Speaker 1: From the King of Sports Books comes the Key Sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by Bet MGM. Here's your host, Jana's
Speaker 1: Papas and Olivia Arlan Decker. Welcome in everybody. This is
Speaker 1: Unleaked by Vet MGM, the King of Sports Books, and
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I can't believe it. This is our
Speaker 1: final episode of the year. We did it, you guys.
Speaker 1: We made it to the end of the year. In
Speaker 1: what a strange year it has been. At that we're
Speaker 1: all going to take a look back at the action,
Speaker 1: the good bets, the bad beats, and everything in between.
Speaker 1: I'm just really glad that really is behind us. COVID
Speaker 1: is officially over. You know, I'm eight hours ahead of
Speaker 1: New York and I can report that COVID is officially over.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. Just start writing the history books right now
Speaker 1: about the abrupt and sudden end to the COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: pandemic on December one. It's amazing. Just kidding, I guess
Speaker 1: we're all still on this crazy train of sticking swabs
Speaker 1: up our noses and never being able to smile at
Speaker 1: strangers again. But truly, what would we do without sports?
Speaker 1: This past year especially, it has been incredible. It gave
Speaker 1: us something to discuss, something to come together, something to watch.
Speaker 1: Really a welcome distraction. Your honest, papas you are my
Speaker 1: co host, You've been with me throughout all of this.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to pick your brain a little bit
Speaker 1: about the highs in the sports world for you this year.
Speaker 1: First off, what comes to mind? Well, at the beginning,
Speaker 1: let me just say my favorite moment was starting this
Speaker 1: podcast with you. Let's just get that out of the way.
Speaker 1: That's the number one sports moment. Then second, my lobbying effort,
Speaker 1: my lob my lobbying efforts. Sorry, I had a half
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee, so I just called it an effort,
Speaker 1: my lobbying effort to get bet MGM to change it
Speaker 1: from the King of sports books to the Queen of
Speaker 1: sports book. I think we need to be inclusive of
Speaker 1: all genders what we consider the hierarchy and the feudal
Speaker 1: system that is this organization. So we are the queen
Speaker 1: of sports books on this podcast. Heymn, yes, yes, can
Speaker 1: we stop assuming genders? Please be honest? YEA, oh oh,
Speaker 1: who's that? You might wonder? Well, that is our third
Speaker 1: co host, Peter Andrew. He's become a regular. It was
Speaker 1: kind of accidental. Again, I told him, he has not
Speaker 1: been in this broadcasting business long enough. He has not
Speaker 1: negotiated his contract to get some dividend of this podcast appearance.
Speaker 1: The poor guy does this for free. You guys for free.
Speaker 1: So Peter Andrew, welcome back. Yeah, we've been through a
Speaker 1: lot this year. I think nothing better than the extensive
Speaker 1: interview process we went to get Jest on board, but
Speaker 1: we are able to do it. And look where we're
Speaker 1: at now, number one podcast in the world. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: It is crazy, And I mean, how do you think
Speaker 1: he's done so far? I think I think he can't
Speaker 1: hear you. Your audio has been so sketchy all year,
Speaker 1: so you probably can't hear you. Anyways, how do you
Speaker 1: think he's done effort? I give him an A plus.
Speaker 1: I think he's getting there. He's taking the steps to
Speaker 1: be an excellent podcast host. He started off swinging, bringing
Speaker 1: stay Mos on, So I mean, right then and there,
Speaker 1: you knew he was gonna come in hot guns blazing.
Speaker 1: But we're getting there. We're We're almost there where he's
Speaker 1: a a perennial powerhouse, kind of like Olivia and the
Speaker 1: rest of the Harlan n Decker family. Wow, high praise.
Speaker 1: You know who we really can ask is the guy
Speaker 1: who hired all of us. He's on with us as well.
Speaker 1: Me Hall Nago, Me Hall, this is your first appearance
Speaker 1: on the show. What do you think? He O'm really
Speaker 1: happy to be here, really happy. Pete's here as well.
Speaker 1: He was probably fifth in line up an MGM, but
Speaker 1: people like Colvin stick and couldn't make it, so even
Speaker 1: actually got to in the list and you're unark to
Speaker 1: the jam. I think, so really happy with how things
Speaker 1: are going, really happy with with our Tree co hosts.
Speaker 1: A year it's been. I'm looking forward to next year
Speaker 1: as well well. If anyone is wondering what they're hearing
Speaker 1: in his voice right there, that is an Irish accent,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, and it's kind of become a joke
Speaker 1: within our bet MGM social team to do me haul
Speaker 1: impersonations and I think my best one is and then
Speaker 1: we can talk at Tree on Thursday, and I think
Speaker 1: that's my favorite line to work about. Let me I'll
Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about where you are in
Speaker 1: Ireland and how even got involved with bet MGM and
Speaker 1: where you were before because your path to this point
Speaker 1: is pretty interesting. Yeah, so I'm actually a Corkman living
Speaker 1: in Dublin. Um, that's an important point to make that
Speaker 1: car people are very very proud of where we come
Speaker 1: from and where we're from the South of Ireland and
Speaker 1: we're a strong sporting county despite me living in Dublin.
Speaker 1: I need to make it clear that from Cork. But yeah,
Speaker 1: a long story short. I work in the gamblet industry
Speaker 1: for a long time. Worked for a company called Patty
Speaker 1: Power over here in Europe for for ten years. Did
Speaker 1: lots of stuff there and got to know a few
Speaker 1: people working at MGM, but starting about the work on
Speaker 1: the side with them, and then was brought in to
Speaker 1: head up their content efforts and been here over a
Speaker 1: year and it's been a really fun time. Got to
Speaker 1: be lots of fun people like Pete and New Olivia
Speaker 1: and bringing Adison board as well. So building a dream
Speaker 1: team over by MGM and really excited about where things
Speaker 1: are going now. I've got to ask when you were
Speaker 1: at Patty Power, I know you guys were able to
Speaker 1: pull off some pretty big stunts. What's the craziest thing
Speaker 1: you all did for marketing social media while at Patty Power,
Speaker 1: but some fun stuff sending Dennis Rodmands. North Korea played
Speaker 1: basketball with pretty good. Yeah. It was called the Big
Speaker 1: Bang in pyeong Yang. It was going pretty well until
Speaker 1: he perhaps killed off his own cale and we kind
Speaker 1: of had to pull the book on that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that was good. But we also did a nice one
Speaker 1: with Stephen Hawking before he passed away for our World Cup,
Speaker 1: a social content called Hawking Talking. He came up with
Speaker 1: a former to take the perfect penalty durning the soccer team.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of funs, little stuff like that. It
Speaker 1: was a pretty pretty impormen, right. I think I think
Speaker 1: those two uh people you just mentioned represent the opposite
Speaker 1: spectrums of human intelligence. Oh gosh, well, this is our
Speaker 1: crew for today to wrap up what's been in incredible years.
Speaker 1: Now you know who everyone is. We're all getting settled in.
Speaker 1: I've got to ask everyone just to go around their
Speaker 1: top moment in sports this year. Jana's kind of skirted
Speaker 1: the question, but maybe now something's come to your mind,
Speaker 1: something that from a betting perspective or just watching absolute
Speaker 1: magic happened in front of you. What stands out as
Speaker 1: you start, I'm gonna have to go with uh combat sports.
Speaker 1: I think it was It's been an incredible year. I
Speaker 1: think the Fury Deontay Wilder fight the trilogy was incredible.
Speaker 1: It was great for boxing. I think the big upset
Speaker 1: with my Greek patriati from Australia, George Combustas was just
Speaker 1: an incredible fight. I think Amanda nunia Is getting upset
Speaker 1: finally getting beat in the UFC was you know, unexpected.
Speaker 1: Then you had the McGregor fight and his ankle falling off,
Speaker 1: losing to Dustin Pourrier again, just the way the UFC
Speaker 1: kind of adapted to COVID protocols and had fights every
Speaker 1: weekend on Fight Island and Dubai. I think it was
Speaker 1: a big year for mm A for the UFC, and
Speaker 1: it really gave people a lot of joy that every
Speaker 1: weekend they could tune in and see someone get their
Speaker 1: face torn off, which is always fun during a pan.
Speaker 1: So a lot of fun moments in combat sports. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm going with. My highlight has been just fist
Speaker 1: the cups, Baby. I like it because you've educated me
Speaker 1: a lot on the whole world of fighting. I I
Speaker 1: didn't know anything, and I've got to say that's one
Speaker 1: of my highlights of the year was going to Vegas
Speaker 1: with our bed MGM family. We purposely we all got
Speaker 1: together actually and decided who and who would not be invited.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry the three of you made the naughty list. Really,
Speaker 1: you all didn't get invited. A fury of you, Wilder.
Speaker 1: We had a blast, We got a joke. We're the
Speaker 1: under thirty crew. We had like five of us, and
Speaker 1: it was a ton of fun. Really regretting being pregnant
Speaker 1: during that trip, we gotta say, because that trip was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun and just really cool to see
Speaker 1: my first fight in person and it being that one
Speaker 1: the trilogy and you know, Fury one, so it's a
Speaker 1: good day for the sports book. He was the favorite
Speaker 1: from a betting perspective. Can you guys weigh in at
Speaker 1: all on what that looked like and I mean how
Speaker 1: it ended up playing out for the sports book, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, especially in McGregor fight. When we talk combat
Speaker 1: sports as a whole, that was one of our bigger
Speaker 1: events for the year for we know how much people
Speaker 1: are all over McGregor and Poor was actually favorite, but
Speaker 1: a lot of dog money there, so that ended up
Speaker 1: being really good for us as a whole combat sports
Speaker 1: is always pretty positive. The Newness fight was another example.
Speaker 1: I think the Wilder Fury fight was pretty even. So
Speaker 1: that's one of the ones where I think there was
Speaker 1: a lot of money coming on both sides and you
Speaker 1: saw the line start to shift as the fight got
Speaker 1: a bit closer. But UFC, I mean, you never know
Speaker 1: what's going to happen, and obviously what happened to Connor
Speaker 1: Le basically chopped in half. That was that was a
Speaker 1: good result for the book. I love it and me Hall,
Speaker 1: what about you, what's coming to mind as a top
Speaker 1: sporting moment in one now in your new role, especially
Speaker 1: maybe paying a little bit more attention to American sports. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was quite a fan of McGregor ga beat to
Speaker 1: be honest as an irishman. That does not alone for
Speaker 1: any over here in the last year too, based off
Speaker 1: some of his outside the octagon adom ticks. But I
Speaker 1: would say looking back at the year the whole, probably
Speaker 1: the two things that stand out to me was first up,
Speaker 1: the Euros Final, England losing to Italy on penalties and
Speaker 1: soccer was huge, especially as an Irish guy. He was
Speaker 1: nice to see England do so well, get so far
Speaker 1: and lose beautifully and penalties was was pretty sweet. But yeah,
Speaker 1: from a U S sports point of view, I would
Speaker 1: say the Super Bowl going back to February and Brady
Speaker 1: winning Super Bowl with the Buccaneers after moving for from
Speaker 1: from the Patriots and a lot of people saying is
Speaker 1: this all about Bill Belichick or Brady and Brady going
Speaker 1: they're improving that he didn't need Belichick too to win
Speaker 1: a super Bowl, winning Super Bowl MVP for the fifth time.
Speaker 1: That's pretty incredible performance, I would say, So that definitely
Speaker 1: stands out at the top moment. I would say it's
Speaker 1: for me, it's coming out of COVID or coming out
Speaker 1: of the start of the first wave of COVID and
Speaker 1: NBA playoffs. He started with Lakers losing Round one, that
Speaker 1: Hawks series versus Knicks, kind of the rise of Trade.
Speaker 1: You saw a lot of opsets. Oh my god, it
Speaker 1: was awesome, and he became the heel. And now people
Speaker 1: are doing crazy because he might not be able to
Speaker 1: play on Christmas in in New York because of COVID protocol.
Speaker 1: So it's built a rivalry that will probably be there
Speaker 1: for the next five ten years. And then you go
Speaker 1: as you get later into the playoffs kind of the
Speaker 1: evolution of what the Sons became in the box where
Speaker 1: you don't have these two powerhouse super teams three four
Speaker 1: bona fide superstars. You actually have a lot of core guys.
Speaker 1: You know, you've got studs like Devin Booker or the Honest,
Speaker 1: but but you're building these teams that are actually winning
Speaker 1: without three max deals or or guys taken less money
Speaker 1: to be able to just join their buddies. And again,
Speaker 1: favorable results of the book, because who the hell thought
Speaker 1: the Bucks and Sons would be there? You know, Nets
Speaker 1: losing in the second round and then Clippers losing as well,
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray losing in or going out for the season
Speaker 1: during the playoffs, so the Nuggets. So a lot of wackiness,
Speaker 1: but it was really fun and nice to see that
Speaker 1: we're getting away from those super teams just slightly and
Speaker 1: actually some other guys have a shot and I think
Speaker 1: at one point they were both plus I'm sorry, the
Speaker 1: Sons were plus win it all. I think Bucks were
Speaker 1: around that thousands of fifteen hundred, So if you cashed
Speaker 1: in at the right time, you made a pretty penny
Speaker 1: either getting into the finals of the the Bucks obviously win
Speaker 1: in the NBA Championship. Yeah, And I'll just say right now,
Speaker 1: I just last night I did it. I ordered the
Speaker 1: NBA League Pass, So last time I did that, I
Speaker 1: really don't remember doing anything else during the day. So
Speaker 1: now I have access to every single basketball game that
Speaker 1: will be happening every single night. So I'll just say
Speaker 1: last night I watched the Utah local broadcast and it
Speaker 1: is boring, all right, they're hard people. They had a
Speaker 1: bear who was playing on pipes, and he was playing
Speaker 1: jingle bells on pipes. That was the halftime show in
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City. They need some acrobats or some fired throwers.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was bored out of my mind, but
Speaker 1: I am excited to watch hoops. Yeah, because when you
Speaker 1: have lead past, you have to watch like the commercial
Speaker 1: break right, like you're watching what's actually happening in the arena. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And the funniest part is watching like the local commercials.
Speaker 1: So like some Salt Lake City used car dealer would
Speaker 1: be like, hey, how you guys doing. My name is Mormon,
Speaker 1: Mormon in I got fifteen kids, my wife, I got
Speaker 1: sixteen wives, and come down and buy yourself a good
Speaker 1: old American Buick here in Salt Lake City. Man. Sixteen wives,
Speaker 1: fifteen kids. That's not good math. One of them is superfluous.
Speaker 1: That's not right. I told you a long time ago, Olivia,
Speaker 1: I'm a picture guy. I'm not a math guy. I'm
Speaker 1: a picture guy. You know, I'm really glad we're doing
Speaker 1: this because some of the moments you all brought up
Speaker 1: I had forgotten about, Like England, Italy, that seems so
Speaker 1: long ago. The Super Bowl, Tom Brady went name. You know,
Speaker 1: it feels like it is almost a year ago. It
Speaker 1: feels so long ago. Let's talk about super Bowl this year.
Speaker 1: While we're all on here. We all have our different
Speaker 1: teams or fans of Maybe one of my highlights, sorry
Speaker 1: to rub this one in, especially to Peter who's a
Speaker 1: forty Niners fan. I think one of my highlights is
Speaker 1: it's been a great year in Wisconsin, sports Bucks winning
Speaker 1: it all. Packers are looking so dangerous. I just I
Speaker 1: think they're a lock to make the Super Bowl. And
Speaker 1: then Aaron Rodgers, and this is one of the more
Speaker 1: interesting stories of the I'm immunized, vaccinated, not vaccinated. The
Speaker 1: scandal around that, all the press and media that got
Speaker 1: and I wondered at the time would this hurt his
Speaker 1: m VP odds, And there was real discussion about that
Speaker 1: since it is a voted award and it's voted on
Speaker 1: by sports writers, and I even was talking with my
Speaker 1: dad on it, who's not an m v P voter,
Speaker 1: and he said, honestly, I feel like people have a
Speaker 1: short memory in his play is so good. I think
Speaker 1: that that storyline will get buried. So this is kind
Speaker 1: of a twofold thing that's bringing up what's an incredible
Speaker 1: storyline of one that gave us a lot to talk about.
Speaker 1: And two, now that we're looking forward at m v
Speaker 1: P at Super Bowl, Defensive Player of the Year, Coach
Speaker 1: of the Year, all the awards, what are some of
Speaker 1: the updated odds, And do you feel like Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: who's still a plus money, is a good spot to
Speaker 1: put some money on. I think it's a great bet.
Speaker 1: And to your first point about do people care, I
Speaker 1: think you're starting to realize or see athletes now speaking
Speaker 1: against the policies, whether it's vaccination or not, but the testing.
Speaker 1: So it's actually going the opposite way where players are
Speaker 1: getting visibly upset and even stop. Steve Iman, the GM president,
Speaker 1: of the Red Wings the other day freaking out about
Speaker 1: it and saying this is ridiculous. So not only do
Speaker 1: people have a short memory, I think they're actually probably
Speaker 1: favoring the side that Rogers has been on for the
Speaker 1: last year. So it's gonna be really interesting to see
Speaker 1: how many people actually kind of switch gears a little
Speaker 1: bit and are kind of in agreement with him and
Speaker 1: the way he's routed this. The handle part in the
Speaker 1: fake facts or not admitting it or whatever, that's one thing.
Speaker 1: But you're right, people have fake vax. We'll get to
Speaker 1: fake vacs later. That's a whole because now that that's
Speaker 1: actually impossibility. Yeah, you know, listen, his play is what matters.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what his immunization is or what he
Speaker 1: speaks on or against. It's he's the guy going to
Speaker 1: make it to there, and and he's got a shot.
Speaker 1: He's going to lose to the Niners in the NFC Championship.
Speaker 1: But but but he's gonna be right there again. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be close like he always is until the Niners
Speaker 1: come in and and stomp on him, stomp on the
Speaker 1: local calliboys. So it'll be interesting. I've got an opinion there, Olivia.
Speaker 1: I can agree with Peace. I think that might come
Speaker 1: back to hold Rogers. In terms of the m v
Speaker 1: P race, I think because it's voters, I think people
Speaker 1: will think about that. But but on top of that,
Speaker 1: more importantly, maybe he won the last year. It's pretty
Speaker 1: rare to get back to back and the f L
Speaker 1: m v ps. For me, he is the best player
Speaker 1: in the league this year. He does so like he
Speaker 1: makes that team take. But as guys in my team, though,
Speaker 1: I've become kind of obsessed with the NFL VP raised
Speaker 1: this year. I follow the markets actively. I've had lots
Speaker 1: of beds on us, a Battle Lamar earlier on this season,
Speaker 1: and back to Mark a couple of games like running
Speaker 1: on Stafford as well. So I've a okay book. But
Speaker 1: at the moment, I'm starting to think it might be
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor is here, to be honest, for m VP.
Speaker 1: It depends on what people now consider the m v
Speaker 1: P of a team. I think in the league's eyes,
Speaker 1: it's the it ends up being the person who has
Speaker 1: the best record or gets them to the playoffs and
Speaker 1: gets them to whatever stage. But if you're talking about
Speaker 1: an actual guy that if you moved him from that team,
Speaker 1: that team would be absolutely garbage. It's probably Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: because that guy attributes for what seventy percent of their offense.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz with his kind of costing mistakes, they don't
Speaker 1: really have a solidified number one ride receiver. That guy
Speaker 1: does it all and he's he's proven it. I think
Speaker 1: he's got fifteen plus touchdowns this year well, leading the
Speaker 1: league and rushing our So it depends. It's I don't
Speaker 1: know that that's the route the NFL takes, but that's
Speaker 1: why I say, you know, if if they continue on
Speaker 1: the path of gone the last five ten years with
Speaker 1: the voting, I think it is Rogers. But if me
Speaker 1: Nagels on the board and making that vote, I think
Speaker 1: it's the opposite. It's shat Rogers is a plus two fifty.
Speaker 1: When I'm placing a Benn m VP market, I want
Speaker 1: to find a little bit of value for me. Rogers
Speaker 1: a plus two fifty at the same price as Brady
Speaker 1: is plus to fifty is not good value. I would
Speaker 1: order back Taylor of a privacy plus nine plus one
Speaker 1: thousand around US. I would order back the year at
Speaker 1: the odds right now, at the time of recording obviously
Speaker 1: bat Stafford plays nice again, that's the Seahawks prime time
Speaker 1: TV game. These odds could shorten up again, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't back Rogers based off of what happened early
Speaker 1: this year and based off the fat with the last
Speaker 1: year plus two fifties too short for me. That's interesting.
Speaker 1: There's one interesting one that comes into play. It's the
Speaker 1: local boy for Olivia. It's Mahomes when they're there's some
Speaker 1: recency bias when they've played as well as they have
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks. I mean, you always
Speaker 1: have to throw his name where he started, and you
Speaker 1: know they had a tough let's call it, first six
Speaker 1: weeks in the season, but he's been roaring. And what
Speaker 1: you saw on the fourth quarter the other day in
Speaker 1: that that Thursday night came against the Chargers plus twelve,
Speaker 1: it's worth a flyer on it, I think, and picked
Speaker 1: umping into that. Like you said, the rough plus six
Speaker 1: first six weeks. He actually played quite well the first
Speaker 1: three or four games. So in first September, the Chiefs
Speaker 1: played well. They may be a bad spot of October
Speaker 1: and they played badly in two or three games and
Speaker 1: he had like one touchdown and two touchdown games. But
Speaker 1: for me, he should I agree with you. I think
Speaker 1: he should be shorter than what it is. Like Josh
Speaker 1: Allen was favorite in depending until two or three weeks ago,
Speaker 1: Like I couldn't understand that. I don't my Homes has
Speaker 1: had a much better season with Josh Allen, but the
Speaker 1: narrative and went against the Holmes for some reason. And
Speaker 1: if you think about the next couple of weeks, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be really hard for Brady as short priced favorite
Speaker 1: or co favorite without Godwin now out the year in
Speaker 1: Heavan's game to game decision for NET. Banged up Gronk
Speaker 1: has not been the entire year. So without the targets,
Speaker 1: Ken Brady plus two fifty favorite exactly can he actually
Speaker 1: solidify it and put up forty points with with no
Speaker 1: targets essentially, So it's gonna be really intriguing. And as
Speaker 1: a quarterback, can you get m v P voting if
Speaker 1: you pitched a shut out? You know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's such an ugly mark on your record. At
Speaker 1: least Patrick Mahomes, they put up a whop in three
Speaker 1: points on the Titans, so they at least have that
Speaker 1: he didn't get shut out. Big time. Yeah, I'm sticking
Speaker 1: with the real sleeper, Davante Adams. I think they may
Speaker 1: give it. They may want to give it to Rogers
Speaker 1: because he's clearly the m v P. But it looks
Speaker 1: like now defenses are putting two guys on Davante Adams
Speaker 1: for the whole game. He's the best wide receiver. I'm
Speaker 1: saying it's gonna be a huge upset. Put your money
Speaker 1: on Davante Adams. That's my call. And you know how
Speaker 1: right I've been this year. I throw haymakers and I'm
Speaker 1: often right, So I go with my heart. I love
Speaker 1: watching the guy play, and I think he's making Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers is life so easy right now and opens up
Speaker 1: so much because he gets so much attention that I
Speaker 1: think he's the most valuable player in the NFL. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to ask me haul of question related to
Speaker 1: his real expertise. This is why we wanted to bring
Speaker 1: you on because you are the absolute expert for the
Speaker 1: answer to this question. What is the over under the
Speaker 1: plus minus? On the podcast Unleashed being Resigned, It's it's
Speaker 1: a very good question, like we'll have to put all
Speaker 1: the stops in the run to the Super Bowl the
Speaker 1: is to see what we can do. But yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty happy, hieriting things are going so far. I would
Speaker 1: say it's a pretty sharpe favorite to be resigned. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that a lot. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: do have Super Bowl coming up, and that's kind of
Speaker 1: our next big event in person that we're getting together
Speaker 1: with our bed MGM family is going to be It's
Speaker 1: going to be exciting. Everyone needs to make sure they're
Speaker 1: following all but MGM social channels because we're going to
Speaker 1: have so much content that week. So just keep that
Speaker 1: in mind. And obviously we're gonna do so much NFL
Speaker 1: content through the ment of January trying to get everyone ready,
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping to bring on some local people. Again,
Speaker 1: I just have in my head the packers are making it,
Speaker 1: so I just have like little favors I need to
Speaker 1: ask of local reporters, former players, all the stuff I
Speaker 1: need to do. But it kind of triggered my memory
Speaker 1: here as we're talking about Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: because something I wanted to ask you guys was favorite
Speaker 1: sports storyline off the field, off the court this season,
Speaker 1: and I think one of my favorites and we do
Speaker 1: have an update. This has been a story we keep
Speaker 1: up with on the show. Is Jackson Mahomes. We followed
Speaker 1: this one from the beginning when he poured water on
Speaker 1: a Raiders fan dancing on Sean Taylor's memorial site at
Speaker 1: a Washington game. Overall just being really cringe e on
Speaker 1: social media. I think we can all agree on that
Speaker 1: he's just too damn easy to hate. Plus local stuff
Speaker 1: I hear in my hometown of Kansas City about the
Speaker 1: whole family that I just think is kind of disturbing. Well,
Speaker 1: one Kansas City business finally had enough. It's called s
Speaker 1: OT in downtown Kansas City. They you know, he allegedly
Speaker 1: came there. He was rude, unkind, caused a scene, made
Speaker 1: unreasonable requests. The restaurant took to Instagram just absolutely roasting him.
Speaker 1: And I guess this is my off the field sports
Speaker 1: story that I have just had a little bit too
Speaker 1: much fun following this season. So now you guys go around,
Speaker 1: what's your off the field sports story? Mine? I think
Speaker 1: would be the It's Twofold, It's Tiger Woods and his
Speaker 1: kind of return these last couple of weeks at the
Speaker 1: p n C after everything that happened but it's also
Speaker 1: what we're gonna get with Charlie Woods for probably the
Speaker 1: next ten years, twenty years. So Tiger obviously one of
Speaker 1: the Master's two years ago, looked like he was back
Speaker 1: in top form. Obviously had that terrible accident, you know,
Speaker 1: I think it was probably eight months ago now at
Speaker 1: this point. So seeing him come back recover looked really
Speaker 1: good all things considered. And then Charlie Wood's his twelve
Speaker 1: year old son, I think coming in plane and looking
Speaker 1: like he is going to be one of, if not
Speaker 1: the next big thing in golf. Golf has kind of
Speaker 1: taken in elevation, especially with COVID everybody's playing. I think
Speaker 1: it's become kind of one of the more major sports. Now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a quick fun one. So over here we
Speaker 1: have a sport called snooker. I'm I'm sure if you
Speaker 1: guys know what. Snooker is quite a popular sport in Europe.
Speaker 1: There was quite a fun story earlier this year, during
Speaker 1: the summer of the British Open, there was a snooker
Speaker 1: player called Mark Allen and in the first round of
Speaker 1: the tournament he was playing. He's divorced wife Rhan Evans,
Speaker 1: and the marriage I think ended in kind of acrimonious
Speaker 1: circumstances and before the game started, there'sn't traditionally like a
Speaker 1: shake of hands before they they hit the cue ball
Speaker 1: and Mark Allen went to shake he's divorced wife's hand
Speaker 1: and she snubbed him, and it was really, really really awkwards. Um,
Speaker 1: So I would look that moment up on YouTube. It's
Speaker 1: quite funny to look at. But in terms of US sports,
Speaker 1: the Urban Meyer story for me has been it just
Speaker 1: has been great fun to follow up. Like he must
Speaker 1: be like university the most head figure in all the
Speaker 1: football right now, Like from day one, he's sunned like
Speaker 1: a racist offensive line coach. Um. He drafted Travis Ai
Speaker 1: and despite having James Robinson, a really good running back,
Speaker 1: he said there was a quarterback contest being Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: and Garner Minshew. And despite lawrensing number one taking the draft,
Speaker 1: whatever happened when he's locked at Singing, he's where you
Speaker 1: know oo, he's he's like really weird handshake and Mike Vrabel,
Speaker 1: he's former coach, is just old Josh Lambo. Kicking Josh
Speaker 1: Lambo was absolutely hilarious. And you know the funniest thing
Speaker 1: was I actually had the best and started to see
Speaker 1: night the best on urban Meyer, but to be the
Speaker 1: first NFL coach sacked. And after the lap dancing instant,
Speaker 1: I was like, picturing, wasn't spend my money on? I was,
Speaker 1: I had to think some bet and that was like,
Speaker 1: I gonna think my wife, I for a nice dinner
Speaker 1: and bring her somewhere lovely and just really treat her
Speaker 1: because this is going to be easy money. And then
Speaker 1: of course, um, John Green and John Cruden happened. Yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever happened there. Herban Mayer definitely was a fun story
Speaker 1: to find up for me, It really was fun because
Speaker 1: like no one got hurt. He just kept making an
Speaker 1: ass of himself. I mean, that was that was such
Speaker 1: a good story. Ye honest, you had some fun with
Speaker 1: that urban Meyer story too. That your favorite. It's definitely
Speaker 1: one of my favorite and me Hall just covered it.
Speaker 1: So I'll just switch gears and say I think it
Speaker 1: was pretty amazing. Let's not forget the Olympics happened this
Speaker 1: past year, and uh, you know, I was, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: into the Olympics because I just want the United States
Speaker 1: to be number one and we ended up being number
Speaker 1: one in gold medals by one, so we don't we
Speaker 1: beat China by one? I think it was thirty nine
Speaker 1: thirty eight. Overall medal count was like one thirteen to
Speaker 1: eighty eight. But the Simone Bile story was pretty cool
Speaker 1: because we lost one of our favorite, you know, gold
Speaker 1: medal accumulators, and we still edged out China. So that
Speaker 1: just lets the CCP now that we're still a force
Speaker 1: to be reckoned with. Don't mess with the USA. These
Speaker 1: colors don't run baby covid CCP. You want to smoke,
Speaker 1: we got this smoke. Can I jump into the Olympics
Speaker 1: one as well, because I'm a big Olympics guy. And
Speaker 1: that the women's form Ireland do okay? Were we were
Speaker 1: in competing with communist countries? Are the US to be honest?
Speaker 1: But that the women's form the meters hurdles final, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Sydney McLaughlin and I'm not sure if you watched that,
Speaker 1: but Sitney in the Glaukins in a new wor on
Speaker 1: record and beating a park and Patrick de Laila Muhammad.
Speaker 1: I thought that was an amazing race. And Simmy McLaughlin
Speaker 1: was a big story coming in the Olympics. That was
Speaker 1: a fantastic moment. Yeah, and the small bile story was cool.
Speaker 1: It's just like it brought a lot of attention to
Speaker 1: how difficult gymnastics is and how mentally if you're off,
Speaker 1: how dangerous it is to play that sport if you
Speaker 1: get the twisties. I didn't know what the twisties was
Speaker 1: before this, and so that was kind of a cool
Speaker 1: story to to really focus on what those gals and
Speaker 1: boys do, you know, And it was nice to remember
Speaker 1: that there was males gymnastics. I didn't even know that,
Speaker 1: you know, I forgot that they existed. So because she
Speaker 1: was out, I paid attention to the men a little bit,
Speaker 1: and uh, a couple of those guys got some pretty
Speaker 1: sweet packages in those tight shorts. Okay, are you up
Speaker 1: at like three am watching that when your wife's gone
Speaker 1: in bed? Yeah? I mean I was into it. I'm
Speaker 1: into the Olympics just because you know, I want to.
Speaker 1: I want, like I said, I want the United States
Speaker 1: to come out on top. And we did. We still
Speaker 1: got the goods, so that was nice. I love that
Speaker 1: great recap everyone. I I especially like me Hall's recap
Speaker 1: of Urban Meyer almost like monthly, like you were a
Speaker 1: lawyer presenting this in a court case. I really like that. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've got one final question. I want everyone to answer it.
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward everyone's answer. I hope everyone's answer
Speaker 1: is different. How about favorite podcast guest this year? We
Speaker 1: have had so many. We've had I think up to
Speaker 1: five NFL Hall of Famers, Pro Football Hall of Famers.
Speaker 1: We've had Olympians, we've had MLB, We've had fighters. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's been a lot of fun comedians, very handsome actors.
Speaker 1: I guess that's where I had to start. John Stamos,
Speaker 1: That's just a really tough act to follow. And I'll
Speaker 1: never forget when we did that episode. I came out
Speaker 1: and my husband had opened a bottle of wine and
Speaker 1: cooked in and I was like, WHOA, I wish I
Speaker 1: have stay mos on more often. This is that wonderful reaction.
Speaker 1: He was a little jealous. I think, what about you, guys,
Speaker 1: y honest you start, You've been front and center for
Speaker 1: all of them. Yeah. I gotta say they were so
Speaker 1: many amazing guests. Your dad was a highlight. Getting Kevin
Speaker 1: Harlan on Suggs was amazing. But I gotta say I
Speaker 1: think the funnest one we had was maybe Dwayne Bow.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was really funny, especially with that Urban
Speaker 1: Meyer story, the way he was so willing to joke
Speaker 1: about how he thought it wasn't a big deal and
Speaker 1: how you know, guys need to blow off steam and uh,
Speaker 1: Dan Orlovski was great with his dog impersonation and then
Speaker 1: you tried to you tried to get him to do
Speaker 1: his uh what was his impersonation? That was horrible and
Speaker 1: then you just called him on it. Remember that you
Speaker 1: were like, yeah, he did a Peyton manning that just
Speaker 1: absolutely sucked. That was really funny. Yeah, I think those
Speaker 1: are those are my favorite. I think I Stephen Jackson
Speaker 1: in in Vegas was probably overall the funnest me and
Speaker 1: you had. He was so well, you were buzzed. I
Speaker 1: was buzzed. I was definitely buzzed. You were kind of
Speaker 1: licking you up a little bit before you didn't know
Speaker 1: I was pregnant. I was like one week pregnant, trying
Speaker 1: to hide it. Yeah, but you know how how we
Speaker 1: got him to say him and Marshall Falk, you know,
Speaker 1: to talk about that sort of rivalry was a fun moment.
Speaker 1: There's so many fun moments. I mean, we've really had
Speaker 1: some great guests and some great interviews, and uh so
Speaker 1: it's hard to pick one. Yeah, guys, what sticks out
Speaker 1: for me? It's too that you guys touched on as
Speaker 1: a listener who's stay most. I think he was fucking amazing.
Speaker 1: You know, he's obviously not the biggest sports scorers, So
Speaker 1: you guys got out of got out of the sports
Speaker 1: segment of the podcast a little bit, which was funny.
Speaker 1: You had like one line you gave him talking about
Speaker 1: how all your friends, you and your friends go googly
Speaker 1: for him, and I forget what his responsib was, but
Speaker 1: it was hysterical. So I was actually listening to that
Speaker 1: as a fan. And then the one I got to
Speaker 1: keep of or or one of a few, is I
Speaker 1: think your dad, Kevin Harley, we have to do that
Speaker 1: cool little segment where I would give him a quote
Speaker 1: that of something he said before on TV and he
Speaker 1: had to guess the teams or the situation and he
Speaker 1: went I think I think it was like seven for seven.
Speaker 1: He knew everything, including baby Abigail, the halftime baby that
Speaker 1: was just crawling across the court, and he even knew
Speaker 1: the name of it, which was incredible. So that was like,
Speaker 1: because it's my sister's name. He said he'll never forget that.
Speaker 1: So for for me to get to, like, you know,
Speaker 1: have fifteen ments with him was kind of cool, especially
Speaker 1: growing up listening to him on football, college basketball, NBA.
Speaker 1: So that was that was fun. That was a great one.
Speaker 1: Yeah for me, I think you had it's called and
Speaker 1: all the guys I like, aside from your dad Dwayne
Speaker 1: bowl Like Dwayne Bowle was was surprisingly funny. I don't
Speaker 1: really know what he's going to be like, to be honest,
Speaker 1: I thought it was good full bok T stizzle For me,
Speaker 1: he was number one. Yeah, he was really funny, neat
Speaker 1: to some great stories, but he also came across as
Speaker 1: really smart, like he's he's recalled for particular games I
Speaker 1: told was incredible, Like he kind of showed you what
Speaker 1: he must have been like as a player, Like you
Speaker 1: can recall particular plays from certain games, and you see
Speaker 1: T saves a lot TV having fun or in Ballers
Speaker 1: with the Rock and Entourage or whatever else he's been on.
Speaker 1: These seems like this kind of really fun character. But
Speaker 1: he clearly he's a really smart guy as well, which
Speaker 1: which people kind of forget about. I think, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny here and you bring some of these up.
Speaker 1: I've I've almost forgotten about some of them. It's been amazing.
Speaker 1: Once a week doesn't sound like a lot, but once
Speaker 1: a week flies by to record and post a show,
Speaker 1: so they add up quick. But I mean, we're so
Speaker 1: lucky we get amazing guests on the show. And that's
Speaker 1: that's why I keep coming back. I think that's why
Speaker 1: our listeners keep coming back. And then j honest, you've
Speaker 1: been an absolute pleasure to work with this year. You
Speaker 1: you truly you crack me up. We have a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. I have a lot of fun at your expense,
Speaker 1: and I will continue to do so. But this has
Speaker 1: just been such a blessing. I'm really grateful for all
Speaker 1: of you. So thank you so much for everything everyone does,
Speaker 1: because it's a whole team effort. Yeah, it's been fun.
Speaker 1: It's looking forward too, and uh, looking forward to those
Speaker 1: contract renegotiations too, since I'm yeah, Peter, I'm going to
Speaker 1: hook you up with my agent. You've got to talk.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Yeah, and Maddie and Joel behind the scenes
Speaker 1: doing an unbelievable job and make us look good. So
Speaker 1: shout out to them for a great year. Maddie's incredible. Joel.
Speaker 1: Me and Joel have such a long history. It's good
Speaker 1: to be working with him again. Joel Solomon. So it's
Speaker 1: a really star studied team here, and I look forward
Speaker 1: to how much we're gonna grow. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: And our resident Aaron Rodgers look like. Alex does such
Speaker 1: an amazing job. He makes us look good, sound good.
Speaker 1: Every time Yanna can't pronounce a word on half a
Speaker 1: cup of coffee or just drops a million f bombs,
Speaker 1: Alex cleans it up. We're really appreciative of that. Who
Speaker 1: can forget Alex just the job he has to do,
Speaker 1: just to get our sound right for twenty five minutesfore
Speaker 1: we forgo lives. Yeah that's right. Well let's do a
Speaker 1: virtual cheers to an awesome yeah cheers. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I can't believe it's the final two weeks of the
Speaker 1: NFL season. It's longer than it's ever been. It feels
Speaker 1: like a long sea season, doesn't he honest, it does. Well.
Speaker 1: They added a game. You know, a day feels like
Speaker 1: a year right now during this pandemic, So I don't
Speaker 1: even know what time is. I'm back inside, I'm in
Speaker 1: New York City. We're getting hit hard, but we're battling back.
Speaker 1: We're New Yorkers. We're gonna make it. We're gonna do Okay,
Speaker 1: and this virus doesn't seem like it's killing anybody. But
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not angry. It just means I'm
Speaker 1: inside watching more sports. Okay, Well, you're gonna have your
Speaker 1: hands full this weekend. It's kind of a war of
Speaker 1: attrition at this point. It's whoever is healthy. That's the
Speaker 1: whole debate about adding this extra game is really what
Speaker 1: position groups take the most beating. We've been talking a
Speaker 1: lot about that in my household of does it make
Speaker 1: a big difference to quarterbacks, Maybe not, but to an
Speaker 1: offensive lignement, Yeah, that that extra game that can shorten careers,
Speaker 1: that's that's a big game changer. But it does make
Speaker 1: the playoff race very interesting now, especially in the a
Speaker 1: f C. It's very tight going into week seventeen. The
Speaker 1: playoff picture is finally kind of crystallizing. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be good. I picked out a couple of games. Peter
Speaker 1: cannot join us, but I think I can fill in
Speaker 1: just fine, and we're gonna do our normal punishment picks.
Speaker 1: So my first one, Yanni Poppy, is a very important
Speaker 1: one for the Kansas City Chiefs. They are at the
Speaker 1: Bengals and they have to win this game and then
Speaker 1: the game against the Broncos the next week to finish
Speaker 1: out to have the first place, the first seed in
Speaker 1: the a f C because they lost to the Titans
Speaker 1: earlier in the season, so they really have to finish
Speaker 1: strong here. So Chiefs at Bengals. Let me give you
Speaker 1: the line here right now, Kansas City is a five
Speaker 1: point favorite. What do you think I'll take it? I
Speaker 1: think uh, I think they're gonna win by more. I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna win by more. I'm taking Kansas City.
Speaker 1: They're the team that looks to me like they're putting
Speaker 1: it together at the right time. And guess what I
Speaker 1: am now calling The Chiefs are gonna win the Super Bowl. Now,
Speaker 1: Green Bay, I'm not impressed with Green based defense. I'm
Speaker 1: not impressed with their special teams that give up too
Speaker 1: much points. The offense is the best in the league.
Speaker 1: But Kansas City is gonna win the Super Bowl. You
Speaker 1: heard it here first on New Year's Whenever you're listening
Speaker 1: to this, well, I I guess I gotta agree with you,
Speaker 1: although I've gotten pretty enamored with all the Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: stuff this week. He's so fiery and fun to watch,
Speaker 1: and I love that he just kind of claps back.
Speaker 1: And I've been listening on a bunch of podcasts, two
Speaker 1: different scouts and and everyone who really analyzes quarterbacks, and
Speaker 1: they're like, there's glimpses of Tom Brady and Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: which is pretty scary thing to say this early, which
Speaker 1: I love. I'm a Joe Burrow fan. I guess I
Speaker 1: still like the Chiefs if this were in Arrowhead, for sure,
Speaker 1: but I'll agree with you on this one. I'll take
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. I just want to say, it sounds like
Speaker 1: you've been watching Man in the Arena. I mean, have
Speaker 1: you been watching Man in the sound? A little fired
Speaker 1: up on Tom Brady comparisons. No, it's on a very
Speaker 1: long list. It's amazing. There are still things we have
Speaker 1: not watched over here in Turkey because we watched a
Speaker 1: lot of shows. But now I've been dying to watch that. Okay,
Speaker 1: the next game is also a five point game. It's
Speaker 1: Cardinals at Cowboys. Just off the top of your head,
Speaker 1: who do you think is the five point favorite. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with the Cowboys. They didn't think you're right? Yeah, Cowboys,
Speaker 1: they clinched, They're looking good. They're Super Bowl contender. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. And this sounds super awkward to ever say
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys, but I feel like they've underratedly gotten
Speaker 1: to eleven wins. Like Cowboys are the least underrated team
Speaker 1: in the world. I understand that, but they kind of
Speaker 1: had a slump and now here they are, they look
Speaker 1: good and they're kind of winning these games quietly, if
Speaker 1: that's possible, or maybe no one's talking about it here
Speaker 1: in Istanbul, I don't know, but hard is the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: Cowboys and five point favorite. I've gotta go with the Boys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, for two we've just invented a new word.
Speaker 1: I intend on using it again. Oh, HD just came
Speaker 1: up with a new one, underratedly Yeah, so um yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going with I'm going with the with the old
Speaker 1: Marlborough Boys, the Marlborough Men, the Cowboys. I like to
Speaker 1: wear their plan and uh, you know, I'm so angry
Speaker 1: at the Giants that why not, I'll just go with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. And it's almost that I have less faith
Speaker 1: in the Cardinals. They've just looked horrible. I hate watching
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury coach every week. DeAndre Hopkins is out until
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They're saying the defense gives up big plays.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals have been a big, fat question mark. And
Speaker 1: I would love a show of hands to having people
Speaker 1: picked them to win the Super Bowl. How many people
Speaker 1: were so hot and Kyler Murray for m v P.
Speaker 1: I mean, Cardinals were a much talked about team and
Speaker 1: now here we are, so yeah, okay, we both picked
Speaker 1: the Boys. We have to disagree on this third one,
Speaker 1: you know, because still too much Kumbaya. We're still feeling
Speaker 1: a little too warm and fuzzy from Christmas. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is the Monday night football game. It's kind of a stinker.
Speaker 1: But the reason I'm bringing it up one, it's prime
Speaker 1: time and these are two seven win teams with a
Speaker 1: heated rivalry, so it's always kind of fun to watch
Speaker 1: Browns at Steelers, and the Browns are three and a
Speaker 1: half point favorite. Okay, you go first. Oh you want
Speaker 1: to steal my idea or you want to take the opposite, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you go first. Okay, Okay, I guess I like the
Speaker 1: Steelers to cover. So I'm gonna go at the underdog here.
Speaker 1: Browns have been so sussed as the kids say, And
Speaker 1: I hate to just completely lose faith in Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: but he looked horrible at lambau Field and I just
Speaker 1: can't put any trust in them. I'm going to take
Speaker 1: the underdog Steelers. Yeah, well the Steelers have looked pretty
Speaker 1: bad as well. They both they both look horrible. They're
Speaker 1: going in the wrong direction. Yeah, Baker Mayfield, he got
Speaker 1: his uniforms confused last week when you just throw it
Speaker 1: to the wrong team. Looks like O. D B is
Speaker 1: just in a better relationship right now. He's getting his
Speaker 1: glow on. He's dancing again. He's a I'm sorry what
Speaker 1: I called Did I call him HD or did I
Speaker 1: call him LB J old dirty bastard? Oh? I called
Speaker 1: him O. D B. I'm sorry, Odell back up JR.
Speaker 1: He's got his glow up. He's in a new relationship.
Speaker 1: It looks like it wasn't him. You know, we all
Speaker 1: believe it's like when you when you break up and
Speaker 1: you believe your friend and then you hear the other
Speaker 1: side and you're like, oh no, maybe it was the Browns.
Speaker 1: So um, I am going to go with the brown stole.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Browns, and I'll tell you why,
Speaker 1: because you went with Pittsburgh. Yeah. Well, actually that kind
Speaker 1: of ties a bow on that really nicely. So I'm excited.
Speaker 1: That's now the one game that we disagreed on. That's
Speaker 1: the one we've got to watch next week. But this
Speaker 1: past week we actually tied Honas, which I think has
Speaker 1: only happened once or twice this season. We rarely tie,
Speaker 1: We rarely see eye to eye. There we go. So
Speaker 1: how about, in the spirit of New Year's Eve, instead
Speaker 1: of having to write the outro for the other or
Speaker 1: in this case would be Peter Andrew, how about we
Speaker 1: do our New Year's Eve sports betting resolution. Do you
Speaker 1: like that? A resolution? Guy? You're like, I mean, you
Speaker 1: are coming up with some great ideas. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's that you're over there in Turkey and like
Speaker 1: there's not much to do, so you're just sitting around
Speaker 1: getting creative. I don't know what it is, but it's
Speaker 1: a great idea. Okay, Okay, yeah, I already know what
Speaker 1: mine is because it was one of the games I
Speaker 1: mentioned for this week's punishment pick. So this one's easy
Speaker 1: for me. Okay, So my New Year's fourth betting resolution
Speaker 1: is gonna surprise you a little bit. I got really
Speaker 1: cold on my hometown Kansas City Chiefs halfway through the season.
Speaker 1: Listeners can go back and hear me, and it mostly
Speaker 1: had to do with Jack from the Homes. But they
Speaker 1: went through a slump. The defense looked horrible. They had
Speaker 1: the four losses early. But now, boy, they turned a page.
Speaker 1: They've won eight straight. They look so impressive. The offense
Speaker 1: has been on fire. They've scored at least thirty four
Speaker 1: points in four of their last six games. And that
Speaker 1: defense that was so maligned have gotten their act together.
Speaker 1: So now actually it's the strength of their team. Seven
Speaker 1: of those last eight wins they've held opponents to under
Speaker 1: seventeen points. That is insane. So I mentioned they still
Speaker 1: play at Cincinnati this weekend and then Denver. They must
Speaker 1: win for the number one seed in the a f
Speaker 1: C because of that tiebreaker with Tennessee. Remember that's the
Speaker 1: game they only put up three points, So that game
Speaker 1: could come back to haunt them. That that was just
Speaker 1: ugly and that was the peak of my um. Chiefs
Speaker 1: look down. We can call it another one I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So they've lost four games. I mentioned, that's the same
Speaker 1: number when they won the Super Bowl a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. So I am resolute, resolving, keep inventing words.
Speaker 1: This is your episode to do that. You're adding to
Speaker 1: the American lexicon right now. What's the verb of resolution?
Speaker 1: Make one up? We got the look down and we
Speaker 1: got underestimatingly, so we got some good ones. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: like the resoluting, resolute, resolute, go for it. I am
Speaker 1: resoluting to just I've been have America too long. I've
Speaker 1: been speaking English, you've been You've been speaking Turkish for
Speaker 1: too long. I am resolving, You're resigned, You're you're resigning. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me just tie you bow on this and get
Speaker 1: out of here. So my New Year's fourth bedding resolution
Speaker 1: is don't give up on your hometown team. That was
Speaker 1: cold of me, and I don't know what I was thinking.
Speaker 1: I am with the Chiefs here on out. I think
Speaker 1: they win out these last two games, and just like
Speaker 1: you said, Jannest, I think they're a strong super Bowl contender.
Speaker 1: And I think my two teams will meet in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. How do you like that? I like them Apples,
Speaker 1: I like them apples. You know, it's good to see
Speaker 1: a little loyalty back in you. You know, I could
Speaker 1: tell you why you did that. It's because you are cold.
Speaker 1: We know, everyone knows that you You go with the numbers,
Speaker 1: you go with the with very good analysis, but you
Speaker 1: don't go with your heart. And that's why I often
Speaker 1: beat you at the end, because I go with my heart.
Speaker 1: I'm a Mediterranean kid and I'm all hard and I'm
Speaker 1: very little knowledge because I'm stupid. So that's a great one. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that you're back on with the Chiefs. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know what. My New Year's resolution this year is,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch more sports. I'm gonna watch more sports.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about anything that's on. I'm talking you know,
Speaker 1: college volleyball, I'm talking if I see look cross on.
Speaker 1: I'm watching everything because I think sports, in this god
Speaker 1: forsaken cynical time that we're living in, sports is like
Speaker 1: the only pure thing left, you know. So I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna start watching more sports, and I'm gonna start putting
Speaker 1: more juice on games. That's my resolution for twenty two.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start believing in myself more when I bet,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna start putting this a little more action
Speaker 1: on games. I've grown a lot of confidence because I've
Speaker 1: been able to beat Olivia almost every week in one
Speaker 1: So why not start putting my money where my mouth
Speaker 1: is and put some juice on games and win some
Speaker 1: money for my daughter's diapers. But you know what, I
Speaker 1: got the league past, so I'm gonna I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: start watching hoops hoops season. It is about to uh
Speaker 1: to kick up. I'm excited to start talking hoops on
Speaker 1: this show. And we should even start covering the Turkish
Speaker 1: League because you know, we have one of our boys
Speaker 1: is playing over there, so you know, we gotta start
Speaker 1: covering what's going on over there and see if the
Speaker 1: shish Kababs are beating the donors. You know, we's going
Speaker 1: out with the Baba first, Humus, Hey, you should put
Speaker 1: some money on these games. They're undefeated. Since Sammy D's
Speaker 1: got in here, I've been following. I followed him on Instagram.
Speaker 1: By the way, the kid puts together a nice outfit.
Speaker 1: The kid could dress, Yes, yes he does, he really does,
Speaker 1: and he takes pride in it. Yeah, I mean, the
Speaker 1: kid is stylish. Dude, you could never tell he was
Speaker 1: from kwan. He looks like he was born and bred
Speaker 1: in New York City or Italy. I mean the kid
Speaker 1: could walk around Milan and I think he would turn heads.
Speaker 1: He would turn heads in Milan. I mean he is
Speaker 1: kid is fashionable, he said, And you never know he's
Speaker 1: from kwans You never know he was from Wisconsin. You know,
Speaker 1: you picture those kids being five hundred pounds, having a
Speaker 1: cheese head and wearing you know, wearing crocs to the game.
Speaker 1: But you know, or or at least those like, uh,
Speaker 1: those mountain climbing Merralds. But you know, the kid doesn't
Speaker 1: wear socks, got loafers on. He's got like a fitted
Speaker 1: I mean, the kid has just put together. He's put together.
Speaker 1: He dresses very well. Sam Decker, yeah, Hones, this show man,
Speaker 1: you keep me laughing. I can't wait for many more
Speaker 1: episodes in two man, it's so weird to even say that.
Speaker 1: But grateful for you, my friend. As we've already discussed
Speaker 1: with our bosses on this show this week, this was
Speaker 1: a very interesting show. This was a good one, but
Speaker 1: really thankful and looking forward to more memories with our
Speaker 1: audience as well. So make sure You're always staying in
Speaker 1: touch with us on social media, especially Janice. His thought
Speaker 1: bikini pictures are all on his Instagram. You're gonna want
Speaker 1: to see those, And just let us know who you
Speaker 1: want to see on the show next because it's going
Speaker 1: to be a stacked two. Thanks so much everyone. Happy
Speaker 1: New Year's everybody,