Paul Bissonnette, NFL Christmas Day And The Bears New Low, Week 17 Picks And Preview + New Years Resolutions

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Speaker 1 On today's part in my take, we have our good friend Paul Bissinet on the show talking about his fight with the Irish travelers.

Speaker 1 Maybe a little preview of the NHL preview, which we're not ready to do yet, but he does get us ready for some hockey. He took a great interview.
He was around the league. Yeah, around the league.

Speaker 1 Great interview with him. He's the best.

Speaker 1 We're going to talk some football. We have week 17 picks in preview.
The Bears played on a standalone game. It was horrific.

Speaker 1 We're going to talk a little Christmas Day games, maybe a little NBA as well.

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Speaker 1 And I just want to apologize to America for what they had to watch with the Bears on their final primetime game of the year. The final Thursday night football game of the year.

Speaker 1 Holy shit, was it horrific? 6-3.

Speaker 1 Seahawks win. I just want this season to be over so, so badly.
It's such a complete disaster and mess. And it feels, again, like there's no way out.

Speaker 1 I'm still going to stay optimistic about Caleb, but he was bad. The whole team's bad.

Speaker 1 Yeah, defense. Defense actually, I thought the defense was going to give up a million yards

Speaker 1 after the first drive, and then they didn't.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Brian Poles did an interview before the game and said that some of the slow starts are some of the things that weren't fixed in training camp.

Speaker 1 So he's talking about he's playing with training camp in week 17.

Speaker 1 Fire this whole fucking organization to the sun. I'm so sick of it.
I apologize again from the bottom of my heart.

Speaker 1 That is some of the worst football. Like it's just a perfect fitting end to not only the Bears playing standalone games, but Thursday night football.

Speaker 1 The only thing I'm worried about is like Kirk Herbstreet, our good friend. He's going to get even more aggro after having to watch that.

Speaker 1 And like he's going to be in just a sour, sour mood next week after having to watch that. So I apologize to everyone.
It was a horrific game. They're a horrific organization.
They're a complete joke.

Speaker 1 George McCasky should feel shame. He won't feel shame.

Speaker 1 Fans rightfully were booing. Fans also got Thomas Brown, who can't figure out a clock to save his life.

Speaker 1 I think he might have been behind the Detroit collapse on Thanksgiving to go for it on fourth and one or fourth and five with like 215 left. I was like, fuck it, just punt it.
I don't even care.

Speaker 1 Like, what does it matter? But it's, this is the dumbest organization ever, and I apologize to everyone. Also, the Seahawks are bad.

Speaker 5 Can we just say that the Seahawks are really bad as well?

Speaker 1 Because like, you shouldn't, six to three is not a game you should be in with the Bears.

Speaker 6 yeah. You shouldn't feel good about yourself if you're the Seahawks for sure.
And it's it's mean what Roger Goodell keeps doing to my good friend Big Cat and making them play primetime games, right?

Speaker 6 When you think you're done, oh no, we've got another Bears' primetime game. It's meaner what they're doing to Big Cat than what he did to Hank and Tom Brady of the Patriots.

Speaker 6 Roger Goodell is a bigger dickhead for making Big Cat be exposed to the Bears in primetime all these times this year.

Speaker 1 Then, than

Speaker 1 deflate gate sanctions. Yep.

Speaker 1 I'll say I mean, it's, and next year the schedule will come out, and they'll do it again. He'll just be like, fuck it, I'll do it again.

Speaker 6 So, so, Big Cat, there's some coaching search news for the Bears. So,

Speaker 1 this is the other part of this.

Speaker 6 Yeah, let's talk about it. So, Ben Johnson's still like, you're going to interview Ben Johnson.

Speaker 1 He's intrigued with.

Speaker 6 Yeah, he's intrigued by Caleb Williams' balls. They whistle, and he likes that.

Speaker 6 Pete Carroll has also thrown his hat into the ring, as he did with the Jets.

Speaker 6 But he wouldn't mind coaching the Bears, apparently. Or maybe it was his agent saying that to drum up interest.
I don't know. It depends on which side you fall on in the Scheft or Florio dispute.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So this was news, I think, on Christmas morning that Pete Carroll would like a job.

Speaker 1 Everyone wants a head coaching job in the NFL.

Speaker 1 These are the reports that, like, why don't you just put everyone's name? Have a list. Have a huge list.

Speaker 1 Like, hey, listen, Ben McAdoo wants a job. Matt Patricia wants a head coaching job.

Speaker 1 Rex Ryan, Ron Rivera, Pete Carroll.

Speaker 1 Just go down the whole list of guys that want a head coaching job in the NFL because they all want a job because they're the best jobs in the world in terms of like pay and the height of your profession.

Speaker 1 As for Pete Carroll, he's a very good coach. He's 73 years old.
And guess what?

Speaker 1 Pete Carroll is exactly what the Bears will do. They would do that, where they'll just be like, you know what?

Speaker 1 We need someone stable to write the ship, to be a professional in these, in Hallis Hall, instead of being like, hey, why don't we try to just pay Ben Johnson $20 million and be like, hey, yeah, you know what?

Speaker 1 Ben Johnson might not work out, but at least we tried to get the best possible hire out there instead of being like, oh, this guy won a Super Bowl a decade ago. Cool, let's bring him in.

Speaker 1 That will be fun. He's 70 fucking three years old.

Speaker 7 It's John Fox all over again.

Speaker 1 John Fox all over again. At least Pete Carroll won a Super Bowl.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I think there's like a difference between Jon Fox and Pete Carroll. He's got a little bit more energy to him.
But yeah,

Speaker 6 it's like a very safe hire for them to do. The only safer hire in their mind, in their fucked up mind, would probably be Ron Rivera because of the ties back to the 85 Bears.

Speaker 6 And he was a defensive coordinator there for a long time.

Speaker 6 Did you see that article? It was in the New York Times or the Athletic.

Speaker 6 It said, the Bears need a coach who holds players accountable. Look no further than Ron Rivera.

Speaker 1 Again, I like Ron Rivera. He's a big friend of the show, great guy.

Speaker 1 But this is my point that I was just saying. Every single one of these guys wants this job because you get paid a shitload of money to coach an NFL team.

Speaker 1 So that doesn't mean, like, it would just be so Bears to go hire Pete Carroll. Like, that's what they would do.

Speaker 1 They would do it, and then they'd be like, listen, this guy is stability, and we need to get, you know,

Speaker 1 we need someone who knows how to win and culture.

Speaker 1 He's 73 years old. Go fucking give Ben Johnson every last dollar in your bank account, George McCasky.
And guess what?

Speaker 1 If Ben Johnson turns out to be a bad coach, I can't be mad that they at least tried. You know what I mean? Like they went and tried to get the number one guy out there.

Speaker 1 Wouldn't you guys say he's the number? I mean, Mike Vrabel obviously is also a number one guy out there, but go get the number one guy.

Speaker 6 I would say the safest guy is Mike Vrabel.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 6 well no pete carrot will be the safest in terms of like oh like he you know pete carol won't have a a two-win season i mean vrabel is going to be he's going to be a good head coach that's almost a guarantee he might not drive the price tag that ben johnson's driving right now because he's going to have a a crazy bidding war for his services but i feel like if you're going to if you're going to try to save on price just get vrabel he's going to be a great coach yeah

Speaker 1 I love Mike Vrabel. If Mike Rabel is the coach of the Bears, I'll be very happy.
I just want

Speaker 1 them to once go and get the number one guy, the guy that everyone's like, holy shit, Ben Johnson. And it probably won't happen.
I'll say it almost definitely won't happen, but at least go try.

Speaker 1 Don't say fucking Pete Carroll.

Speaker 1 I just want to get to the playoffs, so I don't have to think about the Bears. I just don't want to even,

Speaker 1 they're not worth anything.

Speaker 1 They should sell the team. You know what the McCaskys should do? They should sell the team for $100, what their family bought the team for.
And be like, you know what? We did such a bad job.

Speaker 1 We're going to sell it for $100.

Speaker 6 Do a lot of it. Watching Yellowstone.

Speaker 1 Someone gets to win the Bears. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 Sell it to a Native American tribe for what they stole it for.

Speaker 1 I like that. Yes.
I have not been watching Yellowstone, but I'm in.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Should we talk some Christmas Day games, some actual football? Yep. That actually matters.
The Chiefs, 15-1,

Speaker 1 clinched the one seed. They now have like 24 days off.

Speaker 1 I don't care what, you know, people can poke holes in the Chiefs and be like, they're not impressive because they haven't scored over 30 points and they've had a couple close calls.

Speaker 1 They're going to win the Super Bowl again. Just accept it.
Like, if you don't accept it, I hope it doesn't happen. I want to see the Bills win the Super Bowl.
I want to see,

Speaker 1 you know, another, a new team get to the Super Bowl that hasn't been to the Super Bowl in a long time.

Speaker 1 You have to say in your head, like, what's going to end up happening is the Chiefs now with the one seed.

Speaker 1 Their second round game is going to be a team that they will kill, and then they will play one game to get to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 They will have one tough game to get to the Super Bowl, and it will be at Arrowhead. And they deserve it because they're the best team in football right now, 15 and 1.

Speaker 1 But just think about it in your head. who they're going to have to play

Speaker 1 in their first playoff game is going to be like the Texans or the Steelers or the Broncos or the Chargers, like one of those teams, and they're going to fucking demolish them.

Speaker 1 So you can't even do the rest versus Russ because they're going to get a tune-up game, and then they just have to beat the Bills or the Ravens at home, and they'll be in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 And then it's Patrick Mahomes in a Super Bowl.

Speaker 6 That's exactly it. It's going to be probably the Texans or the Steelers in the first round.
Two teams that they've already beaten this year.

Speaker 6 They decided they whooped the shit out of the Steelers in that second half. They beat the Texans pretty convincingly.

Speaker 6 So they're going to have to play one of those two teams at Arrowhead, and then they're going to play, in all likelihood, the Bills or the Ravens, but they get it at home.

Speaker 6 So, congratulations to the Chiefs. You guys did it.
They've you've won almost all your games, even though there were a lot of close ones. It's the Chiefs.

Speaker 6 And, like, I'm still impressed by the Chiefs because

Speaker 6 their offense is looking good, like, actually good. Patrick Mahomes is throwing the ball in, like, under a second.
They're getting the ball out of his hands. The offense looks alive.

Speaker 6 The running game looks pretty good. They're just, yeah, they're,

Speaker 6 it's, it's not even frustrating to me because, like, yeah, I would ultimately like to see another team like a team that maybe hasn't won in a long time win a Super Bowl.

Speaker 6 But at the same, they're so good. It's kind of like the Steph Curry effect where you're like, it's still kind of entertaining to watch greatness at this level.
So congrats to the Chiefs.

Speaker 6 I watched the Chiefs of Holic documentary today. Have you guys seen that yet?

Speaker 1 No, I haven't. I need to.

Speaker 6 I recommend it. We show up in there for about three seconds.
It's Billy asking if he can go hunt down Chiefs a Holoc when he skip bail and us saying, yes, please go hunt him down.

Speaker 6 Also, the hard factor guys are in there. Robbie Fox is in there for about a quarter of a second somehow.

Speaker 1 Love it. That part didn't make any sense.

Speaker 6 But yeah, good documentary. Chiefs of Holic's going to be very happy in his prison cell somewhere.
They're just inevitable.

Speaker 1 They are.

Speaker 6 They're just really, really fucking good.

Speaker 1 And we've said this before, but if you are someone who is sitting there being like, the Chiefs aren't that good, they're lucky to be 15 and one.

Speaker 1 I can't stress enough how stupid that sounds because they are just the best coach team with the best quarterback.

Speaker 1 And it might not look pretty, but when they need, like if you make a mistake against the Chiefs, the way they're set up and the guys that they have, they will always capitalize.

Speaker 1 And every single mistake is magnified by that much because you have Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid and Chris Jones on the other side. We didn't even play against the Steelers.

Speaker 1 They're just really good at football. And to discredit them is silly at this point.

Speaker 6 And oh, yeah, they got Hollywood Brown now.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And Xavier Worthy, who we talked about, is starting to work his way in like he's going to be a big, big factor in the playoffs.

Speaker 6 And a pretty rested, healthy Travis Kelsey. And, oh, yeah, their coach is literally Santa Claus.

Speaker 1 So good luck with that. Hey, Rocks.
As for the Steelers, I'm so happy that I didn't go all the way in on the Steelers. I always was one foot in, one foot out, because that team is a fraud.

Speaker 1 And they just did the same thing that they've done every single year where

Speaker 1 they win more games than you expect. And then at the end of the season, they start

Speaker 1 to fall off a cliff, and they're limping into the playoffs here after losing to the Eagles, the Ravens, and the Chiefs, who are all very good teams.

Speaker 1 Like, if you ask me, are the Steelers better than 20 teams in the NFL? Yeah, they are.

Speaker 1 But they're nowhere near the top five teams in the NFL, and that's what you judge it on, especially in a town like Pittsburgh. They're just not to be taken seriously in the AFC playoffs.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I mean, I think they can beat the Texans.

Speaker 1 But, I mean, the Texans Texans are bad, too.

Speaker 6 Texans aren't looking so good, but I think they can beat the Texans.

Speaker 6 They might just be

Speaker 6 right outside that Chiefs, Ravens, Bills.

Speaker 6 If they're not, it doesn't mean that they're a bad team. I think that they're a good team, actually.

Speaker 1 They're just

Speaker 1 good. They're not to be taken seriously.
They're not playing for a Super Bowl. Correct.
Yeah, they're just not. They're not playing.

Speaker 1 There's no world where they're going to win three playoff games in January. Yeah.

Speaker 6 it's still cool russ wilson story

Speaker 1 i think what do you do with him now i think you you kind of just let him hang around

Speaker 6 you re-sign him like i think you i think you wait to see if he comes to you and asks you for a contract

Speaker 1 you just you just hope it's an on auto renew yeah

Speaker 6 current price yeah you just kind of wait him out maybe just do that maybe just like send him an email congratulations your contract with the pittsburgh steelers is auto-renewed for the next 12 months.

Speaker 1 The same price, $1 billion.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 6 I don't think that you like pay him a shitload of money.

Speaker 6 But

Speaker 6 make him an insulting offer and see how insulted he is at it.

Speaker 1 I do feel bad for, oh, yeah, the Steelers also, memes just texted this.

Speaker 1 They have

Speaker 1 an issue on defense because basically it was like Cam Hayward, TJ Watt, I think Patrick Queen. They all have been alluding to there's one guy who's just not doing their job.

Speaker 1 It seems like people are thinking this might be Minka, but I don't know. But Cam Hayward said, when 10 guys do their job, one guy doesn't, we are screwed.

Speaker 1 And there's been these like weird things, quotes the last three weeks that it feels like there's a big problem on the defensive side in that locker room and someone's not. pulling their weight.

Speaker 1 So I don't, I mean, Tomlin's a guy who can figure it out, but I also, Steelers fans, I feel bad for because

Speaker 1 most of the NFL looks at the Steelers and they're like, I want that, never going under 500.

Speaker 1 Mike Tomlin, I think, is still a very good coach, but the Steelers fans and the city of Pittsburgh, they are one of those franchises that judges on Super Bowls. So

Speaker 1 like, I can say I want what the Steelers have, but then the Steelers are like, hey, we haven't won a playoff game in like seven years. This is bullshit.

Speaker 1 And this is, I think it was the fourth time in the past six years the Steelers have lost three consecutive games in december so that this is just kind of what they've been doing so i i feel bad for steelers fans because for the majority of the nfl we're jealous of what you have but steelers fans are like no no this is not steelers football we are not a serious contender they kind of have been dealing with it though like yeah they're not happy with it steelers fans aren't happy with it but the organization is is okay with it they have to be

Speaker 1 the model i don't know what

Speaker 1 i i just feel bad for steelers fans because they're they're like

Speaker 1 you can't, if you're a Steelish fan and you complain to a lot of people in the outside world, they're like, dude, shut up. You guys never go under 500.
But their standard is different.

Speaker 1 So I understand their complaints.

Speaker 6 And it's definitely Minka.

Speaker 1 That's the guy who's definitely Minka.

Speaker 6 Definitely. If you saw the most recent, their last two games,

Speaker 6 he's just like completely freelancing when he comes in and try to tackle and run support. He's just,

Speaker 6 he'll be in the wrong channel, and then it'll be a 50-yard run, and it's all because he took took the wrong angle on it.

Speaker 1 And they're not even like, that was such a Mike Tomlin spot on Christmas Day. Chiefs don't want to have to go there.
Chiefs don't, you know, all they got to do is win one of their last two games.

Speaker 1 Underdog at home for Mike Tomlin, and they just got, they got absolutely worked. Like, it wasn't even, it wasn't really a competitive game.

Speaker 6 No, well, the first half, at the end of the first half, I thought it was going to be competitive because they put together a nice little drive and you thought maybe, but then the second half was just all Chiefs.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And then for the other game, I mean, that was a shit-kicking.
What was the final score? 31-2?

Speaker 1 Two.

Speaker 6 Not a scorigami, right?

Speaker 1 Not a scorigami. Not a scorigami.

Speaker 1 The Ravens absolutely killed the Texans. The Texans are...

Speaker 1 In a bad, bad spot.

Speaker 1 Let's talk about the Texans real quick, and then I want to talk about Lamar and the Ravens.

Speaker 1 CJ Stroud has regressed. I know there's a lot of things around him that are not going well.
And, you know, two out of his top three wide receivers got hurt. His offensive line is a joke.

Speaker 1 But he's regressed. And I don't know what else to say.
Like, he was anointed, and we did it too.

Speaker 1 We're just, you know, like some of that talk about being like, he's so good and his contract's so cheap. Like, he has not been good this year.

Speaker 6 Who would you rather have, C.J. Stroud or Bryce Young?

Speaker 1 I ask again.

Speaker 1 Redraft. Redraft.

Speaker 6 Definitely C.J. Stroud.

Speaker 6 But

Speaker 6 they're a sad offense to watch right now.

Speaker 6 Mixon looked like he was going to get into the end zone. And then once he got stopped at the one, it felt like nothing at all went the Texans' way.

Speaker 6 You're probably not looking forward very much to that opening round playoff game if you're the Texans.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 6 It's like you would rather just try to lick your wounds and be like, okay, let's regroup, try to get people healthy if we can.

Speaker 6 They couldn't couldn't do anything with Derrick Henry. Couldn't do anything with Lamar.
Also, Derrick Henry, I don't know how we missed this. We haven't talked about this.
Derrick Henry cut his hair.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he did

Speaker 1 a couple weeks ago after the bye week.

Speaker 6 Yeah, so he got, well, I guess it wasn't, I don't know if it was a haircut or not, but he turned the giant ass braids into cornrows. So you can no longer tackle Derrick Henry.

Speaker 6 That was his one, like, that's a surefire way to get him down, just grab that big clump of hair and jerk his neck backwards.

Speaker 6 So he can't, that's championship mentality, by the way, because he's been growing that out for probably 10 years. And he's like, I'm going to change it for this playoff run.

Speaker 6 I feel like that's a good vibe. His head's in the game.
Yeah. But they couldn't do anything with Lamar, who just passed Michael Vicks' record.

Speaker 1 41 fewer games, by the way.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it's insane. The defense couldn't do anything at all against him.
Also, shout out to Netflix. Shout out to Netflix.
The score bug was awesome.

Speaker 1 Score bug was cool.

Speaker 6 It felt like it was classic.

Speaker 1 Minus the fact that they just took away a Steelers' timeout to start the game.

Speaker 1 That confused the fuck out of me. The game hadn't kicked off, and the Steelers had two timeouts.
But other than that, it was a good broadcast. But yeah,

Speaker 1 Christmas Day solidified what we already knew, but it was like really crystallized that the AFC is the Chiefs, the Bills, the Ravens. That's it.
There's no one else. Like,

Speaker 1 those are the three teams, and watching them duke it out.

Speaker 1 And this is why the Chiefs getting the one seat is so important because the Chiefs, the Bills, and the Ravens are going to have to play and then play the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 But the Ravens are playing great ball, and Lamar is out of his mind. He said on the 48-yard touchdown run, he said he was just jogging.
He was 21.25 miles per hour.

Speaker 1 And Lamar Jackson has 41 games fewer than Michael Vick all-time record. He also has

Speaker 1 the second-highest passer rating in a single NFL season this year. So 2011 was Aaron Rodgers 122.5.
Lamar this year is 121.6. He's been out of control.

Speaker 1 You see that

Speaker 6 after the game, some news broke about Josh Allen's hand. He's been playing with a broken left hand all season.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 6 people were saying, like, oh, is Josh doing like some PR work here because Lamar had such a good game?

Speaker 6 I wish they could both win MVP. I wish

Speaker 6 I want there to be co-MVPs. Like there were.
It was Peyton Manning and Steve McNair, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 That was a messed up time to be alive.

Speaker 1 2004?

Speaker 1 I don't know. Yeah, that sounds about right.
But yeah,

Speaker 6 Lamar seems like

Speaker 6 this game was a step towards maybe an MVP for him.

Speaker 1 I just wish we could find out who was going to win MVP before they played in the playoffs because then I would bet on the other side. Yeah.

Speaker 5 That's it.

Speaker 1 What were we going to say, Hank?

Speaker 7 Beyonce?

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 Didn't watch.

Speaker 6 Your thoughts?

Speaker 1 I was in Lego hell in this game. I was in Lego Hell.
I just just want to say that. I did not watch the Beyoncé halftime show.

Speaker 6 I mean, they did this.

Speaker 7 They basically did a Super Bowl halftime show.

Speaker 1 It was a spectacle. Impressive.

Speaker 6 I watched with the sound off. I thought it was pretty good.

Speaker 1 There's our reviews. I saw people were mad about it online, so she probably did an okay job.

Speaker 6 Was there any satanic imagery in this one?

Speaker 1 Yeah, there was some satanic imagery. There were some people talking about

Speaker 1 Jay-Z and Diddy.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 that means she did a good job, I guess.

Speaker 1 If people watch music, a halftime music show, and then take to what's the app called, PFT?

Speaker 6 The Everything app? Yeah.

Speaker 1 They take to the Everything app and they talk about how America's eroding

Speaker 1 and our country's going to shit off of a 10-minute musical performance at a halftime football game. That means they probably did a good job.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I would agree. As somebody who watched it with the sound off, I think at one point she did that Texas Hold'em song, the one where it's like down, down, down.
That's a great song.

Speaker 6 It probably sounded good if you listened to it.

Speaker 5 There's another note from the halftime show.

Speaker 1 They were all wearing Cowboys gear.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 6 Yeah, her album's called Cowboy Carter.

Speaker 5 But it was like the same colors as the

Speaker 5 same color as the Dallas. You know what it was?

Speaker 1 You You know what it was? It was probably Goodell sending his smoke signal that the Cowboys are going to play a triple header next year on Christmas Day after what LeBron said.

Speaker 6 It was in Texas.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 But the Cowboys weren't in the game and they were wearing stuff that said Cowboy Carter.

Speaker 1 This is a Philly complete album. I've never heard one.
This is a Philly.

Speaker 5 I was not the only one that said that on the show.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 It was probably other Philly people.

Speaker 1 Your dad, all sitting in in your living room

Speaker 6 did you know until just now that her album was called cowboy carter no i did not

Speaker 1 maximally he's like there's there were multiple people in my household who were pissed about this cowboys gear they were wearing

Speaker 5 i i why did it have to be that color

Speaker 1 it was

Speaker 6 Max, if they had the Eagles playing at a halftime show, you think... Actually, yeah, Cowboys fans would be pissed about that.

Speaker 1 See, Max, I can appreciate this complaint.

Speaker 1 This is a complaint more in my wavelength than being like the satanic imagery and

Speaker 1 all that shit.

Speaker 1 That shit's always over my head, but just a pissed-off, like way too full Max with his broken foot, probably leaking farts out of his ass, being like, Where the fuck are the Cowboys gear on?

Speaker 5 Also, may not exactly be the Cowboys' color, but it was the Cowboys' font.

Speaker 1 The font

Speaker 1 It's whatever that, like, Houston blue is, their uniform. Uh, battle blue.

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 6 it was a lot of white, wasn't it? It was a lot of white uniforms.

Speaker 1 Cowboys were white.

Speaker 1 How many games do you guys think we're getting next year on Christmas after what LeBron said? I think, I think, I think we get six.

Speaker 6 No, no, they won't, they won't do a full slate. They'll do, they'll do three.

Speaker 1 But Goodell might just be like, you know what? Fuck you, LeBron. Yeah,

Speaker 7 NFL on Christmas is the only thing that matters. Only support that matters.

Speaker 6 Yeah, no, Christmas is the NBA's day. I like how he said that after the game,

Speaker 6 he knew what the ratings were already.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Just because he felt good about how he played on Christmas.

Speaker 1 LeBron, and LeBron, like, listen, I know that Christmas has

Speaker 1 historically been the NBA's day.

Speaker 6 Historically, it's been Jesus' day.

Speaker 1 It's been Jesus' day, but I'm saying, like, in the sports world, it has been the NBA's day.

Speaker 1 LeBron, I don't know if you knew this, but like the NFL, whatever they want, they're going to take.

Speaker 1 And you can't say shit about it because I watched, I didn't watch a second of, because that was the other thing.

Speaker 1 The fuck you by the NFL is being like, we're doing it on Netflix, so you can't even flip back and forth. Yeah.
I watched.

Speaker 6 You can't log out of the app. There's no, there's no channel changing.

Speaker 1 I basically, my NBA watching on Christmas Day was literally just the sandwich of football.

Speaker 1 I watched the first quarter of the Spurs and Knicks game, and I watched the fourth quarter of the Warriors-Lakers game.

Speaker 1 It was just when football wasn't on, I turned on the basketball.

Speaker 6 Yeah, so I was at

Speaker 6 a party and got schooled by two middle schoolers. The first thing, I got schooled by a middle school girl who told me all these stats about Travis Kelsey and how great he is that I didn't even know.

Speaker 6 And I was like, fuck, you really know, you know, football because she's a Taylor Swift fan.

Speaker 6 And then there was another middle school guy that, right when the NBA games kicked off, he goes, can we please change a channel off the NBA? This product is unwatchable.

Speaker 1 And I was like, yeah, you guys know ball. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The Lakers Warriors game was great. Now, so Max and Hank, you guys went up against each other.

Speaker 1 You fought on the text chain where it was just.

Speaker 1 You guys were just congratulating each other back and forth for what felt like a half hour.

Speaker 1 Any thoughts on the game?

Speaker 5 Hank, I'll let you start.

Speaker 7 Max, I'll kick it to you.

Speaker 1 No, you can go ahead on this one. Congrats.
Congrats.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Sixers are back. Everyone knows the NBA starts on Christmas.
The Sixers are 1-0 in the NBA season. This year, the Celtics are 0-1.
That's the only way that you can really look at it.

Speaker 5 And that's just a fact.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 6 Are you back out of the Cooper Flag business?

Speaker 5 Out of Cooper Flag.

Speaker 5 Officially out on Cooper flag 11 wins on christmas you got one more than you than you told us you're gonna get we also said that if the sixers beat the celtics on christmas that counts as 10 wins in itself wow that was part of the stipulation is jola okay

Speaker 1 yeah he tripped he played great he tripped over over a joke joe um beat him bryson d chambeau Don't put any ropes near those guys.

Speaker 5 I'm just going to ignore that. That was a nothing thing that Twitter got excited about for no reason.

Speaker 1 He's down on the ground.

Speaker 5 One thing that is relevant is Caleb Martin might be the Celtic killer.

Speaker 1 That might be the difference.

Speaker 7 I hate that guy.

Speaker 1 Yo,

Speaker 5 Caleb Martin is, he has been horrendous this year and all of a sudden shows up on Christmas Day, goes seven of nine from three, and just buries every single shot against the C's.

Speaker 5 He's the Celtic killer.

Speaker 5 He's going to be the difference maker this year.

Speaker 1 We'll always hate Al Horford.

Speaker 5 I don't don't understand why he plays so well against the Sixers every single time.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I mean, listen, it was a good win for the Sixers. Like, obviously, they're not that good of a team.

Speaker 7 I wouldn't say it was a championship DVD starting win, but it is like when they're in the playing game in April, like they'll probably have to run some video to start that game, and it will probably start with the Christmas game.

Speaker 7 So, like, that's you know, little victories. And I'm happy for Max.
Congrats,

Speaker 1 Hank. You're so mad because you don't, I mean, you, you,

Speaker 1 you're so mad. You just gave them life.

Speaker 7 They're still six games under 500.

Speaker 1 They're one game ahead of their progress report, which was 10 wins on Christmas.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 7 it sucks Jeremy McCain's out for the season because then I'd be really worried. But

Speaker 7 yeah, I mean, if you're counting on Caleb Martin to black out and hit every shot every game, like good luck. Good luck with that.
Like, that's not a.

Speaker 1 Against the Celtics, he does.

Speaker 5 Against the Celtics, he cooks the celtics he's the celtic killer

Speaker 7 yeah we'll see in the playoffs i guess if you guys make it

Speaker 6 i like that go hank it's it's the play-in game hype video for the 60s yeah

Speaker 1 8-3 in their past 11.

Speaker 5 sixers are eight and three in their past 11.

Speaker 6 two words for you max mac mclung

Speaker 1 do it call him up Do it.

Speaker 5 I don't even know if he's still in the organization, to be honest with you.

Speaker 1 I'm sure you can.

Speaker 5 How did that name just come to your

Speaker 1 okay?

Speaker 6 So, at this same Christmas party, I was talking to the world's number one Mac McClung fan, probably even more so than his parents. And by the end of it, I'd watched all the highlights.

Speaker 6 I was like, it is bullshit that he's not in the league. The Sixers should bring him back.

Speaker 1 He's on the Osceola magic.

Speaker 7 I'm like visualizing you sitting at the kids' table for some reason during all these discussions.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 1 It was your podcast meme from the basement. Yeah, yeah, with three kids sitting on the couch.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Bring him back.

Speaker 6 Bring him back, Max. I made a promise to a child.

Speaker 1 Oh, man.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 5 Jason Tatum will just forever be able to get away with push-offs until the end of time. It's incredible.
I'm just kidding.

Speaker 1 Every single time.

Speaker 5 Every single time he shoots a three, he just completely pushes off the create separation every time. And then he whines that he got fouled.
Jason Tatum is just as much of a whiner as Joelle Embiid.

Speaker 5 I will stand on that hill.

Speaker 6 Jason Tatum, push off, whiner. Okay, so the Celtic Sixers game had 5.1 million viewers.
The Ravens Texans game, again, what was the score of that? 31 to 2?

Speaker 1 31 to 2.

Speaker 7 They had Beyonce.

Speaker 6 20?

Speaker 1 5.3 million viewers.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 The only thing I didn't really love about the broadcast was how it seemed like, I don't know what the rules are, but they had people from from like every channel.

Speaker 6 It was like the Avengers that they brought in, where it's like they have hosts of people from ESPN, NFL Network, Amazon. They like mixed it all together.
And they're like,

Speaker 6 here's our studio. And then they had Netflix rules analyst Gene Sterator.
I was like,

Speaker 6 that's not right. He's not Netflix rules analyst.
I don't know what the rules are, but they can just pick anybody off.

Speaker 1 Shout out CM Punk, who went on before the game and was like, sell the team. George McCowski, McCowski, you're a piece of shit.
I like that, but yeah, you're right, it was the Avengers.

Speaker 1 It was like, wait, RG3 and Mina Kynes, and

Speaker 1 who else was oh, Manteo, Mante Teo from NFL Network was on there, Drew Brees?

Speaker 6 Was he on there?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think he was. I'm surprised.

Speaker 6 I was waiting for a jump scare cut to Tony Dungy to frighten everybody.

Speaker 1 Yeah, JJ Watt did a good job on the first game. Like, it was, yeah, it was, it was both the Eagles.

Speaker 1 Yep. calling the games.
Uh, but yeah,

Speaker 1 the, uh,

Speaker 1 it was a good, listen,

Speaker 1 I'll watch football 100 times out of 100 times over NBA. I, I will, I still love the NBA playoffs.
And that fourth quarter of the Lakers Warriors was awesome because that was throwback.

Speaker 1 Steph hitting that three, and then Austin Reeves, terrible defense. Austin Reeves went right to the cup.
But that was, that was an awesome game. Like, I had very, I had a lot of fun watching that.

Speaker 6 Good job, NBA.

Speaker 1 Good job, NBA. But yeah, I wouldn't pick a fight with Roger Goodell because I seriously think the Cowboys might play a quadruple header on Christmas Day next year.

Speaker 6 What would be the ideal Christmas Day matchup for the NBA?

Speaker 1 Oh, oh,

Speaker 1 if you don't think the Chiefs and the Bills are going to play, no, it's going to be Chiefs and Bills. And then it might be Cowboys Eagles.

Speaker 1 Like, it's going to be, Roger Goodell is going to drop the hammer on the NBA with the matchups because it's also a Thursday game.

Speaker 1 So it's like, it won't, you know, it won't be as weird with the Wednesday stuff. Like he's going to drop the hammer on the NBA.
What about

Speaker 6 Aaron Rodgers comes back, Jets at Packers?

Speaker 1 He'll be the Vikings quarterback next year, probably.

Speaker 6 Vikings at Packers.

Speaker 1 No, but it's going. Yeah.
Like if I had to predict it, it would be, it's going to be Ravens, or sorry, it's going to be Bills Chiefs.

Speaker 1 It might even be Ravens Bengals and then Cowboys Eagles

Speaker 1 or Cowboys Lions.

Speaker 1 Like it's going to be awesome. The triple header that Roger Goodell, he's going to drop his nutsack on Adam Silver's face.

Speaker 6 And bet all the away teams.

Speaker 6 Like if the games are on Christmas, you don't think that the away teams have a big advantage on that?

Speaker 1 Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 There's my under theory that is no longer existing, but worked for like a decade on NBA unders.

Speaker 6 I think it's a little bit different even with the NFL because the road teams, they don't have to worry about like

Speaker 6 having a big meal, Christmas Eve, Christmas morning. They don't have to, it's like the opposite of the baby bump.

Speaker 6 When you have, when you're a home team and you have your parents in town that you're hosting, you actually play lethargic. Having relatives in town is a detriment to your game.

Speaker 1 What did we have last year?

Speaker 6 Christmas, 20 years. It was, was it Raiders, Chiefs?

Speaker 1 NFL.

Speaker 1 Eagles played the Giants.

Speaker 7 49ers played.

Speaker 1 Eagles played the Giants. Yeah, the Raiders won.
The Eagles did win. They were home.
And then the Ravens won. So two and one road teams.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Eagles almost blew that game, though.

Speaker 1 Well, they blew every game last year.

Speaker 1 True, true. Very good point.

Speaker 6 Hank, can you set a reminder for Christmas next year? The most important thing is to bet on the road teams.

Speaker 1 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Yeah, it's sad. My NBA Unders.
We had a hell of a run. It's just, they shoot too many threes now.
It was eight years in a row where it was a sound investment

Speaker 1 where it was just every every single NBA, every single Christmas Day, it would go two and one unders for the first three games or three and oh bare minimum two and one because they would just all be like I just ate a big breakfast.

Speaker 1 I opened presents to my kids. I didn't do shoot around

Speaker 1 and now I'm here playing an NBA game.

Speaker 6 Because you got to think that the road teams celebrate when they get back home, right? Yeah, big time. They don't do it early.

Speaker 1 Big time.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Good show, boys. We're going to kick it to ourselves for some week 17 picks and preview.
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Speaker 1 Okay, boys, weekend preview. We've got a lot of games that mean absolutely nothing.
We've got a few games that mean a lot.

Speaker 1 Should we start with Saturday? Saturday, Saturday, Saturday. Hank, there is Saturday football again.
Just so you know.

Speaker 7 I know. The Patriots are playing.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. All right.
So he's aware of the Saturday football. So we got that at least covered.
Let's start with that game. Chargers at Patriots.
Patriots plus.

Speaker 7 I'm in San Diego. It's delightful.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. 10 a.m.
football. 10 a.m.
football.

Speaker 6 It's a true house divided for Hank. Who are you rooting for? The city of San Diego? But they're the L.A.
Chargers or the city of New England?

Speaker 7 I, well, I mean,

Speaker 7 I had to put all my bets in before I left Chicago because they don't have DraftKings in California. I bet the Patriots, but I'm, you know, as usual, kind of rooting for them to lose.

Speaker 1 Okay, so Patriots plus four. Where did you get him at? Overrunner is 42.5.

Speaker 7 Let me check.

Speaker 1 You might have got him even better because I think it came down. I think he had some sharp money on it.
Did you guys see Jim Harbaugh had like

Speaker 1 a quote this week that was, you know, sir, we asked if this was your handwriting.

Speaker 1 He was asked about playing in the cold in Foxborough, and he said, these guys are young, they're healthy, and their heart pumps warm blood.

Speaker 1 It pumps it from the arteries to the veins, to the tributaries, to the capillaries, throughout their whole body. You just play ball.

Speaker 1 Now, I might have gotten that in the wrong order there as well, documented. I'm not a doctor.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I saw that. That was literally my only note on this game besides Bust Hank's balls for going up against his home city.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 6 the only other thing that I really thought about going into this is I'd like to see Stone Smart score a touchdown just because he's got a very underrated name.

Speaker 1 Oh, well, the Chargers do have the best name in football. And Jim Harbaugh, that was his other one.
He said it was one of the great names in football, DiCaprio Booty. DiCaprio Booty.

Speaker 1 Yeah. DiCaprio Boodle.

Speaker 6 Yeah. It's a great quote by Harbaugh.

Speaker 6 I'm not a doctor either, but I'm pretty sure that young guys and old guys, when their hearts beat, it doesn't matter if you're young, it sends the blood through your body. But he's not wrong.

Speaker 6 Young guys do it too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and also, he's not wrong. Old guys, definitely

Speaker 1 the cold weather bothers them more. That's why everyone moves south when they get older in retirement.
Yeah, the only thing I had noted in this game was Chargers clinch with the playoffs.

Speaker 1 They clinch the playoffs with a win.

Speaker 1 I do think that Drake May has been, this might be Drake May's best game. I'm going to say right now, Hank, because he's kind of flirting with it.
He's had some really nice games.

Speaker 1 He's had some really nice moments. That Bills game almost taking down the Bills in Buffalo last week.

Speaker 1 It wouldn't shock me if Drake May just goes nuts in this game because the Chargers' defense has been fading a little bit. And you're like, holy shit, how did the Patriots just beat the Chargers?

Speaker 6 Is this going to tell us actually whether or not Drake May is a good quarterback?

Speaker 6 Because the Chargers' defense is very, very good against bad quarterbacks and they're not so great against good quarterbacks. So this might be Drake May.
Which side are you on game?

Speaker 1 Yeah, this could be. This could be the litmus test for Drake May.
What will happen in this game? So, Hank, you're rooting for Drake May to go off and the Patriots to lose, but also come.

Speaker 7 I actually bet, I bet the money line, so I'm actually rooting with him to win this game, which I don't know why I did that.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 7 I got him plus 195 is plus 185 now.

Speaker 1 Okay. That's huge.

Speaker 6 Hank, does this have anything to do with you rooting against the Chargers?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Hank would love nothing more than for the Chargers not even to make the playoffs.

Speaker 1 He would love it. Because if they make the playoffs,

Speaker 1 my reasoning on the Chargers future wasn't completely unsound. It was always get to the playoffs, maybe win a game, and then you can hedge out.

Speaker 1 So if they don't make the playoffs, Hank can laugh in my face and and be like, hungry dog.

Speaker 1 No, I also think I've been pretty honest with the Chargers.

Speaker 7 Like I said when they won that Thursday night game, like they show me something.

Speaker 7 I did not think that they were a good team. I thought they were fraudulent and that they was a dumb bet.
They show me something with that Thursday night game.

Speaker 6 People can change.

Speaker 1 People can change.

Speaker 6 The moment of realization on Hank's face when he realized that even his subconscious is a troll when he puts in these types of bets, it's pretty excellent.

Speaker 7 Well, that was like, I literally was just firing through.

Speaker 8 You know,

Speaker 7 it was a week away. Like, I don't know exactly why I picked the Patriots' money line, but I did.

Speaker 1 And maybe, yeah, maybe it wasn't my self-conscious.

Speaker 1 The Chargers are going to maybe get J.K. Dobbins back.
Not probably this week, but his practice window opened. That is enormous.
But, I mean, I'll be honest.

Speaker 1 I obviously would love if the Chargers could win a playoff game, but the six and seven seed in the AFC are just heading for like an absolute ass kicking to either Buffalo or Baltimore.

Speaker 6 Yeah, yeah. It's, we probably already talked about this with the Chiefs, or we haven't talked about the Chiefs yet.
I get confused when we record these out of order. But the fact of the matter.

Speaker 6 It's really not hard.

Speaker 1 We were doing a show opening with the Chiefs in Christmas Day and the Bears game.

Speaker 6 Well, we already talked about it then, so I don't even see it.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 but you also could save it.

Speaker 6 No, yeah.

Speaker 6 We've already talked about it. Right.

Speaker 1 You got to get a point where you're really smart. Yeah, it was really smart what you said.

Speaker 7 I agree.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. Broncos at Bengals.
This game actually means something.

Speaker 1 Means a lot. The Bengals, though, are probably fucked because

Speaker 1 the Broncos have to lose out for the Bengals to have a chance. They also need the Colts and the Dolphins to drop a game.

Speaker 1 Now the Chiefs can rest everyone. It looks like that's not going to happen, but they're going to try to win this game, obviously.
And Riley Moss should be back.

Speaker 1 Do you guys know this was actually courtesy of our friend and future recurring guest because we have to have him on at some point, Ben Baby.

Speaker 1 The

Speaker 1 Cincinnati Bengals have not beaten a QB1 this year.

Speaker 6 I did not know that.

Speaker 1 Yes, the QBs they have beaten are Andy Dalton, Mac Jones.

Speaker 1 Oh, I guess, was it Deshaun?

Speaker 1 Deshaun Watson, I guess, would be one of the QB1s.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 maybe it's not just QB1s. It's just really bad QBs because Andy Dalton, Mac Jones, Deshaun Watson, Gardner Minshew, Cooper Rush, Will Levis, and DTR.

Speaker 6 Yeah. So Will Levis is QB1.
Yeah. Was QB1.
He was QB1. Yeah.
And Deshaun Watson was QB1. And there was another one that you mentioned.
Gardner, I think, was.

Speaker 1 So I misquoted Ben Baby. It's just.

Speaker 1 Oh, sorry. Not beating a current QB1.
So current QB1, which is fact. But also, if you list all those QBs, they're terrible.

Speaker 6 Yeah, pretty bad. I did not think that.

Speaker 1 Cooper Rush is the best one. Cooper Rush is the best quarterback I listed.

Speaker 6 You don't think about the Bengals that way because they do score such a fuckload of points that you think, oh, it's not just, but their defense is just that bad, where

Speaker 6 they have to have a bad quarterback that they're going against if they have a chance of outscoring that person.

Speaker 6 I looked up the stats for Burrow and Chase,

Speaker 6 and I did not realize that the Bengals, their quarterback leads the league in passing yards. Their wide receiver one leads the league in in reception yards.

Speaker 6 And they also have the number one sack getter in the NFL this year on defense. And they still suck.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and they still suck because their pass rush as a whole is bad, which makes you think that Bonix might have a, oh, Bonix is good game.

Speaker 1 Because Bonix basically has Bonex's good games when he has a clean pocket. And then whenever he has a little bit of pressure, it's, oh, the Denver Broncos' defense is good.

Speaker 6 Yeah, we're going to figure out whether or not Lou Annarumo has got a little bit of Greg Williams in him this week.

Speaker 6 Because with Mahomes being out, would you be surprised if they hit Bonix a little extra hard?

Speaker 1 Hmm. They hit Mahomes.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 I mean, they have to figure out some way to get pressure on him because they can't get pressure. They're 22nd in the league in pressure rate.
So

Speaker 6 if they also need the Broncos to lose to the Chiefs next week,

Speaker 6 what would Greg Williams do? That's what I'm saying. Like, we'll see how old school Annarumo is.

Speaker 1 You don't think Zach Wilson could beat the Chiefs?

Speaker 6 Well, it's going to be Carson Wentz, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah. But Zach Wilson will be the Broncos backup.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 Anybody can beat Carson Wentz.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Maybe

Speaker 1 Zach Wilson carrying the Broncos to the playoffs. Here's another crazy stat for you.
Patrick Sartan this year has allowed a passer rating of 39.1 when targeted.

Speaker 1 A QB's passer rating would be higher if they threw it into the ground on each pass.

Speaker 1 39.6. So

Speaker 1 it's smarter just to throw it into the ground than test Patrick Shortan.

Speaker 1 And Riley Moss should be back, which makes a huge difference because the Broncos defense without Riley Moss, they basically are fucked because they don't have another corner.

Speaker 6 Yeah, they're forcing us to learn the names of all the anonymous crush, like John Gruden calls them. I think we're up to, what, three now?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Let's just chill at three.

Speaker 1 Three's good.

Speaker 6 Because it's a compliment to their defense if you you can't name any more of that and you just know that they're fucking awesome.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and you don't want to. I mean, Anonymous Crush is a great nickname.
If we learn too many, you can't do that nickname anymore.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I had several anonymous crushes back in my day.

Speaker 1 I want the Bengals in the playoffs. I don't think the Bengals are going to make the playoffs.

Speaker 6 It doesn't look good for them.

Speaker 6 I was hoping for the Steelers to do their part just because I feel like the playoffs will be that much more chaotic.

Speaker 6 They might not win, but you know, you can circle that one and be like, that's going to be a fun ass game.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Wait, I got to find it because our good friend Mike Florio, go get his book.
It might not be free anymore, but you should still buy it. He had one of the dumbest hypotheticals ever.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, here it is. Ready? If you're the Chiefs, would you rather have the number one seed, but the Bengals make the playoffs, or the number two seed, and the Bengals don't make the playoffs?

Speaker 6 That's a very interesting hypothetical.

Speaker 1 I think I'd rather have the buy and home field advantage and not worry about the Cincinnati Bengals who can't beat a good quarterback all year.

Speaker 6 Yeah, would you rather play the Bills or the Ravens in round two or the Steelers

Speaker 6 or let's see, I guess it would be the Steelers, the Texans

Speaker 1 round two? Well, I guess his thought process was the Bengals would win their first-round game, so then the Chiefs would have to play the Bengals in the second round because the reseed.

Speaker 6 I don't think that the Steelers would win a first-round game. They would make an entertaining game.
It would be very, very fun to watch. But

Speaker 6 we've seen enough. There's enough body of evidence out there on the Bengals this year to know that they're just not that good of a team overall.

Speaker 6 Their offense is electric, but their defense is so, so fucked that it's beyond hope. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Here are the quarterbacks again. Andy Dalton, Mac Jones, Deshaun Watson, Gardner Minshew, Cooper Rush, Will Levis, DTR.
Literally, Cooper Rush is the one I would take out of all those.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I think Cooper Rush might be QB1.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 he would be. Yeah, you're right.
We started that debate last. People are having the discussion.
Is Cooper Rush really the guy in Dallas, not dead?

Speaker 6 You know me, big cat. I'm a results guy.
Yeah, he's got

Speaker 1 him playing hard. All right.
Next game. This is the Saturday night game.
Cardinals at Rams. Rams minus six and a half, over under 48.
The only note I have from this is the Cardinals are dead.

Speaker 1 The Rams

Speaker 1 look like they're going to be in the playoffs. They control their own destiny.
I would like to just say to Jonathan Gannon, shots, explosives, pew, pew, pew,

Speaker 1 treat this game how it should be treated. Treat it like a bowl game, not like Pat Narduzi, all-time coward move by him in the whatever bowl that was, Toledo versus Pitt.

Speaker 1 Treat it like a bowl game where you have nothing to lose and do, just empty the clip.

Speaker 1 You know, get Trey McBride a touchdown. Do trick plays.
Go for it on fourth down. Fake punts.
Just empty the clip.

Speaker 1 Like, just let let them just be loose and just go nuts i just want to see a coach do that once just just fucking go crazy jeff olbrick did it but he did it in the most like boring way ever where the the jets scored nine points in in uh an entire game and never punted i wanted to kyler murray is the perfect guy to just empty the clip and do a bunch of fuck shit yeah i'd like to see that you remember what happened week two with these teams It feels like it was forever ago.

Speaker 6 Week two, the Cardinals won 41-10 against the Rams, which seems just absolutely insane right now. But the Rams did not have Puka in that game.

Speaker 6 And Puka, I feel like Puka is a wide receiver that gives you, I don't know

Speaker 6 what his war is, like how many wins he adds just by starting. But I feel like it's a lot because I feel like everybody in the secondary is thinking like, where's Puka all the time?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 And he's obviously a dynamic pass catcher and great running with ball. So it's going to be a different game.

Speaker 6 I feel like it's going to be a shit pumping, but I do agree with you that you don't have anything to lose.

Speaker 6 Like the Cardinals fans are pissed off right now because of the collapse that we've seen the second half of the season. Like, at least give them something exciting.

Speaker 6 Give them a team that does not give a fuck that will let their balls hang a little bit.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 And it's not like there are a lot of teams that have nothing to play for. But there's a lot of those teams don't even have the ability to do the fuck shit I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 Like, the Saints don't have anything to play for. They're not going to be able to do anything crazy with Spencer Rattler.

Speaker 1 The Cardinals still have an offense that could go crazy in nuclear. Just do it.
Just like whatever crazy play you've always dreamed up that you're like, nah, we can't try that. It's too nuts.

Speaker 1 Do that play on Saturday night. Do it.
Just go nuts.

Speaker 6 They're not going to have James Conner, though, I don't think, right?

Speaker 1 No, I don't think so.

Speaker 6 I think they might even be down to their third-string running back.

Speaker 1 Get Trey McBride five touchdowns so that

Speaker 1 his season looks like he had a really good season touchdown-wise.

Speaker 6 Yeah, they tried to last game. They drew something up for him in the first half.
Didn't work out. But yeah, just okay.
So either do all the fuck shit, all the pew-pew-pew explosives.

Speaker 6 Don't let anybody named McVay hear that. Or you just make the entire game plan feed the ball, Trey McBride.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yeah, that's one or the other.
Because listen, it's a Saturday night game. We're all going to be watching.
The Cardinals have nothing to play for.

Speaker 1 Let us enjoy something crazy. Give it to us.
I'm asking you, Cardinals.

Speaker 6 We deserve it. Saturday night football.

Speaker 1 Jonathan Gannon, I will forever have loyalty towards you and never say a bad word against you ever again if you go for it on at least three fourth downs and there's at least three trick plays in this game.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm, I'm, I, you, you get, you get full pardon my take immunity for life.

Speaker 1 That's it. We'll get, like, we'll never say a bad word against him.

Speaker 6 Maybe even citizen of the year.

Speaker 1 Citizen of the year.

Speaker 1 It's up there.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Sunday. Jets at Bills.
Bills minus nine and a half. Over-unders 46.5.
Now, the Bills don't have anything to play for, but they kind of do. They have to still get the two seed.

Speaker 1 They have to win one more game out of the last two.

Speaker 1 I don't know if you saw, but Josh Allen, he had a quote

Speaker 1 last week, I believe. It was maybe after the Patriots game, where he essentially was like, we're in this

Speaker 1 weird zone where we know we're not going to get the one seed, but

Speaker 1 so we don't want to show too many things. So he basically was admitting that the game plan is probably going to be a little vanilla.

Speaker 1 And this game, I don't even know what's, like, the Jets have a million injuries. Aaron Rodgers' knees hurt.
So I don't even know what we're going to get out of the Jets.

Speaker 1 I don't really have any thoughts other than I'd probably take the under. That's it.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I don't want to speak too much because Brick's definitely listening right now. Also, shout out Brick.
I hope he gave you more responsibility last week. Let's get to to work, buddy.

Speaker 6 I think that the Bills definitely do have, they're going to try to play vanilla unless it's close, and then they will, because they have to get the two seed.

Speaker 6 And ideally, you would like to be able to use next week to rest up. Correct.
So

Speaker 6 this is a game where I wouldn't mind seeing them open up the playbook a little bit if it's even remotely close, just so that they can make sure that they don't have anything to worry about going to next week.

Speaker 1 Also, shout out Jack. We always forget Jack.
Jack, Brick's trying to outshine you. You're actually the real GM.
We stand with Jack. You just say the word, and we'll go against Brick and be team Jack.

Speaker 1 But we're not trying to divide him.

Speaker 6 Wait, so his name is Jack Johnson?

Speaker 1 I'm pretty sure, right? I think we looked it up. Brick and Jack?

Speaker 6 That's amazing.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Memes, thoughts on this game?

Speaker 6 This game I thought was going to be good, but I checked the weather.

Speaker 10 It's going to rain, so it's going to be bad.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 That was some

Speaker 1 great announcements.

Speaker 6 Who does the rain favor, memes?

Speaker 6 The rain favors the Bills.

Speaker 10 Jets can't play in the rain.

Speaker 10 But the Bills' defense has been playing bad. Jets' offense is electric.
So it would have been over city, but now it's going to rain. So now it's under.

Speaker 6 Over city.

Speaker 6 Yeah. Nine points last week.
It was windy. It was windy.
And also that first drive. And the first drive was sick.

Speaker 1 Yeah, first drive was so sick.

Speaker 10 But Joe Brady's smart, so they're probably just going to run for 300 yards.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I feel like that's that's exactly what's going to happen.
And it's not even going to be James Cook. It's going to be Ty Johnson or whoever, and just like run it down their throat.

Speaker 1 We might even see some Mitch.

Speaker 6 Yeah, memes, do you think that when this game kicks off, are you going to be rooting for the Jets?

Speaker 10 I'm rooting for no injuries.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 10 No more injuries.

Speaker 1 You're rooting for health.

Speaker 1 Olu got hurt last week.

Speaker 10 I just want no more injuries for people for next year.

Speaker 1 Can I say something real quick? I agree with you. No more injuries for next year.
but I'm of the mindset that next year is so far away that no injury matters.

Speaker 1 Like I like even, I mean, Tank Dell, like, it came out in his rehab. He might miss all of next year, but in my head, I'm like, no, no, no, he'll be fine.

Speaker 1 Because I just can't even comprehend next year yet. You know what I mean?

Speaker 6 A 12-year recovery, yeah. Yeah.
A 12-month recovery. That doesn't, that's not a football number.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

Speaker 6 So even now, we're kind of seeing like what happened with Adrian Peterson's knee. Now that's happening with guys that tear their Achilles, where it's like, oh, they can be back in eight months.

Speaker 1 Whose dog is barking? That's

Speaker 1 Blake. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I thought memes had.

Speaker 6 Blake's mad at me. I farted on Blake by accident on the couch earlier, and he stood up and he barked at me, and he left the couch and went and laid down.
He won't even look at me now.

Speaker 1 He broke it. Sorry.
I didn't mean to.

Speaker 6 I was on air broke.

Speaker 7 Bro code.

Speaker 1 Bro code.

Speaker 1 Okay. Memes.
So Memes' official statement on this game is he thought it would be electric and then it's going going to rain, so it won't.

Speaker 10 Yeah, no, it'll stick.

Speaker 1 Okay, great.

Speaker 1 Let me go talk to Blake real quick. Okay, okay.

Speaker 1 Memes, I started watching the Aaron Rodgers documentary. How do you like it? I don't like it, but that's not like, I think it's well done.
It's just I don't,

Speaker 1 I mean, I just, when he,

Speaker 1 I'm still in the Packers stuff, so it's like,

Speaker 1 I still hate it. You know what I mean? It's just him telling his side.
Yeah, no, I like that part. I mean, he's an interesting guy.
Yeah, he's an interesting guy.

Speaker 1 I just, I don't care for Aaron Rodgers' highlights in a Packers uniform. It's not my cup of tea.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Raiders at Saints.

Speaker 1 Saints plus one over, under 38. The only note I have in this game is I feel like there's a chance the Saints might win because, and this is no, there's no insider information.

Speaker 1 I don't have any insider information on the Saints. I feel like Darren Rizzy probably cried in front of the boys after the shutout.

Speaker 6 I think he got embarrassed.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
And he did. I think he cried.

Speaker 6 I would have liked to see him take it out a little bit on LaFleur after Monday night, like give him, you know, one of the drive-by handshakes or like yell something at him.

Speaker 6 It seemed very undarren Rizzy-like that he didn't say anything during that. Like, you're an interim coach, dude.
What do you have to lose? Like, just fucking lay into him.

Speaker 6 You got embarrassed on Monday night.

Speaker 6 The fact that he didn't do that, he bottled that shit up.

Speaker 6 So he either took it out on the team or on his family.

Speaker 6 And he might be looking for a a little retribution but i just think that i don't know there's something about the raiders where they are like anti-tanking they yeah i feel like they are trying to win as hard as they can every single game they're preparing like it's their super bowl every week even though ultimately they would they would much rather lose yeah no they they said they like antonio pierce was like i mean he's coaching for his job so well his job is to coach but he he uh he was like yeah i don't care about the the number one pick they did so much much damage to their future by winning last week.

Speaker 1 And if they win this game, it's going to be even more damage.

Speaker 1 But yeah,

Speaker 1 there's something in my head that I'm just like, I can close my eyes and see it. Like, Darren Rizzi got in front of the team probably Wednesday morning, and he cried.
And he just cried.

Speaker 1 And the guys are like, man, I can't believe we made Coach cry. And they were manly tears, just so we're clear.
They weren't like whimpering tears. They were manly tears.
Like, I love football so much.

Speaker 1 And what happened on Monday night, like, you know, hurt me to my core.

Speaker 1 So, I, I just, I think they're, I guess it wouldn't have been Wednesday, it would have been Thursday because Wednesday was Christmas.

Speaker 1 They, they, I think the Saints might come out hot because of the cry.

Speaker 6 Yeah, also, the seven fishes probably did something to him.

Speaker 1 He held this week.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I maybe Antonio Pierce is just fucking Tom Brady over one last time. Maybe that's why he's winning these games.

Speaker 1 That's true. Uh, okay, Colts at Giants, Giants plus seven and a half, over-under is 40.
Uh, Colts are still alive. They need the Broncos to lose out as well.
Everyone's hoping the Broncos lose out.

Speaker 1 We are on Tebow Tebow watch for Anthony Richardson, which we mentioned on Sunday. He's at 47.7% completion percentage.
Tebow finished an entire season at 46.5.

Speaker 1 This is a game that's just going to stink. This is going to be one of those, I don't even know the weather.

Speaker 1 Maybe it will be rainy, but it just feels like

Speaker 1 you always mention it, PFT, sun shining so bright at MetLife Stadium, and this game's going to suck.

Speaker 6 Yeah, the sun shining bright as fuck and the temperature being like 25 degrees.

Speaker 6 One of those late December games that's just very, very depressing to watch. I'm pulling up the weather right now.

Speaker 6 Oh, no, it's going to be rainy. It's going to be rainy and like in the 50s and 40s there.
So that is going to suck. This is going to be a bad game.

Speaker 6 This is going to be a really bad game. They should not televise this game.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Just give me a game.

Speaker 6 give us the updates and if anthony richardson throws or runs like a 50 yard run or a 50 yard bomb then like give us a live look at that scott hanson um but yeah this is it's gonna be stinky they do have a lot to play for but did i hear that anthony richardson might not play

Speaker 1 uh

Speaker 1 joe flacco was getting some reps so okay well that's what i'm rooting for yeah

Speaker 6 i mean joe flacco coming in would be awesome maybe they know that anthony richardson's on t-bow watch so they're like let's not give let's not leave this up to chance.

Speaker 6 Let's just get old Joe Flacco in there.

Speaker 1 That would be nice. Yeah.
That's why they release him.

Speaker 6 Because he can play in the rain.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and you basically were like, all right, Anthony Richardson, like, we, you got, you cleared it. You went seven for 11 last week.
We don't have to do the Tebow thing.

Speaker 1 Let's just get Joe Flacco in and we'll finish off the season. Yeah.

Speaker 1 This is.

Speaker 1 Like, I know that weeks 17 and 18 are always kind of tough, but there are just so many bad teams this year that it's just.

Speaker 1 and I know the Colts are technically still alive, so I'm not even putting them in the bad team, even though they kind of are a bad team.

Speaker 1 But like the Raiders and Saints, the Giants and Colts, like the Titans and Jaguars, some of these games, man.

Speaker 1 And we're going to watch them all. And

Speaker 1 they're going to outrate LeBron in his little league, his little basketball league.

Speaker 6 No, their ratings are up 84% in the NBA, big cat. You see that? Up 84% year over year.
And they got smoked by like five times by the NFL.

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 okay cowboys at eagles eagles minus seven over under 38 and a half max will be there max i saw the saddest tweet of all time uh earlier today i believe although i think it's been updated um this is what it was said with jalen hurts and kenny pickett banged up former eagles qb ian book paid the team a visit today That is gun-in-the-mouth stuff.

Speaker 5 Yeah, got to get healthy there's nothing else really to say quarterback room is not looking great tanner mckeey tanner mckee is underrated ball player though i i wouldn't hate to see tanner mckee get a shot out there

Speaker 6 yeah i i think i'm afraid of tanner mckee just based on the fact that all

Speaker 6 i'm always terrified of like a third string quarterback that the hometown absolutely loves and tanner mckie seems like that guy

Speaker 5 also pug loves tanner mckee and he's been he's been hiding himself from this zoom this entire time and i said tanner McKee, he went off

Speaker 5 of hiding himself, gave me a fierce nod, and then went right back to hiding himself.

Speaker 6 All right.

Speaker 1 Hey, Prague, can you give us the counter report on Tanner McKee?

Speaker 6 He's been the Eagles' third string. He lights it up every preseason, and he's just the best kept secret in the NFL.

Speaker 1 Hank, you got to look him up. He played at Stanford.

Speaker 1 If you pull him up, he just looks like a guy who should be doing your taxes.

Speaker 1 It is not a foot.

Speaker 1 He looks like the nicest, like he is the number one guy who you want to date your daughter because he's just going to like you get him like a Peter Millar shirt. He's got a hundred Q-zips.

Speaker 1 He's a baller, though.

Speaker 1 Tanner McKee will always put a coaster down before putting a drink on a wooden table. Always.

Speaker 5 Tanner McKee is a fan of Tanner McKee.

Speaker 1 Tanner.

Speaker 1 Why? Why? Just from preseason?

Speaker 5 Yeah, no, he throws a nice spiral.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Throws a nice spiral. He beat cancer.
Stud. That's huge.
Stud.

Speaker 6 Max, where do you stand on the latest Nick Siriani on-the-field incident where he had to be separated from Zach Ertz by Big Dom?

Speaker 5 Good question. Passionate guy.
Passionate guy. Fiery guy.
Fights for his team.

Speaker 6 You like it? You like that stuff?

Speaker 1 Yeah. I feel bad for Big Dom at this point because it's like Nick Siriani's

Speaker 6 going off at people and then he has to have the rock come in and pick him up and escort him away.

Speaker 1 Since I mentioned a bad Florio tweet, I'll give him credit for a good one. He said Nick Siriani gives him the vibes of an Eagles fan that won a contest to coach the team.
And that is exactly right.

Speaker 1 Like him getting in a fight with Zach Ertz and Big Dom having to break it up. What are we talking about?

Speaker 6 At some point, Big Dom has to be like, Jesus Christ, I got to go manage this guy's emotions again.

Speaker 1 Big Dom has the hardest job in the world.

Speaker 1 He literally just is living the meme where it's like, big guy goes out to bar and the little friend always gets into shit that the big guy has to get him out of. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Maximum,

Speaker 1 but I will say if we're talking about we're defending Big Dom.

Speaker 1 Isn't Zach Ertz a Eagles legend?

Speaker 7 Like, is there no respect for Zach?

Speaker 5 Why don't you worry about your basketball team over there?

Speaker 1 All right, buddy.

Speaker 1 I'm just asking questions. Oh, seems like a job.

Speaker 6 I think what Hank is trying to say is that we love Big Dom so much that at one point, does it become a distraction for Big Dom where now his full-time job is to just have a leash on Nick Siriani?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 He also had to walk CJ Gardner Johnson to the locker room the other day. So that was...

Speaker 1 That was

Speaker 1 he looked awesome. He looked awesome.
He did.

Speaker 5 He looked awesome.

Speaker 6 I just don't want like the Eagles should be very thankful for Big Dom. Like Big Dom, say what you want about.
He earns his paycheck.

Speaker 6 Imagine what the Eagles would be like without him.

Speaker 1 Also, he's kind of Big Dom's relationship with Nick Siriani. He's kind of proving that the old saying there are no bad dogs, only bad dog owners, is wrong.
Because Nick Siriani is a bad dog.

Speaker 1 Big Dom's not doing anything bad as his dog owner.

Speaker 1 And you guys know what we want to do. We love Big Dom.

Speaker 1 I don't know why Nick Siriani is getting in a fight with Zach Ertz. What are we talking about? Good to know.

Speaker 7 That's how you treat your champions, your former champions, come into Philly and get trying to beat up by their coach.

Speaker 1 He tried to beat him up, Max? Yeah, he tried to get his money. He tried to beat him up.

Speaker 5 Sometimes, you know, Italians just,

Speaker 5 their words get... get misconstrued by the other guy when he's just trying to have a conversation.

Speaker 6 Well, that's not what I heard. I didn't hear that it was misconstrued.
Also, put some respect on Julie Ertz's husband's name. That's a goddamn national hero.

Speaker 6 What I heard was that Nick Siriani initiated a Zoom call with Zach Ertz where he apologized to him via Zoom.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 if you have to Zoom call someone to apologize, you did something fucked up. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Damn. Not even FaceTime.

Speaker 6 He sent him an email invite for the apology.

Speaker 5 Sometimes family members fight. It's Christmas.

Speaker 1 It's Christmas. I apologize.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 I feel like the Cowboys are alive in this game, even though CeeDee Lamb is out for the rest of the year. So that's their one awesome player on offense.

Speaker 1 But Cooper Rush might be their second awesome player on offense.

Speaker 6 Cooper Rush might be awesome.

Speaker 6 Dowdle is close to a thousand yards, I think, which is pretty cool for him, I guess.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 And then there are other wide receivers. Who's the guy that

Speaker 6 they got that they traded for with the Panthers when they were going all in this trade deadline?

Speaker 1 Is it Mingo?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 so now they got Mingo and Flournoy. Dave Flournoy is a plain receiver for them.

Speaker 1 That's going to be sick. Are you now? Max, you have nothing to play for, right? Like, there's nothing, just get healthy.
I mean, I guess

Speaker 1 Saquon Yards is what you're playing for, but like, you're going to this game. Are you...
You always want to beat the Cowboys, but are you...

Speaker 1 Like, there's nothing to play for, right?

Speaker 5 Technically, we're still playing for the NFC East, but we would just have to win one out of the next two games.

Speaker 1 Wait, what?

Speaker 1 You could not win the NFC East?

Speaker 6 They're going to win the NFC East.

Speaker 1 But they could not?

Speaker 6 If they lose the California,

Speaker 5 if the Giants won next week,

Speaker 5 it would ruin their franchise.

Speaker 1 Did you? Shefty actually had that as a little win horse moment on NFL Countdown.

Speaker 1 He's like, watch out for the Eagles week 18 they're gonna try to throw that game so the giants don't get the one pick and the giants stay in the cellar

Speaker 6 see i i don't know that siriani is capable of pulling off that type of mastermind i think siriani is more likely to just give saquon the ball 40 times yeah and have him try to get the record against the giants yeah did you also see shefty got community noted yesterday oh no for what

Speaker 5 uh he reported jalen hurts did not practice today when none of the Eagles practiced yesterday on Christmas.

Speaker 1 Oh, but wait, so he was right though.

Speaker 1 Correct.

Speaker 5 But he still got community noted.

Speaker 6 Jalen Hurts mispr he did not practice on Wednesday.

Speaker 1 I didn't practice either. Could have added me in there.

Speaker 5 Yep, neither did I.

Speaker 1 Wow. So you think you just owned Shefty and really, like, community notes just proved it was wrong.

Speaker 5 I don't know what you own. I didn't own anything.
I just told you what happened and what I.

Speaker 1 Sounds like you were the one who did the community notes. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You filled out the community notes.

Speaker 6 What I heard is that Jalen Hurts was absent from the team facility on the day when Ian Book paid them a visit, which is actually a good move by Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 1 I saw a report that Ian Book was seen in the parking lot dapping up A.J. Brown.

Speaker 6 Yeah, they're great friends. Good.

Speaker 1 I love everyone in the locker room.

Speaker 1 They're great friends.

Speaker 5 I would like everyone in my locker room to be dapping each other up.

Speaker 6 No, Max, as an Eagles fan, you still got to hope that you destroy the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You got to hold it.
Yeah, of course. Always.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Especially with you

Speaker 1 in person. Okay.
Next up, Panthers at Bucks. Bucks minus eight, over under 48.5.
Did you guys see that Xavier Legette brought leftover raccoon to the locker room from Christmas Day?

Speaker 6 That rocked. Nice guy.

Speaker 1 What a good dude.

Speaker 6 I love Xavier Legette. I wish he had caught that pass against Max, but besides that,

Speaker 6 awesome dude.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
I also

Speaker 1 think the Panthers are alive in this game. I think they're just full-on, like the Panthers and the Cowboys are the two teams that stink, but are playing actually good ball in the last month and

Speaker 1 feels like they're just ready to play spoiler.

Speaker 6 Yeah, if there's a team that starts out the season and they suck, their playoff chances are over in like October, but then they get hot at the end of the year, that's actually a team that will, they'll have a ton to play for, even though they don't have any playoff hopes or aspirations.

Speaker 6 Like they've turned something around. So they are trying.
There's going to be a lot of guys that will probably be back next year for the Panthers.

Speaker 6 And so they are actually like, they're looking at this as the preseason for next year. So

Speaker 6 I like the Panthers in the points. I don't know if I like them money lined against the Bucs, but I feel like that's a lot of points for this team.

Speaker 1 A lot of points.

Speaker 6 They're factoring in weeks like one through eight in this spread, I think, a little bit.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And Bucs, figure it out.

Speaker 1 I want to see the Bucks in the playoffs. Like, no offense to the Falcons.
I would like to see the Bucs in the playoffs. That's a personal choice of mine.
I want to see Baker in the playoffs.

Speaker 6 We'll see Bucky in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. Titans and Jaguars.
Jaguars minus one over under 39 and a half. Do you guys have any New Year's resolutions?

Speaker 6 I do.

Speaker 6 I've got a couple of New Year's resolutions.

Speaker 1 Okay. Lay them on me.

Speaker 6 I'm going to drink more water again this year.

Speaker 6 I'm going to get a six-pack by the summer.

Speaker 1 Six-pack summer.

Speaker 6 And

Speaker 6 I'm going to to get a couple new planes and

Speaker 6 hit the flight simulator back up now that I've got the virtual reality 360.

Speaker 1 Hell yes. Hell yes.
Pretty much it. Yeah.
I have two.

Speaker 1 Oh, let me hear them.

Speaker 7 Get a physical.

Speaker 7 Okay. Go to the dentist.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 That's good. That's cheap.

Speaker 1 You should do that in the same week. Yeah.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 6 Wait, having a New Year's resolution be go to the dentist, that's something that you should do every year.

Speaker 1 That wasn't the question.

Speaker 6 It's literally every 12 months.

Speaker 1 It's

Speaker 1 every six months.

Speaker 6 My actual resolution is to

Speaker 6 get my drive about like 15 yards longer so that Hank will owe me more money.

Speaker 1 I love that. I love that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, tune into the last episode of the dock. It's out.

Speaker 1 Go watch it.

Speaker 1 My New Year's resolution is there's a dive bar like maybe,

Speaker 1 I don't know like

Speaker 1 three blocks from my house that i i want to try to become a regular at now i don't really have time to go to the bar but i'm thinking if i can get there like six or seven times next year and just kind of really show face

Speaker 1 it's my goal that's my goal i'll let you guys know how it goes maybe i'll bring you guys once uh

Speaker 1 maybe become like a morning drinker oh just a couple pops before work yeah that's not too far from my son's school yeah there you go just tell us that you'll get it. Then you'll stand out.

Speaker 6 Like all the bartenders will know your name.

Speaker 7 Like, oh, that's there comes Dan.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he just dropped his son off at 7.45 in the morning.

Speaker 6 Daddy needs to stop by the office real quick and do some paperwork before he drops you off.

Speaker 6 It's a great move. Being a regular is so fun.

Speaker 1 I walk by it all the time. I'm like, damn, I really want to go there.
So that's my goal. And now I crushed my goal last year.

Speaker 1 I looked at my Uber Eats app and I ordered Blizzards 27 times last year so um pretty good pretty good that's a lot i said i was gonna eat more blizzards i ate a whole shitload more blizzards i think i had two the year before so i like that yeah

Speaker 1 anyone else anyone else got uh new year's resolutions for the titans jaguars preview yep i got two um

Speaker 5 i would like to lose a lot of weight also learn how to make bread so those two things aren't going to go super super hand in hand, but I'm pretty confident that I'm going to be able to do at least one of those.

Speaker 1 And I think that's going to be the bread.

Speaker 1 You've been talking to her for a while.

Speaker 5 Well, no, well, I brought it up to Chef Donnie a couple months ago, and now he got super excited and he's like trying to get it sold. And we're trying to do a series out of it.

Speaker 5 But me and Donnie will be the bread boys in 2025.

Speaker 5 And I'm going to learn how to make bread, but I'm also going to lose weight.

Speaker 1 Learn weight. Yeah, lose weight.

Speaker 1 I'm going to learn weight and lose bread. Okay.

Speaker 6 You didn't say that you were going to eat more bread.

Speaker 6 You were going to make it for other people.

Speaker 5 True. But you know, part of like trial and error is like you got to taste at least some of the bread.

Speaker 6 Yeah, but I mean, this is like just the next step for Max's deli at work. You got to

Speaker 1 make your own bread.

Speaker 1 Max,

Speaker 1 what about when people say don't trust a skinny chef? How can I get bread from a skinny Max?

Speaker 5 No, see, here's the thing. I think that I could still lose 30 pounds, but also be fat.

Speaker 1 So that's where I would like to get to.

Speaker 5 I want to get to the point where I lose weight, but am still fat.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I think I've lost like 15 pounds. And

Speaker 1 if I typed it into the obesity thing, I'm still obese. Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Demonizer. That's a good fucker.

Speaker 1 By the way, I forgot. I'm also going to read a book.
I haven't read a book in a decade. I'm going to read a book.

Speaker 1 Does this count?

Speaker 1 No, read with my two eyes. It might take me the entire year.
I'm going to fucking do it. I feel it.
This is the year I'm going to read a book. It can't be a movie, though.

Speaker 6 You should read The Art of War.

Speaker 1 Can I read? All right. If it can't be a movie, can I read a Michael Lewis book knowing that eventually it will be a movie?

Speaker 6 Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
Cool.

Speaker 5 You just want to tell people you read the, that the book was bad.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's, that's why I've read like every Michael Lewis book because they always become movies. And I can be like, Oh, yeah, I have Moneyball, read that.
Big short, know it.

Speaker 1 Uh, all right, memes, any, any uh, New Year's resolutions?

Speaker 6 I'm gonna go to a doctor.

Speaker 10 I don't, I don't know which one, but I'm gonna go to a doctor and I'm gonna get at least two more TVs.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 fuck yes. Fuck yes, the boys are up,

Speaker 1 the boys are up. All right, Shane, anything?

Speaker 1 Um,

Speaker 8 I think I want to try an apple?

Speaker 6 Try an apple. Try some fruit.

Speaker 8 I think I want to go to Italy this year, so hit up Duolingo. Get a nice Duolingo street going.

Speaker 1 Probably some Italian.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 You're going to bring back a bride, aren't you? Shane's going to have a kid.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he is. Yeah, you are.

Speaker 1 You're going to fucking have a kid.

Speaker 1 Yes. I love it.
I love it. Shane's going to be walking in and being like, hey,

Speaker 1 I need,

Speaker 1 can you talk to HR? I have an Italian wife and child. Now I have to put on health insurance.
Like, what, dude? You went there for three days.

Speaker 6 We got to get you one of those. You know how the NFL coaches wear the shirts and the hats with the flags on them? We got to get you a Chargers Italy sweatshirt.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes, yes. And a little one, a toddler one for your kid.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Pug, last one.

Speaker 8 Say play more NFL Blitz for sure.

Speaker 1 Fuck. Okay.
Yes.

Speaker 10 Once a day.

Speaker 6 Because I play like sometimes every other day, but I got to stay committed if I want to be good and cook for myself more.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 This is, we might have the best year of this podcast with all these New Year's resolutions.

Speaker 6 Yeah, we're going to be sitting pretty.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're going to fucking be.

Speaker 1 I mean, we're going to get Max skinny bread making. Shane and his Italian kid memes, all he has to do is go to Target once.

Speaker 1 Get your blood pressure tracked in a Target.

Speaker 6 That's kind of a doctor.

Speaker 1 Go to Walmart, get your blood pressure tested, get your two TVs.

Speaker 1 Move. You're done.

Speaker 1 You're done on January 1st.

Speaker 6 There really should be like a doctor's office for guys where in the same doctor's office, they have the doctor, they've got your dentist, they've got like a secondary doctor that does like blood work and all that, and maybe like a place for lunch.

Speaker 1 One of my ideas that I pitched to Cubit is we got to figure out a way to get a dentist on a plane. So it's like

Speaker 1 you know you're stuck on a plane. You know travel sucks.
Just have a dentist do your teeth then. It's a little bit turbulence.

Speaker 1 I haven't been able to figure that part out, but everything else makes sense.

Speaker 1 Like, why aren't we doing more of the shitty things we have to do in life on planes? Like imagine getting on a flight and being like, yeah, this is actually the accountant's flight.

Speaker 1 They're just going to do everyone's taxes coast to coast.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it's not a bad idea. They've already got the oxygen mask things that come down, just put nitrous in there, knock it out on the plane.

Speaker 1 Right. Any shitty thing you have to do, like, imagine if you have to get like, oh, yeah, you got to get divorced.
Oh, okay, get on this flight to Hawaii. By the time you land, we'll have you divorced.

Speaker 1 And then you're in Hawaii, single.

Speaker 6 There should be an airline that has like professors that are the stewards and the stewardesses, and they just teach you like a college class if you fly on there like six times.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Then you get

Speaker 1 a diploma.

Speaker 1 Pass the bar. Yeah.
Pass the bar.

Speaker 6 Or teach you Italian on if you take four plane flights.

Speaker 1 Teach you how to fucking Italian. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Just

Speaker 1 like figure out a way. Traveling sucks.
Planes suck. Figure out a way to double it up.

Speaker 1 All right. That was our Titans Jaguars preview.
Dolphins at Browns. Browns plus six and a half, over under under 39.5.

Speaker 1 I don't find. I mean, this is DTR.
I'm going to bet against DTR. If he plays, if he starts, I know he's got like maybe a calf injury, but

Speaker 1 I have faded DTR, I think, in every single one of his starts in the NFL, and I'm going to continue to do so. Yeah,

Speaker 6 I read one update from him where I think his direct quote was like, I've got a sore little calf.

Speaker 6 That didn't really give me a lot of inspiration.

Speaker 6 So we're probably not going to get Jameis even if we don't get DTR, right? Because his shoulder is still banged up. But

Speaker 6 I saw Jameis eating chicken wings online this week, and the man just, he, he just needs to be in front of a camera at all times. That's, that's my only note here.
Uh, this is going to be a poopy game.

Speaker 6 Dolphins, I guess, still

Speaker 6 entertaining at times, but yeah, it's going to be bad.

Speaker 1 Bish?

Speaker 1 I don't even know. Like, they don't even do the like crazy explosives anymore.
So, yeah, it's going to be a bad game. All right, here's a good game: Packers and Vikings.

Speaker 1 Vikings plus one over, under 48.5. This game's gonna rock.
They flex this game to the afternoon.

Speaker 1 The Green Bay Packers, this is a hurtful stat for myself and anyone who hates the Packers. They have now made the playoffs 13 of the last 16 years, which is the most in the NFL in that timeframe.

Speaker 1 They also obviously were the first team to pitch a shutout against the Saints on Monday Night Football.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, the Vikings are going for the one seed.

Speaker 1 Have you seen PFT, the discourse? This is like

Speaker 1 NFC North fans are now doing the like hey, we got to change the rules because it's not fair that the Packers are going to have to go on the road.

Speaker 1 It's like come on guys like the whole point is divisions should matter. That's the fun of it.

Speaker 1 Like if we get rid of divisions and it's just the four best records, divisions won't fucking matter anymore.

Speaker 6 Yeah, and we do have divisions for a reason because it's good for the game to have rivals that you play every single year, year in and year. Right.

Speaker 6 It's not like they're playing an unbalanced schedule or anything.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 6 And yeah,

Speaker 6 it will suck for the Vikings if they end up being like a great, great,

Speaker 6 you know, wildcard team and get that first wildcard spot. That's going to suck to have to go on the road, but I mean, that's such is life.

Speaker 1 Yeah, for both of them, it would suck.

Speaker 1 I mean, for the Packers and the Vikings, they're going to have, no matter what, they're going to both have more wins than the team they play in the first round because they will be slotted into the, you know, obviously the Lions can also get one of those spots, but two out of the three NFC North teams will be the fifth or the sixth seed, and they're going to have to play against a team that did not win as many games as them.

Speaker 1 But that's that's just how it works. And I kind of like how it works because divisions matter.

Speaker 6 Yeah, two good quarterbacks, very good quarterbacks in this game. I saw a stat that they're both, I think they're two of the top three quarterbacks against man-to-man so far this year, and they are

Speaker 6 two of the five worst, I believe, against zone this year.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 6 the Vikings, I know they do a lot of zone blitzing and shit like that. I don't know if they'll be able to get into Jordan, but I feel like Jordan Love does better when he's off his back foot anyway.

Speaker 6 So, I'm truly, I'm just like excited to watch this game. It's going to be, this is going to be a playoff game.

Speaker 1 Yeah, this is going to be a great, great game. And, like you said, the Vikings,

Speaker 1 they're still going for that one seed. They play the Lions week 18.
And the Packers, I guess you're rooting for the Vikings, PFT, because you can still jump the Packers, right?

Speaker 6 Yeah, it's still possible that we could jump the Packers, but then you start getting into, there's a lot of other stuff that has to shake out, too.

Speaker 6 So we could jump the Packers and get that sixth seed, I believe.

Speaker 6 But then you'd be looking at maybe playing at the Rams

Speaker 6 in the first round, which is not, really, there's no good place to play in the first round.

Speaker 6 I guess if I had to draw it up, I would want to go to Philadelphia and beat the fuck out of Max.

Speaker 1 So that's what I'm hoping for. And Max said he'd do it with Kenny.
Yeah, he said. He'll fucking beat you with Kenny.
He said he actually doesn't want Jalen Hurts to start.

Speaker 1 He wants to beat you with Kenny.

Speaker 1 Listen, I would love to go beat fucking Tanner to start

Speaker 1 Tanner McKee. What you know about Tanner McKee, bitch?

Speaker 1 All right, last game. Falcons and Commanders.
PFT, Commanders minus four, over under 47.5.

Speaker 1 Oh, man, the Bears, fourth and one, and they just,

Speaker 1 are so fucking bad. I'm sorry, America.

Speaker 1 PFT, thoughts on this game?

Speaker 7 They didn't get it. You're ahead of me.

Speaker 1 No, they got a false start. Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 I am bummed out.

Speaker 6 I'm bummed out that we're not going to get Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I had mentally prepared myself to face Kirk Cousins at home. I don't know what we're going to get with Pennex.
I don't think anybody really knows.

Speaker 6 We had like a little bit of a clue last week, but not really. So it's kind of like the unknown that we're going into.

Speaker 6 I think I like the commanders.

Speaker 6 Their offense played pretty well last week against a really, really good Eagles defense. Kind of embarrassed them in the fourth quarter.
But I am always afraid to see the commanders in prime time.

Speaker 6 And I always will be. There's those scars run very, very deep where it's just like, I'm always thinking in the back of my head, this is about to be the most embarrassing thing ever.

Speaker 6 But I don't know.

Speaker 6 I don't know that I... truly believe in Michael Pennett.
How can you after one week? So there's a chance that he goes out there and just lights us up because our defense is not that great.

Speaker 6 We've been playing a little bit better with Lattimore. I actually went back and watched the tape.
Grinded some all 22 on Lattimore.

Speaker 6 He didn't play that bad. He had some good plays.
He played much, much better than you ground.

Speaker 1 You did the all-22 on Lattimore?

Speaker 6 I did the all-22 on Lattimore.

Speaker 1 He was getting worked.

Speaker 6 He had a couple PBUs.

Speaker 1 Again,

Speaker 1 your all-22 is, I feel like, broken. He was getting destroyed.

Speaker 6 If you watch ball,

Speaker 6 you're exposing yourselves as non-ball knowers right now because pass interference penalty is not always a bad thing for cornerbacks. It means that they were in position to make a play.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. Bears picked it up.
Bears might win this game. Need it.
Sorry. We already talked about this.

Speaker 1 PFT, continue on.

Speaker 1 You're also ahead of me. Marshawn Lattimore.
All right.

Speaker 1 I'm also not listening to you because you sound like an idiot, but continue. Oh, here we go.

Speaker 6 Max, you don't know ball, Max. You don't talk to somebody that watches ball for a living.
They'll tell you that pass interference penalty is not always that bad.

Speaker 7 Keep coping. Yeah, but that one drive when he basically gave up 107 yards of pass interference, that was bad.

Speaker 1 I agree with you, PFT, by the way.

Speaker 6 I was talking about that on Monday, and I said how bad that was.

Speaker 6 And then Max said, well, first of all, you got to say that Jane Daniels threw two interceptions in addition to his five touchdowns. First, you have to say that.

Speaker 1 I agree with you, PFT. It's kind of like the, you know, you like quarterbacks, not all interceptions are bad.
Like, pass interference sometimes is not a bad play.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I mean, it gets penalized, but don't get me wrong, like, it's not good that he got called for pass interference, but it also means you can't get called for pass interference if you're five yards away from a guy like Emmanuel Forbes used to be.

Speaker 1 And there's times when you actually getting called for a pass interference is good because you would have given up a touchdown easily. Right,

Speaker 5 that is not good.

Speaker 1 If you were going to give up a touchdown, that is bad.

Speaker 1 That is bad, but that's good to then get a pass interference instead of a touchdown.

Speaker 5 Right now, we have a Bears fan arguing that interceptions are good for quarterback and

Speaker 5 a Washington fan arguing that pass interferences are good for corners.

Speaker 1 That's just what's going on. Kayl Williams doesn't throw interceptions, so I actually wouldn't mind if he threw a couple more.
So I stand by what I said.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I seriously do. I stand by it.

Speaker 6 And I stand by what I said too, Max.

Speaker 6 I think it, okay, it sounds stupid and it probably is stupid to a certain, but if you talk to ball knowers, real ones out there, they'll be like, yeah, that's a bad stat to ding a cornerback for.

Speaker 6 Also, now's probably a good time to mention that Marshawn Lattimore might not even play this week.

Speaker 1 Oh, no, what happened? Yeah.

Speaker 6 He's dealing with, everyone's dealing with something this time of year. His hamstring flared out.

Speaker 1 He was great against the tank.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. So you're worried about this game?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I'm worried because I think there might be like a post-cousins bump.

Speaker 1 It's the fear of the unknown. It's the fear of the unknown.

Speaker 6 And I feel like the Falcons skill players, when they're not deflecting passes that get intercepted and returned for six points, they're probably pretty excited to have somebody that can throw the ball and hit somebody outside the numbers.

Speaker 1 It's also, you guys went through like that, that game was,

Speaker 1 I mean, it was an incredible game against the Eagles, incredible win, gutsy.

Speaker 6 Jaden did throw two interceptions, big cat.

Speaker 1 That's true.

Speaker 1 But like off of that divisional game that you didn't expect to win, there might be a little bit of a letdown. I don't know.
I'm just

Speaker 1 like the commanders in this game. I'm just, I'm just for fodder.
That would be why I would, like, if you want to get scared, you, there's things you could get scared about.

Speaker 6 I don't think Dan Guyn's going to let him get scared like that. I don't think he's going to have him, he's going to have him ready to play, but I'm not like Supreme.
We're not a great team right now.

Speaker 6 We're capable of doing great things, and when everything works for us, we are a great team. But

Speaker 6 it's nothing that you can count on. I can't bank on beating the Falcons, especially in prime time.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Picks.

Speaker 1 What are those standings memes? I think we crushed the week 17 preview.

Speaker 1 When you got to talk about every game,

Speaker 1 it's tough this time of year, but we did it. Hank, 17 and a half points.

Speaker 10 Me and Big Cat, 16. PFT and Max 14.

Speaker 10 Hank just needs one win, and he clinches. He doesn't have to do the punishment.

Speaker 10 Maximum amount of points for PFT and Max is 18.

Speaker 1 Are we not doing playoffs?

Speaker 1 Are we doing playoffs?

Speaker 7 We didn't last year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true. We didn't last year.

Speaker 1 Nobody was tied.

Speaker 6 I think it's a regular, it's normally a regular season thing, right?

Speaker 1 It is all regular season. I just wanted to say that because it would piss Hank off because he'd be like, I fucking had to do an hour stand-up.
This is bullshit.

Speaker 1 You guys are trying to find a way for me to lose.

Speaker 7 Well, this one doesn't even matter. It's like,

Speaker 7 you know, I picked the bad ones to win.

Speaker 1 You You run away from winning. So

Speaker 1 basically, it's a two-way race and maybe a four-way race.

Speaker 6 It looks like it's going to be me and Max.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but Max.

Speaker 1 Okay. Who's up first?

Speaker 6 PFT is up first.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 PFT. I love that.

Speaker 6 I'm going to go with the Eagles minus seven. I think they're going to spank the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 Ooh.

Speaker 1 Spanking?

Speaker 1 Max and Spanking? Spank. Won't.

Speaker 1 All right. I'll take the Panthers plus eight.

Speaker 7 I will take the

Speaker 7 New York Jets plus nine and a half.

Speaker 1 Packers, Vikings over 48. I like that.

Speaker 5 I am going to take the Giants,

Speaker 5 Colts under 40 and a half.

Speaker 5 That's a okay that you do that every time.

Speaker 1 Max.

Speaker 1 Max was in the cave last Sunday being like, you guys fucking made sounds after my pick and I won. And we're like, dude, we make those sounds after every pick you've ever made.

Speaker 1 He's like, fuck, I didn't realize that.

Speaker 6 I told you last week, it's a bad pick. Even if it wins,

Speaker 6 you should know that it's a bad pick.

Speaker 1 You could be like,

Speaker 1 you could be like the bill. You could be like Josh Allen to get one yard passing.
And we'd be like, oh, gross, dude.

Speaker 6 Also, Max, we all suck.

Speaker 1 All right. What's your second pick?

Speaker 5 But I suck the most. My second pick will be the Rams minus six and a half against the Cardinals.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 After we just told Jonathan Gannon to do some fuck shit?

Speaker 6 Dude, the Cardinals beat him 41 to 10.

Speaker 1 Yeah. He wants immunity for life.

Speaker 1 Okay, who's up next? Memes?

Speaker 10 I'm going to take the Lions minus three and a half.

Speaker 1 I like that pick. I think Dan Campbell basically was like, yeah, we're not sitting sitting anyone.

Speaker 1 We're out for revenge.

Speaker 10 Yeah, it's going to be like that Cowboys game earlier in the year.

Speaker 1 I imagine. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 I'm going to take one of the most slept-on backup QBs to just go the fuck off. Give me the Eagles, Cowboys, over 38.5.

Speaker 7 Tanner McKee.

Speaker 1 Tanner McKee. Tanner McKee going nuts.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 I am going to take.

Speaker 1 I have to do an over-under, and they all suck. Did anyone take the under in the Jets Bills? I will take the under in Jets Bills, 46 and a half.
Thinking maybe

Speaker 1 we get Mitch in the second half, run out the clock.

Speaker 7 That'd be bad. Mitch to Mac.

Speaker 1 Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 PFT.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 6 I'm going to take the over

Speaker 6 and Colts Giants.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 head to head.

Speaker 6 Head to head. I like that.

Speaker 1 Head to head, Flacco. I like that pick a lot.

Speaker 6 This is Flacco. He loves the rain.
He's a mutter.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

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Speaker 7 I'm out. I missed mine last week.
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Speaker 1 Okay, so it's up to me, Max, and PFT. We're going to do afternoons or nights.

Speaker 1 I will, let's just start with an easy one, Josh Jacobs. Okay.

Speaker 6 I've got Diami Brown.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 6 What's 370?

Speaker 1 Whoa. But I like them.

Speaker 6 They look for him in the red zone a lot.

Speaker 1 That was decisive. We were two for two on decisive picks.

Speaker 5 Bijan

Speaker 5 will be the third pick decisively.

Speaker 1 Wow. Okay.
Decisive.

Speaker 1 All right. Good picks, boys.
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Speaker 6 Oi, what's up, boys?

Speaker 1 What's up?

Speaker 6 What's up?

Speaker 7 Johnny Malasanti.

Speaker 1 John Malasanti.

Speaker 7 My statum this week is inside voices. My niece is sleeping next door.
I don't want to be screaming. I'm going to use my inside voice.

Speaker 6 Don't tell anybody. Keep your mouth shut.
Don't sing.

Speaker 1 Don't say a word.

Speaker 7 My sit him is red one.

Speaker 7 Worst fucking Christmas movie I've ever seen. I don't know how they made so much money.
Also, Caleb Williams sit him and just threw a fucking interception.

Speaker 1 This team is fucking horrible, dude. I said I like my guys.
Throw more interceptions.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I knew that was going to happen when you said that.

Speaker 1 Same with me, I knew it too.

Speaker 7 They're a joke. They're really bad.
My sleeper is mouth tape. If you want to fall asleep, throw some fucking tape on your mouth.
It helps you get a better night's sleep. It does a lot of wonders.

Speaker 6 We taped up my friend Billy Bats' mouth one time. Worked real good.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 Hey, what's up, dickheads? It's Leonardo Debuti, DiCaprio Debuti. Full names.
Remember them all. My startup.

Speaker 6 I'm starting seven fishes this week. What's your guys' favorite kind of fish? Mine's shrimp.

Speaker 1 Mine's when anyone's swimming with them.

Speaker 7 Calamari.

Speaker 6 Yeah, you love the calamari. You love it for appetizing and everything.
My sit-em is the Boston Celtics. Boston Celtics fucking suck.
Bro, they fucking suck. What's going on in Boston right now?

Speaker 6 This team can't win a fucking game. Bad, bad basketball.
Coach trying to fight guys half-core. What the fuck is going on with these clowns?

Speaker 1 Fuck you.

Speaker 1 Whoa.

Speaker 6 My sleeper is cheap flights to Hawaii from Chicago because you can get them for $0

Speaker 6 if you just climb up into the landing gear. And then you just kind of hold on.
And you hope that you get there safe and sound, but you usually die.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 RIP to that guy. Love that.
R.I.P. to that guy.
Real great. Yeah,

Speaker 6 my guy left Chicago and he was like, I want to go to Maui. What's the best way to get to Maui? Oh, I'll just climb up into the landing gear compartment.

Speaker 6 And then the landing gear crushed him to death and also was like negative 70 degrees on the the flight.

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 6 they did a study and they said 70% of people that have tried that move have died. But the 30%, you get a great deal.

Speaker 1 It's great deal. Great deal.
All right, what's up, guys? It's Frankie Pastrami.

Speaker 1 My stardom this week is Teddy Bridgewater because he's back and he might win a ring because he's with the Detroit Lions now. Teddy Bridgewater, stand-up guy.
Teddy Bigstick.

Speaker 1 Stand-up guy. Stand-up guy.
My sit-em is this week in the calendar because it's no man's week. I I don't know where the fuck I am.
I don't know what's going on. There's football games all hours.

Speaker 1 I love that part. But holy shit, do you start a diet? Do you not start a diet? Do you read a book? Do you go to the dentist? You all do shit.
It's just no man's land all week long.

Speaker 6 I don't know about you guys, but on Sunday,

Speaker 6 well, I thought Christmas was Sunday because there was football on TV. And so I've been referring to Thursday as being Monday and Friday as being Tuesday.

Speaker 1 Yeah, all fucked up.

Speaker 1 It kind of reminds me of when we change our clocks in two weeks. My sleeper is Xavier Legette because he brought that raccoon with him to the locker room.
Oh, that shit.

Speaker 1 It actually looked kind of good. It looked like pulled pork.

Speaker 6 Yeah, that guy's a gamer.

Speaker 1 Gamer. Teddy Bridgewater, by the way, being back is awesome.

Speaker 6 It is very cool. I love that.
So he just won a state championship coaching his high school team, right? And then he's like, fuck it.

Speaker 1 You know what? I'll just come back. Yeah.
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 Okay. Let's see.

Speaker 6 It's a higher that they're making just because he's a good guy that people like to be around.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I like that. That's a culture changer.
Culture change. Okay, let's get to our interview with Paul Bissonette.

Speaker 6 PFT, you got a couple quick words before that.

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Speaker 1 And now.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very good friend of ours, recurring guest. It is Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

Speaker 1 It's Paul Bissonette, The man who has been,

Speaker 1 I don't know,

Speaker 1 I don't really know where to start. You're my hero.
I've told you that over and over, that you're my hero.

Speaker 1 You've lived basically every guy's fantasy,

Speaker 1 non-sexual fantasy, in terms of like, man, if I could be so tough that I could take on seven dudes.

Speaker 1 Let's start with this. How are you doing overall? And maybe like a little background for the people that don't know what we're talking about.

Speaker 8 I'm doing fine.

Speaker 8 I got conkied, obviously. I was

Speaker 8 just kind of on the IR for a couple of weeks there, but I've been getting some good Thai massages recently and it's been working out the kinks in my neck. So I'm not as fucked up as I was.

Speaker 8 But for those of you who have no clue what's going on, I went to eat at a family restaurant called Houston's that I normally go to.

Speaker 8 I go there like three, four, five times a week, sometimes when I'm back.

Speaker 8 And just these drunk Irish travelers, I don't know if people who are listening know what Irish travelers are, basically like modern-day gypsies. Um, but they were in there causing a ruckus.

Speaker 8 They got in the manager's face, they assaulted him, they harassed him. And then finally, I'd seen enough.

Speaker 8 I go over and I said, Hey, I said, If you guys keep doing that, I'm gonna bring you in the parking lot, we're gonna have issues. And then they just started swinging.

Speaker 8 So that fight went from inside the restaurant all the way over to the CVS. It was a three-minute round, and I was aghast by the end of it.

Speaker 8 Took a couple boot fucks to the head, but all in all, doing good, doing pretty good, boys.

Speaker 1 Took some, gave some more is my favorite line. Yeah, you fought seven dudes in a parking lot and you held your own.
Again, you're my hero. You're my hero.

Speaker 8 I mean, I want you singing the national anthem at a rough and rowdy in which I'm beating the fucking wheels off this Danny Bradley puke, the kid who was caught on video an hour and a half before that altercation, sucker punching a guy at Ravens Golf Club, and then moseyed on over to Houston's to do the exact same thing to that manager.

Speaker 8 But before he was able to cock his right back and swing, I went over there and then the rest of it ensued. And on top of all of what has gone on, now Glassbanger ends up in prison.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 All your foes are going down. You're just having an insane run right.

Speaker 6 So, what's going on right now with the legal proceedings with these guys? I saw one clip of one of the dudes who said, Yeah, I'll try to make it back.

Speaker 6 And the judge is like, Well, you have to do better than try. Have we got an update?

Speaker 1 He never made it back. Oh, shocking.

Speaker 8 He hired a lawyer named Larry Kazan, a local Scottsdale guy, whose kid,

Speaker 8 Ben Kazan, ended up DMing the Shea Stevens guy who's been doing all the undercover work on behalf of Spit and Chiclets, Barstool, and then our side of it.

Speaker 8 It was just some random Chiclets fan who's also a private investigator who has been uncovering all this crazy shit about these Irish travelers, like how they scam all these guys' records in the past, the fact that they have affiliation to these people who have caused or who have been involved in murders for insurance fraud scams.

Speaker 8 The list goes on and on and on as to how big of a dirtbag or how big of dirt bags these guys are.

Speaker 8 So shout out to Shea Stevens, but that Ben Kazan kid ended up sending him a DM basically being like, eat a bag of dicks. Fuck you, you Canadian, because the Shea Stevens kid's Canadian.

Speaker 8 So now we got this slimy lawyer in the mix. And that's why he didn't have to show up because he hired this big wig lawyer and he ended up, you know,

Speaker 8 taking the stand as far as his defense. So they know they dropped three of their charges to enhance them to felonies.
So I'm going to end up going after these guys civilly.

Speaker 8 We're probably going to have to wait till all the legal proceedings from a criminal side end up

Speaker 8 going out and about. But

Speaker 8 I don't even want, like, I want my hospital bills recovered. I want like my physio and all that paid for because my neck's still jacked up and I dealt with concussions.

Speaker 8 But I won't go after them that hard civilly if that Danny Bradley is willing to fuck, willing to fight me.

Speaker 8 So that's basically what I'm going to present to their side saying, I won't ruin your lives if you end up paying the piper inside of a ring.

Speaker 1 You're going to see a man about it. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 So, I mean, I feel like you could take them all out one by one, rough and rowdy, just biz versus the Irish, do it one night only, and then just give them three rounds, And everybody steps up.

Speaker 6 You beat the fuck out of them. You beat the next guy.
But you're such a nice guy. You're willing to say that you just want one of them.
You just want one of their scalps.

Speaker 8 I, so Danny Bradley was the guy in the lime green golf shirt who you see at Ravens Golf Club who suckers the employee. He ends up clipping one of the girl waitresses, too.

Speaker 8 He was the instigator in that one. He was also the instigator who was getting in and putting his hand inside the manager's face, like giving her one of these ones.
Right.

Speaker 8 And backing him up onto the back bar. That's when I kept turning around in my seat being like, like,

Speaker 8 like, did I smoke a bad batch of weed here? Like, am I going fucking crazy? Like, we're at Houston's restaurant, and these nine drunk golfers are getting in these guys' face.

Speaker 8 And the lime green golf shirt guy was the guy who was the antagonist in both situations.

Speaker 1 And they're just all.

Speaker 8 scumbag piece to shit who rip off everyday Americans.

Speaker 8 Anybody's grandparents who are listening, who live in Texas, they're going around knocking on their door saying that they're going to perform asphalt jobs. They say, hey, do half down.

Speaker 8 If you don't like it, we'll give you all your money back. See you later.

Speaker 8 Never to be seen again. Go to the next one.

Speaker 1 Deposit. These guys are out.
Scumbacks.

Speaker 1 It's a wild, wild story. So when I heard about, like, obviously I heard it, I was very concerned for like, cause, you know, you hear seven on one.

Speaker 1 That's scary, you know, like a guy could get knocked out and then get hit in the, you know, kicked in the face. They tried to kick you in the head.

Speaker 1 Like that, you know, like shit, bad shit can happen in a street fight. And when I thought about it, I was like, oh, it's probably just some like random, you know, college broads or something.

Speaker 1 But then to find out that they're legitimate, like

Speaker 1 criminals, traveling criminals that go around and do this.

Speaker 1 The whole story is insane.

Speaker 8 The way that it unraveled, because the next day I was expecting maybe like officers call and say, hey, these guys want to reach out to you about what happened where we could all just kind of go our own way.

Speaker 8 And even though they kicked me in the head, it's just like, well, maybe they just had one too many drinks and this was a one-off and a horrible mistake they made.

Speaker 8 And I understand that those types of things happen.

Speaker 8 But when I end up seeing that other video, when that Shea Stevens, who the undercover detective or whatever, the PI, whatever you want to call him, he'd been getting messages like crazy from people from their town in Fort Worth, Texas, being like, these guys show up to bars and restaurants and they'll get so rowdy to where they're going to be, they rip flat screen TV TVs off the wall.

Speaker 8 They like go and terrorize small businesses so the exact opposite of basically what barstool stands for and dave portnoy and what he does for small businesses these people are terrorizing them and then ripping off everyday civilians in order to buy their g-wagons or escalades these guys are cruising around like living life very lavishly by ripping people off and with other people's money so these type these guys they need to pay the pipe of this yeah it's like this

Speaker 8 we finally got these guys we got them pinned down and and including not only that danny bradley kid but that sean daly kid who i mean he's got a rap sheet as long as uh a santa list and he ended up having a military id on him a fake one so he could get discounts at hotels and restaurants and then they go do that at these places and then when he got caught after kicking me in the head because

Speaker 8 Keep in mind, so at the Raven Golf Club about an hour and a half, two hours earlier, it had been called in, but they didn't catch them. So they were off and running around town.

Speaker 8 And apparently they stopped at a Ruth's Chris before they ended up getting to Houston's.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 8 the cops were aware that these guys were out and about.

Speaker 8 So the minute that Houston's called in and they kind of were like, okay, it's probably the same guys, they were over there in like three minutes.

Speaker 8 Cause by the time the fight ended, some of them had been caught.

Speaker 8 Some of these guys were able to like run away and avoid police. But the camera operators, there was a camera across the street.

Speaker 8 They were operating it because they heard the call and they're like, okay, it moved outside. And then they followed it along.

Speaker 8 So they were able to identify what the guys were wearing and then call out to the cops being like, this is what these guys are wearing.

Speaker 8 And then, like, a few of them were caught a few miles down the road, which included that Sean Daly kid with the red shirt who boot fucked me in the head three, four times.

Speaker 8 Um, and at one point, his, his foot when he missed me ended up getting to the probably the height of his shoulders.

Speaker 8 So they were, if I would have, if I would have gotten knocked out out, they would have kept boot fucking yeah they would have

Speaker 1 like like it would have it would have they would have maybe killed you that that's the craziest part these guys are are the absolute scum of the earth pieces of shit and like they the other part about about it is they do this all around and they fight people and they take advantage of people and they are able to do it because they're you know they do it to anonymous regular civilians they just happened to do it to someone who has a huge following that's tremendously like well-liked across the internet.

Speaker 1 And now they fucked up because now the world knows about them.

Speaker 8 So I feel like it's my duty at this point. Like I don't care about like getting kicked in the head or any of that stuff, but I just feel like it's my duty now to publicly humiliate these guys.

Speaker 8 If they're willing to pay the piper and go through the legal system and pay their dues, not only criminally, but somewhat civilly, as I said, you sign the documentation, we meet in a ring somewhere.

Speaker 8 I'll make an example out of you and then we can all move on from this.

Speaker 8 But if they they don't, and they keep, I'm going to, I said to them on my, my, on the podcast, I've said it in clip, I'm going to smoke them out. I'm going to use every resource I got.

Speaker 8 I got, yo, there's some, there's some bad people out there. There's, there, Irish travelers are not the only bad people out there.
Right.

Speaker 6 Yeah, that's true. You might know some bad people out there, some bad umbrellas.

Speaker 1 And, and

Speaker 1 their own Irish, the other Irish travelers are probably not very happy that they're doing this and making going until they fucked with the wrong guy.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 8 That's my understanding is there's an Arizona chapter and a Texas chapter.

Speaker 1 No, I know. It's just wild.
It's just ridiculous.

Speaker 6 Because we had never heard about the subculture until you got into a fight with seven of them.

Speaker 6 And now it's like, I'm obsessed with finding out more about these people.

Speaker 1 Until they tried to boot fuck you.

Speaker 6 Outside the CVS.

Speaker 8 That's what I'm saying. So apparently the Arizona chapter is very angry being like, we're doing these small petty crimes under the table and you guys are bringing us all this negative attention.

Speaker 8 Like fuck off. So I don't know.

Speaker 8 it's uh it's a gong show but it also seems like something that like uh like the government or the feds need to get involved in like from a bigger scale in order to take these guys down like they like it's you know i i think that uh you know immigration and people coming over is great man like uh you know north america is the land of opportunity but to come over here and then do that like come on here what are we what are we talking about this isn't people that we want inside of our country is it no let's get the feds involved let's get the fbi monitoring the uh the Irish travelers.

Speaker 1 They boot the wrong guy, they did, they did, they stepped in it.

Speaker 6 That's a fact. And I love the fact that you're formally offering uh, you know, a retribution challenge for yourself.

Speaker 6 Like, I will, I will drop everything if I can just beat the fuck out of one of them.

Speaker 1 You're like chasing

Speaker 1 out like how do you send badass?

Speaker 6 How do you send that offer to them? Do you send that to their attorney, or are you just like faxing a document over and be like, You want to go? Paul Bissonet,

Speaker 1 you want one? Yeah,

Speaker 1 officially, you want one.

Speaker 1 It right, It reads, tap on the shin pads. You want one.
You want one.

Speaker 1 And it's just a circle, yes or no. Yeah.
But you laugh.

Speaker 8 That is exactly the way you do it.

Speaker 8 We slide over the number that we want to cover my hospital, ambulance, and all the bullshit bills.

Speaker 8 And of course, the lawyer fees or whatever it is. And it's like, this is going to be a lot less painful financially if you just meet me in the middle of a ring somewhere.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 I don't want to do it in a boxing ring. I want to do it in an MMA ring.

Speaker 1 I want the punches to hurt. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There you go.

Speaker 1 Armbar them. Yeah.

Speaker 6 I want to just pin down a couple details because I've done a lot of reading about this and I've been,

Speaker 6 I'm so happy that you're okay. And I think it's, it's a, it's ended up being one of these stories where Paul Bissinette becomes a legend.
You're like Paul Bunny.

Speaker 6 You can tell me anything about Paul Bissonet. It's like, okay, I've got to do that.

Speaker 8 You guys would have done the same thing.

Speaker 1 No, no, I would have. No.

Speaker 6 I would like to say that I would have.

Speaker 1 Hold on, PFT. If I ate it at Houston's four or five nights a week, maybe I would have.

Speaker 6 Well, so that was one of the details

Speaker 6 I wanted to clear up here. So Houston's, this place is a, it's a family restaurant.

Speaker 6 Yes. And how many times a week do you eat there?

Speaker 8 I would say at the height, probably like, I would say four to five times at the height. Like I haven't, I've only been there back twice since the ordeal in the last month, just because I just don't.

Speaker 8 you know, it just doesn't feel as comfortable and cozy as it once did. And maybe a little PTSD.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 And just like, I don't want to go in there and just like have to talk about it every time. So I've hit up a few other local spots where I just moved into my place not too long ago, my newer spot.

Speaker 8 So I haven't gotten back into my cooking routine like I was when I was renting my apartment the last few years.

Speaker 6 So you eat there, you said four to five times a week.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah, like at the height of it, yeah.

Speaker 6 Okay, so do you get the same thing every time you go?

Speaker 8 I switch it up a little bit.

Speaker 6 Okay, because I've heard that their salad is outstanding.

Speaker 8 Traditional salad, yeah.

Speaker 1 How would you know it's a family?

Speaker 8 It's a Kickstarter.

Speaker 8 it's a family restaurant it's a it is a family restaurant you confirm that yeah but so 39 locations have you ever eaten at a houston's i have not no i have okay it's it's uh it's very military like like it's it's like they are they are hardcore like the process to get hired there like they don't fuck shit up they are everything's always cooked perfectly the service is incredible they run a tight tight ship so that's why i go there i usually get the rotisserie chicken uh i do the fillet sometimes.

Speaker 8 If I'm feeling like extra wild, maybe the French dip.

Speaker 8 And yeah,

Speaker 8 that's usually the extent of it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 6 in the fight, I saw the video several times. I'm pretty upset.
I know that you're upset about this.

Speaker 8 The part where you clock the guy, you're behind the tree.

Speaker 6 So you don't get to see like the full-on clock. Can you tell me just about that punch and how good it felt and seeing that guy get knocked out?

Speaker 8 So yeah, so I kept getting backed up through the parking lot. And I don't know how many people who are listening, the videos are everywhere if you go search them online.

Speaker 8 Like if you go on my Twitter timeline, if you back it up a little bit, Shea Stevens has them. The local Fox station posted it.
So

Speaker 8 probably like three quarters through the distance of the fight, because remember, this started inside the Houstons and it made its way all the way over to CVS inside the same

Speaker 8 strip mall because they kept backing me out.

Speaker 8 And when you're fighting like that, you don't want to get clipped to where you end up getting knocked out where you're asleep because, like I said, they'll just keep kicking your head in.

Speaker 8 So, as I kept backing up, and then there would be a little bit of engagement, kept backing up, a little engagement.

Speaker 8 The one, one of the one guys who was the biggest dickhead, William Carroll, he ended up sprinting past the group to try to get me, like to try to catch me off guard. And I hit him with a right hook.

Speaker 8 And you could see in his mug shot that he's all fucked up on his left temple.

Speaker 8 And the minute I got him right on the temple with my right, he just dropped right to his knees, ready to fucking suck on my Forze, right? Right.

Speaker 8 Like he was getting ready to unzip my zipper, that fucking piece of shit.

Speaker 8 I should have fucking pulled it out and gave him a little bit of a nighting,

Speaker 8 trash fucking Irishman.

Speaker 8 But, and then I guess their side was trying to say that he like fell on the golf course and that's why he was all screamed up, like denying the fact that I did that.

Speaker 8 Like, give me a, hey, but if you watch the surveillance from across the street, in which catches them as they continue to kick me in the head after that, you could see him point at me and sprint at me in the into the frame.

Speaker 8 And then he disappears behind the dumpster. And then out the other side, there's four of them sprinting at me because they're pissed off.

Speaker 8 I just knocked out their buddy and he doesn't come out the other side. So pretty hard to deny.

Speaker 8 And then below the tree line, when the camera follows it as he runs in, where you get blocked, you could kind of see him drop. Yeah.
And then you come see me sprinting out the other side.

Speaker 8 So listen to this. Before any of the surveillance came out, didn't even know if they had surveillance, I recounted the whole story on the podcast and I posted something on social media.

Speaker 8 I was 95% bang on with all of the details of what happened. I thought the guy I knocked out was bald.
He wasn't bald. He had a little bit of hair.
He was maybe a little bit thin on top.

Speaker 8 Keep in mind, I was kicked in the head three, four times. So my memory was a little bit blurry.

Speaker 8 Every detail about the whole ordeal, I pretty much got bang on in my statement.

Speaker 8 And even the cops said like they were like, wow, you were unreal at recounting this before they'd even showed me the tape myself.

Speaker 1 And then, and then the post-game pressers were

Speaker 1 weirder. Yeah, the post-game pressers, you got guys, like they're finding guys at hotels like two miles down where they're pretending they weren't there.

Speaker 1 You got another guy who basically literally was like direct quote. He's like, he looked like Dwayne The Rock Johnson.
He didn't have a lick, you know, a lick of body fat on him.

Speaker 1 I said it. I was like, they basically were talking like Braveheart, like you're William Wallace.
They're like, he's nine feet tall and shoots fireballs out of his ass. It was so awesome.
Watch it.

Speaker 1 They were

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 8 scared. What a scene in Braveheart when he's running on the hills and they're like telling the tale of William Wallace.

Speaker 8 That's good.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's you.

Speaker 6 In the after report, I think the guys wanted to fuck you for the most part. They were like, he had his body was just covered with awesome tattoos.
Yeah, he's Mexican.

Speaker 1 It was awesome. He just beat the fuck out of us.

Speaker 6 So there was one moment where you're backing up through the parking lot and it seems like there are three guys that are walking at you, but they're not running at you yet.

Speaker 6 You're just kind of keeping your head on a swivel, backpedaling, trying to get out of the situation where it seems like you guys are exchanging words at that point.

Speaker 6 What do you say? Are you having a conversation at that point? Are you like, I'll fuck you up?

Speaker 1 And he's like, yeah, I'll find you up.

Speaker 8 The one guys, no, the one, I'm being like, I said, what the fuck are you guys doing, man? Like, these people are good people.

Speaker 8 And I, and I pointed at the assistant manager who walked out, the one that that guy with the red shirt was screaming in his face. That's when it all started and I turned around.

Speaker 8 So he ended up being removed from the restaurant. So when the assistant manager came out to try to break it up, that William Carroll guy grabbed him by the neck and threw him against the car.

Speaker 8 You could see that in one of the clips. So as he veers off and goes and does that, you could see me pointing.
And then one of the other guys is like, fight him, fight him.

Speaker 8 And pointing at the Danny Bradley guy, I go, I go, you guys back up and I'll square off with them one-on-one. But they never backed up.

Speaker 8 It was never going to be a fair fight.

Speaker 8 At one point, I think there was three or four of them because two or three of them had veered off to go fuck around with the assistant manager.

Speaker 8 But the minute that they'd thrown him against the car and assaulted him again, they hopped back in to come out by the dumpster.

Speaker 8 So that's the basically the words being exchanged were like, yeah, I'd love to go with a guy in the lime green shirt one-on-one, but I know that ain't going to happen. Yeah.

Speaker 8 Because it didn't happen in the restaurant. It didn't didn't happen when you guys got me down by the rock pile quickly when you started punching and kicking me.

Speaker 8 And then it obviously didn't happen after I knocked the William Carroll out when one of them tackled me like it was a rugby match. And then the other three had their way with me.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 They never wanted to fight fair. I mean, the whole story.
So let's have a fair fight. Yeah.

Speaker 8 And if a few of them want to jump in the ring, we'll let Sean Daly, the boot fuck specialist, we can let him.

Speaker 8 I'll take him as my traditional salad appetizer and then send in Danny Bradley when I'm done with him. I'm going to make these fucking guys famous.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I love it. We're going to make them famous.
We got to have front row, all the Houston staff

Speaker 1 sit in front row of the fight. You know, the VIP, just treat them well and they get to watch these idiots get their ass kicked by you.

Speaker 8 But in the meantime.

Speaker 8 We're going to let the legal process figure it out. And let's hope Larry Kazan, the local big wig lawyer whose son wants to get in the mix, firing DMs off the good side.
Like this guy lives locally.

Speaker 8 His son, Ben, went to ASU, and these guys are jumping on those guys' side. That's crazy.
I don't want these guys terrorizing the streets of Scottsdale when they live here.

Speaker 8 I think it's a bad look for Larry Kazan, and he can eat a bag of dicks too, just like this kid.

Speaker 1 All right, so Biz, I do have a couple hockey questions,

Speaker 1 but I want to say a couple other things. So

Speaker 1 we have the

Speaker 1 Winter Classics coming up at Wrigley. The Blackhawks Hawks are playing in the Winter Classic this year, and the Spit and Chicklets boys are doing a live show on Sunday, December 29th at 4 o'clock p.m.

Speaker 1 local time at the Riv. There's still some tickets left.
Chellios

Speaker 1 is going to be a guest. Confirmed.
Confirmed guess. Any other confirmed guests?

Speaker 8 Jeremy Rona.

Speaker 1 J.R.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 8 a local legend, JR. He started his career there.
I think Mike Keenan was the head coach. This guy's got the best stories of all time.
So does Chelly. These guys are unbelievable dudes.

Speaker 8 So happy that JR finally got inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. That was much, much needed and long awaited based on what he did for the game, not only on the ice, but off the ice.

Speaker 8 So great to have those two guys in the mix. We're actually going to have Tim Stapleton as well, who is one of the OG favorite chicklets interviews, probably a top five guy.

Speaker 8 He was the guy who kind of cracked open the can on all the Russian KHL stories.

Speaker 8 So he'll be joining us. Yans will be there.
The game notes, guys, Merle and Army will be there. And I think at this point right now, there's about 150 tickets left over.

Speaker 8 I want to say the venue seats about 11 to 1200. So there's some lower bowls available.
There's some upper bowls available, but it's going to be a live show at four o'clock.

Speaker 8 So even if you're a Hawks fan and you're going to the game that night, you'll be downtown. Come grab a couple cocktails, come to the show at four, and then you'll be out of there by 5.30.

Speaker 8 You can go grab a quick bite to eat and then off to the Chicago Blackhawks game. And then, of course, they play two days later

Speaker 8 on the 31st, which is going to be the winter classic. It's going to be awesome.
I actually like that it's on New Year's Day.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Rather, or sorry, New Year's Day Day.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 Rather than New Year's Day, just because people are like hungover.

Speaker 8 It's almost like you go to the game, you get that little buzz going, you go out, have fun, and then the next day you could just sit on the couch and watch football.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and also it doesn't compete against college football,

Speaker 1 the bowl game. So, which, by the the way, Biz might, he might stick around and watch a little bowl games with us on New Year's Day.

Speaker 8 I'm trying to get it. I'm trying to convince Yans as well.

Speaker 1 I changed my flight. All right, I'll tell Yans.
I'll text him that. All right, so definitely buy tickets to that.
You can buy it.

Speaker 1 We'll put the link in

Speaker 1 the YouTube for our show today. So go buy it tickets for the live show.
It's going to be awesome.

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Speaker 8 Hockey question.

Speaker 1 Is it the Leaf's year finally?

Speaker 1 Give us a quick,

Speaker 1 I don't know, three-minute, like, who's playing well? Who's playing like dog shit? Who's who's, you know, Macklin Celebrini, he's been awesome. Like, give us a quick,

Speaker 1 this isn't our full NHL preview.

Speaker 1 That probably won't happen for another two months, But just give us a quick, like, hey, here's what's going on in the league refresher because football is winding down and hockey season starts for us.

Speaker 8 I would say this is the best lineup the Leafs have had in the last 15, 20 years. Very solid back end.
They're getting incredible goaltending. They have three guys, actually.

Speaker 8 Matt Murray, who finally came back from injury, who won a couple Stanley Cups with the Penguins. Mind you, like, you know, he does deal with the injury bug.

Speaker 8 They have that Joseph Wall, who last year played incredible, got injured for game seven.

Speaker 8 And then, oh, God, I'm drawing a blank here.

Speaker 8 Their starter who just got hurt. I'm drawing a blank, but he's been unreal all season long for them.
He just went on the IR. I think he's out four to six weeks.
Help me out by Googling him.

Speaker 8 I can't believe I forgot his name, but they're back end solid. They're core four.
All the guys making all the big dough.

Speaker 8 Matthews, Marner, Tavaris, and Nielander are buzzing. Matthews has been out a little bit with back issues.
I don't know if it's spasms or whatnot.

Speaker 8 He actually went over to Germany to get looked at, came back, was buzzing when he returned, and then left

Speaker 8 or got re-injured the other night after taking a cross-check in the back in the Buffalo game. But very solid team.
They're at the top of that Atlantic division, which is very strong.

Speaker 8 They're tied in points with Florida, who's a juggernaut again, who has the possibility to reach their third Stanley Cup finals in a row if they stay healthy.

Speaker 8 Looking around the rest of the league, New Jersey, great bounce back here. Astolars is the goalars name for the Leafs.
Yeah, he's been incredible for them. A great pickup.

Speaker 8 Going to the Metro, New Jersey just looks really solid. They solidified their goaltending.
They got Markstrom. And then,

Speaker 1 who's the other one?

Speaker 8 Not Elliot. Fuck.
No, I'm drawing a lot of blanks on the goalies' names today.

Speaker 1 Oh, you got boot fucked a little. What's that? You got boot fucked.

Speaker 8 I got boot fucked in the head. Sorry, folks.

Speaker 8 But their offense is incredible. They got a great top nine forward group, great defense.

Speaker 8 Probably the biggest surprise so far this year has been the Washington Capitals, PFT's team.

Speaker 8 They made a lot of trades in the offseason, like five or six guys they brought in, like whether it was signings or trades, and they have just really panned out. Pierre Luc Dubois playing solid.

Speaker 8 They got Jacob Chikrin over from Ottawa, who's a great defender.

Speaker 8 Manji Opani's been solid. Roy.
So they just, they went out and got five or six guys where they were able to gel very quickly.

Speaker 8 I would say the overall MVP of their team, not only Ovechkin, because of the gold chase, but because of the mojo he's created around the team, him and Dylan Strom have had incredible chemistry.

Speaker 8 They really slow the game down. It's almost like the reincarnation of Backstrom.
Not to insult Baxtrom at all, but just the chemistry that these two have together.

Speaker 8 But I would have to say Carberry. the coach,

Speaker 8 he's the front runner for the Jack Adams. He just is such a modern day coach, players coach, really inspires the players and they've really gotten behind him.

Speaker 8 Carolina is always solid with Rob Brindemore, although people don't have much trust for them to get past the conference finals.

Speaker 8 They seem to get there every year and they blow their load and they just can't get over that hump.

Speaker 8 Winnipeg had a crazy start to the year where they were 15-0-1.

Speaker 8 People didn't expect that. So that was another huge surprise.

Speaker 8 And then Minnesota, Carrill the Thrill, another crazy Russian in the league who's been lighting the lamp, probably a top three candidate for MVP right now, and just an unreal player to watch, where every game, game in, game out, shift in, shift out.

Speaker 8 He is much watched television.

Speaker 8 And then probably just have to give a little bit of love to Witty's Oilers, who have made a great comeback in a sense of another slow start. They were bullshit off the beginning.

Speaker 8 Probably some hangover from going all the way to the cup finals. And then, oh, God, we got to do this all over again.

Speaker 8 And then um probably the front runner in that pacific division is the vegas golden knights uh they got great depth up the middle they have a really really good back end and uh good goaltending and they're well coached so that's a good synopsis of the league i don't know if you guys had any further questions about um about the nhl but that's pretty much my rundown i had one further question that was a great rundown um are you worried at all about because i was actually texting with wit about this uh that the Dallas Stars are going to be a team of destiny because Glassbanger Kid got put in jail and he is going to get out right as the Western Conference finals start.

Speaker 8 I think Dallas is a top five team in the league. So yes,

Speaker 8 I think that they could be a problem with Glassbanger. So a little bit of a backstory.
So for you non-hockey fans, it's a faux pas.

Speaker 8 to continually bang on the glass as the play gets close to you, right?

Speaker 8 I can understand understand some people, it's their first hockey game, they're getting excited, the play comes over, and they want to start body checking the glass a little bit to like feel like they're in the mix, but eventually you figure it out, you stop doing that, or someone just grabs your shoulder and says, hey, buddy, stop banging the fucking glass, or I'm going to give you a knuckle sandwich, or I'm going to kick boot fuck you like an Irish traveler.

Speaker 8 Well, this guy, he's a trust fund baby. He has glass seats.
He calls himself the glass banger. He brings a sign every game that has the hashtag bang.
He wears a full white suit.

Speaker 8 And anytime the play comes near him or anytime he wants to distract the goalie, he's just continually banging the glass, throwing body checks against the glass.

Speaker 8 So even last year during playoffs, the camera would pan over.

Speaker 8 There'd be a battle behind the net, and he'd be over there getting in on the four-check with the rest of the team, just banging, banging, banging. So the section.

Speaker 8 that he sits in, the people are fed up with him. They hate him.
He also, to put a cherry on top, brings pay-for-play hookers to every game.

Speaker 8 Like, he'll bring, like, he'll, he'll call a girl from back pages,

Speaker 8 get sucked off in his limo outside, and then bring him on in, and then just be obnoxious.

Speaker 1 And then that's it.

Speaker 8 Every game in, game out. So apparently, he ended up like, what, getting a DUI and then forgot about it?

Speaker 1 It happens. Yeah.
He was like, he got pulled over. He's like, there was a miscommunication.
He had a worn out first arrest for a previous DUI. So now he's in jail.

Speaker 1 I mean, I don't know how that happens where you're like, oh, whoops. Better call Saul.

Speaker 1 Like, I didn't realize that I had a warrant for the DUI I had.

Speaker 6 But yeah, you're milling them down one by one. What about Marshan? What about him? What bad stuff is going to happen? Because he bootfucked you in the face on TNT.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he got you good.

Speaker 8 Just when I didn't need it, Brad Marshawn comes in, the Cozan Ostra.

Speaker 8 Brad Marshaw is such an incredible ambassador to the NHL. So I have no more beef with him, nor do I want to get to put any more headlocks with noogies from Brad.

Speaker 8 But we had a fun little back and forth on TNT after that happened. And I don't know how many people watch the clip online, but so every time pregame, the whole panel usually asked one question.

Speaker 8 So they had just replaced their coach. They fired Jim Montgomery.
They brought in Joe Sacco.

Speaker 8 And I was curious to know, because it's the first time that we got a chance to talk to him, what was it that Brad, as captain of the Boston Bruins, took away from what when Sacko first addressed the team?

Speaker 8 Like, what did you guys need to button up and change? And what was the message? So I asked that, and he's like, well, that's a bit of a boring question. And then proceeds to answer it.

Speaker 8 So he antagonized me. So I tap Liam.
I go, give me one more. So the other guys are in the midst of asking their questions.
And then finally, they're done and he's not answering.

Speaker 8 And I say, Brad, one last question here from Biz. I said, you're, you know, I heard about all these off-season surgeries because he had like two or three off-season surgeries.

Speaker 8 I said, was one of them getting a Turkish hair transplant? Because his hair looked great.

Speaker 1 He filled in some spots.

Speaker 8 As the guys at Barstool know, this thing can really change the top of your doll. It can.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 8 he had a good chuckle and he goes, Aha. He goes, I'm just trying to look like one of those Irish travelers that beat the wheels off you the other night.

Speaker 1 And just on the broadcast, unexpectedly.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 8 I get nose kicked and he gets the last laugh. So, sure enough, enough, we have them on back-to-back broadcasts.

Speaker 8 So, we plan this whole skit where I do a Department of Player Safety, like George Parris used to film the clips, and we roll it.

Speaker 8 And then I come out of it, and I got the neck brace on and the head wrap, and he didn't know. So, we got him a monitor so he could see me asking that next question.

Speaker 8 And then we shared another awesome back and forth. But these are the type of things that I think the NHL needs in order to draw outside interest.

Speaker 8 And I just can't thank Marshi for being a good sport and not only involving himself, but definitely giving it back. So it was a fun exchange.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you guys are so good on TNT with,

Speaker 1 it feels like the inside the NBA. It feels like

Speaker 1 Chuck and Kenny and those guys, like you guys have come to the bottom of the business.

Speaker 8 I got to go sit and do a hit with those guys. Like I sat down with them for 10 minutes to go on and promote the winter classic.
So I got to sit down with those guys. And as you just said,

Speaker 8 they laid the foundation so

Speaker 8 we could be a little bit more personable and maybe be a little less stale and traditional broadcast.

Speaker 8 So not only thank you to TNT for everything they've done for me, but also those guys for laying the foundation of what is just non-stop entertainment.

Speaker 8 And yeah, very grateful and honored to sit down with all of them. Ernie,

Speaker 8 Shaq.

Speaker 8 Kenny and who's in Barkley.

Speaker 8 Sorry, I'm drawing a blank to the guy who is to my left is it uh

Speaker 8 kenny's i i think you were in the middle so kenny was to your left yeah kenny kenny yeah yeah i feel like he's like the glue guy yeah you know like you always talk about shaq and barkley but he he has some quick one-liners that he's a funny fucker man yeah yeah they have just great chemistry

Speaker 6 oh yeah i'd like to present you with a part of my take citizen of the year award i don't think we've ever done that Should he be, I feel like 2024 should go to Paul Bissonet.

Speaker 1 Citizen of the Year award. Wow.

Speaker 6 You get the key to the podcast. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Citizen of the Year Award.

Speaker 1 A little bump on there for you.

Speaker 8 Boys, boys.

Speaker 8 I'm honored. I always get a little bit envious when I see the Blake of the Year or

Speaker 8 these awards that you give out and the fact that I'm taking in my first ever

Speaker 1 citizen of the year.

Speaker 6 I mean, the year isn't over, but right now you're the frontrunner. Yeah,

Speaker 1 don't mess anything up.

Speaker 6 You're minus 900 to be the citizen award. Citizen of the year award.

Speaker 8 Okay, I didn't have a speech prepared, but I guess I should wait till the new year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, wait till you officially win it. You got to officially win it for you to, yeah.

Speaker 8 I'll just say, if I do win it, okay, I'm not saying I'm going to, don't want to jinx it.

Speaker 8 If I do win it, I want to pass it along to all the citizens of Scottsdale and also the police fire department, all the first responders and the amazing people.

Speaker 1 Incredible. Why are you doing it? What do you mean? No, incredible.
This is what it is in the year nineteen years. This is why you're going to win it, probably.

Speaker 8 Well, I just wanted to solidify that, but all those police officers that caught those scumbags and helped rein those guys in from creating more terror in our city.

Speaker 8 So thank you to the police department of not only Paradise Valley, but Scottsdale Road. Bad boys, bad boys.

Speaker 1 Don't do

Speaker 8 the don't do when Biz comes for you.

Speaker 1 All right, so Biz, I got one last question. So y'all know that we're big fans of Cracker Barrel.
And this holiday season, I will be sat at their table with a big plate of country fried turkey.

Speaker 9 And Brandon, I'll be right there with you and I'll check it off my Christmas list in the country store while I'm at it.

Speaker 14 It'll make a nice holiday tradition.

Speaker 6 Oh, that's so cute of you.

Speaker 14 Enjoy all the more holiday traditions only at Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 1 Hopefully, you will, first of all, go buy the tickets. Again,

Speaker 1 the Chicklets boys are doing a live show on Sunday, December 29th at 4 p.m. at The Riv.
You can go buy tickets.

Speaker 1 We'll post it here on the YouTube so you can, and we'll put it in the episode description if you're listening on the podcast. Go buy it.
It's going to be a great show.

Speaker 1 So my last question is,

Speaker 1 well, you're going to hopefully win Citizen of the Year.

Speaker 1 You're going to come watch maybe some college football with us on January 1st. If you do, then

Speaker 1 we'll have you back on to do a Citizen of the Year acceptance speech. But would you maybe decide, would you display your Citizen of the Year award in Houston's if you want it?

Speaker 1 Because I would love for the people of Houston's

Speaker 1 to pay their respects. So would you do that? Would you consider that?

Speaker 8 I would 100% bring it over and say, hey, the PMT boy.

Speaker 8 Only if next time you're in there, we give you a traditional salad on the house. Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay. I like that.

Speaker 6 Listen, you should not pay for another meal there ever. Ever.

Speaker 8 We'll see.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 8 But if you do the traditional salad, you got to do it with a thousand island dressing. Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 6 They should at least name a menu item after you. That salad should be called the biz.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Well, maybe I could bring, I know you're not going to be here, PFT, but big cat, maybe I can bring you when you're here on the 26th.

Speaker 8 I could bring you in there, show you around, show you the blood spatter that's still on the ground there be nice show show me the people chalk the chalk line tremendous staff yeah we'll get like x's put on the ground like it's dealy plaza so people can go through it and and and relive the night be like oh that's where he got bootfucked

Speaker 6 also you recap speech i i mean you didn't plan on doing it this way but it was you have a way about speaking that's like i maybe it's part you know the canadian part of you where you're retali retelling this very scary event but almost like in a whimsical way where you're like like, yeah, three or four guys just bootfucked me in the parking lot outside the CVS.

Speaker 6 And it makes you want to laugh as you're recapping it, but it's like serious stuff. It was just,

Speaker 6 it's been a whirlwind of the last month for you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're our hero. You're our hero.
You're our hero. And thank you, Biz.
Thank you for your service.

Speaker 8 I also, first of all, thank you guys for having me on and the kind words. And the last thing I'll say is, Like, I was never that much of a fighter growing up.

Speaker 8 Like, yeah, I gotten a few dust-ups on the

Speaker 8 playground and did a little bit in junior.

Speaker 8 but when i got to the american hockey league and i switched from defense to forward that's kind of when i got thrown in the fire where i had to start playing that role so when i was playing in the ahl back-to-back years i got over 30 fights so we would get on a bus we drive to the away city get off the bus you get dressed and i have to fight jeremy oblonski in binghamton once or sometimes even twice get bambied get conkied go to the penalty box there was no spotter back then you just went and licked your wounds in the box and acted like nothing was wrong.

Speaker 8 And then, after that game, you put your gear back in your bag, you hop back on the bus, you travel four hours to the next city, you'd go and unpack your gear at that rink at 2 a.m.

Speaker 8 or whatever time it was. You'd go to the motel, you'd sleep, you'd wake up, and you'd do it all over again.
You'd do that three in a row, three and threes.

Speaker 8 So that basically prepared me to get bootfock at the CVS parking lot.

Speaker 8 Like I was, I need to encounter Jeremy Oblonsky and the John Morasty's, John Nasty Morasty, and all those other guys who used to beat the wheels off me when I was learning how to scrap, that prepared me for the Irish Traveler.

Speaker 8 So without them, I'd probably be drinking out of a straw on a respirator right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, I'm glad that you're not.

Speaker 6 Yeah, but I do hope you get your nose fixed at some point. They fucked it up pretty bad there.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 8 I'm going to add that to

Speaker 8 the note that I'm sliding across Larry Kazan's desk.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Biz's nose is a bit more than that. It's perfect.

Speaker 8 You can pay for the nose job.

Speaker 6 You had a great nose before that fight. They need to fix that.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, Biz, you're the best, man.
And Citizen of the Year Award, we get like one, you know, five days left in the year. So, so we'll uh, hopefully, you can wrap it up.

Speaker 6 Yeah, don't fuck up. I hope this doesn't become a Justice Smollett in the next in the next week where we found out that you none of this actually happened, but right now,

Speaker 6 right now, minus 900. Here's nasty

Speaker 1 hired actors, yeah,

Speaker 1 we'd still probably give you the award. Yeah, all right, thanks, Biz.
Appreciate it, man.

Speaker 8 I love you guys.

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Speaker 1 All right, Fire Fest of the week to wrap us up. Henry.

Speaker 7 I mean, tough, tough to have a a fire fest on a great week like this.

Speaker 7 I don't know. I guess I watched.

Speaker 7 I played nine holes on Christmas. Had a great time with the fan.
Shot five over. It was like a part three, part four course, short course.

Speaker 7 People were very mean to me online, but that's to be expected. Not really a fire fest.
I watched

Speaker 1 Red One.

Speaker 7 The Rock Christmas movie.

Speaker 8 Horrible.

Speaker 7 Just an abomination of a Christmas movie.

Speaker 6 You expected more?

Speaker 7 No, I got, well, I guess, I guess the Real Fire Fest, I got trolled. I got satired.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 7 I read a tweet thread from someone that was like, I know all the reviews of Red One were bad, but actually it was pretty good.

Speaker 7 And then there was a few replies from people that were also in on the bit being like, yeah, this movie was really funny. Like, people don't, like, it was good.
And I bought it.

Speaker 7 So I recommended it to my family being like, I I think this movie's good. We should watch it.
No.

Speaker 1 You got Morpheus?

Speaker 1 Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 7 Within five minutes, I was like, no, this is that. Like, I went back and checked.
I was like, yeah, no, this was satire. I didn't, I didn't pick up on it, and this is so bad.

Speaker 1 Damn. That's tough.
That should add it to New Year's, your New Year's resolutions.

Speaker 1 I think that's where I'm using.

Speaker 6 I think I'm going to read one book this year.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's going to be huge.

Speaker 1 All right. In terms of Firefest, that's nothing.

Speaker 7 Especially last year. We got last week and then we got this week.
You know, not every week is the same. All Fire Fests are created equal.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. PFT?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Kind of like Hank.

Speaker 6 It's a good week. Christmas.
The joy is here. I'm in the Christmas spirit.
Got to see some family and hang out. It's been a good week.
So my only Fire Fest is,

Speaker 6 I guess, I went to a speakeasy. On Monday.
You guys ever go to a speakeasy?

Speaker 7 I never really know what the definition of a speakeasy is because I feel like it's like something from the prohibition era and now bars just say it's a speakeasy.

Speaker 7 But unless there's a secret entrance, I don't think it should be called a speakeasy.

Speaker 6 I agree. And I don't think that there should be speakeasies unless they're actually illegal places where you can smoke inside.

Speaker 6 It's against the law. That's what a speakeasy should be.
There are way too many speakeasies in America right now. If you want to have a cool bar, you just call it a speakeasy.

Speaker 6 And you just go up to the door, you like knock on it. You just have to know the right door.
And then you walk in and it's a bar.

Speaker 6 There's this one that's down in Texas that I just heard about where you go up to it and it looks like it's a flower shop that's closing.

Speaker 6 And you go in and there's a guy that's like cleaning off the counters. And then you go in and he lets you in to the actual bar.

Speaker 6 So this guy up front is just like an actor playing somebody that cleans up at night. And then he's like, okay, here's the bar.
There's way too many speakeasies.

Speaker 6 If you're going to have a speakeasy, it should be illegal. You should feel like you're getting away with something.
Like you could, you stand the chance of getting arrested

Speaker 6 or at least watching the entire place get shut down while you're in it there's way too many speakeasies out there they're just bars you're looking for an excuse to charge like seven dollars more for a beer and ten dollars more for a cocktail but you're just a bar you're not a speakeasy it's it's stolen valor yeah bars during covids that actually like ran yes were open like that was some true speakeasy shit where they like blacked out the windows and like would be like the cops are coming turn the music down for 10 minutes like i uh during covet i got a haircut and my it like when they weren't allowed to be open and

Speaker 1 my barber let me in through the back door and then like kept all the lights off in the front and I was like in the way back. That was fucking cool.
That's what a speakeasy should be. Yeah.

Speaker 6 That counts as a speakeasy, but now the term just gets thrown around fast. It's not a speakeasy if I look at your wall and you have your health department grade on the wall.

Speaker 1 You're right.

Speaker 6 It pisses me off. I don't know.
Maybe there's people out there that like the whole speakeasy trend. I'm not one of them.

Speaker 1 Can I piggyback real quick, PFT?

Speaker 1 Another trend that I fucking hate, bars. I can't stand, I don't know why this pops up every now and then.
The bars that have the like pour your own beers.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I hate that shit.
That shit is so stupid. The whole point of going to a bar is have someone, like, you get to sit down.
You get to have a little conversation with the bartender.

Speaker 1 They pour you a beer. You feel like a man.
Like, I don't want to have to get up and go pour my own beer. I suck at pouring beer.
Yeah. And you need to

Speaker 7 have a card to act.

Speaker 1 activate yeah you feel like you're playing laser tag or some

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 6 dave and buster's mega beer that you have to pour yourself i i didn't like it when elon did that uh the tesla convention or whatever and he had the robot bartender i don't want a robot bartender i want a bartender that's going to be like friendly with me and trick me into thinking that we're friends now and then like I'm going to have a good conversation with him.

Speaker 6 I don't want to have to like wait patiently for a robot or a machine to pour my beer.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. My Fire Fest, I mean, it's the Bears and what just happened on national television, but it's also because Sundays we always stream, so I'm not home.

Speaker 1 I watched the first half with my son, and he was just like, why are the Bears always losing? And I just couldn't answer that. I was just like,

Speaker 1 it was just, I don't, it's kind of similar to when he was like, how, how hot is the sun? I was just like, I don't fucking know. Like, I don't have an answer.

Speaker 7 Same answer. Don't look at it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, don't look at it. He was just like, he was like,

Speaker 1 the bad guys have three and the bears have zero. Why are we always losing? I was like, dude, I don't fucking know.

Speaker 6 Have you had the conversation about like, did you try to turn him off tanking?

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, he's been off tanking.

Speaker 1 We had a long discussion about Caleb in the offseason that's not aging well. That was in the privacy of my own home.

Speaker 1 I might have taken some videos on draft day

Speaker 1 saying this is the day that's going to change our lives. And we're going to play this later when you're like 15.
But yeah, no, it sucks. It sucks.
The Bears are miserable.

Speaker 1 Thank God they don't have any more nationally televised games because there's only one more game left. But holy shit.

Speaker 1 It's setting the game of football back. Decades.
Decades.

Speaker 1 It's so bad, dude. So Caleb had a dime, an absolute dot for a touchdown.
I'm laughing at Hank.

Speaker 1 That's unbelievable.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I drafted it. I was like, today's the day that we're going to laugh about this in a decade.

Speaker 6 That touchdown pass that he threw, was it to Roman Dune in the first half? This is awesome. That was a personal highlight reel.

Speaker 1 Didn't care.

Speaker 6 It's bullshit that the Bears aren't allowed to cheat. They should be allowed to cheat.
One guy should be allowed to cheat on every play.

Speaker 1 I'm going to have to find these videos. I'll send it to you, Hank.

Speaker 1 It's just so bad. It's just me being like...

Speaker 5 Burton also said you can just blame Thursday Night Football.

Speaker 1 Yeah, all right, good, good, good, good, good. Thursday night football.
There it is. There it is.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 We did record numbers. So, reminder: we'll be back on Sunday night.
So, you'll have a show on Monday,

Speaker 1 and then we'll have a show on Friday as well next week. So, Monday, Friday, next week as well.

Speaker 1 But, yeah, let's kick it to ourselves in the studio where we recorded some lottery ball.

Speaker 1 Okay, we're back in studio. Numbers: 17,

Speaker 1 11, 80.

Speaker 1 Hmm.

Speaker 1 He's looking around for numbers. 21.

Speaker 6 7.

Speaker 6 67. 74.
25.

Speaker 1 74.

Speaker 1 Five.

Speaker 1 Shane Daniels. Love Daniels.
Is he? Yep. 58, Shane Daniels.
Wow.

Speaker 6 Quite the contrary, Miss.

Speaker 6 He's so good. He's so good.