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Thursday Thunderdome w/Morten Andersen · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: It's Thursday. That means it's time to enter the Thursday Thunderdome.
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  Speaker 1: On today's show, our special guests will compete alongside my
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  Speaker 1: co host, Professional Sports Better Simon Hunter, might be ff
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  Speaker 1: my compadre in an epic test of wagers and wits
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  Speaker 1: that's made this show the most celebrated sports betting trivia
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  Speaker 1: show in history and the marvel of the Western world. Simon,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with everything that Matt Mitchell, producer Extraordinary scripted
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  Speaker 1: for me to say there. I was away last week,
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  Speaker 1: and I do feel the world tilted a little bit
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  Speaker 1: off its access without us being able to do this together. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I definitely enjoy it. I'm not gonna lie chat. I
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  Speaker 1: felt like I was back to my old life before
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  Speaker 1: I had to work for you, and I was just
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  Speaker 1: some guy that I literally had an off season football
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  Speaker 1: end and I would just get to do nothing. And
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  Speaker 1: it was just as as much as I hate doing nothing,
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  Speaker 1: it's also a little stressful this job. I gotta actually
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  Speaker 1: show up somewhere on time and do stuff, where usually
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  Speaker 1: I just start drinking I wake up in the off season,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just start drinking, watch some soccer, maybe tennis, maybe
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  Speaker 1: a little baseball. Now I have to be sober, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: I feel bad last week. I mean on Tuesday, Chad,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't let you describe your holidday. I know how
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  Speaker 1: much Chad loves talking about himself. Chad, how is your
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  Speaker 1: trip to Cape Cod? Well, listen, let me tell you something,
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  Speaker 1: sim And I'm glad you asked. And I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to keep our guests waiting for too long because they
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  Speaker 1: have Hall of Fame credentials quite literally. But I will
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  Speaker 1: tell you mentioned in your off season, when you're not
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  Speaker 1: working on your vacation, whatever it is, you'll get up,
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  Speaker 1: You'll get drunk, you'll watch sports. I got up super early,
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  Speaker 1: was away with my wife, our kids, my sister, her husband,
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  Speaker 1: their kids, rented a big house in Cape Cod because
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm super rich now. And when we would
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  Speaker 1: get up in the morning, I would make a Macha ti.
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  Speaker 1: I brought the match of powder with me. I brought
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  Speaker 1: the Japanese whisk, I whisked it up, I poured it
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  Speaker 1: into my green tea. Then my sister and I would
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  Speaker 1: take a walk into town. We'd have an espresso. We
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  Speaker 1: take a walk back. A couple of mornings, we took
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  Speaker 1: long runs. A couple of mornings, we did like really
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  Speaker 1: extra credit hardcore runs where we're sprinting. I felt like
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  Speaker 1: I was living my best self on vacation. You're doing this.
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  Speaker 1: You don't just do this at home? No, I did
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  Speaker 1: it on vacation. I felt fantastic. What do you do
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  Speaker 1: at home? You just lay around and watching Netflix? No,
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  Speaker 1: I do the same thing, only then I go to work.
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  Speaker 1: Here about eight thirty, I was done with everything. You
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  Speaker 1: truly are a man that cannot take a day off
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  Speaker 1: ever stopped grinding. Simon, speaking of which, talk about grinding.
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  Speaker 1: Your first challenger is the most decorated specialist in NFL history.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of just two kickers in the Pro Football
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, and he connected over one hundred game
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  Speaker 1: winning field goals in a career that spanned a full
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  Speaker 1: twenty five years. A man known affectionately as the Great
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  Speaker 1: Dane and the co host of the Great Dane Nation podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Our very first Hall of Fame contestant, Morten Anderson, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for having me, guys. I was hanging on every
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  Speaker 1: word about that Cape cot good. Can you just email
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  Speaker 1: me the rest on that that would be great. It's
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  Speaker 1: like you and Simon planned it. You came in hot,
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  Speaker 1: ready to take you down. I will say this in
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  Speaker 1: all seriousness. I've listened to the Great Dane Nation podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoy it, and you went when you have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of high profile guests on there, and a couple
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  Speaker 1: of times I've listened to you say this to Bill Murray.
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  Speaker 1: I've listened to you say this to Sean Payton. The
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  Speaker 1: way you talk about feeling pressure to me is fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: And before we get to our next guest, uh, can
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  Speaker 1: you just explain a little bit, describe a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about how you define pressure. Yes, so I don't particularly
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  Speaker 1: use the word pressure. I think it's a has a
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  Speaker 1: negative connotation. So I prefer to flip the script on
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  Speaker 1: on the word and and think more proactively about it.
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  Speaker 1: We all deal with perceived this tasteful situations differently. The
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  Speaker 1: way I like to look at it and the way
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  Speaker 1: I like can teach it and communicate it is simply
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  Speaker 1: that perceived pressure only happens when your skill set to
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  Speaker 1: complete the task doesn't match the task. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: this is not in my wheelhouse. Man, I can't do this.
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  Speaker 1: I've never done this. I haven't trained to do this,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't earned the right to do this. And that's
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  Speaker 1: when you you're going to feel some discomfort. My whole
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  Speaker 1: notion about these situations that define us, these big moments
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  Speaker 1: in big games, which I certainly had my share, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, watching the Euro right now, watching penalty kicks
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  Speaker 1: after extended time. I mean, you talk about somebody who
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  Speaker 1: has to step up to that spot and deliver a
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  Speaker 1: penalty kick. How are those guys being taught? What are
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  Speaker 1: they thinking? Are they letting the game come to them?
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  Speaker 1: Are they trying to force themselves on the game and
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  Speaker 1: feeling all this heat on them? Clearly you can see
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  Speaker 1: right away in their eyes who is not up for it,
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  Speaker 1: who's not up to the task, and who actually rests
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  Speaker 1: in themselves, who allow the situation to come in and
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  Speaker 1: then let the preparation take over. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: my whole point with with the notion of this perceived pressure,
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  Speaker 1: if that's kind of what I'm at with it. I
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  Speaker 1: love the positivity, I love the framing. I love the
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  Speaker 1: way you say it. You've exhibited it, you did exhibit
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  Speaker 1: it in twenty five years of winning in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: and a Hall of Fame career, Simon, this is how
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  Speaker 1: we should be approaching betting during the NFL season. We're ready.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had half of his confidence because everything
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  Speaker 1: you said, I was like, I'm that guy, Like even
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  Speaker 1: when I win ten bets in a row, I'm just like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now I'm gonna go oh in ten the next time.
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  Speaker 1: It's just always right around the corner, Simon. But Simon,
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  Speaker 1: the difference between standing in front of a situation where
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna win a game with a field goal and
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  Speaker 1: betting is that you're not driving the car. I'm driving
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  Speaker 1: the car. You're not driving the car. You're depending on
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  Speaker 1: outside forces, i e. Two teams to play the game,
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  Speaker 1: and then you take a side, and then you wait
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  Speaker 1: and hope. That's why we when we bet and wager,
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  Speaker 1: we we are on pins and needles because we're not
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  Speaker 1: driving the car. More and you have so much to learn,
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  Speaker 1: my young Paddowan, to learn to say. I like Morton's
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  Speaker 1: first answer better because then it uh forced Simon to think,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, I have to be winning because I've
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  Speaker 1: done this so often. The second answer kind of let
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  Speaker 1: him off the huk. Yeah I did. I did, But
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. Let's see. Let's see if Morton can redeve
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  Speaker 1: himself throughout the game. Simon, your second challenger, is the
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  Speaker 1: producer half of the Great Day Nation podcast on Vegas Insider,
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  Speaker 1: a veteran of ESPN Radio, Fox Sports Radio, the Sports
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  Speaker 1: Hub in Boston. Also a Draft Kings contributor, and one
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  Speaker 1: of the hardest working men in the audio game. Tom
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  Speaker 1: Carol a k a. Tommy Freeze Pops, what's going on everybody? Hey, Morton,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for all of that wisdom at the top
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  Speaker 1: of this podcast. Here, I've heard you heard that story
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  Speaker 1: approximately forty three times now, so good to go here.
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  Speaker 1: The way, you know what, if I listen to that
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  Speaker 1: story every day and I put that up on my wall,
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  Speaker 1: it still wouldn't be enough, because that is the way
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  Speaker 1: to live. That is about living with positivity and optimism.
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  Speaker 1: It's my credo at this point. You know, play like
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  Speaker 1: a champion today. Instead of hitting that sign when I
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  Speaker 1: get out of bed, I hit that entire story about pressure.
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  Speaker 1: It's just true. Anybody who has done something often enough
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  Speaker 1: and had to perform that task in a situation on
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  Speaker 1: a daily basis, if they're doing it when there is
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  Speaker 1: perceived opportunity that is greater than what they're normally is.
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  Speaker 1: They should still be confident enough to do it. That's
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  Speaker 1: just that's the way. Yeah, to take it one step further,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's behavior that becomes discipline, that creates a
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  Speaker 1: behavior with a decided result that you train so much
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  Speaker 1: it becomes unconscious competence, It becomes dominant, so it kills
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  Speaker 1: everything else. It kills all the negativity. He has a
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame bust behind him, and I have a refrigerator. Well, listen,
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  Speaker 1: in this game, Simon Hunter has exhibited unconscious dominance the
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  Speaker 1: past couple of weeks, So let's see if you two
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  Speaker 1: can knock him off. Here's how the game is played.
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  Speaker 1: You'll answer two kinds of questions. First, traditional trivia questions
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  Speaker 1: about sports, sports, betting, and the world at large. Second,
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  Speaker 1: completely subjective, totally ass and I and open ended questions
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  Speaker 1: your prompts that I alone will judge. To accumulate points,
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  Speaker 1: you must answer the trivia questions correctly and also convince
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  Speaker 1: me that your responses to those open ended prompts are
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  Speaker 1: better than the responses from your opponents. Let's begin Part
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  Speaker 1: one den marks the spot. Let's see if we can
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  Speaker 1: get all the puns we can. Our special guest, Morton Anderson,
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  Speaker 1: is known as the Great Dane because he hails from
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  Speaker 1: Copenhagen and a long successful NFL career has made him
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  Speaker 1: the most beloved Danish athlete in America. In honor of
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  Speaker 1: Morton and the Action Networks new Danish ownership at Better Collective,
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  Speaker 1: I'll ask each of you to Denmark related questions Morton, Morton.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, Denmark is the ancestral homeland of team handball.
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  Speaker 1: The Danes have won the last two handball world titles
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  Speaker 1: and other reigning Olympic champions. Many consider the Olympics to
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  Speaker 1: be the site of the greatest upset in handball history.
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  Speaker 1: That's summer, the Croatian Olympic team shocked the world by
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  Speaker 1: capturing the gold medal over this nation known to many
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  Speaker 1: Americans as the home of Vovo. Okay, what is Sweden?
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  Speaker 1: Very good? Very good? Morton. Also, you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: put it in the in the form of the last
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  Speaker 1: thing I can do is be ready to replace Alex Trebeck.
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  Speaker 1: I am just not confident in Rogers. You know you
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  Speaker 1: might see Aaron. That's right, Morton. When learning the Danish language,
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  Speaker 1: many English speakers struggle with the fact that Danish contains
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  Speaker 1: no word for this the most common English word when
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  Speaker 1: asking for something politely. What is that word? Please? Very good?
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  Speaker 1: So what do you if you want to? If you
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  Speaker 1: say via Venley at even my in cafue, can I
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  Speaker 1: have a coffee Veinley, then least with pleasure? With yeah,
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  Speaker 1: But you're right, it's not in the Danish vernacular. It's
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  Speaker 1: not common. But they are very polite people. They have
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  Speaker 1: their moments. Yeah, they picked their spots. I think, all right, Tony.
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  Speaker 1: Most metal heads know that Lars are At the drummer
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  Speaker 1: and co founder of this world famous heavy metal band.
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  Speaker 1: I was born in Denmark in nineteen sixty three. What
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  Speaker 1: is the band? I might get some crap for not
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  Speaker 1: knowing this, but I'm gonna guess Volby. Dude, Look that's
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  Speaker 1: Morten's favorite band. I know they're Danish. That was my guess.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I gotta take a laugh. It's fucking Metallica. What
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  Speaker 1: is the matter? That was my next as like, come on, man,
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  Speaker 1: that's coming out HoTT. You didn't think of it at all.
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  Speaker 1: It's trivial pursuit. Your first answer is the right answer.
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Denmark has the oldest recognized national flag. The current
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  Speaker 1: design has been used for over eight hundred years. However,
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  Speaker 1: some scholars have called this into question and believe the
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  Speaker 1: oldest flag distinction may belong to this nation, the northern
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  Speaker 1: most country on the island of Great Britain, the northernmost country.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna guess Scotland. You gotta right, Tommy, you
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  Speaker 1: nailed it. Yes, thank God for Google Earth. Un Denmark's
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  Speaker 1: greatest cultural contribution. Maybe these tiny, colorful, interlocking plastic bricks legs.
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  Speaker 1: I know the Danes could claim legos. That's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: You've never told me that more and I feel it's
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  Speaker 1: kid Christiansen family from Belon. Lego Land is Belon Denmark.
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  Speaker 1: If you ever visit, you have to go to Lego
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  Speaker 1: Land as a kid. I went there. It is It's
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  Speaker 1: only getting better, dude. They keep improving it now. They
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  Speaker 1: have the rights to Harry Potter's the airport too, So
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  Speaker 1: if you you have kids and you go to Europe,
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  Speaker 1: you have to check it out. That's awesome. Simon, you've
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  Speaker 1: been to Lego Land. Yeah, I don't want to go
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  Speaker 1: into Lego because I have a problem, but like I
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  Speaker 1: have Legos behind me up here. I used to be
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  Speaker 1: really into legos as a kid. Cool. Well, this is fascinating. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: email me the arrest Simon, exactly, Simon. When we're done,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk more about my trip to kip Cat Simon.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good thing in America. If a person remains
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  Speaker 1: unmarried on their twenty five birthday, one of Denmark's most
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  Speaker 1: unique traditions is to publicly cover them in this spice,
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  Speaker 1: most commonly seen in oatmeal or apple pie cinnamon. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and by the way, what the fuck? Yeah? Why did
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  Speaker 1: they do that? You know, when you get married. They
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  Speaker 1: caught the toes soft the man's socks because so you
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  Speaker 1: won't sleep in another woman's bed. That's symbolic. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell. What does that have to do with
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  Speaker 1: cinnamon Mortan, Well, it's just another tradition that's weird. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know it has to do with Danish traditions. Well, listen,
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  Speaker 1: the Danes are lovely people and they have lovely traditions.
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  Speaker 1: And is a huge fan of cinnamon, and as a
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  Speaker 1: health pot I tend to put cinnamon on my food
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  Speaker 1: instead of salt because it gives it a little more
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  Speaker 1: flavor and salt isn't always great for you, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: all for these good health benefits too. Here's the prompt, fellows,
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  Speaker 1: here's the prompt. We can all get behind the Danish
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  Speaker 1: tradition of throwing cinnamon at twentysomething singles, but what about
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  Speaker 1: a new tradition for gamblers. Whether we're talking about the Olympics,
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup, or any other international competition, gamblers must
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  Speaker 1: often choose is between patriotism and pragmatism. Do you bet
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  Speaker 1: with your heart or your head? Your task is to
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  Speaker 1: create a new tradition, a new public shaming spectacle for
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  Speaker 1: your fellow country man caught placing a bet against your
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  Speaker 1: home country and losing. Simon born in England, huge English
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  Speaker 1: football fan, went bizonkers on the podcast on Tuesday when
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  Speaker 1: England beat Germany with two goals while the podcast was
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  Speaker 1: being recorded, Please respond, this is tough. I bet against
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles constantly. It's my job to not be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: skewed one way or another. Like I try not to
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  Speaker 1: be biased in my job, but when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: your country, you must always be biased. I've never bet
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  Speaker 1: against England in my whole life, even though they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: lose to Ukraine. As an England fan, this is when
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  Speaker 1: they lose. They beat Germany and then they're gonna lose
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  Speaker 1: to Ukraine. That's just what England does. So I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna bet against them, but it's a smart bet to
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  Speaker 1: you bet against them. I feel like in England though,
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  Speaker 1: if you get caught betting against your home country, man,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the worst punishment would be a year
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  Speaker 1: ban from the pub. If you couldn't go to the
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  Speaker 1: pub for a year, I think that would really really,
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  Speaker 1: I think there is not much what worst punishment you
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  Speaker 1: could do to someone in England, and that you're a
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  Speaker 1: accurate as someone who lived in London for six months
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  Speaker 1: every day midday was spent in the pub. They just
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was the most wonderful thing. It's shut down.
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  Speaker 1: People took a nice, relaxing long publish lunch. This would
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  Speaker 1: be tough. This would be tough, Tommy your next. So
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  Speaker 1: I would go with my betting friends, the guys that
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  Speaker 1: tell me the right things to do in the way
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  Speaker 1: of wagering when betting on international competition, because I gotta
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  Speaker 1: be honest when it comes to these international sports like
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  Speaker 1: Olympic sports or even soccer. I'm not a huge soccer guy,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't know a whole lot. And when I'm betting,
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  Speaker 1: I want to win, So I gotta go with the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go with the smart dudes that know more
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  Speaker 1: than me about gambling. If someone's telling me, hey, you
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  Speaker 1: know you gotta wager on Jamaica in this bob sledding
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  Speaker 1: competition over the US, I'm gonna do it. Tommy. Let
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  Speaker 1: me stop you right there. Okay, you're not answering the question.
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  Speaker 1: The question is question is skating around dude, Tommy. It's
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  Speaker 1: like his head is swimming in cinnamon right now. The
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  Speaker 1: question was if someone caught you placing a bet against
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  Speaker 1: the United States and you lose, what should the public
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  Speaker 1: shaming spectacle be Benedictdonald put on stage in that person's hometown.
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  Speaker 1: For me, it would be the Dunkin Donut Center in Providence,
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  Speaker 1: Rhode Island. That person would have to take a citizenship
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  Speaker 1: test on stage in front of a loud, angry arena.
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  Speaker 1: The test would be administered by that person's high school
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  Speaker 1: Civics teacher, one question at a time, one minute to answer.
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  Speaker 1: Question does not be repeated. You either get it or
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  Speaker 1: you don't. And if you don't get a ninety on
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  Speaker 1: the test with this loud crowd yelling at you, you're
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  Speaker 1: deported for one year. That is called the fucking rally
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  Speaker 1: because after the first one I was ready to kick
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  Speaker 1: your off the podcast, but you came on strong that
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  Speaker 1: that was the definition of skill set meeting moment, and
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  Speaker 1: you living up to the opportunity. Let's see if Martin
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  Speaker 1: can beat you. Because I'm not a fan of soccer.
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  Speaker 1: I liked cinnamon, so let's color the cinnamon red. Throw
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  Speaker 1: people in the canal right in New Haven, which is
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  Speaker 1: Newhound in Copenhagen. So as the private so wet, etcetera.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's apply some electro whatever you call those connectors
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  Speaker 1: to to each uh, each vegetable, and then let's uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he has to kind of wear that for
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours. If subject matter ever ever goes goes
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  Speaker 1: there again, you know, I'll be sitting at a pup
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  Speaker 1: and I'll administer the battery operated shocked to to the
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  Speaker 1: privates of subject matter that screwed up and went against
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  Speaker 1: the country of his birth. For God's sake, It's unfathomable.
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  Speaker 1: It cannot happen. I don't know's I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: to say here. That is some six ship, angry, deep
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  Speaker 1: seated bad ship. But I'll tell you what. You can't
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  Speaker 1: go against the country. I do like it. Here's here's
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the thing. So they've been publicly shamed, They've they've been
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: thrown into the canal. They're coming out there dawst in cinnamon. Yeah,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: like a big Danish flag. That, by the way, that
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: kind of would have been enough for the answer, But
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: then you took it next level and like the next
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: part isn't even public shaming. That's just sort of pure
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: evil intent to inflict pain and distress, the addedly air
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: of emotional and physical distress. I'm giving you the point.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: You came on strong, you kicked the game winning field
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: goal at just the right time. Here we go. Part
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: of the pulps are closed. I can't believe it. S
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Part two two to two thousand seven. In our continued
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: journey of pandering to our guest Morten Anderson, we now
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: highlight his almost inconceivable athletic accomplishment of playing NFL football,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: starting after the nine eight two draft and ending after
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the two thousand seven season, and incredible twenty five years later,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: but twenty five is just a number. Let's dive into
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: just how much changed between nineteen eighty two and two
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: thousand seven. Simon Europe. First heading into Morton's rookie season
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: in nine eight two, this a f C team moved
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: to another city within the same state, but by the
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: time he retired in two thousand seven, they returned to
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: their original home. Today they play in a new city
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: in a bordering state. Oh my god, there's just way
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: too my twist and turns, that's so easy. The Tennessee Titans.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: It's the Raiders, ah A Raiders, Oakland Raiders, Vegas Raiders.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Let's go Simon. You can't be an expert on a pod, dude.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: If you don't know that before you listen, don't get
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: too big for your bridges. You're up next, alright. Shortly
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: after you were drafted by the Saints, the team traded
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: their beloved quarterback Archie Manning. Five years later, shortly after
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: you made your last field goal for the Atlanta Falcons,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: this quarterback would win his first of two Super Bowl
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: m v ps uh Peyton Many Eli Manning, Dude, I
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: got crossed. Yikes, okay, don't I'm not worthy of g
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: d N man find a new host. Oh wow, Tommy,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: workers broke ground on the construction of a stadium eventually
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: named the r C A Dome. It was built in
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the hopes of landing and an NFL franchise for the city,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: and it worked. A team relocated there before construction was
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: even completed. They'd win just one Super Bowl for the city,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and two years later, shortly after Morten Anderson's final game,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the r C A Dome was demolished. Where was the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: r c Adom? What's city? Indianapolis, Indiana? Morton Anderson's first
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: home in North America and David's high school baby. That
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: would have been a nice tid bit to throw in
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: there by the way. See, that's that's the producing research.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: That's that research. But we're all different. As an im
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I know exactly where that is India got Part two.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Here's the prompt. Morton Anderson's career span twenty five years
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: and a lot changed from his rookie year to his
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: retirement today. I want you to look ahead to the
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: two thousand NFL season. Your job is to paint a
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: picture of what you believe the NFL will become. Then
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: sell me on the league's single most surprising change. Okay,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: so I think the league a couple of things you're
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: gonna see here. We're gonna be about a decade into
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: two international expansion teams. We'll see a team in London.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: We'll see a team in Mexico City. Arch Manning is
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: going to be on year twenty of his future Hall
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: of Fame career, and a sixty eight year old Tom
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Brady will be defending Super Bowl champion for the Bucks
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: because I don't think that guy is ever leaving Florida,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: and honestly, the Detroit Lions will probably still have not
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: appeared in a Super Bowl. So once we get all
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: of that out of the way, I think the biggest
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: single change, and I think you're gonna see this sooner
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: rather than later, is age restrictions as it relates to
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the NFL draft. I think as young athletes in America
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: continue to get more and more power, you're gonna see
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: a push for this three year limit thing to go away.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: You saw guys like Jadeveon Clowney who were ready to
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: play in the NFL his senior year of high school.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: That guy missed out on three years of earning potential.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: And you look at the injuries he's dealt with over
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: the last few years. He could have been making millions
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: of dollars for three years before he started making millions
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: of dollars. Marcus Lattimore has a debilitating knee injury his
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: junior year and never plays a snap abound felt football.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: That guy could have been making millions, So I think
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: that goes away at some point. I'm not saying you're
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: gonna see a pipeline of high school guys to the
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: NFL like we saw in the NBA for a while,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: but there's gonna be dudes like Clowney that get a
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: shot at a young age because they should. I don't
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: mind it. It's interesting, Morton, your answer, please, A couple
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: of changes that are gonna happen. I think you're gonna
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: have a four point sixty yard field goals, So if
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: a field goal over six yards will be four points,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have more of a running clock. Let's face it,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: the games are too long, so the clock will run
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: inside two minutes and eats half, the clock will stop
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: as normal. You will also be forced to do a
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: trick play inside of two minutes and eats half, So
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: whether it's a reverse, a halfback pass. You must do
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: a trick play, and no more than three running plays
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: inside of two minutes, and also within the two minutes
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: of each half. There's no offensive defensive pass interference. I'm
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: tired of this pillow fighting. I don't know which one
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: of those we would say is the league's most surprising change,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: but I think all of those are so wonderfully creative
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and inside and brilliant. Simon, you have a mountain to climb.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Tommy's out. It's either Morton or you at this point. Chad,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: you're such a kiss. Ask more and that was awful idea.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: The first one about cutting down the games, Dude, I
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: have no most of us have no lives. I want
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: five hour football games, let alone three hour football games.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Give me more. I want more. I don't want anything shorter.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I like the other ideas, though the past interferience ons
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: pretty wild. Um, I can't beat that time he kind
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: of took everything. I think you threw about fifty ideas.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Time he kind of fidget holded me because my big
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: thing was I'm with him. European League that they like
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: a team in Mexico, Canada. These things make sense to
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: keep going international with football so to me, that's gonna
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: be one of the biggest changes. Definitely will be international.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: My second thing I think to be different league is
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: we kind of saw the Wildcat with a QB kind
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: of change things up was a running back with a quarterback.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see a change of not a
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Q QB system, but a wide receiver that can also
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: be like a quarterback, like Randall l or Hines Ward.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: These guys that could pass the ball and be wide receiver.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I could see more of that in the future of
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: just different looks and offenses. We can have two guys
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: in the field that can pass the ball. Yeah. I
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: didn't want Morton to win this round. His answer was outstanding. Simon,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: here's what our life goal should be. And then what's
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: that town that your family is from in England, Northern England, Birmingham, Burnley.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: We should try to be the owners of the NFL
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: franchise in Burnley. That probably costs about fifty dollars Americans,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: So we can do that tomorrow. If you like, Burnley
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: is not not a nice place, why don't we just
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: give him some crypto They love it. Let's do it,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: all right, Morton Anderson, you won that round. I think answer.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Had I had one more change, I think would be fantastic.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: If I may, I know I've wanted the round. It's
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: just a bonus, a little land yapp little extra, as
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: we like to say in Lucian do it leather helmets.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Take the helmets off. Everybody's pitching about concussions and all
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: this stuff. We don't have the same issue in rugby
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: water polo shocker that the kicker is the one asking
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: for leather helmets. Here's the score. Tommy has to, Morten
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: has four, Simon has two. Part three Just kicking it.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: On this show, we talk a lot about the NFL,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: but we devote an awful lot of our time on
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks and other offensive positions. Will occasionally talk about defenses
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: and even coaches. We rarely engage in any hot talk
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: about the often overlooked positions of kickers and punters. But
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: now that is true except for when we talk about
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the Bears kicking troubles. But now that NFL kicking legend
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Morton Anderson is here, it's as good as time as
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: any to test you're kicking i Q. Here we go, Tommy,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: You're up first. A changing of the guard took place
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: back in two thousand four when the NFL banned any
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: player from sporting the distinctive one bar face mask, but
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: this did not apply to punter Scott Player, who was
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the last player to rock the single bar mask. Scott
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Player enjoyed a long career after his college days with
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the Florida State Seminoles. His last college QB was this
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy winner would go on to a successful career
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: and was the starting point guard for the New York
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Knicks in the NBA Finals. UH blanket on the first
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Name Award, Charlie Ward, we will give you the credit, Simon.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: The record for the longest field goal in NFL history
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: is sixty four yards, which was set by Matt Prator
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: in December of two thousand thirteen. Despite being outdoors in
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: eighteen degree weather, Prator's kick sailed through the uprights to
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the delight of fans gathered in this stadium mile high
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and now for the all time art mild high is correct. Morton.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: A dropkick field goal attempt is one of the rarest
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: sites in football. No NFL team even attempted one for
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: eighty five years until a dropkick extra point was attempted
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: and made by this beloved scrambling quarterback. I mean dog,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I know, dog Flutie. I taught him to drop kick
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: for God's sakes. No, I didn't come on, but he
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: he told me way before he did that that he
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: was going to do it. He didn't tell me when,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: but he said he was gonna do it if he
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: got a chance to do it in the game. Very
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: nicely done. Part three prompt, If you can make one
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: change to NFL kicking rules to make the league more fun,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: what would it be? And Morton, you cannot say four
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: points for field over sixty yards? Tommy, you are up first. Well, Chad,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. Morton's answer to the
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: second prompt kind of mixed in with my answer for
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: this third prompt. I think that we should do a
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: tiered system for points based on where the kick comes from.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: So twenty yards are less, I think should be worth one,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: between twenty one and forty five should be worth three,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: forty six and sixty should be worth four, and sixty
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: plus should be worth six, because I mean, if you
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: make a sixty plus yard field goal, I think that's
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: just as hard as scoring a touchdown. How about this
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: what if you miss anything inside thirty yards, a point
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: is taken away from I thought about that. I didn't
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: want to get too crazy, but I thought about it.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: So that's not a part of my official answer. But
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I like it. I do like a tiered kicking uh
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: scoring rule. That's a really good idea, Morton, can you topic?
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I want the onside kickback. It's a it's a six
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: percent proposition right now. It used to be almost a proposition.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: They took it away. They said you can't have a
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: running start, you can't overload to the side. I created
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: this high it's called the Anderson where the ball bounces
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: really high. It goes twelve yards right on the numbers.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: We used to overload, we'd blow up that front line.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: We did that in the preseason game. I think we
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: got our kicks back. So I'm bringing the onside kickback.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I'm overloading, I'm running start. Let's create some excitement. I
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: don't like it. It's not original enough. But here's the challenge.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: You have an actual on site kick named after you,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: and so it's hard not to give you a lot
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: of credit for that. Even though I feel like Tommy's
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: answer is a little bit better, right, now, which means, Simon,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: if you don't come up with a great answer, I'm
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: gonna have a really hard decision to make more In
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: just he just blew us all out, saying he's got
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: his own onside kick named after him. That right kind
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: of a flex. That was definitely a flex. I love it.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: It's almost like putting your Hall of Fame bust behind
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: you in your pid replicate the original of in Canton
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: at last. I digress, Sorry, I thought of something right
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: up your alley chat the double doink. We should start
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: rewarding kickers that hit post and that like enough over
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Divan wins. That is, why don't we just put the
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: goal post one bar and then you gotta hit the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: upright to get Of course, the Bears fan wants double
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: doinks rewarding with points because Parky that's that's what he
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: aimed for. Simon knows his audience and in this case,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: in this case serious pandering going on. You saw the
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Bears thing right behind them. This was one fixed. It
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: was a no brainer. Here is the score as we
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: go into the grand finale, or as I like to
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: call it, the Anderson Tommy, you have three points. Morton
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: you have five points. Simon, you have four points. The
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: topic is infamous Olympians. Before we get to the question,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: please close your eyes and now hold up your fingers
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: with your wager amount. You can wager up to the
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: total amount of points you have right now or less.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: So Tommy three, Morton five, Simon four. All right, here
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: we go. One of the most famous kicks in NFL
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: history came on November eight On that day, the Saints,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Tom Dempsey made the longest field goal in NFL history
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: with a sixty three yard game winner against the Lions,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: a record that would stand for forty three years. Just
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: four days after that famous kick, on November twelfth, seventy
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: one of the most infamous athletes in American history was
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: born two thousand miles away in Portland, Oregon. This two
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: time US champion and two time Olympian entered the American
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: spotlight in the early nineteen nineties, But in January of
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: this athletes potential involvement in the brutal assault of a
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: rival created a worldwide scandal that made the covers of
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, and Time magazine. Please name this athlete,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: who remains the most well known Olympic bronze medalist in
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: American history. Such a question. That was a tortured winding tour.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Let's see, Morton, you're answering first, you wagered one point,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: you have five points. What is the answer? I have
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: no clue. I'll guess the Vanda hold the field. I
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: don't know. Tanya Harding, Nancy Carry. I can't believe I
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: got that. That was a shy answer. Why why? That's right?
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: All right? You are down to four? Morton Anderson, Tommy,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: you wagered three and you currently have three. What is
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: your answer? Said to Matt, and I'm gonna stick with it. Harding,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Kanya Harding is the right answer? You have now have six? Simon,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: you risked for you had four? The king of the
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: all in? What is your answer? I'm embarrassed? I literally
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: just what's it called? Tania? Or movie? Yeah? I just
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: watched it on an airplane and I couldn't remember her name.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: All I knew was that she was a figure skater.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: That's all I texted Matt. I said figure skater. So
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: I lost hey, And in my defense, I lost interest
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: halfway through the question and didn't listened to the second half. Well, listen,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: if you want to plan under pressure. You've got to
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: learn to concentrate more. Tommy, I'm only one point two
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: seconds and when my stuff is open, Morn's my kind
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: of guy. I mean that ship. That question was a minute.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Well guess what. Guess what your producer who in the
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: beginning got the first question wrong and didn't even know
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: how to answer the first prompt and by the end
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: of the game become kid Let champion. That's why I
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: got him. He's the best. Different man, built different built differently, differently.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: That's what I meant to say. Beautiful. Congratulations Tommy, Congratulations
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: more Anderson on diminishing your wonderful career by appearing on
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: this podcast. Before we sign off, here's a word from
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: our fearless leader, Action Network CEO, Patrick Keene. Now it's
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: my turn to talk. You're all fucked in the head,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: all of you. All right? This has been the favorites
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: from the Volume Podcast Network. My thanks again to our guests.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Hall of famer host of the Great Day Nation podcast
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: from Vegas Insider, Morton Anderson, producer of The Great Day
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Nation podcast, winner of Today's contest, Tommy Freeze Pops, and
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: of course my bff Simon Hunter. He and I will
• 38:39
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• 38:43
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