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Hey, it's Tony on today's show. We will talk to Jason Locke and for about all the NFL coaches fired this week. We will also talk to him about what he expects to see in the wild card round this weekend. Plus James Carval and Jeff Ma will call in with their weekly picks. But first, let's do some commerce boys and girls. Previously on the Tony Cornizer show. It's early in the morning. How's Levitard? Is he sweating? Yeah, he's everything okay down there. So he goes to bed and wakes up sweating. You know, yeah, yeah, everything good in those studios. I think so. There's this rather polatial, for be honest with you. I'm in a spare studio right now. I'm in close. It's glorious down here. That's nice. That's nice. I mean, the best thing about Dan is that Dan, of course, hates all authority. And now he is the authority. So he hates himself. The Tony Cornizer show is on now. If you're going to have college games, you ought to have a good one. I was, you know, that's a wonderful game. I thought Ole Miss was going to win the game before the game. But if you watch that game, Miami was, I don't want to say dominant. Miami was better. Miami's offensive line pushed Mississippi, pushed Ole Miss around. Did. They had a lot of long drives. They sustained these drives. They held the ball for eight, nine minutes at a time. Coming back from third and long often. Yeah, they made their third down plays. And at the end, the winning drive, and you don't know it's the winning drive, because the other team is going to end up with a Hail Mary situation, which by the way, there's all sorts of pass interference. And you never call it. You can't. You don't call it on that play. No. Call it on the play before that play. You don't call it on that play. So in that last drive, Carson Beck was really good. And then he pranced into the end zone, which he apparently doesn't do. That's only the second time Ole Uri had a rushing touchdown. He's an old man. He's 23. Yeah. He's a throwing quarterback. He is now in his college career at two really fine football schools, Georgia and Miami. He's 18 and three against ranked opponents. You know, would you want to take a chance on a guy like that? I think you would. It's not just him. It's the team as well, but he's 18 and three now against ranked opponents. I felt the better. I mean, as a newspaper writer, I felt I feel that the best championship would be Indiana and Ole Miss. The storylines are just so good. And you can say Miami is back from the doldrums. You can say that, but everybody, it doesn't matter what Miami's record is. Everybody always thinks they're a good football school. And the fact that they haven't won a national championship in 25 years, well, Indiana has a one one and three thousand. So, you know, I don't know about that. But I think too much is going to be made about the resurrection of Miami. But it is, you know what? At the beginning of that game, when they bring out Edger and James and Ray Lewis, you know, that's impressive. This legacy. You know, Mississippi brings out Eli Manning. Yeah. And that's impressive. But Ray Lewis is a storied figure in college and professional football. And when he comes out there, it feels like a big deal. And now they get an intimidating figure. Yes. And now they get their home field. Yeah. And I don't know what that means. I don't know what the ticket distribution is. But they get their home field for the next few years. At least for them, it means they don't have to travel. You know, the convenience of, you know, this is familiar to us. Because they're kids they like to travel. Well, that's for them. They would like to travel. But, you know, all praise to them. I'm still, look, my position has never varied that Notre Dame should be in. And Miami, Miami was the last team in. And Miami had to get in by the grace of the Playoff Committee, which had for five previous weeks ranked them behind Notre Dame by at least two spots. And then at the last moment, they jumped them over Notre Dame. And they did that because Virginia failed to beat Duke in the ACC championship. Had Virginia won that game, Virginia was a two or three loss team. They would have gotten in. And Miami would be in. Miami would be watching. Like Notre Dame is watching, you know, but is Miami worthy? 100%. They've won three games in this thing. All single elimination games are totally worthy team. They always were a worthy team. I just didn't think as worthy as Notre Dame, even though Wilbon would point out they beat Notre Dame. She'd Notre Dame in the first game of the season in August. They did. Notre Dame, I thought, had a better run after that. But you know, look, I'm not saying that Miami does not belong because they obviously belong. And they did a great job last night. They did a great job. And now the other great story would be, and this eliminates Indiana, the great story would be if Marco Cristobalm, who Mario Cristobal, right? It's not Marco, it's Mario Cristobalm. I think so. He coached at Oregon. He left Oregon to coach at Miami. Miami is his alma mater. He played at Miami. He's happy to swear he wants to be. But the notion that he would meet his old team in a national championship is pretty good. You know, and that would, and you can live with that. It's not as good as Indiana. No. Because Indiana has been actually the worst, had the worst record of any football school, that played football. He's not a football school, he was basketball school, obviously. Everton. Do you think Signati goes to the field tonight with the tape measure in the team? And says, I think you'll find the same measurements that I stayed him back in Hickory. Yeah, you know, he's, he's an interesting, he's scowling all the time. Wilbur must love him because he hates everybody. He clearly hates everybody. All right. So I got this nice note from Michael Masson, who writes, I wrote in last January about my Joe Garagio, the Stan Muziel connection, and promised to send Michael's boys, our lineup of hybrid animal characters, when our company launched. You predicted I'd write back because of your mention of Eddie Longos, Eddie married my wife's cousin, the omnipresent connective tissue. Our company, Zabonky, Z-E-B-O-N-K-Y, is now officially launched. Hybrid animal plushies with children's books in development. A box with our first six characters was sent to Michael. We certainly helped Bootsie the Hammer and the Captain enjoy them as much as our three boys the same age do. Tuning in is likely the most consistent part of my joyfully hectic life feels like catching up with all friends, same rhythm, same table. Still in Ann Arbor, still stepping on Legos, still know what it means to miss New Orleans. Stepping on Legos. I learned my, every, my ten year old mask and child is putting a penalty listening to the pod. Ten year old kid. Really? Does that make him a little, little, I guess it does. Now, will you describe what is that? These are hybrid stuffed animals. So think about the stuffed animal that you might have experimented on as a kid if you're in toy story and Sid. So I'm looking at Axel Axelotter. Not sure you needed to combine an Axelottle with an otter, but they did. My favorite part is the picture. I mean, there's something so powerful about birth order. The boys are smiling with their stuffies and I can just see my kids in this. So you're thrilled. I'm thrilled. Liz is terrified. Why? I gave her a little preview. These are the things of very cute, but still nightmares. Really? Now they're cool. They're very cool. Yeah. I was just a little bit nervous today and I thought, what are you doing? But you'll take care of it. Charlie, the chimpanzee, I can already look at the kids fighting over who gets what? How many, but there's six of them, right? Okay. Well, six of my kids. Like, you know, they can't get two- Maybe the strongest man wins. Snake draft, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think it's pretty exciting. I do. I think it's pretty exciting. When people say they're going to do stendos stuff and they actually do, it's always thrilling. Yes, it is. It doesn't mean we want it. It doesn't mean we're casting about for it. Right. But, you know, I also, I wanted to mention, I don't want to read this on the air without permission from Steve Tucker, but we're glad his health has been. Yes, very much so. They say, really moving email. Yeah, keeping in thoughts. Really moving email. Okay. So, we will get out of here now and we will bring in Jason. That's correct. We have Carval and Ma, picking games, and I say before they go on, just so you know, we taped this last night, but we taped it before the game. Yes. Today had no knowledge of the game as you can, you'll see. As you'll see. So Jason, I can for when we return, I'm Tony Cornheister. You're listening to the Tony Cornheister show. This is a song called Clams Casino by someone named Brian Dunn, who is a New York kid. I've never seen him perform until I saw him do this song. Alex Pabegar, our friend at Pinehurst, the director of Public Relations, wrote me a note saying, loves this song, you should play this song. And I said, well, Alex, you can't just play songs. And he said, I'm on it. And he talked to Brian Dunn's management. And they wrote me a note, a wrote him a note that he sent to me saying, fine, you know, play it. It's great. And it's called Clams Casino. And Nigel was trying to get permission from Brian Dunn's management as well and say, we're going to play it on such and such a date. You were stifled by the fact that, well, there's an artist whose name is Clams Casino, which struck me as very odd. You knew that. No, I've just been Googling myself. Okay. Yeah, and it's like, oh, no, we just want the song, not the artist, but this is a tremendous song. Yeah. Well done, Brian. This is Brian Dunn. The artist like Brian Dunn wants her music played on the show where their management group does or Alex Bogligar does. How does it go better? Send us your music by emailing it to Jinglesat, tonicornizershow.com and new year, new code. Johnny O. is running a bunch of promos on his site right now. So you can't double up, but we do have a code for the month, TK gutter. gutter braids on the gutter balls. gutter balls. gutter balls. Because I don't have, I'm not throwing it off the bumpers. Hey, you have the choice to play in that lane. You chose yours. Stay in it. That's right. Staying in my own lane. All of this stuff plays in Jason Lockham for us. What was that? Not sure. I was a weird guy. I thought it all felt work. Sorry, so you just hit down the car. Oh, okay. Perfect timing, of course. Okay, wonderful. You know, basically what I want to talk about is the firings. You know, a lot of coaches are out. Couple of coaches were out in the middle of the year. The giants coach was out. The Titans coach was out. And then a bunch have been fired since. Were you surprised? I was surprised by John Harboh. I'm not sure you were. Were you surprised by any of them? Well, surprised by McDaniel, but yes and no. Like they were going to keep them. They told him he was okay. They were formulating their plans for whatever they could do with Tua. And then Steven Ross, who if you'll recall, got himself into a bit of hot water chasing various Michigan men in the past. Yes. Not that John Harboh is a Michigan man, but Ross is a Michigan man. Harboh is brother, a warning national title at Michigan. He got caught, you know, tampering with Tom Brady, a Michigan man. And now all of a sudden, Jim Harboh is officially on the market. John Harboh. John Harboh, not Tom. Yeah, yeah. So if you had given me that data point, I would have said, oh, yeah, no, I could totally see the Miami Dolphin's handle in the coach's situation that way. The Ravens needed to make a change. The question was, would Steve Peshati at this stage of his ownership tenure and as embedded to this duo of Harboh and De Costa as he was? Would he actually pull the trigger? You know, was he willing to go talk that 12, 14 different people? You know, and seriously consider restafing his franchise in a way he hasn't had to do in 20 years. So that was sort of the only dangling part of simple. But if you're really chronicle of this thing, they had to make a change. And John Harboh is probably the right guy for six or seven other teams right now. That's what I want to ask you. Yeah. But he's not the right guy here anymore. Okay. And he was done firing coaches. He was sick of gutting his staff while the guys who picked the players, nothing changes over there. Like it's the same person, though, people. It's the same. No, it's the same analyst. It's the same quants. Like why are you always coming to me saying, I got to blow out all my top guys, but the dudes picking the players just continue to pretend like, you know, like they're not a part of this. And so we came to a head. They came to a head quickly. And Steve Besidey's off the yacht and he's he's going to be talking to people. Harboh will get a job. Is there a job out there that you think is the best job for him? I think Atlanta, I'll put it to this one. I think Atlanta's a sneaky good job for him. The bar has been set really low there. They haven't had an established coach come in, I think, since fan reefs. I mean, you can look at the lineage of the highers there. And so I think it would command immediate. It would just be a whole different thing than they've ever had under Arthur Blank. As we just saw the division came down to a three-way tie break in which the Atlanta Falcons and the season in which they fired everybody were basically tied for first. So like there's a void there. You can step in and win immediately. I mean, I believe he's got a sister who works at University of Georgia. He could bring Todd Monkin with him. That would be celebrated there. Todd Monkin ran Georgia's defense when they won a national title. Todd Monkin, but Michael Pettics, who are you getting? Who could be like, tell me these other candidates who are bringing an offensive coordinator with them? Or who are the play collar? Who maybe are more equipped for that unique challenge than the Todd Monkin would be? So, and I think Arthur Blank, if he, and I should say, if, I mean, it's probably more like when, when he gets in a room with Arthur Blank, I think Arthur Blank's going to be like, oh my god, nobody's out bidding me for this guy. And I think Steve Harmol's going to be like, this dude's got a lot of basciaddi in this game, which he's comfortable with. The wild card will be Green Bay. If Matt will floor, if that thing gets ugly in Chicago, and they're board of governors or whatever they call it, board of trustees, because it's a different ownership, you know, paradigm and Green Bay. If they get together and are like, you know, what Steve Ross just did, like, who do we think is better to win in this window? Do we want to pay the floor? You know, do you want to extend him at 15, 17 a year? Do we want to pay Harmol 20 a year? You know, Brian Harmol's agent, or Brian, John Harmol's agent, I'll get these names right eventually. Is Brian Harland? Kevin Harland's brother, son of Bob Harland, who was a decorated executive of the Green Bay Packers for a generation. Like he's a child of the Midwest, cradle of coaches, Miami of Ohio. I'm sure when him and his brother were in the backyard listening to Brown's games, they could pick up the Green Bay feed too. Like I think Green Bay would be, would be right up his alley. Are any of the other coaches who were let go likely to get jobs this year? I have a hard time thinking Kevin's to fansky doesn't get a job. I mean, it got ugly there in Cleveland and some of the stuff he did this year, he's going to have to explain. But if you're in the game, you know, he's just wanted to make it like he needed to get out of there and he needed to make sure that the club that was such that he was going to get out of there. Because there were going to be a bunch of openings and, you know, okay, Harbold might get fired, but other than that, you know, okay, maybe this Tomlund thing happens too, but I don't know that Tomlund wants to coach as much as some of these other guys. He might want to reset. In which case he's going to be really well positioned as someone who's been to the playoffs, one of the playoffs in a place where they never win in the playoffs or even make the playoffs. So I think he's, I think he's in, I think he's well positioned. I have a very hard time thinking Kevin's to fansky. If the giants don't get Harbold, I mean, that just that, that has always felt like the fast guy who wrote about it, the watch that post months ago, like I could see that ownership group following in love with which to fansky. The rest of them, I, I think it's probably going to be tough sledding for most of them. Let me ask you this. Do you think if the 44-yard field goal is good and Baltimore makes the playoffs, even if they lose in the first round, do you think John Harbold would be fired no matter what? I think the same, the same uncomfortable conversations to the degree they haven't had them in, you know, a decade. I think they're still having those conversations like, you know, he's still going to say, you know, you've got to fire your whole defensive staff, John. Like that's just abject. Like that's not good enough. You hired Zach Orr was the wrong hire. Like we can't keep bringing in D&P's and Chuck Pagano had a retirement to prop up a young DC. He's been over his head since the day you picked them and you picked them over to Nardwell. So then you picked them over Anthony Weaver. We're now going to bring in an interview for our Ed coaching job. So like, I think if you're John Harbold and you've got to stay there. Excuse me and it basically want you to put and then time munkin. They wanted a shotty was pretty convinced that like munkin might not be the guy to get Lamar over the top and, you know, their long time offensive line coach passed away about a year ago and the new guy, they're what he's developing. So I want a new offensive line coach like what about, you know, what's going on with Rashad Bayman? What's going on with Isaiah? Likely, why didn't they develop? We might need new position coaches there. And so if you're John Harbold, you're like, man, look, I'm like I said before. I'm done. Like my daddy was a coach, my brother's a coach, I'm a coach. I'm a coach is coach. I fired a lot of people here for a long time at your urging. Like I'm not, I'm not starting over with a new staff at age 63. Like I think we're pretty close. But Shady obviously didn't think they were pretty close. Okay. That's good to know. Well, I mean, you know what you live there. Six games, Green Bay, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Rams, Carolina, Buffalo, Jacksonville, Chargers, New England, Texan Steelers. I mean, to me, the two games that stand out, just this is just to me, are Buffalo at Jacksonville and the 49ers at Philadelphia. And I'm wondering if you agree with that and where you're leaning on those two games. Yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot of meat on the bone for both those games. And I like the home team in both those games. Philadelphia and Jacksonville, you do. Yes, I like him fairly considerably. It's a real tough matchup for San Francisco. They haven't been able to run the ball all year. It's volume, but it's not explosion. Kittle, I think, is more hurt from that situation than Indianapolis than they're letting on. He didn't look right to me. You know, Trent Williams, they're not the same offense without Trent Williams and Trent Williams at 70% or whatever. If he does get out there versus that particular D line and and Kittle at 70% or whatever against that particular D line and Vick Fangio's defense, where he generates Udels a pressure without ever blitzing. I think that's a big problem for them. I think that's the worst possible matchup for their quarterback. And I also think you look at Barkley who had a tough season, but the last three, four weeks of the season, they started playing Eagles football again and riding him and he's getting 130 scrimmage and he's getting the sweat going. He's getting 18 to 20 carries and they're grinding people out in the second half. That would say Francisco's run defenses and absolute joke and they get zero pass rush. I mean, you can ride old jail and hurts, but they've got a worse pass rest than the one that just got hardball fired. I mean, they've got one of the worst pass rushes to ever make a postseason. And I don't think that's in polluting here and you know, the Eagles offensive line have had their share of injury. But again, I think this is a great matchup for where they're most vulnerable. And I just think Jacksonville's a better team than Buffalo. I think they're a more complete team than Buffalo. All the pressure is on Buffalo. I mean, Josh Allen doesn't guide you this much. He don't cover in the playoffs. He's five and eight against the spread in the playoffs. He's only four against the spread on the road. I don't think they're going to be able to run the ball the way they want to, which means you start defaulting to some super, super hero ball. And that's a defense that gets a ton of turnovers. I think Jacksonville, I think Jacksonville wins that game. Okay. All right, plug one a bet for us. Yeah, we're breaking all these games down and continuing to give you our best bets in the English Premiership and the Bundesliga. NBA college to college playoffs tonight. We'll be all over that Oregon game futures college basketball. There's so much that I'm sure your listeners are wadering on to thinking about wadering on go to one of that with us. Calm, check us out. We're trying to keep it to 35 minutes a day. But you know, if it's a three laps tonight stuff happens. And we will give you all our best plays. We'll tell you why we're playing them the way we're playing them. And we show all our work. We track every bet. And we tell you which markets for doing great in where we're not. We keep scoring and we do pretty well. So who do you like tonight with us calm? You can get all our current. Just on the way out. Who do you like tonight? In the football game. Yeah. I'm a I'm on Oregon. Like I jumped on Oregon futures at nine to one to win the whole damn thing. So I am a little biased there. I'm not fading them by taking Indiana money line. But I am taking the points with the docs. I don't know that you beat landing twice and get them on a neutral site. I think it's two best quarterbacks in the country. I think Oregon's experience could help them here. And I think Indiana being down the top pass rusher. I just feel like that's going to show up. But this is for it. I mean, whoever wins this tonight, I think that's your national champion. Thank you, Jason. We'll talk to you next week. Thank you guys. Jason, I can for our boys and girls. We will take a break. We will have James Carville and Jeff Ma. We know we will have them because we talked on last night as we will explain not Tony Cornheyser. This is the Tony Cornheyser show. Well, you wake up in the morning, boy. You hear the ding dong ring. Then you look upon the table. You see the same darn thing. You find no food upon the table. There's no fork up in the pan. But you better not complain, boy. You're getting trouble with the midnight special, Paul Evans. It's the traditional James Carville walkup music. And he's walking with a spring in his step because he went six and oh last week. One more time. Six and oh and is now 51, 47 and two. Six and oh this week's picks with James Carville and Jeff Ma. I brought to you by Fandall sportsbook. Make every moment more. You want to bask in the glory of this. It was great. All right. Yeah, but you know, we got we got a roll on. We came to look back. We got to look forward. And you know, yesterday's victory could easily be tomorrow's defeat. So we put a lot of thought into it and we ready for our picks this week. Let me just say that we are taping with James and with Jeff on Thursday evening before the start of the Miami Ole Miss games. So they can pick that game. You'll know when we hear this that that game was over, but it's legit for them to pick that game. What have you got for us? I got the over 52 in a game tonight. Over 52. Okay. That's what the over 48 in Indian Oregon game. We're going to over. You're going to take both overs in that. Okay. Yes, sir. And then we got a really good game Packers and the Bayers. Yeah, in Chicago. Should be. Yes. Yes. Should be cold and I'm going to pack. I think they're more solid up and down. Okay. On the road. Green Bay. It's not a very fortunate. You know, to take the bus down. That's not a big deal. No, it's. We'll bond used to do that all the time. Yeah. Screaming at Chewsheads. Screaming. Yeah. Maybe one of the powerhouses in the future in NFL. We're going to take the Jacksonville Jaguars. It should be. You should get a little bit here, but it's their home against the Buffalo bills. You get a point and a half. Great. If it's point taken anyway, don't. And it's a we have it as a point and a half. So you you are convinced that this iteration of the Jags and Trevor Lawrence. They're real. You think they're real. They're one. I think sure. Yeah, I think several. It's just a real hard back. Okay. I thought he wasn't college. We'd bother him up, but he was real. He was he was great in college. And then the last two or three years didn't look good. And then they bring in this quarterback, Westboro, Liam Cohn. And now all of a sudden he looks like a pro bowl player every day. He does. Yeah. And yes, absolutely. In the 49ers and the Eagles. You're going to have to eat some points here, but take the Eagles. I really want to have. Yeah. Oh, at that home. Yeah. Okay. I got to play off game. And as opposed to going from Green Bay to Chicago, San Francisco to Philadelphia. It's a big trip. It's a big trip. You got a long time on the plane. You got you got. I don't care how good an athlete. Or you just got to adjust a little bit up. I like. I like home feeling these playoffs when the road team has got to go along. Okay. So just a place much start coming in. We're not doing this. This is not the bet. But if you had to pick a team in Miami Ole Miss or a team in Indiana, Oregon, who would you pick? I know. I never thought I'd get this out of my mouth and maybe it's because I'm kind of halfway pulling for him. But I think pick Indiana. What did they beat everybody? Yes. Until until you get beat. I mean, it's the old boxing row we grew up with. Until you get beat, you're the best. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And I didn't think it would beat Ohio State in a big 10 championship game. No. They did. Yeah, they did. They did. Right. They didn't. You know, so they go off. Yeah, that guy might beat. That might be the best coaching job in the history of sports. Well, they just squeaked by Alabama in that game. It's like 38. Yeah. He likes to run it up too. Good for him. All right, James. Good luck. We hope you. Thank you. I hope you win him on. James Carville boys and girls. And now we will get Jeff Maughan from that. Jeff Maugh did not pick last week because Jeff was in Hawaii. Right. And so you're going to you think you get him quickly. We're trying to get him right now. Yeah, corner right now. Okay. Because do you think James had to tell Luke that he's going to publicly take the jaguars before coming on here? He's just of the bills because of the bills. I mean, James has always been loyal to the bills as his Luke, obviously. So yeah, that was a little bit surprised on that. Wilbons got that too. Wilbons got Jacksonville. He thinks that they're going to win. I don't know. I mean, I think Philadelphia is a good team, but I also think the Ford, the Ford and Orange just don't have any defense, but they can score a lot. They can score a lot. All right. So tell me if we have Jeff. We have Jeff. Okay. So I want Jeff to be able to hear this. Jeff, when we taped these things beforehand and even when we do them for real on a Friday morning, Jeff always gives us suggestions of things that he might like to talk about. And overwhelmingly, these have to do with gambling and, you know, future gambling or present gambling or transfer whatever he wants to talk about. And so I, you know, I go, okay, we'll talk about them because it makes him happy and it's always a better show when it's happy. Today, one of the things he said was he, you know, because we he didn't pick last week because he was in Hawaii and he was playing golf. And he said, why don't you ask me about playing with John Rom and I went what? What John that that John, you played with that John Rom? Is there another John Rom? I don't know. I don't got to be another John Rom. But yeah, no, I play with that John Rom. What was how did that happen? Um, you know, they needed a fourth at the local community. You just showed to the first team. Yeah, I was like, I'm here, you know, and they're like our fourth late. No, we played at McKenna. One of my buddies is a guy named Shane 6B. You know, plus five handicap. He's a member. He's the guy I played with at Summit and he happened to be out at McKenna, which is the discovery land property out there. He said, hey, do you want to come down and play and, you know, bring the family down because we were on the other side of the island. We're up at Capelua because true and we managed the Capelua course out there and not normally would have been when the, the century would have been right. There's no century this year. So, um, and, you know, and so he said, come down and play. And then the night before he sent me, uh, the gins of everyone playing that day and he goes, hey, this is our six. Um, and I was reading down the six. Um, and, you know, I'm obviously getting a lot of strokes. I'm like, I wonder why I'm getting 28 strokes. And there's a, there's a guy by the name of John Rom. Water versus. Wow. I mean, who was, who was giving me 28 strokes? So is he a nice guy? Did you like him? Well, I mean, he's, he, at one point was and might be again the greatest player in the world. He might be, but did you enjoy playing with him? Yeah. No, I've, I've met him before. This wasn't the first time I'd met him. Um, you know, he's not out like effervescent and outgoing. But he's, he's certainly friendly. He's very competitive. Um, he shot a 63 that day. But if you had looked at him, you would have thought he was Kurt Signetti. So, you know, he's just not, he's just a very, he's a very stoic and competitive person. And I, I think he takes golf seriously, um, you know, no matter what, no matter what he's doing. Um, but, you know, I, I had no idea that he shot a 63 and then we were sitting around and I'm like, oh, how, how did he play? Cause given, given sort of his, his demeanor and they're like, oh, he shot a 63. So I, I'd be crazy not to ask this. I'm going to put on my sports writer hat. Did you ask him about live about Kepp go leaving live about what his future was? Did you ask about those things or was that not something you felt you could do? Yeah, I don't know. It was something I felt like I could do, you know, at that situation. Yeah. You know, giving 20 H strokes away and just being happy to be on the same T box as him. Um, you know, I, again, like I, and you know, you've probably been in situations like this. Obviously, um, where, you know, you don't want to be the person that's holding anyone up. You don't want to be the person that's disrupting anyone that's, you're walking through lines or, or anything like that. Um, and, and so yeah, no, I wasn't, I wasn't super provocative in asking him, you know, about, about live and, and the future of live and, and why he took the $500 million, et cetera. Well, he's a great player. There's only look same T box. You're, you're, you're in the same T box with him really actually on the same T box. Yeah, we finally cut up. No, no, we, we, we played from the same T boxes. We, uh, you know, I don't know if you guys have ever played any discovery land properties, but you have your own golf car. You can drive right up to the T. You can pretty much drive anywhere except for on the green, you know, as a six, them, we played in about three hours and 10 minutes. Wow. Um, it's great. Got around the course well and, uh, yeah, I know we played from the same piece. Um, do you ever out hit him and big hitter the lama? Do you ever out hit him? No. I did, I did, I did par the number one handicap hole, which when you're giving, getting that many strokes, you win the net, Eagle. So yeah, and you win that. So I'm good for you. Good for you. You did, you did better with ROM than you did when you picked the last time you picked, when you ended up two and three, 4937 and one, you're still the leader. You're the leader, but that was, you did, did not have a good week. So we need you to rebound. What have you got? Well, can I, can I tell also one, one other story? Sure. Just the social fabric of this. So, uh, we're planning a marketing activation to the company I worked for during waste management week, which is as you remember is the week that you and I met. Yes. When you asked me to park your car away back in the day. It's a long time ago. I forgot that part. I forgot. Yeah. One day we're going to have to tell that story again, because I think people really want to hear it. But we're in this meeting and we're talking about basically sponsoring this area at the fair, which is the hotel that kind of butts up against it and, and, you know, we go through this whole thing. We're kind of going through this negotiation. And then one of the guys kind of in the background comes on camera. And the first thing he says to me is let's use the right. Really? Wow. That's fabulous. Well, that's good. Oh, that's good. It's pretty happy. It's pretty much everywhere. That's good to know. That's good to know. All right. What do you got? What do you pick? Well, so we got one college game going tonight. You can pick it. You can pick it if you want. You can do that. Yeah. I mean, I'm going to take Ole Miss. Okay. What do you got? Do you have three and a half or do you have three or what do you have? I've got three, but we just gave lines to Carville that could be questionable. So if you'd like three and a half, no, I, because I used it as a lead in in PTI and was three. Oh, three on this day. Yeah. So it's three. You take Ole Miss. I'm going to take Ole Miss. The three. It's a very, it plus three plus three. It's going to be very interesting to see what happens with this game because ultimately, it's going to be a question of whether this is like galvanizing for this team or whether they really miss coaching and leadership. But they're offensively just a lot better than Miami. Miami's been obviously incredible defensively, but usually good offense can be good defense. So I'm going to take them. I'll give you one scary little stat for picking Ole Miss. And that is that Carson Beck in his career at Georgia and at Miami is 17 and three against ranked opponents. That's pretty good. That's pretty good number. So. Yeah, but I mean, what was Georgia during that time? They were like, top five. They were like, top five. It's not just Carson Beck. What just Georgia been during that time? So it's, yeah. These things are misleading in terms of like the Carson Beck. I don't, I would rather have tried to get a chambliss on my quarterback in this game than Carson Beck. Okay. What else you got? I'll give it to them. I will take, what do you have in the end at three and a half? Yeah, three and a half. That's right. If Indiana had Alabama or Ohio State on the front of their chest, given the way they played this year, what do you think this line would be? Six and a half. Yeah. It's interesting that the only thing that holds me back in this game is that at the core, Oregon probably has more pure talent than they do. Yes. Like if you look at the five stars, et cetera. Indiana has the experience. And, you know, Indiana is certainly a better team. They performed like a better team all year. And what they've done this year, I think again, it would be short of like, you know, one of those juggernaut seasons. But because they're Indiana, people are still holding them back. I mean, this is probably the first game that they've seen the respect that they deserve in my mind. But I'm still going to take that minus the three and a half here. So what would worry me here? And I will say this tomorrow on television is, you know, this is the second time around this year. And this is look what happened with Ole Miss in Georgia and look what happened with Alabama and Oklahoma. I mean, I just worry about that. Do you? I mean, no. I mean, I obviously worry about everything. I'm more worried about is Oregon's talent, you know, with last week a real indication that Oregon's talent is peaking and is elite. And, you know, or was that just a matter of Texas Tech? They drilled them. They shot them out. They drilled them. All right, you'll take Indiana. It was beyond shut out too. It was like Texas Tech didn't even out of play football. Three and a half. Okay, what else? Then we're going to go in the NFL. We're going to take the Packers minus the one. Is it going to get one still? One is fine. Yeah, we got a little bit of a car. Carvell had it at even. Carvell found some place in, you know, in somewhere in Southwestern Louisiana. Nobody's ever heard of it. Yeah, go ahead. Was it someone's with it someone's backyard or garage that they're booking games? Could be. Could be T boys, T boys shed. Could be. Yeah. No, I'm going to take the Packers. Packers have a lot of upside. They obviously have a lot of downside too with all the injuries. But I think there are teams that like in this situation. And again, the bears just defensively are kind of putrid. So I like the Packers here to win this game. But so why? Because Wilbun can eat it. You're just a just one of seashell cockle. Go ahead. What else? I'm going to take the Jaguars at home. Getting points. We talked about this on that the process this week. The narrative of that elite quarterback is kind of getting dispelled this year, right? Like we had my homes and Lamar and all those guys that borrow and we were like, that's all that matters. But not just. The only reason. Josh Allen's going to be like. Well, but the only reason you would pick Buffalo in this game over Jacksonville is. Josh Allen. That's really the only reason you pick them. Yes. And obviously that's a very, very, very big reason. But at the core, I think you're getting value on a Jacksonville team, which is a better team. And Buffalo and they're at home. And somehow they're the underdog. I doesn't make any sense to me. So I'm going to take Jacksonville at home getting the one point. I would say to you that everything you said about Indiana and why they're only minus three and a half. Applies to Jacksonville right now that there is still a measure of doubt with Jacksonville. They have not been a playoff team for a couple of years. Their quarterback as great as he was in college and as great as he's been this year had not been great for two or three years. And Josh Allen has been great for five or six. So I mean, that's that's just the counter to what you're saying. I think. Yeah, no, I agree. And it's not the counter. It's like, isn't it kind of the corollary? It's basically saying. Okay, yeah, a little bit of the same thing that it's like that this is a, you know, this is a team that is a bit underrated. Yes. And they don't they don't inspire the belief that they should given what they've done the last eight games. And given what this guy Trevor Lawrence has done, he's thrown 19 touchdown passes and scored five touchdowns on his own in the last eight games. It's an unbelievable. That's Joe Montana numbers. It's unbelievable. So. Okay. Yeah, I'm going to take one more. I'm going to take the Steelers plus the three really Houston really. Yeah, the other team is very perplexing. But again, I just, you know, this Houston team, the Steelers actually match up well with Houston Houston's weaknesses on the offensive line. Steelers can get pressure on them. And I think they will cause some disruption. The other thing that the Steelers do well that is kind of neutralizes the Texans, you know, is these just quick passes and Rogers what likes to get that ball out quick. And so if you get that ball out quick, a pass rush doesn't matter. So it's a good matchup for Pittsburgh there at home and getting three points again. Like it's just it's, you know, in a game that's lined at three thirty nine and a half for the total meeting. There's not going to be a lot of points scored. Three points means a lot. That's good. That's good analysis. I, you know, I would go the other way just because I don't don't really trust Pittsburgh, but you're right about Rogers. He can't throw it deep anymore. So he gets rid of it quickly and doesn't get sat, which is a smart thing. 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It's been in about 25 years. The Olympics are coming up. Yeah. And a month. They're coming up. Michael in anapolis, Maryland. I am glad that you came to a compromise with Sherman oil, but I'm secretly hoping they come back and say sorry, but we no longer accept checks. Peter Potke, Southernton Connecticut. You mentioned including a note in your payments to Sherman oil. Any thoughts on publishing a coffee table book of images or your past checks so we could read what's in the memo section of each. You saved every cancel check going back to 1979, right? Just to include that routing number. From Steve Gilmore in St. Angelo, Texas, dear Captain Farmer, all this talk about bowling with Michael and the grandkids and note talk of what food you lifted from their plates at the alley we need to know. French fries. French fries. There's not a there's not a bad bowling alley French fry in the world. There's not, you know, that's that's the standard food at a bowling alley. Okay, this is long ones from Eddie Madden. Greetings, Captain Ron from Eddie Madden and Merrimack, Massachusetts. I am a died in the wool, Bostonian and proud of it. As a kid growing up in the 60s and 70s, candle pin bowling was at its apex and popularity in the Boston area as well as Northern New England, the Canadian maritime provinces such as Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island bowling alleys where you bickwit us as we're bowling leagues. For several years on a Saturday morning during the school year, my folks would slip me in my younger brother, Davey, a couple of bucks and then drive us up the square. We would then catch a bus that was owned by the Bald and Ellie family. The Bald and Ellie family were candle pin bowling legends in this neck of the woods and owned a highly successful bowling alley in the next town of Amesbury. For five bucks, they would take you to and fro on the bus. We would also get three strings, a shoe rental and perhaps a hot dog and a tonic. That's what they call sodas and in New England, a tonic. Or just candy from the vending machine. My sister was left behind to help my mother clean the house. My dad just wanted two of us out of the house so it didn't have to break up our fist fight to cure, at least until that afternoon. Two of the most popular TV shows, particularly one where TV ratings power houses in these parts. A popular sportscaster Bob Gameer, G-A-M-E-R-E G-M-E-R, hosted a bowling show by the name of candle pins for cash. It was on Monday through Friday at 5.30pm. Keep in mind this was the lead in for the ever popular 6.00pm news, which was must-see viewing while leading supper back in the housey on days of TV news. You had to roll the strike to win the jackpot that increased by 20 bucks with every bowler. The suspense would increase with every time the great G-A-M-E-R would exclaim, will it go or will it grow? That's a good line. While this was a great show, it did not compare to a show that was a staple every Saturday at High New. The first and the first in the first year of the season, the top 10 sports programs watched on TV every week. Before football became a juggernaut, a show by the name of candle pin bowling with Don Gillis reign supreme every week for two decades with no close second. The Canadian-born Gillis was the number one Boston sportscaster at the time. The show was number one every week. My brother and I would race home from bowling ourselves to watch it, then have a fist fight. Can I talk about candle pin bowling without talking about the best candle pin bowler ever, a woman by the name of Stascha Zernicchi. She appeared with Don Gillis on Saturday's record 55 times and was the world candle pin champion eight times. She was voted as one of the top athletes of Massachusetts in the 20th century and she always wears skirt. Different days, but repeat, life and candle pin bowling were grand. Isn't that a nice thing? How about that? And the bowling alley I was thinking of Sakku's bowl haven also of the flatbreads. Okay. Okay. And so there was bowling for dollars, but there was also something, and I think Janice Joplin refers to this, dialing for dollars. Do you remember this? I do not. You'd be watching a movie and then we'd take a break and they would randomly call people if you enter the phone. You've got it on. Everybody, it was crazy. This is from Peter Bergman in Austin, Texas. I'm an economics professor. This past summer at a David Aldrich moment at arguably the most prestigious conference in economics. The summer institute organized by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, never revere. As I walked into the largest, most overly air conditioned conference room, I ran into Marty West, no, that Marty West, his son. Marty's I'm sure you know is a brilliant professor at Harvard, like everyone else there. He was taking advantage of being in a room with some of the smartest people in the world to chat about various smart things that smart people talk about, but not I, Tony. For the connective tissue is strong. I did what any little would do. I awkwardly interrupted Marty's conversation to make insistent references to your podcast. I knew it was going well when I felt compelled to explain who you are to his Ivy League colleagues sitting beside him. Marty was nonetheless extremely gracious. If it's not taken, can I be the official economics professor of the show? I'll put it down on my CV as part of my annual performance review. Hopefully it will make up for being ostracized from all future conventions, wouldn't these people. Please tell my brother Aaron and DMV happy birthday. No, January 12th, that's on Monday and to eat it. Big fan of all your guests, particularly enjoy your segments with Jeff Mays, workers of fascinating blend of analytics and behavior economics, a waste of talent having in parked cars, if you ask me, but what do I know? From John Pearson and Milwaukee, and what is an ultimate example of connective tissue? I stopped at a quick trip convenience store, one of the top three reasons to live in Wisconsin for a way too large diet coke. I've been listening to your chuck taught appearance on the show as I walked through in the spirit of your old man phone awareness. I did not lock my phone so it started playing the podcast again and I was oblivious. Just as I got to a quiet part of the store, see the monkey he's switched, scratching blasted on my phone. A guy just down the aisle lit up and said to me, holy cow, what she's a rig. You in Reginald are bringing the world to hell. It wasn't cow. I put in cow. From Michael Bryan in Boston, formerly a revere is the new game meeting astronauts. I used to be a delivery driver in Boston. One day I had to drive Jim Lovell to the airport for those who don't know who that is. He's the guy Tom Hanks played in Apollo 13, but the real human being. You know, your car breaks down. You make a whiny Instagram video about it then call triple A and they tell you home. Jim Lovell did basically the same thing except he used the moon's gravitational pull to bring a useless hunk of metal back through Earth's atmosphere without killing anyone. So we're driving to the airport through the tunnels and Mr. Lovell asks, are these the big dig tunnels? Didn't something bad happen here? And I said, yeah, they are Mr. Lovell. You know, sometimes things don't work out the way they're supposed to. He didn't talk to me the rest. Also, I'm opening from Bryan Simpson one show Friday, two shows Saturday at Laf Boston. If you give me a t.k. salute, I'll let you buy me a Bud Light. How about that? Oh, yeah, I'll remind Greg Garcia will be on the stage tonight and tomorrow, I believe at Mohican Sun. So featuring in his new career as a standup comedian. Mark Elliott prospect Kentucky. So I was at physical therapy the other day after having hip surgery to repair a torrentendent. While waiting my turn to the therapist who I've worked with before, we're having a conversation nearby. One of them saw me and gave me a wave like it's time to get started. He said to the other something like, well, it's been nice shooting the breeze. I guess we better get busy. The other said shooting the breeze. I haven't heard that in a while. That's an old one really. I mean, to me, it seems pretty common. It's not like 23s could do. I didn't tell her how the holidays. I somehow woke Katie bar the door into one of my long-winded stories and my daughter and law looked at me like I had three heads. And then interrupt and saying she had no idea what that meant. Not sure what to think of all this, but it kind of threw me for a loop. If I didn't feel old, just go in a PT for my hip in the first place. This really sealed the deal. Oh, what was well-bond wearing Wednesday night? An expensive leisure suit. DJ. It was an odd looking thing. I had a collar. It just I don't know. Mike is. Yeah, Mike's current. Mark Spore, Canton, Georgia, to answer Michael's bowling questions from Wednesday's pod. You get hookspin by lifting and turning your wrist during the release. If you're bowling traditional 10 pin, you let your thumb out of the ball as it passes your ankle, then lift with your fingers and turn your hand to a handshake position. Duck pin would be similar, obviously, without the thumb hole. As far as where to stand, you and Mike are both right. The determining factor is how much rotation you generate. The more rotation you generate, the further towards the center, the lane you stand, because you have to get the ball towards the gutter later so the ball doesn't start curving too early. We'll probably know this already. After all, he's never surprised. I'm just hoping to be added to his tech chain with Pete Weber, Richard Denon, Mookie Betz, a PBA-level bowler, by the way. How can I be the official bowling coach of the show? Yeah, he's 300 games. Yes. Mookie Betz is a great. Chris Ealy, date no hire, dear Dr. Turkey Club. I enjoyed hearing about you. Morning routine in Columbia. Have you tried the soreness instead of the steam room? I highly recommended you can walk in, sit down, close your eyes and imagine you're enjoying the dry heat of more Scottsdale. We don't have a sauna. I am not a sauna guy. Just the steam. I have trouble breathing in a sauna. I have no trouble breathing in the steam room. I get the eucalyptus spray. Yeah, but the steam room, it's too crowded. Yeah. 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