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Someone said to me today, they're like, we're doing a bit that you're going to do your show from Indiana and stay in Kentucky and go to the game in Ohio. And I said, no, not at all. And like me, this person, I guess, just didn't know how the geography worked of Indiana is the sleeper there. I would not have had that in the office pool that Indiana connects basically right to Cincinnati, but also to Kentucky. But yeah, we're going to be broadcasting from Thoms Watch Bar, our old friend Tom Daley runs a casino in Indiana. So we're going to see him. We're going to do the show from there. We're going to stay in a hotel in Kentucky with our buddies, Condorian Marad, we're footing the bill for the old trip and taking good care of us and cannot wait to go hang out and watch football with those guys. And then we are going to be at the game in Cincinnati as the commanders stunned the national football league, Danny. The story in the NFL on Tuesday is going to be that kid, Jaden Daniels and how he played and how good the commanders are. So I knew about the Kentucky part of it because I have family on my dad's side. That's, you know, outside of Cincinnati, but they live 100% in Kentucky. That's the Kentucky Rudyates. Yeah, I've always known about that. The Indiana part really snuck up on me. I'm with you on that one. Did you hit no fire? I mean, I guess in general, I could have like filled in the map. Oh, Indiana touches it. I didn't know that Cincinnati's nestled right up in there. I don't know that Cincinnati was playing fast and loose with that border too. I knew they're right there on Kentucky. I knew that. I'm just going to prepare people to over you're going to overhear me on the day we're doing the show in Indiana talking about how we're in one state then and we'll be in another state later. Yeah, like the guy who says, good morning when it's like 12.07 AM or happy new year at like 12.01 on January 1st. That unfunny guy. Yeah, I'm going to have to do a lot of we're going to be driving cross state here. It's like a nine minute drive. And what are we? It's no different than here. You know, it's like three states just or three municipalities just kind of in this. I guess that's true. I mean, I was in Virginia initially. And then I got to DC and if I wanted to, I could go home through Maryland, DC, Maryland, Virginia. Just I don't know why it feels different. It's just it's Indiana seems like a place I've never been. That's really far away from Kentucky. Because I've been to South Bend. I've been to why am I blanking? Oh, for God's sakes. South Bend. Yeah. I had somewhere else in there in Indiana, too, that I've been to. That's not important for God's sakes. I couldn't remember the name of this. It has the has all the same letters in it even. And then you had apples. Yeah, I've been to several places. And at no time was someone like, you know, what's right over here is Ohio. Never one time is that happened when I was in Indiana. So I didn't know about that. I didn't know that Cincinnati was all was flirting with Indiana like that. I didn't realize how close it was. Am I wrong, Darius? How are you on planes? You're good or nervous? Am I thinking of somebody else? Are you a guy that's weird on planes or no? Oh, it's funny. You bring it up. I'm somewhere in between because I don't have much flying experience. I've probably flown under six total times in my life. So do you accidentally break a lot of the rules that are the norms of flying? Like, are you standing up as soon as we land before no moves? Okay. No, I'm more nervous and do what I do it. I'm supposed to be told kind of guy on the plane. Um, you know, sometimes intrusive thoughts, like terrible things happening to the plane will take over my head. Make sure you share those with those around you. You know, like, what are you referencing? Exactly. Dude, I can't come on. Unfortunately, I've watched final destination too many times. I won't send you a video of the turbulence on a flight that I saw on my Instagram. Please don't. Yesterday. I didn't even know this could happen. Have you ever seen any of those? Yeah. I will not be watching them this week. I'll tell you. But there was this video that it was like over the Rocky Mountains or something in there. No, everyone on the airplane is screaming because it's like a roller coaster. I would be. It's not fun. What do they call it? Essing a brick. I think Matt has a brick. What I wake up is the question. I just know how I sleep on. I was going to say, I hope you don't want to talk to grand on the plane and get in logistics. If you're nervous or you need a buddy, wake me up. I'm your guy. But you will have to wake me up because if I've sat down on an airplane and that little motor is going and now air is kicking. It's like a oscillating fan in my bedroom. It just, it gets me in a good place is out. I think that's why you asked because the last time we did ride when we came back from spring training, you asked me like, do you sleep on planes? I was like, I can't because I overthink. Well, it's also great. Does it know? Even if he's fun with you, he doesn't know what you do on planes because he's asleep. You know what I mean? Like it's not like one of those How's Darris on a plane? I wouldn't know. Didn't you find next to him? Yeah, but I'm asleep before everyone boards. You think it's sick? I think and I've never seen anything like it. I'm terrible at falling asleep in real life. My wife hates it. I lay in my bed on my phone forever, but partially my own problem. Like it's not like I'm laying there trying to fall asleep with my eyes closed, but I'm always on my phone or checking something or just too busy. But on an airplane, there is a piece to that. No one can bother you. No one can get to you or up in the air. There's nothing you got to do. You don't need to respond to an email. You're not worried about missing a call. My kids, my wife, like, I don't need to do anything. It's just me. And there's something to that that it's just this freedom of your boys about to sleep. What's super weird, though, as you know, is the idea of sleeping in public is one of my greatest fears. And that's pretty public. There's a lot of people there that you don't know. It's the epitome of hypocrisy. I've never understood this dichotomy, by the way. Like I could not, if you gave me a couch in a room somewhere in this building that no one ever goes into that you have to get through like four guarded doors to get back to my room where the couch is. I couldn't sleep for fear that someone might find me there and open the door and see me. And see you sleeping. Who cares if they see you sleeping? But there's something about me sitting up that makes it okay. It's more respectful. Yeah, I don't know why. It's like I'm not actually, it's not a real sleep. It's just my eyes are closed kind of thing. Yeah, well, I know. I wasn't. I was just I was just blinking. Well, I'm that guy. Definitely. When someone calls me and I've been asleep, like, Hey, man, were you asleep? Why do I lie? I don't know. I will never answer. Yes. No, not at all. What do you mean? Why would I be asleep? And someone's like, because it's three in the morning, dude. And like, no, I was wide awake. I was sitting here like I get so embarrassed with the idea that someone might know that. Someone might know that you've slept. Like I've known you for it. It's about 16 years. We've known each other. You've still never admitted to me that you've gone to the bathroom. You know what I mean? Like it's to that level. I mean, number one, I've done that. No, you've you've thrown fast balls. You have used to acknowledge you've never shaken to a curve ball once. Like you'll be gone for minutes at a time and everybody can do the math. We've seen you under the stall. Like your shoes. We've never seen me under this 100% senior. I yelled your name and you cursed at me. You said you talked in a way that I've never heard you speak to me before. It was harsh. It was mean. Because you I said, hey, Grant, you go, you like it was like real. It was like anger. What's your bag check situation? I don't know. I think we got to minimize what we're bringing. Yeah. To me, let's try not to do any kind of checking bags. I think we do like a book bag. It's a two-nighter. Is that right? Sunday, Monday? Yeah. Yeah, but you need your hanging back for the nice clothes. Not bringing nice clothes, obviously jeans. They can put into it. I think this is a book bag situation or duffel. I think I'm gonna go duffel. We also got to bring the comrades Ryan too. I mean, of course. So now we're checking something. Yeah. Never mind. To that. Exactly. So for checking something, I'm just going to bring two suitcases because we already got to check it anyway. Yeah. And you're hanging back. Not going to go a hanging bag. Cannot wait to see what you put together though. A little peacock and a Rea over there's got a are you going to have a pocket square? The pocket square. Listen, I haven't specifically checked on all the little cows where we're going. Yeah. But I'll be damned if I'll be underdressed. If that's what you're saying, you're not going to be. It's six dudes going to sports bars. So I don't think these are adults, mind you. So they're not where I'm just going to some sports bar where it's like, I will say, Kia can dress. He's sharp. Yeah, I'm sure all the dudes can dress. I don't know. But I've seen like he looks like a dude. Well, he's like handsome. You know what I mean? He looks like a movie star on a Netflix show. And he's like, Oh, he's wearing a suit with like all kinds of different colored shirts. You know what happened is the second button just got unbuttoned. I don't know how it happened. Anyway, hey, girl. All right. Well, I'm going to wear a polo shirt or a button down shirts. So if you want to do more than that, be a guest. Just bring your just bring your hanging bag and have like a nice slacks and couple couple blazers. Let's look at the standings here. Two and oh and oh and two teams get a little feel for what we think. How good are they? Buffalo bills at two and oh sustainable division champion in my opinion. I love Buffalo. Buffalo is real. They're going to struggle and struggles not the right word, but they're going to have to go through it a little bit. They're going to win some pushing contests that win some games that maybe they shouldn't like they didn't week one where Josh Allen is just a hero. Right now, he might be the best part of the league. Remember the dolphins were probably their stiffest competitor to have got placed on IR today. He's going to miss at least four games. I'll take the over on that. He is apparently not considering retirement and is expected the return. It sounds like this season or at least he thinks he's going to. We'll see if the dolphins agree to those terms, but I think Miami is no longer really a legitimate threat in the division. So now it's just the jets and the jets have not looked that good. If the jets get get going, maybe they're a threat, but it's Buffalo's division. AFC North loan to an old team is the Pittsburgh Steelers. Their quarterback is Justin Fields. They have not been able to throw the ball that well. Honestly, there are some major shades of the commanders with them. The difference being their defense is great. But they've run the ball really well. Their quarterback has made a lot of plays with his feet. They've made just enough plays in the passing game. But here's the comp to Washington. They won one of their games with six field goals and no touchdowns sound familiar. And they won their second game with one touchdown. So they're two and oh, but I do not buy them. You know, I'm not as high on the Ravens as everybody else this season. They're all in two. I'm not just saying that now. I would I said that coming here. I still like Cincinnati a lot. I think Baltimore is going to be a good team. I would say the Bengals. If they win on Monday night against Washington, I would still take to win that division. Pittsburgh is is fraudulent in the sense that their offenses is wretched. But this is what they do. This is the most stealersy thing possible is to win a game where they've scored one offensive touch and they've only given up one. That defense is unbelievable. Give it up the second fewest points in the NFL behind the Chargers who have played two hot garbage teams. But Pittsburgh's defense is great to reactionary to say that the North is not as good as we thought. Steelers two and oh, the Browns one and one the Bengals and Ravens are both not one. It's it's not reactionary because Cleveland hasn't been particularly good either. I know they they won there this past week against Jacksonville playing great defense 13 Jacks. But yeah, them and Pittsburgh are the same team. They're both that's an eight wind team with not with no offense in a bad quarterback situation, but great defenses. So what they'll be paying the butt to play, but they're not going anywhere. Since adding Baltimore being 0 and 4 is pretty stunning. Yeah, good point. All right. AFC South, the Texans are who we thought they were. They're 2 and 0. Everybody else in the South is 0 and 2. Stop me if you've heard this story before, Ruye. The Titans, the Jaguars and the Colts, a combined 0 and 6 at this point. Tennessee, I'm not surprised by Levis has really struggled. Jackson, Villa, I am surprised by it. Lawrence hasn't played well. They got some issues. The Colts are 0 and 2 despite playing really well in week one and losing to Houston. But Anthony Richardson's turning the ball over. It's kind of like highlight real play or not particularly good for him. Yep. Right now he's very, very young, didn't play a lot last year. I think he's played a career six games now for the Colts. The Texans are just heading shoulders better than those other teams. Texans are for real. I thought the Colts would challenge them. You saw that in week one, but week two, you saw the bad kind of the ugly side. As you mentioned, a role with Anthony Richardson long term. I'm still in. I'm excited about it. I want to see where it goes, but they're going to be some roller coaster rides. And that was certainly one this past weekend with all the turnovers. That was a terrible loss for the Colts. They're playing the Packers without Jordan Love with Malik Willis at quarterback. And you knew all they can do is run the ball and then they ran it for 260 and beaten. Hard to figure that. Not great, Bob. AFC West to undefeated's chiefs, not surprising. Chargers, I'd say very surprising. What's interesting about LA is that in addition to being 2 and 0, they have a pretty legitimate chance to get to 3 and 0 this weekend. They play the Steelers. So one of those teams is going to be a very surprising three win zero loss team going into week four. Obviously the chiefs are for real. They still will win the division. Do you think so? That's funny. It's good bet. Will you buy in on the Chargers yet or no? So it beat the Raiders. 22 10 who have beat the Ravens. And then they destroyed the Panthers or the worst team in the league. Yeah, one double A team. So it depends on what we mean by buy. Like, do I think they're going to have a much better season the last year? Yes. 10 win wildcard. Do I think they could do what you just said? Yeah, I do. You harvest a couple nuts here. If you end up 3 and 0, you can be under 500 the rest of the way and be a postseason team. Like, I think they're, they're this, right? They're going to play ground and pound. Dobbins isn't going for 200 yards a week on, you know, seven carries as he's done for the first couple of games. But I think they're going to play this style. Maybe we win a game or two that you don't think they will and end up with nine or 10 wins. So I do buy it. If they're four and one through five, I will buy them to win 10 games. They're next three games to get there. They play the Steelers, the Chiefs and the Broncos. If they win two of three, which they easily could, right? Absolutely. Handle your business against Pittsburgh and Denver, even if you lose to the Chiefs, which is almost a certainty, then you're still four and one and the schedule doesn't get a whole lot easier after that, but you've built yourself some nice headway. As you said, you've harvested those nuts. All right, let's get to the NFC then. Grant and Danny taking a look at the unbeaten's in the NFL, seeing who we buy in on. The Minnesota Vikings are the only undefeated team in the NFC North where the lions, bears and Packers are all one in one. Sam Darnolds played well. Kevin O'Connell, the front runner for coach of the year right now. They dominated the Giants 28 six and then they got a pretty quality win against the 49ers, albeit a banged up San Francisco team short week traveling cross country. I'm not buying them and it's probably not fair because what they've turned in through two weeks, you couldn't be better than that, right? You beat up on a bad team. You did what you're supposed to do and you beat a really good team and I know it's a bit more vulnerable than they might be otherwise, but that ain't your fault. That was really, really impressive what they did. I just, I can't do a Sam Darnold leads a team to the post season in a tough division thing yet. I think it's a two nice weeks. I'm selling in the sense that I think they kind of come back to the pack here and that's Detroit's division. These NFC South was supposed to be the worst division in football. There are two teams that are 2 and 0 in the Bucks who have a quality win over the Lions and the Saints who just destroyed the Cowboys. Very, very surprising starts for both teams. I will buy Tampa. A playoff team last year that beat the Eagles by 23 in the post season brought most of those guys back. It seems like Baker Mayfield is still playing at a high level despite Dave Canales leaving. So that answers a big question there. New Orleans. I'm not ready to buy just yet. Again, when one of your wins is against the Panthers, that's a little deflating to me. I think what they did against the Cowboys was an unbelievable message. And normally when you start playing this well on offense, like you're pretty good. It's not like they're winning seven to 10, you know, 10 to seven and there's Steelers and 13 to three. I mean, they have scored on every possession. My guy Clint Kubiak, Shanahan disciple in New Orleans, making some sweet music. That's why I'm buying them again, not to be a Super Bowl contender or, you know, a team that's really going to host an NFC title game or something like that. But they're way better than I thought. I thought they Dennis, I thought Dennis I was getting fired at after week seven. The opposite is happening. They've scored the third most points through two weeks of any team in history. So that's way different than I thought. So I'm buying them as legitimate. They're going to be around and same with Tampa. Really, really impressive through two weeks. I know beaten Washington in that big a deal, but going on the road and beating Detroit. Now I'm kind of going to wait a minute. Let me reevaluate what I saw previously. That's a pretty decent group down there. Dennis Allen as the first coach getting fired. So I have been on the Saints. The Seahawks are two and oh, I don't think they're for real. They have topped the Broncos in a one possession game and the Patriots in a field goal game. They get the dolphins this week without to us. They're going to be three and oh, then they play the Lions. I think they lose that game, but then they've got the Giants. Again, it's not who you play. It's when you play them. They play San Francisco before they get healthy in a couple of weeks as well. They're getting some good bounces. My guess is they end up going over 500. I just don't think they're that good. Yeah. So this all depends on how we're defining it, right? Because that's why I pegged them as a playoff team simply because their schedule is going to be pretty easy. Let's get to survivor on a Tuesday. You guys have been voting all day long, Facebook dot com slash Grant and Danny, which commander is getting sent home? Who's getting immunity? It is time to find out. This episode is brought to you by progressive insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too with the name of your price tool from progressive. It works just the way it sounds. You tell progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget. Get your quote today at progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust progressive. Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates price and coverage match limited by state law. 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He will still be on the island a week from now. Went from not on the team to the voted immune player this week, which is hilarious, but he made all seven field goals, well deserved. Ryan, that means you're delivering the bad news. Whose playbook are you taking? So over my years of counting who's being booted off the island, I have never had this many players get voted. Ten different players were voted to be booted off, but there is a winner. Deami Brown has been booted off the island. He is gone. Deami, Deami, he had a first down catch on our video. He did. Sam Cosby was right behind him as well. Right behind him is going to be one of the last guys standing. But you know what? You get two false starts in the red zone. People get a little irritable. People notice. Uh huh. I think the Deami Brown one's a little lifetime achievement award. What do you think? It is. It is also. I had this. The third one, Jonathan Allen. People are getting fed up with Jonathan Allen. It went a little something from the D tackles. Uh oh. Wow. So plenty of blame to go around. All right fellows. We appreciate that. Some good voting done throughout the day. Remember Facebook dot com slash Grant and Danny. Go add the page and uh be our friend. That's still a thing. Yeah. We want your friendship. All right. We want your friendship and we need your votes or something like that. Uh all right. Let's uh get you ready for Nat's baseball starting line up pitching matchups presented by the window man since 1989. The window man's been the educational window company. Get your free no pressure, no estimate. Uh the window man dot com or their Fairfax showroom behind Mitchell Parker. When we go on pitch, miss Parker. Uh betting first playing shortstop. See check. April is batting second and left field. The James Wood batting third. Third base. Jose 10, uh what do you do about it? Fourth your day. Chuan. You pass batting fifth and second base. Luis Garcia Jr. batting sixth during the catching cable. Ruiz batting seventh and right field Dylan Cruz batting eight. The first base Joey Gallo, batting ninth and center field door guy, my guy, our guy. That's Jacob Young. Over the last two seasons, the nationals have used just 10 starting pitchers, the fewest and major league baseball over that span, the development of Mitch Parker, Jacob, improving durable. The last couple of years, a big, big reason why let's catch your Nat's game day weather presented by PEPCO storm seasons here. We know a little prep makes a big difference. Get storm informed at PEPCO.com/Storm prep show meteorologist. Daris Dameron, it may be Jerry and rainy here in DC, but the Nat's are in New York where they are taking on the Mets. It is going to be 71 degrees at first pitch, mostly cloudy, but not a chance precipitation throughout the night, uh, should dip into the high sixties as the game progresses. Love that. We have been promising to give away tickets to the caps 50 fast. So let's do that right now on G and D. Congratulations to caller 10 at 806361067. You're going to win tickets to the 50 fest for the caps. 50 fest is featuring third eye blind, celebrate the caps 50th anniversary Thursday, October 10th, next month at Capitol one arena, the festival will have over 60 alumni and attendance. The caps current roster will be there, photo ops, entertainment, a concert by third eye blind and more tickets are only 1974 to commemorate 50 years for tickets and more event info. Go to the fan DC.com/events. What do you got on the slate tonight, Danny? Plan some pickup hoops. They'll choose the night hoop section, which will be interesting. Danny Ruye Hooper, basketball player, predict your stat one, uh, two for 10, one tantrum, a couple turnovers and some lazy defense. Let's go. Let's go to Sean Stevenson. Let's go lock them down on defense. Let's go for Daris. I said lazy. Did I lazy defense? And Ryan and Danny. I'm Grant saying so long. We're back at two o'clock tomorrow. Thank you for coming. This episode is brought to you by progressive insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too, with the name of your price tool from progressive. It works just the way it sounds. You tell progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget. Get your quote today at progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust progressive. Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates price and coverage match limited by state law. Presented by T-Mobile, the official wireless partner of Odyssey Sports. With an awesome network and great savings, there's never been a better time to join T-Mobile. Visit your neighborhood store to make the switch today. 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