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  Speaker 1: You sus says they're gonna start out in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, So the wings of change. You can almost
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  Speaker 1: hear them blowing those winds of change in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: They're actually howling. They're not just blowing their howling the
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  Speaker 1: winds of change. And so I assume you've heard by now.
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  Speaker 1: I don't bear the lead. I didn't bear the lead.
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  Speaker 1: But my god, So if you didn't see this, maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: The Dallas mav Res putting the wreck in mav Reck
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  Speaker 1: have cranked up the old ray Charles hit hit the road,
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  Speaker 1: Jack or in this case, hit the road Nico, and
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  Speaker 1: they have said bye bye to Nico. Harrison nine months
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  Speaker 1: It's like they gave birth. Nine months after. He gave
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  Speaker 1: a donation of luka doncik to the charity in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: the Purple and Gold Charity on skid Row there in LA.
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  Speaker 1: So that move coming the day after, the day after
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  Speaker 1: the Mavrec owner, someone named named the Patrick Dumont, who
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  Speaker 1: was in the right place at the right time. Family
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  Speaker 1: money he I believe married into. Anyway, he attended the loss,
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  Speaker 1: the mav Res loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, and in
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  Speaker 1: that game, fans again doing the chanting fire hany go
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  Speaker 1: fire ko, just like that, a familiar chant ever since
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  Speaker 1: Harrison did the thing that everyone shook their head at
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  Speaker 1: and said, oh my god, what are we doing? He went,
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  Speaker 1: he went rogue, renegade, renegade man. And of course that
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. So let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question. I think the most interesting part of this
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  Speaker 1: is what does the Nico Harrison pink slip do for
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  Speaker 1: the mav Res fan base. So on this one, I've
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  Speaker 1: got commercial airline pilot eBay and President Obama, and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to make some text mechs, which is not as
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  Speaker 1: good as the traditional American Mexican food. But it's final
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  Speaker 1: text mex is okay whatever, all right. So a my
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  Speaker 1: word to answer the question what does the firing of
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  Speaker 1: Nico Harrison do to the fan base? My word is
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  Speaker 1: therapeutic obviously, right, healing wounds you have like a dog
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  Speaker 1: will come up to you if you have a cut
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  Speaker 1: on your leg and lick the wound. This is the
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  Speaker 1: licking of the wound is what this is here. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking about months and months of bottled up range, bottled
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  Speaker 1: up range, finally letting out that primal scream as the
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  Speaker 1: news came down into the void, as Nico Harrison is done, decommissioned,
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  Speaker 1: the fans doing the sports version of no justice, no peace.
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  Speaker 1: They gave it, got no justice, they gave no peace.
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  Speaker 1: They were bloodthirsty, they were on the war path, and
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  Speaker 1: sure enough, the day of reckoning has a arrived. And
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  Speaker 1: make no mistake about this, Nico Harrison was a self
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  Speaker 1: made man. He was self made man. He became because
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  Speaker 1: of the moves he made a basketball anti Christ in Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations Nico, way to go, buddy. Now he does have
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  Speaker 1: some friends in the media. I've seen a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: people trying to defend Nico Harrison's Oh, it's not all
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  Speaker 1: on him, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. See, the thing is, it's
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  Speaker 1: not just the Luca tree. There's other stuff involved in this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the Luca trade was not all him, but there's other
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  Speaker 1: layers to the cake. So there's other stuff going on here.
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  Speaker 1: But the rhythmic chanting fire Nico fire, Nico was louder
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  Speaker 1: than the defensive chance. You know how you go to
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  Speaker 1: an NBA game, if you ever been to one, and
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  Speaker 1: there's always at some point and the rhythmic chant of defense,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that kind of it was louder. He provided
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  Speaker 1: Nico Harrison the voodoo bugaloo. He provided that front office
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  Speaker 1: malfeasans by Nico Harrison's hubris. That's the price, the right
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  Speaker 1: word there. He took a team that, granted it was
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a fluke run, but they had been
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA Finals, Dallas against the Celtics, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I don't like that, eh, eh No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that. And so they're in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals, got smoked by the Celtics, and he's let's
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  Speaker 1: turn this into the NBA's version of a staled economy. Okay, fine,
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  Speaker 1: will vaporize anything good that ever happened while I was
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  Speaker 1: the executive in Dallas. Check that box. And as the
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  Speaker 1: saying goes as the saying goes there, you can be
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  Speaker 1: a commercial airline pilot, one of the great pilots. You
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  Speaker 1: can have thousands of thousands of hours in the sky
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  Speaker 1: and land every single plane, do a tremendous job on
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  Speaker 1: time pilot. However, if you crash one of those planes,
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  Speaker 1: they're not talking about all the planes that you landed,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Okay, anyway, you're remembered for
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  Speaker 1: something else. But Nico did the thing you can't do
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  Speaker 1: at the time. You can't do it. And everyone knows
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  Speaker 1: that you're supposed to build on a championship team, build
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  Speaker 1: up an empire. In that era. You don't go in
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  Speaker 1: there and torch it. You don't do that and gutting
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  Speaker 1: whatever was there there was not there there at that
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  Speaker 1: particular point. And so the Luca things won part of it,
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  Speaker 1: obviously the biggest part of it, but he also fired
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  Speaker 1: some popular people behind the scenes support staff with the Mavericks.
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  Speaker 1: There was a story that has been well publicized about
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  Speaker 1: a long time staffer for the Mavericks who was in
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  Speaker 1: the training staff that got let go. Loyal people, loyal
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  Speaker 1: foot soldiers for the Dallas Mavericks who got let go.
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  Speaker 1: You can't treat people like that and expect that the
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  Speaker 1: basketball gods are going to blame. So this was a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a karmic correction, as our astrology insider Andrea
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  Speaker 1: would say. And I know there's a cosmic event going
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  Speaker 1: on right now, but they sent Nico Harrison straight to
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  Speaker 1: the hoops. Who's goal is what they did. They're finally
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  Speaker 1: some peace in Dallas now. Page two. Continuing the theme here,
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  Speaker 1: continuing the theme. So the the other question that's on
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  Speaker 1: the tip of my tongue here, how much blame for
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  Speaker 1: the Luka Doncik trade does the Mavericks owner, this guy
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Dumont, how much does he deserve backing Nico Harrison
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  Speaker 1: in the Luca Boner, the blunder, the blooper, however you
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  Speaker 1: want to call it, whatever b word, blunder, blooper, boner,
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  Speaker 1: all good words, all good descriptive words. They all work.
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  Speaker 1: So on the Malard scale of blame, the Malar scale
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  Speaker 1: of blame. The owner gets sixty percent, sixty percent, Harrison
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  Speaker 1: gets forty percent. And here's why, all right, the owner
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  Speaker 1: always has final edit. It's like when you make a movie.
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  Speaker 1: You hire the greatest people to make the movie you
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  Speaker 1: can possibly make, but ultimately there's one person that has
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  Speaker 1: the final edit, final cut, and that's the person that
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  Speaker 1: decides what's actually in the movie and what's not in
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  Speaker 1: the movie. And so they could have, as ownership should have,
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  Speaker 1: would have hit the kill switch on the Luca trade,
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  Speaker 1: could have stopped it, but didn't. So this wasn't Again,
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  Speaker 1: this was not just a rogue GM running around in
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  Speaker 1: the dark. You can trade a lot of players without
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  Speaker 1: ownership signing off of it. You cannot trade the face
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  Speaker 1: of the franchise. You're not gonna be able to do that.
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  Speaker 1: So Dumont, if you look at it, he either rubber
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  Speaker 1: stamped the trade and said, okay, Mazata I support this.
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  Speaker 1: He encouraged it. But that's bad also, or he was
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  Speaker 1: just asleep at the switch. What else is there? Is
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  Speaker 1: there anything else? Is so Niko or Harrison? Yeah, he
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  Speaker 1: might have lit the match. He might have lit the
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  Speaker 1: match there. But Patrick Dumont, the guy that's the owner
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  Speaker 1: of the Mavericks there, he's the one that owned the warehouse.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I have no skin in the game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't And you know we're on in Dallas and
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  Speaker 1: we you know, I got a few people that are
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  Speaker 1: contributed to I know a lot of people listening, but
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  Speaker 1: they very rarely call in. And I wouldn't call in
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  Speaker 1: right now if as a Dallas sports fan either, because
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  Speaker 1: of how pathetic things are. But that said, like the
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  Speaker 1: vision I had for this, this trade insurance, fraud, insurance,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. No, you feel me on
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  Speaker 1: that insuran? Let me explain. So you hear those insurance scams,
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  Speaker 1: It's like the Mavericks just torched their own warehouse to
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  Speaker 1: collect an insurance payout. I'm like, eh, yeah, imagine in
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  Speaker 1: the cartoon bubble, You've got the owner of the Mavericks
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  Speaker 1: and Niko standing side by side with matching cans of
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  Speaker 1: unleaded gasoline and pretending like they don't smell the smoke
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  Speaker 1: that's billowing up from the fire. Oh no, how did
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  Speaker 1: this happen? Oh my hey, hey, dummy, you lit the match? Dummy? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're the one that did that. So this was not
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  Speaker 1: a basketball decision. It was basketball arson, is what it was.
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  Speaker 1: And they burned down the mansion that Luca was living
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  Speaker 1: in for the insurance payout. And now they're sifting through
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  Speaker 1: the rubble and the ashes, and it's like then they
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  Speaker 1: have the hoodspot to say the owners like, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we regret, we regret this. Oh really, well, isn't that
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  Speaker 1: convenient you regret it? Okay, so you don't accidentally trade
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  Speaker 1: a player like you just don't. You don't trade up
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  Speaker 1: player of that ilk. That does not happen, and so
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  Speaker 1: you don't trade them for a brittle bag of bones,
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  Speaker 1: which is what you did. Whose legs have the shelf
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  Speaker 1: life of cottage cheese. You did that. You're the ones
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  Speaker 1: that took that bounty back, and so listen. It's intentional negligence,
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. And after months of the rhetoric
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  Speaker 1: being from the maverage, will Nico, we trust in Nico,
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  Speaker 1: we trust the rhetoric, suddenly, oh you know that was
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  Speaker 1: a mistake, but I really screwed that one up man.
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  Speaker 1: Bad job by us. Yeah no kidding, no kidding, pal
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  Speaker 1: My God. Now, visionist history for sure, considering what's been
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  Speaker 1: going on. Not a full year, but close enough, close
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  Speaker 1: enough has happened in February. Now we're in mid mid November. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The worst part, it keeps getting worse. It's like how
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  Speaker 1: low can you go? The worst part is they didn't
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  Speaker 1: even shop like that's the part. It's one thing as well,
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  Speaker 1: you shouldn't trade them, Yeah, you shouldn't trade them if
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna trade him, Okay, there's ways to do this right.
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  Speaker 1: There are there are layers to this as well. There
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  Speaker 1: are ways to do this. You didn't do it right.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't put him on the auctioning block and say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: what can we what can we get for this I
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  Speaker 1: they didn't test the market. They should have put Luca
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  Speaker 1: on eBay and said, okay, we've got Luca right here.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna put him up for bid. Opening bid is
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  Speaker 1: seven first round draft picks and a young star player.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we want. That's oh, that's the the opening bid.
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  Speaker 1: The buy now bid is nine first round draft picks
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  Speaker 1: and three young star players. That's the buy now bid.
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  Speaker 1: And they didn't do it, and you conceivably would have
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  Speaker 1: gotten a bidding war between teams like the Warriors. The Knicks,
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  Speaker 1: the Celtics teams like that. So this becomes high crimes
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  Speaker 1: and misdemeanors for good old Nico There and Nico Harrison.
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  Speaker 1: If this was like the military, he'd be court martialed
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  Speaker 1: and basketball treason, basketball treason. Hand delivering Luka Doncik with
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  Speaker 1: the help of the owner. There a generational player, an
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  Speaker 1: MVP caliber player, and you just handed him to the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers for a guy literally nicknamed street clothes because he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't like playing basketball. The only thing that would have
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  Speaker 1: been as good as that trade would have been if
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  Speaker 1: they traded for Kawhi Leonard, who also doesn't like playing basketball.
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  Speaker 1: They somehow missed that one. I'm surprised they didn't get
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  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard in return in that trade as well. My god,
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  Speaker 1: So this deal was so bad? How bad was it?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for asking? It was so bad that you've got
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theories saying that the Mavericks made this move. The
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks made this move intentionally as an act like the
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  Speaker 1: movie Major League They Tank. They wanted to relocate the franchise,
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  Speaker 1: and they did this on purpose. They want to move
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  Speaker 1: the team to Sin City, Lost Wages, Nevada there and
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  Speaker 1: it seems outrageous to something. It wouldn't shock me if
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  Speaker 1: that was somewhere in the decision making process. It would
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  Speaker 1: not shock me. You follow the money. They're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get some casino stuff in Texas, and there's some bureaucracy
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  Speaker 1: involved in that, as I understand it. And so cash
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  Speaker 1: is always the king, and those bright neon lights and
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  Speaker 1: lost wages. Nevada. You've got this new toy, the billionaire's
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  Speaker 1: toy here, and so the matters listen, they can fire
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  Speaker 1: Nico Harrison. They fired Nico Harrison. However, you can't wash
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  Speaker 1: off the stain. You ever had an accident with oil
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  Speaker 1: and you get oil on your clothes and you can't
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the oil stain. Now, this is worse
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  Speaker 1: than that, is Nico Harrison, and that was on his
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  Speaker 1: watch and the owner signed off on it. But man alive.
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  Speaker 1: Way all right? Now, last word, we continue our in
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  Speaker 1: depth team coverage on the fallout of the firing of
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  Speaker 1: Nico Harrison as he was removed of his duties. So question,
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  Speaker 1: should let's go like this, So should the Lakers send
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  Speaker 1: the Mavericks a thank you note for the lucidantic trade?
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  Speaker 1: Now that Nico Harrison has been whacked, given the guillotine.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go no way on a thank you note.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe the Lakers should send a thank you note.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's that's the right way to handle this.
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  Speaker 1: That would be amateur. I think they should hand deliver
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  Speaker 1: this to Nico because he's not working for the Mavericks.
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  Speaker 1: So just hand delivered it to Nico Harrison and give
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  Speaker 1: him a swag bag, give him some ugly purple and
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  Speaker 1: gold polos, give him some of that crap, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Laker sunglasses that are overpriced and crappy and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And lifetime pass. How about this, If he ever wants
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  Speaker 1: to travel with the Lakers on the road as a fanboy,
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  Speaker 1: Nico can fly on the team plane for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of his life. Who says no. Nico essentially gave a
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  Speaker 1: franchise that was on death doorstep, gave them a stimulus package.
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  Speaker 1: He did. He went President Obama bailing out the auto
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  Speaker 1: industry or the banking industry, right and government style bailout here.
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  Speaker 1: You got boys, things are not goa. You have the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: And this is an underrated part of this this story.
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  Speaker 1: The Lakers were circling the drain. Lebron's starting to show
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  Speaker 1: that he was old. He certainly had. Has he played
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  Speaker 1: and played this year he's old or there's other some
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theories. I'm not going to get to that now
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  Speaker 1: about Lebron. I do enjoy a good conspiracy. But he's
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  Speaker 1: not playing. Whether whether there's something off the court or
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  Speaker 1: whether that's a basketball injury, he's not playing. There's also
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  Speaker 1: the possibilities just load management, and they don't want to
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  Speaker 1: call it that, so they came up with a fugazy
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  Speaker 1: injury and these whatever. That's fine, but Lebron's not playing.
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  Speaker 1: He's not available. Anthony Davis is made of paper mache,
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  Speaker 1: as we've seen with the Mavericks. And then out of nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: Luca parachutes in into the jungle like he's on a
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  Speaker 1: rescue copter to save the day. And so they should
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  Speaker 1: forget a swag back. They should build a statue, a
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  Speaker 1: Nico Harrison statue right next to Jerry West, the two
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  Speaker 1: great executives in Laker history right there, skid Row Bronze
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  Speaker 1: baby right there and skid Row. So all the homeless
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  Speaker 1: can urinate right on that statue right there. For the
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  Speaker 1: Maverick fans, they could do it, and hey, throw flowers
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  Speaker 1: and chocolates in there if you want, you can do that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, flowers from the heart of course, and the
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  Speaker 1: chocolates say we love you for saving the TV ratings
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  Speaker 1: and saving the franchise and all that. So one sided,
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  Speaker 1: the trade, so one sided. You think Vince McMahon, I
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  Speaker 1: know he's fallen out of polite society, but you think, like,
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  Speaker 1: Vince McMahon is back, and he's like running the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: is like the shadow commissioner of the NBA, and que
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  Speaker 1: that entrance music and the dramatic entrance music, and Luca
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  Speaker 1: walks in the rating spike. Everyone's back watching, which is
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily true, but it's a WWE style move. It's
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  Speaker 1: a ww style move. Dallas face plants, the Lakers rise
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  Speaker 1: from the Ashes, and Nico Harrison, the unwitting, unwitting tag
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  Speaker 1: team partner who handed them the belt. There you go,
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  Speaker 1: fade to black. They should retire his number, well, he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have a number. They should retire number one is
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  Speaker 1: what they should do. They should retire number one because
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  Speaker 1: that is a number one blender in the social media
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  Speaker 1: ere Be.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's Rob Parker and Calvin Washington from The Odd
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  Speaker 1: and subscribe. So we mentioned the famous line from the
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  Speaker 1: late Michael Ray Richardson who said the ship be sinking,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's the cheese be Melton, which is what
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  Speaker 1: they're saying now in Green Bay. That is our lead
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  Speaker 1: this hour. The fallout from the offensive stinkfest that took place,
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  Speaker 1: said limbau Field, and a lot of noise. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of chatter, have you heard it? No some chatter
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  Speaker 1: bouncing around the pinball machine of NFL conversation. And if
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  Speaker 1: you have not been paying attention, pires, there's a pack
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  Speaker 1: of wolves, not timberwolves, but wolves that are howling at
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  Speaker 1: the moon, and that is not a good sign for
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  Speaker 1: coach Matt LeFleur and his job status. Now, that's some
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  Speaker 1: of the fallout from a Packer team that only scored once.
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  Speaker 1: That's it against the Philadelphia Eagles. One score, missed a
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  Speaker 1: sixty plus yard field goal that would have tied the
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  Speaker 1: game at the end, another clunky home loss. The Packers
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  Speaker 1: have now lost back to back games in the soon
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  Speaker 1: to be not quite yet soon to be frozen tundra.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question it is Packer coach Matt Leffleur skating
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  Speaker 1: on thin ice? Is he skating on thin ice? Or
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  Speaker 1: are people overreacting to a random loss at the end
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  Speaker 1: of week ten in the NFL. So my observations on this.
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  Speaker 1: I've got gluten free costco, rotisserie chicken, and Gulfstream and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to make some delicious movie theater popcorn with
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  Speaker 1: extra butter, extra butter and salt right on top. There.
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  Speaker 1: So number number, It is true. It is true that
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  Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur has not done a good job this season.
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  Speaker 1: Let's establish that as our baseline. Every man, woman, and
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  Speaker 1: child knows that the Packers had high expectations when they
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  Speaker 1: got Micah Parsons that this was going to be a
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  Speaker 1: championship team. It doesn't look like a championship team. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't play like a champion team. It doesn't appear that
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  Speaker 1: they will ever get to that point. Based on what
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  Speaker 1: we've seen. They're serving up undercooked brought worst. If you've
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  Speaker 1: ever had an undercooked brought worst, it's not very appetizing,
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  Speaker 1: and you pay the price later you do. Regardless of
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  Speaker 1: that being said, the arrow is pointing towards overreacting in
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  Speaker 1: terms of I'm worried about today's moment in the show.
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  Speaker 1: I have to the show here overnight, and is there
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  Speaker 1: any kind of immediate danger, stranger danger that Matt Lafleur
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  Speaker 1: is going to end up getting whacked as coach. I
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  Speaker 1: don't see it. And the reason I don't see it
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  Speaker 1: two words, green Bay. That's it right. There's no Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones figure doing seven radio shows a week breathing fire. No,
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  Speaker 1: that does not exist. There's no owner that. They don't
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  Speaker 1: have an owner calling radio shows. They don't have an owner.
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  Speaker 1: They're owned by a committee that never goes well, right,
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  Speaker 1: A committee of foam loving cheeseheads. In fact, I know
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  Speaker 1: one of the Green Bay Packer I don't know a
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  Speaker 1: couple of packer owners here. One of them works here
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  Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio. Also, Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield,
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  Speaker 1: who's a friend and he's a big shot. He brought
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  Speaker 1: the show to Baker's Field because he owns the Green
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  Speaker 1: Bay Packers. So Rod's got a lot of money and that.
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  Speaker 1: But there's over five hundred thousand I say this in
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  Speaker 1: air quotes owners of the Green Bay Packers. There's over
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  Speaker 1: five hundred thousand shareholders of the packers. Not one of them,
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  Speaker 1: not Rod the Ambassador, the other people I know that
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  Speaker 1: have purchased stock in the packers. None of them have
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  Speaker 1: the power to say bye bye to the head coach.
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  Speaker 1: Cannot do it, can actually fire the guy. You can't
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  Speaker 1: do it. There's no pressure cooker. It's just a slow cooker.
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  Speaker 1: That's all they have. There's a little slow cooker there
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  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin and La flours record. It's one of these things.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a low information fan, the dumb fan, he said, ah,
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  Speaker 1: what are you target? I said, A great record, that's
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing overnights. You just trying, you're just trying
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  Speaker 1: to get content. Yeah, that kind of But if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the record, he's seventy two and thirty six
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  Speaker 1: during the regular season, six sixty five winning percentage, I'm
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  Speaker 1: told is good. I'm told that's pretty good. However, when
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  Speaker 1: it counts, there have been eight playoff games, and his
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, Matt Lafuur's Green Bay Packers are three
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  Speaker 1: and five. So if you use the malor math, that's
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  Speaker 1: not cutting it right. Lafleur is basically a gluten free
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  Speaker 1: version of the guy they got rid of, Mike McCarthy.
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  Speaker 1: It's like he's he looks better on television than the
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  Speaker 1: chubby Mike McCarthy. The results are about the same. A
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  Speaker 1: regular season contender and a playoff pretender that's the Green
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  Speaker 1: Bay Packers, And so he's like a fit version of
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  Speaker 1: Big Mac. You know, it's well, you know, I'm healthy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need any sauce. Now, I don't need this. Well, okay,
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  Speaker 1: but the sauce is part of it. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: need the sauce. Well, I don't need you know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't even need the bread. Well, even though the bread
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  Speaker 1: that's the big Mac. You take the bread away. It's
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  Speaker 1: just two patties and there's no piece of bread in
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  Speaker 1: the middle. But I don't need that. It's all showed,
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  Speaker 1: no sauce. That's the green Bay Packers under mister Lafleur.
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  Speaker 1: That the bigger issue here, and this is what ultimately
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  Speaker 1: will likely get him to leave the sidelines in green Bay.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Here get excommunicated from the Church of lambeau Field. And
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  Speaker 1: that would be the quarterback Jordan Love. He said, what
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  Speaker 1: what kind of cheese is he is? He is he
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  Speaker 1: a cheddar cheese? He's a mozzarella cheese. What kind of
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  Speaker 1: Well at this point, he's cheese fondue is what he is.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Love was supposed to be a breakout year again.
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  Speaker 1: They went out, got Michael Parsons, a good defense, blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. And what they've gotten from Jordan Love.
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  Speaker 1: He's what I call a fifty to fifty raffle quarterback. Now,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: what is a fifty fifth raffle? Well, how you're fifty
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  Speaker 1: to fifty raff will you split the money down the middle? Well,
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Love, you split the performances about half the time.
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  Speaker 1: He's pretty good and about half the time he sucks.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, right, Either win a National TV game or
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  Speaker 1: I guess they tied the Dallas Cowboys. He played well
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  Speaker 1: in that game, relatively speaking. So you win a game,
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  Speaker 1: or you get a ten percent off coupon for cheese
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  Speaker 1: Kurds at Culver's. Congratulations on that. So Jordan Love is
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  Speaker 1: a stat sheet warrior. He's a warrior, n Golden State Warrior,
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  Speaker 1: a stat sheet warrior, top ten quarterback if you go
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  Speaker 1: by the Trusty quarterback rating in the NFL. And I
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  Speaker 1: know you say a prayer every night or every morning
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: to the quarterback rating, but Jordan Love is technically a
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  Speaker 1: top ten quarterback in the NFL. He's also looking up
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  Speaker 1: at the tukis of the Chicago Bears and the tukis
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  Speaker 1: of the Detroit Lions in the division. So so top
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  Speaker 1: ten quarterback based on the numbers. And yet when you
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  Speaker 1: actually watch him play a lot of the time when
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  Speaker 1: you're watching him, it's it's like the difference between reading
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  Speaker 1: sheet music. You read sheet music and then hearing the song.
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  Speaker 1: You'd much rather hear the song than read the music.
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  Speaker 1: You much rather do that. And so that's that's the
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  Speaker 1: Packers to a t that fits him to a t
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  Speaker 1: because he got pretty numbers, and yet music is kind
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  Speaker 1: of flat, and you got some world class, world renowned musicians,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: but they just got a little something missing. There's something
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  Speaker 1: that's not quite right there. And again, he's got the
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  Speaker 1: resume I'm talking about Matt Lafleur. He's got the resume
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  Speaker 1: of a guy, not the guy, but a guy who
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  Speaker 1: will be remembered for one thing, winning a lot of
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  Speaker 1: regular season games and then bombing out, bomb bomb baby
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs because that's the talent. So you've got
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  Speaker 1: the beauty contest of the regular season and then in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason you've got the talent show and there's just
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  Speaker 1: apparently not enough talent there, all right, So well, again,
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  Speaker 1: he's not today, he's not on thin eyes. We can
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  Speaker 1: revisit this at the end of the season and the
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  Speaker 1: lake is starting to crack a little bit, starting to
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  Speaker 1: crack a little bit. And remember, listen, the packers just
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  Speaker 1: did something they don't normally do. That is not a
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  Speaker 1: normal packer moved to trade for Micah Parsons and then
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  Speaker 1: pay him a scene amount of money. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: tade multiple picks away because you think you're going to
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  Speaker 1: have a championship team. No one looks all that great
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. They don't all right. Meanwhile, speaking of
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  Speaker 1: not looking all that great, we head to the Big Apple,
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  Speaker 1: the Garden State. Well, actually it's actually the Guarden State,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: not the Big Apple, because Florham Park, New Jersey, is
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: where the Jets facility is in Jersey, Baby, not the
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  Speaker 1: Jersey Shore. But that is where Jets coach Aaron Glenn.
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  Speaker 1: Things are not going particularly well. Aaron Glenn's trying to
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  Speaker 1: swim against the current. He's being second guest. Hard to
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  Speaker 1: believe football media would second guess the head coach of
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  Speaker 1: a bad football team. But here we are, so he
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  Speaker 1: became Aaron Glenn A turtle. What kind of turtle? A
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  Speaker 1: snapping turtle, that's right, he snapped. Now. At his news
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  Speaker 1: conference in the last news cycle here, Aaron Glenn was
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: asked about a recent report that the Jets beat reporter
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Rich Samini, longtime beat reporter for the Jets at various
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: outlets in New York, that he reported star wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson would be out three to four weeks because
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: of a knee injury. So that was his report. Well, Glenn,
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  Speaker 1: I guess he didn't like that reporting. I don't know,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: because it was right, he didn't like it. The Jets
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  Speaker 1: played the Patriots in the Thursday night game and that
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: led to a very awkward exchange. This is Aaron Glenn,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: who's the face of an NFL franchise worth What are
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the Jets worths? Five billion, six billions? Something like that?
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Believe it or not. Because they're in the right place, location, location, location.
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  Speaker 1: So here's Aaron Glenn and listen to the interaction. We
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  Speaker 1: have the audio here. Here's Aaron Glenn with the the
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  Speaker 1: media in New York. Take a list. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: to pass on talking about injuries since you're Rich, He's
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  Speaker 1: not here has all the answers, so you can got
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  Speaker 1: some get all the injuries from Rich. So I go
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  Speaker 1: right into the hill game candid form I or is
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  Speaker 1: that not something you want to ask Rich? Well, I'm
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: telling you that's Rich Well you better call him. No
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  Speaker 1: disrespect to you or Rich. But like, we want to
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  Speaker 1: hear from you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you guys have been here.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: You guys have been hearing from me. But now since
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  Speaker 1: we're just reporting stuff you know that I haven't said,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: then maybe you should ask you thanks everybody. See, all right,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: there you go. So he repeatedly deferred all questions regarding
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  Speaker 1: injuries to a beat reporter who wasn't even in the building.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me the report was right without telling me the
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  Speaker 1: report was right. Why would you be upset if it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't right? All right? So, how are things going? Here's
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  Speaker 1: the question? How are things going for Aaron Glenn and
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  Speaker 1: his tenure with a j e tes suck sucks suck. Hey,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the Jets are on a burner. As the kids said,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: they won a couple of games in a row. So
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: holy catfish Batman, this is Aaron Glenn pulled the ad
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  Speaker 1: I do ask Ben on social media, we do it
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  Speaker 1: on the radio show. He pulled the ask Rich card
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  Speaker 1: from the bottom of the deck. Just ask Rich Samini.
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  Speaker 1: He played it like he's like a high school kid
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  Speaker 1: caught cheating on a test. But it's Rich's fault. I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't cheat. It was Rich's fault. It was richest
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: idea blame ask Rich. That's so great, dude. You're the
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  Speaker 1: head coach. Dude, what are you doing? You own the information. Hey,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: it's great talk radio. I'm happy that you're bad at
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: your job. Interacting with the media. It's good for my business.
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  Speaker 1: But seriously, take a couple of steps back. That is
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  Speaker 1: literally one of the main pillars of your job is
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  Speaker 1: to deal with the media, and that's how you do it.
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  Speaker 1: Totally unhinged. Totally unhinged. Now I hear a lot of
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  Speaker 1: I don't hear. I'm gonna check that. I don't hear
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  Speaker 1: a lot. I've heard some defense of Aaron Glenn saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick did it for twenty years with the Patriots,
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  Speaker 1: and look at all the rings that he won. So
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn's just copying Bill Belichick and all that stuff. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, that's fine. I believe I'm not mistaken. The
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  Speaker 1: Jets have two regular season wins are the twenty ninth
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  Speaker 1: team and the thirty two team NFL. And the thing
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  Speaker 1: that people forget because time goes on, time marches on,
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  Speaker 1: and people don't often look back. Why would you move on?
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  Speaker 1: And you live your life. But there are some that
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: are too young. Bill belichick coaching team called the Brons.
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  Speaker 1: They're bad. They're bad. But believe it or not, Belichick
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  Speaker 1: was at one point somewhat rdil with the media. Now
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: give me you an example of that. There's a video
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: that pops up usually once a year, of Bill Belichick,
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  Speaker 1: young lad coaching the Cleveland Browns back way way way
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  Speaker 1: way back in the nineties. Oh my god, he's coaching
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns and a local Cleveland comedian did a
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: comedy bit with Bill Belichick where they made his mom's
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: peanut butter and jelly sandwich and Belichick played alone. He
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: played along. That was Belichick being Lucy goosey with the media.
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  Speaker 1: And it's still on YouTube. It pops up every year
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  Speaker 1: or every other year or whatever. So as a rule
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  Speaker 1: of thumb, you can hate the media, you can despise
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the media, you can think the media is the worst
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: thing in the world. However, the media versus me, we've
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: seen that play out never ends well. That routine does
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: not end well. And you know it, and I know it.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: It's a battle you cannot win. Cannot know it. Name
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  Speaker 1: me one unproven first year coach who decided to pick
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: a fight with the local media and a real media town,
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  Speaker 1: not only like La there's like nobody that it's all fanboys,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: but in a real media town, all right, that would
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: have survived. I'll wait and I'll give out the number
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  Speaker 1: eight seven seven ninety nine on five. I don't think
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: it's happened. I don't remember, so Aaron Glenn the I
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: guess he missed class the day when they went over
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: the fact that all right, so you're supposed to show
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: up the class and attention all students there, all the
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: students in the class. There. You can catch more flies
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: with honey than vinegar. Aaron Glenn's like, I don't need honey,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I don't want honey. I love vinegar. Give me the vinegar.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: And so he just decided, I'm gonna turn every one
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: of these news conferences into a bubble bath. No water,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: all vinegar, a vinegar bubble bath. Yep, that's right. Good times.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I should have used the old odorant line. I'd never
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: let never let him see a sweatmember that line of
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: old line there, never let him see a sweat, great
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: marketing term. And and there's there's Aaron Glenn is like
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: a Costco chicken, Uh, the the rotisserie chicken from Costco,
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  Speaker 1: glistening with sweat and uh, full on Jersey car wreck
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  Speaker 1: on the Jersey Turnpike. As Aaron Glenn, he's doing the limbo,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: doing the limbo. How low. Can you go somewhat lower
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: than the Jets win total? Which is that's how low?
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Pretty low? Pretty low? All right, final point to Jacksonville.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: We go do all Coty the Jaguars rookie wide receiver
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: and defensive back. Rookie wide receiver defensive back Travis Hunter.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: We found out I was gonna miss the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the year. Nada la da da la da. Good bye
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  Speaker 1: see lad, he's out. Snap crackle pop the injury. Knee surgery,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: right knee, bye bye, bye bye baby. He's all right.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: That sucks now. He suffered a non contact injury, which
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: means the leg just gave out. The leg just gave out.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Happened during practice on Halloween. Spooky. Now, Hunter's knee ligaments.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: We didn't see them. We hear they look like that
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: kind of shredded, like pulled pork. His knee ligaments there,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: and so this is his maiden voyage is now done.
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  Speaker 1: They popped the bottle of champagne. He went out there
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: and played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and that was it there.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: He ended up playing sixty seven percent of the offensive snaps.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Thirty six percent. That's less than forty my computer like
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  Speaker 1: brain tells me of the defensive snaps, and then the
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: injury happened. So the question now that Travis Hunter is
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: dun Skies for his rookie season, it's all over in Jacksonville.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Did he live up to the hype? Did he live
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: up to the hype? And the answer is, in nec situation,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: not even close, not even This was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: Prime Time two point zero, the reincarnation. Instead it was
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the two ways to nothing is what it was here,
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  Speaker 1: because in the end you had a whole lot of nothing,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: a whole lot of it. Couple one hundred yards receiving
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: a couple of hundred yards receiving a handful of tackles
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  Speaker 1: on defense, and one more touchdown than you and I scored.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. One more Touchdown's a give you mind. The Jags.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Jags traded away not one, not two, not three, I
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: be four, four draft picks, including the Crown Jewel, their
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: first round draft pick in twenty twenty six, to move
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: on up a couple of spots to get that two
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: way unicorn unicord. They got a unicorn, that's what they said.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: They told us that. Well, it turns out that they
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: did not get a unicorn. They got a Zebra. That's
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: what they got. Nice to look at. I don't really
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: do much. That's what they got. The Jags are like, well,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna get a Gulf Stream and they
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: got a greyhound bus standard ticket, squeaky breaks, greyhound bus
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: people with body odor in every other seat. That's what
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: they got. And I get that. He played both ways
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: and that's kind of cool. It's cute and it's fun.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: And you do have to produce. You have to at
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: least be great on one side and you can be
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: average on the other for this to work. If you're
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: not going to be great, either defensively or offensively, it's
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: a non starter. And the production. As a wide out,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: he was listed as a mid tier wide out. As
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: a defensive back, he was average. He's an average cornerback.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: So Pro Football Focus the nerds over there say solid starter,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: not franchise game changer. It's about where I had him
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: on the math scorecard. It's about where I had him.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: They traded a big truck full of Bengo cards for
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: a novelty act. That's really what he is until he
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: shows that he's actually good. We're one year in and
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: he's already done for the year. He's heard. And so
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: it's a bit of a science experiment for the Jaguars
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: to try to figure this out, because it's not normal
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: in modern football to play both ways on the field.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: And it turns out this is a science experiment, and
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: like most science experiments, what happens. They blow up in
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: the lab, come boom, just like that in the lab,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: and then that's it. And so in the end, at
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: this point, based on the report card we filled out today,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Travis Hunter is just another drag drafted by the perfect team.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Just a guy literally and figuratively, just a guy. No
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: razzle dazzle. Where's the razmataz? I need some razmataz? No
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: highlight reel. One touchdown? You gave one touchdown? No how
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: many pick sixes did he have? Where were all those plays?
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: I didn't see that? Be sure to catch it.
• 41:00
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• 41:13
  Speaker 1: All right, Coobley.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: On Monday, Rex Ryan called Caleb Williams a generational talent yeah,
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: and said that he's gonna keep climbing. Ben, Is Caleb's
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: starting to change your opinion on his career outlook?
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: No, No, I have not changed my opinion yet. It
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: it takes a long time for me to change my opinion.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: He's played better than I thought. I'll give him that.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: He's played better than I thought. And he's had some
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: heroic moments here lately, which is good and encouraging. No,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: I'm not. I know he's got to worry about his
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: hot takes every day Rex Ryan, So he's really good
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: at that kind of stuff. I'm not there, but the
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Bears are. They're starting to make a little bit of
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: a rumbling noise. Next.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: So Nico Harrison got fired, and yeah, with that firing
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: has a lot of people thinking that Anthony Davis could
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: be on the trade block. Yes, could you see Anthony
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: Davis getting moved this season? I think he's gonna be
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: traded to Cedars SINAI. I think that's where he's gonna
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: be traded. Cooper, come on, I mean the guy where
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: I was born? Why would you congratulations? A lot of
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: celebrities there as you know, so where like where's he
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: gonna go?
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Like? Why would you trade for a guy who's not
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: gonna play like seriously. It's like say, I'm gonna I'm
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: gonna date the hottest woman in the world. I'm actually
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: gonna physically be with her, but I'm gonna I'm gonna date.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, what's the point? All right?
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: Next?
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: The Detroit Pistons went from winning fourteen games two years
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: ago to uh winning a winning record.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Last year in the playoffs. Yeah, they had a playoff
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: series with the next one.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: So far this season they're leading the Eastern Conference. Then,
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: is this the year of the Pistons?
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Well, cool, as you know, I have it. It's MEA's
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: background noise for me at this point, Cooper Loop. The
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: season starts in December twenty five. They're good. They're a
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: playoff team. I'm not there yet on the Pistons. How
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: do we know? Read passes.
• 42:55
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• 43:12
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• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Here's Ben Metler. All right, let's do it. Here we
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: go mass words nine let's welcome in our contestants. We
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: have Eenie Meenie miney Mo.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: We have.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Mike in New Hampshire, who's going to play getting a
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: lot of airtime via Marcell. Hello Mike in New Hampshire,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Hey Ben.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: When I be thrown Marcell that meathead, we're gonna change
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: my name to the Dynasty Sniper.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: I like it. Marcell will lose his mind. I think
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: he already did, but he'll lose his mind again. Okay,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: all right, very good, Mike, who do you want to
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: partner up with? Quickly? Please?
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: We're gonna play with Coop this time.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: All right, very nice? You and Coop will lose. And
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: JJ in Renton is going to play. Hello, JJ, oh man, they're.
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: Going to big Dog Ben Maler.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, here we go.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: JJ was at the Seattle Mallar meet and greet we
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: did back in twenty nineteen, and very noice. Let's play
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: the game. We have a list of words here. You
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: still make anchors, Jju.
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: No, man, I'm working in the freezers now.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Man, okay, works in the We don't have time. Let's
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: play the game, all right. Mike in New Hampshire pick
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: a number one to ten please number seven. All right,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: number seven, coop, all right, let's go with uh allry wattage.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: Westward wattage, wattag.
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: Otage, wattage no electricity, what Mike?
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Ok oh my goodness, this phone's crapping out.
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: Say it again, Mike, electricity bro.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: J J what are you doing? What? What?
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: What is you?
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Are you a Cleveland Guardian's picture? What are you doing?
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Come on, dude, man, he didn't say the word. You
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: say a word, mark, Mike? Oh you know what is
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: the word?
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: J J?
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: What is the word? That's not the word. It's not
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: the word. All right? Oh my god, I thought he said,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: did he say it before? I said no? No, he said,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: he said electric. Let's let's try, Mike. Let's Mike, let's try.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Let's try power. What I'm not talking to you? JJ?
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: I love JJ is one of my favorite callers, Mike power.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: Energy.
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, it's pick a number, JJ, pick a number, Okay,
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: give me number, give me Russell Wilson's number, because you
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: know how trast is.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: All right, that would be three, I know, all right,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: number three. All right, let's go with no chance. How
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: about scouting scouting observing? No, I was trying the mallet maneuver,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: the word was combine unfortunately. How about JJ helping out
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: his opponent. They're very nice of and very generous of
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Jay