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Tony Kornheiser
It's Tony. On today's show, we'll talk to Jason Lochinfour about the final week in the NFL and whether Saquon Barkley should play to try to get the single season rushing record. Plus, James Carville and Jeff Ma will call in with their weekly picks. But first, commerce.
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Unknown
Yeah, sure thing. Hey, you sold that car yet?
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Jason Lockenfora
Yeah, sold it to Carvana.
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Unknown
Oh, I thought you were selling to that guy.
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Jason Lockenfora
The guy who wanted to pay me in foreign currency. No interest over 36 months.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, no. Carvana gave me an offer in minutes.
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Jason Lockenfora
Picked it up and paid me on the spot. It was so convenient.
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Unknown
Just like that.
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James Carville
Yeah.
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Unknown
No hassle?
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Jason Lockenfora
None.
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Unknown
That is super convenient. Sell your car to Carvana and swap.
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Tony Kornheiser
Hassle. For convenience. Pickup fees may apply.
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Unknown
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Tony Kornheiser
Previously on the Tony Kornheiser Show. I wouldn't be recognized and I might not be actually recognized for a while. But if I go on television on Thursday when this show resumes, then I've given away the store on that because then I don't have a look that I can retrieve. The only way to make it work just quit today.
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Jeff Ma
Just quit.
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Unknown
There's that.
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Tony Kornheiser
Just call them up and say, yeah, I'm done. Yeah, I'm done. I don't really want to do that because I don't have anything else to do. I noticed that people when they quit their jobs say, well, what am I going to do now?
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Unknown
Spend more Time with the family.
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Tony Kornheiser
I don't want to do that.
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Jeff Ma
We don't want them to do that either.
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Tony Kornheiser
Nobody wants that. The Tony Kornheiser show is on now. Well, all we did was bump the day of reckoning from Thursday to Friday because we were not on the air yesterday with PTI because of the rescheduling of the Georgia Notre Dame game. They put it on 4:00 prime time. Yeah, I don't know the story on this. I don't know why this happened. I understand why it was postponed. Right. I don't understand why it was postponed to 4:00 as opposed to 8:00. If I had paid billions of dollars, billions for the right to have the College Football Playoff and I've got Notre Dame, one of the great draws in America against Georgia, a two time champ in the last three years. You don't get a better draw than Notre Dame Georgia. You don't. And I was going at 4 instead of 8. I'd be steamed. I feel I would lose half my audience. I'd lose the west coast basically to 1:00. Start in the West Coast. I don't know. I mean, and I watched, I was happy because I could watch the whole game. I didn't have to go to sleep.
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Unknown
It was delightful.
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Tony Kornheiser
I'm just saying, I don't know how it got to 4:00. Maybe somebody can tell me down the road, but I would not be, I would not be thrilled about to protect.
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Jeff Ma
That Duke time slot.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, they end up with Duke against Mississippi in the, in the later time slot in the Gator Bowl. I mean, the Gator. Look, all of these traditional bowl games that are now not in the College Football Playoff, all irrelevant. They don't mean anything. Yeah. Most people on the team don't even play in them. Yeah, they don't want to get hurt before the draft. I'm telling you, I, I don't know how this works. I'd like somebody to call me and tell me exactly how that happened because I would have wanted that 8:00. I understand. Postponing. Yes, I understand. Like within the last 24 hours, there is a lot of forensic evidence and theorizing by Federal Bureau of Investigation and local police theorizing that each of these people, the person who exploded the big Tesla. Oh.
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Unknown
In Vegas.
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Tony Kornheiser
In Vegas. And what happened in New Orleans, that they acted alone. There was thought at the beginning that they acted with others, may have acted together. That's what you have to think. You have to get rid of that Supposition in your mind. And now there's the notion that the person who exploded the car in Las Vegas shot himself in the head before it happened and acted alone. See, what ties them together is their army there. They served in the army together.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Tony Kornheiser
All right. And citizens of America and the guy in New Orleans, born in America. I know there's a lot of people who go and say, see what happens when you let people in over the world. That's not what happened. Now he's an American citizen, born in America, served in the military. Like this is not debatable. So don't, you know, don't go down that hole. Okay, Don't. But they had to find out, did they work together. You have to wonder about that to large things like this. And when they determine they didn't, I guess they said, okay, we will play the game. We can keep New Orleans safe. We can. There's no game in Las Vegas. We can keep Las Vegas safe. I just don't know why it went to 8:00. I'll get to these games because I need to get to these games. But I read something this morning and my son knows this because I told him about it. I read in the New York Times this morning that the Surgeon General of the United States of America has determined that alcohol causes cancer. Okay, this never was, was breached before. Never. In fact, a lot of people, including a lot of doctors, said a couple of small drinks a day is going to help you.
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Unknown
That's good for you.
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Tony Kornheiser
It's good. Look at the people in France. They live to be 100. Okay? So all of that, now they cause, I think it said, seven different cancers, including breast cancer and colon cancer. They are contributing factors to this. And the Surgeon General wants something on a label sort of like with smoking. Now, this didn't happen immediately with smoking, but it happened over the course of 30 or 40 years. And now it is rare to see people smoke.
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Unknown
Yes.
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Tony Kornheiser
And there is, you know, it is not approved of when people say, I'm going to go outside and have a cigarette.
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Unknown
Oh, it's frowned upon.
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Tony Kornheiser
It's not approved of.
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Unknown
I know as an ex smoker, I.
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Tony Kornheiser
Mean, 40, and it took a long time, 40 or 50 years. It's not going to happen with alcohol overnight. But if you put a label on that this causes cancer two generations down the road, nobody's buying alcohol.
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Jeff Ma
But you already see this happening in other, softer ways where you're looking at the generation below. Mine is drinking less than, than earlier.
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Tony Kornheiser
Generations, your generation on a golf course Drinks like fish.
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Jeff Ma
Yeah, the introduct of the transfusion there. And you look at the generation that is just ahead of my kids, their life expectancy is already 10, 15 years ahead of where ours is expected to be. But there are natural barriers. When you had Covid shutdowns, people weren't going out to bars. Drinking habits changed. Drinking. I think people became professional environment change.
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Tony Kornheiser
Drank more. They drank in their homes because they weren't driving anymore.
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Jeff Ma
They did at first, but people, People were afraid to go out and get together. So this idea of growing up and going out the. Going out the. I don't want to go out bars, that was not. But if you look into the warning, this is across all different types of alcohol. So it's not just saying if you're, you know, drinking spirits, you have a different expectation versus beer, wine. But if you go down any, any, any grocery store that sells beer and wine, the habits of drinkers have changed. We're seeing a lot more options with lower ABV drinks. You're seeing shifts towards mocktails, towards interesting drinks that are alcohol free.
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Tony Kornheiser
And there's not in this house. Not in this house. This is a steady wine consumption house. So, I mean, I've probably done most of the damage I could do. I mean, everybody knew that if you drank the excess, it could hurt your liver.
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Unknown
Your liver.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yes, but. But there was no sense of cancer. Breast cancer and colon cancer are common cancers. Yeah. And the surgeon general has determined this. And there's a part in the New York Times which was interesting about how would this be received by the new administration? And it was pointed out that Donald Trump does not drink.
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Unknown
No, he doesn't.
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Tony Kornheiser
And that Robert Kennedy Jr. Has sworn off alcohol and, you know, attends AA meetings all the time for the last 30 or 40 years. So they may be receptive to putting this on a label, though. It would. It's an enormous hit to a big industry. Yeah. This is beer kids. They sponsor every beer. And gambling now. Sponsor every single sporting event in America.
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Jeff Ma
You go back to cigarettes even before the warning. The biggest deterrent at the start was just the price increase, where it became simply too expensive to buy.
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Tony Kornheiser
What pack of cigarettes now? Oh, it cost $5.
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Unknown
Oh, it's more than that.
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Tony Kornheiser
Is it more?
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Unknown
I think by the time I quit, this is about 20 years ago, it was up to about 8 or something.
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Tony Kornheiser
Is it that much? So it's probably around 10, I would think so. When I was a kid, it was a dollar or less. Yeah, 40 cents.
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Unknown
When I first started smoking, you get a pack of cigarettes for, for even $. And it was. And then you get a cotton for 10. You're like, this is a fantastic deal now and you should share your cigarettes with people.
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Tony Kornheiser
But there is disapproval of that.
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Unknown
Oh, socially there is this. You're an outcast if you do it.
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Tony Kornheiser
And that will happen here. Yeah, right. But you then, if every single ad carries a label on the ad on television, the surgeon general has determined this is bad for your health. That will be a big blow to beer and alcohol.
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Jeff Ma
So for you, you are a wine drinker, you don't really drink spirits. But if, if you look at tariffs that might be coming your way, what is the price breakdown where you say I'm going to buy fewer bottles of wine over a year just because of the, the actual number that I'm seeing. And more directly, if you're a beer drinker and you look at what has become one of the biggest beers in America and it's something that you're importing from Modelo. Yes.
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Tony Kornheiser
It's number one.
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Jeff Ma
Yeah. If you go to, if you're going out for that game day case to have your friends over, when are you going to try and buy something?
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Tony Kornheiser
You better hope that that guy who has the binoculars on from Modelo sees you and drops off the case at your house for free. You have to hope for that. If you believe, if you believe in angels and things like that. Let me get to the football. We have now had eight games. Six of the games have been terrible. Yes, terrible. Last week's games, three of the four last week were terrible. The Clemson Texas game, there was a little bit of hope, except every time Clemson scored, Texas came back and scored. All of those were at least two score games. The last four that we've just had, two of them were terrible. I. The early one, the Penn State game was terrible. Yeah. The Ohio State game was terrible. You were happy. Ohio State 1. But they were, they were not competitive games.
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Jeff Ma
I know.
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Tony Kornheiser
They were non competitive games. What was competitive? The Arizona State Texas game was competitive. That was the best game.
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Unknown
Yeah. Really?
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Tony Kornheiser
That was the best game. And last night's game, it's a two score game. Was it competitive? How can you say it is competitive when Georgia didn't do any. Every time there was a fourth down, they didn't make it. They didn't score. They didn't score. Georgia. They just didn't. Notre Dame had three plays which changed the course of the game. Just three. Notre Dame. Riley Leonard was named offensive mvp. If you look up his statistics, you're going to Find that he threw the ball about 25, 26, 27 times and gained 90 yards. It's terrible. 3 yards. It's terrible. 3 Yards an attempt. He ran the ball very well. He's a good running quarterback. These three plays, okay, the strip sack down in the Georgia 20, somewhere around there, the strip sack, fumble. And the next play, the best pass Riley Leonard threw all day, a crossing pattern into the end zone. Touchdown. And then the kick return. Yeah, that's what. Those three plays change the game. Other than that, what Notre Dame do, they didn't do much. And Georgia was dropping passes. And Georgia had a quarterback who'd never played before. It wasn't Carson Beck, who was there for two championships. Was another guy, Gunner, whatever his name was. He's not the same. He's not. Battle test. Not the same. So these. It was a.
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Unknown
Wasn't it?
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. These games were terrible. They were terrible.
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Jeff Ma
And it's when they happened.
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Tony Kornheiser
Bad and boring.
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Jeff Ma
When they happened in the half. So you see that the second half, you're trying to get back into it. You watch the halftime show and then this happens.
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Tony Kornheiser
They had one good scoring drive, Georgia, and you know, that's all they had. And they didn't, they didn't do anything after that. So these games have not been good. And three things are suggested. One is that 12 is too many. There's too many teams. You got bad games, too. When they point out that all the conference champions lost. Okay, then don't cede them. The seeding was wrong. You didn't cede. You automatically gave conference champions, you know that you stuck them in against teams that were better than them. Texas is actually better than Arizona State. Ohio State is an Oregon. It's a bitter loss because Oregon had beaten three teams in the playoffs. Three teams. And they got routed by Ohio State, Notre Dame, the Georgia team that went out there without its starting quarterback. Notre Dame was better than that team, though, marginally. Notre Dame. Nice that they won, but, you know, not the most impressive win of all time. Again, three plays. Three plays really matter. And, and you know, you have to, you have to seat it one through 12. You have to seed it one through 12 because all the, you know, don't get embarrassed again. Embarrassed.
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Jeff Ma
Two follow up questions. One, about the games. Does it matter if they're not that great? And then two, does this give you the tape that you need to basically justify, we're going to do what we want because we understand how to make this better?
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Tony Kornheiser
Well, if they make it, they're going to have to change It. To make it better.
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Jeff Ma
But we can.
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Tony Kornheiser
Do the games matter. Well, ultimately, you're getting a national champion, and that is going to matter more than anything else. That is the same thing. If the early rounds in the NFL are lousy games, does it matter? No. It matters in the moment, though. It matters in the moment. You get discouraged from watching because the games are bad. They're not competitive. Everybody wants to watch competitive game. And these were not competitive games. I wrote all this stuff down. I wrote so much stuff down. The Texas thing. I wanted to say this about Quinn Ewers, who came into the season as, like, the number one rated quarterback and did not have a good year.
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Unknown
No, not really.
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Tony Kornheiser
You know, and didn't look to be a very effective quarterback. He made three passes in a row. The only thing that mattered about Quinn Ewers, he went, touchdown. This is in overtime. Third, fourth and 13. Fourth and 13. They're not going to win this game.
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Unknown
Done.
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Tony Kornheiser
Fourth and 13.
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Jeff Ma
But you see something, you go to the line and say, we're going to make a little bit of an adjustment here.
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Tony Kornheiser
Wide open in the end zone. Yeah. Touchdown. Next. Next play. Right. Next play. Touchdown. Next play. Two point conversion. All passes, all Quinn Ewers. So those of us who are thinking.
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Jeff Ma
Bench him, you know.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He delivered. He delivered. That game was actually pretty good.
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Jeff Ma
That was.
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Tony Kornheiser
No, that was. I was surprised because Texas just gassed.
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Unknown
Yeah. Texas was up big. And you thought, well, there's another blowout.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yes. Yeah.
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Unknown
Gunnar Stockton, by the way, is the kid from Georgia, whatever his name is.
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Tony Kornheiser
And everybody loves the kid. Scatter. Boo. Everybody loves him.
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Unknown
Great name.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, everybody loves him. And he played well. He played really well.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Tony Kornheiser
Played a lot better than the kid from Boise State.
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Unknown
Oh, yeah.
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Tony Kornheiser
Jantie. They just. Yeah, he got 104 yards, but it took like 30 carries to get him. Yeah, they locked him up. Penn State. Locked him up. Penn State, who I had no respect for, earned my respect.
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Unknown
Little bit.
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Tony Kornheiser
And I had none.
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James Carville
Yeah.
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Tony Kornheiser
You know, I mean, well, they've lost. They came in losing to the other Big Ten teams that were there. Right. They had lost Oregon and they had lost Ohio State.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Tony Kornheiser
Right.
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Unknown
So, yeah.
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Tony Kornheiser
Anyway, that's all I got. Oh, great. Thanks to Tamara.
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Unknown
Oh, yes, thank you.
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Jeff Ma
Colossal Cashews.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. The Enormous Cashews and the Toffee.
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Jeff Ma
So thank you to good luck this weekend. Big game.
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Unknown
Yes.
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Tony Kornheiser
They can get in the playoffs if they win. So. Okay, that's the open Jason Lock. And for when we return, I'm Tony Kornheiser.
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Jason Lockenfora
Welcome to Nada Yada Island.
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Unknown
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Tony Kornheiser
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Unknown
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Tony Kornheiser
You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser show.
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Unknown
Let's Saquon go for the record. Let him play. Let him play. Eric Dickerson has held that thing for 15,000 days. Let him punish the Giants for letting him get away. Let Saquon go for the. Let him play. Let him play. The running back has been devalued. It gets worse every year. The quarterback is the king of the hill. Sells trucks and soda pop and beer. He needs 101. Let him get 101. Then you can sit him down. Let Saquon go for the record. Let a running back wear the crown. They pull pitchers now in the seventh going for a perfect game. Barry Sanders quit early. That was just a shame. Let Saquon go for the record. Immortality will be his name. Let Saquon run. The Giants ain't so tough. Dickerson's held it long enough.
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Tony Kornheiser
The brilliant Dan Byrne now on piano and harmonica. No brilliant about Saquon Barkley plays in Jason Lockenfora we're joined by Odyssey NFL insider, Jason Locke and fora host of the podcast in the Huddle covering the entire NFL. I have other things to read, but I'll just start with that. Your thoughts on the fact that the Philadelphia Eagles are not going to let Saquon Barkley get the record or try to get the record.
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Jason Lockenfora
I feel like you've led the witness. No, that's a hard. It's a hard one to push back on. Personally, I don't have a big problem with this. I understand what they're doing. You know, it's the ultimate risk reward sport and in many ways it's the ultimate team sport. And I understand that this individual goal would also be a tremendous team accomplishment. But we can't have it every way. And the owners made a business decision to change the rules. And it wasn't coaches supporting this. It wasn't, you know, players who were campaigning for this. But the league went out and they sold the playoff package and they changed the way that they have done this for a long time and they took away the prospect of a buy for the second best team. So what, I mean, I don't know what the coaches are supposed to do here and they've expanded the season. So I'm not saying that this thing would wear an asterisk, but it's certainly a different series of, I guess, body of work opportunities than Mr. Dickerson had available to him. So I get it. And there's a lot of things that I think, you know, we can quibble about what Nick Sirianni does and how he handles some things, but I don't. I mean, the Giants are a joke and you can tell me that's part of the reason to do this and I can also say, well, that that's the reason you don't is because they're not even really fielding an NFL caliber team right now. And unfortunately they're not alone. They're not close to being alone. And there are more, I think 12 win teams and more teams with fewer than five wins than I think we've ever seen before. So to partake in this and risk your ultimate team goal so that you can get something like this out of the way as fast as possible and then start yanking guys off the field, I just don't know if I'm the head football coach that, that, that, that's the road I want to go down.
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Tony Kornheiser
Okay. And that's completely fair. Let me read this from memory. In Watertown, Massachusetts, a couple of weeks ago, you read my email to Jason Lochin4 thanking him for the advice to bet the jets to not make the playoffs at the beginning of the season. I've come here once again to thank him for adding money to the Savage Fund. On November 1st. Jason mentioned it might be a good bet to get the Rams to make the playoffs.
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Jason Lockenfora
Yes, sir.
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Tony Kornheiser
At the time, The Rams were 3 and 4 in DFL in their division. But last night, or this is referring to a game earlier this week with the Commanders win, the Rams won the NFC West. I really appreciate Jason's insight, even if my waistline doesn't. I wanted you to hear that so you would feel good. But he mentions the Jets. I'm going to give you one last, one last go here. You know you wrote about Rogers again.
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Jason Lockenfora
Have anything left in the tank?
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Tony Kornheiser
You wrote about Rogers again this week in the Post. You love writing about him. You love slam. Is this it? Is he done? Is he done?
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Jason Lockenfora
He's, he's done as a Jet for damn sure. I think he's done making, you know, real NFL starting quarterback money. And I think, you know, what kind of advice he gets in so much as anybody can talk to him and. And how realistic he is behind closed doors about where he is in his career. That will be fascinating. I'm not watching, you know, this mirage of crap that they're putting on Netflix about him. I don't know how much of that is even real or how much of that is him, you know, thinking he's producing good content and keeping people on ed and being, you know, the most mysterious man in the world. But there has to be some part of him that understands that. We now have to go back about four years to find him playing anywhere at the level for what he's being paid to do. Like this year, obviously, no bueno. Last year, complete wash. The year before that, they were ready to move on to Jordan Love by about the middle of that season because he was declining asset and they were scared crapless that they wouldn't be able to move the contract anywhere. So we got to go back to him having a true MVP season for him to look like a guy who you would be willing to put up with all the other stuff that comes with him in order to have the right to play, you know, to pay him $50 million a year to play football for you. I don't know, Tony. I'm the last guy to ask as to what goes on in his head, because I don't. I don't know. I don't want to know. Yeah, but unless he's at a point in time where he understands that nothing's going to be handed to him, people are not going to be throwing themselves at him to give him the, you know, the greatest contract in the world and that anywhere he goes, he's going to be immediately on the clock. Whether they're drafting somebody then or they expect to draft somebody the following year, there's going to be other people in that quarterback room who are going to have an opportunity to play if they look better than him. And I. I just don't know that his ego and his. His mind can handle that. So it'll be that part of the. Interesting. But it was hilarious to me that last year. I'm sorry, last week, you couldn't turn on the TV set without somebody, you know, that morning, Sunday morning, trying to lay out some sort of cockamamie scenario where Woody Johnson, while he and his kids are catching shrapnel from Aaron Rodgers every day, are dying to bring him back. Like, get out of here.
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James Carville
Stop.
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Jason Lockenfora
I mean, even. Even Woody eventually has his limits. And, you know, if I'm Woody, this guy's not playing football for me this weekend. I'm walking into the quarterback room at some time today saying, yeah, all that prep you did, you can throw it out, because to Rod Taylor starting this game for me, Buddy, you go get 500 somewhere else.
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Tony Kornheiser
I'll ask this one last question, and it is about the tarnishing of one's reputation. And I bring this up only because I watched Michael Jordan play a couple of years with the Wizards and, you know, nothing happened. It wasn't very good, and people still like Michael Jordan, but, you know, he wasn't effective on any level. It has not tarnished his reputation at all. At all. He's still Michael Jordan. Is Aaron Rodgers still Aaron Rodgers, or has he hurt himself?
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Jason Lockenfora
I think he's hurt himself.
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Tony Kornheiser
Me too.
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Jason Lockenfora
The Michael Jordan thing was a guy pushing himself to the limits, right? And he had serious knee issues and everything was achy and everything was cranky. And if anything, he played too much, right? Because he's had this duality of being like the leader of the team and playing at the same time like the leader of the franchise. And so he's literally killing himself physically to try to show how he wants to chart a course at the macro level to try to get this franchise out of the abyss. This guy just pulled himself out of a game and reveled in it and. And made light of it after the game while they just got destroyed by the Bills, who weren't even really trying, you know, and at 40 to nothing, a lot of it due to his own pathetic play. He's like, you know, he goes to a coach who he knows has no jam and is basically like, you're putting the other guy in.
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Tony Kornheiser
Right?
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Jason Lockenfora
I mean, so. I don't know, man. I think this is different, okay. On so many levels.
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Tony Kornheiser
Okay, well, I'm going to leave it. You've done such great work on Rogers all year.
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Jason Lockenfora
He's a entertaining show. He's a carnival barking freak at this point.
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Tony Kornheiser
I'm not.
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Jason Lockenfora
I don't recall any of that about Michael Jordan.
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Tony Kornheiser
No. Because it didn't happen. It didn't happen. I talked about Saquon Barkley. What does anybody hear about Jalen Hurts? How long is this going to go? Is he going to play well?
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Jason Lockenfora
I mean, they don't need to do anything now until the playoffs, right? I. He's obviously not playing this weekend, and it might be the third quarterback or you know, Pickett's got a serious rib injury, and I don't know that, you know, shooting him up or having him try to play four quarters of football makes a whole lot of sense because you may need him in the playoffs. But, no, I think Hertz will be good to go for the wild card round. So I don't think there'll be an issue there.
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Tony Kornheiser
Masky had an interesting story in which he points out. And this is going to go to, you know, what you said before about how the owners have changed everything. You're going to have a 15 and 2 and a 14 and 3. That's. That's what's going to happen after the Detroit, Minnesota game. The 14 and 3 is going to have to go on the road to play an initial playoff game. Where is you going to have, you know, and maybe a 9 and 8 or a 10 and 7 or whatever you're going to have is going to be at home. Is this fair, reasonable? Can we ever expect it to change?
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Jason Lockenfora
I mean, I would never say never, but that every time this has sort of come up in recent years and I've kind of, you know, taking people's temperature on it, the thing I've always heard is the owners. And at the end of the day, all that matters is what the owners think want these divisions to be propped up, and they feel like that's the best way to also give everybody a chance. And the sanctity of winning your division has to mean something. It should.
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Tony Kornheiser
That's what the college people just did. And they. They seeded some of these teams that stink, and they all lost. All of them lost. The division champion all lost.
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Jason Lockenfora
I'm with you. And I've thought for a long time that the sanctity of the overall record should trump everything. Not where you're located, geography. But I can remember a year where the NFC west was complete garbage. And I think it was Charlie Whitehurst went and quarterback the. The Seahawks or whatever, and they played the Rams and Both teams were below.500. And, you know, whoever won that game was going to get a home playoff game. It didn't matter that there were, you know, like, realistically, seven or eight teams in that conference who were better than them. So this is. It's not like this has never come up before. And there has yet to be the kind of groundswell among the millionaires to change it. I think they like it. I think they think it's an interesting subsidy and an interesting subplot, and it gets us talking about teams that we really, in many cases shouldn't be talking about because you're right, you look at a team like Houston right now and yeah, they want a division where everybody is, you know, is a joke and everybody's usually a joke. But you know, they'll get their home playoff gate. I think some owners like the fact that that happens. And will they be chum in the order? Yeah, they, they will be, but they're not, they're not going to ever take teams away from the playoff field, I can guarantee you that.
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Tony Kornheiser
No, I don't expect that. But I mean, I, I, I found the story interesting because you're going to get maybe the second best team or third best team in football with no advantage whatsoever with a terrible path. Yeah, she seems unfair. Okay, plug your radio show for us.
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Jason Lockenfora
You guys can check us out from 2 to 6 every weekday on Inside Access or 157. The Fan in Baltimore will be at the Cross Street Market today on this lovely Friday. If anything should bring you that way, say, say hello. Maybe we'll buy you a milkshake. And yeah, you catch me this weekend on CBS Sports HQ handicapping games and I'll have a piece on the Baltimore Ravens coming up at some point this weekend in the Washington Post about weather. This is the season that their regular season offense can finally show up in the playoffs.
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Tony Kornheiser
Well, we will see. Thank you, Jason.
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Jason Lockenfora
Thank you guys. Enjoy the games. Thank you.
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Tony Kornheiser
That was Odyssey, NFL Insider, Jason Lock and fora. Make sure to follow in the huddle on the Odyssey app or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. We will take a break. Jeff. MA is already taped. Yes, I'm revealing this now. Spoiler alert. And we'll hopefully get Carville. If we don't, we don't. We'll just give you his picks. Carville is very hot.
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Unknown
Yeah, he's got some interesting ones this week.
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Tony Kornheiser
He's very hot. So maybe James when we return. I'm Tony Kornheiser.
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Jason Lockenfora
You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser Show.
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Tony Kornheiser
RA who needs midnight special when you can get God Save the King to play in? James Carville, who last week was 4:1 over the last three weeks is 13:3 and is above 500. He wins every over bet he makes. Even with schools I've never even heard of. He wins these. He's 51 and 50, right? To what do you attribute your astounding clothes?
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Unknown
Well, our Lord and savior Jesus Christ and ACL sports.
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Tony Kornheiser
Okay, okay. 51 and 50. 13 and three. The last three. What do you got for us this Week.
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Unknown
All right, let's go to the college the Minnesota Golden Gophers are taking out. I think Virginia Tech.
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Tony Kornheiser
VA Tech.
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Jason Lockenfora
Yeah.
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Unknown
That says no, no, no Beamer ball here anymore. Laid up eight and a half points and take Minnesota.
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Tony Kornheiser
This is in the Duke's Mayo bowl, which will be attended by as many as 53 people. Okay, what else?
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Unknown
I got blue plate, mayonnaise myself. Anyway, the great University of Buffalo is playing Liberty. Jared Falwell University. And again lay two and a half points and take Buffalo.
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Tony Kornheiser
That is the Bahamas Bowl. I've never heard of them.
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Unknown
Well, you know what? You collect the same on the Bahamas.
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Tony Kornheiser
Okay, what else you got?
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Unknown
I got the first half of the Raven games.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah.
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Unknown
The unique bet is minus 11 and a half. Take the Ravens first half, 11 and a half. They're gonna run, they're gonna come out strong and it'll play everybody in the world in the second half.
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Tony Kornheiser
So you're gonna. You're laying 11 and a half on just the first 30 minutes.
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Unknown
Just the first. Yes, just the first. Just the first 30 minutes, to be exact.
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Tony Kornheiser
I didn't know you could make a bet like that. But you're gonna tell me you can make a bet on anything, right?
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Unknown
I can tell you. You can bet on what time you take a. I'm under 12 and a half min.
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Tony Kornheiser
All right, go ahead. What else you got?
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Unknown
What else? I got Jags, coats.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah.
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Unknown
Take the over. 43 and a half over.
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Tony Kornheiser
You've been winning overs all over the place. Okay.
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Unknown
And the Texans take them plus one and a half. That's they plan A. Titans. Terrible.
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Tony Kornheiser
They're getting points. The division championship.
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Unknown
Yeah. Texans are getting. I think it's plus one and a half.
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Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
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Tony Kornheiser
Oh, they're going to sit people in Tennessee. Okay. And Houston.
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Unknown
Yeah, Houston's got nothing to play for because they're already in.
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Tony Kornheiser
All right.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Tony Kornheiser
So take the Texans plus one and a half over the Titans.
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Jason Lockenfora
Yes.
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Tony Kornheiser
All right. Let's hope you close like you've been closed. And that's been great. Thank you, James.
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Unknown
God saved your king. I'm busted.
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Tony Kornheiser
One of the other is what we're getting. James Carville, boys and girls. Be good. And we're going to go right into Jeff Ma because we taped Jeff Ma the other day and we will explain that right now because we tell the truth here when it suits us to tell the truth. We will tell the truth right now that we have Jeff Ma on the line and we're actually recording this on Thursday. Jeff is in Hawaii. We didn't want to disturb him at what would be, I don't know, 3:30 in the morning if we did this on Friday morning in Hawaii. What are you doing in Hawaii?
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James Carville
Well, it's vacation up here with my family. But it's also opportunistic because I think. I don't know if you know, but I work for True Golf. Right now we run about 950 golf courses. We run a course up here called the Kapalua Plantation Course. And there is a tournament going on out here right now called the Century.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yes. That's the first one of the year. That's the first one of the year.
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James Carville
Yeah, yeah. No, great, great field. I turned down an opportunity to play in the Pro Am yesterday because I am a family man and I enjoy spending time with my family on vacation. But we're. I'm going to take the family over on Friday to see all the golfers. I'm pretty excited for it. Obviously looking forward to golf season. Hopefully needs a little bit of a rebirth after what's been happening there.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yes, golf is going to. If it, if it continues on this course, golf will end up like tennis, where only four tournaments a year will matter. And the people who get the blame here are the golfers, just like the tennis people get the blame. So, I mean, it's up to them. If they, if that's what they want, that's what they'll get. Is there no bet the process this week?
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James Carville
There's, there's no bet the process this week? We're dark this week. Rufus was actually in Tasmania. In Australia. Yeah, he was there doing a, a river rafting cruise or something like that where someone 10 days before he got there died on this rafting thing he was doing. So. But I think he managed to get back safely. He's back in Las Vegas and we'll be back next week where we'll probably preview the playoff games. But it's been exciting to be here with the golf. Like last night I took my family to dinner at a restaurant called Taverna over here, and Billy Horschel and his family were sitting kind of right next to us. And Keegan Bradley walked in and you had one of those moments where you see, like, golfers are just like us. Keegan walked in and like looked at the horsels and said horsels and like smiled and shook their hands and walked away. So it's like kind of what I'd say if I ran into someone in my country club.
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Tony Kornheiser
That's very nice. That's. These are nice stories.
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James Carville
Yes.
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Tony Kornheiser
They humanize these people in a nice way. Let me redo the Read the this week's picks with James Carville and Jeff Matthew are brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. Make every moment more. You were three and two last week. You got hurt. I mean, you picked badly on Boise State, but you picked well on Ohio State. You got hurt on the Green Bay Minnesota game. You were Green Bay plus one, and you needed two to break even. That was a close one. But you didn't do badly. I mean, you won the other two pro games, right? You won Washington in the over and you won Miami against the quarterback who you've described as the worst starting quarterback of all time. And you're right. You're right. The guy in Cleveland's terrible DTR is. That is. That is who he is. Terrible.
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James Carville
Yeah. DTR is that way. And that's what everyone's sort of saying now because he's, I think in his career he has something like one touchdown and 10 interceptions. And like, there are not many quarterbacks who blasted through that. So, yeah, it's unfortunate. I don't like to disparage someone, but he's. He's just definitely not a quarterback and be interesting to see what happens to him after this year.
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Tony Kornheiser
All right, so I will just mention this. We are taping this before the Notre Dame Georgia game.
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Unknown
That's right.
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Tony Kornheiser
Seven college football games. And you have bet on college football throughout this period of time. Seven college football games have gone on, six have stunk. That mean. Well, four or five have stunk. The Clemson game wasn't terrible, but six of the seven are not even like two scores and above. And then the Arizona State game yesterday against Texas was very exciting because Texas pretty much gagged like dogs for like, most of the second half. Do you have an explanation for this? Does this affect betting in some way?
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James Carville
Well, I think in the first week we talked a little bit about, you know, I think the challenge right now is that, you know, we don't know the impact of rest. We don't know the impact of this home field in the first round of this. And like, these teams also are teams that, you know, don't really play each other very often in some cases. Well, in the case of, obviously of Oregon and Ohio State, that's not true.
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Tony Kornheiser
Right.
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James Carville
Yeah, I don't like. I would just chalk this up to small sample size. I do think next year they're gonna have to rethink how they do seating, you know, who plays who. Because it doesn't. It doesn't Make a lot. I mean, that. Oregon, Ohio. I mean, but look at this. Like, you plan everything. You would say Oregon, Ohio State should have been the closest game they were. People say that's like basically what the finals should be. And that's probably was the biggest blowout.
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Tony Kornheiser
Of all of these games. Yes. Well, it was like 34 nothing in the first half. It was like the jets against Buffalo was so awful. Yes. Yes.
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James Carville
Yeah. So, I mean, I think again, like, college is struggling to figure out what the right thing is in the world of super conferences. What does that mean? Because again, like, in the world of super conferences, you say, oh, how many, how many SEC teams really should get in? But the reality is maybe more because there are so many, you know, good SEC teams or in the, you know, in the case of the Big Ten. Is that true?
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Tony Kornheiser
And yes, Big Ten, I don't know.
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James Carville
It's, It's. It's. It's hard. It's hard to see which. Which is like the right path forward. And, and ultimately, I think the problem is in these situations, you have like, a little bit of a principal agent problem where the incentive structure of these, you know, coordinate commissioners and, you know, like athletic directors and whatnot are not aligned with creating the most competitive product. Unfortunately, it's a business like anything else. So, yeah, I will see that targeting play by, by the way, at the end of the.
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Tony Kornheiser
I did, I did see it. And my feeling. There was a couple of things I felt. One was that it qualified as targeting under the definition of targeting, even though I'm not sure the intent was targeting. The intent doesn't matter if the effect is the same. And I wish it had been explained afterwards, you know, that somebody said, well, why is that not targeting? Because it appears to be. Targeting is the. Do you. And it changes the course of the game. It really does.
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James Carville
I mean, I don't, I don't understand how that's not targeting. It's crown of the helmet.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah.
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James Carville
It's hitting and, you know, hitting a defenseless person. And there's. There's a little bit of a launch there. If you see him, you know, it's not completely accidental. It looks like he's trying to hit him at that point. Like, the reason that you would not call targeting there, if it looks completely accidental, meaning like it just happened that. That happens. He's going in for a hit. He's leading with the crown of his helmet, and he hits him in the helmet. Like there. There's, you know, quacks like a duck.
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Tony Kornheiser
Isn't that I agree, I agree. I would have liked more of an explanation as to how they came up with this thing anyway. All right, so what have you got for us this week?
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James Carville
We're going to go pick some NFL games. I mean, the college games, obviously. The, the. Did you, have you seen what the line is in Texas, Ohio State?
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Tony Kornheiser
No, but it would be hard for me to believe that Texas is favored at the moment.
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James Carville
Well, it's in Arlington, Texas. And if it opened at six and a half as Ohio State favored.
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Tony Kornheiser
Right.
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James Carville
So I mean, that's, it's, it's a, it's a big reaction to what people have seen in the last two weeks. Yes, people are very, very, the lines makers are now very afraid of Ohio State and getting in front of that. So you, you probably are getting value if you bet Texas because of the fact that they're over inflating this because they do not want a lot of Ohio State money. But I am not getting in front of that train wreck or. Sorry. In front of that freight train. Yeah, either.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. Okay.
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James Carville
Okay.
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Tony Kornheiser
So you're not, you're not gonna, you're staying away from that one. You stay away.
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James Carville
Yeah, I'm staying away.
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Tony Kornheiser
Okay.
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James Carville
Staying away. Right now I'm gonna take Carolina plus the nine over Atlanta in this last week. It's hard because so much of what you're trying to do is figure out who's going to play, who's going to sit, people, who's going to be motivated. And I think oftentimes you get into situations where people overreact to a team needing a game and in this case everyone's like, oh, Atlanta needs that game. And so I think there's some inflation of the, of the line and Carolina, I think has shown that down the stretch they're going to play hard. Obviously they didn't play well last year.
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Tony Kornheiser
Well, they were so terrible last week after about four good games in a row. They were a non entity in a division game against Tampa Bay. This is a division game against Atlanta. I'm just speaking for the other side that says take Atlanta in this, but go ahead, you'll take Carolina.
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James Carville
I'm going to take Carolina plus the nine. I'm going to take Washington minus the five over Dallas. I've mentioned that. I think that, you know, Washington is back to what they were because of Jaden's ability to scramble and now being healthy. I've heard some talk that, that, you know, and I feel like Quinn's just the kind of guy that's just going to push this and not and not rest and not call off the dogs. And I mean Dallas is just decimated without, without Ceedee. They got nothing on offense. That was where all of their offense was coming from since Rush has been there. And so I like Washington minus the 5 also.
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Tony Kornheiser
Dallas is terrible at home all year long. They've been terrible. Okay, what else?
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James Carville
May take the Vikings plus the three over Detroit. This is obviously a game that matters a lot, but I think that Detroit's injuries on defense are just, are just too much for to overcome. And I think the Vikings here are just a much better, more complete team and getting three points against a Detroit team which is not the same team they were at the beginning of the year.
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Tony Kornheiser
Home for Detroit though. Home game for Detroit. You still take Minnesota? Okay, sure, yeah.
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James Carville
And then, and then a couple games that again, like this one's a tough one. Niners plus the four and a half over Arizona. Don't know who's quarterbacking for the Niners. Do you believe that whoever quarterbacks will be better than your average replacement quarterback because of Kyle's ability to get these guys going? I do think the Niners have shown that they're going to still play hard and I don't think Arizona is very good. Shouldn't be giving four and a half to pretty much anyone at this point. So I'll take the Niners close to four and a half.
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Tony Kornheiser
Okay.
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James Carville
And then I'm going to take the Eagles minus the three over the Giants. I know that's a game that means nothing for them. They, they do have a buy, obviously. And, and oh, sorry.
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Tony Kornheiser
They, they, they're second.
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James Carville
They're not sure what their situation will be, but I do think that this is a situation where they will, you know, they're, they're, they're solid on defense, so good on defense. And I just again, we've talked about the Giants, you know, last week, obviously withstanding have, have not been a very good team. And so this is, this is a game where just getting three and, and thinking that Eagles with their backups can still beat the Giants by three points is kind of my thing.
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Tony Kornheiser
So yeah, I will, I will push back on two things. It appears that Saquon Barkley is not even going to play in this game. Sirianni said they're not going to go for the record and I have no idea what their quarterbacking situation is if they end up with this kid from Stanford. I have heard, I mean, I'm not saying I have to be told, but nobody has heard anything on Jalen hurts. This is. He's missed more games than you usually miss with concussion protocol. Does that. Is that worrisome?
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James Carville
I mean, concussions are worrisome, but also concussions are a very. I wouldn't say that's true. Like there are, there are times when people miss a lot of games or concussions and you just don't know. Like these are, these are things where, where my guess is he will be fine for the playoffs. That would be my guess. But you know, there's no real reason to play him here. And again, this is really just a bet that the Giants are so bad and the Eagles don't have enough players that they can run this out.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, they are very bad. Well, you enjoy Hawaii and I'm glad that Rufus is safe from Tasmania where he must have been devilish because everybody is in Tasmania. And we will talk to you at the Norma locale next week. Thank you, Jeff.
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James Carville
All right, thanks, Tony.
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Tony Kornheiser
Jeff Ma. Boys and girls, this week's picks with James Carville and Jeff Matthew have been brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. Make every moment more. We will come back with email and jingle. I am Tony Kornheiser. This is the Tony Kornheiser show. The Tony Kornizer show.
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Unknown
Well, here comes Tony's mail bag. We got your emails, your faxes and your notes. It's time for Tony's mail back. We're gonna read some all you folks.
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Tony Kornheiser
Very nice. John Ross, thank you very, very much. Appreciate that. You want to do the Bethesda bagel ad please?
- [48:36]
Unknown
Yes, Bethesda bagels, we love them. You will as well. Just go to BethesdaBaggles.com for the location in the DC area nearest youth and pop on in my friend and you will be thrilled.
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Tony Kornheiser
That will just about do it for us today. Before we get to the mailbag, let me just say don't know much about history don't know much biology and then parenthetically it's written in for non science majors. Don't know much about a science book don't know much about the French I took But I do know that I love you and I know that if you love me too what a wonderful world this would be. Sam Cooke did that originally. Art Garfunkel did one of the great covers I heard.
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Unknown
That's brilliant.
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Tony Kornheiser
Just great. Our thanks to Jason Lochinfour to James Carville to Jeff Ma. Our thanks to today's sponsors. Remember you can listen to us on Apple podcasts Spotify in August. Odyssey get the show through Apple Podcasts Please leave us a review.
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Jeff Ma
Quick apology to Alan Levy. We're doing our best to send this up the chain and find that missing Christmas order. Cough, cough. Rob, I will text you later. And I believe I saw a local Virginia area code on an on a phone number attached. So if that is local, I will also try and drop something off that can try and make it right should.
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Tony Kornheiser
I have any idea what you're talking about? Okay, that's good. Okay. Wayne Mossman, is it possible that the email suggesting that you store your sweaters on the porch is from fugitive monkeys attempting to survive? The winner from Jim Gerfen, Annapolis, Maryland. I'm responding to a question you asked Nigel and Michael on the December 27th podcast about the popularity of Beyonce versus Taylor. To use an analogy that should bring this into focus for someone of your generation, I'd suggest that Taylor is equivalent to the Beatles and Beyonce is equivalent to the Rolling Stones. The former being loved by everyone, cute as a button, and popish. The latter just as popular but more raw and a little grittier. Each time one or the other releases are executed record, it's number one. Both are great, but very different. Now, as far as the moths are concerned, the first thing you need to do is stop buying wool sweaters that are on display in the store and in particular sweaters that are on sale that have likely been sitting out for a while. As has been mentioned several times, it's not the moths doing the damage, but the larvae hatch from the eggs likely laid when the sweaters are sitting out in the store. You are bringing the egg covered sweaters into your home from the store like the people who are bringing bedbugs home after flying a certain Turkish airline. Allegedly. Allegedly. Don't be cheap. You can afford full freight. I only buy wool sweaters mail order or online. They come in a sealed plastic bag from the factory, go right into my cedar chest after inspection. I own 20 plus year old wool sweaters that have no holes. I wear them then right back into the cedar chest. You're welcome. I brought yet another sweater in yesterday for another $35.
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Jeff Ma
What is the response when you. When. When the door jingles and they see you walking through?
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Tony Kornheiser
What? They just see me with the sweater and she looks at me.
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Jeff Ma
Slap the card down.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. How many, how many holes this time? I have now spent, according to my American Express bills, over $600 to repair sweaters that collectively cost about $100. I. It's just killing me.
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Jeff Ma
Never change.
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Tony Kornheiser
Tom from Davidson, North Carolina. Yes, that Davidson home of Steph Curry You've made no secret of your disdain for ocean cruises. Which is exactly why I'm writing to inform you that on January, that's in a couple of days, the women to whom I'm related by marriage and I will embark on an epic adventure cruising around the world. That's right. 197 days of fun, excitement and cramped living. Thank you. Stopping in 41 countries while we share a cozy 322 foot cabin. We've already secured 52 advanced dinner reservations at the two specialty restaurants on the ship. Try doing that at the Palm. I'm formally requesting the esteemed designation of 2025 World Cruise Correspondence Tony Korn as a show. If I'm granted this honor, and you really should, I foresee the following. You got it. Using advanced analytics, AKA hocus pocus junk, to project the number of ice cream parties during a 10 day transatlantic crossing. Will coffee be a featured flavor? Reporting from Africa on the Lions and Jaguars, not Detroit and Jacksonville. Real Lions. Real Jaguars with claws and everything. Traffic updates from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where road construction may be impacting traffic patterns. And most importantly, the question that all littles want answered when flushing the mouse in Australia and New Zealand, is it a clockwise or counterclockwise situation? What do you say? So, yeah. Yeah, we're good. 322 square foot cabin. Tom Davidson. Enjoy that. I won't be at that.
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Unknown
Yeah, make sure on your ticket it says without norovirus.
- [52:45]
Tony Kornheiser
Oh, you don't want that either, right? I don't want that. That sounds terrible. Nobody wants that. Cam. Cam Wright. Cam from Bridgeville. Chuck and roxy, 220. And the father of Mia Steel, Cameron. First. Much appreciation from this very proud father to have his daughter featured on the podcast singing the Reginald song. It made Mia's New Year's Eve to hear her version of the theme song. In regards to the Bud Grant name issue, Mia said, and I swear to you this direct quote, I was singing Bud Grant and it came out too fast so it sounds like Bill instead of Bud. But daddy, that is okay because I am the artist and I have creative control. Yep, I'm in trouble, Johnnie Walker Blue wise. I'm an educator and little to no worries about her finding any Blue around this house. I mean, come on, what are we even doing out here? She's excited. Would like you to be the first guest on the Hammers podcast so she could send you emails in the future. That said, the Hammer Episode one. Mia has the same Reginald, the monkey you display on PTI that sleeps in our Bed every night. She loves seeing him behind you. When I was on Chuck and Roxy, I got an email from John Miller. Chuck and Roxy, episode 18 who had one of the Roxy's crocheted Reginald's in a contest. Oh, she'd won one. He had the Reginald for a couple of years. When he heard the email you read about her singing the doll singing the Reginald song in Pre K. He said he thought she would like the doll but had no way of contacting me. And he did. He sent some emails. Isn't that nice? Oh that's great. That's really nice.
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Unknown
That's lovely.
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Tony Kornheiser
From Gus in South Glens Falls, N.Y. this year for Christmas my wife and I bought a new tv. Didn't think that would be an earth shaking event, but get this, you can talk to it, ask it to find things. I'm not completely sure how this madness happens, but I think it might be an Alexa thing. Ask Michael. But now I just say play the Americans and it loads up from where we left off. Which by the way was season three, episode two with a very familiar orange man in a bar scene. What a shot. We were caught up on the Diplomat and have been advised to watch Tulsa King with Sylvester Stallone when we finished the Americans.
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Unknown
Yeah, that's okay.
- [54:36]
Tony Kornheiser
That's all right. I can't get Landman.
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Unknown
No, because it's on Paramount. We tried to get it the other day.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, from Ron Garjet Ski in Lewis and Gaithersburg. Started watching Texas but after Texas. Oh, Texas. Arizona state, but after 7 minutes and 14 nothing Texas, I turned to Netflix to watch the last two episodes of Diplomat. Great. Loved all those people running out. Just like you mentioned the other day. Afterwards, back to the game just in time for the scatter Boo touchdown pass in the rest of the game. Great.
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Unknown
Yeah, it's good timing.
- [55:06]
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, because it was bad for a while. Canberra, Australia Simon and Canberra, Australia with the love of your promotional team uniforms, I thought you might appreciate the Christmas strip picture attached worn by the Illawarra Hawks, a team in the Australian National Basketball League. Basically a bad Christmas jumper print in team colors. Snowflakes and reindeers make no sense with temperatures 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Some jumpers need to have moth seat them. Okay. Yeah, sent them. They're not great. Mark Kudelski, South Rockville is a 50 year member of the bearded brotherhood. I can only hope that the reactions to your new look are better than the ones I received on the two occasions I shaved. The responses from acquaintance usually started with oh, you got a haircut or did you lose weight? The reactions from loved ones were a bit more direct. My wife at the time informed me that the beard must be completely regrown in time for her family reunion. Since there were relatives I had not met yet, my sister simply doubled over in laughter. I hope that you look better than I did or that your family is more forgiving. My family doesn't even notice. Right?
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Jeff Ma
You're back.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, Liz doesn't even notice. I mean, it doesn't really matter. Jeff Lowe, Gaithersburg, New York has stated under 28 hyphen 504 prohibited practices beginning January 1st, a retailer shall not discriminate against cash. Oh yes. As a form of payment for good service, including by refusing to accept cash as form of payment, posting signs on the premises. The cash payment is not accepted or charging a higher price to consumers who pay cash. So that means Jetty's has to take cash.
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Unknown
Yes. This is D.C. this is D.C. ordinance, the city council.
- [56:35]
Tony Kornheiser
I assume this will also force all parties parking lots to have attendance to accept said cash. A double win.
- [56:41]
Unknown
If that's the case, that is all on the show.
- [56:44]
Tony Kornheiser
Jeff Lowe Until Willie Shatz to eat at my high school friend Willie Shafts. That's great.
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Unknown
That's a great, great win.
- [56:50]
Jeff Ma
I don't want to pay a higher.
- [56:52]
Tony Kornheiser
Price for parking though, by the way, when I get. When I have to pay for these park mobile. No, no, no, I don't do that. I just, I take a chance. I don't do that when I have to pay for the repairs to my sweaters.
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Unknown
Right.
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Tony Kornheiser
There's something called an upcharge. It's like 10 cents or 20 cents. What is that?
- [57:12]
Jeff Ma
And up to where is this to like expedite the American Express the process?
- [57:16]
Unknown
Oh, for you.
- [57:17]
Jeff Ma
Because it's a smaller business.
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Unknown
I don't know.
- [57:20]
Tony Kornheiser
Mark Lynch, North Camdy, Indiana. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure if Carol has Netflix and you are married to Carol, you have Netflix. Kind of like you share flying squirrels Moss and blossom end rot with her. Joshua Burns, who writes currently in my mother in law's kitchen in Ocala in Florida. I completely understand the notion that exactly 40 years old, I'm barely a man. However, I'm standing in my mother in law's kitchen when I have that moment of clarity, trying not to wake the house. I shuffle into the kitchen as I am hungry and I find a box of pizza in the fridge. I'm piece number two into my meal as I realize I'm eating this Pizza over the sink. It's at this moment that I say out loud to nobody in particular, ah, this is adulthood. I'm sure it was still a glass of Pinot away from being to your level, but I'm happy to be part of the club. Everybody on the show is wonderful. Please continue to grace us with your wonderful personalities as we take on a new year and many more to come. There's a Jimmy Carter one here from Jonathan Harwood in Yonkers, New York. Is it two or one? As I was listening to you talk about Jimmy Carter after he passed away, I thought, I know that guy. In 1980, my father, Stanley, was Nassau County Democratic Chairman. I was 15 and home alone. One night when my parents were at some political function, the phone rang, and when I answered, the person on the other end asked for my father. When I said he wasn't home, she asked if I knew where he was. I thought that odd and really none of our business, but gave her some vague answers. She then said, when he gets home, can you tell him the White House called? To which I responded, excuse me, she repeated herself. I stayed up as long as I could to deliver the message in person, but it was a school night, and at some point I decided to go to bed and wrote my father a note. At the time, however, I had a running gag with my dad when he'd come home and ask me if anyone called. I'd say, yeah, the President. You can see my dilemma. So I left the note saying, the President called, no joke. Just as I left it, my parents came home and I showed my dad the note and explained what happened. He, of course, immediately called back. At the time, Ted Kennedy was challenging Carter in the primaries, and Carter was calling the county leaders to ask for their support. I don't think I've ever seen my dad as animated as during that call. After my dad passed away, we were going through things. Through his things. And I found the note I left that night in an old wallet. That's.
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Unknown
How about that?
- [59:25]
Tony Kornheiser
That's great. Jonathan Hardwood. Yes. I remember Stanley Harwood's name. I remember.
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Unknown
Oh, really?
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Tony Kornheiser
Sure. Because I'm from Nassau County.
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Unknown
You're from Nassau County.
- [59:34]
Tony Kornheiser
Nassau County. And it's on a lot of signs. Joe Pierce in Indianapolis. Last night I dreamed I got you into Carbone. That's it. That's the email. Good dream. And from Nathan in Rockville. 2025 TK Madness Bracket Challenge Prize. A bag of slightly used spice drops. Who needs a sport coat anyway? I keep digging into them. I have. I don't have much of them left. I don't. I really don't.
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Jeff Ma
It's terrible.
- [59:57]
Unknown
And the portions are so small, and it's just.
- [59:59]
Tony Kornheiser
And they taste terrible. They all taste the same. Doesn't matter what color they are. They all taste the same. That's not what I'm used to. Not used to that. If you're out on your bike tonight, everyone is always to wear white.
- [60:07]
Unknown
Ladies and gentlemen, the evening is over. We hope you all enjoyed yourselves, and we'll see you all again in 1974. Good evening.
- [60:18]
Tony Kornheiser
Thank you, Alton.
- [60:23]
Unknown
Let's Saquon go for the record. Let him play. Let him play. Eric Dickerson has held that thing for 15,000 days. Let him punish the Giants for letting him get away. Let Saquon go for the record. Let him play. Let him play. The running back has been devalued. It gets worse every year. The quarterback is the king of the hill. Sells trucks and soda pop and beer. He needs 101. Let him get 101. Then you can sit him down. Let Saquon go for the record. Let a running back wear the crown. They pull pictures now in the seventh, going for a perfect game. Barry Sanders quit early. That was just a shame. Let Saquon go for the record. Immortality will be his name. Let Saquon run. The Giants ain't so tough. Dickerson's held it long enough.
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Tony Kornheiser
Ha.