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Picking The Week 9 NFL Games With Chad Millman & Blackjack · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to The Favorites the Super Contest addition that means
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  Speaker 1: it's Friday. I am Chad Mollman of the Action Network
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  Speaker 1: joining me. My beautiful baby, My beautiful, beautiful baby, black
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  Speaker 1: Jack Fletcher. What's happening today we have It's good to
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  Speaker 1: see you in person again, Pink Champagne. We are celebrating
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  Speaker 1: the fact that we are reunited and it feels so good.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of singing on this show. You brought
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  Speaker 1: me a kish ham and cheese quiche, which I'm loving.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, or if you don't know, this is
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  Speaker 1: the Friday Super Contest edition of The Favorites podcast. We
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  Speaker 1: go through any every NFL game and we have to
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  Speaker 1: agree on five games against the spread that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to submit for the Westgate Super Contest so we can
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  Speaker 1: win one point four million dollars In Blackjack. We have
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  Speaker 1: been destroying it lately, and destroying it like in a
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  Speaker 1: good way, like moving up the charts, getting closer to
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  Speaker 1: the money. I don't know where we are. I just
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  Speaker 1: know our record is good. Yeah, we're starting to sniff
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  Speaker 1: the money, sniff the money because we had a bad start. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: this is a massive show, a massive show. It's almost
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  Speaker 1: like we're moving into variety show territory. That's where we
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  Speaker 1: need to be, you know, because later on today we
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  Speaker 1: have a at the end of the show, our very
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  Speaker 1: first guest, our very first interview on the Favorites podcast.
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  Speaker 1: This person is going to be nominated for an OSCAR
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  Speaker 1: this year, There's no doubt about it. And it is
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  Speaker 1: the person, uh for the movie what what that is?
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  Speaker 1: Those are the champagne bubbles, the fizzling you're throwing me
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  Speaker 1: off here. This person is going to be nominated for
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  Speaker 1: the movie that you and I are dying to see together.
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  Speaker 1: A star is born. He happens to be and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not naming him yet. He happens to be. There's a
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  Speaker 1: big review at the end. He happens to be an
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  Speaker 1: avid listener of the podcast. He sent in props. He
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  Speaker 1: sent in props. He knows we're talking about like how
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  Speaker 1: many times I'm going to cry, so he sent in
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  Speaker 1: props and how many times we'll cry when we'll cry, etcetera.
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  Speaker 1: But and we're super excited we did the interview. He
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  Speaker 1: was hilariously funny, such a good guy. Black Jack hit
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  Speaker 1: him up for like his next big move about a
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  Speaker 1: thousand times. It was black Jack is going to be
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  Speaker 1: writing the next great American screenplay. So any ideas you
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  Speaker 1: may have forward this way, yeah, because then he'll give
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  Speaker 1: you credit. Black Jack and I are going to see
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  Speaker 1: the movie on November six. Okay, this is Friday. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to see it on Tuesday, November six. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to go to some theater in Brooklyn because that's
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  Speaker 1: the only place that's gonna be playing by then. We
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  Speaker 1: are going to see A Star Is Born. Together. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna bring these prop sheets. Here's the thing. We are
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  Speaker 1: inviting you one special guest, one special guest who listens
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  Speaker 1: to the Favorites, the first listener of the Favorites to
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  Speaker 1: call our Favorites hotline and leave a message that you
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  Speaker 1: will join us for the movie in Brooklyn, will join us.
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  Speaker 1: We will not pay for you to come to New
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  Speaker 1: York if you don't live here. We will not pay
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  Speaker 1: for you to get to the theater. We will buy
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  Speaker 1: you a ticket. We will buy you, uh, your your candy,
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  Speaker 1: popcorn of choice, a soda of choice, and I will
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  Speaker 1: be smuggling liquor into the theater. So flat Jack, add
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  Speaker 1: a nip to that soda. Will have. Here is the
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  Speaker 1: hotline number three can I can? I read the can
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  Speaker 1: to zero three four eight nine six six four seven. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I'll do it slower so you can write it down
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  Speaker 1: two zero three four eight nine six six four seven.
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  Speaker 1: The first person who calls the hotline says, I'm in
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  Speaker 1: New York, or I'm gonna be in New York, or
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  Speaker 1: I want to go to Brooklyn with you guys to
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  Speaker 1: see a star is born. Play the prop games. See
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  Speaker 1: how many times Blackjack and I cry together? How many
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  Speaker 1: times Bradley Cooper cries? How many times Lady Goga cries?
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  Speaker 1: Then you can see of our very special guests at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the show, and if his props were right,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna win an oscar. I really hope he does.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna join us and I'll buy you a ticket
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  Speaker 1: in a popcorn in Minnesota. Very generous. I'm a giver.
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  Speaker 1: I gave to you. I give to you every day
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  Speaker 1: you do in a big, big way. Uh listen. First up,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, we're practically a variety show. Um, We've
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  Speaker 1: asked you guys to review the podcast on iTunes and
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  Speaker 1: the best reviews will be read by Georgina. So before
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  Speaker 1: we get to the games, Letter Rip Georgie, the Friday
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  Speaker 1: Show Chat and black Jack as a borderline religious experience
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  Speaker 1: where I learned what picks to faith for my week
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  Speaker 1: and my wife questions where she went wrong in marrying me.
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  Speaker 1: Five stars. Wow religious experience and and it has someone
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  Speaker 1: out there questioning their relationship choices. We've succeeded. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the two things that black Jack sought to do when
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  Speaker 1: he entered into this agreement to this podcast. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I'm going to be able to sustain, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you are either. Black Jack will be fine.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna do a spittake right now, you are gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: There is gonna be Champagne coming to your nose, black Jack,
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  Speaker 1: and hold his liquor. We are sponsored today by Pink Champagne,
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  Speaker 1: Should we get to the games, we have a lot
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  Speaker 1: to do. We should got a lot to do. Georgina
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta at Washington Skins by one and a half. Can
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  Speaker 1: I just say before we get to that, I'd really
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  Speaker 1: like people to keep reviewing the podcasts on Apple Podcasts
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  Speaker 1: because it helped people discover the podcast. We have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of listeners. We'd like millions. We are greedy. We
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  Speaker 1: are greedy fuckers, and we have egos the size we
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  Speaker 1: have egos the size of this champagne bottle. We need
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  Speaker 1: to rock it up the charts. We need more five
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  Speaker 1: star reviews. We need to be the A Stars Board
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  Speaker 1: of podcasts. We need people to hear this podcast and
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  Speaker 1: cry in a good way. Yep, leave a review, make
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  Speaker 1: it good five stars. Oh, he's drunk and he's only
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  Speaker 1: referred to himself for the third person? Did Georgina go?
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  Speaker 1: Did she read the first one? Yes? Landa at Washington
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  Speaker 1: Skins by one and a half. Redskins, Let's go Yep, done, Georgias.
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  Speaker 1: Detroit at Minnesota Vikings by four and a half. Vikings Stone,
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  Speaker 1: Let's go yeah. Pittsburgh at Baltimore Ravens by three. All right,
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  Speaker 1: First of all, let me just explain the Redskins in
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings a little bit. The Redskins line is is insane.
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  Speaker 1: That is inferring that the Falcons are the better team.
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  Speaker 1: When you account for the home field advantage that Washington has,
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons are not a better team than Washington on
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  Speaker 1: any side of the ball, Right, now and the Redskins
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  Speaker 1: add ha ha Clinton black Jack can't say that name
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  Speaker 1: of that laugh. Um, the add him to their secondary.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's no way the Atlanta Falcons are a better
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  Speaker 1: team than Washington. None. Reds are cruising right now. I
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  Speaker 1: think I said to Scooch the other day on the
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  Speaker 1: Favorite podcast, Um he hung up. He hung a bad
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  Speaker 1: line here. And I don't know if it's because of
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  Speaker 1: the bye um that they're giving Atlanta a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more UM credit. But right now, Atlanta, I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: the Action Network cap Atlanta is getting the money. Yeah
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  Speaker 1: they are. I'm insane. It listened. The bye is great,
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  Speaker 1: But is Dion Jones coming back? Is Kean or Neil
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  Speaker 1: coming back? No? No? And every game you watch that
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  Speaker 1: they're they're the walking wounded. I mean that team just
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  Speaker 1: keeps losing guy after guy after guy. Dreadful. The Redskins
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  Speaker 1: are rolling. Man. I don't know why of the bets
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  Speaker 1: and money on the Falcons. That to me in the
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  Speaker 1: case that like either the wise guys haven't played this
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  Speaker 1: or the wise guys are waiting to see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't believe you guys are coming in on
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons. And you would know this even better than Blackjack.
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  Speaker 1: Over the last year and a half, the supposed wise
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  Speaker 1: guys have loved this Atlanta Falcons team. This is like
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  Speaker 1: they're darling. They bet the Atlanta Falcons. Last year, Every
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  Speaker 1: damn week it was the Falcons, the Falcons, the Falcons.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been the same story this year, even with
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  Speaker 1: the injuries and everything else. And it's like at some
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  Speaker 1: point you have to watch what's happening on the field,
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  Speaker 1: and the Falcons just don't have the manpower. I've never
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  Speaker 1: been on the Falcons. I hate the Falcons. I've always
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  Speaker 1: hated the Falcons. I think they're frauds. Agreed the vikings Um.
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  Speaker 1: We did a story on Action Network yesterday that sort
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  Speaker 1: of power rates the games based on our ratings, but
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  Speaker 1: we had it at five five and a half black
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  Speaker 1: black Jacks whatever black Jack works at the Action Network.
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  Speaker 1: His thoughts are included. They're burping up the BuzAr Um,
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  Speaker 1: so you're just getting value here, like I you know,
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  Speaker 1: this was one of like four games where there was
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  Speaker 1: the most Actually this game in that story on Action
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  Speaker 1: network dot com or in the app download it now
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  Speaker 1: free app, free app, free app um did I mention
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  Speaker 1: it's free app it's free. Uh. This game had the
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  Speaker 1: largest discrepancy between our rating and with the line that
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  Speaker 1: was posted. This is entirely because of Adam thieland fumbling
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  Speaker 1: the ball at the end of the first half. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's what people are seeing. The Vikings go into a
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  Speaker 1: skid after that, they get blown out. They potentially they
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  Speaker 1: likely win that game. They're up sixteen. It's a different
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  Speaker 1: ball game, whatever, whatever, whatever. I know you're giving me
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  Speaker 1: a look, you're ready to pounce, but I'm telling you, www,
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  Speaker 1: dot zip it. The point is, are we really doing
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  Speaker 1: dr evil references in? The point is the Vikings are
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  Speaker 1: the right side of this game, all right. We don't
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  Speaker 1: like this Dealers in the Ravens and I kind of
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  Speaker 1: like the Ravens in this game, but I don't. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not messing with the Ravens. Not messing with the Ravens.
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  Speaker 1: No Edgar Allen Poe fans here, huh No. Actually, Blackjack
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  Speaker 1: did watch a little bit of The Pit and the
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  Speaker 1: Pendulum last night. It was on television. Halloween. Happy Halloween. Everyone.
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  Speaker 1: That's fucking gold as his black Jack shirt and his
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  Speaker 1: picks in the NFL, which have been twelve two and
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  Speaker 1: one over the last two weeks, and the chain hanging
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  Speaker 1: all the way down, your very hairy chest, which is staring.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what a man looks like. All right,
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  Speaker 1: you have the body of a six year old girl,
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  Speaker 1: which makes me uncomfortable being in the same room as you.
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  Speaker 1: This is what a man's body looks like. I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm fit and I treat myself right. You're eating a
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  Speaker 1: kiche at nine am. It's eggs, which are healthy. I
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  Speaker 1: had an apple this morning. Next Kansas City at Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs by eight. Stay away, walk as fast as you can.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know this game Kansas City. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 1: everything in the world should tell you to take Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City here, but you finally get the stink of Hugh
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  Speaker 1: Jackson out of the building in Berea. Todd Haley is gone,
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  Speaker 1: who every quarterback he's ever had has hated his existence.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know. This could be a weird game where
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland plays closer than they should. You stay away from
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  Speaker 1: this game, run away. Isn't that weird anything? I'll say
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  Speaker 1: if this line somehow Sunday morning gets the ten, I
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  Speaker 1: take Cleveland at ten. Yeah, like I'm leaning towards Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: In this game, I actually feel like there's historically a
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  Speaker 1: bounce in the game after you fire a coach, Like
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  Speaker 1: there's oftentimes historically a bounce in the game after you
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  Speaker 1: change a quarterback. Kansas City, but the Chiefs are just
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  Speaker 1: too lit right now? Why did you just say too lit? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: How old are you old enough to know better? Like,
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  Speaker 1: so that's a new okay? Uh? Georgina, New York Jensen
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  Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins by three. Nope, Yeah, you don't know who's
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  Speaker 1: playing quarterback for Miami hard Week. Could be Tannehill, could
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  Speaker 1: be Oswiler. The Jets off a couple of stinkers here
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  Speaker 1: in a row. This game, this game stinks. As you
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  Speaker 1: like to say, this is the corner TV game. It
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  Speaker 1: is the corner TV game. Scooch and I both agreed
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  Speaker 1: on that in the Wednesday podcast. Um, listen, don't forget
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  Speaker 1: later on in the show, we have a very special guest,
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  Speaker 1: someone who's gonna win an oscar for the movie of
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  Speaker 1: Stars Born. Uh it was an awkward plug. Well that
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  Speaker 1: everything in my life is smooth. Next Chicago at Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: Bears by ten. So here's the thing. Nathan Peter Nathan Peterman.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, I have named Nathan Peterman Nathan pick six?
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  Speaker 1: Was that an original thought by you? No one else
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  Speaker 1: came up with that, no one else, no one else
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  Speaker 1: decided that's what they should name him. Okay, okay, all right,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah it is. So what are you saying. I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: even though the Bills are ten point dogs at home
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  Speaker 1: and like this should be an automatic take, I can't
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  Speaker 1: do because I kind of don't trust the the You
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  Speaker 1: can't bet the Bills. Also, though, the problem is the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know if Khalil Mack is playing. They said
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  Speaker 1: his status is essentially the same as last week, so
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  Speaker 1: I assume that means he's out. And Trobiski, you're a
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  Speaker 1: Bears fan, what's your read on Drobisky? I think, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think there have been times this season where the
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  Speaker 1: Bears have lost games because they didn't trust Mitchell Robinsky
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  Speaker 1: and that was a mistake because they've needed more yards
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  Speaker 1: at times when he was playing well, and because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't leave the ball in his hands, they lost. And
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  Speaker 1: that worries me that they're looking at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the game and thinking we just got to give it
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  Speaker 1: to Jordan Howard instead of letting Drabinsky throw the ball
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  Speaker 1: down the field one or two more times. That's number one.
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  Speaker 1: Number two. I worry a lot about his deep balls,
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  Speaker 1: like he is just wild ahead. He is just that's
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  Speaker 1: black Jack's juvenile. He's just wildly inaccurate on his deep balls.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's a problem because like this game today,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL today is about the back shoulder pass, and
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  Speaker 1: it's about the deep ball. So do you have a
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  Speaker 1: lean on this game? I'd probably lean the bills. I
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  Speaker 1: would leave the other way. Well, then we're going to pass. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can't. You can't bet Nathan Peterman. Well, that's why
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  Speaker 1: I'm That's why I'm not going to bet it. And
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  Speaker 1: his backup is Matt Barkley. I'm not going to bet
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  Speaker 1: this game. There's nothing about it that appeals to me.
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  Speaker 1: Although if we were like professionals, we wouldn't even be
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  Speaker 1: having the conversation. If we were professionals, we'd be on
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Done. We'd be on no no, no, no, no
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  Speaker 1: no no, you're not a professional. No no no no,
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  Speaker 1: no listening to you, okay, because last week black Jack
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  Speaker 1: had to sit here and listen to you say the
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  Speaker 1: same crap about the Patriots laying fourteen, and you sat
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  Speaker 1: here and said, oh, that's never what a professional would do.
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  Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. You you have to take fourteen points, not
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  Speaker 1: when the Buffalo Bills are in play. And that was
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  Speaker 1: with Derrick Anderson, who is better than Nathan Peterman. Jason
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  Speaker 1: Peterman is the worst quarterback on an NFL roster right now.
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  Speaker 1: He might be the worst quarterback in a college roster
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  Speaker 1: right now. He's awful. He might be the worst quarter
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  Speaker 1: So no, I don't want to hear that it's the
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  Speaker 1: sharp play to take the Bills because it's ten. Because
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  Speaker 1: that's not sharp. Okay, that's sticking to a rigid system
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  Speaker 1: with no flexibility. And that's not life, brother, Okay, that's
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  Speaker 1: not life. Life is fluid. Okay, ten points with the
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills is nothing. Move on Pampa Bay at Carolina
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  Speaker 1: Panthers by six. So black Jack, do you believe if
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  Speaker 1: it's magic? Really do black Jack? Really? Does? Let black
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  Speaker 1: Jack to you something? When Blackshack was watching that game
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  Speaker 1: last week against Chad's favorite son, Andy Dalton, and Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick comes in that game after Jamis Winston had just
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  Speaker 1: been god awful and he just takes him down the field.
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  Speaker 1: Score score score, and then the two point conversion. You
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  Speaker 1: want fitz magic there, it was there. It was a
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  Speaker 1: little jump shovel past to stay out of trouble and
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  Speaker 1: convert that play. Black Jack doesn't know how you don't
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  Speaker 1: believe in it at this point. Having said that, black
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  Speaker 1: Jack is also a fan of the Carolina Panthers, He's
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  Speaker 1: a believer at this point in them. Black Jack lean's
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  Speaker 1: Tampa in this at six Millman does not want to
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  Speaker 1: have any piece of this game. Fair enough, black Jack
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  Speaker 1: doesn't love it. Charges at atle Seahawks by two. This
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  Speaker 1: is a really hard game. This is a really really
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  Speaker 1: hard agree. Agreed. We talk about flexibility, right. I love
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: the Chargers in this game. Black do love them, and
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I can't figure out but I also love short home favorites.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? The thing is that this game is
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  Speaker 1: that Blackjack was not a huge believer in the Chargers
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  Speaker 1: when the season started because they tend to be frauds.
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  Speaker 1: You're in and you're out. Uh, black Jack doesn't think
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  Speaker 1: so could come. But um, if you look at the
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  Speaker 1: charges to losses, I mean they're the chiefs in the rams.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you're you're talking about arguably two of the
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  Speaker 1: top three or four teams in the NFL. The Charges
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  Speaker 1: have played really, really well. Now Seattle is a tough
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  Speaker 1: place to play, and I I get what you're uh,
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  Speaker 1: compatriot Bob Scucci is saying when he says that this
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: is a game that the Seahawks pull out, because it
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  Speaker 1: generally is. But there's just such a gap in talent
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  Speaker 1: between these two teams at this point that black Jack
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  Speaker 1: has a really hard time not taking the Chargers in
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  Speaker 1: this game. Chad does too, and I think we should
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  Speaker 1: do it. Philip Rivers is just having a great year. YEP.
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  Speaker 1: I do worry about off the buy. I worry about
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks defense, like they they have not missed a
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  Speaker 1: beat without Earl Thomas or Michael Kendricks, and I thought,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: you know, they were Um. They had a tough game
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: against the Rams, but everyone has a tough game against
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the Rams. First game after Earl Thomas, then they destroyed
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: the Raid. To me, this past weekend was the game
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: where I felt like the Chickens would come home to
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: roost because they were without Earl Thomas. Now sort of
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: after thereby UM against a good team and they played
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: great and their running game was great and their offensive
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: line played okay, But do we really know that Detroit's
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: a good team? Detroit? Black Jack at this point looks
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: at the Chargers off of a bye week, with Melvin
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Gordon now healthier than he's been since the beginning of
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the questionable this week. Yeah, but he's gonna play and
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: he should be fresher than he's been off of bye
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: You know, two points short spread? Black Jack says, l A,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Chad joined you are you saying uh yes to l
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: A just because you now want to move there and
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: and be Hollywood? Um? No, If if black Jack wanted
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: to move to l A, he already would have because
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: he is Hollywood personified. But he chooses to remain in
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the grit and the grind of New York City just
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: to be close to you. Let's be real, black Jack
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: can't get the funk off Long Island. Well, why would
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Blackjack get off Long Island just to move out to
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: l A. Well, black Jack's not living in New York City,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Let's just be clear about that. Neither is Chad. Chad's
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: living up on a high granted, Connecticut. In between Mike
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Greenberg and Vince McMahon Chad doesn't claim to live in
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: New York City. Neither does Blackjack. You just said you
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: prefer the grit and the grime of New York City.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: This is where Blackjack works, does Is he not in
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: your office more than you working? Is a loose term, Georgina,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: you would know about that. Houston at Denver, Denver by one.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I gotta take all right, let's have it. I love
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the Texans overall. I love the Texans overall. You know
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: that I have a Texans to win the super Bowl ticket,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: which I told you was idiotic. You know that I've
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: been loving seeing what they've been doing the last few weeks.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I like Denver in this game. That's also idiotic. They
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: traded away to Marius Thomas to the Houston Texans going
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: to play again, So they traded away a player who
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: was older and not producing. I wrote in my Millman's
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Red Zone Diaries that I you watched Family Life with Chad.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: You got a problem. Then a lot of people gamble
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and have families. Yeah, you and Mike Greenberg our guests.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Later today, you're gonna make fun of him too. He's
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: gonna have an Oscar on the shelf. You have an
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: ESPN the magazine cover with you and Greeny. Greeny is
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: not even on there. What's the deal with you and him?
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I don't even know him? What do you mean you
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: don't know him? You worked at the same company for
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: like a decade. There's seven thousand people. You're like the
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: idea to go person to him. You both have wives
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: named Stacy. Yeah, you know, I think his wife is
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: from my hometown. You both have wives that Wait, isn't
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: he from Chicago to No, he's from New York where
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: he went. Oh he went to Northwestern? Right, I forgot
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: better school? Um than what? Well? I mean everyone knows
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: that Indiana is Northwestern Safety School. That's true. So Greeny
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: did go to Northwestern got his start in the in
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the media business. In Chicago where you're from. You basically
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: are twins. You dress identical to one another, you have
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the same body type A thousand percent. Where where are
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: you not seeing the connection? Let's both live in Granted,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: if I were making six million year, you think I'd
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: be hoofing it with you drinking cheap bubbly and eating
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: cold kiche. Black Shack doesn't know. Maybe your report to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: decision maker. I mean, there's no way to figure it out.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Speaking of poor decisions, going with Houston in this case
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: would be a bad idea, Jeans, my friend, Why Houston
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: is so overrated in this game? Look at who they've beaten.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: They've beat in Miami. But look who Denver is losing too.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: More importantly, they're losing to the hardest, to the best
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: teams in the NFL right now, the Jets. The Jets
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: are the one bad game, the one they got killed.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: We're doing the Broncos. No, we're not. Well, come up
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: with something better until you come. We're not doing the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Broncos at best. It's a maybe. Well, we only got
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: a couple of games left. We're not doing it well.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Right now, it's in there. Black Jack's the one who
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: submits these picks. Black Jack doesn't Jacks telling you it's
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: not going in there. Black Jack is gonna have to
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: put it in there, because right now we don't have
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: anything else. How many do we have? Four? No, we
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: have three? Right? What do we have? We have the
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers plus two against the Seahawks. We have
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings minus four and a half against the Lions,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the Washington Redskins minus one and a half against the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. Tell me why you don't like Denver Houston.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Tell me why you tell me? Are you saying to
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: me right now you'd rather have Houston in this game
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: than Denver? Absolutely? I would. You would put put Houston
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: in as the pick instead of Houston is rolling right now.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: And as our Action Network colleague Chris Raybon has pointed
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: out time and time again, Chris Raybon is really good.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Vance Joseph might be the worst head coach in the NFL.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: The Broncos are simply overmatched. And the trade of Damarius Thomas,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: while maybe it's not a huge on the field impact
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: in terms of loss of his production, now you're asking
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: a rookie in Courtland Sutton to step up in the
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: very first week after this trade and take those are options. Also,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: it sends a signal to your team, does it not?
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Does it not send a signal to that team that
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: we are kind of waving the white flag here? Dude.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: They traded Demarrius Thomas. They didn't trade DeAndre Hopkins. He's
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: their number one. He's their number one. What does that
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: tell you? He's their number one? You're making Demarrius Thomas
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: out to be Terrell Prior. He's still a quality wide receiver.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: He's not the he is not a number one receiver anymore.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: In Houston. He's number two, maybe number three. No, he's
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: number two. We'll see who's number three. I don't know
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: who else. I don't know. Can you name me another
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: wine out on that rock? So I didn't think, So
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: let's move on. So Angelie's Rams at New Orleans Saints
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: by one and a half. Rams Saints says to the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: best team in the NFC, you're gonna win this game
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: out right, and everyone knows how big of a fan
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Blackjack is of the Saints. Black Jack has a super
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Bowl future on the Saints, which was a smart bet
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: by black Jacket one. Well, Chad has a super Bowl
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: future on the Saints. Chad's also got eight others. However,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: these teams offensively are very very close. Okay, I will
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: give the Saints that they are close to the Rams offensively.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I would still give a slight edge to Los Angeles
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: on offense, but on defense is where the difference is.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: The Rams are a markedly better defense. They are number
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: one in the league in pass rush rate. They have
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: added now Dante Fowler from the Jaguars to boost that
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: even further. The Saints defense simply is not on par
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: with the Rams defense, which means all the Rams have
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: to do is get a couple of stops during this game,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: because I think their offense goes up and down the field.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I'm taking the Rams in the point in half. What
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: does it say, you know, if everyone's getting so excited
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: about Dante Fowler, I'm not. It's an addition. But to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: help you, what does it say to you? He's the
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: third overall pick like three years ago and they're already
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: giving up on it. What it says to what it
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: says to black Jack is something very simple. The Jaguars
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: decided they weren't going to pay him long term, and
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of that has to do with off the
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: field issues, because Dante Fowler has had a lot of
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: off the field issues. But that's not what we're here
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: to debate. He's certainly an addition to that Rams defense.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: It makes them deeper, if nothing else. So we're gonna
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: be on the Saints that wouldn't have No, we're not well, brother,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: black Jack is gonna have to come to some kind
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: of consensus, and what we're gonna do because right now.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: We've got three games, we have one more left. Let's
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: have it. We have two more, two more, Let's do him.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Green Bay at New England Patriots by six. I've got
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: to take on this. Be shocked to hear what it is.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: M hmm. Blackjack likes the Packers here. You don't give
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers that many points, plain and simple. You just
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: don't do it. You You have to look at this
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: game through the lens of number one. The Packers are
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: desperate team right now with the loss to l A.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: The Packers need to get a win in the worst
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: way and outright win. This is only the second time
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: you've seen Rogers and Brady on the field together. You
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: would think that would add a little bit of fire
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: to Aaron Rodgers more than it would to Tom Brady.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: But even if you like the Patriots here, you're still
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: getting a six point cushion with the Packers. What are
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the odds that New England is going to go out
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: there and beat this team by a touchdown plus? With
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers on the other side, The Rams are, in
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Blackjack's estimation, the most complete team in the NFL, and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers went to hod to toe with them and
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: had a chance to win that game. Should have had
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: a chance to win that game if not for time
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Montgomery and may well have done it. Now you have
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: a Patriots team, which black Jack doesn't see how anyone
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: could argue is a notch down from the Rams, and
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: you're still going to give Aaron Rodgers six points. I'm
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: taking Rogers and six. Let's put a pin in that
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: for a second. Sure, I don't disagree with you, but
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I want to get to the next game and see
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: if that informs any of our decision making. For our
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: final pick. We have to make two picks, okay, but
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I'm fairly certain we're gonna agree on this pick. This
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: this next pick, Tennessee at Dallas Cowboys by six and
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: a half Titans. It's like a new brainer. And everyone
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: knows how black Jack feels about the Tennessee Titans. Hates
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: them with the fire of a thousand sons. Sons having
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: said that the Dallas Cowboys should not be six point favorites,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: black Jack is preaching the jais third. The Titans are
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: off of bye, they're af one point loss to this
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: to the charges, absolutely Tennis ridiculous. So Titans and Packers
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: were good. There's five hot it. Let's get to Bradley
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Cooper's interview. Patriots, Packers, Rams, Saints, Texans and Brankos. We
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: do not have the Rams and the Saints. It's not
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: going We're not going to agree on that. Listen. I
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: love the Saints. I love the Saints, but black Jack
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: can't give them to you. I think that's a massive mistake.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: This is it, my friend. This is homefield advantage throughout
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the FC playoffs. You think in the Superdome in New Orleans,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: you don't want to bet on Drew Brees to win
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the fucking game. Drew Brees, Drew Brees, who's gonna go
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: down as one of the four greatest quarterbacks? Who he's
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: making Blackjack's Tom Brady argument that he's made for the
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: last time. You're going to bet against Drew Brees, against
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: the defense that is getting better and better, against a
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: defense that completely shut down, an offense that is nearly
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: on par with the Rams, that went toe to toe
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: with the Rams. What are our choices? What are our choices?
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: For the fifth game? All right, let's say I take
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Denver and Houston out of it. It's the Saints. The
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Saints by one and a half to win the game,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: or the Patriots or the Packers plus six. You honestly
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: like the Saints laying a point in a half against
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the most complete team in the NFL better than Aaron
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Rodgers getting six points. That's what you're telling me. You
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: know what, black Jack is going to leave this up
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: to you. This is this is the black Jack is
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: going to leave this up to you, and he's going
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: to make the statement right here on these air waves
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: for the millions of listeners, that the right choice here
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: is the Packers. The Packers are the correct pick here.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers will cover this number. If even if you
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: like the Saints, you have to admit it's a fifty
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: fifty proposition here. Aaron Rodgers catching six points in a
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: big game against the Patriots is probably better than fifty.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to leave this up to you. You
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: make our fifth pick the Saints. Okay, there it is.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Here we go. We like the Washington Redskins minus one
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: and a half against the Atlanta Falcons. We like the
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings minus four and a half against the Detroit Lions.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: We like the Los Angeles Chargers plus two. We get
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: to Seattle Seahawks. We like the New Orleans Saints to
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: minus one and a half against the Los Angeles Rams,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: and we like the Tennessee Titans plus six and a
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: half against the Dallas Cowboys. Listen, you gotta stick around
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: because we have such a great guest who was freaking hilarious. Uh,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: and you're gonna love it. Plus, if you listen to
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: that part of it, you will of course get to
• 35:27
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• 35:30
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• 35:35
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• 35:40
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• 35:44
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• 35:48
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• 35:50
  Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. That's the only place it's gonna be playing.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: We're gonna be seeing a Stars Born. We're gonna check
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: how much we cry. We're gonna bring some prop sheets.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Our next guest is gonna win an oscar for the movie.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Stick around, all right, guys, are very first guest on
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the Favorite podcast, the very first guest we've ever had
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: as a call an interview. He may well, Blackjack, he
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: may well be nominated for an OSCAR this year. If
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: he's not, they should cancel the awards he will be nominated.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: He will likely be nominated for an OSCAR this year
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: for the work he did on the best movie I've
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Never seen, but one that Blackjack and I have been
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: talking about all during the podcast, the one we're making
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: props for and how often I'm gonna cry. We're gonna
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: go see it together. And by the way, we're gonna
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: open it up to one lucky podcast listener who's gonna
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: get to join us, and we're gonna tell you how
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: you can do that. One listener will join us. We're
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: not paying for anything, like you gotta be in New York.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll pay for the We'll pay for the popcorn
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: and then soda. Uh listen. We have been talking about
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: A Star is Born um for weeks, and we've talked
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: about the crying props and how often I will cry,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: how often Blackjack's gonna cry, Halfen will cry together, how
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: often Bradley Cooper cries, how often Lady Gaga cries. The
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: the level of tears could fill an ocean right so um.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: The other day, we get an email into our general
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: inbox from a guy named Will Fetters, and I want
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: to read with the subject line the subject lines the best. Uh,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: well you okay with me reading this? Will's on the phone.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give him the proper injection. But ladies
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, Will Fetters is the co writer of the
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: screenplay A Star is Born with Bradley Cooper. Will, how
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: are you? I'm doing very well. Uh, you're in l A.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: You're we're you're calling us. We're calling you very early
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: in the morning in l A. But you have three
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: very young kids, so it's not an inappropriate time. This
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: is the email, and it's to our regular Like, dude,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: you are a big time Hollywood screenwriter who's written a
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: bunch of movies, and like, this is the email. Hi,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I wrote A Star Was Born with Bradley Cooper. And
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: then the best part about it isn't like isn't like
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: how amazing you could be? Or like how awesome the
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: movie is? It is um I wanted to offer my
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Star was Born prop handicaps as I'm a loyal listener
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: to all three Favorites podcasts and a childhood dream of
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: mine was to one day do something worthy of being
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: gambled on you've succeeded. Well, that's it. You know, everybody
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: started about I just wanted to be handicapped. I don't
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: care if I actually get nominated. I just want I
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: want scoops to make a line. That's all I want
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: to say. Here's what's cool, is like at some point,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: you know, uh, one are the Oscars in February. Yes,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: sometime in February, black Jack is going to be attending
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: this year. Uh something really would be a crime if
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: black Jack didn't attend the Oscar. Well, I think I
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: think you actually have to forget your wife. If you're nominated,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: just bring black I'll make sure in her spot and
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: if I get to her, I get to her. Um listen,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: this is fantastic you to send these in. We think
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: it's awesome. I will tell you that. Um listen, this
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: is the air of cranks, the era of cranks and
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: fake news. So you sent this in and I immediately
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: thought this guys just sucking with us, That's what I thought.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: I just didn't believe, right, So I immediately went to
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: That's why I started from them of the website. There
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: have been a lot of work to do that I know, right,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: and so but I did. I did go to the website,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: which is amazing and people should go check it out. Um,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: say the name of your website out of here, because
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I can't look it up fast enough. I know it's
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: like unfettered something. It's unfetter. It's unfreed worldwide, which is
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: a Step Brothers reference. And if you didn't get that immediately,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: that nah. You know I did not get watching Step
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Brothers too many times? Did you get you didn't get
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: the reference to prestige worldwide. I didn't get it, of
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: course he did. The doesn't have to become about my
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't go see a stars more. Just
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: make Chad watch Step Brothers. Chad. Chad may not enjoy
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Step Brothers as much as he's going to enjoy a
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Star is born. I don't know if that kind of
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: humor is made for Chad. I'm very funny. Listen, this
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: is what I did. I went I'm very funny. Is
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: what you said to that? I went to I went
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: to unfedered world wild Worldwide, which is which is which
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: actually is very funny because you and your partner had
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: your mom's right your bios, which was great. But even then,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I also went to your IMDb page. UM, I thought
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite lines on Unfedered Worldwide or somewhere
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: else you had was that the posters for all the
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: movies you've written are just white couples, uh, touching each
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: other's faces. Yeah, it's amazing. I didn't see any stars
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Born uh poster until I don't even know when I
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: saw it, but I saw I I busted out, lam.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: It could have done anything. You know, There's so many
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: amazing images and is and that, So I'm glad they
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: kept consistent. So Will How did you get hooked up
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: with Bradley Cooper to write this movie? It's kind of
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: a surreal thing. I worked on the movie forever. I
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: first came on the writeing uh nine years ago and uh,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: I the event of development. Hell and I did a
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: draft and it was good, and we immediately went out
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: and the first director that was attached with Nick Cassinetti's
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: he was a great guy and super cool, and UM,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: I work with Nick a little bit and then we couldn't.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: They're trying to get you always were trying to find
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: the guy. Beyonce was usually attached for a while and
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: then uh, that kind of fell apart, and then Clint
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Eastwood came on. I was a big one, and Clint
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Wood came really close. Clint is a kind of known
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: out here where well, I mean he's kind of known everywhere,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: but out here with Clint is he if he comes
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: onto a movie like it's gonna get made. And that's
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: the game in this business, is that you're just trying
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: to get to the get to somebody to spend a
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: bunch of money and get on set and make something.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: And so Clint actually first brought it to Bradley and
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: then I remember this vividly. I was my my producer,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Bill Gerber, who is a good friend of mine. He's
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: the person who hired me on it and worked on
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: this forever. I mean, like I think it almost twenty years.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: He's been was involved with it um and he we
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: had Plint, and he's talking to Beyonced and I was
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: really rewrites for Plint, and we were getting there like
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: soft pre production they call it. They weren't spending money,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: but they were like flying to check out locations. And
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: then I think he read the script for Jersey Boys
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: or something. Is that that's something that's the apocryphal story,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: But in any event, I didn't hear from anybody for
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: like a month, and then all of a sudden, it
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: was like they can't make the dates work since going
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: to Jersey Boys, and kind of everything fall apart. But
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: that did lead to Bradley and Clint. I think that
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: was the pretext for him meeting to American Sniper. So
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: that worked out well, hurt up and then that karmically
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: came back after American Sniper, where Bradley had he always
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about it a bunch on the press day.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: He just always want to try to make a love
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: story and he loves music, and this property got in
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: front of him and he read my draft and then
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I remember getting a call like are you available tomorrow
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: to come out to Malibu? And I met him out
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: in Malibu to along his friend past and and we
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: just talked it through and hit it off. And within
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: two months I was in London because he was doing
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: The Elephant Man. We're starting to rewrite the script, so
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: and we've been working it for a couple of years.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: What did you cancel the day you were supposed to
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: go to Malibu? You're very busy. I imagine you have
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: something to do. I probably canceled sitting in a coffee
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: shop staring at my computer and uh and checking the
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: checking the gambling lines. For I guess it would have
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: been March April, so I would have been looking at
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: the NBA playoffs. That's that's what I can do, all right,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: So let's talk about that for a second. That's a
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: great story and we're super psyched for you, and um,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: black Jack, do you mind if I asked a question?
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Do you have a question you want to ask black Jack?
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Does black was that question? Yeah? Well, at what point
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: was it when you were writing this? Was it when
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Bradley Cooper came on? At what point did you sit
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: back and realize, like, I think we've got something really
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: special here. Well, I knew Bradley was really special. Um,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: that's kind of a it sounds a kind of a
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: pat answer, but I'll say that it was a couple
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: of phases, like when I first met that guy, Um,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: he was talking through scenes in such a vivid, specific way,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: and you were a very very talented, smart person. And
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: so I've been in the business long enough to kind
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: of like me a lot of people, and he is
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: one of those. He is one of those people that
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: has like the quality of he got everything. You know,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: it's karasmatic smart, but he really understands him and he
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: had to. He had really specific ideas and I remember
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: him acting at a couple of scenes he already had
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: in his head, and um, so I knew he was
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: gonna And also this isn't the wait. Literally I met
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: him a month after the The American Sniper oscars, Like,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: so knew that the height of that, and I knew
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: what he was capable of, and I knew he wasn't
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: going to come on and just like kind of it
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: has chanced to be special. Uh, And then we did
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: a screen test for God and I got to I
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: got to spend some time with her and met her
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: and she's just such an exceptional person. I mean, she's
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: really humble, she's it's just an unbelievably talented person, like
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: as talented as everybody is. Uh that her voice is something,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: it's like a special effect. I mean, it's really all
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: the Michael Bay you know, who's the best probably best
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: sessue writer in the world. You know, can't and you
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: can spend fifty million dollars in an actually sequence or
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: you can just put the camera on her face and
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: let her saying, I mean that's how how how exactly
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: she is so her being involved, and then you know,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: and then once you get into the production and stuff,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: it's funny. I did I know I was gonna talk
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: to you guys have thought about this, and I writing
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: a screenplay is actually similar to handicapping the game, and
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: and it is similar in this way, like you, we
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: work really really hard, and Bradley and I met over
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: and over again. I wrote, I rewrote, We wrote hundreds
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: of thousands of words, and we just kept writing, rewriting,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: changing themes because we're finding refining um. And then you
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: just kind of a certain point the director has to
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: go make the movie. You're you're writing a blueprint to
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: build house. So it wasn't until really I kind of
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: knew that the script was strong, but you know, I
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: didn't know, I know if all the performances are going
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: to come together, I know if it was all gonna work.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: And then I saw a cut at the test screening
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: and and uh it was the shallow scene where I
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, fuck, yeah, we're I have listened to
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: that song. I haven't seen the movie, as we know
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: you that I have listened to a Shallow literally like
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: probably seventy five times. I just listened to it on
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Spotify on repeat, and like on spot if I I
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: have some of the soundtracks, I'll play it in the
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: car and then sometimes I will switch over to Lady
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Gaga and the first song that plays is shallow and
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Will what you're describing the process you're describing of sort
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: of writing a movie like Stify so bad. Uh. It
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: reminds me a lot of the way black Jack and
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: I handicap. I feel like, you know, there's so much
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: tension and drama, and like we spend so much time
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: working on it to get it right. And oftentimes when
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: I look at Blackjack, I think it's like I'm staring
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: into the deep blue pools of Bradley Cooper. That's a fact,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: will more important question because Chad's just rambling at this point. Um,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: there was no question there. That was just by the way,
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: here's a bit of advice. Can I give you some
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: advice when Will is talking, just let him talk. Don't
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: be like you don't tell Also, don't even Lady Gaga, Okay,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: And you're like, yeah, of course, of course, of course
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: you're acting like you haven't even seen the movie Clown.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: I did see the Lady Gaga documentary, and I thought,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: more importantly is when Blackjack writes the next Great American film,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: can I bring it to you? Oh my god, do
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I now have Does Blackjack now have a connection in Hollywood? Yeah?
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: I mean like every you have, like every rapper, like
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: like Dr Jay gets Eminem and then retires and also
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: beaton and make some billion dollars and then name the
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: name get strict cent and I need kind of have
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: to work for like ten years exactly. That's the game
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: out here too. You I'd love for you to be
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: my Eminem and you know, you know what will When
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: you were describing Bradley Cooper, you were talking about someone
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: smart with creative vision. It felt like you were describing
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Blackjack in a way. So Blackjack thinks this could definitely
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: be a thing where we collaborate and right the next
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Great American film. Also, yeah, I do think. You know,
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Bradley did not refer to himself as Bradley and the
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: third person as often, but you know, but he did
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: do it. Icon that's true. Icons can't do it. Yeah, Chad,
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: nobody named Chad can refer to himself in the third person.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: Nobody Yad thinks Black Chack is a fraud and uh, well,
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: well then what does that say about Chad for hiring
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: if you met black Chack, I was hiring a clown.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: I needed a personality. That's it. It's like you're eating
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: a kish. I like you. I think that your acrimony
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: actually really helps you in the contest, because I do
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: the contest with a friend and this year we're doing well,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: we're doing We're like a check for six and two.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: We're hanging in, we're in the pack and uh and
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: but we haven't had trouble in the past because he's
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: we're friends, and so we tend we were coming to
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: a compromise every week. We're like the consensus and that's death.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: So like that Patriot game, absurd. But you were right.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: I mean the black Acts read was right, which is
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: a good certain point. Thank you know, if you don't
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: know what to do, like take a stand on Tom
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Brady and where it's like if it was me and
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: my friend the last couple of years, we would have
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: ended up, you know, settling on like you know, Kansas City.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: But that's just how that's how it would be. Bro.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: So I think you guy should keep up the actrimony.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: It's helping you. I will tell you that I think
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: you're both idiots because resulted our first guest ever on
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: this show. I call him like, I see nice, real nice.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: This is gonna be an Oscar Award winner, and you're
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: gonna call him an idiot. What's he doing for me?
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: He's You're gonna rid send a screening up of the
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: film for you. That's true. But here's the thing. Tom
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Brady didn't win that game the Bill. The Bills lost
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: that game. The Bills lost, As you would say, doesn't matter.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: The right side is the winning side. Well, how did
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: you get into gambling? You seem to be an officiate
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: at I'm not a fishing atto. I'm actually uh, I'm
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: you know, like every other hump out there. I just
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: just had about and in in high school a little bit.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: But then in college was probably when I really remember
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: starting to to consistently lose money. UM was like we
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: had a bookie an apartment complex that I lived in, UM,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: and I just started, you know, it's actually really funny.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: The first book he was like one of those one
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: of those years. For the first couple of weeks of
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: the NFL season, the favorites were coming in and it's
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: like a really nice kid. It was like kind of
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: smart and and you know understood how bookies why put
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: together two and two as to how like casinos a
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: gigantic and beautiful. And he was like, I'm gonna take
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: best from all these stupid college kids. And he got
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: wiped out. I mean he he lost like thousands of dollars.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: And then this like degenerate guy who literally looked like
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: a like like muscle came in and he became a
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: bookiepler and he made fortune and we were taking all
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: of our actions. And so I just kind of that,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: you know that NFL pretty consistently. And then why then
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: I have a couple of friends out here. They really
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: got got me kind of back into it. When I
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: left that I would dabble when I love football and
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: basketball and f L, n B a um. So now
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: it's like pretty consistently to I knew the contest the
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: last three years, and I'll do NBA playoffs. So I
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: consistently that NBA playoffs, which is always fun because I'll think, like,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: you know, Memphis plus hundred to beat you know, Golden
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: State two years ago and they're up to one and
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: then they just get annihilated. It really yeah, but for that,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: for those two days, you're on top of the world.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Days you just got the warriors. We do it every year.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: I talked myself into like, maybe this is see your
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: zach Ran Bolton, Marcus Sault and grind him down. Cut
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: to Clay Thompson hitting six threes and eight minutes. I
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: love talking sports of the Will he feels like one
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: of us. Yeah, it's because he is one of us.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: We're men of the people. That's what people don't understand.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: When we opened up this invitation for people tojoin us
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: at the film, we haven't done it yet. Well, I'm
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: going this is going to at the back end of
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: the episode, Chad have money. I'm going to wait for
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: somebody to give me the number that people can call
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: we will. I have the number. Um, we're men of
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: the people. Will. When we wanted to invite a stranger
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: to come and see A Star Is Born with us,
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: some in our office said we were insane. Um, black
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Jack thought the only insanity was that people would want
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: to come and watch A Star Is Born with me
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: and Chad Milman. But uh, if we're men of the people.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: So yeah, Will is one of us. It was it
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: was it was Chad Milman's idea to open it up
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: to the people. It was Chad Milman's idea. Well, before
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: we let you go, UM, let's talk about like a
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: couple of year props. Okay, because we're going to print
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: this out and we're gonna bring it with us. Uh.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: I want to know how you say some of these lines.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Total cries and cry shall be defined as tearing up,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: whether it's a full on ugly sob or just getting
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: a little reclemped. Tears of any kind equals a cry.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Millman two cries, the over minus one third, the under
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: plus one of five, Blackjack two and a half cries.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Your theory is that even though black Jack has seen it,
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: he's going to cry more. That's just that's not what
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: It's a straw poll of people around me. I do
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: think that there's a ton of little moments um that
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: you that you tend to feel more viscerally. Um. But
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: you know it's funny I have before to get into
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: house with the lines. I actually really he's missing like
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: a key piece of information. If we have an extra
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: two minutes, because I wanted to run through that. I
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: don't know if you guys are criers in movies. Jack,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: that's by the way, I had a feeling given that
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: you've seen The Stars Born, and I really liked it
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: and enthusiastic. We talked about it about well, let me
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: let me tell you. Let me tell you a funny
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: story about the night I saw A Star is Born.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: It was it was the night of the Yankees and
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: Red Sox. It was an elimination game in the first
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: round of the playoffs, and so Blackjack had really wanted
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: to see this movie, and so, uh he went to
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: see it that night, cried maybe twice during the movie,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: walked out of the movie, and immediately said, you have
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: to see that movie again, because once you know how
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: the story progresses, there's a lot of those, as you said,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: little moments early on that take on a lot more significance.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: And as I was pulling into my driveway, black Jack
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: gets a phone call from Paul Laduka. Now ten thirty
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: at night, getting a phone call from Paul Laduca. It
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: can be any number of things. It can be any
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: number of definite was not. Paul Laduca called me to
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: tell me that he had just seen A Star is
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Born as well. We went the same night during a
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: baseball playoff game elimination game to see A Star is Born.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: And he said to me, I went to see it
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: with my girlfriend and I'm sitting there sobbing like a
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: fucking baby. Yeah, and black Jack said to him, black
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: Jack cried two, Paul, I mean it was it was
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: just it's one of those movies that if you don't cry,
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: you just don't have a soul. So listen. I am
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: also a crier at movies. The last movie I cried
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: at was Crazy rich Asian's I did it twice. Well,
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: you know the pack, you know the pack of it's
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: a holicaupt Mavie be really good. There's a scene. There's
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: a scene where where like the mom goes to play
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: blacks gonna cry. Now, there's a couple of scenes in
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: there that will get you. I'm just saying, have you
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: seen it? No, black does not? When din't you just
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: start referring yourself as black, act like as if that's it.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Black Jack started it today. I want you to continue
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: this alright. So here we've seen I've seen Crazy rich Asians.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: I loved it, and I did cry twice. Wow, all right,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: I cry it. Here's the thing. I h There's nothing
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: in my life that I am sentimental about or makes
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  Speaker 1: me cry. You have two children, haven't cried, but I cry. Beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: you should have. You should have cried when that woman
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  Speaker 1: agreed to marry you. Nope, you should. But I cry
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  Speaker 1: at every movie. That's I think where my emotions come out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm locking them up until the movies. I wasn't going
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  Speaker 1: to move the line because you're post in the shallow
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  Speaker 1: a bunch, because I think the the impact of never
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  Speaker 1: having heard it is pretty unique. Once you've heard it,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's still because you don't have the context
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  Speaker 1: sports I was gonna say, I think. I think so
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  Speaker 1: the next one I want to talk about this is
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  Speaker 1: the last one to talk about. Well, shallow be sponsible
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  Speaker 1: for a Millman cry. Um. I will tell you I
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  Speaker 1: have heard the song a thousand times, and at two
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  Speaker 1: minutes and twenty eight seconds, Lady Gaga comes in like
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  Speaker 1: a rumbling thunder. That's not when you're gonna cry, and
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  Speaker 1: she just destroys that song. And I am thinking, when
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  Speaker 1: I have the context and it's on screen and I
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  Speaker 1: have the images, I am I am going to be
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  Speaker 1: a blubber and fool. You'll be one before that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking in that moment. Yes, his mind is
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  Speaker 1: two D that knows plus two fifty. I like that
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  Speaker 1: he wrote in parentheses Noman's Got Kids seems like a
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  Speaker 1: guy who fearlessly takes chances, pursues dreams, definitely still has
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  Speaker 1: the best friend. Totally. I'm all in on yes here.
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  Speaker 1: Will not only writes great movies, he writes great props
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  Speaker 1: and he understands like he's playing the bookmaker game here.
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  Speaker 1: He does take chances. He left a very lucrative career
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  Speaker 1: at ESPN to work with Blackjack. Also, although Blackjack is
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  Speaker 1: his new best friends, so it's true both of those.
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  Speaker 1: I'm crazy and love Will fetters your best friend. He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be hurt. You know what. He doesn't even listen
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  Speaker 1: to the podcast, so him his wife dies though. Actually
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  Speaker 1: know his wife texted me the other day and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know one of my friends who listened to your podcast.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you mentioned Matt the other day. Should I listen?
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  Speaker 1: I go, I don't know. I think I mentioned him
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  Speaker 1: and that was it. I don't know if you should
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  Speaker 1: be texting another man's wife one of my best friends.
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  Speaker 1: You know, listen, people come into my orbit and they
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  Speaker 1: all become frished redhead. Alright, she's safe. Will fetters Uh,
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  Speaker 1: co writer of a Star Wars Born, brought it through
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  Speaker 1: development with many many people, took it to the screen
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  Speaker 1: with Bradley Cooper. You're gonna get nominated for an Oscar
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  Speaker 1: and when you're up there, we are going to have
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  Speaker 1: a party, just celebrating you, whether you win or not.
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  Speaker 1: We're just going to do that. I appreciate that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: next time I'm in l A, can we get together
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  Speaker 1: and like, are you kidding me? Sure? Mean partying from
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: our three small kids. So there's not a lot. You
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  Speaker 1: need it, you need it, you needed black Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I would. I could. I could stay Apple
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  Speaker 1: about ten thirty and they're going to be up. That's
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  Speaker 1: no big deal. Brother. I started eight am. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: so freaking jealous of this conversation. I don't believe Paul
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  Speaker 1: went to That's really cool. We went to see the
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  Speaker 1: same night when there was an elimination playoff baseball game
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  Speaker 1: on and we had this conversation afterwards that we were
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  Speaker 1: both crying. We talked about it on the ESPN Plus
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  Speaker 1: show the next day. Listen, I hate to break up
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  Speaker 1: this love affair, but we actually hired. I know you
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  Speaker 1: got stuff to My kids are gonna wake up, so
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  Speaker 1: I really let will go. Father, you were being so
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  Speaker 1: rude to our guest. You're a terrible host. You listen.
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  Speaker 1: I looking forward to your your talk show together when
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  Speaker 1: that happens, when me actually network branches out. Well, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to, you know, listen, you got Hollywood connections
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  Speaker 1: and you want to produce that, you know, give us.
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  Speaker 1: It's not up to you, will, It's up to chat
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  Speaker 1: getting out of the mansion and grantage and actually working
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Oh my god, that see you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to be friends with black Jack. Well, thanks for
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: coming on the podcast. You're awesome, Awesome for doing this,
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  Speaker 1: Awesome for writing that movie that I can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: see so I can cry. Uh often. We will send you.
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  Speaker 1: We will send you the results of the of the contest.
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  Speaker 1: I will be listening. Take care, take care alright, black Jack,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to thank our first guest ever on
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  Speaker 1: the Favorites, Will Fetters, who co wrote the screenplay for
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  Speaker 1: the movie A Star Is Born and He's gonna win
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• 1:02:06
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