On today's part of my take, we got some range, folks, we got two interviews, Warren Sharp, our good friend Warren Sharp, to talk football, a little preview of the weekend.

Also, you know, just recapping the first four games, what we're seeing trend wise, what we're seeing, who's surprising us, who is disappointing us in the NFL? We get into all of that. Then we have the queen, Bethenny Frankel.

You probably know her from Real Housewives of Skinny Girl Margarita. Awesome interview with her. I think she likes us. Yeah, I think I would say so. I think she likes us. I like her. So it was a lot of fun to talk to her. Something a little different for everyone. I've never seen Real Housewives, so I didn't know what to expect going into this interview. I want her back home.

She's a lecturer. She's great. She's a lecturer. She's got a lecture personality. So I think everyone will enjoy that.

We got Fantasy Father's new edition and then we got Fire Fest and a weekend preview.

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Welcome to part of my take presented by the cash app. Go download it right now. Use code, bar stool. You get ten dollars for free. Ten dollars to the ASPCA. Today is Friday, October 9th. And we're time traveling. We are time traveling. You're probably saying, well, why didn't you just say the bears are dead or the bears are back? Because we're taping this in the afternoon and we have coming up in a second hour reactions to the game.

We're actually going to tape after the game, after that, recap everything. But we're also going to give a prediction, which is going to be insanely correct, insanely correct.

So, pfft, big cat. What do you think? I like Nick Foles.

Yeah, I don't want to say I like the bears. I don't like the bears, but I like Nick Foles in this.

There's not a lot to like. It's Tom Brady and Nick Foles. I've seen this movie before. Do the math. Big Dick. Tiny Tickler, Tom. I like the bear. I like Nick Foles.

Nick Foles. OK, I think in my heart of hearts, I was very down on the Bears. Obviously on Sunday. That game wanted me to jump in front of a bus.

I'm back. I feel like the Bears are going to have a great effort tonight. I also think, pfft, I think the Bears offense going to look good, I think the Bears offense is going to have some I think they're going to probably 200 yards.

Yeah, yeah. 250 maybe. I think they're going to have a good start of the game script. I think Nick Foles has, you know, a short week, obviously, but maybe just a little conversation with all the receivers. I actually took a bet. Allan Robinson, two touchdowns plus 800. I think that's going to happen. OK, and I think the bears are going to come away from this being like, hey, you know, maybe not the perfect game, but we just went toe to toe.

We beat the Bucs and Nick Foles looks good. And Matt Nagy not a bumbling idiot.

My entire outlook on this game is based on the opposite is going to happen to what I just saw last week.

So the bears were so bad and so painfully boring to watch last week and everybody saw. No, but everybody is just talking about how shitty the bears are at that point. Once everybody reaches a consensus, at least like this early in the season, unless it's the Jets who stink or the Ravens who are afterwards, the chiefs that are good chiefs that are a good football team.

Right. Whenever whenever somebody reaches like a full consensus, everyone thinks the bears thinking their offense is painfully boring.

The script gets flipped. Yeah. So something weird is going to happen tonight. Here's here's my bold prediction for tonight. It's going to be weird Keker night, but I think weird kicker in your favor, which is something that you're not used.

CentOS I'm thinking Cairo Santos might do something good. I'm thinking was is it gay or is it suck up.

What a hilarious last couple of kickers just just occurred to me. I think it's stuck up. I think I think suck up is going to do something weird. Yes.

Whether it's missed two out of three field goals, maybe missed an extra point, maybe kick a kickoff out of bounds. That's an illegal procedure. Give the Bears good field position, which they then turn into a field goal.

Yep. Big points. Yeah. I'm actually taking you over to because the Bears, again, look like they, you know, have the offensive ineptitude of like a high school team that tries to single winner for the first time being generous.

So I think I think I'm taking the bears. I'm taking the over the also. So everyone's down on the bears. Obviously after Sunday, everyone's kind of weirdly saying that the Bucs are like a finished product.

I don't think they are. I don't think they are. I mean, we watch the Chargers game. If Justin Herbert doesn't, you know, that handoff at the end of the half doesn't result in a fumble. I think the Chargers probably win that game. And we're looking at this a lot differently. A box team that lost the Saints struggled a little bit with the Panthers and lost the Chargers. Instead, they're coming into a three and one on a three game winning streak.

And everyone's like, look at the look at the Bucs. There are an awesome team, huge X Factor, which I know you saw. I saw it this morning as well. It's going to be sixty six degrees today in Chicago. That is Mitch. Whether it's whether he's still going to be there, he's going be on the sidelines. And I actually I made a power ranking list. I'm going to actually I'm going to wait until Monday to unveil this, but have a power ranking of my top five quarterbacks in terms of how crisp they're handoffs are.

And Mitch is up there. Nice. Mitch does a great handoff. Nice to McGee up there. GBG is up there. Yes, he better be. He better be.

Actually, it's funny, I had Jimmy G and I had Nick in my top five. OK, nice. It's the system. Yeah. It's an embarrassment of riches. Yes.

OK, let's do the time. Yeah. Well actually you know what Billy, why don't you say what you think is going to happen and then we're going to time travel. So we are going to tape the reaction to the game after the game, obviously. And now I've been asking about Billy. Tell us what you think is going to happen.

Tom Brady, just go fuck the Bears. Oh, Hank says Hank thinks they're all right. Hank, you have it down as one school fuck Tom Brady on the Bears. Billy, your prediction?

Yeah, I think I think it's going to be pretty low scoring, but close game. I think my main Gronk, he's going to, like, show some I think he's gonna show something tonight, but I'm not sure if he's going to, like, be like old Gronk. And I think the game is really going to come down to who's going to win.

I think he's going to be kicking.

I think I won't take bears here, really, but it's going to come down to whether Brady's been aging, whether we see Brady's age physically and kind of mentally.

What like what do you mean by mentally his mental age? I don't know.

Maybe he gets slower as you age. Like he's never been a fast quarterback.

Yeah, but, you know, he's, like supposed to be like the smart quarterback, but like, you know, you're not always with it.

OK, so so to recap, Billy, you think that Tom Brady is going to make a mental blunder that's going to cost them the game and that the Bears kickers are going to be really good? Yeah, you're fucking stupid.

All right, Billy, thank you. Billy doesn't watch NFL. He doesn't get predictions. Right. With all due respect, no disrespect to families.

Our family. You're fucking dumb ass. I'm sorry. It's the truth sometimes helps. You know, I thought it was an OK prediction. I'm just. OK, all right.

Let's time travel. OK, it's we're time traveling. It's after the game. And. The bears are back. The bears are back. Where do you want to start, Tom Brady thinking it was fourth down standing there and that was kind of a sad sight, or Matt Nagy being an idiot and fucking up the clock and the defense bailing them out.

Oh, I'm so glad that Matt Nagy did that, though, because we got to see Tom Brady do that at the end. That was yes. That was a moment where he was just staring like a deer in the headlights at the officials, because Tom Brady has never been that wrong about anything in his life.

It was actually kind of sad to see because he was just standing there like fourth down. And I get it, it was moving quickly. It was bang, bang, bang at the end of a game. I just we talked about Washington football team. I think it was earlier this week, maybe on Monday, like being in and out, you know, in or out. Like you got to you got to find out pretty quickly. This game tonight for the Bears was my in or out game.

If the Bears lost this game and lost it poorly, I would have been like, OK, they are frauds.

Guess what? I don't think so.

Yeah, Nick Foles looked terrible in the first half or probably the first twenty five minutes. The game turned it on at the end of the second quarter and Khalil Mack was a monster. And I like Matt Nagy. That guy just is obsessed with throwing back shoulder passes to Allen Robinson that either get picked off or really fucked things up. But other than that, the Bears actually played well. And I'm I'm not going to apologize. And I'm also I got bad I got bad thoughts going on in my brain right now.

Super Bowl. Super Bowl. No, not Super Bowl.

I mean, the way that you're winning games, these are all games that the Bears would typically find themselves on the losing end on. And by that, I mean like these types of losses are bears losses, but for whatever reason, kick the script as well. I don't want to hear anything about luck because they don't want to put that in your head. But it is it's very weird, almost like Team of Destiny vibes. Like I don't use the word Super Bowl lightly.

Not all right.

Now, that's enough, because can you imagine at the start of the season finding out that you were going to start four and one and then you'd have a win over Tom Brady because he's going senile and he can't count to five anymore. Like this is Team of Destiny stuff for sure. And Nick Foles, he's got dude has ice water in his veins except for one.

He's Dick Abby.

That's boiling hot blood pulsing through that thing. But his you were talking about like a back shoulder throws that he was heading down the field. He's also got a pass interference monster.

He is the shaquill worked very well. So everything out of the flats was great. And then no, he's so Matt Nagy's obsessed with calling these Allen Robinson back shoulder passes that I think through four games or five games. There's been it's been intercepted three times, a couple of times, been like Allen, just been like bullied out of it. And then you had that one where he called when it was. So obviously, if you run clock and kick a field goal.

Yeah. You give Tom Brady thirty seconds and no timeouts in the game is essentially over. Instead, Matt Nagy is like, let's make it as hard as possible. Let's make sure that they get a minute and a half and let's see if Tom Brady can can bring the bucks down the field. And it was almost there. There's a couple of minutes they had. But I look, I'm not going to complain about Matt Nagy tonight because the Bears won.

And again, Nick Foles started slow. I actually we were sitting down in Philly. There were some rumblings about Mitch. I said, no, no, no, let Nick Foles settle in here. Started making some plays. And again, the defense, like Khalil Mack, was a monster, an absolute monster tonight. And yeah, the bears are back. I don't I don't know what else to say, but the bears, I just like saying Tristan worse.

It's a fun name to say he got Christopher one way to sack Brady. And then afterwards he sacked Treston. Worse hit, he hit slam.

You should not be allowed to have to possess the strength required to throw Tristan wharfs onto his head like you just tossed him. It was insane to see that. What I would say about Nick Foles, though, when he throws the pass interference ball, it's shades of Joe Flacco that is like that is a very efficient play to under throw the ball by just enough to make the defender run into you and you get that easy like fifteen, twenty yards down the field if you need it.

Also. Bruce Arians, very confusing. I'm not talking yet about his play calling or his decision making on fourth and short. I'm talking about the switch to the transition. Lenz's away from the transition lenses. He's now wearing the clear glasses, no longer the dark shades. I don't know what that's all about, but I think it has something to do with the fact that he went for it early in the game fourth and one on their own nineteen. And then late in the game, they kicked a field goal to put him up by one.

That was that was the most disrespectful because that was Nick Foles, like I said, started off like, you know, the first twenty five minutes was terrible. That was the most your offense is so abysmal. Like, we don't care if we don't get this fourth and one on our own fucking nineteen. Thankfully, it ended up, you know, not mattering in the end. But Jesus, that was a slap in the Bears offense face. Maybe that's what woke him up, maybe going.

Going for it there was basically saying, hey, you guys suck so bad, we'll give you the ball in the red zone if we can't get this fourth and more Chuck Pagano off. Yeah, a win is a win. Win is a win. So. All right. You want to do the rest of the weekend preview?

I would love what? Come on. Oh, yes. True. No. OK, Billy credits through. Billy, you're right.

You figured out who are the dumb dumbs now we're the dumb dumb. Yeah. You're Jess. Yeah. I doubted you, Billy.

I'm sorry. You're right. You're really, really right. Spot on. I just need some credit.

I think I might tell the psycho shit parlay this weekend just because I mean, if you were able to nail it that much, I think Billy Billy has like ESP with Gronk.

He can just tap into Greg's brain and figure out what's about to happen.

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Not a great one. Mm. It's football. They're all good. Big carry on. Right. Objection. It's football.

This is like if you have like seven kids, this is the sixth kid who maybe goes to, you know, a public university and you know, you love them, but you know, he's not the first kid or the seventh kid.

He's just, you know, what's wrong?

Public universities.

I went to a public school. Yeah, so did I. Yeah, I know. But I mean, I was I was I'm a disappointment to my parents. That's true. Yeah.

So there it is. Yeah. It's not bad. The the worst part about this weekend isn't just the match ups is the realization that the season is slipping through our fingers because it's the first bye week.

I know we're on a buying order through Patricia's on a bye week somehow survives until.

What do you think he does to relax when he doesn't have football on the schedule?

He probably actually just went into the woods because then he can't he doesn't to pick up a phone when they want to fire him. That's true. If you don't check your mail, if you don't answer your phone, if you don't respond to text messages, you can't be fired. Right, to show up to work. Be like you never told me I was fired. I'm here. You already pay me for the day. Might as well hang out.

Well, you know what? In Matt Peterson's defense, he, you know, inherited a bad organization. Bad team. Well, no, they were, I think, the most successful. They had been in like twenty years.

Well, in Matt Patricia's defense, they literally give up second half leads of fourteen or more points every week.

Just play ten minutes for the Super Bowl. Yeah, just play ten minutes I think goes fishing. Just throws a bunch of like Slim Fast six pack rings into the lake and then speeds away.

Maybe the fish die, maybe builds a rocket. That's true. People forget he's literally a rocket scientist.

He should probably crush crushing that Challenger documentary. OK, frocked related. He should well. It's actually now for four episodes in a row, that's a perfect analogy for his season thus. Yes, yes.

No rings, Matt. Oh, man. All right. Panthers. Falcons. Let's start their falcons. This could be the end for Dan Quinn. I have said many times I'm going to respect Teddy Bridgewater more. And that's why I love the Panthers in this game. And I just like. I mean, the Falcons, they have the players, but maybe they're just bad also. Yeah, they're coming off a short week. Yeah, I don't think they're bad.

They have the players. They might do just that. They have I'm having a hard time quitting both the Falcons and the Texans.

I know those are two teams that you have like latch yourself on to in the past, but they both have somewhere balanced.

Yeah, I know. Well, the Texans don't really anymore. But the Falcons are just bad.

They're just straight up bad.

I'm going to I'm going to withhold my pick on this game until I see if they're wearing the Deon Sanders all black jerseys. Yes.

You know, know they have new throwbacks, I think, which makes no oxymoron. But they have new throwback. Did they? So they're new throwbacks to the mid 2000s. They look like, oh, I think they're like an interpretation of a throwback, but they're new.

OK, yes. Like a period piece. Yeah, pretty much. They're like, this is what if we had today's technology? This is what we would have worn in the 90s.

It's like Wild Wild West, the movie. It's like we're going to go back in time and look at the Wild, Wild West, except guess what? There's kick ass mechanical spiders undestroyed and I Will Smith and I'm a fucking badass.

And also I invented rap in the right. You got it.

OK, Independence Day. Well, that if those are. That's right, yes. If those are the jerseys are wearing the fake throwbacks, then I'm going to say no way to the Atlanta Falcons.

But if they're wearing the All Blacks, I'm going to I'm going to bet on the Falcons this weekend, OK? Bills, Titans in this game even going to happen? Probably not not officially been canceled or moved.

Not yet. Maybe by the time did you see the NFL writer had the hottest take? Yes. He said cancel the entire Titans season because they don't respect covid. Well, no, I didn't see that. Oh, yeah. No, he canceled their whole season. He blocked me on Twitter, so I did not see that same. But I. You creeped on him. No, he someone sent me. So it was like, check out this take.

And I think it literally was like so he did the power rank, the power rankings.

He had the Titans in thirty second because he said if they're not going to respect covid, I'm not going to respect them.

And then he wrote a whole piece being like cancel their season.

OK, well I think it's interesting that the Titans even got caught in the first place. It's actually funny that it took them so long to be doing these practices and get caught because they're they're a professional football team. What professional football team do you know, could show up at a local high school for like a week and a half doing constant, like off the books practices and never get caught? For it was like one guy that took it.

Like one high schooler took a picture through a chain link fence from 200 yards away. He's like, I think that I think that might be the titans that have been practicing at my high school field all week. Yeah, that's how forgettable the Titans roster is.

That that's a tough look. I just yeah. This game, I can't stand the people who freak out after every positive test. I mean, it's similar to baseball like we're going to have when you're not in a bubble, things are going to go wrong. Right.

So just everyone chill out, because I've seen many times whenever there's a new test, there's a lot of hand-wringing. And like so much of the NFL season, that was fun while it lasted. Well, it's still going to go. It's also it's also a lot of virus shaming. Yeah. Making fun of them for being sick. That's true.

I personally hope that the Titans get well enough to play a full schedule.

I do two friends on the site. There was there was something that I think Adam Schefter threw this out earlier today saying that if all these games start to get canceled, the league is talking about maybe just making it best winning percentage at the end of the year.

I would suck that we did that for baseball. Yeah. So like like there were some teams who didn't play all the games, but I don't think it works for football.

The in the hunt graphics are going to get fucked up and the Eagles tie is going to look even better.

They're going to have to hire like a whole new slate of data scientists, the Eagles, the Eagles win the NFC East at like three five.

And the Eagles should just they should just stop playing right now. Yes. One, two and one. You get better than that. That's good enough to get you. Yeah, absolutely.

That's the top of the NFC East this season, I think. Had a good take.

Earlier today, though, he was saying that the NFL needs to be looked into because just so happens that the Patriots best player on offense and best player on defense have covered. Hmm.

But not enough for them to have to cancel games. Hmm. So they have to play just without their best player.

Oh, interesting. There. Worrisome squeeze out with photo evidence of Gilmore in Patrick Mahomes.

Patrick almost broke protocol, hugged Stephon Gilmore when he probably didn't want to be hugged. Yeah, but somehow he does have Korona, but their backup QB does or flip it.

Bill Belichick knew that Gilmore had Cronos like, go hug Mahomes for us, yes, sent him over there. No, because who do you think's doing the testing? Who's reporting on the test results? Patriots. No NFL. Oh, OK. NFL was my answer.

NFL well, you say Bill Belichick could be doing his own tests on off days.

He definitely just for fun for his own.

Belichick probably thinks that, like Ernie Adams is a is a bomb sniffing dog where he can just go up and he sniffs everyone's breath as they come into the facilities like.

Nope, doesn't have it. Yup. Has it. I'll bet she's sending Steve Belichick team to team collecting samples like wearing as long as you show up somewhere wearing a lab coat. Yup. You'll be like, yeah, that guy's a stethoscope, so send him to their next opponent, get their swabs, check their DNA. Yeah, bring it back to Pop. And now he's got all the dirt I like.

My other national unbias football reporter take is that Vrabel and the Titans turning that extra fucked because he's a former patriot.

I just love where your mind goes like that. I also love the Raiders. And Chiefs do agree, though, right? Like they're not they're going to come down hard, like super probably super hard, but not not necessarily because he's a former patriot.

But I'm assuming I like that line of thinking from you, though.

I'm not going to kind of do many favors. Yeah. Raiders, chiefs. The next game might not happen as well. So that one we're hoping is going to happen might not, because they're like people are saying they're hand-wringing is going on. We're like, well, that's only a matter of time before the chiefs start testing positive. So it was like pulled for a couple of days on the on the board and it's back on there.

I also, just as a side note, I love that everyone is talking about the Chiefs schedule because they played Monday night and they're playing Sunday and they're playing Thursday and they're like the chiefs are going to play three games in 11 days. If the schedule hadn't been fucked, they would have played three games in 12 games, 12 days, that extra day helps. So like everyone gets fucked when they play Thursday Night Football, is that it just it's telling on yourself to not be like, wait, but Thursday Night Football happens every week, so some team always plays in this short, condensed time.

I like it when it's even further in the distance involving an even greater amount of time. So it's like, can you believe that they're going to have to play like five and a half games in twenty eight days? Yeah. And then with time change.

Yeah. With the West Coast game late. Exactly. Yeah.

When you look that far ahead and see how they're getting schedule, I do kind of like the Raiders in this edit too, because I've heard a lot of talk this week about how Jon Gruden is saying this is not a rivalry because it kick her ass so much.

So you know that Jon Gruden is playing like snuff films like the worst highlights ever of Chiefs Raiders games nonstop in the practice.

So they just have to go to last year because I'm going to probably take the Raiders in this game.

But all I can think about is last year when Patrick Mahomes threw for touchdown passes in that second quarter. Mm hmm. So that feels like it could also happen again. Cardinals' Jets. I'm I'm going to go quick here. Well, it's Flacco, right? Yes, Flacco.

So there's a great quote, their offensive coordinator. By the way, do you know who the Jets offensive coordinator is? I'm shocked they had one. No, his name is Dallas.

Oh, yeah. How long is he used to be with the Bears? OK, yeah. That's why I'm not familiar with his body of work. Oh yeah. He was that good.

He was the Bears offensive coordinator performed so well he forgot his words.

Is that the bears to the Jets offense. I say, well no, he wasn't a cornerback. Well, he was quarterbacks coach. I want to say for Cutler.

And then and then he got offensive coordinator. Yeah, I would say going quarterbacks coach on the Bears to offensive coordinator on the Jets is a lateral move. Yeah, that is a letter.

No offense to Dick Metcalf, but he said he definitely has a jersey toughness and a jersey edge to him about Flacco. OK, so Jersey Edge, I'm, I'm believing in Flacco short term.

Dawley Lagoon's is also short king. He's five six. There we go. Tough to coach the quarterback zoomer.

The offensive line Zoom's Zoome seven points for that guy.

This game is simple to me. If the cardinals are even remotely for real, they win this easily and if they're frauds, they lose.

I think that. Yeah, that's fair. That's it's.

It's it's like if this is your chance, Cardinals, to prove that, I need to start taking you even a little bit easier if they don't cover the spread, which they're not even afterwards.

Correct.

The Eagles Steelers battle of one Silvania. I love when these teams play, by the way, down downloader the BASTABLE sportsbook out because I know that we have that deal. It's like a free it's a free sub in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia every single Monday going for the rest of the season. And the Eagles of the Steelers cover, obviously, they both can't cover this game.

I think the Steelers are going to win. I think so easily. I think so, too, cause body clock, yeah, Big Ben didn't play last week, which was an injury. He was the if you had someone to complain and cry victim for other people getting coronavirus as Ben Roethlisberger, then you won nothing because everyone expected that he was.

Yeah. He was saying like it felt it felt weird not being able to play.

Last week, these people got a disease that we still don't have a cure for. But the real victim here is me, because I didn't know that we were going have a bye week and then we had to buy what do they call sandwiches in Pittsburgh?

It's not a hoagie, it's a hoagie. And in Philadelphia, he's a hero, is a grinder.

It might be a grinder. Yeah, I don't know. I just search grinder. That's not. Yeah, that is leave out the E OK. I didn't know that came up. I don't know.

I mean they just put fries Diamantis. OK, so if the Eagles when everyone in Pittsburgh has to call them hoagies, if the Steelers win, then you just have to put fries literally in everything. And yes, Philadelphia.

All right. Next game, Rams Washington football team. We talk a little bit with Warren Sharpe about Dwayne Haskins. Surprising that he got bumped all the way down to third string.

I think, though, pfft, I think your Washington football team is going to come out as a live dog here with someone who could maybe move the ball up and down the field.

I don't hate that notion. Carl Allen had, what, six good games, five per game, no small hands.

I'm putting that out of my memory for right now. Stop saying stop saying he had like five good games at the moment.

He officially had a moment. We had that moment where we're like, is Kyle Allen having a moment?

He beat Kyler Murray. And so I'm going to I'm going to ride Kyle out on this one. I think he's got some magic. And I like that Bengals. Ravens, there's another one where I want to. So I promised myself that I would always take the Ravens against inferior opponents because they'll just ship pump him. But I think Joe Burrow, this year, the Bengals are not going to be good. But I'm actually. No, I'm yeah.

No job growth is for and against spread. So Gilberto's are spread God of the season so far.

So you have to take the Bengals. I like that as the spread. God, I like that. I think the Ravens are going to win, but I think the Bengals are going to cover.

Right, exactly. Spread got Jaguars Texans. This should be on Thursday night. Also, no one cares. This is prime time. Forget about this game happening on RedZone.

Well, it's false hope because it's an interim head coach. So you want to take the Texans just based on the spark. But as we said, Romeo provides no spark. Right? He's he's he's an older Jim Caldwell. He's somehow I think he's more alive than Jim Caldwell by, like, the narrowest of margins. But he doesn't he doesn't do it.

He doesn't like light that fire like you like to see a lot of interim coaches do.

So I think he's more alive than Jim Caldwell simply because he's heavier. And when you're that heavy, you can see it's obvious that you're breathing. I'll put it this way.

He's closer to death than Jim Caldwell is. But he's more but he's less alive. Correct. Like, if you if you had a zombie movie and you had a bunch of extras playing dead people, you wouldn't want to do Romeo Crennel. I don't think he can hold his breath for a while.

Yes. Where's Jim Caldwell? You're like you're like you're checking for a pulse. You call the ambulance. You're tickling the bottom of his foot, right?

Yeah. Romeo Yeah. OK, I got that.

I still think I like to take a shower juju up, by the way, for the report out there that he essentially was the one who got Bobbo Brian Bilbray fired yelling at him in practice. Yeah. Which is awesome. I love that out of JJ because you know what, Bill Bryant sucked. And if JJ Watts saved the city of Houston, he's been in there franchise player for a long time now. But his legacy should be you finally got rid of Bill Bryant by just being like, I'm fed up.

I can't take it.

You know how much it takes for JJ Watchfully, like, publicly go after his coach, like, right in front of his teammates. Well, it's private, but put in front of his teammate.

Yeah, I like to to be openly insubordinate at practice. Yeah. Like Bill O'Brien must have said some fucked up stuff about JJ or he just was bad or he was just like, I'd rather have your brother on the team. JJ he's not better than me yet.

I would imagine he just saw Bill O'Brien's face for the, I don't know, fifteen hundred day in a row and was like, I just can't take it anymore. I just can't take it anymore.

Coach, you're only 19 percent pleasure. Nine percent pain. I need you to be 100 percent, 110 percent reason to. Man Good job.

JJ All right. Dolphins' forty Niners. Just let me know. Went to a place. That's all I got. I agreed.

But this is I think the forty Niners that we expected are going to show up this weekend.

Is Jimmy G. What's his time. I think he's playing. He is OK. Nice.

His timetable is right here right now. Yeah. Let's go. Colts.

Browns actually probably the best game of the day. You can't believe it but Colts. Browns three and one versus three and one. This is a big time I'm going to if the Browns win, they're for real, but that wouldn't make the Colts fraud's. No, I think this is an are you for real game?

Oh, I don't know. I think the Colts are good no matter what. This is our first. Are we sure they're good game of the season. But just for the Browns, I think the Colts are good. I don't know if they are. I just they've only played because they beat the Bears by like 10 points. Yeah.

And we did beat them in the fourth quarter. That's true. All right. So fun. Yeah, you're right. Let's do it. Are they this is the are we sure they're good game of the week of the year. God, if the Browns win this, it's just this is another one where I really feel bad that like watch watch this season happen in twenty twenty and like the Browns are twelve and four and the bills are 14 and two.

And no fans get to get drunk in the moody lot or jump through tables.

And I think they'll make an exception if the Browns go to the playoffs.

If you were to ask everybody in Cleveland like would you accept dying in season that you got to go like an extended playoff run?

I think we said the same thing about the bills. Yeah, those two franchises should be allowed to at the very least, like, sign a waiver worth the risk. Yes, we tailgate easily. All right. Giants. Cowboys.

I am surprised this game's on Sunday Night Football. This game sucks and they rub it in our faces every year. So thank you to whoever made the schedule for not making me look at that uniform combination for the 20th year in a row in primetime. I don't know.

The Giants are. So the Giants have scored three touchdowns this year, three three. That's tough to do. Three.

So the Cowboys, if you have any pride, you killed shit.

You should absolutely kill them.

Broncos, Patriots, probably not going to happen. Right. When are they going to move it to. I think it's going to have. Oh, it is mostly just isolated Cam.

It's Cam. It's the best players. And then Belichick will probably have it too. And then probably Edelman. Who else is going to get it.

You guys called Belichick. You guys can beat the Broncos with like you could take the top half of your roster and cut it off. And I think Belichick would be able beat the Broncos. Bortles plays. That's true.

I didn't think about that.

Well, first half at least first or second quarter said something nice about one of our friends almost. And then you had to do that. All right. Last game, Vikings, Seahawks, prime time, Kirk Cousins.

Easy. Yeah, fun fact.

You know, we talked to Dick about him being tied with Stefon Diggs for the lead league and reception yards. Yep. He would have had that one if he had scored the touchdown. Yeah, he's tied with Stefon Diggs, the person who punched the ball out on the one yard line. Stefon Diggs is a little brother. Yes. How about that? Yes, that is fun. That's thicker than water circle family. Yeah.

All right. Anyway, let's go through our picks real quick. Why don't you Hank, why don't you say all four and then. And then I'll say mine falcons are my favorite, OK? Eagles are my underdog. OK, over. And Saints Chargers. Yeah, under Anzac's Jack's taxes, you can say, OK, OK, hmm, well, it's a Monday night game, so so we usually don't do the Monday night. We've been white and say, well, I've been doing this.

I could tell something was up. Yeah. All right. Give me the over and Vegas chiefs then, love.

OK, ok. OK. OK, Hurricaine Delta. No. OK, will that be up in Kansas City.

I think it's going to be another Girkins go that far north. Well the storm still just keeps going.

It's just rain becomes a hurricane. It becomes a lesser rain of a tropical hurricane echo. I'm going to go favorite Houston minus six. Also bonus favorite New Orleans. Well, because of the October.

I like that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't put that on the. That's on mine. That's on my neck. You got to go.

You want my underdog is browns, OK? And my my logic for this goes no further than I like home dogs.

Yeah. I love home. Even though home field doesn't matter. I don't care. I like home dogs.

It's value. It's a value pick. Big cat. Thank you for saying that. The trends my over my over is Philly.

Pittsburgh. Forty four and a half taking you over on that one. And my Underoos. Cardinals Jetsunma.

Yeah I like that one. To me that seems too easy. I'm scared how much I like that one, but that's, that's a sign of a good relationship.

I really like it under. It's like I know I really like sparks are flying between me and Carlos.

Jetliner's might be coming on too strong.

I'm going to take the Panthers plus to respect Teddy Bridgewater. OK, the over and against the Raiders.

Yeah, I'm going against you. The over in the Chiefs. Raiders I you know what? I'm just going to die on like sometimes I'll make bets that I'll live with being wrong, just being like well now I can just cross you off is not a real team. Yeah. If the Cowboys don't cover the nine and a half against the Giants, I'm just going to cross them off. It's not real team. So it's like a statement game. You either tell me that you're real or not, but otherwise I'm moving on and then I'll take the under in Dolphins, forty Niners and then I have my I can't lose play.

You guys ready for it. Hit me.

It's not to lose. Last week was a setback, last week was a setback, but that's OK, because I've I went and I got my system right. The models, everything here we go.

Was the data tell you? Would you want me to start with the team that's least likely to win or most likely to win?

But it. It can't lose, right? So how would you have a team that is least likely? Well, there's some that are closer to the can't lose border. That's they can't not lose. Right.

But all right, cowboys, they're going to win Niners. They're going to win. Hank, you follow me.

I know you don't like it.

No, you're the you are the you're the you're the ombudsman for the can't lose parlay.

I have not said to you that the chiefs. Didn't say, OK, he's good, they're good. OK, all right. I mean, you're picking to I. Yeah, well that's the conclusion. What did you not understand?

Hank just uncovered the edit the modeling behind lose power, like it's taken super, super famous all the time. This is ridiculous.

And that's where it ends. OK, and then the Seahawks M. night game plus 270 plus 270 boosted on the barstool sportsbook cap. I think it's like around 210, 14 unplugged. But it's putting its to do it.

No, no. Oh you're telling me what's the real one. There we go. OK, good, good facture. Good fact check. All right. So 214 regularly 270 if you want to bet it on the bar stool sportsbook app under exclusives it can not loose. Billy likes it.

Billy, what's really the copilot, which is the final if if it is lost, it lost last weekend. But if you're taking the friends the program parlay with one and the tank will never do talk.

I know you're looking at them when you talk it, but you've got to talk into the mike. Yep.

Anyway, so you go the this week's Friends of the Program parlay is this is all money line. Bengals, Browns, Jaguars, Rams, Niners money line all morning long.

Billy, this is what happened to the Bengals, the Bengals pick. You might want to change from a money line to a parlay.

That's where I meet you. That's where you lose. You make it.

Yeah, it's plus five thousand six hundred ninety five on the Parcells.

OK, I plugged it in. OK, so how much if you. Yeah. If you gamble twenty dollars twenty make like twenty five hundred. That's here for like twelve hundred. Actually you do the math again. That's there's no way that twelve hundred.

No if you do all money line on those teams.

Twelve only twelve hundred and you put twenty bucks in.

Yeah it's more than that anyway.

And this is the end result. Yeah. The end result actually doesn't matter.

I'm like got some backup passes. I realized that. Oh wow. Six different plays, different play.

Every team. There's no way you can actually kill. Yeah. It's like hitting the all button in horseracing but make sure you do it responsibly and sensibly. Responsible gambling. One 800 gambler. Yeah. If you think you got a problem and you want to talk to someone that's serious, that's dead serious. This should be entertainment. This is fun. This should not be betting more than you have. Twenty dollars.

That sounds like a fun Sunday Parleys bet a little when a lot. Right. Good point.

RICO sponsored line. Sounds like a Kenny Chesney finally figured it out. And you imagine doing it the other way around. You have to be an idiot. Yeah, right. Can't lose parlay. Yeah. That's what that is. Yeah bitch. I mean can't lose probably two and two this year plus money.

I think, I think it's awesome that Hank just figured out what they can't lose. Parlay is usually based around. Yes.

Well it's not usually. Why are you taking. Not that well this is it's kind of weird. Hey I do find times. All right. Let's before we get to our interview, so we have Warren Sharp football with Warren Sharp come up and then we have an awesome, awesome interview with Bethenny Frankel. If you don't know who she is, if you don't watch housewives, you don't know Skinny Girl Margarita.

You should listen to this interview because we love her.

She's got some spice. She's got a little spice, little like doesn't take shit you want to say, but you with arrogance.

No, I say arrogance, but it's like funny arrogance. Like, I love that type of arrogance because it's it's she's self-aware and arrogant, but it's like endearing.

I love I think. Yeah. I feel you on near Mount Rushmore of people that like I've seen you get actually I was very, very excited. She delivered I think. Was she delivered. Bottom line. She's cool. She's cool ass chick.

All right, let's do fantasy fathers. Fantasy fathers. Ready?

Yes. Hey, fellas, what's up? It's Joseph. Okay, that's my start on this week. Is raking ruin your teenage kids weekend? Bye.

Tell them they have to rake leaves for hours before they can do anything else. It's little fun time with Mom. We want to make sure you break multiple times while there's still some leaves on the trees so that you can do it again in two weeks. Give me a favorite sport. Rake in the same direction the whole time. Don't mess with my mom and make sure you use the right trashman marcey. We'll pick them up. Otherwise, I said in this week is Mark Andrews.

Yeah, he's touchdown dependent and if he doesn't get any red zone looks, he's not going to put get any points on your team if it's PPR league. That's true. Can't can't score points if you don't get the ball in.

My sleeper is snowflakes, not the Libby libs. The emoji. Oh quavered show the world that he got his girlfriend by just sending a snowflake emoji ERTMS and to started their relationship. So just just shoot the snowflake out in a Tinder text message this weekend and ensure that that's sure to work. There's no difference between you and Klava. Only DM's.

I slide into his dishwasher maintenance guy. Make sure that thing is hummin in time for the holidays. What's up guys? How are you guys doing today? Good. Hi. Good. I'm dead tired. Never enough sleep. You know, I like telling dad jokes.

You know, some. Times, he laughs, I'm starting bug spray this weekend, taking a candle, making magic in the great courses you can find right there on Google. You can get books at the library as well. It's important to keep the bugs away. In the fall, they transmit diseases. Got to be safe. I'm sitting Kirk Cousins game starting too late at night for me, I'm not going to stay up and watch it also, it's just Kirk Cousins prime time likes to stick like a bitch.

He does not. Yeah, not a great griller. You know, say the B word is to be weird. Yeah. Sometimes I like to sprinkle a little seasoning salt on one side. Always a little treat. I've got to watch my my blood pressure and the sodium gets at me.

They're throwing fish around in Seattle. I always like that little montage. Yeah. You know what? You know what they call a fish with. No, I. Dinner tonight is what we call it, dinner. That's what they call a deer with no eyes. I have no idea. You go get your fat usually. Let me say it.

I'm taking my sleeper has taken the stairs. Good exercise. Here we go. Mother doesn't trust the sitter. She says it's because they're always up to something.

There it is. All right. I'm tired. I tired. I'm dead. All right. It's dead cats. This whole thing feels a little too on the nose for being a dad, especially when he's in the game starting to late. After I said that on Wednesday show, we'll tip of the cap. Oh, my stardom this week is the thermostat, because guess what?

It's getting cooler out there. Probably going to have the women in your household try to hit that heat. Don't let them do it. Make sure that they get a blanket or a sweatshirt. They got to make sure that that living room stays nice and frosty layer on top layer. I'll put on some socks.

I'm not paying for the heat. Not those regular flimsy socks they make nowadays. Go get yourself. One puts a woman, but be careful on the hardwood floors. You've got a great pair of mittens in the closet. Yes, yes. I heat up the whole neighborhood. My system is going to be Ben Roethlisberger.

Ben Roethlisberger watches too much porn. I actually had that problem too. I had a little addiction with Mr. Skin back in the day, got a lot of viruses, haven't used a computer since. So if you're looking to email me, it will not work or you can hit me up at my Hotmail account. My sleeper hit me. Oh, yes, that's. Yes, nice. My sleeper is going to be dead now. Those that definitely can take little catnaps all throughout the day, just turn on the TV, turn on anything, and you'll probably fall asleep almost instantly.

And remember, don't wake Daddy. You know what? I missed the Masters this year, and I haven't caught up since. That was that was the day that I stayed on schedule for the rest of you. Speaking of which, surgeons here.

Yeah, double masters. And speaking of which, thank you for bringing that up. You will catch up this weekend.

It is daylight saving. So make sure you change those clocks now on Saturday night. Do not make that mistake. Otherwise, you might show up late or clean up. Please do it.

Hi, I'm John Thurston. I'm a father of four. Hey, John. My stardom is getting kicked out of your son's Pop Warner games because that is, you know, you get a little too riled up on the sideline. Yell at your son's offensive coordinator, tell my socks, and he's giving my son the ball more. You know, you started over him in high school. He should be listening to you, Jack. My sytem is power tools.

Power tools are dangerous. You should make your kids build things with their hands and use their youthful vigor while they can.

And it really builds character. Plus, they're dangerous. My sleeper is Kirk Cousins because he's a guy goes to church every Sunday. So this is a great guy. Great guy. This sounds just like you just got to and he's going to get his. It's time, yeah, he's your dad, he's my dad, he's your dad, your dad. Anyway, tell your kids about R.. Kelly is a very bad thing and sometimes you Google. Yes, I Googled it after after Wednesday's show.

Yep. Good job. No, I don't listen to that one out a little way.

That's OK. Yeah. We told you. We told you was really bad. Weather is really where it was really bad.

We are the Premier R. Kelly awareness. Yes. Just about like three years ago. I don't recall Bill Simmons ever disavowed R. Kelly do better late than never.

That's what we say when it comes to R. Kelly awareness. Yup. Right.

We're educating our youth one intern at a time. Well, there's probably someone who, like, slept through the entire year of twenty eighteen because R. Kelly drugged them in. They just waking up and now they're listening to shoulder like he did what. Yep. Arcoleo what a shame.

That would be an awful time if you slept all the way through twenty eighteen which was objectively pretty kickass year was it.

And then you probably it wasn't this year. Yeah. Hey guys, I can't wait for 20/20 and all of our problems are going to go away January 1st.

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OK, here he is, Warren Sharp. OK, we now welcome on our good friend Warren Sharp, you can find him on Twitter, he's got a podcast now. What's the name of the podcast?

Sharp Report, Sharp Angles podcast. I'm also on the Ringer Ringer podcast stuff, and I'm also doing some stuff for NBC now.

Do you really like outside of the fact that you're good at your job, like having the last name sharp? The possibilities are endless for, you know. I mean, where is your.

Is that a Hollywood thing? Are you like did you change your name to change you? Change your name. Sure.

No, luckily no.

How did that work, man. That's crazy. All right. I don't know why we got we started that way, but great white, the great white shark who I like.

Yeah, that's good. That's good. All right. You could have done that. All right. So Warren is here. You know, we're four games into the NFL season. We thought it'd be a great time to catch up. We did a little preview before the season started. So let's catch up. Where should we start? You know what? Can we actually just start with the bears? And can you just tell me that everything's going to be OK now?

We're going to run this on Friday after Thursday night. So just want that disclaimer so that if things don't look OK, you don't look dumb. But what is their problem and is it fixable?

It is one hundred percent fixable. Look, their defense is fine. I don't have a problem with the Bears defense. Let's talk about the offense specifically. Let's talk about this change to Nick Foles. I know that Nick Foles, you know, I know you were defending Mitchell Robiskie and I don't know what your take was on Nick Foles coming, but obviously our expectations were that Nick Foles was going to be a better performing quarterback than Mitchell Kopecky. That's why they went out and got him in the first place.

And my thought was, had we had a full off season, he may have been the week one starter. I know your position was it's easy to turn to Nick midseason. So regardless, that's what they did and they're in a good position here. But they're screwing things up, by the way, that they're calling plays. And, you know, I watched the the first game, obviously, against the Colts. And some of this stuff is pretty shocking and mind numbing.

So first of all, let's think about this on early down. So we're talking first and second down in the first half of games. When Mitch Robiskie was the quarterback for the first three games, they were basically fifty fifty run plus split. They were just fifty fifty flip a coin. That's what they would do on early downs. Now most teams are going to pass the ball a little bit more because it's more efficient to do. But they work now.

You get Nick Foles in here and you're going up against the number five best run defense in the league. In terms of the Indianapolis Colts, you would think that you have confidence in Nick Foles. You're going to be passing the ball more. But what they ended up doing was going as close to a 50/50 split as possible without landing on fifty fifty. If they had called one more run play, they would have been at 50 50 split.

So they almost did the same exact stuff that they did with Mitchell Robiskie. But the results were dramatically different when they were passing the ball. They were averaging eight point nine yards per attempt. When they ran the ball, they were down at one point five yards per carry, which is the lowest in the NFL. And yet they're still running the ball. Fifty percent of the time, basically against that Colts in the first half. So they absolutely have to shift to a more pass heavy approach when they stay conservative like they've been doing running the ball too much, especially against a good run defense.

It puts Nick Foles in these obvious third and pass situations which are not beneficial to him. And then the last point, and you may be of note, you may be noticed this during that game was this methodical, plodding, slow paced offense. They were the slowest offense of any team in the NFL in week, for they averaged over thirty three seconds between snaps in the first half of the game. It allowed Nick Foles to get into zero rhythm whatsoever offensively.

If it's not working by going slow, change things up. Matt Nagy, go fast for a series to see if that's going to jump start this passing attack a little bit. So they really need to improve their performance from both a play calling standpoint, from a play sequencing standpoint and just from a play rate standpoint. And I think they will get higher stealing out of Nick Foles in this offense. So one follow up question.

This doesn't have to be specifically about the bears, but when it comes to running the football and the run pass split that you you talked about and let's say a team is not running the ball well, but they keep running it, do you think you know, from an analytical standpoint, you're probably saying stop running the ball if you're only running for a yard pop. But from, like, the human element of it, I do think there's a benefit when you have your offensive linemen be able to run block first pass, but you can't expect your offensive linemen to pass block for the entire game and go backwards the entire game.

I think that kind of takes the strength away from them. And they slowly but surely will like the. It just sucks going backwards all game like that, so do you think there's any human element of that we're committing to the run, even if it doesn't work, helps your offensive linemen stay engaged, be able to move forward every now and then instead of constantly going back and pass protection?

Well. I don't I don't think committing to the run is the right way to do it. I definitely don't think teams, if they're bad at running the ball, should commit to the run. I don't think very many teams in general should. But in terms of using a enough of a balance to keep the linemen engaged, I think is what you're getting to. I still think, look, if we just look at the pure numbers here, league wide this year on first downs in the first half of games.

So this is what our offensive coordinator can control here. Passes are averaging eight three eight point three yards per attempt and runs are only averaging four point four yards per carry. So we're almost but not quite double the average yardage on pass plays. I think the better strategy is and I've seen some coaches around the league over the years, not not specifically this year, I haven't read a lot about it, but teaching offensive linemen to be engaging and aggressive with their pass protection so they'll still be attacking even though they're using pass pro techniques, even though they're dropping back to pass protect.

You have to attack when you're doing that because you are right. There is a human element where these linemen don't want to just keep being on their heels, getting beat by the pass rushers. You want to try to attack those guys. And I think it's a balance. You don't want to be one hundred percent pass. But I would not advise if you're struggling to run the ball, the answer is not run the ball more to get these guys more engaged.

The answer is teach these guys to pass protect with aggression and take joy in trying to get some some some pancake blocks and some other things like that when the time is right.

I'm looking at this graphic because I've seen it pulled up a few times this season. And it's something that you talk about a lot. We've talked about a lot with you. The neutral situation pass rates. Right. So in other words, like how often is a team passing the ball on first down first and second down? You know, traditionally you see an offense like back in the 80s and 70s, run, run, pass. And still to this very day with a lot of offenses, they just, you know, they schedule themselves.

We're going to run the ball on first down every time, pick up two yards, run and again pick up another two yards and then try to pass for seven yards on third down, which, as you pointed out, doesn't really work anymore. But the the top five teams are the Seahawks, the Chiefs, the Packers, the Cardinals and the Bills in passing on first down.

Is it just that simple?

Like if you have all things being equal, a good offense or D now let's just say like an average offense, is it that simple to improve your output by saying, OK, we're going to pass the ball twenty percent more often on first down.

Yeah, you would be surprised. So if you look at those numbers and I'm not sure the exact ones that you're looking at, but from from the general numbers, look, if you just look at the first three quarters of the game, first down plays the teams that are like the team that's the most pass heavy is in the low 60 percent range. And the team that's like the NFL average is around forty nine percent pass. And so the reality is what I've told coaches before that have like play callers that work with coaches that are a little bit more old school run based defense.

First, let's control the ball and keep it away from the opponent type philosophy is all you really have to do here is is throw one more pass out of ten plays, right. You'll move from fifty percent up to 60 percent. You'll move from a league average up to near the top of the league. And if you think about it like that, it's really not that difficult. Just out of ten plays on ten first downs, just throw one more pass.

But it really does make a difference because those passes gain more yards on average and will save you from going into third downs more often. So it absolutely can be very beneficial simply by just throwing the ball one more time out of ten plays the difference that you get from that. And we've seen some teams move even more beyond that, like a team like the Seattle Seahawks moving to a team that was very conservative a couple of years ago, a little bit more neutral last year to now very aggressive.

You mentioned top five in terms of pass rate. Definitely, definitely very beneficial. Keeps the team on schedule, keeps them out of third downs. And the other thing that I've noticed this year from some teams that I haven't seen as much of it in the past is teams on first down the way that they're throwing these passes. They're doing it more often, they're throwing more often, but they're throwing them a little bit shorter so that they ensure that they're catching the ball and gaining yards, they're not going down the field as often.

On first down, they're throwing more conservative passes on, first down as sort of like extensions of the run game. And by doing so, they're creating a higher floor of what these passes are going to do. And then in addition to that, what they decide to do on second down is they throw the ball well beyond the sticks. So on second down, instead of the same type of conservative approach, just trying to maintain that, they decide to go beyond the sticks and they're practicing third down avoidance.

We want to be conservative on first down and then we want to skip third down. And there they're passing more than they're running and they're structuring their plays in that in that sense. And it's definitely making dividends out on the field. We see how much scoring is up this year.

So I want to talk about scoring. I had I had another question, though, about the first four games. Give me a team. Give the people a team both ways. So a team that their record, they're a little worse than what the record says. You can't say the bears and then give me a team that they're better than what their record says. We call the the teams that are are playing above, like ahead of their skis. Can we call them fool's gold?

Yeah, I love it. We're not sure we're sure you're fool's gold. Yeah. And then and then give me the team that you're saying, oh, that team's one and three or two and two. But really they're a lot better than that and it will all kind of evened out once the schedule changes. Yeah.

So I think the team I think a team that's easy to say is better than what the record is, is the Philadelphia Eagles because of how injuries have derailed then and the performance of Carson Wentz thus far in the season, this is definitely when they get their offensive linemen back healthy. I mean, he played last game without his top three wide receivers. There's not many teams that are going to be able to go into San Francisco. And we've talked about this on your show before about the circadian rhythm and how difficult it is for an East Coast team to play out on the West Coast in prime time.

That home team out on the West Coast has the body clock advantage, particularly in the second half. And the Eagles were still able to get the job done with no receivers. I mean, he's throwing the ball. The guys that literally Chris Collins with the Nomikos had no clue who these players were. They've never read their names before that very night when they had the study up on who is actually going to be out on the field. So I think they're a team that's definitely better than what the record is once they get healthier.

And once Carson settles into this offense, keep in mind, you know, this this coaching staff is sort of evolving. They're adding some new thought processes to that coaching staff from a passing perspective. So it is going to take a little bit of time and repetition. So I'd say they're better. I'd say a team that's worse than what the record is. This one, to me at least, is pretty easy to it's the Tennessee Titans. This is not a team that is undefeated.

Three, you know, in the NFL. They're a team that barely was able to come back and beat the Denver Broncos, beat the Minnesota Vikings. This is a team that obviously now is being ravaged by some covid situations. I don't know what their status is for the next few games. They might not even play this game this week. And and so I don't think that this team is as good as what their record indicates right now. Interesting.

So last time you were on, we talked about field goal. Look, which teams have been way too lucky when it comes to making their field goals or having their opponents missed, as opposed to the teams that are the other way around that might have some field goal. Look, turn around a little bit on them in the in the next quarter of the season.

So that's a great question. And I should have been better prepared for that question. But I have to take the blame on this one. I can't pull up the answers fast enough for you on that. But I will send you a report. OK, OK.

I will be expecting that report. Also, do do you have a landline? I do have a landline, yes.

That is a power move. Like I heard the phone ringing. You know that that guy does business if he's getting calls on old school landline.

Yes, that is. I have multiple cell phones plus a landline. Oh, yes. Nice flex selling drugs.

Let's talk about the over's. The over's. There's a theory that it's a lot less Holden calls, which makes sense. There's I think I think the hold the lack of holding calls on offense have accounted for a point, a game.

What else is going on and when can we expect it to kind of turn back on us, which it actually kind of already has, because I think the overs on kickoff, the kickoff, like the line at the kickoff, have gone 017 in the last seven games played so the afternoon slate and then the two Monday night games.

So definitely exactly like we discussed before, thinking that there would be overs, the most overs that have hit in the last thirty years at least could have been before that, but I don't have the data back prior to that. So we are at an all time high with overs. And you're right, the big talk of the town, everybody's just been talking about the penalties. But the reality is. Most of the reason why we're seeing higher point production is on account of a handful of teams that are doing things way more efficiently and getting better production, like a team like the Buffalo Bills, like a team like the Seattle Seahawks, like a team like the Green Bay Packers who have definitely come out the gates, you know, just on fire and now I believe are on a bye week.

But then you also have this fourth down aggression and we're seeing way more teams go for it on fourth down. And from a betting perspective, it makes a lot of sense because if you guys are betting on these games like I am, you know that when a team decides to go for it on fourth down, it almost always is beneficial to you because what they're not doing is punting the ball. And so if a team is at midfield and decides to punt the ball, generally speaking, you're pinning the other team back, whereas regardless of what happens on that fourth down play, somebody is getting the ball probably close to midfield, which is a lot less distance to travel, to score points, regardless of whether it's a converted fourth down or not.

So you want teams to go for it on fourth down and make it. The only downside is if they're within field goal range, you decide to bypass that and then get nothing on that play, but most of the time going for it on fourth down. Absolutely. Results in more points. And we're seeing a lot more teams going forward on fourth down and converting those, especially on fourth and one. The conversion rate is off the chain right now.

So that's why we're seeing more points to your question, though, about whether or not we're going to continue seeing games go over the total. That's an even more interesting discussion. So, as you know, I have a computer model that helps generate what my point totals should be on these games. And then I look to see if there's any value. And that's where I make my wagers, where I do see enough of a value. And when we force lines came out, I saw a ton of value in betting some over's.

So we went and we pasted the board on Monday morning at like 10 a.m. We banged five games over and we moved the number between two to three points on almost all of those games. And for the games we moved it. And one of the game, it really didn't move that much. And that's happened to be the game that we lost. We ended up going four and one on those games. So I'm thinking we got great closing line value, which means and this is something every sports better should strive to do is time when you're placing your bets so that you can ensure that you get a better number than the line closes at.

And and that's a good way to measure.

Am I on the right side of this bet? Did I do a smart thing? So we got great closing line value, two point one points per game on average, which is very difficult to do in the NFL. And we ended up having a good result. We went for one. So we're sitting here Sunday night after week four. So it's just a few days ago thinking, OK, what games are these odds makers? What are they going to set their total at?

We might do the same type of thing. Again, I looked at the board on Monday and compared it to what my numbers were Sunday night into Monday, and I saw very little value to oversee this week, which means the oddsmakers intelligently sat here and listened to the entirety of last week. Every single person in the media world talking about points being up in games, going over the total. And so they decided to make a very aggressive move this week for and set the lines a lot higher than they did even last week compared to what they should be at the end.

And so there's just not as much value across the board batting overs this week like there were the prior few weeks. Yeah.

Do your spreadsheets take into account the uniforms of the teams are going to be wearing?

No, I do not factor that. Do you have you found an angle on that? Yeah. Delaroche uniforms.

There's always it feels like it's always over. Feels like it. Yeah.

So it's extra time for that. He says it feels like an over. I could have told you that the bears like if I had known they were wearing the orange uniforms I would have told all my clients to pound the Colts. I would have. So.

So that's not a good thing for the Bears. No. When they wear those orange, I think they don't do. I mean, I have no statistical model to back that up. It's just a gut feel. It's the I've felt slower in it.

Well, we could get that information to them and see if they can make some changes with the dolphins where they're all tilt.

That's Candy asked and they usually lose. That might just be the dolphins lose a lot. Yeah, because the dolphins lose. Well, that's the day the dolphins start. The dolphins have a grant.

You guys know Chan Gailey. He's a grandfather. He's been out of the NFL for years. And Grandpa gayly is the one calling plays there. And this is a team I don't know if you guys were on the Dolphins last week or not when the Seahawks played them, but they had every right to cover that game. At a minimum, we were. And this team goes down there. They had five trips down inside, I think, to the eleven the eleven to twenty four, the twenty five in the twenty seven and the kick field goals on every single one of those trips on five field goals.

You are not going to beat Russell Wilson doing that. Chan Gailey is using an old school for. Philosophy and an old school book to how to play the NFL and Brian Schottenheimer has moved to the new school book, they're going forward on fourth down. They're aggressively throwing the ball down the field. And so a team that's playing like that, you're not going to beat them playing conservatively and kicking these field goals. You have to try to change your stripes a little bit.

And I'm not sure if grandpa gayly is going to be able to do that.

Yeah, we need to go to two anyway. What about turnover? Look, have you been monitoring that? I have been monitoring it again. It's going to have to be a report because I don't have to take that off.

It's just that it's real. We'll take that is real, right? It's one turnover. Luck is one hundred percent know. It's it's primarily primarily fumble. Luck is definitely a key factor, because when that ball is out, there's an expectation that one side of the ball is going to recover it slightly more than the other. But you definitely have certain teams based upon where the turnover is and how many guys they happen to have around the ball that just fall on it more often.

And those things tend to regress to the mean across the board.

Yeah, and also just in like returning turnovers, I remember like the Bears, I think was like eight years ago, they started seven and one, I want to say, and it was every game they returned a pick six or fumble score. And everyone's like, I don't think this can last. And of course, didn't. And everything fell apart because as soon as you don't get those points, it doesn't look the same.

Yeah, that was the peanut punch was that era, I think. And and they absolutely were doing a great job with that. And this is one of the things we've talked about on your show before. I would absolutely be coaching my team, especially on defense. When we get that take away, you have to try to figure out a way to block those offensive players. You got 300 plus pound offensive linemen, only a couple of fast guys on the football field.

At that point, we need to be scoring these plays. It's the easiest time to score points in the entire game. And so that's just a paramount importance. The Bears definitely practice that in those years with with your middle linebacker was named number fifty, Brian Urlacher and other and Lance Briggs. I mean, that was Lovie Smith. Yeah. So those guys. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And so they were definitely doing that.

There are certain guys, though, where the turnover look eventually just becomes a turnover habit, like, you know, we joke around about Tyron Matthews or that guys are always around the football. He's got a nose for the football. He actually kind of does. He's like, yeah, over the years just saying somebody the ball hawk. Sometimes you're saying that about a player that had a great season where they got, you know, six, seven interceptions and they'll never have that again with Matthew.

It's like he just he always is where the ball bounces. I don't know what it is about him, but he does have like a sixth sense. I don't know if it's even possible to quantify, but there's surely there has to be like some element of skill to always be around the ball all the time.

Well, people that tend to watch a lot of film understand the habits that the other team is going to use. So defenders that seem to be around the ball a lot are defenders that typically have watched a lot of film and understand where the ball is going to come. And then on that interception where Edelman tipped it in the Monday night game, you could definitely see like if he just lowered his head and went for a tackle, he doesn't get the ball, but he understands, like, this is just a swing pass.

It's not going to gain very many yards anyways. Let me just play back a little bit and see what happens here. And sure enough, and Edelman has the highest drop rate in the NFL over the last couple of years. So he probably knew that. And he just knew that the outcome of the play, if he ran in for a tackle, is not really going to minimize the yards any more than if he just stood there and lets him gain extra yard.

It's not going to it's not a play that's going to be very productive. And he made the smart read on it. So he he is Tyron Matthews. Super smart. Yeah.

I've got kind of an open ended question here, but I think it's very important. It's one that a lot of people are asking.

So I'm just going to let you cook on it. The Dallas Cowboys. What?

What the fuck? Yeah, look, I know that everybody is mad at Mike Nolan and Mike Nolan certainly potentially got that job just as a favor. And, you know, you can read into those innuendos if you want to. They were not playing very well. They aren't playing aggressively. They do not appear to be trying hard on that side of the football. It's a defensive thing more than it's an offensive thing. Now, that being said, the offense is out of rhythm.

We saw against Atlanta one of the reasons why we thought they were a little bit out of rhythm was because, well, they were trying all these fake punts and they were trying these really aggressive strategies. And that led to some easy points from the Atlanta Falcons and gave up their opportunity to score points when they're making plays like that. So maybe that's not really the issue. Maybe the issue is just this decision making from the coaching staff. But as we come to find, it's going to take a little bit more work from Mike McCarthy to figure out how to control this offense.

And, you know, look, the guy openly lied on his job application to Jerry Jones. He completely admitted to the fact he goes in and says, I watched every play. I watched the film. I studied the analytics in the off season. Then his opening press conference, he comes back and says, by the way, I lied about all of that. I just wanted to get the job coaching the Cowboys. So that's a very bad start.

And now we're seeing that maybe this guy was just chillin, sipping daiquiris down somewhere and not really paying close attention to what he needed to. I think they're going to get back on track. One of the biggest issues is going to be their schedule gets a lot easier. You've played some ridiculously difficult offenses so far this season, which makes it any defense look bad. And they've had injuries along the offensive line. They've had some players missing on the defensive side of the football.

So I'm not sitting here with this team having a bad record right now, being in second place in the NFC East and selling them and writing them off right now. I still think they're going to be able to get things back on track, but they absolutely must get better effort from their defensive players. They've got to get better strategies on that side of the ball and offensively.

So the Washington football team pulling the plug on Dwayne Haskins, kind of bizarre because they're also like I saw that he wasn't even taking snaps.

Two part question, one, was it too early to pull the plug on Dwayne Haskins from what you saw and to what is generally speaking, there's no obviously rule of thumb here, but what is generally speaking, the way you analyze quarterbacks? Like how many games do you need to see out of them before you can be like, all right, this is what this guy is. I know what he is. It's going to be about this. And we can make a decision based off that.

Yeah.

And that second question is very important, because that's the thing that Scott Turner and Ron Rivera were not able to see from Haskins because they had no preseason work with the guys. So it's one thing seeing him in practice, throwing passes against the air, but it's another thing actually seeing him there in the games. And I think the bigger issue for Dwayne Haskins is simply was he responding to the coaching because these guys have no allegiance to Dwayne Haskins. They didn't draft him.

They want to build a winning program and more importantly, than just getting wins out on the football field, you know, from how Ron Rivera wants to build a culture there, it's about doing what the coaches are asking you to do and having some accountability to that. And from what I'm seeing and hearing, Dwayne Haskins was not able to respond to the coaching like they were asking him to make reads in a certain manner. They were asking him to get the ball out to these places.

They were asking him to keep his eyes down. The a lot of different things that they're asking him to do that week after week he was failing to do in the games. And at some point they're like, I don't know if this guy's ever going to quote unquote get it. Like, is this guy going to get it? Can he respond to what we're asking him to do? I think that's more important than his actual execution, because if you look at that game against the Baltimore Ravens, I mean, he throws for over three hundred yards.

And actually there's an interesting story behind that game, like without getting too detailed, like there was an impression in expectation that there was a good chance he's going to get benched at halftime. Right. And so we're there are a lot of props that you can bet on a quarterback. And so you can bet under completions and under passing attempts and under yards and under touchdowns and every which way you can bet Dwayne Haskins unders especially good props if you think he could get benched.

Right. SAT down at halftime. And so a lot of those props are being bet towards the under and he looks like crap in the first half. His first four drives are punt turnover, punt missed field goal. Now, the turnover wasn't his fault, but regardless of zero points on the board, they're losing fourteen to nothing and they've got one more drive left in that half. And I'm fully convinced that if he does not go down the field seventy five yards and score touchdown, which he ends up doing, he ends up getting benched at halftime and all those props cash but he goes down the field scores that touchdown gets to play the rest of the game, ends up going over on all of his props and now and the team decides to pull the plug the next week.

Yeah. How does it make sense that Ron Rivera is going to have this short of a leash on Dwayne Haskins? But the Washington football team did not make an effort to bring Cam Newton up there.

I guess they had to feel like Cam wasn't fully healthy.

That could be my only expectation if they thought that Cam wasn't fully healthy or the only other thought process that they could have is they didn't want to rebuild from the ground up with a guy like Cam there. Maybe they didn't view maybe they viewed Cam. Oh, he could be healthy for this year. Right. But how is that going to work with Dwayne Haskins, who's already on a roster? We don't know if we like Haskins or not. We have to play him in order to see that.

Will can be and this is one thing I don't necessarily love about some teams and I'm not inside buildings. So I don't know, maybe this is a real thing, but the thought process of like a really good quarterback is going to mess up the locker room chemistry if we're going to sign him with the impression and he knows that, that he's not going to be starting and he may get a shot, but it's not going to be now, like, how could that still not work?

How could we not find a world in which camp wouldn't screw up the chemistry of that locker room? But I mean, for whatever reason, they just felt like him being there was not going to be conducive to finding out what they had in Dwayne Haskins. And they were optimistic that Dwayne Haskins could be something. I'm pretty confident that if they knew that Haskins was nowhere near close to being the start of this franchise, there would have been a bigger emphasis on bringing Cam in.

But I do think that there is a school of thought that Cam, you might get a year or two or three out of Cam, but the injuries in the way he plays football might compound upon one another. So he's not your long term answer at quarterback. And if they don't end up liking Haskins, they're fine with losing games. The roster is not great overall. They want to get that number one overall quarterback in what we've seen in New England, like Cam can come in and win game.

Yeah, so I.

I find the cam revisionist history so fucking lazy, though, because people are forgetting, one, he was injured, two were in a pandemic. So you can't, you know, like you can't bring them into the facility. Yeah. You could probably have a doctor go look at him. But you know how paranoid and weird NFL teams are? They're not going to they have to have their doctor look at someone. And three, I think Cam and rightfully so by cams in Kim's defense, is he wasn't going to go and compete for a job.

I don't think he was ever competing against Jarrett Stidham. I think that was Belichick ruse. But he wasn't going to go like if the if the Washington football team said, hey, calm down, come. We're not going to totally give up on Dwayne Haskins yet. So you have to compete for job cameras like I'm an MVP. I'm not competing for jobs. Same with Chicago. Like Cam had a right to say that. So this revisionist history that all these teams passed on, Cam, I just don't buy it.

I think Cam probably was like, I'm a starter. I'll go somewhere and prove it, but I'm not going to go compete against someone and not be guaranteed.

I think it's a little bit different.

I do think that you can't say that about like 32 teams, obviously, but with Ron Rivera and bringing up the entire offensive coaching stuff, I think that, like, if if they they would know more than anybody else what Cam was like, was present condition was like if they didn't bring him in, I totally got that.

I didn't want to bring Cam to DC for just those reasons that we talked about, which was, you know, like he might still be hurt or you don't want to undermine a young quarterback. I get that. But it just seems like if that if that was your long play in DC to see what we have in Haskins, you know, going three and a half games or four games doesn't really give you the body of evidence to know whether or not he's the guy for the future.

Well, they couldn't see him. No, they didn't. But there's no preseason. They still. Yeah, no training camp.

I'm saying like four weeks is a very short amount of time to give them as if their whole plan was to say, like, we're going to see if Dwayne Haskins is good. We don't want to risk bringing somebody else in to undermine him now. And also, Alex Smith, if it's like the forty are a team like that, I understand not bringing Cam Newton. If it's a team that has like anywhere close to an established quarterback, I get I get why you want it.

And it is lazy to be like, well, you know, all 32 teams passed on Cam and let Belichick get him. That's not the case.

But I think that there is just based on Rivera and Turner and the offensive coaching staff with DC, it just seems a little weird how this whole thing is shaken out.

We're in reverse, I think, Cam. Not like on the best terms, though. At the end, they weren't like, I don't I don't know specifically.

I think I did see some things about that, you know, and you obviously wishes him well at the end. But but I think back to his point on this, I do think that the reason ultimately why they are sitting Haskins down is not just that he's not winning games for them, is that he's not responding to the teaching and the coaching, that he's not doing what they're asking him to do. And I don't know that it's like an example being set out for him, but I think it's more so that we can't allow this to continue.

If this guy is not doing what we asked him and we tried to work with him over and over and over again. Let's and the other thing I'm hearing is that they think that there's a shot to win the NFC East because it's such a bad division that they want to see what this other guy is going to be able to do. Josh Allen, if he's going to be able to come in here and do anything.

So I don't think he's going to see that to me means that I I can't begrudge Ron Rivera here because he had no idea with in a normal world, if he had OTAs, if he had, you know, training camp, he probably would have known this like a long time ago, that that Dwayne Haskins doesn't look the way he wants them to look. And he doesn't respond to the coach the way he wants. But this is they probably went in with great intentions and it just didn't work.

I don't disagree with that. I think they really wanted Dwayne Haskins to work out that would have been in their best interest. They've got a franchise quarterback. He's going to be able to win games for them. They're probably not going to make the playoffs this year. The NFC East has the Cowboys and the Eagles. Those are teams that are going to be very good, but at least they've got the stepping stones for building a franchise here in D.C. And obviously, you know, we see that Dwayne Haskins may not be the guy for them.

So based on what you've seen so far from Dwayne Haskins, I think that's probably right, because if there was like if they thought that he was not the guy, they probably would have at least considered trying to trade down or drafting to a back in the NFL draft.

But based on what you've seen from Dwayne Haskins, can you just tell me, is he should I move on? Just mentally? I need to know because I'm scarred from the Jason Campbell experience where it was like, just give him one more year. He's showing signs of progression. I'm scarred from that. I got PTSD from Jason Campbell.

Should I just just rip the Band-Aid off and say Dwayne's not the guy?

I think that it's going to take a lot for Dwayne the rest of the season to get back to the point where you could say he is the guy. So I think for right now, for your own mental health, you should assume he's not the guy and move forward and don't pay him any. Erm, another thought. Don't waste your time, your stress on him, and then if he reappears and he's playing much better, then you can start maybe trying to fall back in love with.

There you go. I'm going to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind myself. I'm going to remove that part of all Dwayne Haskins knowledge. And then if I get reintroduced to him I might be like, Oh, who's this guy? I really like this guy. So, OK, thank you for saying that.

That's that's very good for me. All right. So I had one last question more in the sense we're going to run this on Friday. Can you give us maybe a quick breakdown of Sunday Night Football from a gambling perspective for the people?

Yeah, so Sunday Night Football right now, the Seahawks are favored by seven points. Total is fifty seven and a half. So we'll see if those lines are still there. The Seattle Seahawks offense is one of the most productive in the NFL, but nobody really is paying close enough attention to the Minnesota Vikings offense, which is quietly doing significantly better because they've got Justin Jefferson involved in the passing game. I have no idea why they decided not to incorporate him early enough into weeks one and two.

But this is actually a team I use. An early non success rate metric is one of my favorite metrics to use. And the Minnesota Vikings offense actually ranks number one in that metric, which is essentially of all revolving around bypassing third downs. And one of the reasons is it's in part like because they've been losing in these games that they've had to turn it on a little bit quicker. But they're actually having a lot of success throwing the ball down the field.

I think Seattle heading into a bye next week. So their play this week, then they have a bye. I'm curious to know how many of their defensive players are actually going to try to rush back for this game and then they're going to be on a bye next week? I think, just like we saw in Green Bay with Devonta Adams, you may see some of these guys just sat down to be determined and that will help the Vikings defense even further.

But the bigger question that I have for the Vikings offense, we can say everything golden about them that we want to. We got Kirk Cousins not playing at one p.m. here. And that's the biggest storyline, is this prime time issue with Kirk Cousins and how he struggles tremendously. Will he be productive in this spot? We know that there's no not going to be any crowd noise. We know that you're not won't be any fans. Was he just scared of the fans?

Was he getting concerned because people were booing him or yelling at him and he'll play better without fans? Or was it simply the fact that he's such a creature of habit, as we've heard him say before, that any game that's not at one p.m., it throws off his daily routine and he can't figure out how to operate in this change time condition. So hopefully it's not the latter. And he actually plays a good game here, which would be equally as funny because he gets so scared.

It's like a guy shooting a free throw in a high school gym. You guys are both probably done that and you're at a road game and you're playing high school ball and the crowd's getting on your case. You just kind of tense up. Maybe you guys have ice in your veins, but you know that Kirk Cousins might be that type of quarterback. So but but I think that the Seahawks offense, there's clear advantages for them to push the ball down the field.

Super high total right now. And we'll have to see if there's going to be some rain involved. But I think we got two defenses that can be taken advantage of here. And if you look at that Miami Seattle game from last week, the one thing you should take away is five trips within field goal range, five field goals for the Seahawks. They sorry for the Dolphins. Grandpa Galey settled for those. Will the Minnesota Vikings offense be a lot more aggressive in those spots?

Go for it on fourth down, try to punch it into the end zone. If they stay with a more aggressive game plan, it's going to be hard to see this game really petering out. Not being entertaining unless it's entirely hinged upon Kirk Cousins can't play any time other than one.

You mentioned the rain real quick. I've always heard and maybe that's just from Big Cat because we talk about the rain versus the snow versus the wind, that the wind affects the points a little more more so than anything else. What about the rain? What does rain do?

Rain can be a definite factor from two different perspectives. No. One, light drizzle really not an issue. Light drizzle, the surface of the field sometimes gets a little bit slick, which can actually help players. And in that nowhere, they're running cut and then the defenders fall. Right. But the two areas that it's a bigger question mark is if you have heavier rain, that definitely makes it more difficult. And I think it actually nobody talks about this, but I think it actually impacts certain quarterbacks differently than others, not just from a hand size perspective in their ability to throw the ball, but how accurate they are with passes.

Because as you guys know, if you're playing in the rain and you're trying to reach up and extend yourself, you can't really make one handed catches. Are these big extension catches in the rain. But if you have a quarterback who's thrown it on target right between the numbers, those balls are easier to catch in the rain. So it could hurt certain quarterbacks more than others. Go back and look up some of the splits from Russell Wilson in the rain.

It's not going to be pretty what he typically has done in the rain, which is shocking, actually, because he's. He's a good quarterback and his hands are actually, I think, a decent size, but in the rain he hasn't played as well. The other thing that this factors into is the coaching philosophy, because some coaches end up instantly we see some rain out on the field and we're like, OK, this is going to be a tough game.

We're going to have to grind it out. Maybe more run plays on early downs. Let's be careful. Points are going to be at a premium. So they enter the game with that sort of philosophy and it just leads to lower points across the board because coaching matters tremendously from the results of a game. And if you got a couple of coaches, even one who's like we're going to play more conservatively than we normally do, we don't want to pass the ball as much.

We want to run the ball more. We're OK with punting the ball. We just don't want to turn it over like that will tremendously kill a total, especially one that's at fifty seven and a half.

Yeah, really, really high. All right. Well, Warren, thank you as always. At Sharp Football on Twitter, you can listen to his podcast. You can find him sharp football analysis, dotcom, sharp football stats, dotcom. Be a smarter football fan with Warren Sharp. You owe us a kicking report to report. And the the field goal. Turnover, turnover, right. Turnover luck and feel good luck.

I'll get those reports to you by the end of the day. No, you could do all say. They tweeted out Friday when we when we post the show. OK, well we up you it out Friday. I'll tweet out Friday. And also since your bears are three and one, I don't know when we're going to have another great record. Hopefully it's soon and they're going to do even better things, but we'll give thirty one percent off anything.

Just use PMT. Thirty one if anybody wants thirty one percent off, I like thirty one. Beautiful.

All right, Warren, thank you so much man. Appreciate it. We'll get you back on soon. Thanks guys.

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Enough is something completely different. Do you know who we are?

Nope. You know who I am. I am a big fan of yours. I, I know. I know about you. Yeah.

I'm a I'm a watcher of Real Housewives. But we'll also give you some tips on podcasting. We've been doing it for a while. Number one sports podcast.

So not to brag. Yeah, not to brag. I'm Andy Cohen's neighbor. So if you screw up, tell him.

Yeah, we actually Heidi. Yeah, yeah. He lives like just about across the street from me. Wow.

You guys are number one. Let me just look at you guys. I see. Yeah. We're also there. We also had a TV show that got canceled after one episode that was taped out of Embassy Row, right where Andy's stuff is.

Well, let's go. Can we can I can I ask you, how do you get canceled after one episode about how the fuck did you do that? Well, it's not our problem.

If it's one episode, it's on them. If it was like three or four episodes thing, then we'd have to take a long look in the mirror. We're too risky. We're the bad boys of sports, television, ESPN, too.

OK, I'm here for it. All right. We're good to go. All right, let's do that. That was nice. You get it right. Here we go.

Three, two, one. OK, we now welcome on a very special guest. It is philanthropist, entrepreneur, author, producer. You've maybe seen her on television. It is Bethenny Frankel. She also has a new podcast which is out now. Just be with Bethenny Frankel. Bethenny, thank you for joining us. I'm a huge fan. Excited to have you on. We're trying to do range. You know, I mean, we talk a lot of sports.

We have NFL and then we have Bethenny Frankel on to talk about whatever we want to talk about.

Big range is good. I actually think that's smart. It's true. I mean, listen, let's see if I can hang. I'm not sure, but we'll see what we got going.

So I asked a lot of friends. What I should ask you, because I don't watch a show, I've never watched Real Housewives that's on me, I'm not saying it's a bad show. I might enjoy it if I sat down and watched that show.

I'm not on it anymore. But it's it's really it's not going to second to raise your IQ any, you know, but so we're good. Great kids.

Yeah. Mine can't get any lower to begin with, so I'm good. But people would tell me like be careful with her. She's, she can be mean. She can be feisty. I went back. I've watched some interviews with you. I've watched you some clips of of the show on TV. And I don't think that you mean. I think that you're I think you're very direct. And I don't I think you don't care what other people think about you.

So my first question is how how do you do that?

Because I want that it's very liberating. It's sort of like being honest. You just know that you can just live in that, because if you're honest, you never get jammed up. You're cool. You don't really care. You know, it's better to be there's no gray in this life. I mean, so it's black or white and polarizing, and that's OK. It's it would be worse for me. It's OK if I'm not liked. It would be bad if I were not trusted.

So that would really bother me. But I'm definitely trusted. I am absolutely direct. I'm intense. And I wonder and I'm not one of these women that talks about like what women don't get and what men get, etc. But I actually I think I'm more like a man and I wonder if I were a man, if they would even say what you just said, you know, repressurize probably be something that people would definitely say. I mean, I had a big meeting here at my house yesterday with seven guys, and they get nervous a little bit.

I mean, you know, I can be you are intimidating. You're intimidating because you are extremely, extremely successful and you do get what you want. I am a fan of the show. You're not on it anymore, like you said. But I've watched every episode of Real Housewives of New York.

I have a reality TV behind the scenes question. How many times when you were on it would you watch the episode and be like, wait, that's not how it happened? Like, the edit drives me nuts here. It's out of your control. You that happen or, you know, did it happen often?

What was that?

No, what happens is. They crystallize with a narrative, but like a blind date, you could go on a blind date with someone for an hour and a half and you come home and you just basically explain, like the bottom line. You're like she she shit her pants at the table. She ordered a lobster and she said something really nice about my hair. And like, that's what the episode is going to show. So a bunch of other things could have happened on that date.

But it's kind of just like a crystallization. It's just it's gotten more manufactured over the years. And I think it is different now than it was then. And I do hear that from many areas of the franchise where when I went on, you didn't even put hair and makeup on. You sort of just winged it. You didn't have to go over the top to create drama. Just nuance was very dramatic. And now, you know, someone throws a leg or someone rips a weave out or everybody's got to top each other and it becomes a little more manufactured.

And people aren't really friends, but they have to sort of produce them as if they're friends. So it's a very strange dynamic because you're living in this world and these things that you're arguing about are very important to you within this microcosm. But in no other situation of your life would they be important. The minute you walk off that show after four months, you can give a fuck about any of these people or what you were talking about. But it's what you're doing right there, if that makes any sense.

Yeah, no, that makes sense now. What about, though, the trip? My favorite part of every season is the trip when it's like things are going too well with the ladies. Let's all go to Mexico, drink a lot of booze and fight for three days. Did you know that before you would go on the trip every year being like, got to get ready, this shit is going to get wild.

OK, so to give an analogy to sports, to what I was just describing is sort of like I imagine people who are on a field together who in that moment they're killing each other and resolving things with their teammates or whatever, whatever, and then opposing, you know, in opposition to others with a goal. And the coach has a goal. But like when they get off the field, they go home, they hang with their kids and they live their life.

And it's like that's not what they're dealing with. They think about it. And press is coming out about it and they're like dealing with it. But that's that. So to answer the next question that does that make sense? Yes. Yes, absolutely.

Like after the game, you're like, OK, good game. Like now I'm going to go and live my life.

Yeah, I hate that motherfucker, but I don't have to live with them. So who cares like or I love that person or whatever in that. So but then the trips are designed to put you in a pressure cabin together with everybody to work through and bring up every issue. And it's sort of like a drawing room comedy where you cut to one room and see these two people talking about that. And then one person will come out and tell everybody in the group situation with that person happens and then a little fights that starts.

And so it's like little mini forest fires that with any luck from before production began, a big giant one big fire for the finale of what this thing is. And then for the last night, they would hope to contain the fire and then they'll still be like remnants of the fire when everybody gets home. Right. So, you know, you can't you could be going to Morocco or Des Moines or Newark, New Jersey. And it doesn't matter to me, certain people on the show that are losers get excited about these vacations, these foreign places when it doesn't matter where you are, because it's going to be the most disgusting experience of arguments and toxicity that it wouldn't matter to me.

Like, I'd almost rather not be somewhere nice because I don't want to experience Bali in this way.

We're all about conflict and craziness. And you don't even take a call from, like your spouse or your boyfriend, like you're in the zone. You're literally that's your Super Bowl. You're not taking side phone calls. You're just like making moves, running plays. You know, you're just you're just and it's kill or be killed. Yes. This is just or be killed. And that's what they why they design it. And it's always before we go on a trip, I wanna invite you all.

I think we should all relax with everyone from Gamma, which is like then there's no drama and the producers are burning the show to the ground. I mean, that's a great answer.

I love it. I love the behind the scenes reality show because it's just so funny how how the trip always just gets insane. I also just love the term pressure cabin.

I think that's what we should call our studio from the cash up pressure cabin. That sounds awesome.

All right. You guys should film a bunch of you like Brose that are animals that like I don't get girlfriends or wives, but like the way you really act when you're eating beer. I'm eating wings and being gross and like, put yourself in a pressure cooker. There will be some fights. You are certain days, but like three, four days and a bunch of sports things going on and maybe that's going something.

Will you describe our business are basically the business model? Yeah, we literally do that all the time.

I don't eat as much as I used to, actually. I'm going to try Dunam Triphase and you shouldn't be so smart as a businesswoman.

She invented barstool sports. Yes, that's without realizing all.

But so before you became known to America, you're still you an entrepreneur for a while, but.

I guess you were introduced to to the nation really on Martha Stewart's apprentice, is that right? So that was my first. Yeah. When you were, like, preparing to do that or even before you knew that you were going to be on reality television, would you sit around watching reality TV and criticizing the moves that people would make and think of the strategies that you would use if you were to find yourself on that side of the camera?

No, and there really wasn't reality TV. Then there might have been like the real world years ago, which was different. But The Apprentice was pretty innovative, like the first time I had ever heard of anything like that. And this wasn't The Celebrity Apprentice. This was the Bill Rancic Gozal Lemonade Apprentice. And then I was on the Martha Stewart version. So, again, it had the sensibility of the first the first round of housewives. For me, it was just so authentic and so real.

And it was like young kids, like striving for a dream. Just Panic-stricken had never seen a camera and were sleeping in a place where we didn't have phones or television or newspapers for months, no walls where we slept all night. If you went the bathroom, they were following you like just another pressure cooker. So it was like real intense business competition. Now, other shows, whether it's Big Brother or whatever shows they have, they're all derivative.

You know, it's hard to keep recreating that. So the answer is absolutely not. And certainly for housewives, because it was not called housewives, it was called Manhattan Moms. I wasn't even a mom. And I was like this questionmark sort of Carrie Bradshaw character that no one knew what was going to happen with me. So it was so natural. And that's sort of how I like to do things. That's why I never like to do something that's been done before.

So my new show, The Big Shot with Bethenny, which is a much more modern and realistic version of The Apprentice, is unlike any other show before. And I need everything I do to be like that. I never listen to a podcast of my entire life. I still haven't in my life until I did mine not to be selfish to the genre. It's just that I didn't want to know anything. I want to do it like my I want to do my own way and be fresh and just.

Say, fuck it, so about your podcast, just be with Bethenny Frankel so you never listen to a podcast. Do you know how to find a podcast?

No, I've never subscribed to a podcast now. And a lot of my listeners who I've brought in, which I liken to HSN, HSN has been on a lot because not only do I sell well, but I bring in a new audience. So I've brought in a lot of new people to podcasts overall, like a ridiculous like you've never done it.

You're welcome to make that money in our pocket. Yeah. Bowling alley. Who doesn't even know how to subscribe, like, literally. Yeah, you're welcome. She's going to grow the game right now. He's going to listen to this show and she's going to like be like these two guys are the funniest fuckers ever.

Yeah. I like you. I like you too. Bye. Good bye. Oh, I like that. Good vibes. Always a good thing. So who like guests that you're going to have on dream? Guess what's the direction of the podcast?

When is this airing? Because I don't know them a lot. So I have had Mark Cuban, I've had Andy Cohen and Paris Hilton and Maria Shriver and Ryan Murphy. And I think we both Sharipova and I booked for real, if I'm allowed to say it. And Chris Henchy and a lot of pretty sick people. But I just booked somebody. That's like mind blown crazy to say Alice would be like belittling, like we're all like, oh, OK, just like that.

So I can't say that now.

I don't think I read if you got Leo DiCaprio. I would respectfully I don't know if Leo's built an actual business like that and maybe but all these people have to do in a way, we had UFC, we had Dana. Why do you have to be? I've have been. Yeah, he's extraordinary. So I would book an extraordinary visionary mogul game show and just started in the bottom. Now we're here. It's not really just about fame. So, yes, I would book Leonardo DiCaprio, obviously.

But now respectfully to Leonardo DiCaprio, much more insane than him. Pretty big.

Now she's built a business that it would be very great. We'd be very excited like FARELL This is better. Third chance, Jay-Z, Eric Trump. Now the Jay-Z is a big Jay-Z bucket list of this stories because he is a mogul and a businessperson and so is Dr. Dre. But no, but I'll let you all know next week after we film it.

OK, we actually just got texted the answer, but we're not going to say it because we respect you. Is that true? Yeah. Yeah, we did. We got respect. We just yeah, our PR person knows, but we're we like you so much we're not going to say but good get.

That's pretty cool, right. She's great. Yeah. Good job. And your name change. Yeah. Yeah.

We'll keep saying who it is. Nice. Nice. All right.

So that's great. So. So everyone should subscribe. Thank you for bringing more people to the podcast world. Just be with Bethenny Frankel. I have a couple other quick questions about Real Housewives. I don't know if you want to answer all these, but it's ridiculous that she still goes by the Countess, right.

Yes, but you know, what the hell is a countess anyway to begin with, what, like like Meghan Markle was? It was it was it was a briefcase girl and she's now a duchess because she married into it so forever. She'll be. But now she's not a duchess. Like, who gives a fuck. So you know what I mean. I'm a fairy princess. I'm the fairy princess now and forever. I'll be the third princess. It doesn't even matter.

Know it just so. Yeah.

I mean, for people who don't watch the show, Countess Luann Lesseps.

So she married French royalty.

I don't even know some I don't know either guy who is a cat. Yeah. And I don't know. I think they give back titles a lot. I think that it's just I don't know what any of that stuff, you know what I mean. Like what it all means. It's like a socialite who cares, right.

And so mean. Yeah. In the first ever season, Bethenny called the win by her name Lewen and Luján pulled her aside and was like, when we're in public, please say Count Countess. Yes. I think she's been divorced from the count.

Yeah. For a long time, but still goes by the count. I can I can kind of understand that because how many countesses do you meet? You know, like that's a title that it just it sounds like you're evil.

It sounds like people shot. I think you lose it when you're when you're not married to the count anymore. I agree that you probably have to give it up.

But if you are currently married, I mean, you have to read your account.

You should have to wear like a big cloak, like a big black cloak everywhere you go and wear dark makeup or be the artist or be the reality star formerly known as Noticiero.

Like the prince. Rude. Yes. Yes. OK, so that was one in the other one was what's worse, not inviting someone to your party or not showing up to a party that you were invited to? Because I feel like 80 percent of the fights on Real Housewives is essentially like you didn't invite me to your birthday party or I invited you my birthday party and you didn't show. And that's really the genesis of most fights.

You're at a greatest, OK, that I say this, but it's let me go a little deeper. It's these are people that can't stand each other, you know, can't stand each other. So I'm very big on both. I'm very big on not inviting and I'm very big on not wanting to be invited. OK, that said, the people around me, you know what I would have thought, you know, if you didn't support me. Yes, you didn't.

You didn't you didn't come and support me and I supported you and I came. So you're saying it's like I don't want you at my thing and I don't want to be your thing. And I was one of the reasons I had to leave the show in my mind, a very small reason. There's a much bigger picture. But like, I don't want to go to things that I don't want these people. I don't want to go. I would never go to these things for these people if I weren't on the show having to be with these people.

Yes, the the support in The Real Housewives world is quite literally showing up to a party in the Hamptons, drinking a flute of champagne and eating like a stuffed mushroom.

That's support, but a fake event that was from the business. That's not real. I have the show right here in the show. So you created the business to have content on the show. And the people that you become friends with on the show have to come to support you in that business and that event. That wouldn't happen unless the show helped coordinate it.

So by support, it's just show up so that other people can see you at my fake event and then they'll think that my fake business is good because my fake friend was here.

Yeah. And it's a great just a great low hanging fruit argument on it. On a reality show. Yeah. For me it's a great low hanging fruit argument. Like she didn't come and she told you that she was with her daughter sick. But I saw her at the Olive Garden downing breadsticks.

And I have the receipt. I have a photo of her at the Olive Garden down.

And the next thing is, you know, the producers saying, go tell Chanel that, you know, you've got the receipts and you know that she was at the Olive Garden because, you know, they were in a drought on Phuket and salad dressing.

Right. Right. I get that. You, on the other hand, have a very real business, one that I was already well aware of before I even was introduced to Bethenny Frankel, which is Skinny Girl Margarita I.

I enjoy skinny girl. I feel like a fraud if I'm drinking it because I'm not a skinny girl. Is there any room in the market for like a like thick boy, thick dumb ass margarita? Yeah.

Zaftig, zaftig sports fan. Well, the skinny girl Margarita became a whole line and I sold the cocktail portion of that business. I so I don't own it anymore. But a lot of men drink it just like men watch housewives because their wives drink it. So the women are the purchasers of the household, so the men drink it. I don't own that brand anymore. I own 100 percent of the skinny girl brands except for alcohol. That was my big sort of cash out exit and it was very creative of me and innovative to say you can have that, but I'm keeping the rest of it.

So, for example, Grey Goose, when they sold, they didn't keep that. They don't get to keep the intellectual property in the name and make other things. Out of it and Sky Vodka and I can name 50 50 brands that don't do that. So I get to go make jeans and salad dressings and popcorn and preserve's and everything else in the brand skinny girl that I own. So that was a pretty baller business move. But I still have the rest of my skinny girl stash at my house and men do drink it.

Yes. Tasty.

Yes. Do you ever look in the mirror and you're like like queen? Just look at yourself like, yes, queen.

I like myself and I like you. Do I like myself more?

I would be want to be friends with myself because I'm very honest and I own it and I don't ask anybody to do anything I haven't done myself and I work really hard and I'm a really good and centered mom and I am honest about who I am and where I am in my life and how old I am and what I look like. And I just don't front. And so I would I like to be friends with people like that and I like to laugh a lot.

And comedy is first. Comedy is the first priority. So I am cool with who I am, you know, and I'm tough too, which is nice. And I feel like it's good for my daughter to see those aspects of me in addition to just my sense of humor and being very nurturing to her. So I like myself.

Do you want to run for president? Who? Well, a lot of people have said I should run for mayor or president, but to be perfectly honest, I don't think I'm I'm not knowledgeable enough about foreign policy. But I know you can get people around you to help you. And if you know what you don't know, you can get very far. I've done, you know, over like 70 million dollars in relief work worldwide. And people have said, I've got more than that.

People have said I've gotten infinitely more done than the government has gotten done in the time that I did it. Not even a question with all kinds of disasters. But that's only one area of politics I'm not great at, like schmoozing 10000 people in a row. Like, I don't think I would like touching so many people and just being fake and phony, but I'd be good at the game and I'm really in pajamas 90 percent of the time. And so I don't think that I think I'd have to like I don't like being handled all the time.

Like, you got to do this and then you've got to go there. And then you've got to be honest. I mean, I don't like being touched and handled all the time, so I don't know if I'd like that part. But doing the running the country, I think I could absolutely do. I mean, I know I could. Yeah.

But the notion of what it's like to be a work is changing so quickly, and especially in the last six months with a pandemic, so much stuff is done remotely. I think there's less handling going on in general. Yeah, you have great social media presence that you could use to connect directly to people so you don't have to worry about going to as many fake schmoozy events. And plus, I think that there's like a certain amount of, you know, it's refreshing to deal with somebody and you can tell that they're not schmoozing you.

You know, they can you can tell when somebody says, OK, I'd be the honest politician and be able to figure out how to play the game without being corrupt and not bullshitting everybody. One hundred percent. I just don't know how you go about being the president. I mean, if somebody that was important came in and like picked me up from my house and took me to the place, I'm supposed to go and filled out the paperwork for me because I'm not going to do that, then I would apply and see if I got the job.

But I also don't like leaving my daughter, but I guess there'd be like a nice fun bus that she could be on at home school.

So, yeah, I would give her a whole house. Yeah, they do give you a yes. Yeah.

I'd love to renovate Gracie Mansion or the White House and I could get a lot of things done, but people would be like I'd have to get a real education on foreign policy and certain issues. But I guess that's what everybody just wouldn't be full of shit about it. I think if you want to get things done and be wise and be strategic, I'm very good at that, that I'm an executer so that not of people, but of ideas so that that I could handle for sure.

I just need someone to guide me.

So you just mentioned like doing the paperwork would suck.

I read that your biggest financial regret is you just filled out the paperwork wrong on when you made your business and it cost you millions of dollars. How did you not have someone else do for you? I know I, I did. It's not that I felt what happened was when I was doing The Housewives, at a certain point I had a lawyer and the housewife said to be on the housewives. You had to get paid in a certain way based on whatever my job or business was.

Then like it takes a while to set up like your corporation or your LLC or EZCORP. And I'm not good at that kind of stuff and I don't pretend to be so. But then it was just a personal entity being paid through a reality show. So I guess I signed up for I think it was either EZCORP or I had been an LLC. I don't remember. I still don't remember. But I signed up, I checked the box to be whatever that was.

Well, then I started getting granted all these other things and had good agents. But I didn't have, you know, like I have now seven hundred dollar an our lawyers, you know, and and by the way, it doesn't matter if I did. Lawyers and agents miss things all the time and everybody who's listening needs to understand that you be a concept person and you'd be minding the whole shop and understanding because I find mistakes all the time and deals and things that I would have gotten fucked on all the time.

So anyway, I kept moving and grooving and selling my Margarita's. And, you know, to my surprise, Beam came and they wanted to buy it and it was a very lucrative deal. And it took months to negotiate the deal. And even if I had in the middle of negotiating a deal, realized that it would've been called claw back, you can't go claw back and uncheck a box because you're on another road. So I when I found out we sold and got the money, the check I got was March 17th, 2010 and March 18th.

I'll never forget it. I was on an elliptical and I don't know, sometimes things hit me in a weird time and I just something hit me and I realized it. If someone said something to me and I realized that I had been registered as X, so I had to be paid as X and it was millions of dollars like a house in the Hamptons. Millions of dollars. Big house shit.

Yeah. Paperworks the worst. I hate that shit. We move on from people, we become a poster paperwork society.

Right. And you also should like I think in society you should be like, yo my bad like I just filled out this thing like everyone hates paperwork, no one's paying attention. There should be just a little bit of a oh it's OK. You fucked up like just just fix it.

Rebrand the claw back as the just my bad. Yeah. My stop head up. That's on me. Let's let's make it right.

Yes. You sound a little bit like Seth Rogen sometimes just then you did.

Which one of you have to know which one. Me, short hair, short hair, big cut at me, yeah, I'm Jonah Hill, talks about DMT twenty eight.

Bethany, what is up with Be Strong, that's coming out soon to right now be strong as the philanthropic.

Oh, yeah. And you guys wear too many B works. Yeah. You got B you got just B you got to be strong. You got the. What's the HBO show.

Well that's the big shot. But my, my production company is a B real.

You got this. Yeah.

Oh the philanthropy. I have done relief work all over the world for disaster relief, like being the first one on the ground to basically you know, we flew fifty three planes in and out of Puerto Rico filled with aid and then multiple barges and millions and millions of dollars like fifty million pounds of of aid. The Bahamas, we did a similar massive effort like major efforts. One hundred percent goes to the initiative. So there's no confusion as to where money's going.

And I'm very transparent. So I'm always keeping people connected about where money their money's going. So they have a good return on their investment and for the for the for coronavirus and for the pandemic. I just thought we were going to give out 20000 kits to four sanitisation and prevention. But what ended up happening was I ended up distributing aid to all people, to all 50 states. We did two point one million hazmat suits and masks and two point one million hazmat suits and masks, over twenty million dollars of PPE to hospitals and police stations and to people all over the country saving people's lives before the government could kind of, you know, pull it together.

So it's pretty gnarly, was pretty intense. It was very corrupt and it was very much hacking your way through corruption. And it was really insane.

That's that's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy.

It seems like you just all your companies, all your ventures, you just dominate the letter B. Yeah. You own the letter B? Yeah, I own the letter B. Do you come up with all your names by yourself. I'm a I'm the biggest namer no matter what it is. You tell me and you tell me some idea for a show in five minutes. I'm like, I got the name. I'm really good with names.

OK, pack of sled dogs and one of them is going through puberty and a pack.

They have to save a town. Yeah, well a dog.

Oh that's very close. Yeah. Actually that's that'll be the PG version of it. Good. That's pretty good. You said before we got started that you were really into horse racing. You grew up around horses a lot. I just like to have you back on to give like your Kentucky Derby picks in Belmont Park tonight, Preakness to be.

How many women? Come on. I'd love to. I like to be what they do. Yeah. All right. Now, I don't feel special.

I'm sure you're the only one. You're the only one.

We don't like to do this with anyone. Yeah. Yeah. This is so this is our first time.

Well, Robert Corcoran, we now we have our our our Kelly who set this up, who show Kelly she's the best. She's now typing all the names of women that we've had on to remind us. Lindsey Vonn, the list keeps going.

Rachel Nichols, it literally goes for hours and hours and hours. Laila Ali. Yeah, fact.

Rose Rose level of the U.S. women's national team.

Well, you're going to make me competitive. So you could start telling me all the girls you've slept with them. I really basically we basically we're not really brunette types. We're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll just. Yeah, that's it's probably not for you.

One last last question for me. What was the favorite tag line you ever had? Because you are creative, you're going to take a shot at this, be you better not miss. Oh, that's good. The I love the tagline. There's so bad, there's so bad and there's so good. Like the like you're going to either love me or hate me.

There's no in between.

They also mix metaphors. Kyle said Beverly Hills. The cream rises in Beverly Hills. The truth always rises to the top.

Like freedom is. It is green. Oh, man.

They're the best. Well, Betty, this has been awesome. We really appreciate it so far. Everyone go check out the new podcast. Go check out Bethanie Show on HBO. So just be with Bethenny Frankel is a new podcast.

She has her her relief effort and all the stuff she's doing with Be Strong. She has her HBO show. Anything else? What else did I miss the most? Anything else? You're doing a million things.

We can send you a bunch of the products. We have salad dressings and popcorn and preserves. And not only it where you look beautiful in any shape, where your body is perfect.

I could use a little in the in the chest. I'd like some Spanx. Yeah. For my crotch. It's not Spanx. It's called skinny girl. Skinny girl.

Sorry, honey girl. We believe that skinny boy is better than Spanx. Yeah. Yeah, I do actually need this. I will take some. Thank you. Thank you.

Just give us your sizes and we'll get you a nice built in bra tank top. Do they have like what would be my female size XL. Like what is that.

Masked the man. I can't see your physique right now. You'd have to stand up. No, I'd rather not. All right, Bethany, thanks so much. Really appreciate it. Thank you. A.

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All right. Let's wrap up the Friday episode as part of my take with some fire fest.

Then we'll send everyone off into their football weekend. I think there's a basketball game this. I haven't heard too much about it, actually. I'll start with fire first.

My fire fest is actually that I I've put on a strong face to our darling Jake when he constantly asked me, do I think the heat have a chance? And I said, no chance.

But there was a moment in the third quarter of game four. Wow. Where I was like, I think the Heat can win this series.

And boy, was I wrong.

And boy, does that suck because I told myself not to get my hopes up. And then I tell you what, how about this is our NBA recap.

Yeah. So we're going to get ahead of it. We're not going to do on Monday. Lakers, technically one good job.

Lakers go technically. Way to go. You won the game seven Tuesday night. Take Jake, you're going to break your little heart, come on, Jake. Jake, you under your feet first? I actually have one, I think. Might you always prepare?

I love that. Yeah, I always have. On my back pocket watch. On my pocket.

You know, he told me earlier today. So when Jake does, the store screams live. He does his homework. He interviews everybody that's going to be competing. He says that typically in any given game, you only want to use about 15 to 20 percent of what you've prepared for. So he overprepare is by 80 to 85 percent to do the math, right?

Yeah, you got it every time he does a broadcast.

That's why we like Jake and with Fire Fest. So every week he has a fire fest and he pockets it. So pretty much like all the bad things in your life, you're just pushing him down as hard as you can and just being like, let's not talk about him.

No, I like that about you.

It's just if I get called on. Yeah. I'm not going to try to insert you're Irish. You're now Irish. Sure.

OK, I think my email got hacked. I've gotten some random weird last few.

Like, what did you sell or did you look at oh did you look at porno liberty.

You online American Home Shield Warranty CBS Schopper AIFS 360.

It's annoying. Are you in your junk mail? No, you're just going straight to my inbox.

So Jake, just be like a normal American and be like, OK, I have a lot of junk mail that I'm never going to send to, like the the junk folder.

Right now I have like 50000 unread emails I press on subscribe.

And what I would like to see the porn bots get into your Instagram. Yeah. What's your what's your email address.

The splashes. Well, it's my personal email. Yeah. What is it. I can fix it. What is it. Well I guess it's it's on my website. Don't send any more spam, guys, don't sign Jacob, don't go public, but it's only when you have a website I showed you guys my interview.

Yeah, that's true. I totally looked at it. I was written in the third person, too.

It's my favorite part. It's written. Is that like. It's like Jake mastered this trick. Mastered that. Yeah. I love this. I love this.

I was going to actually bleep out you in your email so the people wouldn't send it, but now it's already public.

But now it's really interesting. That would be nice to be nice to Jake. Yeah. Yeah, be nice. Don't sign him up for hilarious to listservs.

No, no. Let's get really bad. Yeah. No, it's going to no it's not going to. No one's going to do it. Oh yes of course you got it dude.

Maybe take it off your website. But I just said it unless you bleep it out. Right. We'll bleep it out and then you can take it off your website. Yeah. Yeah. OK, take my phone number off.

Yeah I see. Yes, you should. All right. OK, go ahead. Go. Thank you. I go. You should do that right now. You can go if you don't have one. No, I just want you to go first.

OK, well thanks. Looking up his FIREFLASH of the week, my Firefox is pretty easy one.

I'm being investigated for 40000 dollars worth of damages by Airbnb, which I just found out about this weekend party.

So I rented a house inside of Long Island on Labor Day weekend and Labor Day weekend inside. Yeah, in Labor Day weekend, I rented a house in Long Island. I went out there, had a pool, basically. I just wanted to get away from New York, get away from the city for a weekend since I haven't really left the city since March.

I took vacation early March, knows on days that we already had off that our forbearers had fought for to get Labor Day.

So I wanted to honor them by taking one day off of work. Yeah. So got a house that had had a pool in the backyard, basically just hung out, took it easy.

You drain the pool and skateboarded, drank a few, a few beers by the pool. And now the homeowner has contacted me saying that I caused forty thousand dollars worth of the pool.

All I did bad in that pool was pissing at which I did a lot. That pool, I definitely, definitely peed a lot in that pool.

However, they say that I didn't keep the pool at the correct level and that the motor and the pump broke down on it.

Oh, by the way, that was not in the listing for the Airbnb, telling me I would have to do any sort of pool maintenance. Well, you shouldn't drink all that water. I'm not a pool boy. I did go to school in central Virginia. That does not make me a pool boy. But I did drink drink a lot of beer. But I. I even took the hose and I use the hose to fill up the pool every day that I was there.

I think she's scamming me because she sent me a picture of the the like work. The person like who is in charge of fixing the pool, the mechanic. He wrote up a report saying this damage was caused by your houseguest, pfft, not filling up the pool enough, which is bullshit because I did it every day anyways. I feel like forty thousand dollars is a lot to ask. Yeah. Just don't respond. Well, I did.

I had been in the world on your side. Oh my goodness.

I'm going to sic Mike Portnoy on them. Yeah. If they won forty thousand dollars ask me for four thousand dollars. I'll probably give you forty thousand by accident. But no I didn't even, I didn't cause a penny worth of damage to that place. But I am looking forward to a little public fight though because it gets the blood going.

Let you know if you want to yell. Yeah, like you and I will show up. I yell at them. I gave I gave a motorist the double birds today in the middle of the street.

It feels great. Yeah. I will show up to their door and just yell at them from a distance.

OK, Hank, you're fired. First you go, you go. Because you keep thinking about the challenger.

I already won. Billy, I hate doesn't have one. Go ahead, Billy. My favorite is actually Billy, just in life in general. Oh, wow.

Seems like we got a big fight. And then we played in the tournament last night.

We came in dead last and now we have to write a 5000 word blog. That's and Billy, you know, 5000 words.

I actually have a 5000 like a 4000 word paper on Moby Dick. So why don't we just, like, submit?

Yes. Yes. I would say that the perfect. OK. You got out of thousand words. Yeah. Which isn't that bad.

No. Put. All right. So sorry. Work out. All right. Review boom. You're fired. First, Hank, is that you are fighting with a 20 year old, 21 year old about video games?

Yes. Yeah. I mean, that's actually a macro level like that definitely is what happens.

I like I, I get really upset and then I take a second. I'm just like, what am I doing. Yeah. What do you do. What's going on here. Right.

But yeah. Billy you got to fire. We do a no go ahead. Well my fire fest is I actually kind of lost my oh oh.

And Billy was screaming. Playing. He was screaming at all his friends in the background. He was having a party or something. I was not having a party. He has a friend, has a friend named Winston, which makes the most preposterous name to house, my friend.

It's his Jamaican hell. You know, I was about to ask you, that's not like Winston Churchill type situation.

What what's going on here? Finish the sentence, because this could go any different, any direction.

I accidentally put a down payment on a hedgehog.

That's not what I want. You know what?

He's I lost a down payment because I basically you're drunk.

You got to play last Sunday. And I was like, fuck it, I'm going to buy a hedgehog. Yeah.

Then I woke up. Most people do that with their parleying next day. And I was like, wait a second. I spent all your money on an animal impulsively by animals.

Does he have its papers or is this like a tiger king situation where, like, lemur salesmen's?

Anyway, I like I, I've been saying, am I going to either bite the bullet or actually get the hedgehog?

How much does one put down what is twenty percent of a hedgehog.

Basically the down payment on a hedgehog wasn't that much, but the actual hedgehog is a lot. And how much. It's all those seventy five dollar down payment and hedgehogs. About two hundred and fifty dollars. OK, that's how they want.

It must suck if they made you put down that much as a down payment. Yeah. I mean think about how many times you can fuck this hedgehog. Well no you can't. That's the prickles you'll find that.

Oh no I did not know you did Foxon.

I just had an entire series of websites out there that I like. This seven fingering of this hedgehog pays for itself.

OK, maybe whored out. I love it but he keeps bringing up his animals and we keep me. I just keep thinking like are you saying I'm doing that is fuck. Yeah right. You guys just like make me have sex with them.

Why don't you want to do it on your own. I don't. You don't. Anyway, go halfsies with Winston on it. Hmm. Yeah.

Well actually hedgehogs so. Oh Winston.

I had over 50 combined touchdowns in high school so. Oh Fox sweet.

That's dude he's moving in. Why do you need a hedgehog. You can just talk about those touchdowns and how we watch our highlights. Of course you do.

Of course you do. If like Huddle's awesome because it just hangs around, you can pull it up anyway, right? Yeah. It's called the Internet. It's, you know, it's called the Internet. You can watch. All right, here we go.

Seventeen highlights. Eighteen forty two. I don't like that Jacobs price. What. Whatever you call it. Price. Right. Forty two a one day we're going to get it. He's an eighty nine.

He's going to be electric. It's going to be electric. All right. See you guys. Love you guys. Keep prices writing me.