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  Speaker 1: Well, we're back at it. The NBA down to the
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  Speaker 1: final four. Perfect time for us to talk about something
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  Speaker 1: out of Pittsburgh, PA. That is where our lead is
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  Speaker 1: the confluence where they give birth to the Ohio River.
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  Speaker 1: Right there, the Alleghany and the Mahangahila have a baby
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  Speaker 1: and they spit out the Ohio River. And we had
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  Speaker 1: a breakthrough the long standoff ended over the weekend. Did
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  Speaker 1: you see this at all? We're paying attention. Were you
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  Speaker 1: watching the golf and the other that was going on?
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  Speaker 1: You weren't paying attention? What bad job by you? Came
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  Speaker 1: to a rather quiet end, not a lot of fanfare,
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  Speaker 1: not in any bells and whistles, and nobody was playing
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  Speaker 1: the tuba. Aaron Rogers has decided to play football. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe it. Rogers agreed to a one year
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  Speaker 1: deal with Petsberg Steelers worth up to that's weasel terminology,
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  Speaker 1: up to twenty five million over the weekend. Wow, helllllujah, helllllujah.
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  Speaker 1: So Rogers signs. Our long national nightmare has come to
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  Speaker 1: an end for another year, and the Tabernacle of Rogers
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers continues.
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  Speaker 3: Here we are.
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  Speaker 1: Told the deal is expected to include a base salary
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  Speaker 1: I love this between twenty two and twenty three million,
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of million tossed on top to sweeten
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  Speaker 1: the deal in the form of incentives. Well that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Minimum wage twenty two to twenty three million. Dallas Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: is reunited and it feels so good with the rotun
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  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy. They were together for thirteen years. Most agree,
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  Speaker 1: chronically underachieving, with the Green Bay Packers only winning one
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  Speaker 1: championship despite having teams that when you're the top of
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  Speaker 1: the NFC pretty much every year Rogers played in Green Bay,
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  Speaker 1: but only one breakthrough season. So that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question what is
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  Speaker 1: the word? I love words? So what is the word
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  Speaker 1: for the Steelers finally coming to terms with Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend, the Saturday News dumps. So I've got
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  Speaker 1: my observations, I got Thermostat artistry and Thousand Island dressing,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together. And
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  Speaker 1: as our friend Andrea in Berkeley likes to say, we
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  Speaker 1: will thank our lucky stars. Is what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: So number one, one, one one, All right, they got
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  Speaker 1: the deal. Sure, the deal is Dunskies. However, my word
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  Speaker 1: is bitter sweet. That is my word. My word is
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  Speaker 1: bitter sweet. And here's why it's bittersweet. Because Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: has the Steelers by the balls. He does. He controls
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  Speaker 1: the Thermostat, the playlist, the entire mojo of the franchise.
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  Speaker 1: Rogers is in control. This is the NFL's version of
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  Speaker 1: getting back together with your ex because the rent is
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  Speaker 1: due and you don't have enough money to pay the
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  Speaker 1: rent yourself, So let's get back together. Why not? What
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  Speaker 1: do you say? That's where we are. The Steelers had
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  Speaker 1: no other options. They purposely went down the store. Now,
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  Speaker 1: my theory all along was that Rogers just didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to be hassled to have to attend team functions and
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  Speaker 1: things like that. So he just sat around. The season
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  Speaker 1: ended in January for the Steelers, and he said around February, March, April.
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  Speaker 1: Now here we are in mid May, and Rogers has
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  Speaker 1: apparently agreed to sign the contract. Neither side really had
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  Speaker 1: any options, any real options.
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  Speaker 3: This was it.
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  Speaker 1: So Rogers held the franchise hostage with what a shrug,
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  Speaker 1: A shoulder shrug from Aaron Rodgers pretty much. So it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't so much a negotiation. I think that's the right
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  Speaker 1: word for this negotiation. I think that's it. This was
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers sitting in the lobby waiting for Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: to finish as ayahuasca infused vision quest, and he just
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  Speaker 1: sat there. They had some of that lemon water, a
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  Speaker 1: little strawberry water, and they sat in the lobby and
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  Speaker 1: they were just sipping their water waiting for Rogers to
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  Speaker 1: get done. And that's it. And now Rodgers has done,
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  Speaker 1: so here we are. They also inherit the drama. They continue,
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  Speaker 1: which is fine for me. Now I don't work for
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers. It's good as a talk show host, it's good.
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  Speaker 1: You get all that you get. The darkness retreats you
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  Speaker 1: get the podcast appearances with the Joe Rogan all that
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  Speaker 1: soff Rogers. Now, he negotiated this contract, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to call a negotiation like a man who enjoys watching
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  Speaker 1: the other side sweat a little bit. Just make him
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  Speaker 1: sweat a little bit, just a little bit. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And the Steelers picking up again into the the Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers timeline. They get his mood swings and his moon cycles.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure Andrea will pop up here at some
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  Speaker 1: point this hour and give us what moon cycle Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers is on. And it's all in the stars. It's
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  Speaker 1: some kind of cosmic event as to why he chose
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  Speaker 1: to sign with the Steelers over the weekend. Now, keeping
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  Speaker 1: the hour of Rogers going, it's the Mister Rogers neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: Hour at least here at the start. So the other
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  Speaker 1: question I had is how much does Aaron Rodgers have
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  Speaker 1: left in the tank for the Steelers? Waited a round
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  Speaker 1: for this guy. He didn't pursue the video gamer Kyler
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  Speaker 1: Murray who took his joystick to Minnesota. He didn't try
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  Speaker 1: to get him. He didn't attempt to trade in the
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  Speaker 1: draft to acquire a quarterback. And there were other questionable
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks that changed teams and you didn't have any interest
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  Speaker 1: in them. You had tunnel vision, tunnel vision in Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers. So how much does Rogers have left?
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  Speaker 1: So we turned to Bennie's Big Board, not a list
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  Speaker 1: for Terry and England, Bennie's Big Board of NFL quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: and the soundtrack for Aaron Rodgers. The soundtrack for Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers here is a Begi's classic Man in the Middle,
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  Speaker 1: because if you look at Bennie's Big Board, Rogers is
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  Speaker 1: right in the middle. He's stuck between washed and worshiped,
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  Speaker 1: with a heavy lean towards Washed at this particular point
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  Speaker 1: somewhere between the Hall of Fame myth and he is
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  Speaker 1: going to the Hall of fame. But the thought of
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  Speaker 1: that he's going to the Hall of fame based on
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  Speaker 1: his body of work with the Green Bay Packers and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he ran out to the field with
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  Speaker 1: the Jets holding the flag and that was the highlight
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  Speaker 1: of his Jets' career on nine to eleven and then
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  Speaker 1: proceeded to get hurt right away. But the mythology of
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  Speaker 1: that and the reality of the fact that he is
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  Speaker 1: now currently running Aaron Rodgers on the fumes of unleaded gasoline.
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  Speaker 1: That's where we are. That's where we are with Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers at this particular point. Rodgers is not totally cooked.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and tell you he is.
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  Speaker 1: He's not. That would be a bad take. Rogers is
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  Speaker 1: not fully cooked. He's not. He's just water temperature dependent,
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  Speaker 1: and the temperature is lukewarm, luke warm. Aaron Rodgers. The
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  Speaker 1: Steelers are betting what they're betting that a couple of
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  Speaker 1: sparks means there's still some firecrackers in. There's some fireworks
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  Speaker 1: in Aaron Rodgers game plane. Now, the raw numbers say
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  Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers was the sixteenth ranked quarterback last season. However,
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  Speaker 1: even that comes with a giant cheating a hole size
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  Speaker 1: asterisk the size of Western Pennsylvania. It does. A chunk
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  Speaker 1: of the production for Rogers last year came in the
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  Speaker 1: form of step back and I ripped dak Prescott all
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  Speaker 1: the time. The stat bandito Dakota Prescott. I gotta be
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  Speaker 1: fair here, Aaron Rodgers. If you didn't pay attention last year,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of his damage was done when the game
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  Speaker 1: was over, whether it was ahead or behind, mostly behind
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  Speaker 1: for the Steelers last year. In fact, I went back.
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  Speaker 1: I looked at the numbers Rogers' stat patting mode. Fourteen
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  Speaker 1: percent of his passing yards, so almost fifteen percent, came
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  Speaker 1: when the Steelers were down by multiple scores, and over
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  Speaker 1: twenty percent of his passing touchdowns came when the game
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  Speaker 1: was lopsided, whether the game was decided in favor of
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh or behind, just over twenty percent. Now you decode that,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you how to decode it. If you need
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  Speaker 1: garbage time artistry, an artisan of the garbage, if that's
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  Speaker 1: what you need. Aaron Rodgers Picasso. He's Picasso. He is
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  Speaker 1: well last year, he's Picasso. I'll give him some leftover lettuce.
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  Speaker 1: That's a little the spaghetti. He's been laying around for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days. He threw it out, and he'll
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  Speaker 1: make some art out of that. He will. But it's
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  Speaker 1: obviously not anywhere near an MVP level player the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: are getting. This is the hipster podcast version, slower, more thoughtful,
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  Speaker 1: occasionally interesting, but you're mostly hanging around for nostalgia and
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  Speaker 1: the brand name. It's a good brand name that you
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  Speaker 1: got there, solid brand name. Way to go. Now, you
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  Speaker 1: wonder when Rogers is it reintroduced as the Steelers quarterback?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think his wife's gonna show up to that?
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  Speaker 1: You think we'll see his wife there? Here's my wife?
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  Speaker 1: Is she encouraged me to come play football again? She
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  Speaker 1: can't really stop him from playing football because I don't
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  Speaker 1: think she exists, So you know anyway, final point, So
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  Speaker 1: continuing the Rogers express for ray, we are going down
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  Speaker 1: the Aaron Rodgers express ray. So the other question here
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  Speaker 1: to put the ball on this? What is the projection
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  Speaker 1: for the Pittsburg Steelers of twenty twenty six? Now that
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has emerged from the darkness and back on
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  Speaker 1: to the gridiron for another season in his early forties,
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  Speaker 1: he's back to do it again. So heading into his
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  Speaker 1: age what will be his age forty three season before
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs playoffs, Rogers turns forty three, Rogers is at
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  Speaker 1: this point he is Iceberg Lettuce. Aaron Rodgers is Iceberg Lettuce.
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean? A cold land and useful of
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  Speaker 1: everything around. Everything around is seasoned perfectly. And people say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I like salad. I always love when I see people
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  Speaker 1: eating salad. I don't eat salad. Me and al Michaels
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  Speaker 1: and Pucin de Coua on a no vegetable diet other
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  Speaker 1: than garlic. I give an exemption to garlic. But I
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  Speaker 1: go out to restaurants. I don't go off. I don't
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  Speaker 1: go out the restaurants much anymore. When I go out
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  Speaker 1: to eat and I see people eating salad, I laugh
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  Speaker 1: because it's not really salad. It's a chicken salad with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of delicious dressing. And they put the toppings
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  Speaker 1: on there, you know, beef or whatever it is on there,
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  Speaker 1: So you know what I mean. The salad it's called
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  Speaker 1: the sells a great marketing gimmick to salad bull crap,
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  Speaker 1: Like if you just want to really eat salad, just
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  Speaker 1: eat some lettuce. Nobody does that. Why because it's disgusting. So,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the way I look at Roger. He's iceberg lets.
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  Speaker 1: So for this to work, the Steelers are gonna have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pepper. They're gonna have to add some
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  Speaker 1: croutons on top, some onions, some kind of meat heavy
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  Speaker 1: pore of Thousand Islands dressing on top of the iceberg
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  Speaker 1: lettuce there to make it palatable. Now, if all that happens,
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  Speaker 1: you know, then you got something right. The defense, the
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  Speaker 1: special teams, it's you know, we'll get to it, say,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like a Dick and Dayton take. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Dick and Dayton famously told he calls up years ago
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  Speaker 1: about the Cleveland Indians, the old baseball team that the
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  Speaker 1: Wolkeser's got rid of, and he said, what do the
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  Speaker 1: Indians need to do, Dick to turn things around? Well,
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  Speaker 1: they got to pitch, they got to hit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: play defense as essentially the Steelers. The same argument, the
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  Speaker 1: Dick and Dayton argument is, well, the Steelers they need
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  Speaker 1: to play defense, and they need a good running game
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  Speaker 1: and special teams, and then Rogers will be fine. He's
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  Speaker 1: an aging rock rock and roll guy that can still
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  Speaker 1: occasionally hit the high note, but only after three throat
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  Speaker 1: lozenges and a couple of prayers, a couple of Hail Mary's,
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  Speaker 1: and then you're okay. But if you look at the
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  Speaker 1: mat in twenty twenty five, over sixty percent of the
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  Speaker 1: time you got either one touchdown or zero touchdowns in
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  Speaker 1: games started by Aaron Rodgers. So it was this sixty
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  Speaker 1: two percent of the games Rogers either had one or
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  Speaker 1: no touchdowns For Pittsburgh, and Rodgers is a at this
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  Speaker 1: point he is a jag, of course, not a Jacksonville jag,
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  Speaker 1: just a guy who used to be a TG the guy,
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  Speaker 1: but now he's just a guy instead of the guy.
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  Speaker 1: And every few weeks he'll take a spin in the DeLorean.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers will get to DeLorean, he'll crank it up
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  Speaker 1: to eighty eight miles per hour and the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the time he's stuck in neutral on the Parkway East
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  Speaker 1: there in Pittsburgh. He's like, I understand, I can't get
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  Speaker 1: I cannot get this thing up to the proper speed.
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  Speaker 1: And it turns out that even Rogers, that flux capacitor
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  Speaker 1: needs load management. So tough break there for the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers. The Steelers they're not continents there about
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  Speaker 1: where they were. We're going to find out how much
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  Speaker 1: of whatever this was the last twenty years was Mike
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin and his coaching, and how much of this was
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  Speaker 1: just the roster and the talent, because Mike McCarthy is
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  Speaker 1: I know Spacoli gets upset when I says, but McCarthy,
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  Speaker 1: I'll say, anyone is not as good a coach as
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  Speaker 1: Mike tom I would rather have Mike Tomlin than Mike
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy yet. Yeah, we'll find out. Is McCarthy just is
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  Speaker 1: it the doppel ganger? Is he the same guy? They're
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  Speaker 1: going to be the same Steeler team where they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be at nine and eight and right there and
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  Speaker 1: hanging around just waiting for Joe Burrow to get hurt
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  Speaker 1: again and you know, Lamar Jackson to continue to stink
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  Speaker 1: like he did last year. And so there you go.
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  Speaker 1: of famously back in the day the dust Bowl. You
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  Speaker 1: know your your history. So the much bally Hood? Am
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  Speaker 1: I supposed to say that much bally Hood? Matchup between
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  Speaker 1: the upper crust of the NBA? This is the real
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals. Whoever wins this series is gaon teen of
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  Speaker 1: had the NBA Final four, but really the final two.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's like, well, these are the top two teams. And
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  Speaker 1: it got started on Monday night there in the Sooner State,
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio versus Oklahoma City, round round one of the
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  Speaker 1: scheduled seven round heavyweight matchup. Not if you watch the
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  Speaker 1: game or not, despite the best laid plans of mice
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  Speaker 1: men and marketing people and having the teams that, if
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  Speaker 1: you go by the record, say well, if you're a
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  Speaker 1: sports fan, you'd have to watch. I don't get the
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  Speaker 1: sense there's a lot of that. Am I wrong on that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I am These teams despite their success,
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  Speaker 1: do not really move the needle. But there was round
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  Speaker 1: one we watched so you would not have to. It's
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  Speaker 1: our good mits for the day. Congratulations Victor Wembanyama. He's
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  Speaker 1: very tall and very skinny. Victor Wembanyama had forty one
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  Speaker 1: points and twenty four rebounds. I'm told that's good. Dylan Harper,
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  Speaker 1: the spawn of Hollywood. Harper had twenty four points and
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  Speaker 1: a partridge in a par tree. And San Antonio with Wehm,
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  Speaker 1: ba Yama and Harper now Harborso it's a playoff a
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  Speaker 1: team playoff record for the Spurs seven steels, which I
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  Speaker 1: guess is pretty good. And so San Antonio outlasting Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City one twenty two to one fifteen in double over time.
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  Speaker 1: As my old buddy Alex back in the day, he
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  Speaker 1: used to say, double over time, you got so ok sided.
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  Speaker 1: And so that is the beginning. Isn't an instant classic
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  Speaker 1: Okay Western Conference Finals. So the jump goes to the
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  Speaker 1: Spurs when Ba Nyama ceiling it up, had a pair
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  Speaker 1: of dunks in the final minute, one of them leading
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  Speaker 1: to a three point play. Also had a circus shot
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the first overtime and so home
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  Speaker 1: court advantage goes over to San Antonio. Of course, you
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  Speaker 1: imagine that Oklahoma City will win a game in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that difficult. Game two will be Wednesday in
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, so you get the Tuesday off back at
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  Speaker 1: it there, and these Spurs have had the number of
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. If you watch the broadcast, you couldn't really
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  Speaker 1: hear this because the audio is tremendously bad. Someone's losing
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  Speaker 1: their job over there at NBC. My god, you probably
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  Speaker 1: weren't watching. With the audio on the first halfage is
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  Speaker 1: sounded like robots and it just stopped all together. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio is beating the Thunder five of the six
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  Speaker 1: meetings this season, which seems lopsided. Oh you're being mean,
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  Speaker 1: malor well, that's good. Jumping off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question who gets the biggest portion of the Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City plate of loser Chicken fried steak for SGA's thunder
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  Speaker 1: as the thunder down under do not get it done.
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all all of these things together
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  Speaker 5: So a.
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  Speaker 1: and mister MVP himself SGS, so they get the biggest
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  Speaker 1: portion of the chicken fried steak. Congratulations. There. What a
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: dynamic duo these two on this particular night. Again, we
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: have a nightly talk show to do the dynamic duo
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: of doodoo on this night, Oklahoma City. If you look
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: at this game here and he said, well, he went
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: to double overtime. He couldn't have played that poorly.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: And these two though the first true farm to table
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: flop and then the first loss of the playoffs for
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, and nobody got cooked worse than Chet. So
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: let's start with him. He gets to wear the dunce cap,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: he got the country fry, and he also got that
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: two sides. I'm gonna give him two sides on that
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: combo meal, and they're both humiliations. So a double scoop
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: of humiliation on the side. Now home Gren, to quote
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the late great Brian Wheeler was bemused, bewildered, and bedeviled
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse for Oklahoma City as
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: they lose this game here and it was a classic
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Southwest airlines I want to get away situation there for
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Cheded Holmgren, and you look at home Gren side by
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: side if you're watching, and for our blind listeners, let
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: me try to describe this. So you've got Homegren on
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the right and then you've got Wemby on the left,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: side by side, and to the untrained eye, home Gren
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: looks like Wemby, except it it's Wemby ordered off Temu,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Like if you were saying, can I let me go on, Tiamo,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I want to order a Wemby. Okay, we'll get your
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Wemby and they send you home Grin. It's kind of
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: a the same height. I know he's a couple of
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: inches shorter, but he's got none of the features. He's
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: got none of the features there. And Chet in this
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: game was useless for the most part. In this game,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: he had eight points eight rebounds. Holmgren did completely failing
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: to contain Wim Banyama, who absolutely torched him with forty
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: one points and twenty four rebounds. You had as about
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: as much about even if you didn't watch the game
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: or know anything about the game. You had about as
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: much impact as Holmgren did. And yeah Homegrend had one
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: block late in the end of regulation, but for the
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: most part it was not much. Chet was was not
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: really guarding Wemby. Didn't seem like many people were guarding
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Wemby here. He was kind of walking walking him like
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a rescue greyhound if you will. So if you do
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the side by side, and I know they didn't match
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: up against each other the entire game and overnight talk radio,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: So that's a minus thirty three head to head in
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: terms of Wemby outscoring HomeGrid. So Homegroun was outscored by
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: thirty three points and the rebounds minus sixteen in favor
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: of Wemby. So that doesn't seem good. You know, it
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be mean. That doesn't seem good. Then you have
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the MVP now entering the chat SGA, who wasn't exactly
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: carving up the San Antonio Spurs. Yeah, he was doing
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a lot of damage, carving up the thunders. Chances he
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: was a net negative in this game. The thunder were
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: actually better when he was not on the court. He
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: played most of the game but they've actually statistically were
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: better when Jogis Alexander was not out there. And to
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the untrained, the casuals, they'll say, oh, Mallard, what are
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: you talking about? You at twenty four points to twelve season?
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: You don't know ball? Okay, I do know. If it
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: takes you twenty three shots to get twenty four points,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you're not doing your job. Something is going wrong here,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Something is going wrong. I'm just saying, all right now,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: the basketball version of going to the store and there's
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: a there's a table of stale bread. You pay full
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: price for stale bread. Who played who pays full price
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: for stale bread? Shouldn't pay full price for that. And
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the other thing is you figure, well, she didn't play
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: that well, but he's gonna close the game because he
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: always does. You know, No, he didn't. He didn't do that.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: It left the door wide open, the lights on, and
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the cash register was wide open, something that used to have.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Now everything's on credit cards. The used to have these
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: things called cash registers where people kept money back when
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: people used cash back in the day. And let's also
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: not look past the fact that Jalen Williams came back
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: to the lineup here, and he was in the lineup
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: for Okay see, and it was really blah another twenty
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: five point or twenty five shot gear. He took twenty
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: five shots to get twenty six points. And that was
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the theme of the night for Oklahoma City. And they
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: still went to double overtime and all that. The Spurs
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: were without Deer and Fox and the thunder were rested,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: they were healthy, they were ready to go. And who goofed,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I've got to know. And they screwed that up and
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: it wasn't a total disaster. Now they got some extra
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: work to do, all right. Meanwhile, we continue the theme
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: of the hour here and Victor wembon Yama, did you
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: get your knee pads? I did not. Everyone in the
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: media they've all got their Wemby knee pads on. They're
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: ready to go, and yeah, now he said. Afterwards, he
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: said that he was for sure motivated by SGA getting
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: the MVP instead of him. Adam Silver handed out the award.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: He did not announce what part of the cosmos he's from,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Adam Silver, but heed, you think that Silver and Wemby
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: go to like some kind of UFO can and talk
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: about their native planets and I don't know anyway, So
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: forty one points twenty four rebounds, big stat line all
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: that we've talked about that that twenty I think it
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: was like twenty seven foot three point shot. I've made
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: that back in the day moneyball, mall I make that shot.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: No big deal. So anyway, the fawning to me, the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: thing here that stood out. The guy played great. The
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: fawning is the issue here for me, and I know
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: it's a me problem. I realize that I just want
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to rant and rave. So the question here, this was
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: a great performance by one of the the next beacon
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: of the NBA. We all agree on that, all right,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: every man, woman and chalking. We were all nodding our
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: headg yes, all right, very good. So question though, is
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: thumbs up or thumbs down? Is this performance by the
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Spurs victor when Banyama one that will stand the test
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: of time? That meaning five ten years from now, do
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: you remember that night in Oklahoma when when Banyama did
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: all that stuff? Are we gonna look back at that
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: and I'm going thumbs down on this? All right, I'm
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: going thumbs out again. It was great and all that.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I'm just going thumbs down why it was game one
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: of the Western Conference Finals. This is not he didn't
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: find the Lost City of Babylon. It was game one, okay,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: not game seven. We don't need historians chiseling this into marble.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Let's hold off on that. There are brighter lights, bigger
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: stages ahead from when Banyama. And now that said, if
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: getting snubbed for the MVP was the reason that when
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Banyama went out and put up that standalone, then Adam
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Silver should just follow the Spurs around and hand out
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: runner up MVP plaques to when Banyama before every game
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: and the Spurs will never lose again and he'll have
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: forty and twenty five and have Wilt Chamberlain like numbers.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: And that's that. It was a great game. Sure, I
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: don't think, and maybe I'm wrong. I know the NBC
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: broadcast quality was not that great, so it's possible that
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: he did actually split the atom when the feed was
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: lost by NBC, or it's I think at halftime he
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: cured hiccups, So that was a pretty big Did that
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: get announced that when by now i'm a cured hiccups
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: at half? No, it did not get announced. Interesting all right,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: So the NBA media did not actually cover the game.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I determined based on the feedback of my colleagues in
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the NBA media. The mainstream media did not cover the game.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: They actually wrote a love letter. It was very sweet
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: of them. These people have jobs at Hallmark down the line.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: They wrote a love level, a love letter, and they
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: sprinted it. They put a little sprits of cologne, and
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: then several of the TV people. I was shocked by this.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: They actually gave Wemby a Swedish massage and some essential
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: oils after the game. I was very sweet of them.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: They didn't have to do that. That was very sweet
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: of the NBA media. My god, the brown nosing brigade,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: oh man, they love it. But then you see the
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: probably women's You can't really put him on a pedestal.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: He's so tall. You don't need to put him on
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: a pedestal. But somebody goes to Costco and buy a
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I want to buy a palette sized thing of towels
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: because there's a lot of brown nosing going on in
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the NBA media and I will not be part of it.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: The Parisian Prodigy is twenty two. He was born four
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: years after I started here. At Fox Sports Radio, and
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I think there's some leftovers in my refrigerator that are
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: older than when bag Nyama. It was a great performance.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: The coronation parade can wait for me. The praise is
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: so syrupy. I believe I need to check my insulin
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: levels at this point. It was. It was really over
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: the top. Now the last word, the other thing, and
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: this is really therapeutic for me, and you happen to
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: be listening to my individual therapy session. The other thing
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I took away from San Antonio and Oklahoma City in
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the postgame was not only the amount of a tongue
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: bath that when Ba Nyama got In addition that, though
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: it was, you would think the players in this game
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: were literally on their deathbed because it went to double overtime.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Wemby played forty eight minutes over the
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: total game, and I believe it was SGA that went
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: fifty one minutes. Oh my god, are we passing out
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: purple hearts to these guys? Is that what we're doing?
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: So the question is how big a deal? How big
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: a deal is the volume of minutes required to play
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: for guys like Wemby, SGA and others in this double
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: overtime thriller from Oklahoma City. So look the teams, it's
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: gonna blow your mind. So they played fifty eight total
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: minutes because each overtime's five minutes, so it's fifty eight
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: total minutes, forty eight regulation ten total overtime too five
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: minute periods. So they didn't play fifty eight days. They
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: played fIF eight minutes. A shocking, And are we really
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: pretending that fifty eight minutes of basketball is some kind
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: of humanitarian crisis? Do we need to call the federal
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: government in here? Do we need to get FEMA involved
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: in this, the National Guard, call somebody in here and
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: help out Oklahoma City. And I'm telling you, it's like
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: it's all my goodness. And the game lasted the actual
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: in real time, it was like three hours, three hours.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: So my computer like brain tells me that if the
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: game lasted in real time three hours from when they
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: started to when it ended, that would mean they had,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: if I'm correct here, one hundred and twenty two minutes
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: roughly of not playing basketball something like that, and fifty
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: eight minutes where they play. In those fifty eight minutes,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: there were a lot of timeouts, TV timeouts, foul shooting
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. So, okay, I don't think this was
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: a death sentence. It might have been, I don't think
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: it was. It was a cardio session with cameras, TV cameras,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and pretty confident that Wemby and SGA we we did
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: not send them to some kind of North Korean labor
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: camp outside pyeong Yang. We didn't do that. They weren't
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: making bigger rocks into smaller rocks. That that did not happen.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I think at one point SGA did have to drag
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: a boulder up a mountain. I might have been imagining
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: that for the state, but last I checked out. I mean,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong on this, but I think they're all
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: most of these almost all of them are in their
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: in their twenties. A lot of them are in their
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: early twenties. They're well paid. They're not long shortman, they're
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: not coal miners. They're they're just basketball players. They play
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: three or three games a week. If they play four,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: they bitch about it. If they play five, they they
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: they should retire. They are so worn out. So it's
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: a very difficult job. So I feel bad for them
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: having to play a double overtime game in the playoffs,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: and I don't think they're they're sleeping in the airport terminal.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's going on. I don't believe they're
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: eating those white Castle vending machine burgers. I don't think
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: that's happening. And I think what's going to happen here
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: is these guys will be escorted to cryo chambers. They
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: will be handed a trip to a steam room with
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: eucalyptus steam to help them recover. They'll have that, and
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: their personal chefs will cook up a nice feast, so
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: to quote Aaron Rodgers. Relax, Relax. Both teams played the
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: same amount of minutes. I don't think anyone's going to die.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Everything will be okay. And it's I think it's supposed
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: to be hard at least. See this is the problem.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I guess I'm older because I always was told that
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: it's supposed to be hard. That's why they call it
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Nowadays, Oh it's too hard, Oh my god,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: you losers.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Let's introduce our contestants for the game show. We'll let
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: that breathe a little bit. Let's see here. Who do
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: we have meany miny mo? We have far out Dave
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: in Ohio.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: Oh boy, good morning, my buddy.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: He's already laughing. Maybe this guy, he's already laughing this
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: so far.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: Out walking the dogs. Yes, there, good morning, let's do it.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Why do you walk down? Walk down? In Newport, Kentucky?
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: About that strong brick oving pizza ri.
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: I was literally six in the morning.
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: I was one of the big funds because I was
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: about to take my blind cane and hit the interstate.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: I was going to He's like.
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: Are you now?
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: Yes? Where am I? Trust me? That's why I've hit
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: my riddles up. I've been.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I know you've been. You've not been part of the
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: show recently. You've taken a hiatus from the set.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: So it's like a little bit of it. I'm not
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: supposed to be envious. McAuley. You got a bunch of fun,
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: and I'm like, man, see, I could have been a
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: part of that. I even gave her. I was like,
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: you should be a monster truck cart driver because you're
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: the dream crusher. She's like, I'm not a dream cousture.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh you are a dream crusher.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah that stuff all right? Well, who do you want
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: to who do you want to partner? Who do you
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: want to part with?
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: You?
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: How lucky am I are you? You're actually gonna try?
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Far out, Dave? Are you gonna try? You're not gonna take,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: You're not gonna You're not gonna do you stick, You're
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: not gonna do give goofy answer. You're gonna be legit? Yes,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: all the time.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: I think he's serious.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: All right? Hold, Jed, Jed who fled? Is in the
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Redneck rivi ERAa? Hello, Jed who fled?
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: He's playing me and didn't pick Justin Kuker. I assumed
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: he was the great digger digging his own grave.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: What are the chains that for time?
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Two days?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: What are the categories here? Coop, Let's let's get to
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: this rivening game here. It's just gonna be so amazing.
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: All right, gentlemen, this is Mallard's Mountain of Money, the
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: Pete Townsend edition. He turns eighty one years old today.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: See Reggie Jackson's eighty two. Yeah, it's over all right.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: I'll go ahead there, far out, Dave, categories.
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: Category, The categories are my generation, Baba O'Reilly behind blue
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: Eyes and I'm one.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Behind blue lives blue Eyes. Okay, very good, we'll put
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: you on hold there. And then Jed who fled? Which
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: category you like? Jed?
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: Ben gets fooled every day. I think he wouldn't get
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: folded again. I think that's Bobo Rally. I'm not sure could.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: What he said?
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: He picked bab o'reiley. He tried to say a song
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: that wasn't a category, but.
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: My brains from the place plan. Dude, it is wasted.
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: It is definitely wasted.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: God help us all. Okay, so we got far out
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Dave in Ohio teamed up with me Ben, and then
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: you got Jed who fled from the redneck rivier with
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Cooper Loop, and we will have in it. That's where
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: you live, all right. We will get to that. We're
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: gonna have Mallard's Mountain of Money. Put your bets in
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: right now, get your bets in. What's the future market
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: looking like? On that? We'll get to it, and we
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: will do it next.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Taylor
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Naylor's Mountain of Money. Hell do you have what it
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: takes to get to the top. Probably not.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, let's do it. Welcome in
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: our combatants from the great state of Ohio, the man
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: known by his new nickname a wall far out Dave
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: there is, and we have Jed who played from somewhere
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: in Florida, but not the redneck reverer. I guess I
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: don't know. All right, Yeah, here we go, gentlemen, coop
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the categories. I'm going first here with.
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: Dave Yes, yes, blue eyes, Yes, behind blue eyes.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Are you ready far out Dave?
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Rich, we need the first and last name. Do you
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: understand that? Okay, these athletes all have blue eyes. Put
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: forty five seconds on the clock. We're on our way
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: and go. The greatest quarterback of all time from the
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Patriot from the Patriots, Tom Brady. That is correct, all right?
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Moving on running back for the forty nine ers right now.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: He played for the Carolina Panthers. Also Christian Yes, the
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: hick from French Lick in the NBA basketball player La Yes,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: a quarterback that followed Joe Montana with the forty nine ers,
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  Speaker 1: left handed from beer Yes, uh did a bunch of
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: cocaine played for the Texas Rangers won an MVP Award. Hamilton, Yes,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Vikings quarterback, went to three Super Bowls, didn't win any
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: of them, and then retired in the eighties. White guy,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: boy Moon, No, all right, Cubs first basement in the nineties.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Cubs first basement had the most hits in the nineties.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: White guy, he.
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  Speaker 3: Got one sixty.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Bad job by you, dude, You should something more. Cocaine
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: job fran Tarkenton, France, Mark Grace, Mark Grace from saddle
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Back College.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, very bad job.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: All right, Jed, we have the cocaine.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Oh no, you've all right, that's wudn't shut up. I
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: had to put him on hold. The guys should to
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: ruin the game. Your guys trying to ruin the game?
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: Rating right now with the meacap.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: All right, Jed, we have baba. O'Reilly?
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Good luck.
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: These athletes became pros as a teenager forty five seconds
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  Speaker 6: on the clock. No chance, let's begin. I died in
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: a helicopter crash. Yesh was married to j Low. Played
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: for the Yankees. Yes, the great one in hockey, The.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Best female tennis player of all time, Sara Wigan.
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: Yes, uh, this guy played for the Magic and the Rockets.
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: He always looked stoned.
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: Oh damn, I should know that one, dude, Nick Jones,
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: I don't know that one always had a headband on.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Okay, never mind.
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: This guy played his entire career career with the Brewers.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: No Hall of Famer.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: That's a tough one. This guy, this guy, all right,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Tracy McGrady.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Robin was going to great players in the seventies, and
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: the ladies got about gay guy.
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: Gay guy called the center.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: You're getting small score? Was the score? What's all right?
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: In the lead?
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: I have one hundred? Is that what you're saying?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's embarrassing, all right, Jed, it's a bad job.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: But do you want my generation or I'm one.
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: I like, which sounds like you said my generation better.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: Okay, you're screwed.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: You picked it, all right, all right, my generation.
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: These athletes are of the same generation as Pete Townsend.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: I want to tell you after this is okay?
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: All right? Uh forty five seconds, let's begin.
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: He was the all time leading scorer before Lebron James.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, he was the coach for the Lakers and the Bulls.
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: Joe Jackins.
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: Yes, his nickname was Broadway quarterback for the Jets. Yes,
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: this guy was mister October at the Queen. Yes, uh
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: this guy uh was, I got a bunch of hits.
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: He I believe his Puerto Rican. He played for the
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: Twins and then the Angels. Maybe it wasn't quarterback, No
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: he was. He was like definitely not for that.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: Yes, he was from like the some island.
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: Okay, this guy was the quarterback for the seventy two
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: Dolphins that went undefeated.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: Jim Nope. His son Brian played for the What.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: A choke job by Jay? What was embarrassing?
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: Hey? Could you do it mon around next time? He'd
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: be great if you talk the whole time.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Panama? Is it from Panama? That's it?
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: And he was in an Adam Sandlers song Rod Rod Crew.
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and Bob Greasy was the other one.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: What's our score?
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: You have two hundred total? Score? You have one? All right?
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Very good.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: Let's make sure I'm sick.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: So it's it's far out Dave. Are you ready for
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: our Dave? Yeah? I'm one These athletes all wore or
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: where number one? Are you ready? Far out Dave?
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Number one?
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Oh sweet god, I'll put him on hole. He's the
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: game all right, here we go forty five seconds and
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: we're on our way and go. The greatest shortstop defensively
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: in Cardinals history, Samuel was Cardinals history in the nineteen eighties,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: the game No You're Close, Orlando, Orlando Magic Star with
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Shaquille O'Neil Hardaway. Yeah, yeah, we'll take that. Mister big
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: shot for the Pistons. He got fired from the Trailblazers
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: and a gambling scandle. Yeah, there you go. We got
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: the lead and we got to win the whole thing.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: We'll run it up though. Jackie Robinson's friend from the
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Brooklyn Dodgers had a very unique nickname. That was his
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: name with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Short I think it was
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: a shortstop for the no chance all right quarter back
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: for the Vikings. Now he's with the Cardinals last couple
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: of years. A little guy likes me. Yeah, there you go.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: We won the game back in the winning ways yet again.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: A win, A w A chicken let out. You lost, Jed,
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  Speaker 1: you're a loser.