Thursday morning, January 17th, 2019, it's the beating the book podcast, championship round in the national football league.

Skill Alexander, of course, on my right and left, the staples of the show. On my right from Wager Talk, it's Marco DeAngelo, everybody. What's happening, Marco? Hey, just glad to be here. We only got three games left. That's it. Three games left, three weeks left of the football version of this podcast, three weeks left of the Megapod, because you know what's next week.

For those who have not been around for the years that we've done this, let's just say it gets a little

deplorable next week, and front and center starring Mr. Deplorable himself, Ace. What's happening,

Ace? All right, never better, man, never better. Thanks for asking. Things are good. Can't complain. Had a good year. Healthy, happy. Things are good. Football, ending a little too quick. But at the same time, I'm kind of happy for it to be over. You know what I mean? It's been a long season, and now on the new year basketball is here. It's kind of dragged on a little bit. I agree. It's like we're all on a hamster wheel during football season, right? It's just a never-ending cycle. And yeah, I mean, at some point you need a break. I will say this, Australian Open, destruction. That's what I'm betting right now. I don't really love these two games. We'll get into that coming up. Our friend here, who has joined us once again for the umpteenth time. Over 25 appearances on this

podcast. He certainly knows what it's like to be on the hamster wheel during football season.

He hosts the morning show over at 95.7th the game in San Francisco. It's the Joe Lowen-Dibs morning show.

He's the Joe part of that. And for our purposes

here, he hosts the Sharp 600 podcasts available through Covers.com. A gambling nugget, an instant

offensive podcast in the sports betting world. Really great show. Ladies and gentlemen, it's the

great Joe Fortinball. Good morning, Joseph.

Good morning, Gil.

Good morning, Ace.

Good morning, Marco.

I'll tell you this.

It's easy to come on here and say something nice and make it sound like I'm pandering to Gil or Marco

and Ace.

But the reality of the situation is this.

I've been covering sports now for 10 years, and you get a lot of opportunities in sports

to jump on radio programs and to talk with a variety of different individuals.

Maybe you get a TV spot, maybe you're live streaming, maybe you're on a podcast.

And by and large, a lot of them are positive experiences, and they're fun to do.

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