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Hey, it's Tony. On today's show, we will get football picks from Chuck Todd and Reginald the Monkey. We will also talk with Pat40 about a crazy weekend in college football and what is next for Penn State having fired James Franklin. But first, how about little commerce? T Mobile is more than the best network in the game. They're now the best network in America, according to the experts at OOKLA Speed Test. So MLB fans are connected from home to home plate with the most advanced 5G, the most towers and a signal that goes farther than ever. You can keep up with your team on the road, overseas, even off the grid. For baseball fans, it's better over here. Based on analysis by OOKLA of speed test intelligence data, first half 2025 compatible device and plan required for T satellite. See details@t mobile.com previously on the Tony Kornheiser Show. That's not the biggest deal. The biggest deal to me was Penn State fired James. You know, that's not what Penn State does. We'll talk to Wilbon about this. It's unbearable to lose to Northwestern. It's. There's no other conclusion. It's unbearable to lose to Northwestern and we have to fire the coach. This is General George Washington and you're listening to the Tony Kornheiser. And by the way, nothing in the last 72 hours persuades me that I'm wrong. You can't lose to Northwestern at home. You can't. You just can't. Gotta fire everybody. Yeah, you gotta fire everybody. Okay, let me get to the baseball, because we do not have a baseball guest today. We have Pat 40, we have Chuck Todd. Last night, the Los Angeles Dodgers showed you how to spend money wisely. Okay? The Los Angeles Dodgers did not go out and, and give a lot of money to over the hill players with big names, as so many teams do. They don't do that. They looked around, looked around the world. They found Shohei Ohtani. They brought him over. As a result of that, they got Yamamoto and they got Sasaki. How are they doing? They seem to be doing very well. They looked around the country and they saw Mookie Betts was available and they brought in Mookie Betts and they saw Freddie Freeman was available and they brought in Freddie Freeman. These are people who had been on, you know, winning teams, World Series teams. They may not. I don't think Freddie Freeman won the World Series. Maybe he did, but had been to the World Series. Mookie Betts won A World Series 1, 2 World Series in Boston. So the people who are running the Dodgers, and I think it's Andrew Friedman, who came from Tampa Bay, where he did the same thing. With no money. With no money. He built a very good team. All right. Now with all the money in the world, he's spending it wisely. And no one thinks the Dodgers are obnoxious. No one thinks the Dodgers are wearing their diamond ring on everybody's nose. People think the Dodgers are a really good organization and a really good team. Two nights ago, Blake Snell, another guy, they picked up a guy who's had two Cy Youngs but hurt all the time. So he's. It's a chance. It's a chance you take. The Dodgers took that chance with Walker. Bueller worked out for a while, then he left.
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And we still had to prove it again in San Francisco to get that deal.
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Yeah. So this is. This is what happens. So they give the ball to Blake Snell, and he throws eight innings facing the minimum amount of people, 24 people. The last person to do that in the playoffs was, hello. Don Larson pitched the greatest game of all time.
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Certainly a team can't come back from that.
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No. So then what happens? Last night, if you're watching the game in the bottom of the first inning, Yamamoto, was it his first pick, first.
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Pitch, just like the other night.
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Exactly. Jackson, cheerio. Hits it out. And you say, okay, Milwaukee's gonna bomb this guy. Milwaukee's gonna win this game. But I'm gonna call your attention to what happened. The first at bat by a Toronto player in the bottom of the first in the first game against Seattle. That was. George Springer hit it out, and you said, oh, my. And then the kid had trouble. Miller, the kid had trouble on the mound, and the big dumper came out to calm him down a little bit. They got out of the first inning, and it was a rocky first inning. And after that, he allowed nothing. One single and five more innings. Yamamoto's on the mound. First pitch, home run. He goes, okay, that's the end of that. That's the end of that. He allowed two more hits in the game. Milwaukee never threatened in the game. The Dodgers piled up enough runs.
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Midway never had a bat with a runner in scoring position.
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Yeah, they didn't have anything like that. And he pitched a complete game. So the two Dodgers starters have gone to 17 innings and allowed, oh, I don't know, five hits. 17 innings, five hits. And then you have Glasnow coming up next, pitching in his hometown, by the way. And then Ohtani, they're gonna win, you know, The. The Dodgers are gonna win the brewers for the Wilbonds of the world. The brewers beat the Dodgers all six times they faced him in the regular season. This ain't the regular season.
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No, it's not.
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It's not.
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I think they knocked Yamamoto out in, like, the first inning in the regular season.
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Dodgers better. Dodgers. The brewers are very, very good and won more games in a regular season than the Dodgers, but the Dodgers are built for this.
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And you focus so much on the Dodgers first four or five hitters, much of the run production in the middle of the inning start to actually be the ones that get you that lead. You know, get the Max Muncie home run, and then you see what Pad is able to do.
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Max Muncie's a guy you never even name. He's got a thousand postseason home runs.
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That's all he does. Kiki Hernandez, all he does is get.
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On his best postseason player the Dodgers have ever had. Kiki Hernandez either bats in a run or scores from first. You know, there. And these are guys you don't even think of. Teosco Hernandez, we need a tie score. Okay. First at bat. What do you say? Six, seven?
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Yeah, sure.
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So. Okay, so that's all I got to say now. I'm going to clear the deck for the. For the wine story.
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B
For the wine story.
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Okay. So last time, I was out at the beach, and I haven't been out there in a long time. Last time I was out at the beach, I showed it. I went, the house is dirty. I'll have to get it cleaned. I. I'll call somebody to get it cleaned.
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That.
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That. That's a big business in Rehoboth beach, the cleaning of houses.
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Sure.
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Really is, because the turnover for people who rent. So I went to bin 66. The greatest liquor store in the world. Not the biggest. The greatest liquor store in the world. Bin 66. And I got this Beaujolais wine that I like, Chateau Cambon. I've had it for the last year. Chateau Cambon. It's thin, red wine. I like it. All right. It's not heavy. It's not Cabernet Sauvignon. It's not. It's not Petite Syrah. It's not that. It's a nice, light wine that is particularly good.
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Very drinkable, particularly with the way that you grill.
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Yeah, right. It's really good. Right. So I ran out, and Calvert Woodley didn't have it. I went there twice, didn't have it. One time they told me we'd have it in Wednesday and have it. So Michael went out to the beach and I said, now let Michael pick up the story from here. And I said, just do me a favor. I've got a bunch of bottles in a bag out there. Just, just bring me like four or five bottles of the wine I bought. Six, I think. Four or five. So you said.
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So I had, I started going out there. We had two tasks. Task number one, I had to change the timer lights to adjust for the upcoming daylight savings times. All that. Task two was to find the wine. I found four bottles in the bin. 66 carry bag.
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Yeah, that gets you the discount.
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B
I found. Well, a discount at the store. Not if you're in D.C. i found two more bottles in various locations. You know, like on the.
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Hidden.
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Yeah, no, not hidden on the rack. No, on the rack. No, no, no. Not hidden on the rack.
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B
Okay. So I put it aside and I go, okay, we have two tasks. In the chaos of, you know, the storm, of trying to return bikes, of trying to pack up the house. We make it up Route 1. We make a turn onto 16, and Liz looks at me and goes, uh, oh, I think we forgot the wine. It's like we have one task for Tony. Task one. I think we did task two. All we have to do is get that wine home. I feel like I'm. I'm running moonshine across state lines here. Except the wine's back at the house. So Liz frantically.
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Nobody tells me this.
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Oh, gosh, no. At this point, the house is. The house is worried. Liz spends the next 45 minutes of the drive, gives the kids their, you know, their Kindles, and we are researching where can we find this bourgeois. Because it shouldn't be too hard to find. You go to the big name box stores, like a total wine to more all these local places, they don't have it. They don't have it. We find some sketchy places, you know, like that look like individual bottle hunters that will order it for you. And I don't trust any of these places. Don't want to put. Don't want to put a number in. Finally, I find a place and it looks like I can order it. So I call them up. It has an outpost, I think, in D.C. and they go, I have that one right here. So went back to a, you know, little neighborhood wine shop up in, you know, North Georgetown, lower breath area, hop, cask and barrel. Found six.
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Is that what it's called?
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Found six bottles on the lower shelf, took five, left one for the next person.
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Okay, now sustainable.
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Yeah.
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No no, no, no, no. So no, there's more. So I say, because I don't. I'm unaware of this. I'm unaware of this. And I say I want to come to dinner tonight, you know, and. And I'm gonna bring home. Send me home with the wine. Which by the way, he still has not done. He gave me one bottle of time.
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Give you a bottle at a time.
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Come on.
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A bottle of time hosting a party.
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And you said to me what. You admitted what happened.
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Oh, yeah, we were. We were not going to admit until we had found a replacement.
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Yeah, Then.
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Then you can come clean.
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And again, I'm so the. The location here.
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They will order now because the bad news is now I have to pay him. I have to pay him for the wine.
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That's okay, you know, we'll make up for here with the story. But no. Have a source for the wine here locally. They'll order it for us if it's non stock, we can get a discount if we get it by the case. And just like for you, it is something that, you know, it's a reliable drinkable wine. Yes.
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Just point of information. I don't say this to Michael. Michael's not heard what I'm going to say.
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Oh, I think I know what it is.
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I look at the wine that he gives me last night as I'm walking out the door. Different wine. I don't know. No, it has a different color label. The label that I'm used to is a pale yellow label. Like. Like the manila folder color.
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Okay.
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This has a silver label. This is a different. Not a necessarily different wine, just a different label. So there's a certain amount of apprehension I have when I opened this bottle of wine last night when I come back from Michael's house. But it's. It's fine. It's. And I couldn't tell it's the same wine. Yeah, I couldn't. I don't know the difference. If you. If you stacked up seven different glasses of wine and said one was for $3 and one was for 6,000.
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So what I found out at the beach even is that the label has slightly different. I would call it like a watermark. And I couldn't tell if it's because something, you know, when it was being labeled broke and left splotches all over it. But there is. There is definitely differences in the labels. And it could be some. Maybe you got. When you first got it, you got a different vintage. And this is the. I think that's 2023.
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Yeah, I mean, I've been drinking this wine for a couple of years, but.
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This is the same batch or it's not the same batch, but this is the same wine.
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Same company? Same company, same vineyard. We assume the same wine. So.
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So I thought you were going to have pushback as to the agreed upon price where I found it locally in D.C. which seems to be at a higher price point than I are tax free shopping out in Delaware.
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No. Then yeah, it's. Well, even here. Even here. When I used to get it at Calvert Woodley when they had it. No, it was never. Yeah, this is more expensive. But that's fine. I mean it's not, you know, it's not $50 a bottle.
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No.
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But I wonder.
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$6.
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I wonder if you, if you go buy, even if you go buy locally sourced, like, you know, ground coffee, the price is about 40 to 50% higher right now than it would have been a year ago.
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This is, that's growing conditions.
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I wonder if the wine.
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With tariffs.
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Yes.
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Or possible that that kicked the wine price up.
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And this is, you know, this is French. It's not. But like if you look at California wine, you just think about the growing conditions that they've had over the last years now.
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So good.
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No, but that makes it all more expensive.
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So. Yeah, so. And I'm okay with it. So I'm good with it. But I, I am grateful that Michael and Liz went to such lengths that.
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We understood the severity of our swine.
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And I'm laughing at the self inflicted problem. I told them every day they were.
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Out there, wine, it's the only thing you would ask.
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Yeah. That's all. How's the weather?
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I don't really care. Where's the wine?
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Normally I would put it right by the door, but you know, the kids are playing baseball in the house. I'm like, just don't knock this over.
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It's fine.
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And now you know you have a surprise when you have, when you head back out.
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Yeah, there's one.
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Yeah.
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You're well stuck there.
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Yeah.
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Was there a discussion at all? Do we turn back if we reach the point of no return?
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So that we did. We are just.
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Yeah. No, you don't send. I would never say go back and get it.
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No, never. There's a wall on the right. If you make it past that Wawa, you're about 25 minutes away from now.
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You can't do it. You can't do it if you're turning on a 16. No, you keep going.
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Do you know how many times you.
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Come up with an excuse. You come up with a story, a fanciful story that I'm gonna like two.
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Three hours to come up with that story. Yeah, yeah.
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So. But that's. So. That's really good. All right, I. I won't tell the water story. I'll save the water story for Friday. The water story is gonna. It's gonna cost me thousands of dollars.
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You can only turn the water into wine.
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It's just. I can't.
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Is this out of Delaware?
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This is right in this house. This is what we had the plumber here for yesterday. This is. I'm going down the chute on this one. I'm really upset. I'm just. I'll just tease it by saying, like Dodgers.
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It's hard for me to believe. How do you have this at two houses?
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In a toilet. Right. In the tank of the toilet. Not in the bowl of the toilet. In the tank of the toilet. The fact that the water circulates. You can't even hear it, but it's not still. It's circulating. That. That causes you to use 100 gallons of water an hour. I don't know. For six days. I'm going down the drain on this one. I am. I.
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Conceptually. Do you know what a hundred gallons would look like?
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No.
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Okay.
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No, I don't have any idea. No, I don't know. I have no idea. All right.
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Volume, not our strength.
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Chuck Todd when we return. Chuck Todd had a pretty good week. Four and three. He's still under 519 and 23. But Chuck Todd will pick games for us when we return. I'm Tony Kornheiser. You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser show. Do you ever house and immediately start thinking, did I lock the door? Is everything okay at home? Most security systems only react after something's already happened, which doesn't exactly make you feel safe. That's why you need to switch to SimpliSafe. Simply safe stops crime before it even starts there. AI powered cameras spot suspicious activity outside your home. And real monitoring agents step in right away. They can talk to the intruder, trigger alarms, turn on spotlights, and alert the police. That's proactive protection you can actually count on. Just ask nigel. He uses SimpliSafe, and it gives him so much peace of mind. He always talks about how the setup was easy and how the app keeps him connected wherever he is. You say these things.
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You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser Show.
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This is a song by Dalton, who has been on the show before. Yes, this is called Give up the Ghost. Nate Harrar is Dalton said, you've been a big supporter of my music over the years. I wanted to send you along a few new tracks from my latest album, More Songs About Love and Death, released just last week. An uplifting title, I know, but one that is born from my overall opinion that all art, be it music, literature, film, can essentially be traced back to those two subjects. This is Dalton singing and he's very good.
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He's very good.
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Called Give up the Ghost playing in Chuck Todd this week's picks with Chuck Todd and Reginald the Monkey are brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. Make every moment more Chuck had an okay week. 4 and 3, 19 and 23 overall. Getting into the meat of the season now and we should. You know, everybody lost on Washington so that was a downer at the end. But we have games. We have games and I will try not to talk too much because I think I talk too much here. But we have the Thursday night game, a division game where spreads are usually a little bit shorter than they are in a non division game. The Steelers are at Cincinnati. Cincinnati now has Joe Flacco as quarterback because Jake Browning through interceptions every fifth toss. Cincinnati isn't any good. They aren't. It's a division game. The Steelers have a good record, but they haven't yet had one of those games where you say, oh, the Steelers are pretty good. You know, the Steelers are okay. At the moment the Steelers are a road favorite. Five and a half. You interested in the five and a half.
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It's a lot of points for a mediocre team.
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That's what I think.
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You know, and I love the old guy stuff here.
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Oh, Aaron Rodgers and Joe Flacco, they're two oldest guys.
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Did you hear the joke that I think someone says this is the icy Hot ball.
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Oh, that's funny. That's funny. That's funny.
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I guess Breeze and Brady faced each other and were older. It's the only other older matchup.
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Yeah. I think I read it's the AARP matchup. Yeah.
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Yeah. And Tomlin seems to be mad at Cleveland for trading in division. Yeah. You know, he's not wrong. No, there used to be a. There used to be sort of. You didn't do that. You didn't trade in division. You know, there was. There was something. Something about that. Give me the Flaccos plus five.
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Really? Really. Okay. I don't think I'd have gone the other way.
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I just don't think the Steelers can win by margin.
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Okay.
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Like that. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.
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But the next game is Thursday night.
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All that business.
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Yeah. The next game is another London game. Let's, you know, it's Thursday night. The other part of this is this is not long travel. You know what I mean? Pittsburgh is. There's no terrible travel situation for Pittsburgh. I mean, they can drive it, drive there. You know, it's easy.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. The LA Rams are playing Jacksonville in London as these London games persist. And they're fine, you know, a little weird early in the morning. A little weird. I don't know what the greater goal is down the road.
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Wasn't that Denver jets game like awful? Nothing screens London like 13 to 11.
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You're just like unwatchable.
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Are we. Is the NFL declaring war on London?
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We're like, we're going to see.
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If the. Our worst NFL teams become popular in London, then we know this is going to work. We never send them good stuff.
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That. That game was hard to watch. It's just very hard. Watch. The LA Rams are playing Jacksonville. Jacksonville had that bubble where you thought they're really good. They came back down to earth. I think they lost to Seattle. The Rams did exactly what they had to do, which is roll over Baltimore. So I guess they're. I guess they're taking this 10 hours worth of flights in stages because they went to Baltimore on Sunday. I don't imagine they went back to L. A. I imagine they'd be smart enough to just go to London. You get the week off Afterwards, that's how they entice you to play these games. The Rams are favored by two and a half. I thought it would be a little bit more. Who you got.
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Well, I think. Don't you think this would have been if it had been in a normal environment? But this is a. Is this a home game yet for Jacksonville?
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Well, they've been. They've had more London games than any team has had. Maybe it is.
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I'm going to take the dog. The London Jaguars.
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Really? Yeah.
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D
For the reason that they're used to it. And this is always new for the other team.
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Okay. All right. Next game is Philadelphia at Minnesota. Once again, a road team favorite. Philadelphia, which had a bye week last week, is a 1 1/2 point favorite over Minnesota. Minnesota may have had a bye week as well. I'm not.
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They did.
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Yeah. So there's no advantage either way. There's something wrong with Philadelphia like there's something wrong with Buffalo, but we don't know exactly what it is yet. Philadelphia minus one and a half at Minnesota.
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This is another one. I'm not. I mean, I know Philly. I know Philly's supposed to be favored, but what you said earlier, something is wrong.
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Yes.
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And in Minnesota's. That's a good team. You know, despite the quarterback situation, they always. Defense always shows up. That team always shows up. I think this is my third straight dog, but give me Minnesota.
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Yes. Home dog. Third straight home dog. Okay. There's no home dog. When the Giants go out to Denver, Denver's going to be favored. Denver's favored by seven and a half points. Denver is the beneficiary of two important things. A really good coach in Sean Payton and a smart draft pick obviously in Bo Nix. The Giants are trying to, you know, hop back on the horse with a rookie quarterback this year with Jackson Dart. And he's been successful. He's not as good right now as Bo Nix and the Giants. You get seven and a half. The seven and a half is. That's a lot. Denver's not a high scoring team. That's a lot.
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That is Jackson darter Bo Nix. If you were drafting, who would you take Right there?
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Bo Nix. But one of the reasons is because I saw him play 300 times in college at two different schools. Bo. Nick's got to be 26 years old by now. Got to be.
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I think that's right. I think that's right. I think he's it. He might be that Almost the same age as Jordan Loves.
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Possibly.
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You know, Jackson darted not first Time on the road. But second, tough defense.
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Yeah. Denver altitude.
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I, yeah, I'm gonna, I'm, I'm gonna bet Denver here, but you're right, that's a lot of points. I might, I might regret this. You know, my, of moving away from my underdog trend.
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This is four home teams you picked in a row. Just so you know.
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Give me Denver.
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So.
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D
Yeah, but it's not an underdog.
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No, not an underdog. Just a home team. Just a home team. Okay. Indianapolis, the most surprising team in the league, led by Daniel Jones, the most surprising player in the league. Nobody, nobody saw this coming. They were 5 and 1. They're at the Chargers where it looked like there was something wrong with the Chargers as well. And I'm not going to go nuts about them beating the Dolphins. The Dolphins are not a good team. They're not a good team. Something is wrong, I think, with the Chargers, but they have a good record, therefore. And two. Indianapolis is five and one. Nobody really saw this coming. Indianapolis five and one is still getting one and a half. But this is. I don't know that they've had a test like this recently. I'm not certain who you got.
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Indiana Hoosier football, Indianapolis Colts football. Indiana football. State. Now. Gotta give them. Gotta give. That's a nice little run they're going on there. Yes, it's a state.
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Imagine if Caitlin Clark played free safety. Imagine.
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No one's ruled it out yet. Right. I'd get. The Chargers are just very hurt. That's what's wrong with them. They've got a depth issue and I think that all their guys, their offensive line is hurt. They now have, I think a third string running back. They're also down two or something. Give me the Colts.
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A
Really? First road team. Underdog and first road team. Okay.
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D
No, they're the, they're the favorite, I think.
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I thought it said plus one.
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Colts getting 1 1/2.
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They're getting 1 1/2.
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D
Colts getting 1 1/2. Well, even better.
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A
Yes, even better for you.
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D
Sorry I missed. Yeah.
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Washington, a team that appears to be in regression. A team that wins one, loses one, wins one, loses one, wins 1, loses 1. I said on the television show yesterday that it's probably what the people in Houston felt last year. The Houston Texans, where they thought, we're ready to roll and they just didn't, you know, they didn't have much of a year. Washington is at Dallas. Dallas cannot defend anyone. The Dallas stinks. Dallas can score points, but they give up an amazing amount of points. Washington Is a road favorite at Dallas, their primary rival. If you like Washington, you give one and a half. Not a lot. It's not a lot.
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I can't trust Dallas, can you?
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I would have had him last week and I would have lost Carolina.
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They just, you know, every game is the same with Dallas. It doesn't matter who they play. It's going to be high scoring, close game, and they're probably going to lose.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Give me. I. Going back to that game. I'm. I regret not taking Chicago. I didn't really. I mean, this was Caleb's return to Washington. This was a big deal. He really wanted this. He had to beat Jaden. He didn't like all the whispers that, you know, maybe the number two guy is the number one guy. I think we underestimated how important that game was to Caleb.
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Well, it had a better outcome the first time he came back, which was the Hail Mary pass.
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Then you throw in the Hail Mary. Right. There was a lot. There was sort of a lot of a wrench there. Give me the. Give me Washington.
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Okay. And the last game is a really good game, it appears. I don't know if it will be. It seems like it would be a Monday night game. Tampa Bay at Detroit. Detroit got beat at Kansas City on Sunday night. I was surprised. I thought Detroit, after losing to Green Bay, had turned itself into the best team in the NFL. They had won four straight games and they had averaged 40 points a game in those four games. And then they got beat at Kansas City. Tampa Bay doesn't lose anymore. They don't win by a lot of. They win by one or two or three. This past week was the biggest margin that they've won by.
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Was their first victory formation.
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Yeah. First time. Yeah. Because they usually win it at the last second.
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Right.
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Their quarterback, Baker Mayfield is the most valuable player in the league to this point. That's six games. Like there's 11 to go. It's a lot more to go two thirds of the season. But he's the most valuable player in the league. And Tampa Bay is getting five and a half at Detroit. To me, what would scare me about this is that the last time Detroit lost, when they lost to the Green Bay packers, they started rolling off big scoring wins at home. So I think I would take Detroit, but Tampa Bay plus five and a half, their record this year indicates they don't. You know, you take them in five and a half. Who you got?
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Dan Campbell and Goff after a loss. I are something like 20 and 8 after the against the spread after a loss or something like that. They're very good against. So that's a. I think the Lions part. I've been trying to fade Tampa because you keep thinking, well, they can't keep this up. They can't keep this up. I have hoard good money after bad, bad four weeks, I will fully admit. And I'm going to do it again. Give me Detroit.
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Yeah, I think I would take Detroit here. I do. I think.
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Do you think college football is now the NFL, the top tier in that. In the same thing we're talking about now, we're not sure who's good right now in the NFL.
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Right.
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We're not sure. And in college, because now the best college team and the 25th best college team, the difference is much smaller. And it looks. It's the same way. The difference between the best NFL team and the 25th best.
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The only thing I would say to that is I find the NFL a little bit more predictable than college. I do. I mean, like, if you ask me, boy, Indiana's great. Aren't they going, I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I'm not certain. You know.
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And when Ohio State beats him by three touchdowns, you'll be like, yeah, that's what I saw.
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Yeah. So I, I honestly. I honestly don't know with that. But I. I'm pretty certain that the television audience for college football is massive and that when you, when you take pro football and college football out of the way and let people watch everything else, they go to sleep instead. They don't. They don't really care to watch the other stuff as much. Not even.
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Well, it's just, I will say, I mean, I do think it is. You're going to see more coaches fired because in college more than ever.
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That's been a while. This year. I don't remember it at all. I don't remember it.
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If the difference. If everybody's spending the same amount of money on talent.
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Yeah.
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Then what's your differentiator? Coaching. Just like the NFL, talent is about equal. The distinction is coaching and quarterbacks, that's now college.
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Do you think that there's anything that could get North Carolina to fire Belichick?
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Taking away the past to a woman named Jordan.
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Yeah.
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Taking away her field pass. I would imagine that would. That might do it.
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It's an amazing story. They stink.
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Did you see the latest from Belichick?
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He says he's not quitting.
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Well, he says all these rumors that I'm going to be fired or leaving it's all coming out of New England.
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Oh, it's just so he's nuts.
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Is Drake May allowed to admit that he went to North Carolina?
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Or is that like he's just nuts now? He is. He's nuts.
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All right.
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Thank you, Chuck.
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Bye, guys.
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Chuck Todd. Boys and girls, if we just gave you Chuck Todd more than enough. More than enough. But we do better. We give you a monkey.
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See the monkey, he's scritch, scritch scratching.
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Watching his iPad Smoking and laughing Hanging with Bud Grant Tap, tap tapping Everybody sing along on the chorus Nigel's going to the zoo, Zoo Reginald's got the fight Sometimes he throws boo, boo, boo when he's had too much Johnny Walker Blue this is a bad week for our simian friend Ophir. Right. 036 and 12 overall. There are people. Well, not people. There are animals at the zoo saying, I can do better than him. I can do better than him. You know, there are, you know, there are animals out there. There are red tailed foxes.
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Yeah.
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You know, there are orangutans, you know. Yeah. Ocelots. Lots and lots of ocelots.
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Reginald's got to know he's been put on notice. Well, you know, got to do better.
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Yeah.
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And part of the problem is he's so scattered. He's always got lots of stuff going on. Like when I went there the other night to the National Zoo, it was a big festive event. I'd forgotten. This is, of course, is the annual charity fundraiser that he hosts to repatriate chimpanzees to the natural homelands, which is generally considered to be Monaco or Reno. So it was just a lovely, lovely time. Cavalcade of stars there, including Evgeny Malkin, Bernadette Peters, Tony Danza. Believe I saw Bake McBride there. So just, you know, tons of McBride.
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Tremendous.
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So.
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But he took a break from the festivities for just a few moments to go over these matches with me. And the first match we gave him was the Thursday night game. Pittsburgh on the road at Cincinnati, giving five and a half. He just whipped out his wallet, showed me a quick photograph of him eating a sandwich at the Primantis Brothers. French fries with the set with. With the fries in the sandwich. Yeah. Alongside Omar Moreno, Jack Ham and Rennie Stennett.
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There you go. In Pittsburgh.
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Going Pittsburgh all the way with killers. Now, the next one we gave him was Philadelphia, giving one and a half at the Vikes. We know often he, because of his relationship with Bud Grant, he sides with the Vikes. So I thought that's where he's going to go. He showed me a very old photograph. This is from decades ago of him on the Orient Express riding with Chuck Bednarik, Robin Roberts and Bobby Clark.
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There you go.
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So he's going with Philadelphia.
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He's probably missing when that group is Wilt Chamberlain.
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B
Right.
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Probably wouldn't fit in the train. The next one, of course, we get with the Washington football team giving a point and a half at Dallas. And this is just a lovely picture of him. He showed me fly fishing with Dexter Manley, Joey Eichen and the former mayor Marion Barry. So this is obviously several, several years ago, but it's going to take Washington. It's going to take Washington.
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They all took Washington on Monday night.
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Didn't work out, but they held onto the ball.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, all right, that's great. This week's picks with Chuck Todd and Reginald the monkey have been brought to you by FanDuel's sportsbook. Make every moment more and we will come back with Pat40. That's right, Pat40. When we return, I'm Tony Kornheiser. When did making plans get this complicated? It's time to streamline with WhatsApp, the secure messaging app that brings the whole group together. Use polls to settle dinner plans. Send event invites and pinned messages so no one forgets mom 60th and never miss a meme or milestone. All protected with end to end encryption. It's time for WhatsApp message privately with everyone. Learn more@WhatsApp.com this episode is brought to you by State Farm. Listening to this podcast, Smart move. Being financially savvy. Smart move. Another smart move. Having State Farm help you create a competitive price when you choose to bundle home and auto bundling. Just another way to save with a personal price plan. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. Prices are based on rating plans that vary by state. Coverage options are selected by the customer. Availability, amount of discounts and savings and eligibility vary by state. You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser show. Once again, this is Dalton. We already give up the ghost. This has a weird title. Untitled 4. Yeah. What does that mean?
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I'm not sure what that means.
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We're going to ask Nate what that means at some point. Michael, if artists, independent artists like Dalton want to send us their original music that we can play on the podcast, how do they go about getting it to us?
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Send us your music by emailing it to jinglesonycornheisershow.com Fall is here. Check out john.com TK Fly Trap. Let's. And see what you can catch.
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Yeah, we have about. We still haven't taken the fly trap down. We have about 20 flies in it.
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Okay.
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You know, but the flies have largely disappeared. Yeah, largely disappeared. Which is.
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And the fly trap serves as a warning to anyone else.
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Yeah, just, you know, you want to see what your life's going to be like.
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Look at the fly trap.
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A
This plays in Pat 40. There's a lot. I mean, look, I got to talk about James Franklin, but first, there's a small story in the paper today in the Post, in the notes columns, news and notes about John Calipari, who you covered extensively. What exactly is he yapping about now? Doesn't want to be transactional. Wants to help 25 to 30 families. Does he see himself as Florence Nightingale at this point in his life?
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Yeah, basically, yes, he does. That's the way at least he wants to be seen. He's said that sort of thing before. And that said, yes, he wants to help families have generational wealth. It's a lot. It is a lot. If he could just step back and say, I'm a basketball coach who's trying to win games and make myself a lot of money and if they make some money, too, that's great, then that would be a more honest approach. But St. John, that's not really the way he rolls.
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Do you think that he will coach at Arkansas this full season, or do you think this is really under his skin now?
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No, I think he probably will. You know, I expect him to college. He's going to have a good team, for one thing. And I, you know, he wants nothing more than just to win games. So I expect. I expect he will win a fair amount and be there the whole year.
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Must really get his goat that Pitino and St. John's are like ranked in the top five preseason.
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D
Right.
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That must bother him.
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Yes. Except he did beat Pitino last in the tournament.
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In a tournament. Yeah. That was a big win. That was a big win. All right. I want to get to James Franklin, but I want to just start out by saying that a lot of guys are getting fired. Ucla, Virginia Tech, Oregon State. There's probably others. I don't recall this, Pat. I don't recall college football teams firing their coaches in the middle of the season. And now it feels like a trend. Is this. Am I missing something here?
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Well, it's funny, you know, that we kind of started in this direction maybe seven, eight years ago, and then it stopped a couple years ago because everybody was saying, well, we're concerned about the money. We don't necessarily have money. We got this house settlement thing coming. We're gonna have to pay the players. You know, everybody's always, oh, we don't have enough money. We don't have enough money. Oh, wait, we're losing. Let's pay $50 million to James Franklin to go away. Yeah, you know, it's a joke. They always have enough money when there's an urgency there in football, so. But this year has been unusual. Last year was a slow coaching cycle. This year figured to be faster. And it has been, but it's been earlier too, than expected. And the thing that's happened there, Tony, it's like once teams start losing, they can't stop. Like, the tailspins have been wild. Virginia Tech starts 0 and 3. We're firing the coach. UCLA starts 0 3, we're firing the coach. Oklahoma State, terrible start. They fire the coach even though he's been there for 20 years. He's the best coach in school history. James Franklin, with an accomplished record gets fired. And here's a theory at least, is in the transactional era that we're in, apologies to John Calipari, where you are pulling together teams on a year to year basis and you're bringing in a lot of transfers and they aren't necessarily all the brothers that they say they are in the locker room, that when you start losing and you were paid to come in for one year, you might be like, eh, you know what? I'm out, at least mentally, I'm checking out. I'm not, you know, and so you lose one game and then boom, you've lost two, then boom, you've lost three and the season's ruined. And all of a sudden we're firing the coach. So it just seems like the tailspins are happening more frequently at more places.
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I, you know, all the other coaches who are fired, including Gundy, I mean, that, that was, you know, Oklahoma State, he ran his yap about Oregon and, you know, and he was getting near the end anyway. But the Franklin thing's a bombshell. That's a bombshell, is it not?
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It is. You know, I mean, like, I expected them to find a graceful exit from each other, him and Penn State. At the end of the year, I did not expect a flat up, straight up firing in the middle that was going to cost Penn State this much money. It's wild. It is, it's. And he's a very accomplished coach. But it was truly, it was like they went all in for this season. You know, they paid $3 million for the defensive coordinator. They got the most expensive assistant coach in the country. They paid a lot for their roster to maintain, to keep a lot of players that could have gone pro and to bring in some new players. They lined it all up for the big year, but they still had to prove they could win a big game. And then when they didn't win the first big game and then they lost the others, it was like, well done here.
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Yeah.
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Shocking. Shocking.
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Well, somebody will hire Franklin, right? Yeah.
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E
Yes.
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I mean, he can win nine and 10 games. Okay. He can't win the national championship, but Northwestern should hire him. Maryland should fire their coach and hire him.
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E
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of places that would. Would sign up for James Franklin for sure.
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A
Okay. Who wants that job at Penn State? Does Matt Rule want it? And if Matt Rule wants it, will he get it?
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I would think he wants it. He's an alum. He's very close with Pat Kraft, the athletic director, but I'm not 100% sure he will get it. The problem there is you fired a guy because he couldn't win big games. Matt Rule doesn't win big games either. So, you know, the last thing you want to do is hire somebody with the same problem as the guy you just fired. If I were them, I would talk to Kurt Signetti.
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A
I just. I was about to say that. How hot is Signetti and is he the GU that would take that job?
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He's red hot. Absolutely red hot. He's 17 and 2 at Indiana. And Indiana has been the worst power conference program in history. Yeah, I mean, the worst. They have lost more games than any other team in the FBS level. And to be 17 and 2 there is mind blowing. Does I would say this, Kurt, do you want Penn State or do you want Florida, which is going to open, or do you want to stay at Indiana? I don't know what the answer is. On the face of it. Of course you don't stay at Indiana, but times are different and you can build something anywhere now. Now is it sustainable? Are you building something for a two, three year period? And then it's going to be hard to do, harder to do at Indiana than it is at Penn State or Florida. But maybe it's not. Maybe Mark Cuban and other guys are pitched in there. They have the largest living alumni base in the country, according to Kurt.
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Really?
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Oh, yeah. He's very proud of that fact. And I think he wants them all to contribute. And, you know, I mean, Indiana's Got it going right now. It's shocking.
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I don't know him. I'm wondering if he's some sort of cowboy. I thought what he did to Illinois was bad. I thought he ran it up on Illinois absolutely unnecessarily. And Wilbon has indicated to me that he's not the most popular guy in the Big Ten. What is he like?
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Well, he's an interesting guy. I find him fascinating. He, you know, he's incredibly bluntly honest. At first he said, look, it was big, calculated when he first got there. And he ran his mouth about how, you know, we're gonna, we're going to the Big Ten championship and stuff and Ohio State sucks and Michigan sucks and, and that's, and everybody couldn't believe it. But he's like, look, I had to let people know we're, we're waking this thing up here. And now he's less, that there's less bravado. But I think he's still a pretty competent, cocky guy beneath it. He runs his program in a Saban like manner. He was a Saban assistant at Alabama for four years and then went and became a head coach. And there's a lot of similarities there. I think he's maybe a little more jovial than Saban, but, but, but he's pretty, pretty hardcore, I think, in terms of how he runs things. But the players love him. The fans worship him now. Yeah, look, there's a lot of coaches in the Big Ten who, if he slips, they'll be happy. I wouldn't say he's the most popular guy.
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That's. That was the impression I got from Wilbourne. Let me shift to the sec. Ole Miss is very highly ranked. Lane Kiffin is available all the time. I don't know their schedules. Do they play Alabama and LSU in Texas? Do they, do they have hard games coming up or are they going to coast in there?
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They got Georgia this weekend, so Big One, Big One Saturday. They already played lsu. They beat lsu. They still got, I think, a couple other tough games. So no coasting for them really. Anybody else in the sec? It's, it's the back half of the schedule is going to be loaded for everyone.
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How impressive, how impressive is Alabama's reset after that first game? How impressed are you by them?
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Extremely, extremely. I've seen him in person twice and Ty Simpson, the quarterback is really good, very good. And they, they've got a complete team. There's nothing really they don't do well and so like to get that back together when, I mean People wanted to fire Caleb DeBoer right then and there. You know, for his first 14 games on the job were not good. He was 9 and 5. Couldn't win on the road. And since then, yeah, they've got it going. Really. They. They have just. They. That's one place. There was not going to be a spiral. They. They lost their one game and they said, okay, reset. And they've gotten good.
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Yeah, I mean, I look at schedules because, you know, all of these conferences now, you used to play every team in the conference, and now there's 15 to 18 to 20 teams in a conference. So, for example, does Miami play smu?
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I don't think so.
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SMU is a good football team. Every year they're good.
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Yeah. They played Louisville Friday night and that's. Louisville has one loss. Obviously, Miami's undefeated. Yeah, I don't think they. They don't play Clemson, but that doesn't matter anymore. Clemson's not.
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No, they're not that good.
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No, they. I don't think they play Virginia and that could end up.
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If they.
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Those two right now are on a collision course for the championship. Unless. Georgia Tech. Who. Georgia Tech has a really easy schedule and they're undefeated. Easy conference schedule. They do play Georgia at the end, but otherwise it would not shock me If Georgia Tech is 11. 0 going to the ACC Championship when they play Georgia the day after Thanksgiving.
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I am told that they play smu. Miami does. On the first of November.
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Okay.
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So, yeah, I want to, you know, before we anoint Miami, I want to see them play a game like that. And let me shift gears for a second. I saw that Purdue was ranked number one in college basketball, and I, I just. I found myself saying Purdue. Purdue. Wait a second, Zach. Edie's not there anymore. Purdue. Is that a legitimate ranking?
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Yeah, I mean, it is Purdue's number one and Houston's number two.
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A
Well, Houston's around all the time, though.
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Yeah, they are now Purdue's around all the time. You know, they. They have been very successful. Even last year without Edie, they had a really good year, but I would like to see those two play for the championship because then one of them would finally win one. Yeah, I feel very bad for the loser, but I feel good for the. For the winner. Matt Painter is a great basketball coach, and they've just kind of figured out their formula for how they do things, and he just. He's able to recruit to the formula. And they. Generally, they got one guy every year. Braden Smith, their point guard, who's been there for 100 years, has a horrible Amish beard, is the guy now, and he's getting the big nil money. And everybody else is probably getting the same amount. Everybody else on the team probably, whatever that amount is, is the same. That's how he did it with Edie. And, you know, they'll have a couple of giant guys to play in the middle, and they'll be very good offensively and good defensively, and I would imagine they'll be around for the long haul this year.
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And dull. They're. They're dull often, right? They're dull.
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I mean, to me, it depends what you're looking for. You know, I don't know. I like covering them because Matt Painter is very interesting and very candid, and the players generally are pretty open. So from my standpoint, they're okay watching them on tv.
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All right. All right. Is your podcast still working and you want to plug it? Go ahead.
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It is, yes. Others receiving votes, si.com and, you know, Apple podcast, Spotify, all that business. Myself, Gene Wojojowski, Bryan Fisher. Check it out.
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Thank you, Pat.
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Thank you, Tony.
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Brilliant.
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And before we get to the mailbag, let me just say, tom, get your plane right on time. I know your part will go fine. Fly down to Mexico. Don do don da da da du Don Here I am. The Only Living Boy in New York. The birthday boy from a couple of days ago. Paul Simon, 84 years old. This was Tom as Tom and Jerry which was the original name of Simon and Garfunkel. The Only Living Boy in New York's A fabulous, fabulous song. Thanks to our guests today. Chuck Todd, Pat40 thanks as well to today's sponsors. Remember you can listen to us on Apple podcasts Spotify and Odyssey. Get show through Apple. Please leave us a review. Let me just thank two people for lovely notes. Kenny Stone who I went to camp with so many years ago and Tim is a dean or diem in Syracuse, New York. Lovely notes and thank you very much for those. Neil Ayervase, our lawyer friend in Colorado Tony, your remembrance of Diane Keaton and admission that you were not aware of her musical talents prompted a lovely memory of meeting her and hearing her perform. In the early 70s when I was in law school in NYU, I frequented a small club in the Village and was introduced to a number of artists, some of whom achieved success on a national level, most of whom never attained that stature. One evening I fortuitously noticed her name on the marquee and also not aware of her vocal talents, decided to see if the artist performing was a single same Diane Keaton I knew from the movies. She spent 90 minutes charming the audience with her rendition of classics from the 40s and 50s. I especially remember her interpretation of Cole Porter's I've got you Under My Skin. What I recall more than her musical talent was an almost shy on stage demeanor, as if she were surprised that anyone would want to hear her sing. While she did not engage the audience during her performance and let her music speak for her afterwards, she spent an hour graciously interacting with me and others and describing how her music served not only as a complement to her acting, but as a relief from the stresses of acting. She seemed more comfortable talking about the joy she received from her music than her acting career in subsequent years. It always occurred to me that those few minutes in that setting demonstrated that her public Persona as self effacing, kind, genuine and quirky was a true reflection of her actual personality. Also, thanks as always for having Tim Kirchen on the show and making me aware of Tim's podcast with his son. While his show has yet to provide an horticultural or nautical expertise, the depth of his baseball knowledge and all the stories from his career make for a very fun podcast from Mark Sandler in Chevy Chase, Maryland. I was in Colorado this weekend relaxing at the hotel pool, casually chatting with another Guy who was doing the same. I asked where he was from, and he said Marblehead. Were I quicker on my feet, the natural applause would have asked him how long it took him to get to her there. But instead, I just smiled and nodded like a blithering idiot. Sorry to let the pod down. Marblehead.
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B
I go for Marblehead.
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Yeah. From Mark Penichel, Butler, Pennsylvania. In the spirit of Jason Locke and for looking for more paying gigs, here's a side hustle idea for you. Captain Ron's Fishing Charters and bicycle Rentals. Paddle or pedal, you choose.
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C
There you go.
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From Sue Hidell in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Steelers play the Bengals on Thursday night. Here we go. Did you know that the combined age of the two starting quarterbacks is 81 years old? I almost equal that by myself. Yeah, we talked about that. That's. You know, they are. Well, one's going to the hall of Fame. Joe Flacco has a. Has a halt, has a Super bowl ring. I don't think he's going to the hall of Fame.
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C
Probably not, but he's had a.
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He's had a really good career. From Joe Mig. Nodna in. I hope I pronounce it right. Mignonia. I don't know. Bethany beach in Delaware. 25 short years ago, October 17, 2000. A beautiful day at the President's Club and Robert Trent Jones Club. You had just escaped the radio booth that the station futilely attempted to corral you in. We chatted briefly about the embarrassment of riches, of having 90% of the crowd flocking a tiger at every hole while the best golfers in the world played virtually alone. But the real pleasure day for us both was having your teenage Michael and my twin sons enjoying a day on the course with the world's best. Fast forward those 25 years and our boys are now the guys with careers, families and single handicaps. The game continues to amuse, frustrate, and connect us. If only we could hit like those boys. Here's to another 25. What a lovely email. You remember that?
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B
I do.
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A
Didn't you get hit by a tiger? One bounce.
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B
Yes.
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A
Yeah.
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B
One hopped.
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Highlight of your life, it seemed to me. From Scott Foster, not the referee in Manchester, Maine. In Monday's mailbag, you got an email about three connections to you and the legend of Bagger Vance. They missed a fourth connection. The movie was filmed at Colleton river right off 278.
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D
Yeah.
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In Bluffton, South Carolina. Carolina. If you haven't played it, I'm sure Chan must have a connection to get you on.
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D
Yeah.
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A
Have you played it?
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B
I have not. I mean, I've seen it from the wall.
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A
Is that how it's pronounced?
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B
Carleton River.
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A
Okay.
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B
They always hold. They've had some big junior tournaments there. They had a PGA Professionals Championship there as well.
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D
Oh.
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From Mike McKittrick in Washington, Indiana. You have given we littles flush the mouse. I nominate I hit the goose for your consideration. Has a certain range.
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B
I found the video of it. Showed it to Nigel.
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A
Samin is up to you. So it was on five.
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B
It was on five again. So to reset this, you were about 130 yards away. You see the geese at the front of the tee box which is now known as Bootsy's. Bootsy's now mount of hitting it across the water. And you try and shoo them away.
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Yeah.
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B
You appear to them like, oh, come on.
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A
Come on, honey, let's move.
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B
Liz is filming. It goes nothing will happen. And then you hear it in the background.
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D
Right.
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C
Did not kill it.
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A
No, no, no.
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D
Yeah.
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A
I was using an iron.
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C
I wasn't.
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B
The day. The day then gets better because one hole or two holes later we see a golf cart turn around to Ben and the next thing we know, mom's cart had to be towed out.
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A
She's in the water. She's in the water by the service entrance.
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B
Behind seven.
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A
Not on six. On. On seven.
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B
Behind seven. You tell her pull the cart around and there's a little bend to the right to go to 8. She goes left.
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A
Keeps going left in the water. She's in the water.
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B
Tried to pull a K turn.
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C
Did you drop there or how's that work?
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B
Now you have to play it as it lies.
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A
One more Tim from the Midwest. Captain Ron, you were on a text chain discussing the life of Diane Keaton. Please let us know what Richard Dennis, that's very funny. If you're out on your bike, Tyne to everyone, as always, do wear wide. Expired. Expired. Expired. Thanks, aunt Bonnie.
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When it starts to happen it all seems so clear Soft lenses start cracking hard faces appear Come away from your window you won't always feel this way Come away from your window it's not you who has to change I'll wait for you baby me I'll show you no pain These streets drive them crazy but who's left to play? Come away from your window. Do you want to leave this place?
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D
Please.
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F
Come away from your window. Call the doctor just in case. The room looks so empty I knew you weren't there they all up and left me, me but I never could.
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D
Care.
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F
Come your window you been more than just a friend? Come away from your window we don't ever have to Sam. Come away from your window There is nothing left to fear.
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D
You and it.
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F
Feels like we're ages Come tomorrow come to forever be this way.
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D
Sa.
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F
Where I remember history I remember how it be before.
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D
Sam.
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F
Through time to change.
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D
Sam.