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July 3rd, 2024. I'm

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John Paul Flame joined by Eric Bickle. Morning.

1:15

Morning and Johnny Cakes-Saulville.

1:18

Not only is it a Wednesday, JP,

1:20

by my calendar, it's the first Wednesday

1:22

of the month. That means the Cakes

1:24

Classic is going down tonight at MGM

1:26

National Harbor in roughly 13 hours. Big

1:29

night. So I'd love to see all the

1:31

degenerates that aren't traveling for July 4th. Stop

1:34

by MGM National Harbor. See some flops. Any

1:36

guest bounties this week? You're

1:38

looking at them. You're right. All right.

1:41

Gotcha. I am the only guest

1:43

bounty on the roster. Couldn't get Juliet in there.

1:45

Nope. People's gunning for you. This is it right

1:48

here. Right. You want to score

1:50

an extra big bounty? I'm your guy. Look for

1:52

the guy with the Iron Maiden t-shirt. Well, I'll

1:54

probably change before the event tonight. But yeah, I

1:56

might be wearing something along those lines. So tonight, 7

1:58

15. Love the Don't

2:00

you have over 20 Iron Maiden t-shirts? So there's

2:02

a good chance you're gonna change from one into another. It's

2:04

probably 25 to 30 at this point. You

2:07

can never have enough JP. You can never have too

2:09

many. Are they all black? The

2:11

majority of them are black. I'd say out

2:13

of the... Let's just round it up to 30.

2:17

Out of the 30-ish, probably

2:19

28 are black. I

2:22

don't think I own 30 t-shirts. Oh,

2:24

I definitely... I own way more

2:26

than 30 t-shirts. Where

2:29

do you put them? My closet,

2:32

chests of drawers, wherever I can fit them.

2:34

Now I weed them out and get rid

2:36

of the old nubbers. Shrunken

2:39

cotton nubbers don't fit anymore. Yeah,

2:42

but these Iron Maiden's are all cotton. They're

2:44

like... If you

2:46

get a Rockstar t-shirt or whatever, like a

2:48

concert tee, they're like

2:50

the old cheap cotton, right? They don't

2:52

make those modern and silly. No, they

2:54

don't make them moisture wicking. It's tradition.

2:57

If you buy a concert t-shirt, they're almost

3:00

always 100% cotton. Awful.

3:03

So they're like $2 t-shirts that they sell for like $50. Yeah,

3:05

$40 or $50 depending

3:07

on what show you're going to. When

3:09

you have 30 Iron Maiden t-shirts, what

3:12

made you choose that one today? I

3:15

didn't have it. Just because they didn't have it. It

3:17

was clean. It wasn't completely

3:19

rank-up. Well, I'm assuming at least 27 of

3:21

them were clean. So if

3:23

you go, do you actually look through them and

3:25

go, I like this logo today. I might say,

3:27

hey, you know what? I like this mid 80s

3:30

power slave Egyptian motif.

3:32

So that's what I'm going with. Is that the name

3:34

of an album? It is. That is correct. Yes. Yeah.

3:38

So now you know. By the way, speaking

3:40

of concerts, we're completely slow playing

3:43

the fact that JP and I

3:45

will be helping to intro the bands at

3:47

Nova Nights at Wolf Trap this

3:50

July 4th weekend on Sunday.

3:52

If you're heading out there, say hello.

3:55

Don't boo us when we go up on stage and do

3:57

our our snappy rep parte. for

3:59

15 or 20 seconds before we

4:01

intro the bands. Don't throw around tomatoes

4:04

at us. We've learned to get on stage, get up, get

4:06

out. Get in and get out. We know

4:08

why the people are there. They're not there

4:10

to see us. We will go

4:12

up, we'll introduce ourselves, and then we will

4:14

turn it over to the real stars of

4:17

the night. Are you ready for some great

4:19

music? Yeah, I mean, I mean,

4:21

I've been swimming. Our stick is timeless and it's easy. It

4:26

actually couldn't be any easier. Yeah, for sure. Well,

4:28

I'll tell you what will be easier. We'll be

4:30

sleeping in these next few days. That's

4:32

certainly the easiest thing to do. I

4:34

am so excited to sleep in. Why

4:36

are you so particularly exhausted, it seems

4:38

like the last month? I

4:41

don't know. Are you staying up

4:43

later than usual? Not really. I mean, last time I went

4:45

to bed about 10.30. That's

4:48

just not enough. Humor and tension. Well, 10.30 is not

4:50

enough. Because I went to bed at roughly 10.30 because

4:53

I wasn't

4:55

dragged to fireworks last night, but I

4:58

went. Begrudgingly. A little

5:00

bit begrudgingly because my mother-in-law wants to

5:02

see fireworks. And look, she wants to

5:04

see fireworks. Tell Amy to

5:06

take her. We can help. My wife did offer.

5:08

She's like, if you want to stay home and

5:10

chill, that's fine. I was like, no, it's all

5:13

good. I will participate

5:15

in this thing called, I know it's a

5:17

weird concept, community. People

5:20

getting together for a common

5:22

thing, enjoying a common thing

5:25

together, that being the fireworks. Well, celebrating

5:27

the independence of our nation. That is

5:29

correct. Don't forget why you're watching the

5:31

fireworks. I understand why. Saw

5:33

some friends. Saw the head coach of Magruder Lacrosse

5:35

and his wife and his family. It's good to

5:37

see them. Saw one of my buddies who's a

5:40

cop. Saw him. And then

5:42

sat down for 15 minutes of fireworks.

5:45

Drove my mother-in-law home. That's the perfect amount

5:47

of fireworks. 15 minutes. It's actually perfect.

5:49

Did you bring the dog? I

5:51

saw a segment on Fox 5. I

5:54

mean, you don't bring. Unless your dog's a

5:56

seasoned vet and is clearly not

5:58

afraid of fireworks. You just don't roll

6:00

those dice. Yeah, I saw a segment on Fox five

6:03

when I was going to the bathroom yesterday where

6:06

it was about pets dealing with

6:08

fireworks. They said 75

6:10

percent of pets are terrified. Terrified of them.

6:13

I'll never forget when I was a much

6:15

younger man, when I was first dating my

6:17

wife or this might have been a

6:19

bit along in our courtship. We brought

6:22

one of my dad's dogs, the

6:24

fireworks at Allen's Pond way

6:26

back in one of those big boys because

6:28

growing up, you had a small one. Yeah,

6:30

but then he graduated to big dogs. My

6:32

dad had a big dog. It was a

6:34

it was a rockwiler mix. Yeah. And his

6:36

dog probably weighed, I don't know, 80, 90,

6:39

maybe 100 pounds. And

6:41

once the first boom went

6:43

off, we were like, we made a

6:45

terrible mistake because she freaked out. She's

6:48

pulling on her leash. She's trying to

6:50

hide underneath cars. It was just a

6:52

debacle. We had to leave. One

6:54

minute. Never occurred to you that the fireworks might

6:56

affect the dog. E.B., I

6:59

was young and stupid, younger and stupider

7:01

than I am now. So didn't

7:03

really think about it. Didn't think about it

7:05

much. But then learned my lesson that

7:08

day when you were in that

7:10

courtship phase, pre-marriage, but maybe you

7:12

were engaged and she would

7:14

stay over at your dad's house. Sure.

7:18

And you were in that room in the basement.

7:20

It was called the new room, JP. The new

7:22

room. Even though it had

7:24

been around for 15-ish years. Right. Yeah. The new

7:26

room. Did you guys sleep on a bunk bed?

7:28

Why is that in my head? There was a

7:30

bunk bed in there. You guys slept on a

7:32

bunk bed? Separately, JP. She

7:34

would sleep on the bottom bunk bed and I would

7:37

climb to the top. Why was there a bunk bed

7:39

there? It was all very platonic. Was that the roost

7:41

you guys did? No. Of course not. Why

7:44

was there a bunk bed? Here's

7:46

why. Because at some point, my two

7:49

younger brothers lived in the same room in bunk

7:51

beds. Eventually,

7:53

that got bumped down. So

7:56

Mark moved to your room. Ross moved to

7:58

Mark. to the

8:00

shell and you just moved the bunk

8:03

bed down there to the basement and

8:05

that's where we were cohabitating That was

8:08

became our room That

8:11

was our spot, but you know what? I

8:13

honestly think the reason why I'm so freaking

8:15

tired is most of my vacation

8:18

Other than like Christmas is just like going to

8:20

games Like I'm I've

8:23

had a vacation since Christmas like

8:25

a vacation Had been

8:27

off. Mm-hmm, but it's just like going to

8:29

games. Yeah. Yeah, so I like I just

8:31

need a week of sleeping in I'll be

8:33

recharged some downtime. I'll be recharged. I don't

8:35

know. I got plenty of downtime Sleeping

8:39

part Freaking

8:41

sleep in for a week straight Fantastic,

8:45

but yes of you already great time yesterday

8:47

by the way out at a renditions Though

8:50

there was a snafu. Oh there was we

8:52

had to get lunch. I took JP suggested

8:54

and went to rips Okay, like we have

8:56

a lot of choices I think on the

8:58

super lowdown JP must have like a secret

9:00

endorsement with rips He raves

9:02

about that place gone many many times

9:05

with my family and other families We

9:07

went out with ESPN years ago Weird

9:10

nostalgia about rips and mate to me, but

9:13

also I have a couple go-to

9:15

meals that are very good I mean rips

9:17

is fine for the people that

9:19

are listening to know what it is

9:21

fine Me the more impactful part of

9:23

rips is their gigantic beer

9:25

store Yeah Like my dad her store my dad

9:27

would bring me into that as a kid Yeah,

9:30

and I would just marvel and I would walk

9:32

around look look at the beer coolers and walk

9:34

be like wow That's your idea of heaven. This

9:36

place is amazing Just

9:40

look at all the offerings like man, I

9:42

can't wait to be old enough to consume

9:44

no But you can go to a carabas

9:46

or applebees. There's a bunch of chain places

9:49

Different because usually have good service.

9:51

We've had many events there over the year just did

9:53

a Believe it was

9:55

90th birthday party for mr. Frazier at rips.

9:58

They take care of you in the food

10:00

Yeah, it's fine. It's

10:02

fine. You get a good crab cake sandwich. I'm

10:04

sure it's delicious. It's fine We were there we

10:06

got there before 11 so it was like we

10:09

had breakfast Yeah, the tail end of breakfast and

10:11

it was fine. Mm-hmm, but leaving. Okay You

10:14

know how that parking lot is not right. I believe it's

10:16

like a gravel parking lot, right? It's

10:20

not a money parking lot It's not as lonely as

10:22

it's only gravel like off to the side like towards

10:24

Chick-fil-a a lot of crap around there So

10:26

I'm heading over towards old Sully renditions and all

10:29

of a sudden my tire pressure monitor goes off

10:31

the worst and I look at and I

10:34

know immediately when it goes off like that like

10:36

out of nowhere the nail and the tire up

10:38

percent I look at it and

10:40

it's it's not like it 35 pounds or Sound

10:45

like eight I go. Oh this

10:47

thing is this thing is leaking felt with the quickness.

10:49

Yeah, it's not a slow burn We eventually and there's

10:52

nothing around there. Like we're like we need a service

10:54

station I can't find a service station like what by

10:56

the time at that point. I think I was on

10:58

route two I don't know what the hell route I

11:00

was on Reaver. I don't know what road I was

11:02

on right around rips There's a service station right to

11:04

your left. Well, no, I mean it took about two

11:06

or three minutes for it to go off I eventually

11:09

I was I was on I

11:11

took Central Avenue and I was down right, you

11:13

know past Homestead Gardens whatever it's just it's this

11:15

kind of country over there and finally

11:19

pulled into like some grocery some country store,

11:21

you know, and There

11:23

was some gas pumps there and we're grasping

11:25

that somebody might be able to help grasping

11:28

And luckily some guy in a

11:30

mobile Auto, whatever

11:32

van pulled over he was gonna go

11:35

get a sandwich in there what and

11:37

he's any just by happens to us

11:39

checking the tires and because Long

11:42

story short there was like a metal shank

11:44

in there. Okay, it was like three inches

11:46

long. You can hear it. Mm-hmm leaking it

11:51

From like five feet away that

11:53

that tire is felt

11:55

it crushed So did you change the tire on

11:58

me paid the guy 50 bucks? Yeah,

12:01

you know, he had like a real Jack. He

12:03

had like, oh, yeah, he's got like

12:05

a NASCAR, you know, bolt remover. We.

12:08

We. Yeah. He

12:10

was the world's fastest guy. Not spinning the

12:12

no, no, whatever tool that is to get

12:14

the lug. You would have any videos over

12:16

there. We would have been, you know, messing

12:19

with the lug nuts. Yeah, it would have taken hours.

12:21

We would have stripped them. It would have taken forever.

12:25

So I got right now. Currently, I have a massive

12:27

tire in the backseat of the car. And I'm

12:29

driving around a little donut, which is

12:32

now the second time I've been driving

12:34

around on a donut and that donuts

12:36

only have a certain amount of miles

12:38

on them, too. And they're super. They're

12:40

super embarrassing. They're embarrassing. Oh, no, you

12:42

can say I changed the tire

12:44

back when I was in college. Me and my

12:46

boy Bill went to an Orioles game and

12:49

on the way home got a flat tire, changed

12:51

into the donut, had to

12:53

drive, you know, another 30, 40 miles in

12:56

the donut exploded and I had to call my dad in the

12:58

middle of the night to pick us up. No, this is a

13:00

little bit more of a quality donut. It's

13:02

still embarrassing compared to the others, but it's fine.

13:06

Believe me, I'm in no rush to change it. I'm

13:09

sure you're not painting my butt. You're not driving

13:11

to outer banks on the donut, are you? No,

13:13

I know you can't do that. No. No. If

13:15

you take a trip over 50 miles

13:17

on a donut, you might

13:19

be the dumbest driver in the world. I'm

13:22

not going to take a long drive, but it's going to

13:24

take me a few days to get it fixed because I

13:26

just don't feel like dealing with it. Understood. To be honest,

13:28

you're kicking that and completely down the road. I don't feel

13:30

like dealing with it. I can

13:33

see it on your face. Yeah, I can tell.

13:35

But we don't nut it over to red dishes,

13:37

had a great time. Awesome weather. Oh, my God.

13:39

How great is the weather? Perfect weather. What is

13:41

this? By the way, what's this supposed to be

13:43

for the next few days? But hot sweltering. All

13:45

right. Sweltering. But yeah, is it like tomorrow's going

13:47

to be like 94 or 95? Yeah. And

13:50

it's going to feel like 100 ish.

13:52

Yeah. Or more. And then

13:55

after the round, Valdez, we, you

13:57

know, we're debating the point. Oh,

18:00

we got soft shell crabs is really good. The large

18:02

crabs, I thought they were a little small

18:04

side. I was stunned how I mean,

18:07

it took me 20 minutes. Like there was a

18:09

lot of meat in there. You know what I

18:11

mean? Yeah, typically, typically, larges are kind of more

18:13

full than jumbos. Jumbos look big. Yeah. But the

18:15

but they're not as full. Yeah, this one was

18:18

just more. There was just meat

18:20

everywhere. And honestly, it

18:22

was one full crab. I was

18:25

pretty good. And I got tired

18:27

of messing with it. Did you get hush puppies

18:29

too? No, we got tuna

18:31

bites. Oh, I love hush puppies.

18:33

Hush puppies warm. You dip

18:35

them in like either honey or like

18:37

a honey butter. They are

18:39

a 15 out of 10. Never occurred

18:42

to us. We got soft shell crabs. Those are

18:44

good. Delicious crabs. We did. We

18:46

got a variety. We

18:48

got aunty tuna bites. Aunty tuna bites

18:51

were extraordinary. Very good. I mean, everything

18:53

was good. I know I'm a plane.

18:55

Just it's just a dilapidated dump. And

18:57

I just got it's really. I

19:00

mean, it's not like three weeks ago.

19:02

It's it's older, but it's not

19:05

it's not dilapidated. Like that part,

19:07

I just don't understand. Well,

19:09

if that's your idea, nice. I don't know what

19:12

it's a crab house. It's

19:15

a crab house. It's a dumpy crab

19:17

house. If you like that, it's your

19:19

spot. Everybody says you got to go. You got to go.

19:21

You got to go. And so I've been there a long

19:23

time and I just for the food. Yeah. And the food

19:26

was fine. It was fine.

19:28

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you great. I don't know if

21:22

he's great, but he's pretty good. DJ

21:26

Hearst struck out 10

21:28

batters over five and two thirds. Pretty good

21:30

innings of one run ball

21:32

on five hits for the nationals. This was

21:34

his second 10 plus strikeout

21:37

game this season in

21:39

four starts at Nats Park this season.

21:42

He's got 31 strikeouts in 20

21:44

innings pitched. However, the

21:46

nationals couldn't pull through with the win.

21:49

They fall to the Mets seven

21:51

to two. On

21:54

the positive side, CJ Abrams went

21:56

two for five. He's got

21:58

a five game on base streak. He's

22:00

hitting 400 with the double a home

22:03

run to RBI's in six

22:05

for 15 streak Jacob young

22:08

He's hitting 342 over his last 11 games So

22:11

there's some positives but EB

22:13

you wanted to talk about their bullpen,

22:15

which is definitely not my strength Let's

22:17

stick with the positive for before we

22:19

get into the negative. Yeah, I'm stealing

22:21

this from at slangs on sports Sarah

22:23

Lang's major league pitchers

22:26

with two 10k

22:28

no-walk games in their first six

22:30

career outings since at least 1901 DJ

22:34

hers Steven Strasburg That's

22:37

your nice list. That's your entire list.

22:40

It's crazy. That's pretty amazing No,

22:43

listen, I don't know anything about the bullpen I

22:45

I do know I think hunter Harvey's been involved

22:48

in two of the last the bockels Garcia came

22:50

in there and you know Yeah,

22:52

the deck is stacked to get you a little bit right when

22:54

you start next year He's a good guy and frickin second and

22:57

you know, but it falls apart But what

22:59

I really want to talk about to be honest

23:01

with you is my way too early vibe

23:05

on James Wood I'm

23:08

excited about He's

23:10

a little too nonchalant for me He's

23:13

up need more passion more fire They hit

23:15

up they had a they had a I

23:17

mean a soft line drive I would say

23:19

out to him in the outfield and he

23:21

kind of didn't know how to play it

23:25

He definitely didn't lay out for it. He

23:27

just kind of Just kind

23:29

of like smothered it scooped it, you know, he

23:31

just definitely didn't know what to do Okay And

23:34

then if you just see him like when

23:36

we talk about him this good the moment being

23:39

not too big for him That's definitely true that

23:41

I never see the calmer guy. Yeah, I just

23:43

don't like to see a little more Pete Rose

23:45

in him Pete Rose That's

23:49

quite an extreme, okay Just you don't have

23:51

to go but you to go from like

23:54

like, you know, he just a lolly guy He's

23:56

a lolly gagger. He's just got a lope

23:58

to him That's because

24:00

of his build and his body size. That's true.

24:02

I mean, six, seven. Didn't he need his very

24:05

first game? He hit a ground ball in the

24:07

bottom of the ninth. He hauled ass down the

24:09

line. He hit that. Down the line and beat

24:11

the throw? For sure. But he

24:13

didn't hustle on that play any outfield. And

24:16

I don't know when they walked him

24:18

and he just kind of, listen, he's being cool.

24:20

Mike's crab house isn't good enough for you. James

24:22

Wood isn't good enough. I'm not saying he's not

24:24

good enough. I'm not saying he's not good enough.

24:27

I'm just saying there's a hint of nonchalance to

24:29

him He's calling it

24:31

now. But was it a single? Was

24:33

it a single that turned into a double because he

24:36

was so nonchalant or it was just a single and

24:38

he didn't like the way that he approached it? Well,

24:40

yesterday had no hits. I'm talking about the outfield play.

24:43

It was a single right in front of him, but didn't

24:45

even, dude, he didn't die. Didn't land, you gotta lay out

24:47

for that. Well, maybe he misjudged it.

24:49

Didn't he get it? He totally misjudged it. My point

24:51

is, did the runner extend it to a double? No,

24:53

because he kept it in front of him. No, he

24:56

kept it in front of him. He kept it in

24:58

front of him. It's fine. I believe you or I

25:00

would have at least dove, probably

25:03

would have caught it. Probably would have

25:05

read it off the mat better. I mean, maybe when I was 17. Yeah.

25:09

And I don't know. Listen, it's my

25:11

way too early. There's just a nonchalance. It's

25:13

way too early. It's just a nonchalance to

25:15

him that I know that

25:18

in terms of his, I do know that in

25:20

terms of. I hope he hits 386 and like

25:22

JP predicts 30 bombs over here. I hope he

25:24

does. I do know in terms of his personality.

25:26

Yeah. When I was reading about him. Yeah. The

25:29

minor league manager said, because

25:32

he bounced around in the minors, it's not like he

25:34

was with one team for a bunch of years. Well,

25:36

they kept moving him up. Right. They kept

25:38

moving him up. He said that it takes him a couple of weeks to warm up

25:41

in terms of his personality to the players

25:44

around him. And that kind of makes some

25:46

sense. Of course. He's new

25:48

to the clubhouse, just meeting guys. I'm

25:51

socially awkward. Assimilating. I

25:53

understand. And listen, I hope he's a superstar.

25:55

I hope he's a Hall of Famer. Kind

25:57

of banking on it, to be honest with you. Well, he went 0 for

25:59

yes. yesterday, but I

26:02

do think over time, based

26:04

on what he's done in the minors, based on where

26:06

he was drafted and all they claim, he should be

26:08

a big time power hitter who's

26:11

going to also extend

26:14

some hits with his speed. He's definitely

26:17

fast. I hope he's a multiple time

26:19

all-star. That's the expectation. That

26:21

would be fantastic. If James Woods comes

26:23

up and is not a multiple repeat

26:27

all-star guy, that's a disappointment.

26:29

Jason always talks about this.

26:31

The Nationals are

26:33

17 games back in the

26:35

NL East. NL East has pretty

26:37

much decided the Phillies have a nine game lead.

26:40

The Brewers have a six game lead in the Central

26:42

and the Dodgers have an eight and a half game

26:44

lead. Those divisions are pretty

26:46

much decided already in Major

26:49

League Baseball. Speaking of the Dodgers, the

26:52

all-star game's coming up. The

26:54

centerpiece of the all-star game is

26:56

still the home run derby. Shohei

26:58

Otani, who is second in the

27:01

majors with 27 home runs, says

27:03

he will not participate in the home run

27:05

derby. That's not great. Cakes,

27:09

it's in Arlington at what field?

27:12

I will bet $2. I'll probably give

27:14

it back to you because I can tell how

27:16

confident you are. What is the name of the

27:18

field in Arlington? The GP. In

27:20

this shifting landscape of

27:23

brand new corporate names for

27:25

stadiums and arenas, I

27:27

must say that I can't keep up

27:29

with all of them. But

27:31

I believe I do know the correct

27:33

and current name of the ballpark

27:35

that the Rangers play in. I

27:38

believe it's called Globe Life Ballpark.

27:41

Well done. Am I correct? Yes.

27:44

I owe you $1 unless you can break $20. I

27:49

don't think I can do that at this point. Just give

27:51

me an IOU. Yeah, it feels good. You

27:53

can ventmo him. You can ventmo him at all. You

27:55

can ventmo him at all. You can ventmo him at

27:57

all. Okay, it's not a big deal. I mean, Shohei

27:59

obviously would be the largest. attraction, there's no doubt about

28:01

it. It's like the

28:03

dunk contest. It's kind of silly. It's fun for

28:05

the fans, but it's, you know, it means nothing

28:07

to the guys. Overall it's dumb, I agree. But

28:10

with Shohei in it, it has

28:12

some cachet. For sure. And it's gonna draw a

28:14

lot more eyeballs. For sure. And

28:16

Shohei doing anything. Yeah. He was in

28:18

the Derby in 2021, and he set

28:21

a record for the most home runs, I

28:23

mean, this is absurd, of at least 500

28:25

feet he hit six of. I

28:28

mean, the power. He's an absolute monster.

28:30

It is outrageous. A

28:32

lot of people are going to be sad

28:35

on the 4th of July because Joey Chestnut

28:38

was banned from Nathan's

28:40

hot dog eating contest. I mean,

28:43

it's taking an American tradition, that

28:45

tradition being gluttony, and

28:47

it's just... The contest still exists. Oh, I know

28:49

the contest still exists, but you're taking the biggest

28:51

star out of the contest. So

28:54

they were unable to work out a compromise, but

28:57

he has not only the event against

29:00

Kobayashi, which is gonna be on Netflix

29:02

coming up, that's in September. September, okay.

29:04

That's like right before the NFL season,

29:07

I believe. But he's

29:09

going to be doing some event

29:11

in Fort Bliss, where

29:13

he's gonna be eating all beef hot

29:15

dogs for five minutes,

29:17

I believe. I think he's doing it against like a

29:20

handful of American soldiers. Correct. And

29:23

service people. Correct. They're not

29:25

gonna smoke them. You think there's

29:27

a guy on a military base that can out

29:29

eat Joey Chestnut? I like the play on words.

29:32

It's called the Fort Bliss meet and greet. Okay,

29:34

very nice. Meet with an A. I do like

29:36

that. Caitlin Clark

29:38

and Angel Reiss make the WNBA All-Star

29:40

squad. I was stunned this morning. Dude,

29:43

the WNBA is blowing up to an

29:45

extent. All right, there were

29:47

20,000 people that came out to see Caitlin

29:49

Clark play last night against Vegas. But

29:52

it's blowing up to this extent. Click

29:55

on espn.com. And the first

29:57

story I see headline was WNBA.

36:00

We have a one-pointer a three-pointer a five-pointer, but we

36:02

start with the jump ball cakes Why

36:04

don't you lead off with your category? All

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right? We will start with where's that NFL

36:09

running back running backs in new? Cities

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my marker Mike say your name to

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get control the board all right your

36:16

one-pointer Derek Henry

36:20

Mike Mike is in Ravens

36:24

With the Baltimore Ravens your three-point

36:26

question Mike now has control mark you

36:29

got away patiently and hope Mike misses

36:31

for three points Josh

36:34

Jacobs Bring

36:36

me a Packers Wow this guy's pretty

36:38

good and the five-pointer.

36:41

Where's Tony Pollard? Oh There's

36:48

an opening for mark Marcus

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is a five-point question right now is

36:53

four to nothing, but you can win the

36:55

game right now Mark Tony Pollard played in

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Dallas last season. Where is he playing this

36:59

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Dream sickle was unbelievable. It

38:23

was a huge miss huge

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stumble Just say I

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think they're gonna be I think it's gonna be okay. Okay All

38:30

right, we're playing another game. Do we have another tip prize? That's it

38:33

We do we have tickets to go see Sam hunt

38:35

at chiffy lube live. All right, your body

38:38

What's his what was his stick about your body or

38:40

your body? I'm

38:43

gonna say bodies a wonderland, but that's John

38:45

Mayer John Mayer, right? Let's

38:48

go. I Can't

38:50

even read is it Natalie need your readers? Yeah, I

38:52

do my readers. Hey Natalie. How are you? Hi,

38:55

I'm good. How are you? Okay. Oh, all

38:57

right. Hold on. I gotta put her on

38:59

lock. Okay, and let's go to John at

39:01

DC Hey John, what's up,

39:04

bud? All right, Natalie and John same

39:06

deal. We will start with a jump

39:08

ball Say your name

39:10

to seize control of the board the

39:14

category in junky is Italian

39:17

dishes I will give you a

39:19

description you tell me the dish

39:23

Your jump ball for one point This

39:26

type of pasta is made in very wide

39:29

flat sheets stack

39:32

layers Natalie Natalie's

39:34

in Well,

39:38

you said back Oh lasagna it is I Heard

39:45

Natalie Natalie you heard Natalie. I did.

39:47

All right. Okay. Good job Natalie. All

39:49

right. She's got control aboard one

39:52

pointer All right, this

39:55

Italian dish consists of breaded

39:57

chicken breasts covered in

39:59

tomato sauce Natalie. Natalie, you

40:01

have control. You don't have to say your name.

40:03

This is the easiest question ever. Yeah, go ahead, Natalie. It's

40:05

chicken parmesan. It is chicken parmesan. This dish has

40:07

chicken. Most rudimentary dishes ever. All right. Part

40:11

of our genius is it's too easy. 4-0. We

40:14

have to do it. We have to do it. We have to

40:16

do it. We have to do it. We have

40:18

to do it. We have to do it. We have to do

40:20

it. We have to do it. We have to do it. We

40:22

have to do it. We have to do

40:24

it. The opponent came in and stole the win with

40:27

the five pointer. So

40:38

this is the five pointer. Actually,

40:45

I'm looking at my question. Spaghetti and meatballs?

40:48

You big goofball. This

40:51

dish has spaghetti? This

40:54

pasta dish is made with

40:56

fettuccine, butter and parmesan cheese.

40:58

Natalie, go ahead. Is it

41:02

fettuccine Alfredo? Yes, congratulations. I

41:04

like how Natalie kept having to

41:06

buzz in with the name. She

41:10

didn't have to. I like it. I can't

41:12

quite grasp it, but okay. Yeah, I like

41:14

it. Natalie, congratulations. You get the two tickets

41:17

to go see Sam Hunt. Locked up tour

41:19

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41:21

Live. Tickets are on sale now. For tickets

41:23

and more event info, visit the fan dc.com/events.

41:25

Plus, a grand prize winner will be selected

41:28

to win some special Sam Hunt merch that

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is courtesy of Live Nation. You couldn't mix

41:32

in a chicken piccata? Just

41:36

something basic. Are you saving it for your

41:38

category later? I

41:40

went with classics. You did go with classics. I went with

41:42

the classics. I'll give you that. I went with the big

41:44

boys. Natalie's a big winner. Cakes, do you have any toothpicks?

41:46

I need them to keep my eye lit. I

41:48

love a toothpicks or a Scotch tape. Okay.

41:54

What you always see in the cartoons. People keep an eye on

41:56

it. I don't see it. I'm a genius. I'm

41:59

a genius. I'm a genius. I thought I would see

42:01

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