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Speaker 1 On today's part in my take, we have

Speaker 1 Frank Caliendo on the show in studio. We also have NFL Week 13.
Picks and preview.

Speaker 1 Thursday Night Football Recap. Brian Kelly is now a Southerner.
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Speaker 1 Welcome to part of my take presented by Tostitos, the official chip and dip of the NFL. Today is Friday,

Speaker 1 I almost said November, but it's actually December, December 3rd. And Dan Quinn, backwards date Dan Quinn, cool guy, Dan Quinn.

Speaker 1 He's won a game. The Dallas Cowboys beat the Saints.
Taysom Hill,

Speaker 1 maybe not the guy. Dan Quinn with a backwards hat is a new man, big cat.
And he's rocking the backwards hat. He means business.
That's Danny Quinn up there.

Speaker 1 You can throw what you know about Dan Quinn, old Daniel, out the window. This is Danny Quinn, and he means business.

Speaker 1 Mike McCarthy is watching right now, probably smashing like he's got a sledgehammer. He's smashing a birthday cake with the word Wuhan on it.
And he's just like, God damn it, I may have been usurped.

Speaker 1 Not by the coordinator that I thought was going to take my job because Kellen Moore had some really weird play going down the stretch. But Dan Quinn, I just, he looks so comfortable now.

Speaker 1 And in a touching tribute to Mike McCarthy, who is out with COVID, Dan Quinn made sure that they went into the locker room running out of time, kicking a field goal at the end of the first half with two timeouts in their back pocket.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That was nice.
It was like Mike McCarthy is here. It's like.
It's like when Jason Kidd would shoot foul shots and he'd give like a little signal to his kid at home. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was going to say, what was the loyal Merry Mount? Who's the guy who died? Give it to me. Give it to me, Jake.

Speaker 1 Way back in the day. Way back in the day.
I'm talking about way back in the day. And then his Bo Kimball shot the free throw left-handed for his fallen teammate.

Speaker 1 That's kind of what Dan Quinn was doing with Mike McCarthy. Hank Gathers.
Hank Gathers. There it is.
I knew I had it somewhere in the old brain. But yeah, Thursday night football.

Speaker 1 So a couple things. Cowboys' offense still kind of looks weird.
Like you said, Kellen Moore, they just look off. I don't know what it is.

Speaker 1 Like, everything feels a little out of rhythm, a little bit clunky.

Speaker 1 Shout out Marcus Williams for that incredible, I don't want to get my ankles broken on national television, so I'm going to let Tony Pollard run by me

Speaker 1 touchdown.

Speaker 1 But yeah, their offense looks a little clunky, and Taysom Hill, the biggest takeaway is maybe we now understand why Sean Payton has always flirted with Taysom Hill and never been like, hey, you're our quarterback.

Speaker 1 I think they need to give him a new contract. I think that, if anything,

Speaker 1 that's a quarterback that needs to have the confidence of the front office behind him when he plays. Give him another 10-year contract.
Maybe load him up for like 150 mil guaranteed this time. Yes.

Speaker 1 He loves underthrowing his receivers on comeback routes. Like Like 11-yard passes.
Yes. But his receiver's like 14 yards away when he checks back to the ball.

Speaker 1 And always, I swear to God, there were like seven or eight passes tonight where I was like, maybe he caught it, but no, it was clearly a short hop on the field.

Speaker 1 He looked, I'll say something nice about Taysom Hill. In the first three quarters, he didn't look awful.
The first interception was not on him.

Speaker 1 I like the way he goes into the huddle. He does the Drew Brees, like really lean forward onto that knee like a dog taking a piss.

Speaker 1 He He can run. He can run.
He's fun when he runs. But

Speaker 1 anytime he has to throw a pass that's that requires any degree of touch on it, he can throw a bomb too.

Speaker 1 But he'll either try to throw a touch pass and he'll get picked off or he'll throw a pass like negative one yards into the flat.

Speaker 1 I always think when it's the Saints, I always am reminded of the Reggie Bush playing the playoffs on that play in the flat where Sheldon Brown just laid him out. Yes.
But yeah, Taysom Hill,

Speaker 1 probably not the quarterback of the future, but I still like Taysom Hill in small doses. And the Saints are very banged up.

Speaker 1 Obviously, I think their season is officially over just because we've, like, credit to the Saints.

Speaker 1 They've kind of kept in a lot of these games, even though they haven't, you know, I mean, I guess they got a little bit blown out by the Bills on Thanksgiving night.

Speaker 1 But, like, they still have a little punch. They still have a good roster, and defensively, they stay in it.
But, man, they like that.

Speaker 1 Taysom Hill is just the whole entire offense, Kamara not being there, Michael Thomas just retiring early, which sucks.

Speaker 1 The whole thing just feels like it's falling apart. Now, the Cowboys.
I like Billy's take on Taysom Hill, by the way. It was like he's the Nate Diaz of quarterbacks, where he said, what'd you say?

Speaker 1 He may not win, but you'll respect him. Yeah, but we can kind of amp that up a little bit to like he'll just straight up get his ass kicked.
Yeah, and you're like, damn, that guy's tough.

Speaker 1 But then afterwards, you're like, he didn't stop running. Yeah.
You know, he really kept on trying really hard, and he did have a

Speaker 1 splint, like an old school splint you get when you jam your finger playing basketball

Speaker 1 on his middle finger, on his throwing hand. Russell Wilson came back in three weeks.
Yeah. Taysom Hill came back in three minutes.

Speaker 1 Well, I think it also, it kind of just proves like, hey, Taysom Hill, you're not really there to throw it accurately. Because

Speaker 1 I would imagine most quarterbacks either, if they, I don't know if he broke his finger or jammed his finger, they would either come out of the game or not wear a splint and tough that out.

Speaker 1 He's like, you know what? Like, throwing's not really my thing anyway. Yeah.

Speaker 1 so what does this matter i also think sean payton has the biggest mood swings of any head coach but when he's in love with you he's really in love with you yeah so even though taysom hill had probably a broke a pretty much broken hand and was still out there playing This was a guy that liked Trevor Simeon a lot a couple weeks ago, but now he really likes Taysom Hill a lot.

Speaker 1 He does get credit, though, for calling Teddy Bridgewater. He tried to get Teddy Bridgewater.
So he tried to do that. I think this just means Jameis needs to get more and more money.

Speaker 1 All these games would be so much fun. Jameis wins this game.

Speaker 1 He wins this game if he has one leg. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, we got to talk about, so Trayvon Diggs, obviously, he got his ninth pick, and we've joked that he should be the MVP of the season.

Speaker 1 He is now no longer the best defensive player on the Cowboys. Michael Parsons is insane.

Speaker 1 I saw a stat that Michael Parsons, he's already surpassed all of Chase Young's defensive rookie of the year stats,

Speaker 1 and we still have five games left.

Speaker 1 So that means he's going to stink next year. Yeah, he's going to stink there and maybe get hurt.
Hopefully not knock on wood. But he's like,

Speaker 1 even that pick, the Taysom Hill pick that was along the sideline on that wheel route, Micah Parsons was playing defense on the receiver. I think it was,

Speaker 1 was it,

Speaker 1 who's playing receiver for the Saints? They've got Lil Jordan Humphrey. Yeah, who I love.
That's a great name. They've got Calloway, right? Yeah.
Do they have Harris? Did they have Kenny Stills? No.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they got Harry. Did Kenny Stills?

Speaker 1 I don't know. No.
I don't think so. But either way, Michael Parsons was like 20 years.
He was on the the team. Okay, so that's who he was defending.
No, I think that's who he was defending.

Speaker 1 He was defending Kenny Stills on a wheel route. He was 20 yards down the field playing cornerback, and he was the one who broke up that pass that led to the interception on the sideline.

Speaker 1 Like, he's all over the place. I want to see him play some tight end.

Speaker 1 He's awesome. He's probably the best athlete on the field at any given time.
Yeah. And Dan Quinn's job, excuse me, Danny Quinn's job is to just, what, let him cause havoc, create havoc.

Speaker 1 That's the game plan for Michael Parsons. He does a good job of it.
I'll just say this for the Saints offense.

Speaker 1 You might want to consider putting at least one guy to block Micah Parsons on third down and five. Yes.
It might be a good idea if you're dropping back to pass.

Speaker 1 Kenny Stills, I'm looking at it right now.

Speaker 1 This is either a combination of Kenny Stills not being Kenny Stills anymore or Taysom Hill just not getting the ball to his wide receivers, which happened a lot where it's like it was technically a target because that was the one he was throwing to.

Speaker 1 Kenny Stills had five targets, zero catches, zero yards. Yeah.
If we're playing by cricket rules, though, Taysom Hill threw a lot of good balls. Yeah.
There's like a little skip.

Speaker 1 I don't know what to make of the Cowboys, to be honest with you, because they do have, like, CeeDee Lamb is fucking electric.

Speaker 1 And they have all the weapons, and Tony Pollard is incredible. Zeke's obviously banged up, but don't you get the feeling? Like,

Speaker 1 it's just clunky. Their offense looks clunky.
It looks like everything is just a beat off. It's a little inconsistent, but I think that's also holding them to the expectation of how good they can be.

Speaker 1 And they have like they got, they have, they got Gallup out there. He's a beast.
Yeah, that touchdown catch that he had? Yeah. That was one of the best catches that I've seen all year round.

Speaker 1 I think he's going to be a free agent after this year.

Speaker 1 But yeah, their offense is so good, especially at the skill positions, that when they kind of falter a little bit, you're like, what's wrong with the Cowboys? Yeah.

Speaker 1 And it's just they're not meeting my expectations that I have. I'm going to need them to clean that up.

Speaker 1 All right. So the other news.
So that was Thursday night football. We're off and running week 13.
The other news is Brian Kelly's now a southerner. No one asked any questions.
$100 million.

Speaker 1 He's a southerner.

Speaker 1 Larry the Cajun guy.

Speaker 1 I wish we could have had a bet on this because this is, I am not even going to be like, I'm not even going to be mad at Brian Kelly for this because this is just college football coaching 101.

Speaker 1 I love it. Like, Lincoln Riley is now

Speaker 1 a Cali, bro. He's going to be like, what's up, dude? Yeah, like, it's, they just take the lives of other people.
It's like that

Speaker 1 Ethan Hawk movie. What's that movie called?

Speaker 1 Taking Lives, I think, is actually called. When he's a serial killer and he just takes the lives of other human beings.
Brian Kelly's just a sponge.

Speaker 1 Brian Kelly's a sponge. He He absorbs whatever culture you put him in.
Let's just be thankful he didn't take the grambling job because that

Speaker 1 first speech would have been

Speaker 1 a little bit different. Yeah, but

Speaker 1 it was very funny. I don't know.
It's going to be a weird fit for him. I'm excited to watch it just because why not? And then we also got to.

Speaker 1 It was very funny, though, when he came out and he was like, I'd like to thank my family. Family, yeah.
Yeah, Ethan Hawk taking lives.

Speaker 1 The great state of Louisiana.

Speaker 1 It also

Speaker 1 we found out that

Speaker 1 LSU, that terrible, terrible video that they posted that looked like a Doug's video.

Speaker 1 What? It was actually stolen from Notre Dame. I kind of respected that

Speaker 1 ripped. It was a Notre Dame video that they just put a green screen and they voiced over every time

Speaker 1 Brian Kelly said

Speaker 1 Notre Dame. Didn't they also change the lapel pin that he had from an ND to an LSU, which I actually love it.
I don't mind it at all. This is Petty Wars in college football.

Speaker 1 If you're going to be the villain and steal another team's coach, like really lean into it and be like, Yeah, we got him. What are you going to do about it?

Speaker 1 Here's a poorly constructed ransom video we made. Yes.
All right. Anything else before we get to? Oh, we went to the Mecca tonight.
Hank and I went to the Mecca.

Speaker 1 We saw actually a very good basketball game, Bulls Knicks. Not the best basketball game tonight, though.
Yeah. That would be the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Memphis Grizzlies.

Speaker 1 The Drake curse is back. It was the worst loss in NBA history.
Yep. They got the brakes beaten off him.
Free Dort. Not counting this against

Speaker 1 Free Dort. Yeah, and Shea Gilders.
You've got to free him as well. But yeah, the Thunder.

Speaker 6 And John Morant wasn't playing.

Speaker 1 Don't worry, The Thunder. You have

Speaker 1 like 75 first-round picks. Oh, I forgot to mention this.
This is actually the last thing before we get to the weekend preview.

Speaker 1 If the season ended right now, you know how we always do it with the playoffs. Did you see this? I'm sure you did, PFD, but I don't know if everyone else did.

Speaker 1 But if the season ended today in the NFL, the

Speaker 1 NFL draft would go first pick Detroit, second pick Houston, third pick Jacksonville. Everyone expects that.

Speaker 1 Fourth pick Jets, fifth pick Jets, sixth pick Giants, seventh pick Giants, eighth pick Eagles, ninth pick Eagles. So six picks in a row for three teams.
It's kind of a fun little thing.

Speaker 1 I want to see the Eagles try to package that and then move up to where the Jets are and see how much the difference.

Speaker 1 Break out the old Jimmy Johnson draft value chart and let me know what they'd have to add in to move up like two spots with two of their picks.

Speaker 1 Well, Well, if Gettelman's, yeah, if Gettelman's still there, he would probably trade his sixth and seventh for the Jets fourth straight up. Yeah, because the Jets have three picks this year.

Speaker 1 And then draft the same offensive lineman twice. Yes, yes.
We really want to be committed to this guy. Yeah.
All right, let's get to it. So there is one last, last thing.
Today we should celebrate.

Speaker 1 I feel like this is something that Jake would really do. Or 500th episode.
Yeah, 500th episode. Big 5-0-0.
But this is something Jake would really appreciate.

Speaker 1 Today's date is 1-2-0-2-2-0-2-1. That's too many millions.
Which is a palindrome. And an amigram.
And if you flip it upside down,

Speaker 1 it's the same upside down as it is right side up.

Speaker 1 Hester Moffat. The rest of me.

Speaker 1 Wait, so what is it? Do it again. These are things I have to see.

Speaker 1 I can't be told them. Forwards and backwards.
So this is what the Bucks did, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Forward and backwards. Watch this.
Watch this trick. Same thing.
Okay, okay, okay, got it, got it. Flip it upside down.
1202 up top.

Speaker 1 Let me just wait. 1202,

Speaker 1 Okay, got it, got it, got it. And then upside down.
It's like the boobs trick on the calculator. Yes.
Got it. That's what an Emmogram is.
Ah, but no one writes their ones and twos like that.

Speaker 1 Calculators do. Robots do.
Now they're fucking. Billy taught us about that.
Like, if you did it like this,

Speaker 1 it wouldn't. If you did it like this.
So 1, 2.

Speaker 1 It's 2. Was it 02? 1.
No, no, you're not.

Speaker 7 1222021.

Speaker 1 12. No, I got it right.

Speaker 8 12022.021.

Speaker 1 That was so confusing the way you just said those numbers.

Speaker 1 1202.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 8 120, 22.

Speaker 1 And don't listen to me.

Speaker 1 022.

Speaker 1 I mean, this does.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it looks the same. Same.
It does. The exact same.
Same. Perfect.
Retuspect. I'm so bad whenever, if you say, like, more than three numbers in a row, I've already blanked it out.

Speaker 1 It just doesn't work. Yeah, our brains aren't built to hold that sort of thing.
That's why God invented calculus.

Speaker 1 This is coming from the guy who forgot his pin number that he had for a decade. So

Speaker 1 no surprise. I can't figure this one out.
But that is a cool fact. Fun fact, the scoreigami of dates.
Oh, there's one other thing about the Saints game tonight.

Speaker 1 The blindside block that they called the Saints fullback. I think that the NFL just likes to sprinkle in one or two of those calls every Saints game just to remind Sean Payton, like, I still hate you.

Speaker 1 We're still at war right now. And he'll probably just go ahead and suspend or find the fullback because Goodell loves to do that.

Speaker 1 If there's a bad call that everyone's mad about, he'll actually come over the top and back up his officials and be like, actually, it was the right call by the letter of the law, and it's worth of a fine.

Speaker 1 Yes, absolutely. Yeah, Billy.

Speaker 8 Last thing. I do have a small update on that wristband story.
Turns out the Patriots have launched an investigation with the NFL to find out if the wristband has been stolen.

Speaker 1 So you, maybe you were the one who kind of catapulted.

Speaker 9 I actually feel bad because I'm narced yeah yeah you are a narcissist but I someone else narced first stop snitching okay it's on brand for you okay yeah it's very on brand narc all right let's get to our weekend preview and uh mlb lockout talk okay hey this is ria from chicks in the office and this season we're heading home for the holidays with abercrombie and fitch we all know our calendars are about to get chaotic for non-stop plans abbercrombie has the pieces to curate your perfect seasonal wardrobe sweaters and denim for casual plans party dresses for nights out, and comfy matching sets for everything in between.

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Speaker 1 Before we do the weekend preview, we are going to address MLB lockout

Speaker 1 and we are going to do it in a way that only we know how. Everyone in this room has read one single article about the lockout.

Speaker 1 We are then going to use all of the information we have absorbed from that. Now, note, PFT read his article yesterday.
Yeah, I'm a bit of a brown nose on that one. Yeah, but

Speaker 1 you might have lost a little information. Oh, I definitely did.
Yeah, I did not retain it. So let's do it.

Speaker 1 Roundtable, everyone can hop in with the article they read. I'll start.

Speaker 1 Rob Manfred said, we understand it's bad for the business.

Speaker 1 So I'm going to probably take Rob Manfred's side because he said it right there in the article I wrote read that he understands this is bad for business. The lockout is bad for the business.

Speaker 1 The lockout is bad for business. It's bad for the fans.
Right.

Speaker 1 I read an article on breakbart.com yesterday and Rob Manfred is he's doing the lockout and they're doing the lockout now because if they waited any longer to do it then it would impact opening day.

Speaker 1 So they're doing today

Speaker 1 what I would just push off till much later and then suffer the repercussions because we would miss games.

Speaker 1 I also read that the players want

Speaker 1 they want a higher ceiling before the luxury tax kicks in. The owners say, Why don't we just do a higher floor?

Speaker 1 Let's increase the basement level instead of raising the roof. Got it.
Okay. Anyone else? Oh, I also got one other note.

Speaker 1 Petty Wars. I think I read a very slanted for the MLB side article now that I'm saying this, because it was all Rob Manford quotes quotes being like, this is a shame.

Speaker 1 It's too bad they can't figure it out.

Speaker 1 But unfortunately, the assignment was to read one single article. Petty Wars MLB removed all player photos and news from their websites.
I think that's just Legal Wars. Legal Wars.

Speaker 1 But also Petty Wars.

Speaker 6 I read, I must have read a Tony Clark players article.

Speaker 1 Okay, this is good.

Speaker 1 This is called Seeing Every Side of

Speaker 1 the Story Here.

Speaker 6 Tony Clark was throwing shade on Rob Manfred by saying it would have been beneficial to the process to have spent as much time negotiating in the room as it appears it was spent on the letter.

Speaker 1 So he's saying

Speaker 1 he said your letter's too nice.

Speaker 6 Yeah, he's saying there's not good faith.

Speaker 6 They don't want to negotiate. Manfred just wants to

Speaker 6 type up a letter and be done with it.

Speaker 1 What about Rob Manfred? He said, we understand it's bad for business, Hank.

Speaker 1 He understands. It's bad for business.
But does he understand?

Speaker 1 Maybe he could understand a little bit more it being bad for business if he wasn't spending all his time selecting appropriate fonts for the letter. It sounds like this letter is a real problem.

Speaker 1 Also, I don't know how long it takes to take everyone's photo off the website, but that might have been a little bit of time, too, they could have used negotiating.

Speaker 1 But I'm still Team Rob Manford here. Billy? I took notes.
Oh.

Speaker 1 First point. The union wants younger players to be paid more.
Okay, that's good. I do think it's weird how in baseball, you're extremely poor in the minor leagues.

Speaker 1 And then once you get to major league baseball, then it's all gravy from there, right? Because in the minor leagues, I feel like players have to room with each other and share toilet paper.

Speaker 1 It sounds like jail. Our the

Speaker 1 guy, I think his name's Tony, who I follow. I've been following him for a long time.
Very funny Twitter account.

Speaker 1 Who remember he was the Blues fan who found out Celicity. Yes, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 He had a very funny tweet that was like baseball is the one sport where you just eat ramen for like seven years and then one day they give you $100 million. Yeah, exactly.
Exactly. Exactly.

Speaker 1 You crap into a trash can while you're in the miners and then you get to the big leagues and next thing you know, you're buying like, you're giving away Ferraris. Yes.
Okay.

Speaker 1 So, Billy, what do you think? Like,

Speaker 1 there's three more points. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
So, our anti-union.

Speaker 1 This is just the facts. Just the facts.
We are just reporting the facts. Rob Manford says this is bad for business.
Just want to reiterate that.

Speaker 8 Owners want to reallocate spending towards young players because they value them more.

Speaker 1 Not because they're cheaper. Got it.
Because they value them more. They value them more.

Speaker 1 So they want to pay a guy

Speaker 1 $2 million instead of $1 million instead of pay a guy $300 million instead of $250 million. That makes sense economically.
Third point.

Speaker 8 Union wants spending increased on salaries because revenue increased.

Speaker 1 Okay. So they want yeah, but what about COVID? Then here's the point.
But he said revenue increase.

Speaker 1 But is that what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 But also,

Speaker 1 Billy, what about, so it says revenue increased. Is that the revenue of actually the baseball team or is that the revenue for, in certain circumstances, the surrounding district of the ballpark?

Speaker 1 Because that's totally different. No, for the baseball team.
Okay. got it.

Speaker 8 Then this is the checkmate where the owners checkmate them because he is team owner.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 8 But so, in the leagues that were revenue increases, spending on salaries increased, some of the salaries are paid by the league, and that means they need to put in a salary cap.

Speaker 1 And then that's the challenge. What league has salaries that are paid by the league? Part of them.
Oh, you mean minor leagues?

Speaker 8 NFL, NBA, NHL.

Speaker 1 Oh, wait, oh.

Speaker 1 NFL salaries are paid by the teams, but the teams get revenue sharing.

Speaker 1 No, they're paid by their owners. The owners.

Speaker 1 It sounds like we have to read at least one more article. This was an episode.
All I know is, again, I'm going to reiterate that it's bad.

Speaker 1 Rob Manford knows it's bad for business, and unfortunately, it's out of his hands. He can't, he has no ability to impact change here.
I have a stay woke on this whole situation.

Speaker 1 This is the most that we've talked about baseball in part of my take since the season was over. Is there really a lockout?

Speaker 1 Are they just telling us that there's a lockout and the players are free to come and go?

Speaker 1 It's like a wag the dog situation.

Speaker 6 It was a fake lockout.

Speaker 1 It was also cool that they basically everyone panicked before the lockout and did their free agency, which was nice to have free agency again in November and December, which usually last year we didn't have it till like February.

Speaker 1 Shout out Marcus Strowman.

Speaker 1 Jake, Jake will hopefully bring some clarity for us.

Speaker 7 So I read the CBS Sports article.

Speaker 1 Basically,

Speaker 7 there are a plethora of issues that they're fighting over from the player's perspective.

Speaker 7 There's a declining average player's salary.

Speaker 1 They want to boost that up.

Speaker 7 Teams are purposely holding players back, prospects back, Chris Bryant, to delay their arbitration, which I totally, I don't fully understand to be

Speaker 1 transparent. I understand.
I know what arbitration is.

Speaker 1 Arbitration is a hilarious process. Arbitration is you sit down in a room and your agent gives the salary that you think you're deserved.

Speaker 1 Then the team gives a salary that they think that you're deserved. And then a guy opens up an envelope and says the number that he believes is the number that they deserve.

Speaker 1 And then whoever's number is closer, they get all that suggested. Dylan O dog.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
But

Speaker 1 I agree that they have to figure out that rule because it does make no sense. It was...

Speaker 1 For people who don't follow baseball, there's a clock that starts when you get drafted and like your service time clock.

Speaker 1 So famously, it's happened multiple times with multiple teams, but Chris Bryant was good enough to be on on the Cubs' opening day roster.

Speaker 1 Theo Epstein was like, if we hold him back for 15 days, I think it was 10 days, he then

Speaker 1 get another year of holding his rights.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 it's a stupid rule. I think that if it continues, you can't really blame teams for doing it, so they got to fix the rule.

Speaker 7 And there's a tanking problem, which I guess the players understandably suffer.

Speaker 1 The Orioles are losing 100 games a year. There's like five teams that are good in baseball.
That's what the issue is. There's so many.
I'm sorry, I'm getting out of my depth.

Speaker 1 This was not included in the article that I read, so I won't say anything else.

Speaker 1 I think the only way you could fix a tanking problem is just have the baseball season end before football starts. That's a good idea, too.
Right?

Speaker 1 Also, this says. Also, less games, less chance to tank.
Like, think about it this way. If they played 100 games, no one's going to have 100 losses.
No one's tanking.

Speaker 7 The Mets, according to Frank, 0-162, so they'd probably be able to get a hundred.

Speaker 1 Oh, 100. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 I also read that they're thinking about doing an ⁇ this is one thing that I'm totally in favor of.

Speaker 1 The owners are suggesting that they do an NBA-style draft lottery instead of doing what the procedure is that they have now. So that means that they would be using a ping-pong ball machine.

Speaker 1 So I like that.

Speaker 1 Yes. All in all, a fluid situation, which we kind of saw with COVID, which is kind of annoying.

Speaker 7 They won't give real answers until something happens.

Speaker 1 Okay, and so we have someone who could tell us everything. That's the most you're going to get.
I think that was actually a pretty good thing. That was guys on labor.
Yeah, that was a really good.

Speaker 1 That was a really good explanation of what's what's going on um all right let's talk some nfl let's talk some sports that people watch uh no offense to baseball but let's talk some nfl week oh by the way i just so i just went to look at the nfl schedule and all the preseason games in baseball are tbd that's cool because of the labor stoppage uh all right week 13

Speaker 1 I know you guys hate when I do this, but we have to give this, I have to give the speech again. We are now at the point where

Speaker 1 there's not going to be Saturday football after this week because of College Football Championship week. We're getting down to it.
Like, the fact that there's only five games left, that's fucked up.

Speaker 1 Why are you doing this? Because I want everyone to be warned. No big cat.
One day, everyone hearing the sound of her voice is going to die. Yeah.
Alone. Let them know.

Speaker 1 Well, they're not going to die in two months, hopefully. Yeah, but I don't want to know this.
I want to just, I want to pretend like I've got football for the rest of my life. Yep.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, I'm going to keep just letting everyone know just a little bit. Cherish the moment.
Cherish the moment. Nope.
Nope. Cherish the moment.
This week kind of stinks. This week kind of stinks.

Speaker 1 There's some weird games, mismatches.

Speaker 1 But let's get to it. Jake, do you have the updated.

Speaker 7 Yes, congrats to PFT. 5-0 with the extra turkey pick.
Thank you. Nice.
They caught you.

Speaker 1 And you bet them all, right? I did not bet. I think I bet one of them.
I had a very, very bad week. I'll get to his response.

Speaker 1 Actually, I am in the midst of my most responsible decision-making ever, gambling. I'll explain later.

Speaker 7 The two of us went 4-0 on our regulars, lost our turkeys. So overall, Hank, still with a nice two and a half game lead on PFT, who's alone in second, so you're in the dangerous spot.

Speaker 7 Jake, Billy, Big Cat tied at 26 and 23, and Liam at 25 and 24. So, PFT is a good idea.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 I got an idea.

Speaker 1 Six weeks to last tonight. What do you think about convertible? Oh, I love it.
Convertible taking across Route 66. Yeah.
I love it.

Speaker 1 I'm actually excited about this now because Big Cat and Hank never let me rent a convertible when we go on the road because it's always in the middle of January. No, that's not.

Speaker 1 That actually has nothing to do with it. It's the the fact that we have like a five-man operation with a bunch of camera equipment.
Yeah, but it's a good one.

Speaker 1 And I think about the guys behind the cameras, and a convertible never makes sense. A convertible.
Right. Yeah, Bubba convertible.
We're not going to rock all the way down there. Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 Maybe Camaro. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't like having to be the parent sometimes and be like, convertible makes no sense for five of us. No.

Speaker 1 With like camera bags and shit. There are other ways that we can deal with that.
We're getting a convertible bubble.

Speaker 1 You know what? I'm going to pull a billy and adjust my picks on a weekly basis so that I try to win win second. There we go.
There we go. Hank, get us started.
Favorite. Favorite.

Speaker 1 We'll talk about each game we touch on.

Speaker 6 Ravens minus four and a half versus the Steelers. Chalky pick, but I love it.

Speaker 1 I hate it. But I'm also stupid because I still think, like, the problem I'm having with the Steelers right now is they're very bad.
And Big Ben is very bad.

Speaker 1 But Mike Tomlin is the quintessential, like, rah-rah, when you count him out coach. They're going to play one more good game this year.

Speaker 1 Why not against the Ravens? I mean, this is why they invented the cliché throughout the record books when the Steelers and the Ravens get together.

Speaker 1 These two teams don't like each other. This is old school AFC North football.

Speaker 1 I like the Steelers a lot in this game. And the Ravens, the Ravens are like quietly, they're winning, but they're not playing well.

Speaker 1 They're covering, though. Well, they didn't, yeah, they

Speaker 1 covered Sunday night. Yeah, they covered Sunday night.

Speaker 6 They lost to the Dolphins.

Speaker 1 They didn't cover the opening line against the Bears. They They lost to the Dolphins.
I don't think they covered against the Vikings. They did look like shit last week, even though they covered.

Speaker 1 Like, that's not a good game for the Ravens. Right.
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 That's one of those rare we lost or we won, but let's still burn the tape. All right, so I listen, the Steelers are bad.
Like, I'm not saying, I'm not going to sit here and say the Steelers are good.

Speaker 1 I'm just very worried. I'm going to look right now of when the Steelers are going to decide to have their last stand, and everyone's going to be like, oh, my God, are the Steelers back?

Speaker 1 No, Mike Tomlins is just really good at getting everyone pumped up for these games. Maybe be the Chiefs in week 16.
Maybe that's four, by the way. What? Minus four.
Minus four.

Speaker 1 All right, so Hank's on the board.

Speaker 1 It's a 425 kickoff. I kind of like that.

Speaker 1 I like that we get to watch that team. They're probably going to go double renegade in Pittsburgh.
This feels like a double renegade game. It's cheating to do that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but I mean, they're going to do it. I think you can only pull it out once or twice a season and against the Ravens at home.
Yeah, this smells like double renegade. Yep.
Yep. There's only three.

Speaker 1 Oh, no, there's four four o'clock games. All right.

Speaker 1 Liam, Bubba,

Speaker 1 your favorite?

Speaker 10 I'm taking Eagles. Mine is six and a half.

Speaker 1 I like it.

Speaker 10 I have a new system, very complex, of just betting against the Jets.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Okay.
That's smart. I like that.
I do think you get a bonus. I saw a stat today that in all the advanced stats, Zach Wilson is last in every single one.

Speaker 1 Well, he can't be that advanced then because he's the future. He is the future, but he is.
We did have that he didn't throw an interception for like six consecutive weeks.

Speaker 1 That's true, including a bye week. In the United States, I mean,

Speaker 1 I like it just because it feels like the Jets,

Speaker 1 the Jets are getting credit for beating the Texans and like who should get credit for that? Yeah. Also, this is Joe Flacco revenge game.

Speaker 1 He's probably not happy with the way things ended in Philadelphia, bringing Gardner Minshew, shipping him up to Broadway.

Speaker 1 I actually like the Eagles in this. If you look at the deep numbers that we've been talking about, this is a system play for that.
So the Eagles didn't cover last week. The Jets covered last week.

Speaker 1 And won. Yeah, I'm taking the Eagles minus seven.
Yeah. Okay, so that's your pick as well.
All right. I'm going to take,

Speaker 1 I will take the Vikings minus seven, which also would be a deep number system play because they didn't cover against the 49ers. The Lions covered against the Bears.

Speaker 1 I just think the Lions...

Speaker 1 Like, at what point are we going to stop predicting the Lions are going to win a game?

Speaker 1 Because that felt like the Thanksgiving Day game against Andy Dalton and a Bears team that

Speaker 1 kind of sort of fired their coach midweek was the time for the Lions to get a win. And now we're getting down to it.
Like we're getting down to it. They have the Vikings this week.

Speaker 1 They go to Mile High. They play the Cardinals, the Falcons, the CHAPs.
There's maybe the Falcons. I don't know.
Maybe the Seahawks. Maybe the Seahawks.

Speaker 6 I think it's this week.

Speaker 1 You think it's this week? So you're going to take the Lions plus seven? No. Okay.
Take a money line. Oh,

Speaker 1 let's go, hey. Okay, got it.
Yeah, I just don't. I think the Vikings are

Speaker 1 a good team that has a bad record, and now they get to play a bad team that should be a double-digit win. I'm predicting alternate line.

Speaker 1 I want the Lions to win, but I'm not, I would not touch them with actual money. Nope.

Speaker 1 Billy, your favorite?

Speaker 5 Raiders by two and a half.

Speaker 1 Fuck off.

Speaker 1 Jerk.

Speaker 8 Well, I think, you know, Washington's time is going to run out.

Speaker 1 Our time's going to run out. Time's up.

Speaker 8 You've been kind of getting lucky.

Speaker 1 What do you mean?

Speaker 1 We don't do that, Billy.

Speaker 1 You're getting lucky? Fuck you.

Speaker 1 Were you that guy I tagged PFT in a tweet? You don't win lucky games three weeks in a row in the NFL. You don't beat Tom Brady with luck, Billy.
It's the lucky. You don't? No, fuck you.

Speaker 1 Stop saying lucky. It's the lucky.
Don't apologize. I won't.
I'm not going to apologize for winning. It's that guy I tagged you, and that's what Billy's saying.

Speaker 1 That guy was like, yeah, the Washington football team, dude, don't apologize for wins in the NFL.

Speaker 1 I mean, there is such a thing as luck, but who the fuck cares? I mean, Billy's right in a way, because I do agree that time is running out in Washington.

Speaker 1 Like, I had that spidey sense sense that started to tingle. I didn't know what was going to be coming next.

Speaker 1 I did not, in my wildest dreams, predict that RG3 was about to say that he got sexually harassed while he was on the Washington football team.

Speaker 1 Don't know what happened. We'll have to wait and see what the book says about it.

Speaker 1 I'm kind of thinking maybe Dan Snyder was like, hey, RG3, you want to fuck my wife? Ooh. That'd be spicy.
Also, wifing. I saw this.

Speaker 8 Hunter Red and Fro has like 78% cash percentage when he's targeted, and it's just an insane amount of his productivity compared to his draft stock.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 I would argue that the Washington football team,

Speaker 1 of their five wins, none of the lucky ones have come in this three-game stretch.

Speaker 1 They did get lucky against the Giants with that, and they got a little lucky with the Falcons with that across-the-field pass at the end of the game. But they beat the Bucs.
They beat the Panthers.

Speaker 1 They beat the Seahawks. Those weren't lucky wins.

Speaker 8 I just...

Speaker 1 He saw my tweet. He saw me tag that.
That's probably what it is.

Speaker 1 Billy, this is an original thought.

Speaker 8 I was just like, Washington's been winning, it's time for them to lose. Okay,

Speaker 1 that's different. No, I forgot.
And I actually agree with you. Yes, yes, that's different.
Don't say that the previous wins were lucky because I don't think they were.

Speaker 1 They put a beat down on Seattle on Monday. That's not unlucky.

Speaker 1 No, see, now you're doing the thing where you just agreed with us, and then you're going back to your original point.

Speaker 6 If you don't put beatdowns on teams, that almost tie the game. That's tie-ups.

Speaker 1 Yes, if you look at the time possession, Hank, that's bad. 42.
That's bad for the football button.

Speaker 1 It would have been a double-digit victory if we had a kicker that had a hamstring. And guess what? We just signed a new kicker.
His name's Brian Johnson. Same as the dude from ACDC.
So that's cool.

Speaker 1 Let me be the arbiter of this now that we learned what arbitration is.

Speaker 1 PFT is wrong in saying it was a beatdown. Billy, you're wrong in saying they got lucky.
But I think we can all agree the theory of they've been winning a lot. It's time for them to lose.

Speaker 1 That holds up in court. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, I will concede that point to Billy. I'll also just say, maybe for the last time, if the season ended today, the Washington football team would be in the playoffs.
Correct.

Speaker 1 So fingers crossed for Omnicron or whatever it is.

Speaker 8 It's just time for them to get unlucky.

Speaker 1 What was that, Face Hank?

Speaker 6 Last time we rooted for COVID.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I didn't root for COVID.
I just said that you hadn't played. I didn't know what Omicron was.

Speaker 6 Fingers crossed is like.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you said I hope Omnicron shows up. No, but then Hank said the last time we rooted for COVID.
We didn't root for COVID last time. We just said that they were rooted against it.

Speaker 1 We said they were a fraud. Now you're rooting for for it.

Speaker 6 Well, yeah, which I guess kind of the same thing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But you specifically did root for it. According to the studies that I've read about Omicron, and by studies, I mean,

Speaker 1 I overheard Billy having a conversation with somebody earlier.

Speaker 1 Nice, Jake. It's safe.
All right, Jake, go ahead.

Speaker 7 Taking the Dolphins minus four against the Giants. A little bit of a homer pick, but Daniel Jones, not

Speaker 7 100%, it seems like. 500 by Christmas.

Speaker 1 You don't believe in Mike Lennon?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 This just feels like a field goal game. This feels like a two-point game.
All right. This is actually the classic classic case of the Giants ugging up a game.
I think it's a good thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it feels like a two-point game. They could ug around.

Speaker 1 It's like a 17-15 game.

Speaker 1 And one team kicked five field goals.

Speaker 1 Hank, your dog. You like all the dogs this week?

Speaker 6 I like a lot of dogs per usual.

Speaker 6 I was going to take the Falcons plus 11, and then I remembered...

Speaker 1 There's a dude waiting in Tom Brady's locker room to steal his jersey?

Speaker 6 No, that there's Voodoo Magic in the room, and when there's Voodoo Magic going on, you don't bet against it, or you have to ride it. You have to ride the voodoo magic.
Big hat's 11-0

Speaker 6 betting games, betting Bears games. He did a pre-season prediction where he went through every game.
He's 11-0 on those predictions. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 6 He has the Bears beating the Cardinals this weekend, so plus seven and a half is just the easiest bet ever.

Speaker 1 And the reason why I brought this to attention, because you probably shouldn't talk about a heater like this, one, it was brought to my attention, and two, I do not think the Bears are going to beat the Cardinals this week.

Speaker 1 But yeah, on red line radio,

Speaker 1 before the week one, I went through the schedule and I'm 11-0 right now. Take that fucking Raiders coin flip, dude.
Yeah, I'm going up against the Raiders' coin.

Speaker 1 So I would love for you to beat the coin this week. That'd be wonderful.
Yeah. Actually, I think, you know what? If you're both wrong this week, that's like a tie between

Speaker 1 it's going to be like John Henry versus the steam engine. So you have to keep going up against the coin.
Big John Henry? Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. Go ahead, Bubba.
You're underdog. Wait, so you're taking the Bears?

Speaker 6 Taking the Bears plus seven and a half against the Cardinals.

Speaker 1 Is Justin Fields playing? I don't think so. Is Kyler playing?

Speaker 1 No idea.

Speaker 6 Again, I'm just Kyler.

Speaker 1 Kyler versus Colt or Andy Dalton versus Colt.

Speaker 7 One hour ago, Cardinals are expected to have Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins on the field this Sunday, barring a setback.

Speaker 1 This is one of those games that I will say

Speaker 1 the only thing the Bears have in their favor is that their...

Speaker 1 Well, no, I was going to say their field is always a shit show come December, so hopefully that slows kyler murray down that's about it uh okay bubba i'm going against jake and taking giants plus four is kind of what you said but i feel like it's just like a sloppy game it'll be close sloppy maybe a little rain

Speaker 1 everyone's wet gross field slipping all right uh pft we get any snow this weekend uh i don't know hope for some snow i'm getting the seahawks plus three and a half your fridge full what's up is your fridge full what do you mean?

Speaker 1 Or your freezer, sorry. Plus three.
Plus three. Plus three? Plus three.

Speaker 1 I don't understand the reference. Put beers outside.
Yeah, I'll put beers outside. Fuck yeah, you are.
Are you gonna put beers outside, Hank? If it snows, you can do it in cold weather in general.

Speaker 1 It's not just a snow thing. Anytime.

Speaker 1 Why did that set Hank off?

Speaker 1 Love beers outside.

Speaker 1 Beers outside.

Speaker 5 It's got refrigerators back in the week.

Speaker 1 Okay, my

Speaker 7 reminder for you before you make this pick. A reminder from last week.
do not bet the Chargers.

Speaker 1 Fuck. Okay.

Speaker 1 Is it actually your pick? Yes. My pick.
You told me last week on Sunday. Yeah, plus three.
I was like, well, they'll keep it close. Like, it's going to be, who can decide between the Bengals?

Speaker 1 The Bengals and the Chargers have to be the most volatile.

Speaker 1 Well, I don't know. You know what it on season? You know what this game makes me think of right here? This game absolutely makes me think, tie.
Yeah. Can I predict a tie?

Speaker 1 So then I should take the plus three. I'm predicting it.
My numbers are telling me this is going to be a tie this week. Okay, so that sucks.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Jake.

Speaker 1 I'm going to take Washington football team then. Thank you.
All right. Washington football team plus two.
I really did like the Chargers because it does

Speaker 1 like.

Speaker 1 I love the Chargers. I don't think the Chargers are good.
I think the Bengals might be good, but they're also due for a loss.

Speaker 1 So this is like a, both these teams are basically the same exact team where they will have stretches where they'll look incredible and then stretches where they look terrible. So put them together.

Speaker 1 Who the fuck knows? Take the three. I think all we know about these two teams is their average is usually slightly above average.
Right. If you look at the totality of every game that they played.

Speaker 1 All right, so I'm taking Washington football team plus two.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 Billy.

Speaker 8 Jets, six and a half. We have a lot of Eagles favorites in this room, so I think the flip's going to be there.

Speaker 1 Billy, you know what I just realized? You could have easily just started picking like the opposite side of each game and we wouldn't have figured it out.

Speaker 1 Like if you had just now taken Washington football team, would have been like, all right, Jake, what's next? I know. And you could have been telling the whole time.

Speaker 8 I could have just been going 500, but I realized that 500 won't actually keep me in the middle of the pack. So I corrected.
I'm still in the middle of the pack.

Speaker 1 Where do you think the middle of the pack's going to be?

Speaker 8 The middle of the pack's probably going to be around 53%.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. That's pretty good.
That's a great. We're sharps.
Yeah, we're sharps. That's what it is right now.
I know, which is crazy. It's all about 500.

Speaker 1 Well, there will be a week where we will fall off. It's because we hit all of our unders every week.
Yes.

Speaker 7 We went perfect in the favorites last week, too.

Speaker 1 Wow. Hank, I'm sorry.
Oh.

Speaker 7 Wins a win.

Speaker 1 Okay, Jake, your underdog.

Speaker 7 I'm fading Hank. I'm taking the Steelers plus four.
They looked awful last week. Can't look worse.
They're at home.

Speaker 1 Throw out. What's the saying, PFT? You got to throw out the record books when these teams get together.
No love lost, Jake. It is.

Speaker 6 I'd be rooting for Mason Rudolph. Like, every time I bet the Steelers.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Big Ben's so bad.
So bad. But it is the Tomlin effect.
Tomlin is like.

Speaker 1 Tomlin could have a team that's.

Speaker 6 Shane Stick's broken, though.

Speaker 1 No, no, no.

Speaker 1 He can rah-rah anyone. For like a temporary stay of execution, Tomlin can do it.

Speaker 1 Are they going to be listening to music? That's what I want to know.

Speaker 1 People's suggestion. He probably will do something where before the game would be like, fellas, I've been thinking long and hard about it.
We go beat the Ravens music all week. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And everyone goes, fuck yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. You're over, Hank.
We've talked about this sloppy toppy.

Speaker 6 That means some crazy shit's going to happen. Plus, it's solo.
So I'm taking the Giants Dolphins over 40 and a half.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 6 That's a, it's always alive no matter what.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because it's so low. Yes.
Yes. Just the numbers

Speaker 1 is a gross thing to say for football.

Speaker 6 You just need like 10 points by halftime.

Speaker 1 I have that as my under, but now I might change because you are like what you said makes sense. You're never dead in that.

Speaker 1 If you have, yeah, if you have four, if you have 13 points at halftime, you're very much alive.

Speaker 1 Okay, Bubba, you're under. By the way, 2-0

Speaker 1 is awesome.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 10 I would do Falcons Bucks over 50 and a half. Okay.
I like it. James Phone.

Speaker 1 Love it. No Antonio Brown, but that's not really different for the Bucs.
They don't have anything really to adjust to. I did see a very funny quote from Gronk, though, earlier this week.

Speaker 1 It said that Tom Brady, he likes Tom Brady so much because Tom Brady knows what Gronk is thinking even before Gronk knows what he's thinking, which it's hilarious and it's probably 100% accurate.

Speaker 1 I think I know what Gronk, most people know what Gronk is thinking. He's either hungry or 69 or catch ball.
Yes, exactly. Catch run.
Shout out the Bucs locker room.

Speaker 1 That was actually a very cool moment. I don't know if you guys saw it went miniviral, but a

Speaker 1 kid in Michigan, I want to say, randomly was FaceTiming his teammates and he put in one wrong number and it FaceTimed Sean Murphy Bunting on the Bucs and he was in the locker room and he walked around and like, he got Gronk, he got Brady on the FaceTime with these high school kids.

Speaker 1 That's pretty awesome. It was very cool.
Yeah. Very cool.

Speaker 1 Something nice, you know? Nice little moment. For the kids.
Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 You're over, PFT. My over, I'm going to go with Chargers Bengals over.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Does the weather scare you at all? Not at all.

Speaker 1 Doesn't the weather? Nope. That's why it doesn't scare me.
Let me look at the weather. If you tell me, if I start thinking about the weather, sure, it's going to scare me.

Speaker 1 I actually don't know the weather. I just feel like

Speaker 1 this is a weather game. And you're assuming the weather.
I am. I just assumed the weather.
I'm going to look it up right now.

Speaker 1 It's like if you don't look at the nutrition information on the side of a really unhealthy thing that you're about to eat, the calories don't count. That's what I'm...

Speaker 1 I don't want to know the weather. I just want to say 50 and a half, take the over.
Okay. The weather.
The weather. This might also be Glenny Balls incepting me.
Yes. Showers.
Rain. Okay.
Lots of rain.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. This is the game that Glenny Balls said there could be up to a half an inch of rain.
That's not that much rain. That's a lot of rain.
Half an inch? I think so.

Speaker 1 I don't think that's that much rain. Is that a lot of rain? No.
I feel like that's a decent amount of rain. It's like this much rain?

Speaker 1 That's

Speaker 1 about that much rain. Subscribe to the YouTube.
Yeah, that's that much rain. That's YouTube.
Yeah, no problem. It's a decent amount of rain.
Jake, look it up for me. It's going to be 52, 26 to 26.

Speaker 1 That gets me to 52. Yep.
All right. My over.

Speaker 1 Oh, I'm going to take the 49ers or Seahawks over 45 and a half. I think both defenses are kind of suspect.
It does suck the Debo Samuels out, but

Speaker 1 this is my way of

Speaker 1 I meant everything I said about the Seahawks. I will not bet on them.

Speaker 1 I think Russ shouldn't have come back this early, but this is my way of betting on Russ maybe turning the corner and starting to play well without betting on the Seahawks.

Speaker 1 They're going to have to force feed the ball to DK Metcalf early in the game. Yeah.
Yes, I agree.

Speaker 1 Because the way that he was checked out, he didn't want to be on the field anymore at the end of that game. Well, it's just very, very stupid.

Speaker 1 I know they're coaches and they know more football than we ever know, but how do you not say, hey,

Speaker 1 first 15 plays, like script a slant to DK Metcalf that you know he's going to get open with because he's a beast. Yeah, we have maybe, you know, a top three receiver in the league.

Speaker 1 He should probably get the ball in his hands occasionally. Also, we forgot about Tyler Lockett.
Did you know that Tyler Lockett's virgin? Yeah, I think I remember that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that story kind of fizzled away. Yeah.
Kind of a.

Speaker 1 Well, because he's with Russ, so it's not. You think he might be lying about it just to get more balls from Russ.
Yes. Like, oh, that actually makes sense.

Speaker 1 On one hand, you got a guy that's plowing through four chicks in a night. On the other side of the field, it's a guy that sleeps alone all the time.
Russ is feeding that guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, someone actually had the stat that it was like DK Metcalf has like three catches since the Foresome. Yeah, it was me.
Oh, okay. There it was.
Of course. Bonk.

Speaker 1 Go ahead, Billy. You're over.
Wait, wait, you brought it up. No, I know because you brought it up.
Okay. He's a virgin.
All right.

Speaker 1 So then I brought it up, but then I remembered it was your stat because it was a sex stat,

Speaker 1 which you're on top of. Credit to you.
And Bobby. You're always on top of sex stats.

Speaker 1 Billy.

Speaker 8 Colts, Texans, 45.5.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 8 Thought it would be a good under, so I'm picking it to be an over.

Speaker 1 This has the makings of a clowning.

Speaker 8 Exactly. I think it's going to be a run-up.

Speaker 1 Clowning. Run-in-up.
A run-up? Yep. A run-up.
Give me a predictive score.

Speaker 1 38-14 Colts. Wow.

Speaker 1 38-14 Colts. I'll take it.
How many touchdowns for Jonathan Taylor? Or is this like a Carson Wentz get-right game?

Speaker 8 I think it's Carson Wentz get-right game. Sam Ellinger

Speaker 8 late game touchdown.

Speaker 1 In Texas, back home. In Texas.

Speaker 1 What if Sam came in and got you that over?

Speaker 8 Yeah, put him in for the blowout.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 I do think this is going to be a run-up game. I agree with you, Billy.
Run it up.

Speaker 1 All right, Jake.

Speaker 7 I'm in with you, big cop. 45 and a half on San Francisco, by the way.
Half an inch is light rain and is not considered.

Speaker 1 What's real rain? An inch? Tornadoes is real rain. Inch and a half

Speaker 1 i think an inch anything yeah like i would say like half an inch i'm wrong if it up i know if they say like three inches then you're fucked got it that's like a that's a that's a downpour you notice everything over two now this one says heavy rainfall is more than 0.3 inches so they've conflicting reports half an inch is real rain

Speaker 1 light rainfall is considered less than 0.1 nothing confuses this podcast more than weather so wait billy you said like if it's over two then it's like real rain

Speaker 8 That's when you're looking outside and it's like it's fucking raining. That's like cats and dogs, it's two.

Speaker 1 Cats and dogs is two inches. Yeah, got it.
That actually makes sense to me.

Speaker 6 Okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 All right, Hank, you're under. We'll wrap up with unders.

Speaker 6 Talked about this game a lot. Steelers, Ravens, under 44.
Big Ben sucks. Their offense is terrible.
Mike Tomlin, good coach. He's going to get the defense fired up.

Speaker 6 They're going to, you know, keep Lamar Jackson down, but not out. Ravens cover under 44.

Speaker 1 Okay. I like that pick.

Speaker 10 I got Vikings Lions under 46 and a half.

Speaker 1 This is a get-right game for Kirk, by the way, especially with Dalvin Cook out.

Speaker 1 This is a Kirk stat game.

Speaker 1 You're under PFT. I'm going to take the under in Broncos Chiefs.
I am too. I think it makes no sense.
I don't really, I don't understand why I'm attracted to it, but it's 47 points.

Speaker 1 It's in Kansas City. It's a primetime game.
This is like when we bet the over, which was our way of betting on the Chiefs. I want to bet on the Chiefs in this game, but I also want to take the under.

Speaker 1 It makes no sense because you would think if you're going to bet on the Chiefs, then go ahead and tack the over onto it. I think the Chiefs win like 25 to 10.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I'm taking it.

Speaker 1 My analysis is that the Chiefs' defense is playing better. The Broncos' defense has played well since Von Miller's been out.

Speaker 1 And on top of all of that, there's nothing that happens more often than on a Sunday night where I'm like, oh, I'll just take the over, and it always loses.

Speaker 1 This just reeks of a, oh, I'll just take the over, and it loses. So under.
I also think that we have a high potential to see Drew Locke in this game. Really? Why?

Speaker 1 Because Teddy just gets knocked around a lot. Yeah, but he came back even with an injury last year.
Yeah, but I'm saying. Drew Locke is that bad.

Speaker 1 I'm saying that even when Teddy, when he's playing well, he'll still go out for a couple plays, and all it takes is one player for Drew Locke to come in. To

Speaker 10 fuck shit up.

Speaker 1 all right we both have the under 47 go ahead billy chargers bangles 15 and a half because you think it's going to be an over and there's also a half an inch of rain exactly

Speaker 1 which is news that we just got all right yep half an inch though half an inch of rain so one inch is a cat two inches is cats and dogs two inches like when you look outside and it's like it's raining cats and dogs yeah that's when people like oh it's raining what's three inches what's the third animal

Speaker 1 dude frogs yeah cats dogs and frogs.

Speaker 8 Sometimes it does rain frogs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's called the plague.

Speaker 8 Yeah, the biohydro tornadoes.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 Jake, you're under.

Speaker 7 Eagles, Jets under 45. The stream's 13-9.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 13-9. I like that.
That's a good score. Although that would mean the Eagles didn't cover.
Okay.

Speaker 1 16-9? 16-9? That's a cover. Yeah.
And an under.

Speaker 1 All right, games we missed. Jaguars, Rams.
I don't, I mean, if the Rams don't beat the Jaguars by 21 plus, they stay in the fraud and they go to extra fraud.

Speaker 1 I don't think that there's anything they can do in this game to get themselves out of the fraud pile.

Speaker 1 If they win by like 45, they won't get out of the fraud pile, but I'll put a circle on them being like, maybe not as bad as I thought. You know what I'll do? I'll do the like Denzel Washington gift.

Speaker 1 Okay, okay. Yeah.
I see you. Yep.

Speaker 1 That's the best that they can do. Like, you can check something.
You can check a box this week. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then we talked about everything else. Wow, we hit everything else.
And then we obviously will talk on, I mean, do you want to say anything about the Patriots Bills game for

Speaker 1 the division? We'll be there. We'll see you on Monday, Buffalo.

Speaker 6 For the division part one.

Speaker 1 Okay, perfect. So then we're good.
We'll recap everything on Wednesday. That would be perfect.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Any other? Oh, yeah, I mean, I have my game of the year with Georgia versus Alabama. If anyone has any thoughts on Saturday's games, great football weekend.

Speaker 1 One of my favorites with meaningful, like very meaningful college football games and a slate that's weird, but who cares? Because everything matters right now. I'm a little bit afraid for Michigan.

Speaker 1 And Georgia. I want.
Are you not? I'm not afraid for Georgia.

Speaker 6 I'm not a spirit of camaraderie and friendship. I probably wouldn't, but

Speaker 6 the money line signals go off.

Speaker 1 I definitely am scared about Georgia because I put that bet in on Sunday night right when we finished our show, which feels like 10 years ago. Michigan, you think, will be...

Speaker 1 Iowa can't score. No,

Speaker 1 it's not that I'm afraid, or it's not that I I think that Iowa is going to beat him it's just that I'm afraid that Michigan's going to lose because we have we have a lot of uh emotional investment over the years in coach harbaugh yeah and he's so close right now I know that I'm more so afraid of just the disappointing crushing loss that could be coming my way yeah no he goes he wins this game and if you if you add what he did last week with this week he goes from like it's a success like Michigan has been a success for him because he got them to where they need to to be.

Speaker 1 And they're kind of the same team in certain ways.

Speaker 1 I know that Michigan definitely has a lot more speed, but they play similar styles of football where it's just like, we're going to count on our guys up front to bully the other team.

Speaker 1 And so, I don't know.

Speaker 1 I hope my fears are unfounded. Okay, so we're rooting for Michigan there.
I am just because I want the Big Ten to have a representation in the playoff.

Speaker 1 And we'll see if Cincinnati finds a way to get screwed. or if we can root for Notre Dame.
I want to put a future on Notre Dame, but it's very stupid. It's like 33 to 1, which would be fun.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But I like, there's, you can't put a future on something like that and then lose it two hours later. It would be absolutely absurd, though, if

Speaker 1 the college football playoff committee, they just said, well, you know what, since Brian Kelly's not there, we're not going to give you the opportunity, which is a possibility. Wait, wait.

Speaker 1 They already did say that. Well, no, I'm saying

Speaker 1 if it played out in the final rankings.

Speaker 1 I know they've alluded to it, but I'm saying if it actually played out that way and they docked him because Kelly wasn't there and then they didn't get into the playoff because they didn't have their coach, by that logic, then LSU should make a massive leap in the Saints because they do have Brian Kelly.

Speaker 1 So either that or just rooting for if they hire Fickle and then having Fickle coach against his old team. Well, they did.
That would be crazy. Did they hire Marcus Freeman full-time as the head coach?

Speaker 1 It feels like they did. It's a very weird thing that's going on.
I know he's the head coach right now. They just, I think they re-signed Tommy Reese.
They did do that around.

Speaker 1 I know that, but I'm pretty sure they made him full head coach, which is, I don't know. I mean, if it's, if he's the one who's recruiting everyone, they are.
Yeah, so it's not even Luke Fickle time.

Speaker 1 That's crazy. Good for him.

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Speaker 1 Yo, yo, we're back. Yo, welcome back, Carter.

Speaker 1 What up? My stadium. Oh, my name is Seamus Sheehan.

Speaker 6 She mission.

Speaker 1 She's a shit.

Speaker 1 Which island are you from? That's not the boot. My statum is hot cider.

Speaker 1 Cider. Fuck eggnog.
Worst holiday drink. Hey!

Speaker 1 Hey! I'm hot! You need to win a holiday drink. You take some applesauce, you take some Jack Daniels, put it in a pot, boil it up, hot cider for the people.

Speaker 1 Jesus Christ, that sounds delicious.

Speaker 6 My sit him is Dick Pound.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No nut November's over.
And this motherfucker said that Peng Shui is 100% fine after one video call.

Speaker 1 I trust my life to Dick Pound. He don't know shit.

Speaker 1 Zoom call.

Speaker 1 That's it? That's it. Wow.

Speaker 1 He's a sheep. My sleeper is the sad guy looking out the bus and another guy looking out the other side looking happy.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's a great one. Good one.
Classic. Totally not overused.
No, I like it. You got the mountain on that side.
Fucking tremendous view. Hilarious.
Good, because there's two conflicting thoughts.

Speaker 1 Me with the pods out,

Speaker 1 me when it's not.

Speaker 1 The other dog's looking this way, and then this guy's like, what do you want from me? Yeah,

Speaker 1 Hank betting on

Speaker 1 the Steelers with all of us, sadly, and and then Hank with his fucking crazy parlay. And the Chargers still alive, looking out the happy sign.

Speaker 1 Hank looking at him. I hope the whole bus goes off the fucking cliff and he dies in a burning fire.
Not to bring up both of them. Hank

Speaker 1 looking at the mountain on one side, and the mountain is applesauce shit. And then PFT on the other side looking out at some ice-cold beers outside that very bus.

Speaker 1 PFT, PFT looking at his refrigerator versus PFT looking at his backyard.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 What's up, you fuckheads? It's me, Chris Cuomo. Got some free time on my hands at the moment.

Speaker 1 I'm starting. Hey,

Speaker 1 bleep that out. That's a slur.

Speaker 1 It's like using some other words to some other people.

Speaker 1 Alright, I can't. I need to compose myself now.

Speaker 1 I'm starting...

Speaker 1 Using the phrase Paolo Crampero. I feel like that one's got some legs on it.

Speaker 1 Paolo Crampero. I'm just getting out in front of it before Colin Coward.
Skip Bayless uses it. This guy's more dehydrated than my brother's canoli, if you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 I'm sitting.

Speaker 1 I'm sitting. Zion Williamson.
He's hurt. He's hurt.
He's getting fat again. Had a little too much turkey for Thanksgiving.
You can see.

Speaker 1 We don't unit shame. But he's sitting.
He's a little injured right now. Maybe save some of the feasting for the seven fishes.
They're a lot more nutrition-friendly.

Speaker 1 And then my sleeper, I'm sleeping, Spotify. I'm sleeping, Spotify.
Love you guys over at Spotify.

Speaker 1 Thank you, everyone, that sent us a little message saying that you spent 30,000 minutes of your year listening to us, dickheads, jammer on like a bunch of idiots on this show. We love you guys.
Mua,

Speaker 1 hello.

Speaker 1 All right, give us a fucking bag, Spotify. Give us a fucking bag, Spotify.

Speaker 1 I need a bigger refrigerator.

Speaker 1 My stardom. Or sorry, what's up, Tommy Tortellini? My stardom is Psycho T.

Speaker 1 I saw that guy last night. UNC Michigan, Michigan stinks, by the way.
I fucking love Psycho T. Pussy.
I fucking love that guy.

Speaker 1 Oh, sorry that your guys have alcohol withdrawals and lose seven pounds because they can't drink while they play sports. Paolo Cranpero.
Oh, nice. Got him.
My sitem is my diet.

Speaker 1 I found out today I could jump out of an airplane and don't have to be 220. So fuck that diet.
I'm back, baby. And then my sleeper is Tua.
Tua's getting compared to to Tom Brady as a rookie.

Speaker 1 That's no big deal. But Tua's back.

Speaker 1 Real quick, pause.

Speaker 1 I love the fact that your strategy wasn't on the diet to just get a second opinion on an airplane or an aviation expert until you found somebody that was like, you can jump out of the plane.

Speaker 1 I could still lose 20 pounds if I had to. I just would have had to literally, my diet plan was literally going to be stop eating like six days before and just lose 20 pounds.
I would have done that.

Speaker 1 All right, fuck boys back on. All right.
What up? It's Gio Testa Verde. What's up, Gigi? GG.

Speaker 1 My statum is Hunter Renfro. The guy just swallows balls.
Wait, we already heard this stat. I know, but it was written down from the guy swallows balls.
Just takes them.

Speaker 8 All right. He doesn't drop them.

Speaker 1 Anyway, my sit-ham is Keith Obelman. Silenced.
Fuck that guy. My sleeper is LeBron James because he's with the fishes.
Lay fish. Something's fishy.
Lay fish. Lafish, James.
Le Fishy. LaFish.

Speaker 1 All right. Lay fishy was such a great skip.

Speaker 1 Yeah, by the way, Spotify, every year, end-of-the-year rap, it like blows my mind that everyone is so loyal and listens to so many shows. So, thank you.
It does.

Speaker 1 It like makes me, it makes me feel bad that I'm not smarter.

Speaker 1 Like, that you listen to me being an idiot. No, I think that's part of the charm because people, they get, we're giving them the gift of feeling like they're smarter than us, correct?

Speaker 1 Which you are, likely, if you're listening to the sound of my voice. Um, I want to get a Spotify thing.

Speaker 1 I saw Rosillo said he wants to know, like, how many cheeseburgers he ate in a year, like an end-of-the-year the year wrap for for more things uh i think it's a i would love to know like everything

Speaker 1 every stat in my life how many craps i took i want to know how many times i ordered delivery to my house instead of to the office the microchip and the vaccine yeah okay that's everything except except for screen time that's the one thing i actually don't want

Speaker 1 that's right

Speaker 1 that's what happens in heaven

Speaker 1 they have your stats allegedly i'm gonna put up some fucking numbers in garbage time who has allegedly told you that it's a tommy Smokes tweet. Yeah.
Oh. Got it.
You're.

Speaker 1 Wow. We're at the bottom now.
You're repurposing Tommy Smokes tweets for this show?

Speaker 8 There's several people who have tweeted that.

Speaker 1 And I love Tommy, but.

Speaker 8 It wasn't my original take.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 8 I wasn't claiming it. That's why I said allegedly.

Speaker 8 Oh,

Speaker 1 that's a good point. That's not how it works.
You can't steal someone's joke allegedly. No, Billy's right by saying allegedly, he implies that it was somebody else's joke.

Speaker 1 That's a really great way to literally steal someone else's joke. it.

Speaker 1 I'm pretty sure Tommy's not the only one to tweet. Give him a hat tip right now.
Tommy,

Speaker 1 no tip your hat. Oh.
Yeah. Respect.
Geez. There you go.

Speaker 8 Top of the morning.

Speaker 1 All right, Jake, what do you got before we get to?

Speaker 7 Just one quick thing, piggybacking off the fantasy segment.

Speaker 6 Can you do it in the fuckboys voice?

Speaker 7 A guy on Quinnipiaca game I'm calling this weekend.

Speaker 1 His name is Jacob Rigoni. Oh, Jacob Rigoni.

Speaker 1 All right, give us Jacob Brigoni from three.

Speaker 1 Jacob Bregoni. Foot three.
Oh,

Speaker 1 if you do that, I will make me very happy. How about this? Jacob Bregoni pulls up from Little Italy.
Ooh, I like that. Nice.
Yeah, nice. Feel free to use that one.

Speaker 1 All right. Yeah, everyone tune in to Jake.

Speaker 7 Friday, seven, Sunday, two.

Speaker 1 Love it. Jake, we're going to go to the game.

Speaker 1 Sounds like a chef at a restaurant that Rick Petino would take a lady to. Nope.
Don't say that. Don't say that, Jake.

Speaker 7 By the way, I'm talking to the assistant tonight. As expected, they did not give me the...

Speaker 1 Yeah. Rick.

Speaker 1 Slick Rick.

Speaker 1 It's Rick Petino, lovely.

Speaker 1 All right. Frank Caliando, before we get to that, PFD, you had a quick word? Before we get to Frank Caliendo, I want to talk to to you.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on our good friend, Frank Caliando, recurring guest. He's back out on the road.
Yeah, doing a little bit. Yeah, he's got Hard Rock in Atlantic City on December 3rd.

Speaker 1 And then he's got Wind Creek Event Center in Bethlehem,

Speaker 1 Pennsylvania, on the 4th. So that's this weekend, Friday and Saturday.

Speaker 1 Good to see you. Good to have you back out on the road.

Speaker 1 I have to ask, though, you said when you sat down, we asked how you're doing, you said good enough. Wow.

Speaker 1 I'm getting older and I'm traveling around. It's just not the same.

Speaker 1 I mean, I used to get off a plane, and you're going to find this ridiculous, but I used to get off a plane and go play in a ping pong tournament oh that's odd yeah we love that yeah are you good i'm pretty yeah i've i've actually seen you practice before like working on your backhand you've got one of those machines that fires it at you right yeah yeah yeah i got that yeah um not olympic level but probably uh huh uh yeah we have something of a uh

Speaker 1 semi-pro sports league here in this office oh and ping pong is one of the recurring events you have to play jake you're gonna have to play jake is jake here we have a guy who's the best in the office he's the best I'm willing to plague.

Speaker 1 I brought my paddle. You did? It's a lot like Roy Hobbs in the natural, right? You carry it around in a trombone case.
So are you trying to shark people with that? Or are you just like a $250 paddle?

Speaker 1 Yeah. But

Speaker 1 you're carrying it everywhere. Well, I carry it just in case a game breaks out.
A long game breaks out. Got it.
And you never know where

Speaker 1 that's going to happen. Like, for example, right here.
Right here. At Pardon My Take.
Yes. Do you have anything? Do you have anything that's booked up right after this interview? I do.

Speaker 1 I have to to fly out.

Speaker 8 What time?

Speaker 1 We got to get done five minutes early. That's all.

Speaker 1 All right, fine, fine.

Speaker 1 Where's Jake? Is he here? Paige Jake.

Speaker 1 Yeah. He's doing it.
All right, so

Speaker 1 we're going to sacrifice five minutes of this interview so that you can find Jake to find the internet. I only brought him like 23 minutes worth of material.
Okay, perfect.

Speaker 1 I am glad, though, that you're back on the road. It's good to see comedians get back out there and start interacting with live audiences.

Speaker 1 You strike me as a guy that, and maybe I'm wrong about this, but over the years where I've seen you perform, like when I hear about you going on tour, your tour dates are are largely around like these types of event centers and like you you've played your fair share of casinos before Yeah, and I'm always curious if you're when you're playing at a casino Do they set you up in like the sweetest hotel room and if it can't it possibly yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, I'm just curious like when you get to a really nice hotel room if you're there I don't know if you travel with family or whatever But if you're there on your own They give you like the biggest place.

Speaker 1 What's your routine to get settled into a casino? Oh, I don't have a routine at all.

Speaker 1 I just show I'm there for as little as I can be That's just just because that's kind of, I get somewhere and I try to get home because I have two kids. Instantly, yeah.
That's,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 my son and daughter, my son is 17, my daughter's 15 now. So it's getting to the point where they don't care about me as much anymore.
So I don't have to race home.

Speaker 1 And I'm not going to race home for my wife, but it's, it's, you know, there is some of that.

Speaker 1 But it's, it's kind of a situation where when they were little kids, I tried to be there as much as I could. So I would just get it out.
And I've just kind of have that as a habit. Right.
So

Speaker 1 I don't really, I hide. I hide.
I just stay away everybody, and uh, that's about it.

Speaker 1 But I usually don't get there till the day of, and then I'm only there for five or six hours, and I leave at six o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 1 So I don't, I don't enjoy, listen, I wish I could give you a better answer. I just don't, I don't enjoy a lot in life.
You're, oh, okay, a lot. That's part of general.

Speaker 1 That's part of my, yeah, I just, I just do things. I go on the road and I try to get home.
I try not to, but that's just my mentality.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, it's, you sound like, um, and I've had moments in the past year or so where I've thought about this, and it's terrible to say, obviously, COVID aside, but I kind of miss quarantine sometimes.

Speaker 1 I miss the idea that you didn't have any, like, hey, are you going to come to this thing? Are you going to do this thing? Yeah, I just say no to people. Yeah, they're always

Speaker 1 asking me if I can go to something, and I'm like, I'm not going to say yes and then not show up. I'm just like, I'm probably not going to go.
I say no a lot.

Speaker 1 And it's, and some people respect you for that, some people think you're a jerk, but I'd rather have the people think I'm a jerk for that than just saying I'm, you know, at the last second, not showing up.

Speaker 1 Do you ever like you ever guys go somewhere where you're um,

Speaker 1 where you're hoping a really famous person is going to show up? Like, this is years ago. Um,

Speaker 1 I did shows in Milwaukee at the Riverside Theater, and J.J. Watt, I was texting back and forth with J.J.

Speaker 1 because I'd met him through Twitter, but we grew up in the same area in Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 And I was just like hoping he was going to come to the show and with his brothers, and I was waiting to the last second. And the more famous somebody is,

Speaker 1 the less, the later their decisions are made on where they're going to be. Correct.

Speaker 1 right so like jj as famous as he is you get to somebody like a ryan reynolds you don't know if you're gonna you know you're just hoping but it was one of those things where i'm just hoping hoping hoping then you know five minutes before the show i'm coming okay all right you know

Speaker 1 those kinds of cool things and then i remember doing this where i

Speaker 1 i his brothers were still in college and maybe even high school at the time and i knew stuff about them because i wikipedia and he totally jj totally called me on it because i'm like you're the fullback and you're the tight end at the time time.

Speaker 8 He's like, you don't watch.

Speaker 1 Yeah, this is.

Speaker 1 And he was like, you Wikipedia that, huh? I'm like, absolutely. I'm also wearing shoes that are two inches high.

Speaker 1 It actually would have been a lot creepier if you just knew a lot of stuff about TJ Watt. Right, you got to kick Watt in high school.
You've got to come clean at that point.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but it's kind of fun to, I wanted to have some information. Yeah.
But yeah. He came with it.
I mean, they're the number one.

Speaker 1 Because I didn't want them to look, like, they weren't Derek and TJ at that point, and especially TJ. Right.
People just knew JJ for real. So I was like, I want these guys to feel welcome too.

Speaker 1 But I really care that JJ's, yeah. We forgot, I should have started, sorry for your loss

Speaker 1 with John Gruden. Yeah, isn't that something? Yeah, so that's, I think you were actually the person most people thought of like immediately after the news.
They're like, oh, John Gruden got fired.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. Frank Caliando is he could have to retire.
I'm going to go back and we'll come back to that. But in terms of, this is funny.

Speaker 1 Years before, I don't know if this still happens, but if you Googled John Madden, I came up before him. Wow, that's that's how crazy that is.
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

Speaker 1 You lose Gruden, but then they got the John Madden special coming out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, people keep asking me, Am I a part of that?

Speaker 1 I think they probably, and I'm going to milk it. Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 1 all of a sudden,

Speaker 1 I'm in the news again.

Speaker 1 Callium is important for this, you know. You know, you might lose a guy that you can't do because of emails, and then you got another guy that you can do because of a documentary, and then boom, maybe

Speaker 1 paychecks keep coming in. Yeah, it's one way or another.
I do look at it like that too. I mean, that's one of those things.
Yeah. So Gruden, that was tough.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, Gruden was three minutes of my act.

Speaker 1 So people, because I don't know if it's the algorithm or what, but that's stuff that would take off on Twitter and

Speaker 1 Instagram and stuff like that. So that's what people saw and thought that I was doing that all the time.
I'm like, for three years, I didn't even do any of that.

Speaker 1 So I'm not doing it on stage right now. I get worried.

Speaker 1 This is where I get worried: is somebody's just going to have a camera and they're going to put a, you know, take a little piece because my stuff is really about celebrating people.

Speaker 1 There's nothing to celebrate there right now. Well, what about if you could say, like, I mean, Roger Goodell is a clueless anti-football pussy.
Yeah, why not a dramatic reading of his emails?

Speaker 1 You think that's you think that would be really good for my career? Yeah. Well, I think that's a bit.
I think it's just your emails. It's John Gruden's emails.

Speaker 1 Right, but people will, like you, like I said, people will associate, or you said, people will associate with me doing that. All of a sudden,

Speaker 1 it's just gone. I mean, I had everybody ask me to do that kind of stuff.
I'm like, I can't. You know, a lot of the stuff I do.

Speaker 1 All the stuff I do is corporate. That's all my stuff.
I'm like, I am in it for the money, guys.

Speaker 1 And you say, and I actually, like, being in it for the money and admitting that outright and being like, I'm corporate. I want to be home.
I'd rather be home. I love that.
Yeah. I love that.

Speaker 1 I mean, I got to be, I think it's the honesty.

Speaker 1 Yes. If I were, if my job was to do, you know, a lot of what you guys do and have fun,

Speaker 1 if that was my brand to go out there and agitate a little bit and make fun and really push things hard, I think it would be fine. But it's very out of character for me.

Speaker 1 And then people say, well, why do you still do Trump? I go, well, Trump's still in power. He's still got power.
He might not be president, but I can say pretty much anything I want.

Speaker 1 It's that he's still at a high level there where it hasn't affected him. And I look at Gruden, I go, I'm also close to some people on the team.

Speaker 1 I know, you know, Derek Carr has become a decent friend over time. I I spoke to the team a couple of times.
I think about some of that stuff, and

Speaker 1 I got weirded out by it myself. I'll be honest with you.
There's a little piece of me that goes, man, I feel like I'd be crushing some of these people that let me into their world.

Speaker 1 It was because of Gruton.

Speaker 1 But, you know, there were people there.

Speaker 1 You know, Mark Davis could have said, no, he can't be here, but he didn't. Did you get to meet Mark Davis? Yeah.
What's he like?

Speaker 1 Exactly what he looks like. That's awesome.
He's the sweetest dude alive. Very sweet, nice.
Coolest

Speaker 1 guy in the world.

Speaker 1 Did you see his van? I did not.

Speaker 1 I remember,

Speaker 1 listen, I don't know if this is too much to say, but you guys would like this guy. I remember the first time I talked to the team, they were on a terrible losing streak.

Speaker 1 Both times I talked to the team, they won, by the way. So

Speaker 1 they wanted me there all the time.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 I remember saying to Mark Davis, I think you guys got something here. It's going to turn around.
He goes, I hope so. It was just

Speaker 1 like a very sad,

Speaker 1 you know, the Dutch boy hair thing.

Speaker 1 It was just a very like,

Speaker 1 God. And he was just sitting outside of the elevators at the hotel.

Speaker 1 I remember there was another time, I remember the second time I went there, the one that ended up on Hard Knocks, that they could not find Antonio Brown.

Speaker 1 Nobody knew where he was. I remember it.
Like people were looking for him, and

Speaker 1 just like he was behind a plant, like a plastic plant that

Speaker 1 was falling off. Yeah, I mean, that was the stuff that was on TV.
There was other stuff you're going, what is going on?

Speaker 1 And nothing,

Speaker 1 you know, I don't think it phased the team at that point, but it was like kind of like weird stuff.

Speaker 1 So I don't know.

Speaker 1 Are there any voices that you work on? Should I say impressions or just voices?

Speaker 1 I like both those. Both those are good.

Speaker 1 Because what you do is a little bit more than voices.

Speaker 1 You actually get into the character. I try to find the person.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you do the facial things, which I feel like that's what set you apart sometimes from other people that do just voices. Yeah, there's something you try to find the face.

Speaker 1 You try to find, I do these things on TikTok now because I'm young and hip. These, you know, it's like how to do an impression.

Speaker 1 One of the first things they do is teach you how to do the face or say what to do the face. And I give an example.

Speaker 1 So for somebody like Donald Trump, it's like he's looking into an aquarium and mimicking the fish. Right? You do this that fishy face like that.

Speaker 1 Or Michael Keaton has the kind of thing where there's a smell in the room and he's been hired to try and figure out what it is. Okay, so it stinks in your thing.
You know, that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 You want to get that? Let's get that. And then you find out how do they pronounce their S's or vowels or something like that.
So, you know, Madden makes a face like

Speaker 1 he just ate a full lemon, that kind of thing, right there.

Speaker 1 So, it's, I don't even do dead-on impression or voices. I do more of impressions.
I find ways to, you know, to create characters out of them because then you can do a lot more with it.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to think. You know, some, you know, the old school way of doing things is nail the voice and then you just have it.
That's that's like a very 70s-ish kind of thing.

Speaker 1 Dana Carvey had the big cartoon character version of something. Yeah.
And I like to be right in the middle. You know, Daryl Hammond's that same way.
He just nails things. You're like, oh my God.

Speaker 1 And I've had this conversation with Joey Molinaro.

Speaker 1 I've talked with him a bunch of stuff. He's great.
Like when he does Colin Cowherd, he's got the seven different things that Cowherd does. And you're going, oh, God, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 And the little laugh into something and you just you go those are the cadences those are the things that that get you into the into the characters and and make it fun and then you can do other things with samuel jackson i did a thing that was just it's it doesn't even matter what you say you just go da da da da da da da da da da and you can fill in the blanks for what it is yeah so are there any uh any impressions that you've worked on that were like a little niche like something that you just wanted to take on because you thought it would be fun or at this point in your career, you're like, all right, I need to be smart.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go with the ones that are going to be just the broadest. You know, the ones that are going to be a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 That's the thing. Can it attract enough of an audience? The internet can do, can make you change that a little bit because you can go for more niche stuff, right?

Speaker 1 You can try and find weird ones that are interesting. On the whole, the bigger, broader, if somebody starts doing a commercial, when Charles Barkley started doing commercials, Are You My Five?

Speaker 1 You know, that, that, it's the five book box suit, rock suit, rock suit. You know, all those commercials that you do, that brings somebody to more than just their sport.

Speaker 1 They're doing something a lot more than that. So are there niche people? Yes.
I mean,

Speaker 1 Island Boys?

Speaker 1 I don't even understand what's happening. Big time Tommy.
You know, big time Tommy. The Island Boys would be great.

Speaker 1 I've just seen some. I don't even know what's going.
I literally don't know what's happening. It's the old school way.
Is that what it is? Respect.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's it. You have to see big time Tommy.
You'd be a great big-time Tommy. But yeah, go ahead.
Well,

Speaker 1 I don't have your level with the Patrick Mahomes,

Speaker 1 but

Speaker 1 that's one that kind of works in there.

Speaker 1 Everybody says Kermit the Frog. I think more Kermit the Frog and Frank Oz.
Yeah, I kind of do just like if Alex Jones took a bunch of helium.

Speaker 1 Let me explain something to you. That's not, I will eat my neighbor if it was Patrick Mahomes.
Yeah, Patrick Mahomes, I think they man would get a player. You know, that kind of, it's in there.

Speaker 1 I found, this is the thing I always tell people, there's a weird thing with voices like Kermit the Frog. Hey, ho, Kermit the Frog.

Speaker 1 For some reason, that voice right there, if you bring it down a little bit, becomes John C. Riley.
I had no idea. Did you touch my drum set? And then it could become Mark Ruffalo in Endgame.

Speaker 1 I see this as an absolute win.

Speaker 1 And it becomes Joe Rogan after that. Like, wow, Jamie, pull that up.
Oh, my God. So there's...

Speaker 1 Some of these voices are so similar. Chris Hemswith is up here.
And you bring it down. It's Maximus, Decimus, Meridius.
And then it's Russell Crowe out of nowhere. So

Speaker 1 just finding those. But back to your point, are there weird ones? Yeah, I mean, people love

Speaker 1 Alex Jones himself is a niche niche

Speaker 1 person, but there are a certain group of people that if you say that, there's people who love him, people that hate him, and it just drives people to care about it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I just think that if it were me, I would get into the, my problem would be I like a lot of weird stuff that not a lot of people like. I just get like locked onto something nobody cares about.

Speaker 1 Like I'm fascinated with Mike Greenberg. I listened to it.
I was listening to his show this morning and it's a real problem that I have.

Speaker 1 I'm like the, I'm the person that ESPN is marketing to when they're like, oh shit, we don't have anybody to do six hours of the NBA draft. I know what Greene's going to take care of it for us.

Speaker 1 But like I would get too into these little niche things that I would focus too much on and then realize, oh shit, the entire rest of the world doesn't care about the same stuff.

Speaker 1 I'm curious for you, like, does, do you ever do this for fun at all anymore? No. Or is it, yeah, not really.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and that's totally fair answer it's work i mean it's work it's i listen half my life as people hey be somebody who's better than you that's what that's what everybody is is like don't do don't say or be what you are do the thing you do do the dance and i i don't have a problem with that because it's what i put i shouldn't say i don't have a problem with that i've created a lot of that i told julie molinaro the same thing like back in the day when i first saw him come on i go make sure you do some sketches that are non-impression stuff just do some stuff even if if it's sports.

Speaker 1 Make sure you do a bunch of generic

Speaker 1 create your own characters. Because if I do something that sounds kind of like, you're doing Richard Dreyfus.
No, I'm not.

Speaker 1 It's just a character.

Speaker 1 It's somebody I'm doing.

Speaker 1 But I try to make them now.

Speaker 1 I was doing a Dan Campbell kind of thing the other day, and he turned into Matt Foley, the motivational speaker. Yeah, they slip into it.
Yeah, it's very close.

Speaker 1 I'm going to like to go to Starbucks.

Speaker 1 But he does, Dan Campbell does those freaking,

Speaker 1 you know, sound effects. Like, you don't expect this jacket.

Speaker 1 What are you doing? The duck quack from the original Apple computer? Yeah, he's got the cheek that he squeezes it.

Speaker 1 Like one of those, you know?

Speaker 1 Gets a little bit of air in there.

Speaker 1 He's got

Speaker 1 some interesting things. I'm going to gas you up a little bit because you said like you're everyone wants you to be somebody that's better than you.
You are actually...

Speaker 1 probably the best at what you do of this generation, I would say.

Speaker 1 In some ways, the most known. It depends.
You have to determine what is best. I mean, there are people who are better at dead-on impressions, like nailing a voice.
There's a difference.

Speaker 1 So you said voices or impressions earlier. I like impressions because it kind of gives you license to create something else with it.
People will say impersonation.

Speaker 1 When I say impersonation, I go, I don't do any impersonations. And impersonation is when you...
Are in Vegas, you're dressing up as the person pretending to be the Michael Jackson guy.

Speaker 1 That's what it is to me.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 and somehow I just had this, again, niche thing for sports where I get in there, you know, and there weren't a lot of people doing that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 You know, before the internet was around, before there were shows like your show,

Speaker 1 there weren't people doing and messing and doing a lot of comedy with sports.

Speaker 1 And people,

Speaker 1 it's like the one piece that's always been lost. Like, you know, they try to do the daily show for sports.
It's actually impossible. No one's been able to pull it off.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I've had people come to me and say that, and I'm like, how many writers do I get?

Speaker 1 And they're like, we just thought you could do it yourself. I'm like, no.

Speaker 1 Do you realize there are literally tons, like

Speaker 1 maybe 10, 15, 20 writers on a show to create something?

Speaker 1 We were actually really smart for quitting our show on ESPN2 after one episode because we realized that it wasn't going to work out. So we said, take this job and shove it.
We're out.

Speaker 1 Good luck finding someone to replace us.

Speaker 1 I remember reading about that like the next day. I pulled it up.
Like you guys were were there, and then you were gone. I'm like, okay, well, it never made sense to me in the first place.

Speaker 1 They never actually really let us in the building. The closest we got was the parking lot for the interview with Scott Van Pelt, but they never actually brought us fully onto campus.

Speaker 1 We're outdoor cats. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Weren't you like in an ambulance? I remember you guys being in the back of a truck.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That's what I remember.
I remember seeing the picture. Like, you guys, like, what?

Speaker 1 I still own the van.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to get our intern who's now full-time Billy to sell it, and he won't fucking do it it's a big point in of contention around here i bet yeah it feels like i can still feel the tension yeah um all right let's this is the five minutes we're going to give you so you can go play jake oh you need to play i had two things i want to tell you all right

Speaker 1 one of my favorite things just happened recently was uh i got a call from jim nance because they do the tony romo and jim nance and uh for people who haven't heard it it's just my tony romo is just him excited about oh jim this is going to be incredible and amazing and amazingly incredible and here we go jim and then i say donate

Speaker 1 when something crazy can happen because it's like somebody messes with the volume meters when Nance gets excited. But he called me via Michael Lombardi.

Speaker 1 And because I talked to Michael, he said he was good friends with him. And then Nance left me the greatest message in the world.
He's like, Frankie,

Speaker 1 Jim Nance, how are you? I was like, well, he's like, I was telling him why I say Tony. I'm like, I can't really talk as you.
All I can do, so I got one word that works. It works, yeah.

Speaker 1 And I can use it in any situation. And I said, anytime I tried to do the impression of you, it turns into Adam West, the original Batman.

Speaker 1 So then I told him that, and then Nance starts doing it, Adam West. He's like, to the Bat Cave Robin.
So I was like, oh, this is awesome. This is one of my best days ever when I called him back.

Speaker 1 You know, he orders toast, right? He carries around pictures of toast in his pocket, and he points at the exact color that he wants to a waitress at a restaurant.

Speaker 1 He says, this is the toast that I want. I'm Jim Nance.
Please bring me my toast. Please bring me my toast.
I swear to God.

Speaker 1 Not making that up. That's not, that's, I can't tell.
It's not made up. You can Google it after.
I know I'm a liar, but this one is actually the truth. It is true.
Jim, here we go.

Speaker 1 This toast is a little bit off. Yes.
What are you going to do? You're going to tip the waitress? Today?

Speaker 1 Yes. I don't remember what the other thing was, so let's go play picking up.
Yeah, let's do it. Thank you, Frank.
And everyone, go check it out. Frank's back on the road.
Yeah.

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Yep, absolutely. 100%.
Yes. Go check it out.
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Speaker 1 Okay, let's wrap it up. Fire Fest of the week.
Hank,

Speaker 1 give it to us.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 What? Uh-oh.

Speaker 1 It could be.

Speaker 1 What? I'm always nervous whenever you give the like. No, I think I know what it is.
Oh, actually, I think I know what it is, too. Yeah.
But I always get nervous when you're like, well.

Speaker 6 Well, it could be over. I think you guys both know what it is, too.
It could be over by now.

Speaker 6 But like a month and a half ago, I was playing Warzone with M Rags doing. He was like coaching me trying to get a solo win.
Come Rags? Cumrags. I'm sorry.
And

Speaker 6 I was like, I'll get a win before the new season comes out, which is next Monday or Tuesday. And this was a month and a half ago.

Speaker 6 And he's like, well, someone said in the chat, if they don't, you'll get duct taped at Wall. I was like, absolutely.
There's no doubt in my my mind I'll get that win. No problem at all.

Speaker 6 Have not got a win on Wednesday night stream for like seven hours, came in second like four times. I'm streaming tonight starting after we record the intro, which we just recorded.

Speaker 6 So I'm streaming tonight after this.

Speaker 1 Okay, so wait.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to think. You're streaming tonight after the intro, which we just recorded, but by the time you hear this, it will have been last night.

Speaker 6 Yes, this will be the very end. So there's a chance that I have won and things are good.
If I have not won, I'm going to have to get duct taped to a wall for an on, we don't know how much time. So

Speaker 6 I might

Speaker 1 be streaming when you hear this.

Speaker 6 I might be, when you wake up, I might still be streaming because I'm have

Speaker 6 set aside all my plans, got some energy drinks. I'm ready to go all night if I have to because I refuse to get duct taped.

Speaker 1 It's the Detroit Lions of Warzone. Yeah, I am currently.
And everyone's been saying, like, Hanks, this is the week that he gets it. This is the week he gets it.
And it is.

Speaker 1 And you find ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Speaker 1 I would like to offer my services as a coach. I think I can.
because I've won a few games. I lost track of how many games.
It was like probably six or seven.

Speaker 6 It was so many that I don't remember how much there were.

Speaker 1 But I'd like to coach you.

Speaker 6 All right. I'll take any.

Speaker 1 I believe in you, Hank. I'll take any of you.
And I'm totally not rooting against you because it would be really funny if you had to get duct taped to a wall again. Right.
Thank you, Big Cat.

Speaker 1 I appreciate that. You're welcome.

Speaker 6 I'll take your coaching advice, PFD. Okay.

Speaker 1 It's a real shame if someone unplugged it right before you won. Can't be fucking right.

Speaker 1 What if

Speaker 1 you got down to the last two and then the person logged off right before you kill him? Oh, that'd be a shame. Now you win.

Speaker 6 Do you? Yeah, you're the last person left.

Speaker 1 Okay. Are you sure? Technicality?

Speaker 6 A win's a win. You take that helicopter right out.

Speaker 1 It's a win. Okay.
Okay. Good luck, Hank.
Thank you. I'm really upset.
Thank you. All right, PFT.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I got a little bit of bad news

Speaker 1 about how my weekend is going to be going. And that's that I'm going to watch sports on Sunday without gambling on any of them.

Speaker 1 So I have responsibly reached the end of my allocated fund for myself that I had through November. So I have to I have to wait until the end of the month.
Okay.

Speaker 1 So I'm going to be this is actually going to be maybe the hardest thing that I've ever done. I believe in you.
I think I can do it.

Speaker 1 Also, you do have $46 left, so you can just make a parlay that would be sick. So that's what I'm going to I'm not going to bet on the games, but I'm going to make several awesome parlays.

Speaker 1 I guess what I'm saying is I'm really down to my last couple of dollars. That's okay.
It's responsible for that.

Speaker 1 And I could, in theory, dip into my bank account, take money out, put it into my Barcelona Sports account, but I'm leading from the front on this one. I'm going to be responsible.
Nice.

Speaker 1 And I'm not going to do it, but I am going to put some sick parlays out. And I mean, how great would that be if one of them hit? That would be sick.
And then I'm back in the game.

Speaker 1 A sick parlay hitting is sick. It is sick.
And then I use that money to then just, I'm back in the game.

Speaker 1 I did say, and I haven't concocted it yet, but I did tell everyone that I do plan on winning the can't lose parlay parlay this week so if you'd like to yeah but the odds on that

Speaker 1 maybe i'll make them good for you odds yeah i think i'll make them i'm gonna come i'm gonna do like a a weird player prop parlay okay okay that's what i'm gonna do well godspeed can you bet on a tie

Speaker 1 yes i think so yeah i might bet on i might put my 46 on the on the chargers to tie against the bengals that sounds terrible that sounds so terrible let's go um all right my uh firefest of the week is i updated twitter and it sucks have you guys done that recently?

Speaker 1 I don't know what's updated.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so I updated it because I was, I replied to Keith Oberman calling him a loser, and then I did the, which is a great trick, to mute the conversation because there's just a bunch of people replying and arguing in my mentions.

Speaker 1 I didn't want to see it anymore. For some reason, it didn't mute.
Jack, you're fucking, fuck you, dude, become the CEO again. So I updated it.
Now I'm just lost. Now I'm completely lost.

Speaker 1 I've reached that point in my life where updating technology really sets me back. It sucks.
Billy, do you have an answer for me? Their buttons are different.

Speaker 1 Like, if you hit, if you hit where search used to be, it's spaces.

Speaker 1 You can also downvote. I can also downvote.
You just got spaces? Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's been on there for a while.

Speaker 1 My hard and fast rule with anything on my iPhone is never update unless they've manually forced you to. Correct.
So they forced us. I mean, the fonts different.
Fonts different. I don't like it.

Speaker 1 The spaces, the down votes. Just let me mute the conversations.
Because I love just tweeting something and then muting it and being like, I never saw anyone. Billy.

Speaker 8 Everyone's stealing the NFTs.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 The right-click stolen.

Speaker 5 I can't believe they're right clicks.

Speaker 1 They're stealing them. Right-click pirates?

Speaker 8 They're all going to openc.io-barstool.

Speaker 5 Seriously?

Speaker 1 Right-clicking and stealing them. Whatever you do, don't go to openc.io/slash barstool and steal any of Billy's NFTs.
Is the project a failure?

Speaker 8 No.

Speaker 1 What should I report to David Errico? Cybercrime. There's cybercrime.
It's illegal. What would you like me to say? We tried, but we failed.

Speaker 8 There's cyber on cybercrime.

Speaker 1 Hey, Billy would like a raise, but he did his big project and it failed. It hasn't, there is still time.

Speaker 1 Really? How much time's left? Till Tuesday. 2 p.m.
Has anybody been on him yet?

Speaker 8 There's been a couple bids.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 8 But the cybercrime needs to stop.

Speaker 1 It does. It stops here.
Cybercrime. We will be prosecuting anyone that right-clicks any of Billy's NFTs to the full extent of the law.
Is there a law around that? No, not cybercrime.

Speaker 1 I just want people to know that we will be to the fullest extent of the law. If you steal these NFTs, you are just harming Billy in his attempt to get a raise.

Speaker 1 And if you steal them so much, he will actually get a decrease in his salary. Don't do that.
And you don't want to do that.

Speaker 8 Changing them and retweeting them to them will be terrible.

Speaker 1 Actually, suck if he just was getting paid nothing next year because of this project.

Speaker 1 The worst thing ever would be, Billy's right, if people were to retweet the NFTs, because then they're free for more people. I know.
So don't do that.

Speaker 8 Right-clicking them and stealing them.

Speaker 1 Right. Please.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Good luck on your project.

Speaker 7 My firefest of the week is my gloves or my my winter jacket, and one of them fell out and they're missing.

Speaker 1 Oh, you just have one? Yeah. I love ending fire fest.
Your fire fest of the week isn't that Frank Kellyndo played against you in ping pong?

Speaker 7 Is it out?

Speaker 1 The video's out?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I'll put it out today.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, you don't want to spoil it.
No, you can spoil it. Spoil it.
He destroyed me. He's the best in the office.
He's the best one. He's in the office.

Speaker 7 He's the best one here. He brought his own paddle on a media tour.
That's when you know.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
That's crazy. He knows.
He He takes ping pong very, very seriously. On Pittsburgh Radio today, I was doing the interview that we do.
Piquet and I alternate every week.

Speaker 1 Caliendo was in studio. He just ended up talking to me about ping pong for 15 minutes.

Speaker 1 And he plays in professional tournaments. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He had a strategy in the back of his head against you, Jake, where he was setting you up the entire time you were warming up. He's doing warm-ups too.
Just so he could humiliate you. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's ruthless on the table.

Speaker 7 He should have got his shirt on the barsteel store.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That's brutal.
Best in the office. Frank Caliendo.

Speaker 7 Replace his face.

Speaker 1 He deserves it. He does.

Speaker 1 Wow, look at that. Sportsmanship.
It's always about sportsmanship. Of course.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Good luck, everyone, this weekend. Gambling, watching your teams.
88. Big conference championship weekend.
Game of the year. Georgia minus 6 and 8.

Speaker 7 Yes, Pen 3 tonight at 7.

Speaker 1 What's the number I'm betting? Get it, guessing? 81.

Speaker 1 This is one that has never been guessed.

Speaker 7 8. 81 and 88.

Speaker 1 Or the 80s. 69.
81.

Speaker 1 23. Is 23 the most dominant? No.

Speaker 6 It's been 47.

Speaker 7 That's yeah, that's disrespectful of Mr. 47.
Okay. 47

Speaker 1 is a goat, yeah. Okay.

Speaker 8 Minkinry is the art of training minks.

Speaker 1 Love you guys.

Speaker 1 talking away.

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Speaker 1 Today's another

Speaker 1 day to find you. Shy it away.

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Speaker 1 Shy it away.

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Speaker 1 The

Speaker 1 flight is okay

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Speaker 1 Life for better to be safe than something

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