Tuesday morning, December 23rd, 2025.

It is the Beating the Book podcast Megapod for Week 17 in the National Football League.

I will channel Will Hill, my co-host on this Megapod, and say, I can't believe it's week 17.

My God, live from the Sirius XM Studios

with Las Vegas, Swanky Studios, Jeremiah Crowe, John Goulet, making this all happen on this end.

Appreciate it as always. We are ready to do this and we have a leader in the clubhouse who is

making a mockery of this megapod title now, handicapping-wise.

We'll get to all that with our pillars of the show, Todd Wischnev from his mom's cork attic.

And Todd also mentioned to me that when I said, hey, when is the Megapod this week?

Because we're obviously doing it earlier to avoid Christmas.

We'll also have an early one next week to avoid New Year's Day. What was your reaction, Todd? You're like, you're costing me money doing this megapod. Wasn't that it? Something like that? Well, we've got a lot of college basketball and college football to watch, and I don't understand how anyone can do something as inhumane is asking a person to work on a megapod when watching college basketball.

I happen to be on, can we say that your pick this morning was in a year where you are up

well over a hundred units in college basketball, which I'm not making that up, people.

The man is up over 100 units. I believe it's a hundred and one, which is, if you want to be fair. 122.14 units, not making that number up. That this morning's pick was your worst pick of all of them. Is that correct? Would you say? But I got it back with the over with the eight minutes. Did you get that one?

You got it back, but some of us were doing a show and didn't get it back. Exactly. My point in you may not. Yeah, that wasn't a good one. I was too early. I usually never bet at the four minute commercial, the first commercial, the, I'm sorry, 16 minute commercial and I just got a little over-physiculated and went too

quickly and premature physiculation yes yeah that's okay you're now up 122 units we'll forgive you

Todd's discord doing great things college hoops at T-Wishnev on Twitter for Todd the star of the

Showtime docu-series action of of course, still available on Showtime. And Will Hill, at not the Will Hill, not from his mom's cork addict. Willie, it's happening? What's going on? Yeah, usually the year flows, goes by pretty quickly. But with the way it's going on this podcast, it feels like week 117. So I'm looking forward to the playoffs, Gilly. This has not been our most stellar collective year. Todd is the only one treading water right now. Todd, we'll get to fix. He is extremely consistent. He will give you a one and two. If you want one, we'll give you one.

Yes.

If you're looking for a one and two, he's your guy. He doesn't give you an 0 and three and then a two and one and then another oh and three. He just plods along. He gives you a one and two and a one and two. It's like the old. My God, shut the fuck up. Please. It's Christmas. How about that? and our rotating guest this week.

He comes to us.

He's been on... It's Christmas. How about that? And our rotating guest this week, he comes to us.

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