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  Speaker 1: So we're back at it here in our lead this
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  Speaker 1: hour from New Jersey. We have some serious meat on
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  Speaker 1: the bone on the bout when it comes to Gang Green.
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  Speaker 1: I love this story. Now there are days you walk
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  Speaker 1: into the radio station and you're like, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: about that one. This is not one of those days.
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  Speaker 1: This is great. This is a finger licking good is
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  Speaker 1: what it is. So the owner of the NFL team
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  Speaker 1: in New York that somehow, being in New York still
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  Speaker 1: can't win. This is so good. I help you. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you heard about maybe not so. Woody Johnson speaking at
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  Speaker 1: some NFL like owners get together there, he showed support
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  Speaker 1: for the embattled head coach who's drowning every week. Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Glenn doesn't appear to know what the hell he's doing
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  Speaker 1: as coach in the NFL. The Jets are all in seven.
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  Speaker 1: But there was a vote of confidence for Aaron Glenn
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  Speaker 1: from Woody Johnson. However, however, in doing so, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think happened? That's right, dan Na nay name Woody
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  Speaker 1: Johnson decided to throw his starting quarterback under the team
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  Speaker 1: bus of the Jets. And it was magical. It was glorious,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got the audio tape. Listen to Woody Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: This is an owner of a multi billion dollar NFL
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  Speaker 1: franchise unloading while defending his coach, unloading on his starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Tagle is it looks like he's turning around parts of it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's hard when you have a quarterback with
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  Speaker 1: you know, with a rating that we've got, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he has the ability, but something just is
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  Speaker 1: not jiving. But if you any any head coach of
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback like that, you're going to see similar results
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  Speaker 1: if you will across the league. You have to play
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  Speaker 1: consistently at that position, and that's what we're going to
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  Speaker 1: try to do. Hope we can just complete a pass.
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  Speaker 1: It would look good. You got to complete some patty.
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  Speaker 1: You got to convince him that you can do something. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's so great. Something is not jiping. So great? All right,
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss where are the Justin Fields truthers out there?
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  Speaker 1: Then he justin Fooh yeah, we talk about this guy
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  Speaker 1: a lot because he's a quarterback. We talked football, and
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  Speaker 1: for years I would do monologues unloading on Justin Fields,
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  Speaker 1: and I would have some Dingleberry who you just don't
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  Speaker 1: know what you're talking about? Yeah, that whole thing. So
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  Speaker 1: that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
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  Speaker 1: question did Jets owner Woody Johnson cross the line? Did
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  Speaker 1: he cross over the rubicon with his criticism of quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Justin Fields. So on this one, I've got Kowala, Lion King,
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  Speaker 1: and cool Mint, and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to have a pajama party,
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to have. So a Woody Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact that he didn't pull any punches.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, he happens to be the owner that signed
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  Speaker 1: off on paying Justin Fields. Hello, you were a mirror
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  Speaker 1: on the wall. Who's the dumbest of them all? Uh? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: So I love that in defending the coach who doesn't
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  Speaker 1: appear to know what he's doing, he used Justin Fields
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  Speaker 1: as a punching bag. Buddy, blow, body blow, body blow,
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  Speaker 1: if he can just complete a pass. One of the
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  Speaker 1: great lines ever said in my time and talk radio
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  Speaker 1: by an owner about his quarterback. Imagine it's we're heading
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  Speaker 1: into week eight in the NFL and the owners like,
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  Speaker 1: if our quarterback could just complete a pass? Where you
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  Speaker 1: at Justin Fields? Truthers, who are you gonna blame now?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: You blame the Bears, bad coaching in Chicago, went to Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: good coaching didn't work out. Now you're in New York.
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  Speaker 1: What are you gonna blame the coach again? What's the
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  Speaker 1: move here? Let me go to the bag of excuses
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  Speaker 1: for Justin Fields. That is so great. If that is
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  Speaker 1: not a billboard from Woody Johnson saying I hate my quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Quarterback blows. I don't know what is. I do not
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  Speaker 1: know what else that is. It's shocking because it's so abnormal.
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  Speaker 1: And I've complained about this in ninety nine percent of
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  Speaker 1: the time. We come in here and we all see
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  Speaker 1: something that's rather obvious and we get gas you know,
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  Speaker 1: people gaslight us and they're like, oh, let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you something. You're you're wrong, what you're it's ridiculous, And
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  Speaker 1: so it's unusual which stands out. It's man bites dog.
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  Speaker 1: It's that kind of thing, and it's not wrong though,
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  Speaker 1: it's not wrong at all. Justin Fields has been a
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  Speaker 1: sixteen car pile up on the interstate. And when you
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  Speaker 1: watch the Jets play and not a Jets fan, I
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  Speaker 1: know there's a guy in here earlier is a Jets fan, Jason.
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  Speaker 1: You watch the Jets play and you're not a fan,
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  Speaker 1: you're a rubbernecker. It's like and even like the we're
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  Speaker 1: all lookie loser, like, well that's man, that's a really
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  Speaker 1: bad accident. Oh my god, Oh my goodness. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how many ambulances is gonna get a helicopter out here
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  Speaker 1: and pick the people back to the hospital? How bad
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  Speaker 1: is it? Justin Fields is the thirtieth ranked passer in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. There are thirty two teams that again I
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  Speaker 1: didn't play in the NFL. I don't think that's particularly good.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you're being too mean. What else? A tied for
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  Speaker 1: second most sacks in the league. Because he moves. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the problem with Justin Fields, and we figured this out
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  Speaker 1: right away with the Bears. He moves like a koala
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  Speaker 1: bear who's clinging to a eucalyptus tree and just eating
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  Speaker 1: a nice meal. And that's justin fields. Unfortunately, when you
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  Speaker 1: watch the NFL game in particular, it's read and react.
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  Speaker 1: It's hot potato. It's get the ball, get rid of
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  Speaker 1: the ball quickly, right you find the open player, get
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  Speaker 1: rid of the ball. Boom. He's like, all right, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna read the defense and then I'm gonna take a
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  Speaker 1: nice nap. I'm gonna have a nice nap, is what
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do. He's got four passing touchdowns. We're
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  Speaker 1: almost into week eight in the NFL. He's got four
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  Speaker 1: passing touchdoes. That's not just bad, this is unwatchable. And
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  Speaker 1: I loved again, Woody Johnson, Woody Woodpecker loved his honesty there.
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  Speaker 1: That's the naked truth. It just is. And most people
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  Speaker 1: that are like, oh, every time the Jets get it. Course,
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  Speaker 1: I was just talking to something in the hallway about
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  Speaker 1: the way every time the Jets changed quarterbacks, it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is the guy. Oh we got the guy, We
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  Speaker 1: got the guy. Uh yeah. If you want a guy
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  Speaker 1: to be in the cockpit of the vomit comet, you've
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  Speaker 1: got the guy. And if it looks like trash, smells
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  Speaker 1: like trash, plays like trash, probably trash, probably trash. So
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  Speaker 1: the Jets have been running a dumb down, caveman offense
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  Speaker 1: to try to prop up Justin Fields, and it's still
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  Speaker 1: not working. So you run a rudimentary offense, it's still
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  Speaker 1: not working. And so yeah, wood he basically said what
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  Speaker 1: everyone who's watched Justin Fields play quarterback already know. He
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  Speaker 1: did have like one good game against Pittsburgh. They still lost.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the rookie head coach, Aaron Glenn who's winless.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Woody praising him like he's Vince Lombardi. Lombardi
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  Speaker 1: would have lost, Bill Walsh, Belichick, all these guys would
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  Speaker 1: have lost. And first Glenn. Again, Glenn hasn't been an
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn has not been any better than Justin Fields.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that Woody Johnson likes him because Aaron Glenn
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  Speaker 1: played so long ago that he actually was on some
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  Speaker 1: Jets teams that were halfway decent. Now, as for the
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  Speaker 1: future free agents that are gonna come to the Jets,
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  Speaker 1: this idea, Wow, no one's gonna want to play for
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  Speaker 1: the Jets now because Woody Johnson threw his quarterback under
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  Speaker 1: the team bus. Please please, it's come on. Are you
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  Speaker 1: really that naive? Are you that gullible? Don't don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: You offer the most money, you get the player. It's
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  Speaker 1: not that hard. You offer the money, you get the player.
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  Speaker 1: And Woody Johnson got a little spicy at a presser.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god. Money always talks. And
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  Speaker 1: the guys that do want to play in New York,
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  Speaker 1: it's great. You don't have to worry about having to
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  Speaker 1: work extra and going to the playoffs and all that.
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  Speaker 1: You play for the Jets of the Giants, and you
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  Speaker 1: don't just don't worry about it. You're good. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to play football after the season ends in January.
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  Speaker 1: You have to worry about playing football in the late
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  Speaker 1: January and February. And that's it. And the Jets. I
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  Speaker 1: figured it out when I was driving in here. I
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  Speaker 1: figured out that the Jets might as well be part
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  Speaker 1: of the Marvel cinematic universe. It's very simple. Like they
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  Speaker 1: make these Marvel movies now, they don't even care about
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  Speaker 1: the quality. They all suck, right. It's the same storylines
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  Speaker 1: we've all seen, just repackaged here. It's just different actors.
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  Speaker 1: The Jets. It's the same suck. But it's just they
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  Speaker 1: changed the players and that's it. And the costumes are
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  Speaker 1: still the same. That they play the Yeah, the cosplay
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  Speaker 1: on the field and all that's still the same. Different
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  Speaker 1: actors now outside of Justin Fields. Turning the page though,
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  Speaker 1: another spicy hot comment from Woody Johnson. He was on
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  Speaker 1: fight this guy, get a sports talk radio show at
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  Speaker 1: the Fan in New York. Get Woody Johnson a job
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  Speaker 1: there in here. So the Jets owner also was asked
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  Speaker 1: whether or not he had any second thoughts the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the Jets had Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers wanted to stay there,
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  Speaker 1: was treated rather rudely by Aaron Glenn, who thought he
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  Speaker 1: was better than everyone else and handpicked Justin Fields as
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  Speaker 1: his quarterback. And now Aaron Rodgers is a top ten
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in Pittsburgh and the Steelers have a good record,
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  Speaker 1: and so Woody Johnson was asked about that. He's had
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  Speaker 1: to quote, I have no regrets, he said, he said,
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  Speaker 1: I never look back. You have to look forward in football,
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  Speaker 1: and even when you cut players, they could be a
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  Speaker 1: Hall of famer. You just never know, he said. But
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  Speaker 1: Aaron's playing great now He's in a situation that's working
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  Speaker 1: for him. Close quote. All right, So question on this one.
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  Speaker 1: What does this say about Woody Johnson's ownership of the Jets.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, not even a little, like, maybe we should
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  Speaker 1: have kept that guy. He's better than the guy we picked.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he should have kept him. So this is the
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  Speaker 1: never admit you're wrong strategy by Woody Johnson, very popular,
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  Speaker 1: and the never look back mantra is exactly why the
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  Speaker 1: Jets continue continue to step on the same rake like
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  Speaker 1: a vaudevillian comedy. And they've been doing that every decade
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  Speaker 1: of my life. It's fascinating. It's a complete encompetence. And
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  Speaker 1: I would recommend that the Jets study the Lion King.
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  Speaker 1: I learned as a as a young lad watching The
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  Speaker 1: Lion King Rafiki taught me that the past can hurt,
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  Speaker 1: but you can either run from it or learn from it.
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  Speaker 1: The Jets have chosen that they never want to look back,
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  Speaker 1: and they have chosen to keep flying and go full
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  Speaker 1: throttle the other direction right into the tornado, right into
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  Speaker 1: the tornado, which they don't recommend, and thus is the problem.
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  Speaker 1: So you're supposed to learn from your mistakes. I'm supposed
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  Speaker 1: to learn from your mistakes and not just powerwash over
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  Speaker 1: them and just scrub a dub dub and use some
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  Speaker 1: kind of word salad, some corporate word salad thing, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just living in the Bermuda triangle. For quarterbacks. The
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  Speaker 1: coaches change, the general managers change, the players change, and
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  Speaker 1: the results are the same. It's where you go if
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  Speaker 1: your quarterback, you go to die here at the radio station.
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  Speaker 1: There's a piece of metal that goes into the old
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  Speaker 1: studio and that is the killing fields for the cockroaches.
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  Speaker 1: That is where they choose to die. They go there
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  Speaker 1: and they crawl, the little critters and they just die.
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  Speaker 1: That's where they die. If you're a quarterback to the Jets,
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  Speaker 1: you go play quarterback for the Jets and you die
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  Speaker 1: right there. Florham Park is the name of the facility there,
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  Speaker 1: and that's it. Every quarterback they get, we've turned the corner.
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  Speaker 1: Now this guy will be different. We know the talking
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  Speaker 1: points because they happen every couple of years when the
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  Speaker 1: Jets change quarterbacks and the same old fungus grows there.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, technically nothing grows at the Jets facility other
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  Speaker 1: than mold, regret and a lot of losing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of losing. By the way, just for the record, Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers and Sam even Sam Darnold are technically top ten
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the NFL, So even when they get a
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed Hall of Famer, they suck with the Jets. It's
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  Speaker 1: wo He's really operating a graveyard where you go there
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  Speaker 1: and that's it. It's perfect for Halloween. It's a haunted
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  Speaker 1: house with turf, and they share it with the Giants,
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  Speaker 1: who also have their own misery, their own misery index
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  Speaker 1: over there. And so you want to turn a star
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  Speaker 1: into dust, put a Jets logo on their helmet. All
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden they turn to dust. All right, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the last word, speaking of Tony to dust, we go
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  Speaker 1: to Houston. We go to Houston now where Texans coach
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  Speaker 1: Demico Ryans being called out another pathetic performance by the
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  Speaker 1: Houston football team. And wonder where all those people that
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  Speaker 1: were kissing CJ. Stroud's ass are. They're in hiding typical cowards.
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  Speaker 1: So Demiko Ryans was asked whether or not there will
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  Speaker 1: be any changes because they suck on offense. He said
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  Speaker 1: he has no plans, no plans to change offensive coordinators
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  Speaker 1: despite the horrific performance under Nick Kyley, the offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: there in houstonquestion is how do you decode? How do
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  Speaker 1: you decode? Demiko Ryan's the head coach. They're standing by,
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  Speaker 1: standing by the Texans offensive coordinator. So this is obviously
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  Speaker 1: it's coach speak. One oh one from Demiko Rans you
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  Speaker 1: can go to sports clichede dot com. Now what I
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  Speaker 1: did is I used my cracker Jack Dakoder ring that
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  Speaker 1: I got as a child, and it means from Dimico
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  Speaker 1: that we were stuck with the same crappy quarterback that
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  Speaker 1: we've had. So please stop asking me about this. I
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  Speaker 1: feel uncomfortable. It's the corporate corporate mission statement, the corporate
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  Speaker 1: mission statement, which is not really an answer. It's an
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  Speaker 1: answer non answer situation that you know, we're all in
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  Speaker 1: this together. We win as a team and we lose
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  Speaker 1: as a team and all that stuff. And it's like
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  Speaker 1: something that you would put on some kind of motivational
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  Speaker 1: sign with an eagle, like a bald eagle, and you
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  Speaker 1: hang it in the lobby of your building and say,
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  Speaker 1: all right, this is our motivational message. Meanwhile, the offense
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  Speaker 1: is flatlining like it's an EKG machine. At this is
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  Speaker 1: so bad. It is and let's talk about the hippopotamus
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  Speaker 1: in the room. The hippopotamus in the room. The problem
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  Speaker 1: is the quarterback. This is an Okham's razor situation. The
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  Speaker 1: simplest answer is the proper answer. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: dig that deep. They've already changed coordinators in Houston. They've
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  Speaker 1: already done that. Last year, they did that, and they
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  Speaker 1: can change again. They can make another change. They can
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  Speaker 1: change the font that they use in the playbook. They
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  Speaker 1: can burn sage. That'll make Andrea in Berkeley very happy.
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  Speaker 1: They can burn sage in the locker room. And it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to matter. It's not gonna matter if CJ.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud is going to play like this. I everyone was
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  Speaker 1: sold on the sizzle, the razzle, dazzle from that rookie season.
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  Speaker 1: Well we're pretty far removed now from the rookie season.
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  Speaker 1: And c J. Stroud who was billed and they said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: listen to this guy's the savior. He is a fire
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  Speaker 1: breathing dragon. We heard all that, and you know what
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  Speaker 1: he's got right now. He is a dragon, but he's
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  Speaker 1: a drag. He's got dragon breath is what he has,
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  Speaker 1: and he needs that. He needs that cool mint listering
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  Speaker 1: because he's got halatosis is what he's got here. And
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  Speaker 1: Stroud has got the same quarterback rating as Justin Fields.
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind the owner we just did. I did
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes on the Jets owner, Woody Johnson ripping Justin
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  Speaker 1: Fields for sucking c J. Stroud has the exact same
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  Speaker 1: quarterback rating as Justin Fields. Hello, the Texans like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we can't bench this guy. We got to continue to
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  Speaker 1: play him and all this stuff and fields of force
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  Speaker 1: was taken out of the last Jets game there and
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  Speaker 1: has just been called out by his owner. That deserves
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  Speaker 1: a gadzooks with a capital G. And last year, remember
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Slowick slowk the offensive coordinator last year was tossed
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  Speaker 1: under the team bus there he was running the show. Now,
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  Speaker 1: last season, the Texans were bad offensive. They averaged twenty
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  Speaker 1: one point nine points per game, three hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: yards per game. So they said that's not good enough.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to get rid of the offensive coordinat they
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  Speaker 1: canned his ass. So they brought in this guy, Nick Kaylee,
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• 19:30
  Speaker 1: with the Patriots. He's bounced around on the NFL a
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: little bit, and how did that go well this year?
• 19:37
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• 19:40
  Speaker 1: both points per game and yards per game. They're averaging
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: fewer points per game and they're averaging sixteen yards less
• 19:47
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• 19:52
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• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's progress. But my god, that is
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: stagnation and and a side of regression. He's what that
• 20:03
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• 20:06
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• 20:09
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• 20:13
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• 20:17
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  Speaker 1: and we begin this hour our leads story from Lost Wages, Nevada.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: As we start out with the auctioning block, we are
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: now less than two weeks away, less than two weeks
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: away from the swap meet ending in the NFL, the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: trade deadline, which for most of my life has been
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: nothing special, nothing special. Lately, it's gotten a little bit better.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: At DeVante Adams traded last year. That was kind of cool.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Didn't work out for the Jets team making a move
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: with a name brand player. We've had some other name
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: brand players traded in recent years. So with that being said,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the news out of Lost Wages, Nevada, and that is
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: where we will begin. If you have not heard yet,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: there were rumors bubbling up, bubbling up about the Dallas
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Cowboys being on the prowl and they wanted Max Crosby.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: They wanted Max Crosby, and they were pursuing Max Crosby
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: in a trade. Well, now we have learned that the
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Raiders met with Max Crosby, star edge rusher, and they
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: let him know, we are not shopping you, Max, and
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: we are not going to trade you. This comes from
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: the prob the news service of the NFL state sponsored
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: NFL network. They report that the Raiders are not interested,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: we are not interested in moving Max Crosby. He's the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: top player on the Raiders, and Crosby wants to stay
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: as a loser apparently likes losing, wants to stay with
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: the Raiders, enjoys not having to worry about playing in
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the playoffs and things like that. So that is a
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Does
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: this Raiders seal of approval and it's the rubber stamped
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: it the seal of approval? Does this mean that Max
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Crosby is absolutely one thousand percent staying with the Raiders.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: All right, So on this one, I've got Civil War
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: four seasons and gift basket, and we will combine all
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: of these things together and with the biscuit in the
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: basket is what we're going to do. So number one
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: got it, gott he So this does not change anything
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: unless you're naive. Well, the Raiders said they weren't going
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: to trade him, and if they said they're not going
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: to trade him, they're not going to trade him, and
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: all that's, oh my god, all the Raiders said, and
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: all the story was that they leaked. The story that
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: was leaked was we aren't shopping Max Crosby. It's not
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: that if somebody calls us up and is the Godfather offer,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: make him an offer he can't refuse, then all of
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: a sudden, Max Crosby is changing his laundry and going
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: somewhere else. So it's a nice little sentiment to send out.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: The Raiders didn't say we're not trading Crosby. They're just
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: said we're not trading him unless somebody blows the doors
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: off the building and wants him traded. The price tags
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: pretty high. The price tag's pretty high, and that's just
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: a sales pitch. It's like, well, we don't want to
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: trade this person at all. And so Max Crosby. If
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: you keep it real, that's all we do is keep
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: it really. The guy is the ethos of the Raiders.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: He just is right. He's got the look, he's got
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: the attitude, he's got the tats, the black hole energy,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. When you think of the Raiders, the
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: old Raiders, back when they were good, you gotta be old.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: And now think about that. You gotta be like an
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: old dude to know that the Raiders were good. How
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: pathetic is that? How much does that suck? That the
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Raiders haven't been relevant in almost an entire generation. They
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: don't like the Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys are over a generation.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: The Raiders aren't far behind that rich cannon Raider team.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: And then, of course we know what happened in the
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl there didn't go so well. But back to
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Max Crosby. So Crosby's got the look, he's right out
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: of Central Casting, and he's got that whole attitude. However,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: if you think about this objectively, if the goal is
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: to win it, keep in mind that we like to
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: talk about everyone wants to win Super Bowls. It's an
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: ugly secret that not everyone really cares. They just want
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: to make a lot of money, and they want to
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: live in a city they like living in, and they
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: want to do their time, get in the pension plan
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, and just be done. So they're not
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: really that concerned about winning. But if let's just assume
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Max Crosby is somebody that does want to win. I
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: need a win. I want to win. By the time
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the Raiders are even remotely relevant, Max Crosby is going
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: to be like a Civil War relic, if you know
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: what I mean. He's twenty eight, I believe right now, Crosby,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: He's a defensive end, not exactly a long shelf life.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: It's just not This is not a canister of honey
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: that has an endless shelf life. There's no expiration date. Now,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: this is bread. It's fresh bread, not slice bread. It's
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: fresh bread. And so that's it. And how many double
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: digit seasons will Max Crosby have four or five years
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: from now when the Raiders are actually possibly competitive. And
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady, let's go back to Tom Brady. Tom Brady's
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: little silver and Black side hustle. How's that working out? Burn, Baby, Burn,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: It's burning down right in front of our eyes. Thirty
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: one nothing lost the team quit on Pete Carroll. You
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: don't lose thirty one nothing if you're trying. And the
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Chiefs called off the dogs earf they called them off.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Could have been worse, could have been worse. So that
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: is a gutlass football team. They've quit on their coach.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: And that's under Tom Brady. That's under Tom Brady. Everything
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady has touched since he got to Vegas has
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: turned to pooh. It just hands, not Pooh, Richardson, actual pooh.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: From Pete Carroll the coach, the players quit on him,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Gino Smith, the quarterback who sucks. And they thought maybe
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Brady thought this was twenty nineteen or something like that
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: or twenty twenty two. I don't know, but it's not.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: And so you look at the Raiders right now from
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: thirty thousand feet in this guy, and you examine what's
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: going on there, and Brady has pulled off a masterclass.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: He doesn't own the majority of the Raiders. He's been
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: given the de facto GM title where he's shadow running
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the Raiders, which means if the Raiders are good, Brady
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: will get credit. If they're bad, he'll blame other people.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: That spy tech guy, his buddy blame him, but the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Raiders are a great content machine, and Brady's been able
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: to light the franchise on fire, said Burn, Baby, Burn,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Like he's got a zippo and a can of gasoline
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: and just going for it. And if I'm the Lions,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: let me just workshop this. If I'm the Detroit Lions
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and I'm Dan Campbell and I'm all about biting knee
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: caps off and all that stuff every game. You look
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: at Crosby, He's a Michigan guy. Didn't go to University
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: of Michigan in Michigan State. He went to Eastern Michigan,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: which is the ugly redheaded stepchild of the Michigan colleges.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Bring him back to Michigan. Who says, no, could you
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: imagine pu Max Crosby and Aiden Hutchinson together and the Lions.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: This is the window of opportunity.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: This is it.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: This is the time for the Detroit Lions. So who
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: cares about first round draft picks? I trade a first
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: round draft pick and a conditional draft pick whatever to
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: get Max Crosby. Who wouldn't. My god, you put those
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: guys together and it's a championship or bust, And it's
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: that way Anyway, if you're a team like the Patriots
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and you're like, can we do a combo deal? Can
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: we trade for Max Crosby and get your Kobe Myers
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: and we'll trade you a couple of draft picks and
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: that'll be that. And you know, for sure, let's do it.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Let's make that happen. And so, by no means, just
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: because the Patriots said we are not shopping Max Crosby
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean he won't be traded. And if you don't
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: agree with me, you might want to go back a
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: few years ago. There was a player named Odell Beckham
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: and the general manager of the Giants, guy named Dave Gettleman,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: sounds like he should be doing commercials for air conditioning,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: and he said, we're not trading Odell Beckham. And then
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: they traded Ode Beckham to the Cleveland Browns, and yeah,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: that worked out well for everyone involved. Now, speaking of
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers, but turning the page, but we don't turn
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: it that far. We keep it close to what we
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: were talking about. So Jacoby Myers was asked if he
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: still wants to be traded. You might remember before the season,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Myers let the world know he was not happy with
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. He didn't want to play with Gino Smith,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: although he didn't say that, the implication was that he
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: doesn't like playing with Gino Smith, so he wanted out,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: and he was asked to follow up the trade deadlines
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: less than two weeks away. All right, you make the call,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers, do you still want to be traded? He said?
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Two words for sure?
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: For sure?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Two words? So question, how should the Raiders handle Jacoby
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Myers and his disgust with playing in Vegas? So this
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: is not a ballplayer that you must have. Can we
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: establish that as like the opening state, Yeah, he's a
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: nice player. Once a player goes public like that, very
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: rarely does it end nicely. Very rarely does it end nicely.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: We all know that. And it sounds like a guy
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: that's just not engaged. You can't put the toothpaste back
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: in the tube, as we like to say in these parts.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: You cannot do it. And so if the Raiders, I
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: guess they can try to coddle him, I wouldn't recommend
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: that they can try that. And don't give me the
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: fake group, Hug. I do not need the fake group,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Hug I died. Don't you just ship him out. It's
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: that's it. It's the four seasons. Bye bye baby from
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the four seasons. And Myers is not a cornerstone. He's not.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: He's a good player, he's a good receiver, he's a
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: solid NFL receiver. He's on a bad team. It's not needed.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: You don't. It's like, you know, having no money and
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: eating rob and noodles all the time and spending a
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: couple grand on golf clubs. You really don't need that.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: You really don't need that. You know what I'm saying,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: You just don't. So you're at a fork in the road.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: You're at a turning point. And if you're the Raiders,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: you know, it's like again if Jacobe Meyer's running drag
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: roots from from Geno Smith. Uh, just everything's toxic. You know,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: a team like the Patriots would would give you something
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: which is not. I'm not the draft pick guy. I'm
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the wrong talk show host. If you love draft picks
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: and you get your pants down because the draft picks,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not that guy. I don't really care about Jeffies.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: But if the guy's not happy, it's like who cares.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: You can suck with him, you can suck without him.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter, all right, now final point? Quick right, quick, right,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: all right, we go to the NBA. I am told
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: by sources close to the situation that the NBA season
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: is underway. The flag is up on the NBA season.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: And I did watch some of these games. I didn't
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: think either one of the games rose to the level
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: of a Mallard monologue. So we will tell you the
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: thunder squeezed by the rock it's your classic NBA game
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: where Houston played really well. Was in control, not in control.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: They had the lead for the first like two and
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: a half quarters of the game, and the Rockets worked
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: their way back. They went to overtime, and then they
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: went to another overtime and Shay Jogis Alexander scored twenty
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: four points in the fourth quarter and in overtime. We
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: are told that is the most points by any NBA
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: player in the fourth quarter and overtime in a season
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: opener this century. So it's been a minute, it's been
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: a minute. How did Kevin Durantu pretty quiet twenty three points?
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: He only scored nine points in the second half and
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: in the overtimes combined, that's it nine. So nine of
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: his twenty three points game in the second half and
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: overtime at fourteen and a half time finished with twenty
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: three points. I'm told that's not good. And the Golden
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: State Warriors beating the bad guys. Good job by the
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Warriors that beat the Lakers. Always love when the Lakers lose.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Good day for basketball fans there when the Lakers lose.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Lebron didn't play. He's probably read reading that Malcolm X
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: book or watching The Godfather, so he didn't play. Jimmy Butler?
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Is there anything more entertaining the watching a man stoot
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: foul shots sixteen of sixteen from the charity stripe for
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler and he got it done from the charity
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: strip Now Luca had forty three points the Lakers lose.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: How did DeAndre Ayton do? Mid season form? For DeAndre?
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Eighton your classic stat line for DeAndre eaton the guy
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: that's incompetent at basketball, ten point six rebounds, four turnovers,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: no assis and a big LOL for DeAndre Ayton. How
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: do you know now? The story that did get my
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: attention If you're watching the NBA, it was on NBC
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: and also on Peacock the debut of the NBA agreement. Now,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: we were told by the Wall Street Journal, that is
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: a very bougie business newspaper based in Manhattan. The Wall
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Street Journal tell us that some NBC executives are sounding
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: alarm bells, very dramatically, very concerned that the networks deal
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: with the NBA. They're just not even make money. They
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: give this huge card too incise check to the NBA
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: and they're not going to get good ROI return on investment.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question. NBA executives said to
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: be unhappy. This was before they even started the games,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: said to be unhappy with the NBA deal. Why is
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: this being reported as news? That's my question? Why is
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: this being reported as news? This is spam, is what
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: it is. It's obviously a huge overpay. Even if you
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: know nothing about finances, you can't balance your own personal finances.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: We all know, every man, woman and child knows that
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: this is the way it works. I remember getting educated
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: a person that I was friends with in the you know,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: many years ago. I won't I'll date myself if I say.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: When he's an executive at ABC and they had just
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: won the bidding for this massive NFL contract, and I said,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: it's going He said, well, we're going to lose money
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: on it. We know that, but we're going to get
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: people to watch our crappy sitcoms and that's what we're
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: doing it for. And okay, so you know going in
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: you're going to lose money. He says. It's called the
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Lost Leader. I said, what's a lost Leader? I said, well,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: you lose money on this, but you think you make
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: it on the other side. So NBC is paying twenty
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: seven billion with a capital B twenty seven billion for
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: the privilege of losing up to one point four billion
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: in the early years for their new shiny toy, the NBA.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: This is clearly why Benny versus the pending got canceled
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: by NBC. They had to pay for the NBA. I'm bitter,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: How dare you? I'm bitter, Benny. Spoiler alert. These things
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: always work out this way where you lose money on
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: it always and again, they're not buying basketball. It's being
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: sold as basketball. They're not buying basketball. They're buying subscriptions
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: to Peacock and it's a gift basket of hope. They know,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: like all of these businesses, the key is a subscription
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  Speaker 1: based business because a certain percentage of people will pay
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: for a service that is a monthly fee, and they're
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  Speaker 1: so bad about their finances they will pay it until
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: they put them in the grave. They just forget about it.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: And these businesses know a lot of the whole gym model.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: For examples, you pay a monthly fee to go to
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: the gym, and many people don't go to the gym,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: but they keep paying for the gym because they like
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: the idea of going to the gym, Like, well, I
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: don't want to cancel the gym because maybe I'll get
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: my fat ass to the gym, And so you keep
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: paying for the gym just on the off chance you're
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: gonna go work out when you never work out because
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: you're a fat pig and you don't want to work out.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: And I get it. I'm the same way, but that's
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: how they get you. And so they know a certain
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: percentage of people are gonna sign up for Peacock and
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: they're not gonna ever watch it doesn't matter. They're gonna
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: get a monthly fee. Drip drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip,
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  Speaker 1: money mine made. That's what they're gonna get, so I
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: do enjoy the very dramatic reporting. Considering these executives at NBC,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: we the same ones that agreed to the giant deal
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: in the first place. It's kind of like Woody Johnson
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: we talked about last night. Woody Johnson is like ripping
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Justin Fields, which is correct. Woody Johnson's absolutely right. Justin
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Fhilds is incompetent, but he also agreed. He signed up
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: to say yeah, but okay with that ass My quarterback,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: as I'll get by the NBC is like, we'll give
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: the nbal's money. Now they're like, well, I don't like
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: of course. The other argument is you can always find
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: people that don't like something. I'm sure you could if
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: you wanted to write this story, if you're the Wall
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Street Journal, you could find a group of NBA executives
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: or NBC executives that love the NBA deal, think it's
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: it's great, it's a slam dunk, but that that's not
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: as good a story. It's better to find the people
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: that are upset, which likely are news people because they
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: cut the news budget. From what I read in one
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: of the trade papers, so they're likely upset about that.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: So don't we pretend to be shocked. Oh I'm so shocked.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Oh my god. That is a sport, the NBA. And
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: we'll get into it when the playoffs come around. We'll
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: talk about if there's a good story. I'm not against that.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: It's not my favorite thing. I'm not really excited about it.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: But they've had sagging regular season television ratings for years.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: That's been consistent, and so they're not gonna be able
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: to cover the tab on this. And NBC will pay
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: more for the NBA. This is amazing to me. They're
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: paying more for NBA games on a per game basis
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: than the NFL. And NBC's got the Sunday Night, the
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: most important game of the weekends on Sunday Night, and
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: they're paying more to broadcast Oklahoma City. It's like, okay, bonkers, bonkers, bonkers,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: all right? Yeah, the NBA is where your stars rest
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: during the regular season. They're unengaged. They use load management
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: to rest during the regular season. The ratings do the
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: dipsy do, and the postseason stretches longer and longer and
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: longer and longer than a bad dinner. Part of your
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: wife took you to it. You didn't want to go
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: to and you hate the people you're with, that kind
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: of thing. Right in the end, In the end, the
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: league cashes the check no matter what, whether you watch
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: or not. NBC's got to deal with the headaches and
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: all that. But again, they're trying to get you to subscribe,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: and they know a certain percentage of people are just
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: going to subscribe, set it and forget it and pay
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: that every month even though they don't use the service.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: And I got to figure out how to get on
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: that hustle, Like, what can I do to get in
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: in that hustle? Will you just blindly cut money every month?
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: That's the way to do it.
• 41:31
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• 41:38
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• 41:46
  Speaker 4: It was imported on Monday that there will be no
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: change that no changes are expected quote at this time
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: for the Miami Dolphins. Now before the season, owner Stephen
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: Ross intended to give Mike McDaniel the full year before
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: deciding on the future.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Then do you think McDaniel will get that whole year?
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: No?
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: And no changes, are expected to coop until they make changes.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: They always say, well, no, it's like trades. No, we
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: don't expect to make a trade until you make a trade.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Trades are always unexpected. Firings are ut expected. The Dolphins
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: sucked to if the only reason McDaniel's there is to
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: make two a great Tuas had six interceptions the last
• 42:16
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• 42:20
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• 42:21
  Speaker 4: It was revealed this week that Shoheo Tony is an
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: MVP trophy that NLCSNB. He's on display in the middle
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: of the Dodgers clubhouse with a team effort sign covering
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: up the most Valuable player in great That's cute, Yeah, Ben,
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: Do you think Otani should have been awarded that honor?
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: No, but he's.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Important for baseball's marketing. He had one amazing game. I
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: would not have given him the MVP, but they felt
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: they had no choice.
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: Next, Jimbo Fisher spoke Monday and said that he wants
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: to get back into coaching, but that he wants to
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: coach somewhere. Quote that's committed to winning, Ben, Where do
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: you see Jimbo ending up?
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: I see him ending up in Key West or Oahu
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: or Kawhii. I mean, what do you doing? He's won
• 43:07
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• 43:11
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• 43:15
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• 43:54
  Speaker 5: from Halloween. I hope we have all of our costumes,
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: couple's costumes, cops or even if you're single, something that
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: might be a good conversation started.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, okay, what are you dressing up for for Halloween? Lorene?
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm doing the Oogie Boogie Bash at Disney.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: So I will be the Ugie Boogie Bash.
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: What is that Disney's Halloween party? So they turned California Adventure.
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: They bring out all the villains and then you go
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: and you trick or treat around the park and you
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: get like five hundred pounds of candy. Interesting, I'm going
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: to be xenon.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: That must be an add on. They don't. It's not
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: included in your.
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: Two hundred dollars two one hundred dollars.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go to Costco and buy a couple of bags
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: of candy and you get like five.
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: Pounds at all the villages.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Anyway, all right, very exciting we have. So, oh, let's
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: go back to Toby. He was I kept Toby and
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: old Toby. Is your lady friend?
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: There?
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Toby? Hello, Toby.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: I still can't go inside.
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: She has an answer. I think she's sleeping. Oh did
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: she did she lock you out?
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: She did? Oh what's the weather like today in Minneapolis?
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: We're about thirty six degrees?
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: No, what did you do? Can I ask what you did?
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Well? How do you know he did something? Maybe she
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: did something?
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: Well, takes two to tango? What happened?
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Huh huh? I don't. I don't completely understand why she's angry,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: but it is their time of the month.
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: So no, he just did he just you know, I
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: keep the door locked leave him outside. Oh all right, well,
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: thank you, Toby, stay warm. Let's go to Alejandro in
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: San Diego.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Who's next up with the Queen of fart?
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: Hello Alejandro, Alejandro? Yes, Hello, hello, second time caller.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: I don't love if you all remember me? I do
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: remember you? Of course? Yes, you called up just last week.
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: Right, Yes, sir, I have one question for you ben
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: aka b and one quick for I love questions.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: All right, go ahead.
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: So what do you think about the forty nine ers
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: for their season?
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Bro right, We're not really doing that right now, but
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: not much. The forty nine ers are an average team.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Not What about Lorena?
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: Lorena? I have a question for you. So, after getting
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: out of a long relationship, like sixteen year relationship, oh man,
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: two years single, are you a firm believer in let
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: love find you or search for it?
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: That can be, you know, it depends on how you
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: like to hunt. People find you sometimes you find them.
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: Depends on what works for you. If you're more adventurous,
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: I would go outside, go see what you can find
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: out in these streets. Check out different areas like beaches
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: and museums and bars. Find out, you know, we're different people.
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: Hi at different types. You have time, right, Yeah, you
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: are with one person for sixteen years. You should go
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: and play the field a bit, go see what you like,
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: Taste the different flavors.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: You're like that answer Loren. He wanted to hear that
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: he actually wants to play a field. He wants them
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: lined up around the block. Yes, absolutely, all right, Well
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: good luck Ale Andandro. Yes, on the date, you'll find somebody.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Let's see what do we have here? A meani moneymore.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Annie in Linel Lakes, Minnesota says I was trying to
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: get romantic with my girlfriend the other night. We were
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: spooning for quite a while and I told her I'd
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: rather fork. She told me to get get away from
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: her basically.
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: So, yeah, you know, we're not always in the mood,
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: and if you're not really doing anything to get us
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: in the mood, wow, help.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Either, I mean blaming the man be BP rights And
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: should I be looking for a soulmate or a playmate
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: that's from BP?
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, depends what you want.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I think he wants.
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: If you're a big kid, you just want some toys
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: to play with. If you know, maybe you want that
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: person who's going to hold you down when you know
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: that you're going to be soon, so it depends what
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: you need.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: All right. Mike writes in says, what's the most impressive
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: from the man for the man to impress his lady
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: on the first date? Taco Bell tortillas, Applebee's chicken or
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: outback steakhouse, stay and fries? Which one would impress you
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: the most? Laretus is from Mike the leprecaun.
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: You know every woman likes her meat. I would always
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: go for the steakhouse first. But if you are on
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: a budget and you want to see if she actually
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: likes you, take her to Taco Bell first and you
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: can see if her digestive system can handle one of
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: your probably favorite foods, which is a big deal.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Fergdock says, how much porn do women watch? I don't know,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: a lot, a lot.
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: Really, Oh my gosh, I'm shocked how much my female
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: friends watch porn. It is crazy.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: Right, You go away, ask your when.
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: You're on a date sometime, be like, hey, do you
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: watch it? And they'll be like, yeah, do you want
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: to watch it together? And you'd be shocked how many
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: people say yes?
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Is that right?
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: You learn something new?
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Well, those websites are the most popular, Yeah.
• 48:40
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• 48:43
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