Norris' One-Stop Shop for Hungarian GP, Salty Souls in the NFL, WWE Punks Everyone at Summer Slam

[00:00:04] Speaker A: Yo, what up everybody? This is source from the sofa. Another week, week three, as we were just reminded by Jason seconds ago. Just a random, just another random episode. Aaron even went above and beyond maybe getting ready for the college football season. Brought out a list of topics that we could talk about. We're not going to go through every one of them. [00:00:28] Speaker B: Like games to watch. Remember it's like 20 games. You can only watch 10. So it's. I'm just getting. [00:00:32] Speaker C: I'm just watching. [00:00:33] Speaker B: I'm just getting. I'm just getting warmed up. [00:00:37] Speaker C: I am psyched for week one college. [00:00:39] Speaker D: Ball games to watch. Like I don't even know how many are going to be on that list, you know, this year. [00:00:44] Speaker B: You know what? I was doing a quick rundown. I don't know. There's a notepad big enough for week one college football. [00:00:49] Speaker A: I. [00:00:50] Speaker B: There's a lot of good games. [00:00:51] Speaker C: Whatever it is. [00:00:52] Speaker D: We're going to be chasing whoever Hawaii is playing at on week one. [00:00:58] Speaker B: We'll see. We'll see. We got the college football contest coming up. Westgate. We will be involved in that. So we will be signing up for that. So yeah, start scouting guys. Start putting together a list of games you like against the spread. And that's right around the corner here, man. [00:01:12] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll be gambling, doing some different stuff for year two. I'm excited. Should be pretty fun. Random weekend in sports. We got the Hungarian Grand Prix which I was partying all late Saturday night at a friend's birthday party and we were all still up at 6, 7 in the morning. So I was like, perfect. They like F1. Let's catch it. And that was your Andrew. [00:01:40] Speaker B: Andrew guy or what? [00:01:41] Speaker A: Yeah. And I crashed in lap 40. Something woke up and it was over. But it was, it was a fun one to catch. We have some MLB trade deadline, I guess if you guys want to talk about that. Some more gambling, some drama and the NFL. And I think that's about it though not nothing really sticks out from this list that you made for us, Aaron. [00:02:06] Speaker D: We have, we have, we have the. [00:02:08] Speaker C: The party of summer. [00:02:09] Speaker A: Summer Slam stadium. [00:02:12] Speaker B: Two nights. [00:02:12] Speaker D: Two nights wrestling. [00:02:15] Speaker B: I saw Halliburton was there, so it looks like he's doing okay. [00:02:18] Speaker A: Halliburton was stolen, right? [00:02:20] Speaker C: He was part of the main event, man. He was helping out Cena, you know, gave him one of the crutches. [00:02:25] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty cool. We'll do a SummerSlam recap then with you, Jason. A little bit. Why not? Let's kick off though with the Hungarian Grand Prix. That was this Past Sunday, Norris took the victory. McLaren does it again. One, two. And it was really tight finish. Norris keeping Piastri at bay. Piastri had like the new tires to kind of make some ground in the final laps. George Russell finished the podium. Pretty big gap between them two overtaken LeClaire. And I can't remember if there was like any other drama sticking out. I feel like there was. [00:03:06] Speaker D: Yeah, there was, there was, there was a lot of drama. So you start with the McLarens, you know, the one two McLaren finish probably is going to be from here on out as we go to the second half of the season. So I don't think we're going to see much of a change. [00:03:18] Speaker B: There is that four straight races, they've been one two if I'm not mistaken. [00:03:22] Speaker D: I think you're right, Aaron. So, I mean it's just the dominant car at this point. I think it probably might have been since the Canadian Grand Prix. Trying to think back when George Russell won, won that race. [00:03:33] Speaker C: But yeah, the drama was there from the beginning before those two. [00:03:38] Speaker D: But the biggest thing was them going on completely different strategies from a tire perspective. [00:03:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:44] Speaker D: And then making the call, you know, to bring Piastri in on the, for, on, on a shorter pit cycle to. [00:03:52] Speaker C: Start and basically committing to a two tire stop. Lando holds on, takes over the lead. [00:03:59] Speaker D: Commits to the one tire strategy. And that really gave him the victory. Oscar was able to make it interesting in the final like three laps. I think it was the second to last lap. He, you know, almost T boned Norris going into turn one. But just. [00:04:16] Speaker C: And it's kind of two weeks in a row right now that I don't. [00:04:19] Speaker D: Want to say George Russell's got the favorable strategy. But there has been some, you know. [00:04:24] Speaker C: I don't know, the communication in the. [00:04:25] Speaker D: Pit box is it going between the race engineer on each side and what they're going to do. Piastri's been ahead. He's been able to get the first preference on whatever the pit stop is. And so they've gone a certain strategy. [00:04:35] Speaker C: But Norris and his team have basically gone, hey, we'll do opposite and see what happens. Can, can something happen? [00:04:41] Speaker D: And this one was like, hey, we're. [00:04:42] Speaker C: Gonna go on the one stop. They weren't the only ones to do that. [00:04:45] Speaker D: You had Fernando Alonso, Gabriel Bortoletto, Lance Stroll, I think even Liam Lawson all went on a one stop strategy. [00:04:54] Speaker C: And you know, those tires held on. [00:04:55] Speaker D: And we mean they, they, they were putting in some pretty, you know, good laps. Piastri again was able to catch. But I mean, it, it was, it. [00:05:02] Speaker C: Was drama because I think it's getting. [00:05:04] Speaker D: To that point between these two guys. [00:05:06] Speaker C: And I don't, I don't know, at some point it's got to blow up between the two and now you're, you're talking about a title fight in the. [00:05:14] Speaker D: Overall standings where we're down to. What are we down to? [00:05:18] Speaker C: A nine point margin between the two in the standing. So it's, it's a, it's a victory. [00:05:23] Speaker D: And know who's getting more victories from here on out. And it goes into who qualifies better and maybe some of the strategy stuff that's inside the second half of the season, but it was, it was interesting because I think there's a lot of. [00:05:36] Speaker C: Feeling that Piastri's the better driver. [00:05:39] Speaker D: But Norris has gotten some favorable stuff here the past couple weeks, which, which has been some conspiracy theories out there that McLaren secretly is favoring Norris. [00:05:50] Speaker B: Well, Jason, you've pointed that out since the season started that Zach Brown and is Norris's guy. [00:05:56] Speaker A: They were talking about on the, on, on, on the, on the cast, actually how Norris is his favorite driver. I thought that was really fun. [00:06:04] Speaker C: Yeah, there's, there's, I mean, he obviously has been with him since he's been. [00:06:08] Speaker D: CEO of McLaren and, and you know. [00:06:10] Speaker C: Has developed Norris and who. He has Piastri. [00:06:13] Speaker D: I mean, that was just, just a. [00:06:15] Speaker C: Genius acquisition aspect from, from Zach Brown. [00:06:19] Speaker D: Because he basically stole him from Alpine. And I say stole. You know, he wasn't really under contract. [00:06:24] Speaker C: But Alpine at the time for Piastri. [00:06:28] Speaker D: Alpine had Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon. [00:06:32] Speaker C: And they were gonna go with that. [00:06:33] Speaker D: Lineup and keep Piastri down in Formula 2, whatever. They lose Fernando Alonso to Aston Martin. [00:06:38] Speaker C: And said, okay, they just put an. [00:06:39] Speaker D: Announcement that Piastri is our driver for the next year. And Pastor's like, I didn't sign anything. I'm not going to be your driver. And, and McLaren swooped in and so. [00:06:47] Speaker C: While he was a young driver who, you know, went through Formula 2 and. [00:06:51] Speaker D: 3 and won championships and stuff and. [00:06:53] Speaker C: Was heralded, he just hasn't been this, this guy that's coming through McLaren that's. [00:06:56] Speaker D: Put the work in where there's, there's. [00:06:58] Speaker C: Been a, there's been a body language. [00:07:00] Speaker D: And thing, the way Zach Brown talks. [00:07:01] Speaker C: About Lando, where Andrea Estella, who's the. [00:07:04] Speaker D: Team principal of McLaren, There's a lot of things that said like, oh, he's favoring Piastri because of just like his aggressiveness. And the way he drives and stuff. [00:07:12] Speaker C: So you. You got a dueling thing within the garage. Don't know if any of this crap is true, but like people read into this stuff is like there's these two different ideas of who should be the number one driver. Even though they all come out and. [00:07:25] Speaker D: Say there's no number one driver, we're letting these guys race. [00:07:28] Speaker A: Well, two different personalities too. So I was just looking back. This is the fifth race out of the last 6:12 for McLaren consecutives since Canadian. And then what was the one they didn't do in the Spanish, but. But they did in Monaco? One thing I've noticed in the press clippings, especially like the post race interviews, Norris is just like a pretty chill guy. He's more like down about himself. He's very critical. He obviously overthinks a lot when he's racing and maybe that's why he makes some mistakes, especially we saw earlier in the season. But other than that though, he's just like, he's a team guy. And now you're starting to see, at least to me, this almost like this irritants from Piastri, especially when he's getting interviewed post race, like there's like a little bit of animosity, a little bit of hatred, like he hates losing. It's a, like, is this type of anger that's starting to come out before he was pretty dialed back. But we're starting to see a different side of Piastri on the main stage. I don't know if you guys are catching the same thing, but I've heard similar things, especially on, on the message boards. [00:08:31] Speaker D: Yeah, you're 100, right? You look back to the Silverstone race where he got with the penalty and was just complaining all over the radio. We talked about on the pot at that point where he's like, if you. [00:08:41] Speaker C: Guys don't think this is a penalty, it's only fair that he gives me the position. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we get to switch. And so, and I think you've seen post race stuff since then and there's. [00:08:50] Speaker D: Been a lot of awkwardness that moment where Piastri has been. [00:08:55] Speaker C: It's emotional, but it's negative emotion. Where he was the guy that was just like win or lose, he was just kind of like even. [00:09:00] Speaker D: And there's almost like a, a robotic to him, similar to Verstappen or. It's just like there's no emotion, high or low, where you. [00:09:07] Speaker C: You called it out for Lando. [00:09:08] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:09:08] Speaker C: Lando get down on himself. [00:09:09] Speaker D: He'd be o. [00:09:10] Speaker C: He'd be overcome with the emotion of. [00:09:12] Speaker D: Like, hey, I'm not being great. [00:09:13] Speaker C: This and that. And, you know, everyone's got these different. [00:09:15] Speaker D: Personalities, and there's definitely a dynamic between those two. [00:09:18] Speaker C: But I think Lando's been accountable. [00:09:20] Speaker D: But at a certain point, like, I. [00:09:22] Speaker C: Think that emotion is seen on track, too, because if you guys. If you look at some of these. [00:09:25] Speaker D: Laps, I think particularly at spa two weeks ago. Yeah, Rome's eating. If you guys are hearing that in the microphone. That's just, just. [00:09:35] Speaker B: He'll edit that part out. [00:09:36] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:09:36] Speaker C: Will he edit that out? [00:09:37] Speaker D: I don't think he will. [00:09:38] Speaker B: Just bad AI mutes his ass when he. [00:09:41] Speaker C: He just came out like a pelican. Just opened his mouth and just dropped. [00:09:45] Speaker D: The whole thing in a bag of chips in his mouth right now. [00:09:48] Speaker B: Easy to opening his mouth for many, many things. Over. My bad. The comedy show's over. [00:09:55] Speaker A: Is that why you invite me to Vegas? You sick. [00:09:57] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, you guys, what happens in. [00:10:00] Speaker B: Vegas stays in Vegas, remember? [00:10:04] Speaker C: But getting back on topic here. Yeah. [00:10:07] Speaker A: Pretzels are making me thirsty. [00:10:09] Speaker C: Oh, my God. Okay, Cosmo got the reference. [00:10:13] Speaker D: I see what she did there. [00:10:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:15] Speaker C: But, yeah, I think you see from Lando in Spa, like, as he was trying to catch up to Piastri in. [00:10:22] Speaker D: Those later laps and he. [00:10:24] Speaker C: He made some mistakes on the track. [00:10:25] Speaker D: That cost him time. And the broadcast was talking about it. [00:10:28] Speaker C: I think those are some of the. [00:10:29] Speaker D: Differences in driving style that go into. [00:10:31] Speaker C: Personality, too, where, like, Piastri hunkers down. [00:10:34] Speaker D: And he hits his marks every single lap. Every single lap, like, precision, like, again, similar to Verstappen. [00:10:39] Speaker C: Norris hit some great laps and then he's. He's on the edge so much, then he. Then he loses it and makes a mistake. Loses second here and just is. [00:10:48] Speaker D: Couldn't make that delta. [00:10:49] Speaker C: And so I, I think you see that there. But it's going to be. It's going to be close down the stretch. [00:10:55] Speaker D: And if McLaren, how hands off are they going to be? [00:10:58] Speaker C: Because they got the constructors in the bag. And when you talk to the teams. [00:11:02] Speaker D: That'S what they care about. That's what the money's at. You don't get money for the driver's championship. The teams get money for the constructor. [00:11:07] Speaker C: So they know they got all this money. These guys are going to be dueling it out. [00:11:10] Speaker D: How you going to let them? [00:11:11] Speaker C: Because even, even the passive aggressive, you know, guys in the radio to Piastri. [00:11:17] Speaker D: When he's almost t bowing Norris going to turn one. He's like, Oscar, you know, this. You know, remember the way we race and da, da, da, da, da. Like, you know, they're almost coaching these guys. [00:11:25] Speaker A: I missed that. [00:11:27] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. [00:11:27] Speaker C: I mean, they're on the radio trying. [00:11:29] Speaker D: To basically say, like, okay, we race clean, you know, this and that, and trying to go through. [00:11:33] Speaker C: But, like, at a certain point, it's got to be like, hey, let's let the guys go. [00:11:36] Speaker D: And. [00:11:37] Speaker C: And what's gonna happen? You know, you're winning the. You know, you're gonna be winning the. The constructors. Like, these guys need to battle it out. I know we can't do, like, Brad Pitt in Formula one and start taking each other's wings off and still putting her on best laps. [00:11:50] Speaker A: That's not gonna happen. [00:11:51] Speaker D: But. [00:11:53] Speaker C: But I think there's gonna. There's gotta be something that comes down to it where everything just can't be. [00:11:57] Speaker D: The qualifying and we just have some races out there. [00:11:59] Speaker C: I think you're gonna get some interesting tracks. I like the second half of the season. The North. The North American part of the circuit. [00:12:06] Speaker D: Where they're in Circuit of the Americas in Texas. They go down to Mexico, they go down to Brazil, Vegas. There's some really good tracks for a lot of different, you know, stuff could happen, so it'll be interesting. But that. [00:12:19] Speaker C: That's the duel. I know there's some Formula one people thinking this is like a boring title fight this year, but think it' Years ago, we had Max Verstappen running away with this thing where no one was. [00:12:27] Speaker D: Winning a race that Red Bull won. [00:12:29] Speaker C: You know, 23 out of 24 races or 22 out of 23 races or whatever. Like, these guys are winning back and forth, and it's a duel between the two of these guys. There's other story lines going on for. For the. Maybe the other constructors and some future stuff, but this is a re. There's a real championship fight between these. [00:12:45] Speaker D: Two guys going down the stretch. And I, you know, I think Formula one fans should. In the. The regular masses should be enjoying this. [00:12:52] Speaker A: Something's got to give. [00:12:53] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, agree. I mean, I think it looks like, like, these two are going to go down to the wire. [00:12:59] Speaker A: I think Josh is going to blow up eventually. [00:13:01] Speaker B: I think he already did. If you take a look at that 10 second penalty which you guys were talking about, I mean, he was. He was hot. I mean, to be as hot as he was and ask for the position back, I mean, I don't think it gets any more desperate. [00:13:11] Speaker A: It's going to happen More in the second half on a good one. Right now he's gained some traction. If he didn't crash out on that one race, what, it would just be one point right now, right? [00:13:23] Speaker C: I was a Canadian grand p. It probably would be one. [00:13:25] Speaker D: Yeah. I mean, just finished position. So it'll be interesting. [00:13:27] Speaker C: And like, you know, a crash goes either way. Because think about like Norris was out and didn't get the points that race. But then think back to we started the season Australia. Yeah, Australia, where piastri kind of saved it. [00:13:39] Speaker D: I think he salvaged like seventh or. [00:13:41] Speaker C: Eighth or something and got a few. [00:13:42] Speaker D: Points out of it. [00:13:42] Speaker C: So, you know, that's the only thing you crash. Like, is it detrimental where you are. [00:13:46] Speaker D: Out of the race? You know that which happens a lot in Formula 1. [00:13:49] Speaker C: Or can you recover if these guys. [00:13:51] Speaker D: Get a little too aggressive? [00:13:54] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm really excited to preview the second half. We're going to bring Andrew back for that one as well. He's already on board. He's at the lock in the date. [00:14:00] Speaker C: I want to talk one more thing. [00:14:01] Speaker D: F1. [00:14:03] Speaker C: We got to talk about Ferrari. [00:14:04] Speaker D: All right. [00:14:04] Speaker A: Do it. [00:14:05] Speaker D: So two things with Ferrari. One, Aaron put in the notes about my guy. Lewis Hamilton just basically crashing out right now where he is just. He basically said, ferrari, go get another driver. Really? [00:14:18] Speaker C: Yeah, like, because he was out again early in qualifying. [00:14:21] Speaker D: While Charles leclaire, his teammate puts the Ferrari on the pole. He has just been dreadful in qualifying. Has done some pretty good stuff in the race. But even in this race, he did nothing. He was around 12th the entire time. Never he anything hasn't felt comfortable in this car. I don't. I didn't think he was going to do great overall once you saw like how bad this Ferrari got after China. [00:14:42] Speaker C: But I want to bring that part up in China because remember, Lewis wins the sprint race in China and then the. The actual race in China. Both Charles and Lewis get disqualified because. [00:14:55] Speaker D: Of the floor on the Ferrari being too low. [00:14:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:59] Speaker C: Since then the Ferrari has been crap because I think it's been such on the edge that they've been messing with. [00:15:04] Speaker D: The floor and they've lost whatever. Whatever arrow stuff's been going on in the car. [00:15:08] Speaker C: This race. Charles is in the lead, eventually loses it, but in the middle of the race is blowing up on his team with all sorts of like coded language of. Of he's pissed off. That's all. You know, and basically saying, you didn't let me try to fix it or do anything on there. But they're not trying to Say with the radio. George Russell in the post race basically said something about this car was wrong, the Ferrari. And there's something there was that was questionably illegal. My guess is that and this, but not my guess. Well, the assumption around there is too is they're messing with the floor again in the Ferrari. And I think it was bottoming out a lot of certain points in this track and there probably was a risk, depending on how Charles was pushing the car, that where they're not going to pass inspection again because all of a sudden he got super slow. Lost. [00:16:00] Speaker D: Lost. [00:16:00] Speaker C: He lost the podium. [00:16:02] Speaker A: That was after like lap 35, I think. He. He all of a sudden dropped a lot. [00:16:06] Speaker D: Yes. [00:16:07] Speaker C: And so that's the conspiracy out there where George basically fueled that where because he asked him a question, he's like, oh, they're not going to tell you. [00:16:12] Speaker D: You had. They had. They had an illegal car. [00:16:14] Speaker C: But there had to been something that was questionable there that Ferrari was super. [00:16:17] Speaker D: Concerned about that they were going to get disqualified. [00:16:20] Speaker C: So it's been drama with Ferrari from head to toe. [00:16:25] Speaker D: They are. [00:16:26] Speaker C: I'm trying to put the American terms of this and where they would be because I mean, they're basically kind of like the Yankees of Formula one. But at the same time there's like, there's a level of drama with them that's almost like the jets, we're just like they. It's just complete dysfunction at all times. And they are like the national team of Italy. [00:16:45] Speaker D: Like if we talk about like what's the biggest thing in Italy? Like I'm sure they have like soccer stuff in there, but Ferrari is like what, you know, like Italy at. [00:16:54] Speaker C: And there's. There's such a pride within this team. [00:16:56] Speaker D: And I think it's a different way this Formula one team is, is run. And it's a questionable success because Sebastian. [00:17:03] Speaker C: Vettel, four time Formula one world champion. [00:17:06] Speaker D: For Red Bull, went to Ferrari. [00:17:07] Speaker C: Never was able to replicate the success. [00:17:09] Speaker D: A lot of questions this is going to happen to Lewis Hamilton too, because just the infrastructure of Ferrari, but couldn't. [00:17:14] Speaker C: Let that go before he jumped to the NFL Rome because the Ferrari stuff was just like, what the hell is. [00:17:18] Speaker D: Going on with this team right now? Because it just seems like something was up and no one wanted to say what was up. But then George Russell comes out and says, yeah, they probably had almost an illegal car. [00:17:27] Speaker A: Yes, I remember. [00:17:27] Speaker B: But they passed inspection. [00:17:29] Speaker D: They did. [00:17:30] Speaker B: Okay. [00:17:30] Speaker A: So I remember Claire backtracking on his comments that he made during the race, but then I did not catch those. Hamilton so what do you say exactly? [00:17:37] Speaker C: Afterwards, Hamilton said after qualifying because they basically asked what's wrong? [00:17:42] Speaker D: Are you not like comfortable? [00:17:43] Speaker C: What's wrong with the car? [00:17:44] Speaker D: He basically said the car's fine. The car got on the pole. I don't know what's wrong with me. I think they just need to get another driver. And it's just like it was a level of self doubt for basically what I consider the greatest champion of all time when it comes to Formula one. [00:17:57] Speaker C: He's just not confident in this car. He's never been confident in this regulation. [00:18:01] Speaker D: Even when he's at Mercedes. You know, we talked a lot about. [00:18:04] Speaker C: How big this car is. [00:18:05] Speaker D: Like it's the biggest a Formula one car has ever been. Like the cars have gotten bigger and bigger to this point now that you know, they barely fit in the streets of Monaco when they're racing. And I think everything about this regulation has never suited Lewis. [00:18:17] Speaker C: The car gets smaller in 2026 and. [00:18:19] Speaker D: So maybe there's some upside there, but I think there's a level of doubt. [00:18:22] Speaker C: Did he make the right decision with this? [00:18:24] Speaker D: Because again we're talking and there's no facts to it but everyone's saying Mercedes might be the car to beat with the new regulation and the engine and stuff. So he leaves Mercedes now to go next year. If Ferrari doesn't have their act together, is it another crap box coming into the new regulation which just puts them. [00:18:40] Speaker C: Behind and know Lewis is getting up there in age. [00:18:43] Speaker A: So yeah, he's like, he's like our age, right? [00:18:45] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. [00:18:46] Speaker B: I mean did Lewis, did Mercedes want Lewis back or is this kind of like he just wanted to fulfill a dream of race? [00:18:52] Speaker C: Ferrari, Lewis, he, he had one more year in his contract. [00:18:56] Speaker D: It would have been this year. And I, because I think what, I. [00:18:59] Speaker C: Think what Mercedes, Mercedes would not give. [00:19:03] Speaker D: Him a long term deal. They were giving him the one and one stuff. And I think Toto Wolf eventually wanted Kimi Antonelli to be Lewis's replacement, which ended up happening. But I think it happened sooner rather than later because Lewis decided to go to Ferrari and kind of live this. [00:19:18] Speaker C: Dream which, you know they'll talk about. [00:19:19] Speaker D: That every racer's dream is to race for Ferrari. It's, it's, it's the team of Formula one. But I think it could took everyone a year. Probably a year too early and surprised. But it worked out for Ferrari because Carlos Sainz was ending his contract. [00:19:32] Speaker A: Sweet man. Well, thanks for that. [00:19:34] Speaker D: Sorry, I know you wanted to get to the NFL. [00:19:36] Speaker C: No, yeah, I talking about you're Talking about Brian Schottenheimer's backwards hat. [00:19:39] Speaker D: That Colin cow her does happen. [00:19:43] Speaker B: It's a visor. [00:19:46] Speaker A: I was like, I don't know anyone else. Else who has advice besides Jason. Maybe I do. [00:19:50] Speaker C: I used to wear a visor back in the day when I was never backwards. [00:19:54] Speaker D: I don't think. [00:19:55] Speaker A: Kind of weird, right? [00:19:56] Speaker B: It's not a good. It's not a good look. A vibe backwards. [00:19:58] Speaker A: Who used to wear a visor backwards? I. I could have sworn there's like another coach with like the Chargers or something. I just can't pinpoint it. Maybe, you know. Do you remember? [00:20:09] Speaker B: I. I don't. Visors. I can't really remember visors. [00:20:14] Speaker A: I used to wear visors, too. Are they coming back or have they. [00:20:19] Speaker B: I mean, the only the. I mean, I remember, you know, back in college, back in the day, you know, Steve Spar used to wear one at Florida. But, you know, maybe back in the 80s 90s, he had like, what, all those guys. John Robinson wearing the visor and stuff. But yeah, it's. [00:20:35] Speaker C: I. I don't know if a visor. [00:20:37] Speaker D: Ever goes away in football. I think that's just like a. Like a football look. [00:20:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:44] Speaker A: Anyways, there's, like, a lot of news. We can talk about the backwards thing. Collins, like, I don't think you got the memo. Serious coaches don't wear that. Wear a visor backwards. [00:20:53] Speaker C: Listen. [00:20:53] Speaker B: I listen to coaches and quarterbacks. [00:20:56] Speaker C: I listen to Colin forever. And quarterback backwards hat is like his litmus test. [00:21:01] Speaker A: It is crazy. [00:21:01] Speaker D: Everything unprofessional. [00:21:03] Speaker A: So it is. [00:21:05] Speaker C: If there's one thing he's passionate about, is how. [00:21:07] Speaker D: How does the CEO of your organization wear a hat? [00:21:10] Speaker A: Yeah, he's a little anal about that. All right, NFL. Today they ban NFL's smelling salts. We just found out Red Zone is going to espn. How are they going to mess that up? We had a couple trades. Mika Parsons, Cherry Jones. Not worried. So. All right, so they're gonna eventually pay him then, but I don't know. [00:21:32] Speaker B: I saw Jerry came out today and said he wasn't even sure Micah Parson's gonna play in week one. Said he wasn't sure. So. [00:21:41] Speaker A: You know they're not going to trade him to the. To the Lions. Right. [00:21:46] Speaker D: You know. You know where he should be going, Rob? [00:21:48] Speaker A: He should not be going to the Bears at all. [00:21:51] Speaker B: Actually, I think the Bears makes a lot of sense. [00:21:54] Speaker D: They. [00:21:54] Speaker C: It's basically the Khalil Mac trade. We just get it done right now. [00:21:57] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:21:58] Speaker D: It's a package. [00:21:58] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Social media has not been really kind to Caleb Williams this past week. [00:22:05] Speaker C: They can get off of it, man. They can show the video of him not hitting the targets in the net. And then there's another video where he drills like six in a row in the net. So, you know, whatever. [00:22:15] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I heard, you know, Caleb was playing basketball, not football. But we'll. We'll see. We'll see. We got week one coming around the corner. Just got deleted, though. It's never good. [00:22:25] Speaker A: And that's not good. You're right, it's not good. [00:22:30] Speaker B: Don't. Just don't release it and then delete it, you know? [00:22:33] Speaker A: Why do they post it? [00:22:33] Speaker B: Yeah, don't post it. [00:22:34] Speaker A: Yeah, that's not a good look. Are they idiots? Bears gonna. Bears Terry with the commanders. That, that contract drama. I've heard some pretty good arguments where they should just sign him and pay him. And then there's the other side. We're like, dude, he's already 31. Why would you commit that much money? The team's finally good. We got to do this smart. That's why they're not going to give him the contract. [00:23:00] Speaker B: They're good because he's been playing on an elite level. Good. [00:23:03] Speaker A: Yeah. And they have a cool culture because. [00:23:05] Speaker B: He wasn't pay him. Because I'm high on Washington this year, but I'm losing hope. So I'm just get the guy paid. [00:23:13] Speaker D: The guy had like nothing but crap quarterbacks forever. They finally get him a good. And he produced with all his other crap quarterbacks, and now you get him the good quarterback. You don't want to pay him. [00:23:21] Speaker A: It's weird. [00:23:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:23] Speaker A: So you guys agree he should get paid? [00:23:25] Speaker B: Well, yeah. You got a quarterback on a rookie contract, too. Your super bowl window's open right now if you're Washington. [00:23:31] Speaker D: I think he proved like through the years before Jaden Daniels, like, he's a dependable, could be star receiver that you want on your team. That's going to be like he. [00:23:43] Speaker B: Yeah, he was a top 10 wide receiver. What, Tyler Heinecke as his quarterback? [00:23:48] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:23:48] Speaker B: I mean, come on. [00:23:50] Speaker A: I was telling you. I was hiding a cue back. Wasn't that bad. [00:23:55] Speaker B: These are the Chargers now back up. So. [00:23:57] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. What else in the NFL, they got shot up? [00:24:03] Speaker B: Well, yeah. Headquarters at headquarters now the smelling salts as he got banned. [00:24:10] Speaker D: Okay. [00:24:11] Speaker B: They're not shooting those up, but yeah, that. [00:24:14] Speaker A: Do you guys like the band a smelling salts? Yeah. [00:24:19] Speaker B: Well, I don't know. I always like. I always like seeing the players come out of Commercial like smelling them and just throwing them off to the side like as we get ready to play. So I don't know. [00:24:26] Speaker A: I. I guess it's just. [00:24:30] Speaker D: Okay. [00:24:30] Speaker A: I guess it's tied to masking concussions. [00:24:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Or can be tied to that. Yeah. That's the negative side effect, I guess. And there's no. Supposedly no positive or shown results that it actually increases like, you know, energy and alertness and all that. [00:24:48] Speaker A: But it wakes you up. [00:24:50] Speaker B: Yeah, it does. It does. [00:24:51] Speaker A: Let me tell you. [00:24:52] Speaker B: It wakes you up. That's why, you know, guys get knocked out. Remember the old days, the old movies again. The old smelling song. Yeah, too. [00:25:00] Speaker A: That's hilarious. [00:25:02] Speaker D: I was trying to think, was it any given Sunday they did that? [00:25:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I think so. I'm not really prepared to talk a lot about football. That's all I got. [00:25:17] Speaker B: I mean, that's really it. I mean we did have the pre. We did have the hall of Fame. The pre season game where the Lions looked. They looked bad. They look bad. [00:25:26] Speaker A: And there's a lot of concern. [00:25:28] Speaker B: Really good. For sure. [00:25:30] Speaker A: Yeah. Lance. [00:25:34] Speaker B: Well, I mean he's. Well, it's going to get second and third string guys. [00:25:37] Speaker A: But there's a stat man, like in the last 10 years, everyone who's won the hall of Fame game has not made the playoffs. [00:25:43] Speaker B: That's going to change, I can tell you that right now. [00:25:47] Speaker A: Just saying it's there. All right, let's transition then. [00:25:53] Speaker C: Well, I think you could pseudo transition. [00:25:55] Speaker D: If you're going NFL, you can talk about just the NFL Network, ESPN Red Zone, what that's going to look like. [00:26:01] Speaker B: And what NFL Network's fantasy football coverage too. I think ESPN now has it under one umbrella. [00:26:06] Speaker A: I thought ESPN already had their own NFL fantasy football coverage. [00:26:10] Speaker B: Yeah, but now, now they're taking the NFL Networks ones too. [00:26:15] Speaker A: Sounds like the ESPN is just buying everyone else's good shows. [00:26:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I think Jason mentioned that about a month ago. Right. That's just gonna be. [00:26:21] Speaker A: Now it's just gonna be cable for all the sports shows. [00:26:24] Speaker B: Yeah, they've got that new streaming thing. They're coming out in the fall. It's going to cost like 30 bucks a month. You get, you get, you get everything. Espn, like all their networks, everything tied to basically whatever it is, their streaming service platform for like 29.99. [00:26:40] Speaker D: And it probably motivates this. We were, before the podcast started, we were talking about Rich Eisen and where he was at. And like that was part of the biggest thing for Rich Eisen was him being on this. The ESPN I don't know what we're calling it, but it's not ESPN plus. [00:26:52] Speaker A: Mega Network, ESPN everything. [00:26:54] Speaker D: But I'm sure you get tied in at this point. Now you get this ESPN subscription. You get the NFL Network with it now too, along with ESPN3, ESPN, Yocho, ESPN. [00:27:04] Speaker B: I think any program that ESPN has, you get it with that streaming service. So it will be separate from ESPN Plus. But yeah. [00:27:10] Speaker A: Well, how's that going to affect like YouTube subscribers? Because we already get NFL Network. [00:27:15] Speaker C: I think we, you still get it. [00:27:17] Speaker D: Like it's just, it's, it be. It's a different way that I think ESPN has been holding off when you look from a revenue standpoint because right. [00:27:24] Speaker C: Now, you know, they get the contract. [00:27:26] Speaker D: From YouTube TV or DirecTV or you know, Spectrum, whatever cable providers are providing the, you know, the ESPN content, whatever package, you know, hundreds of millions or whatever they're paying and they've avoided the over, you know, their direct to consumer stuff because it probably was like, okay, we'll, we'll lose money in negotiating power with these third party companies and everything like that, you know. [00:27:52] Speaker C: But now you're to the point where. [00:27:53] Speaker D: Okay, ESPN's like, all right, what, what. [00:27:55] Speaker C: Is the money that comes direct to. [00:27:57] Speaker D: Me that we're not negotiating with the middleman where I charge you 30, 35 bucks straight profit going to ESPN for that content. And what's, you know, what's the, what's the appetite for that? You know, we've, you know, Rome, you brought it up about a month ago and how many different streaming services you would need to have to have a. [00:28:13] Speaker A: Bit about my stand up act. It's ridiculous. [00:28:16] Speaker C: I mean, so what it's like to be for every NFL game and like. [00:28:19] Speaker D: Where it's on from a cable perspective. But now, I mean this gives ESPN to the point where they cut off a middleman to cable like it would have been. So it's, it's interesting. [00:28:29] Speaker C: You know, they try to do this with. [00:28:33] Speaker D: I guess it's Turner Sports or Warner Brothers Discovery, whatever portion of that company they were trying to make that kind of sports only channel that was bringing Fox, ESPN and Warner Brothers all into like a sports streaming like network and that was basically called off because people were suing them for you know, whatever monopolistic stuff or whatever practices. But I mean, I think this gives ESPN with acquiring the NFL Network, the tie ins with the NFL. I think there's some, there's naturally going to be some questionable journalism aspects of it if you're into that. Because Now NFL owns 10 equity stake in ESPN. So when you talk about like what's the type of journalistic integrity you're going to get of ESPN covering the NFL since the NFL is a partial owner of what's going on the airwaves. But I think ESPN is kind of long gone of trying to be the leader in journalism that they probably were 20 years ago where they were hiring writers. Now, okay, we're talking about, you know. [00:29:32] Speaker C: We, we pay the most money to. [00:29:34] Speaker D: Get the games, whether it's college or, you know, the NBA or the NFL. And we talk about the NFL, that's the coverage. And then we buy personalities that have less overhead. Like you said, they bought McAfee, they buy Rich Eisen. These are ready made shows. They just pay one number. They don't do all the overhead that it requires. [00:29:54] Speaker A: A production company does show because he. [00:29:56] Speaker B: Does football, you know, inside the NBA with tnt. [00:30:00] Speaker A: So inside the NBA. [00:30:02] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:30:03] Speaker C: So I mean, I think it's a. [00:30:05] Speaker D: Strategy because I mean does it save them money where they're just buying whatever. They don't need to worry about whatever when it comes to the, the different parts of the K. We just buy this show, we put it on our network. [00:30:17] Speaker C: Remind me that you talk like, like Rich Eisen. [00:30:19] Speaker D: I really like Rich Eisen too. [00:30:20] Speaker C: Want to bring that out when you. [00:30:21] Speaker D: To the SummerSlam segment. There's a little tie in with Rich size and SummerSlam I gotta get to. [00:30:25] Speaker B: But, but yeah, I mean, I think like Jason just said, I mean journalism for ESP and they don't care. They're going back to being the entertainment, sports capital and entertainment. And that's what they're gonna do. They're gonna buy all the entertainment from sports, all the big guys and pin them under one umbrella. And here you go. For 30 bucks a month you can see us. [00:30:42] Speaker C: I'm very, I'm very curious on. [00:30:44] Speaker D: I, I didn't read enough into it. Does, does the Red Zone channel, is it going to be on espn? Is it going to be like we. [00:30:50] Speaker C: You know, here on the West coast. [00:30:52] Speaker D: At 10am Once NFL Sunday Countdown goes down, it goes straight to like a bowling or darts or some other crap on ESPN and I gotta flip over to like CBS or Fox for you know, the games. But now, hey, do they go, are they going Sunday, you know, countdown straight into the Red Zone channel on espn. You know, that turns into something like great for ESPN if you're able to do that. I don't know where it kills it with just being an overall channel on, you know, the like YouTube TV for us. [00:31:23] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, DirecTV still the red zone channel, so I don't know what that's gonna. Gonna look like here. [00:31:28] Speaker A: Yeah, no clue. But we're gonna find out. It's like, weeks out. Yeah, weeks out. What do you got to talk about the MLB trade? [00:31:38] Speaker D: I mean, there were so many trades. [00:31:39] Speaker A: There were a lot of trades. Break it down. [00:31:42] Speaker B: I thought we're gonna take a break and then come back. [00:31:44] Speaker A: And I want SummerSlam to get its own thing. [00:31:47] Speaker D: Wow. SummerSlam. High praise. Its own segment, Aaron. [00:31:50] Speaker C: That's. [00:31:50] Speaker D: That's where it's at, man. [00:31:51] Speaker B: Wow. [00:31:51] Speaker C: I got a lot. [00:31:52] Speaker B: I. I need a break after hearing that. I'm not even gonna lie. [00:31:55] Speaker A: Jeez. [00:31:57] Speaker C: Well, I mean. I mean, teams. So are we doing MLB Rome? [00:32:00] Speaker B: Is that where you're going? [00:32:01] Speaker A: You're guiding? [00:32:02] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:32:02] Speaker A: Let's roll into it real quick. [00:32:03] Speaker D: Okay. All right. Rome. [00:32:04] Speaker C: Rome said I would say. Aaron, I mean, I don't know if you disagree about this. [00:32:07] Speaker D: The. [00:32:07] Speaker C: The most interesting one I found in the American League being kind of wide open. The Seattle Mariners, who've never really made their World Series run, they. They got a sneaky good team right now that could make a run in the American League. [00:32:24] Speaker A: Really good team. [00:32:25] Speaker C: And them getting my Guy Suarez from the Diamondbacks, that nuked my. That nuked my. My fantasy baseball team here, losing all my power. But I think adding him, you know, to that lineup that's already got the big dumper, Julio Rodriguez, you know, a bunch of other, you know, good power bats. [00:32:45] Speaker B: Don't forget they added Naylor basically about a week before. [00:32:48] Speaker C: Ah, Naylor. Yeah, I forgot about that, too. I forgot they just got the whole Diamondbacks team. [00:32:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:52] Speaker C: So. But, yeah, that was an interesting one to me because I think the Mariners have been a team that's just. They're pretty well ran. They got a good farm system. They brought some good guys up. [00:33:03] Speaker D: You know, they. [00:33:03] Speaker C: They invested early in Julio Rodriguez. Even though it kind of hasn't panned out, they were using kind of like that Braves model where, hey, we got a star. We'll pay him. [00:33:10] Speaker D: We'll have years of control. We'll give him the money. [00:33:12] Speaker C: Now, Cal Raleigh's been arguably maybe the AL mvp. He's probably going toe to toe with Judge for that right now. Judge came back tonight, I believe. But there's. There's something there in Seattle, and it's. It's, you know, for a team that's never. [00:33:28] Speaker D: Never been to the World Series, I think. [00:33:29] Speaker C: Right. [00:33:29] Speaker D: They definitely haven't won it. [00:33:31] Speaker C: But I don't Think they've ever been. [00:33:31] Speaker D: To the World Series, Aaron? [00:33:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, they just got to the postseason for the first time in like, what it was like almost 18, 20 years. When they got back in, I believe it was 20, 22, season, 23, whatever it was, I mean, when we hit. [00:33:46] Speaker A: Her, think about it. [00:33:47] Speaker B: We did our MLB preview or second half preview post All Star game. I came on and I said, look at Seattle's kind of always faltered because they lacked offense. And then they go out, they get Suarez, Jason's guy, Naylor, like five days before. I really like the Seattle team. In fact, I got them right now as my number one team to win the. I like them to win the American League. I think Seattle is going to win the American League right now. They stay healthy and get to the World Series. I think they're a sneaky sleeper team to do it. And I, I like him. I. I really like what Seattle's doing. [00:34:19] Speaker D: Yeah, I don't, I don't just. [00:34:20] Speaker C: I don't disagree. I think the Astros still got something there. [00:34:23] Speaker D: I was very curious of the Astros getting Carlos Correa. The Twins basically have just thrown the whole thing overboard. [00:34:30] Speaker B: What the Twins doing? I mean, they got rid of basically a third of their team. [00:34:34] Speaker D: Yeah, I, I mean, I don't know. [00:34:36] Speaker C: I mean, as a White Sox fan, I'm eager because right now, basically, I think the, the AL Central after the Tigers now is. Is kind of wide open here going into 2026. But yeah, the, the Twins throwing everything overboard, the Correa thing to the Astros. [00:34:51] Speaker D: Interesting depth piece for them, you know, putting Correa at third base, where, you know, he, he was part of those. [00:34:56] Speaker C: Teams to the World Series for a long time. [00:34:59] Speaker D: Hasn't had the greatest season, but I think it's a, It's a big piece for the Astros to add to their lineup and to get something back. They've been, you know, they've been kind of just owning that AOS here for a while. The Rangers lingering around a little bit. But I, I don't want to disagree. [00:35:15] Speaker C: With Aaron on this, man, because the Mariners, they were the first thing that popped my head. The other ones that popped in my head, honestly, if you flip to the National League, I don't know how many prospects the Padres got. It seems like they have a never ending amount. [00:35:25] Speaker D: They've traded like, I think 50, like. [00:35:27] Speaker C: Top 100 prospects, but they went out. [00:35:30] Speaker D: And just got everyone they possibly could, too. They trade them out? [00:35:34] Speaker C: Yeah, they just went and got one of the best Closures of the American. [00:35:36] Speaker D: League from the A's. [00:35:37] Speaker C: And they already have a good closer. [00:35:40] Speaker A: That one didn't make any sense to me. That was weird. [00:35:44] Speaker B: It doesn't make sense from a regular season perspective, but when you look at playoffs, Rome bullpens play a big part. And the Padres got the best bullpen right now. I mean, they've got. They already had probably the best setup guy in Adams. They got Suarez, who leads the league and saves. They just brought over Miller, who's a top closer. [00:36:03] Speaker A: Yeah, but why bring them in if there you got their guys? [00:36:07] Speaker B: Well, you don't need them for saves. I mean, you got. We've talked about starting pitching. I mean, if you can get five. I mean, Dylan sees is only good for five innings, but he's really good for five innings. So you bring in a bullpen arm that's for the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th that are basically lights out. Probably combined earned run average below 2 between all those guys. And you look at the lineup, they're going to be going against Dodgers and all those teams. Phillies, you got to have back in bullpen pitching. I like what Philly, what the Padres did like Jason said, I don't know. They traded the number three prospect in baseball. That's a lot to give up for a guy that they already have a closer. I mean, I'm hearing rumors they might make him a starting pitcher next year because the Padres just kind of have taken relievers in the past and done that. And given where the Dodgers are at, how they've been playing Badger, they've been hurt. I mean, the NL is open. Anybody can really win it. I mean, the Mets became Sellers. Phillies, Giants have kind of fallen out. Cardinals are Sellers, too. It's. Yeah, I agree. I think I like what the Padres did. I like all the moves they made. Plus bringing in the catcher, two outfielders. Yeah, they brought in a lot. [00:37:16] Speaker D: Ramon lariano and Ryan O'Hearn from the Orioles. I think that was some two, two bats they needed. And then, you know, I think just to add another outfield deal death piece for them again, they gave up like five, six prospects for those two guys. But I think it was one that say we. [00:37:31] Speaker C: The Padres are in. In like we are trying to win this. [00:37:35] Speaker D: We think we are competitive with the Dodgers. We're going to give every piece possible. They got Nelson Cortez from the. The pod from the brewers as well, too. So adding more depth to the starting pitching, they got Michael King, who is great in the first like six, eight weeks of the year. [00:37:51] Speaker C: Got hurt. [00:37:51] Speaker D: He's going to be coming back here down the stretch. [00:37:54] Speaker C: I think there's a lot to like about the Padres, but again, it's going. [00:37:56] Speaker D: To come down to a seven game series against the Dodgers at some point in the playoffs. But it's, it's funny, we, I think. [00:38:03] Speaker C: We gave you a hard time, Roma. [00:38:05] Speaker D: But the Dodgers the entire off season. [00:38:07] Speaker C: About buying the sport. [00:38:08] Speaker D: But then we get down to it. [00:38:10] Speaker C: And we got two months left in the season and they only got a. [00:38:12] Speaker D: Three game lead on the Padres in the West. And the brewers are the best team in, in the National League. Best team in baseball right now. [00:38:22] Speaker A: I haven't even looked at the complete standing. That's crazy. [00:38:24] Speaker B: Brewers are hot. I mean, brewers are hot. They have not had a good postseason success, but yeah, I mean, Rome, you kind of called me crazy when I said the Dodgers weren't going to finish with the best record in the National League when the season finished. I still believe they're not Phillies. They added a great, they probably added the best bullpen arm coming over from the Twins in the closer. Mets added bullpen depth. The Dodgers really didn't add anything. A few utility guys. And then the Cubs, really, they didn't do anything either. I mean, the Cubs were really kind of quiet. They've been struggling a bit down the stretch here. [00:39:01] Speaker D: Cubs getting ripped by local Chicago, Chicago media just absolutely destroyed. [00:39:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I was watching the game earlier today. They got rocked in that seventh inning. [00:39:11] Speaker D: They got rocked and then they, their big acquisition was a guy that the White Sox gave up on last year. And Mike Soroka, who's out, who just went out, got hurt. [00:39:24] Speaker B: Soroka. I mean, Soroka was hyped up by the Braves like six years ago and we saw how that turned out. He went to the Nationals, to the White Sox. He's been bouncing around from bullpen garm to a starter. Yeah, I'm worried about the Cubs for sure. The Reds have been playing pretty good baseball too, but I just don't know if they're gonna have enough to catch these other teams. I just. It's gonna be tough. [00:39:45] Speaker D: Yeah, they, I mean, they added like some utility guys and, and stuff like that, but Yeah, I, I agree. I think a tough road for the Reds, but I don't know, man. The Cubs may be giving it back to him at a certain point, but. [00:39:56] Speaker C: It'S, it's a tough thing. The Giants, interesting. [00:39:58] Speaker D: Just, you know, they kind of waved. They traded their closer. [00:40:02] Speaker A: That was weird. [00:40:04] Speaker B: I actually like that move because I have Randy Rodriguez So I'm happy with that. [00:40:08] Speaker D: Well, I hate that move because he was my closer in a fantasy league. [00:40:10] Speaker B: Yeah. You could have traded for Rodriguez. He was on the market. I would have given him up. [00:40:16] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:40:16] Speaker B: Cost you somebody. [00:40:17] Speaker A: Guys, the used car salesman, man, all these guys. [00:40:20] Speaker C: Aaron. Aaron's in a league of used car salesman. [00:40:26] Speaker A: I believe it. [00:40:27] Speaker B: You gotta learn. Yeah. I mean, what else we got? I mean, Giants. Yeah. They've. Since the all star break, they've not played well. Cardinals were sellers. Marlins. Surprised they didn't give out more guys. But also you got, you know, Baltimore was a big seller too, because they even gave up Cedric Mullins to the Mets. So I like. I like what the big teams did in the National League. If you're talking about Phillies, Mets, Padres, they all made big moves. The brewers kind of stood put with what they got. Same with the Dodgers. I believe those are probably your five best teams right now in the National League. And the Cubs are kind of faltering. We'll see if they can hold on and get into that wild card. [00:41:07] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll see. All right, let's take a quick break. Ladies and gentlemen, here is what y' all been waiting for. I was gonna do an intro. I'm just like so tired. [00:41:27] Speaker B: Like, wait a minute. We got Bruce Buffer here. What's going on? [00:41:30] Speaker A: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, around the world, time for SummerSlam recap from Jason. That's all I got. [00:41:41] Speaker D: That's all you got. A lot of energies, a lot of energy. [00:41:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:45] Speaker A: And then I crash. Yeah. So SummerSlam, a lot of people making noise about it. I was telling the guys off the air that I was falling into like these wrestling podcasts over the weekend. A lot of fat. Just talking about wrestling. [00:42:01] Speaker B: I mean, would you expect anything else? [00:42:02] Speaker A: I couldn't tell if it was inside a Waffle House or a Wendy's, but they were pretty passionate about a lot of things on wrestling. Got some cool clips, a lot of Ozzy debt dedications, some weird Hogan dedications. But as you know, SummerSlam is like one of the bigger events. I saw some clips at least. Like some highlights. Halliburton's crutch being taken away. Pretty big main event. I did see it on Peacock. I thought about watching it in the background, but I watched Sinners instead last night, so that's what I had to do. But Jason, man, give us the rundown on SummerSlam, the two night event. [00:42:47] Speaker D: Well, I'll try to keep it down to just the main events room since you don't want me here for like you know, a whole two, three hours. [00:42:53] Speaker C: Just breaking down match by match of a great card. Two night event SummerSlam at MetLife Stadium in New York. WWE Too Big Now. Rome, we can't just do the biggest party of the summer in one night. We got to do two nights and we can't do it just inside of arena. We need to go to football stadiums for the big summer. [00:43:11] Speaker D: It is, it is crazy. What it is. [00:43:13] Speaker C: I remember going to the Staples center. [00:43:15] Speaker D: About a decade ago for like three years in a row for SummerSlam and now what it's turned into is basically a second WrestleMania. [00:43:22] Speaker C: Some say out there this was better. [00:43:23] Speaker D: Than the WrestleMania I, I attended. [00:43:26] Speaker B: So there's WrestleMania is going back to Vegas. They're doubling down on that again. [00:43:30] Speaker C: It is, they're doubling down on Vegas. [00:43:32] Speaker B: I, I, I, I assume you're going to be there, Jason. [00:43:35] Speaker D: I will, I will not be there. [00:43:37] Speaker C: You know, doing this. It's, it's a pricey ticket man. And you know, we just can only do so much, you know, I need, I might need to sell my house. [00:43:43] Speaker D: In order to afford another weekend WrestleMania in Vegas. [00:43:47] Speaker B: I think you sold one of your cars to fund your baseball league. [00:43:50] Speaker D: I may, I may have. Yeah. [00:43:52] Speaker C: Just, you know, so, but anyways, Rome, we're getting into SummerSlam two night event, big main event in night one. Aaron watched it as well. You had World Heavyweight Champion Gunther, who's been one of the dominant champions in the past recent years. Rome, this guy's been in WWE for about, I don't know, six, seven years right now. [00:44:15] Speaker D: I can't remember exactly about. [00:44:17] Speaker C: Big star on the European circuit. [00:44:21] Speaker D: He went by the name Walter, which is just the most interesting, you know, European bad guy. His name is Walter. [00:44:28] Speaker C: But at certain points he got the WWE name change over. He turns into Gunther Rome. He's been in WWE for six, seven years. 80% of the time this guy has been a champion. So nothing but championship gold around Gunther's waist. [00:44:43] Speaker B: I think. I heard he's only lost like four fights in the five years he's been in wwe. They mentioned something like that. [00:44:48] Speaker C: Is that he lost to like four. [00:44:49] Speaker D: People or something like that. Basically, yeah. [00:44:51] Speaker C: Like about four matches. So unbelievable thing of dominance they've had. CM Punk was his challenger. Former world champion himself. One of the most popular people in WWE and in the wrestling industry. His big return. We talked before in the podcast about him coming back, but this was a showdown and if Rome, have you seen that WWE has a behind the scenes show on Netflix. [00:45:16] Speaker A: Found this out when I was watching Clips about them writing on who should win. [00:45:21] Speaker D: Exactly. [00:45:21] Speaker C: So very, very controversial in the wrestling circles. About kind of getting the sneak peek behind the curtain. I have a lot of takes on that. We can save them. I thought it was interesting. But what I'll tell you about this. [00:45:33] Speaker A: Like, the writers room is like, what? That's how the writers room works in wwe. [00:45:38] Speaker C: It's wild. [00:45:39] Speaker D: That gave me anxiety of my day. [00:45:41] Speaker C: Job, sitting in the room of a. [00:45:42] Speaker D: Bunch of people and hearing people's opinions. [00:45:44] Speaker C: That I don't really want to listen. [00:45:45] Speaker D: To and how this stuff winds into storylines. [00:45:47] Speaker C: But I. I will tell you, I. I can wait until you watch the actual show. If you ever do get to watch it, we can. [00:45:53] Speaker D: We could do a little review on it. [00:45:54] Speaker C: I do like it. But I'll tell you, because when you. [00:45:57] Speaker A: Guys just add me to your Netflix accounts. Jesus Christ. [00:46:00] Speaker D: What you. What I got to do, man, rome. [00:46:02] Speaker B: It'S only 17.99amonth now. Whatever it is, it's everything. [00:46:05] Speaker A: 1799. [00:46:06] Speaker D: Right. [00:46:06] Speaker A: I'm not adding another platform. [00:46:08] Speaker D: Well, okay. [00:46:09] Speaker C: Whenever you get around to it, what I'll say about it, Rome, is this is wrestling. And so you said this is a peak behind the curtain. This is another. This is another work. [00:46:18] Speaker D: All right. [00:46:18] Speaker C: They're working us in that show. It's. [00:46:20] Speaker B: We're. [00:46:20] Speaker C: We're doing method acting on. Method acting for the behind the scenes stuff. So they do show a lot of what behind the scenes and how it kind of works. But I don't even buy how much some of this stuff was actually like. [00:46:31] Speaker D: Legit conversation at the same time too. [00:46:33] Speaker C: But anyways, I bring that up because this was a match. Gunther vs. CM Punk for the World Heavyweight title on that board in the show. This was supposed to be the main event for WrestleMania for the world title. And they pivoted some of those plans. [00:46:46] Speaker D: And got to it now. [00:46:47] Speaker C: And it was a great match. It was a little controversial, I'll say in the wrestling circles, and I say controversial. There's some wrestling quote unquote, journalists and opinion makers out there that may have said this was a terrible match and it was atrocious. And there's others that, man, this was an old school wrestling match. A lot of good holds, getting the crowd into ended with a bloody finish. We had Gunther going under the table. [00:47:10] Speaker D: Blading himself for a bloody finish. [00:47:12] Speaker C: The cocky heel beating the hell out of CM Punk for an entire match. [00:47:15] Speaker D: And end up losing. [00:47:16] Speaker C: But Rome, that was not the story of the match. Because as great of a match as it was the biggest news of the match. Do you know what the Money in the bank briefcase gets you? Rome in. In the world of wwe, what does it give me? It gets you a title shot anytime, anywhere. And so the current holder of the Money in the bank briefcase, Seth Rollins, won that a couple months ago. About three, four weeks ago at Saturday night main event. We talked about that. Goldberg's retirement pay per view. Seth got hurt and everything, saying behind. [00:47:51] Speaker A: This, was it real? [00:47:52] Speaker D: Well, that's what it was, Rome, because. [00:47:55] Speaker C: It was reported as, hey, this is real. And when the event happened, he went. [00:48:00] Speaker A: On the Rich Eisen Show. [00:48:01] Speaker C: He went on the Rich Eisen show, which is why I bring up earlier. [00:48:04] Speaker A: Oh, my God, you are good. [00:48:07] Speaker D: You're. [00:48:07] Speaker C: I'm good. [00:48:08] Speaker B: Good. [00:48:08] Speaker C: Jason eyeing it back. All right, he hosted the Rich Eisen show for two days, Goes there with crutches, a knee brace. He tells everyone there's a guy in the Rich Eisen show that's a big wrestling fan, has his own wrestling podcast show with o' Shea Jackson, Ice Cube, son. All right. Seth opens the show three days after Saturday night's main event that he's hosting. It says, I went to Birmingham, Alabama to Dr. James Andrews, who fix everything. There's too much swelling. We gotta wait till it comes down and get more opinions. I don't know the status of my knee. We're gonna see what's going on. They got to get back in there. His wife, who's the women's intercontinental champion, Becky lynch, posted video of him with his daughter with a crutch and knee brace going down the street. Ron, this would be like you with your daughter, just, you know, just posting videos. He's got a knee brace, all right, so he's working everybody. [00:49:00] Speaker D: All right? [00:49:01] Speaker C: So we don't know if this is real, is fake. So fast forward to summer, to SummerSlam. CM Punk wins the world title. Big redemption story comes back to wwe, has had some memorable feuds and matches. Wins the world title. His first time in more than 10, you know, 10 years being out. The company wins the title immediately. Seth Rollins's music hits room. He comes out with a big ass knee brace on his knee, crutches hobbling through. He's got the oracle, the wise man, the advocate, Paul Heyman, the greatest manager in wrestling history with them with the Dummy in the bank briefcase. Rollin stares him down. He's got these crutches. Heyman holds up the briefcase. Rollins turns around and I'm gonna send you this gift from. It's gonna be a top five gift. [00:49:46] Speaker D: This is it's. [00:49:46] Speaker C: Already making spot on the Internet. You've probably seen it already. Rollins turns his back to the ring, he goes to the thing, puts his arms out, drops the crutches, turns around, takes the knee brace up, grabs the briefcase from Heyman, goes into the ring, beats the hell out of CM Punk for the with the briefcase, gives the briefcase to the referee, cashes in, wins the world title. Hell of a swerve to go off the air. Rollins went back on Rich Eisen on. [00:50:16] Speaker D: Monday, basically saying, yeah, he worked everybody. [00:50:20] Speaker C: And so this is where I'm going to get into this room, the wrestling media out there. [00:50:25] Speaker A: Some of the clips. I did not see that. [00:50:28] Speaker C: You didn't see that? [00:50:29] Speaker D: Okay, I'll get you the cashing clip. [00:50:30] Speaker B: Yeah, you got, you got Peacock there, right, Rome? [00:50:32] Speaker A: Yeah, it's funner when you get clips on Instagram. [00:50:36] Speaker C: I'll send, I'll send you some clips on there. I'll tell you, we want some takes. [00:50:40] Speaker D: Here on this show, right? [00:50:41] Speaker C: And we don't. [00:50:42] Speaker D: We won't talk a ton about wrestling media. We talk about sports media, but wrestling media. [00:50:45] Speaker C: Are you familiar with Dave Meltzer, Rome? [00:50:49] Speaker A: The name sounds familiar. [00:50:50] Speaker C: Dave Meltzer is basically like the longest wrestling quote unquote journalist that's been around forever. He had the Wrestling observer, they call. [00:51:00] Speaker D: Him in wrestling the Dirt Sheets and basically kind of like a little newspaper. [00:51:03] Speaker C: Been around forever. Knows a ton about wrestling. You know, notice more than probably anyone forgot. But Dave, Dave's been under attack by the Internet recently in the past couple years because he loves WWE's competition. [00:51:15] Speaker D: AEW can't get enough of it. [00:51:17] Speaker C: It always craps on WWE here and there. One thing Dave really caught me off guard was he basically, he didn't like the cash in from Rollins and he really didn't like that they basically were working the other wrestlers that they were being untruthful with the other wrestlers of faking this injury because he reported shortly after that the injury wasn't real, but people didn't know. And so Rollins basically made this. He didn't tell anybody what this was, and people thought he was legitimately hurt. And so Meltzer goes on basically saying, like, this is going to create distrust in the rocker room and this and that. My thing, Rome, the reason you have to go to these lengths is because you got people behind the scenes in WWE that can't keep their mouth shut and they go tell guys like Meltzer and these other things, all this stuff. So he's worried probably about his sources because I tell you in the day to Day work. When you get confidential information about your workplace and you disclose it to people outside your workplace, you get fired for that. And so while he's saying it's creating mistrust with un the wrestlers. Yeah, you can't tell a bunch of these guys anything. That's the reason they have to go in such lengths to hide anything from the audience to create these genuine surprises because no one can keep their mouth shut backstage. And so The Luca trade 100% the lengths they had to go to keep that. And so I found that a hilarious take that the creating missed trucks. Because if you work in a business or a workplace, you are entitled to confidential information you need to keep to yourself or you lose your job. And they don't have that so much in wrestling. But in order to keep the fans the interest and what that was, I thought it was amazing storyline and swerve. I'm a big Seth Rollins fan and I think that was a great way. [00:53:01] Speaker D: To end night one. It was trending all over the Internet. [00:53:05] Speaker A: So I heard like, is this true about like the beef with Rollins and CM Punk? Like Ron's trained CM Punk and now CM Punk just acts like a punk, just really entitled. And so Seth Rollins had like this animosity against him or is that part like all like the. The skit? [00:53:21] Speaker D: It's interesting because you don't know. I'll be 100 if you watch WWE. Unreal. [00:53:27] Speaker C: I think Seth Rollins is one of the best at not ever really disclosing. [00:53:32] Speaker D: Maybe what he really thinks of a lot of people. [00:53:34] Speaker C: Because when Cody Rhodes came back to WWE and basically was positioned as the big star and Seth's been around, he's been the workhorse of WWE since 2015, give or take. [00:53:45] Speaker D: Him and Roman Reigns are the stars of this generation. [00:53:48] Speaker C: And Cody comes back and basically given the green light. Rollins said a lot of things publicly and not on TV about his dislike for Cody. [00:53:56] Speaker D: What he had left WB and. And and came back. [00:53:59] Speaker C: But when you get behind the scenes after those guys have an epic feud, you know, there's a general admiration and respect for each other. And there's some things that see that. [00:54:07] Speaker D: Rollin said while CM Punk was gone. [00:54:09] Speaker C: And probably legit stuff that was heat there. But back if you look at wwe, Unreal. They actually have a behind the scenes kind of moment of them putting together the elimination match, elimination chamber match. And you see Rollins and Punk helping putting this thing together. And so there could be legit stuff between them. [00:54:29] Speaker D: But I think a lot of this is played up and what they do to hide. [00:54:33] Speaker C: I don't think maybe they're the best of friends of anything because there is a backstory that a young Seth Rollins wanted CM Punk to train him for. [00:54:39] Speaker D: Free when he's a struggling wrestler, when. [00:54:41] Speaker C: He'S like 16, 17, and. But I think at this point they've had an epic feud. It's been a storyline basically since. Since Punk has came back and they've. [00:54:51] Speaker D: And if it is. [00:54:52] Speaker C: If it is real, okay, these guys put their business aside and they do things right, but if it's not, and they're just kind of friends, they really. [00:54:59] Speaker D: They really work everybody. [00:55:01] Speaker B: Yeah, there might be some truth to that. But yeah, like you said, I mean, for wrestling to work, both guys have to be in on the script and make it work. You can't just be like, hey, I hate you. I'm going to go off script. I mean, wrestling, that's what makes it great, is everybody's on the same page. It's. It's a soap opera of men wrestling and fighting and you know what's going to happen. You know what the moves are coming. And like Jason said, I mean, the story is. The story gets it going. And if there is feud there behind the scenes, you got to basically put it on the back burner and make things work. And that's, that's how you get the show right. I mean, and that's just an added bonus. Hey, it's. It's an added bonus. But yeah, I like, I like that main event fight. I mean, CM Punk getting the win and then Seth Rollins. I mean, I didn't know the whole story. I just saw him come out. Crutches. I'm like, okay, like, this dude's pretty. Looks like he's pretty jacked up. And then all of a sudden dropped the crutches, took off the knee brace, came running in, just beat the living hell out of CM Punk with about 10 shots of the briefcase right to the head. Gave it to the referee, and the referee yells, he's cashing in, he's cashing in. And then, boom, he does his finishing move. 1, 2, 3, pinfall. New champ, Seth Rollins. [00:56:17] Speaker C: Rome. [00:56:17] Speaker D: That was just Saturday. [00:56:18] Speaker C: We still got Sunday. [00:56:19] Speaker A: Saturday, yeah, Saturday. Wait, there was something that happened Sunday. Who came back? [00:56:24] Speaker D: Well, we don't get into that yet. [00:56:26] Speaker C: We're gonna get into that because that's the spoiler. [00:56:27] Speaker D: On Sunday. [00:56:28] Speaker C: There was some great stuff that happened on Sunday. There was a great women's title match. [00:56:32] Speaker D: There was a, you know, pretty good intercontinental title match with Dominic Mysterio. The Son of Ray Mysterio and A.J. styles. [00:56:38] Speaker B: But the main event, I did see that the old boot trick. [00:56:41] Speaker C: The old boot, that was a good one, man. Just like his kayfabe real dad Eddie Guerrero. [00:56:48] Speaker D: Tied back to things. [00:56:49] Speaker C: But yeah, Ro, main event night two, we'll skip the whole show. Don't want to keep you up, you. [00:56:55] Speaker D: Know, here in a, you know, three hour segment here about WrestleMania or about SummerSlam. [00:56:59] Speaker C: Excuse me, but because I can let it go. I'm not gonna let it go, Rob. You're trying to cut my time. But we don't need to go match by match. We'll go to straight. [00:57:06] Speaker A: Go ahead. [00:57:06] Speaker C: No, no, we'll go straight to the main event here. [00:57:08] Speaker D: Rome. [00:57:09] Speaker C: So Cody Rhodes, the American Nightmare former WWE Champion lost the title at WrestleMania after a year title run after he finished the story at WrestleMania 40 versus John Cena as the W. You know, current was the current WWE champion coming in. Cena won the title at Mania in a controversial fashion with Travis Scott interfering. A lot of passionate takes on that since. We haven't seen Travis Scott since and to be honest, nope. An alleged falling out between WWE and Travis Scott as well is also been talked about. [00:57:45] Speaker D: So probably won't see him on TV. [00:57:47] Speaker C: But when we talked about if the WrestleMania, you know, build up was John. [00:57:51] Speaker D: Cena turning heel, going bad guy, you. [00:57:55] Speaker C: Know, that happened at the Elimination Chamber was a pretty epic moment in wrestling history with the Rock Cena, Travis Scott beating the hell out of Cody Rhodes. [00:58:06] Speaker D: It was, it was, it was awesome. [00:58:07] Speaker C: It was trending everywhere. But the follow up on this Cena heel run has not been the greatest. There were some good moments. People are gonna tell you it was all bad. [00:58:17] Speaker D: It wasn't. [00:58:18] Speaker C: There were some good moments, but at the end of the day there was a lot of things that Cena did. [00:58:22] Speaker D: As a heel that just wasn't believable. The guy's not overly believable as a bad guy. [00:58:25] Speaker C: And I would say just didn't go far enough. Didn't change the music, didn't change the wardrobe they're selling last last time because on his final retirement tour in every town with ever local sports team, the T shirts in those colors, you know, like I said, same music. He's just got a frown and he's insulting some people and he puts the Titan Tron black and white, which was. [00:58:49] Speaker D: Killer by the way. [00:58:50] Speaker C: Love that at Mania comes out and there's no color. [00:58:52] Speaker D: It's just black and white. It was a great contrast, but you. [00:58:55] Speaker C: Didn'T get the classic stuff of a Heel where the music changes. He comes out in a suit, isn't trying to sell merch. And so there was kind of like a one toe in, one toe out, kind of at this heel turn that was never quite sitting right with the audience. And then the Rock being so heavily involved in the turn and then just disappearing since like what was the story? There just wasn't a story about it. And Cena basically said, I'm trying to ruin wrestling, I'm walking away with the title. [00:59:24] Speaker D: It just wasn't hitting the audiences so. [00:59:26] Speaker C: They made a pivot. On the smackdown prior to the SummerSlam, Cena basically said, you know, I did something that somebody talked me into to get attention. And all those guys left, just left me here alone, which they did. Haven't seen the Rock, haven't seen Travis Scott, no follow up. And he was basically kind of forced into this title fight with Cody Rhodes and he basically said, no, he's coming out. So good moment. Cena's music hits the black and white. Titan Tron's up. Then it flips to the colors. Cena comes out running like usual, talks to his cameraman Bruce, runs down to the ring, does the whole stick. And then Cena and Rhodes, for my money, put on, hey, this is probably Cena's best match in 10 years. Like if you, if you use the old Dave Meltzer stars, this is a. [01:00:20] Speaker D: Five star match like top to bottom. [01:00:21] Speaker C: Just had the crowd every which way. It was a baby face versus babyface match. There was some iconic like scenes, basically them coming to the elevator and the stage where Cody Rhodes was on Cena's shoulders and everything like that into his finishing move. The AA on the stage, there was some violence in it, but there was, there was a lot of story I think involved and it was kind of a, I guess with a passing of a torch match. And you really got to see like, hey, this is the John Cena everyone wanted. And Cody Rhodes got the win the title reign. John Cena's 17th world title reign is over with. [01:00:56] Speaker D: So now I guess he holds the record beating Ric Flair 16 time world champion. [01:01:00] Speaker C: He ends as a 17 time world champion. And now we got basically 12 more shows that John Cena will be on until he's officially retired, never coming back. And so you wonder, Cena is kind of doing this curtain call to the New York crowd. And then the some music hits and Aaron's who's who, whose music hit. [01:01:21] Speaker D: Aaron, you text me right away. [01:01:23] Speaker B: Brock Lester, man the beast. I mean I, I was watching and. [01:01:26] Speaker A: I'm Like Brock Lesnar, Lester Lesnar. [01:01:30] Speaker B: Lesnar has not been there last. Last time he was seen was at SummerSlam two years ago. They mentioned two years. That's his event. That's his event he owns. SummerSlam is, from what I kind of gather. [01:01:41] Speaker C: Well back I mentioned my summer slams going back at Staples Center. One of them was the infamous SummerSlam where he suplexed John Cena 18 times and basically squash match Cena for the WWE title. [01:01:53] Speaker D: It was, you know, one of those big moments. Yeah, just rushed him. [01:01:58] Speaker C: Took the term Suplex City after the middle of it. [01:02:01] Speaker D: He goes Suplex City on this whole thing the entire time. [01:02:04] Speaker C: But yeah, Lesnar coming back, huge surprise. Lesnar hadn't been seen in two years. And this is where the controversy of this appearance kind of comes, because Lesnar was named in the lawsuit against Vince. [01:02:18] Speaker D: McMahon and WWE for whether it's like sexual assault or sexual trafficking or something like that. [01:02:27] Speaker C: From the thing Lesnar was named in this lawsuit 42 times is the number that's going around the Internet. And so he was basically been put on the shelf because of this pending. [01:02:38] Speaker D: Legal litigation against Vince McMahon and other people with WWE. [01:02:43] Speaker C: And so him coming back was kind of a surprise to many because this is still out there. This case is enclosed. [01:02:49] Speaker D: And I think there's a lot of appetite for the explanation of why he's back. [01:02:54] Speaker C: Now I'll tell you why he's back because as of yesterday, he had the first, second and third top selling T. [01:03:01] Speaker D: Shirt on WWE shop dot com. [01:03:03] Speaker C: So money is the reason he's back. It's a big opponent for Cena to come as they are going to go. [01:03:10] Speaker D: To Paris here at the end of. [01:03:11] Speaker C: The month for a big stadium show in Paris. And so John Cena versus Brock Lesnar. [01:03:17] Speaker D: One last time in the stadium in Paris. It's going to be an insane crowd. The European crowds, frankly, are just better than the American crowds. The American crowds suck. Just gonna say I was, and I'm part of that. I was at WrestleMania. [01:03:28] Speaker C: The American crowds of wrestling suck. Europe and everywhere overseas blows us up. [01:03:32] Speaker B: Well, according to Corning around, just a bunch of fat white guys just sitting around. So it makes sense. [01:03:37] Speaker C: Probably the problem in the European shows. [01:03:42] Speaker B: Man, you're only getting up for some hot dog, beer and some peanuts. So there you go. [01:03:47] Speaker A: Sounds kind of good right now. [01:03:48] Speaker B: Yeah, doesn't sound bad, actually. [01:03:50] Speaker C: It was trending. Lesnar's return, you know, goes in the ring. F5CENA, 75 million views or something on YouTube within the first like 48 hours or something crazy like that. [01:04:01] Speaker B: And so both nights, Lesnar, basically Cena's number one nemesis. That's kind of like the buildup I got. [01:04:09] Speaker C: It's the buildup. But I think Cena's had different eras. [01:04:12] Speaker D: Of different, like Nemesis. But when you. [01:04:14] Speaker C: When, when after Lesnar's great UFC run and he came back to wrestling, you know, this is2012. I'm gonna put this at. I'm trying to think. [01:04:26] Speaker A: Have you seen his daughter? [01:04:27] Speaker D: Yes. Looks just like him. [01:04:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [01:04:31] Speaker A: Crazy. [01:04:32] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:04:33] Speaker C: But yeah. [01:04:34] Speaker B: Is he still married to Sable? [01:04:36] Speaker D: He is. [01:04:37] Speaker B: Okay. [01:04:38] Speaker A: Sable. [01:04:39] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:04:40] Speaker C: That daughter is not. Sable is not her mom, though. [01:04:43] Speaker D: That was from a previous marriage. [01:04:44] Speaker C: But regardless, I'll say. [01:04:48] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:04:48] Speaker C: A lot of controversy just talking through of Lesnar's involvement in that lawsuit and everything with wwe. [01:04:54] Speaker D: But W got what they want. [01:04:57] Speaker C: It was a huge moment, got a lot of attention. Things were trending. It'll sell out the next show. I will say my criticism of WWE. [01:05:06] Speaker D: And the booking with this. [01:05:08] Speaker C: It's exciting. I'm excited for Brock Lesnar to come back just as a fan of the sport. But they are very reliant, very reliant. [01:05:16] Speaker D: On these kind of like pop, swerve special moments at all these big events. [01:05:22] Speaker C: And I don't know how many more. [01:05:23] Speaker D: They got left in them. [01:05:24] Speaker C: What's going to be the surprise? And if you watch the WWE unreal. [01:05:28] Speaker D: Thing, I think that's the mo. [01:05:29] Speaker C: That's the thing you notice the most. [01:05:32] Speaker D: About that special is behind the scenes, like, what can we just do to pop the audience here, swerve the audience there where they're trying to be unpredictable. And I think that works to a moment. But sometimes I think they're just working. [01:05:47] Speaker C: Themselves to a degree, which is, I. [01:05:48] Speaker D: Think is the risk of what's going on. They did it a little bit with. [01:05:52] Speaker C: The Jey USO push to win the Royal Rumble and win the world title. [01:05:56] Speaker D: Because of how hot he was with the crowd. But there were some things down that didn't make sense. [01:06:01] Speaker C: And so I worry as they get into these events, like who the biggest names they can pull back to make. [01:06:05] Speaker D: A shock like Lesnar. There's not a lot of them and there's only so many things like the Seth Rollins stuff you could do before. You really have to rely on like the star making stuff of. Of these event big events they're trying. [01:06:15] Speaker C: To do because the rumor is they're not. They're doing more of these two night things. The Royal Rumble can go to two nights. They are doing SummerSlam next Year in Minnesota, Brock Lesnar's hometown as a two. [01:06:27] Speaker D: Night SummerSlam as well. [01:06:28] Speaker C: So a lot going on with WWE. [01:06:30] Speaker D: And wrestling right now. But. [01:06:34] Speaker B: So currently what, WrestleMania and SummerSlam are the only two night events, correct? Okay, right. And the Royal Rumble. So that makes, that makes sense. I mean you'd have the women's Royal Rumble one night in some matches and then the men's the following. So I, I could see that. [01:06:49] Speaker C: But Rome, that was our, I, I kept it only 25 minutes or so on, on wrestling. [01:06:54] Speaker A: Not bad. [01:06:55] Speaker B: You're five minutes over. Rome's gonna have to suspend you for the next pod there, actually. [01:07:02] Speaker C: Well, we're getting, we're getting to football season and, and I probably won't get another wrestling shot here the rest of. [01:07:07] Speaker D: The year, so it's probably going to be the, the end the season finale of the wrestling coverage. [01:07:12] Speaker B: Sources from the. Sounds like the Paris events can be pretty big. [01:07:15] Speaker C: Yeah, Paris event should be pretty good, man. I, I do like the international crowd. [01:07:19] Speaker B: What, what weekend is that? [01:07:21] Speaker C: That is the 30, is it 31st or something? [01:07:24] Speaker B: So that's basically when college football starts. F1's back. It's, it's just a big weekend then, right? Labor Day weekend. [01:07:32] Speaker D: That is Labor Day. [01:07:33] Speaker A: It is, yeah. I think. [01:07:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Wow. It's a lot going on. [01:07:38] Speaker A: You might be right. [01:07:41] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [01:07:42] Speaker A: Just kidding. [01:07:43] Speaker C: He's saying now. [01:07:43] Speaker A: Sorry. I, I, I, I got stuck. Like I was like Sable. I remember Sable. So I looked it up online and then I saw like who she was married to previously. And that's Mark Mero. Yeah. [01:07:56] Speaker C: Crazy Mark Mero. [01:08:00] Speaker A: I didn't like him. Was my favorite. What a mustache that guy had. It's a great mustache. No, it's great, man. Thank you so much. [01:08:11] Speaker D: You're welcome. I can feel your enthusiasm. [01:08:13] Speaker C: Not as much as Aaron's when he just texts me. [01:08:15] Speaker D: Brock Lesnar, you know, Sunday night after the show. [01:08:17] Speaker B: But yeah. [01:08:18] Speaker A: Were you watching live Aaron? [01:08:19] Speaker C: Yeah, he was nice because I got, I got the text. [01:08:22] Speaker A: What was it on Peacock. [01:08:24] Speaker B: Peacock. [01:08:25] Speaker A: I was on Peacock because I, I was just chilling at home, so I just was flipping the channels. [01:08:32] Speaker B: Peacock. It's on Peacock. If not, I believe you can order it still on pay per view or whatever. [01:08:35] Speaker A: Right. [01:08:37] Speaker C: I don't even know if you can anymore. [01:08:38] Speaker D: I don't even think they have in a pay per view. [01:08:40] Speaker B: They do on DirecTV. Are they had at least WrestleMania and stuff. I don't know about SummerSlam, but I remember they had it like pay per view. [01:08:47] Speaker A: That's gonna be something that doesn't exist anymore. [01:08:49] Speaker B: It was like 39.99 or 49.99. You could order it if you didn't have like Peacock or something. [01:08:55] Speaker A: Like, this is an insane thing to do. [01:08:56] Speaker D: Like, you get peacock for like 12 bucks a month and to spend. [01:09:01] Speaker B: I think I get peacock for like 7.99amonth. [01:09:03] Speaker A: I think mine's free. [01:09:05] Speaker C: I used to, but then I paid for the. [01:09:07] Speaker D: The commercial. [01:09:08] Speaker B: No, commercials is for. They don't even show anything. They only show like the first right when you start the event for wrestling. And then they never show another one for commercials. [01:09:18] Speaker D: So that's fair. [01:09:20] Speaker A: Yeah, it's not too bad. [01:09:22] Speaker B: Yeah. During shows it could be a little bit of pain in the ass if you're watching Peacock, but yeah, I need. [01:09:27] Speaker A: To find a new show. I'm out of new shows. [01:09:30] Speaker C: There's plenty of great shows out there. Rome, we refer him to you all the time. You just generally don't have the streaming service or whatever. [01:09:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, Netflix got a lot going on Rome, but you got a pony up to 1799. [01:09:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:09:44] Speaker C: Have you watched. Have we. [01:09:45] Speaker D: I don't even remember what we've talked about. Room. So we'll start with me. [01:09:48] Speaker C: Have you watched the Bear? [01:09:50] Speaker A: I. I watched the first season. [01:09:52] Speaker B: That fits Rome. I just. When I think of the bear, I think of Rome. [01:09:56] Speaker A: No. Yeah. You know, I worked in some restaurants in the world, so it was kind of. Kind of funny because I. I think I tried doing my own pop up too, but I haven't got to Season two or three. I heard it's good. I heard it's not good. It's kind of weird. I don't know. It's kind of like. [01:10:12] Speaker C: Yeah, season one's really good. Season two is great. [01:10:14] Speaker D: I think three and four, I put them down a little bit. [01:10:18] Speaker A: Four seasons now. [01:10:19] Speaker C: Four seasons just came out. [01:10:20] Speaker B: Last one. Right. [01:10:23] Speaker C: They go into a fifth season. [01:10:26] Speaker B: Oh, I. I just saw previews for the last one. I never watched it, but they were having like some kind of timer like it was going to be the end of like his restaurant was closing. [01:10:33] Speaker A: You never seen it something. [01:10:34] Speaker B: No, I never watched it. [01:10:36] Speaker A: Talking. [01:10:38] Speaker B: Because we're talking about as a segment. I've seen the previews, man. No. [01:10:41] Speaker C: Yeah, that's a good one. I don't know if you have Apple tv. Plus, I've said this before. [01:10:45] Speaker D: I think your friends and neighbors with Jon Hamm's a good show. [01:10:49] Speaker C: Also a golf show out there. Since we are a sports podcast. Stick with Owen Wilson. [01:10:54] Speaker D: Mark Marin, really good golf show. [01:10:59] Speaker B: Never heard of that. One did watch Happy Gilmore too, though. [01:11:01] Speaker A: I did see the show Stick or Stick. [01:11:05] Speaker C: Your Friends and Neighbors. [01:11:08] Speaker B: Yeah, Jason's talked about that one a lot. [01:11:10] Speaker A: Anything else? [01:11:12] Speaker D: Oh, man. I mean, just. There's a bunch of stuff you probably didn't do from the beginning of the year, so you can just start with that. [01:11:19] Speaker B: Well, you did get them on. Was it Yellowstone? [01:11:22] Speaker D: Yeah, I mean, there's the Yellowstone universe. You got 1883, 1923. [01:11:27] Speaker A: I can't find them. [01:11:28] Speaker D: Paramount Plus. [01:11:30] Speaker A: I did have Paramount Plus. I can't find them. [01:11:33] Speaker C: Well, they're on there. It's like the Taylor Sheridan. [01:11:36] Speaker B: Do you have Paramount or do you have Paramount Plus? Because I think they're different. Right. [01:11:40] Speaker A: You know, I'm just sick of all these subscriptions. [01:11:44] Speaker B: That's right. There's ESPN plus, there's your espn. Everything like Jason just invented. So, yeah, what. [01:11:51] Speaker A: What's worse is, like, you know, when I was dating that crazy broad last year, she logged out of my Hulu account, logged into hers, and then now I'm locked off of hers, but I don't know how to log back into mine. [01:12:04] Speaker B: Can't you just log out and say retrieve password on your email account there, Rome? [01:12:08] Speaker A: Nah, I believe that's how it works, right? It's to my student email. I don't have access to one of my grad school emails. I've been to, like, six different grad. [01:12:17] Speaker B: Schools, so it's just like, how many emails are you using here? Are you using these for, like, free previews and then not, like, not paying or. What are you doing? [01:12:27] Speaker A: Amazon prime is like 10 bucks a year when you're on a grad school account. Stuff like that. All right, never mind. [01:12:36] Speaker C: Yeah, you mentioned Prime. You need to watch Jack Reacher. [01:12:42] Speaker B: Yeah, Reacher's good. I'll. [01:12:47] Speaker A: You know what? I. I do got to catch up. I still haven't caught up on all the Mission Impossibles. That's it. [01:12:52] Speaker C: Well, if you're watching the Mission Impossible, you have Paramount. That's where. That's where the other Taylor Sheridan shows are at. [01:13:00] Speaker A: Hold on, let's look it up here real quick. [01:13:04] Speaker C: This is. [01:13:05] Speaker D: This is captivating podcast audio right now. [01:13:07] Speaker C: Rome. Trying to find a TV show on streaming service. [01:13:11] Speaker B: Don't you just type in 1, 8, 2, 3. Isn't that what the name of the show is? [01:13:15] Speaker C: 1883 and 1920. [01:13:17] Speaker B: Okay, 1883. All right. [01:13:20] Speaker A: Paramount Plus. [01:13:20] Speaker B: Or just the number. [01:13:21] Speaker A: Right. [01:13:21] Speaker B: It's not like you have to type the name out. [01:13:23] Speaker A: You know, I didn't even know what it looked like, to be honest. You said it's been a while. [01:13:27] Speaker D: Yeah, it's like a big mountain. [01:13:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:13:30] Speaker C: Bunch of stars around it. [01:13:31] Speaker B: The app logo for Paramount. [01:13:35] Speaker A: I've been locked out. You can go essentials and a premium plus. That's weird. [01:13:43] Speaker C: Listen, there is enough Taylor Sheridan content on there to keep you good. That I recommend Landman. I was talking about that earlier last year. Lioness. Another great show. You know, 1922, 1883. The mayor of Kingstowne, Mary King. [01:14:00] Speaker B: Sounds good if you want to go. [01:14:02] Speaker C: Back a little bit. This was a Showtime show. I think it's on Paramount plus now. Billions. Love that show. [01:14:07] Speaker A: Oh, I love Billions. [01:14:08] Speaker D: Okay. [01:14:10] Speaker A: I. I didn't finish last two seasons, though. I was watching. [01:14:14] Speaker C: Okay, well, there's a ton there for you, Rome. [01:14:18] Speaker A: All right. [01:14:19] Speaker B: Plenty of shows, Rome. Any streaming things? Got shows. Whether or not they're any good or not. There's plenty of entertainment out there. [01:14:25] Speaker A: That's true. [01:14:26] Speaker C: That is definitely the new Happy Gilmore, though. [01:14:28] Speaker D: You watch that, Aaron? [01:14:29] Speaker C: Huh? [01:14:29] Speaker B: I did watch Gilmore, too. Yeah. [01:14:31] Speaker C: Are we waiting for Rome to watch it to give an official review? [01:14:34] Speaker B: Well, he doesn't have Netflix, so I think we might be waiting until this time next year. But, you know. [01:14:40] Speaker A: I'll get it. [01:14:41] Speaker B: I will say, I mean, I think Jason, you mentioned that the audience was saying it's like the worst movie ever. Totally disagree with that. Not 100. Remotely close to the word. Not even remotely close to the worst movie. [01:14:51] Speaker C: If anyone says it's the worst movie ever, they don't watch enough movies and realize how much there's an ice cube movie that just came out has a. [01:14:57] Speaker D: 0% on rotten tomatoes. [01:15:00] Speaker B: Is that the War of Worlds or whatever it is. Okay. I. I just seen him, like, all, like, up close. I'm like, I'm not watching that. I'm not watching it. [01:15:08] Speaker C: It's not even the worst. [01:15:09] Speaker B: I like Happy Gilmore too, though. I like actually Happy Gilmore too. [01:15:13] Speaker D: I. I did, too. I think it was completely overreaction by the people out there. I. [01:15:17] Speaker C: And they were expecting something that I think it. [01:15:19] Speaker D: It wasn't going to be, and I liked a little bit change the direction that it kind of did. I think a little had a, you know, some different heart to the movie. But again, this is an Adam Sandler movie. And so I think everyone needs to cut their expectations of what an Adam Sandler movie typically is. [01:15:36] Speaker A: My favorite Adam Sandler movie is when he plays, like, some Jewish guy and I can't remember the name of the movie. Like, it's in New York. [01:15:43] Speaker C: You don't mess with the Zohan. [01:15:45] Speaker A: No, it wasn't that. I. I've never seen that. [01:15:49] Speaker B: No, I know. You're talking about. No, no. [01:15:51] Speaker A: How the movie looks pretty stupid. [01:15:53] Speaker C: It is stupid. That's the thing. [01:15:58] Speaker A: It was really good, though. [01:16:01] Speaker B: No, hbo. It was. When you're talking about. [01:16:03] Speaker A: It was. It was phenomenal. I didn't know he had those acting chops, dad. And he plays like, someone that's, like. He wears, like, a blue suit in. [01:16:11] Speaker C: That movie Punch Drunk Love. [01:16:13] Speaker A: Yeah, I was surprisingly pretty. [01:16:15] Speaker B: Uncut Gems. That's what you like. [01:16:18] Speaker D: Uncanny Gems. [01:16:20] Speaker A: Yeah, That's a different type of movie there, right? [01:16:22] Speaker C: Say that. Uncut Johns. Yeah, I. I would say there. There's some great dramatic roles out. [01:16:29] Speaker A: I have not seen that either. Aaron. [01:16:30] Speaker C: Uncut Gems. You haven't seen that? [01:16:32] Speaker B: No. [01:16:34] Speaker C: There's a good movie he did with Don Cheadle. I think it's called Rain Over Me. [01:16:39] Speaker D: Where he lost his wife in, like, 911. [01:16:42] Speaker A: Yeah, I. I couldn't get past the first couple minutes of Uncut Gems. It just seemed unbelievable to me. I don't know. Am I tripping? [01:16:53] Speaker C: No, I. I didn't like. I didn't like it as much as they like. I think his performance was good in. [01:16:57] Speaker D: It, but I didn't. I didn't like the movie overall. Like, everyone was saying, oh, this is a great movie. [01:17:03] Speaker A: That's gonna bug me now. Nah, I'll be like, another topic. Well, we'll do an Adam Sandler pod one day. [01:17:12] Speaker C: It's a ton of great stuff. [01:17:14] Speaker A: All right, cool. I think that's gonna do it. Yeah. [01:17:17] Speaker D: Yep. [01:17:18] Speaker B: Yeah, we're into Wednesday morning now. [01:17:21] Speaker A: Wednesday morning. Gotta love it. We'll jump back on the pod next Monday. [01:17:30] Speaker D: We'll see you. [01:17:31] Speaker B: You don't know this. [01:17:31] Speaker D: You're. [01:17:32] Speaker C: We're asking you. Why don't you jump on? [01:17:34] Speaker B: You know, we don't have a lot going on. We don't have any Formula one. We don't have any wrestling. [01:17:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna try to do some stand up on Monday night, but we'll see how that goes. If not, I'll be coming back from. [01:17:47] Speaker B: What's your big stand update there? Rome, mid September at the. The function? [01:17:52] Speaker A: Possibly. [01:17:52] Speaker B: Where's the free tickets, man? The free booze? What's up, man? We get the invite or what? If you're. If you're gonna bomb out or what? [01:17:59] Speaker A: This is gonna be my first, like, surprisingly pro show. So I. I don't know. I don't know how that works yet. [01:18:06] Speaker B: You're going from the minors to the majors. Huh? [01:18:09] Speaker A: I'm still in the. I shouldn't even be in the minors right now. I just. [01:18:13] Speaker B: You're like. You're at a ball right now, man. [01:18:16] Speaker A: I got lucky. So we'll see how it goes. Oh, no. All right. Yeah, we'll do a pod next Monday, then. And I got lost in my train of thought. Maybe. [01:18:29] Speaker D: Maybe. We'll see. Maybe Tuesday. [01:18:30] Speaker B: Monday or Tuesday, sometime next week. [01:18:35] Speaker A: We've been consistent on the Tuesday night, but. [01:18:38] Speaker B: Yeah, well, you got your dog. Well, you're bringing your daughter. You're driving back up Monday. Right. So it's likely Tuesday. Just off that. [01:18:46] Speaker C: Here's the thing. Rome just misses football because during football season, he was a Swiss clock of when we were recording, and just without football, he misses. [01:18:56] Speaker B: He misses the lines. That's what he misses. [01:18:58] Speaker D: The line lines? Yeah, the lines. Yeah. [01:19:01] Speaker B: Not. Not the ones that you people are thinking about, but he misses the lines. [01:19:05] Speaker C: You know, I mean, he might miss those, too. [01:19:06] Speaker D: I mean, we really, really don't know. [01:19:08] Speaker C: He was. [01:19:08] Speaker A: I really don't. [01:19:10] Speaker B: I. I think. I think he dabbled in some this last weekend, but that's for the Patreon Network. [01:19:17] Speaker D: He was just trying to get through. [01:19:18] Speaker C: The Hungarian Grand Prix, you know, and just didn't, you know, just went straight into it. [01:19:23] Speaker B: Yeah, he was seek. He felt like Lewis Hamilton was all said and done. [01:19:28] Speaker A: By the way, if you go to a party and they say they got food, two medium pizzas from Papa John's is not enough to feed 25 people. [01:19:36] Speaker B: Guys, food, you got to have, like, 60. [01:19:39] Speaker C: You want to, like, a. You want to, like, a high school party? That's what it felt like, dude. [01:19:45] Speaker A: Like, half the people were just like, 24 to 26, like, what the hell am I doing here? [01:19:49] Speaker B: And you don't like Boba John's anyways. Rome, I thought last time I kind of messed you up. [01:19:53] Speaker A: I should have Me up. Everything me up, though. I just had those. A bag of munchies. They're flaming hot. It's my favorite bag of chips right now. [01:20:01] Speaker D: Yeah, we watched it. [01:20:02] Speaker C: The podcast audience heard it. [01:20:04] Speaker A: Yeah, no, that was. That was Trader Joe's Pretzel Thins. They're really delicious. Not too salty, really light. But I ran out of hummus, though. Yeah, we need a food sponsor. I can get Taco Bell. Rome just wants Taco Bell. [01:20:18] Speaker D: He just wanted to be Brad Pitt and Ocean's Eleven, where he's just eating the entire pod and everything like that. [01:20:23] Speaker B: Well, there was a. There was a point earlier in the year, he was three or four consecutive pods, just eating the whole time. [01:20:30] Speaker D: It was. [01:20:30] Speaker A: Yeah, it was. [01:20:31] Speaker D: It was a good streak. [01:20:32] Speaker A: Yeah, was a good streak. All right, I'll do it. We'll be back next week. Thanks, guys.