Anything Better? - NFL Preview & Picks | Wild Card

Episode Date: January 11, 2025

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What's up everybody and welcome back to the Anything Better podcast with your host me Paul Verzi. Bill Burr, we got the Beverly Hills Kid Greek freak Andrew Thimless over there and apparently Jake the Snake had a really rough go last night with the ladies. So who knows what went on in there? He's having some technical difficulties. But Jake the Snake, we already know pretty much what's going on with the playoffs. Bill, it is my favorite.

I don't know if you've talked about this with all the sports talk that we've done in football talk, wild card weekend might be my favorite because here's why. A good team's getting picked off either tonight or tomorrow. A favorite is going to be gone and I just love to see what team is going to do it. You got the Chargers and Texans to the first game, two and a half point favorite for the Texans. Then tonight's game you got the Ravens, a heavy favorite over the Steelers. Then tonight's game, you got the Ravens, a heavy favorite over the Steelers. So I guess just let's get into this.

All right, just right off the top of my head. I love the Steelers getting points. All right, it's a division rivalry. They see each other twice a year, Paulie. What is the spread? I don't know what the spread is. I'm already talking crap here like an idiot in pajamas. The last I looked, the spread is 9 and 1 half. Oh, give me that 9 and 1 half, Paulie.

And I'll go to fucking Pyramis or whatever they call it and get myself a sandwich and win that bet. Oh, oh, Permany Brothers. You're going to have to steal this game. What is it called? Permany Brothers. Permany Brothers, yeah. If you ever wonder why everybody had such a big head

in Pittsburgh, it's that goddamn sandwich. It's a loaf of bread with French fries in it. It really is, it's drunk food. All right, well. Steve Byrne will go there and get like four of them over the course of a weekend. Oh, that's great. Well, you know what, dude?

Last year, I had a good run in the regular season, and then I was one in seven in the playoffs, and Bill fucking torched me. But I like this, you know what? I'm gonna tell you my two teams that I like right now, and then you tell me if you agree. I like the Steelers getting the points, and I love, I gotta be honest with you,

I love Justin Herbert and the Chargers on the road, on the road, minus two and a half. No, no, Andrew, they're plus two and a half, I believe. Uh, hold on, I'm gonna just, uh... You have them both minus. No, no, uh, yeah, uh, yeah, Texans are plus, but yeah, it was three when we started, or... Wait, are you sure the Texans are plus? Uh, yeah, Texans are, Texans are plus, but yeah, it was three when we started. Are you sure the Texans are plus?

Yeah, Texans are plus, yeah. OK. I like the Chargers to win the game. I like Herbert. And the Texans have those receiver injuries. I like the way you enunciated that, injuries. Those receiver injuries. I feel bad saying this because my picks for the Super Bowl

were the Lions and Texans, but when the Texans wide receivers went down, Stefan Diggs went down, and now Tank Bell went down. I don't think they could make the run they want to make without with those two receivers out and Justin Hur... How about this? Jim Harbaugh, first year back in the NFL after winning the national championship with Michigan going to the playoffs with the fucking Chargers. Michigan still beat Ohio State Michigan still beat Ohio State. How about Ohio State? How about all the Michigan fans? We were all laughing at them. Now it looks like they might win the championship. Unreal. Good for them. Good

for them. They need something out there in Columbus. Those are some of the most the be ready for the unexpected. I don't like that they're only two and a half, you're saying they don't have any receivers. You're saying Tank Bell's out. You're saying Diggs. Drew, Drew, Drew Pearson's gone, right? Stefan Diggs isn't gonna be there. But they're only two and a half point flavors. I don't know. The charges to me that you can't,

you cannot count on thegers, especially in January. It's an enigma. It's a riddle wrapped up in a regular season team. I don't know what their deal is. All of a sudden, what's his face is on his exercise bike. Somebody takes the unnecessary roughness call. I don't know what happens to them in January. I believe in Harbaugh,

but I still think his team is a year away. Bill, I got one for you. Who's the more cursed franchise? You've been watching football longer than me. The New York Jets or the San Diego Chargers? Oh, the New York Jets. And they win by a nose because not only do you have to deal with Charger football, but you have to deal with the winter. So because of the weather. I like that. Because of the weather.

I mean, the Chargers, their last championship was an AFL championship either the first or second year of the league. The Chargers, their last championship was an AFL championship, either the first or second year of the league. Like, dude, they haven't won anything. Even if you counted those AFL championships as the Super Bowl, they still haven't won in over 60 years. Have the Buffalo Bills won the Super Bowl? They might have been the Los Angeles Chargers the first time they won.

No, I think they were the LA Chargers. Then they moved to San Diego and they won their first year. Have the Buffalo Bills ever, the Buffalo Bills have never won. They won an AFL title in like 64. Paul, don't ask me about the last 20 years of football, but you want to go back 60 years, I got you. No, dude. I'll tell you right now the names in football and in hockey the white European guys and the elaborate black guy

names just for my old white guy brain like I can't with this shit I can't even the white guys there's no there's no Pauls and Bills and Mikes anymore. I've talked about this before, these fucking names are difficult. Yeah. It's like everybody has their own name. Oh, you know, you know we gotta talk about- You yelled Mike back in the day,

like 40 people turned around. Bill, we gotta talk about- These guys' names are like bassinet Roberts. I was thinking about you last night. I was thinking about you last night watching the Ohio game because I don't know if you saw it. The quarterback on Ohio State, it was literally like fourth and three or four and they had to get it. And he just is in shotgun formation. He gets it out of the gun and he just quarterback, sneak up the middle, he runs for 18. But he gets out of the line, he goes left

and he's got a clear cut thing and he loses his footing like Daniel Johnson and goes down. And I go like this and then Kenny Pickett, the backup for Jalen Hurts on the Eagles, did that thing where he went to throw the ball and he held it and it looked like the ball weighed something and threw himself. And I go, what is this white guy? Someone goes, Paul, can you stop with the, I'm tired of white guys making fun of white guys. I go, dude, the white guy that dunked it and he held on too long and flipped Daniel Jones, fuck it. Dude, white guys have this thing when they play. Everybody makes fun of their own people. Latinos make fun of themselves. Black people make fun of themselves. We'll make fun of you. You can't fucking be nobody around you. And you just fall

down. A black guy doesn't break through the line and fall down. He doesn't. I've seen parents running at the airport luggage, not fall down, trying to catch a flight. You're a pro athlete. You're carrying a football. How do you fall down? And I was thinking of sitting next to you. Have a sense of humor about yourself, by the way. I was thinking about sitting next to you, Bill,

looking at you at just same time in unison. Fucking white guy. Fucking white guy. We did that at a basketball game. Yeah, they kept kicking it out to that dude behind the arc before everybody was hitting him. That was a long time ago. Bill and I, those are the days. Don't get me sad. Dude, we haven't worked together in eight years this January. It's nuts. But dude, that's not true. We did a gig last year. We did. No, I mean like I mean like going on runs. But uh, but like me and Bill are at Portland Trailblazers at Portland and we're sitting there and this white guy just did something and it was literally should have been on camera.

We just look at this fucking white guy. It's not a fuck. You just make fun of your people. If an Italian does something dumb with food, you go fucking you know, yes, it's what it is. All right. So the Irish goodbye, you think the Irish goodbyes a funny thing? childhood trauma? That's no, that's no love. It's genius. The Irish goodbye is one of the greatest. It's one of the

greatest outs of any social gathering ever. Listen, in the moment, it's a fantastic thing. But over the arc of your life, it's a very sad, lonely thing. Just imagine doing that. Well, I'm talking we do it to family. Italians can't do it. It's disrespect. Yeah. My father would call me and go, What do you? You can't What are you doing? You can't everybody here is talking about where is Paulie and I'm sitting here lying saying he's downstairs taking a dump.

I'm telling people turn that cordoba around. Right. If you love your father, turn that Cordoba around right now and get back. I'm telling people my son's a good kid and you fucking leave without saying goodbye to your aunt? Paul, the front of my house looks like the White House, okay? Don't disrespect me walking out the back door like that. People are asking me, where's Paul? And now I'm the asshole? We're doing the group photo next to the columns. Where are you?

That was one of my favorite like random sketch sketches Fred Armisen did. Marble columns. Make your house the showcase to your neighborhood with marble columns. And then they would show the houses then they would come back your neighborhood with marble columns. And then they would show the houses and they would come back and be like, marble column. That was the move when you wanted to look rich,

but really didn't have the money and you were in the suburbs. You got columns in the front of your house. Or if you really wanted to go gangster, you put up a gate and you had those stupid lions at the end of your driveway. Dude, at the front of a split entry because you finally put your above-brown pool in the ground. Dude, my dad bought like a $50,000 desk that was gold-plated and the sides of it had fucking lion's head and gold plated.

Like leather on the top. He's like, you see how fucking beautiful, you know? And they always go like this, you know how rare that piece is? Oh, everybody. Dude, it's the art world. I've watched it. I got a buddy of mine that really goes to a lot of museums and stuff like that.

And he talks about like just how they come up with what is worth the money and what dude it is the biggest friggin scam. It's like this. It's just like every business is like five rich guys at the top. And then they buy something and then they go all right, tell everybody this artist is worth money now. Yeah. And then they turn around and flip it. I'm obviously simplifying it Paul. Right. I'm just a guy in pajamas. Look, we got a friend, I'm not going to mention names, we got a friend that I see a lot here in New York. And he does this thing. And I got to do a bit on it. Because everything I see, I swear to God, I go, dude, those are nice glasses. He goes, 200 made in the world. I got one of them.

200. certificate of authenticity. They made 15 of those the guy they made 15 of those the guy sent me one. My favorite thing in the world is the certificate of authenticity that is given to you by the person that's

selling you whatever you're buying. It's just like, so this is an in house certification. Shouldn't there be some other group watching you to make sure this isn't BS? Oh, this is your company? You make 10 of them? Oh, dude, like, it's so dumb. It's so dumb. 200 in the world. You know what the best ever was? People finally figured it out, the sports memorabilia.

My dad used to buy that stuff. He'd buy all these jerseys and stuff, and he'd frame them and put it up. I forget the bottoms downstairs of our house look like the Hall of Fame. He had all these jerseys up on the wall. And I just want to be like, Dad, they're selling them. They're signing them 100 a clip.

There's probably 40 guys in our town alone has that. Oh, no, no, that is the third jersey, Jason Veritek, There's probably 40 guys in our town alone has that. Oh no, no, that is the third Jersey Jason Veritek that came with a signed home plate. Yeah, dad, he signed a thousand of them. He didn't, he was between getting a coaching job in baseball and ending his baseball career. He did a signing.

Oh no, no, no, I begged the different. I begged the different. Dude, one of my favorite things is when I saw, when I was at your dad, when I was at your parents house, so your dad showed me that musket. And he goes, you see this here, this is in better than exceptional shape. And it was, he wanted to say that. Oh yeah. Yeah. This, this gun is in better than exceptional shape. Oh, that's great. Oh my god, my parents are like antique hoarders.

My dad loves antique shops. My parents live in an antique shop. Dude, they have a plane propeller on the wall from like a 1911 fighter plane with a musket on top of it. A revolutionary era flag wound in the thing. I mean, I mean, that's kind of cool. It wasn't next to a stand up stove from the little rascals era. All right, that's it. bit. It's all on top of itself. The whole thing is just like, my parents have an open floor plan and it's like divided by like just piles of antiques.

It's insane. And then they have like seven foot ceilings. And my dad saw that thing on TV where you hang the pots from the ceiling. You need like a 10 foot ceiling to do that. Dude, you just bang your head on him and everything. It's his childhood trauma. Like he can't face what happened to him.

So how he does it is he just keeps buying shit and building things. I tell jokes, you know, we all got our way that we deal with it. All right, so who do you got? You like the charge, you like the Texans? I'm gonna take the Texans, Paul, just because it doesn't make any sense.

All right, I'm gonna take the Chargers. Bill's got the Texans. So you guys are gonna pick separate this year. I know last year, a few years, you agreed on- No, we'll just go- So listen, let's just do it where some we agree, some we don't. I like the Chargers, and I like the Chargers and I like the Steelers.

I like the Steelers with the points. I think the Ravens win. I agree. I agree with all of that, but I'm taking the Texans. I'm going with the Steelers and I think the Steelers recover. All right, Bill. Here we go, Bill. We got the the on fire Broncos who heated up towards the end of the year nine point dogs against Josh Allen and the Bills in Buffalo. I'm gone taking the Bills all day to bury those nine points. I think Josh Allen is going to look like the second coming of Brett Favre. He's going to be taking his helmet off smiling ear to ear running up and down the field. I absolutely second that 100%. You couldn't have said it better. I like the Bills as well. I think they're gonna... I said it better than exceptional. You still... Bill you did that better than exceptional. Now watch the Broncos destroy him. But better than exceptional, it can't be better.

That's what's the greatest thing about that is he needed to hammer it. It's the best. There's no word that's beyond exceptional. So he just had to say it's better than that. He would say that if Trump heard that shit, Trump would be like this. Trump would be. Oh, the Trump would love that. He would clock that and be like using that my next speech

All right, then you got The what's your economic plan? That's unbelievable. Well, what is it? That's better than exceptional next question So what is your plan I immigration? Oh dude, buckle up. This is gonna be, nothing SNL can do is gonna be funnier than fucking four more years of fucking Trump. He's already doing the blame game. He couldn't just say, oh my God, what happened in LA was terrible. He goes, oh, it's Gavin Newsome's problem. Dude, he's the Jeff George of politics. Wow.

He's got this great arm. He's got the great arm. But every locker room he goes into, within 10 minutes, everybody wants to kill each other. I got trivia for you. I got trivia for you. What college did Jeff George go to? Probably more than one. Knowing that fucking guy.

I have no idea. Andrew, I think it's Illinois. Am I right? I think it's Illinois. but dude, Jeff George. I think we looked this up on the show before. Jeff George, dude, he had the mustache, the mullet. And that cannon of an arm, if he could have just kept his mouth shut.

Is it Illinois? Oh man, I'm looking it up. Paul, you're like, is it Illinois? I don't wanna be wrong. Yeah, Illinois, is it Illinois? I don't want to be wrong. Yeah, Illinois University of Illinois Urbana Shenzhen. Paul, you went out and you're choice by half a second. Yeah. Andrew was taking long. I'm like, oh, shit, is it not long? You

know, I mean, you know, Jeff George is Greek. And somehow my grandmother knew somebody who was like, his aunt and I actually have a speaking of autographs a Jeff George autograph. I love you. Hey, what's this real last lane George Papalopoulos? I'm looking it up. I don't know.

I don't know. Maybe like Georgios. It's probably like Georgios and they cut it off. I don't know if he shortened it or just you know going back. Somebody else did but. All right, let's get you know there was a wave of Greeks came over here and they were getting shit and some people stuck it out like the Thameluses and then other people

chopped their name off and tried to assimilate. I don't know, man. I hate to talk about this next game. The Packers and the Eagles, the Eagles are at home minus five and a half. Saquon Barkley had one of the greatest years any running backs ever had. He's in the conversation for MVP. Packers have a good team, but I have to take the Eagles at home to win by more

than five and a half as much as it pains me. Did I hear right that they set Saquon even though he could have broke the record? He wanted to. Yeah, no, but he the coach actually shut it record. He wanted to. He wanted to. Yeah. No, but he, the coach actually shut it down. He was fine with the coach shutting him down. Oh, okay. All right.

Oh, Bill's going Packers, I could tell. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I love crazy Nick. You know, I want to make sure he looks like that kid that always loses a snowball fight. You know what I mean? When he puts that hat on? He just looks like that kid at the bus stop that gets hit by the ice ball.

Even the nickname. You just gave him the nickname on the show crazy Nick. That's it. ball. You just gave him the nickname. You just gave him the nickname on the show. Crazy Nick. That's it. Nicky snow. Nicky snow. Nicky snowballs. Uh, um, Oh boy. Nikki nighttime. Nikki nighttime. Come on, buddy. Go to sleep. We got a game tomorrow. I don't know what I did. thing. He's the most relatable guy in football right now. What I said to hell with all of you next week. Oh, God, they're gonna fire. It's all right, Nick. It's all right. All right, you Nick, you wouldn't be here if you shouldn't be here. Oh, I know

who bills picking on this one. Then the next one. Come on, my guy. You got the commanders. Anytime I bet against this guy. Yeah, you know, what I love about him is he reminds me why I shouldn't and he never gets mad at me. I'm gonna go ahead. We actually know each other. That's how much I love this guy. I love Baker Mayfield and I like the bucks. But I'm gonna say the commanders are an upset this week and they shot versie is a low key Washington commanders

fan. Okay, that that team has come out of your mouth too many times for a guy that's a Giants fan. I'm just great. My my distant uncle was on there. What am I gonna do? played for the play for the Redskins played for my Yeah, my aunt said her great, great uncle, whatever that means, he played in the ring. He's in the ring of honor. He played two years in the fifties under Lombardi. Yeah, you show me that.

We went to the game there. Yeah. I just like- That's where that pedigree comes from. All those years later, trickles down, you're beating the book. Not Stacy. I tell my kids, not Stacy.

Hey Lucas, you just hit that three? Do you do that at your son's basketball game? It's my side of the family. He gets that from me. Good shot Lucas, good shot from Lucas. Not her family. It's all me baby. Alright.

And the final game of the week. This one, a lot of people are going back and forth with this one. Don't let the Viking good looks fool you. That's that's inside. Inside. That's me. I was I was on stage last night and I go, look, I go, my wife's great. I go, I'm I'm Mediterranean. I go on. I hug. I hug. I mean, I'm Greek and Sicilian. How are you doing? I go, my wife's Scandinavian. I go a little colder Viking.

Reconciler, how you doing? I go my wife's Scandinavian. I go a little colder Viking. She doesn't care. Well what would she be doing if she wasn't shooting a flaming arrow into Alexis? I mean she can't help it. My wife it makes sense that she's Viking. I watch her behave sometimes and I'm like that's in there. It's in there. I'm not a Viking. I'm not a Viking. You know, I don't know, dude, who do you like Bill Rams Vikings in Los Angeles? That's you know what that reminded me of one of the most fucked up things ever. I forget what country I was in where I was somewhere around there by some country that got conquered by another country and I was slowly piecing together their genetics and this guy yelled out from the back he goes we are rape babies what dude it's it's Mike it is the most fucked up thing

anybody and nobody just great I was just like, I was going, wait a minute. You guys, you used to be and these guys came and now you guys look like the guy we are. Oh my God. Yeah. It was insane. Who you like Bill you got the Vikings. Hold on. So this is the thing, Sam Darnold. I like the Vikings. I want the bike really, I want the Vikings to win. I just want them to win. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of them not having a Super Bowl championship. I love what's his face back in the day. But grant,

God, I was gonna go Vikings, dude. But you know something Sean, that's what I want? Sean McVeigh. This is just what I want, Paul. Sean McVeigh and the fucking Pukka Nakua and fucking Cooper Cup and these guys. I know. I'm gonna take the Rams.

Hey, Wes Welker, you're to death. I'm gonna take the Rams at home to win by a field goal. Oh, Paulie, say it ain't so. Sam Darnal had a bad game. I don't know, I think Sammy D may be coming down to Earth. Dude, Sam Donald's a great name. Let me tell you something. Sam Donald would know his fucking ass.

Well, hold on, ground. You put him. It just sounds like one of those names you hear somebody talking about in a coffee shop. Yeah, I like the Vikings. I believe in the Vikings. I don't think one game is Sam Donald. And also, if he takes him deep into the playoffs, it makes what the Jets are going through even

funnier. But for jet fans someday when you do win it, it's gonna that's gonna be an unbelievable highlight reel, the misery that led up to it. No, Andrew, Bill, Bill's not taking the Ravens. He's taking the Steelers. So we agree on the Steelers. Oh, that backwards. Sorry. Yeah, we agree on the Steelers. We agree on the Bills. And then that's all we agree on. All right. So we got two out of the six. And look at that, Paul, we're still friends. We can disagree. We can still be friends. I mean, I think that's one to grow on. Yes. Here's the season totals. Oh, geez,

look at me. I'm on the hot seat. All right, my house is for sale. Jesus Christ, Andrew. 45? Yeah. Yeah. Nice. You're like a Dan Marino 1984 season. The beat last year was 44, 20, and 5. Paul was 37, 26, and 3. Listen, I'll tell you right now. I should gracefully bow out like Joe Biden. I should do it early next season. And the ticket should be Verzi and Andrew Semmelist. Oh my God, the Greek freaks!

There's got to be something. There's got to be something there. You both got Greek blood in you. Is there no Monday Night Special this week. No. All right. Not because there's no Monday Night game, it's because Bet MGM got afraid of us, Paul. They got sick of us picking winners. Oh no, it is Monday.

Sorry, it is Monday. The Minnesota Los Angeles game is Monday. Oh Jesus, now I talk shit. All right, what do you got, Paul? Let's do... Matthew Stafford. Justin Jefferson. Matthew Stafford to throw one. Justin Jefferson to catch one.

And then what's the under over? Forty-eight. What do you think, Bill? Oh, don't listen to me, man. Just a guy in pajamas riding out a fucking disaster uh, I By the way, I'd like to say on this podcast that the Department of Water and Power in the fire department Did an amazing job. I mean it was a hundred in hundred mile an hour winds

This shit look now where people are trying to blame stuff. I was talking about it on my podcast. My favorite thing ever is just saying there's a band of immigrants that went around and they burned down these neighborhoods so then they could loop a burning house, Paul, go in and pick up a hot coffee cup. Yeah. I mean, that's fucking ridiculous. It's the dumbest shit ever. Yeah, dude. From our show to everybody that's affected by this, man, honestly, dude, thoughts and prayers, it's horrible what's going on there.

We hope everybody gets through it. It's an opportunity, Paul, just like the CEOs, they all look at it like an opportunity to go buy land and shit. This is an opportunity for regular people to help each other out. I got to do a benefit. Like somehow I got to fit. I just wish I could find like a.

Yeah, the stand is doing something Red Cross with the Red Cross. The stand is doing something next week where the Red Cross they're doing a show. They're raising money. They're all going to end up on Epstein Island. I'm talking about going straight to the people Paul. I don't want to go through a comedy club. I do. They're the Red Cross. You know the stand. The stand make sure to do it right and see Paul Italia. Paul Italia let me next time I see that guy off and I love Paul. I'm kidding. Yeah there's got to be like I remember one time I was trying to help public schools and

I just want to be like all right I'm gonna do a benefit for your school they're like you can't do that you gotta send them the money to the Board of Education and then they determine where it fucking goes. Yeah I know to the board of education and then they determine where it fucking goes. Yeah. I know where it goes Paul. Right. And then you ended up on the podcast. On the podcast you had teachers write in and give like wish lists and then you ended up buying I don't know a couple thousand dollars worth of school supplies. That was like 2019. How about this? And I haven't done a good fucking thing since. How about victim show up to my fucking house? I give you cash.

Your fucking house. Get yourself out to Jersey. Do you drive show? Polly money clip. You go like this. You go like this. Let me see how much. Show me a picture. Show me a picture. No, man. It's fucking horrible and help. I'll

those are those are you know working class people out there and everything. So, you know the only thing that palisades I mean a lot of people have you know money and shit out there. So hopefully they have the insurance but you watch these fucking insurance companies You watch what they do you watch what they do Paul

That's why CEOs get whacked you can't fucking do that to people you can't fucking do that to people in their time of need Eventually shit's happen these fucking stupid news Corporation acted like they didn't understand and they try to paint that kid out to be nuts I'm not saying he's not nuts, but like you do that enough times, eventually you're going to do it to somebody crazy enough that's going to fucking do something. How hard was that to figure out? Yeah. What these insurance companies do to people when they really need them in times like this, dude,

it's treason. It's treason. They should be in jail. That's a nice way of dealing with them. Because I'll tell you, Paul, if I was running stuff, let me tell you. Yeah, just I don't know why they don't you kidnap them and sit them down.

Andrew, what do we say? We kidnap them and sit them down. Put it down. Yeah. Yeah. I thought that would have been a better move just to kidnap him. You don't kill anybody. If you're that crazy, put them in a car to drive. He threatens something he loves. Yeah. But you but then just get a

change. Just blood giving you the solutions. Nobody does it better. Yeah, I really get him and take something he loves away. Yeah, just be like, listen, man, I want you to go back to work. I want you to go back to work on Monday.

Thanking God that you still have a light. Picture of his daughter school. Walking into romance. You go hey, you see that? Bam. Now, started. Italians go, Oh, oh, this is your daughter's school. Nice school.

They always do that. Nice school. That's a nice they did looks good. That this is your daughter's school nice school they always do that it's nice school that's a nice they did looks good that's where your daughter goes right yeah that's 2.6 miles from your front door yeah no the bus picks her up at 718 yeah no we know that's a nice life you have. Oh, they always do something happen to it. If my mother doesn't get her coverage, I'm gonna come down to that. That's a nice life, isn't it? Yeah. Oh, dude, the smiling, pleasant psycho. It's a nice car. What is that? Is that is that a 25 or 24? Yeah,

that's a nice car. You got you. you want to live long enough to see the 27? Yeah, you parked that in the driveway at night, right? You don't use the garage. Okay, when's that? That's a shame if you didn't make the Shame if you didn't make that last payment You don't want your kids to have to handle that lexuses are very expensive these days want your kids to have to handle that. Lexuses are very expensive these days. No, the common child in my bank. My mission is to try to bring regular people back together again. We've got to stop this Hatfield McCoy shit. We have to stop it. Fuck the insurance company. Fuck all of these fucking people. We got to, this is the time,

if your house didn't burn down, you help somebody's who's dead and fuck all of these people that are gonna set up these things that they're gonna they're gonna skim money from this gotta be a way to like directly you know get that's why I love working with Steve Simone Steve someone would find like homeless families like we literally like ATC we directly got okay you you know get you into a hotel get you off the street we were able to do stuff yeah there was there was like a girl who had to take two buses to go get dialysis by herself she was 14 year old 14 years old simone hears about her from the hospital and it was just like

the amount of money that was raised just to make sure she could take an uber was like nothing it was like you know why that is you know why that is because regular people are good people they are yeah they just are that's why that's why you're not running an insurance company because somewhere up the ladder you were like, I'm not doing that. I couldn't live with myself if I did that. And that way that whole system is set up is for non caring sociopaths to get the documentaries about the guy in his pajamas just to try to make sense of the world. You're 1000% right though, man. My point was better than exceptional Paul. It was great. Steve Simone, dude, me and him hang out when I go to Tampa, dude. I went to church with that guy. That guy will find the good in everything, but I want to wrap it up. But I got to say-

He goes to a titty bar in Tampa and he tries to help the dancers. He tries to help them. He gets them out of there like it's a trafficking ring. Steve sees it for what it is. But after his lap dance, there's nobody betting on him. Bill, you just touched on something that I wanna talk about. And by no means do I want this to be political.

It's not political, but I was thinking about people coming together now in 25, or at least being able to talk more. And when I saw Trump and Obama laughing together and talking, and then after Obama laughed, he looked in and then Trump looked at him and smiled and Obama looked at him and nodded his head. I swear to God for some something inside of me in that moment was just like, hate this guy, hate this guy, this guy's evil, fuck this guy. For whatever reason, I just go like, oh my God, like that's like what it's like when a relative comes over that I disagree with.

And it actually was in a weird way healing as gay as that is to sound. So you know, it's at least there's something you can see where You know this this this whole thing isn't working and These fucking assholes that Facebook guy Who also owns Instagram? That fucking nerd to sit there and allow bots or to have your own on there that are just specifically designed to create Arguments so people interact with your like that's how you got to make your money. Your piece of shit.

I just don't understand. Like the fact that you would burn your own country down underneath you is just beyond for your just you get a bigger fucking pool or you can win because you compete with some other zillionaire up the street. Paul, we're both on our soapbox here. Let's get back to football. You know why? Because we're easy. We're good people. We want good for people. Paul, we lack the intellect and the knowledge to truly make an educated decision here. So it all seems simple to us.

All right. Well, let's get back to the ball. There's no variables when you're sitting in a coffee shop. Andrew pulled up those games so we could uh I could do a little recap here. Paul, did you not pay the heating bill this week? Jesus

Christ. How many **** layers do you have on there? It's freezing. I'm I'm I'm off the garage here. I'm **** Paul Paul he's got that olive oil Mediterranean fucking blood there. Oh, I'm all through Paul either. Paul is cleaning up.

All right, here we go. Everybody. Your wife's running out in the snow like a husky right now. She's not even cold. She's out there. But get ready to go fucking go to the I did a rod downstairs. It's probably fucking 58 degrees there.

I was like, God damn, it's fucking. It's good to the ocean. Time for a vacation, no? All right, so here we go. Let's do the Monday night special. Do Justin Jefferson to catch one. We'll do Matthew Stanford to throw one. And I like over 48 points. Let's root for points

Yeah, let's do let's have a good time. All right, so we'll do that and then as far as wild-card weekend Bill Burr has the Texans. I have the Chargers. He we both have the Steelers. We both have the Buffalo Bills Bill's taking the Packers. I'm taking the Eagles Bill is taking Baker, his boy Baker Mayfield, lay in three. I'm gonna take the commanders and then Bill has the Vikings. It's an insult to Baker Mayfield the way he puts up points. He's great. And then Bill's got the Vikings lay in two and a half and I will take the Rams at home. That is our wild card weekend picks. We

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Oh my God. Hey, I'm not part of that week. Dude, we, we. Dude,'re in the playoffs. Oh my god. I'm not part of that week. Do we? We do it. Here's the thing. We're fucking three weeks away from the Super Bowl guys. We're three weeks away from the Super Bowl. Don't they take a week off the fuck out of you? Is it going to be over this quickly? Paul? Dude, it's over. It's like it didn't happen. It's like it didn't happen. Um, but dude, how about the college football playoff Paul you complaining about it now? Come on. You know what I read that guy like, you know what?

It was the first teams. It was the game where like the team that got in and you got to just deal with that. So I was wrong because the first year could have just, you know, just been bad matchups or whatever, you know, dude. I don't know. That was like I don I still, I'm trying to figure out where Indiana got those 10 wins from. I mean, they just got absolutely smoked. But then again, you know, Ohio State also, you know, they spent like a zillion dollars on guys. So this is also the other part of the new game.

Yeah, when Arizona State almost beat Texas, I was like, dude, this playoff thing is like, after, like I said, after that first week, it's really fucking awesome. And now, dude, you got Notre Dame, Ohio State for all of it on the 20th, which is going to be a great game. And you, I'm actually into college football now because of you. You got me into it like 10 years ago, 11 years ago and watching it now.

I mean, I'm listen, I'm an NFL guy first. You know that. I mean, this is my love. But I like seeing guys that are coming to the NFL. And this this playoff has been awesome. So about the fact that you watch college football, and it looks

like the NFL you remembered. That's what I like about it. Same thing with like college basketball. Yeah, picking roles, people feeding the big man down low, it's just not like three point at three point at three pointer. So I'm hanging

on to that as much as I can but because I know you know the pros always affect college but oh and one thing I want to call it was a great run one thing I want to say too about this year that we didn't talk about enough all of the football that I watched this was the best officiating year except for the chiefs in the history of the other than the other than the Kansas City Chief games, these guys were good this year. I got to get credits too. The Chiefs are not held accountable for their actions. Did you see that commercial or the guy online? He goes, I just got my Chiefs jersey and he opened it and it was officials. It was the zebra. Dude, even if you're a fucking Chiefs fan, you got to there's been some egregious levels

of fucking holding. I mean, let's do that Super Bowl last year. That was just, I'm fucking, I mean, I'm talking like this. Both just got both hands in the air like what the fuck? Nothing. All right, guys, enjoy wild card weekend. Those are our picks. Monday night special, Justin Jefferson, Matthew Stafford and the over.

We will be back next week for the divisional, which is only four games. And we'll see you then. Have a great time and bet responsibly. All right, we'll see you.