Editing Episode 621 (section)

=== Cold Open: Happy Jerry Jones and the Flash Photography Test ===

James opened by expressing unease at footage of a visibly elated Jerry Jones following the Cowboys' win over what he described as a zombie version of a bad team — noting that a coach having fun beating a terrible opponent reads as unseemly. Arif partially defended it on grounds that any win should be enjoyed, particularly after a down year. James then flagged the Super Bowl highlight reel the Cowboys had played during the broadcast: their win over the Bills — which he initially recalled as approximately 52–10 — with the tell of in-stadium flash photography visible in the crowd footage, a phenomenon the arena no longer produces because of how modern phones work. He described it as an accidentally accurate gauge of elapsed time: you cannot look at that footage and mistake it for anything that happened in the last 25 years.