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December, a month when snow falls and pages turn on an otherwise tranquil December night, darkness descended and draped the sky, a redundancy of mood matching midnight. And the news landed with these sodded an echoing thud of an anvil falling from vast blackness. The poet Tom Rinaldi is leaving ESPN after decades to take his tapestry of sports sonnets to Fox Sports.

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So let us all say congratulations, Tom Rinaldi, for taking your tales that were equal parts, eloquence and emotion and wrapping them ever so delicately around the stench of a copycat network that loves the steel ESPN old Caucasian.

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By the way, a business, a content strategy. I just want to be on the record and saying I totally, totally agree with. Where was I? Oh, yes, oh, we will miss your craftsmanship, obviously, and your credibility for your breathy storytelling was like the manicured fairways of the most lush.

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Riches mythology so awful that we marvel at the combination of ballet and physics that romanticized a stick, hitting a ball, romanticized it so well, in fact, that we could all ignore that the tradition, unlike any other, was actually country club privilege, getting back to the quaint black and white time when Labor referred to their bosses as the Masters.

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We will miss your arms and your professionalism, all of your colleagues are lessened by your law, but we understand that a golden voice must be free to fly, kissing the sky and soaring towards the warmth of light, even if that light is too close to Will Cain and Tucker Carlson.

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You cannot ever cage a song, my friend, or Freedom or Clay Travis telling me I'm sorry for worrying about passing a deadly virus on to the elderly because he doesn't want to stop hemorrhaging cash betting on Sparty.

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I mean, Jesus, Travis, it was nothing less than Heroes' watching you in a suit and dress shoes, chasing Nick Saban into a tunnel to ask about his special teams play.

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I'm not going to quit asking your storytelling as no.

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Good enough that it almost made Dan forget the injustice of amateurism and the greed amid a pandemic in the emotion and mythology of Tale's well told, olma you lifted us and let us fly with you.

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And we were all made better by your voice, adding history to artistic athletic achievement in a way that can make anyone understand why a rival network in the competition business would seize any opportunity to combine its name with your talents. Just don't look all in the eye.

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I'm telling you right now I do not look that man in the eye. He has it written in his contract that Nardelli scalp massage.

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I'm not making that up. That's not that is not something. There is a daily skeleton. No, there is. That's not a joke.

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The good gig Colin Cowherd got when he soared free like Tom Rinaldi now does. We will all miss the golden voice of Tom Rinaldi. Thank you to Gods. If you do not know who God is now considering not leaving on January 4th with the rest of us because the opening is now available to him to tell breathy stories at the Masters, somebody got to do it to God. That was Stewart's his audition. If anyone in Bristol is listening.

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My demo tape, Chris Cody, this is what I want to know. You are a very public to hoper. How did you feel watching herbut last night? Because this is the thing that we do with the quarterbacks. We do it by draft class. We do it by guys that you compare them to who are the same age and one of the few. And I got to give Mike Tennenbaum credit on this, because Mike Tannenbaum basically helped destroy the Dolphins.

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And Mike Tannenbaum parlayed that into an ESPN gig, and that's the way to rehab yourself, Lewis Riddick is in the game now in a way that he might not be because people have heard him be smart about football on television. And there's absolutely a value in that. NFL live is really strong because it's a combination of people who really know football. Really, no football, and they can be entertaining as well, you know, calling Marcus Spears, his mom on the on the line, that show has a chance to be something special if you don't already think it's something special, because they're going to navigate the smart and the dumb in a way that teaches you about football.

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And Lewis Riddick is exceptional at what he does. And I heard Adam Schefter talking about this. There are four GM openings and three of those four teams have inquired about Lewis Reddick.

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But you can be exceptional at what you do and not get noticed if you're Lewis Riddick, if you don't have a broadcasting platform like this is one of the things that's a great symbiotic relationship that allows people in the media business to go back and forth, the Eric Mangini to go back and forth between their partners, the NFL and ESPN, to keep themselves relevant in a way that Lewis Riddick might not have all these interviews if we weren't listening all the time to Lewis Riddick, be great on the subject of football and teach us stuff on the subject of football.

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But Tennenbaum. Told us when everyone was arguing to or burrow, he said, Herbert, and now you are seeing why it was obvious to him. It didn't seem like it was obvious to a whole lot of other people outside of football, because I didn't hear a whole lot of other people other than Tennenbaum saying, no, not to worry or Burrow Herbert. And I thought he was being contrarian. I thought he was being a guy who has to zig when others are zagging.

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But his analysis, when you're watching Herbert play, you're like, that guy's going to be special for for a long time, especially now. But indisputably, that guy is going to be special. We were reading the numbers during the local hour and Big Suey on two was headed toward Belichick now. Belichick is the only guy this season who made the rookie Herbert look like quarterbacks are supposed to look when they're rookies, made him look like he didn't know what he was doing last eight seasons.

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Rookie in the first game against Bill Belichick at quarterback is 01 11. The touchdown interception ratio is seven to 17, 17 interceptions against seven touchdowns. So you're talking about 11 games. Seven touchdowns have been thrown by rookie quarterbacks. You've got a fifty point seven completion percentage, which is awful in today's NFL. Herbert isn't here like 70 percent is a rookie already, isn't he? Close to 70 percent as a rookie, 70 percent last night.

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He's sixty six point five, it looks like in that game against New England, though, he was less than 50 percent.

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Well, the one the number also rookie quarterbacks against Belichick, 162 yards on average in the space age offensively.

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I understand why the two are tied to and and because they went five and six, I believe really this class altogether is going to be tied when you throw burrow into the mix. But, Dan, you're guilty of perpetuating this thing like, oh, you got to look at the other guy to grade your guy to his coming off of a three hundred yard game against the Super Bowl champs, where it was a one score loss. All right. I mean, herbut I know he looked mighty great yesterday against the Raiders defense, where you may not know the names, but look at all the injuries they had on defense.

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It wasn't some massive. Well, but also look at Herbert not having his skill guys last night because he didn't you can't say the snap count. You can't say that what happened last night was because of Keenan Allen and Mike Williams. You can't say it, but let's use the Saints mind, because that's the best defense in the NFL. I think Herbert had four touchdowns, no interceptions against that team.

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Fair enough. But what we saw last night was a bounce back from Justin Herbert, who was even in that Phalcon game. I think he's like close to six yards per attempt, like five and a half. You're right.

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My criticism is fair on what I'm doing. I am guilty of absolutely doing the thing that everyone's doing. There's a batch of quarterbacks in the top ten. We have to compare them against each other. But I'm not merely doing that. Herbert is setting records for a rookie. I'm not merely doing that. He looks the part of the old quarterback big and strong until you take his helmet off and you see there's a kid under there. What I'm doing is that when he drops back to pass, he is flinging the ball all over the field.

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In a way, I'm seeing not even Ben Roethlisberger can do any more. He can make all the throws and that is the way to analyze it. Thank you to God for offering nothing to punctuate this segment.

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Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Don Lemon tart, I had a dream last night about the show that Stu Gotz was filling in for Joe Buck on his podcast, and Allison called me to tell me what a great jobs two guys did. And I realize this is a dream because Allison would never pray to God, to guys would never fill in for Joe Buck's podcast that may or may not even exist.

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And if I did, it wouldn't be good. Actually, a lot of factual errors in your dream. What a weird dream. Yeah. Still got.

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So that's the height of your fantasy Sekiyama. Well maybe it was a nightmare. I don't know. It happened when I was asleep.

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Thank you Girma.

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So MNM dropped a album last night. Is that still the way we're phrasing it in 2020 with all the digital ways that people do things dropping an album?

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Is that what we're still doing? You're not asking me, are you? And I was asking Mike, but Mike gave me a board and different, you know, hipster chic thumbs up on all things music. Mike wearing a lot of flair today, a lot of buttons, a lot of denim, a backward cap because it didn't come with instructions. That's a Greg Cody joke on a pen.

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And I mostly Nicolas Cage his face. And Eminem is very polarizing. Put it on the pole. Gameau, please. Is Eminem the most polarizing rapper in the history of hip hop? The thing that I wanted to ask you guys, though, is we are a very polarizing show. The people who don't like us hate us because they want their Buckeye football covered correctly, and it's not really what we do as a sports show. Also, what happens a lot with us is people hate us, hate us, hate us, and then love us because they stick around to figure it out.

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Go ahead, Mike. Just the joke you're making instigators here. Just make it on the air. Yeah, go ahead.

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I mean, I don't know what's going on with your voice. This happens to you. Never happens to me.

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It's weird because you swallow fish pull as if you were like the Coconut Grove marina. I want to fix that.

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I mean, it's important. So what's happening with my voice right now? You know, it's fine now, it's fine. You not hear it yourself. You don't write. I don't I never hear you always point to your throat throat and tell me to fix it. And I just stare at you scared and start losing confidence like it's not the greatest way to produce because we've never actually fixed it. And I don't hear it. And it's the first time you've actually asked me.

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And every time you do this where you point to your throat, all I do is drown and sink into it. And then the show gets worse because I don't know how to fix what the fish that's caught in my throat sideway.

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That's a funny word choice, because I think that's actually what's happening. You drowning. I think what happens is it's usually after you're eating ice time this down.

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I haven't eaten anything. I just drank a green smoothie is what I drank.

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Is that any time you ingest something, anytime something goes down your fat gullet, like sometimes you try to speak. And I think like a spit bubble gets trapped. Yet the voice is still coming out, but it's clearly muffled by a disgusting bit of spit that's in your throat. Put it on the program.

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What can a gullit be fat at Libertador show? I don't notice it. Like, is it bad enough? I really I truly do not notice it. I don't hear it. I'm just wondering if the audience can if it's so bad that we need to stop the show for three minutes and discuss it.

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That's fellas. Back me up on this. It's back. Yes. Yes. OK, ok. Great.

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OK, I'm sorry, I'm sorry if if you can hear me.

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It's not your fault. Dan, thank you. It is his fault. It is. Who else is whose fault is it.

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Bill, if you can hear me. I'm sorry. Also green smoothies can get over themselves. Put it on the pole.

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Yermo ten green smoothies get over themselves. It's honestly just a shamrock shake. Don't fall for it.

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It is. It's a blizzard that I just have looked green. I my lawyers. I have my lawyers. Yeah. I have my lawyers make it green so that it looks on camera like I'm drinking something healthy. But it's absolutely a heath bar Oreo blizzard from Dairy Queen. I like it to complement my breakfast of just bacon and chocolate. That is the most delightful of the blizzards, by the way. You nailed it. You identified it. It is the heath bar blizzard.

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Well, I said you are. And Oreo. Oh, God. Put it on the pole.

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Batard show better blizzard heath bar or Oreo. But what I was saying before I started drowning in my own disease is that you guys get mad at us at this point. The most loyal of you get mad when I talk to a herbut or when I talk James Harden, it's gotten to the point that the most the reason that we are hated by many is because we don't talk to Herbert and James Harden enough. And then when I do, the people who love us the most hate me the strongest.

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When I dare to not go to why Billy is intentionally over dressing for the cold and getting weird looks, or why Mike Ryan is bonkers over the new Spider-Man, or why Chris is going on a boat tomorrow safely and is still scared. So we start with Billy. Billy, what's happening with you? Oh, we got we got like five days of winter in Miami. Today is one of them. It's like fifty five degrees. America laughs 55 degrees.

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But we go all go into parts of our closet we haven't been into when it's 55 degrees. Why are you dressing in too many layers and getting weird.

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Looks like I'm getting weird looks because I'm dressing in way too many layers and I had three layers under my pants today. I had a hoodie, a t shirt and then a very puffy winter coat on over.

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I don't know if you could see this on their very puffy Orleans winter jacket.

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And I'm doing this because with the cold come the sniffles and with the sniffles come the coughing, with the cough. Sometimes comes a headache, fever. And I don't want any of that because there's lots of that going on right now. And that's related to something else. And I don't want to think that I have that. So I'm walking around walking my dog in the shadows of the building, which is even colder in the shadows. Don't let the 55 fool you.

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There's wind chill and there's shadows. So that brings it down to Sabata.

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So it put that on the pole to is fifty five in the shadows a true December winter.

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Fifty five in the sun is like glorious. Yes, it's like California big California shadows. Billy is right. It's like the North Pole. I mean. Yeah.

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And I'm walking around and I'm covered in sweat because of all these layers that I'm wearing. But I'm trying to prevent the sniffles because nowadays I don't want to get the sniffles then.

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Wait, Billy, you're wearing a thick sweater right now. You're telling me you wore that jacket you just held up on.

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I know you had layers on, but that's ridiculous, Billy. You're absurd with that's a thick sweater and it's due to it's 55 degrees out, but in the shadows, it's winter.

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That is something shadows. Yes.

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That's that is very Renaldi home. Yes, he's in his home and he's he's wearing layers and he's scared of many things, he's scared of all things really, including a boat mansion that is being sold on Miami or right around Miami Star Island.

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You know, if people were a little more scared like I am, we wouldn't be in this position as a country. Just saying, Billy, since you're in your own home, you know, you have a thermostat that you can, you know, raise the temperature, right.

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That's my background. Does it work? Is it broken or do you need batteries?

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But you don't want to get the smell of that heater going. You got to avoid putting that heater on as much as possible.

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That's a risk you're going to have to take then tracking down for some hot air.

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We'll put it on the pole. Do you love the smell of the heater when you're turning it on for the first time in six months?

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Did you put it on yet? No, eight years. Oh, I love the smell. It smells like my house is burning down.

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I'm going to I am going to just push through it. I don't know why that would be a good smell. Gearman put it on the pole. Is the smell of your house burning down a smell that you romanticize about? I don't understand what you're doing there. You got to turn it on the heat to tell the people about advance auto parts. Oh, that's another thing. They don't want me to talk about the heat, even though they're in the James Harden sweepstakes.

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But you guys make it very frustrating on this front.

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It can't stand the heat. Get out of the kitchen, you know. One at once, that's that once white one slice and get back, one running with elite QB, Russell got the kindergarten class kids crossing over, step behind the line. No need to watch the crowd because, you know, you know, want one with the terephthalate to finger push us. Bruce Lee showing no mercy. Why? I've got the crew on deck. Billy Bowden.

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So Christine Lacy is threatening to get emotional on us. She says that when we depart on January 4th that she's an Italian crier. We are hoping that she keeps it together till then. Christine Lacey, please remove that music, Mike, and replace it with our beloved kazoos by.

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And finally, Aerosmith has made more money from Guitar Hero than any of their other albums. How about that?

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That is an interesting factoid. Yeah, put it on the pole. Gizmodo. Did you know that Aerosmith has made more money from Guitar Hero than any of their albums? Apparently, people are objecting Strogatz to gambling talk that we did earlier in the show. We don't know our casino odds. Evidently, some people are pointing out that Bacharach has good odds and somebody is saying because we were talking about Billy being afraid while playing roulette and only playing red and black and even and not accounting for green.

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That roulette, I thought, has the worst odds of the game. I don't know, Bakkerud. I wasn't doing background. I was just doing craps, blackjack, roulette. And I thought. What are you smiling about, Mike? Perhaps I missed that one of the things 20/20 has taken from us. Now, I know some people are doing it responsibly, but there's nothing better than having a hot table and being the reason why the table is hot.

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I am man made. Sounds like a different time.

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Now put it on the gear at talk show. Is there anything better? Actually, do it another way.

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What's better sex or being at a craps table for a 30 minute run and you're the one who's hot?

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It makes the rest of the casino jealous when everybody starts high five and after a big hit, it's the best.

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And should I go to that table now? If I go to that table, it's going to stop. But everyone there don't you dare join this table in the middle of the OR why is it my table to table me while I try to Thunderer into the hot table?

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You don't Thunderer as much as waddle. You are a wallflower who thinks he's a Thunderer waiting around for the waitress.

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Now all of a sudden, a crown in seven is costing you three hundred and fifty dollars.

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I mean, the odds, the best odds of winning in a casino, Dan, are blackjack, craps and roulette. Those are the best odds. Bastards.

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OK, but I was doing them in order. I was trying to rank them. I was saying that blackjack is the best as I was not doing background. I was doing blackjack I thought was the best odds. And I thought roulette from among those three was the worst of what's the best feeling when you're on a heat or at a craps table.

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Is it. I think it's tipping the dealer. Just give them a couple of shekels and you just throw this on the hard way for you guys.

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Put this on a bar day for you.

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Yeah, I'm so hot.

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Why don't you bet on me the thing that I find funny about this? Because I wonder how many others in our audience are going to recognize what I'm about to say. When I was introduced to casino gambling, blackjack was the most amazing thing in the world. It was fun. And then I snorted craps and it's so much faster and so much more reckless and so much bigger and louder that I never play blackjack anymore. I have left. I have left my first marriage.

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And I have left my first marriage for the dangerous, dangerous, hot stripper.

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The pomp and circumstance of them bringing the dice to you and you deciding which to you could pick a krubera.

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Yeah, they're great with that little stick. Oh, so good. Cracking the dice around like nothing. Yes.

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A croupier, a hifalutin croupier with a stick does not give you the dice, pushes them over to you as if you are somewhere in a high falutin place in Paris playing in a dark club because it's not blackjack where it's just the guy Joe Pesci threw a card at in Casino and that's the dealer. And the card just ends up on his chest. Craps has more exotic flair.

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They will never slide the dice over to you with it being on the number seven. The low is like flip.

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One of the dice is over so that they're not so kind of them so generous. You know how heroin addicts always chase the first high because nothing is ever as great as that first high. So they're always chasing.

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I've been doing it for decades. Yeah. But I still get all the old feels like it's good enough. Right. I still get nervous when it's my turn. I got to hit the back. Oh don't be that guy that has a die fly off the board in this order.

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Dan, it is blackjack number one. Craps number two. Roulette is numbers.

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The way you guys yelling at me about how I don't know anything like what you guys do. That's so much. Why are so many of you yelling at me about how wrong I am about stuff when I'm not the one who's wrong? You're the one who's wrong. Look in the mirror, man. You told them in the mirror. GTA V Village, what are the mirror? And stare at it like a dog who's being, you know, faces putting the poop stare at it.

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TFSA I was always scared of crabs. I'm like, wow, that's so intricate. And everyone just seems like they're lifers over there. Do I even.

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It is scary. It is so intimidating when you don't know anything. If you don't know how it works and everyone's yelling and everyone's throwing things and everyone's happy and then you get there and it's a seven and it's your fault and everyone hates you and it's scares you in a way that makes you wonder about whether your identity is worth being anywhere in that casino with winners.

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Most people usually just have, like, you know, a hundred dollars, a couple hundred dollars. There's always one whale at the table that's got like seventeen grand on the table. And you're just like, OK, this. And then I'm rolling like sevens.

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And he looks at me and I'm just like, I'm sorry man comes the whale joke and always the whale because he's fat. I was not better than picking red or black 50/50 odds.

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I mean, it's dangerous.

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Billy, we were talking earlier about just Billy gambling life, gambling anywhere. He's wearing three layers in the shadows. We have to. We have to.

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Billy, have you ever played craps? No. Oh, man, I would bet I would pay so much money to see you, like, actually on a heater and feeling it, but how nervous you would be when it comes to, like, throwing the dye.

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A hundred dollars can go so fast and crack. Oh. Oh. Oh, my God. Also last you at least 17 crown and seven. That's right.

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Go to a five dollar blackjack table. Get lasted two days. It is wonderful.

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I imagine Billy at the pirate table in Swingers, The Misfits and the Losers. And not because you are Billy. I'm not calling you a misfit and a loser. I'm just talking about a slow table with grandma who doesn't know whether to hit on a 17 or not.

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I like to go in the off hours when there's not a lot of people at the table. An empty table is the absolute best when you're playing roulette. I don't really want to be talking with other people. Just small talk, not good at it. Don't want to be distracted. Don't want to accidentally put in even one.

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I mean, and odd, I like being the only one there on a cruise ship.

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Go at like three thirty in the afternoon when there's something else going on. Go in, go out, be done with it for the day.

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Oh Billy. The wee hours in a Vegas casino. That's when you get the really cool craps table experiences for one for one example once played craps with JJ Redick and in New Orleans once played craps with Virgil from WWF.

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I played, I played craps with Charles Oakley, put actually seven eight six four five six four eight three seven. Tell us who you played craps next to. Seven, eight, six, four or five, six or seven.

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Oakley I met the Ying Yang twins at a casino in Las Vegas because I walked away from a craps table because there was too much hubbub going on and they were just performing around the corner and then they were just hanging out in the background. So I took a picture with them.

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ESPN Radio is presented by Progressive Insurance News from the Dan Leadbitter show Nations. I want to just hit us up at the Dr. Pepper Twitter feed tomfoolery at Tomfool, 69 points out something that happened when Dan's voice went to crap dugouts is agreeing that someone's voice sounds like poo poo L'Oréal. I'm sorry, I'm sorry that we have not figured out how to rectify our aging voice situations, I don't think this is going to get any better from here whenever we play any of these old clips.

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And I suggest you listen to some robot baseball in big swing today. You can hear that we sound younger. I sound thinner. It's weird. I did not know that a voice could sound thin or fat. Me making fun of someone else's voice was the joke tomfoolery. Put it on the pole at Libertador Show, please. Did you think that a voice could sound skinny or fat?

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Chris Coady has said he is alleged that there is a correct answer to the question of best carnival ride. That you are not allowed to argue about this, that there isn't really anything other than second place when it comes to the debate. He is alleging. Well, off the top of your head, any of you, what would you nominate? Let's find out if it lines up with what Chris is saying here. But Chris is saying you're saying, Chris, there can't be an argument, correct?

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That's right. So who has to guess on what your favorite the carnival ride from my childhood was? The Himalaya, the Himalaya we have had over the years. That guy who calls in, I hope, in the next incarnation of this show to get back to some of this stuff that we were doing with callers who had been trained to be funny. I miss the Himalaya operator. I don't even know. I thought of the Himalayan as a regional carnival ride.

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I did not know. I had never been on a carnival in another city where I found the Himalayan. So it doesn't make sense. I was a kid and so I wasn't understanding the principle of traveling carnivals and that if if if it's here in this city, it's going to be in some other city.

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I went to Action Park as a kid where the wave pool was called the grave. Have you seen the documentary yet on Action Park? No, but I heard Seth Porges was on. He's the director and he was on my podcast Stupidity. And I heard it's exceptional. I have not watched it yet, but I plan on watching it. It is good. Yeah.

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What constitutes a carnival ride? Is it anything that you pay tickets to participate in, like the House of Mirrors and Glass? Is that a ride technically or the fun house with the big spinning floor like from Greece where everybody tries to stretch out and go upside down and then they fall on their heads? Is that a right?

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There has to be a speed and there has to be speed and danger does. They're not for it to be a ride.

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I mean, if it's a carnival attraction, there's already danger considering how it was assembled.

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There's that. And considering who's manning those assemblies as well, because that is a pack of gypsies that is should rival the motorcycle gang in terms of spreading terror throughout our land.

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I think there's a definitive answer. I'm not certain it's Chris's answer, but for me, the one growing up that I always loved was Gravitron. Gravitron, yes. Yes. Who votes Gravitron? All right.

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So let's first let's check in with the fake Himalayan operator who used to just call our show. Yeah.

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Him with the European speed sensation. Yeah. Let's check it in the cast. Give it up your ass. Himalayan super fast. We got more. It started coming through that back door. You girls better hold on to your toys and you boys, you better hold out your toys. Here we go.

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So, Chris, what are you nominating? I did not you we did not give you the right answer. You are finding this unsatisfying.

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No, I'm finding it satisfactory. Thank you for that set up. It was very thorough, but it kind of took the wind out of my sail because it was Gravitron.

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Oh, sorry about that, man. She's OK. I put it up, put it on.

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The reverse prism in is Gravitron the indisputably greatest of the carnival rides.

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Stuarts and Chris are one hundred percent. The people in the Gravitron who like speed or tried to go upside down and did all of that nonsense.

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That's more to the fun kind of what kind of loser did not try to go upside down in the Gravitron, at least go sideways.

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Billy, please tell me you did not just stay right up with your feet towards the ground.

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Like, what was the point of going on it if you're not going to go sideways or upside down?

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You think I put it at all?

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We were telling the stories here earlier. We were talking about playing craps by yourself or playing at a blackjack table by yourself. And it's summoned a couple of images of Stewart's that I want to call my mother on air about. Oh, boy. Mike, can we do this next segment, please? My mother has she has run into two in a couple of settings that I think the audience would enjoy the story.

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I'm sorry, but we got the weasel next. Dan Cruise ship was one of them.

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Yes, I had a seven hour ride. Hold on, hold on, hold on. So we got the weasel next Jeriko lost. We have a new prognostics.

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Oh, my God, this is heartbreaking. All right. Call my mother, though, because in the 11 o'clock hour, we will find out how it is and where it is. She outranks. Who got.