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[00:01:48] Messenger Facebook message like a half an hour ago talking about how like his neighbors are mad at him because even that he's been blasting Rkl

[00:01:55] He's not on yet. So maybe he's in jail. Maybe he got arrested for noise violation again

[00:02:02] Most wonderful time of the year it is them it is dude. This is my Christmas without a doubt

[00:02:08] Just why even I actually prefer college over prose, but like

[00:02:13] Just meaningful football in general is just awesome. Yeah, I love college. Don't know definitely don't get me wrong

[00:02:19] I fucking love college football

[00:02:22] Not gonna lie. I just fucking

[00:02:24] Slammed a whopper like and like and like Joey Chestnut speed because I was

[00:02:30] I was dipping the bun in water and shit just

[00:02:37] I think I think

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[00:02:45] They can 100% the burgers are far superior, but McDonald's fries are on point

[00:02:51] Man double whopper with cheese was my shit. That's a good burger man

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[00:03:01] We drinking I am drinking

[00:03:05] Dogfish head pumpkin ale

[00:03:08] What is that time son? Let's go. Yes dude football

[00:03:14] Pumpkin beer. Let's go Chris mornings. It was like 55 degrees this morning

[00:03:19] No, it wasn't. Yes. Oh dude. We're setting heat records down here. Are you really still? Oh, yeah, really damn

[00:03:26] That sucks. Yeah, but I dude I love a

[00:03:30] Chris morning like that. I don't like the cold

[00:03:32] I don't want snow right when that first cold front comes through down here and God forbid it's on a Sunday morning, bro

[00:03:39] I am I'm I'm rare dude like there is nothing better than that fucking turning that TV on throwing those windows open

[00:03:45] It's one of the few times a year. I'll actually drink hot coffee in the morning like dude. It's an instant good mood

[00:03:51] Yeah, totally and it's it's just it's it's just one of like the peak moments

[00:03:57] It's the essence of life in my opinion like

[00:04:00] The those small moments like it's monumental especially down here when like your guys are like alright

[00:04:06] It's gonna be cold at one point like down here like if a cold front never comes. It's not gonna be fucking cold

[00:04:11] Right. Yeah, so

[00:04:16] Yeah, totally

[00:04:18] Yeah, I was it's been this week. It's been in the 50s at night. So I've been leaving my windows and even my like patio doors open

[00:04:26] Just so I have that when I wake up and walk downstairs. It's like cold. Oh, yeah, that's beautiful. Do you?

[00:04:33] Yeah, it's great. Oh, I can't wait. I mean October is

[00:04:38] probably

[00:04:40] October is probably my favorite month out the entire year. Yeah, because you have October baseball like

[00:04:46] Football's really got its stride going. You know and I just it's just the best dude

[00:04:52] It is and Halloween that whole like October is just a cool month

[00:04:56] Like yeah, it's like the bridge to the holidays. You have Halloween and then all of a sudden everything's Christmas

[00:05:01] Which I love I know some people don't like Christmas but

[00:05:04] Like the Grinch who should be on any minute now hates Christmas, you know, it's known as Matt

[00:05:10] Yes, he does and I was also a Grinch up until up until I got sober

[00:05:15] And now I'm like this is the first Christmas of my adult life that I'm actually like this might not be so bad

[00:05:20] I think it's in the art didn't like yeah, so I'm pretty stoked about it dude. That's awesome. Yeah

[00:05:26] Yeah, that's really cool and I've

[00:05:29] Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday as as I became an adult

[00:05:33] Because you don't have to buy shit for everybody just eat good food

[00:05:36] Yeah, everybody has off you watch football the weather is fucking perfect at least up here

[00:05:40] It's like because by then it is you're wearing sweaters and jeans every day up here like for sure

[00:05:47] Yeah, I love but like October

[00:05:52] It's kind of like that ramp into that time period so I get like super happy

[00:05:58] You know

[00:06:00] September October when it when that the weather starts to change and you know

[00:06:05] Unfortunately as a met fan, I don't really get to appreciate baseball past September

[00:06:11] September I mean that was pretty much done in well may yeah, okay, I

[00:06:17] Can't I can't say anything the Marlins are I don't even

[00:06:21] Dude, I can't even hardly name a player on the Marlins right now. Yeah, it's bad. It's bad

[00:06:27] Well, maybe we should start and just have him chime in when he comes in that's good because I do yeah

[00:06:33] I'm trying to be done by like 930. Okay. All right cool. So all right

[00:06:39] 2025 2024 2025 NFL predictions

[00:06:43] We're gonna here's how we're gonna do this we got Travis on match should be here any minute once he either gets released from prison or wakes up

[00:06:53] We're gonna go through each comfort each division

[00:06:56] And pick the winner and the loser of each division. So who's gonna come in first place? Who's gonna come in last place?

[00:07:03] and

[00:07:03] Then we're gonna predict the seven

[00:07:06] Playoff teams from each conference

[00:07:08] So it'll be your winners plus three other teams

[00:07:11] And then the AFC championship game the NFC championship game and the Super Bowl

[00:07:16] All right, who are you down with that? That's fair

[00:07:19] So since it's me and Travis jet and dolphin fan, we are going to start with the AFC East

[00:07:24] Oh, we're just going right for it. Huh? We're gonna go right for it. So I picked I

[00:07:31] I'm going I'm gonna have fun this time

[00:07:34] You didn't have fun last time. I think I might have picked the jets last time too, but I'm gonna do it again

[00:07:39] Okay

[00:07:40] Unless is that jinxing them though? You know what? I don't even give a shit. I don't think you can jinx the jets

[00:07:45] I think the jet

[00:07:49] I don't think there's anything you could do to them to make it any worse

[00:07:51] I know

[00:07:53] Uh, AFC we at air see east I'm going jets win it Pat's last place

[00:07:59] Okay, I mean as long as Aaron Rodgers stays healthy there they have they do have talent on that team

[00:08:06] Yep, so I mean

[00:08:09] As much as I hate to say it like that's it can be a talented team

[00:08:13] So the jets alright, so let me say this about the jets because like like you said as long as and Roger stays healthy

[00:08:19] yep

[00:08:20] um

[00:08:21] It is very possible as the season develops say like come october november

[00:08:26] It's very possible that jets will have the best quarterback in the league

[00:08:29] The best wide receiver in the league and garrick wilson the best running back in the league and breeze hall

[00:08:35] And the best defense in the league. It's possible. It's possible

[00:08:40] That they have all four of those things

[00:08:43] Because they're right up there in the top five of all four of those things right now. It's true

[00:08:50] Now it's also possible that I win the lottery and then like

[00:08:54] Move to it buy an island and move there and

[00:08:57] It's also possible that Aaron Rodgers breaks his ankle on the fourth snap of the season

[00:09:02] garrick wilson gets hit by a car

[00:09:04] And you know, that's it. So

[00:09:07] Fucking met life refuses to play on real grass. They just keep putting that fucking turn

[00:09:13] How many players got to get injured on that shit especially I I would I would think and this is just me

[00:09:19] I'm no jet fan, but I would think that

[00:09:21] if

[00:09:23] Our guy

[00:09:24] We got Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, you got hurt that quickly last season

[00:09:28] You'd be like maybe we should actually use some grass or something. They're like, fuck it. We're going all in on the turf

[00:09:32] Total. Yeah, I know it's ridiculous. I don't get that. I don't get that mentality, dude

[00:09:38] And I also think for for jets fans if there's any other ones out there listening

[00:09:43] This this is it for this is if we don't if something happens to rogers this year. He's not coming back

[00:09:50] And and we're gonna be set back another few years. So I think as as a jet fan. I think this is the

[00:09:56] The

[00:09:58] This as the jets hit right now with that for the season starts

[00:10:03] I am more optimistic this season than I've ever than I've been at least since like

[00:10:10] 2004 or five with Chad Pennington

[00:10:12] Even then they were like, well, I guess when they had fucking what's his name?

[00:10:15] They made it to the afc championship game two years in a row fucking mark sanchez but that

[00:10:20] Do do we have a way they overperformed on this?

[00:10:23] Do we have the technology to

[00:10:25] Spice in because you said this exact same thing last year. So did I can't we just like

[00:10:30] Reroll that tape as well so we can compare the two things you say and then see the outcome

[00:10:38] And i'm also sorry jet fans because I totally just jinxed this whole fucking season. It can't be jinxed. It's not ronnie's fault

[00:10:47] I am uh, where are you going afc east?

[00:10:49] I'm going obviously going dolphins and that's I feel like it's a little more objective this time

[00:10:55] That is my team

[00:10:56] But I mean looking looking at the landscape of that division especially with the bills and the pets

[00:11:00] I mean, I I honestly think that the jets

[00:11:04] Are going to be the strongest opponent to the dolphins this year in the division

[00:11:08] Even more than the bills 100 percent. I mean with stefan digs gone and that's right gave davis is gone

[00:11:15] They basically just have their tight end and a quote-unquote

[00:11:20] Gun slinger that uh, likes to throw the ball down field to who I don't know anymore. Exactly. That's true. Yeah

[00:11:26] So I think we're gonna see how much of a bum josh allen's josh allen is this year and uh

[00:11:33] I don't think they're gonna I think the patriots will come in last up

[00:11:35] I will say this I would love it if the patriots could somehow come in third above the bills since it's jacobi

[00:11:42] yeah

[00:11:43] Jacoby brissette and I went to the same high school nice different years obviously I graduated like 30 years before

[00:11:52] So I'm gonna dolphins win and patriots lose. Okay. All right, let's go to the afc north

[00:12:02] Are you writing all this down? Yeah. Yep. All right cool. I didn't start writing nothing

[00:12:07] So yeah, I'm documenting everything so um afc north

[00:12:12] I think the afc north

[00:12:15] And the nfc north are gonna be killer fucking divisions this year. Um, unbelievable dudes

[00:12:22] I I have the ravens coming in first and the stealers coming in last

[00:12:26] But I think that even the stealers are gonna be at play for the wild card. So that's what I'm going

[00:12:31] I'm going ravens win it stealers come in last place

[00:12:34] You basically you basically took the words out of my mouth for that division. I think

[00:12:40] I not only think the ravens are gonna win that division. I think they're gonna be one of the stronger teams in the nfl

[00:12:46] Yeah, I mean you got you got fucking derrick henry on that team now

[00:12:50] And so all the pressure to move the ball now isn't even on lemar on the ground

[00:12:54] You got fucking derrick henry behind an offensive line. That's pretty solid

[00:12:59] And then you still have the rest you have mark andrew's a titan

[00:13:01] Like you still have the rest of your weapons, dude and our lord and savior justin tucker is kicking, you know, yeah

[00:13:08] Well, yeah, we fuel by that royal farms chicken. Yeah, that's it, dude

[00:13:13] That's it. Did you see that video where justin tucker was uh singing in his church?

[00:13:18] It's a he's apparently he's catholic and like he was at this catholic church up there and bro

[00:13:23] He's got like an opera voice

[00:13:25] Really? He's got chops like

[00:13:27] That's nice. It was amazing that dude. I mean he's let's let's just look at this for a second

[00:13:33] He's a professional football player with a lot of money

[00:13:36] Yeah, uh, he's on a very good football team

[00:13:39] Yep

[00:13:40] Now he's singing in church. I mean this dude's dropping panties left and right, bro

[00:13:44] Oh, hell, yeah

[00:13:45] They was getting he was getting he was getting handys on the way out confession not from the priest

[00:13:50] So maybe

[00:13:51] Maybe from the priest

[00:13:54] As long as it's sensual father as long as it's consensual

[00:13:57] But also like if i'm if i'm gonna be like a fucking like high pay

[00:14:02] Like make millions of dollars

[00:14:04] Tens of millions hundreds of millions of dollars as a football player

[00:14:07] That's the position I want to be at because you're you know, you're gonna be healthy for life

[00:14:11] You're kicking that's badass to be to be that awesome at your position as a fucking kicker is fucking

[00:14:17] That's where you want to be

[00:14:18] 100% close second was what I did when I played in high school one of the positions I played I was a long snapper

[00:14:25] Nice hell, yeah, and that was that was very low contact. Yeah

[00:14:31] Sometimes I'd stand up too fast and get dizzy

[00:14:35] So I was I was falling over on my own accord

[00:14:38] So who you have in last place you got the Steelers?

[00:14:42] Yeah, okay, I think I mean I think I don't think they're gonna have a shabby record, but

[00:14:46] Yeah, I just don't see the browns and the bangles bangles wilson the starter for the Steelers this year

[00:14:51] I think he did last I saw they did name Russell Wilson

[00:14:54] And that's why I have them in last place because if Russ does anything like he did in broncos country

[00:15:00] I'll have to look it up because as soon as he when he went to Denver Broncos as soon as he released one of those

[00:15:06] Corny honky ass fucking catchphrases. Yep. I was like he's gonna suck it up

[00:15:10] Was it let's ride?

[00:15:12] Oh my god Russell Wilson

[00:15:14] My god, dude

[00:15:16] And so as soon as he comes out with like

[00:15:19] I don't know steel city slaughter or whatever the fuck he's gonna say that doesn't make any sense

[00:15:24] They're gonna lose most of their games as long as you don't say that they'll be all right, but last in the division

[00:15:31] All right

[00:15:33] AFC south

[00:15:35] I have the Texans winning it and the Titans coming in last. All right. I'm gonna go first next time

[00:15:40] Okay, yeah, I was just kidding

[00:15:42] Yeah, I think the Texans are gonna be probably the most improved NFL team

[00:15:48] uh

[00:15:49] I mean if you think about us back to Stefan digs, uh CJ Stroud is a fucking animal. We haven't seen anything like

[00:15:56] We haven't even seen his ceiling yet. Yeah

[00:15:59] and

[00:16:00] That team is stacked. I love D'Amico Ryan

[00:16:06] I've always been high on that dude

[00:16:08] I do think the Jags come in a close second because

[00:16:13] That would be uh

[00:16:15] Having Travis etn obviously and Trevor Lawrence and big tub big job. Doug knows how to win games. Yep

[00:16:21] I'm a Trevor Lawrence fan. He's

[00:16:23] I love him

[00:16:24] Yeah, yeah, dude. Did you see the thing going around the internet where it's it's a picture of uh

[00:16:30] Carmela Soprano and furio

[00:16:32] That's a furio. Yeah, and they're like, oh, I could be Trevor Prince's parents and I'm like, oh my god

[00:16:38] It's too it's too true spot on it's spot on spot on

[00:16:41] You don't have to do anything to edit his face at all. It is spot on there fucking

[00:16:46] Yeah, Titan Titans last because I don't even know what's going on with them. Yeah same. I have no idea about them

[00:16:54] All right, afc west you started off

[00:16:56] I mean last

[00:16:59] This is the softest first place

[00:17:02] divisional win in this whole thing because the chiefs are a good team

[00:17:07] But they're a soft good team. Yeah

[00:17:10] So I do think the chiefs will take the division

[00:17:13] And I I do think the Broncos will lose that division

[00:17:17] Yeah, that's exactly what I had

[00:17:19] Chiefs Broncos, um, I don't know much about vagus

[00:17:23] the Raiders

[00:17:25] Yeah, vagus or the chargers like so

[00:17:28] I do know the I the Raiders

[00:17:31] Are probably going to have a really solid defense this year. If not, at least a solid defensive front

[00:17:37] They got fucking uh christian wilkins from the dolphins

[00:17:40] And they still have Crosby

[00:17:43] And I mean those two alone. That's a

[00:17:46] That's a whole a whole thing you got to deal with. Yeah

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[00:18:47] all right well

[00:18:49] Let's go nfc

[00:18:51] Um

[00:18:53] nfc eats east matt alive's division, but he's

[00:18:57] Hopefully still alive. We don't know where he is but he'll be joining us maybe whatever but

[00:19:02] Go ahead and start off start us off with the nfc east. Where are you going?

[00:19:05] I really wish he was here for this

[00:19:07] But because I would be like matt's philadelphia eagles

[00:19:13] And then he would be like magic or and then say some fact or something

[00:19:16] Right, right. Yeah, but yeah, I think eagles are gonna win that division

[00:19:21] Um and the giants will probably have another miserable season

[00:19:26] That's exactly what I had so I was at first I had the commanders, but then I was thinking

[00:19:31] Dude, they got they got some they got some players jaden was it jayden daniels who's coming in as

[00:19:37] Yeah, I think he

[00:19:39] You know, so I think he's gonna be enough to push them ahead of the giants this year. Um

[00:19:43] Not to mention they have austin fucking echelor. Yeah

[00:19:47] And I've heard things it's just it's not I don't know if it's true or not yet

[00:19:51] But I've heard like real things about davante adams. They're just gonna end up there by halfway point. So yeah

[00:19:57] I don't think they're a playoff team yet, but I think that they're not a bottom dweller

[00:20:01] Like I think the giants will come in last they will be they will be like an eight and eight team

[00:20:06] Or whatever it is now nine and eight or whatever the case may be right. Yeah

[00:20:10] They will be right there kind of in the middle, but that's improved

[00:20:14] Yeah

[00:20:16] NFC north

[00:20:17] I have the bears winning that division

[00:20:20] And I have the vikings coming in last

[00:20:25] I don't know the bears are a bit of a wild card. They could be incredible

[00:20:29] Or they could have a slow start because you know

[00:20:32] It's young people so it's young people. Yeah, that could go either way

[00:20:37] I'm still I'm still hanging my hat on dan camble and the boys

[00:20:41] Okay, I

[00:20:42] I mean dan camble alone is the I mean he's all right. So the lions and yeah, I love that guy

[00:20:48] Yeah, or we go lions and I also think that the vikings were

[00:20:53] Okay, there's too much going on

[00:20:55] Yeah, this division the NFC south. I just I'm not

[00:21:01] I know nothing about the NFC south. I'm just it's not even like

[00:21:06] There's kind of nothing to know. I know it's it's just

[00:21:10] I I picked the saints to win it and the panthers to come in last

[00:21:14] you know the saints the bucks

[00:21:17] and uh

[00:21:19] Who else who else is it?

[00:21:22] Falcons things falcons. Yeah

[00:21:24] They're all kind of you know, I just I just kind of

[00:21:29] The bucks maybe over the saints but for some reason I just went saints first panthers last

[00:21:34] That's all I got to say about the NFC south. What about you?

[00:21:36] It's gonna be a short one

[00:21:37] I think the bucks are gonna win it and the panthers are are gonna lose. All right NFC west you start off

[00:21:45] Uh, I mean I do think the Niners will win it. I think that team is still extremely strong

[00:21:51] and

[00:21:53] The

[00:21:54] The cardinals have just been in shambles. So I think they're gonna come in last

[00:21:59] Really? Okay. Yeah

[00:22:02] Okay, I have the 49ers winning in the seahawks and last

[00:22:06] um

[00:22:07] I'm hoping since I have kyla mario my fantasy team that he's gonna be enough to

[00:22:14] keep them out of last place, but

[00:22:17] Did he grow at all?

[00:22:19] He is he is not

[00:22:20] Oh, he's not any taller. No, they're gonna they're fitting him to these uh two foot

[00:22:26] Long platform shoes though. I think yeah when I was when I was a kid trying to get on a roller coaster and my dad

[00:22:32] Would stuff toilet paper in my shoes

[00:22:35] Listen, I say I'm five. I say I'm 511 on my driver's license too

[00:22:40] How tall you in real life? Uh five eight

[00:22:43] Oh really? Okay. Yeah, I'm short

[00:22:46] All right, so let's talk about playoff teams now. So we have

[00:22:50] So I have the Jets Ravens Texans and chiefs

[00:22:54] winning their respective divisions

[00:22:57] My wild cards are um

[00:23:01] Dolphins browns bangles

[00:23:02] I think the a of c north is gonna be solid. So I have

[00:23:06] I had I had the bills and I cross them off and put the dolphins as my wild card instead of so I think I think you're right. I think

[00:23:14] Josh there's something about josh ellen just doesn't sit right with me. It's his fucking face

[00:23:19] You just want to goddamn you just want to hold his head underwater until those bubbles stop coming up

[00:23:27] You know, yeah, there's there's something about him that's just like

[00:23:31] It's like one of these years he's gonna fall off and that's gonna be it and it's his goddamn rat mustache and he's doing

[00:23:37] Gillette commercials. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What do you shave once a month?

[00:23:43] Then I'll go to see my grandmother and she's obviously a bills fan. She's like, I bet josh ellen

[00:23:48] I bet he visits his grandmother's more than you do

[00:23:52] Is she up that way?

[00:23:54] Nah, she's down here with us. Okay. Yeah, she lives down here. Why my family moved

[00:23:58] Most of my family moved down to Florida in the 70s

[00:24:02] okay

[00:24:03] When the getting was good. Yeah, I'm gonna go uh

[00:24:07] The jets

[00:24:09] The bangles you have dolphins ravens texas chiefs as your winners right you going jets

[00:24:15] jets bangles

[00:24:19] And I'm gonna say the jags

[00:24:22] Because I got a funny feeling about that team and I have a funny feeling that we're playing them this sunday first game of season

[00:24:28] And it worries me because there's a lot of questions about our defense right now and

[00:24:33] Big chubb dug. We'll we'll find out what's weak

[00:24:36] Yep

[00:24:37] All right, so nfc you have eagles lions bucks 49ers. So who are your three wild cards in the nfc?

[00:24:43] I'm gonna go bears

[00:24:47] Packers

[00:24:48] Well, can I get didn't the bucks sneak in last year like with a shittiest record ever

[00:24:55] I think so no they won the vision last year. Oh, that's right with like a eight and nine or some bullshit

[00:25:00] You have them winning him this year too. So you already have the bucks in I already have the bucks

[00:25:04] That was yeah, I was mixed up. So all right

[00:25:07] The bears

[00:25:08] The packers

[00:25:09] I guess we go rams

[00:25:11] Okay

[00:25:12] Yeah, so we but we both we're both big on the nfc north because I have the eagles bears sains 49ers as winners

[00:25:20] I have the cowboys

[00:25:22] And I also have the lions and the packers

[00:25:25] So we both have three nfc north teams. Yeah, it's it's a solid division. It is a great division. Yeah

[00:25:34] um

[00:25:35] For my afc championship game

[00:25:38] Again, i'm having fun

[00:25:40] And i'm going jets chiefs

[00:25:42] That's my afc championship game. All right, so if you weren't having fun, what would you say if I wasn't having fun?

[00:25:48] I would probably say

[00:25:51] Ravens chiefs

[00:25:52] Okay, so this is gonna look

[00:25:55] But i'm sticking jeff's teeth to my official that's cool. Yeah, that's cool. I'm gonna go dolphins ravens

[00:26:02] okay, but

[00:26:04] If I wasn't having fun

[00:26:07] I'd go I'd go dolphins ravens

[00:26:10] All right, let's go

[00:26:13] Uh, who's your nfc championship game?

[00:26:16] That's a tough one dude. It is a tough one

[00:26:19] How about

[00:26:21] Give me the give me the eagles and the lions

[00:26:24] Okay

[00:26:25] Dolphins ravens eagles lions your final four

[00:26:29] Yes, all right. It's my final four jets chiefs and my nfc championship game is bears 49ers

[00:26:37] Okay, yeah and my super bowl. I'm still having fun

[00:26:43] The jets beat the bears in the super bowl this year you want are we gonna edit that out?

[00:26:51] We could do like a voiceover right?

[00:26:55] All right, so you say the jets beat the bears in the super bowl. Yes, that's my pick

[00:27:01] You are excited for october and halloween. I am

[00:27:04] The serotonin is flowing. Yeah, I've had four beers too. So there you go

[00:27:10] Go jets there you go

[00:27:13] All right, who is your super bowl?

[00:27:16] Out of dolphins ravens eagles lions

[00:27:20] Which two teams are advancing this is it like this is the same exact thing as I said last year

[00:27:28] Dolphins eagles

[00:27:30] Okay, and who's bringing home the trophy?

[00:27:33] You're miami dolphins. All right

[00:27:36] Nice

[00:27:37] Like I said, I'm I'm kind of a de facto eagles fan because my wife is from philly and she's a huge philly fan

[00:27:42] You know, I you know, I love the eagles. Yeah, we hate each other during baseball season, but football I do

[00:27:49] You know as a jet fan the eagles have never done anything bad to me

[00:27:52] so no no and

[00:27:54] most of besides my grandmother who is

[00:27:57] The one diehard bills fan like the rest of my family are eagles fans and I grew up watching them and I

[00:28:06] Under the dolphins I I love the eagles and I want them to do well. So that's just one of those things

[00:28:12] Yeah, and I you know, I lived in philly when I was a kid

[00:28:16] Right next to veteran stadium where the eagles and phillies played

[00:28:21] so

[00:28:23] I mean just the just the fucking howly roseman story man that dude is incredible

[00:28:29] Where he came from and some of the the picks the trades everything he does

[00:28:36] Yeah, it's he's he is howly roseman's on another level than every other gm in the nfo period

[00:28:44] Yep, I really wish matt was around to hear

[00:28:48] Hear us talk good on the eagles

[00:28:51] Yeah, man, that's and I didn't even plow. I really think that but it would have just made it like

[00:28:57] Really good. Yeah

[00:29:01] I

[00:29:01] See his face right now gets that blank stare in the computer screen when he doesn't know what I'm saying

[00:29:07] Yep, and you just you're just waiting for it. Yeah, here it comes

[00:29:11] Here comes some snarky rebuttal

[00:29:13] Do you have any family up this way anymore?

[00:29:19] Yeah, I got I got family. I still got a little bit in upstate new york

[00:29:23] Um, I got a bunch in in jersey

[00:29:27] I think that's where a majority of them would be from

[00:29:30] What part of jersey, you know

[00:29:32] So as far as I know burlington county

[00:29:35] Okay

[00:29:40] And uh, that's I do I have family in the dc area as well

[00:29:46] Nice

[00:29:47] But most uh, most of all that

[00:29:49] The northeast is I would have to say a good majority is in jersey

[00:29:53] Okay, that's your italian side. Yeah

[00:29:57] Popular landing spot for the italians when they came over it seems to be

[00:30:04] It was like they just landed and they're like fuck it. We're here. Yeah, why go anywhere else?

[00:30:08] Why go anywhere else and then they're like, what's this florida you speak of and then they all went down

[00:30:13] Yeah, you're like it's sunny. It's it's warm on christmas. I guess we can do that

[00:30:18] It's so weird being because I when I was in the navy I was stationed in uh

[00:30:24] california and then hawaii um and

[00:30:28] It's it's weird being in the northeast your entire life

[00:30:32] And then I remember like living in hawaii and putting up christmas decorations and shorts and like sweating my ass off

[00:30:37] I was there's something weird about this. So just didn't sit well with me

[00:30:41] It's it's really hard to get into any sort of holiday spirit because of it

[00:30:45] Yeah, but I think when you're born down here. I was born down here. It's it's all I know

[00:30:50] Yeah, if it's all you know, then absolutely. Yeah

[00:30:53] It's all I know. I only know flatland

[00:30:56] road rage

[00:30:59] crystal meth

[00:31:01] And holidays are hot, you know, yeah

[00:31:04] My wife and I constantly talk about moving north. She's from

[00:31:09] She's from malabama, but oh really? Okay. Yeah, she's it's not what you people think like

[00:31:16] She's she's she's cool. She's got all her teeth and all that and she's

[00:31:23] She's she's not a backwards thinker. She's a good egg. Yeah, but like even where she's from

[00:31:29] Hey, there's seasons, you know not drastic but there are seasons and it gets chilly like cold

[00:31:35] You know, I think they even got snow a few times and we always talk about like

[00:31:42] One day

[00:31:43] High tailing at north and yeah, and I'd be down with it dude because I think my time is pretty much run in this state

[00:31:49] But it's just where I live

[00:31:50] Right. Yeah, but I think if we we both work for companies now that

[00:31:55] We can we can relocate

[00:31:57] Nice

[00:31:58] And I think one day we'll probably do that and yeah

[00:32:04] That's cool. This place is getting fucking full on top of it. Really? Oh my god. Yeah, this time of year two and

[00:32:12] I mean it used to be just new york jersey plates

[00:32:16] Now come

[00:32:18] Snowbird seasons new york jersey oh, hi

[00:32:21] I saw fucking Nebraska like yeah, yeah

[00:32:27] It's a lot of a lot of people are or

[00:32:29] Ditch in california too and a lot of them are coming florida because they want to keep that kind of weather

[00:32:34] Yeah, uh, yeah, but they want to escape the you know

[00:32:37] The political landscape. Yeah. Yeah, so

[00:32:40] Yeah, I can see that. Um

[00:32:45] I've been to florida a few times. I like it man. It's cool. It's got because it's it's got that like

[00:32:50] That nice weather

[00:32:51] But it also has maybe because there's so many people from new york and jersey that relocate down there

[00:32:57] It has that like kind of northeast vibe

[00:33:00] Yeah, especially in in like some of the bigger cities. Um, yeah, which aren't I say bigger cities

[00:33:05] It's nothing like new york, but like yeah a lot of florida is just homes

[00:33:10] Right, you know, but you get into like downtown west palm beach and all stuff like that

[00:33:15] Yeah, and it does have a it does have a real city vibe. Yeah

[00:33:20] Where are you at again?

[00:33:22] I'm in stewart a place is that close to gainsville?

[00:33:25] No, no, it's I mean, I think gainsville is a good four hours

[00:33:30] Oh, wait, what were you with what border you said something border? I'm like, I'm right on the north end

[00:33:37] I'm just past the north end of palm beach county. Okay

[00:33:42] I'm in a little county called martin county. Okay

[00:33:46] What so what city are you closest to in florida? Like big city? Yeah, like jacksonville west palm beach. Okay. Yeah

[00:33:55] People don't understand because they think like they can drive anywhere in their state

[00:33:58] Like two hours or end to end in their state or where I am to get out of florida is like a six and a half hour drive

[00:34:05] You just get out of the state

[00:34:07] Yeah

[00:34:08] It's long and

[00:34:10] hell yeah

[00:34:11] Oh and what one of the first um when I was in a band way back in the 90s

[00:34:17] late 90s early 2000s we toured so my friend who I was good friends with up here had moved to florida for college and stayed

[00:34:24] And so my band drove down to meet his band and we he was in cocoa

[00:34:30] Okay, and um

[00:34:32] I remember our first show

[00:34:34] So we went down the cocoa to meet their band but our first show was in

[00:34:38] Pensacola

[00:34:40] And it was like

[00:34:42] a very long drive out to Pensacola and then

[00:34:46] We played Pensacola, then we played Sarasota the next night

[00:34:51] And it was like it was just insane. It was like so much driving

[00:34:55] So especially across the state where you started on cocoa and then you went to Pensacola, which is in the panhandle

[00:35:01] Yeah, all the way at the end of the panhandle

[00:35:03] Yeah, most likely you took i10 over there and that is the fucking most boring

[00:35:10] God-forsaken stretcher road in this entire probably in the world like

[00:35:16] Not even in florida not in the us

[00:35:19] You know on earth

[00:35:22] It is the most boring. Yeah

[00:35:24] It's just as it sucks

[00:35:26] It just sucks and I'm sure you that because i10 a lot of people take that over to get to the other side

[00:35:32] Probably going from Pensacola to Sarasota wasn't as bad because you stayed on the coast. Yeah, yeah

[00:35:40] But yeah, that's uh, I know that we take i10 when we go up to

[00:35:44] Drive up to alabama

[00:35:45] We take i10 a lot of the ways because it cuts across the state right and goes right up in there and brah

[00:35:50] We got on i10. I'm like

[00:35:53] Yeah, it feels like we've been on this road for 75 years

[00:35:58] It doesn't end

[00:35:59] You got to go to speed limit. There's cops everywhere. They're fucking assholes

[00:36:03] Yep

[00:36:05] I gotta

[00:36:06] I guess this was in june. I haven't had a speeding ticket in like, I don't know 12 13 years. Yeah

[00:36:12] I wake up at 2 30 in the morning. That's when my alarm goes off. I gotta be at work at four. Yeah

[00:36:20] West Palm Beach where we're talking about that's where my job is

[00:36:23] Okay, so it takes me

[00:36:25] Well at that time I can get there in about 35 minutes door to door

[00:36:29] But 35 minutes requires me going pretty fast on the highway. Right. I was running a little late. This is in june

[00:36:38] Got this uh kind of got this attitude about me now that when I'm sober

[00:36:42] You know a little bit right, right, right not it's a hard thing to explain. Anyways, I'm on the fucking highway

[00:36:50] And i'm driving and then in the right lane

[00:36:52] There is a the state trooper for the highway patrol if you're on the they they're the only people that pull you over on like

[00:36:57] 90 95. Okay. Yeah, so they're the only ones that'll pull you over and but he was in the right on the right shoulder

[00:37:03] I was I didn't think nothing of it. Yeah, I'm going 87

[00:37:08] Like all right, and then I'm fucking pass them and then I see his brake lights come on

[00:37:12] I see him turn around. I'm like oh, he's coming. So I was like

[00:37:15] I'm gonna make him work for it today

[00:37:18] So I so I floor it. I'm gone

[00:37:22] There's a little bit of traffic. I'm like, maybe maybe I'll lose them

[00:37:25] Whatever uh the old Nissan Sentra got up to about a buck 12. I think

[00:37:33] He caught up to me

[00:37:35] And he was not happy

[00:37:38] And I think he even took it easy on me then because I pulled over and he was like

[00:37:43] Why were you running and i'm like, I I wasn't running. I didn't see him late for work

[00:37:47] He's like I clocked you

[00:37:49] You're doing 87 by the time I caught up to you you're doing 100

[00:37:53] and I'm like

[00:37:54] Yeah, it was I didn't see him man if I was sorry I would have slowed down. That's awesome. Yeah, so uh

[00:38:02] It ended up being like a

[00:38:05] 300 and so it was 360 was the ticket and uh that couldn't find my insurance card

[00:38:11] So he got me for that too

[00:38:13] Yeah

[00:38:14] And he was he was an ass on top of it all because he was mad because I

[00:38:18] You made him work for it. Yeah, I made him work for it

[00:38:22] Sorry got work for your money today, bud

[00:38:26] Well, you're fucking asshole like

[00:38:28] It's 3 30 in the morning. We're just trying to get the work. There's nobody out here. Why are you gonna fuck with like?

[00:38:33] Yeah, I could have been worse. I guess because for the state law. I could have got like reckless driving or something

[00:38:39] Right, right, right. Yeah

[00:38:40] But still fuck yeah, I think in mariland if you're going 20 miles over it's reckless driving

[00:38:46] I always wondered like how much you could fucking try to

[00:38:50] Try to run

[00:38:52] Before it would be like

[00:38:54] you're going to jail for fucking

[00:38:57] You know evading like a you know what I mean like

[00:39:00] But I guess you found you you towed that line. So I guess I I towed it. I towed it

[00:39:05] But also I'm driving a Nissan central hybrid. It's not it's four cylinders of fury

[00:39:11] But those those cars are those cars are, you know, they they've had work done to them

[00:39:16] I mean, I saw those headlights getting bigger fast and I was down. I'm still doing a hundred. I'm like, oh, he's coming

[00:39:22] So I just kind of like gave up. It's like when you get into a fight and you know, you're out of your league

[00:39:26] You get hit once you're like, oh, this is a mistake. You know, yeah, stay down. Stay down. Yeah

[00:39:32] I'm sorry

[00:39:35] but it was uh

[00:39:37] I enjoy besides the

[00:39:39] Almost 500 I had to spend I enjoyed the experience nice. All right. I'll keep that in mind

[00:39:46] I just bought a Honda Civic si which has a turbocharged engine back in May. So

[00:39:52] If I get pulled over maybe I'll give him

[00:39:54] A minute or two, but with my luck

[00:39:57] I'll go that two seconds too fast and or too long and he'll pull his gun out on me and

[00:40:02] Don't you have your super? You don't have like your super special clearance on the important navy man ID

[00:40:08] I could pull I could pull that out, but

[00:40:11] Depending on how much you're on phone with the president. Just be like, yes, sir. No, I have it right here

[00:40:15] He wants to talk to you

[00:40:17] He said that's okay that i'm going fast

[00:40:21] He calls himself travis latman on the phone for some reason but just talk to him

[00:40:26] That's ronnie shakes you let him go

[00:40:30] Who's ronnie shakes? Who's ronnie shakes?

[00:40:33] You know who god is don't you?

[00:40:36] What's your badge number son

[00:40:38] We're going straight to the top with this

[00:40:41] I'm texting trump right now

[00:40:45] Oh fuck. All right travis

[00:40:49] Thank you for your picks and um, man, I hope uh, I hope now that it's football season again. This becomes regular

[00:40:56] Yes, yes for sure. Well, let's plan on doing it again in a couple weeks or so and um, hopefully matt is um

[00:41:03] Let's do what that's

[00:41:06] He's asleep right in front of the computer. I I'm guarantee he's asleep

[00:41:10] He's having dreams on his picks. He's like, I can't wait to tell him about the commanders

[00:41:14] Yeah, and now that the owner's gone. I hear it all

[00:41:18] And then he's gonna wake up and be like

[00:41:24] Yep, his picks are gonna be tainted because they're not gonna be

[00:41:28] I'm not gonna be able to talk to him tomorrow

[00:41:29] So they're not gonna be before the official start like ours are so so yeah ladies and gentlemen

[00:41:34] It is sunday when you're hearing this but

[00:41:37] Travis and I made our picks on wednesday the fourth

[00:41:40] Just so you know just so you know

[00:41:42] Yeah

[00:41:44] It was good seeing you Ronnie. Yeah, you too, man

[00:41:47] All right, brother. Yeah, man. Take care. We'll talk soon. Cool later later

[00:41:57] I know I'll do this shit. I can still hear you

[00:42:01] Uh, so where where do I have to press?

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