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Tony Kornheiser
Hey, it's Tony. On today's show, we will tell the Peter Yarrow story again in honor of his passing yesterday. Plus, Chuck Todd will call in to make his weekly picks against Reginald the Monkey. But first, let's keep the wheels of commerce moving. You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser show. Here's a riddle for you. What do yoga mats, a toothbrush and a Hyundai have in common? I'll give you a moment. Time's up. If you guess they're all fun, well designed, super useful, you guessed wrong. The answer is you can order all those things on Amazon. That's right, you can now buy a Hyundai on Amazon. The same place where you order yoga mats, a toothbrush and pretty much everything else. All from the comfort of your home. And the best part, you won't even have to break down a car sized Amazon box after because you'll pick up your Hyundai at the dealer. I mean, picture this. You're in your PJs snuggled in on your couch. You pull up Amazon on your phone and you start the process right there. You locate a nearby dealer, pick your color, your options, check the price, and with a few dotting of some I's and crossing of some T's, voila. Your Hyundai is ready for pickup. It's that easy. Just remember to put on some real clothes before you head over, will you? Hyundai now available on Amazon. Visit HyundaiUSA.com or call 562-314-4603 for more details. Limited availability only through participating Hyundai dealers in select markets.
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- [02:25]
Tony Kornheiser
Previously on the Tony Kornheiser Show.
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Chuck Todd
Sometimes we'll disagree on, you know, exactly, you know, where to draw particular or contour on a map. You know, where does the 3 to 6 inch line start and stop, you know, stuff like that. And we'll work it out. You know, we're, we've all been working together for a long time, so it's pretty amicable overall. We're not having, we're not having fights. It's not too dramatic.
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Tony Kornheiser
Oh, so it's not like somebody says, there's Norman, he's at it again, we got to shut him down. You know, it's not, there's nothing like that. This is General George Washington and you're listening to the Tony Kornheiser Show. Not much happened in sports yesterday. At least I don't think much happened in sports yesterday. Antonio Pierce got fired. Yeah, one full year. He was 5 and 3 or 5 and 4 as the interim coach in Las Vegas. They gave him the job. They should have given Versace the job two years before that and they didn't do that. So they learned their lesson and they gave Antonio Pierce a job. But he had a 10 game losing streak at one point and they fired him after one year. I'm not usually a big fan of one year firings. I mean, I understand that you can say, look, it's evident this isn't working and so let's cut the ties as quickly as possible and move on. But to me, I think he gives somebody two years. Yeah, I mean, I felt that way about Gerard Mayo as well. I think he gives somebody two years, but he got fired. And there will be speculation, of course, that Deion Sanders will get that job and bring his son as the quarterback in Las Vegas.
- [04:00]
Michael Wilbon
Do you see Verlander signed with the.
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Tony Kornheiser
Giants for one year for a lot of money. Yeah, he wants, he wants to reach 300. I don't think he's gonna.
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Michael Wilbon
Probably not.
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Tony Kornheiser
I think he's done.
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Michael Wilbon
I think you and I have a bet and you're on the other side of that.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, I think he's done. Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary passed away yesterday at 86 years old. People have been listening to the show for a long time. Know this story. I had to refamiliarize myself with the story. I knew that there was check in with Mom. Yeah, I knew there was something that happened in the house with Peter Yarrow, but I didn't recall. I didn't recall. And I am, as you know, unburdened by memory. I didn't recall ever meeting Peter Yarrow. I didn't recall ever saying to Peter Yarrow, what are you doing in my house? But what happened as Carol retells the story is I was upstairs asleep, and Carol was watching television when the door opens and someone comes in the house. And Carol is sitting down in. In a position where if you lay down on this cushion, you cannot be seen. You're behind the sink, you're behind a barrier, a bench seat. And so someone comes into the house, and the dog doesn't bark. Our old dog, Maggie. Maggie doesn't bark. And Carol decides at that point Maggie is deaf. And somebody is wandering around the house. And Carol sees it's a man, doesn't know who this is, and hides. And then at one point, sticks her head up, and the guy goes, oh, oh, I'm. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I must be in the wrong house. He says, I'm Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary. And she thinks you are. If I had a hammer, I'd hit you in the head with it. That's what she's thinking. Anyway, it turns out he had friends on the next block, and she directed him one block down. And we then. I didn't remember this. We then had him on the show. We did. Well, you talk about this.
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Michael Wilbon
You came into the studio the next day and you had a big grin on your face, and you said, well, I've got a story for the Open. What is it? You said, you'll just have to wait and you tell the story. It's amazing. And then we get Peter Yarrow on the. On the show. I think a couple of days after.
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Tony Kornheiser
That, sings a song or something.
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Michael Wilbon
Sings a song about bullying or something like that.
- [06:12]
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. Anyway, I mean, he had a great. 86 years old.
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Michael Wilbon
He has a great run.
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Tony Kornheiser
Peter, Paul and Mary were the preeminent folk music group in the 1960s in the United States of America. Mary died some years back. Paul, who is actual. His first name is Noel. He's Noel Paul Stookey. He's still alive. And I have told this. I played golf with him once.
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Michael Wilbon
Oh, really?
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Tony Kornheiser
I played golf with him at rtj.
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Michael Wilbon
Big hitter.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, big hitter of the llama. Yeah, he's a big guy, you know. Yeah, he's a tall talk and he. Yeah, he's pretty good player. Pretty good player. So I, you know, what do they say? Box the compass on that one? Although I didn't meet. I didn't meet Peter Yarrow. No, I would have just said, oh, sit down. Tell me all about your life.
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Michael Wilbon
Get your guitar.
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Tony Kornheiser
One other thing before we get to the golf. So our friend Mike Breen was doing the Knicks game the other night, two nights ago, whenever it was. He's doing a Knicks game and he sees. Sitting courtside, he sees the actress Susie Essman. Yes. S M A N. Susie Essman is the one on Curb youb Enthusiasm who is married to the big guy, Jeff, Jeff Garland, and is so insulting of him and everyone else all the time.
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Reginald the Monkey
Always yelling at Larry.
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Tony Kornheiser
She's got one note so X rated.
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Michael Wilbon
She hits it great every time.
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Tony Kornheiser
She's great. She's great. So Breen sees her and says on the air, Suzy Essman of Pardon the Interruption is here and makes a couple of references to Pardon the Interruption, then realizes it's Curb your Enthusiasm and says, oh, I. It's Curb youb Enthusiasm. So I, I sent a text to Breen yesterday and I said, look, it's an easy mistake. It's three words in a title. They're very odd titles. You know, you watch both shows. And I said, did I. Did I tell you? I said, Because, I mean, the only difference between Larry David and I is Larry David is much funnier, much richer, and was a better intramural college basketball player. He played at the University of Maryland. I know this because my friend Jay was his best friend. Jay was a better player than I and said Larry was a better player than I. And then I said in the note, did I mention he was much richer and much funnier as well? And Breen sent a note back that he was embarrassed about having done this. I said, no. So we shouted out to Breen last night. So we shouted out. It said a shout out from. To Mike Breen from all the crew at Curb youb Interruption. And he saw that, which would be.
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Reginald the Monkey
A great crossover episode.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. And John Orand. I did see this. Our friend John Orand, who writes for Puck.
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Michael Wilbon
That's right. Yes.
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Tony Kornheiser
He said he would. He would love to see Tony Kornheiser and Larry David argue about sports on tv. And I think that would. Could be funny.
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Michael Wilbon
Well, he's currently without a job, so, you know, maybe stop the series. Yep.
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Tony Kornheiser
Why you do that?
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Reginald the Monkey
Talking to himself in the mirror.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. Why would you do that? All right, so the golf was on last night, tgl, which I thought was the Golf League, but what is the name of it?
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Reginald the Monkey
It's not the Golf League.
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Tony Kornheiser
Is it the Golf league.
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Reginald the Monkey
I'll look it up.
- [09:01]
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. And so last night they, they have teams. And I guarantee you that every single player who is playing in this event, this is an indoor golf simulator event presented by Sofi. Sofi is doing this. Every single golfer who's on a team has no idea what team he's on. They're just out there to make some money and have some laughs and see. See if they can do something with golf on the side. You know, sort of like a road that leads from real PGA Tour golf to this other thing that looks like it would be fun. I am not going to be tremendously critical of this because ESPN is behind this. I will say I stayed up to watch about 15 minutes of it and like many people, I didn't quite understand it.
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Reginald the Monkey
I watched 15 minutes. I mean, you stayed past 9:30 because it didn't start till 9:15.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, because Scotty was talking to people and then other guys were talking to people.
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Reginald the Monkey
And luckily Duke ran out the clock to get you going, at least by that time.
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Tony Kornheiser
Oh, yeah, yeah. No, I watched. Right, Duke. Yes. Duke won by 15, 18, 20 over Pitt and something like that. I will, I will mention this, and this is about programming and I will say this about espn. ESPN last night had number one, Tennessee at number eight. Florida number one against number eight with number eight. Number eight crushed number one. But they have number one against number eight. They put that on the PTI network. ESPN too, because they had Duke on one. Duke draws. Yeah. Okay. Duke. If you have a Duke game, it's like the Cowboys. Yeah, you put Duke on. Okay. So I watched some of the golf. I watched the first hole, I watched the second hole. I didn't quite understand this. They're hitting into a giant screen, except when they're within 50 yards of the hole. Then they hit onto a green that is contoured and simulated and real grass, right?
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Reginald the Monkey
Yes. It has tectonic plates underneath it that are.
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Tony Kornheiser
It's wild to look at.
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Reginald the Monkey
You can create new hole locations and undulations.
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Tony Kornheiser
That was the most interesting thing of the event to me to see how they made the green change. Are these real holes that they're playing into from real courses or they may.
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Reginald the Monkey
No, so. So one criticism people would say, we'd love to see real big time courses. The same way when they brought the Masters into, you know, Tiger Woods, EA Sports. It's in the game.
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Tony Kornheiser
That's what I thought it would be.
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Reginald the Monkey
This is sort of the fan terrifying holes with, with names that sound like they were made up by the Hammer, you know, in terms of like the gauntlet, sledgehammer. So, no, they're not real holes. They're trying to force players to take on a shot. The problem is these players know their numbers so well. So if you put them on a flat lie and say it's 287 to clear this hazard into a diamond shaped fairway, they can do that. And when they miss, they miss to the rough.
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Tony Kornheiser
So it's, you know, it's the three guys. The holes that I saw. There are various ways this can be played. And as the match goes on, it changed, changed. But I saw shots. The three guys on the team each hit shots. You know, the first guy hit a shot, then the second guy hit a shot, then the third guy. That, that's the way it worked on the holes that I saw. I'm going to leave the floor to Michael to explain it and discuss whether you liked it. But I will just say this, this is all dependent on one thing. It is not dependent on the golf. It is dependent on the chemistry of the people. And if they talk, they very smartly. This is a, this is a venture by Rory and Tiger, who did not play. Surprised me a little bit. Sat in the stands, did not play. But somebody was smart enough to put Rickie Fowler out there. Because Ricky Fowler is a great talker and everybody.
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Reginald the Monkey
He's a safe presence.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yes. Yeah. And I would have put Justin Thomas out. I mean, I. There's certain guys I would have put out.
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Reginald the Monkey
I feel like there's been a bit.
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Tony Kornheiser
Of J.C. lowry, everybody likes him.
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Reginald the Monkey
And there's a great refreshing moment where they ask him like, oh, what do you think about chipping or putting it? He goes, I've never done it before. I mean, I think this was the first time he's seen the property because not everyone lives in, you know, Jupiter, Florida. So was it a success? The fact that the roof didn't cave in like it did a year ago when it was meant to debut, means it was a success. I come back to this with golf. How do you define a golf experience? Do you only get satisfaction from playing an 18 hole round in four and a half hours, which is now not even the norm because we've had this huge Covid bump in golf and now rounds of public courses are taking five to six hours. No one has time for that. When you bank in the traffic and when you think about how can you bring golf into your life in some of these cityscapes where you might look at golf as going to a simulator room, going to A lounge that has the social aspect. Get together with your friends.
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Tony Kornheiser
Columbia just noted in three bays. Columbia just put in three indoor things where you can do this. And one of the things you can do, you can take lessons on it. Sure. But you can also play Pebble Beach. They have courses that you can do this. My feeling about, about this is, and it's going to be on a lot. This is not Peyton Manning and Tom Brady and Charles Barkley. These are real pro golfers and they're going to try to make a league here. Obviously this is to combat Liv to some degree.
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Reginald the Monkey
I kept waiting in the opening for them to say, you know, we're, we're growing the game of golf. Or golf, but louder.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, you know, so. But it's going to be on, I guess there'll be matches and playoffs. I mean, I don't know am I going to watch? If it's not opposite a live NFL game, I'll watch. I don't know when it's. Is it always scheduled for Tuesdays?
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Reginald the Monkey
Tuesday is the day there are some day events that go on.
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Tony Kornheiser
I think ESPN, you know, ESPN's got the NBA, so they're not going. If they've got a big double header, they're not going to put the golf. They're going to put the double header on.
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Reginald the Monkey
And there's a sweet spot. They don't expect golf to get the numbers of an NBA game. And you think about what do they have in the next week? They have a live playoff game that they would like to use to build an audience to watch Tiger effing Woods play in his sort of backyard domain where we can still see him hit.
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Tony Kornheiser
Shots from a golfer wearing a new Skeletor sweatshirt.
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Reginald the Monkey
Yeah, there's actually sidebar. There's a great pathway for, you know, for your sponsors to really logo you up because this is a much more intimate setting. Watching you hundreds of yards away on the fairway.
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Tony Kornheiser
I would give it, well, 9:00 is late for me because we over at 11.
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Reginald the Monkey
No, when you get to the singles, you sort of are sitting there going, am I still with this or am I going to turn it off? I decided to turn it off for the singles, but I got a sense of this. If I'm going to a simulator room, I sort of want to see my numbers. It's really, I'm about to go play golf. I want to see if I'm hooking the six iron 40 yards left of my target. And I didn't get an actual sense of their numbers because again, these Players are like robots. So what, what can I actually get a sense of? I'd love to see them hitting shots or you can see the flight of the ball in terms of 30, 40 yard spinners. The coolest shot yesterday was when they hit a pitch shot that looks like it's going long and then all of a sudden it gets to the correct plate and it rolls all the way back to it to a tap in gimme. I'm reminded of the scene from Space Jams where they're trying to capture Michael Jordan. So they have a magnet under the green bringing the ball slowly to the hole and you have Bill Murray going, it's alive. I think the wild card for this is how are people going to bet on it and if you actually trust the technology. So when you see somebody after a penalty shot hit their necks to a couple feet for the gimme, do you say I trust in the science of this or are they trying to move this along? When you think about golf on the other tours, one of the biggest issues they have is pace of play. And I think the shot clock is a revelation. This is going to be like the pitchers in baseball.
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Tony Kornheiser
It's good. They ought to put it on a real tour and so people can't just walk around.
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Reginald the Monkey
I think this is the way. Yeah, this is the way the Tiger and Rory, who are, you know, quick players by today's standards, Rory in particular, they are going to get this onto the main tour and this will influence how golfers come up.
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Tony Kornheiser
So a guy like Patrick Cantlay, if he plays in this thing, he's going to get whistled a lot.
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Michael Wilbon
Oh yeah.
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Reginald the Monkey
But even, you know, there's also ways to look. One of the successes on tours when they do a mixed team event.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah.
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Reginald the Monkey
And for this you actually now have a way to say, let's do more events that have players across tours, across age. If you want to bring in like a senior, you know, regular tour. But American golfers don't like to play alternate shot. They don't, they don't see, see it as enough of golf. And for this, you see a guy hit a drive and then, you know, essentially your partner is out in the fairway and that is a way to bring back pace of play.
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Tony Kornheiser
I enjoyed it. I mean, I enjoyed that part of it. I see the possibilities of it. I didn't truly understand it. I'll give it another shot or two. Except if they're going to put it on late at night, you know, I'm not going to, but you know, it's it's, it's clearly an attempt by golf in the persons of Rory McElroy and Tiger woods to get more fan interest. I mean, to make it more accessible to fans. There's a, there was a crowd in there.
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Reginald the Monkey
Yeah. There's questions as to who was part of that crowd. I mean, how do you get people in? Are you giving them country club guys? Yeah. Are you giving them, you know, drink tickets or Boston golf common cheer?
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Tony Kornheiser
Let them scream. Yeah, yeah. Let it be like Phoenix, the waste management. Yeah.
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Reginald the Monkey
Within reason.
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Tony Kornheiser
All right, so that's our Open.
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Reginald the Monkey
My biggest worry though is any good golfer knows this. Your divot pattern is so important. When you get a fresh piece of grass on the range, you got to look like a stick.
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Tony Kornheiser
Right? Right.
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Reginald the Monkey
So to see them just taking these divots, you're sitting there, you're like, I don't want to be the one that messes it up for the rest of the two hour spread.
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Tony Kornheiser
That. I thought that too. These are pretty small little boxes. Yeah. And they're taking divots because it's real grass.
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Reginald the Monkey
What if it's a game time decision? I want to, I want to have a little gamesmanship. I'm going to take a huge chunk out of the center of this thing. Let's see how you. See how you play.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. All right. We will come back with Michael Wilbon. I'm Tony Kornheiser.
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Chuck Todd
You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser Show.
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Tony Kornheiser
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Michael Wilbon
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Tony Kornheiser
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Reginald the Monkey
What?
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Tony Kornheiser
Hearing aids. You don't need hearing aids. I do.
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Reginald the Monkey
I'm getting closer.
- [18:42]
Tony Kornheiser
I need hearing aids now. I don't need them when I do the podcast because I have stuff in my ear. You're cranked up to 11 microphones in my ear. I don't need it when I do the television. Television show because I have stuff in my ear. But I can no longer watch television without closed caption and I can't.
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Michael Wilbon
Yeah.
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Tony Kornheiser
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Michael Wilbon
Or earbuds.
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Tony Kornheiser
Earbuds, whatever they're called.
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Reginald the Monkey
Your cart mate will know.
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Tony Kornheiser
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Reginald the Monkey
I, I, I'm focused on a yes.
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Tony Kornheiser
Really? I took a hearing, I've taken tests over the years and they all indicate when I was 60 they indicated I had the hearing of an 80 year old.
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Reginald the Monkey
Pretty good.
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Tony Kornheiser
Now my hearing is of 110.
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Reginald the Monkey
This is where you have to like in the room, go from left to right as the noise pings around.
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Tony Kornheiser
I, yeah, I don't, I have no idea what's being said. By the way. I don't mind that often.
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Michael Wilbon
Right.
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Tony Kornheiser
I don't really want to listen to anybody but when I'm watching television, I do, I want to hear it and I don't.
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Michael Wilbon
Would you remember the thing that like the fellows from pti, they sent over the tone test, you know, and I couldn't hear it? Yeah. I've had headphones blasting my ears for decades.
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Tony Kornheiser
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Michael Wilbon
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Tony Kornheiser
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Reginald the Monkey
We're in.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. Okay. This is The Tony Kornheiser show this is a Rosetta Stone read. As you set resolutions for 2025, consider how learning a new language can enrich your life, whether through travel, career advancement, or cultural appreciation. For example, maybe you want to learn how to say please don't shave my beard off in Italian. That's why you should check out Rosetta Stone. They've been a trusted expert for 30 years with millions of users in 25 languages offered, including Spanish, French, and, yes, Italian. Utilizing fast language acquisition, Rosetta Stone immerses you in many ways. There are no English translations, so you really learn to speak, listen and think in that language. Plus, it's convenient with desktop and app options and an audio companion that gives you the ability to download lessons offline. And best of all, it's an amazing value. Lifetime membership gives you to all 25 language courses Rosetta Stone offers for 50% off. And that's a steal. Start the new year off with a resolution you can reach today. Listeners to this show can take advantage of this. Rosetta Stones lifetime membership for 50% off. Visit Rosetta stone.com Tony that's 50% off. Unlimited access to 25 language courses for the rest of your Life. Redeem your 50% off at Rosetta Stone.com Tony today and use the code. People. This is the Tony Korneiser Show. This is Don Stewart. This is a song called Nowhere and he writes. Here are two songs that I wrote. One is titled Nowhere. The other one is titled I'll Take that. Both songs are sort of depressing. I try not to write depressing songs, but sometimes I just can't help it. This week when you were talking about the new you, Michael mentioned how much you like your chocolate espresso beans. I haven't seen the new you yet, but that's not what I got excited about. What I got excited about is the way you and Michael pronounced the word expresso. I may be wrong about this, but it sounded like you said espresso while Michael said espresso. This is important to me because I had always said expresso until my wife told me that I was saying it wrong and I was supposed to say espresso. So ever since then I have said espresso. I looked it up on the Internet and it said that if I'm in France, I should say espresso, but when I'm in the United States, I should say espresso. I'm not going to mention this to my wife because then I'll just get more lectures about how to talk right you know, I realize this is not a very important subject with everything else that's going on, but I thought you should know that once again, you have brought something up that I need help with. I read all of this because this song Nowhere was supposed to play in Michael Wilbon.
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Reginald the Monkey
Guess they missed the song of the summer. Espresso.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. So you say espresso.
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Reginald the Monkey
I don't say espresso. I say espresso.
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Tony Kornheiser
Oh, I say espresso. Well, I'm wrong. But I say dunkey. You know, it's not dunkey. And there's a lot of things I pronounce wrong. And dungarees and. Yeah, dungarees. And those things happen. And we don't have Wilbur Wilburn, who is the most consistent guest of all time. Yeah, we don't have Wilbon. We don't know how to get Wilbon. You know, we have no idea where will. We know where he is physically, but we not answering. So we don't get Wilbourne. Yeah.
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Michael Wilbon
Not today.
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Tony Kornheiser
You know, so when I was going to. What did I. I was going to ask him on all. Pretty much all the playoff games. I had written down all the playoff games. I was going to ask him about the college. I was going to ask him about the golf. I was going to ask him about Jimmy Butler.
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Michael Wilbon
Oh, yeah, Jimmy Butler.
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Tony Kornheiser
And I mean, stuff like that. And then wherever he was going to go, I was certainly going to ask him about Mike McCarthy going to green Bay. And now Dallas has refused permission. Yeah. For Mike McCarthy to talk, he just has to wait a week and then he can talk to them. Yeah. And instead, Chicago is going to talk to Pete Carroll, who I find intriguing. Pete Carroll, one of only four people, I think, to ever win a national championship in college and the Super Bowl. So I think it's Pete Carroll, Jim Harbaugh, Barry Switzer, and Jimmy Johnson. Yeah. Those are the only people who've ever done it. So, I mean, if Pete Carroll is available, you might think, well, I want people, but. So I can't ask him about that because we don't have Wilbond. So rather than, you know, I can't string this out for much longer because I don't. I don't have Wilbon right now. We'll find out what later today. He's going to be on the PTI show later today. We'll get a call saying, oh, wow, I'm so sorry. I. Yeah. You know, and there'll be a reason.
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Michael Wilbon
Yeah.
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Tony Kornheiser
But at the moment, we don't have Wilbur.
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Reginald the Monkey
It's just.
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Michael Wilbon
Awol.
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Tony Kornheiser
Right? Yeah. So we'll try and get them. Or we'll get him eventually.
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Michael Wilbon
We'll get them back next Monday after.
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Tony Kornheiser
This, after the wild card game. So just listen to the rest of it. Chuck Todd is next. Yeah, and we do have Chuck Todd. We tape out of order. As everybody knows, you're out of order. You're out of order. I'm. You're out of order. Yeah, we tape out of order. And so these things happen. Anyway, Chuck Todd when we return. I'm Tony Kornheiser. You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser Show. This is the Rocket Money read. The start of a new year is perfect time to get organized, set goals, and prioritize what matters most, like financial wellness, which feels more important than ever. Thanks to Rocket Money, those goals can feel achievable. They show you all of your subscriptions right in one place, and they'll help you easily cancel ones that you've forgotten you've been paying for. Rocket Money also pulls together all of your spending across all of your different accounts so you can clearly track your spending habits and see where you can cut back. Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps lower your bills so you can grow savings. It lets you see all of your subscriptions in one place so you know exactly where your money is going. For ones you don't want anymore, Rocket Money can help you cancel them. Rocket Money will even try to negotiate lower bills for you. Rocket money has over 5 million users and has saved a total of $500 million.
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Michael Wilbon
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Michael Wilbon
What is Dax?
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Reginald the Monkey
Are you tracking all our cars on Carvana Value Tracker on all our devices? Yes, Kristen, Yes, I am.
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Chuck Todd
Well, I've been looking for my phone for.
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Reginald the Monkey
In Dax's domain, we see all. So we always know what our cars are worth.
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Tony Kornheiser
All of them?
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Narrator
All of them.
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Reginald the Monkey
Value surge trucks up 3.9%.
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Chuck Todd
That's a great offer.
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Reginald the Monkey
I know. Sell.
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Tony Kornheiser
Sell.
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Reginald the Monkey
Track your car's value with Carvana Value Tracker. Today.
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Don Stewart
You'Re listening to the Tony Kornheiser.
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Tony Kornheiser
Once again. This is Don Stewart, who has sent us much music over the years. Yes, always good Music always makes us happy. Yeah. This is a song called I Will Take that. I'll Take that. And it will play in Chuck Todd after we do this. Michael, if people like Don Stewart want to send in their original music as he has done faithfully, how do they do it?
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Reginald the Monkey
Send us your music by emailing it to jinglesonyquinizershow.com As I said, it plays in Chuck Todd.
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Tony Kornheiser
Chuck didn't have a great week last week. 3 and 4 last week. But he is 65, 50, and 3 as other people climb 2 and over. 500. Chuck has always been number one for us. This year he's plus 15. So if you bet all the time with Chuck Todd, even on the games that he doesn't want to bet, you're making money this year. And this week's picks with Chuck Todd and Reginald the Monkey are brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. Make every moment more. We're in the playoffs now, and so.
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Narrator
Yeah, I feel like I'm limping. Like the Packers. I'm limping.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, you're like the Steelers and the packers coming in sort of on a losing streak. But the playoffs, I'm not sure that a lot of games over the course of the season are knowable, but if you follow the season, you probably pretty much committed to thinking that the playoffs will be knowable. Right. That you have, like, the playoffs should be bread and butter. Am I wrong?
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Narrator
You're not wrong. And by the way, this has been one of the more predictable NFL seasons.
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Tony Kornheiser
Right.
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Narrator
Like, you think about the preseason, the teams who are being talked about Kansas City, Buffalo, Detroit, Baltimore, Green Bay. Oh, they're all there. I mean.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah.
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Narrator
The only shock is the Niners.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, they collapsed. And I would say Atlanta as well. I thought Atlanta would be much more.
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Narrator
Powerful than dancing blanks. I don't know.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
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Narrator
I don't know. By the way, one other thing you were talking about, Mike McCarthy. You know, we give such grief, and I'm king of the McCarthy. Sort of like I got exhausted from him as the packers coach. But it is notable to me that there are four new playoff teams. Three of the four are teams that hired head coaches who had been in the NFL before. Harbaugh with the Chargers, Quinn with the Commanders and the third new player and Peyton with Denver.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah.
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Narrator
So, you know, is that not a memo to NFL owners? Hey, find somebody who's done this before.
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Tony Kornheiser
He's not, you know, he's not inspirational. He's not telegenic. He's not exciting. He has the 13th most wins in the history of the NFL. 174 wins. Mike McCarthy.
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Narrator
Yeah, so he's a little Marty Schottenheimer to him. In me, it feels like he always came up short in the playoffs, but he got there.
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Tony Kornheiser
Well, you can come up short once when he won with Aaron Rodgers, he had one. You know, he had one. So. Yeah. Okay, let's get to these games. All teams, you know. Well, speaking of Harbaugh and the Chargers, they are at Houston. Houston is a disappointing team this year. There is going to be pressure on Houston to win this game that they took a step backwards this year. They were the hot team last year. The Chargers are in the playoffs. I did not expect that. They are. To me, this year's Houston. Who do you like in this game? If you like the Chargers? A road favorite? You give three.
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Narrator
Yeah, I don't love betting on a road favorite here, but I just trust Harbaugh. I think that he's, you know, the guy's a winner. The guy gets his teams ready to play. And the playoffs are always a little more intense physically. And his teams are always physical. They're always. So I just. I just have a lot of faith. That's what the spread is. What again?
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Tony Kornheiser
Three.
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Narrator
That's the only thing that concerns me is that feels like a big spread.
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Tony Kornheiser
Well, there was three and a half until this morning, so that's better. If you want to bet on the.
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Narrator
Charges, it's one of those because of the way they. This, this screams to me 19, 17. I say this because I lost a lot of money on the Bengals not covering.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, yeah.
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Narrator
It was such a killer. But I. If I don't believe a team's going to win, I don't want to bet on them. And I don't believe Houston can win. So I'm going to do the Chargers.
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Tony Kornheiser
Okay. Pittsburgh is at Baltimore. Pittsburgh was at Baltimore three weeks ago. They lost by 17 points. They had beaten Baltimore in Pittsburgh, but they lost by 17 recently. This is a 10 point game. It's an enormous spread in division teams, in the playoffs. It's just enormous. 10 points. Although Pittsburgh has lost, Pittsburgh has lost four in a row. Let me qualify that though, by saying who the four are. They are at Philadelphia before Hertz got. Got banged up at Kansas City. Home Cincinnati and home. At Baltimore, rather. And home and home Kansas City. Yeah, that's how it was at Baltimore. Home, Kansas City. And these are the combined records, Chuck, of those four teams is 50 and 18. So that's a gauntlet. That is. This is a 10 point game, though.
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Narrator
I can't live with myself betting against Tom Lemon. That many points it's in given how often this game, I mean, you know, there's this record out there that Harbaugh versus Tomlin. I don't know, underdog. It's covered like when it's more than three points. I think the underdog is almost always undefeated there. I'm going to go with the Tomlin and the 10.
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Tony Kornheiser
Even though Baltimore beat them by 17 a couple of weeks ago.
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Narrator
Here's the thing. This is either a two point game or a 30 point game.
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Tony Kornheiser
Okay.
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Narrator
You know, I do believe that and I just can't imagine a Steeler team not being ready. I mean, when you play. I love you had Saturday on. I love what he said. What do you play a team a third time? You know every trick.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah.
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Narrator
You know everything. Every little defensive lineman spin move. Right. Nothing's going to surprise you, which tells you it's probably going to be a grind it out slower game, hard to imagine to be high scoring. And who's the one team that Lamar struggles against consistently?
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Tony Kornheiser
Pittsburgh.
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Narrator
Yeah.
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Tony Kornheiser
Okay. All right, you'll take the 10. Denver getting eight and a half at Buffalo. A lot of pressure on Buffalo and Denver is not as good as Buffalo, but eight and a half is a pretty big number and there's a lot of pressure on Buffalo and Josh Allen and the coach. I believe to deliver at least you have to win the Super Bowl. But a lot of people think you ought to get there by now. You're going to take Denver in eight and a half. Are you going to take the home team?
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Narrator
No chance. This would be my Carvel special if you asked me in a 15 star, you know, counted 100 times, type of, type of bet, confidence level, etc. Is on the Bills in this one. I just think it's a huge mismatch.
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Tony Kornheiser
I agree with that. Agree with that. Green Bay is at Philadelphia. Wilbur and I had this discussion a few days ago and I said that the point of the discussion was who should be more concerned going into the playoffs, Pittsburgh or Green Bay. And I said Green Bay because it's the tougher matchup, Philadelphia at Philadelphia. But I didn't. I don't know. I mean, Jalen Hurts is still in concussion protocol. There is, I don't know if there's reason to believe. There's certain optimism that he will be fully cleared to play today, but today is Wednesday and he hasn't practiced with the team in a couple of weeks. Philadelphia is a better team. Than Green Bay. I believe they're a better team, but their second quarterback, Kenny Pickett, has broken ribs. And their third quarterback is somebody nobody's ever heard of, Tyler McKee from Stanford. He played well against the Giants. The Giants are not the Packers. And I may have spoken too soon on this one. Will you take the four and a half because you're not certain about Jalen Hurts.
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Narrator
Oh, I think this is way too many points at four and a half. I mean, this is a three point game or a four point game, meaning, you know, that it's. That half point is. Do you believe that Philly's going to win by a touchdown or more? And I don't. So I'm with the packers here. I think it's kind of a. I think it's a big game for Jordan Love. Right. It's not a decisive game or all that stuff, but it is, you know, last year, his playoff performance put him on the map, paid. He. You know, he needs to have a good game, win or lose. All right, so you'll take it. I like the packers here.
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Tony Kornheiser
Okay. Washington is at Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay is an underrated team, I believe. The first game of the season, Tampa Bay beat Washington. This would. This is a rematch. Washington's had a phenomenal season. 12 and 5 from 4 and 13, something like that. Jaden Daniels has just been absolutely great. The guy on the other side of the ball, Baker Mayfield, has. I don't know how he didn't make the Pro bowl over Jaden Daniels. I really don't. Since his numbers are significantly better, Washington is getting three, which sounds about right. Who do you like in this one, by the way?
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Narrator
How's that 2018 quarterback class looking? Josh Allen, Baker Mayfield.
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Tony Kornheiser
Pretty good.
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Narrator
Lamar Jackson. Pretty good. That's turned out pretty well. Pretty good. I guess they got it right there. Boy, I just. What Baker Mayfield's done for the Cleveland Browns has just been. Oh, sorry.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah.
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Narrator
I. Rookie quarterbacks in the playoffs are tough to bet on. And I know he's no ordinary rookie.
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Tony Kornheiser
No, he's not.
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Narrator
But I'll tell you, I. Tampa. Tampa scares me at home. This. They win this game a lot. They win. They feel like they're. They're always sort of this. They get this crappy home game that they probably shouldn't have, but the NFL seeds it like the college football player.
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Tony Kornheiser
That's right. That's right.
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Narrator
You're the Buccaneers.
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Tony Kornheiser
Okay. And there's one more game. And I think that Minnesota is at a crossroads here because of the way they lost In Detroit and the way Darnold played, it was his first bad game. They're at the Rams playing against a really good coach and a really good offense. If Stafford hooks up with Nakua and Cup, that's. That's a 35 point offense. It is Minnesota on the road. I think unfairly when you're 14 and three, but as we just discussed, these are the rules. Will you take Minnesota as a road favorite? But it's only one point.
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Narrator
How much money is this worth to Sam Darnold this game alone?
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Tony Kornheiser
50 to $80 million, right? Yeah.
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Narrator
That's a lot of pressure. I mean, he. I feel like this is. We've seen a version of this movie with Kirk Cousin, right. We've seen the version of this movie with Joe Flacco, right. Where the franchise isn't sure, but they keep winning with this quarterback. Okay, I really want to bet the Rams here, but I just think the Vikings defense is the difference here. And I don't think the Rams have the same have. I don't think the Rams defense is going to slow down the Vikings offense the same way that I think the Vikings defense can slow down the Rams offense. So I'm taking the Vikings here.
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Tony Kornheiser
Taking four road teams, two home teams. I'm just pointing that out.
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Narrator
I know, but I also think. I think in the NFL there are a few places matter. I think Buffalo, it matters. I think Green Bay can matter. I think it matters less and less though, especially those Tampa or out there in Sofi Stadium. Is that a home field advantage?
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Tony Kornheiser
Not really.
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Narrator
Vikings fans are going to be in that game, right?
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, there'll be a lot. There'll be.
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Narrator
I mean, you'll hear that. What's that chanted the Viking, you know, Viking. Yeah, that. That horn.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah.
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Narrator
I imagine we're going to hear that quite a bit out in L. A.
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Tony Kornheiser
Well, you know where you're going to hear it a lot more when the super bowl is in the 51st state of Greenland in a couple of years, that's when you're gonna hear this.
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Narrator
If you bring Canada in, it's gonna really mess with the electoral college in a way that I don't think Greenland.
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Tony Kornheiser
Coming in, Canada coming in, everybody's coming in.
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Michael Wilbon
You'd also have to merge the CFL and the NFL. It would get messy.
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Narrator
Oh, we're gonna have a whole argument what do we do with the 12th man? And you call it the 13.
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Tony Kornheiser
So great.
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Narrator
This is actually a good idea. I mean, let's bring in the cfl. I mean, I'd love me some Edmonton. I've rooted for the Edmonton Eskimos as a kid because they had the same colors as the Packers. That was the only reason I picked them. So I remember I still have some, you know, and it was a great name. Exactly.
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Tony Kornheiser
Thank you, Chuck. We'll talk to you next week. Chuck Todd, boys and girls. And if we gave you Chuck Todd, that would be more than enough, actually. But we give you more. We give you a monkey.
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Reginald the Monkey
See the monkey scritch, scritch scratching.
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Tony Kornheiser
People are going to be watching his iPad SM. I love this song, Grant. Tap, tap tapping on his purple attache Nigel's going to the zoo how can you not like this song? Reginald's got the fights by two Sometimes he throws his poo, poo poo when.
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Reginald the Monkey
He'S had too much Johnny Walker Blue.
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Tony Kornheiser
We're not gonna play it all the time, but it's really good. Really good. It's really good.
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Michael Wilbon
Virginia Coalition. Just outstanding. Thank you for that and for everyone that gets upset.
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Tony Kornheiser
Come on, come on, come on.
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Michael Wilbon
So I went down to the National Zoo to check in on Reginald. And as you might expect, he was a frenzied atmosphere there.
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Tony Kornheiser
He had a good week, you know, he was 2 and 1. He's now 25. 25 and 1.
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Michael Wilbon
So he finishes the regular season at 500. Yes, that's a tremendous accomplishment for anybody, but especially for a monke. So, no, he's got the contract to plow the zoo and the Cleveland Park, Woodley area, that neighborhood. So he was busy doing that. But I don't know if you know this, he started this company, Plow Chimp, with Robert Duvall about five years ago. They also cover Middleburg because that's where Duvall lives. And as I understand it this way, told me they're the only plow company in America to be fully staffed by Gibbons. So that's something he's very proud of.
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Tony Kornheiser
That's great.
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Michael Wilbon
So he took a break from the plowing to go over some of these matches. The first one we gave him was the Ravens at home against the Pittsburgh Steelers, giving 10. And Reginald showed me a very old photograph of him eating crack. Capes. Crab cakes, rather. At the Inner harbor with Mickey Templeton, Al Bunbury and Todd Heap.
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Tony Kornheiser
So he's taking Baltimore.
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Michael Wilbon
That's a lot of points. But he likes.
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Tony Kornheiser
They beat him by 17 two weeks ago.
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Michael Wilbon
Yeah. Not impressed with the way Pittsburgh finished the season, apparently. Now the next one we gave him was a Philly at home giving four and a half to the Packers. Try to explain to them they don't know what's going on with Jalen Hurts. But he took out a picture, and this again was very old, of him taking a tour through Independence Hall. Isn't that where you lot signed your Declaration of Independence?
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Reginald the Monkey
Yep.
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Michael Wilbon
Yeah, it's not really my favorite place, but apparently Reginald liked it. He was there with Bobby Clark, Greg lisinski and Tug McGraw. So tells me his ties to Philly. He'll take the Eagles. And the last one we gave him was the Washington football team on the road getting three. Now, he's taken Washington virtually every week.
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Tony Kornheiser
Almost every week.
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Michael Wilbon
But this time he shows me a photo of him on Easter island with Mike Alstott, Warwick Dunn and Warren Sapp. Must have been Tampa Bay takes Tampa.
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Tony Kornheiser
Giving the three glory. That was the glory years for.
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Michael Wilbon
That really was. Yeah. So the thrill take. They love the home teams.
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Tony Kornheiser
There you go. Three home teams for the Monkey. This week's picks by Chuck Todd and Reginald the Monkey have been brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. Make every moment more. We'll take a break. We will come back with email and jingle. I am Tony Kornheiser.
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Chuck Todd
You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser Show.
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Tony Kornheiser
Here comes Tony's mailbag Gonna read some faxes and your notes. Here comes Tony's mailbag Gonna read some for all you folks Gonna read some.
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Narrator
For all of your awful.
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Don Stewart
Hoo.
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Tony Kornheiser
That's the genius, Dan Byrne with Tom Mosser. Yes. Tom Masser doing most of the vocalizing there. Yes. Tom Masser who has sent us a fabulous painting.
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Michael Wilbon
Really is.
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Tony Kornheiser
Of flushing the mouse. It is me with my head coming out of a toilet bowl wearing mouse ears which will never. We'll never put this on the set because I get paid by someone wearing mouse ears.
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Reginald the Monkey
You're in an approved costume.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah.
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Reginald the Monkey
Cast member since.
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Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. No, it's coming out of the toilet bowl because of flushing the mess. It's brilliant. You want to do the Bethesda bagel ad for us?
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Michael Wilbon
Yes. Bethesda Bagels got the bagel sandwiches today. Very excited about that. Just go to BethesdaBaggles.com for the location in the DC area nearest you. Then pop one in, my friend, and you will be thrilled.
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Tony Kornheiser
That'll be it for us today. Before we get to the mailbag, let me just say maybe you'll want to give me kisses. Sweet. But only for one night with no repeat and maybe you'll go away and never call On a taste of honeys Worse than none at all oh, little girl in that case, I don't want no part. I do believe that that would only break my heart. But if you feel like loving me if you've got the notion. I second that emotion. William Smokey Robinson. Okay. Was he pretty good? Thanks to our guests today. Thanks as well to today's sponsors. Remember, you can listen to us on Apple podcasts, Spotify and Odyssey if you get show through Apple. Please leave us a review. Let's read some of these quick update.
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Reginald the Monkey
For Jimmy Keegan and Alan Levy. Satisfaction soon. Thank you for your continued patience.
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Tony Kornheiser
Okay. Yes, thank you. Okay. On our radar from Phil Destito in Rome, New York, which is upstate. Understand the DMV has a snowstorm coming and have the possibility of 8 to 10 inches of snow dropping on you. We had it. We got eight to 10. Well, in an effort to alleviate some stress about the storm, you may have, it's been snowing here since Thursday the 2nd of January. As of Sunday afternoon on the 5th, we are close to 6ft of snow. Nope. And it is still coming down. Can we interest you in something like this? No. Good luck with yours. And don't forget the bread, milk, coffee and toilet paper when you go to the refugee Safeway. A haiku for betting on a snowfall from Shad, as Warner might say if you took the over for snow totals you lost. From Jason Anschutz in Fargo, North Dakota, I enjoyed your interview with Jason Samanel on Monday. My wife is a meteorologist. I've asked her a lot of the same questions you asked Jason. I can tell you that on the rare occasion she does bust a forecast that ruins her day, she feels like she has let all her viewers down. Like you, I complain loudly whenever she tells me there's going to be a lot of snow. But there are some perks to living with a meteorologist. She gives me personalized golf forecasts in the summer so I can schedule my tee times either right after the rain should end or exactly four hours before it's supposed to start downpouring. That's information.
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Reginald the Monkey
Umbrella or no umbrella.
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Tony Kornheiser
Eric from D.C. shows us a picture. Is he shoveling?
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Michael Wilbon
No, there's a blown up picture on the next page. See it better. You see what he's doing?
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Tony Kornheiser
Oh, he's. Oh, he's got the skis.
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Michael Wilbon
Yeah, the cross country skis.
- [48:04]
Tony Kornheiser
Cross country skis. Oh, yeah.
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Michael Wilbon
And what's he say?
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Tony Kornheiser
He says, tell Mike from D.C. to eat it. And it says, where is a snow shovel when you need one? So, because you'd hit somebody with a snow shovel from J. Divine in Montreal in Quebec, and Canada. Coming from Canada, we are no strangers to snowstorms. Of course, we use the metric system up here, so we calculate in centimeters, not inches. When we refer to snowstorms and someone says we're getting 6 to 12, that usually refers to how many beers we will need to get us through the storm. As we are snowed in. And naturally we pray for the number 24. Jeff Hyson in Silver Spring, Maryland. Chuck and Roxy, number six. You've said that you don't have Paramount plus, but what about the neighbor whose brother watched CBS at your house? Reciprocity baby from KB in Chicago. Wow, what a Sunday of NFL football. Especially the endings of the early window games. I've got to know two things from you. One was the conclusion to the early games that they call the witching hour. The best 20 minutes of red zone of Baltimore. Well, they all went down to the final play.
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Michael Wilbon
So good.
- [49:02]
Tony Kornheiser
Four different games went down the final play. Did you host any of neighbor Ken's distant relatives in the private second screening room yesterday? No. Speaking of the private second screening room, ask Michael if there any reservations available for three next Sunday. I'm thinking me, the monkey and dg. He sounds fun. Should we use open table? Bring bagel sandwiches? I'll hang up on and listen. See you on Sunday. P.S. for Nigel, who wants a whiskey refill. Happy to send some more big nose Kate if interested. That's very good. Yes. Let's see who this is from. This is from Michael Ritz, mildly popular third wheel of the Loyal Littles podcast. Slightly better than a monkey. Your recent discussion about Stan Musial and the Musial Awards show reminded me of a wonderful encounter with with the venerable baseball star. I was in Cooperstown for Hall of Fame weekend with my new wife. In order to convince her to join me on the trip for induction weekend, I promised her we would go out for a nice romantic dinner on Saturday night. To assuage her fears that this was going to be a baseball only trip, I made a reservation at one of the finest local restaurants, the Pepper Mill. As the hostess seated us at our table, I noticed a large table next to us headed by a gentleman wearing a red blazer. You got it. Stan Musial and his family, including kids and grandkids. Kids were sitting right next to us. I proceeded to start telling the woman to whom I was related by marriage about the great stan Musial, extolling his 475 lifetime homers, his.331 career batting average, and the fact that he had exactly the same numbers of hits at home and away. Mr. Musial was sitting with his back to me, turned around at one point saying, hey, young man, you seem to know a lot about me. Why don't you join us for dinner? Before even asking my wife, I gleefully said yes and started rearranging our chairs at the table. She was not pleased. Dinner with the Musials was fantastic. I shared that my father had grown up in Brooklyn. He in fact worked at Ebbets Field and had regaled me and my brothers with tales of the great Stan, the man who was known to feast on Dodger pitching, especially at their home ballpark. Needless to say, my wife did not join in much in the conversation. She certainly didn't say anything to me. The meal finished with Mr. Mugel taking out his harmonica for a quick rendition of Taking Me out to the Ball Game, with everyone in the dining room joining in. A few weeks after our trip, we went to visit my parents. I was eager to share the details with him about special dinner we enjoyed in Cooperstown with a Hall of Famer and his family. I prompted my wife to tell him who we met at dinner. Some guy named Stan, she blurted out with utter disdain. She never went back to Cooperstown with me. We divorced a few years later. Fantastic story. Kelly Hodges Pocatello, Idaho YOU made a great point. Depending on the season, fans of the OC May have had fluctuating opinions of Marissa and Summer. The Team Marissa bandwagon was much larger than Team Summer after Season one. However, this shifted rapidly during Season two and especially into Season three as Marissa's crazy switch got turned on. By the end of Season two, the Marissa bandwagon was off the rails. Then, with Oliver in the picture, she became despised. I have no idea what I'm reading here. What'd you say? I'm still bothered by the decision to kill her off at the end of season three. Season four was a tough watch. I've always maintained that Anna was underutilized. Please tell Andrea B. In Edmonton, Alberta, she isn't the only one being judged for laughing out loud at a nominally sports podcast as it discusses a teen drama from our freshman year in college. Michael being an English major, will you please compare and contrast the similarities and differences between Sandy and Kristen Cohn and Tony and Carol Kornheiser. Was Michael's laughing? I don't know what that is. Was Tony his understanding of Sandy when you told him about your first encounter with your version of Summer? Was Carol as welcoming as Kristen of your trailer park friends living in the Pool house. How were the Christma parties in the early 2000s? Patiently awaiting your response. PS Team Summer.
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Reginald the Monkey
This is everything I need. The OC soundtrack for those who have been away from it for a few years, continues to just absolutely be a bop, as the kids would say right now. And there's nothing like getting older where you start to look back at some of those parents from these shows and trying to identify traits of your own parenting that might have come from the very understanding and sympathetic Sandy.
- [52:49]
Tony Kornheiser
I'm so happy that I never watched the show. I never even heard of it.
- [52:52]
Reginald the Monkey
I never got into surfing though.
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Tony Kornheiser
I never heard of it. Carl Shea in Silver Spring, Maryland. Tomorrow. Well, this is when he sent this. He sent this. Monday, January 7th is the day sunrise, Washington, D.C. monday, January 6th, 7:27. Tuesday, January 7th, sunrise. 7:26. So now we are getting the great. The long march. Finally getting the long march to light. Yes, you know, so that's good.
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Michael Wilbon
Very exciting.
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Tony Kornheiser
From Justin Whaley in Olathe, maybe Kansas. Olathe or Olathe, Kansas. Dear Grandpa, after listening to the hearing aid ad from the January 6 pod, it's only a matter of time before you get a live copy for catheter ads. And PG and I had a great time with the whole family. They're all home safe and sound. They were kind enough to leave us both with colds. We went to the CVS Minute Clinic on Military is very efficient. A shout out to Summer, the PA who did a great job. Lions all the way. Regards, dg. Fabulous. The presumption of closeness. And he sends me beautiful pictures. He takes sunset and sunrise pictures. They're just wonderful. I feel like DG and I are best friends, though we. We have met once.
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Reginald the Monkey
He travels for you.
- [54:02]
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah, he does. He goes everywhere.
- [54:04]
Reginald the Monkey
He lives the life you could leave.
- [54:06]
Tony Kornheiser
Yeah. Everyone on the show seems to like him.
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Michael Wilbon
Yeah, it's great.
- [54:09]
Tony Kornheiser
All right. If you're out on your bike tonight, everyone, as always, do wear white.
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Narrator
What does Argo mean? I don't know.
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Reginald the Monkey
You don't know?
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Tony Kornheiser
You know it means Argo itself.
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Don Stewart
Who knows how feel to be who knows where one death could leave me Some nights I feel like I know why you left here it's my sign to write to reach you where are you? Did I know you? Until the answers reach me I found someone to love the truth of where we end up who knows how it feels to be who knows where we. Sometimes I go back and see why I'm here now but my fear gets so skewed I don't have the clue now tonight to to reach you where are you? Did I know you? Until the answers reach me I found someone to love True what they say Life after death I look at trees that see me by myself Only one can improve my future she left me flat she died in our prime now how can I? I hope it's true what they say Life after death Outer space what a scary sentence above my head if the love that we have chosen the fear I have in my heart that she's good awaits me.