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  Speaker 1: So I lead this hour, play the hit small man,
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  Speaker 1: play this. So our lead this hour is from South Florida,
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  Speaker 1: and that was where the Hippodrome was the stage for
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  Speaker 1: the final act of the twenty twenty five season. Here
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  Speaker 1: early in twenty twenty six, the champion was crowned. Woo
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  Speaker 1: A hat and T shirt game. Oh man, a hat
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  Speaker 1: and T shirt game. How exciting confetti. Every time I
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  Speaker 1: see the confetti on the field, I think of a
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  Speaker 1: buddy of mine who has media friends who sell the
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  Speaker 1: confetti on eBay and make a lot of money. There
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  Speaker 1: are people I'm thinking this could be a big field
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  Speaker 1: day here with the Indiana fans. More than that in
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  Speaker 1: a minute. But Fernando Mendoza, the golden boy of college
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  Speaker 1: football there leading the Indiana Hoosiers into the matchup against
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  Speaker 1: Carson Beck, the grizzled six year veteran. Oh my god. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: then they were the Miami Hurricanes in their own stadium,
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  Speaker 1: although it didn't seem like their own stadium, taking on
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  Speaker 1: the Indiana Hoosiers, the team from Indiana a seven and
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  Speaker 1: a half point favorite on the Vegas line, as the
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  Speaker 1: wise guys on the Stardust line like the Hoosiers to
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  Speaker 1: win by over a touchdown. You had Chris Fowler and
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  Speaker 1: Herbie on the boob Tube. They had the call there.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know if you watch the game or not,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're like, I don't like college for body. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: take the stick out of here. It took us anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we watched so you would not have to. And it
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  Speaker 1: came down to the final seconds and it looked like
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  Speaker 1: it would be a backbreaking touchdown drive by Carson Beck
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  Speaker 1: leading the Hurricanes, matriculating the ball down the field in
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  Speaker 1: the final seconds, needing a touchdown and an extra point to.
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  Speaker 3: Win the game.
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  Speaker 1: And then he did the thing you can't do at
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  Speaker 1: the time.
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  Speaker 3: You can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he threw a pass that was picked off by
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  Speaker 1: Jamari Sharp, defensive back for Indiana, and he's a Miami
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  Speaker 1: guy Sharp and he gets the big play they'd seal
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  Speaker 1: it for the Hoosiers. Picks off Carson back final seconds.
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  Speaker 1: That is it one knee?
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  Speaker 3: I guess two.
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  Speaker 1: Knees and then the game was over. So Indiana did
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  Speaker 1: not cover the spread. But they do squeeze by Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Life's not all about gambling. They squeezed by Miami twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: and they put the finishing touches on the rags to riches.
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  Speaker 1: It'd be like if our friend Billy weed man hippie
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  Speaker 1: won the lottery and you had sixty million dollars or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. Indiana, who was desolate, disheveled, beaten and broken.
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  Speaker 1: And now they stand atop the mountain as they get
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  Speaker 1: it done and they win the national title. As the
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  Speaker 1: kids say the Natty. They won the Natty.
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  Speaker 3: So they win that.
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  Speaker 1: So now they did it on a night when Fernando
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  Speaker 1: Mendoza was not the Heisman version of Fernando Mendoz. You
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  Speaker 1: won't know that because you don't want to spoil the store.
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  Speaker 1: He went that good. He was not that good Fernando Mendoz.
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  Speaker 1: I'll say it, and no one else will say. I'll
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  Speaker 1: say it. He sucked for most of that game. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: it looked like every other bad Indiana quarterback they've had
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  Speaker 1: over the years. But it didn't matter. They won anyway.
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  Speaker 1: He did have a touchdown run in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: although finished with minus eight yards. Because of some decision
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  Speaker 1: making issues there and coach Kurt Cignati getting it done,
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  Speaker 1: he writes his name Signati into the record book.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 1: Indiana finishes sixteen and oh sixteen and oh the record
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  Speaker 1: and they had those extra games because of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: So the twelve team playoff extends their perfect season, and
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  Speaker 1: we are told now that is a tie. They have
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  Speaker 1: matched the all time record from the eighteen hundreds. Holy
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  Speaker 1: crap on a cracker Batman, Yale in eighteen ninety four,
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  Speaker 1: Yale in eighteen ninety four. They also had a sixteen
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  Speaker 1: to zero season, So good jumping off point. That's the
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  Speaker 1: story here, so let's get into it. The question for
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  Speaker 1: the esteem panel, what are you going to remember about
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  Speaker 1: the Indiana Hoosiers, a basketball school, running a table, running
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  Speaker 1: the table, and winning college football's national championship against Miami.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this. I got food truck, three bees,
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  Speaker 1: and puffy sticker, and we will combine all all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to make some
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  Speaker 1: delicious kettle corn is what we're gonna make. So a
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  Speaker 1: the question is not that difficult. The answer is even easier.
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  Speaker 1: What are we gonna remember? The answer is simple here,
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  Speaker 1: what are we gonna remember? We're gonna remember the panic,
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  Speaker 1: the sheer, unadulterated panic, unfiltered panic, from the establishment of
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  Speaker 1: college football. Okay, they knew that this was likely to happen,
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  Speaker 1: Indiana's favorite But now that it's happened. Now, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: It might happen, It could happen. It did happen. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the twilight Zone. Do do Do Do Do do.
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  Speaker 1: This is the boogeyman. This is the buggey man in
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  Speaker 1: college football.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: This is a come to Jesus moment for the establishment
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  Speaker 1: in college football. As they look in the mirror when
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  Speaker 1: they wake up later on Tuesday, they'll wake up and
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to recognize their own face, Like, what
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  Speaker 1: have we done? This was not supposed to happen. Why
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  Speaker 1: did this happen? I don't understand. This is bizarro world,
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  Speaker 1: is what this is?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 1: This is cats walking dogs. This is spray cheese on
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  Speaker 1: our charcuterie board, is what this is? Here Indiana holding
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  Speaker 1: the national Championship trophy like they stole it from the
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  Speaker 1: gift shop at the stadium. No, it's real, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you can test it. It's real. They have
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  Speaker 1: the trophy here. And this is a great example of
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  Speaker 1: name image likeness, better known by its gangster name Nil
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  Speaker 1: giving birth to Frankenstein. Make no mistake, the Indiana Hoosiers
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  Speaker 1: are Frankenstein. The blue Bloods are furious their alumni is furious.
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  Speaker 1: So we're talking about the usual suspects. Alabama, Ohio State, Noted, dom, SC, Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: These programs did not lose the title. They lost exclusive rights.
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  Speaker 1: Right is it supposed to be only certain people are
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  Speaker 1: allowed at that event? You are not allowed there. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot go behind the velvet ropes. What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: And Kirk Signetty did not build the death star at
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  Speaker 1: in the end, this is not a death star situation.
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  Speaker 1: He built a food truck. And that's really adding insult
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  Speaker 1: to injury because the formula he laid it all out,
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  Speaker 1: the blueprints laid out. Just have a couple of rich alumni.
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  Speaker 1: Every school has a couple of rich alumni, right, every
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  Speaker 1: university there's a couple of people that made it big
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  Speaker 1: that went to that school. So all you have to
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  Speaker 1: do is get them on board. And then you hire
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  Speaker 1: a coach that is pretty good at you shopping, and
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  Speaker 1: you give the grocery list out. You get the right tomatoes,
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  Speaker 1: you got to pick the onions when they're perfect. The
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  Speaker 1: garlic you don't want the bad garlic. You get all that,
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  Speaker 1: no caviar, and no five star truffles. You don't need
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  Speaker 1: the five star truffles here. You don't just ball players
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  Speaker 1: who know the recipe. And that's the thing that's really
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  Speaker 1: most mattering. Just say with the nil thing and all that. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: the nil is one thing. However, if you look at
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  Speaker 1: the Hoosiers, they were not bigger, stronger, and faster than
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  Speaker 1: the teams they were beating in the College football Playoff.
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  Speaker 3: They weren't.
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  Speaker 1: They were sharper. You can say they outworked you in
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  Speaker 1: some of these games, and they fought every inch and
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  Speaker 1: that was enough to get it done. They're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: win the measurables. They're not gonna win the measurables. The
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  Speaker 1: Indiana Hoosiers they win the championship ere and the appearly
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  Speaker 1: they don't mind. It doesn't seem like they mind their together.
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  Speaker 1: They got a nice trophy and they got t shirts
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  Speaker 1: and hats and all that stuff, and the whole mind
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  Speaker 1: and refusal the backup.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how old you are. I'm at the
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  Speaker 1: age now. When I was a kid, I heard stories
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  Speaker 1: about Indiana. I didn't see him on TV much because
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  Speaker 1: in football basketball they were on TV all the time.
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  Speaker 1: They got named Bobby Knight with a complete schmuck, but
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  Speaker 1: a great coach and Indiana football. You'd see him every
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  Speaker 1: once in a while and it was like a mistake,
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  Speaker 1: like what are they? Why are they on TV? What
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  Speaker 1: are they doing? You know? It was usually when they
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  Speaker 1: played a really good team, the Big Ten, and then
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  Speaker 1: they'd just get smoked. How bad was Indiana football? This
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  Speaker 1: sums up Indiana football. They had this guy named Lee Corso.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know whatever happened to, but Lee Corso was
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  Speaker 1: coaching at Indiana in the nineteen seventies. The program was
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  Speaker 1: so horrific. How horrific was it? Thanks for asking? It
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  Speaker 1: was so horrific that Lee Corso in the nineteen seventies,
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  Speaker 1: once had Indiana had a seven to six lead over
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  Speaker 1: Woody Hayes and Ohio State, the legendary Ohio State coach
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  Speaker 1: Witoty Hayes, and Lee Corso stopped the game so the
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  Speaker 1: Indiana players could take a fundo of the scoreboard because
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  Speaker 1: they had a seven to six lead. Not so fast,
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  Speaker 1: my friends, though, al as Lee would later say, because
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  Speaker 1: Indiana we end up losing that game by forty that day.
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  Speaker 1: But they actually stopped the game. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: like the second quarter because they had a seven to
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  Speaker 1: six lead and they end up losing the game by
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  Speaker 1: forty How great is that? And that team now, that
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  Speaker 1: team is now the champions. They are the kings of
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  Speaker 1: college football. And the establishment doesn't like which is likely
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  Speaker 1: going to lead to Congress getting involved. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: Congress is already we're going down that road. There's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be government intervention and they're gonna set up the rules
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  Speaker 1: to help out the power schools and to screw over
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  Speaker 1: Indiana and schools like that. So if you're gonna do
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  Speaker 1: something like this, you might as well get it. Does
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  Speaker 1: Rutgers have any big alumni? Can we get Rutgers? We
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  Speaker 1: need some of these directional schools to win the championship.
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  Speaker 1: That'll really also upset people right now. Meanwhile, at hard
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  Speaker 1: Rock Stamp, you watch the game. Obviously the stadium was packed.
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  Speaker 1: Just that's the Miami Hurricanes area. That's their stadium national
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  Speaker 1: championship game. However, it was a majority Indiana crowd. The
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  Speaker 1: Hoosier fans Hoo's your daddy, The Indiana Hoosiers packed the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: So the question Indiana estimates had sixty sixty five percent
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  Speaker 1: of the crowd in support of Indiana's football team at
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  Speaker 1: the National Championship Game. Does that say more about Indiana's
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  Speaker 1: fan base or the ability obviously to travel, or the
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  Speaker 1: indifference by the Miami fans. So is this more about
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's in either or is it the Indiana
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  Speaker 1: fans showing great resolve in traveling or is it more
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  Speaker 1: about the indifference by Miami. So the arrow is pointing
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  Speaker 1: directly at the you, at the you flashing neon, flashing neon.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody I've been Miami or with nobody lives in Miami
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  Speaker 1: the three to zero five. Nobody lives there to go
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  Speaker 1: to sporting events.
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  Speaker 3: You don't. You live there to live.
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  Speaker 1: Is what you do, right, It's the three Bees. When
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  Speaker 1: you live in Miami, it's beaches, boats and bikinis. That's it,
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  Speaker 1: the three Bee and that that's all you need. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: it helps they don't have state income tax. It's reasonable
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  Speaker 1: compared to like the People's Republic of California or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. But you got sweat dripping when you live
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  Speaker 1: in Miami in places that you didn't even know sweat
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  Speaker 1: could get into crevices and things like that. But the
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  Speaker 1: Hurricanes football is obviously optional programming. The fact that that
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  Speaker 1: many people. I don't think there's that many Indiana people
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  Speaker 1: living in Miami. I'm sure there's a fair amount. But
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  Speaker 1: to fill the stadium up, there were planes filled with
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  Speaker 1: Hoosier fans making their way down there. And so and
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  Speaker 1: the other thing is, if you the older you are,
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  Speaker 1: as a Miami fan, like you've already eaten the cake,
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  Speaker 1: depending on how old you are, and you've had it.
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  Speaker 1: The Hurricane football used to be good. They used to
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  Speaker 1: play in big games and win championships and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and so back in the glory days many years ago.
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  Speaker 1: And so they've been there and done that, and they
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  Speaker 1: got the blank blank from back back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: and it's in the drawer. The replica rings are right
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  Speaker 1: there next to the sunscreen.
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  Speaker 5: So you have that.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not it's not like the obviously is no passion.
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  Speaker 1: It's apathy. That's the word. I mean, there's clearly some apathy,
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  Speaker 1: even though Miami had been dormant for a long time
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  Speaker 1: and now they're back to being one of the big
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  Speaker 1: time players here. But this is a for Indiana. This
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  Speaker 1: is a once in a generation. This is a glitch
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  Speaker 1: in the matrix. This is a glitch in the sports
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  Speaker 1: matrix for the Indiana Hoosiers to win the championship. You
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  Speaker 1: don't miss that. You drop everything if you're living in
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  Speaker 1: Indiana a thousand miles away, right, you cancel whatever you
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  Speaker 1: got in the weddings. I don't care whatever it might be.
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  Speaker 1: And for Indiana, their coach there, Kurt Signetti, and the
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  Speaker 1: Hoosiers crawling out of the gutter. That's really what this is, right,
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  Speaker 1: Indiana was in the gutter and Signetti leading them out
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  Speaker 1: and like the sewer monster holding the playbook Becoming of
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  Speaker 1: Age movie.
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  Speaker 3: They don't make.
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  Speaker 1: Movies like that anymore because it's not a superhero movie,
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  Speaker 1: so they.
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  Speaker 3: Can't make it.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the old days, they would have made a
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  Speaker 1: movie like this. And first time I always hits trder.
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  Speaker 1: You always remember your first right, That's what I heard.
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  Speaker 1: So Miami fans they kind of shrug, so, yeah, that sucks.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'm gonna go I'm gonna go lay on
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  Speaker 1: the beach later today, I'll be okay. And Indiana fans
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  Speaker 1: they emptied their wallet, gonna buy all the merch all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, and you know, put the tractor on the
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  Speaker 1: side there at the farm and go watch these celebration. Now,
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  Speaker 1: last word here. So the other part of this is
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  Speaker 1: the NFL draft angle. The Raiders are on the clock
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  Speaker 1: in a very awkward scene. Mark Mark Davis just seem anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: It's just very odd.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing him in a college football game is bizarre. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: who let him in? How'd he get it? He was
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  Speaker 1: on the field the whole thing. So Raiders owner Mark Davis,
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  Speaker 1: John Spytech, that's the sock puppet for Tom Brady, the boss.
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  Speaker 1: By proxy. Brady was also there, and they were there,
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  Speaker 1: all attendants in South Florida to watch Indiana quarterback and
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  Speaker 1: possible number one overall pick, Fernando Mendoza do his thing.
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  Speaker 1: And there he was out there playing quarterback. Indiana wins
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  Speaker 1: the championship. He had a touchdown run. And so the
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  Speaker 1: question did Fernando Mendoza did Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner,
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  Speaker 1: did he lock himself in as the top pick in
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six college draft based on his performance
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  Speaker 1: in the national title game? Did he lock himself in?
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  Speaker 1: So I looked at it, I watched the game. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, no way, Absolutely, Medoza look like he was
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  Speaker 1: playing in a straight jacket for a good chunk of
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  Speaker 1: this game. Now, Miami did take some liberties. The officials
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  Speaker 1: showing some bias towards Miami allowed them to just in
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  Speaker 1: modern football that was played like old school football. It's
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  Speaker 1: like I'll just take some shots at the quarterback. We'll
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  Speaker 1: look the other way. We're gonna look the other way.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, Mendoza. They'll finished with one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: six yards, zero touchdowns, and a passer rating of a
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  Speaker 1: little bit above eighty. That's it. That's not the stat
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  Speaker 1: line of a number one overall pick.
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  Speaker 5: It's not.
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  Speaker 1: And that's like a guy auditioning for a backup job
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  Speaker 1: for the CFL team in Edmonton is what that is here.
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  Speaker 1: And the other problem is he didn't pass the eyeball test.
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  Speaker 4: Just sa.
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  Speaker 1: All the stats tell one thing, but the eyeball test.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: And I'm never wrong with the eyeball test. It just
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: didn't didn't look. He failed the exam, didn't look, didn't
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: feel like a big time NFL quarterback prodigy right around
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the mountain here, and he looks in this game, and
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: really the talent level was a fourth round pick. It's
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: a developmental quarterback. Fernando MENDOZI draft him in the fourth round,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: give him a couple of years, see if you can
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: figure some stuff out. And that's it. And we live
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: in the age now where you overdraft the quarterback because
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: in this case, Fernando Mendoza is the flavor of the week.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: He's got that puffy sticker flavor of the week on
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the side of his helmet there, and so it's okay,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: we gotta draft this guy because he's popular and flavor
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: of the week and all that stuff. He looked less
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: like a franchise savior against the you and more like
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the col Golden Bear version. And that was originally headed
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: to a secret society at Yale. And that's he's playing chess.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: The NFL is playing with claudiators in college Miami had
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: some big time fellows up front there and Tom Brady
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: this the other problem, Like tom Brady's sitting there in
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: his skinny suit, tom Brady in the owner's box, drooling
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: over this guy. It's unbelievable. In fact, tom Brady likely believes,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: well what Mendoza. Listen, he was going to be part
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: of that Skull and Bones club at Yale if he
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: had not gone to and so he's.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Got all the intangibles and all this.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, everything Tom Brady has touched since
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: he got to the Raiders has turned to dust. Everything
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: he picked, Gino Smith, he picked Pete Carroll. Gino threw
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: more picks than a bowling alley. Pete got canned faster
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: than a bad date and all that. And so Tom Brady,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, the way he's run the Raiders, he
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: could screw up a microwave TV dinner. He's that incompetent
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: as an NFL executive, Tom Brady, and it's so wild.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: And Mark Davis, of course, he just wants to eat
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the special at PF Changs. He doesn't really care. I'll
• 20:36
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• 20:38
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• 21:19
  Speaker 1: our lead this hour from Western New York. And if
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: you thought the Grim Reaper, Grim Reaper of coaches was done,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: that the Grim Reaper had gone back, you know, you know,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: like Santa Claus works one day a year and then
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and then that's it, just on Christmas. Well, the Grim
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Reaper of football coaches, they work a few days a year, normally.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: January.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: That's pretty much it. That's you're done. And yet here
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: we are past the midway point of January, and tada.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: If you thought the Grim Reaper was done, you're wrong.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: You're wrong. You're wrong.
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: You're wrong.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Another one bites the dust, and another one, and another one,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and another one and another one. If you did not hear,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: perhaps not. Coach Sean McDermott has been poll axed, fired
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: by the team owner Terry Pagoula after a nine year
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: run in Western New York. The Bills have said bye
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: bye to their head coach. The Buffalo football team a
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: perennial contender. However, they found new and creative ways to
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: choke in the playoffs. There they did not reach a
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: super Bowl under Sean McDermott. Despite having teams that were
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: at times favored to get to the Super Bowl. They
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: found ways to screw it up so that the move
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: came two days two days after the game in Denver
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: where the Buffalo Bills did the thing you can't do
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: at the time. You can't do it there a couple
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: of times ended up losing. So a number of players
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: are beside themselves. They are bewildered, thunderstruck because of the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: move to get rid of Sean McDermott. Fans also outraged
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: over this decision by the ownership there in Buffalo. That
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: is a good jumping off points to let us discuss
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the question for the steam panel. Did coach Sean McDermott.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Did coach Sean McDermott get a raw deal in Buffalo?
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Did he get a raw deal? So I've got flippers, hamburger, helper,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and cloverleaf intersection, and we will combine all of these
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to make some chicken
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Alfredo is what we're going to make. So, first of all,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: to answer the question, was this a raw deal for
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, The answer is no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: no no, with an explanation point. In fact, he was
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: given a sweetheart deal. In most places, McDermott would have
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: been fired three years ago. He got three extra years
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: to prove he shouldn't have been coaching the last three
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: years Sean McDermott. And so no, the opposite of that,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: this was a move that should have been made a
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: while ago. It had to be made now. It was inevitable.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Now that being said, I didn't think they would have
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the balls to do it in Buffalo, so I'm surprised.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: That they did.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: And we did a Mallard monologue in a previous episode
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: of the show saying that, yeah, you should get rid
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: of this guy. Of course you should get rid of
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Sean McDermot. The twenty twenty five season, it turned out,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: was indeed the last dance. That was it, And the
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: folding tables snapped in half. Bill's Mafia jumped on it,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and the table snapped in half, and that's it. You
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: can only jump through so many flaming tables. Okay, and
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: before you realize that you're stuck on like level thirteen,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: but you want to get to level fifteen, but you're
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: stuck on level thirteen, Well, how do I get to
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: level fifteen? Now? We are skeptical. We are skeptical that
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the Bills know what they're doing right, considering that they
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: gave this guy three extra years, three extra years Sean
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: McDermott got. And the reason that we didn't think this
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: was gonna happen is because foc fear of change, right,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: fear of change, fear of the unknown. And the Bills
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: we were comfortable, right, They'd been bad for twenty years,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: and so they were comfortable. The ten plus wins, playoffs,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: snow Globe games on National TV, Chicken Wings in the air, everywhere,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia, breaking furniture like it's a home improvement show
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: gone bad. All of that stuff. That's the Bills, that's
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the essence of the Buffalo Bills and Sean McDermott coaching.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: This team had built up a nice ranch house, a
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: nice ranch home Sean McDermott had built up, and it
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: was working. They were winning some games and all that stuff,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: and it was wonderful and they were all excited and
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: it was great and.
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. However, what ended
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: up happening every January. Every January, the ending was the same.
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: It was four of the past five four of the
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: past five years. How has this thing ended for the
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: Buffalo Bills. Well, they've ended it in heartbreak fashion. And
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: so when you keep crashing out, when you get to
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: that level thirteen, you can't get past it. You don't
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: yell at the controller, you change the strategy. And so
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: McDermott they gave him another chance, and another one and
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: another one, and it didn't work out. So they could
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: ban his head against the wall and all that stuff.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: They couldn't find the right cheat code, couldn't figure out
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: warp zone.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: There was no warp zone for the Buffalo Bills. Here,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: just more frostbite and oh my god, we suck again.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: And at some point you stop mashing those buttons on
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: the remote control and you go to YouTube or the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: dark web and you say, okay, we got to figure
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: something else out. And so that's what they're going to
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: do it now. The Bills job Prime rib the Bill's
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: job is prime. Rib, you've got the lunatic fan base,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: check small town insanity.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: You check that box.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: You've got Josh Allen, who's got two more years of
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: athletic prime, so two more years of Josh Allen before
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the slow decline. So you've got that. So that's all
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: good stuff, right. So you get those things and you're
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: looking around, you're like, okay, so you've got this kind
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: of set up, and where is this headed. So you've
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: got the job that's team that's contender, just already a contender,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: we know that.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: And so you go in there.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Whoever gets the Buffalo Bill's job. We'll talk about this
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: more as we go through this hour here, but whoever
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: gets that job, you're not rebuilding, right, and you should
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: never be rebaling. You're installing. Essentially, a booster seat is
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: what you're doing. You get a booster seat in there
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and you floor it, pedal to the metal, and you
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: just go for it here. And we have seen that
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: this can work. It doesn't work all the time, it
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: has worked. The most famous example, Tony Dungee built the
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers into a really good team years ago
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: in Tampa and then couldn't get it done, and then
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: they brought in John Gruden who cashed the check that
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: was set up by Tony Dungee. So it's like HGTV
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the Pigskin House Flippers addition, and so you go in
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: there and McDermott he turned he did do some flipping.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: He turned the house, the outhouse into not quite a penthouse,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: but it's like a level below the penthouse. So he
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: did that and he ran out of money, or in
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: this case, he ran out of time. Time is money,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: So he ran out of time McDermott. And so someone
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: else will go in there, and if the Bills don't
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: screw this up, they will be the ones to hang
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: up the Lombardi trophy on the shelf. They'll put that
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: up in the house that McDermott built. Now. Secondly, so
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: now Buffalo is back on the market, they need to
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: hire a new coach. We know that they need a
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: new sideline jockey. So the question with the Bills out
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: shopping for someone to guide them on the sidelines. Here
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: for the first time in almost a decade, the Bills
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: are in the market for a head coach. Who do
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: you recommend? You are now the headhunter? You are now
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the advisor, who do you recommend for the Buffalo job?
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: So this one is a no brainer. It's not that
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: difficult here if the Bills are serious and if they
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: really want to go for it here, and that's a
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: big if with the Buffalo Bills, it's a big if.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: But if that's the case, you do whatever you have
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: to do, including handing over the keys to Niagara Falls,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: to get Mike Tomlin. Hold my god, what you're talking about.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Tomvin didn't win it, Bitsbury, He's been bad for ten years.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Shut up.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: You lose there.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: That makes mine all right. The argument against Tomlin is
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: he didn't get it done for a while in Pittsburgh,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and all that I say for Geyzy, absolutely for Gezy.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: The problem Tomlin had he had substandard rosters, inferior quarterbacks
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: and was able to make the playoffs most of the
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: time in Pittsburgh. If you give Mike Tomlin a legitimate
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: thorough bred quarterback and that team is going to punch
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: their ticket to the Promised Land there, it'll be like
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: muscle memory for Mike tom I'm telling you it's gonna
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: be like muscle memory. The standard is the standard that
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: fits that bull crap fits in Western New York like
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: thermal underwear in January, just fits, you need it, And
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: so that job the Buffalo Bill's job. Now I recommend
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin. That's my unsolicited overnight device. But the Buffalo
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Bill's job is a Hamburger helper job it is. It's
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: in terms of coaching, ready made contender right now, playoff team,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: consistently big time quarterback. This is a just add water situation. Agree,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: you're not in your head. Yes, it's a just add
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: water situation. Dinner is served, you've got the protein Josh Allen,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and you'd like to see him stop burning down the
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: kitchen with turnovers like he did against the Broncos and
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: all that. But the early chat chatter is not The
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: early chatter is not Mike Tomlin. The early chatter is
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: that the team from Buffalo is going to look to
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: pacify Josh Allen and hire Brian Dayball. He's the early favorite,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: not Mike Tomlin, the human boomerang Brian day Ball there
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: who failed spectacularly with the Giants. But hey, for he's
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: a jolly goodfellow, which nobody can and why not buy
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: him a beer? Buy everyone beers? You pass the mashed potatoes, Grandma,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: where you go the old boys club. That's the logic, right,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: It's always the way you go. Default position. It's not
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: what you know. And this is not just football, this
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: is just life in general. It's not what you know,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: it's who you know. And so not exactly great leadership,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: it's not. It's more like, hey, I'm on LinkedIn, let
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: me see what they can find or I'm on Express
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: pros or whatever.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Either way, outside of replacing Andy read which that job
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: is not open at this point in Kansas City, no
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: word that that job will be open. So we're going
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: to assume the position that that is not happy, that
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: that job will not open up. So outside of that job,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the Andy Reid chiefs job, this is the job. This
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: is the job. Don't overthink it. I would advise to
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: not hire a friend. Don't hire a friend. You're not
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: running a bake sale here in Buffalo, you're not. I
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: just go ahead and hire tom Everyone says Tomlin's not
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: going to coach, he wants to take a year off.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Unless there's something that we don't know about that hasn't
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: been disclosed, Tomlin will be coaching again. So if Tomlin
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: planning on going back to coaching. By the time you
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: get back, this job is not gonna be open. So like,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: come on, what are you doing?
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Just do what it takes.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Everyone's got a price higher Tom all right now, final
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: thought as for the guy, As for the guy who
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: just got dumped, we know how this works in the
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: NFL too, with the recycling. The NFL ahead of their
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: time when it comes to recycling. So the question where
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: does former Bills coach Sean McDermott end up. Where does
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: McDermott end up? Well, McDermott is not unemployed. When I
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: think unemployed, I think, well, I don't have any money coming.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: He's still getting paid by the Bills. He had time
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: left on his contract. He wasn't a lame duck coach
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: from what I understand. So I think of this in
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: the context that Sean McDermott is at the intersection, the
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: blinker is on, the blinker is on the station wagon
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: is idling the McDermott station wagon. The kids are in
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: the back, Ask Dad, where are we there yet? Where
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: we going? Dad?
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: Where we go?
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, calm down, shut up, kids, all right? So he
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: dropped a token. He dropped a token into the NFL
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: arcade and boom, the coaching mary go round, fired up,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: rounded and round and round, the big wooden horse brass pole,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: up and down, the same song every coaching cycle, every
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: coaching cycle, the same song. And mcdermi's resume it says
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: one thing. It doesn't say I'm gonna win you a championship.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: It says I will make you respectable where a capital
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: r right. And if you look at these terrible franchises
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: like the Raiders and the Browns and the Cardinals, these
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: teams and there are others that have jobs open. Although
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: it appears the Tennessee Titans have decided on another terrible coach,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Robert Salah. What you wonder why certain teams always end
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: up in the same spot, Well.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Anyway, he would put you in the respectable category. And
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: so that's not a bad thing. In one man's track,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: there's another man's treasure. It's it's always the way this
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: is in the NFL here and so it's the other
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: thing about mcdermoid is he's not he's not a TV guy.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: He's got a really boring personality. He doesn't have much
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: of anything to offer other than coaching football. He's meeting potatoes.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: There's no garnish. There, there's no razzle dazzle. He's not
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: gonna go off and do a Barstool Bros. Podcast and
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: play grab ass with the bros at Barstool.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: He's not doing that.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: That's not how he's wired. Okay, he's not gonna go
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: eat chicken wings and drink beer and do that while
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: doing some fugazi podcast. That's not gonna So he's just
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: one of these guys that rolls up his sleeves and
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: you got a sink that's leaking, he'll fix that. He'll
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: you get the thing over there that's not quite working
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: right on the on the door, he'll fix that as well.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: And so the the option do you take a gap year?
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Some people say, well, you take a gap year and
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: then you go back to the market and all that stuff,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: and that would be a big mistake by Sean McDermott.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: That's what the rich guys that can do TV do.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: He's not that guy, as we said, he's not that
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: type of coach. He's not And so you don't do
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the sabbatical. So he currently Sean mcdermomation. She's at the intersection.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: This is a clover leaf intersection. He's at the clover
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: leaf intersection, Sean McDermott. So if you turn left, turn left.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: If you turn left, you take a year off and
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: battery recharge. That's not what you should do. You should
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: not turn left. If you go straight, you grab one
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: of these flee infested jobs, like the Raiders, the Cardinals
• 36:37
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  Speaker 3: That's like the roach motel. You go to one of
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: those teams.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Now, the other option at the clover Leaf intersection is
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: to turn ride, turn ride. You head to Jerry's world
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: where Cowboys' defensive coordinator. That job open up right now,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: those hasn't hired anyone unless they hired some of the
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: last hour, so that job is open. So the defensive
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: coordinator job is open for the Dallas Cowboys. You go there.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: If you're Sean McDermott, that would be the fallback. It's
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: not a full sabbatical because you're still coaching, but you
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: go to the Cowboys. Jerry turns on the circus music,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: the spotlight. Jerry's barking like a carnival barker. There. He's
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: got the clown makeup on the whole thing. He's a
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: carnival huckster, and he tries to hype up your value
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And you do that for a year,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: You go to the Cowboys for a year, and suddenly
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: mcdermot's back in the front of the line and you
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: can get one of these top jobs that will pop open.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Every year, seven to ten jobs open up. And of course,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: the great thing about the coaching carousel, as you know,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: the ride does not stop.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: It does not.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: You just got to pick the right horse. That's the problem.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: You got to pick the right horse.
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  Speaker 5: How about that to the third degree?
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this is one big gets quick all right,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: bo wait, there's more cool.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: So, after the Bears lost to the Rams, Ben Johnson
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: was asked if he thought about going for two at
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: the end of regulation instead of taking his chances in overtime.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: He said he thought about it, but played a factor
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: was that their goal to goat situations hadn't been very clean. Now, Ben,
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: obviously hindsight is twenty twenty. But do you think taking
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: chances in overtime was the right decision.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Well in hindsight, they lost, so it was.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: But I would have done the same thing. You're at home.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Usually at home you go for overtime. If you're on
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: the road, you go for the win at the end
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: of regulation and all that stuff. But the way he's right,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: the way the Bears were running those short yards plays,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: they were not very successful. The Rams were more physical,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: rather embarrassing, em masculating for Chicago Bears team. If the
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Rams pushed them around, and wait till they pushed the
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Seahawks around this weekend.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's embarrassing. And next I would have done
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: the same thing he did.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Though.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Next, so, with bow Nick's going down, the Broncos have
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: Jared Stidham heading into the FC champion Champion I.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Heard about that.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, congratulations Coopie Ye.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: My joy was short lived.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: But anyway, So with that being said, a lot of
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: people are speculating, or maybe not speculating, but saying the
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: Broncos should maybe look at Bryan Tannehill.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: Some people even throwing out Drew Breeze. Sure, why not?
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Ben, do you think they should sign somebody like
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: that or just take their chances with Jared Stidham.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: No, here's what I would do if I was Sean Payton.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I would run the ball eighty times. I would throw
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: the ball maybe ten times tops, and try to play
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: hide the quarterback and hope that this and the Patriots
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: have not that they've been sloppy with the football too.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: So if you just run the ball, don't turn the
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: ball over, don't commit a lot of penalties, there is
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: a path to winning without your starting quarterback. You're gonna
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: need some help from the defense, and Drake may turning
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: the ball over. So but I wouldn't sign those guys.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: That's a recipe for disaster. Next, they might be getting JK.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Dobbins back too, so it's not a bad idea.
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Okay, Next we have over Over the weekend, it was
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: reported that, you know, despite a lot of talk about
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: John Morant going to the Heat, it was reported that's
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: a little bit overblown and that league.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Wide interest in John Rant is a tepid ben Does
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: that surprise you.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: No, he's got a big contract, he's got a bad attitude,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: he's a loser as a player, he's not a winner,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: and so those are all things teams try to overlook. However,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: he is box office, and there are teams that have
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: no stars, starless NBA teams, And if you're an owner
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: of a starless NBA team, you need a star player
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: to sell tickets in that business. John Morant does qualify
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: as a star player. It's exciting to watch, but he's
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: made a lot of interesting choices, so I think that's
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: bull crap.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: If if the Grizzlies want to trade him, he'll end.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Up getting traded and likely end up on the Miami Heat.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: By what Valentine's Day?
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: There?
• 40:54
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• 40:56
  Speaker 3: How did we do? Went? I run the game? I
• 41:02
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• 41:23
  Speaker 2: what it takes to get to the top?
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: Probably not?
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, Scott is in the Commonwealth. He has called up.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: He wants to be one of our contestants. Hello Scott, Welcome,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Hey Ben, how's it going? Guy?
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: Scott?
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, I would be a Texan,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: but not a Houston Texan because they froze when they
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: played the Patriots over the weekends.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Cool, all right, who do you want to partner with them?
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: My?
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: You got me or cool?
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: I won't pick Lorrena.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: What you get a golden ticket? Oh no, no, no
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: no no no no no no no, that's.
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: Not all right.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: You're gonna play with Lorraino.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Hot's fine.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: You're in you and Lorena?
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll have that as a team. All right,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: you're you and Lorena. Okay, hold on Secondarina, your first
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: time playing the game. We have Jimmy in Saint Paul. Hello, Jimmy,
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Hey going, that's going on?
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: Jimmy? What's that?
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Can you hear me?
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: What are you doing outside?
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: I'm doing my cargi outside and in Minnesota?
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: How many? How many? How many layers you got on there?
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Today?
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Three?
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: And what's the what's the temperature in Saint Paul today?
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: Negative eight?
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: And it feels like give him twenty perfect weather. Perfect
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: jot to the jim and I jogged back home.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Do you see anybody outside?
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Do you see anybody like anybody outside?
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: All right? Man, all right, who do you want to
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: partner up with their?
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Jimmy?
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: So we need another contestan because Scott's not serious. So
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: if somebody else wants calling to replace Scott, what's that? Okay,
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: all right, we're in nice hold on a sec. So
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: you're saying that Scott is not you don't think you serious.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: You think he's a prankster.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: He picks Lorena as his partner. He's not serious, Scott?
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Are you a are you a princes? Scott?
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: Lorena?
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it seems a reasonable bit.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: Lorena hasn't heard of ninety five percent of the names
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: on this litter chance.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: Coop. You know, no, we're not giving you just hate women.
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: We're not.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yes, that's true, that's true.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Lorena, let's go, let's go.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, like I said, he's not serious.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: Coop seems genuinely upset.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: All right, if somebody else wants to play, We'll let
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Scott pick the category. How about that if somebody else
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: wants to play, because we had to move on, Coop. Yes, yeah,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: that's all right, all right, what a categy.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: This is the Orlando Bloom edition.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: How about Scott and someone else team up?
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: How about that is the Orlando Blum edition.
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: The categories are Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean,
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: the Three Musketeers and Grand Turismo.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Which category would you like?
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Scott, I would say.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Three Lorena, I would say three Musketeers.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: All right, quite the wordsman there, and we have my man,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Jimmy walking in the Arctic winter wonderland of Saint Paul
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: and Jimmy. Pick a category if you remember.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Them, I guess remember Pirates of the Caribbean.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Pirates of the Caribbean. All right, very good everyone, thank
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: you for that. Hold on, Jimmy, do not hang up,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Do not hang up. So Scott likely will be replaced.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: But we got Jimmy and me and Scott. I think,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: who knows, we'll get to that. We're gonna have Mallard's
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: a mount of money in its entirety.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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• 44:38
  Speaker 3: My back tore we go.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: It's Mallard's Mountain of Money. Let's welcome in our contestants.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: We have see here we have Scott in the Commonwealth
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: and Jimmy in same.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: Py're getting rid of Scott in the Commonwealth. Oh we
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: are okay, well, I guess we're gonna who are we
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: going to do in Scott and Kentucky? Instead, we're getting
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: a new sounds very rude, Scott in CommonWell, well, Scott Wilson, idiot,
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: seems like a nice man. All right, Scott, so I
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: am your partner.
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: Look at that Cooper the rat kick to the cybel
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: Ray we did a test. Yeah, she couldn't even say
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: who Russell Wilson? Oh the crowd?
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: Alright, so Scott, we have we have the three Musketeers.
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: We already can't do the ten point one because I
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: just blew that. But we're gonna win anyway. All Right,
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: this category, all these athletes ware or wore number three
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: forty five seconds on the clock.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: Are you ready, Scott, I'm ready?
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: All right, let's begin, all right, the answer from the
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: seventy six ers. Yes, this guy was the Bambino. Yes,
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: this guy was the point guard for the Clippers, the
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: Lob City Clippers. Yes, this guy was a Defensive Player
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: of the Year for the Pistons when they were winning championships.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: Yes this guy was.
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: He spent like his most of his twenty two career
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: with the Twins, won an MVP Big slugger, no.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: Hammering. All right, all right, this guy was a long
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: time Detroit Tiger. He just recently got in the Hall
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: of Fame. Cowboy and Windsor was always campaigning for him
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: get into the Hall of fame.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: Alright, alright, a lot of heavy breath, Alan Trammel, you
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: got one family?
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Jimmy, are you there? Jimmy?
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: Have you fled?
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Oh boy? What is going on here?
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: Are you there? Jimmy?
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: I'm right here.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Ben. All right, you haven't frozen or anything like that.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: You're good to go. No, I'm not lifted now, okay,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: all right, here we go. That's a man's man right there.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: The man's lifting weight. That's right.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: That's not something win.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: Alright, here we go. We'll put forty five seconds. You
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: picked Pirates of the Caribbean. Is that correct? Yeah?
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: I guess so.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: You don't even remember.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: All right, these athletes all in they all enjoy sailing.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Are you ready?
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: All right? Uh. He was Larry Bird's rival in the
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: NBA in the nineteen eighties. Yes, guard from France played
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: with the Spurs, won a bunch of championships. He's yes,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: the other splash brother, not Steph Curry. The other guys
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: with the Mavericks now.
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: Lay Thompkins.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, a wide receiver. Was famous for the Houston Texans.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: He played in Kansas City. Ba's been in Baltimore recently.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: He's still playing in the NFL. Kind of older pitcher.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: His name has become synonymous with a surgery, and baseball
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: ligament replacement surgery is called this guy's name.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.
• 47:49
  Speaker 8: French basketball player played with the won a championship. All right,
• 47:55
  Speaker 8: that's all right, all right, So you guys are back
• 47:57
  Speaker 8: up again. Jimmy, do you want Lord of the Rings
• 47:59
  Speaker 8: or Grand Tarismo?
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: Lord of the rings?
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: All right, Lord of the wing the rings. Here we go.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: These athletes all have a lot of championship rings. Will
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: put forty five seconds on the clock and we are
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: on our way and go. A Yankee hero in the
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixties won two Purple Hearts, played with the Yankees,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: won seven World Series titles as a player, fought in
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: World War Two. How about that? Luke gret No, if
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: you don't know, if you don't know, you don't know it.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: A linebacker for the Green Bay Packers back in the day.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: I think he's in his seven he's still alive, nicknamed
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: the Mad.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: Stork for the Green Bay Packers.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Oh Man, all right, mister big shot for the Lakers,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: played with the Spurs, the Rockets, NBA player game winning
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: shots back up on some great teams in the NBA,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: tall guy African Americans shot a lot of three point shots. Nothing,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: come on, oh Man.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: Good strategy there, going for the tough ones first. Thank you.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, by the way, you didn't get Ted h Well, Hank,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Hank Bauer was the guy we were looking for, a
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: Yankee legend and.
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: Ted, Ted Hendricks and Robert Dorry.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Keep in mind that these categories I've been given much
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: more difficult than the ones.
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: Coop, it's random, your totally totally random teammates category, Ted
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: Hendricks koop, Ted Hendrix, Okay, he won.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: Hendrick.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: I don't even know who that is.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: Hank Bauer.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: I knew him as a broadcast Hank Bauer, Hey, what.
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: Are you doing?
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: He led the Ools to their first champion champ as
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: a manager.
• 49:42
  Speaker 6: But seriously, like Boris d Ow back up, it was
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: one of the answers Boris d Ow, Alan Trammels is sabotage.
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: Alan Trammell is a household man. That's a it is Jimmy. No,
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: he's not Jimmy.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: You know Allan's Trammel is right.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: Yes see that right.
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: Prove we win, Scott, Scott, you chickened after you don't
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: get to win.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: No win for you.