WEBVTT - Super Bowl Edition: Kay Adams and Stephen Saux

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<v Speaker 1>You lost because of two bills, and you are. It's

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<v Speaker 1>so poetic, Brian, speaking of writing, because you are the

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<v Speaker 1>Buffalo Bills of fantasy football. You make it there a

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<v Speaker 1>bunch of times in a row, and you just can't,

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<v Speaker 1>you can't raise the trophy. Yeah, oh I am. And

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<v Speaker 1>you know what, I'm like your hometown Chicago Cubs. There's

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<v Speaker 1>always next year, right, isn't that what they what they say,

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<v Speaker 1>There's always next year. You're nineteen Steve Bartman situation that

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<v Speaker 1>I'll mos where that guy is. God knows what kind

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<v Speaker 1>of you know, nose and mustache, eyeglass situation. He's rock

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<v Speaker 1>and running around and then but then eventually, Brian, it's

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<v Speaker 1>a story of hope. Eventually it will happen. It's a

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<v Speaker 1>story of hope. I like that. I think that's going

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<v Speaker 1>to be my team name next year. It's a story

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<v Speaker 1>of hope. Hey, everybody, it's Kay Adams from up and

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<v Speaker 1>Adams and I have never won a parlay in my life.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Steven Socks. Among other things, I'm the commissioner of

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<v Speaker 1>the Official dunder Mifflin Fantasy Football League. Hi everybody, and

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<v Speaker 1>welcome to a very special episode of Off the Beat.

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<v Speaker 1>That's right. Super Bowl. Addition, it's that time of year again,

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<v Speaker 1>the most wonderful time of the year. As always, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>your host, Brian baumb Gartner, and today I'm bringing on

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<v Speaker 1>not one, not too well, two very special guests. First up,

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<v Speaker 1>sportscaster extraordinaire and well, my good friend Kay Adams is

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<v Speaker 1>coming on the program, joining me to share her Super

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<v Speaker 1>Bowl predictions, some advice about betting the Big Game, though

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<v Speaker 1>the advice mostly comes from me, and uh, look, she

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<v Speaker 1>has an insider perspective few have. She has more coaches

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<v Speaker 1>and players in her phone than well than just about anybody,

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<v Speaker 1>so she has great insider information. You may know Kay

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<v Speaker 1>from her six years hosting Good Morning Football, or hopefully

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<v Speaker 1>you're catching her new show, It's Fantastic Up and Adams,

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<v Speaker 1>where she covers the top stories in the NFL today.

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<v Speaker 1>But Kay is not my only guest. No, I'm also

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<v Speaker 1>bringing on Steven Socks, the esteemed commissioner of the Office

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<v Speaker 1>Fantasy Football League. That season is over, he'll give us

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<v Speaker 1>an update as to what transpired in this very exciting

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<v Speaker 1>year eighteen of the Office Fantasy Football League. Yes, somehow

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<v Speaker 1>we have miraculously kept it together all these years. We

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<v Speaker 1>have Steven to thank for that. If you haven't heard

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<v Speaker 1>the last episode where Steven came on introduced the league,

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<v Speaker 1>well you should definitely go and check that out. Look,

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<v Speaker 1>this is a special day for me. I get to

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<v Speaker 1>talk to k I get to talk to Stephen about

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<v Speaker 1>football on this podcast. What could be better? Nothing as

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<v Speaker 1>far as I'm concerned. So without further a year, let's

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<v Speaker 1>get into it, shall we. First up is the incredible

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<v Speaker 1>k Adams Bubble and Squeak. I love it. Bubble and

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<v Speaker 1>Squeak on Bubble and Squeaker cookie every month left over

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<v Speaker 1>from the nut before. Hey, Kay, what's happening are you?

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<v Speaker 1>Where are you? I'm at home. I'm in my my

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<v Speaker 1>very very high tech, sophisticated podcast studio. I have a

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<v Speaker 1>soundboard behind. Oh my gosh. Aren't you supposed to live

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<v Speaker 1>in these Hollywood hills? Aren't supposed to be seeing you

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<v Speaker 1>on one of those star tours? How? How could I

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<v Speaker 1>not have running to you yet? And my month's here? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't live right in the heart of things. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>you know this, let's not let's let's move on. But

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<v Speaker 1>you do. Actually, what's your where where do you live?

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<v Speaker 1>What's your address? I'm not giving you my dresser. I'll

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<v Speaker 1>show you. Look how look how gross? Look how gross?

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<v Speaker 1>L a I am, Oh my gosh, fabulous. It's really fabulous.

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<v Speaker 1>She has a palatial pad. Everyone. This is what This

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<v Speaker 1>is what happens when you work for the NFL. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>this is what happens when you work for a sports book. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>fan dual potato tatto listen. It is are very special,

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<v Speaker 1>highly highly rated, and hasn't come out yet super Bowl episode.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to talk to you about the big Game,

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<v Speaker 1>but I do want to do just just a small

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<v Speaker 1>touch on how the hell you got to where you

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<v Speaker 1>are now. You went to Missouri? You you miss? Is

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<v Speaker 1>that we call it missoo? Missoo? Damn it miszoo. That

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<v Speaker 1>sounds like something entirely different. Zero, Yeah you miss, you miss?

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<v Speaker 1>Sounds a little funny. Yes, I went. I went there.

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<v Speaker 1>College is like the least part of any sort of

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<v Speaker 1>path of six sixth Yeah, yeah, I don't know why

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<v Speaker 1>didn't really, I didn't really pay attention in those like

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<v Speaker 1>how to put a camera together and like go and

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<v Speaker 1>shoot a package classes. I didn't really didn't. No, I

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<v Speaker 1>worked at a sports bar at least pubbin Pool during college,

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<v Speaker 1>and I would work these awful slow happy hours and

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<v Speaker 1>guys would come in and sit at the bar and

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<v Speaker 1>gals and the games would be on or something would

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<v Speaker 1>be on it, and I would just talk talk shit

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<v Speaker 1>about sports with people so much so that a guy

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<v Speaker 1>that worked for serious sex and it was just getting

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<v Speaker 1>a job and launching the fantasy sports channel was like,

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<v Speaker 1>you should be on the radio, you should do this.

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<v Speaker 1>I always sort of saw myself covering red carpets for

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<v Speaker 1>the Office Season premiere, like I always wanted to be

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<v Speaker 1>Juliana Ransick in the tight dress interviewing people because it

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<v Speaker 1>looked so fun and easy, And then sports sort of

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<v Speaker 1>dragged me in, which is cool. That is, I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>know that it was literally about you talking shit at

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<v Speaker 1>a bar and someone being like you talk kind of

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<v Speaker 1>good ship. Yeah. I liked fantasy football because I had

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<v Speaker 1>an older brother and I'm just naturally competitive, so that

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<v Speaker 1>was easy for me. But I grew up Football wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>my family, Like I Polish immigrant parents who don't speak English,

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<v Speaker 1>like they don't know they're like Brady stud I think

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<v Speaker 1>that like Brady, things they hear about are hilarious because

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<v Speaker 1>the things that trickle into you know, the Giselle divorce

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<v Speaker 1>played huge in my family. Just yeah, not like anything

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<v Speaker 1>about anything else because it was the Bears in Chicago,

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<v Speaker 1>and I never really like, we didn't really latch onto

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<v Speaker 1>that soccer was really big. We were very Polish, community based,

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<v Speaker 1>and my brother, you know, in order to assimilate and

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<v Speaker 1>be cool, like, what are the kids talking about at

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<v Speaker 1>school with our power ranger lunch boxes? Like football, Matt Forte,

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<v Speaker 1>Devin Hester, like Grex Grossman. We have to talk about

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<v Speaker 1>this stuff. So I followed his league and I always

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<v Speaker 1>liked football, but it was never anything I was never like, man,

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<v Speaker 1>I really want to be like Joe Buck and I

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<v Speaker 1>want to be the first woman in a booth like

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<v Speaker 1>I never really had that. It was very casual how

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<v Speaker 1>it happened. But I knew I wanted to be in

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<v Speaker 1>front of a camera, like I knew you wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>be in front of a camera. Yeah, I knew I

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<v Speaker 1>want to do some sort of news reporting or something.

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<v Speaker 1>Football's football found me. Brian, Well, I'm glad that you're

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<v Speaker 1>not Julietta Rancy. I'm just gonna say that, although she's

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<v Speaker 1>lovely and asks exactly the questions you would expect her

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<v Speaker 1>to ask, but I yes, I'm glad you you found

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<v Speaker 1>this um obviously exploding as the host on Good Morning

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<v Speaker 1>Football six years seven years? My math gets weird. Six

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<v Speaker 1>to seven years? It was five years and then the

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<v Speaker 1>Emmy winning year, So let's just call it that. That's

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<v Speaker 1>the one that mattered, right, My last year I won

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<v Speaker 1>the Emmy out the door, Brian, how many of those

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<v Speaker 1>statues you got, Lyne around one? Really? Yeah? I got

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<v Speaker 1>some SAG Awards too, though the heavier I didn't even

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<v Speaker 1>So we win the Emmy six years work, they don't

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<v Speaker 1>even give me an Emmy, And I was like, can

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<v Speaker 1>I pay for one? Like? How does that work? Because

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<v Speaker 1>I know how we're talking about. I'm not kidding the

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<v Speaker 1>as far as I know, unless they completely lied to me.

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<v Speaker 1>The host don't get Emmy's for the show for whatever reason.

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<v Speaker 1>It goes to like the producers who who created the show,

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<v Speaker 1>who deserve it. Everyone deserves them. But I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>that Peter, Kyle, Nate or I got the statue. I

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<v Speaker 1>asked for it at some point. Yeah, isn't that kind

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<v Speaker 1>of weird? Well here's the thing. You can come over

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<v Speaker 1>and hold mine, Okay, you want that? You can pretend

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<v Speaker 1>that it's yours. All right, I gotta ask you really quickly.

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<v Speaker 1>In a little bit, we're gonna be talking to the commissioner.

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<v Speaker 1>You brought up fantasy football of the office Fantasy Football League.

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<v Speaker 1>Eighteen years. Eighteen years we've been doing this office fantasy league.

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<v Speaker 1>I gotta just bring it up. Okay, I make the championship.

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<v Speaker 1>I've never won. Eighteen years, I've never won. I think

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<v Speaker 1>I'm top three. The most we've discussed this before, I've

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<v Speaker 1>never won. It all came down two. I wrote down

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<v Speaker 1>the stats estimated before the last game of the weekend,

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<v Speaker 1>one twelve point three for me, this was estimated, and

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<v Speaker 1>the other person had one twelve point three. Oh as

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<v Speaker 1>much of a coin flip as you could imagine. I

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<v Speaker 1>had Knox and Josh Allen going and the final game,

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<v Speaker 1>the seven was against the Cincinnati Bengals. That stops now,

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<v Speaker 1>Thank goodness. Everything is okay with Tamar Hamlin. And that

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<v Speaker 1>goes without saying you and I were texting at that time.

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<v Speaker 1>The question is, how do you think that we should

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<v Speaker 1>have resolved? It didn't. They didn't play, so it didn't happen, right,

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<v Speaker 1>it didn't happen. So what I'm so curious to hear

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<v Speaker 1>what your league did do. I took the year off

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<v Speaker 1>of playing fantasy football because I just did not need

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<v Speaker 1>the extra heart attack, and I've been learning sports betting,

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<v Speaker 1>and I didn't need both. I don't know how I

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<v Speaker 1>would resolve that you could do her game points, you

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<v Speaker 1>could do I don't even know you could do to

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<v Speaker 1>go into I don't even know what did you do?

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<v Speaker 1>I lost? I mean, and it was I had decided it. Basically,

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<v Speaker 1>it was as though they were injured and they were

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<v Speaker 1>on my roster and they didn't play, and the game

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<v Speaker 1>was Some people went to the next week. Some people

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<v Speaker 1>took like an aggregate score thing. I was gonna say,

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<v Speaker 1>you kind of like averaged your points per who who

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<v Speaker 1>have I don't know how to how I would even

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<v Speaker 1>weasel that. I would probably roll it to week eighteen.

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<v Speaker 1>Those those were all meaningful games. They turned out to be.

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<v Speaker 1>They turned out to be because of the situation. You

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<v Speaker 1>just took an l You just benched your what do

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<v Speaker 1>you do? What do you do? What you didn't? I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't bench. It was Monday night, right, it's the last game,

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<v Speaker 1>there's nothing, everybody's else is played, so what so who

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<v Speaker 1>did you lose to a writer. I know they have

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<v Speaker 1>the charm life you who you lost because of two

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<v Speaker 1>bills and you are it's so poetic, Brian, speaking of writing,

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<v Speaker 1>because you are of Buffalo Bills, of fantasy football. You

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<v Speaker 1>make it there a bunch of times in a row,

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<v Speaker 1>and you just can't you can't raise the trophy. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>oh I am. And you know what, I'm like your

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<v Speaker 1>hometown Chicago Cubs. There's always next year, right, isn't that

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<v Speaker 1>what they what they say, There's always next year. You're

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen Steve Bartman situation that I'll that knows where that

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<v Speaker 1>guy is, God knows what kind of you know knows

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<v Speaker 1>and mustache eyeglass situation he's rocking running around and then

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<v Speaker 1>but then eventually, Brian, it's a story of hope. Eventually

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<v Speaker 1>it will happen. It's a story of hope. I like that.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's going to be my team name next year.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a story of hope. Um, the Big Game, the

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<v Speaker 1>Super Bowl. I can say super Bowl, so many people

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<v Speaker 1>can't say. All these people say you have to say

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<v Speaker 1>the Big Game, and I think that's like a sponsorship thing.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't care about that. On this show, the Super Bowl.

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<v Speaker 1>The most I've ever heard is what do you think? So? Well?

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<v Speaker 1>First off, did San Francisco have a chance if they

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<v Speaker 1>don't lose both their quarterbacks? Yeah? I mean I was

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<v Speaker 1>talking to Darius Butler, who had a great Just it's

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<v Speaker 1>absurd we're talking about it today. How did you not

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<v Speaker 1>have three quarterbacks dressed for that game? I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>how could you not? But it's a cautionary tale. And really, Brian,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a story of hope. It's a story of hope

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<v Speaker 1>for future, tale as old as time. In these I know,

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<v Speaker 1>but in these title games, like you have to dress three?

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<v Speaker 1>I was. I was sitting there, like, are we going

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<v Speaker 1>to get Christian McCaffrey throwing balls around the field? That

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<v Speaker 1>would be amazing? You do you saw him? He was

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<v Speaker 1>putting on the quarterback helmet. He was their emergency QB.

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<v Speaker 1>It's crazy when John, when Josh went down, he was

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<v Speaker 1>putting on the quarterback helmet and then Perty came out.

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<v Speaker 1>I just don't understand. I don't under I can't understand it.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't understand. Why not give it to Debo or

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<v Speaker 1>McCaffrey to just throw the ball. I mean, you're down.

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<v Speaker 1>Whatever it was at the time seven or whatever, it's like,

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<v Speaker 1>you have to throw the ball. They're gonna load nine, ten,

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<v Speaker 1>twelve in the box. It's gonna feel like And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>if there's one coach that has like the mind to

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<v Speaker 1>have that, it should be Shanahan. Like he's got the hardware,

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<v Speaker 1>he's got the plays drawn up, like we've seen it

0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.000
<v Speaker 1>in playoff games, planned plays where you've got Edelman throwing

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<v Speaker 1>to a Mendola from Brady like it happens. They beat

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<v Speaker 1>the Ravens, they sink like it couldn't. You couldn't lob

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<v Speaker 1>something up. You don't have something in the holster Shanahan.

0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.880
<v Speaker 1>Shanahan gets so conservative in big moments. I think not

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<v Speaker 1>to be a psychologist here, as I'm not, but there's

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<v Speaker 1>some major Shanahan scar tissue from twenty eight to three,

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<v Speaker 1>from the Super Bowl from there's major like well when

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<v Speaker 1>it gets to these situations, but the top I think so,

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<v Speaker 1>I think he I think he gets conservd You saw

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<v Speaker 1>it in the game previous when they won with Brock Pretty.

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<v Speaker 1>He just didn't trust pretty as much and there really

0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.040
<v Speaker 1>wasn't a reason to prettas in balling, and he just

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<v Speaker 1>he gets a little a lot less aggressive in these

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<v Speaker 1>big moments. Yeah, I think they could. I mean, they

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<v Speaker 1>the number one defense. I don't know how Nick Bosa

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<v Speaker 1>didn't show up in that game. I don't know how

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<v Speaker 1>the defense let them down. Like offense kind of made sense.

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<v Speaker 1>But I gotta say, like the Eagles, just seeing they both,

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<v Speaker 1>I would say, like the Niners had the best team,

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<v Speaker 1>Like that's what I would say, best team on paper

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<v Speaker 1>on like they looked beautiful. But there's something about Nick

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<v Speaker 1>Sirianni and it's the vibe of this Eagle squad. And

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<v Speaker 1>he comes in there and he says, I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>start with the trenches and I'm gonna make the D

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<v Speaker 1>line and the online sing. And now they're just running

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<v Speaker 1>over everybody. Miles Sanders, you got job, Boston Scott, like

0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.920
<v Speaker 1>they're doing that um and they did it at will

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<v Speaker 1>against the Niners. And and Jalen Like the more I

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<v Speaker 1>see and the more and the more I hear about him,

0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.040
<v Speaker 1>Like the more I ask people like Lane Johnson and

0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.400
<v Speaker 1>Brandon Graham, and I was talking to Miles, not Miles Standers,

0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.800
<v Speaker 1>Boston Scott about this, like he just wants to be

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<v Speaker 1>that guy, like when Carson wentz the building Jalen Hurts

0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.440
<v Speaker 1>was the last one in the building like people think

0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.320
<v Speaker 1>the Carson Wentz stuff happened and as quickly as it

0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.040
<v Speaker 1>did and got bad because people were seeing Jalen Hurts

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<v Speaker 1>is that guy, and so I'd be surprised if they

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<v Speaker 1>don't give the chiefs hell. I agree with you. Look,

0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:06.280
<v Speaker 1>you said something on paper, it seemed like the forty Niners.

0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.920
<v Speaker 1>The run that they were on was very beautiful and magical,

0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.000
<v Speaker 1>and they've got Debot and McCaffrey, and they've got those

0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:19.120
<v Speaker 1>skill players. The Eagles. To me, you talked about knowing fantasy.

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<v Speaker 1>I asked you about the fantasy thing. I know a

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<v Speaker 1>little a little something about betting. The line made no

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<v Speaker 1>sense to me that what that line at two and

0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.720
<v Speaker 1>a half says is there are two equally matched teams.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just that Philly is at home. And when you

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<v Speaker 1>look at the offensive line and the defensive line, even

0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.120
<v Speaker 1>the skill players on defense, you look at Jalen Hurts

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<v Speaker 1>versus brock Purty. To me, the Eagles are are are

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<v Speaker 1>better positionally as well, and they put it in even

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<v Speaker 1>that made no sense to me. Yeah, I'm I'm just

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<v Speaker 1>learning sports betting. I think I would love for you

0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:56.640
<v Speaker 1>to come on my show, and I'm glad we're talking

0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:00.239
<v Speaker 1>about this is I'm learning. I'm so I'm a tragedy.

0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:05.840
<v Speaker 1>I'm so bad at it, it's very fun. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>even understand. I just not do them ever, Like what

0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.320
<v Speaker 1>do I do? Justin? I don't know what your deal

0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.080
<v Speaker 1>is with Fan Duel. I don't know what you were

0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.879
<v Speaker 1>required to do. The money line stuff is boring to me.

0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.720
<v Speaker 1>No offense, Like is that riveting to you? That any

0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.960
<v Speaker 1>of that's like calling just even just picks seems so

0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.760
<v Speaker 1>beyondfest to me. The part is I can get like

0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:26.960
<v Speaker 1>that's that's exciting, Like and if you if you hit,

0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.639
<v Speaker 1>that's just just a bigger risk, bigger reward, right, So

0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:31.440
<v Speaker 1>that's why I'm interested in that. But I think I've

0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.600
<v Speaker 1>done with them, you know, FanDuel doesn't. I don't have

0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.120
<v Speaker 1>to deal with them to have like whenever I feel

0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.680
<v Speaker 1>like it, if I want to do it, yeah, yeah,

0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.120
<v Speaker 1>we discussed. You know, they'll be like this looks interesting?

0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:42.800
<v Speaker 1>What do you think? And I'm like, no, like they

0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.960
<v Speaker 1>you know, there's there's listen, I'm telling you, I don't

0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.000
<v Speaker 1>know what who these guys are that are like these

0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.560
<v Speaker 1>wizards back there, what they're like algorithms and their advocacies

0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.800
<v Speaker 1>and all this stuff, and like it's insane and what

0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:55.800
<v Speaker 1>I've what I'm trying to learn and what goes on

0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.800
<v Speaker 1>back there. Um, But they've been super cool about letting

0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.760
<v Speaker 1>me dabble, you know, a hundred fifty passing yards plus

0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:05.520
<v Speaker 1>for Jalen Hurts doesn't like who They don't want to

0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:06.720
<v Speaker 1>give me that, They don't want to put that in

0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.919
<v Speaker 1>my like boosted parley. But I was like that, so

0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.280
<v Speaker 1>what I want to do. It's really cool about that,

0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:12.960
<v Speaker 1>But I also don't know what the hell I'm doing,

0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:17.440
<v Speaker 1>so I haven't won one one that one. It's interesting

0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:21.040
<v Speaker 1>to me because you you talked about starting in fantasy.

0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.840
<v Speaker 1>See when I see your parlays, and what she does

0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.880
<v Speaker 1>is she'll do like what she said she'll do somebody

0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.880
<v Speaker 1>you know, getting so many touchdowns or this many yards. See,

0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.159
<v Speaker 1>it's individual, So you're sticking in the in the individual

0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:37.320
<v Speaker 1>kind of from those fantasy routes, whereas I don't I

0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:41.040
<v Speaker 1>don't touch those. I don't touch those. I mean in general,

0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:45.199
<v Speaker 1>because I feel like I really don't know. I mean, like,

0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.520
<v Speaker 1>unless I don't know, you probably have every head coach's

0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.119
<v Speaker 1>phone number. But unless I know what the game plan is,

0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.399
<v Speaker 1>I don't know is Roger's going to score, you know,

0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.280
<v Speaker 1>throw two touchdowns or three? You know, are they going

0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.560
<v Speaker 1>to hand it off fifty times or not? Or like

0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.880
<v Speaker 1>after you're going to score touchdown like likely he's door. Yeah,

0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.320
<v Speaker 1>but then you're but then you're paying really bad odds. Yeah,

0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.200
<v Speaker 1>that's my thing. Ever, that's what everybody gets on me for.

0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.240
<v Speaker 1>They're like, why are you even doing this? It's like

0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.920
<v Speaker 1>the other the expected value or whatever. I just want

0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.840
<v Speaker 1>to I just need to win. And so I don't

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<v Speaker 1>even know what I'll do for Super Bowl. I can't

0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:22.960
<v Speaker 1>even imagine. I literally will talk. I'll give I'll give

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<v Speaker 1>you something good. I don't want to get, like I

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<v Speaker 1>see like the prop that's interests me, Like, no, I know,

0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.040
<v Speaker 1>you know songs is really singing? Who is she bringing out?

0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:37.720
<v Speaker 1>That's the stuff I need answers to Brian heads are tails? Heads?

0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:42.440
<v Speaker 1>All right? Maybe we'll have a wager on that. I've

0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.000
<v Speaker 1>never listened when you work for the NFL, although that

0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:46.800
<v Speaker 1>that's all changing in front of our eyes, Like it's

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<v Speaker 1>just it doesn't exist to you, like for me, do

0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:53.880
<v Speaker 1>you understand, like really really right. I'm so you have

0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.359
<v Speaker 1>no I would tell? Why would I not tell? I'm

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<v Speaker 1>telling you no, definitely not in that world. But even

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<v Speaker 1>before the for any job with the NFL, the fact

0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:07.280
<v Speaker 1>that like like my people I know would go and

0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.560
<v Speaker 1>like you know, they would have somebody to call before games,

0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.840
<v Speaker 1>like talking about like like having a little fun and

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<v Speaker 1>like what everybody just does this and nobody talks about

0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:20.320
<v Speaker 1>it like that. It's insane. Well, what makes me like

0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:24.359
<v Speaker 1>it's definitely changed since they've you know, draft Kings or fans,

0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:28.520
<v Speaker 1>whoever is in business with the NFL. It always makes

0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:33.440
<v Speaker 1>I know your fandal. It always makes me laugh when

0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.320
<v Speaker 1>it and it's usually I know Al Michael's does it

0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.760
<v Speaker 1>a little bit where there's it's it's late in the

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<v Speaker 1>game and we'll say something like, well this touchdown was

0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:47.800
<v Speaker 1>meaningful for some people, right like it makes the overhappen

0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.040
<v Speaker 1>or you know, it cuts the lead from nine to

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<v Speaker 1>three or whatever. I don't know. That always makes I

0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.320
<v Speaker 1>hear him saying it. But I but I also like

0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:00.600
<v Speaker 1>it's one of those do you have Do you have

0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:04.119
<v Speaker 1>any subject Brian where it's explained to you at nauseum

0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.080
<v Speaker 1>over and over again, like you're a five year old

0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.639
<v Speaker 1>and you're still like, huh, that's sort of what this

0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:12.919
<v Speaker 1>is like for me, And it shows interesting, Well, I

0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:18.720
<v Speaker 1>have a horrible skill set of musicians, songs, albums, that

0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:24.760
<v Speaker 1>stuff like. I can basically answer you know, what music

0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:28.400
<v Speaker 1>are you listening to? And then beyond that, and they're like, oh,

0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:32.560
<v Speaker 1>what album do you like? No Clube? No, No, I

0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:40.040
<v Speaker 1>can remember Thriller Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. That was an album, right,

0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:44.480
<v Speaker 1>I can I can do that, but I can't beyond that. No,

0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:48.440
<v Speaker 1>I can't do Excited about Rihanna? Oh yeah, last year

0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:51.600
<v Speaker 1>was good. Last year was great. If nobody's talking about Rihanna,

0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:54.560
<v Speaker 1>I'm very intrigued by that. Last year there wasn't like

0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:58.240
<v Speaker 1>crazy commercial they spent like a big billion dollars on Yeah,

0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:01.439
<v Speaker 1>it was the same cost as one of your cameos costs.

0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:27.800
<v Speaker 1>We weren't saying little, let's move on Cincinnati and who

0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:31.720
<v Speaker 1>want to get the Chiefs? You distracted me the Chiefs?

0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:34.840
<v Speaker 1>Were you surprised? Who did you? Who did you? Who

0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:37.320
<v Speaker 1>did you think was gonna win? No? I love the Bengals.

0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:41.080
<v Speaker 1>I know we both love the Bengals. Talk about this.

0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:45.679
<v Speaker 1>I was disappointed You're a Cincinnati guy. I fell in

0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:47.640
<v Speaker 1>love with the city. As you know, you're from there,

0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:52.160
<v Speaker 1>my dad is from there. But when you were younger, right, yes,

0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:54.520
<v Speaker 1>when I was young, Yes, that's home mid western vibe.

0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:56.520
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you're not Carols down there, but three in

0:22:56.560 --> 0:23:00.560
<v Speaker 1>the Chili they're han't. And uh I I really like

0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:03.320
<v Speaker 1>the team, and I really I did not like I

0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:04.520
<v Speaker 1>have a lot of text means it just like I

0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:06.600
<v Speaker 1>don't like this energy. This we're going to go in

0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:09.160
<v Speaker 1>there and like we own we own the homes thing.

0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:11.280
<v Speaker 1>But I thought to myself, well, Joe Burrow, it doesn't

0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:13.719
<v Speaker 1>care like he's not this team does not think that

0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:16.240
<v Speaker 1>they're going to go dominate, that they're prepared, they're fine,

0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:19.080
<v Speaker 1>they're cool. But the chiefs clearly just listened to all

0:23:19.119 --> 0:23:22.000
<v Speaker 1>that stuff like onably so and so I'm just annoyed

0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:24.119
<v Speaker 1>that anybody who says that there's no such thing as

0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:26.879
<v Speaker 1>bulletin board material and there's no such thing as like motive,

0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:29.680
<v Speaker 1>it all exists. It's all, it all exists, it's all real,

0:23:29.800 --> 0:23:31.800
<v Speaker 1>and it wins people games. That's what I think. It's

0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:34.840
<v Speaker 1>why Belichick, who is such a genius, will not let

0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:40.560
<v Speaker 1>these players say anything. Everyone they won't say because he

0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:43.480
<v Speaker 1>doesn't want to give any little little advantage in the meantime,

0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:46.240
<v Speaker 1>And I know this for a fact, he'll print out

0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:49.520
<v Speaker 1>every tweet, every awful thing said about any of these

0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:50.760
<v Speaker 1>players are how they can't do it, and he will

0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:52.760
<v Speaker 1>slip it to them in meetings all week long leading

0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:55.120
<v Speaker 1>up to a matchup. So it matters, and it's played

0:23:55.119 --> 0:24:01.040
<v Speaker 1>a broll. And I mean Travis Kelsey's to Ronie, I'm peeking,

0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:03.879
<v Speaker 1>and I'm I'm I'm bengling, I'm peeking in my pants laughing.

0:24:03.920 --> 0:24:06.760
<v Speaker 1>I think it's so funny. Am I watching w W

0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:10.560
<v Speaker 1>E what's happening? The fact that I was just about

0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:13.360
<v Speaker 1>to say is if you need any proof that what

0:24:13.400 --> 0:24:16.840
<v Speaker 1>you're saying is true, that that stuff matters, It's the

0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:20.520
<v Speaker 1>first thing he says after the game is over. He

0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:25.040
<v Speaker 1>references the mayor of Cincinnati. It is literally the first

0:24:25.040 --> 0:24:30.080
<v Speaker 1>thing he says. He doesn't even Yeah, that's all the

0:24:30.080 --> 0:24:33.040
<v Speaker 1>evidence you need. It's so funny. I don't know the

0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:34.840
<v Speaker 1>name of the mayor of Cincinnati, and this is like

0:24:34.880 --> 0:24:37.760
<v Speaker 1>the biggest story in sports, and nobody knows, and everyone's

0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:39.840
<v Speaker 1>so mad at him that nobody cares to ask. But

0:24:39.920 --> 0:24:42.600
<v Speaker 1>do you have any I have no idea his name is.

0:24:43.119 --> 0:24:46.920
<v Speaker 1>It's just that Cincinnati mayor. That's Cincinnati mayor. I know

0:24:47.600 --> 0:24:52.440
<v Speaker 1>that missed the story. Cincinnati. That's the other funny part.

0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:56.200
<v Speaker 1>Was Cincinnati boy he is he went to Cinacy first?

0:24:56.200 --> 0:24:59.480
<v Speaker 1>Where did he go to school? The Kelsey's, both of them,

0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:06.600
<v Speaker 1>let's look, thank you, University of Cincinnati. I didn't say wrong.

0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:10.840
<v Speaker 1>To be clear, I did not. I did not indicate

0:25:10.920 --> 0:25:12.760
<v Speaker 1>that you were wrong. I didn't say you were wrong.

0:25:13.400 --> 0:25:16.840
<v Speaker 1>Where did Jason go? Oh my god, I don't know. Alabama?

0:25:17.800 --> 0:25:21.520
<v Speaker 1>Oh no, I don't know Cincinnati. They both went to Cincinnati.

0:25:21.600 --> 0:25:25.600
<v Speaker 1>Both went to Cincinnati while breaking news here on off

0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:28.639
<v Speaker 1>the beat. Both the Kelsey's went to Cincinnati. All right,

0:25:29.119 --> 0:25:32.960
<v Speaker 1>super Bowl Week, the parties, you go to all the parties. No,

0:25:33.320 --> 0:25:35.560
<v Speaker 1>I haven't done that in a long time. When I

0:25:35.600 --> 0:25:38.280
<v Speaker 1>saw Good Morning Football if the last year the game

0:25:38.320 --> 0:25:40.160
<v Speaker 1>was in l A and we were up I think

0:25:40.160 --> 0:25:42.320
<v Speaker 1>you remember we were up at like one am. I

0:25:42.440 --> 0:25:46.280
<v Speaker 1>joined you guys, not you, I joined someone. I did

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<v Speaker 1>the weekend edition. You know, I needed to do it

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<v Speaker 1>closer to the game. They needed my site closer to

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<v Speaker 1>the game. Makes sense. Yeah, I don't know if the Packers,

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<v Speaker 1>ever go back and ever again? Will you go to

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<v Speaker 1>the fartiest? I look, I find it. It's interesting to me.

0:26:05.240 --> 0:26:09.520
<v Speaker 1>This is it's entertainment. It's it's all entertainment. Right. You

0:26:09.640 --> 0:26:14.000
<v Speaker 1>think of sports being different from television shows. Yet on

0:26:14.040 --> 0:26:16.840
<v Speaker 1>the list of the most watched television shows every year,

0:26:16.840 --> 0:26:19.679
<v Speaker 1>the super Bowl is at the top. It's entertainment. So

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<v Speaker 1>to me, the whole thing is fun. It's entertaining. I

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<v Speaker 1>enjoy it. Are you working this year? I am. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going to Arizona. I mean I'm here right, this is

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<v Speaker 1>this is a super Bowl episode of Off the Beat.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm in Arizona. I'm loving it. I haven't been

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<v Speaker 1>to any parties. I don't. I don't love even if

0:26:38.240 --> 0:26:40.480
<v Speaker 1>you know somebody that knows. I remember hitting you up

0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:42.480
<v Speaker 1>Superbowl week in l A last year and being like,

0:26:42.640 --> 0:26:45.520
<v Speaker 1>what are we doing, big guy, Let's go with the town,

0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:47.919
<v Speaker 1>And then I was investing you didn't. Yeah you went

0:26:47.960 --> 0:26:53.399
<v Speaker 1>to bed at No. Yeah no, I was working. I work.

0:26:54.040 --> 0:26:56.520
<v Speaker 1>That's all I do is work. I know you're the

0:26:56.600 --> 0:27:01.000
<v Speaker 1>smart You're You're Bryant. Is it the right way? I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know about that. Who's gonna win? I don't know,

0:27:04.600 --> 0:27:06.240
<v Speaker 1>why don't you face time or dgers right now and

0:27:06.240 --> 0:27:12.280
<v Speaker 1>asking that's not playing spoiler alert. I don't know. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know, but here's what I think. I think both

0:27:14.280 --> 0:27:16.760
<v Speaker 1>of the qbs are hurt. I don't know why I

0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:19.119
<v Speaker 1>said QB, I don't ever say worry what worries you

0:27:19.160 --> 0:27:22.240
<v Speaker 1>more Brian A shoulder on a quarterback or an ankle

0:27:22.320 --> 0:27:24.320
<v Speaker 1>on a guy who can likes to go deep and

0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:28.320
<v Speaker 1>likes to be mobile. I I feel like no one's

0:27:28.320 --> 0:27:32.520
<v Speaker 1>talking about hurts is as much, which I don't know

0:27:32.560 --> 0:27:35.040
<v Speaker 1>whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. I

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<v Speaker 1>hear breaking news here from me. Philadelphia is gonna rush

0:27:41.119 --> 0:27:45.480
<v Speaker 1>way more guys then Cincinnati did last week. I don't

0:27:45.480 --> 0:27:47.080
<v Speaker 1>know what was going on there. They could not get

0:27:47.080 --> 0:27:49.400
<v Speaker 1>to the homes. I'm like, if you just get to him,

0:27:49.440 --> 0:27:52.080
<v Speaker 1>if you just he's on one leg, get to him

0:27:52.119 --> 0:27:54.560
<v Speaker 1>and it'll you're you win the game. And they couldn't

0:27:54.560 --> 0:27:56.359
<v Speaker 1>do it. It was really weird. They will do that,

0:27:56.400 --> 0:27:57.919
<v Speaker 1>and they'll they do it in waves. That's how they

0:27:57.920 --> 0:28:00.920
<v Speaker 1>got to Brady that Remember, they kept adding new guys,

0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:02.840
<v Speaker 1>I mean, Brandon Graham, the same guys around the team.

0:28:02.840 --> 0:28:06.000
<v Speaker 1>They got veterans, they got young cats um Hassan Reddick

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<v Speaker 1>is a total game changer. He's incredible. He's incredible, he's

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<v Speaker 1>so scary, and he he wasn't nominated for Defensive Player

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<v Speaker 1>of the Year, which I thought was crazy. I don't know,

0:28:17.760 --> 0:28:19.360
<v Speaker 1>because there's so many ways to look at this. You've

0:28:19.359 --> 0:28:22.000
<v Speaker 1>got Chris Jones who's playing out of his mind, but

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<v Speaker 1>is he gonna do anything against that Eagles offensive line?

0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:28.520
<v Speaker 1>Is the best offensive line? Like? Is that? I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>go with you. I think it's oh man, I want

0:28:31.240 --> 0:28:33.080
<v Speaker 1>the Eagles to him, but I'm scared the cheps when

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<v Speaker 1>I think the Chiefs are going to pull it out

0:28:34.560 --> 0:28:37.080
<v Speaker 1>because Mahomes just looked so good last week. He looked

0:28:37.119 --> 0:28:40.040
<v Speaker 1>so good. And I think Jalen Hurts is hurt, and

0:28:40.120 --> 0:28:42.560
<v Speaker 1>I think it showed in the game. It showed him

0:28:42.600 --> 0:28:45.680
<v Speaker 1>that game. I agree with you, which is a crazy

0:28:45.800 --> 0:28:51.160
<v Speaker 1>thing to say because what they won by thirty. I think, yeah,

0:28:51.320 --> 0:28:54.080
<v Speaker 1>But I'm saying it's crazy to say that we're concerned

0:28:54.120 --> 0:28:57.160
<v Speaker 1>about his health with with how much they dominated that game.

0:28:57.520 --> 0:28:59.640
<v Speaker 1>But I'm with you. I think they're I think they're

0:28:59.640 --> 0:29:02.000
<v Speaker 1>both hurt. It's can the Eagles run? They have that

0:29:02.080 --> 0:29:05.200
<v Speaker 1>offensive line can they run all over the Chiefs like

0:29:05.320 --> 0:29:08.400
<v Speaker 1>they did against the Niners. I would have to say yes,

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<v Speaker 1>because they did it against the Niners, But I don't know.

0:29:11.720 --> 0:29:15.600
<v Speaker 1>There's also the experience factor, Like I give the Eagles

0:29:15.640 --> 0:29:17.640
<v Speaker 1>all the credit in the world because you know, the

0:29:17.680 --> 0:29:19.960
<v Speaker 1>Chiefs they're trying to make a dynasty thing happen. They've

0:29:19.960 --> 0:29:21.560
<v Speaker 1>had pretty much the same guys. They got rid of

0:29:21.560 --> 0:29:23.480
<v Speaker 1>Tyreek Kill a couple offensive line than all of that.

0:29:23.800 --> 0:29:25.959
<v Speaker 1>But the Eagles, like, who do you have there? You

0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:28.560
<v Speaker 1>have your owners the same, and your GM Holley Roseman

0:29:28.640 --> 0:29:31.320
<v Speaker 1>is the same. You have a different quarterback, you have

0:29:31.440 --> 0:29:34.840
<v Speaker 1>different pretty much all different weapons you've got, you know,

0:29:34.880 --> 0:29:37.360
<v Speaker 1>a whole different regime out there, a new head coach

0:29:37.440 --> 0:29:39.680
<v Speaker 1>calling the shots, and you're back in it. That's more

0:29:39.720 --> 0:29:43.800
<v Speaker 1>impressive to me. That's pretty cool. It's very cool. I

0:29:43.880 --> 0:29:46.080
<v Speaker 1>think it's gonna be a great game. But your pick

0:29:46.160 --> 0:29:50.360
<v Speaker 1>is the Chiefs. Begrudgingly, I don't. I don't love it,

0:29:50.400 --> 0:29:52.840
<v Speaker 1>but uh, I don't know. I just want I want

0:29:52.840 --> 0:29:55.479
<v Speaker 1>Siriani to be I just think Sirian need to make

0:29:55.520 --> 0:29:58.400
<v Speaker 1>a like a just be crazy and have fun and

0:29:58.600 --> 0:30:00.280
<v Speaker 1>make it happen. And I want to for a j

0:30:00.400 --> 0:30:03.000
<v Speaker 1>Brown and Jalen Hurts. But the shoulder. I mean, if

0:30:03.000 --> 0:30:05.080
<v Speaker 1>I'm judging it based off what I saw from Jalen

0:30:05.560 --> 0:30:09.240
<v Speaker 1>last week, I gotta pick the better quarterback and that's

0:30:09.280 --> 0:30:12.480
<v Speaker 1>the one that somehow on one leg did what he did.

0:30:13.000 --> 0:30:16.000
<v Speaker 1>You heard it here first, You heard it here first.

0:30:16.240 --> 0:30:21.080
<v Speaker 1>The Chiefs are gonna win. I'm going to take the Eagles. Okay,

0:30:21.120 --> 0:30:25.240
<v Speaker 1>you can be contrarian. Are you making your way to Arizona? Uh,

0:30:25.400 --> 0:30:29.320
<v Speaker 1>we'll see you know. I'm like a butterfly sting like

0:30:29.400 --> 0:30:33.320
<v Speaker 1>a bee. I don't know what that means, but I

0:30:33.400 --> 0:30:40.840
<v Speaker 1>might be there. Uh hey, kay, Adams, listen up in

0:30:40.920 --> 0:30:45.840
<v Speaker 1>Atoms your new venture. Are you having fun? Yes, it's

0:30:45.920 --> 0:30:48.040
<v Speaker 1>you know, it's a startup, so it's every day is

0:30:48.080 --> 0:30:50.480
<v Speaker 1>like a you know, I let my hair on fire

0:30:50.520 --> 0:30:52.560
<v Speaker 1>and then do it again the next day. But it's

0:30:52.840 --> 0:30:55.520
<v Speaker 1>very I like building things. I like uh, I like

0:30:55.640 --> 0:30:57.960
<v Speaker 1>startups and and sort of doing seeing seeing what the

0:30:57.960 --> 0:31:00.680
<v Speaker 1>world is and content and the whole world is going

0:31:00.720 --> 0:31:04.600
<v Speaker 1>towards the fan duels of the world and the freedom

0:31:04.600 --> 0:31:06.440
<v Speaker 1>that they allow. You see with a lot of a

0:31:06.440 --> 0:31:08.720
<v Speaker 1>lot of sports personalities. I don't know if that that

0:31:08.800 --> 0:31:10.800
<v Speaker 1>network life is for me Brian, So I'm doing I'm

0:31:10.880 --> 0:31:14.280
<v Speaker 1>doing my own thing for now, but it's really fun. Well, congratulations,

0:31:14.720 --> 0:31:16.560
<v Speaker 1>and you know, you know I would always come on

0:31:16.600 --> 0:31:18.520
<v Speaker 1>and talk to you. But when I was researching this,

0:31:19.120 --> 0:31:22.160
<v Speaker 1>I saw that, you know, on your poster it says

0:31:22.520 --> 0:31:27.720
<v Speaker 1>that you have current and former NFL stars that come on. Brian,

0:31:27.800 --> 0:31:30.080
<v Speaker 1>I've asked you to come on the ship. No, that's

0:31:30.080 --> 0:31:33.200
<v Speaker 1>what it says. That was the pitch. That was the pitch. No,

0:31:33.480 --> 0:31:38.360
<v Speaker 1>I open atoms with former and current NFL stars. Where

0:31:38.360 --> 0:31:41.000
<v Speaker 1>does it say that? That's awful? So you'll have to

0:31:41.000 --> 0:31:42.920
<v Speaker 1>go white my hair on fire and fix that that.

0:31:43.000 --> 0:31:45.040
<v Speaker 1>We've had all sorts of people on. You'll see in

0:31:45.280 --> 0:31:47.120
<v Speaker 1>super Bowl me too. If you're a Super Bowl and

0:31:47.200 --> 0:31:48.720
<v Speaker 1>I don't hear from you and I see that you're

0:31:48.720 --> 0:31:51.480
<v Speaker 1>spotted somewhere, Brian, I'm this is not going to be good.

0:31:54.360 --> 0:31:59.760
<v Speaker 1>Feature me at a moment, very very soon. Now, Thank

0:31:59.800 --> 0:32:02.320
<v Speaker 1>you so much for coming on, have a great week.

0:32:02.840 --> 0:32:04.800
<v Speaker 1>Thank you for always being so supportive. You are a

0:32:05.160 --> 0:32:07.120
<v Speaker 1>sick pup when it comes to sports, and I can't

0:32:07.160 --> 0:32:29.080
<v Speaker 1>love it more. I love it. Thank you, thank you. Okay,

0:32:29.120 --> 0:32:32.720
<v Speaker 1>thank you for stopping by. Look, I will come on

0:32:32.880 --> 0:32:37.960
<v Speaker 1>up in Adams anytime you want, and yes, maybe I

0:32:38.000 --> 0:32:40.840
<v Speaker 1>will see you at the end of the week in Arizona.

0:32:41.520 --> 0:32:48.840
<v Speaker 1>And now, friends, please welcome the esteemed Fantasy football Commissioner

0:32:49.080 --> 0:32:55.240
<v Speaker 1>of the Office Fantasy Football League, Steven Sulks. What's up, Stephen,

0:32:55.680 --> 0:33:00.080
<v Speaker 1>Brian So good to see you. It's good to see you.

0:33:00.680 --> 0:33:04.920
<v Speaker 1>How are you? Yeah? You too, you too? You're doing well.

0:33:05.400 --> 0:33:08.880
<v Speaker 1>I'm doing well. Has the weather down south today? I

0:33:08.960 --> 0:33:12.440
<v Speaker 1>have no complaints. I mean, it's rainy, it's rainy and cold,

0:33:12.880 --> 0:33:17.760
<v Speaker 1>but it feels like football weather. I guess it's not

0:33:18.000 --> 0:33:23.760
<v Speaker 1>quite Arrowhead at night, but uh it, it is a

0:33:23.800 --> 0:33:28.080
<v Speaker 1>little chilly here in California. We have to talk about Stephen.

0:33:28.360 --> 0:33:32.400
<v Speaker 1>As some of you may know, we just concluded our

0:33:32.600 --> 0:33:37.680
<v Speaker 1>eighteenth year of the Office Fantasy Football League, one of

0:33:37.720 --> 0:33:42.840
<v Speaker 1>the most dramatic or not endings in the history of

0:33:43.040 --> 0:33:51.320
<v Speaker 1>the league. Ending another another very very messy ending. So

0:33:52.200 --> 0:33:55.920
<v Speaker 1>give viewers a little bit of insight here um the

0:33:56.000 --> 0:33:59.520
<v Speaker 1>Office Fantasy Football League. We began in two thousand five.

0:34:00.040 --> 0:34:03.000
<v Speaker 1>I looked it up. Tell people a little bit about

0:34:03.120 --> 0:34:07.480
<v Speaker 1>about the league. That league was started in two thousands five.

0:34:07.600 --> 0:34:09.400
<v Speaker 1>I was not part of the league at that point.

0:34:09.520 --> 0:34:13.400
<v Speaker 1>I came a year later, but um, it was all

0:34:13.560 --> 0:34:17.239
<v Speaker 1>off this cast and crew, and um when when I

0:34:17.280 --> 0:34:19.440
<v Speaker 1>got in it was the next year. And we've talked

0:34:19.440 --> 0:34:21.800
<v Speaker 1>about this before, but how our draft went with the

0:34:21.920 --> 0:34:26.160
<v Speaker 1>yellow legal pad and and just how old school it was.

0:34:26.239 --> 0:34:29.839
<v Speaker 1>But um, we pretty much had a base of of

0:34:30.200 --> 0:34:33.080
<v Speaker 1>managers for the whole time. I mean we I feel

0:34:33.080 --> 0:34:35.759
<v Speaker 1>like we've had a good core. At least half the

0:34:35.800 --> 0:34:39.600
<v Speaker 1>guys have been around since nearly the beginning, So it's

0:34:39.600 --> 0:34:45.160
<v Speaker 1>become not only a long historic fantasy league. So there's

0:34:45.200 --> 0:34:48.600
<v Speaker 1>a lot involved, a lot of connections and friendships in there,

0:34:48.600 --> 0:34:50.759
<v Speaker 1>but it's a really for me, it's what a way

0:34:50.800 --> 0:34:53.279
<v Speaker 1>to stay in touch with you and with so many

0:34:53.760 --> 0:34:55.520
<v Speaker 1>from a part of my life that I just want

0:34:55.520 --> 0:34:59.640
<v Speaker 1>to keep in touch with. Uh. There's cast, Yeah, cast,

0:34:59.719 --> 0:35:06.520
<v Speaker 1>Why is you rain? John Andy Buckley? That's right, that's

0:35:06.520 --> 0:35:10.400
<v Speaker 1>it right now? And you we had thank you? Yeah.

0:35:10.480 --> 0:35:17.200
<v Speaker 1>And we have a sound guy, We've got a camera assistant,

0:35:17.320 --> 0:35:21.439
<v Speaker 1>we have a p a writer writer, we have an

0:35:21.480 --> 0:35:25.879
<v Speaker 1>old director who's also a husband of a cast member. Yes,

0:35:27.120 --> 0:35:34.719
<v Speaker 1>J Fischer's husband. That's right. That was the that was

0:35:34.800 --> 0:35:38.560
<v Speaker 1>the door that opened. He couldn't join until he had

0:35:38.600 --> 0:35:40.680
<v Speaker 1>actually worked on the show. I think that was that

0:35:40.800 --> 0:35:43.600
<v Speaker 1>was the original rule. I think that's why he actually

0:35:43.600 --> 0:35:47.160
<v Speaker 1>pushed to direct an episode direct to get in to

0:35:48.160 --> 0:35:52.520
<v Speaker 1>the office Fantasy Football League. Um, now, you have said

0:35:52.560 --> 0:35:55.640
<v Speaker 1>in the past that being the commissioners, Steven has been

0:35:55.640 --> 0:35:59.759
<v Speaker 1>the commissioner for a long time now, that it's like

0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:04.600
<v Speaker 1>wrangling cats. This year any better? This year it wasn't

0:36:04.680 --> 0:36:08.919
<v Speaker 1>much better. It wasn't much better. We still had. I mean,

0:36:09.719 --> 0:36:14.480
<v Speaker 1>in fact, just listen, it's not much of an anti

0:36:14.600 --> 0:36:16.640
<v Speaker 1>into this thing. We do have money on the line,

0:36:16.680 --> 0:36:19.719
<v Speaker 1>but it's not much. That's wrangling is really with just

0:36:19.760 --> 0:36:22.640
<v Speaker 1>getting a pool of money together. But I think it's

0:36:22.680 --> 0:36:26.200
<v Speaker 1>so little that it gets past people's you know mind.

0:36:26.239 --> 0:36:28.799
<v Speaker 1>So I still like to collect the money. But going

0:36:28.840 --> 0:36:31.919
<v Speaker 1>into championship week, of the four teams that were there,

0:36:32.160 --> 0:36:36.839
<v Speaker 1>three had not paid so so and I didn't even

0:36:36.840 --> 0:36:38.680
<v Speaker 1>ask because I was going, well, if you win, then

0:36:38.920 --> 0:36:40.719
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna have money coming to you. Might as well

0:36:40.760 --> 0:36:46.720
<v Speaker 1>like limit the transactions here, then no transactions? All right, Look,

0:36:47.200 --> 0:36:49.960
<v Speaker 1>we got to talk about the end. I posted it

0:36:50.040 --> 0:36:55.000
<v Speaker 1>on my Instagram account. I made the Super Bowl, I

0:36:55.080 --> 0:36:59.200
<v Speaker 1>made the Finals, and I've made the finals as much

0:36:59.320 --> 0:37:02.080
<v Speaker 1>or more more than just about anyone. I've never won

0:37:02.120 --> 0:37:06.640
<v Speaker 1>the damn thing eighteen years now, and we go into

0:37:06.640 --> 0:37:09.560
<v Speaker 1>the finals and I looked it up, I wrote it down,

0:37:09.600 --> 0:37:13.359
<v Speaker 1>I posted on Instagram the day of the game. Unfortunately,

0:37:14.200 --> 0:37:17.560
<v Speaker 1>I was projected to get a hundred and twelve point

0:37:17.719 --> 0:37:24.319
<v Speaker 1>thirty five points. My competitor was locked was done at

0:37:24.320 --> 0:37:29.600
<v Speaker 1>a hundred and twelve point thirty points. I had Josh

0:37:29.640 --> 0:37:33.560
<v Speaker 1>Allen and and the tight end Knox, who by the way,

0:37:33.719 --> 0:37:38.400
<v Speaker 1>caught a touchdown in the last four games that he played.

0:37:39.320 --> 0:37:43.840
<v Speaker 1>This week of the finals was the Cincinnati Buffalo game,

0:37:44.160 --> 0:37:50.440
<v Speaker 1>which was eventually canceled. Now you know it brings up

0:37:50.520 --> 0:37:54.120
<v Speaker 1>we Stephen and I talked, I talked with Rain Wilson

0:37:54.600 --> 0:37:58.000
<v Speaker 1>various other members about what we do, and ultimately there

0:37:58.080 --> 0:38:01.560
<v Speaker 1>was nothing to be done. The game wasn't played, the

0:38:01.640 --> 0:38:05.200
<v Speaker 1>points couldn't be scored, and all the various sights were saying,

0:38:05.320 --> 0:38:08.040
<v Speaker 1>it's it's you know, it's it's just like if if

0:38:08.080 --> 0:38:10.400
<v Speaker 1>one of the players got hurt and wasn't able to go.

0:38:11.400 --> 0:38:14.799
<v Speaker 1>But nonetheless it's a loss, a loss for me. Your

0:38:14.880 --> 0:38:20.200
<v Speaker 1>feelings about how we resolved, Yeah, let's start by saying, uh,

0:38:20.239 --> 0:38:24.440
<v Speaker 1>thank god, DeMar Hamlin is is okay, right, thank god?

0:38:25.239 --> 0:38:28.279
<v Speaker 1>Because of course I was watching the game and I

0:38:28.320 --> 0:38:32.200
<v Speaker 1>have never seen anything like it ever, never seen anything

0:38:32.239 --> 0:38:36.719
<v Speaker 1>like it, and never been more sort of scared nervous

0:38:36.760 --> 0:38:39.279
<v Speaker 1>watching a football game in my life. It made me

0:38:39.960 --> 0:38:42.400
<v Speaker 1>look on Amazon and see how much of de fibulary

0:38:42.440 --> 0:38:45.960
<v Speaker 1>would be to have a home three thou dollars by

0:38:45.960 --> 0:38:47.680
<v Speaker 1>the way, so I will not be doing doing that.

0:38:47.719 --> 0:38:49.680
<v Speaker 1>But I was like, wow, if it's like bucks, I

0:38:49.680 --> 0:38:53.120
<v Speaker 1>should just have one, right, I mean, but thank god

0:38:53.239 --> 0:38:57.120
<v Speaker 1>he's fine and or he has survived, you know, and

0:38:57.160 --> 0:39:00.160
<v Speaker 1>he looks fine. But when it comes down to just

0:39:00.239 --> 0:39:03.399
<v Speaker 1>pure fancy numbers, a real bummer. I mean, like we said,

0:39:03.400 --> 0:39:07.839
<v Speaker 1>it's messy, but it would have been okay to me. Two,

0:39:09.760 --> 0:39:14.880
<v Speaker 1>I would have felt about the decision I made, along

0:39:14.920 --> 0:39:18.279
<v Speaker 1>with taking into account what you had said. Rain. Rain

0:39:18.360 --> 0:39:20.400
<v Speaker 1>had input too because he was in the game for

0:39:20.640 --> 0:39:23.359
<v Speaker 1>third place and we all agreed and what to do.

0:39:23.440 --> 0:39:26.480
<v Speaker 1>But I would have felt better if I hadn't added

0:39:27.000 --> 0:39:30.280
<v Speaker 1>the points up for Alan and Knox in week eighteen

0:39:30.320 --> 0:39:31.920
<v Speaker 1>and then added that to your score, because that was

0:39:31.920 --> 0:39:35.600
<v Speaker 1>the only other option was do we just go to

0:39:35.880 --> 0:39:39.080
<v Speaker 1>week eighteen and see what Alan and Knox have and

0:39:39.160 --> 0:39:41.600
<v Speaker 1>add that to your score like manually and you you

0:39:41.600 --> 0:39:43.239
<v Speaker 1>would have won by like a point and a half.

0:39:45.120 --> 0:39:47.759
<v Speaker 1>I didn't know that. Yeah, I thought I'd wait till

0:39:47.800 --> 0:39:51.239
<v Speaker 1>now to tell you was that was that? Other? What

0:39:51.520 --> 0:39:54.759
<v Speaker 1>did other leagues do that? I had you because I

0:39:54.800 --> 0:39:58.120
<v Speaker 1>looked under you know, I looked at a lot of articles.

0:39:58.120 --> 0:40:00.520
<v Speaker 1>I also talked to some friends and stuff. Had one

0:40:00.640 --> 0:40:04.240
<v Speaker 1>friend that that did do that. I thought it was odd,

0:40:04.680 --> 0:40:06.560
<v Speaker 1>to be honest, I thought it was odd to me

0:40:07.239 --> 0:40:10.399
<v Speaker 1>when Damar went down and they decided to cancel a game,

0:40:10.440 --> 0:40:13.279
<v Speaker 1>which is so rare it has to be to me.

0:40:13.440 --> 0:40:16.120
<v Speaker 1>It has to be like your player is injured, he

0:40:16.200 --> 0:40:20.080
<v Speaker 1>just isn't playing, right, Um, the Damar injury became an

0:40:20.080 --> 0:40:24.600
<v Speaker 1>injury for the entire field of players to me. Right,

0:40:25.000 --> 0:40:27.160
<v Speaker 1>But yes, you would have the way I figured you

0:40:27.160 --> 0:40:29.000
<v Speaker 1>would have won one third team point nine to have

0:40:29.040 --> 0:40:35.160
<v Speaker 1>one twelve point three and I and to be clear,

0:40:35.320 --> 0:40:37.840
<v Speaker 1>to be clear, you had mentioned that you've been in

0:40:38.520 --> 0:40:40.920
<v Speaker 1>you had never won, but you've been in the finals.

0:40:40.960 --> 0:40:43.680
<v Speaker 1>You've been in the finals three times, so you have

0:40:43.760 --> 0:40:47.440
<v Speaker 1>three second place win three second places in this and

0:40:48.560 --> 0:40:53.000
<v Speaker 1>you've been three You've been third four times, so you're you're,

0:40:53.160 --> 0:40:56.120
<v Speaker 1>you're in there. You've got as many trophies as anybody,

0:40:56.160 --> 0:40:59.719
<v Speaker 1>So it that that made me feel bad. I still

0:41:00.040 --> 0:41:04.200
<v Speaker 1>the one that I well, look, I talked to somebody

0:41:04.200 --> 0:41:07.320
<v Speaker 1>about this, and let's be very very clear. As Steven

0:41:07.360 --> 0:41:11.560
<v Speaker 1>mentioned before, there is uh there is a buy in,

0:41:12.080 --> 0:41:14.759
<v Speaker 1>a a friendly wager, if you will, but it is

0:41:15.360 --> 0:41:19.680
<v Speaker 1>not a significant amount of money. I think that there.

0:41:19.719 --> 0:41:24.320
<v Speaker 1>I have heard of some other leagues chopping the money

0:41:24.360 --> 0:41:27.760
<v Speaker 1>for those in that. In this situation, it wasn't about

0:41:27.760 --> 0:41:30.600
<v Speaker 1>the money. It was about winning because I haven't won

0:41:30.880 --> 0:41:33.080
<v Speaker 1>and it didn't happen, and nothing was going to make

0:41:33.120 --> 0:41:38.160
<v Speaker 1>that happen, unfortunately. I um, I looked back, I went,

0:41:38.239 --> 0:41:42.080
<v Speaker 1>I went, I went into the archives. My team name

0:41:42.320 --> 0:41:48.800
<v Speaker 1>was the Kevin's I then in two thousand six became

0:41:48.920 --> 0:41:54.520
<v Speaker 1>Kevin's Accountants, and then I have stuck with the Bombers

0:41:54.880 --> 0:41:58.399
<v Speaker 1>ever since. But you're actually B B Bombers. What wait?

0:41:58.440 --> 0:42:01.239
<v Speaker 1>What's the b B Brian Gardener Bombers? Is that what?

0:42:01.280 --> 0:42:06.120
<v Speaker 1>Because b B B B Bombers, Yeah, well I think

0:42:06.160 --> 0:42:10.520
<v Speaker 1>that's name and team name. I don't know something like that.

0:42:10.760 --> 0:42:13.200
<v Speaker 1>What are what are weird names? We always have one

0:42:13.239 --> 0:42:17.799
<v Speaker 1>of our guys Chris Workman talk about Gore. Oh yeah,

0:42:18.360 --> 0:42:20.520
<v Speaker 1>he's still Gore in right now. And I think he

0:42:20.640 --> 0:42:23.480
<v Speaker 1>used to be something like gorgeous Gore or something, you

0:42:23.520 --> 0:42:26.719
<v Speaker 1>know like that. He loves stories. The Big Niners two

0:42:26.800 --> 0:42:30.879
<v Speaker 1>Big Niners fans on the in the league. Of our

0:42:30.960 --> 0:42:36.520
<v Speaker 1>other Niners fan is Mike Berlina, the prop guy. He

0:42:36.520 --> 0:42:37.880
<v Speaker 1>he was a prop guy on the office. Is no

0:42:37.960 --> 0:42:42.799
<v Speaker 1>longer property person. But his name is this year's name

0:42:43.160 --> 0:42:47.000
<v Speaker 1>is the Crystal Ships. And that's been true for maybe

0:42:47.040 --> 0:42:52.279
<v Speaker 1>like five or I remember. Raine used to have like

0:42:52.680 --> 0:42:55.520
<v Speaker 1>a funny I usually have some funny names. But he's

0:42:55.520 --> 0:42:59.279
<v Speaker 1>been Satan's Ballerinas for a long time. He's been Satings balerinas.

0:42:59.640 --> 0:43:03.399
<v Speaker 1>He is, he is certainly into it. I will tell

0:43:04.440 --> 0:43:08.960
<v Speaker 1>Rain offers the worst trades, and I will first off,

0:43:09.000 --> 0:43:11.760
<v Speaker 1>let me say this, most points scored in the league

0:43:11.840 --> 0:43:15.120
<v Speaker 1>this year. Me. That's a that's a fact. That's not

0:43:15.200 --> 0:43:17.960
<v Speaker 1>a brag, that's not a humble brag. That's just a fact.

0:43:18.560 --> 0:43:21.719
<v Speaker 1>Most points scored in the league. And I made a

0:43:21.840 --> 0:43:24.880
<v Speaker 1>mistake on draft day, though it turned out to be

0:43:24.920 --> 0:43:30.200
<v Speaker 1>a beautiful, a beautiful mistake. I I drafted Wattle and

0:43:30.280 --> 0:43:35.680
<v Speaker 1>Tyreek Hill both as our two uh wide receivers, both

0:43:35.880 --> 0:43:38.520
<v Speaker 1>from the Dolphins. I didn't really mean to do that.

0:43:38.600 --> 0:43:40.799
<v Speaker 1>I think I was just looking at best available in

0:43:40.880 --> 0:43:45.520
<v Speaker 1>the moment. Rain was on me immediately trying to get

0:43:45.600 --> 0:43:50.480
<v Speaker 1>and offering me just garbage, heap material to try to

0:43:50.480 --> 0:43:54.239
<v Speaker 1>get one. He's like, you can't have two guys from

0:43:54.320 --> 0:43:58.359
<v Speaker 1>one team. Now. Of course they ended up both being

0:43:58.880 --> 0:44:02.439
<v Speaker 1>way up there and fan see as wide receivers. But

0:44:02.640 --> 0:44:06.920
<v Speaker 1>uh yeah, he's he's the worst. You've had him on

0:44:07.000 --> 0:44:09.560
<v Speaker 1>the podcast to talk about that too, about what he

0:44:09.680 --> 0:44:13.240
<v Speaker 1>how he feels about his offers. Yeah, I mean he's

0:44:13.239 --> 0:44:16.840
<v Speaker 1>pretty straightforward that the way he negotiates is just completely

0:44:16.840 --> 0:44:19.439
<v Speaker 1>low balls it at first was it didn't he say

0:44:19.480 --> 0:44:21.960
<v Speaker 1>something like going to a bazaar or something like going

0:44:22.360 --> 0:44:26.880
<v Speaker 1>going to like a flea market or that's what he

0:44:26.920 --> 0:44:30.040
<v Speaker 1>tries to do. But then he bullies. That's his problem.

0:44:30.080 --> 0:44:34.239
<v Speaker 1>He's a bully. He's a bullier. Um I look, it's

0:44:34.320 --> 0:44:38.960
<v Speaker 1>so fun. It's so fun to do this every year

0:44:39.040 --> 0:44:42.719
<v Speaker 1>because we do get back in touch and you know,

0:44:42.880 --> 0:44:45.960
<v Speaker 1>whether we are directly trash talking or not on a

0:44:46.000 --> 0:44:49.759
<v Speaker 1>week to week basis, it's so fun because it's by

0:44:49.800 --> 0:44:55.080
<v Speaker 1>and large it is a very active and competitive league

0:44:55.239 --> 0:44:59.520
<v Speaker 1>that people pay very close attention to. And so that's

0:44:59.560 --> 0:45:02.680
<v Speaker 1>fun to know that we're still we're still going at

0:45:02.719 --> 0:45:04.880
<v Speaker 1>each other well. And we've had a couple of times

0:45:04.960 --> 0:45:08.799
<v Speaker 1>where we've gotten I don't want to say gotten rid

0:45:08.800 --> 0:45:12.400
<v Speaker 1>of someone, but we've you know, they've left. We've had

0:45:12.400 --> 0:45:17.040
<v Speaker 1>a couple of managers league because we so much about

0:45:17.120 --> 0:45:21.000
<v Speaker 1>not paying up at Yeah, I mean, no names, right,

0:45:21.040 --> 0:45:23.400
<v Speaker 1>but I mean you gotta be act. You can't. You

0:45:23.440 --> 0:45:26.760
<v Speaker 1>can't have players on the on your on your roster

0:45:26.840 --> 0:45:30.160
<v Speaker 1>that are on bye weeks. That doesn't you know that

0:45:30.280 --> 0:45:32.920
<v Speaker 1>can't happen. I mean that. I just think that's what's

0:45:33.160 --> 0:45:35.400
<v Speaker 1>meant for any No one should put up with that.

0:45:36.000 --> 0:45:40.480
<v Speaker 1>No league, no no league, no league, especially this league,

0:45:41.080 --> 0:46:01.759
<v Speaker 1>most important league. As you mentioned before, you're a big

0:46:01.800 --> 0:46:06.839
<v Speaker 1>Saints fan. Any specific memories for the Super Bowl from

0:46:06.880 --> 0:46:11.759
<v Speaker 1>you of Saints finally winning after so much time in

0:46:11.800 --> 0:46:15.279
<v Speaker 1>the garbage heat so many times. I mean you grew

0:46:15.320 --> 0:46:18.359
<v Speaker 1>up a Falcons fan. Now you could up a Falcons fan.

0:46:18.400 --> 0:46:21.160
<v Speaker 1>I mean, we we know how rough it was for

0:46:21.160 --> 0:46:24.920
<v Speaker 1>a long time, you know. So I remember just just

0:46:24.960 --> 0:46:29.640
<v Speaker 1>seeing at halftime the Saints were they were behind, but

0:46:29.680 --> 0:46:31.839
<v Speaker 1>they had scored a touchdown and think it was like

0:46:31.960 --> 0:46:35.120
<v Speaker 1>ten seven or something at halftime of that Colts Saints

0:46:35.120 --> 0:46:37.120
<v Speaker 1>game and just been like, we're just at least we're

0:46:37.120 --> 0:46:41.359
<v Speaker 1>in it, like we're doing it. And to me that

0:46:41.480 --> 0:46:45.480
<v Speaker 1>the memory of that game was just about Sean Payton

0:46:45.640 --> 0:46:48.600
<v Speaker 1>and and his he just had huge balls that day

0:46:48.640 --> 0:46:53.040
<v Speaker 1>and he's just really I mean with the on side kick,

0:46:53.160 --> 0:46:57.400
<v Speaker 1>I mean opening of the halftime on side kick that

0:46:57.520 --> 0:47:00.640
<v Speaker 1>changed everything. And I'll always remember at as a Saints.

0:47:00.719 --> 0:47:03.480
<v Speaker 1>I think all Saints fans could can just go to

0:47:03.520 --> 0:47:06.680
<v Speaker 1>their grave knowing, well, at least we we we won one.

0:47:06.760 --> 0:47:08.839
<v Speaker 1>And that's you know, that's a good point. And when

0:47:08.840 --> 0:47:13.400
<v Speaker 1>we talk about bad calls and stuff, there's still the

0:47:13.440 --> 0:47:16.000
<v Speaker 1>Saint that Saints team is known to be a dirty team.

0:47:16.040 --> 0:47:17.880
<v Speaker 1>And it goes down as like, you know, you've got

0:47:18.360 --> 0:47:20.160
<v Speaker 1>what was it where they paid player what they called

0:47:20.200 --> 0:47:23.640
<v Speaker 1>it bounty gate, right, and they were like, there's some

0:47:23.880 --> 0:47:27.120
<v Speaker 1>rumors they were paying players to knock out different players

0:47:27.280 --> 0:47:29.440
<v Speaker 1>or hurt players or something that there was some really

0:47:29.719 --> 0:47:33.640
<v Speaker 1>like pretty borderline shots on Brett Farven that in NFC

0:47:33.880 --> 0:47:38.680
<v Speaker 1>Championship game, right, I think people tend to forget about that.

0:47:38.960 --> 0:47:40.439
<v Speaker 1>You know. I mean, I think you can come back,

0:47:40.440 --> 0:47:42.520
<v Speaker 1>but there's nothing that you just kind of say it,

0:47:42.520 --> 0:47:44.240
<v Speaker 1>and then you're just kind of maybe the sore loser.

0:47:44.800 --> 0:47:47.000
<v Speaker 1>So I feel like, no matter what happens in this

0:47:47.080 --> 0:47:51.560
<v Speaker 1>Super Bowl coming up, everyone's gonna forget about these championship

0:47:51.600 --> 0:47:53.760
<v Speaker 1>games and and the and the you know, the bad revs.

0:47:53.840 --> 0:47:56.799
<v Speaker 1>The calls where people remember the strangest things think of,

0:47:56.840 --> 0:47:59.440
<v Speaker 1>like against the Saints that think of the Seahawks, and

0:47:59.520 --> 0:48:01.319
<v Speaker 1>Rain still says it too, he is a big Seahawks fan.

0:48:01.760 --> 0:48:05.479
<v Speaker 1>Marshawn Lynch is um run against US in the first

0:48:05.560 --> 0:48:08.440
<v Speaker 1>round the playoffs the year after the Saints won. The

0:48:08.480 --> 0:48:11.440
<v Speaker 1>Marshawn Lynch run that like he knocked over the entire

0:48:11.600 --> 0:48:14.680
<v Speaker 1>Saints team and and carried them in the end zone.

0:48:15.239 --> 0:48:17.760
<v Speaker 1>That's like one of the biggest plays for a Seattle

0:48:17.840 --> 0:48:20.759
<v Speaker 1>Seahawks fan. It's like one of their biggest plays ever.

0:48:20.840 --> 0:48:24.440
<v Speaker 1>They'll talk about. And they lost the next week and

0:48:24.480 --> 0:48:28.440
<v Speaker 1>they they were done. I mean, think about Minnesota Vikings.

0:48:28.440 --> 0:48:31.200
<v Speaker 1>They had the miracle in Minnesota against the Saints too,

0:48:31.640 --> 0:48:33.800
<v Speaker 1>no time basically no time left, the score touchdown like

0:48:33.840 --> 0:48:36.560
<v Speaker 1>a Hail Mary type of thing, and score touchdown to

0:48:36.560 --> 0:48:40.440
<v Speaker 1>win they still talk about that's like the Minneapolis miracle.

0:48:40.560 --> 0:48:43.400
<v Speaker 1>It's like and they lost the next week. You know,

0:48:43.440 --> 0:48:45.920
<v Speaker 1>it's it's not like it propelled them to the super Bowl.

0:48:46.239 --> 0:48:49.360
<v Speaker 1>They lost. But that's what It's just odd what people remember.

0:48:49.360 --> 0:48:52.359
<v Speaker 1>But I don't think we'll be talking about the bad

0:48:52.400 --> 0:48:54.400
<v Speaker 1>calls from yesterday. I don't think we've talked about it

0:48:54.400 --> 0:48:56.759
<v Speaker 1>too long. I think we're gonna say, hey, we're gonna

0:48:56.760 --> 0:49:00.320
<v Speaker 1>be talking about, hey, Mahomes gets two weeks to rest

0:49:00.400 --> 0:49:03.279
<v Speaker 1>up and he's going to be healthy. And and then

0:49:03.520 --> 0:49:05.879
<v Speaker 1>you know, those fans will get the payoff of winning

0:49:05.880 --> 0:49:07.520
<v Speaker 1>Super Bowl. They can never take it away from you, right,

0:49:07.560 --> 0:49:09.440
<v Speaker 1>It's really great. I mean, as a fan has nothing

0:49:09.480 --> 0:49:12.400
<v Speaker 1>to do with the game, nothing to do no influence

0:49:12.400 --> 0:49:13.960
<v Speaker 1>at all. As much as we think that we're in

0:49:13.960 --> 0:49:16.040
<v Speaker 1>a jersey or yelling at the TV is going to

0:49:16.120 --> 0:49:18.680
<v Speaker 1>do something, it means something. And that's what's so great

0:49:18.680 --> 0:49:21.480
<v Speaker 1>about sports. And so it's something I remember holding my

0:49:21.560 --> 0:49:24.359
<v Speaker 1>daughter and my son was two weeks from being born

0:49:24.360 --> 0:49:26.759
<v Speaker 1>when that when the Saints won Super Bowl, and and

0:49:27.120 --> 0:49:30.600
<v Speaker 1>remember forever it was fantastic. You know. One of the

0:49:30.600 --> 0:49:34.239
<v Speaker 1>things that fascinates me that I've been thinking about the

0:49:34.320 --> 0:49:39.160
<v Speaker 1>last couple of days is sports and entertainment, or specifically

0:49:39.160 --> 0:49:46.719
<v Speaker 1>the super Bowl and entertainment, And we what is on

0:49:46.840 --> 0:49:53.640
<v Speaker 1>every list every year. The most watched television show every

0:49:53.719 --> 0:49:58.520
<v Speaker 1>year is the super Bowl. So it's like we think

0:49:58.560 --> 0:50:02.520
<v Speaker 1>of those things as being so separate. Sports their sports,

0:50:02.560 --> 0:50:06.120
<v Speaker 1>and then their scripted television or there's reality television or whatever.

0:50:06.560 --> 0:50:09.880
<v Speaker 1>But in terms of entertainment, which is ultimately what's what's

0:50:09.880 --> 0:50:13.040
<v Speaker 1>on TV, the super Bowl is always listed. And because

0:50:13.040 --> 0:50:15.239
<v Speaker 1>it is, more people are watching the super Bowl than

0:50:15.440 --> 0:50:19.400
<v Speaker 1>than than anything else. How do you view it? Do

0:50:19.440 --> 0:50:21.520
<v Speaker 1>you view it as entertainment or is it sports? Is

0:50:21.560 --> 0:50:25.279
<v Speaker 1>it's something different? I think the super Bowl for the

0:50:25.280 --> 0:50:28.640
<v Speaker 1>most part, except for that Saints game, is entertainment to

0:50:28.680 --> 0:50:32.040
<v Speaker 1>me because you kind of go in with with the halftime.

0:50:32.120 --> 0:50:36.239
<v Speaker 1>Entertainment's going to be even the national anthem, that's going

0:50:36.280 --> 0:50:39.880
<v Speaker 1>to be right, there's two weeks up to it of

0:50:39.960 --> 0:50:42.680
<v Speaker 1>this whole thing. You're following you know who, and you're

0:50:42.680 --> 0:50:45.560
<v Speaker 1>watching press conferences. So to me, it's entertainment. I mean,

0:50:45.600 --> 0:50:49.200
<v Speaker 1>obviously it is for so many people to watch that

0:50:49.640 --> 0:50:52.160
<v Speaker 1>I have to think a big percentage of a fair

0:50:52.360 --> 0:50:56.720
<v Speaker 1>percentage of those people are not die hard NFL fans,

0:50:57.000 --> 0:51:00.399
<v Speaker 1>you know, they're just watching this. It's like, how we

0:51:00.400 --> 0:51:02.920
<v Speaker 1>we'll watch the World Cup, Right, We're not watching soccer

0:51:03.000 --> 0:51:05.520
<v Speaker 1>all year probably, I mean I'm not, but there are

0:51:05.520 --> 0:51:07.920
<v Speaker 1>people around the world that are. But I'm saying we

0:51:08.040 --> 0:51:11.520
<v Speaker 1>as a collective United States, we're not really that involved

0:51:11.520 --> 0:51:14.680
<v Speaker 1>out of the Olympics. We're not watching gymnasts and volleyball

0:51:14.760 --> 0:51:18.239
<v Speaker 1>players and the luge. We're not watching that all year round.

0:51:18.239 --> 0:51:20.439
<v Speaker 1>But man, I'm really into the luge when it comes

0:51:20.440 --> 0:51:24.360
<v Speaker 1>to the Winter Olympics because it's it's uh, it's it

0:51:24.960 --> 0:51:28.520
<v Speaker 1>means something like on a bigger, a different scale, right, So,

0:51:29.080 --> 0:51:31.799
<v Speaker 1>and that becomes entertaining. That's entertainment. I mean you look

0:51:31.840 --> 0:51:35.160
<v Speaker 1>at thirty thirty and all these sports related shows that

0:51:35.600 --> 0:51:38.319
<v Speaker 1>are so captivating, and I mean I can get my

0:51:38.320 --> 0:51:40.000
<v Speaker 1>wife to sit down and watch a thirty for thirty

0:51:40.040 --> 0:51:43.160
<v Speaker 1>and she's crying at the end. I mean, it brings

0:51:43.200 --> 0:51:45.799
<v Speaker 1>what makes sports so great. It brings the feeling and

0:51:45.920 --> 0:51:49.160
<v Speaker 1>the heart. And um, I I see that every year

0:51:49.560 --> 0:51:51.799
<v Speaker 1>in the Super Bowl. Unless I've got a bet on it,

0:51:51.880 --> 0:51:56.640
<v Speaker 1>I'm not really more than just entertainment. Really, well, that

0:51:56.840 --> 0:51:58.680
<v Speaker 1>was going to lead me to my next question you

0:51:58.880 --> 0:52:03.120
<v Speaker 1>are you? You a gamble and guy not like for

0:52:03.320 --> 0:52:11.680
<v Speaker 1>entertainment purposes, for entertainment purposes, completely responsible, responsible betting. I

0:52:11.680 --> 0:52:14.839
<v Speaker 1>don't think those two things go together. But I look,

0:52:14.920 --> 0:52:17.799
<v Speaker 1>have you looked at the line? Is it pretty even now?

0:52:17.880 --> 0:52:21.600
<v Speaker 1>Or what is it? It is as as we speak today,

0:52:22.680 --> 0:52:25.480
<v Speaker 1>it is even. I don't think that's ever happened before

0:52:25.480 --> 0:52:29.880
<v Speaker 1>in the Super Bowl. I can't remember it either. And

0:52:29.920 --> 0:52:32.759
<v Speaker 1>I saw something interesting ESPN. I'm not doing an ad

0:52:32.800 --> 0:52:36.759
<v Speaker 1>for ESPN, but ESPN has their f p I, which

0:52:36.800 --> 0:52:39.160
<v Speaker 1>they call the Football Power Index. I'm not going to

0:52:39.280 --> 0:52:42.760
<v Speaker 1>debate whether or not it's good or right or whatever,

0:52:43.800 --> 0:52:47.799
<v Speaker 1>but I saw today the f p I has the

0:52:47.840 --> 0:52:55.000
<v Speaker 1>Eagles favored at fifty point one percent over the Chiefs,

0:52:55.520 --> 0:52:58.359
<v Speaker 1>which I guess would put them at forty nine point nine.

0:52:58.760 --> 0:53:02.440
<v Speaker 1>That's how my math works so tight, I can't believe

0:53:02.800 --> 0:53:06.400
<v Speaker 1>that it's that. It's very interesting. You've got two quarterbacks

0:53:06.440 --> 0:53:09.960
<v Speaker 1>that are are both hurting a little bit. Clearly, I

0:53:10.000 --> 0:53:15.319
<v Speaker 1>think Hurts does have a shoulder issue. Obviously Mahomes has

0:53:15.360 --> 0:53:18.640
<v Speaker 1>his leg issue. That to me says the game is

0:53:18.640 --> 0:53:21.920
<v Speaker 1>going to be one in the trenches, which clearly for

0:53:22.000 --> 0:53:24.400
<v Speaker 1>me favors the Eagles. Are you do you have a

0:53:24.520 --> 0:53:29.239
<v Speaker 1>lean who's gonna win the game? It's it is really tight.

0:53:29.400 --> 0:53:31.160
<v Speaker 1>I mean this could go down. It's one of the

0:53:31.200 --> 0:53:34.080
<v Speaker 1>closest like betting odds in first Super Bowl ever. I mean,

0:53:34.080 --> 0:53:36.920
<v Speaker 1>it could go to just a pick them right. So

0:53:36.960 --> 0:53:40.040
<v Speaker 1>you can go back and forth on this. But Mahomes

0:53:40.040 --> 0:53:43.880
<v Speaker 1>really showed me something yesterday. I mean he was not

0:53:44.040 --> 0:53:47.160
<v Speaker 1>healthy first of all, when he had the higher ankle sprain.

0:53:48.080 --> 0:53:51.600
<v Speaker 1>That's like a week you're out weeks on for that.

0:53:51.719 --> 0:53:54.920
<v Speaker 1>You know. I don't know how he he did it,

0:53:55.200 --> 0:53:57.839
<v Speaker 1>but he looked good. You can tell he was hurt

0:53:57.840 --> 0:54:01.920
<v Speaker 1>though in his line. Man, no he even touched him, nobody.

0:54:02.040 --> 0:54:04.520
<v Speaker 1>He was so protected. They do such a great job.

0:54:05.640 --> 0:54:10.400
<v Speaker 1>But those Eagles that that defense is just ready to

0:54:10.440 --> 0:54:12.520
<v Speaker 1>make a play. That defense is ready to change it.

0:54:12.600 --> 0:54:16.000
<v Speaker 1>And I really feel like a defense wins you the championship.

0:54:17.520 --> 0:54:21.480
<v Speaker 1>Although this could be a really high scoring game. So

0:54:21.560 --> 0:54:25.400
<v Speaker 1>let's go back and forth. Mahomes five years hosting five

0:54:25.680 --> 0:54:28.960
<v Speaker 1>a f C championship games at home never happened before.

0:54:30.120 --> 0:54:32.799
<v Speaker 1>Is this uh? Is this a dynasty that we're witnessing?

0:54:33.520 --> 0:54:36.560
<v Speaker 1>I mean, he he definitely and he's still young. What

0:54:40.520 --> 0:54:43.440
<v Speaker 1>I think of him and okay, you think of the goat, right,

0:54:43.440 --> 0:54:45.600
<v Speaker 1>you think of Brady and you think of like where

0:54:45.640 --> 0:54:49.239
<v Speaker 1>he was at this point in his career, Brady. You know,

0:54:49.440 --> 0:54:51.799
<v Speaker 1>I think Brady won his first three Super Bowls at

0:54:51.840 --> 0:54:55.680
<v Speaker 1>least so so you know, if Patrick wins this one,

0:54:56.080 --> 0:54:59.720
<v Speaker 1>he'd be two out of three. Um, but Brady didn't

0:54:59.760 --> 0:55:03.360
<v Speaker 1>have of the was an m v P like Mahomes

0:55:03.440 --> 0:55:06.400
<v Speaker 1>has been. I think he's m v P twice. Mahomes

0:55:06.440 --> 0:55:09.399
<v Speaker 1>has got a chance to like he wins. If if

0:55:09.719 --> 0:55:13.000
<v Speaker 1>Kansas City wins this game, it changes a lot. This

0:55:13.080 --> 0:55:17.839
<v Speaker 1>is really of will form his his career in a

0:55:17.960 --> 0:55:23.000
<v Speaker 1>really amazing way. Like he's he's fantastic. But when you

0:55:23.000 --> 0:55:27.520
<v Speaker 1>look at like a dynasty, if if if Kansas City wins,

0:55:27.840 --> 0:55:34.360
<v Speaker 1>man it's it can happen. It's alive. Kevin Alane a

0:55:34.400 --> 0:55:38.320
<v Speaker 1>big fan of the Eagles, he would be uh, he

0:55:38.360 --> 0:55:40.600
<v Speaker 1>would be very happy. And you know, here's the crazy thing.

0:55:40.640 --> 0:55:44.640
<v Speaker 1>With an entirely new roster and entirely new set of coaches,

0:55:45.360 --> 0:55:48.920
<v Speaker 1>Philly has a chance to win two pretty close together themselves.

0:55:49.120 --> 0:55:53.920
<v Speaker 1>It's very impressive to see how they have changed and

0:55:54.080 --> 0:55:58.160
<v Speaker 1>adjusted this year. They're playing great football. It's it's really

0:55:58.160 --> 0:56:00.359
<v Speaker 1>fun to watch. It's really fun to watch. Yeah, they're

0:56:00.400 --> 0:56:03.440
<v Speaker 1>totally different organization and team. Really. I mean, there's nothing

0:56:03.520 --> 0:56:07.600
<v Speaker 1>that reminds me of that championship team from five years ago,

0:56:07.800 --> 0:56:12.360
<v Speaker 1>really the uniforms, but how fun. I have a I

0:56:12.360 --> 0:56:14.400
<v Speaker 1>have a feeling that that this is a this is

0:56:14.440 --> 0:56:17.719
<v Speaker 1>a very likable team. I have a feeling that the

0:56:17.719 --> 0:56:20.640
<v Speaker 1>city of Philadelphia has really behind this team, like really

0:56:20.719 --> 0:56:24.800
<v Speaker 1>enjoys this team. Maybe because they're young, but it feels

0:56:24.840 --> 0:56:27.919
<v Speaker 1>like a team that has gotten the city swept up

0:56:27.920 --> 0:56:31.280
<v Speaker 1>with them, if that makes sense. It does. It's crazy

0:56:31.360 --> 0:56:36.080
<v Speaker 1>because you know, we were fans of teams and had

0:56:36.160 --> 0:56:38.600
<v Speaker 1>a little bit of down years our teams this year,

0:56:38.840 --> 0:56:41.400
<v Speaker 1>and you know, then you've got other teams that you

0:56:41.480 --> 0:56:44.120
<v Speaker 1>kind of like or players that you root for, and

0:56:44.160 --> 0:56:47.760
<v Speaker 1>then it comes down to it and you think, Okay,

0:56:47.840 --> 0:56:50.839
<v Speaker 1>I don't even care anymore. I don't even care. And

0:56:50.880 --> 0:56:55.160
<v Speaker 1>then these two weeks happened, and you hear the storylines

0:56:55.440 --> 0:56:59.120
<v Speaker 1>and you follow the players and their stories, and you've

0:56:59.160 --> 0:57:02.239
<v Speaker 1>got Andy Reid and you've got the whole deal, and

0:57:02.280 --> 0:57:04.960
<v Speaker 1>I'm in. I'm hooked. I can't I can't help. Yeah,

0:57:05.000 --> 0:57:09.120
<v Speaker 1>I guess it's I guess it's like what people who

0:57:09.160 --> 0:57:11.799
<v Speaker 1>watch The Bachelor, if you want to call it reality TV?

0:57:11.960 --> 0:57:15.080
<v Speaker 1>To me, sports That's how I would define it to me.

0:57:15.200 --> 0:57:20.880
<v Speaker 1>Sports is is the best of of reality TV. We

0:57:21.040 --> 0:57:24.480
<v Speaker 1>as a species are all into follow stories like this.

0:57:24.760 --> 0:57:27.240
<v Speaker 1>I mean, humans do this. I never thought I would

0:57:27.280 --> 0:57:29.320
<v Speaker 1>get so involved. I mean someone put on a show

0:57:29.360 --> 0:57:31.640
<v Speaker 1>on TV like last year. I remember watching. I was like,

0:57:31.680 --> 0:57:33.680
<v Speaker 1>I'll watch it with you guys, I guess, and then

0:57:33.720 --> 0:57:36.960
<v Speaker 1>I'm like binge watching is this cake? You know, like

0:57:38.240 --> 0:57:42.240
<v Speaker 1>or something ridiculous show that I'm like, oh, or yeah,

0:57:42.280 --> 0:57:44.520
<v Speaker 1>The Bachelor or something. I'm like, what what? This has

0:57:44.560 --> 0:57:46.560
<v Speaker 1>no meaning in my life? But it does right now,

0:57:47.040 --> 0:57:50.280
<v Speaker 1>you know. So yeah, these two weeks of hype, man,

0:57:50.360 --> 0:57:52.320
<v Speaker 1>you can get sucked in and it's gonna be fun.

0:57:53.280 --> 0:57:57.439
<v Speaker 1>By the way, this is Cake was pretty bad. Yeah,

0:57:57.760 --> 0:58:01.720
<v Speaker 1>spoiler alert. By the way, Uh, I want to ask

0:58:01.760 --> 0:58:05.680
<v Speaker 1>you again about your podcasts. You host with Lorie who

0:58:05.720 --> 0:58:10.040
<v Speaker 1>also worked on the Office Lest We Forget If We

0:58:10.360 --> 0:58:15.440
<v Speaker 1>Knew then, a down syndrome advocacy podcast. You've had some

0:58:16.080 --> 0:58:20.720
<v Speaker 1>amazing guests on how's it How's it going? And do

0:58:20.760 --> 0:58:25.880
<v Speaker 1>you feel like you're you're making headway in in diverse

0:58:25.960 --> 0:58:30.160
<v Speaker 1>casting and inclusion in Hollywood, as they call it. I

0:58:30.600 --> 0:58:33.840
<v Speaker 1>feel like there's change being made. I mean there's constant

0:58:33.920 --> 0:58:37.080
<v Speaker 1>change being made. You know. When we started the podcast,

0:58:37.120 --> 0:58:42.160
<v Speaker 1>my son Liam, who is turning thirteen next month, it

0:58:42.200 --> 0:58:44.080
<v Speaker 1>was born with downsta I know that's crazy. He was

0:58:44.120 --> 0:58:47.320
<v Speaker 1>born and we were still, you know, working on the show,

0:58:47.920 --> 0:58:49.840
<v Speaker 1>but he was born with Down syndrom and I mean

0:58:49.880 --> 0:58:52.560
<v Speaker 1>it it blew us away when we got that diagnosis,

0:58:52.640 --> 0:58:55.560
<v Speaker 1>It really did it. I felt like our whole world

0:58:55.600 --> 0:58:59.080
<v Speaker 1>was crumbling. But that's natural because we only know all

0:58:59.080 --> 0:59:01.960
<v Speaker 1>this negative stuff from what down syndrome is. If it's

0:59:02.000 --> 0:59:05.800
<v Speaker 1>not only perception of what your child is going to be,

0:59:05.880 --> 0:59:08.320
<v Speaker 1>but also maybe some health concerns and stuff like that.

0:59:08.400 --> 0:59:12.000
<v Speaker 1>But as I've gone through this journey, we've seen a

0:59:12.040 --> 0:59:16.080
<v Speaker 1>lot of great change. Inclusion is a hot word right now.

0:59:16.160 --> 0:59:19.520
<v Speaker 1>Diversity is a hot word, and I think the down

0:59:19.520 --> 0:59:23.360
<v Speaker 1>syroom community is willing to ride those coattails, you know,

0:59:23.520 --> 0:59:26.560
<v Speaker 1>and try to be included in that. I didn't go

0:59:26.600 --> 0:59:29.240
<v Speaker 1>to school with anybody with Down syndrome. I doubt you

0:59:29.280 --> 0:59:34.760
<v Speaker 1>did either. They were usually put in another classroom, probably

0:59:34.760 --> 0:59:37.400
<v Speaker 1>on the other side of campus. You didn't have recess

0:59:37.440 --> 0:59:40.560
<v Speaker 1>in lunch with these these students, and so you didn't

0:59:40.560 --> 0:59:43.480
<v Speaker 1>know him, and you may be made fun of him,

0:59:43.560 --> 0:59:48.480
<v Speaker 1>and you they were an easy scapegoat. But having anyone

0:59:48.680 --> 0:59:52.400
<v Speaker 1>in our classroom, including someone with down stit room and

0:59:52.440 --> 0:59:57.120
<v Speaker 1>including them, changes lives. It's not just that having diversity

0:59:57.120 --> 1:00:00.200
<v Speaker 1>in the classroom is something we should do just to

1:00:00.280 --> 1:00:02.320
<v Speaker 1>do it. We should do it because it's good for us.

1:00:02.720 --> 1:00:05.160
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I didn't go to school with anyone but

1:00:05.640 --> 1:00:08.240
<v Speaker 1>people that look like me, you know, white Catholics. I

1:00:08.280 --> 1:00:10.840
<v Speaker 1>went to a private school in elementary school and it

1:00:10.880 --> 1:00:13.040
<v Speaker 1>wasn't until I was in high school that I went

1:00:13.080 --> 1:00:15.560
<v Speaker 1>to school with anybody that was a different race than

1:00:15.720 --> 1:00:19.000
<v Speaker 1>in me. And I mean I I missed out. So

1:00:19.280 --> 1:00:22.240
<v Speaker 1>I do hear the call for oh, it's good for

1:00:22.280 --> 1:00:25.320
<v Speaker 1>Lehm to be in the classroom and seventh grade and

1:00:25.480 --> 1:00:27.760
<v Speaker 1>you know, so he can model off his off his peers,

1:00:27.840 --> 1:00:30.120
<v Speaker 1>And I go, yeah, there's plenty of reason not to

1:00:30.200 --> 1:00:32.720
<v Speaker 1>model off of the typical seventh you know what I'm saying.

1:00:32.720 --> 1:00:36.840
<v Speaker 1>So um, but you know, Liam brings stuff to the

1:00:36.840 --> 1:00:39.120
<v Speaker 1>classroom too. He's an asset in the classroom as well,

1:00:39.320 --> 1:00:40.880
<v Speaker 1>and I think that's what we're finding I think that's

1:00:40.880 --> 1:00:44.720
<v Speaker 1>what people are starting to understand. But yeah, we've had

1:00:44.720 --> 1:00:47.520
<v Speaker 1>some great guests on the show and and the last

1:00:47.520 --> 1:00:52.040
<v Speaker 1>time I was on was in one I think And

1:00:52.520 --> 1:00:56.920
<v Speaker 1>after that Liam I did a movie with Lina Dunham. Um.

1:00:57.080 --> 1:01:00.760
<v Speaker 1>What what happened was we do a we participate in

1:01:00.760 --> 1:01:03.800
<v Speaker 1>in the Easter Siels Disability Film Challenge every year, which

1:01:03.880 --> 1:01:07.000
<v Speaker 1>is a weekend to make a film about diversity, have

1:01:07.200 --> 1:01:11.760
<v Speaker 1>someone in it or or behind the scenes that has

1:01:11.800 --> 1:01:16.480
<v Speaker 1>a disability. And Lena Dunham, I guess came across Liam

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<v Speaker 1>and one of these films and and auditioned him and

1:01:19.520 --> 1:01:21.680
<v Speaker 1>and he was in a movie called Sharp Stick with

1:01:21.680 --> 1:01:25.560
<v Speaker 1>with her. She plays his mom and John Burnthal plays

1:01:25.560 --> 1:01:28.040
<v Speaker 1>his dad. It was fantastic and she was able to

1:01:28.080 --> 1:01:31.080
<v Speaker 1>come onto the show and and we talked about diversity

1:01:31.080 --> 1:01:33.760
<v Speaker 1>in all different ways, not just disability. And then we

1:01:33.760 --> 1:01:36.240
<v Speaker 1>we also had oh, we had Paul Tsori and his

1:01:36.320 --> 1:01:40.320
<v Speaker 1>wife Michelle. He's a PGA torquaddy for Webb Simpson and

1:01:40.440 --> 1:01:44.480
<v Speaker 1>his son Isaiah has a down syndermen. We talked to them,

1:01:44.480 --> 1:01:47.800
<v Speaker 1>they're they've got a great foundation to story family's foundation.

1:01:48.520 --> 1:01:51.680
<v Speaker 1>We also had Ted Green, who is a documentarian. He

1:01:51.800 --> 1:01:55.960
<v Speaker 1>visited us to talk about his most recent film, The

1:01:55.960 --> 1:01:58.520
<v Speaker 1>Best We've Got. It's the Carl Erskine Story. Carl Erskin

1:01:58.680 --> 1:02:01.880
<v Speaker 1>was a Dodgers to picture, a long time Brooklyn Dodger

1:02:01.960 --> 1:02:06.120
<v Speaker 1>picture and the later Ellie Dodger picture. He was a teammate,

1:02:06.200 --> 1:02:10.280
<v Speaker 1>close friend of Jackie Robinson and then later on a

1:02:10.360 --> 1:02:12.760
<v Speaker 1>father of a person with Down syndrome. And we just

1:02:12.800 --> 1:02:16.520
<v Speaker 1>kind of talked about how he played kind of pioneering

1:02:16.600 --> 1:02:20.400
<v Speaker 1>roles in in both those human rights movements, you know,

1:02:21.280 --> 1:02:24.400
<v Speaker 1>which closely mirror each other, we come to find out.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's been really fantastic. I think there's you know,

1:02:28.360 --> 1:02:31.360
<v Speaker 1>we always want change to happen really fast, and that's

1:02:31.400 --> 1:02:34.360
<v Speaker 1>just not how it happens, you know, so, but we're

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<v Speaker 1>moving the right direction. That's awesome. Well, congratulations on that.

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<v Speaker 1>It's always fun to talk to you. It was a

1:02:43.320 --> 1:02:46.120
<v Speaker 1>heartbreaking but very strange. I mean, that was the thing.

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<v Speaker 1>And when you and I talked, you know, me not

1:02:50.840 --> 1:02:53.880
<v Speaker 1>winning once again, but as you said, with what was

1:02:53.920 --> 1:02:57.080
<v Speaker 1>happening with Tamar Hamlet, it was like, well, we can't

1:02:57.120 --> 1:02:59.840
<v Speaker 1>really complain about this. This is a dumb little game.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a dumb little game. And I always know

1:03:02.520 --> 1:03:05.520
<v Speaker 1>that fantasy is a dumb little game even compared to

1:03:06.160 --> 1:03:11.960
<v Speaker 1>the actual games that are happening and people's livelihood and

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<v Speaker 1>and and so forth. But in this situation, yeah, there

1:03:16.240 --> 1:03:20.760
<v Speaker 1>was just sort of there was no complaining to be had. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoy the s pretty interesting, uh text with you, and

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<v Speaker 1>your text to me really stood out as something that

1:03:27.960 --> 1:03:33.200
<v Speaker 1>transcended the situation. You had said that, to be flat out,

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<v Speaker 1>you thought Monday Night was going to be a shootout,

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<v Speaker 1>and you felt very confident going into the game that

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<v Speaker 1>you were going to win. And I get it, but

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<v Speaker 1>I remember you saying, but you can't make a determination

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<v Speaker 1>based on what ifs, and it is what it is.

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<v Speaker 1>And I thought that that says a lot about you, Brian.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's a great way to great at Youde obviously

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<v Speaker 1>not just for fantasy football, but just yeah, well, Stephen,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you so much. Thank you, Brian. It was great, Stephen,

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<v Speaker 1>You're the best. Thank you for stopping by. And yes,

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<v Speaker 1>this year, year nineteen, this is the year that I

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<v Speaker 1>finally win the league. I know it. Listeners, thank you

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<v Speaker 1>as always for tuning in. Have a great time watching

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<v Speaker 1>the game, the Big Game, the Super Bowl on Sunday

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<v Speaker 1>and then come back next week for another guest our

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<v Speaker 1>Valentine's Day episode, So come and hang with me and

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<v Speaker 1>someone who really really knows the weather. Until then, have

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