The Invasion- Picks with Friends; setting some ground rules

Here we are once again making pigs with our friends

for you job and don't abandon my little baby McLaren

You don't like the Stuart Delval, my son

I feel like Cookie Monster has had a lot of coffee or something else

No one like Don't come home

Yes and needy twelve thirty four lunchtime with the invasion rolls along you hear the jingle

You know it is time for pigs with friends

We are here Donovan Lewis, Matt McLaren, David Mino and studio

And now we need a commissioner Bob, a Corby, a George and a Davey

Oh we are all here ready to go

That's exciting

Hi guys, welcome

Cookie Monster and Dumbledore

Hey Cookie Monster, keep it down

So you guys excited to get started?

Man, can't wait

The commissioner has an announcement to make

Oh, okay, I'm just a power

It's all sort of fair for this

Yeah, you know what, I just started thinking

I'm not using my power enough, I really got to get in there and establish some power

So here we go, first power move of 2026

Maybe the last one, we'll see how it goes with the people playing the game

You guys are aware that next week is week one of pigs with friends, right?

Yes, I'm out and need that right

Well we have a surprise for you

Okay

Everybody canceled

Because game one of the season will be picked today

What?

What?

What?

And Wednesday

The Wednesday NFL opener

New England at Seattle

Seattle minus three and a half

Will be picked on today's episode

Okay

As the 151st game of the picks with friends season

I like that

So I can get that out of power

This is going to be a f***ing disaster

I support the commissioner

I don't have time to analyze it

You know how my analyzing goes in these games

Yeah

Well, how does it go?

You're deep analyzing

Flip it going

I spend one day on each game that I prepare for

Well

And this one's going to be a little bit off the cuff

So you never prepare, so you don't spend any time, so it's great

We all have to pick it now

Well, we have nine minutes before we're due for another exciting set of commercials

So, all right

While everyone thinks about this game

Well, this is a daycare

I don't have him to make my pick for me

What's the line for this game?

Seattle minus three and a half guys

I'm going to need you to listen

Who do you do?

Do we know who's starting for Seattle?

Starting

All 22

Yes, Lee Hawks

Yeah, what if the line moves?

Yes, you could

What if the line moves?

But what if it doesn't

Okay, that's an interesting

Yeah, what if this is for the rule book?

Okay, so rules wise

There's a couple things we do need to go over

All right

We are no matter what happens

Sticking with lines that are given to us on Wednesday or whatever

No matter if the but team bus crashes or whatever

Like we just

When John is the line is the line

I think Travis, what's the normal procedure Travis?

Last year it was Wednesday at noon

Right, that was the deadline to send in

Send in lines and that was our final final line of the week

I think we were supposed to

One game last year but no one like that

What's our official source?

Yahoo sports

Will you check the Patriot Seahawks line just to make sure it's three and a half there?

Yeah, let me do that real quick

Yeah, I think once you select the games on Thursday then the line is the line

I don't think it should move or whatever because it's not going to move to significantly

The line is the line

Yeah, the line is the line

Yeah, whatever's in the email is locked

Yes, yeah, lock it

And also I do love the fact that to reward

Oh, who's that?

Everyone okay?

To reward the people who are picking games correctly

That they get the first option of their triple play and I still feel that that should be in place

New England plus three and a half currently

Okay, right same line

So you can't duplicate triple plays

So someone picks yours ahead of you too bad

So everybody is there going to be cool with that?

Because I feel like in the history of picks with friends

There were several years where you could copy a triple play

Because you could both lose and that's funny

Or and then it got switched somewhere along the lines where you could not copy a triple play

I'm more than happy either way

But I am curious what the what the citizens of picks with friends

Well, I think that former commissioner Davidson was the one that put that law into

Into effect a couple of years ago where you couldn't copy

And I like that I think it's always great to have a couple of triple plays prepared

Because you know there's what 150 games to choose from so it's not that big

Yeah, it's not that big a deal

But should we what about this?

Should we reverse the order where last place picks first?

Instead of first place picks first?

Interesting you want league parody

Well you want socialism and you know what that's sort of as your brand

So you're so well you want to go hug a tree

You want a Marxist picks with friends

I do that sounds like fun

But we always talk about the winner gets nothing

And the chance to if they have a pick and they have a triple play that there is a head of the person that's in last place

But that's just one franchise

Yeah, I look at it

If you're in last place you deserve to have last pick and dig a deeper hole

Yeah, sure

Well, are we could have a blind lottery every week to determine the order?

The order?

Yeah

The Bob comes up with and announces on the air on picks with friends

Like he's got the order prepared and we don't know the order

Maybe we do that can be collusion

Yeah, I feel like we need a new part

Are you pushing my integrity?

Yes, you give him a sleeve of pro v1s and you'll get your pick anytime you want it

My need a dozen but okay

You look I mean I don't let's be honest

The picking in order out of order it doesn't matter

But it might

Oh, it matters if you can't duplicate triple place. That's the thing. Yeah, it doesn't matter

Otherwise, but in the other thing is if you if you are in last place and you are picking last

You have an idea of what the people in front of you late in the season are doing and so you can fade

Right

Yeah, that's a good point. You know what?

When you decide on something I have decided I just said that was a good point. You just agree with everything

Well, these are good points. That's why this is a discussion and a democracy a Marxist democracy

right

I believe that

First place should pick first and there should be no duplicate triple place. You can fade but no duplicate triple place

Okay, first place picks first no duplicate triple plays

Do we have approval from the players?

I say yes. I was out. Yes. Yes. Okay.

It's great.

You're not a lot of cookie monster. I don't know why he keeps. Hey, Jubs proxy. He's just sitting on Georgia's shoulder right now.

Well, he's just GM. Everyone needs a GM now. I like that. If cookie monster makes all the picks does now.

Now, I have to do the show for the overnight.

Now, what about this? What about this rule? Because you know, we tend to cut it what we see and what if we were only allowed to like in a pick him league.

We're only allowed to triple play one team per season.

Why? That's too much to keep track of. I like that. There's too many teams that are good to me during the year.

But my clarinet also likes that idea and he also likes Georgia's object. I know it just likes everything.

Well, I like the idea and then somebody says something. Well, that's a good idea too. I just trying to be friends with you.

I mean, you keep up with yourself. You know what you picked and yeah, you guys are my friends. I think it's kind of fun. It kind of adds another wrinkle to it where you're not just leaning on.

I mean, I guess anybody could lean on that team too, but you know what I'm saying? Okay.

I'm just throwing it out there. No, I say no. It's hard enough. Then we got to keep track of the okay. I can't triple against Arkansas state. I've already tripled against them. No, no, no, no, no.

Not triple teams. Yeah, they're playing a different team every week. So you could go against that.

You just say you could triple against Arkansas state every week. Yeah, you can't go with the Rams every single week. Right. That's what Corby suggested.

You can't triple play against Wisconsin every week.

Bob. No, you can go against whoever you can't go for. I like that. That's poop.

But what is cookie monster thing? I agree with job. I say poop.

I don't think that's a lot to keep up with. Who's going to police it? I'm not going to police myself. The coach guard.

The commissioner should pay for Bob's going to keep up with whoever he's a commissioner builder spreadsheet and track our picks.

Yeah, Bob loves spreadsheets. Guilty, but obviously I think that sounds like fine.

Yeah, so summing all that will be nice. Let's see. And just to review briefly the payoff.

The payoff. As we said last week, just as we build excitement before the first pick of the season takes place.

Bob stalling as Bob. Being trying to find it. I wrote it out. It sounded really professional at the time.

But now I can't find it. But basically from the time your air shift is over until the time your next air shift is over, you're serving your payoff, which is essentially 24 hours of straight on the air, including from 7pm to 6am.

You're doing this solo flight. So are we saying that you also in studio guests. You may have a phone guest for one segment an hour, but you must take.

P1 calls about open phones really about whatever they want for the remaining segment of each hour.

So is that you join the other shows for the entirety of their show as well. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And you're you have to do their bidding.

You have to do their what they want. They're bidding. Yeah, you have to go use you. If they need burritos.

Yeah. You have to make a lunch. If you have to go an intern. If you can't make a lunch. If they're craving.

Because you can't ride. You can't be behind the wheel after you've been up all night. Oh, yeah. That's true. Good point. Not good idea.

Yeah. You will have the loser will have a ride to and from the studio provided from Tiger.

And the name of that payoff day will be international P1 day because we're doing we're giving back to the P1s this year. We're getting back to serving our listeners.

I also think that whenever this payoff happens that and it's not super bowl week, obviously, because we can't do that then, but that it needs to be a Thursday.

A Thursday into Friday, like the correct. Right. All night shift would be Thursday evening into Friday morning and then roll into your show. Yeah. That's a good idea. That way you can sleep it off.

I mean, it is. There you go.

Yeah, I did have a. This is going to be fun. I did have a thought because I don't know because McLaren, but he's saying there's no way he could possibly stay up all night.

And so I think we do need to consider crack punish what the punishment is. I think crack is very accepted. I was thinking the powder form, but sure.

I think we do need to consider what the punishment is if there is any time that is lost to sleeping in the overnight. Yeah.

And I was thinking maybe for every hour and even if it's five minutes that counts as an hour.

Like for every hour that you are asleep and not on the air, you add three inches to the cowboy cookie monster tattoo.

So one hours, three inches, two hours, six inches, three hours, nine inches, etc. So you may have a full back tattoo of cowboy cookie monster.

If you sleep for like four or five hours, so suddenly it applies to me, but to everybody.

Every ball. Okay Henry Rowlands will apply it while you're in the do buggy. Just. Yeah.

Just so we're.

By the way, no one is going to sleep because there's going to be people at the radio station person at the radio station to ensure that you don't.

It's not like you're up there running the board and producing and all that.

There's we have an overnight board op to ensure that you're not going to be falling asleep. Yeah.

And EA will be in full Terry tape pads and has been authorized to.

To run.

Yeah.

He's surely done the middle of the day. You know what him up here. All right. EA were sleeping.

All right. Are we ready to pick game? Sure.

Yeah, ready to pick game. All right. It's only one this week, guys.

And it is Seattle minus three and a half in New England.

A chance to take a one and oh start to your season. It's essentially opening day.

What's the order for this week's zero?

I believe we're going by.

I get to pick first since I picked last. No, I want to pick first week one.

What? That has been the week one. What? What are you saying?

We're talking one pick is not week one. This is week zero.

But it's the week one.

What are you so upset? Why did that trigger you?

But this is a task to do.

We have. Well, we are cooking monster. I'm sorry.

It feels like we're in week seven with Corby now.

Man, you do it. He's a very free cookie monster.

It is. All right. So this will be picked by day part.

So we'll start with morning drive and and cookie monster Seattle minus three and a half or New England.

Okay, jump say. Rable too worried about nookie. So give me cookie. Give me Seattle.

All right. We move now to Donovan.

Yes, I will take Seattle and the end of the point Seattle will cover.

Yeah, you can't have Seattle and the point. I know I just that's why I stopped.

That's great. Okay, take Seattle to come.

Okay, let's go to his dear friend Matt McLaren.

The very agreeable Matt McLaren.

Oh, yeah. Yes. And I agree with Donnie. I will take Seattle.

Okay. Let's see.

The intrigue so far. Very low. Very low. Let's go now to minor.

I guarantee you no one is going to take the Patriots. So give me Seattle.

Okay, guarantee you no one's going to do it.

Corby will. Corby's not going to do it. He's going to take the out of the ticket is alphabetically before Dave Lane.

I will go ahead and triple play Seattle on Wednesday night.

That was triple play.

What do you mean?

What are you talking about?

It's just a one.

You're not the commissioner.

Gosh, you are so hard hit it.

Dave, would you like to take a game lead on everybody?

As a matter of fact, I would give the Patriots plus three and a half.

You know what Dave?

You are not a meow meow way to go way to get picks with free and started.

Thank you. When it proves me wrong.

I like it.

Now Seattle by three touchdowns.

All right, there we go.

All right, that's picks with friends next week.

We'll have the full slate week zero of picks with friends in the books.

Thank you, friends.

We'll talk to you again next week.

Bye, friends.

Bye, guys.

Bye, Cookie Monster.

Bye, friends.

Bye, Donovan.

Bye, Domo.

Bye, Cookie.

Bye.

Bye.