Even A 2,000 Year Old Roman "Board" Game Is Better Than Monopoly

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2:18Oh The faint but warm memories of a sports lifetime left behind Oh And that is indeed what our guest today did he went west he burned the fucking boats Which is one of the most admirable things in life Yes, it's where you leave no option. You're like we're taking this island and we're burning the fucking boats So for all you people have been saying I want the original open. I hate the Utah song

3:24Well, you're getting a little bit of both today Paul Jarchin how you doing buddy? Oh, I'm so glad to be here Zab. We have so many things to talk about the aluminum Z Vegas We've got Vikings drama. We've got McDonald's drama. I've got all these things that I'm excited to talk to you about and You and I by the way You look pretty good and look at us on camera right here These are two good-looking middle-aged man right here not terrible chatting about world events not terrible We we have been blessed with the good leads as they said in Glenn Gary Glenn Ross We've been blessed with a good material Of course the good material of stuff to talk about is all over the place and all you have to do To be interesting I say is to be interested If you're interested in stuff you can be interesting at a party. You can be interesting on a podcast But you have to have a mind that goes huh

4:28Never knew that have a curiosity have a fascination about things so And now you and I have built up enough of a library of topics. We've been through that. We know Tickle each other That we're like oh we see something we send it to each other like we got to talk about this Like a week in advance by the way. Oh absolutely because I don't want to lose it That's why I text these things to you. So let me start with one that I sent you and this is Right up your alley. In fact, it might have been sent to me by a listener if it was I apologize I don't have the email in front of me But the story is from a from the Smithsonian magazine headline This ancient Roman board game was a mystery a lot until researchers used AI To figure out how to play it Charge Charge this gate this story is the most charge story ever involves board games

5:32Which is one of your favorites and AI technology also one of your favorites How about that? So I want to know how old it is are we talking chess go I mean, is this a thousand year old game? I I want to know and is it any good? I mean that's the other thing Anybody can design a bad game? Is it any good? I'm very very curious one of the one of the someday resurrected a frozen caveman That played the game and they brought him to life and the first words he said were Uh was the monopoly of our day not a very good game No, not like monopoly So here's so here here's the game. Can you see it on the screen there charge? I can it's about a two inch tall round stone tablet with six pebbles of different colors on top of the tablet mm-hmm

6:34So that's the game and they said that it was a slab of limestone Excavated in the modern-day Netherlands and deemed to be from ancient Rome Since then the mysterious game has eluded historians in its understanding But according to a study recently published by the journal antiquity I've left my subscription laps to antiquity Along with along with boys life and Noted outdoorsman According to that fancy right according to the uh the new research They used AI to figure it out here is as I scroll down the lines that are scored Into this thick slab of limestone Along with some pock marks So here's what they did to unravel it researchers began looking at other old European games Hoping to find something similar to the carved limestone They searched the Ludae games database charge

7:37No, did you know there's a game? Data base There's board game geek which is the IMDB uh-huh board games okay and board game geek is normally considered like the ultimate game database I don't know what what he is I believe it take I believe it goes back to board games that are prehistoric or if not prehistoric Their centuries old so in other words they were not a product to be sold to the masses They were a game that was you know developed and agreed upon and they would carve out shit and move pieces whatever So the largest comprehensible database of traditional board game rules currently available for the study The team was looking for games. They were on a smallish Game board on which pieces can take a maximum of 22 different positions They said that basically by studying the where patterns In the limestone as to where Pieces must have gone that they sort of sorted out what the rules to the game must have been it's a long article

8:37I'll make sure to send you a link But give me your thoughts on this incredible story well I it looks a lot like go uh an of an ancient game um which you move little pebbles around this board But I think this is great and it tells you that You know gaming is innate in our nature. It's fundamental to who we are We want to compete we want to challenge each other We want you want to be mentally engaged in something sure and whether it is it could be sports It could be video games. It could be any of writing things poker We love we love to have the social competition with our friends and it's who we are as human beings. Yeah But look at that. I love it. Look at that game I wonder if anyone owns it if it's owned by a museum. I wonder if there is a trading community an auction community that seeks to own No, seriously like when you want to own as a you as a board game geek

9:42I would think you might want to own one of the more ancient 100 200 300 year old games I think it's I think it's extremely compelling to be pretty cool to be able to say you've got the oldest known game in Europe Which it might be because chess I believe is Middle Eastern North African right go was Japanese or Southeast Asian. I'd be very I you know you I take your I take your word I take your word for all of it because I know nothing about go or whatever Chess fascinates me. I do not know how to play I also don't know how to play Texas hold them and I am now one day closer to actually playing in a tournament sponsored by the local radio station Where I'm a celebrity ad in and I've got to do some research on that so I'm not a complete tool How did you make it to this point and not know how to play Texas hold them? I just chose not I chose not to play because I knew I was too far behind Everyone else and I would never be as good. So like I don't want to poor

10:45Be good at it. You didn't want to do it. Well, I just like I don't grow up playing poker with your buddies No, no, not really. Oh, yeah, not not really which is which is too bad Which is too bad because it's a good social thing for men to do light light gambling as it were So anyway, I'm a day closer to that I told the the organizer takes who is the morning show co-host of the junkies on JFK who is the he's the poker ambassador for MGM National Harbor The big casino resort right there outside the beltway. He's their guy. He's always doing these tournaments And he's like, come on. Maybe you should come and do this, you know, and dead and I'm like, I'd cool so I I've never played and I kind of need to know a basic sense of what hands are worth staying on Because I don't want to just I don't want to just wipe out right away I don't want to do what I call pulling a vinko bogatage Do you know who vinko bogatage is No idea vinko bogatage Was the guy who wiped out in the opening to wide world of sports in the 70s on the ski jump

11:49On the ski jump He's the agony of defeat the guy that just wiped out Horribly vinko bogatage Um, I think important to this conversation. He was a Slovenian painter Who had just taken up. Yes, he is a Slovenian painter Who had taken up, you know, ski jumping late in life And because of the qualifications were a lot Looser where I guess they're like all right Slovenia you got anyone wants to this? Oh, you do have a ski jumper Okay, well send him You've got you've got a guy who's willing Apparently because he's a middle-aged painter who's like um All right, I guess I'm willing to try that yeah, and you know, it was so crude ski jumping was so crude Sure, then Steve that vinko what's his name again bogatage vinko bogatage things were so crude back then did that vinko bogatage wasn't even injecting his dick with anything

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17:06Well, you're hyperveral hyperveral, so we know that you probably hyper V-Rile, okay. All right next up you I've pitched my first pitch you give your best story available go McDonald's The McDonald's CEO is the talk of social media right now and it's fantastic Um, I assume you have seen the McDonald's CEO Extrying to extoll the virtues of the mick arch. Yes nerdy mick nerderson Just the most Like if you saw this guy at a party you'd be like oh god steer away from this tool Because there's gonna be no fun conversation coming from this guy Have you seen burger king clap back at mcdonald's Which is fantastic uh now I don't know if you intend to play his little His little the the sound clip of the mcdonald's CEO eating biting into

18:09Taking the daintiest little nibble this little twiggy guy Looks like just he looks like an actuary and he takes this little nibble I did it of the mick arch and then declares it a A great product product exactly. Yeah. No, he's getting roasted to the moon for it Yeah, I'm not gonna play it here. I did play it with Andy Poland Yesterday on the podcast, so I hope you don't knock me for that But I do have this uh the burger king clap back which okay the burger king CEO looks a bit more normal A bit more robust as just a dude's dude, right? Okay, here he is right here. Oh very very much so great hair on this burger king CEO And he takes a monster bite as it right there. He's got he got smuts on his lip Oh, yeah Yeah, which is what that's what you want to have. Yeah, absolutely Right now what what what I would say is okay

19:10Now for your next trick can you get non felons to work your restaurants And maybe not have burger kings be the cedeest dirtiest restaurants of all the fast food chains Here's the thing they don't have to be there there was a burger king by KFA and in Minneapolis That was meticulously run and it was this it was clean it with the food tasted on a really Different level and elite burger king. I've never been in a burger king where I'm like this burger king's elite Look at this look how shiny is look how nice it is look how friendly the employees same Never had same and it had all that stuff all that stuff. I was just I was astounded by this burger king now the McDonald's CEO His first job was after he'd already gotten his MBA As in brand management and he looks like it the burger king CEO's first job

20:12Domino's delivery driver He's been immersed in this from the ground up, right? I mean he's made this guy's made a career in food And you can tell the difference. It's estrogen versus testosterone. Yeah McDonald's versus burger king That said would you would you eat the big arch? Does it appeal to you this particular massive double-decker beef hamburger sandwich? Hey, don't what here's the thing the whole the whole Value proposition of the mick arch is arch sauce Oh really tell us what is arch sauce? What the hell's arch sauce secret? I can't tell you Well, that's the secret sauce if they told you It's already on the big Mac and it's a secret you can't have two secret sauces. Yes, you can Tell us what's in mick arch sauce No, they said we will meet your secret sauce with our own even double secret sauce I guarantee you it's some it's some combination of ketchup

21:15mayonnaise Chipotle seasoning and a little bit of I don't know cayenne pepper something like that. It's a goo basically things It's a it's a goo things that I did not know until I moved to Utah Every time you order fries anywhere it comes with fry sauce In Utah which in Utah everything comes automatically comes with fry sauce It's a thing here that they do you order fries you get fry sauce And it is what you just described. It's most it's some combination of mayo ketchup and seasoning And it comes with everything so you you probably did not know that so there's a little Utah data point Okay, but I want to tell you my personal story with McDonald's CEO guy All right before you do that. Let me slip this in real quick put a pin in that I want to hear this story about McDonald's CEO guy Speaking of sauces. Have you seen the taco bell ad For their new dipping sauce that is not a sauce

22:15It's ice cream Ice cream What? Yes, I'm not dipping my taco in ice cream. What are we talking about? Yes They have an ad out now in which they have an ad out in which apparently Oh, no, no, this is not Taco Bell. This is I think DQ DQ ice cream Okay, now that's making more sense. No, it was like it was like to dip your Your so-and-call I think to dip your Chicken tenders in ice cream I had to do a double take on this I'll look it up while you're telling me the story about the CEO of McDonald's guy My wife dips fries in ice cream Really, so this isn't this is not that far from that right Yeah, dairy crew here it is dairy queen flamethrower flamethrower chicken With ice cream dipper It's just as if America's not getting fat enough fast enough for

23:21Big food and junk food incorporated that they're like pedal to the metal There you go, charge there it is right there Look at this thing Hey, hey fatso you want some fried chicken with something else to put in it? Okay, there you go And here's here's your typical American this guy's got a YouTube channel Alabama eats Yeah, I bet it does you know what Alabama doesn't do does that guy does eat you know what Alabama doesn't do read Or get on a treadmill, okay Sorry, I'm the I'm the bad guy savage. Yeah, look look at this guy. He's checking. He's checking out the whole thing It's a good time for me. I'm gonna try the ice cream the ice cream dip and this is just one of the strangest things I've ever heard of but we're gonna try it So ice cream Just do it. I'm milled it up to it just do it. I like fries and that ice cream. It's always good. Well

24:23I don't think what I'm gonna see the ice cream. Oh see that one had see that one has a meat Jesus Christ What are we doing people? What are we doing? All right, charge the McDonald's CEO Um while we're just briefly on this guy because I think there's gonna bug you too if you're gonna wear the lavalier Don't wear t-shirt because you have nothing to pin the lavalier to and pinning the lavalier to just like the middle of your shirt Is weird charge you you have hit upon One of a handful of things in this world that I'm convinced only triggers me To the verge of rage and nobody else One of the things that absolutely triggers me to the moon is basketball players Like NBA players that have shoes that don't match the colorway of their team uniforms So in other words a team that is red and yellow like the hawks will have a guy with lime green sneakers And it's because the NBA players union negotiated that you're allowed to wear your own brand of shoes

25:27And that includes your own colorways to the shoes whatever you want And it triggers the fuck out of me. I want Uniform colorways on the shoes for every player on the NBA court I'd ideally like them all wearing the same brand But I know that's a bit too far, but they should all be either you know blue and white or black and red Whatever the case is triggers the fuck out of me the other thing is content creators That just lazily put a giant road micro go square receiver Right on their shirt conspicuously or even worse when they put it on their hat and they go yeah, that's good enough Hey, listen up bitches. They make thin wired lava-lear mics. They will discreetly Clip to right around here on your shirt Take two extra seconds. Make it look good you suck. Okay rant over Obviously, I concur with both and the the shoe thing drives me nuts because it's

26:31I appreciate the fact that you have your own shoe line that is modeled for your specific foot and just Wanted to be it should be your you should have your team colors on it the color doesn't change anything You're not going to dunk any worse because it's not the color scheme's not right It's why not match the team that's paying you millions of dollars on your shoe I think that's a reasonable request. I think the why not is just that they've negotiated this and I guess it's important to selling shoes To be able to say well, you can tell these are Steph Curry nines because of the way they look You know that the certain color I don't I don't know I guess okay to the McDonald's CEO story here we go So there's the pre is a prior CEO the guy who is the McDonald's CEO from 1991 to 1997 um He ushered in most famously the chicken McNugget successfully and after his time at McDonald's he went to um He went to famous Dave's are you familiar with the famous Dave's barbeque chain? Oh

27:36I'm very familiar. I used to eat that way too much Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's good pretty pretty good pretty good pretty pretty good pretty good. It's you know, it's chain barbeque So true barbeque aficionados like yourself We probably miss big bore badly up there. I do miss big bore. Yes, very I would say that anyone who's a barbeque aficionado would kind of scoff at chain barbeque, but look for sure It's barbeque. So yeah, I want to famous Dave's quite a bit Okay, so uh, this is probably 20 17 18 something like that and he's now the CEO of famous Dave's And the Chicago radio station that I've been doing hits on for 20 years sold a August fantasy football training camp event at famous Dave's in Oak Park, which is where this guy lives so We're going I'm going on an August and they're turning a whole famous Dave's they're got the PA system all the TVs and everything around me

28:41I'm going through picks and players and stuff like that and he's there The CEO of famous Dave's former CEO of McDonald's ed is there And we're chatting and as a good dude he loves sports loves sports loves NASCAR We're talking football on the side and he's Lincoln He's pounded in drinks and I get about halfway through I get about halfway through my my bit and I look at him over and he's sitting at the bar He has a bottle of wine in his right hand And in his left hand is a different bottle of wine And he is drinking from each of the bottles of what? Back at these two fisted bottles of wine. He's he's drinking wine out of the bottle Or is he pouring it into a bottle? Oh my god bottle What a savage were those were those uh wine bottles and bags like he was some hobo on the street I mean, that's crazy

29:43Oh Now he was there with a very young woman. I have no idea Mrs. Ed or if it was not Mrs. Ed uh none of my business, but at by the time the things over He's turned into I love you man Oh He loves me ed loves me and At the end, he's trying to convince me To take over the Minotanka Minnesota location of famous Dave's He's charged You got to run this one for me. I want you You get that you want you to turn famous Dave's into Buffalo Wild Wings I'm gonna give you the Minneapolis store You do all this you turn it into a sports destination just like just like Buffalo Wild Wings You can go run the store like Ed. I don't know. I think about running a run of famous Dave's Then I'll get you an ASM who's gonna be great. I get you the best ASM in the in the twins. What's ASM? You go It's assistant store manager. Okay, and you go you go run this thing. We'll do whatever you say

30:45Budget is no limit. You just turn it into turn into Buffalo Wild Wings for famous Dave's I decided to stay on my current career path instead Do you regret it? I don't say that's Um no because I don't I think in the sober light of reality He would have probably rescinded that offer and uh turned out everything worked out okay for me with fantasy sports My dad used to say how early on he wanted to run a taco chain that had come to the East Coast It was not Taco Bell. It was something else and that he was serious about doing it almost and my mom used to always scoff Whenever this came up at the dinner table over discussion, you know dad would be like oh, yeah I was gonna. I was gonna be a franchisey. I wanted to get one of those uh, you know taco presto outfit So over there in Arlington I'm like I can't imagine my dad slinging tacos for a living Well, you know, I doesn't everybody have that other weird career that's nothing like the career you have that you were always interested

31:46Not everybody not but some people do and when they change up and they do something completely different I totally respected. I like it. It's cool. I think we should all have a great second act in us That is completely different than the first act By the way, Arby's bought Buffalo Wild Wings back in 2018 for 2.9 billion And somebody tweeted and I just saw this today. They're like the fuck did Arby get 2.9 billion Who's buying who in this deal I just love the way it was raised like streetlingel the fuck did Arby's get 2.9 million where that come from Fucking Arby's fucking socks. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa I'll give you a second to retract that I've been to the Arby's I've been to Arby's one time since I moved here went through the went through the drive-through It's Utah Arby's 18 18 dollars Oh, okay, okay, you know, you're playing sandwich. I know you're okay

32:52A regular size roast beef sandwich a small size roast beef sandwich curly fries in a drink 18 bucks. I know The best thing about tiny and okay, the best thing about Arby's is you is the put down when somebody's talking crazy Sir, this is an Arby's Or sir, this is a Wendy's which is another good way to put it Somebody also said today that you can pretty much track when our society began its inexorable decline in America when the last of the Wendy's Solariums went away Oh, you remember the iconic restaurant style of Wendy's which had a little Solarium seating area where you could sit under a nice little slanted glass roof and it was like all right It's fast food, but it I feel like I'm sitting somewhere nice ish No, they're gone. Yes, I remember that that was and you know what That's a pretty cool Signature thing to have in your restaurants here. We are talking about a 20 and 30 years later

33:56Um, but nobody does it anymore and at some point somebody came into Arby or Wendy's and went you know what Yeah, you know, that's not adding to the bottom line We know you know, we spend 1463 dollars per franchisee every quarter cleaning those glass Solariums are very difficult We have to hire a company to do so. I don't see how it's giving us any ROI What's the return on the bottom line of those Solariums? Let's just get rid of those smaller box smaller footprint focus on drive through get rid of the Solarium That's how societies start going down the share just because the NFL season is now firmly in the rearview mirror Does not mean the bedding season is oh there is still plenty of opportunities to put a little something something on the games No matter what tickles your fancy. There is still plenty of action to wet your appetite But just remember where you bet is every bit is important if not more so than what you're betting on That's why I tell my friends to go to my bookie dot AG My bookie has been ahead of the game for years now and why does that matter?

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37:02I got three NFLs things that pop today and then you're going to tell me if you're sight for the soon-to-be Kyler Murray era in purple but three stories today of oh eyebrow raising nature in the NFL as teams now start to get set of we're keeping him or let them go We're going to tender him. We're going to franchise him etc etc story number one Tray Hendrickson says goodbye to Bengals as team declines to use the tag on him This is going to be one of the greatest Bungalings of a guy you've ever seen as a player because Check me if I'm wrong Teams are willing to give up a naked first for Hendrickson last summer And the Bengals got all high and mighty and said it'll take two first rounders plus plus and teams like man you crazy So they never moved him They kept him they had a bad season Burl got hurt now they're letting him walk you dumb fucks

38:03No compensation for him at all nothing. It's almost like letting Sam darn a lot of you're out of your building Goes and get nothing in return and he wins a Super Bowl Yes, that's I think the Bengals will probably rule the day There was a fractured relationship. There was a lot of distrust and dislike And the Bengals for an office freaking blows. I mean no, but you know nobody ever It's always like the whole operations always listed near the bottom of in the you know in the players report card Sitting in the detouratory for most of the things that they do Tray Hendrickson probably finds himself in a far better spot when this thing is all said and done And will probably be sitting on you know another dozen sacks and he'll end up You'll end up making a difference for some better organization Two years ago he came off a year in which he had 17 and a half sacks He was an all pro not a pro bowl because that shit don't matter no more all pro 17 and a half sacks Wanted more money team was like no where the Bengals haven't you read about us? More money is not what we do So you said so you say while I want to trade and they go okay go ahead and see if you can get a trade

39:08And am I wrong and in remembering What the Bengals wanted I kind of thought that a Naked one would have gotten it done from somebody if it was expected to be a later naked one And the Bengals wanted more I'm pretty sure right. I don't I don't that's how I remember it too. I saw reports today that The team had said no to second rounders last year I think they're asking price either was a one or was a one plus okay And obviously you know they screwed up they look they screwed up if you if you are you should be able to look ahead one year in your crystal ball It's not that far. Yeah, right you're making these decisions You should know a lot of what your team looks like one year in advance And what kind of decision making you should be having if you know you're not going to sign him trade him I bet it's something for him. I bet they could have gotten two twos Easily could have gotten two twos Especially if one of the twos was kicked in the future Let's say a two last year and a two two years from now Fucking take it and move on. I'm either way. He was hurt this year played seven games placed on injured reserve and that's that

40:14So that story number one story number two the Colts Have put the transition tag on quarterback Daniel Jones Now what's interesting about this is they haven't used no team has used the transition tag on a quarterback in like 15 years Yeah, this is the bit where another team can come in Match the deal and then the originating team can up it is it do I remember that it's been so long I can look up the rules on it. You get the you get the average of the top 10 players in your position And then the player can negotiate with other teams And give you a better deal Then you can go back to the original team and they have five days to match it. Yeah, how I remember this note No, no quarterback has been hit with this tag since ESPN research began tracking such moves in 2000

41:14So never been used not keeping only 20 players total have been given the transition tag Most often players reach a deal with their team after being tagged so it's sort of like a time share pitch Where they they lock you in the room. They're like okay, I don't think you're gonna sign on the bottom line But we got to keep you're a little longer. We're gonna see a whole whole hold up don't leave just yet But they already are looking I think they franchise tagged Alec Pierce their wide receiver who every nerd in America on sports radio I was like we should go get Alec Pierce. He's really underrated probably get him cheap Well, everyone knew that he was gonna be getable and was probably not gonna be cheap was gonna be over expensive by the time You hit the market and the Colts even said we're not even allowed to hit the market So there you go Cowboys elected you franchise tag I One last one last thing on Jones coming off in Achilles injury You know, he had been he was eight and four as a starter

42:14I mean, this you know remember the first half of the season the Colts were the talk of the NSF and his play was fantastic But the Achilles injury It's you know, it's it it hurts look at Kirk cousins I mean, it does it really does make a difference for a quarterback more meaningfully than I originally thought it did And you got to bake that into whether or not you know If you're the Colts or some other team like let's just say Vikings looking for a quarterback Yeah, Daniel Dones remember was on the Vikings that you know just 13 months ago This is yet a you got to it's not obvious whether or not he's going to be able to be your starting quarterback at the at the beginning of the year And that's got to be a huge factor here. And then there's this dayline Chicago veteran center drew Dalman Who started all games for the Bears last year is only 27 years old Had just been given a new contract three years 42 million dollars retired Just said you know what I didn't hear that yeah Drew Dalman out after five years wow the Bears had just invested a good amount of money in him

43:21And he had a really good season he was a key player on an offensive line that ranked number one in past block win rate And fifth in run block win rate Wow That's a sizable loss do we know did he say why I've not heard a reason why But there's an old saying that a former NFL player told Andy Poland and I on our radio show once He was Irving Fryer the former patriot. He was a red skin for one year He said to us he goes he said you know what Once you start thinking about retirement you're retired in the NFL. That's how it works Other guys have retired right before reporting to training camp Because they were just like I can't go through this again Um Joe panel yeah Okay, that's when training camp was hard not now Training camp is a freaking breeze now Reled half as many practices. It's like three days of hitting it's and if nobody's backing out of training camp now

44:28I don't think you shouldn't be 20 years ago Joe Panos who was an alignment for Wisconsin He's now a agent for one of the top agencies in the NFL athletes first He always said when he was on the radio with us on Bob and Brian. He's like yeah I just retired right before going to camp because as soon as I started packing my stuff up and thinking about what camp is like And how my body was feeling at the time. I'm like fucking I cannot do this So as I come out, but I guess Dolman is at least said he's out um, you know early so the bear is gonna address it free agency And in the draft so good for him and you know what I have no qualms about a guy retiring after just five years If you've made enough money for your life if you don't want to keep bashing your head against guys Whatever it is if footballing for you retire So should okay two things one Should Chicago get a pro rated amount of the signing bonus back? I think they will I think they will and I'm sure there's some language in there about hey bro What happens if you retire?

45:30I hope that's somewhere in the in the contract now let's talk about let's talk about the Kyler Murray future In Minnesota the Falc or the cardinals are ready to say We're out and they're not going to keep them So what do you think yeah well first um that's already that is now happened and Kyler Murray has Bid his farewell to partner fans on social media So it's a 100% done deal as we knew it would be now if the most charitable case for Kyler Murray is You're playing with a shitty team for a long time a bad organization surround with a bad offensive line Mostly you haven't had good targets of throw to throughout your career. I'll be a Larry Fitzgerald for a while I believe and I don't so you know there's some excuses you can bake in for not having enough wins and enough success for Kyler Murray The other side of it is man what went down last year is a bad look for Kyler Murray you remember at mid season That the play was super weird and a play in which the ball he's in shotgun the ball gets hiked into his feet

46:34Roughly and then he gets a foot injury Somehow we don't know how and he never plays again the rest of the year I know and they put him on IR. I think twice or whatever and Then the really damning part is Jacoby brisette walks in and he's just lighting up box doors. Yes The defense was terrible so you're still losing games But they're losing games 2835 and you know they're back and forth to brisette had moments where that offense looks so much better on With a just journey man that it ever did with Kyler Murray I don't know man. I don't want him in purple. I just don't I don't think I just don't think he's got Dave that you know rank will the win rank the four unthinkable option No, the five unthinkable options as the Simpsons once said About the Vikings in there and their quarterback situation rank him uh Kirk's return Kyler Murray to a tongue of Ioloah Geno Smith or stay the chorus with JJ McCarthy

47:38There you go those are the five unthinkable options I need to go to sex because I would take Aaron Rogers before all though. Oh my god. Oh my god. All right hold on I found the soundbite for you So here is our chance to kick some ass for mother I'm listening. Well, I've managed to raise this down to five unthinkable options each will cause untold misery I pick number three. You don't even want to read first. I was elected to lead not to read Number three number three Five unthinkable options. I was elected to lead not to read Okay, so there's so there's your unthinkable options Do you happen did wherever you got that clip did it happen to show which season of the Simpsons that came out because it was funny And it had to be the first like five years. Well, I tell you charge Simpsons aficionados will quickly say Oh, it wasn't a season. It was the Simpsons movie

48:40Oh, that was from the movie. It was from the movie. Yes, it was okay. I'm pretty sure Somebody might be wrong about that. I'm pretty sure there's a movie. Okay, so Give me your six unthinkable options Well, all right, then I mean if I can't have Daniel Jones and because he's now got the transition tag Which does not rule out the Vikings? You know, you know, it may not work out And he's hurt I would take if I can't have Daniel Jones, they're not going to spend a Malik Willis His team is still in desperate cap trouble. So there's that um My next choice up. I don't like any of those options I might be Kirk only be not because of my past affinity with Kirk But only because you're not fooling yourself and at all thinking that he's your answer for the future And you still need to you still have to come up with your answer for the future Because I don't think it's Jay Jay McCarthy And apparently the team doesn't either. Yeah, he's already planning for the new starter

49:42So if that's the case at least they're not deluding themselves into thinking Oh, Kyler Murray still got 10 good years left. We could go kind of murder Geno Smith your case for Geno Smith is he was serviceable in Seattle And put up decent like yardage. Yes two years ago and another city ago Another city it go right and then the Raiders wreck everything right I mean you could just you could if you want to make your case for Geno Smith that's right You go like okay, the Raiders destroy everything they touch. So you know, he went down with the ship on that There are some metrics that suggest that Geno was okay last Right. I don't know man and that's those are those are all bad But this is see this is the thing that gets me say yeah, you you if Everybody you get you get locked in this mindset. That's like oh, well Kirk cousins like good enough He's not good. We got to we got to move on from Kirk. You pay him too much. You got to move on Oh, Sam Darnold. He's not young enough. We got to move on from Sam to you got to get your guy on your rookie deal You got to build your own rookie deal You know, you got to get this guy in a rookie

50:44Then you get Jay Jimmy Carthy right or any or you know or you end up with Zach Wilson or Tray Lance or You know Carson Wentz or whatever Sam Howell. It's just Mitch Trubisky you so many times You're trying to find that franchise quarterback in the draft and it's really really hard to get it right yeah these are Unthinkable options each will cause untold miseries number three Calamard is number three. Good luck. Do you ever see the Grooton football Academy Short video with Gino Smith never used to do these for ESPN. He'd get a prospect in my friend This is my friend Gino Smith I'm saying that what kind of quarterback is this Gino Smith You probably like what what are you talking about? I'm right here Just just say why don't you say what kind of quarterback are you I mean are you a read option guy?

51:47Are you a guy that can do it all? How do we use this athletic ability the best? I don't consider myself any type of quarterback I consider myself a quarterback who's you know got the ability to win games Above the neck my athletic abilities That just comes with the package. I can run the ball can run and you know scrambling pick up first downs And you know I extend plays more than Then I just go out then just running around like a chicken with my head cut off. So I love this man I love what you're bringing to the table your athletic ability in the pocket you can use your Ability to extend plays and create your advantage in the pocket. I don't see as Cam Newton a power Wildcat quarterback to you No, but see these were really I think instructive valuable interesting pieces of media That I don't think ESPN would even do anymore. I don't think the agents would let their clients do them Because all they could do is hurt I remember when Cam Newton at a hard time explaining why he couldn't call plays at Auburn

52:50And that they would just have a simple signal like a green square and that meant you know power read right or something like that I just and you know they didn't replace it. They don't have orlovsky doing these same things right No, um, well, I don't think no not that I know of it all. No, these these were good. They these were like soon to be pro quarterbacks about to be drafted Sitting down with john gruden to let him shape the narrative on them In whatever way was the most entertaining or the way that gruden thought was correct And if I'm a if I'm a agent. I'm like the fuck we're doing this How's this gonna help me out? No Well, isn't there a tacit understanding that ESPN's only going to show the stuff that makes you look good right when they did these It feels like you're gonna trust of it is all about just making the player look good Are you yeah, but are you gonna trust potentially tens of millions of dollars on a tacit understanding And sometimes you sometimes the editors might go out didn't make you look bad, but they don't have the polls on how it's gonna be

53:56You know reacted to by the public I'm just saying that's true. I'm just saying all right Shane Lowry Shit the bed Sunday Charge and I have been in this golf pool all year. It's charge put up the money. He said I just want you as my Consigliary I don't know anything about golf Charges done all the legwork every week because he scouted the You know pick sites to say here's who's good at this course and here's who could be used blah blah blah He then just runs a couple names by me and I kind of go yeah, maybe or no And I've had a few good calls on no like when I said don't take Ludwig Oberg in San Diego because he withdrew the week before with the sniffles And of course he sucked to miss the cut win for me Then you said what about Sam Burns at Pebble Beach and I go you know what? I think it's time activate Sam Burns miss the cut actually just Phoenix I believe you missed the cut right So I've been kind of hit or miss charge Went to me this week and said Hey is Shane Lowry still a thing on the regular tour? I go yeah, no, he's good

54:59Wanted a Ryder Cup for Europe last fall so sure and I said, you know, it's a kind of a weak field Down there at the cog I said go ahead, you know fly him in there and you're like okay cool I didn't really check to see if you had entered him But then Sunday you send a text to me with the leaderboard with Shane up by three with two holes to play and Gugli eyes Gugli eyes and I go oh wow I go to tell me we started him You're like yep, we did, but then you added the problem is a quarter of the field also Took him but still we'll take the win And God damn fellow Bart You jinx oh ramma charge What are you doing? He's up by three I know into 16 and Not only did he give up the three strokes not only did he not force a playup not only did Shane Lowry not lose by one He lost by two strokes. I know up by three with three to go. It's in that was

56:05Absolutely epic collapse and they're showing the shop charts the t-shirts. Yeah He's for the whole they're showing the t-shirts for the entire the all four days And everybody's you know even the people that had drifted a little bit were not that far off And then there's Shane Lowry's like off screened at the very edge of the screen. Here's where his shot went right I just oh epic lost to a Niko etch of area whatever a Niko etch of area is Was also battling with an Austin smother man Um was also like I looked at some of the names that were in the field this week and I'm like holy shit I've never heard of these guys That's how weak the field was because of the way the tour schedule is so Anyway, you sent me a a guy's tweet. He keeps a list of Things that he has banned in anger from his sports life This is this is a guy who goes by beating the bookie at beatinthebookie.com. Do you know this guy by the way?

57:07Nope, I don't but you said it to me because it was funny He said ban list update 31226 adds Shane Lowry lifetime ban No way to get off list cemented Then then he then he had listed in what looks like a typewriter font which makes it even funnier his full list You ready? I think we should all keep lists of these guys are on my list There was a wrestler. I believe they used to say You're on the list Okay, here we go any and all Canadian golfers Hardrock bed Daniel burger Josh Jacobs organ in the football playoffs 50 50 raffles what I love 50 50s Golf cards driven on the highway people who can't handle roundabouts temple athletics Temp Texas A&M football and male cheerleaders

58:08Gino Smith and Tyler Lockett be John Robinson one TV scorer Jake Moody and the Niners Jason Myers Seahawks kicker Dave Aranda Jacksonville Jaguar's organization Cory Connors Cory Connors a golfer and a Canadian Multiple time offender Tyler Bass Buffalo Bills and championship games St. Mary's Virginia basketball herb Jones West Flagler associates Mitt Romney Charlie Strong do San Bears Brian Hoyer Al Golden Mani Diaz Mark Denofrio Subway Sub's Matthew Pavon Nitrogen sportsbook Ricky Fowler parentheses multiple time loser and Denny McCarty son of a bitch What a list this is everybody who is wronged him in every situation. Oh my god. All right charge Canadian golfers Can I confirm them yeah like a void Canadian golfers

59:12They're not the most draped in clutchness I wouldn't say You know there have been good ones who have won Mike Weir won the Masters Believe he's the only Canadian to have won a major But after you won the master as you just kind of Just kind of fizzled. Yeah, didn't do much All right, I got this as a treat for you on the way out the door. You ready This is an email from a listener Let me uh, let me get this here. I closed it out Alternate Utah In fact, you already know this Eric prime Thank you Eric. He says Zabe I just don't think you realize how important the Utah song is to all of us It isn't just a song about a state. It's a song about the rebirth of charge as he begins a new life in a properly governed state He said I took the liberty of asking our mutual friend grok if there were any alternate versions

1:00:13Of that iconic banger and guess what you can bet your ass There are See link below So I give you the Alternate version. There's multiple ones. I've pulled from audio. This is the blues version of it Gotta be better. No ready better Can you hear this right now? Charge can you hear this? Yeah, baby Yes Sure is

1:01:16This is the place Let's hear for a i baby. Hey the a i version is a blues. It was way better. 10 times better Do you think sweet do you think a i made this? 100% oh really How do you know? Well first because you said there are multiple There are multiple different genres right so you can just feed the lyrics Into a couple of different uh song programs a i programs and say okay. I want a blues version I want a rockabilly version. I want a jannon dean version mental. We'll just do it You know as funny as that i believe the words are this is the place and then Utah This song puts the emphasis the landing note on this is the place Which i don't hate as an interpretation, but it's a lot different than the original version right That's because that's because the a i doesn't know the original version somebody do our email or eric

1:02:17Just sent just put paste in the lyrics it so it doesn't have a basis for knowing the original Okay, let me stop it right there. I believe it should it should have right after that a little subtle follow-on of Utah By the way, Zayn Vegas is coming up. Charge is super excited. I'm excited If you want more information on how to join us Come on just email me at zaynbadi.io.com. I'll send you the relevant information And uh, I'm just so glad that you're gonna meet some other friends of mine also Tim Murray our friend from vison There you go right here Utah It's like it the Utah belong sooner there. This is the place Resolve Utah is right there should be right there

1:03:20Hey, why don't you make your own song y'all ball do you can't even sing okay fine fine fine All right again, it doesn't have the originals of reference point because it's a i It does say Utah, but it waits for the next chorus to resolve Utah Don't you think don't you think it belongs right there? Yeah, okay, it does and you could you know with enough effort You could make that happen it with the AI as well Much like playing Texas. Hold them. I'm putting no effort into either Texas. Hold them or Rewriting this cheesy song yet another time Charge is always a joy and a pleasure. Thank you my friend. We will talk to you next week Talk to you in a week. Bye Just because the NFL season is now firmly in the rearview mirror does not mean the betting season is oh There is still plenty of opportunities to put a little something something on the games

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