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  Speaker 1: early September. So the fallout, though, continues from the trade
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  Speaker 1: heard round the pig Skin Whirl. And you know I
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  Speaker 1: love a good, juicy story, and this continues to be
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. Stories still got legs. It's been about a week.
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  Speaker 1: The story still got legs. If you have not heard
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  Speaker 1: the latest, perhaps not. Micah Parsons, according to his agent, Michaeh. Parsons,
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be a cowboy and had he not been
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  Speaker 1: traded to the Green Bay football team, according to the agent,
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  Speaker 1: Parsons would have played in the season opener, which is
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday night in Philadelphia, and they would not have
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  Speaker 1: sat out that game that According to the great David
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  Speaker 1: mula Getta, the in your face agent for Micah Parsons
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  Speaker 1: now Move aheta contender, that parsons first choice was always
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  Speaker 1: to remain in Dallas. How are you feeling in Green
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  Speaker 1: Bay right now? I don't want to play for your team.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to play for Cowboys. How does that make
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  Speaker 1: you feel? A quote from a moveaged he said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I think the most important thing is Michaeh wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be a cowboy. He grew up cheering for the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: According to Mola Ghetto, he wore the blue and white
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  Speaker 1: at Penn State ward in the NFL with the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to be a cowboy, and we did everything
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  Speaker 1: we could for him to remain a cowboy. Close quote
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  Speaker 1: cowboy up. So let us discuss the question. How does
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  Speaker 1: Micah Parson's agent saying he did everything he could do
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  Speaker 1: to remain a Cowboys sound? How does that sound? So
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  Speaker 1: my thoughts on this, I've got a little doggie bag.
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  Speaker 1: We've got immunity and and the melting pot, and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together, and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to make some delicious shredded chicken barbecue shredded chickens.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna make outstanding. So let's begin with this. So
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  Speaker 1: David moole getta all right. He comes out here like
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  Speaker 1: a whirling dervish, acting like the world's smartest man while
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  Speaker 1: playing the world's smallest violin. That's the vibe I got
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  Speaker 1: as I saw these quotes bouncing around the echo chamber,
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  Speaker 1: just trumming away at the world's smallest violin. It's a
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  Speaker 1: real sob story. Real sad, my client, he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be a cowboy. He grew up a cowboy as a
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  Speaker 1: little child, and he got to live his dream. And
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  Speaker 1: now he's been sent to Siberia in northern Wisconsin. So Sad,
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  Speaker 1: try to stay calm, right, try to stay calm. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: we know, based on years of cynical talk radio that
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  Speaker 1: this is all nonsense. It is pure d C, not
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  Speaker 1: d C comics. It is damage control. This is known
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  Speaker 1: as saving face. This is positioning Parsons as the what
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  Speaker 1: as the helpless defender in distress the victim, because we
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  Speaker 1: I guess we're getting a little bit away from that.
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  Speaker 1: But boy. For a few years there was a wallowing
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  Speaker 1: in victimhood was way to go. But it's like Parsons,
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  Speaker 1: the victim here is what it is, right, you know
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, you know Parsons, the helpless victim. And then
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  Speaker 1: you got Jerry Jones over here, who's cast as the
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  Speaker 1: bad guy with the big black stats and hat like
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  Speaker 1: every Western you know, Texan bad guy, get that big
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  Speaker 1: black stats and hat. And it's all, of course for
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  Speaker 1: what it's for. The court, not the kangaroo court, not
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  Speaker 1: the real court, not the people's court. That would be
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  Speaker 1: the kangaroo court. That is known as public opinion, so
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  Speaker 1: the public court. A Classic Agent playbook, move on page seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: Section A of the playbook. It's not about football. It's
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  Speaker 1: not about that. This is about the Q, not Cubert,
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  Speaker 1: that's an old video game. It's about Q rating, Madison Avenue, endorsements,
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  Speaker 1: all of that. You can't be the guy who forced
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  Speaker 1: your way out of Dallas because listen, you gotta sell
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  Speaker 1: merch still in Texas and the you know, the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: are a bit of a religion. They're a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a religion. So it's a Friday night lights on steroids
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  Speaker 1: and the lights usually get turned out on the Cowboys midseason.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're the guy who turned your back and
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  Speaker 1: said I don't want to play for the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: If you're that guy, you are Judas. You are Judas.
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  Speaker 1: If you do that, you're done in the Bible belt.
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  Speaker 1: They will close the Bible and they will throw it
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  Speaker 1: at you, is what they will do. So don't kid yourself. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Parsons really wanted to stay in Dallas. If he really
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  Speaker 1: wanted to stay in Dallas, guess what, he could have
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  Speaker 1: worked it out. There was a path to stay with
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys because the agent didn't want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: that because the agent would have been out. But in
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  Speaker 1: the real world, the agent represent I've had an agent,
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  Speaker 1: not a good one. I'm doing overnight still, but I
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  Speaker 1: had an agent, all right, And this guy was a
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  Speaker 1: total douche the agent that I had back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: And if Parsons wanted to stay with the Cowboys, he
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  Speaker 1: could have walked into Jerry Jones office or sent him.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say a text, but I don't know that Jerry text.
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  Speaker 1: But call him right either, call him go to Jerry's office.
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  Speaker 1: Why did you show up to Jerry's office with a
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  Speaker 1: nice doggie bag filled with barbecue brisket and a handshake.
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  Speaker 1: Deal done, un done, done, that's it, You're good. But no, instead,
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  Speaker 1: we got this guy getta the agent. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know the guy personally, but my default position, based on
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  Speaker 1: my experience with people who are agents, is the agent
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  Speaker 1: is a pus filled sleeves bag until proven otherwise. That's
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  Speaker 1: my default position on the agent. They're like those mosquitoes
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  Speaker 1: buzzing around a Texas cattle ranch, you know, just everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and they suck every last drop of blood out of you,
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  Speaker 1: is what they do. So Parsons he goes from Jerry's world,
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  Speaker 1: the billion dollar pig skin cathedral, the biggest scoreboard, the
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  Speaker 1: most beautiful cheerleaders were told, the flash, the giant corn dogs,
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  Speaker 1: they got in text, all that stuff. And he goes
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  Speaker 1: to Green Bay now juxtaposed Dallas and Green Bay, Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 1: And I have a brother who lives there. God only
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  Speaker 1: knows when he moved there. He didn't grow up there,
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  Speaker 1: he moved to the I mean, who does that my brother,
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  Speaker 1: my younger brother moved in the Green Bay area. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: having been there and visited my younger brother, the nicest
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  Speaker 1: restaurant is Culver's Now. I love Culver's. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a great restaurant. I wish they would be an advertiser
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  Speaker 1: here at Fox Sports Trade. I love cheese kirts. I
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  Speaker 1: love the whole menu. It's like the in and out
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  Speaker 1: of the Midwest. But that's the top location. Now. If
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  Speaker 1: you want nightlife in Green Bay, you want to go
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  Speaker 1: out and party, get in some trouble there, there's a
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  Speaker 1: couple spotted cows at the Veteran of Foreign Wars Hall,
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  Speaker 1: you can there's some shows over there, so you can
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  Speaker 1: go to that. And that's fitting, right, and it's fitting
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  Speaker 1: And here's why, because in Dallas, Michael Parsons was a
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  Speaker 1: star wearing a star on the side of his helmet
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  Speaker 1: and all that. And Wisconsin he's like a farm here.
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  Speaker 1: You ride the bicycles with the kids, you're in training camp,
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  Speaker 1: you're out there chopping wood. You got a chop wood.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of trees in northern Wisconsin, right, I
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  Speaker 1: got shovel snow off the driveway and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's the land of the cheese curve, the brat and
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of glamor not the private jets there
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  Speaker 1: might not be enough room there for the private jets
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff and the biggest show. You go
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  Speaker 1: from the biggest show in NFL football to the frozen
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  Speaker 1: tunder and listen, listen, it's Is it a good football town? Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: national fan base? Yes? Is it as big as the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys know? And it's gonna be tough, though, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to sell, like I don't know, some products you
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  Speaker 1: just can't sell in Green Bay. Like I don't think
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  Speaker 1: Hairjael sells. I don't think luxury cars sell in Green Bay.
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  Speaker 1: You can really get a killer deal with Johnsonville brotz though.
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  Speaker 1: So Micah Parsons can put on a get in front
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  Speaker 1: of a grill and just get some Johnsonville Brotts and
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  Speaker 1: he'll be good to go. Now turning the page on that.
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  Speaker 1: So the hour of the fallout, if you will. So
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  Speaker 1: we own a Dallas Now we are told the boys.
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  Speaker 1: The latest reporting is the Cowboys were not worried, They
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  Speaker 1: were not concerned about the public perception when they made
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  Speaker 1: the decision to trade Micah Parsons. The report said that
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  Speaker 1: the whispers that they were unconcerned. This is a quote
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  Speaker 1: from the report. They were unconcerned about the public relations
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  Speaker 1: fallout the team with face given how popular Micah Parsons
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  Speaker 1: was with the fans, So are you surprised? Are you
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  Speaker 1: surprised the Cowboys were not worried about the fallout from
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  Speaker 1: trading a popular player. Absolutely not. I know we've been
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  Speaker 1: over this, but this is the latest story. So we
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  Speaker 1: react to the news of the day. This is Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones we're talking about, right, And this is not your
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  Speaker 1: normal Bucker route. It's not. The buck doesn't just stop
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  Speaker 1: with Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones is literally and figuratively the
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  Speaker 1: Buck in Dallas, the oil bearon the Carnival Barker, the
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  Speaker 1: man of many Hats, the football overlord, all of that,
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  Speaker 1: and Jerry believes, and it's hard to argue with him.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry believes that the Cowboys are wrapped in teflon. There's
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  Speaker 1: a layer of teflon for the Cowboys, their bulletproof. If
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  Speaker 1: they were a superhero, they'd be kryptonite proof. And they
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  Speaker 1: have full immunity. The Cowboys have full immunity to the
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  Speaker 1: torches and pitchforks of angry fans. In fact, they welcome it.
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  Speaker 1: They welcome it. They've got some kind of force field
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  Speaker 1: around there in the death star Jerry's world. They've got that,
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  Speaker 1: and he doesn't care if people boo or scream or
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  Speaker 1: throw their cowboy hats right into the dirt. We used
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  Speaker 1: to have this guy, Cowboy Dan. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: he's even still around. I hope he is, but he
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  Speaker 1: used to call the show if the Cowboys won. I
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  Speaker 1: would love Cowboy Dan to call up and say what
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  Speaker 1: happened to this trip? But listen, here's the deal. Jerry's
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  Speaker 1: been living in his own reality for roughly thirty years,
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  Speaker 1: and the situation is, no matter how mediocre, how low
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  Speaker 1: can you go? And the Cowboys have gotten pretty low
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  Speaker 1: at times. I no mater how many years they go
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  Speaker 1: without hoisting up the Lombardi Trophy. They're still there with
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  Speaker 1: a license to print money, money, money, right, money money,
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  Speaker 1: and they haven't sniffed a Super Bowl in a generation
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  Speaker 1: and a half. So to put that in some context
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  Speaker 1: for you, there are young adults going to college right now.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them call the show. I don't know why,
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  Speaker 1: but they do. But they go to college right now,
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  Speaker 1: and they were not even born the last time the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys won a championship. They're in college. Okay, that's and
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  Speaker 1: some of them, have Garady graduated from college. It's been
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  Speaker 1: that long, and yet they're still the most valuable franchise
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. It's not even really that close, because
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  Speaker 1: Jerry's got the tent, he's got the big ten up there,
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  Speaker 1: and he's got the popcorn machines going over to the
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  Speaker 1: left and over to the right. The cheerleaders are dancing,
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  Speaker 1: they're shaking their pom poms, and the people keep lining
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  Speaker 1: up to buy tickets. And the Cowboys. Again, we've been
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  Speaker 1: through this a bunch, but for those that are new
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  Speaker 1: to the show, welcome the Cowboys. Not really a football team,
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  Speaker 1: they're the NFLS. I guess Disneyland would be a good
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  Speaker 1: comp Cowboys Disneyland. Very similar. Overpriced, over hyped, always packed
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  Speaker 1: to the rafters, very similar situation there. Disneyland and the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: Now Dallas could trade, I'm telling you, they could trade
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescot. The Ore traded Mike Martin. They could trade
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. They could bring back Quincy Carter and a
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  Speaker 1: line of Coke at quarterback, and people would still tune in,
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  Speaker 1: They would still watch. In fact, they might watch even
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  Speaker 1: more to see what happens because the Cowboys are really
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  Speaker 1: selling an idea, right, You're selling an idea is what
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  Speaker 1: you're selling. There, America's team, the star, the big stadium,
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  Speaker 1: the big scoreboard. Jerry Jones is over the top personality,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Bad decisions, doesn't matter the brand. Your
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  Speaker 1: ride for the brand and the coat of the West.
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  Speaker 1: You ride for the brand. You do what has to
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  Speaker 1: be done, and that's it. So the way Jerry sees it,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people in sports, the ugly truth
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  Speaker 1: is is that we can trade anybody. We'll just spin
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  Speaker 1: it and we'll still sell jerseys and we'll still own
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  Speaker 1: the headlines. And as long as nobody has apathy, we're good.
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  Speaker 1: Now on that note, final point, So the last part
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  Speaker 1: of this, these things are all related. I mentioned the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys are going to spin it. Well, part of the
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  Speaker 1: spin job is going on right now because there's more
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  Speaker 1: stories bouncing around the echo chamber that say Michael Parson's
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  Speaker 1: behavior during training camp rubbed people in the Cowboy locker room,
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  Speaker 1: in the Cowboy locker room the wrong way. So how
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  Speaker 1: do you see this one? So you know what this
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  Speaker 1: is what's known as low hanging fruit. And unfortunately I
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  Speaker 1: know how you make the hot dogs. So once you
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  Speaker 1: learn how you make the hot dogs. It changes your
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  Speaker 1: perspective on these tepis stories. Now you say, in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room, does that mean players? Does that mean maybe
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  Speaker 1: one of the ball boys doesn't like the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Michael Parsons was not very polite to him, or a way.
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  Speaker 1: But it's the reason this low hanging fruit is. If
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  Speaker 1: you've got a star player and you know he's a
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  Speaker 1: little loud and big personality and all that stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: now you've traded them, the players somewhat popular, Suddenly everyone's
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  Speaker 1: brave enough after the trade whisper, Oh yeah, yeah, ye,
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  Speaker 1: that guy was a douche. You know that guy was
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  Speaker 1: a schmuck. Spoiler alert. This is what happens in every
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  Speaker 1: locker room. It is a melting pot. It's cheese fondue.
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  Speaker 1: It is a melting pot. It's not one voice, it's
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  Speaker 1: not one truth. And you've got guys who grew up
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  Speaker 1: in the backwoods, in the South City, kids from the wrong,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the wrong part of town. And maybe there's
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  Speaker 1: some Ivy League guys in there, some dopes like me
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  Speaker 1: that went to a junior college, some international players. It's
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  Speaker 1: a stew it is a stew of you and not
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  Speaker 1: everyone amazingly, just like your office, just like where I work,
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  Speaker 1: not everyone is going to line up and and be
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  Speaker 1: on the same the same page, right, and not everyone's
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  Speaker 1: gonna vibe with each other. And so listen, Bikah Parsons
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  Speaker 1: is a spicy tuna role tossed into a meat and
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  Speaker 1: potatoes situation. Uh, you know, nothing is a universal truth
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  Speaker 1: across the board. There is no you know, there's no Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is the way it is. Everyone agrees, there's never
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  Speaker 1: ever total agreement. And it really just depends. And this
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  Speaker 1: is how a lot of these stories in politics and
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  Speaker 1: sports go. It really just depends on the uh, the
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  Speaker 1: way the reporter wants to attack the story. Right, If
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to write a story that say, man, Cowboy
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  Speaker 1: players loved MICHAEH. Parsons. He was a great teammate, They
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  Speaker 1: loved the way that he played, they loved his smile,
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  Speaker 1: they loved his personality, all of that. You could write
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  Speaker 1: that story. There are people in the Cowboy locker room
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  Speaker 1: that will tell you they love Michael Parsons, that they
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  Speaker 1: loved it. Right, And it just depends on the agenator
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  Speaker 1: now saying, Hey, Parsons, I want to paint Parsons as
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  Speaker 1: a problem child. And that's easy. Right, that's easy, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, boom, that's your headline, and that's the thing
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  Speaker 1: that works. Right, You're the whole media world is in
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  Speaker 1: the click based world. You've got to get clicks on
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  Speaker 1: that and saying the headline Micah Parsons, Right, Michael Parsons
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  Speaker 1: loved by some teammates. You're not clicking on that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not clicking on that. Who cares, I'm not clearing It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't move the needle? Does it not move? The needle
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  Speaker 1: doesn't sell. You're in the business of selling. Nobody's scrolling saying,
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  Speaker 1: oh wow, that looks good to me. Let me click
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  Speaker 1: on that. Michael Parsons has friends video to eleven. You're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna do that. Like the sexy headline is teammates
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  Speaker 1: were rubbed the wrong way. Now that's got some sizzle.
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  Speaker 1: That's got a little bit of sizzle to it. That'll work.
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  Speaker 1: this out from Tusca Looser we go, where the news
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: of the day takes US and coaches say the darnedest
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: things department. Coaches say the darness things department update. So
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the embattled in battled collegiate football coach Kaalin de Boor
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: is undersiege after the latest misstep. So if you didn't
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: hear about this, perhaps I think we have some audiore
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: gonna play. So kay Kaylin de Boor, who came to
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Alabama from Washington, he attempted to address the pathetic Crimson
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Tide performance over the weekend you sought against the seminoles
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: of Florida State and was asked what the hell happened
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: because he had claimed a week prior he gave the
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: standard coaching cliche that they had a really good week
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: of practice at Alabama, and that's generally a dead giveaway
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: that you're going to play well in the game. When
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the coach says we had a really good week of practice,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: that is usually an indication the coach believes the team
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: is prepared for the game and they're going to play well.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: So a reporter dared bring that up, and Caitlin de Boor, well,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: he was surprised.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Tike A Lis, you mentioned the great week before the game.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Just how much do you self scout the preparation before games,
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: and are other times as a coach where maybe you
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: notice during the week that things might not be going
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: the way that you want them to.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: He said, what do you mean, great week?
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: A great week? He said, A great week of preparation
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: for this week. You're saying sorry for going up to
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: without a Florida. Say before that game, I said that,
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: You said that.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, okay, all right, that's like, oh boy,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: that's that's a tough listen. All right. So and that
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: led gets even better. So that has led to now
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: they've moved on from Nick Saban already coming back to Alabama.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: So now they positioned former NFL coach the greatness of
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the Raiders, John Gruden. Yeah, so let us discuss the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: question Alabama fans panicking panic at the disco after a
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: disastrous back and forth there Kaylen de Boor, And that's
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: just a little sample. There are other weird moments there,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and there are factions of the Bama booster bass calling
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: for John Gruden to replace Kailin de Boor on the
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: sidelines at that sec power. How much credence do you
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: give the possibility of any of that happening? So I
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: have carrot cake kettering, banj Society and burger king, and
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: we look could behind all of these things together, and
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: we are going to make your Babushka's favorite twice baked potato,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: not one time twice baked potato. Yeah, as approved by
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Sports with Coleman so number. So the way I look
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: at this, the amount of credence I give this is
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: gigabytes bandwidth. That's what I give this. Here Internet chatter,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: chata chata chatter. So let's start with the body language
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: of Kailin de Boor. Now, I realize if you're like
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: blind Scott or blind em It or any of the
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: legion of the Blind Wing of the Maltham Militia, you
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: cannot see this Inka terror. Here's the deal, Kayland bor
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: his body language on this. It looked like we were
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: watching a man who got caught shoplifting some peanuts from
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: a Pigley Wiggly. I said, did I do that? I don't,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I said that really okay? And so I love a
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: good meltdown. I love an entitled fan base that melts down.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: And Alabama's an entitled fan base. They've had years and
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: years of Nick Saban great success and all that, and
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: you got this Kalin, the boor guy who's from the Midwest,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: but he's perceived as a West Coast guy because he
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: coached in Seattle at Washington and all that stuff. And
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: it's just great. And so now they want John Gruden
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: to ride in like a night in shining armor to
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: save the day. Of course they do. John Gruden like
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: the shiny toy. It's been sitting on the Southeastern Conference
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: shelf for a decade, just waiting for an opportunity, right waiting.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Of course, he did have the Raider job, and then
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: that went away because of the email thing. It's like
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: football fried chicken. If you will, it's greasy, it's probably
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: bad for you. And man, does it smell good? Boy?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Does that smell good? And you're desperate, you need something,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: you go for it? Why not? And let's not forget though,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the math on this, so Calin Debor's buyout is north
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: of sixty million. We talked about this in a previous
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: episode of the show. So if you do the math
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: on that, they not only got to pay him that money,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: but it's one hundred and twenty million dollar pyramid because
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: you have to pay sixty plus million to debor, and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: then whoever is the next coach is hopefully not going
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: to be a bore or a dbore, and you're gonna
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: have to pay that coach another sixty plus million. So
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: it's over one hundred and twenty million dollar pyramid. And
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Bama has a game show network problem, like they're trying
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: to get out of one show that's that's no one's watching,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: and now they got to pay for the next show,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: but they can't. It's like wheel of fortune and then
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: it meets deal or no deal is essentially what we've
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: got here. So this is what Alabama fans don't get,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: is that you can't just pass around the collection plate
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: on Sunday's service and say all right, everyone put a
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: couple of bucks in there and then we got one
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty million. Boom done. That's it. You need again,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: a high falutin nice southern gentleman an oil baron is
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: what you need with really really deep Alabama roots, you know,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: just goes back generations and deep pockets and all of that.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Because right now, and again I'm not there, I'm just
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: observing from thirty thousand feet, and from thirty thousand feet,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: it's like, hey, this guy is Kaylin de Boor. He's
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: into that warm fuzzy stuff. We don't do warm fuzzy, right.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: He's got that Hacuona Matada. He's got that vibe right,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: sunshine and lollipops and all that stuff. And don't worry,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: we'll get him next week. And no, they want rage. Uh,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: they want someone bench. They want someone to lose their scholarship,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: more than one person. They want a table flip. They
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: want Nick Saban smashing a headset, throwing it down, very
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: cantankerous Nick Saban. That's what they want. So they're not
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: buying what Kaitlin the Boor is selling at this point.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: That made that clear. He's essentially shown up to the tailgate.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: They're having a barbecue tailgate in Tuscaloosa, and he's the
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: guy that said, hey, I got some good carrot cake
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: at the tailgate barbecue. So if you want some carrot cake,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I've got that. I'm serving that. And well, no, Kaitlin,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: we don't want that. We want barbecue ribs. We'd like
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: some corn bread, maybe some mac and cheese, some sweet tea.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: That's what we would like. We don't want the carrot cake.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: We don't I'm sorry, we don't. But I make really
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: good carrot cake. We don't want that, and I just
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I can't. I love the part of the people melting
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: down like a toddler at a grocery stores. I've already
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: mentioned Pigley Wiggley. How about a wind Dixie? Had a
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: wind Dixie and then they're they're on the floor and
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: they're crying. I want my cereal, I want my cocup buffs.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Now you can't have your cocoa. Ba Well, I want
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Captain Crutch. You can't have Captain Crutch. I need it now.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Gruden is a long shot, but not a no shot.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: John grud is a long shot, not a no shot.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: If they really want him, Alabama could get him. They could.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Gruden's suing the NFL, and unless they work out some
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: kind of backroom deal and Cruden gets an NFL coaching
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: job and ends the lawsuit, that's not gonna happen anytime soon.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So if Alabama really really wants, they can get what
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: their heart desires here. But there is again very tricky
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: math on this, and some serious boosters with massive egos
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: have to get involved to make this work. And until then,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the moaning and groaning will not stop. And that's Alabama
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: football right now. You better win and if you stub
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: your toe again and lose again, crap. At least look angry,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: give the illusion of anger. Make it seem like this
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: really bothers you. Because Klyn de Boor, he's got the
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: body language that will be fine. No no, no, no,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: no no no no. All Right, Now we go to
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: the NFL to Minnesota, talk last hour about the Green
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Bay Packers and Micah Parsons. Now we have equal time
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: in broadcasting. We going down of Minnesota where tight End TJ.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Hockinson continues to fill up the content machine as we
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: pull apart cannibalize a recent interview that Hockinson did. The
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: tight end recently compared Viking quarterback JJ McCarthy, Yes, the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: guy that hasn't started a regular season NFL game, compared
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy to who He said, He's a lot like
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford and a little like Kirk Cousins. And those
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: are quarterbacks Hockinson has played with in his career with
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the Lions and the Vikings. How does that sound to you?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: How does that send you? So? I know that on
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the internet, the Viking cheerleaders, and mister Irrigation's my advisor here.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: He's a big fan of the Viking cheerleaders there. They've
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: gone viral for some very emasculating reasons recently, the Viking cheerleaders.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: But it's nice that TJ. Hockinson is supporting the cheerleaders
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: because it sounds to me like he's got some purple
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: pomp poms for JJ McCarthy, and it's that's my quarterback.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: That's my quarterback, and that is what these guys do.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: This is one of my issues with all these comps.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: And you're doing old man radio. That me expaine. All right,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make my elevator pitch. I want to see
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: if you agree or disagree with me on this because
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: it's been a pet peeve of mine for years. This
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: has been a pet peeve of mine. So these guys
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: live in the bubble of optimism. They do bubble of optimism.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: It's the halo effect. And what I mean by that
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: is that the player, the young player spins throw in practice,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: has one really good skill and suddenly it's if Joe
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Montana and Tom Brady had a love child. If the
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: science worked out like that, this would be the quarterback.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: They never ever compare these guys to stiffs, Like, no
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: one's ever saying if Hawkins said had come out. I
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: think JJ McCarthy's kind of reminds me of Christian Ponder.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Why would you even ponder passing right? And they never say, Hey,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: that guy reminds me of Tavaris Jackson, that you know,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: great Viking quarterback. Remember I remember I was doing this
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: job when he was there. Oh he sucked. And because
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: that would actually be honest, you don't do honest, you don't.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: It's like every time there's a new band and he's, oh,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: that's the next Beatles. They used to say that all
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the time. Not so much anymore because Beatles are long
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: in the past, but they used to, Oh, that's the
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: next Beatles. And then you'd listen and you'd be like, well,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: you know, that's more like smash Mouth. It's a cover
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: band for smash Mouth. And they're playing at the Kettering
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Angelo's Society gig. They're warming up and opening up and
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: the only one in the crowd is justin in Cincinnati.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: That's it. That's all. And so Stafford is a Super
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Bowl champ, whether you like it or not. He's a
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, and Kirk Cousins is the Scrooge McDuck
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, as he is swimming in piles and
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: piles of guaranteed money. He's finagled so much money out
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: of these NFL owners. And you've got McCarthy who has
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: not thrown a real pass in a real game in
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the NFL yet, and so many people are so horny
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: to find a franchise quarterback in Minnesota. They're treating McCarthy
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: like he's the second Coming, the Messiah, the Great Savior.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: And for now I have this file as clear clear
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: optimism bias. I do again. You take one thing and
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: you say, well, that's pretty polished there, and then maybe
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: he's got some leadership and suddenly Stafford or Cousins and
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: all that suff But in reality, in Realityville, and I
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: am the mayor of Realityville, he's far more likely to
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: end up the next Jake Locker, remember him. Yeah, it's
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: the it's kind of like the movie trailers where they're
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: they get on the you're eating your popcorn if you
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: still go to the movies, and the movie trailer comes
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: on and they say, the best film since Shaw Shank Redemption. They're, oh, man,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: that's that was a good movie. And uh and he's all,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: that's all I gotta see that. And you know, darn tutin,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: You know darn tutin that it's going to be a
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: straight to Netflix stinker is is what it's going to be,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: starring Adam Sandler and all of his celebrity friends wearing wigs.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: That's what it's going to be. Right And you wait,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: wake me up and I'll be here. I mean, I'll
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: be sleeping during the day, but wake me up during
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the day. Let me know when McCarthy actually does something
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: of note, as Eddie used to say in the NFL,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: until then, the comps are Viking fan fiction. Will this
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: be the weekend? He goes out there as a great
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: opening act as the Viking quarterback in his first game
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: after a red shirt injury season. Now, final point to
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: the propaganda department of the NFL, we go quick, right now,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: we'll go quick. We're gonna go quick. So the propagated
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: department of the NFL outrage outrage, fallout, outrage, fallout, Lucky
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Tony not Happy and other Chicago Bear fans like Yaphomian
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Tree in Chicago and phase. They're not happy because follow
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: up to the top one hundred list made by Terry
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: in England actually made by NFL players. So five teams
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: got blank nothing, the Colts, the Titans, the Panthers, the Saints,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: and dumb Bears. Now Chicago being completely left off the
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: NFL's top one hundred player list. That is the big
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: talking point. How could they do that? The Bears? They
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: want the off season last year, I don't understand. Are
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: you surprised? Are you surprised the Bears did not end
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: up with one player on the top one hundred list.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: So this thing is the annual fast food menu of
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: a football filler, because you're really just trying to fill
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: time and you come up with a list. I don't
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: need to go through my rants. Why people are because
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: the lizard brain are preconditioned to answer and respond to
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: a list. But that aside the Bears, if you consider
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: this a fast food menu of football greatness. The Chicago
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Bears pulled up to the drive through at Burger King
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: and they got a truth whopper that is two slices
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: of bread and you wish you had some meat on
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: your roster, which kind of like a wish sandwich. But
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: they got an empty back. They got what's in the back.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: They got nothing, right, not even a packet of ketchup
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: and a nap and some salt. They didn't even get that.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Zero for the Chicago Bears on the top one hundred
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: of the NFL. Now, we are not surprised. And the
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: reason we're not surprised is because we're very cynical and
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: we know the naked truth. The naked truth is you
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: are what your record says you are. And the Chicago
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Bears played seventeen games and lost twelve of them last season.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Where I come from in the old Country, that blows,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: and that is a soggy French fry. Nobody I know
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: wants a saggy French fry. They don't want that. They
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: want a fresh hot, a little crisp to the fry.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: That's what they want. And this is all opinion based anyway,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: And so that's the point. It's opinion based, and it's
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: based on last season and the production of last season,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: not the preseason hype machine. And who would you even
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: put on for Chicago. I was thinking about that. I
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: was making my long drive in here from the north Woods.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: It's like Williams that was the number one overall pick,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: and he put up mostly empty cat real football people
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: know he wasn't very good last year. Caleb Williams. The
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  Speaker 1: stat sheet the equivalent of eating a whole bag of Dorito's,
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  Speaker 1: and yet you're still hungry when you finish the bag
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  Speaker 1: of Dorito's. You don't quite understand why because it looked
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  Speaker 1: like a big bag of Dorito's, but you still you're hungry.
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  Speaker 1: That's watching Cailer Williams. He was the twenty fourth ranked
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL. And that's not very good. That's
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  Speaker 1: not very good. And the harsh reality is the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 1: They're not the Jags, but they kind of are. They
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of just the guy type players on
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  Speaker 1: that particular team. And the NFL has seven hundred and
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  Speaker 1: forty or seven hundred and four the math, so it's
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: thirty two teams, eleven starters on offense and defense. So
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: the math works out to seven hundred and four starters
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  Speaker 1: if you count every position, but don't count the special teams.
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  Speaker 1: Don't count. Especially sure Chicago's got a lot of Italian
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  Speaker 1: sausage filler. There's a lot of Italian sausage field and
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: here's the thing. If you build it, he will come.
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  Speaker 1: I love sausage. By the way, if you build it,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: the accolades will start coming in. That's the way. This
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  Speaker 1: work is not that complicated. It's not that hard. It's
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  Speaker 1: just sport. You know that the Bears have the pen
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  Speaker 1: in their hand, and they have the new coach, Ben Johnson.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Show me you're Johnson. They can rewrite the menu, right,
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  Speaker 1: rewrite the menu and all that stuff. But until then,
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  Speaker 1: the Bears get squad douche is what they get.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meler
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  Speaker 1: Great ninety nine games four Here we go, agreed.
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  Speaker 6: This is one big fan gets grilled krubalou Ben.
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  Speaker 7: Last season, the NFC North was the best division in football,
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  Speaker 7: with all four teams finishing the season with a plus
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  Speaker 7: forty or better point differential, Ben, Do you think they
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  Speaker 7: will be the best division again this season?
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  Speaker 1: No? I do not. I'm gonna go with the AFC North.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Cincinnati's gonna be better here and unlike popular
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is going to be slightly better than what
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  Speaker 1: they've had at quarterback. You still have the Ravens in
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: that division. Now the problem is you got the Browns.
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  Speaker 1: So that's see, that's the ugly redheaded step child, the
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Cleveland resident, in this case, the orange step child. But no,
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  Speaker 1: because the Lions are gonna be a little worse, the
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Vikings will be a little worse. So and the Bears,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I still I don't think they're that good.
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  Speaker 7: So next, An MLB insider said this week that quote
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  Speaker 7: spending even one second arguing that Kyle Schwarber deserves MVP
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  Speaker 7: over Otani is a massive waste of time.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Ben Is he right? No, it's not. And I like Otani,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: He's likely gonna win the MVP. But Schwarber is much
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: better offensively than Otani this year, all right, So let's
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: be called like and Otani hasn't been that great as
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: a pitcher. So I mean, what are we doing next?
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  Speaker 7: Brooklyn net forward Michael Porter Junior said in a recent
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  Speaker 7: live stream that he believes he is the second best
• 40:52
  Speaker 7: shooter in the NBA, behind Steph Curry, that no one
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: is clearly ahead of him.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: What do you think? Well, I actually believe I'm the
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  Speaker 1: tooth fairy, And if I believe I'm the two, I'm
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  Speaker 1: very coople oop and I'm the damn tooth fairy. So
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: that's what I believe. If you believe it, it must be true.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: And I think I'm the tooth fairy. My cat, How
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: did we do? A win? Good job? More cookies coming,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: more cookies are that's a win. I got it right.
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  Speaker 8: It's of it buys with Little Rain at ten nine,
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  Speaker 8: clean Up, Hearts, Gonna help You gear rye, gear ride tonight,
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  Speaker 8: gear right tonight, dear ride.
• 41:44
  Speaker 9: Man, it is time now for some love and you
• 41:48
  Speaker 9: know what, Ben You know, we like to hit a
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  Speaker 9: little segment before we start the questions. Yes, please please,
• 41:54
  Speaker 9: do not let your desperation seep out. Okay, if there's
• 41:58
  Speaker 9: a woman or a man that you're in rested in
• 42:00
  Speaker 9: and you hang out one time, if they leave a
• 42:03
  Speaker 9: sock or the back of an earring at your house,
• 42:06
  Speaker 9: do not say, Hey, do you want this back? Can
• 42:09
  Speaker 9: I come find you and give you back the back
• 42:10
  Speaker 9: of your earring?
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: You're saying that's like a dog marking their territories. Are
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: you saying it looks desperate? Yeah?
• 42:15
  Speaker 9: Okay, she will come and talk to you if she
• 42:17
  Speaker 9: wants to hang out again. Okay, throw away the back
• 42:19
  Speaker 9: of that airring. Keep that sock snippet for later. Don't
• 42:22
  Speaker 9: even tell her.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: You have it. Wow, okay. Salsa writes in says, I
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: don't drink. I'd rather not buy one for twenty dollars,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: but maybe I will look cheap. How do I manage
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: this with women I meet?
• 42:37
  Speaker 9: I have dated multiple men who do not drink, and
• 42:40
  Speaker 9: it is never a problem. Still offer her, would you
• 42:45
  Speaker 9: like a beverage? Make sure you don't shame her. I
• 42:47
  Speaker 9: went on a date once and the guy shamed me
• 42:48
  Speaker 9: for ordering Usangria. So you know, just just because you
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  Speaker 9: don't want to it doesn't mean you're cheap. It means
• 42:54
  Speaker 9: you just don't drink, and that's fine.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, just offer a water, you know. Douglass writes It's says,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm coming up, Douglas and Mississippi Sis. I'm coming
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: up with my third wedding anniversary and I want to
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: get some jewelry. But I can't decide a ring on
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: a ring, necklace, bracelet or anklet.
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  Speaker 9: What do you suggest, Well, if you go to the
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  Speaker 9: sex store, they have special rings there, I would get
• 43:15
  Speaker 9: one of those.
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  Speaker 1: He was talking about those. I said, Daddy say that.
• 43:19
  Speaker 9: Well, there's all sorts of rings, and I want to
• 43:21
  Speaker 9: make sure he knows there's other options.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Other options out there. All right, great advice. That's why
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: we do the segment right there as example. That's it,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: all right. Ferg Dog says, which theme park has more
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: attractive women? Disneyland or Not's Berry Farm? Very important?
• 43:36
  Speaker 9: Not it's very farm. I would say probably has the
• 43:38
  Speaker 9: more scandalous women. But I've seen a lot of risque
• 43:42
  Speaker 9: outfits at Disney lately, is that right?
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: Lots of span Dex straight up the butt, like.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Who says no to that? God? Like that. As long
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: as you put the Disney ears on, you're good. You're good.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 43:56
  Speaker 9: Out of parent Mouse ears, you're just cosplaying.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's right. Josh says, I have a sugar
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: mama in another state. What are your tips you can
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: give to make a long distance relationship work? Says Josh.
• 44:09
  Speaker 9: Oh for a sugar mama specific specifically, she probably just
• 44:13
  Speaker 9: wants your time and attention, So I would you know,
• 44:16
  Speaker 9: text her every morning. Maybe to go out of the way.
• 44:19
  Speaker 9: If you want to really get extra sugar from her,
• 44:21
  Speaker 9: maybe deliver something to her house. I mean it's long distance, right,
• 44:25
  Speaker 9: so yeah, send something like send some flowers or maybe
• 44:27
  Speaker 9: a pizza be like pizza pizza.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Late Night Drug Tester says, can we let our
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: wives and girlfriends know that YouTube and win a thing
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: now with Benny versus the pen that's right, Bennie versus
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: the pennae. It's very important women know about that on.
• 44:44
  Speaker 9: YouTube, right, Loraine, Yes, definitely, unless it's not for some
• 44:48
  Speaker 9: reason James.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: I can't. Right, if I go to James, he's gonna
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: come on, give him a chance. No, I can't because
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: he's going to destroy the clock. Oh yeah, he's going
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: to say something that it'll be a neutron bomb.
• 44:59
  Speaker 9: And we know you love Tammy, we know, and.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: He loves you too, yes, a big fan of you.
• 45:04
  Speaker 9: Well, you can manifest love. So just keep dreaming, keep dreaming, dreaming,
• 45:07
  Speaker 9: and dream there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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  Speaker 2: and the password.
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  Speaker 6: Is password, you idiot. Password. The word game of the stars.
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  Speaker 6: Here's Ben mel Let's get right song. Welcome in our contessians.
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  Speaker 6: We have Tree from Chicago. Hello, Tree, Welcome, you.
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  Speaker 1: Made it back. You're on the job right now, Tree,
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  Speaker 1: Right you made it back?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, we out.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Well, Thank you, buddy, Thanks for all the you you
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: spoiled us with that Chicago gift package. Thank you, man.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
• 45:48
  Speaker 9: I love my socks.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I have my own cup socks now, I have cup
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: playing cards. I've got that popcorns wonderful, great popcorn town Chicago.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: And uh and I have a hat, so a couple
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  Speaker 1: of hats. So thank you. I appreciate a man be
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  Speaker 1: all my family, no problem, I appreciate that. All right, Well,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: you're gonna play the game. Who do you want to
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: partner up with? Tree? You got me Loraina or Coop.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna roll with Coop. All right, that's a bad decision.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: That's fine. And we have any Meeni, miney Mode. Daniel
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  Speaker 1: in Fort Wayne, Hello, Daniel, America's favorite crossing guard.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone but one parent would agree with you on that statement.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Well, there's always that one, all right. Who do you
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  Speaker 1: want to partner up with? Who do you want to partner.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: With Dad, I gotta go with you man.
• 46:34
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  Speaker 1: You're up first, picking number please.
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  Speaker 4: Tree, I'm gonna go with, all.
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  Speaker 7: Right, number five? All right, Tree, let's go with Let's
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  Speaker 7: go with receive?
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  Speaker 4: Uh uh, I'm gonna.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Go with uh har No, let's go Daniel, how about snatch?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, I think he just said yes. I disagreed with
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: me and said yes, all right, go ahead. Cool.
• 47:40
  Speaker 7: Let's let's go with uh oh, we'll go a little
• 47:44
  Speaker 7: bit of different direction. Tree.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Let's go with capture. What Yeah, you got it on
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: my crew? All right, go ahead there, Dani'll pick a
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: number one to ten, but not five, please, playing password
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  Speaker 1: the award Game of the Star. Number three. All right, let's
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: this should be easy. Let's go with I'm gonna do
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: the mallord maneuver. Crude. I don't know he's he's asking
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  Speaker 1: repeat crude c r U d E crude crude jil
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: uh tree. Let's go with lubricants. Get your mind out
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  Speaker 1: of the gun.
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  Speaker 4: It's not.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing, all right, Daniel. Let's go with petroleum.
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  Speaker 8: OI.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a time. Count that as a win. I
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: count that next week, I count that as a