1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Fox Sports 6 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: Radio dot com, or stream us live every night on 7 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. You're listening to Fox 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Greetings, Welcome in Side hour three The Jason 9 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Now we'll 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 1: get back into TNF in a second. Do we have 11 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: to well, well, because there's we got to look back 12 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: at a big bull prediction we made earlier this season 13 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: that the Raiders were gonna stinks. It has to do 14 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: with the Raiders. It's a little bull it got it 15 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,279 Speaker 1: has to do with the Raiders. But I'm excited. I'm 16 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: very excited because now I'm gonna countdown. You're gonna countdown 17 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: because if you remember it now, it's going back into 18 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: bull predictions. If you go back, and I'm going back 19 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 1: now to when the end of Stranger Thing season four 20 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: and I talked about how ridiculous that running up that 21 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 1: Hill song was. It was ridiculous. Yeah, I take it 22 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: over the popularity of it. I'm sure it was just 23 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 1: some producer who was like, this song meant so much 24 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: to me in the eighties, and you're gonna make this 25 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: the big song for Sadie's sink. And they were like, yeah, sure, 26 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: what happened, But is it also a producer who might 27 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,759 Speaker 1: have gone into the marketplace and bought shares, like because 28 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: music gets sold. Now that said, you know what, if 29 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: I can get this on this show, those are they're 30 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: shorting the market, That is what you were saying. I 31 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: could make a ton of money if I can get 32 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: this some run. And they said, yeah, sure, why not, 33 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: Well we'll make it. We're making a song that no 34 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: one's ever heard of. Yes, that means so much to 35 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: you from the eighties. Yeah, rock and roll Hall of Fame. 36 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: I mean, come on, here's the thing. Yeah, you've been 37 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: hearing the song on the show for the better part 38 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: of the last what three years? 39 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 2: Right? 40 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: A long time? Okay, because now Billie Bobby Brown is 41 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: going to be forty when when season five begins. Tonight 42 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: was the premiere. Yeah for Stranger Things season five, the 43 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: final season, right in a couple of weeks. We're getting 44 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: the first four episodes of the final season of Stranger Things, Right, 45 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: we get like four at the end of this month, 46 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: and then we get like a couple more on Christmas 47 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: and then New Year's Day, something crazy like that. The 48 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: final episode of season four was July one, twenty twenty two. Yeah, 49 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: it's a long time, man, it's a long time. We've 50 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: been running up that hill a long time. My quads 51 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 1: and calves are spect and we've been playing the song 52 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: for a long bleaping time. But my deliverance is at hand. Deliverance. 53 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, no, you wait, why do you mean 54 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: that you're deliverance? Oh no, what does he say in 55 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: Shawshank redemption? 56 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 3: Uh? 57 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: Salvation liath within Oh okay, I think you're referencing that 58 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 1: baby my salvation? Is it? Darn? Darren? Darren, Darren d 59 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: n d uh? Is that? I struck a deal with 60 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: Alex Tyshert Maybe was a year and a half ago, 61 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 1: and I said, okay, this is the deal. You can 62 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:02,959 Speaker 1: play this song on the show, right, play it on 63 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: the show. That's fine, But when the next season begins, 64 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: we're done playing that song. And you said, okay, so 65 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: you have now I'm counting down. I'm like, you know, 66 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: people to kill Billy Madison. I'm like Steve Bushmi, you're 67 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: not knocking exes off the list, kill me. You will 68 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: know as far as you know, no, but you have 69 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: to adhere to our agreement. When season four drops later 70 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: on this month, no more running up that hill. It's over. 71 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 1: We don't hear that song on the show again. Ever. 72 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: Because you need to be a man of your word. 73 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: We said no, I had you had three years in 74 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: the fast lane. Man, you have to. But eventually the 75 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: devil will come for your soul. Eventually it happens. Eventually 76 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: the good times endeth and it ends for you the 77 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: end of this month, the day the next season of 78 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: Stranger Things drops. Before you respond, Alex, I mean, you're 79 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: the one that made the deal, and he said, no, 80 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: isn't the devil coming for you? And he agreed to it. 81 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: I didn't agree. Look, nobody goes in search of the 82 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: devil to say, hey, you got a deal for me, Well, yeah, 83 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: give you this fiddle if you beat me and no, Well, 84 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: you go down to the cross with great expectation that 85 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: the devil showing. The devil searches you out like you. 86 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: No one goes looking your Hey, I'm in search of 87 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: the devil. No, no one, no, no, lots of people. 88 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: There's a big business now. The devil knows no one's 89 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: gonna come looking for him. The devil knows. I gotta 90 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: go looking for people, right I I gotta get out there. 91 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: I can't. I'm not just something. I'm gonna sit on 92 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: my throne in hades and people go, hey, devil, it's me. 93 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: It's it's Jason, listen. I want to win the World series. 94 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: Can help me out. Who's your team? Mets best I 95 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: can do as an Nlcs's it all right? Fine, I'll 96 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: take it. That's great, appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah, I 97 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 1: got a couple of jit doesn't doesn't so, Alex? What 98 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: say you in terms of the deal struck during the 99 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two campaign? Is there evidence? 100 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 4: Yeah? 101 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: We have it saved where in the system. This is trust. 102 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: You trusted him that that would still be there. You 103 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: trusted him with a he's some sound that would exonerate 104 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: you from ever having to hear this again. You trusted 105 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: him and you blew it. You know you admitted to it. 106 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 1: I did not, Yes, you did. You admitted to it. 107 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: It's right seven seven ninety, it's right here. Let's you, 108 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: old kid, it's right where you listen so I can 109 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: play it for you? Does I play it for a 110 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 1: hang on? Here we go. This is a tape from 111 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Okay, hang on, here we go? Ready, 112 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,799 Speaker 1: hang on, ed, all right, I'll let you play this song. 113 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 1: But when the new season of Stranger Things dropped, whenever 114 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:34,719 Speaker 1: that is, it may be in three years, when that 115 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: new season drops, you need to not play this song 116 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: ever again. What do you mean, Jay? What do you mean? 117 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 2: What do you mean? 118 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: I want to play it? What do you mean? All right? Fine? 119 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 1: But what do you mean? I understand? What do you mean? 120 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 1: All right? All right, all right, you're right. You're right, Jay, 121 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: you're right. We'll do it, all right, you're right. What 122 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 1: do you mean? That sounds so young? Here we go. 123 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 1: That's well, it was three years ago. You were twenty four. 124 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: You're twenty four, right there? But yeah, so there you go. 125 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 1: There's the proof I need. Right, Yeah, I called it 126 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 1: up on the compress and had it there. Yeah, that's good. 127 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 1: I really think you had that in your arsenal. That 128 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: was pretty good. What are we playing then? 129 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 4: Uh? 130 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: Then we go back to Goodbye Horses. Can we talk 131 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,919 Speaker 1: Silence of the line, We'll talk. What's what's the next 132 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: song that Stranger Things tries to get over? 133 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 5: Oh? 134 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: They did great Greatness from Metallica, who embraced it. They 135 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: did eighty seven eighty eight. When does this take place 136 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 1: this last season? Yeah, Lesson's supposed to the end of 137 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: the eighties. No, I know, but like it's a specific year, 138 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: is it the eighties? Eighties? Okay, yeah, so that could 139 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: be eighty eight or eighty nine or eighty nine, eighty 140 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: nine recording to an AI overview, Okay, it's the Fall 141 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: of eighty seven. So we're getting guns and roses. Oh, 142 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: that would be guns and red. Guns and Roses is 143 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: too popular though, although you would have thinked they would say, hey, 144 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:55,359 Speaker 1: we're gonna use Master of Puppets. Oh no, people are 145 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: just gonna think about the old school scene. No, no, no, 146 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: we're going to use that. So Fall of eighty seven 147 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: was guns and roses. Could get guns and roses. Welcome 148 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: to the jungle, Welcome to the upside down. We got 149 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: fun and games, or walk like an Egyptian. We been 150 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: dancing with mister Vectna. He's been turning things upside down? 151 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: Have the top five songs from eighty seven? You guys 152 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: want him top five? So let he let you do this, 153 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: hang let me do this? Uh expose no Madonna? Which one? 154 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: Eighty seven would have been a s Papa, don't preach? 155 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: Who's that girl? There's no Madonna. I just wanted to 156 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: choot to guess. Oh man, I thought who's that girl? 157 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: Was eighty eight, wasn't it? I thought it was right? 158 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: A Was that the movie? Yeah? 159 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 4: Uh? 160 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: Sweet Child of Mine? No, well that would have been 161 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: Fall into the Spring, so maybe not. Okay. Five different artists, okay, wait, 162 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: hang on, hang on, hang on with or without you? 163 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: You too? Yes? Okay, uh almost Paradise no American tale too? 164 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: Five will go? Well it's doing. Let me say eighty 165 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: seven I got with her without you you two? 166 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 4: Hmmm? 167 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: One of these is uh Breeze favorite artists? Prince? No? Oh, 168 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: Michael Jackson bad? No? Now, I was saying one of 169 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: her favorite arts. I'm just like, was Michael Jackson bad 170 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: one of them? No? No? Wow, your favorite artist is 171 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: bon Jovi. Oh, I'll be there for you. Living on 172 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: a prayer eighty seven, Living on a prayer, I thought 173 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 1: there was earlier. Okay, whoa, whoa Tommy, Yeah, g yeah, 174 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: that's that fits though for season by. Oh yeah, and 175 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: you can just play that loop for Tommy used to 176 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: live in the upside down, Gino went to find him. 177 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: They're down on their luck. All the rest of the 178 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: people are dead. 179 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 5: Wow so dead, wow wow, okay wow whoa? All right, 180 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 5: took it to a very bad The thing is, they 181 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 5: went too heavy metal with with Master of Puppets and 182 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 5: Dio and Iron Maiden, so. 183 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 1: I think they gotta go medal. Let me give you 184 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: last three, Give me the artist. I'll tell you the song, Okay, starshit, Oh, 185 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:11,199 Speaker 1: nothing's gonna stop us now, yep, yep, heart alone, these 186 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: dreams alone alone, Whitney Houston. I want to dance with somebody. Yes, 187 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: there we go. What about come on man? Eighty cent way. 188 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 1: I just ripped off three the top three songs of 189 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: eighty seven. You all you do was give me the artist. 190 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: I could have given you entire catalog. Man. My knowledge 191 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:27,599 Speaker 1: a pretty good of the late eighties early nineties and 192 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: pop music is really really good. Trust me, it's okay. 193 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: Sports TV music, pop music of the late eighties early nineties. 194 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: When I started when I was doing the morning show 195 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: playing music all the time. Jason, Oh yeah, I have 196 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: a there's a very short window of knowledge of pop 197 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: music that I have in that amount of time. It's awesome. 198 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: I still have a dream of hosting one of those 199 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: radio shows where we get to introduce some of those. 200 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 3: You know, Remember the first time I heard the Whitney 201 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 3: Houston record back when she was a guest on Silver 202 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 3: Spoons Joe Gray and Rick Schroeder on NBC, and I 203 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 3: remember they played the song they played, They played the 204 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 3: Greatest Love of All and I remember at the end 205 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 3: they held up the album and I thought I was 206 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 3: gonna go out and buy it. So here's Whitney Houston. 207 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: Very first. You Aaron just turned seventy five. I had 208 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: the biggest crush on Aaron Gray when I was a kid, 209 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: Like I'm like that. That's where I realized, Yep, I 210 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,679 Speaker 1: like girls because I like Aaron Gray. Like Buck Rodgers 211 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,959 Speaker 1: in twentieth century, I loved Aaron Gray. Oh my goodness. 212 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: Not so about Silver Spoon's Aaron Gray, but Buck Rodgers 213 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: big fan. Now we went back earlier this year, we 214 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,560 Speaker 1: gave you a big bold prediction that involved the Raiders, 215 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: and now it's time to look back at it. Midway 216 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 1: through the season, we talked about how the AFC West 217 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: is going to be the toughest division in football, and 218 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: so far it seems that way. We said, now, listen, 219 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: Denver's gonna be really good. I'm up on the Chargers. 220 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: It's gonna be a tough slog, but the Chiefs are 221 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: still really good too. Right, right top to bottom, we 222 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: got the AFC West right and the end of the 223 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,040 Speaker 1: Big Bowl prediction for the Raiders was they'll be the 224 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: best last place team in the NFL. Now you look 225 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: at the other last place teams in the NFL, there's 226 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 1: only one you can argue with. Okay, because the Raiders 227 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 1: have played a pretty tough schedule, but their last place 228 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: in the AFC West, they played a pretty tough schedule. 229 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: They're better than the Tennessee Titans, better than the Browns, 230 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: better than the Jets, So already they're the best last 231 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: place team in the AFCU NFC. They're better than the Giants. Sure, 232 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: they're better than the Saints. Okay, better than the Cardinals. 233 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 1: The only team is Minnesota at four and four at 234 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: the bottom of the NFC North. But they're only a 235 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 1: couple of games out of first place. That's the one 236 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: thing where I could say, yeah, all right, maybe right 237 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 1: now the Raiders in the last place power rankings. The 238 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: Raiders right now are second. Now, they're time, they have 239 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 1: time to get up there. They have time to get 240 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: up there. But we got the Vikings and the Cardinals 241 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 1: are better. The Cardinals are a top twelve defense. They're terrible. 242 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 1: They're playing Jacoby Brisset at quarterback. Man, come on, you 243 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: want him Gino right now. No, that's a good point 244 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 1: you want. But the fact that the Raiders are this 245 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 1: good while playing Gino I think works better for them 246 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: than it does for you for your Cardinals. See this 247 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: means the Denver stinks. Let's focus the last place team. No, 248 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: I get that, but last place to power then Vikings 249 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: number one, Raiders number two, That's where I'll go for 250 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 1: the the last place power Right there, they're on the 251 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: metal stand. There's no question about it. I've got them third. 252 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 1: But you know I'm partial too. If the Raiders the 253 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: Cardinals right now, I would like to say the Raiders 254 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: Cardinals game would be ten to seven. But that's what 255 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 1: we had to stay with. The Broncos Raiders Cardinals might 256 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: be four to three where safety starts it out to nothing, 257 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: so Gino's taking two safeties. Geno takes a safety, the 258 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 1: Cardinals lead to nothing, Raiders kick a field goal, although 259 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: we watched Carlson miss tonight but too and then with 260 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: a chance to salt the game away, they fumble the 261 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: ball near their own end zone and the Cardinals fall 262 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 1: on it for a safety, and it could be like 263 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:12,319 Speaker 1: one of those four to three kind of games when 264 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,439 Speaker 1: you're living on the edge. A forty eight yard field 265 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: goal keeps it a ten to seven game. That's really 266 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 1: the score of Gami, the NFL scorer, Gomi. I hope 267 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 1: that would happen at some point my life is I 268 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 1: want to see a game end four to four, for 269 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: each team gets two safeties and they can't do anything 270 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: in overtime. Now, that would be fair four four. That'd 271 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: be the best score of Goami. And of course that 272 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: would be a game. Probably would be a Raiders Jets game, 273 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: or I mean, it's gotta be a Thursday night football. 274 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: So we have Al just walk off the set. Oh yeah, yeah, Raiders. 275 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: He just says, I'm done. I would say, though, the Raiders, Jets, 276 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 1: Browns between those three teams, and we're probably playing in 277 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 1: that game because I mean, obviously we did not have 278 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: the benefit of the audio tonight. But I got to 279 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 1: imagine he was fairly incensed. I saw at least several 280 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: promos where it was like, here's the almanak. Oh, so 281 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: let's go back in the way back machine, because you 282 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 1: really don't want to talk about this game. He's really 283 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: really mad. It's it's not even close. Al's like, why 284 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: do I do this again? Like this is night where 285 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:07,680 Speaker 1: Al goes home to his wife and goes home and 286 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 1: sits there and at the end and sits and goes 287 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: why do I do this again? Tell me why I 288 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: got on a plane on Wednesdays? Tell me why I 289 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: go do this? Why go do these games? Why don't 290 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: tell me why I go do this? Well, because Al, 291 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: they're paying you a lot of money. No I know, 292 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: but I've made a lot of money. Why do tell 293 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: me why I do this again? I just see him 294 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,479 Speaker 1: in a in a big room with a roaring fireplace 295 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: and and like some sort of like bear skin actual 296 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: Chicago bears like rug on the ground, and he's got 297 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: like a Brandy sniff or and he's saying, tell me 298 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 1: why I do this? Tell me why I go out 299 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: and do this. Well, I think most people have at 300 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: least one of those moments a week, all right, a month, okay, 301 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: where their motivation. Yeah, but Al is like it's every Thursday. Yeah. No, 302 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: some are obviously worse than others. And this one today 303 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: was tough. Do you think Al would want a flexible 304 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: will flex out games? He was, I get four games 305 00:14:54,960 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: a year, I can flex out of superpower I'm and 306 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 1: then you get to do that, like what at the 307 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: end of the Monday night game, all of a sudden 308 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: we beam live. He's got that brand. Hey, I'm flexing out. 309 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: He's got the brandy and he's got a fire roaring 310 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: behind him like he's the Joker dog, like a bit 311 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: like a Sa Bernard. Next to him, he's penning it 312 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: going I'm flexing out of this and CHRISA. Thompson goes 313 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 1: in and does play by play or something. Well, no, 314 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: I'm not saying he flexes out. He gets to change 315 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: the game to something that's more interesting to him. 316 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 5: No. 317 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 1: I think I'd rather see Al flex flex flex himself out. 318 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: I would like to see that. Yeah, and then he's 319 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: got a he gets to pick from a seven or 320 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: eight people that are on staff. Sure, he just decides, 321 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: all right, you're in for me. Yeah, okay, I can 322 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: go talk to Kirk about his dog. Yeah. Or or 323 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 1: just to just to see him actually making the announcement, 324 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: like on a Monday night at halftime of the Monday 325 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: night game, just to see him flexing out, pushes Boomer 326 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: off the screen like he's the joker in Batman, like 327 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: he did to the mayor. Like my turn now, Boomer, 328 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: get out of here, fastest three minutes. It's mine and 329 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 1: I'm flexing out. Can you do the fastest three minutes? 330 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: I had the longest three and a half hours. Okay, 331 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: that's what this game was tonight for me. Exit out 332 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: about a Fresca exit swallow down. 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But a big 373 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: story today, a multi billion billion dollar, ten billion dollar 374 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: story today, ESPN bet is no longer ESPN sports Book 375 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:35,680 Speaker 1: which had a big ten billion dollar deal struck with 376 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 1: them about a year and a half ago. Now both 377 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:43,159 Speaker 1: sides are out of this agreement. Now, there was a 378 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 1: big deal a week ago when you're talking about a 379 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: big the big gambling scandal in the NBA that while 380 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 1: Get Up was on TV and Mike Greenberg is talking 381 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,160 Speaker 1: about the scandal, that there's a big ad for Hey, 382 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 1: bet tonight, ESPN bet everything else. Really, really, what really 383 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: awkward moment for em now was that the reason why 384 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 1: it was taking why the the agreement was negated. No, 385 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 1: it's just a bad optic. But really it wasn't doing well. 386 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 1: Like any business, it's not doing well, and ESPN taking 387 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 1: a dive into into sports books and trying to figure 388 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: that out didn't go well. There are other entities that 389 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 1: were better. Dave Portnoy talked about it this morning. I 390 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: think on Fox's Hey, you know we we were a 391 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: better partner, uh for for betting and look at it 392 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: just happens that way. Now this is not just about betting, 393 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: but in a in a week in which boy, ESPN 394 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: is really showing that, hey we are we are leaking water. 395 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: We had the YouTube controversy from this week. Still the 396 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 1: ESPN YouTube dilemma is not solved and they're losing five 397 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: million a day. You know, people from YouTube money, the ratings, 398 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 1: you're you're you're not getting as many people watching the 399 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: Monday Night game, right, you saw like how many how 400 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: many million was it off from where it was a 401 00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,639 Speaker 1: year ago because people that are watching on YouTube now 402 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:02,680 Speaker 1: he got all the hosts that look like they're doing 403 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:07,159 Speaker 1: a telethon, begging you while selling you their app to 404 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 1: give you thirty dollars a month to watch sports. Now, 405 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: this is this is a bit of a business conversation, 406 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: but it's important one to have because I can tell 407 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 1: you the future ESPN and for me, look, I'm working 408 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: in those walls for a long time. ESPN has always 409 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 1: been a meat and potatoes company. Here's here's shack, here's 410 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 1: the highlights, here's the sports. That's what they were. When 411 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: I was there as a production assistant in the early nineties, 412 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: everybody wanted to come in and find a way to 413 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 1: be creative. They were like, listen, don't be too creative again. 414 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: In the end, everybody wants to see shack, They want 415 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: to see highlights, and that's what we got to give them. Okay. 416 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 1: Then I got there in radio in the early two 417 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: thousands and it was have fun, but not too much fun. 418 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 1: Everybody wants sports, right, don't get too personal. And then 419 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: you know, I've told many stories in the past of 420 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 1: how every six months that would change. Tell more personal stories, 421 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,159 Speaker 1: don't tell personal stories. But ESPN has always been a 422 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 1: meat and potatoes. We give you the sports right. And 423 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 1: for a long time that worked because ESPN basically ran unopposed. 424 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 1: The sports fan was underserved, and ESPN here's a big 425 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 1: cable channel that devoted entirely to sports. Yeah, you're gonna 426 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: run unopposed for a long time, right. Food Network's running 427 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 1: on a posed for a long time because it's hard 428 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,400 Speaker 1: to get some stars and going to get another food 429 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 1: channel that's gonna go up against Guy Fieri and Food Network. 430 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: But everything comes to an end. And the biggest thing 431 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: I can tell you for ESPN right now, I'll give 432 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: you this Bowld prediction. ESPN is gonna get sold by 433 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 1: Disney sometime in the next years, maybe after the Super Bowl, 434 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: because they have the Super Bowl coming up in a 435 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 1: couple I think it's a twenty twenty seven super Bowl, 436 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,479 Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, one of those two. It's gonna get 437 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:53,719 Speaker 1: sold because ESPN is hemorrhaging product, and they're also because 438 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 1: they're such a meat and potatoes industry and meat potatoes company. 439 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:02,199 Speaker 1: They are having a lot of trouble adapting to current 440 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 1: habits and how sports are consumed by fans, by people 441 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 1: who want to consume only specific sports, by people who 442 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: want just the gambling aspect of it. Tell me the 443 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 1: last time ESPN's gone out on a big venture and 444 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 1: they've succeeded because they get outside their comfort zone and 445 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,119 Speaker 1: it just doesn't work. Because they do one thing great. Right, 446 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,360 Speaker 1: we give you the sport, we give you the sports. Okay, Well, now, 447 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,959 Speaker 1: as we mentioned earlier this week with the ESPN YouTube thing, 448 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: people are gonna find out they can get along well 449 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: without ESPN if they go to YouTube, because they can 450 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: get college football anywhere else. I may not get Alabama Tennessee, 451 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: but I'll get Oregon Penn State, and I'll watch that instead, 452 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 1: and I'll get the highlights of something else. Right. I 453 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: may not get Monday Night football, but you know what, 454 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 1: if I really want to watch the game, I'll go 455 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: to a friend's house or I'll go to a bar. 456 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,479 Speaker 1: I still get all the games on Sunday. I get 457 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,360 Speaker 1: Thursday Night football because I stream it on Amazon. I'm 458 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: not underserved. No one is under served in sports anymore. 459 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,359 Speaker 1: And now ESPN again they've done one thing great, and 460 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: they continue to do that. Live programming is there a 461 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: big thing, but now you get live programming for a 462 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 1: lot of other places. So what's ESPN doing? Hey, we're 463 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 1: trying to figure out our way into new forays with 464 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:20,160 Speaker 1: different things. We're hiring different talent, we're hiring different companies 465 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: again in business with us. And you see this ESPN 466 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 1: bet is a big fail and now they're not getting along. 467 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 1: And how many more Disney carriage wars do we need 468 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 1: to see involving ESPN and some cable company that we 469 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: need to charge more money? Well, you know what, I'm sorry, 470 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 1: but maybe you have to realize your ESPN the days 471 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: of those profits and what you did. This is a 472 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: new landscape and you can't do it as well as 473 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,120 Speaker 1: some other places do. Now nobody else out ESPN's ESPN, 474 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: But there's other factions that, hey, we can do this, 475 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 1: and we can do this this part of it better 476 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: than you can. We can do the gambling aspect better 477 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: than you can. We can do this kind of show 478 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 1: better than you can. We can give you the same, 479 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,159 Speaker 1: the same experience of live sports, the same as you. 480 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: And ESPN has struggled in that in the new in 481 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 1: this new era of what's next, how do we evolve? 482 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,479 Speaker 1: Do they bring in people that are the young, up 483 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 1: and coming programmers or is this a lot of people 484 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 1: that have been there for a long time. Hey, this 485 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,439 Speaker 1: is what we do, and this is what we've been 486 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: doing for you know, since nineteen seventy nine we came 487 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: on the air. ESPN is going to continue to descend 488 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: and it's never going to get to a point where 489 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: they hit rock bottom. But the salad days of them 490 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: being the the absolute number one place to go for 491 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 1: sports and being where they can we can name our 492 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: price for carriage fees, we can we can spend whatever 493 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: money we want to on this venture. That's going to 494 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: be done, and eventually Disney's gonna say, you know what, 495 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 1: ESPN just the last few years ago, in the last decade, 496 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 1: they're not where sports is right now. They're not on 497 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 1: the cutting edge. They're not where sports is going, which 498 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: is streaming different aspects, different avenues to consume on social 499 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 1: media on the This is not where ESPN is going. 500 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: And Disney's gonna say, you know what, We're gonna sell 501 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 1: ESPN off because somebody else has got to be in 502 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:12,160 Speaker 1: charge of it. They're gonna make thirty billion dollars whatever 503 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 1: it is selling ESPN. Whatever they're gonna make, they'll make, 504 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 1: They'll make tons of money, but they're gonna sell it 505 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 1: off because it's not gonna be as big money maker. 506 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: And then someone's gonna buy ESPN. That's gonna say, now 507 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,399 Speaker 1: we're taking you into the latter part of the first 508 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,119 Speaker 1: half of the twenty first century. There's gonna be big changes, 509 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 1: and the ESPN you knew is gonna be gone replaced 510 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: by a different ESPN. So we're in the dying stages 511 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,920 Speaker 1: now the next couple of years of this is what 512 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 1: ESPN is. Then eventually they're gonna spin it off, and 513 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,120 Speaker 1: whoever comes in next to buy it, who knows. Maybe 514 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: it's Amazon, maybe it's maybe it's Elon Musk. I don't 515 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,439 Speaker 1: help somebody with that kind of money is gonna buy 516 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 1: ESPN and say, Okay, this is how we think sports 517 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 1: are going into the future. This is what we're gonna do. 518 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 1: Look at the changes NBC has made to the NBA already, 519 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 1: and they're just back into the game for all of 520 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: a week and a half. Right now, Wait a minute, 521 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 1: we're streaming these games. I can't see it starting a 522 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 1: game eight o'clock at night. Hey, you're gonna get this 523 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 1: new idea. Whoever buys is gonna try to say we're 524 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: doing things new, and it's gonna be a new everything 525 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: for ESPN. That's gonna happen. Now you have a brand 526 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,640 Speaker 1: valuation according to a Forbes report from twenty twenty three 527 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,919 Speaker 1: that puts it in that twenty five to thirty billion 528 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,639 Speaker 1: range that you speak of, a lot of it becomes 529 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 1: the what is the brand value? I don't think that 530 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 1: the value is necessarily to that level anymore because to me, 531 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 1: a lot of it with games, and obviously we're a 532 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: different subset, you and I those that work in our business, 533 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 1: Like especially we're on air, I don't hear what's being said, right. 534 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 1: I might go back and if someone sends me a 535 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: clip of what old Troy and Joe have to say, 536 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 1: I'll hear it. Otherwise I'm watching the game and guess what, 537 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: that game can be televised by anybody. And that no 538 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,920 Speaker 1: disrespect to the great camera people, the folks working in 539 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 1: the trucks, all the folks behind the scenes. But it's ubiquitous, right, 540 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: it moves, it's fluid whoever's got the dollars to push it. 541 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 1: This thing with ESPN bet was just the latest example. 542 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,160 Speaker 1: It's the second time that Penn has done a terrible 543 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: deal only to have to bail on it at another day. 544 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: Of course, remember Dave Portnoy was able to get Barstool 545 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: back for a dollar after selling it to Pen for 546 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,679 Speaker 1: over five hundred million, So a couple of big bites 547 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 1: at the Apple that didn't quite pay off the same way. 548 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: I mean, this is a multi billion dollar ten year 549 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,879 Speaker 1: approach that is now being aboarded and Draftking slides in 550 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: new partner reboot a name known, trusted and again ubiquitous 551 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 1: in our sports TV and radio space. But when we 552 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 1: talk about putting the ESPN brand on top of bet 553 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 1: it's in congress for a lot of folks, and you're 554 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: not gonna suddenly it's it's switching costs like anything else, Like, well, 555 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 1: I have my accounts set up here. What am I 556 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 1: getting over there that is going to be different? Right? 557 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 1: What insights, what advantages, what incentivization is there for me 558 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: to switch? Otherwise I'm gonna keep betting with whom I'm betting, 559 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: whether that's a legal sportsbook or folks that are still 560 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,639 Speaker 1: in the back alley of a bar. Like it's all 561 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 1: of that for ESPN as you go through, I mean, 562 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 1: we look at how easily you can reboot some of 563 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 1: these things to say they didn't spend a lot of 564 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: time and money at what they did at NBC. But 565 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 1: they're up and going like they've been doing it for 566 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 1: a couple of years again. Already, Right, we watched the 567 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 1: Prime Product tonight. Do you see any big difference between 568 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,119 Speaker 1: that and what you're getting from ESPN? H I get 569 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 1: enough highlights on my Instagram and Twitter feeds, TikTok, whatever 570 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: social media I got. Am I watching Sports Center? No, 571 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: I'm not, you know what I mean? Like all of 572 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: those things that used to have a huge value proposition. 573 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 1: And I don't think I speak just for myself. I 574 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: think for a lot of folks that are dialed in 575 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 1: and sports is what they consume, they know it now. 576 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: Maybe they still like a certain personality, but I don't 577 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: think that's sell anymore. Right, the days of Dan and 578 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: Keith leading you down that highway are long in the 579 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: rear view mirror. So as you move forward into the 580 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: next age, it's all right, Well, who designs the killer 581 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 1: app that brings everything together? Your fantasy, your betting, your highlights, 582 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 1: all of those things. Personalities? Fine, how do I get 583 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: the games easily? The carriage fees thing is laughable again 584 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: because you've got so many other streaming competitors that give 585 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: you pieces. Right, if I'm a big SEC fan, then yeah, 586 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: I'm paying whatever the piper needs for my SEC. But 587 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: if it's for any other conference, I'm not doing that. Like, 588 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: that's not how folks are wired. Like, It's not an 589 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 1: all consuming space, and college sports seems to be that 590 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: one area that you would try to lean into the 591 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 1: rabid fan base saying well they really was like, yeah, 592 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,959 Speaker 1: but they don't care about the rest of it. They 593 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: just don't like, if you're a big ten guy, you 594 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 1: pay attention to everything else and how it affects your team, 595 00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: but you're not killing yourself to go spend three hours 596 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: to watch no no, no, Right. And likewise, the NBA, 597 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 1: we laugh at it. Now start times whatever. You don't 598 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 1: need to watch all eighty two of every team in 599 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 1: the NBA. Sorry. The only thing that still has that 600 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,479 Speaker 1: bit of sanctity to it is the NFL. And even then, 601 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 1: it's so spread out at this point that folks have 602 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: been conditioned to use red zone or whatever. So the 603 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: YouTube TV they keep off for me every week, I 604 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: got it. Hey, come back. By the way, you still 605 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: need to pay the eighty two dollars a month for 606 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 1: the basic package and then you can still pay us 607 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: for the NFL. It's like, no, no, no, no, that's 608 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 1: that's the thing here. If you want to get rid 609 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 1: of YouTube, you're gonna lose the NFL. Back. Wait, why 610 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: am I using that? That's the deal. But here's the thing. 611 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 1: On the day after I get to watch this show 612 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: on this streamer and that streamer, I don't have to 613 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 1: pay you eighty two dollars. My piece mail is about 614 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: a third of that. Right, So for ESPN to try 615 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 1: to it was a ten dollars charge the last I saw, 616 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 1: which means they're trying to get just a little bit more. 617 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: And you know, with so many different options out there, 618 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: how many more are your hemorrhaging off. It's a losing proposition. 619 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: They'll go through the Super Bowl and then they'll probably 620 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: sell an uptick or the year of the super Bowl, 621 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 1: and it's going to be a big deal for Disney 622 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 1: and they'll get at and they'll say, you know what, 623 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: We're not good at the sports business anymore, right, Like, 624 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 1: like what did Fox do? Hey? Fox is one of 625 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,000 Speaker 1: the greatest film companies for so many long but you 626 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 1: know what Fox has changed the last twenty years, So 627 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: what did they do, Hey, we're selling off the movie 628 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 1: business because that's not who we are anymore. And it 629 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 1: was a big deal. But you understand, okay, now you're 630 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 1: glad that certain certain businesses are in the hands of 631 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: people that hey, I get the modern era and we 632 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 1: push it forward. But yeah, I mean, just the visuals 633 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: of all of this stuff, right, you got this carriage 634 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 1: rights deal. You've got whatever the hell's going on with 635 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: the game that everybody was playing right there, Solitaire game. 636 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: So a lot of fights and slap fights about that. 637 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: But the whole thing with the carriage rights is just 638 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 1: laughable because in the same breath, it's kind of like 639 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: when they were argue about, hey, betting's got to be gone. Meanwhile, 640 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 1: go place a bet on our app. Is the we're 641 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 1: fighting for this. Oh by the way, go spend thirty 642 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 1: dollars on the app so you can watch this stuff. 643 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 1: It's like, well, where am I supposed to go? Like, 644 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 1: which is more important to you? This heartstring violin behind 645 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 1: me to go get my YouTube TV restored with your programming, 646 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 1: or do you want me to be on your app 647 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: which is supposedly all encompassing or Are you telling me 648 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 1: there's a lot I'm not getting there that's now exclusive 649 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 1: to YouTube TV. Please parse that out for me. No, 650 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 1: it's bad business. Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome. 651 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 1: Jason Smith Mike Harman live from the Fox Sports Radio 652 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 1: studios Tom Now to find out what's trending in the 653 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: wide world of sports. B Bureau has everything that happened 654 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,840 Speaker 1: tonight with what's trending, including what I'm sure is the 655 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 1: number one game for her, which was the number one 656 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 1: beating the Clippers as bad as they did. We also 657 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: have Thursday Night football with the Broncos getting by the 658 00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 1: Raiders ten to seven. We got tons of stuff happening 659 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: right here. 660 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 2: Hey, guys, I'm sorry, it was recording the overnight updates. 661 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:09,520 Speaker 1: I'm so. I apologize. Anyways, I where were we at? 662 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 1: Where you guys talking? Sorry? So I told everybody that 663 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 1: your sons want tonight? Oh yes, Can I start with that? 664 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, oh my god, that's so exciting. Okay, 665 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 2: So only one game, the premiere game of like all 666 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 2: Western Conference games. Okay, the Suns defeated the Clippers one 667 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,600 Speaker 2: fifteen to one oh two. Jalen Green finished with twenty 668 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 2: nine points in his son's debut, which is like really 669 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,080 Speaker 2: really exciting. So I hope Houston just totally regrets that, 670 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 2: you know, kind of the whole Just heads up. I 671 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 2: think the NBA Cup does start tomorrow, so we're going 672 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 2: to see a lot of those colored courts and stuff. 673 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,880 Speaker 2: So that'll be really interesting about that, the Emirates Cup, 674 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 2: So that should be really fun going into the weekend 675 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 2: where nobody cares. 676 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 1: But oh sure, but the courts will look fun. So yes, 677 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 1: what's good? 678 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is like the first year of my life 679 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 2: that I genuinely do not care about the NBA. Like 680 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 2: I am just in football mode. And maybe because I'm 681 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,320 Speaker 2: working here, I just I'm just in a different mode. 682 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,640 Speaker 1: Right, Like I just watched the Come on, tell everybody 683 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,840 Speaker 1: who your favorite team is. I'm a Saints fan. Yeah, 684 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 1: you still love football this year? Congratulations? Doesn't that mean 685 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:12,040 Speaker 1: something like your real fan? You just like me, you're 686 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,279 Speaker 1: a real fan my team States, But I still love it. 687 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,040 Speaker 1: Isn't that what? I think? We need? 688 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,560 Speaker 2: This therapy, Jason, I don't know. So maybe we can 689 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 2: get a deal like some kind of like work discount. 690 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,239 Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh, you think anyody's gonna take our cases. 691 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 1: Who you root for the Jets and the Saints? Yeah, 692 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,800 Speaker 1: nothing I could do for you. I'm sorry, surprise. We 693 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,920 Speaker 1: don't have those billboards up and down the four or five. 694 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:34,360 Speaker 1: Here's Harbaugh and Justin Herbert, accident attorneys and people to 695 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,400 Speaker 1: help you with your desisports very true? That should be. 696 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:38,799 Speaker 2: That's gonna be our next end, but. 697 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 1: Our next financial venture. 698 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,320 Speaker 2: Okay, Thursday Night football, the Broncos has defeated the Raiders 699 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:50,320 Speaker 2: ten to seven. Gino Smith sacked a total of six times, 700 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 2: which I feel like is gonna be very traumatizing for him. 701 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 2: One hundred and forty three yards sixteen to twenty six 702 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,440 Speaker 2: and one pick. Bonix not really that much better one 703 00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,960 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty yards sixteen to twenty eight, one touchdown 704 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,360 Speaker 2: and two picks. News around the league, Rock Party is 705 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 2: getting closer to a returning but the team will make 706 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,600 Speaker 2: a decision on Friday whether or not he'll actually suit 707 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,520 Speaker 2: up and play versus the Rams, according to the head 708 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,920 Speaker 2: coach Kyle Shanahan, and a wide receiver Cooper Cup was 709 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,600 Speaker 2: limited in practice as Tory Horton was held out even 710 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,320 Speaker 2: though he practiced yesterday. But I guess he might have 711 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,920 Speaker 2: suffered a set back. Not sure, but TVD whether or 712 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:21,080 Speaker 2: not he'll play on Sunday. 713 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,279 Speaker 1: Back to you guys, Thanks a bunch, Pree coming up next. Okay, So, 714 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 1: if we said earlier this hour, no NFL team is 715 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,319 Speaker 1: great right now, which is kind of a shock. It's 716 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,560 Speaker 1: an outlier that midway through the season, everybody's got problems. 717 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 1: How about two teams that I expect in the next 718 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:41,480 Speaker 1: month to become great teams? Cleveland. Yeah, he'll beat the 719 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 1: Jets on Sunday. That's anybody can that's next right here, 720 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,200 Speaker 1: Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Why didn't you guys 721 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:49,600 Speaker 1: beat somebody? Yeah? Last week? Who we beat the Bills? 722 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:50,000 Speaker 5: Oh? 723 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,239 Speaker 1: They should be executed. Wow? Yeah they're done. Wow. That 724 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,280 Speaker 1: escalated quickly. You'd be a very harsh commissioner of the NFL. 725 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:57,839 Speaker 1: What I or going to be a good one? 726 00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 4: Yeah? 727 00:35:58,120 --> 00:35:59,799 Speaker 1: I think you'd be harsh. Is that what it's called? 728 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 1: People would want to see the games you give. If 729 00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,000 Speaker 1: you're eliminating teams, eventually you're gonna get down to the 730 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,919 Speaker 1: Browns and the Jets every week. I'm just gonna embrace 731 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,719 Speaker 1: the betting community and just do Guillotine League for you. 732 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, he went guillotine legit, Okay, I 733 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,560 Speaker 1: knew that's that. That was really good guillotine. Yeah, did 734 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:19,040 Speaker 1: you really think it was guillotine? Did you know guillotine? 735 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,960 Speaker 1: You sure? Okay? Good? Yeah, you knew the word like creatine, Yes, 736 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,560 Speaker 1: same exact thing, same exact thing. Yes, they cut off 737 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:30,120 Speaker 1: your creatae. Yeah, very nice. Okay, thank you. Be sure 738 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,719 Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with 739 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,400 Speaker 1: Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific, 740 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,879 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best 741 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:43,880 Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. So if tonight is a night the 742 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:48,799 Speaker 1: Broncos not a great eight and two team, right there's 743 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,320 Speaker 1: no unbeatable team in the NFL. Right now, there's not 744 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:56,560 Speaker 1: even two or three teams you could say currently, Hey, 745 00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,600 Speaker 1: they're the big Super Bowl favorites. Normally we have two 746 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,239 Speaker 1: or three teams by now we don't. It's an outlier year. 747 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,360 Speaker 1: It's a very strange year in the NFL. But to 748 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,600 Speaker 1: push it forward and say, nobody, if you said to me, 749 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:15,279 Speaker 1: what team in the next month will become that team? 750 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,520 Speaker 1: What team will become hey? Okay, So when we get 751 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,200 Speaker 1: into middle of December, hey, Okay, this team with three 752 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,520 Speaker 1: four weeks left in the season, Yes, these are your favorites. 753 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:26,200 Speaker 1: I'll give you. I'll give you a team in the AFC, 754 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:27,880 Speaker 1: and I'll give a team in the NFC. Oka hit 755 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:32,120 Speaker 1: me in the AFC. I expect the Buffalo Bills to 756 00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,560 Speaker 1: continue to rise and rise above everybody else, get up 757 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,759 Speaker 1: ahead of the New England Patriots, who just have an 758 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 1: easy schedule. They're not that good. But the Bills seem 759 00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,440 Speaker 1: to be figuring things out. They didn't go out and 760 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,640 Speaker 1: get a big receiver at the deadline like we thought. However, 761 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:51,120 Speaker 1: maybe Dalton Kincaid is becoming Josh Allen's go to guy. 762 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,320 Speaker 1: Maybe this is how the offense evolves. James Cook driven 763 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,680 Speaker 1: and it's a little bit less Josh Allen and a 764 00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:58,279 Speaker 1: little bit more middle of the field when they throw 765 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,600 Speaker 1: the football. I expect the Bills, the weather getting colder 766 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,719 Speaker 1: in the next month, for them to kind of reel 767 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,400 Speaker 1: off a bunch of wins. And they're sitting there at 768 00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:11,719 Speaker 1: like ten and two, eleven and two with with with 769 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,759 Speaker 1: a month left, and we're saying, okay, yep, no Bills. 770 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,800 Speaker 1: Are Bills are that favorite in the a f C. 771 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:18,800 Speaker 1: That's the team. I expect to see them do it 772 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:24,640 Speaker 1: for the easiest schedule remaining. UH on tankathon dot com 773 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,160 Speaker 1: near my go to for those such things, put them 774 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:33,400 Speaker 1: in and schedules and UH and all the the ratings 775 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,759 Speaker 1: to date. The fact that the Bears are still on 776 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,319 Speaker 1: the tough team ledger is is pretty fun to meet. 777 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,640 Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. But they should be on the top team. 778 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:45,000 Speaker 1: Crime promoted the Black Riding game a couple of NFC 779 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:49,359 Speaker 1: heavy Now that's good. In the a f C. I'm 780 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:53,239 Speaker 1: gonna go to the Baltimore Ravens. No, look at you, 781 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,200 Speaker 1: it's gonna be over five hundred, all right, I mean, 782 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,920 Speaker 1: look you you've got a bunch of buster teams. Uh 783 00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:03,480 Speaker 1: ty shirts Cleveland rounds two games against the Bengals, the Jets, 784 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,960 Speaker 1: Uh still to come. It doesn't just gives you winning. Well, 785 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,680 Speaker 1: but but that's the thing, right, The long road begins 786 00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:12,840 Speaker 1: with the first step, and the first thing you have 787 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,520 Speaker 1: to do is climb over all the crap. That is true. 788 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,719 Speaker 1: That is true. So for the Ravens coming from where 789 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:21,040 Speaker 1: they were with crap, well no, but you also saw 790 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,440 Speaker 1: in that game against the Bears and and take with 791 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,600 Speaker 1: the Bears. You know the grain of salt, like I 792 00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,920 Speaker 1: told you they were going to lose that game regardless 793 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,759 Speaker 1: of who quarterbacked, and well, that was right, But I'm 794 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,400 Speaker 1: just covered in we gotta get out of it, that's right, 795 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,640 Speaker 1: Like Swake. I mean I crawled through how many hundreds 796 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,759 Speaker 1: of yards? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, lots, But I mean for 797 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,160 Speaker 1: the Ravens, the big il if anybody could possibly imagine 798 00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,719 Speaker 1: having to crawl through the Jets and the Browns. But 799 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:52,080 Speaker 1: you got Hamilton back, you got uh Rokwan Smith back. Defensively, 800 00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:55,000 Speaker 1: you're playing better football offensively, as long as the line's 801 00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:59,000 Speaker 1: healthy and Lamar's upright, you got a chance. Now. I disagree, 802 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,560 Speaker 1: but I hope you're right, because that means we're not 803 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,920 Speaker 1: talking about the Steelers anymore, pretending that they're good. Well, 804 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,120 Speaker 1: they got to play the Steelers twice, and I think 805 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,640 Speaker 1: they you know, those will be three point games. I'm cool. 806 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,080 Speaker 1: It's a matter of which side of the coin flo. 807 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,520 Speaker 1: I'm cool with it with with the Steelers becoming who 808 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,840 Speaker 1: who who I know they are, and and that nobody 809 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,480 Speaker 1: else seems to know you hate them, I'm okay with that. 810 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,040 Speaker 1: I gotta disagree, but I hope you're right. I'm I'm 811 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:22,960 Speaker 1: rooting for you on this, but you know, the Patriots 812 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,600 Speaker 1: still have the easiest schedule remaining football league not rooting 813 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,719 Speaker 1: for them, only two games on that plus side, one 814 00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,359 Speaker 1: of which is against those said Bills. So we got 815 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,360 Speaker 1: more from the AFC West showdown tonight between the Broncos 816 00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,040 Speaker 1: and the Raiders. Got a hot take coming up next. 817 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,359 Speaker 1: Plus who's that NFC team that's going to be great 818 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,400 Speaker 1: in the next month. That's next, Chason and Mike Fox