Thursday morning, the beating the book podcast, Megapod, Week 2 in the National Football League,

it's Gil Alexander.

And in case you missed it last week, the new crew on my right, the conciliaria to Derek Stevens over at Circus Sports. He's the vice president of operations there and knows all things about the Circa Million Contest, among other things. It's our friend Mike Palm. Thank you, Mike, for being here, sir. It's an honor and a pleasure to join you, and especially Todd Wischnev. Todd Wishnev, who is our other guest on the left here. He's the star, one of the stars of Showtime's docu-series action. You may hear him on Veecen as well, as Mike just said. Todd Wichnev. Hello, Todd. Hi, guys. So let me just say this about last week. A couple things. One, it was the highest rated week one megapod of all time. So kudos to you two. This will be the real test, right? Week two. See if they continue to listen to you guys after week one. I'm sure they will. The other thing is, Mike, you were accused of breathing heavily last week. You were not breathing heavily.

It was just where apparently the mic was being held, correct? I think so. There's some background noise in the office with running water in the pipes and that. So we moved to a different office, so hopefully that correct said, and nobody thinks I'm a pervert. All right. Well, thank God for that. And Todd is not in L.A. so we can actually hear everything that Todd has to say

as opposed to the first five minutes last week.

All right, so let's do this. Let us begin. First of all, let's review how our picks went last week. Not so much. Although, Todd, you were two and one in your best bets. And you also hit your teaser. did you not? Yes, indeed.

All right.

And Mike and I, not as lucky, not as good, because the reason I use the word lucky, we were one and two in our best bets, and we both missed our teaser.

And much of that was because the Eagles and the Lions completely destroyed us.

And the Lions collapsed, I'm still not sure that actually happened. But we did get the Thursday game right with the under. So that's the saving grace from week one. I knew you'd throw that in there. Todd, judges, does that count? Todd, is that part of the official rankings? No, that's just wide left. That will not count. It will not count. Before we get into this week, because we want to get our thoughts on Thursday night,

then we're getting into our best bets.

We'll also do the teaser of the week, which I actually gave out on a numbers game this morning.

I do want to get a Circa Million update, the Circa Sports Million, full-season contest, five picks against the spread.

How many total participants were there in the end, and how many of those went five and

oh, Mike?

So we ended up with 1,875 participants.

Because everything over 1,500 went back into the quarterly winners or the best score each

month, each month, including this month of September, is worth $143,750.

16 cards went 5-0.

16 entries went 5-0.

And here's the more shocking thing.

23 entries did not submit their picks.

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