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Hour 2 - Just Jettisoned · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom! Shakalaka. You can put it on the board. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: We got to trade. We got to trade. Hour 2,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show. Who has more to explain? The Vikings
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  Speaker 1: for giving up on J.J. McCarthy? They sent him off
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  Speaker 1: to New York. Or the Giants for wanting J.J.? the
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  Speaker 1: bust who was drafted in the first round a couple
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  Speaker 1: years ago. Also, how much did former Michigan coach Jim
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  Speaker 1: Harbaugh's endorsement influence Giants coach John Harbaugh to trade for J.J. McCarthy?
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  Speaker 1: And what does this deal by the Giants do for
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart, the status of Jackson Dart, the fact that
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  Speaker 1: the Giants went out and got J.J. McCarthy? We'll examine
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  Speaker 1: that as well right about now. Here it is, hour
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  Speaker 1: number two. J.J.
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  Speaker 1: The Monday night game, not much of a contest. The Bears,
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  Speaker 1: with their third-string quarterback, take down the Eagles. So the
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  Speaker 1: pointing of the finger at Philadelphia, and they played a
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  Speaker 1: couple of cupcakes to start the year, and they played
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  Speaker 1: their first real opponent and played like absolute poo-poo. The
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, they're terrible against a 38-year-old guy that hadn't
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  Speaker 1: started a game in pretty much three years. It's embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: That's not our lead, though. Don't bury the lead.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Our lead this hour from just outside Gotham. In New Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta trade! We gotta trade! In the NFL, after
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  Speaker 1: watching Jameis Winston stumble and bumble and ride the vomit
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  Speaker 1: comet in that nail-biting win, the only reason the Giants
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  Speaker 1: won is because Cam Ward sucked a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: than Jameis Winston and threw the interception. into no man's
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  Speaker 1: land in the end zone for the Tennessee Titans. So
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  Speaker 1: after seeing that, the Giants have made their move to
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  Speaker 1: go with someone who's going to eventually replace Jackson Dart.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see this? No, you didn't hear?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: How did you not hear about this? Bad job by you.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you. So we have learned that the New
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  Speaker 1: York football Giants have acquired quarterback J.J. McCarthy. Insert laugh
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  Speaker 1: track here. They got him off the discount rack as
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings making that deal. New York sending Minnesota. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think? Like a second round pick for J.J. McCarthy?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Third round pick?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy goes from New York to Minnesota for a 2027
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  Speaker 1: fifth round pick. Fifth round pick for McCarthy. McCarthy was
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  Speaker 1: the number 10 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.
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  Speaker 1: The trade now gives the Giants another body, another warm
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  Speaker 1: body in the quarterback room after Jackson Dart's season-ending injury.
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  Speaker 1: And so you've got Jameis Winston, who for now will
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  Speaker 1: remain the starter for the Giants, but We know that's
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  Speaker 1: just temporary. So that is a pretty good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Who has more to explain here?
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  Speaker 1: The Vikings for giving up on J.J. McCarthy and just
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  Speaker 1: giving him away, or the Giants for wanting J.J. McCarthy?
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  Speaker 1: So my observations, I've got Pond Stars, Cinnamon Swirl Coffee,
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  Speaker 1: and Aladdin's Cave. And we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together, and we are going to connect three, is
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to do. Connect three. So, number one!
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  Speaker 1: Number one! One, one, one, one, one, one!
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  Speaker 3: Number one!
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  Speaker 1: All right. From the frozen tundra, from the land of
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  Speaker 1: 10,000 lakes in Minnesota, comes the curious tale of J.J.,
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  Speaker 1: as in just jettisoned. That's what J.J. stands for, just
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  Speaker 1: jettisoned out of the Twin Cities there. The Giants merely
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  Speaker 1: took a flyer on J.J. McCarthy. And the better story, though,
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  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. This is not selling
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  Speaker 1: low by the Minnesota football team. This is not selling low.
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  Speaker 1: What this is, is leaving the merchandise out in front
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  Speaker 1: of your house on the curb and putting a piece
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  Speaker 1: of paper taped with scotch tape to the merch, and
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  Speaker 1: you write in there with a sharpie four letters, F-R-E-E. Freight!
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  Speaker 1: And you leave it there, and then somebody drives by
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  Speaker 1: and says, oh, I want that. Okay, I'll take that.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take that chair. Oh, I want that chair. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: So the purple people eaters became the purple draft pick
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  Speaker 1: eaters here. How do you turn a number 10 pick? Overall,
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  Speaker 1: in the 2024 NFL Draft, how do you turn that
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  Speaker 1: into a fifth rounder? Well, they swallowed that number 10
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  Speaker 1: overall pick. The Vikings swallowed that number 10 overall pick,
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  Speaker 1: and they burped back up a fifth round pick. You
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  Speaker 1: know what that is? Capital B, Boondoggle. Boondoggle is what
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  Speaker 1: that is. So even the boys over at Pawn Stars
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  Speaker 1: are applauding the Vikings' negotiation success. To work out a
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  Speaker 1: deal here, the technique that they use, like somewhere Rick
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  Speaker 1: Harrison and Chum Lee are very impressed here. They're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, that's so good. Somebody in Minnesota completely blew
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  Speaker 1: their evaluation of J.J. McCarthy. Remember, that was the draft
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  Speaker 1: that had all these quarterbacks. Oh, they're all so great.
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  Speaker 1: They're all amazing. I don't know about that. Now, we
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  Speaker 1: were always surprised that McCarthy was a darling for NFL
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  Speaker 1: talent evaluators, considering the fact that we actually watched him
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  Speaker 1: play at Michigan. What was J.J. McCarthy at Michigan? Decoy.
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  Speaker 1: He was a decoy. That's what he was? Yes, he
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  Speaker 1: was a decoy. That's it? And Michigan, very conservative with
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  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh as the coach, and so a lot of
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  Speaker 1: handing it off and not a lot of throwing the football.
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  Speaker 1: So the Vikings ordered a franchise quarterback, And they ended
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  Speaker 1: up receiving the floor model. It did not have instructions,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what they got. So they fell in love
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  Speaker 1: with the... quote, intangibles, the things you cannot touch, you
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  Speaker 1: cannot see. The intangibles. Oh, I fell in love with
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  Speaker 1: the intangibles. Then, here's the problem for the Vikings. They
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  Speaker 1: had to actually watch him play tangible football. And that's
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  Speaker 1: where this became problematic, watching J.J. McCarthy out there, who
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  Speaker 1: hadn't played very well, yet somehow had mastered the art
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  Speaker 1: of showboating, pick up taunting penalties, airmail basic passes into coverage,
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  Speaker 1: and And you're saying, who goofed? I've got to know.
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  Speaker 1: And now J.J. McCarthy has a standing dinner reservation at
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  Speaker 1: the Bust Brewery. He can have a nice beer there
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  Speaker 1: on tap at the Bust Brewery. Table for one. Table
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  Speaker 1: for one for J.J. McCarthy right next to the emergency exit.
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  Speaker 1: And you better tip your waiter.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, page two. Now to the Giants side of the equation.
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  Speaker 1: And the rather obvious connecting of the dots here. That J.J. McCarthy,
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  Speaker 1: the reason he's with the Giants is not just because
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart got hurt. Obviously, the Giants needed a quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: But there were plenty of other options out there. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to get J.J. McCarthy. McCarthy had... a friend
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  Speaker 1: or two that helped facilitate this trade. Does anyone disagree?
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  Speaker 1: So the question, how much did former Michigan man and
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  Speaker 1: current coach of the LA chargers, Jim Harbaugh, and how
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  Speaker 1: much of his, how much of his endorsement, Jim Harbaugh's
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  Speaker 1: endorsement influenced his brother, giants coach, John Harbaugh to trade
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  Speaker 1: for JJ McCarthy. So after a minutes long discussion, Deliberation
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  Speaker 1: of the available information. Eat is everything. Does anyone disagree?
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  Speaker 1: In the back of the room. Nope, nobody disagrees. Forget
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  Speaker 1: trust yourself. scouts. It's trust your bloodline is what this
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  Speaker 1: is all about. A family referral with serious NFL consequences. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Giants didn't give up anything to get this guy.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way, though, no way that John Harbaugh makes
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  Speaker 1: this trade without Jim Harbaugh standing on the table, jumping
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  Speaker 1: up and down. Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay. Just like that.
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  Speaker 1: Can you see Jim Harbaugh, Mr. Hardo, standing on the table?
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  Speaker 1: So the Giants, they didn't get the resume. You wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: trade for J.J. McCarthy based on his resume. They bought
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  Speaker 1: the recommendation letter from Jim Harbaugh. That's what the Giants bought.
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  Speaker 1: And so McCarthy's brand has been completely poisoned in only
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  Speaker 1: a couple years with the Vikings. Remember, he missed the
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  Speaker 1: first year with injury. And then, unfortunately for him, he
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  Speaker 1: actually played in the second year. And then they realized,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, we got the guy that can't play.
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  Speaker 1: What's up with that? And so now after that brand
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  Speaker 1: had been poisoned, they get him for a late throwaway
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  Speaker 1: draft pick, a late round throwaway draft pick. And New
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  Speaker 1: York is able to afford the hazmat suit that one
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  Speaker 1: needs to coach J.J. McCarthy. And so essentially Minnesota went
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  Speaker 1: out and paid five grand for a mystery box. What's
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  Speaker 1: in the box? And they got the mystery box. And
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  Speaker 1: then New York found that same mystery box at a
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  Speaker 1: yard sale for five bucks. So the Vikings turned a
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  Speaker 1: $ 5, 000 mystery box into a $ 5 yard sale box is
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  Speaker 1: what they found, the Giants. And so the Giants, we
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  Speaker 1: know they're not marrying McCarthy. This is not a marriage
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  Speaker 1: with J.J. McCarthy. What's going on here is they're meeting
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  Speaker 1: at a Starbucks outside the city, and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: order the cinnamon swirl coffee cake, and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: keep separate checks. So that's how that's going to go.
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  Speaker 1: And Jim gave his brother... It's like giving a restaurant recommendation,
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  Speaker 1: and now we'll find out whether John Harbaugh ends up
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  Speaker 1: getting food poisoning from coaching J.J.
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  Speaker 3: McCarthy.
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  Speaker 1: Or was this merely a Minnesota problem where there was
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  Speaker 1: just no connection between McCarthy and the coaching staff, and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, J.J. McCarthy turns out to be
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  Speaker 1: the bomb, bombity, bombity, bombity, bombity.com. All right, now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: final point. To the incumbent, to the incumbent we go,
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart. was supposed to be the man in the
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  Speaker 1: Big Apple. And then he got hurt. So it appears
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  Speaker 1: that he is now out of the inner circle now.
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  Speaker 1: The way I'm reading the room here, we know he's
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  Speaker 1: out for the year. Jameis Winston flopped with his audition.
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  Speaker 1: which led the Giants to make this trade for J.J.
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy on Monday. The question is this. What does the
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  Speaker 1: Giants trade for J.J. McCarthy say about the status of
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart? All right, so it's kind of self-explanatory here.
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  Speaker 1: I think you can figure this out. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be some kind of NFL insider like Anthony in Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: Trading for J.J. McCarthy tells you everything, everything you need
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  Speaker 1: to know about John Harbaugh's belief in Jackson Dart. But
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  Speaker 1: what are you talking about, Maller? Jackson Dart's hurt.
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  Speaker 3: That's not fair.
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  Speaker 1: You shouldn't lose your job to injury. Oh, you want
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  Speaker 1: to bet?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There's clearly a trust issue here. And it's not even
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  Speaker 1: so much about performance. Jackson Dart, when he's played, he's
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  Speaker 1: shown more when he's played that he could be good
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  Speaker 1: than J.J. McCarthy's shown. You feel me on that? When
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  Speaker 1: I've seen Jackson Dart play, I'm like, well, there's some
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  Speaker 1: things that he does pretty well. And I could see
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  Speaker 1: him having some success in the NFL. You can't stay
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  Speaker 1: on the field. You can't do it. And so Jackson Dart,
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  Speaker 1: you know what he is? He's like a cyber truck
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  Speaker 1: for quarterbacks. He's the cyber truck of quarterbacks, Jackson Dart.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of hype. A lot of hype. They gave
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  Speaker 1: you this futuristic sales pitch about Jackson Dart, and everybody
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  Speaker 1: keeps asking, why is that Cybertruck in the shop? Why
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  Speaker 1: is it in the service center? What is going on
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  Speaker 1: with that? And you really don't have an answer. Lately,
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart has been majoring in rehab, which generally you
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  Speaker 1: don't get a lot of value if you're top class.
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  Speaker 1: contribution to an NFL team is spending time in the
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  Speaker 1: trainer's room. Generally, that is not looked upon kindly in
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  Speaker 1: that particular business. And he's got a minor in football
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  Speaker 1: with the Giants. So Harbaugh did not even draft Jackson Dart.
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  Speaker 1: We know that, right? He inherited Jackson Dart. And so
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like Jackson Dart was the sofa that
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  Speaker 1: came with the house.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I'll keep the sofa for a while. Eventually I'll get
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  Speaker 1: a new sofa, but I'll keep it for now. And
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  Speaker 1: so the Giants have officially updated their quarterback relationship status online.
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  Speaker 1: And they went from Jackson Dart is our guy, Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Dart is our guy, to two words, it's complicated. It's complicated.
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  Speaker 1: And so instead of taking a flyer, and this is
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  Speaker 1: where the disconnect is, because some people say, well, J.J.
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy was no good in Minnesota, and it's true. I
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  Speaker 1: agree with you. J.J. McCarthy sucked in Minnesota. He was terrible.
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  Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you on that. But my issue
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  Speaker 1: is this. The reason this is a vote of no
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  Speaker 1: confidence for Jackson Dart, it would have been very easy
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  Speaker 1: for the Giants to go out and get Gardner Minshew
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  Speaker 1: or Joe Flacco, a longer-in-the-tooth quarterback. Except New York said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Let's go full Young Buck reclamation project.
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  Speaker 1: And so here we are. And McCarthy arrives carrying so
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  Speaker 1: much baggage, they barely could afford the Giants to send
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  Speaker 1: him to New Jersey and To end up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they send him to Newark and the baggage fees were
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  Speaker 1: extreme here. But so there's a lot of baggage in
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  Speaker 1: the old line. This is a city where everybody believes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, go to New York, you know, deserve another act.
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  Speaker 1: You can make it there. You can make it anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: All that bull crap. And so for McCarthy, New York
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  Speaker 1: is Aladdin's cave. The Giants are Aladdin's cave here for J.J.
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  Speaker 3: McCarthy.
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  Speaker 1: You rub the lamp and you hope there's one career
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  Speaker 1: wish left. And McCarthy's going to play. I would say
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  Speaker 1: he plays within the next three weeks. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: start and he'll replace Jameis Winston. And from that point forward,
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  Speaker 1: that is the casting call. You have 10, 11, 12,
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  Speaker 1: whatever games it will be by the time he gets
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  Speaker 1: in there to show that you can play. And if
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  Speaker 1: he does well, then all of a sudden Jackson Dart
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  Speaker 1: gets demoted and And then McCarthy's got the opportunity. It's
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  Speaker 1: right in front of him. He's got the opportunity. It
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• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Billy coming up in a couple minutes here. Ask a
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: weed man. We do it every week because he calls
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: up every week. We thought he'd only do it once.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: We agreed to do this, and we figured, well, he'll
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: only call up once, and then he'll flake, and he's
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: called up every week. We can't get River.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I know. So that'll be uh ahead here we have
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: lorraine like the cockroaches in the building yeah yeah they
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: they go away for a little bit they kill them
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and then they come they come back and it's wild
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: clearly they don't kill them all lorraine is here the
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: fsr tech queen you can say hello and there's koopa
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: loop at a bronco fan that's a bronco fan Your
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: comments can and will be used against you in the
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: court of sports radio. So please, please act accordingly. So
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: before we get to ask a wee bit, I want
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: to spend a couple of minutes. I'll do more of
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: my podcast this weekend. But actor Dennis Haskins died. The
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: announcement came down. He was the principal from Saved by
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the Bell. Mr. Belding from Saved by the Bell. It
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: was a very popular show years ago. He was 75.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: And the reason, obviously, selfishly, I wanted to bring this
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: up is because I had met him a few times
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: over the years. He was a listener, actually, to the show.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: And he ran... It's kind of weird. He ran this...
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: a karaoke bar in Burbank here in LA. I used
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to work in Burbank and there was like the only
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: thing to do in Burbank was to go either the
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: smokehouse and get garlic toast or to go to dimples.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: So I spent many, I don't do karaoke by the way.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I don't, but I'll go to a karaoke bar and Mr. Belding,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: AKA Dennis Haskins owned it. And he was there all
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the time. And that was his spot. So everyone that
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: went there kind of knew him a little bit. But
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: he was a listener to the show. And I actually
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: got a text from Eddie Garcia, our buddy Eddie, because
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: when he heard about the actor Dennis Haskins passing away,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: he said, oh, you got to mention him. And I said, yeah,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I'll definitely mention Dennis Haskins on the show. He was
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: on social media and all that stuff, and then things
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: got really crazy about 10 years ago on social media
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: where anything you said can and will be used against
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: you in the court of public opinion by the Woxers.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: So Dennis moved to Tennessee. Actually, Dimple's closed. It's now
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Whole Foods Market and some apartments in Burbank. And he
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: moved to Burbank. He's very nice. I met him a
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: few times. He called into the show a couple of
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: times over the years. So rest in peace to actor
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Dennis Haskins. And I'll tell some more stories later. and
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: whatnot on the podcast this weekend, but I saw that,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: and I wanted to mention that situation, so I don't
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: know much about it other than just the headline that
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: he had died. I guess it doesn't really matter how
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: he died, because he's not around anymore, so rest in
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: peace there to actor Dennis Haskins, who... lived an interesting
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: life there and was part of one of the more
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: popular shows, like one of the last popular sitcoms. Would
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: that be fair to say? I feel like there's a
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: lot of sitcoms nobody watches these days. But that show
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: resonated for a generation of people who are all grown
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: up now, saved by the bell. With that being said,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: we welcome in the man, the myth, the legend from Hollywood, Florida.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Weed Man Hippie is his name.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: How are you, man?
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be having a bath,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: but I'm not. I'm here talking.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Well, thanks for putting me on Saturday night. That was great.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we recorded on Saturday for the mailbag on
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Sunday there, and we have questions, many questions, Weed Man.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: It's Ask a Weed Man. Any opening statement you would
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: like to make?
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: We want to make the world a better place to live.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: No more violence and hatred. Just stop all the wars
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: going on. I mean, this is a violent whole world.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: This is a violent world. It's terrible, and we have
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: to change it.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: How's that going, by the way?
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Not too good. Not too good. You've got to do
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: it right here.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: All right. All right, fair enough. Well, we have, let's see,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: we have plenty of questions here. Kathy in Madison... Writes
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: in for our friend Billy here.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Hi, Kathy.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Says, how can the radio station get rid of the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: cockroaches we've been? Great question. Thank you, Kathy. Great question.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I have cockroaches in this apartment.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: You kill them.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Come on, man.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: I know, right? It's terrible.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Not a lot, but a few.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: And it's terrible. I don't know. Do you want to
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: kill them? Man.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Are they crawling around while you're sleeping and stuff?
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: No, no, no. They're not in the bedroom, but they're
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: in the bathroom. Did you kill them? You know, I
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: don't think cockroaches have restrictions on what rooms they go
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: in and out of.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think they realize what room they're in.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: No, of course not. That's funny. No, of course not.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Hi, Lorena. Hi, Weed Man.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: No, of course not. But they're in the bathroom. I
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: see them in the bathroom.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: All right, well, Ferg Dogg writes in, so you have
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: no advice on killing them. Ferg Dogg writes in and says...
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I'd rather.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Not kill anything, not even cockroaches. I'd rather not kill them.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: I'd rather.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I don't mind. I don't mind killing cockroaches. Ferg Dogg
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: writes in and says, thanks for doing the Fifth Hour
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Weed Man this week. It made it much easier to
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: put up with Robbie once again.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Well, that's great. Thank you. I really love doing it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Ben. I really, really love doing it.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Well, you should thank the people that don't answer their phone,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Weed Man, that say they want to do it, and
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: then they don't answer the phone. And you always answer.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I'll give you this. You always answer your phone. You
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and Robbie always answer the call. When I call, you
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: guys answer.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: I'll do it every week. I'll do it any time
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: you want.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Late Night Drug Tester writes
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: in and says, Hey, Weed Man, give us a winner
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: for the Stanley Cup. The NHL season starts tomorrow. On
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Tuesday night. Tonight.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: The Islanders.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Was it the 1980s again? What are you, crazy? The Islanders.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Who is the quarterback from Miami Dolphins?
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: You do not know. You're in Miami, Weedman. Shouldn't you
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: know that?
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Malik, Malik. Well, he's gone. He's back up in Atlanta.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: It's Malik Willis.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: You don't even know who that is.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: Do you?
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: No. And Tua is in Atlanta. He's back up toward
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: the head of the Falcons.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Well, he would have been the starter, but he couldn't
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: play at the beginning of the year. And then they
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: realized that they didn't want to start him. He sucks.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: And then they realized he sucks. And then he got hurt.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: So that, yeah.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: So he's.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Wow. All right. What else?
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: So the Islanders, that's nobody else is picking the Islanders.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Not even Joe Dogg. or E-Dog, or any dog. None
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: of those guys are picking the Islers. What is next here?
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: How about the Rangers? How about the Rangers? How are they?
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: They're not winning either.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Shane in Des Moines writes in. He wants your thoughts,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Weed Man, on the Mariners getting rid of Dan Wilson.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: You don't even know who Dan Wilson is. That's terrible.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: You don't even know who Dan Wilson is.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: No idea.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: No idea. All right. OG Art Puffin says, what's the
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: longest time you have ever been clean for, so to speak?
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Uh, not very long. I always have weed out there.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Not very long. I have weed right now. I don't
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: spend too much time not being high.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Okay. But when did you start weed, man? Like, how
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: old were you when you began your path?
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know. I had 13 or 15.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Somewhere around there. Not 14, though. 13 or 15, but
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: not 14. Definitely not 14.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Bagel Boy writes in. You like a good bagel weed, man?
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Bagel Boy, sure. Onion bagels.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Not an everything bagel? I like the onion bagel, too.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Not bad. It's not my favorite bagel. It's a solid bagel.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: What's your favorite?
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I go back. I do like the everything bagel. I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: like a.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: What's an everything bagel?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: What do you think it is?
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Onion, garlic. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Pepper, salt. Salt, pepper.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Everything. Salt, pepper, onion, garlic.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: That's bad bagel. Poppy seeds. Yeah, poppy seeds.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Poppy seeds.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: How many types of bagels can you name, Wee Man?
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Raisin bagels.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Cinnamon bagels.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: There's a sesame seed, right? Or your just basic plain bagel.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: That's boring, though. That's like eating Cheerios. Blueberry. That's more
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: of an exotic bagel, though. That's not a normal. What
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: about an egg bagel? He just said, didn't he say
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: he likes egg bagels? Didn't he say that? Did he
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: say egg bagels? Yeah, he said that's his favorite bagel. No,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: he said... I thought he said... He said onion bagels
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: is his favorite.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, I never said egg bagels.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, onion. Oh, I think of egg as the same.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: There's a garlic bagel you can get.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the garlic one's good. I like the jalapeno bagels, too.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Really? Mm-hmm. You like that hot food?
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like a little spice on that. It's not
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: that hot, Weed Man. It's not... There's a lot of
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: exotic bagels now, too, so it's changed. The bagel game
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: has changed, Weed Man. It's not the same. By the way,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Bagel Boy. What about Chocolate Chip? Nah.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Chocolate Chip's are great.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: None of the Bagel. Bagel Boy says, hey, Weed Man,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: how about those Chiefs?
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Go Kansas City.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: And he says, don't say that, Weed Man. And he says,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Chicken Figures in Kansas City. So you got
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: to go to Kansas City, Weed Man, to have the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Chicken Figures. Milkman Mike writes in, he says,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: can Weedman confirm that the Giants actually reached out to
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: him for QB1 before they traded for jj mccarthy that.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Would be great right.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Not blind austin writes in from bakersfield and says what's
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the difference weed man between stoners and politicians What's the difference?
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Politicians don't inhale. They just suck. That's it. There you go.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: That's funny.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Not blind Austin. These are actual questions.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Who's the giant quarterback now?
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Well, Jackson Dark got hurt. You're really up on your sports.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: So Jackson Dark got hurt. Jameis Winston's not very good.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: So he's kind of out. And then they went out
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and they traded for J.J. McCarthy.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: J.J. McCarthy. How about that?
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Analog Al writes and says, Hey, Weed Man, when's the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: last time you slept and what did you dream about?
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: I don't sleep. I never, ever sleep. I'm up all
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: 24-7 all the time. I never sleep.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Is it possible, Weedman, that you don't realize you're sleeping
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and you're actually sleeping?
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: I'm up all night long listening to the radio. I'm
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: watching YouTube. All night long.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: All night.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: All night long. All night long. Every night. I never sleep, ever.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: All right. Steve writes in. He says, Weed Man, are
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: you happy that Walmart is promising to never use AI
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: to charge shoppers higher prices? That's a random question.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Wow. Artificial intelligence. So how is that going to kill
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: everyone in the world?
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Well, according to Alf, we're all going to be dead
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: in a couple of days. So I don't know.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: How is that going to happen?
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Be whatever you want it to be.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: If it gets into bad people that have bad intentions,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: they could do some really terrible things.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Like what?
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Like, get the nuclear codes and shoot off nukes and
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: we're all dead. Oh, stop.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: No, they can't. Stop that. No, they can't.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they can or not. I'm just
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: telling you what the doom and gloom crowd says out there,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: but I don't think that. I'm not worried about that.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: There's certain things you shouldn't worry about because you have
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: no control over it, number one. And number two, if
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: it happens, who cares? Because you'll be dead, so don't
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: worry about it.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: You're right. You're right.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Might as well enjoy your life. Who cares? Let's see here.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: What else do we have? Ask a Weed Man, our
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: friend Billy here. Oh, Bozo, the district attorney's chiming in.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Hey, Bozo.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Every week. Every week. What's the most unusual or exotic
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: thing you have ever eaten?
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: I eat. What do you call it?
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know. That's why we asked the question.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no. It gets you high, and you
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: immediately fall out.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: What? Lorraine is interested in that. What is this you
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: speak of, Weed Man?
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what's it called?
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: No, you do, you know, you know.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: You talking about like ayahuasca stuff like that? Yes, yes, yes. Oh, yeah,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: you've had ayahuasca. But you don't eat that. We're asking
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: what the strangest food you've had.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: No, no, you do eat it. I think you do
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: eat it.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: No, I thought that was like, it's tea, right? It's
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: ayahuasca tea, I thought.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: No?
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I've never had it, so I don't know.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, oh, oh, oh, okay. You're right, you're right.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I think we were thinking more like escargot or something.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Or something tasty out of a dumpster.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: No?
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Nothing out of a.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Escargot. That's fish eggs, isn't it?
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Is that fish eggs? No, escargot is snails. Yeah, that's
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: what I thought. Oh, snails.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: Delicious.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: That's funny. All right.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Alf writes in. Hey, Weed Man, will you please learn
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: how to use Zoom? Your phone sucks. I only understood
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: a few words you said on the mailbag. Self from Alf.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm going to try that to upload Zoom. I'm
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: going to try to do it.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Don't even. You're not going to do that. Come on now.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Well, it takes too long.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: It takes too long. Well, just download it while you're sleeping. Oh, wait,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: you don't sleep. So you can't do that.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: When I go to pay my phone bill, I'll do
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: it then when I have to get the bus. I'll
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: see if that works.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: So you have to leave your house once a month
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: to go get.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll try to do it, though. I really will.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: How often do you leave your house? You don't leave
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: your house much. You're a shut-in, right? You don't leave
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: your house very much.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much, yeah.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: It's very odd to me because you used to work
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: the tourist parts of Miami, right? You were in South Beach, and.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: You were like.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: No, I know, but you were down on... Like, that
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: was your gig. You'd be hitting up people for money,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and you were like your character in Miami, and now
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: you just sit in your house all the time. Don't
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: you want to get out a little bit?
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I got you. Nada writes in. She's at LAX. She
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: was supposed to meet us in Vegas, and then it didn't.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to her. But anyway, Weedman,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on Brisbane winning the AFL footy
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: final against Fremantle?
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Wow. Wow.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know who that is. I believe that's Australian football, right?
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Am I correct on that? I think that's right.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Australian football.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: She wants to know your hot take on Australian football, no?
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Is that football or is that soccer?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, what's, I think it's, uh, neither. Isn't it, uh.
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  Speaker 3: Or is it rugby?
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  Speaker 1: Kind of like a rugby thing, I think, right?
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  Speaker 2: I believe?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I know in New Zealand they have like a rugby
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  Speaker 1: type thing, but Australia is obviously a different country, so...
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. All right. Well, Weed Man, there you
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  Speaker 1: go yet again. You have dazzled us. Amazing job as always. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And where's Lisa? She didn't stay up with the show?
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  Speaker 1: What's up with that?
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  Speaker 3: No, she didn't answer the phone.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's a bad job by Lisa. All right. Well,
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. This is our friend Weed Man Hippie
• 35:54
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  Speaker 1: the Insta Trivia. Former Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy is one
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  Speaker 1: of only four first-round quarterbacks the past generation, 25 years,
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  Speaker 1: to start 10 or fewer games for the team that
• 36:34
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  Speaker 1: and Blank. Again, former Viking quarterback J.J. McCarthy, one of
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: only four first-round quarterbacks the last 25 years to start
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  Speaker 1: 10 or fewer games for the team that drafted them.
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  Speaker 1: He joins legends like Johnny Menzel, Trey Lance, and Blank.
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  Speaker 3: The answer.
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  Speaker 1: Instant Trivia. Quickly, former Viking quarterback J.J. McCarthy is now
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  Speaker 1: one of only four first-round quarterbacks in the past 25
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  Speaker 1: years to start 10 games or fewer for the team
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  Speaker 1: that drafted him. He joins legends like Johnny Manziel, Trey Lance,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: and blank. And that is the question. J.P. Osman, yes,
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  Speaker 1: by Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. Who else do we have?
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  Speaker 1: Page down. Kevin Durant, who is 38 today. From late
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: night drug tester Malik Willis. Malik Willis gets by Mr. Irrigation.
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  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy from Michael in Tulsa. Who else do we have?
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  Speaker 1: Rick Meyer from Mediocre Kabuki. That's more than 25 years.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Tim Tebow from Filler Upfield. Do you have an answer, Lorena?
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  Speaker 1: Joe Montana.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: It is Broncos legend Paxton Lynch.
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  Speaker 3: Paxton Lynch.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: It's Maller. How about that? To the third degree.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 6: The Bengals 2-0 start had people feeling like Joe Burrow
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  Speaker 6: was on to something when he was cranking up expectations
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  Speaker 6: this offseason. Now a loss to.
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  Speaker 1: Old man Rodgers.
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  Speaker 6: Ben, does the loss to the Steelers prove that the
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: Bengals aren't Super Bowl contenders?
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  Speaker 1: Well, obviously, yeah. Aaron Rodgers looked like he was playing
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: for the Green Bay Packers and it was like 2010
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  Speaker 1: or 12 or something like that. He averaged almost nine
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  Speaker 1: yards a pass. What happened to the new improved Bengals defense?
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Where did that go? Where did that— and by the way,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow? I love Joe Burrow, but he's not exactly
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Captain Clutch. He doesn't usually lead teams back. He had
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: a chance. He blew it. Next!
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: The Cleveland Browns are above. 500 for the first time
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  Speaker 6: since the 2023-2024 season.
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  Speaker 3: Whee!
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  Speaker 6: Deshaun Watson has had back-to-back solid outings. Is it time
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: for the Browns fans to get excited? I disagree that
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: Watson was solid in the game this past weekend. He
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  Speaker 6: averaged less than five yards a pass. I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: go no because you're the Browns. It's a factory of sadness,
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: so I'm going to go no. Next, Trevor Lawrence being
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: accused of funny business, kneeling down before reaching the end
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  Speaker 6: zone with nine minutes left in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: He said he's trying to help support the tootin' fantasy
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: people out there. Are you buying that explanation, Ben?
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  Speaker 3: No!
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  Speaker 1: No, but it was great disrespect to the Patriots that
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: he did. It was pretty funny to mock the Patriots
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: like that. How do we do, Coop? He passes it.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: That is a win.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Put it on the board! Winner, winner, winner!
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Chicken dinner!