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Seth and Sean give credit from things that happened over the weekend in Acknowledge Me.
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00:00All right, we got to do some acknowledgements. It's a Monday.
00:02So we got to acknowledge some of the big performances from the weekend, Super Bowl stuff.
00:08We've got some sound here that we'll get to as well.
00:11It's tricky doing acknowledge me with our first football-less weekend in a long, long time.
00:16That was a big void this weekend, man, no football.
00:19But let's do it. Let's acknowledge the big performances from over the weekend.
00:22I will say a name. Our producer, Ben Gary, will play Roman Reigns.
00:26Acknowledge me!
00:27You know what? Off the top, I'm going to acknowledge Roman Reigns.
00:31Acknowledge me!
00:31He won the Royal Rumble this weekend.
00:32Oh, he did?
00:33He's going to WrestleMania to fight whichever champion he chooses to fight.
00:37What's the Royal Rumble, then? Is it like the semis?
00:39It's the Royal Rumble. There's 30 superstars.
00:45Okay.
00:46And they come to the ring every two minutes, and it's like a battle royal.
00:51You get eliminated by getting thrown over the top rope.
00:53Oh.
00:54And a new guy comes in every two minutes.
00:56Oh, yeah.
00:57So if you're one of the first two guys in the ring, it's almost impossible.
01:00It's almost impossible.
01:02And in the lore...
01:03By normal sporting physiology.
01:04In the lore of the Royal Rumble, they look back as a hallowed performance when a guy was one of the first two in the ring.
01:11Like, back in 1996, Shawn Michaels went wire to wire.
01:16But, yeah, Roman Reigns...
01:17That is pretty impressive, though, obviously, you know, I know...
01:20The stamina just to do it for 60 minutes.
01:22Even though it's predetermined, yeah, to be out there, like, doing it that long, that's rough, man.
01:26It's a long time, yeah.
01:27Usually, but there's probably some, like, little...
01:29Like, they cheated, right?
01:31Like, they...
01:31They rest.
01:32They snuck off or something.
01:33They rest at times.
01:33Yeah, they rest.
01:34Like, sometimes they'll...
01:35Because you have to get thrown over the top rope.
01:37So, sometimes the guys will get thrown through the ropes and out onto the floor, and they're not eliminated, but they'll lay out there.
01:41Do you know what really kept me from being a wrestling fan when I was a kid?
01:44What's that?
01:45People...
01:45Just the brazen breaking of the rules and the poor officiating.
01:50On tag team stuff, especially.
01:52Like, where, like...
01:53Just when people just abandon the tag role and they just jump in and they end up winning the bout, I could not...
02:00I could not let that stand.
02:01Or...
02:02It was the injustice of it.
02:03The good guy tag team partner that's on the edge of the ring would step into the ring to try to help out because the other guys are cheating.
02:10And the referee would turn around and try to keep the good guy out of the ring.
02:13They penalize that.
02:14Yeah.
02:14And meanwhile, the bad guys are choking them with the tag rope.
02:17Yeah.
02:18Like, salt in their eyes.
02:19I just could not handle the injustice of all that and the bad officiating.
02:22Can WWE clean up...
02:24Have they cleaned up the officiating?
02:25They had storylines from time to time of, like, a guy coming in to try to clean up the officiating.
02:30They would have kept young Seth Payne involved.
02:32As a fan?
02:32Yeah.
02:33I love that you...
02:34I love that you were that big a fan as a kid of fair play.
02:37It was just...
02:39It was the most frustrating thing in the world.
02:41I'm going to acknowledge Seth Payne, Ben.
02:43I'm going to acknowledge young Seth Payne for being a bastion of fair play and anti-rule breaking.
02:50Good job, Seth.
02:51I've gotten so many arguments with kids, like, when I was 13 years old.
02:54About wrestling?
02:54About whether it was, like, legitimate or not.
02:57Yeah.
02:57Yeah.
02:57Because, like, you might not know, back before, until the WWE had to try to, you know, perform in states that allowed gambling, they had to basically admit that it was scripted.
03:10And before that, people would get into arguments about whether or not it was scripted.
03:13They would.
03:13Because people are so stupid.
03:15Mm-hmm.
03:15People are the dumbest people I know.
03:18Mm-hmm.
03:18Kevin Durant.
03:22Acknowledge me.
03:23Makes the All-Star team.
03:25First time...
03:25Sixteenth time, I should say.
03:27First time as a rocket, obviously.
03:29Breaks a tie with Tim Duncan and Kevin Durant, who both have been to 15 All-Star games.
03:35Trailing only Kobe, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and LeBron James.
03:40Kobe's been to 18.
03:41Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and LeBron James, 19.
03:44And that was another storyline.
03:45LeBron James selected to his 19th All-Star game.
03:48I feel like this, you know, Kevin Durant making this and, you know, ascending on the hierarchy of All-Star appearances and everything,
03:54for me, this is the first time where I felt genuinely like I've lost my patience with the Rockets this year.
04:02That I've said, I was like, all right.
04:03I'm like, yeah, yeah.
04:05Yeah.
04:05You're burning daylight.
04:07You're burning daylight.
04:07Do you see how old he is?
04:08Do you see how good he still is?
04:10Yeah, yeah.
04:10What are we doing here?
04:11Come on, get it together.
04:12All right.
04:12So, all right, does that change any of your view on, because there's a promo running right now.
04:16Yeah.
04:17Of you saying why the Rockets shouldn't trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo?
04:20No, it doesn't change, because I don't feel like all of a sudden, when you drop any superstar in midway through the season,
04:26and especially if you trade away Shang-Goon and Tari Eason or whichever the trade proposal was,
04:31it's not that all of a sudden, oh, yeah, now there'll be a perfectly orchestrated offense
04:36and not just a whole bunch of iso-ball.
04:39Well, exactly what they're trying to do.
04:40I don't think that that's not something that's just so easy to engineer in the middle of a season.
04:44Yeah, and Shang-Goon would be part of any deal, and I'm not.
04:48Shang-Goon's been very inconsistent this year.
04:50I think it's one of the reasons he's not an all-star this year, and he was last year.
04:54But I don't have the appetite for the package that people are talking about.
04:59Yeah, I'm still very bullish on Shang-Goon in the long term.
05:01The trade deadline's this week, by the way.
05:03Yeah.
05:03It's Thursday this week.
05:04He's still very bullish on Shang-Goon, so it's just a matter of the impatience of, yeah,
05:07get all of that together.
05:09I'm on Thompson.
05:10All of a sudden, have four more years of experience as a full-time point guard, please.
05:14I think they make a trade this week.
05:15Yeah.
05:15I don't think it'll be Giannis, but I think they – you know, watching these games,
05:19I know they beat the Mavericks.
05:20They're on a nice little run right now.
05:21They've won four of their last five.
05:23They've won seven of their last nine.
05:25It's still – like this Mavericks game, like they – Cooper Flagg was incredible in the fourth quarter.
05:31He was amazing, but they still – they still have trouble holding off teams because they have so many bad possessions.
05:36No, and it's a point, too, where because Shang-Goon gets the final – the crucial basket,
05:41you're still – you're almost okay with Shang-Goon playing really dodgy for three quarters,
05:47but he showed up in the fourth quarter, and that's what we want.
05:49That's what we need.
05:50Every time he shows up in the fourth quarter, it erases anything that might have happened in the first three quarters.
05:55Jordan Hudson.
05:57Acknowledge me.
05:58That is Bill Belichick's girlfriend, who is, I believe, still 24 years old, last I checked.
06:04Why are we acknowledging her?
06:05Well, we know Belichick is getting snubbed for the Hall of Fame.
06:08Yeah.
06:09Mike Florio has a story on Pro Football Talk.
06:14I'm acknowledging her for this.
06:15The complete lack of self, I guess.
06:20She is going to be throwing – this is according to Natasha Dye of People.com, People Magazine,
06:28reports that Belichick's girlfriend, Jordan Hudson, plans to have a huge bash for Belichick
06:33on the same day as the 2026 Hall of Fame enshrinement.
06:38This is especially petty because if Bob Kraft gets in, it's going to be potentially pulling some people away from –
06:48If she has this party?
06:49People that have to make a decision about whether we go to the Bill Belichick party or the Bob Kraft party.
06:54Yeah.
06:55And it almost forces those people to choose sides.
06:58And I feel like Belichick's going to – Belichick's going to take notes on this.
07:02Who chose to go to the – which is – I feel like that's especially petty of Bill Belichick to even sign on to having this party.
07:09I'm glad you brought that up because Natasha Dye has some specific names.
07:13Yeah.
07:13An unnamed source told Dye that Tom Brady, Jimmy Johnson, Bill Parcells, and, quote,
07:20others who were planning on attending Bill's Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Canton are invited to this other party.
07:27This is like that episode of The Office where they had two Christmas parties going on.
07:31This is the ultimate –
07:32Are they going to go to Nutcracker Hall of Fame or are they going to go to the one with the karaoke machine?
07:35You talk about the lack of self-awareness.
07:37This is the ultimate in making it all about me or Bill Belichick.
07:41On the same day.
07:41So Tom Brady's got to now make a decision that's going to be very publicly discussed about whether he goes to Bob Kraft's induction ceremony or Bill Belichick's party.
07:49Do you think Belichick wants this?
07:51He's allowing it to happen, so yes.
07:53I have to say yes if he's allowing it to happen.
07:55Okay, hang on, hang on.
07:56Do you think there's a chance that Belichick found out about this party because he got a text from somebody saying,
08:03hey, there's an article on People.com about you having a party.
08:06There's a chance that's –
08:07You know what I mean?
08:07Like, does Jordan Hudson seem like someone who's got the cojones to go and just plan this thing?
08:11I say yes.
08:12Yeah.
08:14Boy, what a mess.
08:14She's just walking out onto the practice field in North Carolina.
08:17It really is, though.
08:17You know, like you're just – you're making it super uncomfortable.
08:19She is –
08:20He might not even know about this party.
08:22She's acting like the bad parent in a divorced couple parentage.
08:26You know, like where there's –
08:27Yeah.
08:28She's the parent that doesn't care how much stress it puts on the kids.
08:32She's going to cause a scene.
08:33Right, right.
08:33That she's going to –
08:34We're going to have this party, and you're going to like it.
08:37Yeah, and you're going to decide whether you're going to go to your father's party or my party.
08:41She's tremendous.
08:42Oh, my God.
08:42She's the worst.
08:43Yeah.
08:43And Belichick is, too.
08:45If Belichick allows this party to go on, and all those – all those potential guests have to make what's going to be a public decision about whether they chose Belichick or Kraft, it's bogus, man.
08:55Yes, yes, yes.
08:56This – by virtue of – Belichick by virtue of having that party would make my decision for me.
09:00I'd be like, well, I'm going to go – I'm going to go to Bob Kraft's.
09:03Yeah.
09:03Oh, yeah.
09:03This is a bogus move, Belichick.
09:05What are you doing?
09:05Well, and where's the party?
09:06Do I got to go to Chapel Hill, North Carolina?
09:09This is how Belichick –
09:09Is it on the Cape?
09:10Do I got to go to Cape Cod?
09:11Belichick can really determine who his real friends are by how they handle this.
09:16And the ones that are his true friends would tell him, hey, Bill, look, look, man, what are you doing?
09:21Yeah.
09:21Yeah.
09:22So maybe that's why –
09:23The other ones aren't even friends.
09:24They're just freeloaders that want an open bar and hang out at Belichick's.
09:28Unless they're on the record as hating Bob Kraft or something.
09:31Oh, okay.
09:31Yeah, there's a lot – but it's complicated.
09:34It's tough to – I feel – that's why you have to feel bad for Patriots fans.
09:37Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
09:38They really – they – it's a constant.
09:41It's a constant challenge, man.
09:42It is.
09:43It is.
09:43You have to spend, like, three years not in the playoffs discussion – in the Super Bowl discussion.
09:47I mean, really, the only salve on this wound that we're talking about is being at the Super Bowl.
09:51Yeah.
09:52You know.
09:53All right.
09:54I want to acknowledge the Florida Gator basketball fan base.
09:59Acknowledge me.
10:00Okay.
10:00This was – they were playing Alabama this weekend.
10:04Charles Bediaco is the name of a player who played 25 games in the G League.
10:10Yeah.
10:10So he was a professional basketball player.
10:13There is a trend right now in college basketball where there are players that have pro experience that are going back to college if they have eligibility.
10:23It's so weird.
10:24It's weird.
10:24Yeah.
10:25It's horrible.
10:25It's bad for the sport, I think.
10:27I just think it's bad.
10:28Everything in college sports right now is so upside down.
10:33I can't even imagine being the parent of a college football – or, I'm sorry, a high school football or basketball player right now.
10:39Yeah.
10:39Because so many teams are – so many of the teams that you would have wanted to go to as a high school kid where the transfer rules made it make way more sense to just focus on all the high school recruiting.
10:51Yeah.
10:51And it still makes sense, obviously, to focus on the high school kids and recruit high school.
10:56But so many of these teams now are like, screw it.
10:58I'm just going to pilfer the group of five for their guys.
11:01And, you know, these high school kids?
11:03Yeah.
11:04They can go play in the Sun Belt Conference.
11:06Yeah.
11:07Yeah.
11:07And then let them do the developing, and then I'll steal them from those schools.
11:11It's kind of – it's turned into more like minor league baseball.
11:13It is.
11:13You've got to make a decision whether to accept a college scholarship or go play pro – go play, I guess, minor league baseball, which is the Sun Belt Conference.
11:21So back to Charles Bediaco.
11:23He's a player for Alabama.
11:25He got his – he had his eligibility restored after spending some time in the G League.
11:30He was on the free throw line against Florida.
11:34They played – Alabama played Florida this weekend.
11:36He's on the free throw line.
11:38Take a listen.
11:39I think the audio is good enough to take a listen to what they're chanting at him here.
11:43If you can't hear it, I'll translate it for you afterwards.
11:45I fouled on that guy.
11:48Alex Condon.
11:49Trying to tap it in.
11:50G League dropout!
11:53G League dropout!
11:55G League dropout!
11:56G League dropout!
11:59Yeah, that's good.
12:00College kids are smart.
12:00Yeah.
12:01Yeah.
12:02So I've got to acknowledge Florida.
12:03Did he make the free throws?
12:04He did.
12:05Yeah, he did.
12:05Actually, yeah.
12:06Okay.
12:06He made the first – I think the clip we had only had one, and he did make it.
12:09You know what's – am I a hypocrite, though?
12:11Because I used to like the Russell Wilson or Chris Winkie stories of guys that failed in minor league baseball
12:16but then would go and play football.
12:17Yep.
12:17That's always fun.
12:18Yeah.
12:19But now this is just – this is extreme.
12:21This is extreme.
12:21Yep.
12:22So that's – I don't like – I'm not a fan of the track.
12:25I remember talking to Tony Banks.
12:26So we talk about, you know, the minor league dynamic of going to play in one of the non-power conferences.
12:32I remember talking to a couple different guys, but Tony Banks had been drafted to play by a baseball team.
12:41And he had to make the decision between going to play quarterback at Michigan State or getting, like, a nice signing bonus.
12:45I think he had – and he said for him it was like, man, the difference between just – I love to both sports,
12:51but the difference between your life as a time college football player versus a minor league baseball player.
12:59Oh, yeah.
12:59It was pretty easy for him.
13:01Yeah, yeah.
13:02And it's even easier now.
13:03Like, minor league players, their conditions are better than they used to be.
13:06Yeah.
13:07Now you're getting – Tony Banks would get $5 million to play in college now.
13:11Yeah.
13:11In college.
13:12Yeah.
13:12You know?
13:14Hey, can I – I've got to bounce something off of you.
13:16I was up in Chicago, as you know, for my daughter's induction for her high school hall of fame.
13:22So I got to see her twin brother, James.
13:24Mm-hmm.
13:24And so we were driving home from the event on Friday night.
13:29You know, it was an induction ceremony, and then the whole class of hall of famers get introduced at the basketball game that night.
13:36And then there's a reception at the VFW where there were, you know, a bunch of finger food and hors d'oeuvres and pizza and a cash bar and blah, blah, blah.
13:44So by about 9 o'clock, 9.15, we're driving back into the city, and I'm riding shotgun.
13:50My son, James, is driving.
13:52And in the back seat are Judy, her boyfriend, Charlie, and my ex-wife, Catherine.
13:57So we're all driving home.
13:59And James – we start talking about the whole event.
14:02And James goes, you know, I really like – the reception was great.
14:06I really love the whore's divorce.
14:10And I said, are you kidding me right now?
14:14I said, you're joking, right?
14:17He's like, what?
14:19I said, you're joking.
14:20He said, what did you just say?
14:22He said, the whore's divorce.
14:23No, it gets worse.
14:26It gets worse.
14:27Seth's dying right now.
14:29And I said, do you – have you not – have you not heard the word hors d'oeuvres before?
14:33Like, have you – I mean, I've heard it, I guess.
14:36I don't know.
14:36Like, that's what those – like, all those – the 50 meatballs that you ate, that was an hors d'oeuvres.
14:42Yeah.
14:42Hors d'oeuvres.
14:44And James is arguing, like, I bet there's a lot of people my age that don't – and Judy's laughing.
14:49She's like, James, Charlie's laughing.
14:51So, Sammy calls.
14:54Sammy FaceTimes us.
14:56Sammy's back in Houston.
14:57Yeah.
14:57So, he's FaceTiming me.
14:59I'm sitting up front just so he can check in with us and congratulate Judy and say hi to everybody in the car.
15:04So, I'm holding up FaceTime with Sammy there.
15:07He's stepping out of some birthday party he's at to say hi to us.
15:10And he's saying hello, blah, blah, blah, for a couple minutes.
15:12And I go, hey, Sammy, let me ask you something.
15:15There's – I'm going to spell a word for you.
15:17Yeah.
15:17H-O-R-S space D apostrophe blah, blah, blah.
15:21Yeah.
15:21What is that word?
15:23Whore's divorce?
15:26And I'm like –
15:27I had the same conversation with him that I had with James.
15:31Neither of your sons – I could totally get it, like, the first time you see it.
15:38No.
15:39They're at least 28 and 26.
15:41They're not eight years old.
15:43They've said that in conversations somewhere before.
15:45Maybe.
15:46Maybe.
15:46I guess.
15:46I guess they – maybe they – God, I hope to God they haven't said it to people of importance.
15:54I really like the – they're at the White House state dinner or something.
15:59They go up to –
16:00I was wondering why that first law firm didn't want to hire me for the internship.
16:03The secretary of whatever and be like, boy, I love these whores de ver.
16:06Yeah.
16:07Jesus.
16:10Right.
16:10There's another direction you can go in.
16:11No, when you said it, my first thought was, like, where's de ver?
16:15Yeah.
16:16Ver.
16:16Where's ver?
16:17Yeah.
16:17Whores de ver.
16:18And he was serious.
16:19They both were.
16:20I was so embarrassed.
16:21That's a – I give him a pass.
16:22I told you –
16:23You do?
16:23I used to – the word I didn't know.
16:24You're soft.
16:25Because remember when I – I used to read TV Guide as a kid a lot, you know?
16:28I used to.
16:29That's what everybody did.
16:30Yeah.
16:30That was my big reading.
16:31But I didn't – I thought, like, I thought there was a thing called a miniseries, which
16:36was like –
16:37Oh, I –
16:39Because it was a – they would write miniseries as one word.
16:42Yeah.
16:43And I always thought it was, like, some, like, oh, it's a miniseries.
16:46Okay.
16:46Mike.
16:46Yeah.
16:47My TV Guide word when I was a kid, like, in second grade, reading it cover to cover.
16:51Yeah.
16:51When a new series would come out, I'd be like, Mom, we got to watch this.
16:54The D-butt is tonight.
16:56What is it?
16:56Debut.
16:57Oh, the –
16:57The D-butt.
16:58I said the D-butt is tonight.
17:00We got to watch this.
17:00Yeah.
17:01I don't think they should be ashamed of themselves.
17:02When do you use –
17:03I was seven when I said D-butt.
17:05That's 28 years old.
17:08Oh, my God.
17:08What was the one, the charcuterie board?
17:12We had that drop.
17:13I don't know if you still have it, Ben, or not.
17:14But it was the one player.
17:15It was two Jets players during hard knocks, and he was like, I want the charcuterie board.
17:21I want the charcuterie.
17:23Oh, my God.
17:24You'm not.
17:27You're welcome.
17:29You're welcome.
17:30You're welcome.
17:30Yeah.
17:31You're welcome.
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