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big segment called Picks with Glens. And what we do with Picks with Glenn's
is me, Mike, Danny, JJ, Danny's two and a half year
old son Malcolm, and a caller and you can call in at two and
four or eight one seven seven eight seven one ninety seven one and pick two
games with us, all right and the Lens have a chance. That's the
name of our listeners based on a reference Mike's really made on day one of
our station, and it's it's been a lot of fun to do so far.
And I can tell you the standings before we play the intro and get
to our celebrity guest picker and to our Glenn of the week celebrity guest picker
five and one so far an incredible place. The hot dog champion Joey Chestnut.
Yeah, first to lose a game among the celebrities. He went one
in one last week. Cowboys got him there. Cowboys got him. Cowboys
got all of us except for you, Yes, for you, Mike Adams,
former Rangers relief pitcher in the World Series years was the Week two at
two and oh, and then Dick Valentine of Electric six, So you can
see tomorrow night at Trees two and oh as well, or will they be
Electric five in second place? Kevin Turner That Mike's Roy and the Lens And
by the Glenn so far, I mean Justin from Sherman, Carry from Princeton
and Robert from Dallas. They are coming in at three and three as well,
Danny JJ and Malcolm at two and four. But anything can change real
quickly. As we picked two games. It is the week four edition of
Picks with Glenn's the short version, we hope, with Glenn's one version picking
games against the spread with the guests on the day. Danny, you did
picks with Glenn's sorry, I think this is AI. I can't tell picking
games against the spread with the guests, Oh prize and is Ladies and Gentlemen
on the Freak hot Line this week's mystery celebrity guest. You know him from
his time with the Dallas Cowboys what you can now see him on shows like
Hit Sticks, which is very fun, and also in the players Lounge over
at Dallas Cowboys dot com. Former Cowboys safety Buried Church joins, Oh my
god, hey, we're going down. We're going down you on TV last
night. Yeah, we did it where it was on one of the three
screens at Elamo Drafthouse before a movie. So this hit Sticks show, Barry,
is it you? And is it is it Isaiah? Stand Back and
Yard? Basically yes, indeedious US two one that hitty self as short.
What's going on there? Because I was watching it and it was kind of
like using Madden off of Xbox or something to kind of break down some Cowboys
plays and stuff. Yeah, it's pretty cool. So we're using Madden only
three to go down there and we break down the plays from the previous game
and then we also do the matchups for the next game. So like this
week we did you know, Dallas defense versus you know, Zeke and Stevenson
coming out of the backfield. We recreated that you know interception that we saw
last week in Arizona at the end of game. So, I mean it's
a pretty cool, you know situation where we use mad to break stuff down.
So pretty cool show who came up with that idea. That's a really
unique, cool thing. Yeah, that's pretty dope, man. I think
it was, you know, one of those cats over there at Dallas Cowboys
dot Com. I was like, hey, man, let's lose this maddened
platform to see if we can, you know, get some engagement. And
you know, it's been what two years now, so the thing's been rolling.
Pretty cool. So Barry Church played what six full seasons for the Cowboys,
another one or two with the Jacksonville Jacks. I have all your numbers
in front of me. Uh ten interceptions. I want to just real quick,
Barry Church, the first one that pops in your head, what's your
most who'd you pick off that you remember the most most vividly? Oh?
Man, I would have to say it was the most vividly would be my
time in Jacksonville when I picked off Ben Roethlisberger in Pittsburgh. I'm from Pittsburgh.
I picked him off, took it back to the to the house,
and uh, you know, I had a touchdown and all that, so
that was great. So I'd probably be the most vivid one. And then
also, you know my very first interception everybody remembers at first, so that
was definitely one on one on the pedestal as well. Who is that off?
Do you remember? Oh? Eli Man Eli? Yeah, he got
me bad. I love you that he got me Bai Yeah, multiples on
who you pick off the most? Was it Eli? Eli? Oh?
Yeah, it was Eli, and I got Eli like three or fourty career
interception. Oh yeah, we love Eli. So when you went out to
Jacksonville, did you stay living here in Dawash or did you I mean like
full time or what was your How did that work? And then then how
did you decide to, I guess come back here if you did come back
here? Oh so yeah, so you had got a house on the beach
down there in Jacksonville For my time down here, I was down there for
three years and then but I kept my place here in Dallas because I always
knew I wanted to come back to Dallas. I mean, I love the
city Dallas, which I started playing there, so I know this is where
I wanted to raise my family and all that good stuff. So we always
kept the house here. I mean, once my time was done in Jacksonville,
sold that house, came back here and built me a career about in
south Lake and called it a day. You're also doing show on the the
Dallas Cowboys dot Com called the Players Lounge. What's going on with that?
Oh yeah, man, Now that's my fun show. Man. That's where
I get to pet loose a little bit. And that's our podcast over there
at me Danny McCray knew, he scrugs, and heck Ma Harrison and we're
on there for an hour two to three every single day. You can catch
it on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. But yeah, it's just, you know,
basically being in the locker room. All we do is just talk stuff
and the joke around and break down stuff that we see on TAKEE with the
Cowboys and teams around the NFL. But it's a good time. Man.
It just reminds me of being back in the locker room where all everybody just
kind of jumps on each other and we break stuff down. Man. So
it's a pretty cool time. So you're the name of the show has the
word lounge in it. I'm assuming that there are beverages just flowing. How
many cocktails would you say on averagees knew he putting down for Bodoo. He's
just gotta doing his day, man. But the rest of us you have
a good stab for sure. So I was thinking about, like, everything
that you've been through when you played here, are you able though, to
be like honest in those like shows? Because I mean, the Cowboys are
kind of Jerry kind of doesn't care if you're critical as long as it's not
like personal or anything. It's like, are you able to be like honest
about you know, the team's sucking last week, and you know, can
you or do you have to like play it safe and tow the company line?
They played bad? They played bad. We talked about they get that
Arizona breakdown that desas Man have wanted decis that we have got punsh in the
mouth. You know, they definitely got punshing the mouth, and in Arizona
was able to established dominance, you know at the line of scrimmage and that's
something that you know, worried this team last year. So we definitely get
to the you know, talk our stuff, as long as we don't make
it personal like they like you said, man, as long as we don't
you know, take a shot at the individuals personally. But we're talking about
the team as a whole and the game as a whole. We're allowed to
say what we want, man. So it's it's a fun time. It's
definitely a good time. All our mystery celebrity guest picker this week on Picks
with Glenn's Berry Church Cowboys Safety one. Also for the Jacks. Ju Seem
on Hit Sticks and the players on Berry get two games on the plate this
week. Now, we always picked the Cowboys game, so let you do
that one first, and then I gave you a game of your choice to
kind of to kind of choose. So what do you want to go with
for the Cowboys? M i'ma good what's the spread on that spread for the
six and a half. We're locked in at six and a half six and
a half. Okay, I'm gonna say the Cowboys win this game. It's
gonna be tough, It's gonna be tough and I believe they do not cover
the spread, so I gotta win, but they don't cover the spread,
all right, Matriots plus six and a half taking the point, And then
Barry, what's your kind of game of the week. I'm going with Miami
Buffalo. I mean, for what we've seen from Miami the first couple of
weeks, how explosive they look. I mean, they look like the ninety
nine Rams out here. Man, It's it's crazy. And then Buffalo after
that, you know, hiccup against the Jets, which I don't know how
they drop that game because Zach Wilson has got awful, But overall, I
mean it's gonna be a heck of a matchup. I got my I got
Miami winning this one. Man. They just got too much speed out there
with Waddle and Hill and the mostart. I mean, it's just like a
track team out there. Defense is still pretty good. So I got Miami
winning this one. I don't know what the spread is, but I'm sure
they'll cover the bread. Miami plus three, so you're getting points too.
You're in good shape here. Well, the celebrities are in first place,
and they've got a chance to stay in first place because if your solid picks
there, Barry. That's so I can't go out like Joey Chestnut man go
on to one though, I gotta represent all right. Lastly, your thoughts
on Travis and Taylor. Wow, man, you know, good for trav
Man, good for Trap. You talk about just making the brand that much
bigger having a girlfriend or whatever they are talking. I mean, that's that's
that's big for him, that's big for the dashbl Football League. It was
wild though, because you see I'm on ESPN just watching, just trying to
get my sports in and you see more stories about you know, Taylor Swift
and Trav than you did the actual game, which is which is wild to
me, even though they did blow them blow to Chicago Bears out. But
I mean it's wild to me. But you know, good for trav Man.
You'd love to see it. Yeah, all right, Well, Barry,
thank you for the time. I haven't talked to you in a while,
but you've always been a great dude to me. Can I just say
to like, I'm I was always a fan of you as a player,
but I think you are one of the most like natural good dudes what you're
doing post career, and I'm dead serious. I don't kiss ask for no
reason in on this show, and we haven't done it. I didn't tell
Joey Chestnut he's a great eater. But I really think you're awesome. I
really think you're awesome at what you do, and I think you're your Your
trajectory of your career is gonna keep in a really good direction and I don't
know where you want it to end up, but I just wanted to say
that. Man, I think you're great at what you're doing a post career
man. I appreciate that. Man, Thank you very much. Man.
It definitely had me on the soap more often. I'm over here listening,
man, get me on the soap bo off. Yeah, yeah, you're
the man. Verry. Thank you so much, and good luck this week
with your picks and we'll talk to you around the bend. Yes, indeed,
you may have a good one. There, he goes our celebrity guest
picker Berry Church. Not bad. Let's go to our glen of the week,
Jeffrey and fort Worth. Oh this got to know anything. Jeffrey,
how you doing? Mushed? Good morning everybody, How are yall? I'm
doing good? Jeffrey, what do you do for a living, man,
I do, uh software support? I work from home? Lucky? Oh
man, just the best. You got kids running around while you're updating McAfee
or whatever? Did you do? I got? I got a three year
old in school though, So Norton, Norton? Do you have Norton?
Do you have Norton? That's actually what I wanted to name my child who
was a boy. So because of your love of of of anti virus software,
I love of technology. How long have you been married? Uh?
Five years? Is the spark still there? Oh? More than ever?
Believe you, second, more than ever? How what's the see? Hey
you just hear Barry church All was a badass? Right? Yeah? Yeah,
man, absolutely great hearing from him. Are you coming to our freak
birthday party next? Uh? I'm definitely gonna try. I gotta see if
I can get the day off. But if I, and I think I
will. You work at home? You can take the day off whenever you
want, all right, I mean every day is like a day off.
They have someone monitoring you when you work at home, Like, no,
you were an ankle monitor when you're working from home? No, No,
that spells over. That's good. That's good. All right, what's his
name again? It's Jeffrey and Jeffrey Mike. We need two picks out of
you. The first one's gonna be on the Cowboys game. They are at
home against the New England Patriots. It is Cowboys minus six and a half.
Yeah, I mean they're gonna make Mac jones day miserable, I think
after last week. So I'm taking Cowboys. Cowboys it is. You're now
locked in with that selection. We need one more NFL pick from you.
What's it gonna be? Uh, you know what, let's go. Let's
just follow up on what very church they had to say. Uh, Dolphins
and who are they playing? Bills? Buffalo, Buffalo, So I'm actually
make Buffalo. I think this is a trap game. Dolphins are feeling pretty
good and uh, they do have a great offense. But I think they
played a really bad Denver team last week and they took obviously historical advantage of
that. And it's not gonna follow up the same thing as time. Well,
spicy, all right, Bill's minus three. Yep, you're betting against
the Dolphins. I sure am. Get the hell off the phone. All
right, thanks for calling in. Good luck, best of luck you have
the Cowboys and Buffalo Bills is the two selections from moste We see next Thursday.
At all right, he didn't even really make it sound like he was
going to be there. Oh see, if I can, maybe I'm gonna
see him. Yeah, Uh do you want me to go? Yeah?
You should let the dumb dumb go first. Yeah, we should let the
people who are two and four Danny and j J y'all y'are pulling up.
I'm not saying JJ a dumb dumb. She knows ten million times more about
football than I do. Let let the novice go. All right, let
me get this out of the way and then we'll get to the real gridiron
experts on this panel. Momentarily, I want to say the Cowboys for last.
All right. The game that I chose is Cincinnati at Tennessee. Cincinnati
favored by two and a half. Burrow finally got a win. You got
two one and two teams. He's slowly coming back from that calf injury,
I believe, continuing to improve a little bit a little by little, and
a lot of people are projecting you know that injury is going to feel better
and get better as the weeks go on. It feels really good for me
to say that Cincinnati. Cincinnati can beat Tennessee by a field goal at least,
which is why I'm taking Tennessee. Oh, I'm going with the opposite
of what my brain logic says because it has not served me to this point.
Wonderful, all right, I love this logic, the mythology, the
methodology's just outstanding. Yes, and then we now have the Cowboys versus the
New England Patriots, the homecoming for Zeke Elliott. Will he bust out and
get his fifteen yard gain? Maybe we'll have to tune in to find out.
Dallas is favored by six and a half. People are thinking, you
know what, Dallas is not going to allow back to back terrible performances.
They're gonna smear the New England Patriots. I don't think so. I don't
even know if they're gonna win, which is why I should be taking Dallas.
But I'm taking New England in this game. I love it. I
think I think Dallas might win. They probably will, but they're not gonna
cover. Okay, we're gonna We're gonna be in here next Monday, going,
Man, something wrong with this team. Something's wrong with this team,
man that maybe they ain't that good. I love it all right. He's
locked New England plus six and a half, Tennessee plus two, Tennessee plus
two. He's a point taker this week. Let's go over to JJ JJ
also two and or you need him JJ. Yeah, I do, I
do. I'm not used to losing Cowboys and Patriots. I'd be on the
fence if this game was in New England. To be honest, I know
it's tough to play out there. But I got the Cowboys. I think
they're gonna get it together this week. That was black Berry said, a
punch to the face, But you know you gotta lose one ugly this and
they got it out the way. But I think they're gonna get it right
back on track. On the defense. Offense is gonna figure it out on
the Red Song. Give me the Cowboys. They'll cover the spread two minus
six and a half. What's your second game? Second game? Let's go
Overseas? Oh, all right, to the toy story game. Yes,
I I don't want to see that. Jacksonville and Atlanta's minus three for the
Jags. Yeah, give me the Falcons on this. I don't know something
about Beijan and got me feeling feeling good about that team. ATL plus three.
Yeah, all right, I'd like a little Bijean breakout in that game
myself, Mike, you and I are at three in three technically in a
tie with the Glens in second place. I'll go first, You go first.
I'll be going last for the remainder of the year, so I'll just
go before you this time. Cowboys my six and a half, Right,
yep. I think the Patriots always run out of good defense. I think
they're going to frustrate the Cowboys offensively. I don't think I was gonna look
all that great offensively, but I do think the Cowboys defense is going back
to happy Land and gonna rough up Mac Jones, especially if the Cowboys do
get ahead and then the Pats have to pass the ball and then it's released,
the Hounds get a bunch of sacks and win by ten. So for
the first time this year, I am on the side of the Dallas Cowboys
minus six and a half. Cowboys minus six and a half, I'm taking
in that bad boy my second game. This is stupid, all right,
get dumb, this is dumb. I'm taking the Miami Dolphins plus three.
That's not stupid. It is stupid. It's strictly because I'm going to Buffalo.
I'm going to this game and I want this to happen. But if
I'm being honest, Buffalo is a really good bet here at minus three.
The public is going to hammer the Dolphins, be all over them. Who
are getting getting points? After last week? That just sounds weird. Last
year in December, Buffalo was a seven point favorite in the same game.
So now you're getting a crazy discount with the Bills only given up three.
You should bet the Buffalo Bills. I am betting the Miami Dolphins plus three
points on Sunday at high noon. Dude, that's pretty good. Let me
just tell you, I didn't think you were going to do that. I
thought you were gonna take points. First of all, in the Cowboys.
How's you're gonna take New England's points? Yeah, So it's not very odd,
and I like that you're picking a game that you're going to. Yeah,
that's always good. Not much on the line here. I'm going Cowboys
minus six and a half. And the reason is quite simple. Mac Jones
is garbage, ash, trash, fire, suckballs. He is terrible,
and they beat the Jets fIF team to take last week, and the Jets
are already having Zach Wilson problems to the point that Aaron Rodgers was making comments
about them, like he's saying the offense needs to be more professional and things
like that, technically calling throwing his best friend, offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett under
the bus, who he got his back for when Sean Payton took a shot
at him. Because that's how quickly Aaron Rodgers will change. Boy, he
changes like the leaves. Okay, I just think that team is not good,
and it's more about that. Seeing the Cowboys beat the Jets thirty to
ten, seeing the Patriots barely beat the Jets fifteen to ten, I don't
see the Patriots scoring many points, and I think the defense will response.
Cowboys offens I am concerned about, and I will continue to be concerned about
until guys start getting separation and things like that. McCarthy's gonna have to prove
he can still call plays. It's been six years since he's done it,
So that's my concern. Other game for me, Chiefs minus nine and a
half, we're riding the trailer. This is This is interesting to me.
Zach Wilson sucks and the Jets are having so much turmoil. They just did
it to the Bears, beating him by forty. The Chiefs understand how important
it is to get up and get Mahomes and Kelsey out of the game.
So I think you're gonna run it up on him on Sunday night. Ten
point way in on the road, I got Chiefs minus nine and a half.
Wow, I was considering j J Jags minus three. Once you pick
the Atlanta game. I was like, you know what, I'll stay away
from that and get some more action. Chiefs minus nine and a half on
Sunday night. Lock it, Lock it tomorrow at the same time, eight
o'clock three for all our three scorching hot Cowboys predictions for Cowboys and Patriots.
We will have Malcolm's picks at some point tomorrow. I'll get him locked in
this afternoon. All right, and real quick, you mentioned Zeke your buddy
John Mashadah from the About Them Cowboys podcast. Mike Yes, He tweeted out,
it looks like the Cowboys are gonna do something to honor Zeke Elliott before
the game Sunday at at and t. I didn't know to expect that,
But when asked about it, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said, I don't want
to blow a surprise. Well, it's just a fun sentence. So they're
gonna do something to honor sweet sweet Zeke and his return, and then Zeke
will honor us with a fifteen and a half yard run. Are they going
to do an honorary boob grab? Yeah, I don't think that's what's on
the schedule. An honorary's one girl in all green from inside the Salvation Army
bucket. He just pops out and honks, disappears it gets fined. Well
he might get that fifteen yard run. I can't wait for our three scorching
hot Cowboys predictions tomorrow at eight count. Our next Dingo's morning news, serial
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