Thursday morning, January 4th, 2024.

It is the Beating the Book podcast week number 18 in the National Football League, the squirliest of all weeks.

Some may say that.

By the way, I said the word squirly so much this week that on my phone produced an Angie Harmon video where she's like applying mascara to her face

or eyeliner or whatever the hell women do in the bathroom when they're there and there's a squirrel

running all over her she has a pet squirrel so watch what you say boys and girls when you talk about

anything into your phone it is the squirreliest week because we have a lot of backup quarterbacks playing

we have a lot of teams that have something to play for a lot of teams that have something to play for, a lot of teams that have nothing to play for. How does that factor into your handicapping? As always, I welcome the pillars of the show from his mom's Cork Attic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, star of the showtime docu-series action. Todd Wishnav, ladies and gentlemen. How you doing, Toddy?

Hi, Gil.

Todd, did you enjoy spending two weeks with me watching bowl games or me with you?

Oh, yeah, I enjoyed the endless keister shots from the bowl game situations like, you know, the Michigan and now.

Oh, how about Oklahoma? Why don't you just have Oklahoma up by 11 driving to go up either 14 or 18 against Arizona, dominating the football game, and somehow the ball pops into the Arizona

guys, hands you're driving 98 yards.

It's just disgusting what happened to me in bowl season.

An absolute disaster.

The only good point is the fact that I went

on a 56 and 19 college basketball run at the same time. I didn't get too, I didn't get too,

you know, obliterated because I was winning all my college basketball. But the college,

and you were there to witness the, first of all, let us just say, I have now experienced

the Nevada sportsbook apps, you know, I hadn't seen them for nine months. They're still horrendous.

Gilly always complains about Cesar's. Cesar's regular, like in Pennsylvania, is 50 times better

than Cesar's in Las Vegas. It is a debacle. There's been at least five bets that I was sitting with Gil that I

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