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Don Lemon Tart. Let's go. Islander's bump bump up Strogatz Let's go.

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Scott asked you to join us in just a minute on the show. Pennzoil Performance Line, Chris Jericho and a half hour he's back is at another winning week wrote the record It's V Week and during these challenging times, ESPN, the V Foundation's fight against cancer is not stop. If you are able please support cancer research by visiting Voguish, donate 100 percent of what you give goes to cancer research. All right.

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So this guy right here, in terms of what Sunday's bringing to your life, you God, I don't know that people listening to this show have a phrase in their life that matters to them more and makes them happier than thus begins seven hours of commercial free football. It's amazing. But before we get to Scott Hansen, let's go out to Christine Lisi.

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And finally, it's illegal to sleep in a cheese factory in South Dakota. Now back to somebody who would probably be sentenced to death if he lived in South Dakota.

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I would love to be in a warehouse filled with cheese. You could live in a house of cheese. Of course I would. Well, not for long, because I would not have a house.

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Eat your way out. That's right.

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So we've got. We've got Scott Hansen here, Sunday marks the 200, the addition of NFL red zone since it launched in September of 2009. Scott Hansen is with us now. Thank you for joining us, Scott. What do you remember about the first show? Well, good to be with you guys again, the first show. Honestly, when we came on the air, I was so nervous, like you would be starting any new show as a broadcaster except this, I figured I really did think this was going to be a huge hit.

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Right. Seven hours every touchdown from every game, commercial free, the NFL, all of this. And so I thought if you screw up this opening on camera handson, it's going to live forever. Like I'm a sports broadcasting fan. I remember every time ESPN has any anniversary, they roll out the old Lee Leonard, 1979. Welcome to the ESPN Sports Center. He says, you know, and they roll out that clip and I'm like, this is the Cliff Hansen for NFL RedZone.

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If this thing lived for 50 years, this is what they're going to show. Don't mess it up. And thankfully, I muddled through it and I said, welcome to the first moments of the channel that we hope change the way you watch football forever. And I guess that's proven to be true. Wow.

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Big. I told you so on the two hundredth edition of NFL RedZone. I have to tell you, he got it right from the very beginning, not just the cadence in the word count, which, by the way, I do recognize that as a person who walked around his neighborhood at four o'clock in the morning repeating for 90 minutes, pardon the interruption, but I'm Dan Liotard, because I was so scared my first time doing some of that stuff.

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Take us through the nerves of that. Take us take us through that first show and, you know, 200 shows ago. How bad were you? How fast did it move that you weren't expecting? Like, what are the things that are different between now and then? Yeah, it was you know, it was a whole new world, I would say the first episode was was was not as horrible as it could affect. Now the audition to get the job was completely different.

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I don't know if I ever told you that story or not, but usually when you audition for a TV show, they put you up on the set for five or ten minutes if you're trying to be the weekend sports anchor in Charlotte, North Carolina. Right. But for NFL RedZone stamina, I was going to be one of the main job requirements. So the audition was five hours long. They did it in the middle of the summer when they were trying to find a host for NFL RedZone excuse me.

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And they they took a random week from the season before in the NFL. They took eight different videotapes, put them in eight different machines, cued it up to the kickoff hit play simultaneously and said talk. And I went for five hours and we did a whole series of games and then up to the halftime of the next window of games. And I flop sweating through my suit that I was wearing. I didn't know if I was identifying any of these third string wide receivers correctly.

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And I finished and I thought I either got the job or I ruined my career with NFL media. There is no in between here. And about two weeks later, I got a phone call and it was it was they named me the host. I'm worried about you.

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And I think the audience is as well, because you're a consummate professional and I have never heard what's happened to you now happened in 200 episodes of NFL RedZone where you simply can't clear your throat and you're stuck in a situation like you. Okay, you're the height of broadcasting and you just power through seven hours of commercial free football. Are you OK? What's your status? What did you eat before you came on here? What's happening with your throat and the congestion that you don't seem to be able to dislodge?

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Well, at least it didn't happen during the middle of a global pandemic and then people can worry about me that way. I know, but you're a great broadcast partner, because while you were filming right there, that's all I want to do is take it from my you know, it's all I was doing.

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It's what makes me a black man here. The number of times I'm filibustering and people don't know I'm filibustering, I'm just stumbling around trying to help somebody.

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One of my nicknames is Frontman's Scott Hansen with Sunday Marks, the two hundredth edition of NFL Red Zone since it launched September 2009.

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Scott, I'm wondering the closest you've come traffic? I don't know, because as you've come to missing the NFL red zone traffic.

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Well, so I live in Los Angeles. That's where the studios are. But I used to live in Tampa and I would fly out to do the show. I would fly out on Saturday. And we had a couple of mechanical failures on two different planes like Tampa, the Dallas, Dallas to L.A. And I called my producer and I'm like, this is the last flight here. And the show begins at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. And I wasn't I might not have made it, but that was about as close as I had.

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That was mechanical failure on a plane. But other than that, no, I mean, I played hurt before. You know, you come into the studio when you're when you're sick or, you know, congested or whatever, stopped up from eating your cheese house, you know, for for a couple hours or so.

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And it happened. But no, you know what it's like. You guys are dedicated. The audience. I am, too. And knock on wood. We're going to roll for another two hundred episodes.

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Can you explain to the audience when you talk about the stamina of that, like how you sleep that night, what level of drained you are when you leave, how foggy are you? Or are you just hopped up on adrenaline and actively looking like someone who just snorted cocaine off that desk?

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Yeah, when I get in the elevator in my condo building, I hope there's no one else in it. Let me put it that way. I don't want to talk to a human. I don't want to see a human. I don't want to have anything else. I come through the door, I order some food, make myself a beverage pop on Sunday Night Football, and I am on the couch for the rest of the night. And and yeah, that night.

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Yeah, it's it's comatose the night before I get so tired I can't sleep Saturday nights. I usually send out a tweet at 1:00 a.m. Eastern Time, you know. Hey guys, we're twelve hours away from NFL RedZone and people think I go to sleep then I don't. I lay in my bed going over facts and figures and freaking depth charts and stuff for the next hour or two until I can get two or three hours of sleep and then wake up and let's get after it again.

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Sunday marks the two 100th edition NFL red zone. It's crack cocaine. It's amazing to watch. If you watch football that way, you will never watch it any other way and have it be the same. But I'm curious when it regards the fatigue level and the intricacies of the job that only, you know, is there another job in sports, television or television that requires that particular stamina you're talking about? Because I don't think people realize the high wire that is.

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And I don't think people realize, like, how exhausted you must be after just revving with your foot on the gas through seven hours.

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Well, fortunately, I think I got a pretty good motor. Right. I'm an energy guy. I love I love doing what I do and serve in the audience. I've thought about it before. The only thing I can come up with is in all three of us. Dan Stewart and I are all old enough to remember the old Jerry Lewis March of Dimes telethon that was over days without sleep.

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That was twenty four hour programming all the time for like three days, that telethon.

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Well, I'm not I'm not making myself into some kind of philanthropic hero here. I'm just saying that's the closest thing I could ever get. Jerry Lewis, whenever he's on camera clothes at the end of it, his tie was ripped off inside. His shirt was all over the place. You know, his hair. You know, he made himself he expected it to do that way. But he had been on for that many days and doing that much and doing that much good.

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You guys, if you can name something else, that's a good it's just such a great reference by you. The fact that what you said is such a great articulation. Yes. Do you remember the historic telethon where people would stay up for three straight days at three o'clock in the morning, like some some kid from Poughkeepsie is just dancing for three minutes because they don't have anything else?

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It was perfect. But the the younger portion of our audience has no agent. He's been around for two hundred shows. He's so ancient, 200 more hands. And look at this face, Henson. You can't you can't snort that much football and have 200 more of those in you.

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I need the cash, fellas.

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I'm in it for the money. I need my man caecilians. It's only six espressos. Six six of them to get. Route one Sunday, how many for Scott Adsit? Believe it or not, I hate coffee, what I do not I do not drink it, no, I had a mix up with my hot chocolate and my teacher's black coffee back in fourth grade. And Mrs. Roux ruined me forever on coffee because I picked up her black coffee.

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I thought it was my hot chocolate in the white Styrofoam cups. And I said, that is disgusting. Dirt water. I'm never drinking that and I never have. So it's all natural what you hear coming out of my pile for seven hours on Sunday, all natural and a bottle full of amphetamines.

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He's got handsome. Thank you for being on with us, Scott.

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Don Lemon tart Dan is getting to his microphone real quick. Sorry about that. Thank you, Stuart. I appreciate it. My apologies. I had to run out for a moment to God.

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Did you eat something? I did. You could hear it in my mouth. Yeah. You made it seem like you were doing something urgent and said you were just. I was doing something urgent.

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I went upstairs and grabbed some turkey and then I ran back down here. I'm sorry that I'm late. It's very unprofessional.

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Why do you have an entire turkey leg in your pocket? I do.

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I walk around here like it's like it's Disney World with one giant piece of turkey at all times.

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We'll get to conversation in a second. Dan, it's time for straight talk. It is brought to you by Straight Talk Wireless. What do we have with stupidity? Have there been stupidities dropping all over the place? We dropped two episodes this week. We did the first one with Matthew Hasselbeck hashtag Lacross Dads. That was a lot of fun. We did that wed today a brand new episode with the Weekend Observations crew. Mike maintains it's the greatest episode we've ever done.

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Wow. Because it's all about him. OK, there you go. Billy, what's going on with mystery? Great mystery. Great. Is that today. Dan, on Wednesday, we put out another edition of BBB, BBB, where we talked all kinds of things, I want say forget what it was about.

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OK, yeah, you do a great job of promoting that every time I go to you on it.

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Well, because spoiler alert recorded like a week before and then I edited it and then it goes out and I'm already we've already recorded the next episode but forgot what is episode and what's the next episode. It's a lot.

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It's a lot that's fair. You and I have walked out of here and people say, hey, what was the show about today? We're like, we have no idea. We don't remember that stuff. That is correct. However, I don't think that that's a great way to promote mystery. Great. When the creator has a yawning indifference about the enthusiasm in which he explains why people should listen to it.

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It's not yawning. And difference is that once I'm done with it, I put it to rest and I just keep plowing forward to the next one dance. I'm already thinking about what's going on next day. And last week, though, if you want to talk about what happened last week, we talked about beefing with celebrities, Black Friday, blockbuster rentals, baby books and more to see.

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There you go yourself when he wants it to be a mystery to look it up. No, I want it to be. But I want you to do. What was that like a muscle monster truck promo? Is that what you were doing there in the monster truck?

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Promo voices more gritty. You have to be more like him now.

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Grave diggers entering the arena, something like that.

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I don't know where they would say the first one was. Now, we're really going back a long ways here. Only you and I are going to understand this. That was a crazy Eddie commercial, what Billy did the first time.

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That is an ancient reference. I mean, we just did the Jerry Lewis well, and Mike made it March of Dimes instead of muscular dystrophy. And we just kept it moving because nobody knows what we're talking about. OK, so there was a telethon back when there were only just a couple of channels. And every year when that telethon came on, it was a seismic American event. Jerry Lewis was a comedian who was very famous. Jerry Lewis was a legend.

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Jerry Lewis was old. And Jerry Lewis did very, very good work on behalf of muscular dystrophy. So for three straight days, no one would sleep just churning out television, which based on what you just heard from Billy and his yawning indifference, is where we reside, just making farting so much television that we can't even keep track of what we're making, what we're doing or show any enthusiasm for it. But Jerry Lewis inevitably would go get a woman from down the street and she would sit there and yodel for seven minutes.

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And that was television. And it would just go it would just go on for days. And no one was sleeping. And people looked at Haggard and it was one hands. It looks like the end of a Sunday. It is. But this was it was such a magical time because hell, yeah, I'll watch television. If you're just giving me programming at midnight, I can watch live television where they're going to indeed show me that Gary's little poodle can sit and then not sit a little six year old Gary.

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It was an easier time. It's really hard to make content for that long. It's with no sleep. Nobody was sleeping. Everybody seemed to look either leathery and haggard. Or sedated. There was a film over the proceedings and it was the height of Americana. It was something the families gathered around for. We've got a long weekend. Let's stay up to one 30 in the morning and watch this woman make cupcakes and call now. And he raised so much money.

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He really raised so much money. What a scam. Jerry Lewis had three days of television without interruption.

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Oh, running the whole place. You could probably raise a lot of money doing that for three straight days. What happened to it? What happened when it feels like that died without much fanfare. Jerry Lewis, not Jerry Lewis to suit the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. When did that end then?

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I'll make calls right now. To celebrate St. Bart's surprisingly great race, we gave this game day jam surprising. I was afraid to read it. Hey, it's a way to save the right. I mean, yeah, they're great state by state by state. They can be like a good neighbor.

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State Farm is their. Don Lemon tart then is getting to his microphone real quick, sorry about that. Thank you, Stuart. I appreciate it. My apologies. I had to run out for a moment to God.

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Did you eat something? I did I. You can hear it in my mouth. Yeah. You made it seem like you were doing something urgent and said you were just. I was doing something urgent.

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I went upstairs and grabbed some turkey and then I ran back down here. I'm sorry that I'm late. It's very unprofessional.

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Why do you have an entire turkey leg in your pocket? I do.

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I walk around here like it's like it's Disney World with one giant piece of turkey at all times.

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This incident, 11th, our show with these still guys on ESPN Radio, all gassed on the damn Avatar show up here via the shell pens, all performers line.

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I got Dan Nitro, Clarkie my Zoome room Jerico calling it some point. Chaos is about to break out. What is going on here. As an American gladiator today on ESPN Daily, by the way, he's 16 NFL seasons in 16, won six, and Frank Gore shows no signs of slowing. That's not true at all because he has shown so many signs of slowing down. That's not true. We will get to Chris Jericho in a second.

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ESPN and Tim Kyun examines what makes him tick. That's on ESPN Daily. Subscribe wherever you get your podcast. And we were all made very happy when we saw the smiling, the smiling face of Dan Nitro Clark in our Zoome.

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I miss him so much. He looks so good. Jesus, of course, always and forever. Nitro shall be. So. Yeah, that's right. Yes, of course. He's got biceps. Gladiator's never lose their biceps. Put it on the pole gear leveton show real gladiators ever lose their biceps. He's also now got a dog that's alive. We're very happy about that. That's in his lap. He has gotten over the grieving of his other dog that died, that ended our relationship.

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So it's good that we have this moment of healing. We'll get back to you in a second. Nitro, hold on just a second, though. It's very important that we get to these kazoos, right?

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And finally, Andre the Giant grew so quickly, his parents didn't recognize him when he paid them a visit after five years away from home.

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Speaking of people who have doubled in size over the last five years. No, no, no, no.

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So Dan Nitro Clark has a new dog, and we are so happy to have him with us at a time of forgiveness, the holidays. I want to apologize publicly to you many years later, too many years later, for the incessant, incessant jackassery of our former producer who was every week making more and more fun of the death of your dog. I apologize for him on the on behalf of the entire Libertador community Nitro, I thank you for joining us.

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And who is it there that you're joining us with? Well, this has been my emotional support animal after the way I was treated, it took a lot of therapy, 10 years of psychotherapy, three years of hypnotic therapy, two years of going to Rome and just baring my soul in the gladiator arena.

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This guy, Ricky. This guy Ricky has saved this Gladia and brought me back. I bring him on planes, trains and automobiles. And it's the one thing that's allowed me to recover from the bashing I took right there.

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So we helped you. We served you. We made you. We helped you find new love. You are a new man. And now we can rekindle that kind of dog.

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Love. I don't go that way. No. OK, very good.

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Chris Jericho going to join us here in a little while. We don't know where Chris Jericho is. We were going to have a ceremony here, Niekro, where you sort of handed off your greatness as the celebrity prognosticator to Jericho because you broke your record.

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Jericho is on Jericho time. He shows up when he will always find him. He's actually very responsible. So I heard, though, Mike, I was just telling me, Dan, that you were driving around the other day and what happened where you heard Chris Jericho on the radio. Well, Chris Jericho had won his ninth week in a row, and I knew my back yard was eight or nine weeks and they were talking that he was going to beat Carrot Top.

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How can you get me confused with Carrot Top Point? Right. It took a minute to realize that I was the reigning reigning. That's right. And was still the champ. But Chris Jericho is a good dude, man. He's a great athlete. He's got a full head of hair. And at my age, a full head of hair is is gold. So we're excited to pass it on. But I have one challenge with him, though.

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The guy who I went against when we were prognosticating was a picker. That's what he did for a living. The guy that he's going against in an asterisk season is Colin Cowherd, and that is low hanging fruit.

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Wow. He because he went against Hank Goldberg. Nitro is so right. Nitro you. I did not realize that there was a degree of difficulty difference here. Hank Goldberg, you were going after the gambling guy at ESPN. Cowherd is. Well, you tell him what what Cowherd is comparatively. Well, he's low hanging fruit, he's, you know, he's not the expert. Look, he I like his show and I think he's entertaining, but he's not an expert.

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He covers all sports. When I went, I went against the guy who covered football, who did it for a living, who set a standard. And also, I think as great as Jericho is, this is an asterisk season, right?

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Hmm. That's easier. That's right. I think what makes sense next year when we get back into football, I think Jericho and I have to go head to head.

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Well, we've got we've got a bit Nitra. We've got a bit of a situation here. Maybe you can help us. We can't find Jericho. So here we are trying to give your reigning championship of many years to Jericho, the champion for all times. But we can't find him. And you're here. And we've got these lines and these sponsorships. The lines are provided by Caesars. William Hill. We've got also a promo for A.W. Dynamite Wednesday nights, 8:00 p.m. Eastern on TNT.

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You don't have anything to do with that. We don't. We've got the promo material. We've got the games, but we don't have any Jericho. So we want Nitro to paint the games, perhaps. What if Nitro picks the games and beats Colin? Then what happens? Is he picking up behalf? Have Jericho. We just got here, but we've got a segment here on live radio. And this is the danger of live radio, as you know.

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Do you remember the Jerry Lewis telethon? Nitro there's danger. You all are you old enough to remember the Jerry Lewis telethon?

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Yes, I do. But I think maybe Jericho has a little bit of imposter syndrome.

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Oh, wow. Oh, what do you what do you think? You think he's afraid? Do you think that he's ducking you because he he knew you were going to be on with us today? No, no.

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Chris is a great athlete. I mean, impostor syndrome. I mean, he's a stud. I'm talking imposter syndrome in the sense that he's going against Cowherd. And I had to go against a real guy. He's going in an asterisk season. Right, right. Yes. When I when it was the real deal.

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And that's a reason. Has stood for ten years and he's OK.

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Well, let me give a quick shout out to my San Jose State Spartans. Guys, I know we're jumping to college football, but for not coming back first time since 1965, we've been now want to give a shout out to the Spartans.

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Didn't see that coming? No, none of us saw that coming. I shout out, I don't think that's ever been said before. That combination of words that you just threw out on the gladiators didn't get along with Spartans and not funny.

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And that's why I went to college. I mean, my boys are just excited that they've got a great coach over there who's doing a really good job is finally, finally giving us a winning season.

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Are you saying then that's the first time that anyone has said the word shout out to San Jose Spartans? It's not something. Look, whatever it is, we're ending up here at ESPN. We're nailing the dismount with things that have never been said before in the history of sports radio. Let's do this with Nitro. I guess I don't know what we're going to do it.

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Do a nice job. And now it is time for celebrating Prognosticated. You know what? This is some money. This is the most controversial turn to what are we going to tell Jeriko when he called? I don't know what this means. For the record, Jericho missed his opportunity. All right. We know that asterisk. I don't know. You never lost. Hold on.

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I think I think Mike Jones got a good idea. Nitro will find Jericho. We'll get his picks at some point. But you're going to pick that up. We're going to do this heads up right now. This week. We're not going to wait for weeks to do it. The champion in the former champ. You're going to get to pick games for us because we can't find Jericho. And he might be ducking you round to Titans against the Lions provided by Caesars.

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William Hill, credible, a head to head matchup. Unbelievable. Greatest obstacle, prosecutor gladiators. That's right. So this is what it is.

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You've got gladiators at the height of entertainment, fighting each other. The greatest champions in the history of in the history of the show. Nitro, tell them about your book before we pick games. What's going on with your book?

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I got some big news coming up, but I can't spell it right now on the on the Gladiator book. Big, big stuff happening in the background. And then the second book, F Dying is after I had a heart attack, maybe I had the heart attack because the treatment I got here.

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Oh, again with this. Come on, toughen up, Gladiator. Knock this off. You got to bounce back to your average.

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And they took off. The spandex had been very sensitive. Is this a tell all book? Are you going to are you going to bring down the gladiators? Is this going to be all the behind the scenes stuff of a glorious time that is then going to be, you know, you're going to accuse people of steroid use accuse?

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Well, the book came out in 2008. It was glad of your true story of roid rage and redemption. The new book I wrote three years ago was when I faced my mortality after I had a heart attack six years ago. And I and on a more serious note, when you when you think you're going to die and when I was in the operating room and, you know, surgeons said, am I going to die? I asked him and he said, I don't know.

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We have to get you into surgery. In that moment, I got the answers to what was important in my life. And the book is about how every. Changes when you come to that moment and how you want to rebuild your life after facing your death. Browns, the Titans, the Titans are five and a half point favorites at home who does not trust you so much as Nitro have Browns and Titans.

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Yes, yeah. I've got to go, titans, all this, of course, because you're a gladiator. Yes, of course. You got to go Titans, Colts and Texans, Texans plus three and a half at home. Who you got? You're saying Colts are cheating. Are you are you cheating? Who are you talking to? There is this guy.

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Oh, wait, wait a minute. It's a gladiator kid. I put him on air. Go ahead. You want him to pick for you? Adrian, come here. Pick Adrian. Let's let's beat up Colin Cowherd foreign too, though. He wants me to go Colts. I'm going to go Colts.

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All right. Saints and Falcons. Falcons, they haven't been that good. Yeah.

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He said ever since the Texans lost DeAndre Hopkins. And he says he's glad that he who got fired. Right, Bill? Brian got fired for that.

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Trey, he's a he knows too much. I'm a little worried about this. Yes. Saints and Falcons. Falcons plus three. Who do you got? S. Raiders, a Jets, Jets, plus eight and a half at home, Nitra, I can't believe you're cheating on every one of these PEX Raiders and Jet, OK, I won't look at him.

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He's so tempting. And he's nine. He's amazing. He's great. Let's go. Raiders, Patriots a Chargers. Pick them chargers at home, pick them game. Well, try not to look so tempting. He's whispering chargers, tight chargers, it is too late, guys. All right, very good. Got great teams. I mean, I like the quarterback from Oregon. He's been playing really, really well there. They've lost a lot of close games.

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He got a tough got to go with the Chargers.

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Wow. Just got a whole lot of coverage on that one game. Way to go, Nitro. We we love having you back. And we'll see if we see you next week and we'll put you up against Jericho.

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I'm looking forward to give Jericho my regards. All right. Thank you.

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Don Lemon Tart, it's Friday, I'm getting into the weekend, I want to get my drink on to God, we've got to open up the club.

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All right. So we do this at the end of every week to celebrate the weekend. And I don't know what has happened with Chris Jericho, but somewhere on social media this weekend, we will get you the Chris Jericho pics on five different games and we will compare those games against Nitro. And we are having a gladiator face off for the ages two gods. That is very exciting.

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I forgot how good Nitra was with us when he was on the first call because we talked about the death of his dog and it left a sour taste with all of us. But we're going to fix that relationship. And I don't know what happened to Jericho, but let's open up the club, send people into the weekend with an assortment of sounds from the work week and beyond. Are you ready, Alaska? I think it's seven a.m. or something in Alaska.

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We are opening up the club. What is the first sound in the club? I have nothing against Dominic Foxworthy. All right.

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So Foxworth hates Cody. Cody hates Foxworth. It has escalated to an unpleasant position. That's where we are. And now he calls him Foxworthy. What else we got in the club?

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One of those twelve things of ice cubes that even have those anymore.

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Yes, a tray of ice cubes is what Billy was trying to say. And he calls it the Twelve Things of Ice Cube. It's fifty 752 in the last. All right. Seven fifty two in Alaska. Get ready to go in the club with this sound. Oh, no. Bashing down the. So your kid has ringworm. I love will never get old. I love that with no context because someone driving around in mealing. What the hell was that.

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Who else is in the car horn holder crossing those who goes midfielder's. I do. I need to explain the joke now is going to keep getting noticed because we're don't out there other than the Boy Scout. I think it's Tony's favorite thing.

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I mean, it's unbelievably funny, but it's funny to me with someone driving around and no context whatsoever to what it is. Who else in the club?

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I'm not a man with many vices, but I'll admit it, I love my Coke. So I go and I will buy Coca Cola.

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He really thinks that at the end in a way that was unnecessary because the big chicken where could my coke gone?

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I'm looking in the trash. Was it thrown out? And again, my wife doesn't like that. I'm constantly like taking in the Coke because she thinks that it's not great.

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It's in a hell of a week.

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Oh, how delightful is Coke guys, by the way, is it God's offering his obligatory nothing? How delightful is coca?

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But there it is, ladies and gentlemen, that's a free agent right now. Come down, come down to me. Fill your airwaves with how delightful as Coke guys, by the way.