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  Speaker 1: I believe it was Shakespeare who said to play or
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  Speaker 1: showb So our lead this hour, I'm gonna start with football.
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  Speaker 1: Why because football is more important than the other sports.
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  Speaker 1: Football is more important, it's a bigger deal. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: start with football. And the story that bounds Strand was
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  Speaker 1: a rumor over the weekend, and now it has been
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  Speaker 1: confirmed that the rumor there's some meat to it. It's
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  Speaker 1: not just made up out of thin air. As the
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  Speaker 1: world turns. As the world turns, we head to the
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  Speaker 1: deliberation room. The great debate is going on right now.
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  Speaker 1: Many people biting their fingernails, tapping their toes, wondering what
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  Speaker 1: is going on with America's favorite tight end, Travis Kelcey. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the guy that vanished in front of over one hundred
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  Speaker 1: million people in the Super Bowl. But Travis Kelcey has
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  Speaker 1: confirmed that he is thinking about stepping away. The weekend
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  Speaker 1: rumors were accurate. At Kelsey is contemplating his football mortality
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  Speaker 1: at this point. If you didn't see it, or maybe
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  Speaker 1: missed it, I don't know. Travis Kelsey. He's got a
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  Speaker 1: podcast or something like that. Everyone's got a podcast. I
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  Speaker 1: got a podcast. Well's his better than mine? I got
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  Speaker 1: one anyway. Kelsey says that he's going to take some
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  Speaker 1: time off to decide whether or not he wants to
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  Speaker 1: return to Cannes City for his thirteenth NFL season. He
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  Speaker 1: said he's quote kicking everything down the road. He's littering.
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  Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey is littering. Apparently we have audio just to
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  Speaker 1: back up. I'm not making this up. Here's Travis Kelsey take.
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  Speaker 3: As I know everybody wants to know whether or not
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  Speaker 3: I'm playing next year. I'm dying right now. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: kicking everything down the road. Okay, I just kicking every
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  Speaker 3: can I can down the road. I'm not making any
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  Speaker 3: crazy decisions, but I right now, the biggest thing is
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  Speaker 3: just being there for my teammates. And you know, I've
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  Speaker 3: I've been fortunate over the past five six years. I've
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  Speaker 3: played more football than anybody and it's because the people
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  Speaker 3: that are in that building and the fact that we
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  Speaker 3: keep going to these AFC Championships and these Super Bowls,
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  Speaker 3: and that means I'm playing an extra three games more
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  Speaker 3: than everybody else in the in the entire league. That's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of wear and tear.
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  Speaker 1: On your body.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of time spent in the building, focusing
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  Speaker 3: on your craft, focusing on the task at hand, every
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  Speaker 3: challenge that you set up for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: What a hero. God, he's an American hero. God blessed
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  Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey. The things that he does for the men,
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  Speaker 1: women and children in America. Three extra games a year,
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  Speaker 1: My god.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so let us discuss the question. Travis Kelcey
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  Speaker 1: confirming that he is considering retirement. What is the vibe
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  Speaker 1: that you have on this one? What's the vibe? So
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  Speaker 1: I've got clinical diagnosis, Albert Einstein and dog whistle, and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to make a pay per view extravaganza. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: pay per view. Travis Kelcey announcing his decision. Will he play?
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  Speaker 1: Will he not? I hear there's a YMCA or a
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  Speaker 1: boys and girls club in Connecticut that Kelsey can go to.
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  Speaker 1: I know that his lady friend there lives in Rhode Island,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not that far away and go and hang
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  Speaker 1: out and make an announcement. I think Jim Gray might
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  Speaker 1: be able to help him out if he wants. He
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  Speaker 1: can get Jim Gray in there and make the announcement.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be great. So listen the vibe to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: what's the vibe on this one? The vibe is he's done.
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  Speaker 1: Is that not the vibe? Right? Complaining about having to
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  Speaker 1: play extra playoff gus, Oh, I gotta spend extra time
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  Speaker 1: with the belly. Oh my god, Oh man, it's like
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  Speaker 1: he's had a sweatshot making Nike shoes. I made, my god.
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  Speaker 1: Now in the in the week leading up to the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, this is another example why we do sports
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  Speaker 1: radio to tell you when people are lying. Travis Kelsey
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  Speaker 1: was interviewed multiple times and multiple times said that he
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  Speaker 1: planned on playing not only in twenty twenty five, but
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven. I mean keep going
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  Speaker 1: and going and going and going. Now he's changed the
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  Speaker 1: song sheet. Now he's changed the song Sheet's singing a
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  Speaker 1: different tune. And was that just because he was terrible
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  Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl? Is at a one off? He
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  Speaker 1: was bad, but draggled, but draggled Travis kelce by the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles defense, they're unable to get separation, and he was
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  Speaker 1: mostly just a spectator. He should have paid for a ticket.
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  Speaker 1: And we also learned down that SoundBite that Kelsey likes
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  Speaker 1: to litter, he likes to kick trash down the road.
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  Speaker 1: He does not like the environment. It's a bad job
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  Speaker 1: by him. But if you look at this, the body
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  Speaker 1: of work of Travis Kelsey, here there are telltale signs.
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  Speaker 1: Some would say a dead a dead giveaway of a
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  Speaker 1: sharp decline. Now what is my evidence. I will give
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  Speaker 1: you my evidence and you will decide. Kelsey yards overall,
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  Speaker 1: yards per catch and touchdown receptions have all gone down, down, down, down,
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  Speaker 1: down down down three straight years, three straight years. Sharp decline,
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  Speaker 1: three straight years. And if you listen between the words
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  Speaker 1: Travis made, it seem, based on this side of the microphone,
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  Speaker 1: that he is bewildered. I'll use that word bewildered. Travis
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  Speaker 1: Kelsey here. Now my advice I always give the same
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  Speaker 1: advice there said. If you're in that game, you keep playing.
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  Speaker 1: You keep going and going and going and going and going,
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  Speaker 1: and you go until they have to literally rip the
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  Speaker 1: uniform off you and cut it off you with some scissors.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you should do. But on this one, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna happen, because the advice is that
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  Speaker 1: you keep going. Because I've heard this from a lot
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  Speaker 1: of ex players that have passed through our building here
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  Speaker 1: that the moment you retire, that clock people forget about you.
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  Speaker 1: Whether you're Travis Kelsey or whoever these you know, your
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  Speaker 1: old news, you're a boomer. When you retire, you're no
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  Speaker 1: longer playing. And so that's it. Your celebrity diminishes, and
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  Speaker 1: it goes rapid fire, rapid fire. Uh and and so
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  Speaker 1: I would say, keep playing, but I don't believe that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen, right. I mean, I'm not a psychologist, but
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  Speaker 1: I can play a shrink on the radio and I'll
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  Speaker 1: use some psychobabble. My clinical diagnosis on Travis Kelsey, based
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  Speaker 1: on a seconds long mallor investigation, is that if you
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  Speaker 1: are actively considering retirement, which Kelsey is, it generally indicates
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  Speaker 1: that you have already checked out that you're thinking about. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can hang out in Rhode Island and eat ice
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  Speaker 1: cream with Taylor Swift whenever I want. I can travel
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  Speaker 1: to Parie at a moment's notice and go pick my
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  Speaker 1: nose in the ocean, do whatever I want. No one
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  Speaker 1: will question me. But if you've thought about that whole
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  Speaker 1: retirement thing, you've already checked out mentally, you're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be fully engaged and you're not gonna invest the time
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  Speaker 1: required for whatever your job is, whatever it might be.
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  Speaker 1: And even if you're physically present there, even if you're
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  Speaker 1: part of it, it just is gonna be something missing here.
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  Speaker 1: There's gonna be disengagement is the word I will use.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's where I am. On Kelsey. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's done. That's it, and the chiefs probably know he's done,
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  Speaker 1: and they got to figure out where they want to
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  Speaker 1: get a tight end from. But hey, you'd much rather
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  Speaker 1: have Kelsey retire than Mahomes, Right, Yeah, you figure you
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  Speaker 1: figure it out. If Mahomes is the real deal and
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  Speaker 1: not a fraud, then he'll be fine and he'll elevate
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  Speaker 1: other players other than Kelsey. Now turned the page to
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia side of things, where running back Saquon bark All,
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  Speaker 1: these Eagle guys are making the rounds, right, they're doing
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  Speaker 1: all the media, the old media, radio, TV and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. Making they did on Jimmy Fallon. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know he's still had a show. Apparently does Jimmy Fallon.
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  Speaker 1: So they were on there, and then Barkley was on
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  Speaker 1: with Howard Stern. I remember when Stern was like the
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  Speaker 1: king dude. Everyone wanted to be Stern and radio. Now
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  Speaker 1: no one wants to be Howard Stern and Radio. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty bad. But anyway, Howard still doing a show so
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  Speaker 1: he can hang out with his celebrity friends. Here is
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  Speaker 1: Seaquon Barkley. And then they were talking about Taylor Swift
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  Speaker 1: and the fans booing at the super Bowl ticket list.
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  Speaker 4: I remember that they showed her on the Jumbleton and
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  Speaker 4: she got boot I don't get it. I don't get
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  Speaker 4: why she.
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  Speaker 1: Get it there. I didn't like that Howard.
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  Speaker 4: Reporting our significant out there and she's made the game bigger.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we're all about and football. We're all about,
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  Speaker 4: you know, how can we expand the game and make
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  Speaker 4: it more internationally? And we're traveling to Brazil and we're
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  Speaker 4: traveling the next to go, and so we're trying to
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  Speaker 4: expand the game and you know, her being a part
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  Speaker 4: of it is only helping that. So I don't I
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  Speaker 4: don't get the slide best you can get in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Howard Stern, who used to do mock funerals for
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  Speaker 1: other radio guys, is now upset that fans are booing
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  Speaker 1: a pop diva. Okay, you've come full circle, Howard. Congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: So Eagles you heard it right there. Eagles stars Sakwon
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  Speaker 1: Barkley on a phone connection saying he doesn't get the
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  Speaker 1: fans booing Taylor Swift at Super Bowl fifty nine the
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  Speaker 1: other day. Can you explain how this works? Yes, Howard's
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  Speaker 1: not a sports guy. He just wants to hang out
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  Speaker 1: with his celebrity friends. And Barkley also he was being diplomatic.
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  Speaker 1: Is the word I will use? Yeah, So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna quote the great Albert Einstein. Now, Albert Einstein,
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  Speaker 1: his most famous equation is E equals mc squared. Right,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the most famous Einstein equation e equals
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  Speaker 1: mc squared. So I'm gonna use the inspiration of the
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  Speaker 1: great Albert Einstein, and I'm going to use ts plus
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  Speaker 1: e F equals bb. All right. That's again, this is algebra.
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  Speaker 1: This is I'm channeling my inner Albert Einstein. Ts plus
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  Speaker 1: e F equals bb all right. And that is Taylor
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  Speaker 1: Swift plus Eagles fans equals boo birds. It's not that hard, right,
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  Speaker 1: You're sleeping with the one of the top players on
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs of your Taylor Swift. You supposedly grew up
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  Speaker 1: an Eagle fan and that's a cardinal sin. And you're
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  Speaker 1: constantly being shoved down people's throat. And then I understand
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  Speaker 1: I was not obviously at the Super Bowl. I don't
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  Speaker 1: get invited to those things, but there was told there
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  Speaker 1: were mostly Eagle fans there, and so there you go.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that deep. And if anything, Taylor story that
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  Speaker 1: she seemed gobsmacked that she was being booed. But that's
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  Speaker 1: like a merit badge. The line we use many times,
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  Speaker 1: many have said it over the years. They don't boo
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's like they know who you are. You're not just
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  Speaker 1: some random chick in a luxury box. They know who
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  Speaker 1: you are, so you should be honored they're booing you.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great emotion. So wonder woman a right, not
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  Speaker 1: last word here. Here we go back to the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: We'll stay in Philadelphia. Were wide receiver A. J. Brown
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  Speaker 1: AJ Brown. He said something that upset many people. We
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  Speaker 1: spend so much time obsessing about championships, and I gotta win,
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  Speaker 1: you know, play to win the game. You gotta win
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  Speaker 1: as many championship as Again, so Brown had never won
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  Speaker 1: anything he now wins a championship, the Lombardi with the Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: his first chancechampionship, and he wrote this manifesto on social
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  Speaker 1: media and he explained it's not what he expected. The
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  Speaker 1: emotion is not what he expected. He said, after a
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  Speaker 1: few days, I've had time to reflect on being a champion.
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  Speaker 1: AJ Brown of the Eagles say, I tried to feel
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  Speaker 1: how everyone made it seem to be a champion, and
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately it was short lived. Two days, to be exact.
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  Speaker 1: How about that two days He's already over winning the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. He says, he's back to work now, AJ Brown,
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  Speaker 1: and he says the thrill of victory is not what
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  Speaker 1: he thought it would be. And he said, instead of that,
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  Speaker 1: his thrill comes from domination on the field. That's the line,
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  Speaker 1: that's I believe, that's the money quote. So AJ Brown
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  Speaker 1: says that the feeling after the Eagle winning the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl was not what he expected and he prefers to
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  Speaker 1: dominate in the game against defensive backs and whatnot. Where
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  Speaker 1: are you at on this one? All right? So this
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  Speaker 1: you might see him, this is you might think this
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  Speaker 1: is benign. You're saying, well, that's just a random comment
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  Speaker 1: by AJ Brown. There's nothing there. However, you'd be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Okay if you listen closely between the words. AJ Brown
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  Speaker 1: just gave out a dog whistle. He wants out, he
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  Speaker 1: wants out of Philadelphia. He's like, hey, we won the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. We won the super Bowl. But he's not happy.
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  Speaker 1: He would rather get the ball early and often and
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  Speaker 1: dominate statistically. That's what he wants. And he'll never be
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  Speaker 1: that guy in Philadelphia because they're a running team, the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: They were thirtieth in passing the football last year and
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  Speaker 1: they won the Super Bowl. You think they're going to
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  Speaker 1: change that. You think they're going to change their ways
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five and going forward. Methinks not so much.
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  Speaker 1: Me thinks not so much. And he's like, hey, winning's cool,
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  Speaker 1: AJ Brown said, but two days and I get more
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  Speaker 1: joy out of dominance, meaning he wants out of Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're Mike Vrabel and the Patriots or one
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  Speaker 1: of these other teams that needs a wide receiver, you
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  Speaker 1: get on the phone right now and you call the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles upset. What's it gonna take? This guy's not happy?
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  Speaker 1: And in Philadelphia AJ Brown pretty much a jag, not
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jack just a guy, like just a guy. He's
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  Speaker 1: not in the top five in terms of receivers. He's
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  Speaker 1: not a top five receiver, not a top ten, not
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  Speaker 1: a top fifteen, not a top twenty, not even a
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  Speaker 1: top twenty five wide receiver. He's not. In fact, he
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  Speaker 1: ranked twenty ninth in receptions AJ Brown. And he's not
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  Speaker 1: in the top twenty in targets either. And in order
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  Speaker 1: for him to dominate, he would have to go somewhere
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  Speaker 1: outside of Philadelphia. Not gonna happen. But you think a
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  Speaker 1: team like the Patriots of the Chargers, somewhere like that,
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  Speaker 1: and AJ Brown would would be number one in terms
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  Speaker 1: of all the targets and all that.
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from the Speculation Machine. The
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  Speaker 1: speculation machine in Cincinnati where the skyline Chile is fresh.
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  Speaker 1: Not up to the palate of Justin and Cincinnati or
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  Speaker 1: just Josh, but the Bengals, the Bengals who had If
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  Speaker 1: you would describe their season in one word, what would
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  Speaker 1: it be clunker? That would be my word clunker. They
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  Speaker 1: had a clunker of a season. They missed the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: and now the parlor game of who's staying and who's
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  Speaker 1: going has begun. Game of musical chairs, and Joe Burrow
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  Speaker 1: kicked things off here a runner up quarterback lost to
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  Speaker 1: that great La Ram team in the Super Bowl a
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  Speaker 1: couple years back. So Joe Burrow kick things off with
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  Speaker 1: a declaration situation. See. I don't know if you heard this
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  Speaker 1: or not, maybe not, but quarterback Joe Burrow recently said
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  Speaker 1: that the Bengals have the cap space to keep the
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  Speaker 1: core of the roster together. In fact, just to prove
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  Speaker 1: that I am not making this up, we have a
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  Speaker 1: little audio here is Joe Burrow going into detail on
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  Speaker 1: what he would like to see the Bengals do with
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  Speaker 1: their many big name players who could leave. Listen to
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  Speaker 1: Burrow explain.
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  Speaker 5: You could convert some of the money to a signing bonus. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: will lower the cap hits.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: You can push some of the money to the back
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  Speaker 5: end of the contract that lowers the cap hit, and
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  Speaker 5: then when you get to the back end of the
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: contract you can restructure it and convert it to a
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: signing bonus. You understand the cap I mean not really
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: kind of because we don't.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Think that it exists way more than we do.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Well, definitely, some teams seem to make it feel that way.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I mean have just pretended it doesn't exist
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: for a while.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: And the Eagles are paying everybody. Yeah yeah, so it
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: seems like the way whatever they're doing.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: So that's Joe Burrow there, and the Bengals have Jamar
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Chase who's looking for a payday, t Higgins who could
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: say bye bye, he's looking to get paid, Trey Hendricks
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: in the defensive end. There's some other ones as well,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: but those are the biggest names, the big three there
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: that could be well, two of them will likely be gone.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Maybe one stays in Cincinnati. So let us discuss. As
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: you heard, Joe Burrow laid it all out. He's willing
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: to restructure his contract. So the question for the esteem
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: panel Joe Burrow continuing to put pressure, got to put
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: pressure on the Bengals to pay their top players. What
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: are the chances of this working? And one of the
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: chances so I've got family business, infectious disease, and nke
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: ka nka, Well could buy all of these things together
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: and we are going to take a joy ride is
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: what we're going to do. We're gonna take a joy ride.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: So num Burn I said, Nam Burr, Yeah, Joe Burrow,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the chances are slim and none, right, isn't the old
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: line slim and none? And I believe slim right now
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: is on standby at the airport ready to get out
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: of town here, and he's politicking. He's campaigning. He's the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: politician out there trying to get the fan base behind
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: this campaign to keep the band together and all that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: And so he is really Joe Burrow. The word I
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: will use is weaponizing. He's weaponizing the Cincinnati fans here.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: He also has a great understanding of how fugazy the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: salary cap is. We have long been salary cap truthers
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: on this show, and it is something that is used
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: much like in radio. It's like anybody I've worked, I've
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: told the story before. There was a morning guy here
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: years ago that did pretty well, made a lot of money,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: and he had a decent following, pretty good crowd, but
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: he wanted more money, and so they didn't want to
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the company didn't want to pay him. So they they're like,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: we just can't afford it. We don't have the budget,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: but mainly because his audience had gone down a little bit.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: If he was keeping the same audience, and then they
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: would have kept the show and that would have been that.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: But you're deputizing the Bengal fan, all three of them,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the diehards that will do the bidding for you here.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: And it is really fun with numbers. It's fun with numbers.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: You move a few decimal points over, you cook the books,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: you get those Enron accountants, look it up if you
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: don't know who that is. You get these Bernie Madeoff
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: types in there, and it's a Ponzi scheme and manipulate it.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: And Burrow laid it out pretty good. You push money
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: to the back end of the contract, and you convert
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: signing bonuses into other things. It's all manipulation, much like
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: major companies do all the time with the tax code,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: and you know what workarounds and you don't have to
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: worry about it. And the problem with Cincinnati is they
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: could certainly do all those things that Joe Burrow wants.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: They could do everything right. They could convert some money
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: into a signing bonus. They could kick the can down
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the road, as Travis Kelcey likes to say, and they
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: can do all those things. However, the reason they're not
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: likely to do that is because the Bengals are a
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: family business. It's old family money. The people running the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Bengals now did not do anything to earn that money
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: day to day. They just are in the right place.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Either they married into the family or they won the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: genetic lottery. That's it, right, And all of that extra
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: cash that the Bengals would spend on player payroll would
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: come out of the rainy day fund. And I don't
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: know about you, but those private planes to the South
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: of France and those yachts and the crew on the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: yacht are not cheap. And so if you're paying t Higgins,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: that's one less day that you can spend in the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: South of France. Do you really want that hardship on
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the Bengals ownership group? Do you really want them to suffer?
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're barely skating by these NFL teams. They
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: never make any money at all. A right now, page
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: two I mentioned Travis Kelsey. I want to go back
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: to that story. We talked about it. There's our lead
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: store at the top of the show, back in our
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: number why so, do you believe that is Kelsey will
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: have a bidding war for his services? There is some
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: chatter that Kelsey's likely to retire that speculation as he's done,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: and that the TV networks are going to be lining
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: up to hire Travis Kelcey as a football commentator starting
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. So do you believe that to
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: be true? Unfortunately, my answer is yes. I don't like
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: saying that. I hope I'm wrong, but Travis Kelcey will
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: benefit from an infectious disease that has affected the television
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: world for probably at this point sixty years give or take.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: That infectious disease is called jock aquacy. The great doctor
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Howard Cosell. Doctor Howard Cosell came up with the clinical
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: diagnosis of jock aquacy. It is a violent illness. It
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: seems to only affect television executives and a guy like
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey. Let's be honest. I suppose the other times
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: we're not being honest, But Travis Kelsey's a dime a dozen.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: He's not that interesting. He's just another meathead athlete, that's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: all he is. Right, However, you and I both know,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: in fact, every man, woman, and child knows the way
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: this works that because he happens to be well known
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: because of the football, the success the Chiefs have had,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: and he's sleeping, he's stooping the most famous woman entertainer
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: in the world. You put those two things together, and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: you don't have to be Nostradamus or in my case,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: a distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: understand that CBS, Fox, Amazon, ESPN, NBC, NFL Network, and
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: some football channel in timbucktoo will try to get their
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: hands on Travis Kelsey and he's not gonna get Thrie
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: seventy five million dollars like Tom Brady got, and he
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: will get a lot of Mickey Mouse dollars. I could
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: see Kelsey and Kelsey. I remember they tried to give
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Jason Kelcey that late night show and it was a debacle.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: So how about Kelsey and Kelsey. Sounds like a morning
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: show and Travis Kelsey can get on there and just
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: spew cliches and platitudes much like Tom Brady. Just do that, right,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: So it is wild. And I've dabbled a little bit
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: over the last couple of years in television so I
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: now have some TV friends, and I have talked to them.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not just a blowhard on this, but I've talked
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to some of the people that work over there, and
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you don't understand how much money these places
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: are wasting on ex jocks who don't bring any audience
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: to the table. It's what like a radio People tune
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: into a radio show in theory because you want to
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: hear what the hostess to say. No one watches an
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: NFL game to hear what an ex jock has to
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: say during an NFL game, whether that's Tony Romo, Tom Brady, anybody.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: And the great test of our time was when Fox
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: lost Troy Aikman and Joe Buck their a football team
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: for gazillion years. They left, They became Fox refugees. They
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: went to ESPN and Fox was waiting for Tom Brady.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: But Brady decided he wanted to be like a college
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: professor and take a sabbatical and he didn't want to work,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: and so they were scrambling and they just slopped together
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen, a couple of nobody's right
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: nobody's and the ratings were exactly the same. When Fox
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: had the Cowboys, people watched. If Fox had a great
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: NFC game, people watched. If they didn't, the ratings were down,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: and yet here we are. Tom Brady is nothing. The
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: ratings were higher because of Tom. Nobody's watching because of
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Tom Brad. In fact, Tom Brady's the reason not to watch.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady's the reason for the mute Buttony's so bad
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: at that, but it is fascinating. You just put any
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: flotsam and jetsum on there, and it's a good matchup.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: People are going to watch. And yet guy like Kelsey, now,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: how much is he gonna want to work? He's got
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: to be loaded at this point with all the endorsement
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: money he's gotten and the football money. And I'm sure
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift's taking care of him a little bit as well.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: There's some kind of financial agreement. Listen, all right, now,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: final point, We pivot away from that and we go
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: to the NFL coaching carousel, which came to an end
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the other day. No more coaches will be hired unless
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: somebody's surprisingly fired, and a story making the rounds said, well,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: now that it's all done, we've determined that Mike Rabel
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: the Patriots head coach Mike Rabel was voted at the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: very top of this round of twenty twenty five coaching
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: carousel that the Patriots won. It that Rabel beat out
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, the Bears offensive genius who came over from
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the Lions and is now they head coach in Chicago.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: So I asked the question based on an unscientific survey
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: of the NFL insiders. They say that Mike Rabel the
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: top NFL coach high So is this a big deal,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: a little deal, or no deal? So I have this
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: firmly in no deal, no Dale, no deal, no Dale.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: It's no deal right now. Keep in mind, I like
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the higher, I like the coach. I believe Mike Rabels
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: will do a good job with the New England Patriots
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: and is perfect he played for the team. He's got
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: an edge to him. He's not going to be a
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: pushover like Gerrod Meyo appeared to be when he was
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: coaching the team. And so I think it's a good fit.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: And I do. But unfortunately, the popular opinion by popular
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: people otherwise known as the consensus, is almost always wrong.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: They're almost always wrong. You go back to last ten
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: years or so and I recall when the Lions hired
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell, the race baders in the media were upset
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: he wasn't you know, they just hired him because he's
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: a goofball and all that. They should have brought Caldwell
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: back as the coach. The race baders were all up
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: in arms over that. Now he's loved doing Applebee's commercials
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and the Lions are a playoff team every year. Sean
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: McVay when he was hired, that was a make a
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: wish situation by the Rams. When they hired Sean McVay,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: they're like, oh, this guy McVeigh, come on now, and
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: now Sean McVay is the gold standard, and now you
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: want to hire someone who like, cleaned the toilet in
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: mcvay's house, gets a head coaching job. It's fascinating. And
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni's another one. Listen, we criticized Nick Sirianni. We
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: thought it was funny when Sirianni was hired. You remember
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: what he did around the NFL Draft. He was playing
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: rock paper scissors, rock paper scissors with draft prospects to
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: see if they were competitive or not. And that seems
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: to have panned out. Although he was on the hot
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: seat after a year ago when things did not go
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: well in Philadelphia. And so the moral of the story,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: get to the point, please, the moral of the store
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: here it is. I'm gonna put a bow on this.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Put wrapping paper in the bow is what I'm gonna do.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Expert analysis, expert predictions only slightly better, only slightly better
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: than a random guess. A random guess. Experts analysis only
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: slightly better than that, and way worse, mind you, way
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: worse than a statistical model like AI or something like that.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: It just is. And pretty much the theory is that
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: everyone's just flying by the seat of their pants and
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: it's all a it's all a guessing game, right, and nka,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: nobody knows anything, right, nobody knows anything. And that's really
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: what this is all about.
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• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, blah blah blah blah
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah is one.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Big Ben gets grilled Coop, I'll loop Carl.
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: Anthony Towns has put up back to back forty point
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: double doubles and wins for the Knicks, and many are
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: starting to believe that Cat is the X factor that
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: New York has needed. Ben, are Jalen Brunson and Karl
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: Anthony Town's a championship caliber dulo.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Well, they have to prove it in the place. The
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: problem with Karl Anthony Towns and our friends in Minnesota
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: know this that he often would vanish at times in
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. And you do that in New York, you'll
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: never hear the end of it. But if you gave
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: me right now in the Eastern Conference, the Celtics and
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the Knicks, and you could have the field. I would
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: take the Celtics and the Knicks that one of those
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: two will at least win the East, and I'll give
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: you the box, I'll give you the Pacers. I'll even
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: give you the Cavaliers who have the top record. So
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I believe in the Knicks more than I believe in
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the CAFs.
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: Next Wow, billboard has gone up in Pittsburgh calling for
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: the firing of Mike Tomlin. Was paid for by a
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: Steeler super fan. Apparently there's a waste of money. Ben,
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: do you think Tomlin is on the hot seat this season.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: No, No, that's a distraction. That is a disturbance. But no,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: how many monologues have I done over the year saying
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Mike tom is gonna lose his job. They have had
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: three coaches since like the sixties in Pittsburgh. And the
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: way Tomlin leaves is if Tomlin decides he's tired of coaching,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: he wants to retire, or he gets a TV job
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: or something like that, he's Otherwise, he's got lifetime employment.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: He's he's a made man. He's in. He's not going anywhere.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know how many billboards you put up next
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: top prospect that dual.
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: Carter out of Penn State tweeted out after the Eagles
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: lost defense wins championships.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, I've never heard that before.
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: Number one overall pick? Yeah, Ben, Do you think there's
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: any chance of Carter going number one? Well, there is
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: a chance, it's not a good chance. Oh here's the problem.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: The NFL draft over these years has become it's all
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: about Mark. It's all about selling the legend, building up
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: the legend, and if if they can get this guy,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Carter's legend out there. Yeah, the quarterbacks aren't that great,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: but Ultimately, the Titans need a quarterback. They're going to
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: draft a quarterback unless they trade the pick. How did
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: we know you pass this?
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• 34:19
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  Speaker 5: Honey, I can hurt me, ask bad Twitter, send us
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• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Now, Well, Bill, you didn't say my name again, it
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: is asked man. Your questions are answers. Call me Benner,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: call me daddy like Alfred and Edmonton. But anyway, all right,
• 34:53
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• 34:56
  Speaker 1: of the questions.
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: All right, this is a question that we we've had
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: in the past. But I don't recognize the person that
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: sent this to us and listeners all the time.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: What are their name?
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Is?
• 35:07
  Speaker 8: Freddie Rivera?
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Hi? Freddy? Is that fast? Freddy?
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: I don't know?
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Is it okay? I don't know?
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: Freddie would like to know, he staid, enjoying the show
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: on vacation at Brisbane, Australia. Yeah, he's been sending messages
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: in recently, Freddie, what country would you want to visit?
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: What's your what's your top? What's top on your list?
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: So if this assumes I don't have to worry about
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: the long transcontinental flights, which I don't do well in,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I would say New Zealand is at the top and
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Australia actually, which you're where you're at, Freddie, New Zealand
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: because I for a but thirteen fourteen years I went
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: on the radio, added my own little weekly thing on
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Radio New Zealand every week, which was a lot of fun.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: And I have some friends down there, Darcy Waldergrave who
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: does the afternoon one of the afternoon shows or whatever.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I think he's actually on the mornings now, but radio friends.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: So i'd like to see that in Australia would be cool.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: So I guess those are at the top, and I
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: just want to see all the historical spot Where's that.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Where's somewhere in the Middle East where they've carved buildings
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: out of the side of the mountains.
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: You know, Oh, I do know what you're talking about,
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: but I don't know.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: What I don't remember. No, it's not Mount Rushmore is
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: God Well, I don't know where it is, somewhere in
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: like a country I probably don't want to visit, but
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: it looks pretty cool, so I kind of want to
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: see it, you know, one of those what about you
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: about rain?
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: The questions where I want to go?
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Which country would you like to visit? You're a Globe trekker.
• 36:25
  Speaker 8: I am ago.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: You've been to New Orleans.
• 36:27
  Speaker 8: There's a couple of places I want to go.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: You've been to Europe.
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: I really want to go to Europe again, though, I
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: feel like I'm more sophisticated now so I'll enjoy it more.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: You and Nicota can go together. What about you, Kopa Loop.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Which country would you like to visit? You've been around?
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: I have I think tops on my list right now. Yes,
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: North Korea, you're close. I think Thailand, Thyland, Yeah, I
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: do love I love thy food, and I just I
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: heard that it's also just really cheap.
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: That the dollar goes a long way there.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: That's a good thing like that. And also go to
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Mexico coop dollar goes a long way there too. You
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: got to go further away from the border because.
• 37:00
  Speaker 8: I've been to Mexico plenty of times.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: All right, look at you. I don't want to get murdered.
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: I wish you hadn't brought that up. Ben, It's gonna
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: bother me. I can't. I can't figure out where that is.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: That's somebody old tell us, because there's one thing the
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: listener loves is correcting the idiots on the radio. So
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: there's somebody right now running to the X machine. They
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: told me there is where it is. You don't know
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: what you're talking about?
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: Good, I hope, So, Lady Sideburns, this is a good question.
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: Actually what a hotty lady? Lady Cydeburns is so freaking hot.
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: I'm glad I go last, because then I get time
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: to think about this. He wants to know which fashion trend,
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: past or present do you find to be the most hideous?
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Bell bottoms? I'm going bell bottoms.
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: I love my bell bottoms. How dare you?
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: When my parents passed away, I found photos of me
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: as a child and they put me in bell bottoms
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: and I.
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: Didn't know it's coming back then. Yeah, Kendrick's bringing it back, Loraina.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: What about I.
• 37:57
  Speaker 8: Brought back the bell bottoms? Thank you very much. Those
• 38:02
  Speaker 8: gel shoes. Honestly, crocs are probably pretty bad too. Those
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: should be gone. I know what you're talking about, Like
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: the early two thousands.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Feet smells so bad back in the day I was
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: a kid. Also, there's a guy named mc hammer and
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: he had these pants that would stretch out. I don't
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: know what they're called, but that was popular too. Yeah.
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: Cool, so one that I hated a lot when I
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: was a younger adult slash late teen, But I guess
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: I've grown to appreciate it somewhat. I was never a
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: huge fan of the high waisted jeans on women. I
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: just thought it looked like weird that it was just
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: like I don't know, so like like covering your belly button.
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: It just kind of looked diaperish to me then.
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: But I understand I get the appeal from when you're
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: looking at it, like from the other the.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Other on the other side.
• 38:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, from the backside.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: It gives you there.
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: Don't show too much skin, Oh show more skin. Make
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: up your mind. I never said don't show too much skin.
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: I don't think those words have ever left my mouth.
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: Hoops, hero is mister skin. He loves mister skin. H
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: that guy still around, mister Skin. I mean probably, but
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: I don't know why had ceased.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: To go on the Stern Show before Stern went woke
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: and he highlighted, you'd love this loret. So this guy's
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: whole bit. He made his money by watching movies back
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: when they were like VHS tapes and writing down the
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: exact time where women were naked in the movies, and
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: he called them mister skin.
• 39:28
  Speaker 8: That's brilliant.
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah, there was a whole bit on that long one
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: of those like the one of those jet Apato comedies.
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: I can't remember which one of.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: All the ways to making money?
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: My god, all right, what's next your passion?
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Yes the King Rory?
• 39:40
  Speaker 7: Hi, Rory would like to know, Yes, Rory, And I
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: don't know if any of us are even qualified to
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: answer this. He said, which is worse getting a foot
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: of snow in a twenty four hour period or having
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: sub zero temperatures for three days?
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, I've been in sub zero. I've been in snow,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: but I don't live in them, so it's probably not
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: right for me to answer that because it's there in
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: my hotel room. But I I I think the worst
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: is that black ice, that ice, because that's where you
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: really get like the snow stuffs a problem, but the
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: ice is where you really cause accidents, and it's a nightmare,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: like say where it's like half rain half snow kind
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: of thing. That's a nightmare situation. I think anybody, anybody Newman, I'm.
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: Gonna say that fly the foot of snow in a
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: twenty four hour period is probably worse.
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: It probably causes more.
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: Uh you know what's the word I'm looking for logistics issues?
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Well, you can plow the snow. I did you see
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: speaking of snow, somebody sent me a video our old
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: friend Jeanie and Medford. There was a gymnasium, a high
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: school gymnasum collapsed from all the snow they got in Medford.
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: Or oh wow, no snow in last weekend or sow
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: weekends ago. But it was it wasn't not much.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: It was next to ask Ben, your questions are answers
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: for the rest of the hour. Uh.
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: This question is from just Joss, Just Josh.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Oh in Cincinnati. He used to send jokes in back
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: in the day. And let's write songs with our friend
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Jay School. Haven't heard Jay scoop in a while?
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: Go ahead, Yes, this question is actually for Bill Miller. Okay,
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: he wants to know do you right into work with
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: Ben every night? And does he get salty when you
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: adjust the radio dial?
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Bill? You want to answer that? Bill? Bill? Now just
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Joshi shaking. He said no, no, because really, what with me?
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Explain here? So Bill Miller is actually Ai Elon Musk.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: I think maybe him or those people over at the
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Apple place. It's Ai. It's not or Google one of
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: those things. All right, Well, what is next? What is
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: next here?
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: Uh? Scrooge the scrooge.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's in the Bay Area, that guy, he's a
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: real scrooge.
• 41:40
  Speaker 8: He would like to know. Would you leave your significant
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: other for a billion dollars?
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: I love my wife. I think my wife is amazing
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: and sign me up?
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: No?
• 41:50
  Speaker 7: I uh?
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Is that after taxes?
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Is that?
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know?
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: See my thought is you would say yes because because
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: then you buy exactly you have enough money to where
• 42:03
  Speaker 7: they would forgive.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: You so you can just buy your wife now well
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: back in the old days. Loreno, you know, not now.
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: But