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Speaker 1: me dabble, you know, a hundred fifty passing yards plus

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Speaker 1: so I haven't won one one that one. It's interesting

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Speaker 1: I don't know is Roger's going to score, you know,

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Speaker 1: even imagine. I literally will talk. I'll give I'll give

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Speaker 1: That's the stuff I need answers to Brian heads are tails? Heads?

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Speaker 1: no I would tell? Why would I not tell? I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you no, definitely not in that world. But even

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Speaker 1: like you know, they would have somebody to call before games,

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Speaker 1: We weren't saying little, let's move on Cincinnati and who

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Speaker 1: Were you surprised? Who did you? Who did you? Who

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Speaker 1: I know we both love the Bengals. Talk about this.

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Speaker 1: And I know this for a fact, he'll print out

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Speaker 1: every tweet, every awful thing said about any of these

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Speaker 1: players are how they can't do it, and he will

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Speaker 1: slip it to them in meetings all week long leading

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Speaker 1: evidence you need. It's so funny. I don't know the

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00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 1: name of the mayor of Cincinnati, and this is like

421
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: the biggest story in sports, and nobody knows, and everyone's

422
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 1: so mad at him that nobody cares to ask. But

423
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 1: do you have any I have no idea his name is.

424
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 1: It's just that Cincinnati mayor. That's Cincinnati mayor. I know

425
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:52,440
Speaker 1: that missed the story. Cincinnati. That's the other funny part.

426
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 1: Was Cincinnati boy he is he went to Cinacy first?

427
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 1: Where did he go to school? The Kelsey's, both of them,

428
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: let's look, thank you, University of Cincinnati. I didn't say wrong.

429
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: To be clear, I did not. I did not indicate

430
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: that you were wrong. I didn't say you were wrong.

431
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 1: Where did Jason go? Oh my god, I don't know. Alabama?

432
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't know Cincinnati. They both went to Cincinnati.

433
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: Both went to Cincinnati while breaking news here on off

434
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 1: the beat. Both the Kelsey's went to Cincinnati. All right,

435
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 1: super Bowl Week, the parties, you go to all the parties. No,

436
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 1: I haven't done that in a long time. When I

437
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 1: saw Good Morning Football if the last year the game

438
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 1: was in l A and we were up I think

439
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: you remember we were up at like one am. I

440
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 1: joined you guys, not you, I joined someone. I did

441
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 1: the weekend edition. You know, I needed to do it

442
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,919
Speaker 1: closer to the game. They needed my site closer to

443
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: the game. Makes sense. Yeah, I don't know if the Packers,

444
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: ever go back and ever again? Will you go to

445
00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: the fartiest? I look, I find it. It's interesting to me.

446
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: This is it's entertainment. It's it's all entertainment. Right. You

447
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: think of sports being different from television shows. Yet on

448
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: the list of the most watched television shows every year,

449
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,679
Speaker 1: the super Bowl is at the top. It's entertainment. So

450
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 1: to me, the whole thing is fun. It's entertaining. I

451
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,640
Speaker 1: enjoy it. Are you working this year? I am. I'm

452
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: going to Arizona. I mean I'm here right, this is

453
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,640
Speaker 1: this is a super Bowl episode of Off the Beat.

454
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: So I'm in Arizona. I'm loving it. I haven't been

455
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,200
Speaker 1: to any parties. I don't. I don't love even if

456
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: you know somebody that knows. I remember hitting you up

457
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 1: Superbowl week in l A last year and being like,

458
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: what are we doing, big guy, Let's go with the town,

459
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,919
Speaker 1: And then I was investing you didn't. Yeah you went

460
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 1: to bed at No. Yeah no, I was working. I work.

461
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: That's all I do is work. I know you're the

462
00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: smart You're You're Bryant. Is it the right way? I

463
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 1: don't know about that. Who's gonna win? I don't know,

464
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: why don't you face time or dgers right now and

465
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: asking that's not playing spoiler alert. I don't know. I

466
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: don't know, but here's what I think. I think both

467
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: of the qbs are hurt. I don't know why I

468
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 1: said QB, I don't ever say worry what worries you

469
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 1: more Brian A shoulder on a quarterback or an ankle

470
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: on a guy who can likes to go deep and

471
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: likes to be mobile. I I feel like no one's

472
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: talking about hurts is as much, which I don't know

473
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. I

474
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: hear breaking news here from me. Philadelphia is gonna rush

475
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: way more guys then Cincinnati did last week. I don't

476
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: know what was going on there. They could not get

477
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,400
Speaker 1: to the homes. I'm like, if you just get to him,

478
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: if you just he's on one leg, get to him

479
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: and it'll you're you win the game. And they couldn't

480
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 1: do it. It was really weird. They will do that,

481
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 1: and they'll they do it in waves. That's how they

482
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 1: got to Brady that Remember, they kept adding new guys,

483
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: I mean, Brandon Graham, the same guys around the team.

484
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: They got veterans, they got young cats um Hassan Reddick

485
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 1: is a total game changer. He's incredible. He's incredible, he's

486
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,640
Speaker 1: so scary, and he he wasn't nominated for Defensive Player

487
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 1: of the Year, which I thought was crazy. I don't know,

488
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,360
Speaker 1: because there's so many ways to look at this. You've

489
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: got Chris Jones who's playing out of his mind, but

490
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: is he gonna do anything against that Eagles offensive line?

491
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: Is the best offensive line? Like? Is that? I'm gonna

492
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: go with you. I think it's oh man, I want

493
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: the Eagles to him, but I'm scared the cheps when

494
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs are going to pull it out

495
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: because Mahomes just looked so good last week. He looked

496
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: so good. And I think Jalen Hurts is hurt, and

497
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: I think it showed in the game. It showed him

498
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: that game. I agree with you, which is a crazy

499
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: thing to say because what they won by thirty. I think, yeah,

500
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: But I'm saying it's crazy to say that we're concerned

501
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: about his health with with how much they dominated that game.

502
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: But I'm with you. I think they're I think they're

503
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: both hurt. It's can the Eagles run? They have that

504
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: offensive line can they run all over the Chiefs like

505
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: they did against the Niners. I would have to say yes,

506
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: because they did it against the Niners, But I don't know.

507
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: There's also the experience factor, Like I give the Eagles

508
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: all the credit in the world because you know, the

509
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: Chiefs they're trying to make a dynasty thing happen. They've

510
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: had pretty much the same guys. They got rid of

511
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: Tyreek Kill a couple offensive line than all of that.

512
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,959
Speaker 1: But the Eagles, like, who do you have there? You

513
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: have your owners the same, and your GM Holley Roseman

514
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: is the same. You have a different quarterback, you have

515
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 1: different pretty much all different weapons you've got, you know,

516
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 1: a whole different regime out there, a new head coach

517
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: calling the shots, and you're back in it. That's more

518
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: impressive to me. That's pretty cool. It's very cool. I

519
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a great game. But your pick

520
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: is the Chiefs. Begrudgingly, I don't. I don't love it,

521
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: but uh, I don't know. I just want I want

522
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,479
Speaker 1: Siriani to be I just think Sirian need to make

523
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: a like a just be crazy and have fun and

524
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: make it happen. And I want to for a j

525
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: Brown and Jalen Hurts. But the shoulder. I mean, if

526
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: I'm judging it based off what I saw from Jalen

527
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: last week, I gotta pick the better quarterback and that's

528
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 1: the one that somehow on one leg did what he did.

529
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: You heard it here first, You heard it here first.

530
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: The Chiefs are gonna win. I'm going to take the Eagles. Okay,

531
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: you can be contrarian. Are you making your way to Arizona? Uh,

532
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: we'll see you know. I'm like a butterfly sting like

533
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: a bee. I don't know what that means, but I

534
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: might be there. Uh hey, kay, Adams, listen up in

535
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 1: Atoms your new venture. Are you having fun? Yes, it's

536
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: you know, it's a startup, so it's every day is

537
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: like a you know, I let my hair on fire

538
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: and then do it again the next day. But it's

539
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: very I like building things. I like uh, I like

540
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: startups and and sort of doing seeing seeing what the

541
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: world is and content and the whole world is going

542
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: towards the fan duels of the world and the freedom

543
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: that they allow. You see with a lot of a

544
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: lot of sports personalities. I don't know if that that

545
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: network life is for me Brian, So I'm doing I'm

546
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: doing my own thing for now, but it's really fun. Well, congratulations,

547
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: and you know, you know I would always come on

548
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: and talk to you. But when I was researching this,

549
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: I saw that, you know, on your poster it says

550
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 1: that you have current and former NFL stars that come on. Brian,

551
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: I've asked you to come on the ship. No, that's

552
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: what it says. That was the pitch. That was the pitch. No,

553
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: I open atoms with former and current NFL stars. Where

554
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: does it say that? That's awful? So you'll have to

555
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: go white my hair on fire and fix that that.

556
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: We've had all sorts of people on. You'll see in

557
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: super Bowl me too. If you're a Super Bowl and

558
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: I don't hear from you and I see that you're

559
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: spotted somewhere, Brian, I'm this is not going to be good.

560
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: Feature me at a moment, very very soon. Now, Thank

561
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: you so much for coming on, have a great week.

562
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: Thank you for always being so supportive. You are a

563
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 1: sick pup when it comes to sports, and I can't

564
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: love it more. I love it. Thank you, thank you. Okay,

565
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: thank you for stopping by. Look, I will come on

566
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: up in Adams anytime you want, and yes, maybe I

567
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: will see you at the end of the week in Arizona.

568
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: And now, friends, please welcome the esteemed Fantasy football Commissioner

569
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: of the Office Fantasy Football League, Steven Sulks. What's up, Stephen,

570
00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:00,080
Speaker 1: Brian So good to see you. It's good to see you.

571
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: How are you? Yeah? You too, you too? You're doing well.

572
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Has the weather down south today? I

573
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: have no complaints. I mean, it's rainy, it's rainy and cold,

574
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: but it feels like football weather. I guess it's not

575
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: quite Arrowhead at night, but uh it, it is a

576
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: little chilly here in California. We have to talk about Stephen.

577
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: As some of you may know, we just concluded our

578
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: eighteenth year of the Office Fantasy Football League, one of

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00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: the most dramatic or not endings in the history of

580
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: the league. Ending another another very very messy ending. So

581
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: give viewers a little bit of insight here um the

582
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: Office Fantasy Football League. We began in two thousand five.

583
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: I looked it up. Tell people a little bit about

584
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: about the league. That league was started in two thousands five.

585
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: I was not part of the league at that point.

586
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: I came a year later, but um, it was all

587
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: off this cast and crew, and um when when I

588
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 1: got in it was the next year. And we've talked

589
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,800
Speaker 1: about this before, but how our draft went with the

590
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: yellow legal pad and and just how old school it was.

591
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,839
Speaker 1: But um, we pretty much had a base of of

592
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: managers for the whole time. I mean we I feel

593
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: like we've had a good core. At least half the

594
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: guys have been around since nearly the beginning, So it's

595
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: become not only a long historic fantasy league. So there's

596
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: a lot involved, a lot of connections and friendships in there,

597
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: but it's a really for me, it's what a way

598
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: to stay in touch with you and with so many

599
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 1: from a part of my life that I just want

600
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: to keep in touch with. Uh. There's cast, Yeah, cast,

601
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: Why is you rain? John Andy Buckley? That's right, that's

602
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 1: it right now? And you we had thank you? Yeah.

603
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: And we have a sound guy, We've got a camera assistant,

604
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,439
Speaker 1: we have a p a writer writer, we have an

605
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,879
Speaker 1: old director who's also a husband of a cast member. Yes,

606
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: J Fischer's husband. That's right. That was the that was

607
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: the door that opened. He couldn't join until he had

608
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: actually worked on the show. I think that was that

609
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: was the original rule. I think that's why he actually

610
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: pushed to direct an episode direct to get in to

611
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: the office Fantasy Football League. Um, now, you have said

612
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: in the past that being the commissioners, Steven has been

613
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: the commissioner for a long time now, that it's like

614
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: wrangling cats. This year any better? This year it wasn't

615
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,919
Speaker 1: much better. It wasn't much better. We still had. I mean,

616
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: in fact, just listen, it's not much of an anti

617
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: into this thing. We do have money on the line,

618
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: but it's not much. That's wrangling is really with just

619
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: getting a pool of money together. But I think it's

620
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: so little that it gets past people's you know mind.

621
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 1: So I still like to collect the money. But going

622
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,919
Speaker 1: into championship week, of the four teams that were there,

623
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:36,839
Speaker 1: three had not paid so so and I didn't even

624
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: ask because I was going, well, if you win, then

625
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: you're gonna have money coming to you. Might as well

626
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:46,720
Speaker 1: like limit the transactions here, then no transactions? All right, Look,

627
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: we got to talk about the end. I posted it

628
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: on my Instagram account. I made the Super Bowl, I

629
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: made the Finals, and I've made the finals as much

630
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: or more more than just about anyone. I've never won

631
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: the damn thing eighteen years now, and we go into

632
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: the finals and I looked it up, I wrote it down,

633
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 1: I posted on Instagram the day of the game. Unfortunately,

634
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: I was projected to get a hundred and twelve point

635
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 1: thirty five points. My competitor was locked was done at

636
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: a hundred and twelve point thirty points. I had Josh

637
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: Allen and and the tight end Knox, who by the way,

638
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: caught a touchdown in the last four games that he played.

639
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 1: This week of the finals was the Cincinnati Buffalo game,

640
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: which was eventually canceled. Now you know it brings up

641
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: we Stephen and I talked, I talked with Rain Wilson

642
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: various other members about what we do, and ultimately there

643
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: was nothing to be done. The game wasn't played, the

644
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: points couldn't be scored, and all the various sights were saying,

645
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, it's it's just like if if

646
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 1: one of the players got hurt and wasn't able to go.

647
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 1: But nonetheless it's a loss, a loss for me. Your

648
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: feelings about how we resolved, Yeah, let's start by saying, uh,

649
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 1: thank god, DeMar Hamlin is is okay, right, thank god?

650
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: Because of course I was watching the game and I

651
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: have never seen anything like it ever, never seen anything

652
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: like it, and never been more sort of scared nervous

653
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: watching a football game in my life. It made me

654
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: look on Amazon and see how much of de fibulary

655
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: would be to have a home three thou dollars by

656
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: the way, so I will not be doing doing that.

657
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: But I was like, wow, if it's like bucks, I

658
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: should just have one, right, I mean, but thank god

659
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: he's fine and or he has survived, you know, and

660
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: he looks fine. But when it comes down to just

661
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:03,399
Speaker 1: pure fancy numbers, a real bummer. I mean, like we said,

662
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 1: it's messy, but it would have been okay to me. Two,

663
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 1: I would have felt about the decision I made, along

664
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: with taking into account what you had said. Rain. Rain

665
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: had input too because he was in the game for

666
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,359
Speaker 1: third place and we all agreed and what to do.

667
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: But I would have felt better if I hadn't added

668
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 1: the points up for Alan and Knox in week eighteen

669
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: and then added that to your score, because that was

670
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: the only other option was do we just go to

671
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: week eighteen and see what Alan and Knox have and

672
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: add that to your score like manually and you you

673
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 1: would have won by like a point and a half.

674
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Yeah, I thought I'd wait till

675
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: now to tell you was that was that? Other? What

676
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: did other leagues do that? I had you because I

677
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: looked under you know, I looked at a lot of articles.

678
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: I also talked to some friends and stuff. Had one

679
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:04,240
Speaker 1: friend that that did do that. I thought it was odd,

680
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: to be honest, I thought it was odd to me

681
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,399
Speaker 1: when Damar went down and they decided to cancel a game,

682
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: which is so rare it has to be to me.

683
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 1: It has to be like your player is injured, he

684
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 1: just isn't playing, right, Um, the Damar injury became an

685
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: injury for the entire field of players to me. Right,

686
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: But yes, you would have the way I figured you

687
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: would have won one third team point nine to have

688
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: one twelve point three and I and to be clear,

689
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 1: to be clear, you had mentioned that you've been in

690
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: you had never won, but you've been in the finals.

691
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: You've been in the finals three times, so you have

692
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 1: three second place win three second places in this and

693
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: you've been three You've been third four times, so you're you're,

694
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: you're in there. You've got as many trophies as anybody,

695
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 1: So it that that made me feel bad. I still

696
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: the one that I well, look, I talked to somebody

697
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,320
Speaker 1: about this, and let's be very very clear. As Steven

698
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: mentioned before, there is uh there is a buy in,

699
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 1: a a friendly wager, if you will, but it is

700
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: not a significant amount of money. I think that there.

701
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:24,320
Speaker 1: I have heard of some other leagues chopping the money

702
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,760
Speaker 1: for those in that. In this situation, it wasn't about

703
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: the money. It was about winning because I haven't won

704
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: and it didn't happen, and nothing was going to make

705
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: that happen, unfortunately. I um, I looked back, I went,

706
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: I went, I went into the archives. My team name

707
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 1: was the Kevin's I then in two thousand six became

708
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: Kevin's Accountants, and then I have stuck with the Bombers

709
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:58,399
Speaker 1: ever since. But you're actually B B Bombers. What wait?

710
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 1: What's the b B Brian Gardener Bombers? Is that what?

711
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: Because b B B B Bombers, Yeah, well I think

712
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: that's name and team name. I don't know something like that.

713
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: What are what are weird names? We always have one

714
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 1: of our guys Chris Workman talk about Gore. Oh yeah,

715
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: he's still Gore in right now. And I think he

716
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: used to be something like gorgeous Gore or something, you

717
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: know like that. He loves stories. The Big Niners two

718
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,879
Speaker 1: Big Niners fans on the in the league. Of our

719
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: other Niners fan is Mike Berlina, the prop guy. He

720
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: he was a prop guy on the office. Is no

721
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: longer property person. But his name is this year's name

722
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: is the Crystal Ships. And that's been true for maybe

723
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: like five or I remember. Raine used to have like

724
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: a funny I usually have some funny names. But he's

725
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: been Satan's Ballerinas for a long time. He's been Satings balerinas.

726
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,399
Speaker 1: He is, he is certainly into it. I will tell

727
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: Rain offers the worst trades, and I will first off,

728
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 1: let me say this, most points scored in the league

729
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: this year. Me. That's a that's a fact. That's not

730
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: a brag, that's not a humble brag. That's just a fact.

731
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: Most points scored in the league. And I made a

732
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 1: mistake on draft day, though it turned out to be

733
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: a beautiful, a beautiful mistake. I I drafted Wattle and

734
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill both as our two uh wide receivers, both

735
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: from the Dolphins. I didn't really mean to do that.

736
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:40,799
Speaker 1: I think I was just looking at best available in

737
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: the moment. Rain was on me immediately trying to get

738
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: and offering me just garbage, heap material to try to

739
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: get one. He's like, you can't have two guys from

740
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 1: one team. Now. Of course they ended up both being

741
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,439
Speaker 1: way up there and fan see as wide receivers. But

742
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: uh yeah, he's he's the worst. You've had him on

743
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 1: the podcast to talk about that too, about what he

744
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 1: how he feels about his offers. Yeah, I mean he's

745
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 1: pretty straightforward that the way he negotiates is just completely

746
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,439
Speaker 1: low balls it at first was it didn't he say

747
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: something like going to a bazaar or something like going

748
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: going to like a flea market or that's what he

749
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 1: tries to do. But then he bullies. That's his problem.

750
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: He's a bully. He's a bullier. Um I look, it's

751
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: so fun. It's so fun to do this every year

752
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: because we do get back in touch and you know,

753
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: whether we are directly trash talking or not on a

754
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 1: week to week basis, it's so fun because it's by

755
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: and large it is a very active and competitive league

756
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: that people pay very close attention to. And so that's

757
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: fun to know that we're still we're still going at

758
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: each other well. And we've had a couple of times

759
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 1: where we've gotten I don't want to say gotten rid

760
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 1: of someone, but we've you know, they've left. We've had

761
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: a couple of managers league because we so much about

762
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: not paying up at Yeah, I mean, no names, right,

763
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 1: but I mean you gotta be act. You can't. You

764
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,760
Speaker 1: can't have players on the on your on your roster

765
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: that are on bye weeks. That doesn't you know that

766
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 1: can't happen. I mean that. I just think that's what's

767
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 1: meant for any No one should put up with that.

768
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: No league, no no league, no league, especially this league,

769
00:45:41,080 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: most important league. As you mentioned before, you're a big

770
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 1: Saints fan. Any specific memories for the Super Bowl from

771
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 1: you of Saints finally winning after so much time in

772
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: the garbage heat so many times. I mean you grew

773
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:18,359
Speaker 1: up a Falcons fan. Now you could up a Falcons fan.

774
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: I mean, we we know how rough it was for

775
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: a long time, you know. So I remember just just

776
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: seeing at halftime the Saints were they were behind, but

777
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:31,839
Speaker 1: they had scored a touchdown and think it was like

778
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: ten seven or something at halftime of that Colts Saints

779
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: game and just been like, we're just at least we're

780
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 1: in it, like we're doing it. And to me that

781
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: the memory of that game was just about Sean Payton

782
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: and and his he just had huge balls that day

783
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: and he's just really I mean with the on side kick,

784
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 1: I mean opening of the halftime on side kick that

785
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: changed everything. And I'll always remember at as a Saints.

786
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: I think all Saints fans could can just go to

787
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: their grave knowing, well, at least we we we won one.

788
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:08,839
Speaker 1: And that's you know, that's a good point. And when

789
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: we talk about bad calls and stuff, there's still the

790
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: Saint that Saints team is known to be a dirty team.

791
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 1: And it goes down as like, you know, you've got

792
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: what was it where they paid player what they called

793
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 1: it bounty gate, right, and they were like, there's some

794
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: rumors they were paying players to knock out different players

795
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: or hurt players or something that there was some really

796
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: like pretty borderline shots on Brett Farven that in NFC

797
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: Championship game, right, I think people tend to forget about that.

798
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:40,439
Speaker 1: You know. I mean, I think you can come back,

799
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: but there's nothing that you just kind of say it,

800
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,240
Speaker 1: and then you're just kind of maybe the sore loser.

801
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 1: So I feel like, no matter what happens in this

802
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: Super Bowl coming up, everyone's gonna forget about these championship

803
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:53,760
Speaker 1: games and and the and the you know, the bad revs.

804
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 1: The calls where people remember the strangest things think of,

805
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 1: like against the Saints that think of the Seahawks, and

806
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: Rain still says it too, he is a big Seahawks fan.

807
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:05,479
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch is um run against US in the first

808
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: round the playoffs the year after the Saints won. The

809
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch run that like he knocked over the entire

810
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: Saints team and and carried them in the end zone.

811
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,760
Speaker 1: That's like one of the biggest plays for a Seattle

812
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: Seahawks fan. It's like one of their biggest plays ever.

813
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: They'll talk about. And they lost the next week and

814
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: they they were done. I mean, think about Minnesota Vikings.

815
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 1: They had the miracle in Minnesota against the Saints too,

816
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 1: no time basically no time left, the score touchdown like

817
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: a Hail Mary type of thing, and score touchdown to

818
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: win they still talk about that's like the Minneapolis miracle.

819
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 1: It's like and they lost the next week. You know,

820
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: it's it's not like it propelled them to the super Bowl.

821
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 1: They lost. But that's what It's just odd what people remember.

822
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 1: But I don't think we'll be talking about the bad

823
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 1: calls from yesterday. I don't think we've talked about it

824
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 1: too long. I think we're gonna say, hey, we're gonna

825
00:48:56,760 --> 00:49:00,320
Speaker 1: be talking about, hey, Mahomes gets two weeks to rest

826
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 1: up and he's going to be healthy. And and then

827
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 1: you know, those fans will get the payoff of winning

828
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. They can never take it away from you, right,

829
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: It's really great. I mean, as a fan has nothing

830
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 1: to do with the game, nothing to do no influence

831
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: at all. As much as we think that we're in

832
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: a jersey or yelling at the TV is going to

833
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: do something, it means something. And that's what's so great

834
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 1: about sports. And so it's something I remember holding my

835
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 1: daughter and my son was two weeks from being born

836
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 1: when that when the Saints won Super Bowl, and and

837
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: remember forever it was fantastic. You know. One of the

838
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 1: things that fascinates me that I've been thinking about the

839
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: last couple of days is sports and entertainment, or specifically

840
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 1: the super Bowl and entertainment, And we what is on

841
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: every list every year. The most watched television show every

842
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: year is the super Bowl. So it's like we think

843
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: of those things as being so separate. Sports their sports,

844
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: and then their scripted television or there's reality television or whatever.

845
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 1: But in terms of entertainment, which is ultimately what's what's

846
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: on TV, the super Bowl is always listed. And because

847
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 1: it is, more people are watching the super Bowl than

848
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 1: than than anything else. How do you view it? Do

849
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: you view it as entertainment or is it sports? Is

850
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: it's something different? I think the super Bowl for the

851
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: most part, except for that Saints game, is entertainment to

852
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: me because you kind of go in with with the halftime.

853
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 1: Entertainment's going to be even the national anthem, that's going

854
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 1: to be right, there's two weeks up to it of

855
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: this whole thing. You're following you know who, and you're

856
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: watching press conferences. So to me, it's entertainment. I mean,

857
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: obviously it is for so many people to watch that

858
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: I have to think a big percentage of a fair

859
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:56,720
Speaker 1: percentage of those people are not die hard NFL fans,

860
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:00,399
Speaker 1: you know, they're just watching this. It's like, how we

861
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 1: we'll watch the World Cup, Right, We're not watching soccer

862
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 1: all year probably, I mean I'm not, but there are

863
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: people around the world that are. But I'm saying we

864
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: as a collective United States, we're not really that involved

865
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 1: out of the Olympics. We're not watching gymnasts and volleyball

866
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 1: players and the luge. We're not watching that all year round.

867
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:20,439
Speaker 1: But man, I'm really into the luge when it comes

868
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:24,360
Speaker 1: to the Winter Olympics because it's it's uh, it's it

869
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: means something like on a bigger, a different scale, right, So,

870
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 1: and that becomes entertaining. That's entertainment. I mean you look

871
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 1: at thirty thirty and all these sports related shows that

872
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,319
Speaker 1: are so captivating, and I mean I can get my

873
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: wife to sit down and watch a thirty for thirty

874
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 1: and she's crying at the end. I mean, it brings

875
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 1: what makes sports so great. It brings the feeling and

876
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 1: the heart. And um, I I see that every year

877
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. Unless I've got a bet on it,

878
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: I'm not really more than just entertainment. Really, well, that

879
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 1: was going to lead me to my next question you

880
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: are you? You a gamble and guy not like for

881
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 1: entertainment purposes, for entertainment purposes, completely responsible, responsible betting. I

882
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 1: don't think those two things go together. But I look,

883
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 1: have you looked at the line? Is it pretty even now?

884
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: Or what is it? It is as as we speak today,

885
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 1: it is even. I don't think that's ever happened before

886
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. I can't remember it either. And

887
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 1: I saw something interesting ESPN. I'm not doing an ad

888
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 1: for ESPN, but ESPN has their f p I, which

889
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: they call the Football Power Index. I'm not going to

890
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,760
Speaker 1: debate whether or not it's good or right or whatever,

891
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:47,799
Speaker 1: but I saw today the f p I has the

892
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 1: Eagles favored at fifty point one percent over the Chiefs,

893
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:58,359
Speaker 1: which I guess would put them at forty nine point nine.

894
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 1: That's how my math works so tight, I can't believe

895
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: that it's that. It's very interesting. You've got two quarterbacks

896
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 1: that are are both hurting a little bit. Clearly, I

897
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:15,319
Speaker 1: think Hurts does have a shoulder issue. Obviously Mahomes has

898
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: his leg issue. That to me says the game is

899
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 1: going to be one in the trenches, which clearly for

900
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: me favors the Eagles. Are you do you have a

901
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 1: lean who's gonna win the game? It's it is really tight.

902
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 1: I mean this could go down. It's one of the

903
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 1: closest like betting odds in first Super Bowl ever. I mean,

904
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: it could go to just a pick them right. So

905
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: you can go back and forth on this. But Mahomes

906
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 1: really showed me something yesterday. I mean he was not

907
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: healthy first of all, when he had the higher ankle sprain.

908
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: That's like a week you're out weeks on for that.

909
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 1: You know. I don't know how he he did it,

910
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,839
Speaker 1: but he looked good. You can tell he was hurt

911
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: though in his line. Man, no he even touched him, nobody.

912
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 1: He was so protected. They do such a great job.

913
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 1: But those Eagles that that defense is just ready to

914
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: make a play. That defense is ready to change it.

915
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: And I really feel like a defense wins you the championship.

916
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: Although this could be a really high scoring game. So

917
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:25,400
Speaker 1: let's go back and forth. Mahomes five years hosting five

918
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 1: a f C championship games at home never happened before.

919
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 1: Is this uh? Is this a dynasty that we're witnessing?

920
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: I mean, he he definitely and he's still young. What

921
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: I think of him and okay, you think of the goat, right,

922
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: you think of Brady and you think of like where

923
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 1: he was at this point in his career, Brady. You know,

924
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,799
Speaker 1: I think Brady won his first three Super Bowls at

925
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 1: least so so you know, if Patrick wins this one,

926
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:59,720
Speaker 1: he'd be two out of three. Um, but Brady didn't

927
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 1: have of the was an m v P like Mahomes

928
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 1: has been. I think he's m v P twice. Mahomes

929
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,399
Speaker 1: has got a chance to like he wins. If if

930
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: Kansas City wins this game, it changes a lot. This

931
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:17,839
Speaker 1: is really of will form his his career in a

932
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: really amazing way. Like he's he's fantastic. But when you

933
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 1: look at like a dynasty, if if if Kansas City wins,

934
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 1: man it's it can happen. It's alive. Kevin Alane a

935
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:38,320
Speaker 1: big fan of the Eagles, he would be uh, he

936
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 1: would be very happy. And you know, here's the crazy thing.

937
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 1: With an entirely new roster and entirely new set of coaches,

938
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: Philly has a chance to win two pretty close together themselves.

939
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 1: It's very impressive to see how they have changed and

940
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 1: adjusted this year. They're playing great football. It's it's really

941
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:00,359
Speaker 1: fun to watch. It's really fun to watch. Yeah, they're

942
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:03,440
Speaker 1: totally different organization and team. Really. I mean, there's nothing

943
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 1: that reminds me of that championship team from five years ago,

944
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:12,360
Speaker 1: really the uniforms, but how fun. I have a I

945
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,400
Speaker 1: have a feeling that that this is a this is

946
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 1: a very likable team. I have a feeling that the

947
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: city of Philadelphia has really behind this team, like really

948
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:24,800
Speaker 1: enjoys this team. Maybe because they're young, but it feels

949
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,919
Speaker 1: like a team that has gotten the city swept up

950
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:31,280
Speaker 1: with them, if that makes sense. It does. It's crazy

951
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:36,080
Speaker 1: because you know, we were fans of teams and had

952
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: a little bit of down years our teams this year,

953
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 1: and you know, then you've got other teams that you

954
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 1: kind of like or players that you root for, and

955
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:47,760
Speaker 1: then it comes down to it and you think, Okay,

956
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:50,839
Speaker 1: I don't even care anymore. I don't even care. And

957
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 1: then these two weeks happened, and you hear the storylines

958
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 1: and you follow the players and their stories, and you've

959
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 1: got Andy Reid and you've got the whole deal, and

960
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: I'm in. I'm hooked. I can't I can't help. Yeah,

961
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 1: I guess it's I guess it's like what people who

962
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,799
Speaker 1: watch The Bachelor, if you want to call it reality TV?

963
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: To me, sports That's how I would define it to me.

964
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 1: Sports is is the best of of reality TV. We

965
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 1: as a species are all into follow stories like this.

966
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 1: I mean, humans do this. I never thought I would

967
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: get so involved. I mean someone put on a show

968
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 1: on TV like last year. I remember watching. I was like,

969
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 1: I'll watch it with you guys, I guess, and then

970
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 1: I'm like binge watching is this cake? You know, like

971
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: or something ridiculous show that I'm like, oh, or yeah,

972
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 1: The Bachelor or something. I'm like, what what? This has

973
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: no meaning in my life? But it does right now,

974
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:50,280
Speaker 1: you know. So yeah, these two weeks of hype, man,

975
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: you can get sucked in and it's gonna be fun.

976
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:57,439
Speaker 1: By the way, this is Cake was pretty bad. Yeah,

977
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 1: spoiler alert. By the way, Uh, I want to ask

978
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 1: you again about your podcasts. You host with Lorie who

979
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 1: also worked on the Office Lest We Forget If We

980
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 1: Knew then, a down syndrome advocacy podcast. You've had some

981
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: amazing guests on how's it How's it going? And do

982
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 1: you feel like you're you're making headway in in diverse

983
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: casting and inclusion in Hollywood, as they call it. I

984
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: feel like there's change being made. I mean there's constant

985
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 1: change being made. You know. When we started the podcast,

986
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 1: my son Liam, who is turning thirteen next month, it

987
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: was born with downsta I know that's crazy. He was

988
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: born and we were still, you know, working on the show,

989
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 1: but he was born with Down syndrom and I mean

990
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 1: it it blew us away when we got that diagnosis,

991
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 1: It really did it. I felt like our whole world

992
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 1: was crumbling. But that's natural because we only know all

993
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: this negative stuff from what down syndrome is. If it's

994
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 1: not only perception of what your child is going to be,

995
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 1: but also maybe some health concerns and stuff like that.

996
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: But as I've gone through this journey, we've seen a

997
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 1: lot of great change. Inclusion is a hot word right now.

998
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:19,520
Speaker 1: Diversity is a hot word, and I think the down

999
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 1: syroom community is willing to ride those coattails, you know,

1000
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 1: and try to be included in that. I didn't go

1001
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 1: to school with anybody with Down syndrome. I doubt you

1002
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: did either. They were usually put in another classroom, probably

1003
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 1: on the other side of campus. You didn't have recess

1004
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 1: in lunch with these these students, and so you didn't

1005
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 1: know him, and you may be made fun of him,

1006
00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: and you they were an easy scapegoat. But having anyone

1007
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: in our classroom, including someone with down stit room and

1008
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:57,120
Speaker 1: including them, changes lives. It's not just that having diversity

1009
00:59:57,120 --> 01:00:00,200
Speaker 1: in the classroom is something we should do just to

1010
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 1: do it. We should do it because it's good for us.

1011
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:05,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't go to school with anyone but

1012
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:08,240
Speaker 1: people that look like me, you know, white Catholics. I

1013
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 1: went to a private school in elementary school and it

1014
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 1: wasn't until I was in high school that I went

1015
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: to school with anybody that was a different race than

1016
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 1: in me. And I mean I I missed out. So

1017
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 1: I do hear the call for oh, it's good for

1018
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 1: Lehm to be in the classroom and seventh grade and

1019
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:27,760
Speaker 1: you know, so he can model off his off his peers,

1020
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:30,120
Speaker 1: And I go, yeah, there's plenty of reason not to

1021
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 1: model off of the typical seventh you know what I'm saying.

1022
01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:36,840
Speaker 1: So um, but you know, Liam brings stuff to the

1023
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 1: classroom too. He's an asset in the classroom as well,

1024
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 1: and I think that's what we're finding I think that's

1025
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:44,720
Speaker 1: what people are starting to understand. But yeah, we've had

1026
01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 1: some great guests on the show and and the last

1027
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 1: time I was on was in one I think And

1028
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 1: after that Liam I did a movie with Lina Dunham. Um.

1029
01:00:57,080 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 1: What what happened was we do a we participate in

1030
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 1: in the Easter Siels Disability Film Challenge every year, which

1031
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 1: is a weekend to make a film about diversity, have

1032
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 1: someone in it or or behind the scenes that has

1033
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:16,480
Speaker 1: a disability. And Lena Dunham, I guess came across Liam

1034
01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 1: and one of these films and and auditioned him and

1035
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 1: and he was in a movie called Sharp Stick with

1036
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 1: with her. She plays his mom and John Burnthal plays

1037
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 1: his dad. It was fantastic and she was able to

1038
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:31,080
Speaker 1: come onto the show and and we talked about diversity

1039
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:33,760
Speaker 1: in all different ways, not just disability. And then we

1040
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 1: we also had oh, we had Paul Tsori and his

1041
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: wife Michelle. He's a PGA torquaddy for Webb Simpson and

1042
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 1: his son Isaiah has a down syndermen. We talked to them,

1043
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 1: they're they've got a great foundation to story family's foundation.

1044
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:51,680
Speaker 1: We also had Ted Green, who is a documentarian. He

1045
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 1: visited us to talk about his most recent film, The

1046
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: Best We've Got. It's the Carl Erskine Story. Carl Erskin

1047
01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 1: was a Dodgers to picture, a long time Brooklyn Dodger

1048
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 1: picture and the later Ellie Dodger picture. He was a teammate,

1049
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 1: close friend of Jackie Robinson and then later on a

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Speaker 1: father of a person with Down syndrome. And we just

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Speaker 1: kind of talked about how he played kind of pioneering

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Speaker 1: roles in in both those human rights movements, you know,

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Speaker 1: which closely mirror each other, we come to find out.

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Speaker 1: But it's been really fantastic. I think there's you know,

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Speaker 1: we always want change to happen really fast, and that's

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Speaker 1: just not how it happens, you know, so, but we're

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Speaker 1: moving the right direction. That's awesome. Well, congratulations on that.

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Speaker 1: It's always fun to talk to you. It was a

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Speaker 1: heartbreaking but very strange. I mean, that was the thing.

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Speaker 1: And when you and I talked, you know, me not

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Speaker 1: winning once again, but as you said, with what was

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Speaker 1: happening with Tamar Hamlet, it was like, well, we can't

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Speaker 1: really complain about this. This is a dumb little game.

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Speaker 1: This is a dumb little game. And I always know

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Speaker 1: that fantasy is a dumb little game even compared to

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Speaker 1: the actual games that are happening and people's livelihood and

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Speaker 1: and and so forth. But in this situation, yeah, there

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Speaker 1: was just sort of there was no complaining to be had. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the s pretty interesting, uh text with you, and

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Speaker 1: your text to me really stood out as something that

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Speaker 1: transcended the situation. You had said that, to be flat out,

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Speaker 1: you thought Monday Night was going to be a shootout,

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Speaker 1: and you felt very confident going into the game that

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Speaker 1: you were going to win. And I get it, but

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Speaker 1: I remember you saying, but you can't make a determination

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Speaker 1: based on what ifs, and it is what it is.

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Speaker 1: And I thought that that says a lot about you, Brian.

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Speaker 1: And that's a great way to great at Youde obviously

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Speaker 1: not just for fantasy football, but just yeah, well, Stephen,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. Thank you, Brian. It was great, Stephen,

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Speaker 1: You're the best. Thank you for stopping by. And yes,

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Speaker 1: this year, year nineteen, this is the year that I

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Speaker 1: finally win the league. I know it. Listeners, thank you

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Speaker 1: as always for tuning in. Have a great time watching

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Speaker 1: the game, the Big Game, the Super Bowl on Sunday

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Speaker 1: and then come back next week for another guest our

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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day episode, So come and hang with me and

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Speaker 1: someone who really really knows the weather. Until then, have

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Speaker 1: a great week. Off the Beat is hosted an executive

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Speaker 1: produced by me Brian Baumgartner, alongside our executive producer Langley.

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Speaker 1: Our senior producer is Diego Tapia. Our producers are Liz Hayes,

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Speaker 1: Hannah Harris, and Emily Carr. Our talent producer is Ryan

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Speaker 1: Papa Zachary, and our intern is Sammy Cats. Our theme

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Speaker 1: song Bubble and Squeak, performed by the one and only

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Speaker 1: Creed Bratton,