February 11, 2023 • 37 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon are in Las Vegas from the Wynn Resort & Casino for the final show before the Big Game! The guys give you a couple prop bets you can take home to the bank for the big game, and Todd Fuhrman - Long Time Vegas Insider and Host of Bet the Board Podcast joins the guys!
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way tire buying should be Live. Last night's night for
the Blue Wire Studios here at the Wind Hotel and
Casino in Las Vegas. Mike Harmon, you are the official.
You remember seeing this, um uh, I think it's behind
the music on Metallica where they were talking about the
role that all the people playing the band and and
Kirk Hammock was the creative one, and and Laura's Ulrick
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was the businessman and and James Headfield was the brains
and Jason new Stond was the connection to the fans.
And I'm seeing that tonight here on the show. You
are definitely the connection to the fans because we'll have
everything else too. I mean, I am a man for
all of all power. Every woman who has walked by
the studio you have wave to and given a big heart.
You are we not trying to increase the demographic? Are
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we not trying to get more women to listen to
the show? How are you right? So waving and trying
to make a connection. You make a connection. However you
make a connection. We got guys wandering the hall and
men women. We want people all ages come on in
parties over here. I'll tell you, uh so again you
are you the ever the never ending connection to the
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fans is waving to. But if we could keep individually
to again, it's an untapped resource of sports radio. What
I always say, we want to get more women listening
to radio. And if I could be the guy to
help make that happen, you know what, I'll be the
guy that that does that extra work. Listen. Let me
tell you all Jason Smith wants to do is talk
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sports tell jokes, and drink diet coke. I'm I'm much
deeper than that. I'm a I'm a renaissance fan. You
know the fact that that rolled off your tongue. You
have really reconciled to yourself that those really are the
three things that you did with my strengths. I know
my strikes, I know talk sports, I'm funny, and I
drink diet coke. That's what it is. Mine goes a
little bit deeper. Well, you are wearing an O. You're
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wearing blue pants with red hearts on their fantastic pants.
See I think look, okay, okay. First of all, one,
they would be a little bit more fantastic if they
were pajamas, because then I'm like, okay, that's pretty cool.
I mean more if they you know, I don't have
a pair of pajamas to slide into you when it's
time to slide over, baby and get a little more comfortable.
There's there's pants that you wear. A man's home is
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his castle. There's there's pants you wear that castle like
you don't care. Then there's pants you wear in public.
How about every place is my damn castle? All right?
There's just certain you know, pants you wear in public
and pants. Okay, I am the ruler of I'm just
throwing that out there. I'm just throwing that out there.
My other thought today was you know you had that
is that if we wind up this is completely off
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topic for a second, if we wind up getting invaded
by big balloons, I think we'd win. I don't think
the big balloons would get to us and be able
to catch us by surprise. I think if we got
invaded by big balloons, we'd be able to win that well.
I think we've got enough drones that we can send up.
And let's face it, people at concerts, whenever there's a balloon,
they want a piece of it. So when I get
the you're gonna pop it, yep, yep. If you got kids,
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there's always the one kid in the crowd at a
birthday party. He decides he doesn't like the fact that
everybody else has a balloon. He pops him same thing. Here,
did you try to invade via balloon? You're you're gonna
you're gonna face a bunch of cat and as everydey
he's ready to shoot air. I can take you that out.
I can read for that arrowy. Hey, Hawkeye is on
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the man. He's he's gonna be ready soon. You you
walk out of this door, you're an avenger. I will,
I will say it's this, you know this story about
you know we should fighter jets shot down another object
over the United States waters near Alaska. Is that this
is the best and worst of Twitter, because like the
worst of Twitter is we're gonna wind up being at war.
It's this, It's like, oh my goodness, what is wrong
with people? And the other half of Twitter is here's
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video of the object and people super imposed the Bob's
Big Boy uh the air here and it has the
guy talking about it. Whether it's on CNN or Fox
is and here we're gonna show you and you just
it's super imposed the Bob's Big Boy in the box.
Next Twitter, Well, I go over it's about it's it
really is a weird time. Yeah, it's hey. Every day
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I think what it's time to be alive? Every single
day I think, I mean, look, as we've talked about,
we've been doing this show. Now we're in our tent here.
Every night there's a story, there's an angle, there's a
game that you just gotta shrug and go goodness seen
that coming. Uh And now with the balloons randomly showing up, No,
I didn't see that on my Bengo card either, t J.
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You have to wonder if these balloons stories are just
a lot of hot air, t J. Frostberg is gonna
stab you with a plastic fork. It's better for us
because it was red balloons. This just two balloons in
the last couple of weeks. Not to everyone's a civil hero.
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Everyone's a Captain Kirk t J. With orders to identify, clarify,
and classify. We're really going to go through the entire
lyric balloon super scurry, call the troops out in a hurry.
This is what we're waiting for. This is it, boys,
this is what This would be a reason for Tom
Jackson to walk away from that set. DJ. I'm I'm
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I'm put his headset down. What's that means? I will
fight no more forever? I'm kicking it to you for
an answer. You're good. You're just reciting ninety nine balloons.
They're just doing it all right. So with the Super
Bowl on Sunday, right, we've given our our odds, we've
given our picks, we've given it our best bets. How
about a couple of bold predictions. Oh, I gotta love
some I have. I have one on the field and
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one off the field. Bowl catch. Okay, on the field first, Yeah,
the Chiefs will score on a trick play. You are
going to see the Chiefs try to find a way
to juice a little bit of offense in this game,
because I like I've told you, I don't see a
lot of points. I don't see it being an offensive
You like, then, I like both defenses being able to
cause problems for the other teams. You have Hurts his shoulder,
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you have Mahomes his ankle. Uh. The defensive lines are
all really talented. The Eagles roster is good top to bottom.
I don't see a lot of offense. You could see
a little bit when the Chiefs need to, they get
to a little bit of that. Hey, let's bring back
a jet sweep, let's run something a little bit counter.
But they will score a touchdown on a trick play.
And I don't mean, oh they're gonna They're gonna run
a play where they hand it to Canary as Tony
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and he runs like a trick play where it's a
throwback to Mahomes or a flee flicker, some kind of
play they will pull out of the depths of the
playbook to juice the offense. And that's how the Chiefs
get in the end zone one of their two or
three touchdowns on the day, because again about picturing low scoring,
it's two or three touchdowns at the most, one of
their touchdowns on a trick play. Given the old razzle dazzle,
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that's what you're looking for here, whether it's Caadarius Tony,
whether it's a little Jerick McKinnon who used to play
quarterback as a high school or do we know that
Andy Reid, Andy Reid? Remember, I mean that if that
doesn't lead all coverage on Fox, we failed. I can't
make that a Bowl prediction because you know we're gonna
see it. You know we're gonna If you don't see it,
at least Andy Reid, he's six nine and he's twelve
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years old. Looking at him back then he was Andrew read. Yeah,
that was it was a terrifying kind of moment. That's
what's what If there was ever a moment where you recognize,
you know what, Sometimes the maturation prod process really does
have a lot of wild cards to it? What was
There's Andrew Reid was that story last week? Like, didn't
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didn't somebody get to lose a job because they were
twenty three years old and they dressed up as a
player on the oh yeah high school? Yeah basketball? Right,
Like that's how you see Andy Reid in that famous
video of him. It's like, this guy's like twenty three.
You coach your daughter's teams? How many times have you
seen someone's like oh yeah, oh, yoh, plenty? Come on,
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they're they're under fourteen. There's a couple of there's a
couple of teams where I want to say, come on, man,
really she drove to the game. All right, let's let's
just say I saw guy's gotta go team for crying out.
Come on, you see old coach? Hey, I want to
I want to play as a JD game. That's what
Andy Reid looks like in the past Putton kick vide.
He really is one of the more entertaining videos that
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you ever see. I do I do like that bold prediction.
I'm looking at it from the aspect of the Chiefs
and what they're trying to accomplish on the defensive side,
and this and This is where it gets crazy, is
you look king at trying to stall that run game
but really selling out early, and that's it. Herts just
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gonna have a player too in the first quarter where
it's gonna be like, you know, if you've just gotten
rid of the ball. Damante Smith was doing jumping Jack's
down here the way because they all out, but he
doesn't see it because he's too busy trying to evade
a ferocious rush. What what kind of ferocious? Ferocious for?
It's a stupid tooth. Like every once in a while
I have this. It just the tooth looks good though,
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and look it looks good. It almost looks like it's
your regular tooth now. But every once in a while
you do still have that list what happened? That comes
in it happens. Now here's my other Bowl prediction. Now
I'm going off the field because one of the ancillary
topics always a big one is you know the super
Bowl commercials. Oh yeah, I guarantee you the super Bowl
commercial everybody's gonna be talking about. The one that's the
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best one is going to be the breaking bad commercial
with the what what is it? The fun der Rito's
what is it? The funner popcorners. Popcorners I've seen I've
actually seen the commercial. It's hilarious and it's it's in tune.
What's funny is it's not a new product, right, It's
been a lot of like I remember what's on was
a shark tank or many many years ago. But it's
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it's kind of as it's getting a little bit of
run and people are anticipating this commercial. It's almost like
it's a new procect. No, And actually popcorners is pretty good.
It's it's like a combination of a derrito that's with
a little with like air popcorn on it. Yeah, it's
got a little bit of weight to it. Yeah, it's
almost like when you get those are you can throw
it at the guy at the other end of the
couch like yeah, because it's because it's got three points
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on it, you can hit him, hit him with it.
You're not just a growing stars. It's not one of
those it's not one of those circle air popcorn whether
you just flip in the air like it's a very
light coin. No, this is where you can throw it.
But I've had the popcorners are pretty you gotta have
a little way to it. But I've seen the commercial
and it's amazing. No, it's commercials. That's gonna be the
one everybody's talking about. Under Chris Stapleton can get a
little slow and get into his guitar a bit. I
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think it was two minutes two seconds for the national
anthem to oh to oh two. That's what I thought.
That's really long. That's really wow oh two is I
would I would take the under on that. That's really long,
unless he really does a solo like we've never seen
that where someone just takes it in the middle and
goes down arrown. Now now, now it would be pretty cool.
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The over under is actually one fifty nine. Now it's
actually gone down. It's gone down, okay, But like if
he made fifty nine, it's still seems pretty lengthy now
right it is. It is long, But if he goes
into like if he does that soul and he like
breaks into like Master of Puppets, but he's like a
prince while my guitar gently we eat the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame that comes up where everybody just
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got out of the way and he just played for it,
and it's like, do we just keep doing this? Didn't
and the home and if the elevator tries to break
it down, go crazy, punch high for dune. Every's back
and forth going, I don't care about the du land
them anymore, Chris table that doing. Let's go crazy now that.
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Do you want to talk about be securing your place
in history? Oh yeah, yeah, give me like a I
started the national anthem, but then I decided to do
a homage to Prince or just and then I came back. Yeah.
Or you do like multiple songs like you do like
a guitar solo, three minutes of like the best of
some band, like here comes all like ten seconds of
slashes guitar solos from all the great Guns and Roses
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song and would be like the video here, all of
a sudden he's in a desert, or he's on the
ocean or the rep parts we do need do do
do needed? I mean that would be pretty cool. You
would be let you'd never get asked back, but Mike,
you'd be the odds you're getting asked back anyway. I mean, yeah, right,
I mean that's one of those if you were ever
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gonna go rogue, I mean, you're not getting asked back. Yeah,
but it could be say to make sure you say asked,
you didn't did no. It didn't sound like you said
that just because your mind's in Vegas and starting to
creep George the night hours. But aren't. But don't you
treat the this like as an audition to say, Hey, someday, Hey,
trust me, someday I can play the halftime. Now give
me that promotion you come in. It's a gateway that
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the the the the national Antist, the Pledge of Allegiance.
I'm gonna lead you all of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Then that's the lanthem. Is a gateway to do it halftime. Yeah,
I might be able to do it. Might be able
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has met the Board podcast. You can see him on CBS.
So this week, Hey, we're coming to Vegas. Man, We're
gonna hang out. We get to see you. Todd Ferman
joins us from the super Bowl in Arizona. This is
life and a funny, funny joke. Todd, what's happening, buddy?
And you know what, gentlemen, I'd much rather be with
you guys in Las Vegas that I'd rather be out
here at Phoenix kind of going through some of the
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responsibilities and such, but have to make sure I show
my face every now and again. I'm just throwed they
let the two of you out of your cage. Well look,
not only am I glad about that, I guarantee you
fast any single person. Would you rather be in Arizona
doing the Super Bowl shows from there or be in Vegas?
They say, well, I want to be in Vegas. But
Jason and Harmon, yeah, I didn't want to be here.
Very happy to be here, you know what. That's the
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reality of it. I'm wanting a hundred there that I
would rather be with you guys than or I'll have
to meet my responsibilities for the next couple of days
at Hants Park at the NFL Fan Experience, and you
know what, I'll be close to the game on Sunday,
but we'll be doing live broadcast for the parking lot.
They won't let me set foot in the stadium. It
sounds like something Jason would have predicted for me. He's
been calling for my arrest all week Todd leading up
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to this, as he's the guy walking around in the
gray sweatpants. But we'll leave that to the side for
now as we get ready for this game. A lot
about the NBA trade deadline and Lebron James or whatever else.
So we're actually finally back to the Super Bowl. Where
where have we seen any action over the course of
the week, any inside dope about injuries, um perhaps affecting
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this game. You know nothing in the injury front. When
you look at the way both these teams to field
up in the city has some concerns coming into the
game about what they'd be able to get from the
likes of Darius Tony and Juju Smith Schuster Lagarius Need
the other player that we were all keeping tabs on.
It all seem to be training in the right direction. Now.
If they're all a percent effective, that remains to be seen.
But all teams pretty much as healthy as you can
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expect to be at this point in the season. The
one exception, of course, no Mek Hardman out there for
the Chiefs, and as a result, some books starting to
see a little bit more Chief's money come in one
and a half turning into ones at some shops. The
total pretty much holding steady at fifty one. And I've
talked to guys that I respect their opinions immenseally that
find themselves on both sides of the aisle and making
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convincing cases for both teams in this game. You know
the thing is, it seems like the the way it's
gone is right away, the Eagles got all the attention,
and the Eagles were the favorites, and everybody liked the Eagles,
and then slowly in the last two weeks for some reason,
it's just gone to the point where now I feel
like either the Chiefs are the underdogs. You've seen the
line come down. It's like this is where everybody's at
right No, now the Chiefs are gonna take this game.
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It's gone from all is completely one team to now
now you see this big push for the Chiefs in
the last week or so. It's definitely been part of
the case. I think a lot of folks see Patrick
Mahomes as an underdog and realize, you know what, we
want to have the superior talent at the most important position,
not just in football, but maybe any single sport out there.
But at the same time, Philadelphia comes in with the
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better roster. I mean, they're more accounted one to fifty
three than what Kansas City can match them with. So
I think it makes for a fascinating handicap, not just
for what we're gonna see unfold on Sunday. But how
teams go about building their rosters going forward. I mean,
once you've identified your franchise quarterback, you can give him
a king's ransom. But if you don't have that guy,
you're better off having a cheap, affordable option on a
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rookie contract so you can overpay for skill position players
and other difference makers on both lines of scrimmage instead
of being stuck in perpetual purgatory, which as we know
in the NFL, better off finishing thirty second in the league,
drafting first overall, or having a chance to win the
Lombardi Trophy at least every couple of years. Curiosity, you
right as you talk about the rosters and the check
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boxes more towards the Eagles, But for two weeks we've
now had the discounting of their path to the Super
Bowl in terms of process, Todd, how does that weigh
out in the numbers? It definitely adds up. I mean,
you look at their strength of schedule by a lot
of metrics, you know, bottom three in the league. You
try and go through some of the list of marquee
quarterbacks so to speak, that they faced and when the
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Eagles have stepped up in class against the Dallas Cowboys
or even the Green Bay Packers on Sunday Night Football,
the defenses struggled im mentally when they have to face
elite weapons. I'm not gonna take anything away from Daniel
Jones and when he's been able to accomplish, but when
you run through a quarterback like Daniel Jones three times,
you run through a guy like Justin Fields, that doesn't
provide much of a vertical passing threat amongst others. There's
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a lot left to be desired. And I think so
much of Philadelphia's success has been predicated on their ability
to play with a lead because they have been so
dynamic in the first half and it allows them to
pin their ears back on the defensive side and get
after opposing quarterbacks and run the football with their talented
trio of acts. If that isn't the game plan and
Philly finds themselves in a four quarter fight, do they
have enough wherewithal Is there enough explosive big play potential
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in the passing game to really keep this Kansas City
offense and defense that's trending up the Bay? All right?
So I ask you this, Todd, we talked about our
picks earlier. Five set to you the m v P
of the Super Bowl. If it's not one of the quarterbacks,
is who who do you like? I think if you're
trying to make a case for Kansas City, the only
player that you're probably gonna want to find yourself with
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an m VP ticket on would be Patrick Mahomes. Philadelphia's
past a lot different when you're trying to figure out
what players can have an overall impact and give them
the opportunity to win the biggest game in the National
Football League this year. So for me, I look in
the backfield at Miles Sanders. I think he has a
chance to exceed his rushing total in the high fifties
or low sixties, depending on where you shop. If he's
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able to, you know, score once or twice, suddenly he
becomes a front runner right there alongside some of the
other difference makers. Because for Philadelphia, their success isn't correlated
directly to Jalen hurt Statline the same way it will
be for the Kansas City Chiefs, who need Patrick Mahomes
to be their best player. On Sunday, Todd, I'm sitting
with a packet of about thirty seven pages of prop
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bets in front of me. Uh, And I keep going
back to that total of fifty one, and the gut
tells me under. And for a lot of these props,
I've been starting to circle that as well. Uh is
history on my side is the defense is here with
a lot of love? Uh? Am I wrong? I am wrongheaded?
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How am I? How? How should I approach this going forward?
History is definitely on your side. As far as low
scoring games, We've seen four straight Super Bowls come in
under the total. If they game went under again on Sunday,
it would be the longest such such streak that we've
seen since the late sixties early seventies. The other trend
that betters have gravitated towards is the game starting extremely slow,
looking about no score in the first five and a
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half six minutes. However, I'm not of that same milk.
I actually bet the first half of her. I think
these two offenses can definitely make the opposing defenses feel uncomfortable.
And while I'm not sure, I'm running to the window
to bet the game over for the full total, at
the same time, I think both offenses do have passed
the success and it could be a little bit more
high flying than we've grown accustomed to and some of
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the recent installments, all right, Todd, Now away from that,
we're here in Vegas, and ostensibly the reason this week
is so I can convince Raiders and Raider fans and
the NFL that the Jets need Aaron Rodgers way more
than the Raiders do. And you know, I'm hoping to
push that narrative. Am I going to be successful at that? Well,
the Jets definitely need a quarterback, and that roster is
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clearly built so in now compared to the Raiders that
it doesn't matter if they get Aaron Rodgers they bring
back some of the Raider greats in the former Rich Gannon.
That team is not built to compete in the a
f C in the current landscape. So when you're looking
at the Raiders from top to bottom, maybe Rogers given
them a one year stop gap, but at the same time,
they'd be better served to look for a quarterback on
a cheaper deal that can keep the seat warm, try
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and drapt somebody inside the top ten and figure out
what this roster is going to look like over the
next couple of years. Whereas the Jets with the right
man under center suddenly become a very compelling value proposition
within the context of the A f C. Well, we
look at the overall numbers of dollars and cents flowing
in and the number of states now legalizing things todd
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what what kind of balloon are we looking at? I
used that term because we were just talking about balloons
all over the place. Uh, what kind of numbers in
terms of the handle overall do we do? We think
we see the ag IS thrown out numbers that they
will be about sixteen billion dollars wagered throughout the state.
I'm an absolutely massive number when you think about it
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in context, but in Nevada it's always been a two
million dollar threshold is what they aspire to. That would
break statewide records. If we're able to get to that
number this year. With the influx of profits like you
guys are looking at right in front of you in
play options and a variety of other ways, the space
has grown. So I think a realistic expectation is there.
The problem for this game is with a point spread
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this little in that one and a half to range,
that you lose a little bit of the bank handle
that you would normally accumulate on money line wagering, whereas
the lay it sets up. Now, people that want to
bet the favorite, they'll lay one and a half or
two with Philly. Those that want to bet Kansas City
will bet them on the money line. You don't get
nearly the same level of two way action on the
side that you would if the number was say four
and a half, five or somewhere in that range. You
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can fom on Twitter at Todd Ferman, that is at
Todd Ferman Todd as always, Buddy, appreciate your time and
any advice for us tonight our last night in Vegas
before we go back a harmon, I'm trying to get
him not arrested. What advice do you have for us?
I mean, I think you guys have to do everything
you can to go to Parasol up or Parasol down.
Make sure you take in the show on the lakes
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there at the win and go over and see my
boy Dug cast to data behind the sports to make
sure her hands off a couple of drink tickets, so
you guys get a couple of cocktails on Now, nicely, John,
that is well played. You also have a contest going
out on the Bet the Board podcast. You want to
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Thank you so much. I'll look forward to con up
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good chance I'll be there for that game. Boys, hopefully
don't take to get yourself invited back. All right, see
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Radio and the I Heart Radio app, Hot Route, Tie Shirt,
Hit It, whoa Johnson Twitter Game? Happy Friday? The Magic
(25:57):
Johnson Twitter Game. No more are obvious and vanilla tweeter
than Magic Johnson. We play the Magic Johnson Twitter Game.
I give you a tweet. Your job is simply to
discern whether it is a magic Johnson tweet or made
up by me playing as myself. Mike Harmon, Steve Disager,
Alex Titscher, Are you ready? Yeah, I'm shy. Let's go gad.
(26:19):
Let's see if Tisher can continue his big run. Yeah,
he's not defeated you. Just because he yells doesn't mean
he gets him all right. The l A Clippers had
a good day with their trades? Is that a magic
Johnson tweet? Clips with their trade? Is that a magic
(26:39):
Johnson tweet? No? No from Harmon, A no from the Sager? Uh,
I think they're right. I'm gonna say no to that
is a magic sin tweet. Yes, that is a magic
(26:59):
you what you're basic? Let your account. The New York
fans are going to love Josh Hart because he can
do a little bit of everything. Is that a magic
Johnson tweet? Your fans gonna love Josh Hart because he
can do a little bit of everything. Well, once upon
(27:22):
a time he was responsible for bringing him into the league.
So yes, yes, because if it happens, it props him up. Okay, yeah,
I'm with Steve here. That is not a tweet. Oay,
all right, that is a magic We've even did it up.
(27:44):
Let's go my hometown team. The Detroit Pistons are building
a nice young core with the addition of James Wiseman.
Is that a magic? Johnson tweet hometown team. The Detroit
Pistons are building a nice young core at the addition
of James Wiseman. Wiseman in the deal that might get canceled.
Now that's question, this is that it's not. Is this
(28:08):
the magic? Well then I'll say yes, he's clearly clueless
and didn't deserve a front office job in the first place.
So yeah, absolutely, all right, Okay, Steve de Sager off
the top room. Magic shows as a GM. Okay, I'm
gonna say I'll go yeah, okay, all right, uh did
(28:29):
he say my like he claimed the team my hometown? Yeah? Okay, alright, alright,
bare they take a good look around. That is a magic, baby,
let's go. The acquisitions of D'Angelo Russell, Malik Beasley, and
Mo Bamba will make the Lakers a playoff team? Is
(28:53):
that a magic? Say my Lakers are not. Acquisition of
D'Angelo Russell, Malik Beasley, and Mobile Amba will make the
Lakers a playoffs. So the tweet is actually going out
on a limb and saying they might finish tenth place. Yes, yes,
make them proclamations, magic written all over. Yeah, go for
(29:13):
it out on a limb there, whoa Okay, I'm gonna
say no. Yeah, he did not claim the team. There
is no mine. That is not his tweet. Okay, maybe
he now hates the Lakers. That is a magic game
sucks and no, he's tired. He said he has don't lead.
(29:35):
Congratulations to Patrick Mahomes for winning NFL m v P.
Please that magic Johnson tweet? Congratulations of Patrick Malmes for
winning NFL m v P. Yes, because it sounds like
it is. How many exclamation points? No? No, good question?
One exclamation point? What okay? You think? So? Okay? That
(30:01):
is a magic wow? Wow Wow. I'm back, You're back,
You're back. Jay Crowder is the right player to get
the Bucks back to the finals. Is that a magic
Johnson tweet? Doesn't he have to be on the court first?
Doesn't matter to Jay crowd is a right player to
(30:22):
help get the Bucks back to the NBA. It can't
be magic Johnson. This is a lot of tweeting. What's
been going on. Wow, he had some idle time as
opposed to other weeks. Hey, hey, when you're going port
to port on giant cruise ships. Yeah, you got other
things to consider. Man, that is true. That is true.
So what do you guys say? Yeah, the WiFi, that's
(30:44):
all he's got to consider. What did you say, Mike, Yeah, okay, Yeah,
you've warned me down? Sure, Mike. Would you say I'm
gonna go crawl into a corner, but I'm gonna say no,
hold on, that is I'm I'm gonna say, yes, a
(31:05):
magic let. So they were all magic Johnson tweets in
this game, every last one. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban
pulled off the second biggest trade acquiring Kyrie Irving. Is
that a magic Johnson. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban pulled off
the second biggest trade acquiring Kyrie Irving. This is after
(31:27):
Mo Bamba. Yeah, it was this after the Durant deal.
Or I'm telling you the tweet. You have to figure out.
If we don't know if it's Tuesday or Friday, it's it.
That's it. It's all just in the timeline. Does that
happen that the date of the magic. It's the Magic
Johnson Twitter game. Read again, please. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark
Cuban pulled off the second biggest trade acquiring Kyrie or yeah,
(31:49):
gosh um, yes, that is a match. Let's go. Yes,
they were all matching up. That's unbelievable. He loved everything.
I love. This have to be hurting after all that.
We didn't get that. I didn't even get he had.
(32:09):
He had nineties six hours, that's all. I didn't even
get to. Kevin Durant makes the Sun's legitimate championship. Context
kept to that one. That's a hot take. There's your
hot take tie shirt. He leave it looking for one
all night, getting cam Reddish. I mean, I didn't even
reddish trending Right now he's got eleven points. He's actually playing.
So there you go. The Magic Johnson Twitter game coming
(32:30):
up next. Uh, so far, nobody on the show has
gotten arrested in the time we've been here in Vegas,
but every encounter with a celebrity last night, one of
us was really really close. That's next right here from
the Blue Wire Studios here at the Window Telling Casino
in Vegas, Jason and Mike Fox. That is a magic
Johnson tweet. Be sure to catch live editions of The
(32:52):
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Wind Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, getting set for
the super Bowl. It's been a fun last couple of
days and so far no arrests. I expected Harmon to
(33:35):
be arrested by now, but it is early on a Friday,
so there is still time. However, the person who almost
got arrested last night's justin Frostburg up. It's I don't
know that it was necessary, almost almost in that the
person could have said I want that guy out and
something would happen. This guy's got no cloud to get Man,
(33:57):
do you want to make sure you keep celebrities happy?
So last night, after the show is over, we all
walked to the bar in the casino to get a drink.
Right it's eleven o'clock. Done with the show, and it's
it's Frostburg and Harmon and I and and a couple
other people here working on the show is helping us out.
So we go over to get a drink and we're
walking through the casino and walking by us is I mean,
(34:19):
I'm surprised because I'm always looking for celebrities, but I
didn't think we'd see anybody. But we saw Zach Woods
from the Office played Gabe in the Office right now.
He's an Avenue five, real funny dude. Um and and
you know, just the guy who's gonna live forever because
of the popularity of the Office. So I walked by
and I go, oh, my god, hey, dude, that was
that was Gabe from the Office. And Frostburg goes, oh,
I said, Gabe from the Office, that was him. He
(34:39):
goes it was and I said, yeah, like okay, So
Frostburg scene, now I know you've seen the Office I
told you. It was like, oh, that's pretty cool. Cool.
So we go into the bar, we sit down, and
the overlook is where we were, which I think has
some shining undertones and references to it that I don't get,
but but we'll get that. Look forward to going back
there later. So uh So we go to the overlook
and we sit down and and and we're having drinks,
(35:01):
just talking about the show and everything and having fun.
And he comes walking through, and so so Zach Woods
comes walking back through and he's gonna walk by us,
and Frostburg looks at me and goes, so, Gabe, right
from the office, And I go, yeah, yeah, that's in
there's right there, a little walk right there. He goes, okay.
So the guy comes walking by Frostburg. He's two feet
from him, and frost turns and goes, okay, what's up.
(35:22):
But I'm like, oh my god, and giving Zach Wood
so much credit for being a cool dude, because he
looks over and he gives Frostburg the nod, the smile,
little bit of an eye roll because you know, okay,
it was cool that he recognized that. But he called him,
but hey, Gabe, that means anybody call him Zach and
all know, hey, Gabe, how you doing. But so I
give him a lot of credit. He a little bit
of the iral, but he did give him a big
(35:43):
smile and nod like, hey, thanks for that. That was
pretty cool. But that was one moment where there's a
lot of of of actors and actions, actors and actresses
that if you do that, I could see them getting
upset and I could I can see him getting this
guy just call him, Hey, this guy out right now,
it's this guy, this guy drinking the chocolate Martini. Get
(36:07):
him out, he was Martini. Get him out, by the way,
get him out delicious. Yeah, I don't know that he's
got the cloud to get Frostberg and thrown out. It's
not like Frostberg went and accosted him. I know. Well, no,
he didn't have call. He might have been calling the
guy that was walking in the other direction, you're going
this sweaty, you go that way. The other guy might
have been Gabe. Hey, yeah, Gabe Caplin was walking in
back of him, and that's what it was. Now, we
(36:28):
teach him a lot and he said, hey, welcome back
game game. I've never heard that before. I want to
go play poker. Maybe he was Gabe Kapler who was
walking by and said, hey, what are you doing. You
can't drink that, you gotta eat something else that he
might give you some more nutrition to the games. Could
it be? Could be Gabe Davis, Hey boy, you should
be playing in the super Bowl. How about that? That
didn't more? Could have been Gabe Rivera, like you like
(36:48):
keep going, I'm almost out of games. I mean, that's
a good day, celebrities Captain he went from the office. No,
it's good well, I mean he had a good run poker, sure,
and the Battle of the Network Stars. But I think
Zach Woods has enough cloud to say, hey, this guy
(37:09):
because you want they want to be friendly to to celebrate.
I don't think he's got that juice that I think
Frostburg would take him. Frostberg definitely, are you kicking me out?
He would finish his drink real fast and look, okay,
now you get me out of You know, the real
fail here is super fan that you didn't invite him
over to have a drink with us. Hey, really, you
think you'd come over for four people? He doesn't even
(37:31):
know when you're wearing blue pants with red hearts on
him He's gonna come over and hang out. Yeah, I'm
kind of a big deal. I'd bring the party to
because that's how horror movies start. Cabin in the woods,
hang out. Whoa whoax, we had big stuff in the
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Casino in Las Vegas. Mike Harmon, you are the official.
You remember seeing this, um uh, I think it's behind
the music on Metallica where they were talking about the
role that all the people playing the band and and
Kirk Hammock was the creative one, and and Laura's Ulrick
(01:08):
was the businessman and and James Headfield was the brains
and Jason new Stond was the connection to the fans.
And I'm seeing that tonight here on the show. You
are definitely the connection to the fans because we'll have
everything else too. I mean, I am a man for
all of all power. Every woman who has walked by
the studio you have wave to and given a big heart.
You are we not trying to increase the demographic? Are
(01:30):
we not trying to get more women to listen to
the show? How are you right? So waving and trying
to make a connection. You make a connection. However you
make a connection. We got guys wandering the hall and
men women. We want people all ages come on in
parties over here. I'll tell you, uh so again you
are you the ever the never ending connection to the
(01:52):
fans is waving to. But if we could keep individually
to again, it's an untapped resource of sports radio. What
I always say, we want to get more women listening
to radio. And if I could be the guy to
help make that happen, you know what, I'll be the
guy that that does that extra work. Listen. Let me
tell you all Jason Smith wants to do is talk
(02:13):
sports tell jokes, and drink diet coke. I'm I'm much
deeper than that. I'm a I'm a renaissance fan. You
know the fact that that rolled off your tongue. You
have really reconciled to yourself that those really are the
three things that you did with my strengths. I know
my strikes, I know talk sports, I'm funny, and I
drink diet coke. That's what it is. Mine goes a
little bit deeper. Well, you are wearing an O. You're
(02:35):
wearing blue pants with red hearts on their fantastic pants.
See I think look, okay, okay. First of all, one,
they would be a little bit more fantastic if they
were pajamas, because then I'm like, okay, that's pretty cool.
I mean more if they you know, I don't have
a pair of pajamas to slide into you when it's
time to slide over, baby and get a little more comfortable.
There's there's pants that you wear. A man's home is
(02:58):
his castle. There's there's pants you wear that castle like
you don't care. Then there's pants you wear in public.
How about every place is my damn castle? All right?
There's just certain you know, pants you wear in public
and pants. Okay, I am the ruler of I'm just
throwing that out there. I'm just throwing that out there.
My other thought today was you know you had that
is that if we wind up this is completely off
(03:18):
topic for a second, if we wind up getting invaded
by big balloons, I think we'd win. I don't think
the big balloons would get to us and be able
to catch us by surprise. I think if we got
invaded by big balloons, we'd be able to win that well.
I think we've got enough drones that we can send up.
And let's face it, people at concerts, whenever there's a balloon,
they want a piece of it. So when I get
the you're gonna pop it, yep, yep. If you got kids,
(03:41):
there's always the one kid in the crowd at a
birthday party. He decides he doesn't like the fact that
everybody else has a balloon. He pops him same thing. Here,
did you try to invade via balloon? You're you're gonna
you're gonna face a bunch of cat and as everydey
he's ready to shoot air. I can take you that out.
I can read for that arrowy. Hey, Hawkeye is on
(04:03):
the man. He's he's gonna be ready soon. You you
walk out of this door, you're an avenger. I will,
I will say it's this, you know this story about
you know we should fighter jets shot down another object
over the United States waters near Alaska. Is that this
is the best and worst of Twitter, because like the
worst of Twitter is we're gonna wind up being at war.
It's this, It's like, oh my goodness, what is wrong
with people? And the other half of Twitter is here's
(04:25):
video of the object and people super imposed the Bob's
Big Boy uh the air here and it has the
guy talking about it. Whether it's on CNN or Fox
is and here we're gonna show you and you just
it's super imposed the Bob's Big Boy in the box.
Next Twitter, Well, I go over it's about it's it
really is a weird time. Yeah, it's hey. Every day
(04:47):
I think what it's time to be alive? Every single
day I think, I mean, look, as we've talked about,
we've been doing this show. Now we're in our tent here.
Every night there's a story, there's an angle, there's a
game that you just gotta shrug and go goodness seen
that coming. Uh And now with the balloons randomly showing up, No,
I didn't see that on my Bengo card either, t J.
(05:08):
You have to wonder if these balloons stories are just
a lot of hot air, t J. Frostberg is gonna
stab you with a plastic fork. It's better for us
because it was red balloons. This just two balloons in
the last couple of weeks. Not to everyone's a civil hero.
(05:30):
Everyone's a Captain Kirk t J. With orders to identify, clarify,
and classify. We're really going to go through the entire
lyric balloon super scurry, call the troops out in a hurry.
This is what we're waiting for. This is it, boys,
this is what This would be a reason for Tom
Jackson to walk away from that set. DJ. I'm I'm
(05:54):
I'm put his headset down. What's that means? I will
fight no more forever? I'm kicking it to you for
an answer. You're good. You're just reciting ninety nine balloons.
They're just doing it all right. So with the Super
Bowl on Sunday, right, we've given our our odds, we've
given our picks, we've given it our best bets. How
about a couple of bold predictions. Oh, I gotta love
some I have. I have one on the field and
(06:16):
one off the field. Bowl catch. Okay, on the field first, Yeah,
the Chiefs will score on a trick play. You are
going to see the Chiefs try to find a way
to juice a little bit of offense in this game,
because I like I've told you, I don't see a
lot of points. I don't see it being an offensive
You like, then, I like both defenses being able to
cause problems for the other teams. You have Hurts his shoulder,
(06:38):
you have Mahomes his ankle. Uh. The defensive lines are
all really talented. The Eagles roster is good top to bottom.
I don't see a lot of offense. You could see
a little bit when the Chiefs need to, they get
to a little bit of that. Hey, let's bring back
a jet sweep, let's run something a little bit counter.
But they will score a touchdown on a trick play.
And I don't mean, oh they're gonna They're gonna run
a play where they hand it to Canary as Tony
(07:00):
and he runs like a trick play where it's a
throwback to Mahomes or a flee flicker, some kind of
play they will pull out of the depths of the
playbook to juice the offense. And that's how the Chiefs
get in the end zone one of their two or
three touchdowns on the day, because again about picturing low scoring,
it's two or three touchdowns at the most, one of
their touchdowns on a trick play. Given the old razzle dazzle,
(07:21):
that's what you're looking for here, whether it's Caadarius Tony,
whether it's a little Jerick McKinnon who used to play
quarterback as a high school or do we know that
Andy Reid, Andy Reid? Remember, I mean that if that
doesn't lead all coverage on Fox, we failed. I can't
make that a Bowl prediction because you know we're gonna
see it. You know we're gonna If you don't see it,
at least Andy Reid, he's six nine and he's twelve
(07:42):
years old. Looking at him back then he was Andrew read. Yeah,
that was it was a terrifying kind of moment. That's
what's what If there was ever a moment where you recognize,
you know what, Sometimes the maturation prod process really does
have a lot of wild cards to it? What was
There's Andrew Reid was that story last week? Like, didn't
(08:04):
didn't somebody get to lose a job because they were
twenty three years old and they dressed up as a
player on the oh yeah high school? Yeah basketball? Right,
Like that's how you see Andy Reid in that famous
video of him. It's like, this guy's like twenty three.
You coach your daughter's teams? How many times have you
seen someone's like oh yeah, oh, yoh, plenty? Come on,
(08:25):
they're they're under fourteen. There's a couple of there's a
couple of teams where I want to say, come on, man,
really she drove to the game. All right, let's let's
just say I saw guy's gotta go team for crying out.
Come on, you see old coach? Hey, I want to
I want to play as a JD game. That's what
Andy Reid looks like in the past Putton kick vide.
He really is one of the more entertaining videos that
(08:45):
you ever see. I do I do like that bold prediction.
I'm looking at it from the aspect of the Chiefs
and what they're trying to accomplish on the defensive side,
and this and This is where it gets crazy, is
you look king at trying to stall that run game
but really selling out early, and that's it. Herts just
(09:06):
gonna have a player too in the first quarter where
it's gonna be like, you know, if you've just gotten
rid of the ball. Damante Smith was doing jumping Jack's
down here the way because they all out, but he
doesn't see it because he's too busy trying to evade
a ferocious rush. What what kind of ferocious? Ferocious for?
It's a stupid tooth. Like every once in a while
I have this. It just the tooth looks good though,
(09:29):
and look it looks good. It almost looks like it's
your regular tooth now. But every once in a while
you do still have that list what happened? That comes
in it happens. Now here's my other Bowl prediction. Now
I'm going off the field because one of the ancillary
topics always a big one is you know the super
Bowl commercials. Oh yeah, I guarantee you the super Bowl
commercial everybody's gonna be talking about. The one that's the
(09:50):
best one is going to be the breaking bad commercial
with the what what is it? The fun der Rito's
what is it? The funner popcorners. Popcorners I've seen I've
actually seen the commercial. It's hilarious and it's it's in tune.
What's funny is it's not a new product, right, It's
been a lot of like I remember what's on was
a shark tank or many many years ago. But it's
(10:13):
it's kind of as it's getting a little bit of
run and people are anticipating this commercial. It's almost like
it's a new procect. No, And actually popcorners is pretty good.
It's it's like a combination of a derrito that's with
a little with like air popcorn on it. Yeah, it's
got a little bit of weight to it. Yeah, it's
almost like when you get those are you can throw
it at the guy at the other end of the
couch like yeah, because it's because it's got three points
(10:36):
on it, you can hit him, hit him with it.
You're not just a growing stars. It's not one of
those it's not one of those circle air popcorn whether
you just flip in the air like it's a very
light coin. No, this is where you can throw it.
But I've had the popcorners are pretty you gotta have
a little way to it. But I've seen the commercial
and it's amazing. No, it's commercials. That's gonna be the
one everybody's talking about. Under Chris Stapleton can get a
little slow and get into his guitar a bit. I
(10:58):
think it was two minutes two seconds for the national
anthem to oh to oh two. That's what I thought.
That's really long. That's really wow oh two is I
would I would take the under on that. That's really long,
unless he really does a solo like we've never seen
that where someone just takes it in the middle and
goes down arrown. Now now, now it would be pretty cool.
(11:27):
The over under is actually one fifty nine. Now it's
actually gone down. It's gone down, okay, But like if
he made fifty nine, it's still seems pretty lengthy now
right it is. It is long, But if he goes
into like if he does that soul and he like
breaks into like Master of Puppets, but he's like a
prince while my guitar gently we eat the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame that comes up where everybody just
(11:48):
got out of the way and he just played for it,
and it's like, do we just keep doing this? Didn't
and the home and if the elevator tries to break
it down, go crazy, punch high for dune. Every's back
and forth going, I don't care about the du land
them anymore, Chris table that doing. Let's go crazy now that.
(12:12):
Do you want to talk about be securing your place
in history? Oh yeah, yeah, give me like a I
started the national anthem, but then I decided to do
a homage to Prince or just and then I came back. Yeah.
Or you do like multiple songs like you do like
a guitar solo, three minutes of like the best of
some band, like here comes all like ten seconds of
slashes guitar solos from all the great Guns and Roses
(12:35):
song and would be like the video here, all of
a sudden he's in a desert, or he's on the
ocean or the rep parts we do need do do
do needed? I mean that would be pretty cool. You
would be let you'd never get asked back, but Mike,
you'd be the odds you're getting asked back anyway. I mean, yeah, right,
I mean that's one of those if you were ever
(12:56):
gonna go rogue, I mean, you're not getting asked back. Yeah,
but it could be say to make sure you say asked,
you didn't did no. It didn't sound like you said
that just because your mind's in Vegas and starting to
creep George the night hours. But aren't. But don't you
treat the this like as an audition to say, Hey, someday, Hey,
trust me, someday I can play the halftime. Now give
me that promotion you come in. It's a gateway that
(13:18):
the the the the national Antist, the Pledge of Allegiance.
I'm gonna lead you all of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Then that's the lanthem. Is a gateway to do it halftime. Yeah,
I might be able to do it. Might be able
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my best friend Mike Carmen was one hell of a remix,
right that was I'm the only guy in Vegas this
week walking around with the Mets hat and I tell
Allen that tell Alan tell Allan oh by away. Yeah,
we actually have a story involving the TV show The Office.
We're gonna get to coming up in a bit. But uh,
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to show you how odd the world is. Right every
week we're in Los Angeles, we do with the shows
from the from the studios, the tirect dot com studios,
and our insider friend long times but on the show
for the last what seven years with us for baking
down everything talking odds the longest of the long time
friend of the show's Todd Furman, who is our insider
in Vegas right, former odds maker at Caesar's check Out,
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has met the Board podcast. You can see him on CBS.
So this week, Hey, we're coming to Vegas. Man, We're
gonna hang out. We get to see you. Todd Ferman
joins us from the super Bowl in Arizona. This is
life and a funny, funny joke. Todd, what's happening, buddy?
And you know what, gentlemen, I'd much rather be with
you guys in Las Vegas that I'd rather be out
here at Phoenix kind of going through some of the
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responsibilities and such, but have to make sure I show
my face every now and again. I'm just throwed they
let the two of you out of your cage. Well look,
not only am I glad about that, I guarantee you
fast any single person. Would you rather be in Arizona
doing the Super Bowl shows from there or be in Vegas?
They say, well, I want to be in Vegas. But
Jason and Harmon, yeah, I didn't want to be here.
Very happy to be here, you know what. That's the
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reality of it. I'm wanting a hundred there that I
would rather be with you guys than or I'll have
to meet my responsibilities for the next couple of days
at Hants Park at the NFL Fan Experience, and you
know what, I'll be close to the game on Sunday,
but we'll be doing live broadcast for the parking lot.
They won't let me set foot in the stadium. It
sounds like something Jason would have predicted for me. He's
been calling for my arrest all week Todd leading up
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to this, as he's the guy walking around in the
gray sweatpants. But we'll leave that to the side for
now as we get ready for this game. A lot
about the NBA trade deadline and Lebron James or whatever else.
So we're actually finally back to the Super Bowl. Where
where have we seen any action over the course of
the week, any inside dope about injuries, um perhaps affecting
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this game. You know nothing in the injury front. When
you look at the way both these teams to field
up in the city has some concerns coming into the
game about what they'd be able to get from the
likes of Darius Tony and Juju Smith Schuster Lagarius Need
the other player that we were all keeping tabs on.
It all seem to be training in the right direction. Now.
If they're all a percent effective, that remains to be seen.
But all teams pretty much as healthy as you can
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expect to be at this point in the season. The
one exception, of course, no Mek Hardman out there for
the Chiefs, and as a result, some books starting to
see a little bit more Chief's money come in one
and a half turning into ones at some shops. The
total pretty much holding steady at fifty one. And I've
talked to guys that I respect their opinions immenseally that
find themselves on both sides of the aisle and making
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convincing cases for both teams in this game. You know
the thing is, it seems like the the way it's
gone is right away, the Eagles got all the attention,
and the Eagles were the favorites, and everybody liked the Eagles,
and then slowly in the last two weeks for some reason,
it's just gone to the point where now I feel
like either the Chiefs are the underdogs. You've seen the
line come down. It's like this is where everybody's at
right No, now the Chiefs are gonna take this game.
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It's gone from all is completely one team to now
now you see this big push for the Chiefs in
the last week or so. It's definitely been part of
the case. I think a lot of folks see Patrick
Mahomes as an underdog and realize, you know what, we
want to have the superior talent at the most important position,
not just in football, but maybe any single sport out there.
But at the same time, Philadelphia comes in with the
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better roster. I mean, they're more accounted one to fifty
three than what Kansas City can match them with. So
I think it makes for a fascinating handicap, not just
for what we're gonna see unfold on Sunday. But how
teams go about building their rosters going forward. I mean,
once you've identified your franchise quarterback, you can give him
a king's ransom. But if you don't have that guy,
you're better off having a cheap, affordable option on a
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rookie contract so you can overpay for skill position players
and other difference makers on both lines of scrimmage instead
of being stuck in perpetual purgatory, which as we know
in the NFL, better off finishing thirty second in the league,
drafting first overall, or having a chance to win the
Lombardi Trophy at least every couple of years. Curiosity, you
right as you talk about the rosters and the check
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boxes more towards the Eagles, But for two weeks we've
now had the discounting of their path to the Super
Bowl in terms of process, Todd, how does that weigh
out in the numbers? It definitely adds up. I mean,
you look at their strength of schedule by a lot
of metrics, you know, bottom three in the league. You
try and go through some of the list of marquee
quarterbacks so to speak, that they faced and when the
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Eagles have stepped up in class against the Dallas Cowboys
or even the Green Bay Packers on Sunday Night Football,
the defenses struggled im mentally when they have to face
elite weapons. I'm not gonna take anything away from Daniel
Jones and when he's been able to accomplish, but when
you run through a quarterback like Daniel Jones three times,
you run through a guy like Justin Fields, that doesn't
provide much of a vertical passing threat amongst others. There's
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a lot left to be desired. And I think so
much of Philadelphia's success has been predicated on their ability
to play with a lead because they have been so
dynamic in the first half and it allows them to
pin their ears back on the defensive side and get
after opposing quarterbacks and run the football with their talented
trio of acts. If that isn't the game plan and
Philly finds themselves in a four quarter fight, do they
have enough wherewithal Is there enough explosive big play potential
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in the passing game to really keep this Kansas City
offense and defense that's trending up the Bay? All right?
So I ask you this, Todd, we talked about our
picks earlier. Five set to you the m v P
of the Super Bowl. If it's not one of the quarterbacks,
is who who do you like? I think if you're
trying to make a case for Kansas City, the only
player that you're probably gonna want to find yourself with
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an m VP ticket on would be Patrick Mahomes. Philadelphia's
past a lot different when you're trying to figure out
what players can have an overall impact and give them
the opportunity to win the biggest game in the National
Football League this year. So for me, I look in
the backfield at Miles Sanders. I think he has a
chance to exceed his rushing total in the high fifties
or low sixties, depending on where you shop. If he's
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able to, you know, score once or twice, suddenly he
becomes a front runner right there alongside some of the
other difference makers. Because for Philadelphia, their success isn't correlated
directly to Jalen hurt Statline the same way it will
be for the Kansas City Chiefs, who need Patrick Mahomes
to be their best player. On Sunday, Todd, I'm sitting
with a packet of about thirty seven pages of prop
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bets in front of me. Uh, And I keep going
back to that total of fifty one, and the gut
tells me under. And for a lot of these props,
I've been starting to circle that as well. Uh is
history on my side is the defense is here with
a lot of love? Uh? Am I wrong? I am wrongheaded?
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How am I? How? How should I approach this going forward?
History is definitely on your side. As far as low
scoring games, We've seen four straight Super Bowls come in
under the total. If they game went under again on Sunday,
it would be the longest such such streak that we've
seen since the late sixties early seventies. The other trend
that betters have gravitated towards is the game starting extremely slow,
looking about no score in the first five and a
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half six minutes. However, I'm not of that same milk.
I actually bet the first half of her. I think
these two offenses can definitely make the opposing defenses feel uncomfortable.
And while I'm not sure, I'm running to the window
to bet the game over for the full total, at
the same time, I think both offenses do have passed
the success and it could be a little bit more
high flying than we've grown accustomed to and some of
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the recent installments, all right, Todd, Now away from that,
we're here in Vegas, and ostensibly the reason this week
is so I can convince Raiders and Raider fans and
the NFL that the Jets need Aaron Rodgers way more
than the Raiders do. And you know, I'm hoping to
push that narrative. Am I going to be successful at that? Well,
the Jets definitely need a quarterback, and that roster is
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clearly built so in now compared to the Raiders that
it doesn't matter if they get Aaron Rodgers they bring
back some of the Raider greats in the former Rich Gannon.
That team is not built to compete in the a
f C in the current landscape. So when you're looking
at the Raiders from top to bottom, maybe Rogers given
them a one year stop gap, but at the same time,
they'd be better served to look for a quarterback on
a cheaper deal that can keep the seat warm, try
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and drapt somebody inside the top ten and figure out
what this roster is going to look like over the
next couple of years. Whereas the Jets with the right
man under center suddenly become a very compelling value proposition
within the context of the A f C. Well, we
look at the overall numbers of dollars and cents flowing
in and the number of states now legalizing things todd
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what what kind of balloon are we looking at? I
used that term because we were just talking about balloons
all over the place. Uh, what kind of numbers in
terms of the handle overall do we do? We think
we see the ag IS thrown out numbers that they
will be about sixteen billion dollars wagered throughout the state.
I'm an absolutely massive number when you think about it
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in context, but in Nevada it's always been a two
million dollar threshold is what they aspire to. That would
break statewide records. If we're able to get to that
number this year. With the influx of profits like you
guys are looking at right in front of you in
play options and a variety of other ways, the space
has grown. So I think a realistic expectation is there.
The problem for this game is with a point spread
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this little in that one and a half to range,
that you lose a little bit of the bank handle
that you would normally accumulate on money line wagering, whereas
the lay it sets up. Now, people that want to
bet the favorite, they'll lay one and a half or
two with Philly. Those that want to bet Kansas City
will bet them on the money line. You don't get
nearly the same level of two way action on the
side that you would if the number was say four
and a half, five or somewhere in that range. You
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can fom on Twitter at Todd Ferman, that is at
Todd Ferman Todd as always, Buddy, appreciate your time and
any advice for us tonight our last night in Vegas
before we go back a harmon, I'm trying to get
him not arrested. What advice do you have for us?
I mean, I think you guys have to do everything
you can to go to Parasol up or Parasol down.
Make sure you take in the show on the lakes
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there at the win and go over and see my
boy Dug cast to data behind the sports to make
sure her hands off a couple of drink tickets, so
you guys get a couple of cocktails on Now, nicely, John,
that is well played. You also have a contest going
out on the Bet the Board podcast. You want to
plug that real quick? Yeah, For folks are looking for
a unique way to get involved. I mean, we have
a prop sheet there that will cater to people of
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all gambling sensibilities, whether it's just entertainment or you're looking
for a little bit more serious. Look, it is the
perfect compliment of any super Bowl already principal PDF format
takes full advantage and support the brand. Todd is always buddy,
Thank you so much. I'll look forward to con up
with you at some point. Maybe it'll be in the
super Bowl next year in Vegas. Who knows, there's a
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good chance I'll be there for that game. Boys, hopefully
don't take to get yourself invited back. All right, see
your buddy, We'll talk to be sure to catch live
editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays
at ten pm Eastern seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the I Heart Radio app, Hot Route, Tie Shirt,
Hit It, whoa Johnson Twitter Game? Happy Friday? The Magic
(25:57):
Johnson Twitter Game. No more are obvious and vanilla tweeter
than Magic Johnson. We play the Magic Johnson Twitter Game.
I give you a tweet. Your job is simply to
discern whether it is a magic Johnson tweet or made
up by me playing as myself. Mike Harmon, Steve Disager,
Alex Titscher, Are you ready? Yeah, I'm shy. Let's go gad.
(26:19):
Let's see if Tisher can continue his big run. Yeah,
he's not defeated you. Just because he yells doesn't mean
he gets him all right. The l A Clippers had
a good day with their trades? Is that a magic
Johnson tweet? Clips with their trade? Is that a magic
(26:39):
Johnson tweet? No? No from Harmon, A no from the Sager? Uh,
I think they're right. I'm gonna say no to that
is a magic sin tweet. Yes, that is a magic
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you what you're basic? Let your account. The New York
fans are going to love Josh Hart because he can
do a little bit of everything. Is that a magic
Johnson tweet? Your fans gonna love Josh Hart because he
can do a little bit of everything. Well, once upon
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a time he was responsible for bringing him into the league.
So yes, yes, because if it happens, it props him up. Okay, yeah,
I'm with Steve here. That is not a tweet. Oay,
all right, that is a magic We've even did it up.
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Let's go my hometown team. The Detroit Pistons are building
a nice young core with the addition of James Wiseman.
Is that a magic? Johnson tweet hometown team. The Detroit
Pistons are building a nice young core at the addition
of James Wiseman. Wiseman in the deal that might get canceled.
Now that's question, this is that it's not. Is this
(28:08):
the magic? Well then I'll say yes, he's clearly clueless
and didn't deserve a front office job in the first place.
So yeah, absolutely, all right, Okay, Steve de Sager off
the top room. Magic shows as a GM. Okay, I'm
gonna say I'll go yeah, okay, all right, uh did
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he say my like he claimed the team my hometown? Yeah? Okay, alright, alright,
bare they take a good look around. That is a magic, baby,
let's go. The acquisitions of D'Angelo Russell, Malik Beasley, and
Mo Bamba will make the Lakers a playoff team? Is
(28:53):
that a magic? Say my Lakers are not. Acquisition of
D'Angelo Russell, Malik Beasley, and Mobile Amba will make the
Lakers a playoffs. So the tweet is actually going out
on a limb and saying they might finish tenth place. Yes, yes,
make them proclamations, magic written all over. Yeah, go for
(29:13):
it out on a limb there, whoa Okay, I'm gonna
say no. Yeah, he did not claim the team. There
is no mine. That is not his tweet. Okay, maybe
he now hates the Lakers. That is a magic game
sucks and no, he's tired. He said he has don't lead.
(29:35):
Congratulations to Patrick Mahomes for winning NFL m v P.
Please that magic Johnson tweet? Congratulations of Patrick Malmes for
winning NFL m v P. Yes, because it sounds like
it is. How many exclamation points? No? No, good question?
One exclamation point? What okay? You think? So? Okay? That
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is a magic wow? Wow Wow. I'm back, You're back,
You're back. Jay Crowder is the right player to get
the Bucks back to the finals. Is that a magic
Johnson tweet? Doesn't he have to be on the court first?
Doesn't matter to Jay crowd is a right player to
(30:22):
help get the Bucks back to the NBA. It can't
be magic Johnson. This is a lot of tweeting. What's
been going on. Wow, he had some idle time as
opposed to other weeks. Hey, hey, when you're going port
to port on giant cruise ships. Yeah, you got other
things to consider. Man, that is true. That is true.
So what do you guys say? Yeah, the WiFi, that's
(30:44):
all he's got to consider. What did you say, Mike, Yeah, okay, Yeah,
you've warned me down? Sure, Mike. Would you say I'm
gonna go crawl into a corner, but I'm gonna say no,
hold on, that is I'm I'm gonna say, yes, a
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magic let. So they were all magic Johnson tweets in
this game, every last one. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban
pulled off the second biggest trade acquiring Kyrie Irving. Is
that a magic Johnson. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban pulled off
the second biggest trade acquiring Kyrie Irving. This is after
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Mo Bamba. Yeah, it was this after the Durant deal.
Or I'm telling you the tweet. You have to figure out.
If we don't know if it's Tuesday or Friday, it's it.
That's it. It's all just in the timeline. Does that
happen that the date of the magic. It's the Magic
Johnson Twitter game. Read again, please. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark
Cuban pulled off the second biggest trade acquiring Kyrie or yeah,
(31:49):
gosh um, yes, that is a match. Let's go. Yes,
they were all matching up. That's unbelievable. He loved everything.
I love. This have to be hurting after all that.
We didn't get that. I didn't even get he had.
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He had nineties six hours, that's all. I didn't even
get to. Kevin Durant makes the Sun's legitimate championship. Context
kept to that one. That's a hot take. There's your
hot take tie shirt. He leave it looking for one
all night, getting cam Reddish. I mean, I didn't even
reddish trending Right now he's got eleven points. He's actually playing.
So there you go. The Magic Johnson Twitter game coming
(32:30):
up next. Uh, so far, nobody on the show has
gotten arrested in the time we've been here in Vegas,
but every encounter with a celebrity last night, one of
us was really really close. That's next right here from
the Blue Wire Studios here at the Window Telling Casino
in Vegas, Jason and Mike Fox. That is a magic
Johnson tweet. Be sure to catch live editions of The
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Wind Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, getting set for
the super Bowl. It's been a fun last couple of
days and so far no arrests. I expected Harmon to
(33:35):
be arrested by now, but it is early on a Friday,
so there is still time. However, the person who almost
got arrested last night's justin Frostburg up. It's I don't
know that it was necessary, almost almost in that the
person could have said I want that guy out and
something would happen. This guy's got no cloud to get Man,
(33:57):
do you want to make sure you keep celebrities happy?
So last night, after the show is over, we all
walked to the bar in the casino to get a drink.
Right it's eleven o'clock. Done with the show, and it's
it's Frostburg and Harmon and I and and a couple
other people here working on the show is helping us out.
So we go over to get a drink and we're
walking through the casino and walking by us is I mean,
(34:19):
I'm surprised because I'm always looking for celebrities, but I
didn't think we'd see anybody. But we saw Zach Woods
from the Office played Gabe in the Office right now.
He's an Avenue five, real funny dude. Um and and
you know, just the guy who's gonna live forever because
of the popularity of the Office. So I walked by
and I go, oh, my god, hey, dude, that was
that was Gabe from the Office. And Frostburg goes, oh,
I said, Gabe from the Office, that was him. He
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goes it was and I said, yeah, like okay, So
Frostburg scene, now I know you've seen the Office I
told you. It was like, oh, that's pretty cool. Cool.
So we go into the bar, we sit down, and
the overlook is where we were, which I think has
some shining undertones and references to it that I don't get,
but but we'll get that. Look forward to going back
there later. So uh So we go to the overlook
and we sit down and and and we're having drinks,
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just talking about the show and everything and having fun.
And he comes walking through, and so so Zach Woods
comes walking back through and he's gonna walk by us,
and Frostburg looks at me and goes, so, Gabe, right
from the office, And I go, yeah, yeah, that's in
there's right there, a little walk right there. He goes, okay.
So the guy comes walking by Frostburg. He's two feet
from him, and frost turns and goes, okay, what's up.
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But I'm like, oh my god, and giving Zach Wood
so much credit for being a cool dude, because he
looks over and he gives Frostburg the nod, the smile,
little bit of an eye roll because you know, okay,
it was cool that he recognized that. But he called him,
but hey, Gabe, that means anybody call him Zach and
all know, hey, Gabe, how you doing. But so I
give him a lot of credit. He a little bit
of the iral, but he did give him a big
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smile and nod like, hey, thanks for that. That was
pretty cool. But that was one moment where there's a
lot of of of actors and actions, actors and actresses
that if you do that, I could see them getting
upset and I could I can see him getting this
guy just call him, Hey, this guy out right now,
it's this guy, this guy drinking the chocolate Martini. Get
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him out, he was Martini. Get him out, by the way,
get him out delicious. Yeah, I don't know that he's
got the cloud to get Frostberg and thrown out. It's
not like Frostberg went and accosted him. I know. Well, no,
he didn't have call. He might have been calling the
guy that was walking in the other direction, you're going
this sweaty, you go that way. The other guy might
have been Gabe. Hey, yeah, Gabe Caplin was walking in
back of him, and that's what it was. Now, we
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teach him a lot and he said, hey, welcome back
game game. I've never heard that before. I want to
go play poker. Maybe he was Gabe Kapler who was
walking by and said, hey, what are you doing. You
can't drink that, you gotta eat something else that he
might give you some more nutrition to the games. Could
it be? Could be Gabe Davis, Hey boy, you should
be playing in the super Bowl. How about that? That
didn't more? Could have been Gabe Rivera, like you like
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keep going, I'm almost out of games. I mean, that's
a good day, celebrities Captain he went from the office. No,
it's good well, I mean he had a good run poker, sure,
and the Battle of the Network Stars. But I think
Zach Woods has enough cloud to say, hey, this guy
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because you want they want to be friendly to to celebrate.
I don't think he's got that juice that I think
Frostburg would take him. Frostberg definitely, are you kicking me out?
He would finish his drink real fast and look, okay,
now you get me out of You know, the real
fail here is super fan that you didn't invite him
over to have a drink with us. Hey, really, you
think you'd come over for four people? He doesn't even
(37:31):
know when you're wearing blue pants with red hearts on
him He's gonna come over and hang out. Yeah, I'm
kind of a big deal. I'd bring the party to
because that's how horror movies start. Cabin in the woods,
hang out. Whoa whoax, we had big stuff in the
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