February 24, 2023 • 37 mins
Jason and Steve discuss the Lakers season right now and discuss Shohei Ohtani's options for a new contract next year.
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tire buying should be. Well. We waited all week for tonight, Yeah,
we waited, waited. Waited has some holes in this sports calendar,
but tonight we're getting what everybody wants. Week two of
the xfl Action Tonight, Steve, can you give me a
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comprehensive breakdown of the Sea Dragons and the BattleHawks. I
know it's in Seattle, that's the extent. Okay, college. You
know it's AJ McCarron against Ben d Nucci. So I
mean this is I mean, this is big. I've got
lovely lady. I did see some of the AJ McCarron
game last weekend. I'm ashamed to admit. Okay, so you
can tell me which team he plays for? When does
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he play for this one in the light Blow? Yeah?
I don't know what city in the light Blow. I
don't know what's there. When you go to a game,
you're watching one of your friends kids, which is their team?
They're they're in the dark green? Oh okay, great, great,
right where while we're in the red. It's like when
your cousin says, I like the red team. Who's the
red team? I'll just Steve. Was he still crying? You
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got a crying thing? He By the way, you know,
if any of these guys in this league, if they'll
pay you to play football, go for it. I'm not
in the least saying anything against any player in any
of these minor leagues. No, And it's football and it's
you know, one of my best friends in my life,
his daughter. They grew up my best friends at ESPN
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when he worked there together, and his daughter grew up
and she liked to watch football. She didn't care about
the game, but she liked the Steelers because she liked
the Steelers uniform, she liked the helmets, she liked the
black and gold and everything. And so she grew up Steelers, Steelers, Steelers, Steelers.
So they went to the Super Bowl a few years
ago and she was like, you know, like five or
six years old. I remember everybody saying to my friend going,
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oh my god, your daughter's got to be so excited
the Steelers in the super Bowl. Oh my god, she's
got to be so excited. My friend would say the
same thing. She has no idea what the Super Bowl is.
She just knows that the Steelers are a group of
people that are on television and they do something together.
That's all it is. That's so that's kind of the
XFL listener. A group of people on TV. They're playing football.
That's all it is. Well, so it could have been
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the cast of Stranger Things. They're on television, they do
stuff together. Kind it makes no difference. And you know
they got a bench Steve at quarterback. He's not getting
it done. We gotta go to Dustin. I think Dustin's
a better quarter We've got a score. We've got a
score on FX from the XFL. So appropriate that FX
has the XFL. Somehow. The Seattle Whatever Dragons are leading
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twelve eight against the Saint Louis battle something's in the
no no, no, no no, it's the Secattle Hawks and
the and the and the Seed. It's the Saint Louis
BattleHawks and the Seattle Seed Drugs. That's what it is.
The Snap Dragons nickname somebody else's Park. I think we're
the snap Dragon. It's it's still halftime in Seattle. There
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you go, twelve eight. There was a game last weekend
I saw that was I think it was six to
three with no touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Yeah, but
that game it had an exciting finish because you know
one of the teams went it's one of the teams
went for three. I can't even get it out of
my mouth. Apparently, if you line up for the extra
but there's no kicking the extra point, I guess, so
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you can line up at the extra point at the
five or the ten or the fifteen and then you know,
get one, two or three point more and so they
were behind, so they went for three and got it,
and then another twist. You know, there's no on site
kick really being taken here. I guess it's an option,
but the more realistic is you would do one play
as a fourth and fifteen and if you convert it,
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you just keep the ball and continue the drive. And
it says if you recovered it on site kick. That's
what happened. They went for three, got it, and they
got to the fourth fifteen conversion and then then a
late score and win. That might have been there three
point than Julius Randall during the three point cont Oh
not fair, not fair? He hit one. Yeah, well that
was a sub so that might have been the BattleHawks
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actually last weekend. That was actually one of the ideas
that came up in the NFL a couple of years ago.
I remember for the offseason was like, hey, how do
we make the the on site kick more exciting because
a couple of years ago, before they treat the rules,
it was way less than ten sent recovered. Yeah, the
XFL says, what a week care, We'll try anything. Yeah,
we'll put that out there. What a week care? Yeah,
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let's try Why not? They're all sorts of things like
I don't know, NFL listen up replay transparency, how about that?
Maybe get that in your league. So Steve will keep
you updated all night on the BattleHawks and the Sea
Dragons again. Midway through the second quarters, says snap Dragons
with the league and t J imagine Dragons winning this game.
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They're already leading twelve to eight. Walked into that one.
Yeah you did the Jason Smith Joe was Steve de
Sager in for Mike Harmon. Yes, big night in the NBA.
We're getting set for the marquee game of the night,
the Warriors and the Lakers. Wait a minute, let's take
the temperature of love Lakers fans everywhere, I mean every
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Lakers fan, Steve, it's like it's like Lakers fans have
become Lakers zombie. No, not every Laker fan. No, no, no, no,
here's what it is. No, here's what it is. Laker
fans Lakers. There's two types of Lakers fans. There's the
Lakers fans who have turned into zombies. And by by that,
I mean they're the Lakers who watched, you know, five
minutes of their last game, and they're going, we got everybody,
we need D'Angelo russelas here and we're back. We're back,
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We're back. And then there's the other part of Lakers
fans that are saying, come on, man, Lebron's never gonna
get it done again, what are we doing? A d
doesn't care. And what happens is and this is what
happened to Frostburg is those those zombie Laker fans out
we're back, we're back, we're back, are biting the other
Laker fans and they're going from we're not gonna do oh,
we're back, man, I just want D'Angelo russela to three.
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Oh we're backing now. Slowly, it's the zombie Laker fans
that are taking over LA. You know, the Lakers just
have to pass six teams to get into that sixth
seed and avoid the climating. You know, that's one way
to look at it. Or you could hear people say,
you know, they're only three and a half games out, Well,
that sounds great, we still get over twenty games to go.
You can make up three and a half game. Well, well,
you get six teams to pass to get into the
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six butts. So just gonna pass one team every three games,
you'll be fine. That's wall twenty four of the most
important games of the Laker franchise, okay, and of Lebron's career.
He said, yeah, yeah, I mean everything is everything is
riding on this. I mean, really, I don't know. Can
Jay Moore still own the Lakers if this doesn't work?
I don't know. You know, Barney Spanier is still trying
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to own the Lakers because he's saying, you know, I
went to high school cheating fuss. If I had just
asked her out, where would I be now exactly, to
which you would say, well after she said no, you'd
be exactly where you are now. Yeah, there you go.
See that's why I shoot your shot, right, you never
know shoot your shot? What the old back court said,
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the Lakers shooters, and that this is at least a
Laker roster for the last twenty two games that Laker
fans can understand because they can guess that. Okay, who
we're going to be seeing out there, Lebron, A d
and the three new guys whoever that is. I know
the starting five now I know who the Lakers are,
unlike most of recent years, so it seems seems like
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a manageable mentally team to be able to get behind.
I don't know if you guys know this, but the
Lakers are back. Baby Frostburg is infected. They're already losing
three to two to Golden State here in the opening
Oh yeah, yeah. Listen, when t NT joins the game
in progress, if the Lakers are losing, they reset the
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score to zero zero. I don't know if you know
that or not. If the Lakers are winning, we'll go
at that score. But when TV hits the game, if
they're losing, they'll reset and then it's plus twenty four
points and you have a target score at the end
of the game. Is that how to? Oh? Yeah, yeah,
everything else, just like the All Star Game, no defense, Yeah, guys,
go back. And that was of course a thrilling, exciting idea.
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Four quarters of no defense. Yes, a team that scores
ninety nine points in the first half doesn't have the
game in hand. You know. Lebron's team did not attempt
a single free throw Sunday night, in a game that
had almost two hundred points each. Not a single free
throw attempt from that side. Yeah, that's where the nbago.
You're so mad the refs let him play. All you
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do is complain about the referees. They let him play
to right, That's all you people yelled about at the
end of the spl What do you guys want? You
want the rest to call fouls? You want to see
where you want they We let him play. That's what happens.
This is why you need referees making calls. Okay, just
so you know it's you know, you could have called.
Isn't there some sort of defensive three second rule that
doesn't get called? I mean couldn't. Yes, if you're not
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playing defense for three whole second. Well there was that also. Yeah. Yeah.
By the way, they're never gonna go to the Lakers
game on TNT because now we've got a scuffle in
the final seconds of regulation. It might still go over
time in Philly. Yeah, it could. It could. There's right now,
there's nine seconds left. Philadelphia leads Memphis one oh eight
to one oh five. Memphis just put just trying to
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inbound the ball having different or the six is trying
to inbound the ball having some difficulty. Jowell and beat
is in the middle trying to push people away. So
everybody's waiting for this game to end, to get to
the Lakers and the Warriors, which will bring you updates
on of course throughout the show. But hey, we're not
going to forget this. Dragons in the Battle Hawks, Okay,
we're not going to forget that. Who what are we
talking about here? But sports? Today was a big day, Steve,
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because today we came out of the darkness. The darkness lifted.
Aaron Rodgers exited his Darkness Retreat, which, oh, by the way,
was in Oregon, not in Guatemala, where Harmon keeps going,
I keep looking at this is Guatemala. Finger he did, no, no, no,
he leaves the facility in Oregon. Yes, it just was
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so secretive it was announced till today. Scott Berman, who
owns Sky Cave Retreats at TJ coming out of the
dark Glorious stay fund and Aaron Rodgers his second cousin
ament go back to here Cave. Uh So Rogers exited
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the Darkness Retreat, according to the owner, Scott Berman, and
he was there for four days and four nights in
darkness isolation. You tell the difference, can't you just say
four days? Well, it's true. It's it's I guess you
say four one hundred and forty four hours is what
you should say. Yeah, because you were the have no idea, right, yeah,
no comment from Aaron Rodgers. Yet he left the darkness retreat?
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What was the darkness retreat? Pat McAfee was not like
waiting like with a you know the old press caps
that had in the nineteen forties in the black and
white movies. Oh sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, the actual white
card in the hat with the said press on it.
And then maybe he could you be ready with a
pencil to take down notes as soon as he exited
the facility. Yeah, like Punks of towny fill. You know,
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everybody's waiting this super punks filed about. It's gonna be
six weeks of darkness, six more weeks until he decides
whether he wants to play. That is probably true. Say
that out loud, don't. I didn't that in the atmosphere.
I didn't see my shadow, So six more weeks. Wait,
that takes us to almost the draft. There's a shadow.
There was a light. Good luck, the only shadow was
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McAfee's white beater. Whoa, because he does go at the
tank top so now what kind of room was he?
And luckily we have the details on it. According to Bourman,
the Darkness Retreat TJ darkness not only on the edge
of town but in Oregon for Aaron Rodgers teach, I mean,
how great this guy named is Bourman. I could do
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this all night. It'd be so great. Well you could.
Doesn't mean you have to, but I think you will.
Uh And TJ. Not only was Christian Bail the dark Night,
it was a dark night for Aaron Rodgers and dark
many nights for him in this retreat. But he didn't
have a butler in there with him. No reviews cocaine
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bear later in the show doing anything else. I was
blown away by cocaine. Don't I don't go there. Uh So,
according to Bourbon, the three hundred square foot room in
which Roger spent his time, it's partially underground, devoid of light.
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It's got a queen bed, a bathroom, and a meditation
like Matt. It is fully powered and the lights can
be turned on from inside the room, so it's not
like it's all I can't go. No, you gonna turn
the light anytime you want to. So you got to
say that again out loud for the way if people
have been talking about this the last two weeks. It
is a fully powered room. He spent four days in
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and he could turn on the lights at any time
and nobody would know. See this is where Steve I know,
I could make so much money by just getting cash
away from celebrities who think they're doing something. I'm providing
a service they don't need. He could have done this
darkness retreat in his bedroom. You gonna I'm gonna turn
the lights off. I'm gonna be on my own bed,
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which is comfortable. I assume his bedroom a little bit
bigger than three hundred square feet. Maybe maybe not, but
I can I have my own bathroom. Dr No, I'm
gonna go to Oregon to go stay in a room
where it's just dark. But you could turn the lights on.
Wait what Yeah, all I gotta do is buy blackout
curtains and no light is getting in and you can
be in that darkness retreat for the entire chief would
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make That's so much money I just get from people
come to my darkness. Oh yeah, all the celebrities are
doing it. Yes, it sounds great. I feel irreverent, And
and then people are gonna say, Oh, that guy's different.
I'm gonna go I just make money. Just it's a room.
What's in there? What's been money on? I bought a bed,
and you know we obviously, you know, change change the linens.
Just like a hotel. We change the linens and we
clean the bathroom and then we just go through. What
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else is in there? Nothing? Oh? I got a yoga mat. Yeah,
I went down to container store. I bought a yoga
mat for like eight bucks. And yoga mats in there?
What else in there? Nothing? Is it electrical? Oh? You
could turn the lighted if you want to anytime? Yeah, anytime? Okay?
And this costs how much? Ten thousand dollars a day
to come here and do this. I could charge whatever
I want to, and any big celebrity would say, yes,
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I gotta go to this darkness retreat. I really you
could do this. Say he's single, you could do the
same thing in your bedroom for four days. Serious, And
if you've just made thirty forty million dollars, this is
like spending what just chop off a few zeros? This
is what regular people. Oh yeah, and not a weekend.
It's like me going to the vending machine for cookies.
Oh yeah, I get some cookies here now. But I'm
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spend Oh I really want to know what this is.
I got to find out how much this It's what
you spend on McDonald's in half a day, man, I'll
tell you, Steve, half a day and go to McDonald's
and then the next half the day go to McDonald's again.
Three hundred square foot room Aaron Rodgers is now about
the size of a room on a cruise, basically the Lambeau.
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Yeah it's about there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's about that size. Hey, well,
we're just getting the getting started here. We're scratching the
surface of the sunken room. The lights are just back on.
The lights are just turning on. We have a lot
of big, serious stuff and tremendous silliness on the Darkness Retreat,
plus another big day in Lamar Jackson. Who may be
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ready to say, Aaron Rodgers, think are waiting for you
to make a decision. No, we're really waiting for me
to take a decision. That's coming up next. Keep it
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the night is underway, fully underway in Los Angeles. You
know that the War Years can't really win away from home.
The Lakers are have trouble winning in lots of places,
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but LA with the lead right now nineteen fifteen, late
in the first quarter. So far, Lebron James is scoreless.
Malik Beasley is your leading scorer for the game, brand
newly minted Laker legend Malik Beasley with eight points leading
the way for the Lakers. It's not just Lebron is scoreless.
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He's over one shooting with only one assist in the
first quarter. And by the way, you mentioned the bad
road record for the Warriors seven and twenty two. The
Lakers are only a five hundred team at home. So
there's that. Yeah, it's this is really irresistible force meets
immovable objects. That's exactly what it's like the Chiefs Eagles.
But these are two one seeds. How is this pot Yeah?
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Not quite but wait but wait, but let's see how
Laker fans are feeling right now. They're up by for Frostburg.
How are you right now? We're bleeping back. Okay, three
and a half games back, ride Matt Lightning d are
twenty three of the most important games ever. Actually, he
said the twenty three most important games of his career.
And now it's twenty two games and three quarters. I mean,
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that's all that's left counted, that's all that's left of it. Well,
there's still three minutes left in the first that's true.
There is there is, there's still some time left. There
are still some time or they'll be out in the
play in and then Lebron will have some time for
his own retreats in the off season. Deve this aggression
will not stand man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Lebron be the first person I try to sell like
a darkness retreat. You know we're talking about a twenty
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seven and thirty two team, right, yeah, calmer than you are? Yeah, No, Look,
if you're if I, if I'm honest about the Lakers,
I think you're realistic. If this is how you feel
about the Lakers right there, twenty seven and thirty tay
the games. I know they're back. Could I see them?
And look, maybe these changes they made. We've watched the Lakers.
We watched Lebron's teams do this before, mainly with the Cavaliers,
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where the first half of the season didn't go very well.
They trade half the guys the deadline because Lebron says,
your guy want you gone, and you and you and
you and they better yeah, and you I have no
responsibilities here whatsoever. And and so they trade away half
the team, and just that different kind of energy helps.
And I think that can be a big thing. I
agree with that. Listen, if if if it's not working
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one way for the Lakers, they try something else. Now
they definitely have a different big three, and then maybe
this is a better mix of players, maybe a couple
of more shooters for Lebron. We'll see now if they
play to their potential. Could I see the Lakers finishing
these last twenty three games and doing something like fourteen
and nine and finishing around five hundred Yeah, I mean,
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this is not a Laker team. They're not suddenly going
to go sixteen and seven or you know, which is
probably what it will take you. So what you're looking
at the ceiling for the Lakers, the best thing you
can you can expect to be realistic is a state
again and the play in you're you're gonna you're gonna
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make it into the plane and go from there because
that's what all team Listen, this is what all teams
want to do. Now it's like it's it's it's all
we don't like to play in. But now you see
teams top Oh you gotta do is get in the
plane and then we're good. It's like, oh okay, so
now yeah we don't really care about the regular season
that much and winning games, about just getting in. But
can I see that for the Lakers? Yeah, they go
I see him fourteen and nine, and suddenly here there
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are at five hundred. They're somewhere seven through ten, and
they're in there because look, none of these teams that
are in the seventh through ten range, they're there for
a reason, right, They're not suddenly all gonna go on
big runs. It's like here they go from the ninth
spot all the way to three. Now they're seventh through
ten for a reason. They're all gonna win and lose
games at a round of five hundred base So if
the Lakers can go these next couple next few weeks
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and go fourteen and not something like that, yeah, okay,
five hundred, maybe they get into one of the top
positions in the play in round in seven or eight
and they have to win a little bit less. So yeah, no,
I'm with that. I think I think that's a realistic
thing for the Lakers. I think that's realistic. And then
you have a good weekend with the play in game
or games, and then what you play Denver, maybe in
an actual series when the actual playoffs start. I know
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they called the play in the actual playoffs. I'm still
I'm still get used to that. Let's just say I'm
holding off on that. But you know, maybe at Denver
because that looks like the one seed at this point
because we only have about twenty games left in the season.
This is what. Wow, this yogi guy is really good. Wow. Wow,
we've only seen him a couple of times and MVP.
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What is going on here? Hey? Has he won in Oh?
He's won the last two years? Oh and maybe this? Okay?
Then yeah, okay, So again there's where we sit right now.
Lakers buy three, twenty four, twenty one, getting into the
last minute of the first quarter. But as we said earlier,
today was Aaron Rodgers emergence from the Darkness Retreat. He
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spent the last four days and four nights in Oregon
in a darkness retreat. Some guys is making money. Hand
over fist to say it. Come on in, come on in,
come on in three hundred square foot room with a
bed and a toilet and a yoga mat. That's what
he did. Now, I'm gonna tell you this, end lights
when end light, Yes, And that was the important thing.
You can turn the lights on at any time, I
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mean you anytime you want or you want to exit
the facility, you can you can do that. You could
turn the lights on there you All you gotta do
is walk over and go flick flick the lights on.
First of all, do you think he turned the lights
on at any point? You think at some point the
right days in four days? Think he did that at
some point? Yes? Really? Okay? Yeah, when he lost his
package of incense or something, I'm sure you have to
turn the light on as opposed to hand and you know,
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on your knees looking for it. I would I would,
would I turn him on for four Well, first of all,
I would never do something stupid like this, but the premise,
you know, it's kind of off here, you know, I mean,
but maybe I would turn him on just to go,
but just to go to the bathroom, like to find
the ball. Okay, where's the bathroom? Okay, fine, now I
know where it is, and I find the toothbrush, all
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of these I might do something. Do you brush your
teeth when all you're just sitting in a in a
room by yourself darkness for four days? Well that would
be a little distracting. Not brushing your teeth for four days.
I don't care if nobody else is in the room.
The whole point is to be focused, to be centered, right,
That would that would kind of throw the focus. Uh.
When I first moved to Connecticut, all right, when I
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was first starting out my life and I got a
job as a production assistant at ESPN. I your adult
life as my adult life, yes, yes, my adult life? Right?
So I got a college. How you went straight from
the hospital to somewhere in Connecticut exactly? Yes, I was
on your own sports sports sports sports, sports sports. So
I moved to Connecticut and I lived with you know,
you get there, You're trying to figure out your situation.
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You live with a couple of people, You live with
roommates and everything. How you do it in your early twenties, right,
you find a roommate, it's gott I knew, No I did.
I didn't say Chris Chris purpose at TJ. This is
the house that Chris built teaching why he got the
impersonation down way. It keeps coming up on the show
so much so he was not a roommates. The wow,
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I told my friend Ruth, Chris's house is amazing teaching. Uh,
some people get that I live with a couple of
a couple of friends. And then I realized it's very
shortly after I said, you know, I kind of want
to live by myself. I I, you know, having roommates
is nice, But I realized that when I one time
I wanted to come home and just sit in front
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of the TV and watch a movie and I could
you know, I couldn't because one of my roommates was
home watching TV. And I'm like, I just want to
veg out and lay on the couch and watch a
movie and fall asleep. And I'm like, I can't realize. Okay,
I go, I want to go live by myself. But
you do agree that having roommates prepares you for, for example, marriage,
for for a later life we're having to interact with
other humans. Yeah, I mean, but well, the first time
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at the end of the month, when after Pam and
I got married, and I put up I'll put up
a note right next to the front door, going here's
your half of the cable and here's your half of
the electricity. She didn't like that so much. I didn't
like that. Uh, but yeah, well leave it for me.
It's in my name, You jerk, You owe me this cash.
Wait till Valentine's sticking in the card. I think cable bell. Yeah.
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I moved into it apart because I found what I liked,
and I knew I wouldn't need a place with a
ton of room, because I wouldn't be spending a lot
of time. Everybody wanted a place it was somewhat comfortable,
and I wanted a place pretty fast, and I found
I found a place I liked. It was a few
minutes from work. It was a three hundred and fifty
square foot apartment with a bathroom in a shower, right,
and it was it was in it. It's one of
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those apartments that's in a big house, like this huge
house that's built in like on each floor there's like
two or three quote apartments, and like there's three hundred
and fifty feet Like you, I you walked into the
front door. I take one step and I'm at the
little table I had for a kitchen. Three more steps,
I was at my bed, which was against the opposite wall.
Right is one of those what are they called the
(25:42):
murphy bed that comes out of the wall to give
you no nice during the day, no no, it's not quite. No,
I had a futon, like I slept on a futon
for a couple of years. It's so you're saying, if
you had to walk up, this was not a partially
underground structure devoid of light. No no, no, no, no.
The lights work. The heat didn't always work, which is
kind of a pain when when you're talking about to Oh,
I didn't think about that there with Rogers, you know
(26:03):
many it's not exactly been warm this past week. Yeah,
the dark the dark the interest, not the darkness. No
heat retreat, it's just the darkness retreat. Where's the thermostat
to make sure the temperature is good? And I lived
there for about I say, a year and a half.
And the days I want to just hang out and
do nothing, we're great. I was like, okay, I was
sitting here doing nothing, and I'm but I remember, you know,
(26:26):
you're thinking back to that after I after I moved
out and everything else, and I'm saying I lived, and
I lived in some place. It was three hundred and
fifty square feet. When you think about apartments you live in,
you think like nine hundred feet is pretty small, and
eight hundredet is pretty smaller three hundred and fifty's. It
was three steps. And I'm not a big guy, like
I'm five nine, so I have like a little shorter
Hamburglar like steps, and so it's three steps from walking
(26:48):
in the door to my bed. Why did you say
hamburglar type man, little Hamburglar tie steps, you know, because
I'm not very tall. Of course it's a McDonald's reference.
It's just it's it's fuge. You're very big. My goodness,
everything was wrapped around the wall. It was a little kitchenette.
It was about the length of five big max Maybe.
(27:08):
Uh no, I could. I could put more than it now,
hang on, now, chicken sandwich is from Burger King, not
that many So you could live in a place like that.
When when when you have amenities, like when you have
TV cable. I repeat, it's just about the size. If
you've ever been inside a room on a cruise, those
are very small rooms because you don't spend the whole
(27:28):
day and night there unless you're of course the eel
because of the cruise, and you have to be alone
because you know, I never really had company over. It's
like we're gonna hang out at my Yeah, there's I
have one chair. I have the bed, and I have
a chair. Okay, so that's that's where we're gonna mix
it up a little during the during the day. No,
I was not the big entertainer. Hey, come on back
to my place. Oh, and all kinds of stuff to do.
(27:49):
What do you gonna trust me? It's great, back to
your place. No, there's a park down the street. The
lights are all off at this point, but really, who care.
Let let me tell you this. Only one of us
can sit the other. The ones gotta sit, and you
gotta lay in the bed. Just so you know that,
I'll be the gentleman and I'll stand. Yeah, I'll just
watch you sitting in the chair. Yeah. And I'm like,
I never sat in the chair because like, why would
(28:09):
I sit in the chair when I would just lay
in my bed all day. I was like, that's all
I did was lay on the bed. So good practice
for adult life, laying in bed all day. Yeah. I
remember one day I got up and I said, I'm
gonna have like a really adult day. I'm gonna make food.
I'm gonna sit at the table and eat. I remember
making a steak and I had kiwi on the side,
I'm like, yeah, this is what I'm gonna do now.
I sat in the chair and I ate dinner and
I walked away. Said you did not do it, man,
(28:31):
So you just check that box and never went back
to that type of day, is what you're saying. When
he said he cooked food, it means he went to McDonald's,
you know. I mean how he hit side of side
of ramen or macaribbian cheese. I don't know that I
made food for myself. Ravioli can ravioli that counts. That's
a that's a meal. Yeah, no, it does. It does
Popcorn that's certainly micro popcorn corns a meal? Yeah? Yeah?
(28:55):
How did he eat? Like? Was the a refrigerator? Like?
Did someone come in and give you the food? Oh?
Is it like reason where they just had the little
door open and they shoved and that's it exactly. I mean,
I don't know how did this go for Aaron Rodgers
three hundreds? Now that's a legit. I can't believe I
didn't hear the conversation about this before he got out
this week. I mean, all we were thinking about is
it's a structure devoid of light, and then we find
(29:18):
out the place is fully powered and you can turn
the lights on it anytime. Yeah, I mean it's you
can live in an area like that, You could live
in it. But to spend four days in the dark
and not doing anything, it's almost like being in prison.
So maybe they have a cafeteria. Maybe he left every
day and then he went to the ping pong table.
It was then there was a wreck room and then
(29:39):
I'm gonna watch TV in the community room. Oh look,
they're talking about me in the darkness retreat. They don't
know I'd be here here, I ask Jason. The real
question to be asked here is did he ever turn
the lights off? Oh? No, that might be a question. No, no, no, dude. Well,
when he went outside to go play Capture the Flag
with the people from the other cabins, I'm sure. And
(30:00):
when they when they had the softball game against the
other camp from across the lake that came over and
maybe he went out for that too, Then that could
have happened. Don't step in the cow pie. No, but
I wonder did he ever turn the lights on? That's
why I wouldn't Did you ever turn the lights on?
And you know when he goes on McAfee show, and
it's gonna be like forty five minutes of the darkness
retreating and then it's yet questions. I want to go
(30:21):
to the jets because that's not a real interview. That
question is not gonna come on the script. Oh no,
it's gonna come up. They're gonna talk all about the
darkness retreating. You kidding? No? Five minutes. That qualifies as
a challenging question, though, so I'm just not expecting to
hear it. That's a challenging question. Did you turn the
light on? How dare you as that show? That qualifies
as a challenging question. My people told you what questions
(30:44):
were approved. That was not an approved question. You can't
ask right, turn the lights? And he died? Why else
would one athlete go on one show only all the time? Yeah,
am I right here? I just want to make sure
let me let me the preapproved darkness question essentially. Yeah,
all right, fantastic. Well he could be getting paid a
lot of money too. Oh there's that. There's that, But
(31:05):
he's not gonna stay tough ones. Yeah, I gotta ask
you the tough ones. It's like the whole Jim Gray
Tom Brady thing. It's not that Jim Gray's never gonna
ask a hard question. But you know Tom Brady's not
going to agree to undergo the weekly grilling. Why would
he sit through it? Hey, Tom, I'm gonna ask you
about the retirement thing. Listen, Jim, I'm gonna curse at you.
(31:25):
Just don't take it firstly, Okay, that that's fine, Tom,
I'll ask that that that's fine. Well. And by the way, Jim,
don't ask me about biting my nails. So this is
what Aaron Rodgers caught through. I mean at three hundred
foot route. Unbelievable. Are you can abiding your nails? Warriors
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(32:10):
seventy Steve We met Colonel Steve Austin who had six
million dollar man with a bionic eye, bionic right that,
bionic legs right? What else the idea one leg, one arm,
two legs, sorry, one arm, two legs. He could run
so fast. Yeah with the bionic legs right right right,
he's only the right arm. He could lift the car. Okay, gotcha?
(32:32):
Got because because bionic woman also was she had the
bionic ear. Yeah, and she also had a bionic arm.
And she was a school teacher member. She could hear
the students in the back talking about her. I thought
she was a tennis player. Wasn't she a tennis play
She had been a tennis player and then injured and
she became an oh, high school teacher. Ah okay, god, okay, okay,
(32:52):
So that was you know, but because of inflation, now
we get from six million to six hundred to Steve
Austion dollars. By the way, yeah, Jamie Summers, the bionic
woman did once in front of class tear a phone
book in half with her bare hands. And also, you
know how many times when talking about former NBA player
Lindsay Hunter, I said, Lindsay Wagner, I must have done
(33:15):
that so many times and Lindsay Wagner is having a
big sorry, Lindsay Hunter, Lindsay Hunter. And yet he has yes,
he has the by And yet she had the bionic dog.
She had Max, the bionic dog dog. Yeah, Max is
the bionic dog could bite through all the chains and everything.
Was a German shepherd. Yeah, yeah, she had Max. I
just remember there was one episode where future Oscar winner
Helen Hunt visited as someone from another planet. She was
(33:38):
a quarterback princess, right, she threw touchdowns. It's a different Yeah,
it was a different thing she started all together. But
reports out of the New York Post today say that
coming up, shoheo Toanni's free agency on the way after
this year, and his agent said, hey, he's earned the
right to explore free agency. Of course, every player earned
the rights report for agency. Uh, forget about five hundred million.
(34:01):
It could be a six hundred million dollar contract for Showhyotani.
I'll tell you right now, Number one he'll get it,
and number two, there's only two teams that'll give it
to him. So when you talk about a Showhyotani and
where he's going, there are two teams that'll do it,
which means there are two teams that'll trade from the
deadline and they're gonna want to sign him and say, hey,
(34:21):
you're gonna love it here. This is what we're gonna
do for you. The two teams that you're gonna go to,
the only two teams will pay that money for him
are the Dodgers or the Mets. That's it. Those are
the only team. The Yankees don't do this anymore. Other teams.
It's way too much money. Dodgers and the Mets. Why
Dodgers have been printing money for a long time. They
have figured out their run of superstars with younger players,
(34:43):
and they sat out this year. They let players go
in free agency. This wasn't a great year to load
up on guys. So they're trying waiting trump room for
next year, next offseason. They want to see they want
to see what some of the young players can do.
You got to give some guys at least the first
half of the season to show, hey, I can be
a showy, show hey DJ to show hey I can
(35:04):
be a really good player. I could be someone you
count on. So the Dodgers are just waiting to pounce,
right They're waiting to pounce to say okay, this is
the guy we're gonna spend on. And Steve Cohen, you know,
wants to do it because, ay, he wants more stars.
Otani would be perfect, and he wants to tell the
rest of the Major League Baseball Oh, you owners are
mad at me, blank you man, Oh, you were mad
(35:25):
at me for wanting to give three under million to
Carlos Corea. Where do I give six hundred million to
show hey o tany in the offseason and my payroll
is six hundred million dollars because he will do it
in a second. Yeah, that's the only second. And keep
in mind we're I mean, it's silly money. We all
agree that, but we are talking about somebody. Just look
at only as hitting numbers last year and think about
what kind of trout contract he might get. And then
(35:46):
look at just his only his pitching numbers, and see
what de Grom just got. Who's not even on the
mound as often as Otani. I mean, no, he's already hurt,
Ernie hurt. He's already I got tightness in my side
through twenty through twenty fastballs today, Well that very good? Yes, yeah,
on his way to his twelve starts this year. You
think for the twelve thirteen thirteen starts of the Rangers.
(36:08):
That's what he's gonna be. Well to start where he
comes out in the second inning, Does that count the start?
That counts a start? Okay, Well, then she come out early.
There'll be at least two of those. There'll be at
least two of those. I come out of the start early.
But yeah, those are the only teams. And so when
it comes down to the trade at the deadline, who's
gonna give up a package for him? The teams that say, hey,
we want to sign you, and the oh, we want
to get you here so you see what it's like
(36:30):
playing here and what our culture is like, and we
want to sign you in the off season. Yes, I
love it here. I want to stay. Dodgers and the Mets,
those are the only teams he can go to. I'm
already excited trying to figure out the Mets pitch. Maybe
it's just Steve Cohen bringing up a dump truck full
of money going here you go. I just remember when
the Dodgers made their pitch with Clayton Kershaw doing the
long traveling, and then he signed with the Angels anyway
(36:50):
because he wanted at DH and kersha I said why
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we waited, waited. Waited has some holes in this sports calendar,
but tonight we're getting what everybody wants. Week two of
the xfl Action Tonight, Steve, can you give me a
(01:09):
comprehensive breakdown of the Sea Dragons and the BattleHawks. I
know it's in Seattle, that's the extent. Okay, college. You
know it's AJ McCarron against Ben d Nucci. So I
mean this is I mean, this is big. I've got
lovely lady. I did see some of the AJ McCarron
game last weekend. I'm ashamed to admit. Okay, so you
can tell me which team he plays for? When does
(01:29):
he play for this one in the light Blow? Yeah?
I don't know what city in the light Blow. I
don't know what's there. When you go to a game,
you're watching one of your friends kids, which is their team?
They're they're in the dark green? Oh okay, great, great,
right where while we're in the red. It's like when
your cousin says, I like the red team. Who's the
red team? I'll just Steve. Was he still crying? You
(01:53):
got a crying thing? He By the way, you know,
if any of these guys in this league, if they'll
pay you to play football, go for it. I'm not
in the least saying anything against any player in any
of these minor leagues. No, And it's football and it's
you know, one of my best friends in my life,
his daughter. They grew up my best friends at ESPN
(02:14):
when he worked there together, and his daughter grew up
and she liked to watch football. She didn't care about
the game, but she liked the Steelers because she liked
the Steelers uniform, she liked the helmets, she liked the
black and gold and everything. And so she grew up Steelers, Steelers, Steelers, Steelers.
So they went to the Super Bowl a few years
ago and she was like, you know, like five or
six years old. I remember everybody saying to my friend going,
(02:35):
oh my god, your daughter's got to be so excited
the Steelers in the super Bowl. Oh my god, she's
got to be so excited. My friend would say the
same thing. She has no idea what the Super Bowl is.
She just knows that the Steelers are a group of
people that are on television and they do something together.
That's all it is. That's so that's kind of the
XFL listener. A group of people on TV. They're playing football.
That's all it is. Well, so it could have been
(02:55):
the cast of Stranger Things. They're on television, they do
stuff together. Kind it makes no difference. And you know
they got a bench Steve at quarterback. He's not getting
it done. We gotta go to Dustin. I think Dustin's
a better quarter We've got a score. We've got a
score on FX from the XFL. So appropriate that FX
has the XFL. Somehow. The Seattle Whatever Dragons are leading
(03:17):
twelve eight against the Saint Louis battle something's in the
no no, no, no no, it's the Secattle Hawks and
the and the and the Seed. It's the Saint Louis
BattleHawks and the Seattle Seed Drugs. That's what it is.
The Snap Dragons nickname somebody else's Park. I think we're
the snap Dragon. It's it's still halftime in Seattle. There
(03:40):
you go, twelve eight. There was a game last weekend
I saw that was I think it was six to
three with no touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Yeah, but
that game it had an exciting finish because you know
one of the teams went it's one of the teams
went for three. I can't even get it out of
my mouth. Apparently, if you line up for the extra
but there's no kicking the extra point, I guess, so
(04:01):
you can line up at the extra point at the
five or the ten or the fifteen and then you know,
get one, two or three point more and so they
were behind, so they went for three and got it,
and then another twist. You know, there's no on site
kick really being taken here. I guess it's an option,
but the more realistic is you would do one play
as a fourth and fifteen and if you convert it,
(04:22):
you just keep the ball and continue the drive. And
it says if you recovered it on site kick. That's
what happened. They went for three, got it, and they
got to the fourth fifteen conversion and then then a
late score and win. That might have been there three
point than Julius Randall during the three point cont Oh
not fair, not fair? He hit one. Yeah, well that
was a sub so that might have been the BattleHawks
(04:45):
actually last weekend. That was actually one of the ideas
that came up in the NFL a couple of years ago.
I remember for the offseason was like, hey, how do
we make the the on site kick more exciting because
a couple of years ago, before they treat the rules,
it was way less than ten sent recovered. Yeah, the
XFL says, what a week care, We'll try anything. Yeah,
we'll put that out there. What a week care? Yeah,
(05:06):
let's try Why not? They're all sorts of things like
I don't know, NFL listen up replay transparency, how about that?
Maybe get that in your league. So Steve will keep
you updated all night on the BattleHawks and the Sea
Dragons again. Midway through the second quarters, says snap Dragons
with the league and t J imagine Dragons winning this game.
(05:29):
They're already leading twelve to eight. Walked into that one.
Yeah you did the Jason Smith Joe was Steve de
Sager in for Mike Harmon. Yes, big night in the NBA.
We're getting set for the marquee game of the night,
the Warriors and the Lakers. Wait a minute, let's take
the temperature of love Lakers fans everywhere, I mean every
(05:50):
Lakers fan, Steve, it's like it's like Lakers fans have
become Lakers zombie. No, not every Laker fan. No, no, no, no,
here's what it is. No, here's what it is. Laker
fans Lakers. There's two types of Lakers fans. There's the
Lakers fans who have turned into zombies. And by by that,
I mean they're the Lakers who watched, you know, five
minutes of their last game, and they're going, we got everybody,
we need D'Angelo russelas here and we're back. We're back,
(06:12):
We're back. And then there's the other part of Lakers
fans that are saying, come on, man, Lebron's never gonna
get it done again, what are we doing? A d
doesn't care. And what happens is and this is what
happened to Frostburg is those those zombie Laker fans out
we're back, we're back, we're back, are biting the other
Laker fans and they're going from we're not gonna do oh,
we're back, man, I just want D'Angelo russela to three.
(06:33):
Oh we're backing now. Slowly, it's the zombie Laker fans
that are taking over LA. You know, the Lakers just
have to pass six teams to get into that sixth
seed and avoid the climating. You know, that's one way
to look at it. Or you could hear people say,
you know, they're only three and a half games out, Well,
that sounds great, we still get over twenty games to go.
You can make up three and a half game. Well, well,
you get six teams to pass to get into the
(06:56):
six butts. So just gonna pass one team every three games,
you'll be fine. That's wall twenty four of the most
important games of the Laker franchise, okay, and of Lebron's career.
He said, yeah, yeah, I mean everything is everything is
riding on this. I mean, really, I don't know. Can
Jay Moore still own the Lakers if this doesn't work?
I don't know. You know, Barney Spanier is still trying
(07:17):
to own the Lakers because he's saying, you know, I
went to high school cheating fuss. If I had just
asked her out, where would I be now exactly, to
which you would say, well after she said no, you'd
be exactly where you are now. Yeah, there you go.
See that's why I shoot your shot, right, you never
know shoot your shot? What the old back court said,
(07:38):
the Lakers shooters, and that this is at least a
Laker roster for the last twenty two games that Laker
fans can understand because they can guess that. Okay, who
we're going to be seeing out there, Lebron, A d
and the three new guys whoever that is. I know
the starting five now I know who the Lakers are,
unlike most of recent years, so it seems seems like
(08:00):
a manageable mentally team to be able to get behind.
I don't know if you guys know this, but the
Lakers are back. Baby Frostburg is infected. They're already losing
three to two to Golden State here in the opening
Oh yeah, yeah. Listen, when t NT joins the game
in progress, if the Lakers are losing, they reset the
(08:21):
score to zero zero. I don't know if you know
that or not. If the Lakers are winning, we'll go
at that score. But when TV hits the game, if
they're losing, they'll reset and then it's plus twenty four
points and you have a target score at the end
of the game. Is that how to? Oh? Yeah, yeah,
everything else, just like the All Star Game, no defense, Yeah, guys,
go back. And that was of course a thrilling, exciting idea.
(08:41):
Four quarters of no defense. Yes, a team that scores
ninety nine points in the first half doesn't have the
game in hand. You know. Lebron's team did not attempt
a single free throw Sunday night, in a game that
had almost two hundred points each. Not a single free
throw attempt from that side. Yeah, that's where the nbago.
You're so mad the refs let him play. All you
(09:01):
do is complain about the referees. They let him play
to right, That's all you people yelled about at the
end of the spl What do you guys want? You
want the rest to call fouls? You want to see
where you want they We let him play. That's what happens.
This is why you need referees making calls. Okay, just
so you know it's you know, you could have called.
Isn't there some sort of defensive three second rule that
doesn't get called? I mean couldn't. Yes, if you're not
(09:23):
playing defense for three whole second. Well there was that also. Yeah. Yeah.
By the way, they're never gonna go to the Lakers
game on TNT because now we've got a scuffle in
the final seconds of regulation. It might still go over
time in Philly. Yeah, it could. It could. There's right now,
there's nine seconds left. Philadelphia leads Memphis one oh eight
to one oh five. Memphis just put just trying to
(09:44):
inbound the ball having different or the six is trying
to inbound the ball having some difficulty. Jowell and beat
is in the middle trying to push people away. So
everybody's waiting for this game to end, to get to
the Lakers and the Warriors, which will bring you updates
on of course throughout the show. But hey, we're not
going to forget this. Dragons in the Battle Hawks, Okay,
we're not going to forget that. Who what are we
talking about here? But sports? Today was a big day, Steve,
(10:07):
because today we came out of the darkness. The darkness lifted.
Aaron Rodgers exited his Darkness Retreat, which, oh, by the way,
was in Oregon, not in Guatemala, where Harmon keeps going,
I keep looking at this is Guatemala. Finger he did, no, no, no,
he leaves the facility in Oregon. Yes, it just was
(10:30):
so secretive it was announced till today. Scott Berman, who
owns Sky Cave Retreats at TJ coming out of the
dark Glorious stay fund and Aaron Rodgers his second cousin
ament go back to here Cave. Uh So Rogers exited
(10:52):
the Darkness Retreat, according to the owner, Scott Berman, and
he was there for four days and four nights in
darkness isolation. You tell the difference, can't you just say
four days? Well, it's true. It's it's I guess you
say four one hundred and forty four hours is what
you should say. Yeah, because you were the have no idea, right, yeah,
no comment from Aaron Rodgers. Yet he left the darkness retreat?
(11:16):
What was the darkness retreat? Pat McAfee was not like
waiting like with a you know the old press caps
that had in the nineteen forties in the black and
white movies. Oh sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, the actual white
card in the hat with the said press on it.
And then maybe he could you be ready with a
pencil to take down notes as soon as he exited
the facility. Yeah, like Punks of towny fill. You know,
(11:38):
everybody's waiting this super punks filed about. It's gonna be
six weeks of darkness, six more weeks until he decides
whether he wants to play. That is probably true. Say
that out loud, don't. I didn't that in the atmosphere.
I didn't see my shadow, So six more weeks. Wait,
that takes us to almost the draft. There's a shadow.
There was a light. Good luck, the only shadow was
(12:01):
McAfee's white beater. Whoa, because he does go at the
tank top so now what kind of room was he?
And luckily we have the details on it. According to Bourman,
the Darkness Retreat TJ darkness not only on the edge
of town but in Oregon for Aaron Rodgers teach, I mean,
how great this guy named is Bourman. I could do
(12:22):
this all night. It'd be so great. Well you could.
Doesn't mean you have to, but I think you will.
Uh And TJ. Not only was Christian Bail the dark Night,
it was a dark night for Aaron Rodgers and dark
many nights for him in this retreat. But he didn't
have a butler in there with him. No reviews cocaine
(12:45):
bear later in the show doing anything else. I was
blown away by cocaine. Don't I don't go there. Uh So,
according to Bourbon, the three hundred square foot room in
which Roger spent his time, it's partially underground, devoid of light.
(13:07):
It's got a queen bed, a bathroom, and a meditation
like Matt. It is fully powered and the lights can
be turned on from inside the room, so it's not
like it's all I can't go. No, you gonna turn
the light anytime you want to. So you got to
say that again out loud for the way if people
have been talking about this the last two weeks. It
is a fully powered room. He spent four days in
(13:28):
and he could turn on the lights at any time
and nobody would know. See this is where Steve I know,
I could make so much money by just getting cash
away from celebrities who think they're doing something. I'm providing
a service they don't need. He could have done this
darkness retreat in his bedroom. You gonna I'm gonna turn
the lights off. I'm gonna be on my own bed,
(13:48):
which is comfortable. I assume his bedroom a little bit
bigger than three hundred square feet. Maybe maybe not, but
I can I have my own bathroom. Dr No, I'm
gonna go to Oregon to go stay in a room
where it's just dark. But you could turn the lights on.
Wait what Yeah, all I gotta do is buy blackout
curtains and no light is getting in and you can
be in that darkness retreat for the entire chief would
(14:09):
make That's so much money I just get from people
come to my darkness. Oh yeah, all the celebrities are
doing it. Yes, it sounds great. I feel irreverent, And
and then people are gonna say, Oh, that guy's different.
I'm gonna go I just make money. Just it's a room.
What's in there? What's been money on? I bought a bed,
and you know we obviously, you know, change change the linens.
Just like a hotel. We change the linens and we
clean the bathroom and then we just go through. What
(14:31):
else is in there? Nothing? Oh? I got a yoga mat. Yeah,
I went down to container store. I bought a yoga
mat for like eight bucks. And yoga mats in there?
What else in there? Nothing? Is it electrical? Oh? You
could turn the lighted if you want to anytime? Yeah, anytime? Okay?
And this costs how much? Ten thousand dollars a day
to come here and do this. I could charge whatever
I want to, and any big celebrity would say, yes,
(14:51):
I gotta go to this darkness retreat. I really you
could do this. Say he's single, you could do the
same thing in your bedroom for four days. Serious, And
if you've just made thirty forty million dollars, this is
like spending what just chop off a few zeros? This
is what regular people. Oh yeah, and not a weekend.
It's like me going to the vending machine for cookies.
Oh yeah, I get some cookies here now. But I'm
(15:12):
spend Oh I really want to know what this is.
I got to find out how much this It's what
you spend on McDonald's in half a day, man, I'll
tell you, Steve, half a day and go to McDonald's
and then the next half the day go to McDonald's again.
Three hundred square foot room Aaron Rodgers is now about
the size of a room on a cruise, basically the Lambeau.
(15:33):
Yeah it's about there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's about that size. Hey, well,
we're just getting the getting started here. We're scratching the
surface of the sunken room. The lights are just back on.
The lights are just turning on. We have a lot
of big, serious stuff and tremendous silliness on the Darkness Retreat,
plus another big day in Lamar Jackson. Who may be
(15:55):
ready to say, Aaron Rodgers, think are waiting for you
to make a decision. No, we're really waiting for me
to take a decision. That's coming up next. Keep it
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the night is underway, fully underway in Los Angeles. You
know that the War Years can't really win away from home.
The Lakers are have trouble winning in lots of places,
(17:03):
but LA with the lead right now nineteen fifteen, late
in the first quarter. So far, Lebron James is scoreless.
Malik Beasley is your leading scorer for the game, brand
newly minted Laker legend Malik Beasley with eight points leading
the way for the Lakers. It's not just Lebron is scoreless.
(17:23):
He's over one shooting with only one assist in the
first quarter. And by the way, you mentioned the bad
road record for the Warriors seven and twenty two. The
Lakers are only a five hundred team at home. So
there's that. Yeah, it's this is really irresistible force meets
immovable objects. That's exactly what it's like the Chiefs Eagles.
But these are two one seeds. How is this pot Yeah?
(17:45):
Not quite but wait but wait, but let's see how
Laker fans are feeling right now. They're up by for Frostburg.
How are you right now? We're bleeping back. Okay, three
and a half games back, ride Matt Lightning d are
twenty three of the most important games ever. Actually, he
said the twenty three most important games of his career.
And now it's twenty two games and three quarters. I mean,
(18:07):
that's all that's left counted, that's all that's left of it. Well,
there's still three minutes left in the first that's true.
There is there is, there's still some time left. There
are still some time or they'll be out in the
play in and then Lebron will have some time for
his own retreats in the off season. Deve this aggression
will not stand man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Lebron be the first person I try to sell like
a darkness retreat. You know we're talking about a twenty
(18:27):
seven and thirty two team, right, yeah, calmer than you are? Yeah, No, Look,
if you're if I, if I'm honest about the Lakers,
I think you're realistic. If this is how you feel
about the Lakers right there, twenty seven and thirty tay
the games. I know they're back. Could I see them?
And look, maybe these changes they made. We've watched the Lakers.
We watched Lebron's teams do this before, mainly with the Cavaliers,
(18:49):
where the first half of the season didn't go very well.
They trade half the guys the deadline because Lebron says,
your guy want you gone, and you and you and
you and they better yeah, and you I have no
responsibilities here whatsoever. And and so they trade away half
the team, and just that different kind of energy helps.
And I think that can be a big thing. I
agree with that. Listen, if if if it's not working
(19:11):
one way for the Lakers, they try something else. Now
they definitely have a different big three, and then maybe
this is a better mix of players, maybe a couple
of more shooters for Lebron. We'll see now if they
play to their potential. Could I see the Lakers finishing
these last twenty three games and doing something like fourteen
and nine and finishing around five hundred Yeah, I mean,
(19:32):
this is not a Laker team. They're not suddenly going
to go sixteen and seven or you know, which is
probably what it will take you. So what you're looking
at the ceiling for the Lakers, the best thing you
can you can expect to be realistic is a state
again and the play in you're you're gonna you're gonna
(19:52):
make it into the plane and go from there because
that's what all team Listen, this is what all teams
want to do. Now it's like it's it's it's all
we don't like to play in. But now you see
teams top Oh you gotta do is get in the
plane and then we're good. It's like, oh okay, so
now yeah we don't really care about the regular season
that much and winning games, about just getting in. But
can I see that for the Lakers? Yeah, they go
I see him fourteen and nine, and suddenly here there
(20:13):
are at five hundred. They're somewhere seven through ten, and
they're in there because look, none of these teams that
are in the seventh through ten range, they're there for
a reason, right, They're not suddenly all gonna go on
big runs. It's like here they go from the ninth
spot all the way to three. Now they're seventh through
ten for a reason. They're all gonna win and lose
games at a round of five hundred base So if
the Lakers can go these next couple next few weeks
(20:33):
and go fourteen and not something like that, yeah, okay,
five hundred, maybe they get into one of the top
positions in the play in round in seven or eight
and they have to win a little bit less. So yeah, no,
I'm with that. I think I think that's a realistic
thing for the Lakers. I think that's realistic. And then
you have a good weekend with the play in game
or games, and then what you play Denver, maybe in
an actual series when the actual playoffs start. I know
(20:56):
they called the play in the actual playoffs. I'm still
I'm still get used to that. Let's just say I'm
holding off on that. But you know, maybe at Denver
because that looks like the one seed at this point
because we only have about twenty games left in the season.
This is what. Wow, this yogi guy is really good. Wow. Wow,
we've only seen him a couple of times and MVP.
(21:17):
What is going on here? Hey? Has he won in Oh?
He's won the last two years? Oh and maybe this? Okay?
Then yeah, okay, So again there's where we sit right now.
Lakers buy three, twenty four, twenty one, getting into the
last minute of the first quarter. But as we said earlier,
today was Aaron Rodgers emergence from the Darkness Retreat. He
(21:37):
spent the last four days and four nights in Oregon
in a darkness retreat. Some guys is making money. Hand
over fist to say it. Come on in, come on in,
come on in three hundred square foot room with a
bed and a toilet and a yoga mat. That's what
he did. Now, I'm gonna tell you this, end lights
when end light, Yes, And that was the important thing.
You can turn the lights on at any time, I
(21:58):
mean you anytime you want or you want to exit
the facility, you can you can do that. You could
turn the lights on there you All you gotta do
is walk over and go flick flick the lights on.
First of all, do you think he turned the lights
on at any point? You think at some point the
right days in four days? Think he did that at
some point? Yes? Really? Okay? Yeah, when he lost his
package of incense or something, I'm sure you have to
turn the light on as opposed to hand and you know,
(22:21):
on your knees looking for it. I would I would,
would I turn him on for four Well, first of all,
I would never do something stupid like this, but the premise,
you know, it's kind of off here, you know, I mean,
but maybe I would turn him on just to go,
but just to go to the bathroom, like to find
the ball. Okay, where's the bathroom? Okay, fine, now I
know where it is, and I find the toothbrush, all
(22:41):
of these I might do something. Do you brush your
teeth when all you're just sitting in a in a
room by yourself darkness for four days? Well that would
be a little distracting. Not brushing your teeth for four days.
I don't care if nobody else is in the room.
The whole point is to be focused, to be centered, right,
That would that would kind of throw the focus. Uh.
When I first moved to Connecticut, all right, when I
(23:05):
was first starting out my life and I got a
job as a production assistant at ESPN. I your adult
life as my adult life, yes, yes, my adult life? Right?
So I got a college. How you went straight from
the hospital to somewhere in Connecticut exactly? Yes, I was
on your own sports sports sports sports, sports sports. So
I moved to Connecticut and I lived with you know,
you get there, You're trying to figure out your situation.
(23:27):
You live with a couple of people, You live with
roommates and everything. How you do it in your early twenties, right,
you find a roommate, it's gott I knew, No I did.
I didn't say Chris Chris purpose at TJ. This is
the house that Chris built teaching why he got the
impersonation down way. It keeps coming up on the show
so much so he was not a roommates. The wow,
(23:51):
I told my friend Ruth, Chris's house is amazing teaching. Uh,
some people get that I live with a couple of
a couple of friends. And then I realized it's very
shortly after I said, you know, I kind of want
to live by myself. I I, you know, having roommates
is nice, But I realized that when I one time
I wanted to come home and just sit in front
(24:11):
of the TV and watch a movie and I could
you know, I couldn't because one of my roommates was
home watching TV. And I'm like, I just want to
veg out and lay on the couch and watch a
movie and fall asleep. And I'm like, I can't realize. Okay,
I go, I want to go live by myself. But
you do agree that having roommates prepares you for, for example, marriage,
for for a later life we're having to interact with
other humans. Yeah, I mean, but well, the first time
(24:34):
at the end of the month, when after Pam and
I got married, and I put up I'll put up
a note right next to the front door, going here's
your half of the cable and here's your half of
the electricity. She didn't like that so much. I didn't
like that. Uh, but yeah, well leave it for me.
It's in my name, You jerk, You owe me this cash.
Wait till Valentine's sticking in the card. I think cable bell. Yeah.
(25:00):
I moved into it apart because I found what I liked,
and I knew I wouldn't need a place with a
ton of room, because I wouldn't be spending a lot
of time. Everybody wanted a place it was somewhat comfortable,
and I wanted a place pretty fast, and I found
I found a place I liked. It was a few
minutes from work. It was a three hundred and fifty
square foot apartment with a bathroom in a shower, right,
and it was it was in it. It's one of
(25:21):
those apartments that's in a big house, like this huge
house that's built in like on each floor there's like
two or three quote apartments, and like there's three hundred
and fifty feet Like you, I you walked into the
front door. I take one step and I'm at the
little table I had for a kitchen. Three more steps,
I was at my bed, which was against the opposite wall.
Right is one of those what are they called the
(25:42):
murphy bed that comes out of the wall to give
you no nice during the day, no no, it's not quite. No,
I had a futon, like I slept on a futon
for a couple of years. It's so you're saying, if
you had to walk up, this was not a partially
underground structure devoid of light. No no, no, no, no.
The lights work. The heat didn't always work, which is
kind of a pain when when you're talking about to Oh,
I didn't think about that there with Rogers, you know
(26:03):
many it's not exactly been warm this past week. Yeah,
the dark the dark the interest, not the darkness. No
heat retreat, it's just the darkness retreat. Where's the thermostat
to make sure the temperature is good? And I lived
there for about I say, a year and a half.
And the days I want to just hang out and
do nothing, we're great. I was like, okay, I was
sitting here doing nothing, and I'm but I remember, you know,
(26:26):
you're thinking back to that after I after I moved
out and everything else, and I'm saying I lived, and
I lived in some place. It was three hundred and
fifty square feet. When you think about apartments you live in,
you think like nine hundred feet is pretty small, and
eight hundredet is pretty smaller three hundred and fifty's. It
was three steps. And I'm not a big guy, like
I'm five nine, so I have like a little shorter
Hamburglar like steps, and so it's three steps from walking
(26:48):
in the door to my bed. Why did you say
hamburglar type man, little Hamburglar tie steps, you know, because
I'm not very tall. Of course it's a McDonald's reference.
It's just it's it's fuge. You're very big. My goodness,
everything was wrapped around the wall. It was a little kitchenette.
It was about the length of five big max Maybe.
(27:08):
Uh no, I could. I could put more than it now,
hang on, now, chicken sandwich is from Burger King, not
that many So you could live in a place like that.
When when when you have amenities, like when you have
TV cable. I repeat, it's just about the size. If
you've ever been inside a room on a cruise, those
are very small rooms because you don't spend the whole
(27:28):
day and night there unless you're of course the eel
because of the cruise, and you have to be alone
because you know, I never really had company over. It's
like we're gonna hang out at my Yeah, there's I
have one chair. I have the bed, and I have
a chair. Okay, so that's that's where we're gonna mix
it up a little during the during the day. No,
I was not the big entertainer. Hey, come on back
to my place. Oh, and all kinds of stuff to do.
(27:49):
What do you gonna trust me? It's great, back to
your place. No, there's a park down the street. The
lights are all off at this point, but really, who care.
Let let me tell you this. Only one of us
can sit the other. The ones gotta sit, and you
gotta lay in the bed. Just so you know that,
I'll be the gentleman and I'll stand. Yeah, I'll just
watch you sitting in the chair. Yeah. And I'm like,
I never sat in the chair because like, why would
(28:09):
I sit in the chair when I would just lay
in my bed all day. I was like, that's all
I did was lay on the bed. So good practice
for adult life, laying in bed all day. Yeah. I
remember one day I got up and I said, I'm
gonna have like a really adult day. I'm gonna make food.
I'm gonna sit at the table and eat. I remember
making a steak and I had kiwi on the side,
I'm like, yeah, this is what I'm gonna do now.
I sat in the chair and I ate dinner and
I walked away. Said you did not do it, man,
(28:31):
So you just check that box and never went back
to that type of day, is what you're saying. When
he said he cooked food, it means he went to McDonald's,
you know. I mean how he hit side of side
of ramen or macaribbian cheese. I don't know that I
made food for myself. Ravioli can ravioli that counts. That's
a that's a meal. Yeah, no, it does. It does
Popcorn that's certainly micro popcorn corns a meal? Yeah? Yeah?
(28:55):
How did he eat? Like? Was the a refrigerator? Like?
Did someone come in and give you the food? Oh?
Is it like reason where they just had the little
door open and they shoved and that's it exactly. I mean,
I don't know how did this go for Aaron Rodgers
three hundreds? Now that's a legit. I can't believe I
didn't hear the conversation about this before he got out
this week. I mean, all we were thinking about is
it's a structure devoid of light, and then we find
(29:18):
out the place is fully powered and you can turn
the lights on it anytime. Yeah, I mean it's you
can live in an area like that, You could live
in it. But to spend four days in the dark
and not doing anything, it's almost like being in prison.
So maybe they have a cafeteria. Maybe he left every
day and then he went to the ping pong table.
It was then there was a wreck room and then
(29:39):
I'm gonna watch TV in the community room. Oh look,
they're talking about me in the darkness retreat. They don't
know I'd be here here, I ask Jason. The real
question to be asked here is did he ever turn
the lights off? Oh? No, that might be a question. No, no, no, dude. Well,
when he went outside to go play Capture the Flag
with the people from the other cabins, I'm sure. And
(30:00):
when they when they had the softball game against the
other camp from across the lake that came over and
maybe he went out for that too, Then that could
have happened. Don't step in the cow pie. No, but
I wonder did he ever turn the lights on? That's
why I wouldn't Did you ever turn the lights on?
And you know when he goes on McAfee show, and
it's gonna be like forty five minutes of the darkness
retreating and then it's yet questions. I want to go
(30:21):
to the jets because that's not a real interview. That
question is not gonna come on the script. Oh no,
it's gonna come up. They're gonna talk all about the
darkness retreating. You kidding? No? Five minutes. That qualifies as
a challenging question, though, so I'm just not expecting to
hear it. That's a challenging question. Did you turn the
light on? How dare you as that show? That qualifies
as a challenging question. My people told you what questions
(30:44):
were approved. That was not an approved question. You can't
ask right, turn the lights? And he died? Why else
would one athlete go on one show only all the time? Yeah,
am I right here? I just want to make sure
let me let me the preapproved darkness question essentially. Yeah,
all right, fantastic. Well he could be getting paid a
lot of money too. Oh there's that. There's that, But
(31:05):
he's not gonna stay tough ones. Yeah, I gotta ask
you the tough ones. It's like the whole Jim Gray
Tom Brady thing. It's not that Jim Gray's never gonna
ask a hard question. But you know Tom Brady's not
going to agree to undergo the weekly grilling. Why would
he sit through it? Hey, Tom, I'm gonna ask you
about the retirement thing. Listen, Jim, I'm gonna curse at you.
(31:25):
Just don't take it firstly, Okay, that that's fine, Tom,
I'll ask that that that's fine. Well. And by the way, Jim,
don't ask me about biting my nails. So this is
what Aaron Rodgers caught through. I mean at three hundred
foot route. Unbelievable. Are you can abiding your nails? Warriors
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(31:48):
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(32:10):
seventy Steve We met Colonel Steve Austin who had six
million dollar man with a bionic eye, bionic right that,
bionic legs right? What else the idea one leg, one arm,
two legs, sorry, one arm, two legs. He could run
so fast. Yeah with the bionic legs right right right,
he's only the right arm. He could lift the car. Okay, gotcha?
(32:32):
Got because because bionic woman also was she had the
bionic ear. Yeah, and she also had a bionic arm.
And she was a school teacher member. She could hear
the students in the back talking about her. I thought
she was a tennis player. Wasn't she a tennis play
She had been a tennis player and then injured and
she became an oh, high school teacher. Ah okay, god, okay, okay,
(32:52):
So that was you know, but because of inflation, now
we get from six million to six hundred to Steve
Austion dollars. By the way, yeah, Jamie Summers, the bionic
woman did once in front of class tear a phone
book in half with her bare hands. And also, you
know how many times when talking about former NBA player
Lindsay Hunter, I said, Lindsay Wagner, I must have done
(33:15):
that so many times and Lindsay Wagner is having a
big sorry, Lindsay Hunter, Lindsay Hunter. And yet he has yes,
he has the by And yet she had the bionic dog.
She had Max, the bionic dog dog. Yeah, Max is
the bionic dog could bite through all the chains and everything.
Was a German shepherd. Yeah, yeah, she had Max. I
just remember there was one episode where future Oscar winner
Helen Hunt visited as someone from another planet. She was
(33:38):
a quarterback princess, right, she threw touchdowns. It's a different Yeah,
it was a different thing she started all together. But
reports out of the New York Post today say that
coming up, shoheo Toanni's free agency on the way after
this year, and his agent said, hey, he's earned the
right to explore free agency. Of course, every player earned
the rights report for agency. Uh, forget about five hundred million.
(34:01):
It could be a six hundred million dollar contract for Showhyotani.
I'll tell you right now, Number one he'll get it,
and number two, there's only two teams that'll give it
to him. So when you talk about a Showhyotani and
where he's going, there are two teams that'll do it,
which means there are two teams that'll trade from the
deadline and they're gonna want to sign him and say, hey,
(34:21):
you're gonna love it here. This is what we're gonna
do for you. The two teams that you're gonna go to,
the only two teams will pay that money for him
are the Dodgers or the Mets. That's it. Those are
the only team. The Yankees don't do this anymore. Other teams.
It's way too much money. Dodgers and the Mets. Why
Dodgers have been printing money for a long time. They
have figured out their run of superstars with younger players,
(34:43):
and they sat out this year. They let players go
in free agency. This wasn't a great year to load
up on guys. So they're trying waiting trump room for
next year, next offseason. They want to see they want
to see what some of the young players can do.
You got to give some guys at least the first
half of the season to show, hey, I can be
a showy, show hey DJ to show hey I can
(35:04):
be a really good player. I could be someone you
count on. So the Dodgers are just waiting to pounce,
right They're waiting to pounce to say okay, this is
the guy we're gonna spend on. And Steve Cohen, you know,
wants to do it because, ay, he wants more stars.
Otani would be perfect, and he wants to tell the
rest of the Major League Baseball Oh, you owners are
mad at me, blank you man, Oh, you were mad
(35:25):
at me for wanting to give three under million to
Carlos Corea. Where do I give six hundred million to
show hey o tany in the offseason and my payroll
is six hundred million dollars because he will do it
in a second. Yeah, that's the only second. And keep
in mind we're I mean, it's silly money. We all
agree that, but we are talking about somebody. Just look
at only as hitting numbers last year and think about
what kind of trout contract he might get. And then
(35:46):
look at just his only his pitching numbers, and see
what de Grom just got. Who's not even on the
mound as often as Otani. I mean, no, he's already hurt,
Ernie hurt. He's already I got tightness in my side
through twenty through twenty fastballs today, Well that very good? Yes, yeah,
on his way to his twelve starts this year. You
think for the twelve thirteen thirteen starts of the Rangers.
(36:08):
That's what he's gonna be. Well to start where he
comes out in the second inning, Does that count the start?
That counts a start? Okay, Well, then she come out early.
There'll be at least two of those. There'll be at
least two of those. I come out of the start early.
But yeah, those are the only teams. And so when
it comes down to the trade at the deadline, who's
gonna give up a package for him? The teams that say, hey,
we want to sign you, and the oh, we want
to get you here so you see what it's like
(36:30):
playing here and what our culture is like, and we
want to sign you in the off season. Yes, I
love it here. I want to stay. Dodgers and the Mets,
those are the only teams he can go to. I'm
already excited trying to figure out the Mets pitch. Maybe
it's just Steve Cohen bringing up a dump truck full
of money going here you go. I just remember when
the Dodgers made their pitch with Clayton Kershaw doing the
long traveling, and then he signed with the Angels anyway
(36:50):
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