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Yesterday was a phenomenal day for The Sports Junkies at the Monumental Studios in Downtown DC. The guys highlight their incredible tour of the renovations happening at Capital One Arena. What are you most excited about?
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00:00Cakes, congrats on cashing.
00:02America's long national nightmare is over.
00:04All of you can rest easy tonight knowing.
00:07It finally happened.
00:08Yes.
00:09I saw on his Twitter.
00:10Are you rich?
00:11No, I'm not rich, but I'm richer than I was yesterday.
00:14How much?
00:16$841 for sixth place.
00:17I'll take that.
00:18Nice.
00:18But I saw on his Twitter that he had just posted like two hours ago when I got out.
00:23It was probably three hours.
00:23I was like, oh my God, I'm dead.
00:25I had a late dinner, whatever, blah, blah, blah.
00:28Cakes got like less than two hours probably of sleep.
00:30Went to bed at 220.
00:32Jeez.
00:32Alarm set for, I guess, right around five o'clock.
00:37So two and a half.
00:38But yeah, still it's awful.
00:39It's awful.
00:40Did you sleep on a pillow of cash?
00:42I did not.
00:43I slept on a normal MGM National Harbor bed.
00:46I like that.
00:47I like that room.
00:48They got great rooms over there.
00:49Rooms are nice, especially when you turn the AC down to 66 degrees.
00:54I don't know how you did that.
00:55And even with the room literally being a crypt, like mausoleums are warmer.
01:01I only slept with a sheet despite all of the wind circulating in the room.
01:07Yeah.
01:08It was glorious.
01:09Those two hours of sleep I got were fantastic.
01:11Man, you're going to hit it hard tonight or today.
01:14Nap incoming.
01:16But luckily, late in the show today, we are going to commit to the Ice Bucket Challenge.
01:23We're doing that later.
01:24So if I'm about to hit a wall.
01:26So that'll wake you up.
01:26I think we're doing that in the nine o'clock hour.
01:28That'll be a nice burst to kind of just reboot my system.
01:32Yeah, but I think you're still going to be very tired.
01:33There's going to be nothing nice about it.
01:34It's going to be hell.
01:35I'll be honest.
01:35I had totally forgotten about it because in my haze, I was in the kitchen getting the coffee prepared.
01:40And Roger, the engineer, is, of course, filling up the main coffee bat in the kitchen.
01:46And he looks at me and goes, yeah, the cooler, the water today.
01:51And I was like, what?
01:53What are you talking about?
01:54I thought he was talking about something in the kitchen, like one of the water machines is broken.
01:58He goes, you know, the ice, you know, the ice bucket.
02:01And I was like, oh.
02:03Then it snapped into my brain that we're actually doing it.
02:07Do you have a change of clothes?
02:08Or is somebody going to loan you some T-shirts or something?
02:11I have extra clothes in my locker.
02:12Okay, so you're always prepared.
02:13I'm always ready for any sort of water.
02:16Well, it's going to be hot, so maybe it'll actually feel good.
02:18It probably will feel good.
02:20I don't think it's going to feel good.
02:22Hey, I'm trying to think positive here.
02:24I mean, I totally am going to be grumpy all day about it.
02:27We settle on who we are passing the ice bucket challenge to.
02:30I think we should save it, announce it right before each pick one person.
02:34Okay, so we're going to challenge four people.
02:36I think so.
02:36Each challenge one.
02:38All right.
02:39I'll tell you during the break, I'd like to claim one guy, but you guys decide.
02:42I'll have to rack my brain.
02:44I literally can't think of one person at this point.
02:47But I'll figure it out.
02:47Don't worry, it's not a big deal.
02:48The chances of them doing it probably are four percent.
02:51Well, you want to pick someone that I think that would respect the challenge.
02:54Well, I'm going to pick a guy.
02:55I don't know if he's going to respect it, but I like him.
02:58Did you guys enjoy our tour of Capital One Arena yesterday?
03:01Oh, yeah.
03:01Tell me about it.
03:02I was thoroughly impressed.
03:03It was amazing, I thought.
03:05It's crazy.
03:05I had to wear hard hats.
03:07Some people in the comments on all the social media are like, why are they wearing hard
03:12hats?
03:12Because it's an active construction zone.
03:14They wouldn't allow us to walk through it.
03:16You're not being serious, are you?
03:17People actually were saying that.
03:18Don't even acknowledge those people.
03:20I didn't acknowledge it.
03:21I just saw it.
03:21Oh, we did it because we thought it was a great look.
03:23We thought it would be a great look.
03:25Because we should be wearing hard hats.
03:26Or we thought we wanted people to think that we were hammering things.
03:30Yeah, right.
03:30My God.
03:31We did it because they made us do it.
03:33Of course.
03:34That's why we did it.
03:35If you want to take the tour, you've got to wear a hard hat.
03:37Of course.
03:38Who would question that?
03:39If a cinder block falls on Mike Marr's head and kills him, if he's wearing a hard hat,
03:44at least they've taken care of what they need to liability-wise.
03:47Gives you the idea that you're in a construction zone.
03:50Yeah, exactly.
03:51It can be a dangerous place.
03:53What homicidal maniac wouldn't understand that?
03:56Look, it was one random one-off, but it tilted me.
04:01Also.
04:02Everything's going to tilt me today.
04:03I can tell.
04:04Please miss us with the...
04:06You guys are only catering to the elite at Capital One Arena.
04:10What about the seats for the common man?
04:13Blah, blah, blah.
04:14Please miss us with all of that.
04:15Yeah.
04:15Okay.
04:16Miss us with that all the time.
04:18First of all, we've got tours of everything.
04:19I'm not here for it.
04:20We've got tours of everything.
04:21Yeah.
04:21I personally do like the elite stuff.
04:23That's what I'm looking for.
04:24Personally, me, Eric Bickle.
04:25Well, that's what I care about.
04:26I like it, too.
04:27And trust me, I've spent enough time in the common man seats over the years.
04:32I've spent plenty of time there.
04:34So if I'm going to get access to the silly seats, I'm going to gladly take it.
04:39But they're making upgrades everywhere.
04:41Right.
04:42From Jim Van Stone to Zach Leonsis to the guys who took us on a tour, they are hooking up
04:50VIP experiences for season ticket holders and suite ticket holders.
04:55But they're also catering to every person there.
04:58It seems to be a mission.
05:00They're changing every seat in the house.
05:03Every seat's being changed.
05:05Now, a lot of these things might not, you might not see them until a year from now because
05:09it was kind of a show going in there to see they're going to have this thing ready in
05:14a month or two.
05:15Jim Van Stone said when he sat down.
05:16Well, he said it was about 18 months away.
05:17He said this upcoming season, it's going to be the pardon our dust era.
05:21Yeah, right.
05:21Which makes sense.
05:22They're making massive renovations and changes to basically every corner of that arena.
05:28Yeah.
05:29Stuff you see, stuff you don't see.
05:31Well, I think especially a year from now, when they get all that LED stuff that they have
05:36planned, especially in the hallway for like half the year.
05:39I mean, it's going to blow people away.
05:41One last minute rant relative to that.
05:44Please miss me with, you should be in your seat at all times at Capital One Arena instead
05:50of watching a big giant video board.
05:52Shut up.
05:53What about the people who are just walking in that haven't gotten to their seats?
05:55Or you have to go to the bathroom.
05:57You got to go pee.
05:57Or you need to go get nachos.
05:58What do you want?
05:59A pretzel.
05:59I'd like to be able to see what's happening on the court or on the ice.
06:02There you go.
06:02You do whatever you want.
06:03My rants are over.
06:04You're very defensive today.
06:05Well, he's got two and a half hours to sleep.
06:07That's what it is.
06:07I know.
06:10I like this cake.
06:12I like this version.
06:13I like you this version.
06:14You like the pissed off cake?
06:15I'm just letting people know.
06:18That's all.
06:19I've got to look off my chest.
06:22So did you see the locker rooms?
06:24Yes.
06:24Oh, I bet you they're money.
06:26What was hilarious is that they pointed out that the NBA locker room, the guys' sinks
06:30are all raised because they're enormous guys.
06:33The knobs on the lockers.
06:35Trey Young's going to have to leap.
06:37Yeah.
06:38To open his locker room.
06:38Yeah, the 6'1", 6'2".
06:40The urinals are a little bit higher, too.
06:41I mean, everything's raised up.
06:42I didn't use it, but I looked at it, and I was like, I think I'd reach it standing flat
06:47-footed.
06:48Might have to go on my tippy-toes.
06:50Yeah.
06:50But they had some for the short knockers, too.
06:52They had the Trey Young 6'3".
06:55They had the Trey Young urinal.
06:56I remember Anthony Davis talking about when he first was traded here, when he talked about
07:00the locker rooms, and he was just so impressed.
07:02They're opulent.
07:02But they're very nice.
07:04Yeah.
07:04They're probably massive.
07:07Like, the locker room's probably really big.
07:09Yeah, both the Caps and the Wizards.
07:10How many TVs were in there?
07:11Well, a lot of that electronic stuff, I don't think it was hooked up yet because a lot of
07:15it's still under construction.
07:16But you see, or Mar posted a lot of videos.
07:19I know I've seen some videos before on social media, so you can find stuff where you can
07:23see.
07:24Go to the JFK, whatever, Twitter, whatever.
07:27Yeah.
07:28Yeah, you'll see it.
07:29Did you see the opposing team's locker rooms, the visitor locker rooms?
07:33No.
07:33No, it's in the Caps and the Wizards.
07:35Just the home.
07:36Just the home.
07:37The important teams.
07:38Yeah, I just wanted to see what the difference was.
07:39Their cold plunge areas.
07:40They're probably very similar.
07:41Their saunas.
07:43There were a lot of questions on why Jason Bishop didn't show up.
07:46I had, well, because one of my buddy's daughters works for Monumental.
07:52I actually got her the job at Lou.
07:55Tip of the cap.
07:57And I told him I was going to go say hi to her, and she was actually out getting coffee,
08:01and then she, so she was about 10 minutes out, so I just waited for her up in the offices.
08:07So that was fine.
08:08I wanted to say hi to her and get out of the city.
08:12I knew you guys would enjoy it.
08:13You can get the personal tour.
08:15I'll see it some other time.
08:15Yeah, next time you're down there.
08:16It's all good.
08:18I mean, yeah, I actually just wanted to see it, and I definitely wanted to get the tour,
08:22because it is kind of amazing how they can take, you know, an arena that's been there,
08:26what, 20 years now?
08:27However long it's been there.
08:2830 years.
08:28Yeah, probably longer than 20, I think.
08:30It's been there a long time, and that they can just kind of reset, redo, renovate the whole
08:35damn thing.
08:36Yeah.
08:37Now, there is a larger footprint, because they've taken over some space over there by Clyde's
08:41and where Lucky Strike is.
08:42Now, Clyde's still going to be there.
08:44But all that area, they're kind of changing the main entrance.
08:47Some of that you're not going to see this year, you'll see next year.
08:50But they increased their footprint dramatically, what they're able to do in season and, you
08:57know, inside the building.
08:59You can't tell outside yet.
09:00They're going to change the outside of the building.
09:02I think they're really excited about how the outside's going to look.
09:05Personally, I don't care about the outside, I just care about the inside, but they care
09:09about the outside.
09:09They want that outside to look great.
09:11We got to walk through the Caps hype tunnel before they hit the ice, where they like to
09:16slap each other on the butt with their sticks and a lot of horseplay pre-game.
09:21That was cool.
09:22And then we got to see, no, we weren't able to put it out there, but we got to see
09:25where
09:25we're Ted, where he hosts his guests for every night.
09:30So, you know, the ownership group, they have guests every night for every night.
09:34Music, whatever, Wizards, Mystics, and they have just, this is right up your alley, Jason,
09:39just basically their own restaurant, bar, just the whole thing.
09:44And they didn't want us to put it out there, but just a really, really nice spot.
09:47It reminded me for a second of a little bit bigger version of his heirloom inside Open
09:53Road, where it's a tucked away little restaurant spot.
09:57There's no big sign there that says, come on.
09:59So it's like a hang spot before they go up to their silly suite.
10:02Yeah, just a hidden spot for Ted and his guests and his wife and everyone.
10:07It was a good time.
10:08Thank you to Adam, to Patrick, to everybody who kind of took us around the entire arena.
10:13I'd forgotten their names, but thank you for remembering.
10:15I remember those two.
10:16Yeah, I don't remember their names.
10:17Adam was the one that was really...
10:19They're very nice.
10:19He was great.
10:20He definitely recognized the show because right away he said, hey, what's up, BB?
10:23So he's aware.
10:25Yeah.
10:25So it was really cool.
10:26That was Dylan's big boss this year.
10:29Ah, very good.
10:29I think Patrick might have been in the chain, too.
10:33Excellent.
10:33Was he the other younger-ish guy?
10:35He was, yeah.
10:36Yeah, he seemed like a really good dude.
10:38Yeah, good.
10:39It is an Open Line Thursday.
10:40You're welcome to call us throughout the show at 800-636-1067.
10:44Your guest lineup for today, Dave Richard, will join us.
10:47He is the CBS Sports Fantasy Football expert.
10:49I got a draft tonight, Cakesy.
10:51Well, I have one as well.
10:53I think it's at 7 p.m.
10:54Mine's at 7, yeah.
10:54So Dave can give you those last-minute tidbits to help you ace your draft.
10:58That's coming up at 8 o'clock.
11:00And we'll also be joined by Grant Paulson.
11:02GP.
11:03One of the hosts of Grant and Danny on 106.7 The Fan.
11:06He's going to be busy later tonight hosting an evening with Adam Peters.
11:10We'll get a preview of that with him coming up at 8.45 here on The Fan.
11:14Well, thank you so much for your time.
11:14Bye.