First things first, happy birthday to my dad, who is a frequent listener and or reader of the transcripts of this podcast.

So, it’s his birthday today, Monday, February 12th, and yeah, happy birthday.

Second things second, thank you to those of you who sent kind comments on Freestyle Friday.

If you were wondering, did Syracuse like it, not particularly.

And finally, third things third, let’s kick off this show because I made money.

Your Daily Lex.

I host a Super Bowl party every year, as I think I’ve mentioned on this podcast in the past.

You know, we have a cool little theater set up in the basement.

My feeling is if you have a cool theater set up, you should host Super Bowl parties and other viewing parties for things that people like to watch as communities.

The Super Bowl is probably the biggest.

I know some people do Oscar parties.

I would sort of love to do that, too.

But Super Bowl is always one that we’ve carved out for, I don’t know, the past seven or so years and maybe more.

And I look forward to it.

It’s a big crowd.

This year we had about 40 people and we typically have too much food and it’s great.

But I was having a really hard time getting psyched up for the Super Bowl.

Set aside my fandom of the Eagles.

Most of the time, I guess recently unless you’re the Chiefs and previously unless you’re the Patriots, most of the time your team isn’t in the Super Bowl because that’s just how it works.

But the Super Bowl can still be fun.

You still have a team to root for.

I’m not a fan of either of the teams that were in the Super Bowl.

So I really wasn’t sure how I was going to get excited for this game.

I didn’t really want to see either of them win.

I had this complicated theory about how I wanted like a backup quarterback to have to come in and win the game for it.

Like it was dumb.

I just wasn’t sure how to be excited.

And then game day yesterday, I realized I know what I could do.

I can bet on this game in a variety of ways.

But I don’t like losing money on stupid things.

And I had no idea who would win the Super Bowl.

So I thought I want to do silly prop bets and stupid bets that have no skill involved in them.

So I made the following bets.

Each bet was worth $5.

I bet that the coin toss would be tails.

It was heads.

At least the first one was.

The second one I didn’t bet on.

I bet that the Chiefs would win the coin toss.

They did.

That meant I had bet a total of $10 on those two things.

And I broke even.

Because I had to give away my $5 on the tails.

And I paid $5 to get $10 on the Chiefs winning the coin toss.

So broke even on those two.

I bet that the first possession would last 3 minutes and 15 seconds or less.

It did indeed.

So I bet $5.

And that one paid out not quite 2x.

That one paid out $9.76.

So I was up.

I bet that the length of the longest field goal made would be higher than the total points scored in the game.

There were some very long, some record-breakingly long field goals in the Super Bowl.

And it was a fairly low-scoring affair.

So that one was a clean shot.

And that one paid slightly better than 2x.

I bet $5 and made $10.50.

And it’s worth noting, none of those bets required any special knowledge of football.

Then finally, I bet that the 49ers would beat the spread.

I bet that they would win by at least 1.5 points.

That was $5 to get $9.62.

That one I lost.

But as it worked out, I did end up making $5.

I cashed out my $30 and something cents earlier today from the DraftKings app.

And what can I say?

I’m a smooth, sharp, clever better.

I won big bucks.

Spent $25, got $30.

And I would say I got $100 worth of enjoyment out of that aspect of the game.

It was fun to look at my bets and see how it was going.

And it was fun to have my friends know what I had bet on and have them excited or mocking me for how things were working out.

Now, I will say, the DraftKings app is terrible.

And most of that is because of New Jersey state law.

Different states have different rules on how you can do sports betting.

But I don’t know.

It was pretty crazy.

Because their New Jersey law says that you can’t use biometrics, so I can’t use Face ID.

And it makes the apps log you out constantly.

So every time you log into DraftKings, it has to email you, hey, you logged in.

And you have to use your username and password every single time.

It’s silly.

So, yeah.

I got paid $10 for the Chiefs winning the coin toss.

I got paid $10.50 for that field goal length being longer than the total score.

I got $9.76 for the first position being under 3 minutes and 15 seconds.

And, yeah.

That was real money.

So, way to go me.

I am now going to retire on my incredible sports betting winnings.

Anyway, it was a fine Super Bowl if you care about the Chiefs, which I don’t.

I also don’t care about the 49ers, though.

So, in no way did I lose.

I was very unhappy with Travis Kelsey’s behavior on the sidelines.

Which it seems like we’re mostly glossing over as a society because that’s how it goes.

But Jason Kelsey is the better Kelsey.

I just put that out there as well.

Anyway, happy birthday again if you happen to be my dad or Abraham Lincoln or both.

And enjoy the rest of your Monday, dear friends.

Lex.