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Dan Bernstein unfiltered unfiltered on 312 sports.
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Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. First day of the month, first day of the year. So it's good luck now. So if you're awake and anybody in your family's asleep, if you're the first person to text the group chat rabbit, rabbit, rabbit on the first day of any month, it's good luck. So make sure you do that. And I hope you have a lucky month and a lucky 2026 as we get ready for a big day of football and a big weekend of football with Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions.
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Is it good luck for you or good luck for them?
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I think it's good luck for everybody. I think we do. But the person who gets it first maybe has better luck. I don't know. It's just something we've been doing since the kids are really little. And, you know, today I sent a picture. I see they're already texting. Every text says they're waking up. I sent a picture of like Eddie Rabbit, Rabbit Moranville and like rabbits Rabbit River Michigan or something like that.
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Oh, I immediately thought of the tricks Rabbit.
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Yeah, that sounds like it would be bad luck. I don't know. Things don't go well for him. I'm not sure. Does he? I don't even know if he has a name. I don't. I don't like it. Can I tell you the last thing I care about when it comes to Bears and Lions this weekend?
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Yes, go ahead. You can tell me.
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It's Caleb Williams getting 4,000 yards. He's going to at some point. He may do it this year. And the Bears have never had a 4,000. Yes, I know. They've never had a 4,000 yard passer. And it sucks. And we're going to go my whole life without. I'm just. I'm not going to celebrate something that has sucked. The ending of something that sucks is just something to say. All right, well, there's that and let's forget about it. It's. I'm not going to have any kind of parade here. It's also, I think a little bit is like generally my history as a fan. And maybe you're like this as well, where you worry about individual statistics when the team totals are and the team goals are off the table. It was always something like White Sox fans like, well, this season's over. Let's see if Harold Baines can make an all star team. And that's just pathetic. It's just, it's a sad place. To be as a fan where you're rooting for something on the back of the football card should be presumed that Ben Johnson's quarterback has 4,000 yards. That should be automatic for the moment you arrive at the, at the first rookie minicamp. What is it may?
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Something like that?
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Yeah. It should be presumed that if your quarterback so starts at least 14 games, 15 games, whatever it is 60, that he's pushing 4,000 yards or that he's, he is on track for 4,000 yards passing. That's minimum. That isn't something where we should be saying, yes, finally it's done. They vanquished that. No, this is, Ben Johnson is the coach of the Bears. When you have an offensive mind like that, that quarterback should be penciled in when the year begins for a minimum of 4,000 yards. Especially because there are 17 games now. Yep, 17 games. I don't know why we don't care about that or why we don't say that more. He's not really breaking Eric Kramer's record.
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Yeah, if he were to get 109 yards on Sunday, he would break Eric Kramer's record in doing so. With one extra game.
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With an extra game.
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Right.
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That's not how it works. And somehow, somehow we, we've all agreed to not care that they added an extra game. Some of us are old enough to know that the records with 14 games then turned into 16 games. Like, oh, they just added two games on us like that. You know, we used to, we grew up with a 14 game schedule and then they added two and then it kind of ceased to be as meaningful when it came to the regular season stats. And those people who grew up with it, they, I understand that you've always grown up, but it's 17 games now. They added a game, Eric Kramer and, and I was at every single game I covered. That team is my first year on the beat. At no point in that season did anybody think Eric Kramer was great ever.
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No. And one other note on the number of games too. So Caleb Williams, currently third in the single season passing records. So for 16 game season he's had the third three, third most.
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Which, and I would argue, I would argue having, having consumed both of these seasons, what Caleb Williams has done individually, he has already had a better season than Eric Kramer had in 1995. And I can tell you that completely objectively, he's, he is a better player on, on a, on an average day than Eric Kramer is on his best day. It's not even close. And Eric, nice guy, always got along well, he's had a absolutely miserable life and is just finally trying to put it back together. Don't read that Wikipedia page. That would be my advice to you today as you start the new year. Don't ever ask what happened to Eric Kramer. And as my friend Dave Singer said the other one, don't ask what happened to the band Bad Finger. Okay. Don't read that Wikipedia page. What?
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I know it's early. It's not even 10am yet. What if, what if your new year's off to like a real bad start? Can you read the Eric Kramer thing and maybe that'll put things in perspective and.
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Oh no, read the Badfinger one first. Okay. Okay. Read about what happened to Badfinger. It's like every, it's like a Shakespearean tragedy where they all, I don't know if they all, they all kill them, they kill other people and they kill themselves and. Oh, it's, it's, it's just, it's complete misery. So don't start your year off with that.
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And one other note too. Jay Cutler, who's second in the single season passing leaders, he, he only played 15 games in the 2014 season. He was 26 yards behind Eric Kramer's record. So had Jay Cutler played that 16th game, whatever game he missed, he would have blown past Eric Kramer's record. And you know, Caleb Williams needs 270 yards on Sunday to get to 4,000. I don't see that happening.
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Well, this should go without saying, but I'm going to say it anyway because we talk for a living. If there's any belief in, on the part of Ben Johnson, that there's, that he is supposed to do something to try to get this record or call a pass play when he'd otherwise call a run play or leave him in the game when he would otherwise take him out. I'm going to be really unhappy. There is zero priority in my mind of doing anything in your control as a coach to try to get him his 4,000 yards. Unless, unless there is a specific contract, a significant contract elevation escalation in there that says this incentive. If he gets it, he's now on track to make X amount of dollars. There are favors that are done on this in this week all the time and a lot of it is not for your highly compensated quarterbacks or your star players. I know he's on his rookie deal, but a lot of it's for, for deep bench guys who are, are forced into action because of injury or come off the practice squad. Whether you're getting another game check or whether you're helping somebody and a guy at the end of his career get a certain number of. Of snaps for his pension or whatever. Like, there's baseball things, there's football things. I get that. And good organizations are really aware of that, I think. Was it Matt Feinstein of who does all that stuff, all the contract stuff? I bet he's got a list together. And sometimes a coach will say, hey, is there anybody I can just put in on. On kick coverage to get him in the game? Or keep him active for the game, because it could mean another $250,000 or something like that. Like, I don't. I don't mind something like that. But all that matter for somebody as important as Caleb Williams, who's been as durable and reliable and available as Caleb Williams, the moment this game doesn't matter on Sunday, get him out. I don't care how many yards he has.
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Yes, I guess the question.
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39.99.
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The question we could. We could. Oh, no. He would stay in then. The question we would ask then, will it. Will Caleb Williams finish a game against the Lions this year?
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Oh, you're right, because he was.
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They pulled him with like 7 minutes ago.
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Unless something gets weird, and things do get weird in week 18, but unless something is bizarre in the Philadelphia game because they're not starting starters, you got Josh Johnson, who is, by the way, 4,000 yard passer. Because Caleb Williams can join the ranks of Josh Johnson and Blake Bortles. That's the pantheon. When we start talking about the vaunted names with full 4,000 yards passing in an NFL season, you can stand there shoulder to shoulder, smiling proudly with Blake Bortles. Congratulations.
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Yeah, yeah.
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That game. I think he probably will finish it.
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Yeah, I understand where you're coming from with this whole thing. And at the end of the day, it doesn't matter to me as a Bears fan If Caleb has 4,000 yards or not. I think as a Bears fan, as a Bears fandom, we have this insecurity about the fact that we're the only team that hasn't done it. And it's more of an. It's not an indictment of the players, and it's more of an indictment of the organization and the coaches. They've had the fact that we were late coming to the party of like, hey, the NFL now the offense is past the ball a lot and it's an attacking passing game where we were always like, we're going to get off the bus running. And then we're going to make it black and blue and we may lose the game, but you're going to know. You played the Bears defense like it's, it's time. It's time that we modernize. And we've done that with Ben Johnson.
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You know, you played him because you were at a party. That's how you know. Why are those guys so happy? They just played the Bears. Yeah. Aren't they rough and tough? Yeah, yeah, they are. They sure are. Didn't stop that guy from doing Jaeger bombs. You know, hey, whatever.
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You nodded there in affirmation about the insecurity as Bears fans. And that's, that's really just what it comes down to, is like, we're the only team to not have one. And even these terrible teams that have never been to a Super bowl and, you know, and then let's talk about that, too. The Bears have been to two. Like, you know, it's not like we're leading the way to the super bowl. So just like, let's pump the brakes a little bit on being insecure on 4,000 yards passing. He'll get there. And, you know, it would be great if he did it in 16 games so that you can feel better about it, too.
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And as always, for this, take your cue from the player. He doesn't act like he gives a shit. He's.
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He made one comment about it.
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He said, that's what you brought me here to do. Like, that's what I was brought here to do.
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Right, right.
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That's. That's his purpose. He's the Bears quarterback. He's an NFL quarterback. He's a number one overall draft pick. He's the number one overall pick. Of course he can throw over 4,000 yards. Like, if he doesn't in a 17 game season, something's gone horribly wrong. And I think he knows that. And I think he's just. I would, as usual, take your game if he were to say, man, this is so important to me. This is everything I've worked for. This is all that matters to me. This is more important than a win. This is more important than beating the Packers. I don't even care if we win the super bowl or all that matters to me is getting 4,000 yards. Well, that might be a little different. It'd be weird and stupid and wrong, but that's just not the case. And I trust that Ben Johnson isn't going to go out of his way to get something like this. Because when we, when we start thinking about records, football isn't really that game, baseball was always that game where the individual season milestones mattered. It was always this historical game of human beings. Football's just a bunch of massive physical freaks destroying each other. And we don't, we don't have this sort of sacred numbers that live through generations because they keep changing the number of games you play, right?
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And then eventually, yeah, they're going to add an 18th game. So there'll be 18 regular season games.
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So they'll keep adding games until the bears have a 4,000 yard passer.
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You know, and when it's all said and done too, with Caleb Williams, when you look at the like the top 10 single season passing leaders for the Bears, when it's all said and done, he's going to have at least seven of those. Of course, you know, without even, without even great effort or even thought about it, just what the offense will produce. He's going to be the Bears best passer to ever, if not already there to throw a football.
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And if you really want to indict the Bears, it's much more the wide receiver records than anything else. Like that's a real embarrassment.
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And Johnny Morris.
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Yeah, yes, yes, like that. That's terrifying. Some of that stuff. When you look at how the league has changed their rules and the overall quality of wide receivers, that's pretty incredible. Like that you almost have to try to either not develop wide receivers or have them get hurt, whatever it might be. And the truth of that 95 season is that Curtis Conway and Jeff Graham were the stars of that team. Those were the stars of that offense. Kramer got him the ball. Kramer made some nice tight spiraled throws. But the thing about Williams, you can't even. It just. I crack up when I think about this. Think about the number of plays that Caleb Williams just kept alive, even on an incompletion. Just the entertainment value of Caleb Williams just watching him. You should never mention Caleb Williams. Jay Cutler's a really, really good player. Eric Kramer was the right guy at the right time in the right offense that stayed healthy. They had a remarkable run of health. They had a pretty good offensive line. You had a rookie, Rashaun Salaam, who was taking the ball enough, who wasn't really all that good, but was, was good enough. But the wide receivers made that offense and Ron Turner at the time back then was doing west coast stuff that was near the, near the forefront of the game. He was. They weren't behind history for the first time in a while, and that's usually been the Bears story is they've always been behind it. But what he did in 16 games, great. Caleb Williams is not doing that in 16 games. He is still without a doubt a better player than Eric Kramer ever was. And I'm sure Eric Kramer would tell you that. So if he gets 4,000 yards in 17 games, great. I don't know what anybody wants to do. You want to celebrate? My feeling too is truly that this time of year it's like a nice round number. Especially when in the local sports media nobody's working right now. Nobody's really doing anything. So whatever AI you're using to set your, your, your local sports agenda is going to grab onto that or whatever. A 26 year old or whatever interns that are actually at the desks right now doing this stuff when everybody else is sleeping, it's, it's just an easy thing to grab onto. So.
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All right.
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More power to you, Caleb. Congratulations. If you, if you want to say, hey, I have in my career, all I wanted to do was do what Blake Bortles did before me.
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You know, so if, Caleb, if they, if they win on Sunday, it'll get his, his QB record to 17 and 17. So 17 wins. But right now, currently Dan at 16 wins as the Bears quarterback. Half of those have been with fourth quarter comebacks.
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Okay. You know, and I should say one of the guys that I see on that list of 4,000 yard passers is another guy known for his fourth quarter comebacks in large part because he was bad in the first three quarters too often. Jake Plummer. Jake Plummer.
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Oh yeah, Jake the Snake.
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Jake the snake had a 4,000 yard season and I believe now Jake the Snake has become a mushroom farmer. I'm pretty sure that's his job.
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Okay.
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And I don't know that it's all, all the fun kind of mushrooms. I think I'm pretty sure I'm right about that. That Jake Plummer lives in Colorado.
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Well, let's just, let's check racist Google and see.
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Don't check racist Google, check regular Google. But I'm pretty sure Jake Plummer has found like a new calling as, as a boutique mushroom farmer.
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Oh, you sure do. Yeah, you're exactly right. In Colorado I see he co founder of a company called Umbo. Umbo Mushroom Supplement company.
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Okay. And my guess is on the side he's got some of the fun mushrooms. Because why wouldn't you, if you're, if you're growing mushrooms and you're not growing psilocybin mushrooms just for yourself, you're doing.
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Yeah. Jake Plummer he focuses on mycology and functional mushrooms.
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Yeah, functional mushrooms. You don't want dysfunctional mushrooms and members.
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It would make your life worse.
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Yeah, you don't want.
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You don't want to take this mushroom. It'll ruin everything.
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Yeah, don't. Well, some would, actually, because some, you know, you drop dead real fast. But that would be. That would really be a shame if you've dedicated your. Your second career to being a mushroom farmer and you're only growing, like, white button mushrooms.
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Can I. Yeah. Can I put a bow on The Caleb Williams 4,000 yard thing?
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Sure.
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Because I know there are people that are going to listen to this and think it. So thank you for taking all the fun and joy out of Caleb Williams getting 4,000 yards. Thank you.
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That wasn't the point.
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Thanks for doing it. No, it's like. It's January 1st. I mean, let's just keep things rolling, buddy. I like it, so.
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Fair enough. Well, I don't know. God damn it, Bernstein. Well, you can have as much fun as you want.
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Go ahead.
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But if you're that proud that he's. He's joined the ranks of Elvis Gerbach. Elvis Gerbach.
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I love how you're just pulling the worst names.
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He. Elvis Gerbach did it. And it only took Elvis 15 games to do it. That guy averaged 278 yards passing a game, damn it. Whether he needed to or not, he did.
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So.
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Okay, awesome. Now win the super bowl, and then you have a real party, and then everybody's really happy. We are brought to you in partnership with my bookie, and we're in the middle of 12 Days of Christmas here. In December. No, it's not December. It's January. But we're still in the middle of 12 Days of Christmas. It's January 1st. Spring is coming. I'll be fishing soon.
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Oh, boy.
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Well, when you're old and everything, the world moves so fast. You blink your eyes. It's been two months, so everything rolls just so quickly into the, you know, the seasons. It's going to be like, you know, they'll be advertising back to school stuff before you know it. It's. It's everything. Everything is. Is ahead of time. It's going to be what we'll have Valentine's Day, everything. And then it'll be March Madness, and then it's baseball, so. Right. It just. It happens really fast, so. But we're still technically in 12 days of Christmas, so there's all kinds of daily offers on my bookie. And I don't know if you're going to hit the college football games today, because there's three games that count. I'm so happy to have football that actually counts. Because even if I don't care, at least I know there's. That they're playing hard enough and there's consequences for the outcome. And talk about that with Ohio State lost. Sorry, it just. It's just funny when that many people care that much about a college football team and they lose. I mean, they were leaving, they were walking.
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The poor bastard, he just can't get it right.
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Hey, there were two names you left off that 4,000 yard passing.
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Well, I don't know if I have the whole. Yeah, what else you got?
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Lynn Dickey.
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My guy. No, he's not my guy.
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Yeah, bad Brian Sipe, good Browns.
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But that was 14 games, right?
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Oh, in 1980. Yeah, right?
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I think so, yeah. Brian. Brian Sipe. Good player. So, okay. But I wouldn't say they're bad. I. I was looking for the worst players. I was looking for because it's more.
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Clearly you were.
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Yeah, yeah. Because you don't. You don't have to be good. You just have to be alive. You just have to keep showing up and eventually you'll get there in a 17 game season. Just keep throwing.
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Oh, no. Brian Sipes, the 1980 Browns. That was 16 games. 41, 32, 30 touchdowns, 14 interceptions.
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Okay. Yeah, yeah. Back when they used to let you throw interceptions, they didn't care. They didn't know any better. How dumb was football? We didn't know how bad interceptions were. Seriously, like why did. Why did we tolerate interceptions for so long?
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Because he was a gunslinger, Dan, that's why.
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Like. But Joe Namath and all these guys, like, well, yeah, he might give it to the other team more often than he scores touchdowns, but that's fine. He's a gunslinger, damn it.
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That's right.
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When. How. Why did it take so long to understand you shouldn't give the ball to the other team?
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Well, I mean, you're asking. You're asking the question at a time where people still have sacrificed buns.
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Well, only John Smoltz likes them, I think. I think so. Well, and NBA teams still. You still turn on a game and people still want a big man to post up with his back.
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Leave Stacy out of this.
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With a man standing in front of him to take a shot that isn't worth as much. Like that. That's dumb too. That's really. Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take a difficult shot that isn't worth as much. Rather than taking a shot that is easier and is worth more. Like, it took football. The cognoscending of football. Do they have a big meeting? Do they meet in like a hollowed out mountain? They determine. Wait a second here. I think giving the ball to the other team is bad. Maybe we should have quarterbacks who don't do that or run offenses designed to create space so that's less likely to happen. The fact that that took so long is really pretty crazy. And I guess you're right about baseball too. It's like, oh, you know, let's just make a lot of outs because contact is good.
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Yep.
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Let's. Let's hit the ball so somebody could pick it up and throw a guy out. I don't know what's going on. I don't understand the game anymore. I used to understand it when players were trying to be bad. Okay, so poor Ryan Day, he finally beats Michigan and they're all set up. Yeah, they lose to Indiana, but they're all. They've got this thing set. And the entire world of Ohio State, crazy people is all this. This is the year. This is it. Now we're. Our lives are gonna matter because this guy with his fake beard, whatever he's got. Does that look weird to you?
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He looks like a. He looks like he's the opening act for David Copperfield. He looks like a magician. It's just. There's something. It's. It's too well defined and the color doesn't seem natural.
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Yeah, it looks like it's like it's Like a snap on, like a GI Joe.
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Like a Lego piece, Right.
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Or Fisher Price or whatever those things were.
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Oh, yeah, the Playmobil people.
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Or you remember when, when GI Joe had the beard.
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Yeah.
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No, you probably don't because, you know, the G.I. joe, I had the.
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I had the big G.I. joes.
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The real G.I.
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Joe. The tall ones.
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Yeah, I had those. Yeah. I'll never forget when did you ever have, like a friend's birthday party where the gift you gave, like, your mom came home, was like, oh, yeah, we gotta get so and so a gift. You got a birthday party this week, and you're like, you're getting this for Mark?
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Yeah, well, pretty much every. Every birthday gift was the gift I wanted.
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Right?
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Yes.
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Like, what. What the hell, Mom? Yeah. What are you doing? And it was, it was the GI Joe with the helicopter. You can look, if I remember correctly, it was the helicopter and it was like one of those, like the helicopters on mash, where it wasn't a hard bodied helicopter. It was like the, like, like the, the. The metal framey one with the open sides and the big glass bowl in front, and it was huge. And they all had these scenarios and the, the monster or the villain it came with was a giant striped king cobra with the hood splayed. And you could bend it and make the little coil so we could sit there. And it was just the greatest thing in the world.
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Yeah, it was the yellow helicopter, right?
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Was it? Yeah, I think it was. Yeah, it was yellow and it came and it's. But on the box you see this cobra, and I'll never forget, like, it was in, like, she's like, oh, yeah, this is for. For Dave's birthday party. Like, what, What? What? I almost didn't want to hand it to him.
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Throw it at him when you walk in.
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No, I was gonna run away because his house was near. Was right around like two streets away from my house.
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Yeah.
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So I was thinking she drops me off at the party and then I. I leave with the gift, never to be seen again.
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You could have just hit it like in the bushes out in the front yard and then just be like, oh, my mom forgot to give me the gift.
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No, no, it happened again. Yeah.
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Blame her. Did you ever have Stretch Armstrong when you were a kid?
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Oh, yeah. You know how my seen the guy on. On Instagram, the videos of the guy that blows up the Stretch Armstrongs?
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I have. I have seen those. And I experienced that firsthand because my Stretch Armstrong died because my brother Mark and his friend Bill Rycraft stretch it across the train tracks.
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Good for them.
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Yeah. Because they wanted to see what was inside.
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Yeah. My Stretch Armstrong was left in the garage sports box over the winter.
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Oh, God.
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And he got brittle and he cracked. Well, we didn't know it, but it's like the rubber dried out.
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Yeah.
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B
And then it kind of started to crack, and he just desiccated. He chose Puddy. But I just kind of felt bad for, like. Because, you know, you have the big cardboard box that sits in the corner of the garage, and there's the Wiffle bat sticking out of it and the street hockey stick sticking out of it, and the Nerf ball with a chunk out of it because it got wet. And then it dried, and then it broke in half. And, you know, and then the Frisbees, you'd get out of the tree in front, and it's still there, by the way, that box is still there.
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A
Is it really?
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B
Yeah. And I'd love to go through it. I just probably old baseball gloves and stuff. And in. And in the bottom, there was. Poor Stretch. He was down there.
- [29:58]
A
So he was no longer Stretch Armstrong. He's like, Stretch crack a lot. Yeah. Our box in the garage is more.
- [30:03]
B
It's a Captain Crack a lot.
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A
It's a. It's. Our box is a big plastic tub now. We don't use cardboard boxes anymore. Yeah.
- [30:10]
B
I think it's still the same cardboard moving box that was. That's always been there. That's funny.
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A
Yeah.
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B
I bet there's some cool stuff in there that you can. You can find, like Wiffle balls with the black electrical tape. There will be all kinds of stuff in there. I definitely should check that out. So are they gonna fire Ryan Day? No.
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A
Why would they fire Ryan Day? Because they always win last year.
- [30:34]
B
Yeah, but they always want to fire him. Yeah, but they were still pissed off because he lost to Michigan, remember?
- [30:40]
A
Yeah, I know. But that's stupid. That's the whole thing, Right?
- [30:43]
B
They're Ohio State fans. They're just. No matter what, they want to fire him.
- [30:48]
A
And I don't think they're gonna. They're not gonna fire him. Miami. Miami is the only team this year that has. They're. They're undefeated against ranked teams. I mean, that's. It's just. And they. They looked like a really. I mean, man, oh, man. Oh, you were getting after. After saying. Holy.
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B
And I love. I love that it still matters, that no matter how good a team is in that game, you can still just go beat the piss out of somebody.
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A
You sure Did.
- [31:16]
B
Right. Like, no matter what, it's like, look at this guy. And this guy was saying in Heisman voting, or third and Heisman, whatever the whole thing is, you'll be like, okay, well, that's all great, but we're just gonna chase you down and slam your head against the ground a bunch of times.
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A
Oh, man. They get. They got to them, too. I watched. I only watched three Ohio State games this year, and two of them were losses, so I wasn't very impressed with what I saw. And they beat the shit out of Michigan, and Michigan was not a very good football team.
- [31:40]
B
Did you see. I was. I saw some of that yesterday, too.
- [31:44]
A
Did you see Michael Irvin and. And the club Lewis after the game? No. Jimmy Johnson was there, too.
- [31:51]
B
I saw Michael Irvin during the game. And I see. We were in a restaurant last night. We. When we had a really lovely dinner with. With another couple at a great time. And I kept seeing. And I kept seeing Michael Irvin. Like, every time I looked over there, like, why do they keep showing this guy? And I know he went to Miami and Ray Lewis went to Miami, but I get it. He's there. He's jumping up and down. That's. I got it. I don't need to keep checking in with him.
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A
Well, after the game was over, you see him take his belt off and he was, like, whipping something good. Yeah. It wasn't a. Yeah. It wasn't, like a person, but he was. Yeah, he was. He was really excited about the win.
- [32:33]
B
Okay, good. I just. I. I wasn't sure why they kept showing him. If he'd had, like, some sort of run in with a referee or there was a reason to keep cutting back to him on the sideline. I get. I get the point. I understand it. He's very happy.
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A
Yeah.
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B
He's excited and he. They're all screaming. Okay, good.
- [32:54]
A
But, no, they're not gonna. They're not gonna fire Ryan Day. I mean, he's not gonna. He's not gonna be fired. Okay.
- [33:00]
B
Okay. I'm just saying that they're. That. That guy can't. And he. He did the whole thing after the game, too. The whole. It starts with me. That's. And that starts with me. Yeah. And that starts.
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A
Wait, so that's. That's two losses in a row. Right. Because the last time they played was the Big Ten championship game, so that's two in a row. Okay. Indiana, then Miami. Yeah.
- [33:20]
B
Huh. For them, that's a long time. And they're not well in the head, so that's True.
- [33:29]
A
And then we got, we got, we got games today, too. So three more playoff games today.
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B
It's all espn, right?
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A
I think so. Yes.
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B
I think it's, I think it's all ESPN. Noon 4 and 8. That is correct.
- [33:41]
A
Oregon, Texas Tech is the early game.
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B
Okay.
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A
Alabama, Indiana, and then Ole Miss Georgia is the night game. The winner of Ole Miss Georgia gets Miami January 8th. And then the winner of the two earlier games play. Play each other. So Oregon, Texas Tech, Alabama, Indiana.
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B
Okay, but that's, I'm not going to invent a reason to care, but this is, this is a perfect day to not do jack shit. I'm actually inviting him over. He's, he's, he's coming. He's going to watch the games with us today. But I, I think this might be a other, a nice little cardio 45 minutes and I'll have the games on then for that, too. I think this is a good day to do absolutely nothing.
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A
All right. I want to ask you this because we started discussing a little bit earlier, and I just, I want to get a better understanding because I've never had a college football team that I've been connected to or a fanatic about. You know, I watched Vanderbilt this year. Previous years, I'd watched Michigan because I always liked Jim Harbaugh and his cheating ways.
- [34:49]
B
You didn't have, like, the Moody Bible fighting loaves and fishes?
- [34:54]
A
No, we were. First of all, we were the archers and not the bow and arrow kinds. We were like the big stone archway. That was our mascot. So let's not start there. We didn't have a football team. We were an NAIA team for soccer, which we were pretty good at. But no one went to a soccer game and crushed.
- [35:09]
B
You, like, big in some of the running sports and stuff, right?
- [35:12]
A
Yeah, we were big in the Bible sports. So I never, you know, I've never had a team.
- [35:17]
B
Tonight on Bible Sports, you are looking live.
- [35:21]
A
We're always on the deuce, too. Never, never made regular espn. Oh, you're on espn.
- [35:27]
B
On bsn, Bible Sports Network.
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A
We dress up as different Bible characters for the competitions anyway, so I never had a team that I followed. But January 1st bowl games always seemed special growing up. It was. They were always special. And now it's just, it's not the same. So why is it not the same? Why? Even so, as a guy who's never been affiliated with a school, why do I not feel the same about it today, even though I like college football more and I watch more today than I did growing up, obviously.
- [36:00]
B
Well, the quality of football is better and I'm not sure. I think it's easy to blame it on transferring and you're not. But that's usually for the, you know, the, the die hard fans who want to get to know the players on their team and not have to learn a whole new roster every single year. But I, I don't know, I like, I never really had a team either. I was a Nebraska fan as a little kid just because my, my dad's still a big Nebraska. My aunt Phyllis was, you know, just. They were. And my family's really involved in the Nebraska program. My, my grandfather and my great uncle were big Nebraska boosters going back to.
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A
So, I mean, so, so you may not. Yeah, it's not like you were there. You were at. You went to. I mean it's not why, but like your family. That was like your thing if your family will dictate the foundation of what you watch as far as sports are concerned. So Nebraska was your team?
- [36:53]
B
Yeah, when I was a kid, Nebraska was my team. We've been, you know, we went to Lincoln for games and there's actually, there's a plaque and when they rebuilt their practice facility, there was a plaque with my grandfather's name on it.
- [37:06]
A
Oh, nice.
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B
Because, and, and I mean going back to them, when Gail Sayers was at Omaha Central and they used to. When he needed, you know, a job kind of maybe off the books, he went to work for my, at my grand, great, great grandfather's company there. And one day they saw him on the factory floor and they like get, go. No, you go in that room and you stay and do not get hurt. Whatever you do, you're gonna get paid. Get away from the machinery. Just don't.
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A
Oh, it was a, it was like a non working paid position.
- [37:42]
B
Oh yeah. Oh no, no, it was. Oh yeah. It was completely illegal. It was. And then he went.
- [37:49]
A
Sorry, Great grandpa, hope you're not listening.
- [37:51]
B
Yeah, sorry. So I think Jake and Dave Bernstein aren't gonna worry about it at this point, but. Oh yeah, Gail's job was to be Gale Sayers and not get hurt in any possible.
- [38:03]
A
He's the best at it too.
- [38:04]
B
Then he went to Kansas. So otherwise he was supposed to go to Nebraska, but he didn't. So apparently he didn't like the job all that much. Speaking of machinery, can I just tell you a joke that found its way to me on my phone that I'm sure I'm still laughing about this.
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A
Okay.
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B
It was a Mitch Hedberg joke. I Had never heard before. Oh, I thought I'd heard all of this. Yeah, that's. Yeah, this was like a really early Letterman set. And I saw it. I'm like, I thought I had seen every set that Mitch Hedberg had ever done, and I'd never seen this one before. And, you know, his appearances always have. Sometimes it's on, sometimes it's not. Depends on the audience, depends on the vibe. Because he's so quirky. Yeah. He comes out and he says, I had a cold, so I took some cold medicine. And it said, when taking this medication, do not operate heavy machinery. He said, I have a rule, and my rule is do not operate heavy machinery ever, because it is heavy. He said, put it down and back up. Maybe operate some light machinery like a stapler. I never heard that bit before. It was from like 87 or something like that. Or 86.
- [39:44]
A
It was on Letterman. This was Letterman thing.
- [39:45]
B
Yeah. I don't know how it got into my feed, but it found me.
- [39:51]
A
I always liked. My favorite with him was always the Bigfoot. I always thought the Bigfoot thing always made me. Always made me laugh that maybe Bigfoot was just blurry.
- [39:58]
B
He's actually blurry.
- [40:00]
A
Yeah.
- [40:01]
B
I always like that one, the one where he got the receipt for the donut. I do not think I will need this documentation in the Future. I paid $1.27 for a donut, and I will need to prove that.
- [40:21]
A
Well, we were.
- [40:21]
B
Oh, you're talking about college football and having a rooting interest. So you never rooting interest, but you like New Year's Day because of what it's connected to.
- [40:28]
A
Yeah. It was always the Rose bowl that always got me interested. Like, the parade was always a fun thing to watch. And then it just. It felt like. It felt. It felt really, really, really big. And it just felt special. Even though I didn't have a team I was affiliated with. And now it's just. It's just not the same. I mean, I mean, these. I mean, bowl games are spread out from, you know, early December in the championship game. Now is January 19th. It just. It doesn't seem as special as it once did. And then, you know, and then you have some of the. All the endorsements. I know. It's all driven by TV revenue and money. And I always has been get all that. Yeah, I know, but it just seems. It seems bigger now because, like. I mean, now even like the Citrus bowl is the Cheez. Its Citrus Bowl.
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B
Cheez. Its Citrus Bowl.
- [41:07]
A
We know they're not. They're citrus flavored. Cheez. Its. We get that it's just a bad combo to think about, you know, then the Tony. Tony's Tiger Sons Bowl. So it's like, you know, I get it. I get all that, but it just. It just doesn't feel special anymore. Like it. Like it used to.
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B
Well, I think that's just. That's just age, I guess. It's nice every once in a while if something like this Bears season has felt special in a way that it hasn't in a long, long time. And that's kind of the point of it. But for me, it was even when I was in college and our team was good. Those are the Steve Spurrier, Duke teams. And even then, by the time you got to bowl season, it's just like.
- [41:48]
A
Oh, yeah, I always forget that you were there when Spurrier was the coach. I always forget that.
- [41:52]
B
Oh, he was the best. I talked to Jerry DiNardo about Spurrier.
- [41:56]
A
That's right.
- [41:57]
B
Yeah. I forgot that. And he was so awesome with student journalists.
- [42:00]
A
Yeah. He said he was kind. You guys would offer beers to everybody.
- [42:04]
B
He was great.
- [42:04]
A
It was bit.
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B
He just. He treated everybody like professionals. He. If you were in a press conference with him and you were. Whether it was student, tv, student newspaper, whatever, he treated you like you were there working for the New York Times or Sports Illustrated. And. And especially when compared side by side with Krzyzewski, where one of them was, you know, accommodating, nice, fun, and the other guy was just kind of a prick all the time. And you were just like, why. Why is it so. Why is it so hard?
- [42:38]
A
Yeah.
- [42:39]
B
Why is it so difficult to just be. Be nice to people?
- [42:41]
A
Well, it's a choice. It's a choice you make, so. He clearly did.
- [42:46]
B
Yeah, very, very true, but. And I think Spurrier also never really cared about winning football games all that much.
- [42:54]
A
Seemed like he liked his cold beers, though.
- [42:56]
B
He did like cold beers. And golf. Loved golf.
- [42:58]
A
Oh, that's right. The golf. That's what it was. That was the golf thing you were telling Jerry about that.
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B
He.
- [43:02]
A
He showed up day one, was like, I'm gonna golf a lot. I'm gonna. He showed up in golf clothes. That was great.
- [43:07]
B
I love that story. Bowen told the story about in Washington when he was. When he was coaching in the NFL and didn't give a shit.
- [43:14]
A
Oh, man. Some guys love their golf.
- [43:17]
B
Dude. First guy out of the building. Okay, we're gonna get an injury report. Okay. Good practice. Got a tea time. Coach is gone. Where is he?
- [43:27]
A
I don't know. Good for him, man.
- [43:28]
B
Yeah. I guess he understood what, what mattered in life at that point. So I, I will have the games on today.
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A
Yeah.
- [43:36]
B
Got to figure out if I'm gonna maybe, you know, it's a good day to make chili. I'm not, I. I'm not saying I'm gonna make chili. I just think this is a really good day for a slow cooked something.
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A
It is. It is a good day to. It is a good chili day. It's cold out too, so.
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B
Yeah.
- [43:50]
A
Yeah. So we got Oregon, Texas Tech, Alabama, Indiana, Ole Miss, Georgia. I'm gonna tell you right now, there's no way I watch. I'm not watching all three, like complete games. I just. That's too much. Oh, no. There are people that will.
- [44:04]
B
Nobody's actually watching all three games.
- [44:06]
A
If there's one you're watching start, I guarantee there's people listening to this podcast that will send comments in her emails that they list they watched all three games start to finish. If there's one that you're watching start to finish, what's it going to be for you?
- [44:17]
B
I have no idea. Okay. It'll be, it'll be accidental if I do. Okay.
- [44:21]
A
The only one that I'm going to target to watch start to finish is Alabama, Indiana. That's the only one I have any kind of interest in, is just in watching Mendoza. Oregon, Texas Tech will be in the background. Ole Miss in Georgia if I turn on. We'll see.
- [44:33]
B
Okay. So. Yeah, it's just, it's. It's very red today. It's a lot of red teams.
- [44:42]
A
Yeah. What do you think of the uniform match of Oregon, Texas Tech? Because Oregon has like 37 uniforms.
- [44:47]
B
It depends which one they wear because they, they decide what they're.
- [44:50]
A
But I think it's gonna all be bad, though.
- [44:51]
B
Yeah. I don't know. They could go like silver or all green. I don't know. But it's just, there's, there's all. There's just too much red. Yeah.
- [44:59]
A
Ole Miss in Georgia will look very patriotic. America, Alabama, Indiana will be red and white. Yeah. Then Oregon's gonna be like some kind of gold or yellow.
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B
Yeah.
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A
It'll be bad.
- [45:09]
B
And then it depends who the broadcasters are. And I guess I don't have Gus yelling at me, so that's fine.
- [45:15]
A
No, you won't. No.
- [45:16]
B
We'll have nice, capable, mainstream, regular ESPN baritone guys doing what they do. So it's fine. That's a day. Now, I also want to say this. Last night's Bulls game, for everything that's Going on just in and of itself. That was a great win. That was a really, really, really good win against a Pelicans team that had a healthy for now, Zion Williamson. And they. The Bulls from jump were really good. You talk about everything you can do, everything a coach talks about for the selflessness, the effort. Isaac Okoro was brilliant. The guy was. Think about this. In 35 minutes, Isaac Okoro was a plus 31, his number. He. He had 24 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 blocks and a steal. Shot 8 of 10 in 35 minutes. They had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 guys in double figures. They moved the ball brilliantly. They had 33 assists on 47 baskets and they only had seven turnovers in the game.
- [46:51]
A
Wow. And that's all with Josh Giddey out for at least two weeks, White out for a week and Collins out for 10 days, minimum.
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B
That's when they're going to be revalued.
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A
Minimum.
- [47:02]
B
Respectively. Yeah, but that's why they had so few turnovers, is because Gideon White weren't handling the ball because the two of them combined have been either throwing it out of bounds because they want to or Kobe. White, before he got hurt, was constantly driving into the middle of the lane and jumping in the air for no apparent reason.
- [47:24]
A
Yeah.
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B
Which I don't advise. Yeah. I don't know. And Giddy does that too. But at least Giddy leans in and gets fouled every once in a while. That they, they moved the ball. They helped each other. It also. It helped that the Pelicans didn't have Alvarado, who just kills them because he's a really good player. But Jose Alvarado was serving his suspension, so he was out. And Jordan Poole was out there chucking it. Trey Murphy had, you know, he. They had really good players. You got to. And Derek Queen was bad, though. He was minus 19 of the game. I know there's. I'm not going to tell Kendall Gilt because he said Derek Queen reminds him of a young Moses Malone. He said that? The basketball player? Yeah. Yes. Okay.
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A
Yes.
- [48:11]
B
The Derek reminds me. Reminds me of a young Moses Malone.
- [48:15]
A
And I said 5 years old Moses Malone or how young are we talking about?
- [48:20]
B
Probably could have played. Right. Like, that's a really good question. How. How young exactly? Yes.
- [48:27]
A
What are we talking here?
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B
But that was a nice win. It was a. And again, after the game, Bouz Ellis is being silly because they were all excited that Okoro was the guy talking to Casey Johnson and Isaac just kind of wanted to get out of there and after he did the interview and. But good job, Bulls. Well done.
- [48:46]
A
That's. It's frustrating seeing pro guys getting lost in the air like that without a purpose, and it frustrates me. It's like. It's like watching youth basketball because we tell kids there's three things we tell them all the time. Like, don't run at a guy who gets the ball and jump. Like, stay on the ground. But they constantly jump all the time. Don't get lost in the air. Don't jump without a purpose. Like, know what you're doing or. And the third thing that really. That always frustrates me is picking up your dribble without knowing what you're doing. Like, keep the dribble going. Either shoot it or pass it. Just don't pick up and just stand there and figure out what. What's next. But to see, like, a guy. And I know that mentioned giddy a lot, but he has better body control, body movement, and there's at least some purpose to it at the end, even if it doesn't start with a purpose. But this. The whole diving into the middle with white and just jumping, and it's like, all right, now. Now what do I do?
- [49:35]
B
You know, I think part of it is he's not getting calls he used to get because the officials have figured out the hair, the head bob.
- [49:44]
A
Well, he said he's trying too hard with that.
- [49:46]
B
Yeah, he's. He's snapping his head back the moment somebody says hello to him. And that's not a foul.
- [49:52]
A
Yeah.
- [49:52]
B
And I think. I think officiating has been pretty good in general in the league. They've done. They've done a job as. As these guys have gotten bigger and faster and stronger and the game is now in above the rim. The amount of time the ball spends actually at or above the rim means these guys have to. Their. Their field of vision is. Is much larger. And even though the court feels smaller and it's hard, it's hard to officiate. I shouldn't say. Guys, people who are officiating, and I do think they do. They do a pretty good job. But sometimes you go foul hunting, and I wish Giddey did it more, actually. He's. He's actually getting better at foul hunting rather than getting in there and then trying to squeeze a very low possibility pass. He's actually just saying, if I throw the ball at the basket, something good might happen or somebody else might get it. And I. I wish I thought the Bulls could keep this up against better teams, and I don't. But we'll see. It just. It really, really sucks. As we mentioned, if you haven't heard the new organizations win championships, the. The worst possible aspect of this spate of injuries is that now you can't trade Kobe White. He can't yet, unfortunately, because he was. You hoped ideally he would get back into rhythm and then you could flip him for a first round pick or something. And now you can't because of. He's got two calf injuries that most teams believe can be predictive of Achilles issues. After what everybody went through with Halliburton, you know, you go back to what happened with Kevin Durant where it's like, oh, strained strain, calf strain, calf strain, calf. Out for a year and a half. Yeah. So I just. I don't see a team making any kind of substantial offer for Kobe when there were multiple teams interested. And that's too bad. It sucks. And Patrick Williams has to play, even though he had a good game, too, but he had finally been benched for being bad at basketball. And it's. I've been kind of done with him for a while, but here he is again. You can't get away from him. We have a year now coming in 2026, and I've not looked at this list, but you told me, you teased me with a list of movies that are either in production or produced and in the pipeline to come out in 2026.
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A
So all these movies are coming out in 2026. They're all. These are all releases in 2026. So I'm gonna. I'm gonna throw them at you and just get. Because I'm. I'm gonna bet that there's some you didn't even know we're making that were. That were a movie.
- [52:35]
B
Now, is this a test where one of these is fake? And I have to.
- [52:38]
A
No, no, no, no.
- [52:39]
B
These are like. These are all me.
- [52:41]
A
These are all real movies. And then the ones that you're familiar with, and I just want to know, or yay or nay, are we gonna. We're gonna see. Are we gonna pass?
- [52:48]
B
Oh, that's all it is, is.
- [52:50]
A
Yeah. Smash or pass. And then I want to figure out if you even have heard of the fact that some of these movies are coming out, because there was a couple. I had no idea that you promised me.
- [53:00]
B
These are all real.
- [53:00]
A
Promise. They're all real. Yeah.
- [53:02]
B
Promise.
- [53:02]
A
Are all real. First of all, I want to start with one other thing coming in 2026, because we're here. We are. Jan. Jan.1 the Olympics are coming in February, February 6th, the 22nd, in Italy. Are you consuming any of the Olympics?
- [53:14]
B
Sure, yeah. Yeah, I do.
- [53:16]
A
What do you watch of the Winter Olympics?
- [53:18]
B
I will say this, that NBC, that their promos are trying way too hard. Yeah, they're trying so hard. It's like the. The Scarlett Johansson one with Lindsey Vaughn. All the star power. They're just trying way too hard. But, yeah, I always find sports I pretend to like and I enjoy for just. I'll watch anything. I mean, if biathlon is interesting, I'll watch it. There's obviously hockey.
- [53:49]
A
Yeah, hockey. I'll watch for sure.
- [53:50]
B
Skiing's always fun because there's somebody falling down a hill at 70 miles an hour. That's fun.
- [53:58]
A
All right, let's. Let's see. I'm gonna throw these movies.
- [53:59]
B
Skeleton. Skeleton. Sled Head.
- [54:02]
A
Oh, you like that?
- [54:03]
B
Yeah, it's head free. Somebody, they had the luge, and then they're like these sissies. I'm going down head first.
- [54:11]
A
Head first.
- [54:12]
B
We're making a sport, and it's called skeleton. And watch this. And then there's doubles luge where they're all, you know, on top of each other. It's like the Top Gun version of.
- [54:23]
A
Luge of the Olympics.
- [54:25]
B
Yeah. Yeah.
- [54:26]
A
All right, here's some movies for you. Have you. Have you seen the trailers for the movie the Odyssey?
- [54:37]
B
The Odyssey?
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A
Yep. No, not the Odyssey. The Odyssey. Oh, the Iliad and Odyssey.
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B
I'll pass on the Odyssey, but the Odyssey.
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A
Matt Damon is in it.
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B
Is he Odysseus?
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A
I think so. Yeah.
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B
Is it actually the Odyssey? Yes, it is.
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A
It's actually the Odyssey.
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B
And he plays Odysseus, I believe so. Who plays.
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A
You haven't seen. You haven't seen the trailer at all yet? No. Okay.
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B
I'd love.
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A
Interested or not in it.
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B
Oh, I'll watch Matt Damon go grocery shopping. So I'm. Yeah, I'm potentially interested. Yes.
- [55:12]
A
All right, so here's a. Here's a. And there's another one added to this. This. This family of films, which I. I've never seen any of the original ones or the first ones, but there's a new Hunger Games movie coming out.
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B
Never seen any of them. Don't care.
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A
Agreed. Devil Wears Prada.
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B
To. Loved the first one.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Love the Loved.
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A
Loved. Seen it multiple times.
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B
I'm. I'm very wary about what the second one could possibly be.
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A
I'll see.
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B
I don't know if you recreate that.
- [55:41]
A
We actually saw the. The Broadway production of Devil Wars, Prada and It was fantastic. It was so good. It was really, really good.
- [55:48]
B
Yeah, the first one is great.
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A
I will definitely watch this and I'll. I'll watch it, like, right around release time, if not opening night. I'll see it. I enjoyed it. Did you know that there was a movie coming out called Coyote vs. Acme?
- [56:05]
B
No.
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A
It's an animated live action movie star.
- [56:09]
B
Animated or live action?
- [56:11]
A
It's both. So there's. There's cartoon characters in with life with regular live people.
- [56:15]
B
Okay, okay.
- [56:17]
A
It's about the lawsuit that Coyote, Wiley Coyote has against Acme. And Will Forte plays Kevin Avery, who is Wiley E. Coyote's lawyer. And the movie develops the friendship between the Coyote and his lawyer during the trial and their lawsuit against ACME products. John Cena plays Buddy Crane, who's ACME Corporation's lawyer. So it's Will Forte.
- [56:47]
B
What's it. Is it. Is it a kids movie or is it our raw?
- [56:50]
A
I would. I'm sure it's a kids movie.
- [56:52]
B
Yeah.
- [56:52]
A
It's got to be a family movie.
- [56:54]
B
I'll be fun. If it weren't.
- [56:56]
A
It's the stories by James Gunn, produced by James Gunn as well. So Will Forte, John Cena.
- [57:05]
B
That's one. I'll read the reviews and see if it's worthwhile.
- [57:08]
A
I have no idea. Even coming out.
- [57:10]
B
It's a great elevator pitch.
- [57:11]
A
Yeah, it really is.
- [57:13]
B
Yeah.
- [57:14]
A
All right, how about movie called the Rip? Have you heard of it?
- [57:18]
B
I believe this is a Matt Damon, Ben Affleck ish. Looking dark. The town vibes.
- [57:28]
A
So they're.
- [57:29]
B
They're.
- [57:30]
A
I think. I think they're in Miami. I think they're in Miami and they're. They're cops. And they come across, if I remember correctly, like some big drug bus that has money involved. And it's about the idea of stealing. Stealing this money or not, not accounting for all the money they find in this. In this big bust and honor among.
- [57:47]
B
Thieves and probably all that. I mean, just because of the actors involved. Potentially. Yes. The trailer did not look great. Okay.
- [57:55]
A
I'll definitely see it. Just because the actors involved. I mean, you know, Matt Damon's one of those guys, too.
- [57:58]
B
Yeah, for me.
- [57:59]
A
So I'll definitely see that. All right. How about. There's a new Spider Man. Brand new Spider man, brand new day coming out maybe. Okay, I'll see it for sure. Yeah.
- [58:08]
B
I'm not a mark for that stuff. It's good. I'll see if it's bad.
- [58:11]
A
Okay. Did you know there's a movie coming out about the video game Street Fighter.
- [58:17]
B
I did not.
- [58:18]
A
That.
- [58:18]
B
That was not real important to me as a. As a video game. I don't know.
- [58:23]
A
Was it one of your video game guys? Yeah.
- [58:24]
B
I give it three slice up.
- [58:26]
A
I won't see it unless. Unless there are children that are interested in seeing it. That's the only way. That's the only reason I would go see it.
- [58:32]
B
I'm sure there are children that are interested in seeing your children.
- [58:35]
A
Yes. Yeah, I'm not going with strange children hanging around with. Hey, kids driving around in a van and asking kids if they want to see Street Fighter. We'll hop on in. I'll take you. Yeah, no, that's not happening. All right. Have you. Oh, I used to love Swedish fish as a kid. Yeah. And I mean. I mean, we go back long enough. Where the. I used to go to Clinton's Deli in Berwin. Right on. Right on the tracks right by Home Avenue. And they would go in and it was the box of Swedish fish, like unwrapped, just open out in the air, and you just. You go reach in and grab as many as you want. They were a penny each.
- [59:09]
B
Yeah. I liked him with like, the delis when it would be like a cookie jar and you just take the metal top off and put them in a bag and they just weigh the bag.
- [59:18]
A
Yeah, but there was no scooper. It was just use your hands and pull it out because. Yeah, that's. That's how it was back in the day. All right. Have you seen the. The trailer for the new Spielberg movie? It's like a UFO movie called Disclosure Day. Okay.
- [59:31]
B
He's making another UFO movie.
- [59:33]
A
He is. Yeah. This one looks good, too. It looks good. I want to see that one.
- [59:36]
B
Close Encounters of the 8th kind.
- [59:38]
A
So now we're adding on to a collection of movie. The family of movies here. Already in the Meet the Fockers has a new movie coming out called Focker in Law. Any interest?
- [59:49]
B
No, I haven't seen any of them.
- [59:51]
A
How about the live action Moana movie with Dwayne the Rock Johnson? No interest or didn't know or both. Supergirl. There's a Supergirl movie coming out. Yeah, same on me. D.C. stuff. All right, how about this one? Avengers Doomsday.
- [60:10]
B
Oh, yeah.
- [60:10]
A
Okay.
- [60:11]
B
You'll see that I am an Avengers mark. Yes. Okay, we'll definitely see that.
- [60:16]
A
Did you know that there is a movie coming out about he. Man before you.
- [60:20]
B
Hold on. Let me ask you this about the Avengers thing. Yeah. I do have a problem if it gets too multiversey. If it gets like we're bringing back these people, you thought they were dead, but they're not dead, and you're not.
- [60:34]
A
Going to like it.
- [60:34]
B
This never happened. And this is happening because I. That. That means there's no stakes.
- [60:39]
A
Yeah, you're not going to.
- [60:40]
B
Everything is multiverse and nobody ever dies. There's. There's this. You can't have any stakes.
- [60:46]
A
Yeah.
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B
So I'll see it, but I may resent it.
- [60:50]
A
So you're going to. You're going to resent it because that's. That there's. I was reading a little bit about it, about why. Why Tony Stark is playing Dr. Doom. Because what did you all. You didn't know that?
- [61:06]
B
No. Okay.
- [61:07]
A
Yeah. Robert Downey Jr. Is Dr. Doom.
- [61:10]
B
Well, that's okay if it's just the actor. If it's.
- [61:14]
A
Oh, no, I think it's. So I think I was reading a little bit about. About. Because multiple universes were opened up, you know, in Endgame with all the gemstone things. And. And they're gonna tell the story about how it led into him becoming Dr. Doom. Steve Rogers is. Is coming back. Chris Evans is coming back as Captain America.
- [61:33]
B
Oh, so he's not 80 years old.
- [61:35]
A
No, he's not 80 years old because. Well, but in one of the universes, he was 80 years old and he gave up the shield and he lived his life and had a kid and family.
- [61:42]
B
Right.
- [61:43]
A
But. Yeah, so there's gonna be. Yeah, so you're not gonna. You know, you won't like the story where. I thought it was interesting how they were explaining it, because I wanted to know, why was Robert Downey Jr. Playing Dr. Doom?
- [61:52]
B
But.
- [61:52]
A
All right, so he man. Masters of the Universe. There's a movie coming out. Live movie. No.
- [61:58]
B
Who plays Ram Man? That was my favorite character.
- [62:05]
A
Ram man ever.
- [62:07]
B
Ram Man. Gee, I wonder if we need anything rammed.
- [62:12]
A
Well, you probably didn't have any of those. Those action figures, did you?
- [62:15]
B
You were not.
- [62:16]
A
Yeah, so I was. I'm a little bit younger than you, so I. I did have the he man stuff in the.
- [62:21]
B
And.
- [62:21]
A
And the gray skull, the castle. All right, how about the next super Mario movies? The Super Mario Brothers. Did you. Did you see the first one?
- [62:30]
B
No.
- [62:30]
A
Okay. First one was fantastic. There's another one coming out. All right, last one for you with Ryan Gosling called Project Hail Mary.
- [62:39]
B
Okay. What's that?
- [62:41]
A
Project Hail Mary is about a scientist who wakes up in space with amnesia. And he is like. He's the. He's like Earth's last hope to save us. From an extinction level type disaster that's on its way. Maybe trailer seemed decent.
- [63:04]
B
Okay, maybe. Yeah.
- [63:07]
A
All right, so I. Yeah, there was a lot of these that I knew you. That you wouldn't have. Wouldn't have even know were movies coming out.
- [63:15]
B
All right. According to the he man wiki, Ram man is a member of the heroic warriors characterized by his bulky spring legged appearance and frank flat topped metal helmet.
- [63:28]
A
Well, I'm hoping, fingers crossed the Bears play the Rams next year.
- [63:31]
B
Somehow originally he should be the mascot. Originally tagged by Mattel as the human battering Ram. His special ability is to knock opponents or obstacles down with his super hard helmet. It seems unlikely that Ram man could accomplish his feats based on human strength alone. He may be mystically enhanced like he Man. He may have cybernetic enchantments. The nature of his ability is never fully revealed. Haha. Yeah, he looks uncomfortable. He looks like he was maybe cursed or doomed to a life of hitting things with his head on point purpose.
- [64:19]
A
They played football for a while.
- [64:21]
B
Yeah, it's played by Tom Zowski. And now. And now he's a fireman or something. I don't know. I forgot.
- [64:31]
A
All right.
- [64:32]
B
Yes.
- [64:33]
A
No. Masters of the Universe. So here's the. Here's the premise of the movie. 10 year old Adam Glenn Crash lands on his mother's home planet of Earth, separating him from his ancestors power sword of Grayskull. Two decades later, he takes the sword back and bears on the mantle of he man as he battles for his home planet Eternia against the evil forces of Skeletor.
- [64:57]
B
All right, still out.
- [65:01]
A
Even after that beautiful story of a young man trying to save his planet and his mother.
- [65:06]
B
I'm not interested in his planet or his mother.
- [65:09]
A
Well, you haven't seen her yet.
- [65:10]
B
You never know. Well yeah, that's true. I haven't hung the old I'm not interested sign on He Man's mom.
- [65:16]
A
He Man's mom. He Man's mom. She's got it going on.
- [65:26]
B
Although I could see.
- [65:28]
A
Oh wow. Skeletor is played by Jared Leto.
- [65:30]
B
Really?
- [65:31]
A
Yeah.
- [65:33]
B
Okay.
- [65:33]
A
Idris Elba's in the movie.
- [65:35]
B
Wow. Well, that's a big budget.
- [65:38]
A
Yeah, some other guys with names I'm not even gonna try to pronounce.
- [65:41]
B
Be better if Skeletor were like Gilbert Gottfried.
- [65:44]
A
Kristen Wiig's in it. Gilbert? No thanks.
- [65:51]
B
No, Gilbert. Gilbert Gottfried is not as he man, but his Skeletor.
- [65:55]
A
Oh, what did it was he man.
- [65:58]
B
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- [67:17]
A
Well, I'm sorry to mean it, but Kristen Wiig is playing Roboto in He man, where apparently Roboto is one of the Gato. Yeah, he's. It's. It was. It was figure that was built by the man at Arms and gives him like a special cyber heart so that even as a machine he still had can feel human emotions and connect with his comrades in battle. Roboto.
- [67:42]
B
That's lame. Oh yeah. Man At Arms.
- [67:46]
A
Yes, man at Arms.
- [67:49]
B
Duncan was his name, right? Duncan, the man at Arms.
- [67:53]
A
That sounds right for the Masters of the Universe, Is that correct? I think that's right.
- [67:56]
B
I think that's what his name. And he looked like Mark Malone. Remember him? Remember the former Pittsburgh quarterback who worked for Channel 2 for a while?
- [68:07]
A
Oh, yeah. It looked like Tom Selleck, didn't he?
- [68:09]
B
Yes, a little bit. I always thought man at Arms had a little like Mark Malone in him.
- [68:14]
A
Did you know that Master of the Universe had a character called Mossman, a plant based hero?
- [68:20]
B
Mossman, the plant based hero.
- [68:23]
A
Master of camouflage.
- [68:24]
B
He called his faces north.
- [68:27]
A
Gave you really healthy dishes. They were heart healthy and friendly.
- [68:31]
B
I was not a Moss man.
- [68:32]
A
Yeah, there was. I'm not plant based hero and master of camouflage who can manipulate plant matter. Causing flowers to grow, but also causing tidal waves of moss and vegetation. What's your superpower? I grow flowers.
- [68:47]
B
Well, maybe he could get together with Jake Plummer, and maybe the guy's just always just zonked out of his mind on psilocybin mushrooms.
- [68:55]
A
Okay, so I found a superhero plant based.
- [68:57]
B
If you have a plant based power and you're not growing drugs, there's. There's something wrong with you.
- [69:02]
A
But. So now I found a superhero worse than Aquaman. I think Aquaman's the worst guy ever. The absolute worst ever.
- [69:08]
B
You're absolutely right. Holy crap.
- [69:11]
A
Yeah, Mossman.
- [69:13]
B
Look at him. But did you ever, like, if. Maddie, if you were.
- [69:17]
A
If you were an enemy of Aquaman, like, what? Wouldn't you just stay out of the water?
- [69:22]
B
Yeah. You just walk around on land, be.
- [69:24]
A
Like, hey, come on in the water and fight me. I'm good. I'll stay right here on land.
- [69:27]
B
No, thanks.
- [69:28]
A
Good luck with that. Good luck talking to the fishes while I'm here on the girl on the land.
- [69:33]
B
Yeah, fight me. No, I'm gonna go get a sandwich.
- [69:36]
A
All right, so look up.
- [69:37]
B
Gotta type in Mossman and go to he man fandom in the Wiki. And just look. Look at this poor dude. It says, heroic spy and master of camouflage. And another one. This is another superhero that looks miserable. He's got way too small a waist. He's pounced into that tiny loincloth. Very fit.
- [69:59]
A
He's got a really.
- [70:00]
B
Yeah.
- [70:00]
A
Really thin waist.
- [70:01]
B
This is the best. The figure is essentially a green repaint of Beastman covered with fuzzy moss and the fangs painted over and a pine scent added to the body. He's an air freshener.
- [70:19]
A
Air freshener, man.
- [70:20]
B
He is. He's an air freshener.
- [70:23]
A
What's your super strength? I make the air smell great.
- [70:27]
B
Febrezeman.
- [70:29]
A
Like, the villains come home back to their lair, and they're like, it smells pleasant in here. Why does it smell so clean?
- [70:36]
B
Because I'm Mossman in your apartment. Not only that, I've made you risotto. Thank you, Mossman. This is delicious.
- [70:49]
A
He's not wearing pants either. He's a pantsless suit.
- [70:52]
B
He's got a loincloth on. It's. You know, he doesn't need much.
- [70:56]
A
He's happy, man.
- [70:57]
B
He's domesticated.
- [70:59]
A
He don't. In a look, basically. No, it doesn't look okay.
- [71:04]
B
No, he looks miserable. Yeah. Like, I. Yeah, I think something's wrong in. In where? What was there. What was it called? The master of what I. Great.
- [71:14]
A
The man at Arms. What do you mean?
- [71:16]
B
No, their whole world is called. It's something, right? What's he.
- [71:21]
A
Well, the planet he was from was Eternia.
- [71:24]
B
That's what it is. Yeah. Eternia. Oh, he's from the planet of Florania. Mossman is.
- [71:31]
A
It's a derivative of Florida ability.
- [71:34]
B
Oh, my God.
- [71:35]
A
Abilities.
- [71:36]
B
Camouflaging self in foliage.
- [71:41]
A
He's hiding in bushes.
- [71:44]
B
Shape shifting into plant life. Telepathic communication with plant life. That'll work. Taking on the smell of surrounding vegetables. Where's my man? I don't know. Well, I smell his jasmine, producing overpowering scents. Well, then I'm a superhero. And manipulating oxygen.
- [72:14]
A
Okay.
- [72:15]
B
Would he turn it into ozone? Yeah.
- [72:18]
A
All right, let's wrap this up.
- [72:19]
B
Sucks. Yeah, let's wrap this up. I got. I've got. I've got research to do, and actually, I have to start working on tomorrow where we're going to do our bottom 10 lions.
- [72:29]
A
Yes, that's correct.
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B
All right, we got Friday feedback. Friday. Tomorrow we've got bottom 10 lions that. You know what? That's what I got to do today. I've got to do all my work while watching football games I don't care about. This is perfect. It's going to be awesome. Well, that is Dan Bernstein unfiltered and is brought to you in partnership ship with my bookie. Mmhmm.
- [72:54]
A
It sure is. Why isn't it playing Dan Bernstein Unfiltered.
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B
Unfiltered.
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A
On three. One, two. Sports.