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Thursday Thunderdome w/Davis Mattek · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites from the Volume Podcast Network. I
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  Speaker 1: am not Chad Millman, and said, I am Matthew Freedman,
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  Speaker 1: Chad's least favorite employee at the Action Network. Chad is
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  Speaker 1: on vocation as opposed to all the other times he's
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  Speaker 1: relaxing on the job, so I'm filling him for him
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  Speaker 1: on this edition of the Thursday Thunderdome. On today's show,
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  Speaker 1: our special guests will compete alongside my co host, Professional
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  Speaker 1: Sports Better Simon Hunter, in an epic test of wagers
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  Speaker 1: and wits that will leave some contestants questioning their mental
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  Speaker 1: aptitude for years to come. Simon a k A replacement Scooch,
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  Speaker 1: you are a Professional Sports Better. Where would you set
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  Speaker 1: the odds on me being a filling host for Chad?
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  Speaker 1: Ever again, after the show, I mean, I love the
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  Speaker 1: opening that was spot on, spot on to I'm hoping
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  Speaker 1: right now I've yet to win because every time I
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  Speaker 1: have a lead, I just wager all my points. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a true game Blair, and I've I'm over five on
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  Speaker 1: these questions that Matt Mitchell put to the end. So
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  Speaker 1: I would say to our two guests, the odds are
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  Speaker 1: definitely in their favorite today Yeah, so the odds are
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  Speaker 1: in their favor. And by the way, I'm no Chad, alright,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna cheat on your behalf. Okay, So that
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  Speaker 1: that's one number two. Yeah, we'll see about the odds
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  Speaker 1: of my returning to be a replacement filling. I'm yet
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  Speaker 1: to be fired, which is amazing on its own. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's a stick, of course, but it's also real.
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  Speaker 1: I probably am Chad's least favorite employee at action. If
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  Speaker 1: he could come up with a good reason to fire me,
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  Speaker 1: he probably would, which just speaks to how good I
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  Speaker 1: am at my job and also how good I am
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  Speaker 1: at covering up my fireball offenses. Simon, today you will
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  Speaker 1: face two guest challengers. Our first guest is the host
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  Speaker 1: of the Take Cast, this Wool Cast, and a KG
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  Speaker 1: veteran at Sports Grid. We welcome Fantasy football group, Davis Maddick. Davis,
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  Speaker 1: you are looking spelt like a guy on a mission
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  Speaker 1: not to lose another weight loss prop. How's it going.
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  Speaker 1: It's going great. I'm in my intermittent fasting window right now,
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  Speaker 1: continuing continuing the problem that my senses are sharpened, I'm heightened.
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  Speaker 1: All I have going through me right now is nicotine
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  Speaker 1: and black coffee. You're right, I'm ready to go. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Our second guest here is an Action Network NBA and
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  Speaker 1: NFL handicapper, co host of the Action Network podcast NBA Show,
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  Speaker 1: and he appears on the very short list of people
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  Speaker 1: who are from Philadelphia and also nice Raheem Palmer is
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  Speaker 1: my pleasure, man. I'm just I'm happy to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Great to have you. Here. Is how the game is
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  Speaker 1: played today. You will answer two kinds of questions. First,
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  Speaker 1: traditional trivia questions about sports, sports betting, and the world
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  Speaker 1: at large. And second, completely subjective and totally asinine open
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  Speaker 1: ended questioned or prompts that I alone will judge to
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  Speaker 1: accumulate points. You must answer the trivia questions correctly, and
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  Speaker 1: also you must convince me that your responses to those
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  Speaker 1: open ended prompts are better than the responses from your opponents, because,
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  Speaker 1: just like sports betting, you can't get them. All right,
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's begin Part one, which I have dubbed
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  Speaker 1: the Relevance of irrelevance. Today we will be celebrating the
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  Speaker 1: upcoming NFL Draft. One of the many cultural phenomenon to
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  Speaker 1: come out of the draft is the advent of Mr Irrelevant,
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  Speaker 1: the Moniker bestowed upon the very last pick of the draft.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about some past Mrs Irrelevant, raheem, starting
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  Speaker 1: with you. Here. With the four hundred and eight seven
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  Speaker 1: and final pick of the nineteen seventy six draft, going
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  Speaker 1: way back, the Steelers selected Kelvin Kirk, who became the
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  Speaker 1: first player officially referred to as Mr. Irrelevant. Kirk was
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  Speaker 1: a product of this college known more today for basketball
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  Speaker 1: than football, nicknamed the Flyers. Raheem, what college am I
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  Speaker 1: talking about? I'm called Temple. I don't know, guys, I
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  Speaker 1: know nothing about basketball, especially college basketball. The answer was Dayton. Alright, Simon,
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  Speaker 1: coming over to you. In two thousand and nine, Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City selected this kicker as Mr Irrelevant after releasing him
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and fourteen. He finally got his hashtag
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  Speaker 1: revenge this February when he defeated Kansas City and the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Name this kicker. I don't believe in kickers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that answer. That is a correct answer philosophically,
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  Speaker 1: but in reality it is wrong. The correct answer is
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  Speaker 1: Ryan suck up. You knew that one. Let's see if
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  Speaker 1: you can get your question right. In two thousand and seven,
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  Speaker 1: Alabama's Ramsey Robinson became the newest Mr Irrelevant. His NFL
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  Speaker 1: career low light was committing an ill fated Week seventeen
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  Speaker 1: taunting penalty in a game his team lost to cap
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  Speaker 1: a historic oh in sixteen season named the team and
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  Speaker 1: the year the Detroit Lion and in two thousand and eleven,
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  Speaker 1: so close Detroit Lions two thousand and eight. Damn, And
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  Speaker 1: that should have that obvious because obviously Mr Relevant is
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  Speaker 1: not going to stay on the team for four years.
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  Speaker 1: Very tough, look there, All right, gentlemen, here's the prompt
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  Speaker 1: for part number one. The NFL drafts Mr Irrelevant as
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  Speaker 1: a player, so irrelevant he somehow remains relevant Using this definition,
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  Speaker 1: who were what would you choose as pop cultures current
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  Speaker 1: Mr Irrelevant? For example, Al Gore, Eric Mangini, Blockbuster Video,
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  Speaker 1: Glenn Beck, and Alfonso Ribiro are all good examples of
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  Speaker 1: a contemporary MR Irrelevant. In fact, we can open this
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit. I will accept answers in the
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  Speaker 1: miss irrelevant category and also the doctor irrelevant category. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to go that direction, simon, give me your
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  Speaker 1: pop culture MR Irrelevant. I end up going with Charlie
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  Speaker 1: Sheen because I just felt like Charlie was bigger than
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  Speaker 1: life for a while. I mean, he had to run
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  Speaker 1: with the sitcom show and then just the whole Tiger
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  Speaker 1: Blood thing. It was just like a storm. And I
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  Speaker 1: just feel like I haven't seen him until recently on
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  Speaker 1: some podcasts, like a couple of weeks ago, So it
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  Speaker 1: feels like Mr. Irrelevant. It's definitely to me, it's Charlie Sheen.
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  Speaker 1: I like that answer. That's a good answer, Davis. Give
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  Speaker 1: me your answer for Mr Irrelevant of pop culture. I
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  Speaker 1: definitely think it has to come from someone who was
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  Speaker 1: popular in the Internet era, but not the full on
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  Speaker 1: everyone is broken brain logged on twenty four hours a day.
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  Speaker 1: So my answer was Simon Cowell because everyone has faint
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  Speaker 1: memories of watching American Idol and it might even still
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  Speaker 1: be on, but no one knows. Like you can reference
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  Speaker 1: Simon Call to anyone and they know who it is,
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  Speaker 1: but they have no idea what he does now. If
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  Speaker 1: he's on TV, if he's off TV, everyone knows him,
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  Speaker 1: but he doesn't do anything relevant in our world today.
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  Speaker 1: Great answer, Love that one. Raheem, what do you got Mr?
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  Speaker 1: Elevant for pop culture? I'm gonna go with the entire
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  Speaker 1: sport of boxing, because I'm also a boxing handicapper. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the best fighters don't fight each other. We all want
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  Speaker 1: to see Terence Crawford versus Aero Spence, It's not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: We all wanted to see Deontay Wilder versus Anthony Joshua.
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  Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen. Who knows that Tyson Fury is
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  Speaker 1: gonna fight Anthony Joshua. We didn't see Manny Pakia and
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  Speaker 1: Floyd Maywear the fight until five years too late. It's
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  Speaker 1: the sport of boxing. It's the most irrelevant thing ever,
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  Speaker 1: and it breaks my heart. I think that's a great answer.
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  Speaker 1: Now I should say I think all of your answers
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  Speaker 1: were equally good, which means frame differently. I think they
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  Speaker 1: were all equally bad. I'm sorry. I would have taken
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  Speaker 1: two answers, either Chad Millman or Kim Kardashian. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Kim Kim Kardashian is not a good answer. She is
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  Speaker 1: relevant to so many people, is it's a It would
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  Speaker 1: be a bad answer. She literally had a picture taken
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  Speaker 1: down from Twitter last week, like she's news every single week. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm running the show here, right and I don't hand
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  Speaker 1: out points like candy just because you guys have some
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  Speaker 1: warped sense of what actually happens to be relevant. I
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  Speaker 1: run a tight operation here, unlike Chad Millman. All Right,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how to manage anybody. When I ask
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  Speaker 1: an open ended pop culture question, I expect you to
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  Speaker 1: answer with the answer that I would have given. All Right,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get zero points. Message sent okay, Part two of
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  Speaker 1: the podcast blue Chips. The phrase blue chips gets tossed
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  Speaker 1: around a lot before the NFL Draft, but top ranked
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  Speaker 1: amateur players is just one of the many meanings of
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  Speaker 1: the phrase. To celebrate all things blue chips, I will
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  Speaker 1: ask each of you two questions, one about blue chip
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  Speaker 1: football recruits and another about another kind of blue chips.
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  Speaker 1: For him. Question number one, the Tennessee State Tigers are
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  Speaker 1: expected to name this former blue chip recruit and Heisman
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  Speaker 1: Trophy winner as their next head coach. Who is it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Nick notes because you know, Blue
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  Speaker 1: Chips was one of my favorite movies. That's very prescient,
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  Speaker 1: very incorrect. The answer is Eddie George. However, the second
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  Speaker 1: question for you, the classic basketball film Blue Chips stars
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  Speaker 1: Nick Nolte, as a basketball coach known for great tirades
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  Speaker 1: like this one. This is by far the worst team
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  Speaker 1: that has ever sat in this lockable, lockable we should
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  Speaker 1: be playing without. There's not one of you, not one
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  Speaker 1: of you that's trying to horn to wear. But blue
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  Speaker 1: Chips also starred these two real life NBA teammates in
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  Speaker 1: mid nineties superstars for him. Who am I talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Hanny Hardaway and Shaquille O'Neill nailed it. Great movie, alright, Simon,
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  Speaker 1: coming over to you. Trevor Lawrence was the definition of
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  Speaker 1: a blue chip recruit when he signed with Clemson. He
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  Speaker 1: was also recruited by Alabama in an effort led by
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  Speaker 1: this current member of the Buffalo Bills coaching staff. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, obviously this question was concocted by Bill's fan
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  Speaker 1: and producer extraordinaire Matt Mitchell. Simon, So I'm gonna guess
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  Speaker 1: it's some type of old quarterback each to play for
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  Speaker 1: Obama of the past. I don't know, Brian Dable, all right,
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  Speaker 1: Simon your second question. Some of the best and safest
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  Speaker 1: investments in the world are referred to as blue chip stocks.
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  Speaker 1: Financial advice company the Motley Fool recently made a list
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  Speaker 1: of the top twenty five blue chip stocks. Three of
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  Speaker 1: the blue chip companies they listed are known for products
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  Speaker 1: that people eat or drink. Name two of them. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, give me two blue chip companies whose products
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  Speaker 1: have to do with food or beverages. I'll go with
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  Speaker 1: Coca Cola. Uh, I feel like that's a lay up
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  Speaker 1: for food. I'll go with oh Man wafer chips. Is
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  Speaker 1: that wafer chips? What I'm trying to I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: think of food? I'm like, what the hell are you
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  Speaker 1: to be traded on the I can't think of a food,
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  Speaker 1: but I can think it's Coca Cola. So I'll just
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  Speaker 1: got co cool on PEPSI. Yes, Coca Cola is one
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  Speaker 1: of them. McDonald's ever heard of it? Starbucks? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't think we're going like that that. You're going like
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  Speaker 1: individual like food brands. You got me there? Okay, horrible.
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  Speaker 1: We we need to find a replacement for the replacement Scooch. Whoa, whoa,
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  Speaker 1: whoa whoa easy? Stalin alright, easy, okay, Davis coming over
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  Speaker 1: to you. Former blue chip local recruit for l s
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  Speaker 1: u Jamaar Chase is a heavy favorite to be the
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  Speaker 1: top wide out taken in this year's draft. He is
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  Speaker 1: from Jefferson Parish, as Louisiana is the only state that
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  Speaker 1: uses parish instead of this word for its administrative divisions
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  Speaker 1: of the state county, county. Nailed it, Davis. Here's your
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  Speaker 1: second question about blue chips. Blue tortilla chips are made
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  Speaker 1: from blue corn, a frustrating crop known to topple over
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  Speaker 1: in the field. As a result, blue corn is difficult
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  Speaker 1: to harvest using this popular farm machine, which is also
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  Speaker 1: a common word in NFL draft circles. Davis, what is
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  Speaker 1: the name of this popular farm machine which is also
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  Speaker 1: a com combine? Yes, nailed it. I don't think I
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  Speaker 1: would have gotten that if I didn't know the answer
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  Speaker 1: a lot. It's gonna go thresher because that's what we
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  Speaker 1: use in Kansas for wheat, but combine is for corn.
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  Speaker 1: Growing up in in Uh, an agricultural state. Finally paid off,
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  Speaker 1: Davis Maddick. Finally, all right. The prompt for part two
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  Speaker 1: the NFL draft is all about managing your assets, kind
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  Speaker 1: of like a financial advisor. What current NFL coach or
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  Speaker 1: general manager would be the last person you would pick
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  Speaker 1: to manage your financial assets? Davis, who are you going
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  Speaker 1: with Cliff Kingsbury because he takes diamonds and turns them
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  Speaker 1: into copper. He doesn't, he doesn't quite turn them into coal.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't turn them into nothing. But he takes Kyler
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  Speaker 1: Murray and DeAndre Hopkins and Chase Edmonds and Andy Isabella
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  Speaker 1: and Christian Kirk and turns them into the most horizontal
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  Speaker 1: offense in the NFL. You don't want someone to turn
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  Speaker 1: your your Bitcoin and your Google into Coca Cola and
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  Speaker 1: GM stock. That's not what you want. Okay, good, good answer.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing Matt Mitchell the way that I do, I'm imagining
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  Speaker 1: that he already thinks you have won this portion of
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  Speaker 1: the podcast without a doubt. You got that right, Freedman.
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  Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury is a total fraud and charlatan. And this
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  Speaker 1: is one of the most correct answers we've ever received.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, Raheem Palmer, what current NFL coach or GM
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  Speaker 1: would be the last person and you pick to manage
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  Speaker 1: your financial assets? I love you, guys, but there's really
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  Speaker 1: only one answer, and the answer is less sneat. He's
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  Speaker 1: the GM of the Rams. I mean, let's be real.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams had had a first round pick since two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen, and they don't have their first round
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  Speaker 1: pick for the next three years, the last first round
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  Speaker 1: draft pick they had with Jared Golf. We're in an
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  Speaker 1: era now where if you got a first round pick
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  Speaker 1: on a rookie contract, you can fill your team out
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  Speaker 1: with other guys and pay them, you know, big money.
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  Speaker 1: This guy is trading his first round picks, his second
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  Speaker 1: round picks, and they're paying these guys big money. So
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't let him manage my my betting account, Like,
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  Speaker 1: how can you let this guy manage anything. They're paying Ramsey,
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  Speaker 1: they're paying Donald, They're paying all these guys big money,
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  Speaker 1: and if they don't hit on these mid round draft picks,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna steak. He's the answer, really interesting answer every him.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're absolutely right, Like less need I look
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  Speaker 1: at him. He's the dude who parlays all the big favorites.
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  Speaker 1: Every bet for him is a can't lose bet exactly
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  Speaker 1: all right, Simon, what current NFL coach or general manager
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  Speaker 1: would be the last person you picked to manage your
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  Speaker 1: financial assets? And I think that was the whole big
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  Speaker 1: part of the question, is the financial assets. So the
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  Speaker 1: only team I could think of that's paying a guy
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  Speaker 1: thirty five million to play for a different team that
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  Speaker 1: years how He Rose. So he's probably the last guy
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  Speaker 1: I would let run my finances right now because he
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  Speaker 1: has just mucked up The Eagles are paying all these
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  Speaker 1: old veterans big contracts. We have no money to go
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  Speaker 1: out and spend on anyone else, soh man from managing
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  Speaker 1: my financial last person I picked right now is how
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  Speaker 1: He Roseman. Okay, Simon, I like that you answered the
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  Speaker 1: question literally. However, you really did not answer it imaginatively,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I think only two people did that. That
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  Speaker 1: was Raheeman Davis, where I liked your answer, But I'm
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  Speaker 1: going with Davis. Anytime you have the chance to smash
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  Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury and also talk about bitcoin, I mean that
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  Speaker 1: that's a winning combination right there. So Davis, you are
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  Speaker 1: getting the points for the prompt. Let's go to part three,
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  Speaker 1: A salute to mediocrity. We hear it. The favorites recognize
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  Speaker 1: the proud men and women whose middling outcomes and so
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  Speaker 1: so work ethic inspire millions to reach their hands out
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  Speaker 1: but not too far and capture mediocrity. Every single day.
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  Speaker 1: There is no better example of these heroes than the
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  Speaker 1: dozens of mediocre NFL starting quarterbacks last season. Let us
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  Speaker 1: recognize their efforts. Simon with a career record a thirteen
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  Speaker 1: and this young quarterback will need to rise and grind
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  Speaker 1: just to elevate to mediocrity following his recent trade. Who
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  Speaker 1: am I talking about? Sam Donald? Yes? Congratulations Sam Donald?
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  Speaker 1: All right, Davis, This former Arkansas quarterback has played for
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  Speaker 1: four NFL team since two thousand and sixteen, including the Jaguars, Rams,
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  Speaker 1: and Broncos. When given the chance to start for a
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  Speaker 1: new team in Week seventeen last season, he posted a
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  Speaker 1: truly incredible passer rating of zero point zero and a
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  Speaker 1: blowout loss to Baltimore. Davis, who am I talking about?
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  Speaker 1: This is so miserable because I know, I know who
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  Speaker 1: this is, and it's just one of those things that
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  Speaker 1: has escaped me. And when you say it, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like, well, yeah, that's obviously who it is. My
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  Speaker 1: first guest was the first name that flashed me was
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Simeon, but he went to Northwestern. I'm gonna guess
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  Speaker 1: brock Oswilder, but that's not correct, Davis. I know who
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  Speaker 1: this is. Just say it as Brandon Allen. That's so
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  Speaker 1: obnoxious because I do know that answer. Yeah. I mean
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  Speaker 1: as as a DFS R and as someone who follows
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  Speaker 1: the college game. I mean, you knew that. I know
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  Speaker 1: you knew that. You just uh, you know, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get it in the clutch, all right, raheem. Few NFL
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  Speaker 1: quarter backs embody the spirit of mediocrity like this former
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  Speaker 1: Michigan product in recent Super Bowl champion who last season
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  Speaker 1: got his first start since two thousand and fourteen. Who
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  Speaker 1: am I talking about? Oh my god, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta tell me Chad Henny. No way, Michigan and
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion. Yeah, backup back. I mean there there's
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  Speaker 1: no one more mediocre in the NFL than a backup quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: and no backup quarterback more mediocre than Chad Henny. That guy.
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  Speaker 1: That guy takes the cake. Alright, the Super Bowl I
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  Speaker 1: forgot Alright, here's the prompt for part three. Who deserves
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  Speaker 1: recognition as the most mediocre quarterback in NFL history? Raheem,
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  Speaker 1: who do you got? I wanted to go with Teddy Bridgewater,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go with Alex Smith for no other
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  Speaker 1: reason than the fact that football house You've got some
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  Speaker 1: brilliant guys over there. They literally developed a metric called Alex. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: the metric describes if you're throwing passes that doesn't get
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  Speaker 1: you the amount of distance needed for a first stand,
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  Speaker 1: and the metric is called airless expected. So I'm going
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  Speaker 1: with Alex Smith. I mean, this guy's played on some
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  Speaker 1: of the most talented teams ever. He's played on the
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: forty Niners when they had all those draft picks, they
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: had that great defense. He's playing with the Chiefs and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: he's just a mediocre quarterback. He's not gonna do He's
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: not gonna, you know, win you those games. He can
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: manage the game, and I think when I think of
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: a mediocre quarterback, he's it. Anytime you have a metric
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: that measures mediocrity named after you, you have to be
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: pretty specially mediocre. So I think that's a really intriguing answer, Simon,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I'm kicking it to you. Who deserves recognition as the
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: most mediocre quarterback in NFL history. A lot of great
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: options here once again, but uh, I guess I'll just
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: go with him because you're still playing Andy Dalton. Uh.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Just wo'ses mediocrity A guy that will get you the playoffs.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: But you know that's right ends a guy that now
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: his way passes me. Arctony is just bad. So I'm
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: gonna go with Andy Dalton, all right, Andy Dalton from
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: my alma mater of TCU. Interesting choice. Davis Simon had
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the correct answer. It is it is Andy Dalton, because
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: mediocre also means that you can't be terrible, you cannot
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: be actually bad. All the time, Andy Dalton has had
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: just the definition of mediocrity. The Bengals were always in
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: that Saturday early game when when he was with the
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Bengals that you know, week week eight teen, I guess
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the playoffs and they always lost. They never won a
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: playoff game. Literally, the definition of mediocrity is ten and
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: six losing the first round of the playoffs. So I
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: don't care if I have to split the points. Uh.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Simon was correct. It's it's Andy Dalton, and Andy Dalton
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: will be used, by the way, fifteen years from now,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the Andy Dalton line will be something we used to
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: measure the difference between starting quarterback back up quarterback, good
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: quarterback bad quarterback. Andy Dalton is the line. Yeah, Andy
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Dalton is the line. He he is the line that
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: people have talked about on the Around the NFL podcast,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the Andy Dalton line. That's what they talk about as
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the you know, the prime meridian, dividing good quarterbacks from
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: bad quarterbacks. However, Davis, I think true mediocrity is deciding
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: not to pivot, not to come up with a different answer.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I should have audible. Yeah, yeah, you really should have audible.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to split the baby here. So uh,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: instead of awarding half the points to Davis and half
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the points to Simon, I am going with Raheem. And
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: by the way, I think Alex Smith is a perfectly
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: mediocre answer to who is the most mediocre quarterback ever?
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: So here I should have went with Ryan Fitzpatrick because right,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick can't even hold down a job that might have
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: even been better. Yeah, you know Born and Matthew Freeman.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Ran Fitzpatrick's a really good quarterbacks. I don't know about that. Hey,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: he's better than whatever else they had in Washington last year.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: That's that's all. Ryan Fitzpatrick. I went to pen and
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: he was there when he beat us for the IVY
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: League championship. He's the reason why my friends don't have
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: an IVY League rank. So I have some bitterness in
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: my heart towards him, so he's actually good to me,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: all right, So raheem want the prompt. There here are
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the current scores. Davis is ahead with three points. Raheem,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: you are in second place with two points, and Simon
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: you have one point. I gotta catch up right Part four,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the real m vps to cleanse the palette from all
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: this mediocrity talk. Let's talk m v P s Davis.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: In the NBA. Nicola Yokich of the Denver Nuggets is
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: now minus two hundred to win the m v P.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: But this former m v P, who entered the season
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: as the oldest starting player in the NBA, is currently
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: twenty to one. Who am I talking about? Currently twenty
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: to one and the oldest player? I mean, I assume
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: it's Lebron James, he is thirty six years old. He No,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: it's it's Chris Paul. It's Chris Paul. Oh, but Chris
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Paul is not a former m v P. So I don't.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I don't. This is uh? I mean, is Lebron older
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: than Chris? But I'm going Lebron. I'm going Lebron has
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: gotta be the answer. The answer is Lebron. That was great.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: You almost talked yourself into the wrong answer, and then
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: you talked yourself back into the right answer. Nicely done, Simon.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: In baseball, catcher Pudge Rodriguez one of my personal favorites,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: by the way, one a m v P. Since then,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: only two other catchers have been voted m v P.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Name one of them. Well, I'm this catcher probably in steroids.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I'm like your boy, pooch. I'm gonna go with oh Man,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Now I just lost because I made that horrible joke.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Damn it. Dude, he played for the Twins, not Brow
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: or what the hell is that dude's name. I could
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: sit here listening to this all day, keep going, I'm
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna get it. I know he's the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: catcher for the Twins. Man, I can't blue on blank
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: because I had him fantasy for a year, but I
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: don't remember. Well, this is sweet karma coming back at
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: you so quickly for your comment against Hall of Famer
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Pad Rodriguez. The answer you were looking for was Joe Mauer.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I also would have accepted Buster Posey. This guy just
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: a catcher, a catcher. This is a catcher doing this
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: a catcher catch. Just don't do this, alright, raheem. This
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: iconic nineties quarterback is the only NFL player to win
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: three consecutive m vps. And by the way, he also
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: had a killer cameo and there's something about Mary. Who
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: am I talking? Brett Farve nailed it all right, the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: prompt for part four. Many great men and women win
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: MVP awards, but sadly most do not name one living
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: American sports figure or otherwise you would like to bestow
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: an MVP award two and give me your reasoning why, raheem. Okay,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I know you said one, but I have to split it.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: We're gonna go co m v P s. You gotta
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: understand we're a gambling company. The Professional and Amateur Sports
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Protection Act of two being struck down that changed all
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: of our lives. So the co m v p s
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: are Governor Chris Christie and Phil Murphy. They were on
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the bill. They got this thing struck down for us.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: We don't have to meet some bookie in a random
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: parking lot at you know, twelve at night. We can
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: go into a casino. We can place our bet from
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: our phones. They helped get this thing struck down. So
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Chris Christie, Phil Murphy, you had the real m v P.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: All right, interesting, interesting choice. They're really going for the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: heart strings, right, I mean you're going for something that
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: you know is near and dear. So uh good strategy there, Davis.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I wanted to do someone literary. My o G answer
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: was going to be Jack Carrollac but he's dead. So
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: my answer is Don DeLillo, who has done more to
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: advance the books and the stuff that we like to
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: read right now. There's chances are if you have a
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: favorite author, they probably have read and more influenced by
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: White Noise and by by a lot of his other books.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: But most importantly, he was the first dude I ever
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: read to read about Internet broken brain syndrome. He was
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: like one of the first people who realized how being
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: so logged on watching so much TV and being so
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: distracted was going to have There's there's these unforeseen consequences
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: on the American consciousness. So Don DeLillo is my answer, Davis.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I give myself an MVP award for not listening to
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: what you said for the second half of that. That
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: was incredibly boring. God damn nerd Yeah, Simon, name one
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: living American sports figure or otherwise you'd like to be
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: so an MVP Award two a y. I'll give it
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: to you, Matthew, since you won't give me any points
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: because I kind of hate you, so hopefully this will
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: sweech you over and you'll give me some points. Final
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: giving it to me. It's real, original and honestly maybe
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the best answer that anyone gave because I am honestly
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: uh an m v P living American, Simon, I am
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: giving you the points for that. Clearly not a buff flattery.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Everyone take note, especially potential employers out there after Chad
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: comes back and fires me. Flattery will get you everywhere. Okay,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Part five the Grand finale. Here is the current score.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: We have Davis with four points, Raheem with three points,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Simon with two points. Now the topic for the grand
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: finale is the draft with no quarterbacks. Everyone, let me
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: know how many points you want to risk. Close your
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: eyes and hold up your fingers with your wager amount. Okay,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: here we go. The nineteen NFL draft is infamous for
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: its lack of quarterback talent. No quarterbacks in round one,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: no quarterbacks in round two. In the middle of Round three,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals took quarterback Tom Tupa and then converted him
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: to punter. It wasn't until pick seventy six that the
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: first legitimate quarterback was taken out of the University of Washington.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: He is now the only player not named Ryan Fitzpatrick
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: to start for eight different NFL teams before being replaced
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: by the likes of Jeff George, Steve McNair, and Michael Vick.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: His career highlight is losing Super Bowl thirty three with
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. Name this player the best quarterback of
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the nineteen draft, And while we wait, here's another clip
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: from the movie Blue Chips. Every time we get ready
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: to play, I just want to throw up and oppressed.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I don't even want to talk about it. I'm sick.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I'm watching you guys play. Just how bad can it get? Davis?
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Give me your answer? And also how much you wagered?
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I wagered too, And I feel very bad for my
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: competitors here because I actually know the answer to this question.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know why I know this, but I do.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: It's a fellow by the name of Chris Chandler, that
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: is correct. So, Davis, you had four points, you wagered two.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: You now have six. A commanding lead six points with
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the answer of Chris Chandler. All right, Raheem, entering the
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: grand finale, you had three points. Give me your answer
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and tell me how many points you wagered. My answer
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: was Chris Chandler, and I wagered two, so that means
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I lost my one. Oh, no risk it, No biscuit
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: should have gone all in, Simon, None of this really
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: even matters because there's no way you're winning. I'm really
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: just more interested to know if you're going to be
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the grand loser. Tell me how many points you wagered
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and your answer a traditional unlike any other that Matt
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Mitchell keeps putting these questions years before I was born.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: So I'm really enjoying the show my time on the show.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Of course, I didn't know the answer, so I wage
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: your two points. I once again finished the Thunderdome with
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: zero points. All right, So Davis Mannock is the big
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: winner with six points. We have Raheem coming in with
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: five points, and then Simon a distant third with zero points.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: If I could give you negative points, I would have
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: done it all right. Before we sign off, here is
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: a word from our Fearless Leader Action Network CEO Patrick
• 30:44
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• 30:47
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• 30:49
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• 30:54
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