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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is the hour of Belichick.
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  Speaker 1: The Hour of Belichick has upon us, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: not worth about more than sixty seconds after what we witnessed.
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  Speaker 1: But that's where we're going to start, and we'll see
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  Speaker 1: where we go. But the Hour of Belichick. Our lead
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  Speaker 1: is from North Carolina, where Bill Belichick made his much anticipated,
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  Speaker 1: much talked about coaching debut at the college level. All
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  Speaker 1: those years in the NFL. Here's Bill Belichick on a
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  Speaker 1: random Labor day in twenty twenty five, out there all
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  Speaker 1: the buzz. North Carolina sold out all of their tickets,
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  Speaker 1: all the season tickets, sold them out the power of hyperbolee.
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  Speaker 1: So they sold them all out. They raised the prices
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  Speaker 1: of the tickets and single game seeds for the season.
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  Speaker 1: Everything was up up and they sold them all. They
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  Speaker 1: all had their Carolina blue on and ready to celebrate.
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  Speaker 1: And don't if you watch the game or not, it
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of attention. Perhaps you missed it. We
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  Speaker 1: watched so you would not have to. We're happy to
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  Speaker 1: report that you didn't miss anything. You did not miss
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  Speaker 1: any of you did not watch. You did not miss
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  Speaker 1: a damn thing. Let me explain hauling smokers. Bill Belichick.
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  Speaker 1: His first run as a college coach at North Carolina
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  Speaker 1: started fast. Opening drive, sliced up TCU. They get a touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: only to end up in an epic blowout. After scoring
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  Speaker 1: on the first drive, North Carolina's football team, the tar Hills,
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  Speaker 1: watched the horn Frogs scored forty one answered unanswered points
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  Speaker 1: in one stretch. Forty one unanswered points in one stretch,
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  Speaker 1: forty eight to fourteen. It could have been worse than that.
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  Speaker 1: It was a laugher. North Carolina on defense watching as
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  Speaker 1: TCU was driving the ball down the field with a
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  Speaker 1: few seconds to go in the game, and then they
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  Speaker 1: started taking knees there. Otherwise it would have been double nickels.
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  Speaker 1: But forty eight to fourteen the final. By the end,
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  Speaker 1: TCU had scored multiple defensive touchdowns, They had a special
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  Speaker 1: team's touchdown in this game, and North Carolina Tarhill fans
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  Speaker 1: acting like they were at Dodger Stadium as they left early.
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  Speaker 1: They left in the third quarter, some leaving even before that.
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  Speaker 1: That stadium was mostly empty by the time we got
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  Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter. How bad was it? It was
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  Speaker 1: so bad Kirk Kerbstreet allowed his dog to broadcast the game.
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  Speaker 1: Herbstreet allowed his dog to broadcast the game because the
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  Speaker 1: game was for the dogs. It was covered in fleas
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  Speaker 1: extended garbage time. But let us discuss the question with
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  Speaker 1: that as the backdrop. What are your takeaways from Bill
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  Speaker 1: Belichick's maiden voyage his college football debut at North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got biblical, a bugs, life, and m behold,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make some delicious deep fried cheese curds,
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  Speaker 1: is what we're gonna make, because that would have been better.
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  Speaker 1: Just eating cheese curds would have been better than watching
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  Speaker 1: this holy crap. At least they got paid for it, plausibly,
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  Speaker 1: pay me to watch this crap so I can come
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  Speaker 1: in here and tell you about the crap that I watched.
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  Speaker 1: So hey, we'll start with this North Carolina. North Carolina
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  Speaker 1: football pulled off what I call and they call this
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  Speaker 1: in Hollywood too, they fake out opening. Now, back in
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  Speaker 1: the day, there used to be these things called movies.
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  Speaker 1: People would actually pay money to go to a movie theater,
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  Speaker 1: believe it or not, back in the Stone Age, and
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  Speaker 1: they'd buy like popcorn and snacks and they'd go watch
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  Speaker 1: the movies.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, man, it was a big thing back in the
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  Speaker 1: old days. Humanity has evolved since then. Nobody goes to
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  Speaker 1: the movies anymore. But imagine, if you will, going to
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  Speaker 1: the movies back in the old Stone Age when people
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  Speaker 1: used back in the day, they had payphones and horse
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  Speaker 1: and buggy. So you go down to the movie theater
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  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of hype for the movie, and
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  Speaker 1: the first five minutes you're hooked, right, you are in.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, yes, it lived up to the hype, and
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  Speaker 1: your big card chase, huge explosion. Within the first five minute,
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  Speaker 1: it's you're like, this is gonna be a good one. Right,
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  Speaker 1: you're sitting there thinking, oh baby, buckle up man, Finally
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood made a good movie. Right, this is gonna be awesome, awesome,
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  Speaker 1: And then for the rest of the movie, you know,
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  Speaker 1: another hour and twenty five minutes or more. There's two
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  Speaker 1: people just mumbling in some coffee shop about their feelings
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  Speaker 1: for the next hour and twenty five minutes. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: I want a car crash. Well we got a car crash.
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  Speaker 1: But it was supposed to be excitement, huge explosions and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Total bait and switch, total bait and
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  Speaker 1: switch for North Carolina. And that's what Bill Belichick in
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina pulled off that openly drive seven plays, eighty
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  Speaker 1: three yards, touchdown, tarhels oh Man and the tar Heels.
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  Speaker 1: They were fast and furious right there, slicing up the
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  Speaker 1: opening credits. There was like Vin Diesel. The whole package, however,
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  Speaker 1: turned out to be a mirage. It was just an hallucination.
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  Speaker 1: A desert oasis is what it turned out to be.
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  Speaker 1: The real movie for North Carolina. That was a low budget,
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  Speaker 1: I mean real low budget horror flick. And Bill Belichick,
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  Speaker 1: he starred as the clueless babysitter that had no idea
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  Speaker 1: as the horn Frogs appropriated. A guy who's Belichick, very horny,
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  Speaker 1: would lose to a team called the horn Frogs. Now
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  Speaker 1: the first drive, the first drive, that was the trailer.
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  Speaker 1: That was the trailer to the movie. The real product.
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  Speaker 1: What followed was not so much football. It was biblical
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  Speaker 1: in nature. It's a biblical flood, is what happened. Again,
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  Speaker 1: we mentioned forty one point avalanche, a forty one point
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  Speaker 1: avalanche before the tar Hills would score again. And you
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  Speaker 1: cut to Belichick and staring blankly with his cutoff sleeves
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  Speaker 1: there on the hoodie. And that's the look there as
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  Speaker 1: TCU hangs another touchdown, and another and another, and another
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  Speaker 1: and another and another touchdown. We're talking about an emasculation
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  Speaker 1: situation to the highest order, a fifth ring of Hell
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  Speaker 1: Dante's Inferno type stuff. For North Carolina. TCU rolled into town.
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  Speaker 1: They were the uninvited HouseGuests, They were the interlopers. They
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  Speaker 1: raided the fridge, they ripped the flat screen TV off
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  Speaker 1: the wall, and they set the place on fire with arson,
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  Speaker 1: is what they did. So Texas Christian turned Bill Belichick
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  Speaker 1: and his debut in collegiate football into a straight to
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  Speaker 1: DVD production, and they don't even really make dvs anymore.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, page two, So how would you describe
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  Speaker 1: the overall coaching job by Bill Belichick and his staff?
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  Speaker 1: In the Belichick debut at North Carolina? He might know
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  Speaker 1: that he has his nepo baby as the defensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: for the Tarios, the Brownie James of defensive coordinators. There
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  Speaker 1: Belichick's son. So there's really no sugarcoat this. I have
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  Speaker 1: two words to describe, two words to describe Bill Belichick
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  Speaker 1: and the job that his coaching staff did for North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: Coaching malpractice. Those are the two words. That was malfeasance,
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  Speaker 1: is what that was. If you want a third word,
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  Speaker 1: pure and uncut. Pure and uncut. Forget the raw talent
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  Speaker 1: and all that. Oh my god, forget about all that.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about that. It's about the essential components of football,
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  Speaker 1: the building blocks. So you know Bellichick, he said, well,
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL all those years, he had teams that
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  Speaker 1: were not that talented, but he always had Tom Brady
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  Speaker 1: for the Patriot run until the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: And so you look at that. I said, well, that's
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  Speaker 1: the great equalizer and all that. And in Cleveland he
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  Speaker 1: did actually have some teams that overachieved when he was
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  Speaker 1: coaching in the Cleveland rounds way back, you know, thirty
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  Speaker 1: something years ago, back back in the day. But the
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  Speaker 1: basics for North Carolina, which is, it doesn't matter how
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  Speaker 1: much talent you have, it's simple blocking and tackling. If
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  Speaker 1: you block and tackle the fundamentals the bedrock football, you
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  Speaker 1: don't get smashed the way North Carolina got smashed. And
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  Speaker 1: the line which I believe in is you're either coaching it.
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  Speaker 1: You're either coaching it or you're allowing it to happen
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  Speaker 1: if you're the Belichick coaching staff, and either way, it's
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  Speaker 1: on you. It's on Bill Belichick here and Belichick's boys
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  Speaker 1: looked like lambs being led to the slaughter after that
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  Speaker 1: opening drive there, and it was like watching as the
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  Speaker 1: team was thirsty. North Carolina was thirsty. So they got
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  Speaker 1: in front of the fire hydrant and the fire hydrant
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  Speaker 1: was sprang at full blast and North Carolina's football players
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  Speaker 1: were trying to get a drink, but they had they
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  Speaker 1: were trying to sip. They had a little one of
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  Speaker 1: those little bendy straws, and they were trying to drink
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  Speaker 1: from the bendy straw.
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  Speaker 3: You can't.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot drink out of a fire hydrant with a
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  Speaker 1: bendy straw. Just the math on that does not does
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  Speaker 1: not work. Impossible. But this was it was a bugs life.
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  Speaker 1: It was a bugs life for the coaching staff in
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina because, as we know, sometimes you're the windshield
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes you're the bug. Splat. Yeah, they were splattered.
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  Speaker 1: They were splattered. And now it is a full on
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  Speaker 1: BELICHICKI and dog pile, dog pile, dogpile, dogpile. It is right.
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  Speaker 1: He's being mocked, teased, humiliated, all of that. The hoodie
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  Speaker 1: who once tortured, absolutely tortured rookie quarterbacks and when he
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  Speaker 1: had extra time to prepare, you never wanted to bet
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  Speaker 1: against ever ever Bill Belichick, and he punked out all
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  Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks and all these coaches for a generation.
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  Speaker 1: And now he is being emotionally waterboarded on national TV,
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  Speaker 1: on social media, the matrix, all that stuff they're just
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  Speaker 1: unloading on Bill Belichick. I don't feel bad for Belichick,
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  Speaker 1: per se. I don't know that it's completely justified for
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  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick because when I listened to Tom Brady talk,
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  Speaker 1: I hear a lot of the crap that Belichick says,
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  Speaker 1: like Belichick influenced what Tom Brady became. Now you could
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  Speaker 1: argue that Brady did it better. Fine, I think that's
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  Speaker 1: been proven since they went their separate ways. But it's
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  Speaker 1: not like Tom Brady is not using BELICHICKI in lines
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  Speaker 1: when he discusses his outlook on football, those are things
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  Speaker 1: he learned from Bill Belichick. And he's just repeating the
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  Speaker 1: dogma of Bill Belichick. So I think that's important to
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  Speaker 1: note here for all the people's oh see, it was
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  Speaker 1: all Tom Brady. Okay, okay, fine, But he's using a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the material he learned from Bill Belichick. And
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  Speaker 1: so the hoodie gets tortured there and waterboarded and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. And the lesson is sometimes you're the maestro
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes you're the kazoo player. And in this scene,
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  Speaker 1: in this scene of the show, Bill Belichick is stuck
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  Speaker 1: playing the kazoo while TC how do you do? The
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  Speaker 1: marching band blasts him off the field. Out of here, Belichick,
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  Speaker 1: you're a bom. That guy's a bomm. Now it's not
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  Speaker 1: all bad. So I determined I had an epiphany as
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  Speaker 1: I was driving in making the long drive in from
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  Speaker 1: the north Woods. Here to the mothership. I had an epiphany,
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  Speaker 1: and the epiphany was that Bill Belichick will be getting
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  Speaker 1: a call from Madison Avenue first thing in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Here as the people on Madison Avenue say hey, Bill, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess they'll call this little floozy girlfriend there, and
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  Speaker 1: she's like the business person, so if she'll call, they'll
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  Speaker 1: call him her and say, hey, we want Bill to
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  Speaker 1: do a commercial. So what's a commercial for We it's
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  Speaker 1: an airline. What airline is it? Delta is No, it's
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  Speaker 1: not America, it's not Delta. What airline is it? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's Southwest. We want to do a new commercial. They
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  Speaker 1: want to get away? Fair because that was a want
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  Speaker 1: to get away situation, and most North Carolina fans got away.
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  Speaker 1: They got out of there. I'm not standing at the
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  Speaker 1: end of his crap. No way, all right, last word,
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  Speaker 1: we have some post game Bill Belichick. Belichick post game sound.
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  Speaker 1: Always good to play Bill Belichick post game sound. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get a little taste, won't react. Here's Belichick commenting about
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  Speaker 1: this scene, the aura, the vibrations there in Chapel Hill.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Oh well it was a great, uh you know, great
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  Speaker 4: atmosphere here for the game tonight. You know, fans were
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  Speaker 4: tremendous injury energy walk and you know, we played competitively
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  Speaker 4: but then just couldn't sustain. Obviously, we have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of work to do. You know, we need to do
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  Speaker 4: a better job all the way around. Coaching, playing all
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  Speaker 4: three phases of the game. Just wasn't up to what
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  Speaker 4: it needs to be. And I know we're a lot
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  Speaker 4: better than that. So we need to you know, need
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  Speaker 4: to work on those things and show it on Saturday
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  Speaker 4: and quick turnaround. But you know, get TCU credit that
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  Speaker 4: came in did a good job, and they were clearly
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  Speaker 4: the better team tonight. You know, they deserve to win,
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  Speaker 4: and they did it decisively.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So those are some opening comments by Bill
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  Speaker 1: Belichick there. I liked that how he had said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we just couldn't keep it up. That there was one
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  Speaker 1: drive North Carolina looked good like one drug, one drive,
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  Speaker 1: one drive, and that's it, all right. So what do
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  Speaker 1: you make of Bill Belichick and the tone the postgame
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  Speaker 1: comments of Bill Belichick? To me, the quote that stood
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  Speaker 1: out is I know we're a lot better than that.
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  Speaker 1: To me, that's the money quote. So I felt like
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  Speaker 1: all of this was watered down. I watched it. It
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  Speaker 1: was about thirteen minutes or so. I saw the news.
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  Speaker 1: Comings was it was watered down. It was, And behold,
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  Speaker 1: numb little bug, a numb little bug by Bill Belichick.
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  Speaker 1: Just numb, just felt numb, like he's a little tired
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  Speaker 1: of everything. Belichick. You know, he knew he had to
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  Speaker 1: do it. He's done this a million times after losses.
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  Speaker 1: And he's like he's kind of hanging by a thread there, Belichick,
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  Speaker 1: and you got to survive it. And he did. And
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  Speaker 1: and some of that sounded similarly to some of the
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  Speaker 1: undertones he had when he was coaching the Patriots back
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  Speaker 1: in the day. Some of the commentary there not quite
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  Speaker 1: as sharp. I thought, the I know we're a lot
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  Speaker 1: better than that. That's a bit of a stepping star,
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a stepping stone. I don't recall him
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  Speaker 1: saying that very often coaching the Patriots. Of course he
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to. They won most of the games. They
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  Speaker 1: certainly won most of the big games with the Patriots,
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  Speaker 1: So I don't recall him saying that. Bright side Bill
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  Speaker 1: by Bella check standards, that's bright side Bill, and just
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  Speaker 1: the statistical domination. The Eyeball test said this was ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: The numbers back it up. North Carolina had ten first downs,
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  Speaker 1: most of those in garbage time. They went a couple
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  Speaker 1: hours without completing a forward pass, and TCU had twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine first downs. They had nineteen more first downs TCU.
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  Speaker 1: Rushing yards. TCU had two hundred and eight more rushing
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  Speaker 1: yards than North Carolina, two hundred and eight more rushing yards.
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  Speaker 1: And but wait, there's more. Overall yardage. The TCU horned
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  Speaker 1: frogs got real horny. They had five hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: two yards. The tar Hills had two hundred and twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: My computer like brain tells me that is a minus
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty for North Carolina plus three twenty
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  Speaker 1: for TCUs. So it was bad. So the question also
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  Speaker 1: is will it get any better? Is this going to
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  Speaker 1: be how it goes all season for Bill Belichick? Is
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  Speaker 1: this going to be a one and done situation? Will
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  Speaker 1: he run out of coaching and that's it and see
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  Speaker 1: you later, And that guy Mike Lombardi will go back
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  Speaker 1: and do bad podcasts and these guys will run off
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  Speaker 1: as carpetbaggers and go somewhere else. You don't want to overreact.
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  Speaker 1: It's one stinking game, right. And but the problem is
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  Speaker 1: it's how you make that first impression. People are gonna
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  Speaker 1: remember that first impression. And this is the first impression
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  Speaker 1: for Bill Belichick as a college coach, and people are
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be paying that close attention. They're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: on TV a lot because of Belichick, but most of
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  Speaker 1: the games are not going to get the attention. This
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  Speaker 1: was an island game on a holiday, there was no NFL.
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  Speaker 1: It was his college debut, and they allowed his team
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  Speaker 1: forty eight points, the most he's ever allowed as a
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  Speaker 1: head coach. That is el Stinko.
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  Speaker 1: that story. We'll get back to it, but we'll move
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  Speaker 1: on to something better. Well you'll be the judge of that.
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  Speaker 1: But Dateline, the Prova news service of a pro football
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  Speaker 1: state sponsored NFL media, announcing that the top spot, the
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  Speaker 1: very top spot on the NFL Networks Top one hundred list.
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  Speaker 1: This is the kind of a thing that Terry in
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  Speaker 1: England loves. He loves this. So they've been counting down
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  Speaker 1: for a good amount of time now, counting down to
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  Speaker 1: the very top spot, the top one hundred players in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. So if if you saw this, you know
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  Speaker 1: where I'm going. But maybe not. So this was voted on,
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  Speaker 1: we're told by the players, and at the very top
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  Speaker 1: of the mountain that would be Fly Egles, Fly on
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  Speaker 1: the road to victory. Sequon Barkley at number one, right
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  Speaker 1: there at the Numero uno, top of a heap, king
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  Speaker 1: of the hill, the crown jewel. Congratulations. All right, So
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  Speaker 1: let us discuss the question the Eagles running back Sakwan
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  Speaker 1: Barkley claiming the top spot on this year's NFL Top
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  Speaker 1: one hundred ranking is this a big deal, a little
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  Speaker 1: deal or no deal. So I've got Lizard, Elton, John
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  Speaker 1: they delicious? My god? So good? All right? So number one,
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  Speaker 1: number one? All right, this means and I want to
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  Speaker 1: be very clear for those who in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the room, this means absolutely nothing. Put this in the
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  Speaker 1: basket with bupkis on. It is what this is. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like winning the Talent Show when you were
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  Speaker 1: in high school. That's wonderful. Maybe you get a little trophy,
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  Speaker 1: a little plastic trophy. Does not mean you're ready to
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  Speaker 1: go to Broadway, just does not. Now, this is a
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  Speaker 1: perception not reality situation. It's a popularity contest, and look listen.
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  Speaker 1: Sakwan Barkley was majestic last year. He absolutely cooked the
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  Speaker 1: team that I like more than other teams, the La Rams.
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  Speaker 1: It was embarrassing as they tried to stop him. He
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  Speaker 1: had several huge runs, including in the playoff game in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: The man painted a masterpiece, an absolute masterpiece worthy of
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  Speaker 1: being hung at the louver, only with shoulder pads and
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  Speaker 1: some grass stains. It was a symphony on turf, is
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  Speaker 1: what it was. For the Eagles running back, he was
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  Speaker 1: a ballet dancer with pads. I can go on and
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  Speaker 1: on here. That won amazing play against Jacksonville when he
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  Speaker 1: spun around and leapt up in the air like he
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  Speaker 1: was a Marvel comic character. It was great. However, that
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  Speaker 1: is not what this is about. See, that is not
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  Speaker 1: what this is about. This is about guys in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room scribbling down names on a ballot in between
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  Speaker 1: Fortnite matches. That's what this is about. I mean, so
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  Speaker 1: you got to like factor in who's actually voting. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of the meathead fanboys, Oh, the players voted. This
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  Speaker 1: has more meeting and not so much. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that I would go there. For most of the people
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  Speaker 1: that play pro football, it's gonna blow you away. This
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  Speaker 1: is an original take. Most of the people that play
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  Speaker 1: pro football, it is their job. It's not their hobby,
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  Speaker 1: it's not their life's passion. It's their job. They're good
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  Speaker 1: at it. They'll do it for a few years and
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  Speaker 1: then they'll go do something else. It's just something they're
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  Speaker 1: doing for work. It pays them a good amount of money.
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  Speaker 1: They're not fans. You're a fan, they're not fans. And
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  Speaker 1: the people that they're voting on are co work workers.
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  Speaker 1: Those are other people that work in their job. That's
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  Speaker 1: what that is. And so they know the highlights, right,
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  Speaker 1: They know the high they know the headlines, they know
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about that. They know who embarrassed them
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  Speaker 1: on the field on a given Sunday, and those are
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  Speaker 1: likely the people that they vote for, whoever's on the headlines.
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  Speaker 1: There they're filling out the thing of a jig in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room like they're like you would fill out
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  Speaker 1: a March Madness bracket. After you've had a couple of Bruskies, right,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of beers. You start filling that thing out,
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  Speaker 1: all right, said, Darts on the board, darts on the board. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And the list and this is a list, right, this
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  Speaker 1: list has all the staying power of cotton candy at
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  Speaker 1: a counovol. It does. It tastes good. Cotton candy tastes
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  Speaker 1: good for about three seconds, about three seconds, uh, and
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: then you're just left sticky and annoyed and it gets
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: all over your hands. You gotta wash your hands, and
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  Speaker 1: then it's like you can't get it off with it.
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  Speaker 1: You need a lot of soap to get the stuff off.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. Anyway, So today we
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  Speaker 1: do the show today, and so today Sequon Barkley is
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  Speaker 1: the king of the mountain, NFL mountain. Congratulations, You're at
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  Speaker 1: top of the NFL mountain tomorrow. Who knows, because the
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  Speaker 1: NFL world life comes at you pretty pretty fast, pretty
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  Speaker 1: just football world in general, but the NFL specifically. Know
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  Speaker 1: what's my evidence? Ask the Cheetah, ask the chie Let's
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  Speaker 1: go on the hot tough time machine. We were having
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  Speaker 1: this conversation last year, around this time last year, around
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  Speaker 1: this time. Do you know who was number one? Last year?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know who has voted the top player in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL last year, according to the prop the news
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  Speaker 1: service of the NFL, ding Ding, Ding, ding Ding, that
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  Speaker 1: would be the Cheetah, tyreek Kill Tyreek Hill was voted
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  Speaker 1: the top player in the NFL. The bell of the ball,
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  Speaker 1: the bell of the pigskin ball, tyreek Hill. Twelve months later,
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  Speaker 1: he's hanging out down at number forty seven, from number
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  Speaker 1: one all the way down to number forty seven. Forty seven, yes,
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  Speaker 1: forty seven. We don't have a jingle for that to
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  Speaker 1: left down there like the dust from failed lottery tickets,
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  Speaker 1: just down there at the bottom. And this is another
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  Speaker 1: reason why I can't stand list now. I did a
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  Speaker 1: rant about this on my podcast, the Fifth Hour Podcast,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks back. Maybe it's been a couple months.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just one thing after another. But
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  Speaker 1: the gist of it, and this is my position on
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  Speaker 1: this kind of thing, is the late great La Times
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  Speaker 1: columnist guy I considered a friend, T J. Simers once
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  Speaker 1: taught me lists are the ultimate, the ultimate brain fall
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  Speaker 1: got their brain fag. They tap into the lizard part
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  Speaker 1: of the human brain, and we're logic. Logic goes on
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  Speaker 1: a nice vacation, right that part of the brain. Lists
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  Speaker 1: are nothing but opinions. They're nothing but opinions. They're dressed up,
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  Speaker 1: though in a nice tuxedo. So you've got a nice
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  Speaker 1: tuxedo pretending to be the gospel truth. And it is
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  Speaker 1: like a bunch of people saying, well, here's what I think, right,
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  Speaker 1: here's what I think, and pretending it's science because you
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  Speaker 1: put some numbers near it and all that it's the
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  Speaker 1: illusion of authority. And my favorite thing is when people
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  Speaker 1: take these lists and they take them seriously, and it's
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  Speaker 1: a proven fact. I have talked to enough people over
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  Speaker 1: year to work in the media. It's like, this is
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  Speaker 1: a this is a little cheat code that you're dumb,
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  Speaker 1: and you will fall for this every time. You will
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  Speaker 1: react to it, and that's why they do it, and
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: it's gold. It's the easiest thing to do. You have
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  Speaker 1: to throw a couple of curveballs in there, right, a
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: couple of curveballs unusual. You'll move somebody down who should
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  Speaker 1: be higher, and move someone higher who should be down.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of moving parts to it. There's
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  Speaker 1: so many people that take this stuff seriously because the
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  Speaker 1: lizard part of the brain. It's like, you know, stone
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  Speaker 1: tablet from the mountaintop and you know, it's like four
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  Speaker 1: hundred or something football players that vote on this thing,
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, you know, that guy's kind of good.
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  Speaker 1: I guess we'll vote for him. I see him on
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  Speaker 1: the highlights a lot. I see him on the click
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  Speaker 1: you know, things I click on on Instagram or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: So why not? And what what it does tell you
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  Speaker 1: is perception. It tells you perception. Like right now, players
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  Speaker 1: because of the highlights and the attention, perceive Sakwon Barkley
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  Speaker 1: as the top player in the NFL. And that lasts,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how long does that last? We'll ask again.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: We brought up the Cheetah Tyreek Hill lasts about as
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: long as one of those snapchat messages, you know, just
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: kind of self destruction all that, but one injury, one
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: bad stretch for Barkley and he's falling down, down, down, down,
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  Speaker 1: down down down the mountaintop, all the way down to
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the bottom like an old school Tom and Jerry cartoon
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: back in the day. And you're yesterday's news. What have
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: you done for me? Late? You peaked? You're done now,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And that's that's the way this works.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: That's the way this particular thing works. At one year,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: you're the Ribi steak. Everyone wants the Ribbi steak, butterfly
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: cut well done. That's the proper way to eat steak,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: butterfly cut well done. And then the next year your spam.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Your can spam, that's what you are. And so you
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: know that's fine, good luck. State sponsored media can announce
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: this thing and that thing, and all they want and congratulations.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: So moving on from that, the the other part of this.
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  Speaker 1: As we move on, how about to Los Angeles where
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  Speaker 1: Chargers running back Nase Harris, somebody we've talked about a
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: decent amount, considering he's not that good. Nase Harris has
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: been a toss up toss up to start the NFL season.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: The backfield Charges open up in a few days here.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Suffered an eye injury playing with fireworks on the fourth
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  Speaker 1: of July. Accident. Harris gave an update Naji Harris, saying
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: that his vision was not affected by the firework incident.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: He again called it a superficial injury. Now, Harris also
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: said that he's working towards being on the field for
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  Speaker 1: the charge of season opener against the Chiefs in Brazil.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be on Friday. On Friday, So what is your
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: read here's the question, what is your read on running
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  Speaker 1: back Naji Harris doubling down, doubling down that his eye
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  Speaker 1: injury was just superficial. Okay, So my position on this,
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  Speaker 1: my read on this is a lot of sugar, a
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: lot of sugarcoating. You know, you bake cookies and you
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: put them wrap them in the sugar there and they
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: taste really good, but it's a lot of sugarcoating. This
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: thing is not only got sugarcoating, it's it's got marshmallow
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: fluff in it. It really does. So we're supposed to
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: believe Najee Harris missed pretty much all of Chargers training
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: camp other than walking laps around the field, right, other
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  Speaker 1: than that, and we're supposed to believe that was a
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: superficial eye injury, that what he got great is by
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: a sparkler, and that's that's what happened. Was it a
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: rogue confetti cannon? That's some gender reveal gone wrong. No,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: it was a fourth of July. The math ain't mathing
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: on this. It's just not It doesn't add up. You
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: don't miss almost all of training camp because of a
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  Speaker 1: superficial eye injury. You don't have to have a medical
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: degree to know that's not the way it works. That's
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: not not a hangnail, you know, it's not a paper cut.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: It's it's not a grain of sand in the eyeball.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: It's not that. That is a Roman candle in the wind,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Elfton John style, a Roman candle in the wind, and
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: it blew up close enough to your eye to cause
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: you to miss almost all of training. So don't be
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: confused that this was some sweet Norman Rockwell Fourth of
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: July apple pie mom lawn shares fireworks type of event.
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  Speaker 1: This was Florida man meets fireworks caught boom is what
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: it was. And so you don't sideline yourself for months months.
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  Speaker 1: This happened back in July. Here we are now in September,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: unless something went really wrong right near your cornea, right
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: near your cornea there, So Harris trying to shake off
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the firework injury like he had a bad burrito from
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a food truck. And now I do love the optimism,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: you know, Benny Brightside, this is an optimistic person. He's
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: very optimistic. That's going to work out there. And we'll
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: just not pretend that he hasn't been lifting weights and
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: all that stuff and working out with his teammates. He's
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I guess he should have been better at dodging bottle
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: rockets on the fourth of July, but it was all
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: so superficial. If it was superficial, he would not have
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: been back in pads for a few days. He would
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: have been back in pads by day three. But I digress.
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  Speaker 1: So we hope, we do hope that Najie Harris gets
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  Speaker 1: out there and plays. We really do. I'm not making
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  Speaker 1: that up. I'm not just saying, oh you just saying
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: that at the end, No, I would like to see
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: him play, right, Just do not insult our intelligence that
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: it was a superficial thing. Now, a buddy of mine's, well,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: he's got to say that because the Chargers if he
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: doesn't actually play, and this is no guarantees is going
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: to play this week, and if somebody else usurps him
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: as the top back for the Chargers and then the
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Chargers end up getting rid of him, they're going to
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: say it's with cause because of the injury. And then
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: he'll say, well, no, it's superficial. So he's got to
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: kind of say that. But it definitely was not a
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: speck of dust. We've all gotten that in the eye right,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: You're like, oh, man, I gotta water wash my eye
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: out and all this stuff. It was a fourth of July.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: It's like a PSA waiting to happen, is what it is,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: all right. Now, final point to Jersey. We go not
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the Jersey Show, we go to Northern New Jersey. Just
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: across the way from Manhattan, and that is where coach
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Brian Dayball, the formerly rot Ton coach, refusing refusing to
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: reveal whether or not rookie Jackson Dart or veteran famous
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Jameis Winston will serve as the giants backup quarterback the
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: season opener on Sunday against the team formerly known as
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the Redskins. So question, what is your reaction? What is
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: your reaction to Giants coach Brian Daboles depth chart deception.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: We'll call it the depth chart deception refusing the name
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: his backup quarterback between Jackson Dart and Jameis Winston. So
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: in this one, it is a raspberry, it is a
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: raspberry beret. It's the prince of paranoia, Brian day Ball,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: the prince of paranoia here going with the psychological warfare. Dude,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: your team blows doing seriously, like, can someone let Brian
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Dable know that it's not amusing, it's rather stupid what
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: you're doing. Uh it is. It's like, well, I mean
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: we got to use deception here. I me know, spider
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: out Art, you're not guarding the nuclear codes. I don't
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: believe it's a backup quarterback on a dog food NFL team,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: just say the name, say my name right. Uh. And
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: and by the way, if the commanders know the playbook
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: of the Giants, it wouldn't change the outcome. Like the
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Giants could telegraph all the plays. It doesn't matter whether
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: the commanders know the players that don't know the plays,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: it doesn't really change the outcome of the game. So
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: stop that, right, Like do the Giants think, do they
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: have this neurosis where they're like, well, if we tell
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: the we tell Washington or backup quarterback, then they're they're
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: gonna know, and they're gonna change their entire defense scheme.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Give me a break, Okay, just stop now. Russell Wilson
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: is thirty six. He is brittle, right, kind of like
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: a bread stick. He's like a breadstick from Olive Garden.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: You can kind of rip him in half there and
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: all that. And little Marinera on the side, and and
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: you know, the Giants likely know that Russ is if
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: you were to bet on quarterbacks likely to get hurt
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: in Week one of the NFL, which is something I'm
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: not against doing. Injury bingo. We have done injury bingo
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: in the past. You'd put Aaron Rodgers in the one spot.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson would be pretty close behind Matthew Stafford. I
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: would have a number two, but you'd have Russell Wilson
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: somewhere in the mix. There the on the again, not
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: a list, but a big board of who's likely to
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: get hurt at the quarterback position early in the season,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: and so you're gonna need a backup. And Brian Dayball
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: is acting like it's a state secret here and you
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: just roll your eyes at this, like what's going on?
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: So this is either Brian Dayball the coach of the Giants,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: coddling the Jackson Dart fanboys. He played so well against
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: guys who are now going to be joining our friend
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  Speaker 1: Tree working for ups. He played so well, right, they
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  Speaker 1: don't want to hurt his feelings or their feelings the
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart fanboys. Or he's covering for Jamis who might
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  Speaker 1: have thrown maybe three picks in some kind of closed
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  Speaker 1: door team building exercise and now he's persona non grata
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But it's Brian day Ball being
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  Speaker 1: Brian day Ball. It's he learned under Belichick, so it's
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  Speaker 1: hoodie cosplay. You know, we didn't have the championships and
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  Speaker 1: all that, and just just say who the backup is.
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  Speaker 1: And you're not fooling anyone. It's not cute. It's rather dumb,
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  Speaker 1: like if you're good, that's one thing, but you suck.
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  Speaker 1: So if you suck, just say the names. Okay, it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to change the fact you suck. It's just dumb.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go here, we got here, We go here,
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  Speaker 1: we got here, we got here. We got about that
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  Speaker 1: degree next two days.
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  Speaker 2: This is one big tent gets cried good vote.
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  Speaker 5: DJ Hawkinson was able to play ten games last season
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  Speaker 5: after suffering a torn ACL and MCL the year before,
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  Speaker 5: but he didn't make much of an impact had zero touchdowns.
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  Speaker 5: Hawkinson said he's one of the best route running tight
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  Speaker 5: ends in the league and this year he'll make a
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  Speaker 5: clear impact. Bet are you up or down on Hotell?
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  Speaker 1: I think we should play a place for the Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: Vikings to play with the Lions for long time, been
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota a little bit. It's important for the Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: And here's why. When things get tough in Minnesota and
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  Speaker 1: who knows what JJ McCarthy's gonna do. They think he'll
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  Speaker 1: be good, but normally the safety blanket is the tight end.
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  Speaker 1: So in order for this to work in Minnesota, they
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  Speaker 1: need him to be good. So I am optimistic. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Benny Brightside. Howkinson will be okay next.
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  Speaker 5: Tom Brady said in an interview on Sunday that the
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  Speaker 5: league has shifted towards emphasizing physical attributes in a quarterback
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  Speaker 5: rather than mental ones.
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  Speaker 3: Is he right?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely? It is all about they call him. I hate
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  Speaker 1: this term measurables at the combine. It's all about the
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  Speaker 1: raw and greed. It's same thing in baseball. Like baseball,
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  Speaker 1: if you can pitch, they don't want you. If you
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  Speaker 1: can throw ninety eight miles an hour and can't pitch,
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  Speaker 1: they want you. In football, they want the biggest, strongest, fastest.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're actually mentally sharp and know how to
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  Speaker 1: play the game, you don't throw it that well, eh,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: or you're not as strong.
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  Speaker 5: Next poll of NFL coaches and executives put Joe Burrow
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  Speaker 5: as the leading candidate to win MVP this season. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 5: Lamar Jackson still has the best odds in Vegas. Who
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: do you think has the better shot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I like Burrow. The Bengals sucked last year.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't a playoff team. The Ravens have been consistently good.
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  Speaker 1: There's also voter fatigue for Lamar Jackson. Even though he
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  Speaker 1: didn't win last year. He has won multiple MVP Awards,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: so he would have to go above and beyond to
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  Speaker 1: win another one. I like Burrow. I don't like the
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: fact that everyone else kind of likes Burrow too. That
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  Speaker 1: bothers me. That means that's probably not gonna happen. But
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  Speaker 1: I would pick Burrow over Lamar. How did we do?
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  Speaker 1: It's Mallard of the third degree.
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  Speaker 3: You pass it? That is a win.
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  Speaker 1: I wont go right up.
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  Speaker 2: That's a win.
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  Speaker 1: We will have Mallard's Mount of Money US. Welcome in, Aiden,
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  Speaker 1: really don't play the imaging. Aiden's gonna play? Hello, Aiden,
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  Speaker 1: welcome are good, You're gonna play. You're in Boston and
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  Speaker 1: you're working right now. Yeah, I'm okay. You want to
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  Speaker 1: part it with me, Ben or Coop. I'll be all right,
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  Speaker 1: very good, We're in it. Don't hang up, don't hang up.
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  Speaker 1: And we've got Andrew and Bakersfield. Andrew, Hello, what's up? Ben?
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  Speaker 1: You're with Coop? Okay, sounds good? Good luck, Coop, God speed.
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  Speaker 1: We will have mouth that works. We have Mallard's amount
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  Speaker 1: of money. We'll get how about you and you can
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  Speaker 1: play with James and In and how about that we'll
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  Speaker 1: play with both. We'll get to that. We will do
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  Speaker 2: Malor's Mountain of Money. Hell, do you have what it
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  Speaker 2: takes to get to the top? Probably?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Right to Aiden and Andrew Cooper categories quickly, quickly, the.
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  Speaker 5: Very GiB edition he turns seventy nine on Monday. Category
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  Speaker 5: is are first of May night fever staying alive and
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  Speaker 5: you win again?
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  Speaker 3: Eight in which category do you like? I'll do the
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  Speaker 3: first one, first of May?
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  Speaker 1: May?
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  Speaker 3: All right, Andrew, how about you staying alive? All right?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, very good. These athletes were all born on May first, Aiden,
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  Speaker 1: May first, you ready Jesus was not born on May first.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. We'll put forty five seconds
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  Speaker 1: on the clock. We need the first and last name.
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  Speaker 1: We're on our way go. A center for Oklahoma City.
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  Speaker 1: He looks like a skeleton for Oklahoma City in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Running back for the Patriots and the Jets
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  Speaker 1: in the nineties and the two thousands. Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Running back with a generic name. No idea, okay, A
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver for the Patriots. A slot guy not Julian Edelman,
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  Speaker 1: but prior to Edelman, Freddymond no slot receiver okay?
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Pitcher released by the Yankees a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: Played was an All Star with Toronto starting pitcher, right hander,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: African American starting pitcher. You do you watch sports? Aydan?
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  Speaker 2: Or like birthdays? I got no idea?
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  Speaker 1: Who cares about that? All right?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Good job, Ben, good job, great clues.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Andrew, Andrew, our category is staying alive. These
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  Speaker 5: athletes all had near death experiences. Andrew, are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: Category of America?
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  Speaker 5: All right, Andrew? Forty five seconds see begin. His nickname
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  Speaker 5: was the Truth for the Celtics. Yes, this guy was
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  Speaker 5: big Poppy for the Red Sox. That's right, let's go.
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: This guy almost died in a whorehouse. He was on
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  Speaker 5: the Lakers. Yes, this guy was a Tennessee Titan. He
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  Speaker 5: ran for two thousand yards. Not Derrick Henry, but before him, George, no,
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  Speaker 5: after him?
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: This guy almost died on the field a Buffalo bill's safety.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have that path. All right.
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: This guy is a talking head right now. He was
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: a Pittsburgh Steeler. He had sickle cell.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Was this two minutes here? What are we doing here?
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Unlimited time? All right, my god, Laurada, I hurry up, Aiden,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: what do you want? What do you want here? Night fever?
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Or you win again?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Guard for the Rockets in the eighties, nickname Mad Blank.
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  Speaker 1: Let's tell me way to android God, and you're everyone
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: in Boston screaming, what do you