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there awesome charts. Coming up the cousin, I'm going to break down a mildly wacky week two.

I'm talking about a little US open and basketball at the end as well. First, our friends from

Roger.

All right, we're taping this. It is 842 Pacific time, Sunday night. Rough couple hours for me.

I was so excited to watch the Lakers lose. Then they pulled the game out of their buttholes

in Davis. I don't know what pump was doing on that play. And then an hour and a half later,

it looks like the Seattle games over. Carson slides on, on, look like he was going to run for 10

yards slides. Now it's 7.3, 3rd and 1. They throw it for some reason. All of a sudden,

Cam has the ball back. He's driving down. So I love Cam Newton. I really wanted it. Meanwhile,

your team pulled one out of your ass. I love it. Finally, finally,

I've got years before this happened. And I don't want to hear you don't care. I do care.

Oh, you do care. Okay. Good. Good. You're going to behave like a real fan now, right?

Like who's mad that they lost the game on a one yard line? I can't believe on Thursday.

I had to record a podcast right after the Celtics blew the Miami game and tried to be pro.

And now it's second time in four days. I hated the play. I look running in a shotgun

against an 11 man front. I know Cam's name is Superman, his nickname. But no,

Superman couldn't have done that. I thought for sure they were going to run the fake

sneak step back lob to the third string white tight end, who nobody knows who it is.

I was like, I just I didn't know that guy was on a roster. He just caught the game.

But it touched out. I was waiting for it. And then he just ran into the teeth at defense.

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