The Pat McAfee Show Live From TST | Thursday June 5th 2025

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North Carolina. The host of TSD and our. program that starts right now. [Music]. SC is 2 and0 at this TST. We have a team. that is potentially going to win $1. million. We aren't the only squad that's. hoping to win TST. There are an. abundance of teams out here. I just got. a jersey from the West Ham United team. Go Hammers, they say. Dortmund was. buying us beers last night. They charged. Tai 60 bucks yesterday for those same.

beers we had last night. Sheamus is. obviously here. Johnny Damon is here. And the game that is going to be be. played behind us today. Hope Solo's team is here. Solo FC will. be taking on the Speedy Turtles as the. women's TST kicks off today as the men's. have their last game of the first round. today. Now, elimination games begin. tomorrow and our Conca team has punched. our ticket. Tonight though, we play. Rexom. We're trying to get a number one.

seed so that we could take on a bum ass. number three seed from another group as. we can continue to move on in this. electrifying TST. If you've never been, I would recommend you come. If you're. not a soccer fan, this is a style of. soccer I think you would enjoy. And if. you are a soccer fan, there are legends. walking all over the place around here. Nani's here obviously. How about Leesma. who's on our team? Jeff Cameron, Brex, you're talking about legends everywhere. Tony Miola is just strolling around. The.

soccer community is represented in a. beautiful way and. conc very very dominant. Uh, we got a. this guy right here, Leia. Absolute. weapon. Absolute weapon. Filthy. He. played for Cincinnati uh last year. against us and he was doing [ __ ] Not. that great of a team. That was Chad. Johnson's team. Do you remember? Not. that great of a team, but he was a. weapon. So, we reached out and said, "Hey bud, we'd love for you to join our. squad." He's got along with everybody. There's Derek Huffman. He's an Arena. League. There is just an entire squad.

We're tighter than Here's Rugles. He is. a problem. Yeah, Rugles is a problem. The porch run on the stammer goal back. porch. Chad Porch, absolutely. incredible. He tried to give me a goal. yesterday. I put it into the woods. 100%. on me. Not the worst miss. There's Porch. right there. Winning the game. Foss with. the pass to me. Pass to Richie Costanzo. Kid I grew up playing soccer with as a. high schooler. Back to me. Over to Foss. Ah, good save. Good save. Great save. Great save. Soon as I put that ball down. the line right there, I think to myself,

"Oh no, now I got to run," which I did. Back to Foss. [Music]. Mike Foss, senior vice president, ESPN, general manager of this concine, a man. who's put the entire squad together, he. and I had an opportunity to create some. magic with Richie Castanzo. It was not. to be had. I would then blast a ball. over the net so far, just about 25. seconds later, and in about a minute and. 15, I got to the point of exhaustion. where I almost vomited out there and was.

part of three or four. Here's Porch. Maybe the best player in the whole. tournament, dude. Gone. Exit stadium. Great boot though. Place would have won. bananas. Uh, it has been fun down here. But it's not just Kafa and TST that has. been electrifying. The NHL Stanley Cup. finals started last night. With that. being said, we have Wayne Gretzky. joining us in about 12 minutes or so on. FaceTime. He is not in North Carolina. He was in Edmonton last night. The. greatest hockey player of all time. the. great one joins us last night after the.

second period in the second. intermission. He actually called exactly. what Conor McDavid needed to do. He. said, "This Florida Panthers defense is. playing a Rick Tocket style. Connor. needs to get the puck on his stick. He. needs to go behind the net and he needs. to find somebody." Third period, same. exact thing happens. Then they go to. overtime. Mick Jesus does his thing. Dry. Sidle knocks home a winner. And the. Oilers are up 1. We will go through all. these highlights. We will chitchat about. this game. And whenever you talk about. the Stanley Cup finals, you think of. electricity last night, game one, lived.

up to the hope. Almost had a double. overtime Stanley Cup final game one in a. rematch between two teams that are. clearly the best in the NHL. We'll see. what Wayne Gretzky has to say. And then. tonight, the NBA finals start in. Oklahoma City with the Thunder being a 9. and a half point favorite over the. great gritty. tough Indiana Pacer team. Now, this. graphic is filthy. Uh, Debo was in his.

bag, I believe, is what people would. say. Whenever you talk about not. utilizing the luxury cap, it's like the. first time two teams in a final since. 2004 having spent over what the salary. cap is, haven't bought their team. These. are two teams that have been built in. similar fashion. Second time in NBA. Finals history that both teams had 25 or. fewer wins three years ago. These teams. have built from the bottom, come all the. way up to the top. They play together. and it should be electrifying just like.

the NHL finals. We're lucky to be. talking about all of that. We have. Johnny Damon on the show today. Obviously, his team, Drip FC, had a big. win yesterday and last night. He texted. me and told me the fans have got on his. side. He said they're booing the refs, cheering for his team. I can't wait to. chitchat with baseball legend Johnny. Damon, especially with the MLB. viewership up as much as it is. We'll. also be joined by Chris Paul. Chris. Paul, obviously local dog from down here. in North Carolina. Wake Forest legend, which is right down the street, partial.

owner of TST. We'll ask him about the. NBA Finals. And then we have Clint. Dempsey, one of the greatest soccer. players in the history of the United. States, joining us in the second hour as. well. He's launching a new podcast. Okay. Don't want Don't want to give too. much away. Okay. Good tease. Good tease. One half of the hammer. Cowboys AP. Tone. is here. tone as you look at last night. Did we expect an overtime game? Did we. expect that many goals? And when we're. looking ahead to this evening, what is. the bet our pocketbooks need to be.

yearning for as Solo FC and the Speedy. Turtles start right behind us? Yeah, when you look at at last night at the. line and then as far as the book is. concerned, it was minus 120 uh for the. Oilers, which is basically, if you don't. know, betting is a coin flip for the. game. So, you know, as far as the game. goes, going to overtime, not a huge. surprise. I think the the expectation. for this series was to be a super close. series as far as the goals were were. scored 3-3 at the end of the OT. I. believe the overunder was 6 and a half. So it was right on point there. So as. far as the bookmakers go, it went.

exactly how they thought they was. And. then as tonight NBA Finals, 9 and a half. for the Thunder and it's is an absolute. huge spread as far as the NBA finals is. concerned. Thunder are minus 700 to win. the series. But let's not forget Pacers. They go into Cleveland game one of of. this year not down 9 and a half. It was. same for the series - 700 against the. Cavs and they won game one obviously won. game two won the series. So the Pacers. are not you know they're not ashamed to. be a minus 9 and a half they are not. afraid to win down 9 and a half. No they.

were born being a 9 and 1/2 point. underdog this year especially with how. they've been talked about or lack of. conversation about that. I mean anytime. a poll comes out and says hey you're. superstar most overrated guy entirely. tough. Anytime you're not put on. national television, even though it's. the playoffs, they had them on True TV. Yep. They played Iroot over the Pacers. in the Cleveland Cavaliers in the. playoffs this year. That was the number. one seed in the Eastern Conference. Cleveland Cavaliers had to feel. disrespected. The Indiana Pacers are. just sitting there going, "What about. us? What about us? What about them?

They've become inevitable." Let me give. you some stats here. This is from Hembo. Shout out to Hembo. No team has ever. shot 55% from two and 40% from three in. a single postseason entering the finals. The Pacers are at 56% from two, 40% from. three. Okay. As an offensive juggernaut, Tyrese Hallebertton has scored 11 points. in 135 career half court matchups with. Lou Dort as his primary defender. That's. not good. No. Lose a player. The Dorcher.

Chamber is what they call Lou Dort. And. uh Q Rich I believe said he'll be. fascinated to see who Dejino puts Lou. Dord on. Will you go on Pascal or will. he go on Tyrese? Because basically. whoever he decides to take out of the. game, this is Revas Island. This is see. you later. You're done for the series. In the last 40 years, Tyrese. Hallebertton is the only player to do. both in a single postseason. 150. assists, five times more assists than. turnovers. He has 156 assists, 31. turnovers. Wow. Nobody's ever done it. We'll talk to Chris Paul about that here.

in a matter of moments. Turnovers this. postseason, the Thunder have 188. Their. opponents have. 288. That minus 100 margin is already 21. more than any team ever in the history. of a postseason. So, you're talking. about a dominant defense in this. Oklahoma City Thunder. But they also. take over on the offensive side. It. should be a great game. Speaking of. great games, solo FC and the Speedy. Turtles are getting after it behind us. Beautiful setup here. the toxic tables. here at Boston Connor at Ty Schmidt. Ty,

I see the Tyrese Hallebertton shirt on. Is that a homage to what's going to come. tonight or just public support? Uh, I. think a Well, see, I don't know if. they're going to I don't know if. Oklahoma City is going to choke. Uh, but. you could say uh quite a bit of public. support. You mentioned it. I mean, they. did this with the Knicks and Pacers. series. Everyone picking the Knicks, hey, there's no way the Pacers can win. They did it with the Cavs series. And. the Pacers just keep winning. And then. behold, we get to the finals and it's. the same thing. Hey, why are we even. playing? You know, Oklahoma City is. going to beat the hell out of these.

guys. They have no chance. All their. players need to play perfectly, have the. game of their lives. So, the Pacers are. battle tested. They're ready to go. They. understand. They've been through, you. know, this song and dance the last. several rounds. So, yeah, I'm very. excited for tonight coming off an. unbelievable Stanley Cup finals game. last night. Exactly. We're we're we're. in it now, boys. PST happening. Exactly. We got Hope Solo in between the pipes. behind us right now. Sports are. happening in a big way. Let's go to. college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, RDER Cup winner,

all-time leading tackler for the Green. Bay Packers, father of 10, AJ Hawk. AJ, great to see you, AJ. As the people of. North Carolina give you a resounding uh. applause of approval, obviously. What. have been your thoughts on what sports. are doing right now tonight? Do you. think it's going to be a nine and a half. point spread game? Last night, did you. expect overtime? TST, did you expect it. to be this electrifying? Where's AJ. Hawk's brain on sport? Well, I'm at TST. So, first off, TST, the concer boys are. playing well. I don't see how anyone. scores on. You guys are still have not.

given up a goal yet this game. The. defense is off the charts. The goalies. are standing on their heads. But hockey. last night, are you kidding me? From the. jump, we had goals and then we had. answers. So, I me being somewhat of a. casual hockey fan, I wasn't I loved it. I was locked in all three quarters and. overtime last night. Three periods. Three periods. Yeah, three quarters. It. was actually four quarters. It was four. Yeah. Joining us now is a man who played. four quarters of hockey alive. Yes. A. guy, ninetime MVP. I want to make sure I. get these all right. Fourtime Stinley.

Cup champion. A man who at the time of. his retirement held 61 NHL records. Now. he's on TV and he's not a hater. He's. not jaded with the new group. Loves the. sport. Loves the players. Loves the. league. Ladies and gentlemen, the great. one, Wayne Gretzky. How's everyone doing? Wayne, it is an. honor to have you on the show. Now, the. people of North Carolina, I'm so happy. to be on it today and uh what a great.

sports day. You guys got it right. Okay, Wayne, I'm happy to hear. I just want to. let you know though that we are very. thankful that you made time out of your. life to join us. We're massive hockey. fans and the fact that you're taking. time out of your life to chitchat with. us, we are grateful. Let's get to last. night's game. you know, after the second. period, you got on air and uh we assume. this has happened on plenty of occasions. this year and last year when you're on. television, but you say, "Hey, McDavid. needs to get the puck on his stick, needs to go around the net, then he. needs to find somebody." This Rick talk. defense is obviously been a little bit.

kg that's then next period he does that. Do you think that whenever you see. McDavid play, you see a lot of yourself? Do you think whenever you watch McDavid. play, do you think like, man, this guy. has the capability to take it over? What. are your thoughts with Conor McDavid. being the guy that everybody talks about. could be the next great one, Wayne? Yeah, I I think we're past could be. Uh. there's no question he's the best player. in hockey. He's an unselfish young man. He loves playing in Edmonton. He loves. being the captain of the Oilers. He.

wants desperately to win a Stanley Cup. That's all he wants. That's what he. cares about the most right now. and good. good on him. He's just been great for. our game. He's been great for the city. of Edmonton. And you know what a year. He scored the winning goal at the Four. Nations Cup in overtime. He sets up the. goal last night by Dry Cidle. And let me. tell you, I know it's a little bit. difficult to see on TV, but live it was. a physical hockey game. You had to be a. man to play in that game last night.

Both teams played hearts out. Tchuk's. playing a little bit injured. Reinhardt's playing a little bit. injured, but they still put everything. on the line. And listen, it's hard to. knock off the Stanley Cup champions. It's one game. It's four to seven. I'm. sure they're going to bounce back, but. Edmonton has to keep homecourt. advantage. That's a must for the. Edmonton Oilers to win the Stanley Cup. Obviously, you played nine years, I. think, eight years for the Edmonton. Oilers at the beginning. 10, sorry. Jeez. I had one I had one year in the.

WHA where I started in. Indianapolis and we were drawing 3,000. people a game so he sold me. Hey, we're thankful that you started. your hockey career in Indianapolis, Indiana. We should put that on a statue. Probably a statue of you there. But. Edmonton, all anybody talks about is how. great the fans are, how great the barn. is up there. But obviously, no Canadian. franchise has won the Stanley Cup in. forever. Is this the team to do it? And. if so, why do you think that is the. case? Well, this is the team to do it. One, I don't think Florida's played a.

team that's as physical as Edmonton. The. speed of Edmonton matches Carolina, but. Edmonton's a little more physical. And. when you get to three championship. series in a row, you're physically beat. up. And right now, I hope Florida can. rebound, but they've put their guts on. the line the last three years, and it's. hard to get to the Stanley Cup finals, and they play hard and they're led by. guys like Tachuk and Barov and. Reinhardt. I expect them to bounce back.

But listen, Edmonton feels it. The city, that's all anybody talks about. I was. beside the arena yesterday and at 12:00. noon, a band started playing. I thought. I was in on Columbus Street in Manhattan. for Labor Day parade or something. It's. crazy. I love that. But the people love. it. I love the shots outside the arenas. Like that feels like that happens in. hockey more than any other sport and it. is the entire city shows up there. Let's. talk about that Florida team uh before. the boys have some questions for the. great one. You mentioned all the leaders.

of that team and obviously they make the. trade for Marie and I know back in the. day uh there used to be goons on teams. Okay. There used to be goons. There's. always been some, you know, little Yeah. little protectors, but there's always. been a little uh greasy things that have. happened in hockey. Then goons come in. there. How do you feel about the Florida. Panthers culture being like, "Hey, we're. going to hit you. There's going to be. some shit." And you just know that. that's happening. Do you think that is. the right style to Obviously it is, but. do you think that is sustainable? And do. you think more teams are going to try to.

be like the Florida Panthers? Absolutely. We're copycat leagues, right? Football, basketball, baseball, hockey. Yeah, absolutely. And I will. tell you this, last year, Florida was a. little bit more physical in that series. than Edmonton. Edmonton went out this. year. They got a little bit bigger. They're more physical than they were. last year. And they got the key. ingredient. They got number 97. He can. be the difference maker. But listen, in. the old days, we had those protectors, right? Now, the TV is the protection for.

the players. You used to be able to get. guys behind the camera or behind the. scenes and nobody would see it. Now. there's so many camera angles. The. league protects the players now and. that's how it's done. I like it too. And. I like the fact that uh Bentman came out. and was like, "We just don't want this. stage fighting. We're okay with. fighting. We're not trying to get rid of. what hockey is. We just don't want the. stage fighting." So, I think the game's. evolving and obviously numbers are up. Last year, the NHL viewership was bigger. than it's ever been. I assume it's only. going to continue because the superstars. are playing so well. AJ Hawk has a.

question for you. Wayne. Yeah. Wayne, did you uh we see all these analytics. and different things that teams have to. where they can give you these shot. charts on how goalies can can whatever I. guess they do well, whatever they stop, whatever they can't. When you play, did. you have a book on goalies? Did you have. an idea going in on on what this guy was. going to do and how you were going to. beat him? Yeah, I think everyone has. that sort of feeling and belief that the. more you study and the more you prepare, the better off you're going to be. But. let me tell you this, the game is so. fast. You can't tell me that guy knew.

exactly where he's shooting the puck cuz. I couldn't shoot it exactly where I. wanted to cuz the game's so fast. And. listen, I you know, I heard you guys. talking at the beginning of the show, the game is better today. These players, these athletes, they're better athletes. They're bigger. The equipment's better. Um the ice that they play on is better. So, our game is just getting better each. and every year. And you look at guys. like Bararkov and McDavid and Dry or. Reinard. These guys are tremendous. athletes. They're superstars. I mean,

they're great people. They sell the. game. They worry about our sport. They. want to excel. And listen, I live in. Florida. What the Panthers have done, Vinnie Viola, uh, Bill, their. organization, Paul Maurice, what they've. done for hockey in Florida has just been. truly amazing. And on top of that, you. look at Tampa Bay with John Cooper and. his group winning Stanley Cups. Hockey. is growing leaps and browns in Florida. And that's what that was our problem. over the last 50 years. We were good in.

pockets, but now we're growing in Texas, California, Nevada, Florida. And our. game is expanding. And kids are going to. games saying, "You know what? I want to. try to play this game. It looks like. it's fun." And we're getting better. athletes every year that are. participating in playing hockey. Don't. you think too the fact that you guys are. still like an old school style league. like we just talked about the fighting. there very rarely 2025 unless it's UFC. boxing or slapfest is anybody like yeah. you should go fight somebody but in. hockey it's like a part of the sport.

it's like a selfgovernment sport I. appreciate that and I'll tell you one of. the reasons why that's the case we're. the one sport that carries around a. lethal weapon the hockey stick and the. last thing you want to do is hit. somebody with your stick so The natural. thing is to drop your stick and drop. your gloves, right? And so if we didn't. have fighting, there'd be a lot more. stick work. And I'm glad they're Listen, I always say to people when they say to. me, "Is fighting real in hockey?" I. said, "Well, if it wasn't, I would have. been in more fights. Trust me, it's. real." And these guys are tough and.

they're hard-nosed and listen, uh, they. they just want to win championships. And. take you can't take silly penalties, though. You know, you got to be smart. when you do it. And consequently, if. you're not, you know, you're going to. penalize your hockey team. Hockey is. such a humble culture. You know, very. rarely do you hear any players speak. out. Very rarely do you get to hear any. interviews or personality. I think. that's kind of growing now with the way. you guys have been able to open folks. up. You, Biz, the TNT crew, obviously. Spit and Chicklets is doing a great job.

I think we're learning more about the. players, but all the players are team. first guys, tough guys, and the sport is. so hard. I think everybody has to. respect the work ethic. I think it's. hockeyy's only on the precipice of a. massive like because I think there's a. lot of football fans that be like we. like the way these guys operate. They. just got to get exposed to the sport. You know what I mean, Wayne? Yeah. When. I first went to LA, I said the more. people that we can have come and see the. sport and realize the art of our sport. It's physical. It's fast. You got to.

skate. You got to be unselfish. You got. to play hard. You got to take a hit. Give a hit. And the more people we can. get to view our sport, the faster and. bigger it's going to grow. And that's. what the league has done. And so when I. came in, I was so lucky. We had Brett. Hall in St. Louis and Eiserman in. Detroit, Mario Lemieux in Pittsburgh, Mark Messi in New York. Not only were. they elite players and Hall of Famers, they knew what it took to sell the. sport. They were great with the media, they were great with charities, great. with kids, and they're unreal hockey.

players. So we've been lucky. We've been. blessed that the people in our sport. from Gordy How and Bobby or and Bobby. Clark all the way down to now Crosby and. Ovetkin, just two of the classiest. sports athletes there are in the history. of any sport. And so we're lucky we got. good culture in our game. Yeah, let's. talk about that culture a little bit. more. And you just mentioned all the. heroes of the past and obviously the. future and who's going to carry it. You've never sounded jaded ever about. the next generation. You've never been a. goat in everybody's eyes that has kind. of weaponized that against the younger.

generation. Why is that? Is that just. how hockey is? Like you shown up for. Ovetkin. I think uh you said something. about your dad told you, "Hey, when. somebody breaks your record, you should. be the first person at this." You were. You went to two games. You've never said. anything bad about anybody. Sydney. Crosby comes in, they're saying, "Hey, this could be the next Wayne Gretzky.". You never took that as a shot. Seemingly. always supported it. Now with Conor. McDavid, the same thing. Why is that? And why do you think it's so hard for. some goats to kind of have a similar. mindset? I don't know. I can't speak for.

other guys, but I'm really being honest. I think our athletes today are better in. every sport. There's no question. Now, do I think Michael Jordan was the. greatest basketball player ever lived? That's my opinion. Um I'm not a. basketball guru, but that's just my. opinion, right? Um then you take Tiger. Woods, you know, probably the best. athlete we've ever seen in golf. So, it's progression, right? And listen, these guys today, knowledge is such a. great thing. Remember those old. commercials about I lost my knowledge. And we have so much more knowledge today.

just from physical fitness, nutrition, practice, coaching, the equipment, the. equipment they wear today, the skates. that they wear today. When we wore. skates, they were leather. And if they. got wet, they were 5 to 10 lbs heavier. It was just, it's not the same game. It's it's a better game today. Simple as. that. And so I'm happy for them. Everything I have in my life is because. of the NHL and hockey. Why would I sit. down and want to be critical of the game. that made my life? I got to travel the.

world, meet some great people. It's the. greatest sport in the world to me and I. love it. You're the greatest. You are. the greatest. You guys had actual cement. in your boots whenever those leather. Yeah. You had No, no, no, no. We would. play on a Sunday night in Chicago. 6:00. a.m. we'd be at the airport for a flight. to Detroit. Play that night in Detroit, but our equipment would be still be wet. because the trainers couldn't really. hang it. So, you put your skates on at. 7:00 at night and they're about 10 lbs.

heavier. That's the way it was though. Hey, you guys also if I and I don't know. you uh I don't think I've heard any. stories about you, but if I know the. hockey culture, well, in between that. Chicago and Detroit game, we also have. to hammer some vodkas and some some. beers as well for team chemistry. Feels. like that is a big thing in hockey. You. guys are very much a hang out together. group. Yeah, we're always together. I. mean, especially when when you're. playing, you know, it's 20 guys and you. go to dinner together, the teams that do.

that are more successful. the teams that. four guys go one place and three guys go. another place. They're not a team. It's. you look at the Edmonton guys, they're. always together. You look at the Florida. group, they're together. Tampa Bay, those teams are year after year are. successful. There's no secret to why it. is. They they'll go through a wall for. each other and you got to have that in. our sport. Yeah, I agree. I think teams. come together better around a keg than. they do Kale. Uh but who knows if the. next generation will continue that on.

Got to have team chemistry. It's the. biggest deal. Boston Bruins fan, uh, who. has quit on them. I want to let you know. that. Connor has a question for you. That's not true. Congratulations to. Marco Stern, new head coach for the. Boston Bruins. And I mean, great job. He's going to do a great job. Wo already. mentioned Bobby as one of the building. blocks of the NHL, so he gets it. Uh, Weno, there's a clip and you talked. about, you know, kind of the growing the. growth of the game and obviously they. did the 247 series on HBO before. They. followed a bunch of guys last year with. Amazon, I believe. I think if uh kind of.

the more layman fan were to be able to. see hockey players like yourself go up. against other superstars, it might help. We have a clip of you just dusting. I. believe Sugar Ray Leonard uh Ple might. might have been out there in a track. meet and I I think most people aren't. really sure that hockey players are. athletes and then they see something. like this and say good get off there. Wayne. Holy [ __ ] Wayne Gy might beat. Usain Bolt in 100 meter. Um, do you. think how did this first of all happen.

and do you think most uh hockey players. are fantastic athletes but people don't. really think about that and they just. think about you know them playing hockey. and everything. Sydney Crosby threw a. football for a million dollars at big. night at uh in back in April for Pat and. I feel like most people were blown away. that a hockey player could even get. their hands around a football. Well, let. me say this. First of all, it was a a. charity event for Bujornborg in 1982 and. he asked me to go and of course I was a.

huge Bujornborg fan and I said, "Of. course." Now, there were six. events. The other five I came last, let. me tell. you. And I remember I said to my dad, he. was there with me. I said, "I got to do. well in the running." Because I grew up. a runner. I said, "I got to at least. show that I'm somewhat of an athlete.". So, I said, "Okay." And then I looked. down and I saw Sugar Leonard and Ple and. I'm like, "Oh my god, I'm in the wrong. event here." And I think I jumped before. even that gun went off. I was going no. matter what. But it was a wonderful.

event. But let me tell you, most hockey. players, North American, I can't speak. for the Europeans or the Russians. But. in North America, a lot of our kids that. grow up playing box lacrosse, soccer, baseball, uh, and then they make hockey. their priority at the age of 14, 15, 16. So, there is a lot of great athletes who. play in the National Hockey League. Trust me, a lot of them. I see guys that. go to batting practice and guys are. hitting home runs, whether it's in. Detroit or Anaheim. It's pretty.

remarkable. And of course, we got so. many guys that are good golfers. Everybody, every time I play golf, and. my son-in-law is one of the greatest. players ever in two major winner, and. people go, "What's wrong with you? How. come you're not a good golfer?" Do you. suck at golf playing? No way. Oh, I'm. not very good. So, I would tell you this. compared to Dustin. Hold on, though. Compared to Dustin or like compared to. compared to you. Compared to you, I'm. bad. No, I'm ass. Wayne, I am a bad. golfer, brother. I I always tell people,

they go, "What hand did you shoot in. hockey?" I said, "Life-handed and play. golf right-handed. How come you play. right-handed?" I said, "Well, at 16, I. went to buy a set of golf clubs." My dad. said, "You know, you should learn how to. golf. The hockey players have charity. events, and you don't want to embarrass. yourself." So, I went to buy a set of. clubs and the guy said, "We only sell. right-handed clubs." They didn't sell. left-handed clubs in those days in. Canada. Oh my gosh. Thankfully. Yeah. So, I So, somebody said, "Well, why. don't you switch?" And I said, "Well, I. got all these free clubs. I'm not. switching over to left-handed.

I'm staying the way I am." So, no, no, but it all changed when Phil Mickelson. came along and Mike Weir, I don't know. if you saw this, but Mike Weir when he. won the Masters, he had a handwritten. letter from Jack Nicholas that he wrote. to Jack Nicholas and said, "I'm a. left-handed kid. I play left-handed. Should I stay left-handed or switch to. right?" And Jack Nicholas wrote him back. handwritten, "Young man, you stay. left-handed if that's what you're. comfortable with." And he became the. first Canadian to win a major, which was.

remarkable. Okay. So, let's talk about. that. You You still golf righty? Yeah. I'm And I'm still bad. Wayne, I think I. know the problem. I I I I think you're. supposed to be looking this way. I think. I think you're supposed to be looking. this way, brother. Not even a putt. Not. even putting feels like that is I tried. putting left-handed for two years cuz. Mike said to me, "Wayne, try putting. left-handed." Well, I got worse every. day, so I said, "Ah, I'm going back. right-handed." Golf is so hard, dude. Uh, oh my god, you got to practice like.

any other sport. You got to practice. I. don't practice. How do you expect to be. good? People go, "Do you Are you. competitive golf?" Michael Jordan's so. competitive. I said, "Competitive? I I. know I'm no good. So, why worry about. it? If I hit a bad shot, hit a bad. shot." Yeah. And then I'll pick it up. Uh, I'm I'm going golfing with Darren. Pang today here in Edmonton, so it'll be. fun. Okay. You're going to go I think. you're going to go scratch today, Wayne. Real low. Yeah, I think you're going to. go real low. Panganger is about 5'6 and. 125 lbs and he shoots 72 every day. He's.

doing a lot of golfing though. Just like. we don't get to practice enough, Wayne. We're working. Yeah. We don't have time. just to be on the golf. You should play. lefty today. I'm going to try a few shots left-handed. today. If we get that on camera, we'd. appreciate it cuz everything I know. about sports. I'll get Biz to tape it. and send it to you guys. Perfect. Perfect. That feels because it feels. like you should be a left uh Wayne. I. don't even I don't want to say anything. disparaging about you. I'm I'm glad. This is my problem. I'm reaching out for. you to you for golf tips. Bingo. Bingo.

If I was Wayne Gretzky, though. I don't. have to. I mean, I'm Look, I'm [ __ ]. doing Aren't you doing this? Is this. like your thing? This is literally Let. me I played Pebble for five years with. Jake Owen, myself, Jordan Spe, and. Dustin. I had the greatest group. They. Jordan and Dustin and Jake were so. wonderful to me. But they draw the. biggest crowd, those two guys. There's. 25,000 people on every hole and I'm. shaking like a leaf and they go, "You. think they're nervous playing hockey?" I. said, "I could play hockey in front of a.

million people. I wouldn't even know. they were there." But to play golf, you. know how it is when you go to the first. team and everybody's in the clubhouse. watching you and you're like, "Oh, I. don't want to hit a bad shot." Well, try. to have 25,000 people down the fairways. and you're hitting the ball. I They're. way I'm telling you, Wayne, you go left. me. I think I have a record for the most. people hit and playing in prom. tournaments. I played with President. Ford one time in 1980. I was a kid, Palm. Desert, and I was so nervous standing on.

the tea, right? First shot I hit, I. sliced it into these trees and all of a. sudden we heard a thud and I go, "What? What's that?" And president said, "That's one of my secret service guys. Usually I hit them." Ah, that is. amazing. I love to hear that you love. the game of golf and suck at it because. I do too. So, if Wayne Gretzky sticks at. it, that makes me feel a lot better. about myself. My my wife Janet is a. great athlete. She she's a better golfer. than I am and she's more committed to it.

than I play a lot. And uh yeah, she's. she loves it and she trust me, she's a. better if if you're playing partners, you would take her, not me. Trust me. No, we're going to have some beers with. Wayne Gretzky. Yeah, we're not trying to. win. I stink at golf. You got to. remember that. You just talked about how. people say, "Hey, are you competitive at. golf?" Michael Jordan's competitive at. golf. You rattled off a couple others. earlier. Tiger Woods, I assume we could. put Phelps into that conversation in the. sports world. Tom Brady, Pton Manning, I. don't know who you put it. Do you guys. have a group text? Cuz you guys were.

like rare. No, but Michael and I played. in this charity event for TNT last year, and we were both so nervous on the first. hole. You'd think we'd never been in any. kind of a sporting event ever before. We're so nervous. So, what do you guys. like? Why do you think have you ever. done any um this could be a deep. question, Wayneo, coming straight off of. you sucking at golf combo, do you have. you looked back and wondered why you. were so much better than everybody else? Cuz I I wasn't I wasn't better than.

everyone else, but I'll tell you what, I. did my preparation and I had respect for. every player I played with and I had. respect for every player I played. against. And I have nothing but good. good thoughts. You know, the guys I. played with, guys like Mark Messier and. Paul Coffee and Luke Robbitai, uh Brad. Hall, incredible people. And then I. played against guys like Brian Troche. and Dennis Potban who played physically. hard and they were hard to play against. But when it's all said and done, we're. all here for the same reason. We love.

the game and that's what it's all about, right? And you're here to try to win. championships and practice is. everything. And I if I tell parents, I. get people come up to me and they'll. say, "Will you tell my son how many. hours a day you used to practice at 9:00. and 10, 11?" And I would say, "Listen, I. didn't practice. That's what I loved. doing. I'd skate for eight hours cuz I. loved it." Bobby or same thing. Gordy. House, same thing. We didn't think we. were practicing. If you think that at. the age of 10, you're going to have a.

long, miserable run of it, right? So, I. always say, listen, just go enjoy the. sport. And the more you enjoy it, the. more you want to get get want to get. better and the more you're going to want. to love it. And that's the way way I. look at it. Yeah. Because if you're. considering it practice, it's almost. like it's work. And if you're viewing it. as work already as a child as opposed to. just something you want to spend your. time doing, you're probably not going to. sign up for it for the long haul that. you're going to need. Yeah. Mark Messi. had one of the great quotes years ago. Somebody asked him, "Is there anything. about hockey that you don't like?" And.

he thought about it for a second. He. goes, "There's not one thing I don't. like about it. I love being with the. guys. I love being on the bus with the. guys. I loved hanging out with the guys. I loved going to hard practices. I love. going to great practices. I loved it. when we lost had a tough loss and we're. all together. There wasn't one thing. that we didn't love about it, right? And. that's makes it special. Yeah. That's. what it's about. That is what it's. about. That's what it's about. My wife. My wife always says I say sorry wrong. So. Ty has a question for you. Great one.

Yeah. Wayne, speaking of uh you know, golf and everything like that, there's. been a lot of discussion lately, mostly. from you know, Biz, he kind of started. about how a lot of these teams who are. in uh states with no state income tax. are going to have a massive advantage. moving forward because not only are a. lot of them warm weather and and guys. can go there and play golf and kind of. enjoy themselves, but you're obviously. not forfeiting a bunch of that money. like, you know, some of the places in. Canada or California or New York or. wherever the case may.

Do you think a lot of those teams that. are in those situations are going to be. inherently better or have an advantage. moving forward over the next couple. years? Well, let me say two things. Um, obviously Florida and Tampa Bay is a. unique situation, Dallas, Vegas. Um, from a financial point of view, if. that's what a player's thinking about, obviously. But if a player's thinking, you know what, I I I want to play in a. hockey culture. Like playing and living. in the city of Edmonton, I loved it for.

10 years I was here and the culture and. and the mindset of the people. So, it's. a different feeling when you leave the. arena in Florida after a game or leave. the arena in Tampa Bay, but you leave. the arena in Edmonton, you know, you've. been in a hockey game and you know. there's 1.5 million people who live here. and 1.3 million have watched that game. and the other 200,000 the only reason. they didn't is cuz they were working. So, you know, is what you want to do as. a player, how you how you want to. approach this. Look, do I want to go to. where everything is hockey or do I want.

to go to a place where financially it. might be a little bit better for me? Now, the good news is Tampa Bay and. Florida are great organizations and they. have a chance to win every year. So, that's a business decision that a player. has to make. Uh Wayneo, is Florida going. to be the state of hockey forever? Oh, absolutely. It's growing leaps and. bounds. Uh, I'm so proud of the people. uh who done such a great job. The Tampa. Bay organization, Florida, more and more. kids are playing. I see it. I live.

there, so I see it. And it's just going. to grow leaps and bounds. I think it's. going to get bigger every single year. And the thing is now we're attracting. great American athletes into our sport. where the guys who used to say, "I'm a. baseball player or a football player." A. lot of those great athletes at 10, 11, 12 now are going, you know, I I really. enjoy playing hockey. This is great. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm going to be a lefty. on the ice and then I'm going to golf. righty. Yeah. Tomorrow. Yeah. You might. left into clubs now. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Hey, thank you so much for. the time and thank you for your show and.

thank you guys so much and keep going. I. love the fact you guys promote hockey. Like I said, everything I have in my. life is because of hockey. So, congratulations to you all and have a. great day. Well, thank you so much for. that. For being kind, being a. professional, being the great one, but. also thank you for doing television as. the GOAT. I think there's a chance that. because you did that, now Michael. Jordan's getting into TV. It's good to. hear that. It's good to hear. It's good. to hear from the goats. Legit. I don't. know. I don't know if you saw it last. night, but there guys were calling me. goat. And right now, we're calling Biz.

Gout cuz he's got gout. You're the man, ladies and gentlemen. Wayne meat. Wayne. That's what it's about. That is what. it's about. And I'm sorry to everybody else that. does the hockey. If one panel has Wayne. Gretzky on it, they're probably going to. have a little bit of a head start. That's just like when Nick Sabin was at. the College Game Day, it's like sorry to. anybody else doing the whole sorry doing. anything else. It's like Nick Sabin's.

words are going to matter. And if you're. good at it and if you're like humble and. you enjoy the process of doing. television and talk about your sport, you can give back to your sport in such. a big way, which I think is what Wayne. has done over the last two years being. on TV. Having Wayne Gretzky promote the. game is great for the game. You know, some of these goats stay away for. whatever reason. They're jaded and I. talked to him about hating the younger. generation or not liking the current. game or maybe people are getting. compared to them so they get a little. self-conscious on what they're about. It's like he doesn't seem to care at all. and everybody has the same opinion about.

him. It's good for hockey he's doing TV. It's unbelievable. Hockey. You couldn't. have a better ambassador for the game. I. mean, the the great one, the greatest of. all time. And the fact that he says the. game is better now than it was when I. played and the athletes are better. like. that. What a hopefully Michael Jordan. becomes the Wayne Gretzky of basketball. broadcasting thing where all of a sudden. here he gives us that perspective. I. believe Solo FC is up two zip behind us. Hope Solo played the first half in goal. She uh pitched a shut out. Her team can. run. Oh yeah, I was watching. Yeah, her.

team can move. Yeah, Solo FC is a good. squad. Austin Rise is here. I think they. have a lot of really good players. Uh. the US women's national team has a team. They have Carly Lloyd on their team. They won last year. Okay. Yeah, they are. very good. So, I think there's a lot of. good quality SA coming out of here. A. carry. There are some teams that are. assoubly. some teams that are ass, but that's. going to happen. Played two of them so. far. Whoa, whoa, whoa. We made him look. that way. We made him look that way. That's what I mean. Joining us now is a. man who put a team together that is not. as No, no, they are great just like this.

man was. I want to rattle off all of his. twotime World Series champion. First on. this particular sheet says Boston Red. Sox legend. True. But there are also. people who say he is a New York Yankees. legend and also a a Kansas City Royals. legend and also a an Oakland A's legend. and also a Detroit Tigers legend and. also. a well that too. Ladies and gentlemen, Johnny D. Johnny,

how are you guys? Good. How are you? Fantastic to be here. How you doing. Johnny? Fantastic. Great seeing you, my. man, brother. Thank you for making this. happen. Oh, thank you for. legend. You know that. Yeah. Well, he. is. He is legend. Oh, drip out of sea. Yes, sir. Hey, I appreciate you, dude. Not yet. Thank you, man. Sorry, Johnny. Well, World Series with Yankees. I know. Hey, so they're You got to You got to. put the mic down. It's on the left side. Oh, I got it. Yeah. There you go. I.

don't do this much here. Let me put Let. me put this behind you. This make There. you go. So, professional. All right. You. are a pro. No, I'm not not like you. Did. you hear the little bickering that. happened here? Because Boston Connor, obviously big Red Sox fan, calls you a. Boston legend. Yeah. Uh Ty over there, massive New York Yankees fan, says New. York Yankees legend, just won a World. Series with uh the New York Yankees. When you look back at your career, the. fact that you're beloved on both sides. of the biggest rivalry in the sport, what do you think that means or says.

about the sport and you as a player? Well, the great thing is I've been loved. and hated everywhere. So, uh, I went. about my business the right way. Uh, played the game. Um, hustle. That's the. only thing you can really control in. baseball is hustle. Like your best win. can turn into a out. Your bats win can. turn into a basis clearing um double. So, it's uh you have to take the ups. with the downs. And I always did. I was. always a fan favorite because I learned.

from Cal Ripken. He signed an autograph. for me when I was 10 years old at. Tinkerfield. So, I understood the uh the. fan aspect of it. So, uh I continue it. to this day. A bunch of these people. love me out here. I'm part of Drip FC. And uh my team is showing up. They're. balling out. And we had a great game. last night. You know, unfortunately, things didn't go our way. So, Oh, you. lost. Oh, no. All right. What' you do? No, we didn't lose. We won. We won. Our.

team balled out. Check out the uh. replay. What do you guys now? What do. you guys now? One and one. We have the. replay. Actually, we have the replay. here. I've not This is my first time. seeing it. Drip FC. That's the replay. from the first game. And they tore this. down last yesterday. Yeah. We. appreciated them coming over here last. night. We do not have the replay of last. night. What happened last? You guys got. screwed. I want you to check it out. Please. You sent me a text that said You. sent me a positive text. So, I thought. you guys won. Oh, no. No. We won. personally. Our team, we're a great team.

and we're still in it. We're going to. we're going to keep on rocking. We're. going to keep on bringing our a game. Little controversy maybe with the drip. game last night. Take a look. Uh okay. We certainly will. I saw the clip you. sent me of you playing some soccer, scoring a goal. Are you coaching the. team, general manager of the team, owner. of the team? What is the title you have? I sponsor the team with uh my drink. agame.com. We are a healthy alternative. to um what's out there. No artificial um. anything. No forever chemicals like no.

Yeah. So, we are good. We're getting. ready to rock it. Yeah, we got Gary. Brea, we got Tyler Adams. Bo Jackson's. been with the team for a while. So, yeah, we're ready to rock and roll. Okay. You just brought up Bo Jackson. How closely do you pay attention to. current baseball? I started to pay more. attention because I have eight kids. Was. that eight kids? You have kids? I have. four kids. Yeah, four kids. Okay. I. heard 10 earlier. He does have 10 kids. They're all over the place. You have. eight kids. Yeah, man. Irresistible. And.

I just love. obviously. Okay. So, you've been paying. attention more. The MLB viewership is up. 10% uh on both networks, Fox and ESPN. Feels like it's because the superstars. are playing well. Is that what you agree. with? Like baseball's good when it's. superstars like you are playing well and. the teams that everybody wants to see. are playing well. Do you think that's. why they're having success? Absolutely. There is so much talent out there and. everyone asked me who I root for and I I. root for the back of the jersey. Like. I'm always going to root for Aaron.

Judge. I love the way Durant plays for. the Red Sox. It reminds me of a Yep. Young. No doubt about it. Yeah. Yeah. No. kids. There's so much talent out there. And uh show. Wow. Fun, right? Amazing. Yeah. It's fun. to watch. As an ex- baseball player, what he's doing, can you especially if. he gets in in pitches this year, which I. guess there is a chance. When he was. starting his career with the Angels and. he was pitching and hitting, we were. talking about him as people that don't. know baseball that well as like, holy. [ __ ] we got an alien here. Why is it so. abnormal? And what are your thoughts on.

Shoi? Well, because you do have to. concentrate on something and Show hasn't. pitched in a while. I think he could be. very successful, but stepping back to. the mound after taking a year and a half. off, it's tough. I think he can do it, but for how long? I mean, Babe Ruth was. the uh epitome of um greatness. And uh. in our day we had the Brooks um Keck u. with the Cubs who could do it but they. just didn't want to take away the best. part of a player's game. It's kind of.

like Travis Hunter right now. What's he. going to do? Um show he's the greatest. hitter going right now with Aaron Judge. and why take that away from him? There's. a lot of stress that goes on to being a. pitcher. You give up couple runs and now. you have to go hit. I think it's very. tough. We did it in little league. He's. doing it in the big leagues. Okay. So, I. I appreciate you saying that. Ty. Schmidt, our baseball afficionado, he's. been basically saying the same thing, although it would be sweet to see Showi. do both. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah. Actually, I.

I wanted to ask you about the Savannah. Bananas experience that you had because, you know, like as I won't say that I. dislike it cuz I don't, but as someone. who's like a diehard baseball fan, like. I would much rather watch the Yankees, you know, than obviously, you know, what. they do with the kids and everything. and then 80,000 to 100,000 people going. to the stadium to do it. But how cool. was that experience as a whole? And are. you surprised that um they've had the. the kind of success that they cuz I mean. it is crazy. They're selling out. football stadiums and those guys can.

still play. It's not just like a Mickey. Mouse, you know, hey, show up at the. ballpark and these guys are going to. kick it around Harlem Globe uh Troters. type thing. So, what did you think of. the whole experience? I thought it was. so amazing that I decided to go out. three times. And uh I didn't go out last. year. Uh my last at bat, I got a base. hit. We won the inning. We celebrated. The guys got me on the dugout. We uh. took our shirts off and I forgot to. shave my chest and uh but yeah, I kind.

of forget you can't step out of the uh. driving. But uh it was so fun. I'm so. happy what they're doing because they. can probably sell out um the Oakland. Coliseum, you know, more so than the A's. did. Yeah. So, it's I love it. It's fun. Um it gets the kids into baseball and. when you see the game is fun. I mean, Ken Griffy Jr. made the with his smile. He made Yeah. Every He was the kid and.

everybody loved it. I played the game. I. loved it. I understood the ups and downs. and as I always mentioned, you got to. bring it every single day. You got to. bring your aame and your best may not. get it done sometimes. So, you have to. keep plugging away. Uh the pitcher, he's trying to make a. living, too. So, he's trying to take it. from you and you're trying to get How. many games do you guys play in a season? Uh, it's 162, but if you count spring. training and the playoffs all the way to.

the World Series, it's about 210 games. in about. 235 days. Rock stars, just living on the. road. I don't know how you do it. I. don't know how you stay focused. I don't. know how you keep your body together. I. don't know how you don't get incredibly. lonely on the road. I I don't know. The. mental battle of a MLB player is huge. alongside the physical battle obviously. and you're failing a lot and there's a. lot of droughts that come with that. and. to have the mental toughness to stay. positive. Wonderful. That I think that's. the most important thing that baseball. players have. AJ has a question for you,

Johnny. Yeah, John, I know you played. for almost 20 years. I just wonder with. in the clubhouse, how did that clubhouse. change from say your first year in the. bigs till your last year? I've talked to. some some guys that maybe played 15, 20. years and they were just the drastic. difference from when they first got into. the majors till the end. Just how guys. kind of carried themselves, took care of. their body, all of that. How did that. change for you? Oh, it changed. drastically because the I got called up. from DoubleA in 1995. Never had a big. league spring training. Um, so I show up. and the Royals released Vince Coleman,

like one of my um, childhood heroes. And. I'm like, I'm walking into this. clubhouse and my childhood hero is. leaving. So, I never had a experience of. the six weeks of spring training at the. big league level. And then there's some. growing pains. uh you know they love to. do the uh righty lefty. If a lefty's. pitching you might not be playing but. I've always hit lefties well so you kind. of have to understand that. But um I. learned how to play winning baseball. when I got traded to Oakland. Like. Kansas City was great. We had the best.

offense in the league for about three. straight years. But we didn't have. pitching at the time. I had Mike. Sweeney, Germaine Dy, Joe Randa. I mean. we got after it. Carlos Beltron and then. uh I had too good of a year. got traded. to Oakland with Jason Giani and learned. how to play winning baseball, learned. how to have fun on and off the field and. we got after it. We won 102 games. Seattle won 116 that year, but we had. Moulder, Zitto, Hudson. But at the end, I became like a uh father figure to a.

bunch of these guys because I'm hanging. out with the parents after the game and. not the players. When I joined Tampa, I. was like, "Wow, this is a little. strange." My wife and I were like, all. the kids wanted to go back to the uh. room and play their games and we wanted. to go relax, have a good time. Yeah, we. started started hanging out with the. parents. I love that. Especially if. you're an OG and does it the right way, which it sounds like you did. Um, did you drink urine? No, never drink.

urine. Oh, that's what he Sure. Yeah. No, never. That's what he did to stay. good. No. No. Did you know anyone that. did? I never did. That was no there. could be rumors but no never drink drank. it. No. No. I What about peeing on your. hands? Call. for sticking hard. Was Moist Saloo the. only one to do that in the league or was. there a lot of guys peeing on their. hands? I've never You guys peed on your. hands. Other people. Is that something. baseball does? Do you? Yeah. Who beat on. your hands? You We don't talk about it.

If anyone's going to do it, it's my. wife. But that's the right answer. But we're. we're not that way. So, you guys have so. many of those like rituals and stuff. because of how long the season is. And. every movie we've seen about baseball, there's some absurdly ridiculous routine. that takes place or ritual that happens. before games. Then we start learning. about stuff that you guys are doing. It's like, hey, the baseball guys kind. of freaky over there. Yeah. The golden. thong when you went into a slump. Uh, hell yeah. We uh shared it in the. clubhouse. So, slumps didn't last too. long. Yeah. Hey, listen. Let me give my.

ass cheeks some uh floss here and then. we'll get out of this quickly. Tone has. a question for you, Johnny. Yeah, Johnny. These two were arguing, but like. out in public, do more people come up to. you about the game seven with the Red. Sox or the 09 Yankees World Series run, man. It's both. I mean, I was a love. player. I'm a legend everywhere, but. well, I was a fan favorite everywhere. It kind of depends. So, when I go to New. York, Yeah. I wear the New York ring. When I go to Boston, um, yeah, smart. Yeah. I don't want to.

get into any trouble. I want to go about. my life. But uh I do flash both rings um. certain times and it's it's a cool. feeling because it's only Babe Ruth and. I who um were starters who won for both. teams. So I'm in great company and you. know the Yankees need to uh figure it. out. But the Dodgers are the best team. out there. They're so deep. Jeez. And. they're saying New York is the Mets town. now. No. Tell them no. Not yet. No. It's.

uh it's early. It's early. But uh no, they paid Juan Sodto 750 million bucks. Oh, they can afford it and they could. give them a suite. But uh the Yankees uh. the Yankees added like five or six. players who made the team better. So I. think they have a stronger run against. the Dodgers this year, but the Dodgers. are so deep. And a Kiki Hernandez, what. a great baseball player he is. He can. play every position. Um and he has fun. playing the game. Like he he became one. of my favorites. And uh um I root for.

the back of the jersey and uh he's doing. great. Connor roots for the Red Sox. Yeah, no doubt about it. And Johnny, someone asked me earlier like is there. bad blood between Dam because he went to. the Yankees? I'm sure there wasn't the. time. I think most people can agree. Any. any player who reversed the curse on. that team is kind of good for life. So, thank you for all that. But, uh big. conversation in baseball this offseason. so far. Uh Pete Rose and Sholess Joe. kind of now being okay to go into the. Hall of Fame. How do baseball players. feel about those two guys? Pete Rose, uh.

I think Jeff Hass hasn't said it. You. can't really tell the story of baseball. without Pete Rose. Do do players want. him in in the Hall of Fame? Is is that. how most the players feel about guys who. might have made some questionable. decisions or is the gambling kind of. separate from the uh steroids era, would. you say? Yeah. Well, I think it's about. time. I mean, it's been forever. They. had to wait for him to pass to figure. this out. But uh I was with Shudas Joe. Jackson the other day, DB Sweeney down. in Mexico and uh we had a great time.

But yeah, Shudas Joe like the gambling. incident. Gambling is all over the sport. right now. And if you're going to let. the fans uh gamble, I mean, we all. played fantasy football. We're not. gambling on the team. And if Pete Rose. gambled on his team to win, Yeah. I love. my manager to say, "We're gonna we're. gonna win. I'm gonna make money. We're. gonna win. But uh I mean, let let. bygones be bygones. I mean, there's so. many things going on. I mean, we had the.

Otani incident. Where is uh Oh, yeah. Just sweep it under the rug right now. I. know there's a lot of bigger issues in. our world that we need to take care of, but and even the steroid issue. I I was. against it back in the day because I was. a guy who was always accused of it cuz I. was a beast. And and now you're seeing. these guys like I hope to see Barry. Bonds get into the Hall of Fame. Um he. never got busted, you know. Yeah. Um his.

hat size they say is the biggest thing. Well, when we get older, I mean. everything grows. like our birth. everything. everything Barry Bonds was like the best. player that if you ask my era who was. the best Barry Bond's name is first on. the list also Roger Clemens. he never got busted he had someone try. to tell on but Roger Clemens. amazing I have a question for you during. that era when it was happening the.

summer of baseball or whatever summer. slam when Sammy Sosa and Mark Magguire. were doing their things baseball was. that same baseball. I think so too. Biggest ratings of all time. Biggest. ratings of all time. We were all very. interested. You're adoring that era. Now. I the way I view it from outside looking. in is that steroids was just very. available. No. No. Like I've never saw. anyone take a Nobody talks about it in a. locker room. No. Well, especially me. because I wasn't part of it. But I don't. know what they talk behind closed doors.

cuz like in the NFL locker room, nobody. brings it up. Nobody talks about Yeah. No one talks about it in the big league. back then whenever that was all. happening. It wasn't just like an open. like, hey, if you need some old uh the. baboon who's over here, he can help. It. wasn't like that. It wasn't that lacks. of days ago. It wasn't that lax of days. ago. And and it's grown men making. decisions on their life. Let them decide. what they want to do. Let them um get. better. I didn't have to get better, but. I found out towards the end of my.

career, the guys who were getting. popped, they were getting four or five. year contracts because they cared so. much about what they were doing. So I'm. like, "Hey, have at it. Do do what you. want." Yeah. But that felt good for you. looking in the mirror being like, "These. [ __ ] were using fullarmacies to keep. up with me." We're about to hit a heart. out. And uh I just want to say thank you. so much for making time. I think you. also follow the show is what I've been. told. Yes, I do follow the show. And uh. let's everyone follow the game tonight. My guys at Drip FC, they're bringing.

their agame and we're we're here. You. guys got to win. We're going to battle. You guys got to win. Yeah, especially. after the loss last night. Yeah. Yeah. Check it out. Big L last night, Johnny. Yeah, I was a score. I don't consider. it. Uh it was five to three, but our. boys bowled out. Check out the beat you. guys by two. How? So, I didn't This. wasn't a one. Yeah. Check it out. We. have to check this out. Sounds like we. had some goals taken away from us. We. had a few things happen. Oh, they're. against you. They're working against. you. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, we're.

facing a tough team, you know, and um. we're facing a um bigger drink company. right now and. and we're doing our a game, you know. So, all right. Yes, we're going into a. heart out. We'll be back in the next. hour. Chris Paul will join us. Clint. Dempsey will join us. This is Johnny. Damon, the absolute legend. Wayne. Gretzky was on earlier. This is a. historic day for us. Be a friend. Tell a. friend something nice that might change. their life. We'll see you in three. Three.

He's saying don't go off the top. It's. too shallow. All you're going to hear this stadium do. is they put the big paw up. They start. shaking it. They go, "Whoa!" Hey, what things are doing? [Applause]. Yeah, he loves the defensive side of the. ball. He said yesterday to me that this. is a blue collar team. They win it on.

special teams. They have five block. picks this season. The defensive side of. the ball, Lynch leads the Big 12 in. sacks. But also on the offensive side, Denzel Mims is an absolute animal. He is. a weapon. Charlie Brew, the quarterback. from Blake Travis. His dad was a. quarterback in Texas. His grandpa was a. quarterback in Texas. And the people. here in Waco just so happen to get a. chance to see Charlie Brewer on a daily. basis. Hey, hey, hey. Wo.

Yeah. Boomer here is going to mean a. little bit different than what it means. on the internet currently. And hopefully. here in Baylor, they hope they are not. hearing a lot of boomer sooner. Everybody wants to be a punter, including quarterbacks. If I was a. quarterback, I'd want to be a punter as. well. Zero yards on that punt. embarrassing situation. The duck dance. that gets on national television has led. to a lot of losses, but you got to. respect the hips being able to go. What. sign am I going to make for college game. day? Well, I want to make something. creative. I want to make something fun. No hell with it. I don't like Oh,

you so thick. Look how thick that thing. is. That's years and years of patience. You're headed right to the boat right. now. Okay, let's do it. Good job. are. out here on the Brazes River, which you. can take a boat to the game. One of the. only stadiums in the country that you. can do. That's beautiful out here. A lot. of people would say this is the last. time I'm going to be on game day. Last. time I allegedly did what I'm about to. do, I ended up in a jail cell. Let's go.

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Kerry, North Carolina. Hour two of this. program starts now. Conc is obviously the team that we are. here representing and the team that we. are proud of and a team that is. potentially going to win $1 million at. this TST. Right now, Hope Solo's team is. taking on the Speedy Turtles right. behind us. They are currently up three. nothing, but let's remember that no game. can end without a walk-off goal. happening in target score time. This is. an electrifying style of soccer. We're.

lucky to be here. This Kerry, North. Carolina, Wake Med Park is one of the. most beautiful places I've ever seen. constructed. There's been some rain. today. There's going to be some. lightning later, but this grass will. remain impeccable in the setup and the. facilities are remarkable. Shout out to. Carerry, North Carolina. Shout to the. TST folks, and shout out to KNA Soccer. Club potentially going on a run this. year. The boys are buzzing. We're. undefeated. We got a game against Rexom, as you know, that is uh Mr. Reynolds and. Mhaney's team that there was an entire.

documentary about. This is not their. professional team, but I believe this is. some ex players from Rexom that are. here. They're good squad. They'll be our. best challenge. That game is taking. place at 5:30 Eastern this afternoon. Cannot wait to see how the boys respond. after a great day one of TST. Now, I'm. not alone up here. No, one half of the. hammer don Cowboys AP Tony is here. The. toxic table is here at Tai Schmidt and. at Boston Connor. Then there's a man. who's a college football national. champion, a Super Bowl champion, a. Rotica Cup winner, and a father of 10. Ladies and gentlemen, AJ Hawkle.

Hawker, the legs look good, bud. You've. been squatting every morning, huh? I. like you showcasing the calves. There's. some big ass calves. Well, not every. morning, but I did see a Grella in the. weight room the other day. He's out. there grinding away, getting ready for. the squad for the, you know, the the. stretch run you guys have coming up. Grella, a member of uh Conca Soccer. Club. At one time during the year he was. not on conca was actually going to. cancel all of conca and then you know we. gota back on the squad back on the right. path and the boys are now buzzing. Uh. it's not just obviously TST the NHL.

Stanley Cup finals. Solo FC has won the. game. They've done it. Target score. time. Solo FC dominating four nothing. win over the speedy turtles who weren't. speedy enough solo Solo FC's team they. can run. You can watch just like in. hockey you can see what teams faster and. what teams in TST you can see what teams. are faster what teams can run more. Also. solo FC very deep a lot of players on. their bench. That's good news because.

there's a lot of subbing. This is an. exhausting event as Hope Solo puts the. golden scarf, golden fleece on whoever. hit the target score time. I had a. chance to do that just yesterday. It is. an honor. Uh NHL Stanley Cup finals. started last night. Edmonton Oilers up. 10 in the series and an overtime win in. Edmonton over the Florida Panthers. We. talked to Wayne Gretzky in the first. hour. He chitchated about how he feels. this probably going to go seven. Florida. Panthers are going to answer. But maybe. this is the year that a Canadian team.

wins the Stanley Cup for first time long. time. NBA finals start tonight in. Oklahoma City as the Thunder are 9 and a. half point favorites as the Indiana. Pacers flew over there two days ago in. the middle of a tornado. Actually got. rerouted. Plane almost ran out of gas. Had to stop in Tulsa, refuel, get back. up in the sky, go over to Oklahoma City. Five, six hours of travel time. I do. believe with probably some rocky clouds. I'd say series in tornado alley. I. believe Oklahoma is right in the middle.

of tornado time. Yes, it is. And uh T's. in peace everybody. Indiana also without. a doubt. This is the shortest distance. between two teams that are playing in. the NBA finals. Uh Oklahoma City and. Indianapolis represented in the finals. two small markets, two fan bases that. are yearning for a dub, and two fan. bases that are going to be incredibly. passionate. A great style of basketball. is going to be on show, on display that. happens tonight. Let's talk a little bit. NFL football. There's been some news out.

of a training camp happening in. Indianapolis. Colts quarterback Anthony. Richardson has suffered a shoulder. injury and will be out for mini camp. next week. Shane Stiken would also go on. to say that the hopes are that he will. be back for training camp. The hopes are. that he's back for training camp in a. couple months from now. Is obviously a. little bit alarming, but he has had a. shoulder injury in the past. Got. tackled, had surgery, missed the season, came back last year. Obviously, he's had. numerous other injuries as well.

throughout his short NFL career thus. far. Shoulder injury, not good. Hopefully, this isn't something that has. been lingering. And hopefully this is. something he can get past because this. year is a year where he could explode on. the scene as a superstar in the NFL, live up to the number four overall pick. hype that he was just a few years ago. Daniel Jones has been brought in to. compete with him. Danny Dimes looking to. make Indianapolis his forever home after. everything that happened in New York. Obviously an injury in mini camp and. OTAAS is not great, but at least we got.

Danny Dimes there. Supposed to be a. competition. What does this mean to you, AJ? Looking forward for the Colts. I. mean, yeah, I believe that it definitely. is going to be a competition, but if. you're Anthony Richardson, you want. every single rep you can possibly get, whether it's OTAAS, mini camp, uh, and. like you said, the fact that he said he. will hopefully be available for training. camp is what would worry me. Thinking, all right, we're 6, eight weeks out of. training camp, 6 weeks most likely. I. wanted to make sure my quarterback is is. 100% going into camp. Steven Holder. reported that uh Shane Stiken says. Anthony Richardson aggravated his right.

AC joint, which is the surgery that he. had two years ago. Uh not great. No, not. at all. Especially if you're I mean. they're not they're not hitting him. Obviously, if you aggravated just. throwing, that's definitely not good. CJ. Strad also had some soreness in his. right arm. Didn't throw it at at OTAAS. We're all alarmed by that. Hopefully. Anony's able to get healthy. Hopefully. they're able to have a full roster going. into training camp and a full. competition. What's that, Connor? Well, they don't. And it sucks, but if if.

you're Danny Dimes, this shouldn't be a. competition anymore. It should be, hey, these next two weeks, this is my team, and after that, they're never going to. turn it back over to AR. That's just me. personally. I assume Danny Dimes, if he. wants this to be his forever home, which. hopefully he does, he will just say, you. know what, this competition's over. This. is my team now. I'm not going to, you. know, pitterpatter around while Anthony. Richardson's getting better. I'm going. to take advantage of the time and. basically show everybody, hey AR, that. was a fun time, but it's it's Danny. Dimes time in Indie. Okay, sorry.

Leading the meeting rooms, obviously. leading the hangouts, the throwing in. the summer, everything like that. This. does kind of open the door for Danny. Dimes to potentially feel as if he is. the starter as opposed to in a. competition not wanting to piss anybody. off because there's going to be. allegiances and alliances in the locker. room. battling through that is a part of. having a quarterback competition, especially when you bring in a guy from. outside getting paid more than the. rookie that was drafted number four. overall. Interesting situation. Hate. that he's hurt again, but this is kind. of becoming Anthony Richardson's story.

in the NFL. Hopefully, he's able to get. healthy. Derek Carr spoke about his. shoulder injury that has sidelined him. for the rest of his life. This kind of. came out of nowhere. This kind of came. out of nowhere. So, last season happens. Derek Carr and the Saints obviously. don't have a great year. But then the. offseason horizon and it's like, okay, Derek Carr is going to be their. quarterback. He got back into throwing. He had some shoulder s uh soreness, I. guess. Then he goes to the Saints. They. start talking. What's the future? What's. this? He retires. He's no longer their.

quarterback. Now we're getting more. information. He basically said he would. have needed surgery. If you would have. got surgery, you would have been. rehabbing all season. They would have. had to pay him 20 million or whatever. the amount of millions it is. He would. have been doing nothing. So instead of. that, he just retired. Babyface move by. Derek Carr. And also, how can you have. that serious of a shoulder injury. without knowing it for a while? That's. seemingly what happened here for Derek. Carr. Either he's incredibly tough and. he's just like, "Ah, it just hurts a. little bit." Or this thing came up out. of nowhere. I don't fully understand how. we got here. I don't fully understand.

either. I would think after the season. gets over, that's when you have your. postseason, you know, they check, you. get your MRIs and everything, and you're. thinking if I get this shoulder, I got. injury, let's get it fixed. The initial. injury. Yeah. He hurt his what was it? hand or arm or wrist. And then they. didn't realize that his shoulder was. hurt at all till his wrist completely. heals after the season. Wrist heals. He. goes to throw. Oh [ __ ] I hurt my. shoulder as well. So, they just had no. idea that this guy had a a bum shoulder. until he recovered from the initial uh. wrist injury that he got from launching.

himself for a first down, which is. common. Yeah, it is hilarious, especially in the time of the season and. the expectations at that point of the. season for what Derek Carr tried to do. Kelly Mo down there is the first time. head coach of the New Orleans Saints. They know it's going to take a while. Yeah, they know it's going to take a. while. Long time do. But that's why. everybody said, "Why didn't they draft. Shidor? They need a starter. They didn't. really address it early." Shador Sanders. threw a touchdown at Cleveland Browns. camp. Wow. I wonder I wonder if Tyler.

Shuck is throwing it. He probably not. I. Shador Sanders looking comfortable. spinning it. Touchdown Cleveland Browns. Shador Sanders. Will he be the. quarterback in the. fall? We shall see. If he goes from. fifth round to starter with the amount. of people that are on that roster, that'll be a great story. And he has. definitely earned it. Good luck to. Shador. Good luck to the Sanders family. I also like the fact Coach Prime's. coming out talking going, "You guys are. lying about my boy. I don't like it." We. shall see how it all works out. Joining. us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man. who's a twotime Olympic gold medalist,

12 time all-star in the NBA, 11 time. allNBA, ninetime all defense. He bops. the wood. This guy bops wood. This guy. bops the wood. Ladies and gentlemen, a. member of the San Antonio Spurs, also. selected to the NBA 7th 75th anniversary. team, Chris. Paul. Chris, what? No chips. Yo, what the hell? N. time all defense. How you doing? I do.

not know that stat. N time all defense. I did not know that. stat. Most people don't. Legit, as I. read it right there, I was like, "Oh. god, you probably should have had a. couple more." Oh, it should have been. 11. Should have been 10. Probably should. have couple more. Maybe maybe like 11 or. 12. I don't get the watch cuz they don't. show it enough. You're smacking the wood. every time they're coming down. We ain't. doing all that. Why not? They can't bop. the wood a little bit. I play offense, too. Okay, let's talk about you playing.

offense. You're a point guard. They put. you together with WBY down there. What. was it like playing with him? Is he. different than anybody that's ever. played basketball? And what's your. takeaway of the San Antonio Spurs going. forward? Wimby is different. He's. different uh being 7'4, able to move the. way that he does, and he just loves the. game. He loves the hoop. Uh I think the. Spurs are going to be great. Uh, you. have Harrison Barnes who's a great vet. They brought in De'Aran Fox. All of us, you know, I think it's just team wants.

to stay healthy. Allegedly potential. landing spot for a couple free agents. Uh, allegedly the San Antonio Spurs. might be active in the market to get. some other big-time names down there. Everybody obviously chasing the playoffs. in the NBA Finals, which tip off. tonight. You're a member of the Oklahoma. City Thunder. Yeah. Great years there. That fan base we've allegedly been told. best in all of NBA. Allegedly. Huh. I mean, it's competitive. Didn't see. that hat you got on. Go ahead. Yeah. But. just I'm just telling you it's being.

alleged. I've never experienced it. myself. I could see and on TV it looks. amazing. What would a championship mean. for that city? And why is that team. perfect for that city? Seemingly. everything. Everything. I'm I'm sure. there's the same things you would say. about the Indiana FA fan base, about. everybody just being, you know, hardworking. And if I played my rookie. my rookie year in Oklahoma, my first two. years in the NBA, I played in Oklahoma. because I got displaced with Hurricane. Katrina. So, I literally grew up there,

right? My fir I I my first two years in. Oklahoma City. Then I had an opportunity. to go back when I left Houston. And the. fans there are just genuine. They love. their team, right? They love their team. They They appreciate you if you played. for them before, but when you come to. play against them, they're they're about. their team. Let's talk about SGA and his. crew. Obviously, an incred he's 6'6, I. guess. I I didn't know that. I had no. idea he was 6'6 from watching him play. because all the NBA guys, you know this,

are so abnormally tall. So, let alone. Wendy's, right? Well, that's the thing. That's when I see you. You're a tall actual human, you know, walking walking amongst us, tall guy, on a basketball court. Absolutely absurd. I had no idea SGA was. 6'6. Can you talk about his development. from whenever he got there to what he is. now? And is that the team you're. picking, I assume, the Oklahoma City. Thunder to win the NBA Finals? I ain't. picking nothing. You know what I mean?

No. Say it with your chest. I'm I'm. going to tell you straight up cuz um I. mean I'm a fan of the game. Not even. trying to BS you, but uh one of the. assistant coaches for the Indiana Pacers. is was in my wedding. He's like my. brother. I like that. Jero Pargo, who I. love that's my brother. You know what I. mean? So I think it's going to be a hard. hard fought series. Obviously I. definitely have ties to OKC with Shay, with Lou Dort, with the coaches, with. Sam Prey, all those guys. But uh I'mma.

um I'mma definitely pull up to a game to. to see it. Can't wait to see you there. Can't wait to see the reaction. Let's. talk about Tyrese Hallebertton. I feel. like he is an old school point guard. I. feel like you probably feel the same. way. I'm not I don't want to speak for. you. Whenever they look at his stats, I. feel like his points are always the. first thing that people attack him for. He is the facilitator for that whole. team, though. And he loves that. position. Is that normal in the modern. NBA? And how do you view Tyres's game, man? He just plays like with a spirit, with a joy, you know what I mean? And.

you can tell anytime you see a point. guard, you can tell how they are when. you look at their teammates, right? So. his teammates, they always know they're. going to get the ball at the right time. He's going to make the right play. So. it's a fun way to play. But actually, my. favorite player on their team to watch. probably is Nimart. Dude, he he get. headbutted by Jaylen Brunswick. Well, he. he's he's a two-way player, you know. what I mean? He plays defense. He takes. that assignment night in and night out, but also he'll he'll go get a bucket if. you need him to. Pascal Seakum also.

insane. He can run. That team runs. How. many I think Oklahoma City probably. known for the same thing. Is there teams. that you guys know like a Carile team. for instance, this team is going to run. And how do you prepare for that? Is. there It's tough man. The Pacers are. like that. They play fast, right? And. the thing is any great team, they want. to figure out what their identity is. And that's what the Pacers figured out. and that's what OKC figured out. OKC's. so good. Shay's out there, Jaylen. Williams out there, but all of those. guys, they star in their role. They. defend and they have fun playing. defense. Ninetime all defensive.

selection. Should have been 11 or 12, maybe. Maybe even 13. How many years you. been in the league? Just finished 20. Jeez, man. Oh, yeah. Definitely just 12. Those first seven years. AJ has a. question for you. Yeah. So, if you if. you were coaching the Pacers, how do you. how do you beat this Oklahoma City team? We hear no matter how much the Pacers. want to run, OKC can run. They can kind. of do whatever you want, whatever. version you want to play. Yeah, you're a. scouting report. You're a point guard. You're a coach on the court. It does.

kind of seem like to take on OKC and. beat them seems like it's a very very. difficult task right now. How how would. you go about attacking them? I guess. what what's interesting is watching. Indiana play in the playoffs, right? Even when they played against the. Knicks, most people if you talk hoops. with them, they're like, "Man, look at. the score of this game." Usually the. playoffs are a lot slower, lowscoring. games. I think it was tough for the Knicks to. beat them because you look at the it. still looked like a regular season game. So, I think that's a lot of credit to. Indiana in continuing to pay play at. that pace and that's hard to do.

especially in the playoffs when. everybody's trying to grind out each. possession. Like that's a mindset that. you have to have that make or miss, get. the ball out and we gone. I think it. scored 130. Yeah, it's crazy playoff. In. a playoff game to watch, man. And if you. score on them, they don't care. Nope. Like if you if you score on them their. entire bench, I was lucky to sit there. push like literally as soon as that. ball's in the bucket, that thing is. coming back the other way. And if you. can do that consistently all game long, it's like wears you out. I feel like it. would be It can, but if there's a team.

that's built for it is OKC, Connor has a. question for you, Chris. Yeah, Chris, a. lot of conversation after this whole. Dallas Mavericks thing getting the. number one overall pick. Uh Shaquille. O'Neal came out with a story, you know, David Stern asked him if he want to play. in the hot or the cold. He said, "Hot, the Magic get the first pick." Uh, LeBron said some things about, you know, it's not as big of a coincidence that. the Cleveland got the first pick when I. was there. Derrick Rose with Chicago. Obviously, there was the situation where. uh your trade allegedly the when the.

owner owned the Pelicans, Hornets would. then that wasn't alleged. That wasn't. right. I just want to make sure. I never. happened. That that did happen. Davis. said, "No, we're not letting you go to. LA." How do you feel about the fodder. around the first pick? Because, you. know, most people think, of course, the. Mavericks trade Luca to LA. What is, you. know, what do the Mavericks get? They. get you Cooper flag, who is everyone's. saying is worth 500 to a billion dollars. by the time it's all said and done. What.

do you think about that? Just so you. know, I'm just like everybody else, right? Like I'm a fan. I was I was at. home in LA and um I was watching the. ping pong balls like everybody. And then. uh when I seen the Spurs, what they. popped into like the top four. So we we. was going crazy. Guys in my team group. chat, we like, "Oh, oh [ __ ] What's. what's about to happen?" And uh I'm in. LA right now and Cooper Flag has been. out there. I've been in the gym with him. a couple times or whatnot. So he is as. real as advertised. What? So for me,

um I don't know. I I be like, "Damn, that that is crazy. That that is crazy.". But just so you know that that Lakers. situation that's not not allegedly. Okay. Yeah. So what the team owned the. Pelicans at the time though, right? The. league owned the league owned, right? So. our owner at the time, George Shen, I. guess it fell on hard times and didn't. have the money and so he basically gave. or sold the team back to the NBA to the. league and they were running it at the. time and Stern said, "We're not." Yeah. Right. I had to go play with You think.

I'm trading Chris Paul? Yeah. Right. No. way. I'm the I get what's what's. interesting is it was right after the. CBA negotiations, right? So, and you. were a pretty big voice in that entire. thing. I was on the executive committee. at the time. Oh, nice. That's a good. spot to be in the ownership box. They're. really screwed. If it's anything like. the NFL, if it's like Are you an. unrestricted free agent right now? Yeah. Yeah, I will. And you're playing. That's. my plan is to play. Okay. So, I know 20. years in you look in phenomenal shape. You have a snack company that's like.

healthy snacks. Thanks for bringing. them. I assume. Yeah. Thanks for. bringing last year. We got a sixack. We. got them right here. We got them right. here. Where the pickle chips, man. Where. the snacks? Yo, over there having a. conversation as they should. Snacks. Where the snacks? Yeah, snacks. Do we. have the snacks? There you go. Yeah. Anyways, you take care of your body. Body temple. Obviously, you're all in. Absolutely. Have you thought about how. many more years is there a conversation? Cuz everybody right now is doing a. LeBron combo. It's like, well, how much. longer can LeBron go? How much longer. can LeBron Hey team, how you guys doing?

Hey, eat good. Eat good out here. Thank. you so much. The Big Dale Ranch. Thank. you, Big D Ranch. Big deal Ranch. This. is my goto. Thank you. That's my. favorite right there. You got to try. that. This is good eaten popcorn. Uh it. has um surprisingly plant-based. ingredients inside of it. No artificial. flavors, no preservatives, no synthetic. colors, and it's. deliciously vegan. That's true. Okay. Okay. So, uh, this one is popped in.

coconut oil. Obviously, that's what. you're supposed. I like to cook my steaks in coconut oil. Just get a little fish oils as well for. the joints, everything that Chris Paul. is doing. But everybody's talking about. LeBron. How long's LeBron going to go? How long for you? Similar situation. What is the conversation you have? Like, is it with your family? Is it with your. agent? Is it with yourself? Is it with. trainer? How does it go about that. decision and looking at the future? It's. with my family more than anything. You. know, I see you, Pat. And how you got. one? How many kids you have now? One. daughter. One daughter. I see I see you.

with your daughter all the time. She's. beautiful. I know everybody has their. own situations. I I talked to my family. about it. My son just turned 16. My. daughter's 12. The past six seasons I've. lived without them, right? So, I go to. San Antonio, Phoenix, Golden State. H. No, they were in Houston with me. Okay. See, but I've been been around a few. teams, but I've been away from them for. the last six years, so. it's a little different. That's the. conversation. That's the conversation. Do you think Body's good?

Yes. You think Bod's good for this. season or do you think like I could. still play play for a while if I wanted. to? Well, I don't think I want to play. for a while while, you know, like I'm. being honest with you. Like I I want to. be dad, you know what I mean? I still. love to play. I'm I was up in the gym at. 6:00 a.m. this morning. How'd we shoot? Pretty good. I didn't shoot this. morning. I worked out this morning, but. yesterday I was in the gym. Day before I. was in the gym, you know, and it's it's. crazy. My daughter actually hooked now. So, before I flew out here, I was in the.

gym with her for 20 minutes. Like with. kids sometimes you just got to do short. sessions. So, I was in 20 minutes 20. minutes doing ball handling with her and. it was priceless. You don't get that. time back. Yeah, you're right. And it it. seems to go faster as they get older. from what I've been told. Yeah. But I. want to hoop cuz I love to hoop. But at. the same time, I I do want to be dad. You're kind of battling. Yeah. I mean, Boston's a good place to bring bring the. family. That's really far. That's really. That's the furthest you could possibly. But but I'm just saying some of those. other places maybe not the best. Boston.

the schools. Is that right? The high. schools, the private schools. Yeah, that's what we've heard about. Yeah. Yeah. I'm telling you. It's up and. coming. It's up and coming. T has a. question for you. Chris, I'm curious how. the players in the NBA feel about it. We. always talk about the NFL like going. into a season, every single fan base is. like, "Hey, we can we can win a Super. Bowl this year." But guys who actually. play or people who are in the know like. there's probably only eight teams who. are going to compete this year. We've. seen that I think this is going to be. the seventh or the eighth year in a row.

where a different champion crown. Is. does it feel like going into seasons. like with where the parody is at in the. league like more teams can actually. compete and win a title? Yeah. Um, I. mean, I I've been on all these different. committees for years and know how they. want parody in the league, but the thing. that you can't ever um calculate is. injuries, right? Injuries are everything. in any league. Yeah, Anthony Richardson. just hurt his shoulder in OTAA for the.

Colts. We're out of quarterback again. Thanks for bring 10 minutes. But but. those are the things, you know, the the. injury to Jason Tatum, right? You know, Kyrie Irving getting hurt when he did. All these different guys. You know what. I mean? What are y'all laughing at? I'm just We're eating your popcorn. We're getting bitched at We are getting. yelled at from the sound guy just came. into our water. If you eat another chip. in the. microwave chips, man. Hey, this is good. eating. This is good. eating. Very going out here. My bad. How.

How you doing out here? Uh, I played. last night. Oh, I seen it. Yeah. Okay. You had a wide open shot. Excuse me. The. goalie was in perfect position. I The guy that goalie for their team was. really good. Gave up five, but he was. really He was working all night. You had. a wide open shot from I think that was. actually a new goalie that had to give. up any put it in the woods. This was the. one that really should have gone in, but. look at that assist. I'm Chris Paul. Get that. Get that out of here. Chris. Paul with the assist. And then here's.

Porch. Might be the best player in the. league. He actually won the tournament. last year. That right there. That looks. hurt yourself. No, not almost. Yeah. Yeah. Where the basketball? You see the. power on the shot? I fell a couple times. last night. I I hadn't touched a soccer. ball since last year's TST. I remember. what you did last year. Thank you, Chris. Jeez, this is a great tournament. Hey, this is a great tournament. You're. a part of it, right? Absolutely. We are. so grateful for y'all being here. Seriously, man. Seriously, it's it's. something that I look forward to. Uh. obviously, I wish I was in the finals. and couldn't be here, but listen, this.

is a great time. Are you going to play. ever running your mouth a lot? Are you ever going to get on the field? Absolutely. Okay. Absolutely. I play for. our team next year. Next year. If I'm. done playing, if I retired, I will. absolutely get out there with y'all. Okay. I get out there with you. From. what I know with the way you play and. the way you operate, you're going to. love our team. We are a hard-nosed team. Is that right? We're smacking the wood. Talk a lot of junk. Yeah. A lot of [ __ ]. being talked out of our Tone has a. question for you, Chris. Yeah. Chris,

last week we played a uh clip of Joe. Flacco. He was asked um about mentoring. Shadur and Kenny Picket and Dylan. Gabriel, the younger quarterbacks on his. team. And he basically said, "If I. answer this and say, "Yeah, I want to be. a mentor, it means I don't want to. start." Or if I say, "No, I don't want. to be a mentor." Makes me look like an. [ __ ] He basically said, "If these. guys don't pay attention to what I'm. doing and realize that I've been in the. league for 15, 16 years, whatever it is, like that's that's kind of on them." How. does the NBA treat that? Like, now that. you're a veteran, the Spurs obviously. had the last two uh rookie of the years.

like do you feel like you have to be a. mentor or is it on them to kind of. follow you and watch kind of what you. do? I think it's a combination of both, but you you got to be who you are. Yeah. Right. And I've genuinely always just. I'm not a hoarder of information, right? So, I'm I'm going to share what I know, what I see to to all the guys that's. been my teammates. But I I say this all. the time, guys only going to respect. what you saying if you can hoop. Yeah. Right. And in this new generation, they. don't care about what you did. They want.

to know what you can do now. And so from. the different teams that I've went to, when I went to San Antonio this past. summer, the first time I went to go hoop. with the guys, I don't know why I. remember this. I think it was cuz it was. around my daughter's birthday. It was. August 12th through the 16th. It was a. mini camp. Yeah. And I I treated that. like almost like the finals because your. first impression is everything, right? So, I made sure that when I came to the. gym that I was in tip-top shape and when. we hoop, I was going to get to it. because once they see that, now they'll.

they'll listen to you and the mentorship. kind of happens. Okay, so let's talk. about um you saying being in tip-top. shape and showing up like that was the. finals. Luca just came out on the Mind. the Game podcast and said that when he. got to LA, I seen this guy do something. never see before. He said he was there. 10 hours before the game. He said, "I. was getting there and he was already. finished with his workout." Feels like. I've heard that story a couple different. times. And is your generation like kind.

of the last generation that was those. types of dudes? Do younger generation. guys pick it up from you? Like how do. you think that kind of works? And uh you. obviously know LeBron very well. Has he. always been that way? And what is your. [ __ ] Are you I assume you're a very. diligent warfare as well. You didn't put. up any shots today. I actually I put up. some shots today. I think I my jumper. got better today. Sure, Chris. Yeah. Um. I don't know. Actually, when you get. older, you actually like work out more, right? So, takes longer. Yeah. I mean,

we have shoot around at 10:00 this past. season. 7 7:30 a.m. every single day. Myself and Harrison Barnes is at the gym. every single day. Right. It's just it's. part of your routine, right? Do you. drink your own urine? What? I don't. know. That's what he did. Hell no. That's what he did. That's what a get. better. Have not. Who told you that? He. just did this. He just did this with. Johnny Johnny Damon. It's a whole thing. But no, I' i've heard I've heard of that. before, too. Bingo. Yeah. Right here. Players, you know. To each his own. Oh, no. I don't. No judgment. If you.

do, my pee is so hot. I'm not drinking. Why not? You put it in your fridge. I. would never. So, what do you do? What do you do? You. do acupuncture and all that. Do you have. like a full Yeah, I do sauna, cold tub, massage. diet, all this different type stuff, man. But the biggest thing I tell try to. tell you got like keep moving, right? More than anything, keep moving. Yeah, I. that's why you saw what you saw. yesterday. I don't move a lot. I move.

and I sit and I Will you work out. forever? You think you think you'll be a. guy that wakes up every morning, works. out forever? Yes. You won't get like. super lazy when you retire? No, I'm uh. there's a a level of vanity that goes to. it, too. I'm I'm outside a little bit. too much. You know what I mean? I go I go too many. places and too good of a And you know. what you former athletes right former. athletes when you meet other former. athletes right and you see them and they. they don't look like they did as soon as. they walk away what y'all say y'all be. like.

Conor has a question go yeah Chris uh. another thing I I feel as though came up. last year a little bit was uh kind of. the changing of how the NBA is getting. more physical and how awesome it is and. now this year the conversation. throughout the playoffs, especially with. Brunson and SGA, has been kind of the. free throw artist type of it. You've. been uh all NBA defense nine times. When. you're playing someone who, you know, kind of flops, if you will, when you get.

a little physical with them, how do you. kind of get over that? Cuz we saw Jaden. McDaniels at one point say like, "All. right, screw it." Like, I'm just going. to push him as hard as I can to the. ground. I know SGA is your guy and you. guys have, you know, a great. relationship, but that style of. basketball as an old school player. Does. that bother you at all when you when you. see it happening just because of how. different it is and how the old school. guys look at, you know, the free throw. artist as like, yes, see, this is why. they wouldn't be able to play in the '9s. and all that. The game has changed,

right? And fortunately, I played long. enough to be able to see it change. Somebody was showing a I saw a playoff. game on Instagram the other day from. back when I first came in the league and. the final scores were in the 70s and the. 80s. Like the game changes, right? And. so guys are stronger, maybe faster or. whatnot, learn new moves and all this. stuff. So I think you just got to study. and know what they like to do. Like I. play against Shay too and I know that he. going to try to hit me with that forearm. or whatnot, right? But the same thing.

with uh Nimhart. Y'all ever seen them. hard when he drive and he hit guys with. that shoulder? There's a physicality of. the game, but there's an awareness that. you you got to guard and you got to be. ready for that, right? So, it's tough. and this is why this is the best players. in the world night in and night out. trying to figure out how to curate. points. Mhm. Yeah. You got to change the. game. You can't let the game change you. Ain't that right, Chris? Look at you. Bars. Well said. Bars. I didn't make it. up, but that's been said before. Yeah, Shrek. Definitely. Uh we actually have.

uh a graphic for you to see, Chris, just. so you could see what it could. potentially look like next year. Wow. Potential another potential signing with. Messi up here. Lou Messi, not Lionel. Lou, we're trying to get him to play for. the United States of America, too, cuz. he's lived in Miami for a while now. We. think that should be fair. But Lou Messi. a potential signing. There's a chance he. gets a billion offer from Saudi, I. guess. Oh. Have you heard about GST? I. heard about that. No, there's been a lot. of conversation, a lot of soccer. chatter. You know, I've been around it.

for the last couple days. Yeah, him. And. Lou Messi's Lion Messi's contract is. coming up. I don't know what that was all about. Yeah, I think there late entry Royal. Rumble. Oh, no. Someone So, there's been. a there's been a player laying down here. from the Say Word FC team for the last. few minutes. Oh [ __ ] I'd say like 10 10. minutes I think there has been a group. of people standing over there. Did not.

know that there was a player down in. that group but there has been a player. down seemingly got injured says a coach. during warm-ups. Seems to be sitting up passed out. Passed out. A coach we were getting word that a. coach passed out on the field there. during warm-ups for Say Word FC. It's been Yeah, definitely. It has been. a uh he didn't move. We did see him move. though, right Zeke? If we had to He's up. right now. All right. All right. So, we.

have uh there was a while though he was. just down. Yeah. Uh like while you were. giving a great answer, it was a great. answer. I didn't listen to any of it, but the the the tone you were speaking. seemed to be a good answer. I was. looking You are sick. Yeah, but I saw I. saw him move, Chris. I saw him move. Oh, he's moving. There we go. There we go. That's scary stuff. You never know. You. literally never know what it could be. Uh happy he's okay. So, you could.

potentially be on Conca next year. Uh. good luck to you and all your decision-m. that you have to do, man. I appreciate. y'all. And you you would like to make a. prediction for the finals. We appreciate. you doing that. Who Who you predicting? Uh me. Pacers and six. You think so? Pacers and six. Okay. AJ. AJ. Pacers and six, bro. Yeah. Connor. Uh, Thunder and five. Disgusting. Kai. Pacers seven. Love that. Tom, same.

Chris, do y'all contractually have to. say that? I said, what are you talking. about? I said thunder. No, he said pace. I don't know. Do we want our food to get. spit? We have to eat. Thunder and five. He said thunder and five. Quick series, he said. Actually, your prediction, Chris, follow me. It's going to be a. good series. Seven games. You think. that's what you just said? I said it's. going to be a good series. Six games he. says. Okay. Great series would be seven. Got it. Smart. Anything else? Who has. more talent? You know what's funny? Honestly, and I.

tell you this, it's cool for guys to to. get a predictions and all that stuff. like that, but I always say this. I I. play like I'm I still play. Isn't it so. stupid the predictions thing? How are. you supposed to know to No, it ain't. even that. It's just that the way that. I'm like built and orchestrated, it's. hard for me to to fool with you after I. seen you say that you think somebody. else is going to win. That's that's. that's Yeah, you have no idea what's. going to happen. First of all, we don't. When we make predictions, people care so. much. If you were to give a prediction. right there, Chris Paul hates the.

Pacers. It would have been immediately. Uh, last thing here before we let you. go, and we appreciate your time. Adam. Silver talked about a team USA versus. team world concept that they're going to. do for the All-Star game. I believe he. was on Fox on uh Yeah, I believe he was. on Breakfast Ball. Breakfast Ball, Morning Ball. He he he said on there. that this is something they've been. thinking about. Obviously, a lot of. players are interested in this. Do you. think this will heighten the All-Star. game? Because Pro Bowl has a problem, too. We want the flag football. Uh the. NHL figured out with Four Nations. I. think Adam Silver seeing that and.

saying, "Hey, there's a chance we can. maybe capitalize on this." Do you think. guys will care if Team World was to beat. the Team USA's ass? Do you think that'll. matter? Uh, I got a lot of thoughts and. stuff on the All-Star game stuff. You. know, that was news to me when I seen. that, too. What are your thoughts on the. All-Star game? Um, I mean, it needs some. shaping and some fixing. Hopefully, this. does it. Uh, what they tried last year. wasn't it. You know what I mean? So, that was on the same weekend as Four. Nations, too, with Hong. You know, a few. years ago when it was in, you know, a.

few years ago when it was in Chicago, uh. I don't know if that was 2020, 2021, what not, we took the the model from the. TBT and that was the first All-Star game. with the uh target score. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was the first time we. did an all-star game with that target. score. I believe in basketball it's. called Elim Elum Ending. Eliming I. believe is the name of it. It's great. There's always a walk-off. Exactly. So, we did it in the All-Star game, the. Chicago Allstar game. Should that do. that for USA World? should have target. score time. Absolutely. The worry I know. is just like anytime it's an Allstar.

game like Luca and Joic make a point to. just basically dick around like will. guys actually try still. I mean it's not. just them. First and foremost um you. just got to make sure that the guys, you know, really want to compete or. whatnot. You got to have them play for. something. You know, being at the union. for years, we Well, we took the money. up, right? We took the money up to a. certain number, right? So now the number. might have to go up again because.

Nations get in there and negotiate it. That's that's No, no, no. That's for you. to do. Four Nations was just trophy and. guys were out for the entire season. Like Matthew Kachchuck and Charlie. Makavoy both got hurt for the entire the. last thing they did in the regular. season for hockey was play for their. country and then they were out until the. playoffs. They cared Chris. That's why people are like, "Hey, they're comparing to four nations.". Baseball doesn't do what's his name. anymore though, do they? Like the. winning. team in the World Series. Yeah, they got. rid of that. All right, Chris, we'll.

assume you'll figure it out. We. appreciate you doing that. Good luck in. your free agency journey. Good luck in. your basketball journey. Good luck in. your family journey. And good luck next. year when you're playing for Cola. Okay, we need a goal out of you. Okay, if. there's a wideopen shot, we need you to. put that in. I got to I got to ask Muger. them is that in the bylaws if I can if I. can play on the team. The bylaws look. good to me, ladies and gentlemen. Chris. Paul, appreciate y'all, man. Appreciate you, man. Give it back.

Hey, come to Boston. It'd be fun. Seriously, come to We got We got Why. not? Hey, where are you thinking about. going anywhere? We said Spurs last year. and then he went. We're still live. We're still live. Are you going any. Where are you playing? Yeah, you do. [ __ ] That's a lie. That feels like [ __ ]. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now, he'll be on Conca next year, unless he. plays again. I mean, if if he can cut. it, let's be real. There's a lot of good. talent on Conc. Yeah, there is. There. was actually some talent from last.

year's team that acknowledged that there. was a lot better talent this year. And. so, you know what? You could have my. minutes. There's a lot better team here. for Conc. Maybe Chris Paul will be. joining us. Our team would be great. A. guaranteed dub. Amen. If this next. person that's joining us would join our. team. He was a pro soccer player. obviously for 141 caps. Wow. for the. United States of America. He's a 2016. MLS Cup champ with the Sounders, which. they talk about as Yeah, a lot of people. say that's one of the best professional. sports teams of all time. He's tied with. Landon Donovan for the most.

international goals at 57. We need him. Ladies and gentlemen, a man who is. launching a brand new podcast with the. Men and Blazers Media Network called The. Deuce. Ladies and gentlemen, Clint. Dempson. Yint, what's up? How's it going, Mr. Kappa? Confa. Have some respect, Clint. Jesus. Uh, we appreciate you joining us, man. And obviously, we hope you'll get down. here to TST in the future. It is a. beautiful celebration of the sport that. you were so damn great at for so long.

Let's talk about you moving into the. media world a little bit more here with. the deuce with the Men and Blazers Media. Network. When can we expect it? What's. it going to be? And, uh, congratulations. This is awesome news. for everybody. Appreciate it, man. Uh, starting on the 7th. uh you know I'm. happy to be joining men and blazers in. the platform they've created and Raj the. energy he brings to the game and uh yeah. covering the US uh as they have these. friendlies go into the gold cup it's. kind of a stressful time as we build. towards the World Cup with the. performance we've had in the past but uh.

yeah I mean it's a platform where you. can just kind of keep it real and and. shoot people straight and uh hopefully. people jump uh tune in and watch it. You're one of the greatest uh United. States soccer players of all time. You'll be in the Mount Rushmore. conversation as Chris Paul just hucked. some chips across the stage. Sorry about. that. Uh, shouts Chris Paul. Good pass. though. Still got it. Still got it. Still got it. That was a good pass. there. Uh, you're one of the greatest. United States soccer players of all. time. I grew up dreaming of being on the. United States soccer team. You've won. the Gold Cup three times. You've had a.

lot of success. Our US soccer team, our. men's team, has not had a lot of. success. That that's just This was. supposed to be the generation in the era. that was going to be great, too. What. are your thoughts on the state of US. soccer? And can we win this damn thing? We would like to win it all. We would. like us to win it all. Is that ever. possible or how long do you think? I. mean, I think it's possible, but hey, you got to look at the scenario we're. in. I mean, we're last Copa America. I. think we're the first host country to. never get out of the group. So, that was. a failure. And then you have KA Cap. Nations League uh semi-finals where we.

lost to Panama. And then we also lost to. Canada in the third fourth place game. And then for me, this kind of makes Gold. Cup important again. I mean, back when I. was playing, there was a few Gold Cups. where if you won it, you got to go to. Confederation Cup. Um, but for me, this. is such a huge tournament. Uh, it's. because to get this fan base back on a. board and get people, you know, believing it again in this in this US. team and and what they can do because. you're never going to have moments like. this or opportunities like this to have. to play in a World Cup in in in your in.

your own country. You know what I mean? You saw what happened with 94, how it. brought about the professional league of. MLS. So, it's a big opportunity. If we. don't take advantage of it, man, it it. would be it would be one of the biggest. failures of all time. Why would it be? Would it be because of the players? Would it be because of the system? Would. it be because of the selection process? Like, what do you think is the thing. that has held us back? Man, that's a. great question. I think it's a few. things. I think uh since co you have a. situation where you have the same teams. just playing each other too often. You. have conquer Cap Nations League, you got.

Gold Cup, you got World Cup qualifying, and you're just playing the same teams. over and over. I think it'd be better if. you kind of mixed it up where you had. Gold Cup, then it was Nations League was. the next year, then another year be like. a Copa America, and then it it makes it. a little bit more prestigious, not to. have it back to back to back all the. time. But and also give you. opportunities to play against other. countries and in their countries. I. think that only helps you to get better. It gets people more excited about. playing in those type of games. I think. by playing, you know, each other, you. know, the same teams over and over and.

over, it kind of loses the hype and and. maybe it makes people not not to want to. to get called in or come in. But for me, it was always represent my country. I. always dreamed about playing for my. country, playing in World Cup as a kid. That's what I prayed to God at night. for. So, like anytime there was a. tournament, if I could walk, man, you. know, I was going to be there. Hell. yeah. Yeah. You're a dog. I feel like we. need more of you nowadays. Hopefully, we'll be able to get that under coach. Ponch who I assume one of the boys is. going to ask about. You talk about, you. know, um too many of similar opponents.

and maybe people losing interest. I. think there's a lot of interest in the. MLS right now, maybe more so than ever. I remember when Beckham was brought in, given a percentage of the league and a. future team and I forget how many. millions he was making like every two. days. It was a massive ordeal. Was. supposed to swing the MLS into. superstardom. Kind of happened. Obviously, Beckham sold places out, but. with Messi coming over, every stadium. was sold out. The Apple deal obviously. was a big one for the league. Who knows. what the future looks like in either of. those? You're a former MLS Cup champ. Do.

you like where the MLS is? You've. obviously played around the world. Is it. good enough? Should we talk [ __ ] for the. MLS more uh for it being a good league. or what are your thoughts on the home. domestic league here? I would say yes. and no. I would say yes. It's bigger. than it's ever been. players are making. more money than they've made in in the. past. Uh it's it's more it's it's. something that's being covered more more. often. You talk about Messi and what. he's able to do uh uh in terms of. bringing mainstream America to watching.

uh soccer here because in the past it. seemed like it was every four years when. a World Cup happens that soccer would. kind of move the needle. And where Messi. coming to enter Miami, he's the he is. the needle. He he he moves that every. season that he's around and the popular. that gets to it. The only thing that. maybe I I worry about a little bit is. like the young American that's. developing and whether or not we're. finding these creative players that that. are able to take risks, take people on. uh and and be into the attack or is it. is it going to more South American uh.

type players? Back in the in the day, it. just seemed like more there was more. young guys that were attacking players. that were American that were making the. all-star. I'm just not really seeing. that much lately. You think we've lost. our pizzazz? You used to take dudes on. quick feet. Quick feet. We want the gone. a goal. I think I'd like to see more of. it, man. I like to see people being. creative and and and taking people on if. you don't have someone to pass to like. trying to create something, make. something happen. I think too many times. people play safe. They play back. They. play sideways just to keep the ball. And.

there's just certain times Amen. You. need Hey, you need to pull the trigger. You need to get the ball to to Pat. Mcabby. Get that cross into Grella. Hey, come amen. Amen. Hey, we need to have. one here. Yeah. Mhm. Think about having. one. Why not have one? Find the boots. Find the boots. RIP. What? A lot of the. boys are getting uh baptized in soccer. here. Getting baptized in soccer here. There's a 14-year-old from Philadelphia. Cav Sullivan. Kevin S. Have you heard. about this dude? Have you talked to this. guy? They're already shipping him out of. the country. It's like, what are we.

doing? Why don't we let this guy play? Why don't we Isn't that like the type of. player that we should be, you know, trying to make a great like I don't. know. How do you feel about the. treatment of South? I mean, I I think. wherever you're going to play is the. most important thing. Wherever you're. going to go and get the best coaching. and get the the best opportunity to get. games. If you're not getting in games, then then what's the point if you're. sitting on the bench? So, I think. there's a way that you just got to make. the right decisions on the teams you go. to. Are they playing the style of play. that you like to play? Are they allowing. you to express yourself? Or are they.

trying to change your game? I mean, it's. all it's kind of like picking a college. Uh, you know what I mean? You got to. figure out what what's going to be the. right fit for you and hopefully he makes. the right decision. But I think there's. a balance. You can have players that are. going to Europe being young and. competing at the best clubs, but at the. same time, there's some people that got. to go the MLS route first. And I was one. of those guys. I I I paved my way in. MLS, broke into the national team. And. then through doing well in World Cups, it got me to go to Europe and play in. the Premier League. One of the first. ever out of the United States of.

America. Obviously Tim Howard had quite. a run in the Premier League. You as. well, Clint Dempsey. us young lads. looked up to you. Tone has a question. for you. Yeah, Clint, that's kind of. what my my question was around. It's it. feels like the the lure, the prestige of. the Premier League and playing over in. Europe is is like the young star young. US stars are going over there and just. sitting on the bench. Feels like. Christian at this point is really the. only one who's going over there and. getting meaningful minutes. Like, do you. think the US team would fare better if. the US talent stayed home more and just.

got more playing time and kind of were. more of a cohesive unit? I think it's a. mix, right? You need people that are. staying home, getting those regular. minutes for their club, but you got. Anthony Robinson, Tyler Adams, and. Christian and Western McKenna are doing. well in Europe, but it's also picking. picking the right teams, picking the. right leagues. Uh, you know, I like what. Holland has there in terms of playing. for like a PSB. It's a place that you. can kind of go there and develop or if. you're able to go to Portugal and play. with like FC Porto or Benfica, you know,

teams like this that have a history of. producing young talented players. I. mean, getting the opportunity like and. Dortmund as well in the Bundesliga where. you've seen Christian kind of come. through who looked real bright but you. know, picked up some injuries. But it's. I think you got to have a mix. I'm eating chips right now, so I. apologize for being disrespectful, but. Clint, we need you down here at TST. Will you play for our team next year? Hey, you never know, man. Hey, have Mike. Gilla hit me up. Do you still got it? You play at all? Uh, I play a little bit.

with my kids, but I mean, I could go out. there and maybe put, you know, do a. little something be a super size. Welcome to the team, Clint. Probably. shouldn't have fell hit him up cuz he's. going to take it. Kaka Ka, let's go. Yeah, there it is. Okay, you nailed it. You're the man. Ladies and gentlemen, one of the greatest of all time, the. host of the deuce from the Men and. Blazers Media Network and next year a. member. of. Oh, ladies and gentlemen, Clint.

Thank you again. Appreciate you. Thank. you, Clint. Rapper as well. Yeah. Chess. player. Very talented on the field. Yes, he was. He was and he was he wanted to. try people. He made it cool. He made it. fun to watch Team USA. Yeah. And then. then his raps weren't like corny. No. Like, oh no, Clint Dempsey has come out. with a song. I was very scared as a. massive Clint Dempsey fan. I was like, don't we don't need to be doing that. Then he listened to it. It's like, oh, Clint Dempsey's got bars. Actually, name's right in the song. There's a. tread on this guy. It was great on in.

for the soccer world. I'm happy he's. getting back into the the media world. Him talking about just like Wayne. talking about it is good for the sport. With the World Cup coming around, the. concapod, Clint Dempsey with the deuce. Feels like soccer's kind of back in it. Jay, the US has to do well this World. Cup. I mean, like Clint said, every four. years World Cup comes up and it does. kind of Soccer does move the needle. These people become household names. Like, do we have those guys right now? Pissic. I know you're Are we counting on. Who are our marquee dudes for the US.

that we're focusing? Our mar dudes we're. focused on is Cavon Sullivan. Look, I we. talked to some former Team USA members. yesterday and I'll tell you what, I'm. punting on the World Cup next year. Word. on the street is these boys are already. tired. We were pretty worried about. their mentality going into it. And sure, they got all the skill in the world, but. uh and I'm not going to quote verbatim. what they said, but look, you got a guy. who's coaching the team who doesn't. really want to be there. You got you got. players, he wants to be there. You got.

players that aren't the best in the. country that don't want to play on the. team. What? We're calling a guy Captain. America. Has Christian Pissic ever even. been a freaking captain of a team? I. don't know cuz I don't know [ __ ] about. soccer. But what I do know is the the. vibes aren't high on on this. I. disagree. We're finding our team. I'm. It's a little late in the game to be. finding our team. The World Cup's right. around the corner. Thank you. Have you. been doing your part? No. No. What's on. our hats? USA baseball. The flag. You.

guys haven't done your part at all. Tell. you what, if P I think Ponch doesn't. care. Boots. Find the boots. Punch does. care. But if he doesn't, I saw a coach. down in a lobby hotel this morning. watching tape and trying to get better. That's a real coach. You're talking. about coach Miola and coach Tab Ramos. Todd Ramos. Wow. So Todd Ramos, just. real quick, I think he was the first. ever draft pick of the MLS. He's uh top. two United States soccer player of all. time. Uh he's been coached in multiple. places. Him and Tony Mola, best friends. And he's our assistant coach. Coached in.

the World Cup for Team USA when he when. they went on that run and beat Algeria. So him coming and doing conc. So I've. thanked him like 10 different times. So. cool. Thank you for doing this like. legitimately and also invested and has. learned our players. They're watching. film. They're trying to figure out seven. on seven. It's a big opportunity. I. think it's good for the sport here. Like. it's big. Here's Tony Miola and Tab. Ramos watching film this morning in the. lobby of the hotel. Obviously they had a. meeting brighteyed, bushy tailed. Let's. go ahead. 7 a.m. Tab. You and me will.

watch film of the team. Who's our guys? Who's not our guys? Do you think they. watched My Minute and a Half last night? No doubt about it. We were eating. breakfast right now. That's when they. were just enjoying it going. When I sat. with them uh for a second, they were. watching the Bournemouth film. Uh they I. don't think they had made it to last. night's game yet. Did not love the way. we started in the Bournemouth 00 KG. affair. Very dominant. We got to start. taking more guys on. With that being. said, it's been raining for like the. last hour. There's just people posted up. out here. We appreciate you guys.

Rock and roll. It's beautiful down here. in Kerry, North Carolina. Let's go back. to the truck. Uh Bubba Gumpino is back. there. Gumpy is one of the assistant. coaches for uh Conca SC. Gumpy, how do. you feel about the tournament? How the. team's doing? The squad is unbelievable. this year. We are just on a different. level from start to finish last night. I. mean, Chad Porch, everybody's getting. involved. Everybody's getting touched. It's been an absolute joy to watch these. boys. Yeah, it is good. I don't like. that our assistant coach is gassing the. boys up as much. Tony Miola will come in.

and and bury him. I heard he was I heard. he was pissed at the start of the game. last night. He was not happy about our. warm-ups yesterday. So we we had five. balls for warm-ups. Four of them got. blasted into the woods. So we had one. ball for warm-ups for our entire team. So there's a lot of standing around. [ __ ] around. Yeah. I didn't I also. did not love what I was watching showing. the team in. That's when you went and. got ready like I guess they're going to. need me cuz these guys put my boots on. I'm going to go put my boots on. Tony. Mola says I don't like anything that I. just saw. Here's the starting lineup. figure it out. Walks off. Love that. He.

had like his moment and the boys did. figure it out. They answered the call. Five nothing. Three nothing lead at. halftime. Five nothing total. And I me. and Foss blew two goals. So that thing. should have been seven. I don't know. about you and Foss, but I do know what. you're saying. Uh lot a lot of meat left. on the bone. Oh [ __ ] Reggae Rovers just. had a Oh, they're back. Highlight real. goal. Oh, they're back. The Regga Rovers. are now up 3 nothing. This was filthy. I. don't know if we have the Here it is.

Replay. Watch him. Ah. Gets the pass. outside. One-on-one with the goalie. What are you going to do with it? And God, that was genius. That's a. reggae roll. You want to talk about. teams who just know how to put boot on. ball. into the back of the uh we'll be off. tomorrow. Uh these are this is our last. show of the week. We'll be back. Monday live with a full overreaction of. everything. Oh yeah, including tonight's. NBA Finals starting with the Pacers.

traveling to Oklahoma City as 9 and a. half point dogs. Last night, Oilers. Panthers dropped puck for the NHL. finals. Let's do a full game highlight. of that because people need to. understand that last night's game was. electrifying from beginning all the way. to the end. Let's go one minute into the. game. Kaplan gets it the dry cidle. golaso. One zip at home. Edmonton's. upside down. Will they be able to hold.

on to that lead for a long time? Will. they be able to ride the momentum of all. of Edmonton? Uh-uh. 10 minutes later, Florida Panthers. Sam Bennett puts one. home. Carter Verhagi and Kachchuck with. the assist. One-1 game. All of a sudden, we have a tie puck. All of a sudden, what happens later in the first? Two. minutes later, Florida Panthers go on a. run. Another goal. 2-1. Brad Marshon. within a filthy pass from Nate Schmidt. Top drawer. 2-1 Florida Panthers. Now,

what will happen? Will Edmonton answer? Uh-uh. Bennett puts the Panthers up 3-1. with his second goal. Another filthy. saucer pass. He goes midnet. 3-1. Is. this over? The Florida Panthers going to. go on a run. Clap bomb from Albertson. Listen, this seemed like one that Bob. should have stopped, but this thing was. going 175 milesPH. Yeah, bit of a. screen. Yeah, clap bomb in there. Arbertson goal. Then let's go to Echol. who ties it up 33 right after Wayne.

Gretzky says Connor needs to go behind. the net and find somebody who does this. that it goes to overtime. Think it's. going to maybe go to double overtime cuz. how long the damn game was. First half. dry cidle snapshot from Conor McDavid. who has two assists on the night. Edmonton takes the lead. They are up 1. in a probable seven game Stanley Cup. final series. All right, we have our. game at 5:30 here today. Then I am off. to a place that I've been invited to go.

to that I don't think you're even. allowed to say no to, but I'm certainly. honored to get to. I'll be posting about. it on my social medias. Pat McAfee show. from all the boys here, from everybody. in the back, from the crowd that's been. hanging out in the rain, from everybody. here in Kerry, North Carolina. Thank you. so much for hanging out with us. Have. the greatest weekend of all time. We. will see you Monday. Be a friend. Tell a. friend something nice. It might change. their life. Goodbye from Carrie. All. right, that was good. All right, well. done. Well done. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. What's up, man?

What's that? Shout out Reggae Rovers. Let's go Rover. Who? Rover. I can't hear. you in the GL. What' you say? I don't. know. Got to take the ear out. Something. reggae Rover. Shout out Reggae Rovers. Hey, thank you, man. Good game. Okay. Was he not listening? He just. walked out the field. I love that guys. Moxy. Love his first half. Three. nothing. Reggae Rovers over. Say word FC. Over FC last game, I think.

Oh, maybe. Say word. Looks like a good team. I think it's. their last game. Can you go two and one. and still not advance? No. No. So, if. you win two out of three, you're going I. think so. You're moving on. But you. could go one and two if it if you do. lose by a little bit. I think they take. top three differential. They take top. three from a couple of the groups like. we're in group F. They called it the uh. group of death and turns out that the. only death that was happening was from. us to other group of fun. But Rexum also.

2 and0. So I think like it depends on. what your record is. They'll take top. three from groups. How many in a group? Four. Oh, that's it. Okay. But not every. group gets all the top three. So if. you're a one seed though, you get shitty. third place team from other group. So. really want to win your group. So like. tonight against Rexum is a very. important game because in knockout round. you would like to play a team that is. not as good as somebody else cuz once. you get to elimination uh rounds, it's. target score time the entire game.

You're in trouble. It's not actually, but it feels that way. I got you. That'll be Saturday starts Friday. Friday starts sudden death. Yes. Got it. One game per day. Friday knockout run. Saturday knockout run. Sunday knockout. run. Championship on Monday. Wow. So you. could potentially be in Kerry North. Carolina for three weeks. Coach Gome's. got a fight Tuesday morning. 6:10 a.m. Tuesday morning. He's planning on. pulling an all nighter if the boys win, as he should. Not 100% sure I'll be able. to be here, especially with the invite. that I received uh like last week.

hearing that we were going to be down in. this part of the country. Also, Money in. the Bank on Saturday in Los Angeles, which is going to be electrified. Hell yeah. We got some WWE fans around. here. Four letters, one word. Ah. Ah. Okay. There's a lot of eaters here. I. respect that. Standing in the rain. Money in the Bank is on Saturday. Then, uh, Monday Night Raw is in Phoenix on. Monday. Okay. So there's a lot of things. happening in my particular life before. the championship, but the Conca boys are. locked in. Okay. They understand that.

they can win at all ages. They know I. saw the Indianapolis Outlaw uh early. this morning in the in the lobby. Sonner. Yeah, I saw him too. Killing it. He's got an infant was going to play. golf morning. He said Grell's playing. golf. Yeah, he's going to hit some. balls. Hit some balls. He's a great. golfer. And whatever cools the mind, whatever frees your spirit to play your. best ball, especially at 5:30 against. Rexom with Mhaney and Reynolds boys. Yeah, we got to play well. We got to. show up tonight. We saw, you know, Cap, uh, the old firm. Zat was eating. breakfast with black boots and water.

bug. So, obviously, everyone is Black. Boots is Mario Alvarez, Arena League. boy. Water bug is Pacheco, also Arena. League. We also told Tony and uh, Coach. Ramos, hey, first two games were fun. I. think we figured out the 11 we need, right? Going forward. I think we can. seven on seven, of course, but we can. knock some guys out. you know the. rotation the 11 man rotation now well. it's like tonight I think we need to. make sure Leesma's healthy. no doubt about it he had yesterday he.

had a little hammy yesterday he said it. was a cramp had a little general. soreness that's always scary he'll play. he'll play he doesn't play that much so. he's unbelievable so porch unbelievable. meat still unbelievable drugs ruggles. awesome he was he he was going to fight. a guy okay you're talking a lot of junk. there Justin Mum here's Rugles. Give me. that. Absolute firecracker. Absolute. And then he does it does the nice little. uh heel toe. Uh I forget what this was. Remember this had a run. This dance had.

a run. Victor is the provider of. happiness. I don't think that's a salsa. I believe that's a what's that? Is. Mirram the provider of happiness? Mirram. is a dog. Uh got a chance to hang out. with him for a couple hours last night. He is hilarious. He also started a war. uh about 15 seconds after Breshay got. fouled by somebody and then a guy stood. over Brea. Miriam felt obligated to tow. poke a ball into the guy's balls. Sweet. It was like 15 20 seconds late. I It was. right in front of me. I watched it all. happen. Great shot, too. And then that.

started a fight. Breach obviously goes. in there. That's what our Conca boys are. about. Absolutely. When you want to talk. about fit in the culture, too. Justin. Mirram has really fit the Conca culture, more than maybe anybody in the history. of Kafa to a T. Yeah. He's in there. H. in and another T. What's that? Team um. culture. Yeah, team high culture. That. is our thing. He was outed by a couple. people, I think, a few different times. for what his profession is off the. pitch. But it's legal.

He's awesome. All right, let's get out of here. Let's. let these people get out of the rain. Let's uh prepare for an incredible. weekend where I'm headed. I don't know how many people get invited. to go do. I don't think Not many. I. don't think Yeah, damn near anybody gets. invited. I don't think it's really a. thing. say, it's pretty insane to think. about. This morning I woke up like. thinking this is the first time where. I'm like, okay, tonight I'm headed to. this place. Yeah, this is tomorrow that. I don't think a lot of people really get. to go to. Um, and I was like, what what.

should my mindset be? Go in there. They're openminded. Pumped to follow. like pumped to see what your You bring a. fit. Did you bring a special fit for it? No. So, every time I asked what I'm. supposed to wear cuz I don't want to be. an [ __ ] They said just wear whatever. you wear. I'm like, do you know what I. wear? I'm like, I don't think you know. what I wear. They're going to give you. something to wear is what that means. They'll definitely give you some stuff. You think so? Def. They definitely will, but I don't know if it'll be at the. beginning or the end. All I got to say. is URA, my friend. Bingo. And it is an. honor. AJ, thank you for traveling down. here. Final thoughts on Kerry North.

Carolina and TST. Well, I mean, it's. clear that you guys have the top squad, the concave for boys. How do you ever. score on these guys? Honestly, I told. you this morning with Zack back here and. all the boys, like, you can't even have. a shot attempt. You guys have pitched. two shutouts already. So no, we gave him. a go in first game. Yeah, it's all. right. That didn't even matter. Doesn't. matter. Actually, it was it was in extra. time. That shouldn't have been extra. time. So it was in the 42 minutes. Yeah. What are we playing? Absolute shite. Yeah, we are the biggest team out here. by far. No questions asked. It's part of.

our culture, you know. You got to get in. where you fit in. The way you fit in. here is you got to be big. We got some. small guys. PCO a little smaller, but. he'll get rolling. He fights though. Yeah, we got a lot of elbows. Gordo. Gordo will fight as well. laid someone. out yesterday. Yeah. Gordo cross body. check. There's so much like you guys. knock so many people down. It doesn't. always get called. So I really know what. you're allowed to do. You're allowed. shoulder. You're allowed soccer. I did. see the ref do this shoulder. So I can. just I can run as fast as I can and. blast you with my shoulder. As long as. you're near the ball, but I can't I just. can't extend my forearm. Yeah, it's a. push. You got to go shoulder just like.

basketball. Oh, okay. This is great. If. you're running next to somebody balls. there, you can shoulder. If you go to. leverage and lift, probably a penalty. I. can keep my little chicken wing tucked. in and bam. Okay, I love it. Now, there's a chance they will flop and they. will call it. Okay. Okay. So, it's. similar to lacrosse. Like, if I blast. somebody on lacrosse, at least sixth. grade that I watch, if the kid falls, going, it's going to be a penalty. If he. doesn't fall, I'm good. Yeah, kind of. But these refs will pass up on some. dives. They will. Okay. And then people. will get pissed cuz they won't pass up. on a few unbelievable dives. All we're.

looking for is consistency. Yeah, that's. all we're looking for here. It sounds. like Johnny Damon thinks the refs really. screwed it down. It is. coming loss. Thought it was a one-s. score loss. Yeah, it is poor. We had to. look at it. All right, boys. Your. thoughts on soccer table. Yeah, I mean I. said it the first day we were here. It. shocked me. Kind of took me back a. little bit that red boots didn't have. his red boots on and then I saw the way. Mario Alvarez was playing out here with. the black boots. Um, you know, hey,

listen. I wish we could stick around. through Monday. That's just not. feasible. Not something I'm gonna be. able to do, but I'll be locked in and. making sure that the boys bring the. title home. I know they will. I know. coach has been Yeah. On ESPN. I know. coach has been up late late night. drawing up set pieces, drawing up. different plays, you know, making sure. that our our rotation is is locked and. loaded. So, I I mean, it's joy every. time we come down here and it does seem. like this thing has gotten much bigger. than it even was last year. Like, this.

is uh this is a great tournament. Yeah. Exponentially better. That's what that. that's my big takeaway from Do you think. it's just strictly where we're staying. this year? That is a massive massive. part of it. Um I think also the the set. being built massive part of it. Uh not. thinking about what uh breaking down the. set right after this what that would. entail a massive part of it. But I think. as a whole you can kind of tell the. logistics of the entire thing and the. amount of you know craze and buzz around. it. Last year um I heard that you know a. couple people from the area were going.

to come check it out. Turns out when. they did check it out on the Friday, Saturday night, a lot of people they're. expecting to come back tomorrow with all. their friends with a lot of people. So, it's not just like us who are kind of a. part of it. It feels as though the town. rally carry have have kind of taken it. on as their own as well, except for the. one restaurant, but it feels like they. have kind of taken it on as their own. We got a call from that restaurant. Yes, we did. But, uh, thank you for the call. What's done is done. No, thank you for. the horrendous experience. Bingo. Uh,

but it's fantastic. I'm also glad that. we understood what the game is. Coming. into it last year, we had no idea. I. mean, [ __ ] the team was uh kind of. compiled with a bunch of, you know, big. field players. Now, we kind of. understand what the game is. We're not. learning the rules. It's a wonderful. tournament. Not not being uh, you know, not exaggerating here. This week has. been a thousand times better than last. week. I I just I just have to last year, excuse me. I just have to hammer that. home as well. and the guests, you know,

we had Wayne Gretzky on today. Wayne. Gretzky joining Damon watching the every. team has gotten better, I think, too. Yeah, it's also nice not seeing JJ a. lot. Um, but I miss JJ this year. I think I. saw him last week. I think that's why. Yeah, you're right. Tone, your thoughts. on this? Um, it's your first time, right? Yeah, but yes. Didn't come last. year in case lightning uh struck. I was. back in the the Thunderdome. You were. going to host that show yourself? Yep. Didn't want to do that. Um, it's kind of nostalgic like you. I I.

grew up playing 150 soccer games a year. going to soccer tournament. Oh. Uh, shout out Beadling by the way. I don't. know if you brought that or someone gave. that to you. Scott boss got it for you. Um, but just like how wellun there's. What is there? There's 20 fields here at. least and it's there's a thousand games. a day. How wellun it is and how how much. everyone cares and like everyone's got. sponsors and stuff like that. This is a. really cool event. Uh, very very excited. to come back every year. It closed there. Well, you got the wet. pitch. Does it remind you of being.

young? Yeah. So, I watched it two years. ago when Rugles in New Town won. I was. watching the finals. Ruggles actually as. a little boy gets tossed up in the sky. in the middle of this rainstorm. I. appreciate that happening in the. background there. Um, I watched as. Rugles won a million dollars and I saw. like a bunch of names that I grew up. playing soccer with over there. Little. boys getting tossed in the back. They. can just do the background shot. of tone in him. My Andy's down. He's a. heavier child. Looks to be a little bit.

older than a normal than a normal. I. don't know if that guy's lats are are. dying off or whatever. And he's back up. And he's back up. The boy is back up. The boy's back up. Is that kid? What's. up, brother? No, that's not cool. Kid. Rock, you think Kid Rack? No. We met We met a. guy last year or a kid who. Good for that lad. Good for the the guy. that lifted him up has had great energy. over there, too. By the way, I I think. he was at Big Night Out. That's the only. way he could have that hoodie. Appreciate you coming through. All of.

you, thank you for representing. Would. like to make an early announcement. Um after this show ends, we will take a. couple photos. Couple. cannot be standing out here for getting. soaked. Okay. So, let's have an. organized Let's have a good idea of. what's going to happen here. Let's take. some photos. Let's have a good time. Let's make sure we're not Did you see. what happened yesterday? Yeah. Oh, yeah. You, brother. I I It was You got. screwed. It was awesome to meet.

everybody. But people had no idea who I. was. Just saw people coming. There was. just a thousand people. I don't know who. you are was what they were saying to my. face. But will you sign this? It's like, sure. Got nowhere to be. Got it. Okay. So, with that being said, need to meet. this group over here. Need to meet this. group over here. Need to meet this group. up here. The lads up on the hill. I. appreciate you so much. If we could set. up a we could set up like almost like a. buffet line. If we could set up the. If we could figure out along the stairs,

it is right one walk up the stairs. Up. the up the up the steps. Bingo. And then. I head left and then we Yeah. Okay. I. don't know. It looks like lightning's. coming in. C. This is insane. Oh no. For. the safety of everybody. Let's go. Mountaineers. Guys got a West Virginia. flag up there. I appreciate the hell out. of him. He wanted me to start a war this. morning. He wanted me to say a lot of. things on camera and jump on things on. camera. I appreciate where his head is. at. Um, to the TST people, I'd like to say thank.

you for the hospitality. TST people, it's not lying. That's lightning, man. Oh, yeah. To everybody in the truck. Uh, great work back there, boys. To the entire ESPN production crew that. set all this up. Uh, we can't thank you. enough for showing up early in Carrie, making this go off without a hitch in. place, figuring it out. We'll also be. live at the finals, game three and game. four outside Gamebridge Fieldhouse in. Indianapolis, Indiana. Come join us if. you can. If not, what a beautiful. backdrop downtown. They will all be.

setting it up. So, thank you to them. Thank you to Scott on the jib out of. Louisiana. Scott out of Louisiana on the. jib. He's a weapon as are his jibs. Yeah, he's literally jib man. Jib man. He's. got a couple other jibs that need a. home, he says. Yeah. Wow. He literally. just walks around with at least three of. them things on him. Okay. He's got all. the jibs, all the magic you could. possibly need. He's from Louisiana. He. does eat gator. Oh, yeah. Does gator. Have we had gator? Other than those. gator nuggets? No. Just had the gator.

nuggets. Have not had any gator sent to. the office. Oh, we need to go down to a. Scott gator hunt down there with with. potentially Governor Jeff Langer down. What's that? I like one of them Governor. Jeff Langer gator hunts more than one of. them Scott Gator. What? But I think. Scott Scott Scott Scott would also say, I mean, look, I ain't no governor. I'm. I'm just a I'm just a normal gator. hunter. Oh, you're a corporate. I'm not. a corporate gator hunter. I'm a I'm a. premere gator hunter. And I think that's. what GG does. Yeah, it's pouring out.

there. I I'm trying to figure out if we. just go longer and wait for this to slow. down before we go out there. Be very. selfish of us to do that. Uh or if we. just go ahead and grit and bear this. thing and figure out an ex. So, I think. what we're going to do is we're going to. head up that stairs right there. We're. going to head up that stairs. So, I. think if we could get along the No, everybody's going to slip on the hill. Do that. That might be something that we. just have to deal with. Yeah. Hold on to. the four times. Things happen. Look, what do you No matter what, something. someone's going to happen. Somebody's.

going to be pissed. Yeah, we're at a. soccer tournament. I assume most of. these people have boots on, so. probably over the fence. That guy's got. a uh what's the state? Indiana Alabama. Jones had on right there. It looks like. he's got it figured out. That's a good. play right there. Tip of the cap to you, sir. Thumbs up. All right, let's get the. hell out of here. Have a great three-day. weekend. I'm gonna go experience. something that uh I don't know how many. humans get to experience to be honest. with you. I will document it all. I will be on my Instagram and X.

throughout it. I don't know if I should. though. It It feels like when they gave. me permission to do that, that felt. wrong as well. Well, read the room. They. gave me permission though cuz you also. just want to experience it. Yeah, I want. to be in there. Yeah, you need to focus. on there is. a pretty um heavy nonvitamin law, I. guess, where I'm headed. Yeah, I can. imagine. Yeah. Yeah. I think you'll understand. when I get there tomorrow. They've given. me a heads up, though. Like, hey, just. keep it right outside the perimeter.

That's where we're going to head. The. perimeter. Dig a hole. Don't be giving. too many. Don't be giving too many. things away. I could have said something. else, but I didn't. What would you have. said? start rhymes with no no starts with a B. All right, we're going to get out of. here. Thank you all so much for allowing. us to be a part of your lives. Have a. great three-day weekend. Panka plays at. 5:30. Then if they uh they got an. elimination game tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, we'll be following. along. Money in the Bank is Saturday. The NBA playoff or finals start tonight.

The NHL Stanley Cup finals continue. It. should be a great weekend of sports. We're lucky as hell to do this. Be a. friend. Tell a friend something nice. It. might change your life. We're in this. thing together. Shout out to Carrie. North Carolina. Team on me. Team on. three. 1 2 3. Goodbye.