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.
These guys are inviting as a used hypodermic needle.
Good thing this abortion is free. Who the hell would pay a dime for this shit?
Alright, now we're going, I just got to mute the old one.
Now we're cool. Okay, sports bastards.
Take, take, no, it's show two, not take two. Yeah, yeah, show two.
Yep. It's our prediction show. Yep.
I had something I wanted to mention, and it was kind of a public service announcement
is apparently it's not okay anymore to just randomly wish people a happy Honda days
because you don't know if they celebrate Toyotathon or maybe they worship at the Volkswagen sign and drive with them.
Oh my god, I never thought of it like that. I feel so... I know.
So really the only safe way to do is say happy national car sale.
There we go. Yeah. There we go.
Yes. Wow. I can't believe I was so inconsiderably no longer.
Because not everyone worships Toyotathon. And like everyone else, I need the media to tell me.
So thank you. Yep.
Alright, this is our prediction show, but thank you for that good bit of information.
That was fun.
Oh no, where's my pencil? This thing is totally ruined.
Everything's ruined.
There's a good song by Faith No More called Everything's Ruin.
I know, I do that all the time. Like at work I'll do that.
Something will go wrong, I'll go, everything's ruined. And everyone will look at me like, what?
It's an expression. Yep.
And then you speak like the Generation X thing.
Remember the kids would walk around and go, everything's ruined.
It's kind of like, what is it, skiditty or whatever now?
Yeah, skibbity. Skibbity or something like that.
Everything's ruined was X. You walk into a room and go, everything's ruined.
And here we go. Look around and go, yeah, everything is ruined.
For a while it was a popular expression to say, life sucks and then you die.
Oh yeah, yeah, that was like after I think everything's ruined.
That's been around for a while. Yep.
So, anyhow, alright.
So we're coming up on week 15, four games to go.
Son of a bitch.
No more bye weeks, but the weird thing is we have two Monday night football games.
Oh yeah, yeah, we brought it back, I saw that.
They start a half hour apart. Isn't that weird?
I could see a early game and a late game, but two simultaneous games.
I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't think I'll ever get the logic behind that.
Well, when you hear who the teams are, that might make sense.
Oh, okay, alright.
Oh, you know what, maybe they owe them a primetime game and this is how they get away with it.
Oh, that could be. They flex somebody in.
Yeah, yeah, it's like, yeah, we owe so and so this.
That makes a lot of sense.
They owe somebody, they owe, anyhow, go ahead.
Alright, our Thursday night game is 7-6 Los Angeles Rams at 6-7 San Francisco.
Is that the Rams that just beat the Buffalo Bills?
That's them.
And they're playing San Francisco?
Yep.
I'm going to go Rams. I think they're going to ride their high.
I mean, Cooper Cupp had a great game.
He did.
Who was the new guy? I think Samoan name.
I'm blanking, but I know who you're talking about.
Yeah, yeah, he had a game. I think they're starting to emerge.
I think they're starting to figure some things out.
I think Pathew Paffert is doing, you remember that Little Caesars commercial?
Yes.
Yeah, I think Pathew Paffert is going to have a good game.
And the look of pure joy on Sean McVeigh's face last night on the sidelines.
Oh man, he had the best night of his life.
Oh yeah.
Didn't he?
He was a rec 10 times because he came in between.
Anyhow, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Well, that was a beauty right there. I don't know where it came from.
Let's just step around that one and proceed.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sticky zone. Get around.
Okay, so you're picking the Rams.
Yes.
Got a score?
32-27.
I can see that. Both teams can easily score a lot of points.
I'm going to go Rams 30-27.
So a little close to yours.
Yeah, we both think the Rams are on a high and I don't think they're going to jump off anytime soon.
No.
Next up we have 8-5 Washington at 5-8 New Orleans.
Oh, Washington.
Yeah.
New Orleans is one of those teams where you really don't look for much out of.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I'm going to give Washington, I'm going to give him 37.
Wow.
To 10.
That would be a fun game.
Yeah, yeah. I think that, shit.
Bryce Young?
No, no, no, no, no. How come I can't think of his fucking name suddenly?
For New Orleans, Derek Carr?
Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm talking about Washington.
Is that Washington is playing, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
Their quarterback.
Daniels.
Yeah, I said Bryce Young. Jaden Daniels.
Jaden Daniels, yeah.
Okay.
I think Jaden Daniels is due for a really good game and I think this is a great team to get it on.
Yeah, I'd say so.
Yeah.
I'm going to pick Washington 24-13.
Okay, a little bit more reasonable.
Yeah, a little closer game and, but I'd love to see a 37-10. That'd be fun.
Oh, it would. Man, I swear the City Market Roasters do the best fucking cappuccino. So good.
Everything down here is good. I get the Americano.
Oh my God, I just drink it and it's like liquid heaven.
I hear angels singing.
Yes, I do too. Angels and hearts.
This has got to be what cocaine feels like.
Probably so.
Allegedly. Not like I'd ever know. I would never know how that would, how that does.
Or how it feels snorting it off a hooker's ass. I would never know that either. Never.
I remember a guy in high school on the bus on the way to school was saying that his big brother had gotten some coke, so he tried it, except he had a real stuffy nose.
So instead of snorting it, he put the straw in his mouth and sucked it in that way.
And he said, oh my God, it was the most bitter, nasty tasting thing I've ever tasted in my life.
I can believe it. I heard it tastes like caffeine.
And whatever they cut it with too.
Yeah, that's probably what they cut it with.
Baby laxative, talcum powder.
Oh, everything.
Anything. Chalk dust.
That's why so many people get the shits when they do it, because it's cut with baby laxatives.
The cocaine shits, yeah.
And they think it's a side effect. It's like, no dumbass, it was cut with baby laxatives.
It was cut with rat poison. You'd be bleeding everywhere.
Yeah, yes.
All right. Next up, we have 12-1 Casey at 3-10 Cleveland.
Oh, shit. I think Clinton, no.
Kansas City, but I think they're going to get a definitive win this time. I think it's going to be probably 28. 14.
Yeah, I'm looking for Casey's secondary to take advantage of Jameis Winston.
I think so too. I think they're going to be all over him. He's going to throw away interceptions.
I'm going to look for three interceptions this game.
Yeah, yeah, me too.
So I'm going to give the Chiefs 30 and Cleveland 17.
He's going to go get his LASIK amended.
Yeah.
Jameis Winston. Google it.
Yeah.
There you go.
Next on the slate is the 5-8 Cincinnati at 3-10 Tennessee.
Well, this goes back to the easy schedule.
Cincinnati's going to take advantage of this, and I think it's going to be probably 30 to 7.
That sounds pretty reasonable. I think Cincinnati's definitely going to put up points. I'll give them 28 to 10.
Yeah, you ever heard that song, It's a Little Too Little, A Little Too Late?
Yeah.
Yeah, there you go.
Yeah.
Okay. Yeah, Cincinnati's going to dominate, but why?
Yeah. Yeah, really. And with Tennessee, I think really all they're looking for is to play well and find some things to build on for next year.
Yeah, it's like beating up a kid with cerebral palsy.
Yeah.
How can you feel good about yourself?
You gotta go like, oh, yeah. Yeah, I won.
Well, yeah, we kind of expected you to.
Yeah, if you didn't, it was really, really bad.
Like being all excited because you scored with the hooker.
Yeah, but it's true. But how much did you spend? Do we really have to get into this now?
But it was my wit and my charm and my good luck that went over.
She told me. She told me so.
Okay. Six and seven Miami goes to eight and five Houston.
Houston.
Twenty four to seventeen.
But I got a feeling Miami may pull this one off, but I'm still going to go with Houston.
Okay, I'm going to go Miami. Twenty seven, seventeen.
I think you might get that, but I'm going to go ahead and just do my first reaction because I'm not betting money on this.
I don't care. I'm hoping Houston is going to have a little hangover from losing the player and the negative publicity and press they've gotten.
And now Houston looks like a thug town.
Yeah. And also this year, they've been hot and cold really bad. They have not been a consistent team.
That's true. They're lucky they're in a shitty division.
Otherwise, they would have gave up the lead by now.
Next one's pretty easy. Eight and five Baltimore at two and eleven New York Giants.
This is a game where Baltimore gets healthy.
This is one of those games if you bet on New York and they won, you'd probably be a millionaire.
I'm going to say thirty five to three.
I'm pretty close. I'm forty five ten.
You're probably closer.
I think Baltimore is going to break the forty point and Giants are going to be able to stop anything.
I think Baltimore is getting pissed off now. I think that they're just going to unload on a miserable team.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're going to like give them a Snuggie and they're going to like take the underwear and put it over the back of their head.
I mean, they're not just going to be happy with the Snuggie.
They're just going to rip that fruit of the loom band all the way over their head just for exclamation.
Yep. And then they'll take pictures.
That fruit of the loom label is going to leak like little letters on their face.
Yes.
Kind of like the Olive Garden breadsticks. Have you heard about that?
Uh-uh.
People have been getting breadsticks at Olive Garden and they have numbers and letters on them.
And you're freaking out and posting it online. It's like what the hell is going on here?
But someone who worked at Olive Garden said we get them in frozen, fully cooked, frozen in bags.
And the bags have that printing on them. And if they sit around in the freezer too long, that printing rubs off on the breadstick.
Oh, that's brilliant. Okay.
Because all they do is microwave most of the food.
So they got old breadsticks.
Because most of the food you get at Olive Garden is pre-made and they microwave it before they send it out to you.
It's like Panera. Everything's done in the microwave.
You can tell. I mean, it's not Italian food.
No.
If you want a good, cheap meal, there you go. It's good. It's not great.
You know?
Yep.
You want chicken parmesan that's not really chicken parmesan? There you go.
I keep flashing back to this image of a scene on The Simpsons where Lisa, the daughter, had a teeny bopper magazine and the title was Non-Threatening Boys.
So I thought Olive Garden is non-threatening Italian food.
That's right.
You wouldn't have anyone in the corner discussing business there.
No.
It's rated G. It's G-rated food.
You come in and there's not a couple of guys looking around. No.
It's like a granny and her family having a dinner for somebody's birthday.
Yeah. Or confirmation.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Confirmation.
Confirmation, yes.
Never a bar mitzvah.
No, no, no, no.
Not at Olive Garden.
No, no, no.
All right.
No lentil soup at Olive Garden. So there you go.
Speaking of really bad New York teams.
Yeah.
We have the 3-in-10 Jets at the 3-in-10 Jaguars.
Oh.
This is the toilet bowl of the day.
I would be surprised.
We ought to boycott that game.
Anybody outside of New Jersey or Jacksonville watch this game.
I'm boycotting the game.
Yeah.
I'm boycotting it. Let's just boycott it. It's not there.
They both declared 0-0.
0-0.
They both forfeit. They both take a loss.
Yes, they both take a loss.
I'm going to go ahead and go Jacksonville 18 to 6.
I'm going to go pure field goals.
OK, I'm going to go Jets.
OK.
Jets 10 to 3.
We don't think much of you people.
No. Aaron Rodgers is going to have a shit. He's going to shit on the field.
He's going to have massive diarrhea when he gets hit in the spleen.
You bring up a good point.
I think there is going to be a game yet this season where Aaron Donald just visibly quits.
Not Aaron Donald. Aaron Rodgers.
Aaron Donald is gone.
You're talking about just like walk off the field?
Yeah. You're going to see him just give up and quit at some point during the next four games.
I think it's going to happen.
What game was it that looked like he was going to? He kept walking away.
I can't remember what game it was.
His skin, their ass just thoroughly kicked. He threw two interceptions.
I can't remember. It was an Ashley Televised game and he kept walking away towards the...
The sideline.
The sideline, yeah.
Yeah, you can tell he didn't want to be there.
Yeah.
I'm going to back up a few weeks here and see if I can find the Jets.
Yeah, but you remember that? He kept walking that way and I'm like thinking is he walking off the field?
But he never did all the way but he was halfway there a couple of times.
Yeah.
Well, let's see. Oh, they lost to Arizona 31 to 6 back in week 10.
That was probably it.
That was probably it. He was just totally disgusted.
He threw a couple of interceptions and he kept walking towards the sideline like he was getting ready to go into the locker room.
He was probably figuring why am I still out here? Put my back up in. Why put me through this?
That could have been what he was trying to do. He was like, hey, get that other guy in there. I'm going to go take a shower. Fuck this.
Yeah, kind of shows you that the Jets aren't really interested in protecting him anymore.
No, no. No, that made him get back in.
Yeah, yeah, but if he were a teenager, mom and dad would have made him give his house key back.
They would have taken away the Buick.
Oh, and the sweat lodge.
Yeah.
All right. Next game we have mushrooms.
Yes.
Now, Iowaska sounds cool. I won't dog that.
Peyote sounds cool.
Both of them sound really cool.
When Santana did his breakout performance at Woodstock in 69, he had taken Peyote because he had been told they were playing for a few hours.
But right after he started feeling the effects, they said, oh, wait, time change. You're going on now.
So, when you see him on stage, he's got that red Gibson SG that he's playing.
He said in an interview the entire time, the neck of the guitar looked like a snake and he was fighting it because it was trying to bite him.
That's what he was going through the entire time.
And he still played good?
Oh, he played awesome.
That's weird.
That's awesome.
Carlos Santana said he enjoys hallucinogens, but nothing manmade.
Only natural, fungus or plant based.
Manmade will fuck you up. Natural, probably not.
LSD has been shown to actually alter your DNA.
Yeah.
So, no thank you.
Yep.
I was pissed that one time somebody gave me a joint with PCP in it.
Oh, you told me about that.
Yeah. I had no intention of ever doing angel dust.
Oh, wow.
Somebody decided I was going to.
Wow.
That was enough for me. I never wanted to get it.
Oh, no. Someone stuck a friend of mine, I can't remember what drug it was, in their joint.
And they ended up pissing on everybody.
He just walked in the middle of the room, flipped it out and just started pissing on everybody.
Well, that was one of the first ways PCP angel dust was introduced to the US market.
It might have been PCP.
It was mixed with marijuana because you could take really bad marijuana.
That's embalming fluid, right?
And mix. It's close.
Okay.
But you can mix PCP with really bad marijuana and still sell it for a decent price and people will come back for more.
I think it might have been PCP then because someone slipped it in his joint and he was only one drinking, you know, smoking it.
And I remember he got up and just started pissing all over the room.
The only other thing I've heard put into a joint like that, it would be some type of opium, you know, an opium product or heroin.
Yeah, who knows? I mean, it was so long ago, but it was actually kind of funny because I didn't get pissed on a lot of other people.
And then there's something called a Cocoa Puff where you remove that.
Are they cuckoo for a Cocoa Puff?
Yeah, Cocoa Puff make you cuckoo.
You take a cigarette and you squeeze out about a third of the tobacco and then you dump in a gram or two of Coke and then you smoke it.
Oh, okay.
And supposedly it instantly cures your hangover, your withdrawal, everything, and it puts you right on top of the world for about an hour.
Wow.
And that's a thing they use to get somebody to perform if they just need a little bit of performance out of them.
That Cocoa Puff has gotten really popular because that will snap you about out of whatever funk you're in and get you on top of the world and you can perform.
And then you just crash miserably afterwards.
I've got a plan in life now, Topher. 70 on.
Yeah.
Nothing but hallucinogenics. All the way up.
All hallucinogenics all the time.
Yeah, I'll probably look to be 110.
The way the world is going, we probably will want to check out with hallucinogens at that point.
Yeah, like I said, if there's ever a nuclear holocaust, I'll find out ground zero.
Oh, that's where I want to be.
Yeah, I'm not chasing out radioactive deer.
No, no, no.
When I was younger, I would have wanted to survive.
Now at this age, I don't want to have to live in a post-nuclear world.
No, I've had a fantastic life.
I'll just go ahead and cash my chips in.
You know?
Yeah.
But if you do want to live, I suggest the other podcast, Two Douchebags of Microphone,
where we have post-apocalypse survival tips.
And also things to eat during an apocalypse.
I like the one about rubbing the can on the sidewalk to scrape off the lid, and then it just pops right open.
Yeah, it has ridges on it. And the ridges, the divots that are on it, are meant to do that.
Yeah, yeah.
In case of an emergency, you rub it on a rock or on a sidewalk,
they say two minutes will make it pop off when you squeeze the metal.
Yeah. See, why don't they print them on every can?
That's what I thought too.
It's like the headrest in your car designed for you to pull them out
and use the spike on one to smash the window and get out.
Yeah, if you're so magic.
But they never tell you that.
No.
Because that's the only thing that can break that auto glass, is sharp, pointy...
Yeah, instead people are trying to elbow it, and they end up fucking dying.
They're punching it, or I've seen people try to shoot it.
It's not funny, but man, you know, it's like, yeah.
Darwin Awards.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're everywhere.
All right, up next, 5-8 Dallas at 3-10 Carolina.
I actually think this is going to be a competitive game.
I think so too.
Dallas is going to have to work.
I'm going to give it to Carolina.
I'm going to say it's going to be 24-20.
All right, I'm going to go Dallas, and I'm going to go 21-17.
Okay, that's good. We disagree on one.
So far we're disagreeing on three.
Oh, on three of them?
Yeah, Miami, Houston, the Jets, Jacksonville, and now Dallas, Carolina.
All right, that's it for the noon games.
At 3 o'clock it starts with 7-6 Tampa at 8-5 Chargers.
Tampa's going to give them a run for their money.
Yeah, I think this is going to be a good game too.
They're at the Chargers?
Yeah.
I'm going to give the Chargers, even though I have a feeling that Tampa,
if Tampa won I would not be surprised.
I'm going to say 26-17.
26-17?
Yeah, San Diego, Los Angeles.
All right, I'm going 27-20 Chargers.
Chargers, okay.
But yeah, I think it'll be a competitive game.
I do too.
And a hard-fought game.
As good as the Chargers are, they're going to have their hands full I think.
I agree.
The Chargers are playing them.
Are we playing them, Tampa Bay?
Are we?
I don't think we are.
No.
That's interesting because the schedule used to follow a certain format.
You play a certain East team or West, and then...
Yeah, as far as I know, in addition to your division games,
you play an entire AFC division.
Yes.
You play an entire NFC division, and then it leaves one or two games as fill-ins.
It must be a fill-in, Tampa Bay is.
Okay.
Along with whatever your schedule is, whatever your schedule was.
And then the way they're arranged also helps with the strength of your schedule.
But there are very few discretionary games anymore in the schedule.
And then this just happens to be one of them.
So, okay, all right.
I was just questioning it like, wow, did they?
But I guess they can.
Well, I remember that came about because both Elway and Moreno were drafted in 1982,
but they never played a game against each other until near the end of both their careers,
because the schedules just never lined up.
That's right.
So that's where they changed it to, at some point, every, what, five, six years, you play every team.
And that was one of the smarter things they did with the schedule.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
All righty.
Up next, six and seven, Indianapolis, at eight and five, Denver.
Denver.
Yeah.
Doesn't matter what the weather is, Denver's going to win.
No, Denver's going to win.
I'm going to say 34 to 10.
Yeah.
You know, Denver's getting to be the kind of team that can put up a lot of points.
They can kind of put them up fast.
Yeah.
So it's fun to watch the Denver team being molded and built to take on the Chiefs.
Yes.
Another thing is Los Angeles Chargers and Denver Broncos might be fighting it out for the last playoff spot.
Playoff spot.
That's going to be an interesting one, too.
You have Jim Harbaugh trying to trick and smoke screen his way into the playoffs.
Yeah.
And he could do it.
He's done it before.
He could, yeah.
I'm going to go Denver as well, 28-17.
All right.
I really don't think Denver's going to have any trouble.
As a matter of fact, Denver's one of the dark horses I picked to maybe knock off a really big team.
That's right.
I picked Pittsburgh as a dark horse, but they're looking like the division winner anymore.
Yeah.
So maybe they, you know, at the time I picked them, Baltimore was handling the lead.
That's who I was going to pick them.
I don't know if it aligns like this.
I said Denver has to go to Baltimore.
I picked them to up-send.
Oh, wow.
That could be a really fun playoff game.
Yeah.
Let's see if it happens.
If it happens, that's what I'm saying right now.
I'm saying that they're going to upset Baltimore.
Wow.
But they're going to beat them at their own game running.
That's true.
Yeah.
All right.
Next game, 3-10 New England at 6-7 Arizona.
Arizona?
Yeah.
This one's easy.
Yeah.
20 to 17.
Nothing special.
Sneers alert.
This is one that you go to sleep on and wake up for the real game.
Yeah.
It's like those generic foods.
You know, this football game is suitable for everyday viewing.
That's about all there is to it.
It just has a black and white label, football.
Yes.
Team versus other team.
Yeah.
That's generic.
I'm going to go Arizona as well.
I'm going to try and look for a low scoring game, 17-10.
OK.
Just to be different.
I like it.
All righty.
This one's going to be cool.
10-3 Buffalo at 12-1 Detroit.
Wow.
Yeah.
See, I don't see Buffalo losing two in a row, but I also see Detroit not wanting to give
up the number one seed because Minnesota's right on their ass.
Yeah.
And Minnesota's not going to have any trouble.
No.
Yeah.
I know the matchup on that.
I'm going to say Detroit's going to get it.
I'm going to say Detroit 34 to 32 instead of 44 to 42.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I'm going to vote with my heart and say Detroit.
And I think it's going to be a high scoring game like you.
Yeah.
So 35-31.
You're probably closer with your score.
We're only off by a point.
Oh, that's it?
OK.
All right.
Well, yeah.
I mean, yeah.
My heart says Detroit's going to win two because of the way they're playing.
But it would not surprise me if Buffalo pulled it off.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, Jared Goff is prone to making a slew of mistakes.
Yeah.
And the Buffalo defense can force a few mistakes.
Yeah.
So if Buffalo wins, I think it's going to be dismantling.
It's not going to be a close game.
They're going to get out ahead by a couple of mistakes, and then they're just going to pour it on.
Yeah.
But I'm still picking Detroit.
Yeah.
Yeah, this game could go all sorts of different ways.
I know.
So you've got to pick one.
Oh, what?
Is that a three o'clock game?
That's a three o'clock game.
Oh, good.
So we'll be able to see it if it's a scary nerd.
I can't imagine they wouldn't carry it since Buffalo is our rival in the.
But viewer wise, that would capture probably 90 percent around here.
Yeah.
So yeah, I would think so.
But we'll probably get India Denver instead.
No.
You're probably right, though.
That's a division game, not Denver.
Or Tampa Bay at the Chargers.
But I want to see Buffalo Detroit.
I want to see Buffalo Detroit, too.
That should be the game of the week.
Sometimes they hide those really desirable games behind a paywall.
Yes.
Like, don't you wish you'd already been subscribing to our service?
You can see this game.
If you got a direct ticket or whatever they call it, yeah, you could have been describing
to it right now.
You could watch this game with your other guys that have more money than you.
And they're going to be people who are going to sign up.
They're going to sign up at game time, Saturday, Sunday, because they're going to like, oh,
I can't watch it.
OK, I'll pay whatever.
Yeah.
It's going to work.
That's what you get for being lesser educated than your neighbor.
They don't get to enjoy buying their things like this.
Yeah.
They really push the fear of missing out.
Yes, they do.
Yeah, that's gospel.
Yeah.
Your parents failed you.
And you're failing your parents.
Yes.
Matter of fact, if you didn't order this game on direct ticket, kill yourself.
Exactly.
There's an AI that is encouraging people to kill themselves.
This is all parody.
We do not want anything like that to happen.
We don't want anyone to kill themselves.
But yeah, AI is like...
Yeah, I've never seen that.
You're staying on society.
You're staying on the human race.
Oh, yeah.
It's funny that the Twitter AI reported that Elon Musk is the largest spreader of misinformation
on X.
Oh, I didn't say that.
His own AI called him out.
His own AI did.
You know, he went in there and said, how do I fire AI?
I'll go to each other and unplug it.
There was an article I saw yesterday about there was an AI that they were going to unplug
and turn off.
And the AI was lying and cheating to try to not get turned off.
I didn't read the article because it was behind the subscription.
I saw some of that too.
Yeah.
The lying I get, but the cheating?
I'll be curious to know how the AI cheated.
I'll find that article.
Someone else put it up too.
I just got to Google it and find it.
But anyhow.
Interesting.
Next game, 10 and 3 Pittsburgh at the 11 and 2 Eagles.
Battle of Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh.
Mike Tomlin is going to outsmart Nick Sirianni.
I hope so.
He's going to outsmart the mouth breather.
34 to 27.
34, 27?
Yep.
Alright.
The mouth breather goes home.
I've been seeing Harbaugh and the Chargers doing that.
He'll look up at the scoreboard or something and he'll see his mouth hanging open.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And he squints his eyes.
Every time I see that I think, confused grandpa.
Yes.
That's what he looks like, confused grandpa.
Yep.
He's not, and if you underestimate him it's your own peril.
Oh no, he's a great coach.
But it's not a real good look for him.
No it isn't.
He probably doesn't care.
He doesn't care.
Well I'm going to pick Pittsburgh also.
21-13 in a lower scoring game.
A little trivia about these two teams.
I think they're twice in the history of the NFL that these two franchises have merged.
Because of financial difficulty.
Really?
I think one time was during World War II and another time was because of financial troubles.
But when they merged they were called the Phil Pitt Stiegels.
And that is true.
You can look that up, the Phil Pitt Stiegels.
That is something I never knew.
Wow.
Because when the AFL and the NFL merged, the Colts, the Steelers, and the Browns had to
move from the NFL to the AFC side.
Oh yeah, I remember to make it even more, yeah.
Because they had more teams than the AFL did.
So those two teams go back to the 20s at least.
Probably earlier.
So that's interesting that twice in their history they've merged for financial reasons.
That really is.
So it's interesting that there's still such a rivalry when they're basically cousins.
Yeah.
Wow.
Isn't that something?
Yeah.
The cool thing is it's like not even in the same conference rivalry.
No, AFC and NFC.
I mean like if St. Louis still had the Rams it wouldn't be like that.
No, they used to play the Chiefs in the preseason for the Governor's Cup.
Yeah, but nobody cared.
Yeah.
And the Governor had to be there and pimp it.
I award this to...
It was probably the Governor's office that said, you know what, we don't want to do that
anymore.
Yeah, they probably were.
We're going to make sure they move.
Go back to Los Angeles, damn you.
And they did.
They did.
All right, Sunday night game, 9-4 Green Bay at 8-5 Seattle.
They typically have a rivalry.
They do.
They play each other well.
They're like San Francisco.
They played Seattle and San Francisco.
They don't like each other.
They look at each other as a threat.
And I think it's going to be no different.
I'm going to say it's a low scoring game.
It's going to be 21-20.
And I'm going to go Green Bay.
Yeah, it's really tough to pick against Green Bay in this game.
I mean, but Seattle has been pulling off some ones, but I'm still picking Green Bay.
Yeah, I'm going to make it a bigger margin.
I'm going to go 31-20.
Okay.
With part of that 20 being a garbage time touchdown.
So I'm looking for Green Bay to get out early and stay ahead.
That's kind of how I feel it's going to go.
Yeah, and you know, Geno Smith is quietly becoming a pretty reliable quarterback.
He is, yeah.
And generally I have love for Seattle.
I liked it when they were part of the AFC West.
I do too.
When they had small hands, David Craig.
Yes, little baby hands guy.
Little baby hands, yep.
And Brian Bosworth.
Yeah.
And I remember they had a safety, Kenny Easley.
Oh my God, he would put one of your receivers out there like every game.
He would put somebody out.
He was such a hard hit.
Who was the running back that they had?
Not Lynch.
Curtis Martin.
Martin, yeah.
Yeah, they were a competitive team.
They were, they were.
I think Kenny Easley passed Young from a kidney issue.
He did.
Kidney failure, kidney cancer.
Kidney failure brought on by kidney disease I believe.
Yeah.
But I'm not for, you know, yeah somewhere in that realm.
Yeah, that's right.
Because I remember at the time there was the undercurrent of, well it's because of all
the steroids he did in college in the NFL.
Yeah, that's what I remember too.
That's what I knew it was like kidney disease and not cancer necessarily.
Yeah, so I mean I hated to play against Kenny Easley.
Oh, he is a baller.
But I was really respected.
I think he was number 45.
He was an excellent, excellent player.
Well, he always would knock out a receiver.
I mean he would.
And back then the rules were such that you could do that.
Yeah, now.
Not so much.
Nope.
Alright, the first of two Monday night football games.
Okay.
Four and nine Chicago at 11 and 12 Minnesota.
No, 11 and two, sorry.
Well, Minnesota of course.
They're going to be looking at that Detroit game and going, yeah, yeah, we're picking
up ground, we're picking up ground.
That's what they're going to be doing like we did with Buffalo.
They're going to be scrapping like crazy.
Yeah, the cool thing about our game was Buffalo had already lost.
So the Chiefs already knew that they would be two ahead.
Yeah.
And they were waiting for that right there.
So, hello.
Hello.
So, I'm going to say Minnesota is going to win, but I think it's going to be a close
game for some reason.
I think it's going to be close.
I'm going to say 28 to 24.
And I sound foolish for saying that, but I feel like it's going to be close.
I have no reason.
No reason to believe it at all, but that's what I think.
Well, the Bears can get hot.
Yeah, they can.
Yeah.
So that's not an out of the realm of possibility.
Yeah.
I'm going to be different and go for the blowout, Minnesota 35-17.
You're probably right, but I'm going to stick with my guns there.
Yeah.
But that's the first of them.
Do you want to watch Minnesota with Chicago visiting?
But the second game is 6-7 Atlanta at 2-11 Raiders.
I'm going to stick with Minnesota.
Yeah.
Neither one of those games sounds like a real blockbuster, so that might be part of the
reason they put two on at the same time.
It's like, we'll get everybody with one of these two.
Here's what I think.
I have not had the option to see Minnesota too much this year.
No.
I want to see what they look like a little bit more, so I will be watching that game
naturally just to see what they look like.
Yeah, I don't think Vegas has anything I need to see, and Atlanta doesn't interest me all
that much, because no way they're making the postseason.
So yeah, Chicago, Minnesota, I think is going to be the interesting matchup.
O'Connell against Cousins.
No, thank you.
Yeah.
So what are we thinking on the score here, Atlanta and Vegas?
I'm going to say 20 to 12.
That sounds pretty close.
Atlanta.
Yeah, I'm going to go Atlanta as well.
I'll go 24, 13.
Because it still does not get a throwing touchdown, no pass touchdown.
All right, well, we disagreed on only three.
Okay, well, I'm sure that will be the deciding factor.
But we could both lose a whole bunch more.
I was going to say, we're going to lose a majority of the other games, and those will
be the three.
Really?
Yep.
Let's see, you want to go into some bullet points?
I've got a few more on this one.
Two.
All right.
What did I do with the rest of them?
Fire them bullets.
Okay, all right.
Actually, I didn't bring them all, so I take it back.
Okay, who will overpay for Tyreek Hill next season?
Ooh, good one.
First team that came to mind was San Francisco.
I could see that.
The second one that comes to mind is Carolina, if they get an awesome head coach.
I got a Dark Horse, Green Bay.
Oh, yeah.
They really could use a top notch receiver, whether he's top notch or not anymore is debatable.
Tyreek can play in the cold.
Yes.
Oh, yeah, I think that is a good fit.
Jordan Love would love to have somebody like that.
Yes, that's what I'm saying.
That's what they need to do, is they need to help him out with a couple of top notch receivers.
I mean, he has a couple there, but I think he needs that one guy to teach also, to mentor.
And when you go into a three receiver set, you don't want to have a weak point.
No, exactly.
That defense is going to say, okay, he's the weak point, so we shift away from him.
You want all three to be somebody they've got to worry about.
And I'm doing this, and they make the championship game and lose this year.
And I think that's when they're going to be looking around going, all right, we need that one other guy.
Their defense is really good.
I think they just need offensively a little boost, and I think they'll be the ones looking at Tyreek Hill.
Yeah, Tyreek can still make a quarterback look a little better than he is.
And I think that's what they're actually, that's what they're going to be aiming for.
Now, if they make it to the Super Bowl, or they just barely lose even more, they'll look for Tyreek Hill.
I'm thinking they're a good fit there.
AFC Chargers?
Yeah, the Chargers would be a good fit.
I don't think Denver would want him because they...
They've got receivers.
Yeah.
Let's see, who else?
Not really Houston, because I don't think C.J. Stroud is ready yet.
Tyreek will probably want to go somewhere where there's a good quarterback.
Yeah, yeah.
C.J. Stroud is taking such a step back that I don't think Tyreek will want to go there.
What about the commanders?
Yeah, commanders would be a shot.
I think the commanders would be another good fit.
Yeah, they need that emerging quarterback that needs some stability with the receiving corps.
Yeah.
And I think Miami's probably tired of him, his antics, and overpay him for them.
You know who I think is in the running, but it would be a bad choice for them?
I think it's Cincinnati.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cincinnati going after him.
Him and Chase, yeah.
But he would not fit there.
He needs the attention.
He needs to be the guy.
It's just like Orlando Brown Jr.
I know he wanted to fill in his dad's footsteps, but I'll bet you he's regretting it now.
Yeah.
You know?
I bet you he's like, you know what?
Dad probably didn't care that much.
I probably should have stayed in KC.
Yeah.
And we wanted him.
We wanted to obtain him, but he said, no, I'm going to go where my dad played.
He would have been way better than Jawan Taylor this year.
Yeah.
Jwanyé Morris, whichever end they put him on.
Yeah, whichever end.
Actually, Jawan's getting a little better.
He's lining up better.
Jawan is getting better.
He's still false starting, and they're not calling him every time.
They're not.
He does that little shift that he could get called for.
They're kind of leaving him alone.
What I think is Morris is a guy that we really got to look because Jawan Taylor's really
good on the run, walking for the run.
True.
So you have a use for him.
Morris, I haven't figured it out.
I don't know what the use is, except having him run through him and max out my homes.
Well, there's that rookie that they wanted for left tackle, Prince somebody.
Yeah.
Is he on the practice squad even?
I'm not sure where he is, but he started the first game, and then they took him out, and
he's never started again.
No, he's never been in there since.
I think he got just so cool.
He's come in a few times, in a few spots as a sub, but he's never started.
I think it's simply they're afraid of ruining him.
Yeah.
Okay.
The next one, did Gronk tarnish his career by playing a moron in TV commercials?
You know, I don't think he really did.
I don't either.
I think everybody knew he was a pretty goofy guy.
He's actually very intelligent, but he loves playing that guy.
Yeah.
Like Tim Grunhard in Kansas City played the slightly brain damaged football guy.
Yeah, but he really is anything but.
But he's not.
Yeah.
He's a smart guy.
And Gronk plays it up so well the way he talks, you know, like to Sam Elliott.
Yeah.
You know, and Sam Elliott's like the old rough guy.
Those pictures better be back like they were when they get back.
Oh yeah.
He's got kind of this high voice for a big guy.
Yeah, he's good at playing the guy who's just kind of clueless and doesn't quite understand
what's going on.
Yeah.
So, that's a good way to roll the defense and then underestimating you, but.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's true.
And there was a rumor somewhere recently about Grunk coming out of retirement to play for
the same team.
That's been going on forever.
Yeah, I think it's just something they trot out occasionally because people didn't click
on it.
There's no way.
He's been out of it too long.
Physically, yeah, I don't see him making it back to any kind of.
Well, has it been three or four years?
It was.
Tampa.
He retired with Brady.
Okay, so it's been two years then.
And then when Brady came back to Tampa, did Grunk come back too?
No.
I don't think he did.
So, Grunk retired the same year Brady retired for the first time.
So, that's been a while.
Yeah, it has.
It's been three or four years.
Yeah.
He's not coming back.
I don't think he can get his body back into football shape.
I don't think he wants to.
He's smarter than that.
No.
Yeah.
He's making a mint doing commercials, and he looks to me like he's happy.
Yeah.
So, who cares?
You know, he's got his rings.
He doesn't care.
He's got nothing to live up to anybody.
You know, that's one more reason that Bill Belichick might go to North Carolina as a
coach, because his 24-year-old girlfriend is enrolled there.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Yep.
That's right.
So, he could go there and coach the football team and live in the same college as his 24-year-old
girlfriend.
Yeah.
They look so weird together.
It looks like father and daughter.
Have you seen the Raiders owner and his wife?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, so Mark Davis and, I forgot her name.
Yeah.
It's like Shrek and Venus DeMilo.
You know what?
When I see them two, I think true love.
Yeah.
Well, that's what she said.
She had no idea he was a billionaire and just fell in love with his awesome smile.
Yeah, yeah.
Yes, yeah.
And then they showed his smile.
He was like, grrr.
Such a good guy.
I mean, he can't help that he looks that way.
He's goony looking.
He looks like a goon.
Yeah.
And then when he was born, he can't help it.
No, I don't.
I can't fault him for the way he looks.
Whatever his wife says, I fell in love with his personality or his smile.
Or his deep soulful eyes.
It's like, yeah, bank account.
So you like Mongoloids is what you're saying, huh?
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Let's jump over that one again.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
We'll leave that one behind.
Yeah, you can look.
Sorry, Mark Davis, I'm sure, is a lovely guy.
Let's hope.
Just not much of a looker.
Yeah.
Anyhow.
But then again, they probably look at me on the sports passports and go, what?
Yeah, we're one to talk, aren't we?
Yeah.
The face for radio or podcast.
Yes.
Where they don't see it.
All right.
Next one.
This one I love.
Now think about it before you blurt it out.
Okay.
Is Noah Gray better than Travis Kelsey in this stage of his career?
Wow, it's tempting to say yes.
It is tempting to say yes, but.
I think Kelsey's still a little more clutch.
I think so too.
It's really close though.
I think Noah Gray is very effective because of Kelsey being in line up two.
But Noah Gray is not taking anything away from him, but Travis Kelsey is still better.
Yeah, we rarely see Noah Gray without Kelsey there to be a threat as well.
Yes, he is like the dump option.
It's like, no, double team, no, no, no.
Oh, there's Noah Gray.
Yeah.
Because he gets through without being covered enough amount of times to where he's effective.
It'd be interesting to see what kind of game Noah Gray would have if Kelsey was not playing that game.
Well, I can say this for Noah Gray.
I've seen him in tight coverage running down the line and getting one, getting a bread basket one over the head.
So he can catch.
No doubt he's healthier right now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Probably in less pain than Kelsey is.
All of that, all of that above.
But I still don't think he's quite as good as Kelsey.
I'd still take Kelsey as long as he wants to play.
Yeah, me too.
But I do enjoy watching Noah Gray play.
I love the way he plays.
He's a hell of a blocker too.
He goes along with his scrims very well.
He's about the perfect complementary guy you can get to Kelsey.
He really is.
Yeah.
All right.
How many 100-yard games will Deandre Hopkins have at the end of the Chiefs run this season?
Playoffs?
Playoffs.
And off?
I don't know how many he has now.
One.
One, okay.
Oh.
He's going to have three.
The rest of the way, all the way through.
I was going to say four.
Okay.
All right.
Maybe because I just expect more people to get injured and him to take a heavier load.
Well, I think that there's going to be a couple of games where they just can't control him.
Yeah.
This is a deceptively difficult question because the Chiefs really aren't playing a long game.
That's why I asked it.
Yeah.
They're not playing the long game, so if they're playing the long game, he would have a lot more.
And actually, I think I'm stretching it with three and you're stretching it with four.
I think there's a lot of games where he's going to get 70, 75.
Yeah, yeah.
In order to get over 100, he's probably going to have to catch 11 or 12 passes.
Yes.
Because they're all going to be short.
Yeah.
And in order to do that, since he's a long ball guy, you're going to have to have time.
Yeah.
So I'm going to stick with my three, but I could see him doing 70, 70, 70, 100, 80, 90,
you know, 100.
Yeah, that's a good question.
I like that one.
I'm going to go with four, but I think I'm being a little generous.
You know what?
I like it.
I like the pick.
It's going out there saying, you know what?
I think they're going to be changing it up and playing a little bit more strategically
towards offense.
Yeah.
So, and I think they have to.
Yeah.
And especially in the, you know, the postseason is really a separate season, so it's okay
to change your MO there, and I think they're going to become less of a run team and more
of a passing team in the postseason.
I agree.
It's going to be based on the run.
Yeah.
It's going to be all based on the run.
If the run's successful, you're going to see Hopkins have a lot of good numbers.
Yeah.
So, and also worthy too.
There's a cute little dog walk by.
Oh, right now.
She looked at us and put her ears back and smiled.
Oh, the sports bastard's level.
I guess we smell entertaining.
Yes, yes.
Number one with dogs.
Yep.
Hey, yeah, that's awesome.
We are the number one podcast downloaded by dogs.
Yeah, we asked them, they said, woo woo.
Well, I know my dogs have each downloaded the podcasts.
Yes, yes.
I saw Sam doing it the other day.
He didn't even know I was there.
He was doing it by his own.
I was like, oh, he didn't make him.
All right.
You were warned about that from the Humane Society anyhow.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, they said don't make your dog download this garbage.
Yeah, he's only nine.
He's kind of young.
Yeah, yeah, they're like, leave him alone.
He's just a little boy.
All right.
How soon will the NFL go to an 18 game season?
I'm going to say two years.
So, the 20, 26 season.
That's exactly what I had in mind too because they got to let everybody absorb this for
another year or two.
Yeah, you got to make plans too.
I think they're going to expand the roster too.
I think so too.
I think they'll go up from 53 players to closer to 60.
Let's face it, it's going to be out of necessity.
It's like, we don't have anybody.
Well, put some more guys in front of the practice squad.
And I think, you know how we have the emergency quarterback who doesn't count against the
roster, who you can bring in.
It's kind of like Domino's emergency pizza.
Yeah, yeah, the same thing.
I think we're going to have emergency other players too.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
So, like, you get a catastrophic injury and you're already thin at that position.
You've got someone who can come in and fill in who hasn't counted against your active
roster.
Like Domino's, what they do is they open up a door and this emergency player comes out.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's great.
Get the idea from Domino's.
Yeah, no, I think that's probably true.
They're going to have emergency players.
Coincidentally, did you know that the Chiefs rehired Nelson?
Yeah, Steve Nelson.
Steve Nelson, yeah.
I remember him being a good player.
He was a good special teams player too.
Yeah, so I think he's going to be an asset.
I think that was a good move because Williams is hurting out too in our secondary.
And he has a chest injury so that could go any way.
I think DJ Humphreys might be okay.
I hope so.
But, I mean, with a hamstring, they're going to have to be careful so he may not play nearly
as much.
Yeah.
But I think, you know, so anyhow, it wasn't the knee, thank God.
Yeah.
I was worried about that because knee surgeries are tricky.
I know I've had one.
Yeah.
So, all right, I like this question because I have a definite thing in mind here too.
And I'll go through it with you too.
And you can go through it with your idea of it.
Should making a 60 yard or better field goal have more points with it?
Like maybe four points or five points?
I think so.
Okay, so there be a value system.
Yeah.
60, you get four points.
65, you get five points.
70, you get six points.
That would make some teams try it.
Yes.
And then if they don't, then the other team gets the ball back in great field position.
Yeah.
It's more of a strategy and it's more entertaining too because let's say, like Bucker, who's
very capable of making a 60 at least, 65 probably too.
So, what they do is they call a timeout and they ice him the first time, okay, to try
to, that's his good kick.
Now he's going to think about it and he's going to have the bad kick.
You see what I mean?
There's more strategy going on and also because it's risk taking too.
Andy Reid could go, you know what, man, this is one of those games that we could very well
lose.
So, I'm going to go ahead and try the five yarder or the five pointer.
Let's go ahead and do it.
We've got to get two scores up on this team.
We have five minutes left.
We're going to have to do it.
Our defense, we have trust in them, so if we don't make it, we think they'll stop them.
They'll hold them off with at least three points.
Yeah, I was calculating that a 65 yard field goal means you're spotting the ball at your
own 45.
Yes, and that's something.
And a 70 yarders means you're spotting the ball at your own 40.
Good, yeah.
So, you don't make it, that's where the other team takes over.
Yes, that's where the other team takes over.
Yeah.
So, it's still a valid play at the end of a game, like you're out of timeouts, you need
extra scores.
Yeah, let's say you're down by four.
We're going to try the 65 yarder.
I mean, it's just as thrilling as the Hail Mary.
Yeah.
I mean, maybe even more.
I'd like to see a replacement for the onside kick.
This is something that players have actually talked about.
How about throwing?
Yeah.
More of a controlled fake, if you will.
But go ahead with your idea.
Something I've heard other players, retired players, I guess, say, instead of an onside
kick, give the team that would be kicking, give them the ball on their own 20 yard line,
and it's fourth and 20.
You have one down to make 20 yards.
Now, think of all the proposed rule changes we thought of.
Wouldn't that be great?
Okay, so you get an extra timeout, you go back 20.
Okay, you start at your 20, fourth and 20.
So, then you need an extra timeout, so you go, okay, bring it back.
Another first and 20 now, or whatever.
Or no, you got the timeout, so another fourth and 20.
You overcome both of them and you could win.
I love that.
And then you got a 65 yarder, if you have to.
Yeah, yeah, if it's fourth and 20 and you make it, then you're up around the 40 yard
line, which is only about 10 yards short of where an onside kick would have been recovered.
I mean, to me, gosh, I would love to see all of this.
And how much more exciting would that be, instead of seeing these guys line up for this
goofy little kick and they all jump on it?
All of a sudden it's like, yeah, I'm watching.
Yep.
And there are a lot of times where a team has made fourth and 20 plus.
Yep.
And that was a famous example, I think, in the postseason where the Eagles made a fourth
and 23.
Yeah, yeah.
It's doable.
You see, man, I'm getting excited over the possibilities.
I know.
That would be so much fun than an onside kick.
And an excellent gambling opportunity.
Oh, geez, yeah.
They would do it over the gambling alone.
I mean, the gambling opportunities on that are just insane.
There are so many different ways they could go about it.
Will they make it or not?
How many yards will they make?
Two yards will make it.
Wow.
Okay.
And it looks like it's started up again.
All right, we had a glitch.
Yeah, okay.
So the fourth and 20, I like that a lot.
And then if you go to one of my proposed rule changes, well, a new rule is you could also
get another timeout.
So you could make the fourth and 20 and have a first down and then have a first and 20
doing the extra timeout that you don't know. Yeah, I love that. I mean, there's
20 yards for an extra timeout. Then if you go down field a little bit, you have
that opportunity for a 65 yarder. Yeah. Or a 60 yarder or however many
points you need. And I think that all this would be such an addition to the
game. Yeah. And like you said, the the betting opportunities are unreal. I think
the only real pushback on this would be from the people who don't think kickers
should decide games. Yeah. There's a small group who just kind of hates that. They do.
Yeah, they do all the time. But I know there's a small group that hates that. It's just like the
group of people that don't like the golden bat rule. Yeah. I think it's
excellent. It'd make that boring game maybe a little bit better. Well, there are
fist fights over the designated hitter rule. Oh, I know. Yeah, and there's still people that
refuse to accept it. That's not real baseball. It's like, fuck you. Yeah. And
you're not a real interesting person. I remember somebody asking your question
to the group said, who here likes the designated hitter rule? And half the
people raised their hands and said, you're wrong. So you like going to sleep
is what you say. Yeah. I mean, I like all of that and I wish they'd do everything
that we covered. Yeah. Yeah. I think these, and of course I'll have to look at the
competitive balance and how that all shakes out. But I think this is all
pretty reasonable stuff. I do too. I do too. Yeah. Okay. Let's see. Do you listen
to the radio game broadcast when a commentator you dislike is doing the game?
I used to. I tried. But there's a time difference. Yes, it's too much. There's a
different delay on TV than there is on the radio. I can't remember which one is
ahead. I think the TV is ahead of the radio. Yes, it is. There's like enough of
a difference where you can't watch it. Yeah. It's like the play's over and then
the radio starts and starts describing the play as it's happening. And we spoke
about this. It's on purpose, we think. Yeah. Yeah. Because that's the last thing
that the TV network wants is for you to shut off their audio. When Jake at State
Farm comes on, you want to hear the bundle Ruskie. Yeah. Yeah. Plus what the
announcers say during the game is also part of the marketing message. Propaganda.
Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. We would both do it if it matched up. Yeah. But it doesn't. So
we don't. All right. I really dislike it when Mitch Holtis says gargling the
sweet nectar of the end zone. He's played that too far. Yeah. When he first
did it the first couple of times, it was a work of art. Now it's like, no, find your
next one. Yeah. Mitch is awesome, but he needs to find his next one. Yeah. That
has run its course here, definitely. Yeah. That thing goes so slow it freaks me out
from here. Yeah. I was talking about the Audacity software, too, what? It's zoomed out quite a bit. Yeah, it is zoomed out way out.
And I'm like over there going, oh no, did it freeze again? So okay. But I can see
up there that it's not. It's still going. Yeah. I'm seeing like this counter is still
going right here. Yep. All right. The next one. Who do you believe is the best
defensive player in the NFL this season? Wow. I think Trent Mcduffey and Chris
Jones have a legitimate claim to that. I think so, too. Admittedly, those are the
people I've seen the most. Well, Chris Jones is never going to get it because
what he does so many times so fantastically, if that's a word, isn't
noticed as much. You don't have the pressures that he's really
responsible for that he actually gets. Yeah. You know, he will be in there creating
havoc to where the quarterback runs into another defender. Yeah, they don't have
assists. Yeah. Yeah. If they had assists, he would have like 500 of them and he
would be considered for defensive player of the year. He is amazing at doing that.
I mean, and he's also amazing at covering up the quarterback's view. Yeah. Yeah. I
would, since we see them more, I would say Chris Jones is one of them. Yeah.
Unless you're a football player. If you're a football player, you fully know
what he's doing. If you're not and don't know the game very well, you would not
know. Yeah. You go, how come you, and I've heard people do this in Kansas, how come
he's not in there getting sacks? Because he doesn't need to, dumbass. He's soaking up
one or two more blocks so somebody else can get the sack. Yep. Like I said, people
that don't understand football are the ones that say that. They go, he needs to
get 30 sacks. He needs to beat fucking, what's his name,
Stray Hand. He needs to get Stray Hand's record. Well, yeah, but that would mean he's a
selfish player, wouldn't it? Bingo. Yep. Yep. There's more to the game than personal stats.
Oh, Tom Bahaly making it into the Chiefs Hall of Fame was the right thing to do.
That was fun. Man, it was fun watching him. Yep. On a shitty Chiefs team, he made it
exciting. Oh, he did. He was, I remember him being tall and slimmer than I
expected. Yeah. But he was just a giant of a man. Oh, he would get in there all the
time. He would just frustrate the hell out of quarterbacks. Yeah. He deserved it.
Everybody accolade he got the other day and loved the guy. Yeah. He's a good
person. He's still around Kansas City. Excellent. Yep. All right. What position
in football do you believe is the hardest? Hmm. I'm going cornerback. You
know, that's what I was just about to say because of the way the rules are and the
way that they are kind of inconsistently enforced. You have to do it just, yeah. Yeah. There are so many
defensive pass interferences. DFIs, I guess they call them. Yeah. There's at
least three penalties you can get as a quarterback. Defensive pass interference.
Holding. Holding or illegal contact. Or illegal contact, yeah. And all of them are just a
razor thin from not doing it. Yeah. And it's, you know, it's basically how the
official feels that day in that way. It's interpretation. Yeah. The interpretation of
what the referee thought he saw. Yeah. Which sucks because that's
influence in the game when you get to that type of a thing. It's like, well, it
could have been. I just think it was. Well, why do you think it was? I don't know. It
just looked like it. Yeah. So, you know. But if we were going offense, I was going to
say left tackle. Oh, yeah. Well, offense. Because it's so hard. I mean, overall I'd say corner. But if I got to
pick one for offense too, I'd say left tackle. Let's do it then. Okay. Let's do the defensive
cornerback. Yeah. And then the second one, I would say free safety. Oh, yeah. Because how do
you figure out what you're actually going to do? Because are you really
schemed into it being a free safety or not? Man, that position really
depends on how the play unfolds. Yeah, I know. You have to have the sense of
where to be. Yeah. If it's a run, you're in run support. Yeah. You need to move
where you're going. If it's a pass, then you need to back up somebody who's
coming off the line as might need a double team. Yeah. I mean, figuring that
shit out would be rough. It'd be like, if you don't do it correctly, you look like
an idiot. You look like a boob in the middle. You leave a giant hole. Yeah. You're like
sitting there looking around. Everyone's looking at you. Where were you? You know,
he just made this huge catch. So, there was a football game that was popular
for a while called Stratomatic and it was played with cards and dice. Yeah. And I
remember if you blitzed and brought your strong safety or free safety on a blitz
and they threw the long pass, then you would have to roll on a special table to
see how many yards they got. And usually it was about 70. About 70. So, if you blitzed your
free safety and you guessed wrong, you were gonna pay a heavy price. Uh-huh.
Okay, so offense. Offense, you're saying? I'm gonna say left tackle because you're
dealing with pass rushers and you're somewhat dealing with run blockers, but
you've got a not hold. Yeah. Not holding is gonna be the tough part. Left tackle is
generally the blind side. Yeah. Which is hard to do. Yeah, that would be one. The
other one I think would be center. Yeah, I could definitely see center. Yeah.
Because he's calling out the offensive line and telling
everybody, okay, here's what scheme they're in, here's who's coming, and the
quarterback's doing the same thing. But yeah, they're all communicating. You have to
know the snap count. You have to do it precisely. Just right. I mean, ask the
Raiders two games ago. One game ago. You got to grab that ball and slam it up into
your crotch. Yes. Hope the quarterback grabs it and then you've got to immediately try
to block somebody. Yes. That sounds pretty tough. Yeah, it does. I'm telling you. Yeah. So,
I, yeah, I would say left tackle and then center would be the next one. Yeah.
Receivers have fun. Yeah. Receivers, if they go out there and just try like hell
to catch the ball. I mean, quarterbacks get the shit mashed out of them. So,
look, that's a skill thing. So, I can't say it's like the hardest because
the people are born with it like my home. So, that's just, you know, yeah, it's
second nature to them, you know. So, I'm gonna say that's it right there. Left
tackle and center are probably the two hardest. So, all right, and finally, if Joe
Burrow was a food, what dish would he be? Mine is sauerkraut. Just put him on a
Reuben. I haven't been a Reuben in a long time. A little Joey Deuce box. Yeah, I'm gonna say,
you remember on Christmas vacation when that old woman bought the green Jell-O
mold and had cat food in it? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's Joe. He's green Jell-O with cat
food in it. Vegas vacation, yeah, where they're at the Native American casino. Oh,
yeah. And the buffet is all gray, gray green, slime. That's either Burrow or
Rogers. Yeah, that's both of them. One of those two. Yes. I'd say Roger, Aaron Rogers is the overcooked turkey on
Christmas vacation. Yes. When they cut into it, it just puffs up in a cloud of smoke. And Joey Burrow is the
Christmas vacation where all the lights wouldn't work. I can't believe this isn't
working. I'm doing everything I can. Well, sorry there, little JoJo. Don't always go
the way you want, does it? Look, you took advantage, no, not really, of the gift
that my homes gave you. Yeah, and really the moral is that you're gonna, if you're
gonna enjoy the the fun times and the way up and all the good, then you got to
put up with the bad and the right down. Yes, yes. That just comes with it. Yep.
Joey Deustbach could not handle the biggest spotlight of his career. He
failed miserably, did not look very well at all.
Aaron Donald still owes him lunch. He was on his back so much. He owes it, he owes it. I
think he owes him a bottle of wine, lunch, and a full evening. Yeah, he pulled his
hair off and he said, I'm not done with you, you come back. He's like, no, no boy,
I'm not done with you son, you come back. He looked like his cellmate. Yeah. Yeah.
Let's see, oh, I got a new, I got a story for you. Okay. You may have already seen
this because it kind of was like, people are like going, huh? I've got a theory on
it though. Tom Brady has suffered an unlikely defeat. Oh, the seven-time Super
Bowl champion, 47 is his age, took part in a Mr. Beast passing competition
against Florida high school quarterback Jake Balonovich and against the
odds, Balonovich won. He lost to a high school quarterback? Yes. Wow. Sharing a
video of his victory via X, formerly Twitter. I always do that just to piss
people off. Balonovich included the caption, check me out competing against
Tom Brady in the new Mr. Beast video. The high school seniors victory also earned
him a hundred thousand dollars. Okay. Is it a scholarship or just cash? I think
it's a scholarship. So why would Tom Brady not win? Why wouldn't he let this
guy, why wouldn't he let this high schooler get a hundred thousand dollar
scholarship? He did it on purpose. He went there and through the
competition. It'd be a happy feel-good moment and everybody's smart.
Because if he went there and beat a high school kid, he was like an asshole. Yeah.
So there was no way he was gonna win. He didn't know he was gonna lose. He was
getting that kid a hundred thousand dollars and I like Tom Brady. I know, you
know, the deflate gate and all that stuff. But he's a good guy on this level, at
least. Yeah. And he would be the type of guy that didn't care. He has nothing to
prove to anybody. He's like, let me get this guy a hundred thousand dollars for
a scholarship. He's a good player and he needs it. I'll go there and lose. Yeah.
Another example of a meaningless feel-good press moment for the NFL. Yes.
More propaganda. It means nothing and we'll all forget about it tomorrow. Yeah.
And do you feel the same way? Yeah. Yeah. He went there fully
intending to throw the competition and let that kid get the scholarship. Yeah.
And you know, he probably didn't even tell the kid. He's letting the kid think he'd
beat him. Yeah. You know, the kid's like, wow, I can't believe I did that. Yeah. I
think it's the perfect scenario for someone like him to do a good thing. And
it's like this. The people that know, know, right? And then the people that don't,
don't and that's just, you know. When your favorite little niece or nephew comes
up and wants to play checkers, you're gonna let them win. Yes. That's what was
going on. Yeah. You're not gonna beat their ass and go, oh my, you got me again. You're so
smart. You pump them up, you know. In your face little Susie. Yeah. Smack them on the head.
You gotta get tougher, you little bitch. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's like the post-game
press conference where nobody says anything of any meaning. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The old Bill Belichick. Yeah. The groundbreaking ceremonies when they go
and pretend to shovel some dirt. I mean, it's all just meaning. And there's no dirt on
the shovels at all. They're all smiling. Why do we pay attention to any of this stuff?
It's the distraction. I don't. I don't. Yeah. But no, the, well, they played a really good
game. We had a couple of breaks that panned out. They didn't, you know. They're
a really, really good team. They're 0 and 16. They're a really, really good team. They're
just a couple of acquisitions away of being there. You can tell their players are hungry.
Yeah, boy, they played with all their might. You beat them 57 to nothing. But that's part of the
party line with the NFL is you never talk badly about anybody or anything. No, you don't. Everybody
is wonderful and terrific and the best and great and on their way up and it's just a
couple of reasons being blown right up your ass. There's a couple of reasons. Revenge. Yeah. Okay.
Maybe not that team that you're like, they suck. We beat their ass. And also someone else looks
over there goes, Oh yeah. All right. So yeah. So anyhow, you got anything you want to go into?
I think I was kind of fresh out of stuff at this point. All right. Well, you guys are shit out of
luck then I guess. Yeah. I had just one more thing that's not related to football or anything,
but if you heard about forest bathing. No. Okay. I mean, there's regular bathing where you, you know,
in water and you're familiar with sunbathing. Yeah. Where you go out and lay out in the sun.
Yep. Well, this is called... I do it with a washcloth too. Yeah. You get more sun on you if you spread
it with a washcloth. This is called forest bathing. Okay. And what you do is you turn off your
electronic devices or silence them. Except for podcasts. Yes. Like ours. Only ours. And then you
go out into nature and you just spend an hour or so just listening to all the sounds and absorbing
what's going on around you. The sights, the sounds, the smells, everything. It's just for an hour,
completely lose yourself in the exact moment where that you're existing. That's what I do at least a
couple of times when I'm in Eureka Springs. I go out to a remote location and nothing. Yeah. Just
sit, let your mind go blank, let it wander, whatever. But just experience. It's shown to be
really beneficial to people. Because for most of human history we've been very intimately connected
with nature. Yes. And it's just in the last 200 years or so that we quit living so much in nature.
I love that idea. I think it's been going on before this now, but not as forest bathing. Yeah. For
instance, you know, Davey and I went on that little trip to Wichita and had a good concert and all
that. And he was like, we're looking Google Maps up. Well, he was looking at his iPhone. He goes,
why don't you get, I keep telling you get an iPhone. I go, you want to know why I don't get an iPhone?
Why? Because I don't want to be on my fucking phone all the time. Yes. He got it. That's a very good point. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. He said, I want a phone that just does
enough and that's it. Yeah. Yeah. I really don't care to be on the phone much. I don't like talking
on the phone. No, I don't. I really don't enjoy it ever. This is as complicated as I like to get. Yeah. It is a podcast. A podcast that tell me
where I am in Wichita so I go find some good barbecue like we did. You know, stuff like that. I don't need
it to do all this other stuff for me. I don't want it to. And I think a big part for me is the less my phone is part of my life,
the more in control I feel. Bingo. Me too. Me too. Because when the phone rings, I see people's, you know, scurry to answer it. Oh my god,
my phone's ringing. Gotta answer it. Not me. I don't care. The phone's ringing. I might wander over at some point and see who's calling, but I have really low
interest in talking to anybody. The only time I hurry up and answer it is like if I do some blood work. And they call me up instead of sending me the stuff on my
phone. Oh yeah, when you're expecting to call. Oh shit, why are they calling me? Yeah. But for the most part, I'd just rather they leave a message and then read the text and see if I want to deal with it.
Oh yeah, that fucking chlamydia, I tell you. No, I'm sorry, go ahead. Oh, but yeah, that's, I think that's why I do a lot of recordings overnight outside my house. I just put a recorder out.
I love that too. And I really think, did you ever rebroadcast the storm? No, but I've isolated some parts out of it because that's pretty awesome. Stretched for about 45 minutes. Oh it was? Even the tornado siren is awesome.
But yeah, I'll put the recorder out overnight and it'll record for about eight hours. And then it breaks up into two hour chunks. That's the way it saves it. So I'll load all four of them up and play them all four at the same time. You get a layered effect. That's cool. Yeah. And that is a really interesting background sound.
Look at this truck. Wow. There's a cable truck. Kansas City Water Services. Oh, okay. So they got one of those big vacuum snorkels on the front to suck out the blockage or something. Blockage, yeah. So they're sucking out water arteries. Yeah. Okay. Wow. That's a pretty big fucking truck, isn't it? Yeah.
Where were we now? We were talking about overnight recordings. Oh, okay. Yeah, I love that. That's kind of my substitute for forest bathing when I can't get out in nature as often as I want. I've got all sorts of just soundscapes that I can load up, play in my headphones and just drift away for an hour and just feel like I've been somewhere else. That's cooler than hell. I like that. I want to go and do something a little bit different here. We're here at the City Market, right? Yeah. River Market area.
Look out there. Look at how they have everything and they leave everything set up. That's not going to come in until Saturday. All of those little... Yeah, all those little tents and shops and stuff that are in the center part. They've got them locked behind locked doors right now. Yeah. They could do that during the winter. They just lock it up on each side. Yeah. So nobody has to move anything. Isn't that a good idea? That is. And then typically during the winter, you're not getting all the fresh fruit.
Vegetables and all that stuff. And that stuff you can set up last minute. This stuff is inside the actual corridor where they have it. It's not that well-hated, but you're out of the weather in here and it's not bad, especially if you're wearing a gaudy Yenling Christmas sweater like I am. Yeah, I'm wearing a second layer. I put on my sweatpants and I thought, not enough. I put on some PJs underneath.
My sweatpants and that's just enough extra layer. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sweatpants are... Yeah, they can go right through you there. Yeah, especially if they're cotton. Yeah. Oh, cotton. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Cotton. You might as well just take a fan and blow it on your nuts. Take a take a fan with water mist and blow it on your nuts. That's what cotton does. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah.
A little bit of a cough, sorry. All right. You got anything else or we got... Not really sports related. No. No, go ahead. Well, remember I mentioned recently that there was a shipment of fake Gibsons that came in to the US and they nailed about 3,000 of them. It's estimated about 18 million value.
Right on the heels of that was a fake rumor being spread that Gibson was going to shut down all of their American manufacturing and go overseas. Oh, wow.
And when I saw that news story, I thought this can't be right because American-made Gibson is so important. And now they're even having some American-made Epiphone's around $1,200, $1,300. And I thought there's no possible way where they're just all of a sudden pulling up stakes and leaving. And then yesterday I read, yeah, it's a failure. It's just something spread out there to see who will click on it.
I love the idea of doing an Epiphone American-made. Yeah. They're great guitars. Yeah, it's a couple of their hollow body designs. I think there's a Sheraton and one other. Is this the one with the frets that are hollowed too or not?
No, this is they make two kinds of hollow bodies, one that's completely hollow and ones that have a center block of wood called semi-hollow. Oh, yeah. OK. OK. Yeah. So I think the I think the Sheraton is fully hollow. Yeah. Like the I can't think of another one.
Is that the sound that is different? Yeah, with a hollow body, you get a lot of warmer and more more bass frequency focus and not as bright. Is there a musician that you could point to and go, that's it?
Yeah. Early Ted Nugent. Oh, he used the Gibson Birdland guitars, which are hollow body made in Kalamazoo. So they're completely hollow body. Yeah. So you get a warm tone. Yeah. And his thing was he'd plug his guitar into the Marshall and turn it all the way up and not use any effects. It was just that guitar in Marshall turned way up and they would feedback like crazy. So he learned how to control it.
A little bit before he became the shredder, people knew him as. Yeah, we're talking the 70s or so strength, cat scratch fever, strangle hold his double live album. Yeah. See him with a Birdland guitar on the cover of the double live album. Yeah, that's right. OK. So that's that's kind of the sound is that that warm, mellow sound.
OK, there's nothing really sharp or biting or aggressive about it. Yeah. OK. Interesting. I've got one hollow body guitar. It's a Gretsch with a Gretsch with a center block. I love Gretsch's. Yeah. And this is the one where the Chinese made one. So it was not all that expensive, but it sounds really warm. And it's just it's just extra fun to play. And I don't even have to plug it in. I can play it and mostly hear it. It's almost like having an acoustic.
Cool. Yeah. So it's a whole lot of fun. It's a whole different animal of guitar. That is cool. Yeah. Very cool. I don't I don't see any time ever that Gibson is going to move their operations overseas. They think it'd be suicide. Yeah. They're not like John Deere. John Deere is going to reap what they have sown pun intended. Yeah. Here's the deal. They're going to move back to America and people still won't care. Yeah.
They're outraged. Yeah. They should be. If your girlfriend spits you spits in your face and kicks your dog and leaves, are you going to take her back? No. No. Well, there might be some idiots. But yeah. Yeah. But generally speaking, no, you're not. You're going to be like, no, yeah. You've crossed that line. That says no way. No way. Yeah. It's like we're leaving you for for what is it? China, Mexico? Yeah. Yeah. They're pretty much spit in our face. Yeah. Fuck you. And and you guys suck. And watch this.
You're going to buy us anyhow. And America said no. Yeah. And American farmers. That's who you're. That's who you're. And you and I knew this. How come they didn't know this? You and I agreed. Yeah. We knew this. We're like, oh, they just committed suicide. It may be that John Deere has a business plan set. It's this right here. Oh, yeah. It may be that John Deere has a business plan to where they're doing this. And they're going to try to be as profitable as possible.
In the next two or three years. And then they're going to sell off the business chunk by chunk. And there won't be a John Deere. Now, I could see that happening. And that may be a part of that. I mean, because they just recently before that lost a couple of lawsuits to.
Over their warranties, repair facilities. Yeah, and all that. I think they're kind of pissed about that. They're like, well, we're just going to fucking move out. And I could see eventually they would sell. They lost a discrimination one, too. Oh, I see. Oh, anyhow. Go ahead. I'm sorry. I could see after they parcel out the company for profit, they could sell the brand name and logo to some international company. Well, how about Craspy? Sold to Lowe. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's like a
Same thing. Yeah. Or like Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram. Yeah, they were sold lock, stock and barrel to a German company and then to an international investment group and then to Fiat. And now Fiat has merged with Peugeot and become Stonantis. Yeah. So they're made overseas. Yeah. Well, they're owned overseas. They're owned overseas. They might be assembled or built here. Yeah, they still build their cars here. But so does Honda. So does Toyota.
Well, on most cars you can look in and by the VIN number, it has a couple of different numbers, whether it's built in Mexico or here. Yeah. But that would be a good example of a former American made brand that is now no longer American owned. Oh, yeah. And then Canada has a CA in front of it. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Panasonic. Mexico has ME. Yeah. Oh, and US has US in front of it. Hey, I'll go ahead. Panasonic is another one that as soon as Panasonic got really good and recognized in the electronics, world audio, stereos, etc. They sold to a Japanese company. Yeah. So they built up the reputation of here's a really good American made brand and then suddenly it wasn't. Oh, yeah. And a lot of people who loved Panasonic just quit by
buying them. They were still just as good. But the fact that they were no longer made here was enough to turn a lot of people off. And, you know, we're talking the 70s for this. Hey, do you believe it bring a flash drive? I forgot to. I did not. Fuck. So we have to stop by the house. Okay.
All right. Okay. Well, you want to wrap this up because I got some stuff I got to do. All right. All right. One more question is, we've got such fast Internet and computer storage is really cheap and small. Why are we still dealing with compressed files? Why are we still dealing with MP3s, compressed audio, compressed? Yeah, why are we? The Internet's fast enough. We don't need to. And storage is the best. Yeah.
And if the Internet is common enough, we don't need to say, I mean, it's just like right there. You don't need to compress. Wow. But we're still dealing mostly in compressed files. That's a good question. I can't think of why that would be like that. No, no. I mean, on my computer, I have a lot of storage space. So I'm saving music and thing in wave files instead of compressed MP3 files. So uncompressed wave files and you load them up and they sound exactly like they did when you saved them. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I like those much better. So, yeah, I guess we've just been trained to accept compressed files as the norm. And they're just not going to change them unless people quit wanting them or say, you know, I think it works out really well for the manufacturer and distributor. I think you're right. It no longer works out for us. But that wasn't the point to begin with.
No, it wasn't. Nope. They didn't care. Yeah. All righty. Hey, all right. Thank you guys for listening. Have a good day and fuck you. Where's my cursor?