Recorded live from the historic River Market area in downtown Kansas City proper near the banks of the crystal blue waters of the Missouri River.
We give you the Sports Baskets.
And now, Deep Thoughts with Mark.
Hmm, let's see, if I identify as a dog and I start wandering around the block without a collar on, could animal control come by and pick me up?
Hmm, I may never know.
I wonder how Whataburger got their name?
Hmm, let's see, did they first try What a Chicken Nugget?
I don't know.
Alright, there we go.
Okay, the Sports Basterds, this is our prediction one for week 9, is it?
Week 10.
Yeah, we're already up to week 10.
Man.
Week 9 is kind of the unofficial midpoint of the season even though some teams haven't played half their games yet.
Yeah.
Good to lie, week and all, but so first half of the season was pretty much considered done.
Week 9, yeah.
Yeah.
I've got a little point I want to make.
The achievability of going, of running the table.
Yeah.
As well.
But the reason it could be achieved, it would be a team like the Chiefs that aren't looking for it.
True.
They don't want it.
They want another ring, they want the three people.
Yeah, I think if it came down to the final game of the season and our playoff position was secured, Andy will give up a win in order to rest some players and I don't think the fan base will care.
No, no, no, no, no.
A perfect season doesn't, regular season doesn't really mean that much.
No, everyone is on board with this whole concept and knows how to have it work so well.
Yep.
Everyone firmly believes that.
They don't care about going 17-0 or whatever.
Yeah, so when the Chiefs eventually get a loss, or if I should say, if they eventually get a loss, it's not going to destroy them, it's not going to be a big setback.
It will be played up big by the football media, but for the Chiefs organization it's like, yeah, whatever.
Did you know they're 14-0 going into last season's playoff run?
Yeah.
That's a remarkable stat considering the teams that have been played.
Yes.
Last year, at the end of last year and the beginning of this year.
Yeah.
I mean, you had San Fran, you had Cincinnati, you had the Ravens.
The builds are coming up and they're going to be really tough tests.
It's going to be in Buffalo.
Yeah.
But, yeah, it's going to be done, it's going to be done this year with this team.
Yeah.
But I personally don't think it's going to be done because if you haven't lost a game by the end of the year, you're not, no, you're sitting everybody on.
Yeah.
Because nobody's near you.
Yeah.
So that's another reason it'll never be done.
But.
Yep.
Anyhow, so we go into our predictions.
Yes.
Let's do so.
All right.
This week, week 10, we have Las Vegas Raiders, Cleveland Browns, Seattle Seahawks, and Green Bay Packers on the bye week.
Okay.
The Packers really need a bye week.
Yeah.
Cleveland needs about four.
Las Vegas needs the rest of the season.
Yeah.
Las Vegas needs 300 billion in cap room.
Yeah.
Cleveland needs to go sit out for a little while and think about life.
Yeah.
They need to reflect.
Yeah.
All right.
Game number one, four and five Cincinnati at six and three Baltimore in Munich.
Okay.
I want to say Natty just because.
Yeah, I know.
But Baltimore, I mean, because Baltimore has been Jekyll and Hyde just like Natty has.
Yep.
Cincinnati plays teams like this very well.
They hang in there.
They don't do anything fancy.
They just stay close and they hope at the end of the game, someone comes up with a big play.
Would that not be their MO?
Pretty much.
Yeah.
Oddly enough, both teams scored 41 points last week.
I'm going to go with Baltimore.
Okay.
Yeah.
I'm going to say it's a 37 to 32 whatever.
Okay.
Big scoring.
Yeah.
I think I'm going to pick Baltimore too even though they won big last week.
I think they're going to win again this week.
Cincinnati scored 41 so I mean, you know, it's kind of even in that department if you
look at it like that.
But the competition level, probably Baltimore had a little bit more.
Let's see.
Who did Cincinnati play after?
Cincinnati played the Raiders.
Yeah, that's right.
And Baltimore played Denver.
Denver is the better team.
So I'm going to go with Baltimore.
Yeah.
All right.
I'm going to go Baltimore 30 to 20.
Okay.
All right.
Next game, two and seven New York Giants at the two and seven Carolina Panthers.
We were just talking about these teams that are going to be bad in 10 years.
Oh boy.
Where is it at?
Carolina?
It's in Carolina.
They're not going to win two in a row.
No.
The Giants 17 to 10.
Wow, that looks like a pretty reasonable score because neither team is all that offensive.
Each quarterback might get 110 yards, but not over that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I can see that.
I'm going to go 20 to 13 Giants.
So a little more scoring, but maybe some of that's going to be defensive or special teams.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, you're probably closer, but anyhow.
Plus, I like taking chances.
I like taking chances.
Okay.
Two and seven New England at four and four Chicago.
Well, Chicago's good and pissed off right now.
They are.
They are a more hungry team.
I'm going to have to go with Chi-Town 24 to seven.
Yeah, I'm spanking.
This definitely means more to Chicago than it does to New England.
New England, I don't think, went into the season with any expectations of playoffs or beyond.
Playoffs?
Playoffs.
So Chicago needs it more.
Chicago's at home.
Chicago got embarrassed last week.
I think they're going to come back in like 28-10 Chicago.
Oh, and I just realized something.
Okay.
You know, it takes a minute to actually be an actual download instead of just a listen.
It takes one minute.
We set playoffs about five minutes into this, so we're safe.
Okay.
All right.
All right, next game up four and four San Francisco at four and five Tampa Bay.
Oh, this is a good one.
I'd like to be able to watch this.
What time is it on?
That'll be a noon game.
A noon game, I'll have it recorded.
Yeah, it's going to be on at the same time the Chiefs game.
Okay.
If it's carried locally.
I'm going to say 27-26, and that would be Tampa Bay.
I'm probably going to regret this San Fran one, if I pull it out.
You know, I just realized that with it being a Chiefs home game, they're not going to broadcast
any game.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
So there won't be a noon game other than the Chiefs game in this, in our area.
Unless you've got one of those NFL packages, you're not going to see it.
I refuse.
Yeah, I don't either.
Because they have so many things.
This goes here.
This goes to this one.
This goes to Paramount.
This one goes to Netflix.
This one goes to Amazon.
I refuse to do it.
They have them subbed out everywhere.
It pisses me off.
And if I'm paying for the subscription, I'm still watching ads that pisses me off even
more.
Yes, that's the other thing too.
Yeah.
All right.
I'm going to go San Francisco, and I think it's going to be 24-17.
I'm not so much a hangover on the part of Tampa Bay, but I think San Francisco is going
to rally.
I can see that.
Yeah.
Just a feeling.
Okay.
It's kind of fun to make predictions based on not really hard evidence or facts.
It's like, eh, this is what I feel.
It's funny how many times that just works out.
I know.
We're doing about 66% so far this season.
And this is a lot out of just feeling.
Just like, eh, you know, and I think they're going to bring it this year.
We kind of really make up our minds just by how we feel about it.
Sometimes it's just, I just think Tampa's going to win.
And it's so much more fun when you're not worried about a point spread.
It's just winner.
That pass rush that Tampa has is good.
Oh, that's true.
Yeah.
Vitaveya, via?
Vitaveya, or yeah, Vitaveya, vitamin, yeah.
The bulky vitamin.
Vitamin may be a big fat bitch, but he can bring it.
Yes, he can.
That big fat bitch can throw down.
It is.
I'm going to say the big fat bitch is going to have a lot of fucking sacks.
Perti does not look very perti on the ground.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yep.
You're going to be Brock bruised.
Yep.
And I'm just teasing because Vaya is a much better athlete than me and he's probably about
200 pounds heavier.
Yeah.
So.
He makes it work.
That's for sure.
Yep.
And I'm just teasing.
Sure he's a wonderful guy.
Yeah.
All right.
Up next is 5-4 Denver and 8-0 Kansas City.
You know, I'm going to go Kansas City, but I think this is going to be a tougher game
than Tampa.
I believe so too.
I think it's going to be a nut-tucker.
Yeah.
It's just because Denver always plays this well.
And they've got a decent team out there and they just lost and they are going to be pissed
and they're going to be hungry.
Yep.
And all that together with the Bills coming up the week after that has classic, classic
trap game.
Yeah.
But I think this team is too good to be trapped down.
I hope so.
So.
Yeah.
I'm going to go ahead and go probably 27-24.
Herzenbacher nails a 58er.
Ooh.
That'd be good.
Yep.
Yeah.
I think it's going to be really close too.
I'm going KC 24-23.
That's good too.
Yeah.
Is it going to be Herzenbacher 58er or something like that?
No.
I think it's going to be the defense that closes it out.
Okay.
Sounds good.
All right.
Next up, 7-2 Buffalo at 4-5 Indianapolis.
Oh, also Vita Vea.
He likes caviar on his pizza.
Okay.
Sprinkle it right on that pineapple.
Yes.
Right on the pineapple.
Spread it with a kale leaf.
Yeah.
He loves kale.
He's not human.
No.
Kale was a joke.
It was.
The guy that invented it, he was like, man, look at this shit I'm going to throw out here.
No one's going to eat it.
And then everybody started liking it.
He was like, okay, I stand corrected.
Yeah.
That's the same guy who invented the pet rock.
Yes.
This stuff is fantastic.
Okay.
Thanks.
You know, I hear that the tighter your man bun is, the more you like kale.
Yes.
Yeah.
It's a little, it's a secret Iggy.
Look at his tight bun.
Oh, no, no, no.
Not that one.
The other.
The one on his head.
That means he's a kale eater.
Oh, really?
Let's go talk to him.
First, the more correct term for a man bun is douche knot.
Yes.
Douche knot.
Yes.
Fucking cheeseburger head.
Yep.
I think you point that.
A long time ago, when we were early.
Hair hamburger.
Look at that Big Mac on his head.
That came from an episode of King of Queens.
Oh, okay.
Where the wife had a bun on her head and the guy called it a hair hamburger and it scared
him.
He didn't want to fool around while that bun was on her head.
I could see that.
Yeah.
He kept eyeballing it.
I don't know what it's going to do.
That's not right.
Please, please, it's unnatural.
Take that thing down.
Yeah.
So the term hair hamburger sounded pretty awesome.
I love that.
All right.
So we are attacking Buffalo and Indy.
No, Indy is going to do Buffalo a run for their money.
Yeah.
They are.
Indy is going to play really hard.
They're a solid team.
They are a solid team.
Richardson is out again, isn't he?
I can't keep track.
Yeah, I know.
That's a problem.
Not like he looked overwhelming when he was in there.
Who was there?
Oh, Flacco.
I think Flacco is going to bring it to the table.
Oh, Flacco.
Yeah.
I think Flacco's gonna bring it,
and it's a trap game for them too.
Oh yeah.
I think it's more of a trap game
to where Indy's gonna pull it off.
Ooh.
17, 16.
Low scoring.
Wow.
Yeah, I'm really going on edge there.
I'm about ready to fall off that bucket.
Yeah, that's me up there.
I'm King Kong-ing it.
Man.
I think I'm gonna have to stick with Buffalo.
I'd like to take Indy,
but I think I'm gonna stick with Buffalo.
Probably a pretty close game.
24-17.
Alright.
Vita Vea also polishes his coins.
We need to come up with a thing that Vita Vea does.
He rips the tags off mattresses.
Oh, that son of a bitch.
Vita Vea calls his mom, man.
Dude.
He calls his mom dude.
If VCRs were still a thing,
he would be kind, he wouldn't rewind.
No, he wouldn't.
He wants wingtips to a bowling alley.
With tassels.
He has a smoking jacket and he doesn't smoke.
Yeah.
Alright.
He puts pesos in his penny lopers.
Oh.
Or no, Canadian pennies.
That's even worse.
He fixes his hair in a windstorm.
He brushes his teeth before he eats.
It can never be too early.
Gotta have a start on it.
Let's try to find the rails that we went off.
They're way over there.
Six and two Pittsburgh at seven and two Washington.
Ooh.
Commanders.
Really?
24, 23.
Wow.
You sounded pretty sure of that.
Yeah.
Even though I love the Steelers,
I just think that Jaden Daniels has that certain savel up there.
Yeah.
That it.
Yeah.
Yeah, I can see that.
He's got the it factor.
He's riding it.
I think I'm going to go Pittsburgh off the bye week.
Yeah, that's a great point.
I'm sticking with it.
Because this is how one of us gets ahead of the other one.
Yeah.
Because we have to pick different.
I'm going to go Pittsburgh 2717.
Alright, fair enough.
Sounds good.
I'm not sure where the three o'clock games start.
But it's...
Let's just pretend now.
Yeah.
Alright everybody, this next one's the first three o'clock game.
Which would be really weird because it's 6-2 Minnesota at 2-7 Jacksonville.
East Coast three o'clock game, I don't think so.
Did Minnesota lose three in a row?
Minnesota lost two in a row.
And then they won again.
Oh yeah, that's right.
They did.
Yeah, they were 5-0.
Then they were 5-2.
Yeah, that's right.
Okay.
And Jacksonville's been clawing itself out of a hole from the beginning.
Yeah, it has.
Minnesota's got to get it back on track somewhere.
Jacksonville's flushing anyhow.
You think there's much of a home field advantage in Jacksonville?
No.
I don't think so either.
I think it's the other teams, actually, it's the other teams to be had.
Because you can walk up there, and you know, you have Daytona Beach and Cocoa Beach pretty close.
People go there, watch the Chiefs, and then go to the beach.
And this time of year it's going to be pleasant weather.
There's a ton of flights to that area because Disney World is right there.
Yeah, so I'm going to say no home field advantage.
No home field advantage.
Yeah, I don't think so either.
Alright, so you're picking Minnesota.
Yeah, I'm going to say 28, 14.
That's really close to why I was going 28-10.
Okay.
So you're picking Minnesota.
Man, it just seems like when things start to go wrong, Trevor Lawrence just can't pull it out.
He just can't bring them back.
No.
He gets as bewildered and upset as everybody else does when he's supposed to be the one in charge.
He'll be a backup in three years.
Oh, yeah, boy, that's a good point.
He's carved some winks all the way.
We should do another thing that starting quarterbacks of today that we think will be backups in three years.
Alright, let's do it now.
Write that down.
Oh, shit, I don't have a pen on me.
Alright, I'll write it down.
Okay.
Oh, here, I'll put it in my phone.
QB.
Because I do all my bright ideas.
Now you know why they suck.
Alright, starting QB to backup in the next three years.
That'll be fun.
Yes.
Okay, next up we have six and three Atlanta and two and seven New Orleans.
Of course, Atlanta.
Talk about two teams going in opposite directions.
Yeah, but this is also the time that teams start getting upset too.
Mm-hmm, yeah.
But I'm still going with Atlanta.
Yeah, it's hard to pick against Atlanta at this point.
I'm going to go 31 to 13 Atlanta over New Orleans.
Sounds good.
I'm going to say 24 to 10.
Either way, not a close game.
No, no.
Yeah.
I can see Atlanta getting out ahead and New Orleans just trying to catch up all game long.
I can see that too.
Kirk Cousins is on fire right now.
Yeah.
He's learning this new system so well.
He's picking up on it.
He's disciplined.
Doesn't throw a lot of interceptions.
Doesn't fumble.
All the things that New Orleans doesn't do.
He looks like such a different quarterback than he was in Minnesota, doesn't he?
It does.
It's amazing.
It's just so, yeah.
Oh, man, look at him fighting over bread.
The pigeons.
Yeah.
Squat fight.
We still haven't figured out is it homeless reincarnated as pigeons or is it pigeons reincarnated
as homeless?
Is pigeons reincarnated as homeless?
I think so.
They wonder what they did in their past life.
They're like, I was just a pigeon.
So every time you eat a city chicken, you've created another homeless person.
Yes.
You're going to miss bum fights on the internet.
Oh, I remember that was a thing.
They'd have them pulling out fucking teeth for a Colt 45.
Oh, my God.
And it was real.
Yeah.
Talk about an extra life.
Yeah.
It was.
They pulled out fucking teeth for a Colt 45.
Oh, my God.
And it was real.
Yeah.
It was.
Talk about exploitation of a disadvantaged group of people.
Oh, I know.
Man.
People come along and go, hey, you want this Colt 45?
Yeah.
That was actually worse than dwarf tossing when that was a thing.
What?
Dwarf tossing was a little funner for some reason.
Yeah.
I mean, when it started, everybody thought it was hilarious.
And it's not like the little person was getting thrown without their permission.
Yeah.
But just the whole idea of it was so demeaning.
And then they put it in the Lord of the Rings.
Do you remember that?
Yes.
There was a scene where the dwarf Gimli said, you'll have to toss me, but don't tell anyone.
I used to do this.
Yes, I love that.
I used to do this.
I was up in Boston area working in Lowell, Massachusetts.
At the hotel, they had a little person working, right?
Uh-huh.
He used to follow me around.
He designated me as his friends, and I have a phobia anyhow.
I'm scared to death of him.
They freak me out.
It's like he could pick up on it, so all of a sudden I was his best friend.
Yeah.
And every time, man, I would try to fart in his face.
I would try to just blast him right in the face, because this guy, he would not leave me alone.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
I got him a couple of times.
Yeah.
I think he swallowed a pretty good one there.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Some of them were like Gimli and an egg on a salad fart.
Yeah.
You know, it's interesting how little people are portrayed and used in fictional entertainment.
I mean, there are reality shows about the seven little Johnstons, spinoffs of that.
Little Johnstons.
Yes.
But when you see a little person in like a sitcom or something, they still tend to be used as a token and a novelty.
They do.
That's true.
They don't get their own legitimacy for whatever reason, the way they look or whatever.
People just don't take them seriously.
Even if they don't overtly talk about the fact that they're a small person.
There's some sort of reference or something.
Yeah, there's attention brought to the fact that they are different than other people in the same room.
So they try to make it.
It's a version of virtuous signaling.
The little people are still kind of in that virtual virtue signaling phase where they get work because networks and shows want to show that they're open minded.
Instead of just saying who's going to be best for this role and I don't care how they look.
Why not do it that way?
But TV and movies are all a...
I mean they're such a visual medium.
You've got to have just the right look without offending this group and without exciting that group.
It's a mess.
But I think little people still have some ways to go before they get the quality that some other marginalized groups have gotten.
And plus, it's like me when we're younger.
You walk up to one and go, hey, left or right, you win a candy bar.
Know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Which way, is it left or is it right?
You tell me, you get a candy bar.
That's nasty.
Yes.
Okay, moving right along.
Yes, I know.
2-6 Tennessee.
I'd tell everyone to Google it, but that wouldn't work.
No, probably not.
Who is it now?
2-6 Tennessee at 5-3 Los Angeles Chargers.
That's got to be a three-foot game.
Yeah, okay.
Chargers?
They're not winning sexy.
No.
They're not winning flashy.
So a hum-drum game of 24-21.
That sounds about right.
Chargers, I don't think you're going to have any trouble with Tennessee since Tennessee still doesn't do anything very well.
Yeah.
They lose really well.
They have a lot of trouble keeping drives going.
It used to drive me crazy when the team I was rooting for would have some really great play and gain 17 yards.
And then they'd piss it away on some really bad plays and punt.
Oh, that used to drive me nuts.
The Chiefs were the kings of that.
It's like, why did you bother getting 17 yards?
It doesn't mean anything now.
It's just a useless stat on somebody's...
You came up with this great play and then you followed up with three runs in the middle.
I think Tennessee is in that mode right now.
They're just kind of like ducking cover.
Yeah.
I'm going to give them single digits.
I'm going to say 24-9.
You're probably much closer.
I'm not betting Vegas on this one, so I don't care.
So far we haven't had much in obvious weather games.
We had one the other day.
The Jets was a real rainy game.
Last night was a really rainy game.
Last night there was a lot of slipping and dropping of the balls.
We're still probably a month away from some really cold games.
Yeah, and that separates the men from the boys right there.
It does, doesn't it? Yeah.
I mean, case in point, Miami came here last year.
Where they had the most amputations of any...
You can't write this yet.
That football becomes a giant block of granite that you're trying to catch.
Yes.
Okay, not much love for Tennessee here.
No.
Next up we got three and six New York Jets at five and four Arizona Cardinals.
This is pretty easy for me.
Yeah. Yeah, Arizona.
Yeah.
Um...
I'm picking the Jets.
Oh!
Nice.
21 to 17.
I wonder how many former New York residents who now live in Arizona
are going to be at the game and not know who to root for.
On the other hand, Jets fans tend not to retire to Arizona.
They probably retire to New Jersey.
So...
I'm going to go Arizona 23 to 13.
Okay.
So there's another one we're kicking on off since...
Yeah, you know what?
I mean, I'm going out on a limb and I'll probably lose it, but what the hell?
No.
Let's see.
The next couple of games aren't so tough to pick, but the last game is going to be interesting.
Okay.
Next up we have six and two Philly at three and five Dallas.
Philly.
Because of Barkley.
Yeah. It's weird.
At first I thought this was going to be easy to pick, but...
You start thinking about each team's incompetence and how that's going to affect the outcome.
Yeah, without Barkley it would have been a lot tougher, but I think I'm going to go Philly as well.
I'm going to go an odd score. 22 to 9.
Nice.
I'll say 23 to 17.
Oh, I like that one. Now, I almost went there too.
Yeah.
I almost said that.
I tend to pick a lot of classic scores, you know, like 17, 10, 13.
It stands to reason. Most scores are like that.
Yeah, your two basic scores are seven points and three points.
You don't get a lot of safeties and missed extra points, so you don't get those weird...
Every now and then it's fun to pick one like that.
Yeah, it is.
Especially since we're not playing over or under or something.
Yeah.
Alrighty. Seven to one Detroit at six and three Houston.
Is Houston due for a good game?
I think they are.
And if Detroit's going to lose one, they want to lose it to the AFC.
Oh, good point. Good point.
I'm going Houston 21 to 18.
And I'll probably regret it.
Well, last week's game was the first game Detroit had played outside all season.
And in Houston, it's not really outside.
I think it's a movable dome roof.
It's partial.
Yeah. I think it's a retractable roof, but yeah, it's not really going to count as an outside game.
Their records are pretty close, but I don't think that really reflects the kind of teams they are.
So I'm going to stick with Detroit 28 to 13.
Okay.
I almost went 27-13.
So we're on page with that, just with a different score?
Yeah.
Okay.
No, you picked Houston, I picked Detroit.
Oh, you picked that line.
Yeah.
All right, last game on the Monday night, two and six Miami at four and four Los Angeles Rams.
This to me is kind of tough to pick.
It really is.
Yeah.
I'm going to go, is it the Rams?
At Rams, yeah.
It's the Monday night game.
Miami.
32.
They're 30.
I think Tyreeca's going to shine.
That would be fun to watch.
Yeah.
I kind of have a feeling about Miami this week too.
I think they're going to be able to put it together, at least this game, and the Rams are kind of inconsistent.
Oh, he almost got him, almost got him.
Yeah.
Oh, the Pigeons.
He's going to run over those poor reincarnated homeless people.
Look at one, he ain't giving up that piece of bread.
Oh, no, no, they're good as a big guy.
Oh, look at him, he's pissed.
That was mine, bitch.
He's breaking out the brass knuckles.
There he is, he fucking just clogged him really good.
Nancy Kerrigan.
You've got to love a good Nancy Kerrigan reference.
Yes.
Google it.
I wonder what Tonya Harding is doing right now.
Time.
Yeah.
Or else some guy for crack money.
Yeah, some guy for crack money, there you go.
I'm going to pick Miami as well in this.
Rams are inconsistent, big stage.
Like you, I think Tyreed's going to have a breakout game, do some real well.
I'm going 31 to... He's going to point at the camera and go, this is for you 15, this is for you.
I'm going to going 31, 10.
Alright.
So I think the Rams are going to have trouble scoring.
Oh yeah, alright, cool.
Yeah.
Alright.
So that's week 10 predictions.
I like them.
Now we can screw around for a while.
Alright, cool.
You want to go into some bullet points?
I love me some bullet points.
Isn't this fucking fantastic?
Yeah, these are an excellent part of the show.
I know, it's my favorite part.
I think I'm hurting my shoulder patting myself on the back like this.
Same here.
Yeah.
Here, I'll just push your pad.
Just right there on the shoulder plate.
I'll wait until we're done with the show before I turn and kiss myself.
I'll be out there all year.
I got really good at it.
I've been good while we're talking.
Alright.
And moving right along.
Yes.
The intern head coach of the Jets, Jeff Albright, consider resting Aaron Rodgers if he doesn't
improve?
Should he?
Gosh.
I would say no.
I don't think there's any legitimate reason to rest Aaron Rodgers unless he's hurt.
Well, what I mean by rest is this is embarrassing.
Or not embarrassing, make him aware that he has not performed.
You think that would work on him?
It would tear the team up wouldn't it?
I don't think there's any benefit to making him a healthy scratch.
I agree.
Unless he's injured and can't perform, then that's a no-brainer.
But yeah, you take him out and bench him during the game or even before the game.
And yeah.
Speaking of something like that real quick, I want to ask you this.
This isn't a bullet point, but it could be.
CHE, Clyde Edwards, Claire.
Claire.
Isn't he still taking up a roster spot?
He is.
Why in the world is he taking up a roster spot?
I don't get it.
I'm really not sure.
Is it insurance in case like P Ryan goes down or?
I guess, but I mean you could pick someone off your practice squad.
Yeah, that's what I thought too.
You could easily go to the practice squad and be called up and nixed it.
If he's eligible for the practice squad at this point.
Oh, he may not be.
That could be.
There's only a certain period of time.
Yeah, he could be on his last one.
I think if Hunt went down with an injury for any significant chunk of time,
P Ryan and Steele could fill in.
Yeah, I think so too, but I don't think CHE could.
No, and you wouldn't really need him.
You could get like just a regular guy to be the number three.
They got a Damian Williams one year and won the Super Bowl with him.
And he was one of the heroes of the Super Bowl.
And you can always supplement that kind of running game with the jet sweep
where you toss it to a wide receiver running around the end.
Yeah.
I mean that works as a running game too.
You can use Hopkins as a running back if you want to.
You can use Worthy.
Worthy has been used.
Or you can really get crazy and pitch it to Kelsey.
I was just going to bring that up.
There are, I mean, definitely in college football,
but there are even pro teams that will use a tight end as a full back
and sometimes hand in the ball and in he goes.
I think preferably that will be in a playoffs, not now.
Playoffs!
Yeah, unless you really need it.
Yeah, that's kind of the same thing you say for when it counts.
For then, yeah.
Okay, well I guess that's a bullet point even though it wasn't written down.
Yeah, that worked out pretty well.
So yeah, I'd say don't sit Aaron Rodgers.
No extra charge for that extra question.
We're going to charge you the same amount.
Yep.
Alright.
Look, we got a 30% bonus.
Yeah.
Yeah, more product.
Yeah.
Just what people wanted.
And it cost everybody a little more electricity to listen to it
because it's just that much longer.
Oh yeah, a little like that.
Well, we're going to try to ride this out,
but since you did an extra question, fuck you, we're shutting it off.
Alright.
Click.
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It's over a minute.
It still counts.
Yep, it still counts.
Alright, take the top four quarterbacks from the NFL right now.
Let's say it's Mahomes, Allen, Purdy, and Daniels.
If they were pro wrestlers, which one would each one of them be?
For example, Allen to me would be Randy, Macho Man, Savage.
The guy that almost gets it almost gets it is always like,
oh, you waited till I get you home.
I'm going.
Okay, so go ahead with yours.
Oh my gosh.
I think Mahomes would be, I'm not all that familiar.
Is there a character who's like the underdog?
The giant killer.
The giant killer?
Yeah, the little guy who beats the big guy.
Like a Rey Mysterio?
Yeah.
He was a high flying guy that could like, he was shorter of stature.
He flew around the ring.
He was like a, what do they call the Mexican wrestlers?
Oh gosh.
I know what you mean though.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Anyhow.
That's kind of how I see him is the little guy who talks too much
and brags and then he comes in and just cleans Andre the Giant's ass.
You know?
If there's a guy like that in wrestling, that's who I think he is.
I'm going to go with the non-controversial Hulk Hogan
because he's a king without a doubt.
Won most titles, everything.
I mean, just like, and I'm changing Randy Savage to Josh Allen.
I'm taking him to Ric Flair.
Oh yeah, I can see that.
Yeah, he's a guy who goes whoo and wins a couple of games here and there.
Although he did win like eight or nine world championships,
he's not regarded as the best wrestler.
So I'm going to go Hulk is my homes just because he's a winner,
but not all the shenanigans.
Okay, and two would be Ric Flair.
Yeah.
Would be Josh Allen.
I think Brock Purdy would be a very laid back guy.
Would he be the Rock?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
And Daniels is the up and comer.
Mm-hmm.
So, okay, he would be the Roman Reigns.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
So that's my four.
Really not keeping up on WWE or whatever they want.
AEW is the next big one coming up.
Yeah, so that's who I got.
You got?
As far as the wrestling, I'm kind of out of the loop on that too.
We can both just agree to say that's it.
I kind of reached on this and I was actually, I didn't get a chance to,
but I was going to do a little research on the pro wrestling for the last three years
to try to form an opinion there off of recent stuff.
But because I don't know that much about it nowadays, I had to go with what I knew.
Now on the opposite end of the spectrum, I'd say Aaron Rodgers is performing about like Andy Kaufman
in the wrestling ring.
He's the inter-gender champion.
Yes.
He's throwing women over the top rope.
And remember, he's making fun of, was it Tennessee or Kentucky or Mississippi or something?
Yeah.
He's making fun of being a bunch of toothless yokels and shit like that.
And that guy put his own life at risk.
Yeah, he did throw two crutches out at the audience.
Damn.
Oh, he was such a, what do you call it, a method performer, a method actor.
Yeah.
I mean, he played the role he would never deviate out of it.
Oh shit, what was that?
It said my battery's running low.
Uh oh.
My power supply got turned off, so I got it back on now.
It should be, let me check this here.
Where's my cursor?
All right, let me check my, don't worry guys, the meter's not running on this.
We're not charging it for it while we're doing this.
I will do what I do whenever Rob's looking for his story because he lost it.
Well, this is plugged in.
It should be charging, so I don't know why it's, it hates our show.
It does.
Let me kill the warning.
Okay.
It says 6% remaining 17 minutes, but we're plugged in.
I don't know what the deal is.
And it looks like it's charging.
I'm not sure why it's not working.
Oh, I know why.
I know why, I turned on the wrong side.
Okay, I turned on the one on that side.
Oh, okay, gotcha.
All right.
We good?
We're good.
The screen came back on.
The screen is getting awful dark.
Oh, that sucks.
You think I'd know by now.
It's free.
Yes.
Now you know why.
Yep.
Up to you if you want to snip that part out, but.
Nah, I'm gonna leave it in there.
Yeah, I left some crap in the show I did.
Yeah.
Gotta do it.
Yep.
I've got a bullet point.
Oh, yeah.
MMA and ultimate fighting, kind of.
Is that legitimate sport or just gay porn for men in denial?
I want to say gay porn for men in denial.
You know what?
I'm gonna go gay porn for men in denial.
I mean, like, watch it with the sound turned down and look at the way they squirm and grind
on each other.
It's just rough gay sex.
That's all it is.
What's really horrible whenever someone has this fucking dick right in another guy's face
because they got me a leg lock.
How would you like to be that guy?
Well, I know they could be gay.
Yeah.
How would you like to be that guy?
This motherfucker's got his shit right in my face and I can't move.
You better hope that guy's not bigging.
The ball biter.
Yeah, they're gonna have to wait on bigging the ball biter.
I will tell it eventually, but not right now.
Not right now.
Nope.
We gotta materialize.
We gotta build it up.
Yeah, we gotta build it up.
Yeah.
Yep.
We gotta convince them they want it before we give it to them.
Yes.
Okay.
Yes.
We're dangling right now.
Yeah.
Here it is.
And right now they're going, no, that's okay.
It's like that tired ass old worm you put on your hook because it's the end of the day
and you're like, yeah, no one's biting on this.
Yeah.
It's like half dead.
It's just dangling.
It's not even good sushi anymore for the worm.
Even the carp go by and go, ah.
No.
Too old.
Yeah, too old.
Carp eat shit off the bottom.
It looks at your worm and goes, nah, I don't think so.
Not today, bitch.
You get snubbed by a carp.
That's pretty bad.
Yeah, that's pretty bad.
Or a gar.
Oh.
Oh, those things.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know, bite the air.
Yeah.
So anyhow, yeah, yeah.
Do you have the same assessment of the NMA and ultimate fighting?
Yeah.
If you want to watch a couple almost naked guys squirm and grind on each other and then
hit each other.
Yeah, it's like submissive sex or something.
You want to spend like 30 minutes watching a guy smell another guy's balls.
There you go.
It's for you.
It's like the guys who want to watch prostate exams.
There might be an issue there.
Or it reminds me of Andre the Giant if he didn't like you.
Oh, yeah.
He checked your oil when he body slammed you.
Dang.
So if he didn't like you, you knew it because you had a size 14 fucking index finger up
your bum.
Damn.
What did that do?
You'd be pooping blood for a week.
Yeah, anyhow, I'm sorry I ruined this program.
Let's hope he didn't have dirt under his nails.
I got an infection.
Bastard.
I'm going to scratch this pimple and then I'm going to check your oil.
You know, nowadays he'd be on a list.
Oh, yeah.
What?
Well, nowadays he'd be arrested for sexual assault.
Yeah, basically he was.
There was a college wrestling coach that got arrested for that because he was training
his players to use the shocker, which was a little finger up the butt hole during a
wrestling match.
And eventually enough players, enough wrestlers told their parents and the parents made a
big enough stink and it all came out.
And the guy went to prison and made a big enough stink.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, the coach is a lifetime member of the sexual predator list.
Oh.
Yeah.
So how'd that work out for you, coach?
Not very well.
I would demand a finger condom if they expected it to have...
No kidding.
Yeah, it'd be like, one of those stimples only had a plastic or something.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
The kind you use to express your dog's anal gland.
Those right there.
No, actually, I think I just dropped out of wrestling and go in football.
Let me go just clean out porta potties.
I'd rather do that.
Okay, the next one.
Will NFL give up on new kickoff rules?
Is it a one and done?
I don't think so myself.
I think it's working, but go ahead.
I think it is working.
Yeah.
It's still boring as hell.
It is, but...
And they still haven't figured out to show the play from the receiving team's end zone
so you can watch the ball coming in and run out.
That's the biggest problem they have.
They're not sure how to show it to the audience.
Yeah.
If they work that out, it will be a little bit more exciting.
Yeah.
But...
But for all we know, it might be a contractual obligation that during kickoff,
they show the side view because there's advertising along the wall
that needs to be shown during kickoffs.
That's probably it.
They pay a premium.
It's like show space.
Yeah.
If you want that eye-lit corner counter, you're paying for it,
and that's what they're doing.
And you'll notice the teams that have an advertisement on their field goal catching net.
Yeah.
You will always see the kickoff from an angle that shows that logo.
Did you notice the bet MGM every time it goes to a field goal attempt?
That's why they will never show it from the end zone of the ball coming towards you
because they have to show that advertisement.
They have to show that advertisement.
Yeah.
So I think keeping the side view is because of that.
I think you're right.
And an end view would...
I mean, the advertisement would be too far away for you to see.
So they need that side view so you can see all those ads and messages along the wall
leading up to the stands.
Just like in baseball.
Yeah.
That whole wall surrounding where the stands meet the field.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
All the way around they got them.
Yeah.
Changing ads.
That's the only reason they put them in like that.
Rolling ads.
And a lot of baseball parks will leave a blank space and then just digitally insert ads.
Remember we saw that at Kauffman Stadium.
Uh-huh.
I mean, all of a sudden you see Quick Trip because they're a big sponsor.
Yeah.
Then you'll see Phillips 66 because they're a big sponsor.
Yeah.
And then you'll see like a kid eating a hot dog to try to entice you to go get a hot dog.
Yeah.
Yeah, they use them very well.
Yeah.
I think it's important to remember that the way the show, the game is presented on TV
is not the best way to view it.
It's the best way to get you to see the advertisements.
Yes.
And that, you know, it's naive to think otherwise.
I agree.
They want you to watch the game but only because they want to advertise to you.
Yes.
So the ads are king.
I mean, the ads come first.
And they always will.
So...
Yeah, it's always going to be like that.
You're not stopping it because everything on TV is built around advertisement more than
ever.
And it never really did, you know.
It's, I'll put it like this.
Ed Sullivan had Folgers on one, the whole show was Folgers.
Yeah.
Now, if Ed Sullivan was on, he'd have 50 sponsors.
Yes.
And you'd have to serve every one of them.
Uh-huh.
So...
Yeah, yeah.
Anyhow, go ahead.
Ed Sullivan, Google it.
Yeah.
He helped break the Beatles into America.
He did.
Yeah.
As a matter of fact, ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles is one of the most famous taglines
ever.
Yep.
And there were a lot of people who hated The Beatles and what they stood for so much that
they wrote hate letters to Ed Sullivan and the network.
I remember that.
Damn hippies.
Yep.
Come to ruin our youth.
Yeah.
Of course, at the same time, you're familiar with the song God Bless America.
Yes.
It was most famously sung by, what, Kate Bush?
Yeah, I would say, yeah, that would be up there if not it.
Yeah.
I mean, not to Kate Bush in recent times, but like way back in the 30s.
Way back, yeah.
I think the song was written by Irving Berlin, who was Jewish.
Mm-hmm.
And when that song became really popular, there were a lot of Christian people in this
country who wrote hate letters to the radio station saying, how dare you play a song written
by that Jew bastard?
Oh, wow.
Isn't that amazing?
That is amazing.
That was less than 100 years ago in this country.
I'm just gonna let that one go.
Yeah.
That's a, okay, anyhow.
So people react weird ways to things, especially if they're new or unfamiliar or someone tells
them they should feel threatened by it.
Yeah.
It's really crazy thinking that was less than 100 years ago.
Yeah.
All right.
Patrick and Brittany are seeking to lure an expansion WNBA team for Kansas City.
Is that a good idea or we already have an overkill with all the teams?
Wow.
I mean, you're definitely approaching overkill.
Yeah.
But we don't have basketball here.
So I'm thinking, yeah.
Does you have a KCAA?
Yeah, yeah.
They have the Roos.
Do they have the kangaroos still?
The kangaroos.
They play at municipal.
They have a lifetime contract, I think, with the WNBA.
Yeah.
I think so.
They're probably keeping municipal open.
Because, yeah, I bet they are.
It's a beautiful building.
It is.
It's been refurbished.
I hope that it won't have that.
Yeah.
It's nice.
All it takes is for somebody to realize that, hey, we could make more money out of this
space if we did it differently.
And then they'll tear it down.
I can tell you this.
The old grass work that's in there and the grass work now, you know that they used to
take their time with it.
And now they don't.
Yeah.
The concrete work is really awesome, too.
Yeah.
All of it is.
Yeah.
That's because of four dice?
No, no, no.
What was the one that the boss on?
Pendergast.
Yeah.
ReadyMix.
That was it.
Yeah.
And then we have the currency readyMix.
Yep.
Anyhow, go ahead.
I think a WNBA team would create quite a splash, especially if the Mahomes were behind it.
Exactly.
They've got to be all over it when it comes out.
Yeah.
They've got to be involved and they've got to help carry it until it catches on.
Man, I wonder where they would play.
Maybe in this home.
Maybe, yeah.
I don't think you'd want to send them down to what you, I can't remember, it used to
be the Kemper Arena down in the stockyards.
Oh, Hy-Vee.
That's all for amateur sports.
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, it is.
They have a bunch of different soccer fields in there.
Yeah.
Okay.
Municipal is what I think.
I mean, the Kauffman Center is not designed for that.
No.
The Truman's too small.
Yeah.
Let's see.
The Uptown, no, no, no, would not work.
The Midland, no.
T-Mobile Center?
T-Mobile Center.
Yeah, you could put a basketball court in the middle of that, I think.
If you had a Kaitlin Clark, yes, T-Mobile.
No Kaitlin Clark.
Oh, yeah, you'd better start out with a smaller arena.
You'd have to.
Yeah.
It would have to be a slow build.
Yeah.
Yeah, without the homes, I think it would be a bad idea, but with them, I think it's
got a good chance.
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
I personally have heard more about the WNBA in the last six months than I did in the last
six years.
Uh-huh.
It's just being paid attention to more.
So, I think it probably is ready.
It's probably time.
A pigeon jumped up on a table where a young lady over there is having a meal.
Oh, it's back.
Take a look.
It keeps jumping up on her table trying to get her food.
Very aggressive birds.
Man, those birds are hungry, aren't they?
Yeah, that one, he was not having it.
He was like, no, that's mine.
Seagulls are usually that pushy.
Pigeons, I wouldn't, not accustomed to that.
Yeah, I mean, I think I need more people like us throwing shit out there to piss people
off, right?
Hey, I've got a bucket of dog food that I don't need anymore.
I could bring that up, throw that kibble out there and wash the birds.
That would be fun.
It probably wouldn't be very good for them.
It made the lady move.
She's like, yeah, I'll leave it.
These birds are getting me.
Anyhow, yeah, Caitlin Clark, something like that.
It has to be a slow build.
We're in agreement.
Okay.
I think we do better with an expansion team than a relocated team.
I do too.
Yeah.
A relocated has its warts.
Yeah.
There's a reason it didn't work out the last one.
Okay.
Should all new bathrooms in Arohead Stadium have mixed gender bathrooms?
And this is not what you think where it's going.
Example, the ladies' room is always backed up.
Should there be an option for women to go to a mixed use bathroom if they feel comfortable
with it?
This would help clear off the long lines at the ladies' room.
Arohead Stadium, women wait for like 40 minutes to use the bathroom.
Yeah.
It is a big problem that nobody really talks about.
The same thing in like concert halls or event centers.
Yeah, but in concerts, it depends on what concert.
A lot of concerts, they're going to go piss in the sink.
Yeah.
I've seen a lot of women do that.
Yeah.
It's like, huh?
But like the higher end, like operatic or symphony or plays.
Yeah.
You know, the women tend to take longer because they've got more makeup on and more layers
of clothing and they care more about their parents, I guess.
Maybe the answer is more female bathrooms.
Yeah, that's kind of where I was going.
I would think take away men's bathrooms and change them to women's bathrooms until you
have equal length lines.
Yeah.
Kind of divide it down the middle.
It's harder to add the new bathrooms to an existing structure, but if you just reassign
some.
The reason I've done that is because a lot of places you see family bathrooms now.
Yeah.
And that's where the whole family can go in there and watch each other take a dump.
Yeah.
And I think about, I mean, port-a-potty technology.
Yeah.
You know, you can have a line of port-a-potties and anybody can go into any one of them.
That's true.
Why aren't bathrooms all like that?
Because they like the trough systems.
It's so much easier just whether it's the trough sink or the trough pisser.
Yeah.
Not that many stalls, but a lot of urinals.
Yeah.
It's just the way they're designed.
Yeah, it's treating our bodily functions like an assembly line problem.
Yes.
Yeah.
You know, quantity over individual comfort and privacy.
Yeah, if you've got 70,000 people in your stadium, you can't have 50,000 bathrooms
for them.
Yeah.
You've got to cram a bunch of them into big designated bathroom areas.
But maybe inside have the individuals.
All right.
Let me help.
That's Alex, a friend of mine.
Oh, cool.
Eddie, how are you?
He won't want to talk, trust me.
Okay.
This next one.
Should there be a turf test from a governing board?
Geez.
What the hell was that?
That was a dog, I think.
Oh, I think I see it down there.
Yep.
Okay.
Oh, no, maybe it's this little bastard.
I think it's how are you?
No, maybe it was the other one.
No, it was the other one.
Yeah.
Okay.
Curly tail dog.
Yep.
Might be a husky, it looks like.
Okay.
Should there be a turf test from a governing board to test the field and okay or deny it?
This would be in hopes that teams will have more of an interest in making the turf safer.
A forefield if the field fails.
Too many ACL and MCL injuries.
I think they should.
I think so, too.
Because right now the owners, that's one thing is they skimp on.
Yeah.
And if the owner owns the stadium or if the city owns the stadium, either way, that's something
that they save money on is, yeah, let's get a couple more years out of this crappy old
turf.
Yeah, I agree.
So yeah, a minimum standard that they test each week, I think that's reasonable.
Yeah, and if they, okay, like if they forward, it's a forfeit, then you're going to have
everybody giving a shit about their field.
They're going to be out there hand picking over it.
Yeah.
And that's what we want anyhow.
Yeah.
There's too many ACL and MCL injuries and most of them are caused by, I don't know,
people playing soccer on the field two days before.
Yeah.
To where the whoever in power didn't want to spend the money to make the field right.
Yeah.
Gosh, imagine in a hockey game you just use this old chewed up, chipped up nasty ice and
you don't bother resurfacing.
Yeah, you'd be like, they wouldn't play on it.
They wouldn't.
They'd be like, yeah, we're not playing.
No.
Yeah.
Yeah, I would be in favor of a minimum enforceable standard for field conditions and integrity.
I agree 100%.
I think that that is one of the best points we have of all the ones that we've all the
broadcasts we've done on the NFL.
I think that is one of the most legitimate ones that could be done easily.
Yeah.
I mean, look at the massive numbers of injuries that are putting players out for multiple
weeks, if not the season.
Yeah.
And so many of them were turf related, you know, all the coffee put in the turf or their
foot was pinned.
I mean, better turf helps everything.
I agree.
Yeah.
All right.
Should rookie contracts have a cap for five years continue?
Is it too long or is it just right?
I'd like to see it go to four years.
And that way a quarterback like, I forget the guy in Carolina, Bryce Young.
Imagine if after four years, the team didn't have any kind of option they could exercise
over him.
And he's like, I'm out of here because you guys are wrecking my career.
Yeah, I think so too.
That's exactly why I wrote that out.
I think four years is enough to give a team a chance to commit to you and want to develop
you or let you go.
There's got to be an escape clause.
Yeah.
Because if you're in a shitty team and that's where you were and that's where you were granted
to and there's nothing you can do about it because they don't do a lottery, they don't
do anything like that, worst team gets first pick, hands down.
So if it's a team like Carolina, a perennial loser or something like that, or a graveyard
or quarterbacks like Chicago, I mean it would be nice after four years if you could just
say, thanks, but I'm gone.
And that would give the team an incentive to fix themselves.
Exactly.
They only have four years and they're going to do the best they can to incorporate the
rookie players that you get under the salary cap against the players that you pay money
for, more money.
Yeah, I remember the bad old days of football before free agency.
I mean there was a time there was no free agency.
It just didn't exist.
Yeah, there was.
It just, it wasn't even thought of.
Nobody even knew it could be done.
The trades were pretty rare.
The situation was if you were drafted by a team out of college, they owned your football
playing rights for the NFL forever until they traded them to somebody else.
Yeah, and the only way you get out of it is to suck.
Yeah, I mean you could retire and be retired for five years and decide to come back.
That team still owns your football rights.
Wow, it's hard to believe it was ever done like that.
Yeah, imagine having it picked for you who is going to be in charge of your career for
the rest of your life.
That would suck.
Yeah.
So I think the strike of 86, 87, somewhere around there.
That changed that.
Yeah, that was one of the big things they wanted.
They first came out with Plan B free agency.
Yeah, I remember that.
It was kind of like, okay, you can try out free agency, but if we really don't want to
lose you, then we'll match our offer and you've got to come back.
Yeah, and that's gone.
But yeah, that was the first step into getting rid of it, actually.
Yeah, it was.
So yeah, players have got to really enjoy what they got now because it used to really
suck about 34 years ago.
Yeah, yep.
And then the last one I have is the one we already went into at first because of fit,
and that was how would a rating system for unnecessary roughness calls, you know, if
the guy's injured, should, and it's got to be, let me clarify a little bit more.
It's got to be blatant.
It's got to be absolutely without a doubt, like Mahomes is five yards out, okay, he's
five yards out into the out of bounds.
Yeah.
He's way in there, there's people around him, and the guy comes flying out there and
just nails him.
Or the guy who throws a punch and rips somebody's helmet off, but not necessarily for the guy
who accidentally lands on the quarterback.
No, no, yeah, yeah.
And that's where the rating system comes in.
Yeah.
I know there'll be more red tape, but there'll probably be a lot less of these because this
year alone, a lot less of these injuries that were caused by a dirty hit.
Yeah.
So I've seen probably three or four this year that I'm aware of that caused injury to
another player, whether they sat out or not.
They caused injury to another player and it was blatant, just without a doubt, a dirty
hit, whether it's grabbing his helmet, throwing it to the ground.
Yeah, yeah.
It's weird that there's so much more of that than I've seen in the last few years.
Yeah.
It's almost like Royd Rage is back.
Yeah, it is like that.
It really seems like that, doesn't it?
Yeah.
Yep.
Anyhow, yeah, that was the last question.
Got anything you want to...
Maybe the NFL could take a hint from the hockey league.
Uh-huh.
You know, if one of your players commits a foul or a penalty, they sit out and you're
a man down.
I like that better.
Yeah.
So if the Raiders player knocks out a Chiefs player, the Chiefs get to substitute, the
Raiders don't.
I like that.
They take their player out and now they play with 10 guys.
And that's pretty easy.
Offense and defense.
If the secondhand player isn't as good, well, there's nobody defending him.
Yep.
I like that.
And the Raiders, the other team would have to play a man down for as long as the player
is out.
If he's out the rest of the game, then you're a man down the rest of the game.
Yeah.
I like that one a lot.
I can see that working because that way it's not worth it to sacrifice somebody to take
out the other team's player because your whole team is penalized now.
I agree.
Yeah.
I agree.
I think that would work.
I think so too.
It's kind of a modification of the ejection rule to where say you're ejected but nobody
gets to take your place.
Yeah, you're right.
That would get a team to put a lot more effort into disciplining the players and keeping
them from doing something stupid because that could wreck an entire game.
Yeah, it could.
That could cost you an entire game and it should be that costly.
It has.
Historically it has.
Yeah.
But before it was much more accepted than it is now.
It's kind of like, well, you know, that's football.
Yeah.
Now it's kind of like, wait a minute.
Nobody should injure their body and sacrifice the quality of life for a freaking job.
Yeah, I agree.
That's just stupid.
Yeah, that's no.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yeah, man down.
I like that idea.
I like that better.
I think man down is a perfect one.
Of course, a team like the Raiders, he gets a lot of penalties.
He'd be out there with six guys on the field.
Would you be funny to watch?
Living on six.
They didn't figure out which six they're going to put out there.
Eight of them walk and then they're on the other side of the field just throwing.
Hey, Kelsey, go down there and take a left.
I got all day.
Kelsey's out there going, OK, one thousand, two thousand, three thousand, four thousand,
five thousand, six thousand, seven thousand.
OK, throw it.
Hang on.
I'm going to call Taylor while you're waiting to throw the ball.
Hey, Tay-Tay, where are you at today?
Argentina?
OK, cool.
Hey, the ball's coming my way.
Bye.
All right.
Pour them together as trailer.
Yeah, trailer.
I'm trying to figure out with the Raiders if they had six players, they'd put out a left
end, a D tackle.
That is a good ball.
A little linebacker, two corners and one safety.
Yeah, because they'd have to cover the corners and the safety to cover the long pass, I guess.
Yeah, but then you just run the ball right down their throat.
The Mahomes just run straight up the middle.
Another eleven yards, up another twelve yards, up another eleven yards.
Ask Chris Collinsworth about a big load of somebody coming straight down your throat.
Oh, yes, yes, yes.
That reminds me, I've got to check the wire for more of them.
You know he's still saying stupid stuff.
Yeah, so I'm going to see the latest ones from this year and you'll get a full report
next week.
Chris Collinsworth homoerotic statement today.
Chris, is there something you'd like to tell us?
Look, Chris, we don't care.
We still love you.
Yeah.
We don't care.
You can do what you want.
Just be honest.
Honesty is the key.
Love yourself.
Yes.
Embrace it.
Oh, man.
Oh, yeah.
A little pity how long we got on this shit show.
About an hour and six minutes.
Boy, that's kind of a short one, isn't it?
Yeah.
You got anything you want to talk about?
You got anything on your mind?
Let me think.
Well, here's kind of a generic statement.
It's election day.
Already voted.
I'm going to vote.
Whatever way the national presidential election turns out, it's going to be OK.
No, I agree.
I agree.
There's a lot of people on multiple sides saying catastrophe, disaster, end of life
as we know it, blah, blah.
It's not.
It's going to be OK.
No, that's feeding on fear.
It's going to be OK.
It really is going to.
And in four years, we get to pick again.
Yes.
And you know what?
Four years ago seemed like just a finger snap away.
It did.
I remember asking Rob this on the douchebags.
I go, Rob, now think about this really.
And I want this for you, too.
If Trump or Biden were one, the last one, Biden won, of course.
OK, since Biden won and Trump was in before, did anything, is anything really that different?
No.
Significantly?
No.
Yeah.
I don't think in a real significant way.
They probably would have tried to convince us these were significant changes, just like
every...
But they really are not.
Yeah, every side that gets in power says, oh, look how great things we're doing and
the other group didn't.
If that were really true, then America would be perfection by now.
Yeah.
And I also, I blame all the candidates for all of this hatred.
Yeah.
It doesn't make it seem like the other side is trying to kill everybody.
And it's not true.
You're not going to get a bunch of people from the right or the left, a concerted effort
to go after anybody.
There's just not a motive there.
And nobody cares.
They want to live their life.
They want to make a living.
They want to provide for their family.
They want to be healthy.
They want to be loved.
And that's it.
Yeah.
The irresponsibility of stressing out the general public and contributing to the overall
ill mental health of the public, that bothers me.
I rarely vote for a candidate now that has nothing to say for themselves but only criticism
for the other side.
Yeah.
It's like, tell me what you're going to do, but don't just tell me what you're going to
do.
Tell me how you're going to do it.
Yeah.
You know, because-
Where's the money coming from?
Yes.
How long is it going to take?
And whose approval do you need?
A real plan.
Not just like, when I'm in there, I'm going to fight against these guys.
Yeah.
I don't want to hear that.
I want to hear, you know what?
Everyone needs to get together.
We need to all talk, have a conversation.
We need to figure out the best for most of the people.
The majority of the people always get the way.
So what we have to do here is figure out what the majority wants and we have to go with.
And that's it.
I remember that.
That's an excellent point.
Listening to the fringe, just the loudest, not necessarily the most populist segment,
is not a good idea.
Yeah.
Well, that's why we have electoral college.
Yeah.
It's because New York cannot dictate what we do in Mid-America.
Yeah.
And it always has to be there.
Yeah.
It's good and bad with that.
Oh, there's a lot of youngsters that just say, how come it's bullshit because Hillary
got the popular vote, but then-
No.
But it's just when we've done it and it works to shut up.
You don't want two cities to be in charge of absolutely everything that goes on in this
country.
Yeah.
And if it was the other way around, they wouldn't have said anything.
And hey, I'm not just getting after liberals or nothing like that.
Yeah.
Conservatives, same way.
Yeah.
Same way.
I was reminded of a student president election in my high school.
Uh-huh.
And one of the candidates was promising that she was going to get a designated smoking
area outside to where the students could go before school and after school to smoke.
Even though that would have never happened.
Right.
But she got a ton of buzz and a lot of people I knew were really stoked about it.
And personally-
You knew.
Yeah.
I mean, I didn't bother to tell anybody about it, but seriously, at that time, it was illegal
to sell cigarettes to somebody under the age of 18.
And most of the people in high school were under the age of 18.
Yeah.
There's no way a public school is going to set aside an area for their students to break
the law.
Unless you're-
It's just not going to happen.
Unless you're the corner store and your dad wrote you a note.
Yeah.
My parents did smoke, but I remember that happening a lot.
Yeah.
They'd be like, hey, what are you doing?
Hey, Jimmy, what's going on?
Oh, I gotta go get my dad's smoke.
Send his Colt 45.
What?
Yeah, yeah, down here.
He brings a note in.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Well, hey, tell Sam I said hi.
Yeah, I remember going to the corner store to get my uncle some cigarettes, and it was
no big deal.
I was like 12.
Yeah, yeah.
It was just like, yeah, I'm so-and-so's nephew.
Oh, okay, here.
Here you go.
And that was nothing.
Yeah.
That was nothing to be thought of.
It was just like, oh, yeah.
And it wasn't enforced either.
It was just looked at like, okay.
But I think there's still a lot of that going on.
Just promise people what they want to hear, and they won't even bother to check to see
if you can actually deliver.
Yeah.
Just make them feel good in the moment.
Promise them whatever, and then try to ride that wave of momentary euphoria.
Well, that's what I've heard from a lot of candidates.
There's some candidates I've noticed.
There's two schools of thought.
One is tearing down the other guy, then the other one is just promising shit out there.
Yeah.
I haven't seen any real meat and potatoes.
Yeah.
I haven't heard, well, this is my 10-point attack of coming after this problem.
Yes.
I mean, okay, the Inflation Reduction Act.
What the fuck is that?
I have no clue.
How do they do that?
You can't go to people and go, we want you to not make any money.
Yeah.
Go ahead and lower your prices just so other people can have a better day.
The only way it's possible.
What business is going to do that?
No, none of them are going to do that.
The only way it's possible is to start from the top where they quit spending your money on nothing.
Yeah.
But they're not going to do that.
But they're going to tell you, well, we passed the Inflation Reduction Act, and most people are going, oh, that's good.
Think of all the gun control and anti-gun legislation that's been passed throughout the decades.
I mean, in the 70s, I was hearing about it.
The problem should have been fixed 10 times over.
But the thing is, the legislation they passed is always just enough to make you shut up and go away for a while.
It's not effective.
It doesn't really do anything.
And in fact, nobody wants to solve these problems because they want to use them to campaign on next time.
Yeah, yeah.
They have to have something to go, I got to fix this.
If everything was perfect, no one would give a shit.
So another thing is the bills and the tackle.
Because in order to get stuff through Congress, I'm not signing this unless you give me money for my bridge.
What do they call those? Amendments?
Amendments, yeah.
Put little amendments on the bill.
That's all pork, yeah.
And an enormous amount of that is payoffs, bribes, and money laundering that's being disguised as legislation.
Yeah, for favors.
And I'll put it like this.
The reason we spend so much money, our government does, is because if, and this is my opinion,
and I think if you are intelligent enough, you're going to get this.
If you have all the money in a corner, it can be accounted for.
You go over there and go, oh, OK, there's $300 billion right there.
I see it.
You come back the next day, it's $200 billion.
Hey, what happened to that $100 billion?
I don't know.
Now, if you have the money moving everywhere, supposedly for something.
It's never staying still long enough for you to count it all.
Yeah, just like all these casinos.
How come our roads aren't paved in fucking gold and schools are the best ever?
Think of all the money spent on lotteries and casinos.
Yeah, where did that go?
Our schools should be golden.
Our roads should be perfect.
Yes, but why not?
Because they sold us a lot.
Yes, and they took this money that was allotted for that, including our Social Security, and spent it on bullshit.
To get rich, whatever.
Here's a good question, bullet point.
Our government basically came into being on July 4, 1776.
Yeah, more or less.
Yeah, I mean, it kind of really, forget it.
Yeah, we can kind of point to that date.
Yeah, OK, let's say that.
And at that point, the government was set up to govern the country, govern the states, and kind of help everybody.
How long do you think it took to where more than 50% of people in government were there to make money and get rich?
How many years do you think it took from 1776 until over 50% of the people in government were just there for their own sake?
OK, the originals that were there, they were fighting for their freedom, they were fighting for their life, they were all true.
I'm going to say it took about 10 years.
Yeah.
And the reason is because the next people coming up, there's nobody threatening you.
And so you're sitting there going, huh, I really like this power thing, but I'm liking it, you know?
Yeah. I'm going to put somewhere around 1800.
Yeah, that's probably pretty close.
Yeah, because then we had the disastrous War of 1812 where we invaded Canada and Canada kicked our ass.
Yeah.
I think that was done as a money grab somewhere.
It was somewhere because why wouldn't you have even started?
Yeah.
Why wouldn't you have entered in that?
And as it became more and more public policy to evict or just outright kill the Native Americans to get their land from them, I think that opened the floodgates.
It's like, oh my God, look at all the money there is to be made.
I think you're right.
And from that point on, the government has been all about making money for the people in government.
The military industrial complex.
Yeah.
Why did Eisenhower even bother coining that phrase?
Why do you even bring that to anyone's attention?
This is what it is.
Because he knew it was already an enormous bogeyman.
Yes.
Yeah.
Vietnam, the Korean War.
I even have some theories about modern day about the military industrial complex that I won't go into on this show because I'm going to save it for a one off.
Yeah.
And there's a lot of things going on behind the scenes that people don't see.
And if you don't feed, if you don't feed the machine, they don't like you.
Guess what happens when they don't like you?
They erase you.
Yeah.
So we'll go into it.
I'll go into that a little bit later.
Toe philosophy part of it.
I'll discuss it with him later.
He busted into that guy's apartment and took a squirrel away from him.
Yeah.
Peanut the squirrel.
Just look it up if you don't know.
It's bullshit.
Because the squirrel might have had rabies.
They euthanized him.
I think that guy might have had rabies that grabbed a squirrel, let's euthanize him.
Sounds fair.
Yeah.
I tell you what, like you and I talked and I'm not ashamed to say this.
If someone took my pet and killed me, I'd probably kill them.
Yeah.
Is this the way it is?
Yeah, it's this family.
I don't consider myself a bad person at all.
I consider myself a compassionate, loving person because of that.
Yeah.
Anyone that says they're a compassionate, loving person that will kill an animal on no basis at all is a liar.
Yeah, like Michael Dick.
Yeah.
Well, anyway, so I guess the basic point I want to end on for this political section is whoever is elected president, we all have so many problems in common that we shouldn't really be worried about the letter behind the president's name and which side won.
We've got way more issues to deal with than just that.
Oh, I know.
The biggest problem now going on is it used to be if you had a common enemy, nobody gave a shit about your differences.
Yeah.
Now we've been taught to focus on the differences and forget the common enemy.
I'm going to say for about three months after 9-11, our only problem was that.
Yeah.
But then it just went away.
It's too bad that it takes a major wake-up call for that to happen.
But then so quickly, people are just so tired of thinking about something unpleasant that they just, well, I'm just not going to think about it anymore.
And then they quit caring about it and they quit doing anything about it.
Yeah.
It's kind of how humans work.
It is.
So I don't expect nothing to be changed.
And people, some people listen to this will roll their eyes.
And some people go, I get it.
And that's just the way it is.
Well, you know, in February or March, when we start doing the music creeps instead of the sports bastards, this will all be settled and done.
And the inauguration would have probably happened by then.
And we can just, you know, get on with things.
Yeah.
So like the week after the Super Bowl, we're on to the music creeps.
Yep.
Yeah.
And we already have some segments that we talked about that.
Yeah.
And I would like to maybe one of us, let's go into it a little bit about what we envision on the music creeps.
Yeah.
I see us doing some shows that are that are like discussion based like this is.
I also see us doing shows that we play a lot of clips.
Yeah.
Yeah, I could see that.
Yeah.
OK, I've got one for you.
OK.
Take Led Zeppelin.
OK.
Let's say they broke up earlier than what they did.
If you didn't know Led Zeppelin quite for Led Zeppelin, you knew some of their songs are big up and coming band.
Led Zeppelin before they broke up right after that.
Yeah.
Everyone went their own ways and everyone started their own career, including Bonzo.
He was still alive.
Which one would have had the best career?
For me, it's a toss up between Robert Plant because of his versatility.
And Jimmy Page.
And no, I was going to say the bass player.
John Paul Jones?
Yeah, because he had taken over the songwriting for Led Zeppelin to the last four or five albums, I think.
That's true.
Jimmy Page is just playing what he actually wrote.
Yeah.
So I think of the band had broken up early.
John Paul Jones could have gone into writing scores, soundtracks, that kind of thing.
And I think he would have had an enormous career.
I was with Jimmy Page, but I think you've got a really good point there.
It's just because I happened to read once that Jimmy Page was kind of a songwriter and then he gave up that responsibility to John Paul Jones.
Well, he was really, really fucked up on drugs.
No kidding.
And I don't think he was able to write a song for quite a while there.
They could barely get a concert out of it.
And he was chasing Satanism because he thought it was cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He lived in Alistair Crowley's house, old house.
And is that where John Bonham died that's kind of unclear? In the dungeon?
The story I remember hearing originally was that the two had gotten together to work on some stuff and it was at somebody's house.
But it may not have been that actual Alistair Crowley house.
Yeah, I don't know either.
But yeah, then Bonham went to bed and never woke up.
Yeah. Yeah, so something like that went on.
We don't know. You could contribute it to black magic.
You could contribute it to Satanism or you could just say, well, he had a little too much.
Yeah.
You can pick the reason and why.
I wonder what would have happened to the stones if they'd broken up like early 70s and gone their separate ways, kind of like the Beatles did.
The Beatles broke up in 70 or 71. I think it was 71.
71, I do believe. Yeah.
In 70, they were still working on projects, I do believe.
Yeah.
But yeah, if the stones had busted apart like in 72 or 73 or something, I'm trying to think of who would have had a career out of the stones.
I don't even think Mick Jagger would have had a career.
I don't think any of Ronnie would.
Maybe Keith Richards.
Keith Richards might have had a career.
He's a really good songwriter and he's an awesome rhythm guitar player.
Yeah, he could have been in another band doing very well.
Yeah, or have his own band.
Or have his own band, yeah. So I don't think that any of them except Keith Richards had a chance.
No, I really see Mick Jagger as being pigeonholed for what he is in that situation and it would have been so tough for him to recreate that somewhere else.
Yeah.
Now, I already did this question with Rob and I want you to answer.
Okay, this is kind of not fair because it's broad material.
Okay.
Post Led Zeppelin.
What is the best Jimmy Page solo actor Led Zeppelin?
He did a lot of work with Robert Plant on his solo albums and there's some good stuff there and he also did Coverdale Page.
Yeah, and there's real good stuff on there too.
Yeah.
That's a very underrated album.
Oh man, I've got that. I listen to that all the time.
That thing is excellent.
I'm going to go with Coverdale Page.
There's a song, Don't Leave Me This Way.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but he covers a lot of ground on that.
I mean, it's kind of like the question is posed from Coverdale and the question is answered from Page.
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree. I would say that's funny. That's one of the ones I picked.
And I would go to say that that or The Firm Live in Peace.
Oh yeah, I forgot about The Firm.
He does a blazing solo on that.
Yeah, that was Paul Rodgers from Bad Company.
Yeah.
And...
Who's a very good musician himself.
Was it Chester Thompson on drums? CT?
I think so and then Franklin, Tony Franklin on bass.
Yeah, from Durand Durand.
Yeah, yeah, who is phenomenal.
Oh my God, he's such an awesome bass player.
Amazing.
That bass that he did on both albums of The Firm was insane.
Yeah.
I mean, just look at the hit, Radioactive.
Listen to that back beat.
He just goes...
If you go back and listen to some Durand Durand, you can hear it.
Yes.
Listen to the bass and you can hear he's back there playing his goals.
He's amazing.
That guy is...
His rhythms that he's seen in his head was rhythms that nobody else could ever see themselves.
Yeah.
He was so off the wall and off the hook, but so good.
Yeah, Tony Franklin will always be one of the most underrated bassists ever.
I think so.
You're that bridge between the guitar players and the vocals,
so you've got to hit the right complementary notes to augment the chords that everyone else is playing.
Yeah.
But then you also work with the drummer and you've got the tempo and the timing of where you hit the accents.
He does that.
He did that in such perfection.
Yeah.
He did it in such a unique way that he didn't just follow the chord with the note.
No.
He'd come up with this bass run in his head and then know exactly how to play it and where to accent it and when to cut it off.
Yeah.
I agree.
It's genius.
He made it.
Yeah.
Let's see.
I'm trying to think of some other big bands that would have been...
Because the Beatles broke up early.
Everyone's expecting them to go well into the 70s.
I'm trying to think of another big band.
Not really Deep Purple because they had a lot of musician changeover.
Bands with a lot of turnover musicians, it doesn't kind of work.
Yeah.
Because Deep Purple had so many incarnations of so many different musicians.
And a lot of the musicians had other careers nobody even knew about.
True.
There are different variations.
For instance, Coverdell Page.
Coverdell was Deep Purple.
Glenn Hughes was in Black Sabbath.
A lot of people don't know that.
Yeah.
Ian Gillen was in several bands before he went back to Deep Purple.
I can't even remember the name of him.
One was like the Gillen Turner...
Was it Gillen Turner Project or is that...
It sounds right.
Yeah.
Gillen Turner...
Jowyn Turner and Ian Gillen, which you'd think two singers.
But I think they did kind of like Glenn Hughes and David Coverdell did
where they switched back and forth.
You had one main singer but the other guy could sing almost as good
or just as good in a different way and you had them going off of each other.
ZZ Top used to do that because Billy Gibbons, the guitar player,
sings most of the songs but then the bass player Dusty Hill would sing others.
He doesn't anymore.
There are ones where they would go back...
Yeah, it doesn't anymore.
Okay, sorry.
But there are some songs where they would go back and forth.
He does in heaven.
Beer Drinkers and Hell Razors is a good example.
Yeah, that's a great one.
They trade off every line on Beer Drinkers and Hell Razors.
I still like doing this every day.
I think you walk into a room and go...
Ha ha ha ha.
Yeah.
If you know, you know.
Yep.
Try that sometime.
Ha ha ha ha.
Yeah.
God, I forgot the lyrics.
Room was spread around.
Yeah.
Nice Texas town.
Now there's a tank of sack outside.
What I mean?
Ha ha ha ha.
What's there?
Oh, another good one is say, it's just a jump to the left and see who responds.
Yeah, yeah.
Ha ha ha ha.
Or the eyebrow raise.
Yeah.
Ha ha ha ha.
You know the ones that get it.
Yep.
Ha ha ha ha.
But that's when you do the salute.
You got it.
You got it, partner.
You're on the ball.
Yeah.
Salute you.
Ha ha ha ha.
That's a two finger click.
Ha ha ha.
The finger guns.
You.
Except those are microaggression now.
They are.
You can get arrested.
Yeah, don't do that.
That's aggression.
And that's bad.
They'll make you wear a douche knot for a while.
Yeah.
And eat kale.
Oh, gosh.
And write apology letters.
Ha ha ha ha.
From your Prius.
Ha ha ha ha.
I'm sorry for my horrible tasting cars.
They really did nothing for the environment.
In the room that I am, I show it every day with my Prius and my bun knot.
I apologize to any real man in the whole world.
Ha ha ha.
I just want my bun.
Boop, boop.
But you notice nothing was said, why?
Because he's docile.
Yes.
He wears that bun as a show of following.
Yep.
Yeah, no leadership.
Yeah.
They might as well just put like a big steel ring in it like they used to put in cows noses.
Ha ha ha ha.
Or bulls noses.
Yeah.
We can start calling him a bitch knot.
Ooh.
Yeah.
Bitch knot.
A sub knot.
Ha ha ha.
A sub knot.
I like that.
A sub knot.
Ha ha ha ha.
Hi.
I'm submissive.
Look at my sub knot.
Ha ha ha.
Come over here and tell me what I'm going to do and I'll say yes, sir.
Yes.
Ha ha ha.
Don't let me think for myself.
Stop.
I can't do it.
You tell me the catchphrase of this generation and I'll say it.
Oh, there's another bullet point for football.
Yeah.
Do you think it's about time to retire the phrase taking it to the house?
Yes.
Isn't that just so old and tired and worn out?
People are like what?
What house?
Yeah.
I was seeing that all over college football and pro football.
Big graphics pop up.
Take it to the house.
Yeah.
It's like nah.
Nah.
It doesn't work today.
I mean that got tired back in the 90s, didn't it?
Yeah, it did.
Yeah.
It just does not work today.
I think Under Armour landed all over it and had their commercials.
We must protect this house.
Yeah.
And they ran it into the ground and for some reason it's still hung on like comb-overs or
light beer.
Yeah.
Light beer.
Here's my version of light beer.
Let me take these five cans and go to the urinal.
Yeah.
You know why I did that?
To save time.
All the peeing and none of the buzz.
Yeah.
Sign me up.
Same outcome.
Nothing.
Only I just poured them and I got to go drink a real beer in between.
There's a reason it's the same color going in as going out.
Yes.
It did nothing.
It just passed right through you.
It's like oh, this is water.
I guess I'll just go ahead and piss you out then.
Real beer is beer you can eat with a fork.
Yeah.
Real man beer.
It's kind of like that gelatinous gravy.
Oh yeah.
It comes out of the can and it holds its shape.
Yeah.
That's real beer.
It comes out of the can and it holds its shape.
Are you shaking and it looks at you like yeah, I don't feel like it.
Hey look.
Look, look, look.
Wow, that's the first political thing I've seen all day.
Yeah.
Seriously, what are they going to accomplish?
No, I know.
They're just making themselves feel good.
Yeah, that's it because no one's going to look at that Trump sign.
There's a truck dressed out in Trump and American flag and I'm not sure what else is written
on it.
It's like billboard on the bed and stuff.
You feel how you feel.
Yeah.
That sign's not going to change anybody.
Yeah.
Is anybody weak enough that just seeing that truck will suddenly make them change their
mind?
If they are, you don't want them voting.
Yeah.
Seriously, it's just something people do so they can feel good about themselves.
Yeah.
If that's what you want to do, fine.
It's not hurting anybody.
I'm not an advocate of it.
Yeah.
I think there's a lot better use of time than that.
Yeah.
I think they don't get angry about not making a difference because it's not going to make
any difference and you should never expect it to.
No, no, no.
You know how you make your difference?
On the lower level.
Mm-hmm.
The people that directly affect you in your counties, in your districts, those are the
people that really affect you because-
Yeah.
Guys like that are like awareness raisers.
Yes.
Yeah.
It's absolutely no good.
None.
They just point out something and then they're gone.
Yeah.
The whole idea is to research everything and form your own opinion.
Yeah.
That's the whole idea, but so many people don't do that.
I used to come home from the Rosedale station by driving down Ward Parkway.
And for one summer, it seemed like there was always a group out of this one intersection
holding up signs and protesting something.
Sometimes it would be abortion laws.
Sometimes it would be the immigration policy.
And there'd be like anywhere from six to 12 people out there standing around holding these
big signs and doing absolutely no good whatsoever.
Oh, I know.
Yeah, because anyone that's going there is going there.
Yeah.
You know, for whatever reason, they're going there.
And that's not for me.
You know, I don't have an opinion on it because it's not me.
I don't see how it even qualifies as raising awareness because everybody already knows about
those issues.
Yeah.
And what they're doing is being distractions to rush hour drivers.
And so let's say someone's against it for religious reasons.
Suddenly, they're going to go against their religion and go, OK, well, this guy said it's
all right.
There's five people holding signs, so I better change my mind.
I better change my mind right now.
Seriously.
Yeah.
It's ridiculous.
Why do people think this works at all?
Oh, I know.
And that's why yard signs, I never was a yard sign guy.
No.
All that does is tell your neighbors how you think.
Yeah, and it also invites people to go, oh, you like that person?
Well, watch this.
Yeah.
Because there's enough hate like that in this world.
Oh, yeah.
In this country.
It's the same as putting an inflammatory sticker on your car.
Yeah.
And then you go park it somewhere and don't look at it for a few hours.
Yeah.
Shit can happen to it.
Well, it's just like a friend of mine growing up.
He had a bad cop, no doughnut.
Remember those?
I remember those.
Yeah.
He goes, I keep getting stopped.
I'm like, no shit, dumbass.
Yeah.
Really?
You think?
So you think that the cop read them and was like, ha ha ha?
No.
He was like, OK, punk.
Watch this.
Yeah.
It's like the guy that wears a T-shirt that says, show me your titties.
And he wonders why he never gets a second date.
Yeah.
That's a great point.
It was like the hard breathers, the hard breathers at every party had never got laid.
Yeah.
The ones that hovered around the chick was like, and then sweated all over.
Yeah.
And they're like, fuck.
Yeah.
Give me some breath.
I'd see those guys that they're like desperate puppy dogs.
Yeah.
And any female with a pulse and a body temperature, they're like all over them.
And it's like D-Day or the last chopper out of Saigon, they got us.
Yeah.
The last chopper in Saigon.
Yeah.
It was like, I've got to do this tonight or it will never happen.
Yeah.
And you know girls smell it on you.
Oh yeah.
They smell it on you coming a mile away.
And then somehow if you do manage to land one of them, then they expect it to work out.
I don't understand.
And it's like, I understand.
You're an idiot.
You know how you were going to use her?
She used you.
She beat you to the punch, dumb shit.
I am so glad to be in a relationship, completely monogamous and not have to worry about dating
or meeting somebody.
Could you imagine in our days it would just fucking suck?
I mean, I would find it difficult to trust someone again the way I trust my wife.
Because that takes a while and I don't know how I'd be able to work up that level of trust.
You don't walk up on that kind of trust.
No.
No, no, no.
That's something that you build and just know.
It's kind of like your religion where you don't really see it, but you absolutely know it's there.
Yeah, yeah.
You know?
It's just part of you and you feel it and you know it and it's true.
Yes.
Yeah.
And if you don't have that feeling, then you probably better re-examine what you're doing
in your life.
I mean, really, because I know a lot of people live their lives.
Yeah.
And there's nothing you can say to them, but they keep repeating the same problems over
and over.
And they keep bitching about how the same thing happens to them.
And it's like, well, I got your answer.
But every time I say it, you shoot it down.
Yeah.
That was my ex-wife a lot.
She was the kind to say, oh man, I wish this had never happened.
It's like, okay, but what are we going to do about it?
I just wish it never happened.
Okay, but it did.
Now we have to deal with it.
I just wish it had never happened.
Just on and on.
That was her take.
She hated video games.
She wished they'd never been invented.
She hated guns.
She wished they'd never been invented.
What good does that do?
None.
The reality is, they're here.
Now what are you going to do?
Just sit there and wish?
One of my best lives ever is towards my ex-wife.
Yeah.
And I looked her straight in the face and I said, I dislike you so much, I want you to
eat shit and live.
She had nothing to say to that.
I go, I think I'll go.
That took a turn.
Yeah.
That means I want you to live a miserable long life and hate every second of it.
Believe me, she got it.
There was a cold chill in the air right after.
Yeah.
I saw that on a show the other day where a guy was yelling at someone and said, you tried
to kill me.
And he said, no, I wasn't trying to kill you because if you died, then it'd be over.
I want you to live and suffer.
So no, I wasn't trying to kill you.
It's like the old principle where you shoot him in the leg so we can deal with him.
Yeah.
Bring him over here after you do that.
Disable him, then bring him here.
Was it the Irish mob?
I think it was the Irish mob that would kneecap.
They'd tie you to a chair and then shoot you in the kneecap with a shotgun and leave you.
And it would take you about three days to die.
Yeah.
And meanwhile you're sitting there bleeding out and you know it.
And you have all that time to think about it.
Yeah.
That's just ugly.
Oh yeah.
So ugly.
I learned that in the book.
I hope it's just something from the book.
I hope it's not real life, but it probably is.
I imagine a lot of that was real life.
Yeah.
But at the end, Whitey Bolger did get beat to death in prison.
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
He did.
Yeah.
He suffered the same fate he gave many other people.
I imagine a lot of people in that prison knew somebody that Whitey had screwed over or killed.
Yeah, and it caught up with him.
Yeah.
Finally someone was like, all right, here's how it's going to happen.
And we got it in place and it did.
Yeah.
So that was like live by the sword, die by the sword deal.
Yeah.
Not all of it happens like that, but a majority of it does.
It's like you do, you do, you do, and then you have it done to you.
Yeah.
Jeffrey Dahmer got killed in prison pretty quickly.
That's a great example.
Yeah.
It's by a guy who just didn't like him and didn't want him around anymore.
He died via a broomstick.
Was it a broomstick?
Was that or a knife?
I think it was done from behind, wasn't it?
Like, you know, the bent over style?
Probably.
I didn't know if it was a broomstick.
I guess it could have been a knife.
Yeah.
But a very, not very preferable death.
No.
Also a very, what would you call it?
Like Vlad the Impaler.
That's the route he went.
Yeah.
Man.
Remember years and years ago there were some, I think New York cops that arrested a black
immigrant.
Hang on, hang on.
We have some Tampa fans.
You guys got anything to say?
No, we're not making fun of you or nothing.
We're just doing a podcast.
Got anything you want to say or anything?
Good game, first time I've ever seen you.
Oh, good.
Are you enjoying yourself?
We are.
Okay, good.
Good.
You played out of his mind last night, didn't you?
Yeah, I did.
Yeah, I kind of hated to see him lose.
Yeah, well, it was good.
I mean, it was a great game.
It really was.
It has a few of our key players in it that could have been maybe different.
I'm sure it was a good game.
Yeah.
Yeah, they really needed to make a move like Kansas City made a couple of moves.
They got the Andre Hopkins and it paid off last night.
And I think, isn't the deadline over now or is it like a couple hours from now?
I think it's today.
Sometime today.
Yeah, oh, yeah.
Because I know Pat McNeil is staying.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's staying.
Yeah.
It makes sense.
Do you guys have any eyes on anybody at all that you think they should get or acquire or
something?
I mean, let's say like a Tyrant Hill.
He's unhappy in Miami and he was posting all his videos of him in the homes and all that
stuff.
Yeah.
And he was like, you know, trying to get someone's attention.
Would you like him?
Yes.
Yeah.
That would be good, wouldn't it?
Yeah.
So yeah, I mean, he does have no receivers now basically.
I mean.
No, no, no.
It's all like very much from practice squad.
Yeah.
That's kind of the chief secondary.
Yeah.
They activated somebody else in practice squad.
Hey, I blame it on the extra game.
All of a sudden, you know, when you're removed, all these people are going down.
Yeah.
Well, you know what?
The good news is you guys will probably still win your division.
Yeah.
We'll see.
Atlanta.
Yeah.
That's your foe is Atlanta.
But at some point, Kirk Cousins might revert being Kirk Cousins again.
I'm kind of going by Kirk Cousins as her cousins.
Yeah.
But we'll see what happens.
Yeah.
I love him too.
He's a great guy.
He gets behind for him.
Yeah.
He's been in high school.
He's been in New York and Florida.
New York?
Oh, cool.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's really.
That's before Kirk Cousins when he was Kirk Cousins.
Yeah.
That's good.
He's a good man.
So when you guys go back?
Tonight.
Okay.
Did you have any barbecue?
Yes, sir.
Okay, where at?
Awesome.
We went to Jack Stagg.
Good.
But we're going to Marco's Bar.
Yeah, mine's good.
Which one did you like better?
We haven't been to the ones.
Oh, they haven't been to the ones yet.
Okay.
You might try QT.
You might try Q39. Q39's not that far down. It's on 39th Street.
And it's really really good. This is where Joe Buck and Troy Aikman eat every time they're in town.
It's really good barbecue. Arthur Bryan's got a lot quick to order there because the original sauce is a really vinegar-y, non-sweet sauce.
So I'm not into it either. And they serve everything on steak paper. And it's kind of like just a mess.
A lot of people love it. I'm not really into it. They used to serve everything on Wonder Bread.
Yeah, yeah. They used to coat on bread.
I'm from Alabama so we do the white sauce. Oh yeah. It's really good.
It is good. I like it. My suggestion is Q39 or right across the river, the Kansas River that is, is Slaps.
Slaps is good. We said that before. We're limiting it to the bar.
Oh, sure. We're limiting it to the bar.
Okay, and Uber wouldn't be that much. It was just right across the viaduct, which is about two miles.
Would you say about two miles, maybe three at the most? Probably, yeah.
Just tell me why I go to Slaps. Q39 about the same way only south.
The streetcar might take you to Q39. Oh, wait a minute. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But they would be dropped off in Maine. Yeah, they'd walk over.
They would have probably about the same amount on the river.
But streetcar is free. Yeah.
All right. Take care. Have a good time. Come back. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, you have to handle that right because, you know, a lot of people think when you've got something to say it's a rub-in. It's not.
No, no. We're not trying to set anybody up. Yeah.
Except being on must, maybe. Oh, well, yeah, we'll set him up.
I think even even Trump supporters are starting to say, you know, Donald, maybe you should quit hanging out with a Elon guy. He's bad.
I know. I thought of that too. I was like, he's actually getting more bad public Trump.
I think he is. Maybe he needs to just like calm it down a bit. Yeah.
I think he's starting to kind of damage Donald Trump a little bit by how close he is. Isn't that crazy?
It is. All of a sudden it's like, Donald, what are you doing?
Yeah. For a while there, Elon had his, you know, his simps that were all on him and worshiped him.
And I remember seeing article after article that would start with Elon Musk says this about our future.
Yeah. He's not Jesus. Yeah. Let's let's move on from Elon.
But now his Tesla is a joke. The Cybertruck is a joke. Let's see how much money he has when he's 70. Yeah.
Yeah. Because this Ruby farm or is it an Emerald farm? Emerald. Emerald.
This Emerald farm was one that pretty much financed him from what I understand. He didn't make it himself per se.
Yeah. And the reality is Emeralds are really not that rare. If they didn't constrict the market heavily, then Emeralds would be like, you know, 50 bucks a pound.
I mean, look what happened to diamonds. They're devalued so bad because they can make better diamonds on their own.
Yeah. Flawless. A lot of experts can't tell the difference. Why to go to the trouble of digging them out of the ground when you can just make them.
Yeah. Yeah. So what do you think about the gold bars you can mine at Costco?
You know, it's an interesting idea. I've even seen ads for something called Robin Hood Gold where they say you can buy gold and you know send in this amount, blah, blah, blah.
All right. There are actual physical uses for gold. You know, it's valuable. You can form it into things. It's an electrical conductor. It doesn't rust.
But seriously, if you and your family are hungry, wouldn't you rather have like five or six cases of food than the gold bar?
Yes. That's what I've always said. I would stock up on food, not gold.
The only reason for gold is to resell it before shit hits the fan. Not after.
It's the same with cryptocurrency. It doesn't do you any good until you find somebody who's willing to buy it for more than you pay for it.
That's what I've always said. What is it based on? Can you tell me what it's based on?
Cryptocurrency is based on certain numbers that are inherently rare because of the immense and complicated mathematical computations it takes to arrive at those numbers.
But seriously, who cares about it beyond that?
That's what it's getting ready to go into.
They're not useful for anything. It's just the fact that they're really difficult to acquire that is supposed to provide the value for.
Again, if shit hits the fan, who cares?
Who gives a shit about these little mathematical numbers that came up with your data farming?
Yeah. The data farming to me is a joke too. It's like, are they actually out there with a drill mine in this? Well, no.
It sucks an enormous amount of electricity to keep these data farms running. It's insane.
Talk about wasting energy and creating greenhouse gases. All for cryptocurrency, which is just another get-rich-quick scheme.
Seriously, anything that's supposed to have value only has value as long as we all think it does. As soon as we all agree it's useless, it's useless.
Like thorium, they tried to make thorium kind of like the it thing for a long time. Well, it's crypto.
I was always wondering why the appeal of that was. It was about the same thing. It's like, wait a minute.
I call it basing on nothing. I know that they have a reason for it, but at the end of the day it's really not there.
But it is, but it isn't. At least gold you can hold in your hand and maybe get something for it.
Yeah. I mean, gold will be safer than a lot of other things, but still it relies on somebody wanting it for more than you paid for it.
Yeah, exactly. And right now gold does you good. Gold is great to have right now, especially currencies,
clonkering and printing up money like it's fucking toilet paper. Right now, gold does you a lot of good.
But you have to sell it before anything crashes because if you don't then you're sitting there with a pile of rock. No additives.
Metal. And seriously, who among us really knows who to sell to?
I mean, say the dollar crashes and all you've got is a pile of gold and you need to pay your bills and your car repayment and your electricity bill.
Who do you sell the gold to? Someone can come up to you and go, oh, go ahead. And what do they pay you in?
Yeah. Yeah. It's like, OK, you're going to need five buckets of fish.
Yeah. And you're going to send them to the electric company to pay your bill and keep your lights on? I don't think so.
No, I mean, yeah, it makes no sense at all if shit hits a thing.
Yeah. Because it's just something that you have to convert into what you really need.
And gold is based on everything crashing anyway. It's like, well, stock market goes down, you had your gold.
But is anyone going to buy gold if the stock market's gone?
Another point is it relies on some of the world being OK and still having money to buy gold.
If it's a global thing, nobody cares about gold.
Well, I still think contention is the reason we haven't crashed yet.
And hopefully we don't, because the rest of the world don't want to crash.
Yeah. Right now, there's a number of countries that would take the rest of the world with them, not just us.
No, no, no. And they want to. They're actively working against us, trying to knock us off our pedestal.
Yeah. Yeah. It's like the barbarians defeating the Roman Empire.
Yeah. Yeah. They keep pecking away, pecking away, pecking away.
It is a long, long time that the Roman Empire existed, but eventually it crumbled.
And this goes to what we were talking about earlier. Now it's all coming full circle, even though we didn't really plan it like this.
Together, united, we stand, divided, we fall.
And so much is designed to divide us nowadays, isn't it?
Yes. By our, in my opinion, my humble opinion. Well, maybe not humble, but anyhow, in my opinion, government does that.
They pit people against each other.
That's how they get you to vote for them instead of them.
Yeah. Those guys over there, they're the reason you have nothing.
Yes.
That's the way it does.
There's a brilliant comic that shows a king standing on the parapet of his castle with an advisor.
And below them is like all the peasants with torches and pitchforks.
And the advisor is saying, Your Highness, all you have to do is tell the pitchfork people that the torch people want to take away their pitchforks.
Oh, everything's clear now. Thank you.
They fight each other and the king goes back to his business. That's exactly what they're doing to us.
Oh, hate those people because they don't think the right way.
Oh, yeah.
Hate those people because they don't go to the right church or dress the right way.
Yeah, exactly. Or that guy come across the border, he's going to get your job.
What? I don't want to scrub toilets.
Yeah.
But I have to say this in defense. We need to know who's coming across.
Yeah.
We have to know. If it's a guy that wants to feed his family, fine. He wants to come over and work fine.
If he's someone over here trying to bring fentanyl in or trying to be a terrorist or something.
Or somebody with a massive criminal record who's trying to come over here for a fresh start.
Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, there's diligence you can do.
There has to be an intelligent, quick system to indoctrinate the people who want to come over and help the economy.
And the people that don't, then they can stay back there with their criminal record or whatever.
So you have to do something. You can't just stand there and watch like what has been going on.
Yeah. I'm convinced that all of the obstructions and problems in the immigration system is because people want to monetize.
Yes.
And they're trying to stop what they can't monetize yet.
Yeah. They're trying to... Yeah.
Yeah.
Yep.
It's like, oh, let all these people in and they didn't have to pay us. Well, we can't do that.
Yeah.
We've got to figure out a way to make them pay us.
We've got to figure out a way to make them, yeah.
Let's make them wait outside until we figure out a way to make them pay us to get in.
Yeah.
I think that's it.
The pay per place system, we're like, oh, you got $5,000? All right. You can become a green card.
Because if one thing, doing that for a long time, it's like you've got to come up with some money and you have a green card.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
And remember, if it's punishable by fine, that means it's legal for a price.
Yeah, that's right.
Yep.
Good point.
Legal for a price.
It's not wrong. It's just you didn't pay first.
How long we got? Because I've really got to piss.
Coming up in two hours.
All right. Let's cut this pitch off anyhow.
We're done. We're just flailing at this point.
Yeah. The sports bastards, extended edition.
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First world problems.
The ATM wants me to make a new pin number for security purposes.
I don't have an extra two minutes.
I need my Starbucks.
I'm having the worst day ever.
Did you really sit down and listen to all that garbage that was being?
Do you actually believe one inch of it?
I didn't think so.
Hang on. Game over.