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Welcome to the favorites, the podcast from the volume podcast network. I am Chad Nolman, Chief Content Officer of the Action Network. I am joined as I am every episode by my BFF, my companion, my compadre, professional better, Simon Hunter, who has already come out on Twitter and said listen to the show live on AMP because we got some big.

Big news and we do have news, related to the podcast, much more importantly, just breaking now as we sat down to record this was news from Cincinnati that Demar Hamlin, the Bill's safety who needed CPR on Monday night in the Bill's Bangles game, has shown remarkable improvement appears to be neurologically intact, his lungs continue to heal, he is awake and holding hands with fans.

Family members, his agents told CNN, so that's great news. We were all trying to figure out how are we as members of the media, how are we as fans supposed to feel about all this other than being devastated by what we saw on Monday night and then how do we cover games, how do we bet on games, what is the NFL going to do.

A lot of our feelings aren't going to change about what we saw, but remarkably good news that he seems to be recovering and on pace to make a full recovery, which is great.

Simon, you got some news, I have no idea, you tweeted it out this morning and then Matt Mitchell and I in Slack are like, I wonder what the news is, I have no idea.

And so we sat down to record the show and you shared the news, please share with everybody else. So people are on pins and needles.

Yeah, it was a test and you both failed a test that you both failed. I wanted to see if you guys could wait. You could not wait for the show you both. They both made me tell them before we came on air. Where's the trust boys. Come on, you're for you are you are a fucking wild card man.

I remember, do you remember the one person who was the most afraid of doing this show live was you for fear of what you were going to say that my get as both canceled that might get you fired.

I've turned away down though. Like people don't know this. I'm up for a contract right now. So I turned away down just because I'm trying to get paid and then we'll be back to the old ways.

I'm kidding. Yeah, they both failed. They both wanted to know the info. So long story short, I go to door picks the same routine every week where I do our picks. So the games and I checked the games to see where we're at in the standings or where we're at pick wise.

And then mean chat to our show Tuesday and then I log in when they do our picks. So I go to log in, do our picks and they're gone.

The contest is gone and I panic and I find out the hard way chat. The contest is over last week was the last week when I checked after the bangles and bills game. It was a glitch. I guess because that game had gotten canceled where it looked as if we stole a week left and we didn't.

So sadly the contest is over to all our great fans. And we decided we're still going to do five picks right this week.

We're still going to do five picks. We're not going to put them in the app because we want to have fidelity to the contest, but we will make the picks that we want to make today.

Because we get people will always complain. They're like, oh, they changed their picks. Go to the app. Nothing's changed.

Nothing's exactly to what we did. Two years ago, as our loyal fans know, mean chat, it's 60% for the season.

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