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We have some finals that we can get excited about again because if the Nicks had won game three, it would have been a sweep most likely now the Spurs answer And we got cameame on Yeah, it was another good game. All the games have been awesome in series so far evenven, you know, game one, I know that the final score wasn't exactly super close, but yeah, the Surs did what they had to do Wim be. I thought that the u defense that they played was interesting and they kind of let Hart shoot the ball a lot the s he was making a pay, but it was like very much a concerted effort have Wimby ready to come through the paint and swat anything that's coming nearby And yeah, it's it was a great game by Castle. Fox looked good at times too last night. Y. when it mattered a lot. So yeah, I'm excited. The atmosphere in the garden U I do think it got to the point where they priced out the real fans. A little bit where you don't think so, Hank? I don't like the the Prices at the garden, even when we lived in New York when the Nicks weren't that good, they were crazy expenses. N like that of games..ot like this, but still like expxpensive. Wh Why do you by the way, PFT to your point game one, one point game with two minutes left, game to tie game with ten seconds left, game three, three point game with thirty seconds left. What makes you say that they price out the real fans? that I think the lowest ticket price was like eight thousand do No, But I'm saying like from watching, was it like a vibe you got? Vibe I got. becausecause I think there's also a vibe and memes you you can maybe attest this. I think there is a Eespecially in the first quarter. because the first quarter It was like the crowd was so jacked up and then the spurs come out really hot. I do think that the the weight of How many years it's been since the Nicks have won a title? It is a little bit in the fans' head where you've seen this before where it's like the Cubs or the Red Sox or like the Bills where You have a moment and then when things go bad, everyone's like, o, fuck. And it got a little sou then the second quarter I thought that was a series. I thought the second quarter, the way the Kicks played in the second quarter. I was like, all right, that's it. They bounnce back from the from from not great first quarter. They were down nine or eleven after the first quarter And then the spurs just They Got to the free throw line, which we can talk about the refs They did a really good job on Carl Anthony Towns. I also think Mhael Bridges getting his second foul so early was huge because he never felt like he was part of the game U and they made Jalen Brunson dribble a lot and Jalen Brunson has not been his best. He's he's shot. I think he has the same amount of turnovers as assis and he's shot a lot for not a great efficiency And this was the game that they they kind of the spurs put it all together defensively like they are there' Absolutely hammering Jalen Bruns. L Steph Castle picking him up early like body blow after body blow. It's clear that that's the point is like, hey, if we can stop Kat if we start doubling Kat when he gets the ball and make Brunson dribble too much We have a chance. Yeah. So the thing is with Brunson. I don't want to act like I'm saying he played poorly because I do think he played good enough to win Like there were times in the fourth quarter where Yeah. I thought that the Kicks were going to win. I thought that Jalen Brunsa was making some big plays down the stretch kind of putting it all in his hands. The R thing, I think can be I think that can actually be a legit cause for complaint from Nicks fans. Although we saw last night Game two is worse. in game two game two is worse in game three. It might have been worse, but I guess specifically like I think Wimy might be a dirty guy I think he might be a dirty player. So here's the competing theories. one is Weby's dirty. too is Weby and I actually don't know where I land because I just feel like I have to watch more Weemby to totally figure it out because that the Chevon Jalen Brunson like what was that? That was crazy It's Weby's dirty or Weemby is essentially telling everyone who plays against him. Hey, if you're going to play me rough, I'm going to play rough back, which I kind of respect if that's the if that's what he's going for Yeah. I respect it. The Jen Brunsy one made no sense. That was I don't know how that wasn't foul It wasn't anything. It was crazy and it cat was getting fouls in that play too. It it reminded me of when Zidon, the French guy head butted the dude in the World Cup. Yeah. It was like kind of out of nowhere He just kind of flipped out on him real quick. And he's got a few this this playoffs. He's got the elbow on Nas Reid. Yeah. He's got the phantom hair pole of Lou Dorth that I don't think was actually a hair pole. But from the angle on TV, it looked like it might have been But it's u I don't know. means, where do you I will say, by the way Brown probablyrobably the greatest press conference in terms of Funky math about the refs. didid you guys see this Mike Brown after the game he did give credit to Spurse and he wass like, but We had they had twenty four free throws in the second half to R eight And he was like, if you go full game That is that is forty eight free throws for the spurs Meanwhile, We only were fouled four times. So he halved the eight Yeah and doubled the twenty four And by the end of the press conference I was like, holy shit, that was the worst officiated game ever. So Kudos to Mike Br, that's really good. Yeah to take the eight foul shots and be like that was four fouls. Yeah. like the twenty four to be like in a full game, that's forty eight. It be forty eight wait, forty eight free throws Free throws. Yes. you went free throws full game for spurs just fouls half for de. I mean, it could have been even more than that if they gotten off the three point shots that they wanted to shoot. Yeah. and you had been felled on those. I do think there's a like a There was some bad calls, which Nick' fans have a right to complain. I also think the sppurs were very deliberate in attacking the hoop And they were deliberate in being like, we got to get these guys in foul trouble. So there there's a little bit of both. I also think the Spurs just finally executed well Wait where if you look at the first two games, they kind of lost their minds at the end of the games. Yeah. this time they, you know, whether it be Dereren Fox, that Steph Castleree was kind of a prayer, but There was a couple of those in the game for both sides. The sppurs. being the young team, they finally stepped up to the moment and they're like is how we have to execute and this how we have to play defense down the street. If I was a Nicks fan, I would not be confident and And I'm not saying that I'd be confident if I was a Spurs fan either. I don't think either team should be confident right now because the games have been that close and they've been decided on just like a very, very small margin of error at the end of the games. So like I don't think that either teams should be comfortable I'd still be confident if I was a next f M memes How are you feeling Tal I feel fine. The refs Joke. It was definitely called one sided. That's a problem with the refs. It was only called on the Ngs. I agree. I was going to say the other problem with the rest that I don't like because I actually love the physicality in this series. I think it's awesome to watch. The problem is they have not called the physicality the same half to half. first half, it was super physical and they were letting them be physical. Second half, they started tightening it up And it's like, hey Let's just let's just be consistent both halves because I want to watch the same product and like I like that it's physical. I like the guys are like nasty and There was a moment where I'm pretty sure Steph Castle and Kat have like a competition who could scream at the most people after made baskets because that's they're so animated and there's like real bad blood. But then the second half starts. and the rest are calling it different. Yeah, it was the it was the Kldvin Johnson foul in the corner that Which one everyone off? It was just somebody bumped them. They just called him media fou, but meanwhile, Jayal and Bronsers is just getting molested up and down the court and they're just not calling anything Just just either let them play callall it both ways. likeike I just don't get it. agree's the NBA finals. likeike everyone's watching this I also don't love the and this happened with the SGA when Jail Bruny got smashed. That was a foul, but I also think it's bullshit when guys don't turn around to go for a rebound. SA did the same thing Like you can't you can't just stand straight at the guy in the corner and not even attempt to rebound and then be like, Oh man, he hit me. I think it was definitely It was a foul, but also it was also a flop. right. You have to you have to actually turn around and try to try to get the rebound. otherwise you're just you're taking charges on loose balls, which is weird. Yeah, keepeep yourself the play. Landriry Shamot is human after all. Yeah. the most important player in the series. Wh do you go like one for seven? Yeah, he was not great. not look good That one shot that he did make though, when it went in, you thought OkayK, well,' she's just about to get back on his Landry Samot bullshit. Yeah. I talked to our good friend Stehven Chay at about lunchime today and he was very focused on one aspect of the game I was not aware of. feel like we should discuss. Okay? Yes. I know what he's gonna to say, I know what you're gonna say. Carl Anthony Town's girlfriend's bag. Jordan Woods. So I had a blame pie if we wanted to do Blame pie. We can do blame pie, but like I think we should unpack the bag a little bit. Yeah, yeah. Well the first two blame pies we can we can br What is the bag? That's what I'm saying. Yeah. So she has a bag that she she has a lucky bag. that for The last thir to twelve games she has brought to the game They've won them all won them all, lucky bag President Trump in the building, no bags allowed My question people Well, that's why my blame Pie was also going to be President Trump if if he deserves some blame. Well my blame was going to go actually to Carl Anthony Towns because I would assume that the players were allowed to bring a bag in Why didn't he just bring her bag And then he sees her feet on the wood probably and then takes the bag over to her after he's already brought it inside. I will say the bag is perfect size to conceal a gun It's a gun sizeed bag. What about Could the bag have had its own seat If you if the bag has a ticket, if you animate the bag, the bags Yeah, you buy a ticket for the bag, the bag sits here. What about an emotional support bag Yeah, you put a strap on it and you'll be like, hey, I can't be without this bag. And then when I was talking to him, I thought to myself, wait This is actually maybe a million dollar business idea because you're seeing a lot of like major leeague baseball stiums have different bag rules, things like that What if you made a shirt or a blouse Maybe like a long sleeve shirt turned into a bag So like a sweatshirt? Yeah, like a sweatshirt that you go out And like girls, you know, they get, they get hot sometimes. they take their jacket off or their sweatshirt off And then it zips up into a stylish bag, they put their stuff in that bag. boom. Instant Bag Mames I was unaware of this bag. It's a pretty important bag So I blame memes a lot, then And not even knowing about the bag. That was Mes off of this bag talk Would you like Cat wasn't Kat played great in the first two games. He didn't play great in game three It feels like he is the motor and that that kind of changed in the Hawk series. He is the motor for this offense. You've seen his assist numbers go up He's the most important player on the Nicks offense. It feels like not Jael Brunon Jalel Brunson Obviously, is your closer.'s he's your point guard. He's your best player In this series, it feels like how Cat goes the K go Is that fair assessment? Yeah, that was a big emphasis in the post game pressures that the Nicks offense was just stagging. It was a lot of dribbl. It was allowed to dribbling a lot of one on one It does feel like the sppurs have oppose their will to the point where they're the Kicks are playing in their head and they just can't get out of it. If we're doing blame pie, is there any blame memes for you kindind of softening up on Zack I didn't even think about that. But someone pointed that out to me is like memes esssentially saying like we're all good, he should have kept that same fire on the number eleven controversy Now, me and Zach golf. we're good. Okay o. I have another maybe piece of blame pie. Okay. What about Tibbs The Kicks are so exhausted from last season playing for Tibbs that they finally hit the wall this postseason It's good point I didn't even think about that. Just ranom too hard. That's good point. All those minutes add up bemes. Did you think about that? Mmames? I didn't think about that. I disagree with that one. Okay. I think they've had a lot of time off. I don't know, I don't know about that Listen If you want to blame the refs, I get it if you want to blame the bag I get it. If you want to blame meemes not, you know, being hard on Zack anymore, I get it. I think the sppurs like for the most part just played better and their young guys like Seph Castle was he even admitted it. He like was a little bit lost in the first two games. He was great. his defense great. Webbey was awesome. Like they just put together the game that they thought they could put together U you could blame Trump because he left early We blame Brandon Johnson for that. Yeah for leaving the bears game early. You can't leave that game early for the president and you You make everybody get rid of their bags. Also did you fall asleep Yeah, for sure. one hundred percent. Yes ust a little nap. Which just felt like I fall asleep watching sports all the time. Yeah. Nothing to be ashamed of. Just close your eyes for a minute. Yeah, just resting his eyes. What about Cardi B Um Cardi D. Cardi D. As Charles put it, Shadow Chuck. Those big old women in Santntonio could use some Cardio Nice. Oh she look good. She look great Excellent performer I thought she she killed it as usual. Stuff on Digs probably watching that. like look what I like get away Wh by the way, Hank is see Well, no, he proposed That's right,. That's right ye Yeah. Is he going back to the Patriots? It's rumors It's weird that he hasn't been signed He had a good year last year. Yeah. I think it's like who's Who's going to be more crazy this off season? I think the less crazy guy between Digs and Brandon Iuke will have some closure. And Diggs has been acting crazy Yeah, but there's a body of work there. Yeah for sure Um memes, what is it? And Zach, you can chime in to like it has to feel. I don't think the N fans should panic It's one game, but Part of being on a winning streak like that and then losing a game, it's like, o, fuck, this is foreign I don't really know what to think now. Like is the sky falling? You haven't lost in so long, you're probably not used to it Right? It's definitely weird Uh But I think I think it was almost needed to a certain extent It brings down to E earth and you just got to you got to have your back as well just fight H Is the old saying true that the series doesn't start until the home team wins a game That could be it. We could just be in for Astroros Nationals style final Yeah. Well, no, you don't You don't want that. No, the next one want that. Or the next two want Yeah next want' right. Yeah. What are you going to sayZ. It was sobering in terms of like is a healthy reminder. Th guys are also like playing the best of their ability. They want to win a championship just as bad you didn't see that through the previous series just because they were able to walk through teams to so So yeah, I still feel confident in team. I feel good about it And if we can get good officiating, should be in a good spot When do you think about somebody in Gramacy Park giving Wimby a key Be you can't get into that park, right? They don't know, you're not allowed to just walk in. He was in there. he was sketch was doing a sketch of a sculpture to pass the time Some in this office would say that's a bad optic Yeah and it's a bad look for him to be doing that on game dayay I think it was the day before but still still bad opt. Yeah, bad opt. Like some guys go to Carbone, some guys go like there's a lot of bad obptics going around What do you think about about carbone don't talk about carbo. He just talked about. I'm saying, like if you're got it likeike are you You tell me that guys should be going out for dinner Like the night before a big game Where are you getting these sources from I mean, it's publicly available information. You can read on Barcelsports. comot Got it. Who went to cararbo Oh you to hear about this? No, won't name We can we can't name name. So so gott say it now. All right, so Wimby, there was a video of Wimby sketching the statue. Okay. and then somebody at Barstlal did a blog being like this who U Ricob Basco did a did get arrested No No, that was that was AI. Okay. It looked it looked so good. It was somebody from the Taliban So what did he say about Carbone? Well, he said that some guys go and they like do sketches of statues and stuff. Some guys, you know, they go out to Carbone the night before a big game. So like there's some bad optics that go around there. You never know which one is going to be the one that is the bigger distraction. So he was just writing a blog being like, I know this No. No, Dfinitely not. No, deffinitely not. Like the entire purpose of the blog you are you saying was just so that he could say, I know that one of the players on the sppurs went out to Carbone? I would never say that. Neither would I. I would never And if you did, I would never agree with it. Yeah. But still pretty weird that Wimby was like that's what he does to just pass the time. Yeah. And just when you think the guy can't get any moreore French, he one ups you on it Um Yeah. I did also hear there's a quote from U from Carter Bryant on how him and Wimby p the time because they asked about like doing art and things like that And he said We love to do extracurricular activities Usually me, him, HB, we've done painting We've done game days like playing board games We went to the world's quietest room We've done a bunch of dumb stuff. So I mean, you can look at this and say like, Okay, Wimb' is eccentric, etcera, etcetera This They're just running back the same playbook from the sppurs of the two thousands. Yeah. likeike they didn't do it didn't go out. they didn't party. No Wendy's famously sleeps twelve, twelve hours a night. Yeah. they would just hang out at each other's houses and like play Xbox. Listen, it worked. I wonder Here's the thing I'm I'm not worried about, but'm I'm curious about is Wendby has looked a little gast when there it's it's back not backed back but one night in between. How's he going to look in game four He did get he played the entire fourth quarter game three, but there was also so many stoppages by the way, credits to the reviews. They nailed so many. but they nailed them. Yeah. There was like multiple times. was like, hey, good review That was it was the Wemby three, greatreat review the ball out of bounds, great review They just crush the reviews. I heard some people on I think it was get upp this morning that were crushing the review system being like they screwed up a bunch of. I don't think that they screwed anything up. I just think that fucked with the flow the game. And you could be like, yeah it gave Wimby a chance to, like stay on the floor and catch his breath. B because when Cornette was playing last night like He cannot stay in front of Katin No It's impossible for him. No, it's it's when wheny comes off the court. Everyone just goes to the hoop every single time. Was there that was actually the moment memes. I I assume you had the same thought when they when wey hit the three and one and they got reversed And then the next score I was like, oh, this is it. This game is over. Nick got it. That was a great time out by Mitch Johnson. Yeah Yeah, it was because yeah, cut it It was about to be a ten point game then it was a five point game It was like no, this is it Do you feel like the crowd was do you have any grade for the crowd I like the crowd ESPM was speechless before the game inside the NBA. They're like, wow, this is This is unreal Chuck, Kenny and Chck all like stopping being like this is an incredible moment and they've been in, you know, huge games, huge moments all played in finals and they themselves were like, wow speechless. that I feel like settles, you know The crowd was the crowd is alive. Yeah I think there's in a game like that, you have to have Like the Rowdy Bys lounge. You got you got to set aside like a thousand tickets that you seller face value for like die hard fans of the team If I spent ten thousand dollars on a ticket, I probably wouldn't showut up N me. True B by the way, I wanted to Stephen Chan to com come in here to help us with the parlleay because we were so bad with our parlay the other night. H Ch. sit down, Ch. We're talking about the cat bag letting the cat out of the bag. Yeah. Yeah All right, let's do the ad. Draft Kings the final round of the basketball season is here two teams left, one trophy on the line and only Draft Kings has you covered every step of the way. The Draft Kings sports app is now available in all fifty states and includes all markets bringing each game straight to your fingertips wherever you are New York to San Antonio to LA. you're in on the excitement at the speed of sports. foall every possession, every fourth quarter swing Every clutch shot that decides the series sweat the whole run in real time with a seamless experience built for championship basketball, no matter where you're watching. 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Predictions offer Void in New York ends june twenty eighth Terms at dKNG dot co slash audio irst Okay, so Stehen You are a massive, massive Nicks fan former season ticket holder. You have Nixon five. You not you're not you're not deterred at all. He actually was like It's odd how confident he is. Do you have a pick because we our parlays have been bad in this series. Do you OG eighteen plus? That was mees. Last night Shout out memes. G out mees. Mitch Robinson and I it was close Threes were were bad. Robinson didn' even take a three. Robinson was close. I thought he was going to show out for the president. I thought he was going to like really really explode on him. So what do you got for us You just want one single prop. One single prop and then we'll add into ours A I'm going to give you two, and' to give you the option. Okay. so that's not you're already fllowing not following the assignment My favorite one is No questions though. No My favorite ably did. He said you just want one prop. Oh yeah, yeah. yeah My favorite prop is Jalen Brntson rebounds and P guard rebounds suck. because a lot of it is happstance, like does the ball bounce their way? Let me give you a stat. So four plus rebounds is, I think last check life plus one hundred thirty three He's done this in his last U We got Seven his last eight games against the sppurs. Had I bet this in game one, it would have been reversed. knock it down Boost it up eight in a row. was that tip out Bridg has got credit for. Had I fought that, we would have gotten there reversed. Why didn't you fight it I didn't bet it. Okay. Okay. So but he's had this is all just if you had all of this from the record. If you had fought it It would it would have been eight in a row You're the Mark Wahlberg of Ps If you had been there it would have gone different. But you're telling me that you're selfish because you didn't think to fight injustice. for the people. No yeah for the people. Dud. Maybe some people at the under Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere N fight for the fair thing. If you're a Nix fan, you're not I'm not auditing pro that. Okay. But you but you're telling me that you knew that it happened and that was wrong and you didn't do anything about it. Crect Okay, canan we get back to your pick? Okay. if you want to if you want to if you want to pick that hit that is hit in every game that is a little juicy, itss largest comeback five plus points Oanions Okay, I like that. Yeah, it's very easy to root for because wait what me ods on it It's usually like minus one fifty. Okay. Can you parlay that? Yes. Okay. All right. All right, I have Dylan Harper twenty points and rebounds. See how easy that was? J just give a pick. I've got Dylan Brunson. sixix plus assists. Over five and a half ass sist, Jalen Bronsson. Okay Okay. and then and then five plus points come back. Yeah. We want to have one more I think that's good. now. Let's have one more play Mmes You want a five? No, four Brs. Oh, we're doing both yours. I No no, we're just doing the five point thing. I have a parlay that's either live or going to be live now he's he's killing. Let me let me his money. you go L jam at ten plus points. Okay All right, we'll do four leg parlay and beted on drafictings. All right, Stehven, I have one last question for you. But I got to do a quick add. We have new sponsor alert. B me newew sponsor alert Tick pick is going to be the official ticking partner PMT starting in July Thanks to Tick pick We are very excited to be with Tick pick. We're excited to be Working with Tick pick U ticket prices for the finals are crazy, but the best prices are always on tick pick And we love Tick pick. We love Tick pick so much because I have a question for Stehven U Mmes and Zacks Do you guys want to go to game five See Okay. Well Thanks to Tickpick. you guys are going to game five. Wait Wh. Mees Zack didn't confirm. Oh, yeah, Mees Zack. Would you guys like to go to game five Yes, sir Beames Let's go. All right. So the boys, the original trio that went down to Indiana last year. you guys are going to be flying down to San Antonio game five Thank you to Tick Pick Yeah. Saturday night. That's amazing. Yeah. Thank you. We're going to win in five. Yeah, that We're gonna to win the championship. You guys might get to watch the Nick win a championship live in person. Yeah. Yeah, it's unreal. A abbsolutely unreal. That's crazy. Aes. L O'Brien's going to be in the building. Yeah, I Bing right now. Oh, I love. It's going. Yes, Bees. Fucking hell yes. Zach give give take it a tick pick. Give mees a hug.ake it a tick pick. Thank you to takeick pick. That's awesome. Give meees a hug that man needs a hug. so I'm so pumped for you guys.'s gonna be a good moment.ut the camera on Max. And the three of you, they're going to get some content. We're going to get we're going to get some funny stories. Stehven Ch you might have to come in Sunday night. That's fine to recap. sureure yeah. because the three boys going to San Antonio. So we'll get all the flights in the hotel figured out. tickets are done And Tick pick. shout out Tick pick. This is they're coming on his official sponsor in July. So guess what? Start using them now because they got memes crying. They got chay going pumped up Zach is sweating Zach is just fix his glasses for the hundredth time I mean, yeah, unreal, unreal I've I've seen a couple next playoff games in person. The fact that Nicks fans travel, especially to San Antonio is like twenty percent Nick fans past couple of games is incredible. Yeah. That is an ideal environment. Thank you so much. Vampire meet up. We could do that. No, you guys lost that game, right? Oh Yeah yeah, no vampires No if names? emmpires This is so awesome. Yeah, fuck ye dune. Beeams you know what you're gonna wear I got to do the black sweatshirt. Yeah. Yeah. You gott to w you got to win, you got to win Wednesday You got to win to win wins. Thats have to win Wnesday has now just become a must win because you win w But listen, no matter what, even if you lose Wednesday, game five will be massive massive pivotal. That will be the biggest Yeah, I mean, that's the biggest game in the series if you if you even if you lose on on Wednesday, But I want you guys to win on Wednesday so you can the The Larry OB is going to be in the building Jay has been saying To chase credit for the last two weeks. he's been saying Nixon five So if this actually if he if he if he calls his shot and then gets to see it in person Qu night a second. Was that a was that a scheduled loss last night? I thought we' going to lose either two or three too, so was What's. Any anythingthing that you're very concerned about with the NX Odd Jordan Wood's bag needs to be back in the building As long as that's good, we're straight. quarter offense. Does she take them to away games Did you take a bag at there? Okay, can we find a bag for canan you get a bag like that to bring Where do they sell those things? Just in case she doesn't bring it. Probably like Macy's or something. Try tryry to find that bag for me, Chay. Okay. And then we'll throw in, we'll chip in for the bag too. Okay Sick. Hell yeah. Yeah. Thank you guys. Thanks takeick pick.. Thanks Tickick. Thank you takeick pick. I'm pumped for you guys All right, I just texted Caitlin so we'll make sure we get your flights. Do you guys want to go in Saturday morning Yeah, that'd be fine, right? It's got to go early so that we don't have any issues. Sure Saturday morning you come back Sund What a day. Meet up with the boys PM listen, you guys do a little little AWL, if you get Nx fans AWL, just get strength in numbers. Yeah I know we' saying no teeth, by do have my backpack just in case. You keep your vampire teeth on you at all time At all time. N Yeah, never never got I got them m in my backpack fifteen feet from here. Okayase G get them Okay. All right, Chay Love it. Thank good luck. S. You got this. Thankk you boys. love you guys. Yeah Nic pick Thank you, Tick pick. So yeah, new sponsor. We' very excited for Ticks to come on Excited for the boys This would be awesome Imagine if I get to see it in person. It'd be pretty amazing. It'd be pretty freickaking. Is this supposed to be the summer of memes Yeah. Yeah. ye, I think so. Okay Other things we got to talk about memes, you good Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. Thankk you so much. Yeah, of course Thanks Sick pick Um What else we gotta talk about? Should we talk Sresby? Brendan Sresby So there's no res in college football As of two days ago, Officially no rules. Correct because he bet on his own team When he was out in Indiana. forty times, I believe was the number number of bets that he put in on just on just his own team Bed a lot of money on some other sports, other games And a judge in Lubbock, Texas, which is where Texas Tech is located has ruled that he is eligible to play next year. Yes. And now that could go up for appeal But the appeal would not be heard until I don't think until after the season's over The the only thing you got wrong there, the judge in Lubbock, Texas actually is a judge from Fort Worth who has a Houston degree so it's totally on the up and up. Okay. All right, so it's just coincidence that he lives in Lubbick. I think there was a Texas Tch judge that recused himself at first So that's so it works. So the judicial system works. This is and and look, I know that there will be people who will say we're hypocrites. I do not think we are because we obviously are sponsored by a gambling company and we love to gamble. we talk about our bets all the time We don't play the games. We don't play in the games. We're not on the teams You can't be on the team and bet on the team. You can't be on the team and bet on the the like the games that are taking place. The integrity of the sport And I'm not clutching pearls here is one hundred percent at stake. L you can't have that. I'm not going to clutch Pls either because what's happened is this is a pure one hundred percent result everythingvery that college football has done to itself for the last fifty years. and it is all the different elements of like pretending that they're not employees, saying that they can't get paid, they can't get tattoos. Everything that's gone into the evolution of college football and the ability of players to make money has led to this point where They don't really have a governing body that is capable of enforcing any of the rules. Yeah. They used to. And then it turns out that that whole system was fucked up and illegal. And so then they got rid of that And now it's just essentially college footballs on the honor system now. So if you want to self report, if you want to suspend your own players for stuff You're more than welcome to do so. But just know that The rest of the schools probably won't be doing that I have heard that a bunch of the big twelve schools are going to get together. potentially all agree to not playag against Ais tech. in which case in which case, I think if it's already scheduled like for the big twelve schools That would count as forfeits. So Texas teech would win a bunch of those games w nothing. Well, it feels like there's a lot of things that could happen here. One is the the the big twelve schools could be like, hey, this is absolutely not We're not doing this And then Texas teech would probably have to play ball and be like, Hey, you know what This actually is kind of ridiculous The other one is like the college football commommittee Let's say TechZch goes undefeated. They could just not rank them They could Yeahah. You know what I mean? like great, we're not going to rank you. It is crazy. likeike you can't You can't do this.e you can't have someone who bet on the games and I also the whole thing is so weird because Brendon Sars me and I'm not, you know addddiction comes in all shapes and sizes. It feels like he's not taking a lot of accountability for it where he's just like, yeah, you know, I I did this, but I really should get to play. He did. So when the news first came out and he said that he was addicted to gambling I was like, okay, well, that's like Well We'll see what happened. But it turns out he made a shitload of bets. Yeah. I don't I don't know the exact number. I don't know what the average amount was. He bet a lot on a lot of different sports. So he might actually have an addiction to gambling. in which case I hope he gets better. I hope that he's able to like continue his career and make a lot of money and be successful and all that stuff Um, But again, like this is It's entirely a creation of college football and the way that the governing bodies have been set up and evolved over the years. They have nobody to blame but themselves about it. And the only way that you can get past this is you have to have a collective bargaining agreement. And until you have a CBA in place that the players negotiate along with the universities you're not going to be able to enforce anything. And even so there's a bill that's going through Congress right now that's trying to fix a lot of these things. I think it comes closer than most have in the past. But what's going to end up happening since the players won't be designated as employees. They won't have a CBA. There's going to be a lawsuit in the next year in the next two years that challenges that bill that goes through and challenges the whole like giving them the the antitrust exemption that they're talking about giving to the NCAA And they're going to challenge that antitrust exemption in court And then that's probably going to get overturned in like two years anyways The only way that you can put a permit to fix this is if there's a CBA where you agree on like what what the rules are and what the punishment is going to be and the players are like officially finally designated as as employees because otherwise And you can agree or not with whether or not we should all college foball players employees of the universities That's like a semantic conversation we can have The upshot of it is if you don't call them employees legally you're just going to end up tying yourself up in court And then whatever rule comes after that is going to make even less sense. And you're going to have no ability to enforce anything And that's kind of where we are right now where it's like, Every school, you can just be on your own honor system. if you get caught doing stuff If you want to punish your star athletes, you're more than welcome. There's going to be a lot of schools that don't. Yeah be So I'm not a slippery slope guy because I think a lot of times those are disingenuous people like Oh, well, if this happens then then they'll take it all the way to the end and be like, well, then this could happen. Yeah, I guess it could. mostost of the time it doesn't happen This is a slippery slope because And I read an article yesterday. Dan Wetzel, who's an awesome college football reporter. talkalk to a lot of coaches anonymously and this was the quote that I was like, he this is exactly correct. The quote is from a big twelve coach. He said, if this is the precedent, then I owe it to my players to bring in people from Las Vegas to teach us how to gamble Then collectively we need to decide which games we will play hard in to cover and which ones we won't. I'm supposed to do what's best for my players. and in that case they would be able to make a lot of money betting on our games. That's the precedent for me It's not as far fetched as you think when you say that we're allowing players to bet on games that they're in. We should also let's be clear because we did kind of overlook something. He is going to be punished. There's a punishment for swordsb be that he has to serve He's going to sit out the first two games against Abilene Christian and Oregon State. Yeah. So there is a punishment and play huge punish. He's not skating Scott free from this. It's it is c this this is crazy though. It's like Again, I don't want to like for the most part, all these things, I don't really care, but there are certain lines where it's like if you have players who are allowed to bet on games, Well, how can anyone trust what they're seeing? M Like it's why the Giante Porter and the and the Terry R here, those are big, big issues. Yeah. That's why they're mad and the NBA comes down super hard on them. And you would think that like schools would recognize the importance. donon't throw the baby out with the bathw. If you have a player that's betting on his own games You have to be smart enough to realize that if you don't actually take steps to make sure that he's punished or has to miss games U or kicked off the team, whatever the case may be you're going to end up just creating a massive amount of doubt that's going to go through your entire sport. The entire product just becomes people like this is actually something that people would start tuning out if they're like, Hey, this is this is all rigged and players are playing hard for one game and not playing hard for the other. Like that that quote from the coach maybe think like what You know when you play when when the when a big time team plays a small school like a SEC school plays a max school in the first couple of weeks of the season And the spread will be like forty eight. And they always end up taking their foot off the gas in the third and fourth quarter because they're up by, you know, thirty five Why would they just keep your foot on the gas and have everyone, you know what I mean? And then and then guys can get injured because they're playing four quarters in a game that's totally out of the like there's so many weird things that could happen if this is the precedident I don't I think if I had to guess, I feel like somethinghing' going to happen where he's not going to play Also I know Sresby's good. Um But is he is he worth like blowing up everything fromom whose perspective. likeack. Yeah Yeah, I don't know. It would also be I think the thing I'm rooting for is for him. play. and then stink I read the judge's ruling on this and it was very funny because it was like, we've ruled that if we if we suspend this kid, if we don't let him play football next year That's going to impact his ability to make money and get better at playing football So that's not fair to do Let's let him play. Yeah.'s like,, no shit It's crazy shit but I mean, like, if you are b betting, that's the thing. like if you have a big picture perspective on this It is if you think that there's if that element of distrust has proven itself to be true where you have reason to believe that players are betting on their own teams then there will be consequences in terms of ratings in terms of sponsorship money, TV deals that come in down the line And again, I think the only way past it is Like you have to actually have a CBA in place. That's the only way that it's worked for the NFL. That's the only way that's worked for major sports in America Wh which college football is' the second biggest sport in America. Yeah And to we need to stop pretending that it's not a major sport. becausecause if we keep pretending then it's going to be the Wild West and it will kill itself. Yeah Yeah, and it feels like're we're on that path. U Yeah, I don't it was pretty shocking that they were. I mean, I guess it's not shocking, but Then again, there have been judges who have like judges who are Hometown judges like the Alabama Bettyacos case. Yeah. That judge is from Alabama and was like, Hey This probably a bad idea T have a guy who's a professional athlete come and play Alabama He He actually made the right call. Yeah, you know what? this judge might actually just hate college football He's like if I get If I allow him to play Yeah then it will end up killing college football. It's it's it's crazy Yeah, what if he what if he does play and I don't blame by the way, any Texas tech fan who's like fighting for this. Yeah. I do the same thing. Yeah, how fans For sure.'re if you're a Riders fan, you're like let the boy play. Yeah. he served his time. Yeah. I didn't you see suspended for Abelene Christian. Yeah. Yeah, keepeep it up. No like that's that's exactly the role that you should be filling Okay, before we do the Stanley Cup final talk. What is the why is AJ Brown trending again? D someone explain that to me? What do you do? There's a lot of play. I Isn't Mad and related? No, no, not Mad and related. This is more like the way that he left You want to leave a place better than you found it, right? What do you do? So when he left, he decided to sign an autograph on his way out. I don't understand what the big problem is Okay And what did the aud So also don't care about that? So when he left, he went to pick up his stuff at the facility And then there's a picture of him that I guess is up on the wall at the team facility. and he signed it the best to ever play here always open So If anything, he made the facility more valuable Yeah signatures right there. They should get it graded Max Don't care Yeah, cool. I say he was When he got traded traded to the Patriots, I said he was the best receiver to ever play for the Eagles He thinks so too. I have no problem with that Do's piss You you don't w want to ring I don't know what you want me to say sayTO is better wasn't Okay. Darg No. Wn't wasasn't Disagree, But he didn't say the best wide receiver. He said the best ever play here. everver play here You can take that Always hope you can take that for what you will. I don't care. You guys can care. I personally do. Where do you put AJ Brown on the Mount Rushmore of Eagles all time? I don't care. Where's your big Bbblehead It is on my desk. Where's beh? It's behind. Is it behind you? Oh Check this out Wait, how did you get to the bobble so well Did you is there is the thing still underneath its head? Yeah Oh no Look at that. big done. It's nice. You might just be h Ba. I'm to fuck you out. It looks a little like SVP A little bit, a little bit U Okay, should we let's do a time travel real quick for Stanley Cup final game four which will be on Zoom and then we'll be back in studio for Hotsee Cool Tron in our interviews before we do that twisted tea Sumers here in Twisted T is coming in clutch to turn our day drinking up a notch. Their new summer party pack has a brand new twisted lemonade made with real lemons and five percent alcohol It's got that refreshing taste with a little kick, no carbonation and goes down smooth We love twisted lemonade. I'm going to have a twisted lemonade this weekend when I'm grilling my cheeseburgers. I'm going to do that. Gonna have a little twisted lemonade outside with the grill on. So whether it's hitting the course for a round, pre gaming a ball game or inviting the guys over to some backyard grilling, the new twisted summer party pack is perfect to keep the good times rolling Grab a refreshing twisted tea today twisted tea, it is the drink of the summer Here's us talking Stanley Cup final. Okay, we're back after the Stanley Cup fininal. game four And PFT, I just treated this, but I feel bad for the people who are too proud to enjoy both hockey and basketball at the same time because we are living in blessed days. This series has been absolutely incredible. We had another game where a team goes out to an early lead and the other team comes back. And now Carolina has tied it to two in the series. Jordan Stall thirty seven years old. He's got a goal. He' scored two goals tonight. He has four every single game. he's got a goal in the Stanley Cup final so far It's been awesome. It's just been awesome hockey. I don't really know what else to say other than it has been the most entertaining hockey and we have a great series. And just like the MBA finilals, which we just talked about We're just blessed to be living in times when we have such a competitive Awesome finals in both sports Yeah, I mean, we can do head to head. I think right now NHL might be up three games to one on NBO if we're just going like game by game Yeah Yeah, game by game. Yes. everyvery single one of the hockey games has been incredible all the hockey games have been incredible. The basketball has been great too, but the hockey' been just Unreal. There's no such thing. I tweued out the other night that like there's no such thing in the NBA finals as a lead. and team's always going to come back In hockey, it's the same way too. It's like Yeah Every team that has taken a lead. blown that lead in this Stanley cup And then at times, they've gone on to reclaim it. What do you think about Bussy? What do is it is this galaxy Brain move by Brendemore? Number one, I just love saying Bussy. We're sussy for Bossy. We're sussy byy the way. my mind decrease. My point was that more that like the people who do the the Jake Malis of the world who constantly are bitches and can't have like a thought of, hey, I like both sports. Those guys, the little brothers My point is you don't have to compare them. We don't even have to do a game by game. It's just both are great enjoy both because they've been great and they haven't been on the same night and it's been every night has been awesome. That was my point. But yes, Bussy Andt easy. I was making a joke about the Yeah games to one lead. don't I don't give a shit. The games have been great in both series, but it is fun to just like provoke both sides Because I do like the please like my sport people. I think they serve a very valuable part of the sports ecosystem It's the please like my sports versus the look at the ratings NBA finals ratings people being like look at this Dominates hockey. Wh cares? Bussy. I don't know what happened to Anderson. Maybe was concussed. like I said after game three I think also being on the group chat with hockey guys. he might be in not I'm not quoting anyone. This is more the vibes I was getting. He might have the S word attached to him as a goalie, a little soft, so they weren't Totally shocked that he was scratched Uh but he was he yeah, so they didn't report an injury So it seems like he was just Healthy scratch and healthy scratch would it could be gamesmanship by Brenda Moore. It could be just not reporting an injury. could be that he did get when when he kind of hit his head and neck at the end of the last game, or it could just be that They wanted to mix things up and go with the lefty and and switch up the the catching hand because Marner had said that I think it was game two or game three. He got confused when he was going up against Bossy And when he had that penalty shot And he was like, Ohh yeah, I forgot his glove was on the other hand by the time that I shot. U, So it could be just like giving them a different look. and having a different handed goalie might just be enough to to fuck them up a little bit. Yeah And and guess what? It worked because they just tied the series and now they have Essentially home Iice because they have three games left and two of them are in Carolina And he did a good job in in the third period, not letting Vegas score. It was also like That was a Carolina performance where Vegas had twenty one shots total like they were, you know, their defense and getting on top of the hurricanes had it felt like the possession of the puck a lot more than than the Kights and that's the game they want to play. And we talk when we talk to TJ Osh, he said it. like the way to beat Carolina is you have to get out early Eact opposite happened. Carolina scored a minute and fifteen seconds into the game and it was these I'm telling you the boards, they're juiced because that was another one similar to the overtime goal in game three. It was a funky bounce real hard bounce, not like just a funky like the the the puck is bouncing far off the boards back in front of the net And I think maybe the Vegas boards are juice, which would be cool. Maybe they should do it even more. And the empty netter Yeah Yeah. Yeah. so the something up with the with the boards in Vegas And also fourteen playoff goals for Hden Pretty incredible Nuts. didid I tell you guys the little mishap I had with our good friend Liam Bluutman who is a die hardard Vegas Nights fan. He was actually at the game Um During game two, I want to say He texted in this group chat am in and he said Howowden plus two hundred two hundred fifty to win the Cmythe LOL I read that and immediately went and bed it And then When Mitch Marner scored his hatch trick in game three, I was like, Hey, dude, like there's no way Howen's going to win the Cmth now And he's like, yeah, dude, I was saying Plus two hundred fifty LL, no chance he wins. I can't believe his odds have gotten this low. Yeah, that's you got I put that on him. was like I was saying there's one hundred to one before the playoffs. Asuming that everybody is as locked in on the Golden Knights as he is too the point where he can do sarcasm about the Golden Knights Yeah. He was like, ye, He was one hundred to one before the playoffs. Now he's plus two hundred fifty LL. I was like, o fuck. So. But hey, maybe I don't know that I mean, the knights have to win this series. I don't know who's going to win the series because it feels like at times the knights have just been the better team, but then you have a game like tonight and it's like Hurricanes hockey and now they have the home home ice advantage going to the last three games I think the the Jack Eichkeel, Cmyth Dream might be dead, officially dead. Not going to blame Merles for it because I think the process was right. U, But the puck's just not bouncing his way. so unless something weird happens, that might be over Yeah, I hope we get seven. I just want this. I want the series to go seven. I want there to be hockey for as long as possible. I'm not ready for the start the start of Mount Rushmore season just yet I agree. And who do we have for the crank tonight? Was it T pain? I was looking that up right now. I was trying to figure out who it was. I think it was T pain. Yeah, it was T pain. T pain did a pre game concert He also did the crank. He cranked it? He cranked Max, do you want to share the update on the crank that we might have I don't want to jinxit before It's official, but We're looking like we got a crank. We got a from me Big five major sports league. Yep. Yep. You can put context clues from there Yeah. Lacros. Water doog's Cank Well big six bigor sports League Think of all the major sports leagues, but major but major rugby. Major Big seven then if you want to count rugby in there. Indy Car Crank. The UFL s counting his football, but yeah, not all right nine but it's a major It's a major league. A golf Live. The live cang, The yard goats cang. It's major. It's so major. Yeah. You can't get more major Th this league If you stay in the confines of the United States of America, As long as you stay in the in in our in our country It's as major of a league as you get in its given sport at a beautiful stadium. I'm not familiar with this. actuallyctually I h was looking up. Swanie played there once. in a friendly I w that Yeah It over a bridge in Philadelphia. That Wh knows where it is? But you should look up that stadium because this is beautiful. Very aesthic aesthetic stadium for sure. Yeah The home club for what's his name Kavin Sullivan? Future Face of this League. Future Face of this League. Yeah. Don't want to jinx it because I still haven't We're still the beginning stages of getting this crank, but but we're there we're in the stage. We're in a stage. I mean they were just collect a big part of the the Max villain origin story on part of my take because they were the u Remember they lost? Yeah the same we do whoah we will We set on that We're We're still obining it. We still what weedly we're talking about the same day that the Phillies got Bounce of the World series This other unnamed team lost an extra time in their championship game Mhm There's so many sports that have extra time in Philadelphia. Dave Portite hates this team Oh ye, ye, true true. goodood good clue. to get there. Yeah to get there. U the' we're starting to get a nice collect because I I purchased today the St Bonavventures twenty twenty two. NIT semifinalist banner that they raised. That has been purchased. I think schools are now targeting me And they're just going through There's storage And being like, well, this this is something that we have a buyer of one that will take this. That's all you need, right? You just one buyer. Wge was like we need a backup point guard from Lithuania. What can we do for NIL? We need Like a couple we need like ten thousand dollars. Oh, I know I've got Jeff the fundraising plan Listen, it's a sick banner. It's it couldn't be more brown. It's just so brown and it's the NIT semifinals twenty twenty two St. Bonney's basketball I think it's the last I think it I think it was the last NIT that was that took place at MSG So little bit of history for people N I te Stew Shout out. He would love this banner It was basically you and NIT st going head to head. Yeah. Okay, I had two other things real quick before we get to our before we get back in studio hot sea cool tone. O one is Aaron Donald playing football next year So yes Sfter made it seem like he was Yeah Like saying, I can't report that he's going to come back and play If the Rams come up with a presentation that Aarnd Donald likes, he will say yes to it. My guess is that Sean McVeigh knows exactly what kind of presentation Aaron Donald wants to see. He will then present that to him I need to know what it's going to be. Is it going to be a powerPoint U I'm guessing it's going to be two commas And seven zeros You don't think it's going to be like That would be the presentation. like a team's meeting. Yeah. No, I think it's would be seven zeros, two commas and then be like Aaron, you pick the number you want to go in the in the beginning Okay, Erin, I'm going to slack you real quick. I'm going to send the deck over to you and you can pull that up. and just look for my dongle here Yeah, I know, it's basically like, hey, We' get the band back together. Max, we talked about it earlier, but Hank doing his math. I think that was earlier, right I don't even know what what portion of the show was. Max just had to do his his mental math face, which did not I was saying he's gonna to ask for twenty million dollars or thirty million dollars or forty million dollars. You couldn't see my fingers, but I was going one, two, three. Okay. four, five, six. Okay, that would be one and then the seventh million. Okay. So it's between ten million and ninety nine million do. Correct. And I think that's probably the I think they're going to be like you decide where you want to land and then we'll figure it out. Well the cap isn't real We'll just figure this out I'm looking at the Rams cap space right now Um They're like right in the middle. I think if I'm reading this correctly, which I'm probably not because nobody really, truly understands the cap U, but They're going to work it Aaron's going to come back. He's going to be great. I don't even know like he's probably not as he's probably lost some weight I would guess since his playing days Aaron Donald's a beast, and he's gonna be fine no matter what. Miles Garrett next to him. conongrats to the Rams Yeah, conat. And then the last thing was just It's worth mentioning. So the White sox who have been electric this year, Braidon Montgomery, they called them up today. I think it's their number two prospect in the whole system Walk off home run for his first first home run in the big Leagues first home run or first game in the big leagues. h'itss a walk offff home run. I don't think can do it better than that. That's gott to be the best feeling of all time Awesome feeling. Awesome Yeah Yeah. And also a quick update Oh They did not upgrade Wimby's foul against Bronson. Oh yeah. So they reviewed that T took their sweet ass time looking at it. They couldn't. We all knew they couldn't because F flagrant foul points means you're suspended for a game. Weemby has two if they gave him one more Now you're basically saying if he fucks up even a little bit He's going to miss a game and everyone's going to cry foul for the rest of you know, time because Wendy was out for a game series is over if. They couldn't do that. they had I think I mean, that would have sucked. I don't think it was a flagrant fl, but it would have sucked for regirl like He it was a foul It's crazy. he pushed them It's bullshit Weby's getting a little bit dirty, but yeah, you can't you can't upgrade that given everything at stake I agree. Okay, let's get back to ourselves. Hot Sea Cool Throne and then two great interviews, Rob Stone and Ozzie Albys. Okay, before we get to hot Sea Cool Throne, Draft Kings the NBA finals are in full swing and the intensity isn't letting up. 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That's right Iice tray Are you you scared I mean, that got me a little scared. I think about it Not because it's like I'm not I don't I can't see them as the one seed, but I'm worried about them being in the top eight seats. The fact that he he changed he moved the oververton window you were thinking like, okay, maybe somewhere in the ten through seven But hearing him say one, you're like, damn now they might be like four through six. To answer the question, what would they say? I would say PFT you saw the future Although no, technically he didn' because he said Eight seat. That's true. I would love to be wrong. Right. I would love to be. Yeah, actually PIT you would be You'd be more wrong if they were the one seed than if they were the last place team. I'd be way off about my prediction this. Yeah. If they their last place team, I'd be like what six away from being in the play in or for away being played if they're the one se they're all far away from the Thatd I'd be feel like feelld mentally wasarded. It would be it would be tough. I do think that the wizards P probably trend more towards the one seed than they do towards the ten or the twelve. If you did gun to your head, you'd say one seed over ten or twelve? One to my head Yeah Christ the ball to my head. Yeah moreore likely they get to one se than miss the playoffs Now you're you're also discounting the nature of the rivalry that we've got built in with the Nicks for next year. Like the Nicks need to be They need to start thinking about Trey Youong. Is that why the Kicks lost game three? the next always they're always thinking about Treyon. Always thking about Treyon. It's honestly like he's already rent free. Yeah. You just you just can't stop thinking about Wenby was thinking about Trey Young when talking about the Kicks. Yeah. Yeah. He was. The whole league is thin about Trey Young. Like you guys, you guys are forgetting about Trey I didn't I never stop forgot about try. I never would That's good. I like that hank Uh and then my cool thing I got a call also it People sleeping on Treree Young might be right Yeah he's a pe neerar half. Yeah. they could be right. They could understand They could They could just stay asleep Yeah and be fine. No's gonna wake up.oubt it. Me and T are going to have a conversation about this on the bench. ctober twenty twenty six. lock it interest, see there U And then Mike What math were you just doing? I was year math. It is, but we'll be trying to figure out what year Ye math. That's tough math. Your math. It's twenty six right now. I know. I did not object. I literally just said nothing. I know I thought for a second and I realized you were correct. and I moved on. We should do a silent film of Hank's faces. I'd watch it. That was a good face. Yeah, That was a really good face. Hank Math face is good time My cool throne is it's again DC PFT good sports town UFL final this weekend. Yeah DC is in it in the championships in DC. DC defenders looking to go back to back. never been done before in UFL history. Heard it's going to be literally on fire. Literally on fire. It's going to be viral fififty cents point Afton to be electic Would you rather see fifty cent or that boning bed borny P fitty Just I like saying bad b. Yeah B b. Bad bone. againainst the Louisville Kings No Kings' March in DC this weekend. Is that kind of like rockking a hard place for you. J your cololonel Uh, no, no. U I'm a DC defender. I'm an alum kind kind of kind of practice Practicequad al. practice squad tryry out alone. Practice sad. G Cut practice squad.id he got a jersey? Yeah Everyone will anyone goes to the trial again Not true. not true. There's a lot of guys that have tried out for UFL teams that don't get don't get a jerse Don't get a custom jersey afterwards. Yeah But now it's going to be it should be should be wild seen in DC Get the beer snake going Onvire And then my other cool throne, Charlie Woods. Yeah Go to the U. S. openp Yeah and it's our time He he was catying for his good friend Miles Russell Lefty. I think they're going to be playing in Florida State next year and Miles Russell. qualified through the longest golf He's going to the US openen. I don't know if Charlie Wood is going to be on his back for the US openen, but he should be. How how do you how do you Make it through and then and then switch to another caddy. C't do that. We learn from Cat's girlfriend. Like you had now this time of year you got to have you got to bring the bag. Yeah. Lucky bagsring the bag that got you there. Yeah trust trust the bag guy Who's the ps Plus the bad guy. Puss the bad guy. Wh else qualified U Shane Bacon did not qualify unfortunately, Jim Rinner also did not qualify unfortunately. Max H homea also did not qualify unfortunately You know what I was keeping track of the guys I was rooting to qualify and I didn't pay as much attention to the guys that did James Nicholas, cornfairy guy. I follow him on social media he made it. Is that Jack's grandson? No. Do you think Max is gonna watch the US open, like the entire tournament M I'm probably he's probably going to be like most golfers where I'll probably like play during the day, maybe, you know, catch some stuff on TV when he's not playing, but I would imagine he's not sitting on the couch watching. the coverage. Maybe a little. I mean, he's got friends. Yeah. No, that's I'm saying L like I'm sure he'll be relatively aware of what's going on, probably watch on Sunday if he has nothing else going on, but Okay, we have Oh, Neil Sipley qualified. Nice, am you. Is for him? Who else? What are the names? Pen James, Dylan Wu Billy Horshall J party. I'm justing all of these people qualified. Yes. all of these people qualify. Oh, I didn't know there's this many There's a lot of people in this tournament. Cole Hammer, great name. Robbie Higgins, good name. Hey give us a name to know. Keith Mitchell, Cashmere Keith. Meliano. Chk is good JB Holmes Grac' good. Jaybe Holmes slow, really slow. What do you mean? Mentally? L, he's got he's got a pace to play T P you Okay going down. Wh's Cole Hammer That's greatreat name. Great name. Yeah. Where's he from Max McGrevy. He's from West. Toast he's good Toasty Okay Oh Emiliano Grillo. Yeah. He's good. He's good That's a guy. Hey do you think You have any chance one day of playing qualifying? I don't. What about just making it to the longest end goal? I don't. Yeah know, you could qu could f I think you have to be like a plus one to even enter to compete to then get to the longest day. You could just lie about your handicap. True. But now, yeah, no. Maybe if I had twice as many holes as them Actually know You just w want to play If I had like if I could if I could play like four holes And then that's my swore Th you qualify. I would have a chance. I play thirty six. These guys are all like minus eight, how are you going to get minus eight in three holes Maybe if I started in minus ten and had to play four holes. Maybe you started on the green Yeah Okay. PFT U, I mean, Hank took one of mine, but I'm gonna to start out with the hot seat being Dying Gabri So there's a quarterback controversy in Cleveland right now. The controversy is they don't know what number Dyan Gabriel is going to wear becausecause Jared Vse' number eight Dylan Gabriel also wore number eight at the same practice then the Browns don't have in a uniform numbers that are open for Dylan Gabriel to wear They're all tied up with other guys. But I did hear that today Um Wriry not because JOK is not going to be able to play this year So number six is now like temporarily going to Dylan Gabriel, But for a while A guy that is in theory competing for a starting job didn't have a number probablyroably doesn't speak well for the chances of him getting the started job. Yeah Okay Um and then my coollthon is in the United States The U S. is back And all it took was some Europeans to come visit us and just do like Stream conscious blogs of visiting like the south. I have this as well. ye. And it makes even people that live in America be like, yeah, you know what our country' not so bad We got some good spots the Chattahooe River watching So these are like European people who are here in the United States for the World Cup And getting to see them discover Wafflehouse. U in real time, getting to see them discover just like random little towns, the Stone Mountain in Georgia U and watching them really understand what Americana is. has been fun to watch. and it makes me a little bit proud to be an American to be like, Yeah. Yeah, all those ye, all those guys from Norway that are Visiting Buckies for the first time. That's what it's all about. Yeah, this one guy said some proper Chicago food bro. they have a milkshake with cake in the cup. It's ridiculous. talking about Portillo cake shake, which I love. It made me realize, you know when Europeans or people from other countries who say like America has no culture, we actually do. It's called gluttony It's called eating past beinging full That's what we do better than anyone else. Having a German dude show up to America and being abbsolutely floored by a big gulp I take some pride in that. Yeah. haaving a Swedish chick come to the United States and being like, what is ranch? Yeah. Oh my God, I've never had ranch before. Blew her mind. Eating two half pound burgers at ten thirty in the morning. America, who did that at did that America. Listen. I might have taken my I burgered myself out of like the first seven h charity gol so much b J just people that like this this lady right here discovering a road trip combination of combos and twwinkies and being like, this is Americ. Yeah, she's right. Yeah. She nailed it. Like you can read books about American history if you want. We've made more than enough movies about it If you really want to experience America as a foreigner, you need to just rent a car and then just drive it about twelve hours across as many states as you want and then stop once every three hours to get something to eat. There was one guy who just went to Chile' for the NBA Finals. He's like at Chil' for the NBA Finals and it looked incredible. Yeah. He had everything. That one guy had guards and everything. One person discovers a Like Coca Cola freestyle machine. Uh. Like ye Bue is mine. That's America. And that's what we do better. We'll always do that better than Europe And then alsoso I started reading on some of the rule changes in this World Cup because I have heard some of the Europeans complaining about some of the new policies at this World Cup There's some wild ones that that you should get to know. U You're not allowed to cover up your mouth As If you cover your mouth when you're talking to an opponent You get a red card for that shit. Huge for the lip readers. Yeah which I don't know. like I think it ties back to trying to prevent players from using racial slurs But I mean There is a possibility that they want to cover up their mouth because They don't want people to read their lips because they're talking about Mhm or about the game. So that doesn't make sense to me. And then there's going to be a five second rule on throwing if they drop food. Yeah. Yeah you could do that or on throw inss or goal kicks They're going to count like the referee' going to do the arm motion L in basketball, I think, count five seconds. if you don't kick it off, boom other team gets the ball Never been done before. That has never been done. But it's good if you hate time wasting, which I do It's going to be good to help address that. But yeah, God bless All the Europeans that are just like using their three months of vacation that they get every summer to just drive around and eat at chained restaurants because that's really what it's all about. It's gonna be so awesome Uh like watching watching all these America Europeans figure out just how much we rock. M is just the best. And if you look at where some of the teams are staying right now and where some of their supporters are probably going to be flying into It's very, very funny. So you've got Ghana. Staying in Boston. That's going to be a funny mix of cultures. You've got Saudi Arabia is going to be staying in Austin, Texas You've got Norway and Greensboro and North Carolina And you've got There was one other really wild Oh yeah Iraq, The Iraqi national team staying at the Greenbrier. Oh out in West Virginia where like Cyl Shanahan will make the forty n day on back to back weeks It's very funny to imagine these teams just like Okay Iraq here you're experiencing West Virginia for the first time. Go for it Westia Rocks. Egypt staying in Spokane, Washington Pretty much in Idaho. Perfect U, Okaykay, my hot seats is me becausecause I u I posted a picture from the Paws Chicago. goolf outing on Monday. wasn't the most flattering picture for some was flattering for Max Max, she looks awesome that picture. Yeah, I love that picture. Me's nipples went viral. to put it to put it as as St forward as possible Cannons. Memess nipples took over the internet for about three or four hours It was a trending topic when I went. L It was not good. So Mmes, I apologize. How are you feeling? You're mad at me. I know you are. although the tickets now have softened the blow No, I'm not mad at anyone. My body's just a weapon on the golf course. You kept on saying that. What is that I just I'm a viral machine on the golf course. I don't get it. Look at those fucking tits. He's talking about the Oh yeah the other one when it was Yeah I but you're actually you are actually my. You didn't when I came in this morning, you you wouldn't fist bump me. Yeah, but I know that bothers you. Well I mean, yeah, it's because youre just walked right by me and you're just like, I'm not mad at you, but you're mad at me Yeah, it works. Okay. So you are mad at me. I'm not mad I think the most amazing part of that picture was you were wearing. To shirts or three shirts sockers poke through. It's actually a greatirt. It's a great sign for Robak. It's going through because two shirts. You didn't have Robak on. Robback wouldn't do that to you Yeah, they giveave us a gift card and I got a swesirt at the because it was going to rain And it just immediately backfired. Are they pierced No, not, didn't you? Were you I want to ye, I'm going to photoshop. Oh, yeah I at one point I back here, saw I saw him whileile we were doing this show, I saw him cropping out the picture and putting something in A. I was like, what are you doing? He's like, I'm givingself pierce nipples Like right before right as you guys were saying that. Can you explain what happened in this picture? And again, I did not. so Hank will test it we were playing it was Zach, Max, Mmes and Jerry playing a scramble And then Hank and I were auctioned off for a charity for Pause Chicago to play with two other guys who were awesome dudes Oh I got this picture sent in the Stella Blue group chat The only thing I saw was Jerry being short. I just hit Sent Hank was with me. if I had seen the nipples, I would have said something to you right away. Oh yeah. And then I got off the golf course and me wass like, whyy'd you post that? I was like, what are you talking about? And then I looked, I was like, ah. Now I see What happened? I don't think there's really much to explain. I just have pepperoni nipples. Are they though? They're like They're kind of going up. I didn't think that you I've seen your nipples before, memes. They are No, it nothing write home about I got nipples. There's just normal I think you got normal niips. Normal nips., I got the pepperones. Someone said no offense but your staff has an estrogen imbalance. It was a eight eight tits, eight breasts and not a chicken sight I match you look strong You look like you have a six pack? Yeah. I don't care about any of the com. I'm looking at this picture and being like Maybe thele needle looks good. That's always tough when there's like an imbalance like such a huge picture imbalance between two guys because Max is going to want to spam that picture all the time Understand Well, you do look great and me' just like the worst possible angle of picture for you Meanwhile Yeah, Jerry, little on short side. Yeah, Jerry's looking short. Andiams has the biggest small tits in the world That means small like small as small. You just's really good. Focus on the on the just forget the biggest compliments in there. Don't let these fellows get in an elevator though that one wasn't that funny, pank Iad funn I'm just reading one here. So that I had Saint Louis stripper titties What? Did you go through all the comments You were trending And then you got on Gf Twitter. Like there was like Bernard Gulf Twitter was like, look at these fucking guys Well, they just were like respectfully, what's going on with this guy's nipple? I love the idea Golf Twitter looks at meames shrink theyon't shrink the nipps. Yeah It looks like you guys had fun. We had a great time Shout out all Ch So Blue. Yeah, we great out. the after the round, we went to there was like a cocktail hour and then I went and looked at my phone and I saw five hundred and fifty replies and I was like, oh boy I didn't. We're up to six hundred sixty nine replies on this picture. one point three. I apologize. don't mean I don't mean this in a perverted way. Were you aroused It looks like it. you sure? didid they look like that the entire round? I'd love to flick them. You just like playing golf? I guess They're really sticking out Did you get a good shot with those nipples? I did. Oh, so that's all that matters Single handly parred this hole. No one expects those nipples to par a hole Meam to Max anchors yesterday. Yeah. We needed them bad. Zack also, did you see Zach? Bag. I saw that he had like two irons and a putter. Yep. ye He six approach putter. He was saying that the other guys have too many too many clubs. N listen, you got to master the clubs you have then you can add on. You can you can always add on. Yeah. There's a billion clubs in this office Yeah. and even more specifically in our back corner Yeah. I have my entire wry set I don't a picture of a bunch of clubs on on Tuesday or Sunday night before And he was like, I'm good to take these, right? I'm like, yes, take all of the clubs in that corner And for some reason he just chose to take four clubs. Well yeah, I assume a photo of the ones in the bin, but they were I didn't realize at the time when I sent it, they were like some this handed, some the other handed. So I just went with the dominant handed. But there's so many other clubs back there. That would have just grabbed other clubs that were in that corner. That's fair. I played a wrong. Yeah, that's you look, hindsightize twenty twenty. Yes, Zach, you got to just get comfortable like he also P have to heat. Zach and Max live like two minutes from each other Zach took like one hundred and fifty dollars Uber He was too nervous to text me and ask for a ride Well, I wasn't a unusual man this point crazy. I was at the Dick Sporting goodoods So I didn't I went which again, he was at the Dickporting goodoods getting golf balls which we have for him and getting a golf bag which we have for him He spent like three hundred dollars on this trip that could have been free. Step up, Zad. Why didn't you ask him? You just have to ask any questions and we and we would say You would not have been going to Dicks Sporting Goods if you were explaining to me what you were doing at Dicksporting Goods. No, Wh't you askack if you need a runide? So there was a group chat before So this is what happened. There was a group chat before that memes asked Dom for a ride and Dom said, yes, I'm are I'm already I already have one in the car but I can fit you too I assume that one in the car was Zack Zack. It was not Zack. It was somebody else. So then once Mmes said who was in the car, I texted Zach and said Do you need a ride? And he said, I'm good. I'm already on the way still didn't tell me that it was Nber It all worked out that we had a great down the golf course. everyone. did E. D' a great day. Yeah, the golf course and the internet is different, two different things You a great day on the golf course, not a great day in the. I a great day in there. I do. I would say they might even be opposite things Like you're on the golf course, you're touching gr Big time U All right, my cool throne is the internet because you've you've you've done a good enough job that Sam Presty had to mention you in the press conference the, you know, roundup of the OKC. season where he said that SJ is playing six guys, five guys on the court and a guy on the internet No, the six guy I believe is social media. Oh social media. Yeah. ye. So he did it. All time quote. He did it. Th are pars. Great job. When you hear him say that, If you're on the Thunder, you're like, fuck ye, Sam. Yeah. appreciate that. And if you're like a burner who's just been tweeting SGA flops, you're also like, fuck ye, we did it. Well I was going to say If you're a burner that is the guy he's talking about, you hear this and you're like I fucked up big time. You're probably thinking yourself like he's making lotoney. I should stop No, I think you're proud of yourself. You like I got through. You're thinking I should stop. this is this is is mentioned. It's really bad. I can't believe You know how trolls think when they get acknowledged by somebody like the GM They're probably just going to stop and be nice. Yeah. I You made a lot of good points. I'll start to be polite online. They're not going to be like, Hey, Sam Pressi triggered. Right Rent free All right, Zach, go ahead Imahati this week is going be ten Bay Bookcaneers legend Tom Brady It don't know if you guys saw this, but Tom Brady might be a freaky ass boy. Yeah. Good nut. What do we think about goodood nut? What are our thoughts? Weird. Never had a good night. We're talking the original spot Tom Brd's good nut Every day You drink it one of Tom's G good nuts? Yeah This is weird. Can we just say it's weird Super unset. Now Look at Tom Brady and look at you guys. Maybe he's doing. Aam sipples are totally fine. He could probably use a couple good nuts in his life. Do you think Tom Brady saw memes nipples? It's weird, hank to name a brand good not What means? Wh doesn't like a good nut? So many people saw my nipples. It's so many one point three million views It's weird. Hank just admitt that it's weird. It's just weird like It's just weird. Admit that literally everything Tom Brady has done for the last like three years has been weird. No. heank. It's weird to have a coconut water drink and name it after like implying that you're drinking come That's weird. That's no, you're weird. Your mind is perverted. Oh, getet your mind out of the gutter. Okay. So, but who is this for? Like who is excited about healthy people? drinking el leadite athletes know the name. Who's excited Wh's amped up to drink goodood nut People that like nuts and coconuts. Would you go original sparkling or chocolate Ooh, depends I mean, they should do a jiz flavor. That would be thenen I'd be like, you know what? It went from weird to you're justably original and chocolate at the same time.ike lean into Yeah. Yeah. O one after the other. yeah system. Would you have two hands at once? Yeah, ski pull them. And would you pour them at the same time Yeah Yeah, O of those? Yeah Yeah. No. Okaykay. you're making some yeah, some good points It's weird. It's okay to say it's weird I think you need to get your m out of the gutter. I think it's perfectly normal and healthy and like if you probably you know drink one of these every day and said eating a burger every day, you're would be in a much better place in six months. Wrong. Meat is good for you. Coconuts also good for you. What if it was just like sucked us meat Big Cats Burger compompany. What' would you say about that Suck this meat. That makes no sense Who sucks Burger? Big Cats meat tube. It was Big cats meet tube suck one. Would you think that was there? Horrible name. What about good mouth meeat That's a good name. That's not a good name. It's just You're right in a way, Hank that I could see I could see a guy like Tom Brady having thought so highly of himself that he would make like a Tom Brady flavored com coconut drink. Be like's knocked st. Studies have shown It is It's coconut if you consume like fifteen million sperm per week you actually end up living Five seconds longer So we're going to optimize Whatike what are the other alternatives? D not drinking come? No, It's coconut dude Zero comm in this. Okay, that would actually I would love to have that as a tagline. Yeah. zero come. Yeah, good night. no longer feat inc com z zero percent come. Come free drink. Yeah I guess we're the sickos that need that like you Like it should list on the back it should say potassium, five percent, Vitamin C, ninety milligrams, one hundred percent, come zero milligrams, zero percent, Niacin, sixteen milligrams one hundredcent. Maybe even maybe even come zero percent, Jiz, zero percent. just to really Yeah, really hammer it home Jiz. And then you could even like if I was a competitor, I would have like neegative ten percent com. Yeah Like you get more your body will make more come if you drink this. It would actually It's actually the straightest drink that you can ever have. It would actually be funny if Brady put a little precum in every single one L I told you it was no come. Yeah come. It's it's pre come. Yeah. Okay, Zach Good, goodood hot seat in my caothron Go ahe What did they laugh? I was it was I did a I did a Google it I did an AI search and it was in thees yes. Cconut water is connected to semen in two main ways. internal health and external sperm preservation. helps promote So if you drink coconut water, it's good for your sperm. Oh, that's why you call the coonut I just thought maybe that's why I wanted to I was I was doing some research. Is this drink? the world's leading source are the world's most healthy thing that you can do for your own c That makes it taste sweet Yeah Unless. I don't really have a preference. Unless you're savory Th. It's all good. I think it's all good Okay, I'm not picking Zach. your cool throg. Oh my cool thing this big is going to be Kys Senack and guys who stream. You guys see Stream University back Stream unversse a Streamer university. Streamer University but but K not when wass the last time he streamed eightight months ago. So Wasn't this a wasasn't this like a Didn't this happen? and everyone's like that didn't really work the way they wanted it to There's some rough pades last year, but it was like prove a concept wise it kind of plays. They took over the University of Akron last year when they did it U So you just submit applications like people who are trying to stream online, then they they bring you into a campus. They they got some classrooms, some alumni. Sign up Zach. goodood classes I was waiting for you to finish so I could get this S here. nextxt year we we're getting sign up Streamingversity. I want you at Streamer University. You will be attending Streaming University, twenty twenty seven. one hundred percent. Yes Iish studon How much does it cost? No, it's like there's application process. I don't think works. We're going to figure We're going to get you. got you got a whole year to figure out the application process. You will be in Streamer University twenty two be seven. You guys And if anyone knows anyone who's involved in Streamer University twenty twenty six and we get Zack into this one, he would love to be in this one. Yes Don't send Send me DMs. you don't, not even PMT Boucher party. seend me DMs. if you have any connection to Streamer University twenty twenty seven twenty ex Well twenty twenty six is over. It already happened, right Uh u no, there this is the trailer for the for the new one. Oh applications already submitted? No, no, I was just Oh, I was I thought it was happening right now All right, so is that getting in on the out? Yeah., we're getting you, we got to get you in here. Yeah. what kind of we gotta get you in You do it at Freamer Universe. I can subit one if you guys like them to, but yeah, it's not It's not if we like it you Okay you have I can do that. I can do that. I was more also do you guys see the trailer No T trailer kind of ri.' watching right now. It touched thirty two million people on the everythingthing app. I it was great R. when does What happens at this at this university? O just you just go and so this is what happens basically, apply for me and it's like going to college. bl blah, blah, you're in When thing I want to when it happen. Next thing I wantan to hear about Streamer University is with you in a fucking hat and cap and gown I can submit an application, Yes, sir. I can definitely do that for you. You know, you will. It will You will do Streamer University. we're going we're going to clip this right now. Anyone out there who has any connection to Streamer University twenty twenty six, please reach out We need to get Zach Tom Tom justextas. he's got a guy. So we're al. Oh right. Yeah Aron. But All right, great. yes. I'm curious to know what goes on at Streamer University. stream. We're going to find out because Z's going to wait, wa, wait but do we know Zach, do you know at all Yes. so you go in, you you apply if you accept it in then they have everything's live. So like all the students are ripping liveach are ripping live And then you'll go to so youll go to class. are they teaching actual classes? Are they teaching you classes about streaming? Yeah, they're like's like there's like valuable lessons to lear How would you camp Acel? So you're streaming while you're attending a class learning how to stream. Yes Yes Do have a sports team 'rently no sports this ser. Well, you're going have to try out for the sports All right, Yeahah, mayaybe I'llalk on. Maybe you create the sports team. Yeah that that could M. And then you stream can't wait to watch you at Streamer University It's beautiful thing he does for people and I can submit it. You're going to be the people. I will submit an application. So we'll just you'll be streaming on PMT YouTube That was streamer university. Zack's going to stream. He's going to learn how to stream by streaming. Yep This is great. This going come back. he's going to be a stream. He's going to be our's going to be a stream. I fucking love it, Zack. We We to go. Okay, Zach, let me be the first to congratulate you on being accepted to Streamer University twenty twenty six I don't know if it works quite like that by Wilson apppplication Let's saail to the chief. Let'sail to the chief.. What is the graduation? Now they only say it's graduation Happy birthday as we go. Happy birthday we remember Get I graduate? Gan I get my punk ass off the street? D pump on. These guys are also streaming tomorrow Well are you streaming? No, youream. You'reaming Oh yeah By the way, spepeaking of wait. Yes Golden Mug. Golden Mug is starting on Wednesday, june tenth, It's running through Friday. We're going to stream some dgs on june eleventh, but Golden mug, we're doing the same thing we did last year. was our favorite Golden mug that we do. if you go buy anything on stellbluecooffee. com R now, h you'll be entered. if you buy ready to drink cans, you'll be entered ten times The winner, we're picking fifteen winners. Every winner gets a plus one And what you're getting is A to Barcel HQ to we'll look around, check out Barcel HQ. and then we're all going to A baseball game on a rooftop in Chicago with all of Barstool Chicago HQ. So it's going to be our company outing and fifteen so thirty people, fifteen people plus one are going to come You guys were there last year It was awesome. We drank beers. We watched a baseball game, mayaybe a team in blue playing another team. U It was great. And so go right now, save some dogs Stellbluecooffee. com and we will be streaming Zach and I will be trying to win a national championship on Dgs on Thursday. Okay. 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Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very special guest. He is Hosting the World Cup along with North America. I think those are the two hosts. It's North America and Rob Stone. who you will see on your TV all summer long hosting on Fox. Rob, great to see you. alsoso bigig noon kickoff, which we've worked together and had a great time. Rob, good to see you We're ready for the World Cup. Are you ready for America to get a ton of rob stone right down their face? Nobody asks for that. Nobody wants that I I'll give them I'll give him as much as they could take and then I'll back off. But yeah, the summer of socer is here. I don't know if you guys can feel it U And I kind of wanted to feel it when the calendar turned to twenty twenty six And I've been impatient for the last couple of months, but like the last probably since Saturday I felt kind of like, The refrigerator sitting on my chest and it's harder to breathe and the brain won't stop And everywhere I go, it's soccer conversations or soccer visuals and it's all about the World Cup. So it is here. and listen, nobody does FOMo like the United States, right? Like we are the capital of FOMO and people are coming out of the woodworks talking soccer and World Cup and tactics. was sitting in a sauna at my gym Th three d ago and I had a twenty minute conversation about the World Cup in Argentina and the US men's national team and then I had to like stagger out of there. I was like, I'm done. I can't take I can't take this anymore. But that to me was like this great sign that yeah, the World Cup is here and people can't get enough of it and we haven't even started yet. Yeah and and it's it's your I would assume is it your favorite sport I mean, you host big noon kickoff, but you you played soccer collegiately. It's got to be your number one, right? Soccer is my DNA, right? It was my gateway drug into this business so it It's up there, but let me tell you, like the big no kickoff is over my shoulder. I love college football. I love everything about it. But we can have two loves, can't we? Yeah, right we have the three of us have a lot of love to share. so we're all right. Yeah. actually you know what bowling. Ts that one in there. Yeah. Oh ye Bowling. Let's go. We haven't even talked to US National team. We're already going to bowling Yeah, I was just saying, let's just, you know what? let's not talk to any soccer. Let's just talk what your thoughts are on Brendnon Soreresby Ohope ye. Don't answer that. All right ye what you said is actually I agree because I don't I agree with what Weston McKinney said the other day too, which is that he expected there to be like soccer fever in the United States for the last couple years But what ended up happening since we're hosting the cup, we didn't have to go through the trials and tribulations of quQalifying for the World Cup So it felt like none of the games that we've been playing had anything at stake And so it's tough to kind of build up that excitement if you just kind of like jump into the World Cup at the very end. But now like that game in Chicago against Germany was awesome. The first half, I think. and also the first half against Senegal. I think it gave a lot of people myself included who were like a little bit skeptical about the way the U.S men's national team has looked. It gave us reason to think like at least our attack our offense could be really, really entertaining and really good. And I think that bare minimum My bar for success is we have to win at least one knockout stage game. What do you think Wow, you and I are like totally on the same page with everything. These are sort of my bullet points, my talking points. and one of the key ones was I feel so much better about this national team than I did probably a week, week and a half ago. You know, Big cat, we were talking, I don't know when I was with you guys in Chicago in your studio, and you're like, this team, what are we going to do with them? And I was like, Yeah, I'm nervous. Yeah. I wasn't feeling the love. I wasn't feeling the vibe, but it certainly has picked up. I think homefield advantage has something to do with it. To your point, PFT about those strong starts against two really quality teams that willll be in the World Cup as well and that should get out of their group stage that gives me hope, gives me optimism I feel better But that doesn't change what the reality is of what they're going to do at this World Cup. Again, my my my gut is You know, we get to the round of sixteen. I think that's kind of the ceiling. And if we're if we're really lucky, we get to the quarterfinals and that is as good of a tournament as we could hope for. But I guess my point is I feel better about those thoughts that I did a week and a half ago, they haven't changed. I don't have them rising into the semis or I don't have them as a surefire quarterfinal team. but I definitely feel better that they're going to get to the round of sixteen. I feel better that they have a chance to get to the quarterfinals. Yeah are we going to get bullied? That was our conversation last time because I remember what was the what was the cup we played in last summer Gold Cup Gold Cup Yeah. got bull. lost to Mexico. Yeah We got pushed around. Yeah. So we that's really like my bar is I want us to do well. I'm going to get excited. I'm going to watch every game. I don't want to get pushed around I love that point and I think that's been something that has been felt by the American fan base for the last couple of years. PFT probably goes to your point too that there haven't been these meaningful games or not enough meaningful games where people can get motivated and the team can get excited and they have that camaraderie and that real fight and that real steel that you can only really build up through World Cup qualifying I've seen that, right? And I really saw it at the tail end of that Germany game. You know, there was a lot of pushing, a lot of shoving. there was some Um questionable tackles by the Americans, right comoming in low and hard and clean on the sideline, tootally unnecessary Totally unnecessary, you know, just a few minutes until the World Cup age is finally upon you. And I know if that was a German player doing that to an American, I would feel so aggrieved, but since it was an American doing it to the German, I was like, hell yeah, here we go. I don't care. Let's come in with these tackles. I don't care if we're losing. Also we were fighting to get that equalizer. So again, this goes back to that those feel good vibes where, hey, that blue collar mentality, that fight, that we're not backing down from anybody approach seems to be coming out of the U.S. camp. That's what the manager Mauricio Poatino. That's always been kind of his directive when he was at whereher he was with the club or here he is with the national team in the United States. He wants some of that fight, some of that steals, some of that hits, some of that That nastiness that makes you happy and proud, a little blood on the jersey and a whole lot of grass stains. I'm all for it and I'm seeing more and more from that from the US. Obviously, it takes way more than just the heart and you know and the blue collar. But at a minimum, I'm seeing that right now. No such thing as a friendly. I like that. He took away the F word. He said, I hate I hate that term and I banned it I banned the term friendlies from my use at Foxports. Everything was like a World Cup tunep, right or a Goldld Cup tune upp or a preparation for the World Cup. Friendly just like what are we even doing? Yeah If it's called a friendly. Why are we even playing this? We could do friendlies all day.. five V five pickup is that a friendly? I don't think so. peoplee are blowing out their Achilles on the basketball court. That's not friendly. Get after it. Let's play. Let's play to win. I agree I'm knocking on wood right there. Let's comine Let's combine two out of your three favorite passions. We'll leave bowling out for onceling is wrestling going to get there? Well, I was going to say like if you were to if you were to compare the US men's national team to a college football team Who would they be H , I'll give you an NFL team. because I thought about this the other day. If they're an NFL team, I would say have a couple of but the chargers on. The Chargers feels like that's the US men's national team. Like we've had a couple of good teams felt like we've been able to do something never really works out. We play good team in the playoffs. We get bounced. That's kind of what happens Yeah, that's good. You're right because there has been past success, right? You know, the first ever World Cup and let's be honest, that was a different World Cup than what we're in right now. you know, the U.S. made it to the semifinals After that and the one that really matters in modern time is two thousand two, that great quarterfinal run in South Korea and Japan. and a goal that we should have had that you know a handball and disallowed things we had a chance to be at the semifinals. So I guess my point is they have had some some brief level of success But they are an underdog and nobody's thinking much about them. You know, like there's elements of Vanderbilt football the last couple of years that kind of peeks with me like, hey, nobody really expects much about them. What a great place to be, right? Like, hey you're getting a Vanderbilt education. You're smart, good for you Oh, now you're good at football. All right, like I'm not mad at you Vanderbilt, right? I'm not mad that Vanderbilt's having a good football season. I'm not mad like when TCU had that run to the national Championship. I kind of like that. like some some good American boys who are maybe kind of You know. over their skis a little bit but getting away with it you know, I don't think it's the big Alabamas, the Georgiaers, the Ohio states, the Michigans. That's clearly not with this US men's national team. I think it's a bunch of plucky dudes. Here's what? How about this How about If this Summerers, US Men's national team is the Indiana University of Coege football. I would I wouldn't hate coaching this team. It' be nice. Why not? I think you do right. I would take coach Sig to sit on the bench next to Poachatino. Yeah. What could go wrong? Yeah. I like that. That's good. I was thinking. So we have a coworker that said maybe Texas A and M. because like kind of always in that conversation And then cult. Yeah. But ANM's got all that money and they've got those all that recruiting perks and the U.S doesn't quite have that we can check. Yeah like AM though because we're a cult and there's always kind of like like feint of like militaries somewhere around A we. goodood one Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. We could use a twelfth man too. That would probably help our chances.. See that works perfectly. twelfth man. Yeahah. Yeah. We're ono something. In terms of actual news with the men's national team The defense. It feels kind of suspect. Is Chris Richards going to play because he's been hurt And it took him a long time to get back. He hasn't played yet with us. I did hear that he practiced like in full yesterday And he would be a big piece. I guess first question do think he's going to play in the opening game and then too how big of a deal is getting him back in the lineup Yeah. so Chris Richards last played may seventeenth And that was for his club. So if he plays on Friday versus Paraguay. It'll be twenty six days since his last game. That's a big number, you know, And talking with former US national team coaches, Greg Burrhalter and Bob Bradley and Bruce Aereinna, we've got a podcast throughout the course of the World Cup. And we brought that subject up. And a majority of them were like, I think I'm good. You know, we've trusted him this long. We know who he is. You can figure out U how to scrape off that rush. You can get that steel wool cross that rus over the next couple of days and get him fit because you're right. The backline cohesiveness, the spacing, the timing has been problematic. And Chris Richards has been by far, our best defender for the last couple years. and he's in the middle of that defense. He's a great communicator. The fact that he was at practice as a full participant And I will say that practice was pretty light R? It wasn't like, hey, man, we're hitting some bodies. It wasn't like full pads, right to go back to the college football reference, but it was a full practice for the U. S. The fact he was there, the fact he was able to do that everything that was asked of him is promising, too me, it's more about Hey, how's Tuesday and Wednesday? Like how do you feel, right? is the ankle good? What's the swelling like? Well, no more, but I think even if he's seventy five percent. You let them go. Yeah ye. I agree. All right, so the rest of the world. Let's talk about the World Cup, the rest of the world Um, Give me if I said you get to pick five teams and the winner has to come from these five teams, what are the five teams? I think that's actually pretty easy. Okay. so so four teams. Okay keep talking I'll say three. Yeah rightight. Now we'll take a away. So let let let me throw two quick facts at you that might help you kind of like shrink the field a little bit. Only eight nations have under ever won the World Cup and they've only come from Europe and South America. So you're probably going to pick from from that little pool Of those eight, only seven are here at the World Cup. Italy, of course, is not here. No nation has ever won the World Cup with a foreign head coach. which is really unique. So all the success has been with somebody who is from that country leading that country. So like Brazil is now led by one of the greatest managers ever, Carlo Ancelotti, but he's Italian Does that scrub Brazil? I don't think that scrubs Brazil. I just don't think Brazil iss good enough this year. So if you gave me four nations to win it all, the first two are super easy, Spain and France Um, After that, it starts getting a little bit more open. Argentina, you know it's a quote Rick Flair to be the man. You got to beat the man.. So Argentina still has the belt. I think they are an absolute threat. And then I think the other team is going to come from Europe And I'm not exactly sure who it's going to be. and part of me wants to say England and part of me also thinks England is really overrated, but when you look at their collective talent, you do say, these three lines can go really deep. So I think those are the four that you would feel really good about. Okay. I likeked that you didn't say Portugal Yeah because I don't want Ronaldo to get one. Well, I' my goat. Portugal. Ronaldo. I actually is my goat. He's Ronaldo just he Penaldo. All he does is he gets all his goals. I think I saw a stat it was ninety three percent of his ninety three percent of his career goals came from penalty kicks. Yeah, All right. so that's a good nickname. Here's my thought on Portugal. I think it's hard to call Portugal a dark horse, right? I think a lot of people are starting to lean into Portugal because people aren't just frankly talking about them enough. To me, what will be most fascinating is Will Portugal have the messy effect this World Cup like Argentina had with Leonel Messi four years ago where, hey, we have a goat. We have this pressure, We have this responsibility win the World Cup for Leonel Messi. It's that one thing that had been missing from his hardware case. And so he finally gets that trophy and everybody was so invested in winning it for Messi. I wonder, I just wonder and I don't know, because they're two different characters, but Is there that feeling in the Portuguese camp like, hey man, Ronaldo's one of the best ever. Can we do this? Can we send him out on a proper proper note. And I get it. He's he's easy to wear that black hat. It's easy to kind of cheer against him. you know, he's got ab muscles that I didn't know existed. you know, everything is perfect the quaff, the leg muscles are fantastic. He pulls the shorts up to let you know how how defined his quads are. So there he does a lot of things that make you lean against him and want to cheer against him, but I am curious if Portugal gets gets a bounce in their hope to try and win it for. So I'm a messy fan too. and I feel like maybe the funniest outcome would be if Portugal won but Ronaldo didn't play because they I think in the last World Cup happened before in the last World Cup, they were better when he wasn't on the field. to that point, like, will he accept what his role needs to be? And that was the drama four years ago in Qatar. L, can you still have Ronaldo on your team and not make it dysfunctional if he's not starting. Yeah. So if he can say, hey, you know what? I can start game one and three and I'll come off the bench game two, if needed. If he's in that mindset which by the way, I think he should be Watch out for Portugal. Yeah. All right, so what about Pler that you think might have the most to gain from this World Cup like you know what it was it four years ago? No eight years ago in Bape where it's like, holy shit this guy I guess it was four years ago where it' like, oh my God, this is incredible. Is there a guy right now that's he Most die hard soccer fans know who he is, but a casual like myself. Yeah. I'll be talking about him in three months. Yeah. Erling Holland the big Norwegian stri. I know who he is. He strikes that look, you know, he's super pale, you know, it's like you just pulled him out of the Arctic circle from some fishing boat and all of a sudden this guy is able to lumber around and score goals Listen, if you're a true socceran, you know how talented this guy is. I' not I'm not telling anybody any secrets right here. But I was having this conversation with Peter Schmichel yesterday and I said here in America, the casual fan, the FOMo fan that is going to be jumping on board. They don't necessarily know this guy. And when you get the shots of him this this towering imposing, you know figure that looks like, you know, he just he came out of the Norwegian ice, you know, with the slick backack tight hair and his goal power and the smile and the fact that when he scores, the team is going to run up to him and hug him and he's going to be towering over them and patting them on their heads almost I think he's that type of of mythical figure that The non soccer die hard here in America could really lean into. he is a Targaryen. Yeah. it's crazy. Yeah.es.. He does a score goals. he's just a machine when it comes to that. When it comes to England, I feel like this is this should be England's ear, right? Like on paper, this is setting up as good as it has. now when you say it's England's ear, then instinctually every L English soccer fan will hear that and be like, here we go. We're about to get our hearts broken again. Like the expectations, I feel like are just so beaten down in that country that they can't really get that excited about thinking this is their year, but on paper, they've They feel like They have as good a chance to win this World Cup as they have in a very long time. Is that fair? English fans. lightighten up M, lighten up, ennjoy it, right? Have your pointints, enjoy your three lines and how well they're playing. You know, they are major factors in every major international soccer tournament over the last stretch of years. right? Don't be down and dour Raise up, enjoy them, don't suffocate them. That's been the problem with England is I feel that national team has been crushed by the press and the fan base and the stress and the expectations rather than just kind of being like, We're a really good team. We're one of the top five in the world. We have a real chance to finally bring it home for the second time ever. I would encourage English fans to just sit back and enjoy. like go to Dallas for your opening game versus Croatia and just cheheer on your team. Don't be nervous, you know, donon't be tight. just embrace what this team is. and I think They can be loose It'll get pushed over to the national team. They play better when they're freer and they can smile. And for sure, for sure, England has a chance to bring it home this summer. Yeah. What about the the next group of teams? If there's one that could make that jump up and you could see them in like the semifinals, if it's Japan, Netherlands, I guess Croatia would probably be in that discussion. Switroat been there Yeah, the Croatheia has been there so often, but, you know, their team is is old I don't know if you guys saw that meme out there with like it was like four shirtless and fifty sixty seven year old dudes who look like they were from Eastern Europe and they're coming around a bed looking like they're ready for a fight. Yeah. And they were like, here comes the Croatian national team. I kept playing that on loop and I'm cracking up and that's kind of the vibe. You know like, I still don't want to fight those guys. like half of them look drunk or on some type of beds, but'm back I'm backacking away. I'm going to the other side of the street to avoid them. So Croatia still they still got it, right? They are still something to be reckoned with because they've done it for so long I think asking them to get to the final four is probably too heavy of an ask. I don't think enough people are talking about Ecuador. Again, we talk about South America and Europe. This is where your champion is probably going to come from and Ecuador is on a rise. They had great qualifying through Camibable. you know, all those games are just absolute bears. I think Ecuador is going to be one of those nations like in Norway Czechia is another nation that I don't think people are talking about. They have some real young emerging talent that might surprise some folks. So and I do like the Dutch, you know, three times runner up You know, is this the time that they can kind of finally get over that hurdle and win it all? I think they're close. I think they're going to make noise. But I think their lack of depth is eventually going to sting them whether that's in the quarter fininal or semifinal round. And then one thing people don't talk about with Ecuador like we talk about the Denver Broncos like training at altitude I'm pretty sure Quito is like twice as high as Denver is. It's probably like the highest capital city where they train in the world. I like their defense too from where I've read about them And then I was also just thinking about the storylines that could possibly come out of New York City because I believe France is playing in New York W we be in playing at Madison Square Garden The day that France is playing a game. in New York That could be a tough day for New Yorkers. Or for the French O for the French either. Yeah It'll be a tough day for anybody in the greater New York, New Jersey Metropolitan area if they want to get anywhere. Bad day to have a kid's birthday party not too far from U whatever the stium is called N York New Jersey Stadium. Oh we're not allowed to call it M met lifeife. Yeah. It's tough, isn't it? You can't I catch myself. you know it's like, oh, they're going to Boston stadium, right? All right. that's that's fine. Real quick note, though, you're talking about the altitude for Ecuador. Also, I do feel like there is a bit of a home field advantage for South American nations, you know, Obviously there's such great diversity in this country, but there's a great South American population here, whether it's you know, the Ecuadors, the Brazils or the Argentinaas, the Uruguis as well. And the weather this summer, you know, I think is going to suit them. You know, it's what they're used to in South America more so than maybe what you'll see with some of these European teams. I don't know if you guys saw those great images The Norwegian national team after training in North Carolina, they're all shirtless. They're all like on the it looked like a bunch of college kids out on the quQuad where when you go to school in the Northeaster or you go to school in Wisconsin, you got that first sunny day. You know the sun came out y March or April. and everybody's like, shirts off, let's go. let's get some vitamin D So the Norwegians, the English, you know, how are they going to handle this heat, the sun, the travel? I think the South Americans are a little bit more built for it. Yeah. That's good. What about G me a couple teams because I love to bet the over. G me a couple teams play open style and like, hey, these games are going to be electric I would say games that are going to be electric might involve the minnows of the world. You know, we talk about this being the largest World Cup ever. So forty eight nations are playing, which means there's a lot of teams that wouldn't be here under the old format. right? And there's a handful of teams who've never had World Cup experience. So there are going to be some teams out there. This is probably more to your point that might get overwhelmed by the moment, particularly in the first round. and I said this to a couple people earlier, there's going to be a lot of moments to pick the over goals scored in the first round because you're going to have on paper some real mismatches and you're going to have some Hades or some Cacs who are going to say, you know what? hereere's my chance to step on the field with the big boys I want to prove to them that we belong that we can play instead of maybe being pragmatic and like, hey, hey, hey, let's get all eleven behind the ball and just kind of defend. I think there's going to be some few games that are going to sneak in there we're going to go, o How many goals were scored in that game? fiveive goals, six goals. So for me, that's the entertainment value And again, you know, goal differential is a tie brereaker. so you're not going to see teams kind of pull back. They're going to keep that foot on the gas Argentina is a team can score Um you know, Brazil has shown that they have a surplus of offense as well. their question mark is on the defensive backline. have a great goalkeeper. But I think those games are going to be high scoring at that It kind of goes to our theme too about like South America, this could be kind of a tournament of South America where they feel at home, their fan base understands this. The weather doesn't impact them. They're playing with joy. They're on an absolute upswing right now and a lot of them are pretty offensive minded, unlike Paraguay also from South America, who's very defensive minded and the U.S. opens up with him on Friday on Fox. But outside of Paraguay, I think the rest of South America is ready to be open and score some goals and electrify their fan bases. I love that. From the defensive standpoint, the US has always been known as having the best goalkeepers. Like that's been the one bright spot that we've had going back to, I guess Tony Miola was even a pretty good goalie for us back in the day It was a great goal. favor. It was a great goal and a pretty good place kicker for the jets too at one point. That's right. Yeah. I mean, we almost beat Brazil on the fourth of July, who could forget it.. So like looking at that tradition of always having, you know, top tier goalie We're going to this World Cup. not We don't really know who's going to be starting for us, right? It could be Freezeer or it could be Turner. I've had a lot of conversations about that topic the last few days. I was with Brad Guzon, former US men's national team keeper last night and we were discussing it. And I'm like, all right, well what do you doing? And we were kind of breaking down Germany's first goal off that set piece in what was that the second minute in Chicago on Saturday. And the first thing he said and first thing some of the former coaches said to me is like, why was there a four man wallk? So now we're getting socer nerd. Can we go we go soccer nerdy for thirty seconds if you're all right with that They put a four man wall. so Now Now you're a little bit thin with the coverage behind you, right? Because if you have a four man wall You have that many dudes trying to block it because you think it's a shot. If it's a cross, you don't need four guys in the wall. Okay. And if it's ac cross and you think or you think somebody's going to make a quick pass, You need at least three in the wall so that guy can break out and cover that. Okaykay? But if there's four in the wall, you as a keeper are saying to your defense, everybody else, this guy shooting it. Well, you remember where that ball was. That wasn't a shot. right? That was a tough angle that was distance. So already you're The non verbals from the Keper map freezes I'm not feeling confident. I need four in that wall, right rather than, hey, we're good with three or maybe even just two. And now I can bring those surplus of defenders back here to have tighter marking on some of these great German attackers. And then he was stuck on the line when the ball came in. You got to own that box, right? If you're a goalkeeper, you own that area. American keepers own that area. Get off your line. any ball that's flighted That's like, you know, the hang time on a punt one one thousand to one thousand get to that ball. Right? You've got your hands, you've got your body. you have free rein literally to run over people more times than not in soccer, right? Galkeeper always gets the advantage. So you got to get off your line and that freeze wasn't on was stuck to his line and end up pulling the ball out of the back of that. That one moment said a lot about where his mentality is and it scared me a little bit. I have a ton of belief in this kid. He's going to be great. But can you handle that big stage? and that was just a tune upp. But that was a tune up in front of a big audience in a big stadium versus a team that is going to have a sayant at this World Cup in Germany. So I'm nervous I think I feel a little bit better about Matt Turner and where his mental state is right now, his comfort level. And if my goalkeeper is comfortable and upbeat and confident So am I. so are his defenders. so are the players, the ten players in front of them as well. So I think it'll be really interesting who starts on Thursday. I also wouldn't be surprised If there is some form of goalkeeper rotation that goes on at this World Cup, which would be incredibly unique and awfully rare in World Cup circles. If you have two goalkeepers, do you have one? Well, here's the thing, I don't think we have one goalkeeper, right? Like last time we rotated, we had Casey Keller and Brad Friedel. Like those are two number one dudes. Yeah, right? Like yourre kid, Hey, man, whoever's in goal, I'm good with, right? I'm sleeping easy the night before. Now I'm not sleeping easy whoever it is. So it's not like you got You have two quarterbacks means you don't have one quarterback U actually, no, it's exactly what that means.'s we have two goalkeepers because we don't have O goalke Yeah who's better than everyone el. So I think part of the management is, hey, is it better for that player? Is it better for this team? Is it better for our future going through the stage of this World Cup to commit to one guy say, hey, buddy, I believe in you. You're my guy. Take it easy, right? You don't need extra melatonin tonight to go to bed. You can go You can shut it down with a clear conscious to know, you're a guy, go play free, go play confident. I think that's what the manager wants to do But the problem is we're still debating this here on Tuesday and they open up on Friday.. Yeah. I would say that is a problem. All right, so Rob, what is your what's your schedule like? Are you are so you have shows in LA. Are you going everywhere goingoing a lot of places. Yeah. becausecause the US. opens up in LA. and you know, the Fox base is kind of right here. It's all hands on deck for you know the opener the opening two games on Thursday and then Friday where they play at LA Stadium soi. And we'll be there. That's a three hour pre game. As soon as that game is over and we're done with our postgame responsibilities myself, John Strong, Stewholden, we jump on a jet and fly right to New York. cover Brazil, Morocco the next day. As soon as that game is done, we jump on a jet and go down to Dallas and get ready for Who I getting England? Who am I getting ready for? England, Croatia. Yeah. I think on that one, England, Croatia. No, I'm sorry, Netherlands, Japan, As soon as that one is done, we jump on a jet and go right to Kansas City to get ready for Argentina. Once that is done, right back to Dallas. when that is done, I think it's a New York or a Seattle and then back to LA. you're doing it all. It's a lot of travel. It's all right. It's hey, man, there's no if you heard me complaining, you misread me. There's no no. I didn't think complain man. Yeah I know. I question. I question. Listen, if they stuck me on a greyhound bus to get from LA to New York, I'll figure it out. I don't believe that part. now you're got too. Now you've gone too far. Fair. That's awesome though. So you'll be like this it is whether you root for, you know, the US team, whether you root like everyone should get and get excited about the World Cup. It's the best. It really is like such a fun thing for, you know, every four years to just have it's free sports. It's like, I didn't expect sports in the middle of the day. Now I got it It is the greatest sporting event on the planet, whether you're a socceran or not. and that's why I encourage my sporting fans like my urban Mers, like urban Come to a game, please. he hates kickers. he hates Yeah, but you can't use your hands. No, he hates kickers, Rob. Can't use your hands in soccer. That's a problem ' trying I'm trying him. He's my pet project. He's a lot of work. But like the Matt Leinards and the Mark Ingrams and the Brady Quids, they get it. Coach Meyer is a little bit more work, but there is nothing like it. and I love how it's overtaking everybody's social media right now. Like we didn't have that in nineteen ninety four and my algorithm is all over the place, but I'm getting these images, these Instagram things that are just making me laugh and kind of proud to be American. And you know, like there's this one German dude who's like just mesmerized by the concept of um A big gulp at seven hundred and eleven, right Like they're taking pictures of this and like this is amazing. Like look at how much soda they can put in this container and they're going to Wendy's in Taco Bell and like taking pictures of the spread. They're talking about their their first one AM meal at Waffle House. I'm like, Yes. Yeah Waffle house meal. I get it. you know, how did you get your how did you get your, you know, your hash browns whereere they smothered and covered You know, did you get the Waffle combo? D you get the All star? What was next? You were doing this? And I love the fact that so many people are coming to America, particularly right now where I think a lot of people have some preconceived notions about what our country is. and they're coming here with this open mind and they are embracing emmbracing who we are and what we are and I think that love is going back from Americans. I saw it in Russia. I saw it in Qatar. You know, we were a little Hesitant like what are we what are we walking into into Russia in twenty eighteen? What is Qar going to be like in twenty twenty two? Those two nations could not have been more hospitable. It was a summer of love. Everything was open you know, those The natives wanted to talk to us, the locals to learn more about us, We wanted to learn more about them. That is happening right now in real time in the United States. and I love it. I see it that the airports. I can see like you know the World Cup paraphernalia or a team flag or the fact that you just know they're They're from another country, you hear the dialect. and I go up to them, I'm like, whereere you guys from? They're like, All right, You're from Ecuador, Wlcome. Like how can I help you? You're in the Bay Area. You're here in L.A. like Come do these things. try these things. you're in L.A, go to in N and O, right? Figure out what an in and outut burger is becausecause I know they're not everywhere, right? I love the fact that we get to sharered. I know we're talking a lot about a food and beverage right now, but's' we do we have to share it. That's what we do in America. We really well. Yeah. I'm super pited. I actually thought that the Waffle House was perfect diplomacy Yeah like we could have the UN should meet in a waffle house and everything would be fixed andd be like, all right, yeah, I get it. You guys are pretty cool. is good food. Oh shit, I got this food that fast. Yeah. That was awesome. And there might be a fight across the restaurant. We get to watch a little of a yelling. Okaykay, that's cool. Let's understand there's the j there's the juke boox, right you play certain music if you want Yeah. You can you can have that suuperersized sweet tea at eight in the morning you know, Your body doesn't need it, but your body needs it. Yeah, come love I love me some Wafflehouse. I had some evenings at Wafflehouse now. Yeah. All right, Rob, I know you got to go in a minute. I got one last question for you. It's a Roback question RHO BK dot com promo code take twenty percent off your first purchase Q zips, polos hoodies, joggers shorts rooback dot com promo code take Zack Get us going. How doinge Rob, I did have a quick question Yeah. so we're seeing a lot of stadiums here T to comply with FVA regulations, they're putting in the grass, right? Are we going to see those same guys maybe keep the grass or are they going to go right back to the turf? Like do they see the nod and kind of read the room of like, oh, this is injury prone. This is bad for the players. Maybe I should respect my team and put and keep the grass or they going to go right the NFL owners talkal to the NFL owners They' the ones who are making that final decision, the upkeep and the maintenance about it, But it will be interesting, you know if it's a pretty injury free tournament I guarantee you, you know, to your point, Sack that a lot of those NFL stars those studs, the Siquan Bcleys, et cetera going gonna be like, hey, man Why aren't we doing this here Like these guys are running around hard. cutting and everything is fine and it's easy on our body. And by the way, we are your investment, right? You are spending millions on me and my body. Why would you not want it to be at its absolute best? And why would you not want it to be protected? So I'm with you. I think grass is better for every sport out there. It will be interesting to see if there is some carryover effect. but my gut feeling tells me as soon as that game is done at whatever stateium in the last one, they're pulling it out and donating it to some schools, some college. We buy it. we should buy it. Wh would want to buyike? We can put it on the roof. We on the roof. exact. that was a that was an NFL question. Do you have a soccer question? Yeah, we go sorry question I would like to know I feel like it is an important question ask anybody. We're you going Ronaldo are messy Cerful, Rob Yeah. I've changed, I've changed. I was in the Ronaldo book for a while But the last four or five years, I've kind of leaned to Messi. And as much as I love the showman of Ronaldo, right? I love his look. I love his winks, how his gold celebrations, how he does everything. I love the fact he's a showman. Messi's not a showman. He's just a quiet guy who gets stuff done in remarkable fashion. and I think I've grown appreciate that. I love the fact that he had a team and a nation absolutely fighting for him and how much it meant to them and how much it meant to him to win that World Cup. So I now lean towards messy. Correct. And I hope he has some of those messy magic. moments this summer and I think he will. They have a tune up. They have their final game tonight. By the way, you know, we were talking college football. Did you see like they're playing people are playing warm upp games at Texas AM. Yeah, playing it at Auburn University. I love that international soccer is coming to these, you know, these SEC communities, headences the Waffle House or even or even the Huddle house. Have you guys ever been to a Huddle house? That's a Huddleouse not bad. Yeah Yeah not bad U Crystal, haveave you ever been a crystal? Cryst is great. Yep. Yeah, like the southern White Castle. Yeah Yes and a little more affordable, which is telling you something. Yes, people enjoy your crystal on your journeys through America. Yeah. I love the fact that Mess' played at Texas Aem and played in these SECs. We were say we were joking like listen, no shot at Marcel Reid, but like that's got to be the weirdest Yes. Marcel Red giving him a signed jersey. It's like, what are we doing here Sorry, my dog is barking. That's all right. we love dog.. Go attack. Can you bring on. Bing on. That's a mean thirty pound golden retriever. This person is my wife The Marcelad like, you saw Nessie like come into the tunnel and some guy talks to was like You knowre like you're like liberreing like, hey man, you you need to go over here just just smile and this guy' going be Jersey. I no I have no idea who this guy is. You're like Im Marcel Reid. I'm a Hisman candidate. I'm a quarterback from Texas. Aam. I don't know what any of that means.ep Here's Jersey smile nice off into the pile it goes. Who wants this Marcel Reid sign jersey I would even say, I'm glad that you came around and saw the light was messy First of all, I don't want to push you away. We should be acknowledging people for growing and aditting their past mistakes. So welcome to the rights sideide of History.. I would even say messi number one, Meradanonna number two, Ronaldo number three I don't think he's top two Paylay, you're not even putting payay in there. Pay Yeahah, good point. Paylay three only three each. Yeah. For me, it's hard to bumpele out of number one. The problem is, you know, the further and further we get away from his legacy, the less and less we remember about it. and we're watching grainy videos and some of the stuff he didnt. And the same goes with Diego Meridone in the moments of magic that he created particularly at the World Cup. You can't go wrong with any four of those guys. All of them I'd love to have on my team. And it'll be interesting to see who joins that that level, right? Like Killy Demape, you know, with a magical run this summer and leading France to another World Cup title, you're going to start putting him in that conversation. Yeah. I do have one last question about the ball. So I love the ball controversies every year. seemeems like somebody has like the ability to connect with the ball that's like back in the South African World Cup When Diego F Lon was the only guy that could figure out how to kick that ball, what have the early returns been on the New World Cup ball? haven't I haven't heard any. That's a good point. I'll have to dig into that when I get into today. I haven't heard any, but you're right in years past like this one is faster, this one floats more. this one's got more bend to it. Yeah. To me, it's just it's just dudes overthinking things. Like can you just put a ball out there They're also like trying to find the needle nipple or whatever, and they're always kind of lining it up and they want to strike it. Talk to M about that. Mimes will show you where the nipples are We just we just ventured off the soccer highway. Yeah, Rob doesn't understand Well you might have actually it went so viral. It was very viral We said p nipples. Yeah. and they were protruding. It' like at that Barney Frank, very disgusting. Yeah I'll send you the picture, Rob. Rob, you're the best. We look forward to seeing you all summer long and safe travels Hey, hopefully we can do this again. Yeah. You know my number man. I'd love to chat with you guys. Anytime we can make it happen, I'm here for you. Absolutely. Thanks so much, Rob. You gott to guys be good enjoy the this World Cup. We'll get back to part of my take and Ozzie Albi is coming up here in a second. Rob Stone is brought you by Mountain Dew Summer's coming. I can't wait crrack open some mountain Dew at Camp Barstool. J just not goes better with hanging out outside. Nothing was better than being on a boat than the refreshing citrus kick of Mountain Dew. We got the stars and stripes on this one, the American Dew cans because Mountain Dew is proudly born in the foothills of Tennessee. You know, you just know that there's some guys S bros overseas from Scotland Right now, somewhere driving through the foothills of Kentucky open their very first mountain deew of all time And they're probably going to move to America afterwards That's how good it is. Enjoy the refreshing citrus kick of Mountain Dew. It's an American original Grab a dew tasting great since forty eight Mountain Dew And now here's Ozzie Albys. Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very special guest. He is three time all star World Series Champion, second baseman for the Atlanta Braves, the first place Atlanta Braves Ozzie Albys in studio. Ozzie, thank you for joining us. Let's start there U you guys are the best team in baseball right now. Is there point. How high can you get about this team and how you guys are playing? orr is it like, hey, it's one hundred sixty two. We got to just keep grinding. Yeah, like you said, one hundred sixty two. So we gotta keep grinding. We gott to keep going. Gota keep pushing every day Um, you know We are into the up place right now number one and it's fun when you win in games That. I would imagine. Oh yes. What was it like last year? Because it feels like it's about the same group of guys. And last year obviously went sideways for a lot of different reasons, but then you bring back a lot of the same guys and now it's good like what was that like getting through that year? Yeah, going through years like that is definitely tough after being like seven times in the playoff, you know, seven st years in the playoff. It's you know, for being there it's special first, you know, and u Going through a year like last year was very, very tough on everybody because everybody is expecting to win. like we go to the field, we expect to win every single day And it wasn't going our way, but we kept pushing and we had like a great finish towards the end. but It was definitely late time to, you know, get it going, but Um you know, some stuff here, change some players, coaching staff and I'm so happy that they'd be doing great right now. We talked to Matt Olson last year and he told us about something that you guys had in your clubhouse that you don't have anymore. or at least you didn't have you didn't have it last year and that might be the reason things kind of got messed up You used to have an ice cream machine in the clubhouse and they got rid of the ice cream machine. Yeah, they got rid of it and we didn' had a good seea. so we pushed to bring it back. So is it back? No, it's not back yet. We have one here. Hopefully we get it back though. You get ice cream here. Should I take the one here? Yes. No, you can't take it We'll give you some Listen, last year Cal Raleigh came and had some ice cream right I think he h like six home runs against the cubs I got I got to have two cubs. Yeah. Yeah ye I I need a couple of them to take back. Wait so you want to get the ice cream machine back. Yeah that's an important thing for Tam Morale. When they took it away was there not like Did you guys not have like a players meeting being like, hey, how can they do this? We tried. We tried. We tried to bring it back. so not hard enough. Well, we'll try harder this time. Yeah getet it back. We'll get it back. I feel like you gott to be angrier about that. I don't know. Iust go off on time. I'm about I'm mad about it for you, but I was there any one guy who was like, Hey, this is real bullshit? Yes. Okay, whoo was it? Yes. mostost of the guys, not just one guy. Okay becausecause u For example, we have our closer Eggie he loves ice cream. Like he will, you will eat the whole machine, man. I'm telling you he loves it so He was asking every single day, whereere's the machine? Where's the machine? Like So u I'm happy in the talks right now to bring it back. And the boys can't have fun again. Okay. Besides the ice cream machine, which again, I don't want to minimize the impact to the ice cream machine. But besides that, what's the biggest difference in the clubhouse with Walt Weiss as manager? Oh, Walt W To me, he iss one of the greatest person in general. Uh, not besides his manager role he has. he's just phenomenal human being and a person. you can talk you can talk crab with him, you can have fun with him. and when it's game, it's serious time, let's go. To me, he's definitely a role model for a lot of people on the team. and You don't want to mess around with him because you saw what happened in that brawl too like. Oh he will take you down immediately. You don't mess with him. Yeah But he se's definitely He sets the tone for us and he's straight to the point. like he comes to you tell you what's going to happen If're going to play or not if you're going as from the bench, whatever the case might be, he's just phenomenal. Yeah. All right, I got a weird question for you. So you're from Curisa. It's population of one hundred sixty thousand. You grow up and you are the biggest Andrew Jones fan, whichich makes sense because he's from Curisau, He's probably a hero on the island. But then you playing major League baseball for the Braves. Was there any part of your life where you're like, am I living in a simulation because that does feel like too perfect. I'm going be fully honest with you. I never thought because once I was coming up through the through my living in KurSo and I did some tryouts and most scouts were like, you do small. I don't think you ever make it. This is and that we don't trust in the in the small guys. they want the tall guys, you know. So I'm glad and happy that I proved them wrong. Yeah, deffinitely that. but Then I remember for my birthday for my firstot. birthday, my dad surprised me with Andwy Jones. That was right when after he had the two home runs in the playoff. Okay Yankees, something like that Oh I mean It was one of the best things of my life and play in the big leagues and play WBC when he was managing me was like literally a video game. Yeah. type of like, is this really happening Yeah. So to me, it's like You live in the dream every single day. unt you like sit down and it comes to your mind like, hey, that just that just happened. Yeah L this is the coolest thing ever T time gold blluff Hall of Fame guy managing you and from that small island. Yeah from the small island. Yeah. definitely living the dream that he had always. Was there a moment when you were coming up where Andrew Jones was like, Hey, I actually think you can do this? Yeah. When was that? It was in AAA AA. He actually came down to the field before a game and we sat down and talk for like a good thirty minutes and an hour And I'm like, I'm literally seeing one of my role models my face telling me that I can make this reality and All I gott to do is keep going, keep pushing. Yeah It became a reality It became reality. The dreams did come true, Yes. For an island of one hundred sixty thousand people is everyone your neighbor? Can you say like Andrew Jones is your neighbor? Like Like I can't imagine he grew up much further away from you, right? Like ten minutes? Yeah, because everything's probably ten minutes. Everything is close. everyverybody calls each other cousin and family. Okay. so that's all right. So so your cousin was Andrew Jones. Base love. Yeah. Who else is on the the Cursa baseball team on the WBC. Yeah. it was me, Didig Gregoriers Rafaela with Boston Kellny Johson with Detroit U we had Profar is broader and and u A couple more Uh Trump. He was with me early this season And let's see, let's who wellse That seems like a J E Jon son Oh, o. He's a big prospect. He's a thought prospect. Did you play Williams Sport or? no? I never play Williams Be because I feel like Kurse Houses usually in it, right? Kurse is always in it. Yeah. like they They always represent our island with a good team at the Wom sport, but I was the team that Sami prorofile Turksan prorofile broughter beat in Kuroso. So they went and I stay in Kurosa that year. I lost I lost the final game in Kuroso to make it to the team. That's brutal. Why do think Wh do you think it is that Kurso has such like outstanding representation in major League baseball? Like a lot of talent, a lot of baseball talent comes from a very small country I think it's because like you said, small island, small country and we focus on baseball a lot. I think it's a number one sport on the island. Most people love soccer also, but When you have the baseball crazy guys that wants to make it wants to be a Ery Jones, wants to be a Kanny Johson in the game me as well Raphaela like they push for that. likeike they just focus on that, they stop going to school. They like tell their parents, hey, I just want to focus on baseball. I want to be a big leager. And I think they They just push to the limits and see how good they can be to when they sign free agency. Because from Kurosa, you got to sign free agency. It's not like you come here and go to scholarship and all that stuff. Yeah. We have to talk about your fish for a little bit if that's okay. Oh of course. So you're a big fish guy. Maybe the biggest fish guy in baseball. I think it's probably fair to say, right? Probably Yeah. How many fish do you own I own about five hundred fish this right now. Holy shit. five hundred fish How do you keep them alive? Because we u We used to have a goldfish a gambling goldfish. actuallyually goldfish. Yeah,ah. no, so it was. We had multiple. The first one we died in less than a week and people were like, I've been there. Okay. All right. so it's because we got a lot of shame for It's normal. Okay normal but obviously I felt sorry. Yeah, because I should have done my research a little better. Yeah. Yeah. but we all start at some point at somewhere. ye Yeah. So our second one, we stayed alive for like five months and put them into a Las Vegas gambling contest. he actually finished like fiftieth likeike against other humans all professional gambling. Yeah, he picked five NFL games a week And he went like fifty four percent against the sprint, which is pretty insane. It' really good Yeah. Yeah special fish.. He also died. And then we buried him at the pro football haall of Fame. his grave was robbed. That's a different story But yeah, so like you have to like have fish. five hundred fish is a lot of fish. I have fish at the house that has been there for five years. Jeez. they They don't stop growing. like theyre growing, growing, growing. It takes a little bit of definitely The hobby is not for peoplee that aren't like I'm gonna to do it tomorrow. L if you have a schedule You got to stay on the schch because the fish you have' on a routine now Like if every Sunday you do a water change That means I know it's a fish, but it's expecting to get his water quality back to where every Sunday, he knows hey, that there is fresh water coming in. I'm going to feel better. Yeah It's literally like a human Yeah basically. So it's like feeding your body the good food, the special water and all that stuff. so you can keep going. So to take care of all of them, I have to do water change on my smallmaller tanks because of smaller tanks, the water gets polluted faster obviously because it's a small volume of water. So every week I do thirty percent So either every Saturday or either every Sunday. Yeah, Yes. Do you know all your fish? one hundred percent. You know all five hundred. Like if I posted if I just showed you a picture, you'd be like, oh yeah, that's my fish. Yeah, one hundred percent. I don't believe you. one hundred percent. show. Did you name all five hundred? No, I can't. How many of them have names? A couple of them, I'll say about ten of them has names. They have to do something really special to get noticed to get an name. Yeah, and it was some of them that were adopted d. local adopted the The people that had it used to n used to call them under their name already. so I kept it So just in case I talk on the channel and they realize that's their fish. So for example, I have mango Goyfish. that got adopted from a local Koi place I go to And I still name him mango because it's just special how I you know, I was able to you know, rescue that fish from Yeah for that particular fan that I have. Are they all salt water or all fresh waterater? Do do you do salt water? All fresh water and then one of them is brackish water with African cicklets. Okay. And you do the maintenance yourself? Oh, one hundred percent. Yeah. You don't have anybody like someone has to help s during the season. When I'm out own I have my wife's mer, mother in law takes care of everything thing Yeah. Does you have any sharks? I do have freshwater sharks. Okay. Yeah, not saltwater I think that's for the the next chapter, right? Yeah. I like that you you're hands on, though. It's like you have a relationship with all these fish. I'm going to be honest with you, the hands on is actually fun because it gets me something to do beside. play b after playing baseball I'm home, I'm doing some stuff. I have the dogs running all around. They wash the fish When I go feed, they want some food of the fishes and stuff like that. it's fun. Yeah. and I have fun with it. Is that one of your fish? No. I that we got that Gg. he knows his fish He pulled up a random clownfish. Nope Google images. You don knowt have clownfish? Yeah, I know about it, but I never own one yet. Why? I should, right? Is there is there a fish that I mean, it's like a Mby dig? Is there a white whale fish that you're looking for? I'm actually looking for a freshwater Erpima. If you can pull that one up, you'll see how big get And they are a true monster, Amazonian fish. Freshwater, what are you what is it called? A apaima. Okay. I actually saw one yesterday at the Shadock Wn him. Okay. is it there and it looks like it's twelve feet long. Did you go by the stingray I did touch this thing race. We have how many I don't know how many are in the tank, but I talked about Three or four of them. Okay. I have the record, no big deal. I haveam. Yeah,ah. Oh nice. Yeah, I got the record. I broke it like probably about fifteen years home. many. I pet like it was like forty. Oh my go. I was dominating. justust walking aroundet them all. The sturgeon too? I didn't pet the sturgeon. Okay. I listen,. I'm a traditionalist. I just keep in the sting ray. Okay. someone else could have the surgeon record. Yeah. I'm not sure All right, so that's a that's a gnarly fish. Yeah h fish We finished it actually in spring training this year. B facility in Florida, M be Jurassic. Jurassic living facility and we went and picture where four of us was holding the whole fish and there' still more room that tells you how like big I mean I mean, it was bigger than this guy. Holy shit If you have a fish that that if you if you win another World series, will you get like, will you treat yourself to a nice fish? That That one. It might be that one, right? Yeah. Wait So how do you get that one? Is it hard? Like can you just call and get it? I think you gott to get like where I live, We gott to get permission for county Got it. then makeake sure the space is enough because they get really, really big. Yeah. I'm not kidding. Yeah. They are monsters. So what got you into this? Iess I guess growing up on an island probably helps. Yeah. Gring up in an island three to five minutes from the water to you go you go fishing most of the time, most of the weekends. Funny enough, my grandfather used to own ki fishes And I always help him like feed, do water change, maintenance, change the pump, do tests, do that sccrub the algae that grows over time and That's how I got into it. and I always had a goldfish. I started with a goldfish Okay And how was it gambling No, I didn't do any. We just addam as a we had him as a pet and okay like thirty fifty cents for it at a pets markark. and happened to live eight years That's pretty good. We call him Bofredo and we just started my whole fish hobbyist. I'm not kidding. He was the original. He was the original Weber came in the backyard, put a whole rock with his name, everything on it. G gotot you hooked. That's a fish show. Wait to show. All right, what about this? These are your coys We got a picture of a couple ki. Those are your koys, right? I do have the same I do have the same koi, but those are not mine.' good.s. I do have the same pattern though. Yeah. So when you go on the road, do you go to every aquarium? I tried to visit all of the aquariums in each city. Yes. We did I did the Arizona, the Philly one Obviously Chad the Cn yesterday. Um We tried to go to the one, I think it was in Boston, but we didn't have time. So next time I'll go to that one too. Baltimore's got a good one too. I heard Baltimore's got a really good h. It's a very cool design there too. So I don't know if I don't remember the sketch if I'm going there this year, but if I do go, I'm definitely going to see it. What's the best one that you've been to? The best one so far Obviously Georgia Aquarium one of the biggest here Um I'll say number three right now My three favorite ones are Chattanooga. Okay. Okay. It's like big because of fresh waterater too S, Chattanooga Shad Aordium the one I have the record at. Yeah. Okay one hundred percent. Like I saw there Pim on my red I own like aboutb eight red tail catfishes at home So I saw the rattail yesterday and I'm like, o man, I can't wait for mine to get like that too. your did your house smell? I don't believe you. one hundred percent Like there's that's like someone who has like multiple cats and you walk in you like o, you'll see. you'll see It doesn't smell at all like fish or an aquarium. No overfiltrated thanks U flush the pumps every week That's I think that's what what does the part of not spelling and it's closed. so it's nothing coming out. Okay. Yeah. Do your Do your fish love you? I think they do. I feed them very well. Yeah. Like you walk by and they come sw imediately. Imediately. Yes. They want me to like put my hand and they try to like bite my finger all the time. Yeah. And your dogs, they love your dogs too the same way how many dogs do you have now? We have seven at the house and one one You have a zoo. have a zoo. based on We have a small zoo you know. We have seven dogs and we foster in one at the moment. Oh, that's tooto yeah. And they get along well with the fish too. Yeah. L the fish like women they like So when they go inside the room and they wiggling in their tail, the fish is thinking it's like like a bait. So they're trying to like their tail through the glass. and I'm like you you can't like relax and I just give them some food, like some treats so they can feel better. Do you ever go swimming with the fish? Yes. You did. I saw a video of you swimming with your ki. You jump And the monster fishes too, the rattails. I go in there. Yeah. You jump right in. Oh, right in it. like playing with my snorkel and stuff on it and go right in it. Do the fish know when you're in a slum? I don't know about that. Okay. Okay. Hopefully they don't know because we don't want to know Yeah. Yeah. Do you have do you have a slump buster? Do you have something to get you out of a slump? U not really. I just, you know, keep keep pushing, keep going hard and you know, sometimes you just do less. Yeah. Sometimes people start doing more and more, but I think it's just you take take your mind away from it and just keep playing because the game is more about you know, all around. you still got to do good base running and still got a good defense also that wins your games So U Sometimes those moments per end, but you got to take your headat away from it. Yeah. What's who's the hardest pitcher you've ever faced I'll say the tough one of the toughest pitchers in the game that I face As a starter is Jickob the Gl Yeah we've heard that before. Oh my go. he He was at some point telling me what wass coming. I still couldn't couldn't get to it. You know And then I had my good days where took the same pitch and I hit a base it like score a around, like stuff like that helped the team win and You know, those are great stuff when you do it against somebody like him. he's super, super good But But there's definitely pitchures out there that they very doough. Yeah, does it ever annoy you guys in the clubhouse that that fat fuck blooper pretends that he's part of the team? Because he does. And he's like Bro thinks he's on the team. Well, it doesn't annoy me. Okay. but definitely some other people. Okay, there we go. I'll just I willon't say names, but some people, you know, not everybody likes everything that happ.. So you he comments here and there, but I'm like, up, how about keep going this way. Yeah Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't be shocked if he's trying to take get bats in the middle of the season. You imagine that? Yeah. You know I can't because you see an ego maniac like that. It's crazy trying to make it all about himself Insp Do you have a favorite unwritten rule of baseball? H O one that you do you have a unwritten rule that you are like, I actually believe this. donon't do this M I'll say always make sure I don't step on the whiteeline on the field. Okay I like that one. I heard that before when I was like coming up in the league and all that stuff You're like, hey, you respect the whiteeline. donon't ever go over it. So I'm really like When I'm crossing to go defense or even go like just practice, I make sure I go over it. Have you ever messed up? No. No, hopefully I don't. Never stepped on the line. I mean, playing like running down the line probablybably got. Yeah that that's you know the game because you're just going Yeah, but I make sure every time I think the field, I promise you, you see pitchers do it too. Yeah. Yeah I go I make sure I jump it. That would be really funny if you tried to avoid the whaite line while running. Oh yeah you probably have to be running on the grass. Yeah. right you' in the field. Yeah There's like a pop up can't I can't touch that line Like that's different. You know, like, I'm looking at the pop up and youre going like fl territory. Yeah. stuff like that is different but taking the field, Ill always start to avoid it. Are there arere there any rules that you have on the team for who is and who is not allowed to challenge pitches U I don't think we have a rule on that one because I want I want the team guys to be aggressive especially like I'm not as aggressive with like other guys like when it comes to If there is no situational moment, let's say the game is zero zero bottom, third. I mean, If it's really close and I'm like guessing, I won't challenge that. you know, But if it's a guy on third less than two outs or even with two outs and you can be three one inststead of two two, for example, like I rather you take a shot and be wrong Yeah. Don't take a shot and then you see it on my iPad. you're like,h I should have challenged that. So what you know because we had Francisco Lndorin here and he said he'll never challenge because he's so he's so bad at it I think everything is a ball too. Okay. L donon't get me wrong. and from defense, I think everything is a strike. I'm like this with a catch like,, let's go. ask for it. Th then it was like three inches off the plate. Yeah. So what's your record on challenges? I think I'm pretty good right now actually. I think We' gonna to look up I'm gonna try to look. I think I keep trackking. I think I won I'll say two out of S but that's not that good O two out of four Azzie, I'm not gonna lie. That mean that dude. you go four ten and you h in three hundred, right? Yeah, I know. that's not Yeah It's all baseball trick, but still like you got I don't know how much to be honest with you, I don't know how much I challenged you before They have challenged against me a lot. Yeah. because I don't like I said, I don't ask for it consistently, but I think I want Tw challenges this year from the four or five I challenge or three. You've got, I think what I'm reading right now, you might have the most important challenge in the history of baseball. Yes. I had one in Arizona. I remember one Yeah. Yeah. So you you extended the inning. Yeah. we scored eight runs right walked in a run And then you scored eight runs that inning. Yeah. And it led to a seventeen to two blowout. Oh yeah. Okaykayco that That's a big one round. That's that's the biggest challenge. I remember that one was really like not So crazy off the plate, but I saw it like high and far. So I was like, no, no, let's go. This is far. And then I walk I'll walk the first immediately without even looking. Can I can I give you a tip though? Because it's going to be like You know, the challenge system, I love it. I think it's great for the game because they've they've figured out a way to do it so fast. evenven when you're at the stadium. You're just like, wow, that was great. amazing for the game. But here's what you got to do because I doubt anyone does this yet You need to start going up to the amps before the game and be like, hey, out of respect for you, I won't be challenging Be like I trust everything you say. thenen they're going to start giving you some extra, you know Galls here and there. Yeah, just look just be like, Hey, man, I respect you so much. I'm not trying to show you up I just want you to know that' not going to challenge. And I was wrong, I think a week ago And I challengeed. I was like, it was like biting the line like this much. And I went there and I said, Hey, my bath, I think I think my eyes are not telling me what it is this day. And he goes, Hey, I've been there too man. I respect you. I respect you also. Okay, there we go. Boom, D. That's good. But I'm cool I'm cool with him. Yeah. L we talk, we have fun You know, it's one hundred and sixty two games. You gotta have fun. Yeah.ave you been kicked out of a game before? No, not never yet. Oh, you gotta. Hopefully You gotta. Hopefully I keep it that on. Ozzy, peoplee are saying you're soft for never getting kicked out of a game.ot soft. I just respect their job. I'm gonna be real on that one. I respect I wouldn't I don't want to curse my out on TV, you see my mouth going crazy on them. I mean, they have a family too. they have kids. so I don't want them to go home and say Dad, Ozzie was saying this is' this on you. You know, like I keep it respectfully. Yeah. but Yeah, never been thrown out yet. What about hopefully it doesn't happen tonight. Yeah. you you're playing second base Batter charges the mount, what's your move? because you're one of the first lines of defense. So it happened this year for the first time in my career where I actually saw Punchas being thrown like live. And what were you doing? And so I was Play happen I was a throw to second base attacked the guy. So I have the ball like I'm like, whereere do I throw? Do I throw out Do to the pitcher to it out Turn my back going back to my position and happen So I wasn't even paying attention Th I sa I was like, oh, crap. I gott to go And then by the time I sa I gott to go, I saw already punch just being thrown. So I just walk in there and then if you you see the video actually, I went this lir And like, hey, that's not you and he's obviously like six foot four. I'm five seven. so It's like a little guy trying to stop the big guy. Yeah Yeah, you I mean you can just go for the legs though. You know what that means. You gotta go for the leg so you can come down. That's the only way or the only chanance I got T what he kicksor sllay.. He's a monster.'s a monster. I willon never be in a fight with him. Yeah. Even though I talk a lot of trash to him when he was with us Hving fun and joking But I don't think I will have for be in a fight with him. How much did he hate playing in the cold He does hate the cold. And I'm one of them too. I h hate the cold. Okay because he was on the cubs. I just remember when it was like early season like well can't really expect much from Jorge here because he looks like he wants to be anywhere else.. So you hate the cold as well. I'm the same way, but once I get in game mode, like game mentality So like throw some vaseline on the body, abeline, whatever that keeps the body a little moist You know, you just go play. Yeah. You got to go play. I mean Yeah. I got to be on defense. I got to hit some heat warm heat warmers here like for the hand hand warmers and stuff Just go at it. Yeah. Yeah. I have a question here from Big T. You met Big T outside earlier. He's a massive Braves fan getting married this weekend. and he asked me to ask you this question. So again, not from me. this is from him. He said, is it more fun when the Mets are total garbage All season or watching them suffer at the very end and choking it away whichich is more fun for you. O, All right, I'll say this. it's more fun for when we you know, claim the division and they have to go fight for it to be like so like we said late in the season when they Chokren for their their life. Yeah. I'll say that C see there are biggest Privately I think besidide the Phillies. so We definitely want to do great against them. So definitely the late season. Yeah. we heard a rumor from somebody on the Braves and it was that when the Mets had their most recent epic collapse at the end of the season, that the team would gather around and watch our colleague Frank the Tank melt down whenever you guys would win and the Mets would lose. Do you remember watching any of that I heard about it. Yeah. I never watched it, but I heard about it. He would always just say like the braves never lose. And it's true. When the Braves are good, they never lose. Yeah when we good, I'm gonna be honest, we play really good baseball and It's just fun when like I said, earlily, it's fun when you're winning and you want to keep doing that every single day. Yeah. Yeah. kind of a sad season for the Braves with Bobby Cox passing. And I didn't know if you had a relationship with him what that was like but the guy was a legend. maybe you know what he has to be in the discussion of the best manager of all time. one hundred percent. No doubt about that. Yeah. And do I did have a relationship with him. Even when he started getting sick and stuff I was sad watching him come to the cluboutouse on a wheelchair still knew my name, still said Ozzie and everything because he was kind of like you know, losing it slowly. And I remember we have a group picture with him in the club was one of the special like one of pecial moments we had because, you know, you see one of the best managers in the game suffering and kind of melts your heart a little bit. Yeah Yeah just in all time guy for what those braves teams of the nineties were able to accomplish for so long. likeike he deserves so much credit because not only yes, he had a great team and maybe one of the best pitching stas of all time, but people don't realize that he put that team together. on hundred percent all the rules he actually bring to the team. like Yeah, I remember when I got to the team, There were rules he created since the nineties Like we used to wear only black les, black tves for practice, socks you have to do pants up Everything talkcked in all the time, no glasses on the logo, on the A of the of the Atlanta Brays, like those are rules that he put up is the nineties and Yeah it's still carry until today. We still don't do it. If you watch anybody on the team And even when there's a new guy that come in, we like make sure we tell Hey put it on the back. Like watch any day game when we have glasses on. It's always either on or on the back. You never realizeed that's yeah's very cool. Th are rules that we still just Keep follow him because he's One of the biggest guys that put this team together. How how the hell do you switch hit? That's the craziest thing ever. I really don't understand it. I don't guys who can switch hit It's t blows my mind. Yeah, it's tough. It's definitely tough and I started late. I started when I was fifteen. No way. Yeah. So you just never bat lefty when you were until you' fifteen Oh, no only when I was fifteen. I remember doing a try out with the braves. When I was fififteen with a mle bat, they wanted to see what I can do and You know, they saw I can hit. I can swing on the right side. I have speed and all that stuff and they were like, hey, we want you to be a switch hitter, especially on the left side put the ball in play and run. So I did that through my minors mininor career and then about double later we were like, Hey, we need to start elevating the b now. happy it worked out. That's crazy. So you because like I just assume most switch hitters They just grew up doing it the whole time and it was just natural. They were almost ambiidextrouous. They you just like a kind of late part of your development had to just start doing. How bad was it to start? Oh terrible. I couldn't hit the bott of the tea. Oh I h robber more than I hit the baseball. That's insanely impressive. Yeah yeah, was I was hitting the robber, Braak the robber let it into Um Definitely hard. and then, you know, you slowly like instead of doing too much, you slowly slow down the process and start focusing on what to do. And I had a guy that always was there with me helping me be better. So Um Deinitely put in the work, start swinging it from the left side way more than the right side till I got better and So happy it worked out. Yeah. Have you ever thought about messing with another pitcher? and let's just say they have a left handed pitcher and going up to play be like, you know, I'm going to bat L again. I actually did Ridy on Ridy. Did you? Yes. I did it in twenty one against There was a picture called Last nameame Harper. I'm not sure if it's Rne Harper or Rine Harper the way you say it. And I went right on ride and took him deep.. U That was like a special moment because I normally go right on right on position player like if it's a Blow upp game But I did it that day in the game and they were like, they don't know what to do now. So yeah. I'm so happy I actually h hit a bomb and helped the team win and was it was fantastic That's awesome. What was what was the reason why you decided to do that? Does you throw a lot of breaking balls and Definitely more confident on the right side And I was like, I can I can take a pitch and actually Do an adjustment I need to do too have a better, you know, better at bad I'm happy end up being the two run home run to help us win. So it was fun. Can you I think you're allowed to switch sides madeid it backad? Have you ever thought about doing that? I never did it, but that would be probably something that. That'd be pretty cool. Yeah, why not? Kind of mess them up. Yeah, I kind of have to do it one. Yeah you should do it. Please do. Well try to do that. Yeah. yeah, let's do it, man. Also we ask every baseball guest that comes on Maybe next game, if you get walked, can you sprint to first base for us? Okay. Respect ninety. All right, let's do it. Yeah, just like hard sprint. Okay, I'll do it. love it. I do it for you. Really respect ninety. Hopefully it happen tonight. Yeah, yeah, do that. Really respect ninety for us. When you hit a home run, how fast have you like compared how fast you get around the bases to your teammates? do have gone fast before because it was like it barely made it out. So I was running fastter around. I was like, might as well keep going. Yeahust keep going. Yeahning around. Yeah. I remember David Ortiz, he used to sometimes just like walk around walk Yeah He does walk it, but I mean big popy lgend too. so you deserve it. Yeah. All right, I got a baseball like fundamentals question because we have a slow pitched softball league. We're actually in the playoffs, no big deal. and we sometimes make errors U all of us, the entire team. Yeah Do you ever find yourself have you ever in a big league game thrown behind the runners and been like, shit that was stupid. Behind the runner. Yeah, like if there's like a guy on say first and third and it's like you're trying to get the guy out at first, but then the guy at third can just go home because you threw behind the runner Probably I don't remember, though. All probablyably. Do you get yelled out for that? No, you just like ask. you're like, what was that? Yeah I was like I thought I could get him. I did that one time. I was catcher and I threw the first base. That was the guy on third. I should have had the third. Yeah. but I got aggress. it happened. They were challenging me with a big secondary lead and they weren't respecting my arm. so I had to try to force. You have to. you have to. We do it like once again It's no big deal. Yeah, We try to make place happen. B phone with me. Yeah. How do you feel about batflips I love it. Good. Yeah. I feel like if a pitcher leaves you a ball that You're not supposed to leave it hanging and you batfip, you can't get mad. Yeah supposed strike out. so That's f. Yeah, ye. I agree. B flip as much as you want. Just don't get mad when you strike out though. Yeah they show you up. Yeah. Yeah. What about if you have somebody like a teammate that batflips maybe a little bit too highaybe a I might get drilled next or bad. Yeah then like man can you just maybe not do that right now next. Especially if you win by a lot, Yeah, I think you respect the game Yeah. what about when do you stop stealing Six rounds up, five runounds up. Yeah late in the game? Okay. Yeah. notot early late in the game. Would you ever buunt to break up a no hitter? No, I think That's a really shady way feel like P and no hitter. I feel like if you went six innings And you didn't try before that. Yeah. like even fitth inning And you didn't try to get ahead before those five innings went by, I think you should keep swinging the bat and just get it a earned the hit. Yeah, you know, like don't don't lay that on bond to her basement explain back like There's no need for that. Play the game. What about combined no hits? Those count, right? Of course. Yeah. agree aggree. I mean, I agree on that. one hundred percent. It's a hard game man. Yeah like it's hard to throw strikes consistently. It's hard to hit the ball. It's a round bad round baseball And if you did a combino hitter above the cap, you guys earn it. Yeah. Yeah earn it. What about there are is there any times that you're you notice yourself you're like swinging too hard where you're like, Hey, I got to, I gott to loosen this up a little bit. I got I got to have a little more finesse at the plate. Yeah it happens. It happens here and there where you trying to hit the ball five hundred feet. Yeah and you will never hit a five hundred fe Right. Right, You know, there's probably like what four guys in the whole two hundred years of baseball went that far. Yeah. that you're like, hey, slow it down. the less you do, sometimes it's even better. Iag playing a couple years back through a little bit of like pain on my shoulder and I was not taking hard swings and had One of the best years of my career. Oh wow. like crazy fact, but yeah happened and then after that I did surgery and all that. But I was like, wow, actually happened. Yeah. If a coach told you like, hey, we noticed that you're swinging too hard, what would your response to that coach be I agree Yeah because you see me trying to do too much right and It's great that he's actually, you know, he trusts me to come to me and tell me, Hey see you overswinging like down a little bit. Right. And you know what about they What if he wasn't a coach it was like one of the worst hits on the team? That not the worst hitters on the team My OBP is last say Yeah like. Wst hitters on the team is crazy Max. That's crazy notot one of the best. A guy who is bas two out of like you on like have it on the war. been on the team like for three or four years. a guy comes in He's like your six hitter and it comes up to you. You have You're hitting like eight hundred on the year. You have one bad game and it's like, Oh, you're swinging way too hundred. hold on. No, no. I didn't say oh, you're swingming. I said, Hey, just, you know, sw That's not what he said. notot that. Hey, friend to friend, dude. swing a little easy. You're hitting eight hundred on the year. Yeah eight hundred at that time He also made high. I to go through my satsman. is so I've been on this is I've been on base basase on the every song crazy. Oh my God. Max in this circumstance, we were talking about a coach saying Yeah, the thing is he's not a coach. Right. But what about a friend? Youd hear from a friend? I heard outside of base. Yeah Yeah. Yeah. and sometimes R. Not that I took it immediately like. Hey, you don' know what you're saying? Yeah I was like It kind of like was in the back of my mind like when I get to the field today, I'm actually go look at that. Okay, so that's good. So that's growth. you see your friend, your mom, your your partner, whoever it is, they see you from the TV from a different angle.. They're like, hey, I saw your actual like your lag is good turnurning more than it normally turn. For example, like youre rotating more. You you you your swing is going, your pat is going underneath the ball more than it used to be directed about like they can see that. Yeah. always being co people that watch you every day, they can see that. Yeah you play the game, you worry about so many other stuff, you don't even realize you're doing it. R till it become a habit. And now like you said earlily, you like, over for whatever. Yeah. and you're like, oh damn actually is doing that. Yeah. you fix it, boom, you're right back on track. R Sometimes it does help Yeah. it or not, it's a good friend's a good whatever Yeah, you'd say that person iss good friend. Yeah. that max good friend P peopleople thinkach paking on them, but no I'm not p a good friend. can't take everything they picked on you. Is there a Is there a difference between like a bad first base coach and a good first b coach percent To me, that seems like my go best job in the world. The best job in the world. We have Ao Richers on the team. One of best goes ahead And he's always prepared. Like always prepare A memember There was a ball I finesed to like left field. It was a lazy flyball, whatever. He come back to me. I giveave him my helmet, we chill in He goes, Hey, what are you actually swinging the bat? Like I look at him, I go, I swim the, but he goes, No, swing a little harder this time. D't finace it Hit a home or next at b Like he's like, Yeahah, you' aggressive, like you are aggressive and you didn't have that on that that particular bat. And then boom, I head home. I'm like, bro, thank you. Yeah Okay That's the way it needs to be. L pic just down in the here, sawt this and go get better at it. Yeah So I love that. Yeah. All right, so you have your foundation, the Ozzie Alb' foundoundation, your're focused on dog and animal rescue. That's awesome. We love dogs here. So what do you guys what kind of work are you guys doing? So we rescue dogs from, you know shelters and stuff that you know, we can I truly believe we can give them not a chance in life because sometimes Ducks can be, you know not fitting their family that is and they take it to the shelter. they don't want it no more. So we definitely believe in the best chance program we have and we Rescue the dogs Train them, give them a new home, give them a new family I truly believe in giving it out a chance, get help. And we rescue over one hundred dogs just in one year, and rehome them in It was one of the best things we could have done. We actually, a matter of fact, we just rescued a dog. Last Saturday like Th days ago and They say he was like, you know, biting and stuff like that. he's aggressive and then we picked him up one of the sweet dogs dogs we ever like had from the shelter. he was all knotted up. We give him a bat That was running the house. Yeah, enjoying we made like a little fan thing. He jumps the fence to go play with my own dogs and Yeah. So it's like The best fun thing you can do becauseuse It love what we love animals. That's awesome. I mean it is there is like a stigma with with rescue dogs where it's like, oh, something's wrong with them or Yeah that they gone through trauma. they don think wrong with them. Yeah It's more like humans that They didn't want the do or puppy anymore and didn me treat them. Right Be the minute I raised my hand and the dog went like this, I was like, o, you probably got hit before. Right. Somet like that. So Then we rub him on the belly and he feels comfortable and trustworthy again The dog is a different animal. Yeah, it might different te in one day. Right. My dog Stellyah, I remember when I first rescued her, she was like loud noises like dropping your keys or like everything a door. everything was scarary. I think I got mistreated before. Yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah. that's awesome. I love that.. We love to do it Hopefully we can do one hundred two hundred more this year because that's the goal. We We try to keep rehoming dogs and make it a better chance for them because, you know I think the problem is not the puppy. The problem is what we do towards the puppies. And and the thing that I always say because I was telling you before the Sto Blue coffee where we we're trying to get a thousand dogs adopted this year through it. I ready to drink canids. The big thing is like people want to get a dog and they don't realize how many dogs need a home. So they go to a breeder, but it's like there's so many dogs ready to be ready to be you know put in a new family home and give them a chance because they deserve it. Like I said, I don't think the problem is the dog. I think the problem is the humans that mistreat the dog. So Um I will never go to a breeder. I think it's just go to the shelters and adopt is a better way to do it.reed. I used to work for a dog adoption place way back in the day and the most common thing was like me or my coworkers saying, Ohh, I'll foster this dog. and then that dog just becomes like part of your life. And you're like, well, I guess I got another dog. We did it. How many of those How many the dogs that you have right now fosters that's like I really like this st. So definitely Max. Max was one we found and my wife come to me and she's like, Hey This dog, the family doesn't want to know more. He's getting a bed right now. I'm going keep it at the house and maybe re homeome him. One day later he he chw my car bumper. So I kind of like sprank him on the bus and, heyah. Don't do that. M was like, No, don't hit him. Just talk to him. teeach him. But I wasn't like mistreating him. I was just like, Hey, don't do that And like try to talk to him And after that, now I love to play with him every day. Yeah replace tur back. He's the biggest fresh player play dog that I have at the house so have to throw baseball about thirty times a day and he still wants more. H m a bigoyers he's like a hundred pounds. No He's a golden doodle. I love that. And now I'm like he's my best friend. He stands up and he's my shoulder like that he's tall. so U love him. We do everything for him. E time we, you know finish a game, I get home. I'm like, Hey, let's go outside. play with him. You just Yeah in the back your head every time you foster a dog, you're like there's like a fifty percent chance that this dog is just never. We you fostering one right now And I love him a lot And I know I already have seven, but seven dogs a lot of dog.ight is not gonna to be that much. Yeah no,. I think once you get past like three Yeah, you just kind of you just a do you just have a farm. Yeah. You literally have a farm. That is like literally eight and pounds. Okay tiny I mean, I love him. like the way he just went right away and play with our ain dog Pucci that thinks he can run the house. He's ten pounds and he thinks he can beat up Max. Yeah example. No you can't be upax Exactly. Max will pick him up and throw him over the Yeah he doesn't th. He chaseed Max, tried to buy Max. Yeah and athlete. Yeah. Yeah. And he played with him and I was like,, this dog is lovable. Like I would already want to take him inside the house. Yeah, you know. Wh do you let your dog sleep in the bed? becauseuse that would be a problem. seeven dogs. I mean, I let my dogs bed. Tough question, but Yeah We try to train them to not sleep in bed. but you have two of them that sleeps with us every night. Oh those dogs sick they run everything. They get sleep in the bed? Yes. and now I can't even hug her at night. s want me Yeah, he wants me to hug him. Yeah Co with him. so I'm like to it like Give me a chance. He's like, nope, I'm in the mirrle, move, move, move. I'm in the mirrle. I'm the I'm the guy. My dog's thirty pounds, like small dog, but she somehow finds a way to sleep diagonally and like take up the most amount of space bed at all time. Yes, all the time. Yeah at all time. twenty four seven man. As soon as I lay in bed, he's right here. Yeah, done and he throws his head back like this. that's awesome. I love it. You must get the best greetings when you get back from a long road trip Yeah L like seven dogs at once. eight dogs at once.s' go run errands and we come back. It's like I've been gone for a month Yeah, like rununning out to me jump, jump, jump. They want to be baby like in my hands like a baby. That's twenty for seven. Are the fish happy to see you after a long trip? Yes, definitely. They to be honest, Ben Pe don't think this, but they do realize when You like you their owner I walk in and they're like, oh, you're here. I want food. I know what you're gonna do. I know this. I know that. it's facts. Yeah. do a video where when you get back to your next road trip being like, I return home to my fish after a long road trip and just watch how. I' do that I show it. Yeah You'll see for real. L you'll see them come up the tank right away like, I know you're gonna feed me, like. giveive me my food That's awesome.es. It's awesome. best thing ever Well, Ozzie, this has been so much fun. I have one last question, Rb back question RHO BacK dot com promo code take. twenty percent off your first purchase Qzips, pololos, hoodies, joggers shorts Robak dot com promo code take Zack You got a question, Zack's not a big baseball fan, but he's trying to get into the game. right. How are we today, sir. I do a quick question. Would this be your tenth year in the majors, arere you excited to get your goal card? Oh And if not, would you be willing to work out like a joint custody situation with us? All right Fun fact, I got to say this. So I know it used to be ten year, right? The gold card, by the way, for people who don't know it's a certain amount of time played in major Lag baseball. They give you a gold card. It gets you two tickets to any game at any time in aajor Lague baseball st. So I do have the go card already. Oh They bumped it down to eight years So now you have eight full service years in the show. You get the gold card. two tickets su whatever game you want to attemend, And it's a lifetime card. Yeah. Are you going to use it, you think? one hundred percent. Okay. Yeah. when I'm down playing, I think you know, like a playoff game and Yeah that is the best thing ever. Yeah. I attended the twenty twenty four World sereries Yankees Dodgers and I was questions on the sideite after games. It was one of the most fun moments that I had. Obviously I want to be playing. Yeah, but We got out of it quick early And I had the chance to do that. It was, I mean, the energy of the game and in LA, it's You know how crazy it gets crazy. So it was good. to Zach second part of his question Would you consider maybe letting them hold it for a little bit? Because you're playing I don't have it with me right now. All right, I could like maybe send it to us or you can just hold it for like c of copy. Yeah, I have it already. It's actually a cool card. I don't know if I have a picture. You're gonna have to prove it by getting it zact. I have it itur eight years now. Yeah. We should somebody should try to just copy those you doact And like, yeah, I played years Dodgers. Yeah. We'll just do a proof of life and then we'll send it right back. All right hold it for a second and we'll get it back. It may fourteen dayays shipping. We do two weeks and then right back. It would be funny if we did a video of Zach trying to go and get in sayaying he's Ozzie Alb'. He's like, Hey, I'm Ozzie, What's up guys? I b my two free tickets. It's a cool thing to achieve definitely in the big Leagues. It's fun. Yeah Ozzy, this hass been awesome man. Best of luck the rest of this year. Great having you in the office. Also Matt Olson wanted me to ask if you can dunk Always tell him that I cank I always dunk on him. Obviously he's way taller than me. Yeah Yeah. there's no chance. I say, well, I might use a trampoline. What about that? Okay.. So tell him yes. Yeah. tell yes. I'll him Dunt. Yeah, yeah. man. All right, well, thanks so much, Azzie. Thank you guys. I appreciate it. Thank you Aie Albz was brought to you by Chevy. Our AWLs know that Chevy Silverado is the official truck a part of my take. That's because Silverado is the truck with grit that shows up every time the hall toe and take a beating, but smart where it counts It's got modern tech that makes life easy Big screens, camer reviews that help with towing and parking. a cabin that feels right, whether you're road tripping, heading to practice, or if you're loading up for the weekend. During the season, it's the MVP of the tailgate after the season turns into your training camp truck Puling gear, tackling home projects, doing the work that never stops because the grind doesn't take breaks, neither does Silverado Check out the current offers Build your Silverado at Chevy. com Chevy Okay Let's finish a show. We got FAQs Henry Are there any athletes slash people that you would say no to interviewing if given the opportunity that you haven't already? And if so, who Glaye Maxwell. There are u Revevel Yeah, there are people too that if they don't If they like say fifteen minutes, we say no Like there's just certain guys that we just would not interview in a fifteen minute time frrame. I would say A guy like Michael Jordan. Yeah. I Listen, if Belcheck was like Hey, it's twenty minutes, we've been like, no chance. Yeah. We can't we just don't. We cannot do an interview that quickly All we're going to do is make our fans mad Be being like, why't Jesis, why didn't J that? R? How could you not ask that So yeah, we've said no to people that are in that like fifteen minute hardout range. We also, I think have started to say no a little bit more to people who are on like hardcore press junkets because those don't always do Right. I would get say Max I I disagree with them Yeah I think I think if you fifteen minutes you sure it's not enough. No, it's not enough. I know but fifteen minutes would literally be alsoso MJ, if he said fifteen minutes, it's not we can figure out a way to get thirty out of the there They would be instantly like You're done It would just be it would be a tease It would be such a tease, memes. Pe would be mad at. It would be a tease for the people. It would be a tease for us. such a good fifteen minutes. No no wouldt no have up. Yeah. it'd have to be a conversation with them that would like develop like the Beliceck interview. Yeah, it would have to be like I would want two hours with them because I could I would be very confident in two hours we'd get an awesome interview. If you do a fifty minute interview with Michael Jordan then the entire fifteen minutes he's thinking about how he's going to get out of there. Right forty five forty five minutes I would I would obviously say yes to forty five minutes. I would I would internally want an hour or more. I would say about how much how many questions we would have for Michael Jordan. I would say yes to forty five minutes, but it would have to be in person the first time. Yeah. It would not be over in person. And we do that as well. We've done like I'll say, I'll just say the name We were we got offered u Bill Murray, who I would love love, love to interview But it was like a twenty minute over Zoom. and I was like, I don't We got to do it over. We got to see I want to do it in person. Yeah. He's a guy that I want to do in person because I think that we would gel and it would be awesome And I don't want to do an interview just to say 'cause I think there's it would be It would be wrong of us to be like Here's a name in the title getet everyone pumped up and then you listen and it's like, oh, it's it's fifteen minutes twenty minutes. Yeah and it's over Zoom Bilmmer is it like a dream guest I'd want to sit down with him for an hour. Like it'd be so awesome. It be Yeah, it'd be really tough to get into anything noteworthy with Bill like if you even feel like you're having a conversation right in fifteen minutes. I would what about Tom Brady? I feel like you need time one good nut with Tom. Yeah Post nut clarity. You lot of time. That's another one. You'd need a lot of time. I would say no to IShow speed I just don't think that the the audience is there for them. If well if we're trying to actually know if we're trying to take our ratings, we do I should L nobody would let they'd be like who? What about Chalet Shall I do it a second? In person I do shop over Zoom because I think younger people can understand Zoom a little bit more. That's also it. It'd be way better in person. I think S I would almost say great in person. Yeah firstirst time I would say in person Like, do you think Michael Jordan or Bill Murray have ever opened a Zoom themselves? No So then I wouldn't do. You know what I mean? Yeah. Xiai has. It's also there it's the list of people now of willill we travel to that person? Yes. That's like that Thats that also. we we would drop everything for MJ go anywhere go to his like yacht if you wanted us to. Magic too. If magic wants us to go to the Mediterranean, we'll be there. Sow up ye hundred percent. I don't like if the Kicks win, I feel like traveling to Challeomay, we would do Yes. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Big cat thought about saying no No, I would say yes I'd have to I'd have to feel it out to see like is he a fan of ours? Because that's the other thing is like if we're traveling and he just doesn't really he's just doing it for press But if he's like, hey, I listen to you guys or I know who you guys are. I'd love to come on for an hour. Can you come to New York? Like ye Yeah. hundred percent I think he's M. I think that he's someone that you could win over though. Yeah,inite I think the fact that he obviously watches a ton of sports. Exactly. we would get along. We get along real well. Well you understand what I'm saying? It's it It's like is he doing a press junket? If he's doing a press junket Prob know If they're like, hey, after the next one if Chal was doing a press junket, he had fifteen interviews in a day and we got thirty minutes. I'd say no That that is true cororrect. That is true. because I just don't think we would get a great interview and he would probably be tired. We get our best interviews when it's people who want to come on. people we have enough time and they're not like exhausted and they get to know us and like we have a good rapport with them. We earn that trust E Wyon was like a pressed junket, he was good I wouldn't say a press. No, that wasn't I was doing press. No, but we've done lots of those interviews via the PGA tour. like when they have somebody reach out to just won. They're it's usually a pretty good interview I' saying the movie press jobn. Yeah, I'm not and look, I liked these guys and I'm happy they came on, but like Seth McFarlland or a when do we have Walberg Matt Damon on No. that would didnt have that affic and Matt Damon was good. Yeah, but that's a little it's a little awkward because they' how it works from the other side is they're doing they're sitting in a room for an entire day doing fifteen interviews and we're just like interview seven. So it's always a little bit hard to navigate that because they're very much aware of their in interview mode. They're like veryy you know, not uptight, but they're not relaxed. When we get guys relaxed, that's when it's the best. Big out word about vflation when it comes to introducing guests How many varies is too many varies? Yes. What will intros look like in five years if this doesn't stop. It's a problem. I've gotten myself in a hle, I don't know how to out of it Be I also feel bad when we have someone and I don't Hit them with like five or six ferries. I'm like P peopleople were going be like, Ohh, you didn't like that guy I don't really know how to fix it. I think you gott to go back You started with two, I think. Okay. I think it's very special. It does, I will say this, it is intentional People like peopleople like sit there and they're like, Ohh, They really like me We do that for everyone But In the moment I think it disarms people I'm trying to think who we had on that you just hit him with. We welcome on a special guest And didn't say any varies at all. Yeah, I care. Rogers have been might have been Rogers. Yeah Yeah, it's a problem. I gott to figure out how to how to fix that. We might have to might have to have like a black Monday market crash and then get back to one because when Yeah, the various have lost like all meeting. Yeah. I just get lost in them M. All right. From here on forward. I think maybe not Friday shows because we already taped those interviews after this week We're going we're going to keep it to one or two vares unless I really mean it and then we'll go more So you'll know. so everyone will know So that still just means the one v you just don't really like that much. No no, that means it they're a very, very special guest Well that but like a run one or two. So one means you don't really like the much to means you really like Like O'riyan Whitney or Rrcilla, they're going to get like six or seven Mes Memes, whereere are you going? horns down? doing Spider Man back here. Okay, Nice. Okay. It looked like he was going horns down. I was about to find him. Wh are you doing Spiderm Man? But yes, good astute question by that person becausecause it has been in my head every time we start an interview. All right, we'll end with this one. As a lifelong Kicks fan, I need to hear Zack give us a pump up speech. I want Zack to act like he's in the locker room talking to the Kicks. Last night's game was brutal to watch and vibes are low right now. Love you guys right now Gentlemen Let's get together We're going to go commit crime We're getting f Listen, we're gonna go out on this court and we're gonna murder them They'll never see their families again It's been a physical series. U today it reaches the precipice of physicality You go out there? you killem Let's go. Oh nice. memes And Zach, would you like to disavow the Ns fans that did commit crime Yes. I also don't think they're Nick fans, even though people are Yeahot. What do you mean? The guys in the you know what they are first fans not dressed up No fans. No. you're wrong. They'irre Philadelphia fans dressed up as Nicks fans. That's one hundred percent Philadelphia. Well onene guy was wearing a Islander's jersey. I didn't like that either. But could people from Philadelphia afford to travel up to New York? Forcriimbe? Yeah. yeah That was bad disav an expans We did talk about expans that did that. We did talk about this a few weeks ago. It's like things go great and then like last year Yeah they threw garbage at the Pacers fan Now they're just beating the shit out of his first fan. They heck Wendy The likable Nicks fans story storyline is now dead though Yeah, I said that was going to happen. I said New York L listen, that's New Yorkity and Pal they should just never try to be likekable again We know where it's go Yeah. just be yourself That's the beauty of Phy. Philly never tries to be likekable That What Th those those videos are bad. I'm saying that was you saw the videos not comparing you to Phy. I'm not comparing it to Phy. I'm saying Philly never it's the whole they don't like us. We don't care. What Max, was it your first thought when you saw those videos Imagine if Philly did this. Well, Not really because it is a pretty big deal regardless. like people are talking about those videos. Yeah. And I think they're talking about them just as much I think we probably would have led the show with it if it happened in Phillies because you could have You know, stoneb back, Philly fans got under my skin. We' part of the problem. But I think that Th those videos were bad and people realize those videos are bad. Yeah. and do I do think it's probably like, you know, one percent. Yeah. every base has highly bad people. I had this argument. I had this argument for memes. There's so many more New York fans percentage wise is about the same. Yeah But that was bad disisavow Disavow. Dow. I felt so bad for that guy with the blood nose. They took off his jersey and then burned it. Yeah That was bad. Let it be known. I was saying kilma points. We're talking about basketball and then hype up speech. not you, that was a bad read the room. I thought we should clarify after violent speech. me. we're talking, you're talking to the telling the team. We're talking about fans, you know? Yeah, fans. come on, what are we doing? When we clip that, have have a graphic understanding Zach is only addressing the team, not the fans. Yeah. disavow all fans. When Zach says we do that. We're going to commit crime. He's not talking about actual crime. He's talking about crime on the basketball court. And when we're in San Antonio, don't beat us up Oh yeah, that was awesome. Yeah. don't forget dont to Sani. San Antonio, the people are awesome. Yeah. Big old women. What We've been there. D think maybe is there a strip club San Antonio AW S you guys in some place there's some places I could point you in the right direction. Exact. Maybe mayaybe bring some backup glasses. You want to go toneies and face. Next one, glasses That means yeah, yeah, probably no vision on the flight back. I'll get him in front of it. U this place is it's recommending jaguars I've only been to the Jaguars in the Dallas Fort Worth area, or IP I think it closed down If San Antonio' half as good as the Dallas one, you boys earn for a hell of a night There. Good times F feel like San Antio was like blown it by not having a big women only club. That'll be awesome Yeah, it would be awesome All right, good show boys Again, thank you to Tik Pick. incredible memes, Zach, Chay. What is what I love that trio. Thank you Tik Pick. They gave us that That trio gave a Zack and the McDonald's Yeah, That's I'm saying. Like the McDonald's story was when we're like, oh shit This guy is fucking weird and we like them teeth ary. Yeah, yeah, put them on. Yeah, put them in for the numbers Numbers Zach you lead. ninety eight names, aather to. ninety five in Ive got fifteen I'll go fifty. fifty five If I didn't eat coffee that night, we'd know that McDonald's. Yeah, true. Any one, anyyone? Any one twenty seven, twenty seven Happy birthday to Kate U uppton Happy birthday to Pokey Reese, The big two. Happy birthday.. Bill Burr Happy birthday, buddy. Happy birthday on Thursday to Joe Montana and Vincecent Lombardy, mayaybe the best football D of all time Happy birthday also on Thursday to Diana Turasi. Kodak black and Henry Hill from Goodfellows. And also We were on birthday watchatch. Hank's birthday. coming up On Saturday. But you told me it was Wednesday. The thirteenth You told me it Wednesday. I gotuse my Listen, Hank's birthday is not Wednesday. Hank's birthday is the thirteenth, which is Saturday And we're we're waiting for it. So it's not Wednesday? No, Saturday. Saturday. Got it Everything Okayi always Okay Which one? Which one? 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