that as well.

They called it like maybe the greatest race in NASCAR history is what I saw on Sunday.

Yes, I was getting a lot of those tweets as well.

And I think they posted a picture from like a movie, what like a finish would look like in a movie.

I think there was potentially a winner by like this much in NASCAR.

Yeah, I didn't see, I didn't research it, but I just saw the tweets.

I read all the tweets and said, all right, NASCAR had a weekend.

And then I,

that's on me.

I think somebody got traded.

Yeah.

Tell me that you.

That's kind of how we're going to get traded.

Jayon Ramsey got traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Take him at NASCAR, yeah, yeah.

And then I just got distracted.

You know, that's 100% on me.

NASCAR's in the middle of their season.

F1, driving around courses.

Yep.

Silverstone.

British Grand Prix weekend.

IndyCarr, what's going on with IndyCar?

I don't think they do that anymore.

Brad Pitt's a big fan of it.

Yeah, no, I thought they're still going.

Yeah, Brad Pitt was looking forward a couple weeks ago.

Yeah, Brad Pitt said he started watching F1, I think, is how he got into it.

Then he started watching IndyCar, and he said, That's I love

that's open wheel.

That's what he said.

Did you hear that?

He did say that.

He didn't say he was literally just driving to McLaren last week.

Yeah, but yeah, but that's for the F1

in the movie.

He wasn't.

Don't be a Mark.

You know.

I am an F1 Mark.

I'm getting into it.

He didn't say that, but I'm getting into it too.

He did.

Once you watch this movie, you have great respect for it.

You'll see why it's the pinnacle.

For Brad Pitt, he is the pinnacle.

We have some sect.

We have respect for f1 it's it's i think it's a spectacle a festival like you got to understand

it's not about the racing like the reaction stuff that the drivers do is super impressive like they when they were in miami yeah yeah the driver with tyree kill they did it and the driver was so much better reaction time-wise like i have respect for the drivers it's just considering it racing it is hard to consider because they don't do the the passing or anything like nascar like the reason nascar was electric this weekend the finish yeah i think it was was three-wide.

I think it was either three-wide or four-wide.

You know, I get it.

There's actually terms like the three-wide.

We're going full ride around.

That's the conversation about racing.

We don't know enough about racing to do it.

Ty might, because he's obviously been in it.

Tone's family watched NASCAR, I believe, growing up there.

They were going to be racist this weekend.

So I did not, though.

I did not grow up watching racing or anything like that.

I get out here to Indianapolis, though.

A lot of races.

Dirt Track.

We're talking NASCAR coming here.

IndyCar obviously has its home here.

So I've gotten a chance to be around the race community.

Three wide, four-wide.

they're like, hey, he's not scared to go.

Like that is the part of like racing.

Like that is the taking the shot, doing the thing, setting up a move, like all those types of shit I feel like are what I've understood racing is.

Then I watch that F1 race in Monco and it's literally their

parading around.

I'm like, oh,

all right, all right.

But I enjoy and respect the spectacle.

Like who they get to go to the races, how it is covered.

I appreciate it.

CD setups.

Yeah, like the on-location shit that's going.

Like I respect the festival that is F1 because everybody's trying to get something like that.

Just the on-track stuff, from what I've seen thus far, is tough for me to be like,

okay.

You know?

I mean, I don't know how it is in the other, like NASCAR and Indy, but like going in the F1, it's only, let's say, a handful of cars that have a real shot to win it, right?

So that's the thing.

So out of those cars, for this past week, after the first.

Five laps, you knew it was going to be a battle up front with the two McLaren race.

And both of those drivers are the top two drivers for the championship.

So one of those guys would most likely come out of top.

Max for stabbing got knocked out on the opening turn, actually.

Okay, so they crash?

They definitely crash.

How?

Just run into each other's back like this?

It's real racing, man.

Slip on like a banana, like drive over a banana mill.

It's real fucking,

it ain't rubbing and racing.

Somebody hits that blue shell up there, man.

You're stopping, cutting his line.

I mean, you're not getting what you're getting in NASCAR.

Like, let's go back to 86.

We got the pass in the grass with Dale.

You know, someone, you know, nudges his back end, and he has to go inside the infield.

And is he going to spin out like a lot of these guys in F1?

Just, well, I guess my day's done.

No, what he does is he passes in the grass, holds on to the lead, wins the race.

You're not getting that kind of stuff in F1.

They were passing the grass for the passing the grass for Dale Earnhardt.

And what do you guys do?

Is that legal?

Oh,

see?

That's racing, brother.

And it is legal and everywhere but F1.

I have rules and regulations.

With that being said, I watched this F1 movie with an an open mind.

And I assume Brad Pitt will win me over.

I wanted to rob people whenever he was in Oceans 11 because how cool he looks.

Certainly.

Yeah, he can really.

Sonny Hayes will get you.

A couple superstars in that cast, too.

What's the dude from Dune, Javier?

Have a bar damn.

Yeah, he's a study.

No country for old men.

So do you think like Clooney, Pitt, Glenn Powell walk into a room?

Do you think there is like a

hierarchy?

Like we're too attractive type conversation?

Do you think like uh, we're too good to be, we're too good looking to be here?

You think?

Yeah, do you think they're trying to alpha each other, too?

Like, ah, he is.

He is.

Do you think they are?

I think they, I think they tear themselves and they're and they're more so like walking over, like, hey, we did it.

Look at us.

You know, our mirrors are better than everybody fucking else.

Hey, tier one, good-looking guy.

Good to meet with different generations there, too.

Yeah, so you think Brad Pitt and Glenn Powell are kind of like, is there torch passing happening there?

Not quite yet.

A mentor program.

It's like a mentorship.

Pitt's still spinning.

The F1 movie.

Yes, he is.

Yeah, he is.

The F1 movie was actually the highest gross, you know, the highest purse of his career.

He got paid more to do the F1 movie than any other movie he's got.

So he's maybe hitting the prime right now.

Yeah, bigo.

Big go.

Pay the pitch kind of crazy.

Yeah, it was like $250,000, $300 million.

A lot of money.

You said he gets like points, right?

You would assume?

I would assume so.

But they also know a movie like F1, the international market is going to do a lot for that movie.

It's going to make a lot of money overseas as well.

So, yeah, let's just say Bill Pitt's doing just fine.

Ladies and gentlemen,

massive announcement tonight,

it's the Commissioner's Cup.

Here we go.

Is that tonight?

That's tonight.

Tonight, that's right.

8 p.m.

Prime Video Commissioner Cup.

Kathy Engelbert, the commissioner of the W, called the Indiana Fever, I believe yesterday or two days ago, to congratulate Caitlin Clark on being named the captain, one of the captains of the WNBA All-Star Game.

She was voted ninth at guard by her peers in the

WNBA.

Number one by the fans, I believe number three by Meteor coaches or something like that.

So the player's still got a lot of love for Caitlin Clark, obviously.

That's a big talking point on the internet right now for everybody telling Caitlin Clark she needs to leave the W and go start your own league.

Beast do tried to do it with three on three down there.

Okay, she got investors, got a lot of money.

Maybe that'll be successful.

Maybe that'll be able to pay.

A lot of people are saying, Caitlin, you need to get out of this ungrateful league, okay?

And you need to just go start your own shit because you are the needle mover.

Now, I do not believe that because I believe that the Indiana Fever are great for Indianapolis, but anytime things like these polls or these votes come out, it justifies everybody saying they don't trust or believe in Caitlin.

They don't like that Caitlin is the face of the league, which let's not get it twisted, she certainly is.

Now, the OG fans of the WNBA don't necessarily love that because it's been 20 plus years of building up the league and building up everything.

And then all of a sudden, Caitlin Clark comes in out of Iowa.

A lot of new fans come, a lot of new fans not necessarily welcomed welcomed as quickly as I think some people would think.

But that's any type of business that happens.

Happened to me, college football.

I go in that world.

The old school college football people hated my fucking guts.

I mean, I'm not saying I'm Caitlin Clark, but I'm just saying they like to take ownership over the thing that they love.

So any change or anything new to what they love, they're obviously going to push against it.

So I think Caitlin Clark needs to stay the course.

I think it's only a matter of time before everybody understands.

I think we need her to get healthy.

And just like she told Kathy, we need to get that dub in the Commissioner's Commissioner's Cup, which is Kathy Engelbert's cup.

She is the Commissioner of the WNBA.

So I'm pumped for the fever.

Is Caitlin playing?

I don't know.

Probably not.

Being an eight and a half-point dog, you would imagine she's not, right?

Minnesota Links current champs?

No, Liberty are current champs.

Yes.

Yeah,

Lynx are very good.

Yeah,

they have Collier's favorite to win MVP.

You can.

Okay.

Well, good luck to all parties.

If Caitlin plays, obviously that would be

breaking

one second ago.

Caitlin is out.

Oh, no.

All right, let's take our graphic off there.

Put their graphic up.

Yep, there it is.

Okay.

What if they still win?

They will.

They got a good team.

Kelsey Mitch could go off.

What game?

Commissioner Cup.

Kelsey Mitchell, this does feel like a big Kelsey Mitchell game.

She'll play well.

Aaliyah.

Yeah.

I mean, making it into the finals.

Pretty awesome.

They need it.

They're fighting for a playoff spot right now.

What do you mean?

It's the Indiana fever.

Boston can go off.

I think they're in eighth or ninth.

Aaliyah can can go, especially if they play.

Stephanie will have a team.

Coach Stephanie will have a team ready to go.

They're in eighth or ninth.

How many teams are it?

I have no idea how many teams there are, but I know eight make the playoffs, I think.

I could be wrong about that.

15 now because they added the Valkyrie?

Listen, I understand the MLS let Lou Messi not make the playoffs.

Okay?

I understand that.

The NBA created these bubble games.

The NBA is like, you know what, actually, we can get a play-in game.

We can, because they're trying to get their.

Zion.

They're trying to, it was all for zion yeah at the bumble and then it all just kind of we playoffs we need right we need that do you imagine caitlin not making the playoffs for the wnba remember what happened last year whenever they got out of the playoffs that would not be good

look for kathy engelbert the uh commissioner to

we're gonna have a super duper play-in open

uh to get into the playoffs think this is a motivator being voted ninth uh because like tyrese when he got voted most overrated

got a little hate for indiana fire fire fire up a little bit more.

I mean, she's already fired competitive, but

new shoes.

Eight teams make the playoffs, so they're right on that ball board.

Her shoes sold out, the Kobe's less than a minute.

Sick

sick.

She is electrifying when she's playing.

Oh, yeah.

Box office.

She got to get healthy, man.

Need help.

Yeah, I need to stay healthy.

Need her.

This city of Indianapolis needs her.

Yeah.

Every team that the fever play against need her.

Ticket prices.

Whenever she's playing, hello.

Ticket prices.

whenever she's not playing, goodbye.

They're talking about expansion, adding teams.

I watched Vibe Check

yesterday with L Duncan hosting on Disney Plus, I believe.

They talked about the expansion teams.

They talked about the WNBA all-star teams.

They had it all kind of like in there.

If the WNBA, with Caitlin's help, assistance, obviously, can actually go go,

why not?

the Indiana Fever being the drop.

It'll be dope.

All-star games here.

I know you haven't been in the regular folks airport in a while, but sweet basketball court out there.

Really?

You hooping?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, if it was full court, full court.

Same as last year.

Full court.

They don't let you hoop on it, no further.

Yeah, no problem.

You got to try to get a couple of stuff.

There's a plastic shield on the bucket.

Oh, so nobody can make it.

You got to try harder.

They don't want anybody getting too cocky in there.

No.

Smart.

Could you imagine somebody catching fire in the middle of the airport?

Oh, that caused quite a scene.

Yes, it would.

Especially in an airport.

They don't want to sit here with you tearing their Achilles.

That's what they don't want.

Jumping up.

Going up for a layout.

Well, if they they sue him, they do.

One like breeding thing.

Saw senior hit a nasty jab step before we went live.

There he is.

Here it is.

Boom.

I'm out.

That guy's up in the air.

He's gone.

Sunglasses on.

I don't know how you saw the hoop.

The audio likes to go fast, baby.

The audio isn't there either, but

you can hear what he can say.

When he gathers, you can hear him go, senior.

And then he lays it in.

It was right on those buckets.

Senior.

To the cop.

To the cup.

To the cop.

That talking series really inspired you.

It did.

It did.

What are you going to do?

Gonna watch it later.

You didn't dump your pants today?

No.

You paid your respects.

Pretty good day.

Pretty damn good.

When did it become the plan, Ty?

When did this become the plan to be Ty Senior?

Like what time?

When you didn't feel like changing getting out of bed this morning, exactly.

Yeah, I didn't shower this morning getting out of bed.

You know, and I had the sunglasses on already, obviously, the mustache and it and whatnot um so yeah this is kind of just like you know if i can you know bite off tony earlier to glenn powell sometimes if you feel it you just chase it that went really well too did it

he's in a different you know different mind frame different movie

they might have a new one for this upcoming movie it's something that had to be done but boy did he hate that it feels like that's an ohio situation yeah for sure for like aj yeah the amount of if you could feel it to glenn pals

he's probably never heard that before you You had to do it, though.

I mean, I had the straw hat on.

I mean, the worst part was that Tony just hit him with a, if you could feel it, and all he got in return was, chase it.

You chase it, buddy.

Yep.

I get it in a Scottish accent over here all the time.

Yep.

Yeah, I appreciate you watching Twister, Bub.

We get it.

That's basically.

Yeah, that's what he said.

That's not

what he said, Jason.

I love Glenn, but I hope I never see him again.

No!

You need to run that back.

We need a better interaction there.

Nope.

Yeah, because I think we'll gas it up.

We'll make sure you get it.

Exactly.

Yeah, that's why I will walk the other way.

Oh, in a good way, we'll gas it up.

Not in a bad way.

Find him somewhere where you can somehow get about six to eight whiskeys in him.

And then you run that back, and he's going to scream, chase it at the top of his lungs.

That's what I'm saying.

It needs to be a more relaxed atmosphere.

Yeah.

You know, he's in the middle of a running man, running.

He's tired as shit.

Yeah, he was.

He needs to be hanging off a ramp.

Yeah, with your hat on.

Yeah, there you go.

And then you just so happen to to be on the side of the road, just like you were in the national championship whenever you wanted or in the playoffs when you wanted that high five and they left you hanging.

This time, you're just going to poke your head out.

He's going to be hanging off a ram truck and you're going to say, now's the time, bud, if you keep failing.

And then he's going to give you a big one.

And you're going to get that full moment.

Yeah, maybe.

For sure.

The photo?

Probably not.

Your head poking out like this and him.

What a moment that's going to be for you.

We practiced one time.

It didn't go well.

Yeah, I am not doing that again.

Shooter, shooter.

Come on, a second time.

Yeah.

We have some breaking news.

Julie Van Loo

won gold in Euro basket for Team Belgium, and then

she flies back to the United States to report to Valkyries.

What is this, Gumpy?

People are pissed off because she went and played for Belgium.

She's flying back after they won, missed the celebration.

I guess she got released while she was on the flight back to the Valkyries.

She got released.

Okay, can you elaborate more on who this person is and what we are,

why we'd be upset that you play with Belgium?

She's allegedly very good.

And she's from

Belgium.

Bring her here.

She plays for Golden State.

Valkyries.

Oh.

So she left in the middle of the WNBA season, went over there, played for Belgium.

Yeah.

Played, won, came back.

They cut her on the flight.

The Valkyries cut her?

Yeah, she's released.

Katie had a fever.

That's what I'm saying.

Well, do you want something?

Did she miss a game here?

There's no more.

Does Belgium have any more games throughout the WL?

She just want it.

She's a champion.

Okay, so she's got no more Belgium obligations.

Near.

Come on out to Indiana.

True.

Is she a fighter?

We can use another fighter.

Sophie.

Hell yeah.

Did you see her?

She went up to 700,000 Instagram followers, or TikTok followers, they said, or

after

one night,

overnight.

I love that the W is doing this.

They cut TJ's sister, Megan McConnell, after she got hurt.

That doesn't feel right.

It's cut throw league.

It is.

They're also at a stage where I think they need to start turning that thing up a little bit.

Business-wise, I think the time is now.

Good luck to them.

Indianapolis All-Star Game.

Ty will be there.

Connor will be there.

Gumpy's going there.

We will have boots on the ground here in Indianapolis at the W's All-Star Game.

We might be out of town as a group.

Oh, it's a show somewhere?

Yeah.

Okay, we will find that out.

If not, we'll have boots on the ground for sure for the All-Star Game.

All right, AJ.

I hope you have a a phenomenal summer Tuesday.

We're going to get out of here.

Shout out to the Commissioner stopping by.

Shout out to Q-Rich stopping by.

Thanks to Glenn Powell.

Thought we had the exclusive on the trailer.

Turns out we did not.

Just three hours

ahead of time.

Still want to interview Glenn.

Still happy with how everything went.

Do you guys want the exclusive trailer and a Glenn Powell thing?

I think so.

Yeah.

What an honor.

Holy shit.

When did you find out it was running?

At 9, you saw it pop up?

Yesterday we found out it was going to go at 9 a.m.

So I immediately think,

okay, so we're dropping this at 8 a.m.

then.

You know, that's my immediate thought.

Just as a

bingo.

Like, all right, you guys are going to 9 a.m.

Sweet.

We were told this is going to be exclusive.

We're going to go at 8 a.m.

Then we watched it and we thought to ourselves, let's let the running man do whatever the fuck they want to do.

Feels like they've taken care of our guy, Glenn Powell, and it feels like this movie is going to be amazing.

So I'm happy as hell we got a chance to do it.

But it was under the terms of exclusive trailer with Glenn.

Good sell by them.

If they would have just said Glenn Powell, we would have said.

You got it.

Yeah, sure.

Exclusive trailer, that trailer was sick.

Great.

Good cast.

We had some of that Tom Cruise stuff, too, I guess.

And Netflix gave us some exclusive.

That's a cool thing if people just want to give us exclusives with them.

How did it quarterback this week?

Yeah, it was like two and a half, three minutes long.

That was awesome.

And Lions fans loved it.

I was going to say, if I was a Lions fan or a golf fan,

that's a cool opportunity for us, though, to get that.

Because normally, if we would have done that in the past We would have got strikes and sued by all these people correct sued we would I would have got sued by these people one of the reasons why I wanted to license my show through a network is because like the amount of like Bullshit on the back end yeah hey photo which was on somebody else's tweet was mine so you owe this this this is worth this it's like yes it'd be nice to have a little backup you know in this entire thing so that's been good that type of opportunity is amazing that we've gotten this to this point where we're able to just run a fucking fucking Paramount Movies trailer on our shit.

Tom Cruise's unseen shit on our show.

That's outrageous.

Crazy.

It's a big deal.

It's a big deal, man, because that's like, that's those people's lives.

Like all of that.

They're riding on it.

And just to speak from the other side of it, like.

I know what it used to be like if we were to accidentally put some of this shit out,

how much they value

the plan and where it goes, how it goes, when it goes, who is allowed to go.

It's like, I've gotten some hilarious letters from people telling me that I need to fucking immediately take down the picture of the video that we put up where I'm going to be sued for yada, yada, yada.

And it's like, holy fuck, did we know that there was a so we just

all right, we're gonna power on, I guess.

We'll see you in court,

and we get a real one.

Shout out to Brett Favre, shout out, shout out to Brett Favre.

Hey, we'll never forget that.

I'll hope.

How about him coming out Morgan Wall?

Yeah, yeah,

amazing.

Good pop in Wisconsin.

Without a doubt, you hear Brett say, boy, quite homecoming.

Drake was with him in Houston.

People are saying his abs.

Yeah, what's going on with that?

I think he just does only abs.

Yeah.

Nobody brings that up.

What if he is fully focused on abs all the time?

Maybe use that gimmick with the

shot extra absolutely having them

24-7.

Because usually, you know, if you've got shredded abs, like you got chests, shoulders, arms,

kind of fits.

Like who?

TCP Rick Flair.

But I think Scunter surgery.

Yeah, that was very interesting.

The Drake photo?

Yeah.

Yeah,

the abs looked very jacked.

Very, very, very jacked.

A lot of people were saying they were fake.

Do they have ab

surgeries?

Ab etching surgery.

Is that right?

Oh, is that right?

Okay, I didn't know.

I didn't know that was spray tabs.

What you say?

Can't you spray tan them on a little bit?

Yeah, you can shade it.

I think you could shade it a little bit.

But these looked, I mean, there's like, you know, on the side there.

Yeah, it's real.

I think he's just doing a lot of abs.

Everybody needs to just get off of Drake's abs.

Hey, Drake, good work.

It's paid off, brother.

It's paid off.

Morgan Rollins walkouts continue to be one of the biggest stories of all of country music.

How about his tour?

Just stadium after stadium after stadium after stadium.

That boys doing it.

This is kind of what everybody's into right now.

Does Wiz Khalifa start his big tour yet?

I believe so, actually.

Jellyroll and Post Walone are hitting stadiums around right now.

I think Park McCollum's doing his tour right now.

Jellyroll's in Ohio?

They were.

I think the 20th.

Play Ohio Stadium.

Big deal.

He did like Buckeye Country Superfest.

He was the main dude.

Yeah, it's a big deal.

Yeah.

I mean, right now is tour season for all these guys.

Let's support the shit out of them and get some tickets on SeatGeek to all these concerts.

Obviously, SeatGeek is the greatest ticket buying platform on planet Earth and the moon.

That's right.

When, now I've heard we got somebody on the moon right now, but when they start hosting live events on the moon, there will only be one app that you should buy the ticket for that event, and that would be our friends at SeatGeek.

See Geek gives you what you think you're getting.

You don't get catfish.

And also, they kind of score all the tickets so you know if you're getting robbed or not.

One to ten, red dot means bad ticket, can get it for a better price somewhere else on the internet.

Good means like six to seven to ten.

Green light will be in there.

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They got your back.

And right now, use promo code PAT.

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Go see a show.

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Go make a memory with our friends at SeatGeek.

What a time.

What a time.

Restrictions apply to the $30 off thing.

If the ticket's less than $30, you're probably not going to get $30 off.

Seeking's not going to owe you money.

No.

No.

It's not going to be.

The way it works.

But if you're buying tickets to something awesome, which I think you should do, give them as a gift.

Maybe go for yourself.

You don't have to be with anybody.

Shout out to Gumpy.

Gumpy's been going to these Super Duper World Club Cup games all by himself out there living his life.

Use Seat Gig for the Inner Miami game on Saturday.

Probably use it again this Saturday for PSG and Bayron, Munich, in Atlanta.

PSG just kind of smacked around Inner Miami, huh?

They got outclassed out there in Atlanta.

Yeah, they are no joke.

They won the Champions League Final 5-0 against Intermilant, so they kind of beat the shit out of everybody this year.

So PSG is the one who's going to win the $100 million Super Duper FIFA Club.

They're favored right now, but this game against Bayron could be the game of the tournament after Al-Halal, a team from Saudi, knocked off Man City.

I saw Al Halal come in and really do it.

They paid a lot of money to a lot of their players, but Saudi Arabian Soccer League obviously feels legitimized after a big-time win like this.

Yes, and allegedly, each player got $5 million for winning that game.

Okay, so that's just one game.

And then you look at the teams that were like Auckland that were in this tournament.

They had guys that were driving dump trucks on Tuesday, coming to Cincinnati on Thursday, playing goalie, giving up 10 goals.

So certainly a variety of teams playing in this Super Duper Cup, but it's gotten good as it's gotten later on, right, Come?

Yeah, we got Real Madrid and Juventus kicking off at three.

That should be a banger as well.

All these are in America?

Yes, sir.

Okay, so these teams are actually coming over here, full squads, because normally whenever these teams go on tour in the United States of America, it's the backups.

It's maybe the youth academies.

The Super fans get a chance to come take a picture that they were at one of these games.

Oh, Juventus is playing in Pittsburgh.

I'll go check it out.

None of the stars play.

Man City is playing in Phoenix.

I'll go check it out.

None of the stars play.

Stars are actually playing in this, it feels like, right?

Yeah, because it's too much money.

Team wins $100 million.

That buys you probably three top-tier players to join your team for the start of the season in Europe.

So we like this.

It's been awesome.

I know a lot of the games haven't been filled, but I would argue anywhere in any country, some of these teams wouldn't have any fans at some of these games.

All right, cool.

We really look forward to that.

How about Gold Cup?

How about the Gold Cup?

America's about to win this this entire thing?

Yeah, we got Wednesday night, USA, and Mexico both big favorites.

So we're looking at probably, if everything goes as planned, Sunday night, Mexico, USA, Sunday night in Houston.

Who does the USA have?

They have Guatemala.

Okay, plus 800 for Guatemala to win.

We're minus 380.

We should win that one, but soccer is an interesting thing.

This could be 0-0 until the 89th minute.

And then Guatemala steals one.

Didn't like the way we finished the second half.

Love the way we finished the game, though, for the U.S.

boys in the last round against against Costa Rica.

And then Mexico takes on, obviously, Honduras.

And Honduras,

not a bad squad.

They're better than Guatemala.

They're about the same.

Mexico's still a heavy favorite to win this thing right now.

Mexico, United States would be in Houston.

Yep, Sunday night, 7 o'clock.

Actually, 25th Gold Cup in a row, USA has made at least the semifinals.

Congratulations.

Have we won it?

Yes.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, they win it a lot.

Jesus.

Yeah, and it's usually played played by not our top guys.

Like, normally our top guys take off the Gold Cup.

Like, this is kind of something where you're looking for like the next batch of maybe U.S.

guys.

Obviously, it was a big storyline this year because we're preparing for a World Cup.

We had a new coach, and Christian Pulisic, our guy, either didn't want to play in the pre-games, the warm-up games, but did say he wanted to play in the Gold Cup to get with the team.

Paunched new coach said, don't worry about it.

We want full commitment or no commitment.

We're just going to build this team and get ready for the World Cup.

Now we got this younger group of guys, younger group of lads who nobody really knew about at the beginning of this tournament.

And now they're kind of peacocking a little bit, these dudes.

Got a lot of swagger, got a lot of moxie.

Paunch is also yelling into the camera.

It's like the USA team is maybe finding what we should be, which is a fiery, scrappy, gritty, electrifying bunch.

Is that not accurate?

Yeah, if they can rally around and win this, it'd be huge because there was a bullshit story, and I should have brought this up yesterday.

About Saturday night, eight o'clock, some guy put out a story that Pagetino took an interview with Brentford, an english team and it was complete bullshit so they asked pogitino about it he said i never took an interview he turned down an interview with tottenham who he used to coach so i think that's why that was such a massive moment why he did that to the camera and the boys are really rallying around him right now i like them i've liked them since the beginning like even And we learned of Christian Pulisic's story later on, but even the story of him saying, we don't want you then, if you don't want to be here, that was kind of how it was rolled out at the beginning.

It's like Christian Pulisic didn't want to do this.

And and ponch said cool i don't want you to do it christian pulisik actually did want to play but didn't want to do all the like the training i think because he's just coming out of two leagues leading up to it so he wanted a breather i think which has happened in the past especially with the gold cup but i love that ponch was trying to find his team and he's had success in the past it's like what we've been doing hasn't been working if we can add some dogs maybe we win this thing shout out to soccer we might have it we might have the guy And then the goalie freeze?

Yes.

He's always that good.

I mean, has he always been a stud?

Because I watched the majority of this game, and he was awesome.

So he's 6-1 now, I believe, in penalties.

Now, that was his first international penalty, but I guess in the league that he's in, he's done six prior, and he was four-one or five-1, I forget what it was, going into this night that made the stat.

And then he came out afterwards and was like, penalties are kind of my thing.

You know, it was kind of

my game.

Six foot four, has a good read on people, seemingly a dog.

And

I think America has a little bit more bite on this team than we've had in the past.

We had too much razzle-dazzle, too much pizzazz on that.

Diego Luna, absolute dog.

He kind of sets the tone in the middle.

They need to stop.

All the young lads.

What's that?

They need to stop conceding.

Yeah, they concede like a motherfucker sometimes.

It's just

like, dude,

no more conceding.

I saw somebody sent a text into the group saying all they do is concede.

Bruce, what did you mean by that whenever you said USA just concedes all the time?

So much conceding.

I mean, across the pond, I think it's a pretty popular soccer term to concede a goal, to allow a goal.

We're in America.

I would like more United States clean sheets.

I mean, they meant to give it up?

No, I think you just give up a goal is what conceding is.

This game was 2-2 going into fucking shootout, by the way.

Just so we understand that.

Now, two goals is a lot of goals in soccer.

Awesome.

No, it is.

We got a problem in the back end.

I understand Matt Freeze is a dog in the penalties, but our defensemen, our center backs, and the like, we got to short things up, maybe keep a clean sheet against Guatemala here.

I concede that your conceding comments are potentially accurate.

Conceded again.

Conceded again.

There goes U.S.

soccer.

They've conceded again.

Okay, he's even got a little jingle about the entire

dissabout.

I don't know if I love that, but he's saying we need more from the bowlers on the back end, is what he's saying.

It sounds like.

And hopefully they get it tightened up as the Gold Cup semifinals happen

tomorrow night.

Tomorrow.

Yeah.

Commissioner's Cup tonight.

Fun fact about the Gold Cup:

either Mexico or the U.S.

has won every single Gold Cup since 2002.

Suck it, Honduras.

And Guatemala.

And Saudi.

Yeah.

They're in it now, too.

That's right.

What's that, AJ?

Is Ronaldo on?

He's not playing for the Saudi team in this tournament?

He's not on.

He's from

Saudi Arabia, pal.

He plays on a Saudi team, though, in a Saudi league.

I don't know where he's going to be.

He's the resident.

You're talking about the FIFA Company.

I don't know.

There's two tournaments going on.

You started showing this FIFA thing, and I'm thinking it's the Super Duper World Cup, Gold Cup.

There's an international.

I know, but

aren't there guys in this FIFA Super Cup that want to play in the other Super Duper World Cup?

I think they are, aren't they?

Are they not playing in both these things?

Because normally this would be an international break.

It feels like it's going on at the same time.

Yeah,

I don't think there's any players in the FIFA Club World Cup in the Gold Club.

So are we talking about...

I don't like the way you said that.

Weston McKinney is playing for Juventus, not United states in the gold cup right now yeah but pawn said we don't care yeah we don't want you you don't want to play

it's our b team anyway okay so let's move to a different sport about uh cannibalism of you're talking about soccer right now with the super duper club cup and then the international concave of gold cup what's going on with lacrosse you kind of dropped a little bit of a bomb there yesterday you sound like a journalist you sound like a uh a lacrosse journalist and you're like from what i'm hearing from source says is that the future of lacrosse is not in a good spot, especially with where PLL is thinking about moving and where NLL currently exists.

And then you even said there's a chance that NLL is just Canada and PLL is the way America operates in professional levels.

Is there a chance they're going to, what did you mean by that?

Is that real?

Are we yeah, that?

No, it is.

As somebody that just learned about NLL, I'm pretty bored.

I'm pretty bummed out about that.

It is, it's definitely bad news.

I think is it definitely bad news or potential good news?

I think it's definitely bad news.

Unless there's some sort of agreement, which I doubt there will be.

PLL signing with ESPN definitely helps PLL.

I think if you are a lacrosse player looking at the future of it, you probably want to play in the PLL just because those NLL games aren't really getting broadcasted that much in America.

That's why it's become kind of split because the NLL is

TSN, which is the Canadian kind of network.

And then obviously ESPN would be the United States network.

I'm not sure when it comes to playing.

That's your problem.

Dale or St.

Ty Sr.

Oh, he's bummed out about lacrosse.

Or you don't care.

A little bit of ball.

Gotta hold you above.

At the end of the day,

no matter when lacrosse is played, if it's outside of July and August, people are gonna have a hard time caring.

If the NLL is awesome and it is great in Canada, but if it's played from December to April or May, whenever it is, no one's gonna watch.

And same with the PLO.

The PLL starts too early.

They start the week after when college lacrosse ends, and that's when the NHL and NBA finals are kind of really picking up.

So they need to, the PLL and both cross-leads, they need a four-make one, and they need to play in July and August.

Yeah, well, I don't, I think they need, they can have a winner and a summer.

I think they can do that.

The reality of it is, we're not going to watch in the winter.

The thing we watch, we don't even watch the NBA.

Yeah, but

if NLL played on Tuesdays,

Tuesday,

Wednesday, I guess.

It's NBA.

In the winter, NBA, I'm pretty sure Wednesday nights nights are NBA on ESPN, but

it's the NFL season.

And the Wednesday night, you know,

if the choice during the winter is Wednesday night NBA with Cooper Flag or LeBron and the Lakers and then the Red Woods versus the Chaos, I just don't think.

Stop, stop.

Stop.

And I love lacrosse.

Pretty easy choice.

I love lacrosse.

It's just the reality of the situation is the open months in sports are July and August.

And if you have a professional league and you want to...

look at the big three.

The big three, they play all of July and August because they know that's when it's open.

I'll tell you, I love the NLO, though.

Like, I really enjoy the way their sport is.

I enjoy what it is.

I just, I fear that it's, it's.

Play it like 3 p.m.

or something.

Yeah, like a matinee or a daytime game.

Yeah, that's, I was thinking about that as well.

No prime time games, but maybe in the morning.

Maybe do a morning game.

I'd wake up and watch.

That'd be cool.

Yeah, well, wake up 8 a.m., you know, game's on.

Why not?

Korean Korean base.

Get my car.

No, you wouldn't.

I just love how it's just one of us just sprinkled, like, you care about cross, most of us don't give a fuck.

Yeah.

Go up, soccer, most of us don't give a fuck.

I care about F4.

I love it.

Yeah, I love it.

It's your turn.

I love it.

You got what we all care about.

Fucking NASCAR.

Exactly.

All right, let's get out of here.

I just, you know, if this goes in,

maybe Junior will reach out to you.

Okay.

There's a fucking lot on the line here.

Oh, no.

Oh, shit.

Short-armed it.

Maybe seeing you in your dreams tonight.

Nice.

Hey, boom.

Great chain nuts.

Great, great.

Shout out, Foxy.

Those are nice.

Those are awesome.

We had them in the old office.

Had to bring them back after you suggested it.

Yeah, it's just so much better, I think.

You know, the sound.

And also, it feels like the hoops are bigger.

I mean, you see that?

Love you, this one.

Oh,

Oh.

Hey!

I mean, wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Are we back?

Yeah.

Are you badly?

We were always chain net guys.

Amen.

You're right.

Holy hell.

That's pretty far there.

Yeah.

That's pretty far there.

That felt good coming out.

I hit a drought there for a while, but it feels like with the chain nets back,

we're all the way back.

Thank you, Foxy.

All right.

Be a friend, tell a friend something nice.

You might change your life.

We're in this thing together.

We're back tomorrow.

Team all meet.

Hey, great working to back.

AJ, great work today.

Thank you.

You too.

What?

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

You weren't asking me to expound upon it.

Did you guys see the yin-yang twins?

Was that really?

So that was real?

Was that

SeaWorld that I said?

I didn't know you still got it.

Tell you there's something you might like to hear.

You might have to say that about any ass.

Mind if I touch it and see if it's so.

Now I'm just saying saying this.

You say, I can't

know to be a real man.

Did I see an orca twerking?

I don't, did they rent that out for a concert?

Because I was looking, there wasn't a lot of kids in this dance.

No, and I saw it's all tour into it, though.

And I saw some real twerking going on out in the crowd.

It felt like people were really doing it.

I didn't see a lot of dancing from Ying or Yang.

I think he was kind of more of a stationary performer, but that run was awesome.

I'm thankful I was alive during all of that.

Hell yeah.

Let's have a yin-yang twins afternoon.

Boom.

Into the evening.

Bingo.

Let's remember that we're allowed to bring the juice like little John East boys.

Okay?

Let's have a day.

We'll see you tomorrow.

Team on me, team on three.

One, two, three, three.

Team.

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