Look, we're man down. At least we're not like seven men down or a woman down or seven women down, although that would mean there's like a lot of women on the staff, not just two more than most stations. Hell yeah, mofos on air and we're missing the Dinger this morning. Where's the Dilf? Of course he at Dilfer. Where's the trent? Uh? He had about one hundred vacation days left as a Halloween and said he spend a good good percentage of him setting fire to him. He deserves it.
Del forks hard. He sure does. Funny man, I hope he's sleeping her. I'm sure he's sleeping right now. Yeah, good, well, I tell you what. But he's an ugly sleeper. Oh yeah, you sprawled down gate. He looks like that girl in the Ring that was trapped behind the washing machine. Did you see the ring? JJ? Of course that haunting me as a kid. Yeah, everyone was scared of that at the moment she came out to TV. I know when she was like smashed
up behind the washing machine or something. That's I remember it. You remember that part. Her face was all jacked up like bayliss sleep. Was it a washing machine? I don't. It was probably not a washing. I don't know. Let me look it up. It was a dryer, okay, if that's what I got wrong. Girl. The ring The rings scared everybody. Man, man, that's one that most people agree. I thoroughly remember where I was when I saw it. I was at a slumber party.
I was the only one awake. Really, we fell asleep, and so obviously last one being up, I had to turn the TV off. It was super dark, and am I looking around like, oh my god, she's gonna pop up on me. What is it even about. I don't even remember that either. I actually remember not caring because after that first part I was like, that's it. I'm good here, don't even need to watch it. It's like one of those old tales, like because if you watch the video tape, you die in seven days, the cursed video
tape. They were like, well, what happens to the daughter? Why is she hunting people? And there's like this whole backstory her mom killed her all kind. There's a bunch of cursed videotapes from my childhood. I know there isn't Mike for Mikey too, I think, oh yeah, no doubt that magazines, everything was cursed. I had a lady friend in college who had a gay roommate, and he would often leave his VHS tapes in the machine. Oh that's how I learned about the VHS classic Nuts and Butts Storry.
I don't know much more than a sticker on top of the VHS tape, and it's a title, Nuts and Butts. There's such a cheap throw a line, Joe Dirt, I senior buffer sticker, Cowboys butts driving me nuts, just making fun of each other with a little gay humor. Yeah, six point thirty five, we've got one of the steamiest gay stories. Hot gay sex on the Senate floor. Incredible headline, incredible headline. Six
thirty five. I think I nearly fell asleep ugly style. No. I did fall asleep ugly style a few times in the second half yesterday, just on the couch, thirty one to three, going, I'm tired. I think have I done this right? That the Cowboys have played three competitive games all year? Yeah, and that's a bad Chargers team that just quit on him. That is the first Eagles game, yep. And Seahawks Seahawks game. Yeah, so every other game is essentially not been fun. I've been
wondering what, like, why is it? I feel like every Cowboy game, I'm just sitting there on a let's give an end. Yes, yeah, I agree with you, man, it's been that kind of year. I think it when you're smoking a bunch of bad teams, because there's so many bad teams in the league this year more than ever. Partially probably because like eight quarterbacks like are out for the year, right, you know,
that makes a lot of it hard to watch. But dude, that thing yesterday was over at halftime when you're sitting there going I guess it was like a double whammie, because that, to me was the game I was looking forward to more than any besides maybe next week, because you never get to play the Bills and the Dolphins. You play them on the road every eight years, Like that's that's fun to go to these places you never get to go to. Twenty fifteen is the last time we played there, and you
get that ugh. I feel bad. And I don't even say this around here all that much enough people who don't like me, but one of my greatest football moments as a Dolphin fan was the Thanksgiving victory over the Cowboys what ninety nine? No, before that wasn't it. I don't know, with the field goal and the missed field goal by Pete Starr and then whoever touched the ball? Oh yeah that was yeah, touched the ball and then it was live and then the Dolphins jumped on it and kicked a less than extra
point length field goal for the win on Thanksgiving nineteen ninety three. Yeah, it's just one of vivid like happiest moments, which is like the exact opposite of almost everyone listening to this who's my age or forties, like they remember that game pretty vividly. Oh yes, it's a rare uh, a pretty
rare matchup. I feel like when that game was happening yesterday, I kept for even in the first half, is well, the offense is about to get it going, and once that happens, then who knows, you'll get to stop Because they'd fooled me for the fourth year and third year in a row of just like, hey, this is really good team and they get here and every time they have a cold weather outdoor game and what you even
that cold yesterday? They're even bragging about it during the Aaron Andrews sideline report, Dak said, the weather's great. Well, the defense was not trying to tackle James Cook ever. Ever, that's the worst tackling performance I've ever seen. That was so bad. We'll do enough Cowboys today. God, but yes, that was brutal. And I'll say this as a James Cook
fantasy owner. He has not looked like that all blanking year. I've watched him closer than most and because they're in the AFC East, he has been It's so weird. I think I saw the number of these third in total yards from scrimmage in the NFL after that performance, and it has been a pretty disappointing season for that. Dude never looks like a game breaker. He's always like okay. The big issue is they don't just they don't give him the ball, Like he just doesn't get a lot of as many carries as
a lot of fans up there think they should. And then they give Latavious Murray the ball if they're anywhere into the ten yard line. So that's not good for fantasy purposes. But they've been yelling get him the ball more fine, but he has not looked all season. He's had one game that was like kind of a boomer where he was statistically really good, but he's just been fine fine to disappointing. Did you hear segment last week? You were
gone and so you've done. You probably missed some of it, and you might have skipped Sports at seven of your catching up on some of the podcasts. But it was the story we did on Sean mcnermott and the big bombshell report last week and the nine to eleven thing. Did you hear any of that stuff? I didn't hear your segment about it? Now, okay,
I did skip most of the sporties on my recapping. It was a more fascinating sports segment than usual, I think because there was a big paywalled off three piece feature that was written about Sean mcnermott and the report that came out from last week. We're in twenty nineteen. During a speech in training camp, he was trying to get the Bills fired up by saying, look, the nine to eleven hijackers used teamwork, and the Bill's player and that guyt
a big They got some national headlines and you know how it goes. At the time, it did or no, just no, Like just last week, it was just reported. Last former player busted out a speech theme that, yeah, well, the guy who wrote the article's name is Tyler Dunn, and he does this. He covers the bills now and like he's the guy who did the Mike McCarthy massage story from twenty eighteen. Okay, but when players get tight with him, they tell him stuff, he reports it.
Pay wold off. He's not, you know, he doesn't work for a big company. He owns his own Patreon or whatever, substack whatever he so. But in that story, they talked about how assistant coaches knew that Sean McDermott was going to get rid of Ken Dorsey. That's the first head he was going to serve up. And Joe Brady's the offensive coordinator now and he scored in twelve straight quarters. They've scored a touchdown, and there's been a new focus on how about we let James Cook play? How about we
give him the ball always? Who cares if Stefan Diggs is not unhappy about it? Yeah, let's give James Cook the ball and that Like I was saying that that whole article makes Sean McDermott look bad, but maybe kid doors he needed to get more Cowboys stuff throughout the day. But that was bad. Let's do the thing with the theme song on it. Some crab habits over the crab speaking of nine to eleven. Oh, I didn't do much this weekend. It's never good. I'll work my way back to that.
I didn't do much this weekend because I was I went to New Orleans last week for a few days, and that will at my a that will suck the life out of you. You can catch up mode. I had some moments where I'm like, this might be it. I can't do it. I've always been able to crank it up and have a good time. Especially I'm trying to, you know, look cool and young with Christina. I'm trying to be hip right. You do a good job keeping up. You
just look young. It's all a live younger than me walking down the French Quarter and she's laughing. She's like, how cool he is? What he's saying, No, dude, everything about me is a complete lie. I'm struggling. I was like, I'm so tired, I just want to sleep. I can't do this anymore. So Anyway, when we got back from New Orleans, I physically crashed pretty hard. And uh, I am,
let me try it. That's right when I when she walked out the door, I slammed the door, gave her a smooch, and turned around and just exclaimed I am tired, and passed down face down in my hallway into a bunch of dust. Everywhere your pava bones just tacks on each other. So the plan was to do virtually nothing, and I kind of succeeded in that this weekend. And that meant firing up the Xbox and playing a lot of games, all right, and I was I play I'm back on my
Fortnite right whatever, it's fun. I switched back one Call of Duty in Fortnite, but anymore, but I loved it. It's fun, like two years beautiful game fun and you almost always play the Battle Royal style right, one hundred People on an Island, one Winter Hunger games. But like two weeks ago, there was a big update on Fortnite, and they're going for everybody. They added like three games to Fortnite right to like the base Fortnite, which is free. Still, they added a game called Lego Fortnite.
I'm like, I don't even know what this was, but apparently Lego Fortnite is taking on Minecraft, which is massive open world where you can build whatever you want. Never played Minecraft, I've seen it. I'm aware of it. I know if people love it. It doesn't look fun to me,
but it's build whatever you want. You can build New York City, you can build Dallas, you know, like, if you have enough time and effort and skill whatever it is, you can build the King's Landing or the you know Rome back in the time of Its and the Empire's dominance, whatever looks cool. I built one house and I just kind of stood by it, confused, this is what I'm supposed to do next. I've seen a
grown band play that until the five am hour and then we tired. The next day, Minecraft play It is an old Ranger spring training trip, and Ben Rogers found some Minecraft on his iPad, really and he did it and he played that thing, and then the next morning he's like, yeah, I guess stipp till five point Minecraft. And now we had a show later that day and he didn't have a lot of light. He played Minecraft all
night. I'm content light, I'm content light. I'm playing Minecraft. There are some because I used to play a lot of sim City and uh, City Skyline, which is essentially SimCity huh. And boy, you want to go in the time Vortex play those kind of busy work games, which Minecraft most definitely is, and and you will lose five hours in a snap. But anyway, this thing was huge when it downloaded. There was I think
six point six million people playing it at one point. It broke the record for most people ever so online the same time whatever, I mean, they break these records all the time. Yeah, the release smash Fortnite's previous record most online players at once six point six people. So everyone's freaking about this. Not only did they drop that, they dropped Rocket Racing, which is kind of a blend of Rocket League and you're racing cars and these cool fun
tracks, you know, like Mario Karr whatever. Oh like, all right, look's awesome too. Then they also dropped a Fortnite Festival, which is Guitar Hero. Oh really so, Christina and I spent a couple hours tapping away playing Guitar Hero. These are all three dropped within already the most or close to the most popular video game there is. I hate to be dramatic, but I almost equate it to when Amazon figure we don't just have to sell books. We could do everything. Yeah, that's what Fortnite's doing.
Is it the company that is it Epic? Yes? The company? Yeah? Yeah's now the face of Epic. I guess, or I think I'm not. Were you pleasure a guitar plugged in? I'm sorry, there's no questions. No on your controller okay, but it's the same thing you're pressing, right beard A and you start to get it, and she was rocking it obviously killing me. Yeah. No, And you feel good when the notes are hitting. Yeah, yeah, it feels really good. And the two and you hold. But you can pick guitar, bass, drums or
vocals, Oh my god, and there's four playing together whatever. I don't know, but I'm just more interested in though. Was that rock band? Okay? Rock band was one with everybody? Yes, guitar hero I guess was mostly just the guitar and the plug and guitar. I just thought it was interesting that. Look, video games we've discussed the market is bigger than movies and music combined. Oh yeah, video games are bigger than that. I know everyone plays them, A lot of people do, so I don't
mind talking about them. But I think it's just sort of interesting that Fortnite already maybe the King took a swing at everything in one day. It's and it works on everything too, PlayStation and computers. Yeah, all good to go, Yeah, everything everywhere, all at once. But bring it all back around. Uh. Lego Fortnite within one day of that one being released, the one where you can build you know, whatever you want, you
can build anything. Epic unhappy that so many users had repeatedly recreated the nine to eleven attacks in Lego Fortnite. Oh no, oh oh yeah, and took clear less than one day to start building large towers and finding these little floating things that okay, they could go ahead and knock them down with and then post them to YouTube and get tons and tons of hits. And it's
an iconic moment in the world, in American history. If you were to say, like famous landmarks in the United States to people who didn't live here, the World Trade Center would come up for them and they doesn't exist more a statue of liberty and that right, I mean, it would be a top five like landmark in the United States, probably because we forget how global video games are too, you know. Oh well, listen to music.
Well, so music doesn't hit necessarily in Australia that we have people playing video games all over the place. Yeah, same game. Movies might do well here, might not do well in other parts of the world. The video games are hitting everywhere. To your point, and I think teams think, I don't know if they think nine Love's funny. They do, they do. They don't have any type of reference point for it. They've seen it, yeah and live it. And look, I'm not telling you I think
D Day's funny. Well you better not. Because I'm fresh out of the World War Two Museum in New Orleans. I'm trying to think of some historical event that I think is funny. I also have chosen think Pearl Harbor's funny or okay, you know what our equivalent it might be the Challenger explosion because a lot of people were quick to get that joke series up and running,
or like within a year of it happening. Oh yeah, dude, I mean I was in a band and after Heath Ledger died, we as a joke, got a little doll of the joker, like a resting peace thing and set him up on the speaker. You know, it's a dumble voodoo bit. I don't know. I've chosen to live life in a way though, to where humor is how I cope with things. So maybe these kids are coping with nine to eleven twenty two years later by building it on on
Lego Fortnite. Yeah stuff, I saw there's one YouTube video of them. It's not it doesn't even look Yeah, it's just two giant sticks up in the air, and then you know, they fly the thing in there. It's just a video game too. Maybe maybe I don't know if you're actually flying a plane into it. And then well, they don't have planes. It's not like Graphic REENACMA. It's just two giant buildings. And then they fly like a little thing with TNT into it and then they all laugh.
They're not are they creating a Pentagon too? Oh I didn't see. I didn't. I clicked off a field. Are not doing that? That is garbage, you know, And that's why I worry about the world, you know, That's why I brought this up. In the Future of the World. Yeah, those twelve year olds are screwed. Yeah they really are, Like they really are, dude, we are in It's coming and you can't. You can't even talk about it without sunding like old man. But it
is. I do think it totally matters that we were at least young adults or teenagers when we started using phones and to communicate to get everything. I mean, what do you worry about? Are they morons? Yes, because they're getting phones at eight and they're addicted to it and that's all they know now. But that's what we say. That doesn't make that true. They're
idiots. Okay, you have you I'm sorry, I'm telling you. That's what every generation of people, one or more generations past, looks back and says, oh my god, I weep for the future. Sure why because they're dumb, they're more on. It's just different to make it true because of honestly, because of technology. It's so different. Now everything is starting to be done for them like it obviously. I mean, it wasn't the
same for you know, obviously back in the day sixteen seventies. But now that technology is starting to become our everyday life, and now you're talking about AI and all this everything's generating like yeah, like we're gonna like the future is gonna be lazy. There might be more geniuses that come from this though, okay, from but standard middle grades IQ, yeah, average down?
Do we street smarts. We've already got you know, college testing results on this for an age that is just kind of to the point where, yeah, ten to twelve years ago, and they're probably getting phones at ten and I'm not doing that. Swear to god, I'm not doing the thing. Well, I didn't get to get a phone until I was sixteen, because once you get your driver's license, you could get a mobile phone. I'm not doing that. But like because I don't know, I don't know what
the proper age is to give your kid a phone. They have it. See, I agree, But it's not like the world is going to revert to a place that doesn't have the phone. It's all just going to continue in that direction. So the fact that they grew up in the evolution of this world, no, I tend to agree with you guys, but I don't. I don't think it ever works out as drastically as the next generation
up points and yells that it's going to. But we've never faced, you know, the the curve of the electronics, and well that line of availability, that line is we're getting to that line. Now, twenty twenty three, was it probably twenty let's say it was eight twenty ten. Maybe let's say twenty ten. Just did to use a whole number here, a real round number of Like that's when you can point to ten year olds or eleven year olds getting phones if their parents allowed them. That's the first time.
This is the first tyke. We're just now entering the world where we can actually look at this and see and now, what are these kids like that are twenty two, twenty three, twenty four years old? Now, no
blanket statements to any of this, obviously of generalities. I just think they are so used to having everything handed to them, whereas even to this day, where we would go Google, how do you pronounce this word and we'll type it in, they will say it into their thing and so their watcher into the phone, which is fine, it's a fine way to do it. It's probably quicker, but you still have to put your hands on and
earn it. The way they use cash, the way they use cash is gone, and maybe it doesn't matter because the world will not use cash in the future, probably, But do you think a kid has any idea of what a dollar means no, because it's all on their parents' cards, paid through Apple Pay on their phone. Now I will say, like, I guess too, Mikey, you're right about that because the whole obviously they're going
up with technology, because that's where we're headed. Because my five year old nephew, for instance, can't really spell, but he knows how to use that mic and say on my mom's phone and say monster trucks, so they
can pull up monster truck videos or something like that. So they're I mean in a way it takes savvy, yes, but as far as, like you know, not relying on technology, not relying on electronics, that's where Yeah, in the future it's gonna be uh because wabs when everything shuts down or whatever the case is, they're just so reliable on electronics that they can't even function without it. One day says it's proven children have lower intellectual levels
than ever before. It's a real thing. Their whole articles about younger people having a decrease of basic knowledge. Yeah, I don't doubt that, but why do I Okay, why would a kid now need to learn the capitals of the US States? I mean, just as a very basic school thing that we all had to learn. And I guess the argument is why would I need to learn? I mean, that's available in one second everywhere.
Now, if that room you're allotting yourself in your brain is not used for a better purpose it's not, then what's the yes, that's your point, then what's the point that's where you're right? But we do the whole thing of what I need to know, this extended brand of math that's never applicable to life. Well, I mean, hold on, I need to see Selena Gomez putting makeup on. Yeah. I think school should be navigated as far as you know. Obviously you're young, so you don't know what you're
going to do in the future. But as you get older. I think that's how school needs to kind of divert to on like plans on what do you want to do? They that's depict on what classes you take, you know what I mean, Like I get college that, but that's true because it's like I mean, as a communication major, for me, I didn't need to know what the capitals of every state is. But it's cool to
know. Yeah, but unless I want to study history or something like that, it doesn't really helped me out with anything because it feels good to dunk on the person next to you who doesn't know the state capitals. Right, I'm sorry it's Montpelier. I'm sorry it's Montpellier. Get down on my Vermont. But if a kid doesn't know that there's fifty states in the United States, and that's not a good thing, Like, come on, you gotta
know that. As you guys said that, I kind of want to play the game of hand two kids, like a heaping handful of change, and see how long it takes them to tell you how much money they're holding. They start eating it. They just start eating it and trying to put in their phone. My teeth hurts, my tith heavan. Well, that's why you just swallow it. You don't chew a dumb kid. Man. That's a good conversation that I'm gonna write down, thoughks, I think we should
go forth and maybe get some teachers on. Let's have a big, downbreat roundtable discussion. Yeah, of is the future screwed as we in our thirties and forties. The last of the Geniuses another nickname for the downbeat the comedy first responders are also the last of the genius geniuses, or you can call us a gaggle of misfits. All right, we got a lot today. Cowboys, Bills Talk at seven, we'll review our predictions at seven thirty.
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