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  Speaker 1: We've had a couple of teams that are trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out who their quarterback is going to be. Well,
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  Speaker 1: one of those has been decided. Well, how could it
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  Speaker 1: be decided? It's not even mid August yet, how could
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  Speaker 1: they have named a quarterback? We'll explain in the dateline lead. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: from the Twin Cities. The Twin Cities there, we're hollering
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  Speaker 1: James and Eke in Roseville, Minnesota hangout, So our lead
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  Speaker 1: is from there. The quarterback competition has ended in a
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  Speaker 1: purple Hayes. A purple Hayes there. If you have not heard,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not, maybe we're not paying attention. Bad job by you.
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  Speaker 1: The Minnesota Vikings have officially named Alligander Arms Murray. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray the little fella catch the big boy seat.
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  Speaker 1: He got the booster seat. Kyler Murray got the booster
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  Speaker 1: seat in Minnesota a man, so he will be the
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  Speaker 1: starting quarterback and J. J. McCarthy officially demoted demoted as
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  Speaker 1: the number two option there. So Kevin O'Connell, the Vikings coach,
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  Speaker 1: confirming that Kyler Murray winning the competition despite having some
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  Speaker 1: very shaky practices apparently by those that actually get paid
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  Speaker 1: to watch that crap. Here's Kevin O'Connell, I believe. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings head coach commenting on the decision.
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  Speaker 3: As I know, there's a lot of kind of reports
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  Speaker 3: and things out there regarding our quarterback situation, and just
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  Speaker 3: wanted to start out and say, you know, we did,
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  Speaker 3: you know, after some some dialogue in house and just
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  Speaker 3: kind of daily you know, analyzing the overall of of
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  Speaker 3: where we're at right now, we did name Kyler Murray
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  Speaker 3: our starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: From the outset of of the off season. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I think we've been really intentional open about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: kind of the goal of creating just a competitive environment
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  Speaker 3: filled with wildly capable players that could then obviously elevate
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  Speaker 3: our quarterback room. Through that process and in doing so,
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  Speaker 3: you know, elevate our team.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, if you enjoy AWE and A. It's sounding
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  Speaker 1: very confident, man. And I gotta tell you I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be confident either if I was having to name Kyler
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  Speaker 1: Murray as my quarterback. Holy crap. We're screwed. We are
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  Speaker 1: absolutely screwed. If you're the Vikings. Oh my god, poor
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  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell, he'll be working at the NFL Network doing
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  Speaker 1: a podcast at barstool before you know it. Holy crap. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: O'Connell's you heard there confirming the news that the little
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  Speaker 1: guy won the job. O'Connell said, Murray, as you heard it,
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  Speaker 1: had shown enough. And later on he talked about his accuracy,
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  Speaker 1: which I keep seeing stories about him throwing interceptions. But
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  Speaker 1: his accuracy is athleticism, really intelligence. They're just making crap
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  Speaker 1: up now. Command of the offense, they will lie to
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  Speaker 1: your face. All right, So all of that is a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss I have no
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  Speaker 1: skin in the game. The question, what does the announcement
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  Speaker 1: by Kevin O'Connell that Kyler Murray will be the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: QB number one? What does that tell us. What does
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  Speaker 1: that tell us? So my thoughts on this, I've got
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  Speaker 1: free trial subscription, supersonic turbo boost to a rocket, and
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  Speaker 1: super Scooper, and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are going to have a juicy lucy. Now.
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  Speaker 1: When I was lucky enough to visit the holy land
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  Speaker 1: of the Juicy Lucy a few years ago in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: I stopped at all the local establishments there, all of them,
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  Speaker 1: all of them to enjoy the fun of those and
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  Speaker 1: they were all great. There was one I forget well
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  Speaker 1: in Saint Paul. I thought I liked them. I think
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  Speaker 1: I went there twice. Not that that matters, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So to answer the question, what does this announcement, what
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  Speaker 1: does this announcement of Kyler Murray as the Vikings QB
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  Speaker 1: number one? What does that tell us? So? This was
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  Speaker 1: a rigged carnival game. This was a rigged carnival game
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  Speaker 1: from the very beginning. You know it, and I know it.
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  Speaker 1: Every man, woman and child that paid any attention knows it.
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  Speaker 1: There was no legitimate quarterback competition in Minnesota. This was
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  Speaker 1: a trip to the theater. We're going to go out
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  Speaker 1: and see a show. Well, what's the are we gonna
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  Speaker 1: go to it. We're gonna go to a Broadway theater.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna go to an op Broadway theater. It's called
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  Speaker 1: Kabookie Theater. That's where we're going. Kyler Murray had the
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  Speaker 1: job the moment he got off the short bus at
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  Speaker 1: Viking camp there and wandered into the vacilly he was
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  Speaker 1: given the job. Minnesota had already checked out of JJ
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy's hotel. They didn't want to you know, I know
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  Speaker 1: that they hadn't returned the room key. They tried to
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  Speaker 1: trade McCarthy. Nobody wanted him. Unfortunately, they've seen him play,
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  Speaker 1: so they were stuck with him and they didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to completely release them. Although who knows. This is no
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  Speaker 1: guarantee that McCarthy's on the team this year. There's still
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  Speaker 1: time to make trades before the start of the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: But Kyler is and I love They said intelligence. This
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  Speaker 1: is all about the big dummy, the dummy run. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: make no mistake that Kyler is the perfect dummy run
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  Speaker 1: quarterback for the Vikings because Arizona, because they're a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of idiots, they're paying a guy that's incompetent. Most of
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  Speaker 1: the time Kyler Murray, they're paying the freight over thirty
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  Speaker 1: five million to not play for the Cardinals over thirty
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  Speaker 1: five million to not play for the Cardinals. There, So
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  Speaker 1: that is the situation involving Kyler Murray, any of the
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  Speaker 1: fun sized quarterback and all that alligator arms. So it's
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  Speaker 1: basically like this the way I would describe it in
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  Speaker 1: simpleton terms, it's like getting a free trial subscription to Kyler.
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  Speaker 1: Plus it's kitty sized, you can cancel anytime, no credit
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  Speaker 1: card needed, you don't need a credit cards not required
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  Speaker 1: to sign up for it. And a number of the
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  Speaker 1: Viking fan No, I think the people listen to this
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  Speaker 1: show on Kyfan they're in Minnesota are a little smarter.
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  Speaker 1: But the daytime listeners, the idiots during the day, the
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  Speaker 1: knuckle dragging morons, They of course will fall in lockstep
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  Speaker 1: because Kyler Murray alligator arms is fool's gold. We've seen
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  Speaker 1: it before. How many calls did I take over the
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  Speaker 1: years from people in Arizona. Oh, you don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about, malor you moron, that's why you're on
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  Speaker 1: overnight all that crap, right, you know the whole rant.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard all of the lines over the years. They
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  Speaker 1: were all stale, they're all lazy, and in the end
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  Speaker 1: I was vindicated. It was so ridiculous. When Kyler Murray
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  Speaker 1: played for the Cardinals, they were writing stories about my
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  Speaker 1: take in the paper they have like one paper in Phoenix,
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  Speaker 1: and they were ripping me because they have nothing else
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  Speaker 1: to talk about, of course, and they were assaulting my
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  Speaker 1: good name, and I would like to I have to
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  Speaker 1: go back and look, I don't remember what guess probably unemployeed.
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  Speaker 1: What's for a newspaper that's not a great profession. I
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  Speaker 1: have to look who wrote that story and said, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you can write a follow up that I was
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  Speaker 1: correct with my take, Not that you know who cares.
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  Speaker 1: We do the takes. We let the take go out
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  Speaker 1: in the ethos, and whatever happens, that's it. But I
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  Speaker 1: saw it happen in Arizona. It's gonna happen in Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: as well. With Kyler Murray. That it's fool's goal that
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  Speaker 1: he'll excite you for few plays. Maybe in a couple
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  Speaker 1: of games they'll scramble around. Wee, it'll be great, make
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  Speaker 1: a few ridiculous throws. Everyone will be screaming, Oh, he's
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  Speaker 1: found his new home, his forever home, and we found
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  Speaker 1: our guy. All that crap, and then the weather will change. Well,
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  Speaker 1: how cou the weather's change in a dome, It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: The weather's gonna change. The glitter, the golden glitter will
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden wash off, and you will then
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  Speaker 1: discover what's underneath a fake, a phony, and a fraud.
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  Speaker 1: That is what you're gonna get. And that's the Kyler
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  Speaker 1: Murray experience. You're welcome. It's a public service announcement. Just
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  Speaker 1: enough electricity. It's a little electricity. It can't be much
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  Speaker 1: because he's Kyler. It's just a little electricity to get
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  Speaker 1: you emotionally invested. You'll have a big game against the
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  Speaker 1: Packers or something, oh man, and then the all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden you start to okay, we got something, and
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  Speaker 1: then the lights start flickering. It's like when the Gremlins attack.
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  Speaker 1: I get the gremlins attacking. So the Viking fans, I
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  Speaker 1: do want you to enjoy your honeymoon. And I'll I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be too mean at the beginning. I'll just
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  Speaker 1: sit back and Kyler has a couple of good games.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just smile and I'll keep my mouth shut, not really,
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  Speaker 1: because I get paid to talk. So but the point is,
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  Speaker 1: I will just sit back and relax, and you enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the Honting moon while it last. Because I know inevitably
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  Speaker 1: he's going to get a call from a block number.
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  Speaker 1: Kyler's going to answer the call. You should not answer
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  Speaker 1: the call from block number. It's probably a spammer, and
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  Speaker 1: the call will appear on Kyler's phone. He will not
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  Speaker 1: be able to have any self control. Alligator arms will
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  Speaker 1: answer the call, and it will be a ring ring, Hi,
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  Speaker 1: it's Joe blow over here from a call of duty. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: call of duty man. So history says, based on past results,
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  Speaker 1: that he will answer that call, and he will go
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  Speaker 1: on a joystick bender, an absolute joystick bender, and that'll
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  Speaker 1: be turnout the lads, the parties over now. Meanwhile, keeping
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  Speaker 1: the theme of the first part of this Malle monologue,
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  Speaker 1: going NFL insider Adam Schefter drawing backlash getting assaulted in
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  Speaker 1: the micro world over his reporting or lack thereof, regarding
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  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy. So it's another tentacle of this. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you saw this or not, perhaps perhaps not. The
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  Speaker 1: way he framed the McCarthy demotion is quite quite the tail.
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  Speaker 1: So Schefter emphasized that McCarthy missed his entire rookie season
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  Speaker 1: with injury. It's a real sob story, very emotional. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I almost cried and so he mentioned that and
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  Speaker 1: then talked about how JJ McCarthy had winning record in
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  Speaker 1: the games he started. The Vikings were six and four
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  Speaker 1: in his ten starts. He had it on here, Schefter
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  Speaker 1: that the twenty three year old will now be forced
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  Speaker 1: to be forced to be a backup. Boooo, so sad.
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  Speaker 1: It's so sad. Now, obviously the word forced really got
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  Speaker 1: you going, what are we doing here? Because that's the controversy. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Schefter portraying McCarthy in the church of victimhood, which is wild,
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  Speaker 1: rather than just a quarterback that sucked at a time
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  Speaker 1: you cannot suck, couldn't play, and lost the competition to
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  Speaker 1: someone who you'd be embarrassed to lose a competition to.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, So the question does Adam Schefter deserve to
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  Speaker 1: be getting cooked in the cyber world for his light
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  Speaker 1: and fluffy reporting on the demoted Viking quarterback JJ McCarthy.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm nodding my head, yes, I'm nodding my head. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: on this. The smart money says that Adam Schefter pulled
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  Speaker 1: a copy and paste job or go somebody who's on
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  Speaker 1: team McCarthy. A publicist said hey, Adam, can you do
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  Speaker 1: this so solid? Okay? Sure, what do you want? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Can you just copy this and send this out? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: as I understand it, he has been accused of that
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  Speaker 1: in the past, and a number of these guys have
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  Speaker 1: done that. There was a point where there was some
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  Speaker 1: level of integrity where these people wouldn't do it, and
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  Speaker 1: that all went out the window years ago. So now
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  Speaker 1: it's like whatever, just you're just a mouthpiece repeating the
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  Speaker 1: crap that these agents and publicists are sending you. And
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  Speaker 1: so Schefter was providing a ring of protection, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: for a number of reasons, for a number of reasons.
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  Speaker 1: Now what could those reasons be? He was part of
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  Speaker 1: the pontiff's protection, if you will, the security detail, because
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  Speaker 1: both he and McCarthy are Michigan man, right, they're Michigan guys,
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  Speaker 1: and so they went to the University of Michigan. It's
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  Speaker 1: also taking care of the agent, you know. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: I'll do this for you and then you help me
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  Speaker 1: out with something that actually people care about down the line.
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  Speaker 1: So calling JJ McCarthy calling him out and said, well,
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  Speaker 1: he was forced to be a backup. Is supersized industrial
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  Speaker 1: strength spin spin spin spin spent, forced, forced against his will. McCarthy,
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  Speaker 1: You realize how bad this guy must be at playing
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL. He was handed the keys to
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  Speaker 1: what everyone agree was a high powered offense. They were
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  Speaker 1: able to have success with Sam Darnold and that guy
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  Speaker 1: blows and so, and he proved that in Seattle because
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  Speaker 1: they know the only reason they did anything, they need
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  Speaker 1: a two point conversion handed to them by the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise that would not have been the way it went
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  Speaker 1: last year with him. Anyway, McCarthy was handed in Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: this amazing offense, what a great mitzvah all access passed
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  Speaker 1: to wide receiver Justin Jefferson and his sidekick Jordan Addison,
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  Speaker 1: and he turned this supersonic booster rocket that should have
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  Speaker 1: gone out in the Cosmos out in outer space, and
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  Speaker 1: he turned it into cremation dust that you could put
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  Speaker 1: in a purple urn with the Viking logo on it.
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  Speaker 1: Because he buried their season last year. McCarthy for Chef's
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  Speaker 1: obviously guilty but lie by omission because he left out
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  Speaker 1: the fact that J. J. McCarthy was the thirty fifth
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  Speaker 1: nint quarterback in the NFL. Now, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you know this. There's only thirty two teams in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: You actually need a mining permit to go down and
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  Speaker 1: a light to find McCarthy. You actually have to go
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  Speaker 1: His name is that far down in the quarterback rating department. Now, ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: the most embarrassing thing is that McCarthy this August here
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  Speaker 1: lost his gig to Alligator Arms Murray Kyler Murray, one
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  Speaker 1: of snow White seven Dwarfs with a documentar video game obsession.
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  Speaker 1: You got, you lost to that guy. That guy was
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  Speaker 1: who failed in Arizona, was an abject fail with the Cardinals,
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  Speaker 1: and that guy beat you out. Think about that, I
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  Speaker 1: think about Minnesota basically brought in gamer Smurf and said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's an upgrade. We rather have that guy. We'd rather
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  Speaker 1: have that guy. That's it. And obviously nobody forced JJ
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy to the bench. He had the presidential suite, presidentials,
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  Speaker 1: everything you possibly want, Red shirt year all you idiots
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  Speaker 1: tell me, well, you gotta rust your quarterback, don't play him.
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  Speaker 1: The first year so they can learn the offense. You morons,
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  Speaker 1: call up, defend your boy, defend your guy. Yeah, you cowards,
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  Speaker 1: And I gotta call up and defend it because McCarthy
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  Speaker 1: is proof of the fact that it doesn't work. Now, kay, listen,
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  Speaker 1: everything's subjective. I understand that. But you told me all
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  Speaker 1: the people, all Hall of Fame level receiver Justin Jefferson,
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  Speaker 1: supposedly a great coach. You guys all love the coach
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  Speaker 1: of the Vikings, offensive, genius, winning environment, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: you got. That's what you got. I hope you enjoyed that.
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  Speaker 1: So he had the presidential suite, trash, the furniture clogged,
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  Speaker 1: the toilet, trashed the place, and then he was evicted.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of evicted himself, I guess all right. Now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: last word to the courthouse. We have a legal brew
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  Speaker 1: haha developing. It's on tap right now between a couple
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  Speaker 1: of former NFL people. That would be DeAndre Hopkins, former
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  Speaker 1: NFL receiver. I guess he's out now of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: He's took a college one of these no show college
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  Speaker 1: jobs where you just use your name as a brand
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  Speaker 1: ambassador or whatever. Anyway, DeAndre Hopkins he accused on social
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  Speaker 1: media his former GM with the Cardinals and the guy
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  Speaker 1: that worked here a few times, Steve Kaim, of involvement
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  Speaker 1: in rigging or content emanating the NFL drug test that
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  Speaker 1: he failed. So the claim and it was deleted quickly
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  Speaker 1: after or not that you can't really delete anything on
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  Speaker 1: the internet. But Hopkins claimed that there was some funny
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  Speaker 1: business going on with Kime. So Kime issued a rebuttal
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  Speaker 1: through a lawyer, and yeah, so very strong denial with
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of threats of litigation. So this is a
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  Speaker 1: this happened four years ago. This is a four year
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  Speaker 1: old ped suspension that has new life, like the phoenix
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  Speaker 1: rising from the ashes, and Chime threatening the civil lawsuit.
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  Speaker 1: And while that is going on, he's facing separate scrutiny.
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  Speaker 1: There's a connection. We talked, remember we talked about this
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  Speaker 1: murder mystery in the NFL, This kingpin of this ponzi
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  Speaker 1: scheme who somehow in his twenties dry it was dead,
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  Speaker 1: found dead in Jersey. And there's a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: tied to that guy from the NFL. Apparently Kime's name
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  Speaker 1: came up. I don't know, I was reading about that,
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  Speaker 1: and so he's got a lot of stuff going on here,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody's been arrested, nobody's been charged in that particular case. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the question where are you at on the legal food fight?
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're we call it legal food fight between
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  Speaker 1: former NFL star DeAndre Hopkins and GM Steve Kime, the
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  Speaker 1: former GM so DeAndre Hopkins. After a minutes long mallor
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  Speaker 1: review of the available information, so Steve Kime and DeAndre Hopkins. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the first punch was thrown by Hopkins. He tossed an
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  Speaker 1: incender airy and cndiary device in this case in accusation
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  Speaker 1: onto social media, tossed it out there and then tried
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  Speaker 1: to try to delete it. He did delete it, but
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  Speaker 1: the fire, even though it was largely contained, contained the fire.
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  Speaker 1: They had a line around the fire. The controlled burn
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  Speaker 1: was in the middle of nowhere. They had it contained well.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Kahim grabbed the public address system, He summoned apparently
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  Speaker 1: an army of lawyers and commandeered the super scooper. So
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  Speaker 1: he grabbed the super scooper to drop thousands of gallons
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  Speaker 1: of kerosene on that smoldering hot spot out in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of nowhere in the boondocks, and by threatening a
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit he gare wrong. Tea Hopkins claims will get repeated.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know about this, and here I am
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  Speaker 1: talking about it. So Hopkins, I didn't see the thing
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  Speaker 1: that got deleted. And so this gets repeated, dissected, amplified everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and it opens the door to if there is a lawsuit,
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  Speaker 1: legal discovery, and a full blown Benny Hill type circus.
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• 20:36
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• 20:38
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• 20:41
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• 22:03
  Speaker 1: A lead story this hour from the Speculation Room. From
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the Speculation Room, if you will, and a former MLB
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: skipper who was a big part of the cheating as
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: one one thousand and two one thousand holes would like
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: back in the game. Making the headlines here we saw
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: this or not, perhaps not the smarmie Alex Cora. The
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: only person that loves Alex Cora more than Alice Cora
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: is Alex Cora. So Alice Cora says he expects to
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: manage again eventually. I'm sure he had no timetable. Though
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: he did a round of some interviews this week, did
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: not mention exactly when he'll return to the dugout. He
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: did confirm that after the Red Sox whacked him back
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: in April, he turned down an offered to manage the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Phillies, said now to Dave don Browski, and they
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: hired Don Mattingly as the room manager. So that happened.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: His explanation, he played the family card from the bottom
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: of the deck. Yeah, from the bottom of the deck,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: just like that. Now, the thing I love about this
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: these guys that always play the family card are so
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: full of crap. Uh. Years ago when I covered basketball
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: all the time, Danny Ainge he used to play for
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the Celtics. So Danny Ainge was with the Phoenix Suns,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: and if I remember correctly, there was an incident with
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a towel, like it was like Robert ri or somebody
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: slapped him with a towel. He lost his job and
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: he said, I want to spend more time with my family.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: And like a week later, it seemed like it was
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: a week later. He was sitting next to me at
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: what used to be called Staple Center and we were
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: not paying attention to the game. We were watching. There
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: was this DC Snipers story that was going on and
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: we were watching that. I remember what we were watching
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: because it was like we was captivating. It was like,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: oh my god, it's terrible. And then he then moved
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: his family to Boston. Now he's moved back with the Jazz.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I guess been there for a few years. But these guys,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: that's ah for the family. Now you know many people,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: it's going to shock you are able to have a
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: family and have a job. It's wild. It is so
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: freaking crazy. But there's Alice Cora playing the family card
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: from the bottom of the deck. Said I needed my family.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I guess nobody else needs their family. Most families want
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: their people to work. Anyway, he said, priorities are priorities?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Oh well please, all right? Anyway, That's that's where that was.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Court did say that his family, his kids want him
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: to manage again. I thought they wanted him to be around.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: They don't want the sons, don't want Alice Corra pestering
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: them all the time. Why would that be? I don't understand.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: And he said his kids already have a preferred team.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah. Right, So that is a
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question what
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: did you take away from Alex Cora's chat with the
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: media about his MLB manager of future, the former Red
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Sox manager. So my observations on this, I've got raw oysters,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: chop shop, and Paris baguette, and we will combine all
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to howl
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: at the moon, is what we're going to do now.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Number one, what al I'm done with that. Alice Cora
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: is going to handpick his next managerial job, or at
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: least that is what Alice Cora would like you to believe.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: He's He's gonna pick it. That's it. He's right now
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: living the Marco polo lifestyle. Alice Cora is living the
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Marco polo lifestyle, embracing his sabbatical, enjoying the life of Riley,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: waiting for some desperate, horny owner to call them up
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: and say, Hey, how would you like to have all
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: this gold boyon and manage my team? Here's the key
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: to the clubhouse. Knock yourself out. But Alice Cora is
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: not some managerial faberge egg. He's not. He's more like
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: raw oysters. He's an acquired taste Alex Cora. That's just
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the way it is. And he's got a supersized ego,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: which is amazing because I was around the Dodgers when
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: he played for them, and he wasn't very good as
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: a player. I was able to pull out in recording
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: to what I read and on the internet to very
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: good at cheating with the a holes back in the day.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: But nonetheless, listen, acquired taste massive ego. The whole thing,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: A lot of baggage, a lot of baggage, and the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: snuff phuluffigus in the room. All of that aura of
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Alice Corr took a hit when the Red Sox turned
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: on the after burners after he was excommunicated from Boston Baseball. Now,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I realize they've lost four in a row now and
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the sky is falling around Finway and all that for
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox. However, you look around, despite all that,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: you figure that the Mets are going to have a
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: new manager the Phillies. If they don't do a lot
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: in the playoff. Don Mattingley's ass is grass, he'll be out.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: So those teams could come sniffing around Dom Browski if
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: he keeps his job. He's at loggerheads with Bryce Harper.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Don Browski will certainly give Cora a call if Don
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Mattingley doesn't work out in the Angels. Who wouldn't want
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: to manage the Angels? Come on more on them in
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: a minute. That job is seemingly open. Every fifteen minutes,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: you give us fifteen minutes, we'll give you a new manager.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: And whoever face plants in October. Now, this is old school, right,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: This is old school, maybe even the Yankees. Back in
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the old days before the Nerds took over baseball, you
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: didn't achieve success in the playoffs, you lost your job. Nowadays,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: keep these guys around. They're just middle managers and they
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: don't really do much, and they just give quotes to
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the media, and the media suck them up and just
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: love them. So that's where we are, right, I mean, Cora,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: he does not hold all the cards, is what I'm
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: trying to say. I'm reading the tea leaves here. He
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: does not hold all the cards. As a distant relative
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: of Nostradamus and occasional friend of Nostradinas, he does not.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Alice Cora is selling himself as the prettiest, hottest girl
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: at the dance, like just a amazing beauty god given
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: genetic beauty, right that olden. The evidence, though, suggests that
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Boston's clubhouse and the quality of life improved after he
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: vacated the building. So don't you're not supposed to say
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: that part. Don't give me. It's a guarantee that aus
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: coors right back. And he can also do TV, and
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: there's plenty of TV jobs at NBC and the other networks.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: That he can go get if he's so inclined. So
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: it's an awkward sales pitch. It's an awkward sales pitch
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: considering how the Red Sox have turned things around after
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: he left. Now, meanwhile to the Boogie Down Bronx we go,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: where the Yankees ending up in the Wall Street Journal?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: What did they do to end up in the Wall
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Street Journal? Well, the New York Yankees. If you didn't
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: see this, perhaps not. The Yankees have reached a two
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: point six billion dollar two point six billion dollar financial
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: agreement with a private equity firm. What whow Yeah. Apollo
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Sports Capital is the name of the outfit, and they
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: are very happy to announce that this will strengthen the
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: franchises financial portfolio. They will be better off despite the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: ginormous financial package two point six billion dollars. We are
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: told that the Steinbranner family, the ones that didn't earn
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the wealth but were born into the genetic lottery and
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: won it. The Steinbrenner family will retain full control of
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: ownership authority and all of that. All of that, you know,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: they'll still make the final call. The buck stops with them,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and so they claim this will just be for flexible
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: financial flexibility. That's what they're they're they're claiming here and
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: that Apollo will not take over the team. They just
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: have a seat at the table. Can you imagine spending
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: two point six billion dollars and not having say what
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: is that the financing will be used to? They say,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: in part to refinance the existing debt the existing debt
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: and give the organization, as we said, flexibility, blah blah blah,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: more opportunities. All right, So here's the question. Are the
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: hal Steinbrenner Yankees modernizing? Are the hal Steinbrenner Yankees modernizing,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: compromising or selling their soul with this particular deal? So
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I got no skin of the g is. This is
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: a dark day in Yankee history. It just is. It's
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: just wrong on so many levels. And there's a lot
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: of stupid people that won't understand this, and they'll think
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: everything's fine, you're making a big deal about nothing. I
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: will push back on that because I actually have lived
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: my life. I've seen what has happened with private equity.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I know how these things go, and there are exceptions.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: There's certainly exceptions where it doesn't work all the time
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: in the negative. However, more times than not. It's a
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: bad thing. The Steinbrenner kids have taken this family heirloom
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: and they have driven it straight straight to the private
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: equity pawn shop. Where are the pond Stars when you
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: need him now? One of the most famous quotes from
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: George Steinberning, he might not know who that is. George
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Steinbrenner was a desk spot owner of the Yankees Bigger
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: than life, back when it was a mom and pop operation,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: back in the olden days of Yankee baseball. Forty plus
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: years he almost fifty years ago, George Steinberner took over
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the Yankees, and one of his famous quotes because he
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: was asked, you're gonna ever sell the Yankees? And he said,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: owning the Yankees this is a quote quote owning the
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa. You don't sell
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: it close. Quote that was from George Steinbrenner. And well,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: hal Steinbrenner, the kid, while he hasn't technically sold the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Mona Lisa like the he's still gonna troll the Yankees.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: All the kid has done is invited a bunch of
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Wall Street dopes to come in to the Louve and
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: they've got calculators in one hand, they've got both cutters
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: in the other, and there's a U haul waiting outside.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: That's what this is. Private equity. We've seen it time
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: and again with how many great restaurants that we've enjoyed
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: over the many years have gone out of business or
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: come close to bankruptcy because of private equity. Right, and
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: so private equity comes in and it's the chop shop.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: It's the chop shop of modern society. They pour billions
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: of dollars in. I'll tell you what the hustle is.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: They pour billions of dollars in to things that people
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: love and feel like they need, and then they squeeze
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: every single nickel out of them. They strip the copper,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: they strip the copper wiring, They sell the tires, They
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: leave the rotting carcass on cinderblocks. Is what they do.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Timing again, And so how Steinbrenner can stand there and proclaim,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: don't worry nothing to see him. The Steinbrenners have full control. No, yeah,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: And the guy swimming with an octopus is technically in
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: control until the tentacles start wrapping around his ankles and
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: then his neck and choke him to death. But until
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: then fine, anyway, maybe this arrangement works beautifully and that's great.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: History though says that when private equity shows up and
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: is carrying two point six billion in the suitcase, two
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: point six billion, it's not there. Because they loved the
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Yankee baseball and they grew up listening to John Sterling
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: and their parents love Phil Risuto. That's not it. That's
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: not it at all. Uh So, that's just the way
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: that George treated the Yankees like a priceless, priceless violin,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: strativarius violin, just priceless, right, And the kids took that
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: priceless stratavarius violin and took that down and sold it
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: to a hedge fund group, and then they turned that
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: into lumber wood for the fire, the campfire, burn, baby burn, Burn,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: baby burn. Meanwhile, Tanaheim, the Angels, bad at baseball, good
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: at making headlines. The Halos did the thing you can't
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: do at the time. You can't do it for reasons
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: beyond belief. The Angels, who are long buried one of
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: the worst teams in baseball, and they decided randomly in
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: mid August to fire pitching coach Mike Maddox that Normally,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: a pitching coach being fired does not rise to the
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: level of a Mallard monologue. However, this is the exception
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: to the rule. So not only was Mike Maddox poll
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: axed his assistant pitching coach. I mean, I'm older. They
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: used to have one pitching coach. Now they have the
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: assistant pitching coach. They have the bullpen pitching coach. So
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: they made sweeping changes to the pitching staff, the people
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: who are in charge of the pitching staff at the
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Big A. There's just over forty games to go, just
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: over forty games to go. The numbers have been just horrific.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Angel pitchers had a four point five to one earned
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: run average, seventh worst in the big leagues, and had
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: issued an MLB high five hundred and eight walks through Monday,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: five hundred and eight. You're just giving base runners, are
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: you just asking for? I mean, you just throw the
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: ball down the middle. The way modern baseball's played, where
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: they don't try to hit for average, you're gonna be fine.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: You'll at least be in the middle. You just tow
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the ball right down the middle and say, hey, hit it.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: These guys most of them miss anyway. I digress. So
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: the interim GM, the old Saint Louis Cardinal guy, John
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: mosee Lock, he has come in here and he made
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: a bunch of trades and now he has said that
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: the staff here's the money quote John mosey Lock, the
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: INTERIMVM said the staff wasn't sufficiently sufficiently using sufficiently using
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: available technology to help pitchers, and he was very critical
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: of their coaching methods. All right, so question what stands
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: out about the Angels that sad sack Angels team whacking
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: their pitching coach Mike Maddox with just a month and
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: a half to go in the baseball regular season. So
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: I will actually give the Halo's credit. Okay, I am
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: going I don't do it, mallor don't do it. I'm
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: gonna do it. These bozos continue to find new and
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: creative ways to embarrass themselves. It's fascinating who cooked this
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: one up? Seriously, you're scapegoating Mike Maddox. Do they not
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: realize how respected a pitching coach Mike Maddox is in
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: the sport of baseball? Do they not understand that he's
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: in this generation, He's been there for so long, he's
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: been through multiple generations. He's one of the all time
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: great pitching coaches. And he's the guy who helped the
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Texas Rangers win the World Series a couple of years ago.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: He was the pitching coach when they won the World Series.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: What did he take? Some stupid pills? How about last
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: year Mike Maddox with the Rangers. You know who led
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: baseball and earned run average last year the Texas Rangers,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: who was their pitching coach? Ding Ding Ding ding Ding.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Mike Maddos, you're good at this game. You are good.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: You're good at this game. So the Angels, we we
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: know you had a good resume. We're gonna get ready
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: here because you're not listening. So what does that tell
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: us the Angels, who were seemingly lucky to get him,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Mike Maddox, that we praised the higher. We thought it
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: was a great higher, So they hired Mike Maddox. And
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming some I don't know it's for sure, but
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna assume some twenty four year old named Braxton
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: who just got the job six months ago in the
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: analys department, decided to let John moze Looc, the interim
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: general manager, know that Maddox wasn't doing what he wanted,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: wasn't worshiping enough at the Church of the Algorithm, and
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: so he had to be excommunicated from the Halos. And
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: what exactly was Maddix supposed to do? Exactly? Like, what
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: was he supposed to do here? Seriously, I don't understand.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: You handed the guy a smoldering pile of turds in
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: a wheelbarrow. At least it was kind of put them
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: in a wheelbarrow. So Maddox is pushing this smoldering pile
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: of turds in the home depot wheelbarrow, and you said, well,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: open up a restaurant. I said, okay, I'll put up
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: a restaurant. And he bought a franchise for Paris Baguette.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: He said, okay, I opened up a Paris baget and
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: the Angel said, okay, good, that's good, and so he
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: opened that up. And then the Angel's ownership Arty Morino
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: sounded shocked shocked when nobody bought the meadowuffins that they
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: were trying to sell. They made metal muffins out of
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: the smoldering pile of turds that was in the wheelbarrow,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: and unfortunately for the Angels. I guess whoever hired I
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: know the interim GM didn't hire him. Whoever hired Maddix
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: didn't realize he's from the old country. He attempts, He
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: attempts to follow the Kiss method, Keep it simple, stupid,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: the Kiss method. Throw strikes, change speeds, get outs. Oh
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: that's so you're such a boomer. My god, you imagine
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: that you're fired because you told your pictures to throw strikes,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: change speeds, and get outs. But you didn't tell them that.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: The analytics say that you should not throw a breaking
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: ball when it's a two to two count and you're
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: facing a left handed pitcher and it's seventy two degrees
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: with the wind blowing out of the north and forty
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: seven thousand fans in the stadium, not any less than that.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: It's got to be forty seven thousand fans or more.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: The analytics say that if you throw on the two
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: to two pitch a cutter, you're going to get an
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: out more times than not. Okay, thank you, go jump
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: off a building. Thank you very much. Why not? Can
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: can the algorithm I'm asking for a friend. Can the
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: algorithm throw ninety seven miles an hour with movement. Can
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: a spreadsheet locate a slider? Can you use AI any
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: of the AI Gemini Rock Chat GPT? Can they come
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: out of the bullpen? Yeah? So the Angels just whiffed
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: yet again. Forty something games to go in the season,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: and you said, we got to get rid of this guy.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: What are you doing? The Angels they're the team that
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: fired the mechanic because the car that they gave the
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: mechanic had no engine, and the mechanics said, I can't
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: fix the engine. There's no engine. So that's where we are.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 41:55
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• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go. He's for us, he
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: was working for us. This is one thing I believe
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: it's hard to keep track of who works here. I'll
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: go ahead there, Cooper Loot please.
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: Jackson Dart has begun to slide during practice and it
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: has giants, said coach John Harbob pretty excited. His teammate
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: Brian Burns says that they've been begging him to do
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: that for a while now. Ben, you think Dart will
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: turn over a new leaf in the regular season.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he should try different kinds of slides,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: like you can do the electric slide. He can do
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: what a ballroom? Is there a ballroom slide thing you
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: can do? I think he should learn all the dance moves.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: I don't believe anything in training camp. I have to
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: see it in the regular season because I believe muscle
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: memory takes over. So I believe it when I see
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: it in the regular season.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: Next, it was reported this week that the Clippers are
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: likely to get a slap on the wrist from the
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: NBA involvement jockey Kawhi. Leonard Investigation negotiated settlement with Kawhi
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: playing for the Raptors.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Ben, do you agree, well, in fact, the NBA hasn't
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: done anything yet, at least you believe they don't want
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: to do anything, althoughise they would have done something. So yes,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: I believe it'll be very light and it's a big Nuffinberger,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: which you'll annoy that annoying podcast guy. Next. All right,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: here we go.
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: Demetrius Janna Koppolis, Yeah right, the owner of a Greek
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: team in the EuroLeague, said he is very serious about
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: trying to sign Nikola Jokic when he becomes a free agent.
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: Next summer. Yeah, Ben Jokich is kind of a weird dude.
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: Could you see him doing something like that?
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all he has to do is buy him all
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: the horses he wants. And Jokic is there? Boom done
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: out here? Do you see Russell Westbrooks? Tell you know
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: it's him in Israel? He's gonna play in Israel? So
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: there you go? Why not? How do we do? Kop?
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: What the game?
• 43:39
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• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Exciting new She wants to talk to you. Promise love,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: It's true.
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: Love can find anyone. I had an amazing vacation, kind
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: of kind of got a little bit of a relationship
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: dump on one of the nights, and I just want
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: everyone to know it's okay to event about your partner.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's healthy, all right. I don't none of my business.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know what. I don't know what happened.
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: But you know what's not healthy is calling a restaurant
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: that you know your husband is that and yelling.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: He's a jeter. WHOA wait a minute, not do that. Ah,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: that's fat.
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: Sounds toxic.
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: Do you not do that?
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I'd have to have a conversation off the air on
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: that one. Okay, that sounds like a good story, But
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: we have some questions here, and malor prop guy starts out,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: So says Lorena, since you are such a Disney fan,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: which Disney couple needs your advice most? Donald and Daisy?
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: What advice would you give them if you saw them
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: this weekend? Oh?
• 45:25
  Speaker 6: Oh my gosh. I feel like Donald is such a
• 45:28
  Speaker 6: loving partner. Maybe just work on his temper a little bit.
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: Make sure that he doesn't put his anger where it
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: doesn't need to be. Misplaced anger is no good.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: I got you, all right, misplaced anger. He has a temper,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: you know, I understand? All right. Let's I wanted to
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: find saw my phone. This is an email one, so
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: I gotta go page Dan. Let me give a JT
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: the wingman First, he says, when in the relationship, is
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: it safe to admit your sock monkey fetish? That's a
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: great question. A lot of people have this fetish. They
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: love sock monkeys.
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: Interesting, is that what you call it? The sock that
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: you prefer to use when you're getting dressed. Is that
• 46:07
  Speaker 6: what you meet? Because if you have a collection of
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: those type of sock monkeys, I might seek a therapist.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: You think, so, yeah, okay, I got you. What else
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: do we have here? Shane and Moy says Larina. Do
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: you ever use an accent to turn on or off
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: a guy or girl that you meet?
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: No, not normally. Sometimes I'll just do accents for fun,
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: just out of nowhere, because I'm a weirdo. But no,
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: not to purposely appeal to someone.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: No, you would not go down that road. I understand. Uh,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: we got Michael and Tulsa rights and says, if you
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: had all the money in the world, where would you
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: take your significant other to a fireworks show? Very specific
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: a fireworks show around.
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, I watched one of those, you know
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: when New Year's happens, and they do the fireworks shows
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: all around the world.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: They're so cool.
• 47:01
  Speaker 6: I would like to go to like I think like
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: Shanghai had a really cool.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: One Shanghai Action.
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that'd be really nifty.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: All right. Doc Dan writes in Queen of Hearts with
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: the Rain and says, the wife and I are going
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: to be in southern California, for a week and she
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: wants to visit Disneyland for a day. What are the
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: must see things there to do or things to eat?
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: Ooh, I would definitely have anything with bidia in it.
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: Their vidia grilled cheese sandwich is so it's the wrong answer.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: The corn Dog is the answer. That's the corn Dog.
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: Yes, Oh my gosh, I love it.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: It's on Main Street. The corn Dog's the place to go.
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: Last time I had when my cousin got sick.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Afterwards, I need a thirty dollars Disney Mickey Mouse pretzel
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: and a Truro to top that off. Yeah, exactly.
• 47:46
  Speaker 6: It really can't go wrong with the food though, I
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: just go to.
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: Eat all day.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Well, the only thing is the price is the bit
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: of a profit.
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: Don't look at the prices.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: Don't look at Be sure to catch live editions of
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: The Ben Mellor Show weekdays at two am Eastern BEM Pacific.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Here we go.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: Here, We're attention everyone, and the password.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Is password, you idiot. Password the word Game of the stars.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Here's Ben meler all, let's do it. Here we go
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: password time. Let's welcome in our contestants, and who you
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: meenie Meanie miney mole. Let's say hello to Ed, who
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: is in San Antonio? Hello, Ed, Welcome Ed. I want
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: to be on as Toyota Toyota Ed. Do you work
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: for Toyota.
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I'm an employee for the Toyota Manufacturers.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: All right, how's that going for you? Real good?
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: Real good?
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: I take carry over there, I'll be heading home soon. Nice?
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: Can I real quick? Quick?
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: Can I say I live in Sandy Oaks not Sanatorio?
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I'm ready. Who do you want to partner up?
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: If you got Lorena, Coop or me?
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: Cool?
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Good choice? So Coop, you got Ed, Edward Toyota, Ed, Toya,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Ed and Coop side by side and we have let's
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: hear any meenie miney moe. Let's go with we push
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: the right line up here. Sous Dog is in parts unknown? Hello,
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: souss Dog. Why from New hamp From New Hampshire, the
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Great Suss Dog. Welcome Suss Dog. Who would you like
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: to partner up with on the show? I want to win,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be you bet. That's right. We're in
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: it to win it. We're not gonna lose to Toyota. Ed,
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen no way. Alright, we we have
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: here a list of words. It's not actual list, it's
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: just well it is kind of a list and more
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: of a big board. And Toyota ed. You were on
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: the air first there, Toyota ed. So please pick a
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: number one to ten, one to ten.
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  Speaker 2: Number number one.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: You're stealing my material. How do you know? It's my integral,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: my my property. Yes, I talk that. Now, go ahead, Coop,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: you're up first there. All right, Uh, let's go with
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: splatter splash, Yeah, what is it? What is this kindergarten?
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: And nothing? That's what it is. Ben, It's embarrassing and nothing.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: I embarrassed to have that word. All right, Well, suss Dog,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: pick a number two to ten, sous Dog, two to ten,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: Nummber two, number two, not playing the drop? Why not?
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: And what oh you don't like the leprechaun. That's why
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: let's go with the hmm. Actually this is not as
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: usually I thought it would be. Let's go with upcoming, Oh,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Susan upcoming is the word nothing? No, the word is
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: not nothing. That's actually that's actually a rare compliment from
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Cooper loop. All right, let's play the lottery. Let's let's
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: go with subsequent engagement of a word. Your luck ran
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: out on that one. Let's go with.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: The get.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: I'll do it anyway. They're after, they're after next. Alright,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: we're still winning. What is the score is that? Seven? Seven?
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: All right? All right? Go ahead there, Toyota ed not
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: in San Antonio. Go ahead, Toyota. Actually that was a
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: for you. Actually I was eight. Oh, so you're trying
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: to cheat? Okay, go ahead? Pick a number three to ten,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: number ten, all the way down to number ten. Cooplop
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: number ten. All right, let's go with trink will.
• 52:20
  Speaker 5: Laser.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: No, let's uh, this is for the lead here suics
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: dog coops, throwing his headphones down in discussion. Let's go
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: with dart peaceful calm. Yeah, hey, we got the lead
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: and we're in it. We're never gonna get side.
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: Pick another, pick another number, suits dog.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Three, number three? That dog, oh, I don't know. That
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: was definitely not. We're gonna go with number five. Well,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: who's I'm confused? Five? Is your number? Number? Five? All right,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: number five? Let's go with blah blah blah blah blah.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Uh all right, how about what I'm trying to set
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to cheat. I'm not trying to. I'm
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: trying to think of the proper. I'm trying to think
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: of the proper. Oh my god, we're gonna tell me
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: why the game. Oh I ran the Soul office, inst'
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: malon Manouver, the Solo office. I want the