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00:00yesterday drab asked me to look for two things like history related i'm not sure what they're
00:06up to behind the scenes as we're celebrating our 30th anniversary and um i went and found
00:13my old notebook where i had all of the guests on the show and i found our original start date
00:19was jason's birthday may 4th 1996 very good look at that cory raymer was our first ever guest i
00:28remember that that's all your birthday your birthday is rapidly approaching yeah yeah it was uh cory
00:33raymer and then we had um dwayne simpkins on on our eighth show okay of course dwayne simpkins played
00:39point at maryland now he's head coach at au and it was our eighth show and i sent a text
00:46to him i said
00:46bro look at who we had on our eighth show ever and he goes dude i remember that i remember
00:51being on
00:51your show in 1996 i think it's actually pretty impressive for a brand new show we you know
00:58literally a show out of nowhere that literally out of just dropped from the sky we had a redskin
01:03center on the first week we had leland mcelroy who was a big draft pick for the arizona cardinals
01:08in week two because we were doing weekend shows we had kenny smith uh we had a bunch of guys
01:13are
01:13playing in the kemper so people don't care about that but that was important to us but we had john
01:16barry we had rick shuler on because he was a local of course we had john barry we had bj
01:21surhoff
01:21we had bob ferry he was a former gm of the bullets we had mike bray because we knew him
01:26for the math
01:26and he knew we're using our connection mostly jason's connection we had stacy augman on yeah i was
01:31playing for the hawks at the time we had ridiculous guests we had early we had two current at the
01:37time
01:37two current nba players in our first six shows i was having fun though because uh i had this
01:43chocker really organized notebook where i have all the guests from the weekend show all of the guests
01:48from the weekday show up to a thousand when we got to a thousand shows which i think we were
01:52hfs time
01:53i was like i'm calling it quits like i'm not just what's the point of keeping track of this but
01:57i also
01:58had all the articles written about us and i got a kick out of this one the first time lenny
02:03shapiro from
02:04the washington post wrote about the junkies like acknowledged us now lenny shapiro for people who don't
02:09know he used to write sort of like the media column long time long time guy i don't know 30
02:1440 year guy
02:14with the post he would take pot shots at us eventually eventually i got he buckled and uh eb said
02:21why don't you um contact his his editor who was what solomon yeah george solomon who ran the post
02:29and um because i would i would kind of taunt lenny shapiro and i'd send him like our number one
02:34ratings i
02:35would send him the guest list and say hey why don't you write about every other show he wrote
02:39about every wtm show he would write about the junks he didn't like the junks yeah we weren't his cup
02:44but so one of the first pieces ever written about us it was just three paragraphs and it had to
02:49do with
02:49like our summer book ratings which we weren't even fully in the summer book um but i'll read it it's
02:58just kind of funny because they're billed as the junkies and their show's been on the air only since
03:02june in the 7 to 10 p.m hours but in the most recent summer ratings book their show
03:09clearly an acquired taste is already up to number four in the market if you like the sound of four
03:15knuckleheads direct from cable access and buoy sitting around a bar and allegedly smoothing about
03:20sports or whatever else pops into their occasionally warped minds this shows for you what a mean
03:27i mean what a paragraph i was gonna say it could be more negative honestly what a mean paragraph
03:33from him he was just he's an old codger he didn't understand the concept do you understand it although
03:38it's somewhat accurate but whatever else pops into their occasionally warped minds no no that was a
03:44mean uh snarky just awful paragraph and we knew it at the time but even when you look back at
03:52it now
03:5230 years later it's like wow he did throw in weight he did throw in the bone like he separated
03:58himself
03:58clearly an acquired taste in that sentence then he's like when asked what he liked about the show
04:03program manager jeremy coleman said they get ratings and then he does say people relate to them it's the
04:10constant show for people like them right and there are a lot of them in this area so it was
04:14just kind
04:14of funny looking back on that well john feinstein didn't like us when we first started either and
04:19probably and then he loves being on the show yeah all right so we're gonna do this draft
04:24the whole deal is we have been inundated and i'm sure you have been inundated as listeners
04:29with all of the speculation about the nfl draft by the way odyssey sports draft coverage presented
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04:52need so we've been dealing with all these mock drafts and we thought we like to gamble we like
04:58to have fun why don't we bet on whose mock draft of the so-called experts is best insiders and
05:08we're
05:08only good we're only going to go through pick 16 no i thought we decided i thought we decided the
05:13i believe drab t-shirt change it again up to pick 16 because i think that's fair that's a logical
05:19spot
05:19maybe the commanders would trade down to like 13 to 16 probably not lower than that so we're going
05:25one through 16 whoever has the best picks and matches with the most teams and drab let everybody
05:32know there's a bonus for the if they get the commander's pick right correct all right if you get the
05:36slot
05:36right if if mendoza goes one you get one point for the slot and you get one point for the
05:44raiders
05:45so if that's what your mock says so all right each pick is worth a possible two except for the
05:49commanders because we want that to be more weighted if you nail the commander's uh player and slot that
05:56is worth double so you could get four points that's big big need our guy nail the commander's
06:02that's what it comes down to that's a big one that's what it comes down to really that's gonna
06:06be hard because that's pick number seven it's kind of fun because we've all i mean everyone loves
06:10football and i think there's a lot of skins fans in town obviously i think everyone's like pouring
06:15through all the various mocks let's see how these guys actually do yep so it'd be a good a good
06:20good kind of exercise and also give us a an opportunity to gamble uh drab t-shirt how long do
06:26we have
06:26between picks a minute in the eight minutes between picks yeah i actually as soon as the
06:33other guy stops talking yeah all right can you go through the draft order again please uh sure you
06:38pick these out of a hat we did pick them out i'm never there i never witnessed this stuff but
06:42i always
06:42end up i mean there there were three witnesses it was all i'm sure i'm sure mike maher will pick
06:48seven valdez picks sixth eb goes fifth jp picks fourth bish bucks is picking third drab t-shirt
06:55second i am officially on the clock with the first pick all right so that you're picking who
07:01you think is the best i am who has the most accurate mock yes that's what i'm doing he's
07:07your boy you're gonna be tied to this guy for the rest of our career i got my guy you're
07:11tied to this
07:11guy i'll be honest i only really considered one guy yeah and is he a walter football guy completely
07:18honest i had never heard this guy's name before this week now please play the music the pick is in
07:27with the first pick of the 2026 nfl insiders mock draft cake selects charlie campbell from walter
07:36football at draft campbell on his twitter handle i mean he's the tom brady of mock draft accuracy
07:44he led all nfl media for mock draft accuracy in 2024 2022 2019 and 2017 oh and he came in
07:52second
07:52place in 2021 and 2025 all right quickly rip through his top seven that's my guy yeah who
07:58is top seven quickly pulled up what well who does he have the commander i mean i can i can
08:02get it
08:03yeah i mean do you remember who he had the commander's taking i'll i'll find it by the way house
08:08takes a good poker player you can read him so easily i mean i did tip my hand yesterday yeah
08:15i mean i i've
08:16fallen in love with charlie campbell he's my guy charlie campbell he's officially my guy and he's
08:21now off the board off the board all right all right let me see if i don't know he has
08:26the oh here it
08:27is pulling it up right now let's see what if you hate the mock like what if he has some
08:33crazy stuff
08:34in there you don't care you're going with him he's my guy i have to stick with him all right
08:38you know
08:38what it should be a minus one point for cakes we're not having to mock it not even if you
08:43approve
08:46i'm going by his bona fides bona fides are impeccable you're going by his records hold on
08:50i'm the world's slowest computer all right drab is on the clock you don't remember who he had the
08:56commanders taking he never looked no i looked at i just don't remember i think it's carnell tape but
09:01i'm not 100 hold on this is the all right drabby you go no he's got sunny styles going seven
09:06okay the
09:06commanders all right um i got the second pick i'll jump in here uh i like some of the names
09:13he's
09:13got going in the top 10 he's got downs going five to the giants and i also think um reuben
09:21bain and
09:22jordan tyson are also going to go in the top 10 this is actually a name that people have actually
09:26heard of cakes not charlie campbell in fact he's an absolute legend and legends don't stay down for
09:33long you stole my guy you stole last year big egg on his face he took shador sanders number two
09:38overall stole my guy i love mel kuyper's mock draft i think it's pretty good off the board i'm gonna
09:46take the goat i was gonna go with the goat better i had him on my board too and he
09:51has the commanders
09:52taken carnell tate at seven i didn't even consider that old fossil you didn't even go come on it's a
10:01incredible living it's fine if he's focusing on it he thought shador sanders should have went number
10:05two it tells me he lost his fastball like fernando mendoza did last night how yeah how did he how
10:11accurate was he last uh last year i just know that he he had sanders and he was furious and
10:16going crazy
10:17on tv all right so i'm up right you're up number three so mel kuyper off the board i've got
10:24i've got it
10:25down to four guys well you better get it down to one guy i know 20 seconds hold on i
10:30got time
10:32seriously but i don't know if i want to so now that we're getting double points for the commander's
10:38pick yeah it really comes down to that so i had to look at the four guys and who they
10:42have the
10:43commanders taking and see who i think is really gonna has the best odds to to pick right will you
10:48mention your four guys yeah of course um or do i want to go with the guy who's got the
10:53most recent
10:55mock draft okay because three of my guys their mock drafts were seven to ten days ago that might
11:02as well be when the dinosaurs are roaming the earth that's so long and one of them that that i
11:07have in
11:08the top four did his latest mock draft yesterday okay well that's good up to date 21 hours ago okay
11:14like it all right so my four guys are ben standig who we had on the show yesterday yeah all
11:21right local
11:21he's awesome he's got the commanders taking styles okay brendan donahue who i talked about
11:27yesterday from sharp football uh analysis and he has the commander taking mansour delane okay
11:35jamie eisner who have we ever had jamie eisner on the show don't believe so well he's from the draft
11:42network and he's very good i've kind of tracked him over the years he's got the commanders taking
11:49reuben bain all right i don't think that's gonna happen so you're not picking him then it came down
11:55to our boy i think i know who you're picking who what's that with initials the pick is in rw
12:05it's not rw
12:07ah it's pp p prisco from cbs all right he did his latest mock draft 21 hours ago he's got
12:17the
12:18washington commanders taking at number seven jordan tyson wide receiver asu i think i think
12:26they could take styles but i don't think they're gonna take delane and i don't think they're gonna
12:30take bain there so i think it's either gonna be styles or styles or tyson's the best odds but i'm
12:34taking pete prisco our boy pd prisco off the board yep there you go all right i'm on the clock
12:41number
12:41four pick we shared one name in terms of somebody i would consider and i i think i'm gonna bypass
12:52him
12:52he's sliding down the board when cakes introduced him yesterday ben standing touted i think a three
12:59time yeah he's champion yeah i considered him at the top and i kind of like what he's selecting but
13:05you know what i want to get back to some big names drab took mel kuyper i'm gonna go with
13:12another big
13:13name i'm gonna take the pick is in valdez
13:25todd mcshay todd mcshay who has the commander selecting mansoor delane at number seven
13:33he has jeremiah love going number five to the giants so i'm gonna go mcshay so you think that
13:42delane could go seven sure maybe that could definitely could happen i just think i don't
13:47know i don't know what to think i don't know who wears the commanders are going to step no idea
13:52all right so jp is he's locked in with mcshay eb is now up he's on the clock all right
13:59uh
14:01all right i know i'm gonna go with and i consider i mean our guy standing is still out there
14:06right
14:06still out there he's sliding down he's sweating in the green room as we speak i don't want to
14:11insult here look he knows more than me i i defer to him but he's got tate going seven and
14:19i think
14:19there's too much smoke around like i just think there's too much waiting which draft i see his
14:24mock draft 8.0 he has the commander styles uh i just mentioned that okay well i got the one
14:30this
14:30is dated 421 is that not what does it say on the top i'm looking at mock draft
14:368.0 hold on for him i got this is last minute here's my this one is from 47 yes
14:43yeah yeah yeah
14:45his more recent one has styles has styles i like that even less so i bent off my board he's
14:51off my
14:52board i like that even less i like ben and he knows more than me i like that less um
14:57i considered
14:58some others there's i don't want to get your iron kuyper huh you're iron kuyper i wanted to go with
15:03the goat because that's what he's done for 35 years or more you know give a great living i
15:09guarantee you his house trounces all of our houses um but i'm gonna go with a guy i want to
15:17go with
15:17somebody local you're getting extra points with the skins so i want to go with somebody that covers
15:23the skin right they should have a good bead on them and i i believe that there's something called
15:28genetics and i believe in something called genetics yeah i believe that kind of thing
15:33and i see for hogs haven this is a guy by the name of christian paul antonio okay all right
15:41so he has
15:43to be he has to be related to sal i believe in dna i believe in genetics he covers shouldn't
15:51he be an
15:51eagles guy yeah but he covers washington he's writing for hogs haven he did this draft yesterday and
15:58i like to pick at seven seven adjacent guy he's he's not picking carnell tate at seven he's going
16:08jordan tyson to curveball which makes sense to me i'm going christian palantonio for hogs haven
16:15all right this might be the first reach of the draft i i love it i love it you took
16:21my charlie
16:28i hope you think he's related you and i are in play bro what are you yeah he's just another
16:32palantonio because i don't think i need to check but i think it's the last i hope he's not related
16:38i'm pretty sure the last name is spelled differently let me check out the sound that's so funny
16:46and you can't take your pick back you're saddled with it no no no he's it is spelled the same
16:50all right they gotta be related they gotta be related i think it is spelled the same p-a-o
16:57-l-a-n-tonio
16:58yeah yeah all right uh i believe i'm on the clock correct you are you have picked number six
17:04all right i love the way the draft kind of fell to me i got the i got this guy
17:09draft guru uh goes on
17:12mina kimes's war room he's the first guest not not uh todd mcshay okay not daniel jeremiah
17:19oh i know he is going he is the first guest on mina kimes war room he's the creator of
17:25the all 32
17:25and this is what i love about this guy is that he puts out one mock draft put it out
17:31yesterday he
17:31doesn't do any of that crap where he's going week to week like ryan wilson does i mean this guy
17:37this
17:38guy has one solid mock draft and one that i'm in love with i'm going with brett coleman from the
17:45all 32
17:47pfsn network he's has he has uh caleb downs for the redskins or the commanders i would love that
17:54pick at number seven who's after your ravens at 14 and this is what put it over the edge is
17:59that
17:59because i figured if he was there the ravens are going to take him so we're thinking like-minded
18:03he has kenya sadiq going to the ravens at 14 and this is what put it over the top
18:08is that it's the most dallas move in the world and i can see this happening is sunny style slipping
18:14and then dallas doing everything they can to grab him at number 12 for the athletic freak so brett
18:20coleman is my pick all right we're up against a break let's come back we'll close it out with mike
18:26marr the true wild card i believe ben standings on the board tons of the biggest experts in football
18:33are still on the board adam schefter's on the board right i actually don't know if he does a mock
18:37draft i'm not sure peter schrager's on the board there's tons of people on the board million we'll
18:44come back with that next here on the junkies
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