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"Do You Believe in Magic?" Episode 57 · DMV Mess Hall

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Hi folks, this is Rick dog. Walker the d.o.c.
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This is John Connor I'm and you're listening to the mess
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hall with rally captain and tail gate 10.
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What's going on, rally? How you doing, man?
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I'm doing good man. Can you believe that we are
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almost done with March? I mean it's hard to believe,
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man. Marches business is pretty much
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done. It is crazy man.
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I actually I feel like football season's going to be here before
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we know it and it just ended. Yeah, it seems like this time is
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flying by and I'm not complaining, but I do enjoy my
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summer time so I'm hoping it's not slowing down here in
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Atlanta. Slow it down just a little bit.
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Yeah it's speaking. This football season you
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actually got out to FedEx Field last week and you mentioned it
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on the show that you're going to hang out at the sports book.
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So I'm yes man. How was it first being back at
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FedEx and then how was it actually being at that new
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sports book because I still haven't stepped foot inside that
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price yet? Well, she still needs a facelift
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but hey, you know what, we can put a little Rouge in a little
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bit lipstick on it and she'll be.
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Alright, you she'll pass. How about that?
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But the sports book. Let me tell you, man, it's nice.
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They've got 21, betting machines.
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A lot of big screen TVs. You can cash out right there.
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The, the food on the menu is good, whether it's this from
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salad to chicken wraps to Chili dogs.
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I mean they've got a pretty good menu and it's the food's pretty
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good. It really is everyone there that
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came out. Last Friday was surprised how
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good the food was and actually the drinks as well to me.
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It's hard to mess up a drink but if you can actually get the
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food, right? Those want to go back to one of
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our you know, pods originally when this first thing came out,
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we talked about the menu options and things like that at the
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fanatic sports book compared to some of the other spots.
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There's on Thursday last week. I went to Guy Fieri's to watch a
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bunch of NCAA games. I do it every, you know,
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Thursday March Madness, and that had a blast had about 100 people
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out doing my thing. And I know you had a good
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turnout for yours. So I was just curious, you know,
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like you've been to guys like is there some stuff that you would
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compare and contrast between the two spots?
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Some stuff that you think that, you know, Fanatics Does It
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Better over there or Or you think it's maybe kind of on par?
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It's a little bit smaller than Guy Fieri's.
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Well I take that back, it's larger for the downstairs but
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upstairs the Guy Fieri's is larger.
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This is a special one floor FedEx.
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It's wonderful one. Yeah.
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But that's I'm saying. Guy Fieri's is to the actual.
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You got the second second spot upstairs.
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That's right. Right.
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So I'd say that's a little bit bigger.
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Because it's two floors. But man, everything the setup is
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nice. I mean, there's not a bad seat
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in the house and, you know, you know how people come around the
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drive really fast. They have security guards, who
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will stop the cars? Allow you to get across the
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street, you know, their security who comes in and they check you
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out. Make sure you just like going to
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a game. Almost empty your pockets.
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Make sure you don't have any any paraphernalia or whatever have
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you spawn, Mary? Yeah, anything illegal items.
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Contraband and once you get inside, man, hey, it's like a
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party atmosphere. They had a DJ last week and the
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room. Just, yeah, DJ last week and 59
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3.9, I can't think the guys name but we're going to be doing it
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again Saturday, so 6 to 10, if anybody's interested 6 to 10 at
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the sport book. Come out and, and see it and
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enjoy yourself. I did talk to them about
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possibly doing what we talked about on a prior pod about as
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far as having discounts on the back of the receipt with
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streets. Yeah, so sure.
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So. Oh yeah, yeah.
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So, you know, once you place your bet at the at the kiosk,
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you print out a receipt and you know, if you don't win you can
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take that receipt and go get you something from the from FedEx.
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They're talking about it since it is Fanatics.
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So they're they're very happy with the ideas that we talked
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about. And so I think it's going to be
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a win-win man, I really do. I hope so.
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I mean, it's, I'm not boycotting the place.
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I just haven't had a need to go out to FedEx, and the times I've
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been there, it's been more so for meetings than actual
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pleasure Mrs. T and I do have to go out to pick up some new gear.
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We're headed out of town. Town coming up and got to film a
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TV show and got to get some new gear to represent.
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So yeah, might stop on in and check out the sports book when
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I'm there and I'm trying to avoid betting right now because
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I made some money on that Maryland game last week and then
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UVA let me down even though you know I and a bunch of other
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people probably had him going farther, our brackets.
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They let me down losing that game but selfishly was also
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happy that they lost but I thought it'd be a no-brainer
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that they were actually going to pull that thing off or you're
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going to be out there. This Saturday, I mean for those
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that are Saturday in the DMV head on out to FedEx and check
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that out. The nice thing is there's a ton
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of parking out there and that's one thing that got away guys,
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because there's no parking at guys, that's free at least you
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got to go downtown, parking garage, or take a Metro.
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So the fact that you can just roll right up, would be nicer,
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definitely or gate and then go inside, but they're lucky do
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that unless this football season.
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Unless it's football, bro. Ceu.
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Pushing the envelope. A little bit too much.
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I mean, I know your name's tailgating Dead.
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But you gotta be able to slope pull it back.
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Slow Down, slow. You're never gonna chicken wraps
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inside. I mean, I'm gonna pass on that
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salad that you talked about, but, you know, I got some
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chicken wraps, we'll see how it goes, but you place any bets.
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How's your night going? Okay.
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Yeah. Everybody time for.
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Do they want and they were it's exciting to be able to win in
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person and walk right around the And cash out and get your money
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back and actually get cash. I mean, I've been, you know,
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we've been betting on our phones forever but yeah, it's like fake
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money even though it hurts. No, but it was nice, actually
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walking up and then handing him that ticket and the next thing
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you know he's just counting out bills and bills and bills for,
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you know, to go and how much here.
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Yeah, I will say, oh, you telling yourself brother.
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Yeah, I ended up losing a little bit.
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After the fact. But the one thing I did enjoy
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being at the book for the NCAA games was the live bag and I
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know you can live bet from your cell phone but being able to
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live bet in person and then walk up.
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It's just it's a more fun environment being around all
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those people watching the game because I'm not a college
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basketball fan. I watch during March Madness, I
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don't watch same with me other than like, occasionally, Marilyn
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games here and there, or good with Georgetown game because I
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supersize my car. Me on the gave me tickets or
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something but you know, it's just not something that I'm
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really into until this time of year happened.
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So to be able to watch with a bunch of other people and
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actually have like a horse in the race if you will.
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It just makes it a more fun experience, good food, good
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conversation. Great atmosphere.
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I mean you can't beat it man. And if any of our listeners want
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to go out there, how can they get ahold of you to meet them
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out there on Saturday? All they have to do is they can
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DME pretty much is the easiest thing to do whether Us on
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Twitter at rally captain or Instagram rally underscore
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captain, or a v v on Facebook. Really Captain fan page and DME
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and let me know how many people you want to bring.
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And that way, I can add you guys to the list and we good to go,
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that's nice. And if anyone makes it out
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there, send some pictures and let me know how the food is
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because I trust rallies taste all the food.
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But I also know my man a super positive, so I need to hear.
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Wow, that's what matters. Is a Grog because I can place it
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anywhere. I just need to know if my thumb
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is your full going out there? It's going to get fool.
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You like the food? I, well I'm sure I will.
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I've never turned down some good food that actually isn't overly
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priced, but what I'm hoping is, you know, maybe some of these
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new owners because we've got some new ownership news, might
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help improve some of the food inside the actual Stadium,
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because the latest on the sale is Magic Johnson Join the Josh
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Harris and Mitchell rails group as a part of that team.
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So magic is now part of that team, that's bidding on the
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commanders. And I'm not surprised because if
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anyone did their research, Josh Harris had magic on his team
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when he put in a bid for the Denver Broncos.
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So yes, you know, definitely not alarming.
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Knowing that magic tried to be a part of the Broncos ownership
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team and next You know, the Walmart owners came in and over
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did everybody. But the thing that is
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surprising. It also came out today.
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Another owner potentially came out and I'm going to butcher
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this guy's name. Steve a Pasta Palace, don't ask
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me say it again. Yeah.
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I mean I was a post-op Alice. Yeah, yeah.
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But you ever see that Vegas Vacation movie What I want,
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Chevy Chase, Vegas Vacation, okay.
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Actually go to Vegas and his son has a fake ID and it says Nick
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pappagiorgio. That's what I basically here.
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Whatever. I hear Steve's name
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pappagiorgio. Yeah because I can't pronounce
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op estoppel is so I'm just going to call him Steve pappagiorgio
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and we'll see what happens. Hopefully he doesn't buy the
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team in here this because I'll get pissed off and probably take
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some of my privileges away. But Adam schefter reported
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earlier today that he toured the facility Steve is the founder of
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a private Equity Venture fund from Canada.
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And he's the managing partner of a toronto-based commercial, real
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estate firm so he toured the facility a couple weeks back.
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We know that Josh Harris towards facility and I believe telling
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frittata tour the facility and a fourth person toured the
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facility but that person is still nameless at This time.
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So I'm waiting to see who that's going to be and whatever that
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comes out. But, you know, no idea if this
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guy's got enough cash, no idea how serious his bid is or what's
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going on, but hopefully, we're getting closer.
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And if I had a dollar for every text message, I got over this
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past weekend, I might be touring the facility saying.
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I'm going to put a bit on this team.
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Crazy. You hit me up.
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A bunch of other people sent me a couple messages back and
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forth. My DM's were blowing up and if
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you listen to this podcast you know what I'm talking about.
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Twitter went crazy about saying Josh Harris.
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Just bought the Commander's. Yeah, and I got a screenshot
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details. Haven't come out yet, but he
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bought it to stay tuned. I'm like, no, I'm not.
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That would that would that would make every news outlet and it
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was nowhere. So so when that happens you Got
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to just slow your roll and just just taking take a step back.
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There was, it was cracking me up because I firmly believe that
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it's going to be Josh Harris. That's okay, that group is going
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to be the one that's going to get the team based upon the fact
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that he brought rails in, you know, magic is joining them.
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He brings some credibility from that standpoint.
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The NFL is not shy about wanting to have minority owners so
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that's another notch in their cap and the fact that those guys
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combined have more money but Actually now too I guess hold
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off a bit from Bezos because we know spider doesn't want to, you
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know, do that. But some of the, I guess Twitter
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profiles that were setting this information now.
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And I'm looking at one right now and no offense to these guys.
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I don't know who they are. It could be some guy sitting in
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his mom's basement or some legit guy, but he's got 978 followers,
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right? My cat has more followers than
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this guy. And yeah, I started an Instagram
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and Twitter for Mike. That I'm that guy while he's got
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a blue checkmark and people not clicking on the guys, actual
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name don't notice that he's paying for his check more.
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And that's not to say that Joe Blows, like, you and me, can't
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break news. But the fact that this guy at
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that point, and a couple other, no-name people were yelling
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screaming up and down about Josh Harris this and that it's like,
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come on, guys. We like hey if it does happen
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nothing is finalized and we had AJ Perez talking about it.
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It still has to get ratified by 24 of the NFL owners.
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So until that happens, I'm not going to pop any champagne or go
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streaking down the streets of Northwest.
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You know, that's just I'm going to wait for the actual final
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sale to happen, but the bad news is according to Albert Briere
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and John chyme and a bunch of Legitimate reporters that I've
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trust and respect. Yes there is no vote, scheduled
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for next week's NFL owners meeting.
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That's all that's going to piss. A lot of people off.
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Yeah, that sucks. He really does and we were
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hoping each day but something happens and here we are well we
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wouldn't have that man. We've really been, you know
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waiting to see because all signs are pointing, this is going to
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happen and the earliest that it could potentially have happened
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for a vote. Would have been next week
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naturally and everything I'm seeing out there from all of
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these Different beat reporters that.
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I've trust saying, unless something drastically changes.
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Over the next 72 hours. Nothing is going to happen next
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week at the owners meeting the next meeting after that, is not
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until May May 22nd is the spring League meeting where the owners
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get together. So those of our listeners that
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don't get, in the weeds of all this the NFL owners meet, once a
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quarter, After that spring meeting their next meeting is
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not until October G, but let me ask, let me ask you this and
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What needs to actually happen? Does a guy need to come in and
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say, hey I've got six billion dollars, I got a six billion
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dollar check right here. Let's go ahead.
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Make this Vote or what type of wedding needs to actually be
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done because for, when the the owners owners do meet So
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basically Bank of America is handling the entire process and
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they're going to present a proposal to Dan and and say,
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okay this ownership group at that point in time whether it's,
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you know, Steve Papadopoulos or whether it's Josh Harris, and
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Mitch rails or timber for Tita. Say this guy's offering you this
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amount of money. These are when all the final
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bids are due, this is the final bid.
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Here you go. Which one do you want to go
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with? Dan's going to choose who he
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wants and it's probably going to be leaked out.
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Whoo Dan wants but he then has to take that to the NFL owners
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for a vote, so it's up to them at that point in time for the
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NFL owners to say. Yeah, we're good with it or no,
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we're not and he doesn't have to go to the highest bidder.
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He can go with whoever he wants to because he owns the team.
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The NFL owners could deny the actual bid and say, no, we don't
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want to do that to happen. Happen.
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And that's actually what happened.
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Originally, when Dan Snyder tried to buy the Redskins, his
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initial sale group got shot down and he came back again and bid
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again. And then ended up winning the
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team. So it wouldn't be the first time
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that the owners didn't agree now, just because they don't
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have a meeting scheduled until October after the main meetings
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doesn't mean that nothing is going to happen.
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So when the Broncos went up for sale last year, They didn't get
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any of the votes done during the NFL owners meetings, they
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actually called a special meeting in August.
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They had all the owners fly to the special meeting and then
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they voted on it then so okay. Don't hold it hope and just get
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all upset if it doesn't happen during the scheduled meetings
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that we've got going on because they could also call something
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special and it's right. And I guess what they also could
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do is instead of meeting In person, they could do a zoom
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call. I mean, it doesn't, you don't
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necessarily have to be in person.
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You don't have to be in person and that's been brought up on a
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couple of other radio programs podcast.
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I just, I see something like this where they want to, make
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sure all their eyes are dotted and T's are crossed their want.
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All these people in place because of how litigious certain
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people are in regards to the sale.
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This team I can just see them wanting to have everyone there
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and we all know Dan Got to private jets and everyone else
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does too. So, you know, they just send out
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the, you know, NFL bat signal and so everybody rally here,
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let's get together and let's get this thing over with, and for
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the fan base is sake. I hope it happened before the
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season starts. And yeah, there was an article
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that came out from the athletic, been standing from the athletic
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sent out this past weekend and if you guys haven't seen it, go
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check it out that The commanders have put a clause in players.
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Contracts order on pains contract, all these new guys
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that are coming on board, they put a clause in their contract.
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Delaying signing bonuses until May 12th.
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So this means Dan is not paying out those signing bonuses until
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May 12th or whoever owns the team May, 12 is going to be
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responsible for those big signing bonuses.
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So yeah, it would behoove him to to get it done before May?
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Okay, exactly. It's kind of like a hard day of
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line right there. Okay, I'm thinking that's a
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deadline that he kind of set up and organized, because he
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doesn't want to pay out the signing bonuses.
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He's not going to own The team. So why throw that money in when
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he's not going to get it back? Even though he's going to get
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billions. But he's no not going to get any
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value out of doing these signing bonuses.
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Well, I gotta have, I got to have fuel for my yacht.
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It's gotta do something. He probably can't get any more
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lines of credit, so, you know, got to figure out what's going
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on. But for those fans that are
19:37
worried, that this might not be, or it's getting, you know,
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kicked down the road too long. To me May 12th is Out of that
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Circle and putting on my calendar.
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Crossing my fingers that thing is going to get taken care of by
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then and then the owners will vote.
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And we just kind of go from there.
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Yeah, I think it's happening this season this spring if you
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will and then we go into training camp OTAs everything
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with a new owner and hey maybe it is the guy from Canada and
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maybe I'm serving poutine at every tailgate coming up this
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year. But he'd Americans don't know
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what that is. Man, it's gravy on top of fries.
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I want to ask you, have you been to Toronto for a Bills game?
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Did you ever go out there for again?
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Yes. Okay.
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Yes. Because I saw that Michael
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Phillips put a tweet out of London, Fletcher on our side,
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going up against Ryan, Fitzpatrick in Toronto.
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So it just made me wonder if you'd actually been out there
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for a game. Yeah, well see.
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When we play the bills, myself and Rodney Johnson, we drove his
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truck across the border. You have a kid who drove that
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thing all the way up there wasn't that far.
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That's okay, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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Okay. Let me timeout timeout.
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Rodney drove his truck from here to Buffalo.
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I flew. I'm spoiled if it's, if it's
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four hours or more, I fly. Now if it's up one of my bus
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trips to care, Allina or two, you know, Philly or New York, of
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course, I'll drive. But, you know, three-and-a-half
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to four hours is my limit, bro. Okay, so so yeah.
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But then we drove from Buffalo up to Canada and we had a good
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time and it was a good trip that sounds like I want to get out
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there for a game. Just all the international
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games. You know, I'm curious, I had a
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blast in London. We talked about what happened
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with Germany last year. Everything else It'd be nice to
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go to, you know, Mexico for a game, but yeah, it's, it'll be
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interesting. And you know, who knows who that
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fourth bitter is when that's going to get revealed, but I
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just thought it was kind of funny that Michael Phelps, put
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that out there. But when I saw this news come
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out man, I thought of you so cam Sims no longer here.
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Ended up going to Vegas to be reunited with Scott Turner you
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good, you, okay? Yeah, bro, you have any time?
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Simply Having a breakout year last year?
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We'll see. That's before I realized that
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they weren't gonna utilize the kid.
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I mean he can only do so much and I'm not sure if they weren't
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seeing it in practice or whatever the case may be.
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Or it could be the fact that he brought in some more talent that
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just I'll play them for the position.
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I honestly hope that he goes to Vegas and any balls out man.
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I really do. He's Got the intangibles.
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It's just a matter of getting him the ball.
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I will say that. He isn't the fastest guy you
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know and in this league speed matters.
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So I just I just know that camp had a lot of potential and
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that's what I saw the upside and it was just a matter of just
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just getting him more playing time but he almost turned into
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basically a great special team guy and I think they kind of put
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in by the wayside to play special teams.
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Yeah and he did do a good job on special teams, he played 33
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percent of snaps last year. It's to me there's a stigma in
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the NFL with some teams and some coaching staffs, if you're not,
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drafted your look down upon and you're not treated.
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Well, depending on, you know, draft status.
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Cam was undrafted in his five-year career, he had 57 104
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yards and three touchdowns, and whether it's a combination of
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the him, not Ballin Out at practice because we're not
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there. Yeah, we got to see training
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camp and he had some highlight catches.
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But there's a portion of practice that we all can't see.
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And the media can't see who knows how he did during play
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insulation, and things like that.
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But I also granted guys, like, cam aren't given a fair shot at
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times like the time of Joe Jacoby, being a nun.
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Drafted tackle coming to the Redskins and Ballin Out and
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winning Super Bowls, that just doesn't happen anymore, right
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guys? That slip through the draft, for
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whatever reason they've got to work.
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Two hundred percent versus the guy.
24:28
That was drafted in the third round, like d, Ami Brown, who
24:31
still hanging onto the nail this team that doesn't have to work
24:35
as hard because they invested in actual picking you and nobody
24:38
wants to be proven wrong. So yeah, I'm with you.
24:42
I hope he does well, out there in the I guess unless we play
24:47
him it was just kind of frustrating to see.
24:50
You did have a lot of town, he's got the body size, he just had a
24:53
couple of drops Mandarin. Key moments of drives that
24:58
killed us and it was frustrating to see because we got a bunch of
25:02
Smurfs out on the field. Cam's got some size to him and
25:05
it would have been nice if you could have actually caught on
25:07
here. I agree with you on that and
25:11
that's what I'm saying. And yes, he did drop the ball at
25:15
some inopportune times, but a lot of guys did wrong and maybe
25:22
they're trying to make right of the wrongs that he may have done
25:25
or any other guys. And we might see some changes
25:28
with these releasing. Some of these new guys are not
25:32
new. Guys are some of the older.
25:33
Guys, I'm very interested to see how this roster shapes up, you
25:40
know, after training camp and I know I'm putting the cart before
25:44
the horse. But I mean what else can we look
25:48
forward to? Yeah.
25:50
That mean new older and you know maybe a new fight song but
25:55
that's just me holding out hope because I can't stand the old
25:57
one. But now I mean we don't have a
26:00
ton right now and a new name. No, no, thank you.
26:07
All right, I don't want to say I don't want to name either man
26:10
but you know are you know, so you get these emails and
26:13
everyone tells you all these text messages, whatever have you
26:16
you know there's the possibility of a new name and you're like oh
26:20
man you know I don't think it's going to happen but you just
26:24
never know man. See the thing is go to all those
26:28
people's timelines on Twitter and I guarantee you. 90% of
26:33
those people are red wolves crowd.
26:37
It's that whole crowd. That's still butt hurt that they
26:41
didn't get the name red wolves and they have their HTT are
26:45
tattoos. Maybe your cross, her Knuckles,
26:48
or whatever it is, and they're just salty about that.
26:50
So they're hoping that it's going to go back or something's
26:53
going to change and I hate to break it to our list there's but
26:56
it's never going back to Redskins.
26:58
So snob jury went on that. There's zero chance especially
27:02
if you want the steam to come back to DC but that's over with
27:06
if whoever buys Is it decides to change it?
27:09
That's a huge investment to try and Rebrand again if we win
27:16
people aren't going to give a damn about what the hell this
27:18
team's name. It does.
27:20
Suck that we don't have a nickname.
27:22
We don't have a short name that, you know, multiple syllables.
27:27
How many times you will save the commies.
27:30
I love drives me crazy. You know, like the ders?
27:35
Yeah, something will. Naturally come out once we start
27:39
winning and things change you know, it will just like the
27:43
whole left hand up then came out of nowhere out of song that
27:47
people made fun of it first and then it got stuck in your head
27:50
so we'll see what happens. I just I know whatever.
27:55
If it does change, I'm still going to be there.
27:58
You're still going to be there, but I'm not buying a bunch of
28:01
stuff. I'm hoping praying that they
28:03
have a trade-in where I can give them old commanders gear and try
28:09
and you know, get some pennies to a dollar on that stuff
28:13
because it's just going to drive me crazy.
28:15
And I think I think they will lose some fans at that point
28:18
because now you're talking for names in what who I've sent
28:22
years, you know, I can't remember how long It's bad.
28:26
Yeah. Well, what thanks for sure when,
28:31
and if, and, when this new ownership takes place, I have a
28:37
feeling that thus home games will be sold out.
28:41
I really do there, a lot of people who are itching and I
28:44
told Jackie feeling this area itching to get back the FedEx
28:47
Field, even though it's a dump and I everything that you may
28:50
want to say about it, new ownership comes and people who
28:54
have been wanting to To spend money on the product will come
28:57
back because they just didn't want to spend a dime under Dan.
29:01
Yeah. But you didn't want to give Dad
29:02
money and I get that and I being filled to me is going to be
29:07
tough like that first game last year that Jaguars game was full
29:13
and I remember the sports junkies it's a station here in
29:16
the DC area guys are legends talking about it and I called
29:20
and talked to the guys and they asked how it wasn't a lots and
29:23
stands should. That's how Was this game.
29:26
But I guarantee you the next couple of games.
29:29
It's going to drop drastically to me.
29:30
It's like a movie on opening day and it gets all that hype and
29:36
people go. But then the week after that you
29:38
see the box office numbers, drop and drop and drop at a certain
29:42
point those fans that want to be there.
29:45
Just because DC is a, it's a town where you've got a bunch of
29:49
FrontRunner people that just want to be places.
29:51
I was at the Caps game last night.
29:53
They honored Alex Ovechkin? For having 802 goals, hardly
29:58
ticket to get in town, right? Place was packed by having lines
30:02
down the street and everyone just trying to get in because
30:03
they're giving away bobbleheads everything else.
30:05
No kid here in t.i., majority of those fans have not been to
30:09
games this year. They just wanted to go because
30:11
the Caps were hyping it up. Okay.
30:14
I'm going to opening day Nats. Baseball next Thursday, if any
30:18
of our listeners are going, hit me up.
30:20
I go to opening day every year for the past, you know.
30:23
However long since they've been Back in DC.
30:26
But after that that stadium is going to be empty and I feel
30:31
that that's going to kind of be the same thing with new
30:34
ownership coming on board to a degree because people aren't
30:39
just going to throw money down if we're not winning.
30:42
That's the key, that's the key. Well, I wilted well Ted I gotta
30:46
tell you bro, that's true to a degree.
30:50
And what I mean by that is Yes, people just necessarily won't
30:55
throw money down but they're going to be more invested now
31:00
that he's gone. So if we roll so I'll follow.
31:05
I'll say about I'll say about forty percent forty.
31:08
I'm going to be maybe 50%. You know, just because of the
31:13
sheer amount of people that we that we come in contact with,
31:16
we've talked to you in throughout my travels and
31:18
everything. So yeah, man, they they people
31:20
are ready. So when it happens, we won't be
31:24
surprised. No.
31:25
And, you know, hopefully get some new listeners.
31:27
I was actually looking at some metrics on the Pod, apparently,
31:31
65% of our listeners are listening on Apple podcast.
31:35
So I guess everybody's got an iPhone out there.
31:37
I'm an Android guy. Do me a favor and rally a Ever,
31:41
can you guys leave a review on Apple podcast for us?
31:44
Because it helps us out because I'm seeing that you guys are
31:46
listening on Apple. You can't see the screen there
31:49
but you guys are listening on Apple.
31:51
So help us out. But I hear you man and you know
31:54
it'll be nice to have some other fans back that have given up on
32:00
the team. It'll be nice to walk around
32:02
this city and not get into arguments about the team or not
32:08
wonder you know? Oh gosh.
32:11
I'm walking around town the other day going.
32:12
The Caps came and I had something commanders on and just
32:17
to get asked questions that have nothing to do about football.
32:20
It would be nice. Just the top football and I
32:23
can't wait but something that came out today.
32:27
I don't know if you saw this. The commanders are not renewing
32:32
the contract with NBC Sports Washington.
32:36
Yeah. So that is dying.
32:39
It's, it's going to be over. And it was kind of a mutual
32:43
agreement and I'm butchering exactly what it was.
32:46
But Matthew Parris, for the Washington Times had an article
32:49
on it today and there was a line on the article, the partnership
32:54
with ABC Sports is set to expire and NBC Sports Washington was
33:00
purchased by Monumental sports. That Ted leonsis owns Ted
33:05
leonsis for those who are listening in on the area.
33:07
Owns, the Washington Capitals are hockey team and the
33:10
Washington Wizards. So inside here, Monumental
33:13
decided to drop the Commander's after determining the proposed
33:17
agreement wouldn't have been a profitable deal for the network.
33:22
So this is according to a source familiar with the negotiations.
33:28
I don't know. That means is that mean that
33:30
Julie shows gone. Now, her show is going to exist,
33:34
but what's it going to be on to me?
33:36
This means that the pregame show were Jordan Giorgio with JP
33:41
Finley would be Mitch Santana Moss.
33:44
The postgame show that to me, means that those guys aren't
33:48
doing that anymore, and I got to assume they've got contracts
33:52
with NBC Sports Washington. So unconcerned as a fan what
33:56
this means for us, Because I don't watch the Commander's
34:00
pregame show, I think it's on YouTube, I almost don't want to
34:05
either. I mean you're at the game so I
34:08
know what you don't watch it but it's not on TV, right?
34:12
They don't have a radio broadcast ahead of time because
34:18
Doc's, not sure. They have a radio broadcast on
34:20
big 100 with Don Jeronimo and some other people.
34:24
But the actual pregame show is not broadcast on TV.
34:27
So if you want coverage, Which you go to NBC Sports World
34:30
Washington, I'm sorry, but I've got friends at work over at the
34:33
team but I don't go to them for coverage of the team.
34:37
If I want coverage of the team, I go to NBC Sports Washington on
34:41
it because I trust what be much as to say his paycheck isn't
34:45
being signed by Snyder. So I'm kind of frustrated about
34:50
this. I was curious how you felt when
34:52
that news came out. Well, as I said I don't really
34:56
know much about that. Because as you said, I'm at the
35:00
games so I'm at the games and the only the most that I get is
35:06
I listen to it telecast on the radio sometimes at games.
35:12
Yeah but that's not that's not them.
35:14
So I didn't even know that they I would always walk fast.
35:19
Julie Fred be Mitch out. I was watching what past and why
35:22
they're in the booths on the concourses rather it.
35:26
But obviously I'm at the Game. So I don't really know who
35:29
they're talking to. Yeah, that's it will be
35:34
interesting to see who gets the coverage.
35:37
What channel it's going to be on, if it's going to be on a
35:39
channel and how that's going to work.
35:41
Because, you know, some people, they love all their news from
35:47
the team. Me personally, as many heads
35:50
that we have talking about the team to keep it real and honest
35:55
in my eyes, the better because there's some times when other
36:00
that I don't want a name. Names because I know a bunch of
36:02
the people over there, not want to piss him off, but someone
36:06
over there will give a take about a player on our team.
36:10
Like he did a great job but completely missed the point of
36:14
the other 10 bad things he did. And if you're going to call it
36:17
one way to me, you gotta call it the other.
36:19
And the last thing we need is a fan base is voices that are
36:24
honest and true to be silenced and hey, it's all about money
36:28
for leonsis. Same thing for the Commander's.
36:31
Yeah. No, I get it.
36:32
I just hope that you know, JP Finley, be Mitch, you know, Pete
36:37
Haley. Like all those guys on NBC that.
36:39
We've watched over the years covering, they still get to
36:42
cover the team in some kind of capacity and we still get to
36:45
digest experience. Yeah.
36:47
And I think the other thing is from what you're saying, it
36:50
sounds like you had a lot of yes-man type of people so call
36:55
it the way it is the good in the bad and if when you have the
36:59
Yes, man, like you said Ed. It doesn't, it makes it gives
37:04
the highlights but doesn't give the lowlights and I mean, Larry
37:08
Michael had the skin tangibles, you know?
37:11
And I used to do that show and Larry I was on there every like
37:14
every week with him once a week talking and it's like if I'm
37:19
going to buy a car, like I was at the car dealership today
37:21
because I had a nail in my tire, right?
37:31
But if I'm looking to buy a car, I'm going to Motor Trend and car
37:36
and driver and like different websites that are unbiased to
37:42
get the details on this thing. I'm not going to forward to find
37:46
out what they think about the car that they made, right?
37:49
It's like just different stuff like that and to me that's how I
37:51
equate this to if the team is in charge other coverage than I
37:57
will listen to it. But no in the back of my mind.
38:01
Mind, take it with a grain of salt because there is an agenda
38:05
to a degree. Okay, so I got you.
38:08
I just to me the postgame show would be was must listen because
38:13
there were times when he just let him have it and rightfully
38:17
so mmm. But I hope as a fan base, we get
38:22
something. Whether it's fan-created like
38:25
the guys, from rep, the district, who stream their
38:28
actual watches of the game live on YouTube or whatever.
38:31
Maybe I just hope we get something that fills that void
38:35
where it's not just team coverage.
38:37
It's other people covering it as well.
38:41
Our fingers will be crossed and we've have time.
38:45
And I think that once we get solidify with new ownership and
38:51
we can snake our way through things to find out exactly where
38:55
we're going to be, you know, so don't don't don't panic just
38:57
yet, not not panicking, not panicking, but just, you know,
39:02
concerned in the last thing this week that Not concerns me but I
39:08
wanted to bring up is the commanders are now just shy of
39:13
three million dollars in cap space.
39:15
So they did a bunch of signings brought in a bunch of guys.
39:20
They still try to bring in a linebacker earlier this week who
39:23
ended up resigning with the brown so that didn't work out
39:26
for whatever reason. Oh yeah, but the problem is
39:31
going into the draft, they need not going into but they need two
39:35
and a half million dollars. To sign their draft picks, we
39:39
got 2.9 Million so I'm not holding my breath on us, making
39:45
any more free agent signings. Unless that means wind up,
39:50
cutting somebody and I never want to wish for someone to lose
39:53
her job and, you know, they've made some Cuts but there are
39:56
some vets on this roster that I think might be changing a phone
40:01
number hoping that they don't get that call for them to say,
40:04
hey, turn your playbook not going to be here next.
40:06
Here where it's going to be interesting to see.
40:09
And I'm with you on that based upon just how they play last
40:15
year. Let's let's be real.
40:16
Some didn't play as well as they needed to and you start getting
40:21
kind of long in the tooth. There's a younger guy.
40:24
Ready to take your spot a younger cheaper guy.
40:27
So we're going to see what happens when we got a lot of
40:29
time. Still we do there is a lot of
40:32
time going on just from a number of perspectives.
40:36
Give you know, I want us to improve the roster as much as we
40:39
possibly can and they save some money by signing drawn to that
40:43
long-term deal because his cap numbers now.
40:47
I think nine million or 10 million versus 18 so they free
40:50
up some space there which was great and drop him Carson.
40:53
But now we still got some holes to fill.
40:55
We still got a problem linebacker and some other spots.
40:58
So we going to address this through the draft.
41:01
I guess. We'll know in a month and see
41:03
what happens, but I wanted to close the show.
41:06
So out with did you see cam curls dad, what he put out there
41:10
this time? No.
41:13
If I'm cam, I'm sending my dad on an all-expense-paid cruise to
41:20
the middle of nowhere, so he doesn't have cell phone access.
41:23
So Cam's dead puppis out Greg curl tweeted saying my opinion,
41:29
and my opinion only, but I will find it.
41:31
Extremely disappointing and disrespectful.
41:35
If Washington asked 31 to play at the level.
41:38
He plays under a seventh round, rookie contract this year And
41:44
you just left it at that then I we were on record saying cam
41:49
needs to get extended do it now. The team typically does not
41:55
extend players until they're on the final year of their deal and
41:57
I'd get they did that with Terry last year but I say typically do
42:01
not doing that and cam as a seventh round.
42:04
Rookie has not made a ton of money, but what the NFL does
42:07
we're player contracts is he's going to get paid in the last
42:11
year of his deal. So I think he's set to make
42:12
three mil this But his dad just keep setting the stuff out there
42:16
man and I just I kind of hope for cam sake his pops tones it
42:20
down a little bit and I think I remember him tweeting something
42:23
about get out my pockets or something like that.
42:26
I think his dad might need to take a look at that sweet and
42:28
kind of girl from there but knowing that the Commander's
42:31
dollar situation is the way it is.
42:33
An extension isn't going to hurt them this year from a cat
42:36
perspective but it really would be nice for them to try and lock
42:40
him up. Now versus him testing the open.
42:43
Get next year because his dad was in his ear saying.
42:46
They don't love you. They don't want you, they didn't
42:47
extend you. Well, we also have seen what has
42:53
happened when parents get into the locker room and how that
42:57
turned out. So I'm with you.
43:00
Hey bro, let the players play you be a fan and a dad and watch
43:06
from afar. No doubt about it.
43:08
We want you to root for your kid but you can also hurt your kid,
43:13
so you care of kids potential, so, but hey man, that's going to
43:18
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