the Playoffs, Life Insurance, Being An Executor | Monday Morning Podcast 1-19-26

Summary

Monday Morning Podcast – January 19, 2026

Episode Title: The Playoffs, Life Insurance, Being an Executor
Host: Bill Burr (All Things Comedy)

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Overview

This episode finds Bill Burr in classic form, multitasking as he watches the Patriots playoff game and rants on sports, relationships, conspiracies, and life lessons. The show swerves from play-by-play Patriots anxiety to sharp takes on NFL officiating, personal anecdotes about parenting and helicopter flying, musings on ICE and American attitudes, to advice about wills and life insurance—all in Burr’s signature mix of irreverence and insight.

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1. NFL Playoff Madness: Patriots Anxiety & Sports Rants

00:01–14:17, 19:30–21:09, 25:48–28:00, 29:40–35:37, 41:19–44:49

• Bill records while watching the Patriots playoff game, displaying raw fan energy—celebrating, swearing, and worrying over every play.
• Early on, he vents about the criticism of C.J. Stroud:

  “Could they trash C.J. Stroud anymore? Guy threw four interceptions. No, he didn’t…There were four interceptions, one of them was tipped at the line. That's not thrown an interception.” (00:56)

• Bill rails against how NFL stats count tipped passes as QB interceptions.
• Expresses frustration at the subjectivity of controversial NFL rules, especially around catches and turnovers:

  “Josh Allen throws it to his receiver. The fucking guy catches it, lands on the ground…But how the Denver guy can…rip the ball away and then that is his? I don’t understand that.” (08:37)

• Discusses the “makeup call” in relation to Sean Payton and past NFL referee controversies (like the 1999 Stanley Cup Final “man in the crease” moment).
• Conspiratorial humor about the NFL, capitalism, and Vegas:

  “All sports teams are now sportsbooks and they’re in business with Vegas…They’re calling Las Vegas. And now they're showing you fried chicken. Eat the poison. Forget what you just saw.” (07:50)
  “The CIA runs the NFL, okay? I mean, this is just running, right?” (08:11)

• Sports nostalgia: Bill remembers Boston sport struggles and glories, and calls out the media and the league for perceived anti-Buffalo and anti-Boston biases.
• Quick aside about the Bruins’ strong homestand and his sports-parenting routines.

  “You know I really decided…once I had kids, I stopped watching sports...Bill, you love sports. It keeps you in a good mood. You gotta treat yourself to a game every once in a while.” (21:07)

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2. Rants, Conspiracies, and American Paranoia

02:21–06:11, 16:15–18:41

• A tangent about bulletproof vests, 1997 North Hollywood shootout, and the militarization of police:

  “Those guys had full body armor...now the cops have, like, the same weaponry as the military because these assholes, robbing banks, escalated it.” (04:27)

• Jokingly floats a conspiracy that the infamous robbers were “CIA plants” (05:36), then mocks how the Internet spreads unfounded rumors as “fact.”
• On doomsday preppers:

  “My doomsday plan is to get killed. To die at peak civilization. That’s what the fuck I want to do. I don’t wanna live underground then come back up eating radioactive squirrels.” (06:11)

• Critique of U.S. immigration enforcement:

  “My doomsday plan is to get killed...I don’t want to live underground then come up eating radioactive squirrels...” (06:11 – humor continues) “[ICE agents] going in arresting people, making tacos...you gotta have all of that on to arrest a mom? Jesus Christ, what, did she have an air freshener in her car?” (17:16–17:34)

• Warns: when you support oppressive policies, the net will eventually expand and catch you, too, unless you comply with "Epstein Island cunts." (18:41)

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3. Personal Life: Parenting, Learning, and Well-Being

21:07–25:48, 64:45–67:23

• Bill shares his approach to balancing family, sports, and child-rearing:
  • He records games, fast-forwards through commercials, watches after the kids sleep, and is delighted his kids play outside more than using screens.
  • Coaching his daughter on multiplication tables—tying sports competitiveness to learning:

    “You gotta get all 13 in a row before you go to bed.” (24:20)

• Encourages adults to learn ambidextrous skills (throwing lefty/righty) for fun and brain health.
• On breaking cycles of family trauma and anger:

  “Your job as an adult is not to let your trauma affect you. You gotta work it out, and it has to end with you...I have done that the best I could.” (65:19)

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4. Aviation Adventure

28:00–34:30

• Describes a flight lesson/ferry to maintenance, handling turbulence, and learning about the Venturi effect and wind patterns in terrain:
  • “That’s how you learn in aviation. So hopefully you live to learn.” (30:36)
  • In awe observing bigger, more expensive helicopters: “That is just a whole other fucking level.” (34:30)

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5. Music, American Culture, and the Digital Age

53:52–59:23

• On news of no rap songs in the Top 40 for the first time in 35 years:

  “The Internet has just disintegrated everything. It killed the music business. It’s killed my business. There’s no sort of collective, all eyeballs in the same area.” (55:35)

• Reflects on the rise of “vibe” music/DJs and the way people use music now as a balm for daily stress.
  • “I’ve really come 180 on DJs…My wife puts on these YouTube channels where there’s just…lo-fi, and it’s soothing, a nice way to end the day.” (57:06)
  • “Every generation is going to have their Jimi Hendrixes…” (59:08)
• Listeners are encouraged to suggest new music: “If you could keep me up on who’s out there, I’ll…listen to any of that.” (59:17)

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6. Relationships, Mortality, and Legal Headaches

49:51–65:19

• Addresses life insurance (amid an ad read):

  “As much as it was something I didn’t want to think about, like the end of my life, it made me feel great knowing that if I did kick the bucket…the people I love will be taken care of.” (50:07)

• Reads a listener’s story about becoming the executor (not a beneficiary) of an estranged uncle’s will. The uncle had cut his daughter out for a cleaning lady—Bill finds it simultaneously sad and “like a fairy tale for the cleaning lady. I’m getting Julia Roberts vibes.” (64:06)
• Discusses the difficulty of challenging a will, mental competency, and how to break cycles of family trauma.

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7. Growth, Mental Health, and Self-Acceptance

66:40–68:51

• Listener writes in, thanking Bill for being open about therapy and growth:

  “Don’t ever think that we get tired of hearing about your growth…You’re an inspiration for a lot of men with pent up anger from a crazy childhood.” (66:43)

• Bill describes his own healing process:

  “That it’s gone…all of a sudden it’s not there anymore, has been incredible, but I’m also not taking it for granted…never thought that this was going to happen.” (67:23)

• Stresses the importance of continued self-work: massage, breathwork, journaling, yoga.

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8. Notable Quotes

Sports/Jokes/Conspiracies:

• “Why don’t they have bulletproof vests for your head?…It’s just such a corporate cunty thing to do. Let’s get them to buy the fucking one for their torso first.” (02:21)
• “If Aaron Rodgers threw that, that’s a pass interference all fucking day long. Hang in there, kid. Hang in there.” (14:17)

On Parenting and Growth:

• “Your job as an adult is not to let your trauma affect you. You gotta work it out, and it has to end with you.” (65:17)
• “Now I’ve gotten rid of my temper, and I don’t even curse in front of my kids!” (65:39)

On Therapy:

• “That it’s gone…all of a sudden it’s not there anymore, has been incredible, but I’m also not taking it for granted…never thought that this was going to happen.” (67:23)

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9. Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:01 – Patriots Play-by-Play & C.J. Stroud Debates
• 04:20 – North Hollywood Shootout, Police Militarization, Conspiracies
• 08:37 – NFL Officiating Rants & “Makeup Calls”
• 16:41 – ICE Enforcement Critique & Racial Paranoia
• 21:07 – Parenting, Sports, and Learning
• 28:00 – Flying Lessons & Aviation Anecdotes
• 41:19 – Post-Game Patriots/Fan Reflection
• 49:51 – Life Insurance and Executor Story
• 53:52 – Music Industry Shifts and “No Rap in Top 40”
• 66:40 – Listener Mail: Therapy and Self-Improvement

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10. Tone and Style

Bill’s tone is raw, direct, self-deprecating, and hilarious. He moves seamlessly from cutting rants (“corporate cunty thing to do”) to heartfelt parental advice and vulnerability about self-work. The blend of sports intensity, personal history, and sharp-eyed commentary creates both laughs and moments of real reflection.

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For New Listeners:
This episode is a blend of sports fanaticism, grizzled wisdom, and social commentary, filtered through Burr’s restless, quick-fire mind. Whether reliving playoff drama, venting about society’s ills, or sharing his journey with anger and healing, Bill keeps the show candid and compelling.
Memorable tagline:

“Go Bruins. Go Patriots. Go Celtics. Great fucking time of year. Good luck to Indiana and the University of Miami. I hope it’s a classic…Go fuck yourselves.” (69:43)

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End of Summary

Transcript

[A]

Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Burr, and it's time for the Monday morning podcast for Monday, January 19, 2026. What's going on? How are ya? Oh, Jesus. Drake May. Throw the fucking ball away, brother. Just throw it away. Watching the Pats right now, end of the third quarter, 21 to 16. I got to do the podcast while I watch because I'm losing my fucking mind.

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I can't handle this.

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I will say this is. As much as. It was hard to watch the Patriots the last few years.

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You know, it.

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Was nice to not have to worry.

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About having a heart attack during the playoffs because we weren't in them.

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They could just sit here and enjoy it and not be emotionally invested. This has been an ugly game.

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This has been an ugly game.

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Halftime. Jesus Christ, could they trash C.J. stroud anymore? Guy threw four interceptions. No, he didn't. There were four interceptions. One of them was tipped at the line. Okay, that's not thrown an interception. That's a tip. Fucking ball. It's not like he threw it to somebody and then another one. He fucking throws it at 87. His tight end, whoever the fuck. That guy hits him right in the hands, and the guy tips it up in the air like he's setting somebody up for a spike in volleyball. And I'll tell you what. Oh, I'll tell you. I'll tell you right now. I will tell you what. With all of these new fucking stats out there. Yaks, yards after catch and all of this, like, I don't think quarterbacks. I don't think that that should go against them. When you throw it to a wide receiver and. And it hits them in the fucking hands. I don't mean slightly overthrown. I mean a ball that should be caught.

[B]

Maybe that's why they don't do it. Because, you know, how do you. How do you decide that that's like Diddy or did he not make a football move? Which I will get to with that.

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Fucking debacle of a call, that makeup call.

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I have a theory of that on that fucking Bill's Broncos game.

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But if, you know, if you throw it to your receiver, he. It's.

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He's a professional. He's supposed to catch it.

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If it hits him in the hands, like, you know, you threw it on the floor. Hands a fucking stone and it flies. Who is that stupid reporter with that serious look on his face during that goddamn commercial, like he's actually fighting the battle. This bulletproof vest on. You know what's so dumb about a Bulletproof vest. What about your head? I understand your head is a smaller target, so people aim center mass. But, you know, I always looked at that like, you know, your head is the hard drive, all right? Your chest is sort of, you know, I know there's a lot of important shit in there, But you can get shot in the chest and you can still, you know, stumble a few feet. You get shot in the head, that's it. It's fucking over. Why don't they have a bulletproof vest for your head? It's like motorcycle ride. You can buy a vest now that's an airbag, but nothing for your legs. It's just such like a corporate cunty thing to do. Like, let's. Let's get them to buy the fucking one for their torso first, and then eventually we'll get the one from the. Although I remember back in the day, back in the day, when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore. Two fucking lunatics robbed the bank of America in. In the Valley.

[B]

I got a buddy of mine, you know, totally grew up here in L. A. It was the most L. A things ever. I was like, dude, I drove by that. That bank of America where that. That big shootout happened back in the day, and he's like, dude, that was my bank.

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Total valley guy. Anyway, and that's like a catchphrase now. Whenever, between us, whenever, like, you know, somebody brings up something that somebody or.

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The other guy already knows about, that.

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That'S what you say now.

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Dude, that was my bag.

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Anyway, those guys had full body armor. Full body armor. I always wondered if that's a flag. That's a flag. You go, there you go. Booty interfered with. Anyway, they had the full armor, like, head to toe, they had the skates guards. They could block shots. They could do whatever the you wanted to do. And the only way that they ended up getting killed, one of the guys killed himself. It was insane. It was like that movie Heat, except it was in the Valley and it was real. And those two fucking assholes, because of what they did, now the cops have, like, the same weaponry as, like, you know, the military in a lot of ways, because these assholes, Robin Banks escalated it to that. But then, you know, you know, the cops, they don't work for us. They work for them. So now they have these. You're just setting it up for a police state. So I think that both of those guys were CIA plants and they really.

[B]

Didn'T kill each other to kill themselves or get killed by the cops.

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That's What?

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I think I'm going to put that out there. Because it's the Internet, right? And you can just say anything.

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You can say anything and then somebody takes it and they'll have like. They'll quote this as fact but not say who said it. They'll just say sources. And that's how it starts. And next thing you know.

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What are you doing? What are you doing? You're fucking. You're digging a doomsday hole in the ground. I always love that. Those people who build like fucking, you know.

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My doomsday plan is, is to get killed. To die at peak civilization. That's what the fuck I want to do. I don't want to fucking live underground then come back up eating radioactive squirrels when I run out of canned tuna a year and a half later. Dude, I don't know what people think that they're doing when they come out of the ground. Touchdown. One handed catch. Booty. There you go, baby. There you go. Holy. What a goddamn catch. That was unfucking believable.

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Oh, he brought the other hand at the last second.

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I'm telling you, dude, like these fucking kids did. The level of athleticism.

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Don't even say that.

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Touched the ground.

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He didn't fucking control it.

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You fucking cunts.

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I swear to God, if you do this.

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Don't do this. Yeah, that is a catch. Caught. Touchdown. I have the sound down. I can only imagine. Did he make a football move when he fucking rolled over? Anyway, speaking of which, how about that makeup call for Sean Payton when they. That fucking call at the end of the game where they somehow. Oh my God, they're showing it again. This means they're fucking out. He has it. That's 100% a touchdown.

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Except nowadays, nowadays that all sports teams are now sportsbooks and they're in business with Vegas.

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This right now, they're calling Las Vegas.

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And now they're showing you fried chicken.

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This, this is how it works. You know? Eat the poison. Forget what you just saw. Let us manipulate it. I'll tell you right now, the CIA.

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Runs the NFL, okay? I mean, this is just running, right?

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I mean, false flags right there. What?

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That was not. Sorry.

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Anyway, the end of that.

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The overtime game of the Bills. I haven't watched the game, okay? But I saw the. I saw the overtime, all right? I got kids, so I can watch one game a weekend. So I watch. I watch my Patriots.

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That fucking play where it went from a catch to an interception. If anyone can explain that to me. Josh Allen throws it to his receiver. The fucking Guy catches it, lands on the ground with the DB touching him. So he's down by contact. Or if you want to say he ripped it out as he was on the ground, he didn't have it long enough. There wasn't a football move when he fell to the ground, then it's no catch. It's either no catch or are down by contact. But how the Denver guy can be on the ground with him touching the other receiver, rip the ball away and then that is his. I don't understand that. Unless what they're saying is, as he came down, the ball was bobbling, bobbling, bobbling. Which it didn't look like it. And then he pulled it out and like the Bills guy never had control of it. And then the other guy did, and the ball never touched the ground. So that's why it's an interception. What I think it is is they owed Sean Payton for that fucking horrific no call of a pass interference when he was coaching the Saints.

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And they went ahead and they made it up.

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And I'm not going to lie to you, when the Bills hit that field goal, it didn't go wide right at the end of regulation.

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I thought that they were going to win the game.

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And my condolence, condolences to Buffalo Bills.

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Fans and just Buffalo fans in general.

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Okay. I don't know. Like, in my heart of hearts, I think the NFL doesn't like that there's a team in Buffalo and they just.

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Want it to move.

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And they just keep doing this shit to you. I don't know.

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You guys haven't been fucked by the refs. You get your asses kicked four years in a row. Well, wide right. I forget that the Redskins game and then the Dallas games were just fucking debacles.

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But.

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That 1999, man in the crease. And they didn't call. They called it all year. I just will never understand that. I feel like every 20 years when there's a Stanley Cup Final, there's just something fucking egregious that happens. So 1999 Dallas Stars are in the fucking crease. They don't fucking call it for whatever goddamn reason.

[A]

Why do they keep showing that? I swear to God, they're showing the play again. We kicked the extra point.

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It's over now.

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Are they saying good things? Look at this guy. I can't believe it. Oh, my God, I should have bet the over.

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Anyway.

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Was that his true reaction? That looked like a commercial. Power exciting NFL football is.

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Anyway, what the hell was I talking about? What was I even chatting about? Here. The was I talking about. Oh, I was talking about the Sean Payton thing, like the makeup.

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I just don't understand that call. Oh, I was talking about every 20.

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Years in the Stanley Cup.

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So 20 years after that the Bruins play the St. Louis Blues and we had been penalized for playing hockey for the better part of 10 years. So we came up with the Olympic finesse hockey team that the NFL acted like they wanted to have. And then the Blues showed up playing Bruins hockey, running our goaltender. They didn't call anything and the Blues.

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Beat the Bruins playing Bruins hockey.

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I mean God bless, you know, I'm.

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Happy for St. Louis and I also, I love the Blues. I kind of have a thing for the expansion 7. I've always liked all those teams except for the Penguins. I don't like the Penguins cuz they took the Bruins colors. They forfeited them and then we wore them forever and then they came back and just took them. Well, they came back as baby blue and then they, then they took them and then also like just their brand of hockey over there with the, the amount of like just fucking. Can we stop the run today people? Their brand of hockey of just blowing out guys knees and fucking, you know, waiting for him to follow through on shots and you know, doing the Scott Stevens hits. Like I don't know, it's just, it's just, it's gross. And then on top of that you put those assholes in your ring of honor and then you bitch, moan and complain about fucking Sidney Crosby. It's you know, the way people treat him. You know, I'm more of a Washington Capitals guy and I always liked the Flyers because I, I just immediately, I always liked the fights and they were the broad street bullies. And what was funny about them is they won back to back cups in 74, 75. And they were just like this is, this is, this is how we got there and this is how we're playing. They finally have stopped doing that. I mean the whole league has.

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Oh no. The under thrown ball pass interference. They didn't call it.

[B]

Thank God. Thank God.

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That fucking play I stays another one. That is bullshit. In the NFL they rewarded. Maybe that's the balance. If a wide receiver tips a ball for an interception, they call it, you know, he gets the interfere. I mean he gets the, the interception the quarterback does. But if you under throw a fucking football.

[B]

Jesus says there's.

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That's pass interference right there. We got away with that one. Well, you know they got away with a false start.

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Look at C.J. he's like, what the fuck, dude? I don't have enough seniority in this league, all right?

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If Aaron Rodgers threw that, that's a pass interference all fucking day long. Hang in there, kid. Hang in there. Anyway.

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I'm all over the map here. So, like, that was such a weird call, that that was an interception. I. I just. I don't get it down by contact or no catch. I get that he didn't hold on to it long enough, but now I'm thinking maybe because the ball didn't.

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If they didn't think he secured it.

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And the ball was sort of up for grabs as they were both lying there. It's kind of like, you know, when they go to tackle a running back and they think they tackled him, but.

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He sort of spins around on the.

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Guy in his knees.

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Nothing touches the ground.

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Everybody thinks it's a tackle and he keeps running.

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Does it fall under that? I don't know.

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Anyway. Oh, Jesus Christ, look at the founding fathers out there.

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You know? That's when you know you're a fucking true fan. You know when it's snowing out, it's January, and you're outside dressed like Paul Revere, there's almost another pickoff there. You dress like Paul Revere.

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Oh, the old knee to knee contact. Texans just keep getting hurt here.

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Anyway. And then also, what about the Broncos? Bo Nicks breaks his ankle with like three plays left. See, that's the thing. To win a championship, not only do.

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You got to have the players, the.

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Coach, the gm, the ownership, you got.

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To be lucky too. Oh, that wasn't. Need any. Oh, ouch, ouch. All right, this is getting ugly here anyways, let's plow ahead here. How about those fucking Boston Bruins?

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I went to that stinkeroo of a game up there in Seattle at that amazing. What do they call it? Climate. Climate first, where they use rainwater for the ice and all of that. That hippie dippy shit. We need to be doing more of that. You know, if ice is just going to go in to cities now and just shoot unarmed mothers. The amount of people defending that, like.

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How much hate is in your heart. Some mom driving away in a fucking.

[A]

SUV and you just fucking fill her full of holes. Do you realize the whole world is watching this when we're doing this? Like, you know, I'm not saying, you know, you want to get rid of illegal immigrants. That's not the fucking way you do it. Why does everything have to be stormtrooper.

[B]

So fucking. It's such a move that Whole goddamn show of force. And all of these fucking nerds. And ice acting like they're in Special Forces.

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You, you're fucking going in arresting people, making tacos.

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What the fuck is wrong with you? Showing up with all of that gear on.

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Good Lord, you got to have all of that on to arrest a mom?

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Jesus Christ, what, did she have an.

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Air freshener in her car?

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Unreal.

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Unreal. But, you know, that's how racism works. Because they're not your color, so you can't see your mom until it's too fucking late. Because that's the thing about this ICE and this alligator Alcatraz. Eventually, they're going to be out of illegal immigrants. And then, you know, guess who's going to be next? You don't recognize what's going on in this country. You must not watch foreign affairs. How, you know, a certain group here likes to go in and destabilize countries. And the fact that none of these politicians are talking about what social media is doing to the fabric of this country, just pulling us apart. CNN and Fox News, the fact that they're allowed to do this every day.

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Scream fire in a crowded movie theater and get us all fucking riled up.

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They're getting the herd all fucking. That means something's. They're going to do something for them and they're going to say, it's for you, white person, and you're going to fucking believe it. And I'm telling you, eventually they're going. ICE is going to come for you unless you do exactly what these fucking.

[B]

Epstein island cunts want you to do.

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All right, there you go. And Houston punts. Houston punts. Let's have a nice, long sustaining. Get out, get out, get out, get out. Oh, nice play by the special teams. Tell you right now, you know, if you're gonna let that ball go, you got to have the situational awareness to understand how the football is gonna react when it hits that wet turf. That right there, number 11, what a play. God damn it. God damn it. God damn it. That's the type of thing that keeps you in the game. Beautiful play. Beautiful play. Look at this kid, playing all 60 minutes. Little hold on his jersey. Keeps fighting it off.

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Opportunity.

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See that? He played the whole play. He finished his check anyways. The Boston Bruins.

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Oh, geez, I just dropped my goddamn phone.

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Boston Bruins. After that stinkeroo up there in Seattle. Seattle.

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The cracker also played a great game, therefore check was unbelievable. Okay? I'm giving credit where credit's due. We came back, had a five Game. Homestead.

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All right.

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I just binged all of them. We beat Calgary. We beat the Rangers. Look at this kid trying to get.

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Fucking polio shirtless in the crowd.

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That's. Anyway, we beat Calgary. Then we beat the Rangers. Then we beat the Cunty Penguins. Then we beat the. The Red Wings, shut them out, back to back, one.

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Nothing.

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Then we beat the Red Wings, who seem to always be good, three to nothing.

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Now, I know this doesn't mean come.

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April, you got to beat him four out of seven, but, you know, we had a. We had a rough year last year.

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You know, and then we come back.

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We beat the Kraken, retire Zidane Ochara's number, which is really cool because he's also 33.

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So now 33 no longer exists for the Celtics or the Bruins.

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Larry Legend and Zidane Okara. And we beat the Kraken. And then yesterday, we go up to.

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Chicago, home of the Liars Club, one of my favorite bars back when I.

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Used to drink in the country.

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We beat the Blackhawks.

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I haven't watched that game yet. I binged the other five games. I got all caught up. I just decided to take a. You know.

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You know, I really decided. You know, once I had kids, I.

[B]

Kind of stopped watching sports because I got to, like, you know, I got to be there for them. And then I realized, like, Bill, you know what? You love sports. It keeps you in a good mood. You got to, like, you know, you got to treat yourself to a game every once in a while. So what I do now is I tape all the Bruins games. And then when everybody goes to sleep, I go downstairs and I kind of like, you know, fast forward through the commercials and the stop at your play and everything, and I'm able to get caught up. And what I love now is my kids go outside and play baseball. Baseball, like, right now, and soccer, but mainly baseball, with each other in. In the backyard. Like, they go outside to play sports, which I got to be honest with you, with video games, iPads, cell phones, all of this. Not trying to toot my own horn here, but I feel like me and my wife are doing a great job. I go out there, like they asked me, they say, hey, Dad, I want to hit some. Can I hit some home runs before school? And I get out there, I pitch lefty. Back in the day, I had my rotator cuff issue on my right, and I learned how to throw lefty, too. So I mostly just throw lefty now, which is something you can learn how to do, by the way, if you just do it. You know, it's a really adult thing, like to not want to suck at something. You got to remember how you first look when you tried to throw with your right arm or your left, whatever your natural side is. You can totally learn how to throw with the other. And it's actually really fun. And I believe it's good for your brain. I'm a big believer in knowing how to do shit with both hands. Okay. From pitching to rubbing one out. You gotta be able. You gotta be able to do that. I think it's great for your brain and you know, and hopefully staving off like dementia or. What's the other one there that I can't remember, ironically, in Alzheimer's. So I've been helping my daughter with multiplication tables because they're starting to do that third grade. And I remember I used to get my ass kicked on that. And then my parents got me flashcards and I just started doing those things because the only way to do it is just memorize them, right? In my kids school, they go, they go up through 13, you know, we. Our multiplication tape. There you go, Drake. Nice throw. First down, Stefan Diggs. Stefan Diggs. Anyway, they got us these, got me these flashcards and I just started doing them and I was looking at them the way I was looking at my football cards and I just never forgot it. Same way with the football cards. I still remember Louis Kelcher from the, the San Diego Chargers had a size 16 quadruple E cleat. I still remember that because I drew a little cartoon. I looked at it a bunch of times and that just stuck in my brain. So I made like flashcards. I ordered some, but I'm making some flashcards in the meantime for my daughter. And because she plays sports, I'm able to tie sports into it where it's like, you know, when I throw them pitches, I'm like, all right, you got to get five hits both sides of the plate. You know, they get into that. So I just was doing that with, with the multiplication tables. Like, all right, you got to get all 30. Like we were doing, looking at, I think, you know, fours, four times one, all the way up to four times 13. And I was just going like, all right, you got to get all 13 in a row before you go to bed. And I forget which one it was either 8 times 4 or 9 times 4. She would mess up, she'd be like 38 or 36. And we just kept doing it. And then she was able to like to get it down and. I don't know, CJ's looking a little depressed there. Sorry. I know this is weird. I got the game on in the background, but this is the only way I can handle it. I got to talk to you guys while I'm watching this game. I feel good about this, dude. I feel good about this. If we can just keep getting first downs and then maybe get a field goal, that would put us up 15 points. Good.

[A]

No call there.

[B]

4Th and 8 not happening on this one.

[A]

Oh, I got another celebrity. I got another celebrity endorsement for a commercial. Chris Collinsworth. What's his catchphrase? A little grab of the jersey, you know, if you can get away with it. He kind of grabbed him back, but they never call it on the wide receiver. All right, what are you going to do? Please don't do a fake punt here. Please kick it away. Please kick it away.

[B]

Oh, Jesus. What's that guy moving for anyway? There you go. Kick it away. Thank you. Didn't really follow through, did he? Fair catch. 12, 13 yard line.

[A]

All right, all right. Okay, let's get another stop here. Oh, my God. The college national championship. Who do you like? You gotta like Indiana, but you gotta be rooting for. I don't.

[B]

I am actually rooting for Indiana because as much as Miami is the underdog and I love my buddy Willis, I'll be rooting for that. I'm going to be happy either way.

[A]

If Miami wins, my buddy Willis and.

[B]

Jackie Flynn will be excited. But Indiana, I don't think they've ever won a football championship. And they are just such a basketball school throughout the years. I will definitely. I will definitely be happy for them. It's going to be awesome. Going to be an awesome game. Um, anyway, let me do. Let me do the reads here. Did I talk about everything I wanted to talk about here? Um. Oh, I had a really good flight the other day. Hey, really good flight I had.

[A]

Jesus, they're letting them play today.

[B]

Man, he was fucking hugging him like a toddler there.

[A]

Taking his first steps. Big man. Big man. Nine yards.

[B]

Ah, Jesus, you hate to see it.

[A]

Texans playing a little bit of the. Hurry up. Look at that guy. Did he smoke a joint or what? What the. Was the look on his face or is he just a ginger. You know, that's how we look.

[B]

We look a little bewildered when you put a helmet on us. All right, I get it. They're keeping him in front of him. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. Anyway, so I. I had the 500 hour maintenance thing on my little two seater. So, you know, I pull up to the airport and I. And I'm flying out to this airport where they, they, they do the maintenance. And I called my instructor and he was with somebody that was flying an A star, which is something that the, the cops and the, in the media people fly. So I had a ride back so they were flying out. You know, that thing's fucking heavy, right? So of course I show up to the airport, you know, and anytime I drive in, I. They have a flag right there. Like deliberately, not even a windsock, just a flag. And that thing is like straight out in the wind. I'm like, ah, Jesus, here we go. So, you know, there's an air mat for turbulence and that type of. But you know, I got the cab G3 so it has a fully articulated. Nice play, Gonzalez. I got a 454 to go. I got a, you know, the fully articulated main rotor system so I don't have to deal with like, you know, mass bumps, low G pushover, anything like that. So if you were flying like a Bell or a Robinson, if it had a two bladed system, what you would do, you just fly slow is what you want to do. But I mean, it's still, you know, being in an R22 with, you know, turbulence beyond a certain level is just fucking a stupid thing to do. So anyway, I'm flying out to go get this thing.

[A]

Oh, yes, baby, yes, yes. Walk down deep in their own territory.

[B]

Okay. All right. Mike Braver. What a fucking coach.

[A]

And how about the gm? All the fucking players they picked up.

[B]

What a job they did this year. Unbelievable. All right, so anyway, plowing ahead here, so we're flying out. You know, wasn't a flight or two, they took off before me, so I was flying out there. So they're ahead of me in this much heavier helicopter. And my instructor radios to me, he goes, bill yawn. And I go, yeah, what's up? And he was just like, how you.

[A]

Doing with this turbulence? Which let me knew, let me know there's a little flag, man. A little late. Little late hit there? No, well, late hit, out of bounds, kind of let me know that some was coming. You know, I was flying out west towards Oxnard.

[B]

So, you know, you're in the valley, which is literally a valley, so you kind of protected a lot other than the new Hall Pass. Like a lot of the gust of wind can come through that. You just imagine it's like, like, you know, two basically mountains with the road between it, which creates a Venturi. So that Air, you know, as the volume of air. It's Venturi effect, if you want to look it up. It's the same amount of air is going to move from point A to point b if it's 10 miles wide or 5 miles wide. The same thing with the river. That's why if you're going down a river and all of a sudden it narrows, it starts speeding up. The Venturi effect, which they also use in a carbureted system to increase the air when it emulse the emulsion with the gat. Jesus, Bill. Yeah, you know, I read on this. So anyway, I came in to land and they were landing. It was eight and two, six. And you know, they have. Helicopters can land on the. On the. What do you call it? The. The taxiway. Right. So I'm coming in for a landing and they, you know, land at your own risk and all of that. And I up where I. I landed like, you know, with the wind to my back, which was a stupid thing to do. But, like, I just wasn't familiar with the airport. I wasn't sure if they'd let me go around the tower. So, you know, I. I was aware what I was doing, so I made sure that, you know, I had my foot. Air speed. And I also came to total stop. So when I went to turn, I wouldn't get like totally whipped around or anything. Kind of crabbed into it. But after I was sitting there going, like, what the. That, that. I probably shouldn't have done that. My instructor talked to me about it, you know, so, like, I mean, that is one of the. That's how you learn in aviation. So hopefully you live to learn. I mean, it wasn't that, but it could have been something stupid. But anyway, landed safely. And then I ended up meeting some people over there that were in aviation on a whole other level. And this guy showed me this bell. What the hell is it? The bell? It's, It's. It's there. Basically their entry level one. Is it the 405. I don't know what the hell it's called. 505. I think that that's what it is. And Jesus Christ, I felt good about my helicopter until I saw this. He just had like, one of his blades had more surface area on it than all three of mine. And I'm like, no wonder, no wonder. I get bounced around in like this turbulence and was like, interesting. But then also it's like, you know when you fly like, little, like a Cessna or a little Robinson or what, I have like it's totally doable. But then that next level where you can, then the, there's no middle.

[A]

It's kind of like movies now. Movies, the budget's either a million dollars.

[B]

Or it's one of those, one of those superhero movies with a 200 million dollar budget. And that's, that's what like aviation is.

[A]

It's like you can pick up something.

[B]

With some hours on it used and you know you can get into it. You know you can get into aviation. But like if you want to move.

[A]

Up, that next move up is just.

[B]

Like, you know, you got to be like profiting off a war or something. Like, I just don't understand that whole goddamn world. But it's fun to run into people that do.

[A]

It's just a whole other fucking level.

[B]

All right, see, this has been good for me.

[A]

250 left to go in the game. It's snowing to beat the band.

[B]

And.

[A]

We are up by 12 points. That's still plenty of time. Oh my God. My celebrity endorsement is for Chris Collinsworth. He loves saying that.

[B]

Plenty of time. There's plenty of time. Plenty of time, right?

[A]

And that's what you do. It's some sort of food commercial and he's making a recipe and somebody asked him for some spice and he's like, plenty of time.

[B]

And he's holding up time. T H y me.

[A]

No, it's a bit of a stretch. I think he does a cameo. Like the people who sell time, all of a sudden, you know, you just create this false narrative that it fucking, you know, it stops prostate cancer, you know, so you need to have more.

[B]

Time in your diet, right? And then in the end they cut to Chris Collins with. He goes, plenty of time. And he's like sprinkling it on. There you go. I mean, come on. These fucking commercials write themselves. All right, sorry. Julianne Moore is fucking amazing. Everything that she did, what did I see her in? They also, I already knew she was a great dramatic actress, but she's also fucking hilarious. All right, let's plow ahead here, people.

[A]

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[B]

Oh, God damn it. Incomplete.

[A]

Hernandez. He's out of jail. Oh, no, wait.

[B]

Sorry.

[A]

We just completely going to act like that guy never played for us and just say that guy's wearing Russ Francis his old number. Or Randy Moss. Did Randy Watts wear 81? I can't remember.

[B]

Anyway, just read the ad bill, okay?

[A]

That's right. Your choice. I like to do it. Yeah, you do it. You sear it on both sides. You finish it in the oven and then you bring it up. You get a little garlic, little butter, little rosemary. You spoon it over the top. You have the skillet, you're angling it there. Chris Collins worth 149 to go.

[B]

Plenty of time. There's plenty of time.

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[B]

Okay? Look at Mike Bravo.

[A]

What a great head of hair, huh? You know, you got a great head of hair when you can still do the fade. Look like a retired astronaut. All right, speaking of hair systems, I was watching the Bruins game the other day. Am I out of my mind, or did Charlie McAvoy do a hair system ad while he's still playing for the Bruins? It's really amazing like. Like how good hair systems are now that you're actually not even ashamed because they look great. God bless you. I swear to God, when I started to go, if the hair systems were.

[B]

Actually decent, I still couldn't get them because I had alopecia in the back of my head. And that's where they take the hair from, you know, from all my childhood trauma there, you know, so, yeah, that's the price you pay. It's the price you pay.

[A]

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[B]

Coach knows it too, man.

[A]

I like this Texan team, and they are a team of the future. And I would stick with C.J. stroud. He's going to get a ton of fucking bitching and. And all of that crap, you know, hasn't. Has it only been him? Their offensive line got totally dominated today. I felt like we controlled the trenches. I actually think the D lines on.

[B]

Both teams, you know, did a fantastic job.

[A]

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[B]

So congratulations to the Patriots organization, what they've done this year and all these.

[A]

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[B]

We shall see.

[A]

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[B]

I remember a long time ago.

[A]

So this is going to be a whole new genre. It's so fucking funny all of these years, all of this fucking homophobia and all of this perceived that people had a fucking problem with it. It's really just closeted gay people and severely religious people who actually believe, you know, what they hear on Sunday. Other than that, nobody has a problem with it because look at the fucking ratings. So it's a great thing, you know? And I think that gay people will finally feel accepted when they don't have to be in literally Cinemax level because the le, like, the level of fucking, like, we get it. You know what I mean? That was just like, you know, I don't.

[B]

I don't know what?

[A]

I don't know. I don't.

[B]

I don't. You know.

[A]

That reminded me, you know, of straight ones where you're watching it you're like, there's no way that guy isn't that woman right now. He's insider. He has to be. How do you fake that? Jesus Christ is a guy who didn't need to take his shirt off. All right, let's get back to this. Let's.

[B]

Let's do a straight read here. No pun intended.

[A]

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[B]

Out and got fucking life insurance?

[A]

I swear to God, it's always on the guy, you know, and you just have to understand that if you get life insurance, you are in fact giving your wife motive. No, I'm kidding. I went out and I got life insurance.

[B]

And as much as it was something I didn't want to think about, like the end of my life, it made me feel great knowing that if I.

[A]

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[B]

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[B]

Let him have that moment, but then she hit hers just to be like.

[A]

Well, you're not going to speak last. All right, let's not.

[B]

Let's not get crazy here.

[A]

And this person says, sincerely, one of.

[B]

Your fans from Florida.

[A]

I don't know why I needed to know that you were from Florida. I like Florida. I don't base Florida on your politics. I, Blake, base Florida on the times that I've gone there. I've had a good time in Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Tampa, Orlando, Miami.

[B]

I've been everywhere.

[A]

Daytona.

[B]

I don't give a fuck what you want to do.

[A]

You want to be all Botox and fake titted out, I'll go to Miami and hang out. You know, you want to have your mullet and get your fucking, you know, nascar fucking eat an alligator. I got a Desert Eagle on both hips. I'll hang out with those guys. I don't give a. I don't give a what you're doing.

[B]

As long as you're not hurting anybody else.

[A]

As long as you're cool. I have no problem what you're eating, what you're shooting, what you're driving, how your hair looks, what you're fucking.

[B]

I don't care. Just don't hurt anybody.

[A]

I don't think that. I don't think that's much to ask.

[B]

All right.

[A]

No rap songs. No rap songs. What? Hey, Bill, did you see for the. That first. For the first time in 35 years, there isn't a rap song in the top 40, despite the drakes and the Kendricks. Well, doesn't that also dependent when they put their albums out? Kendrick had that huge tour with.

[B]

We had that Buick grand national on stage, man. Oh, my God. One of the best rappers with one of the best cars. And that was pretty good marketing.

[A]

There are really far less rappers in the zeitgeist. Rap is a tough genre to reinvent, so I think new producers and guys like Tyler the Creator can keep changing the sound of it. All right, well, I don't know much about hip hop, but it seems like it's been changing at a pretty regular pace for a while. I just think what has happened is.

[B]

The Internet has just disintegrated everything.

[A]

It killed the music business.

[B]

It's killed my business.

[A]

It's like there's no sort of collective, everybody all eyeballs in the same area.

[B]

I think, like, the super bowl is one of the last things. But even then, there's a million ways.

[A]

To watch that and consume that. You could tape the game like I do, wait till halftime, and then you start watching it and you blow through it and you don't get caught up with the rest of the world until.

[B]

Like, the beginning of the fourth quarter. I hope it's not over. I don't think it's over. I think you just have to. To find it. But, you know, there was a while.

[A]

When rap took over, there wasn't any.

[B]

Rock song in the top 40.

[A]

But also, I feel, you know, music has to move forward. It does have to change. I don't think rock or rap will ever go away. But I also feel like a lot of this fucking shit that DJs are playing, the vibes, you know, kind of putting vibes out there. I really feel like that speaks to people now because, you know, the way that these news organizations, these conglomerates that aren't news and they're just scaring the shit out of people and just, you.

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Know, you feel like your head's on fire by the time watching it. I feel like DJs in a lot.

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Of way are really, you know, they're catering to help people with their stress levels. You know, people take a gummy and.

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Then they just play like, some vibe music.

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And I've really come 180 on DJs.

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As far as, like, you know, my wife at night now, you know, we.

[A]

Now that Billy's not angry anymore, which is amazing.

[B]

I still can't believe it. I still cannot believe it. But we've been like. You know, my wife puts on these YouTube channels where there's just like. This is one of this.

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This couple.

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They're in this apartment in New York and they're just vibing.

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They got like a cat and.

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And they just play like this. I don't know, it's like the way the guy mixes it together. And then some of just sort of the. The lo fi. I don't know what you call it, but it's soothing and it's a nice way to end the day.

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You know, take a couple of hits off a joint and just kind of come to where they are. And we just sit there chilling, you know. So I think that there's, like a time and place for music. Like, if I was going to listen to hip hop or rock, it's usually.

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If I'm going to a gym or I'm playing drums and I want to have more like that energy. But like, in the morning or the end of the day, like, I think a lot of the stuff that people are making on computers nowadays, I never.

[A]

I mean, listen, I'm not.

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I would never, you know, say that, you know, you shouldn't play an instrument and go see live music and stuff. But, like, I understand more so, like, that type of stuff. But that is interesting. But I also think that there's always going to be incredible musicians out there, and I'm continuing to discover people. Like, I said this. This kid Daniel Caesar that, like, I'm just kind of all in now on. And there's always going to be.

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Every.

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Every generation is going to have their Jimi Hendrixes and stuff like that. So I don't know if you younger people, if there's anybody young, listen to this. If you could keep me up on who's out there, I'll. I'll listen to any of that. All right, moving on.

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My rich uncles will. Hey, they're Billy Bags. The fuck is that? I don't know what that means. I kind of love that shit. Bags, I got one for you. I'm not seeking legal counsel, just some input from one Boston meathead to another. All right, I love it. All right. Do I got to read it in the Boston accent? Dude, in the 70s, my fucking uncle pulled together some scratch and bought an apartment building on the cheap. He fixed it up himself over the.

[B]

Course of 30 years while living in.

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One of the apartments.

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Now it's worth millions.

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Sadly, he passed away, dude, just before Christmas, in his mid-80s. He lived a long life and hasn't been sick for. And had been sick for a little while, so it wasn't any big surprise. But still, nonetheless, the Boston accent didn't.

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Feel right, you know, considering this person lost their uncle over the course, maybe.

[A]

A little bit over the course of the last few years. He started to lose it a little bit and had a bad argument with his daughter, his only child, and escalated it to the point where he cut.

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Her out of his life.

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Stopped answering phone calls, returned her mail when she sent him handwritten notes.

[B]

Oh, no.

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From her and her kids, etc. Definitely an overreaction and most likely attributed.

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To his declining mental health. Oh, man, that's really sad. Sorry about that.

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That side of the family, my dad included, has lots of childhood trauma, too.

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There you go. So they've always struggled with holding grudges and anger issues, but this was another.

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Level after he passed.

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Oh, God. His attorney reached out and let me know that I was mentioned in the will. Mind you, I am one of 26 cousins on that side of the family.

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So it seemed a little weird to.

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Me right off the bat.

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Turns out I am not a beneficiary.

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On the will, but I am an executor. That just means I have to manage all of his financial stuff according to the instructions in the will, like paying his bills, selling the building, etc.

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Effectively a project manager, not the beneficiary.

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So I got get zero money.

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I'm not upset about that fact, but I mention it because it's somewhat relevant for. For the rest of this story.

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Oh, boy.

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The twist here is that at some point after that argument with his daughter, he angrily stormed into his attorney's office and made them change his will to cut her out. Ah. And replace her with his cleaning lady. You read that, right? He replaced his only child in the.

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Will with the woman who cleans his apartment for him. Oh, boy. Well, at least it's going to somebody. You know, he didn't give it to somebody. Somebody's cleaning houses, you know, they could probably use some scratch, as you say. Oh, man. That's so fucked up.

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I've been trying to work with my cousin, his daughter, to figure out how she can legally contest the will, but other than that, I am just a spectator. Despite being caught right in the middle of all this shit with no actual skin in the game, I did my best to keep it short and sweet.

[B]

For the purpose of this email, but.

[A]

There is way more juicy detail to this story I could probably write a book with. He wasn't banging his cleaning lady, was he? I could probably write a book. With all of the drama that's going on around this, any input or comedic.

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Relief from you could provide it on.

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This situation would be appreciated. Thanks To Go Pats. Well, all I can tell you the upside of this thing is the Patriots won. Why can't she? Was there any proof of his declining mental capacity?

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That's just.

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And can lawyers. Do they. Do lawyers ever say, like, buddy, are you sure you want to do this? Like, if. If I had a. If I was a lawyer and a client came in that far down the road and came in angry and not only wants to write his daughter out of the will, be one thing if they just gave it to other family members. But to give it to the cleaning.

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Lady would have been a red flag.

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But I don't know what power the attorney.

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They work for the client, so what can they do?

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Hey, you know what I mean? I mean, in a way, it's like a fairy tale for the cleaning lady. I mean, I'm getting Julia Roberts vibes out of this. Did he take her shopping on Rodeo Drive?

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Wow.

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Does anybody else. Has anybody else, like, randomly been made a beneficiary of a will? And how do you handle that when you. When you come in there and people who actually have blood ties to the.

[B]

Person that die of fucking staring at you? That's got to be. Oh, my God. It's got to be weird.

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All right, well, another fucking angry Boston story ends the way you thought it would, making no sense. Well, you know what? Hopefully the daughter doesn't become angry about this and is able to understand that it came from a place of childhood drama, trauma, and mental illness. And, you know, your job is to. Not only.

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I feel, as an adult is to.

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Not let your trauma affect you.

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You got to work it out, and it has to end with you. I think is huge. Is a big thing, and I have done that the best I could. My kids, definitely my daughter, you know, watched me have a temper for the first eight years of her life, but I always apologized, always said I was wrong, so I was able to at least advance the ball there. And now I've gotten rid of my temper, and now I don't even curse in front of my kids. It's like. It's unreal. My kids also know that they're loved. They also are not afraid of me. They speak their mind, and I am 100% involved in their life. And that's the only way. I don't know, because you can't undo the shit that happened to you. But what you can do is make sure you don't pass it on as much as you can. And you have to forgive yourself in your 20s and 30s where you don't realize you're fucked up, and you end up hurting other people and stuff. And, you know. But once you realize you're fucked up, then that's when the work starts and it takes a while. Took me till I was 57. So, anyway. All right, last thing here.

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Billy, baby boy.

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Bill.

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As a man who was related to your anger and cynicism deeply for 10 years, and as a man who went to therapy and healed myself from my childhood, proud of you, buddy. This guy Goes on to say, we're proud of you, Billy boy. Nice. Don't ever think that we get tired of hearing about your growth and the work that you've done on yourself. You're an inspiration for a lot of men with pent up anger from a crazy childhood. I'm 37. Went to therapy when I was 34. It changed my life. Trust me. I completely understand what you mean when you say it's gone. Keep being you, Bill. We love you, man. Well, thank you. That is the weirdest thing.

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That it's gone. Like, it's just. It's like a diseased. That's the only thing I've never had to fight a disease, thank God. But, like, you know, my. I can only imagine there's just things eating away at you from the inside, and all of a sudden it's not there anymore. Has been incredible, but I'm also not taking it for granted because I. I still don't quite believe it. I never thought that this was going to happen. So I got another massage, breathwork thing tomorrow. I'm continuing to walk towards the light. I've been in the dark hole for a long time, just continuing to do that, doing the journal, did yoga. I'm doing everything I can to, like, make sure I don't go back into that stuff. But, like, it's weird. Like, I know it's over, but I also don't trust it at the same time. So, anyway, there you go. I'm gonna watch this Rams, Bears game as much as I can. I don't know. Seahawks are looking like world beaters, huh? But then again, they also played a really banged up 49ers team, so who knows? It's really anybody's. Anybody's game at this point. All right, that's it, everybody. Congratulations to the Patriots, great seasons by the Texans. Condolences to the Broncos with your quarterback Bo Nicks getting hurt. Bills, you got the.

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You got.

[B]

I don't get that call at all. And I am a Buffalo Bills fan all the way back to fucking Joe Ferguson, O.J. simpson, Joe Dimalier, O.J. on.

[A]

On the field, not off.

[B]

And in movies, O.J. was great, but that space movie made in those. Those naked guns and Joe Cribs. Who else? Who won yesterday? Oh, the Seattle Seahawks, man. Like, they're. They're looking. They're looking. All right, all right. Anyways, that's. That's the podcast. Go Bruins. Go Patriots. Go Celtics. Great fucking time of year. Good luck to Indiana and the University of Miami. I hope it's a classic. Both, obviously. Incredible seasons for both of them. All right, that's it.

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Go fuck yourselves. I'll check in on you on Thursday.