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Another edition, the Thursday edition of the Late Kick Extra podcast.

I'm Josh Pate.

We are wall-to- wall, as we always are.

It is a mailbag edition after all. If you want to submit questions, well, for this particular

episode, you needed to be on Twitter last night at Late Kick Josh. And by the way, if you want to be

part of the secret Friday night, can't tell management about it. Hopefully they don't listen to the

podcast gambling chat. It's Instagram Live. And I do it this way for a reason. I know some of you aren't on every platform. I would encourage you just start a little burner account, just if nothing more so you can participate in this. We've had a lot of fun the past two weeks with that. What I'm doing with that is I have a model, as you know, we've got to run on every single game. I hand out a few via the Ramanoodle Express. For those of you who are new, those are our official bets for the week. I've got a couple more coming tonight, by the way, if you're going to watch Late Kick Live. But obviously, there are dozens more games out there that I don't get to touch on during the week. I do the big game

breakdowns. I let you know where I lean on the Ramanoodle Express games, but still 90% of the games we don't get to touch on. That's what that Friday night chat is for. It's on Instagram live, and as you can tell, it's live. And I'm usually in a hotel room like this Friday, I'll fly into Pittsburgh Friday night, I'll get into a hotel, and I will then turn that thing on. I usually let you know about 30 minutes beforehand. I'll let you know on Twitter. I'll let you know on Instagram story. And so you can be checking for that. It's usually late. It's around midnight on the East Coast. But the last thing, in my experience, way back in the day when I used to like bet the whole board,

first off, don't do that. But secondly, the last thing I would be doing on a Friday night before I went to bed is I'd be checking lines. I know a lot of you guys are doing that. And if not, it's the first thing you're going to do Saturday morning so you can watch this replay. But what I'm trying to do is give you a chance in that live chat to ask about games. And if I've got, or rather if the model

has a lean on the game, I'll let you know. Most of the time, the model is right on the number,

because most of the time we agree with the number. To give you a very quick 30-second synopsis

of how I choose the games we bet on, as soon as the lines are released on Sunday, let's say for

sake of argument, 50 lines are

released. Right off the bat, I can tell you 35 of them, I just push off the table because

the Vegas number mirrors virtually what our number is. And so within moments of the lines

releasing on Sunday, I have filtered it down to about 15 games that are worth keeping an eye on.

From there, we run it through a finer set of model filters. Then we start inserting anything

manual, any upgrades or downgrades for injury. And even then, we're probably going to push

another three or four off the table. So it ends up, by the time the sun goes down on Sunday

evening, out of 50 games sun goes down on Sunday evening,

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