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We have a ton to get to, including something that, honest to God, I resent that I have to talk about off the top of the show, but we'll do it all the same. First, here's what missed the show missed the cup for today's show. Not on today's show is all the Quarterbacks resting Sunday. Caitlyn Clark I gets a forty piece, including a game winner. She is one of the most entertaining athletes to watch across all of sports right now. And Sean Evans from Hot Ones De

Monsey is looking for new guests. If this is the producers trying to ask me if I would be interested, You're damn straight. I'd be interested. I'd love to go on Hot Ones with Sean Evans. I don't think I am well, to be honest, I don't think I'm famous enough to warrant the invite, But if Sean Evans invited me on Hot Ones, I would be thrilled to go on it. I think that would be super fun. I also think Key low Key is one of the most effective interviewers in media today. I think he does a

great job. You DEMANDE did a great job on Tuesday. I thought Tuesday was one of our best shows. So props to you. It's good to see you, and go ahead and get us started today if you would.

on the Internet, and McAfee hadn't heard of it. Some of mcfee's producers has if you look at the logos of the last three Super Bowls, that they line up with the team colors that played in those Super Bowls, and this year's logo has a purple and a red the two best teams are Ravens and Niners, and Rogers said, seemingly seriously, I just know next year's logo better have

Jet Green in it. And then, for reasons I don't totally understand, aj Hawk brings up the Epstein list that people thought was going to be released today or this week, when it was really just more redacted documents that were going to some names. But the idea that it was going to be an itemized person by person list was never really accurate if you actually followed any of the information.

The actual information and Rogers said essentially implied I should say to the lay person that Jimmy Kimmel, who works for the same company, is nervous about this list coming out. And so now I have to take one hundred steps back on a sports talk show that I do with my son from my wife's store, where sometimes we put on wizard outfits and drawn whiteboards and give you the

world's worst teasers, my picks, yell about brock Purty. We do all this, and now I have to give some context to a sports story that involves discussing sexual abuse of children. That's the position we're in. So just the very too long didn't read. Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein, disgraced now dead sexual predator, super wealthy financier who seemed to have incredibly powerful, famous friends. Two of our living ex presidents had some enough connection with them to where there's

a lot of there's photographs of them hanging out together. Well, Clinton and Trump, the Prince in England had a large connection to him, and it would appear, and you know, I don't even think I say it has to It would appear a guy who's convicted and then died in prison that Jeffrey Epstein systematically, over the course of years sexually abused high school age girls and many of his famous friends. This part, I should say, it should would

appear engaged in similar illegal, despicable, reprehensible acts. Epstein, after a long time, was finally convicted and then died in prison under what I think most people, you don't have to be a full blown conspiracy theorist to say is odd circumstances. Guy was on suicide watch managed to reportedly commit suicide, and the cameras weren't working, the guard wasn't there, and a lot of hm hm that seems odd. That's

the context. And at some point in the relative recent history, the Epstein list has been used as a cudgel to attack people you don't like, which, in my opinion, is weaponizing the sexual abuse of children for your own personal gains.

At no point, I shouldn't say, at no point, at some point, the focus of anything involving Jeffrey Epstein moved off of the dozens of young girls whose lives were irrevocably altered at the hands of the abuse of wealthy, powerful men and women in some cases, and instead of that being the focus, the focus shifted to a way to almost make it a synonym for I don't like you, I don't trust you, You're a bad guy, and it's

just thrown about flippantly. And that then brings us now that we've given the background to what Rogers did on McAfee's show, and now there's gonna be there's three possible outcomes for how Rogers will address this outcome. One is the most likely. He won't outcome. Two is the most cowardly, and he might He might go on McAfee's show and say, oh,

I wasn't saying Jimmy Kimmel was on the list. I was saying that Kimmel, who had mocked me for bringing up the epstein, I have to give a little more background,

so I apologize. I interrupted myself. About eight months ago, on McAfee, Rogers was asked about the Congressional hearings on aliens, which we had some fun on this show about, and Rogers just through out there he finds the timing odd because that was another time when he thought the Epstein List was coming out and he thought it was a big psyop where the government was putting this out there the aliens to distract us from the Epstein List, and

Jimmy Kimmel made fun of him for it. So to go back, there's three possible roads Rogers could walk down.

to double down. Well, I stand by it. I think based on nothing whatsoever, that Jimmy Kimmel might have engaged in child sexual abuse. Okay, the conversation surrounding this has been oh man, Jimmy Kimmel works for Disney. McAfee works for Disney. Is this going to cause a problem for Bob Iger? The head of Disney, Jimmy Pittarro, the head of ESPN, Is kim oll gonna put the screws? Because Kimmel, you could argue, is this their single most valuable forward

facing employee? Guy hosts Late Night and the Oscars, and you have on your family of networks somebody accusing him of I would argue, the single worst thing someone can be accused of. I think for many of us, being accused of sexually abusing children is more damning than, honest

to God, being accused of murder. Honestly, I think there are people out there watching this, listening to this right now that has someone in their life that might have killed somebody and they still consider them family or friend. I believe that to be true. I don't think there's anybody listening right now that has someone in their life that they suspect sexually abuses children and they are still,

you know, a part of their life. So I think it's the single most damning accusation you can make of another human being.

nobody seems to have been at it. And I we are. If if Steph Curry went on the Dan Patrick Show and just casually said, you know, implied that I mean, Julia Roberts murdered somebody and seemed serious about it, I don't think the story would be is this gonna affect Dan's relationships with Julia's movie studio? I think the story

would be what the hell happened to Steph Kurk. But because Rogers has been slow dripping this and while doing it has gathered his own almost army of internet supporters that this morning, I don't recommend you do this, but it's somewhat instructive. I don't tweet that much anymore. I retweet clips of the show. I try to be lighthearted on there. I don't give a ton of opinion unless

I'm watching live games. But I tweeted about this this morning, partially because I wanted to, and partially as a social experiment. And if you check the replies to the handful of tweets I sent, what you're going to see is people calling me a pedophile, people saying I'm nervous about the Epstein list. And Rogers has become the voice in the sports world of some of the most deranged, unhinged people in our populous and they they often like to and Rogers is one of these people like to pretend that

this is a vax anti vax thing. It flatly is not. As I mentioned on television, I will mention again, nobody Kirk Cousins didn't get vacs. Nobody cares. I don't. I'm not certain, but I think Lamar Jackson didn't get vexed.

Nobody cares. That is whether or not the you chose to get the COVID vaccine is your own personal decision, and it is a cop out, in my opinion, to then use that decision as a shield against any future criticism you get, as a way to be like, no, no, no, The only reason you don't like me, the only reason you're criticizing me is because your because of my VAX status.

And Roger said something the other day that went kind of by the wayside, and I heard it, but I didn't know what it meant, so I googled it, and it was once again when he was It was when he was saying, everyone's mad at him about his VAC status and you usually have to disclose your VAC status before you criticize him. And he said, it's because I took on the alphabet mafia and the pharmaceutical industrial complex. And I had never heard the term alphabet mafia, so

I googled it. So alphabet mafia is about and you know what, I I'll read it exactly, alphabet mafia meaning at least this is this is what the Internet tells me. It means it's about the LGBTQ community, and it's about folks. I think it's got a relation to pronouns and the fact that LGBTQ now has even more letters with it that LGBTQ I A plus whatever. So here's why that was noteworthy to me that Rogers threw that out there. I do know, I obviously am very highly critical of

Eron and this person he's become. I would bet my life He's not homophobic. I'm very confident in that. So I think he used that term not knowing what it meant. It was just he is so deep in the toxic internet brain vortech that it got lumped in with the mass delusion psychosis he talks about, and the Super Bowl logo memes, and the debate me Bro to Fauci and the Epstein list. It all is just one stew of

a brain that's been melted. And so now he's throwing out terms that not only have nothing to do with the pharmaceutical industry, but that also I think if he knew what they meant, would disavow. I think Erin's a lot of things. I think judgmental of what people do privately sexually is not one of them. And yet it just spilled out of his mouth like so much of this other toxic bullshit that has a platform nearly an hour a week to spew for folks that otherwise I

don't think are looking for it. It's you. You're not going to Alex Jones's YouTube channel, if that exists anymore. You're You're you're watching you are you have sports TV on in the background, and and you were flipping between Steve and A and skip, and then you you have Colin on he goes to commercial. What's McAfee talking about?

And all of a sudden you're hearing about the Epstein list in Jimmy Kimmel, and we've all become numb to the fact of who is saying it and what he's sag and that there there was just flatly one of the greatest players we've ever seen in America's favorite sport, who plays in the biggest market, who has a bigger platform than any other player in the league, more power over his team than any other player in the league.

That guy went on national television and casually throughout there to millions of people, Hey, this guy that I don't like, probably a pedophile. That's what fucking happened. And now this morning, when some of those Epstein docs were unredacted and released, what you have in the same corners of the Internet are folks photo shopping documents putting Jimmy Kimmel's name in them and saying Aaron was right. That is happening this morning already. And so when I tweet, he's gone from

wacky conspiracists to malignant, dangerous force. I mean it the idea that there aren't real world consequences, because again I want to be very clear on the allegation here, and I hate that we're talking about this, but because now, God dog it, now I have talked about pizzagate for a moment, there was this same insane corner of the Internet was pretty convinced a pizza shop in Washington, d C. Had a basement where children were ritualistically sexually abused, and

that Hillary Clinton was involved. I know it sounds crazy. I know it sounds like, what are you talking about, except for the fact that a guy drove three hours from his home to the pizza shop with a rifle, came inside and demanded to see the basement. Because if you truly believe these things are happening, you're almost obligated to do something like that. That's where the danger comes in. And mcavie can say we were shit talking where this guy's locker room talk all this. If you truly believe

children are being abused, can someone blame you? If you're like, you know what, God dog it, I'm gonna stop this. Of course not. And so when Jimmy Kimmel says you put my family in danger. He's not wrong, he's not. And when you try to hide behind oh, we're bleep talking, it is not saying his show sucks. It's not saying it should be canceled. It's not saying he's not funny. You are levying the single most damning accusation you can

levy against another human being. You're doing it either because your brain is so rotted from your own YouTube algorithm you believe it, or because you know what, I don't like that guy. He made fun of me, and I'm going to sick my corner of the Internet on him. I don't know what's worse. I do know that's the story. Either Aaron Rodgers will believe anything. He was joking about,

the NFL, the sport. He's damn near the face of being rigged and you, and by the way, they give a little wink and a nod to rigging it by having the Super Bowl teams be the color scheme of the Super Bowl logo nine months ahead of time, which would which is such an objectively silly conspiracy theory you could dismiss it. But either the brain is so rotted, I think that's real. I think that's happening or so Cavalier. No, I don't believe it, but I know this will make

his day shitty. Now I don't believe it, But what are you gonna do to me?

don't think this is funny. I don't think it's about the internal politics of Disney, and I don't I don't really have that much ill will on this towards McAfee, who I think would greatly prefer that these things not happen. He has some ownership of it because it's happening on

his show, But that is not the issue here. The issue here is one of our most prominent voices in sports has become the face, the voice, and more importantly, the megaphone for any batshit crazy, half baked theory he stumbles across on the Internet, and it, unfortunately, is a bit of a canary in the coal mine for what a lot of us are dealing with in our own personal lives with our own friends, family, or extended family.

Someone who pre pandemic was you know, would maybe forward you every once in a while an Instagram video that was like, hey, could the earth be flat? At least worth you know, watching this over the last four years has gone from Okay, I mean, what do you really like we're going to do this too? No, you don't.

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let me explain to the audience. I'm looking at a monitor. The monitor shows what you guys are seeing, and then beneath it has three small boxes that has like a single camera on me, a single camera on demanse, and then a middle box that can be whatever like graphics we have coming or whatever. So, while I was talking and I said, check my replies. I saw Tomnse go to his phone and then start looking, and I saw the look on your face, and you looked like legitimately furious.

And so I don't know, but I'm assuming it was exactly what I assumed had happened.

We're out Let's Oh, don't don't give them, don't squinch your brow. Let's show week sixteen, back to back weeks three and two. All right, so here it is Week sixteen. A couple weeks ago, we gave out the picks on the Air Giants plus twelve at Philly never a doubt Detroit minus three at Minnesota, easy winner. Washington plus three at the Jets, will take it. Dallas plus a point and a half at Miami. They lose by two, but we feel okay about it. Indye plus one at Atlanta.

I'll be honest with you, I don't remember anything about that game from two weeks ago. Indye Atlanta. I think Atlanta blew them out. I don't think I got unlucky there. That was a three and two week Now show me Week seventeen. Week seven picks New England plus fourteen and a half at Buffalo. Turn the ball over four times in the first twenty minutes, still cover easily. Arizona plus twelve and a half at Philly, win the game outright. Pittsburgh plus four and a half at Seattle, win the

game outright. Tampa minus two and a half against New Orleans. I was on the wrong side of that. New Orleans controlled that game, and the Rams letting the Giants cover there was a shame. Giants had no business covering there. The Rams screwed around at the end of the game, and I just that one's a little frustrating if you ask me. But that's back to back three and two weeks. We are hitting our stride. So where is the record for the year. The record for the year is forty

forty three and two. That means four and one, and we finish right at five hundred for the regular season, the elusive haven't hit it yet, white whale of five and zero, and we finish above five hundred despite what was a very shaky start. I believe we can do it. Demonse, There's no way we're gonna go the whole regular season without a single five and zero. Week eighteen is tricky because week eighteen you have to consider not only who's playing who's not. That's baked into the line, but what

could happen? Yes, and could the incentives change during games? Could one team blowing out another team make this team more likely in a different game to sit players. You've got to do all of that, figure it all out in real time. So let's get right to it. First game, Demonse that I have is.

Um after saying essentially jimyar Chase not essentially saying yeah, I don't know what Sneed's issue is. He clearly don't want to fight me. It's like, yeah, buddy, he's trying to win a division. You're trying to keep your playoff hopes alive. And then when he said that, T Higgins started laughing with him. This Cincinnati went into that game with the playoffs alive. They had to win to stay alive.

Had they won, they'd be alive. This weekend, they're playing the team that ended their season in this building less than a year ago. They had a ten point lead, they lost, and after the game, the two best players on their offense are in such high spirits they're laughing in gigling about fighting or not fighting the opposition. That tells me this team in a meaningless Week eighteen game against Cleveland is not going to have the juice they need to cover seven points. I'm not sure how much

Higgins or Chase will play. I know Cleveland and Jim Schwartz, they run the least creative defense in football. They basically just line up and play every single snap. Which why does that matter? Because for your backups, it's the easiest scheme to insert a backup into, so you want to have the talent of the other guys. But like Steve

Spagnolo's scheme, the Chiefs decordinator super complicated. And you saw in that Packers game Demons when they were already without one linebacker, Nick Bolton, and then Drew Trankle went down and then the safety went down, and they're trying to do all these exotic blitzes and things they can't with backups, and they right, and they just got cooked. Because that's a very complex defense. Cleveland is not that. Cleveland's just a plug and play essential defense. I'm getting seven points.

I understand it's Jeff Driscoll playing quarterback or whoever that I think it's Jeff Driscoll. I don't even know who The Browns and Jeff Driscoll's playing for somebody right now. Yeah, I don't care. And so Cleveland's locked into the five, Cincinnati's locked out. I'm getting seven points. Cleveland might win out right, they're certainly not getting blown out. Give me the full seven all take Cleveland.

is they sneaky would like a better draft pick. You think Belichick gives him another draft pick when he might not be the one making it. This is a very very simple math, plus the added stuff. Salah's the worst coach in the last twenty years with extended rest. They last played on Thursday. I thought New England. Listen, the turnovers were egregious. I thought their defense once again played excellent all things considered against Buffalo. There's pride here. It's

Belichick's farewell. It's in Gellette, New England minus point and a half.

guys for the beginning of the game. I think Dan Campbell is so livid about last week that and Dan Campbell desperately does not want to go into the playoffs losing two in a row after having such a good season up to this point. I also think that the Vikings quarterback situation has turned full blown disaster on them,

and it's in Detroit. It will be a celebration for the fans being able to, you know, go into a game knowing our team won the division for the first home game that they've played in thirty years under those circumstances. It's not so we saw last year Detroit in Week eighteen pull out all the stops to beat Green Bay when that was a meaningless game for them. This is not quite meaningless, but it's Detroit at home against the

Vikings quarterback situation. The three and a half you feel a little squeamish about, but I don't mind it all lay the three and a half. Nick Mullins Jaren Hall. Doesn't matter that the Vikings should have stuck with Josh Dobbs. They I think they had too quick of a trigger there, and maybe they would be in a slightly better position. Detroit minus three and a half, all right, Next.

Jalen is you know, DeVante Smith is obviously hurt. I think that Philly is going to go into this game saying we're playing our starters, and if Dallas is up seventeen to three on Washington, then all of a sudden, this game becomes totally meaningless for Philly. If Dallas wins, Philly's the five seed no matter what. So I could see a scenario where Jalen Hurts is pulled and Marcus Mariota comes in. Is Mariota the backup there? I think he's the backup there, and you have Philly take their

guys out while the Giants are still fighting. And because of that, this is kind of contingent on Dallas getting out to an early lead. But I believe that they're playing Sam Howell because Jacoby Brissett's still hurt. I think Dallas does get out to an early lead, so the Giants, I'm sorry, So the Eagles lose motivation and start sitting there. Guys, Giants plus five and a half in a game, I think the Giants can win out right.

if Pittsburgh loses, Buffalo's locked into the playoffs. Okay, I don't think Pittsburgh's gonna lose against the Baltimore backups against Huntley and company. But if Pittsburgh does lose, I will no longer like this bet. If Buffalo goes into the game knowing, worst case scenario, we're in the playoffs as the six or the seven. Best case we win the division and can play free and easy, then I think

Buffalo might win the game. But if I'm right that Pittsburgh is gonna beat Baltimore on Saturday, and the Bills and Sean, now they also need for this to be true. You also need Jacksonville to win Sunday, but Jacksonville's a favorite the playing the Titans. If Pittsburgh wins Saturday, Buffalo will go to bed Saturday night knowing it's probably win and we're the two seed. Lose and we're out of the playoffs entirely, And I don't think Buffalo's built for

that type of pressure situation. I think that Buffalo the last two weeks has been a team right for a loss. I think Buffalo, if they have all this time leading up to the game. It's the final game of the regular season, and all of a sudden, you have a Miami team that is desperate to stave off disaster for their season. Miami last week Demonsey was playing to be

the one seed. All of a sudden, if they lose this week, they're the sixth seed and they go to Kansas City in Round one, and the media can say what they want about the Chiefs. I promise you Mike McDaniel and the Dolphins did not anticipate that this year was going to start in the road at Arrowhead to start the postseason. So Miami's gotta have it, and you can say, well, Buffalo's gotta have it too, if Pittsburgh wins.

I don't think Buffalo's good and gotta have it situations, and I think that Miami will put Jalen Ramsey on Diggs, try to frustrate Digs early, and we are going to get before halftime. Coming out of commercial break on Sunday Night Football, Melissa Stark saying, here's what we saw on the sideline between Stepan Diggs and Josh Allen, and I ing it is on the board that this is Digg's last game as a Bill, and I like Miami in this spot, so for all those reasons, I like Miami.

So my picks recap Demons is Cleveland getting seven at Cincinnati, New England plus a point and a half at home against the Jets, Detroit minus three and a half at home against Minnesota, the Giants plus five and a half at home against Philly, Miami plus three at home against Buffalo. Do we have an offer this week?

We're gonna get some nonsense team in round one. This is what Bills fans are thinking. We're gonna get whoever the seventh seed is in round one. We're gonna wax them. Then Patrick Mahomes has to come to our building for the first time ever. We're gonna beat them, and we are cooking with gas. That's what Bills fans want.

Even if you lose, your teams still in the playoffs. So I strongly recommend that our we have a never before seen, never before done special Year in Review c block involving one of our most famous and beloved viewers ever. That's next. What's Right? All right, welcome back in What Driving Nick Wright? Episode two oh five. All right, demons, we have a special segment here. Go ahead and set it up for us, if you would.

the scores. Here, guys, we're not doing negative for wrong answers because since we have to answer the questions, and because I want to make sure that Demanse has money and I have money when we get to final jeopardy, we're not doing negative because you're only you should only do negative if you buzz in like I want to

answer it. We're not doing that, all right. Demanse did exactly what my strategy was gonna be, which is, given the fact that we're alternating answers and questions, you gotta make sure you have an opportunity to answer the high dollar amounts. So that was a heady play. So I'll go overs for six hundred.

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