PMS 2.0 1374 - Happy 4th of July Eve, Immanuel Iheanacho Makes His College Commitment, Jeff Passan, US Men's National Team Star Diego Luna, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

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Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 138 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys recap the week that was in the sports world by bringing back the segment, “That’s good sh*t.” Joining the show to make his college commitment is 5 star offensive tackle out of Georgetown Prep, Immanuel Iheanacho. Later, ESPN Senior MLB Insider, Jeff Passan joins the show to catch us up on all the pertinent MLB storylines as we approach the All-Star break. Later, US Men’s National Team star, and MLS Rookie of the Year, Diego Luna joins the show to chat about their massive win over Guatemala 2-1 in which he scored 2 goals, the process of coming together for the National Team, Coach Poch’s relationship with the team, the style in which the team has been playing, looking ahead to the World Cup, and much more. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you, we’ll be off the next week. Enjoy the 4th of July weekend and stay safe. We’ll see you next LIVE from Atlanta for the Home Rome Derby. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdown, on this American Thursday.
0:08.2	July 3rd, 2025, this program begins now.
0:13.4	America!
0:15.0	He's celebrating a day of birth tomorrow, and shout out to this land for being around obviously since 1776 July 4th
0:22.9	we called a shot it wasn't for uh some time after July 4 1776 that we actually became
0:28.4	the country of the United States of America and tomorrow we will celebrate it we will have
0:31.7	a brew or two for the red the white and the blue who blue who and uh we're feeling even better because of what the
0:38.6	united states men's national team did last night and uh obviously we take on mexico now in the
0:43.8	conca calf gold cup finals on sunday night in houston texas united states versus mexico uh
0:52.6	feels like a wonderful thing to be happening.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:56.0	There was a time, okay, when there was a hockey game played between the United States and Canada.
1:03.0	At that time, it felt like a pretty similar relationship to what's going on maybe in some
1:08.0	of the world right now.
1:10.0	USA, Mexico on Sunday night is going to bring all world together for a moment.
1:14.6	We are going to celebrate the hell out of the great sport of soccer,
1:18.6	coming to America in a big way.
1:20.6	Obviously we're hosting the Super duper World Club Cup thing from FIFA,
1:24.6	$100 million to the winning team.
1:26.6	Awesome. Currently hosting the Gold Cup.
1:28.3	We got the World Cup coming to the United States of America. And don't look now, we got a team. We got a team. We got some dogs. Now, we're obviously missing some of our best players. You drop a few of them into what we have right now cooking under Coach Potch. And I will tell you one thing. This team is more electrifying than we've been in some time.
1:46.3	And that dude, Diego... under Coach Potch. And I will tell you one thing. This team is more electrifying than we've
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