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That's actually, I'm going to disguise my own decline by just making that a character. I can do this well into my 80s. I'm trying to come on. Or I can just be, yeah.

Carol Raskin is really, she's really burying me, Carol Raskin. That seems extreme to go from that to headband, Laker guy, likes tacos.

Yeah, who's he? He's familiar with the offense because a Broncos failure. That's his face.

Ball guy. All right, let's just do it that way. I agree with you. That's how I'm going to start doing it. Thank you for all your production help. I appreciate you.

Disguising my- Hired a coach to call timeouts. Remember that? Who's this guy?

Cloud management guy. Hire somebody.

It's actually just me doing recall with Hank Goldberg, only he would just get the wrong name and you'd be too afraid to correct him. Yep.

Joe Biden turned 81 and had 81 candles on the cake. Did I get fooled by the internet.

Or is that a real thing? I was looking in the break to see if that was real also, because it looked like a forest fire was about to start. You just have to.

Get the eight and the one. That's what you have to do. Thank you, Scott. Yes, you are absolutely correct, Scott. I want to know, is it real or is it.

Not real? If that's real, don't put 81 candles on fire in front of Joe Mike. We need to get to November.

His.

Lungs can't handle the blowing. That's correct. Why if it seems like a risk that we should.

Not be taking it. Can you tell me, did I get ballsacked by the White House or is it real? Tell me, please, that there was a kank with 81 candles on it. Please, tell me that that is a real thing because that is too many candles. What is the cutoff on candles? Honestly, it's like once you're in double digits, you're in a dangerous area. Are you not anything in double digits?

You got to just start buying the candle. Well, that's the number.

That's correct. What are we doing here? That's what I said. That is what Stugats just said. It said it a little bit differently, but not much differently. What is the cutoff? Because if you're 12, you still like birthdays, you still want a cake, you still want your 12 candles. I feel like 12 is probably the cutoff. Billy, what did your investigation reveal? Stugats has now said he's got further reporting on the Chris Cody report from before he has talked to Joe Thomas. It is not a timeshare. It's an Airbnb in Mexico. Get your facts right, please. -trade. -yes, thank you. Billy, what's this.

Investigation revealing? I'm seeing the same picture that you saw. I'm just seeing what the source of this.

Picture is. It can't.

Be real. It's crazy if it's real. I hope.

It's real. I need it to be real. I want it to be real. That is a small cake. That is inferno. Get him away from that. Get him out of there. Get him out of the room. You would.

Think they'd go bigger cake for all those scandals. Okay, so this is what I can tell you. Joe Biden's official Instagram has that photo on it, so it.

Seems real. He just joined Threads yesterday. I saw that.

That is 81 candles. I'm still trying to make that happen. That can't be real. This is a security risk.

But it's also like he has to blow out 81 candles. And hopefully, the person who thought this was a good idea didn't think like, Let's get him with the trick candles also because.

It may die. Does not have the lung capacity for that. Get that.

Cake away from that man. An aide is coming in with a fire extinguisher at the end of that. You can't blow that out. There was a.

Ferno on his lap. That's just body man.

Are we back to being able to blow on cakes? Because it's a new thing now. What do you mean? It's like with ever since COVID, people do the weird thing where it's like, I don't want to touch it. It's like just.

Blowing the damn cake. Don't take away my blowing of cakes.

It's just ridiculous. Someone's sitting there for 10 minutes trying to get a thing out.

You will not cancel that.

Mulkey said, I'm fine.

Can we get that video, please? That seems… Thank you. Excellent transition. I like her. Maybe the greatest in show history. Yes, well done. Let's get that video now, please. -we're out.

Patriot talking.

This is a good story because… Well, it's an interesting story. No, good. Angel Reese, that might have been good.

Not outside of the women's basketball.

The Angel Reese story is interesting. She's disappeared, I think. She's disappeared? Very quietly. A champion player for a champion team is not playing.

We should look into this.

Like she's missing?

No, this is a good story. We'll inform you right now.

Missing from play.

Huge NIL athlete, probably up there with Caitlin Clarit. It's funny how in the United States, the collegiate basketball is the main stage. It's bigger than pro basketball. Angel Reese is one of, and certainly on the Mount Rushmore right now, of known women basketball players in this country. And she has not been appearing for LSU basketball, and people have been wondering.

Yeah, so she's been out for two and a half games now, and she sat out against Kent State and then didn't play again yesterday, and there started to be these rumors that Angel Reese didn't have the grade eligibility to play. So Kim Mulkey came out, coughed all over everybody, and said that it's none of their business.

All right, hold on. Let's play. She's blowing out cakes. Yes, look at this. She will have to blow out cakes even if she's not invited to this party. Let's listen to this because she's just hacking on everybody and making jokes. I ain't a sissy. I don't have allergies. I got some cold. It might be COVID, but I ain't testing. I'm-i'm not testing. No, it's sinus. I don't know what you call it. Allergies, flu. I don't know. So if you all get the flu, blame me during Thanksgiving, right?

God, I hope she's single.

Can we listen again.

To-traditional.

American values. Are those tassels? I just want to hear on the microphone. What was funny is as she's getting up, I think the fabrics on her-Do.

You have a sister?

-on her top are hitting her blazer and making sounds that you can hear as the ambient noise.

Hubba.

Bubba. I ain't a sissy. I don't have allergies. I got some COVID. It might be COVID, but I ain't testing.

-dame right, sissy. -no, it's sinus. I don't know what-I don't know what you call it. All allergies, flu. I don't know. So if you all get the flu, blame me for Thanksgiving, right? It's a combination of tassels and crumbling up a paper. That's what it is. And tassels is probably not what those are called. Strong leader. Yeah, tassels.

Would be the right.

Term for that. -okay, but that is the sound. Freedom flare. -yeah. -it is. -no, no. Freedom flare. Okay, that's better than tassels. But the Angel Reiss story, she's got... Stugats, this one's interesting. Okay, you've got, Mulkey's a champion. She is a personality, a personality in a sport that has gotten very big, very fast, has gotten not that fast, but now valuable as well. She's a face and voice and the player empowerment in her sport. She's got a star. Yes. She's got a star who's made a deal with Shaq. Shaquille O'Neal is now the President of a sneaker company. I don't know whether she's going to class or not going to class, but we're at an age where if these people don't want to be going to class, students don't want to be going to class, they're making some you're going to seize on these people, and I'm scared of Joseph Gaffney there.

So this started back before the school year even started because Angel said that she was too famous that she couldn't go to class because it was a distraction. People would recognize her. So she was like, I'm only taking online classes. Then, recently this week, her mom posted something on her Instagram story about Flajah's mom, who's another player on the L. S. U. Basketball team, who's also very talented, also worth a lot of money about her grammar. So Flajah's mom responded and said, How can you talk about grammar when your daughter has under a 2.0 GPA. And so that's where the rumors of the GPA started. Kim Mulkey didn't address whether that was.

The issue or not. No, but she said the issue is obvious. Mulkey has said that the reason that her star player isn't around, that the reason is obvious, but she's not telling us what the reason is while coughing and laughing about COVID. We don't know the reason.

No, we don't know the reason. And Angel Reese has not been silent through this. She did tweet, Please don't believe everything you read. And that's all we've heard from Angel Reese. She's still been posting on social media. She hasn't actually disappeared. She just hasn't been playing for LSU, and she hasn't been at the games either.

Nice stick night at the scissler.

What does the rest of that night look like? Cizzler salad bar, baked potato.

Did you hear Doloritas are back?

I'd say I'm scampy. Oh, the scampy. I feel remorse and shame in what it is I'm presently telling you. But every time I see a sizzler, I am made deeply happy. What? Because that was wealth and riches in my childhood. That salad bar was an opulent buffet- You went there for the salad. -from heaven. So much blue cheese.

Maybe take her to the melting pot.

Oh, fondue.

We fond did.

That's a sizzler in North Miami Beach on 163rd right next to the Krispy Krim. How many sizzlers are there? There can't be that many left.

There was one.

In Salt Lake City. I think there's just one.

None of the information you guys are giving is close.

To accurate. I went to a Cizzer with JuJuGadi in Utah.

That's a great sentence.

Their salad bar had chicken wings.

That's what I'm telling you. That's why you.

It. That's because your salad bar is at a taco station. Yes.

I.

Made machos at their salad bar.

Yes. My mother proclaimed the Cizler salad bar the greatest meal that anyone on earth could have.

There's 10 in Puerto Rico.

Wow. That's not America. They try to lie to themselves, but it ain't.

Florida has one remaining in Kiss-O-Me. One? Yeah. One?

I don't think it does. I'm on the Cizard website for locations, unless it's privately owned.

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This is the Dan Levator Show with his two gods.

Brian Stelter has been on with us before, and he's got a book out right now that is very popular, Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the battle for American democracy. Thank you, Brian, for joining us. I should tell the audience. Thank you. He is also a former media correspondent at the New York Times and CNN, and a special correspondent for Vanity Fair. Let's begin with the idea of Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk merging, and Tucker Carlson possibly being a running mate for Donald Trump. Can you give me an idea of how real any of that is?

I do not think Tucker will be the VP, but I think he wants to be thought about that way. He wants to be viewed as a political kingmaker, a political star, and that's why he's out there hanging out with Donald Trump. Remember, Tucker Carlson called Trump a demonic force, a destroyer, but now they have this romance going on because they need each other. They need each other's fans and audiences.

Is that what is also happening with Tucker and Musk?

I think so. I think that's what puts the network in network of lies. It's bigger than just Fox. It's also about the misinformation that Musk and his friends share on that platform. That's where Tucker is now. He's hanging out, making videos for X. He's not nearly as popular as he was on Fox. But honestly, that's because the Fox audience, 65, 75, 85 years old, they're not really hanging out on Twitter or X, you know what I mean?

What in your book is new or learned about Tucker's exit at Fox?

I say in the book that it wasn't just one thing and they didn't get rid of him for one reason. It was everything. It was every reason. It was like any bad breakup. When one person finally decides to dump the other person, it's been building for years and there's dozens of reasons why it happens, even though sometimes there's a last affair or betrayal that actually caused it. That's what happened. He was intolerable for lots of reasons. He was rude behind the scenes. He was airing and lies on the air. Lachlin Murdoch just decided he had enough.

In our sphere, we have learned as a company that leaving ESPN gave us more value than we had at ESPN. That's right. Tucker Carlson's value is where? Outside of Fox.

He's different because he's in limbo. He's had this complicated contractual situation with Fox. Fox has sent him some threatening legal letters. He's not able... The right now, he's not fully doing whatever his new thing is. But he is lining up investor money and advertising deals, and I would not count him out. I think he's going to be able to build something pretty real and significant maybe next year in time for the 2024 election. But right now, I think he's stuck in that in-between.

You were reporting this book while covering the defamation suit by Dominion voting systems, the end result of that. I know that we wanted to see the real stuff. How disappointing was it that for the ending of your book that that lawsuit was settled at the last minute?

I was actually thrilled because instead of having a six-week trial where people were going to hear about this all spring-long, I got to save a lot of the good stuff for the book. Look, you're right that there were some exhibits, some documents that were redacted that will now be redacted forever. That's one of the reasons why Fox paid almost $800 million. They had some probably secrets that they wanted to keep buried. But here's the truth. 600, 700 pages of this material was published in plain view. It was hard to find. Unless you have a login for a woman to Delaware database, you can't really go and read it. But that's why I did it. I was able to go and read all these emails. What you realize is these people are just all too human. They're greedy, they're selfish, all they care about are their ratings or their love lives. I guess that's everybody, just to some degree. But that's what was so weird about reconstruction this scene, this period for the book, is that all these people, they all just want whatever is best for them, I guess.

When you were sifting through the stuff and mining, what do you regard as the most interesting things you discovered?

There were really revealing emails about these Fox stars saying what seems to be the truth about Donald Trump, but that they never say it on the air. Laura Ingram, the 10:00 PM host, now 7:00 PM host saying, Trump's always on a grievance loop, running in his head. Tucker Carlson saying, He could have won the election. He would have won the election in 2020 if he had focused on law and order and reopening the schools. Sometimes I feel like these Fox stars are better politicians than the actual politicians because they're on every day trying to win viewers and voters every single day. On the other hand, of course, that causes them to go into really extreme and radical territory and push really wild conspiracy theories that actually hurt the Republican Party. That's the other big takeaway in the book here is, Republicans keep losing. It's partly because of Fox. Remember the Red Wave in 2022 that never actually came? I actually put a lot of the blame for that on Fox for misleading the audience.

What can you tell me about these people as calculated actors, professional actors?

Calculated actors? Do you mean, do they really mean what they say?

I'm saying this in two ways. I'm saying calculated actors in trying to instigate for the sense of provocation and calculated actors like professional thespians. Yes.

Well, look, there is obviously a performative aspect to television, and some of these hosts on right-wing TV are better at it than others. I once went out to lunch with one of these guys, and I realized that he really does treat it like he's an actor. He practices his lines ahead of time in the mirror. I got to be honest, I was at CNN nine years. I never sat in the mirror and practiced my script. I wanted to perform it on stage. I was just trying to report the news. But you're right, some of these folks in the network of lies, they really do think of themselves as actors. They're not always buying what they're selling. They're not always high on their own supply. I think the scariest people are the ones that are, the people that actually believe what they're saying. When Maria Bartaromo is on the air and she actually believes Trump is the winner of the election, to me, that shows a lack of common sense and critical thinking.

And skills. What are the things about your book that people are talking to you the most about? What are they finding illuminating? What is the reporting producing for you that they have further questions on because it stimulates their curiosities?

I think the big question I keep getting asked is Rupert Murdoch, is he dumb or is he just plain dumb? I'm sorry Rupert, if you're listening, 92 years old, he's got nothing better to do than listen to us on his yacht somewhere. But he seems to play dumb in a lot of these messages. He was deposed by Dominion's lawyers for seven hours. It's the only time he's ever been interviewed in a decade. And he sounded like he didn't know what happened on his own network. He sounded like he didn't know who the key players were. It sounded like he barely understands how Fox and his works. So is that really the truth under oath, or was he just playing dumb? In other words, is he really not in charge? Is he really just sitting back enjoying his mansions? Look, maybe he is.

Is it possible? Which way would you guess on that one?

I think he has allowed the leadership team of Fox to have too much leeway. He's given them too much rope. He likes to be distant. You remember in Succession, Lucas Madison says he's hiring a pain sponge. This is the billionaire character. He doesn't want to deal with all the dirty stuff, so we hire him as a pain sponge. That's what Rupert Murdoch does. He has a lot of pain sponge.

How much are the Murdoch's really like succession?

Succession is crazier, of course. Dramas always are. I'm a producer on the morning show on Apple TV+. Thankfully, the today's show in Good Morning America are not as nuts as the morning show on Apple. But I think what is true about succession is that when Rupert Murdoch dies, the four adult children are going to fight over the companies. We don't know how that's going to play out. No one knows how it's going to play out.

Rupert's retired?

Semi-retired? Yeah, semi-retired. It's taking effect this week, actually. Rupert says he's still going to be actively involved. But what he's doing is he's stepping aside from the boards of his companies because he wants to show the world that he really believes in his son, Lachlin, that he really wants Lachlin to be the face of the companies. But for as long as Rupert is on this earth, he is going to be involved.

How much are these other networks that are going off into the further fringes of the extreme impacting Fox?

Well, I think they're all nipping at Fox's heels. They're all biting around the edges. None of those bites are fatal, but they're all painful. They all hurt a little bit. Newsmax and Steve Banon and The Daily Wire, that's the network part of this story. It's an echo chamber, right? If they all say the same thing, if all a dozen different places all tell you the sky is falling, then you're going to start to look up and wonder. That's ultimately why I think this contributes to a real worsening of the discourse and makes it harder for us to all go have Thanksgiving next week and actually agree on anything.

What do you view as the smartest things Fox has done and the most evil of the things Fox.

Has done? I can't say evil. What's the smartest thing they've done? Look, they put on a great TV show. Just as a viewer, they light up the screen. It's the same way you guys do. The visuals, the colors, the effects, the production values. Fox is very good at putting on a good show and credit to them for that. What's the worst part? I think the worst part is when Donald Trump lost an election, he said he pretended to win it, and Fox fell along with it and went along with the lie and promoted the lie. They promoted it for months to the point where some people bought plane tickets, flew across the country to Washington, D. C, and stormed our capital. I think that's pretty bad.

In retrospect, when you went through everything that you went through and learned what you did about that part of the election and being complicit on helping something that felt like it was threatening democracy, what were the parts that made you feel aghast just as an American citizen, never mind, as a journalist?

Here's what really drove me crazy when I was reconstructing this. Sean Hannity knew what was going to happen. Let me rephrase. I want to be polite to Sean. Sean Hannity was worried about what might happen on January 6. He was so worried that on New Year's Eve, again on January fifth, he's texting Mark Meadows, the White House Chief of Staff, warning that Trump is getting bad advice. He's getting bad information. You've got Sean Hannity, who is the closest of all of Trump's friends at Fox saying, I'm really worried about the next 48 hours. I want to know what was in Sean's head. What did he hear from Donald Trump? What did he think Trump was planning? How much did Hannity know about the coup attempt? Hannity has never talked about this publicly. He's never revealed what he knows about Trump's state of mind. But thanks to these investigations, we've been able to read his text messages. We know he was worried about January sixth. That's the stuff that grinds my gears because I have a responsibility if you're a broadcaster. Not just a journalist, he's not a journalist, but he's a broadcaster. He's out there winning the trust of his viewers.

He had a responsibility, I think, to speak up, and he didn't.

Does he, though?

I think he does. I think he does because we should all look out for each other. This is about more than politics. It's about more than red versus Blue. It's about having a shared reality. It's about having common ground rather than watching us tear each other apart and ended up with someone smearing feces in the Capitol.

The reason I asked, does he have a responsibility? Is because where are you drawing the line on that? Recusing yourself at that stage? Once you've gone down this path, you've... I mean, you've shed a lot of the responsibility on everything you're doing.

You're 100% right, and that's Kennedy's brand. He is a Republican cheerleader. He exists in order to defeat Democrats and elect Republicans. That's true. But I wish that there were still aspects in our country, in our society that were about more than just elections, more than just about winning a policy argument. I think when it comes down to this sense of a prospect of violence, a violence might break out. That, to me, is an area where we should put down ourput down our political weapons and try to calm nerves, calm things down.

The name of the book, Network of Lies, the epic saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the battle for American democracy. It is getting rave reviews, as I said. You have a top five for us before you get out of here?

A top five? I do have a top five for you. Can you handle it? Are you ready?

Well, what's it about?

Five ways Fox engineers a radicalized audience. How does the audience get so radicalized? I've got the ways.

All right, number five.

Number five is shouting the lie and whispering the truth. They're really loud about the lie, and they only whisper the truth.

Number four.

That actually worked. Avoiding inconvenient truths. For example, with the pro-life.

To be. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Avoiding inconvenient truths.

Okay, I'm getting the hang of it. Here's what they do. When they're talking about pro-life-ers, when they're talking about people who want to expand abortion rights, they say, Oh, they just must be brainwashed. They don't want to accept the inconvenient truth that actually a majority of Americans want that freedom.

Number three.

Number three, clip, clip, clip.

Hey.

There it is. What they do is they clip these tiny, out-of-context clips. Let's say, a fistfight in a CBS or some argument on the street in San Francisco. They portray cities and liberal areas as these hellscapes, as these Armageddon, these apocalyptic places just based on out-of-context clips.

Number two.

Number two, using the memory hole. Go on.

They just bury stories down the memory hole, the stories that hurt too much, stories like Trump losing the election. They just pretend things they don't want to hear about. They pretend they never happened.

Number one.

Number one, respecting the audience. This is the most Orwellian phrase in my book. The executives of Fox talk about we need to respect the audience. We need to respect the audience by not insulting them with the news of Biden's victory, by not telling them how much Trump lost. And of course, you get that by respecting the audience, they're actually disrespecting the audience. They're actually radicalizing the audience by trying to keep the truth from them.

Brian, thank you for joining us. And congratulations on the book, sir. Thank you.

Great talking with you.

Likewise.

Don.

Lebertard. Ravens could double up the Colts, and they are good against every team except the Stealers. That's a 14-point win there for the Ravens. Yeah. Double up. Two touchdowns. Spugots. I think double up is a score. Like if the Colts have 10 and you double them up, you score 20. I don't think double up- That's how you do it. I do it differently. Okay, but I don't think that double them up, like you explained it to me as if I was supposed to- You have your way, I have my way. I understand, but that's not technically doubling up. I think you used the phrase wrong or something happened.

Double-up.

Plus four. Exactly. Okay, that's what he meant, of course.

Two touchdowns. You never cease to.

Amaze me. He's amazing. He really is. He's breathtaking in his stupidity. This is the Dan.

Levator Show with the Stugats.

All comedy needs a little bit of tension in it. You got to have a little bit of tension. We have escalated to a place where Billy Gill and his Iron Fist are being tested by Stugats and potential shirtlessness. We have until Thanksgiving to get the payoff off of one hour of televised gut-gots. Bring your own guts.

I know this is all part of the one big set-up to get Stugats to take his shirt off, but Billy just took away our Golden Helmet of Life. He did, yeah. You just said that's.

No longer a thing. You guys haven't been following the rules. You guys have been willy-nobody with what's going on.

You and Tony have been cheating. You and Tony are the biggest cheater. There hasn't been a black helmet of death in there. I looked. You took it out. You and Tony are the biggest cheaters.

In this game.

You did an investigation. You should not be punishing us.

Because you're a cheat. What did your investigation show you?

Last week.

You and Tony's hands were in the bucket at the same time. Same time. Then Tony's emerged with the yellow.

Wait, Mike, you went helmet by helmet?

I went.

Helmet by helmet. Really? Excuse me.

It has not been pulled in two years. I started getting suspicious.

It's been longer than that because if I'm going to be honest with you, I believe that that helmet still lives in Allison Turner's purse and has been there since 2018. Oh, my God. Yeah, that was taken out by her when things were getting out of control with punishments and people were hospitalized. She took it to California with her. She took it to California with her. She took it to California with her. She took it to California with her. She took it to California with her. Okay, this is going to be removed so that there's no more ill will towards this segment and things are done on the up and up. That was a very parental moment, I'd say, by her, where she's like, This can't exist anymore where people are just getting double death because we may actually arrive on Death's Door. That lived in her purse for some time.

What a breaking bit of news there. Thank you, Billy, for your disclosure, for your honesty, because we all just assumed that you were up to illegal cheating tactics and that you were abusing your power as commissioner.

I wasn't even commissioner at the time that this was removed, but management stepped in and like, Guys. They're getting a little cray.

Who was management? Who was management? I can't say. Well, is it Mike?

It certainly wasn't me.

More hospitalization. No, Mike wanted to put double deaths.

In there. Yeah, more onions.

That Liam Chapman. Mike put a Grenade in there one time. I did. Oh, the babysitter?

I did. It was drug. We had a liability issue? We had a liability issue I did not know about. Come on. Once Billy was hospitalized.

One measly little hospitalization.

For eating an onion? -it was just.

A good scare. Come on. Put it back in there. Either way, the Golden Helmet of Life is a good thing.

You can't take that away. You guys have been abusing the Golden Helmet. It's been getting pulled at a ridiculous rate. You guys. It's you and Tony. No, falsehoods. Even the reaper is over here.

Just shaking his head. Well, the reaper last week confirmed for us. The reaper doesn't speak. We asked him yes or no questions. We asked were there nefarious hijinks involving Billy and Tony, and the reaper gave it up?

The reaper also admitted that- The reaper is a snitch. -the reaper can't see what's going on and just going along.

With it. All right, I don't want to discuss this anymore.

I've got a serious- Also, the reaper at this point is overworked like the rest of us, so he's like, I got to do something else here.

Look at this. I have video evidence right now.

You don't want to get the reaper's thoughts.

I have video evidence of you. Hold on. Look, you were handed a helping hand in your hands. You were handed a.

Helmet by.

The.

Reaper.

That is unbelievable. That was not last week.

That was not last week.

We were in Los Angeles. You took advantage of us being.

In LA.

Not even slick. It's just a clear home. Well, okay, if we were going to come clean about everything, we could go clean about that as well if you'd like to. By the way, that punishment is no longer valid anyways because that's been like three months. What is it? The rules of whatever. You cheated.

But you cheated.

You cheated.

The game.

You cheated yourself. No, you and Dan weren't here, so you don't know what happened. I'm looking at what happened. I'm telling you what happened. I was in there, and this back room here, a bunch of wise guys concocted this scheme in which Tony had a golden helmet in his sleeve. Tony puts his hand in the bucket with the golden helmet in his hand in the sleeve that no one caught somehow. Then I'm sitting there with Stugats, and as everyone picks, this group of jackals over here said, You know what? Billy, the reaper is going to hand you the swab helmet. Take it. I'm like, I'm trying to co-host, which I was not told I was doing because I'm just there trying to do that. No one believes this. No one believes this. You guys were 100 % were all in on this thing and told me in my headset as he was walking in, and the reaper can confirm that this happened on the spot. Billy's like, We're all going down. If I'm going down, you're all coming.

Down on me. Yeah, hell yeah. I'm going to.

Sing like a canary.

You're surprised by this? You guys put me in this unenviable spot where I have to then go and try to slickly get it out of his hands, which I got away with it. I had to get the swab out of his hand. Now, that did happen. I will admit that that happened. You know what? I'm going to be a big man. I will say last week was 100% on the up and up. I know that it doesn't look good because of things like that that have happened in Tony Chee in the past. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to draw this week. Even though I am safe for three weeks, I'm going to say that that counted as that. Just put the golden helmet back. Just stop cheating. It's not me. All right, I'm going to pick for this week.

Hold.

On. I'm guilty by association, and I don't even want to be associated.

With him. You could play the music and Chris Cody will go to the bucket in a second. How many people are going to.

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I guess there's a KFC. I thought I was getting a brownie. I got a full brownie cake. The Mac &.

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It might have been more funny business going on back here just now. I don't even know what these guys are doing. All right, I have the Seahawks. The Seahawks are on Thursday.

Against the Niners. Put that one back.

Put it back. There you are six and a half point dog at home.

You don't know if Gino's elbow is okay. You know, Brock purdy just had a perfect pass rating.

The underdog helmet. I'll get back to you on what I'm selecting here in a minute.

The Cardinals are plus one. The Bengles are plus one at home.

The Bengals are plus one at home. Falcons are plus one at home. The Falcons are playing the Saints. Cardinals are playing the Rams. I like the Jags, Chris.

Yeah, I was going to say.

Texans are at home. No, no, no.

Oh, Texas at home. Texas is what I'm sorry. That game I like. I'm going to go Texans plus one and.

A half. Over to Jags. Billy, go ahead and.

Select there. To remind everyone, I am giving up my two weeks of safety to participate in the name of the integrity of the bucket.

Chris Cody, does he presently have a-I.

Have the Broncos. Why would I choose the Broncos? That was clean.

Well, the Broncos are hot. All right. At home against the They're a two-and-a-half point favorite at home. Oh, just.

Put her right back against the brand. I like a second draw. I don't care what it is.

You are fearless.

Look at you. I got the giant, so it threw up in my face. Three-and-a-half point dogs.

Patriots, though. They're playing the Patriots. Winnable. Winnable game. Three-and-a-half point dog at home.

Tommy DeVito has been.

Looking good. They got the one week he looked good. Two weeks. Is it two weeks that he's looked good? Or is it one week that he's looked good? My quarterback is Zach Wilson. The other.

Quarterback looks good. Tim Boyle.

I have the Indianapolis Coates, they are playing the Timber Bay Buckingears at home.

They are a two-and-a-half.

Point.

Favorite.

He seemed thrilled.

About it. I think I liked.

That over. Roy. Nobody asked you for your total. Roy, what are you doing? I'm not going to put it back. A two-and-a-half point favorite. There aren't very many big favorites this week. Three or four.

Of them. No, that's not a big favorite. Oh, no. He put.

Back a favorite. He did. The Big Apple, New York giants, New York jets, any New York team. I'm going with.

The New York Rangers, Dan. Thank you very much. You're good. I don't know who to see.

You don't even need any information. They're the best of the New York teams right now. Go ahead, Lucy. I hate this bucket. With the lights and the wig, I was just going to call you Jessica.

That's a fine.

That's a big fine.

I'm.

The Texans. I'm the Texans. Who's a blonde girl?

Texans?

Yeah.

They're at home against the Jags. One and a half point underdog, actually.

I'll keep this. Good job, Smeddy.

Fine.

The New York Rangers.

Are playing the Pittsburgh penguins on the road.

Oh, Roy. When is it?

You want to take.

That back? Oh, something fell out.

Sorry.

I'm not looking. Can you just put that back in? That's it. Sorry. Sorry about that.

Roy did that blindly. Well, he just believes in the Rangers. That's weird.

Definitely more than the Island. Wizard of the Z helmet. I will take the lions.

Okay. That was very quick. The lions are seven and a half point favorite at home on Thanksgiving against the Packers. An aggressive pick by Mike Ryan. Mike Ryan is deep in the gambling weeds, Stugatz. He knows every game being played everywhere every hour, every underdog, every value, every inefficiency. He's gambling again. Stugatz is going into the bucket right now. I'm going to rummage. By the way, while you're rummaging, take your time. You're in it now with Swiftys and Kelsey people because your take from earlier, people are putting it in your mouth. That's fun. I'm just trying to help out.

A friend. He was just.

Warning him about it. I know. I'm not going to do it for business. I'm just saying his taking out Kelsey because Kelsey is distracted. I didn't take out Kelsey. It has exploded. It is now… It.

Is-talk about how she just keeps releasing the same album.

A lit fuse through the internet. Stugatz's hot take going after one of these famous and very handsome and popular Kelsies. The Browns.

Oh, great. Yes.

The Browns are a good underdog. That's a good pic. I'm not taking it. That's a good pic. I'm throwing it back. Two and a half point underdog. What's the name of the kid throwing for them these days?

What is the name of their quarterback?

The Consons, the DRT. Drt. The DRT.

It's Joe Flacko.

Do not resuscitate. Dnr.

The kid. That's right. The kid. Who's a kid? The kid scored 13 points last week. I didn't say Mobile. You said that. Mobile, athletic. Zagaki, he should have said it. Jesus. True athlete. Stugant. Steelers. Steelers are one point-This is for Tony, though. -dog on the road.

But no Mac, Canada anymore.

No Joe Borough. I know that was for Tony, though.

One.

Point, David. Are you picking for Jess or? I got the cowboys. Oh, Jess. Congratulations. I am picking for myself.

You're keeping that one.

Good for you. All right, so you got to pick for everybody else. Go for it.

All right, here we go. You're picking for Tony. I'll pick for.

Dan first. Dan's got the cowboys.

Is this Jess or Tony?

This is Tony. Cardinals. 1. Underdog at home against.

The Rams. This seems like a good one. I'll keep it.

This.

Is how it worked when you guys were in LA.

Yeah, no, this is thing. With Billy Cheating. This is for Smetty.

I was forced Cheating on me by.

This ring. The Broncos for Smeddy. Two and a half point favorite.

They're playing the Browns. You don't want.

That one. -i don't want that one. -that's a keeper. Two and a half point favorite.

Yeah, but they had the catered quarterback.

-yeah.

Dorian, something. She had the Cowboys before, though.

I'll.

Keep it. You tried to do that very dramatically. It was not very-Dane has the cowboys. -dane has the bronco.

Dan has the Cowboys.

Dan has the Broncos.

Dan has the Cowboys. Stop doing this. Okay.

Shirtless tomorrow. Is it going to be the local hour?

Spicy slaw.

I have the worst angleanyone in this thing. You do have a bad angle. We've got.

To- Brother, I'm not sure there are any good ones left. I got to be real with you. You're just the one that's the hard to toddle in there, boy. You're systematically taking away the angle.

I want to hide, though. But this is the worst of the angle.