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March 8, 2024 - Doug Collins Podcast
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You want to listen to a podcast?
By who?
Georgia GOP Congressman Doug Collins.
How is it?
The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
I could not believe my ears.
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, Friday's Finest is here.
We're ready to go.
We're without Chip.
Chip is up playing.
Well, actually, he's hiking, he's hunting, and he's fishing all while he's on the golf course.
So, you know, look, Chip likes to get the most out of his trips.
As you know from our experience here on Friday's Finest, Chip is one to take in all adventures.
So his golfing trips typically turn into hiking, hunting, and fishing expeditions.
And now he's actually out somewhere near the coast.
So sharks look out, Chip is on the golf course.
So be ready for that with his son, but congratulations.
His son's getting ready to graduate and they're out on a trip.
So we're glad to have today.
It'd be just James and I going through the multitude of things that we can talk about.
And there are some interesting ideas.
I think that since our last conversation, we were discussing some of the moves in free agency, We now know some stuff that has happened.
James is thoroughly excited about the prospects for Kirk Cousins and the chance for him to move to another franchise.
And I'm sure he'll share those wonderful thoughts with us as we get going here in just a minute.
But a lot of other things.
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Big thing, one of the big things that came into my life as I was growing up, went from a station of three television stations, well, four if you count PBS, to cable TV that opened up the world.
MTV, HBO, and all those things.
Now cable TV is dying out slowly before our eyes to streaming.
We'll catch up with that.
All today on Friday's 5th.
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Alright, we're back.
James, welcome back to Friday's Finest.
Glad you're here.
Hope everything is well in warm Texas, I hear.
Oh, it's a beautiful year, Doug.
Yeah, I don't know if people know this, but I don't know if we talk about it on the show, but my brother recently bought a house, so where we moved is a very nice area.
And it's a little New Jersey-ish in the sense that we're by water.
Hmm.
There's a giant lake where I live.
And so I drive past it a lot.
And there's cranes everywhere.
They're fixing stuff.
There's boats.
I feel like I'm a little bit at home, you know?
A lot of trashy people here.
A lot of auto body and mechanic shops around here.
That's my kind of town, you know?
Just like guys who are fixing things on a constant basis.
I don't know.
It's nice.
And then they have classy basketball courts that nobody uses that have to be, I don't know, like $10,000 to build.
I'm using it by myself every day for free.
It's been fantastic.
There you go.
We'll see.
And you get all that stuff.
You're going to have fishing.
You're going to have hunting.
You got all kinds of stuff going out there in the burbs.
You know, that's just a nice city.
I'm a burbs kid.
I've always been a burbs kid.
I've done the city thing a couple times.
I'm a burbs boy at heart.
There you go.
We'll see.
Just getting lost in the woods, you know?
Well, you know, just remember though, for all these nice temperatures, you got 110 waiting at you in June.
So, you know.
Oh, and I will not be here.
So, goodbye.
Goodbye.
No, anyway.
So let's, Doug, let's dive in.
Let's just, why don't you just rip the Band-Aid off real quick?
Okay, let's rip the Band-Aid off.
Last week we discussed with Chip and James, and of course I went into my, and I've continued to have my suspicions of the Caleb Williams situation.
But now...
Which you are not alone, my friend.
You are not alone.
I'm a trendsetter, baby.
The Doug Collins podcast, I'm a trendsetter.
I hate this so much because we get...
This is actually...
I respect you more than I respect every other person who talks about this.
You said it during the season.
You said it last year when everyone was talking about him being like Jesus out there.
You brought this up from the beginning.
All these people are turning on Caleb Williams, and I don't like it.
Listen, if you started not liking Caleb Williams, I'm fine with that.
But now it's trendy not to like Caleb Williams, and it's really starting to piss me off.
Because that's the problem, right?
Because in my opinion, you did it.
You were like, I don't like him.
I don't think he's this guy.
It's not about talent.
It's about the other stuff.
And plus, he didn't show up in big games.
Alright, you had a valid argument.
You made it.
You also made it last year.
And you made it during the season.
I like to be consistent, James.
Now J.J. McCarthy is in the top five?
Get the hell out of here!
I'm not having it, Doug.
I'm not doing it.
J.J. McCarthy, their game plan was to force him to throw the football, and now he's going to be one of the top quarterbacks taken in the draft?
Tell me how that makes sense.
Well, again, this is where I believe, and we've talked about this before, and Chip, we've talked about the importance of a quarterback.
This is where we've now come to what I was trying to make the point.
Again, it's tough being Nostradamus in this world, I'm telling you, okay?
Because when you're trying to make a point...
And everybody has to catch up with you.
My point last week on the Friday's Finest was, we're spending so much time and effort on 18, 20-year-old kids at quarterback that have issues inherently, and no one can name me, for the most part, except the one-off and two-offs, a top 10 to 15 draft pick quarterback that's actually made a long-term difference in the NFL. They just don't.
They may be players.
They may stick around forever.
They just don't.
Instead of looking at how you build teams and looking at it, which I think Years ago, the Steelers were very good at this.
They would build the parts.
I think the Patriots were very good at this, building the parts, so to speak.
But what I see right now is free agency has now disrupted everything.
A week ago, the storyline was That you're going to look at Caleb Williams being the number one pick going to Chicago.
Chicago was going to get rid of Justin Fields.
Justin Fields was going to go to Atlanta.
The agent had tweeted out a picture of Justin jumping up and down, thinking he's going back home.
And you had all these other things.
Now, a week later, Russell Wilson was let go of the disastrous contract for the Denver Broncos.
It's an all-time bad trade, and we'll get into that, but yeah.
Yeah, just terrible.
So now you've got Russell Wilson out there, who, look, I'm going to say, I'm not, I mean, and when I say fan, it doesn't mean I don't like them.
It just means that they're not my favorite.
Russell Wilson's a decent quarterback, but he's in his last season.
A few years of playing.
He had an arguable Hall of Fame career.
You can argue it.
I'm not saying it's for sure.
You can argue it.
I think, unfortunately, the last three or four years have probably killed that.
Yeah, probably.
At least for a while.
Um, he, he would need to go somewhere and pick up a couple of good years.
And I think, yeah, he probably said, but, but then you got, now you got Russell Wilson.
Now you go to, to Kirk cousins, your boy up in Minnesota.
Okay.
Who is now the hot ticket to come to Atlanta, which I personally, but if I had, you know, and I know you disagree currently here, Kirk cousins coming to Atlanta, um, Is a better fit to me than Justin Fields coming to Atlanta.
100%.
I agree with you.
Because Justin Fields is still learning.
Kirk Cousins knows how to build and play with bad offensive lines.
He knows how to play in different schemes.
And the Falcons, frankly, need something for two or three years to get them stable.
Right.
I'll tell you this, bud.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
I'm telling you right now, if Kirk Cousins goes to Atlanta, you will win that division immediately.
I genuinely don't even think it would be a debate.
I'm not discreet.
And you know, I'm not a hype about my home team.
I mean, I'm a fan of my home team.
I've got a fucking gear.
But I'm also hardest on my home team.
Yeah.
But I do agree with you.
We've got tools.
And see, and here's my thing about Cousins.
If we could get Cousins in, then that frees up offensive money and everything else to go get defense.
Because we can either get linemen, we've got to praise a couple of linemen, free agents, but we've got a running back.
Two of them.
We've got tight end.
We've got wide receivers.
We've got offensive weapons for Cousins to throw to.
You just keep building the offensive line to keep them healthy and you put everything into that defense.
You have a defensive head coach now.
You are literally looking at the situation in Houston.
That's what you're looking at.
I think you're right.
Can I also say this?
Sorry, real quick, Doug.
You will find out exactly what you have in Kyle Pitts if you get Kirk Cousins.
I'm telling you right now.
Because you don't know what you have in Kyle Pitts.
I know he's been a bust.
That is not up for debate.
So far, he has been a bust.
If you get Kirk Cousins, you will find out exactly what kind of quarterback, what kind of tight end you got in Kyle Pitts.
Because he makes tight ends good.
Listen, I couldn't stand the way they used Rudolph.
He was such a better tight end than given the opportunity.
But, look what he's done with TJ Hawkinson.
TJ Hawkinson's a good tight end.
He is a great tight end with a great quarterback.
That's a fact.
With a good quarterback.
Sorry, I think Kirk Cousins is a great quarterback in this league.
I think he's top 10 every year.
So, I'm not going to argue about that, but he will change Atlanta, and that's that.
Yeah, Kirk Cousins goes back to my philosophy is if you have a grounded quarterback with...
Good intellectual skills of football.
I will take them over the buffed out bad attitude or arrogant attitude athlete.
I mean, Patrick Mahomes is about as close to An athlete who could brag about anything he does because, frankly, he's earned every bit of it.
But even him, he's not, and this is sort of hard to say, he's not Travis Kelsey.
He's not even some of the others on his team.
He'll go out there, he'll party, he'll do some stew, but he's always sort of in the background.
He's got a humble streak to him.
Yeah, for sure.
And you just look at some of these other quarterbacks, and it's just like, you know, it's a pretty amazing concept to see.
And then you've got, and I'm going to take this a step further, now you've got the Giants supposedly giving up on Daniel Jones.
You've got the, as you said, J.J. McCarthy is now being looked at by the Patriots.
I think that one's a bust, okay?
Again.
I don't even think it's a bust, Doug.
I don't think it should be labeled one.
He shouldn't be in that position.
Oh, I don't disagree.
Right, like how...
That's so unfair to me.
But the only label you can put on it will be he'll struggle.
But, again, I go back to every once in a while, depending on the system, a Tom Brady will come along.
It ain't happening.
It's not happening.
It ain't happening.
I'm getting all...
I'm not saying it will either.
In New England, it's not.
Tom did not become Tom until five or six years in.
Okay?
Okay.
He didn't become the best player in the world until 5 or 6 in.
You're right.
He had a defense.
It was incredible.
He had everything outside of the best wide receiver, and even Deion Branch was still a great wide receiver.
That's why also it's very difficult to say.
I don't put a lot of stock in these people who try to downplay Belichick's role as, well, you had Tom Brady and you had all these others.
It took somebody to put that together.
Belichick was the first to put that together.
I mean, I'm sorry.
Coach Belichick is currently outliving the NFL that he was once in.
That's it.
It's got nothing to do with...
He's just not a good coach right now.
He's still a better coach than probably a lot of guys.
Don't get me wrong.
But can we just like accept, there's a reason Phil Jackson's not coaching anymore and there's a reason Pat Riley's upstairs.
There's a reason the guys retire.
Bill Cowher could not coach today.
He'd be a good coach, but we'd be ragging on him about this, that, and the other thing.
Sometimes the game moves on and you're just not a part of it.
Tom Brady couldn't probably, I mean he's one of the few, but him and Peyton Manning, it'd be hard for them to exist now without being able to run.
Well, it's interesting enough, you know, you go back to the Marinos, the Peyton Mannings, the Eli Mannings, for that matter.
Um...
I always thought...
It's always just been interesting to me because when I think of great quarterbacks, I go back to the...
And again, I was never a gigantic fan of John Elway, but he was a great quarterback.
But I guess maybe because I'm older and I just think of it differently.
I think of the Staubachs, the Bradshaws, the Stablers, the...
Just different kind of quarterbacks.
And Peyton Manning could throw it all over the place.
It goes back to our old guy in Atlanta, Matt Ryan.
And here's Matt Ryan, whose statistics will put him above Yeah.
there's a difference it's an it factor and I think we miss the it factor sometimes with a lot of these players that their statistics overrun who they are yeah That's true.
If you want to use Matt Ryan as an example, I feel like it's a...
I loved Matt Ryan.
I know that people had their issue in, but I feel like Matt Ryan did a lot of great stuff in Atlanta.
Atlanta was not relevant until he got there for like 10 years almost.
I mean, if you're saying that his stats are probably a little blown up, but that's because he had...
He had three great players on his team.
He had Roddy White, Julio Jones, and Antonio Gonzalez.
And we can't forget about the great one season of...
Who was the running back?
Oh, man, Doug.
I'm so mad right now.
I'm so mad.
Devontae Freeman.
That man had one season where I thought, I was like, there he is.
There's the future of Atlanta running backs.
Next season, he doesn't even exist.
Yeah, I mean, it's just...
The problem with Matt Ryan is, again, it's the playoffs.
It's the not getting anywhere.
And also, frankly, a lot of Matt Ryan's yardage or what I'll call junk yardage.
They were in the third or fourth quarter When they were trying to get back in a game because they were so far out of it.
You know, so again, for those of us who are Ryan, you know, or Falcons fans, you know, it's like Tony Romo.
I may touch a sensitive subject here, but I don't know if Tony Romo should have been a Hall of Famer.
Tony Romo's not a Hall of Famer.
I thought he did.
God, no.
If Tony Romo gets in the Hall of Fame, I'm batting down the doors.
But yet you still have people talk about him as if he is.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, because they're idiots.
Because there's a group of people.
They're called Dallas Cowboy fans.
And they should all be arrested.
Did you know that...
You know, some of these weird stats of Ryan.
Ryan ranks second in NFL history all seasons in turnover rate, 2.8%.
He ranks fourth in fumble rate,.78, sixth in sacks percentage, four.
Again, all three of those stats are based on all career numbers rather than just the first five seasons.
He has most wins in a regular season.
Ryan has 56 regular season wins of any quarterback through five years, largely to his 23 game-winning drives.
He ranks third behind Dan Marino and Peyton Manning in yards and touchdowns.
Think about that.
Yeah, Matt, Ryan had a great career.
I think he's a Hall of Famer.
But again, I'm not sure I do.
And this is someone who watched him the whole time.
Right.
Okay, well, I like, first of all, I love, I do love me to Matt Ryan.
I think it was something about him being at Boston College I just thought was cool.
I don't know.
But...
Oh, he's a great guy.
Don't get me wrong.
I mean, I love Matt Ryan.
I think the thing with Matt Ryan is, like...
Yeah, I know he didn't have a ton of playoff success, but I put him up there with Phillip Rivers.
That never had enough on the other end to help him out.
Yeah, I agree.
And that's why it's so unfair to judge individual players by the teams they play on.
Yeah, I think championships are tough in the NFL, too.
I think, like in basketball, we don't have to take it here forever, but when you're talking about being great, right?
You can be a great quarterback.
You can put up the craziest numbers you've ever seen and not win anything, Dan Marino.
It may probably end up being Josh Allen, in my opinion, too.
The stuff these guys do is insane, and I think we should judge them on that.
Championships are hard.
They're in an era with people...
I mean, for God's sake, Tom Brady stopped so many people from getting a Super Bowl.
The fact that Eli Manning has two in that era is probably the only reason he's going to get in the Hall of Fame.
Right?
Like, it's a miracle that Eli Manning has two Super Bowl rings.
I genuinely believe it is a literal miracle.
I don't know how it happened.
I don't know how they got there.
They had two of the greatest playoff runs of all time.
And they had no business being there to begin with.
So, when you talk about, like, individual stats, like I said, in basketball, if you're one of the best and you're not winning a championship, that's going to be on your resume forever.
We're going to talk about Chris Paul not winning a championship forever.
But realistically, as much as we talk about it with Dan Marino, we still remember Dan Marino so fondly because he was so good and how hard it is to win a Super Bowl.
Yeah, Allen Averson.
Yeah, Allen Iverson didn't win a championship.
He went to one, and we talk about that...
And he got a Post Malone song out of it.
Listen, if Allen Iverson had won a championship, we would be discussing him as a top three all time.
But because he didn't, he gets bumped down to five, six, or seven.
That's a real conversation.
But if you watched him like I did, you can't be six feet tall and be doing all that.
That's the most incredible thing I've ever seen in my life.
So anyway, we don't have to get...
I don't have to get on my soapbox about Allen Iverson.
I don't want to...
He went on.
But I think where this rabbit hole started was the fact that now...
And we should have known this, okay?
And we didn't.
Free agency and the franchise tags changed everything, okay?
Franchise tag ruined everything.
And so now franchise tags, so now you got Barkley.
I mean, look at the running backs, folks.
And I know we're doing deep football dive here.
Look at the running backs that, like Eckler, Jacobs, Henry, and now Barkley are all free agents right now on the market.
Can you, I mean, 20 years ago, That would have been like an unheard of moment.
But you got four or five, really four or five, top-tier running backs that basically the league says are throwaway players.
Oh, yeah.
Listen, the running back thing is dead.
I don't think we need to discuss.
I really don't think it's worth getting angry about anymore.
In your era, if you didn't have a running back, you weren't considered a football team.
If you didn't have a top running back, you were like, there's no way that guy's going to win a championship.
That team's going to win a championship.
But now, the Giants are like, we're getting rid of our quarterback and our running back.
But, look at the NFL and the Super Bowl.
The winners of the Super Bowl have a running game that allows their offense to have a passing game.
It's a fact.
That's why.
The rumor this morning was Henry goes to Dallas.
No!
Yep.
You know what?
Fine.
Go.
Go to Dallas.
You know what?
Let's get out of football.
Let's get out of football.
Yeah.
Because, I mean, there's so much more we can discuss.
We got the draft coming up.
We got everything.
We got, you know, the combines last week.
By the way, my boy, Ladd McConkie, went up and showed a dog how a dog does it at the combines.
Absolutely.
He was smooth up there.
But anyway, I grew up in a time, and I just saw this statistic.
I was telling James about this offline before we got on today.
I grew up in an era in which we had the intent on top of the house.
You turned the intent into fine stations.
If you were close enough to the stations, you could get them.
If not, you couldn't.
We had three stations and PBS. 2, 5, 11, and 8. That was our stations.
I was the clicker growing up.
Hey, Doug, go change the channel.
Doug, go change the channel.
And then in 1982, I believe it was, the world was opened up and cable TV came to the Collins household.
And we all of a sudden went from four channels to, I think we at the first off had Maybe 15 or 20. And then also the opening came for HBO. And the late night on HBO and the scrambled movies, if you can remember these.
I'm old enough to remember these.
I put that in context for those of us Xers out there who are raised on a lot of things.
Nowadays, cable opened the world, took out basically the TV as we know it.
And now cable TV is going the way of the old rabbit ears on the back of the TV. Cable is dropped off tremendously.
And I mean, we're seeing Disney dropping from over a million viewers and not to less than 100,000.
USA Network.
I mean, think about this.
USA Network is...
You know, dropped just off the map.
And I remember USA, you had all the law and order reruns.
You had everything else going on.
It's just amazing, you know, James, how streaming has now taken over.
We've gotten rid of cable at our house.
About six to eight months ago, we went to streaming and wouldn't go back.
God, no.
First of all, When streaming took over, and I think we all were aware that the prices would eventually even out.
But, Doug, I don't know about you, but I remember my mom on the phone arguing with these people like, I don't need this.
I don't need this.
I don't need this.
I don't know why I'm getting charged for this.
There's no world where I'm getting this.
Paying 200 plus, blah, blah, blah, whatever crazy numbers it was.
And then all of a sudden they're like, well, Netflix has pretty much all that and Hulu has all that and all you got to do is pay 50 bucks a month.
And you're like, yeah, okay.
You got it.
The world I grew up in was VHS and cable.
Then the DVD. Then...
Streaming.
And then everything else died after that.
Everything.
If you have a DVD or VHS in your household, save them.
That might be worth a trillion dollars in 200 years.
Because they're dead.
We've got boxes upstairs and downstairs of the...
Because my kids hit the age when Disney in the 90s decided to go back and put out all their old films on VHS. That's correct.
We have all the same ones.
I've got every one of them.
Yeah.
I still have my Land Before Time VHS, which stays in the house.
My mom used to get us one every year for Christmas, so we have all of them.
It's nuts.
The fact that I have the Land Before Time collection is just silly.
I know that's not Disney.
Let's get into Land Before Time there, James.
No, I don't want to do it.
If you don't cry during Land Before Time, you're an emotionless monster.
It does.
It makes me cry every time.
So we can get back to the very fact that Kevin Costner films like Draft Day and For the Love of the Game and Field of Dreams are the bomb.
Everything you mentioned, but Draft Day is a great movie.
Great movie.
You're not going to get me to say it.
I'm just going to tell you right now.
I would rather watch Waterworld on repeat than watch that god-awful Draft Day movie.
Oh, my, my, my, my.
No, but listen.
When cable, when I was a kid, I came home.
You put on ESPN that ran all day.
Or, if you were my age, and I bet your son knows about this 100%, MTV Hits.
So MTV was kind of just doing a bunch of reality shows when I was a kid, so they kind of stopped doing the music.
But we had MTV Hits, which was music videos all day, every day, and that's what you threw on.
And then occasionally you would scroll through the channels and a movie you weren't allowed to watch that you couldn't, that your parents wouldn't let you watch, was on cable with no cursing and you got lucky.
That's what cable was.
And I loved it.
And we were super excited about it.
Then they came out with a DVR and then we just were like, well, I don't have to watch this now, so I'm gonna go do whatever I want.
And that's what streaming is.
Yeah.
Well, the interesting part is, you see, one of the first things that I was so happy to get on my cable was MTV, and it actually played music.
That was what it was.
You know, I got cable about the same time as they came on with the first video that said, Video Kill the Radio Star.
I remember MTV is only having two or three videos that they could use an hour and they had filler music in there in the hours.
And they had the VJs who you can still find on SiriusXM, the 80s channel, are still there.
And I tell you, okay, while we're at this, talking about cable and talking about the life that we don't have anymore.
um You ever want to take a stroll back on memory lane for me?
If you have Sirius or folks out there doing it, you do the 80s channel.
They do the VJ Top 40 and they'll go back and do the Billboard Top 40 for that week in the 1980s, whatever year it is.
But the 70s channel does Casey Kasem And the American Top 40, the original American Top 40 that Ryan Seacrest, I guess, now does, I'm not sure, but Casey Kasem did it forever.
Casey Kasem was, at the end of the show, he'd always say, you know, keep your feet in the ground and keep reaching for the stars.
And back in my time, especially when they do from like 76 on through 1980 on Casey Kasem on that countdown, I was probably listening to those as they came up, and I would have my little Boombox, what I called it.
And my radio, they had a cassette recorder on it, and we'd have blank cassette tapes, and we would tape the music because we didn't know when we would hear them again.
Yeah, that's...
I'm old school.
That is what my mom did.
She told me about that, which, guys, you guys are so old.
No, but in all seriousness, like...
And I still got some of those tapes!
And I'm sure you have an incredible record collection, too.
My mom has one, too.
I got rid of it, but I started it back.
Did I tell you about this, James, that my boys...
You said you were going through it together.
You said a couple weeks ago you were going through it, or a month ago.
I don't remember.
They gave me a record player for Christmas, and I've had a blast.
That's it.
That's what it was.
Okay, so I am remembering it.
Listen, I'm going to be honest, and we're not going to go into my full criminal history as a kid.
But speaking of things that died, CDs died too, right?
Obviously that died pretty fast.
But I remember we would go into a Target or Walmart, I remember which one it was, and we wanted the new M&M CD. Me and my brother were dying for the new M&M CD because, you know, that was the era.
And we knew my mom wasn't going to let us have it.
You were a slim shady to start with.
Oh yeah.
Uh, so we had to, we devised a plan to steal the M&M CD from Target.
Or actually, you know, it might be even sadder.
It might be Caldor's.
I don't even want to get into that.
That store doesn't exist anymore.
Statue of Lamentis is a run now, okay?
Yeah.
But, uh, we, we, we stole it, but we were, this is how stupid we were.
We stole it, but then we played it in the house.
My mom knew she wouldn't buy that for us, so she asked us where we got it.
She goes, well, did you guys just steal that from the store today?
And we're like, nope, wasn't us.
Like, as if somebody else stole it for us.
We were the dumbest children on the planet.
We went to the store, stole the CD, and then played it in my mother's house.
What?
While she was home!
How stupid!
Literally, it kills me every time.
Every time I do something, I think about the fact that, like...
Man, if you were a criminal in real life, you would be arrested immediately.
You proved that you and your brother were taking the shallow end of the gene pool in that one.
Yeah, yeah.
It wasn't our finest moment.
I mean, I learned from it and found a better way to steal.
But in all seriousness, that CD's died too, all that stuff, I feel very nostalgic.
But there is something, Doug, about cable that can't be replaced.
And that is, and I think we may have discussed this already on another show, is finding terrible movies by accident.
That's what cable was all about.
It was being forced to watch something you would have never picked on Netflix.
No.
You know, that's something Lisa and Jordan, you know, because we're here, you know, when I'm at home and I'm not traveling, at night we watch movies.
That's what we do.
You know, we're not sitcom people.
Lisa doesn't like sitcoms, 30-minute sitcoms or any of those things.
We just don't do it.
We've occasionally watched some hour-long shows, but wait until the next week sort of more.
So we do the Netflix or the Prime or whatever, and we look for movies.
I'm amazed at how many movies we have found that I would have never known existed that were pretty good movies.
By the way, I watched, I don't know if we talked about this the other day, Secondhand Lines.
Robert Duvall.
No way.
Yes.
Did you just discover that movie?
Just discovered it.
That is an all-time favorite of mine.
Love that movie.
And like I said, didn't know it existed until I saw some people showing some stuff on Instagram with it.
But we got to watch.
So we watched movies that we never watched.
I tell you what was funny is it was on Netflix.
We're going through and we saw this movie that looked interesting.
And we started playing it, and we realized it was the same movie we had seen before.
They changed the name.
What?
They literally changed the title of the movie.
What movie was it?
It was a movie about Ben Affleck was in it, and they were stealing money in South America from these drug lords or whatever, and they were all ex...
You know, military, paramilitary, and they were trying to get over to the coast, and then they ended up losing most everybody.
Anyway, it was, you know, trying to take all this money, and they couldn't get over the mountain, and they had to go over the mountain, and they were being chased.
Is this a newer film?
Yeah, it's fairly new.
Look up...
Triple Frontier.
Yeah, Ben Affleck will be where you find it.
Yeah, Triple Frontier is the name of the movie, right?
Hang on a second.
All right, we're looking at this.
Ben Affleck movies.
Because I'm curious now.
But it was under two different names.
We saw it...
All right, hang on a second.
While we're doing this real quick, I do have a story about secondhand lines.
Okay, what's your story about secondhand lines?
So the kid from Secondhand Lions, Haley Joel Osment, I may or may not have run into him.
I didn't totally confirm it, but I was at a Subway when I used to live in Philadelphia, and I was at a Subway restaurant because students got to eat for like a dollar there.
And I'm standing there, and I look to my left, and I'm like...
I know who that is.
And I just looked at him, and I was like, hey, are you the kid from Secondhand Lions?
Not thinking about the fact that this kid was in The Sixth Sense, AI, so many other things.
And I just looked at him like, are you the kid from Secondhand Lions?
And he just goes, yeah.
And I was like, cool.
You want to party with me and my friends at the school?
And he looks at me and goes, no.
I was like, alright, sorry, sorry, didn't mean to.
I mean, I realize I asked a famous person to come to my college party, but still.
Anyway, so I'm still trying to look for it.
Are we talking about Triple Frontier?
Yep, it is.
It's called Triple Frontier, but I swear to you, they had a different name on it the first time we saw it.
I believe that.
I believe that wholeheartedly because Netflix is tricky and they're trying to trick us consumers.
They're coming for us, Doug.
Yeah, it is.
But also, Netflix has made money for movies that would have never broke even.
It used to be...
Netflix came along at a time when the movie industry, and I know this from working with them, they had a huge overseas market in the DVD, VHS market, and everything else.
And when that dried up, You know, a lot of these residual funds and everything were gone, and now Netflix and Prime, and that's why you see Paramount and all these trying to get into it, because that's where they're making their residuals.
Right, right, right, right.
So it's pretty well.
Hey, one last thing before we go.
We've got two things to hit before we go.
The first one is Jason Kelsey has made it official.
Retirement is, he is retired, he's off, he's gone.
Best center, one of the best centers ever to play the game.
Who came into the college football as a running back, if people remember that.
I saw that.
That was hilarious.
Yeah, it is.
And became one of the best centers there.
If you've not seen it, go see it.
It's on YouTube.
I'm sure it's everywhere else.
You can go find his speech.
I liked his speech.
I thought it was a little long.
But it was a great speech, especially about dads and the influence of dads, the influence of brothers and coaches.
I think it was all really good.
But Jason Kelsey, nothing but the best brother.
I've enjoyed watching you during this time.
You brought playing on the line back to meaning something in, and I appreciate that as we go.
But I couldn't let the Friday's Finest go without saying shout-out to Jason Kelsey on a great career.
For sure.
Your wife, I'm sure, will keep you busy with lots to do here in the near future.
Yeah, all-time wife, all-time career.
Jason Kelsey's living the dream that we all want to live.
They gotta love it.
And last night they were, and by the way, they also, earlier this week, were at the Cavaliers-Celtics game in an ultimate Celtics collapse, and they were courtside.
That was yesterday.
What the hell?
They let a guy named Dean Wade D-Wade, baby.
D-Wade, seven for seven, 20 points, outscored the Celtics on the four.
It was insane.
Anyway, go ahead.
All good.
So that is it.
James, what's your last word for the day?
My last word for the day is I'm going to see Dune 2 tonight, and I'm going at 10.45 at night so I can see it in IMAX. If you can see it on the biggest screen possible, go see Dune 2. If you haven't seen Dune 1, get your together and go see it.
Okay, I always wanted to go watch a movie about sand, so okay.
Don't you dare!
It's way more than that!
Oh god, we need Chip back.
We need Chip back.
Okay.
All right.
Fine.
We'll figure this out as we go.
All right, folks.
We got State of the Union and all it's been this week.
We're going to give you an update on it.
I know some of you are waiting for us to talk about that, but I just don't have the heart to talk about it right this minute.
So we'll talk about it next week on the podcast.
We'll do some other stuff as we go forward.
Everybody go out.
Be safe.
My prediction is...
Much to James' surmise, he will become an Atlanta Falcons fan next year because Kirk Cousins is probably coming to Atlanta.
And I'm still holding out that this may have affected the Chicago Bears not being able to move Justin Fields.
And I think that could affect what they do at number one.
I don't see them holding Justin and Caleb at the same position.
So it's going to be interesting to see how that all turns out.
All that and more when we get together again on the Doug Collins Podcast.
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