Ten Thousand Losses - Sirianni HCOTY

Episode Date: January 6, 2022

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. Go Bears, go Bears.. you gotta think the fanatic's gonna go down to her and give her a bunch of hot dogs or the snowball starting to come they'll boo us but they won't let anybody else boo us Hello and welcome to a very morose episode of 10,000 Losses. Neither of us are having especially good weeks. There's no, well, there's your problem coming out this week due to some personal issues. I have. And Tom's just not in a good place. So we're coming from you from where Philly fans belong.

Yes. Depression, sadness. Sadness. Sadness. Emptiness, loss, belong. Yes. Depression. Sadness. Sadness. Sadness. Emptiness. Loss. Grief. Fuck.

All right. I am Liam Anderson. Oh, good. I forgot your name. Yeah. It's Liam. Liam the Clown. Pronouns he, him.

How about a yay Liam? That does cheer me a little okay all right uh I'm Tom my pronouns are also he him uh fuck all right yeah we apologize for uh for the moods we're in yeah uh I will say uh in terms of band you see that Kyrie's first game back is today uh no I didn't see that against the fuckingers, because the Nets have decided that, like, they're like, yeah, we're not going to let him play, except on away games, which is ridiculous. Well, they're backwalking their original, like,

he's not going to be part of the team. Yeah. And they backwalked that, and now it's only for away games. So he's going to rejoin the team in indiana tonight and i'm just like dude what a shameful way to run an organization yeah like i and and this is i'm sorry i know this is a pro labor pro uh of course player podcast but absolutely get fucked dude just get the vaccine it's fine, at some point, you're being paid a shit ton of money to just, like, be an obstinate little bitch. I'm like, just absolutely. I don't want to hear it.

Nobody wants to hear it. Get the fucking vaccine. Do your job. Yeah. Well, this is my understanding. You tell me if I'm misremembering it. It was that he was going to come back and then immediately got in covid protocols oh that's right i think you're right with the rest of his team um

so i think that happened too so it's fucking well the good news is we'll we'll talk about the net's new father yeah uh we are a lot Yeah. We are – A lot of new dads this week. A lot of new dads this week. This is a very northeast Philly, your Italian grandmother remarrying at 78 sort of situation. Yeah, you got to get – listen, you got to give him respect. He's just like your grandfather, you know. Grandfather. Oh.

I don't want to hear anything. grandfather, you know. Grandfather. Oh. I don't want to hear anything. I don't want to hear any back talk from you. I'm doing more of like a Delco accent. Yeah, I feel like Delco is the more natural home. I met him at the flyers bar, and we both had

the same calf tattoos. And then I was talking to Peggy down at the hairdressers and she said, oh, he's such a nice boy. Of course, everyone here is 65. Yeah, he's a nice boy. He really

arches his... What does he do? He starches his clan robe. That's how you know he's got it together. Jesus Christ. All right. Where were we? Banter.

Fuck. Yeah, so the banter. That was banter, I guess. There we go. We will be hopefully, assuming all systems are go, recording bonus episode two next week. You know him. You love him it's justin rosniak talking about uh ballparks i have a book on ballparks too my my uh my mom just serendipitously got me one for christmas and it's like oh we can have facts in this but i

we won't have slots no we we regret to inform Maybe I'll make a separate Google Doc and I'll just throw up. Because Roz will come prepared with slides. Okay. He's a very visual boy. Yeah. I mean, he really is like a – he was born a 40-year-old graduate assistant or something like that. Yeah, very cynical about education. Yeah, which you should be.

I'm very cynical about education right now. That's fair. Oh yeah, so also critical support to the Chicago Teachers Union. Oh, absolutely. It's not fucking safe, dude. It's, if I hear one more time

I don't understand why these teachers Won't think of the fucking children They are because they don't want them to get sick That's all we think about That's our job It is our life We think about the kids And if we think it's not safe

Then it's not safe And yes it is annoying And shitty that your kids are home The problem is that you don't have free fucking health care in this country or daycare. That is the issue. We're the issue that both parents have to work because we live in a shitty system where the rage hasn't risen in a billion fucking years. That is what you should direct your anger to, not to the teacher. Yeah, we get the summer off, but we also work, like, fucking 60-hour weeks.

So I don't want to hear any of your bitching. Yeah, I think that's fair. You can direct the bitching to me. I'll digest it and then give it to Tom. He can come to your house and take a swing at you. Which you deserve. My swing is modeled after Jim Tomey.

Oh, yeah. That's going to the second deck. Sing along, sweet chariot. Oh, there's an uppercut coming. Launch angle and velocity. Too high to count. Oh, fuck. I say this is what happens when you have no baseball to talk about.

Fuck. So voicemail. We did get something in the mail bag please continue to call in and leave voicemail fuck I'm saying us too much today

that's fine it does not matter it bothers me I'm sorry so see I did it again alright It's fine. It does not matter. It bothers me. I'm sorry. See, I did it again! Alright. So it says,

Hey, fellas. It's okay. It says, Hey, fellas. This is only tangentially related to sports. My brother-in-law won't shut the fuck up about how something's here to stay because Staples Stadium is not going to be called the Crypto Stadium or whatever. So the question is, how deep should he bury his brother's body?

Should he stick with a six foot, just a standard six footer, go lower or maybe do a shallow grave? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. And take care. That's the shit I needed to hear this week yeah alright so here's what you do is you're gonna get this is not legal advice disclaimer voice let's give him a six footer

I feel like you can't go wrong with the classics it's a standard for a reason it's good to prevent disease you don't want wrong with the classics. It's a standard for a reason. It's good to prevent disease. You know, you don't want to put it at the order table. Don't forget you are going to have to rip his teeth out. I'm done with records, baby. Hey, I'm editing this.

The actionable threats podcast. That's not actionable. Just saying if you want to hide a body and make sure it's not found by yanking his teeth out. That's not actionable. That's crazy. Yeah, because it's going to be a lot of work to yank teeth out.

They don't yank teeth out. Yeah, there's a reason it's like pulling teeth. It sucks. I had a student ask me today. I've never had to yank teeth out of a dead body. I feel like I can't clarify that enough. No, I haven't been anything near that. I have yanked teeth out of my own head.

What? Yeah. But, yeah. Sometimes I'm a squeamish boy. I had a student ask me once, could you actually, like, if you had, like, a big greatsword, could you actually bisect a person? And I'm pretty sure you couldn't. Like, I'm pretty sure cutting somebody in half requires more effort than you could just standing and swinging. Yeah, I feel like you couldn't.

I mean, unless they're real small. Yeah, like the spinal column, I don't think would. That's what I was thinking, the spinal column, I don't think would... That's what I was thinking. The spinal column, the rib cage. And also all the tendons and stuff. They're thick, yeah. Trying to cut someone half and realizing halfway through that they're a chunker. Yeah, I mean, it's...

Oh, I do want to talk about sort of how much it sucks that like all these teams, we talked about Josh Harris being a VC crypto weirdo. And the color world shit or color star. But like all this shit loads, crypto.com and the fucking Matt Damon ad, it's fortune favors the bold, not fortune favors the brave. Fucking learn Latin. It's, it's, It's so fucking annoying, and I'm just like, this is just such a it's not a positive scheme, but it is a grift and a rip-off. And like...

Yeah, I mean, it's just another way to distribute wealth to the people who got in on it first, and you're not one of them. Like... Yeah, no, at this point, you're getting... And I say this as someone who owned and sold Bitcoin back in the aughts so

it's i'm just glad my my i bought my video card before all this shit just drove the price up the fucking insanity this is the fucking worst i paid handsomely for this 37 day uh but yeah no it's it's i just as like this is while we're while we're banter i'm gonna circle back to circle back go back to banter here yes the thing that really i think i was talking to you about this but i was watching 6abc action news and in the sports section the sports section she had a fucking like draftkings.com ad yeah like like taking up like um like a part of the box and it was just like dude this is ridiculous i don't want to fucking watch all these gambling ads like as someone with like compulsion issues and like all that sort of stuff like i i really struggled like and i'm not a gambling man but like that for someone if you're

in recovery from gambling addiction you just can't watch sports, and that fucking sucks. So you weren't born a gambling man? No, my preference is for nicotine and alcohol. Yeah, born a gambling man, something, doing the best I can. I held up half-remembered lyrics. Well, you know what? If they can say Fortune favors the brave when it's al dente suatuna adiu

wat, which clearly means audacious, which means bold, I can half-remember lyrics. Yeah, that's fine. Unfortunately, neither of us are as handsome or as wealthy as Matt Damon, but you can change that by subscribing to the patron. Handsome?

I don't know. I think we could. Yeah, you're pretty handsome. We're all handsome. We're all handsome here. You listeners are handsome too. You're more handsome. You're the more handsome.

Some of you give us money, which is insane. Give us $1. Yeah, I think we're up to like $35. We love you. Yeah. All right. Let's talk about our boys, our heroic boys, also our new

dad, which is kind of crazy. Yeah, so it's like, you go, birds! Yeah, we're just in full shithead mode. My house, baby, yeah! We're blowing out the levels. Just

I read this through a noise gate, no worries. Just as the birds blew out well i guess they really really blow out the the slurs winning ugly is still winning baby yeah it took until the what midway through the third quarter to do it but yeah it was it was a compelling game throughout um did you speaking of the slurs excuse me the uh in the end zone there there was actually like a guy holding like a it said washington you know there and there was i'm like if you were actually care if if you cared about the changing the name they would have sent security to confiscate that banner right exactly uh so they really don't give a shit. No, I mean, I always thought, you know, because Dan Snyder really functionally, the only thing he understands is, like, heroic levels of greed.

I always thought they should change the name beyond it being offensive and shitty and tacky. Think of the new merch. Yeah. So much new merch. Yeah. I always liked there was someone made like it was like the washington caucasians yeah they fully did up the colors really offended by it that's hilarious how do you i i don't understand and maybe this is like why i'm not your stereotypical like dumb

philly i mean i'm dumb philly guy don't get me wrong but like not your river well you're not racist i'm not racist yeah like how you get mad that someone's mocking your own like like how like like how could you not have any sense of like like self-deprecation right you take it so seriously like i because i know i know people who are like that like i don't talk to them anymore, but I grew up with those people. Right. And it's just like, well, I think we need a White History Month. And it's just like, it's the rest of the fucking year. No awareness at all.

I just don't understand how you can go through your whole life with that level of total lack of awareness. I really don't. And I also grew up around those people. And just like the, you know, it's just, it's mind boggling. It really is. Well, it's like, I'm kind of reconnected with a friend over, over the last couple of days that I had kind of fallen away from. And they grew up in that river roared, you know, Port Richmond, Philly racism, which is, is, is you don't think you're racist. You generally don't, but you have these bigoted

beliefs, but you don't believe in an inherent... Because you think that you don't have an inherent superiority. You don't think the races have rankings. You're not racist. And they have this literal understanding of it, but they have prejudices or whatever. And it's not racist, right?

As we understand it right and i having talked to this person and being like like yo i realized that all this shit i believe was like familial and then reinforced by the people in the neighborhood because we all went we went to the same schools right and so i i had a different trajectory because it wasn't reinforced at home i I didn't have racist shit at home. Right. And same. No, I grew up in a very red area.

I grew up in beautiful York County, Pennsylvania. Highest per capita number of hate groups at a number of years running. And yeah, I was very lucky in like that shit was not reinforced at home that my parents were militantly anti-racist militantly you know yeah anti-classist and uh i i you know it's it's hard because like you and i will both come to the defense of those areas but it's like it's it's fucking sometimes it's just like god damn it like i don't want to fucking be here well it's like it's it's fucking sometimes it's just like god damn it like i don't want to fucking be here well it's like the critical support thing like places are unfairly like people come to these conclusions like oh oh well look they get welfare and all this kind of shit

and it's and it's so do you don't worry about it but so do you you can apply for it uh you know they're not getting it any easier than you are. You're just not on it. Or you're not eligible for it. I guess it's a lack of perspective, I should say. I think that's a good way to phrase it, yeah. Any reasonable person will change at least a little bit their views if they actually encounter perspective. Well, that's how you have like, I have a black friend and they're not like that.

People will make that cognitive dissonance where they make the exception for that one person they know. You just have to go that step further and just generalize it. Right. Well, this has been your two white guys talking about race.

Shit. Yep. We're doing doing great yeah doing good everybody everybody if if one of my comrades who's of color listens to me please yell at me if i said something wrong yeah we we do i get i listen he does actually can confirm yeah well the other white guy said leaping into his defense well my favorite meme in the world is the mlk it's like the it's like a field of cotton and there's like a black kid whipping a white kid who's picking the cotton and it's just mlk smiling up yes and i was like yep that's that i want to i want to see that uh if if sherman was allowed to do what he you know started critical support for sherman when he's burning down uh the south not critical support for him when he's doing that yeah doing the uh the genocide is bad i have his memoirs as an audiobook right now uh i got it from audible

and uh it's it's like 35 hours long and i'm just like nope i owe it i owe it yeah oh his memoirs are well written he was a really intelligent guy it's so funny because the criticism of it is just like you know this is a little too dense and i'm just like yeah it's it's yeah i know like that's why i like it yeah he's like incredibly specific in recounting everything uh that was that's that's you know grants memoirs too are good if you if anyone hasn't read those regrants memoirs are good they're they're interesting or don't i don't care he does he's like uh all right right, let's actually talk about the Eagles. So, yeah, we have playoffs. We have the whole team.

Allegedly has COVID. And this goes to the playoffs because we've clinched the playoff spot. We're going to the wild card game. As the seventh seed. As the seventh seed. And now I'm going to ask you because you're better with the whole playoff format than i am yeah is there is there any possibility of us improving our seed uh as far as i know yes okay i wonder if like beating dallas would would yeah i mean

that's that's sort of i'm actually looking at the at the playoff bracket right now so we're sitting pretty at the seventh seed we're tied with the Niners so right now if as it stands today we'd have to go to LA uh but if we improve and and take over the sixth seed we can only get as high as the sixth seed. Okay. But if we take that over, we then have to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Tampa. Oh. Tom Brady's not losing that fucking game.

No, no, thanks. I don't – no. No, I don't need that. And there have been people who have won WIP advocating for the, oh, yeah, we want – all right, I got to do the right voice. Yeah, we really want to play Tom Brady. Oh, yeah, bring him on. It's a no, you don't.

No, you don't. Not at all. You don't want to lose the first round of playoffs. No, you stand a much better chance. I mean, I sort of think if the calculus is like, okay, well, the Bucs are all hurt, which they are. They're all hurt. Maybe you take that. I mean, the Rams are playing as well as anybody.

They're a bit inconsistent, but gun to my head, I hate to say this, I would take a very injured Tampa team right now. And I know that saying that, Tom Brady's going to throw for 590 yards. Yeah. Gronk's going to have six touchdowns. Gronk is physically going to get stuffed Jalen Hurts into a trash can. Like, bad shit will happen. Like, yeah, Tom Brady's going to invent, like, he's going to figure out how to apply the slider to football,

and it's going to curve around defenders yeah i would i mean the thing is though that like it's all going to change based on how the rams bucks and cowboys do yeah uh this coming week uh i'm just yeah like i said we're the seventh seed i i wouldn't mind like i think we'll probably try probably try and convince Corinne to go to the wild card game if it's in LA. Oh, wow. Because, like, you know, either, like, that's not a stadium where I feel like my life is threatened. Although Tampa's a much shorter flight, I will say that. Yeah, I mean, yeah, because a lot of a lot of in la you like the

fans are not they're transient yeah yeah i mean there'll be a lot of eagles fans there you definitely would be in better climbs and even though the tampa bay is close there are a lot and there are a lot of birds fans that move to florida yeah i will say i think the likely scenario because the niners are playing the rams week 18 um i i don't think it's impossible basically that the brit try and gun for the number one seed in the buy play all their starters niners lose slip below us we move up to the sixth seed and we get tampa bay i think it's actually more realistic that we move up and get tampa than anything else i uh yeah um it definitely tom brady is definitely like like giving me trepidation yeah no i mean as well he should i mean the guy you know for many years obviously was a patri quarterback. I have a deep amount of respect for Tom Brady.

There is not a gun to my head right now. I cannot emphasize that enough. Yeah, the gun that was to your head the last podcast. Yeah. It's tough, man. I mean, yeah, it's a best or, or you know pick pick the what the fuck is that metaphor you know it's lesser two evils i guess there you go yeah it's i just i'd like i don't really give a shit about the rams one way or the other like cronky is obviously one of the most

devilish bastards in the world but i don't really really... Like, I don't harbor hatred for, like, Matt Stafford in my heart. No. The way that as a spurned Patriots fan, I know that he had every right to do whatever choice he wanted to make, but, like, there is an intense and burning hatred in my heart for Tom Brady. As a spurned one out. I don't... I don't like the guy.

I definitely don't have a burning hatred that some people do. Sure. But, yeah, I... Fuck. It just gives me sort of an eh feeling having that be the first round. Oh, yeah. I mean, the playoffs aren't easy regardless, but just having that be like Jalen Hurts' first playoffs or –

I mean, that's a tough way to go. Or alternatively, you know, thinking of it like Jason Kelsey's last playoffs. Right. But the Eagles have pulled miracles out of their asses. Yeah. I mean, this is something I feel absolutely absurd saying is that Sirianni is looking at coach of the year, depending how far they go. No one was expecting.

I mean, I thought that we were going to have a winning record. I didn't think that we were. I thought we were like an outsider to make the playoffs. A lot of people were not saying that this is a playoff team. But I don't know. They have jelled a lot. There's been a lot of team building. You know, they're an interesting team.

It's just how long can they sort of hold it together has sort of been my problem it's like how long can this really last yeah the the the concern too it's like the running game works but there's a reason the nfl is a passing league and what's what's there to be exploited, especially in the playoffs when there's a high level of play. I don't know. It's all speculation. As far as I know, also statistically,

the Bucs have the best running defense in the NFL. Yeah. I think I'm correct in saying that. That sounds right to me. That's not great. I don't want to run against a bucks defense you know down whoever and i think like if the if the corners can if if like slay can step up on cooper cup it's feasible you can hold the rams But, like, I just – regardless of how I feel, I'm never going to feel comfortable saying bet against Brady.

I just think we've learned you just don't know it. Yeah. I don't feel confident going into a shootout with Brady. Right. No, you shouldn't. I just don't. And he's proven himself again and again, and that's scary. But, yeah, I guess that's a playoff picture.

I don't know if there's – where is the Super Bowl this year? I want to say Arizona. What are we on, 54? 55? I think we're past 55. Are we past 55? We just had 55. That's what I thought.

So it'll be at the new Rams stadium. Oh, okay. So LA. Yeah. Ah, fuck. It would be very funny for the Eagles to do what they did to the Vikings. Oh, that would be very funny, actually. to do what they do to the Vikings. Oh, that would be very funny actually.

And knock them out of their own stadium. What's, what's this? Uh, I Googled it and it said, uh, Superbowl, uh, 56 replacement venues.

Wonder whether it'd be backup. Oh, explores contingency sites because of a COVID spike. That makes sense. Um, yeah, we all have COVID now. We're all dead. Yeah.

And I think that's a good enough segue. So, like, half the team has COVID. Like, all the running backs have COVID. Everyone has COVID, yes. Half the line has COVID. Supposedly has COVID. Supposedly has COVID. All right, man.

So, the conspiracy theory is... What's the conspiracy here? That the Eagles are lying about them having COVID so that they can arrest them. You could just arrest them without lying. Yeah, I know. But I think I would be happier

if they were lying. I think it would be funny if you lied about the entire O-Line having COVID. Yeah, because if the O-line has COVID, we're going home. Yeah. We are scoring zero points and dying. Although I would very much like to tackle a Dallas Cowboy. Yeah.

We will be in a guard zeke elliott would like break my neck with a stiff arm and i'm not a weak guy but i was thinking about uh oh god uh derrick henry is coming back for the titans and i just like having seen seen him play, I'm just like, dude, how does anyone survive tackling this man? I don't know. That's like Jordan Howard, my boy. Yeah. It's just like, how do you survive?

How? How? It's like the inside. All right. This was an ADHD logic leap. I apologize. I was just thinking of running backs I like. I started thinking of running backs I like. And I was like, inside of you are two wolves.

And one wolf is Jordan Howard. One wolf is Boston Scott. Because I like the big boy plowing forward, but I also like the 5'5 guy running underneath. It's just like, I'm just going to avoid everyone. Yeah. I like the hobbit playing football with the orcs. Boston Scott as Baby Yoda. So, yeah, so the whole team has COVID.

I guess not Sirianni because he's immune now. Good for him. So I guess that could lead us into jalen hertz is now our dad he is everyone's dad uh congratulations to him yeah 4.6 million new children mr hertz uh i have a lot of student loans yeah i also have some some student loans so if you could get on that and yeah that would be great. I will literally be in your entourage. I'll be your hype guy.

I'll hold stuff. I'll give people the Kensington Mean Mug. He's such a nice dude. I can't imagine him needing that kind of entourage.

He seems like the kind of guy who calls his grandma like not just his mom but he calls his grandma and he makes and he makes sure that like you know if it's going to snow he's going to drive down and oh yeah and and shovel the style her walk yeah make sure she has groceries he is absolutely a class act. We should talk about what we're talking about. Yes. A, Jalen Hurts won and the Washington football team lost. Good. But at Washington football, at the worst stadium in the NFL, I feel very confident in saying that, FedEx Field.

Oh, absolutely. It is a hellscape upon the earth. There was fencing. It was an ADA stand. In quotes, fencing. Well, it was an ADA stand. In quotes, fencing. Well, it was an ADA stand that Washington is claiming, well, it was never supposed to be used as a railing, but then why is it in a position to be a railing?

Right. It collapsed. Eagles fans basically fell to the ground from a distance of about 10 feet. Washington claims that they were offered medical attention eagles fans dispute this i genuinely i have no reason to believe knowing what i know about fedex field of the washington football team that they were ever offered medical attention i i i just don't believe that um i i believe that yeah yeah i don't believe that for a second. Whatever the Eagles line is or Jalen Hurts' line is, I think is correct. Oh, for sure.

Dan Snyder does not cultivate an organization that cares about anything other than money. No. There is zero reason to believe that the Washington football team is credible in this regard. Truly, truly. I'm not saying that even with the perspective of an Eagles fan. I'm saying that knowing what we know about Dan Sider, the guy is, again, probably the worst owner in the NFL in terms of just sheer naked greed. Yeah, as far as greed goes, yeah.

Jerry Jones is the worst, and he's number two overall. Yeah, all right. I'll buy that. Yeah, but it's a close ranking. He's really 1.1. Right. He's just an awful dude. Man, and that stadium

is not that old. No. They want a new one. Of course they do. Of course they do, yeah. It holds almost 90,000 or 80,000. Jesus Christ. That's like a college football stadium. It's like half a Kyle Field. Jesus.

So the collapsing stand, and if you go on Twitter and look it up, Jalen Hurts was there. They very nearly takes him out. Very nearly gets taken out, and he gets everybody up. He helps the people. And the people he's helping up are so excited to be, like, touching Jalen Hurts. They're like, oh, my broken leg, like, touching Jalen Hurts. They're like, oh, my broken leg. Let me give Jalen Hurts a hug.

And, you know, yeah, he's very cool. But his letter to the football team is absolutely, like, oh, my God. And I had it pulled up and I accidentally closed it. Hurts' letter to the football team. Cause I, I, I want to read it. Go for it. Cause it's really good.

And I am a Joe. I am a unabashed, you know, Jalen Hertz apologist. I have been this entire podcast, which has been through most of his tenure. Hold on. Let me actually find

out twitter sure because because uh all these fucking websites are like oh here's your here's your link and it doesn't it just quotes it yes uh because i have to go to his twitter or your own i suppose well i retweeted it on the podcast account so let's go let's go uh i don't like dead air so i'm gonna talk during it all right here we go so uh so this is jalen hurts remember this is a guy he finished his degree right he's he's he's an intelligent area he's a smart guy like i wish i was his dad yeah well he is our dad which is our dad and i'm and i'm proud that he's my dad but i wish i was his dad.

Oh, yeah. No, I understand. Because I'd be like, what a young man I raised. What a gentleman. What a mensch. Yeah. Yes. And as a certified mensch, I am certified.

Did I say that on this podcast before? No, you haven't. But I know this stuff. Yeah, go on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. i am a certified mensch because the jewish grandma called me one so that's where i stand and i will never be letting go of that uh i i can also state that i i can't claim jalen hurts as a mensch but i can recognize it he sure seems like one i understand it so here we go to whom it may concern excellent i am i like

how he phrases like this is like a cover letter. Yeah. I'm writing to inquire about what follow-up action is being considered in response to the near tragic incident that took place at FedEx Field on January 2nd, 2022. He remembered what year it was because I haven't remembered yet. As you are aware, many individuals, including fans, media personnel, and myself,

were placed in a dangerous situation when portions of the FedEx field tunnel collapsed. He also capitalized FedEx field. Like, he got the, I'm chef's kissing there. Yes, that's right. Although I was able to prevent the barrier from crashing onto me, that was not the same for others who could be suffering from lingering injuries. Through the initial shock, my first reaction was to assist those involved. However, while I displayed a calm composure, I understood the severity of what happened and am extremely concerned for the well-being of the fans and media.

That Jalen here is demonstrating that he's a sheepdog. Yes. That's actual sheepdog. This is the mindset that sheepdogs wish they had. If you call yourself a sheepdog, you don't actually have this mindset because all you can think about is yourself. This is the actual, like, I care about other people mindset. Yeah, so Jalen Hurts, join the Coast Guard.

Yeah, please. As a result, I would like to know what safeguards the NFL and the Washington football team are implementing to prevent this from ever occurring in the future. The resources of the NFL and team organizations assure our safety through playing this physical sport. Eh.

But I see what you put in there. You gotta say it. Compliment sandwich. But what happened on Sunday put both fans and players unnecessarily at risk long after the final whistle. I look forward to hearing from you on this matter. Sincerely, your father, Jalen Hurts. So the man can write a letter.

I would not have wanted to be on the receiving end of that. I'll tell you. No, that is, if you got that letter from your boss, you're like, Oh fuck. I'm fucked. Yeah. I'm fucked.

I'm going to get fired. That is. Yeah. I'm fucked. Yeah. Or I'm losing this client or whatever. So, I mean,

I, I don't want else to say after that, like, like he's completely in the, in, in the correct. He's, and this is,

this is now solidifying him as Philly legend. Oh yeah, absolutely. Because he's completely in the in the correct he's and this is this is now solidifying him as philly legend oh yeah absolutely because he's shitting on a rival a rival that's racist and he's doing so in a very like not like stereotypical philly way yeah he's not he's not he's not cursing him out or anything like that it I was on the NFL Reddit, which is a mistake. Don't go on Reddit. Everyone was actually very, very pleased with his response. You dial down into the comment threads and you see Philly fans coming in. It's like, I don't think this man's ever cursed in his life, which I doubt.

It's going to come out that he hates cheese steaks and everyone's gonna get mad but it's gonna end up it's like well i don't like cheese sticks but i like the roast pork sandwich with the with the sharp provolone and the broccoli ralph yeah all right all right no that's valid that's valid uh actually that is the better sandwich disagree but i respect your opinion oh yeah i don't know what your opinions are on pork. No, it has nothing to do with that. I like bacon. I just don't really like roast pork.

Oh, okay. I definitely prefer a cheesesteak. I love cheesesteaks, but I think the... Oh, really? Like what we do? Unless they're from Wawa. I mean, listen. No.

Wawa cheese sticks. No. I've had to do it before. You know how it is. Sometimes you need it. Sometimes you need soakage. The chicken cheese sticks are actually better. Jesus Christ. This is fucking hyperbolic.

We're a Philly sports podcast. All right, all right. You know, well, there's your problem. Not well-aged problem. Of course you know that podcast. You're on it. Yes. The Hell of a Way to Die podcast.

They have dad chat and actually notes. They put where the dad chat is. We might actually have to start. This is where the Philly chat stops. Fuck them. Yeah. Fuck you, listener. you listener yeah yeah you're listening to this for a reason and you want to know and yeah so anyway don't get a wawa cheesesteak unless you need to and then it's yeah if it's 2 a.m we get it we get it oh absolutely uh the chicken

cheesesteak's better but uh but the roast pork sandwich i think is uh i think that's as a culinary create creation i think it's more balanced. Yeah. You know, speaking as an asshole. Do you want to move on to some other NFL news? Talk about Antonio Brown. Speaking of the Tampa Bay fucking ears. This dude needs help, man.

I feel this sucks. Like, it sucks to watch a dude who you know is immensely talented. Insanely talented. Generational talent. Generational talent just shoot himself in the foot over and over and over again. This and the fake COVID vaccine. The federal crime.

The federal crime. The sexual assault allegations. Yeah. The throwing things at the chef thing. there's a whole bunch of them yeah it's just this dude is clearly in need of help it doesn't and he's surrounded by enablers and he's surrounded by enablers that's completely correct and then like he's oh he's at the nets game like nothing is wrong and it's like the dude you know like well well i want to i want to say for one second because

we did not subscribe to the enabler like the the addiction theory of enabler right we're not talking about that antonio brown has mental health issues clearly i mean as two dudes with mental health yes we can see it yeah he's he's and he needs help and he's surrounded by enablers in the sense of people who are hangers-on who who are interested in being entourage-type. Yes. Or yes-men. I don't mean it in people who are like, oh, I guess I'll go to Kensington-Somerset and buy heroin. That's not what we mean.

That's right. Exactly. Because that theory, that theory of addiction is bullshit. Go listen to Citation's Needed podcast. They break it down. Or just say it in front of my face and I'll punch you. Yeah. And also my mom will punch you.

Yeah, because that's how addiction works. But yeah, he's clearly someone with mental health issues. I don't know what they are. We're not going to – I'm just speculating on that right. But you – I don't – I mean people are speculating on what triggered it. He didn't get enough catches. He didn't get enough catches. He didn't get enough looks.

And he took everything but his pants off. Right. Threw his pads into the stands, right? Yep. I believe. And then he threw his jersey on the ground. And the fans are cheering on. Meanwhile, his team is on offense.

Yeah. When do you want the crowd to be quiet? And then walks off the field. And it's a shitty situation. And you're playing the Jets too, which is like... All the teams have a total meltdown against. Yeah. I don't want to call it a temper tantrum i i don't know what it is it felt like you know as as i don't want to obviously i'm not going to speculate as like beyond the bare minimum but like having done irrational weird things when i've been very

unwell i was like this feels like a manic outburst or just like what like a full-scale mental break like yeah and you're in a incredibly high pressure environment where no one gives a shit about your mental health issues uh in an environment they make fun of you yeah right when people still say like just gotta toughen up rub some dirt in it or whatever, no matter how much progress we've made, I'm hopeful that Lane Johnson or someone else who's been very public in their struggles reaches out.

I hope he gets the help he clearly needs. And I'm so tired of ESPN fucking playing armchair psychiatrist. Yeah, I mean, there's a reason that like licensed psychiatrists or psychologists don't really comment like they don't aren't here diagnosed for a reason right exactly and when when trump was president uh we're saying this in the trump interregnum before he's president again yeah he will be yeah uh the the you know you had actual like psychologists are like yeah i'm

not going to diagnose him with narcissism i mean he exhibits signs of it right so he exhibits signs of things like and i'm not calling antonio brown a narcissist right um yeah i think he's got something more more um uh not on the personality side but more of the what is reality side. Yeah, that would be my inclination as well. As somebody who has trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality. Well, you know what? Maybe he was on that 30 minutes of treadmill day. Yeah.

If you don't know what we're talking about, go check my Twitter. Yes. Where I'm very mad yeah and I'm not trying to do a retweet Twitter thing if you happen to not think ADHD is real if 30 minutes a day

would solve how norepinephrine is processed in my brain and dopamine reward stimulus complex happens then I would just literally go 30 minutes walk 30 minutes every day then I would just, I would, I would literally go 30 minutes every, oh, don't walk 30 minutes every day.

Right. And I would not need to be on like stimulant drugs where I remember when I was prescribed them first time, I'm like, does he, do these have like longterm, like, can I be on this for the rest of my life?

And my psychiatrist is like, uh, maybe I'm not sure. It hasn't been used long enough for me to really tell you if this is gonna kill you or not so um yeah it's very comforting but but yeah the um the dude needs help um don't don't speculate don't be an asshole about it uh i mean he's also an asshole yeah like like you know personally your mental health doesn't excuse you being an asshole. No, it can only contextualize it.

Yeah, exactly. Well, that's a good way of putting it. Yeah. It's like you're watching, like, I feel bad. I cringe not because, I cringe at the people who are, like, cheering him on. Oh, sure. Because it's clearly, like, something, and you're just cheering it on, and you're exacerbating it.

Yeah, it's fucked. It is absolutely fucked. We want to move on to the Temple Owls, who beat Delaware State, and then, if I recall correctly, got rolled by Houston. It was a roll, I believe. It was like 60 to 40, if I recall correctly, got rolled by Houston. It was a roll, I believe. It was like 60 to 40, if I recall correctly. Although Houston is also, what, the number 12 team in the country? Yeah, it's not a shame.

And we're playing UCF again tonight. Florida. Or how do you say it? We lost Florida. No, we only lost by five, dude. Who am I thinking of that we lost by a lot? Someone bad. Probably.

We don't lose to a good team. That's Philadelphia curse. Temple basketball. Let's see. Fuck you. Nova's still postponed. Is it really? Yeah.

Hopefully that could be something we could go to. But we beat Delaware State 85-48. Maybe that's what I was thinking. Oh, we lost to UCF 65-48. Yeah. That's what I was thinking of. So revenge tonight. One hopes.

And then we play East Carolina. Was that Saturday? Yeah yeah and then we've got tulsa wichita state that'll be a good game i mean we're gonna get our asses handed to us but uh we're at seven and six tenth of the conference it's going pretty bad yeah uh we haven't played uh drex yet either. That was also postponed. Wow, the American is a bad conference now. Yeah. Shit, that also reminds me because I was looking at the schedule.

Cincinnati, both the northern teams lost. Yeah. This is college football. Oh, fucking horrible, dude. The fuck? Really? It was miserable to watch we can't pull one out for good old sherman for good old grant we can't for we can't pull one out against the south really i mean i i will say like obviously i fucking hate michigan but whatever like fucking georgia Like, fucking Georgia is, you know, Georgia got their doors blown off by Alabama 41-24 in the SEC Championship.

But besides that game, Georgia's been on a whole other level this season. Oh, they're a phenomenal team. And, like, I wasn't expecting Cincinnati to win or even do much. You know, but Cincinnati did not look like the team that was out of place in the college football playoff. The number four group of five team kind of sneaking in versus the supposed number two in the country losing by 23. Not a specially close game to Georgia. Like, Cincinnati, it looks like they belonged a lot more than Michigan did.

And considering how much Alabama, like, you look at their scores, I mean, they're blowing out SEC opponents by more. Like, they beat Tennessee by 28. They beat the University of Mississippi by 21. They beat, you know, the then number 14 Miami Hurricanes 44-13. Cincinnati gave them at least a fight, if nothing else. It's just, you know, the Iron Brigade, one of the most talented at regimental, uh, regiments in the, uh, I got one brigade, not a regiment.

Uh, one of the most taught at units in the American civil war made out of Michiganders and, uh, what's, what's the other, uh, Wisconsin's and Indianans. And you're going to betray that legacy by losing to fucking Georgia? Were you guys burnt that shit out? Like, what the fuck, guys? Like, come on. Actually, I don't think the Iron Brigade was on the – The March to the Safe. Yeah, they were the Overland Campaign.

But they were at Gettysburg. And, you know, I think you need to take some inspiration. Maybe not let the South beat you. I mean, this is, I don't know. That was embarrassing. That was embarrassing. Yeah. We managed to find our way back to football.

Talk about the Sixers as well. Yes. The Sixers seem to have found their stride. Found their groove, yeah. Joel Embiid had his third career triple-double. Besides that, absolutely garish loss to the Hawks. And that loss was a very regrettable loss. It was not a necessary loss.

It was... We were playing... Maybe we talked about this in the last episode. But yeah, they didn't have Trae Young. Right. So we lost to Scrubs. I think we did talk about this. I think we did as well, but yeah, we lost to Scrubs.

But since then, four straight, and good wins. Good wins. I would say, there's there's cause for concern uh beating a raptors team that was basically made of corpses uh only by five is not great but winning against the nets who are the perennial eastern conference like favorites is impressive beating up on Durant. Right. Beating up on the Rockets and the Wizards by 20 each is awesome. Good teams should thrash bad teams. I just need to see the Sixers do more thrashing.

Yeah. I mean, we're playing the fucking Magic tonight, so there should be – There should be some thrashing. You do not let the Magic – you should beat them by 20-point margin regardless. Right. They're the worst team in the NBA. They're 7-31. Yeah. You should be winning those games by 40.

So with the win against the Nets because fuck the Nets, that just sounds like fuck the Mets, which also fuck them too. Fuck the Nets. And the Nets. So tell me if my recollection is correct. Kevin Durant at one point told Embiid to go home. Yeah, and then Embiid said you go home,

basically. Yeah, you go home and Kevin Durant's arena, which is funny as hell. We talked about Embiid's trollishness trollishness i do love it yeah it's just yeah our my perspective has always been you just have to be able to back it up guy yeah and you know he's the king he's the i mean doesn't always take it the best but um yell and go home at Durant

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I was going to say I didn't have a father who was a professor. No, mine just taught at York College and didn't grade oh hell yeah grading sucks he was just like listen either you're gonna pass or fail this so vibes based

grading is my favorite form of grading yeah either you know it or you don't whatever man at the high school level you have to have numbers to back up so why did I fail? so you didn't do your fucking homework that will do it

you actually passed everything you did in class so yeah, so Embiid owns the Nets Embiid is also the Nets dad good for him we're happy to see it. Dude deserves all the happiness in the world. We're very proud of him and his 20 new children. Yep.

Kevin Durant can suck my ass. Well, he can't because bending down, he'd hurt his knee. Yeah, he would just snap it right in half. There goes that reconstructed ligament. I think it was the ACL thing. It was, yeah. All right, what have we got? We got Flyers. Which I didn't watch any of the games because they're out west.

Everyone's dead. They're all dead. They beat the Kraken, but three straight losses. And the Kraken are a trash heap. There were no Flyers, though. We didn't have Carter Hart. We didn't have... I don't think...

I think Drew was out, too, right? I think everyone was out. All the starters were out. Everyone's dead. Yeah. They have a lot to figure out, I think. But we knew that sort of going into the season that, as I said, as I maintain,

like, you basically you keep drew around you keep kim atkinson around and everyone else gets traded fuck it sorry like this team is not going to win the stanley cup is currently constructed everyone's dead um which is not their fault but everyone is dead i i have half a mind to call into like wip and get like really deep into a conversation that just suddenly boasts like, we're just going to bring Eric Lindros, Dejardin,

all these old guys out of retirement so they can show the young boys how it's played. Who was the other fucking guy when I was growing up that was the shit? Fuck. It was like shit? Uh, fuck. It was like that really good, that starting line. It was Lindros, Gagne, and was it

Dejardin? I think so. I think so. They were like, they were fucking just destructive monsters. Yeah. Yeah. Are you talking about the Legion of Doom? Yes, that's what it's called. Oh, Lindros Leclerc and Remberg.

Oh, Remberg, okay. Yeah. Yeah, John Leclerc too. Oh, man. John Leclerc, man, he, dude. First American born to score 50 goals in three seasons consecutively. Rick Tockett, Donald Brashear. I'm just going to say flyer players I remember from when I was into hockey.

Also, Donald Brashear. I love Eric Ledros. Goofy looking dude. But, you know, his number is a little problematic. Yeah. And then Donald Brashearar which is like man if you read about his life holy shit like yeah what if what i mean he's he's a jerk but he's a product of just shit and being shit on and racism and shit like that too like yeah that's fuck now i'm

depressed again. I don't know. Anything else on the Flyers? I didn't watch any of the last three games because I'm not staying up to 10 to watch them lose. You don't need to. I think they're playing what tomorrow? I think so. Let's find out.

No, well, they play the Pens tomorrow. Yeah, that's who. Yeah, I I knew there was a rivalry game coming up. Yeah, that's going to be ugly. I'll probably watch that, though. No, that's worth watching. Watch them shit in their own mouths. And then they go, oh, Jesus. They're at home against San Jose and Carolina.

And then they're at my beloved Boston Bruins on January 13th. My beloved Boston Bruins who are finally starting to get it together. Maybe. Who knows? Hopefully the Flyers can secure that. Shut up. You're not in this room anymore. You can't make me.

Although you have the login to the podcast so yes exactly thank you it's just you're just going to delete my track and just it's all from here on down oops all lambs oops all uh all right uh how do we do it on the phillies just coming up on an hour what does round hour look at us uh there haven't been any talks, literally any talks since the last podcast. Apparently the big issue is the competitive balance tax threshold, which is like the soft salary cap. Right. And there literally have not even scheduled talks.

Oh, no. Oh, really? Yeah. So it's fucking killing me. can't i can't imagine being a philly's beat guy right now like like where you have to come up with content every day good news all right we're gonna what are you gonna talk about all right we're just gonna work backwards from 100 let's do this i saw i saw today it was what if the philly signed the free agents we wanted them to sign and then we were going to simulate it in out-of-the-park baseball.

What else do you do? That's fine. They already did all the free agents we want this year. They already did who we should have drafted. Like, what the fuck else is there? Right. Yeah. Fuck.

Let's do the joke and then get out of here because I have to pay. Fuck. Let's do the joke and then get out of here because I have to pay. Yes. I guess you're going to ask me the joke. What has 20 legs and 3 teeth? The front row of fans watching the Father Judge football game. Oh, I thought that was going to be

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