Thursday morning, October 24th, 2019, the Beating the Book podcast, Megapod, Week 8.

Wow, week 8 in the National Football League, Skill Alexander,

2019 style with our staples of the show these days on my right.

The conciliary to Derek Stevens over at the Circus Sports conglomerate casino moguls that they are.

He's also the vice president of operations by his formal title.

It's Mike Palm.

What's happening in Mike?

Good morning, Megapod, faithful. Mike, we're going to get a Circa update from you momentarily. And on my left, Todd Wischnev from not only the Showtime docu-series action, but Wednesday appearances on a numbers game, Todd, more beloved by the day. Thanks for doing this, Todd. Appreciate it. It's what I do, belovedness. What's, what's your percentage now in the Circa in the Circa contest? What are you? I'm now 21, 13, and one for a robust 61.4%. Whereas Rufus would say, completely random. I don't know. Let's find out what Rufus says. Making his long-awaited return to the podcast after at least a few years away we are happy to

have him back ladies gentlemen he's half of the bet the process podcast duo along with jeff maw it's

our old friend rufus peabody what's happening rufus gill it's been a while how you doing

man where are you right now i'm doing great i'm in boston how do you like living in b? I went to school there for four years. It's, you know, it's growing on me a little bit. There's a lot of, a lot of Patriots fans. We'll get used to that. Have you been through a winter yet? I have. Oh, yeah. It's not fun. I hope you brought a jacket. My freshman and senior years, it was minus 40 wind chill.

Well, luckily we have global warming now, so it's not quite as bad.

I believe the correct phrase is climate change.

Allegedly.

Scientists are conflicted.

You know how they say it.

All right, let me stop.

All right, so, Rufus, how is your football season going?

How is your podcast season going? Are you and Jeff having as much fun as you always did with it? We always have fun. We're like, you know, he's like my older brother or something. It's funny. It's funny the feedback we get. Some people think it's, you know, some people like more of that, some people like less of that, but we enjoy it. And the football season has been very good for college.

It's been, you know, less good for NFL, right around break-even.

Yeah, I think that's a common refrain that I hear from people, at least anecdotally.

The NFL has been, I mean, weird is, look, and even teasers, at least as we've shown on this show,

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