Welcome to this week's edition of the Better Rivals podcast. My name is Oscar Aparicio, and it is officially Rivals Week.

The 49ers host the Seahawks in a pivotal NFC best divisional matchup.

And here to remind us not to forget about Dre, it's David Newman.

Yeah, I mean, don't do it.

Don't forget about him.

But are we talking about Dre Kirkpatrick?

I'm talking about Dr. Dre.

I mean, you can forget about Drake, Kurt Patrick, for sure.

Like, don't give any brain space to that man at all.

Yeah, it is, it's official.

We have a, we have a halftime show that maybe won't suck.

And that's exciting.

Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, M&M, lots of things.

I'm excited about that halftime show.

We'll see if it actually lives up to... So on the surface, it sounds exciting, but like in typical enough fashion, even when they go

rap, they go with old people.

Well, yeah, of course.

You got to stay still below the no fun line,

and they're going to bleep out all the things,

and, you know, they've been scared since the Janet Jackson boob incident.

You know, they've stayed away from wardrobe malfunctions.

It's great.

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