Take the Stairs - Week 1 NFL Picks | Anything Better

0:00What's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of anything better NFL edition. You guys were asking they didn't know if we were going to make it but we are here on the day of bill the day of your team playing tonight week one. How the hell are you buddy? Wait a minute, wait a minute. We're not starting this way. What's that? Poinum. You know what we're going to talk about. I know I was just. Oh, mercy. I know. Is the fan of your defending NBA champion New York Knicks. Congratulations buddy. Well thank you. I was going to bring it up later because I didn't want to be selfish but dude. No, no, no, the fans have been waiting. They want to see this dude. The fans were asking the fans wanted a reaction. It was everything I hoped it would be. But here's the funniest part about it Bill. Lucas. Collap. I have the video. I'm not going to show the video but Lucas collapsed.

1:05My son, my wife said nobody was able to celebrate with him because he collapsed on the floor. Both hands like this. Unconsolably crying for three minutes straight like and then. Awesome. Then got up and was like being consoled. He feels big emotions. You know what happened to me? I put my hands over my face and I had flashbacks of all the 90s losses and then I saw them celebrating and just joy. It was unbelievable dude. Yeah. It's great. One of my favorite things to see in sports beyond selfishly seeing my own team win is when any team I don't care who it is. Only team and a drought like that too. Oh Paul, the monkey's off your back. What is it about that? You just hit. Yeah, you just hit on something though.

2:05When the red socks did it and they came back from the Yankees, they did it in that fashion. The next finally did it. They have 16 games out of 19 dominant. What do you think you think when a team gets it off their back? It's just it's like a historic thing. Do you ask him why I is not a next fan as a Celtics fan enjoyed it? I mean, who doesn't? Who wants to, you know, who doesn't root for people that have just been fucking stepped on it and all of this heartbreak, you know, either in life or I know racist and meathead sports fans. Other than that, I mean, I don't know why you would want to see somebody fans or whatever or just beaten down. Do you want to see them with like seeing the Cubs, seeing Kansas City get one? By the way, too, like I was talking about this on my podcast. If the 1986 Red Sox, the Buckknit game, if all of that shit doesn't happen, like the year

3:06before, people like the fact that nobody talks about that series, the Cardinals had the game won in game six. This guy was out by a full step at first base and he called him safe on the other way around, but it was it was a full step and this guy got it wrong. And the Cardinals just lost their, just lost their composure and then they went into game seven. They lost like, you know, like fucking 11 to one. And it was in that that empire. Oh my God. You want to talk about death threats? Jesus Christ. Everybody forgets. So to see Casey come back, no controversial call. See them win one. Washington Capitals was a great one to see them when they're first one, the Saints in 2010. Yep. Uh, that was after Katrina too, yeah. Yep. Uh, obviously my, uh, my Red Sox, there's been some big ones, the White Sox, which was a weird one. Yeah. Cause like, like nobody like tracked how long it had been.

4:07No one tracked that they fixed the World Series because they called them the Black Sox. I thought it was at the funk team. I had no idea what that was. Uh, there you go. Chicago, even when they're all white team throws a World Series, they still blame the blacks. No, but I meant more of like that are run for their own money. Paul. I, um, no, but I meant like it's kind of like the dramatic fashion in which they did it, but I got one really funny for you, dude. Okay. When OGN and Obi-Tipped that ball in to the 29 drought that we had 29 points were down and he tips it in and we win. Lucas is running around and I just go, and I didn't, I was so happy. I didn't realize I'm going to bigger ease them me. So he jumped in my arms with like his legs wrapped around me and his arms, but it looked so awkward because he's bigger than me. So I was like, Oh, dude, I hope I could hold them. Like, I almost went down on the couch hanging down by your ankles. No, I was, there was, uh, uh, not bandwagon, but there was, you know, some diehards and you're

5:15the biggest diehard. And my biggest friend. Um, so I was very happy if you guys are. Congratulations, Paul. Dude, I appreciated it, man. It was, it was what we needed. It was so nice to see New York City like that. And I'm going to say this. I don't want to make this nice moment negative, but beaten that dirty piece of shit, Frenchman Wembee, that also didn't hurt because that guy was trying those picks when he was jumping up in the air with those fucking that was the kid. Dude, that guy, he was trying to, he was trying to accidentally like, get the guy in the side of his knee, dude, that I've never, dude, 50 years of watching basketball. I never saw anybody set up a pick that way. A jump kick to a knee? I mean, dude, no, he just missed it. He was trying to do like that. Uh, who's that piece of shit that was on the warriors? Who you did a jump shot three pointer. Heat slide his foot under and he would turn around like that like he didn't know what he was doing. And then you'd land on his foot and roll your ankle. Yeah, yeah, it wasn't the Shrek look and dude.

6:15It was the other dude. They had a guy, tree mom green. No, not that guy. No, they had another guy. Oh, they did. All right. And some European guy over there. Okay. Yeah, dude. And he grew up, you know, grabbing Brunster by the back of the net. And then he tried to jump kick in the knee of OG. So just to what leaves doesn't say congratulations. So beating him was fantastic. Oh, Bill, we did. He was like, uh, he was like a heel and wrestling body. I did it. I was just like, at first I was like, what the fuck is wrong with this guy? Then I'm like, I think he kind of enjoys this. It's weird because he's like 19 years old and he's trying to bully like a 35 year old. And somebody's like Paul, that's how somebody got mad at me and goes Paul. That's how they play in Europe. That's Europe basketball. And I'm like, no, no. No, no. Well, with that, with just all dirty and so everybody's blowing their knees out, rolling their eggs, everything. Like, how would that be good for the sport? No. And, and you know, they made a look. Now the Bron went to the Sixers, all this stuff, you know, then East got shook up.

7:20Your boy left, your boy, Jaylin Brown left. You got your goal. And I got to give you a, a take before the Bron even got there. I won my Boston Buddy's. This is not my opinion. I was, I was doing whatever he else was doing. Why did we get rid of this guy? Not only one of the best players in the league, MIT and NASA call him up for advice. What are we doing? So that's legit, dude. Yeah. Arabic. You're like, well, literally, you're not just training a basketball player. You're training on Renaissance men. So I was like, most self expands, scratch your my head, trying to figure out what that was. And my buddy goes, dude, he goes, I know this isn't a popular take, but he goes, we just hand, I love how he said this. He's like, dude, we just handed the Philadelphia 76ers a live grenade with the pin pulled. And I'm like, all right, dude, I'm in. What are you saying? And he goes, well, they got your Ellen beat. They got the, who's there? Other guy, their other star on the. Maxing. And then then now they got Jaylin Brown. And they all want the ball.

8:21There's only one ball. Ball. Now you got LeBron there. So now it's going to have to happen. Is everybody? I think Jaylin can do it, you know, because he's like a genius. So I think he'll understand the bigger picture, whatever. But I don't know about, I don't know. It never seems to like, dude, like Oklahoma City, they should have won. After they blew that three one lead to the Warriors, they should have come back the next year. I'm proud to win with Westbrook and all of those guys. And like they just, they've just, there's too much talent in only one ball. And then the whole thing just getting, you know, Durant and, uh, who's the other guy? Looks like you're on the boat with the big beard there. Yeah, you got it was the four step, uh, drop. Get the pocket. Yeah, James, James Hardin. James Hardin. Yeah, there you go. Westbrook and Durant. Good for Westbrook. The Westbrook just stood away this year. He just retired. He said, I'm done. But how many times have you seen a team do that?

9:21I've seen teams try to get five guys that need the basketball that are all starting five. The Lakers tried doing it with Carl Malone and Gary Peyton and Kobe and this one, it just doesn't work, dude. Oh, the Lakers are the king of it. It doesn't work. It was the king of, of, of, you know, building around Kobe, bringing in three, four free agents and it didn't like work out like, I don't know. I, uh, that's the way baseball has been guilty of it. Oh, yeah, Fox Yankees have done it. Just get a whole bunch of guys and it just fucking. No, it's work out. Who is that fucking guy we got? Roided out of his mind and we got him in like September somehow. He was a relief pitcher. I think he was on a West Coast team, dude. And he was all roided up and it was right when they was starting to test and he stopped doing the Roids, dude. And he was just fucking serving him up. And he was lights out. Yeah. West God wanted to say he came out of city. The fuck was his name? Big kid in Eric, Eric Gagney, Gagney, Gagney.

10:23What was Eric, Eric Gagney? Eric Gagney. Yeah, Gagney. He was like, he was a stud closer. They were there's no people are going. People were going, this guy's better than Mariano. This guy's the new guy and it was like, no, I don't think anybody was saying anybody's ready to marry on. I was an idiot. I had a MedFan friend go fucking Mariano's not the guy anymore. It's this guy. It's like, all right. It's wishful thinking. He knows it's not the truth. Exactly. Anyway, dude, the Red Sox and Yankees are on a collision course. I feel like we're like, I don't think we're both championship teams. I feel like we're like hot rods. You know, we got it. We got some new exhaust system. We put a new carburetor on it. I don't feel like, you know, dude, that fucking, how do you feel as the Yankee fan that the Dodgers are now making the Yankees look like a mom in pop store? All the money that's been out there. I know. I know. We'll do what about the Red Sox? Hold on. Let's talk about the Red Sox. The Red Sox are dead and buried every year the first two months and then they just fucking

11:25wrote what they run off 21. No, 18. No, no, 15. But then they won like 30 out of 33. But like, but this year in particular, dude, yeah, we were so like, you know, it wasn't even like dead in the water. We usually just kind of suck. We start slow. But this was the one where like, you know, there was people going like, this is the worst Red Sox team I've seen in like 30 years. You know, as hilarious, it's just this amazing guy up there that has this Instagram account. What is it? Uncle Ferdinand. It is the whole thing. He already has a high pitch voice and he starts it like, you know, whatever, a high octave and then goes up Mariah Carey by the end of it. He goes, yeah, it's fucking, James. You fucking only shifting in. And I know that guy. It's fucking very good. It gets way up there. Dude, I know that guy. It's fucking hilarious. So his whole thing was his whole bit on Instagram was that the Red Sox ownership needs

12:25to sell the fucking team. They don't know what that's called. And all of a sudden, they just catch fire. And I haven't seen him. I mean, I have, I don't go on social media that much, but I'm a huge fan of his. But like, I'm thinking like, like, what is it's like when Dan Shonasey was making all that money off the curse of the babe when the curse ended? It's like, now what are you going to do? Is someone's going to buy the book? And I remember a year later, we were in first place. We got a couple injuries. And then we started the tank in September. And he tried the shit Shonasey's like, is the curse back? He should have said the books behind him. Oh my God. Oh, dude, I saw that guy. They were interviewing that guy on Lansdown Street, right at the thing. And he's going, this is the worst fucking team. These guys don't know how I saw that dude. It was so great. It was so great. Oh, this curse is just right. These motherfucking cocks, stocky shunners, all this fucking team. Don't, what I love about it is so ridiculous being a sports figure.

13:30You can sit there because you're not in it at that point. You're like, why does this guy give a fuck this much? But then I also love him that he does. And you know he's watching like every game. Dude, I have to tell you, you know, that's sad. That's Nick Tutoro for Red Sox fans. Like my favorite. How much that guy gives a shit about game 47 of the regular season, game 112. He's going for walks, Paul. No, dude. They lose game 112 and he takes it the way I take losing a playoff game. No, dude, there's a comedian at the stand Derek shout out to Derek Drescher. Guy like got out of rehab changed his life. Does comedy now. He's always at the stand and I just go Derek, you got it every day. It's fire. Voon. We're not going to do it. We get like, you know, we could win eight to two and he'll go, yeah, but that era. It's just I just go to can you ever see there's some guys to that's no, that's his parents. I he probably lived on one compliment a year.

14:31Dude, that's how I grew up. My brother one time was golfing. You know, and he wanted to maybe, you know, think about like into the golfing world. So yeah, my mother course didn't believe in him. So he fucking gets an eagle and he calls my mother because hey mom, I got an eagle on the seventh hole today. My mother just goes, oh yeah. What did you do in the other holes? Oh. Dude, I had to stop I had to stop telling my mother when I was on TV. Oh, dude. Oh my god. She like critics were nicer. Just to viserate me. Then I would tell her like how much it hurt my feelings and she would just laugh. Oh, I'm just trying to make it better. Oh, Bill, I'm proud. It's so funny. You're like involved.

15:31Like when you talk to an involved comedian that goes to therapy, you're just like, no, it's their parents. You just pinpoint the problem. Oh, yeah. No, if you can't, if you can't find a way to win, do that, that goes, that's not you just a negative guy. Like that's what gets hammered into you. Dude, what you do on the other holes is from your mom. Oh, yeah. I did Conan when my mother goes, you should have touched you sherd it. It looked like you were wearing a dress. So then the next time I wear like a fucking suit and then she goes, you shouldn't do any more short sets. You're much better when it's longer. Oh, geez. Dude, when I did Lawn Order, my grandmother like trolled me. I had like two lines on it. It was something like you feeding the fish, you know, the blah, blah, blah. And it turned out to be a guy in a dress, whatever the proper term is now. And I went, whoa, when I kind of backed off. And then she did the lines on the phone. Oh, my God. I got one. We have feet in your feet. Yeah, you just hug me.

16:32Just hung up. What? I've been getting heckled my whole life, dude. Oh, God. It's like, oh, this, this is familiar. Oh, my God. No, but that's her side of the family. That's their idea of complimenting you. No, that's the way they show it. Yeah, their love languages. Yeah, nice job. You fucking suck. Dude, the first time, the first time I ever did TV, my mom goes, I'm so proud because my mom's sweet, but she just goes, I'm so proud of you. But can you, I wouldn't know where gray. Gray just doesn't look good on, I was just like, all right, I'm just like, all right. It's like, you know, like every comic wanted to be that guy on, on, on Conan that night, a letterman and it was actually my turn. Yeah. Yeah. We're really good at doing it. You know, boomers, dude, boomers just don't know, you know, my dad would always go, don't get upset. I'm not blaming all generation fault. There's plenty of boomers that fucking could give up a compliment.

17:34Yeah, that's true, but they're also fucking whatever. Well, we're generations, entire generations for where we're at is this, it's like every generation has their Einstein's, their sweet hearts and their fucking Hitler's. It's just, it is what it is. It's what God does is what he wants. What he wants and all the pieces of shit ascend to power because they have no problem pouring shit in the water supply and all the decent people go, I'm not fucking doing that. And then there's one guy, I'll fucking do it. Hey, buddy, guess we've got himself a corner office. Oh, Paul, we're getting deep. Let's get. Well, you know what, here's the gift. Here's the gift that keeps giving, the gift that keeps giving is NFL is back and we're here for week one. And we're going to bring in for the first time in this season. We're going to bring in our injury guy, our injury reporter for week one is back Jake the fucking snake. Look at us. Look at Jake, you're looking, you're looking like really studious with the glasses this

18:34year. You ready to go. Yeah, you look like you're ready to release the new operating system. That's true. They not like us. I'll be in a new place starting next week, so I'll be a little brighter, hopefully. But yeah, excited to be back. And yeah, I mean, all this means is anything better is here and football is back. So you know, it's going to be really exciting. And how do you feel about your charges this year? I feel good. You know, it's always like some guys are overhyping them. Some guys think we're going to suck. So it's huge. It's kind of the same where we got the training camp healthy. And Mike McDaniel is going to be a really big help. We finally have someone really smart at offensive coordinators. So thank you. I think we'll be fun to watch. Yeah. Well, we really hope so. I think it's going to be it's tough because the division is really good. So it's going to be between obviously us Denver and Kansas City, you know, any of those three can win the division.

19:35So. How's my home's looking? He's all healed up. Yeah, he's coming back from an ACL terrible. They say he's playing. So that'll be Monday night against Denver. That's going to be exciting. Paul, sorry, you're going to have something. Is Jake breaking up on you bill or no? No. Oh, I think that's you, Paul. You live out in the mountains. I'm on the pan of the Appalachia. I was going to say to you, just Paul, Paul, do you and Jake the snake bill of kinship considering both your teams are coached by heart and the hard, raw, the hard Bob, yeah. Listen, dude, I'm happy with it. I'm hearing that the players can't believe now how it was run with table. I'm hearing that. They do like like the giants are not going to be what they were last year. Dude, I heard Isaiah likely, Isaiah likely just said he just goes, they did what last year of practice? Like I heard it was a clown show, dude. I mean, I don't look like on the field.

20:36Dude, we had that Tommy cutlets and his fucking brother was on the field dressed like he was doing an episode of the sopranos. Is this like musical theater? Like, what am I watching here? Why is his brother on the field? It's age. I was aged. Even worse. He's on our team now, Paul. Yeah. Paul, I think he's living in the North end. Bill, you guys played tonight, buddy. Oh, Jake, I'm sorry. So Jake, what are we doing with injuries here? Is Malik neighbors going to play week one? Yes, they just announced he's playing yesterday. I think you're trying to be good, Paul. You know, when we... I'm going to be there before... Oh, you're going a Sunday night football against the Cowboys? You're going to the game, you said? The Versi family. The Versi family. All four of us. Life, son, daughter, we will be there. We'll be down in the lower bowl. We're ready to go. And yeah, man, we're excited. I'm excited to have Farbob excited to have a good defense.

21:37I like the draft. We'll see what happens with Jackson Dart. I think he's going to be good. Yeah, I was just going to add, we had a bunch of clown coaches before Jim Harbaugh and what Harbaugh brought to us, at least, is like he brought a real culture. And he just brought some civility and a real thing. So I think your defense is going to be great. And if the offense stays healthy, I think nobody's going to play the Giants every week. I think they're going to be great. But I'll get to injuries real quick. What's great about week one is mostly everybody's healthy, which is always exciting. But there's a few injuries just to report. Well, the Rams got Aaron Donald back, but he won't play tomorrow in Australia. So they'll just be without him. But obviously, it's going to be so. I was just going to have a real good. I think that felt good to give up on this global domination. It's just not going to happen. They're quadrupling down this year. The Cardinals versus the commanders in Malaysia.

22:38That's what I was thinking. Dude, I was speaking to that. I went to a CFL game when I was up in Calgary. Dude, there's fucking hilarious. It was with three Americans. The first play. We're all like going, League of Moths. League of Moths is like fucking three receivers doing a running start. They have two that stand stationary. Three do a running start before the ball snaps. They have 12 guys on the field. So they run a spread offense and still have a running back. And there's only three downs. Dude, a sack is devastating. I bet. Yeah. I think it's CFL. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, smaller and faster. It's all those guys with heart. Well, they said you were too small to make it to the next level and they did until they got to the pro. But they're still playing pro. Dude, they're saying that the flight is so long. It's going to be like high school. Where they're going to like get off the plane in their uniforms. Be there for like four hours and get back on the plane. It's fucking nuts.

23:39They better drink plenty of water. Yeah. I flew I flew from New York to fucking Sydney, Australia. And I didn't know I didn't drink any water. The next day I woke up to take a piss. I thought I had gone to Rhea. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Hey, Bill, let's go to let's go to we three in India. We got the chance first to tighten. From Mumbai, India. Oh, it's just like they can't just be happy being fucking billionaires. They they they look at the FIFA World Cup guys and they think that that's going to be it's just like. The thing is is the economics of soccer versus the economics. You get a fucking ball and two sticks of the thing you can fucking play. Same thing with hoop. Yeah. Go global before the NFL NFL. Jesus fucking Christ. You need 40 people uniforms and all of that shit. It's too much overhead.

24:40Nah, dude. It got crazy when I started going Germany. I get London. It's close. You're Australia's nuts, man. I don't even get London. All they do is shit on American football. Dude, during the off season you go there. Right. Why did Colin football mate? You're picking it up with your hands every fucking time you go there and every time they think that that's some brilliant take. It's like I get it. Yeah, I get it. I'll tell you something else too. I I was lucky enough to go to the it's the World Cup final out there in New York. And I know in New Jersey. Excuse me. It was the new jersey. The way New Jersey is treated. That fucking final was in New Jersey and they say the World Cup final in New York. New Jersey. New York even got the fucking first credit. We're right. I bet to say to Jersey, but no, anyway, it was all grass fields. It's like crazy. They're just going to put the turf back on. All these stadiums suddenly were able to do grass fields.

25:42It's like, why don't you just why not keep it? You can stay in the rubber from those old tires. It's a carcinogen. They they banded in Europe along with Gatorade and a whole bunch of other shit that they just give us. Hey, dude, don't have a burger in the next three months. Let that fucking Argentinian beef go through your neighbor, not you. These are the choices you have to make. This is the first world country. Yeah. Good. Good. How many stars have to rip their fucking knee before they just go grass? It doesn't happen on grass really. It's nuts. So ridiculous. I don't know. It's it's turf. It's crazy. I'll rip through a couple of injuries. You'll go like it's not too many, but the packers have two big ones. Micah Parsons still has not recovered from his ACL injury from last year. So he's going to miss still a guy. I know great player. So if they can come back out there. And then Josh Shake, I was running back has a domestic violence off the field issue. So he won't be playing it for likely the first 10 weeks of the season. Because I held an argument.

26:45Yeah. So that is ongoing. That will see what happens there. And then Andrew made a good. You think once everybody's temper comes down, I'm going to go out on Libya because I don't know what happened on both sides. And now he's suspended for 10 games and they're not getting that money. Yeah, you just kind of sit there. Was it worth that much to be that right? Couldn't one of us just said, hey, you know what? You're making a good point. My bad. And de escalated it. That's a great one. If I'm an NFL player, I'm never getting on an elevator with my wife, drum ever. I was in another drunk. That was another thing. Well, that was that was the other guy. Yeah, he went on the same thing as Ray Rice. He went in the elevator, the camera on the elevator. I don't know. Another incident, but the camera, the elevator. You get claustrophobic. You feel like there's no way out of the relationship. You panic. She launched Adam, spit Adam and then dude went down.

27:47Extra nice when I get in an elevator. I am extra nice. Yeah, I don't go on the elevator drunk. Just like the stairs. Hey, Paul, I, yeah, there you go. Jake, take the stairs now. Ladies, if you're dating an NFL player, take the stairs. I don't know what it is. If it's CTE, the, the, what a iridescent, what are they called? The fucking light. I don't know what it is. Those doors close. They turned into Ron Burgundy. They made a glass box. Oh, ah. The night they go out. That's the reality show. They put two people in a long term relationship in an elevator. The door closes and they have to resolve whatever they made for a shoe song before the door opens without them trying to beat the shit out of each other. Get the NFL player says to his wife, we're going to dinner tonight. What floor is it on? What floor is it on? You know what?

28:47I got something. I can't make it. No, I'll meet you there. I'll meet you there. Oh, oh, God. Well, this is great, dude. We are back. We are back, Jake. Is that it? We have it nothing else. Yeah. There's one more I'll mention. Arizona, after this great rookie running back from Notre Dame. He had loved injury during the preseason. Yeah, Jeremiah Love. He's going to be a great player. Seems questionable as of Wednesday to play week one. But the coach had said he's optimistic, which is usually a good sign that they're going to play. So I'm about to look for him out there. How do you look? I'll be playing last year. Hopefully he stays retired. But you know, that was when he came back. That was awesome. That was a fun story. There he is. He has enough kids that it sounded like a crowd. He believed that he could do it. One of them is like, that's not the best. Say what you're doing the wave in his living room. And he's like, I still got it.

29:53Andrew Demlest, the Greek freak. We've got to get you in here. The trust run, Ken. Yeah. There he is. That's why he blurs out the background. You don't want to see all that. That's right. Stop shooting the background. It's got to kill the iPhone. Andrew, you're one of those guys. You don't know if you're broke or rich, but you always look rich. That's so funny, because I usually get the opposite. I drive a 95G by where a T-shirt. I'm usually, you know, is this your life or spring speed lyrics? Well, they were shitty. So they must be spring-steamed. Oh, oh, just fired at the boss. I was just going to say that. Guys, almost 80. Good for him. You can't have a manicure and be singing about the factory. It's just like relax. It was almost overrated in the world. Oh, you know what? I thought the domestic violence jokes were going to get us some email. I know. I know. I'll take three Billy Joel's over one.

30:54Oh, wow. I don't think that's what we're going to need now. At least he's that is what makes me. Do you want me to say something positive about Bruce? I watched that movie they did about him and his manager. I loved it. I went to Bruce Springstreet, Consecret. He's my dad's favorite. And he was at this call. It was at the sports arena, the LA sports arena, but right before it closed. And he was on there for like four, maybe five hours. It wasn't saying he kept, he jumped in the crowd like three different times and he was definitely in his 70s, 80s. Is it? Whether you love him or hate him, like his energy is crazy. Yeah, but I can tell you something. Don't fuck yourself. Anything, anything past two hours and 20 minutes of a fuck. I'm not going. Yeah, fish calls it fish calls it at two and a half. Like what are we doing? Yeah, two and a half would have been. Dude, it was a fun. What was he singing in five hours? Ro, ro, ro, ro you boat. Dude, give me Phil Collins all day. Three. Oh, yeah.

31:55Dude, you give me Phil Collins for an hour and a half. I'm happy. I got made fun of it. I got made fun of in high school. I was one of those kids in high school. I had a kicker in the back. I had the bumping thing and I had my friends with life. I had the best of Phil Collins greatest hits in my car in high school. I take Phil Collins now laying in a bed over Bruce Wayne's. How can you just turn and walk away? Oh, God. Oh, how I wish it would rain down, down on me. First he had against all odds on laser disc. No, we all got guilty shit. What's his face? Andrew, Andrew loves Steve Winwood. Don't you'll see Steve Winwood. I thought Phil Collins, yeah, but I love him. Yeah. I love him. Oh, yes. Definitely, you know, when they were when they were tucking the blousey shirt into the dockers and they had the fan going for that, that the corporate mullet. Yeah. Who's I got caught?

32:56You guys remember, you guys remember Sam Goodie? You had Sam Goodie at your malls, right? Yeah. Remember when you could buy a single cassette? It was a cassette, but it was this single. Yeah, and it had a little like, you know, paper, dude, I stole. What's his, what's the guy's name? Mark Richards? Keith, Mark Richards, is that? No, no, no. Keith Richards. No. Not Brian Adams. No. You don't talk about he's doing it now. Not Keith Richards. Richard Marx. Richard Marx. Yes, that's my guess. Richard, Richard Marx, dude, me and my friend went in. I took a single and I put it down my pants and they followed me on the escalator and I dumped it in a fake plant and when they frisked me, I didn't have it. But that's what I was stealing. Richard Marx. What's on? Andrew, what's that one? What's the big one? He's a don't know. Don't mean nothing. No, it was a lot. No, that was the Georgia satellites.

33:58Don't mean nothing. Like as voice would crack and though, though, though, though, should have known better. Yes. Should have known better than to fall in love with you. I think it was that one. I think it was that one. But yeah, dude, I love shit like that. I don't get me wrong. It's not gonna be a kid when you didn't judge music. You just heard some good music on the radio. Cool. But let's be honest. Let's be honest here. I like all of that shit. I like all of that shit. Every time I watch it. In defense of the boss, though, dude, in defense of the boss, when I was nine, ten years old, foreign in the USA, fucking rip, dude. Come on. I actually think his 80s shits, but I think like hungry heart. I'll take that over fucking streets of Philadelphia. All the string scene heads, like don't love that song. I know. Too cheesy. That's a rock part. Yeah, I don't know. My one of my favorite things that was winding up springsteen fans. I just go like, you mean it's kind of like, yeah, you sort of like jerseys, like Bob

34:58Seeger. Dude, the fuck you talking about. I love doing that shit. Yeah, you know, he's got like the raspy voice. He's got the, you know, Bob Seeger had the silver bullet band. He has the E Street band. I mean, it's kind of they sang to the working man. Twenty years. We called him the boss, though. He called himself the boss. I think the band called him the boss. All right. Well, then for a while, I think they call him the boss. They call them the douche. And then they worked it out in an elevator. Are we going to talk football here? Let's get back to it. Yeah. Did they put the bill? We're excited to be back. He put the bill of his hat in his pocket, didn't he? Who did? Springsteen had the bill of his hat in his back pocket. You know, I actually heard that Bob Seeger song the other day, Old Time Rock and Roll. It's one of the most self-involved songs I've ever heard. There's only one sure way to get me to go and start playing Old Time Rock and Roll.

36:01It's like, hey, Bob, you don't have to go. That's great. The party's going to be fine if you don't fucking show up. It's like, like, you ain't going to see me down there. And let's you play the exact music that I like. Who wants that guy to party? Everybody think the way I do. Tell you what, I listen to that song sailing over the summer. That's a fucking banger, dude. That's Christopher Cross. Dude, the worst thing ever is people think Yacht Rock, they actually think it's bad music and cheesy music and they... To me. Oh no. Oh, you lost the bill. All right. I'm back. How many fucking songs those studio musicians played on for other people, people saying I don't like Yacht Rock or listening to the guys on the... You know, and I'm telling you, NDAs were sign Paul. Oh, yeah. Yes. Yeah. Shout out to London's Default for agreements.

37:01All right. Let's fucking... Let's do this. All right. Let's do this, guys. We are back with our picks for week one. It is an even year, which means I think it's mine. I think because Bill went first. By the way, Bill Burke coming off of one of the greatest playoff run. You had a Nick's... Dude, you had a Nick's playoff run. And last year's thing, you actually had a better record. You beat the book when it came to the whole thing. Yeah, we don't count the playoff so against the book for whatever reason. Let's do it. You were seven and one again. It was nuts, dude. Andrew, can we pull up this? Because I'm on the phone. Can we pull up the... Oh, oh, oh, oh, this gave me the willies. Oh, that's a tie. Well, I'm just going to do this out of the gate. I'm going to do this out of the gate. And I know, I know you guys are going to laugh, but here's why I'm going to do it. My whole family is going to the Giants game and the spread is under three. If the spread was above three, I would go, I don't know, but the spread is two and a half.

38:03Giants are getting two and a half at the home opener against the rival cowboys. I like what we do with our defense. Not quite a pick them, but maybe a pick them. I'm going to take my New York football Giants getting two and a half opening night against the hated rival Dallas Cowboys. Paul, I'll tell you something. I'm, that'll be one of my picks, too. I'm riding with your G-men for week one. I like it. I don't know if it's an order, but yes, I'll just say now, that's one of mine. I think the Giants have what the Cowboys need. They have stability. Yeah. And I just think that there's too much, you know, the, all the shit that they always say about the Cowboys organization. I don't think that they fix that problem, so I love that call. All right. So I got to, I got to bet my patriots tonight, even though my, I hate the half a point, and I have a bad feeling this is a hangover game from our improbable 58 turnovers and still made it to the Super Bowl run we did last year.

39:04That has to be a record. Nobody's ever turned over the ball that much of the playoffs and made it there. So I hate the half a point. And Seattle's a great organization. They always play tough. If this wasn't my team, I would, and it wasn't the first game of the year, I would take Seattle. I'm going to go with the Pats three and a half because they're my team and I love them. I fucking love that pick. Oh, and I'm not just saying that. Speaking of that, guess what? Everybody tomorrow night, yours truly. I'm in Boston. I'm in Boston tomorrow with guess what Bill? Joe Bartonick and Boston's own Will Newton. I'm the show. Oh, there you go. We will be at Laf Boston tomorrow. So get your tickets. That's one show tomorrow night. I love the Patriots getting points. Why is it not? Why is it not in Seattle though? It must be in Seattle, right? Andrew. Yeah, that's got to be wrong, Andrew. All right. All right. Very well. Oh, well, if it's a formatting issues, uh, wait a minute and they're on the road and

40:08they'll they'll they'll fucking land three and a half. It should be at Seattle. I think it's a good thing to be in the banner. Yeah. Oh, whatever. It's got to be apologies. I'm a home. It's not going to be. No. All right, Paul. What do you got? All right. For pick number two. We want to do that. That Bill's Texas game is tough. Um, I can't wait to watch that. Bill's bills under new management. Bill's under new management. They got the Apple Beast down the street, Paul. I'm going to do management. Oh, dude, unbelievable. I only only have one other game that I like and if you take it, I'm going to be on the ropes early this year. I don't think I'm going to take it. But you know what? Let me see here. I don't like that game either, dude. I'm. Are the cardinals that bad? I mean, maybe the book seems to think so.

41:11Nine and a half week one. Um, I mean, why you've been playing the season, Paul? I'm going to take, you know what I'm going to do? This is, this is nuts. I'm going to take the New York Jets against a Tennessee Titans. The Jets are getting one and a half. Both teams are bad. The New York Jets are the think the only team in NFL history to not get a single one. I think they want to get one week one. This is basically a pick them. I'm going to just take the Jets getting one and a half because both teams suck. All right. I'm going to take the Colts at home against the Ravens getting three and a half and the Ravens have a new coach. I think you know, any time you get a new coach, it takes a minute to get uh, Everybody on the same page and for whatever reason the coach just always seem to score points They've been doing that like the last like four or five seasons very quietly just scoring points and covering and they were great for me last year

42:13And I'm a loyal guy. I'm going with the Indianapolis Colts getting three at home downtown Indianapolis That's the way it was 10th 19 2000 what is it 26 September 9th and there's nothing we could do about now we do about so I'm going to take is that six and a half I'm gonna take the Jacksonville Jaguar What is it eight and a half oh I thought that was six and a half hold on. I'm gonna reconsider I am gonna read eight and a half. I mean guys some of these teams I Don't know dude Couldn't have taken Detroit Lions. I'm gonna take the Lions at home. It's a touchdown The Saints are bad the Lions need to bounce back. They got Gibbs. They got golfers back right he's healthy Yep, I'm gonna go Lions minus a touchdown

43:16My is Yeah, it's a team that's gonna be good All season All right, yeah, we lost some of the games down there bringing it back I just want to pull to be able to get his eyes on it Yeah, I saw him leaning into the screen too All right, I I'm gonna take the Cardinals get nine and a half because that's just spread on the first fucking week Then up the charges go up big you know You know they they're always taking people out after a hundred pitches and I feel like they do that shit football now too So maybe some garbage time Stupid thing I don't know. It's a good excuse for me to watch a late game the afternoon game fall late afternoon These are there's a lot of three and a half so that half point man That is a lot of three and a half stew which I fuck it which they know they know what they're doing

44:19You know what game is really intriguing is the Broncos and chiefs man that line is wild There are and I'll tell you another one of my picks. I like the Broncos I can yeah, I'm taking the Broncos too I think the Broncos are just the next game. I'm gonna take this next game because I just want to watch it Hmm, I know what I'm doing. I know what I'm doing. I'm not saying I'm picking winners, but I know what fucking losers Um My god, dude. This is a I'm I gotta ask the dolphins raiders. I mean, do we think the dolphins have a chance here? I mean aren't they a man Jim Jim Florentine is a big time dolphins fan and he goes Yeah, I go to tree building four or five games. I was gonna say I think they I think they win three games all year They're terrible Well the raiders might win five games

45:22The Texans have such a good defense. Why is that line one and a half when they have the best defense in football Is that because is that because Josh Allen has DJ more? I'm gonna take the Buffalo bills week one Damn it. That's what I was gonna do. I want to watch that game. Good call. It's gonna be a great game to watch I'm gonna take Buffalo week one. What is it are they getting They're giving Buffalo's given one and I'm gonna take them Oh wait a minute the Patriots said They get three to half their Patriots are getting three and a half okay and they're on the road Oh, all right. I feel better about myself. Yeah Yeah, sorry to beat myself up at the end of this podcast. I'm a fucking idiot All right Stealer still have Aaron Rogers. Yeah, I want to move last season Playing the Falcons Steve Barckowski. Do you see still over there

46:26I'm not doing in case you're curious Alan has to uh, whatever you know what I'm always gonna be a Joe Borough guy played at LSU. We smoked cigars Early in the year he's healthy three and a half the Bengals. I think they jump all over those fucking years. Yep, they jump all over them And they're coming off a bad year too. They need it. Yeah Taking the Bengals lock it you and I are heads up there. I'm taking the Bengals. There's Paul versus he calls them the girl band the Bengals Uh I'm taking Tampa Bay there. We're going. We're going to have just another manic Monday. Oh, Jake, you let you like oh yeah Oh, man, I love Baker Mayfield too. Those are two of my favorite quarterbacks. I know I just think it's gonna be a good game and three and a half is like right at the number where I say Tampa maybe Tampa covers and Cincinnati wins because I think I think you make a good point that like Bengals will probably win the game But I like Tampa to cover You know what it is about Joe Borough and in uh, Baker Mayfield they're just like you Jake they're fucking gamers

47:32Whatever they have and then coursing through their veins. That's what I feel like whatever I talk to you Make me one of accomplish things That's amazing Well wait a minute Andrew who fucking very quietly beats the book every year is just sort of quietly putting in his Well, he put in the Raiders A chance dump zone of a chance, but well, you know, because Bill and Paul obviously their tradition is they have to pick Back and forth and then usually after the show Jake and I just start plugging them in what we pick Um, and Jake we got some back for a deal with that mgm. Is that what the fuck it is? I have to beat that by the way Happy trails who does that part in the interruption Yeah, thank you, thank you, Ben, I'm Jim Yeah, I'm so low Sorry, go ahead. No, you're right. I said we're flying solo unsponsored this year So you know what it is Verzy kicked their ass so many years in a row that they finally got the win and they took their ball and went home

48:35I got to take fall. I'm gonna be honest with you. I lost a little respect for that mgm Unless they want to come back next year in which case The doors will be We can have a sit down We don't have a sit down, but it's gonna take more Paul's gonna get glasses like Jake and Walk into the room with the newspaper under his heart. No, I want I want a written apology to Paul Verzy that they didn't give him a chance to win his money back I mean that was just some I mean they could have done something dude I never even got my pair of sneakers with my record on them. Did they even give you a plaque? I got nothing It's just you know That's scared of you You blame them. Hey, but no, you know Paul because Not only you talented. You're like that old drink. You're effervescent Dude, I had this guy doesn't scare talent Paul. I had this great couple come to see me in Detroit

49:35This guy was so great. He had his lions jersey his wife had her hair done And she had this nice purse sir if you're listening you were one of my favorite audience members ever and he goes Hey, man. Hey man. He was such a cool dude and he goes hey man. You see my wife's purse and he goes you bought that You bought that because of how you pick games and I go thank you I go but listen this year I didn't do it. He goes it's okay. It's okay It's okay. It's okay one year. It's okay. We get back next year and that's what we're gonna do everybody I don't know At GM those then I can beat you two years in a row Paul It's like the fighter who fights not to lose the championship. All right, look what do we got in we got a That's not got my first three picks up. I'll just say that I like the Bears as well at three and a half just a fit I like that too. I was looking at that. It didn't seem And am I allowed to take that because I need all the help I can get But we're done. I didn't need to. Sorry. I got four. I got four. Yeah, I was at all yet four. Yeah

50:40I'm gonna tell you guys right now though make no mistake about this these point fives are gonna kill you One of these point fives are gonna kill you Dude I have stuck in the giant I'm fucking wise guy in Vegas back when the mob ran the fucking joint Dorens out there he said so I can't say the joke But he was talking about the point five And he said that half a point killed more bleeps than bleep Yeah, I was like wow The glad to know I'm not the only one taking the best the best was Jimmy the Greek when Jimmy the Greek would come on And he was literally standing there next to like Dick N burger one of those guy Brent musburger and he was like It was Brent Brent musburger and he go rest is so and he goes he goes they're gonna win the game He goes I was gonna win by eight. Are they gonna win the game? No, he couldn't even do that he'd have to say I don't think they're gonna win by a lot He's spoken code. Do you knew who he was picking?

51:40That's great Jimmy the Greek. I mean what the fuck happened to this country that we don't have We don't have names like that anymore. Oh my god. Are we doing my nice back? Are you kidding me? That's the intro I get all these tears in my off-key singing. That's what I get Sorry, well, I mean No, we are you know what time to listen by the way It's a good Monday night because it's Broncos And it's the chiefs in Kansas City and the line is two and a half Oh, I got to sing the song here Paul bill you know what time is there's no more MGM so there's no Monday night special It's you know, that's you know, that's no, but we can we can say what we think And then people can go off and do their own thing But I was saying I was saying let the Monday night special because that was marketing for those guys You were too afraid to to fight you again Paul why don't you listen you trademarked it into no no

52:42Monday night special is our trademark not theirs They lost it. We still have it Now we're gonna get sued okay With the money for you who let's We for mother fucking money for you that's what's gonna save us in the lawsuit the fact that I say mother fucking in it It's like I clearly wrote those lyrics Um What do you guys like dude? I think I like the Broncos Yeah now Let's let's not let our feelings about the chief All right Travis Kelsey got married to Taylor Swift yes So they should be happy for at least the next three seasons Before you hit your first I'm not not rooting against their relationship. It's just how marriage goes yeah I don't know why if you're gonna come home

53:42Like hobbling like that every week like I mean I make enough money. Why don't you just quit? You go to footballs my life Taylor We We got three seasons before that happens and then they start playing Travis you know what happens to these guys brains Travis I'm bringing out a percussion section that will be under the stage So everyone still looks at me But there is an opening for someone to play the triangle Okay, now that's a job. Well, you don't have to take hits to the head I don't want to play the jellar Reminds me a geometry I waited for X's and O's and then the quarterbacks the triangle isn't that what I did I love how you're giving an epistalone accent Yeah, he says I'm just doing this and what about hers? She's like like she doesn't have any brains She's the one that figured out the fucking the whole music industry

54:44Uh, that's the funny thing about Taylor Swift is like to look at her you think she's like Okay, okay, okay, okay, go. She's a fucking gangster. Yeah, I would not want her upset with me No, God bless false him. Well, come on Paul you're gonna vote against romance Dude, she had a I'm so sick of knowing about who the chiefs are fucking dating Dude, he had a shitty year last year. Travis Chelsea boy. What about the offensive lineman Dude, he looked fat and training camp and he had a horrible yearlisher this guy's tapped out dude. He's on a farewell tour. Oh Travis Kelsey fuck you dude Everybody knows it's going to Travis Kelsey Everybody knows it. It's like you're in the fucking hot at least still gets open He still makes the cat. He's gonna get at a bad. I'm just saying throw to them. They're gonna throw to him on Third and six or third and long and he's gonna he's gonna get six and a half yards for first out the line He's like

55:49Look the man's a winner. I don't know what to tell you the Broncos are coming off that devastating quarterback loss in the AFC championship They're gonna be pissed The Broncos Paul Why don't we end the day I tried our friendship over rational thought No, I have no idea what either one of these teams are gonna do. I you got to think Patrick my home is gonna be afraid to run You know I don't know maybe he's gonna take a little bit to get comfortable With that new kid dabber Maybe for the special reason that we can buy a half point or something gets a three and then parlay one or two more things we like With that I'm trying to think what we get dirty to me. I think I think we take Broncos straight Oh, why are we gonna be scared it's weak one? You're right. I'm sorry Let's buy on table five points seems dirty to me Listen the one thing about our show we don't go scared we don't go scared We swing big and we lose big or we win big but we don't go scared. All right, I brought those over under 40 and that's what winning is done

56:54We was never scared Never just over under 43. I never went down. What did he say Jake Lamatta? I never went down right I never went down Um All right, bone next to throw one Yeah, I mean, how do you not love that name? Bone next to throw one on Oh, see that's see that's where you say suck our dicks with betton bone nicks Oh, that's that's where I get scared Andrew anytime you guys start going on That's one I'm not good with those but I mean it feels like it'll be an undergame if anything I'm saying To very defenses special Denver. I'm in a very agreeable mood. I'll take the on the And bone next to throw one all right there you go. That sounds like a week one. That sounds like a week one win I think that sounds like a weak pick. I was like Jesus. Well, all right. Yeah. All right

57:58Uh There you guys have it. Is there any sponsors out there? The phone calls are open The phone lines are open Would we have talked to joked around about beating the shit out of people in a fucking elevator for 10 minutes There's a freedom to no advertising. There is There is and it's our show, which is great. Uh There you guys go man. Those are our picks a week one and um Hey Paul, we don't do this for the money. No, we were degenerates You know Guys check me out in Boston check man in Boston tomorrow night with Joe Bartonick and Will noon in laugh Boston get your tickets Uh listen, I'm not gonna lie tickets are uh, I'm talking everybody across the board get those tickets. Well, yeah Oh, yeah, well doing radio again. Buckhead keeps taking a briefcase full of money for himself I need some tickets sold out in Boston come on bean town. I think you guys are gonna have a good season All right, I said the red socks always come back

59:00um There you go. We don't have any range laugh Boston. Where are you at? laugh Boston laugh Boston at the Weston right in the water La Boston at the Weston. Who did they buy you know they bought those Howard Johnson's They're the ones who bought them all the largest. Yeah So it's actually a nice hotel. It's right on the water. Okay. It's a nice little spot I'm running my new hours can be a lot of fun and listen anytime Joe Bartonick comes into the picture He's like first we're gonna have a blast Oh, yeah, no, it's gonna be great. It's gonna be good um Get your rest Paul I know he goes you coming in Wednesday night. I like I don't think so If I go on Wednesday night, it's gonna be a rough. I gotta be on the radio tomorrow. I'm gonna be on the news tomorrow I'm gonna be on Boston TV tomorrow Hey, say what you want about Joe Bartonick that man shows up ready to play I mean what are you gonna be on Boston TV with playbook

1:00:00What's that you said Boston TV more specifically what what are you gonna be I'm doing the team I'm doing that I'm not doing radio. I'm doing Boston news like morning TV I'm doing tomorrow, but Bill is right if you're a coach and Joe Bartonick is on your team You're getting all of him you're getting all of jibbar and that's a guarantee You know, let's just say the guy leaves it on the field, okay Right Bill. I mean that guy there's he doesn't leave anything left over They fill in a for effort before the the evening even begins I just told I just told that story and I got us to say we may have told him here for it's a short one We were at a bar and it was the bar was pretty much empty and it was me and Bill and a few other people and there's a band on stage Joe just didn't like the vibe of the band. I don't know. They're probably playing some springstein So he didn't so he didn't like the vibe so he just walks over to just because he's gave him one of these

1:01:04And the and the lead singer's in the middle of a song. He's kind of just turning and he's looking around at his No, he sold it. He sold it so hard he had his eyebrows up and he made eye contes He's looking over like because we want to raise thing and we're looking over the people's head and he made eye contact And he had on his four colors my bachelor party. Yes, he had on his four coat We were in this club and he didn't like the band so he walks over goes like that and he made eye contact with him He goes Gave him the rapid upside and the guy cut it He's no, no, he goes this is what happened. He goes he goes Oh, I guess I thought we had Yes, I'm a more songs. I guess we got a blah blah blah but then the bartender was going like no No, you go ahead. You got keep playing then he was like totally confused. He's like All right, but like it is he's like who's that guy that told me to wrap it up And they did that was it they finished that was it. They got on the bartender saved them Ah, I thought he wrapped it. I know I wish he did buddy did that that was such a funny fucking night I'm not gonna name any names

1:02:05But like there's just there with this one guy dude like if something can fucking go wrong It's gonna go wrong So at the end of the night we're on the roof of this building And we're in LA and it's it is just dry as the phone and hasn't rained in like fucking six months And there's one little puddle of moisture I hand him a Cuban cigar. He lights it. He fucking drops it And it rolled because it was the drain area you know it it all goes like that. It just rolled And it got all wet And he goes oh god, oh wet and then he looks at me goes do you have any more Yeah, we were just fucking Barton was there. Yes, we were just dying Oh man I can't yeah, he's a fun one. We're gonna have we're gonna have fun in Boston tomorrow night

1:03:05Hope to see you guys guys that's the show that's week one. We will be back next week I guess we got to say go Broncos Monday night special. Let's get it. See you guys next week