Not So Happy Hour for LIONS Fans & More OSCAR Talk

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This is the Silver Screen Happy Hour.

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I'm Chris Wiegand, along

with my brother Jerome.

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Today we've got another

little bonus episode for you.

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We're gonna talk a little bit about some

of the Oscar nominees for Best Pitcher.

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In some of our future episodes,

uh, but first we went on a bit of

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a rant about the Detroit Lions.

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Now, I realize that not all of our

listeners are Lions fans, but if you

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love us, at least you gotta appreciate

our passion for our hometown team.

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And what a heartbreak

that game was for us.

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Now, if you're from Green Bay, or

something like that, or San Francisco,

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and you just want to skip that part,

uh, go around to the 16 minute mark,

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and that's where you'll find where

we're talking about the movies.

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Jerome: Let's start with the fall

of a football team onto their head.

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Chris: You know, um, Jesse was talking

to, uh Her coworker, uh, Gordon,

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and he, he made the observation

that he goes, you know, Lions

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fans are like the abused spouse.

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I was like, I thought about it and I'm

like, well, I don't know if I go that far,

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but Dan Campbell is a compulsive gambler.

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He's got a problem.

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He cannot let go on fourth down.

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He's got to go for it.

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Jerome: So here's the thing.

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I have now, it took about

36 hours to get here.

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Um, but I, for those of you that

don't know, we're talking about the

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Lions lost in the NFC title game.

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It was their one game

away from the super bowl.

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They'd never been to a super

bowl and we were on the road.

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At the number one seeded

San Francisco 49ers.

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And what was the score at halftime?

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24 10 we were leading at halftime.

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Oh, scratch that, 24 7.

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It was 24 7 at halftime.

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Um, the Niners came out in the

second half and got a field goal

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on their first drive made at 24 10.

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We still had the momentum.

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Because we held them to a field goal.

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Made some big plays.

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Made some big plays.

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And then, 3 minutes and 59 seconds.

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That's all it took.

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Now let me tell you, 5 things that

happened in 3 minutes and 59 seconds.

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I've backed away from kicking

Dan Campbell in the nuts.

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Because, the more I thought about

it, maybe the second one, the second

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time, that it was 4th down, um, and

you knew that momentum had shifted.

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Yeah.

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Um, maybe you take the points,

but that wasn't even farther.

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That would have been like

a 48 yard field goal.

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No chip shot.

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Yeah.

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And if you, and if you miss it,

they get the ball right there.

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So I, I get it.

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But wait, let's, let's, before

we get to that second one.

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Mm hmm.

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The first one I'm definitely backing

off of, and I'll tell you why.

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We were on their 28 going in.

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Yeah, yeah.

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It's 4th and 2.

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We've gone forward in that

situation all year long, and we

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still had momentum at that point.

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Our offense was still moving.

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Yeah.

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So, I know he's thinking, it's two yards.

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Now, here's the thing, the play

was a well designed play, too.

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The guy just dropped the fucking ball.

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Yeah.

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It was right in his hands.

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So, I'm gonna tell you, much like

our five point finale, here's the

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five point ending to the Lions.

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And it took 3 minutes and 59 seconds.

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Chris: Hold on.

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First of all, I just want to

throw my two cents in on the kick.

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On the non kicks.

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So, one of the things I keep hearing

from people that are defending

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Campbell is he believes in his guys.

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That's why he believes in his guys.

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He doesn't believe in his kicker!

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Apparently.

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Jerome: It's not that he

doesn't believe in his kicker.

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Chris: He doesn't believe in his kicker.

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I mean, if he believed in his

kicker, he'd have had him out there.

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At least for one of them.

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Jerome: Okay, so he believes

in some of his guys.

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Chris: So, where's Prater?

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Jerome: But here's the

counterpoint to that.

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Let's say you're right.

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Let's say he doesn't.

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Let's say he goes for the field goal.

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And Bagley shanks it.

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Like Jake Moody shanked one

earlier in the game for the Niners.

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He shanks it.

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Everybody the next day would be

kicking Campbell in the nuts saying,

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Why would you kick a field goal?

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You've been going for

it in that situation.

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Chris: No, they'd be kicking

the kicker in the nuts.

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Jerome: Maybe, but they

would say, you know what?

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You already knew the weather

conditions weren't great.

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Moody already shanked

one earlier in the game.

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You go for it on fourth

and two all year long.

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Why would you stop being you?

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They would blame him for that.

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My point is, whatever anything goes south,

the coach is going to get kicked in the

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nuts, whether it's his fault or not.

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Reynolds needs to catch that fucking ball.

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Reynolds needs to catch that fucking ball.

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So, now, five point finale on the Lions.

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Here we go.

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Keep in mind the time frame.

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It's fourth and two.

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We go four and a fourth down,

Reynolds drops the ball.

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Point number one.

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Um, two plays later, they have a 51

yard play that gets them down to the

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Detroit four yard line on a fluke

play that bounces off our cornerback's

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face and lands in Brandon Ayuk's one

arm catch down to the four yard line.

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Chris: That was demoralizing.

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Jerome: Fluke play.

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Um, that's number three.

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That was the second, that was,

that was number two, right?

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Yeah, two plays later, that happened.

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Number three, they punch it in for

a touchdown, three plays after that.

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We get the ball back, on the kickoff.

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First play from possession, first

play on the next possession.

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Uh, Jameer Gibbs fumbles, they recover.

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And then four plays after

that, they score again.

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Two turnovers, one on downs, one

in a fumble, and two touchdowns

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off of those turnovers, in three

minutes, fifty nine seconds.

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Yeah.

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Of, of game time.

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That ended the game.

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Because everything after that

was just Niners being Niners.

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Everything before that

was Lions being Lions.

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So, that crazy four minute

span Changed everything.

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Chris: Well, here's my hope.

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My hope.

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I love Campbell.

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He's done such an amazing

job this year with this team.

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I mean, the last three years.

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My hope is I don't know.

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Jerome: Don't say he's

going to learn his lesson.

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Because he's not learning his lesson.

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Chris: I do think there's a

You're going to take it that way.

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But I do think there's a

There's something to learn.

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There's, I mean, there's something

to learn, and you know what, he's

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gonna consider this next year

if he's in the same situation.

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I don't know if he'll do the same thing,

he might, but he's gonna consider it.

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Jerome: He does play his gut, he does

play his gut, and maybe next time

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his gut will tell him differently.

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Now, uh, the reason why I was Facebook

Rage Drunk posting on Sunday night,

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Going after Dan Campbell hard.

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was because I felt the same way.

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And my argument to people, because I kept

getting our cousin Jeff said something and

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everybody else kept saying the same thing.

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You were happy about it when

it worked all year long.

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Yeah, I know.

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You can't be mad at him now.

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Here was my counter to that.

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I was too drunk and angry

to really flesh it out.

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Um, all year long, you're right,

but I loved it when he was doing it.

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Like, when they left the offense

out there, I'm like, yeah, go

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for it, go for it, go for it.

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But last I was gonna say last night.

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It's been two days now.

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I still feel like it was

just, like, ten minutes ago.

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Sunday night, when we got stopped, and

it was 4th and 2 I remember thinking,

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sweet, kick the field goal, you go up

three scores, we still keep the momentum.

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And I saw a golf and everybody

was still standing out there.

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And from my chair, in the living

room, I was saying, No, no, no,

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no, no, no, no, no, not this time,

not this time, not this time.

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Like, I had a sick sense that

it wasn't gonna work there.

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So, my counter to everyone saying,

Oh, you loved it all year long.

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I didn't love it that night.

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Right.

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Like, before it, before it failed.

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Yeah.

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Now, if it, when the pass was thrown,

and Reynolds grabs it in his hands, I was

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about to jump up going, Oh, thank God.

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And then I saw the ball hit the ground.

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Right.

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And I was like, fuck!

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And that's why I went off on Campbell.

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Why did you go for it?

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When in reality, I should have

been kicking Reynolds in the nuts.

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Because on replay, that God,

you gotta catch that ball, man.

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Gotta catch that ball,

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son.

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He's got one job.

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Oh, you got one job?

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And he's made huge plays

like that all year long.

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So it was uncharacteristic

of him to drop that ball.

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Chris: I was thinking about it.

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Today, more clearly.

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I mean, I was so, I was hungover

and angry all day yesterday.

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Jerome: I can't tell you what

a shitty day yesterday was.

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Chris: Yesterday, the assembly

plant was just somber.

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Jerome: But you saw my post,

you saw my post yesterday.

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I have it worse than all you guys.

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You guys are at least

surrounded by other Lions fans.

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Other grieving fans.

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Yes, where you guys can

commiserate together.

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Every fucking asswipe that walked

in my store with their Niners

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hats and their Niner shirts.

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For those of you listening, just a

reminder, I live in Northern California.

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My brother and the rest of my family all

live in the nestled sweet town of Detroit.

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So, everybody that came

in was giving me shit.

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I had to hear about it

from fucking everybody.

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Even people that work in my store.

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Hey, how'd you like that game?

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How'd you like that game?

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My finger up your ass.

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So,

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Chris: Wow, why'd you go there?

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Jerome: Well, I didn't really say

that because I could have lost my job.

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But I was pissed, man.

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Yesterday, I can't tell, yesterday might

have been the worst day of my life.

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Chris: It was bad.

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I mean, it's, it ranks.

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I mean, I don't know

if it's the worst day.

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Jerome: Right, it's up there though.

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Chris: Um, so I was thinking

about it and I was like, you

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know, if we would have went there.

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On home turf.

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Gave it a good effort, but they

just kicked our ass the whole game.

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I said the same thing!

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I would have slept better.

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I said the same thing!

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We were up, and it looked like we had it.

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Oh my god.

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Jerome: Alright, look, I'm

gonna say one more thing.

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In a religious sense, I've made a deal

with myself and God That I would never

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pray for the Lions to win because

that's that's God's got more important

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things to do And I'm sure somebody

on San Francisco side is praying for

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the same thing So what's God gonna do

like I got pissed somebody off So I I

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always told God I would never pray for

the Lions to win all I pray for though

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Is that they play their best ball.

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That they play their best.

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That's all I asked for.

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If we had played our best and we

simply got our asses kicked, I

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would have been okay with that.

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I mean, I wouldn't have been okay.

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I would have been like, wow,

we're still a year or two away.

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But to see that we actually were

pushing them all over the field.

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Chris: Oh, they didn't know

what to do in that first half.

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It was unbelievable.

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Jerome: When it was over, and I'm

fighting back tears, I went to

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go piss, one of my many pisses.

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And I looked up as if

I was talking to God.

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And all I said was, Why

don't you just blow us out?

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Just, why didn't you just blow us out?

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Like, I would have taken

48 to nothing over this.

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Chris: Oh yeah.

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Jerome: Like, this is

worse than 48 to nothing.

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Chris: It is.

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It is.

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Cause I would have just went to bed early.

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Jerome: Yeah, I would have.

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And I almost turned it off at halftime

going, I'm going to bed knowing we won.

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That's it.

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I don't want to hear about

the rest of the world.

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But, of course I can't do that.

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Uh, so no, I did not blame God.

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But I did, uh, I did wonder, uh, how

the hell 3 minutes and 59 seconds

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changed the entire Fucking game.

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I mean, it was, it's, it was amazing.

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I, I'll tell you when I really thought

it was over and not, and it wasn't

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the going forward on fourth down.

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It was Iuke's catch.

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That 51 yarder off our guy's helmet.

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I remember thinking that's the kind of

shit they show on ESPN 20 years from now

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as the, the tide that turned the game.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Um, we, we see it all the time.

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What, what happened?

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It was the, I think when the saints,

when, uh, the saints beat the Colts in

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the Superbowl, Peyton Manning's Colts.

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Uh, they did an onside kick

to start the second half.

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Nobody saw it coming.

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And it was a surprise.

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And they got the ball.

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And everybody credits that.

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They're like, that, that was the moment.

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That was the moment that

turned the tide of the game.

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And they still show

that play 20 years ago.

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You know, from 20 years

ago or whenever it was.

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When IUK made that catch, I

remember thinking we lost it.

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That's it.

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And we were still up 24 to 10 at the time.

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And I was like, nope, this is bad.

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This is real bad, man.

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That's the kind of play they'll

show, they'll show when they're

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fucking kids 30 years from now.

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Yeah.

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Um, and, and then of course they scored.

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Then we fumbled and they scored again.

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And I was like, I should just turn it off.

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Yeah.

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Cause it's, it's 24 to 24.

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Chris: Well, a little good news today.

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Jerome: Yes, we got some good news

reporting today, some breaking news!

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Dun, da dun dun!

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Dun, da dun dun dun!

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Breaking news!

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Chris: We are retaining

our offensive coordinator.

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Jerome: Yes!

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And that's huge, folks, because

not only was he a shoe in for the

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Washington job, he was all but ready

to go and take the head coaching

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job of the Washington Commanders.

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He is Intrical to our offense and

intrical to Goff's, uh, performance.

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Right?

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He's a perfect fit for Goff.

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Goff's a perfect fit for him.

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They mesh, they mesh well together and the

offense runs so smoothly through this guy.

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Chris: I think Dan Campbell's, uh,

he has tear stains on his shoes

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as he was holding his ankles.

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Dude.

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Not, not letting them leave.

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Jerome: Please don't go.

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Just give us one more year.

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And, and I remember thinking Dan Campbell.

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In the post game, with tears in

his eyes, he said that I was,

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I was truthful with the guys.

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I told them this might

have been our only shot.

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Like normally you never

hear a coach say that.

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You always hear them say,

ah, we'll be back next year.

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You know, fear not, we'll be back.

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Dan Campbell was honest, he was like,

this may have been our only shot.

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Cause he knows, number one,

how hard it's gonna be.

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To do it two years in a row.

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Chris: Everyone's gonna

try and poach your talent.

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Jerome: Not only that, we have, we

now have the first place schedule.

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I don't know, for those of you that

don't know how the NFL scheduling

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works, whatever place you finish in

your division, you play that place

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of all the other teams that you play.

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So, like when we pick, uh, and not all

of them, it's, so here's how it works.

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Obviously you play your

division rivals twice.

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So that's six games right there, right?

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Two against Minnesota, two

against Chicago, two against

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Green Bay, one home, one away.

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Then they pick a division from

each conference, you know?

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They'll say, okay, uh, this

year you play the NFC East.

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So every team in our division will

play everybody in the NFC East.

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And then they pick one from the AFC, okay?

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You're gonna play the AFC South.

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: 00:14:33

So everybody in our division will

play everybody in the AFC South.

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But to fill the rest of the

gaps, it's where you finish.

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So last year we finished fourth!

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So we got, no I think we finished 3rd.

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: 00:14:45

3rd or 4th.

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: 00:14:46

We played the 3rd or 4th ranked

team in the other divisions.

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You know what I mean?

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Yeah.

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: 00:14:53

This year we're gonna be playing all the

number 1 teams cause we won our division.

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So we're gonna be, we're gonna be

filling all those schedule gaps.

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Yeah, yeah.

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With division winners.

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Chris: Well, I mean that's gonna,

it's gonna be a tougher season.

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But man, we started this season,

who'd we play first game?

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Jerome: Yeah, at Chiefs.

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We had that division.

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And we won on the road.

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We did.

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We had the AFC West was

our AFC division this year.

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Yeah.

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Um, but, uh, let me finish.

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: 00:15:19

I didn't finish my other point.

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: 00:15:20

When Dan Campbell was saying that, I think

he believed that Ben Johnson was gone.

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Right, right.

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: 00:15:25

So he was thinking, not only is our

schedule going to be harder, But we're

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probably going to lose some guys.

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: 00:15:29

Somebody might retire, somebody might

sign as a free agent somewhere else,

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we're going to lose talent, uh, and we're

going to lose our offensive coordinator.

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I think he firmly believed that.

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: 00:15:37

Today is a huge leap in getting

back to the NFC title game.

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I texted my buddy Hughes as

soon as I heard the news, I

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said, dude, we retained our OC.

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: 00:15:46

Now I feel like we can go back.

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: 00:15:48

Like I wasn't, I wasn't very

confident, but now I think we can.

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19 0!

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: 00:15:54

Let's do it!

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: 00:15:54

Or actually, now it'd be 20 0.

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: 00:15:56

Actually, if you have a first

round bye, 20 0, no, no, no.

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: 00:15:59

Fuck, I don't know, the

new format's different.

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: 00:16:01

First round bye, yeah, first round bye,

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: 00:16:03

so.

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: 00:16:03

First round bye, you still have

to play three games, though.

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: 00:16:06

Yeah, so it'd be 20.

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: 00:16:07

It'd be 20 0.

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: 00:16:09

It would be 20 0.

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: 00:16:10

That's cool.

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: 00:16:11

20 0.

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: 00:16:12

A 20 0 Lions season.

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: 00:16:13

Ohhhh.

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: 00:16:16

I think I just died a little bit.

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: 00:16:18

And a part of my soul

just went up to heaven.

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: 00:16:19

Just like, that was it.

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: 00:16:21

Like, yeah.

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: 00:16:21

Alright.

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: 00:16:22

Um, so yeah, so big news coming

out of Detroit for the Lions.

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Those of you that are football

fans, we're meshing football

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: 00:16:27

into our, uh, film podcast.

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: 00:16:32

Okay, so, to recap the Best

Picture nominees Guess what

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I bought at Target today?

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: 00:16:40

A

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: 00:16:40

Chris: DVD player?

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: 00:16:43

Jerome: I already have one.

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: 00:16:44

I have no way to play a DVD.

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: 00:16:47

You don't have any player,

no Blu ray player or nothing?

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: 00:16:49

Chris: We do have an xbox that

I have to plug in and hook up.

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: 00:16:52

But yeah, so I could use that.

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: 00:16:54

Jerome: So I have a Blu ray

player and I bought the Holdovers.

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: 00:16:57

Because if you want to stream the

Holdovers, you gotta get the Peacock.

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: 00:17:03

Uh, subscription, not the free

Peacock, you gotta get the upgrade.

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: 00:17:06

So I'm like, I'm not paying for that shit.

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: 00:17:12

I'm not paying for that,

that's my thoughts to Peacock.

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: 00:17:15

I'm not paying for a monthly

charge just to watch a movie once.

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: 00:17:19

So I went to Target where I

knew they had it on Blu ray.

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: 00:17:23

It was five bucks more than the DVD and

I thought, well, I'm gonna spring the

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: 00:17:26

extra five bucks and get the Blu-Ray.

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: 00:17:29

Uh, because I know I'm gonna like it.

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: 00:17:30

I like all of this guy's movies.

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: 00:17:31

And I'm not just talking about gim,

I'm talking about the director.

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: 00:17:34

Mm-Hmm.

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: 00:17:34

. Uh, I, I like all his films,

so I know I'm gonna like it.

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: 00:17:37

This is one of those rare times

where I bought a, a Blu-ray, but

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: 00:17:39

without seeing the movie first.

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: 00:17:40

Yeah.

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: 00:17:41

Knowing that I, I knew I

was gonna like the movie.

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: 00:17:44

Um, I can't remember the first time

I did that , but it, it was something

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: 00:17:48

that I knew I was gonna like.

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: 00:17:50

Yeah.

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: 00:17:50

So yeah, so I bought the holdovers.

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: 00:17:52

I did not watch Barbie yet.

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: 00:17:54

V has tried, my wife V has had like

two or three attempts at Barbie.

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: 00:17:58

But she does it at the end of

the day when she's exhausted.

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: 00:18:01

And she gets in bed, like she takes her

shower or whatever, gets in her jammies.

435

: 00:18:05

And she gets in bed and puts

it on the TV in the bedroom.

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: 00:18:09

She doesn't make the first ten minutes.

437

: 00:18:11

She's been watching it

in ten minute intervals.

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: 00:18:13

Oh my god.

439

: 00:18:13

So it's been like day three now and

she's 30 minutes into the movie.

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: 00:18:17

I mean, it's as far as

she gets every time.

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: 00:18:19

I have not watched Barbie yet.

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: 00:18:21

I, I started off, I already

saw Oppenheimer in the

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: 00:18:23

theater, uh, last summer.

444

: 00:18:25

I'm probably gonna watch it again if

we, uh, attempt to break that monstrous

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: 00:18:30

film down in a, in a, in a beat sheet.

446

: 00:18:32

Um, Blake Snyder would be so proud.

447

: 00:18:35

Uh, so aside from Oppenheimer, I

started off with Anatomy of a Fall and

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: 00:18:40

now Past Lives and I'm going to try to

fit in, uh, Barbie and the Holdovers.

449

: 00:18:46

I don't know, sometime

in the next few days.

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: 00:18:48

Chris: Yeah, Jessie didn't want to watch

Anatomy of a Fall because she thought

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: 00:18:52

the trailer looked scary and violent.

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: 00:18:54

And so far, I'm well into it.

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: 00:18:56

I have about half an hour left to go.

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: 00:18:58

I gotta finish it tonight.

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: 00:19:00

And it, it, It's not scary.

456

: 00:19:02

No, it's more of a drama, right?

457

: 00:19:05

It's very much a drama.

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: 00:19:06

Yeah, so it's, I mean, but I could

see the trailer, there's a couple

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: 00:19:10

scenes in the trailer that are

kinda, You know, suspenseful and they

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: 00:19:14

show blood and it's like, that's,

that's why she thought that, but

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: 00:19:18

Jerome: there is some brutal parts.

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: 00:19:20

Yes.

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: 00:19:20

Um, and what, what, well, I was going

to say, what part are you on right now?

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: 00:19:25

You said you have about a half hour left.

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: 00:19:26

Chris: Yeah, she's, I think they're

winding up the court scenes or whatever.

466

: 00:19:30

Jerome: So have they, have they

played the recording that they found?

467

: 00:19:35

Yes, they just did.

468

: 00:19:36

They just did that part.

469

: 00:19:38

That's an intense scene.

470

: 00:19:40

And we'll talk about it more in the

podcast, but what I thought, one of

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: 00:19:43

the interesting things I thought they

did there was the boy, the blind kid.

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: 00:19:47

Yeah.

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: 00:19:47

While he's in court, he's envisioning

in his head what happened.

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: 00:19:52

And he's got several versions.

475

: 00:19:54

Right?

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: 00:19:54

Or did they not show

that yet where you are?

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: 00:19:57

No, they didn't, they didn't,

like, they showed the boy, they

478

: 00:20:01

keep panning to the boy and stuff.

479

: 00:20:03

Right, but did they show where

he's like, he's thinking about it?

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: 00:20:06

And they show the things

he thinks is happening?

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: 00:20:10

Do you remember that?

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: 00:20:10

You may have to go back and watch it.

483

: 00:20:11

Chris: Yeah, I'm gonna back

it up a little bit and watch.

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: 00:20:13

Yeah, cause I was a little,

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: 00:20:14

yeah.

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: 00:20:15

Jerome: Cause that, what I liked

about that is they're letting the

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: 00:20:18

audience know what he's thinking.

488

: 00:20:20

You know what I mean?

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: 00:20:21

Anyway, I got a lot of

thoughts about that movie.

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: 00:20:23

Yeah.

491

: 00:20:23

That movie was way deeper than Past Lives.

492

: 00:20:26

Past Lives is pretty much on the nose.

493

: 00:20:28

But it's still got some pretty good

themes, and some pretty good, uh,

494

: 00:20:31

tracking, uh, emotional shifts.

495

: 00:20:34

Yeah, yeah.

496

: 00:20:34

Um, the spiritual and tangible goals.

497

: 00:20:37

Have you watched Past Lives yet, or no?

498

: 00:20:38

Chris: No, Jesse wants to watch

that, so we're gonna watch that

499

: 00:20:40

together, maybe tomorrow night.

500

: 00:20:42

Jerome: Yeah, yeah.

501

: 00:20:43

It's a, it's a good, it's

a good relationship one.

502

: 00:20:45

It's, it's another one that,

it pisses you off sometimes.

503

: 00:20:49

Heh heh heh.

504

: 00:20:50

It's, you know, I'm always pissed

off about something when it

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: 00:20:52

comes to relationship movies.

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: 00:20:54

Um.

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: 00:20:54

Which people will find out

when we air our valentine.

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: 00:20:57

That's a nice segue to our valentine

show Yeah, there's a valentine show

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: 00:21:01

being released Chris now keep in mind

the Super Bowl is Sunday, February

510

: 00:21:05

11th and Valentine's Day is three

days later on Wednesday the 14th.

511

: 00:21:09

Chris: Yeah, it should be it should

be ready by Super Bowl Sunday I

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: 00:21:12

think I just haven't had Sunday.

513

: 00:21:15

I haven't I haven't had the time

to do much editing So I just

514

: 00:21:18

getting started with that now

515

: 00:21:20

Jerome: so You know how, like, sometimes

they save the pilot of the new show

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: 00:21:25

for, like, after the Super Bowl?

517

: 00:21:27

Because they want that lead in

on the viewership, you know?

518

: 00:21:30

You know, Sunday night,

after the Super Bowl!

519

: 00:21:34

The first episode of the

new Justin Timberlake drama!

520

: 00:21:37

You know, whatever.

521

: 00:21:38

We could do that with our podcast.

522

: 00:21:40

We're going to air our

podcast after the Super Bowl.

523

: 00:21:43

Chris: Which, I might air it during.

524

: 00:21:46

That'll be our halftime show.

525

: 00:21:47

Oh, our halftime show.

526

: 00:21:48

Because I'm probably not watching it.

527

: 00:21:52

Jerome: You gotta watch the Super Bowl.

528

: 00:21:52

Chris: I don't know if

I can watch it, man.

529

: 00:21:55

It depends.

530

: 00:21:55

I do feel a little better today, but

Yesterday, I couldn't imagine watching it.

531

: 00:21:59

Jerome: And, and the conventional

wisdom is, The conventional wisdom is

532

: 00:22:04

you root for the team that beat you.

533

: 00:22:06

I know.

534

: 00:22:06

Because, because then you can say,

Well, it took the best team to

535

: 00:22:09

beat us, and we were that close.

536

: 00:22:12

It's gonna be hard for me

to root for the Niners.

537

: 00:22:14

It's just gonna be hard for

me to root for the Niners.

538

: 00:22:16

I know that Mahomes already has two

rings, And I'm gonna get sick and

539

: 00:22:20

tired of watching every time they

show Taylor Swift in the crowd.

540

: 00:22:24

Um, and I get all that.

541

: 00:22:29

Just the way it ended, I don't know

if I can root for the Niners, man.

542

: 00:22:33

That's pretty hard.

543

: 00:22:34

I know.

544

: 00:22:34

That would be so hard.

545

: 00:22:36

I figure it's a win win.

546

: 00:22:37

If the Niners lose, then yeah, fuck them.

547

: 00:22:40

But if they win, then I can say, Hey,

we had the best team in the league on

548

: 00:22:45

the ropes for an entire half at 24 7.

549

: 00:22:49

And, you know.

550

: 00:22:50

We were that close.

551

: 00:22:51

We were a half away.

552

: 00:22:52

In fact, we were, people always

say that, we were one half away.

553

: 00:22:55

We were three minutes and fifty

nine seconds of fuck ups away.

554

: 00:22:58

If we take out that four minutes,

we still win that game easily.

555

: 00:23:02

If Reynolds catches that pass on

fourth and two, we score on that drive.

556

: 00:23:06

I guarantee it.

557

: 00:23:08

So, I don't know, I'm

getting all worked up again.

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: 00:23:12

Chris: Well, I think that was our update.

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: 00:23:15

Jerome: Yeah, we just wanted

to give a quick commercial.

560

: 00:23:17

We wanted to give you an update on what

happened with the Lions, and we wanted

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: 00:23:20

to plug our upcoming Valentine's show,

which, uh, Chris, we need to remind the

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: 00:23:24

audience, what is our Valentine's show?

563

: 00:23:27

Chris: it's About Somewhere In Time

564

: 00:23:32

Jerome: that what we're calling it?

565

: 00:23:33

Chris: Yeah, I think I

can, uh, finagle the words.

566

: 00:23:36

So, about and time are

two, look, you know.

567

: 00:23:38

Jerome: I liked my first one.

568

: 00:23:39

It was, it's about time, somewhere.

569

: 00:23:44

I liked that one.

570

: 00:23:46

With a comma in there.

571

: 00:23:47

About time, somewhere.

572

: 00:23:49

Um, but anyway, it's all in the delivery.

573

: 00:23:51

Yeah.

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: 00:23:53

Just like the everything,

everywhere, all at once.

575

: 00:23:54

We had to put a period after each one.

576

: 00:23:56

Right, right.

577

: 00:23:58

what are the movies that are going to be

talked about on the Valentine's special?

578

: 00:24:01

Chris: Oh, so it was, uh,

Somewhere in Time,: 1980

579

: 00:24:05

Jerome: 1980, Christopher

Reeve, Jane Seymour,

580

: 00:24:10

Chris: yeah.

581

: 00:24:10

Yeah, so Somewhere in Time, and

About Time, which was 20 Fourteen?

582

: 00:24:17

Jerome: Thirteen?

583

: 00:24:18

I think it was twenty thirteen.

584

: 00:24:18

Chris: I can't remember.

585

: 00:24:19

Maybe.

586

: 00:24:20

Don't, don't quote us on the dates.

587

: 00:24:22

Jerome: We got it right on the show.

588

: 00:24:24

Chris: Couple of, uh,

time story, love themed,

589

: 00:24:28

Jerome: time travel.

590

: 00:24:28

Yeah, time travel, yeah, yeah.

591

: 00:24:31

Chris: And I'm proud of the

beer I got for that, so.

592

: 00:24:34

I'll let, uh, I'll let

myself tell it, uh, when you

593

: 00:24:37

listen to the show.

594

: 00:24:37

Jerome: Yes, when you listen to the show.

595

: 00:24:39

So, uh, when you guys listen to

this, we're probably going to

596

: 00:24:41

air this in a couple of days.

597

: 00:24:43

Um, it is literally, by the

time you hear it, it's a week

598

: 00:24:47

after the NFC, AFC title games.

599

: 00:24:50

The Super Bowl is a week away, and then

the Valentine's Special will be released.

600

: 00:24:54

Honor around the Super Bowl.

601

: 00:24:55

Yep.

602

: 00:24:55

And then we gotta get back to work

and start pumping out our Oscar shows.

603

: 00:24:59

We're gonna have a, probably what, a

string of maybe two or three months in

604

: 00:25:03

a row where we do just two Oscar movies.

605

: 00:25:04

Pretty much.

606

: 00:25:06

Yeah.

607

: 00:25:07

Excited about that.

608

: 00:25:07

We have a new thing this year.

609

: 00:25:09

We usually pair An Oscar film

from this year with something

610

: 00:25:13

that it pairs well in the past.

611

: 00:25:15

Those of you who've been with us since

the beginning, uh, when Sound of Metal

612

: 00:25:19

was up for Best Picture, we paired it

with Children of a Lesser God, which

613

: 00:25:22

was a Best Picture nominee in the 80s.

614

: 00:25:24

Uh, when Promising Young Woman was

up for Best Picture we paired it

615

: 00:25:29

with the Best Picture nominee Thelma

and Louise from the early 90s.

616

: 00:25:33

We had been doing that, that was

our shtick, but with 10 nominations,

617

: 00:25:37

my brother had the genius idea.

618

: 00:25:40

Why don't we pair these movies up with

other fucking movies from this year

619

: 00:25:44

so we can get through them faster.

620

: 00:25:46

And that's a good idea, so

we're gonna try to get 10.

621

: 00:25:49

nominees whittled down somehow

to two or three episodes.

622

: 00:25:52

We've run six of them right there.

623

: 00:25:55

Chris: I don't know how

we're going to, yeah.

624

: 00:25:57

I mean, we get 10 down

625

: 00:25:59

to five.

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: 00:26:00

Jerome: If we, if we, if we did

five months of Oscar movies, March,

627

: 00:26:05

April, May, June, July, we would

have all the Oscar best pictures.

628

: 00:26:10

Uh, I don't know if we want to do that.

629

: 00:26:11

I think we should just, uh,

Pick maybe our favorite six, And

630

: 00:26:14

that's three episodes right there.

631

: 00:26:16

Yeah, alright.

632

: 00:26:17

Sounds good.

633

: 00:26:18

We gotta watch them all

to know what six we like.

634

: 00:26:20

So we got a lot of watching to do.

635

: 00:26:21

Yeah, we still have to

do a lot of homework.

636

: 00:26:23

Alright, folks.

637

: 00:26:24

This was gonna be a quick one.

638

: 00:26:25

We just wanted to give you a

quick update On why we cried

639

: 00:26:28

ourselves to sleep on Sunday night.

640

: 00:26:30

And why there is optimism

on Tuesday morning.

641

: 00:26:33

Chris: So what do we always say?

642

: 00:26:34

Jerome: Keep drinking and keep watching.

643

: 00:26:36

Chris: Go support your local cinema.

644

: 00:26:38

Yeah, that too.

645

: 00:26:38

I always miss that part.