The Fifth Hour – Benny vs The Penny, Divisional Round

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Wow Red it is and welcome in a postseason edition.

(00:46):
If you thought the regular season of Benny Versus the
Penny was quality, wholesome podcasting, well you are in for
a magical treat because we have arrived our first Benny
Versus the Penny for the new year twenty twenty, and
we ring it in with the second round of the postseason,

(01:07):
the Divisional Playoff Round and as always representing the coin,
a man who whatever I pick will go against me,
meaning that many people think this is a rigged deal,
David Gascon, he stayed in there. No, I don't play right.
Don't play right. He's known on social media as Dagon,

(01:30):
David Gagon, and that is David Gascon sending the treasury
and David Gascon full front and center. Now, well, all
I know is that I have had a wonderful postseason
so far, two one and one in the postseason, and
I'm very excited about that. So I'm I've gotten back

(01:51):
on track. And really a bad beat, which was a
bad tie in the Buffalo Houston game because the quarterback
of the Buffalo Bills, Josh Allen, not a barbarian, not
a gladiator, more like a little church mouse, a little
church mouse that just played like vomit. Gave that game away,

(02:14):
gave that you needed smelling salts in the fourth quarter,
and over time there double shot of espresso something to
wake him up. But so I really should have had
a perfect weekend. I think most would agree with that.
So it's a great weekend for me, you know. And
I'll be honest, I don't know how you got that tie,
considering the fact that you usually cap these games on
Wednesdays or Thursdays. Yeah, but somehow you found a way

(02:37):
to have that line set at three. What's called buying.
You can buy a half a point. I don't know
if you know this. You're probably not that educated on gambling,
and I don't know how we can coexist if you
don't know about gambling. But when a line is either
like two and a half or three, you know you
can a lot of people wait and most people buy
points when it's three or seven. Yeah, because you want to.

(03:00):
You went to three and a half of the seven half.
But you can do it. Yeah, you can do it
at two and a half. You want to land on though,
either three or seven or above it. But when you're
taking the underdog, either one of those. But it was
a great job by me, And I know there's some dissension.
You're upset that I had a good weekend. Well, most
people don't buy the points. They don't. Most people don't.

(03:21):
That's why. That's why you listen to podcasts like this,
so you're not a feeble pushover like Gagon. You've never
actually disclosed buying it to three or buying it to seth.
I've been doing this bit for like fifteen years. I
haven't talked about it on the podcast I've talked about
on the radio. Stupid Yeah, but nobody listens to that show.
They listen, Nobody listen to the show. Well, according to you,
nobody listens to the podcast. And I agree, because you're

(03:41):
on the podcast. And here's the other thing, too, is
most sharps that are involved in laying points, they don't
usually look at two and a half as a bad number.
Three is usually the magic number. If a home team
is favored by three, more often than not, they go
with the road team. And that's exactly what you did.
Well listen, I know, I know you don't know this
because you have lived your life as a follower. But

(04:03):
I'm a leader. I'm an alpha dog, and alpha dog
I don't care what other people do. I do my
own thing. I have lost my own battles here and
so I have unquestioned ability when it comes to gambling,
and I have some things that I have done here
with underdogs. I always take the underdogs over a touchdown
divisional games or playoff games for that matter. That always happens.

(04:25):
But that's just the way it is. I understand, and
I think I'm happy that you acknowledge that as being
a lead dog in gambling and because of that, looking
at our podcast downloads, you owe me more Tito's tacos
next week. Well, I'm a very busy man, and I
don't know that to be true. Now, I thought you
wanted to, you know, talk about this in the other podcast,
but we'll talk about on this podcast. We had a

(04:45):
wager we did the Seattle podcast, and I had a
number in my head of how many downloads we would get.
Gascon claims I did not reach that number of downloads.
We had a bet. I said that the podcast would
reach a very high Gascon said, no, way, not gonna happen.
In hindsight, though, Gascon, I believe I won the bet,

(05:10):
because that is an amazing number. We put that podcast
up on New Year's fucking Eve. Okay, that podcast went
up when nine of people were preparing to go out
and have a nice time, to have some drinks, to
have a you know, a meal or whatever. So they
were not ready to listen to a podcast. That's one

(05:31):
of the reasons I take my time off at the
end of the year. The listenership numbers over Christmas and
New Year's going the toilet. People are not listening as
much as they do the rest of the year. So
I really believe we amazing a company. I should get
like Burrito out of this is what I should forget Tacos.
I should go Burrito. Wow. Well you see here's You've

(05:52):
actually bet against your militia twice during this podcast, and
I've won both bets. I'm batting a sharp and us
but one thousand, well the slugging percentae of two thousand,
if I might add too, Yes, and you're on as
many steroids as Barry Bonds was back into mad at
me because I'm big and burly and have tons of

(06:12):
Now listen, that's not what the women that have dated
you have told me. But that's different conversation. Yes, now
here postseason edition of Benny Versus the Penny, you have
a special treat for us, I might add crapt Yes,
we do now because it's the postseason. There's only four
games this weekend next week can they'll only be two games?
But we thought why not? People have been asking for it.

(06:33):
I don't usually do this on the radio show. I
used to do it a little bit, but we are
going to handicap as an added bonus on this edition
of Benny versus the penny. At the end, we will
handicap the college Football Championship. You have the playoff championship game,
which will be taking place over the weekend on Monday night.
The college football season will end on Monday, So depending

(06:55):
on when you download this, you might want to fast
forward through the first part of it, because if you're
downloaded on Saturday night, the first two games will be irrelevant.
Some people like to go down and download the podcast
to goof on me if I get picked wrong. Those
are extreme zealots that do that, but that's possible too,
But if you just want the new games, just depends
on when you download the podcast. So this will be

(07:16):
good by my knowledge, my logic here rather till Monday,
just before kickoff of Clemson and LSU. So I'm excited
for this because if there's any indication of how this
playoff run will be, it'll be a lot better than
weeks fifteen and sixteen for you, because that was well. Again,
you're focusing on the past. But the way I look
at it, I had last week at two one in

(07:39):
one week, So let's focus on what just happened, not
what happened a while ago. Two one and one. That
is a solid professional handicapping week. You win money on that,
not a lot, not a lot, but you'd win a
little bit of money on that. That's a six sixty
seven winning percentage last week. Wow, well, let's go. Let's

(07:59):
do this damn thing all right. Here we go. First
game up, Divisional Round Saturday. The early game, it's Minnesota,
NFC North representative eleven and six at Santa Clara, the
big bad Beast of the NFC West at thirteen and three.
It's on NBC. Can't wait to see what sweater Al

(08:20):
Michaels and Chris collinsworth where. So this game will kick
off at four thirty five Eastern one thirty five local
time in the Bay and the forty nine ers opened
the touchdown favorite. They are still favored by seven. Now
the public money is mostly even. There's a slight lean
to the forty nine ers, So slight lean to the

(08:40):
forty nine ers. The weather mostly sunny fifty five degrees
at kickoff at Levi's Stadium on Saturday afternoon, so there's
no weather playing a factor here at the start of
the game. Now the pick is in and I am
gonna take my Minnesota Vikings to shock the world in
this game and getting a touchdown on the road. Now

(09:03):
the reason why I may walk you through my thinking
on this, and of course all of this is through theoretically,
but hey, the Vikings are the right side in this game.
I don't know how you could take the forty nine
ers in this game with that kind of number Minnesota.
I don't believe in momentum. I do believe in confidence.
If you beat the Saints in New Orleans and they

(09:24):
controlled that game, the New Orleans offense have like a
hundred yards other than one big play going to the
fourth quarter, Drew Brees looked horrific against that Viking defense.
If you can do that, you can sure as hell
go punch for punch with the forty nine ers in
Santa Clair. I think we agree on that. So it's

(09:45):
going to be an intriguing matchup, especially to see if
Kirk Cousins, which one shows up. Was last week's performance
in the Bayou going to become the new standard or
was that just a fluke in an isolated situation and
he will go back to being the mistake filled mess
that Cousins has often been in these big games. Now,
the other reason, like the Vikings. Though, forget Cousins, whether

(10:07):
he plays great or not, Mike Zimmer has a ball
hawking defense. The Purple people Eaters were back in that game. Now,
during the year they were one of four teams that
have thirty plus takeaways in twenty nineteen. They ranked fifth
in turnover differential. But that defensive front for the Vikings,
they had the macheese more work against New Land. That

(10:29):
was an impressive, impressive performance. Now, the Vikings hold onto
the ball as I said, right, they take the ball away,
they don't turn the ball over. I think they were
fifth as I said in turnover differential. So possession is
what it's nine tenths of victory. We learned that in court.
So the Vikings defense be able to man handle the

(10:50):
New Orleans front line and the trenches. Can they have
a similar day, not maybe as dominant, but close. If
they do, they'll win this game going away. Now Part
B the forty nine ers. Now they're the team that
a lot of people like because maybe not the number,
but to win the game. Because the historically team's coming
off a bye week have a great record in the

(11:12):
divisional round. It's almost like a gimme show up. Collect
to win. They've had a week of rest and relaxation,
getting healthy because of the bye week, and now the
Niners get back to work with a roster that features
four players who were selected to the Pro Bowl. You
got Nick Bosa, George Kittle, Richard Sherman among that group.

(11:33):
But not on that list is Jimmy Garoppolo and he
is making his postseason starting debut. He said, well, it's
just another game, blah blah blah blah blah blah. No,
it's not new, it is not And it's not only
the quarterback Garoppolo is making his first start. It's Kyle
Shanahan who's making his first appearance as a head coach

(11:56):
in the postseason. Now. Kyle Shannahan's most famous moment coaching
is when he was with the Atlanta Falcons as an
offensive assistant and they had the biggest choke job in
Super Bowl history against the New England Patriots. That was
under his watch as the offensive coordinator for that team.
From George, But will Jimmy g be nervous? Will he

(12:16):
be tentative? Will he be indecisive? Those are all qualities
that generally happen when you're making your first appearance in
a playoff game. And if you look at the numbers
and you go back to twenty z two, so the
last seventeen years we're not obviously counting this year actually
as we will put what we will count this year.
But Jimmy Garoppolo going in there as a home favorite.

(12:40):
Since twenty zero two home favorites in their first playoff
start are five and sixteen against the spread. That's a
two thirty eight winning percentage. So now that tells you
what has happened. It doesn't tell you what's gonna happen.
Garoppolo had a one to zero touchdown passes one touchdowns

(13:00):
and or less. I should say I got the number.
I've wrote this down in Chicken Scratch, one touchdown or
less in nine of the games. So he doesn't throw
the ball past twenty yards. They had that odd stat
this week about that the forty nine ers they can run.
But again, I got the Vikings defense up front, that's
very very good, look very good against the New Orleans Saints.

(13:23):
Punch a psycho pass out there on defense the way
they played in that particular game. So all of this
plays out. It's in the hands mostly of the Viking defense,
running the game, the running game as well. I expect
Minnesota to take advantage of the nerves. Couple of early
turnovers and the snowball effect will help out. But it's

(13:46):
gonna be a tight game fourth quarter. I'm gonna take
the Vikings to pull the upset twenty seven to twenty
six over the forty nine ers. Oh Penny likes what
you're driving right now? Really admit of Vikings in the
divisional round. You know what we call that? Gas gun tailing?

(14:09):
Copycat is what we call that. I get that all
the time on the radio show where I give a
brilliant answer and then Eddie and Roburio and whoever's producing
just kind of copy whoever's producing. Well, we have a
wheel of producers. We have it since twenty twenty started.
I've had a different producer every night. What's the reason
for that? Why is that? Well, I mean getting off
the Titanic. I just said it week fifteen, Titanic. Yeah, yeah,

(14:32):
train wreck radio, You, of course are the Titanic of broadcasting.
But we don't have time to do that here. Moving on, Wow,
why are you gonna throw a while in there? It's
not a wow A while? We're on the clock. Yeah,
what's wrong with that? I want to I want are
you naive here? I want to stay on the clock.

(14:54):
I feel like you're happy that you got your full
length of material in for that game, because I am.
I do, like you know, I had to cut back.
I get that much material on every game. But because
you have anxiety when we do this podcast, I have
to give you a petite version of the preparation that

(15:16):
I do. Do we have any trivia this week? No,
you're so No, I don't have any. Well, there's reasons
for that, but lazy Ben Maller. Wow, I mean, if
you want, I can come up with one on the fly.
I am the king of trivia. We don't want any pity.
But you know what happens when you do trivia? You
become trivial. I guess so, but it will learn that

(15:38):
from a program director years ago. Yes, even though I
still do it, but I shouldn't change the name of
instant trivia on the radio show. That way, If a
program director asked me, why are you doing trivia, I'll
say I'm not. I'm just doing something else. Like the
who am I? Game? Is just the who am I? Game?
That's true. I could do the what am I game?
That could be the instead of the instant trivia. You

(15:59):
should re a line your entire staff. I mean you're
redoing second. Who would you like me to get rid
of Eddie? Probably all Berto, probably all of them. Yeah, yeah,
it's very nice of you. I mean you've had staff die.
I have. I've been to many funerals and whatnot to
people that have passed. None, you've had callers die. Yeah,

(16:19):
mostly callers have dropped dead, a lot of them unfortunately. Yeah,
this is I need to keep him alive. Is there
anything I can do to keep him alive? Anything I
can do? I feel like I've done way too many
eulogies for callers. I don't. I feel terrible. I mean,
every one of these stories breaks my heart, and I
have no heart because I'm a scumbag overnight talk showist
at Ripspeep. Yeah, I got no answers for you. I

(16:40):
only care about your female callers listeners. So, I mean,
I got a letter from this girl, this lady woman
and about her dad who passed away, and I did him.
I did a tribute to him from I think Saint
Louis and uh yeah, I mean I was. I was
like really bummed out. Man, it was like it was
very touching. I don't want to be emotional. Was he
a big listener? Super fan? In fact, this guy what

(17:04):
a stud this guy was because you know, he's got
brain cancer, he's not doing very well, but he loves
the show. Yeah, And apparently he would go to like, um,
he traveled to a hospital just to sit in the
parking lot and use the WiFi to listen to the podcast,
because you know, if you couldn't listen live and all that.

(17:25):
And when I got when I got whacked from the
company a while back. It's been eleven years now, which
one of this company? Oh not w EI? Well, no,
I never got whacked from WI. I left on my
own accord, on good terms, left on good terms from
WI in Boston, and I can go back there at

(17:46):
some point out right now because we're on the Sports
Hub at night. He didn't. You can't be on both
the Sports Hub in Boston and w EI because they
are blood rivals, all right. I don't know if you
know what blood rivals are guests on, but in the
radio game, they flip flop. One one ratings book. W
e Ey's number one then the next time the sports
hubs number one, it is a Battle Royal. So you

(18:10):
in Boston, you can't be the radio version of Alex Rodriguez. Then, yeah,
they don't. They don't do that in that a rod
can work for Fox and ESPN. But uh no, that's
not how it's not quite how it works. Yeah, unfortunately.
But yeah, that that tribute that got me. It got

(18:30):
me a little bit. So we did that the other
night on the radio show show Anna actually was. The
guy's name is Steve Williams, Steve George Williams. He was
a mechanic and and uh he actually started a Facebook
pitch when I got let go to demand my return,
and uh it worked. I hope George. I hope Steve

(18:51):
knows it worked because six months and twenty six later
days after the worst decision the company ever made, they
they begged me to come back, and I came back.
Who is your program director at the time? Uh, I
don't mean, we've had so many I don't remember the
one that everybody loved. What was his name, Andy, Oh,
Andrew Ashwood? Yes, Andrew Ashwood. Yeah, he died from pancreatic cancer. Yeah,

(19:16):
but everybody he was he was a big, burly guy,
and yeah, that was one of the sadder things watching
him go down and all that stuff at work. And
he kept trying to work right up until the end,
which is I give him credit for. Yeah, what a
fucking uplifting podcast right now we have? This is absolutely amazing.
You wanted me to waste time here. It's not that

(19:36):
I'm wasting time, but it's time. Well you you said, hey,
while you in a rush? No, I said, now we're
gonna have to be in a rush. You must be
happy if you got all your material and when you
cap that Minnesota San Francisco game, well, I have more material.
Can I continue? Please? Have you reached your goal where
you want to annoy me already? Or what are we doing? No? No,
please continue, sir, Oh sir, that's respect. Be sure to

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from the AFC South at ten and seven. They played
the playoff game beat the Patriots last week at Baltimore

(21:51):
AFC North, fourteen and two. It's on CBS on Saturday night,
eight fifteen Eastern time. I an Eagle and Dan Fouts
have the call. How about Dan Fouts? Last time Dan
Fouts played in an NFL game was what the nineteen eighties? Yeah,
and he's still hanging out on TV. These are tough
jobs to keep. Good job by Dan Fouts. His beard

(22:12):
still flowing, so he's good. He's the color analyst version
of Dick Stockton, right. Uh, Well, Dick's got him beat
by a few years. But yeah, we don't have to
do the Dick Stockton game for the playoffs, unfortunately, because
the last time Dick stock did the playoff game I
think was the nineties. Is that a cheap shot? No,
wasn an NBA game or was it NFL. He's good
at the NBA though, him and Tommy Heinson calling an

(22:34):
NBA game, Is that is soul food? He's what that is?
Like a Lakers Celtic game on a Sunday morning. Yea
from Boston at the parquet and all that. Yeah that
I hold that in high regard. I'll admit I was
always a fan of Bill Walton and Steve Snapper Jones. Yes,
Steve Snapper Jone them. He passed away at here was

(22:56):
another guy that died a couple of years ago. Yeah,
he was really good. He was he was sold. It
was a Blazer's announcer and they worked well to get
all right. So Tennessee in Baltimore, can we talk about
anyone else who died as anyone else we will know? Yeah,
there's a guy in Iran we could talk about. Yeah,
that'll be on the other podcast. I'm sure you'll bring
that up. So the Ravens open to ten point favorite.

(23:17):
They are favored by nine. The weather cloudy sixty two
degrees at kickoff at M and T Bank Stadium in
the House of Sports with Coleman in Baltimore. Now, I
am going to take the Tennessee Titans here at plus nine.
I don't know how this is another one I look

(23:38):
at this line and said, how can you go the
other way? Now? I know everyone's all gung hall and excited.
It's nauseating the admiration people are showing for the Ravens.
They've had a fine year, but this game is a
different animal. Now I'm going to take the Titans. They
ran the ball down the throats of the New England Patriots.
Derrick Henry put on a show. He was electrifying, all right.

(24:00):
It kind of performance where like if he played for
the Lakers, they retire his number and give him a statue.
He was that good and and he had to touchdown.
What will he do for an encore? Now the Ravens
are a different cat, I guess, a different bird because
you know New England, Let's be honest, they were skinning
off the runway at takeoff or at landing rather at

(24:23):
the end of the year because they it just did
not go well for them. As the season progressed, the
Patriots looked like every game was a struggle. They lost
to the damned Dolphins at home. Well, Baltimore is the opposite.
There's no tailwind against there's no wind pushing against the Ravens.

(24:44):
Baltimore went turbo time, no head wins there. Ryan Tannehill
the quarterback, Now, this is the interesting thing for me
about Tennessee this week. He was mostly a decoy for
a good chunk of that game last week by Mike
Ray and his coaching staff their game plan. Now the
smart money says that he is going to have a

(25:06):
bigger role this week, which is equal parts exciting, nerve racking,
and scary for Tennessee because if you look at the
resume of Ryan Tannehill, there's very few people in the
tabernacle of Tannehill that believe this guy is a big

(25:27):
time quarterback. And I played like a big time quarterback
this year, and these kind of guys over the years,
I am of the belief in the conviction that they
revert to who they had been in big moments. Now,
Tannehill was hidden by the Tennessee coaching staff in that
game against the Patriots and obviously worked out. So's it

(25:48):
is nerve racking and scary, but also exciting because he
could play the way he did during the regular season.
But the Ravens defensively have been playing better than the
Patriots have at the end of the year. So as
an impartial observer. I don't expect Tanny Hill to be great,
but I don't expect him to suck out loud and
play like puke. So I think he'll be somewhere in

(26:09):
the middle, which is where Tennessee. As long as he's
gonna turn the ball over, then they're fine. Now the
second thing here, which Lamar Jackson is gonna show up. Now,
nobody else is talking about this. Everyone else is biased
the prejudice. They are convinced that Lamar Jackson's just going
to continue on. La la la la, la la la

(26:30):
with his crazy breakout season, a kind of a year
for a dual threat quarterback that has put him in
the book of Legends. He's gonna win the MVP Award,
and he's gonna win by a mile the MVP race,
but the postseason was not his friend last year. This
is not his first playoff start. Now I understand, you know,
he's different, he's evolved and all that blah blah blah

(26:53):
blah blah blah blah. But I still have the preconceived
idea that this guy has some suck in him in
playoff games because last year, a lot of people have
forgotten and the numbers got skewed. If you go back
and just look at the box score in the wild
card round against the Chargers in Baltimore, Do you know

(27:14):
what Lamar Jackson's quarterback rating was going to the fourth
quarter of that game? No, you don't. He had a
two point seven quarterback rating. I don't know that you
could go that low. He had twenty five yards passing,
no touchdowns, and one interception over the first three quarters
of that game against the LA Chargers in the postseason
last year, and then he went bananas in the fourth

(27:35):
quarter and had like one hundred and seventy yards and
two touchdowns whatever it was. And so which guy shows
up now, Everyone's all, he's going to be the guy
that played in the fourth quarter of the playoff game
last year. But not so fast, my friend. I know
Raybels got some tricks up his sleeve here as an
old defensive guy and a disciple of Bill Belichick, to

(27:55):
try to throw off Lamar. Now everyone says they have that,
but Willard actually worked. Now. The Ravens on the surface
look unbeatable. They run and throw and have a grand
old time. They have an opportunistic defense. Certainly late in
the year, the defense got better. So what can the
underdog Titans do well? I mentioned it already, play error

(28:17):
free football. Don't give the Titans extra the Ravens rather
extra possessions. You also got to get a few breaks,
a lucky breaks that go your way, meaning Lamar Jackson
fumbles or Ingram fumbles, or there's a tipped pass that
deflects off an offensive lineman and goes to one of
the Titans linebackers. All of those things, if a couple

(28:39):
of them go the way of the Tennessee Titans. The
way I look at it, nobody is infalliable, certainly the
Titans opponent. Here. The Ravens look like they are unbeatable
and the juggernaut, and they're the fat Cats of the NFL.
They're the elite of the elite, and they should live
at the taj Mahal the way they played. But anytime

(29:00):
time you get a touchdown or more in a playoff
game against plausibly teams that are pretty close, you take
the points. Now, I'm not crazy enough to pick the
Titans to win this game out right, but they will
hang around. Hang around. Ravens thirty Titans twenty three. Penny

(29:25):
again likes it and go with the Tennessee Titans. So
what's the point of doing the podcast if the Pennies
just agree with every one of my picks? What do
you want me to do it? It's does the Penny
have any thoughts on the game? With the Penny like
to handicap the game? Does it have like a portfolio
of ideas that you can share in investments for the game.
The Penny has the game at nine and a half,
but it likes it either way. Considering the fact that

(29:47):
Lamar Jackson last season against the Chargers in the divisional
round was not up to snuff and it was not
good at all, it looks for a duplication of such
ef Well, he was good in the fourth quarter, but
the Chargers played more of a preva defense in the
fourth quarter thing assuming the game was over, and then
Lamar started hitting receivers and all. That's much easier to
be in that kind of an environment when you're playing

(30:08):
catchup at home, and of course you can do it
all right, So we're going to adjust the line of
that because I just looked. You are correct. The line
is up to nine and a half. The current line
I had at nine. But we haven't made the bet yet,
so nine and a half. The money on this game
is pretty even. The money on this game is pretty even.
I love it. I like Tennessee man, I and the

(30:29):
Ravens can win this game by twenty eight points and
that's you know, no one will be shocked and all
that stuff. But you gotta like going in a team
that can run the ball the way Tennessee can and
keep it close to the best because you got to
keep the ball away from the Ravens. Right, doesn't everyone
say that the key to beating the Ravens All any
team is as dominant as the Ravens. It's like those

(30:50):
old remember the Minnesota Vikings when they had Randy Moss
and Chris Carter. Yeah, they these amazing offenses, but the
way to beat them was to not allow them to
have the ball. Robert Smith was also on that team,
and Atlanta got it done. That's right, that's right, one
of the classic upsets in NFL history. So the Titans
are the pick, and we also like the Vikings in

(31:11):
the early game on Saturday, So we're taking both underdogs
in that game Sunday Sunday. Sunday Sunday. Now, this is
good news for you. The penny being on your side
for these first two games on Saturday is great because
weeks fifteen and sixteen you weren't good, but the penny
was fantastic, So this is a good omen. Well no, no, well,
I'm going first. So really the penny is copying me.

(31:33):
I don't think so. I think this is a good
omen for well. The fact that you don't think you
don't have to say so. At the end of that
you can just say, I don't think well, I'm not
thinking about you in this instance. I'm thinking about the penny,
the one, the moneymaker, the treasury, the bank, the treasury. Yeah, exactly,
all right. Next up Sunday, early game Houston AFC South
team eleven and six had the playoff win over Buffalo

(31:56):
last week. Cansa City, home of the ben Chicken Fingers
in Liberty, Missouri, the AFC West representative of twelve and
forts on CBS doesn't quite work as well as and
Basy CBS at three oh five Eastern, just after noon Pacific,

(32:17):
and in Kansas City will be just after two o'clock.
Jim Nance and toe knee roll Mo the golfer. We'll
have the call now. The line on this game. Kansas
City opened up a seven point favorite. They are now
favored by nine and a half. The current line is
nine and a half. In this game. Where is the money, Well,

(32:40):
it's pretty even. There's a slight when I say slight,
like between fifty and fifty five percent of the cash
is on Kansas City. Now. The tickets are about sixty
percent in favor of the Chiefs in this game. The
weather sunny, thirty seven degrees at kickoff at Arrowhead Stadium.

(33:02):
The pick is in. I'll take the I hate to
do this the Houston Texans. I am going to take
the Houston Texans in this game, and I'll walk you
through why I am going to take the Houston Texans.
First of all, because of the Ravens success. The Chiefs

(33:24):
have been flying under the radar, and I get that.
I am aware of that. And they have a chance
to get the spotlight back with a blowout, dominant win
against a Houston team which is already on borrow time.
Patrick Mahomes, how good has this guy been? He got
hurt against the Broncos during the year and he missed
some time, but when he's played, he's passed for over

(33:45):
four thousand yards, twenty six touchdowns, five interceptions, and yet perception,
which is often not reality, but the perception is that
this guy has not played as well as numbers have
regressed from his MVP year. But twenty six touchdowns at
five interceptions pretty pretty pretty good for the Chiefs quarterback. Now,

(34:07):
the Chiefs were better than Houston both defensively and offensively
this year. But you also can look and this is
one of those matchups where if you look at the
Chiefs and the Texans schedule and you go la la
la la, la la la. Let me look at the
schedule here, and I'll go down all right. In the

(34:27):
week one, Week two, Week three, Week four, Week five, oh,
week six? What happened in Week six? Kansas City played
host to Houston, the same thing that's going to happen
on Sunday afternoon at Arrowhead. And in that particular game,
it was a thirty one twenty four loss for Kansas City.

(34:50):
They even lost that game to the Houston Texans. How
about that? Yea? So, now, I do I think the
Texans are going to win the game here? No, I
do not. I believe Kansas City is a better football
team now than they were at that particular point, and
the Texans are either about the same or a little
bit worse. Now. Secondly, as we talk on Benny versus

(35:14):
the penny, so Bill O'Brien, this guy should count his
lucky stars that he was able to beat Buffalo last week.
Josh Allen handed that game on a room service cart
to the Texans with his stumbling, bumbling performance. By any calculation,
the arithmetic tells you this guy stinks. This guy should

(35:35):
be He should be unhooked on Phonics the Quarterback Edition.
He should be on there. Josh Allen, with those mistakes
he made, how dare him cost me money? It's a
bad job by him. But lost in all that, what
the hell happened to the Texans offense? Here about DeAndre Hopkins,

(35:58):
the greatest receiver in the NFL, and Deshaun Watson electrifying
and all that their offense. I guess you could say
it was frugal, was economical because they didn't score until
late in the game. Now because of the mistakes, they
took advantage of it. I don't think they scored until
late in the third quarter, and they got a gift
field goal after a Josh Allen turnover. But the point

(36:21):
of this is right, you look at everything here and
you're like, what happened? You know? I know, buff of
those got a good defense in Kansas City is not
as good even though they're they're better this year. Defensively,
they're not as good as the Bills, who are wonderful.
But DeShawn Watson he had some success in Kansas City
back in Week six in that game. It's not like

(36:44):
the Texans are going to be intimidated like, oh, we
can't beat the Chiefs. You've already beat the Chiefs. Most
of the roster has not turned over since that game.
The issue for Houston, and it's the same issue everyone's
got when they play Kansas City Chiefs, is how to
slow down Patrick Mahomes right, how to have you know

(37:05):
he's going from Josh Allen to Patrick Mahomes. He's like
going from driving a Toyota Prius on the four or
five Freeway in Los Angeles and rush hour traffic to
driving a Maserati okay, on the audubon that that's the
difference there. It's a big difference. Now that said, I

(37:25):
expect this to be a nip and tuck game. You're
getting almost ten points. What a gift from the bookmakers,
getting almost ten points. So yet again I find myself
on the side of the underdog in this game. At
Arrowhead Stadium, the house that Bob Fesco built, The Great
Morning Man at six ten Sports in Kansas City are
home for this show on the radio, the radio version.

(37:47):
So I'm gonna take the Chiefs twenty eight Texans twenty
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the ad Council. Well, that's a big number to put down,
guess gun nine and a half for the penny. That's
a lot of points there. That's actually there's a lot
wrong with that. A lot wrong, is not Penny likes
Andy Reid as opposed to Bill O'Brien likes Mahomes way
better than Deshaun Watson. Why I like Mahomes better than
DeShawn Watson too. I like Andy Reid more than Bill O'Brien.

(39:57):
I agree with all of that, but I still believe
in the theory that most games are decided by a
touchdown or less between competitive teams that are trying to
win the game, and so that that that's the reason. There.
You take the underdog there and you enjoy and ad
bask in the afterglow of victory. Didn't you just give

(40:17):
us about nine minutes worth the crap on this game? Yeah?
And I'm taking them, taking the Chiefs to win in
the Texas to cover. All Right, it wasn't crap. Let
the penny talk. Go ahead talk, I'm gonna go. I'm
turn my mincuf, go ahead talk. A little sprinkle on this.
Want to put a little icing on top, a little cherry.
You didn't say anything about the environment either. I mean,

(40:39):
don't you love Arrowhead Stadium? Don't you just love it?
You want me to talk now, Well, yeah, I'm asking
you a question. Well, I've been to Aarrohood stadium. I've
never been to a game at Arrowhood sad. Well, I've
been to the sports complex. I was at a Royals game.
The environment there is amazing at the Royal Stadium day
or night game for the Royals. Yeah, it was a

(41:02):
day game. It was oppressively hot. It was the Royals
playing the Cleveland Indians. But fortunately my seats were under
the overhang so it wasn't as bad. But the humidity, oh,
my god, oppressively hot. It was. You know how humid
it gets in Kansas City and like in August. My god, man. No,
I've only been there for December games, two Bronco Chiefs

(41:23):
games Sunday night football and both of them and it
was freezing, freezing, freezing. Any other humble brags you'd like
to throw out there, No, I mean I've been in Arrowhead.
I mean I haven't had chicken fingers named after me,
but at least I support their team. I think you
missed somebody on your victory lap over there. I think
you missed someone. You might want to go over there
and slap their hand high five. It's for the other podcast.

(41:44):
Oh that's right, that's for the other podcast where everyone
hates you. They put up with you on this podcast,
but on the other podcast, all the emails I get,
How can you allow this guy to work with you?
It's you know, it's a bridge to nowhere? What are
you doing? You know, going on and on. He's an albatross,
He's deadweight. You know. Yeah, you think I'd probably drive

(42:04):
some of these people to psychiatric help, but the reality
is they're actually coming from psychiatric help. To listen, here
we go, Here we go, really with your arms open, trying.
You are someone that wants to be loved, right, you
want these people to love you, and that's a great
strategy by you. No, I mean no, that's that's fine.
Moving not even on my radar, Ben Mallory. Can I

(42:25):
move on now? Yeah, yes, you can, please move on,
move along. I know you're a bottomless pit of imbecilic incompetence,
but I must move on. I'm just happy that you're
awake right now, functioning somewhat upright. It's good. I don't know.
I'm actually sleeping while I'm doing this. I don't know
if I can tell you have you know corporatey hackety
hacks that come in and redo your studio, Well again

(42:49):
we will. We talked about this on the other podcast,
but this is the maiden voyage of the new studio,
and I think it sounds freaking great. I those engineers
at iHeartMedia, God love them. They did a wonderful job
the wiring that went into this. We had a couple
of glitches that we had to work out, and it

(43:10):
sounds wonderful. I was very nervous. I'll explain you know
again in the other podcast. I had a longer extended
dance remix rather than the radio edit. But yeah, I'm excited,
and so far, so good. It hasn't dropped one time.
We're good. Everything's wonderful. Hallelujah. Yeah, your voice is as
good as it'll get. So let's go. The voice sounds wonderful.

(43:31):
It's all right, it's not that good. Well it's not.
It's not the voice is that good because of my
situation here involving sleep. Fuck has nothing to do with
the microphone, So your voice is impacted by the amount
of sleep or lack there of it. You get. Yes,
that's how it happened. What a fucking baby. Oh that's reality. Listen.

(43:51):
We got two more games to go, Well, we have
one more NFL game to go, and then we don't
have time. I guess we can't do the college. We
have two games. I said, So you're listening is obviously
impaired by your lack of sleep. So let's well, I
work in talk radio. I don't work in listen radio.
They don't pay me to listen. They pay me to talk.
It's called active listening. Ben Mallary, No, no, it's talk radio.

(44:13):
I talk you listens. Taught that in the class before
I was taking my glamour shots, and so I heard
about that. Yeah, my my wife said, hey, hey, guess guy,
he's got the glamour shots. I said, really, when's he
having the big announcement? When's he having the big announcement?
There's plenty of those. Yeah, you're gonna. Okay, now those

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going right up on grinder? Or are you waiting? I mean,
I don't know. I mean, do you wait to put
those up? I mean to see idiot? Okay, all right,
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and five As I said in Green Bay, Well maybe
I didn't say twelve and five from the NFC West
with the worst PR department in the entire NFL. The

(47:04):
Seattle's Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers from the NFC
North thirteen and three. It's on Fox. You better watch.
This game will kick off at six forty Eastern five
forty local time at Lambeau three forty Pacific. And if
you're in Hawaii, figure it out for yourself. And if
you're in Australia or England, you got to figure that out.

(47:26):
Joe Buck, Buckety Buck, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. We'll
have the call on Fox. This is the only Fox
game this week. And the Packers opened a three and
a half point favorite in this game, and they are
now favored by four. The current number is four. Where

(47:48):
is the money. There's a slight lean to the road team,
the Seattle Seahawks that that four is a big number
because if you can get over three, anything over three,
you like that. You like that a lot. Now the weather.
Remember last week after the Seahawks playoff game, Russell Wilson,
who played college football briefly at Wisconsin, said, Oh, I

(48:11):
know it's gonna be snowing. Well, spoiler alert, No snow
is forecast at least at the start of the game,
but it is gonna be frigid. It's the frozen tundra
after all, and the Seahawks will leave their hotel in Appleton, Wisconsin,
where my brother lives, and then drive over to Green Bay.
It'll be cloudy and twenty one degrees at kickoff at

(48:31):
Lommo Field in green Bay, Wisconsin. Now the pick. I'm
taking my guys in Seattle, the mallar Man March Crew,
and I'm gonna take the Seahawks here plus up four points.
And I tried to find a way to pick green Bay.
I couldn't do it. Green Bay, to me, is very

(48:53):
fortunate to be hosting this game. When I watched them play,
and I watched them play several games because football establishment
loves to put Aaron Rodgers on TV. I was unimpressed
with the Packers this year, and so how can you
be unimpressed? They're thirteen three, schmuck. Listen. They look to
me more like a ten and six team than a
thirteen and three team? Am I wrong on that? We'll

(49:14):
find out the Packers could come out here and win
this game. Going away, I saw a lot of bland, lackluster,
rather ordinary football, mainly from Aaron Rodgers. But there's nothing
that gives me the wow factor about Green Bay. The names,
many of them sound good. The performance is not, especially

(49:36):
for Aaron Rodgers, has not been breathtaking. So is he
gonna step up in the playoffs? And Matt Lafleur makes
his postseason coaching debut for Green Bay. Lambeau Field at
one point when I was younger, was seen as a
house of horrors where road teams never left with a win.

(49:57):
But the intimidation factor is not going to be there
against Seattle and really has gone away. I would say
in the last decade. I recall the Packers it was
under Mike McCarthy losing several playoff games at home. These
teams are very close. It's it's one of these things
where you're splitting the hairs. Now Seattle also does not

(50:19):
have the wow factor. They don't. I mean, let's be honest,
you about the Seattle Seahawks in their situation. Uh, they
lost it to the UPA Loopa. Do you know what,
guest gone? They lost to the UPA Loopa at home lately?
Year did that stupid fucking ran on Monday when you
came back from vacation. I'd prefer that you wasn't vacation.
I'd prefer that you address him as NFL Rookie of

(50:40):
the Year Kyler Murray addressed him and have some respect
behind it, please. I fell apart at the end of
the year. The NFL figured him out. Yeah, alligator arms Murray.
He sucked the last five games of the year. He
led the Cardinals to a victory at Seattle a couple
of weeks ago. So the last five weeks of the
year that was embar say rassing. But but Seattle, you

(51:03):
got Pete Carroll, who's living a charmed life as well
to still be alive. They had a fantastic gift of
good fortune from the football gods there. When Carson Wentz
did what Carson Wentz does and got hurt in the
first quarter compliments of Jadevan Clowney and his hit, which
should I don't think it was anything horrible. I know

(51:25):
the media in Philadelphia a bunch of dopes there, fanboys
in the media like, oh, this is terrible. Clowney should
be thrown in jail. I'm just stopped. So essentially, what
I'm saying is the Seahawks, even though they didn't have
to buy, they had to play about fifteen minutes. Carson
Wentz got hurt. I think at the nine minute Mark
and for the rest of that game, you had Josh McCown,

(51:46):
a high school football coach. Moonlighting is a backup NFL
quarterback who was playing so against common opponents. The Seattle
Seahawks were five and one, the Packers were three and two.
I expect this to be a back in type of game.
The Seahawks, while they don't have the wow factor that
they haven't overly impressed me. I DK Metcalf was a

(52:08):
man among boys. He was doing the monster mash at
wide receiver last week. You have to like to add
and Russell Wilson played better as the game went on.
I think he had three hundred and seventy yards passing
as the game concluded there against that Philadelphia defense. But
I like Russell Wilson more than I like Aaron Rodgers.
And Seattle again, another one of these games is gonna

(52:30):
be like, how did they win that game? You're gonna
be like, I mean, dk Metcalf will make a play
or something like that, people, how did they win? I mean,
they didn't play all that well, but it's been that
way all year. And you know, Seattle's twelve and five
gives the playoff win. Seahawks twenty six Packers twenty three.

(52:51):
Typical of you to grab ankles, Penny is going with
the Green Bay Packers. What are you talking about. I
should tack against Seattle because of what happened at Century
Linked Field. I should pick against them every time. And
it's called grabbed ankles because as opposed to pick you
wouldn't know about that. According to those those photos I
saw there, Yes, I watch you week seventeen with those

(53:12):
photos outside the stadium as a oh yeah, that was great.
We were channing your name there. We're trying to get
people to Seahawk fans to listen to you when you
get denied credentials of a week seventeen primetime affair. I
had a great time. That was one of the most
fun days I've had weekends I've had and in many
many years by my top five weekends. I had a
great time meeting the fans of the show. And you

(53:34):
have no fans, so you don't have to worry about
doing those kinds of things. But I had a wonderful time.
Was great. That says a lot about your weekend. I
almost got a photo with the Seahawks mascot. I think
it was it was either Boom or Blitz one of them.
But I almost got a photo with the bird, the
green bird mask gut, but I missed it. That would
have been fun. Great, That's just great. I wish I

(53:54):
could take three weeks worth the vacation to have someone
fly me up to the Pacific Northwest, all expenses paid.
It wasn't all expensive days that number one stadium, number two.
Very generous offer was made and I chose not to
turn it down. You're supposed to be a national media
host and you get rejected from going to a game
with media. Yes, that is amazing. All right. I bought

(54:16):
a food of the doll so the Seahawks PR department
they'll get there's in the end. Is that one of
the most embarrassing things that's ever happening in your career? No,
actually working with you, he's more embarrassing th Seahawks PR department.
Every every day I have to go into confessional and say,
what have my name plays? Help me? You're not even Catholic.
I know. That's what makes it even more interesting that
I'm not even Catholic. And they the priests are very

(54:37):
kind to me and they say, okay, yeah, tell me
what's wrong. Okay, there you go Packers, our father, our
father who art in heaven. There you go, Ill would
be the name. Keep going, keep going, No, I think
we need a hail married out of Are we done? Oh?
We have the college game, right, college ball? Yes we do,
all right, a very special treat. The final college football

(54:57):
game of last year is being played. I believe in
what are we in July now of twenty twenty? Yeah,
seems like it's so. The college Football Playoff Championship game
taking place the Clemson Tigers, the number three seed in
this fugazy football playoff at fourteen or oh versus the
number one seed Louisiana State University at fourteen and otherwise

(55:23):
known by their gangster name, as Looney would say, LSU.
Now the line on this game. It's an all Tiger matchup.
LSU opened a six point favorite. Wait wait, wait, wait,
you can't even set the table rent for this game?
What are you? What are you talking about? Ball games?
On ABC? Chris Fowler? And oh who cares about that?

(55:47):
You're such a fanboy of broadcasters. It is somebody you're
gonna serve us dinner. You might as well bring out
the instruments with the two right now. Nobody killer were
a glass some wine? No nobody killed. Give us this,
come on, ben all right, so still fucking lazy now
wow twenty twenty lethargic Maller. I guess which your finger
I'm holding up? Number one? Yeah, you are number one.

(56:10):
So LSU I mentioned they opened up as the favorite
lines at five and a half right now, and most
of the public money is on Louisiana State. Now the
weather will be light rain seventy and one degrees at kickoff,
but that's outside, that's the fans coming into the game
will be in a light rain in Louisiana because the
game is being played at the Mercedes Benz Superdome in

(56:35):
no Lands. Now, LSU is the side here. We can't
say Tigers because both teams are Tigers, so I guarantee
a Tiger team will win the game. But I love
ed Orgeron coach O the Cajun Fred Flintstone, and I
admit that I am openly cheering for Louisiana State. I
have no connection to Louisiana, have some friends that live there,

(56:57):
but I have no real connection to Louisia, and other
than a couple of people, I know that live in
the state. But every time I watch LSU win a game,
you know what I do. Let me tell you what
I do. I flashed back to a conversation I had
with a very powerful University of Southern California booster. Do
you know what that booster told me when ed Orgeron
was the interim coach at USC. Do you know what

(57:19):
that person told me? It's gag on. This guy is
not a good coach. No, didn't say it was not
a good coach. Said he's a good coach. He's a
competent coach, and the players love him. But he doesn't
look and sound like the USC coach is supposed to
look and sound, so we can't hire. How about that

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he doesn't he doesn't look and sound. And the other thing.
I ran into one of these boosters at the at
the Laker Clipper game on Christmas, and one of the
boosters was there and fat cat Christmas Day, nice seats,
the Laker game, the whole thing. And he again, even
though LSU at that time was in the playoff, we
didn't know they're gonna win or not, he said, we

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still made the right call. Enjoy Clay fucking health in USC.
He looks and sounds like the USC football coach, except
the coaching part is a problem. Yes, who is the
fat cat? Yeah, that's a Booster. I don't need to
say that. You wouldn't even know the name anyway. You
don't know Boosters. I'm pretty well connected to the family.
You are not connected. Please all right? Now. The real

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reason to like Louisiana's version of the Tigers here the
Joe Burrows show. Now he has a chance, Joe Burrow
to become the sixteen Heisman Trophy winner to also win
the National Championship. This has become common practice in the
last decade. We have had Cam Newton, Jamis Winston, and

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Derrick Henry all win the Heisman and win the National
Championship the same year. So it's not like it's impossible
to do. It's happened a lot over recent years. And
in terms of this game, I the fairy tale finish
for Burrow. I also believe that LSU is better in

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other areas the LSU defense. Quietly, if you've watched them
play as the year it went on there, they have
put it together over the last month or so that
they've been playing football, and this is essentially a home
game here, not a neutral psyche game. The game is
being played in New Orleans, which is what eighty miles

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away from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It's an hour and twenty
minute drive with no traffic for the people of Baton
Rouge to go hang out in New Orleans. They do
it all the time. Now. Secondly, Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
Now this is the problem taking LSU as a five
and a half point favorite. This guy Lawrence is good.

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He's good. He's not some unsavory quarterback, some outlaw from
the dark web. This guy is legit and he can
be the villain here. He can spoil the party. He
can be the bad guy and lead Clemson to a
win with an amazing performance. But the boys from South

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Carolina are gonna have trouble defensively containing all those playmakers
on the LSU side. Good luck to Brent Venables, who
I believe is the highest paid assistant in college football
and the weapons. Now this running back for LSU, this
little guy, Clyde Edwards Elaire, who should I hope the

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Rams draft this guy. They got a trade up probably
to get him. But Clyde Edwards Elaire do you see
against Alabama when he had that amazing leap. He's built
like dered spoils. He's five eight and he is faster
than a speeding bullet. I believe he's more powerful than
a locomotive, and he's able to leap tall buildings in

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a single bound, considering what he did to Nick Salmon
in Alabama. So, the diminutive running back who should have
a very long career, if you can stay healthy in
the NFL against that defense, you have the ability a
little back with the quarterback Joe Burrow, toss in Justin
Jefferson who's a stud at receiver. But wait, there's more. Now,

(01:01:16):
in a positive note, I did try to find a
positive thing for Clemson, And if you believe in trends,
then this looks pretty good. Dabbo Sweeney. If you look
at the history here, of the five title games in
the college Football Playoff era, the Vegas favorite has only
won twice and has never covered the spread. Now does

(01:01:37):
that trend continue here? I say? Now, I say now,
I'm gonna take the LSU Bengal Tigers thirty eight, Clemson's
version of the Tigers thirty and the penny picks to
cap it off. The penny is going with the Clemson Tigers. Yeah,

(01:01:59):
well that's an interst possible. Pick you a hat Trevor
Lawrence twenty five and zero as a starting quarterback. Yeah
well it doesn't last forever. He will feel the agony
of defeat. To mention that in all your prep doesn't matter.
You're piling. It's funny, but by what stockpiling? What you say,
big boy? What might what your paper? Stockpiling? Paper stock?

(01:02:21):
I have no paper here? Well that's I have my
laptop open, but I have no paper. Great way for
you to go out with the college. I know a
print paper at the Mallar Mansion because it's not free here.
But at work, I print up everything at work, I
know because they're part of the illuminati and they can
afford it, right, No, yeah, no, it's true, the New
World Order. I gotta know where the money is so

(01:02:41):
I can use their paper. Well that's true. Yeah, no,
wonder you're a globalist about that? All right? You done?
Are you done? You're part of the cabal? Right, you
got to go back to a meeting or something like that.
I wish. Yeah, all right, well there it is now
amazingly with only five games this podcast. The length of

(01:03:01):
this podcast is rather shockingly long. Yeah, I wonder why,
wonderfucking why? Well, because you would not shut up and
you told me, you said, when I was trying to
hurry through this and I was gonna get this done
in about twenty minutes, you were like, no, no, no, on,
on on on, that's slow slow. So I slowed down

(01:03:23):
and trapdoor open up and we ended up taking forever
to do this. Wow. Day, We have a great weekend.
Enjoy the games. I hope you win a lot of money.
If you win a lot of money, remember us. If
you lose a lot of money, pretend you didn't listen
to this. Okay, yes, all right, we'll catch you next
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