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Gronk's Retirement, Russell Wilson, and Ranch Dressing · NFL Podcast Network Selects

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Speaker 1: When I woke up this morning, I was feeling pretty dangerous.
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Speaker 1: But we're on a Cincinnati it's my team, it's my corbet.
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Speaker 1: They are well, we thought they were about Hello, you
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Speaker 1: play to win the day. They want you to cook
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Speaker 1: the dinner. At least they ought to let you shout
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Speaker 1: for some of the grocery. And on the way up,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna buy a kneecap. All getting made playoffs. I'm
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Speaker 1: just here so I won't get fine. How could he
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Speaker 1: not be romantic about football? After WHOA Hello? Everybody? Welcome
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Speaker 1: to bench with Bonetta hearing Dan Campbell just reminded me
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Speaker 1: that we get to kind of see the Lions kind
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Speaker 1: of sort of kind of maybe soon. It's getting We're
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Speaker 1: inching closer to Hard Knocks territory people, which means we
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Speaker 1: are inching closer to the season. I am still in Canada.
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Speaker 1: I just like emerged from a week in the woods.
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Speaker 1: And I do this every single summer. I go home
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Speaker 1: to where I'm from, and I go up to my
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Speaker 1: brother's house, who literally lives in the middle of nowhere.
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Speaker 1: You can't walk anywhere, you can't do anything like you
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Speaker 1: were just on this property. And I have just been
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Speaker 1: zenning out to the point that I tried to have
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Speaker 1: a conversation with somebody yesterday and couldn't do it. I
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Speaker 1: forgot how to speak words, because I've really only been
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Speaker 1: speaking to my three year old nephew, who speaks in
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Speaker 1: an entirely different language most people can't understand except for
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Speaker 1: his cool anti Ray Ray. But I have emerged from
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Speaker 1: the woods and my mom took me to this really
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Speaker 1: cute town and we went to this play today. We
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Speaker 1: went to a theater and there was a dog in
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Speaker 1: the audience, just chilling on someone's lap and I'm like, okay,
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Speaker 1: we are small town Ontaria right now, baby. And the
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Speaker 1: play was awesome, and we leave and there's this guy
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Speaker 1: standing there and he's just like, are you Rachel Vanenna
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Speaker 1: And I was just like, oh my god, yeah, hi.
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Speaker 1: And he's just like, I'm Jeremy. This is I work here.
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Speaker 1: And I saw that you had had a thing on
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Speaker 1: your Instagram, sir. I hope I didn't get that lady
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Speaker 1: that had the dog in trouble by the way, But anyways,
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Speaker 1: his name was Jeremy and he was introducing himself and
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Speaker 1: my mom was there and I introduced them. I was like,
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Speaker 1: this is my mom, and my mom was just like, oh,
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Speaker 1: are you a fan from like soccer days because I
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Speaker 1: used to cover soccer and the Toronto FC team, and
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Speaker 1: he goes, no, I listen to the podcast. So shout
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Speaker 1: out to Jeremy and his girlfriend who were fans of
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Speaker 1: the pod. But thank you for thank you Jeremy for
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Speaker 1: saying hi. Maybe, but he did specifically mention, you gotta
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Speaker 1: lose that, mom on. Guy. He always seems like he's
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Speaker 1: five minutes late, and you just gotta you gotta cut
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Speaker 1: him loose mom on any rebuttal to that. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how he would know that you're always a late,
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Speaker 1: but shot out. That was very lovely. That was really nice. Um, guys,
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Speaker 1: I have a question for you. I introduced my three
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Speaker 1: year old nephew to something that I regard as high,
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Speaker 1: high falutint high flavor. In fact, he had never had
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Speaker 1: pizza and ranch before, and that is something that I
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Speaker 1: wanted to introduce him to because you know, he's three
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Speaker 1: years old, he's got a very limited palat. He eats
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Speaker 1: oatmeal five times a day and that's not a lie.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how this kid puts back so much oatmeal.
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Speaker 1: But I was like, why do you come? Why do
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Speaker 1: you come over to my side have a little taste
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Speaker 1: of some delicious nectar called ranch? Molan. We've talked about
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Speaker 1: this before. Are you are you guys in or out
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Speaker 1: on ranch? And was that actually detrimental to this kid's palate?
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Speaker 1: To me introducing this, I respect it, but I think
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Speaker 1: you could have eased him into it, Like he said,
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Speaker 1: pizza by itself, right, Yeah, of course he's had pizza
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Speaker 1: by himself. He's not a crazy, crazy three year old.
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Speaker 1: He's only eaten oatmeal. That's the only thing you. Oatmeal
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Speaker 1: and pizza are his things of choice. Graver, are you
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Speaker 1: out on ranch on pizza? I like ranch on pizza,
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Speaker 1: but I sometimes think you can get overpowering because it
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Speaker 1: just tastes like ranch. So I'll I like every other
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Speaker 1: bite maybe dip ranch and pizza. And it also depends
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Speaker 1: on the toppings. If like, I'm a big pineapple topping person,
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Speaker 1: which is a agreed no. No, you're safe in this house.
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Speaker 1: You are safe in this house. You're welcomed. But I
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Speaker 1: don't know if ranch goes best with a pineapple topping.
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Speaker 1: It I think it's better with sausage. I don't know
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Speaker 1: why I can't. Speaking of pepperoni, I also had chicken
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Speaker 1: wings while I've been here. That was chicken wings with
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Speaker 1: tomato sauce, pepperoni on top, like just sprinkled on top
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Speaker 1: of the chicken wings and then you dip it into
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Speaker 1: gorgonzola a blue my mind. I honestly ordered it because
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Speaker 1: I was like, this is gonna taste disgusting, and I
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Speaker 1: kind of like to eat disgusting things. Like one time,
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Speaker 1: our friend Sal bought me a ranch soda. Mohan, did
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Speaker 1: you ever try that? It was the most foul thing
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Speaker 1: I have ever tasted in my life. It tasted like
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Speaker 1: carbonated cheesy milk. Yeah, which actually it doesn't sound that bad,
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Speaker 1: but it was bad. It was bad. But I think
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Speaker 1: the ranch with the crust because sometimes it was it's
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Speaker 1: hard to eat it so dry you need a little
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Speaker 1: yeah dipping. But okay, so we're all in. We are
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Speaker 1: all in on ranch on this podcast. Please let us
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Speaker 1: know if you would try the pepperoni chicken wings, because
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Speaker 1: they were they were pretty bombed. Also, our makeup artists
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Speaker 1: try to sip. Shout out Siva. She tried to sip
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Speaker 1: of the ranch soda and she threw up in the
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Speaker 1: makeup room and a garbage veil, and Sal and I
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Speaker 1: were laughing very very hard. Okay, let's get to some
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Speaker 1: football news, because there was some big football news this week.
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Speaker 1: Our guy Rob Gronkowski. He has retired, and this has
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Speaker 1: made me really bummed out because I really thought that
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Speaker 1: this year Tom Brady. I genuinely believe that this has
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Speaker 1: got to be last year, at least with the Bucks,
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Speaker 1: because I think that there was some kind of thing
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Speaker 1: that was supposed to happen with the Dolphins and that
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Speaker 1: didn't happen, and maybe he's going to try and make
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Speaker 1: that happen next year. But with the Bucks, I think
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Speaker 1: that this is the last year that Tom Brady is
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Speaker 1: going to be playing in the league. Why would Gronk
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Speaker 1: not want to be a part of that. I'm so
6:17
Speaker 1: bummed out. He put out a very nice statement. I'm
6:21
Speaker 1: just gonna read a little bit of it because it's
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Speaker 1: very sweet. In college, I was asked to write about
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Speaker 1: a dream job opportunity that I wanted to pursue and
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Speaker 1: where the location would be. Every time I had to
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Speaker 1: write about my future, no matter what, I picked being
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Speaker 1: a pro football player. For that assignment, though, we had
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Speaker 1: to pick the location. So I wrote that I wanted
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Speaker 1: to play in Tampa for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That
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Speaker 1: is so awesome. When he was young, he already knew
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Speaker 1: what he wanted to do, where he wanted to play,
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Speaker 1: and we have enjoyed every single step of the way.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, guys, did you have any
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Speaker 1: idea where you wanted to be and where you wanted
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Speaker 1: to go in like high school or college. Mom's shaking
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Speaker 1: his head. I'm at my mum's house, and I wanted
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Speaker 1: to see if I too had something the equivalent of gronks,
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Speaker 1: like when I grow up, I am going to be this,
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Speaker 1: that and the other. And I knew I wanted to
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Speaker 1: live in New York City. I literally have something in
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Speaker 1: my house back in LA It's on a like crappy
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Speaker 1: old piece of paper and it's printed in pink ink
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Speaker 1: and it says I and then I left a blank
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Speaker 1: things that I could sign my name I blank will
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Speaker 1: be living in New York City by the time I
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Speaker 1: am twenty one. And then I signed it in both
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Speaker 1: spots like a contract, and I moved there when I
7:33
Speaker 1: was twenty three. So you fail to live up to
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Speaker 1: your car? Did fail? I? Did fail. It was just
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a delayed situation. But I found
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Speaker 1: a ninth grade report card. Oh my god, should I
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Speaker 1: read to you what my math teacher wrote? Absolutely? Math
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Speaker 1: has never been my strong suit, folks. And we'll get
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Speaker 1: back to Gronk in a second, but this is important
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Speaker 1: as well. Rachel put forth a very poor effort this semester.
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Speaker 1: Her homework was always incomplete, and she never used the
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Speaker 1: extra help that was available. It is recommended that she
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Speaker 1: continue math um. I also had to do summer school
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Speaker 1: because of math, So thank you, mister Ruth. Oh I remember,
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Speaker 1: mister Ruth. Also, I got a forty nine and then
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Speaker 1: a fifty one the like second half of the term,
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Speaker 1: so hundred. I literally passed, like flat by by, like
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Speaker 1: that's passing. Well, I got forty nine the first half
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Speaker 1: and then I got fifty one the second half, So
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Speaker 1: I literally just made it at the fifty point. Fifty
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Speaker 1: is passing apparently, because I passed. In America, fifty is
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Speaker 1: in f you failed, Now I passed. Yeah. It is
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Speaker 1: recommended that she continue math at the applied level. So
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Speaker 1: I had to take applied Grade ten math and then
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Speaker 1: I think I think grade eleven I went to summer
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Speaker 1: school from it eventually fizzled out and I couldn't keep going.
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Speaker 1: But the class medium was seventy four and I got
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Speaker 1: forty nine. That's calculators. Yeah, we got iPhones with calculators.
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Speaker 1: What do we need math for? Come on, I'm a
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Speaker 1: math story real quick. Oh. When I was in first
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Speaker 1: or second grade, we had this thing where if you
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Speaker 1: get through X amount of math flash cards with your teacher,
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Speaker 1: you can get a pizza hut. You can go to
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Speaker 1: the pizza Hut. And I didn't get it the first time,
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Speaker 1: and I was like real, like to the point it
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Speaker 1: was like basic math that I was like trying to
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Speaker 1: use my fingers behind my back to like get The
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Speaker 1: second time I did it, I realized in the top
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Speaker 1: right corner of the flash card that's facing me had
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Speaker 1: the answer, and she forgot to like cover it with
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Speaker 1: her hand, You cheater. I needed to get pizza Hut.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't have been that guy that like that kid
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Speaker 1: that didn't go by the way. I think that there
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Speaker 1: is no shame in this game because I still do it,
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Speaker 1: and you guys, maybe you're too afraid to admit it.
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Speaker 1: I absolutely still count on my fingers Obviously I'm not
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Speaker 1: very good at math. I still count on my fingers
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Speaker 1: to this day. Even when I'm like doing math for
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Speaker 1: like the tip, I'll be like thinking in my head
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Speaker 1: like oh what okay, I'll be like pretending like I'm
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Speaker 1: adding it, but underneath the counter, I'm like counting on
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Speaker 1: my fingers. No shame in that game. Also I found this, guys,
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Speaker 1: look at this face? Wow? How could you feel? This
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Speaker 1: isn't gonna work on podcast format? But just no listeners
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Speaker 1: that I am showing just about the cutest kid in
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Speaker 1: the world. This is a great chance to plug the YouTube.
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Speaker 1: If you really want to see it, go to YouTube.
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Speaker 1: There it looks like I had dentures and took them
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Speaker 1: out for the afternoon. Did you have in visiligne? No graver,
10:49
Speaker 1: I do now, thanks for bringing that up. Wow. I
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Speaker 1: also found look at I have my corsage for my
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Speaker 1: prom Wow. I know why do I have? This is
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Speaker 1: kind of gross? Um. I have many love letters, you guys,
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Speaker 1: like an embarrassing amount, like from from different voice. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: like so so many. And there's drawings. There's there's movie
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Speaker 1: stub tickets for the Simpsons movie in two thousand and seven.
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Speaker 1: What a blast from the past. Um. Anyway, he's back
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Speaker 1: to Gronk because that's how we got started on this.
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Speaker 1: Gronk has retired. Tom is obviously sad. I'll read the
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Speaker 1: first few lines of his statement. Teammate, friend, brother, just
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Speaker 1: a few of the words that come to mind. I
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Speaker 1: think Gronk Ah, nobody has ever embodied the idea of
11:43
Speaker 1: leaving it all out on the field like rob has his.
11:47
Speaker 1: It's so weird to hear him being called rob by
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Speaker 1: the way. That's like an intimate thing. It feels like
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Speaker 1: every single snap, I knew that no matter how many
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Speaker 1: people you put in front of him, he was going
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Speaker 1: to get his spot. Oh, I'm really sad that we're
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Speaker 1: not gonna have any more Gronk in our lives. But
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Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to go around the table, and
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Speaker 1: you guys can think about it for a second. I
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Speaker 1: want to hear your favorite Gronk memory. I will go first,
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Speaker 1: and it has nothing to do with being on the field,
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Speaker 1: although there were many fun memories, obviously. I want to
12:14
Speaker 1: go back a couple of years ago to when Steve
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Speaker 1: Harvey was hosting the New Year's Eve countdown and there
12:22
Speaker 1: was this like incredible immaculate lego sculpture of Steve Harvey's bust,
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Speaker 1: and it was beautiful. It was amazing, And I don't
12:33
Speaker 1: know what the setup was. I just saw the viral
12:36
Speaker 1: clip that went around. Gronk came out dressed as like
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Speaker 1: an old football player, like he had like the leather
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Speaker 1: helmet on, and he spiked his Steve Harvey's head and
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Speaker 1: it completely shattered and there was just silence, like ron
12:53
Speaker 1: didn't make any noise he was He just like kind
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Speaker 1: of like like flexed his muscles, and Steve Harvey was like,
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Speaker 1: why did you do that? I remember that Steve Harvey's
13:07
Speaker 1: bust was shattered and his heart was shattered too. I
13:09
Speaker 1: think he really wanted to keep that sculpture lego. I'm
13:13
Speaker 1: sure Steve Harvey had an idea because it's live television
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Speaker 1: and that's a huge moment and everyone's watching this countdown.
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Speaker 1: But I like to think that he didn't. And I
13:23
Speaker 1: like to think that Steve Harvey like asked for him
13:26
Speaker 1: to be escorted off the set because he was like,
13:28
Speaker 1: why is he on this show? He was very convincing,
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Speaker 1: so why is this guy here? I think he might
13:35
Speaker 1: have I want to believe that Steve Harvey did not
13:38
Speaker 1: know that was coming, but some producer told Gronk like,
13:40
Speaker 1: you're famous for spiking the ball, like it'd be hilarious
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Speaker 1: if you spiked Steve Harvey's lego sculpture. But yeah, I
13:46
Speaker 1: hope Steve Harvey didn't know, even though it makes me
13:48
Speaker 1: feel terrible for him because he seemed to be very
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Speaker 1: upset about that. I mean, that would be a pretty
13:53
Speaker 1: sweet thing to have in your house. It's like a
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Speaker 1: bust of yourself out of acculately made out of legos.
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Speaker 1: Like it was so incredible, And then Gronk didn't even
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Speaker 1: have a cool name for it. He's like, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: do the Gronk Harvey spike and throws this whole thing down.
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Speaker 1: It shatters, silence. Gronks in the corner just flexing his
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Speaker 1: muscles and seems like, why did you do that? That
14:23
Speaker 1: is my favorite Gronk moment. I also love when he
14:26
Speaker 1: made that extra Millie What was that? That was last
14:28
Speaker 1: year right when he just needed like one more, one
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Speaker 1: more right and him and Tom got that down. That
14:34
Speaker 1: was kind of cool. Great verd you have do you
14:36
Speaker 1: have one? Moodiama, Yeah, I have one. This isn't too
14:40
Speaker 1: long ago, but he was on the Manning cast last
14:43
Speaker 1: year and I just thought it was really interesting hearing
14:45
Speaker 1: him talk to Peyton and Eli because they were asking
14:48
Speaker 1: him about like how much film study do you do?
14:50
Speaker 1: How much preparation do you do throughout the week, and
14:53
Speaker 1: he was like, I don't really watch film I just
14:56
Speaker 1: show up. Tom Brady tells me what I need to do,
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Speaker 1: and I is do it. It's like Tom tells me
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Speaker 1: what kind of coverage it's gonna be, and I just
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Speaker 1: know where to go. And just like seeing how much
15:06
Speaker 1: he relied on Tom Brady to like, I don't know,
15:10
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Gronk is probably the greatest tight
15:12
Speaker 1: end to ever play. Amazing blocker in addition to his
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Speaker 1: pass catching and like he used to be a tackle
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Speaker 1: breaking which I remember highlights of him running down the
15:21
Speaker 1: field like shaking off like eight tacklers and he's a
15:24
Speaker 1: just a beast. But it's crazy to think about how
15:26
Speaker 1: much better he was because he got to play with
15:29
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Like someone like him who doesn't do the
15:32
Speaker 1: film study would typically not be that good, but because
15:34
Speaker 1: he got Tom, he gets to be the greatest tight end. Weird,
15:37
Speaker 1: I think that if he had a career without Tom
15:39
Speaker 1: for some reason, if he went somewhere else and wasn't
15:41
Speaker 1: on the Patriots, I do not think that we would
15:44
Speaker 1: be talking about Gronk in the same way that we
15:46
Speaker 1: talk a great today. Yeah. I also remember when he
15:50
Speaker 1: was gonna be He told this story. He came on
15:52
Speaker 1: Fox for the Sunday Show and he told the guys
15:55
Speaker 1: like during halftime, He's like, you know, once upon a time,
15:59
Speaker 1: I was about to get traded to the Lions, and
16:03
Speaker 1: I didn't want to go to Detroit, so I just
16:05
Speaker 1: told everyone I was retiring, and so they're like, oh, okay,
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Speaker 1: Gronk's retiring, so we can't have him on the Lions.
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Speaker 1: And then he's just like the next year, I just
16:15
Speaker 1: showed up and didn't retire. Maybe he's doing that now.
16:18
Speaker 1: He could be want to trade him to the Lions
16:21
Speaker 1: on the other podcast that I produced that I don't
16:23
Speaker 1: want to talk about very much. Yes, accurate, yep, good choice.
16:27
Speaker 1: The hosts of that show, we're saying that this is
16:30
Speaker 1: probably Gronk sitting around his house being like I didn't
16:33
Speaker 1: really want to do OTAs, I didn't really want to
16:35
Speaker 1: do Mini Camp, and now he's thinking like, I don't
16:37
Speaker 1: really want to do trading camp. I don't really want
16:39
Speaker 1: to do September show in Tampa Bay. But after October,
16:43
Speaker 1: when it's time to like make a run for the
16:45
Speaker 1: playoffs and then make a playoff run, Gronk could be like,
16:48
Speaker 1: I'm on retiring, I'm coming back to play with Tom.
16:50
Speaker 1: And his agent even said that that was like he
16:52
Speaker 1: said he wouldn't be surprised if Gronk rejoined the Bucks
16:55
Speaker 1: in the middle of this next time. I'm going to
16:57
Speaker 1: be so upset if this causes us lou of like
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Speaker 1: retiring and unretiring, Like what is the point? I guess
17:04
Speaker 1: they're playing the game and we have to just like
17:06
Speaker 1: go along with that. But like, I want a big celebration.
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Speaker 1: We're all going to come on these podcasts and talk
17:11
Speaker 1: about it and you know, make a big thing about it.
17:13
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read old letters from ex boyfriends and go
17:15
Speaker 1: through my old stuff. I want that to be it.
17:18
Speaker 1: I don't want to have to do this again in
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Speaker 1: like twelve months more. Do you have a favorite wrong story? Uh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I too. Come to one is when he caught the
17:26
Speaker 1: ball out of the helicopter. It was the record I
17:31
Speaker 1: forget what he said, Yes, how did he not break
17:33
Speaker 1: bones during doing that? Like my hands would just fall
17:36
Speaker 1: off my wrist. The other one is when during the pandemic,
17:42
Speaker 1: he had a like sent he like sent in videos
17:45
Speaker 1: of him running sprints, but he didn't want to do
17:47
Speaker 1: it every day, so he just felled prints with different
17:49
Speaker 1: shirts on and the same day, and then he sent
17:52
Speaker 1: them in so it looked like he was running on
17:54
Speaker 1: different ways because he's wearing different shirts. That's just wait,
17:57
Speaker 1: he like sent them into Bruce Arians to be like, hey,
18:00
Speaker 1: I'm practicing. Like that of him sprinted liked a sent
18:04
Speaker 1: that is next level. He is a schemer, but like,
18:11
Speaker 1: you know, I think he you know, everyone talked about
18:14
Speaker 1: Grounk like he's some kind of like dumb guy and
18:16
Speaker 1: he's a little bit like Goofy and Ofie and just
18:20
Speaker 1: you know, he's got a low voice and he's throwing
18:23
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey's bust on stage. Um, but there's something to
18:28
Speaker 1: be said about, you know, a guy that that doesn't
18:31
Speaker 1: have to watch film, that can just show up and
18:34
Speaker 1: be incredible and have this incredible career, Like that's not dumb.
18:38
Speaker 1: He's the ultimate schemer. I think he is the ultimate schemer.
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Speaker 1: So I guess maybe we shouldn't be surprised if he
18:42
Speaker 1: comes back in a couple of months and these right,
18:44
Speaker 1: oh I'm retired. Um, and he was cool. I saw
18:48
Speaker 1: that he didn't he didn't spend a cent of his
18:51
Speaker 1: football money, which is pretty crazy money or just some
18:56
Speaker 1: of Wow. Yeah, he didn't spend seventy mills. So all
19:00
Speaker 1: the money he's founded from endorsements and seventy million in
19:04
Speaker 1: his eleven year NFL career that he reportedly never touched. Guys,
19:09
Speaker 1: maybe he's the smartest man in the NFL. And we're
19:11
Speaker 1: like kind of just st we're playing. Maybe we're the
19:14
Speaker 1: goofs Yep, we are the goof troupe. We already knew
19:19
Speaker 1: that though. Um okay, well, bon Voyage Gronk will miss
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Speaker 1: you for the next couple of months and we'll see
19:25
Speaker 1: you in preseason. That sounds good to me. M Guys,
19:29
Speaker 1: We've got some pretty bad worst things I heard this
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Speaker 1: week coming up after the break, so don't go I do. Wow. Okay,
19:46
Speaker 1: So here's some of the best and worst things that
19:47
Speaker 1: I heard or saw this week. First things first, Russell
19:52
Speaker 1: Wilson is so stoked about being on the Broncos, and
19:55
Speaker 1: every single opportunity that I can bring this video back
19:59
Speaker 1: to light, I am going to take it. Um that's
20:04
Speaker 1: the life that I want to live. But first of all,
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Speaker 1: before we play this sound and all giggle joyfully, this
20:10
Speaker 1: is what he said about why he chose the Broncos.
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Speaker 1: I want to make sure that I got to a
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Speaker 1: city that wants to win. I want to make sure
20:17
Speaker 1: that I go to a team that wants to win,
20:19
Speaker 1: and I want to go to a city that knows
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Speaker 1: how to win. I think it's funny because like the
20:24
Speaker 1: Broncos have not been good for a time, Like, what
20:29
Speaker 1: does this even mean? The city doesn't know how to win?
20:32
Speaker 1: Like what are you talking about? Sorry, I don't know,
20:34
Speaker 1: but I will tell you what it does know how
20:37
Speaker 1: to do. It knows how to make promotional videos. Roll
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Speaker 1: the clip. Let's rights right, perfect one more time, Broncos Country.
20:52
Speaker 1: Let's ride, Broncos Country. Let's right. Oh, Let's right, Broncos Country,
21:01
Speaker 1: Let's ride. Oh now it's still going. Why did the
21:09
Speaker 1: Broncos ever release this video? I don't understand. It was
21:12
Speaker 1: such a bad idea, Like it I hope that when
21:17
Speaker 1: it kind of makes me want to go to a
21:18
Speaker 1: Broncos game this year and see that video up on
21:22
Speaker 1: the jumbo tron. But these videos are never good. Like
21:24
Speaker 1: you're sitting inside of a stadium and you see somebody
21:26
Speaker 1: pop up on the drumbotron and they're like, let's do this, Hey, Broncos,
21:32
Speaker 1: country mound up, Let's ride. Like it's just always so
21:35
Speaker 1: cringey unless you get like a Travis Kelsey or a
21:38
Speaker 1: George Kittle, Like I'm sure that those guys go all in,
21:40
Speaker 1: but I kind of want to go. Because this video
21:44
Speaker 1: has become so viral and like has taken on a
21:46
Speaker 1: whole life of its own. I do feel like people
21:48
Speaker 1: will cheer when they see it up on the JumboTron
21:51
Speaker 1: in Denver, and that is why maybe maybe the Broncos
21:55
Speaker 1: are still a lot for that reason. On the bench
21:58
Speaker 1: bend from a batch bench Bachelorrette, whatever it's called, I
22:02
Speaker 1: told you guys, this is my first time speaking to
22:04
Speaker 1: humans in like a week. Okay, So that was that's
22:07
Speaker 1: just to cheer us up, Okay, because something's about to
22:10
Speaker 1: bring us down. Josh Allen, you know of the Buffalo Bills, Okay,
22:16
Speaker 1: the guy that we all want to get behind. We
22:18
Speaker 1: all want to cheer four Bills are high on my list. Spoiler,
22:23
Speaker 1: they are high up on my list this year, folks.
22:26
Speaker 1: So Dawson Knox had a press conference and he told everyone, oh,
22:30
Speaker 1: you know, like everything's going great. Josh Allen can't stop
22:34
Speaker 1: making D's nuts jokes to other Bills players. And it's
22:39
Speaker 1: just that it's simultaneously the worst thing that I've seen,
22:43
Speaker 1: but it actually has potential to be the best thing
22:48
Speaker 1: going into next season. If this is a lot, Josh Allen,
22:51
Speaker 1: I know that you're a listener of the bench with
22:53
Speaker 1: the Banetta pock Okay, big fan, you have the opportunity
22:57
Speaker 1: to have such a long play here. If you go
23:01
Speaker 1: into this season and you are still making D's Nuts jokes,
23:06
Speaker 1: you will have the likes of Colin Cowhard, Skip Bayliss,
23:11
Speaker 1: Stephen a every greeny, everyone on those morning talk shows,
23:17
Speaker 1: being like guys, he's immature. He keeps on making D's
23:20
Speaker 1: nuts jokes, and then we get to hear Skip Bayless
23:23
Speaker 1: say D's nuts and then the joke will continue and
23:26
Speaker 1: go on and live on forever and it will be
23:29
Speaker 1: fun for everyone. So I actually this started off by
23:32
Speaker 1: being one of the worst things that I saw this week,
23:34
Speaker 1: and it's slowly turned into this has the potential to
23:37
Speaker 1: be the best thing that I've seen all year. If
23:40
Speaker 1: Josh Allen so chooses to take this baton and carry
23:44
Speaker 1: it on, what do you guys think? I think you
23:47
Speaker 1: go the other way. I feel like if I'm a
23:49
Speaker 1: defensive player and I sack him and I stand him
23:52
Speaker 1: up and I just, you know, I say these nuts,
23:56
Speaker 1: he'll probably laugh or gonna keep this thing going and
24:00
Speaker 1: then her Josh Ellen seems awesome. Yeah, exactly, he seems.
24:04
Speaker 1: He'll say it right back when he scored. Then he'll
24:07
Speaker 1: say He'll grab the microphone and it will go over
24:10
Speaker 1: the whole entire arena and he'll just sayda's nuts, and
24:14
Speaker 1: it will all be laughing. Well, you're a joy kill.
24:17
Speaker 1: He'll go out for a coin toss and they'll be
24:19
Speaker 1: like heads or tails, and he'll be like, these nuts.
24:24
Speaker 1: That's so stupid. It's funny. This is the opportunity to
24:28
Speaker 1: be a beautiful thing. Josh Allen, please continue this on.
24:32
Speaker 1: I am enjoying it, and I want other people to
24:35
Speaker 1: be mad about it, and I want people to be
24:38
Speaker 1: upset at the fact that you're still doing it leading
24:40
Speaker 1: into the season when you should be focusing on other things,
24:43
Speaker 1: because that's what we do in the media. Okay, we
24:44
Speaker 1: take the smallest little bits of information blow it up
24:47
Speaker 1: to mega things that don't actually matter. Um. Okay, before
24:51
Speaker 1: we leave today of this little minisode, I gotta kick
24:56
Speaker 1: off not one, not two, but three teams. This is
25:00
Speaker 1: the biggest breakup that we have had on this show,
25:04
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, I was going through the list, Graver,
25:08
Speaker 1: thank you for reminding me of who I am still
25:11
Speaker 1: courting in this situation. Jaguars. I don't know why they
25:18
Speaker 1: are still on this list, so I'm going to get
25:21
Speaker 1: them out of there. I feel like they've just had
25:23
Speaker 1: two tumultuous of a time the last few years with
25:28
Speaker 1: the urban thing and kicking with Josh Lambeau. He's a
25:31
Speaker 1: friend of mine, Trevor Lawrence I'm a fan of. But
25:35
Speaker 1: he didn't really I don't know. Do you guys really
25:37
Speaker 1: think that he showed us anything. It's hard to It's
25:42
Speaker 1: hard to shine when so much other crap is going on.
25:45
Speaker 1: But I don't know. Joe Burrow kind of pulled the
25:48
Speaker 1: Bengals out of nothing and nothingness. So I'm out on
25:52
Speaker 1: the Jags. Okay, I'm sorry, Jags your time has come
25:56
Speaker 1: to an end. It is one of those possible teams
25:59
Speaker 1: that you could like get in on the ground floor,
26:01
Speaker 1: like the Lions or the Jets or that could like
26:03
Speaker 1: become good. But that's more. I see a few other
26:09
Speaker 1: teams ahead of the Jags on that list, Like I
26:11
Speaker 1: feel like the Lions could turn around quicker than the Jags.
26:15
Speaker 1: The Jagson trying to turn it around for ten plus
26:17
Speaker 1: years now and they're still getting big exam. But that's
26:20
Speaker 1: that's the problem. That is the problem. Um Okay, so Jaggs,
26:25
Speaker 1: sorry you were out of there. You know what, I'm
26:28
Speaker 1: also going to kick out the Bengals. The Bengals were
26:32
Speaker 1: high on my list just because I felt like it
26:34
Speaker 1: would be a real nice like he to the Browns. Um,
26:39
Speaker 1: it would make me very upset to steal root for
26:41
Speaker 1: a team in the AFC North that has to play
26:44
Speaker 1: the Browns, that has to be like among that just
26:47
Speaker 1: tumultuously of of ickiness. Um. So you know, Bengals, I
26:53
Speaker 1: feel like we saw their fans out in droves this year.
26:57
Speaker 1: They really showed up at the Super Bowl, so fun
27:00
Speaker 1: who Day, well not I am not Day. I am
27:05
Speaker 1: not Day. This time around Bengals. I'm sorry, I'm letting
27:09
Speaker 1: you guys go, but with the most respect, Like this
27:11
Speaker 1: is like a good split up. You guys don't need me,
27:14
Speaker 1: I don't need you. We're good. Um. The last one
27:20
Speaker 1: is tough here because I do have I will admit
27:23
Speaker 1: I do have the Broncos written down. But since since
27:30
Speaker 1: you know I have this memory refresh of Russell Wilson
27:33
Speaker 1: in that terrible video, I kind of want to keep
27:36
Speaker 1: them around for a little bit longer. Um, it's like
27:40
Speaker 1: a love hate situation. Maybe i'd be able to go
27:43
Speaker 1: to Denver and watch that glorious video up on the
27:46
Speaker 1: Jama tron. I'm gonna leave them around for a couple
27:47
Speaker 1: more weeks and see what's what. I cannot believe that
27:50
Speaker 1: the Steelers are on this list. Still, let's get them
27:53
Speaker 1: off there. And this was this was this was an
27:55
Speaker 1: angry Rachel that was leaving them on this list. This
27:58
Speaker 1: was a you know, I wanted to get back at
28:00
Speaker 1: my ex. So I'm gonna flirt with his best friend situation,
28:05
Speaker 1: even though I dislike the best friends just from past
28:08
Speaker 1: past feelings and I can't do it. So Steelers Bengals,
28:12
Speaker 1: AFC North is Oh the Ravens are still on the list.
28:15
Speaker 1: They are. What would you say to Ravens fans to
28:18
Speaker 1: keep them encouraged so that they don't think that they
28:21
Speaker 1: are the next team to go. I know exactly, give
28:24
Speaker 1: me your best. Lamar Jackson is gonna play very well
28:27
Speaker 1: this season, pitch because right now people are like does
28:31
Speaker 1: he care? Is what's going on? Is he going to
28:35
Speaker 1: ball out this year? And then like you know, have
28:37
Speaker 1: a crazy contract, Like what's going on? I do think
28:41
Speaker 1: that the Ravens are going to be so much fun
28:43
Speaker 1: this year, and they are a team that you could
28:45
Speaker 1: get behind because they had so many injuries last year
28:48
Speaker 1: and this year is going to be like we're back, baby,
28:51
Speaker 1: and we got the biggest chip on our shoulder of
28:53
Speaker 1: the league, so they could be fun. So Ravens are
28:56
Speaker 1: the only AFC North team left the Browns, the Bengals,
28:59
Speaker 1: the Steelers, and the Jags. I bid you, sweet, sweet
29:04
Speaker 1: and you, and I bid the rest of you guys
29:07
Speaker 1: in you because I'm going back into my hole. Um.
29:10
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure. Please if you ever see me at
29:14
Speaker 1: a small theater in an extremely small town, always come
29:17
Speaker 1: and say hi. Shout outs to Jeremy once again and
29:20
Speaker 1: we'll see when we see. I love you, Bronk, Love
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Speaker 1: you baby,