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NFL Combine, Cinderellas, First Bets/Kisses & More From The Mailbag · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites presented by Draft Kings. The crown
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  Speaker 1: is yours NFL Combine Week, so we're gonna be stretching
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  Speaker 1: some hammies, rushing these forty times like you wouldn't believe.
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  Speaker 2: Let's welcome in the crew. I am your humble and.
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  Speaker 1: Gracious host, Braining Kravitz, joined by the Prime Minister of
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  Speaker 1: Degenerate Nations Stucky and the Queen of the Pod, Miss
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  Speaker 1: Kendra Middleton. Kendra, by the way, today's episode mail bag episode.
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  Speaker 1: Your questions answered back end of the episode, So if
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  Speaker 1: you submitted them, make sure you hang around. If you
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  Speaker 1: didn't and you just want to hear the weird questions
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  Speaker 1: that people asked us, stick around for that as well. Kendra,
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  Speaker 1: you've tabbed yourself the combine freak of this podcast. What
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  Speaker 1: is it about this event that jazz?
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  Speaker 2: Is you up?
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  Speaker 1: And are you particularly excited for this year for any
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  Speaker 1: certain reason?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not super excited about this combine. I was really
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  Speaker 3: excited about last year's. I just I love the positions
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  Speaker 3: that aren't quarterbacks, so I guess it's a better draft
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  Speaker 3: for that. But I feel like we're not gonna get
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  Speaker 3: as many fun storylines this year as we're used to.
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  Speaker 4: I love the combine.
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  Speaker 3: Because I think it helps us get to know these
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  Speaker 3: guys a little better. I also love that it's not
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  Speaker 3: just like Super football related, like we're about to watch
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  Speaker 3: guys running a straight line and jump and all of
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  Speaker 3: that crazy stuff, and then we wind up getting these
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  Speaker 3: weird stories like Will Campbell and his small arms that
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  Speaker 3: just will infiltrate the Internet and cause meme after meme
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  Speaker 3: after meme until we eventually get to March Madness. I
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  Speaker 3: just think it's a fun, little like football moment. We
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  Speaker 3: get to know these guys a little bit better, see
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  Speaker 3: what they can do outside of the football field, and
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  Speaker 3: it's just I think it's a good week for college football.
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  Speaker 3: Gives us something to look forward to, and I kind
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  Speaker 3: of love to just sit here and be like, ah,
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  Speaker 3: not his footwork not that great on that one. Let's
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  Speaker 3: see the next guy. Like I just the combine's so
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  Speaker 3: fun and it's cool to see these guys get a
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  Speaker 3: moment to kind of just show off and you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, live their childhood dream.
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  Speaker 3: And I am a softy if we know this deep down,
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  Speaker 3: even though I come off like a bitch, I just
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  Speaker 3: like to see these guys' stories and get to know
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  Speaker 3: them a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would never call you that, but yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: is the underwear Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: I used to be very much into the combine for
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  Speaker 1: all of those reasons, but once I caught myself overvaluing
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  Speaker 1: what it was that I saw, I had to take
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  Speaker 1: a step back from it. Because that's the question that
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  Speaker 1: any of us, especially if you're a GM in the
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  Speaker 1: league or a scout, that you have to ask yourself
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  Speaker 1: is is are you going to get in more trouble
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  Speaker 1: by outright ignoring the results?
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  Speaker 2: Which some GMS.
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  Speaker 1: Nick Cassario made a big thing about this last year saying,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even I don't care what anybody does at
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  Speaker 1: the combine. I'm not going to factor that into my
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  Speaker 1: overall analysis. Do you get in more trouble ignoring it
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  Speaker 1: or do you get in more trouble by paying too
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  Speaker 1: much attention to it and overvaluing those results?
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  Speaker 2: Stuckey, where do you land on that?
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  Speaker 1: As far as which end of the spectrum you think
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  Speaker 1: causes more harm than good?
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  Speaker 5: I think probably ignoring it. I mean you can get
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  Speaker 5: in trouble on both ends, like if to compare it
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  Speaker 5: to like betting on sports at a high level. You
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  Speaker 5: you know, you can do it at a high level
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  Speaker 5: just by focusing on the numbers, having a really good model,
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  Speaker 5: But in order to I think be even more complete
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  Speaker 5: and maximize your potential return, you also have to have
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  Speaker 5: the other side of it, understanding the matchups, the news,
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  Speaker 5: the injuries, blah blah blah. You know, there's an artistic
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  Speaker 5: subjective portion as well, and I think when it comes
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  Speaker 5: to evaluating talent in the NFL, you can't just completely
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  Speaker 5: like there's a lot of things, like you just talked
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  Speaker 5: about hand size, arm length, there's certain just characteristics and
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  Speaker 5: minimum things that you want to see from a certain player.
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  Speaker 5: And then there's also you know that you said getting
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  Speaker 5: to know these players. I think it completely ignore just
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  Speaker 5: their character, how they interview, I think would be a
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  Speaker 5: mistake as well. That's a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 5: Then obviously you have your tape and how they perform
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  Speaker 5: on the field, and that's part of it as well.
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  Speaker 5: So I think you're talking about NFL teams, billion dollar franchises,
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  Speaker 5: it has to be an all encompassing scalp in order
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  Speaker 5: to come up with a you know, the best possible
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  Speaker 5: kind of hypothesis and building out your draft board. You
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  Speaker 5: can't just ignore one part of it. You can't just
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  Speaker 5: go based off of what you see. You can't just
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  Speaker 5: ignore what you saw and go based off of the measurables.
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  Speaker 5: And then you can't just ignore a character how they
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  Speaker 5: might fit in the locker room. And so I think
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  Speaker 5: all of it matters, but I think you can get
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  Speaker 5: a little bit more trouble of just completely ignoring it
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  Speaker 5: because there are just certain red flags. There are certain
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  Speaker 5: things that jump off the page for certain positions that
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  Speaker 5: might not have translated depending on the scheme and the
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  Speaker 5: system in college, that you know could help you identify,
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  Speaker 5: especially that those diamonds in the rough. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: mean you look at you know, but arm length for
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  Speaker 5: left tackle, the hand size for a quarterback, like there
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  Speaker 5: are a lot of these things, you know, some of
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  Speaker 5: the athletics scores for some of the other positions, like
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  Speaker 5: these are things that that matter. Now, it's not all
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  Speaker 5: that matters, and it doesn't mean that because you don't
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  Speaker 5: hit a certain threshold, you can't make it or be
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  Speaker 5: really good in the NFL or vice versa. But they
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  Speaker 5: do matter. So, but I think you're buying in trouble
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  Speaker 5: for ignoring it. But basically to sew up a very
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  Speaker 5: long answer, it depends and you have to take into
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  Speaker 5: account everything.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say too, like there are instances
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  Speaker 3: where we've seen like the Will Campbell arm thing that
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  Speaker 3: seem to have mattered this season, Kenny Pickett's hand size
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  Speaker 3: that seemed to have mattered through his career. And the
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  Speaker 3: other thing is too is like I feel like we
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  Speaker 3: know what to expect from certain guys in the combine,
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  Speaker 3: but having a good combine can get you further than
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  Speaker 3: I think that these guys who are expected to perform
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  Speaker 3: and not having a good performance. So I think it
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  Speaker 3: helps some guys, and I don't think it could really
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  Speaker 3: hurt people as much as you think. Like, if you
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  Speaker 3: have a bad combine and you have all of this
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  Speaker 3: great tape and all of these great, you know, accolades
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  Speaker 3: throughout your career, I don't think it hurts you. But
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  Speaker 3: if you're one of these guys who you feel like
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  Speaker 3: is being overlooked and you have a good showing, I
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  Speaker 3: think that it causes some people to start having more
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  Speaker 3: conversations around you.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's really largely about the guys that are
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  Speaker 1: in the middle rounds this is about four to through
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  Speaker 1: seven more than it's about rounds one through three, and
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing more and more of those guys, especially first
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  Speaker 1: round picks bona fide, second round guys that are just saying,
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  Speaker 1: don't I don't need this. I've just been burned by
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  Speaker 1: this so many times. And obviously the forty time is
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  Speaker 1: what gets the most attention. John Ross setting records, he sucked,
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  Speaker 1: Xavier Worthy was great, He's been okay in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: You go back.
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  Speaker 1: The best example is Jerry Rice so was a four
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  Speaker 1: seven forty that didn't matter. Obviously he's the best receiver
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  Speaker 1: in NFL history. I think of it like a cupcake. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: like if the the film in college is the cake
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  Speaker 1: part the I'm not sure that the combine is the icing.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's the sprinkles. Something else is the character?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe is the icing. The interviews I think, like Stuck
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  Speaker 1: he said, are probably more important than anything. Am I
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  Speaker 1: drafting a piece of shit is important, and then the
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  Speaker 1: combine is just it's data that you don't want to ignore.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's sprinkles.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I rip the bottom off my cupcake and make
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  Speaker 3: a sandwich. Anyway, So.
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  Speaker 1: The baller move Evan mentioned that Rubin Bain is a
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  Speaker 1: big storyline. Is he's the arm length guy for this year? Kendrick,
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  Speaker 1: can you confirm?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I've seen a bunch of people. So I
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  Speaker 3: think Mike Golick Junior put out a tweet yesterday saying
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  Speaker 3: that his comp should be Optimus Prime, and I thought
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  Speaker 3: that that was a really good tweet. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: think that he's gonna be one of these guys that
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  Speaker 3: people should watch this year. He's been a big trend
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  Speaker 3: on Twitter. But there's a lot of guys that I
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  Speaker 3: think they could go out and have a good showing.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's kind of crazy that we're already in combine season.
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  Speaker 3: But another guy I would look at probably Caden Procter
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  Speaker 3: from Alabama, and then I think that he's going to
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  Speaker 3: have a good showing. And then maybe Ty Simpson also
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  Speaker 3: one of these guys to watch in the combine. If
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  Speaker 3: I could give you three guys to watch, it probably
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  Speaker 3: be Rubin Baine, Kaden Proctor, and Ty Simpson.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be an interesting one with how weak
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  Speaker 1: this draft classes at quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: See where these guys go. Let's get to a couple.
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  Speaker 1: Of other news items that are coming out of the
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  Speaker 1: media of veils in Indianapolis. Nick Sirianni can't guarantee that
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  Speaker 1: AJ Brown is going to be on the team in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. We've got Howie Roseman with the GM
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  Speaker 1: kiss of death on his future in Philly.
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  Speaker 2: Quote.
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  Speaker 1: I think you go into your league year listening to
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  Speaker 1: offers for everything and anything. I know this is his mantra,
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  Speaker 1: but I think he used to be more bullish on
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  Speaker 1: AJ Brown forty million dollar dead cap hit if they
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  Speaker 1: trade him before June first, So don't expect this to
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  Speaker 1: have been anytime soon. But Stucky, do you think it
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  Speaker 1: would be a bad move for the Eagles to start
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  Speaker 1: looking elsewhere and let Davonte be the number one guy there?
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  Speaker 5: No, I mean I don't think would be bad to
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  Speaker 5: look considering just how everything went down this year. The
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  Speaker 5: offer's right, the Eagles are going to take it. They've
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  Speaker 5: they generally trade well. Rosmand does a good job, but
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  Speaker 5: maybe they can fix the marriage and you know, with
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  Speaker 5: a new offensive coordinator and an offseason. So it's I
• 9:30
  Speaker 5: think it's just it's still TBD to see how it
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  Speaker 5: all plays out. There definitely was a rift. Can they
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  Speaker 5: solve it and come together and move on or is
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  Speaker 5: it just better for all parties to separate. I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: we'll find out. I think if the price is right,
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  Speaker 5: they're definitely going to explore it. But if it's not
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  Speaker 5: and they can they feel like they have it under
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  Speaker 5: control in the locker room, then I'm sure they'd be
• 9:58
  Speaker 5: glad to have a J Brown back. So yeah, a
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  Speaker 5: lot to come there. One of the one of the
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  Speaker 5: key storylines of the NFL off season.
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting to see the superimposed image of AJ Brown
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  Speaker 1: in a Patriots uniform floating around social media. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I love the idea, Kendra, of AJ Brown
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  Speaker 1: and Stefan Diggs in the same locker room.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't sound like a good idea.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think Stephan's going to be a Patriot next
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  Speaker 3: season by any means. I'm very much willing to say
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  Speaker 3: that on whatever day today is, February twenty sixth, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that he is going to be back on
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  Speaker 3: this team. I think that they're going to go all
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: in on AJ Brown because of the relationship that him
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  Speaker 3: and Mike Rabel have. He knows the kind of you
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  Speaker 3: know ship that he runs, and I think that that's
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  Speaker 3: really important. So I think that the AJ Brown thing
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  Speaker 3: definitely has some legs. The Patriots have money, they have picks. That's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, one of their main focuses this offseason. It's
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: going to be that and the trenches for them. So
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: I could definitely see it happening because AJ Brown is
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: such a big personality. But if Mike Vrabel can take
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: a big personality and Stefan Diggs and turn him into
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  Speaker 3: a leader on this team, I don't see why he
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  Speaker 3: can't do the same with AJ Brown.
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  Speaker 4: They love each other, they know each other.
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  Speaker 3: And if that, for some reason doesn't work out, I
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  Speaker 3: think the BTJ thing could probably catch them steam up
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  Speaker 3: here in New England as well.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: By the way, new offensive coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: maybe that changes things. Sean Manyon coming in, I think
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  Speaker 1: he prioritizes play action, which would perhaps get AJ Brown
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  Speaker 1: more involved than whatever Petula was doing. The Dolphins general
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  Speaker 1: manager says that everything's on the table with Tua. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think anybody expects him to still be on the
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: team next year, but they just have to decide whether
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  Speaker 1: or not they want to swallow this money. Ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: million dollar dead cat pit if they cut him before
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  Speaker 1: June one, that figure would get diced up over a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years. Here percent chance, Kendra that we see
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  Speaker 1: Tua on the Miami Dolphins next season.
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  Speaker 3: I've been very adamant about my stance on this, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that I am going to stay on it.
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  Speaker 3: I really think that we're going to see a Kirk
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  Speaker 3: Cousins Michael Pennock situation in Miami next year. Because there
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: are a lot of stupid teams in the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: The Jets are one, the Browns are one.
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  Speaker 3: The Bengals, like the Bengals don't need a quarterback, but
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  Speaker 3: there are teams out there who are dumb.
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  Speaker 4: The Bears historically, outside.
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  Speaker 3: Of the last couple of seasons, have been in the
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  Speaker 3: last twenty thirty years, one of the teams that you're like,
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  Speaker 3: what the hell are you guys doing?
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  Speaker 4: Like the Nick Foles thing. When they did that, I
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  Speaker 4: was like, what are you guys doing? So I could
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  Speaker 4: see like a team being dumb enough to do it.
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  Speaker 3: It's just the money and what does he really provide
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  Speaker 3: anybody that needs a quarterback? Like I would rather, I
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  Speaker 3: hate to say it, but I would rather take a
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  Speaker 3: shot with Malik Willis or you know, we talked about
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  Speaker 3: it before we got on here, trying to find the
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  Speaker 3: next dam darnold. Those are things that if I'm a GM,
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  Speaker 3: I would rather take a shot on than someone like Tua.
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  Speaker 4: But that is just me personally.
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  Speaker 3: I think that he's probably going to be, you know,
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  Speaker 3: coaching up a rookie next year around the bench.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Stuck.
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  Speaker 1: One of the differences with Atlanta's an interesting comparison because
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  Speaker 1: they had the veteran and the young guy that they
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  Speaker 1: started that regime together. Oddly enough, it was a very
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  Speaker 1: weird decision that Kirk Cousins was brought in free agency,
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: Pennix was drafted. This is a new regime in Miami
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: that I think just wants to hit refresh. That feels
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  Speaker 1: like the motivation here more than anything else. The money
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be the money, but just simply getting the
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  Speaker 1: guys that have been the faces of the franchise at
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  Speaker 1: the building feels like as much a priority as anything.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you got to start this whole thing over.
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  Speaker 5: There's no the Falcons wanted to win. They wanted to
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  Speaker 5: win that. I don't think the Dolphins have realistic expectations
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  Speaker 5: of doing that. So I mean, yeah, you got to
• 13:30
  Speaker 5: find a way to move on from Tua. If I
• 13:33
  Speaker 5: have to talk about the Dolphins one more time in February,
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  Speaker 5: of going to lose my mind. By the way, that's
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  Speaker 5: my stance on the Dolphins.
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  Speaker 2: That's fair.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you don't like Dolphins talk, can I interest
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: you in Jets talk? The Jets and Titans agreed to
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: a trade this morning. The Jets are sending Jermaine Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: former first round pick. He had three sacks last year,
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  Speaker 1: kind of fell off in terms of the stats with
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  Speaker 1: the New York Jets, but the Jets were terrible, so
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  Speaker 1: hard to just but they traded him to the Titans
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  Speaker 1: for Devandre Sweat Stuck. You give me the schematic breakdown
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: of how is this a Robert sala fit bringing Johnson
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  Speaker 1: over from New York?
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  Speaker 5: I mean I think that it's it's way better than
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: what they were doing. I never understood the marriage last year,
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  Speaker 5: and philosophically it didn't make sense. I think this makes
• 14:21
  Speaker 5: a little bit more sense. I'm not sure that I
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: would call Glenn's play calling a superpower.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, he is very comfortable calling it that.
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  Speaker 5: I never thought that was his strength in Detroit, that
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  Speaker 5: wasn't like he was a wizard in that department. Speaking
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  Speaker 5: of superpowers the war, I think we were talking about
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  Speaker 5: the worst superpower that you can have?
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  Speaker 2: Are you starting the mail bag early here?
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  Speaker 5: Did someone ask that in the mailbag?
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  Speaker 2: No? But can we should? We should add that let's
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  Speaker 2: make up a name.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the worst, the worst superpower that you can have?
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  Speaker 5: I think thinking about it.
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  Speaker 2: We weren't going to let you start the mail bag
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  Speaker 2: with your random question.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, yeah, I'll do that next. I think
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  Speaker 5: the worst superpower I think you can have, because a
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: lot of superpowers, like you think they're going to be great,
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  Speaker 5: and they sound great on the surface, but there's if
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: you really start to think about it, they could be like,
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: say you go like supersonic speed, like you would die,
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  Speaker 5: Like you would like think about trying if you could
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: go like one hundred miles an hour. First, well you'd
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  Speaker 5: like running, you would you would like splatter on some
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  Speaker 5: wall or something. But I think the worst one is
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  Speaker 5: being able to read minds. So sounds cool, but number one,
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  Speaker 5: think about when you think about your mind right now,
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  Speaker 5: all the things that you're thinking about, So like if
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  Speaker 5: you could read you would it would just be this
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: jumbled mess of all these thoughts. You would you would
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: be over consumed by it, right, like you would just
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: be And then I don't think I would ultimately want
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: to know what everyone is thinking about me at all times.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: And I like generation I like grew up on like
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: Edward Cullen reading Bella's mind, so.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: I feel like I have like a different take on this.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but that would it would think about some with
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: like if you were reading people's minds are crazy, They're
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: all over the place, Like imagine walking to the bar
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: and you're able to read everyone's mind like they would be.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Have to be able to shut it off though they
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: would have to be selective mind reading.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: I need to know at this moment what this person
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: is thinking.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: I'm going to turn it always you would always end
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: up turning it on, you know what I mean, Like
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: you would, Yeah.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: But you could also be such a dick to people.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: It'd be awesome.
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: You would be so curious. Also, no one would want
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: to be around you ever, and people would like, wait.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Could I read my dog's mind?
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: I would if I could read animals minds, that I would.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: I would do that, But I think that would be
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: the worst superpower for me is mind reading. It would
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: just become overwhelming and all consuming.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I think it would be invisibility.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I think it would be really tough to not end
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: up on some sort of red check mark list somewhere,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: you know, like if you.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: Well, if you if you were creep.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Like you would people would figure out that you're the
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: guy that could be invisible, and you would be on
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: a list.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: It would be a death sentence.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: But again, if you were in if you were invisible,
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: then like this is why I would not also like
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: do you know this without like being able to live forever,
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: Like that would in a way that would defeat the
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: purpose of life, and like life would suck without any finality,
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: and like what would you like just living for thousands
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: of years, Like you would become so reckless, right knowing
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: that you couldn't die, you would live like this just
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: you would be so lost. But being invisible, you would
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: get so curious about everything, right, like, oh, I could
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: be here, I could be in this like meeting in
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: the White House, I could go you you wouldn't even
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: be living life. You would just be all over the place,
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: like you would have no purpose, no direct And then
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: like what is what is the actual meaning of your life.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: And I think the superpower isn't part of the Like,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe this is just me watching too many
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: superhero movies.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Isn't part of the idea that you can.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Potentially help people also because you're the one that has
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: you have super abilities that other people do not have.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: No One's like, Hey, I'm in trouble call the invisible guy.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: What the fuck is he gonna do?
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: The invisible boatmobile from SpongeBob.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true, Kendra, what would uh?
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: What would you? What's uh? What's the worst one for you?
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: I don't know. You guys are sitting here, I'm I.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Really read way too many of the Twilight books to hate.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Kendrew's like, what if I could pickle anything? Just start
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: staring at it.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what the worst one for you
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: would be. I don't know. I really don't know. I
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: feel like mind reading sounds terrible, but I also would
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: love to be able to just people all the time.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Well, it sounds like everybody here is ready for some
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: mailbag questions, so let's get to it.
• 19:06
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• 19:37
  Speaker 2: This is from Danny Dimes.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Why are college basketball games or college basketball totals always
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: less than half of the game total? For example, Duke
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: was or no. This is for spreads seventeen point favorite
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: with a total of one forty two, with almost no
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: chance of overtime or late fouls. Shouldn't the total be
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: half of the game total? Okay, so this is a
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: totals question, So Stucky, you're obviously the right one to
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: answer this question. Why is it that these numbers aren't
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: just completely cut in half?
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Just the distribution of scoring, Like, you can't say there's
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: no chance of falling at the end. But a lot
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: of these games, a lot of times are going to
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: start a little slower. Like you take a Duke Notre
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Dame game of the total of like twenty and there's
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: nuances to this, but like if a total is one forty,
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: you're generally going to see a first half total of
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: you know, give or take, I'm rounding your sixty five
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: second half total around seventy five. But like if you're
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: a huge underdog, a lot of times you're going to
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: come out and play slower, right, like really intense half
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: court defense, and you're trying to like kind of shorten
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: the game. Then you get down right in the second half,
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: and then you're trying to like maximize possessions, and then
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: you play faster. There's a lot of different there's a
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: lot of reasons. I mean this, We have scoring, we
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: have data for you know, I can't even tell you
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: the amount of college basketball games that we have in
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: history in our databases, but it's just basic distribution of scoring.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: And there's many reasons why regardless of the spread that
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: they're the scoring is going to be you know, give
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: or take, assume to be about you know, eight nine,
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: ten points higher in the second half. Part of it
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: is that is fouling at the end. But like if
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: you have a spread of you know, you could say,
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: if you have a spread of one and it's expected
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: to be like a super close game the entire time,
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: like then you have no failing, you get up no
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: failing until like the final five seconds. That's just part
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: of the equation. And you know, just because the spread
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: of seventeen doesn't mean there's no chance that notre name
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: is down nine or ten and starts failing at the end,
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: and then they're trying to maximize possessions. So there's a
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: lot of reasons why there's increased scoring on average in
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: the second half.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you're just handicapping the game, Like if you think
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: it's going to be closer than it doesn't matter as much.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: Like as an example, Michigan State per due tonight is
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: one hundred and forty two and a half, but first
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: half is sixty seven. Sixty seven times two does an
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: equal one to forty two and a half. It's just
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: assuming that the second half has proportionally more scoring, which
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: is usually the case.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: Yep, Yeah, is that plasure?
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Is that also a playable in the NCAA tournament with
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the increase in the the desperation to win these games.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: For sure, second and half over.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there's yeah, I mean the conference tournaments
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: NCIA tournament that you do have an increased chance of
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: fouls until death. Right now, you have to get in
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: like the perfect game, like you know, a certain type
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: of game state for that to happen. But you know
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: you're not going to stop failing in your final game
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: of the season, or you might. You might, but you're
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: you're probably more likely to foul a couple extra possessions
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: than you might, say in a regular season game you
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: call off the dogs, but in the first in the
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: NCAA tournament, you're gonna see a lot of this. Books
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: have adjusted a bit. I'm not a huge totals player,
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: but first half unders. People love first half unders in
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: like the first round of the tournament. I'm sure Evan
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: will have this in his primer, but you have. There's
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: a lot of reasons why those can be or have
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: been profitable in the past in certain instances, especially with
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: the higher totals going with the first half under, but
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: books adjusted these over time. But like you have teams,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: you're playing on a neutral court, right so you're playing
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: in like a venue with with new balls. There's you,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: there's a you know, you might be playing with the
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: new ball, and it's the NCAA tournament, right the first game,
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: there's there's jitters, and you're playing at an odd time.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: A lot of times people love the first half unders
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: of like early tips. But so yeah, the there's a
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: little bit more of an adjustment for those first half
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: on I think now in the in the first round
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: of the tournament. But there's reasons why you would expect
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: decrease scoring early on, like just teams come out a
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: little tighter, that the scout, the defensive scout is really advanced.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: But most importantly, you know, the time, the venue, the ball,
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: all those things can lead to slower starts.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: Yes, it's twenty first half under NCAA tournament, so there's
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: something it's.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think early early games.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: That's that's the entire tournament, Evan, not just the first round.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, early games. I think the first game of a
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: new of a of a you know, a new venue in.
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: The round of sixty four, eighty eight and sixty nine.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: So yeah, let's go to Ryan.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Ryan Zaritt asks the question in the mail bag, what
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: is your favorite Cinderella story in the history of March Madness.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Another March Madness question, Ryan's is FAU. It's a great option.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Mine would be the other South Florida team, FGCU, which
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: is not Stunk City twenty thirteen. I'm not far from
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: where I grew up in South Florida. I had no
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: idea this college even existed until they started making a
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: run in the NCAA tournament.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: But that was that was a fun one.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: To really serious, I did.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Not I had I think there were some people in
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: my graduating class that went to FGCU, but the letters
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: just went in one ear and out the other, and
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I did not recall that until they made a deep runs.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I think I have some friends that go there, but.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: I use so many people that went to FGCU.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: It's like West Palm Beach, I think is where it's at. Yeah,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: so that's mine. FGCU. That was a ton of fun.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Dunk City is stuck. You mentioned Kendro. What about you
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: favorite singer story?
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: I think Saint Peter's once again. Because of the memes,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: do you guys remember the Doug Editt kid and people
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: every time they won a game, We're just making memes
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: like you just.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Got beat by Doug. I loved that time.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: It was a great time to be on the internet.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: It was before AI. It was like when memes were
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: peak and people actually had thoughts for themselves. And the
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: whole Peacocks thing that was also epic. So I feel
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: like I have to say Saint Peter's that was my
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: boy Doug, and then he left them immediately after that.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: What a traitor somebody who has to say Loyola Chicago.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I think we're actually obligating something to say.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: I don't I hate Sister Jean.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, jeez, hate Sister Jean.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: I'm sick of them rolling her corpse out there.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: That is not chill. Let her rest. Stop rolling her
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: corpse out there.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: That sounds like resentment towards the college, not towards.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: She wanted to be there though she loved the team
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: so much.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Get it. But like when she was like.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: She's a nun. You can't talk shit about nuns.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: I have and I will.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Stucky, what about you, favorite Cinderella.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: Saint Peter's one of my least favorite. Obviously, wife has
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: college bars here that are right around University Kentucky. They're
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: all university Kentucky. They do very well. When University Kentucky
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: wins in March, it's all anyone cares about the state.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: I haven't been doing that much in the tournament lately,
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: but I that was a Thursday night game and there
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: was a couple people, a couple of people follow me
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: on Twitter like, Hey, we want to come sweat some
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: games with you at the bars in Lexington. So it
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: was like coming out. They drove from North Carolina, they
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: got to Lexington, they were coming out. I just said
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: you could stay in my place for the weekend. They
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: got to my place at like midnight on Thursday night.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: Kentucky had lost to Saint Peter's. So we went out
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: on Saturday and it was Saint Peter's versus Mary State,
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: I think instead of Kentucky versus Marquette maybe or someone.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: They've both got upset and the bar was empty. It
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: was awful. But yeah, that was one of my least
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: favorite I parta golf coast in the running for me.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: I love that team. They were just so fun the
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: way that they played. But I'll go way back to
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: oh seven George Mason. They went to the They were
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: an eleven seed that went and obviously gotta mention the
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: Butler teams. But that Mason run they beat Yukon and
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: the Elite eight in overtime. I think that was Rudy
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Gay was on that team.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Uh, and.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a super Jim Larnega was the coach
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: when they went to the final four. That was one
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: of my favorite runs. And then, yeah, the Butler teams
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: were always fun. But yeah, I'll go with George Mason.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: I think that was was that was that O seven
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: six O six? But was it like actual that was
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: the five six team?
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: You're right?
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that was fun. They were the I mean
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: the Colonial team eleven seed. Did you come as the
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: number one overall seed in the tournament? They knocked him
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: out in the Elite eight and they were they had
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: never won a tournament game the school before that year,
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: and then they went to the final four. That was
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: that was special. I don't know if we're gonna it's
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: gonna be really hard to get those types of stories
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: with the way that, uh everything works now, but shout out.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: I think that Lewis and Tony Skin who's now the coach,
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: they were the stars of that team. But how about you, Evan?
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: I was gonna say George Mason. I think the one
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: you should probably mention. I mean, Davidson with Curry was
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: always fun in two thousand and eight. Uh, the one
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: I wasn't even born for that I've done like a
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: little bit of research on. That's really good is LSU
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: and eighty six eleven Seed beats the one, two and three,
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: which is pretty fun. I've seen video of it, which
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: is pretty cool. But I think Davidson and Butler are
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: at the two and George Mason was going to be mine.
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: I think VCU should get a little bit of love
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: as well in twenty eleven, but that was a.
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: Final four, I think so.
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: But I just remember first four to Final four and
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: they were like one of the first teams to do that,
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: so they should definitely get some love.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Barely Dickinson.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Also, there's a furniture store here where if the Yukon
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: men's and women's team both make the final, any furniture
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: you purchase between now and the end of like the
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: first couple rounds all your furnitures free free flix.
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: Some love for UMBC as well.
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: This is a ticket on them to win it all
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: that I took home that year when they beat Virginia
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: didn't cash, but fun to have.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: How much.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Was it like a dollar?
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: Five bucks actually on them to win it all?
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Eight thousand to one didn't end up cashing, So take
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: it home with.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Me, all right, Yeah, nice little souvenir.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: The next question from Ryan was best sports movie your
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: favorite sports movie of all time? I will say, I
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: don't even know if this counts as a hot take
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: or if this is just common opinion. Baseball movies are
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: in a class of themselves. There's something about that. Sport
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: boxing is probably next, but baseball movies, the storytelling, the
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: way that the game, because it's slow, the game doesn't
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: feel like it doesn't take you out of the movie.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Football movies really mess with my head because you can't
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: simulate football. It looks goofy on screen. Basketball movies kind
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: of middle of the road. But there's something about the
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: storytelling and the actual real gameplay with in a baseball
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: movie that's more realistic that I think they stand out
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: above the rest. So whatever the answer is, for me,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: it's definitely a baseball movie. Probably League of their Own
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: is my favorite. I watch that movie again and again
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and again. I think that that's my answer. Kendro what
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: about you.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: I have two answers. One benchwarmers. I don't know if
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: you guys have seen that movie. Incredible, incredible movie, and then.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: I have been laughing at me.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: And then two, I'm gonna go bend it like Beckham
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: because it was like a girl's soccer movie that I
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: loved when I was a kid. And Kiera Knightley in
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: that movie was like my sexual awakening her and she
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: go from Kim possible.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: So those are my two answers.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: It stucky.
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: I don't really I'm not a huge movie guy. Like
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: I told you, I've never watched a movie more than once,
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: but that's a fact. Nostalgia I'd probably go. I mean,
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: Moneyball was really good. I thought that was a really
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: good movie. But nostalgia, I'll go Varsity Blues. That's a
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: rip James Vanderbeek. By the way, the nineteen there should
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: be a movie about this nineteen eighty six hours You
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: team like they that they had three seven footers on
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: their team before the season started. By the time the
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: tournament came, they had zero. I think one was academically
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: an out and left the team. One got hurt. They
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: had to move a guard to center. They had they
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: had to like cancel a game, a national televised game
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: because and they had like a long outbreak of chicken
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: pox on the team. And then they became an eleven
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: seat that beat a one, two and three and they
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: finished nine to nine in the SEC. I mean that
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: maybe there is a book about them, but uh so,
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: I'll go Varsity Blues.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Sandlot deserves them engine as well in this childhood.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: Believe you haven't seen Bench Warmer's Kravit.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: I seen it.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: Do you know who John Heater is? Napoleon Dynamite?
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Was this like? Is this an old movie or is
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: this Yeah.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: It's like early two thousands. It's like a comedy with
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: the guy who played Napoleon Dynamite. And then I think
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Rob Schneider is in.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: It and likes it. This immediately gets thrown in the trash.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: I mean a human being. But like back in the day,
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: his movies were good.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: Let's see, it's a good movie. SI on letterbox thirteen
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: percent rotten Tomatoes.
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: That's why I had to laugh when she said this.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: Evan's so funny.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Evan, what's your what's your favorite sports movie?
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: I remember The Titans is really good. Rudy's really good.
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: I went to Indiana, so I have to say, who's yours.
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: Field of Dreams is also fantastic. Those are probably my
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: top three, Rudy. The Field of Dreams Remember the Titans,
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: feels like a decent top three.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: That's what I mean about baseball movies.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Field of Dreams, the fact that you can you could
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: just make them out rush more out of Field of Dreams.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: League sand Lot, League of their own if.
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: You build it the news. The quotes in that movie
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: are just fantastic.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: I remember that I love this movie.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Blindside's all right, Yeah, I remember one that I loved
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: as a kid.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: That's probably so bad. I kind of want watch it,
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: watch it again. It's probably so bad. And it's so
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: angels in the outfield. Sure, yes, there's just angels in
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: the outfield. Plays and stuff for the angels like that
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: is such an insane I remember loving it when I
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: was like six, but I don't I can't imagine that
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: age as well, when you're like watching it if you're older.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Jeremy Maguire, Jerem, I can't believe you guys haven't seen Benchwarmers.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: It's so angel outfield.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: I haven't seen it.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I had it on VHS when I was a kid.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: The Blindside kind of it takes away from the movie
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: that it turns out that these parents were kind of
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: pieces of ship.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: Oh totally. But it's a good movie.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but like you can't, you can't watch that now
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: because but.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: It's because she has no idea what's going on.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: The next one is for Fight Lights, although that's one
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: of my favor shows.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: The next one's from Jessica. This one's for Kendra specifically.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: She said that she saw you post recently about all
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the jobs that you had in sports that got you
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: to where you are today, which is having this fun
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: conversation with us on a podcast in college. How did
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: you balance all of the nighttime and weekend work with
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: still having fun and when did you have that?
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can do this for a living moment.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, this is a really really good question one if
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: you are a college student or about to be a
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: college student, my number one piece of advice for you is,
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: outside of just asking for opportunities from people that can
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: give them to you get a job at a bar,
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: because that way you're making money, you get to see
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: your friends, you get to hang out with your friends,
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: you don't have fomo or anything.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: You can help your friends get into the bar.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Whatever I made money, wasn't hung over the next day
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: and was still hanging out with my friends.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: By getting a.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Job at our favorite bar, that is like the best
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: thing that I did for myself as far as being
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: able to to like balance my social life, making money
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: and work and my yeah, I can do this for
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: a living moment, I think is.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: A little bit different.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: I've told this story in ninety eight five before, so
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: if you listen to me there and you listen to
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: me here, you've probably heard this before. But in that
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: same post, I was talking about how I used to
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: call into ten ten Excel, which is the local sports
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: radio station in Boston or in a jacksonvill when I
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: was a kid.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: And during the World Cup when I.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Was in fifth grade, I believe they were doing a
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: giveaway around Mother's Day for a gift card for flowers,
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: and I was I'm a huge soccer fan, always have been,
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: and they were asking all of the guys to answer
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: soccer questions to win this gift card. And I went
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: to win my mom flowers for Mother's Day, and I
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: knew all the answers, so my dad like handed me
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: the phone and he was like, all right, smart ass,
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: like call in and answer the questions.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: So I called in and after.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Like four or five grown men getting the questions wrong, me,
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: a fifth grader, got all of my questions right and
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: won my mom flowers. And that was kind of the
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: first moment that I was like, whoa, Like girls can
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: know this stuff too, And kind of from that moment
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: on was like when I knew what I wanted to
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: do so much so that like when I had my
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: john plant surgery, they could have just moved all of
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: my teeth over, but since I knew I wanted to
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: be in broadcasting, like my parents made the decision to
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: put a permanent, like proper implant into my joh instead
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: of doing the easier thing and like moving everything over
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: because I know and I wanted to do this since
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: I was in fifth grade.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: That's crazy that you've known that you wanted to be
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: in broadcasting since you were ten.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is just me speaking from
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: personal experience, but I feel for a lot of people
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: it's something that kind of smacks you over the head
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: in adulthood that's like, hey, this could be a career path.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: But that's crazy that you knew that from the beginning.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: What a work up, DJ Stuck. He knew that he
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: wanted to be a degenerate when he was ten years old.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Definitely had that scouted. I do believe there is a
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: question about the first thing that we bet on, so
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I do want to get to that too. Actually that
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: is the next one. This is from a him in Mexico,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: New Mexico. Sorry, no things getting old hairy in Mexico
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: right now? Anyway, Can any of you remember the first
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: bet that you ever made, or maybe one early in
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: your life that still sticks with you as a great
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: betting memory? Stucky, first bet ever? Kendrick, could you guess
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: the age that he's about to spit out to us.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: I'm going to say like sixteen in some like Billy
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Parking Lot with some books.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna got eight years old in the playground now.
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: The first one I can remember was when I would
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: have been like, I bet my dad. My me and
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: my best friend were away with my dad and my
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: best friend's dad and our dads were best friends too.
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: We bet them. And my dad is a Duke fan,
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: and I used to bet my dad like twenty bucks
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: that the Eagles and Duke would lose like every game
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: through the nineties, when I don't, but I mean when
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: I was like eight, nine, ten, But I remember this bet.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: I would think I was thirteen. I was in middle school.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: I bet them, me and my friend bet our dad's
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: fifty bucks. And it was a horrible bet because it's
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: fifty bucks straight up that Connecticut would beat Duke in
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: ninety nine in the National Championship, and they did, but
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: they were like ten point dolls. We got horrendous odds.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: Can you pull up what were the odds on that, Evan,
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: Can you pull that up? I think they were like
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: catching them. They were like nine point underdogs that do
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: that Duke teams I time. Uh, that was the first
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: one that I could remember. But then so then I
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: started maybe by because I won this bet of this underdog.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: That was that one outright. I went down like eighth, ninth,
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: tenth grade, like doing the dumbest bets like everyone does
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: when they first start betting. I have no idea what
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: they're doing, but I remember remember opening uh a boadog
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: account and then would bet nothing but pleasers, which are
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: reverse teasers where you would just sell points. You would
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: just sell points on each side and would just lose
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: constantly until I decided I wanted to try and take
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: it serious, and then that was the whole endeavor. But
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: that was the first one that I can remember like
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: where it was actual cash, and I remember we put
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: it up like we had our I think we had
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: like our allowance money, and then we got it at
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: the end, but we got terrible lot. It was probably
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: one of the best with the worst bets of over
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: made in my life.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: But it one.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Connecticut even money to win that game, catching nine.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: And a half on that one. When did you start?
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: When did you actually start betting?
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I think that's a question that a lot of people,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: if they don't know the answer to, would love to know.
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: I mean, I was like I just said, I was
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: like no, But I.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Don't mean that.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I mean when you that sort of the same question
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: for Kendra, When did you have that moment, that aha
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: moment where you go, I think I could do this
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: for a living. I think I could make a career
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: out of this. When did that click for you?
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: I don't think there's like a moment, just iterative. Over time,
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: you just get better and better and obviously as I
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: get older and smarter, and like, I just started to
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: take it suit more serious. I would. I've always followed
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: sports closely, and then I started posting on like forums
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: with write ups. But then, you know, obviously I went
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: to I went to college, was in finance, revetus analysts.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: I got my CFA Masters and finance, and like, I
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: became more. I became just a much more intelligent person.
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: And uh, but I was tired of losing, so I,
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: you know, would and talk to people, talk to winning better,
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: just become better over time. Still a process, process every day.
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: It's one of the things I love about it. I mean,
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: I'm talking about five years ago, and I'm like, the
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: goal the gold is like the gold mine is to
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: hit like fifty five percent. Like You're you're never gonna
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: get hit one hundred percent. You're never going to master
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: this completely. And you're like the markets are getting more efficient.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: Things change sports change rules, change marks become more efficient.
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: You have to adapt. It's a free battle, and I
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: love that every day is different, every game is different.
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: Pete Carroll, I never get tired of it. I still
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: love the sweat. Some people live been bedding forever and
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: I hate the sweat. I love the sweat I have
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: to watch.
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: I hate it. I hate it.
• 43:56
  Speaker 7: It's a great feeling.
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: I love the I love the grind, love the pre
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: I actually love like the grind of like all of
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: the work, even more than the sweat. But I love
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: the sweat too. So yeah, so labor of love. When
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: I stopped love, when I stopped loving it, I'll stop
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: doing it.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: I took a big step in my sports betting last night.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: I had about three bets going in the NBA, and
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: I was watching the one one of the games that
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: I did not have a wager on because of just
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: my general interest in the game itself, which is very rare.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: I think that's the first time I've ever done that
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: where I've had action and chose to watch a game
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: I had no action on. That feels like sports betting
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: growth for me. That was. That was a big That
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: was and that was just a few hours ago. Yeah,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: thank you very much. Yeah, that sort of you mentioned
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: always learning that self. One of the things I'm picking
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: up is that I used to always think you just
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: had to have this unwavering self confidence in order to
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: bet at a high level.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: But it's the.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Balance of self confidence and self doubt. If you don't
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: have self doubt, you are going to flame out and fail.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: You have to constantly question whether or not you're actually
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: good at this. Otherwise your your ego is gonna get
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: too bloated and then and then you're gonna flop and
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: then you lose all of your confidence because you've tied
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: your identity to this false sense of confidence.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: That's my psycho.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, the mental side of it is even it's
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: just as hard as losing.
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: Figuring out like why you lose to me?
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, then you don't want to be too overconfident, but
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: you also don't want to be you don't want to
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: have too little confidence. It's just like because you go
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: on a losing streak, right, like you can't get gun shy.
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: You also just can't say like, oh this isn't working,
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna scrap everything. And you have to understand also,
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: like that's that's where map comes in, Like under like
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: you just said, understanding of why there's good. You're gonna
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: go through months, seasons, years where you lose, like's gonna happen.
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: Then you have to determine, Okay, what do I have
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: to change or do I have to change anything? Is
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: this this a variance or not? And then dealing with
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: the streaks, is that's something I'm I'm pretty good at now.
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: It eats me alive when because I know that people
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: follow me. That's what I hate.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: But like that's what I was just gonna bring up.
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: But I've I've seen every single streak you can imagine.
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, in eighteen days, couldn't you know month,
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: like a whole month where I just seemed like years
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: where nothing goes There's a whole year where and almost
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: everything goes against you. Then you have a year where
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: like everything goes for you. So yeah, just staying like
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: even keeled. I'm a pretty logical person. I think it's important.
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: But yeah, there's that so much, so much comes with experience.
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: It's crazy. But like you're you're I'm never even gonna
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: be come close to like knowing getting to the point
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: where I want to get to. But just like every
• 46:59
  Speaker 5: day you kind of add to your bank and Mike,
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: You'll just you just keep learning. It's but you're you're
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: like you're just talking like really small gains and you're
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: but the market's also adjusting. It's a crazy race.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kendre, you mentioned the I saw you react to that,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: the the psychological mental health aspect of actually being a
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: front facing sports better that people rely on. Not that
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: I expect anyone to cry tears for us, don't, but
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: that is that it that is that part tougher losing
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: for other people than losing for yourself.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that that's the part that sticks with me,
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: is that like, no way, when you're just doing it
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: for yourself, it's like fun and like you're just tracking
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: you and nobody else and nothing matters.
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: But then when you become.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: Like a stucky of this or you were me or
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: someone bigger than us or like whatever, it's like knowing
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: people are putting their harder and dollar on something that
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: you have said, and then they get upset with you,
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: or you just feel like you're letting someone down, or
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: people yell at you or get mean or whatever. It's
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: like I think that that's the hardest part is like
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: not realizing that one were people on the other side
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: of the screen, but two, like we're also trying our hardest.
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: Then like three, you don't.
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: Have to follow us, but like at the same time,
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: like we put ourselves in this position. So it's like,
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: I know that I did this to myself, and I
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: wouldn't change my career or this job or anything. But
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: like knowing that you disappoint people or like lose them
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: money literally keeps me up at night.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: And I would just say to anybody out there, and
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: I've I've had to have this conversation with myself. Fall
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: any whoever it is that you follow, and if it's
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: multiple people, if it's one person, don't fall in love
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: with their picks, fall in love with their process. If
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: you fall in love with the process, then I think one,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: you're not living and dying with every selection. It's the Yeah,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: it's the journey that gets you to that pick. Yeah,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: and somebody else's process can also help you make a
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: different selection that they didn't even necessarily tee up.
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: So that's yeah.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: I would just say that to anybody listening. It's process
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: over results.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: I always tell people on my Saturday show, I'm not
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: here to just tell you things for you to follow them.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: If I say something that sells you want to pick,
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: take it. If I say something that makes you want
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: to get on the other side, there's a reason that
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: that happened. Take that side of it. Like I tell people,
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: do not just blindly follow me. I'm going to tell
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: you how I arrived to this thought, and if you agree, good.
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: If you disagree, take the other side of it. My
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: job is to not just sit here and say take this, this,
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: and this. I'm here to show you my process. You
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: find your own. We bounce off of each other and
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: maybe we get some wins.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: So I wanted to share two stories on this question.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: My first I don't remember my first bet, but I
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: remember the first routine that I had in betting was
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: I would catch up with my grandmother who lived in Baltimore,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: over the FOT phone on Monday nights and after school.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: We would talk about whatever's going on in our.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: Lives, and then at the end of the call, we
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: would make a bet on the Monday night football game.
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: It wasn't spread related.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: I would take a side, she would take a side,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: and then I would run down stairs and I would
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: bet my dad the other side.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: So I was basically like arbitraging at a very.
• 50:18
  Speaker 7: You were running a boiler room in your own apartment.
• 50:20
  Speaker 7: That's what it really was happening.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: I was guaranteeing myself some victories. Yes, and then my
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: and then win or lose, my grandmother would send me
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: five bucks. So it was definitely ROI wise, best sports
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: betting operation I ever had. And then the most memorable
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: memorable bet I ever made was twenty thirteen. I bet
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: after FSU beat Pitt in the season opener that was
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Jameis Winston's debut. I made a bet that day that
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: they would win the National Championship. I was working at
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: a bar at the time. It was a pool bar outside,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: and it was the night of the National Champmpionship game
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: against Auburn, and it was freezing outside, and I kept
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: calling nobody was outside. I had zero customers. Even management
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: wouldn't come outside because it was so cold, and I
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: kept calling the inside. This was at a hotel, so
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: I was like off the beaten path at this pool bar,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: and I kept calling my manager saying, will you please
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: close the bar? Nobody's here, and they would refuse to
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: do it, and so I took it upon myself to
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: close the bar with nobody approving that, and I raced
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: home and I caught the entire game. I caught a
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: lot of shit for it at work. Didn't end up
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: getting fired for that. But then FSU won on the
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: final play and it was worth every single penny. So
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: that that's one that I'll never forget.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Kendrew, you said you have another one.
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: I have two thoughts on this quickly.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: The first bet that I can ever remember making was
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: not a sports bet my dad, and it took me
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: to get barbecue at this place in Florida called Bono's.
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: I don't you might know.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: Bonos Crabits now, Okay, it's like a Florida like North Florida,
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: probably barbecue chain. And I was probably in like second
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: or third grade, and I wanted the big plate of
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: barbecue cheese fries and my dad was like, there's no
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: way in hell you're gonna eat an entire.
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: Adult like barbecue cheese fry.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: And I was like, wanta bet and he was like, yeah,
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: if you eat this entire plate, I'll give you twenty
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: bucks and I'll buy you a new build of Bear.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: And so I ate the whole plate of cheese fries.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: I said, okay, done, and he goes. He was like
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: in shock, and then I threw everything back up on
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: the table and I was like, you didn't say I
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: had to keep it down, and so he gave me
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: my twenty bucks and then came home two days later
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: with a pig from Build a Bear named Cheese Fry.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: And that is the first time I ever remember gambling
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: on anything in my life or betting on anything.
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: And then when I started.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: To get into sports bedding, I was working at the
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: bar that I was at at Auburn, and I always
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: used to come in in.
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: Like sports gears.
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: So whether it was like Jags or like a team
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: that I worked for or covered or like whatever, I
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: would just come in sports gear because I've always collected it.
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: And guys would always be like, do you even know
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: whose shirt you're wearing? Do you even know whose jersey
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: you're wearing? Blah blah blah. And so I started betting
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: with those guys on the games that were playing that
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: night on the TVs and the bars, and I started
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: fleecing people.
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: I even bet a kid one time.
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: I was like, if you win, I'll give you free
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: drinks for the rest of the semester, but if I win,
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: you have to give me your entire adderall prescription for
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: the month. And so that was kind of how I
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: got into sports betting. Was like guys coming in not
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: thinking I knew dick about sports, and I would be like,
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: all right, let's bet on this game right now, and
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: they would have to leave me big tips and I
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: would either have to give them free drinks for the
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: weekend or whatever. And so that's kind of how I
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: got into like the sports betting world was fleecing men
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: at the bar that I worked at.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: I think that that we should continue that trend with
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: your haters in the comment section.
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: That would be fun.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kendra versus or haters? Can we write that down
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: as an idea for me?
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: I really like that, that would be fun.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Let's let's wrap this with Lawrence from Topeka. What was
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: your first kiss and how did it happen? Obviously everybody
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: wants to know, Stucky and I's answer to this more
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: than anybody mine.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: Her name was Michelle. She was my friend.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: I was a dork in middle school and so I
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: just I just needed to get it out of the way.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: And I think I may have asked her and she
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: said yes, and it was.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: It was just you know, like, hey, could you help
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: me out.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: I gotta kind of like get over this hump, and
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: we like walked to the stop sign. It was very
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: romantic and then we never kissed again. So I don't
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: even know if that means that I was bad at
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: it or what. But uh, that's that's my story, Stucky.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's all I need.
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: Taste of the cravts I was.
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: I was in middle school. My my friend, my neighbor,
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: one of my best friends. It was my next door neighbor,
• 55:03
  Speaker 5: his older sister, and it.
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: Was your best friend's older sister.
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we were just we were playing. We were playing.
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: We were playing truth or there, and then.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: The original sports betting game to.
• 55:18
  Speaker 5: Get this piece of grass, I put a long piece
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: of grass in my mouth and I said, I, dare
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: you get this piece of grass out of my mouth?
• 55:26
  Speaker 5: So it's kind of implied, and then we kissed. Uh
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: that was That was my first kiss.
• 55:35
  Speaker 8: A trick, I guess, such a Kentucky thing to do too.
• 55:40
  Speaker 8: This is Philly, Okay, it was foreshadowing, Evan, what about you.
• 55:47
  Speaker 7: Definitely a camp.
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: I went to a bunch of camp sleep boy camps
• 55:51
  Speaker 6: and stuff like that. I was probably like in middle school.
• 55:54
  Speaker 6: I honestly don't remember who, but I definitely was like
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: the Canteen or something like that. I just remember having
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: the feeling and yeah, because.
• 56:00
  Speaker 7: I also wanted your old boys school. I also want
• 56:03
  Speaker 7: to an old boys school.
• 56:04
  Speaker 6: So it had to have been like either at like
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: a dance or like meeting somebody outside of it, or
• 56:09
  Speaker 6: like at a sleep boy camp.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: But it was definitely we're not here to judge, Okay.
• 56:12
  Speaker 6: Nona, I had to explain though. I mean, you got
• 56:14
  Speaker 6: to get into a little bit of detail there, all.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: Right, Kenja. Obviously nobody cares. Yeah, nobody cares about our
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: answer to this question.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: I was really close with the baseball team in school,
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: and so I always would hang out with them after school.
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: We would like walk home and hang out at.
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: These twins Michael and Jimmy's house, and I like climbed
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: up in a tree and was like hanging out with
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: Michael in the tree, and he was once again truth
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: dared me to kiss him.
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: So I was in a tree.
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: Kissed him and his dad My entire life has been
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: at the local sports anchor of my hometown radio station
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: in Jacksonville, and he's made me regret it every single
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: day since with his stupid takes. I can't believe that
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: I gave his kid the satisfaction of kissing me.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: The power of Truth or Dare?
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: And yeah, does anyone have a memory of the truth
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: side of that game? Any any quality memory that comes
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: from truth or dare is comes out of the dare side?
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: I can't.
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: I mean yes, but mine. What do you guys know
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: what chat roulette is?
• 57:21
  Speaker 7: I've heard of it.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: My friends and I used to love chat roulette when
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: we were in middle school, and like we would just go
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: and like do stupid stuff.
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: And I remember whenever the guys who would pop up
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: with their.
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: Like penis out would come up, we would like purposely.
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: Fuck with them.
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: And we decided to play truth or Dare with one
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: of the guys one time, and we just like made
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: fun of him and then he hung up on us,
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: and it was like a truth, tell me a truth
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: about something, and like we were like here, penis sucks.
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: Shout out the chat roulette days.
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: Yes, by the way, before we get out my my
• 57:55
  Speaker 5: weird question, Hey, this is a dumb question.
• 58:00
  Speaker 7: Ask you a personal question kind of question?
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: Is that is question?
• 58:05
  Speaker 5: What is one tip or hot take you have on food?
• 58:08
  Speaker 5: So like advice you're like you need to do this
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: when you're cooking this, or like something that everyone needs
• 58:14
  Speaker 5: to do that they do do not do like I
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: I'll throw out mine. So like salt, people use salt
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: A lot of this is to me im proved by salt,
• 58:25
  Speaker 5: especially when you're cooking pasta. Put a ton of salt
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: in the passable. You think it's enough, it's not. Put
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: in more. Same thing with butter. You wonder how potatoes
• 58:32
  Speaker 5: are good at the restaurants. Like you're making mastraata, put
• 58:34
  Speaker 5: in butter. You think it's enough, putting more and then
• 58:36
  Speaker 5: double that. Lemon. People don't know how much let just
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: a little bit of lemon can make a dish. Use
• 58:43
  Speaker 5: chicken thighs over chicken breast. Chicken thies are so much better,
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: it's incredible. Use good olive oil if you can. Basic
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: olive oil is trash. And then the most part. I
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: want to slow cook your scrambled eggs, like just literally
• 58:55
  Speaker 5: take the pan, put it on really low, move it
• 58:58
  Speaker 5: off the burner, put it on, take your time. There's
• 59:02
  Speaker 5: so much better. It's worth worth the weight those her
• 59:05
  Speaker 5: mind of sucky basic cooking things. But you have one
• 59:11
  Speaker 5: thing where you're like you gotta do this, or.
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: I was I didn't take this as like you have
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: to do this. You said, like a food hot take.
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: And the first thing that came to my mind was
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: that chicken palm is mid as fuck. It's so there's
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: it's like nearly impossible to have a bad one. Like
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: the drop off between a bad chicken parm and a
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: good chicken parm is not that significant because it's literally
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: just fried chicken, cheese and sauce.
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: Like, it's not that hard to fuck up.
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: Yes, but you can have exceptional chicken parm like that.
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: One's not that far off from the best one.
• 59:42
  Speaker 5: No, But like chicken parm, you homemake the pasta, You
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: make the sauce, and you know how to cook the chicken, right,
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: But homemade pasta can make all the difference.
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: Overrated.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: I think Kendrin might be onto something here. I do
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: like a good frozen chicken palm, it's.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: Not that far off from the best one you've ever had.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: It's it's definitely a drop off, but it's you're right,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: the drop off is not that steep. I think mine
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: would be don't don't cut into your meat when you're.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: The end, all right, That'll be.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: If you're grilling a steak, if you're grilling burgers, do
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: not poke and prod your meat.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: That is the number one piece of advice that I.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 7: That's a good quote card for this episode.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 5: Egg Plant farm is better than chicken and deal porm.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 5: By the way, if it's done right, haven't you.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: The French toast?
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: You know, I was I was trying to I was
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: trying to end on us in the roulette game, don't
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: you meat?
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: Don't not knowing benchwarmers and chat roulette and omegle is
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: really killing me.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 7: Burn your vegetables, yes, burn your vegetables.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: Burned vegetables are gas.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 7: Burn your vegetables a little bit of lemon.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't disagree.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 7: That's all.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it for today's episode.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: They're right about that special thanks to the producers and
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: to all of you for chiming in with your mailbag questions.
• 1:01:07
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• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six NFL season gets started, and we
• 1:01:12
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• 1:01:15
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• 1:01:19
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