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Thursday Thunderdome · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network.
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Speaker 1: It's Thursday. That means it's time to enter the Thursday Thunderdome.
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Speaker 1: On today's show, our special guests will compete alongside my
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Speaker 1: co host, my bff, my companion Professional Sports Better Simon Hunter,
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Speaker 1: in an epic test of wagers and wits that's quickly
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Speaker 1: made this show the most anticipated thirty ish minutes of
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Speaker 1: the entire sports gambling weekly media landscape. Simon Man, Simon,
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Speaker 1: you're a Sixers fan. Sixers played the Hawks last night
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Speaker 1: recording this on Thursday, and they gave up, uh, pretty
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Speaker 1: massively lost the game. Now we're losing the series and
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Speaker 1: would looked like what could have been a pretty less
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Speaker 1: than challenging romp to the finals that might not even
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Speaker 1: get out of this round. I was there. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: don't put my business on Twitter because I hate being
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Speaker 1: that fan that's like just complaining about their life and
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Speaker 1: about their fandom. But I mainly didn't go on Twitter
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Speaker 1: because I went on for one second to say something
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Speaker 1: and all it was was never any memes about the
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Speaker 1: Sixers and how we're a joke. I don't know, man,
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Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you, is that like, what is
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Speaker 1: your worst in person memory for sports? Like I that's
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Speaker 1: the lowest I've felt since. We were talking to Tiki
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Speaker 1: Barber about his brother pick sixing the Eagles. I was
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Speaker 1: at the Buccaneers game. It was twenty degrees freezing his
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Speaker 1: brother pick six. That was the end of the Eagles run,
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Speaker 1: pretty much with Andy Reid, and I think, honestly, until
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Speaker 1: that point the quiet thing was brutal. But that quast
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Speaker 1: shot was so amazing that I honestly wasn't even that
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Speaker 1: upset about it. And I wasn't there in person like
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Speaker 1: for this. I was in person. I said it to
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Speaker 1: my buddy. It was I think they're on a fifty
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Speaker 1: to two run Atlanta, And I said to my buddy,
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Speaker 1: we have to take Atlant alive right now because we
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Speaker 1: had way too much money. Um. Basically, the night before
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Speaker 1: me and him had money lined the nets at halftime
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Speaker 1: with the Sixers. So I had the nets plus like
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Speaker 1: to fifty or plus two sixty money lined with the
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Speaker 1: Sixers money line. So I told him, let's hedge like Atlanta,
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Speaker 1: Mike come back and win this game. So we hedged
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Speaker 1: at plus two fifty plus two forty. The woman sit
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Speaker 1: in front of us, hedged with like bet with us.
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Speaker 1: She'd be like, I'll bet with you, guys, like like
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Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna win either, And know that
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Speaker 1: you could just feel as soon as the fourth quarter started,
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Speaker 1: no one was breathing. There was literally no air in
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Speaker 1: the entire arena. Everyone could like feel the tension. No
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Speaker 1: one was talking, you know, like there was that one
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Speaker 1: asshole guy near me that the whole game was just
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Speaker 1: like Ben Simmons, you suck, dude. We know Ben Simmons
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Speaker 1: sucks every Sixers fan there Again, I don't want to
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Speaker 1: freak out on this podcast chat. I'm trying to hold
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Speaker 1: it in. I was like literally dying inside, just the
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Speaker 1: slowest death of ever experienced. You won't be surprised to
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Speaker 1: learn that that level of pain as an experience for
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Speaker 1: me has happened twice in person, both times involving my
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Speaker 1: beloved Chicago Bears. Nineteen eighty six or eighty seven, I
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Speaker 1: forget which year they played the Niners in the NFC
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Speaker 1: title game, and they were probably heavy favorites. It was
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Speaker 1: at home. It was forty below, no joke, I was
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Speaker 1: at the game. They lost twenty seven or nothing to
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Speaker 1: the Niners. That was excruciating. And then the Bears in
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl against the Colts the Prince halftime show,
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Speaker 1: Devin Hester runs a touchdown, returns a opening kickoff for
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Speaker 1: a touchdown. They went on to squander the lead. They
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Speaker 1: lost to Peyton Manning in the rain. Horrible game plan,
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Speaker 1: remember every second of it. Also missed the Prince halftime
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Speaker 1: show because I was called and my buddy and I
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Speaker 1: went into the concession to get out of the rain
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Speaker 1: for fifteen minutes. So gut wrenching on every level. Today,
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Speaker 1: Simon d we have arranged a special rematch for you.
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Speaker 1: We are taking it back to March eighteen. Are very
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Speaker 1: first Thunderdome episode. That means you're no stranger to this
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Speaker 1: first challenger, and he is no stranger to the world
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Speaker 1: of sports betting. One of the most unabashedly enthusiastic betters
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Speaker 1: on the West Coast and one of our esteemed colleagues
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Speaker 1: at the Volume podcast Network, a return Thunderdome challenger and
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Speaker 1: the host of the Sports Gambling with Money Line Monico podcast.
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Speaker 1: Alex Monico, what an intro chad. I'm ready to run
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Speaker 1: through a Bear's wall right now, baby. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: the for the hype up. I'm ready to dance. I
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Speaker 1: I was telling them I had the six years yesterday.
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Speaker 1: So I'm struggling as well, not a personal level, but
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Speaker 1: in my pocket. And it's one of those losses you get,
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Speaker 1: you get a haircut, you trim the cosmo, you start
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Speaker 1: all over. So thank you for jamming with me the
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Speaker 1: last two hours of the throw and Mike, I'm either
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Speaker 1: going out with the hair on a win or a loss.
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Speaker 1: I'm in the six foot club for two more hours.
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Speaker 1: Let's enjoy it. Signon your second. Challenger was last seen
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Speaker 1: here wiping the floor with both you and Monaco on
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Speaker 1: his way to a decisive Thunderdome victory. One of the
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Speaker 1: most beloved handicappers here at the Action Network, the heartbeat
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Speaker 1: of our college football coverage, the pride of Razorback Nation.
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Speaker 1: I can't believe he's gotten out of bed after the
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Speaker 1: Razorbacks crushing College World Series playoff. Lost a man just
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Speaker 1: two weeks away from his second and final wedding, sporting
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Speaker 1: the mohawk. Lucky in love, Mr Colin Wilson, my brother.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for having me on. Guys, trust me, I
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Speaker 1: know having bad sports teams break your heart is a
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Speaker 1: lifelong Razor fan and alumni and a lifelong Royals fan. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The only time I've cried in my entire life, my
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Speaker 1: entire life, when my two sons were born, and when
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Speaker 1: Madison Bumbarn Garner came out of the bullpen of the
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Speaker 1: World Series and shucker Royals down in Game seven. So
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Speaker 1: I know what it's like to be deflated. And yes,
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Speaker 1: I am getting married after being single for the last
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Speaker 1: ten years. I am once again throwing myself into the world.
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Speaker 1: The biggest gamble of man could ever make. Not even
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Speaker 1: throwing money over the counter, You're throwing money over a
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Speaker 1: different counter, the biggest gamble you could ever make. Dude,
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Speaker 1: let me tell you something. You know. I love love,
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Speaker 1: so I'm super all in on you getting married. Number
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Speaker 1: two completely agree with you. Getting married is the biggest
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Speaker 1: risk you can take. The biggest gamble you can take
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Speaker 1: is getting married, because that is a life defining, life
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Speaker 1: changing moment where every single second of your day can
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Speaker 1: be determined by your partner. Yeah. Absolutely, you have to. Uh,
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Speaker 1: and you have to. I mean you think trying to
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Speaker 1: hedge a sick serves game, trying to get both sides
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Speaker 1: of a total or a side is like for three hours,
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Speaker 1: you're sweating that. Every day you wake up, you're trying
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Speaker 1: to get both sides of the of the ticket with
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Speaker 1: your wife, right, I mean between the food and the
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Speaker 1: kids in the lawn and the two dudes, and you
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Speaker 1: got your job, and you're always hedging a ticket every
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Speaker 1: day you wake up in a marriage. I can't wait.
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Speaker 1: I love it well that that bodes well for Simon
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Speaker 1: and uh, I assume Monica is not dating anyone. I
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Speaker 1: don't know who date that guy. But uh. Also, the
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Speaker 1: only two times I've ever cried the movies Meet Joe
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Speaker 1: Black and Titanic. I found those performances in both movies
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Speaker 1: to be, you know, emotional. It's a beautiful movie. Brad
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Speaker 1: Pitt is a beautiful, beautiful man. Here we go, ye
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Speaker 1: to give it to Brad pittcause Benjamin Button almost did
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Speaker 1: the same thing to me. He's an amazing actor. He
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Speaker 1: deserves the Oscar that he's gotten. He deserves Springfield, Missouri
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Speaker 1: from Kickapoo High School, Great Great State Missouri. Here's how
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Speaker 1: today's game is played. You'll answer two kinds of questions,
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Speaker 1: traditional trivia questions about sport at sports betting in the
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Speaker 1: world at large, also completely subjective and totally assinine open
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Speaker 1: ended questions or prompts that I alone will judge. Since
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Speaker 1: you've both been on the show, you now know that
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Speaker 1: I will most definitely favor Mr Simon Hunter. To accumulate points,
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Speaker 1: you must answer the trivia questions correctly and also convinced
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Speaker 1: me that your responses to those open ended prompts are
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Speaker 1: better than the responses from your opponents. Let's begin Part one.
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Speaker 1: I love this, I love this theme right here. Today
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Speaker 1: is a special day for sports fans across Western New York,
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Speaker 1: the ancestral home region of our producer Matt Mitchell. That
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Speaker 1: is because Josh Allen, quarterback of the Buffalo Bill's Savior
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Speaker 1: of Bills Football, will be throwing out the first pitch
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Speaker 1: at the Toronto Blue Jays game tonight, which will be
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Speaker 1: played in downtown Buffalo thanks to the Jay's ongoing pandemic
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Speaker 1: Canadian travel restrictions. Buffalo is the largest city in a
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Speaker 1: regional utopia, famous the world over not only for its
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Speaker 1: handsome but relatable natives, but also for its enormous cultural impacts.
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Speaker 1: Let's discuss a few simon one of Western New York's
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Speaker 1: most enduring cultural contributions. Is this well known dessert brand
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Speaker 1: born in Larroy, New York. In Its original five flavors
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Speaker 1: were strawberry, raspberry, orange, lemon, and lime, and brand spokespeople
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Speaker 1: have included Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, and most famously Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: native Bill Cosby. What is this well known dessert brand
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Speaker 1: I've no included? Is that put you to sleep? Though?
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Speaker 1: Oh dude, you don't hear too many Bill Cosby jokes anymore,
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Speaker 1: so I had to make oney now, Oh you hear
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Speaker 1: is Bill Cosby jokes. It's like he's gone from being
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Speaker 1: the best at punch lines to the ultimate punch line.
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Speaker 1: And I think you did a pretty good job on
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Speaker 1: that one. The answer is jello. God see like three
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Speaker 1: mustard tea or something something Weirdea, this goes back to age.
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Speaker 1: Anybody that is around our age had the pudding pop
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Speaker 1: commercials in the late eighties and the early nineties. Yes,
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Speaker 1: when I was reading this, this this question, Colin, I
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Speaker 1: was thinking, you got to get the pudding Pope, Jello pudding,
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Speaker 1: pops Cello, pudding pops ros putting on a stick. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it always gets the green light from mom because it's
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Speaker 1: made with real pudding. Alex. Few people know Rochester, New York,
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Speaker 1: is the home of an NBA champion, but it's true.
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Speaker 1: The Rochester Royals won the nineteen fifty one titled before
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Speaker 1: the franchise moved to Cincinnati, and then Kansas City, and
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Speaker 1: then finally this California city where they played since with
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Speaker 1: very little success. I'll go with Sacramento. Sacramentos wrecked. You
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Speaker 1: did it right, buddy, Colin. Buffalo, New York was the
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Speaker 1: first US city to widely use street lights, earning the
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Speaker 1: nickname the City of Light, thanks almost exclusively to this
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Speaker 1: nearby landmark well. I would say Silent Field, where the
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Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays play their Triple A games, but I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna go there because I'm all obsessed with perk
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Speaker 1: factors and Volagaro Junior hitting home runs. I'll go with
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Speaker 1: Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls. Colin, You're an amazing contestant. I
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Speaker 1: kind of think I might want you to win your chat.
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Speaker 1: Remember you're the pack tall referee. This is going to Simon,
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Speaker 1: That's true. It always goes to Simon until Simon decides
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Speaker 1: to go all in on the last question and gets
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Speaker 1: it wrong and there's nothing we can do. Part one prompt,
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Speaker 1: are you guys ready? In the recorded history of Niagara Falls,
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Speaker 1: only five people have survived and unassisted swim over the
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Speaker 1: falls and the resulting one hundred and sixty seven foot plunge.
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Speaker 1: You had to bet on any living athlete to survive
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Speaker 1: a swim over Niagara Falls. Who would you choose? And
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Speaker 1: why Simon, you're up first? I mean, there's only one answer.
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Speaker 1: Ray Lewis. Every time he hit someone, it's like surviving
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Speaker 1: a car crash opposably. So if there's anyone that can
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Speaker 1: serve the impact of hitting the Niagara Falls, it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be ray Lewis. This man literally lives for impact. That's
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Speaker 1: all he wants is impact. So give me ray Lewis.
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Speaker 1: That man does not break. And here I thought when
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Speaker 1: you said ray Lewis, you were going to make some
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Speaker 1: kind of murder joke and then you were going to
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Speaker 1: do it in the mayor of East Town accent murder
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Speaker 1: dir or I need some murder. I'd be careful what
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Speaker 1: you said, Chad. He's got addresses. He'll find you. Colin,
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Speaker 1: let's go ahead and review and think about people that
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Speaker 1: have actually jumped off of Niagara Falls, because you know
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Speaker 1: it was in Superman to Lois Lane, jumped over. She
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Speaker 1: wanted to prove his Superman was Clark kent with Superman
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Speaker 1: and he turned into so he jumped in himself. Whatever.
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Speaker 1: I try to think of like an athlete, like who's
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Speaker 1: strong enough, who's fast enough, who could swim out? But
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Speaker 1: why am I overthinking this? The only people that have
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Speaker 1: ever survived this, I mean almost everybody dies. The people
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Speaker 1: that have survived this went over in an oak cask.
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Speaker 1: First was in nineteen oh one. It was a lady
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Speaker 1: named Annie Edson Taylor. In nineteen o one went over
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Speaker 1: in an oak cask, came out with no injuries. A
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Speaker 1: little bit of bleeding, but no injuries whatsoever. So what
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Speaker 1: famous athlete knows an oak cask? Well, I want to
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Speaker 1: go with Matthew McConaughey because he loves Wild Turkey and
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Speaker 1: he's supporting that brand like crazy. But he doesn't play
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Speaker 1: any sports. He just shows up at Texas Long Worn
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Speaker 1: games and does his little fingers. So I gotta go
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Speaker 1: with David Beckham. David Beckham owns Head Club that is
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Speaker 1: the official whiskey of Inter Miami and Major League Soccer.
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Speaker 1: David Beckham is your answer. I love your logic, Why
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Speaker 1: wouldn't you go with Connor McGregor. He doesn't Actually, I
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Speaker 1: think he's just a spokesman. I've actually seen pictures of
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Speaker 1: David Beckham next to these casks. He knows his way
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Speaker 1: around the barrel a lot longer than Connor McGregor does.
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Speaker 1: I like your theory. I would also think that maybe
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Speaker 1: going with the Oaken theme, I would go with Anthony Thompson,
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Speaker 1: the greatest running back in the history of Indiana University,
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Speaker 1: who played for the old Oaken bucket against Purdue every
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Speaker 1: single year. Alex, your answer, I don't know how you
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Speaker 1: topp that that that backing by he calling his road
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Speaker 1: an essay with backup stores? Is I actually am going
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Speaker 1: to complete castanza opposite? I read a story about how
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Speaker 1: Lebron James saved Carmelo Anthony from a current on the
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Speaker 1: Banana Boat Famous Vacation, said to myself, under crisis, this
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Speaker 1: man the chosen one who I'm gonna say, Look, if
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Speaker 1: he takes the fall and he gets hurt, he could
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Speaker 1: be just doing it for the ref's whistle. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: take Lebron James under all adversity to land the plunge
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Speaker 1: and save himself, whether he hurts himself or he's faking. Wow,
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Speaker 1: that's pretty interesting too, that's a third rationale. But hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Colin because I feel ach the
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Speaker 1: Oaken bucket, the Oaken cask, the thinking about the next
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Speaker 1: level of research and data here puts him over the top,
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Speaker 1: which is not unlike how Colin lives his life. So
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Speaker 1: Colin wins the prompt onto Part two, The Reality of Sports.
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Speaker 1: My co host and my best friend, Simon Hunter is
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Speaker 1: both a big sports fan and a seasoned veteran in
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Speaker 1: the world of reality TV, so now is the perfect
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Speaker 1: time to discuss the illustrious intersection of famous athletes and
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Speaker 1: reality television. Simon arguably the best rebounding forward in NBA history.
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Speaker 1: This two thousand eleven Basketball Hall of Famer was also
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Speaker 1: an early reality TV star. He had his own MTV
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Speaker 1: reality talk show in on the Grand Prize on the
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Speaker 1: ABC's The Mole in two thousand and four, and appeared
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Speaker 1: on Celebrity Big Brother, Celebrity Apprentice, and more. Who is
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Speaker 1: this reality TV star, Basketball Hall of Famer, amazing rebounder worm?
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Speaker 1: You nailed it, Dennis Rodman, And before we move on,
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Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, I'm starting to realize here
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Speaker 1: that I'm like to Aaron Rodgers like the NFC, and
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Speaker 1: Colin is the Tom Brady. He comes here just for
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Speaker 1: one season, he wins the show. I've been here for months,
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Speaker 1: I've only won once, and he's already just steamer along
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Speaker 1: that I can't take him. Man, Colin, You're way too
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Speaker 1: good at this. Dude was supposed to be in my
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Speaker 1: off season. I'm supposed to be getting some hybernation sleep
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Speaker 1: for college football starts. But you know, here we are.
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Speaker 1: We got you know what, Simon, I would give you
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Speaker 1: an extra half point for that. Thank you. Alex. Although
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Speaker 1: he's a Canadian who played quarterback for the University of
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Speaker 1: Florida and the New York Giants, his current ESPN College
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Speaker 1: Football analysts is still best known for being the Bachelor
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Speaker 1: on season five of The Bachelor back in two thousand four.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm embarrassed to get this correct
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Speaker 1: or or not. I'm gonna go with Jesse Palmer. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you should be proud. You're right, That's exactly what you
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Speaker 1: should feel. You nail this for two. We came back
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Speaker 1: with a vengeance, Colin finishing fourth place on Celebrity Apprentice
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Speaker 1: in two thousand eight was certainly not the career highlight
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Speaker 1: for this British boxer who defeated both Evander holy Field
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Speaker 1: and Mike Tyson and who remains the last undisputed heavyweight
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Speaker 1: champion of the world. Yeah, he's called rio chicken bow.
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Speaker 1: You're a chicken bow. It's Lennox Lewis right, a hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: I feel like Colin wins this because he and I
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Speaker 1: are that, you know, not the same age, but close
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Speaker 1: to it. And also I will say that, uh, I'm
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Speaker 1: looking behind me and my credentials here, because I do
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Speaker 1: have a credential from the first holy Field Lewis fight
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Speaker 1: that was at Madison Square Garden that I went to.
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Speaker 1: Probably it is a top five sporting event for me
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Speaker 1: in my life, so incredibly exciting and energizing, so much enthusiasm.
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Speaker 1: There is nothing like a heavyweight title fight at MSG.
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Speaker 1: It's different than a than a football game or even
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Speaker 1: a basketball game because the amount of space in which
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Speaker 1: the concentration can be focused is just so much smaller.
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Speaker 1: And then the celebrity wattage and the scenery around the
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Speaker 1: ring is amazing. I remember after the fight it ended,
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Speaker 1: I lived on fifty seven Street between Lexington and Third.
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Speaker 1: The fight was at MSG, probably a thirty five minute
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Speaker 1: walk minute walk to my apartment. Got home late, was
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Speaker 1: still so amped. I stayed up all night and the
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Speaker 1: movie that was on HBO the time. You don't have
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Speaker 1: you know, you don't have your choices. You just watch
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Speaker 1: what's on as White Men Can't Jump. And I stayed
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Speaker 1: up to like three o'clock in the morning watching it
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Speaker 1: because I was still so amned. I loved it all right.
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Speaker 1: Here is your prompt for part two. Fellas. Imagine you
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Speaker 1: can create a new reality television show from scratch and
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Speaker 1: command any living athlete or athletes to participate. Describe your
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Speaker 1: reality show concept and who you would choose as your stars.
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Speaker 1: Colin your first Yeah, don't care if I win the
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Speaker 1: point on Thunderdome. I'm heading two executives with TV to
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Speaker 1: pitch this idea that I've actually had for quite a while.
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Speaker 1: The biggest problem with college football is the transfer portal.
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Speaker 1: We need a reality TV called the Transfer Portal House,
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Speaker 1: which would be the entire Tennessee team right now, the
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Speaker 1: entire The second you enter the transfer Portal, you show
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Speaker 1: up to this house with your suitcases. Now, a little
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Speaker 1: background on myself. When I started at Arkansas, we were
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Speaker 1: under investigation by the n c A. They made the
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Speaker 1: they made the athletic dorm be engineering students and athletes.
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Speaker 1: So I know what it's like living three years with
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Speaker 1: the college basketball team and the college football team, and
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Speaker 1: it would just be TV gold. So here's how it works.
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Speaker 1: Here's the rules. We build a house similar to Hogwarts
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Speaker 1: from Harry Potter. Right, everybody gets their own wing. It
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Speaker 1: depends on what conference that you come from, So like SEC,
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Speaker 1: you get the penthouse floor matching. You're in the basement
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Speaker 1: and you can only come up to the dining hall
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Speaker 1: on Tuesday's Pact twelve. They sleep in hammocks out on
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Speaker 1: the lawn and the big tent just runs around the
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Speaker 1: house and demands respect. Is the resident director. But nobody
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Speaker 1: invites them to the sun Belts parties. So yes, the
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Speaker 1: Transfer Portal House. Oh my god, that is an amazing idea, Alex,
20:18
Speaker 1: how are you going to top that? I'm gonna I'm
20:22
Speaker 1: gonna top it with a little comedic undertone here and
20:25
Speaker 1: hope you bite Chad. I'm gonna go with what what
20:29
Speaker 1: I like to call waking up with the Jenner's. This
20:33
Speaker 1: is a house full of all Kendall Jenner NBA x is.
20:37
Speaker 1: I have a starting five and a six man for
20:39
Speaker 1: you if you'd like to hear. And it's basically these
20:42
Speaker 1: guys who all quite frankly outside of maybe Demon Booker,
20:46
Speaker 1: absolutely need to work on their game. So they will
20:50
Speaker 1: live in a house and they will not get to
20:52
Speaker 1: take out Kendall or even get any FaceTime. You can
20:54
Speaker 1: go a little four year old virgin speed dating if
20:57
Speaker 1: you want some sort of series of unique to work
21:00
Speaker 1: on your Ben Simmons jumper, or you're not going on
21:04
Speaker 1: a day with Kendall, and I call a waking up
21:06
Speaker 1: with the Jenners. Who are the players in that house
21:09
Speaker 1: would be D'Angelo Russell, Kyle Kuzma, Ben Simmons, Devin Booker,
21:16
Speaker 1: Blake Griffin, and Jordan Clarks. And that's just from one article.
21:22
Speaker 1: This is a brilliant idea. I can't believe it. It, Simon,
21:27
Speaker 1: I want you to win so badly. The idea of
21:30
Speaker 1: Monica winning this round does not do any of us
21:33
Speaker 1: any good. But it's a really good answer. I'm gonna
21:37
Speaker 1: go overseas. I was thinking, what has the most drama
21:39
Speaker 1: of all sports, and it's definitely European soccer. Americans don't
21:43
Speaker 1: really care about it, but it's literally never ending teammates
21:46
Speaker 1: sleeping with wives, sleeping with players who are married but
21:49
Speaker 1: have girlfriends, and these other players people with their girlfriends
21:52
Speaker 1: and it's just like pure madness, which when I worked
21:55
Speaker 1: in TV, that's every night. We just want drama, like
21:59
Speaker 1: literally we wait, wait, got in. We would say when
22:01
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell you and say, who cares, Let's just
22:03
Speaker 1: give him an alcohol and see where the knight takes us,
22:05
Speaker 1: because all we want is drama. So when I think
22:08
Speaker 1: of just the Premier League, um, I guess Pulsick would
22:12
Speaker 1: be the best one because he's American. I mean, he
22:14
Speaker 1: would probably be the star for now, but he's kind
22:16
Speaker 1: of a lame ducks. I don't know if he'd be great,
22:18
Speaker 1: but I feel like that we would find the drama
22:21
Speaker 1: in the Premier League. I would just go with some
22:22
Speaker 1: type of soccer club because it's just never ending drama.
22:27
Speaker 1: This is tough. I'll be honest. You you nail it
22:30
Speaker 1: with European soccer. I think the audience for European soccer
22:33
Speaker 1: would be big, and I think you're nailing it with
22:36
Speaker 1: the off pitch, off field ideas that it's about their
22:42
Speaker 1: lives outside of that, whereas Monica comes with a really
22:45
Speaker 1: good idea tapping into the heartbeat of reality television, the
22:50
Speaker 1: the white hot Universe, center of the universe and reality television.
22:55
Speaker 1: But what he has them doing isn't is interesting, and
22:57
Speaker 1: so that I feel like, at the end of the day,
23:02
Speaker 1: if we can get teams from European Soccer or players
23:05
Speaker 1: from European soccer to buy in, there will be more
23:08
Speaker 1: drama with that than with Monica. Monica great effort, love
23:11
Speaker 1: the idea. What about calling show. At the end of
23:16
Speaker 1: the day, if I'm getting euro soccer, I'm getting a
23:21
Speaker 1: lot of high drama with temperamental and tempestuous personalities who
23:26
Speaker 1: won't drink soda. Give me that any day of the week. Simon,
23:31
Speaker 1: you have one. Here is our current score. Colin, you
23:35
Speaker 1: have three. Alex you have to Simon, you have to
23:39
Speaker 1: Here we go to part three Continental. What's the live
23:42
Speaker 1: load of live odds right now? Chad? What can I
23:45
Speaker 1: take calling it plus plus money right now? Can't? Colin
23:50
Speaker 1: is like, there's no value in Colin right now. He
23:53
Speaker 1: is so far and away the clubhouse leader on this
23:56
Speaker 1: point is basically the gambling here's continental shifts. Speaking of soccer,
24:03
Speaker 1: the gambling world has been enjoying Euro, the international soccer
24:07
Speaker 1: tournament that runs through much of the summer. There have
24:09
Speaker 1: already been a few big upsets, and American gamblers have
24:11
Speaker 1: found themselves suddenly literally and figuratively invested into invested in
24:19
Speaker 1: a diverse array of countries. I will now ask you
24:23
Speaker 1: each two questions about a euro underdog nation. Colin, Let's
24:31
Speaker 1: talk Slovakia, who defeated Poland as plus four hundred underdogs
24:36
Speaker 1: on Monday. And the beautiful capital of Slovakia is Baratoslava,
24:42
Speaker 1: located on the banks of the Danube River. It's only
24:45
Speaker 1: an hour's drive from Vienna and is the only capital
24:49
Speaker 1: city in the world to border two of these. It
24:52
Speaker 1: borders two of these. They borders two countries, Yes, different countries,
24:59
Speaker 1: Austria and Hungary. Too many Americans. The most famous Slovakian
25:05
Speaker 1: athlete of all time maybe Peter Bondra, who spent fourteen
25:09
Speaker 1: seasons with this DC area sports team. Uh boy, it's
25:16
Speaker 1: gonna I mean, let's see, I could I'm old, so
25:19
Speaker 1: it could be the Bullets. We'll go with the Capitals,
25:23
Speaker 1: Big Washington Capitals, Very Nice Alex. The Czech Republic scored
25:28
Speaker 1: a heart fought victory versus Scotland earlier this week after
25:32
Speaker 1: the Checks opened at one and fifty one to claim
25:36
Speaker 1: the euro title. Also involved in a hard fought battle
25:40
Speaker 1: are two beer companies, one American and one Check, who've
25:44
Speaker 1: been in a legal dispute since nine oh seven over
25:47
Speaker 1: the trademark of this incredibly famous beer, Budweiser. Budweiser. Yeah,
25:58
Speaker 1: the Czech Republic has more of these old buildings, so
26:02
Speaker 1: the answer is these old buildings than anywhere in Europe,
26:04
Speaker 1: although the aforementioned Slovakia has the most per capita. The
26:09
Speaker 1: word can also be used as a verb describing a
26:13
Speaker 1: move in chess. Also described it as more of these
26:17
Speaker 1: old domiciles. I don't even I don't even have an
26:21
Speaker 1: educated guess. It's castles. It's castles. Uh, gosh, day it gota.
26:29
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on a long walk. Now that is
26:31
Speaker 1: too easy. You should get a haircut. Sign that Global
26:35
Speaker 1: surveys ranking general citizen happiness Finland commonly scores the highest
26:40
Speaker 1: in the world, so there is little doubt Fins were
26:43
Speaker 1: delirious after their soccer team defeated nearby Denmark as plus
26:47
Speaker 1: one thousand underdogs in their opening game last week. But
26:51
Speaker 1: more surprising is that Finln also leads the world in
26:54
Speaker 1: the consumption of this globally beloved non alcoholic beverage, consuming
26:58
Speaker 1: nearly three times more better than America Coca Cola coffee
27:05
Speaker 1: coffee we were looking for coffee simon. The total population
27:11
Speaker 1: of Finland is about five and a half million people,
27:14
Speaker 1: which is less than the metro population of this southern
27:18
Speaker 1: US city, which is hosted an MLB, NBA and NFL
27:21
Speaker 1: franchise for over fifty years and has just one championship
27:26
Speaker 1: to show for it, Atlanta. Yes, here's your prompt. Imagine
27:34
Speaker 1: you made a huge bed on a euro underdog. You
27:37
Speaker 1: must move to that country and remain there until, against
27:40
Speaker 1: all odds, that team wins the trophy. And mid July,
27:43
Speaker 1: if your goal was to have the most fun imaginable,
27:46
Speaker 1: what team would you select and how would you join
27:48
Speaker 1: in their unlikely celebration colin Euro first. Well, nobody needs
27:54
Speaker 1: to hear this, but I traveled for fifteen years around
27:57
Speaker 1: the world, so I know almost all the countries on
27:59
Speaker 1: this list. So I did a little, a little thinking
28:02
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I just know on the Ukraine front, Okay,
28:06
Speaker 1: I'm getting married. I don't need to go to Ukraine.
28:08
Speaker 1: It's a great option for people on the dating market.
28:10
Speaker 1: Simon right. So as for whales, I once got drunk
28:15
Speaker 1: with the Queen of England's second cousin in a village
28:17
Speaker 1: outside of Ponti Pool. It's a great story, but there's
28:20
Speaker 1: just too many sheep in the road, so I'm not
28:22
Speaker 1: I'm not going back there every again. I adore Scotland.
28:25
Speaker 1: I adore golfing in the rain and how you can
28:27
Speaker 1: blast your driver and it's still in the fairway. But
28:30
Speaker 1: if you go for a week on a diet of
28:31
Speaker 1: haggis and Scotch, your intestines turned into a fiery mud slide.
28:36
Speaker 1: So that's out too it. Sex is not allowed in
28:38
Speaker 1: the dark in Budapest hungry, so that's absolutely out. And
28:42
Speaker 1: in Switzerland you can't plush the toilet after ten pm. True,
28:45
Speaker 1: it's illegal, it's against the law. Denmark is where I
28:48
Speaker 1: I got. It kind of got interesting because you know,
28:50
Speaker 1: my my new wife, she's in this whole baby mode.
28:54
Speaker 1: But we're way past having babies. We can't have babies.
28:57
Speaker 1: And in Denmark if you find a child abandoned and
29:00
Speaker 1: you can't find their parents after two hours, that's your child.
29:04
Speaker 1: So if I go to Denmark, I don't know how
29:06
Speaker 1: many kids I'm going to have. And that's a problem
29:09
Speaker 1: because I actually wanted to be in Denmark for one reason.
29:12
Speaker 1: It's it's not against the law to escape from prison.
29:15
Speaker 1: I'm serious. I'm not lying about this. You can escape
29:18
Speaker 1: from prison in Denmark with no repercussions whatsoever. It's a
29:24
Speaker 1: shocking So I think just to go there so that
29:27
Speaker 1: my new wife can be happy by finding all these
29:28
Speaker 1: abandoned kids and making them our children, and me escaping
29:31
Speaker 1: prison as many times as possible, just for fun. I'm
29:34
Speaker 1: going to Denmark. Also, our new owner is better collective.
29:40
Speaker 1: They are based in Denmark, so you could have you
29:43
Speaker 1: could be at the corporate office every day. Yeah, I'll
29:45
Speaker 1: tell them, I'll be right back. I'm just gonna I'm
29:47
Speaker 1: gonna Andy dufrain myself tunnel out of this cell. If
29:50
Speaker 1: you can escape from prison, you can be in the
29:52
Speaker 1: opposite of your day. Oh my god, that's such a
29:54
Speaker 1: good answer. It's going to be impossible for Alex and
29:56
Speaker 1: Simon to top this. But Alex, you can try. The
29:59
Speaker 1: only thing I can outer with is going to the
30:02
Speaker 1: happiest country in the world, at least at the polling polls.
30:06
Speaker 1: And I'm going. I'm taking my polls and I'm going
30:09
Speaker 1: to Finland, and I am literally having a ball. They
30:12
Speaker 1: are known. I'll give a little call. In fact, they
30:14
Speaker 1: have three thousand saunas, saunas. I don't know why, a
30:18
Speaker 1: lot of fits and going on, I guess, but they
30:21
Speaker 1: have a Santa Claus village. They're also known for reindeers,
30:24
Speaker 1: so you can find me. As Finland already tops the
30:28
Speaker 1: boys den Mark, I'll go ahead and take a little sauna,
30:34
Speaker 1: a little chilling with Rudolph, a little but heavy with
30:37
Speaker 1: Santa Claus, and I'll wait for Finland to catch the
30:40
Speaker 1: Euro doubIe. Celebrating with Finland, I get it. I get it,
30:44
Speaker 1: UH doing a sauna. Colin would celebrate with the UH
30:49
Speaker 1: team from Denmark and adopt babies and escape from jail,
30:54
Speaker 1: which many of them might be doing if they were
30:56
Speaker 1: to win the euros. Simon, I'm I know it's I
31:01
Speaker 1: know exactly what Simon's doing. Now. You have no idea, Chad,
31:04
Speaker 1: you you're all into class and love. Those are two
31:07
Speaker 1: things I think of Chad of class and love grants
31:10
Speaker 1: the language of love, and it's one of the classiest
31:13
Speaker 1: places in the world. So are we not going to
31:14
Speaker 1: be chilling in south of France. I don't know what
31:17
Speaker 1: these guys are doing right now, but it was just
31:19
Speaker 1: sitting there. So I'm taking it south to France. Give
31:22
Speaker 1: me France every day, so and I get to go
31:24
Speaker 1: with you. I get to go with you. Oh, you're
31:26
Speaker 1: common chaff dude and your wife no kids though, no kids? Simon,
31:30
Speaker 1: you are a hundred percent when this prompt you know
31:34
Speaker 1: exactly what to say that if we could make it
31:38
Speaker 1: to a visa in the next two weeks before my wedding,
31:40
Speaker 1: I'd like to join that too. At the end of
31:43
Speaker 1: the day, he said, I'm classy and I love love,
31:45
Speaker 1: and if that's what he's gotten from me in these
31:47
Speaker 1: past couple of years, I'm totally good with that. All right.
31:50
Speaker 1: Here's the current score. Colin Wilson, you have five. Alex Monico,
31:54
Speaker 1: you have three, Simon Hunter, you have four. The topic
31:57
Speaker 1: for the final for the Grand fin Alley famous Us.
32:00
Speaker 1: How much would you like to risk? Please close your eyes,
32:03
Speaker 1: hold up your fingers with your wager amount Budweiser is
32:07
Speaker 1: the most advertised beer brand in America, boasting a massive
32:12
Speaker 1: domestic advertising budget that of course includes the annual Super
32:16
Speaker 1: Bowl commercials. In two thousand three, bud Wise released one
32:20
Speaker 1: of their most popular Super Bowl commercials of all time,
32:23
Speaker 1: entitled Referee. This commercial featured their iconic Clydesdale horses playing
32:29
Speaker 1: a game of football that becomes interrupted by an instant
32:33
Speaker 1: replay review. Appropriately enough, in the commercial, this replay review
32:38
Speaker 1: was conducted by a referee from the Animal Kingdom, portrayed
32:42
Speaker 1: by a well known African animal who was the animal
32:46
Speaker 1: to play the referee in this commercial. Here comes the King,
32:51
Speaker 1: who comes the big number one? But why the beer?
32:55
Speaker 1: The King is second and none? Just say? But why said?
33:01
Speaker 1: You've said it all comes the killing of But why
33:08
Speaker 1: the beer's the one that's leading the list? And what
33:12
Speaker 1: I think makes it bitt telling you? There's Alex, you
33:26
Speaker 1: have three points, you risked three points. Give me your answer.
33:31
Speaker 1: I missed listening to the question, but too late, I said, horses, Dude,
33:37
Speaker 1: I don't even know what to say to that. Damn it.
33:40
Speaker 1: You have zero points now, Alex Monico Simon, you have
33:44
Speaker 1: four points. You risked four points. No shock there. What
33:48
Speaker 1: is your answer? Zebra right, Zebra, Zebra. Simon, you now
33:55
Speaker 1: have eight points. Colin, you have five points. Here's the thing.
34:00
Speaker 1: He only risked three points, which means we are potentially
34:06
Speaker 1: headed for the playoff if Colin got the right answer. Colin,
34:09
Speaker 1: I answered chimp. Oh my god, massive. This is a
34:18
Speaker 1: Hawks like come from behind victory two weeks in a
34:26
Speaker 1: row for our reigning champion, my best friend, the guy
34:31
Speaker 1: I'm tilting the game for. Anyways, Mr Simon Hunter, before
34:36
Speaker 1: we get to Simon to gloat, Colin, I would like
34:38
Speaker 1: to hear a little bit about how you're feeling right now.
34:41
Speaker 1: I feel like the Arkansas Razorbacks came in as the
34:43
Speaker 1: number one seed. I didn't lose one weekend series. I
34:46
Speaker 1: am seventeen four against everybody that's in Oma all right now,
34:49
Speaker 1: and I just lost. So I'm a little embarrassed. I
34:51
Speaker 1: think you should be embarrassed. I think not getting that
34:54
Speaker 1: last answer, you're probably, in many ways the smartest person
34:59
Speaker 1: that the action work, and the fact that you knew
35:02
Speaker 1: so much about every single thing we talked about today
35:06
Speaker 1: and then went with chimp instead of Zebra. Yeah, all right,
35:10
Speaker 1: Before we sign off, here's a word from our fearless leader,
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