PMS 2.0 1559 - Nate Bargatze and Vanderbilt 5 Star QB Jared Curtis IN STUDIO, Adam Schefter, Shams Charania, Indy 500 Preview and Kyle Busch Remembrance with Ryan McGee IN STUDIO, PK Subban, Catherine Legge, & AJ Hawk

19:03Pat McAfee:However long Matthew Stafford wants to play quarterback, he will be our quarterback. This is a Hall of Famer and everything like that. Now they give him this massive deal. How long do we know? What does this mean? And how do you see it playing out for the Los Angeles Rams and fresh white teeth Stafford? Well, I think what happens here is it's a couple of things. First of all, you're talking about the reigning MVP. So somebody that's in that position deserves to be rewarded. And he was. And then, of course, they go out and they draft Ty Simpson with the 13th overall pick. And I would think that also, in a backhanded way, enters into the equation.

19:35OK, so we got the MVP. We got a guy where we just took a quarterback. When he won the MVP, let's show him how much we love him, appreciate him, and want him here in the future. So he goes out and signs an extension worth$55 million in new money, up to$60 million with incentives. He now has two years left on his deal,$95 million up to$105 million, depending on incentives. And I think Matthew Stafford always was going to approach this year to year and will, again, continue to approach it year by year. But the truth of the matter is, I think with a deal like this, it shows that he's truly thinking and probably planning on playing a couple of years at this point in time.

20:15Doesn't mean he will, but I think the signs now point in that direction that they have Stafford in 26, Stafford in 27, and they can begin to get Ty Simpson potentially ready for the 28th season.

20:26Pat McAfee:Okay, so Aaron Rodgers, one year left. He says this is it. Stafford, seemingly two more years left. Let's continue to watch their greatness. Los Angeles Rams always going to be in it. Pittsburgh Steelers maybe as well. Congrats to staff getting another$100 million. Beast. Aaron signed for$22 million. People are saying this is crazy. This is crazy what's going on here in Pittsburgh. Matthew Stafford, fresh off an MVP in Los Angeles. Completely different story. I don't think you hear one Rams fan going, doesn't deserve it. Everybody there is like, yep, happy you did it. And congrats to him being an old-ass quarterback.

20:56Pat McAfee:Old-ass quarterbacks always take a smaller deal. Peyton even got a smaller deal whenever he got older. Tom Brady,$25 million, I think, whenever he was an old-ass quarterback. Drew Brees, old-ass quarterback. Smaller deal. Obviously, Aaron, it's happening now. Smaller deal. Old-ass means you're great, by the way. That's the only reason why you become an old-ass quarterback in the NFL. But this is certainly a massive deal for an old-ass quarterback, I think. And that goes to showcase what Matthew Stafford has been to this Rams organization, which is why I think McVay had to play it the way he played it after the draft with Ty Simpson.

21:25Pat McAfee:Now, let's pivot away from Los Angeles, go to New York. Actually, New Jersey. Shane gets a new deal. This means Harbaugh doesn't hate him. Is that what this means? These two are going to be able to work together? Or what does this indicate? I think it means that Joe Shane played this the way he should have because in the eyes of most Giant fans, they wanted to see a change, were ready to make a change, and the Giants hold off on making a change at GM while making a change at head coach. And they have Joe Shane kind of supervise it. He flies down to pick up Harbaugh by himself. And I think he's smart enough to essentially turn over the organization to John Harbaugh to have it run the way that he wants and then to be a survivor.

22:05And not only a survivor, but then get an extension out of it. And sometimes when you see a big-name head coach come in, that is a ticket for somebody like Joe Shane to stay on and be there longer if they play it the right way. And in this particular situation, clearly he did. The Giants reward him. And obviously John Harbaugh had to be comfortable with it, had to sign off on it. Otherwise, it wouldn't have happened. So, yeah, Joe played this absolutely how he should have, and he now lands an extension out of it.

22:33Pat McAfee:Now, that opening press conference where he's talking about John, it was like, oh, wow, sounds like somebody just got told that they are now lieutenant instead of captain. Tippy-toes. And they felt like that was taking place, and we thought this was inevitably going to be an end of Joe Shane. Instead, I think he and Harbaugh probably start seeing things the same way, and that team has more hope than they've had in a long, long time about the future. Connor has a question about something that's seemingly lingering over there. Yeah, Sheffer, no hope with Malik Naber's knee. What's the deal? Harbaugh basically came out and said, yeah, right there.

23:02It's not a simple knee injury. What does that mean? Is this something that is going to linger and that second surgery wasn't as much as planned as we originally thought? Or what's the deal here with Malik Nabors? Look, we'll start off with the fact that he's in the building. He's working hard. He's rehabbing. He's trying to get back as soon as he can. But saying all that, I just don't like the way that any of this sounds, right? There's a second knee surgery. There's some scar tissue and stiffness that they need to address. It's a complicated procedure. They don't know if he'll be ready for opening day.

23:35It certainly sounds like, at the very least, opening night against the Dallas Cowboys at home is in jeopardy. And it almost feels like, at this point in time, that it would be more unlikely that he would play in that game, that it is likely that he would play in that game. And look, Jackson Dart is the quarterback of the future there. If we go back to last year, when they finally called on Jackson Dart, Jackson Dart and Malik Nabors played one half of football together. this should be the Giants future together their star quarterback their star receiver and we have not gotten to see them play because in the first half of that game last year against the Chargers neighbors tore his ACL did other damage to the knee went out of the game and now has had two surgeries since then and opening night at the very least is a major question mark as to whether or not he'll be able to make it back for that game against the Cowboys right now a lot of highlights

24:33Pat McAfee:against the Colts there. Obviously, Malik Nabors, an absolute freak wide receiver from the highlights we're seeing, but also everything that has been projected about who he could potentially become. I don't think I was feeling as negatively about it until Harbaugh says what he says, and then you just rattle off a lot of things there that go, oh, wait, okay, we got a little bit of trouble here, seemingly, for Malik Nabors, who we all hope to see grow with Jackson Dart, and also with Scadaboo in the back. I mean, New York Giants have the future. I mean, it is... My apologies. He went for 170 against the Colts.

25:03so it's hard not to.

25:04Pat McAfee:Everybody did, though.

25:09We did it.

25:13Pat McAfee:On that note, Shefty, Nate Bargetze, huge, huge Tennessee Titan fan, football lover, has a question for you. Yeah, do you think we're, with the Titans getting the Super Bowl, or Nashville getting the Super Bowl in 2030, 85 % chance the Titans are in it? That's a good question. That's a good question. You kind of get it. Nate, I think that might be low. There we go. I like that. And if the league is going to write the script and get ahead of it this far in advance, there's no reason you wouldn't want to put the Tennessee Titans in the hometown Super Bowl in their new stadium, right? At least. And if you haven't heard by now, Cam Ward is on this new diet.

25:55They got rid of all those seed oils there in Tennessee. He's lost 10 pounds since last season. And I think Tone was the one that pointed it out. The fact that Cam Ward had this great touchdown to interception ratio last season when they struggled on offense, didn't have the weapons that they do now, going out and adding Wondell Robinson, Carnell Tate, and maybe most important, Brian Dable to run the offense. So I really believe that Cam Ward is in line to have a big year this year. Now, we could start planning the Super Bowl in 2030 if you want. We could begin to look ahead to that. If that's going to bring you some happiness in this holiday weekend, we should definitely do that, and we should anoint the Titans' favorites for the 2030 Super Bowl right now.

26:44I know that's going to piss off some people in the studio there in Indianapolis there, Nate, but I'm happy to do that for you in this holiday weekend.

26:50Pat McAfee:No, Chef, are you like a mentally – are you able to see the future? Wow. Is that – because it sounds like you're – Rams next year with Stafford. He said it. That's obvious. And then Titans. Titans 2030. Come on. We got the Rams going to the Super Bowl next year. The year after, the Falcons. Look, Kevin Stefanski should have them back. By then, could be. The year after, the Raiders. You could see Mendoza in year three finally taking hold and playing the Super Bowl at Allegiance. And then Cam Ward in the new stadium. Yeah, so it just lines up really perfectly for each of those four franchises. Who told you this?

27:30Pat McAfee:Was it Oz that told you these things? Because I'm going to have to wonder. I've been told maybe not. What? Wow. Maybe not what? I've been told he's maybe not. A mind reader? Maybe, I don't know. Maybe not. Maybe not much of a mind reader. Are you familiar with that? I don't believe you. Are you familiar with that? Do you know Oz? You don't think it's real? I think it's real. See, that's what I'm saying. I don't know the way you asked that. I don't know the way you asked that. My dad's a magician. Really? Yeah. Having been with him through any number of his acts, you might be able to explain some things.

28:00But there is no way that you could explain to me, having been there side by side with the guy, how he does some of those things. I don't care what anybody says. I'm sure there are tricks. Not just anybody.

28:12Pat McAfee:Some people know. Have you ever seen Penn and Teller Fool Us? Have you ever seen that? Have you ever seen the show Penn and Teller Fool Us? Have you ever seen this? No, but I'm aware of it. Oh, he's pissed. Okay, so what I'm being told is basically if Oz was to go on there, I think Penn and Teller might not understand what's going on, but this guy does. This guy does. Hey, what if during the White House Correspondents' Dinner, right before that guy ran in, he goes, hey, we should all get down. Would that have changed? Would that have you been blown away? Yeah, that would have. That would have been.

28:50He's there on the stage. He goes, I ducked down a little bit. He goes right before it. None of this shit's coming out.

28:57Pat McAfee:Yeah, yeah. If that happens. Then he's getting investigated immediately. Big time. Oh, yeah. He's the one that said it up. Maybe that's why he couldn't say it. Because he goes, do you want to go down that hole? Yeah. Yeah. There's probably a lot of those moments. But you started him going down like an elevator behind. Like a little bit before. We did. Yeah. Yeah. That's a great call. Yeah. I want to put all this together. I forgot he was there. He was. He was. He was up there. He was there. He was the one on the speaker. He knew it. Which maybe that's why they felt obligated to be like, hey, he's maybe not.

29:33Pat McAfee:Okay, we need to understand that he's maybe not making the hangar chip disappear. But I think he started going down. You're saying we think he knew. I think he pre-went down. And I don't think he could say it out loud. Because, again, they're not going to, you know, you can't handle this dude's knowing this stuff. I don't know if they do. I agree. All right, there's a chance. Oz, good luck out there. Anything on that, Schefter? Go ahead. Oz, good luck out there, dude. Anytime your gimmick's getting, like, investigated, I think your gimmick worked. I think it worked. I think it worked. I think your gimmick worked.

30:07Pat McAfee:He's the man. Congrats to him. And also, there are as many things he did to me that I would not fully comprehend. Just walking up. Like what? You need to. The way that was said is I was trying to figure out how to deliver the news. What did he do to you? Are you all right? He got my credit card number. Just walked right up to me. First time I ran into this guy. How does he know my credit card number? How do you get the draft order right with the players? I don't know. I've met him ten times. He's never remembered my name, so that should be a skill. All right. Unadmitted. All right. Last question here.

30:37Pat McAfee:Last question here as we move on. Please go ahead, Ty. Shephy, Jack Campbell signed a massive extension yesterday, and I think a lot of people maybe assumed that after they didn't pick up the fifth-year option money-wise. It didn't really work. But then some people thought maybe the same thing was going to happen with Tyler Linderbaum before he went to the Raiders. Was this always kind of the expectation that the Lions were going to get something figured out with Jack Campbell? And where do they go from here? Because they still have a lot of young talent that they need to get new deals for. Yeah, listen, I think this is a whole work in progress because there are a lot of players that have to get paid there.

31:13Jameer Gibbs, I would think, would be next. see deals at some point this summer for Jameer Gibbs, for Bijan Robinson. Those are going to be big blockbuster deals. The running back position, the Lions will want to sign Sam Laporta, their tight end, who's tremendous in that offense, great player. They get Jack Campbell out of the way. And again, I think these are the challenges that are there for this franchise that has been so close in recent years. And now it's going to be harder because they've got to pay these guys who are on rookie contracts, the money that they deserve, and that creates less flexibility elsewhere on the roster.

31:49Still a good team. But, boy, they had a real window here the last few years, and unfortunately for them, they didn't get to take advantage of it, but they're still going to be one of the top teams in the league. And, yeah, I would think that they're going to continue to work to get the rest of these deals done this summer.

32:03Pat McAfee:Yeah, the Lions are hoping for that, aren't you? It was a good time when everybody was chanting Jared Goff around town. You guys were running to the playoffs, and all of a sudden you were the darlings. I haven't heard one Jared Goff chant from Detroit since. We're going to be okay. Okay, we have MCDC. We have Jared Goff. Let's pay all these young guys. They're all incredible. The only issue is the offensive line is completely different now, but they'll be A-okay. You kind of started saying that like how the NFL spelled Jackson Smith. Offensive line. Offensive line. Oh, to Rick McGarrett. Anything we miss, Shefty, that we should definitely hit on this Friday around the NFL this week?

32:35Yeah, the big partnership yesterday between Joms.

32:38Pat McAfee:Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Speaking of no seed oil. You're right. When we saw you break that, we immediately – it pops up in my screen here, you know, and Bruce goes, Shefty just tweeted peanut butter and jelly deal just happened. So, obviously, we've got to talk about it. We have had Joms before. Joms are delicious. Because JJ is a part of Joms, as you mentioned. I didn't know Caleb Williams was a part of that. I knew JJ was a part of it. JJ, who is still – Joms? What's that called? You know. Bodybuilding? Which one is the – Deadlift? The hack squat? But with this one, though. Is that the hack squat with the parallel?

33:13Pat McAfee:The hex? Yeah, whatever it is. He was doing that. I think it was like at least 350 something, 405 maybe yesterday. Couldn't have a conversation with me without. Hold on. Puts the phone down in the middle of his set. Watch this. I can't let my legs cool down right now. That's what JJ's doing. So whenever he sent me the jams when I was trying to not be a fat ass anymore, he was like, hey, peanut butter and jelly with a little bit more protein. So if JJ's doing it, that's kind of why I jumped into it. It tastes really good. I love that they're getting in with the NFLPA. That's good news by you, Bray, because they eat a lot of that shit.

33:42Pat McAfee:And the NFL eats, what, 80 ,000? Yeah, at least. John John Watt just sitting right there, too, by the way, with the J.J. Watt, of course. Oh, my God. John John Watt. That's why he ran on the screen. Yeah, it is. Well, that's a big battle, man, between jobs and Uncrustable. That's going to be the battle of the future with the NFL. If they can do that, wow. Uncrustable is a Goliath. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, that is... Household name. Uncrustable's rolling their sleeve up. They're like, all right, come on. It's going to get interesting. They're LeBron, but Jom Jom has some Wemby. I saw a tweet that Uncrustable fumbled it, like Skype fumbled it, and then Zoom came in.

34:22Pat McAfee:I did see a lot of PB &J Uncrustable coverage to the Sheffield News. I looked at it this morning just because of how I am a massive peanut butter and jelly person. Okay? Massive. So good. Wanted to start a peanut butter and jelly store when I was young. Like, literally, that's how much I love it. So we started looking into it all. I guess Joms does have a couple arguments that they can make, especially to kind of grandstand on some things. No seed oils, more protein. Allegedly, I don't know. Less calories. Yeah, so the way Jom Joms Watt pitched us on these things, I think it could. Uncrustable is their life.

34:55Pat McAfee:And they know. They know that Smuckers is not going to go quietly into the game. Look, I'll be honest with you. This is, I think, less than the UFL versus the NFL. Like it's XFL I don't even know if it's that I think you got an uphill battle But I mean look I'm rooting for jobs I have no say in any of this Maybe in Crestville it goes we're going extra Cedle Maybe I want Maybe I want Cedle I need more of it in my life They won't be in the Titans building though I'll bring my own Shefty we appreciate you man Hey guys have a great holiday weekend Thanks for having me today A breadwinner, May 29th.

35:35Pat McAfee:May 29th, Chef. I thought Pat was the breadwinner. No. This guy's got four arenas a weekend. And also a brand new movie coming out May 29th. Get the Nate rate. I like that. I like the Nate rate. Lower pricing. I like that. Yeah. That's all lower. But yeah, all your theaters and everything, we went to the theaters and talked to them and we lowered pricing for this movie because we want your whole family to go out to it. Theaters got rid of state oil, too. Oh, yeah. We ain't doing it. Then I ain't going. That's not true. That's not true. There's a lot of seed oils at those theaters. They got to pump just seed oil.

36:09What was that?

36:10Pat McAfee:Ladies and gentlemen, it's Adam Schrafter. Thank you. Schrafter me. Is Will Forte as funny as I imagine he is? Yeah, he's the funniest. Just like when you stare at him. And you're like, I'm on board. Yeah, I'm on board with everything. People you meet that aren't funny, you get bummed out about it? Yeah, I'm trying to see who would not. I don't know if there's anybody that I think that would not be. you know i'm thinking not funny i mean just get i always base it off like could i ride in the car with them yeah like could you you know take an hour drive with them and there's a there's a bunch that you're like it'd be pretty brutal that's a good litmus test if you could sit in an hour i'd be a no for a lot of people i think and they need to know that that's probably the right move because i'm trying not sit in a car for an hour ever so i'm trying to get out of that car immediately but i do think that is a good litmus test for everything maybe yeah could you ride in a car with them if you're going to hire somebody and the answer and i would say no if the guy's like well i don't want to ride in car for an hour and then go no it's automatic no right there yeah i mean he's already mad about being in the car i'm gonna make the most of it though i will try my best but there's a chance i'm gonna need to stop that thing pull over i'm gonna have to pee or get out of there just strictly because i can't be contained for that can't be caged yeah exactly you're damn right yeah i can't be caged uh speaking of not being caged we had to do it to this insider because he had too much information.

37:26Pat McAfee:It's time to get a brief amount of info in a short period of time, but getting everything you possibly need. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for a drive-by. Yeah, yeah.

37:50Pat McAfee:That's right, ladies and gentlemen, it's time for a hot five. Yes, Charmy! Looks cool today. I miss your tank top days. Yeah, I know. You see the polo today. This is actually weed, though, so I think I should get a little bit of respect for that move. Shams, let's talk about the news. We got some injury updates tonight. We saw your Twitter account. Dylan Harper, game time decision. He's not the only one. What do we – oh, no, we lost him. Too fast of a drive-by. Oh, no. There he is. You're driving. Am I back? Am I back? It said your connection's unstable. Whoa, don't point me. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

38:23Pat McAfee:Yeah, I did see that as well on our side. We should try to fix that. That's certainly a problem. We got four internets coming into this building. That should never be the case. But let's assume your drive-by is a part of the problem. Dylan Harper, game time decision. Any other news that we need to know as the Western Conference Finals continues to electrify? Pat, these are the playoffs. So right now, gamesmanship is at an all-time high. But three major injuries for this Oklahoma City-San Antonio Spurs series. And this is like the heavyweight Titan battle between, you know, this could be the two best teams standing right now in the league.

38:56But three big injuries. J-Dub, Jalen Williams, he's got a hamstring injury. It's his left hamstring. It's a reoccurring injury for J-Dub. He missed about four weeks. He had a left hamstring strain on April 22nd. And then the other night, in less than one month, he suffers another left hamstring injury. I'm told the Thunder evaluating this day-to-day, game-to-game. Now, given the fact that he's just a couple days removed from a hamstring strain or another hamstring injury to the same strained hamstring, it's a reoccurring injury. And then you think about it, Pat, the opposite leg, the right hamstring, he had two strains on that side of the hamstring as well during the course of the season that he missed four weeks at one point, then six weeks at another point.

39:43And so he's been dealing with hamstring injuries on both legs. I think for him it does appear more unlikely than likely that he plays in Game 3 tonight. Another big injury, De 'Aaron Fox. He missed the first two games. High right ankle sprain. I'm told he's going to be a game-time decision again tonight. But he's trying. He is making improvements. Still dealing with soreness. He's going to be a game-time decision. And the latest injury that we also had was Bill Harper. Adductor injury in Game 2. He played 25 minutes. We know he starred in game one, played at an elite level in game one as a rookie.

40:19Then in game two suffers this injury that we see right there. But, you know, the crazy part is he acted good enough to be able to play in this game and come back, the competitor that he is. And so he's going to go through his pregame routine tonight. What happened there? Yeah, yeah. Someone online was like an employee came and told him to go back. Yeah, I don't think it's like that.

40:44Pat McAfee:But there was a decision made. He wanted to play, it sounds like, right? He wanted to play, and then somebody was like, this would be stupid to be doing this right now with Dylan. We're dealing with two organizations in the Spurs and the Thunder. Not only are these two organizations very tight-lipped, but they're like player health. They're going to do everything they can to make sure the future is not jeopardized. And so, you know, you think about an adductor, that's a soft tissue injury. A hamstring, a soft tissue injury. Now, I think the Spurs are breathing some sigh of relief that this wasn't a hamstring injury because that could be even more timely.

41:17And we've seen guys in the past play through adductors and groins, but we'll see tonight. Dylan Harper's going to go through his pregame. Spurs are treating him like a game-time decision.

41:26Pat McAfee:Breaking news, Bargetzi here actually played through a groin for this Breadwinner movie. Yeah. Entire filming. Wow. The whole thing. Yeah. When did they learn about adductors? That's a great question. I mean, what? Do you think Will Chamberlain ever set out for an adductor? Did they even know that existed? I think a lot didn't exist right now. There's so many types of treatments that these guys are able to go through on a daily basis to be able to play in games. I mean, I had a grade three ankle sprain in 2020. A boo-hoo. And I went through a couple days of PT, and I went from not being able to walk and having crutches and having a boot on to be able to walk, and that's after like two PT sessions.

42:10So imagine if you're an NBA player. Hey, a little respect for Sean Charania going forward, please.

42:15Pat McAfee:Okay? No, but my point is this. Imagine if you're an NBA player and you have access to 24-7 treatment. You think about what treatment looks like. These guys, you know, I have access to like one PT in a couple days span. Like these guys have 24-7 PT around the clock, and that's what it takes to try to play in a game like this. You sound so cool saying PT there. I want to let you know that. Both for physical therapist and physical therapy. You were kind of dropping in there both. I thought that was really well done by you. You sounded really athletic. Anything we missed in the NBA front that we need to hit?

42:46No, I think the injuries are the biggest thing. And Oklahoma City, San Antonio, like I said, this is the cream of the crop of the NBA right now. I'm in New York for the Cavs-Knicks series. That's been very competitive as well. But I think when I talk to everyone around the league, you watch the Spurs and you watch the Thunder. And you think about the intensity, the competition, and also the physicality level. It's no wonder that these guys are really putting their bodies on the line and guys are getting hurt. They're getting banged up. They're having to play through injuries. And it's really going to be a war of attrition.

43:19You think they're going to let – you think the refs are going to go after OKC a little bit more? Good question. After last week? Well, yeah, I mean, I think a lot of people in San Antonio were keeping a very close eye, and I think you look at the footage, and I wouldn't even say it's the physical play. I think what the Spurs have taken issue with, from my understanding, is it's the pulling of Stephon Castle's hair, the tugging on the hand, the pulling on the elbows. Those are the plays that the Spurs have taken, the tactics that I think the Spurs have looked at internally. But listen, Oklahoma City, this has been their – this is how they play.

43:56They're a physical team. They're one of the best defensive teams of all time in a lot of ways. And so they've made their bread winning on the defensive side of the game. And I think that's going to continue here in game three.

44:11Pat McAfee:They bop wood down there. That's what they do. It does take – yeah, you're 100%. May 29th. May 29th. I do think the finals, they've let them play. I've actually enjoyed the NBA, this playoffs. I think they've been kind of old school, letting them kind of go. And I think that's what was pissing people off about Shea, because there's some not being called, and you just look like an asshole. Because you're either embellishing or flopping, and then the refs don't call it. That's worse, I think. Whenever the refs call it, the player can say, hey, I'm getting free throws. When they don't call it, you just look like an asshole, I think is why people started getting so mad.

44:43Pat McAfee:But if you're at the top of the mountain, people are going to be mad anyways. And Wemby's banging. He's banging. Wemby's banging down there. Like big body banging down there. Yeah, he don't care. It seems he does not like OKC. Yeah, that's 100 % sure. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, that man who just hit us with a hot five. A bad internet, but yeah. Wow, I'm surprised it didn't glitch there. Five, baby. Five, baby. We kept it to five this time. Ladies and gentlemen, Sean. Okay, Sean. Thanks, Shams. Geez. He did keep it to five. He did, actually. Yeah, he did. So what happens is there's so much information that he has.

45:22Yeah.

45:23Pat McAfee:So then he just goes with it. And we certainly get smarter for it, but we don't have the time for it. You know, because right now, we've got to introduce a guy that might end up in the Hall of Fame. Exactly. Exactly. This guy was committed to the University of Georgia Bulldogs. Go, dog. What's that coming down the track? This train was what was coming down the track. He's a giant. He's a five-star quarterback out of Nashville. I think he has every record for everything he's ever done. He's a former rancher, actual cowboy, and he's also in the movie Breadwinner, which will be debuting on May 29th because this man, as a representative of Vanderbilt on college game day, said, I'll put you in a movie.

46:07Pat McAfee:You come to Vandy. He did, ladies and gentlemen. Absolute star. Legend. He might be 30 seconds behind. Or more. In that room. There he is. Ladies and gentlemen, a monster of a man. A 19-year-old, Jerry Curtis. Jerry! How about Jerry? How about Jerry? Good job, Jerry. That's true. That's good job, Jerry. See, it's what we're talking about. Kind of uncomfortable. It's a long walk. It is a long walk. Like the movie. The long walk. Good to see you, dude. Good handshake. That was a good handshake. Clean, dap. Huge hands. Big hands. Left the lads hanging there. Yeah. Hey, you're on. You're on. I think it's on.

46:43Pat McAfee:I think it's on. Can you see if it's working? Hey, you left Lats hanging. They're not happy about it. I don't worry about it. I shook his hand. I said it was a great handshake. He said coach taught them how to shake hands. So little things. Yeah, it is the little things down there. Tell me about being a Vanderbilt Commodore at this point. And whenever he makes the offer for you to be in a movie and also get you a nice house. Yeah, sweet apartment. The house is coming. Cool. What's that? The house is coming. We don't need a harp on it right now. Okay, all right. We'll move on. But get you in a movie.

47:10Pat McAfee:How much of that, especially because you're in Nashville at the time, how much of the Vandy movement last year swayed you, and how pumped are you to be a part of the baton passing, maybe, for Vandy to continue to be a football school? Yeah, I think they was fun to watch last year. So, you know, Diego came to a game, started talking to Diego, went to some practices, went to the Missouri game, where y 'all was at. It was a good time. Got in contact with him more, kept going to practices, built a relationship. I believe in Coach Lee and what he had, and it's home. So I feel like. How are you in the movie?

47:41Pat McAfee:Pretty good in the movie, Wade? Were you stressed out maybe about having to act? You know, because you're as real as the day is long, it appears for me. This guy's an actual horse farmer. This guy's a rancher. Yes, sir. No, sir. His head. I don't know if you can see his head because it might blend in with the back wall here. We're talking fullback, linebacker-sized cranium. Big dome. Okay. Hands gigantic. He's huge. 230 pounds right now. hasn't even really become what size 16 shoes he has on. Just a boy. And the highlights, he can run, he can throw, and he's breaking horses. Feels like, you know, everything.

48:17Pat McAfee:How pumped are you for the city of Nashville to kind of continue to be a football town? Because that's what it felt like when Vandy kind of was taking place. And obviously there's a lot of good high school football. There's a lot of good high school football, obviously. I think that's blown up the most. High school football and then obviously the Titans with a new stadium. Getting a Super Bowl, which he already asked Oz. We're going to be there. Yeah, going to be in it. In 2030, we'll be there. I mean, there's a chance. Could, yes. That you could potentially be playing for him. Now, Cam Ward's going to become an all-pro in this entire thing.

48:43Pat McAfee:But it does feel like Nashville with Vandy was kind of showcased a little bit. You living there and experiencing it. How much of that do you feel is pressure? How much do you feel is that excitement? How do you kind of view being in the hometown about do what you have to do? Yeah, I think it's just mostly excitement. I don't think there's any pressure to it. When it came to make the decision, obviously, it was hard. But, no, it was good, though. like just talking to Coach Lee. Coach Lee helped a lot. Coach Brothers, he played at Vandy. He had no say in it. He was just there for me whenever it was.

49:13And they helped me out the most. How was the acting?

49:15Pat McAfee:They're pretty good or no? Yeah, I mean, it was okay. I mean, I think I had a line. Yeah, we got a line. We protected him. Yeah. That's smart. What's going on? I thought you were in the movie. We did the movie. No, yeah. I thought we were. Because, you know, West Virginia. Main character. You know, West Virginia, just there's a thought that maybe we could throw a movie together. I want to see your movie throw together. I want to throw a movie together. I think these things are only going to continue. And you're 19 at this point? Yes, sir. Okay, so you've kind of, your entire recruiting process has been NIL?

49:49Pat McAfee:Yes, sir. So since the beginning of you being recruited, you've understood how this kind of game works. Yes, sir. Do you think that's an advantage that you've had to deal with the business side of football at this stage? Or how do you kind of view it? Or did you just not know anything different? I kind of just went with it. I mean, I don't really know. I don't know how it was. Oh, so that was like family? You kept that completely away from your ears? Yes, sir. Really? Yeah. So you didn't even know you were going to be in this movie, or that was the only thing you really heard? No, I knew I was going to be.

50:15Well, Peter told me. He was like, hey, we got this lined up. Nate gave you the chance to get in this movie. I was like, oh, wow. So I'd like to say, when we went to go film, the day we were going to go film, he came down. When you see the movie, it's the opening scene of the movie that we got him in. But when he came down to go film, it's out the gate. It's out the gate. And then, so when we did it, though, we were like, hey, we were leaving earlier. He did not want to leave because he wanted to be there for the practice. He does not want the special treatment. And so we stayed. We flew later than we were going to.

50:49So, you know, respect to him. He's not trying not to take the limelight. He's a leader. He's a leader.

50:54Pat McAfee:How does it feel being a natural leader? I mean, you are a rancher, and you're huge. Yeah, big sumbitch. Yeah, big. People have to listen. Big. This guy comes from a horse farm. He is one of the said horses that have come from said farm. So you've probably been in a position of leadership just strictly because of how you're built, but also the position you're at. How does it feel at this stage? Because you guys are on your phones a lot. You guys don't talk to each other is what we're told about your generation. But in football, you're going to have to talk to people. How is the relationship with the teammates here in the brief time that you've been in, Vandy?

51:28Pat McAfee:And how do you kind of view that as a part of being a quarterback? No, I think it's great. Building a relationship is probably the biggest thing, regardless of being who you are. You just got to build a relationship with everybody. And I feel like that's the biggest thing, to build a brotherhood. And Coach Lee gives a lot of lectures on that. And, you know, relatedness is our edge, is what we say. How's your work ethic? We got a pretty good work ethic. Rancher. Yeah, of course. Go without saying. Yeah, but are we up early, Roger? Because the cock-a-doodle-doo's happening out on the farm, or what do we got?

52:00No, I think, you know, waking up early for football. So, like, if I don't have to wake up early, I don't think I can sleep in past, like, 830. Got it. So I'm up somewhat early, but not crazy.

52:12Pat McAfee:Okay, I got it. Yeah, I understand. We're in farming. Yeah, the sun can rise, and we can still continue to do this. We got meetings and more time on our plate. I don't know how you guys at this such young age, especially you, five-star quarterback, everything being thrown at you, are able to handle it. Me as a 19-year-old, I would have completely crumbled. I would not have been able to. I think Diego played a big part with him, too. It wasn't like he came to Vandy for the movie. Diego was a giant part of all this. No, that's all he heard. Remember, he didn't hear anything else. He had no idea.

52:42That is true. It was for the movie.

52:43Pat McAfee:Yeah, look at you. You might have been the only piece of information. If you were an alum of Stephen Austin, you would have put him in the movie. that's where he would have went. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. If I was, yeah, that's true. Yeah. It was only the movie. Yeah, Stephen Austin, buddy. I bet they wish they had me. I'll tell you that. They didn't let you in, I bet. Yeah. I didn't have a college, so, yeah. I tried to talk him in going to my high school. I go, let's do one more year at my high school. Connor has a question for you, Jared. What is kind of the hardest part with the NIO stuff, like saying no and saying yes?

53:15Is there specific stuff that you are interested in or are you literally like hey i don't even want to know aside from nate's movie i don't want to know what the hell these people are offering i don't want to know what type of opportunities they are like you just tell me what you think is best and is that all mostly family agent like is your agent doing everything yeah i've seen like if somebody reaches out to me most of the time they'll reach out to peter first which is my agent um but if they reach out to me i'll just send them his number him and my mom get in contact if it's important i'm going if it's something like you I know they might not think that is necessary, then I won't go.

53:50But whatever they tell me, go. So I just listen to them. I love to hear that.

53:54Pat McAfee:Good foundation. Yeah, that's a smart thing to keep you out of it. I didn't even think about players just not knowing anything happening and just trying to say the main thing, the main thing. I feel like that was probably a big-time decision that your family made, I would assume, early. Like, hey, we are going to keep you completely out of this. You need to not be interfered by anything. You are 6 '6", and built like an absolute 230 pounds right now? Yes, sir. Brick shite house. Yeah. I think the SEC's got a little bit of an issue with Nashville being a team for a bit. Oh, yeah. I think they're – Yeah.

54:21We're around. We're here to stay. I think you guys are around. Yeah, yeah, we're around. It's the way they're moving forward. Candice Lee, congratulations, was named Athletic Director of the Year yesterday. Congratulations. She has been crushing it. So, everything Vandy's doing is, I think, very forward-thinking. We got to a very late start. We were not in the tradition and all that kind of stuff like that. So it's like we got that new kind of way that we're like, all right, now we're like really focused on this thing and we're moving forward into the new era. And I think we have a head start on that.

54:56Pat McAfee:Yeah, I love everything about it. Jared, thank you for traveling up here. I have a question for you. Would you like to do a charity football throw? Yeah, sure. Yeah, I got you. Okay, Jared. Okay. Now we have an array of footballs here that you can choose from. Here's an Adidas one from Fernando Mendoza if you'd like to use this one. No, no, no. No, I'm joking. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, so you pick the, what is that, a Nike ball? Nike ball. It's a little flat. It's a little flat. It does not have as much air, so this might be a tough throw. To be clear, we probably should have prepared a little bit more before this exact moment right now.

55:28Pat McAfee:For sure. See a quarterback, though, think of something quickly. Okay, if you make the throw into one of those three holes in that net right over there, right underneath the United States of America flag, If you make it in there, I will donate$50 ,000 to a charity of your choosing. If you miss, Nate Bargetsy will donate$50 ,000 to a charity of all of ours choosing. All of you. All of you. All right. Y 'all's choosing? Is it one of y 'all's names? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's an ethical ball. Yeah, exactly. This is an ethical football throw. All right, all right. Yeah. I'll agree to it.

56:08It's a flat ball, though. That is a flat ball, yeah. Okay, so you're in? I'm in.

56:12Pat McAfee:Alright, here we go. Hey, this is a big... Should it just be one? It feels like... This guy's the number one quarterback prospect in the nation. You pick one and you hit the throw. I think you make the throw. I think this would be a time to make the throw. There was a conversation about, hey, he's a horse. I was saying earlier, do you think you can throw a ball through the wall? because how big this guy is. I planned that AC early as we're trying to introduce you. I think for this one, I think you would want to make the throw. Yeah. Well, now. No, actually. Actually, though, I mean. Yeah. Yeah, I want you to make.

56:53He's going to make the throw. This way he does, dude.

56:57Pat McAfee:Breadwinner, May 29th. Get out there and watch it. This man's in the opening scene. I believe he will also. I don't want to say anything or put any more pressure on him or him uncomfortable in the locker room because obviously he's got to do what he's got to do. He's just a rook-ass rook down there. Probably starting quarterback here for the Vanderbilt football team for the next few years. Good chance. It is an honor to meet you, buddy. After everything we've learned about you and getting a chance to chat with you, and this whole thing about I don't even know shit about shit right now, I'm just doing football like it's 2002 again or whatever.

57:26Good kid. I'm a big fan of yours, man. Yeah, pumped about it.

57:28Pat McAfee:I am a big fan of yours. Thank you. On that note, somebody's got to donate 50 grand. Is it me or is it Bargetsy? This is a tough throw. Yeah, which hole? No, no, any of them. He's not going to miss by a full fucking... Yeah, you're right. Five stars. He's going to have to hit... Exactly. He'll hit whichever one he's looking. I mean, any of the holes. All right. Any of them. 50 ,000 note. What's that? Right here? Anywhere. Anyway, do you want me to... Should we move Jabba? Yeah. Yeah. In front of him a little more? Maybe Jabba. Oh, maybe we do get a little cadence. From the back, they asked if you could give a cadence, a couple ducks.

58:00Pat McAfee:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Here we go, right here. There's the handheld over there. Mo, Mo, ready, go. Oh, shit. Oh, my. Yes. No. Yes. It was on it. That was a rope. Yeah, it was. That was a rope. That's a flat ball. Double or nothing now. Double or nothing now. Get the college ball now. I'll go double or nothing because that was a flat ball. Double or nothing. It was very flat. You got a pumped one. I don't know if we don't have any. Is the natty ball down there? Yeah, natty ball right there. Oh, I get it. That felt great. It's a little flat. All right, this is better than that. Here we go.

58:36Pat McAfee:Hold on. This is double or nothing now. It's for$100 ,000. I like that you just hocked it. Me too. Yes. I want to let you know. I learned more about you in that particular rep than I needed to know. There's been other quarterbacks that have made decisions in this particular game that we're playing here, and it made us – Question. Everything. A little constructive criticism. Maybe just a little more oomph when you hit that Mo Mo Red Go. Nobody jumped off sides. What are you saying? Yeah, exactly. I wasn't even – Tony Romo, perhaps. We don't need to be. Hey, hey, hey. Well, does he want to hear Tony Romo?

59:08Yeah, this is Tony. You got the Tony for him? Wait, wait, wait.

59:14Pat McAfee:How about Aaron Rodgers? You got Aaron Rodgers? Green tea. Green tea. Let's go. Okay, how about Dak Prescott? Here we go. Peyton Manning? Omaha, Omaha. There it is. All right. Now, ladies and gentlemen, the future. Jared Curtis. Are you in shotgun? Were you under center there? I don't remember. No, it was shotgun. Shotgun. There you go. Okay, it was shotgun. Yeah, proper distance. Okay. Here we go. You know who we're playing right now? Fucking Bama. Oh, my God. It's happening right now. That's Saban Field. Oh, no. Nick Saban's there like this. He's not happy. Or maybe between the hedges. Oh. Because you were going to.

59:58Pat McAfee:Oh. Here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, Jared Curtis, Vanderbilt Commodores quarterback, and also star of Breadwinner, movie out May 29th for a potential$100 ,000 donation or$250 ,000 donation. Double nothing. Whew. Yeah! It got in there. It got in there. In the hole. There it is. Wow. There it is. Hey, he hit two receivers. He hit two receivers. You ain't ever seen something like that. That's a special talent. That's a special talent to get both guys get a chance. Congratulations. That's a good ball. All right, we'll both donate$50 ,000 to a charity if you're choosing, Jared. And thank you for joining us.

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1:02:08Pat McAfee:What is your racing style Kyle? Aggressive. Take no shit. Here comes the 18. He puts the bump into the back of him. The 18 into the wall. The 42 sideways. Here's Harvin. Here comes the 18. Kyle Busch will win. Kyle Busch out of turn four. Checkered flag is in the air. Kyle Busch wins it for the ninth time in the truck series. Oh, y 'all are so loving. Thank you. Kyle Busch, driver of the number 18, double mid Camry. Rick, ready to win it again. Kyle Busch is an ass. What is something that can happen on the racetrack that would cause you to want to fight somebody? Getting crashed out or wrecked or something deliberately.

1:02:55When you feel as though it was definitely deliberate, that's when fact of the matter comes out and you're pretty pissed off. You just crashed me out for no reason coming to the checker flag. Like I raced you, I bumped into you, whatever. I passed you. I was going to, you know, race you to the finish line. I bumped him. Rubbin son is racing. It's that movie. Yeah, it is.

1:03:14Pat McAfee:I really like what you did. There was no bullshit, no walking around straight into the biggest dog in the thing. Fist thrown. I loved everything about it. KY is a racing goat. You guys never lost on his birthday. Okay. Wow. I came into the world on fucking May 2nd. You think you're going to outrace me at goddamn Dover? Not a chance. No way. Hey, is KY running? Are there people there? Yep. KY's winning. I think people would say you were an aggressive driver. You weren't scared to mix it up a little bit. You were a guy who, I'm a witness, whether you're in front of me, behind me, or underneath me.

1:03:45Pat McAfee:Do you still do that? Is it still the same old Kyle Busch? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. You know, you got to go out there and you got to try to get these wins. You know, we had a race earlier this year at the Clash, which was out in LA, the tiny little USC stadium. We were racing in there, and we were running good all day long. We were running up top two, top three, top four, and then there towards the end of the race, We had an opportunity to get a little bit dirty, but it was against a fellow old teammate of mine, Denny Hamlin. So I banged him a little bit just a couple times to try to get him up the track in order to get alongside of him, but not to wreck him.

1:04:14I ended up getting myself loose and fell back. He took the win. We finished second, but, you know, we tried.

1:04:20Pat McAfee:Die by the sword there. I would like to get into, you just bunched in. I don't give a fuck. I don't give a fuck. I love your reaction. You're a dog, Kyle. Unbelievable. Oh, yeah. Kyle Busch is gonna win at Tokido Kyle Busch wins at Dover for the fifth time in his career Alright Why do these moments never get old, Kyle? Because you never know when the last one is, you know, so

1:05:08Pat McAfee:What is your racing style? Hey. Why? Let's go. This show stinks. And the fact that you listen, we are very, very thankful for. McAfee on the line with a gorgeous assist. The all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers. You pick. Stunner. Stunner. Damn it. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice could change their life.

1:05:37Pat McAfee:Hello, beautiful people. And welcome back to our Humble the Boat, the Thunderdome. On this Feel Good Friday, May 22nd, 2026. Our two of the sports program now. Sports! Are happening all around us. And obviously, we just got a chance to relive some moments that we had with Rowdy Kyle Busch, who is an absolute stallion on the racetrack, but also in front of the program and somebody that the sports world and society will miss. Obviously came out of nowhere, and we're all kind of trying to figure out what this means perspective-wise for life and everything. And it's not just me obviously asking those questions.

1:06:17Pat McAfee:The Talks at Tables here at Boston Conner and at Ty Schmidt. One half of the hammer, done. Cowboys AP Tone is here, and the perfect person to be in studio, even though it might be incredibly difficult. and I've seen you have to speak about this a lot over the last, whatever, 24 hours or whatever the case. And I know you and Marty literally just had Kyle on the show this past Saturday, I believe. Yep. He obviously was active on the internet for his kid's birthday just a few days ago, whatever the case. Comes out of nowhere. So we appreciate you very much. But also here for the Indy 500 and obviously Coca-Cola 600, massive racing weekend.

1:06:50Pat McAfee:Ryan McGee is here. Yeah, McGee. McGee, obviously we appreciate you coming. and we had planned on you coming here like you had every single year, basically, that you've been covering the Indy 500, especially this double, which we will certainly talk about with Catherine Legg. This news yesterday, obviously, I know you're very tight with the racing community, very tight with Kyle Busch, literally just on you and Marty's show just a few days ago. This is all very surprising to me as somebody that doesn't follow as closely. I guess there was a couple of things over the last couple of weeks. What do we know at this point?

1:07:16Pat McAfee:And once again, sorry that you have to go through this. And it's just like the worst part of life, obviously, is this type of shit. Yeah, I think my dad's the one that said it to me, you know, the tax that you pay for loving people is when you lose them. You know, and the pain of that is that's the price that you pay for having them in your lives. And that's kind of where we are with all this. But yeah, when I got to Indianapolis on Thursday morning, because media day is always on Thursday, carb day is happening right now. And when I got to the racetrack, there had been this, you know, this social media post from Kyle Busch's camp.

1:07:51and what bothered me was that it said severe illness. Those were the words they used in the press release. I'm in the media center with every decorated motorsports journalist in the nation and those who aren't here are in Charlotte. We're all looking at each other like, what the hell is going on? He definitely had had some issues over the last couple weeks, but no one really knew what that was. The radio scanner sound has kind of been resurfaced now. It was at Watkins Glen in the closing laps. He's like, hey, get the doctor. I need my shot when it's over with. We knew there was some respiratory stuff.

1:08:25He was very open about that. But the severity of it is what caught everyone off guard. And, you know, it was the middle of the week. He had to be taken to the hospital. He was nonresponsive. The details of that are starting to work their way out now. You know, some have gotten verified, some haven't. So I'm not going to talk about a lot of that stuff. But I could tell yesterday at the racetrack at Indianapolis because a lot of the public relations representatives and the executives with Chevy, who Kyle drives for and has driven for before in his career, they were acting very cagey, right? And so I knew, you know, in racing what we've learned is everybody, there's a group that kind of knows, and then there's those of us that kind of know what it looks like when they know.

1:09:04And I could tell that it was bad. And by the time, you know, I got back to the hotel, what, 4.30 Eastern on Thursday, we'd gotten the news. So it's just, yeah, you're never ready for it. What's interesting in racing is that I've been doing this so long now, I was covering the sport when Kyle first showed up 25 years ago. We had guys dying all the time, but it was on the racetrack. I almost quit because we went through Adam Petty and Kenny Irwin and Del Earnhardt, and I could just go through this list for about four years. I was covering funerals more than I was covering races, and I almost quit.

1:09:35Like, damn, my friends covering baseball aren't doing this. I won't go do that. And the muscle memory comes back. The good news is we haven't lost a race car driver on the NASCAR National Series since Del Earnhardt in 2001. But when we lose a Greg Biffle in a plane crash in December and we lose a Kyle Busch in this situation, which wasn't on the track, you kind of go back to your muscle memory of, all right, I've got to cover this. I've got to write about it. I've got to go on TV. And last night at 2.30 a.m. when I was done with SportsCenter Boys, I collapsed. Because it's personal. It's a very small group of people, and we all know each other.

1:10:07And so you have to kind of compartmentalize and deal with it. But now the reality of it is all kind of settling in on us now that he's gone. Kyle Busch is gone.

1:10:15Pat McAfee:It was hard to fathom yesterday, I think. And just as somebody that's gotten a chance to be around, we all have. But it's just very shell-shock. Shell-shock was the only way to kind of whenever you see it. It's like, how? Like energy, fighter, everything about him. Obviously, beautiful family. Everything about him, you wouldn't think that. Severe illness is a wild way to describe something. And I think any time you have somebody that you know or somebody passes away, there's a perspective that is placed upon you basically to start reconsidering things think about things if this was to happen what about this i didn't even know this was possible you start really last night was a lot of wandering thoughts for me okay legitimately i'm 39 okay he was 41 right there i'm like there's a lot of i hope we get answers on what happened because the amount of just for somebody that is such a prominent character in our lives for that to happened it's scary like like last night was a pretty scary night for me just thinking like how because obviously things come out of nowhere and accidents happen and like you said about crashing when nascar like i think they changed the rules of suspension or something i watched a documentary that i think you put together about how uh they kind of tried to make racing safer after the day or another thing so they do that but you always know that there's a risk and everything for this to happen in this particular fashion with this as your lifestyle i think it's just all kind of compounded for us all to be confused as hell and we know it's difficult for the racing community because this is a huge loss.

1:11:40Pat McAfee:He raced everything, right? I mean, he was in the trucks. He was in the cars. He was on Saturday. He was racing on Friday. He was racing on Saturday. He was racing on Sunday. He was racing on Monday morning, if he could, golf carts the other day with his kid. I mean, he's a big part of the racing community. I think him and, obviously, his family, his brother races. But I think he is committed to racing his whole life, basically. That was it. And it's funny because his son, who races now, there's a short track, this little dirt track, that's right kind of in the North Charlotte community where all the race car drivers live.

1:12:08where Marty lives. I can't afford to live there. But there's this Millbridge Speedway and if you go out there on a weeknight, you know who you see? You see Kyle Bush's kids and you see the Dillon boys' kids and I used to see Keelan Harvick, Kevin Harvick's son out there.

1:12:21Pat McAfee:LaJoy's too? Yeah. I watched them all. I saw Bubba Wallace and those guys when they were all little kids and now they're all in the Cubs. Ryan Blaney, all these guys I saw when they were kids. And Kyle would go watch his son race at Millbridge and then he'd get in the cart. And he'd race too. Or he'd go over to Charlotte Miller Speedway and race these old Bandoleros these little things he used to race when he's a teenager, it just never stopped. There were two different instances. And there's only one driver ever did this. There's three national NASCAR series, the truck series and what we call the O 'Reilly Auto Parts series and the Cup series.

1:12:51And there's a lot of tripleheader weekends. And Kyle's the only one that swept all three races in one weekend and did it twice. I was there, Bristol Motor Speedway. And what's interesting is real knows real, right? And I'm a rider nerd, and I think I want to understand, but if you played in the league, you played in the league. Roman Harper and I talk about this all the time. There's an unspoken language. You know what it is, right? You know who's real, who's not, who barely hung on, who had no business hanging around as long as they did. Race car drivers, no. And so when I cover a lot of different disciplines, if I cover Formula One, Max Verstappen wants to know about Kyle Busch because he just knows what he sees, you know?

1:13:28And so a racer is, the greatest compliment, I wrote this on ESPN.com, the greatest compliment you can receive in motorsports is to be called a racer, right? And he was a racer. That's all he wanted to do from the time. And I thought about you guys a lot because I was trying to think of a stick and ball, as we call it in motorsports, a stick and ball comparison. I don't know Aaron Rodgers. Y 'all do. I talked to him once 10 years ago for five minutes. But only has one Super Bowl ring, you know, can be a little, you know. Enigma. At arm's length of people and, you know, at odds with his family. You know, all those things.

1:14:03All that you could attach to Kyle. but if you had two minutes to go in the game with the game on the line and you have one draft pick of the last 20 years, Rodgers is probably going to be your guy. Kyle Busch was going to be your guy. And I'm not talking about if there's five laps to go and I got a chance to win a trophy. Restart. He's the one I'm taking. And I'm not the only one to say that. Denny Hammond would tell you that. Dale Jr. would tell you that. All these guys he raced against would tell you that because real knows real.

1:14:31Pat McAfee:Yeah, he was awesome. And he was representing NASCAR at a lot of things. That's where I met him was at a lot of these events. He'd be at like a Super Bowl party or a Super Bowl event. I mean, me and Nick got to hang out with him for like the third time I was there. Everybody gravitated towards him. He was a magnet, this guy. And that's not who he was. Early in his career, dude, he was the biggest jerk. The biggest jerk, and he'd be the first one to tell you that. But I said this to my daughter. I said, you know, you're allowed to evolve as a human. And that guy who questioned my relationship with my mother very loudly on multiple occasions, the first 10 years I was around him after races for asking, you know, why didn't you win?

1:15:06You know, that guy became an amazing father and an amazing husband and, you know, an advocate for moms who were struggling with pregnancy and an ambassador for NASCAR, which is not who he was the first half of his adult life.

1:15:19Pat McAfee:Well, I'll tell you, I think I caught him in the first half of his adult life and in the second half. He was, to me, he's not racing against me. He was electrified. I would go anywhere with Kyle Busch. If I heard something was happening and Kyle Busch was going to be there, I was excited to go see KY. Now, he was a great time. We had a great time. But his wife was always with him. It was very evident. And then he always, any question I had about racing ever hit him, he would love to talk about it. Like, was obsessed with his sport, obviously obsessed with his family. And he was a good time. I think anybody, I think I saw Calais Campbell, like one of my tweets.

1:15:53Pat McAfee:I think me, Calais, and Kyle had a night, if I do recall. It's like, it's good times. So it's like good, good vibes. So that's how I got to meet him. That's how I know him. I didn't know much about racing. I grew up in Pittsburgh. It wasn't really a race town. So I, but I'm always very curious. I feel like I try to learn as much as I possibly can. So once I met him, he was like, all right, hey, I'll let him know. You're going to be the person that tells me my thoughts about this entire thing. And he did that. And for our show, he did that. So I'm very thankful for him and how much he's done for our program, but also for me understanding racing a little bit.

1:16:27Pat McAfee:I can talk shit a little bit more because Kyle has given me things to be able to say. That's why I'm so open on the G1 folks. Hey, G1 folks, you don't want Kyle signing up for your race. He comes over to Monaco, you guys got on Sunday morning or whatever. There's going to be four of those things that are no longer on four wheels. Because you guys don't pass each other. He's addicted to it, it felt like. That was his, we are winning this thing. He was out of a movie. It was like he was out of a movie the way he raced. And you guys did a great job with that package we just saw, but he made a Days of Thunder reference with you guys.

1:17:00So obsessed with Days of Thunder. And that's where he and I bonded kind of in the second half of our adult life was I'm obsessed with Days of Thunder. And I wrote a story on the anniversary of the movie four or five years ago and got him on the phone. And sometimes he could be a difficult interview if he's in a bad mood or hadn't run well that weekend. We talked for two hours about Days of Thunder and how he used to watch it every day after school with his grandma on VHS. And that's where his nickname Rowdy came from. And he ran number 51, just like Rowdy Burns in the movie. The reason he wanted to talk to you about racing was, A, he just loved to talk about it more than anything else, and, B, he wanted to educate you on it because he wanted you to love it as much as he did.

1:17:35And he also knew, by the way, you're kind of a big deal. And so you have a chance to educate other people on racing.

1:17:41Pat McAfee:I think he knew I could slam a beer. He was pretty impressed with my beer-chugging ability. That's how I think I won KY over early. I think he was impressed with that. But after our conversation, you're right. I do think he wanted me to become a race fan, a NASCAR fan, a truck series fan, a dirt car, sprint car, you name it. Like, he wanted me to kind of get into it. And because I'm in Indiana, you know, I get a chance to continue to learn about it. Massive weekend for racing. Yeah. No, it's the best weekend. And the tributes, I was texting with Speedway, Indianapolis, and Charlotte, the tributes they're going to do this weekend in Formula One as well, even up in Montreal.

1:18:14There's going to be a lot of tributes to Kyle Busch this weekend.

1:18:16Pat McAfee:Yeah, it's crazy that it's happening on this weekend. Yeah, nuts. You know, it is crazy. But hopefully the world will get a chance to witness a man get his flowers for what he did. And hopefully his family gets a chance to see us all say, hey, we're so sorry. Kyle, way too soon, bud. You did good. You done good, man. That's crazy. Okay, joining us live from Anatic in Ohio, ladies and gentlemen, a college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup winner, A.J. Hawk. Hawk, how you doing over there, pal? How are the bees? have we kept up on the beehive and are the boys buzzing over there?

1:18:50Yeah, they are quietly, slowly building, just doing their job. Good to see McGee in studio always. Good to see you, brother, always. Big weekend for you, McGee. Big weekend for you.

1:19:00Pat McAfee:Yeah, you always come in the studio this weekend and we get good conversation about racing and stuff and then you go do other interviews. What did he say in that one interview, you remember? He said something about basically walking into a dispensary. Connor Daly's podcast. I saw Daly yesterday, and we were laughing about it. I said, dude, you got me in trouble. I go, but it is. I mean, I said what I said. Connor is currently a P3. He's a local boy. We would pull very hard for Connor Daly to win this. The entire city would be upside down. Can you give us a little bit about what we should expect?

1:19:35Pat McAfee:How should we kind of view this particular product, if you will? It's really interesting because Alex Pillow is starting on the poll. He is – thank you. He is – I suddenly got my mind, got very clear all this time. But he is racing at a level right now that we have rarely seen, if ever seen. And, you know, he's won like four out of the last five championships. He won this race a year ago. He's got a chance to be one of the only small handful of guys that win it back-to-back. And the other drivers are kind of conceding it a little bit. Like even his teammates are like, it kind of sucks being his teammate because it's awesome to watch, but we all share the data.

1:20:16And you look and you say, I have the same car he has, and I have all the tools that he has. He's just better than I am. And so it's a time to enjoy that. But, yeah, Conor's got a chance. Elio Castroneves very quietly is very quick and has a chance to be the first five-time winner. He would be the oldest winner by years if he did that. So there's a good mix of old school and new school. I kind of root for the old school guys because it kind of feels like last roundup for a few of them.

1:20:45Pat McAfee:And what happened? Rossi got into a pretty big accident. He has a broken leg or a broken ankle, broken foot. What is the case? He can't put weight on it, but he can drive? Yeah, so it's an ankle deal. It's right ankle, left hand, or might be the other way. But, yeah, he had a little bit of surgery. He was in the media center yesterday. This is from a crash during warm-ups to this, right? Yes, it was during practice following qualifying. So he qualified on the front row, and then he had a practice. And the crosswind out there on Monday, and to say how sensitive these cars are, that crosswind going through the turns, he got in there and literally got crossed up because the wind, those cars are designed to go a certain way.

1:21:20If the air is going a different way, then the car has a hard time. It becomes a sail. Yeah, and he's a wild man. He's the most underrated lunatic on the racetrack. Agreed. Again, with five laps to go, he's the guy I want. And he's such a mild-mannered guy, but we call it helmetizing. When he puts his helmet on, he, like, turns into the Hulk. And so he will race hurt. He's not as hurt as we thought that he was, which is good. But there will be a backup plan in case.

1:21:44Pat McAfee:Former Indy 500 winner Rossi in 2016. As a rookie. I believe he came from an F1 or G1. Then he wasn't in Europe and then he came over here? He was going to be the next American hope in F1. And then he kind of got in a tough spot. But now, it's funny. I remember the day he won the 500, a lot of the old-time writers were like, he's F1 reject and he's a rookie or whatever else. But he's backed it up now. Because with a little luck, he can have four wins already. Yeah, he's unbelievable. He's a good dude. Dog, too, Rossi. Cool dude. Makes you mad. He's good looking. He's on the amazing race. And you're like, come on, man.

1:22:15Give me something. He's been very nice. Yeah.

1:22:18Pat McAfee:Rossi's very good. New Garden's been good to us. Connor, obviously, has been good to us. We love the Indy 500 just as a spectacle as a whole. Fox has it, which makes it tough for us to really do anything. It's a bummer. Yeah. Which is, they do great. They do a great job. They do a great job. But I tell you what, it messes up my hotel deal. Because when ABC had it for like 50 years, and we would stay at the nice hotel, and now Now I'm at the crappy hotel behind the night. No, there's a lot of nice hotels here. Shout out to IndyCar putting out this. B-roll, obviously, the greatest spectacle in all of racing.

1:22:46Pat McAfee:The largest sporting event every single year. The Indy 500 is this weekend. Just watch the morning race for F1 and then watch the Indy 500. Okay? And then turn on the Coca-Cola 600 after. And then go ahead and rank the racing. Just go ahead and do that. I think what you'll see is that these guys going 200-mile-an-hour plus in Indianapolis in front of 400 ,000 sold-out crowd and spectacle, I think you'll fall in love with it, and the racers are spectacular. Catherine Legg will be doing the double, the 500 and the Coca-Cola 600. She only becomes like the seventh person to attempt this in the history.

1:23:20Pat McAfee:We will be talking to her later. Let's pivot away from the race weekend. Let's go to tonight, and last night more specifically. These NHL playoffs have been amazing. A team from Montreal has said bonjour, ça va? Oui, oui, moi, bon, I think is their words. And a guy who's kind of become their mascot on television is joining us. Friend of the program. Ladies and gentlemen, P.K. Subban. Yeah. P.K. Fila. That's a good. Great. Hey. Good jumper. That is a good jumper. Where is, when did we get the Forever I Love Atlanta, I believe, is what Fila stands for, if I had to recall. That's a throwback. We just want back in time with these.

1:23:58Pat McAfee:I like what we're doing here, P.K. so so where i got him i gotta give a shout out to jack de stefano my trainer here here in new york uh from canarsie uh gifted this to me actually for my birthday because every single time he would wear it into the gym and i'm like bro that's the most badass track suit i've ever seen like i think i've ever seen and i'm a fashion guy but like i want that track suit and he's like dude it's hard to find you know but i got this place i go dude no like the feel of one so for my birthday he gives me a gift and it's it's the track suit i've had it for like three or four years and i only wear it like once in a while so this is a special occasion yeah but when you you feel good don't you you love when you look in that crazy zip yeah crazy zip on it yeah still good yeah do you got the pants too or is it just the yes i got the pants too i'm not i'm wearing shorts right now, but I got the pants.

1:24:54Yes, I got the pants.

1:24:55Pat McAfee:And when you're walking in public, that thing's zipped all the way up or do you let a little lettuce, maybe a little, uh, little taco meat. Yeah. What are you going to go with? I think because of the, the, the zipper and, and just how present it is, it's either got to be zipped all the way up, all the way down or potential three quarters zip. You can go with the three quarter cause it'll just lay, but me, it's either all the way up or all the way down. I like that. I would do the same if I had that. What are we wearing on the feet there? Are we wearing boots with this? Do we got a Tim's situation growing here with the Fila?

1:25:29Pat McAfee:Or what are the... Fila tennis? No, I got these really super cool vintage like Asics that I wear. I got them and I like them. Oh yeah, really cool. Let's move along here. Let's talk a little bit about hockey. The Montreal Canadiens last night going to Carolina. China sorry about this uh McGee and the Caniacs which was certainly a buzzsaw started out great and then it kind of did not do anything else Canadians really hot are they going to be able to continue to ride this wave are they going to get exhausted I thought there was a chance after a seven game grueling series with Buffalo there might be some cement in the skates and maybe there was early but then all of a sudden they turn it on and say oh goalie it was cool whenever you were hot two weeks ago now we're going to dump six of these things how are your thoughts on the Canadians jen's uh canes series and do you think the carolina hurricanes are going to wake up and play the way we saw them play earlier well i'm going to throw freddie anderson a bone here because uh you know i do think he's a capable goaltender and played well through the first two rounds you got to give him credit for that but i don't care which goaltender you are you could be the best goaltender in the world taking 11 days off during the playoffs is not the perfect mix for a goaltender you need to stay in the net you need to stay ready you need to be in game situations it's very very difficult for a goaltender to step in and do that so i gotta throw him a bone and i would expect him if he gets the opportunity to bounce back as far as carolina goes they're gonna have to really pack a lunch guys like a big one they gotta pack breakfast lunch and dinner too and get heavy in this series because montreal is gonna play through the middle of the ice because they can now and slapkovsky who's been had his head knocked off his body two or three times in this series one punch in this series still feels okay up 4-2 in a game to cut through the middle of the ice toe drag slip go in how's your goalie doing here's the five spot his jock's hanging from the siren now that's what's going on in Montreal so what I'm saying to Carolina is can you guys get a little angry in this series and get physical and be disruptive and make guys pay the price for playing with that type of skill.

1:27:41Like, that's still a bit of a lost art in the playoffs. And Anaheim brought it back to a certain degree. You know, they were close. But I still want to see that growl in playoff hockey where teams can try to shift a series that way. You know, what they got to be careful of, though, is going on the power play. You take too many penalties, and this series will be over real quick. Mario got a hot umbrella power play that they run.

1:28:06Pat McAfee:You know, somebody up there at the point, and two guys out, you know, outside of the umbrella, and then you kind of push the umbrella up, and you push the umbrella down, and then all of a sudden the guy in the middle is just going to score that thing, and you're stuffing it down your ball. It's called the umbrella power play. PK, I don't know if you know anything about it, but the boys are absolutely filthy over there in Montreal. Let's stay with this particular game. Ryan McGee has a question for you, PK. Yeah, PK, all right. So I write one hockey story a year. I grew up in Raleigh. I had this huge story on ESPN.com yesterday about the Caniacs, and it's the difference.

1:28:32But when I talk to those people that I grew up with, the greatest tailgaters, by the way, and some of them, It's certainly in the NHL. That's what my story was about, my people, right? Well, I asked them, I said, are you okay with how things are going? They didn't want a sweet Philly. They wanted another home game, and it wasn't just about tailgating. It was about keeping the team warmed up. How big of a problem was that long, almost two-week layoff for the Canes?

1:28:55Pat McAfee:For the boys, and can they come back here? Well, first of all, I love Caniac fans. I really do. I know they hate me because I never picked their team, But I love the energy and the passion. When we had our stadium series game there, they balled out. And yes, they can tailgate better than anybody. Listen, the long layoff, it's a problem. It is a problem. But I got some bigger issues for Carolina that I want to talk about, that I've been consistent in talking about. And I want to be frank about this. When I talk about offense and explosiveness, when you look at Montreal, right? You look at Carolina and I say, okay, which potential player on that team could be in the Hall of Fame?

1:29:39Well, Sebastian Ajo definitely has numbers to back that up. And they have some other players that could be in that mix. But there's no one that really stands out. When I look at Montreal, though, you got Slavkovsky who's the first overall pick. He's just starting. Demodov is already one of the most skilled players in the league. Guys, he was runner-up for Calder. Matthew Schaefer has been touched by God. This guy was the closest thing to winning that trophy, right? Then you got Lane Hudson. Do I have to talk about it? We don't have enough time, right? He's a Norris Trophy candidate. Dobish is playing out of his mind.

1:30:14So how can Carolina deal with these players who are tasting right now potentially a Stanley Cup final? Like, they got it, right? These guys aren't tired. These guys are living their dream of potentially winning a Stanley Cup. It may be the greatest city to win a championship in Montreal. So that's what Carolina's got to deal with. It's not just about the layoff, guys.

1:30:35Pat McAfee:Just real quick. When was the last time the city won a championship? Oh, the Hurricanes? No, Montreal. 93. Okay, so how the fuck would you know if it's the greatest city to win a championship? Well, I'm just saying. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Montreal Victoire. The Montreal Victoire just won a couple days ago, the PWHL. You can't say that. Hold on. Hold on a second. Fair point. Fair point. I was four years old. I was four years old when Montreal won the Cup. You're right. But anybody that has ever been to a playoff game or seen that scene could imagine what the Stanley Cup parade and party would be like.

1:31:16I mean, I actually am concerned about the city of Montreal and what the state of the city would be like because everybody would be enjoying themselves. But I don't know what would be left of the city. You know, it would be absolutely nuts. So I'm sorry. I would stick my neck out and say I still think it would be the greatest place to win a championship in pro sports. Okay.

1:31:36Pat McAfee:I appreciate that. I respect that because we're just kind of hypothesizing. Because when you said that, I thought to myself, like, have I seen a parade from up there? Because I would love to after all the scenes that I've seen. But Cleveland, you remember what Cleveland was? Oh, man. Philly. Whenever they kept. They won their first Super Bowl just recently. People eating horse shit, you know. Like actually. Yeah. Yeah, doing that out there. They might. Yeah, so maybe Montreal, though, has a chance. Those are the first two I think of. Is there any others that we need to think of? Cities celebrating championships?

1:32:03I mean, Casey's first title I feel like was a pretty insane parade. New York. I've been to a couple insane parades. When's the last one in New York?

1:32:14Pat McAfee:Pittsburgh is crazy. Pittsburgh has a lot of drunks. I mean, it is. Chicago when the Cubs won the World Series. Yeah, Red Sox broke the curse in 2004. Sox, I think, is a huge one. Boston, great city. You guys do a lot of them up there. Oh, yeah, exactly. Yeah, by 18, it was a little different. But to Gumby's probably like Sox in 04, Sox in 07. Obviously, Pat's in 01, like Robert Kraft dancing with his wife, like all that stuff. So we just think the way you decided to describe Montreal there, we could pick a hole in your argument. Maybe in Canada. But what you're saying is completely accurate. I cannot wait to see Montreal, if they were to win a title, how they would react, how that would.

1:32:51It's Montreal. Trust me. It's Montreal.

1:32:54Pat McAfee:Okay, so is that like that's how we talk about it? Like, ah, it's Bangkok. Like, it's Vegas. It's Montreal. Is that kind of how we eat? The city never sleeps. Just trust me. The Big Apple. Montreal. You know, Gumpy doesn't really talk glowingly about a lot. He loves Montreal. Okay, so we're speaking French. I think I was up there before. I think I was up there before. We're speaking French. I know there's a lot of good food. What are you guys talking about? The nightlife is insane. Montreal? It's European. It feels like a European city. You'll be sitting drinking beers at a coffee shop at like 6 a.m.

1:33:24Like, it doesn't. San Miguel. Allegedly, the adult ballets are second to none.

1:33:30Pat McAfee:That's what they're talking about. Howard, the chick, you got wings in there too? Food as well? Of course. Poutine, top notch. There's an elegance to it, though, boys. Pat, there's an elegance to it. There's a classiness to it. They just do everything different. It's a special place. And, you know, maybe people wouldn't see it as the best, but I can tell you this. The experience that you would have there winning a championship would be like no other. so maybe we can agree on that a guy there eating a bowl of horse crap to celebrate would pour some gravy on it I think that's what we're saying pour a little champagne on it yeah yeah you don't just eat the crap pour something fancy on it that's what we have hey well bonne chance Montreal we'd like to see it maybe experience it I guess I don't know if it's going to be able to come through the TV but I'm definitely hopeful let's talk about tonight and maybe a place that could have a parade a team that's been talked about having one for a while Go ahead, Ty.

1:34:24Yeah, PK, apparently, and I haven't corroborated this yet, but I have seen it, that Kale McCarr is out again for the Avalanche. I haven't corroborated this. If that's the case, then – You have corroborated. Okay, so he is. It's been corroborated. Okay, it's been corroborated. That is a done deal. So this is obviously a much bigger deal than anyone anticipated. And if this ends – I mean, I just assumed if his heart was beaten, he was going to play tonight after how game one went. Can the Avalanche win this series if he not only misses tonight, But if they go down 2-0 and then have to go back to Vegas, kind of put that into perspective.

1:34:57How big of a deal is this that McCarr is going to be out again tonight? Well, it's a big deal because we're going to find out two things tonight for me. Number one, I want to know how serious the Vegas Golden Knights are about winning a Stanley Cup, and I'm going to find that out tonight. Like, if they pack their work boots, if they pack their lunches, if they get ready to rip the door off the hinges, the knees bent, the frock coming out of the mouth, you know the whole script. I got to see it. If I don't see that thirst to want to sink my teeth a little deeper into their flesh tonight, if I don't see that, I got to call that out because they have a serious opportunity without Kael McCarr.

1:35:40Potentially people are saying he's the best player in the world right now. And, you know, I still think McDavid's the best, but that's how good Kael McCarr is. if this guy's out of the lineup for this game and potentially the rest of the series, Vegas has to bury this series. Like, that's a massive hole that I believe they can take advantage of. The other side of that is Colorado. Like, to me, this is a team that's won a lot of hockey games this year. They should be capable of winning this game tonight without Kael McCarr. And that's why, if I had to pick tonight who's going to win the game, I would actually say that Colorado's probably more likely to find a way to win this game tonight.

1:36:19And that's why I say that my eyes solely are on Vegas and how they approach this game. And this is why I think they go and get a John Tortorella. It's for these types of moments. They have to put their foot down twice as hard as they did in game one for me.

1:36:35Pat McAfee:All right, pick this game and then also pick Oklahoma City versus the Spurs. First, Golden Knights versus the Avalanche. PK, who do you like? Colorado. I'm going to go off of women. I'm going to stay with the Vegas Golden Knights for tonight. I'm going to bet with the horse that I bet with and say that Torch is going to get these guys fired up to at least make it really, really close tonight. Like, this has got to be a close game when it's all said and done. Wemby versus SGA. SGA, obviously, back-to-back MVP and the reigning champs. People are saying, is that ethical hoops coming from Oklahoma City?

1:37:08Pat McAfee:And then Wemby, obviously, an alien with lads across the board on the court that are outrageous at hoops and all the way bought in. Young group, but obviously favored over the Thunder. For the first time, the Thunder are not the favorites in 33 playoff games. So this is a big night. Your thoughts, PK? Who wins? How do they win? Wemby. I've just heard. You know what? I haven't been able to watch much of this series. The most basketball I've been watching has been Knicks, and I went to the game again last night. But everything I'm seeing from this Wemby, I just think that I'm going to expect the unexpected from this guy and say that he steals one here.

1:37:44Pat McAfee:Okay, I like that. As a favorite, at home, steals one over the MVP and the champion. The Knicks, obviously, a great story over there. You've got to keep buying those tickets and keep going to those games, brother, because I think you might be a good luck charm alongside Timothy Chalamet. Wade. Tracy Morgan. Wade. Ben Stiller. Wade. Did you see him on that iPhone? Yeah, unbelievable. What's coming out on an iPhone? they're shooting a soccer game or something? They're doing a full iPhone soccer game. MLS, yeah. MLS is doing iPhone 17 full broadcast with a couple more gimmicks. Here's Ben Stiller, obviously the creator of billions and billions in dollars of cinema using his iPhone courtside.

1:38:25Pat McAfee:And it ends with it. I believe this is probably 2X portrait, if I had to guess, or 2X cinematic, if I had to guess what it was. Yeah, it's unbelievable. And Ben Stiller has the talent, obviously, iPhone has the skill and you put that together courtside at Madison Square Garden and you're going to see some weaponry taken. We appreciate the hell out of you, PK. You're the man. We'll talk to you next week. Thanks, guys. Yeah, PK.

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1:40:04Pat McAfee:Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is going to be the first ever woman to try the 1100 mile dash. Double duty. Indy 500, the Coca-Cola 600. She'll become only the seventh person, I believe, to ever attempt the feat. There has not been a lot of success. Will she change the tide? Ladies and gentlemen, Catherine Legg. Yay, Catherine! How are you? Thank you. What a welcome. I'm good, thank you. No, thank you for taking the time here. We know you're very busy, obviously, and you don't have as much time as we prepared to do something that only a few people have attempted in the past. Where do you sit on this glorious Carb Day Friday, just a couple days away from history?

1:40:45Pat McAfee:How do you feel about the cars in both the races, and mentally, how do you feel? Well, I sit in a little box in the media center, you know, like the ones you get in the airport that are sound breaking or whatever, barriers. Maybe they record a studio album in there. Maybe sing whenever you're done. There you go. Yeah, something to think about. I feel okay. I'm actually, we didn't have a great carb day. Practice did not go away, but I'm kind of trying to look at it like all of the bad stuff is out of the way now, right? Like all of the issues that we could have had over the weekend are done. We're going to fix them, and we're going to come back on Sunday, and it's going to be smooth sailing for 1 ,100 miles.

1:41:24Pat McAfee:Absolutely going to be the case, and we've seen that in racing before, right, McGee? Yes, and I've done this double a couple times. was Catherine as a media member, and it kicked my butt. So good luck. But I am curious. Love the encouragement there. And you know this. The logistics of it are the biggest challenge. Have you had a chance? So we sat here the last couple of years talking about Kyle Larson. Have you had a chance to talk to some of the other drivers that have attempted that, and what have they told you? Yeah, my people, my management team, have been talking to his management team and his PR team, and they have been wonderful.

1:42:00um, Kyle, I've spoken to on my podcast actually, and asked him all the questions that I felt I needed to know going in. Most importantly, like how am I going to get enough calories? How much am I going to eat? How am I going to do that? Cause I'm going to feel sick after I get out of the car and any, cause it's hot and it's a lot of, uh, a lot of physical exertion. Um, like when do we get the IV, et cetera, et cetera. And then they've kept me in the loop on, what the movements look like. I will park right by gasoline alley. I'll get out of the car. We'll get a golf cart to a GM truck. We'll get in the GM vehicle.

1:42:44Thank you to Chevy for being such an amazing artist with us.

1:42:47Pat McAfee:That's going to be a good truck there, obviously. Yeah, it's going to be a truck, I think. Then we'll get an IV as we get into the helicopter. we'll get out of the helicopter into the plane and then after the plane and eating and all the good things we'll get into another helicopter and then we will be at Charlotte and we will do 600 miles we hope weather permitting although at the moment either looks very unlikely at this stage. No, no, no, remember just like the carb day, everything's going to be perfect on Sanjay, the race gods are going to come and bless everybody for this, go ahead AJ Yeah, I'm curious.

1:43:27Was this like a dream of yours to race both of these? And like how long has it taken from the buildup when you decided to do this until now? Has it been months and months or is this years of planning? How does it work? It's been a couple of years in the making as in we've been thinking about it for a couple of years. So my background, I started in open wheel racing. This will be my fifth 500. We went over and we did sports cars for like 10 years. And then I came back to IndyCar and did another two Indy 500s. Meanwhile, I found a newfound love of NASCAR racing, of stock car racing. So I did a bunch of that last year and tried to get NASCAR to okay my license to race any track, which we did.

1:44:12We were hoping to do Daytona 500 this year as well and kind of kick off a NASCAR kind of career assault, or whatever you want to call it, but unfortunately that didn't happen. And instead they were like, let's do the double. And I think that it didn't really come together until we found the ride with AJ Foyt Racing and HMD. And so when that domino fell, then the rest could kind of go into place. But it's been maybe three weeks of planning in all seriousness when we said, yeah, let's do it.

1:44:51Pat McAfee:oh hey it's gonna be a great three weeks hey they're gonna look back we're gonna look back on these three weeks who's saying they were spectacular great decision what's called livery livery what's it called on the outside of the cars livery livery i've heard your livery is stealing the conversation out the track a lot of people in indianapolis obviously go out watch practice they watch qualities they hang out there obviously it's a big thing for our city to go watch all this as it's like a three-week spectacle as opposed to just one day of racing Everybody's saying your car, the one that is kind of stealing the show out there without looks.

1:45:23Pat McAfee:So congrats on everything coming together seemingly so quickly. And congrats on the weather being great and your car flying. Boom. That's right. It's going to be awesome. And the pit crew, zh, zh, zh, zh, zh, zh, zh, zh, every time. Every time. Thanks, guys. Appreciate you. Good luck with the album you're recording. I know. Yeah.

1:45:46Pat McAfee:The weather does not look good. No, it doesn't. It's clearing up Sunday now. Sunday here. Charlotte looks bad. So when I did the thing, when I was here with you guys. That's right. We're here. I think a couple years ago, I did the deal with Kyle Larson. I came and saw you guys. And that was a, I remember that night, that Sunday night, because there was just enough rain in Indy to get things delayed. And then, you know, I was at the airport, watched Kyle Larson land in a helicopter and pulled his IV out, and he went and ran on the plane. So then my plane was chasing his plane, and his plane made it into Charlotte, and the same crappy weather that had been in Annapolis all day got to Charlotte just as we arrived.

1:46:21And so Kyle got to the track just in time for them to go, nope, too much rain. We're going to race tomorrow. And Rick Hendrick looked at me the other night, and he goes, why are we doing this? I go, I don't know you paid for it. But next year, my ass ain't going to do it. So the next year, I just let Kyle Larson do it. And I was like, you know what? I waved goodbye to him when he left, and I just hung out in Annapolis.

1:46:40Pat McAfee:Hey, I'm covering the 500. I'm going to San Elmo's tonight. Smoke's the only one that's done it, right? Well. Smoke's the only one that's done it well. Smoke finished in the top 10 twice. Kurt Busch pulled it off as far as actually running both races. But the only one to finish the whole distance was Tony Stewart. And Tony was the first one to tell Kyle Larson, really think about this now. But I tell you what was interesting was the first time I did it with, I did it with Robbie Gordon years ago, and it was kind of a failed attempt. But the first time I did that with Tony Stewart, Tony's going to man his way through it.

1:47:13Oh, I'll just drink some Coca-Cola. You know, I'm going to get me. He literally on the plane, I think he had like a cheeseburger and fries. And then he got halfway through the race in Charlotte and was like, I'm going to freaking pass out. And so the next time he did it, he like started calling Jimmy Johnson and these guys that take nutrition seriously. And they had the IV bag and the carbs and the whole deal. So the second time, Smoke did a lot better.

1:47:35Pat McAfee:So they're kind of off of Smoke's blueprint here for health with the IV bags? Both ways. Yeah. And the jobs probably. The way not to do it and the way to do it, yeah. Yeah. But I'm stunned to hear her say they've only done this in three weeks because Kyle Larson's people spent like a year getting ready for it. Yeah. And the weather can decide whether or not it's working. It's the whole thing. It's the whole deal. But, yeah, good luck. I've done that a couple times as a writer nerd. I'm never doing it again. Good luck, Catherine. Good luck. Good luck. Go get them. You know what we like to do on these Fridays?

1:48:04Oh, yeah. It feel good?

1:48:06Pat McAfee:Yeah. You know what we like to do? We're not a big segment show, as you've kind of realized. I mean, we don't even have commercial breaks except for a couple of them at the very end. But at the end of the week, it feels like we should be celebrating the good and the bad of the sports universe for the past couple days. Do you not think that's something we should continue to do? It feels very Hillbilly Headline-esque, like Marty McGee. Which? That's why we're all on the same deal. Hey, listen, the Hillbilly Headlines has gotten me through some hangover mornings. So I appreciate you boys. certainly doing that.

1:48:35Pat McAfee:And hopefully we'll be able to do that with this that we've done for multiple weeks now. So maybe it'll stay. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for five things that aren't asked. Five things that aren't asked in the sports world. Okay, let's start. Ladies and gentlemen, San Antonio has an alien but they also have a poster. Stephon Castle. Hey! And the hair is such a big part of this for me. I mean, that is made for high definition television. And Hardenstein obviously, when you live in a pain every once in a while you're going to get dunked on. Everybody's talking about what he did to Wemby. How about what Stephon Castle did to Heath with authority?

1:49:08Pat McAfee:Anytime you're throwing it down, like actually kind of leaving your hand, that's when you know you've got some special dunk options here in front of you, AJ. Yeah, you do. For Hardenstein, hey, the fact that he was grabbing Wemby's elbow and arm the whole time, people kind of forgot about this, so maybe that was all part of the plan. Yeah, you're right. He might have had to change course whenever this takes place. There's certainly a chance. Stephon Castle, absolutely unbelievable. The San Antonio Spurs team is so much fun. Let's go to some hockey, shall we? Let's go to Vegas. This guy in Toronto has run out of time.

1:49:36Pat McAfee:They said he was a bum. Mitch Marner. Hey, sis. He obviously saw him at a corner of his eye as he was trying to do the late drag. Does a sick, whip, nasty goal as the Vegas Golden Knights get one over the Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference Finals. Ty, Mitch Marner has been the guy. Yeah, he's been an absolute treat to watch. It's crazy because it seems like he has one crazy, crazy highlight type play like this every single game, and I'm expecting him to deliver another one tonight as well. McGee, that certainly is not Ash. No, it's not. And, you know, it's kind of like I was saying to you.

1:50:09Everybody thinks they can play football, and then they put a helmet on and realize they can't see or hear anything. Have you ever tried to play hockey? I can't see the damn puck. And so for these guys, the skill level is just – and their eyes are just – Can you skate? As far as you know, yeah. Okay.

1:50:26Pat McAfee:All right, so it's just the puck problem. Because you know what? Because I fall on my ass. Yeah, got it. But you're still moving on the ice. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, you can kind of – I do appreciate the fact that you blame the puck being the problem, not the ice being the problem. Let's move to baseball, shall we? Something that's not ass at all and obviously something we've been a part of since the beginning. Marcel Ozuna. Yes. Aaron Nola. Hoisted. It's absolutely jacked. And Johan Ramirez from the pitcher's thing. Bullpen. There it is, out in there. Catches it with the cone that they've been celebrating with all year.

1:51:00Pat McAfee:It's been a home run cone. So the cone to catch a home run is obviously just like maybe the perfect thing to happen. And now the Pirates are destined to win the whole damn thing, Ty. And you know it. You're watching it right in front of your face right now. You think the baseball gods let this happen? And this time, off of that home run, on this season for no reason? Yeah, right. Look at the Pirates to go win the super duper pennant. Super pennant. Win the pennant and then eventually maybe win the World Series. I have to kind of agree with you because look how clean of a catch it is into the cone as well.

1:51:32Not only is he hoisting the cone before the ball is hit, but you don't see that thing popping out and he doesn't have to go find it and catch it again. I mean, that ball knows where it's supposed to be. It's supposed to land in the cone. It's a cone run.

1:51:42Pat McAfee:Go to your home. Yeah. Go to your home cone. That's what Ozuna said and the ball certainly did. McGee, I think if you're watching this, witnessing this, you kind of go six to midnight knowing that This is more than just a baseball into a cone. This is a baseball god situation. Unless you are this redneck bullpen catcher. Look at this guy right here. He is so in denial about what's happening right there. He's like, nah, he's sitting there thinking about deer hunting. He's like, I refuse. No one in the other guys to the left was taking notes. No one in the Phillies bullpen is willing to ignore it.

1:52:13They're like, oh, damn it, it's the cone thing again. Look at him. He is literally right now thinking about like Duck Dynasty. He ain't thinking anything. And the contrast to the guys behind him, I've never seen a more excited group of grown humans than these guys back here with Tacone. That's amazing.

1:52:30Pat McAfee:And the big dom of the Phillies there. Oh, and also note taker over here to the left, not looking. I mean, the Phillies did not want their guys to think that they were enjoying this at all. And I assume there's a lot of chirping there. That seems really close. It is. And I think the Pirates crew is a little mouthy. I think they are a little bit active out there, which is good news. Okay, that's certainly not what, McGee? That's not us. That's certainly right. You know what else is not ass? How about Schwarbo? He was leading the league in dong shots at one point. I don't know if he still is. But he's out there also.

1:53:04Pat McAfee:He's going to fight him off. We didn't want to play the actual thing because it sounded too much like the song. That's how good he was. And we thought Jack White, who we think is pretty tight with that entire thing, would potentially take us down. Schwarbo, though, absolutely slaying while raising money. That's not ass at all. No, it's not. And, you know, if he's going to keep doing this, people are saying this year is like a legit, like Schwarber might hit 70 homers this year. Like he actually might go break the single season home run record. If he's slopping a bass mind while he's doing it, he probably will.

1:53:35Pat McAfee:Did you see Eric Church's commencement speech with the guitar? That was phenomenal. And maybe that's what Schwarber feels with the bass with hitting. Each one has its own tune. Each one kind of smoothly goes to its own strum. Whatever the case, Church nailed that. He did. By the way, that's like an old-school Paul McCartney-looking base. That thing is unbelievable. That's when you have money. He's slapping that thing. Church crush that thing. He's slapping the base. Yeah, slapping that thing. Okay, let's go to soccer, shall we? From Super Americana to England here. Aston Villa. This is Emiliano.

1:54:08Pat McAfee:Buen dia. Go home. I'll see you, he says to the goalie. Buen dia says, let me go ahead and curl this thing with the left boot. This follows their first goal. That was also a filthy goal. Couldn't show too much soccer. Shout out to Aston Villa. They end up winning what because of this, Gumpy? The Europa League. Big win for the Villains. Been quite some time since they've lifted a trophy. Congrats to the Villains winning Europa. How about winning Saudi Arabia? What? Cristiano Ronaldo puts it away for his team. The Super... Al Nassir. Al Nassir. This is the first... Oh! Yeah! Chiqui! Yeah, Chiqui.

1:54:45Pat McAfee:Bang from Cristiano Ronaldo. He was crying in celebration afterwards. words i believe this is his first title in saudi arabia obviously they paid him so much money he has maintained stayed there i believe that is a reference to something that i couldn't get to the bottom of on x but he's talking shit to somebody he's crying in this congrats to him congrats uh to all of this yeah good work and ashton villa and schwarbell everybody having a good time you're not ass and uh our show might be but it'll be back on monday have the greatest memorial day weekend of all time. We'll see you then. Goodbye.

1:55:20Pat McAfee:Okay, that was the sign-up. We're still live, Mickey. You know we're still live. Oh, yeah. Mickey, I know you have SportsCenter hit in eight minutes. Yes. So I would like to do something before you get up and leave. Okay. We just showed the good of the week. Yeah. You know what we got to show now? The bad of the week? Yeah. Yeah. We call this segment Oh No! Let's go to Nashville, Tennessee, shall we? We saw Jared Curtis, the future of the Commodores. Let's look at the current baseball. This guy pitching, Connor Fennell. He's throwing 89 miles an hour. I want to play with some movement, and he wants him to put it in play because most of them are weak out.

1:55:58Take it on Kentucky. And here's Carson Hanson. Hoover, Alabama. Jeez. Hell yeah, I like that. And he went. I like the energy there. Cool attack. I like what he's doing.

1:56:11Pat McAfee:Fennell's intense. Carson Hanson said, what was that? How about you fucking watch this? Pop off. Pop off. Welcome all the way at the wall. It's gone. Don't go. Carson Hansen. That's not. No. And props to dude because he never even, Kentucky guy never, he's like, you know what? That's cool. He never said a word. I don't love Carson Hansen not pimping at a little bit, but I think he knew what the internet and we would do. Connor, I love your style, but that can't happen. No. That's tough. That's really tough. Vandy's got good stuff coming in the future. I think Conor's next start, he's going to have it dialed in.

1:56:49You can't be yelling, fuck you, your mind when you don't have fuck you, your mind stuff. That's an 89 mile an hour fastball to the top of the zone. Most guys in the SEC are going to be fucking taking that thing for a ride.

1:57:00Pat McAfee:Yeah, but that's a part of his thing. Yeah, he needs to make that not part of his thing is what I mean. But that's all he's got. Guess what? Go work at fucking Waffle House or something else because we ain't doing that. Well, I will say this. He does attend Vanderbilt University, so if he's anything, he's going to own multiple Wappapiles. I was going to say, he'll be just fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He'll be the CEO of Wappapiles. But I get the point. Maybe he – notion understood. Maybe he'll become a knuckleballer. We don't know. Could be. Maybe he'll make it to the big leagues. And then maybe he'll become a man who gets hit directly in the balls.

1:57:34Pat McAfee:Oh, no. This is on him, though. And Francona said it. Dude, you've got to protect it. Well, that's kind of what he said, actually. exactly it hit him kind of in the meat meat in the meat the meat of the inside hamstring kind of um i mean man i'll tell you what that was scary um they ran off the mound i thought he was okay and then he got in the dugout and looked like he was dead and i asked him i said hey man please tell me you have a cup on and he said no i was like chase i said i don't even watch a game on tv without wearing a cup. That's Tito, baby. Terry basically said, Frank, oh, no! Chase, what a run.

1:58:23Pat McAfee:He's not the only one that got a dong shot. Let's go to Logan O 'Hop, obviously. Deflection off the elbow to the dick. Yep. At least it was a bank shot. Yeah. Yeah, but I think it took an angle that doesn't normally get hit. No, no, absolutely. You hope it scrubbed some speed. No, never mind. No, never mind. I sped up. I'll tell you what. I know what he was saying right there. Oh, no!

1:58:51You know? I feel very uncomfortable now. Like, physically, like, uncomfortable. There's more on the way.

1:58:56Pat McAfee:Let's go to an uncomfortable situation. If you're an adult, you're wearing sunglasses, the sun's out. I got it. I got it. I can't see it. Somebody get this for me. Foul ball. Fuck. I should have been wearing sunglasses. Oh, actually. Yeah, they're there. Right there on top of my hat. You know, so that's like the old school meme where the guy has a backwards hat and he's doing this thing right here, this whole number. If only there was. Feels like that happened right here. What's he doing, Ty? What's he doing here? That actually happens all the time, believe it or not, guys. The shades are kind of just part of the outfit.

1:59:30You want to look cool, and then you realize every once in a while, like, oh, shit, I actually do need these because it's really sunny out here.

1:59:35Pat McAfee:Okay, let's move away from baseball as McGee has a sports center hitting three minutes. Let's go to the KHL. Locomotive Yaroslav will back up goaltender Alexei Melnichuk was taken down during a celebration of the Gargarin Cup. Put that thing up there. Double joint. Crushes chest. I'll tell you what, the Gargarin Cup is a problem. It is. It's gargantuan, really. It certainly is. Do you think it's a shoulder double pop situation? Because both those things kind of went back. Rib separation. Skates going forward, shoulders going back. Collapsed chest. Good save. I know people booze after they win.

2:00:13Pat McAfee:I like that this guy booze too. He's on skates. I told you guys. It's not easy. You're 100 % right. Okay. Let's go to WWE, shall we? And his name's Oba, but really it's... Oh, no! Femi. He was doing his entrance, which was obviously spectacular. Brock Lesnar! He's back from retired. Harmon!

2:00:41What's that, McGee? Another one? After all this. Oh, no! Bob!

2:00:51Pat McAfee:How did that happen? He ripped his pants right there. He just felt it. Wait. I'm getting a little breeze here on the hind end. What's going on? I must have ripped my shit. Yeah, my quads. My hind end's so big. And I'll tell you what. Oba's going to be calling himself. Oh, no! Bob! You got to watch out for the bees. Yeah, you do. Even if he's retired. He's back. You know what else you got to look out for? It's weather. Okay, we're talking about it for race weekend as we send off Ryan McGee. But also in New York, I believe there was a flash flood. Okay? Yeah. And all of a sudden, like, just trying to get home.

2:01:21Pat McAfee:Have no idea it's going to take place. Let me go ahead and try to get to where they're at right there. Boom. Swept. See you later. Yeah. Bye-bye. Good. That's a big oh-no. And we, like, let New York people know we don't like what's happening over there at all. No. Okay? Godspeed on all the weather issues. But that was a big O. I mean, as soon as you get down there, first thing you say is, oh, no. Keeper than taking an Uber. Very clean down there, I'm sure, though. There wasn't much in that water. It was just crystal clear. Did you see they sent the Waymo in there? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It got stuck.

2:01:49Pat McAfee:It sent itself. Yeah. Well, and then the Waymo's going around that town, in the neighborhoods, down there in Atlanta, New York. They're driving through floods. Hey, Waymo, let's wait a minute, because I don't want to be calling you

2:02:03Pat McAfee:Waymo No! I've seen too many sci-fi movies. I don't get in the way, man. Smart. AJ loves them. Yeah, good for him. He can fight his way out. I can't. If the robot wants to drive me into the river, we're going. All right, boys. I can take your own car. Yeah, let's get out of here. AJ, thank you so much. Let's have an incredible Memorial Day weekend. We're back on Monday. We will see you then. Have an incredible one. Shout out to the playoffs. Shout out to racing. Shout out to all of you for allowing us to do this. for a living. Shout out to everybody that served for this great country, the United States of America.

2:02:38Pat McAfee:Rest in peace, Kyle Busch. We appreciate and love you, man. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice that might change your life. We're in this thing together. Team on me. Team on three. Shout out to you, McGee. One, two, three, team. Goodbye. The NFL schedule dropped and it is time to settle up, people. There's road trips to plan, hotels to book, tickets to split, tailgates to cover, scores to settle. All the things for the season. But now, when you send$10 or more to a friend with PayPal by May 28th, you could win two tickets to every home game of your favorite team yep the whole season visit paypal.com slash p2p sweeps no purchase necessary see website for details including how to enter by mail brought to you by paypal official peer-to-peer payment sponsor of the nfl this is what everyone's talking about everything's on the table this is what champions come to take this is what everyone came to see.

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