November 22, 2023 • 44 mins
The FnA Podcast with Kevin Figgers and Adam Auslund + Brie Brie as the guys give their NFL picks on the 3 thanksgiving games, plus talks Chargers debacle and Brandon Staley comments AND give you the underrated movies to watch on Thanksgiving!
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Man Wednesday? I think that's howwe do it, right the hell you
at? When I was sitting atthat Blaze Pizza, where the hell was
Lebron Adams out there getting blazed hopingto get him some pizza to Cira's munchies?
Is that the thing about that pizzayou have to be high. I've
never had it, so I can'tspeak to it. I don't know.
I'm sure it tastes better that way. What's the theory? Is just like
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fast food pizza, something you orderit They just throw some topics on a
piece of bread and like flame itup for about five seconds and it's ready.
Yeah. I think you go throughthe line and kind of build your
own pizza type of things like subwaystyle. Yeah, exactly, all right,
Uh, but it's probably better thansubway, I gotta say, is
not very hot trying to hate asponsor. I'm a Jersey guy, true,
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same. I Uh, what elsedo I like? Beach Hut Delhi.
I don't know if you guys familiarthat. They got them up in
Norcyle. There's like one in Coasta, Mesa down here. Beach Hut Deli
to goes also better than the subway. You don't see to goes that often
anymore. No, they're hard tofind. They didn't have a five dollars
foot long, you know, it'shard to compete with that, you know
who. I liked Quiznos. Ilike a lot of business. There's a
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Quiznos right up the street from myold place here in Burbank, and they
closed about maybe five years ago,and I was like, damn it.
They had the black Angus sandwich thatwas amazing with the steak on it,
like the horse Radish Shaws Oh itwas so good. Yeah. Now was
it overpriced absolutely? Oh yeah,but it's the reason they went out of
business. Yeah, it was thirteendollars for a small Yeah. But Quiznos,
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they were the first to do thehot, crazy basty sandwich. Well,
I see that's what got himcause Subwayhe was already established. It was
like, oh, maybe we shouldarttoasting our subs, And that's what put
him out of buiness. Yeah,they all jumped on. You couldn't just
patent heating things up. You can'tpatent fire, I guess because she can't.
That was disappointing because I loved Quiznos. That was one of my favorite
chains. Out of business. There'sone that's up in nor Cow. It's
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like the last Blockbuster, the lastthere's one left I know of up in
nor Cow. And I thought aboutdriving up just because I'm such a fat
ass, just to get Quiznos thereand relived two thousand and five memories going
your own Herold and Kumar Adventure Hunt. Yeah, I forget White Casts,
I'm going to the Quiznos way.We know how I feel about in and
out. I would say White Castleactually overrated as well. Even if you
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are drunk or high or both.Nothing special about white Castle. Wait a
second, have you had it atwhite Castle? Or just can the freezer?
You know, microwave can honestly say, I've never actually been in to
a brick and mortar white Castle.I've only had the freezer version. I
hear it's different. Now, haveyou been No? Okay, but I
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like the microwave too. Yeah,that's like I just can't believe you can
microwave a burger and he'd even tastethat good. I've given like some credit
for that. I guess there's there'salso not a lot to it. It's
a little patty, a couple ofbuns and some onions and that's it.
Those onions though, and then youcan add your own mustard. I get
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the cheeseburger one. But yeah,I used to do a lot of white
Castle. Now there was like acertain technique so the buns wouldn't harden too
much after you microwave them, becauseyou could fuck that up there. Absolutely
good. Yeah, yeah, thatwas a disaster if you different times.
But sorry, why are we talkingabout fining so much? With Thanksgiving is
tomorrow? I have no idea.Yeah, because you'll talk about Thanksgiving foods
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once. By the way, speakingof that, Dan Campbell, who I
guess we can get into if we'regonna talk some NFL FA here on the
show by the way, by theway, yes, we'll talk some NFL.
But first, since it is Thanksgiving, if you like to work backwards
special Thanksgiving Geek News Today, Adam, Yeah, you know what, We're
gonna blow out our favorite Thanksgiving moviesin the second segment. Yeah, maybe
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a replay of something we've done before, but that's because it's tradition stands the
test of time. Yeah, it'sjust like this freaking Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving,
right, it just holds up.It's part of the uh, I don't
know, season of Giving and everythingelse. So enjoy it. Our Thanksgiving
movies are not Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving.Are not playing trains and automobiles. These
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are deep cuts and we'll play clipsfrom each one of them, and you
better watch one of them mat tomorrowor Friday. Did you add in the
Brand News spanking Haunted Pilgrim whatever moviethat is. I have no idea.
Breeze here too, by the way, ibree it's called Thanksgiving. And Patrick
Dempsey's in it. I want tosee it, and that's like a horror
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movie that I don't like horror movies, but I do want to see that
one because Patrick nose Job, youwant to see it? My god,
how dare you you have one?So, Jennifer Anderson, we're not gonna
talk about her Leprechaun. You rememberwhy she looked then? It was different?
It was different. A nose jobcan sense a nose joba a nose
nose? So what's it called?The Haunted Turkey called Thanksgiving? Oh,
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it's just call Thanksgiving. Okay,that's simple enough, all right. Yeah,
so I'm guessing that didn't make thecut there at them when they get
that title. No, I gotone called thanks Killing though, Okay,
we'll talk about that. One ofour favorites for sure. Yeah. That's
the nightcap. I do it insequence of when you should watch these movies?
At what point you should watch theseThanksgiving movies? I think I got
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four of them for you, theThanksgiving Forsome something like that. Fourth,
I don't know what. So theseare things you should be watching during the
day if you're not a football fan, is what it is like. This
is what you watch for breakfast.This is what you watch for lunch and
then dinner and then your late nightsnack. Yeah, or if your team's
getting their ass beat, we'll talkabout some of those. This often happens.
It could be some backroab a coupleof times coming up on Thursday.
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Yeah, so we'll talk about that. We'll give you the Thanksgiving traditional movies
coming up. All right, good, well, you know what, let's
do some NFLF. Yeah. Idon't know if it's quite a six pack
Blackie Bingham talking to you, butit's some NFL nonethless, so let's get
to it. One of the headlineson the announcement to starting quarterback, I
got, well, starting quarterback hadn'tgotten hurt the last twelve hours, So
that's an update. That's good.That's a rarity. Yeah, these days,
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although on a Thursday, yeah,there probably will be some injuries because
Thursday Night Football. As much asI should get old takes exposed for this
because I do like the idea ofplaying more football games that are isolated to
a premium slot, to a primetimeslot, so you can focus in on
one game like we have Monday NightFootball, like we have Sunday Night Football.
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The idea of Thursday Night Football isgreat. The execution of Thursday Night
football doesn't always work. I sacrificingsomething. The more and more you get,
it's amazing the sloppy play out there. Teams don't look the same,
injuries to more injuries. Well me, look, you're not gonna put the
toothpaste back in the tube now,because now there's money. What did Amazon
pay a billion dollars or something likethat for the Thursday Night package? Lying
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her ass off, just taking downsports journalism one game at a time,
which I think that cool. Butyou said that I have no idea what
she was doing. I went aftermy stupid NBA report even hey, guys,
you could trust me, I wouldn'tdo it. CHRISA. Thompson does
make up a report because you canhear the audio I'm about to play from
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coach lou Yeah, how would Amazonallow her to actually ankle the coverage that
night? And I was just like, well, who you're going to replace
it with? At the last minute, But I'd let Fitzpatrick Fitzmagic host.
He's pretty good. It was definitelyunbecoming of a summer veteran sports cast who's
been around for a while. Doyou think she'll get resigned, you think
they'll bring her back. No,they're just waiting for this story to uh
get what pushed under the rug.That's not gonna happen. You're saying,
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now, well, you've also upsetpeople within the industry. There's one thing
to just upset fans. They can'tyou know, we can't control one way
or the other. But if you'reactually media members, other peers within the
fan base, or peers within yourprofession who were saying, like, you're
basically bastardizing a job that many ofus take very seriously and work really hard
to get these reports, and like, I mean even I forget exactly that.
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Maybe it was Molly McGrath. Shewas like, there have been times
where coaches don't talk to me cool. I'll tell them, you know,
I listened in and they overheard this, or I try to talk to somebody
else, so I just try tofind another angle without saying that I did
that. I just made something up, assistant coach whatever, right, find
somebody if you guys don't know.CHRISA. Thompson came out on Barstool I
think it was, and said shewas making up reports during her sideline reporting
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days at times when she couldn't getthe coach to talk to her, so
she would just say generic things andeverybody bought it. Why because oftentimes we
do get a generic stuff, soit it undermines her own profession the job.
But it also kind of speaks toyou know, how often we actually
do get a juicy nugget. ButI still want sometimes you still think it's
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an important job. Yes, younever know or coaches ornery. He's angry,
he's going into the half like I'veheard this one before. The kids
are playing their tailor and the tunesare screwing it up. Sideline interview.
That's what we're here for. Speakingof R I P. Bobby Knight.
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I mean, he's a big partof our show. What we haven't talked
about it, No, we havenot. That happened what three weeks ago
now just just yeah, And youcould say it's unbecoming to play these soundbites,
but I think that kind of encompassesBobby Knight was just Bobby Knight in
general. So in many ways hewas the greatest uh swearer, cursor,
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child choker, excuse me, youngadult. The kid was like eighteen or
nineteen, so he wasn't actually achild, so forgive me. No,
it's it's fairy. Who's who's justgonna argue chair thrower. Yeah, there's
a lot of sides to everyone.Yeah, down playing a woman and being
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sexually assaulted, saying they should justsit there and let it happen. I
didn't know about that part. Ohoh yeah, all right, there was
a laundry list of things. Well, he was like, no one's gonna
speak ill of the dead, andI was like, well some did,
so that's for as many good things. And look, he did a lot
of good things. A lot ofthe players that played for him swore by
him and said they wouldn't have beenthe players that they were if it wasn't
for him. He was a greatcoach, you can, but like most
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of us, complicated, you know, there's duality there. We don't have
to lionize everyone after they passed.Yeah, there was not that simple that
they were a perfect person. Thethings are going to come out out after
me, after after I die.I mean, you guys are gonna be
shocked. It's gonna be crazy,dedicated, just Adam, and then we'll
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finally blow up on f and A. All right, NFL not a six
pack, but we can talk aboutsome headlines, and we're gonna preview all
three games tomorrow and get you preppedand ready. And maybe I got the
lines for all these games. Actually, Bree, can you go to Bovada
and make sure I'm up to dateon these lines for all three games tomorrow
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because we want to be on thesame page here Right now, I'm looking
at the Packers, who are goingto be in Detroit as always in Detroit
with Rob Parker and all them asthe Lions hosts them. And actually the
Lions are good this year and peopleare still having a hard time wrapping their
brain around that to not easy,especially with Dan Campbell with the way he
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talks and a lot of people calledhim Fred Flintstone. Yeah, the meaead
you know, biting ankle, whichhe probably would actually take as a term
of endearment if you call him ameathead. Guys play hard for him,
they do, what else matters?Yeah, he's kind of the antithesis of
like the smart guy glasses and allthe you know, going forward on fourth
down, and but she is veryThe weird part about him is he's aggressive,
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but it's not from us. It'snot like a Brandon Staley, like,
oh, this is the numbers andwe're going by it. He's just
like, we're more physical than you. We're gonna kick your fucking ass.
And here it is fourth and threeand we're gonna run it on fourth and
three and get a first down.Chargers right down your throat? Is he
the Bobby Niders kind of football different? It's a different vibe with him,
and like even like Schwartz had goodteams of Detroit, but this feels different.
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For some reason. It does.I don't know why. Well,
they got steady quarterback play. Iknow we threw three picks last week Jared
Goff Chicago Bears, and you knowwhat, he found a way to come
back and play better in the fourthquarter. That's something that Jared Goff here
in Los Angeles never would have done. He just would have wilted it and
kept on playing shitty. That's fair. They overcame a twelve point deafis to
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win that ballgame over the Bears.They scored the final seventeen points to complete
the comeback. Winning last week thirtyone to twenty six. The Packers also
won. Now, speaking of BrandonStaley, it was against the Chargers.
It was a close game, soyou kind of knew the Packers were going
to win. Chargers always, bythe way, regardless who the coach is,
this goes back to Anthony and MikeMcCoy. You name it, Shottenneimer,
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Yeah, everybody, it's the curseof the Chargers. It's for whatever
reason, they have these spectacular offenses, but they can never get it done.
And the defense, even with adefensive genius or a guru. Coming
off his one season as the defensivecoordinator for the Rams, his defenses have
not been like above, like thetop twenty eight his old time with the
Chargers heard, he pushed back atthe press conference plost game, I didn't
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hear the audio, Kevin, youdidn't hear the audio? Could you like
me to find the audio for you? Well, if you want to give
me a half a second, yeah, I'll let you find so. By
the way, I will say,I understand his frustration because a lot of
questions are like should you continue tocall defensive play? Should you which things
He's been asked the last two orthree weeks. You know why, because
the defense is terrible as the teamkeeps losing, but and their defense is
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usually the one that doesn't get itdone. But it's not always the defense.
And when I find the SoundBite,he kind of alludes to it himself
in this In this bite, becausethere's drop passes left and right, Quentin
Johnston dropped it would have been thegame winning pass, basically running down the
sideline like that's not that's not onthe defense. So because the drop pass
from Keenan Allen in the end zone, he was looking at the sun,
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Austin Eckler fumbled the ball when they'rebasically knocking on the door of the end
zones. I mean, those arethings that are just outside of, you
know, the defense's control. Butlast week was probably not the game to
go off to Brandon Staley. No, but the problem is when you've had
all of these things building up againstyou over the last couple of years,
it just compounds. So here isa short little montage of his answers to
some of the questions from the pressconference. All of the questions are being
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asked off Mike, so we don'thave the actual questions. It would sound
bad, so but you can hearjust the you know, I'll just let
you play it and you determine howyou feel, how you think at Brandon
Staley feel's being asked about these questionsafter yet another charge or loss. Every
week. Every week we're talking aboutfundamentals. Every week, we show them
the officiating videos. Every week,we're talking about it, and so all
we can continue to do is emphasizeit. And I know that our coaching
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staff is doing that. I knowthat the message is getting across. We're
not getting the execution on the field. I have full confidence, like I've
told you, and like I toldyou from the beginning, I have full
confidence in our way of playing.Full confidence in myself is the play caller
and the way that we teach andthe way that we scheme. Full confidence
in that we got to bring thisgroup together and do it consistently. Okay,
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And that's where it's at. Soyou can stop asking that question.
Okay. I'm going to be callingthe defenses, okay, so we're clear,
so you don't have to ask thatagain. I'm not here to talk
to the fan base. I'm hereto talk to my players the locker room.
I know that we give ourselves achance to win every single week with
the game plans that we have.Okay, and we have done it here.
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You guys act like we've never playedgood defense. That's not the truth.
That's not the truth. You actlike we haven't made any improvements today.
In the run game, we playedoutstanding, We're rushing the quarterback well.
What we got to do a betterjob of is in the passing game,
and that's where our full attention is. It's where it will continue to
be. There were a lot ofother things that cause us to lose today.
It certainly wasn't our defense. Itwas the way we played as a
team. We didn't play well enoughon the red zone. On offense,
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we dropped too many passes, Kate. We gave up a few killer sacks.
Kate. We did this as ateam. Stop making it about one
unit, because that's not what happenedout there today. Our team lost and
I am fully responsible for it andI take full responsibility. But we lost
as a team today, and that'sthe storyline. When you start pounding the
podium, you know, yeah,I heard a few different things there.
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We lost the team. I heardthat, And he does sound like he's
getting really emotional towards the end ofit. He's had enough. He reached
the breaking point. Well, thefans have reached a breaking point with him
like last year. Oh, hedoesn't care about the fans. He guess
about the team that was not.Antonio Peers is standing in front of the
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cross. Hey, we need JohnRader nahould come out. We need a
homeefit of advantage all being great,I need John to keep coming. And
then Brandon Staley is like, Idon't care about the dam fans. I
want to talk about our team.And the beginning of that was like the
opposite of this, the kids areplaying their tail off and their coaches are
screwing it. He basically said,the coaches are playing their tail off and
the kids or the players are screwingit up. He said, we coached
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them up. They have to execute. That's when the Lincoln Riley handbook.
That's going well for him right nowtoo. By the way, look he
has a point on that one gamebecause of the drop passes, because of
they just miscues out there. Theplayers they have to be made. Yeah,
the Austin Eckler fumble in the redzone, and to his point,
they are in I think they're likefourth or fifth, maybe even slightly higher
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in sacks. So you're sacking thequarterback. But your overall defensive numbers are
still bad, which is really hardto do. They give up big chunks,
yeah, they give up those bigexplosive plays, and that his defense
is designed around stopping those plays,by the way, correct, So it's
completely on him. But I mean, if you're gonna go out, go
out banging the table. I don'tknow how did Chargers catch as stray here?
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Oh, because we were talking aboutthe Lions. The Lions beat him
recently, correct, and the Packersjust beat him last week. So their
last two losses are the winners thatare taking on each other on Thursday in
the early game. Packers and lineCharges, by the way, are four
and six. They have the thirdworst record in the AFC. Who just
saw that coming? I well,you know, I just don't. I
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know, this ownership group has traditionallylet coaches finish out the season, but
I don't know if that's going tohappen this year. I think if they
lose the next two day Sunday Nightagainst Baltimore, and especially if it's not
pretty, it would not surprise meor Brandon Staley doesn't make it through Monday,
not after what I just heard thereand him going after the fans,
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I would not surprise. I don'tdo it for the fans. Like,
first of all, Brandy, youonly got six fans anyway, Like,
so you're not helping your cause witha small contingent as it is. Like,
sorry, Charger fans. If you'relistening, the Staley defenders the stalely
stands, that's a rare stage.Yeah, I don't think many of them
exist right now. All right,So Green Bay is one to four in
games outside of Lambeau and the gameagainst the Chargers was the one at home,
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but they have won two of theirlast three games. Jordan Love's coming
off his best game ever as aquarterback. Now was that good for him
or an indictment on the Chargers?Probably about the Chargers, But I I
like I like the way Detroit playsbecause the way they finish off that game
with their defense getting the safety againstthe Bears like they get after it.
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I like Detroit in this game.Bri what's the spread though, what's the
line? Seven and a half?Seven point five? It's wow, almost
eight almost eight points? Now.Thanksgiving games can be weird sometimes we've seen
it. The better team, theteam that's overwhelming, better than than the
others, which I don't think it'stoo much of a stress to say that
Detroit is overwhelmingly better than Green Baythis year, but you never know.
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I like them. Detroit has whatthree losses total, They haven't had a
lot of great wins. They don'thave the they're better than the Giants,
so I don't want to compare themto the Giants of last season. But
they have a pretty shitty schedule thisyear, which helped. They are a
good team, but it helps thefact that their schedule is not the hardest.
I wonder if they would have thisrecord if they have like the schedule
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the Eagles have. Let's say,who are just going through They're getting ready
to go through murderers roll. Theyjust beat Kansas City, and they have
like a string of tough ones,like five of the next six weeks.
And Detroit's best win was Week one, correct, that was impressive, but
it was also weak one and itwas ugly, you know, lines of
one, seven of eight. I'mgonna take them, though, to cover
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with the points. If I hadtwo, I would to, honestly,
because I know Detroit can run theball. I know they're great defensively.
Green Bay can have flashes here andthere. They're actually Green Bay is really
solid defensively. They're not great,but they some talent over there. They're
solid offensively. I just do nottrust them, especially against a quality defense.
They've struggled at times this year.So the twenty first in points scored
twenty per game, and I'm surprisedthat they're that high. So it's a
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good point, all right. Sowe both have the Lions there, But
then your Cowboys Kevin coming up laterin the second game on Fox. It's
my quarterback, Dak Prescott's having apretty good season. I'd say, yeah,
you want to tell me about it, especially against shitty teams. Are
you talking about my Panthers now?Are you talking about my Panthers like that?
You know what? Although your Panthersagain, well that's not what I
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meant. Uh yeah, yeah,Hey, your Panthers were in it until
the end of the third quarter.Then it all kind of went to hell.
My Panthers dominated the Dallas Cowboys.We beat them twice in the playoffs
in ninety six and oh three.What's up now? You sound like Laker
fans about what happened in the pastautum years ago and we won three in
a row and it's early two thousands. What you mean, I don't know,
I'm different. Oh yeah, itwas totally different, all right,
to change you different. The Cowboysof Panthers ring, I think that they
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actually had we do our moral victories, more defeats, all that stuff.
A couple of weeks ago and theywere in Philadelphia and they were down bad
and had a hell of a comebackattempt and almost beat the Eagles. I
thought was big for them because upuntil that point they had not played well
against quality competition. The forty nineers ran them off the field and they
lost to Arizona, which I chalkedit up to like a random week in
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the NFL. Bad teams are gonnaget you every now. Then, Arizona's
been competitive even before getting Colin Murrayback a couple of weeks ago, So
I really could care so much aboutthat one. This Dallas team is kind
of what they've always been, tobe honest with you. They can beat
anybody anyway. They're probably going tobeat up on terrible teams, and then
when it's a good team, it'skind of a crapshoot. Yeah. Now,
I look against Washington who has someoffensive talent. Their offensive line is
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just terrible, and every banem's notdoing himself any favors if he has designs
of being a head coach, becausethis offense as overall has been shitty.
Sam Hall, I think as ofnow, is on pace to break David
Carr's record of most times being sackedin a career. He's been for a
single season fifty one times. Soyou can't even I don't know how much
of the Commanders you've watched this year, he actually individually hasn't looked that bad.
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He just has no time to throw. Yeah, he's I mean teller.
Terry mclaurin's a good player. Theyhave some solid offensive talent, but
the guy is running for his life. So I can't even give if this
was gonna be an assessment year forhow I will say it's inconclusive because you
definitely see there's talent, but whenyou just have no chance to throw,
you're getting sacked within five you know, five quarters of a second after you
snap the ball, you're hapless.And so going against that Dallas front with
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Michaeh Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence, it'snot gonna be pretty for the Commanders on
Sunday. Well, and Dallas hasthe second highest scoring offense at thirty point
two points per game. Now,scoring fifty points and forty eight points or
whatever it was against the Giants willhelp you with that inflated. But Washington's
defense and gives up an NFL worsetwenty seven points seven points per game.
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So it seems like Dallas's offense couldfeast. While we're on that. Since
you're talking, you mentioned your Panthers. No, I did not. Ron
Rivera, who I like. Itseems like a nice man and all that.
He's probably one of the most overratedcoaches in the last decade. Yeah
for real. He had what fourwinning seasons I think in Carolina, went
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to the Super Bowl one time.Outside of that, he's Jeff Fisher.
Look look up his career records.He is mister seven and nine. Not
granted, Washington is a hard job. You're going through the ownership transition.
Dan Snyder is a piece of shit. All that stuff, I get it.
Zero stability under center, that doesn'tyet and so that definitely hurts to
a certain degree. But this isyour bread and butter. You have your
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all star defensive coordinator, Jack delRio in there. That's both of you
guys are defensive gurus and your defensehas been that bad for the last few
years. Yeah, you know that'sfair. You have all these first round
picks on your defensive line. Youjust shipped one off to San Francisco,
and Chase Young is probably gonna turninto like a beast. You know,
Like you guys just haven't been ableto get it done. It's specifically on
your side of the ball. Andso I like Ron Rivera, but maybe
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this head coaching thing, at leastas of right now, ain't for him,
with this idea that he's like he'sthe most one of the more revered
head coaches and he's so great andhe's there's nothing great. There's nothing special
about Ron the river Bourne. Ronis a misnomer because he's one of the
most unaggressive coaches in the NFL,at least his in his Washington tenure.
He has been in Carolina, hedefinitely went forward a lot on fourth downs.
But I haven't I haven't paid attentionenough in Washington because there hasn't been
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much reasons. Oh yeah, there'sthey're very whole hum. They're as boring
of a franchise. If not coveringas many games of the NFC East,
just doing all the Cowboy games thatI do, I probably wouldn't be watching
them either. The most notable thingis they changed their name. That that's
how you remember most about the WashingtonCommanders. Now over the last five seasons,
right and river, about ron istaking on Water, I get it
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quickly. So Cowboys, what's thespread? Breeze and a half? Ooh,
it's a lot. Here's one thingI will say about Washington. Two
of the more competitive games they hadthis year was against Philadelphia, who's far
and away the best team in theNFC and probably the best team in the
NFL. Despite some of their shortcomings. They have one loss. So the
Commanders are a team that can,you know, compete with you and be
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scrappy at times. Divisional game.Yeah, so twelve and a half,
I think I'd go with the Commanders. I don't think they win. I'll
think there's a chance they win.But you're telling me almost two touchdowns.
You never tell me the odds.Yeah no, no, no, no,
no, no, all right,all right, I'm gonna take Dallas.
We're gonna take them boys. Abig line in the NFL. I
don't like it, but I don'tI don't love it the other way either.
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I don't know. I just Dallasis I go back to Dallas's offense
and how bad Washington's been on defense, and things could get out of hand
early. Uh, but you doknow Dallas very well, know what.
I don't care. I'm taking awaytake it. I like it. They're
gonna cover. We'll see and you'regonna like it, dammit. All right.
Last one, forty nine Ers atSeahawks and the Niners. I thought
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at one point early in the seasonthey might win fifteen games. Now they've
only lost three. They're seven andthree. They're all consecutive and after losing
three straight. Yeah, they've kindof ride the ship. They've gotten it
together. They look good against theBuccaneers last week. They looked very good
against the Jacksonville Jaguars, which isa quality team. By the way.
Yeah, Jacksonville is gonna win thatvision. Jacksonville is dangerous. Doesn't say
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much. And I don't know.They might not. Houston might win that
division. CJ. Stroud is gettingsome MVP love right now. He's got
He's far and away gonna be theRookie of the Year. That's definitely gonna
happen. They already beat Jacksonville inJacksonville, and I think Houston plays Jacksonville
hosts him this weekend, so that'sgonna be a big game in that division.
You know who's become one of myfavorite players because I like the grinders
and the underdogs. Gino Smith.I just think he's a badass. The
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way he came out for that finaldrive after hurting his arm or we don't
know if he's gonna play tomorrow yetright, most likely not. I don't
think I was impressed. I justlove to see a guy who's been through
so much knocked out in the lockerroom that's been fast over multiple times.
And that line he had they wroteme off, I didn't right back.
It's an all timer, baby.Oh I thought the line you were talking
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about, Oh my god, whenAaron Donald was running after him and he
threw the ball away from earlier thisyear, Wow, not that line.
We all would have had that.I probably would have said, like,
oh shit, yeah, I likeSan Francis go on this one. Seattle
Is I had a tough go over. Recently, Gino Smith has taking a
bit of a half step back thisyear, turning the ball over a little
bit more frequently. Kenneth Walker,I think is hurt again, so it
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doesn't help their running game. Anddefensively they're very good. They're very good.
But San Francisco, I think isanother level. What's the line here?
Eight just straight too high, that'stoo high for me. Seattle,
Seattle's way too scrab and the factthat they just lost to the Rams and
a tough one. They got sweptby the Rams. That can come up
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huge from a you know, playoffstandpoint. McVeigh owns Pete Carroll. He
does, he has dominated him andhad to head matchups. Seattle leads the
NFC West on a tiebreaker right now, so the Niners do need this.
But what's funny is Seattle could thenif they lose this game, their playoff
odds can drop well little fifty percentdepending on some other outcomes coming up this
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week in Week twelve, so alot on the line. Yeah, I
kind of like Seattle to cover that, but I want to know if Gino
is under center. If Gino's undercenter, I'm taking Seattle with those points.
If Drew Locke gets confirmed as thestarter of the line might jump to
eight or to eighteen. Excuse me, it's you see Drew Locke in there
last week against the Rams. Yeah, it was bad. Didn't they trade
for him to be the starter?Sounds about right. That's the second time
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that happened under Pete Carroll. Thetrade. Who were they trade for?
Who was the former LSU quarterback thatat a great run with the Packers?
He had like two games Matt Flynn. Flynn, Matt Flynn who had the
sixth he had the all time passingrecord in one game for the Green Bay
Packers over Aaron Rodgers, over BrettFavre. And then he goes to like
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I think it was ten million dollarsor something like that. They brought him
in four and he got beat outby Russell Willis, rookie Russell Wilson.
The same situation kind of happened herewith Gino Smith and Drew Locke last year
going into the season. Yeah,all right, so we both have the
only one we differ on is thecow the Cowboys. I think that I
think, come the Commanders cover thetwelve. Now, look, they might
still lose by ten, I'd seeit. You know, maybe they get
a backdoor cover in there somewhere.He's gonna be close. You can be
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but we'll see, we shall see, all right, not bad, Thanks
for the help there, good lookingout. You just gotta shake your head.
You got okay, But that's mynew nickname? You got it?
Is that gonna turn into a thing. You're gonna start giving out picks?
Oh boy, she's the queen ofthe nicknames, by the way she is.
You do have a talent for that. I'm not gonna lie a brief
(30:25):
friend of everything like I'm out ofa film and you tomorrow and be like
this is what the bree Grums wouldhave had, you know, favorite side
dish, dressing slash stuffing, dependingon where you come from. Oh okay,
okay, I'm going green and beancastrole nice. Anything that has sweet
potatoes in it, steet potato mashor sweet potato plane love sweet potatoes sweet
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potato po is pretty good. Butsee, that's a dessert that wouldn't be
a side for me at least.Is candy yams a dessert or a side
side? I think most people treatit as a side more than a dessert.
Hot dog sandwich, don't want todo it don't worry, it's not
mid July yet. We can savethat for the sports Ark radio to be
for that. Now everything that thetime you've all been waiting for. Though,
I'm excited about this Adam's Thanksgiving platterof movies that you guys need to
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be watching on Thursday. Once theNFL games are all blowouts. Yeah,
which they might be, it's verypossible enjoy these movies. Nurs you're playing
D and D tonight, you wantto come Case's guys, because we're all
won't be choose that. I've beenchying online with Babs all day. Just
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keep your power clubs off her raceKendelin. All right, been a while
since we've had some geek news,so how about a holiday special edition.
Obviously, the holidays are about traditionsand being with the ones you love,
even if it leads to pointless argumentsabout politics and elon taking over Twitter.
(31:53):
Those are the people you were supposedto love, dammit. But do you
have to though you suppose? Iheard a podcast about that. I was
like, I mean, they're yourfamily, but do you really have to
love them? Well? Not agun to your head, you know,
It's just like I mean, youfeel obligated to, like I mean,
I feel like it's not necessary.If you give it your best shot.
Sure, all right, give ita go, right, But if you
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can't get along due to sore anddivisive subjects, just flip on the box
like the green ray emitting mind controlmachine from Batman for everything you can't agree,
Just shut up and watch TV anddon't talk at all. That makes
sense to me. Yeah, justbe stuck to the television like a Zeema
commercial from the nineties. Let thetelevision play peacemaker like Rashid Wallace during the
(32:37):
Malice in the Palace that we allwatch the most on TV near Thanksgiving Day.
Actually, I think it was Novembernineteenth of two thousand and four.
Yep, but I think I definitelydefinitely know, yeah, exactly. I
also remember it was very close toThanksgiving though, Yes, what about Adams
not so traditional Thanksgiving movies to therescue? Oh good, like that one
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Ralphs that's still open Lateday night whenyou forgot to bring the Pillsbury Crescent rolls
to the feast, which are amust for me. At least I know
which rouse you're talking about Ralphs aroundhere. Okay, So let's define a
Thanksgiving movie. You have your obviouschoices, like Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving and planes,
trains and automobiles, and then shamelessmovies that would never get made unless
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they were tied to a holiday wheresomeone might actually watch them, like Friends
Giving or the Turkey Bawl. Yeahright, there was a movie called friends
Giving. It's out there, itis. Was that like a straight to
like you know, streaming, orlike a lifetime something with like what's her
name? Who was paying for kidsto go to USC You know, it's
like the they had like a NewYear's movie out there with Cameron Diaz,
a Valentine's Day movie out there withCameron Diaz. Things. Now, my
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standard, just like what qualifies asa Christmas movie is any movie that takes
place around the holiday and the fourI'm giving you will certainly do, all
right, I will, and Ifeel like you answer this every year.
But just for those who haven't heard, so, what if it's a movie
where let's say it starts around Christmascount or Thanksgiving, so it counts and
touches it, it could be onthe peripheral. I got you, all
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right, Uh, some of theseyou may not have heard of, but
most of these I probably haven't heardof. Knowing me, they work,
trust me, they work like mashedpotatoes and gravy, plus a little stuffing
and maybe even just a little bitof cranberry sauce. No, no cranberry
sauce whatsoever. Out I welcome itin smaller portions, absolutely pointless. Get
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that trash off my plate, okay, fire garbage, and like the deviled
eggs or pigs in a blanket,whatever appetisers you like on Thanksgiving. My
movies have a viewing order, okay, So to start with Pieces of April.
Why because it will serve and sternwarning to that one racist uncle that
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you were hoping didn't show up butdid and is already drunk off spiked egg
nog. That shows he's the badegg and the family with some unwonted remarks
maybe at the dinner table. Butif you put on Pieces of April first,
he'll see the beauty in diversity.In Kitty Holmes as she introduces her
family to her black boyfriend for thefirst time while having everyone over for Thanksgiving,
it's PG. Thirteen, so youdon't have to worry about any lifetime
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movie. Soft ass shit it hashumor and heart and prime. Katie Holmes
just coming off of Dawson's Creek inthe series finale in her acting career.
I might add that was a prettygood series finale. But this was a
pre scientology Katie Holmes. It washead was on straight. Yeah, it
wasn't poisoned and manipulated by Tom Cruise, but her cooking skills they needed help
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in Pieces of April, and soshe goes to ask her African American neighbors
for some assistance with the bird.Who is it? Hi, I'm in
a three C. I need somehelp. Hi, I have a problem.
It's the new girl. Three Csays, she's got a problem.
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What problems, Eugene, The girl'sgot problems. She's white. She got
her youth, her whole privileged lifeahead of her. Ah, I am
looking forward to hearing about her problems. So that's the short version. Oh
(36:22):
my god, damn. If Itold you the long version, you wouldn't
have cried Apparely, she did havesome problems even for the title White Girl.
It's on HBO, Max and Hulucurrently. Pieces and knowing how to
season food properly is a problem,and it cannot break up many relationships,
so that is that's very important.The second course, movie number two.
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There's a movie I've always liked todescribe as the Big Lebowski of documentaries.
This Midwesterner group, they're so unintentionallyfunny. If you're gravy is thin enough
to be shooting at your nose.It's called American Movie. It's from nineteen
ninety nine, and the motley crewof characters friends and family who are trying
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to pull off a black and whitehorror short called COVID in this documentary,
which actually, when I watched itkind of worked, which was shocking considering
the people involved. But here's aclip from the director, not of the
documentary, but the guy who's tryingto do the short film that they are
documenting. Here's Mark explaining his visionfor the movie COVID while his high musician
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friend Mike, who sadly died recently. Oh no, ohd don't weed.
Maybe I don't know, but he'sstanding next to him first, probably as
they're being interviewed by the documentarians,who somehow kept a straight face or at
least didn't laugh close enough to theboom Mike here, because I would have
right now we got to take action, man. We got to go out
to that field. Put those scarecrowsin on a killer slant. You know,
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they've been there for years. Thefarm's burnt down. It's going to
be the opening shots for Covin,you know. And uh, what is
co Covin's thirty five minute direct marketthriller film shot on sixteen millimeters black and
white reversal. It's an alcoholic mancompelled to go to this group meeting by
his one and only friends left.But they're not that helpful to group,
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you know, you know about thegroup thing. Yeah, okay, so
that's what we're doing a film on, Like Covid, Man, we got
to get the sucker done though.Seriously, last night, man, I
was so drunk. I was callingMorocco. Man calling, trying to get
the Hotel Hilton at Tangiers in CastaBlanca. Man, that's I mean,
that's that's pathetic. Man. Isthat what you want to do with your
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life? Suck down peppermin schnops andtry to call Morocco at two in the
morning. That's senseless, But that'swhat happens. Man. I was listening
to a Fargo for a second therewith that accent. So what happens?
Then she's hit drunk off peppermin stops. Ah. I love these guys.
The interviews of this are funnier thananything you'll see in the office or a
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documentary, and they're real. Thesefools are trying in earnest to make a
good horror movie about a guy atAA with a group that's not so helpful.
Why wasn't this included in my horriblylong Halloween list of movies to watch
in October? Since they're making ashort horror film. Well, it takes
place during Christmas and Thanksgiving? Uhhuh, so it qualifies. Okay,
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you can rent it on Apple TVand Amazon Prime right now. The third
movie is more of a slow burn, as you're slowly digesting the meal by
now and getting a little tired andwant to relax and watch Ang Lee's indie
white suburban drama that your racist unclehas to appreciate. The Ice Storm.
It's got swinger couples in it,and you might even see someone else's wife's
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nipple if you can possibly look aboveChristina Ricci's forehead, because she's in it
along with Elijah Wood. They havesome weird sex together. They kind of
look like a turduccant or something.Here's a fun scene around the Thanksgiving table
between this dysfunctional family where the dad, Kevin Klein, tries to get in
the holiday spirit before Christina. Sheshows off her wokeness before we even had
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a word for it when this moviecame out. Well, it's great that
we can all be together and thisThanksgiving. No yelling, no hysteria,
especially with your grandpa not here.We'll we miss him. So let's do
it right. And Wendy, whydon't you say grace? You should love
to say grace. Remember, DearLord, thank you for this Thanksgiving holiday
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and for all the material possessions thatwe have and enjoy, and for letting
us white people kill all the Indiansand steal their tribal lands and stuff ourselves
like pigs, even though children Jesusenough, all right, Paul, thank
you thought she was inaccurate. Butwe can convenient truce there, Paul.
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By the way, the sun isTobey Maguire, so oh, pretty good
cast. It's on Showtime right now. You can rent it on Google Play,
Amazon, Apple TV, all ofthem now, believe it or not.
The last movie in my Thanksgiving fouror some of is even more controversial
and suspect than any of that behaviorI talked about in the Ice Storm.
If the kids aren't put to bedfor this one, you're gonna create another
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crazy anfal They will end up dementedindividuals if they watch Thanks Killing. It's
a so bad it's a good slashercomedy involving a killer turkey who's out for
revenge on the holiday and has flippedthe tables on everyone trying to kill and
eat him and turkeys. The turkey'sevil and also likes to taunt it's victims
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too. So listen to this mixtapeof turkey trash talk I put together from
Thanks Killing. I'm gonna drink yourblood like cranberry sauce. Gobble gobble,
motherfucker. It looks like I've gotsomething you don't got, Turkey. What's
that? Darren of Vagina? You'redone? Bitch? Sounds like bads.
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It sounds like a bad video game. Actually, Like wait, so is
this a real turkey? Is justlike some it's like a little atoms,
like a little puppet they use,Yeah, atronic baby, I don't know.
They didn't exactly have Jim Henson oh, got you all right? So
this is probably put this in thecategory of after you're drunk and or a
high, you turn this one onlate night? Gotcha doing pleasure? Okay?
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Good? Believe it or not.It's free to b would be one
of them Amazon Prime. Just googleit on YouTube or something to show up.
Now there's my Thanksgiving foursome. Heythere it is Kevin Nice. I
like it. I know we didit last year, but who cares I've
done in the last couple of years. Thanks Killing I still have not watched
yet. By the way, Ineed to get on that. I haven't
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watched the third one. They jumpedright to Thanks Killing three. There's no
two. They went Thanks Killing ThanksKilling three. They just killed the second
already. Well they're gonna someone's tryingto get extra creative here. It's like,
oh, we'll go back in thetimeline and do our whole. It's
like Star Wars. You know,that's some stupid shit I would do.
That was trying to be smart.They're trying way too hard. But it's
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a fun movie. Actually, ifyou're almost passed out a little bit faded,
enjoy it. Yeah, why notenjoy all of them? I just
might I just might. We'll see. I think it's on Amazon Prime perfect
the paid or the free free,well, if you have it, If
you have Prime, I use Amazonso much, I just accept that everyone
else must just as that they haveit, because I know Amazon primes say
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like, oh, you can watchthe Black Friday Game, which is a
dog shit game, mostly because AaronRodgers is hurt. I think that's Jets
Dolphins, by the way, andthat thinks, oh, you can watch
it for free on Amazon Prime.It was like, well for free,
meeting, if you don't pay forAmazon Prime, you can watch it or
for free, meaning you don't haveto pay extra if you already have Amazon
Prime. And that's why I'm confused, and that might be in the fine
print somewhere. I'm not sure.I just Amazon Prime two days shipping man.
(43:44):
Yeah, I mean, I takeit, right, I use it
so often all the time, right, Yeah owns me, well, it
owns half the world at this point, as basically, so, thank you
guys for listening. Much appreciate it. Thank you for all of your support.
Thank you, Bree, We're comingin as always. Thank you guys.
If you watch any of those moviesand enjoy them or have other thoughts.
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guys. Have a happy Thanksgiving.I'll talk to you next week. That's
pathetic, man, Is that whatyou want to do with your life?
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Sucked on peppermin schnaps and try tocall Morocco at two in the morning.
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Man Wednesday? I think that's howwe do it, right the hell you
at? When I was sitting atthat Blaze Pizza, where the hell was
Lebron Adams out there getting blazed hopingto get him some pizza to Cira's munchies?
Is that the thing about that pizzayou have to be high. I've
never had it, so I can'tspeak to it. I don't know.
I'm sure it tastes better that way. What's the theory? Is just like
(01:08):
fast food pizza, something you orderit They just throw some topics on a
piece of bread and like flame itup for about five seconds and it's ready.
Yeah. I think you go throughthe line and kind of build your
own pizza type of things like subwaystyle. Yeah, exactly, all right,
Uh, but it's probably better thansubway, I gotta say, is
not very hot trying to hate asponsor. I'm a Jersey guy, true,
(01:30):
same. I Uh, what elsedo I like? Beach Hut Delhi.
I don't know if you guys familiarthat. They got them up in
Norcyle. There's like one in Coasta, Mesa down here. Beach Hut Deli
to goes also better than the subway. You don't see to goes that often
anymore. No, they're hard tofind. They didn't have a five dollars
foot long, you know, it'shard to compete with that, you know
who. I liked Quiznos. Ilike a lot of business. There's a
(01:55):
Quiznos right up the street from myold place here in Burbank, and they
closed about maybe five years ago,and I was like, damn it.
They had the black Angus sandwich thatwas amazing with the steak on it,
like the horse Radish Shaws Oh itwas so good. Yeah. Now was
it overpriced absolutely? Oh yeah,but it's the reason they went out of
business. Yeah, it was thirteendollars for a small Yeah. But Quiznos,
(02:17):
they were the first to do thehot, crazy basty sandwich. Well,
I see that's what got himcause Subwayhe was already established. It was
like, oh, maybe we shouldarttoasting our subs, And that's what put
him out of buiness. Yeah,they all jumped on. You couldn't just
patent heating things up. You can'tpatent fire, I guess because she can't.
That was disappointing because I loved Quiznos. That was one of my favorite
chains. Out of business. There'sone that's up in nor Cow. It's
(02:40):
like the last Blockbuster, the lastthere's one left I know of up in
nor Cow. And I thought aboutdriving up just because I'm such a fat
ass, just to get Quiznos thereand relived two thousand and five memories going
your own Herold and Kumar Adventure Hunt. Yeah, I forget White Casts,
I'm going to the Quiznos way.We know how I feel about in and
out. I would say White Castleactually overrated as well. Even if you
(03:05):
are drunk or high or both.Nothing special about white Castle. Wait a
second, have you had it atwhite Castle? Or just can the freezer?
You know, microwave can honestly say, I've never actually been in to
a brick and mortar white Castle.I've only had the freezer version. I
hear it's different. Now, haveyou been No? Okay, but I
(03:25):
like the microwave too. Yeah,that's like I just can't believe you can
microwave a burger and he'd even tastethat good. I've given like some credit
for that. I guess there's there'salso not a lot to it. It's
a little patty, a couple ofbuns and some onions and that's it.
Those onions though, and then youcan add your own mustard. I get
(03:46):
the cheeseburger one. But yeah,I used to do a lot of white
Castle. Now there was like acertain technique so the buns wouldn't harden too
much after you microwave them, becauseyou could fuck that up there. Absolutely
good. Yeah, yeah, thatwas a disaster if you different times.
But sorry, why are we talkingabout fining so much? With Thanksgiving is
tomorrow? I have no idea.Yeah, because you'll talk about Thanksgiving foods
(04:08):
once. By the way, speakingof that, Dan Campbell, who I
guess we can get into if we'regonna talk some NFL FA here on the
show by the way, by theway, yes, we'll talk some NFL.
But first, since it is Thanksgiving, if you like to work backwards
special Thanksgiving Geek News Today, Adam, Yeah, you know what, We're
gonna blow out our favorite Thanksgiving moviesin the second segment. Yeah, maybe
(04:28):
a replay of something we've done before, but that's because it's tradition stands the
test of time. Yeah, it'sjust like this freaking Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving,
right, it just holds up.It's part of the uh, I don't
know, season of Giving and everythingelse. So enjoy it. Our Thanksgiving
movies are not Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving.Are not playing trains and automobiles. These
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are deep cuts and we'll play clipsfrom each one of them, and you
better watch one of them mat tomorrowor Friday. Did you add in the
Brand News spanking Haunted Pilgrim whatever moviethat is. I have no idea.
Breeze here too, by the way, ibree it's called Thanksgiving. And Patrick
Dempsey's in it. I want tosee it, and that's like a horror
(05:09):
movie that I don't like horror movies, but I do want to see that
one because Patrick nose Job, youwant to see it? My god,
how dare you you have one?So, Jennifer Anderson, we're not gonna
talk about her Leprechaun. You rememberwhy she looked then? It was different?
It was different. A nose jobcan sense a nose joba a nose
nose? So what's it called?The Haunted Turkey called Thanksgiving? Oh,
(05:30):
it's just call Thanksgiving. Okay,that's simple enough, all right. Yeah,
so I'm guessing that didn't make thecut there at them when they get
that title. No, I gotone called thanks Killing though, Okay,
we'll talk about that. One ofour favorites for sure. Yeah. That's
the nightcap. I do it insequence of when you should watch these movies?
At what point you should watch theseThanksgiving movies? I think I got
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four of them for you, theThanksgiving Forsome something like that. Fourth,
I don't know what. So theseare things you should be watching during the
day if you're not a football fan, is what it is like. This
is what you watch for breakfast.This is what you watch for lunch and
then dinner and then your late nightsnack. Yeah, or if your team's
getting their ass beat, we'll talkabout some of those. This often happens.
It could be some backroab a coupleof times coming up on Thursday.
(06:13):
Yeah, so we'll talk about that. We'll give you the Thanksgiving traditional movies
coming up. All right, good, well, you know what, let's
do some NFLF. Yeah. Idon't know if it's quite a six pack
Blackie Bingham talking to you, butit's some NFL nonethless, so let's get
to it. One of the headlineson the announcement to starting quarterback, I
got, well, starting quarterback hadn'tgotten hurt the last twelve hours, So
that's an update. That's good.That's a rarity. Yeah, these days,
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although on a Thursday, yeah,there probably will be some injuries because
Thursday Night Football. As much asI should get old takes exposed for this
because I do like the idea ofplaying more football games that are isolated to
a premium slot, to a primetimeslot, so you can focus in on
one game like we have Monday NightFootball, like we have Sunday Night Football.
(06:59):
The idea of Thursday Night Football isgreat. The execution of Thursday Night
football doesn't always work. I sacrificingsomething. The more and more you get,
it's amazing the sloppy play out there. Teams don't look the same,
injuries to more injuries. Well me, look, you're not gonna put the
toothpaste back in the tube now,because now there's money. What did Amazon
pay a billion dollars or something likethat for the Thursday Night package? Lying
(07:25):
her ass off, just taking downsports journalism one game at a time,
which I think that cool. Butyou said that I have no idea what
she was doing. I went aftermy stupid NBA report even hey, guys,
you could trust me, I wouldn'tdo it. CHRISA. Thompson does
make up a report because you canhear the audio I'm about to play from
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coach lou Yeah, how would Amazonallow her to actually ankle the coverage that
night? And I was just like, well, who you're going to replace
it with? At the last minute, But I'd let Fitzpatrick Fitzmagic host.
He's pretty good. It was definitelyunbecoming of a summer veteran sports cast who's
been around for a while. Doyou think she'll get resigned, you think
they'll bring her back. No,they're just waiting for this story to uh
get what pushed under the rug.That's not gonna happen. You're saying,
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now, well, you've also upsetpeople within the industry. There's one thing
to just upset fans. They can'tyou know, we can't control one way
or the other. But if you'reactually media members, other peers within the
fan base, or peers within yourprofession who were saying, like, you're
basically bastardizing a job that many ofus take very seriously and work really hard
to get these reports, and like, I mean even I forget exactly that.
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Maybe it was Molly McGrath. Shewas like, there have been times
where coaches don't talk to me cool. I'll tell them, you know,
I listened in and they overheard this, or I try to talk to somebody
else, so I just try tofind another angle without saying that I did
that. I just made something up, assistant coach whatever, right, find
somebody if you guys don't know.CHRISA. Thompson came out on Barstool I
think it was, and said shewas making up reports during her sideline reporting
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days at times when she couldn't getthe coach to talk to her, so
she would just say generic things andeverybody bought it. Why because oftentimes we
do get a generic stuff, soit it undermines her own profession the job.
But it also kind of speaks toyou know, how often we actually
do get a juicy nugget. ButI still want sometimes you still think it's
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an important job. Yes, younever know or coaches ornery. He's angry,
he's going into the half like I'veheard this one before. The kids
are playing their tailor and the tunesare screwing it up. Sideline interview.
That's what we're here for. Speakingof R I P. Bobby Knight.
(09:39):
I mean, he's a big partof our show. What we haven't talked
about it, No, we havenot. That happened what three weeks ago
now just just yeah, And youcould say it's unbecoming to play these soundbites,
but I think that kind of encompassesBobby Knight was just Bobby Knight in
general. So in many ways hewas the greatest uh swearer, cursor,
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child choker, excuse me, youngadult. The kid was like eighteen or
nineteen, so he wasn't actually achild, so forgive me. No,
it's it's fairy. Who's who's justgonna argue chair thrower. Yeah, there's
a lot of sides to everyone.Yeah, down playing a woman and being
(10:24):
sexually assaulted, saying they should justsit there and let it happen. I
didn't know about that part. Ohoh yeah, all right, there was
a laundry list of things. Well, he was like, no one's gonna
speak ill of the dead, andI was like, well some did,
so that's for as many good things. And look, he did a lot
of good things. A lot ofthe players that played for him swore by
him and said they wouldn't have beenthe players that they were if it wasn't
for him. He was a greatcoach, you can, but like most
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of us, complicated, you know, there's duality there. We don't have
to lionize everyone after they passed.Yeah, there was not that simple that
they were a perfect person. Thethings are going to come out out after
me, after after I die.I mean, you guys are gonna be
shocked. It's gonna be crazy,dedicated, just Adam, and then we'll
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finally blow up on f and A. All right, NFL not a six
pack, but we can talk aboutsome headlines, and we're gonna preview all
three games tomorrow and get you preppedand ready. And maybe I got the
lines for all these games. Actually, Bree, can you go to Bovada
and make sure I'm up to dateon these lines for all three games tomorrow
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because we want to be on thesame page here Right now, I'm looking
at the Packers, who are goingto be in Detroit as always in Detroit
with Rob Parker and all them asthe Lions hosts them. And actually the
Lions are good this year and peopleare still having a hard time wrapping their
brain around that to not easy,especially with Dan Campbell with the way he
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talks and a lot of people calledhim Fred Flintstone. Yeah, the meaead
you know, biting ankle, whichhe probably would actually take as a term
of endearment if you call him ameathead. Guys play hard for him,
they do, what else matters?Yeah, he's kind of the antithesis of
like the smart guy glasses and allthe you know, going forward on fourth
down, and but she is veryThe weird part about him is he's aggressive,
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but it's not from us. It'snot like a Brandon Staley, like,
oh, this is the numbers andwe're going by it. He's just
like, we're more physical than you. We're gonna kick your fucking ass.
And here it is fourth and threeand we're gonna run it on fourth and
three and get a first down.Chargers right down your throat? Is he
the Bobby Niders kind of football different? It's a different vibe with him,
and like even like Schwartz had goodteams of Detroit, but this feels different.
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For some reason. It does.I don't know why. Well,
they got steady quarterback play. Iknow we threw three picks last week Jared
Goff Chicago Bears, and you knowwhat, he found a way to come
back and play better in the fourthquarter. That's something that Jared Goff here
in Los Angeles never would have done. He just would have wilted it and
kept on playing shitty. That's fair. They overcame a twelve point deafis to
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win that ballgame over the Bears.They scored the final seventeen points to complete
the comeback. Winning last week thirtyone to twenty six. The Packers also
won. Now, speaking of BrandonStaley, it was against the Chargers.
It was a close game, soyou kind of knew the Packers were going
to win. Chargers always, bythe way, regardless who the coach is,
this goes back to Anthony and MikeMcCoy. You name it, Shottenneimer,
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Yeah, everybody, it's the curseof the Chargers. It's for whatever
reason, they have these spectacular offenses, but they can never get it done.
And the defense, even with adefensive genius or a guru. Coming
off his one season as the defensivecoordinator for the Rams, his defenses have
not been like above, like thetop twenty eight his old time with the
Chargers heard, he pushed back atthe press conference plost game, I didn't
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hear the audio, Kevin, youdidn't hear the audio? Could you like
me to find the audio for you? Well, if you want to give
me a half a second, yeah, I'll let you find so. By
the way, I will say,I understand his frustration because a lot of
questions are like should you continue tocall defensive play? Should you which things
He's been asked the last two orthree weeks. You know why, because
the defense is terrible as the teamkeeps losing, but and their defense is
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usually the one that doesn't get itdone. But it's not always the defense.
And when I find the SoundBite,he kind of alludes to it himself
in this In this bite, becausethere's drop passes left and right, Quentin
Johnston dropped it would have been thegame winning pass, basically running down the
sideline like that's not that's not onthe defense. So because the drop pass
from Keenan Allen in the end zone, he was looking at the sun,
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Austin Eckler fumbled the ball when they'rebasically knocking on the door of the end
zones. I mean, those arethings that are just outside of, you
know, the defense's control. Butlast week was probably not the game to
go off to Brandon Staley. No, but the problem is when you've had
all of these things building up againstyou over the last couple of years,
it just compounds. So here isa short little montage of his answers to
some of the questions from the pressconference. All of the questions are being
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asked off Mike, so we don'thave the actual questions. It would sound
bad, so but you can hearjust the you know, I'll just let
you play it and you determine howyou feel, how you think at Brandon
Staley feel's being asked about these questionsafter yet another charge or loss. Every
week. Every week we're talking aboutfundamentals. Every week, we show them
the officiating videos. Every week,we're talking about it, and so all
we can continue to do is emphasizeit. And I know that our coaching
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staff is doing that. I knowthat the message is getting across. We're
not getting the execution on the field. I have full confidence, like I've
told you, and like I toldyou from the beginning, I have full
confidence in our way of playing.Full confidence in myself is the play caller
and the way that we teach andthe way that we scheme. Full confidence
in that we got to bring thisgroup together and do it consistently. Okay,
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And that's where it's at. Soyou can stop asking that question.
Okay. I'm going to be callingthe defenses, okay, so we're clear,
so you don't have to ask thatagain. I'm not here to talk
to the fan base. I'm hereto talk to my players the locker room.
I know that we give ourselves achance to win every single week with
the game plans that we have.Okay, and we have done it here.
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You guys act like we've never playedgood defense. That's not the truth.
That's not the truth. You actlike we haven't made any improvements today.
In the run game, we playedoutstanding, We're rushing the quarterback well.
What we got to do a betterjob of is in the passing game,
and that's where our full attention is. It's where it will continue to
be. There were a lot ofother things that cause us to lose today.
It certainly wasn't our defense. Itwas the way we played as a
team. We didn't play well enoughon the red zone. On offense,
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we dropped too many passes, Kate. We gave up a few killer sacks.
Kate. We did this as ateam. Stop making it about one
unit, because that's not what happenedout there today. Our team lost and
I am fully responsible for it andI take full responsibility. But we lost
as a team today, and that'sthe storyline. When you start pounding the
podium, you know, yeah,I heard a few different things there.
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We lost the team. I heardthat, And he does sound like he's
getting really emotional towards the end ofit. He's had enough. He reached
the breaking point. Well, thefans have reached a breaking point with him
like last year. Oh, hedoesn't care about the fans. He guess
about the team that was not.Antonio Peers is standing in front of the
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cross. Hey, we need JohnRader nahould come out. We need a
homeefit of advantage all being great,I need John to keep coming. And
then Brandon Staley is like, Idon't care about the dam fans. I
want to talk about our team.And the beginning of that was like the
opposite of this, the kids areplaying their tail off and their coaches are
screwing it. He basically said,the coaches are playing their tail off and
the kids or the players are screwingit up. He said, we coached
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them up. They have to execute. That's when the Lincoln Riley handbook.
That's going well for him right nowtoo. By the way, look he
has a point on that one gamebecause of the drop passes, because of
they just miscues out there. Theplayers they have to be made. Yeah,
the Austin Eckler fumble in the redzone, and to his point,
they are in I think they're likefourth or fifth, maybe even slightly higher
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in sacks. So you're sacking thequarterback. But your overall defensive numbers are
still bad, which is really hardto do. They give up big chunks,
yeah, they give up those bigexplosive plays, and that his defense
is designed around stopping those plays,by the way, correct, So it's
completely on him. But I mean, if you're gonna go out, go
out banging the table. I don'tknow how did Chargers catch as stray here?
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Oh, because we were talking aboutthe Lions. The Lions beat him
recently, correct, and the Packersjust beat him last week. So their
last two losses are the winners thatare taking on each other on Thursday in
the early game. Packers and lineCharges, by the way, are four
and six. They have the thirdworst record in the AFC. Who just
saw that coming? I well,you know, I just don't. I
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know, this ownership group has traditionallylet coaches finish out the season, but
I don't know if that's going tohappen this year. I think if they
lose the next two day Sunday Nightagainst Baltimore, and especially if it's not
pretty, it would not surprise meor Brandon Staley doesn't make it through Monday,
not after what I just heard thereand him going after the fans,
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I would not surprise. I don'tdo it for the fans. Like,
first of all, Brandy, youonly got six fans anyway, Like,
so you're not helping your cause witha small contingent as it is. Like,
sorry, Charger fans. If you'relistening, the Staley defenders the stalely
stands, that's a rare stage.Yeah, I don't think many of them
exist right now. All right,So Green Bay is one to four in
games outside of Lambeau and the gameagainst the Chargers was the one at home,
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but they have won two of theirlast three games. Jordan Love's coming
off his best game ever as aquarterback. Now was that good for him
or an indictment on the Chargers?Probably about the Chargers, But I I
like I like the way Detroit playsbecause the way they finish off that game
with their defense getting the safety againstthe Bears like they get after it.
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I like Detroit in this game.Bri what's the spread though, what's the
line? Seven and a half?Seven point five? It's wow, almost
eight almost eight points? Now.Thanksgiving games can be weird sometimes we've seen
it. The better team, theteam that's overwhelming, better than than the
others, which I don't think it'stoo much of a stress to say that
Detroit is overwhelmingly better than Green Baythis year, but you never know.
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I like them. Detroit has whatthree losses total, They haven't had a
lot of great wins. They don'thave the they're better than the Giants,
so I don't want to compare themto the Giants of last season. But
they have a pretty shitty schedule thisyear, which helped. They are a
good team, but it helps thefact that their schedule is not the hardest.
I wonder if they would have thisrecord if they have like the schedule
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the Eagles have. Let's say,who are just going through They're getting ready
to go through murderers roll. Theyjust beat Kansas City, and they have
like a string of tough ones,like five of the next six weeks.
And Detroit's best win was Week one, correct, that was impressive, but
it was also weak one and itwas ugly, you know, lines of
one, seven of eight. I'mgonna take them, though, to cover
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with the points. If I hadtwo, I would to, honestly,
because I know Detroit can run theball. I know they're great defensively.
Green Bay can have flashes here andthere. They're actually Green Bay is really
solid defensively. They're not great,but they some talent over there. They're
solid offensively. I just do nottrust them, especially against a quality defense.
They've struggled at times this year.So the twenty first in points scored
twenty per game, and I'm surprisedthat they're that high. So it's a
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good point, all right. Sowe both have the Lions there, But
then your Cowboys Kevin coming up laterin the second game on Fox. It's
my quarterback, Dak Prescott's having apretty good season. I'd say, yeah,
you want to tell me about it, especially against shitty teams. Are
you talking about my Panthers now?Are you talking about my Panthers like that?
You know what? Although your Panthersagain, well that's not what I
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meant. Uh yeah, yeah,Hey, your Panthers were in it until
the end of the third quarter.Then it all kind of went to hell.
My Panthers dominated the Dallas Cowboys.We beat them twice in the playoffs
in ninety six and oh three.What's up now? You sound like Laker
fans about what happened in the pastautum years ago and we won three in
a row and it's early two thousands. What you mean, I don't know,
I'm different. Oh yeah, itwas totally different, all right,
to change you different. The Cowboysof Panthers ring, I think that they
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actually had we do our moral victories, more defeats, all that stuff.
A couple of weeks ago and theywere in Philadelphia and they were down bad
and had a hell of a comebackattempt and almost beat the Eagles. I
thought was big for them because upuntil that point they had not played well
against quality competition. The forty nineers ran them off the field and they
lost to Arizona, which I chalkedit up to like a random week in
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the NFL. Bad teams are gonnaget you every now. Then, Arizona's
been competitive even before getting Colin Murrayback a couple of weeks ago, So
I really could care so much aboutthat one. This Dallas team is kind
of what they've always been, tobe honest with you. They can beat
anybody anyway. They're probably going tobeat up on terrible teams, and then
when it's a good team, it'skind of a crapshoot. Yeah. Now,
I look against Washington who has someoffensive talent. Their offensive line is
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just terrible, and every banem's notdoing himself any favors if he has designs
of being a head coach, becausethis offense as overall has been shitty.
Sam Hall, I think as ofnow, is on pace to break David
Carr's record of most times being sackedin a career. He's been for a
single season fifty one times. Soyou can't even I don't know how much
of the Commanders you've watched this year, he actually individually hasn't looked that bad.
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He just has no time to throw. Yeah, he's I mean teller.
Terry mclaurin's a good player. Theyhave some solid offensive talent, but
the guy is running for his life. So I can't even give if this
was gonna be an assessment year forhow I will say it's inconclusive because you
definitely see there's talent, but whenyou just have no chance to throw,
you're getting sacked within five you know, five quarters of a second after you
snap the ball, you're hapless.And so going against that Dallas front with
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Michaeh Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence, it'snot gonna be pretty for the Commanders on
Sunday. Well, and Dallas hasthe second highest scoring offense at thirty point
two points per game. Now,scoring fifty points and forty eight points or
whatever it was against the Giants willhelp you with that inflated. But Washington's
defense and gives up an NFL worsetwenty seven points seven points per game.
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So it seems like Dallas's offense couldfeast. While we're on that. Since
you're talking, you mentioned your Panthers. No, I did not. Ron
Rivera, who I like. Itseems like a nice man and all that.
He's probably one of the most overratedcoaches in the last decade. Yeah
for real. He had what fourwinning seasons I think in Carolina, went
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to the Super Bowl one time.Outside of that, he's Jeff Fisher.
Look look up his career records.He is mister seven and nine. Not
granted, Washington is a hard job. You're going through the ownership transition.
Dan Snyder is a piece of shit. All that stuff, I get it.
Zero stability under center, that doesn'tyet and so that definitely hurts to
a certain degree. But this isyour bread and butter. You have your
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all star defensive coordinator, Jack delRio in there. That's both of you
guys are defensive gurus and your defensehas been that bad for the last few
years. Yeah, you know that'sfair. You have all these first round
picks on your defensive line. Youjust shipped one off to San Francisco,
and Chase Young is probably gonna turninto like a beast. You know,
Like you guys just haven't been ableto get it done. It's specifically on
your side of the ball. Andso I like Ron Rivera, but maybe
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this head coaching thing, at leastas of right now, ain't for him,
with this idea that he's like he'sthe most one of the more revered
head coaches and he's so great andhe's there's nothing great. There's nothing special
about Ron the river Bourne. Ronis a misnomer because he's one of the
most unaggressive coaches in the NFL,at least his in his Washington tenure.
He has been in Carolina, hedefinitely went forward a lot on fourth downs.
But I haven't I haven't paid attentionenough in Washington because there hasn't been
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much reasons. Oh yeah, there'sthey're very whole hum. They're as boring
of a franchise. If not coveringas many games of the NFC East,
just doing all the Cowboy games thatI do, I probably wouldn't be watching
them either. The most notable thingis they changed their name. That that's
how you remember most about the WashingtonCommanders. Now over the last five seasons,
right and river, about ron istaking on Water, I get it
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quickly. So Cowboys, what's thespread? Breeze and a half? Ooh,
it's a lot. Here's one thingI will say about Washington. Two
of the more competitive games they hadthis year was against Philadelphia, who's far
and away the best team in theNFC and probably the best team in the
NFL. Despite some of their shortcomings. They have one loss. So the
Commanders are a team that can,you know, compete with you and be
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scrappy at times. Divisional game.Yeah, so twelve and a half,
I think I'd go with the Commanders. I don't think they win. I'll
think there's a chance they win.But you're telling me almost two touchdowns.
You never tell me the odds.Yeah no, no, no, no,
no, no, all right,all right, I'm gonna take Dallas.
We're gonna take them boys. Abig line in the NFL. I
don't like it, but I don'tI don't love it the other way either.
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I don't know. I just Dallasis I go back to Dallas's offense
and how bad Washington's been on defense, and things could get out of hand
early. Uh, but you doknow Dallas very well, know what.
I don't care. I'm taking awaytake it. I like it. They're
gonna cover. We'll see and you'regonna like it, dammit. All right.
Last one, forty nine Ers atSeahawks and the Niners. I thought
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at one point early in the seasonthey might win fifteen games. Now they've
only lost three. They're seven andthree. They're all consecutive and after losing
three straight. Yeah, they've kindof ride the ship. They've gotten it
together. They look good against theBuccaneers last week. They looked very good
against the Jacksonville Jaguars, which isa quality team. By the way.
Yeah, Jacksonville is gonna win thatvision. Jacksonville is dangerous. Doesn't say
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much. And I don't know.They might not. Houston might win that
division. CJ. Stroud is gettingsome MVP love right now. He's got
He's far and away gonna be theRookie of the Year. That's definitely gonna
happen. They already beat Jacksonville inJacksonville, and I think Houston plays Jacksonville
hosts him this weekend, so that'sgonna be a big game in that division.
You know who's become one of myfavorite players because I like the grinders
and the underdogs. Gino Smith.I just think he's a badass. The
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way he came out for that finaldrive after hurting his arm or we don't
know if he's gonna play tomorrow yetright, most likely not. I don't
think I was impressed. I justlove to see a guy who's been through
so much knocked out in the lockerroom that's been fast over multiple times.
And that line he had they wroteme off, I didn't right back.
It's an all timer, baby.Oh I thought the line you were talking
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about, Oh my god, whenAaron Donald was running after him and he
threw the ball away from earlier thisyear, Wow, not that line.
We all would have had that.I probably would have said, like,
oh shit, yeah, I likeSan Francis go on this one. Seattle
Is I had a tough go over. Recently, Gino Smith has taking a
bit of a half step back thisyear, turning the ball over a little
bit more frequently. Kenneth Walker,I think is hurt again, so it
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doesn't help their running game. Anddefensively they're very good. They're very good.
But San Francisco, I think isanother level. What's the line here?
Eight just straight too high, that'stoo high for me. Seattle,
Seattle's way too scrab and the factthat they just lost to the Rams and
a tough one. They got sweptby the Rams. That can come up
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huge from a you know, playoffstandpoint. McVeigh owns Pete Carroll. He
does, he has dominated him andhad to head matchups. Seattle leads the
NFC West on a tiebreaker right now, so the Niners do need this.
But what's funny is Seattle could thenif they lose this game, their playoff
odds can drop well little fifty percentdepending on some other outcomes coming up this
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week in Week twelve, so alot on the line. Yeah, I
kind of like Seattle to cover that, but I want to know if Gino
is under center. If Gino's undercenter, I'm taking Seattle with those points.
If Drew Locke gets confirmed as thestarter of the line might jump to
eight or to eighteen. Excuse me, it's you see Drew Locke in there
last week against the Rams. Yeah, it was bad. Didn't they trade
for him to be the starter?Sounds about right. That's the second time
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that happened under Pete Carroll. Thetrade. Who were they trade for?
Who was the former LSU quarterback thatat a great run with the Packers?
He had like two games Matt Flynn. Flynn, Matt Flynn who had the
sixth he had the all time passingrecord in one game for the Green Bay
Packers over Aaron Rodgers, over BrettFavre. And then he goes to like
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I think it was ten million dollarsor something like that. They brought him
in four and he got beat outby Russell Willis, rookie Russell Wilson.
The same situation kind of happened herewith Gino Smith and Drew Locke last year
going into the season. Yeah,all right, so we both have the
only one we differ on is thecow the Cowboys. I think that I
think, come the Commanders cover thetwelve. Now, look, they might
still lose by ten, I'd seeit. You know, maybe they get
a backdoor cover in there somewhere.He's gonna be close. You can be
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but we'll see, we shall see, all right, not bad, Thanks
for the help there, good lookingout. You just gotta shake your head.
You got okay, But that's mynew nickname? You got it?
Is that gonna turn into a thing. You're gonna start giving out picks?
Oh boy, she's the queen ofthe nicknames, by the way she is.
You do have a talent for that. I'm not gonna lie a brief
(30:25):
friend of everything like I'm out ofa film and you tomorrow and be like
this is what the bree Grums wouldhave had, you know, favorite side
dish, dressing slash stuffing, dependingon where you come from. Oh okay,
okay, I'm going green and beancastrole nice. Anything that has sweet
potatoes in it, steet potato mashor sweet potato plane love sweet potatoes sweet
(30:48):
potato po is pretty good. Butsee, that's a dessert that wouldn't be
a side for me at least.Is candy yams a dessert or a side
side? I think most people treatit as a side more than a dessert.
Hot dog sandwich, don't want todo it don't worry, it's not
mid July yet. We can savethat for the sports Ark radio to be
for that. Now everything that thetime you've all been waiting for. Though,
I'm excited about this Adam's Thanksgiving platterof movies that you guys need to
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be watching on Thursday. Once theNFL games are all blowouts. Yeah,
which they might be, it's verypossible enjoy these movies. Nurs you're playing
D and D tonight, you wantto come Case's guys, because we're all
won't be choose that. I've beenchying online with Babs all day. Just
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keep your power clubs off her raceKendelin. All right, been a while
since we've had some geek news,so how about a holiday special edition.
Obviously, the holidays are about traditionsand being with the ones you love,
even if it leads to pointless argumentsabout politics and elon taking over Twitter.
(31:53):
Those are the people you were supposedto love, dammit. But do you
have to though you suppose? Iheard a podcast about that. I was
like, I mean, they're yourfamily, but do you really have to
love them? Well? Not agun to your head, you know,
It's just like I mean, youfeel obligated to, like I mean,
I feel like it's not necessary.If you give it your best shot.
Sure, all right, give ita go, right, But if you
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can't get along due to sore anddivisive subjects, just flip on the box
like the green ray emitting mind controlmachine from Batman for everything you can't agree,
Just shut up and watch TV anddon't talk at all. That makes
sense to me. Yeah, justbe stuck to the television like a Zeema
commercial from the nineties. Let thetelevision play peacemaker like Rashid Wallace during the
(32:37):
Malice in the Palace that we allwatch the most on TV near Thanksgiving Day.
Actually, I think it was Novembernineteenth of two thousand and four.
Yep, but I think I definitelydefinitely know, yeah, exactly. I
also remember it was very close toThanksgiving though, Yes, what about Adams
not so traditional Thanksgiving movies to therescue? Oh good, like that one
(32:58):
Ralphs that's still open Lateday night whenyou forgot to bring the Pillsbury Crescent rolls
to the feast, which are amust for me. At least I know
which rouse you're talking about Ralphs aroundhere. Okay, So let's define a
Thanksgiving movie. You have your obviouschoices, like Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving and planes,
trains and automobiles, and then shamelessmovies that would never get made unless
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they were tied to a holiday wheresomeone might actually watch them, like Friends
Giving or the Turkey Bawl. Yeahright, there was a movie called friends
Giving. It's out there, itis. Was that like a straight to
like you know, streaming, orlike a lifetime something with like what's her
name? Who was paying for kidsto go to USC You know, it's
like the they had like a NewYear's movie out there with Cameron Diaz,
a Valentine's Day movie out there withCameron Diaz. Things. Now, my
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standard, just like what qualifies asa Christmas movie is any movie that takes
place around the holiday and the fourI'm giving you will certainly do, all
right, I will, and Ifeel like you answer this every year.
But just for those who haven't heard, so, what if it's a movie
where let's say it starts around Christmascount or Thanksgiving, so it counts and
touches it, it could be onthe peripheral. I got you, all
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right, Uh, some of theseyou may not have heard of, but
most of these I probably haven't heardof. Knowing me, they work,
trust me, they work like mashedpotatoes and gravy, plus a little stuffing
and maybe even just a little bitof cranberry sauce. No, no cranberry
sauce whatsoever. Out I welcome itin smaller portions, absolutely pointless. Get
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that trash off my plate, okay, fire garbage, and like the deviled
eggs or pigs in a blanket,whatever appetisers you like on Thanksgiving. My
movies have a viewing order, okay, So to start with Pieces of April.
Why because it will serve and sternwarning to that one racist uncle that
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you were hoping didn't show up butdid and is already drunk off spiked egg
nog. That shows he's the badegg and the family with some unwonted remarks
maybe at the dinner table. Butif you put on Pieces of April first,
he'll see the beauty in diversity.In Kitty Holmes as she introduces her
family to her black boyfriend for thefirst time while having everyone over for Thanksgiving,
it's PG. Thirteen, so youdon't have to worry about any lifetime
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movie. Soft ass shit it hashumor and heart and prime. Katie Holmes
just coming off of Dawson's Creek inthe series finale in her acting career.
I might add that was a prettygood series finale. But this was a
pre scientology Katie Holmes. It washead was on straight. Yeah, it
wasn't poisoned and manipulated by Tom Cruise, but her cooking skills they needed help
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in Pieces of April, and soshe goes to ask her African American neighbors
for some assistance with the bird.Who is it? Hi, I'm in
a three C. I need somehelp. Hi, I have a problem.
It's the new girl. Three Csays, she's got a problem.
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What problems, Eugene, The girl'sgot problems. She's white. She got
her youth, her whole privileged lifeahead of her. Ah, I am
looking forward to hearing about her problems. So that's the short version. Oh
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my god, damn. If Itold you the long version, you wouldn't
have cried Apparely, she did havesome problems even for the title White Girl.
It's on HBO, Max and Hulucurrently. Pieces and knowing how to
season food properly is a problem,and it cannot break up many relationships,
so that is that's very important.The second course, movie number two.
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There's a movie I've always liked todescribe as the Big Lebowski of documentaries.
This Midwesterner group, they're so unintentionallyfunny. If you're gravy is thin enough
to be shooting at your nose.It's called American Movie. It's from nineteen
ninety nine, and the motley crewof characters friends and family who are trying
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to pull off a black and whitehorror short called COVID in this documentary,
which actually, when I watched itkind of worked, which was shocking considering
the people involved. But here's aclip from the director, not of the
documentary, but the guy who's tryingto do the short film that they are
documenting. Here's Mark explaining his visionfor the movie COVID while his high musician
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friend Mike, who sadly died recently. Oh no, ohd don't weed.
Maybe I don't know, but he'sstanding next to him first, probably as
they're being interviewed by the documentarians,who somehow kept a straight face or at
least didn't laugh close enough to theboom Mike here, because I would have
right now we got to take action, man. We got to go out
to that field. Put those scarecrowsin on a killer slant. You know,
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they've been there for years. Thefarm's burnt down. It's going to
be the opening shots for Covin,you know. And uh, what is
co Covin's thirty five minute direct marketthriller film shot on sixteen millimeters black and
white reversal. It's an alcoholic mancompelled to go to this group meeting by
his one and only friends left.But they're not that helpful to group,
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you know, you know about thegroup thing. Yeah, okay, so
that's what we're doing a film on, Like Covid, Man, we got
to get the sucker done though.Seriously, last night, man, I
was so drunk. I was callingMorocco. Man calling, trying to get
the Hotel Hilton at Tangiers in CastaBlanca. Man, that's I mean,
that's that's pathetic. Man. Isthat what you want to do with your
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life? Suck down peppermin schnops andtry to call Morocco at two in the
morning. That's senseless, But that'swhat happens. Man. I was listening
to a Fargo for a second therewith that accent. So what happens?
Then she's hit drunk off peppermin stops. Ah. I love these guys.
The interviews of this are funnier thananything you'll see in the office or a
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documentary, and they're real. Thesefools are trying in earnest to make a
good horror movie about a guy atAA with a group that's not so helpful.
Why wasn't this included in my horriblylong Halloween list of movies to watch
in October? Since they're making ashort horror film. Well, it takes
place during Christmas and Thanksgiving? Uhhuh, so it qualifies. Okay,
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you can rent it on Apple TVand Amazon Prime right now. The third
movie is more of a slow burn, as you're slowly digesting the meal by
now and getting a little tired andwant to relax and watch Ang Lee's indie
white suburban drama that your racist unclehas to appreciate. The Ice Storm.
It's got swinger couples in it,and you might even see someone else's wife's
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nipple if you can possibly look aboveChristina Ricci's forehead, because she's in it
along with Elijah Wood. They havesome weird sex together. They kind of
look like a turduccant or something.Here's a fun scene around the Thanksgiving table
between this dysfunctional family where the dad, Kevin Klein, tries to get in
the holiday spirit before Christina. Sheshows off her wokeness before we even had
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a word for it when this moviecame out. Well, it's great that
we can all be together and thisThanksgiving. No yelling, no hysteria,
especially with your grandpa not here.We'll we miss him. So let's do
it right. And Wendy, whydon't you say grace? You should love
to say grace. Remember, DearLord, thank you for this Thanksgiving holiday
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and for all the material possessions thatwe have and enjoy, and for letting
us white people kill all the Indiansand steal their tribal lands and stuff ourselves
like pigs, even though children Jesusenough, all right, Paul, thank
you thought she was inaccurate. Butwe can convenient truce there, Paul.
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By the way, the sun isTobey Maguire, so oh, pretty good
cast. It's on Showtime right now. You can rent it on Google Play,
Amazon, Apple TV, all ofthem now, believe it or not.
The last movie in my Thanksgiving fouror some of is even more controversial
and suspect than any of that behaviorI talked about in the Ice Storm.
If the kids aren't put to bedfor this one, you're gonna create another
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crazy anfal They will end up dementedindividuals if they watch Thanks Killing. It's
a so bad it's a good slashercomedy involving a killer turkey who's out for
revenge on the holiday and has flippedthe tables on everyone trying to kill and
eat him and turkeys. The turkey'sevil and also likes to taunt it's victims
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too. So listen to this mixtapeof turkey trash talk I put together from
Thanks Killing. I'm gonna drink yourblood like cranberry sauce. Gobble gobble,
motherfucker. It looks like I've gotsomething you don't got, Turkey. What's
that? Darren of Vagina? You'redone? Bitch? Sounds like bads.
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It sounds like a bad video game. Actually, Like wait, so is
this a real turkey? Is justlike some it's like a little atoms,
like a little puppet they use,Yeah, atronic baby, I don't know.
They didn't exactly have Jim Henson oh, got you all right? So
this is probably put this in thecategory of after you're drunk and or a
high, you turn this one onlate night? Gotcha doing pleasure? Okay?
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Good? Believe it or not.It's free to b would be one
of them Amazon Prime. Just googleit on YouTube or something to show up.
Now there's my Thanksgiving foursome. Heythere it is Kevin Nice. I
like it. I know we didit last year, but who cares I've
done in the last couple of years. Thanks Killing I still have not watched
yet. By the way, Ineed to get on that. I haven't
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watched the third one. They jumpedright to Thanks Killing three. There's no
two. They went Thanks Killing ThanksKilling three. They just killed the second
already. Well they're gonna someone's tryingto get extra creative here. It's like,
oh, we'll go back in thetimeline and do our whole. It's
like Star Wars. You know,that's some stupid shit I would do.
That was trying to be smart.They're trying way too hard. But it's
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a fun movie. Actually, ifyou're almost passed out a little bit faded,
enjoy it. Yeah, why notenjoy all of them? I just
might I just might. We'll see. I think it's on Amazon Prime perfect
the paid or the free free,well, if you have it, If
you have Prime, I use Amazonso much, I just accept that everyone
else must just as that they haveit, because I know Amazon primes say
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like, oh, you can watchthe Black Friday Game, which is a
dog shit game, mostly because AaronRodgers is hurt. I think that's Jets
Dolphins, by the way, andthat thinks, oh, you can watch
it for free on Amazon Prime.It was like, well for free,
meeting, if you don't pay forAmazon Prime, you can watch it or
for free, meaning you don't haveto pay extra if you already have Amazon
Prime. And that's why I'm confused, and that might be in the fine
print somewhere. I'm not sure.I just Amazon Prime two days shipping man.
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Yeah, I mean, I takeit, right, I use it
so often all the time, right, Yeah owns me, well, it
owns half the world at this point, as basically, so, thank you
guys for listening. Much appreciate it. Thank you for all of your support.
Thank you, Bree, We're comingin as always. Thank you guys.
If you watch any of those moviesand enjoy them or have other thoughts.
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Nine four nine four seven eight elevenninety seven. Nine four nine four
seven eight eleven ninety seven is theTakias Hotline. Can hit us up on
the socials at k fig one onX at follow Adam a on X.
We are on X, Facebook andInstagram at fn A show we love you
guys. Have a happy Thanksgiving.I'll talk to you next week. That's
pathetic, man, Is that whatyou want to do with your life?
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Sucked on peppermin schnaps and try tocall Morocco at two in the morning.
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