PMS 2.0 1347 - Indianapolis 500 Preview With Ryan McGee LIVE In Studio, Quentin Richardson, Ian Rapoport, & AJ Hawk

Hello beautiful people and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome, on this Indy 500 Memorial Day weekend.

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It is a massive weekend here in Indianapolis.

It is a massive sports weekend.

And obviously, for most people, it is a three-day weekend.

So let's take the weekend to think back on how awesome the Americans were in the past.

They went to war and battle for us to live the life that we have today.

And also, let's enjoy the hell out of this life we have.

We have no idea when it's going to end.

And on weekends like this, how could you not celebrate life with everything that sports is going to have in store for you?

Saturday night's main event is tomorrow down in Texas, but people forget about that.

We got the conference finals continuing to roll on this evening through the weekend.

We'll have some golf, and guess what?

Uh, Block is back, and his son is on the bag.

So they're saying, in the golf world, two blocks back, two blocks back.

what's the course record yeah two blocks back Michael Blocky is uh back golfing in a very very good manner so not only do you have blocky two blocks if you will we got basketball we got hockey we got football and we got the greatest spectacle in all of racing the Indy 500 happening on Sunday here in Indianapolis Indiana it's a great day to be alive we hope you feel the same the talks and tables here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt Ty, two blocks back.

Yeah.

Two blocks back.

Listen, I.

What's the core's record?

Yeah.

Two blocks back.

I don't want to, you know, kind of dampen the mood here.

I know everyone loves Blocky.

I don't.

That's fine.

If you do, that's fine.

He's playing with the Chuck Schwab, right?

You know what he finished in that last year?

What's that?

Yeah, he got dead last.

That was last week.

They're not doing that this year.

Yeah, you tease off in about two and a half hours.

There's still a good chance Blocky shoots a 90 today.

Ty doesn't love, you know, that people started thinking that the greats were the same.

Like, he, Ty doesn't.

What, Tiger

Blocky?

Blocky.

Yeah, yeah, that is.

Ty doesn't like that.

But we would like to let Blocky know.

We love the story, babe.

You got your opportunity.

You took advantage of it.

Love bless you.

Met him at the Espresso.

It was fantastic.

One half of the hammer.

God.

Cowboys A.P.

Tones wearing an Air Force jersey.

Hell yeah, America.

Yes, Memorial Day weekend, obviously.

So, you know, support everyone who gave everything for this country.

And also, it's wear a jersey for the Pacers Friday.

So the things things just tie together.

That's a good idea, Tony.

Yeah, I don't know if that's the name of the day.

I do think Connor was really pushing for that.

I saw some people on the internet tell me that if I don't wear a jersey today for half the show, like I did game one of the Eastern Conference Finals, that probably means the Pacers are going to lose.

I'd like to let everybody know it's okay if they lose.

They're not going to, though.

And I would rather display the greatness as a tag team partner as opposed to thinking I'm on the team myself.

And the boys in the change room understand that, okay?

Tonight, 8 p.m.

Eastern, Tyrese Halliburton, Nee Smith, Pasco Siakam, Miles Turner, Nem Har, TJ McConnell, and Coach Carlisle and the boys are going to do battle with Jalen Brunson, Carl Anthony Towns, and a group that is potentially going to be dog-tired because they don't play as many players.

And the Indiana Pacers are known to give you the gasser treatment up and down the court.

Now, this has become an incredible rivalry.

Once again, the history of the NBA, having the Pacers and the Knicks battle each other in premier prime time events is good for the business of ball.

6.6 million people watch the first game.

What will tonight hold?

We shall see.

It's going to be epic.

And good luck.

Good luck, all the boys.

Go get them.

More specifically, the Pacers.

We'd like to see you go ahead and win that one.

But Jalen Brunson in Madison Square Guard, they're not going to go down two in the Eastern Conference Finals, are they?

Front of Timothy Chalamet.

In front of John Hamm's getting his hands on the balls.

Yeah.

Listen, we love John Ham, but let's not get too handsy there, Ham, okay?

The boys are at work out there.

Tracy Morgan, I mean, literally the Whole.

Ben Stillers, everybody.

Ben Stiller.

Larry.

Larry David.

I think Spike's back from Con.

Oh,

good luck, Tyrese.

Hey, stacked house against you.

Good luck to the boys and the Pacers.

This weekend's huge in Indianapolis, and all the stars are kind of...

filtering in to our lovely city, our lovely state.

And ladies and gentlemen, this is becoming an annual tradition.

A man who's been a rider

on certainly massive platforms, now currently riding for Dot Calm.

And a man who is a friend of the program.

He's a race expert, but I think he's an expert on everything.

And that's kind of what I've learned from him.

Ladies and gentlemen, host Mario McGee, the McGee part, Ron McGee.

How you doing, man?

I'm doing amazing.

It's good to be here.

Hell, this is the

center of the sports universe.

What do you mean by that?

Well, all right, so the Pacers did what they did the other night, which I didn't see.

I was at this thing, and I went to the airport Thursday morning to come to Indianapolis, and every TV at the airport is showing the last minute of the game.

Amazing.

And you got, I hear Caitlin Clark's pretty good at basketball.

Well, she was in one last night with Atlanta.

Yep, she's in the middle of a tough battle.

And obviously, we got the greatest spectacle in racing, the Indianapolis 500, my favorite event to cover in the world.

And

condolences to you and all your friends and family

with Jim Airsay.

I mean,

this is the center of the sports universe.

I'm going to go see the the actual Stanley Cup in a few minutes.

Okay.

I know.

I'm not cool.

Oh, and oh, by the way, y'all had Cole Trickle on the show.

I'm not sure what else.

I'm not sure what else anyone could want.

This is the greatest week of all time.

Yeah, Tom was in.

It was wild.

That was wild.

That was a really wild scene.

That was literally one of those, you know, because I turned the show on.

You know, you got the TV where it's the automatic channel in the middle of the day, and I'm eating lunch and I turn the show on.

You guys are always on.

And I was like, I literally, y'all were a little busy, so I didn't text anybody.

I was like, damn, Tom Cruise is on the show.

Yeah, thanks.

And then he was on the show and on the show and on the show and on the show.

It was awesome.

35 minutes.

Does he like movies?

Does Tom Cruise like movies?

And popcorn.

Did you think he was eating?

The thing with the pop, it's like an internet thing, right?

How he eats his popcorn.

Well, just in that one particular video, right?

Because in other videos of him eating popcorn, it's very standard operating popcorn procedure.

That one, he was just, he was rolling the dice a little bit.

He was having fun.

He was rolling dice and he was throwing that thing, I think.

And this is the one.

Yeah, he was it was the agricult see like did he catch that popcorn in his mouth i think so yeah he's yucking it up he's doing do whatever do whatever he wants yeah well and you can see that

they were at another fixer season we're going to all these movie theaters and like surprising people yes and the other night like his pr people were getting irritated because he was like talking to the popcorn girls for like an hour and they were like we got to go and he just i don't want to

you heard about ours did you hear about ours yeah you talked about him having too much interest in these people that had been working at the movie theaters which he was appreciative of I think was his big angle.

Yeah.

Was the big thing.

Like, hey, thank you for doing what you're doing.

For us, it was supposed to be 10 to 15 minutes.

Yeah.

Clearly.

Like, hey, this is 10 to 15 minutes.

That's the time we have.

Tom's in the middle of shooting five movies and also in the middle of this press run.

I guess he was down in Mexico City.

They told us he was in a different country, but then I saw he was in Mexico City for one of the premieres down there.

That place was packed out.

Huge thing.

He felt us everywhere.

It was like, he was so cool to us.

Yeah.

He was so stable.

I wonder how it does it all.

Yeah.

This,

I assume this clip will be seen at some point.

He stayed afterwards, after our conversation with him, because I asked him a question.

I asked him a, hey, for real, like, there's a chance I'm going to be doing some acting in a movie.

I was asked to be in a movie.

I'm not an act.

Like, I don't know what you think.

He gave us, he gave me a masterclass.

Did you really?

Seven minutes of just like

this is what you need to do.

This is what you need to do.

This is how you need to think.

This is who you need to talk to.

These are the questions you're allowed to ask.

This is who you're not allowed to do.

This is what you should not think about.

This is what you should think about.

You need to meet this person if you're going to do this.

You need to talk to this person if you're going to do this.

Like, obviously, 10 to 15 minutes was the time slotted.

That's unbelievable.

35 minutes he talks to us.

And then immediately afterwards, I'm like, hey, seriously, though, thank you so much for the time.

And is there anything I should think about?

And

you see him like, think about leaving.

And then he's like.

I got to help him now.

I got to help us guys.

He sits down and he looks directly at the camera and he goes for six and a half minutes.

I think it's 6.45 or something like that.

Straight.

Just masterclass of what I need to think about.

And

yeah, and then he got up and left.

He was like, I appreciate the hell out of you guys.

Thank you so much.

I got to go.

And then we do out of the window behind him.

He was awesome.

So we're very thankful for Tom and everybody that spends time on our show because how stupid everything we do is, including you.

Now, I must say, Ryan McGee, before we get started, there is a clip that we saw that we might need to get cleared of.

Okay, I knew last year.

I snuck up to Pat McAfee's place.

Oh, yeah, I saw that.

Yeah, we did the show.

I did the show for three hours, and man, they smoked so much weed.

And I was like,

they're like, do you want any of this?

I go, I got to go back to Gasoline Alley, guys.

Just collaterally,

I'm already a little buzzed.

I'm going to get run over by somebody rolling up.

You're talking about CBD.

Got you a little collateral damage.

No, you got to understand, I'm a very delicate person.

And no, no, I knew, it was funny when I said it.

I literally, like, I think my, because that's my office at the house.

And I look over, my wife is looking at me like, and I get done and she's like, you know, this is, this is going to come back.

I go, I know it's going to come back.

I go, we're going to find out if those guys watch, listen to Connor's show.

But no, no, it's not.

We do.

We love Connor.

And Garage Guy Chase, I believe, is the other lad on the show.

They're great.

But yeah, we appreciate you coming on and chit-chatting about coming here.

No, we love you.

Well, and last year,

last year was so much fun.

And I'm never throwing a football again because I'm never going to throw one like that again.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

That was one of the greatest moments of my my life.

And so, no, I became an internet sensation for about 10 minutes.

It was awesome.

For a good reason.

Hold on, yeah.

Hold on, though.

I think the Bojangles chicken story.

Yeah.

Which, by the way, Dan Bojangles sent you guys a bunch of chicken.

They didn't send me nothing.

And so just

literally, the HQ is around the corner from my house.

They got you.

But yeah, but I was like, well, I'm glad I got to feed the guys.

It did feel like it was a breakfast from McGee.

Just so you know, you could drive it down to the house.

It's literally 10 minutes from the house.

Hey, Carrie or from HQ?

Yeah, no, HQ is like literally like, I used to work in an office on the same street as Bone Jingles HQ.

See, they know they got you.

Yeah.

They sent us to try to win it.

That's right.

Hugline Sinker.

Have you been?

Kerry, North Carolina.

How far is that from you?

Kerry?

Yeah.

A couple hours.

I grew up in Raleigh.

So Carrie is

in the Raleigh suburbs.

Okay, sweet.

We're going to be down there for two years, coming up here in a couple weeks or whatever for the soccer tournament.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

No, Kerry's awesome.

Carrie, when I was a kid, when I was in high school, you know, I ran a truck or whatever.

When we had meats at Carrie, it was like you needed a a damn passport.

Like it was out in the middle of nowhere, and now it's like the richest zip code in North Carolina.

That's where USA baseball is based there.

Like it's unbelievable.

And the facility, the complex that we play insane.

So nice.

Yeah.

It reminds me like Frisco, Texas.

You know, Frisco, there was nothing there 20 years ago.

And now it's like, it's like Main Street USA.

Like everything's brand new and Jerry Jones is there and all it carries like that.

Like everything looks like it was just built.

Yeah.

Shout out to Carrie.

Can't wait to beat Donner.

Yeah, there you go.

Go in.

Can't always beat Donner and Carrie.

After high school, Carrie Imps.

The Imps?

Like imps.

I-M-P-S.

I don't even know what the hell an imp is.

Well, I do.

Yeah, there's a couple letters you can put in front of that could really change.

I'm not sure if there's...

They were back in the day.

Yeah.

Oh, my bad.

Yeah, because if you put a P in front of that, a little bit different than putting an S in front of that.

Yeah, put an L.

I'm not saying we did that when we played them, but I'm saying we probably did.

Well, there was a chance.

What did you guys say?

We would literally

spray paint and you add letters to it.

Yep.

Which letter did you add?

It was P then because the G word really wasn't a thing then.

Okay.

I'm old.

What about the S?

S, yeah.

That wasn't a thing then, but I'm sure they do it now.

I'm going to,

if they are indeed still the imps.

Okay, let's talk.

I was an in-low Eagle, so screw them.

They are still the imps.

We are getting information in the back that they are still the imps.

You're here for the Indy 500 this weekend.

Massive stories throughout it, including a cheating scandal that has led to everybody on Team Penske of importance getting fired the week of Indy 500.

Joseph Newgarden, who has won the Indy 500 in the past, he is actually being punished because of the, what was happening with their car?

So what is this?

He's the two-time defending champion.

So he had, there's only five guys in the history of the race since 1911 that have won it back-to-back.

He has the best chance, I believe, to be the first to ever win three in a row.

But yeah, so basically,

Back in the 90s when I first started covering IndyCar, IndyCars were breaking all these guys' backs.

Like they would back into the wall and the back of the car was so stiff, even at a slow speed, it just would basically just spear them in the spine and they would be paralyzed.

And so they added this thing called a rear-end attenuator.

And I'm telling you, it is almost exactly like that bottle right there.

And it's designed to crush.

So when you hit the wall, it absorbs energy and keeps it from going into the cockpit and injuring the driver.

And so you don't mess with safety stuff.

You just don't.

The other things, you might get in trouble, but you don't mess with the things that were added to save drivers' lives.

And so that attenuator is basically in sections designed to collapse.

And they had welded the two main sections together and then smoothed it over.

The idea being that it was more aerodynamically, you know, it was quicker or whatever.

It's probably the minimal improvement.

But what it did was, is it created a situation where that's not going to crush.

And so, you know, you might be setting up a situation to paralyze your drivers, to break your driver's back.

So you don't mess with those things.

This is the second scandal that Pinske has been involved in.

Roger Pinsky has won the Indy 500 20 times as an owner, but he also owns IndyCar.

He owns the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The Indy 500 is his baby.

And so, and he's Mr.

Integrity.

And it was his team that keeps getting busted doing stuff.

So that's why everyone was fired.

And I'm stunned.

Like Tim Cindrick in particular, who'd been president of the organization forever, his son drives for Pinskey and NASCAR, won the Daytona 500.

But for them to just clean house is just week of the Super Bowl.

The captain's done.

So, yeah, just imagine if Jerry Jones became the commissioner of the NFL, but still operated the Cowboys, and then the Cowboys won the Super Bowl, but then the Cowboys

had some cheating scandal.

Like, that's what this is.

It's just the level of it is just crazy.

Yeah, and Penske fired everybody.

I assume that there is plausible deniability from Penske's part

of this happening.

Right.

And also Joseph Newgarden probably did not know this was happening?

Right.

The argument is, these are the parts that will deliver us by Delara that builds the cars.

You know, we've rotated, you know, so we didn't, you know, it was only in two of the three cars.

So they're part of it, we were handed this part, is their argument.

But that's what Roger Penske said initially.

And now he's cleaned house.

Is that what it is right there?

Yeah.

So

I need a better.

I don't know where you're getting.

So, yeah, so

this is the rear end of the car, like headed to the left.

And right, that thing right there in the back.

And so normally there's two sections.

There's separate sections.

Again, it's designed to crush, and those were welded together.

So, you know, if you...

So Newgarden probably had no, would normally, driver would normally have no idea.

Driver would normally have no idea.

The cars are basically like stock cars delivered by this corporation that builds them right over here in Speedway.

And so their argument is, well, we didn't know.

But

I believe that Roger Pinsky, once he started doing his due diligence, realized something else was there.

Yeah, somebody had to have known.

And again, the advantage aerodynamically is super minimal.

But it's the idea of this second year in a row, y'all getting caught doing something, mistake or not, because you said this mistake the first time, now you say some mistakes the second time.

But that's not the point.

The point is you're messing with safety and

you're just kind of thumbing your nose.

And Newgarden's one of the greatest drivers on earth right now.

He's also incredibly handsome and he's an American.

And married a Disney princess.

Like he picked up.

He he goes to Disney World with his family.

And Belle, I think she was, like, the Disney princes, like, they're doing a meet and greet with the family.

And he was like, man, I like her.

And she was like, man, I like him.

And they found each other on social media a couple of days later because there's very strict rules about what Belle is allowed to do about the actual.

Heck, he's with the beast.

The beast also wants to be so mad.

Don't mind.

Everybody's mad at Joseph Nagarde.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Think about the beast when he found out a driver.

These guys broke the teeth cups.

And then you look at Joseph Newgarden, you're like, oh, that makes sense.

No, no, no, no.

It makes you.

No, Joseph Newgarden falls.

I always call it the Jesse Palmer category.

It makes you mad.

You can't be that good looking and also like be talented and also be like a really nice guy.

You can't.

Yeah, it just makes you mad.

Yeah, Newgarden's always been good to me.

I think he's been on the show a couple of times.

He's a good dude.

I've kind of seen him since he was a young lad coming out of Nashville all the way up until now.

And obviously he's earned everything.

Sucks that he's a part of this because in the driving world, I don't know how people, how much people know about IndyCar or racing as a whole.

It's like like that is not something that Joseph Newgarden's telling them, like, yeah, you know, like, yeah, go ahead and do that.

Joseph Newgard doesn't want that to happen.

And now I think there's a chance that his name, because now he's starting what position?

32nd?

He's starting on the back row.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So 30th or something.

If he wins it,

the race has never been won from further back than 28th.

That's only happened twice.

And the first time was the very first race in 1911.

The other time was like 1936.

We chatted about this a little bit before, though.

His car is going to be faster than any car that has ever started.

He's going to go through the field quick.

Or?

Or he's going to wreck trying to get through the field.

He holds off.

We need you to hold, Joseph.

Yeah, no offense to the back half of the field, but there's a lot of young and experienced racers out there.

And so he's going to have to navigate that.

And you'd be patient.

You're telling a race car driver to be patient, right?

That goes against everything they're about.

But you got a couple hours.

He needs to stay out of the shape.

He could do it.

Scott Dixon.

who said to me yesterday, he said, the sad thing about this is we're talking about this.

As opposed to.

As opposed to the fact that the weather going to be cool, the cars are going to be super fast.

It's going to be a great race.

It should be a great race.

We're all talking about the scandal.

But Scott Dixon also said there's no way.

And he's starting toward the front.

He's fourth.

He said, there's no way I'm not going to see Joseph Newgarden before the race is over with.

So everybody agrees if he just can get through the.

Shit.

No offense to the ding-dongs in the back.

He'll be all right.

They're great drivers, obviously.

They're Indy 500.

If he can get through the imps in the back, they'll be all right.

With the P there, obviously.

But

there's a massive crowd.

There's a lot of people there.

You know, in the the front, you're kind of on the outside.

In the back, you're on the outside.

But in the middle, there's a lot of shit happening.

Three wide, four wide happening from people that aren't very experienced in the 8500.

And then all of a sudden, they get a shot, boom.

And once you get one with all those people around,

that's when, I mean, Scott Dixon, a couple of years back, 2017, he got airborne flipped up like this because another car crashed in front of him and he tried to get out.

There's normally full chaos in like the first 20 laps, right?

In that corner?

Yeah, in the history of that race, again, they've been around since this will be the 109th running.

In the history of that race, most of the worst big crashes happen at the beginning because everybody's,

once they get 10 laps in, everybody gets a little strung out and all that.

But the nature of these cars now, too, I mean, back when I was growing up, if you had three leaders in the race, it was a huge deal.

Now, I mean, last year there was like 50 lead changes.

Kyle Larson told us he don't want to be in the lead.

Right.

He said, I actually don't want to be in the lead.

Now, in the lead, you get more money.

So there's cars that aren't as funded or teams that aren't as powerful.

they'll steal laps where they're in the lead.

And that's because you get more money for every lap that you're in the lead.

And also you're being talked about on TV.

And everybody that's in racing knows that as soon as old buddy gets out of pit, you are

getting passed.

Yet again, there's a lot of that that happens too.

Joseph has made a last lap pass the last two years to win the race.

And that used to never happen.

I mean, it happened only a handful of times in 100 and years and now it happens.

He started next to Will Power.

Yeah.

And then VK.

And then right in front of him, Marco Andretti.

Yep.

Up left is Graham Rayhall.

Yep.

So there's a lot of vets, actually.

Yeah, no,

and that'll help in the beginning.

And then in the middle, there's a lot of rookies in this race or a lot of really young guys.

But yeah,

it's going to help.

And the fact that Marco and Graham, in fact, I'm going to talk to Graham later this afternoon.

But, you know, Kelton Hurda, I mean, these guys, Ryan Hernando Ray has been around forever.

He won this race.

So, yeah.

But when you get into the middle, again, no offense to some of these guys.

And listen, Kyle Larson.

And what a great having him here.

He's awesome.

But even Kyle, I mean, this is only the second time he's ever run this race.

So there's just, going to be a lot going on.

Stingray Rob, by the way, is one of the greatest names of the history of the sports sports.

All time.

Yeah.

It's one of the greatest races of the history sport.

Yeah, we knew he'd be driving a Chevy, didn't we?

Oh, yeah.

How old's Ed Carpenter?

Ed Carpenter owns the team that he's racing for.

He's from Ralph Rose.

He's from Brownsburg, I think.

Yeah, he's from here.

If he were to win this race,

the grandstand would lose their mind because he was born and raised here.

What year was it?

Maybe 2000.

Ed had a good run.

He finished second.

Yeah, Ed was about to win and the place was about to go absolutely from Brownsburg.

Scott Ditson, maybe going to be in GOAT conversations whenever he's done with how great he has been.

And then you got Robert Schwartzman, the rookie.

Out of nowhere.

Team has never been here before.

He's never been here before.

Nicole Briscoe, Sports Center anchor, her husband, Ryan, one of the all-time great guys, has been kind of Robert's coach.

Robert's never been in an Oval race.

Never raced on an Oval in his life.

He comes from the Formula One deal.

And so it's going to be, and I love Takuma Sato.

When he finally won this race, the coolest thing is, so there's this group of Japanese

reporters, and all they do is they follow Takumi-sato, and they followed him for years.

And he's the nicest guy in the world, super fast, but always wrecked with a chance to win.

When Takumasato finally won the Indy 500 a few years ago, everyone in the media center turned around and looked at those Japanese guys and were like, congratulations.

And they lost their mind.

Because they finally got the payoff.

For years, they've been traveling with him.

Yeah, and they took the Borg Warner over to Japan, did a full media tour over there.

Yeah, I remember that.

It was a good time.

It was a few years back.

Yep.

Since we've been doing the show, I believe it happened.

Can't wait to follow the coverage this weekend.

And thank you for the breakdown.

Feel like I know more about it.

Good luck to Pato Award,

who's currently the odds-on favorite to win.

I enjoy the Joseph Newgarden revenge story.

Yeah.

At Plus Teams.

If he wins, it's going to be, there will be those that are going to say it's, you know, tainted or whatever.

If he wins, it's going to be one of the greatest stories.

He's got a whole new team.

Yeah.

He's the Chiefs.

He's the three-piece.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This is the three teams.

Pat Riley's probably waiting for 109 years.

No one's a one three in a row.

So I like seeing stuff I've never seen before.

So if he won three in a row, I would.

Are you doing the Kyle Larson travel this year?

Because we hit Kyle in the studio the other day.

He's a little fella.

He's awesome.

Yeah.

He was a great conversation with us.

And we told him to go on and win.

Yeah, go win that.

Go win that thing.

Go win both of you.

Go in that thing.

Yeah, I did that last year, and it was Mother Nature kicked our our butt.

From the time, and we woke up Sunday morning until I went to bed in Charlotte at 3 o'clock in the morning.

I was like, nope.

So I'm getting a little old for that.

But yeah, we have a rider on site, so I'm going to let her, I'm going to let Kelly Crandall pick that up.

We're going to relay that deal.

So I'm either going to be hanging out with y'all on Sunday night or I'll be back in Charlotte.

Game three, Acers Knicks, Sunday night after the Indianapolis 500, which follows obviously Monaco for F1.

So watch Monaco, judge F1 entirely off of that.

Yep.

Then watch the Indy 500.

And then watch the Coca-Cola 600 at night.

Greatest day of racing.

And then we'll just see.

Just judge them.

Yeah.

Just see what is real and what is.

I love this.

I know where you're going.

I know what you're saying.

Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Yeah, absolutely.

The spectacle of Monaco is amazing.

The racing.

Well, I just saw Vanderstaupen has his new yacht out.

Yeah, huge.

And that's awesome.

I do like that.

Million dollars plus an upkeep.

It looked beautiful.

I mean, as that thing was sailing in there,

absolutely.

But that's what that is.

Right.

Look at the yachts and stuff.

Everything but the race.

Yeah, we're here for race.

Okay, we're here for Joseph Newgard to get a brand new car, brand new team as the back-to-back champ, starting in 32nd place.

We like to see him kind of work his way, work strategy, kind of get through there.

Yeah, we like a rookie who,

you know, was maybe in the Formula One camps, coming over here and leading whenever there's nobody else on the track.

Yeah, he might have said that.

That's where he's at home.

We'll see how that goes.

I love talking 401 with Pat McAfee.

That's one of my favorite things.

I was in Miami.

I was at the Miami race, talking about your boy Chalamay.

I saw him at the Miami race at the start of the month, and the event was amazing.

And there was one pass for the lead, and it was great.

And the rest of it, you know, it was fine.

Exactly.

We were at a limit.

But the event was, I mean, again, you go for the event.

It was awesome.

We agree.

Half the NFL was there.

It was great.

But it was.

We're from Indianapolis.

So I kind of, like, I live here and I know all the people.

So I kind of feel obligated.

Even if I was at odds with, you know, the entire operation over there, while the F1 thing was running, I was like, all right, I'll check it out.

I was actually looking to,

I was like looking to enjoy it.

Did you go when it was here?

Absolutely not.

Okay.

Because they ran here for years.

They had to cut the grass, I think.

Schwartzman, though, might be one of those guys where he says, hey, F1, that's not racing.

Like the reason I came over here was because I want to pass guys.

He might have.

Yeah, you're right.

He might be at that dog.

Yeah, I don't think we can judge him till after this race because if he does just finish last or something.

He was in the Ferrari deal.

He was in the Ferrari pipeline.

And now

he's over here.

Yeah, now he's going to do some race.

Now he's ready.

Yeah, walk him over here, bud.

Good luck out there.

Sitting on a pole has never been an easy thing to do, especially at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

He gets out in his first attempt.

Good luck.

That's a big bonus as well.

Let's talk about

other sports that are happening, including basketball last night.

This Oklahoma City team might be for real.

Yeah, this is a real deal.

Yeah, they might be for real.

We watched Minnesota basically just, the body language, the play,

the score, everything would indicate that Minnesota kind of understands that maybe this is going to be a tough out here.

There's a chance that we got a sweep happening and brewing in the Western Conference Finals.

Good for them.

They might be able to get a break, depending upon what happens here tonight in Madison Square Garden.

There might be a sweep.

in the East, even though that first game was absolutely insane.

We are still potentially on pace for that, but I don't think that's in reality at all between the Knicks and the Pacers.

Over there, I don't know how Oklahoma City stopped.

They are so damn dominant.

I don't know how much you've got a chance to see this team, McGee.

We do not watch a lot throughout the season.

That's on us.

Okay.

I will say they're about the 40th storyline in the Western Conference alone by the end of the season, let alone the Luca trade.

And then let alone Malone and the GM getting fired from Denver.

Let alone Golden State on the big Jimmy Butler trade.

Let alone San Antonio has won

Like there's just so many stories in the West.

Oklahoma City being the greatest venue in the NBA is what people say.

It's unbelievable.

And also the greatest team in the NBA, only having 14 losses all season was somehow, and I can see why because it's Oklahoma City, I guess is what people would say.

They have the MVP.

They have the least amount of losses and they are dominating everybody through this playoffs run.

I think if you're the Pacers or the Knicks, you're trying to figure out how you can conserve yourself to get to a finals and keep up with this Oklahoma City team.

Yeah, it's just like Boston last year.

Like, basically, everything you said, it feels like we were saying about the Celtics.

Like, when there is that one team that is so far ahead of everybody, like Oklahoma City, there's almost no point to talk about them because everyone knew that they were going to be in it at the end.

And, of course, last series won seven, but I think it was Q Rich who came on here and said, hey, if they just win their home games, they win the title.

And watching them at home, like, I think Julius Randle, there was a clip of him being shown, and he had a tough outing.

Hartenstein had his way with him last night, but Julius Randle with like six minutes left, there's a clip of him telling his family, like, hey, get out of here.

Like, it's time to go.

And then, you know, the Jaden McDaniels, there's an interview of him either before the game or yesterday saying, like, yeah, maybe we're a little too physical.

Like, we need to kind of taper that back a little and play smart defense.

And then last night, he's pushing SGA onto the ground two-hand shove.

Like, they get under your skin.

They're so much better on offense and defense.

It's hard to imagine anybody beating them in seven games, but you never know.

Anyway, Pacers can run with them, and Jalen Brunson's still Jalen Brunson.

You know, so people have to remember that.

But watching that, it's like, oh, that might be,

that might be one of the most dominant teams of all time.

Yeah.

I watched that game last night.

I'm getting bored.

I'm like, damn, this is not even.

And then you go over to the NHL game.

Boy, that was boring.

Oh, my God.

Come on.

I mean, the only thing you're looking for is the Florida Panthers to kind of implement a little punishment to the Carolina Hurricanes.

And they did.

And they did.

Here's Marshie on Jay Doss's beer.

The guy that

clap bombed a puck at him from his own blue line in the last game.

Got a little comeuppance.

And then big lad there.

I don't have his name.

That's on me, fella.

Anyways, they dominated the Carolina Hurricanes, not only in scoreboard, but also physically.

Big shot.

Here's Greer.

Boom.

Take a seat, pal.

And then here's another one.

A guy gets caught up in like a double.

Greer again.

Bang, coming in and flying around.

Goss's Goss's beer again.

That was Shaneo.

Yeah, they're just beating the hell out of the Carolina hurricanes mentally, physically.

And it feels like that's a sweep.

So what we're kind of realizing is every other night, every other night now, because if those two are going to be sweeps, which very much could be.

It looks as if.

Very, very, very much could be.

I think tonight's action is the one that we're going to need to pay attention to.

And then bang, I think the next day,

and then we're going to be back.

But that's your Carolina Hurricane.

Your Kanes.

I've been sitting there.

I've been waiting you guys to quit banging on them.

No, it is what it is.

Banging on them.

That's what the Panthers are doing, but 14 straight.

Y'all talking about going to Cary.

So the arena there is literally right around the corner from Kerry, right next to Carter Finley Stadium, home of the NC State Wolfpack football team.

Everybody loves the Wolfpack.

Everybody also loves the Kaniacs, brother.

They love also this thing that they do at the beginning.

20,000-strong Kaniacs.

That's a great building.

That's a great building.

It is a great building.

So, so it's funny because

I went to work at ESPN right out of college, right out of Tennessee.

I lived in Connecticut, and they treated me like a foreign exchange student for two years.

Because back then, ESPN is much bigger now, but it was a little place, no southerners.

They're like, Ryan, do you like grinder sandwiches?

And so, but I became a huge, the only damn thing to do in Hartford was to go to Hartford Whalers games.

And they played their games in a mall and all that.

And so we would go to games.

And I became this huge Whalers fan, and I had no idea what I was looking at.

And so all of my coworkers called me Pucks McGee because I'm like, no, what's the deal with the red line?

Like, I knew about Wayne Gretzky, and I knew about the 1980 U.S.

Olympic hockey team.

Pass that, you know, whatever.

And so I had a Whalers jersey.

I got it like a gas station, like the whole deal.

So then when I moved, the joke became like, like, like, they were my team.

When I moved to North Carolina with the ESPN two years later, they came right behind me.

Like, they followed me.

I'm like, see?

Follow Pucks.

There you go.

They love me so much.

Follow Pucks.

Pucks McGee.

We take you to Promised Land.

Yeah,

it was awesome.

The fans down there in Carolina are awesome.

Yeah.

The building and the atmosphere is talked about as being maybe one of the best, if not the best.

I know there's some Canadian teams that will talk about it in America in the NHL.

It wasn't last night.

They were pissed.

Their team is so good, so good whenever they do their thing.

But as soon as they run into a team that can just get them off of their shit, their script, it's over.

And I think that's happened in the finals for them.

14 straight games in the conference finals, they've lost.

So once they meet the team.

Yeah, it'll get a little uneasy.

Yeah, they're always there, but they are are never there.

Yeah, but when they get there, they're going to run into a team.

Like, this is the problem.

Because as you whittle away the teams, you're going to get to the actual good teams.

And they all just can take you right out of your script, basically.

So how do you respond?

How do you counter that?

And they've just never been able to do that for whatever reason.

The Florida Panthers are also very good, but it does feel like the Carolina Hurricanes have this issue where they have no adjustments whenever they finally meet a team that can kind of take care of their shit.

And Rob Brindan Moore said last night in his post-game, like, yeah, we had a plan.

And then in the first period, I have no idea what the hell happened.

I don't know what they were doing out there.

And that kind of goes back to, I think, what the big rig said: where like coaching in the NHL is a little different because once the puck drops, it's hard to change anything.

And so, whatever plan they had, they did not stick to it because the Panthers just came out, they scored less than two minutes in.

And then that's basically all she wrote.

They got them off their game.

What's old Buddy's name and goal for Carolina?

Freddie Anderson.

Somebody needs to go play catch with this guy.

They are peppering, they are hammering Gloveside, and the Panthers looking like they can be a team that can run it right back.

Oilers stars tonight.

Obviously, stars have a massive comeback in game one of the Western Conference Finals, down 3-1, then score three goals in the first six minutes of period three, and then run away with it.

Connor McGee's and the boys looking to win a title for Canada and for themselves for the first time, long time.

Dallas trying to keep his thing in America.

Good luck to Otter.

Good luck to Miko.

Drive sidel.

McGee's and the boys.

Should be a great game.

This is going to be a good game.

Not like what Carolina is putting up against the Florida Panthers.

Now, everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

That's right.

Mike Tyson said that.

And in hockey, it seems like over a seven-game series, it's not just in the mouth you get punched.

You also get punched in the lower back.

You get a punch in the ribs.

I think the risk in it.

Big old bruise in your biceps.

Yeah, yeah.

Every once in a while, you got to play hockey with Gunther.

Anyways, let's get back to some NBA talk with a friend of the program, ladies and gentlemen, man who's played in the NBA for 13 years.

Absolute dog, co-host of the Knuckleheads podcast, ladies and gentlemen, Quentin Richardson.

Hey, Q Rich.

Appreciate it, fellas.

Appreciate it, fellas.

You see that, Q Rich?

That's like two weeks old now at this point, dude.

How did that happen?

Not flexing.

Ah, Gunther.

Yeah, me and Gunther got into a dog fight in there in St.

Louis, and he went to chop me with a backhand like this one time.

And I think maybe the elbow caught me in the shoulder.

Next day, couldn't lift my left arm.

I'm like, what the hell happened to my left arm?

I watched it back at the end.

He gave me like a slingshot Lariat and I landed on my shoulder.

I was like, oh, maybe I dislocated my shoulder.

Then I was moving.

I was like, no, it's just, it's fine.

I just can't move.

Then four days later, this thing came in.

And I don't think it's leaving anytime soon.

No.

I mean, that's two weeks old in there.

That was a deep bruise.

Oh, yeah.

Tusion.

I mean,

I might have had a bone bruise from his elbow.

That's the blood coming up to the surface, huh?

Yeah, man.

It's body healing.

That's body healing.

You know, maybe I need to go smack some wood.

Yeah, not a bad idea.

Maybe I need to go pop some wood.

You know, yeah, yeah.

All right, all right.

Let's get to it.

Hey, let's go to Oklahoma City team.

Outrageous.

Outrageous right now.

And we are a part of the problem, I think Oklahoma City fans would say, because we obviously have a lot of people that watch for whatever reason on all the platforms that we are currently on.

And we didn't talk about Oklahoma City at all.

The only time we talked about Oklahoma City throughout the entirety of the NBA season, we kept saying, everybody's saying we need to talk about OKC more.

And then we talk about OKC with SGA.

This guy's going to win the MVP.

And then we move on to every other storyline that was obviously part of the global headlines.

This team's outrageous.

Do you think Minnesota knows they have no chance here?

What do you think the thoughts are out of Minnesota's camp?

And with Oklahoma City, it feels like they're only getting more confidence somehow.

Is that accurate with how you're feeling?

Yeah, I would agree.

I mean, obviously, you know, they did what they were supposed to do.

You're supposed to protect your home court, come out and win the first two games.

If I'm Minnesota, I mean, obviously, you're a little disappointed in the way you perform, but I mean, they got to know that they're going back home to Minnesota.

They're going to have a crazy crowd, and

they got to handle their business now.

Their job is to protect their home court, get game three, and then worry about game four after that.

Then, you got to turn your attention to trying to win on the road in OKC, which where it's looked very tough for them in the first two games.

Yeah, Oklahoma City seems like they're going to be tough forever, but they have been.

Yeah, they have been all year.

They've been tough.

They're a really good team.

If y'all been sleeping, I don't know how.

They've been this good the entire season long.

All right, Q, Rich, we get it.

I just admitted that.

You know, I just said that we were a part of the problem.

I don't need you to double down.

Okay.

But yes, this team might be, they're talking about maybe one of the most dominant seasons of all time.

I mean, when you look at

the amount of points they won, the games by the double-digit victories and how they had very few close contests, I mean, I'm not a big, you know, going deep dive into the stats like that, that, but I mean, probably statistically, I don't think people would look at them as all time and say that just with the, you know, just with the collection of guys they got.

But I mean, statistically, from what I'm hearing, they definitely are up there.

Yeah, I think a lot of people are starting to like build that narrative now.

And Oklahoma City fans are like.

Yeah.

Yeah, that is what we have been saying this entire time.

He's obviously been going bananas.

He's a foul artist is what Coach Malone says.

He's not the only one in the league.

Their ability to be able to work the rules and make it appear as as if a foul is happening is better than others.

It's a talent.

It's a skill.

And until they stop calling it, why would he stop doing it?

Is basically his

message.

And every former player that I've talked to basically has said that.

And whenever we take it to our game, it's like Patrick Mahomes isn't scared to.

you know, get a little extra if it's going to gain 15 yards.

And he's by far the best guy in our league.

So I guess we can't really say much about it.

They're going to call it.

You got to take advantage of it.

He certainly has.

And they've been dominant.

And the games are boring.

The games are boring.

But the atmosphere is electrifying down there.

So congrats all of Oklahoma.

And yeah, let's see if Ant-Man can answer at home.

I hope he's able to do it.

It doesn't feel likely.

Rudy Gobert has this pregame dribbling.

He's got handles.

Yeah, he can do it.

Did you see this, Q, Rich?

Did you guys hold on?

AI.

ESPN.

TikTok certainly did him no favors putting this on.

Now, somebody had this on camera somewhere because he's doing this in a public place.

So this is probably going to get out somewhere.

Get loose, man.

This is just one of the ways you try and figure out to get yourself going in the game.

He's not, yeah,

he's not gonna

try any of that in the game.

Yeah, yeah, I um, I don't

okay, Pat.

I see it.

I just really got Baron.

I just really got Baroness.

Thing about it is, I've never played organized basketball.

You're in a tight space, yeah.

It's tight space.

Hey, the balls are flat.

You know, if I had to go wood,

hey, if I could if I could bop this off,

good wood, you know what I mean?

Yeah, need some of that good wood to get that Rudigo Bear dribbling technique.

I think all that blood from that bruise went straight to your face just then.

My face is always red, McGee.

You know that.

I mean,

that is part of the game.

Rudigo Bear was done no favors, but they need to pick it up if they're going to make this a series because, boy, it seems as if that thing is a one-way bullet train running over everybody in Oklahoma City.

Let's talk about the other series.

Tonight, Connor has a question for you.

Yeah, Q Rich, Knicks lose in devastating fashion overtime.

There's now clips coming out before overtime of some of the Knicks players kind of arguing on the bench when they were up, I think, like 123, 118 before the comeback was complete.

How deflating of a loss is this for the Knicks?

Do you see them kind of bouncing back immediately or is this one of those, hey, this could linger into game two and then when they come back to Indiana, it becomes a must-win situation?

Or do you think Thibodeau already told them, like, hey, we got to get this done, you know, get over it.

It's time to go back out there, win a game, and tie the series.

Yeah, man, I'm pretty positive that, you know, Coach Thibodeau and even the players are probably telling each other, like, hey, it's over with it's done, what has happened, and we got to, you know, flush it down the toilet and move on to the next game.

And I'm pretty sure that everybody is planning to do just that.

But I mean, the thing I'll be paying attention to is

do they really achieve doing that?

Because, I mean, it's not as easy as just saying it and doing it.

The way they lost that game in that fashion, never in history done before.

But I mean,

even if it had happened in history before, the fact that it happened to the Knicks in the garden, it's a different feeling.

Like now,

when I come into this game tonight, watching this game, if the Knicks don't start off lightning fast and get that crowd on fire, you'll hear it.

Or even if they get out to a start, as they start to come back, you'll be able to sense from watching on TV.

Every shot is going to have a,

if they miss, it's going to, it builds.

In the garden, like nowhere else.

I played there four years, been there a bunch of times.

I'm telling you, when you struggle and in this type of situation after that game, it's going to be so important for them to start this game out in a good way to give that crowd something to get loud about.

And they're still going to have the little back of their head like we can't get too ahead of ourselves because they just came back crazy.

But they got to give the crowd something to get into early.

Okay, so on that note, you talk about the crowd over there in New York.

McGee has a question for you.

Q.

Do you know Ryan McGee?

Yeah, Q.

I know who he is.

I know who he is.

i've seen him on the esp a bunch and by the way first of all i appreciate you having that 2000 espn the magazine back there i'm pretty i'm pretty sure i have like a nascar story buried on like page 80

but hey uh that was my that was my first cover so you know that's very near that was pretty big time for me a college kid and just a chicago kid and being on the cover of espn hey that was my first cover i like that yeah i like that i was on i was on the conference call and we decided to do that so you're welcome i voted for you

i appreciate that because I definitely know it wasn't.

I didn't know I was supposed to be the cover until it actually happened.

So I definitely appreciate that.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Wait another pack for us.

Let's go on.

Thank you, McGee.

Thank you, McGee.

I wanted to, so to the point you just made, I wanted to ask you about, I mean, you played in multiple cities, but what is it like, you know, as a sports writer, we try to make a big deal out of playing in New York or playing in LA or playing for certain franchises.

But what is it like the pressure or not of playing at MSG and playing for the Knicks and when the team's doing well and also when it's struggling, what is that actually like for y'all?

I think I was listening to Stephen A the other day and he made a good point that I hadn't really thought about.

Because like I said, I was there when I was playing for the Knicks when the Giants won and when the Yankees won and like all we would hear was like, yeah, they was going crazy.

But like, man, if the Knicks win, and it makes sense because what Stephen A said is that when you think about

the Giants, there's the Giants and the Jets.

So no matter which side or how many more on each side, there's there's still a split, a divide.

Same thing when you go to baseball, Yankees and the Mets.

No matter who has more, it's still some type of split.

It's only one basketball team.

It's the New York Knicks.

And anybody that you ask about New York, no disrespect to Brooklyn, but they were New Jersey before they became Brooklyn.

And New York Knicks are the team of New York.

And I don't know if that'll ever change.

And so when you put everybody, that's the collective of everybody, all the Giants fans, all the Jets fans, all the Islanders, you put all of them into one and they all going for the Knicks.

And so when you in that building and you feel that, you know,

even when you outside the building, when you're going to dinner, when you going to the movies, when you walk in the streets, these guys are everywhere.

And they always are letting you know they are the most aware fans of anybody.

They'll know the 13th man who don't even suit up.

They will know who he is walking in the streets and have something to say.

You appreciate it to the point.

I mean, especially me for like being removed from it because I I played for five, six teams, and I could be anywhere on the planet.

And there will be somebody that is a New York Knicks fan that will come up to me and say, yo, son, and not just say you was a Knicks.

They're going to give me a specific moment from a game or a time and let you know that

they are for real.

They're not just saying something.

Like, that's the most impressive thing about Knicks fans worldwide, like worldwide.

Forget about the United States.

I've been out of the country and somebody rolls up, like, son, you played for the Knicks in 07.

It's like, this is crazy.

They know ball, huh?

Are everywhere.

They know ball is what you're saying.

It sounds like you're saying like the Knicks fans know ball and there's a lot of them.

Now, whenever you talk about that many humans living in one area, there's obviously going to be more sports fans, you would assume.

Feels like the Knicks.

are just like even people that maybe aren't fans of other sports too in that city are like no we're Knicks fans MSG is right in the middle of this entire thing it's kind of like uh it feels like to your point the Knicks are the thing that unifies everybody there Jalen Brunson's king of that city right now.

I mean, Aaron Judge, obviously,

is beloved over there, but he's still got Juan Slow-Mo over there.

The Knights, too.

They're ready to run him on ahead.

But Jalen Brunson, I thought about Jalen the other night because, you know, on the basketball court, he looks like he's undersized, not as tall or whatever.

So I thought about him just walking through New York City one time.

with no security or whatever.

It's like that would be a, right?

He's the king of that place.

And if you were to win, if you were to win as a nick over there you're literally king of city for the rest of your life i assume right

at this point jalen brunson is is good he's a made man in new york for for for for the for his lifetime whether i mean if he wins if he wins he'll be like he could probably own the city if they get a championship jalen brunson could probably do anything under the sun but like even falling short of actually delivering the nba championship what he's been able to play like uh deliver to this team with his level of play and for who they thought they were getting and who he has become and then he took a he took a discount he could have waited to next year to sign and hit him with the Super Max he didn't do that he signed a lower deal and allowed them to go out and use the money to get other people like he's just done things that

he's gonna go down in folklore.

He'll be the,

like I say, he's on pace to be the greatest Nick ever.

If he wins NBA championship, it won't even be a contest.

But he still has a chance to achieve that title even if he doesn't win a championship.

That's how crazy he's gone since he's arrived in new york what do you have in game one 43 41 43.

so good

he is so good so fun to watch and he had a three there late with somebody in his like it's either new smith or nemord yeah i think it might have been uh i forget who the the floater over obtain over obie top and insane yeah especially as obie hits his head off the rim basically obie obie's bounce is outrageous

effortless fourth quarter ot got to be tired.

Fourth quarter OT.

You've already been through it, let alone it's game 100.

His hands are like the top of the backboard.

Jalen knows that.

Floats it over top of him.

Unbelievable.

Touch by Jalen Brunson.

Tyrese obviously does his thing.

No big deal.

But we just brought up Neesmith right there.

Tone has a question for you.

Yeah, cute.

Neesmith was obviously the number two for the Pacers in game one.

We always know that Halliburton is going to be the facilitator, most likely going to take the shots in the clutch.

But how nice is it for the Pacers and how hard is it for the Knicks that they never know like who the number two is going to be?

Obviously, Siakam's out there and skill-wise, he probably is the number two, but like he's not always the number two scorer.

So

how nice is that for the Pacers and how hard is that to defend for the Knicks?

I mean, that's one of the things that make the Pacers as good as they are, man.

I mean, much like OKC, you know, like they're so deep and they got so many different players that could come in and they play such a selfless team style of basketball that you don't know.

Even with Tyrese Hallebert being the number one guy, the all-starter facilitator, he still doesn't always lead them in scoring in points.

He's always going to probably lead them in scoring, I mean, passing the ball and facilitating and getting assists.

But like you said, it could be Pascal one night.

It might be Miles Turner, Neese Smith.

You got Nimhar.

You got, they got a lot of different guys.

DJ McConnell.

Look, DJ McConnell, a dog, he comes in and changes everything up.

He's one of my favorite players off the bench because you need those type of guys.

And then the other thing for me that I feel like doesn't get enough credit is coach rick carlisle like coach rick carlisle is a championship coach and he's been coaching at a championship level for a lot of years and he's not a guy that you know makes a big fuss or a big personality so he may not get the attention and the love that he deserves but i mean the job that he's been able to do like man they play they go nine ten eleven deep with guys that average over 15 minutes a game throughout the season and up to 30 something so like that's a that's a lot of players that you bringing in and out and he's giving those guys a lot of confidence and so the results that you're seeing happening now, it's not just like he getting into the playoffs to start a dupe thing.

These guys have been playing all season long.

They've been getting minutes here and there in different situations, and they're ready for these moments because they've been in those opportunities and been in those situations.

And he's giving them the confidence to come in and play well.

And I think we're seeing the end result of that.

This is a scary, scary pacing thing.

I mean, I said this the other day, though, when we were on here.

I said, Don't be surprised or don't take the Pacers lightly.

Yes, I picked the Knicks, but I'm not shocked that the Pacers, I mean, well, I was shocked at the way that game went down.

Everybody was.

I was shocked at the way it went down, but I wasn't shocked that they were able to get a game and they could actually win this series.

I wasn't shocked by that.

Zero in 1,414.

That's a stat that is a matter-of-fact thing, not just a stat.

Zero.

I'm a former player.

I'm a former player.

I watch games every single night.

I'm not somebody who is easily moved.

When what the hell he hit that shot, I leaped out of my seat and yelled, What the?

I was like, oh, ran from outside of my house into the house.

It was like, yo, I was asking my kids, did you just, it was crazy.

Yeah, you're heartbroken, heartbroken, media nicks guy, heartbroken about Tyrese Zallenberg.

And then having the wherewithal to hit the choke selling, obviously awesome.

And then it's only at two.

We got to go to overtime.

Thank God we won.

I do have source says close to the situation that have said that Tyrese immediately upon finding out that it was not a three and it was a two said, oh no, that was a two?

Okay, we have to win.

This is, I have source says close to the situation that have said that.

And I appreciate the fact that he acknowledged it and said, I might have wasted it.

You know, I might have wasted it.

I think he got it out of the way.

I think he got it out of the way.

Did what people were maybe expecting if a situation like that happens who knows if he ever falls into another situation like that in madison square garden with reggie miller on the call and to get out of there with a win well done tyrese just like everything else all right he definitely didn't waste it he he made it listen it would have been more iconic if it was a three and it was the end of it definitely but the fact that he still got that off and the the the moment of it all and and everything nah he didn't waste it all i agree with him you can't keep doing it but like that was legendary that will go down even though it didn't win the game, we're going to see that replay and that whole everything.

We're going to see that for years to come.

That was an iconic legendary shot.

Tyrese 24-2.

He's got a lot of sport left.

I think there's a chance at some point something's going to happen.

That's going to be used against Tyrese.

No doubt.

Tyrese knows that.

Tyrese knows that.

Okay, last question about this series, and we'll let you go.

Go ahead, Ty.

Q, obviously, we know Brunson's going to get his and Cat and, you know, Bridges and all those guys.

But if the Knicks are to win tonight, who is the biggest X factor that they need to either

give more minutes or score, have like a 20-plus point game?

Which person that no one is really talking about needs to have a massive game tonight for the Knicks to win?

I don't know that nobody's talking about them, but to me,

I feel like they,

outside of Kat, Anthony Towns, and Brunson, The next two guys for me are always going to be OG Ananobi and then Mikael Bridges.

Because I feel like even when you talk about Brunson and Anthony Towns,

Josh Hart is a constant to me.

And his constant doesn't have to be points.

He always shows up in every other way, whether he scores big or not.

He's out there defending at a high level, rebounding, playing different guys and doing different things.

So he always shows up in his role.

So to me, if OG can show up and be good and then Mikael can too,

that seriously heightens the Knicks' chances.

But I mean, just what you said, like the

Chad Anthony Towns and Jalen Brunson scored 70-some points combined if he had 40 cat had 30 and to not get that w

that's a worry for me because if you tell me going into the game that cat's gonna double double with 30 and brunson's gonna get you 40 plus to me that's a nicks win and if the pacers with with you know withstood that and still got them a victory to me the pacers should be oozing confidence going in there trying to be greedy and saying we're gonna get two and bring them back to our home court and finish them off so i mean mean it's it's gonna be it's gonna be super interesting to see man but like i said i'll be super interested to see how they re how the knicks really have recovered from that game because that was a that was a soul taker You talk about Josh Hart.

I was trying to pull up the clip from the other night.

He obviously had a swollen eye as if he had just got out of a boxing match because of what happened.

Yeah, absolute dog.

Absolute dog.

That was in warm-ups.

I saw the clip.

So that Knicks team is awesome to watch, fun to watch.

And good luck to you and your Knicks as the Pacers look to move to 2-0 in the Eastern Conference Finals.

You're the man.

Ladies and gentlemen, Quentin Richardson.

Thanks, buddy.

Thank you, Rich.

Oh, wait, wait, wait.

Q, Q, wait, wait, wait.

Yeah, I just want to make sure, Q Rich, you know.

Get out there and see Final Reckoning this weekend.

It's great.

Today

is the day.

I am already situated.

I have my ticket.

I'm going to one of the

cinemat joints.

You got the, yeah, the iMacs.

I could sit back.

The seats go up.

I could bring a blanket if I want to do the whole, yeah, they got drinks for you and everything.

There you go.

All right.

You need to do this.

Let us know how it goes.

You're the best.

Ladies and gentlemen, Quinton Richardson.

Talk about Mission Impossible Final Reckoning there, McGee.

I need to see it.

I think the whole world is.

It had the highest premier ticket sales in the history of the franchise, mission, as TC calls it.

And this one is allegedly the most absurd of all of them.

No, no.

Tom Cruise is 100% willing to die for our entertainment.

He will die.

And I appreciate that.

And that's a a good point.

You might not be able to.

No, it's on the well.

And the cool thing now is, like, my daughter's 20, and we're going back and watching, like, we're going to go back and watch the first one, which was in like 1996.

Yeah.

That's 28 years ago yesterday.

Yeah.

It was the debut.

That's crazy.

Of Mission One.

Yeah.

And so going back and watching all of them, it's awesome.

Man, you're ready to go.

And plus, it's got Haley Atwell in it, who's Captain America's girlfriend, which is awesome.

Yeah.

Okay, so as we wrap up here, we know you got to go because you've got super important things.

Bullshit, McGee.

Last time you hung out the whole time throughout football.

Now we will have no opportunity to have another athletic.

No, no.

Just so you know, that was peak athletic achievement for me.

I'm never doing that again.

I'm smart enough to walk away.

Smart.

I'm like the guy that wins the Masters and just says, All right, I'm out.

Smart.

Blocking.

Smart.

That will be blocking.

Two blocks back.

Two blocks back.

What's a course record, Jeff?

Two blocks back.

You get so uncomfortable.

I love it.

Not uncomfortable.

Yeah, you're not uncomfortable.

You're not disgusting.

Not a participant.

McGee, hold on.

We only got 10 seconds, 20 seconds left.

Who's going to win the NFL?

I think that Scott Dixon will finally get his second inning in Alpisava.

Okay.

Who wins Coca Cola 600?

I think that Chase Elliott will win the Coca Cola 600.

Who wins Knicks Pacers tonight?

I'm going to say the Knicks because I want to leave this building safe and secure.

Well, then.

I'm sorry, the Pacers.

Enough.

You've got enough.

Thank you, McGee.

Good luck, McClix.

The smoke out of my nose.

CBD.

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This weekend, go ahead and take a little time to think about the badasses that laid it on the line for this country so we can enjoy all the things that'll be enjoyed this weekend.

Obviously, most people have a nice three-day weekend, so go ahead and enjoy your cook-outs, your barbecues, your lake time, your family time, your hot dogs, your burgers, your ice

beers.

White.

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We got this whiskey.

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give me the jack?

That's right.

And we will roll into a phenomenal afternoon of watching sports, both the conference finals for hockey and the conference finals for the NBA.

And I think there's even baseball happening.

Oh, yeah.

Loads of baseball.

Memorial Day is kind of like the, to the layman, it's like the start of the baseball season because now the weather's starting to get nice.

So it's like, hey, summer's here.

Here we go.

We got a lot of baseball.

I see you with your red socks jersey on.

You are the Yankees hoodie on.

Oh my God.

Baseball season's starting this weekend.

Yeah.

That means Paul Skeen's record should be zero and zero from this point going forward.

It should be

seasonal over, actually.

They actually just asked the GM like, hey, you guys going to trade him.

He's like, no, absolutely not.

We're not going to trade him.

So when they do that, right?

That came out today.

So I think they asked him maybe last night or something like that.

But no, it looks like Paul Skeen's going to be in Pittsburgh for the Four Seabill fans.

So Pirates fans, which there are some diehards like that, will just blindly follow the Pirates and blindly hope for better in the future.

And I'm going to say we were potentially some of them there for a couple of times, but there's people that do it full-time.

You know, there's full-time, those people.

They're not going to like us saying this.

But as a friend of Paul Skeens,

and

you heard the arena at Big Night Out,

get him to a place where he deserves to win.

Boston.

Get him to a place where he can play in front of people.

He's pitching tonight.

Who are they playing?

He's got another.

He's facing a good team.

They're going to lose to.

No, they're

playing against Milwaukee.

Is it in Pittsburgh or is it in Milwaukee?

In Pittsburgh.

Okay, so it's a Friday night.

Start of Memorial Day weekend.

Get out to the stadium.

It's a pitcher.

Jeans is on the bump.

Let's go.

Brawls can spin it, too.

It'll be a good game.

Okay, so let's get out to the park.

So baseball is starting this weekend.

Pirates are about to hit.

Look out, eight home runs.

Eight?

Well, if they scored more than four runs, that would be the first time they've done that in 26 games, which

is the budget record.

I believe they did yesterday.

No, they didn't.

Yeah, the wood's hot, brother.

The season is beginning.

So you got baseball, you got hockey, you got basketball, you got golf.

The blocks are back.

Block is back, baby.

Look out for Blocky this weekend.

He's coming for blood.

He's above.

He's currently

doing better than...

How many people?

I don't know.

Basically, everybody, I'd say he's T13 or something.

I saw Scotty Scheffler was two over through six today.

So if he's two over through six, I don't know what Blocky's going to be 14 over through six today.

No, no, no, because

with his son on the bag, younger Block and Big Block, they're saying two blocks back.

Two blocks back.

What's the course record, Ty?

Two blocks back.

Were they saying that at the PGA, too?

Because his son was on the bag and he missed the cut.

Shot in 85.

Well, the crowds weren't big enough that.

That was different.

He had a good time.

Okay,

I've heard through the grapevine that Blocky was enjoying himself a little bit.

Oh, he's having a, maybe Jack and

maybe Jack and died.

He was excited to be there.

Pumped to be there, celebrating his boy.

That's why he'll never win.

No, he's excited to be there.

Go fucking win a tournament then.

Well, he's trying this weekend.

He chooses when he tries.

He's Blocky.

One half of the hammer died.

You guys suck.

What?

Yeah, you guys suck.

Knock it off.

Who's you guys?

You two.

You guys right here.

Sorry, we like American Dreams, brother, because that's who Blocky is.

Yeah, it's Memorial Day weekend brother

why don't you have a little celebration about a guy who never thought he'd be on this stage all he'd been doing is like tin cup working at the range working at his course giving out lessons trying to create better golfers people that love the sport sure as a pga professional in california allegedly tc wants to do a blocky stop movie stop stop that's where i draw the line and i think you know you know nope stop it no one loves blocky more than blocky does are you talking about blocky yeah more than his family does because he's a good you brought up this weekend he does kind of seem like allegedly a stolen valor type of guy.

Thank you, Tony.

Thank you, Tony.

No, he would never.

That is unbelievable.

That's one half of the hammer.

Die, Cowboy.

Yeah, I've been on the board for, I don't know, 10, 15 years.

This is all because the one thing he said.

And we must remember where and how he said what he said.

Amen.

He, after hitting a couple hole-in-ons and having a great performance.

A couple, you say.

Yeah, two hole-in-ons, I think.

I think it was one.

No, just a whole

in my mind.

I don't think he had two hole-in-ones at the PGA.

You had two.

He had one on Sunday playing with Rory.

Okay.

In Rory's grill.

And that's not enough for you to have respect for him.

Then he goes and does an interview, and I think context was potentially lost.

And he said something along the lines of, if I could drive the ball like Rory, I'd be the best player in the world.

Yes.

Which is true.

I don't know.

Scotty Shepherd's pretty good close.

So I think what he was saying is, if you get me within 100, I'm...

I mean, that's where I'm at.

I just can't drive the ball as far as these guys can.

So I'm starting way back.

So it's different irons than whenever, you know, what I'm in my in my bread basket, you know, I play from those blue tees.

You know, I can get it to where we need to be.

You put me at the tips.

I ain't got a, I ain't got a, he said he plays with his boy who can drive the shit out of the ball.

And whenever they have a scramble, he's unbelievable.

Everybody immediately after he said that said, oh, we hate this guy.

Yeah.

And turned on him.

I would like to let Blocky know, I didn't turn.

Neither did Connor.

Uh-uh.

I did for a little, but not anymore.

His remaining, you know,

few turned on him when he said last week, you know, I played like shit because the crowds weren't big enough.

Yeah.

Well, and that's Blonky, baby.

That's a dickhead thing to say.

No.

No, it's not.

Yeah, it is.

Hey, you know why there's no crowds around you?

Because you just got a quintuple bogey on the last hole, and Scotty is going to win a major.

That's why no one gives up.

This guy is

a professional golfer full-time.

This guy is.

Exactly.

Yeah, he's.

I don't want to fucking watch him.

I'll go to my local muni and watch the pro there shoot a 74.

And guess what?

After the round, he's not going to flip his ball cap on backwards and do a a selfie video.

Hey, what's up, guys?

Blocky.

He's never done that.

He's never done that.

He's never done that.

He's never done that.

And guess what?

Your local muties never done what Blocky's done.

Either.

Hole in one.

Yeah.

Sunday.

PGA channel.

This last sports are the best.

This is why sports are the best.

And you're laughing because you got the video right in front of you.

Pot it up.

Blockies up.

No, thanks.

They asked him to do that.

Once again, just like the interview about him hitting it far, he's getting put in these bad positions.

This guy isn't a professional media person.

He's trying to teach golf, not talk about it.

And then he put him in a...

Why do I always see him in front of a camera?

Giving a quote, having something to say.

It's not his fault.

Everybody wants to be on the block.

Everybody wants to be the block.

He's a chip off the old block blocking.

Everyone wants to be blocked.

Johnny SDL, golf expert.

Ladies and gentlemen, A.J.

Hawk.

AJ Harrow.

A.J.

I, you know, we didn't fully comprehend the way Ty felt about Blocky I don't think until you know very recently here and

I met Blocky he was nice to me yeah I'm not saying he's not a nice guy he was the man to you guys nobody said he wasn't a nice guy

didn't he teach you good you got to come through yeah he gave me a little he did give me a little out of the slot getting a slot yeah

like you're chopping wood Ty, wait, is Ty upset, though, because Michael Jordan told Blocky that he is an inspiration to him?

Is that why Ty is so upset about that?

Probably.

If I know Ty, yeah, that's probably it.

I mean, that'd make me feel pretty good.

Hey, Blocky, why don't you go win this tournament?

Yeah.

Why don't you go while you're eating popcorn?

It's so good still.

It's a couple days old, but it's delicious.

How many whiskey sours did Jordan have before he said that?

One or two.

He meant it.

He must have meant it.

Did Jordan love reach out to Blockie?

Oh, I saw Blocky golf from Khaled.

DJ Khaled was out there doing it.

He was good for golf.

He was good for sports.

I agree.

I'd like to thank Blocky.

That first round round was awesome.

We're going to see Blocky running with that kid soon, like Khaled was, you know, that guy.

Hey, did we expect Khaled to be able to get the knee drive that he got?

No, I was not.

Khaled's got good feet.

Like, he legit has good feet, man.

Like, he's an athlete.

I really think.

I followed him training one summer.

He was trying to get better there for a little bit.

And he is able to move.

I didn't expect he was going to be able to stride.

Oh, yeah.

Like, that's so much on so many.

He tore his Achilles.

Did you see the update no he did not yeah he blew his shit no he did not DJ Khaled he was right back to probably writing music making music streaming things uh nonetheless congrats Blocky good luck hey good lucky yeah for real

well Ty doesn't think that at all okay so Pacers mix tonight oilers stars tonight let's hope they are both better games than what we had last night Florida Panthers blow out the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh North Carolina and the Oklahoma City Thunder blow out the Minnesota Timberwolves in Oklahoma City.

Those two look like those are potential sweeps now.

Minnesota at home could be a whole different game, but watching these teams play against each other the last two times, it's been a pretty

one-sided affair.

And it feels like with this Oklahoma City team, they could...

they've turned it on.

I don't know about turning it on, but maybe they figured out something else.

They're only getting better.

They're getting stronger somehow.

He wins the MVP, buys the entire team Rolexes.

So I think they're only getting tighter.

It's like, that's what you want out of a championship team.

That's what you see championship teams do.

And this type of camaraderie, I think, is the tightness of the group can lead you to the championship.

I think personally, AJ, when I saw the Rolex thing and the way they were acting off the court, it's like, oh, yeah, they're seemingly best friends out there as well, Age.

Yeah, and I think, don't you think being in Oklahoma City kind of helps that team?

Like, when they show like these sweeping drone shots of OKC outside the arena, it reminds me of like, not Green Bay but kind of the Green Bay feel like hey this isn't like an arena stuck in some big city in the middle of a downtown like it looks like and then you sit here and you watch the game you see the atmosphere and hear Coach Malone to say like hey it's the best atmosphere in the NBA right now like it's it's a special thing they got going on right now yeah special community feel you're saying like hey we uh it's community feel and this is not a knock on Oklahoma City but in those other towns there's a lot more

possible distractions, you know, and

but also whenever you're in a town like this, like I think the Bills players talk about it once winter comes and the snow splits there's not like a lot to do so they hang out at the facility a lot like guys hang around at the facility they hang around each other they somebody's house will be a host of the thing uh built like that can help a team really bond feels like this team has and uh on the court they beat the hell they they are so good on both ends yeah and i think that camaraderie helps on the defensive side too it's like hey we're in this thing together like this is uh literally us versus the entire world and okay see feels how about the pop Perk got last night?

Yeah,

did you see that?

Oh, yeah.

It was awesome.

Good for him.

Yeah, Chris Paul was back in the building.

You know, I feel like there's a lot of probably, like, they probably love the guys that do great things for the Thunder out there in OKC, in Oklahoma City.

And the fact that Perk got that standing O, I was so happy for him.

I was like, that had to feel so good for Perk, you know, whenever he, because on TV, he says things, and then he takes a lot of heat from a lot of people.

That basketball world, you can say some things that can put you into some real heat.

You can really really offend people by not saying that much, but still knowing that you're going to...

So he's in the fire always.

So it had to feel good to walk into an arena and be like, because I assumed there was a part where like, how will this reaction be?

You know, everybody thinks that.

Oh, yeah.

And then whenever it goes, big for him, I hope he enjoyed that.

That's real.

Well, don't you think Oklahoma City, I feel like, like you said, that community feeling.

I don't know what it was about those outside drone shots.

I come back to it.

It just, I instantly, it all clicked.

Like, yeah, there's a reason that these guys,

the whole Rolex video and everything, it just feels like

an old school family type feeling that this Oklahoma City team has right now that they hopefully, for them, they want to keep this going for the next 10, 12 years.

Yeah, bottle that, bro.

It's going to be tough.

You know, this is like a college type feel is how everybody describes it, both the fans in the arena, the loyalty to the team, I assume a lot of people in Oklahoma City have, and then the players, the way they gel and melt and hang out is a college way.

Good for them.

They're going to have a tough out.

Whoever comes out of the east, if they make it past Minnesota at home, Pacers, Knicks, tonight should should be electrifying.

Okay, let's do a couple NFL things before we are joined by a man who knows everything about everything.

He's told us that.

He's right.

Could he beat Blocky in a Matt?

That would certainly be a question.

God's not joining us, AJ.

Hard Knock.

Ben, Connor.

Amen.

Hard Knocks training camp, Buffalo Bills.

Okay, gonna be great.

Inseason, NFC East, okay.

Here we go.

Gonna be great.

The offseason hard knocks officially

dead.

Yeah, the Giants were one and done there, and every other team was like, I don't think so.

That is not how this is gonna go.

We thought it was a spectacular hard knocks.

We thought it was something different than we've ever seen before.

We thought it was hard knocks reinventing the game.

We also thought, wow, how are you gonna get anybody else to say yes to this after how everybody viewed Joe Shane, Dayball, and the entire Giants operation?

So I think that one's probably done for.

Had a hell of a run, though.

Yeah.

Yeah,

had a hell hell of a run.

It was one of the best in the recent memory.

I don't know if it won any awards.

Should have.

It could have, for real.

It's going to win like those opposite awards.

The Razzies?

Yeah.

Why?

I thought it was.

No.

No, the Razzies are for crop.

Yeah.

So I think it's like they'll give the people in it like biggest fools.

Oh, you think Shane, Joe Shane will be up for worst decision on film?

Bingo.

Okay, I understand.

I understand what you're saying.

Once again, in sports, you don't know what the future holds.

So you're picking things off of how you feel, but they showcased all of it.

And boy, we loved it.

I don't know if they did.

That's a tough one to shake.

Giants could be better this year.

Remember, much improved.

Oh, yeah.

And that's just because they didn't have to do the hard knocks offseason.

That's how we know they are better because we knew everything they were doing before.

And it all backfired on them.

Yeah.

And he's still going to get kind of a get-back opportunity because they're on the in-season one.

So I'm sure like he's still going to pop up in there.

Who knows what's going to happen?

We need Mara talking about his sleep schedule.

Yeah, exactly.

I also, I appreciate that they're doing the NFC East because every time we've had Keith Kosro on since they started doing the in-season one, the idea is like...

hey, we're going to follow this team until their season ends.

And none of those teams have made the playoffs.

But they have two teams in this division, one who obviously won the Super Bowl, and then you got another team that went to the NFC Championship.

So it actually would be sweet if we get one of these teams and get to follow them through the playoffs finally in season, whereas we haven't had that opportunity in the past.

Siriani.

Yeah.

Shoddy.

Yep.

Dan Quinn.

Mm-hmm.

Dayball.

Pretty good.

Jared Jones.

Jared Jones.

Mara.

Howie.

Magic.

Magic.

Magic.

I mean,

there's a lot of characters in this, let alone Saquon, reigning greatest running back of all time if you go yards in full season.

Just a full difference maker.

Jaden Daniels and Cliff Kingsbury up in Washington.

Jaden's mother.

Yeah, Jaden's mom, who is obviously talked about every single time she is anywhere.

What's she?

Boom.

It'd be cool to see her.

She stopped by our show down there at Radio Row.

Yep.

Yeah.

And said, invite me on the show sometime.

I'll tell you everything.

Have we invited her on the show?

Consider us an open invite.

Yeah, there you go.

Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is senior insider at NFL Network, friend of the program, and host of the weekly wrap-up with Rap Sheet and Friends.

Us being friends, he being Rapsheet, ladies and gentlemen, Ian Rapporteur.

Yeah, yeah

how you doing how's the golf round looks like you're uh fresh off the course that must have ended pretty

pretty soon yeah not that course not that course um played my local course so it's funny i i played a lot better today shot 89 felt really good about that okay broke 90

he broke 90 swings rounding into form but how about this so you remember last time we were talking about golf and i was talking about how my drives are doing this like going all the way the wrong direction and i get a very forceful text from an NFL general manager who is a fan of the show.

And it was a very simple text.

It was, play the slice.

And so I try to listen to people who are smarter than me.

I started aiming.

Forget about the fixing the swing.

Just play the slice.

I'm aiming this way.

I'm hitting it this way.

Playing a lot better.

Okay.

I'm happy whoever the general manager is thinks the exact same way as I assume everybody that's ever talked to you about this that has a brain.

Because you somehow think you're going to become blocky with your swing.

No chance.

You somehow think nobody can do that.

And why not just enjoy golf as opposed to thinking you're going to make some radical change to what your game is?

And someday in your life, there'll come a time where you'll come out of the winter and you'll hit that and somehow it'll go straight or it'll draw even.

And you'll be like, what the hell happened?

Until that day.

When will that be?

Next year.

It could be any time.

I used to be a massive slicer.

And then I came in and I started pulling it.

I'm like,

I don't know how to fix that.

And then that becomes a mental game of, well, now I'm aiming, right?

I don't think so.

I don't think this is the right play.

So you just got to play it, whatever it is, that day.

And breaking 90 is good, especially when you're walking.

Congratulations.

That post you put up, you said, you won't know if I play good or not on its day.

What does that mean?

You play like ass and swing looks good is what your thoughts are?

Swing looks amazing.

I mean, the setting looks great.

The colors, form is great.

So that's the most important thing.

You played the...

Pinnecock was a great course.

You played the gas, though, yeah.

I mean, it's a very hard course.

I'll tell you, I shot 95 on a very tough course.

So I came out being like, all right.

How many balls?

Two.

You was open, is that right?

Or was it?

Two.

I don't think I'd be.

But one in the water, but two.

I don't think I've ever played around.

Maybe that one offseason, I was pretty good at golf.

But every other other time I've ever played golf, I don't think I've ever done a less than two-ball round.

No chance.

Never.

Ever.

No chance.

Some people, someone.

Today was a two one.

Today was a two.

I don't know about rap sheet.

Some people can't hit it far enough to get out of bounds or get into trouble, though.

We wouldn't say that about you, Rapsheet, but there is.

Not you.

I play with people like that.

You know, especially with your big looping slice, there has to be some sort of power on it, right?

It has to have some sort of power to be able to do that.

I hate it fine.

Yeah, 185 right down there in the middle of the fairway.

Before the fairway, maybe even.

Yeah.

Second cut.

Yeah.

Lay up of the fairway yeah so then you can lay it up on there yeah i agree from the white team now you do what you got to do all right let's talk about some of the football stuff that has happened this week you can give us a little bit more intel on what has taken place tush push doesn't happen because lori and jason kelsey go in there and lobby them for an hour and they say jesus we're gonna have to hear from these guys forever if we ban the tush push also follow-up uh the way it was being worded it wasn't just tush push plays that were potentially going to be banned there was also some potential downfield plays where offensive linemen pick up running backs and move them three, four yards down the field for a first down.

That would also have been included in the way the rule was worded this particular vote.

And how much did that come into play in people saying we're not banning any of this?

So you're right.

It would have been pushing or pulling really any player at any time.

Which, you know, you don't see a lot, but there are times when a running back is sort of stalled and you see a lineman pick him up or drive him forward.

And to me, and not that my opinion really honestly matters, but that's always seems a little dangerous.

And I think the NFL Health and Safety Committee felt that was dangerous.

The competition committee felt it was dangerous.

And there was a lot of momentum toward basically ending this play, just not enough.

I mean, it was 22 to 10, and it is an unbelievably high bar.

And that's what Rich McKay said right after the vote.

It's like, it needs to, it doesn't need to be unanimous, but almost, right?

So like, it should be a high bar.

It should be overwhelming if you're going to take a play off the field.

And it just wasn't.

Now, if you go out this year and something bad happens to someone on this play, my guess would be that turns pretty quickly.

I do get the sense that we are not done talking about this.

That, you know, next owners meeting,

you know, this will probably come up again.

And we'll see if anyone has been swayed based on what happens on the field this year.

But it was a, I mean, they're already printing the t-shirts.

It was a victory lap for the Eagles.

Kelsey wins.

Jeffrey Lurie wins.

We'll just see.

I mean, look at that.

That was like within seconds of the

vote not passing.

I mean, that's, you're going to be seeing that in a couple of Kelly Green shirts in the near future.

And you did know how deep the photo really is, right?

I mean, who they're playing there?

I mean, I did notice, yes.

How about the fact that it was 22 to 10, which was the same score in the playoffs?

I mean, is that ridiculous?

Yeah, it's all awesome.

I mean, everything's scripted.

Everything's scripted.

Yeah.

Whoa, whoa.

You can listen.

I don't believe that, that, but for people who think that.

There's a lot of reasons.

There's a lot of reasons to think that, the amount of stuff that works out.

But on that note, Connor brought up a couple of days ago, and then it kind of sparked my

memory.

So if everybody gets as good as the Philadelphia Eagles are at the tush push, that's when they'll change it.

Because remember, it wasn't until every kicker was good that they decided to change the extra point.

Because there was like five, six good kickers, and then everybody everybody else was kind of like meh and everybody once in a while you'd miss an extra point then everybody got too good at their profession and every extra point was good no matter what i mean the guys could walk out opposite footed and they'll make it and it became a boring play the the sport can't become first and nine is probably something that'll happen if everybody gets as good as the eagles i'm not saying that's possible i'm just saying if everybody gets good that's i think what will potentially spark change or do you see it sooner

well

again, if there is some sort of, you know, you never want this to happen, but if there's some sort of injury situation, I think we'll see it sooner.

What's been fascinating to me, and like, I think the football people, guys like AJ would probably know more about this than me, obviously.

But like, it's been a struggle for every other team.

And I don't quite understand.

Like, not everyone has Kelsey or Cam Jugens is really, really good also.

But like, a bunch of other teams have tried and it has been not nearly as successful.

Bills are the only other team that sort of has figured out how to do it.

You know, if every team could do it, it'll lead to more first downs, more points.

The NFL has never been against that.

I think it's more the,

one, it doesn't look like football.

Two, if there's an injury, that's probably when it'll be changed.

Jason Kelsey said, if I was to go back and they asked me to do the tush push 80 times, I would do it.

He said that on the New Heights podcast.

And there's a chance that at some point in the season, if it's a real, you know, maybe a little winding game, Jalen's not able to connect with anybody, let's just do it.

Let's just see how many we can get.

Yeah, because I think they can body everybody.

And it's a great offensive line.

It's a powerful running back.

It's a powerful quarterback.

It's a powerful tight end.

I appreciate the fact that they're like, no, we're just better than you guys at this.

And you're not as strong as us or as tough as us.

That's on you.

That's not on us.

Didn't Mahomes.

Perfect for Philadelphia, too, by the way.

Didn't Mahomes already, isn't that when he dislocated his kneecap when they tried to do the tush push or is that just like a QB sneak because yeah they have no grade doing that yeah so I always forget if it was a QB sneak or a tush push because people are confusing QB sneaks with tush pushes as well I heard somebody say Tom Brady always did the tush push he got over a thousand yards like no Tom Brady no a quarterback sneak you see he the tush push involves the tush you see being pushed, which is the weight on the back, which is more weight than one human can take is what you would think in the argument.

Good luck to all parties.

Congrats to Philadelphia.

They should be taking a victory lap.

Speaking of victory laps, will our guy ever get to do that?

Go ahead, Con Man.

Yeah, Rapture, it feels like the last storyline about players that aren't happy is with Trey Hendrickson.

And we've talked about it.

He's been slighted by the Bengals 14, 15 times, and now he seems to be at his wit's end.

Is anything going to happen with Trey?

Is he going to get traded?

Or do you see him kind of getting screwed here playing his last season and then having to try and get a new deal somewhere else next year in free agency?

So I would be surprised as of right now if he got traded, mainly because

like let's say you're like the Bengals held out for a premium draft pick.

We're talking like first rounder, right?

Which for someone as talented as Trey Hendrickson and Trey Hendrickson, that would make a lot of sense.

Problem is value-wise, not every team wants to give a first rounder and then a huge new contract to someone who's 30 years old, just philosophically, right?

Like I remember when Bill Belichick was coaching the Patriots.

You guys know before North Carolina, he was the greatest coach of all time with the Patriots.

I don't don't think he ever traded for a player and then gave him a new contract.

I would could be wrong, but I don't think that, I don't think he ever did.

Like, some people philosophically don't believe in that.

So, if you're going to do that now,

even if you found a, let's say you found a first rounder, you're not going to use it till next year.

So, that hurts the Bengals this year because if it had happened before the draft, you could have just gotten a player to help you this year.

So, like, the timing makes a trade extremely hard.

I still believe the Bengals are going to pay pay him.

I don't know that going to the press helps.

Like the way the Bengals are, they might have been like, all right, like, you want to do that?

Do your thing.

We'll do it when we're ready.

But I still think he is a huge part of the organization.

They want him to stay, and I believe they will pay him.

Yeah, I don't think he was worried about the Bengals liking him going to the press, brother.

You know, I think

it was the Bengal.

I think it was about every other team knowing, like, hey, there has been no updates.

Do you think that's why he went?

I don't know.

I've not talked to him directly, but he's not going to the media to appease the Bengals.

They went first.

Yeah, he's going.

Yeah, she already has done enough.

That's true.

He should be lucky with the offer that he's been given, even though he's a sacking is how he took her message.

I'm not saying that's exactly how it went.

So I don't think he was like, yeah, you know what?

I'm going to go talk to the media to try to make the Cincinnati Bengals happy here today.

I think he was telling the Cincinnati media his side of the story.

He was telling the Cincinnati Bengals fans his side of the story, what's going on.

And I think he was telling the other teams, like, hey, this is still what's going on here or whatever you know i don't think that was necessarily to get a deal done for the bengals because i think he's at the point of like this should have been done what do we there's been no conversation so we're pulling for tray and if cincinnati keeps a sack king good for you guys they're able to pay everybody somehow you know what i mean let's keep with the quarterback rushing folk go ahead aj

Hey, rap sheet, Aiden Hutchinson says that he is fully cleared and healthy for play.

Does that, like as far as the timeline they thought, is he ahead of schedule?

And it's only what, May 23rd?

I would assume that they're happy with that.

How do you think it, his training camp schedule is going to work out?

So, first of all, timing-wise, he, was that yesterday?

That was yesterday when he talked to reporters.

Yes.

Okay.

So, he did that yesterday.

That was the first time he's talked in a while.

I believe he was cleared several weeks before that, at least when...

when I kind of checked in, like, he had been cleared.

This was more him announcing, but timing is good.

I believe contract-wise, and he's another one that you know the the lions have taken care of their superstars early with massive contracts i mean they have really done a nice job of getting deals where guys can be really happy about it but helping themselves by doing them really early like penay sewell was was obviously a big one amonra say brand i mean there's been there's been several of them um now that he is fully cleared and let's say he goes out in otas and looks normal which is what i expect because he's awesome um i believe that he's another one who will get you know paid a huge deal.

You know, will it beat Miles Garrett?

I don't know, but he will be among the highest page edge rushers in the NFL, as he probably should be.

I mean, there's a, you know, Miles Garrett is amazing and deserves everything, but there is a little bit of space there between Hunter and Crosby and Miles Garrett.

We'll see where he ends up on that list, but

I believe being cleared will pave the way to a new deal.

And then you have to wonder what's TJ Watt doing?

And then Trey Hendrickson, obviously, way

down there.

A lot of people have gotten paid this offseason.

They deserve it.

That's how the game is being played.

You need four dogs up front on the D-line, and you need a great offensive line to combat that.

I think they know their value at this particular time, as they should.

Good luck to all parties.

Let's stick with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

They're going to deal with TJ

and who's on their team.

Go ahead, Tone.

Yeah, that's a good question.

Art Rooney II just came out and said the team will wait a little longer for Aaron Rodgers.

He said that a few times this offseason.

When do you think we can expect that decision?

Where do you think that's going?

I'm guessing somewhere around June 15th, 16, which is about three days after their mandatory minicamp.

So, first of all, I think the Steelers are handling it the right way.

You never know because this is really like unique.

Because

if they made a deadline for Rodgers,

I don't even know, would that matter?

So, like, I kind of like how they've been, like,

do your thing, come to us when you want.

Any quarterback acquisition, they could sort of make it anytime, right?

So, like, they're doing the right thing with how they've handled it.

And I'm, I have, you guys may be closer to him than I am.

I think that's somewhat fair to say, but I'm sure he appreciates receiving that time to just go through what he's going through right now.

If I had to guess, and this is not reporting, this is really just guessing.

Players a lot of times like to have things done before mandatory minicamp so they can have the playbook.

I mean, they could give them the playbook anyway, but like if there is a deadline, a softish deadline right before minicamp would make sense so we could go there, get the playbook, maybe do media, maybe not, practice for like a day.

You know what mandatory minicamp is like, not much.

Go away for the summer and then just learn.

So like timing wise, like look, who knows?

It could be before training camp, right?

But that makes sense to me as far as when this might happen.

I think mandatory minicamp would certainly be a great goal if you were the media that wanted to talk about mandatory minicamps or the Pittsburgh Steelers who wanted to add a little sals to a mandatory minicamp.

I assume if you're just dropping out of the clouds right before mandatory minicamp, you're probably not going to practice, if I had to guess.

But at least being on the field, looking around, seeing the building, meeting your teammates could be an upside.

But also, you're going to get all that at training camp and you're 41 years old.

So I legitimately don't know which way this goes.

AJ's probably the only one that really knows.

AJ, what are your thoughts?

I wish I knew, man.

I don't have, like I said earlier, I don't have any clarity on this.

I don't know what his plan might be.

Steelers minicamp starts Tuesday, June 10th.

Then it goes through June 12th.

All eyes are obviously on the Steelers quarterback room, who's currently led by Mason Rudolph and also

6'14,

Will Hyde.

Yeah, Will Hyde, national champion, obviously, in that building as well.

We'll be excited to see how they handle because every year they win.

If that quarterback position can produce at a high level and Artie's offense can do something to keep up with how great the defense we know is going to be, do they have TJ Waternot?

Hmm.

We assume they do.

Maybe.

It's like, why not Pittsburgh Steelers, especially in a tough AFC North?

They like to dogfight.

It's hot in the kitchen.

Are you in the kitchen or not with a quarterback, Tone Diggs?

Yeah, I mean, I think they're going to be fine either way.

You know, with Aaron would be a lot better offensively, obviously.

They probably start 6-0, if I had to take a guess.

That's a weird number.

What do you say?

6-0?

That was a weird number.

Yeah.

That was random.

No, it wasn't.

There was an Emmy Award-winning

NFL pundit analyst who said they would start 0-6.

No, I just, what?

Shrikes?

No, Shrags would never say something that stupid.

Who was it?

I don't want to say his name.

I don't want to give him any

putting his name out in the public.

He doesn't even deserve that.

that because you think he'd respond with an emoji like uh yeah he'd probably text ty and cry about it or something

that's not how it works not with dano there are others whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa i thought we were

did you know it was him

i thought we were not naming names i thought we're on the same page well i did it just because i feel obligated to let everybody in on what we're talking about this is his thought show and i didn't know if you knew did you know it was dano or lovski that said that that's who you're talking about right yeah

i i only knew when you mentioned the emoji because that does sound like that response.

I didn't know the 0-6, the emoji, that actually makes it.

Well, Dan will watch this entire thing and go, what gives?

That's literally, that is literally what he would say.

That is the exact words.

But he knows that whenever he says things like that about the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Pittsburgh people are going to.

I mean, that's going to, and I think he likes it because he goes back to his old Yukon, though.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, University of Pittsburgh.

What the fudge, man?

Man?

Yeah,

he's not scared to step in the batter's box.

He's just talking about, oh, yeah, he said all the other quarterback positions are much better than the pittsburgh steelers yeah worst quarterback um room in the entire league well okay but like hold on can you argue with him

no i'm just he no no no i'm i'm not even addressing that here's what i will say about the steelers though not even they've had like oh geez mediocre quarterback play the last couple i mean last year by the end it was not good and they are still they still make the playoffs so like god forbid rogers is like a notch above mediocre which i expect him to be plenty notches above.

Like, he should be good.

Yeah, plenty of notches above mediocre.

Aaron Rodgers.

He should be good.

Mason Rudolph played good ball for the Titans last year, man.

Mason Rudolph had his name changed the streets of Pittsburgh for a few.

I think they haven't had like stellar quarterback plays since Duck Hodges.

Yeah, even if he was.

That was probably the last.

True.

And then Duck moved on to bigger and better things.

Certainly did.

I think he's doing a little real estate development.

He's certainly Duck on.

He's down there in the blind.

I watched Migration the other day.

Oh, good movie.

It is a good movie.

I just think to myself, you guys need the kids.

I don't like the fatherbird.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah, fatherbird's got a little bit too much, but what I'm saying is they need to get smarter as a whole.

Yeah.

Because I see these dudes down in the swamp and they just

a couple times and

they just come waltzing right in.

Bye-bye.

They have no awareness at all.

Anytime I've ever seen somebody go duck hunting, they've killed a thousand of them.

Have you ever seen a photo without a hundred of them?

No.

No.

Like one duck.

You've never seen just only got one today.

Now there's always about.

It seems unfair.

What?

That we outsmart the ducks is what the duck hunters would say.

And also

duck is a,

yeah, it's tough.

Duck is a world champion duck caller, too.

So he, they're in their flock up air flying V.

They're doing a thing.

And they think they're hearing one of them because he knows who's coming and knows their dialect.

He knows their region.

Yep.

Tim McAfee this morning heard Ryan McGee's accent.

And I said, Tim, where do you think Ryan McGee's from?

And he goes,

talk again.

And he talks,

Bojangle.

And he didn't say Bojangles, obviously.

Tim would have known that.

But Tim goes, probably North Carolina.

And I'm thinking Eastern North Carolina as well.

And he was spot on.

Wabi.

He nailed it.

And then Ryan McGee said he was within 40 miles of where my house is.

That's what Duck Hodges is able to do with these ducks.

No matter where these ducks are from, he's able to match their accent.

And they come down, down they think they got one of them down there

and that's what duck hodges is doing speaking of birds

how you doing canadian geese have been eliminated from the yard and the planet no they're still around and they will terrorize you like they were doing in my house there for a while but you do Tim McAfee brought,

you know, when they say, what's the loudest, most annoying sound on planet Earth?

Yep.

Tim McAfee found that on the internet and put it right next to my bedroom window and had that thing run at full blast the entire night.

And it turns out the Canadian kids hate the sound.

You know who else does?

Humans.

Me specifically.

Okay.

Being the human.

Makes sense.

Wife currently has to sleep

on couch because she's going through recovery from a surgery and she's doing better.

She's appreciative of everybody sending their love.

She's going to be good for race day, I think, which was the goal of the plan here all along on Sunday.

So I sleep in, I'm sleeping in bedroom, off living room there by myself.

And 2 a.m.,

lo and behold, Tim McAfee's siren going off,

screaming into my house.

So I come in here in the morning and I go,

I go, Tim, did you put that directly outside my window?

And he goes, oh, I guess I did, didn't I?

Yeah, I thought, I didn't think about it.

So Tim's good for some things.

He can name an accent.

Tim's good for other things.

He'll get the job done.

There's not going to be a lot of thought past the job, though.

Sure.

I built a deck out here and then put a gazebo, build a gazebo on top of it in like 10 days or something like that.

The guy's a weapon, but the Canadian geese hate that sound more than me, I think.

Okay.

So it worked.

They've been gone.

Also, I've been laser pointing.

Yeah, you got the beam, right?

I got a laser point or two.

That works too?

Mm-hmm.

The only issue we've ever had was we had a woodpecker.

at the house like in our chimney and then the house next door so my wife who's from mississippi and knows such things got a slingshot.

Oh, and now didn't hit the bird because that would be bad, but close to the bird, and you do it enough times again, not hitting the bird, but close to it.

Eventually, they stop.

They stopped coming by, but now we just weirdly have a slingshot in the house.

No, you definitely have to hit it.

You know that, so do I.

Because

if you go buy it, that woodpecker is very stubborn.

I also had a woodpecker issue at my house out here in Indiana, and this dumb son of a bitch, glass.

Yep, yep this thing with glass just never he's like you're supposed to be on wood brother this glass is not the right answer boom just enough times fracture glass you know yeah so I yeah yeah there's there's they're big too those other bitches are like two and a half three feet they are the worst huge these things are

huge dude flying through I don't think they're awful I think they're pretty talented they are they are persistent they do got bird brain though they're a little stupid they are a little stupid those things those bird brains but your did your wife so your wife um she shoveled the snow and then she smoked the meat.

Yep.

And then she hit a slingshot near a

woodpecker.

Raised the kids.

Yeah.

And if there's any like tool thing, you know, she's got a big toolbox.

If there's ever any things that need to fix it, she's on it.

Your wife's a dog.

Leah is an absolute beast.

Absolutely.

But we got a great toolbox.

I bought it for her, and she does the work.

It's perfect.

You're an absolute gentleman, obviously, Ian.

Absolute gentleman.

What a Christmas Christmas gift.

Hey, open it up.

I got an iron for you.

I got a toolbox for you.

I got a new smoker.

Gonna need weekly prep.

Surprise.

Shovel for the snow.

Brand new shovel.

Shovel, yep.

We got a great shovel.

Big,

easy, easy to use.

Metal tip.

You got a metal tip down there?

Yeah, and it's kind of like it's feeling.

You don't have no eyes, nicety.

No eyes.

I have seen.

I've seen it.

A couple rakes.

Yeah, I've seen it.

Yeah,

you're one of one, brother, and we appreciate that.

But you do have great NFL information.

A player has now joined an ownership group.

So for that, we shall celebrate.

Ty has a question for you.

Yeah, Rapsheet, it was announced that Charles Woodson has a very, very, very, very small minority ownership stake in the Cleveland Browns.

What does this all entail?

I don't think anyone expects him to have the same type of hands-on

stick-to-itiveness with the team that like Brady has with the Raiders.

But what all goes into this for Charles Woodson?

You know,

it's more, I don't want to say it's symbolic because that kind of minimizes it, but like it's really just he's part of the team now, right?

Like it's...

To me, it's a really cool thing.

And like, you know, Dolphins, remember Serena and a couple others were

sort of part owners of the Dolphins for a while.

I mean, and Brady, obviously, with the Raiders, just like a cool way to have a really important or respected person person part of your organization.

And, you know, gives him good access, infuses the organization with a little money.

And now that they can take on these,

you know, sort of limited partners, which they've been able to, but obviously there's a lot more private equity money coming in now.

Just shines the spotlight on it a little bit.

But look,

Charles Woodson, if you ask him about football, he will tell you what he thinks all the time.

And he is an excellent like processor of football things.

So if they did go to him, I think he'd be great at diagnosing what, because he just, he tells the truth and doesn't care, which is awesome.

But I think it's more of just a symbolic, really cool thing than anything else.

Ken Curry's also incredible at football, right, AJ?

He's the man.

Yeah.

Unbelievable ball skills.

Yeah, just an absolute freak.

Yeah.

And AJ, I think people would argue Tom Brady

best ever.

Obviously, that's the conversation.

Greatest of all time.

Charles Woodson also in that conversation for the defensive side.

For sure.

No question.

Yeah, I think it's offensive side, obviously defensive side now getting a little bit of ownership of the league.

I think is good news for players.

I think we always celebrate that.

I think it was reported the reason why Ty put extra emphasis on the really, really small percentage, because I think it came out that it was like 0.01% or something like that of the team.

Did he have to put money up for that?

Or was that kind of something that was given to him to be an advisor or to help?

And do we know what percentage Tom has of the Raiders?

I think, first of all, I'm not, I assume he gave some money.

You know, it doesn't have to be,

doesn't have to be like what the private equity dudes give.

I mean, Charles Woodson being a part of it is worth whatever he puts in.

And he's going to have, you know, if they're going to go to him, he's still like, again, like one of the goats.

So they will listen to him.

I believe Brady's portion is public.

I feel like we did this.

We looked this up and figured out.

I just forget what the actual number is.

I felt like...

Felt like it was maybe seven, but it's, I believe I would have to do some Googling, and that's weird to see me Googling.

Oh, I got to tell you, you definitely do have to pay money.

So Woodson definitely.

5%, I believe, is the number that it was publicly reported.

A.P.

Tone just Googled it.

I don't know who's saying it.

Yeah, it says

Tom Brady owns 5% stake in Las Vegas Raiders, according to multiple sources.

He and his business partner, Tom Wagner, purchased a total of 10%.

That's what it was.

Okay.

Okay.

So Brady owns 5%.

Wagner owns 5.

Woodson did have to put up real money at the valuation of whatever it is.

What do we think the Browns are worth right now?

So that has been one of the really cool things about this is like you get to find out a little bit about how these teams are worth, but based on just a little chunk.

So let's say the Browns are worth seven or eight million, seven or eight billion, right?

So let's say seven and a half billion.

I don't know.

So he has to put up whatever the 0.00.

700,000.

If it was 7 billion, it'd be 700,000.

If it was 700, or if it was 7.5 billion, it'd be 700,000.

How'd you do that that quickly?

Because we were just doing it off of $5 billion earlier whenever we, because, brother, I don't know if you know this.

The business side of the thing is what I'm most worried about in basically every situation because normally that'll lead you to the answer.

So as soon as I hear that he's a 0.01% owner, I go like, well, how much money is that actually worth?

And then just the easy one is if it's $5 billion, it's $500,000.

We did the math there.

So that makes sense.

Yeah, that does make sense.

But if it's $7.5 billion, the Cleveland Browns, I know there's other teams looking around that are like, the Browns are $7.5 billion.

They obviously have a great.

I mean, it could be more.

Like, 49ers was more.

Like, it's Cleveland.

That's the San Francisco 49ers.

No offense to the Cleveland Browns, but that's the San Francisco 49ers.

Agreed.

49er faithful is one of those things.

And I know the dog pound is gigantic in Cleveland and their fans are amazing, but it's like, I think some of these other teams are probably like,

that's why that 10% investment from funds that they were allowed to take was like, hey, your teams are worth so much money right now.

We are going to open up a 10% stake that you guys are allowed to sell to whoever the hell you want.

If there's somebody that wants to give you guys 7.5 or whatever the hell valuation and you want to sell 10% of that and pick up a cool $750 million real quick, you can do that.

You can certainly do that whenever you want to.

This has really mattered, though.

Like, talk about the Raiders.

Like, that was a big infusion of cash from Brady and Wagner.

And then they went.1, 0.1, 0.1, not 0.01.

Okay, so it's 0.1, which is a let's go, Charles.

Get more, yeah.

Get more, get more.

So that's seven, then, right?

Yeah, yeah,

seven mil.

Seven mil.

It's a lot.

But

the the money matters because like it has caused, it basically means that everyone can spend.

And so like, here's an example.

The Raiders go out and pay Chip Kelly $6 million.

That's a lot of money for an offensive coordinator.

But like that money has to come from somewhere.

In the past, that probably wouldn't have been what the Raiders would do.

Now they go, you know what?

We got a little extra.

Let's go get the best offensive coordinator we can find.

And that's real, I mean, that really matters.

That's pretty cool.

Absolutely.

And being able to pay and have money up front, and then he could do upgrades.

You could do everything.

You can run your business.

And the NFL owners were like, yeah, so we own a team but we don't really you know except for the yearly profit so we won't really benefit off the valuation of this unless we sell the team in the future can we get a way to get some money in their pocket like 10 10's enough right yeah 10 10 10.

everybody wants 750 million maybe get a new yacht do your thing Deal.

And you can sell to whoever the hell you want.

And then all of a sudden you saw all those teams bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

And it's like, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Who knows if the NFL is going to continue to go up into the right?

But if it is, Ian Rappaport will be on it.

Any news going to break break on this Friday?

News dump Friday, you think?

They have kind of stopped doing the news dump.

Now, there could be some, you know, contract extensions could happen at any point.

I think Purdy was, wasn't Purdy last week, Friday, at like four or something like that?

I forget when it was.

So

I don't know if the league office is closed now, but it is a holiday weekend, and I'd be a little surprised if we got a news dump.

So hopefully not.

But we'll see.

I'm about to go get pretty boozed up and watch my wife do all the the hard things right now.

Doing some smash burgers tonight.

I'm doing it.

No, you're not.

Nah, yeah, you're eating them.

Yes,

I will eat them, yes.

But I will also help with them.

You got to like, you know,

she'll pick you up and do the.

Yeah.

So messed up.

It's really messed up.

We call it visually

ridiculously fun.

Because we pick up rap and we smash rap off the burgers.

So we call them smash rap burgers around here.

How's the horses?

We only have one active active horse now.

The others have still good, but have either been retired or sold.

They've been sent to the factory.

No, still alive and doing great.

Doing great.

We only have one Langdon now.

You know, we need a recent house.

You ever ride those things?

You ever hop on a backlog?

No, no.

I mean,

on our

honeymoon, I rode a horse and it was not great.

It was not pretty.

It was just bopping you around.

Yeah, it just hurts the

sorts of places.

Jude the dude maybe

who's that his son oh jude yeah jude could be maybe a jockey maybe get him on the back of a horse

uh jude's tall max could be a jockey relatively jeez louise stop breaking your kids what send them off to somebody else's problem when's that happening we got about we got a month and four days to go roughly

exactly the no

down you asked

four days and he said we got like this is how many days we got left yeah to celebrate them right To be around them.

I'm cherishing every month.

We got baseball games tonight.

Both of them are playing different games.

Same time.

It's a disaster, but it'll be fun.

But what happens whenever you ship them off into the woods for three months?

They just stop playing for their teams?

Like, how's that work?

Little league stops.

Actually, this next week is playoffs.

So Little League stops.

They got like an intense sports routine at their camps.

So like sports are.

you know, pretty intense there and come back and school starts.

Got some other intense.

And

you said they loved it up there, right?

Didn't have the youth.

They love it.

They have been,

every day they ask Alexa how many days left until camp.

Like they are.

They come look around and enjoy your life a little bit.

Well, they hate him, too.

Yeah, I was about to say, they shouldn't be trying to get away from you that bad.

Oh, my God.

No, they obviously love being with us.

Of course, yeah.

They know what's waiting for you.

Love watching mom shovel the driveway.

Exactly.

You know, love watching mom get out the old wrench

and tighten some bolts.

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Sean 89 today.

That feels like a lie.

Yeah.

He said I only used two balls today.

That's crazy.

Wow.

Not much water.

Well, AJ.

That's true, though.

AJ really put out there what he thinks Rap's game is like.

He said some people, you know, don't hit it far enough to lose it.

Yeah, that was AJ looked at Ian and he goes, he can't lose a ball.

So how could you lose a ball if it's always in sight?

Yeah.

That's what you said.

I've played with people.

That is the case.

Yeah.

Are you going to golf this weekend?

Any golfing or have we got a bunch of games?

Yeah, games and stuff.

I don't think I will this weekend, but yeah, you know,

it's been cold here.

I don't know what it's like where you are.

Chilly here as well.

It's tough for the house, you know, for the thermometer, thermostat deal.

You know, my auto I'm learning, because it's the first, it's the first

transition in said

house.

Oh, yeah.

The auto thing,

where the fuck have you been?

Where is it?

It's been sleeping on the job.

Oh, really?

It's not flipping over.

It's going one way way too far and never coming back.

I don't like that.

I don't like that at all.

It's like, hey, you're supposed to flip shit.

I rely on the auto.

Yeah,

you're supposed to turn the heat on whenever we need the heat on.

You're supposed to turn the AC on whenever we, we gave you a window.

Yeah.

This is where we're trying to hang out, Bub.

You need to fucking...

And that's how I know we're always going to be better than AI.

True.

You're right.

Well.

Yeah, because whenever Tim was just doing the thing on the thing to set it in, there wasn't even really numbers and you're just moving the slide in the little thing.

Yeah,

always felt better than what it feels every other two hours in the house.

It's just like a seesaw.

It's like, geez, Louise, we wake this thing up.

Is it ever going to work?

I don't know.

Oh, I got to go do it.

Okay.

Okay, AI.

i'll do it in the middle of the night because it's fucking freezing in here yep are you not working you only work business hours

we heard that from somebody that needs to be working full-time amen at google ai thing though those people talking they look very real movies yeah

they made some movies with uh ai characters they also made uh ai weenie mobile crashing at the indianapolis motor speedway that's right oh shoot It's happening.

Yeah, I seen them at the, they were at the gridlock area kind of set up.

Yeah, the weenie five.

A lot of weenie celebration going, ba-da-da-da-da-la-weenie.

Run in this weenie.

We're at the speedway here.

Hey.

Six weenies.

They're going to race for a few miles.

We're all pumped for it.

Hey.

There's a weenie 500, brother.

There's no wreck.

We have to see a wreck.

Yeah.

Yeah, right.

Have you ever seen these weenie mobiles flying around town?

They got great drivers.

Think about the aerodynamics on that thing.

The air is good, and then it's not.

That thing's trying to get you to do a wheelie the faster you go every single time.

The weather's so cold, though, they might be flipping weenies when they're turning.

Oh, yeah.

And I don't know if this is what you said, because Zita was talking to me at the same time you were talking.

The weenie mobile crashed in Chicago, you remember?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, right.

I couldn't get here.

I wonder if that driver has been.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, they shot him.

They chopped him in his drawing.

Yeah.

He got

his weenie.

Yeah, he got whacked for that.

The weenie 500 is certainly drawing a lot of

expectation and excitement as the

stands are packed.

This place is jazzed.

Stands are packed for that.

Oh, there he is.

The guy.

That's Austin.

No, that's Oscar.

Oscar.

That's actually Austin.

Meyer?

It's his son.

Yeah, it's Austin.

That's Mr.

Meyer.

No, he's about to sing the anthem, as it looks like.

They're doing a national anthem for the Weenie 500.

I thought some EW.

Hey, I just had 40 of these.

Oh, shit.

And if I were an Oscar Meyer Wiener,

everyone would be in love with me.

What happened?

What's she doing right there?

What's she doing?

Blowing the weenie whistle.

No way.

The Oscar Meyer Wiener whistle from the Santa Claus.

You like the drivers took their hats off oh my god that is perfect all right have an incredible memorial day weekend we'll be back on tuesday oh my god the weenie 500 leads into a great weekend of sports conference finals tonight obviously through the weekend we got some golf we got two blocks back Good luck to Blocky and his kid.

I hope he wins so that Tyler eat all of it on Tuesday.

Tuesday, we will be live from Gainbridge Fieldhouse, downtown Indianapolis, in anticipation of game four of the Eastern Conference Finals.

We'll see you then.

Be a friend, tell a friend something nice.

It might change their life.

Goodbye.

Really home run there.

The fact that that wasn't the national anthem

and we're standing saluting.

And it's if I were Oscar Meyerwinger.

Couldn't have been better.

Wow.

Thought the lips looked a little different too when he was singing.

I mean, just the hats off from the behind.

I thought it was that Haley Joe standing.

No, that wasn't Haley Joe.

No.

He's blocked.

Look at the place.

It is packed.

Hold on.

Go do it right now.

Look at the...

Oh, fuck.

I like the Chicago dog in this one.

Hey, don't talk to the Slaw Dog, Lou.

No, the Slaw Dog.

Slaw Dog.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, you might be right.

Yeah, the Slaw Dog.

Holy cow.

I don't know.

I feel like the chili dog always has something up its sleeve.

Yeah, but the chili dog, you never know when it's going to fall out.

That's true.

Especially in a race.

Slaw dog's a thing.

Slaw dog is certainly something somewhere.

The fuck's a Seattle dog.

I know what it is.

Do you?

Does this happen every year?

Have I missed this every other year?

This is the first time where they put

the New York armpit hair on Seattle Dog or something like that.

I don't know.

Are these actual real things?

I don't know what you mean.

It's green cheese.

Can't have the New York dog win before.

The green cheese and grilled onions.

That's fucking disgusting.

That doesn't sound like a good dog, but hey, if you were in skirt by your leader.

19.9,000 views here on X.

We're certainly going to get strike for this.

Fox loves whenever we use anything of theirs.

Just like we to them.

Yeah.

Let's get this thing started.

This thing was supposed to start 13 minutes ago as the track clears.

Just like an NBA tip-off.

Yeah.

All right, we're going to get out.

Oh, he's strapped up.

She's strapped up.

Are they not wearing helmets?

She's strapped up.

I believe so.

That is she.

She's strapped up.

No helmets is a wild move.

Yeah.

Especially because

that's some bitch going to turn sideways there while you're coming around.

You know, because the centrifugal force

is trying to push you into that wall every time you turn, especially with how fast you're going.

Oh, yeah.

So, they got banks on those things.

These cars are going sideways,

but they're so low to the ground.

If you're standing on the inside of the track, you actually don't even see the cars because they're

this time.

You will actually see a wiener floating around this track if you're standing inside.

Because the height in which the wiener is sitting atop the chassis, which appears to be an old school

Pinto.

RV.

Buick.

Old Mobile.

Yeah.

Seabreeze.

Might have been a cutlass there.

Could have been a cutlass.

They had a little bit of a long front end.

Yeah,

long body.

Stands are kind of packed.

Stands are packed.

They will be.

They have been for two weeks.

Is this the day where they do like the competition where you come in and pitch stuff?

Fast Friday.

Yes.

And the concert that's going on there is a country concert.

Who is it?

It's

they got a big one.

Yeah, I think the lineup is pretty solid this weekend.

So

right behind the to the right there,

okay, that's the infield to the right.

And it is chaos in there.

Everything is available for you in there.

Literally.

Merch, shops, good times.

There's an air conditioner in there.

Oh, shout out to grandma.

She's making her way down there.

She's going to try to suck face with one of the drivers.

Yeah.

Potentially.

Hope she doesn't do that.

But if she does, she deserves it.

Wieners,

start your engines.

Great call.

Great call.

Great call by her.

She was at WrestleMania.

Yeah, she was.

Got a chance to meet her.

I shook her hand.

I said, you do great stuff on the internet.

I really do appreciate your personality.

But everything to the right there is the infield.

And

when you're in there,

you can get lost in there.

Oh, yeah.

They reminded everybody of all the things that can fit inside of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's entire property.

I think we have the graphic.

the inside the Indianapolis Motor Speedway property.

They're not going to race until they get all those cars off the thing, I believe, in the top.

Boom, here it is so this is the indianapolis motor speedway property all those things obviously can fit inside of it there's a golf course inside of it like five holes six holes and it's just everywhere upper left corner there left of the yankee stadium uh that is where it goes down that is the snake pit there is djs playing from 5 a.m all the way through the end of the race and then some people get lost in there Okay, that is a quite a wild place.

Down here where the Taj Mahal would be, a lot of merch purchases and everything like that.

Down to the right, that's the pits.

That's where all the pits are and garages.

And obviously, massive amount of money is paid there.

It's a fucking sweet thing.

It literally is.

There's so much going on.

And today the Wieners are on top of the track.

Also today, a concert featuring Brett Michaels and All-American Rejects.

We are starting

the weenie race.

The green flag racing for the wieners.

It does appear as if the

top right dog, the Chicago dog, has come into elite.

Now they're forming a straight line, trying to use a draft off the wiener in front of them.

Wiener, behind Wiener, behind Wiener, behind Wiener, behind Wiener, behind Wiener, with the Chicago dog in the lead, I do believe.

And the Chili dog.

The Chili dog's got no juice.

In the tail.

See, the Chili Dog's so far behind, it's not even going to be able to do a slingshot off the draft here.

That wiener is going to get left behind.

Sometimes the stronger wiener's got to go ahead so that the weak wiener can be left behind.

The chili dog is currently looking for an exit to this race.

And I'll tell you what, the final three, I don't know if they're touching the first three wieners in this particular race.

It might be a little souped-up engine coming out of the Chicago or Seattle dog.

I'm worried this is a work.

This feels like an F1 situation here.

Bingo.

They went right into a single file.

This thing stinks.

Big surprise.

What are we doing?

What are they going 12 miles an hour?

It's cool.

This is a two and a half mile track.

Come on.

Is they racing?

They are driving.

What are they doing?

18 leaders?

What up on that?

That's a parade.

50.

How come everybody did just go straight into a fashion?

Because it's a work.

They're not drivers.

Looks like a work, and they're going to have the New York dog win in Indiana before the next game.

They better not disrespect.

You shitting me?

They need to not disrespect Indianapolis Marsh Speedway with these wieners.

We need to see some moves.

We need to see some wieners.

There's a wiener going on the outside.

We might have two wide in the weenie mobile race.

Okay, when you hit turn one.

Oh, shit.

Slingshot just happened, I do believe

this is this is bullshit this is a work i i'm embarrassed for oscar my wiener i don't think you i don't think you should

who is that is that seattle dog or chicago dog that might be sonoran dog sonoran dog just

does a leapfrog move yeah single file back to the let's get into the draft oh shit big leads yeah massive we need one of these weenies to go into business for uh shy dog shy dogs in the lead what's the point of watching a race where you don't know who is who you can't tell who's winning winning.

But you got to know the side.

Shy Dog with the M-Dog.

What was the M-Dog?

M-Dog.

Was it the Sino-Why don't they have their toppings on top of what they are?

Because then they wouldn't have the aerodynamics.

Yeah.

Too much drag.

Shy Dog's running away, man.

Shy Dog's got a pretty good little kick.

Around the next turn, they'll fake past each other again.

Whoa.

It did feel like that wasn't work there when Shy Dog kind of slingshot itself.

They got bathrooms in there, in those things?

I think in the back, you go back, there's a bed back there, too.

Yep.

Oh, wow.

Kind of like a truck, you know, cab.

Looks like a hot dog bun.

Yeah, you get, you can only sleep on your back.

Yeah, it's like a cryotank.

I mean, they're driving in a flying V formation.

So cool.

All right, thank you,

thank you.

AJ, way to drop down from the sky.

You did a great job.

All right, let's get out of here.

Let's enjoy the hell out of this weekend.

AJ, favorite thing that happened this week was

Tom Cruise.

I was about to, boy, if you didn't say Tom.

Yeah, yeah.

It was about to get loud.

It was about to get loud.

Oh, I knew.

I know.

Trust me.

We apologize that that was recorded off time and it was a floating time, so we weren't able to get you

on there.

I think there's a chance, from what I'm being told, we might get an opportunity to do it again in the future.

Oh, my God.

I think.

Well, he's got 15 movies he's always working on, so hopefully.

Well, that was part of the scheduling thing.

That was part of the scheduling thing.

It's like, hey, we think we have a time at this time.

We're ahead of schedule, could come back to this time, and they're like moving and and grooving you know he's got a oh yeah he's got to watch a movie first of all a movie enjoy one and he's got to help edit another movie that's probably in post-production then he's got to help create a movie that is currently being shot then he had to do press for a mission and then he had to travel around the world while doing it so like we are very thankful for him making time for us and for 35 minutes he talked yeah

so cool of him so cool of him to do that

He had, I think he loved it.

I mean, it's different.

It was a different, definitely a different setting for him.

I'm sure it's exciting for him to get to like anything.

He's excited for anything, but just a new, like, novel type show, I guess, he hasn't been on.

Yeah, he knew a lot of

because in the interview that we showed there, he said, as we were talking before, I have a lot of respect for you, whatever.

Soon as he gets on, we'd all do a full holy shit, you know, because we're waiting.

And then he gave me a full speech about knowing my story.

I know your story, man.

I know where you come from.

I know yada, yada, yada.

And I'm like, it's inspiring.

Yeah, he said it is inspiring.

It inspires me.

And I love popcorn.

I love popcorn.

Just like Blocky inspired Jordan.

Bingo.

Hey.

Snoring dogs down first.

They're doing the whole thing.

Yeah.

It was a work all along.

Yep.

Everyone's going to get a shot.

Everyone leads a lot.

Every wiener shines.

That's right.

They started with six, and they're counting down to one.

That's a wiener mobile.

Champion.

College football made a big decision this week.

Yeah.

Seating changes.

How does it affect Ohio State not getting to play that first weekend?

Oh.

Because the cold helped them then.

Will the cold carry into that next week?

Ooh.

Shall see.

That eight mil.

What a fucking wild thing.

They're just kind of making it up on the fly here.

You know, like, trying.

And I appreciate them trying.

I do.

But that second round, all the home teams losing.

All the favorites losing because they were off and it was like rust.

Like, I wonder now with the seeding, does that, that, you know?

Not as much.

How does that affect?

Like Oregon obviously looked vastly different than Oregon had all year.

They were off for a month.

Had a month off.

It's like that's a long time to be off.

So do you want the top, like that's a whole nother conversation.

Like do you want the top seeds and do we want to change potentially the beginning part so it doesn't carry as long for maybe viewer fatigue.

Yeah, I got to move it up.

Team fatigue, team rust, like all those types of things.

I think it's something to think about.

Should help those, like Oregon now.

And this hypothetical, last year would have either played Boise or Indy, Indiana in the second round, as opposed to the eventual national champions in Ohio State.

You think they probably would have fared a little bit differently in that one.

This should help the second round

people that get a bye, you would think.

We got smoke coming out of one of the Weenies.

No, one is officially broke down.

One is down on the side of the track.

Weenie flopped down on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

I believe it was smoking up.

It wasn't the shot dog.

I believe it was Snorin Dog.

Oh, shit.

Holy cow.

What else happened this week?

Tush Push stays.

Yeah, the rules.

Flag football, Olympics.

Oh, yeah.

We got, hey, that's a big deal.

You heard about Kyle and Kyler?

Mm-hmm.

That's all.

They want to go play for South Korea.

Yes.

Is that going to be a lot?

I believe so.

Probably will.

So is it one per team per country?

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

That's what it is.

I think.

Because, like, will Australia be all the punters?

Could be.

Yeah.

You know?

Well,

how many Canadians we got?

We have Canadians in the NFL?

I'm sure we do.

I'm sure there's Canadians.

At this point,

Chuba Hubbard for the Panthers probably do it all.

If we can't get it done, okay,

fuck it.

Fuck what?

Like,

if they got three NFL guys on a different team, sure, have fun.

We got all of them.

So if we can't get it done.

we've won six straight.

Five out of the last six.

But that's what I'm saying.

Like, sure, Korea can have, you know, Kyler and Kyle Hamilton.

Kyler's gonna be very good, I think, at flag football.

Sure, for sure.

Absolutely.

He's still proud.

He's gonna tackle football.

He'll make a touch.

He ain't throwing to Jamar and Justin Jefferson.

He's throwing to, you know, some schmo.

It's like, I don't care if they got a couple.

I wonder if we're gonna have to judge,

and we, I'm talking about society, not necessarily this program, because we will always spin something in a positive way.

We do, I think.

We spin everything somehow into a potential positive at the end of it.

A lot of the NBA guys don't try as much, allegedly, in some of those Olympic games, you know, like the qualifying or the practice games or pre-Olympic games or maybe even in the Olympic Games at the beginning, not trying as much.

And then whenever it goes, you kind of turn it on.

I wonder what the NFL guys will do in this.

Will they turn it up?

Oh, yeah.

You think they will?

I think they will.

From the jump.

Winning a gold jump.

Winning a gold medal is a big fucking thing.

Never had the the opportunity to do this you know a lot of these guys that this they're probably agreeing to do this i'm only gonna be able to do this one time because it's four years right there's gonna be a different generation in here and uh i might as well put on tape great shit hopefully guys yeah because i'm talking about corners here mostly sure corners a lot of running you know corners you don't know where you're going but if our corners decide to just

yeah lock down yeah i mean that'll be a

That should be an absolute route of absolutely everybody.

We're talking about the Italian team, bro.

We're talking about like resumes, you know, like they'll be the first ones ever to have gold medals.

Like, how does that not count for anything?

I wonder if, like, Julian Edelman, you know, in his prime, if he was playing, if he has two gold medals, does that help his case to get to the Hall of Fame?

I would assume.

Interesting.

I don't know.

Interesting.

I don't want that.

That's going to happen.

You don't like America being a part of the judgment?

Team USA?

I don't like flag football being a part of the judgment to go in the football, pro football Hall of Fame.

Yeah, but making the flag football team team your super duper all-star yeah someone doesn't respect the flag yeah a memorial day weekend with an air force jersey on

with a cowboy hat i need so many things here god damn it son you think you think air force football you think air force football

putting on flags you sound not you just saying i don't know no better

i don't know no better

That's all you gotta say.

Jay's like Robin ain't if you ain't rubbing you're not racing if it's got flags on it's not real football sick and tired of hearing your mouth toes

all right um

shout to seeky uh i don't know if you're gonna be able to get tickets to these flag football games but hopefully hopefully we will be able to go watch

the boys win for the united states of america

does it mean more than the super bowl

it might it's still gold

some people

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If you're down there in the Southeastern Conference, you can see this particular wiener mobile traveling around town.

I bet McGee is going crazy right now.

It was our dog.

You see that?

Slawdog.

He came up.

It was literally our.

Did you see?

They're representing us.

I'm calling McGee right now.

Yep.

Can't believe it.

Slawdog had the inside track.

I knew it.

I knew it.

I've been studying.

He doesn't have a, remember?

Probably no service down to green.

Green solid.

Green text.

Oh, yeah.

Oh.

What's he doing?

He marches to the beat of his own drum.

And that drum has a good beat, doesn't it?

Amen.

Let's get the hell out of here.

Have a great weekend, AJ.

You too, guys.

What a day.

Boys in the back, great work.

Hell yeah, boys.

The graphic, boys.

Way to go.

Way to go, grapple, boys.

Really good week.

Yeah.

We're not going to talk about it.

We're going to have a great weekend.

What is it?

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dirty has a great indie 500 hat on does mitt had uh pants from argentina on yesterday sick yep oh the graphic boys really doing it talk way to go talk

oh

talks really he was the one that ripped the uh jim mercy tribute video from our program which was uh incredible work

all right Boys, way to go at the Thux today.

Oh, YouTube.

Hey, YouTube, Paul.

You dropped your University of Iowa banner.

I'll get it later.

No bloater, no pennant.

Well, it's because that fucking dirt buck guy

shattered bloater.

Colton.

Yeah, Colt.

Colton Nichols.

He's a good man.

Great racer.

Dirtbuck guy.

Did you hear him on Blocky earlier today?

Oh, yeah, I heard him.

I'm done with Blocky.

I mean, Blocky could go shoot a 61 today.

Bingo.

You're right.

I'm actually fucking starting for the Yanks tonight, too, in Colorado.

That's why I got to get out of here.

Congrats.

One up of the hammer.

Dodd.

Cowboys, it's a great work this week.

You're great, Will.

So good.

All right.

Let's get the fuck out of here.

Have a great weekend.

Blocky.

Blocky T's off in like 20.

We got to get out there and watch.

Hey.

Bingo.

Bingo.

245, I believe, or 2.

No, I think you already watched it.

250.

He's the last tea time today.

Yeah.

Because he's the gun.

Prime time, brother.

Prime time.

So many people watching.

All of that.

They said Tiger Roars when he's out there.

So maybe,

depending, especially when he's hit all ones, which he can do and has proven to be able to do in the past.

I saw Rory playing this past weekend, and it was like nobody really around.

It did look weird.

Yeah.

He wasn't with Blocky.

Yeah.

Well, I think Blocky was in that.

Remember, Blocky said it wasn't enough people.

Do you remember?

No, that's why Blocky's left.

He missed the cut.

He left.

I hope they bring it for Blocky.

Yeah, they will.

That's an American dream story.

Yeah, I think everyone's kind of sick of Blocky.

Maybe we should follow him.

Maybe we should follow you around at Oakmont.

Just you.

You got a chance at me, though.

He's a good guy.

You guys should follow his opening two rounds at Oakmont.

Is he going to play at Oakmont?

I mean, why wouldn't he?

He's top 10 in the middle.

They're saying Oakmont's going to play harder than it's ever played.

Oh, yeah.

Perfect for Blocky.

So they cut all the trees down?

Dude, it was wild.

Back in the 90s, I think it was there in 94 or whatever.

It was all trees.

Like, it was like a classic

course in the woods.

And then there's not a tree on that course now.

Why'd they do that?

No shade either, if you go to watch.

We did that a couple Father's Days ago, and it was 1,010 1,010 degrees.

I don't know.

Let's be honest.

If you don't prepare ahead of time, you got no relief coming.

Yeah.

I saw there's a 295-yard part.

200 degrees.

Longest ever.

Yep.

Somebody will ace it.

Blocky.

What are we talking about?

He's driving that thing.

Yeah, what do we...

It's perfect.

He's probably driving that.

DJ won the last one there.

DeShambeau, 295.

What's that?

5 yards?

He said a 7-iron.

He said a 7-iron.

I think I saw a quote.

He said he's using a 7 for that hole.

295.

He said a smooth 7 or something.

Is it all downhill?

What is it?

For real.

Look it up.

I mean, mean, it's slightly.

It's probably like...

There's no way he's hitting his wooden wood.

He said a baby seven.

Bryson said a baby seven, I believe.

Look it up.

That's fucking shit.

His seven might be a four-wood.

We don't know.

Yeah, especially with his new clubs.

It sure wasn't seven wood, AJ.

Yeah, it could have been seven wood, I guess.

You're right.

Probably smooth seven wood.

That feels good.

I didn't even know you have a seven wood in the bag, but I'm happy.

For that exact shot, you hit it high, let it spin, the whole thing.

Oh, so he's coming right here.

Yeah.

Yeah, right in the slot.

You got him.

he's trying to get to where you are you don't need to patronize me okay

i forgot about golf bet until bubba was in studio no yeah me too to be clear i i completely forgot about it still got it still got time especially if bubba's gonna come in here and talk the way he did yeah

he was good on the show i was gonna say that was good he was too bubbles

on the show almost made one He did.

He went back and hit like, let's say, 25 balls.

Oh, yeah, I saw a little video.

They were all, he was painting around the hole.

Yes, he was.

We actually thought,

me personally, these grains are impossible to stick any balls on.

Yeah, too far, too hard.

Can't make it happen.

Raining.

And then he came out and he was just sticking them.

Just

and then one of them should have, is this the video of the one that should have went in?

Yeah.

This one definitely should have went in.

And if he had one of the shit balls, maybe this one goes in.

Oh, it was tight weather.

Because it probably rolls a little bit more.

But yeah, it was rainy.

It was cold.

He goes out there straight off the interview and just like first two balls, like tink, tink.

He's like, oh, let me find it a little bit hit a little short on a couple of them and then as soon as he found what the distance was it was like the amount of english he was putting on all i've never seen it happen back there like that yeah he was chipping marshmallows yesterday too i saw he almost caught kyle larson i think it was the same day i don't think it was yesterday oh yeah i saw him chip kyle uh marshmallows into kyle larson's mouth

too big of a marshmallow i think yeah you need like the hot chocolate marshmallows probably did you see what they they had the jump yeah the big ones i think it was way too big how was kyle larson supposed to ever catch that?

Yeah, no.

Sent him up for his ass.

Yeah.

His little mouth.

Did.

Yeah,

he's a smaller guy.

135 pounds.

135 pounds.

Yeah, I think they sent him up for because Bubba put that thing there.

Oh, yeah.

And Kyle was like going for it.

I was like, I hope they accomplished his feat.

And then you quickly saw that it was a state fair game.

Yeah, which

marshmallow wasn't going to fit in his mouth ever.

Like, even if you have the perfect catch.

Oh, yeah.

Right off the teeth.

He was never going to be able to.

Wait till you see the second one.

The second one, they go back the same marshmallow.

Shout out to Kyle, by the way.

Same marshmallow.

I'll do that.

And this one, like, they'll have a straight-on shot, I think, if I'm not mistaken.

Different video.

A lot of videos of it.

They had a straight-on shot.

He goes for it.

It hits him.

Yeah.

Right in the suck hole.

Right there.

Right there in the puffer.

Yep.

Let's have a fucking great weekend.

You're going to tell a friend something nice that might change their life.

We're in in this thing together.

That is not an indicator of how this weekend's going to go.

No, no.

No.

No way.

That thing actually just said, hey, why don't you push your swords down?

It did.

Exactly.

Why don't you go ahead and

cut an anchor out of your life this weekend?

Yeah.

Something that you don't like that doesn't bring any positive energy, you just have around because you've always had it around.

Go ahead and just say, you know what?

Three-day weekend, I'm not doing that anymore.

I'm not letting that around.

around I'm not letting that be

cut the negative bullshits out of your life let's enjoy this thing a lot of people sacrificed a lot for us to be able to live how we live right now let's enjoy it all have a great memorial day weekend thank you to those who served be a friend tell a friend something nice it might change your life we're in this thing together team on me team on three one two three team goodbye You've seen the headlines, heard the debates.

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