WEBVTT - Comedian Paul Verzi Talks What’s Unacceptable In The NFL 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:08.520 From the King of Sports Books comes the Key Sports 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:19.480 podcast Unleashed, presented by MGM. Here's your host, Joanna's Papas 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:29.400 and Olivia Arlan Decker. Welcome in everybody. This is Unleashed 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.959 by bet MGM, the King of Sports Books. I am 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:36.199 coming to you. You're not gonna believe this from Istanbul, Turkey. 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:38.520 We kind of tease that on the show last week 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.120 with my dad. This is the life of a basketball 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.520 wife and I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.280 so excited to be here and watch my husband ball 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.280 out in Turkey. It's been so fun so far. We've 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:53.239 been here exactly a week and I'm kind of sleeping 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.440 through the night. The jet labb is still hit me 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.280 a little bit, but boy, I'm so grateful to be 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.920 able to do this show once a week that I love. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.000 I love getting talked to it with you, Janice the 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:07.240 Tucklet Americana with my Greek co host. You're in Connecticut, 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.520 our producers are in California. What a time to be alive, right, 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.080 It's It's incredible we're able to do this. Honest, I 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.160 think you really need to set up some shows here 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.240 next year. I think Turkish people have a great sense 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.720 of humor. They keep laughing at me. What's the comedy 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.120 scene like in Turkey? Do you know? Well? I bet 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.160 you it doesn't involve any Greeks. I'll tell you that 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.160 we have what you call a little bit of a history. 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:31.880 It's a friendly vendetta. It's a rivalry. But you know what, Yeah, 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:33.440 I would love to come there. I found out I 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.679 have some Turkish DNA and me, so you know, I 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.200 don't mind. I'm over it. I'm an American, but you 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.480 know the Greek, the Greek and Turkish, it's real skis them. 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.160 It runs deep, it runs. Yes. So they may not 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.480 come see you and buy tickets to your show, but 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:49.640 I would. And you have an open invitation in a 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:51.880 bedroom with your name on it if you all want 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.600 to come. Look, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.960 And Janice, I'd like to give you an early Christmas gift. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.480 Your friend and another great comedian, Paul Versey, will be 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.280 joining us on the show today. You know, you don't 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.400 even really have to prepare this week, which makes this 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:14.120 week really different than every other week. Right. Shots fired? Wow? Wow, shots? 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:15.760 How can you do that to me? You know? I 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:17.640 just got the booster shot. You know, I got a 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.480 hundred fever. I'm down it out. I got my hat 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.160 on today because my hair is all over the place 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.200 because I've been laying in bed and now you shoot 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.360 me in the back. Olivia, I can't trust you. I 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.160 love you, but I can't trust you. Maybe that's why 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.600 you're You're just looking so vulnerable right now. I'm just 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.519 gonna go ahead and take some shots while I got him. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.600 But Paul Versey is going to be incredible. I'm so 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.720 excited he's here this week. You talked about him all 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:41.800 the time. I know you guys are neighbors. I know 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.320 you spend a lot of time together. He's an amazing comedian. 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.640 He really knows his sports and does the rounds on 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.440 Network TV talking sports, so he's the perfect guest for 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.960 the show. He also has a podcast with Bill Burr 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.320 called Anything Better And Honestly, if there's anyone who loves 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.280 the Giants, Nicks, and Yankees more than you, it might 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.320 be him. So we've got to talk to New York 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:05.639 Sports right. Absolutely, he does love the Knicks and Giants 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.440 more than me. I think Giants we may be equal 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.040 in love. But the Knicks. I jumped off the Knicks 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.840 bandwagon in ninety nine. I look at them like an 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:17.160 ex girlfriend. I'm traumatized by them. I blocked them on 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.200 social media. They've broken my heart. They hurt me. I'm 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.120 over it. I am a Utah Jazz fan now and 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.040 I am a Kevin Harland fan like me. Like me 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:30.600 and Kevin Harland, we can enjoy any game. We're impartial. Yeah, no, 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.640 you're right. And that was a great throwback to last 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.120 week and he was talking all about that. I've even 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.240 been to a Knicks game with you this year, and 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.720 you're right. You're not a Knicks fan, so I can 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.400 confirm that. Hey, guess what you know who I'm a 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:46.200 fan of right now? The Turkish Shishka Bab's whatever team 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.920 Sam is playing on. That's the team that I'm rooting for. 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:55.640 I'm rooting for the Donors, Bosha shere, the Bosha shere, 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:59.560 the Babas. I'm all in Sam's plan. That's right root for. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.320 You're loyal. You're loyal, my friend, take a hint. You 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:08.320 should be loyal to me. Last week in the NFL 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:10.920 was a real treat that was kind of like an 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.800 early Christmas present. A great slate of games, but then 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.400 it really just had fun results. And since I'm already 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.520 up at four am with jet lag over here, I 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.400 really didn't miss much. There were so many crazy comebacks 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:25.320 last weekend, starting Thursday with the Viking Steelers game. Vikings 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.400 were at zero and they really had a fight for 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.680 that win. So that kind of kicked off the weekend right. 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.960 And you know what else, zero teams have clinched a 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.760 playoff spot with four weeks left in the season. That's 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.000 the first time this has happened since and that's all 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.720 because the Cardinals last Monday night, so that game had 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.159 a lot of implications. So still no one to clinch 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:50.159 their playoff spot. That's incredible. Another week we go. I 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.800 can't believe it's week fifteen of the NFL season. They're 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.080 just three more weeks of regular season games. We'll get 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.799 some betting advice from Peter Andrew later on in the show. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.960 Speaking of betting a vice, the Army Navy game hit 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.880 the ender again for the sixteenth year in a row. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.279 That's absolutely crazy. If only betting every game was this easy, 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.960 it's certainly not. I will tell you I would love 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.960 to make it to one of those games one year. 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.040 That's a bucket list item. I also want to ask 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.479 Paul Versey. He's been to everything. I want to ask 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.600 him what the best sporting event he's been to yet, 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.080 because it's all about atmosphere, you know what I mean? Honest, 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.640 what's the best sporting event you've been to? You've been 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.960 to a lot as well. Yeah, I would have to say. 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.440 I'll go back on what I said before. I was 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.800 at the Larry Johnson four point play game in the 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:41.720 Knicks the Knicks playoffs, and the energy and there was electric. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.359 I almost fainted because I was cheering so hard the 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.839 place was shaking. That was probably the best moment of 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.120 any sporting event I ever went to. I thought you 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:50.880 were gonna save your life, and I'm really glad you 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.200 didn't know the best two moments of my life when 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:57.080 the Giants beat the Patriots still not the answer. I 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:01.640 was looking for my baby's birth. Um that I would say, 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.240 the two giant upsets in the Super Bowl and then 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.760 the fourth is starting this podcast with you, those are 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.320 the best moments of my life. I need to have 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.760 a talk with your wife, Brittany. We're gonna work on 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.920 that order. You know something also cool. That happened this weekend. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.760 And my husband made me aware of this. He's kind 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:18.640 of a sports nerd. I have to whisper that because 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.760 you can hear me. But there was something called a 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.720 score a gami on Sunday. It's when an NFL score 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:25.920 has never happened before. Jannese, have you heard of a 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:30.479 score a gamy? Never? Okay, I'll see you're not nerdy enough. 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.039 So the Chiefs forty eight to nine win over the 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.880 Raiders was the fifth one this year actually, so for 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.160 nine has never been a score before in the NFL. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.680 Think of all the years in the NFL, and it's 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.840 a score of gamy. Another one that's the second time 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.280 the score has ever happened is the Packers win over 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:51.240 the Bears. There's thirty. Now that score doesn't seem it's 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.320 it's a high score, but it doesn't seem like crazy 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.520 numbers to me. Anyways. That's the only second time that 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.799 score has happened. So now you know what a score 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.960 of gami is. Be honest. Yeah, I heard forty to thirty. 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:03.839 I thought you were talking about the age difference between 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:10.040 me and my wife. Oh that was good. You always 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.440 keep me on my show on this show. Okay, Now, 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.280 in the spirit of giving bet MGM wants to reward 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:21.320 you loyal listeners and betters with the seven days of Parlays, 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.600 So check out on social media. They lay it all 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.600 out because every day is a different giveaway. Check it out. 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.720 This is your chance to win back some money that 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.840 you were spending recklessly on holiday gifts. To make sure 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.280 you check it out. Now, it's time for us to 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:38.560 sound off on one topic we feel passionately about this week. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:42.400 You know the deal, Janice, it's time to unleak. It's 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:48.560 time to lea Okay, I know we are always showing 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.920 love to the great young players in the NFL, and 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.720 rightfully so. Mac Jones, Micah Parsons, Jamaar Chase, Naji Harris. 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.160 They're all amazing. There are some of the rookies making 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.880 an impact of this season, but let's put some respect 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.640 on some of the journeyman players out there still doing 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.560 their thing as well, or fringe guys. It's a horrible 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.720 name given to players who maybe weren't drafted but got 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.320 put on a training camp, roster, practice squad. They're waved 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.040 a year, signed there, waved there out of the league 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.800 in the league. It's a really hard lifestyle trying to 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.080 make it in what you love, especially when you feel 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.080 like it's right there in front of you and all 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.760 the time you're you're getting that hope up. Well. Now 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.880 there are a couple of players thriving, especially this past 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.200 weekend who fit that description. It's the Packers were stoled 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:36.560 Douglas and the Buccaneers bray Shodd Perriman brisse Well. Douglas 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.679 had two pick sixes, one versus the Bears this weekend. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:43.480 He's been great. He was the pick in the draft. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:47.480 This is his fourth team, most recently on the practice 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.960 squad of the Cardinals, Raiders and Texans. The Texans he 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.400 wasn't good enough to make those rosters, but yet good 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.920 enough to be a huge part of this Super Bowl 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.959 bound team my opinion. Aaron Rodgers even said we got 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.520 him off the street, and it's not totally inaccurate. He 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.520 was out of the league, just cut by the Cardinals 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.880 and they picked him up. It was incredible. Bray Shod 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:11.040 Periman cut by teams to questered practice squads and now 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.280 he had the winning touchdown in overtime for Tampa Bay 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.000 over the Bills. A fifty eight yard touchdown catch from 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.880 Tom Brady after being targeted just once in the whole game. 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.520 It was an incomplete pass in the second quarter. He 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.880 just signed a month ago. In one alone, he was 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.000 cut by the Lions and the Bears assigned to the 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.160 Buccaneers practice squad this year brought up to add some 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.680 depth to the receiver position with Antonio Brown suspended. And 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:40.319 also that touchdown Pasty Cop was Tom Brady's seven hundred, 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.840 so that was a pretty cool piece of history that 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:44.760 he got to be a part of. And a huge 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.200 shout out to Ram's offensive lineman Andrew Whitworth defined father 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.800 Time and becoming the first tackle to start an NFL 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.840 game at forty years old. That's incredible. At forty years old, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:57.360 I know it's hard enough to get out of bed. 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.839 He had a lone block, three pound lineman, right, He 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.959 on us absolutely. I mean the miracle science can help 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.600 you with now they're all just on Ivermectin. It helps. 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:10.720 So I just wanted to unleash on that. I think 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:14.199 it's a beautiful story. These guys can have big impacts 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.040 late in your NFL career. Even I truly believe when 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.880 you're good enough to be at that level in some 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.400 capacity you are in the NFL, and some capacity it's 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.800 really about fit. It's about one person seeing something in you. 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.079 And look, the best ability is availability, you know. It's 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.000 that that kind of old adage. So it's just really 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.120 cool to see. There's so many stories like those, but 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.760 those are two I wanted to highlight. Yeah, and nobody 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.040 better at finding those players than Bill Belichick. And just 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.040 like what I think it was our Dwayne Bow episode 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:47.559 where he really emphasized that, like you just said, whereever 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:52.040 you end up may not be where you're well fit 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.199 to play. You know, like you did, the team that 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.640 you play for is just as important as your talent, 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.120 it seems in football because it's such a team game 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.160 and the system has to be right for you. And 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:07.360 so that was an excellent unleash Your unleashed are excellent. 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:12.560 Say the plural of unleashed one more time, unleashed your unleashed? 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.200 Oh man, alright, my turn? Before I unleashed, I just 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:22.240 want to say, whoever bet on Juliana Penya this last 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.880 weekend to upset Amanda noon has congratulations, you made a 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.920 lot of money. Was a hell of a UFC card. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.600 Fun to watch one of the biggest upsets maybe in 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:34.439 UFC history, where she beat the unbeatable Amanda noon Az 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:38.800 was really fun, great moment for female combat sports. And uh, 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.080 the lomon Chenko fight was good. I was going back 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.280 and forth. No big surprise there he pounded. Call me 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:52.720 now it's time for me to unlead. It's time to unleash. 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.680 I'm in the Christmas sparit. Okay, I'm a Christmas guy. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.160 It's the big man's birthday. Santy Claus is in the 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.880 North Pole. And by Santa Claus, I mean Jeff Bezos. 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.840 He's up there in space. He's the real Santa Claus 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.920 delivering gifts in paper boxes to all of us. And 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.000 him and Michael Strahan and his gap between his teeth 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:15.960 or made it to the made it to space in 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.520 their back safely, thank God. Because I don't want any 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:24.640 interruptions on Christmas. Here's my problem with Christmas, Olivia. Okay, 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:29.600 and I'm unleashing that on Christmas, but not because of Christmas. 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:34.559 I am unleashing on Christmas not being longer. Christmas needs 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.440 to be longer. It is such a fun holiday. It 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.119 brings out the best in all of us. It converts 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:45.079 Ebenezer scrooges. It makes us all feel good. The lights, 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:49.640 the smell of pine, the mistletoe, the egg nog. You know, 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.080 it's just too much. The Christmas carols. I love it 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.640 so much. I wanted to be longer. It's not long enough. 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.720 I would love to run for president and just say, hey, 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.959 I'm making Christmas us all of December, all of January, 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.079 and all of February. Okay, we need to put lipstick 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:10.120 on those pigs that are those two months January and February. 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:14.679 You need some makeup your cold, your dreary. There's no 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:18.640 charm to you. There's no like days where they're sporting events. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.480 We should extend every season, you know, the football should 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.679 be playing every day every day. They should play every 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.560 day in January and February, so it's like an event. 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.280 And every team should have to give the worst team 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.679 their best player as a Christmas gift to get into 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.920 the holiday spirit. All right, The Jews had it right. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.400 They do eight days of Hanakkah. Why do we only 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:44.600 do one day of Christmas? All right? All right, let's 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.240 do something. How about like maybe a secret Santa style 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.839 for Major League Baseball. Each team picks another team out 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.400 of a hat and then boom on Christmas Day, they 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.240 each have to give their secret Secret Santa team a player. 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:57.600 We'll do that. Of course, all the players would have 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.360 to fall within about a five million dollar a year 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.600 budget to be fair. But then we have a big 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.760 Christmas Day special of all the teams opening their Secret 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:10.720 Santa gift. Now that's how you make baseball interesting. Combine 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.160 it with Secret Santa. Just call me Yanni Claus because 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.079 I'm all about spreading the Christmas spirit as long as 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.320 we can. Let's go to August. Am I not right, Olivia? 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:26.280 Well there's a lot to digest. I love how you 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.560 say there's no big sporting event day in January February, 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.800 but there is the super Bowl. It's not enough. We 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.240 need a super Bowl every day, every day. Okay. Yeah. 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.160 I want to be able to bet on presents, like 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.680 what you're gonna get Sama, What Sam's gonna get you? Yeah? 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.240 What you're gonna get me? I assume you got me 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.280 a present? Yeah? No, And it's on its way to 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.480 it might be a little delayed here from Turkey. No, 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.200 you know what Sam got me? And as a parent, 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:53.800 you'll really appreciate this, you know, we had to do 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.760 Christmas early before we left. He got me the snow. 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:01.520 Do you know what the snow is? No? Oh, it's 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:06.480 apparently crack for your newborn. It's this super fancy little 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.240 bassonet that moves gently and can. It has a microphone 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:11.880 in it so it hears and your baby cries and 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.440 then moves more and anyway, So that was like the 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.200 best Christmas gift I ever got. But I don't know. 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.360 It's it's a lot of pressure getting your spouse a gift, 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.440 don't you think, yes, And now you're gonna find that 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.760 you just don't matter anymore. I mean, Sam may even 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.000 forget to give you gifts. In fact, this is the 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.040 first gift that wasn't really for you. It's kind of 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.360 for the family. You know. He might be right, Yeah, 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:33.520 this gift for him too. Now I'm looking at him 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:37.600 kind of literally, your days of coach bags are over, 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.200 a girl. No. I already picked out my push present, though, 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:45.040 so that maybe that may be my last give. Be honest, 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.000 I really liked your Unleashed. I got nervous when you 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.040 said that you were going to unleash on Christmas, But 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.760 now I think I kind of get Yes, it needs 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.320 to be longer. That was good, my friend. You know 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.520 I want to add to this fun I think we 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.680 need a third voice in here, some one who's gonna 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.360 keep cracking me up because this just is too much. 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.400 And I don't care what time we record this in Turkey, 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.640 because I would stay up all night for you, my friend. 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:20.920 Let's bring in your friend, Paul Versey. Let's go verse now. 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.200 Let's bring in our guest. He is a friend of 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.400 the MGM family and actually a better friend of our 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.800 very own Jannas Pappas. They are neighbors, their dogs, get along, 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:33.200 their families get along. His podcast with Bill Burr is 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:36.640 called Anything Better. He's a very funny comedian who's special. 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.480 I'll say this is available now for free until December. 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.520 You know you're not doing anything. You gotta go to 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.480 watch that. Paul Versey is here. Paul, Welcome to the 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:51.120 show up guys, thanks for having me. I can't wait 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:55.240 to uh chop it up with with friends sports. It's 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.840 the holidays, Let's go. I'm excited. Let me just ask you, 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.000 just Paul, I just unlead done. How Christmas has to 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.320 be longer? How much of a fan of Christmas are you? 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:11.119 Christmas to me is it's it's the greatest thing that's 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.359 maybe ever happened to people to me for sure, Like, 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:18.280 first of all, Christmas eve Day is the absolute Michael 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:23.840 Jordan's of holidays because it's the anticipation. It's just everybody's home, 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:27.520 You're with family, the red wine is flowing, the Christmas 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:31.360 cookies are out, the Christmas music is on, You've got 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.280 Christmas vacation on or l for home alone. The kids 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.800 are happy, everybody's off. I mean, what is better than that? 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.560 The Big Man's coming too town. It's that's it for me. 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.280 I love how you say that Christmas is the best 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.160 thing to happen to humans. I think those who celebrate 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:51.240 Christmas literally believe that that that's when our Savior came. 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:56.400 That it's literally the best thing that happen to humans. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.360 so yes, well it holds true as far as I'm concerned. 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.640 It's also a pretty sweet day of basketball, so that's 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:06.200 always nice as well. It is a great day of basketball, 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.159 although I will say Christmas Day is a little bit 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:13.040 of a downer after around noon lunch. I totally agree. 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:17.720 It's the it's the three where you're really really up. 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.560 Then the morning of the is awesome. But then then 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.560 you kind of lay around and that's kinda that's kind 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.439 of it. So that's why Christmas. Yeah, there's kind of 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:32.159 a December blues. I feel like it's it's kind of 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.160 I'm I'm with you. It's like a Sunday. The Christmas 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.960 Day is almost like a Sunday night after like four o'clock. 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.280 You know. Yeah, it's like coming down off a coke bend. 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.560 There you got what. You can't go through high? It 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.120 brings you too low? I mean, what can you do? 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:50.080 That's how Christmas gets people high naturally, it's a joyous occasion. 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.080 And then of course the crash is gonna be bad. 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.760 It's the cocaine holidays. Put it this way, this is 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:57.879 what Christmas eve. This Picture this for a second and 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.520 ask me, answer me this question. What's better than this? Okay, 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:04.600 if you're sitting in a chair, recliner, in your couch, 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.359 you've got a fire on slippers. I don't know if 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.439 you like slippers, but if you got slippers, just the 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.920 visual of slippers and a fire together, seeing the slippers 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.880 with fire, and then something on TV holding a Scotch 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:21.160 or a bourbon with like Christmas music in the background. 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:25.800 What's better than that? On December around like seven thirty 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.360 at night. I mean, there's nothing better than that. I'll 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:31.119 tell you it's better than that. What's that your credit 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:38.600 card statement from the month before? Yeah, but money doesn't 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.600 matter to me. You know that, your honest. My wife 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.160 doesn't like it because I'm well, this is the problem 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:45.320 with money with people that people don't understand is we're 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:49.080 all gonna die. We're all dead, nobody. I don't save money. 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.159 I don't save money like I save enough money to like, 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.440 obviously you need money for bills, but just go like 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:57.280 I look at it like this, Olivia. If you want 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.560 to buy something, just go buy it. If you're like, 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:01.960 but it's a little just go buy it. Go buy 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:03.680 it and enjoy it. Because we're all gonna die. I 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.040 don't care about saving money. I'm going to enjoy my life. 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:07.960 Don't worry about the credit card statement. It's not even 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:10.240 real real money. You pay it back when you can 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:14.640 on your time. You know. The great poet Drake said, 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:16.320 when I die, I put my money in the grave. 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:18.480 And I think that's kind of the vibe you're going for. 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:20.680 I think that's great. So specially around the holidays. People 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:24.280 need to channel that energy. Paul. Yeah, that's you know, 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.280 it's like the Whiz Khalifa song. You know when I'm gone. 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:37.000 That's just another great poet. All these prolific, prolific people. 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:39.840 I just want to say, that's a comedian. He's not 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:43.359 a financial advisor, So don't listen to anything he says. 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.800 You do know your sports, and you have been beating 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.679 up Bill on your podcast when it comes to the 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:54.359 betting line. I mean, what's your record right now? No, No, 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:56.680 here's the thing. Here's the thing. I gotta give credit 0:20:56.720 --> 0:21:00.520 where credits due. I was beating Bill. So Bill Burrn 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.159 I do anything better. And what we do on our 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:06.120 NFL preview week for bet MGM, as we pick four 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:09.840 games each against the spread. There's none of this just 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:12.359 picking a winner. Okay, a lot of these TV shows, 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:14.960 a lot of these analysts just pick a winner, which 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:16.639 is I mean, that's that's easier. And what are we 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:20.359 talking about here? We're going against the spread four games 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:23.240 each every week. I was beating Bill for most of 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:26.000 the beginning of the season of Bill had a four 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:28.480 and old week. I had a one in three week. 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:31.440