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Can Chad and Blackjack Make Up Ground in the Supercontest? · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: M H. Welcome to the Favorites Podcast, the Super Contest Edition.
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  Speaker 1: I am Chad Millman from the Action Network, and I
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  Speaker 1: am very sad to say that. Normally I've got my
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  Speaker 1: brother Micham Padre, my friend black Jack Fletcher sitting right
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  Speaker 1: next to me. Today, black Jack's feeling a little ill
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  Speaker 1: and you're gonna hear him on the phone and he
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  Speaker 1: does not sound good. So we're going to give him
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  Speaker 1: credit for even making it on the phone because it
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  Speaker 1: sounds deadly. I don't even want to be on the
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  Speaker 1: phone with them for too long. It might infect me. Michael,
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  Speaker 1: how are you, Dad? I am I am ill um,
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  Speaker 1: but nothing could keep me away from you, even telephonically.
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  Speaker 1: But as I've told you, I think this could be
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  Speaker 1: the cordeal of virus. So somebody to get jacked our
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  Speaker 1: on the phone. It may have been released, and he's
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  Speaker 1: the only one who can save me at this point.
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  Speaker 1: The Cordelia virus, it kind of sounds like the bowl
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  Speaker 1: that two teams are playing in this weekend, like on December.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the Camellia Bowl. I think I think
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  Speaker 1: there is one that's like that. Hey, listen, I called you,
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  Speaker 1: Michael and you didn't even flinch, And uh, I'm surprised
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  Speaker 1: by that. Mike Leeboff, who of course is an editor
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  Speaker 1: at the Action Network, a writer at the Action Network,
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  Speaker 1: one of our resident rack On Tours, a man who's
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  Speaker 1: a wise old soul who ran for the mayor of
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  Speaker 1: his town in Long Island when he was twenty one
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  Speaker 1: years old, and then blew off a debate because he
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  Speaker 1: decided to go to Coachella instead. So I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he won. Uh, he said to me, he's been like
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  Speaker 1: gearing up for twenty four hours. We had a we
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  Speaker 1: had a board meeting yesterday for the Action Network. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta go present, and you know, be smart and and
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  Speaker 1: make sure that, uh, you know, all of our collective
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  Speaker 1: bosses like the direction that we're going in. And on
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon, I'm preparing and I'm sweating, and I'm working
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  Speaker 1: on these slides, and and like we had decided in
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  Speaker 1: the morning that like the slides I had, I didn't like,
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  Speaker 1: and we had gone over it with like our CEO
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  Speaker 1: and our finance team and our product team, and like
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  Speaker 1: we're making all these new slides and and Leaboff comes
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  Speaker 1: over to me, He's like, I gotta pull a prank.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta I gotta prank for you. I'm like, can
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  Speaker 1: you can you give me ninety minutes? I got like,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta do actual work here. So then yesterday he's like,
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  Speaker 1: don't forget, I gotta praying for you in blackjack. I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: what is it? He goes introduce him, just just call
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  Speaker 1: him Michael Leaveoff. First of all, describing him as a
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  Speaker 1: rack contour is spot on. This is a guy who
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  Speaker 1: invited me to watch a hockey in with him at
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  Speaker 1: a Russian bath house in Queens with a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: Russian old men half naked, and warned me that if
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  Speaker 1: we go, please be respectful of them because some of
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  Speaker 1: them little shady. So Mike Leaboff hags out Russian bathhouses,
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  Speaker 1: drinking vodka, eating Russian dumplings, and watching hockey with seventy
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  Speaker 1: year old naked Russian men. He's also the only person
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  Speaker 1: that refers to me by my government name. Thus that
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  Speaker 1: is why he wanted me to say something on the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: He even slacked me. He's like, hey, don't forget, don't
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  Speaker 1: forget to uh, you know, tell prank boss. He's at
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  Speaker 1: the big Lebowski on Twitter and that's kind of everything
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  Speaker 1: you did know about the guy. He's a gem. He's
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  Speaker 1: a gem, and we love him. He may be the
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  Speaker 1: most interesting guy, most interesting guy at the Action Network. Alright, Michael,
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  Speaker 1: you know what else we gotta do. We gotta say
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  Speaker 1: hello to your Gina. So today's podcast, we're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: talking about Brexit. Did I lose you all? Oh? No,
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  Speaker 1: we know what Brexit is. We know it. I've been
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  Speaker 1: following along. Listen. I was a political science major in college.
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  Speaker 1: I lived in London. I am very up to date
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  Speaker 1: with British politics, and some people would call me an anglophile.
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  Speaker 1: I love the Royal family. I watched I watched the
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  Speaker 1: Royal Wedding, Yes, because I was betting on it. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know, you wrote a whole big story about it.
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  Speaker 1: Was fantastic. I watched it because, as you know, I
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  Speaker 1: love love and um I was fascinated, fascinated with the
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  Speaker 1: whole pomp and circumstance and the carriages, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just thought it was great, totally great. Listen, Georgina
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  Speaker 1: is I don't want to make you any sicker. Georgina
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  Speaker 1: is going to read a review for us. Don't forget
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  Speaker 1: read the reviews. Write the reviews. We're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 1: it after, but Georgina give us a review subject. I
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  Speaker 1: look forward to every episode. The interaction between Blackjack and
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  Speaker 1: the host sad or Chaz or something is consistently funny.
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  Speaker 1: Georgina adds a mysterious and alluring quality to the podcast
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  Speaker 1: worth adding to your rotation. Five stars. I love this.
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  Speaker 1: This is the best one I've ever seen. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: I don't get. It's like somehow the reviewers have like
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  Speaker 1: have like all telepathically picked up on sort of ways
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  Speaker 1: in which to get under my skin. Yep, that's the
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  Speaker 1: whole name of the game with this podcast. We're all
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  Speaker 1: just trying to get under your skin. Listen, don't forget.
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  Speaker 1: As I mentioned the podcast on Wednesday, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to do a live podcast on January Monday night in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna be there. I'm gonna be there. Scooch is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be there, either in person or via video in
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  Speaker 1: which he is going to do a music video. We
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  Speaker 1: had a listener, by the way, who sent in a song,
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  Speaker 1: sent a song. He wrote a song in twenty four hours,
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  Speaker 1: sent it in. I got an email at the Scooch
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  Speaker 1: it's genius. Um. The point is, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: go to the live podcast, tweet at the favorite pod
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  Speaker 1: or tweet at me, and then we're just gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to figure out how to find out who you are
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  Speaker 1: and give you the information. I've started to get some
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  Speaker 1: responses coming in. I got like six or seven people
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  Speaker 1: who already have said they want to come. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to come to the live podcast on January, why,
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  Speaker 1: why are you sign Because first of all, this is
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  Speaker 1: more than a live podcast. People. Okay, yes, we will
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  Speaker 1: be recording stuff. We're gonna be going over props, We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be going oversides, totals, the whole thing. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be there. You can hang out with us. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be pouring drinks behind the bar with Paul Laduca. That's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be the scene and a half. We're gonna have merchandise.
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  Speaker 1: Is gonna be the best come out, hang out with us,
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  Speaker 1: talk super Bowl. It's gonna be a party. Yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: better at this and me I'm better at everything than you.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of a review, Uh, there was a review that
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  Speaker 1: we weren't actually in the Super Contest. We are in
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  Speaker 1: the Super Contest. We're probably just so low in the standings,
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  Speaker 1: you can't find us. Our record so far as thirty
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  Speaker 1: four and four. Last weekend we went two and three.
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  Speaker 1: Um no, we went three and two, so we're making
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  Speaker 1: a comeback, making a comeback. We won with Cleveland plus
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  Speaker 1: two and a half. We won with the Giants, and
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  Speaker 1: we went with the Bears. We lost Arizona, we lost
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  Speaker 1: New England. Um and and for those of you who
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  Speaker 1: want to check our team, name is the Mega Powers.
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  Speaker 1: We are on the standings. And also when I signed up,
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  Speaker 1: I tweeted out a picture of the card from the
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  Speaker 1: West Gate. So hey, Chad, you want to pick some games?
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  Speaker 1: Georgina Houston at New York Jets Texans by six. So look,
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  Speaker 1: the right side is going to be the Jets. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just saying that's where the money is gonna come in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying I want to pick the Jets. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just saying, like you've got an overwhelming home underdog UM
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  Speaker 1: and a team that's got a little bit of inflation
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  Speaker 1: even though they lost last week. I'm not saying we're
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  Speaker 1: picking them, not saying I have an opinion. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you the facts. You're just telling me
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  Speaker 1: the facts at this point, you're telling me that the
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  Speaker 1: right side is the Jets here. That's that's what you're
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  Speaker 1: telling me. But you don't want to pick No, definitely
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  Speaker 1: not okay, fair enough, we can pass it done, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, I'm gonna just as a side note here,
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  Speaker 1: I can't hear Georgina, Well, well, doesn't matter. I'm driving
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  Speaker 1: the fucking bus. All you gotta do is react to me. Well,
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  Speaker 1: fair enough, but I don't know what the line is.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't matter. Well, it would help if you said it. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're cranky and like you don't feel well,
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  Speaker 1: and you're being a trooper and a professional and doing
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  Speaker 1: your job and coming on the podcast. But there's no
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  Speaker 1: reason for hostility. Texans are six point favorites in that game.
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  Speaker 1: No interest, thank you, Georgina. Cleveland at Denver Broncos by three,
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  Speaker 1: she said, Cleveland at Denver Broncos by three. Uh Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland hundred one thousand percent. We are so on the
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns in this game. It's like clear as day
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  Speaker 1: for me. Better quarterback, equal defense, too big of a line.
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  Speaker 1: Broncos are fading, they had their run case. Keenum is
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  Speaker 1: not a guy who's going to deliver for this team.
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  Speaker 1: Uh wo woa, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa over and out. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: we're on the same side here, but I will not
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  Speaker 1: let you sit here. And Sully the good name of
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  Speaker 1: case the machine Keenum, what do you have to back
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  Speaker 1: up your claims that he's a machine? Well, he took
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings to the NFC Championship game and Kirk
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  Speaker 1: Cousins has done nothing but ship the bed news. My friend,
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  Speaker 1: what has he done for me this season? He's He's
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  Speaker 1: dragged advanced Joseph coach team to a six and seven record,
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  Speaker 1: which might be a monumental accomplishment. We're still taking the Browns,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Georgina Miami Minnesota Vikings by seven, She said,
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  Speaker 1: Miami at Minnesota Vikings by seven. You don't have to shout,
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  Speaker 1: can you hear me? It's like I'm translating the beautiful
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  Speaker 1: and talented Georgina and her lovely British lilt into black
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  Speaker 1: jack speak. I hate this game, I hate these teams,
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  Speaker 1: I hate this number, I hate everything about this. So
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna take Miami. Why why do you want Miami?
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  Speaker 1: This is a no brainer. Why why do you want
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  Speaker 1: to pass on Miami. For the past three weeks, I
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  Speaker 1: have said to you, Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami, and you
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  Speaker 1: give me your fucking whining every single time. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you, this team with Ryan Tannehill playing quarterback is
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  Speaker 1: just a better team. And they are getting no credit,
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  Speaker 1: and they are getting no respect from the market, and
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  Speaker 1: they are getting no respect from bookmakers. Meanwhile, Minnesota is
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  Speaker 1: a team that is in disarrayed, that isn't playing well,
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  Speaker 1: that cannot figure out an offensive flow, whose defense is overrated,
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  Speaker 1: over rated. There is no reason for this team to
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  Speaker 1: be a seven point favorite. And if I had any
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  Speaker 1: respect in this podcast, the producers would not be on
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  Speaker 1: their phones. They would have been playing music for me
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  Speaker 1: during my rat That's true. That was That's true. Shelby
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  Speaker 1: fucked up there because Chad needed music there. He deserved it, Chad.
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  Speaker 1: The last time we took the Miami Dolphins was when
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  Speaker 1: they played Green Bay, which was the last time they
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  Speaker 1: didn't cover spread so well. They covered three in a row,
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  Speaker 1: as you know. As you know, when I texted you
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday morning from Owen Millman's squash tournament in Stanford, Connectic,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, I did that for you. I wanted you
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  Speaker 1: to feel bad. Hold on, your son is playing squash,
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  Speaker 1: Owen is playing squash, and he's also wrestling. And I
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  Speaker 1: gotta tell you the kid is built for wrestling. Like
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  Speaker 1: he is low to the ground, he gets a lot
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  Speaker 1: of leverage, uh, and he is strong in the core.
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  Speaker 1: Like he comes out he can he can shoot the gap,
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  Speaker 1: as they say, and he comes at me and like
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  Speaker 1: takes me down. Well, Chad, it doesn't take much to
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  Speaker 1: take you down. But listen, he's twelve years old and
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  Speaker 1: like wig seventy pounds, I'm still te as big as
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  Speaker 1: the guy. If your son ever wants to transition into
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  Speaker 1: pro wrestling and needs a manager, you know, you know
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  Speaker 1: a guy. I like how every time we talk about something,
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  Speaker 1: it turns into an opportunity for you. Hey, let's get
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  Speaker 1: Will Fetters on the phone. Okay, Hey, Will, Can I
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  Speaker 1: write a screenplay with you? Even though you might wait
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  Speaker 1: an oscar for a screenplay? And I've never written anything
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  Speaker 1: other than like whether or not you should take the
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  Speaker 1: New England Patriots. Excuse me, I've written two songs. Hey Chad,
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  Speaker 1: Hey Chad, Hey Chad. I don't know how to manage anybody,
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  Speaker 1: but I wear sunglasses and cowboy boots, and I got
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  Speaker 1: a fake name, so maybe I can manage your son
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  Speaker 1: if he wants to be a professional wrestler. You keep
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  Speaker 1: going back. Let me tell you something. I got a
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  Speaker 1: tweet on deck that's gonna come out today that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: kick you write La balls with that fake name crap.
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  Speaker 1: So we're taking the Dolphins, is what you're saying. You
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  Speaker 1: owe me this. You want the Dolphins this week? You
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  Speaker 1: can want Dolphins this fine, Georgina, Oh goodness, Cincinnati Bengals
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  Speaker 1: by three. Be nice to each other, boys, She said,
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  Speaker 1: Oh goodness, Oakland A's Cincinnati Bengals by three, and then
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  Speaker 1: she said, we should be nice. But there's nothing to
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  Speaker 1: say here. We're passing. This is this game is there's
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  Speaker 1: a ship. Chill and a half carry on. Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 1: at Baltimore Ravens by seven and a half. Did you
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  Speaker 1: hear that? I did? I hate this game too pass
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  Speaker 1: me too too big, too big. I love this next one, though, love,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in love with this game. Dallas at Indianapolis Colts
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  Speaker 1: by three, Colts by three, three? What do I love? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys getting so much credit, so much credit for beating
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  Speaker 1: a bad Eagles team and letting a bad Eagles team
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  Speaker 1: stay in the game, stay in the game. They beat
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  Speaker 1: the Saints in the exact spot in which the Saints
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  Speaker 1: were ready to be beaten. So now they're coming in,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: excuse me, now they're coming in. Now they're coming in.
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  Speaker 1: They're riding high. I admit their defense is stout, and
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  Speaker 1: I like him, but I like the Colt at Homes
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  Speaker 1: a short favorite. You give me two teams that I
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  Speaker 1: think are evenly matched where it's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: field goal game, and I'm gonna want the home team
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  Speaker 1: by a field goal. Alright, fuck it, take the Colts.
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  Speaker 1: We've We've had success with the Colts, and ultimately, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think Alas is gonna be able to to stop
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Luck and the passing game there. So I'm with
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  Speaker 1: you because if there's vulnerability in that Cowboys defense, it's
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  Speaker 1: the secondary. Let's do it. Detroit at Buffalo fills by
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  Speaker 1: two and a half, she said, Bills by two and
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  Speaker 1: a half. This game stinks. It does stink. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like it. No, it's interesting. It's I'm still like struggling
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  Speaker 1: with who Josh Allen is um, But I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to bet on. Josh Allen, No, you cannot, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it Green Bay at Chica Bears my sins.
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  Speaker 1: She said, the Bears are six point favorites blackjack. Yikes. Uh, god,
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  Speaker 1: we got three games. We got three games right now,
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  Speaker 1: we got Cleveland, Miami and Indie. As usual, we are
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  Speaker 1: betting teams you can count on. We are betting the
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  Speaker 1: best teams in the league. You know that we've had
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  Speaker 1: success with both the Colts and the Browns. Not enough
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  Speaker 1: success to be winning one point four million dollars. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: definitely not. Um. I don't know, man, six feels like
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  Speaker 1: a lot to lay in this game. I mean, Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers still on the other side, I don't know. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think. I don't like it? Why don't we
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  Speaker 1: why don't we make it? And maybe I favored the
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  Speaker 1: Bears in this game, Uh, for about half a dozen reasons.
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  Speaker 1: Look in that first game against the Packers, if you
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  Speaker 1: look back on it, the Bears fell apart at a
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  Speaker 1: time they didn't have the confidence, didn't know how good
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  Speaker 1: they can be. The Packers got out of their miraculously
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  Speaker 1: and everyone thought they were better than what they are.
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  Speaker 1: And so now you've got a team in the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: Their defense is so good. Their secondary flies to the ball,
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  Speaker 1: they are opportunistic. They have ball hawks back there, Eddie Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Fuller. Then they the linebackers. Ro Kuan Smith is
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  Speaker 1: playing so well. He is getting better and better every week.
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  Speaker 1: And their defensive line is fierce. Like all the way around.
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  Speaker 1: They are a good, good defense. I worry about Trubisky.
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  Speaker 1: I was super high on the Bears, super high and
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  Speaker 1: Drubisky in the middle of the year. Then he got hurt.
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  Speaker 1: He played like dog against the Rams. He threw a
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  Speaker 1: lot of passes through through a lot of had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of overthrows. I didn't know if that was rust.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know if that was the shoulder. But um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm willing to get the benefit of the doubt here
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  Speaker 1: because either way, the Packers defense isn't good enough to
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  Speaker 1: contain the Bears offense. Even if Trubisky is only throwing
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  Speaker 1: bubble screens. They don't have anyone who can tackle trek
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  Speaker 1: kon all right, let's it as a maybe. My British
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  Speaker 1: Rose Castle Lads, Tennessee and New York Giants Giants by
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  Speaker 1: two and a half as uh Zachary Millman, my son
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  Speaker 1: used to say, when he was just a lad and
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  Speaker 1: uh learning to walk. Uh, he'd crawl around our apartment
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  Speaker 1: in New York City and he'd go up to outlets
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  Speaker 1: and when he'd see an outlet, he'd put his finger
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  Speaker 1: up in the air and he'd wag it and he
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  Speaker 1: would say no, no, no, no, no no, meaning don't
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  Speaker 1: put your finger in the outlet. Okay, do you want
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  Speaker 1: to tell me what game we're talking about? Oh, you
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear Jesus Christ. Well, half the time you're hearing,
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  Speaker 1: and half the time you're not. How am I supposed
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  Speaker 1: to know? What are you saying no? To say no
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  Speaker 1: to this game? It's Tennessee at the New York Giants,
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  Speaker 1: Giants bout two and a half. Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I lean Giants, but I don't. I don't love them,
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  Speaker 1: no way. Giants been the hottest team in football since
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the Bay Man. I don't trust. I'm not I'm not
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: playing anybody against the Tennessee Titans. We said that in
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Week one that we were going to avoid the Titans,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: and somehow we just keep coming back to those games.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: And now what does that make us? Foomy one? Shame
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: on you foomy twice. Shame on me. Yeah, they fooled
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: us about six times, foomy three times. You're going broke
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and losing one point four million dollars. Washington at Jacksonville
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: jag is by seven, she said, Washington at Jacksonville Jagus
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: by seven. I hate this game. I hate everything about it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I hate the players, I hate the teams, I hate everything.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I will watch a second of this game. No, if
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I had said it in Russian, would it have been
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: more appealing to you? Would have been more appealing to
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Comrade Lee Bos. You're funny, even when you're sick. You're funny.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: You can't bet a game. Listen. You can't bet a
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: game with Cody Kessler and Josh Johnson. You can't do it,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: not when Cody Kessler is a seven point favorite. No,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: it's more fun when you're here because then there's like
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a buffet and we get some drinks. What are you
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: doing to make yourself feel better? I'm not even drinking.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I am still vaping, but I'm not drinking. What do
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you think happen to you? I told you. I think
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: it's the core deal of virus. I've never seen you before.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I'll be back quickly. And I'm very disappointed too, because
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I went out yesterday and got myself a sweet spray
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: tan for you, and now I'm here in bed wasting.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: It is the spray tan smearing the sheets. No, it
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: was a good spray tan, Chad. I don't go cheap.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I don't doubt it for a second. I don't think. Listen,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Long Island is home of the spray tans. I bet
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: every spray tan salon is only the most professional. Listen,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I don't go in the booth. You listen what happened? Way?
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Hold on? Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: You don't go into booth, you get airbrushed. So does
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: that mean like you go down to your drawers and
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: like someone's just walking around you with a spray tan
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: device like tanning you. Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I think we need to get a picture of that.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Do you have your sunglasses and cowboy hat on when
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: it happens? Of course not, Chad, Otherwise how would my
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: face get tan? What about your cowboy boots? No, it's
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: a full body tan baby Venetian bronze. Are you naked
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: when you do this? No? You usually leave your underwear on.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: But then do they spray tan your underwear to like
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: just go the whole thing, Chad, it's like a gun.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: It's like, you know what, the air brush. You kind
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: of tip your gift for that A good one. Listen, listen.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: It was a great job. And I told Matt Ford,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: our producer, I was gonna do this on Tuesday night,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: and as I texted him, you can't be the man
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: without a tan. So true. Let's do the next game.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Arizona and Atlanta Falcons by eight and a half. How
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: much was your tip? How much did it cost? That's
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: a nice tip. That's classy. You're a good man. Thank you. Uh.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Georgina just mentioned that the Falcons are eight and a
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: half point favorites over the Arizona Cardinals. Something. Oh okay, donkey, Nope,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: done with the Cardinals, done with them for the year. Well,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna say the Cardinals. I actually felt like
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the Falcons stink. They've stunk all year. I don't want
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: to I might just be done with bird teams in general.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I hate birds, except for the seahawks. I don't know
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: is the seahawk a bird or is it a sea animal?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: What is it? Well? I'll tell you right now, we
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: can go to that game. I'll pass, and we can
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: go to that game. Seattle at San Francisco. Seahawks by
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: four and a half. Seahawks, the Sea Birds, the uh,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the uh. You know, our feathered friends of the ocean
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: their favored by four and a half at San Francisco.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I will tell you, I will tell you. I will
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: tell you. The wise guys are all over San Francisco
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: in this game. Don't care, don't care, don't cattle Seattle. Okay.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: You you talk about getting the best of the number
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: that's opened at five and a half, You're getting it
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: at four and a half. Seattle is crushing teams. That
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: defense is flying right now, Chad. They are going to
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: obliterate the Niners. Do you think they're leaving George Kittle
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: uncovered for just quarters on end like Denver did? No chance,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Seattle kills him. Not to mention, Richard Sherman's over there,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: runs his mouth like an idiot, just giving them even
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: more motivation. They're gonna go in there and crack some skulls.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: You gave me that best of the number argument last
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: week when you were like dying to pick New England. Hey,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: you got the best of the number and seven and
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: a half and now it's nine and a half or
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: nine and a half and seven and a half. And
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: then I texted you Sunday morning and said, I'm betting
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Fucker, I'm going for it. I'm going for
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and you know what happened. You know what happened on
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the way back from the squash tournament was like an
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: hour twenty minute drive. You shouldn't say if I was
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: your son. Well, if I was your son, Jesus Christ's terrified.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: If I was owing right now, I would be telling
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: you keep my name off your lips. Sunday morning, ten,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I bet Miami plus nine. Couldn't resist. No, God, no, no,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I right back. It's done, brother, love you, You're back.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I love you too. Good luck to your son. This
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: is what our text mess are like. That that's that's
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: a that's an actual quote. Those are all real. Those
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: are all real. That's actually it. All right, Seattle, take Seattle.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now, Shelby, let's do this next game. Georgina,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: give me a read New England at Pittsburgh Patriots by
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: two and a half. She just said, the Patriots by
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: two and having Pittsburgh if you want to England, No, no, no,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I will not do it. Will now? You listen to me,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: You listen to me. I'm gonna give you a quote
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: that I'm looking at right now on my phone. Quote,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I'd hate to be going against Bill Belichick this week
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: after he gave one away like last week. Keep that
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: in mind. End quote. The New England Patriots are the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: bet from here until they either get eliminated or win
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the damn Super Bowl. Bet New England. You're done telling
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: you right now? We're not betting the Patriots. Why because
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I know how much it bothers you, You son of
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: a bit. You know it's the right thing to do.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: You know it is, it's not, it's not. In fact,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I am just waiting for this line to get higher,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna bet the Steelers. I'm betting the Steelers
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Sunday morning. And when you and I, when you and
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I do when you and I do our chalk talk
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: on Sunday morning, and this line is at three and
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I say I bet them. I am gonna have a
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: blast listening to you try to yell at me about it,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: and then watching the Patriots go down in flames in
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is a road favorite stop. How many times does
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: this have to happen? How many? You mean, like last weekend?
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Sad that this is the perfect time to take New
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: England off of that. Huh, there was another time where
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: you were like all over New England. I'm like, nope, nope, nope,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: and they didn't cover forget it was Tennessee every week
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and then you know what a broken cloud is right
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: twice a day? Okay, a spray tanned Long Islander can
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: find his way to Manhattan every once in a while.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Chad, I'm there more often
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: than you. That's not a road you want to go down, Chad.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Off of chat chat, Off of a regular season loss,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Brady is thirty four and eleven against the spread. Thirty
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: four and eleven against the number. I'll tell you what
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: if ravel wanted to bet the Patriots at bl N.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Have you seen how much he's done in the past week.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: He's been here for a week. A week, he's written
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: fifteen stories. That's wonder stories. He's written more stories. He's
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: written more stories on the week than you've written the
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: entire football season. The entire football season This is when
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: we make our money and you're not even writing. Come
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: to Manhattan all you want, but it doesn't matter because
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you're not doing any worse. You're coming to Manhattan and
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: do a podcast, to do a video. But come on,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: man Ravel is killing you. He's the star of the show.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: What are you doing. You're faking being sick because you're
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: afraid to come to the office and face Revel. You're
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: getting a spray time thinking I'm gonna come in, I'm
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: gonna shine bright like a diamond. I'm gonna be better
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: than Revel. He can't do it. You can't do it.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I'll call Revel. If Revel wants the patriots, I'm going
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: with the patriots. You need to stop trying to turn
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Darren Ravel and meet against each other. Okay, And you
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: can go on and on about your little articles. I
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: make content that people actually want to consume. It's all
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: you got. It's two thousand and eight, Chad. The written
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: word is dead. Written word is paying your salary. Fucker.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Why don't you get on your keyboard while you're at
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: home in your bed. You know I once wrote a
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: story with a broken back. A broken back, I had
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: an assignment. You have broken your back. I had an assignment.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I went out to Arizona for spring training. We were
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: doing an issue of ESPN, the magazine about the funniest
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: people in sports. It was for April Fool's Day. I
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: did a story about Richie Sexon, the former slugger for
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers, who was known throughout the league is
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: a big practical joker. I get back on the plane
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: from Arizona. I land at LaGuardia. I'm driving back in
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: a cab on the l I E into Manhattan. The
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: cab gets in an accident. I break my back, break it,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: break it, brace for three months. Two weeks after I
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: break the back, I'm on drugs. I'm standing up. I
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: can't even sit down. You know what I do? I
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: write the fucking stories. Left Jack heroic And how many
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: years ago was that, Chad? It was in uh probably
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: two thousand three maybe, yeah. Okay, that's back when people
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: still read things. The world is consumed differently now, Okay, Videos,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: podcast those are the things people want to want to
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: indulge in. By the way, let me tell you something
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: right now, Nerd. More people read Darren Ravel's story about
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the poker bets in which the guy they settled the
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: bet and the guy who was supposed to be in
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the dark bathroom for thirty days to win a hundred
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. When the guy who bet him realized he
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: was gonna make it, decided to Hedge gave him sixty
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: two grand and said come out now. The guy took it.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: More people have read that story by Darren Ravel that
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: have watched any of your cutesie videos. Fucker all right,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: so you can say the printed word is dead at
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: the end of the day. Ravell is not performing you
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: right now and wants the patriots. I am taking the patriots. Okay,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: let me tell you something, Chad. You want to talk
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: about fake names. That's a fakest goddamn name. I've never heard.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: This whole machine that you've got going at the Action
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Network doesn't exist without me. Darren Ravel is not there
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: if I'm not there first to bring it in. Okay.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I keep the lights on at this place. That's because
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: you don't need anymore because you walk in the door
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: and it closed like a nuclear reactor. You've got your
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: subscribers there because I brought it all right, you want
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to see the numbers Ravel's got more subscribers in a
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: week and you've got in ten months. Ravel wouldn't be
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: there if I wanted there first. That doesn't even make
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: any sense. It's like you've been spray tained in your brain.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Maybe I have all right, let's take, we'll take, We'll
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: take the Patriots. It's done. That might be five. What
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: do we have right now? What you got? Wait? What? Wait?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Are you getting New England right on? You did a
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: good job. Why don't you Why don't you write me
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: a story about why you're so high in New England? Uh?
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: The Patriots, the Seahawks, the UH Colts, the Browns and
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins. We have five games right now. Wow, but
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: we might as well do the last two. So let's do.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Let's do the next one. Philadelphia at Los Angeles Rahms
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Rams by eleven. I mean I think the Rams are
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: gonna falling out the water. Yeah, I do too. Um
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: you comfortable late at eleven? Though? No? Carson Wentz bad defense,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Jared goth at home. Yeah? Okay, So who would you
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: like to take out? Patriots, Seahawks? Those are the two
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: that you want to take out. Let's go to the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: next game. Let's do the next game. New Orleans at
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Carolina Saints by five and a half. Pass Saints by
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: five and a half. Pass it. Alright, So here's our
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: maybe is right now? The Rams by eleven, the Bears
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: by six. Do we like any of those games better
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: than Miami plus seven, Cleveland plus three, Colts minus three,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: uh Seahawks minus four and a half, a Pats minus
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: two and a half. Well, here's my concern. My concern
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: is you said that you think Dallas and India is
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: gonna be a close game, and you think it's gonna
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: be a field goal game, and we're laying three. So
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: aren't we setting ourselves up for a push for us?
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: It pushes as good as a win. Well, it will
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: only worth half a point, all right? Do you want
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: to kill that and go with the Rams or the Bears.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I'd rather go with the Rams, all right. We'll take
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: out the Colts and go with the Rams. All right?
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Here are games we got the Los Angeles Rams minus
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: eleven over the Philadelphia Eagles, the New England Patriots minus
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: two and a half over the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Seattle
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Seahawks minus four and a half over the San Francisco
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: forty Niners, the India, the Miami Dolphins plus seven against Minnesota,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns plus three against Denver. We got three very
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: square picks in there, Buddy. I hope you're happy. You
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: just told me you wanted the Rams. Three very square picks.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Let's go back to the Colts. Get rid of the Rams.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Let's go back to the Colts. Jesus Christ. I'll let
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: you decide on that one, because you're just taking the
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Cots that we're taking the Colts. Cleveland plus three against Denver,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Miami plus seven against Minnesota, Indie minus three against Dallas,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Seattle minus four and a half against Fan Francisco, New
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: England Patriots minus two and a half at Pittsburgh. I
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: want you to feel better, Michael. I want everyone to
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: see what he just did. He just took a game
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: out that he likes because he's afraid of being a square.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: He took a game out that he thinks is a
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: better game because he wants to feel sharp. Well, I
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: hope it works out. You read that right, brother, You
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: read that so right. It's like you're it's like you
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: know me, And how sharp is it when the money
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: is on the Colts. Well, we'll find out. Thanks for
• 38:07
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