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Feb. 12, 2024 - Doug Collins Podcast
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The Best Weekend to be a Gambler
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The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
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In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
It has been said today, where is bravery?
I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found.
It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority say, be damned with anything else.
We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do.
Why?
Because we won an election.
I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun.
Hey everybody, welcome to the Doug Collins Podcast.
It is Friday's finest.
It is Friday.
And yes, we do remember it is Friday.
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If you've not been watching the news in the last 24 hours, we actually know what day it is and what country we're sort of bordered beside Mexico and Canada.
But hey...
Our president don't understand that, but we're okay with that.
Chip and I'll discuss that here in just a few minutes.
We got James on board.
We got Super Bowl weekend.
We have everything that you want to know.
Prop bets, looking at what's going to happen.
Will Taylor Swift actually make it?
Yes, we think she will.
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That's tough.
You know, we're looking at a lot of things for this weekend.
It's a great week to be here.
Also, frankly, another issue you have to discuss, you know, there was an old book that we used to read to our kids.
What was it?
Something about the terrible, awful, worst day.
Well, that was Joe Biden's day yesterday.
Chip and I are going to get into that, not only from the Supreme Court to his own foot and mouth disease to the special counsel's report.
Lots of things going on.
We'll spend a little bit of time there this morning.
You've got to hear it, but then we're going to get into some fun because it is Super Bowl weekend here on Friday's Finest.
We'll be back right after the break.
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Ready for it to happen.
James, you with us?
I'm with you.
Good morning.
Good morning, everybody.
All right.
Here's the...
We're going to start off this morning, though.
Chip and I've got to...
We're going to talk about a little bit of what it was that I said in the intro, Chip.
If this was normal, Chip.
I'm going to go off to a normal...
If this was a normal election in any sense of the imagination, yesterday would have finished Joe Biden, wouldn't it?
Yeah, look, it was a bad day for Joe Biden yesterday.
I mean, you know, Robert Herr's report comes out a scathing report, right?
He was the special investigator.
That was appointed to look into Biden's handling of classified documents.
And, you know, the only good news in the report is, you know, he agreed not to prosecute the president for mishandling of classified information, but he called him, and I forget the exact words, but I'll paraphrase Doug, you know, a very polite elderly gentleman who struggles with memory loss.
You know, who couldn't remember what years he was vice president.
He couldn't remember what year his son Bo died.
And I think, you know, and I think even more scathing in that report was the fact that Biden lied to the special investigator about sharing these classified documents with his ghostwriter.
He said he did not.
And the prosecutor came to a different conclusion.
And by the way, the same day that this happens, the Supreme Court holds a hearing on the Colorado case to keep Trump off the ballot.
And, I mean, I'd be surprised if it doesn't come back 9-0.
You know, the Colorado Supreme Court erred.
And so, yeah, look, if this was a normal election cycle, you'd stick a fork in Joe Biden yesterday, but...
As we know, you know, this is anything but normal.
And so, you know, what's become normal is very different in today's world.
Oh, I agree.
Also, I think really, frankly, you would have also, I mean, and I still think to this moment, except for a little bit, they're going to circle the wagons.
The Democrats are around Biden for a little bit.
But you got to think that, you know, we've made a joke about it here on the podcast that Gavin Newsom had to go to the closet, get his shoes out and put them to the dry cleaners because, you know, he is looking at this.
You got...
Kamala Harris, the vice president, you know, there's been a, I mean, you talk about a hilarious set of memes on the internet.
Yeah, Joe, go have a press conference.
Go do it.
You know, and nobody wants her.
The Democrats don't want her.
I mean, that's how bad this is.
Let me, just to, you know, I think go into this a little bit deeper, though, because this is disturbing.
And it was infuriating last night at that press conference.
I actually had a, for those of you watching last night, and I had some tweets about it, I did Fox News Live last night.
And we were supposed to talk about the Nevada caucus, which, by the way, Trump, of course, we knew was going to take all the delegates, and he did.
Because Nikki Haley didn't even register for the caucus, and she got beat by none of the above two days earlier.
But, you know, hey, that's the way it goes.
But it ended up with this story, and my hit was right at 8 by the time he actually started speaking.
So I actually had to watch most of this press conference, and I just got mad.
And I looked at it because, you know, look, you know...
Come out and say, hey, there's some issues.
But then he got mad, and this is classic.
And again, I am not a doctor.
I don't even play one on TV. I'm just stating personal facts from my life, okay?
I've had several, I was a pastor for over 11 years.
I've been in this for a long time with an elderly congregation.
I know what it looks like with the onset of dementia, Alzheimer's, whatever you want to call it, okay?
One of those, or several of those are very obvious in Joe Biden.
The shuffling of the feet, the looking down when he walks, the balance issue.
All of those are...
It doesn't mean that he's actually...
I'm not saying he doesn't know where he's at all the time.
He probably does, but there are moments you can tell.
The other big issue, Chip, and this one came out yesterday, last night.
He is the fly off the handle, the get mad...
And explode.
I had very close family members.
This was the most heart-wrenching part of their illness was that if they didn't remember something or if they felt isolated or trapped, they would lash out.
And he is doing that more and more and more.
He did it last night with the press.
But then, I made this comment, Chip, and we put it out, and it was discussed.
Somebody needs to be fired over this.
I mean, at some point, he has a staff for that reason.
I mean, his press secretary is basically, you know, we've thought about for a long time, just incompetent.
Karine Jean-Pierre is just incompetent.
But somebody on that staff.
Where was Jill?
Where was Jill?
You're a top-notch consultant.
How do you let your candidate go out and do that?
Well, I mean, my thought was, where was Jill, too?
Because, you know, as you know, Doug, I mean, it very well could have been, you know, maybe the staff didn't want him to do that, and it's something he decided he wanted to do, you know?
And we haven't even talked about the fact that, you know, he made the mistake by, you know, conflating, you know, the president of Mexico.
I guess he's thinking of Mexico so much with, you know, what's handing down to the border.
Yeah, look, I mean, and we know, now we know exactly why he turned down the opportunity to have an interview at the Super Bowl, which is extended every year to a sitting president.
And for the second year in a row, you know, he's declined that offer, and it looks like it was the right decision.
But, you know, I mean, for Democrats that think that this guy's got four more years in the tank...
If they can get him to November, they've done a good job.
But I don't know.
I agree with your assessment.
I'm not making light of it.
Look, I turned 51 last month.
I get frustrated when I forget stuff.
You know?
And I don't have nearly as much in my head.
And I'm telling you, I mean, you know, as we get older, Doug, I mean, I'm not as, you know, age, right?
I'm not, they say, you know, 50's the new 40. I don't believe that.
You know?
And this guy's, this guy's, this guy's, It's sad on a human level, but even more for the country.
It just doesn't look like it's sustainable.
And I feel like we're watching a slow-motion train ride.
Yeah, I agree.
What's bothersome is, look, we all make...
We, you know, like last night, I think it was Jesse Waters on Fox said, you know, he introduced Kristi Noem as the governor of South Carolina, not South Dakota.
I mean, look, we all screw up things like that.
That's it.
The part that I think the Democrats are just sticking their head in the sand over is this is not an every other thing occurrence.
This is not a once in a while.
This is becoming all the time.
And, you know, at moments, and even in that speech last night, when I'm sure he's had a cup of coffee, he's looking at the teleprompter, he's doing it.
But where you could really tell that he was struggling to put his answer together, and this is where I don't understand why they didn't stop the press conference.
He was walking off.
He was already mad.
He walked off, and they said something about Hamas and the hostages.
And he turned around and went back.
And this was, folks, if you're watching online, this is it.
This is his stuff.
I have my good guns and ammo, but he had his briefing.
He comes back, and he looks at this, and he opens it, and you can see he says, I have been...
And he's looking down the whole time.
He's gathering his thoughts as best he can at that moment, which is, look, I've been there.
You get asked a question, you want to answer it, but you're not.
And then the first words out of his mouth was, throw Israel under the bus.
It's been an overreaction in Gaza.
I mean...
At that point in time, there will be, I mean, massive shots being taken in the back, you know, room.
And he's like, oh my God, you know, we're going to spend the rest of our time.
But he went ahead and topped that one.
They didn't have to worry about that one being the top of the list because then he, like you said, he messed up the name of Mexico and, you know, instead of Egypt.
Okay, they both have pyramids, but, you know, okay, there's a problem there, okay?
But it just reinforced, here was my problem with it.
Let him go, because he had already spoken on TV to the Democratic House members early in the afternoon.
And I saw part of that speech.
It was the same kind of speech.
He said, we've been exonerated, everything's great.
Let him go to bed.
If you wanted to have a press conference, do it this morning.
Do it when he's possibly got more time to think about it and not mad about his son.
I get that.
And Chip, there was an issue in our very first campaign you and everybody dealt together.
When they would bring up that one issue where I served at one point, you would have to walk me off the wall almost every time.
Oh, yeah.
Because it was just one of those issues, you know, outside of my family, you just didn't touch without me being upset about it.
I get that.
As a candidate, I get that.
But that's why I had you.
That's why I had others around me to say, hey, boss, I understand it.
Doug, I get it.
But you can't go there.
You know, you're baiting it.
So, again, this is the part that is the issue.
I still believe they're going to try and stick with it.
But you have to say now, we've at least gotten into a 40 or 50% possibility that within the next couple of weeks, Joe Biden steps out and says, does the Lyndon Johnson and says, I'm not running.
Well, here's the problem with that, Doug, and I don't dispute that that's a possibility, but from everything that I have read, and I'm not an attorney, but from everything that I have read, Well, we know the process has started in the caucus in the primary season, but at this point in time, people are voting for...
Well, no, that's actually not the case.
I was just going to say people are voting for Biden-Harris.
But that's actually the formality of the nominations for the vice president happens at the convention.
And so strike that thought.
But, you know, what do you do from a legal perspective?
How do you do that?
How do you go back and determine how do you go have a competitive primary?
I mean, it does seem like something that would have to happen at a convention.
Yeah.
Right?
And then what do you do?
Do you not pick Kamala Harris?
And then you have a problem with African American women who are going to be upset if you pick somebody else?
I mean, they're in a tough spot.
The good part about it for them is they have a convention buffering them.
So they can go to the convention, because that's the actual formality of putting a Democrat candidate or Republican candidate on the ballot, okay?
Because the Democratic Party, Republican Party have ballot access to every state.
There's no issue there.
That's the formality of putting it on.
I think the issue you get into is if you thought the chaos of the Chicago convention in 68 was bad, wait till the 2024 chaos of this convention.
Can you imagine what that would be like if those convention delegates got to choose the nominee of their party on a floor vote?
Oh, yeah.
It's just, yeah, I just don't see this happening.
Well, it's always been set up that way because Democrats, unlike Republicans, Have always played with the mechanism of their delegate count.
They have for the last five or six years.
We knew that with Hillary Clinton versus Bernie Sanders.
We knew that it was set up for Hillary to start with, these superdelegates and everything else, and they made some adjustments.
I mean, one of the ones that speaks eloquently about this is Tulsi Gabbard.
Tulsi, and I know Tulsi's a good friend, and Tulsi has said, you know, look, the Democratic Party is the one that screws most of this over because they still control all of that mechanisms, whereas the Republicans, And this is another issue we're not probably going to talk about today.
Ronna McDaniel looks to be stepping down fairly soon from the Republican Party.
I'm surprised she's not done it before.
But we don't have that kind of continuity of a party that irregardless of who's the chair, there's this structure that keeps it somewhat in the bounds.
We just don't have that in the Republican Party.
They do in the Democratic Party.
And I think that's going to be the interesting issue.
Real quick, I think also you made headlines about the Supreme Court case.
Yeah, it's 8172 at absolute worst.
9-0 is what you're gonna see.
And I still think though they're gonna kick it on a...
I don't think they're gonna come right out and say the 14th Amendment doesn't apply today or that section doesn't apply, but I think they'll do something that...
We'll be more technical than it is legal.
But either way, and if they do that, it's 9-0.
If they do that, it's 9-0.
If Justice Roberts or some of the others try to make it a more legal case, then you could get into the 7-2, 8-1, depending on how you go at it.
But look, the more liberal-leaning justices yesterday had the hardest questions.
For the Colorado folks.
I know this Colorado attorney, it's a great honor to go before the Supreme Court and I get it, but I hope they either paid him a ton of money or promised him a lot of business in the future because that was brutal.
Yeah, that was it.
Ooh, bad.
Yeah.
Bad.
That was a brutal takedown, no question about it.
Yeah, I listened to Gorsuch ask his questions, and I thought, honestly, I was back in law school and I was getting sweats.
I mean, no, don't change the hypothetical.
That's not what I told you.
I asked you this, don't change the hypothetical.
I knew it, I know it, but that's not what I'm asking.
It's like, Oh, God, please!
Yeah, no, it was, I think even Jake Tapper at CNN, you know, after I think CNN and Fox covered it live, and Jake Tapper, who was the host whose show was kind of preempted by the coverage,
you know, he came on and he said, all right, we have our panel here, and I think we can all agree that That, you know, the Secretary of State's office in Colorado should not be popping champagne as a result of the coverage, as a result of the hearing today in the Supreme Court.
When CNN says that, you're cooked.
Yeah, you're cooked.
And the main Secretary of State ought to be even worse.
I mean, because she actually did it with nobody inputting into it.
So anyway, folks, look, we can't stop today.
I mean, we can't start today without going over this.
But it does ring true.
This is going to become a defining moment, no matter how you talk about it.
Yesterday is a defining moment in this presidential race.
Independents who may despise Donald Trump, It'll be hard for me to see that.
What was it, two weeks ago or a week ago?
Chip, you and I brought this up.
And I said, the last week and a half of this campaign to two weeks of this campaign will be, do you vote for Joe Biden knowing that you're going to probably get Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?
And I think that's going to become the issue.
Now, it's not even a thinking part of the issue.
It is the issue.
And, you know, again, when you have Democrats actually, you know, behind the scenes mentioning the 25th Amendment, that's a problem.
And so I think the Trump team, in this case, you know, who I believe is definitely the Republican nominee, I think, can win this.
There's a, there should be a momentary, okay, we see this, this is very much of an opening if the Democrats keep going down this line, but now they have to honestly start looking at who else they could be going against.
I think they, and if it's Harris, great, but if it's a Manchin, if it's, which I think Manchin may have blown his bridges up here, but if it's a Manchin or a Newsom, even Newsom provides some nuance here, um, Was it Beshears out of Kentucky?
It's a whole different race.
It's a whole different race at that point.
Yeah, I agree with that, Doug.
But I think the Beshears and the Mansions, the Democrat Party's not smart enough to nominate those guys.
They're just not.
And those guys also don't fit into a box.
Right.
Right?
I mean, they're, you know, they don't fit into the box where the Democratic Party is today.
I think, you know, Newsom fills largely into that box.
But I'm telling you, I mean, you right now have an African American vice president.
Yeah.
If Joe Biden decides he's not going to accept the nomination, and you don't put forward an African American female, There's going to be some problems with that.
Yeah, as he likes to say, our favorite president would say, that'd be huge.
I mean, it would be huge.
Yeah, I mean, look, they've made the entire genesis of their party internally as identity politics.
I mean, let's face it, they love it.
I mean, and so, you know, it defines them.
You can't, I just don't know how they can do that.
And the chaos that would erupt In that convention, I mean, it would be pay-per-view.
Yeah, I'd watch it.
That's for sure.
I'd watch it in a heartbeat.
Well, anyway, look, there'll be a lot more to be said about this.
In fact, Chip and I may actually do an episode or two later just by ourselves, just more or less talking about this.
We're going to get it off of Friday's Finest.
But we could not start the day on Friday's Finest without discussing what could be...
I mean, I'm going back to like New Hampshire in 68, really, when Lyndon Johnson got out.
This is the big moment kind of thing, because Biden has no opposition for the nomination.
The only reason he would lose is himself at this point.
And I think that could have got pulled last night as we go about it.
All right, Chip, let's bring in James, our New Jerseyan, by the way, of Texas.
Texas.
James, what's going on in the world today?
Oh, nothing.
Just scrolling the internet while you guys are talking.
I really, really, really sometimes just wish I was a player's wife.
You don't have to do anything.
You just show up.
Oh, wow.
I'm telling you, I'm looking at this like...
It's like, yeah, the competitive part of me wants to be the athlete, but the guy who sees the homes they're in just wants to be the one sitting in there all day.
I'm so sick of this life.
Folks, that's why you turn into Friday's Finest.
You never know what James is going to be up to next, baby.
We're from hard-hitting news about Biden's incompetency and then straight to James wanting to be a player's wife.
Chip, he's went to Dallas-Fort Worth and he thinks he's going to find J.R. somewhere.
I mean...
Oh, my God.
I love it.
Hey, before we get in...
James, before you get settled into your mansion, okay?
We've got some discussion.
Before we get to the Super Bowl, let's discuss last night's NFL Honors Awards.
How do you name...
How do you name a GM other than the Texas GM as not GM of the year when you have both rookies of the year, offensive and defensive, are your first two picks in the last draft?
Okay, I didn't see who the GM was.
Can I take a guess before you answer?
Is it Detroit's GM? Nope.
Then who is it?
It is...
It was Cleveland.
Give me a break.
They picked up Joe Flacco at the end of the season?
Well, I know that...
Yeah, the comeback...
Oh, by the way, comeback player of the year was Joe Flacco.
Yeah, man.
Joe Flacco should just give that award to DeMar Hamlin.
DeMar Hamlin literally came back to life, guys.
It's not a discussion.
If Joe Flacco had brought his team to the Super Bowl, fine.
We'd all live with it.
But...
He came back from sitting out a couple months, a year.
DeMar Hamlin came back from the dead.
That's comeback play.
That's not even up for debate.
Yeah, I mean, who could argue with that?
I may be wrong, but it was Stefanski, the Cleveland coach.
Stefanski got the head coach.
That I'm fine with.
Whatever.
I can move on from that.
There may not have been a GM, but it's like...
Oh, okay.
All right.
And I may be wrong on that, but I mean, even still, with Stefanski getting coach of the year, I mean, D'Amico Ryans, I mean, Tomiko Ryans and Dan Campbell are the only answers.
I know that the Browns had a tough year, and they had a lot of injuries, and I totally understand that.
He did a great job coaching.
Detroit went to the NFC Championship game, guys.
I agree.
I agree.
It's not a debate.
Anyway, we can...
Lamar Jackson is the only right answer for whatever because it's a quarterback award.
You couldn't give it to Mahomes this year.
So I'm not going to fight that.
He got 49 out of 50 first place votes, Chip.
And Stroud got 48 out of 50. How about Miles Garrett?
How about Miles Garrett, Defensive Player of the Year?
That's deserving.
I can't think of anybody else who really deserved it over him.
My question is, why did Puka Nakua not get more votes?
I'm sorry.
I get that C.J. Stroud was the best quarterback, one of the best quarterbacks in the league.
But you could argue that Puka Nakua was the best wide receiver in the league next to Tyree Kill this season.
I just think it's like the Heisman Trophy, James.
It's kind of a quarterback award, right?
No, no.
I get that.
Just give him more votes.
I'm not saying he should get the award.
CJ Stroud took them to the playoffs by himself.
I get that.
But somebody should have been like, hey, Puka needs more.
Well, Puka was certainly the story of the year.
I mean, Puka Nakua and Joe Flacco.
I mean, Joe Flacco had the tail end of the season, Puka, all year.
I mean, you know, from out of nowhere, you know, a late round pick in the draft to be able to do what he did.
You know, under that offense, too.
I mean, that offense was horrid last year.
Helped resurrect it with Matt Stafford, who was a year older.
Matthew Stafford is getting more credit every single day he plays football.
Yeah.
Anyway, continue.
Interestingly enough, the player breakdown, the reason Flacco won is you rank it first, second, and third.
Flacco got 13 first place, 26 second place, and 8 third place.
Namar Hamlin got...
21 first place vote, only 7 second place and 14 third place.
That's pretty close.
Yeah, it's 151 to 140. Oh, wow.
That's as close as it's ever been, I think.
Yeah, you know who's third?
Well, I mean, last year, Geno Smith just came back from being bad.
So, you know, we're giving the award to anybody, I guess.
You know who's third?
Baker Mayfield?
Baker Mayfield.
Yeah, another one.
Came back from being bad.
McCaffrey was Offensive Player of the Year.
I still think the Offensive Player of the Year award is so stupid.
It drives me nuts.
If he's the Offensive Player of the Year, then he's the MVP. Yeah.
God forbid we forget the other 11 people on the field called the defense.
Listen, there's years where I get frustrated because I'm like, Micah Parsons could have won MVP last year.
That's how good he was at football.
There was a year where J.J. Watt probably...
Listen, we can talk about J.J. Watt.
That man probably should have won an MVP somewhere because the Texans were the worst quarterbacks ever.
And he took them to divisional playoff rounds.
So anyway, it doesn't matter.
The awards are ridiculous.
They're pointless.
It's like the Hall of Fame for basketball at this point.
Yeah.
They got, by the way, the Peyton Award went to Cameron Hayward out of Pittsburgh.
Oh, nice.
Okay, cool.
I like him.
The Walter Peyton Man of the Year.
You see that Devin Hester's going to be in the Hall of Fame?
I love that so much.
I know he played for Chicago, but listen, I do believe, listen, if you're going to give, like, it's like not acknowledging a position.
That's a position.
And he ran back the most kicks, and he dominated every time he touched the football when he was in that.
He deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.
It's a stupid thing not to put him in there.
So I'm glad that the NFL did the right thing.
Yeah, I agree.
Yeah, the Hall of Fame class, let's see, who was the rest of the Hall of Fame class?
Julius Peppers, Andre Johnson, I didn't see you.
I can look real quick.
I just know that those two were the headlines.
Andre Johnson made it.
That's interesting.
I think he deserved it, man.
That's another one.
He got, again, with no quarterbacks, destroyed everyone.
Dwight Freeney, Andre Johnson, Randy Gratishier, Patrick Willis, Steve McMichael, Devin Hester, and Julius Peppers.
Oh man, remember when Patrick Willis retired and everyone was like, but you have like nine years of football left.
Yeah.
I would play ten years and be out too.
Well, I'm going to get a concussion after I made all that money?
No thanks.
Okay, I'm just making a comment about here.
This is probably one of the least headliner classes of Hall of Fame I've seen in a while.
Yeah, I mean, Julius Peppers was...
I mean, Michael from the old players.
Yes, I hear you.
No, no, for sure.
Because last year was headed by Calvin Johnson, right?
Yeah.
And again, we don't have any quarterbacks.
We had no big quarterbacks.
Yeah, no big names.
Tom Brady will be soon, and we'll all talk about that for 12 hours a day, 20 hours a week.
And it'll just make me want to punch a hole in the wall.
Yeah.
He didn't play for Green Bay.
Give me a break.
You Minnesota guy.
Alright, let's turn our attention to the main thing this weekend.
We have the Super Bowl.
West Coast, San Francisco, Midwest, Kansas City.
A lot of the storylines here.
Chip, I think you and James had some interesting prop bets, interesting things going on here.
What is the line, by the way?
I don't even know what the line on the game is.
I think Well, it's two.
It opened at two and a half.
It immediately went to one and a half, and now it's kind of settled around two.
And so I am waiting to see if it bumps back down to one and a half before I get any action on it, because I want to buy the half point to get it down to one and take the 49ers.
But yeah, right now it's at two points.
Yep.
That's going to be interesting.
James, what's an interesting prop bet on that one that you see?
While I'm looking at this, obviously you have your regular old heads, tails, what color is the Gatorade going to be.
I'm looking here...
It doesn't have any really fun ones yet.
I think they're going to probably come out tomorrow.
They'll come out probably Saturday.
Some of the regular ones that were interesting were like, will there be a touchback?
Who's betting on that?
Through the end zone?
I hope that happens.
Yeah, yeah, look.
It is.
So there are only two NBA games on Sunday.
You've got the Celtics and the Heat in Miami, and then you've got the Kings and Thunder in Oklahoma City.
But, you know, a pick-em bet is, you know, who will have more?
Tyler Harrow, three-point field goals.
Well, the 49ers and Chiefs field goals combined, you know?
So we're talking about Tyler Hero hitting like five threes.
Yeah.
Which I think he averages like four or five.
I think he averages, yeah, around four.
So...
That is such a killer, because you know that night he's going to be like 0 for 10. Yeah.
He's going to have the worst night of his life, and the Chiefs are going to kick one field goal.
Jimmy Butler points, or the 49ers and Chiefs' first-half points combined, which one would you like?
Oh, my God.
That's so tough.
Because there's times where Jimmy Butler just gives you 15, but he has like 12 assists and 10 rebats.
I hate that.
See, this is what I'm talking about.
This is why I can't gamble.
I would be in that.
It's just, I mean, the great thing is if you are a gambler, this is the one game all year in any sport where you can bet on anything.
I mean, you can bet on anything.
You can bet on the largest lead of the game, over 13 and a half points.
You can bet on which team's going to call the timeout first.
I love that.
What's the over-under on the length of the National Anthem?
I think those props come out on Saturday.
That's going to piss me off.
Wait, who's doing the National Anthem this year?
Wait, they just said...
I don't know.
I hadn't heard either.
Let me find out.
Besides Whitney Houston, the best anthem was last year, and he came to within one second of an over-under.
People were like that.
They're so close with it.
They're so close with it.
We're in Super Bowl 58, right?
Yeah.
While you're looking that up, James, I'm scrolling.
I'll give you guys a couple examples.
49ers quarterback sacks made in the game.
Over, under two and a half.
Chiefs' longest run of the game.
Over 54 and a half.
Under 54 and a half.
I mean, you know, stuff like that.
I mean, it's...
Yeah, we're going to be scoring the first six minutes and 30 seconds of the game.
You know, that's a pretty even bet right now.
So, I mean, look, there's something for everybody in the Super Bowl.
Oh, my Lord.
Yeah, it is.
So, Reba McIntyre over under.
Reba's probably going to go under, would be my guess.
You know how I was introduced to Reba McIntyre in my life?
Oh, Reba's doing the National Anthem?
Yeah.
It'll be under.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, under.
So, you guys are older than me, so you guys remember her from the beginning as a singer, right?
Yeah, we're fancy like that, James.
I was introduced to her as the race car driver at the end of the Little Rascals movie.
Oh, wow.
I had no idea that she was a singer.
Then I saw her on TV on the Reba show.
And then someone was like, she sings.
And I'm like, that's dumb.
No, she doesn't.
And then I was a kid, obviously.
And then I found out.
And I was like, Mom, did you know she's a singer?
She's like, yeah, you're an idiot.
I think it's funny the way I'm introduced to Reba, knowing she's one of the most famous singers on the planet.
And I'm like, yeah, she's the race car driver at the end of The Little Rascals.
All right, James, you've succeeded in getting a 15-second timeout for that one.
I'm from New Jersey.
We don't even know what country music is.
I was watching the Blues Brothers movie the other night.
We've had some stuff here at the house, and Lisa and the girls, they got to pick the movies.
And the...
Blues Brothers movie.
They went to Bob's, the country bar, and he said, what kind of music do you play here?
She said, we play both, country and western.
I love it.
Hey, before we get into football a little bit more, though, we got to discuss, you know, one of the best parts of the Super Bowl is the ads.
And they're bringing it back out again this year.
Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer for Uber Eats.
It also, and I don't understand this, so maybe y'all have to help me out on this.
Something about forgetting.
Anyway, this couldn't have happened for a worse moment for Joe Biden, by the way.
Making fun of people forgetting.
Sort of the discussion is, Aniston forgets who her friend's co-star David Schwimmer is in the Spot Fruit Breach, which also features Victoria Beckham, a.k.a.
Posh Spice, forgetting the name of the Spice Girls, along with her husband, David Beckham.
They said, was it the Basil Babes or what?
Do you understand why they're in it, though?
Do you understand why?
Did you see the thing, the video where he's like, tell the truth, the Beckham video?
I didn't see that.
So they had like a documentary, and Victoria is saying that she...
Oh, about her going to school?
Right, growing up, like, she grew up middle class, and he's like, what did your dad drive?
What kind of card is your dad?
I just took a Range Rover.
He's like, yeah, exactly.
Shut up.
You know what, though?
I do know a lot.
I'm from North Jersey, and there's a lot of rich people in North Jersey, and they don't know that they grew up with money.
They're delusional.
So I do understand that some people have no idea that they were rich.
You got Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Terminator is in for State Farm this year.
Oh good, we get to hear his voice.
And they play out for the fact that he can't say an R. I love that.
Am I the only one who's like, can we wait for the commercials to come out?
Yeah.
I agree with you, James, but I guess if these advertisers are spending the dollars, they're spending to get time on the Super Bowl, they want to squeeze all they can out of it.
But I'm with you.
I long for the dates when we had to wait to see, and it was a surprise.
Oh, yeah.
Well, they put them out on Friday.
They put them out on Thursday or Friday because, just like you said, Chip, they're now getting, and the YouTube, they're getting...
Because, you know, think about it.
If you have a Super Bowl party, you have people...
I mean, you may...
Some may watch the ads.
Some may watch it later.
They're actually paying for the outside, the game time experiment.
What'll be really interesting...
I get it.
I just...
Go ahead.
I'm sorry, go ahead.
No, you got it.
No, I think it's ridiculous that like, I get if there's one or two ads that leak, but like, there's like nine ads out there.
So when I watch it, I'm going to be like, I already saw this.
What's the point?
I already saw this.
It's your time to go get snacks, James.
I don't want to get snacks.
I want to be surprised by Super Bowl commercials.
Remember when we were, but it wasn't that long ago that they had those incredible Doritos commercials.
I haven't seen a good Doritos commercial in a year.
Remember the one where the mouse came through the wall and attacked that guy?
That's one of the funniest commercials I've ever seen.
But I saw it that day, and then I remembered it forever.
Okay, I do have one to bring up, though.
Without being specific about it, what we'll do is talk about this, because I think it is an interesting run because it has a political connotation to it as well that really hadn't been expected.
Remember last year, and this is where sports and everything blends, Bud Light decided to tank its brand by giving a can to Dylan Mulvaney.
The rest of the year, their sales have been off 30%, 40%, 10% to 15%, 20% off all year.
Recently, Bud Light has been going back to Sort of the basics, if you would, and also taking in a lot of sports figures to bring back their brand, okay?
They have used Dana White in the big deal where they've actually kicked Modela off of the UFCs.
It's now Bud Light.
Dana White basically told everybody to go shove it.
I sort of like Dana White.
But then you also had, frankly, you've had Don Jr. You've had, and just in the last week, former President Trump, who have sort of weighed in on that.
And they're going to be back this year.
Budweiser, from all indications, these ads are going to be traditional Budweiser, Bud Light kind of ads.
My question to you is, and James, I want two perspectives here.
Chip, I want you on the political perspective.
And James, I want you on the general public perspective.
Let's go to James, you first.
General public perspective on these Bud Light ads.
Will it work to help them gain back market share?
Yeah, I don't think...
Or have they hurt themselves too much?
I have a problem because I think people get, like, too hung up on stuff.
Listen, I didn't care about the Dylan Mulvaney thing at all.
I didn't stop drinking beer because there was a person.
Like, I guess I just didn't care enough that Kid Rock was shooting Bud Light with a gun.
Okay, let me ask you a question.
James, let me ask you a question right there, though.
And you don't have to say, but was Bud Light one of your choices for beer?
At one point, yeah, it was.
But it's not going to change because of their ads.
So you were saying you would have bought a Bud Light this past year.
It didn't matter what they did.
No, and the reason it didn't matter to me is because I don't think that companies...
Alright, so they made some questionable choices as far as their actual decision making.
That doesn't change their beer.
It's still the cheapest thing I can get at the bar.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, I guess it's just like...
Like, what are we...
I guess I'm just...
What are we worried about?
If it really concerns you that much, don't drink it.
Move on.
Yeah.
But they also have done a full revamp, too, which obviously means things went to hell.
But they got...
I think they got Shane Gillis as a supporter now for them.
Oh, yeah.
And yeah, they're making changes, but they're going in the complete opposite direction, which I just think, just leave it alone and see what happens.
I'm looking forward to work just because to me it was such a silly thing to get everybody up in arms about.
But listen, I'm young.
I don't care.
I'm going to drink beer regardless.
Unless the guy was like, hey, we support OJ Simpson.
I don't really care.
It's not a big deal to me.
James just defended every bar in the country who sells bush light at a much cheaper price to start with.
Yeah, like, what did we have?
The 30 racks that just were called Beer 30?
Those were like 12 bucks.
It was a purple box.
And I remember we were, I mean, I know this is odd, we were in high school, guys.
But yeah, we would go to our weird guy, his name was Wolf.
I don't want to have this conversation totally, but...
There was a guy, his name was Wolf.
He used to get his beer at high school, and we'd be like, give us the cheapest they have, and he'd walk out, and it's a purple box, and it just says Beer 30. There is nothing else on it, a couple of bubbles, and then we hit it in our parents' shit.
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Come take me if you want.
All right, Chip, let's flip this over to the realist, because now you really have an issue, okay?
And I appreciate James's perspective.
It's sort of my son's and several others' perspective as well.
But you now have an issue in conservative Republican world that the leaders are now saying, hey, give them another chance.
And we've seen that Donald Trump still carries a great deal of weight on a lot of issues with this base.
And Bud Light now is, and they're coming back.
And by the way, and again, you'll hear this anywhere you go.
The Clydesdales are coming back for Budweiser this year.
So that's a good thing as well.
Bring back the horses.
Bring back the horses, baby.
So Chip, perspective, and this is where Foddy's finest blends.
Give me your thoughts on this politically.
Yeah, look, I think Anheuser-Busch has done as good a job as they can do to manage the fallout from the Dylan Mulvaney scandal.
And, you know, do I think it's going to work?
I mean, yeah, marginally.
I mean, yeah.
I mean, you know, I don't drink Bud Light.
I've never really drank Bud Light.
I drink Miller Light and Michelob Ultra.
I just haven't.
I just don't, I've just never, I didn't grow up on Bud Light.
So, you know, I didn't leave the market because I was never in the market.
But, yeah, I think they've done a good job.
And I think, too, they, you know, Anheuser-Busch and Bud Light became the poster child for conservatives and for the right.
And in a global corporate world, You know, woke agenda.
And they became the poster child for something different.
So we're going to punish Bud Light.
So Bud Light really took the brunt.
Anheuser-Busch really took the brunt.
All these other, you know, woke campaigns that all these other companies are having without any, you know, without any consequence to them.
And so, yeah, very smart to have, you know, to have Dana White at, you know, UFC. Very smart to have Donald Trump.
And I think, I do believe their market share is picking back up.
Will they ever get to the point they were before The scandal, I think it's going to take a long time, but, you know, time does heal wounds, and I think they're, you know, I think they've done some good things over the last 90 days to get there,
you know, but they still got, you know, they still got some work to do, but, you know, as every day goes by, that scandal gets further and further away, and, you know, I think they realized, you know, right when that Dylan Mulvaney scandal broke that, you know, You know, that really wasn't their market share, right?
Their market share was another group of individuals, and they learned that the hard way, and they're on the rebound for it.
I'm fine with that.
I think they've spent their time in the penalty box.
I think it was a stupid decision just from a business perspective.
You don't have to have an MBA to kind of make that declaration, and I think it's time to move on.
Chip, can I say something real quick?
What now, James?
Well, no.
Chip mentioned something super interesting.
Every company Has now found the limit.
Yes.
Like you were saying that a bunch of companies had made some woke decisions that had no consequences, right?
Which meant there was a limit for people.
And Bud Light crossed the line for people.
So now everybody knows what to do from here on out.
And I'm sure 30 years down the road we'll all laugh at this and be like, I can't believe we got mad at that.
But I'm saying every company now has been like, okay, now we know.
Now we know where the threshold is.
Right, and we don't ever have to make that mistake.
Great point, great point.
We touched the stove and realized, wow, it's hot.
The old McGawkin report, the old McGawkin report, Jeff, I know you remember it from the 80s.
McGawkin report, John, I'm going to go around, I'm going to do the McGawkin report.
My prediction here, Donald Trump, Is the endorsement of Bud Light or Bud, Anheuser-Busch, was the best thing that they could have with the very group that actually turned.
There'll be a slow turning back to them.
You won't hear it.
It will go silent a great deal on social media.
And all the other stuff was...
You know, what they need to do, but I think it'll go back to the Donald Trump saying, hey, let them have a break.
This is a good company.
I've already seen it in some of the social influencers.
Interesting point there, which also just speaks to the power that people, if you don't think Donald Trump can win in November, you're crazy.
He can win in November.
I mean, that's just the bottom line, especially with all the other problems.
All right, let's turn it up.
We got in the last few minutes here.
We're now into prediction time.
As we go.
First off, let's do this.
Give me your...
Give me...
Of what's up right now, Chip, then James, what's your favorite prop bet and how would you take it for the weekend?
So far, no matter.
You know...
Wow.
I hate to do this, but my favorite prop bet at the Super Bowl is always the coin toss, right?
Because it literally is a coin toss.
I mean, it's the only time you can bet on a coin toss.
I mean, how many times during the year do we discuss a game between teams and they're like, well, that's a coin flip.
That's a coin flip.
Now you really do get to bet on a coin flip.
And, you know, in the past, Heads has overwhelmingly won the last 14 years, but Tails has done really well the last couple years.
So it is an even bet right now, minus 115 to 115. I'm taking Tails.
And it always sets the mood for the Super Bowl because before the kickoff, I've already won a bet or I've lost a bet.
So I enjoy betting on the coin toss because it's the only time of the year I can do such a thing.
I agree.
Alright, that's a good one.
Alright, James?
So, since there's no fun ones out there, I'm gonna give an actual good one.
Based off a couple things, but the second half under.
The second half under, because for whatever reason, the Chiefs in the second half are shutting teams down.
Yes, they are.
And the Chiefs offense has been hot garbage.
So I'm going to go second half under, and I think you'll make actually a little bit of bucks on that.
All right.
I'm going to go sort of to the funny side of this.
I'm going to go to the more off the wall prop bets.
And that is the Travis Kelce proposing to Taylor Swift at the end of the game prop bet.
And I'm going to go, no, it won't happen.
I think it's pretty safe.
Yeah, I think it's pretty safe there, but it's out there.
Chip, you said it right.
This is the Super Bowl, literally, of sports betting.
I mean, this is the game.
I'll tell you what will be it now.
You talk about it.
I wonder if there's a parlay out there for this.
The winner of one of the NBA games, the winner of the Super Bowl, and the winner of the Daytona 500 the next weekend.
You bet your ass through it.
Oh, well, the next weekend?
I don't know.
I mean, I'm sure it's out there.
It's a weekend, but think about that.
Could you imagine if you hit all three of those?
I bet if you walked up to a book in Vegas, they would take the bet.
Because a parlay, the only thing a parlay is is three bets.
So if Vegas is taking bets, we know they're taking bets on the Super Bowl and the NBA games.
So if they're taking bets on the winner of the Daytona 500, absolutely you can make a parlay with that.
Yeah, that'd be interesting.
Also, I think one of the interesting bets that we'll get a lot, Chip, I agree with you with the flip of the coin also with that, but also it's the early in the game, it's the national anthem over under.
Right now it's 86 and a half seconds, so you're looking at a little bit under a minute and a half.
Reba's doing it.
Reba saw what Chris Stapleton did last year, although I initially said under.
I think you need to go over on Reba singing the national anthem.
Yes, she does sing.
I think Reba is going to hold those last notes.
All right.
That gets us the prop best.
Now we get into the real business.
All right.
James, we'll go youth before age here.
Give us your prediction for the Super Bowl.
Kansas City or San Francisco?
I hate this so much.
San Francisco, Chris McCaffrey, MVP. Okay, San Francisco and McCaffrey, MVP. Yep.
All right, Chip?
Yeah, I'm going San Francisco, but it's close, man.
I struggled all week with this.
I mean, I don't like betting against Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl, but, you know, I just think he squeezed as much as he can out of this team.
It has been a great run in the postseason.
You know, they fixed a lot of the problems they've had on offense, but You know, I just think the magic runs out.
I mean, we've seen Taylor Swift, you know, give Travis Kelsey a joyful, tearful hug.
And now I think we're going to get to see the inverse of the emotions.
And I think Taylor Swift is going to give...
Travis Kelsey, a tearful hug because I think the 49ers pull it out.
And look, the 49ers have really not been that sharp this postseason.
They were fortunate to win the game against Green Bay.
They were fortunate enough to win the game against Detroit.
I think they come out sharp.
And I think they win the game.
But I think it's going to be a good Super Bowl.
And I think anybody that's bought commercials in the fourth quarter is going to have a lot of people still watching.
It's going to be interesting.
Alright, here's my prediction.
I'm going against both of you.
I think we're underestimating the Taylor Swift pixie dust.
I think you're going to see a Kansas City repeat.
And I'm willing on this one to take and give five and a half.
Yeah, I'm willing to get five and a half.
Look, I just think what you said, Chip, is sort of solidified.
San Francisco has been sharp.
But they've not been that sharp.
It's not been what I've seen in the postseason toward the end of the year.
They're not doing this upward movement.
Kansas City, on the other hand, there's upward movement.
You're seeing them tighten up the holes that they had.
They're playing better.
Kelsey's on a different level in the last game.
I mean, if they're gonna win, they have to have him.
Mahomes is back into that same sort of zone.
The defense, James, you brought this up earlier.
Second half defense on Kansas City, lights out.
Lights out.
And so look, I think it comes down to this.
I think Super Bowls are many times decided by the quarterbacks.
I like Brock Purdy a lot.
I think he's going to be a great quarterback and continue to be.
But if I'm put into that situation, as Chip said in the last fourth quarter, who do I want going down that field?
Patrick Mahomes.
And I think it could be tied going into the fourth quarter, and it could be a touchdown win for Kansas City.
That's our predictions.
We've got it all here.
A lot going on today.
We start off not remembering who we were to who we're going to be for Sunday.
Looking forward to this weekend.
Thanks to the great analysis here today on Friday's Finest with Chip and James.
Chip, I'll give you last word first.
Well, I got, yeah, last word, a little bit longer today because I forgot to bring something up at the beginning when we were discussing Joe Biden.
And this is going to be kind of a cross-politics and sports tweet that the House Judiciary Committee sent out yesterday.
This year in college football, there was one offense in Division I. In a Power 5 conference that was head over heels a lot worse than any other Power 5 offense.
Can you guys guess which offense that was?
Iowa.
The Iowa Hawkeyes!
So the House Judiciary Committee this morning put out a tweet, and it says this, Joe Biden to his staff.
We need to go on offense tonight.
And the offense...
It's the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Oh my God.
I've got to show that to our buddy Matt Whitaker.
He'll go nuts.
It is great.
Somebody at the House Judiciary Committee needs a raise and that's what I got this week.
Thanks for tuning in.
All right, James.
I got nothing left to say.
Go 49ers.
Well, I think the flashbacks of the beer is out in James' system this morning, so we're doing that.
Folks, all I'll say is this.
A lot of stuff happens.
Have fun with family and friends.
I mean, it's always a reminder.
We've had some stuff going on in my household this week that always reminds you that not every day is given.
Make sure that you always take and tell the ones you love that you love them.
Tell the ones you appreciate you appreciate them because, you know, you never know when What health-wise or anything else may come to be.
And on a weekend like this, you've got the Super Bowl.
You've got time to spend with friends.
Make sure you do it.
God bless y'all.
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