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You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime members can listen, add free on Amazon music. On today's part of my take, we have our very good friend, Jerry O'Connell in person. He flew to Chicago for 10 hours just to do our annual fantasy football preview with Jerry O'Connell. And it delivered. He wrote a poem for Jake at the end. It was a great time. A lot of laughs. College footballs back. We're gonna talk about that. We have the finale for Mount Rushmore season. We're just, we're like a 16 and, you know, 15 and one team playing none of the starters in week 18 Hank is just It's a hands up cruise control. Yeah, it's sad. It's sad. All right. I think it's actually it's it's way more disgusting What Hank did then what we did in the pizza draft? Yes, I'd agree But we're gonna run back to pizza draft for real this time off the dome Hank's going for the first overall pick. he's going for the first overall pick and next year's Mount Rushmore.

We're going to do Fire Fest the week.

We're going to send everyone on to Liberty Weekend. Great long weekend and football's back. I'll give you another bonus in this episode. Just a prediction off the top. If you've never heard Hank Yon, I think this might be a hot tank. No, our specialists. Also, I completely forgot we have presentations today. Oh yeah, we have the presentations.

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New place.

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New face, new place. Rules, are you doing rules? Yeah, rules. And then you to Hank Fippelman. Yeah, Hank is gonna ace his football match. Three parts presentation. Okay, so before we get to all of that, a quick word from our friends at Verizon. Everyone knows that I'm a Verizon guy, so is PFT.

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It's part of my team the number one spot podcast on the charts and in your heart Boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy boy He's double mid. Martin Mike's head. Yeah. Martin Mike's head. Yeah. Martin Mike's head. Today is Friday, September 1st. Is the first of the moon. Wake up, wake up, wake up. Is the first of the moon. Yeah, that's right. We have in a wonderful day. Football's back. And I love it. And I love it, Big Cat.

We got to watch multiple meaningful football games tonight. It's back for most of us. Yes. We got to watch. I had Graham Mertz, PTSD, great kid. They're just kids. Just a reminder, college football. They're just kids. Yeah. But under pressure didn't feel so good. It was not good for him tonight.

Utah looks great, even though they don't have

the starting quarterback, but they still look really good.

I say it was back for most of us because there was a big big fiasco going on with cable service tonight. Yes. Spectrum and ESPN decided to end their contract, terminate their contract at kickoff for Utah, Florida. So if you have spectrum, you got treated to the pregame shows and then a fade out to black at kickoff, that is terrorism. These are terrorists that we're dealing with. And you're making me choose between spectrum, a cable company that everybody hates because we hate all cable companies, it seems like. And then ESPN and I don't, you don't have a winner. I don't want to root for either one of these sides because I'm sure ESPN is charging a fuckload of money to the cable companies. The cable companies rip you off every month when they make you pay your cable bill and now they're just cutting service off at the worst possible time to start the year. This is injustice. It's fucking terrorism it is. This is injustice. This should be, we should march on Washington.

We should.

This is bullshit.

I'm boycotting ESPN until next Monday night. Okay, I was gonna say until tomorrow night, I think they have a couple games tomorrow. Okay, so I'll boycott until tomorrow night. Yeah, yeah. The good news is though, people were watching on Fox, got to see football in its purist form.

I'm talking about Nebraska, Minnesota.

First half, can I read seven possessions?

Mm-hmm. though people were watching on Fox, got to see football in its purist form. Uh, I'm talking about Nebraska, Minnesota first half. Can I read seven possessions? Seven possessions, punt, punt, feel goal, interception, misfeel goal, interception. There's actually six possessions. So I think Nebraska's get it all figured out. They, they don't need to step it up to compete with the Ohio States of the world. They just need to drag everybody down to their level.

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