Thursday morning, December 5th,

The Beat in the book podcast, Megapog, Skill Alexander, and of course, it's week 14 in the national football league, the quarter pole in horse racing parlance. The regulars on the show here, as always, from Circa Sports. Derek Stevens Conciliary, the vice president of operations at Circa. It's our buddy Mike Palm. What's happening, Mike? Good morning, Gil. How are you? I'm doing very well. You're eating in the office. We're all on camera here. Everybody but our guest today.

You seem to be eating well. I'm not seeing. Everyone else is at lunch, but due to John Murray's schedule, we had to do this later, so I'm not able to go to lunch. There we go. Already welcoming the guest. Pretty sure, Mike, you missing lunch wouldn't be the end of the world. Oh. And so it begins.

And so it begins. Says the guy that finished fourth in the non-casino employed post category. Here we go. Here we go. Using Twitter polls against each other. Mike is very serious about these Twitter polls, Todd. He's very serious about it. Mike, first of all, you can just anything I make jokes about your weight, you can say same to you, fatso, because I'm a fatso too. Yeah, I know you are, but I would never stoop to that level because there's a lot of factors where it may not be your fault and you're trying to get more healthy. Wow. Wow. Now, that's that beautiful Catholicism coming together. I love it. John, John, aren't you glad you agreed to do this? This is all we do for an entire 45 minutes every,

every week. I'm very excited to come on and talk about the NFL with you guys. I apologize, Mike. I do. I over-extended myself the last two days. I agreed to way too many interviews the last two days. I'm pretty sure the people that work here think I'm not doing anything. My office door is closed all day, just doing interview after interview. They probably think I'm just sitting back here watching TV. He's very popular, John Murray. But that's what you do, John. I mean, they can't be mad at you doing what you do. No, I know. It's a big part of the job now. You know that, Mike. A big part of the job now is promoting the different books and different media. It's a lot of fun. It's a lot more fun than going to another meeting. I'll tell you that much. For those who don't know, that's the voice of John Murray. He is the executive director of race and sports at the Westgate, the Superbook here in Las Vegas. under Jay Cornigay's stewardship, John Murray, Executive Director of Race and Sports.

So we're thrilled to have you, John, first time ever on the Megapod. And so here's how this works. Usually before we get into the games, we get a contest update from Mike. But since you're here, we get to have a contest update, perhaps, if you know it offhand from you first at the Westgate. Do you know what the leading record is in the Super Contest,

classic or gold right now by any chance, John? I wish you would ask me that. I could have had the guys pull the numbers for me, so I don't know what it is. I can look it up, and I can look it up very quickly. All right. If you want to look it up, you can. Otherwise, in the meantime, we'll get an update from Mike Palm.

The Circus Sport Million.

It was the first day of our final quarterly. look it up you can. Otherwise, in the meantime, we'll get an update from Mike Palm. The Circa

Sport Million. It was the first day of our final quarterly, or your final quarterly there at

Circa. By the way, I didn't start well. I started two and three. Todd, how'd you start?

I started two and three. Two and three also. Mike, how many five and O is the first week

of the quarterly? Only 51, Gil.

Only 51.

Wow.

That's still pretty damn.

Good.

Geez.

51-5-0s.

And who is in the lead now for the whole deal?

The booty blockers maintains the lead.

He's got 46.5 points.

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