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Speaker 1: and I was gonna go with the baseball but you know,
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Speaker 1: the baseball game was not all that great. I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: JJ and Ritten and Nostradinas and all that. So the
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Speaker 1: football game there was more juice, and I go where
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Speaker 1: the juice is. That's the mantra you start out or
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Speaker 1: the better story isn't the better story the Sunday night
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Speaker 1: NFL game. So that is where we will begin. We
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Speaker 1: will get to the baseball later. We'll start at Arrowhead Stadium,
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Speaker 1: just down the street from the home of the Bain
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Speaker 1: Mallard Chicken Fingers had a great Mallard meet and greeted
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Speaker 1: by a year ago last November. There was wonderful just
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Speaker 1: a Smorgesborg of chicken fingers in the air everywhere there
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Speaker 1: at the landing in Liberty, Missouri. But on Sunday night,
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Speaker 1: an island game. We love our island games. Explain that
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Speaker 1: over the weekend on the Fifth Hour podcast, which I
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Speaker 1: know you listened to. You heard the Fifth Hour podcast
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Speaker 1: every single FN day on the weekends. So the Detroit
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Speaker 1: Lions roared into Cannsau City for the little playdate with
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. That was the setup, that was the matchup.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know if you're watching this, the baseball
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Speaker 1: game was going on. It was a quick NFL game,
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Speaker 1: pretty fast NFL game. Baseball games started a little bit
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Speaker 1: before the game in the NFL. So if you're not
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Speaker 1: watching Patrick Mahomes, wake up the echos two hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty seven yards passing three touchdowns. You also scrambled for
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Speaker 1: another score. And Malon Matt tells me that's four touchdowns
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Speaker 1: for Patrick Mahomes and he led the Chiefs to a
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Speaker 1: thirty to seventeen win over the Detroit football team as
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Speaker 1: Marquise Hollywood Brown had two touchdown receptions, Xavier Worthy had another.
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Speaker 1: The Chiefs get back to five hundred at three and
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Speaker 1: three on the season. They played a near flawless game.
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Speaker 1: More on that coming up in a little bit there.
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Speaker 1: They had no penalties, no penalties for the Chiefs, no turnovers.
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Speaker 1: This is one week after you get a penalty, you
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Speaker 1: get a penalty, you get a penalty. And that Monday
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Speaker 1: night game, that last second lost when the Chiefs defense
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Speaker 1: stood around and watched the klutz quarterback for Jacksonville, Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence fall down multiple times and then go in the
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Speaker 1: end zone because Chris Jones decided he want to hustle.
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Speaker 1: I want a dubby anyway. So the Chiefs bounce back
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Speaker 1: and they get to win here. And the better story, though,
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Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room the Detroit Lions following
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Speaker 1: the loss. We had a rhubarb that took place there
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Speaker 1: following the loss, as the Lion's safety Brian Branch boiling
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Speaker 1: over and got into it. He refused to do a
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Speaker 1: postgame clappity Clap Dappity DApp with Patrick Maholmes, and Branch
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Speaker 1: instead decided he wanted to deliver a right hook to
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Speaker 1: a man wearing a helmet, which generally is not a
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Speaker 1: great idea, but he decided to do it anyway, and
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Speaker 1: he threw a punch there at Juju Smith Schuster. After
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Speaker 1: the end of the game, the teams are coming together
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Speaker 1: to exchange niceties. That didn't seem very nice, but I
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Speaker 1: don't know, maybe it was. It was like a nice
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Speaker 1: friendly punch have been there right at midfield. So let
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Speaker 1: us discuss the question how disappointing, how disappointing is this
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Speaker 1: overall performance for Dan Campbell's Detroit Lions as they end
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Speaker 1: up on the wrong side of the scoreboard and not
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Speaker 1: even close in the second half. So I've got ice bucket,
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Speaker 1: toy Poodle, and Mighty Mississippi and we will combine all
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Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to put
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Speaker 1: the biscuit in the basket, is what we're going to do.
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Speaker 1: So a this one obviously stinks. It's like a sting
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Speaker 1: from a hornet for the Lions here because this was
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Speaker 1: supposed to be as well. The Chiefs aren't that good,
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Speaker 1: but still they're at home. It's prime time. You're going
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Speaker 1: against Mahomes and those guys. So this is a measuring
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Speaker 1: stick situation for Detroit, a barometer about where you are
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Speaker 1: right now and how you match up, and a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a gut check even though the Chiefs don't
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Speaker 1: have a great record, and so where do you actually stand?
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Speaker 1: Let's see where do you actually stand? Man? Okay, big
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Speaker 1: boy stage right there Monday night or Sunday night rather
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Speaker 1: with NBC and all that and how'd that work out? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: on this night, on that particular night, Sunday night, you
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Speaker 1: did not measure up. You just didn't. The game was
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Speaker 1: not even really close in the second half, right, it
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Speaker 1: was not. You watched the end. The Chiefs were in
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Speaker 1: total control of this thing. And this wasn't cute little
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Speaker 1: Detroit hosting the Chicago Bears in Motown on a Sunday
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Speaker 1: afternoon at Ford Field. This was not that. This was
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Speaker 1: Zarowhead National TV, big bright lights and all that stuff,
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Speaker 1: supposedly big boy football for the Lions here and an
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Speaker 1: angry Kansas City Chiefs team, and we saw what happened.
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Speaker 1: For the past month. Dan Campbell's Lions were the NFL's
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Speaker 1: IT team. I was asking my weekly appearance on with
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Speaker 1: my friend Bob Fesco show in Kansas City there on
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Speaker 1: our affiliate in the mornings on Thursdays, I pop on
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Speaker 1: there and say, well, it is the top team in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. I think Dusty might have asked me that,
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Speaker 1: and I said, well, right now, the Lions, the Lions
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Speaker 1: that they were the one that stood out. And so
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Speaker 1: the Lions go out there and get whooped whoop, But
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Speaker 1: he whooped in the second half of this game here,
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Speaker 1: So all the attitude and the fake kneecap biting, all
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Speaker 1: of that. So then Mahomes and the Chiefs come out
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Speaker 1: and absolutely slap them in the mouth in the second
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Speaker 1: half of this game. And some will say, well, the
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Speaker 1: Lions were shorthanded, their defense was missing some people and
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Speaker 1: all that. Well, you still have to play the game.
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Speaker 1: You play the game with with who's out there and
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Speaker 1: no excuses. And Kansas City again defensively, they controlled the
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Speaker 1: game and offense compared to how they had played recently.
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Speaker 1: This was a night and day throwback performance, vintage performance here.
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Speaker 1: Twenty six first downs, three hundred and fifty five yards,
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs toying with them in the first half and
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Speaker 1: then never trailed after halftime. They led from soup to
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Speaker 1: nuts in the second half all the way through, and
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Speaker 1: Aiden Hutchinson, that Detroit defense looking like a team there
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Speaker 1: that was taking part in the ice buck bucket challenge,
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Speaker 1: and they did not handle the ice water, did not
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Speaker 1: handle that very well.
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Speaker 4: There.
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Speaker 1: They got hypothermia. Bad job by them, reality check, slap boom,
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. As they go down the Lions go
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Speaker 1: down there. Now, Dan Campbell is the head coach of
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Speaker 1: the Detroit football team, and we're gonna get his comments
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Speaker 1: in a minut. Let's go to Jared Golf though, here's
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Speaker 1: Jared Goff. This is Jared Golf on the ineptitude of
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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. Take a listen. On offense, I thought.
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Speaker 5: We hadn't move the ball decently, I think with limited
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Speaker 5: possessions certainly, and so were they on offense. We were
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Speaker 5: kind of both playing that game of long possessions.
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Speaker 1: And when you.
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Speaker 5: Play the game you got a score, you gotta fishing
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Speaker 5: with touchdowns, and they did and we didn't. That first
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Speaker 5: drive getting the touchdown have been nice field goals, you know,
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Speaker 5: consolation prize there. But then we had a couple of
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Speaker 5: drives we just didn't three an hour or five an
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Speaker 5: hour at front and yeah, so if you're gonna play
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Speaker 5: that time possession game, you gotta score at the end
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Speaker 5: of him and they did it more than we did.
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Speaker 1: So clearly my TV is not working because I did
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Speaker 1: not see that game. I did not see the game
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Speaker 1: that Jared Goff described there at all. I think Jared
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Speaker 1: Goff matter have had a concussion or something like that.
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Speaker 1: That was a welcome back to her situation for the
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Speaker 1: MotorCity kiddies. Now, let's not gloss over. Let us knock
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Speaker 1: gloss over the end of the game. As safety Brian
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Speaker 1: Branch refusing the niceties from Patrick Mahomes. As we said there,
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Speaker 1: Mahomes offering to give him a handshake or a little
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Speaker 1: fist bump there, and instead he decided to wallop. It
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Speaker 1: was a mollywop Juju Smith Schuster in the helmet. Now
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Speaker 1: it's dumb because the guy's wearing a helmet, So it's
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Speaker 1: it's just stupid because the guy's got a helmet on
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and not as actually a real
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Speaker 1: tough guy move. You're not Rocky Balboa out there, and
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Speaker 1: you're the guy the Lions here who got knocked out
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Speaker 1: in the third and fourth round. And then your guy
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Speaker 1: threw a tantrum after the game. Who goofed? I've got
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Speaker 1: to know on the way out the Now, the Lions
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Speaker 1: are good and all that, but that was pretty pathetic.
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Speaker 1: Here's Dan Campbell on the extra curricular activities post game
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Speaker 1: in Arrowhead.
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Speaker 4: I'm disappointed because you know, it's been a long time
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Speaker 4: since you're watching somebody kneel it three times in front
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Speaker 4: of you, and it's not even close. You know, you're
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Speaker 4: down two scores. I mean, we got we got worked
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Speaker 4: pretty good. So so yeah, it's disappointing. It's really disappointing.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well, the Lions go down there, the Chiefs still
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Speaker 1: at the grown up table there, moving on to the
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Speaker 1: other side, and that would be the winning side, the
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Speaker 1: Kansas City side from their perspective. Does this count? Here's
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Speaker 1: the question. Does this count as a state victory for
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Speaker 1: Andy Reid and the Chiefs here in week six? Al Right,
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Speaker 1: So now here's the problem. That was a statement win
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Speaker 1: as much as a Week six NFL game can be
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Speaker 1: a statement win.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: Mahomes and Kelsey were wobbly, very wobbly, uh for the
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Speaker 1: beginning part of the season, and and so this was
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Speaker 1: one of those situations like, hey, we're still around, you know,
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Speaker 1: remember us, We're still here. We haven't left. We're just
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Speaker 1: off to the side, and you know, we have every
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Speaker 1: intent of still being here at the end of the
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Speaker 1: year and all that stuff. And there was just a
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Speaker 1: little more juice, just a little more right there for
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Speaker 1: one night, anyway, whether this has any kind of continuation
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Speaker 1: or not, for one night, the Chiefs look like the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs of recent years and you know they they is
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Speaker 1: that going to continue ive? Who knows you We'll see
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Speaker 1: the swagger was back there. That was like a toy
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Speaker 1: poodle marking its territory on a hydrant, if you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. Right there, nobody beats the whiz. They
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Speaker 1: took care of that right there. You could see from
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Speaker 1: the opening drive that it's say, hey, this is our
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Speaker 1: house and all that stuff. And they went there two
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty seven yards to get from Mahomes. She
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Speaker 1: had three touchdown passes, one touchdown on the ground. So
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Speaker 1: all around, sharing the sugar and the defense for Kansasy,
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Speaker 1: which was good in Jacksonville. It's not like they were
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Speaker 1: bad in Jacksonville until the final play when they stood
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Speaker 1: there and watched Lawrence fumble and futs around and getting
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Speaker 1: the end zone and all that stuff. But the second half,
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Speaker 1: that is when Detroit really flexed, right, they really did.
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Speaker 1: Detroit's firepower was totally neutralized in the second half of
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Speaker 1: this game. I'm on Ross Saint Brown rather quiet. Jared Goff,
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Speaker 1: despite what he said, nothing special, nothing, just kind of
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Speaker 1: a blah blah type situation, couldn't get much of anything
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Speaker 1: other than those checkdowns. Charlie Checkdown for much of the
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Speaker 1: second half there for the Detroit Lions, and so they
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Speaker 1: scored seven points over the final thirty minutes. Now, I
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Speaker 1: didn't play in the NFL, so I off to check
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Speaker 1: with Ryan Clark on this. But I don't think that's good.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's good. And so Kansas City and
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Speaker 1: then slamming the door shut. And a credit to Steve Spagnolo,
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Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator there is his guys were flying all
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Speaker 1: over the place in this one. And that is the
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Speaker 1: first time in weeks that I watched Kansas City and thought, Okay,
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Speaker 1: there you go. All that crap. He said, Wow, championship,
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Speaker 1: DNA and all that stuff. That's it the mode Joe Potato,
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Speaker 1: big time win, big time win. So there you go.
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Speaker 1: That's the roadside billboard the Chiefs have put up for
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Speaker 1: the rest of the NFL said, you thought we were slipping,
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Speaker 1: I think again. Now they had looked like a team
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Speaker 1: that was sleepwalking, losing to all the good teams they
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Speaker 1: had played and then beating the bad teams they had played.
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Speaker 1: And this is the first quality opponent the Chiefs had beaten.
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Speaker 1: The Ravens are a bad team. The Giants are a
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Speaker 1: bad team, but they would last week. They're still a
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Speaker 1: bad team. You know, don't mistake Jackson Dart playing well.
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Speaker 1: They didn't play that game. That was a Russell Wilson game.
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Speaker 1: That started the Sunday night game against can Zaw City.
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Speaker 1: So everything seemed like it was in place. Even Andy
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Speaker 1: Reid's mustache seemed like it belonged there. It had extra
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Speaker 1: hair to it. It was good to go there. So
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Speaker 1: the lesson do not sleep, do not sleep on the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs there. They are still the standard, the gold standard
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Speaker 1: in the AFC. And you know here we'll see Buffalo
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Speaker 1: plays on Monday Night. The Bills play, I believe Atlanta
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Speaker 1: on the Monday night card. And that's the other team.
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Speaker 1: I mean, look around. Who else the Ravens have fallen
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Speaker 1: apart Pittsburgh's four and one? Are you considering them legit
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Speaker 1: in the AFC? The Chargers? Who's the t all? Right? Now,
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Speaker 1: last word, let's address the heel A monster in the room,
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Speaker 1: the story that everyone will be talking about over the
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Speaker 1: next twenty four hours when they talk about the NFL weekend.
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Speaker 1: And that'll be one week, one week after it was
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Speaker 1: Uglee with a capitol U Ugu Lee for the Chiefs.
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Speaker 1: They flipped the script in this game against the Lions.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about from the officiating standpoint on Sunday, the
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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions the opponent. There there were no accepted penalties, none, none.
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Speaker 1: Against Kansas City. Detroit declined an offside penalty on Chris
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Speaker 1: Jones late in the fourth quarter. But that's it, that's all.
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Speaker 1: That's all there was. Detroit was penalized four times for
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Speaker 1: thirty eight yards, and those mistakes swung the game. All
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Speaker 1: four of them swung the game. It's not my opinion,
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Speaker 1: it's a fact. You can go down point by point.
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Speaker 1: An illegal motion penalty wiped out a trick play touchdown
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Speaker 1: on the first quarter against Detroit. There was a defensive
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Speaker 1: pass interference call that extended Kansas City's go ahead drive
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Speaker 1: before halftime. The roughing the passer penalty in the fourth
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Speaker 1: quarter set up a touchdown that pushed the Chiefs lead
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Speaker 1: to double digits. So you see where I'm going with this. Now,
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Speaker 1: question here's the question, what do you make of the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs being we are told the second team in the
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Speaker 1: last seventy years, just the second team in the last
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Speaker 1: seventy years, to have no accepted penalties against them in
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Speaker 1: a regulation NFL games, only the second time in seventy
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Speaker 1: years that this has happened. So this one, Hey, it's smells,
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Speaker 1: all right, I mean just calling it's the smells it does.
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Speaker 1: I mean it reeks of the shield doing what the
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Speaker 1: shield does best, protecting the crown jewel and above buying
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Speaker 1: into a conspiracy. I'm not. I mean, you didn't say
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Speaker 1: by the fourth quarter, I didn't notice the body language
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Speaker 1: of the Detroit line, some of the guys in the secondary.
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Speaker 1: It looked like they were in a telephone tree with
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Speaker 1: the irs and they were getting bounced around and all
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Speaker 1: that stuff. Detroit had measured the fourth penalties for thirty
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Speaker 1: eight yards in this game, and just about every single
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Speaker 1: one of them, as we laid out here, took points
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Speaker 1: off the board or helped Kansas City put points on
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Speaker 1: the board. And that is not just bad luck. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's not just bad luck. That is again the heal
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Speaker 1: of monster in the room, biting the kneecap, nibble, nibble, nibble,
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Speaker 1: right at the kneecap there. And this is the part,
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Speaker 1: this is the part where the NFL deep state comes slithering,
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Speaker 1: slithering right out. Now, is that the Taylor Swift effect
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Speaker 1: is that what that is was a phone call made.
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Speaker 1: Was this a point of reference? A point of emphasis
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Speaker 1: for the NFL referees in this game? It stands out
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Speaker 1: so much that it'd be hard to believe for a
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Speaker 1: rational person that this was not a point of emphasis
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Speaker 1: for the NFL. The officials are given their directions before
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Speaker 1: every game what to look for, what's a point of emphasis.
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Speaker 1: I find it impossible that a message was not sent
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Speaker 1: down to just kind of observe and only call the
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Speaker 1: obvious penalties. Don't interfere with Kansas City at all. And
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Speaker 1: you've got the most marketable pop star on the planet
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Speaker 1: who's now an NFL wag wag Wag wag wag. She's
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Speaker 1: a wag. Yeah, And you think the league wants a
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Speaker 1: sub five hundred, two and four Kansas City team, they
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Speaker 1: lose this game, they'd be two and four poase. No, No,
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Speaker 1: they want those cutaways, those reaction shots, they want the
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Speaker 1: merch sales. The TV hype is it built in. It's
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Speaker 1: baked into the NFL. It's absolutely baked in. And this game,
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Speaker 1: with the lack of penalties, was the shortest Sunday night
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Speaker 1: game in fourteen years. It's been fourteen years, fourth shortest ever,
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Speaker 1: fourth shortest ever. And of course, how does that happen.
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Speaker 1: That happens because there's no those no penalty flags of
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Speaker 1: the officials. I'm sure it was just a quinkie dink
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Speaker 1: that they decided to swallow the whistle like they were
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Speaker 1: entering the witness protection program and they're like, that's like
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Speaker 1: those kids. Kids are supposed to be seen, not heard.
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Speaker 1: And that's the referees there. And then when the NFL
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Speaker 1: wants that's the lesson. When the NFL wants a game
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Speaker 1: to flow, all right, they make it a point of emphasis,
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Speaker 1: and it flows like the Mighty Mississippi. It just flew by.
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Speaker 1: And when they want chaos, it is a flag day festival.
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Speaker 1: Everyone gets a flag, flags in the air everywhere if
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Speaker 1: they want that. And so this game flip the script.
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Speaker 1: Last week was a flag day on Monday night and
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Speaker 1: this week protect the brand at all costs. You got
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Speaker 1: to protect the brand there, protect the Swifties, protect mahomes
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Speaker 1: and the pigskin Illuminati, the Illuminati at work.
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Speaker 1: show me. So our lead this hour from Landover, Maryland
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Speaker 1: just outside the Beltway. There the late game on the
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Speaker 1: Monday night football twin. But we'll get back to the baseball.
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Speaker 1: If you're on hold, you want to the app out
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Speaker 1: the baseball As the Mariners are up two zero on
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Speaker 1: Toronto and the Dodgers barely get by the Milwaukee Brewers
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Speaker 1: in Game one of the NLCS, and if the Mariners
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Speaker 1: and Dodgers play in the World Series, the entire sports media,
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Speaker 1: the the triangle of sports media on the East Coast,
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Speaker 1: is going to lose their money. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: watch that. Who wants to watch the Mariners of the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers of the world. So of course they're gonna complain.
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Speaker 1: If Toronto's in there, they're gonna complain. If Milwaukee's in it,
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Speaker 1: this is gonna complain. Oh, this is so bad, all right. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: to the football twin Bill on a Monday night, you've
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Speaker 1: got Troy Aikman and Joe Buck they were doing the
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Speaker 1: Fox Refugees. We're doing the game on ab They were
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Speaker 1: there in the booth. Doub Bears, Dob Bears, fresh off
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Speaker 1: the bye week, trying to snap out of that hibernation.
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Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears team against the squad formerly known as
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Speaker 1: the Redskins. Right, they were the match up there and
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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams and Dob Bears get the better of Jaden
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Speaker 1: Daniels if he did not see the game as they
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Speaker 1: take down the Commanders on the final play as time
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Speaker 1: ran out, Chicago defeating Washington by one point twenty five
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Speaker 1: twenty four on a thirty eight yard field goal by
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Speaker 1: kicker Jake Moody. Yes, the same Jake Moody who was
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Speaker 1: fired by the forty nine Ers. The same Jake Moody
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Speaker 1: who was at Loggerheads with his teammates on the sidelines
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Speaker 1: because he missed so many kicks in a forty nine
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Speaker 1: er uniform. Well, he makes the game winner as he
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Speaker 1: was the interim kicker there for the team from Chicago,
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Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, paced by DeAndre Swift, he ran for
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Speaker 1: one hundred and eight yards on just fourteen carries. I'm
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Speaker 1: told that's pretty good. I'm told that's pretty good, and
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Speaker 1: also grabbed a pair of receptions for sixty seven yards,
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Speaker 1: including a fifty five yard catch and run yack and
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Speaker 1: e yack yards after the catch there for a touchdown
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Speaker 1: against a very sloppy Washington defense poor tackling there by
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Speaker 1: that defensive units of the Bears are over five hundred.
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Speaker 1: Don't tell anybody, but the Chicago Bears are over five hundred.
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Speaker 1: At three and two, They're coming off their bye week
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Speaker 1: and they have now extended their winning streak to not one,
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Speaker 1: not two, but three apes in a row. So the
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Speaker 1: Bears have won three straight under Ben Johnson. But the
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Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room. So that
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Speaker 1: is where we will begin, and the question what went wrong?
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Speaker 1: What went wrong for Jaden Daniels and the Washington football team.
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Speaker 1: And I've got Bart Simpson, Hollywood Squares, and Will Smith
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Speaker 1: and we'll combine all of these things together and make
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Speaker 1: the Baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make the Baba Ganoosh is
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Speaker 1: what we're gonna make. So to kick off here, this
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Speaker 1: was a night to absolutely forget for Jade and Daniels,
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Speaker 1: the prodigy, the breakout star of the twenty twenty four
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Speaker 1: NFL season, not just Jaden Daniels, but the Commanders in general.
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Speaker 1: Jayden and Daniels is the headliner and all that. And
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Speaker 1: my word, and it's a conjoined word, but my word
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Speaker 1: for this night for Jaden Daniels and the Commanders is
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Speaker 1: self inflicted. Self inflicted is the term I will use
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Speaker 1: here most games, as a rule, we have several truisms,
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Speaker 1: if you will, several of the points that are part
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Speaker 1: of the ethos of the show. Better stories in the
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Speaker 1: losing locker room and most games are lost, not one.
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Speaker 1: These two things are related. You see the better stories
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Speaker 1: in losing locker room because most of the time somebody
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Speaker 1: eft up to cost their team the game. This is
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Speaker 1: a great example of it. This is exhibit exhibit to
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Speaker 1: exhibit A. If you will exhibit A on this you
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Speaker 1: don't need a zib Bruder film style frame by frame
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Speaker 1: breakdown to figure it out. Jade and Daniels. I know,
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Speaker 1: Halloween's a few weeks away here, we're in the middle
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Speaker 1: of October. So but Jane Daniels picked up his Halloween
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Speaker 1: costume a little early. He decided he wanted to be
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Speaker 1: Bart Simpson. And he said, you know, when you're Bart Simpson,
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Speaker 1: you got to hand out candy, and I'm going to
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Speaker 1: hand out butterfinger And he used his butter fingers to
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Speaker 1: give the game to the team from Chicago. Daniels out
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Speaker 1: there in the rain, rainy night and auditioning for the remake.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if this is still on the air,
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Speaker 1: the America's Funniest Home Videos. That used to be a
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Speaker 1: think back in the day, but it still really but
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Speaker 1: it must be America's Funniest Cell Phone Videos exactly that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: no home video. But he had Jaden Daniels one interception,
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Speaker 1: he had two fumbles, lost one of the two fumbles
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Speaker 1: in the game. Also, his running back Jacoby Krosky Merritt
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Speaker 1: also fumbled on his own. So those three hairballs coughed
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Speaker 1: off by the Washington football team gift wrapped thirteen points,
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Speaker 1: thirteen points for Eugene in Chicago's bears as they get it,
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Speaker 1: and now they might as well have left the Amazon
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Speaker 1: package on the porch. And then Washington just invites Caleb
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Speaker 1: Williams to come over there and come pick it up
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Speaker 1: before the porch pirates get it. And he picked up
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Speaker 1: the packages. I like the package. That's a good package.
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Speaker 1: And here's the thing, Chicago wasn't even that shark like.
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Speaker 1: This was not the most esthetically pleasing matchup. It was not.
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Speaker 1: Chicago had nine penalty I think were over eighty yards
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Speaker 1: in penalties. They were begging, begging Washington to put the
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Speaker 1: game away, but Washington said, na, na, you know we
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Speaker 1: can't have it. We want you. Very similar to the
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Speaker 1: end of that Dodger Brewers game in the NLCS where
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers tried to give the game away and the
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Speaker 1: Brewers like Pogo sticked out of the batter's box and said,
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Speaker 1: we don't want the game. And then the same thing
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Speaker 1: here the magic carpar It was a magic carbreak. We
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Speaker 1: agree on that it was a magic carpet ride. Last
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Speaker 1: season NFC title game. And there's some turbulence going on
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Speaker 1: now right, there's some turbulence. This is not a team
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Speaker 1: that looks like a playoff team right now, just based
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Speaker 1: on what we saw here recently. They did beat the Chargers,
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Speaker 1: the beaten and broken Chargers in the previous game. But
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Speaker 1: if you look at Dan Quinn Medicine Man's Washington Commanders,
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Speaker 1: one week they are the Grandfather clock ticking perfectly, and
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Speaker 1: the next week they're busted in in a pawn shop.
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Speaker 1: And it goes back and forth, it goes back and forth.
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Speaker 1: And then on the other side, the Bears, they come
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Speaker 1: out of the bye week, they're feeling all good about themselves, right,
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Speaker 1: they win their third straight game. And we were goofing
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Speaker 1: on Ben Johnson earlier in the year, some turbulence to
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Speaker 1: begin the seasons, behind the scenes, drama, o rama, and
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Speaker 1: now he's like, wow, he could be the coach of
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Speaker 1: the month, you know, why not? Coach of the month?
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Speaker 1: All excited. So the Bears feeling good about themselves, Washington
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Speaker 1: not so much.
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Speaker 1: Attention everyone, and word is password, you idiot? Password? The
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Speaker 1: word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meler let's do
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Speaker 1: it password time, and let's welcome in our contestants. Here
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Speaker 1: we have is the Eenie Meani mini mode. Let's say
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Speaker 1: hello to Mike in New Hampshire, who was just talked about.
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Speaker 1: Hello Mike, welcome, good morning man.
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Speaker 3: What a poor frection of me by r Gina I
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Speaker 3: mean blind Scott.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Mike, who would you like to partner up with? Mike? Wow,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna win this, so let's play with you. All right,
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Speaker 1: we're in it to win it. Very nice. Hold on
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Speaker 1: sec Mike in New Hampshire, and let's see here. Let's
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Speaker 1: go with Keenie Meenie miney Moe. Edward is in San Antonio.
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Speaker 1: Hello Edward, welcome.
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Speaker 4: All right, I'm glad I got in.
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Speaker 1: You got in, Edward, You're lucky day. You want to
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Speaker 1: play with Lorena or Cooper Loop as your partner on password?
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Speaker 1: All right, you're out of the show, Loraina. Very nice.
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Speaker 7: Ever pick now.
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Speaker 1: I don't understand why I can't make I can't figure
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Speaker 1: it out. All right, we have a list of words here.
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Speaker 1: No cheating, no cheating. I'll lock you in and unlock
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Speaker 1: Mike in New Hampshire in all right, good luck to
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Speaker 1: you both. My guy's gonna win, MIKEE in New Hampshire.
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Speaker 1: We have a list of wards one to ten. Mike,
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Speaker 1: you want the heir first. Please pick a word, sir.
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Speaker 2: Let's number.
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Speaker 1: Number six. All right, let's go with let's see here.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to go with here. Hmmm. I think
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Speaker 1: that the word I want to use I think is
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Speaker 1: two words. So let me see if I can do
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Speaker 1: something else here. Let's go with m I think I can.
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Speaker 1: How about uh oatmeal?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I got nothing on that one. Okay, all right?
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Speaker 7: Uh Edward?
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Speaker 1: Wow?
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Speaker 7: Uh the clue. I'm going to give you snickerdoodle grit What.
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Speaker 1: You've never had? Snickerdoodle grits? What's wrong with you? Coop?
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Speaker 1: What do you wrong?
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Speaker 7: Don't don't listen to Best about clues?
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Speaker 3: High clue. Now I think we've got it here. Let's
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Speaker 3: go with snicker doodle grits. Yes, they're very popular Carolina.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of them.
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Speaker 1: I think I got it. Uh, how about a short bread.
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Speaker 2: Porridge?
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Speaker 4: Yo?
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Speaker 1: Come on, you're mocking You're mocking me, dude, you're mocking me.
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Speaker 1: What I said short storage? He said, no, he said
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Speaker 1: porridge porridge.
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Speaker 7: Even worse, you screwed everything up with your first clue.
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Speaker 1: I did not go ahead?
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Speaker 7: Cool, come on, uh, Edward, let's go uh.
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Speaker 8: With okay, baking, baking, Yeah, we're all.
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Speaker 7: It's all for the clues for the same word, all
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Speaker 7: tied together.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, what do you say?
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Speaker 7: What you guys suck?
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Speaker 8: It's it's it's cookie, the cookie, snipper noodle cookie, you know,
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Speaker 8: short bread cookie?
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Speaker 1: Oh my god? All right, Edward, pick pick a number
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Speaker 1: one to ten, but not six, my god, number one,
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Speaker 1: number one, alright, alright, now we got this.
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Speaker 7: Come on, Edward, chauffeur chauffeur.
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Speaker 1: Oh how about how about it? Motorists? Motorist Mike, Yeah, yes,
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Speaker 1: all right, pick another number of mines. Pick another number, Mike,
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Speaker 1: hurry up, hurry up? Four uh, number four, All right,
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Speaker 1: let's go with let me see here. Oh boy, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna get to it for la. How about residue? Click car? No,
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, we're out of time. It was the
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Speaker 1: way we were looking for was dust. Wait when you
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Speaker 1: lost cool, you and your snicker doodle grits.