1973 Podcast
1973 Podcast Episode 90
[BLANK_AUDIO] Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it's us. We're back, 90 episodes deep. And changes the format up a little bit, things to talk about. All things wrestling sports and now one of our favorite things, movies. And we're gonna add this into the podcast for a while, I think it's gonna be great. We're gonna do overall podcast score, kind of like a pizza review. So we're gonna get right into it. So Edwin, you know what time it is? It's time to- >> Isn't it time to get ill or what? >> Yeah, you know what time it is. >> All right, so hey, guess what? I'm gonna read the script right here, hold on for a second, all right. Hey, they're podcast fans. Are you ready to show off your love for the 1973 podcast? We've got over 20 different designs and t-shirts in hoodies that capture the essence of classic stuff. Whether you're a fan of the show, or just love that retro feel. We've got something for everybody, for everyone, however you wanna say it. 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Cuz you know you're at least gonna get what makes a comedy a comedy. Long-suck cast, a lot of good one line is what does this movie justice for me? Is it quotable? That's why I like this movie. It's very portable. The story's great. Quick whip, one line is that you can quote if you're with your buddies or somebody that's in the know, old school is, for me, I'll rate it. I was thinking about this and I'm thinking about kinda setting a baseline on a scale one to ten, what I would give this movie and I thought about it. And I don't wanna pigeonhole stuff that's coming down the pipe with stuff we're gonna talk about, but I'm gonna give old school a 8.3 out of 10. 8.3 out of 10, it's got everything that I like in a movie. I watched it again this week cuz I wanted to, I hadn't watched it a while. It doesn't have staying power for me, it still holds up, still worth watching. So if you're never seen old school, gotta watch it. So I'm gonna go to Tom Naxfield, old school reveal. >> All right, I thought it was really good and I thought. Well, Farrell was like the, I wanna say breakout star because he probably was the most well known person in the movie to begin with, but his character Frank, the tank is just, I mean, that's who Ed basis his character off of. I mean, come on, he's, he's, but I mean, it's got lines that we still say to each other when we see each other. I mean, Frank, you're my boy, Blue, I mean, all those lines and that. And the movie really had a lot of people in it that, I think they're real small roles, but they turned out to be bigger people like Ellen Pompeo, Simon Helberg. Even Sean Williams Scott was, wasn't really big, that was before. I think it might have been right around the first American pie movie. And the kind of six degrees of separation thing, Rob Cordray's in it playing one of his co-workers and my wife, Kelly, went to high school with him and she's got prom pictures with him. She didn't go to the prom with him, but they were at the prom taking pictures together, so I gotta add my score up a little bit higher than I probably would because I mean, I'm a, I'm a tough critic, but I'm gonna give it up 7.9. >> 7.9 from Thomas. All right, we're gonna go Shaggy. Old school reveal. I'll say the same thing, like so many cool people, I haven't seen in years, but it's still like all the quotes you can remember, like you're my boy, I believe you're saying my boy, all of them. It's like, like I said, even if you haven't watched it in a while, like you still remember it all these years later, I'm gonna give it like an 8.1 since our first movie we were reviewing, I've kind of in between you guys. >> Yeah, we should have done Halloween last week for a review, but we're gonna start with week two of this. >> So, Raymond, your reveal of school? >> I haven't seen it in a while and to tell you the truth, I've never seen the whole thing from start to finish. I caught it and I've probably seen two thirds of it. To give it a score would be unfair to it cuz I haven't seen it the whole thing. But liking what I did saw, see, and I get it, I give it a good 8. >> Okay, solid rookie score from Ray, Scotty, old school reveal. >> All right, yeah, so I feel like I lived it a little bit. I got single right around the time this movie came out. And I was like, that's how you do it, right? But also, I had started this softball league. I was playing in the softball league with this guy, he was in his 70s. And he was still playing with us. And he wore a winter glove on his hand because he had a stroke and he didn't have quite movement of it. And so we would always kind of put him at first base. And I'd be yelling, you're my boy, Blue. And he had no clue what I was saying, but I would do it every game. And then I would yell at him, I'm like, Blue, I got a 65 year old in the minor leagues, we're gonna take your spot. But no, I love, love, love, love the movie. It's good, a lot of good moments. I'm gonna give it an eight three. Yeah, all right, eight three on the nose and would think things that was your pick. What do you got? >> I have to say, it is such a portable movie. Some of the scenes were just so awesome. The one line is from Frank the Tank, when it touches your lips, we're gonna keep this on the down low. Hey, we're going streaking, bring it back. >> I love Smacks. >> Yeah, I mean, bring it back, Eric and Raheem, got paid, and then when they whip around in the van and they kidnap everybody in the back of the initiation, and they're like, and Will Ferrell jumps out, and he comes back, that's okay, we'll bring him back by seven or whatever. >> [LAUGH] >> The movie just flowed, it just kind of spoke to you, kind of in that, and my house asked kind of way, it just had that really kind of good flow, and it's funny, when you do a little research on it, you see that the critics hated it, and the thing is, man, I was like, man, I was like, how do you hate this movie? It just flows nicely, and the style part of it was great, and just how everything flowed, I just thought it was just such an entertaining movie. So I'm gonna give it, you know, since it's the first movie, you know, like, hell, present that day, you know what, first, I'm gonna go a little harder, I'm gonna go with seven nine. >> Seven nine from Ed, all right, we got to go to the panel, I'm expecting big things too, Phantom, let's go. >> [LAUGH] >> Well, it's not to like about animal hosts on a midlife crisis. [LAUGH] No, no, I'm big, big, big fan of it, you know, they kind of took a new school movie and used the old school format, you know, the frat movies and stuff that we grew up with. So what's not to like, got some swearing, it's got some drinking, got some boobies, bunch of my favorite things. >> [LAUGH] >> I'll come in with an 8.3. Nice. It seems to be a popular school, all right, Bradford, young man in the group? >> Not a fan of old school or a big fan of old school? >> It is actually one of my top 10 favorite comedies ever made. I was in Saudi Arabia when this movie dropped, and before released in America, the USO did a tour through the Middle East, and we got to watch it on base in our little desert warfare fucking theater. And so we didn't know what it was, because we were overseas for so long. We didn't see commercials, right? We didn't know the media blitz up to, we didn't know what it was. They were like, here's a Will Ferrell movie, we're like, who's Will Ferrell? That funny guy from Saturday Night Live, all right, let's go watch it. It became everybody's personality for like the next four years. This movie launched the frat pack movie franchises, right? Will Ferrell, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Paul Rudd, that whole crew of guys, they went on to just make movie after movie after movie. And it was an era of hilarious movies. You had The Wedding Singer, or not The Wedding Singer, fuck that movie. You had The Wedding Crashers, you had Talladega Nights, you had Anchorman, you had the 40-year old Virgin, you had all these movies where everybody was cameoing in helping each other's movies out. And it has made them infinitely more hilarious, but this movie, we can look back and say this movie started that whole genre, you know, building up. So I think it was the fan that mentioned Animal House, so in the 90s, there was actually a movie called PCU, yes, you're a movie boss. That was the 90s version of Animal House and starred Jeremy Piven, who was the Animal House Ram Bunch's Guy on Canvas, who played the Dean in old school, and old school was the 2000s version of PCU. So frat pack movie formula, and you know what? We don't get movies like this anymore, because now I've listened to a couple podcasts, comedians come out and they've admitted like comedies don't sell. They tank in the theaters nowadays, and it's because people are so used to these Disney, Marvel, CGI, three hour fucking epic movies with all these explosions and graphics going on that people won't sit through an hour and a half. The old school formula for a successful movie was 90 minutes. You know, 90 minute movie, that's what you got, that's a good comedy, rom-com, whatever you want to call it, even action flick, 90 minutes, you're out. Now movies are three hours long, that's what people want, we don't get movies like old school anymore. And I don't know if we ever will. I don't know who the next frat pack is going to be, because there aren't people that, you know, those guys Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, they weren't just in comedies, they were in everything at that time, and I don't know if we're going to get another group of guys that was probably the last one in that genre. Who's that? I love that one, Bob brothers, they were supposed to make a second one, and Dave Coacher, you know what Dave Coacher is from Ankerman, he did the sports, had the cowboy on it. He was supposed to play Dale's brothers, like Dale's cousin, and the three of them was supposed to, but it never came to fruition. And again, at that time, everybody was doing everything and trying to wrangle those three in to do one movie, but it's always tough. So my rating, because I'm a self-proclaimed amateur movie buff, and this movie kicked off a generation of movies, I got to give it an 8.5, man. I watched it tonight with my wife, and even before I had a bourbon, I was laughing my ass off. Some of the lines and stuff didn't stand the test of time. Like when old boys at Luke Wilson's in the back of the cab, and he's like, "Hey, sir, the seat belt doesn't work. What do you recommend I do?" And the cab, he turns around and says, "Stop being a..." And I'm like, "Oh, that would never work in today's movies." Yeah. Oh, Brad, the circle back on what you said about movies and everything like that, I think a couple of things play into that. Number one, too many options. Yeah. Too many options like on TV, on the internet, like streaming services and everything like that. You know, I mean, think about, like, for most of us that are sitting here on this panel, it's an exception to you, Brad. Like, on Saturday nights, Saturday night live was pretty much it, because that, like, for a long time. You know, I think you may have been too when, you know, when we all started watching. So... TV went off the air after that. Yeah, exactly. I mean, you had the big kaleidoscope that was on there and then you had to go home. National anthem, yeah. Then you had to wait for the next one to hear the Beatles, you know, here comes the song. So Tom, we're able to tally an overall score for that all together with everybody's scores. 8.16. Okay. 8.1, or 8.2, we'll round up. We gotta pump those numbers up, fellas. Pump those numbers up. Don't be safe percentage. Unless it's against you because I didn't have to make a safe because we went wide left, wide right. So old school gets an 8.2 from the podcast, where I can say this is going to be a really good segment called forward. So 8.2 for old school, well, well, good baseline to start with. We got some stuff that's classic that will probably blow that out, but Thomas, what's your pick for next week? Now, question, does that mean no, no, no, no, it's your pick better be gone with the win. No. Ocean's a lot of time movie channel. Ocean's going to say the no, but the one, the one with no book, which one? Not the original one. We're not going from the frat pack to the frat pack to the frat pack. Sorry. So your homework for next week, be ready, Ocean's 11, the remake, let's look, I'm going to kick the brat thoughts on crown jewel. That was probably the worst three hours of wrestling ever watched in my life. I might get it. WWE had to pay the piper, whatever crack deal, back alley, pan job deal. They have a Saudi Arabia where they got to pay their rent. They had to do the stupid crown jewel belts and they don't even get to bring the belts home. All they got was a stupid ring to wear in place. The belts are staying in the country. Nothing exciting happened. The women's match was horrendous. I've lost count of how many botched moves they were in that match. You didn't even get Randy Orton and KO because Randy Orton got hurt. I'll look down at my phone and looked up and he's being carted off out of the ring. So I don't even know what happened. Every match was boring. I rarely say this, but I hated this PLE and it is just an annual suck fast. I don't remember crown jewel ever being exciting, to be honest with you. At the last second, they added a bloodline six man tag match and we thought we were going to get. I got hyped for that. I was not interested in crown jewel whatsoever. I wasn't even planning on watching until they added the bloodline thing. I was like, maybe we're going to get some action with this. Rumors were flying to others to Mullins showing up, the rock showing up and everything that I watched it. It was the first match of the night. So immediately when they came out, I knew nothing big was going to happen because they don't drop big stuff in the first five minutes of the PLE. But then I kept watching like a sucker because I kept expecting them to cut to the back because something big was going to be happening backstage. Boy was I wrong. That was not a good three hours and I don't know if I can get that time back. I wasted my whole afternoon. It's three and a half hours. I think it's three and a half fucking sucks. I didn't get a chance to watch it, Brad. So I don't have too much input. I'm. Don't watch it. I was double booked. I probably won't watch it now. I was only interested in the Cody Gunther match or should I say Walter, so. It was a good match, but yeah, it was worthless. A completely pointless match. Cody's title defense. He's who is he wrestled with Kevin Owens, Gunther, AJ Styles. I mean, it has been not not even a worthwhile title defense so far. Like it has been boring. And I'm a huge Cody fan sucks. Yeah. I got to agree with Brad down as that was totally buns. That thing. That thing was garbage. It was bad. I'll speak and match a suck except for the Cody match at the end was probably was pretty decent. Unlike Brad, I do like the concept of the two champions fighting against each other for like a world champion, like a world series of champions. And then they just get the rings. So as time goes on, if you happen to win like three of them, you'll be like, I got like four like championship rings or what else I kind of like the concept of it. But as far as all the other stuff, the woman's match horrendous so bad. It was so bad though. Yeah. Where's the time? Speaking of garbage, let's talk about Vince McMahon episode five. I'm watching this and it's based around the family dynamic of, you know, Vince and mostly Shane and the kind of contrasting and comparing the relationship of Vince with his father, Shane. And they even said that I think two people had mentioned on the episode that Shane was the black sheep of the family always got rubbed to the kind of like the wrong way and stuff like that. Paul Heyman tells a great story and that about, you know, Vince telling him about, you know, having friction at the meeting and telling him if he wanted to take the, you know, he has the knife down me in the hot right now. And I had heard that the reason why Shane had left in 2009 was he was uncomfortable at that time with how Vince was with the female talent. And he didn't want to be part of the dragnet if there ever was one. So give the guy credit, if that's true, why he left in 2009. So I will open it up to you guys to talk about your thoughts on that episode. I'll say, yeah, change the black sheep of the family because he actually has feelings and cares about other human beings, like blows my mind. Yeah. It's unreal. Oh, yeah. I don't think anybody watched that and came away from it, not feeling that machine between him always looking for that approval from his father and then just, you know, fast forward to like now, where it's like Stephanie and Triple H or more so Triple H is the one that's running his family, his father's business that really it was probably his place to run. Well, I mean, what Stephanie bought it's, uh, it's just crazy how well, when Vince talks about his father and he pretty much just like repeated the same thing when Vince was crying in one of the earlier episodes that he got a little bit of his father's approval then like change jumping off shit out, like pushing 50 years old to get his father to pop for a rock. But one of the matches is insane. Yeah, I had, I had heard a small story about Shane that he was like a really good athlete growing up. He, uh, he was really good at football and he actually played hockey growing up too. And I was one of those things that, uh, Vince never ever really attended a lot of the stuff because of the work schedule and things like that. So I'm sure there's, there's a lot of, um, you know, underlining problems that aren't really addressed as, as this documentary has been consistent with that, the stuff that you really want to see, they kind of, you know, leave open ended and, and, uh, don't kind of give you enough, you know, to each story that they're throwing at Tom, do you have, uh, any input on that episode? Well, first, this documentary has been a total waste of time to be honest with you. They have not thrown one interesting or a fact that people don't know if they put any kind of research. It didn't even have to do a lot of research. So this is all recycled stuff, but, um, it, the only thing that, I mean, it kind of insinuated that he was, it was an ancestral thing. And they kind of insinuated that as it was his mom, which, thinking back, I always thought it was his dad, the way he always talked about it. I think they said, oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And none of his biological father's stepfather, just to be, uh, clear, Scott, did you end up watching any of it? Oh, yeah. No, I watched it. So for those who don't know, I'm a therapist by background and there's like, this is almost Shakespearean, right? They say there's only probably like seven actual stories ever written and everything's a basis off of that. And to see the level of you've got a, you got a guy who was abused, who was, you know, desiring, you know, attention, the need for focus, all of that. And just to become this, you know, you give him power, you give him money, and now he's just got this power unchecked. And he's got to know this a bit of a megalomaniac and he doesn't see the fact of writing a storyline where he impregnates his daughter and he doesn't see a problem with that. Like, I mean, so I, you know, I'm, I'm not as in tune with the, with wrestling, as you guys are, but watching this was actually fascinating to me and just to see kind of the psychosis of this individual and how in any other environment, remove the money, remove the power. This is just some sick, crazy tin hat, tin foil hat guy who's talking on the 1973 podcast. Oh, Brad, tired, but no, but essentially he, when you have the money, when you have the power, you let this, you let your psychosis, you let your media kind of out there. And then people have to cater to it. So yeah, I, I found it fascinating. I find this is a very sick individual and we're just all watching the modern day, you know, drama of it, not like something else we're watching right now on Tuesday, allegedly. Well, this is the episode we talked about how he had like, multiple voices or whatever in his head, he had like different storylines in his head going on the same time or something. No, not this one. That was fucked up. What? Well, we'll have to save that for the last episode next week. The thing I found crazy too is he contradicts himself so much, like he says, what I say and what I think is two different things. So why don't you just sound really intelligent with what your responses are rather than trying to get a reaction out of people wanting to stab you in the fucking face. You know, it's like he didn't like what WCW was doing to him. But then the person had the balls enough to say, well, isn't that what you did with the territories? And he's like, oh, that's a different thing. What do you mean, it's not different? What's wrong with you? Ray, did you end up watching any of the episodes? I actually watched one through four this week and yeah, some of the things that he did was insane and he will never have said, well, I didn't try this. He tried everything, you know, but one thing that really stuck out to me was the second episode going to court that chap acrylic neck raised, that thing was awesome. He took a page that's really good, it's really good, my hand, he's a shit show and a half. Yeah. And that story's not done either because that stuff's still more stuff's coming out. And I think the other celebrity news with the same type of thing that's going on is kind of taking a little bit of light away from the whole McMahon thing because it was hot for a little while they when we first started talking about it, Bradford thoughts on episode five. I'm waiting. Vince McMahon. Now here's a guy got abused by physically mentally abused by a stepdad sexually abused by his mother allegedly completely twisted mind fucked for his whole life had a real dad who didn't really love him, wasn't present, he's always striving for affection and acceptance. And he comes out and he's like, I'm going to put all that in the past. That's what I do. I put it in the past. I don't look back. And then proceeds to treat his own children the way is real to them like given them the same, no love, no sell, no, no affection, you know, nothing you ever do, I would be good enough. I watched that episode. I was like, I hope Shane goes to a W and turns it into a powerhouse production like I hope he does that. I hope that's not just rumor. I hope he does it. And because now Vince is talking about opening up another show somewhere doing some bullshit and I hope Shane goes and does that, man, but they very lightly got into like the aura and like the background events, like they started talking about this stuff. They got really heavy, really deep, and then they jumped to something else. They very lightly sprinkled in some sable sexual harassment controversy stuff, some Trish Stratus sexual harassment stuff. I'm like, let's get deep on it. And they're like, no, let's cut to the next thing. Let's cut to the next thing. And I was like, come on, man, like again, it was a lot of stuff we already knew. Nothing was surprising. Nothing was an investment, man, like I don't think that I don't think he has a conscience. He literally said in the show, I'm going to put it in the past. I'm not like that anymore. There's a difference between me and Vince and Vince, the character, and then they cut to Triple H or Shane or Stephanie one and they're like, no, they're the same people. Oh, shit. Can you have your wedding on pay per view? Right. Right. I thought in his own fantasy, man, like that's yeah, the thing that I thought that they were a spot on with and I'm glad it got in there because I'm sure I'd love to see the stuff that got cut out of that documentary. They kind of built the thing where everything that he's done outside of wrestling has been a failure going all the way back to the evil, can evil jump. And they didn't mention that. But everything that XFL, the world bodybuilding Federation, everything's been a failure except the one time that Shane comes to him and says, you know what we should do? We should buy the UFC and he goes, nope, that's not us. We can't make characters out of that. That's regular sport. If you want to put your own money into it, but you don't have enough, no, thank you. And what's the return on the UFC, right, like billions of dollars? Yep. So it makes you wonder with the Shane thing, like how much of fuck you to him does he have to prove like is he finally going to come full circle and be like everything Vince was, but more not in a bad way. But like I've had all these good ideas that you've suppressed all these years and now I'm going to take them and run with it. So I mean, out of all the McMancy was always my favorite. I always thought Shane was like the type of dude that you could really have a conversation with. And Stephanie always seemed to be a lot like Vince. It's just my take on it, which isn't really good for Triple H, but that's all I was wondering in like Vince's head, like the way he treats his kids, he's like, well, I wonder if he's like, well, fuck it. This is how I grew up and look at the man I became. I'll do it to them and see if they can do the same thing. Where that's what he's thinking. Yeah. I would like to see what I never did a dive into, but maybe Tom knows that what does Shane get into when he left in 2009 when he's what kind of business ventures did he get into? Something to do with electronics or something like that. I have to look that up. I really don't know. Okay. Yeah. Right. You know, the thing that's funny, Andy, too, is and you know, they're only going to go so far with it with the Netflix, with it being on Netflix is like anything else. When there's any kind of scandal, whether it was like Sadusky and like Joe Pah, he knew stuff, but he wasn't the one doing it. Right. I knew everything that was going on. He got buried. The stuff of the Blackhawks, all the coach and any of the guys that were in the front office are all gone. So Vince is doing this stuff, especially when he was in charge, everybody in the locker room must know what he was up to. I'm sure there's some stuff that's behind the scenes that nobody knows, but I'm sure there's a lot of whispering going on like any other workplace. And you got like Nick Khan, Triple H, Stephanie, they all, you can think they don't know what happens, but they're like untouchable. So it's like, they're not really going to get it to anything deep on the documentary, even though a lot of it was getting filmed ahead of time because they know all the secrets. And at some point, they're getting real bad when it goes to court. They might all be fucked. So culpability. Yeah. And Tony Atlas. And it's just bringing Tony Atlas. Bring back Tony Atlas. Tony Atlas. Tony Atlas. Tony Atlas, the star witness. Tony Atlas, the star witness. I'm going to ask you guys this, though, don't you guys find it funny how it's the sexual harassment stuff against Sable and she's married to Brock Lesnar? Well, there might be their kink. There might be their kink. How about as part of the allegations of Brock Lesnar was his name was mentioned in the case that, you know, allegedly there was some, let's say, Paola to bring Brock Lesnar back into the fold, right? I'm trying to tip toe around the actual, you know, when you ever see that you might come back to wrestling like, how I thought it was named in that soup and stuff and I don't know. There's so many people that have sued Vince that they've brought him back. So I mean, everybody from the ultimate warrior to, you know, even even the Bruno thing and then give credit where credit's to Triple H is the one that's doing all the damage control to bring these guys back. I kind of put it a little bit to a lot of this stuff with these wacky storylines and all this is so like, when they do go to court, Vince, and Vince is just going to be like, this stuff's all, this stuff's all the storyline. Now, these people get the stuff with stuff they've seen on TV and that this time, that stuff's true. Everybody thinks I'm a deviant because I played a deviant on television. That's all my, you know, I mean, it's all like strategic, all the, you know, it's making all these angles and stuff that he's really doing behind the scenes and, you know, it's all possible. It's a liability. Makes sense, right? It makes per se. It makes per se. Right in the script. Yup. A number two on somebody's back allegedly. So that's about as deviant as you can get. That's just nasty. So next week, we'll wrap it up episode six, we should get a couple of surprises in there or something. I would hope not. I wouldn't hold your breath on that one. I wouldn't hold your breath on that one. Thomas should turn for some sports talk with starting with some shitty pics. Fing it away. Here we go. Tom shitty pics is brought to you by Brock Street Brewing Company located at 244 Brock Street South in Whippy, Ontario. Everything is brewed in house, including their hard iced teas, their beers, vodka sodas and their hard seltzers. So if you're in the Whippy area, go check them out and tell them the 1973 podcast sent you. Can we just get right here? Can we give Chris a little shit? He was just down the road and he'd even make it over. Oh, Chris, Chris is going through some stuff allegedly. I don't even know what it is, but every time I ping them a couple of times, he's got issues. So I don't know because my family who was in the same hockey tournament, I'm going to say he was an Anthony Richardson, just a little too tired and couldn't make it. Damn, but I did hook him up with some beer. Scottie, I will be out your way in May for another hockey tournament at the Gretzky Arena in Ontario. So we'll have to hook up then. Perfect. All right. So Thomas, you're going to think chicken wing. All right. Well, I wasn't here last week. So I needed a mental break from you, Jackasses, but I'm back. I'm back at 100%. Mike. Oh, wait. Yes. Allegedly. Allegedly. So we've got a therapist here. You might be able to help me out here. I'm four and one with my college picks so far. I'm going to go with two games this week because I'm going to talk with both games. There's not really too many good games coming up this next week. So I'm going Alabama versus LSU. I'm going to go with Alabama. I just think LSU, the coach can't win the game is never been able to win the big game. And their defense, I think, is not going to be able to hold up on Alabama. The second game, I'm going Georgia over Ole Miss. The game's in Ole Miss, but I don't think Ole Miss's defense can handle Alabama. I think Jackson Datt is awesome quarterback for Mississippi, but I just don't think they're going to be able to. Five tuddies today. What's that? It's like it through five tuddies. That's all I can do today. Oh, OK. I mean, you're my tuddies is five tuddies. Don't hate. They played you. Mass. They played Arkansas. Do five tuddies. Don't. Don't be angry. High has been trophy candidate, but they're going to lose a Georgian. I will say that. So go ahead. Oh, sorry. World Series. Scotty, you want to weigh in on some World Series to put a pin in that season? Oh, just it was sweet. It was sweet. Seeing that, you know, the Yankees did blip for one game and all of that sort, but it was, you know, I was saying earlier, my favorite team is the Red Sox. My second favorite team is anybody playing the Yankees and see the Yankees just suck constantly. And it was funny because it wasn't even the big guys. None of the big guys. Oh, Tony. He was hurting. Right? You can see that he was hurting. He hung in there and he was playing well, but it was just awesome to see. And then, of course, the entertainment was a game for the the hockey thugs, the New York hockey thugs essentially trying to rip the ball out of Mookey's hands. It was it was just so much fun. It was awesome. I love the game and it was probably one of the few World Series that I've watched since the since the socks have been in it. It's been hard to watch some of the games and you got basically the Yankees of the West Coast versus the Yankees of the East Coast because of the salaries and all of that stuff. So no, no, happy to see the Yankees lose and all you Yankees fans. You suck. You heard it here first, buy some beer. You want to weigh in on the grogg story, I'm sure we can get a collective with that one. I just I think it was the most Yankees thing ever that their fans tried to yank the ball from out of Mookey bed's glove. And then to find out that Grockowski was friends with the guy is the most Grockowski thing. Like, this guy, yeah, Grockowski's a living legend, dude, like, have y'all seen the guy that plays him in that. Yes. That is a show, Andy. We need to watch it for you. I mean, because the guy they got to play Grock is his actual stunt double from other shows. Yeah. It was like, it looks like he ate his bear share of tin foil in his bag. This one is not even a caricature. Dude, it is spot on. Yeah. What show is that? I haven't caught that one. Is it an index? It's so many of those stories. This one is like Hollywood produced. It's got a bunch of actors. There's no real actual athletes in it. And the guy they picked to play Bill Belichick is hilarious. So it's worth watching because it's getting just by the critics. Like, it's been mean. People hate it. It's hilarious. It's horrible. It didn't come across as like this actual storytelling of Aaron Hernandez at all. So I got to find out what streaming platform it is though, but it's worth a watch just because it's funny. It's so short. It's like Shark Native. It's so bad. It's good. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. All right. So that's the end of the world series for this year. We'll move on to what we do every week during football season and Thomas, you're back at the helm. Let's bring the ship back. The phantom filled in for you last week and he was a mess. He's a hot mess. You know, I think you did fine. You were you were the Reggie Lemlin to Tom's Andy Moog. Wow. Wow. Well, first of all, after eight weeks, the standings are very close. Brad's in first, he's 85 and 38 and he's second, 83 and 40. Ryan, the phantoms on a heater right now in last two weeks, the phantoms gone, I think 27 and three. He's, he's 82 and 41, and I'm picking the Cowboys, and it's 80, 80. I'm 60, 70, 40, 60, and Wussle and jaggy is 69 and 33, 60 now. So I gave you guys, I sent you guys the five games we're picking just so you guys, if you want to do your homework or whatnot, but game one, Washington commanders at home against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Andy, I'm going commando. All right, Shaggy, I actually wrote mine down so I text you the rest of them. I don't forget what the fuck I picked. I'm going to Redskins. All righty, right Pittsburgh, all righty, Scotty. That's a tough one. After watching the commanders pulling out of their eyes, I'm going to say commanders as well. All righty, Ed, I'm going with the Steelers. All righty, Brad, first of all, y'all need to acknowledge your tribal chief. I've been in first place all season, acknowledge me, acknowledge me right now. I got to say, I love how you picked this week's games here, send me a text that just give me all home teams, so I can tell you how to get to homework. I've watched zero football this year because we have tournaments every weekend, and even on weekends that we don't have it, we're doing other stuff. I mean, fishing, bike ride, and practicing soccer, it's something, so I got that beat, though. I got that beat. I haven't watched the game since Rich Gannon was in Super Bowl. Oh, no, I know for a fact it was the Snow Bowl game because we were watching it together. I was sleeping in a while. It's been the first 30 minutes of work every Monday, like looking up who won? What happened? What was the big news? So for this game, both six and two, Russ Wilson is actually balling out since he came back. A lot of people thought he was going to kind of choke and kind of fade out and fizzle out from the spotlight. Jayden Daniels is a freaking star. If he's healthy, I think the commanders will win. I think, I don't know, man, that this one is going to be split right down the middle pretty close, but I'm going with commanders. All righty. Phantom. I'm going with the steel ice. Okay. No, Tommy, there should have been a whole little piece on that freaking cornerback or safety for the Chicago. Is it basically wave into the fans as the game's going on? Like that should have been a segment here. High school. Shit. Jesus. I should have got caught. Yeah. Yep. At least one. I'm going with the command. I was his coat. Yeah. Yeah. I wrote a stat today that Jayden Daniels is a second player in NFL history to have 1500 yards passing and 400 yards of rushing through their first eight games of their career with ironically, the other player was another commander's quarterback. It was RG three. So I'm going to go with Washington. Next game. Good. Yeah. If you compare them to RG three, that's that's not going to vote well for his. Yeah. My knees. Yeah. Next game Thursday night game, Baltimore Ravens at home against the Cincinnati Bengals. Andy. Ravens? Questions? Question mark. Alrighty. Shaggy. I'm picking Ravens. At least when one needs to have my pick them. Alrighty. Ray. Ravens, please. Alrighty. Scotty. Well, no Cincinnati got beat by New England. So he's just got to go Baltimore. Alrighty. Ed. Man, you want to talk about hot and cold? That's Baltimore, man, but and they're a better team than since he is. And since he can't seem to stop the run to say they're left. So it's going to run the ball. So I'm going to go ball. Alrighty. Brad. Yeah. Same thing is that bangles. I think are a little bit hot and cold. More hot now that Joe Burrows back. He has a more of a rhythm with Jamar Chase Ravens every time you want them to win. They lose. Um, and every time they lose, by the way, yeah, every time they lose, you know, or every time you think they're going to win, they lose. And when you think they're going to lose, they win. Anyway, Baltimore. Alrighty. Phantom? Uh, called the Ravens. Alright. There are more. I agree. I'm going to see, uh, Ravens, the Ravens got to stop trying to outbills, try to be smarter than everyone in the room and try to like throw the ball. You got Derek Henry on the team, running the damn ball 35 times a game. I mean, the guy's unbelievable. Hey, Tom. Tom. Before we move on and we were talking about the Ravens, they just remind me, uh, there's a documentary coming out about Raven. I don't know if you've seen the tree, the trailer for it. It looks fantastic. Uh, work on that, but I just want to put that in there. Yep. Alright. Next game. New Orleans Saints at home against the Atlanta Falcons. Andy. Falcons. Alrighty. Uh, Shaggy. Dirty birdie. Alrighty. Uh, Ray. Thanks. Alrighty. Scotty. Man, I just not trust in New Orleans. I'm the one L in it. Alrighty. Uh, Ed. I mean, the Dennis Allen watch should be on right now. I mean, as, I mean, I don't know what, I don't know what pictures he's got on, uh, on Mickey boom is to say the least. So, uh, I'm going with it later. You have to have after the break. Alrighty. Uh, Brad? No. Not the Dennis Rose watch, right? No, Dennis. The Saints had two good games this season. One of them was against the Cowboys. They've been shit ever since. Uh, I got to go with the Falcons, man. It's too high flying, high powered of an offense by John Robinson is playing great football. Um, their defense, I think is so so, but, uh, with, with New Orleans and who's their quarterback going to be? Um, it's, I, I, I, and they have an atrocious O line right now. Um, I think Atlanta pulls this one out, even though it's a, it's in New Orleans. Alrighty. Uh, Phantom. I was going to say, uh, to Brad, unfortunately, we didn't know at the time, but, uh, when the Saints beat the Cowboys, they probably were shit then too. And they probably were. But, uh, yeah, I'm not going with the Saints. I'll take it later. I'm going with the Saints. David Carr is coming back. He's back this week. It's in New Orleans. I think they're going to, uh, Atlanta is weird. They play down to their competition a lot. So I'm going Kirk Cousins, a little banged up. He's got banged up ribs. So I'm going with New Orleans, uh, next game, Arizona Cardinals at home. We get to New York Jets, Andy, I would pick them up. I don't think the shares all go to Cardinals. Alrighty. Uh, Shaggy. The Jets got their one win they're going to get last week. I'm going with the Cardinals. Alrighty. Uh, Ray. Cardinals. Alrighty. Uh, Scotty. He had everything to New York Cardinals. Alrighty. Ed. I don't know why I'm going to do this, uh, man, I hate doing this, but I'm going to go with the Jets. I don't know. They got it. They got a good defense man. And, uh, you know, even though, uh, Murray is like, you've been throwing the bonies the top 10 and completion percentage in the league. I still, I still, I don't know the Jets, because you like watching them on Pat McAfee the next week. Brad. Uh, I think the Jets are really good at beating up on really bad teams. And I think the Cardinals are just average enough that they'll squeak by. Alrighty. Uh, Ryan. Yes. Yep. Yeah. I'm going with the Jets as well. I think, I think sauce gardener, the only receiver that scares me on Arizona is Marvin Harrison. I think sauce gardener can shut him down. I'm going to go with the Jets, even though I can't stand Aaron Rodgers. And, uh, I hope he gets the friggin Tabasco drink in his damn eyes. I can't stand him. Uh, alright, AC, I believe. Oh, wait. One more game. Sorry. Can, can City Chiefs at home against the Denver Broncos? Andy. Uh, I guess the Chiefs. Do you want to go for my picks to four picks? Alrighty. Uh, Shaggy. Uh, I got, I'm hoping Chiefs can find loser games. I'm going with the Broncos. Alrighty. Uh, Ray. Broncos. Alrighty. Scotty. Taylor Swift team. Alrighty. Uh, Ed. Well, I mean, this, this has the potential that they could actually lose, uh, but I'm going to go with the Kansas City, Tennessee, Tennessee referees, please. Okay. Brad. Bro, you know how I'm going to pick. Chiefs undefeated. The wifey just went to the errors concert, brought me back some swag, can't wait to bust this out. Once it finally drops below 60, yeah, that's a Taylor Swift hoodie dog Andy. Why you? So I'm going to say you won. You want me to say you won? Thank you. All day, I got four tickets. And I sold two of them for $7,000. Oh, nice. Scotty for tax purposes, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly, right to a charity, you got her tickets for $65. She worked the system, boys. Oh, phantom, don't talk bad about Travis Kelsey, or his brother will come kick your ass. I don't think Denver is ready for the cheap shirts on low G's. I'm going to take Casey, but I think it's going to be a closer game than most people think. So the clean sweep for the, oh, no, not a clean sweep for the podcast, but all right, AC. That's it. Well, it's time to, you know, play the Twilight Zone music. It's time to get your tin foil hat on. It's time to do a deep dive into the world of Brad and the tin foil hat. Taking away Thomas. All right, Brad's tin foil hat conspiracy of the week is brought to you by the book Loving Elliot, a fitting tribute to Undying Love written by our very own Andy Clark available on Amazon.com. Oh, yeah, it was the oldest special leads Jack Russell Terry when he passed away at the age of 21. First person to buy a book Raymond just saying back in the day, first guy to buy a book was Ray teacher right there. Still got it, buddy. Still got it. So did y'all check out the Trump Joe Rogan podcast? Yes. Not yet. Very entertaining. Worth to listen, whether you support the guy or not. One thing about Trump, do notice how to work a crowd. He can speak offhand, no cue cards, no teleprompter, very well spoken. But in the middle of that podcast, he referenced William McKinley and how William McKinley was assassinated. And I was like, hold up. I only know of two presidents that were assassinated Lincoln and JFK. There's been four McKinley and Garfield. So I was like, why we pretty much know why JFK got assassinated. We know why Lincoln was assassinated. Like we've been down those conspiracy roads. So like why were McKinley and Garfield assassinated? So I had to do some research. So starting with James Garfield, 20th president, he was known for several key accomplishments despite his brief tenure in office. He was a dark force candidate. He was not supported by either, there were two factions in the Republican party, neither faction supported him. Nobody expected him to win the primary to be their choice for election. And he won. He's a dark horse candidate. Who does that sound like? So it's like Donald Trump to me, guys, it's like history repeating itself. They just keep regurgitating this historical cycle of garbage and information. The same tactics, the same strategies they used since the dawn of time, they just keep recycling it year over year. So you know, he's a dark horse candidate. He already sounds like Trump. He was leading the Republican nomination. His economic policy was to actually save money for America, right? His thing was to invest in the gold standard. He believed in hard money policies. He didn't want a central bank. He was one of the few people at the time who didn't believe in central banking. William McKinley was also shot. Guess where he was shot, Andy? In the dick. In the dick at the Pan American American exposition, a world fair. Like I said, it is head. One of the world fairs, bro, they assassinated my man's at the world fair. You already know how we feel about those. So more conspiracies within the conspiracy. That tells you it's a real conspiracy. William McKinley, guess what he also believed in? The gold standard. It is a repeating theme in history, anybody that believes in a gold standard and tries to separate from the any world's bank, whether it's the Federal Reserve, the Bank of London, Saddam Hussein believed in a gold standard. He went to warrant killed him, Gaddafi, same thing. We went and killed him. There's a list of people, obviously those guys were bad in their own right, but even when the presidents didn't believe in central banking, we went and killed them. Political leaders from the '70s and all favorite central banking system are from 1790s and all favorite central banking system to manage war debts and to stabilize the economy similar to the Bank of England, right? It seems like they got rid of the presidents who favored a gold standard. We had economic crises and financial panics starting in 1819. We had one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, like eight, nine of these motherfuckers. They all spanned 15, 20 years in between, eventually leading to the Jekyll Island Conference in 1910 where a bunch of bankers and elites secretly met on Jekyll Island off the coast of Atlanta and just decided we're going to start the Federal Reserve and then they went and fucking did it. So pretty fucking wacky. So the thing that circle all this back around, Trump referenced McKinley because McKinley was known as the king of tariffs. He didn't believe in taxing the people. He wanted American to prosper. He would charge all these tariffs for imported goods. So he got fucking killed because he was costing elites and businessmen at the time, a lot of money. He was believing the same thing. He wants to do the same thing. He wants to oppose tariffs on all these imported goods to bring the factories and the work back to America. He called out McKinley. He referenced it. They've already tried to get Trump twice. I'm going to go ahead and say, no, he's not going to make it through four years. Just going to say it too many similarities to these other two guys. It's not going to happen. Allegedly. Allegedly. It's not coming from me. I'm just pointing out a conspiracy theory. I can learn more from Brad in a 10 minute segment that I can, from watching six episodes of Mr. McMahon. Hey, I did some research on this one. I got off of AI and actually did some research. Brad, a couple of really good talking points on that Joe Rogan podcast where I don't know. I liked how we're not going to talk about who you think should get in. I'm just going to put this out there as the talking points that I did like. I thought Joe Rogan asked them really good questions and I thought Trump answered as honestly as he could, they asked him about what he had seen with the classified documents on JFK and things like that. He said that he had read multiple classified documents and somebody close to him that he loved and respected, asked him not to talk about it in the open. I thought that was a great response for why he can't say what he wants to say. Because obviously there's somebody that's close to him that he respects whoever that is and that he has a soft spot for probably a family member said, "Hey, we would appreciate if you didn't bring that up in public." So, with that being said, he said that there is something- Would be the man that enjoys them? Is that down to him? I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I'm assuming where he said it was somebody that loved and respected him. I'm assuming it's somebody that probably is a family member, I would think. Not his kids. Who knows? Who knows? But he did say that there was some stuff that he was going to divulge if he does get back in and I'm wondering what the possibilities could be if he does debug some conspiracy theorists and put them kind of at ease with certain things. Thoughts on that, Brett? I think, yeah, for sure. I forgot to mention, so we talked about the Diddy trial and everything that's going on right now and the list of stars that attended the Diddy parties, pretty weird that the same people that were listed are now coming out to endorse Kamala Harris. The most surprising- Now, I know stars do this every election. That's not new news, right? However, it's the proximity of them to Diddy and now having to come out to endorse it, it's starting to shock people. Justin Bieber did it, Leonardo DiCaprio, and the most surprising Jennifer Lopez. I've been really known J.Lo to be that political. I may need to go back and look up and see if she ever came out and endorse any other candidate. J.Lo has the most to lose. She was in the club the night Diddy shot somebody and held the gun in her purse. Ben Affleck literally divorced her as soon as they raided Diddy's house because he didn't want none of that. She is sweating bullets. Her legal team is like already trying to mount a defense because they've already been a court for this. This is all over MTV and TMZ years ago. They've already been a court. It's already been settled. They paid out to the victims. It was swept under the rug it was forgot about. But now that it's resurfaced, they've got a lot of legal collateral to hang over J.Lo. All of a sudden, she comes out at a Las Vegas Kamala Harris rally to tell everybody to go vote for Harris. I was like, "Man, are y'all trying to prove the conspiracy theorists right? Because this one moment, you're making us look like we're not that crazy. That's wild shit right now, man. Wild shit." Brad, let me jump in with the Ricky Gervais thing. Now, do you remember a couple of years ago when Ricky Gervais did that kind of roast where he was putting everybody on blast and everybody was laughing about it where he was calling them this and calling them that. People were laughing, but some people had straight faces. He just recently dropped a video on social media of him in the bathtub. Did you see that one? That's all that we have. No. It's him in the bathtub and he's talking about what's going on right now with what you're talking about. He's about to die. Actually, you've got to see it. I thought I might have sent it to you. I'll have to check. I think I sent it to the Phantom. It's pretty good, dude. Well, you know the bathtub connection, right? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So if he's in a bathtub and he's exposing shit. That's like the precursor to the final op of balcony. Yeah. So, I'll send that to you as soon as we get off so you can check it. Also next week's tin full hat should be great post election, right? I would imagine you would have something lined up for that. It should be a good. It should be a good podcast next week post election wrapping up the Vince McMahon. Maybe some other stuff will come out during over the course of the week. It should be a good week, right? Or a podcast news next week. I'll come up with something good. All right. It'll be truck related just for Scotty. Yeah. Yeah. I won't say you have those skins in the game. Scott, yeah. Northville border. Yeah. I voted. I voted. Yeah. Yeah. You know, again, I said I'm a therapist, right? So I see psychosis. I don't really need voting. I voted. That is not my prime minister. Don't worry. Trump already declared he won. Hey, Scotty, you will be happy to know that CNN accidentally released a ticker at the bottom of their screen declaring Kamala Harris the winter of Pennsylvania, thus winning the election. Oh, there you go. Yeah, they put it out and they're like, oh, shit, we fucked up guys and they put it down really quick. Let's just get it done. Let's get it done. That'd be nice. They already have it. Confitated. They've already counted. She's she's already won. So I just love it gives you a lot of material, tons of material. Listen, I just we always talk about Hall of Famis and who's a true Hall of Fam. I'm going to ask one person on this panel is Donald Trump and WWE Hall of Famis Phantom. Take it away. I mean, he beat up Vince McMahon. One of the few to get a win on Vince McMahon, right? All right. So let's let's wrap this episode up with some shout outs. I'm going to go with Scotty this week, Scott. What do you got? All right. All right. There was somebody I wanted to shout out. Go with me last. All right. I'll remember. So important that I forgot them. What do you got, Shaggy? Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to shout to my wife, and they bought her laptop that's together and use my phone. Fantastic. Raymond, you're going to shout out this week? All the guys down at work. Jack Edwards, they're going to honor him tomorrow night. What? Jack Edwards. The brew is going to honor him tomorrow night. We have to listen to him one more time? Yep. Fuck. I hope he brushes. Do you have a wide back? Ed, what do you got? Oh, just good to see how you go for this this week. That's all I got. What a guy. What a guy. What a guy. I got moist. I'm going to shout out to the New York Yankees for going out on the Vegas. Three errors and one in it. Can't catch a pop fly. Can't throw the third base. Can't cover first. Give me a lot of enjoyment. I'm going to do a shout out to my boy, the Carter sauce. Game winner last weekend. They won two nothing tonight. He was the only guy that had the two goals. He's been on fire. The kids doing good things this year. So shout out to the sauce. Bradford, what do you got? Yo, my boy, Dennis finally came through. We got our skikarp caps autograph by his nephew, Ryan Dennis. I take back every bad thing that the panel has ever said about you. I always said good things. I knew you were going to come through. I wasn't even stressing it. These guys, I don't know. But, you know, whatever they said, I'll take it back, man. They didn't mean it. Thanks for coming through. Hats look great. Thanks for the autograph. The kid loved it. Awesome shit, man. Nice. Nice hat with a sweat ring already getting put in it. There goes the resale value. Yeah. Thomas, what do you got? I'm going to give a shout out to my niece Taylor. She's picking up the mantle of going to the Comic-Cons and stuff. She went today to the Rhode Island Comic-Con and she sent me a picture of herself with the dog from Deadpool. Nice. It's so hilarious. So I'm glad she's doing it and still having fun. So good job, kid. Well, Scotty. Now's your morning. I remember it. So my buddy, Scott, who, frankly, you might remember, he did work at Walmart many, many years ago, Tall Tall Scott, he actually had his first kid yesterday and, you know, he's like 50. So this kid is... Jesus. Oh, my God. But him and his wife have been trying for a long time. They finally had their baby. Congrats. Congratulations to them. Mackenzie. So well done, well done, and yeah, you'll be the oldest person at preschool. So how can I close out the podcast without following that one? Show us your tits.