 All right, pack show today, three guests in studio. This is LaShawn, okay, we're on television. I'm ready, I'm excited. Thanks for having me. I've been here before, I've been here before, man. Thanks for doing this. This is a brand new studio. We got a Super Bowl champion in the house. We have an insanely talented, Emmy nominated actor, Matt Walsh. He is here, we'll get his thoughts on his hometown Bears and Veep and everything that he's doing is in a new movie called Flame and Hot based on the Cheetos. That's a good man, we'll have him. And a good friend from Fox Sports. You know Carmen Vitale? Yeah. Yeah, Carmen's popping by as well to break down the NFC North. Are you gonna give me some Flame and Hot takes? I got you. All right, let's do it, let's go. We're still trying to work it out in the south. Okay, okay. I've never seen you without a lot going on here. I usually can't see your eyes based on what you're wearing. I calmed it down this morning. I didn't want to have too much bling on. Kept it cash. Something simple for me. All right, you're here. You are here, let me give you some justice here. A two time, excuse me, a Super Bowl, a champion, one of the top 25 leading rushers in NFL history. You can catch them on Speak on FS1. Mr. Lashamakoy, how are you this morning? I'm good, I'm good and I'm here with you so we always have a great conversation. Good morning. Do you have to work later today? I do. What do you think the biggest topic on Speak will be? It'll be probably draft picks, it'll be playoffs basketball. Playoffs basketball? Yeah. Now you tell me, you were given, okay listen, you're room for these 76ers. I'm just getting into the NBA. Why are you given hard in such a tough time? Let's look at some of these tweets. No, no, I don't. I mean, I just, as I watched the game, I talk about it. And I think like Hardin, Hardin have 30 points, but then give up 30 points. Did y'all win? Why are you so bad? This is probably like in the first quarter, second quarter, but Hardin's a hell of a player. There are two zip on the nets right now. Game three is coming tonight. Okay. Sweet, sweet. Am I going to be a Sixers fan this year? Because, and this is going to happen for them. I've heard about the process for a long time now. Listen, the process is no time limit on it. It's finally here. All the process. We talked about Joellen be the MVP. He should be the MVP. You never know how this thing might unfold. You know what the NBA, how they do it. Anyway, he should be the MVP. The Sixers champions this year is going down to Philadelphia Broad Street. It's going to be going crazy for the parade and I will be there. Do you think Michael Rubin would be so sad if that happened? Because he's not there anymore? Let me tell you something about my Rubin. Tell me. That's my boy. Listen, he might not be there. But he's there. But he is there. But he's there. Okay, well, listen, I have a problem. I have a streak going that's worse than anything that's going on. I'm 0-14 on parlays. I'm not kidding. Really bad. So I had 13 NFL ones. I put one up for the NBA. Take a look at it. It almost happened. But something happened to D'Angelo Russell. He stopped learning how to shoot yesterday. What happened? He didn't show up. You should call me though. He made one three. I needed one three out of him. He shot like one out of 75 yesterday. You really should call me. Why? I really do this parlays. I really do this. What do you got? My last, what did I have? So I'm a money lines guy. I do all money lines. That's boring. But now it's not. Because, for example, you put the Suns to win. Oh, I had the Suns and I had the Bucks to win. That's easy money. I can't believe John Morant isn't even out there and this happened. What's going on? If you really watched the Grizzlies, they actually win a lot of games without John Morant. People didn't know that. People didn't know. I didn't know. I got my producers, Richard's in my ear saying, well, look at you talking basketball. I'm invested. I'm putting, I don't know, the parlays. Sorry to everybody who played along that didn't work out. But Owen 14 is pretty impressive. Yeah, nah, nah. That is not easy to be Owen 14. Yeah, to try and do that. It's about as hard as it is to be 14 and zero. What's your longest losing streak or bad streak? You know what? Last month, it was tough for me, right? I was trying to get some games in before the playoffs and I said, no, no. I had my own rules and I didn't go, I didn't apply them rules. So I was trying to pull this money down to get money right, right. Oh, they're fighting for the playoffs eating and lost. What about on the field? When did it really go wrong? When you get LaShawna water, I'm keeping LaShawna here for a long time, I was making comfortable. What's your main on the field? Oh, it's never happened. But you never had any, any couple losses in a row, couple bad games, couple games under 100 yards. What's up? Ah, I mean, not a lot. I mean, here and there, here and there, every blue moon. You never had. But then again, I did play for Buffalo. We had some bad times. We did that before Josh Allen, we had some bad times. Let's talk about Josh Allen here. Let's talk about him and DeAndre Hopkins and his potential. Miller on Pat Mack, if he's saying, oh, here we're bringing another superstar in. What do you think? No, I think they need him. We can bring the water in. It's fine, we gotta get him some water. You see my waves? There we go, hey. Okay, tell me. They need, so Josh Allen is box office, he lights out. Even when he was rookie, I knew he'd be great. And now seeing him now, the work that they put in. So he's a great player, but he needs one more piece. I think, if you're being D-Hop there, oh my God, D-Hop, Diggs. Come on now with that defense. How does he, okay, because people want to say it'd be a luxury ad, but it's not. Cause if you look at the numbers, this is true. After the end of October, around Halloween time, after that, the numbers really went down for Josh Allen in the passing game. He was the 25th ranked passer in the NFL. He does need a guy like D-Hop in that offense. I think so, I think sometimes with Josh Allen, I mean, he may force things, right? I feel like when you're a player and you have all the weight on your shoulders, right? You gotta produce, you gotta produce. Then when they take Diggs away and then Knox was in and out with injuries to tie it in. So it's like, where do I go? Right? And they gave Davis, he was solid, but he's up and down, he's not consistent. You bring in another D-Hop man, now the defense gotta pick. Then there's no excuse, Lushan, and there's absolutely no excuse. There's no excuse then? You could say they're loaded without D-Hop if they add him. Now you have, well, you mentioned Stefan Diggs. Is there some, you know more than I do. What's that? Is there something going on there with Diggs? Nah, I mean. Okay, hold on. Okay, he stormed out of the locker room, as we know, reportedly. After the playoffs when they lost, then this is the tweet. We have receipts here on the show. We have receipts. This is the tweet, come and rescue. Is this a song that I'm not smart enough or cool enough to know? What is this? I don't know. I don't know, but he... I'm trying, that might be a trade request. No. Listen, Diggs is passionate about the game. You can see that. Uh-huh. And I think he's a little emotional, right, from his tweets. He stormed out of the locker room. I would have did that too. If I'm mad, we're in a playoffs, we're supposed to be this great team and then we're everybody's favorite. Don't forget we're everybody, they're everybody having them favorite. Yeah. And then so he can be pissed off, you know, like, him and Josh are tight. And I just feel like sometimes as players, the way we react, people in the media, like us, like me, like you, we react to a tweet like that, but them guys are good buddies, man. And he needs Josh, like Josh needs him. Let's not forget, he was in Minnesota with a couple of quarterbacks, right? I won't even name him, but he knows what's a lot happier over here in Buffalo. So he'll work it out. And he had Adam Thielen, so he can't be mad about the Deandre Hopkins thing because I'm sure he'll thrive and be happy that there's another wide receiver out there. So tell me this, why isn't he at the facility? I mean, it's, why would he be? Yeah, you don't think, just, I don't know, cause I feel like Stefan Diggs would be there, no? No, for what? The money he make, you don't gotta be there. This is not a man, it's over. I didn't go to none of the OT, none of that, the small practices, I didn't do none of that. I wanna get into some other topics with you. I really thought, I really thought you were gonna give me something on Diggs. I'm just poking around, there's nothing. No, I'm just saying like, I mean, I think people wanna make it like, oh, is it, he's trying to get out of Buffalo with him and Josh, no, that's Josh is his guy. Let me ask you this, did you go to OTA's? No, here and there. You never went, here and there. Here and there, yeah, it depends. Before you won a Super Bowl, did you go to all your off-season workouts? No. LaShawn. I didn't. I don't know if that's true. Star treatment, I guess. That's how they go. No, well see, that's the game they play. You gotta be with your teammates. Hold up, coach, hold on. It's not in the contract, it's not mandatory. I'll be there when it's mandatory. You'll be there when it's mandatory, I love to hear. Cut the check. How would you spend that time instead? Family, friends, hanging out, you know, boxing events, a big boxing event this weekend. So not working out, so maybe, you know, live in large, live in life. To be honest. And that's what it takes to make a two-time Super Bowl champion, baby, top 25 rusher. But to be honest though, like, you always work out. You supposed to always work out. Yeah. And then I think you turn it up as camp comes around as, you know, summer time, about around like, what, July, June, before then you kinda turn it up to get your body ready for the season. You're wearing Buffalo Bill's colors. Yeah, it's Gucci. It might be Gucci, but it's still Buffalo Bill's colors. Now, I heard Jim Kelly say that Josh Allen not only needs Jandra Hopkins, he didn't say that, I'm saying that, you're saying that, but that he needs a top dog running back. What do you make of that? Well, first of all. And do you wish that you were that guy? Because you could say, it could be said that he has not had that top running back, the lead dog, the power guy, the finesse, since 2018 when it was you, LaShawn. First of all, Jim always talks. I was like, he's always talking. Like, he just wants to talk about the team, you know? Nobody talks about how he came up short every year. Well, I think they do. Every year, every year. No, nobody talks about it. Nobody talks about that. Forward time, short. You brought me this great quarterback. Sue Boat, lost, lost, lost. He was probably showing up to OTAs and stuff. Still losing. Jokes on him. Still losing. Anyway, so, what, I mean, I thought they had a solid running game, right? I look at, right now, what's the young kid? Yeah, yeah, James Cook. Yeah. I think he's gonna be a phenomenal player. Okay. He's still young. You know, maybe add another running back in the draft. But I hate when everybody wants to hammer on that. Like, really watch the Buffalo Bills offense. They don't try to run the ball. They rather run the ball with Josh Allen, with quarterback driven runs, than letting the running backs run. So, I heard what Jim's saying with, you know, like I said, he talks a lot. Bijan, what do you make of him? Let's get to the Bijan portion of the program. LaShawn play. He might be the best player, the best running back I've seen in the last four or five years. Tell me why. He has everything, right? If I look at, like, certain running backs, I like to compare myself, not compare myself, but just see the value of each running back, right? I look at a guy like, okay, I remember Adrian Peterson. Strong, quick, tough, right? But he didn't really catch as well. Now Adrian Peterson is probably one of the best players I've played with, or running backs wise. Look at dudes like, maybe Chris Johnson. Super fast, super quick. Not really the most physical, right? Run you over. Here and there, myself, I'm quick. I wasn't really the bruise in sight. When I watched this kid, he could do everything. He could catch, he could run routes. He could run you over, run around you. He got a blazing speed, he got quickness. He has a leak talent as a running back, everything. If you wanna put it right back together, this is God you will put together. Feet, quickness, look at him in the drills. It's like, there's nothing he can't do. He could play on any system. You know, some guys can't play on third downs. He can. Third down, first down, fourth down, coach, every quarter, he's a running back. He's a bad, bad man. Philadelphia, come get him please. Okay, so they pick at 10. That was my question. Is this the guy in the pick? I mean, it's... Like I said, I look at Reggie Bush slash Chris Johnson slash LT slash, he's all that. Slash slash on McCoy? Listen, me coming out of college, he was better than me out of college. What does he have that you have? What do you see in him that you have? He has a total package. First of all, he's a lot bigger than I was. He's like 225. He's strong. I wasn't that strong. He run you over. I didn't really run people over as much. Well, I could catch the ball. I mean, I could do all that. We know. But he can do, he does everything you want from a running back, you know. He's like, so I haven't seen nothing like him. God made him special. Well, they say God did. He took his time making him and get his feet. Quickness drift. He's a complete back. That's what separates him. He's a bad boy. And the Eagles have two first round picks. Is that you or me? That's you. Who is it? No, it's you, it's you who's calling you. My mom. Oh, hi, Mom. Say hi. Mom, I'm on the show with Kate Adams. I gotta go. Hala. Okay. She's in New York girl. Oh, I love that. Okay, Shady. Okay, so they have two picks. You're telling, you're saying if you were to talk to Howie Roseman, you'd say take Bijan with that. Don't make me call Howie right now. Okay, but we've got to talk about Howie. Because there's a lot of thought to get to here with this whole situation. Did you hear the story that he shared a couple of weeks ago about you? About me? Yeah. What is that? Okay, here it is. He said that he told the story of how Shady met Howie. Okay, and this is what he had to say. Let me make sure I get the details right. Howie's crazy. The way he tells it, you go in to meet him for your combine interview. You go in for the hug, then immediately start sneezing. Calls me, oh, sneezing. You tell him, oh, I've been sick for days. I have a 103 degree fever. And then you passed your sickness onto Howie. Tell your side of the story before we call Howie. It's something like that. I kind of sneeze. You know what I'm saying? I was sneezing already. Into him? No, no, no, no, no. As I'm walking in the door, you know, everybody's like, hey, how y'all doing? And I'm coughing and sneezing. And then he's like, hey, how you doing? I'm like, ah, you know. You wouldn't want to go. What are you going to do though? I'm trying to get drafted. 100%. I cannot shake the GM's hand. You shouldn't have told him nothing though. What are we doing? But I'll say this though. He's happy. Come on. How is the best top three GM in the league? Come on. He's making big deals. And I'm just best for him. I can never get that. What does he mean? That sickness, you know. Did you have any hesitation of maybe not being at the combine? Not, you know, maybe not shaking hands with people. No, I will say this though. What was your mentality? Yeah. Big red, Andy Reed. Yeah? I didn't shake his hand. I can't get the big man sick. I sneeze. He looked at me like. Oh my gosh. He did a little look. I said, coach, how you doing? Are you telling, so you value big red more than you did? No. How we took him for the team, basically? That, but big red is a big guy. You know what I'm saying? He got that look. People see Andy Reed on TV. Right? Yeah. Interviews, he's smiling, he's making jokes. He's a monster. He's a great personality, but every once in a while, you piss him off, he give you that look. Hello, I ain't shaking his hand. He give me that look. How'd you do in the combine? I didn't do the combine. Because I was sick. What do you mean? I really was sick though. You didn't? Didn't you run a 4-5-40? That was at my pro day. Oh, that wasn't there. I was gonna say, I go, wow, you were that sick out there. You never did it. No, I really was sick. I had a fever. You know what, I lost like 10 pounds. I was like 200 pounds. I went down to like 190. Oh my God. And I didn't do anything. Is that why you slipped into the second round, Chase? Oh yeah. Why don't we call him and ask him? Let's call Howie. Let's call Howie. Let's call Howie, huh? Let's just do it. We got nothing better to do. Let's call Howie real quick. We've got Matt Wallach, Super Bear, Spen, you've seen him on Vee. He's in a new movie called Flamin' Hot. He's joining us on the show Carmen Vitale. A little break down the NFC North. We got a, what are we calling him to say? Congratulations on Jaylen Hurts. Let's do it. What do you make of that deal? You weren't that high on Jaylen. In the beginning. I know. What did he do to change it for you? You know what it was, like the development period. Like I didn't see the development. So when I seen him from college, he got better from Alabama to Oklahoma. I was like, oh, he's okay. Then we'd be drafting him. When I watched him play, it was a lot of running, you know, like dishingermaking. See, sometimes I feel like as talented players. No, no, no, we're still calling him. Everything don't have to be like super accurate, but small things like, cause I thought he was a smart kid. We're like, place, throw the ball away. Don't force it. You know what I mean? If I'm scrambling, you know, let's not be dangerous. Like, you know, a guy like him has been scrambling his whole life, like he run up the middle. So most scrambling, wait, wait, you roll outside. So it was small things, but he's got better and better. That's what I love about him. What was the moment? Give me the moment that you were like, oh, this is the dude and he deserves that bag. So in the playoffs, not this year, last year, right against the Bucks, it was a bad, bad game for him. Okay. In Tampa. I don't remember. Two years ago, was it two years ago? Against the Bucks. He's got some weird stuff in his, I can somewhat credit for how he's handled himself the entire time. His first playoff game, that's when it was, against the Bucks. 2021. Yeah, it was a bad game, but I seen the kid keep playing, keep finding, oh, he tough. He might not be playing well, but he ain't quitting. When most players like that, they quit. Fast forward it. The next year, I watched his growth. He looked strong. He looked bigger. It's just like defined. Okay, so I know he works hard. Cause I don't, I don't know him. You know what I'm saying? I never, before this period, I never met him. So I'm just watching everything. I'm talking to the different like Fletcher Cox. I'm like, yo, how's Jaylen Harris? How was he? Yo, he worked hard. He listen to that. He's going to be better. Cool. That's what he was saying. Right? Yeah. I heard he said, like, Lee Johnson told me he saves the facility. Come on. For he even had the gig, he would stay there and be the last one out the building. But you, as you see it, So that's one thing I like about him. That's why I'm like, okay, he's going to be good. Then we've seen this performance he had this year and it was lights out. It was lights out. Yeah. Okay. So we've got Bijan going to the Eagles. We're going to talk about that. See what he's doing at 10. We are also going to congratulate him on landing. Jaylen, who obviously you have come to know and love, which we love. Who's that? Jaylen. Oh yeah, Jaylen's and Bijan. And what does it mean for Lamar? They ought to pay Lamar. This is ridiculous. Oh my God. You watched a team like the Eagles. Right? They didn't have to pay Jaylen Hertz. No. Right? They didn't have to and they did. And they made him the highest paid quarterback or contract in history. And they still have 20 million cap space for this year before that even kicks in. It's how a rosin is the best. How he's a beast. And it's like, yo, that's a deal where when I, when I look at it, you could tell that they both wanted to get it done. And it, and negotiations and any deal. I mean, you went through it from this job to the, where you is some give and some take. So it's like, all right, well I might not get everything I want, but I'm good with this right here. Same thing with the team. I might not get everything I want, but they, so my thing with Jaylen Hertz, they got it done to the Eagles. Why can't the Ravens do that? And in my opinion, this is my opinion. I feel like Lamar Jackson is more valuable to the Ravens. Just the way the offense is built. I mean, I'm saying he's the only MVP. They did go to get Odell. Does that mean anything? But, but even before that, I'm thinking the whole time he's been a Raven. You take him 32, right? You didn't think he would be 32 pick. All right, last pick in the first round. He's the only MVP that's ever been with the Ravens. Right, I look at the Ravens team. I can't even, I'm gonna talk about defense and that's it. You got running backs that come in and out every year. Right, hurt or whatever it may be. The wide receiver core is, all right, so it's like, where the Eagles, we have different players, you know what I'm saying? Now Jaylen Hertz makes that engine go, but for the Ravens, they have nothing. They have a really, really good title and that's it. So I was like, why won't you take care of your best player? That kid that shows to the NFL or shows other players. I was like, why would I want to go to the Ravens? They want to take care of Lamar Jackson. It's super true. I'm looking at the same thing with the Cardinals, but Buda Baker, pay the man, extend the man. He's the best player. Outside of DeAndre Hopkins who wants out too, he's the best thing you got. You're going through a change. That's terrible. You really have one foundational pace. He's a five-time Pro Bowl or a three-time All-Pro. Like, I don't understand what some of these teams are doing, but Howie Roseman's got it put together. So Eagles winning the Super Bowl this year. I think so. I think we're gonna- They should get Buda. We're gonna surprise a lot of people. Yo, that we should. Oh my God. Okay, two times. You know what I'm saying? They should. Yes, we can help him. He's got a hole to fill with that. Buda, he plays the game different, like the old school back in the day's safeties. You know, feeling the running lanes, coming up there to hit, full speed. He's only 27 years old. Young, he puts his body on the line every game, every place, so I would love to see him play that. I text Howie, I say, yo, you in the meeting? I said, well, I'm just trying to show for some people that I coughed on you. Cause last time I called him when we was on speak, he was in a meeting with the head coach, Nick. Nick Serrani? Yeah. Oh, I love that. I'll Face Tony. I hit him up twice, like, yo, I ain't picking up. Hit him up again, he said, I'm in the meeting. He showed me, like, oh, my bad. You're a busy guy. So that's why I'm texting first. You're a busy guy. You're on I Am Askly. You've got Spee coming up today, by the way. On FS1, you can check out LaShon. Maybe Howie Rosen will call him back on that show and you guys can see it. But you are also doing something that I did not know. It was very amazing. In your hometown, Harrisburg, PA, shout out. Talk to me about Vice Capital. Well, first of all, you know that Michael Parsons is from Harrisburg. We got a lot of players. Ricky Waters, we got a lot of them. Marissa's real excited. She's a big Eagles fan. There you go. There we go. Yeah, so Vice Capital is my company, right? My real estate company. I'm doing a lot of different. What does that mean, my real estate company? What? So I'm about to tell you. So first of all, I do a lot of affordable housing. So in my neighborhood, where I grew up at, I'm putting up $15 million affordable projects, right? Oh my gosh. Yeah, we're doing a community center as well, with computer labs. And not only just for the tenants that live there, but also for the neighborhood. We have different programs to teach them about financial literacy, teach them different programs about how to sign applications for jobs, how to enroll in colleges. We do a lot of things because there's nobody doing it. And I grew up, the difference is I grew up in these neighborhoods. So I was lucky to play football and make it out. But it's still the same kids like me. There might be another Michael Parsons in there, or LaSharm Coil in these areas. And the new thing was, I want to develop in areas where it used to be condemned homes or abandoned houses, right? Yeah. Where we knock all that out. And we put all new stuff there. So the city of Harrisburg is very helpful with that. And also, not only in Harrisburg, we got stuff in Philadelphia. I just went down to Atlantic City to do different developments over there. So I'm just really trying to get my thing going. It's been good so far. And another thing we're doing is we started my own, what is that? Because I'm on a hot seat. I got so much going on. What? Tell me. But not. So I'm starting my own, basically, like, tutorial to teach ball players how to invest in hometowns, how to make money, and also get people jobs. Because when we do these type of things, right? Yeah. We open up new job opportunities. So now, when we go to build these projects, right? I said, hold up. For so many years, minorities didn't have a chance to build, right? Different contractors, different developers. Well, now we hire them, right? We give them jobs. You're creating jobs. OK, that's one part of it. Another part is when we do these opportunities, as far as I'm doing another on another side of the street, this is nothing I talk about. And this is more like a market rate, right? When we're putting 50 units up with a rooftop deck with 67 square footage of commercial space. I don't know that you're not the face of it. You know the square footage. You're invested in this. This is mine. It's my company's, my, yeah. So on the bottom of the commercial space, right? We're doing like different restaurants. We're doing like different work office spaces. We're going to give people jobs as far as, you know. Putting it together and working their way in to build. Black opennesses or whoever it is. But we want to open that back up because so many times where you're in the hood or they say, you know, bad areas are together. It's like they look at it as a bad thing. No, coming here is safe, right? Just because the amount of money you make or the income doesn't make you a bad person. And that's the whole narrative I'm trying to change because if you think of the projects or Section 8, you think all of the worst things. Well, what if you come into a Section 8 or a low income housing and it's new floors. You got marble tops, new cabinets. You think different. And you inspire, yeah. You inspire. The kids are different. They go to school different. And the running backs that are being drafted in the draft look at you and see what you're doing. And then that's a ripple effect for what they can do. And they finally get paid. So that's amazing. It's the new thing I'm doing right now. Wow, you're so grown up, LaShawn. What happened? Wow, friend of proper and all this. You're not going to the Buffalo Bills. You're not going to the Eagles. You've won two Super Bowl rings. We've got Howie Roseman online one. We're going to take a short break because we've got to talk about a team that you never had the privilege of playing for. The Chicago Bears. Are you sad about that? I can't. Matt Fortan is pretty good though. You were doing your thing. Matt Walsh, next. Actor Matt Walsh. All right, back on up in Adams with Sean McCoy is gone, but we've got seven days to the draft. Will the Philadelphia Eagles take Bijan Robinson with tense overall pick? We'll see. Who are the Bears taking? It'll either be a big tackle, maybe that kid from Northwestern. Oh, we'll be back. Or we'll get lucky with a defensive version. Ooh, we'll be back. I'm kind of geeking out because beef is a legit one of my favorite shows I've ever seen. And you were cool forever being Mike McClintock, but now you have more exciting things going on. We are joined by this brilliant actor and comedian. He's the founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade, Sergeant Countless Hit Films, a two-time Emmy nominee for his role, as said Mike McClintock in the award-winning comedy series, Veep, and you're a lifelong Bears fan, which is both a blessing and a curse. Blessing and a curse, been a curse lately, but there's always the draft. But you're kind of swagged out. You like to swag? I do. What do you mean? Well, you've got a feeling. Swag means like giveaways. What do you mean? No, okay. Maybe you have lots of swagger. I feel like you went in your closet and you said, this is my trusty Bears flannel with the pearl snaps and this is my vintage hat that I've never looked at. Thank you for noticing the pearl snap today. Yeah, you never, haven't washed it since 85. No, it's a dirty hat. I'm sorry. I respect your show tremendously, but I do wear a dirty hat. Hey, you were just geeking out of a relish on a little bit. Oh my God, that guy is a fantastic athlete in all the stuff he's doing. I just feel like I sit on my couch and watch Netflix and I listen to him changing the world. I must be doing, I have to do more. Yeah, did he win you a fantasy? He did, one year he did, yeah, one year he did. Well, that's huge. Yeah, he was on my fantasy team three times. I mean, in a PPR league, he was an absolute machine, especially in the playoffs, he always had good games. Okay, we're gonna get into some things. We're gonna get into the new movie, it's called Flame and Hot. We're gonna get into the Bears. But I gotta tell you, I was at the dentist's office the other day and I saw that you're gracing. Your teeth look great, by the way. Thank you. You've been gracing the pages of In Pickleball Magazine. Oh my goodness, you did. Let's take a look here. We do our, what in God's green bears shorts is going on here? During the pandemic, my wife taped a pickleball court in our driveway, so we started playing pickleball. Is that true? True. Like regulation size. No, it was like Fenway, like had a shorter left field line. It was a little, it was like 10 feet short in various sections. Book tape, masking tape, what are you talking about here? Like, yeah, white paper tape, colored tape, so yeah, yeah. Tell me about the neighbors. They don't care, no, they didn't bother them. Okay. And so I got into it that way and being in pickleball magazine is a career achievement. I mean, I could pretty much coast now. It's amazing. Yeah. You know, Rob Gronkowski. Times man of the year, really. Of course, that's the new times. We have Gronk on the show every week. Chandler Parsons has been coming out a lot. So you've got an NBA nine times, six tenths athlete and of course, Gronk a four times Super Bowl champion and they're obsessed with pickleball. And I think we need to just make like an invitational. Yeah. When he talks about these golf tournaments you're talking about raising money. Can we do a Matt Walsh in your driveway thing? Well, no, not the driveway, no. I had a pickleball tournament first time this year. I do a charity golf tournament, but we had a pickleball event. And so I do that already for a place called DeFi Venture. And what was that? So you are doing a lot in the community. I am doing a little bit, yeah. You mean it sound like you weren't? DeFi Ventures is good. They help people who come out of prison find jobs and mentorship and not go back to prison. That's amazing. Yeah, yeah. And we do field trips to prison. You go and visit people in prison. It's very interesting. What is that like? You should come. Come visit a prison with you? With me. We go on a bus. Tell me what would happen. They do like a shark tank. They make the inmates who are studying business pitch you a business proposition and then you give them notes on their business proposition and then you vote on the best business proposition and the winner gets like a thousand bucks or something when they get out of prison to start a dog walking business, a mini nail salon, like a modest business. So they can achieve and get worth. Is that one of those are actual things that were pitched to you? Is there one thing that sort of sticks out as the? One lady made sweet potato pies and started her own business. Another guy's like a handyman, like real practical stuff like neighborhood, you know, dog walker stuff. And what is it called again? DeFi Ventures. DeFi Ventures. Yeah, it's a really good. Hickleball Invitational. Yes. To raise money for the soul. I'll invite you. I know you're busy, but I'll invite you. We do it in beautiful, the Solvang area. Oh. Have you explored? No, I've heard about Solvang. I've never been. Oh, you've got to explore California. As we know, I don't even know where the valley is. So that's fine. Okay, I heard you say, and that's incredible that you do that. I heard you say in an interview recently, as you know, we've done our homework since we saw your in pickleball spread here. Thank you. That Veep 2 or a reboot or Veep the movie, what happened if Julia Louis-Dreyfus would green light it and make it happen? Is that true? That's not news. If she was in, you do it. She's the show. So yeah, I mean, that's not really news. That's just a common observation. What's your pitch to her? We want this to happen. What's the pitch, Julia? Oh, I'm pitching Julia, she doesn't. Does she watch your show? She's not up this early. If you understood, my obsession with Veep. Reach, meet, I'm have such a crush on this woman. I can't tell you, I got to go to the Oscars this year and all I was doing was looking for out of. Was she there? I'm like, Brad Pitt, get out of the way. Julia Louis-Dreyfus might be around. I think I would be so starstruck and I wouldn't say hi to her, but I'm obsessed with her. I was looking for her at Benny Fair, I was looking for everywhere. Julia, Julia, and then I saw that she was somewhere, but I wasn't meant to be- She won't disappoint. She's the real deal. Really? She's a nice person and super talented and a great, obviously, leader on our show. Matt, make the pitch. Let's make it happen. The pitch for Veep? Well, it has to be, because Veep flashed forward in time at the end, so you'd have to pick up- Rest in peace, Tom. Yeah, it would probably be her post-presidency and what she would do. What do presidents do besides she would open a library? I don't know. I guess take her overseas. That's my only pitch. Oh my God. Let's go overseas. Like an international NFL game. Yeah, like Clinton had the Clinton Foundation. Maybe she has a foundation in Africa and then we find out it's all corrupt and the money's going to buy guns and create war. Yeah. Well, on that lovely note, let's keep it going. That's what Veep does. It really does and it's tragically very similar to what's going on in just the regular world. We're not gonna get into that because it's not that kind of a show. Sorry. What's the hardest you've ever laughed on that set? I usually laughed when people were improvising things or like whenever we're in a limo scene, you're sitting, imagine like five people plus two cameramen and you're just on top of each other so you're constantly fighting giggles. So whenever we did limo scenes, I would always break. Is there one moment that you laughed the hardest whether you were on camera on the set or one moment that you would put in a picture frame? I can't think of one. There were so many laughs. I'm sorry, that's a great question. I don't have one. I guess, I do remember making Armando, the creator of the show laugh just by falling off a plyometrics ball. He thought it was the funniest thing in the world and that made, because he's such a brilliant, genius, proper British man and he laughed like a little boy and that made, that was a good memory for me just by doing a dumb physical comedy. I'm glad I had nothing to do with Jonah who I hated as a character but you love enough to do a podcast with. Yeah. Tell me about this because I hear that it's coming back. You guys rewatch episodes. Yes, it's tailor made for you. We go through all the seasons. We took a break. I think we're right at the end of season three and we're gonna start season four and we'll just rewatch the show and then we bring on our friends, Julia, Sam, Richardson, Tanya. Your friends, Julia, I hate you. They are still friends. I literally could not hate you more. Well, I'm so, I introduced you to LaShawn McCoy. You're, I mean. I'm more star struck by sports stars than actors. Is that true? I am, I always am. There's something like what they do is so unapproachable. So I find it more, I get more bashful around, you know, amazing effort. Who would give you that, what would be the equivalent of meeting her, that vibe, that you would be star struck? I mean, it would be Jordan or Rest in Peace, Walter Payton or like, you know, guys like that. Stud athletes. LeBron, I've never met LeBron. If you're watching LeBron, I live in the valley. Let me fix my hat. LeBron, if you're living in the valley, ever come see me. LeBron's got a bigger fish surprise. I know he's big. They gotta figure it out. These Lakers not doing so hot. You were born and raised in Chicago. You mentioned Walter Payton. You were about 21, I think, or in your 20s when they won that Super Bowl, right? I was at Northern Illinois University. Tell me. The Harvard of the Midwest going to college. I was in the snow. It snowed that day in Chicago and I had worked a shift at Pizza World. So I was still in my Pizza World clothing. What were you doing at Pizza World? I had to, I was making pizzas. You were making? Paying my way through college. And I ended up watching most of it at a friend's house and then we just went outside and stood in the snow as world champions. That was cool. The control room wants to know as a professional Pizza World post-employee, does pineapple belong on pizza? No, my wife's a fan of that. I don't get it. My son too. It doesn't make sense. That was an emphatic no. I didn't even finish the question. Does the control room know pineapple on pizza? It's the same thing when people make macaroni salad and they want to put chicken and olives and pineapple in it. Macaroni salad's like a little celery, little salt and pepper, little mayonnaise. Keep it easy up there in the valley. Did you always know you wanted to be an actor? I was actually going to be a psychologist. So out of college, I worked at Northwestern Hospital. Wow. On the psych ward. And then during the evenings, I started doing improv and sketch. And then at some point, the stakes in psychology were too high and too severe. So I decided to do something easier like comedy. You worked in a psych ward. Yeah, I was going to be a psychologist. What was that like? Intense. I won't make your show dark. It's very difficult. I mean, they talked about... All right. Well, they were adolescents 12 to 20. So we had, imagine it, suicide attempts, eating disorders, kids who were told by the court either you go to PsychoVal or you go to... And you're how old when you're doing this? I was like 21, 22. That's unbelievable. Yeah, it was intense. But I was doing that during the day and then at night I was like running around Chicago doing silly sketches and drinking too much. Which we love to see. You and Amy Poehler did your thing and you guys, you rose up with the comedy and of course made it to Veep. And now you are starring or you're in this Flamin' Hot situation. This is my timeline. I like how you do it. This is my timeline. Here we are. Pizza World, Psych Ward Northwestern. Up and Adams. This is the big knuckle. This is exactly right. You meet LaShamakoy and it's done. Tell me about the movie because it's based on a true story that's pretty cool. Yeah, Flamin' Hot is about the man Richard Montañez who created Flamin' Hot Cheetos. And he was just a janitor Mexican-American. The factory was gonna close. He called corporate. They put him through. He said, you gotta cater to Mexicans. They love hot spicy. I got a recipe. So they came down, tested it and then he became the head of their international marketing and now that kind of food is a billion dollar industry. What are you doing in that movie? Tell me your role. I played the mean floor boss. I'm like a foreman who doesn't want anything to change. Like, no new ideas. Just that mentality of like, everybody just put your head down. Yeah, lays are cool. It won't get fired yet. Fritos are great. Leave it alone. No spice. That's amazing. Do you like Flamin' Hot? I can't eat a Flamin' Hot. I've tried them. I'm not a super spicy guy. Got it. Well, we have some super spicy takes for you right now. You guys can see Flamin' Hot, but we have some Flamin' Hot takes. These are some opinions. You're gonna give us your thoughts in a quick fashion here. Here's the take. Justin Fields is the best quarterback in the NFC North. What do you think of that? Maybe by the end of the year. Not at the beginning of the year. Okay. That's not a hot take, but. LeBron James is better than Jordan. He's as great. Are you from Chicago? Take that hat off. What are you doing? What do you mean? I know I hate that I said it. What are you doing? I love Jordan, but LeBron's amazing. Is this a bit? What do you think? No way? Of course. Are you joking? Absolutely not. I'm not getting on board with the Lakers, but. Every time the Lakers lose, I'm like, yes. I'm not on board with the Lakers. Like Jordan's the greatest, sure. Yeah. But LeBron's pretty great. All right, what else do we got here? Let's skip this next one. Let's do the next one. You don't like it? Was it about the dentist? And I'm not gonna go there again. I was gonna go. Yeah. Going to white socks games is more fun than going to Cubs games. Ooh, good question. There's a big fight in a socks game last weekend. Socks games are more violent, I'll tell you that much. The first socks game I went to, a man passed out at the counter and dropped his wallet and I was with my dad and I'm like, what is this place? And then you shook the wallet and bought a beer. No, then he woke up and ran away and left his wallet. Oh, we're okay. The most underrated movie that you've ever been in is role models. Ooh. What do you think about that? Yeah, that's a good hot take. That's a flamin' hot take. I like that, yeah, yeah. What's your favorite movie that you're in? Favorite movie that I'm in? Yeah, just your, just. Come on, I'll say Unplugging because I'm the star of it. Yeah, yeah, there we go. We love to hear that with Eva Longoria, who also is part of Flamin' Hot. She's the director. She's the director. We love Eva Longoria, that's amazing. Okay, the NFC North is a better place without Aaron Rodgers. 100%. Tell me about that. 100%, million percent. But he has like Jay Cutler face. He makes a bad first impression. He tries to be New Agey, like football fans are interested in that stuff. New Agey, he's not gone yet, Matt, he's not gone yet. And he's a bear killer, like he always crushed us, so I'm happy that he's gone. Remember when he's like, I own you. Yeah, yeah. He's not gone yet. I know, but he'll probably be gone. Is he on the Jets yet? I don't know. Did you know that on my Super Bowl show, we went to Super Bowl and my first guest of the week was Jay Cutler. And two minutes in the break, two minutes until he came on, he canceled. And I was so furious, and Brandon Marshall coincidentally was at my next guest. And he came on and he burned him so bad. Oh, I wanna watch that clip. I will send it to you. Please. Jay Cutler, or Brandon Marshall invited Cutler to his wedding. I think he was supposed to be in the wedding, so it didn't show up. Didn't show up. I don't get it. He was trying to make me feel better. But you said that he is. Chicago was so nice to that guy. We defended him for so long and he was as bad as Aaron Rodgers, honestly. It is, and maybe those are Flamin' Hot takes. Check out Flamin' Hot. Where can we see it? It'll be in theaters the end of May and then it'll be up on Hulu, I think, or everywhere. And maybe that'll be the best movie that you're in is on Disney Plus. And it's on Hulu. On Disney, I don't even know. On June 9th. I do, Matt. That's why I'm here. Well, they own it. Disney owns Hulu. You're the best. Jay Cutler faced, we're gonna talk about that with Carmen Vitali. Order from Fox Sports. She's here to break down the NFC North and more after this. All right, to experience the NBA playoffs like never before with Fanduola. America's number one sportsbook. Joan Fanduola today get $150 in bonus bets and you placed your first $5 bet. Win or lose, that means you can bet on the point spread, player props or any other bets. Fanduola has to choose from, I gotta get another one out there. I got, I'm 0 for 14. Unbelievable, unbelievably impressive. You can make every moment more with Fanduola e-efficient sportsbook partner of the NBA. We'll be back with Carmen Vitali who looks like a big, amazing piece of bubble gum which I'm just loving. Everything about her is all happening next. This graphic without Aaron Rodgers making me feel pretty happy. Making me feel so in time. Jay Cutler faced rather. Aaron Rodgers, AKA. This version of the NFC North looks like a kind of a wide open competition situation. So who better to talk to and break down the division with then the Queen herself, Fox Sports NFL North Reporter and my very good friend, Carmen Vitali. Well, I wanna see very good friend but as I understand it, you've been in the LA area for a little bit over a week and no call, no anything. Marissa Taylor and I would love to take you out for one of our famous three hour lunches. Nope, nothing. Karm? No, I don't have an answer for it. I'm so sorry. Have you been busy because of their draft is seven days away? Yeah, you know, there's maybe a few things going on with the NFC North and the draft. Listen, you've been everywhere. I'm seeing you on the herd. You enjoy Taylor, who I love. No, you are everywhere. It is amazing. Our little show is headed to Kansas City for the draft. You're going to be in Chicago. We're gonna get into that but you've been doing your homework as well as we have about all the draft prospects. We're talking to experts but we've got some loaded questions like a baked potato baby and a comfort food. Sit on the couch, watch Succession Sunday. Let's go. We have questions for you on how these teams in the NFC North, your focus can improve their roster. So let's do it and let's start with the Detroit Lions. Okay, because they picked first on the clock and they took some really beautiful steps forward, right? They're currently the favorites to win the NFC North, which is insane. They were like a three-win team a couple of seasons ago. Let's not forget their defense ranked dead last in the entire year last year, okay? So we want them to capture their first division title. We were here for it since 1991 when you were not even around, I don't think. I was, relax. So how did they boost the defense? Jalen Carter, full stop. No, listen, a defensive line with Jalen Carter on the inside and Aiden Hutchinson on the outside. Aiden Hutchinson already led the team in sacks last year with nine. Now if he has actual interior rotation with a guy like Jalen Carter who can not only eat up blockers but get to the quarterback himself, that's scary, not just for the NFC North but for the entire league. There is, however, saying that. Tell me. There's some concerns about Jalen Carter and it's a legal issues aside from what I'm hearing from people I've talked to, coaches, scouts around the league. He showed up to his pro day overweight. He showed up to his pro day out of shape. He did not finish his pro day workout. How he is as a teammate has come into question and that is a bigger red flag for a lot of these teams than anything at this point. So I think he just needs to go to the right situation. He needs somewhere that has an established culture, really good leadership and he can't just go anywhere. But I happen to think that the Lions are one of those teams that get the most out of it. You think Dan can get the best out of it. I do, I do. And that staff, have that staff is former players. I mean, they need him. I like this idea. It's the sixth pick. They were 18th in sacks, 29th against the run last year. I would say, is it a little tempting to maybe go corner too, right? Cause they're Jeff Okuda. They can probably get a Devon Witherspoon, a Christian Gonzalez. What do you make of that? They might go CB. I love Devon Witherspoon. I think he's my first cornerback off the board. He's coming on the show next week. ILL, you need to play up the Illinois thing. And he can reunite with Kirby Joseph, who's the safety in the Lions secondary. He was also from Illinois. Had a fantastic rookie season for the Lions. They did a dress corner though. So I don't necessarily know that that is their biggest need right now. Front needs to be addressed. They have camsutton. They have the manual Moseley. So I do think that the front is really where you can get the most bang for your buck. Okay, let's talk bears here. Okay, we just had Matt Walsh. We want to make him happy. He's back there. He's said on some sad stories out here. So let's talk about this. We love rank polls. We love what he did. What are they need to address? What's the load of question? How much pressure? Pressure is he under? That's the thing is, I don't think he's under that much pressure anymore. From what he's done this off season already with bolstering the defense, getting those linebackers, and putting- He's not under pressure. Wait, just let me hear me out. That this year, the only pressure he's under this year is to get his full evaluation on Justin Fields. And he's done that already by putting weapons around him. Getting DJ Moore was the catalyst for that trade with Carolina, for the trade down. That was a hugely important piece for Ryan Poles. So now Justin Fields has weapons. He's got Bobby Tonion, who was one of Aaron Rodgers' most trusted nuggets in Green Bay. So now you've given Justin Fields no excuses to not be, show you what he's made of this year. I'm just gonna say, and I don't wear a watch, and I wish I did for things like this, so I could say times clicking, tick, tick, tick on that rookie contract. Of Justin Fields. Of Justin Fields. You can say you can evaluate him, and then what, pay him a ton of money. The Bears have to turn it around and capitalize on the window before you have to pay Mr. Fields. All right, the Green Bay Packers are next. Now assuming the Aaron Rodgers deal happened. Listen, I'm the first one that said it. I knew a couple of things. I was like, this isn't happening anytime soon. They're both sides are dug in, both sides have leveraged. But assuming it does happen at some point, the Packers are going to be one of the biggest mysteries going into 2023. What's the return for Aaron Rodgers going to be? Can they make this still happen before the draft to get more pieces to help them? And of course, what are they getting? My burning question from Jordan Love. New Packers, who dis? Is it New Packers? This is the strategy they've employed my entire life, our entire life, is you draft the guy, you let him sit for a couple of years and then he comes into the league and he sets it on fire. How are we supposed to think this is any different? I know it's a new regime, but the strategy is the same at this point. Now is Jordan Love going to come out there and be Aaron Rodgers, one of the greatest quarterbacks to play the game? I know it hurts to say, but it's true. No, he's not going to do that, but they've set him up really well. He has a really good run game to fall back on. They brought back Aaron Jones for this exact reason. Love, man. And if this defense plays up to the talent level that they have, they could be a really good piece too. Do they ever have a year of lifetime of when you've loved and it's tough? No, no, defense was always Chicago style. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they gotta take and look where that got them. They gotta go receive her, right? They lose Lazard. Come on, right? You got a big target, you got a six-four dude in Christian Watson who finally turned it up, he saw how good he is and how good he could be. Jordan Addison, Zay Flour, they gotta grab it away. Matt LaFleur said they want a veteran wide receiver. I don't know where you're going to get one. Maybe it's a three-team trade. Maybe that's what's holding up this jet thing. Yeah, maybe. How about Aaron Rodgers goes to the Jets and immediately the package are like, cool, De'Andre Hopkins, come on down. I'm not being hilarious. Very, very possible. We have a minute left to do this last one, all right? We've got the 20, poor Vikings. Oh, it's getting shafted. I know. Never enough time for them. These are the NFC North Champions. Do you have to retool to repeat? What do you got? They lost a lot of veterans this offseason. Kendrick to the Chargers, who was our first guest in this new studio. Yeah, they sure as hell better retool at this point. They're going to need you. That's the thing. They won this division. They were four games up from the second place team in the NFC North last year. They were the only NFC North team to make the playoffs. This division is going to be so much more competitive this year. So they're going to have to get creative too because they don't have a lot of draft capital either. They have five picks total, including a compensatory. But what they lack in draft capital, they do have in player capital because both Zadaria Smith and Alvin Cook, they have outs on their contracts this year. And they could save a lot of money by trading them at this point. Zach Hiller, what's going on? That's Alvin Cook's boy. Love, love, love. I like, I love Alvin Cook. I love Zadaria Smith. But you could save a lot of money and you could potentially get some draft return on that, which you desperately need and to get more players. I mean, I'm looking at what they got here. They got to address the secondary, right? Yeah. Oh, absolutely. That's number one need, not even close. I don't know. They could take a corner. I think, I mean. Their pass rush needs to go a little bit. The on-tape banks. Go ahead, Flores. I think we'll go a long way. I'm looking at it. The NSC North Champions feeling disrespected because Detroit Lions looking down on them over at Fan the Little Sportsbook. We've got 20 seconds left on the show. Take it away. What am I supposed to do? I don't know. You've been everywhere. Why don't you, you going on the hard way? You'll be in Chicago for our sports. I will be in Chicago for the draft. I'll be at Hallis Hall for the first round. Are you in the war room? Sneak your way in there. No, no. Don't worry that. You'll stand out. I can't, I can't reveal my sources either. Oh! Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. Carmen Vitale.