Top 5 Money Management Tips (Ep. 164)

Zach and Jake talk about the College Football Playoff, the NBA In-Season Tournament, the Green Bay Packers, and money management tips to stick it to RCU.

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Episode Transcript

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Hello, Hello, Welcome back tothe award nominated podcast. And if we
don't win, obviously it's on yourit's your fault. At this point,
you guys know what to do.Volume one dot org slash best of sign
in vote for the Floury Sports Podcast, make us win it, and then
we'll see what happens from there.I'm Zach Brunner. Jake Osmond is with

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me. How's it going, Jake? Are you all? Are you all
pissy about the RCU podcast as Iam? Or is it just me?
Dude? I'm livid, and I'vegot to tell you why. You know
why. First off, folks,thank you for listening. I'm just stoup
tonight for reasons that we'll talk aboutas we get into the show. But
I I just want to sincerely thankfolks who have already voted at the Volume

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one Awards for us and for thosewho will soon nominate us for the Podcast
Awards. Whoever you are. Buthere's my thing. I think it's a
tough call. I somewhat get it. I have some sympathies act because only
one podcast can win. But obviouslyyou have to get into the pool first,

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right, So it's like thinking aboutit this way. There's a lot
of sports podcasts. They all kindof go head to head, like Play
and catch Up podcast didn't make thecut next year maybe, but it was
a staton. No one's holding itagainst it because that lineup stacked like it
had to go against the obviously flurrysports podcast, Lombardi Sweep, Fantasy Football

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by Committee, all great shows youcould vote for, like a stacked field
to whoever wins that, obviously theyshould have a chance at winning it.
So many opinion podcasts, it's hardfor the I don't think So So podcast
to worm its way in there,but it did. So it's like they
totally deserve it, right one,Sure those are in there, totally get

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it. Volume one is a legacypodcast. I hate it, but it's
like, what are you gonna do? They make it in because they do
what they do right. Absolutely,they didn't drop the ball. I totally
understand it. Now, we couldtake another sports podcast and put it in
there. We could have put thePlane catch Up podcast in yeah, of

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course, yeah, because it's astack field. It's not a bad show.
It's just got a lot of stiffcompetition. So many sports podcasts,
absolutely, so many sports podcasts orZach, what we could do? Okay,
you could vote for the RCU podcastbecause it's a financial podcast. Sure,
there's not a lot of them,No, not a lot, so

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competition not that stiff. Sure,sure, sure, But it's not like
they produce way less podcasts than theother one. It's not like they literally
aren't producing as much quality as theother ones. Well, actually they actually
published less than once a month.But Zach, that couldn't be possible because
if they were, if they weren'tplaying at the same level as everybody else,

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no one would be mad when theydon't win, right, I get
what you're saying. They won lastyear while doing some would say the bare
minimum. But Zach, But Zach, that doesn't make sense because their quarterback
broke their leg. Why would anybody? Why would anybody care about Florida State?

(03:36):
It's a metaphor, folks. Whatare we doing? Who is rooting
for them? Who? Why dieon this hill? Like, No,
we need to see Florida State inthere. We need to see another TCU
get their ass kicked. We needit for the honor of the power five.
I don't know. I don't know. They by the way they get

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their playoff game. They get it, Florida, Florida State fans. We
just wanted a chance to compete withthe best. Great Georgia. I will
say that, I think a masterclassby the committee. Yeah, I would
talk. I've got a bone topick with you, Committee. I was

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like, Georgia didn't make it,and then I realized what you did.
I totally get what you did.No, no, no, we aren't.
We aren't gonna let RCU compete forthe podcast award. We will,
however, give them a chance towin runner up against my favorite murder.
Yeah. It's like if they getmore listeners than the Joe Rogan podcast.

(04:43):
Right, yeah, great, it'sinsane. I looked at the line,
like, not that long ago,Georgia is already favored by two touchdowns over
Florida State, and I'm telling youright now, that's not enough. No,
they were not better than Louisville.No, they shouldn't have lost that

(05:04):
game. They should have They shouldhave lost Louisville. And by the way,
no one said it, so Ileaning Cluss, Leaning Cluss, not
you, Zach. They know whothey are. Okay, Washington, you
you got so lucky. One moreof these teams wins in Like, if

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Ohio State had one SEC team onits schedule, right, you'd be host
because no one even talked about them. They didn't even get to play this
weekend. Their one loss was tothe number one team in America. True,
that's true. You truly cannot makea case that Ohio State at the

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shouldn't at least be number six.Like I think they should be in the
playoffs, but they at least shouldbe number six. If you're saying Georgia's
number five, they're number six.The only reason they did that was to
let this is what I'm saying aboutthe committee well done, because four through
ten don't matter. I've always saidthat, not just in this, but

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just numbers in general. For theten don't matter. If you ain't top
three, what are you doing?You know? But in this what a
committee move of like, oh,you want to play Georgia Florida State.
No, that's not what That's notwhat we wanted. We wanted the money
our school gets when you make theplayoff. Oh well you get to play

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Georgia. You said you wanted toknock off Georgia's national champions. That's what
you said all year long. Sobeat Georgia, I will say Florida State.
It's also not your quarterback's fault.Something making this kid tweet out sad
ass tweets where he's like, ifonly my leg No, what do you
mean? Beat Wake Forest? Congrats? Like what are you talking about?

(06:55):
Alabama's one loss was to the Longhorns, right, And by the way,
I don't know if I fully agreewith it, Just to throw it out
there, this is still not thetop four best teams in the country.
There's no way I agree with that. I thought you were saying you don't
agree with that they lost the Loghords. I'm like, okay, I'm off.

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It was week two. We wentin the rhythm. Yet, like
talk about that they want eleven ina row. Yeah, I mean only
two teams have won more games consecutively. That's true. That is true.
One of them is not in Butwe don't need to go there. I
agree this isn't the best four teams. In fact, I think the best
team in the country is not inthere. I think you Jordan's in there.

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They're favored against every one of them. That's fine, who cares,
That's whatever. Crazy, That's whatI'm saying. Washington I'm back, Washington,
How are you better than Georgia?Give me one stat where you're better
than Georgia? I get it.I will say, though, this is
good. This is the best thePac ten has ever been, Pac twelve,

(08:03):
whatever has ever been? Yeah?Yeah, and they last year whatever
and they went undefeated, so whatever, they deserve it. I'm also a
Washington fan, so put that.Putting that out there, but I think
they deserve it. They won astack Conference. I just don't. I
don't think Texas deserves it. Ireally don't. I don't see it.

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Or Georgia should be in there overTexas for sure. I in the Big
twelve? Who fucking cares? Ihonestly, that is what we were texting
about. And I agree. IfI was gonna do a thing, it
would be like based not based onlike best football, because then I don't
know. But if it's like thissystem we've devised for ourselves, it's yeah,

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it's one hundred percent. It's Michigan, uh, Washington, Georgia and
Alabama. Yeah, and George's four. Georgia hasn't lost a football game in
three years and they're the five seed. What do we do? Like,
this is the only time the entireyear, probably the only time in the

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past two years at least that theyhaven't been ranked number one. They lost
by three to Alabama. They lostby three. It's crazy Texas lost to
a team that lost to KU.That's right, that's an inexcusable loss.
We can't just look the other waywith that one. Oh you's not great,

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that's like Texas made it in justbecause they beat Alabama. Let's see
who Oklahoma. You keep talking,I'm gonna see Oklahoma plays for their bull
game because it can't be anybody good. It's I hope it's the Cats.
It's not, it's not h Here'swhat I don't understand. I don't understand
how we were so torn up about, well, does Bama like make it

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in Washington their strength to schedule?Texas makes it in because they beat Ohio
or Ohio State. They beat OklahomaState by thirty and they beat Bama in
Week two like George's beat Bama forthree years. Yeah, and Oklahoma,
by the way, plays Arizona,So who cares on December twenty eighth.

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That tells you how big of agame that is. Who cares? That's
a game where Arizona is just hopingto find all their money. People should
google, but I think I justdon't. I don't understand people's frustration.
I but maybe no one actually ismad. Florida State's out besides RG three.

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Probably my issue is there's two schoolsof thinking that everyone has been saying,
like is the committee gonna do thisor this? Like are they gonna
put the four most deserving teams orare they gonna put the four best teams?
And they did. My favorite thingis they didn't neither of those.
They didn't do the four past,they didn't do the foremost desertion. They

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did the most defensible. They didthe most defensible. They did Michigan and
Washington. No one's mad at Andhere's why I think it's the most defensible
because you put one more conference inso it's not too SEC because that's what
people get mad at. Sure,you know, they got to have lunch
with everybody, and so it's onemore person who's mad at you because SEC

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doesn't care as long as one oftheir people get in, the only one
who's mad is Georgia, so thatkid's happy. That's what I think people
forget. NCAA doesn't view these people'sschools. They view them as conferences.
So some one conference is going tobe mad with us. That's what's gonna
happen. Because if Florida State doesn'tmake it, I firmly think, or
if Florida State does make it,Texas does not. I don't care that

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they were three and Bama was four. There's no way they're not not putting
an SEC team in. So thatwould have been wild, and that's why
they did what they did. Wegotta put Michigan in. We've got to
put Washington in. We have toput an SEC team in. I think
that was their next logic. Sothat's Bama because they won the SEC.

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Now do we put a second SECteam in? Well, Texas beat Bama,
so I guess we put them inbecause that way at least people get
it. I think that's what theydid. I just think they backwards logic
their way in. I also thinkthis was their only excuse, where now
we get a Texas Bama championship,we can finally get a good championship game.

(12:37):
I listen, I know, Ijust shuit talking. Lean back in,
lean back in, Washington, comeback win. I really want they
do. Not for the love ofGod, give me a Wolverines Huskies matchup.
Yeah, I'd be down for that. That'd be fun. That'd be
fun. That being said, like, who's your prediction to win it all?

(12:58):
Mine's Alabama? I mean that's thestoryline. Right by the way,
can we talk about three weeks ago, I've gotten article pulled up saying is
Nick Saban over the hill? Whatare we doing? What? We lost
one game to Texas and we werelike, is he washed up? What
do we do it? I thinkI do smell a little something in the

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air. Texas shouldn't be here,and so I'm gonna pick Texas to win
it. I think something's like cooking, like why are they here? Why
are they winning it? That?Or who's who's had the most press about
them all seasons at Michigan? Whatwas Michigan's only problem? They're never ever

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ever gonna beat Georgia, Right,Yeah, problem solved. They got an
opportunity. I don't think they're betterthan Bama for sure, and I think
it's a coin flip against the othertwo, but there's a window. No
one's happier than literally everyone, butGeorgia's thrilled they missed out right that's not

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Florida State, but yeah, that'strue. Florida State found out they also
have to fight the bully after school. Yeah. Yeah, we pissed them
off and you have to fight them. You said you wanted to. That
is There is a fun scenario,and I don't think it happened. I

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mean, there's no chance that happens. But there is a fun scenario where
Michigan loses, who cares who winsthe playoff, Florida State beats Georgia,
and Florida State's the lone remaining unbeatenteam this year and they didn't make it
in that's fun. Not gonna happen, but it's fun. Yes, that

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is really fun. And listen.I then if Michigan or Washington win in
that scenario, I think Florida Statelike if you you know, maybe that
isn't like, beat Georgia and thenyou can say whatever you want because you
beat the best team in the country. Yeah, it's just gonna be a

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UCF situation. Oh my God,for the love of God, please please
be the next Florida school to chantwe want Bama. That works really well.
Every Florida school that's done that hasseen nothing but success. You see
Florida Jackson State, everybody's done superwell once they've chanted that great call.

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Yeah, yeah, for sure.I also have a game to play with
these Bowl games if you would like, Jake, that's perfect. Oh I
should debut my character first. It'sgonna be Okay, got a character for
my character is I'm the president ofthe NCAA. Okay, this is an
interactive character and I am gonna roleplay for everyone everyone, So, like,

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how could you tell Florida State theydon't make it? In so Zach,
you are actually also going to bea character. You're gonna be Florida
State perfect. You're gonna call me. I'm gonna explain to you why you
didn't make it. Okay, Okay, Okay, that's a good phone.
Thank you, thank you answering hireaccent of the that's like gonna get to

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the Florida accent. Okay, Uh, Florida State here, undefeated Florida State
ACC champions. How you're doing sir, mister president, Well, I'm doing
good on this fine day. Howcan I help you out down in Florida
State? Yeah? I feel likethere must have been a miscommunication. Okay,

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God, did you miss a card. Would you see what's wrong?
You can actually see me on liveTV right now. They're around my crying
players. Uh, we just wonthe a CC tournament. Did you get
to watch the game? Oh?I did watch the game. Hell of
a game, help, hell ofa game. Louisville and maybe second best
team in the country. We're numberone though, and uh we won that

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game. And uh you said wewe were not in the playoffs. That's
right? Is there's having wrong?So? Could I ask why we were
not in the playoffs? Oh?No, brow Dodge, you never asked.
Roll Tide holds up, bam.That's all that to all you gotta

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do. We all know it's Paulfined Bob. It's just Paul with an
accent, just waiting like he's wait. Just ask me why roll Tide fuck
you? What do you mean?I'd call it back and I'd say,
don't worry, I got you Georgia, just for you. That's for you.
U. When's that game that's gonnabe mussed? Why? So?

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I hope they win by eighty It'snot going to be pretty. Florida State
players are going to be sitting outtoo. They play on December thirtieth,
Orange Bowl three PM. Gonna begreat. Gonna be great in Miami though,
so Florida stay gets to play kindof a home game. Man,

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this committee does what's up? Thatis very good? I have a game,
Jake, And we know the bowlgames can be titled a little bit,
a little bit obscure, a littlebit weird. They get a little
out of control, Uh, tothe point where it's like, is that
even a real bowl game? Oh? No, that is what you're going

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to be coming up with today.Before we get into that, I do
want to say, a Bowl committee, if I have one complaint, why
does Wisconsin play number thirteen? LU? Explain it to me? What's going
on? What? Why? WhyNew Year's Day? Why the first game

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kicking off New Year's Day? Whyunranked bad Wisconsin plays number thirteen LSU with
possibly the Heisman winner? Why didwe do that? Well? Oh,
can you tell me what bold isor does that e ruin something in the
game? Tell me where it is? Tell me where it is. That's
all I did. Yeah, it'sin Tampa. I tell you why right

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now? Okay, name a bettertraveling school than Wisconsin. We didn't have
to put it there, though,Why aren't we matched up with LSU number
thirteen didn't have anybody for him.We need a big mass. No one
wants to go to Tampa. Wecalled everybody Liberty's ranked, give them liberty,

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fuck them, or give me death. Exactly true? You okay,
okay, So, Jake, Ihave a long list of bowl games with
their sponsors. Obviously, some ofthem are named after the sponsors, some
of them just in the title.I also threw in a few that I
made up as well. So allyou have to do is tell me is

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this a real bowl game or isit a fake one that I made up?
Some of them more obvious than theothers. Let's start with the Tony
the Tiger Sun Bowl. Do youthink that one's a real one or do
you think it's fake? Oh mygod, I'm gonna say it's fake already.
That's a real bowl game, Tony, No Sun Bowl. That's Oregon

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State and Notre Dame. By theway. Hell, it's a big one.
Yeah, that's a big one,Tony. By the way, this
couldn't matter lest he's not a brand. No, Yeah, it's not the
Frosted Flakes Sun Bowl. Correct,That is correct. It's also not the
Cereal Bowl. What are we doing? You're telling me, you're telling me.

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I don't understand some of these.But the next one the l A
Bowl hosted by Gronk full title,I'm gonna guess that's real. That is
real. That is the brand ofthe Jimmy Kimmel l A Bowl in the
LA Bowl hosted by Gronk. Thankgod we got boise State in u c.

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L A. So hell of amatchup there. I my lungs that
Rob Gronkowski can't point out Boise ona mat Yeah, no shot, no
shot. I don't. I don'tknow. I'm not sure why we're doing
that, but it is what itis. Next one, Jake, Okay,

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I mean you can guess already theRaton Perez Boca Raton. Oh that's
fake, but it should be real. It should be real. I was
just I was looking at the BocaRetad Ball like what could be what could
be the sponsor? Oh? Igot it there, I know, I

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know that's how they would for suredo it for sure. Next the Miller
Lite Celebration Bowl. Are you gettingsneaky on me? I'm gonna say that's
fake. Very good A student observationthat that was fake. That Crates Miller,
No, Miller. High life iswhen you celebrate. That's right about

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the heavies, that's right, that'sright. Next the Damar Hamlin first responderbowl.
Mm hm oh man, mm hmm. It's the hambulet's going to be
parked on the sideline. Listen toyour I'm to say it's real. That

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was fake. Well to your point, I was like, did they rename
like a buffalo? Yeah, bowlthere there is a first responderble, but
it's not. That's kind of okay, okay, okay, I feel okay
about that. Yeah, for sure, for sure. Next the Military Ball

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presented by go bowling dot com.That's real. That is real, and
I'll save you the trip. Iwent to go bowling dot com and it's
exactly what you think. I don'tknow how much it must have cost to
do this. It's literally a sitewhere you can search where your nearest bowling
ellet is. And that's it.I've got a couple observations there. First

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off, how did they make anymoney? Second off, why does the
military need a sponsor? I don'tknow, I do not know. And
why do they just notably love thegreased up lanes of a bowling alley or
what are we doing? Well?Also like I'd pay money to sponsor a

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military Bowl because it makes me money, right for sure, for sure.
But yeah, now everyone's like,oh, go bulling dot com, let's
go check it out and nothing.By the way, who had the honor
and privilege of making that boll uh? It is two lane in Virginia Tech.

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What do we That's what I washoping you would say, two Lane?
I love you so nothing but thebest for you. Not one of
you is Army or Navy. Nope, nope. It is played in Navy
Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. But ohgood, don't give them their own team
for the love of God. Noteven Air Force. No, not even

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air Force, not even Space Force. They're not even play this year.
Okay, Next we got the DoritosLocos time Taco's New Mexico Bowl. I'm
gonna say fake. That is fakeagain. Yes, there is a new

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Mexico Bowl, not the Doritos LocosTacos New Mexico Bowl. Not gonna lie.
That was not the part I wasdoubtful of. But I didn't think
there was a New Mexico Bowl.So there you go. For all of
mine, I think, except formaybe one I don't even remember anymore.
It's all the real bowl, differentsponsor, I should say that nice.

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Okay, yeah, okay, wegot the Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl. Oh,
Scooters is pretty big. I'll goreal, it is real. I
didn't know it was big. That'skind of what kind of took me from
surprise. Well, here's here's whyI know it's big. It's in Kansas.

(25:53):
Okay, it's in lacrosse too,but that's the first time I saw
one. Yeah, So it's youknow, if you're in two states,
you can have a both. GoBowling's got a ball, So I guess
anything's possible. Could we have one? It's seeming that way. Yeah,
from what I've read teams. Imean, I would love to see Colorado

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play a Bowl game with us,the abiling Christian abling Christian and Colorado.
Let's like Colorado put up eighty onsomebody. Yeah yeah, that's all that.
A lot of commercial breaks, alot of flurry sports ads. It'll
be or Iowa just the most boring. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

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yeah. Congrats Iowa and Miami ofOhio. You can get to be in
a Bowl. The latest Bowl ofall Time. Iowa plays Tennessee in their
Bowl. How fun? God,Iowa in the Big Ten Championship game.
I'm like, I used to thinkthe way the division split up was awesome

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because I'm a Badger fan, andnow I know it sentences us to to
three yards in the cloud of dustevery year for yeah cool, we get
to see Michigan or Ohio State tryand outscore a ten point team. They
are, I believe, realigning thingsfor next year now, but we're still
gonna be with Iowa. Got togot to you. Okay, next Jake,

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we got the pop Tarts bull Oh, I think that's real. That
is real? You know why youknow it's real? Yeah? K State's
in it. That's why I waslike, I just heard that. I
read that somewhere n Z State andK State in the pop Tarts Bool.
That's cool. I like wolf PackCats. It's the tails all this time,

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you know, go dogs, goCats. I haven't seen like the
logo for it or any merch oranything from it, but I feel like
it could be fun. That couldbe a good one. I love the
pop Tart same, it's gotta beI mean, do you think they have
a pop tart representing each team.I hope they make the stadium look like
a toaster. Ooh, that couldbe good. How hard is that?

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It can't be hard. There's noway. Put a ceiling on it with
two holes. That's right, heatlamps everywhere? Where? Is it playing?
Play in Orlando? That's perfect.That's no problems there, no,
not at all. Next, wegot the Horatio Magellan Crunch Cereal Bowl.

(28:42):
That's a history joke. That's that'snot real. It's not a history joke.
That's the actual name of Cap andCrunch, So put some respect on
his fucking name. But it ismade up. I did you mentioned Cereal
Bowl earlier? I was along thesame lines. That's the only made up
bowl I had. Nice Okay,I got Tony the Tiger. Yeah,

(29:03):
that's gotta be a Cereal Bull.What are we doing? We got the
Planned Parenthood Armed Forces Bull. Nojokes, Jake, Let's this is dicey
water do very well supported things.Uh. I mean this bowl feels like

(29:26):
it could bring the country together.He could absolutely. I think it's fake
though it is fake. But yeah, some very polarizing things. I thought
that could be fun. Not alot of crossover. Maybe but you know,
maybe hosted in DC. True,that would be fantastic, perfect spot.

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Next we got the Bad Boy MoreMower's Pin Strape bull A lot happening
there. I think that's two sponsors. I'm gonna say that's fake, that's
real. I don't Bad Boy Mowersis one thing. And then the pin
Strape Bulls always played in Yankee Stadium. Oh, that's what's happening there.

(30:11):
I was like, isn't pin stripesof brand? But no? New era
is the brands? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, okay, I didn't include
it. But there's a I thinkit's a tech company called was Sabbi.
So I think there's one that's justthe Wasabi bull or something. I'm like,
I think I ordered that at HawaiiPoke Bowl last time. About what?
But like they'd like, they didn'tdo with Sabbi Technologies or something.

(30:33):
They just went straight with Sabby whichwhatever? Is this the last one?
Last one? Okay? The auntJemima's New Orleans Bull, No, don't
do this to me. That's fake. It is fake. Bring back aunt
Ze Bible? What she do?She didn't do anything. The company decided
they'd better try and not be racistby changing something. No, one was

(30:56):
mad at and you're right the waysyrup tastes worse now. Congrats, And
we didn't get rid of racism.You know, it's still here, and
the only one who could bring itback, get rid of is maybe Da
Biba. Can I make a pitch. I think you're falling into a trap,
okay. I think they sent heraway just so you you had a

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cheap pop. I think they thoughtyou'd be a mark for Antchibiba returning because
you didn't care what she was here, none of us did. They took
her away just as she could comeback. I mean, I hope so.
I would love to hear her musichit during the super Bowl. That
would be fantastic. That would bethe greatest super Bowl commercial of all time.
Just fucking glass breaking and antche Bibacomes out with the syrup kicks away

(31:44):
whatever the bullshit you know, MickeyMouse. Name that they came up with,
I don't even remember what it is. It's the most generic thing of
all time, that's the thing.Like it's a long tracker by the way.
You know what, no one hada problem with the name, No,
no, Yeah, it was thevery stereotypical southern black woman that's like

(32:06):
lots of sarup, Like, Okay, that's the bottle, that's the but
you like, we don't do that. I think it's also weird. Bottles
shouldn't be people, probably true,but hey, whatever it is what it
is. I know this crazy.What does that reminded me of? I
feel like somebody did that. We'relike, that's not what we were mad
at. I don't know that's gonnacome back to me in a little bit.

(32:29):
But in the meantime, Zach,do we move on from college football?
Do we move on to the bigleagues? Uh, let's do it.
I do want to say, though, I want to apologize to the
RCU Don't Bullshit Podcast a little bithere. I know my apology is not

(32:51):
really gotta undercut it a little bit, but I did say I wanted to
this kind of a metaphor for mylife. This is I I will say.
Last week I said I wanted togive you guys what you wanted,
and clearly you want some money managementtips. At least there's some people out
there who want it. That's whythey won their the award. Some may

(33:15):
say that they paid and force theiremployees to vote for them, but maybe
just maybe there was a legitimate voter. So I'm just going to drop in
my top five money management tips throughoutthe rest of the show. Jake.
Number one, I'm going to starteasy, and again I can't stress this
enough. I do apologize to RCU, who I mean, honest, does

(33:38):
currently have my money. I bagthrough them. So number one, don't
listen to the RCU Buddy Donuts podcast. Let's start there. That's probably a
pretty good tip to keep yourself goinggoing forward. Then another one I'll go.
I'll throw out another money management tiphere, and this is a user

(34:00):
submitted what this is one that somebodyelse gave to me, So shout out
you, Henry. And it's true. Never and I mean never pick up
a face down penny. You don'tknow what kind of voodoo bullshit's gotta happen
after that. You really think thatyou're gaining, buddy, And I'm telling
you, through the universe, fate, God, whatever, you believe it,

(34:22):
you're fucked if you do that,So do not do that. But
Jake, with that, let's getinto real sports. Let's talk about the
NBA in season tournament. Yes,and I gotta tell you Friday, I
was looking at my phone and uh, weird, weird pop up notification that

(34:44):
the in season Tournament bracket has beenset. I didn't know what that meant,
and then I got reminded, Oh, group play is done, so
we're in the knockout routes. Andthe first two games of the knockout route
is tonight, Jake. They arecompeting with Money Night Football. I'm sure
everyone will be watching the NBA InSeason Tournament tonight, and we talked about

(35:08):
what we thought would be the beststoryline that would happen. I'm not for
sure if you are up to datewith all of the teams that are currently
in it. So let's go overit quickly before we talk about awards in
the West, and again shouldn't beWest and East, but it is in
the West. The number one seedis the Lakers. Said it was gonna

(35:30):
be Lebron's tournament. For better orfor worse, Lebron loves Accolades. Lakers
are gonna win this. They willbe playing tonight, so already happened when
you're listening to this. They willbe playing the Phoenix Suns. Not a
surprise. So that's one game asboring as can be. The game underneath

(35:51):
it. The Kings are the numbertwo seed. People really like the Kings.
They were a trendy pick. Wedidn't really talk about them that much.
But more importantly, the number threethree Jake, the New Orleans Pelicans
and Zion Williamson are in this.Let's go, let's go. The Bookings
alive, seck, it is,it is and it has to be Lakers

(36:13):
Pelicans right again. People will alreadyknow, people already know listening to this.
But Anthony Davis former team, ZionWilliamson, the what the hopeful face
of the league going up against thelong running face of the league and Lebron.
I feel like that makes a lotof sense. Gotta have it on
the East. Number one, theBucks. We talked about it. Not

(36:36):
a lot of competition over there,you know, thought maybe Damian Lillar there
could be some stuff going out withthat. The wild card gotta watch out
for the wild card is the Knicksexactly as predicted? Yes, so we
got Thibodeau's t We'll see what happensthere. The two seed my tready pick.
The Pacers are in it. They'rehere man. There they will be

(37:00):
losing to the Boston Celtics, whowe believe will win it all. And
they're playing right now, so letme look at the score. Maybe the
Pacers are making some noise and theyare not, so it will probably be
the Celtics that win the East,probably a Celtics Lakers finals, unless you
think something else may happen. Ithink there's a chance we get something else.

(37:28):
I think there's a chance there's someoneZach who needs to prove themselves.
Who's that they need to prove theycan win on their own with Devin Booker,
that's right, Kevin Durant proves hecan do it with of course the
Phoenix Suns, and I think weget a Durant Bucks rematch. I think

(37:53):
that could be fun. Otherwise,I'm stealing this take, but I do
like it. What are the twoteams that like will covet this more than
anybody else? And that's the uh. I think the Lakers and the Knicks.
Oh Lakers, I mean Lebron wouldcovet it for sure. I think

(38:14):
if the Kings won it, Imean they would be pretty happy. The
Kings are also like bullshit chasers,so that would be good too. But
I just the Knicks won it sobad? Yeah, so bad? Thibodeau.
We named the award after him already, so he really watchs this.
This is his tournament for sure,for sure. But let's get into the

(38:35):
awards, Jake. And since theregular season or group play, sorry group
play is done in the nd seasontournament, there are a couple of awards
that have been locked in. Oneis the Drew Timmy Award. I think
it's only fair to lock it innow and not do the entire thing because
hey, we know Drew Timmy's gonnachoke in the playoffs. We don't need

(38:58):
to talk about knockout round. AndI don't think there could have could be
a more worthy person. Again,the Drew Timmy Award award the biggest difference
in regular games and tournament games forpoints, and the winner is Donovan Mitchell.
So congratulations don Mitchell. That shouldhave been more obvious that it was

(39:21):
going to be him. I know, number one score in tournament play,
averaging thirty nine points per game.That's almost twelve points per game more than
regular games. Not enough to makethe knockout round, but no, but
Donovan Mitchell made a lot of noise. Good for him. Proud of them,
go I listen anytime I see aformer Utah Jazz happy somewhere else,

(39:45):
it fills me with joy. Ithink I think there's something poetic about I
don't think Gobe or Mitchell are evergoing to be happy. I think they're
destined to both be. Both ofthem, like have talked about how much
they've loved this tournament, and forneither of them to make it on feels
right. How are the Timberwills thenumber one team in the West at the

(40:07):
same time that they don't make theknockout round of a bullshit tournament? I
don't get it easy. It doesn'tmatter. The Timberwolves have a bigger goal,
yes, and that is making theknockout round and then lose it.
That's right, that's right, thatgoal the four seed. Yeah, maybe
we'll see now the award, Iadded, I'm gonna need you named all

(40:32):
these other awards, some of them. Maybe they make sense, maybe they
don't. Who do you think shouldbe named? Who should be the award
for the least valuable player? Becausethis is the least valuable player in group
play? Who should the award benamed after? Paul George? Paul George,

(40:53):
very good, very very good.So the winner of the Paul George
Award is DeMar DeRozan. Congratulations.Oh my god. By the way,
let's sprinkle some sports talk in here. What the fuck is happening in Chicago?
I don't know. I don't takethis lightly. The Bulls are a

(41:14):
fiasco. They're bad. It's insane. They're the biggest disaster in the league
right now. Zach Levine's washed.DeRozan can't play basketball. Yeah, No
one's talking about the white guy whocan dunk anymore. Things are bad,
dude. Yeah, and they're alreadyhaving a fire sale. They're getting ready

(41:35):
of de Rosen, they're getting ridof Levine. But not in time.
Not in time, because in tournamentgames, Jake DeMar rozen had a league
worse minus seventy three in his tournamentgames. That means his team was outscored
in the four games by seventy threepoints when he was on the floor.
Not great for the leader of theChicago Bulls. I have to think I

(41:58):
could do about that game, forsure, Yeah, right, Like,
I don't think I could happens thatmuch worse. No, No, And
for whatever it's worth, if wewanted to give out an MVP, which
we're not going to there was atie for plus it was between Josh Hart
and I believe Jordan's no Josh Hartand D'Angelo Russell, which also very too

(42:23):
worthy MVP candidates. But you knowyou got you gotta get it done in
the knockout round. But Jake,let's talk about the players who are still
competing for other awards and the thecan be award for total blocks. He
is running away with it still nutsBrook Lopez, who through four games has

(42:45):
a total of eighteen blocks. Hezero fucks try shooting, he doesn't.
He's gonna block your shit. That'sall he's doing this year. It's so
funny when some guy's just that tall, Like, stop shooting around him?
What are we doing? I also, I just love obviously they switched up

(43:05):
their defense a lot, but like, where has this Bed Brooke? This
would have been great for a while. Where's any of what the Bucks are
doing? Bed? I'm a littlepissed. Yeah, Bud, we're talking
to you, coach, Bud.What the fuck were you doing? What
do you do? What are youdoing? Why did we just why did
we just take I can't even fourwords? Why did we put up with

(43:30):
Chris Middleton's bullshit for so long?Why didn't we just what do we do
it? I don't understand that.As long as we're talking about things,
I don't understand. Why Why didthe Heat just write values on their court?
No one's exclud I turned on aHeat game the other day. They're
so distraught they didn't sign Damian Lillard. They just wrote down things that It's

(43:51):
like a manifesto. Yeah, Imean, the courts this year are fucking
terrible. There's no excuse for whatthey've done. Also, culture is a
joke. It's like when you can'tdo that, you can't like make he
culture like a thing, like weweren't just all making fun of it.
Yeah, he culture pretty they're proudof it. And by the way,

(44:13):
rumored that they're training for the LEAthe Paul Georgia Ward winner right now,
the least valuable player in the league. They're trying to train for DeMar Deroz
and how the mighty have fallen?Stop letting Lowry into those meetings. He's
insane. Why is he a roundstick It's like when we put ren and
doubt go to stout on bumper stickers, like we wanted to reclaim it.

(44:35):
No, you're a good school.Stop pretending like that's a cool phrase.
He stop acting like hustles of value. No, so dumb, so dumb.
Currently the leader for total assists theWill Levis Award is Tyrese Haliburton,
who is playing tonight. We'll seeif his journey comes to an end.

(44:57):
But entering tonight in group play,he fifty four total assists through four games.
Pretty impressive. However, he wasalso the leading candidate for assists per
game the Matthew Delavadova at thirteen anda half. And I'm making a decision,
Jake. If you win two awards, much like if you have two
quarterbacks, you have no quarterbacks.If you win two awards, you get

(45:19):
neither. We're going to the nextperson in live. So Halliburton figure it
out. Hopefully, you know,hopefully you get passed by somebody else after
you lose this game. But heis currently in the lead for those two
clutch assists per game continues to beDrew Holiday with three. Only one of
his games have counted, so it'sbeen the one game the entire time that

(45:42):
is counted. There because again finaltwo minutes of the game or something has
to be within four points. Nota lot of gamecer achieving this, but
he is winning in that the ShortKing Award assists under six foot, This
one's essentially locked in. Jacob Gilliardfor the Grizzly is five. He averaged

(46:06):
four point three, the only playerunder six foot in the tournament. Shocked
me, but that it is whatit is. And then the over too
eighty pounds of the Jason Kelsey Awardalso essentially locked in, with Nikola Jokic
averaging eleven per game. I willsay we could do this though. We
could change the award mid tournament,which is fine with me. We could

(46:30):
do total assists over two hundred andeighty pounds, and I will say Jokic
has double the next person. Butwe could keep hope alive that Zion has
a thirty assist game, which isI think we do that. I think
we do that. We accidentally letthis shark into the swimming pool. The
least we could do is tell peopleto hear Okay. I don't think anything

(46:53):
will change, but it'll give ussomething to watch, and that's what everyone
needs. This is it'll give ussomething to talk about all sports talk.
You're welcome. Finally, the overallwinner goes to the team that has the
most free throws made. That's theThibodeau Award, and it's a team that's
not in the knockout round. They'recurrently leading by like thirty free throws made,

(47:19):
so they were absolutely fucking destroying this. But it seems like they will
probably be passed. And that's thePhiladelphia seventy six ers tough. Part of
good free throw shooting is time management. You can't do one without the other.
You know, you gotta play defense. That's the only big free throws
don't do. That's very true.That's very true. Someone said that.

(47:44):
I think it was Tippoteau. Sowe will see if another team can pass
them. For shits and gigs,I do want to see who the next
team is quickly here it is,so the seventy six ers have one hundred
and twenty four made free throws throughfour games. Ridiculous. Then it's the
Hawks not in it, the Timberwolvesnot in it, then the Suns.

(48:08):
So the Sons are the next bestteam. They are currently down by thirty
three free throws, so, honestly, the seventy six Ers still have a
chance to win this, which isinsane. Despite not playing any more games.
And that's what shooting free throws isall about. You know, you

(48:28):
got to take the free points.That's true. Apparently they didn't take enough
of them because they had a twoand two record, but it is what
it is. Also, the Timberwolveswent three and one in the tournament,
zero point differential. They went even, so t Wolves, figure it out.
What are we doing? One terriblegame? That's very te Wolves.

(48:52):
It is it is, but thatis the NBA in season tournament. Next
week will be possibly talking about thechampionship game or maybe semi finals. I
don't know, I don't know.I don't know how this fucking tournament works,
but uh, it's going quickly.Everyone's watching it. Though everyone is

(49:13):
watching it. I hate how mucha pointless tournament has helped the NBA season.
I hate that they're not being forcedto put steaks on this. It's
stupid. And there was one playerwho came out and was like, I
don't I don't know, I don'tcare who you are. Any amount of
money is enough for me to playfor, Like, fuck you, no,
it's not if it is fine,but like you're one person, there's

(49:36):
no way anybody cares about this.Yeah, Hey, who asked Duncan Robinson?
That's who I assume that was.Why why'd we ask mister Hustle?
Yeah, it's Duncan Robinson and JoeIngles having a conversation like, yeah,
I'm trying really hard. I loveboth. Don Bogdanovitch would beg to differ.
He would never say that either ofthem. Absolutely not a asolutely not

(50:00):
okay, Jake, Uh, doyou think this is time for another money
management tip for the fine listener?I was just about to spend a lot
of money recklessly, Zach, SoI think it is a good time for
a tip. Jake. Can't bedoing that. Can't be doing that.
I will say this, Jake.I know, but cracker Barrels got to
buy two get two deals, soI was, you know, oo eight,

(50:24):
get as many as we can.There's a lot of people, you
know, commute to work, goingto class early, whatever it may be,
And you're paying for an expensive coffeein the morning. That's no good.
Like you're just throwing away like sixseven dollars on a coffee. Maybe
you get a breakfast sandwich has likeanother five dollars. So I feel like
we can cut down on that moneyJake. In the way I'm proposing that

(50:46):
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(53:45):
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But Jake, we talked about collegefootball, we talked about NBA.

(59:23):
Is there anything else you would liketo talk about? There is? Zach
and I have one last character todebut on the show. Are you ready
for this? Wow? Okay,I made it just for you, all
right, you ready? Yeah?Here we go, Here we go.

(59:43):
Oh yeah, the Packers are nevergonna lose again. We've got three in
all. We were three and six. How about now? Oh sure,
sure, Travis, he's day andTaylor, Oh that's pretty good. Okay,
okay, well you can take thesetwo fingers right here up his ass?
How about that? Huh huh?Hey, Taylor, you know it'd
be great. How about you teachyour team how to play some fucking prevet

(01:00:04):
defense. How about you? Howabout you teach him a little grit?
How about you teach him how toget north to south? They were running
a little bit more of a schemeout there, putting a little head on
the head helmet to a helmet,Then maybe we'd be talking a different game.
Oh the Refts, Oh they hateus. Oh, Simon Bar's boyfriend
tackled Travis Kelsey. Who gives theflying fuck? I don't get Listen,

(01:00:25):
the Packers are never gonna lose again. They're never gonna They're never gonna lose
again. Jordan Love. Oh he'snot as good as Aaron Rodgers. Oh
he's young. Oh he's MVP.You beat the m v P, you
win m VP. That's how itworks. Okay, uh, un till
someone else beats him, proved mewrong. I can't argue with that logic.

(01:00:52):
There may be a loophole there,a little hole the argument. But
uh, Jake, you went tothe Packer game. Did you hear a
lot of that? I'm guessing onehundred percent. Here's all things I heard.
One of them was said by Claire. I'll let you I'll let you
figure that out at home. Okay, here's things. I heard, three

(01:01:13):
Hall of Famers in a row,not bad. I heard we'll never lose
again. I heard that before thisgame, by the way, same I
heard this is how you fucking runthe table. I heard we're going to
the super Bowl. I heard wasthe one guy behind me? What did

(01:01:38):
he say it was? He saidthose bitches in Detroit could never play like
this. Okay, week one,but that's fine. No, not like
this sack. That was different.Okay, okay, it was Claire super

(01:01:59):
Bowl. Yeah one percent. Whoo, We're going to the super Bowl.
Yeah it was. It was positivewithout making me angry. So like,
okay, just radiant positivity. Well, like I will say with hers,
it was good timing because we wonthe game, and it was like it
was a response to the game,like this means we date it right,

(01:02:19):
It's like, no, but it'sclose. Yeah, we are locked into
that seven seed at the current moment. It actually means we're five hundred.
No, it was delusional, itwas. It was not great. Uh,
in terms of keeping a level reactionto it. Yeah, I will
say that was our one tough gameleft, like truly unwinnable game. Right.

(01:02:44):
The schedule, they have statistically theeasiest schedule rest of the way,
and even if you want to justget away from numbers, like the hardest
games, the Vikings one hundred percentand Zach, here's what I'll say.
Let me be rational and then unrational. Okay, I could do it all
rational. We're a man team.We are truly mediocre on offense, occasionally

(01:03:13):
bad. We are constantly lucky ondefense and occasionally fine. Sure you know
we don't outscore folks. We giveup too many points. We are too
reliant on turnovers all that. Sure, Kenny clucks the goddamn man. I

(01:03:36):
don't care about anything else, youI this is a real thing. I
said in the game. Did yousee that penetration. That's a real thing.
I yelled out loud. Was didyou see how close Kenny got to
him? Something no one else wasexcited about in the game when he sacked
I turned around and hugged the guybehind me. Those in the first quarter.
Yeah, a lot of game,a lot of ball game left,

(01:03:59):
a lot of ball game left.But do you know there is no feeling.
Okay, I'm freaking out remembering thisfeeling. There is no feeling.
Got played it better than getting asack as a nose card. Oh for
sure, for sure, it's notsupposed to happen. They fucked up.
They did. They didn't run awayfast enough. It's such a good feeling.

(01:04:19):
Kenny Clark's the goddamn man. That'syeah, that's not an overreaction.
He's incredible. He's so good atfootball. He's the best player on the
team. Possibly, I think he'sup there. He's so good at football.
Just to talk a little bit aboutthe game, well, first,
any comments on this team, Like, here's something that I just want folks.

(01:04:41):
I'll bring a little positivity. We'vesaid this on the show. I
think they're a playoff team based onthe record, that is gonna make the
playoffs. Yeah, I mean,I'm not trying to be that level of
pessimistic. I just don't think they'regreat, but they're gonna make the playoffs,
and that you know, why dowe play the games? Maybe you'll
win, who knows for sure?For sure, they have a very strong
chance to make the playoffs if theybeat the Vikings, that's I mean,

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they're in, that's it. Andthey have the tiebreaker over the Rams.
They have the tiebreaker over somebody elsewho's right there, so they have a
very good chance to make the playoffs. I really want the Rams to be
the sixth seed because I think thatmeans they will have to play the Lions
go to Detroit and that's the storylineI want. That's so you can book

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that. So we're competing with theVikings for the seventh seed. We'll see
what happens. But this game wasalarming because there's a lot of delusion,
a lot of irrational people, includingboth co hosts of the Lombardi Suite podcast.
We've had a lot of negativity onthat show, and they're both like,

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I mean, listen this week becauseI don't know what's gonna happen.
Like people forget where we were twoweeks ago. And it's not a light
switch. It's not like, oh, for the light switch, We're good
to go now, Like that's notwhat football is. It's not the situation.
I think again, this should bea playoff team. No, if

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we don't make the playoffs, somethingfucked up legitimately. Is it fair to
say, okay, I should bethis person on the show, so I
will be this person, I'll bethe artist. Is it fair to say
this team is better than we thoughtthey were, like at our lowest this
year, at the lowest, forsure. I think this team. I

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just think Packer fans overreact all theway across the board. I don't think
we were ever a terrible team,just like right now, I don't think
we are a great team. Ithink we are a as we always have
been, as we were born,and as we will die, A nine
and eight team. I think welike or possibly seven and ten like I

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think we're firmly in that range.We I think skill wise were much worse.
I still think we're a six toseven win team. We just continue
to get bailed out time and timeagain. And I said it at the
very beginning of the game yesterday,and this is something that happens in every
game this year. And I don'tI don't know why every team that the

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Packers play, their key players gethurt. I don't get it. Like
yesterday, there was multiple, butthey were. The Chiefs are already missing
their middle linebackers. Signal caller,one of the best linebackers in Bulton,
Drew Tranquill, then gets a kneeto the head and gets concussed leaves the
games. So and then they havea third string guy who doesn't play,
who's calling the signals for everybody,and he doesn't know where the fuck he

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is. So all the Packers haveto do is run a motion and then
everyone on the defense closes their eyesbecause they have one guy trying to communicate
with them who doesn't know what he'sdoing. So that's weird. And then
there's a bunch of other injuries theSaints. Packers lose to the Saints if
Jamis Winston doesn't have to play football, and then there's multiple other games like
that. This year doesn't make sense, Like and is that pattern gonna end?

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I don't know, because every teamthat the Packers play, people get
hurt. We're built for the cold, I don't I don't know. Also,
the rest were fucking horrendous. Idon't get it. Okay, this
is the story I wanted to sharebecause I will say the game was magical.
It was an awesome time. Hewas snowing. It was wonderful.

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We got there early enough that wegot to see it mostly empty. It's
pretty small. I don't know ifthat gets round enough, Like it's like,
whoah, breathing the same air asTaylor as amount? You know what
a time? Yeah, it's layin the game set. This is a
three play and I'm sure watching thisat home, like there was a lot

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of calls all game that could havegone against the Packers that didn't. I
think there was like a call ortwo that I was like, ah,
we should have got that. SoI was feeling pretty even about the refs.
I was like, I don't thinkthey've been good, but I think
they've been pretty equally bad. Thisthree game stretch happened for folks at ho
Patrick Mahomes was hit in bounds andthen called for a laid hit uh,

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and the place went nuts. Iwhen I say, because this is the
best Packer fan thing ever. Someonethrew a diet coke bottle. It's not
a glass bottle but a plastic bottle, so I think we were trying to
get them with global warming towards thefield, and then someone threw it back,
which I think is very Packer fans. I like that, like no
to mean, like everyone was likeoh yeah, like no, no,

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we're not that bad, you know. So I like that. People pissed
that call awful. How could itpossibly be laid hit when one it was
in bounds in two which I haven'tseen anyone say it was initiated by Mahomes.
True, very true. So that'ssome bullshit. So we're pissed.
Okay, next play, we getthat weird fumble call when it was clearly

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not a fumble. I don't knowwhat happened there and then but Checko got
so mad he punched somebody. Yeah, and in my favorite response of all
time, he had the nerve,the nerve to walk past the fans and
point towards the sky, and wejoined him by also pointing towards the sky

(01:10:23):
with our middle figures returning in asalute, like yeah, what do you
think of God for that right hook? What are we doing? So we're
living because and we shouldn't have been, but we had that bad call,
and then we were like you overturneda touchdown? What the hell? So
we're pissed, you're in a liethat everyone's drunk. You're at this like

(01:10:44):
angry live crowd and we get acall so bad that we all stopped yelling
and we all looked at each otherand people said, eh, that was
probably passive. Never seen the crowdbe like cool, we're even Like I've
never understood like payback penalties until thatmoment. Like it was like, oh,

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we just like I feel like wejust did a deal with the rafts.
Yeah, yeah, it was.Uh, that past interference thing was
brutal. But what was more brutal? How bad that call was? Or
Mike to Rico's call on air,Mike Rico is bad all night. Well
it's he's bad all night. Butdid you hear the line? It was

(01:11:29):
a good line. What was it? Uh? He said, because it
was I misspoke, because the no, no, no, I was right.
I did was Pichecka who got kickedout. It was Vontez Scanling who
was there. He said. Theonly thing he could think of was because
it was Vontes Scantling, that theymust have ruled it uncatchable. It's pretty

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good, pretty blow. I lovea love blow. I love a low
blow out of nowhere, like noone's done anything to him, just a
random like. I like it.So I thought that was good. But
this call, at this point inthe game is such NFL bullshit. It's
every week, man, Like everyif there's a close game, the final

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drive is going to be decided bya call or a non call. Usually
a non call like the rests arethat they hide their whistles in the final
drive. I don't get it.It's really bad, correct, and this
one is when they usually will call, but because they just screwed up on
the Mahomes one. I truly thinkit was a like to see how much
the rest talked to each other beforekicking out the Kansas City guy, Like,

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yeah, I think there was asense of like what do we do?
And I really think it was like, all right, let's let's swallow
our whistles. There's there's a playbetween it though, where there was flags
on the Packers and they didn't callit. I think the makeup call was
the play the play before, buteven still like it was is I don't

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know. I think personally, Ithink the rest the entire game because there
was shitty calls in the first halfthe entire game. They were bad on
both sides. But it pretty clearlyin my opinion, favored the Packers over
the course of the game. Iswhat it is? Whatever, Like I
mean, they kind of did decidethe outcome of the game, but it

(01:13:20):
whatever, who gives them. Theywould have at least at least they would
have still needed a two point yeah, which they would have. It's maybe
they wouldn't have. I don't know. I don't know what's your guys' thoughts
or what was your thoughts on watchingthe game. Live and seeing how much
Travis Kelsey wasn't really on the fieldor just slow out there. I will

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say, from my perspective, Ithink that's interesting that you would describe it
that way. I guess we haddifferent impressions live because live, I was
like, every time they threw tohim, he gained twenty yards. That
was my So I was like,what the fuck are they doing? So
like, I don't know if thatwas something I missed of Like, I

(01:14:05):
was like, I must be missingsomething because I don't know if he's this
open every time they throw to him, what's going on? Because I was
like, because there was the wholefirst quarter of their offense can do anything,
and then randomly they throw to himfor twenty five and I'm like,
it feels like that's their every play. And I was not understanding. But

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maybe he was slower than he lookedand those were just a few big breaks.
I guess he is only off thefield for eight plays, but to
me watching it, he was wideopen for a bunch of plays. It's
because the Packers just they've done itfor the past several games and it's worked
for them. They just refuse tocover people. They just bring blitz.
They just blitz and they pray thatthe quarterback doesn't find the guy. I

(01:14:50):
think Travis Kelsey's playing hurt this yearpersonally, like before just this game,
like he's having a bad year.Obviously there's people blaming Taylor Swift. I
think that's fun. I'll love I'llblame Taylor Swift too, But I think
he's hurt, and I think that'skind of the Chief's biggest issue at the
current moment because obviously they don't havethe other receivers that can step up.

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That's an issue, but they needto rely on Kelsey and right now that
can't as well. Well, ifhe's hurt. Here's the problem. He's
still their best weapon. Hurt forsure, because that would explain it.
Because what I've been struggling to articulateis he's had a bad year and still
very clearly been their best weapon.Yeah, and it's not close. Yeah,

(01:15:34):
So like that was my piece waslike I was blaming it on utilization,
but it has to be like ahurt thing. So I think that
makes sense. I think, yeah, I it's I hate I hate doubting
the Chiefs because that's a dangerous placeto be. Yeah, I think they

(01:15:57):
have some issues to get over,but it doesn't. It just feel I
feel like one week they're just gonnathrow to them twenty times and then they're
gonna win by forty. That's whatI'm like missing. It's like, when
what's happening. They don't need towin right now, Like truthfully, if
they if they wanted to win thatgame, and it's just it seems like
a stupid thing to say. Ifthey wanted to win that game, they
could have passed to them every playand won the game. They just they

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could have That's what I was kindof. I agree, I agree,
I just that's what it feels like. I think that is mind boggling to
me. Can I say something nowin defense of Taylor Swift? Sure?
Okay, and I know you werenot the audience for this take. Okay,

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maybe the Volume one audience is.So that's here. Well, may
I may I ask a question toyou, Okay, the defendant, welcome
to your trial. Do you dislikeTaylor Swift more? Now saying it can't
be a little bit of both,but do you dislike Taylor Swift more because

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of Taylor Swift or because of herfans? Her fans for sure. That's
all I'm saying. People can findTaylor Swift annoying. People can dislike her
music. I think all of thatis and people can certainly dislike the following
she has and the type of peoplethat you associate with it. I think

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it's getting ridiculous how much people dislikeher as a person. I talk about
things you hear in a game.There were descriptions of Taylor Swift out of
the blue that I literally cannot repeatin public core private, and I don't.

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And here's how you know things havegotten out of hand. Do you
know what spurred those on me?Neither? I don't know what. I
think. Travis caught a pass andsomeone called her a dumb bitch, like
it's like, what happen? Like, I don't get it. So and
again, people can think what theywant. And I understand that we are

(01:18:10):
getting annoyed with seeing her everywhere,and I can't stress enough it's not her
fault. So yeah, that's myonly thing. I think it's totally fair
to be annoyed by everything that's happening. But I just this is all gonna
end up very princess Diane, andI just that's what I don't want to
happen. It's the same thing withany superstar, though, Like I could

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say the same thing with the KelseyBrothers. I could say the same thing
with Aaron Rodgers. I could saythe same thing with insert any mega superstar,
Like it's thrust. I mean Shack. There's no reason to ever hate
Shack except for he's on every commercialof all time, right you know?
So yeah, I mean it iswhat it is. You're right, though,

(01:18:56):
Like I mostly dislike her because ofher fans. Do if take that
away? Do I like her?No? But it's not like I hate
her. No, No, Ithink it's totally okay to be apathetic towards
her. I just like want somethingout there where I just got the vibe
at this game where it was likethey didn't show her once on screen,
by the way, and I waslike, I don't think they showed her

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during the game on the telecast either. Well, okay, first off,
can I share with you with Peteosmond theory that he called to tell me
about seven this morning? Was itnot her? Uh? No? His
theory was that this was revenge forJordan Love because when he dated the putting

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her in the corner like not showingher on screen. We placed her in
a very bad spot at the gameand didn't show her on TV because of
what the Chiefs did to Jordan Love'smother and girlfriend. If that's the case,
I love it. I don't thinkthat's the case though, I don't.

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But my only thought was I Ijust got a vibe that if they
showed her on screen that place wouldhave came unglued, and not in a
positive way. Like there's a lotof cheese fans there too, So well,
that's what I'm saying. So maybeit would have been okay, and
maybe it would have been a mixedreaction, but I don't like to your
point. I think it is thesame as anything else, which is why

(01:20:19):
I don't understand why so like passionate. Like I heard she's I heard Taylor
supposed to Holocaust denier? Though,is that true? No? I heard
she? Uh, I I heardshe's. I don't know. I couldn't
even think of a joke. Idon't know. I don't know. I

(01:20:41):
heard she. I heard she doesn'tknow who Nick Saban is. I bet
that's true. Oh say it ain't. So that's worse than what I said.
I just Okay, can we allthis is an agreement? We can
all come in. What is mypoint to you? The people give her
a break, just don't care aboutit's fine, or join my camp where

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you don't have to feel anything abouther. I like a storyline, and
I think this is fun. Sure, I think this is totally fine?
Or how about this? No onewill freak out about Taylor Swift as long
as there's one person in her boxwe should hate more. Can we come
to that agreement? Because I can'tlike, by the way, Mahmes,

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I want to say this, Idon't think we showed her because it's hard
to show the people in the suitsat Lambeau. By the way, like,
did we show anybody else in thesuits at Lambeau? I don't think
so. Am I living in abubble where that? I don't think we've
been talking about Taylor Swift recently?Am I wrong? No? Not really?

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The big two weeks ago was thebig one where on Travis's bye week
he went to Brazil a lot,yes, but again not in the football
game. So it was by swifties. But that's what I'm saying. Okay,
that's all right. I'll end mypoint on this, that's all I'm
saying. It hasn't been that much, and so for people to be like,

(01:22:05):
she's on camera so much, Ihate her and what she stands for.
I don't understand because I think it'sbeen fine. I don't really like
you know, I'll get behind that. I hate her. Proud me.
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Obviously Spotify is only a section ofour listeners, but they do it
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You know, the Flory Sports podcastwas in their top three podcast, Top
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That's very cool. There's a lotof things numbers usually don't mean much.
That's a big one to me.I think that's pretty cool. So you
know we're doing something right. AndI hopesaid I apologize. I would never
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do that, but I do wantto thank you for that, Jake.
If you want to say anything elseabout that or something else, let me
know or go ahead. Three takeawayssuper quick. First man, I immediately
added something that wasn't one of thethree takeaways. Thank you four four takeaways.
Thank you for listening. That's cool. I think it shows two things

(01:24:29):
to me. I think it showsthat people who listen like it, and
that in turn, means I likeyou, because if life has taught me
one thing, it's that people whovalidate me are pretty cool. So I
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you guys are putting up more contentthan RCU's podcast. Still so pretty alarming.
And you know what, as longas we're here, it doesn't mean
I shouldn't say that. It meansa lot, and I know what the
numbers mean, is all I'm saying. But speaking of podcast numbers, I

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